Wasn't there some other technovangelist dork who said we could make books more "immersive" by using AI to animate them
This weird recurring idea that "immersion" is the complete absence of imagination, that people are somehow more invested the less they have to bring to a work - it's the damnedest thing.
It's like this bone-deep disdain for creativity, for liminal spaces, for abstraction and metaphor and emotion. For things that make us human. It then takes this fundamental disconnection from humanity and assumes everyone wants it, that it's an innovation, that it's the inevitable future, an evolution, an improvement over dreaming beyond the confines of what we can directly see. Imprisonment masquerading as liberation.
Shit's fucked, man.
Like, it's more work to suspend my disbelief that the terrible cgi background is real than just imagine the rest of the room from the scenery on a stage.
The Terminator show they did at Universal was much better, partially because they bothered to make it feel like there was a reason you were in the audience for it.
Wasn't there some other technovangelist dork who said we could make books more "immersive" by using AI to animate them
This weird recurring idea that "immersion" is the complete absence of imagination, that people are somehow more invested the less they have to bring to a work - it's the damnedest thing.
It's like this bone-deep disdain for creativity, for liminal spaces, for abstraction and metaphor and emotion. For things that make us human. It then takes this fundamental disconnection from humanity and assumes everyone wants it, that it's an innovation, that it's the inevitable future, an evolution, an improvement over dreaming beyond the confines of what we can directly see. Imprisonment masquerading as liberation.
Shit's fucked, man.
Reminds me of the crypto bros talking about how most books could just be 7 paragraph blog posts or podcasts.
Grim.
A Farewell To Arms
By Ernest Hemingway
Ultra-Condensed by Samuel Stoddard
Frederic Henry
I'm separated from my true love in World War I Italy.
Catherine Barkley
Here I am. Let's hide in Switzerland, whoops, (dies).
Frederic Henry
War has made me cynical.
THE END
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Wasn't there some other technovangelist dork who said we could make books more "immersive" by using AI to animate them
This weird recurring idea that "immersion" is the complete absence of imagination, that people are somehow more invested the less they have to bring to a work - it's the damnedest thing.
It's like this bone-deep disdain for creativity, for liminal spaces, for abstraction and metaphor and emotion. For things that make us human. It then takes this fundamental disconnection from humanity and assumes everyone wants it, that it's an innovation, that it's the inevitable future, an evolution, an improvement over dreaming beyond the confines of what we can directly see. Imprisonment masquerading as liberation.
Shit's fucked, man.
Reminds me of the crypto bros talking about how most books could just be 7 paragraph blog posts or podcasts.
Grim.
To be fair I think part of this phenomenon (for both cases) is related to the fact that none of these people read books outside of the business/self-improvement zone.
Which uhh, well I'm sure there are some good ones out there, there's just also a lot that could probably have been a blog post and might legitimately be improved by the AI animation treatment.
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edited February 3
get this man his Nobel, stat
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MalReynoldsThe Hunter S Thompson of incredibly mild medicinesRegistered Userregular
edited February 3
That is straaaaight out of Farenheit 451; Montag's wife and the population at large get immersed in television shows where they get to "play parts" along with the actors. This is extremely tiring.
Edit: Not the thread! The thread is not tiring. Torment Nexusing is tiring. I'm just all Nexused out. Running on Nexus fumes. Numes or whatever.
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Wasn't there some other technovangelist dork who said we could make books more "immersive" by using AI to animate them
This weird recurring idea that "immersion" is the complete absence of imagination, that people are somehow more invested the less they have to bring to a work - it's the damnedest thing.
It's like this bone-deep disdain for creativity, for liminal spaces, for abstraction and metaphor and emotion. For things that make us human. It then takes this fundamental disconnection from humanity and assumes everyone wants it, that it's an innovation, that it's the inevitable future, an evolution, an improvement over dreaming beyond the confines of what we can directly see. Imprisonment masquerading as liberation.
Shit's fucked, man.
Reminds me of the crypto bros talking about how most books could just be 7 paragraph blog posts or podcasts.
Grim.
To be fair I think part of this phenomenon (for both cases) is related to the fact that none of these people read books outside of the business/self-improvement zone.
Which uhh, well I'm sure there are some good ones out there, there's just also a lot that could probably have been a blog post and might legitimately be improved by the AI animation treatment.
One of those situations where correlation really is the result of causation.
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I saw both The Prestige and The Illusionist in theaters, and while I'm like 99% sure they were on different days, my brain has condensed the timelines to where it was a double-feature
Man The Illusionist sucked
The other Illusionist that came out that year, on the other hand, I really liked.
webguy20I spend too much time on the InternetRegistered Userregular
They show was my first experience with 3d. It was amazing. Also the Arnold actor grabbed my shoulder when he was running up the aisle to escape. Talk about immersive!
minor incidentexpert in a dying fieldnjRegistered Userregular
My town’s local movie theater is shutting down.
They’re located inside (the basement and top floor) of the same building as our big performing arts center. The company that owns the performing arts center also owns the whole building so they’re the movie theater’s landlord. The performing arts center was recently the cause of a pretty big uproar in town when they booked Gavin McInnes and his proud boy bullshit troupe for a “comedy show”. We managed to get the show shut down and got the town to delay further development in town by the company by protesting at council meetings earlier this year.
But now it looks like they decided to jack up the movie theater’s rent astronomically as… I don’t know, retaliation? Who fucking knows. The owners of the movie theater are under the impression they basically decided they wanted them out so they could take over the entire building to do more live performance booking or maybe just do their own movie theater.
So now my ongoing boycott of the PAC is going to have to extend to whatever the fuck replaces our god damn movie theater.
So everything goes to shit, is what I’m getting at.
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When this movie's being spectacle, it's fucking incredible and I'm loving it. I have laughed so hard I've cried. I've marveled at astonishing practical effects. There are some amazing performances. There's is filmmaking on display that is impeccable and incredible, on a technical level.
When it tries to have a point or deliver a message, it is insufferable
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I'm very grateful for Triangle of Sadness introducing me to Dolly De Leon, she's fantastic
KetarCome on upstairswe're having a partyRegistered Userregular
edited February 4
Movie night with the kids again so I decided to introduce them to another 90's classic: Tremors. Perfection in Perfection (Population: 14). No notes.
Both kids loved it and my daughter hasn't asked if she can sleep in our bed tonight yet, so going to call that a win. My son immediately watched the trailers for all six sequels (there are 7 Tremors movies?! what?) and wants to watch all of them. I distracted him a little bit by showing some trailers for different disaster movies that were recommended by the algorithm for folks who'd watched Tremors and I think I may have awakened something in him. He wanted to watch everything, starting with Independence Day. And, you know, that seems like a fine choice for a 90's movie night next week.
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I’m still bummed that tv show with Kevin Bacon never happened.
When this movie's being spectacle, it's fucking incredible and I'm loving it. I have laughed so hard I've cried. I've marveled at astonishing practical effects. There are some amazing performances. There's is filmmaking on display that is impeccable and incredible, on a technical level.
When it tries to have a point or deliver a message, it is insufferable
Alright, wrapped up.
I think I would've preferred for the movie to be either:
a) interested in the inner life of even one human being anywhere on screen, or
b) shorter, in which case I could forgive that everything was broad and cynical and would prioritize shocks/laughs/twists over character
As was, it felt like a decently fun movie that smashed headlong into being an insufferable stage play.
Every single actor did great work, the craft on display was stellar, but it left me REALLY cold
My friend loved it, best movie about kids owning Nazis since SLC Punk.
I still want to remake Green Room where the punks just go fucking feral instead of demanding to call the cops they just straight up murder all the Nazi's.
Even that Joe Lo Truglio looking one who is contrite that his love for racism has caused all this murder.
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My friend loved it, best movie about kids owning Nazis since SLC Punk.
I still want to remake Green Room where the punks just go fucking feral instead of demanding to call the cops they just straight up murder all the Nazi's.
Even that Joe Lo Truglio looking one who is contrite that his love for racism has caused all this murder.
I had to google immediately to see if that actually was Jo LoTruglio the first time I watched it.
We ended up not watching Wishmaster since the bluray is upstairs in a box somewhere, and instead streamed an Argentinian movie called Pussycake, about a rock band that has to fight interdimensional brain slugs that turn people into vomit zombies.
It's not bad, but it's also not good. It did help with the hangover though.
I'm sure it's just a perspective thing but the way the tape measure covers her arms make her forearms/hands look like they don't connect to her body right at all
I have all of the Doris Wishman boxsets released by Vinegar Syndrome, including one with both of those films, and I still haven't started any of them yet because I fear the results
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Like, it's more work to suspend my disbelief that the terrible cgi background is real than just imagine the rest of the room from the scenery on a stage.
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I think there's room for an experience like this, but generally speaking it's a thrill ride more than it's a big art thing.
A Farewell To Arms
By Ernest Hemingway
Ultra-Condensed by Samuel Stoddard
Frederic Henry
I'm separated from my true love in World War I Italy.
Catherine Barkley
Here I am. Let's hide in Switzerland, whoops, (dies).
Frederic Henry
War has made me cynical.
THE END
To be fair I think part of this phenomenon (for both cases) is related to the fact that none of these people read books outside of the business/self-improvement zone.
Which uhh, well I'm sure there are some good ones out there, there's just also a lot that could probably have been a blog post and might legitimately be improved by the AI animation treatment.
Edit: Not the thread! The thread is not tiring. Torment Nexusing is tiring. I'm just all Nexused out. Running on Nexus fumes. Numes or whatever.
"Readers who prefer tension and romance, Maledictions: The Offering, delivers... As serious YA fiction, I’ll give it five stars out of five. As a novel? Four and a half." - Liz Ellor
My new novel: Maledictions: The Offering. Now in Paperback!
One of those situations where correlation really is the result of causation.
The other Illusionist that came out that year, on the other hand, I really liked.
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They’re located inside (the basement and top floor) of the same building as our big performing arts center. The company that owns the performing arts center also owns the whole building so they’re the movie theater’s landlord. The performing arts center was recently the cause of a pretty big uproar in town when they booked Gavin McInnes and his proud boy bullshit troupe for a “comedy show”. We managed to get the show shut down and got the town to delay further development in town by the company by protesting at council meetings earlier this year.
But now it looks like they decided to jack up the movie theater’s rent astronomically as… I don’t know, retaliation? Who fucking knows. The owners of the movie theater are under the impression they basically decided they wanted them out so they could take over the entire building to do more live performance booking or maybe just do their own movie theater.
So now my ongoing boycott of the PAC is going to have to extend to whatever the fuck replaces our god damn movie theater.
So everything goes to shit, is what I’m getting at.
My friend loved it, best movie about kids owning Nazis since SLC Punk.
When this movie's being spectacle, it's fucking incredible and I'm loving it. I have laughed so hard I've cried. I've marveled at astonishing practical effects. There are some amazing performances. There's is filmmaking on display that is impeccable and incredible, on a technical level.
When it tries to have a point or deliver a message, it is insufferable
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Both kids loved it and my daughter hasn't asked if she can sleep in our bed tonight yet, so going to call that a win. My son immediately watched the trailers for all six sequels (there are 7 Tremors movies?! what?) and wants to watch all of them. I distracted him a little bit by showing some trailers for different disaster movies that were recommended by the algorithm for folks who'd watched Tremors and I think I may have awakened something in him. He wanted to watch everything, starting with Independence Day. And, you know, that seems like a fine choice for a 90's movie night next week.
Steam
Alright, wrapped up.
I think I would've preferred for the movie to be either:
a) interested in the inner life of even one human being anywhere on screen, or
b) shorter, in which case I could forgive that everything was broad and cynical and would prioritize shocks/laughs/twists over character
As was, it felt like a decently fun movie that smashed headlong into being an insufferable stage play.
Every single actor did great work, the craft on display was stellar, but it left me REALLY cold
I still want to remake Green Room where the punks just go fucking feral instead of demanding to call the cops they just straight up murder all the Nazi's.
Even that Joe Lo Truglio looking one who is contrite that his love for racism has caused all this murder.
I had to google immediately to see if that actually was Jo LoTruglio the first time I watched it.
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Oh my god I love Eight Legged Freaks
he's so fucking smug
"haven't you ever wanted to just... escape?"
and then he makes a guy drown in one of those straightjacket water tank magic tricks.
Wishmaster's key is that few actors have the absolute raw charisma of Andrew Divoff.
I confused this with Pagemaster which is...a very different movie I believe...
It's not bad, but it's also not good. It did help with the hangover though.
What is Christopher Lloyd if not a skeleton attempting to liberate itself from its fleshy prison?
Poster has covered boobs
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There was a sequel even
Spoiled for similar reasons
Also this movie is currently on the Criterion Channel
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I was less surprised by this than by the synopsis
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They did put Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls in the collection. One of of the masterpieces of sexplotation.
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It’s true. Her real name is Tits McGee
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pretty cool