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at our weekly allstaff meeting at work we always do an icebreaker question. today it was just tell us your hobby. that was the question. and i watched my coworker next to me go into chatgpt and ask it "hobbies." am i working with fake people am i being truman showed what the fuck is going on in here

fzzzp

a baby at work the other day gave me the meanest look i've ever seen as it got lifted out of a cesarean. 1 second old and already hating. you can't teach that.

argumate

I appreciate the way hitting the word "cesarean" forces me to go back and reevaluate the earlier phrase "at work"

xylophonetangerine

pissing is actually a trauma response to drinking water

jellogram

It's interesting to think about the intersection of these two facts:

Films reflect the time period in which they were made.

Our most popular films right now are all reboots, sequels, and reused IPs.

On one hand, you could make the case that our generation is being deprived of its place on cultural timeline, because (as far as the mainstream goes) all we're being given is rehashed ideas from other time periods. Seems rather boring to analyze.

But on the other hand, I think future film historians will find that this era is culturally fascinating. Not because of the "nostalgia bait" itself, but because it represents the emergence of independent cinema and streaming.

When TV was invented, people could watch filmed media at home. You no longer had to go to a theatre just to watch cartoons or comedies.

So the studios responded with a wave of epics in the 1950s. They said "Okay, you can get Dick Van Dyke at home, but you can't get Ben-Hur." Television couldn't compete with the budget, big name stars, or visual tech that film studios could offer. They were financially incentivized to blow your socks off with visuals and big name stars.

But with the emergence of streaming and independent film, that's no longer the case. A-listers are happy to take TV roles, and TV offers Hollywood-level visuals. You don't need to mess with the theatre system at all. It's easier than ever to make good-looking movies and share them with the masses with no major studio backing.

So what's the one thing that studios still have going for them? What's the one thing that Disney can give you that an independent filmmaker can't? Yoda. The Little Mermaid. Iron Man. Fucking brands. That's all they have, so that's all they sell.

We aren't being sold reboot after reboot because it's what the people want to see, or because our current culture is somehow more boring and lifeless than ever before. It's because it's the last stranglehold that these soulless studios have over the industry. They will shove your own childhood down your throat because their domination over previous generations is the one thing they have left to sell to this one.

fishmech

we are being sold reboot after reboot primarily because we were being sold plain old sequel after plain old sequel from like the 70s through to the 2000s, with a smattering of reboots in there occasionally.

also kinda odd you neglected to mention the whole 'prestige tv' era of the late 90s to early 2010s? substantially higher production budgets and abilities phasing into direct hd versions was also considered a major pull away from movie aura and actors in that timeframe. like sure you can call that just a teeing off point for the streamers but it set up the whole thing and ran it for a good bit before streamers had the capability to transfer it off the dying conventional tv audience (today the US conventional tv viewerbase is around the size it was in the early 1950s, no joke! outside of very specific events like the super bowl and live sports programming)

mikkeneko

while I don't disagree with the broad thesis that large studios are being very conservative (in both risk and message) right now, I do nevertheless want to point out that this is not really new. american cinema has always followed cycles and trends like this, has always chased whatever they feel the sure bet is. in 1950, hollywood released no less than one hundred and thirty-four Westerns in a single year.

It's the same sort of cycle that is seen in pop music, captured pretty well in Three Chords And The Truth:

This is a Cyclic Trope. Pop music goes through periods (generally at two-decade intervals) where it becomes too pretentious, too slick to be taken seriously or formulaic corporate bubblegum. In response, bands turn to Three Chords and the Truth to "get back to where we once belonged." But with time, the limits of the trope mean that everything begins to sound the same and the simpler songs can even become as slick and corporately produced as the complex ones (or perceived as even more formulaic), and music returns to more elaborate songs feeling that more talent=more heart.

it's a little harder with cinema since the production barriers are considerably higher than picking up a guitar and microphone, but the overall pattern is very similar. Big studios chase trends and rehash safe ground; indie producers rebel and produce new content with their own stamp; old and tired trends eventually die out; new ideas produced by indie studios get picked up by big studios.

johannestevans

I think people often assume that the way films are syndicated and distributed is demand-based, but in actual fact larger film studios hold a contractual stranglehold of many film theatres - it's why your local theatre might have screens constantly devoted to the newest Marvel shlock for weeks even after everybody interested has seen it

Cinema owners tell me the two-week mandatory run for movies is crushing them. And that’s even before Warner Bros. falls into new hands

#movies

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delicatefury

I just googled this and… yes, it’s absolutely real.

And there are so many articles and videos and discussions. Like, the scientific community is buzzing about this.

So much research will have to be redone because the data was absolutely compromised, off by orders of magnitude, by using standard lab gloves.

The world is probably not horrifically contaminated by microplastics. Sterile laboratories, however, are contaminated by latex and nitrile gloves.

Thank God someone bothered to check.

beardedmrbean

>I just googled this and… yes, it’s absolutely real.

Sources beyond dude just trust me, for the skeptics.

Scientists may have been unknowingly inflating microplastics pollution estimates, and the surprising source could be their own lab gloves. A

https://www.technologynetworks.com/applied-sciences/news/scientists-lab-gloves-may-be-causing-an-overestimation-of-microplastics-411138

Nitrile and latex gloves that scientists wear while they are measuring microplastics may lead to a potential overestimation of the tiny poll

Nitrile and latex gloves may cause overestimation of microplastics - Phys.org (it’s a pdf)

Researchers discovered a standard piece of lab equipment has added thousands of microplastic ‘false positives’ per each square-millimeter un

Ordinary Lab Gloves May Have Skewed Microplastic Data: That doesn’t mean microplastics aren’t a problem, though

That should be enough

#microplastics

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godlessondheimite

In 2026, the chicest thing a gay actor can do is never explicitly come out as gay but also make it abundantly clear that he is. Coming out is too modern. Staying closeted is too old fashioned. But this method merges contemporary freedom with Old Hollywood glamour and allure, and it weeds out the dumbest people who truly don’t get it. I call it the Pascal Method.

nobodys-odyssey

Taylor Swift does this

godlessondheimite

no she doesn’t

nobodys-odyssey

You clearly don't go here or to queer history and signaling, or both, enough to have this conversation and I'm not going to explain it to you. You could have asked questions, you could have done even a modicum of research. You didn't and you made yourself look ignorant. Goodbye.

dancinbutterfly

#I'm fucking crying#this is an instant classic#this is the next meme#i can't believe I'm here to see a baby copypasta nary two hours old#I can't#lol#i laughed way too hard#iconic

wildgifthorses

One word that people online really need to learn is "bohemian". Stop getting your understanding of marginal artistic communities from a garbled form of Marxism that reduces everything to economics. Making zines and mooching off of your friends who have jobs is a noble lifestyle with a rich and proud history which should not be reduced to something as sad and ugly as proletarian labor.

carefreeclown

Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller

ibenology

the average twitter vs tumblr community experience

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unyieldingsilence

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angrysexyshortstack

Cis people simply don’t understand that the entire harry potter franchise is basically a hate symbol these days

thecrumbez

Happy Pride Month to those two women dancing together in the foreground of the boat scene in Godzilla (1954).

I’m sorry your romantic foibles were overshadowed by a big ass atomic lizard thing.

erratic-dragon-fruit

out of the tags with you

firbolgonmain

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#no but this is uniranically how i study kanji that look similar skfkskgkskgkd #languages #math

kiyomitakada

i don't disagree with the view that near eating chocolate at the end of the manga is a very sweet tribute but i will not lie the first time i read it i was like (nodding) symbolic cannibalism (nodding some more) i support you forever near

#death note

viewtiful-kim-deactivated202105

Hamlet adaptation where Hamlet is a vlogger and all his soliloquies are breakdowns he uploads to YouTube

animatedamerican

… I am unironically here for this

oldfilmsflicker

this is the funniest thing I’ve ever seen in my life

kabesattic

This is - legitimately - my favourite delivery of Shakespeare I have EVER seen (and I have seen some good-ass productions yo, in the Globe Theatre itself even). Like seriously, even though the words are unchanged, he’s stripped away ALL of the archaic pretense and assumed grandeur of ~presenting the bard~ that makes even the most wildly talented of actors and innovative of productions inherently inaccessible to a modern audience. Like, they’re still great, they can still communicate the message and (some) of the nuance, but they’re still always a step removed from being identifiable to any viewer’s lived experience. They’re still always reciting 15th century poetry. But this guy? This guy is like, screw iambic pentameter, to hell with being precious about the material, HOW WOULD AN ACTUAL PERSON SAY THIS SHIT?

Like this. And it’s beautiful. It’s beautiful to hear a soliloquy I loved so much already, and have it come to life in a way it never, ever, did before. I feel like I grasp his motivations, his twists and turns, no longer on an academic level but on a visceral, instinctive one. Because he’s presenting his mental and emotional journey in a way that speaks honestly, like a real person.

So yeah, this shit post? I love it. Deeply and sincerely.