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I found this NPR walkthrough to be useful, albeit dizzying.
posted to MetaFilter by knile at 9:28 AM on August 16, 2023

Related... I'm in the A24 fan club and they let me pick a birthday gift. I had them send me this lavender A24 dog collar for my awesome dog, Rango. He's a dog, but even he knows your opinion about Beau Is Afraid is wrong.
posted to MetaFilter by DirtyOldTown at 7:55 AM on August 4, 2023

This guy better be impeccable in how he treats waitstaff, just saying.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 7:19 AM on August 15, 2023

My favourite parts of retail jobs were collecting the carts, getting to escape the horrific hellmouth of whatever box retail place I was trapped in and feeling the weather on my face. If you’ve ever worked a job where you turn up for work before sunrise and leave after sunset, stuck in a box with no outside view, leave a cart out for your fellow worker.
posted to MetaFilter by The River Ivel at 7:15 AM on August 15, 2023

A New Zealand Tiktoker posted this great take on the genre.
posted to MetaFilter by firechicago at 7:12 AM on August 15, 2023

My hunch: there will be no press conference.

Four Seasons TOTAL LANDSCAPING is closed on Mondays.
posted to MetaFilter by Insert Clever Name Here at 2:19 PM on August 15, 2023

Donald Trump is now under indictment in every NL East city other than Philadelphia.

I don't think Gritty bothers with indictments.
posted to MetaFilter by GCU Sweet and Full of Grace at 12:58 PM on August 15, 2023

From Twitter:Donald Trump is now under indictment in every NL East city other than Philadelphia.
Quick refresher:

NYC (Mets) - Stormy Daniels hush money
Miami (Marlins) - Top Secret documents at Mar-a-Lago
DC (Nationals) - Not exactly Jan. 6, but almost everything up to Jan. 6
Atlanta (Braves) - This right here

If he had managed to slip in a bit of fraud at the Four Seasons Total Landscaping, we... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by mhum at 12:32 PM on August 15, 2023

I just want to thank emjaybee for "Indictments Georg." I can't stop giggling.
posted to MetaFilter by timestep at 9:12 AM on August 15, 2023

Dare Obasanjo plots the data to show that "the average US president has been charged with two felonies".
posted to MetaFilter by autopilot at 8:03 AM on August 15, 2023

Nadja's genuine defensiveness of Guillermo really got me, especially since it was paired with her reflexive belief in the rightness of honor killings.

I loved that as Colin got too weak to police his own behavior, it became clear that he really is fascinating! (I've always wondered if he is a bit of a freak by energy vampire standards. Every other energy vampire surrounds themselves with tedium. He surrounds himself with Nadja, Laszlo, and Nandor. It's very suspicious!)... [more]
posted to FanFare by grandiloquiet at 8:03 AM on August 15, 2023

He has called for his mob to protest/riot several times now, with no response. I think there are two reasons for that.

Another reason that I've seen is that his supporters now believe these calls to action are elaborate FBI traps. It's delicious.
posted to MetaFilter by JoeZydeco at 4:30 AM on August 15, 2023

Lord the whole Colin as the world's most interesting vampire plot was fantastic. I was half expecting them to discover that John Slattery was another energy vampire with how much he was probing on Colin's accent.
posted to FanFare by Kyol at 8:50 AM on August 13, 2023

I like presidents who don't get indicted.
posted to MetaFilter by neuron at 8:36 PM on August 14, 2023

Rudy Giuliani, of all people, getting hit with a RICO charge deserves all the chef's kisses.
posted to MetaFilter by theory at 9:06 PM on August 14, 2023

RICO Suave.
posted to MetaFilter by kirkaracha at 8:47 PM on August 14, 2023

Fun fact: Not only can the president not pardon state charges, under Georgia law neither can the governor. Only the state parole board can pardon... and only five years after the sentence has been served.
posted to MetaFilter by Rhaomi at 8:41 PM on August 14, 2023

It might be worth noting that the GA RICO statute has a 5 year minimum and the governor doesn't have pardoning power in Georgia, that power being handed to the State Board of Pardons and Paroles in 1943.

If Trump gets convicted he's doing state prison time.
posted to MetaFilter by Your Childhood Pet Rock at 8:42 PM on August 14, 2023

Each Star Trek show seems to settle on a "bad guy" that reflects a real world situation.

Just to add to your great list there, Lower Decks used the Pakleds as a metaphor for current fascist movements being successful because nobody had been taking them seriously.
posted to FanFare by Navelgazer at 6:00 PM on August 11, 2023

the Gorn Hegemony

So that comes after The Gorn Identity but before The Gorn Supremacy? I always get confused about the watch order.
posted to FanFare by 1970s Antihero at 10:19 AM on August 10, 2023

An extended interview with Christopher Nolan, director of Oppenheimer [Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists / via]
posted to FanFare by ellieBOA at 6:39 PM on July 23, 2023

Fun fact about the Job sequence:

I spotted Ty Tennant - David Tennant's son - as Ennon, Job's oldest son. But I didn't recognize who was playing Job himself, and just learned: that's Peter Davison, a.k.a. David Tennant's father-in-law.
posted to FanFare by EmpressCallipygos at 5:11 AM on July 30, 2023

Well, you know AppleTV's rules: only villians may use Androids.
posted to FanFare by pwnguin at 8:49 PM on November 17, 2021

Who knew Lee Pace was so ripped?!

More like Brother Dayyyyyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaammmmmmmmmmmmnnn
posted to FanFare by ssmith at 9:43 PM on November 7, 2021

snofoam: evidently Apple is the one tech company that made it through all the millennia

Oh shit! You have to replace the whole spaceship? Even worse than I imagined. But still better than the Invictus, which won’t take you anywhere without you giving it all your personal data.
posted to FanFare by snofoam at 7:26 PM on November 6, 2021

snofoam: evidently Apple is the one tech company that made it through all the millennia
posted to FanFare by adrianhon at 9:08 AM on November 6, 2021

I don’t know the source material, but it seems pretty clever to have several different ways to have characters spanning long time periods: cloning, being an Android, being a disembodied consciousness in a computer, being in transfer stasis, etc. Who knows, maybe more possibilities are to come.
posted to FanFare by snofoam at 6:39 AM on November 6, 2021

I guess the hardware running all that ship’s automation was just directly behind that glass screen? If the screen dies, do you have to replace the whole processing unit?
posted to FanFare by snofoam at 6:35 AM on November 6, 2021

I continue to adore the details and specificity of the genre pastiches. Completely lost it at the heist supervillain Connect Four set.
posted to FanFare by DoctorFedora at 4:43 AM on August 5, 2023

On the other hand - I wonder if maybe an unexpected jump left the crew exposed to the mind bending hypermath of FTL travel and they all got the brain worms and died shortly after the first jump? I mean, you could handwave it away as less of a "the experienced and trained crew couldn't solve the problem before they ran out of supplies" and more of a "the experienced and trained crew died within days of the first unplanned jump" sort of situation?

I... [more]
posted to FanFare by Kyol at 7:05 AM on November 4, 2021

Ooph. The Invictus plot was just not well plotted at all... To add to the other points above:

Scrappy heroes need to figure out how to fix this ancient ship with weird archaic systems in four hours, which apparently the actual crew was unable to handle before getting Space Madness and eating each other.
posted to FanFare by kaibutsu at 10:18 PM on November 3, 2021

It was fun to hear Seldon say that Gaal was meant to lead “the first Foundation” on Terminus but then nothing more came of it.

Interesting that all of the characters we are following are off Terminus before there has been any explanation of the Vault.
posted to FanFare by jimw at 8:55 AM on October 30, 2021

My suspicion that brother Dawn will become the Mule keeps increasing.
posted to FanFare by joeyh at 7:56 AM on October 30, 2021

I thought I was ready for this.

I was very much not ready for this.
posted to FanFare by Faintdreams at 4:31 PM on August 3, 2023

Drunk / hungover Spock teetering onto the bridge and falling into his chair in the last scene was the cherry on top of a well-constructed sundae.
posted to FanFare by uncleozzy at 12:39 PM on August 3, 2023

Back in my "I am still desperately hanging onto the edge of the film industry by my bleeding fingernails" days, I was working with someone on a rather misguided project, but my favorite part of it was the overly earnest spy character. He was hyper competent to be sure, but didn't really belong in a world of deception, intrigue, and treachery. He was always unburdening himself to subdued goons because he didn't have anyone else he could talk to, and lamenting that every time he met a... [more]
posted to FanFare by Naberius at 8:28 AM on February 18, 2015

Matt Zoller Seitz, rogerebert.com: The Wes Anderson Collection: Chapter 8, "The Grand Budapest Hotel But with each successive viewing, a funny, really not-so-funny thing happens: The veil of lightness lifts to reveal a film that would be unbearably sad if it weren’t cushioned by comedy and dolled up with spectacle. You find yourself dreading the moments of darkness more acutely: Joplin hacking off Deputy Kovacs’s fingers via sliding metal door; Zero in black-and-white, taking a rifle butt... [more]
posted to FanFare by the man of twists and turns at 6:15 PM on February 16, 2015

[clears throat]

HEY EVERYBODY, IT'S FUNDRAISING MONTH!!
posted to MetaTalk by DirtyOldTown at 8:47 AM on August 3, 2023

I, too, really enjoyed this movie! I noticed at some point, suddenly, that it seemed to be in Academy Ratio, and promptly googled to see if it was some sort of Shining thing, and discovered that I had simply not noticed the transitions. My wife missed them completely and was shocked when I mentioned the aspect ratio changes when we were talking about the movie after watching it.

I guess that's as much of an endorsement of the effectiveness of the storytelling as anything... [more]
posted to FanFare by DoctorFedora at 6:07 PM on February 15, 2015

Danny Trejo's mother died as he was filming his last scenes in this movie. As he was finishing his scenes so he could fly back to Los Angeles, California for the funeral, the cast and crew offered their condolences and sympathies to him. Trejo, known for his tough guy roles and demeanor, shrugged off the sympathies. When Steve Whitmire offered his condolences in character as Kermit the Frog, Trejo broke down crying.

Miss Piggy's wedding gown was designed by Vivienne... [more]
posted to FanFare by orange swan at 4:45 PM on December 18, 2020

This was so good. I don't think I could find even a single thing to criticize.

The tevmel was all wrong.
posted to FanFare by gauche at 11:06 AM on July 21, 2023

Yes, I see that now. The tevmel is best described as "adequate". Is there any left?
posted to FanFare by Ivan Fyodorovich at 10:21 AM on July 22, 2023

Metafilter: we're all a little like Metafilter, aren't we? Blue and filled with words
posted to MetaFilter by dbscissors at 10:34 PM on August 2, 2023

The whole thing smacks of a reviewer who doesn't understand how fiction works, and in particular that the views of characters may contradict the overall theme of the movie.

I mean, maybe you could imagine that the main characters are meant as unsympathetic protagonists, but that doesn’t really explain why the film would have the Auschwitz survivor say “Every relationship goes through their Auschwitz.”
posted to MetaFilter by AndrewInDC at 4:24 PM on August 2, 2023

"We're all a little like Cthulu, aren't we? Squishy inside?"
"We're all a little like Darth Vader, aren't we? Easily winded?"
"We're all a little like Grendel, aren't we? Fond of Scandinavian food?"

We're all a little like Elon aren't we? Uh... Um... No, wait, hold on, I got this.

There has to be something.
posted to MetaFilter by The Bellman at 2:39 PM on August 2, 2023

"We're all a little like Sauron, aren't we? Suffering from eye strain?"
posted to MetaFilter by dannyboybell at 1:16 PM on August 2, 2023

"We're all a little like Cthulu, aren't we? Squishy inside?"
"We're all a little like Darth Vader, aren't we? Easily winded?"
"We're all a little like Grendel, aren't we? Fond of Scandinavian food?"
posted to MetaFilter by PlusDistance at 1:10 PM on August 2, 2023

Oompa Loompa doompity ditler
There's nothing good you can say about Hitler
posted to MetaFilter by InfidelZombie at 1:47 PM on August 2, 2023

Say what you will about Hitler, he did kill Hitler.
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 1:48 PM on August 2, 2023

I picked up masto easier than I thought I would, given my liberal arts background. I have a low threshold for frustration but a self taught high one for coming back and trying again later.

It reminds me of Web 1.0 in a lot of ways. Idiosyncratic, doesn't always work right, kludged together, still figuring out what it is and how it functions. Is it harder to get started than Twitter was? Yeah, I can see where it is. For me that's not a deal breaker. I got time. I'm... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by cmyk at 8:00 PM on August 2, 2023