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  1. Comment on What have you been listening to this week? in ~music

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    I was listening to a lot of d4vd’s music. I listened to Romantic Homicide when the story of his crime broke back in September. But went in deeper after his arrest. Anyways, through that I found a...

    I was listening to a lot of d4vd’s music. I listened to Romantic Homicide when the story of his crime broke back in September. But went in deeper after his arrest. Anyways, through that I found a song he did with The Kid LAROI called The Line which I really liked. So I decided to listen to LAROI. I knew him as the guy who dated Tate McRae and that was all.

    He started off as a rapper and I do not care for most of his early work. I think once he did STAY with Justin Bieber I enjoyed his sound more. My understanding is that Juice WRLD was his mentor, and you can feel that in his early work, and then Bieber took that place for LAROI after WRLD’s passing. I enjoy LAROI’s more pop based sound. I enjoy his albums THE FIRST TIME and BEFORE I FORGET. From what I saw they’ve both gotten mixed reviews with BEFORE I FORGET being slightly better received. For his age I think he’s a really good lyricist. I also would have liked to hear his original album mean to follow FIRST TIME which was supposed to be more of a club album with singles SHE DONT NEED TO KNOW and HOW DOES IT FEEL? being released before he scrapped the whole project and made an album centered around his break up with Tate McRae. I like how the break up aspects of the album feels, especially the song MAYBE IM WRONG and QUIT YOU but I think he should have released both albums close to each other. Like how Ariana Grande released Sweetner based on her relationship Pete Davidson and almost immediately released thank u next which was after their break up.

    Good stuff, also recently learned he’s coming here to do a show so I’m excited to watch him. A lot do the artists I listen to don’t usually come here.

  2. Comment on Memorial Day weekend box office: ‘Mandalorian and Grogu’ opens to $100 million domestically, $163 million globally for the four-day weekend in ~movies

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    It’s worse than Solo imo, which is funny cause it had zero production issues unlike Solo’s BTS drama

    It’s worse than Solo imo, which is funny cause it had zero production issues unlike Solo’s BTS drama

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  3. Comment on Memorial Day weekend box office: ‘Mandalorian and Grogu’ opens to $100 million domestically, $163 million globally for the four-day weekend in ~movies

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    This beat Solo: A Star Wars Story for the lowest 4-day opening of a film in the franchise (lower than any of the prequels).

    This beat Solo: A Star Wars Story for the lowest 4-day opening of a film in the franchise (lower than any of the prequels).

    13 votes

  5. Comment on Midweek Movie Free Talk in ~movies

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    Post-Cannes 2027 predictions: Picture: Wild Horse Nine Digger Project Hail Mary The Black Ball Fjord Cry to Heaven Jack of Spades The Odyssey Fatherland Obsession Director: Martin McDonagh - Wild...

    Post-Cannes 2027 predictions:

    Picture:

    1. Wild Horse Nine
    2. Digger
    3. Project Hail Mary
    4. The Black Ball
    5. Fjord
    6. Cry to Heaven
    7. Jack of Spades
    8. The Odyssey
    9. Fatherland
    10. Obsession

    Director:

    1. Martin McDonagh - Wild Horse Nine
    2. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu - Digger
    3. Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi - The Black Ball
    4. Cristian Mingu - Fjord
    5. Tom Ford - Cry to Heaven

    Original Screenplay:

    1. Wild Horse Nine
    2. Digger
    3. Fjord
    4. Jack of Spades
    5. Obsession

    Adapted Screenplay:

    1. Cry to Heaven
    2. Project Hail Mary
    3. The Black Ball
    4. The Odyssey
    5. The Adventures of Cliff Booth

    Lead Actor:

    1. Tom Cruise - Digger
    2. Sebastian Stan - Fjord
    3. Ryan Gosling - Project Hail Mary
    4. Nicolas Hoult - Cry to Heaven
    5. Sam Rockwell - Wild Horse Nine

    Lead Actress:

    1. Renate Reinsve - Fjord
    2. Sandra Huller - Fatherland
    3. Julianne Moore - No One Cares
    4. Inde Navarette - Obsession
    5. Scarlett Johansson - Paper Tiger

    Supporting Actor:

    1. John Goodman - Digger
    2. Mark Ruffalo - Being Heumann
    3. Sam Rockwell - Wild Horse Nine
    4. Aaron Taylor Johnson - Cry to Heaven
    5. John Malkovich - Wild Horse Nine

    Supporting Actress:

    1. Parker Posey - Wild Horse Nine
    2. Adele - Cry to Heaven
    3. Penelope Cruz - The Black Ball
    4. Sandra Huller - Digger
    5. Giuliani Nahmany - Fjord

    Film Editing:

    1. Project Hail Mary
    2. Digger
    3. The Black Ball
    4. Wild Horse Nine
    5. Cry to Heaven
    2 votes

  6. Comment on How ‘Obsession’ became an unprecedented box office horror hit — and one of the year’s most profitable movies in ~movies

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    Will end up making 150M domestically on a budget of 850k (not even a million is crazy). Curry Barker going from TikTok guy to making one of the most talked about movies of the year is inspiration...

    Will end up making 150M domestically on a budget of 850k (not even a million is crazy). Curry Barker going from TikTok guy to making one of the most talked about movies of the year is inspiration tbh, especially since he grew up middle class without any connections to the industry.

    There will be an awards campaign for the film too although its ceiling will be Original Screenplay and Lead Actress (imo). Basically a repeat of last years Weapons.

    5 votes

  8. Comment on Midweek Movie Free Talk in ~movies

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    The Mandalorian and Grogu I’m still deciding if this is worse than Attack of the Clones to take the mantle of the worst Star Wars movie ever made. It’s poorly written, structured like three...

    The Mandalorian and Grogu

    I’m still deciding if this is worse than Attack of the Clones to take the mantle of the worst Star Wars movie ever made.

    It’s poorly written, structured like three episodes of a TV show stitched together. It looks ugly, cheap, dull. None of the performances are good. There is only one sequence I really liked, and it was when Grogu became the main focus.

    From what I remember of the two seasons of The Mandalorian, it looked significantly better than this does. The only reason I’m oscillating between this and Clones, is because that film had to deal with the technological limitations of the time.

    I Love Boosters

    I find critics to be hypocrites when they hype up Boots Riley, but will trash Adam McKay. Acclaiming Sorry To Bother You and this while panning Vice and Don’t Look Up.

    Riley also does the “on the nose political commentary” with a lot of technical flash. But the difference is that Riley has a lot of stupid shit in his films. It’s supposed to be some intellectual exercise of mixing dumb low brow stuff with heavy handed political commentary to make it high brow. Like splitting the difference between McKay’s Will Ferrell comedies and his Oscar nominated work. It doesn’t work for me though.

    Also I find Riley annoying on Twitter, even if he wasn’t I still wouldn’t like his films, but the constant moral posturing while taking money from an ELLISON of all people. Come on.

    3 votes

  9. Comment on Cannes 2026 winners: ‘Fjord’ wins Palme D’Or in ~movies

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    Yeah that’s about what I’ve heard of Fjord lol

    Yeah that’s about what I’ve heard of Fjord lol

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  10. Comment on Cannes 2026 winners: ‘Fjord’ wins Palme D’Or in ~movies

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    So Neon wins the Palme again. Expect this to be their main Oscar contender. At least they didn’t do the annoying thing they did last year which was buy everything that might have a chance to win...

    So Neon wins the Palme again. Expect this to be their main Oscar contender. At least they didn’t do the annoying thing they did last year which was buy everything that might have a chance to win the Palme.

    The Black Ball (La Bola Negra) was a breakout hit. The queer WW2 film did so well most people thought it would win the Palme. Netflix acquired it for 5M. Considering they delayed Narnia to next year I expect this to be their main Oscar contender (The Adventures of Cliff Booth was never gonna be an Oscar thing). My man Ruimy called it a Weinstein era Oscar bait type of film which really appealed to me since I love those 00s eras of films like Finding Neverland.

    The only other film I was aware of was Lukas Dhont’s Coward, Dhont was previously at Cannes with Close which nearly won the Palme (it went to Triangle of Sadness that year). Mubi acquired this film and it won the actor award.

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  12. Comment on Grief and guilt in ~life.pets

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    I went though the same thing last year. She wasn’t my parents dog she was my dog. A year later and I still cry when I think about her. I still think about the silence that she left behind. And I...

    I went though the same thing last year. She wasn’t my parents dog she was my dog.

    A year later and I still cry when I think about her. I still think about the silence that she left behind. And I still think about how rough her last year with me was. When she died I listened to a specific song over and over and I associate her death with that song now. So whenever that song comes up for me I immediately cry. I don’t know if it’ll ever soften. I miss her often.

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  18. Comment on 'The Boys' has ended. What are your thoughts? in ~tv

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    I absolutely loved Season 3, and then immediately felt like Season 4 fell flat on its face. The ending of S4, especially didn’t make much sense. It was all so frustrating and felt like they were...

    I absolutely loved Season 3, and then immediately felt like Season 4 fell flat on its face. The ending of S4, especially didn’t make much sense. It was all so frustrating and felt like they were just biding their time for another season. I watched the first three episodes of Season 5 and finally gave up. I have read summaries of the rest of the season and I’m glad I gave it up.

    I never felt the show was brilliantly written or anything, its political commentary was always super on the nose. But in S4 and S5 they stopped trying.

    2 votes

  19. Comment on Google Search as you know it is over in ~tech

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    Yeah same. Especially with recent updates it’s just so much better. It’s been almost a year since I’ve switched from primarily using Google Search to using Gemini for my queries. Claude and...

    Yeah same. Especially with recent updates it’s just so much better. It’s been almost a year since I’ve switched from primarily using Google Search to using Gemini for my queries. Claude and ChatGPT I’ve used for “creative” work and feedback on stuff.

    I was super anti-AI two years ago. But it’s hard to continue using stuff that’s not working as well as it used to when there’s an easy alternative.

    10 votes