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Comment on Jeff the Killer movie in development from TikTok creator Savanah Moss and Tongal in ~movies
cloud_loud LinkObviously this is because of Backrooms. But, what I don’t understand is that this is a decade older. The Backrooms is also something that lends itself to being more creative imo. This is more like...Obviously this is because of Backrooms. But, what I don’t understand is that this is a decade older. The Backrooms is also something that lends itself to being more creative imo. This is more like Slenderman but worse:
Because I read a lot of creepy pasta as a pre-teen and young teen, I’m very familiar with Jeff the Killer lore. And it’s really fucking stupid. The early 2010s wattpad style of writing, obsession with hoodies, making him attractive to spin off fan art, the catchphrase.
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Jeff the Killer movie in development from TikTok creator Savanah Moss and Tongal
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Paper Tiger | Official teaser trailer
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Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)
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Why normal people aren’t using AI agents
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Comment on ‘The Odyssey’ surpasses $1 billion, Christopher Nolan’s first movie since ‘Dark Knight Rises’ to reach coveted box office milestone in ~movies
cloud_loud Link ParentHistorical event. Avatar is very much not based on anything. People rag on it for taking story beats or whatever, but it is its own thing. Also I lied I forgot about Zootopia lol. That had the...Historical event.
Avatar is very much not based on anything. People rag on it for taking story beats or whatever, but it is its own thing.
Also I lied I forgot about Zootopia lol. That had the Disney branding though.
Splitting hairs gets so complicated
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Comment on ‘The Odyssey’ surpasses $1 billion, Christopher Nolan’s first movie since ‘Dark Knight Rises’ to reach coveted box office milestone in ~movies
cloud_loud Link ParentSpider-Man: Brand New Day didn’t have any IMAX either, as The Odyssey took them up. Doomsday and Dune should have a similar dynamic. Though supposedly there’s rumblings that one of them is gonna...Spider-Man: Brand New Day didn’t have any IMAX either, as The Odyssey took them up. Doomsday and Dune should have a similar dynamic. Though supposedly there’s rumblings that one of them is gonna move up, we’ll know in the next week as D23 is happening.
IMAX gave the screens to Nolan because, well frankly no one would care about the format without him. And the Dune films all did super well on the format, and they like Denis. So it makes sense why they prioritized those.
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Comment on What creative projects have you been working on? in ~creative
cloud_loud LinkI know there’s like four days left on this thread. But I was writing stuff recently. And I thought I’d see how LLM’s would help with it. Especially since it’s been revealed that almost every...I know there’s like four days left on this thread.
But I was writing stuff recently. And I thought I’d see how LLM’s would help with it. Especially since it’s been revealed that almost every working writer uses it to some degree. I’ve used all of the main ones. Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, and Grok. They all have their specific weaknesses, but they all have the same issue.
They’re really bad at giving feedback, identifying problems, and coming up with suggestions. Supposedly what the writer’s that use these do is have AI give you a setting or a situation to happen next. I think this is the worst use of it because the situations are always terrible. Don’t even get me started on the dialogue it’ll throw in. The scenes are always too fast, don’t build up enough, and misconstrue whatever themes you’re getting at.
The feedback it gives is completely overpraising. Whatever “weaknesses” it identifies seems to be randomly chosen. I’ve even done a thing where I’ve uploaded a script, and also uploaded feedback I got from a human, and tell it to evaluate the script based on that feedback. And it completely misunderstands what the human feedback was getting at.
The only useful thing I’ve found is that it makes it easier to do research. Like asking it to show you an example of how to write something in a technical way, as in how to do that on the page, it can show you how to do it. Or if you want to know how the inside of a building you’ve never been to looks like, you can do that too. Before LLM’s I would spend much longer googling a lot of that stuff. That being said, I think going the longer way will result in something better than relying on what an AI is telling you.
I do think the writing I completed with the help of LLM’s is pretty weak. And I’m not like a super strong writer either, but I think it makes you go down certain paths that you would otherwise avoid. And then when you try to fix it, you have to fix the fundamentals of the story just for it to flow in a more sensical manner.
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Comment on ‘The Odyssey’ surpasses $1 billion, Christopher Nolan’s first movie since ‘Dark Knight Rises’ to reach coveted box office milestone in ~movies
cloud_loud Link ParentThere’s only ever been one original film to make a billion dollars, and that’s the first Avatar.There’s only ever been one original film to make a billion dollars, and that’s the first Avatar.
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Comment on Albums based on a recurring musical phrase in ~music
cloud_loud (edited )LinkI think I know what you mean, but if I misunderstand then I apologize for the next recommendations. If Beale Street Could Talk by Nicholas Britell La La Land by Justin Hurwitz and also Babylon by...I think I know what you mean, but if I misunderstand then I apologize for the next recommendations.
If Beale Street Could Talk by Nicholas Britell
La La Land by Justin Hurwitz and also Babylon by him to a lesser degree.
Carol by Carter Burwell.
Joker by Hildur Guonadottir.
Challengers by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross.
Tron: Legacy by Daft Punk.
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Comment on Midweek Movie Free Talk in ~movies
cloud_loud Link ParentI honestly don’t think he was ever attractive. I remember seeing the trailer for Only Living Boy in New York back in 2016, and thinking he was a bit odd looking. Which is why he was probably a...One person said that if you look at his Wikipedia, you'll see that the 2026 version of him is basically not as hot as the 2018 photo, so maybe he's cashing in on a face that he's aged developed out of.
I honestly don’t think he was ever attractive. I remember seeing the trailer for Only Living Boy in New York back in 2016, and thinking he was a bit odd looking. Which is why he was probably a model, because he had a unique look to him.
I wonder how much of him being considered “hot” is just that he’s with Dua Lipa.
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Comment on Midweek Movie Free Talk in ~movies
cloud_loud LinkOne Night Only For those of you that don’t know. This is the movie where sex is illegal except one night a year. Basically the purge but for sex. Lots of people have been complaining about the...One Night Only
For those of you that don’t know. This is the movie where sex is illegal except one night a year. Basically the purge but for sex. Lots of people have been complaining about the premise, saying something about fascism, yada yada.
I don’t think there’s anything inherently wrong with the premise. I think it could be interesting, and I think this does interesting things with that premise. The best stretch of the film is when the characters are operating within the limits of this world. But, because we need to fill 100 minutes of a romcom in it, the characters all react in such a non human way. It makes Monica Barbaro’s character insanely unreasonable. Like, just have sex with him for fuck sake.
Another issue I have, this is the second movie I’ve seen where everyone treats Callum Turner as this incredibly hot guy. They did the same with Eternity and I will not be gaslit into this. I said Noah Centineo should have been him in Eternity and I think he could have been him here. And I’m not just saying that cause he looks like me, he plays the charming good guy much better than Turner does. Turner just comes across as villainous a little bit, I really hope he’s not Bond lol.
Also came out that they cut out most of the sex scenes in this because test audiences were uncomfortable with sex. It’s become a trend for younger millennials and GenZ to hate sex on screen. Because, morality or whatever. That wouldn’t improve it, it’s not like there was gonna be a graphic sex scene with Barbaro involved or anything like that. Her body is tea regardless.
It’s a disappointing because I really like Anyone But You with Glenn Powell and Sydney Sweeney (who make hilarious cameos in this film). But that film was better written, the characters were funnier and not frustrating. The dynamic of pulling back actually made sense there. It’s a comfort watch for me. He also did Easy A and Friends With Benefits. A really solid romcom director, which is a dying breed. Hope he keeps making stuff like this, just with better scripts.
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Comment on ‘The Odyssey’ surpasses $1 billion, Christopher Nolan’s first movie since ‘Dark Knight Rises’ to reach coveted box office milestone in ~movies
cloud_loud Link ParentYeah, but in fairness that was a trend pre pandemic. They’re not fully faltering though. We just had Obsession and Backrooms become cultural phenomenons with small budgets. Wuthering Heights and...Yeah, but in fairness that was a trend pre pandemic.
They’re not fully faltering though. We just had Obsession and Backrooms become cultural phenomenons with small budgets. Wuthering Heights and Scary Movie were successes.
But, yes, although even the blockbuster market had been dying for a while now.
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Comment on ‘The Odyssey’ surpasses $1 billion, Christopher Nolan’s first movie since ‘Dark Knight Rises’ to reach coveted box office milestone in ~movies
cloud_loud (edited )LinkIt will end up being his highest grossing movie ever. Additionally we are now at five billion dollar movies this year: The Super Mario Galaxy Movie Michael Toy Story 5 Spider-Man: Brand New Day...It will end up being his highest grossing movie ever.
Additionally we are now at five billion dollar movies this year:
- The Super Mario Galaxy Movie
- Michael
- Toy Story 5
- Spider-Man: Brand New Day
- The Odyssey
The most in any post-pandemic year. Previously, in terms of just Hollywood, the most we got was three in 2022, 2024, and 2025. To compare in 2019 we had nine films reach the billion dollar mark, with seven of them being distributed by Disney and an eighth being co-produced by Disney. In 2018 we, again, had five billion dollar movies.
We have at least one more billion dollar film being released this year with Avengers: Doomsday and maybe something else can break out (like Dune: Part Three).
Pretty incredible recovery for the box office, especially when you consider that two of these are non-franchise films. We’ll see if this translates to higher attendance from now on.
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‘The Odyssey’ surpasses $1 billion, Christopher Nolan’s first movie since ‘Dark Knight Rises’ to reach coveted box office milestone
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Comment on Midweek Movie Free Talk in ~movies
cloud_loud Link ParentI do think the opening especially would be a bit jarring. In the sense of why did X happen and then why did Y happen and why are we where we are. The opening monologue recaps all that, but I think...I do think the opening especially would be a bit jarring. In the sense of why did X happen and then why did Y happen and why are we where we are. The opening monologue recaps all that, but I think having the context of the previous films helps a lot. And also it helps to have the context of what the Home trilogy did with the characters and the relationships between them.
I would rather someone have all that going in. It’s a bit like watching The Dark Knight Rises without having seen Batman Begins or The Dark Knight. You could enjoy that independently but the context of how the characters got there is pretty important.
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Comment on Midweek Movie Free Talk in ~movies
cloud_loud (edited )Link ParentI don’t know what you mean by sensitive to spoilers. But, I don’t think it’d make sense if you haven’t seen No Way Home. In turn, No Way Home doesn’t make sense without Far From Home. And Far From...I don’t know what you mean by sensitive to spoilers. But, I don’t think it’d make sense if you haven’t seen No Way Home. In turn, No Way Home doesn’t make sense without Far From Home. And Far From Home doesn’t make sense without Avengers: Endgame.
Both Brand New Day and No Way Home directly continue from the previous film’s cliffhanger.
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Comment on Midweek Movie Free Talk in ~movies
cloud_loud (edited )LinkI change my mind, I don’t think Brand New Day is trying to be The Dark Knight. I think it’s trying to be The Batman. Including that it feels very comic booky and it’s a little too long. Anyways,...I change my mind, I don’t think Brand New Day is trying to be The Dark Knight. I think it’s trying to be The Batman. Including that it feels very comic booky and it’s a little too long.
Anyways, one thought I’ve had for years now was regarding the casting of Homecoming. Because, once Disney took over production duties it led to them putting Zendaya in the film. Disney loves having plans for their stars.
Here’s the thing. During Shake it Up, which I saw as a kid, it was a bit obvious that Disney was prioritizing Bella Thorne, not Zendaya. They would often pit them against each other to spark competition. From what we know, Disney had a plan to make Bella Thorne a huge actress with the goal to echoe Emma Stone’s career. Unfortunately, Thorne rebelled and started doing some crazy stuff like directing porn. So, by the time Spider-Man came along and the role of MJ was clear, Thorne was no longer an option so they went with Zendaya.
But, imagine a world where Thorne followed the plan set by Disney. I think she would have been locked for the MJ role. Her career probably looks entirely different after that. Zendaya probably isn’t as famous as she is now, but she still would have done Euphoria so she would be more of an artsy actress. So many implications there, including on Tom Holland’s personal life.
I understand the type of person that posts on here are, generally, going to be more rigid and less lax. But, there's really no need for this minutiae. Not every little thing has to be labeled, or put into it's own little corner. You can just ignore it or engage with it, but there's really no need to have all these additions.