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16 hours ago, tchookem said:
Agreed. I went in expecting it to be one kind of movie, but it went another direction. I felt like it went over-the-top to the point of cheesy.
I am getting a kick out the idea of some people leaving.16 hours ago, YChang said:Wait are people really leaving because…
Saw it this weekend. It was fine, but RPatt's voicework is really top notch. I forget that his regular voice is a normal British guy.
Anyway, why would people be leaving? Trying to think of something hugely offensive and I'm coming up short...
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4 hours ago, Hagbard Celine said:
put aside communing with your family before or after the film
do you commune with strangers before or after?
please do not take this as being antagonistic
i just do not get this community reason for going
I mean, I guess it's like going to a football game vs watching it at home.
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On 3/5/2025 at 12:21 PM, Reynolds Woodcock said:There is a revenue factor, sure, but making movies is an art form. Like any other art form, the artist wants their product to be consumed in an ideal viewing experience to the greatest extent possible. Watching Oppenheimer on your run of the mill TV with factory speakers (and , god forbid, motion smoothing) is like looking at a screensaver of Guernica.
I think this is a big part of it. I haven't gone to a non-Alamo theater in at least a decade because they do a great job of getting rid of many of the things that suck about other theaters - hordes of unaccompanied high-schoolers, people on their phones, people talking, etc. The pre-shows aren't commercials but montages of interesting footage that somehow relates to the film. And put me in the pro-trailer club - I love seeing glimpses of what's coming up and getting excited about what to see next.
That said, it's still expensive, especially if you're eating and drinking. These days, I tend to ration my movie-going to stuff that seems made to watch on a big screen or with a big group, or things that my kids want to see. Anything else I stream. As they've gotten older, movies have stayed the thing that we all still love, so when one of them asks if we can go see something in the the theater, it's usually an easy yes. And I still love going to the movies by myself. If I find myself with a day off from work and nothing else to do, that's usually where I end up.
The last component, and what I think Sean Baker was really getting at, is that we miss the community aspect of movie-going when we watch at home, and that community aspect is worth more than we think. I think about this often as I sit at my house with everyone in the same room, but on their individual laptops watching stuff by themselves with their Airpods in. The movies are one of the few experiences left where you really have to all focus on the same thing at the same time. I'm extremely introverted, and if left to my own devices, I could easily get lost in my own head, my own books, my own computer, forever, with nary a word spoken to someone else. And while that's honestly the dream, I don't think it's the best thing for me, or society in general.
Anyway, that ended up being a lot longer than I planned. Thanks for coming to my TED talk.
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1 hour ago, HornOnTheBayou said:
The Gemma we saw last night was much more responsive and with it than Ms. Casey was last season. She's finally showing emotions, making decisions, problem solving by trying to escape, etc.
The Gemma who tried to escape was outie Gemma, which is why she was a lot more with it than Ms. Casey. When she went down the elevator, she reverted to Ms. Casey, and her personality reverted back to the Ms. Casey we know.
3 minutes ago, F250 said:The responsive Gemma was her outie, in the hallway and in her apartment/room that was her outie being held captive. In those named rooms those were different innies. They were only aware of being in a specific room all the time and repeating the same tasks. They were not aware of the existence of the other rooms or other innies.
This was the first episode we were exposed to outie Gemma. Ms. Casey is just another Gemma innie and there are at least 7 Gemma innies.
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9 minutes ago, ChickenSandwich said:
My guess is they want to market severance as a way to avoid any pain or trauma for the general population.
Fear of flying, fear of the dentist etc. Flip a switch and the processing/procedure is over and you have no memory of the experience.
Mark also mentioned something about how she hated to write thank-you notes, before they showed her in the room where she had to write thank-you notes until she could barely write.
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7 hours ago, Planet Houston said:
I have an even weirder thought. What if the “twin” was never real and was his sinful, “woe” id/ego, and Helly/Helena will have a son that is two separate people, depending on whether their mother is Helena or Helly in the moment? So they create a severed person without having to implant a chip.
I've always figured that the "twin" wasn't so much a twin as a devil on Keir's shoulder. That the point of the story was that Keir vanquished his more unsavory half and then became who he was, and that the story was more of a fable than a real occurrence. But your theory about creating a severed person without implanting a chip is an interesting one.
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White Lotus - HBO
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Nah, that kid looks just like his dad.
I've lived in Austin for 25 years, and if they hadn't said she was from Austin, I never would've gotten that. She's not even trying to have a bad accent. She could be a generic rich white lady from anywhere. Usually when people stereotype Austin, they go with the liberal hippie trope.