Severance is mid

Landman is slopaganda

Anora is an gopnik incel fantasy

KNEECAP is the best film of the decade

Synopsis

Months after the sudden disappearance of everyone's most irritating relatives , newly minted Christian Rayford Steele attempts to convert his millennial daughter Chloe to the Christian faith. Meanwhile, Chloe's boyfriend Cameron "Buck" Williams , the host of cable television's most obnoxious opinion program, stumbles across evidence that the elite is lying about the covid rapture numbers.

Soon Buck discovers a plot to exploit everyone's fear and anxiety to establish a one world government, one world currency, and universal social credit system, all under the control of incredibly uncharismatic Antichrist Nicolae "Jetty" Carpathia.

Review

It's hard to explain what makes something look like a "real movie," but this looks like a real movie. The shots are well composed and the color grading feels cinematic without looking artificial. The interiors are gloomy and lived in, while the streets capture a sense of urban blight and despair. Everything feels like a run-down shithole. Finally Detroit's filmmaking tax credit is paying off.

The script also makes major improvements to the novel. The book's biggest flaw was failing to connect the Antichrist plot to the Rapture plot--in the book, the one world government emerges simply because that's the kind of thing those people do. The movie, meanwhile, draws the obvious connection of authoritarians seizing power in a crisis.

The down side of this is that the whole thing is obviously an extremely hamfisted covid metaphor rushed through production during the coofdemic. And because fundamentalists don't understand subtext, covid gets mentioned by name multiple times so you'll be sure to connect the dots. Aside from the name drops it's just a general pileup of every current rightoid grievance with a loose coat of Bible prophecy paint.

• The government fakes additional rapture-like disappearances and tells non-essential workers to stay home (?).

• All of the stats about the vanishings come through a single company called "Dominator Analytics"

• All media outlets, social media, and payment processing systems are owned by the same globalist billionaire who wants to take over the world

• The protagonist googles "Bible prophecy" and all the videos have been removed for violating the "terms of service." Then he gets his account suspended for unspecified violations (yes jannies got called out in a rapture movie)

• Anyone who catches onto all of this gets the treatment.

Actual dialogue

• "It's like, everybody knows there was a second wave, but nobody's actually seen it happen."

• "Welcome to a new reality. A Great Reset."

• "I think these new vanishing counts that we now proudly display on every broadcast are probably fake."

• "The Rapture wasn't debunked. Someone on TV told you it was debunked and you believed them."

• [Of the Antichrist] "I haven't seen anything like this since Obama."

Miscellaneous

• They didn't have the rights to the UN logo (?) so they made their own version with the map at the wrong projection

• The whole thing is narrated by a lispy black guy who's still delivering exposition well past the one hour mark

• This is in the Left Behind (2014) continuity, not the Left Behind: The Movie (2000) continuity. Note that both series recast between every movie. Nic Cage was too expensive so they got church basement DVD actor Kevin Sorbo to be Rayford Steele instead.

• Somebody vandalized a church by scrawling "SCIENCE!!!!" on the wall

• The filmmakers either forgot or retconned that literally all children canonically vanished. The world should have freaked out a lot harder; instead they act like this was maaaybe 3x as bad as covid

• One character is killed by a car bomb (with flashing lights, which is just sitting in the back seat of the car that the protagonists were just riding in and they didn't notice) that goes off only after the other characters have already left the car

• The movie ends with the Antichrist shooting people gangsta style

• One scene after characters discuss the importance of faith even in times of doubt, they dig up the dead grandma's coffin to prove that her body vanished and the rapture was real

Overall this is still an objective improvement over both previous LB adaptations. However, nothing will top the fever dream charm of the classic 80's budget rapture movies. IMO this kind of movie actually gets worse when you do it well. You lose the clumsy earnestness and are left with smugness. !christians

I can't remember if I made this or thought it was so stupid I had to save it.

appropriate for a show I barely remember except The Weekend saying cringe shit while watching Lily Rose-Depp masturbate and I think the train has some connections to Red Scare and C*m Town. I guess it was a musical?

Watching an episode of The FBI from the 1960s:

Peter Graves, Jessica Walter, Captain Merrick from that Roman planet, the Romulan captain from "The Enterprise Incident". I know these people.

Starring Burt Reynolds. Dr. Corby, Mr. Stiles, and Diana Muldaur... I recognize these actors from 5 different roles just on Star Trek shows.

Watching anything made after 2010:

Who the frick are these people?

to me its another neggar borefest

1. Marvelslop #387482143

2. Pixar's Hoppers - new IP

3. Spiderslop

4. Mooana 3

3. He-Man movie

4. Scream 7

5. Street Fighter Reboot (but if it contains Chun-li and Cammy )

6. Super Mario Bros 2

7. The Odyssey Black Kween Edition

9. Shrek 5 TikTok Edition

10. Hunger Games again

11. Jumanji 8 or something, doesn't this shit gets a new movie every year?

12. Slopdalorian

13. NEVER GOON THE MOVIE

14. Clayface (Batman slop)

15. Ice Age 6

16. Gollumshit

17. Supersnowbunny

18. Toy Slop 5

19. Project Hail Mary

20. Fast and Furious 10 Part 2

!kino

!bookworms !hatewatchers

Not the serial killing or the women throwing themselves at him, but the deep, unadulterated autism.

I rewatched American Psycho for the first time in ages and it really struck me how profoundly neurodivergent he is. His bizarre non-sequiturs, quoting Ed Gein or talking about Ted Bundy's dog. His inability to make an actual connection with anyone. The way he imitated people like the detective at the restaurant because he didn't know how real people are supposed to act. He has few thoughts of his own so he repeats things he heard or read elsewhere. Dude is deep on the spectrum. He's literally me.

This is probably my favorite scene.

PS wash your vagina

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Pro AI comments/AI-Neutral comments:

Yeah a lot of the outrage over this is way over the top. It's practically being used as a Snapchat filter, it's not the end of the world...

Gunna break from the norm here... I find the reaction to this incredibly overblown. None of you had an issue with Snapchat filters turning everyone into Disney characters. You don't care when it's anyone else's style. I get Miyazaki said he doesn't like AI and that's his right to feel that way, but unless people are actively trying to profit off these works, how is it any different than someone drawing in his style? People are just having fun with it. He and his studio are getting tons of recognition and attention from this. They're going to be just fine, and as they say, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Calling it an insult to anime is absurd... it's the most generic, copied, low-creativity art style of all time, where 95% of it looks the same. Not Miyazaki's style in particular but anime in general. Like come on...

I think people don't realize how much other technology already does this. The internet replaced the jobs of people who would transport information. Calculators replaced the jobs of people who would do just that. In each case people lost their job and didn't receive anything for it. This is the effect technology always has, though often it isn't as large scale. Why is the idea of having a machine create your dnd character portrait offensive because you just cost an artist a commission, but using the internet to send that commission isn't despite it costing a courier their commission? The difference is that one was replace long ago and the other is only now in the middle of being replaced.

I'm tired of the backlash against AI art. It's a tool - like a brush, a camera, or a digital tablet - and true creatives will find ways to use it with originality and flair. The uproar over things like the "Ghibli style" in AI misses the point. Yes, Hayao Miyazaki once called AI "an insult to life itself" in 2016, reacting to a crude demo, and Studio Ghibli's never been a fan. But these AI-generated images aren't theft - they're tributes from fans who adore that iconic aesthetic. Art's always been a conversation, borrowing and building across generations; AI's just the latest voice in the mix. Arguments like it disrespects the years poured into mastering a craft - say, 18 years perfecting portraiture. I get it; that dedication matters. But digital art didn't kill painting - traditional works still hang in galleries and fetch millions. AI doesn't erase skill; it amplifies access. History shows this pattern: Renaissance flowed into Impressionism, Expressionism into Modernism, and now we're here. Each shift sparked resistance, then growth. AI's not here to replace artists - it's here to invite everyone to the table. It's not an insult; it's evolution. Embrace it, wield it, or watch it reshape the world anyway.

Yes it is. Because they never showed any solidarity with the workers on the assembly lines replaced by robots. None of you cared then. You don't care now about AI replacing people doing data computation. You don't care about AI self driving cars replacing taxi drivers. You don't care about 3D printers replacing people who make molds or sculptures.  Yeah, it's all about themselves. They aren't arguing about keeping their jobs. They're arguing that " it isn't real art". Did you ever read the opinion pieces of painters during the adoption of photography? They are saying the exact same thing almost word for word. Photography sucks the life out of art. It's devoid of emotion and inspiration. It's a technological solution to something that didn't need solving. It would drive thousands of artists out of work. Photography has no feeling. They said all this and more.  And guess what? Photography is seen as art now. 

Best example of this was that Adam Tots post on r/comics where his SO shows him a picture of them in that Ghibli AI style. Last panel is Adam wanting to shoot himself. Really healthy response to your SO showing you something they think is cute.

That's fair use. Training AI is significantly transformative. This is how the laws work, this is how they've always worked, this is what artists have always known about putting their work out there.  If you're not aware, Google famously won a lawsuit about 10 years ago that said their for-profit venture of scanning millions of copyrighted books and making them searchable and readable online was transformative enough to be fair use.  Obviously training AI is significantly more transformative than that. I'm certain you didn't care when people were "misusing his art" by using stills to create memes. Suddenly it's bad to use them? Come on…

Pro-AI/Neutral-AI long take

Anti-AI comments:

No one is a Luddite here. Ghibli stopped using cells in 1997 with Princess Mononoke. I think in fact they were one of the pioneers in anime adopting computer technology. They understand computers are just a tool so in those instances where they can amplify human creativity they're good. That's why they use a mix of paper and pencil and computers to get the best of both worlds. LLM generation is the opposite of amplifying human creativity, they limit it because it's just a lazy corner cutting.

the real issue is that the AI is clearly trained on copyrighted material without permission in order to recreate like that. this is what the discussion should be about.

AI is currently being used to replace huge chunks of everyday workers. Writers, artists, musicians, etc. It's been created by some tech companies just copying all this copywritten art from all over the internet and teaching their AI to imitate it, which they then use to make huge amounts of money. So they are stealing millions of copywritten works from the general public, and then flood the market that those people were in with cheap mass produced AI "art" to hoover up money with the work they stole. AI in this case is a representation of corporations just stealing more money from your average Joe. And people do not care about pirating Metallica because they are worth a billion dollars and they don't need more money. TL;DR: Capitalism.

None of the replacement technologies so far relied on the work of the people it replaced to function, Sam himself said that AI would be useless if not allowed to be trained on every piece of copyrighted material they can get their hands on. If you told a judge he'd lose his job because you invented a computer that uses his rulings and footage of court cases to replace him as a judge, you'd see how quickly this principle of replacement tech would get banned forever

Anti-AI long take

EDIT: Changed to be neutral

https://old.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/1joavma/ai_images_replicating_the_studio_ghibli_art_style/

!kino !schizos

https://old.reddit.com/r/4kbluray/comments/qu244o/the_middle_earth_4k_collection_is_a_scam_do_not/

https://old.reddit.com/r/4kbluray/comments/toqwoe/argument_for_going_w_lotr_remastered_standard/

https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Middle-Earth-31-Disc-Ultimate-Collectors-Edition-4K-Blu-ray/297743/

I was searching for the best way to but the theatrical editions and kept finding ppl arguing. It seems there's niche drama in the community because not only are blueray collectors feuding over difference of opinion but outsider opinions like this guy have ppl defending their purchase:

And apparently a new Blu Ray came out based off the 4Ks so there's now multiple ways to watch the trilogy in HD: Blu Ray, Remastered Blu Ray and Remastered 4K versus the DVDs and fan editions (not to mention that apparently some of these ppl are ok with Blu Ray Theatrical but not Blu Ray extended. It's a mess, a bit like those spergs who only like the dreamcast version of sonic adventure

Seems like only @butthole has bothered to post anything

Anyway, what's everyone been up to this week?

!kino !hatewatchers

@Aevann please pin

Senile old geezer Redactor could never understand our fresh, creative ideas about a dystopian future of draconian tyrants, mad scientists, and plague-stricken mutants. These new and innovative concepts were invented by Todd Howard for Fallout 4, the first game ever made, and he could never hope to grasp them.

-- You

It's a pretty good movie, watchable if not great on its own merits. It's only 75 minutes long, it's not like you're making a huge sacrifice putting it on when you go to bed. But what's really interesting is how they could make a decent dystopian scifi movie the same quality as we'd get from Hollywood now but in one week for $125,000. It must have cost a billion dollars by now to make the Hunger Games and Neurodivergent series and I'd rather watch this.

It's not like these were even new ideas in 1960. You can hear all this on the radio show Dimension X from 1950, which in turn was mostly based on earlier stories from pulp magazines. Sorry zoomers, but every idea that was possible to think of was already thought up half way through the last century.

Especially notable is the character of Princess Trirene, who has the three traits I look for in a woman:

• 5'3"

• wears miniskirts

• never talks

!hatewatchers

How did the cameramen not burst into laughter everytime they had to film her😭

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— aesoka (@AESOKATANO) March 26, 2025

https://www.hindustantimes.com/entertainment/hollywood/gal-gadot-s-acting-skills-in-viral-scene-snow-white-draws-comparisons-to-scooby-doo-101743255098643.html

https://whereisthebuzz.com/rachel-zegler-called-the-fall-guy-for-snow-white-flop-fans-say-gal-gadots-acting-was-the-true-poison-apple/

Gal Gaddot drinking male tears

I see redditors felate this movie all the time and I finally watched it. It was kind of mid tbh. I kept waiting for it to get good and then it ended. People were gushing about the credits sequences too and after I watched them all I could think was, "That's it?" It's not a terrible movie or anything just incredibly slow and not all that amazing. I don't know how it gets onto so many "best found footage movies" lists.

It also isn't a horror movie at all, more of a mockumentary family drama with some supernatural elements.

Or maybe the studios could try making movies that are enjoyable to watch?

It's time to give movies a makeover

Total zoomer death

Preface

Sundance, the long running movie festival, has been held in Park City, UT for over 40 years. Today, the festival has announced that the 2027 festival would be hosted in Boulder, CO. The move has been a long time coming as the consideration for the new site has been going on for almost a year. Unsurprisingly, they went with the state that offered them 34 million in tax credits over the next 10 years. The move was supposedly uninfluenced by local political climate as stated by Sundance Institute board chair Ebs Burnough: "This process started 18 months ago and we've been in Utah for 40 years. So politics really didn't guide the process, it was really and truly about evolution. That's where it landed." Despite this, Redditors argue the contrary, among other things, in the post announcing the change.

https://old.reddit.com/r/Sundance/comments/1jl9uox/sundance_selects_boulder_colorado_as_new_host/

Some comments about local business

I do think we'll see a lot of those "launder money to stay in business" spots struggling post-Sundance. The housing impact was shitty with the profitability of short-term rentals impacting long term availability, but it was great some local businesses could afford to stay open by renting their space out for two weeks in January. Talked with several boutique owners who said they basically made their rent/mortgage for the year via Sundance space rentals.

As a business owner on Main St. I would say you're really overstretching here. If anything we'll have more consistent business on the street. (Neg voted)

Lol remind me in 4 years

Talking about Boulder itself

Boulder is very white, wealthy, and liberal but they're surface-level liberal, like from an ideological viewpoint, where

they're more concerned about appearing tolerant than meaningfully interacting or coexisting with marginalized folk.

As a gay person of color, going there, I often meet two types of straight white liberal Boulderites:

(1) They're overly nice to you, you know, like almost in a performative way to overemphasize they're not "those type of

white people". It's coming from a well-meaning place but it's still awkward and othering.

(2) They're nice to you but they also don't know how to interact or relate to folk that look like you so they'd rather avoid > you than risk looking uncomfortable or accidentally saying something ignorant/offensive.

Spot on. Why I left Boulder for SLC

Is this a joke?

Great description of Boulder.

It's like Get Out but a whole city.

Boulder sucks

Too bad we have to be gaslit into thinking white-butt Boulder is a better city.

It's not. It's way worse. I wanted Santa Fe. I'm from Denver, a born a bred Boulder hater. You're not going to see me defend that place ever.

Ah yes, Park City and Santa Fe are staples of diversity.

I mean you can look up the diversity percentages yourself. (-1)

Totally. Park City is right up there with keystone and telluride, tied for most diverse in the country!

Whining about state politics

Utah wanted to pass an endless amount of bigot bills to own the libs. Consider them owned

Can we please stop pretending politics had anything to do with it? Bobert came out of CO. Sundance would move to Mar a lago if they were offered $500 million. It's a capitalist exercise. (-8)

Meh. Still doesn't excuse Utah lawmakers passing bills openly hostile towards the artists Sundance purports to celebrate. The criticism is valid.

Finger pointing

Utah deserves this.

Utah is made up of people, all kinds of people, just like Atlanta and Idaho and any other red state. And we did not deserve this. Our legislators are trying to kill us, can we not have one god dammed nice thing?

No you can't. Complain to your friends, family, neighbors, and co-workers of which you must know some that voted for Trump.

Perhaps if you all laid out more personal consequences for their votes you wouldn't constantly find yourself in these situations where your legislators are set to frick with your life.

But you'll go to your Trump loving Grandma's house for Christmas, hug them, kiss them, say you love them and then go on the internet to complain that you can't have one nice thing. Maybe talk to the Trump voters first.

Incredibly disappointed in the Institute. 40 years of history doesn't seem to matter when you have corporate sponsors to please. What happened to the art?

"What happened to the art?" Are you an idiot? The state of Utah is regressing faster than any state in the country, with attacks on voting rights, the trans community, public lands, education... it's the former host that forgot about the art.

Is this a parody? It was about $$$$ (-4)

You'd like to think that because it absolves you of your worldview. No, it wasn't all about the money.

It's cuz Utah is on an anti-DEI tirade. They had to pick somewhere a trans or minority filmmaker might actually feel like they're not under attack. Blame Utah's legislature.

This is honestly great in my option, Sundance has long been constrained by Utahs strict liquor laws, having in boulder brings back the option for many new venues to open up and allows the "Main Street" area to Have more public events.

Liquor laws? Really? The most drunk, belligerent people are sundancers.

Polis is an annoying homo

I hope you all know that Boulder got Sundance because the governor threw $34MM of taxpayer money at it. Also the governor and his husband live less than a quarter mile from the main venue - and he will be there in force gladhanding all the attendees to support his run for president in 2028. This has nothing to do with the event, and everything to do with politics. And when attendees have to navigate the clusterfrick Boulder is, it'll be a short run for Sundance there.

There's more in there, but I think I got most of the best stuff.

Addendum: As someone who has been to both cities, this move is probably for the best. I've never been to the festival, but Park City is constrained by it's geographical location and has become more ritzy and expensive since the buyout in 2014. Not long until it becomes like Aspen with Moncler and Prada within walking distance of the resort. Boulder is an annoying city full of mouth breathers and people huffing their own farts, but is much bigger and can probably handle large crowds better. Boulder and CU still suck though.

Reading reddit has made me understand this issue less.

In the pantheon of parodic filmmaking, Joel Gallen's 2001 magnum opus "Not Another Teen Movie" stands as an unparalleled deconstruction of adolescent cinema, a meticulously crafted palimpsest that simultaneously venerates and eviscerates the tropes that defined the teen film genre from the 1980s through the millennial threshold.

The film's narrative architecture—superficially derivative yet deliciously subversive—centers on the quintessential wager plot wherein football luminary Jake Wyler (portrayed with incipient star power by Chris Evans) undertakes to metamorphose the ostensibly unattractive Janey Briggs into prom queen material. This narrative scaffold, appropriated from "She's All That," serves as the armature upon which the filmmakers drape their tapestry of intertextual allusions to works ranging from John Hughes' oeuvre to the more salacious teen comedies of the late 1990s.

Among the film's most philosophically audacious moments is the geriatric osculation sequence featuring Mia Kirshner as Catherine Wyler and Beverly Polcyn as Sadie Agatha Johnson. This scene represents a multivalent satirical assault on the "Never Been Kissed" archetype, wherein Polcyn portrays an elderly journ*list transparently masquerading as a high school student —"even more obviously not a teenager". The extended French kiss between Catherine and Sadie deliberately subverts the "Girl on Girl Is Hot" trope, as the film renders this interaction deliberately "repulsive" rather than titillating, challenging viewer expectations through its transgressive inversion of conventional teen film eroticism.

The visual composition of this sequence—with its unflinching maximalist approach to the representation of intergenerational intimacy—creates a synaesthetic experience that confronts the spectator with the arbitrary nature of cinematic desire. The scene's calculated grotesquerie earned Kirshner and Polcyn a nomination for "Best Kiss" at the 2002 MTV Movie Awards —a metareferential accolade that further underscores the film's commitment to collapsing the distinction between parody and pastiche.

Kirshner's Catherine embodies the "Depraved Bisexual" archetype with virtuosic commitment, her character having "slept with everyone in school" and willing to "sleep with any hot stranger she hasn't slept with yet". The film's most incisive commentary emerges through Catherine's polymorphous concupiscence, which extends beyond mere promiscuity to encompass incestuous designs on her brother and the aforementioned septuagenarian journ*list. This hyperbolic characterization functions not merely as comedic excess but as pointed critique of the sexual politics that undergird the teen film genre.

Evans' portrayal of Jake Wyler transcends mere performance, achieving instead a state of meta-performative hyperreality that simultaneously embodies and critiques masculinist hegemony in high school narratives. His character's transformation from unthinking jock to self-aware romantic lead serves as microcosmic representation of the film's larger project of generic deconstruction.

"Not Another Teen Movie" thus ascends beyond the limitations of its satirical origins to achieve a state of cinematic sublimity. By rendering explicit the implicit conventions of teen cinema—from the arbitrary nature of physical attractiveness to the absurdity of stock character archetypes—the film offers a profound meditation on the constructed nature of adolescent identity. Its ingenious subversion of generic expectations, exemplified by the boundary-transgressing Catherine-Sadie kiss, establishes this work as an essential text in the metafilmic canon, one whose grotesque excesses ultimately serve as profound philosophical inquiries into the very nature of representational cinema itself.