A commercial incentive?
If you want to commercialize solving the ills of society, you end up with death camps as being simply the end result of efficiency.
If you want to solve the problems of various demographics rather then viewing them as gender-specific instances in order to benefit the whole of society you get, among other benefits, a lot less genocide.
I had a broken clock once.
I lost it when everything burned to the ground during a preventable wildfire that was mismanaged and allowed to grow unchecked until it consumed everything…
Yeah!
Now knock off all that fascism - or we WILL go back out there and do another lap!
Wow. Like a zen koan.
If a tree applies bronzer in the forest, and no one is around, does it still embezzle?
How, the fuck, is this “bizarre?”
He’s a sundowning, semi-literate, demented, narcissistic, dysphagic, self-obsessed asshat who has NEVER been able to focus on anything that isn’t a Fox News segment about himself.
Had he somehow read a passable 500-word speech from a teleprompter, that would have been “bizarre”
The only way this could have been more standardized would have been a rambling mention of Hannibal Lector, blaming Hillary for something, and then dancing to YMCA.
Screwed over by the world’s richest man?
Yeah, well so was the rest of the nation…
Yes.
This elder is fucking abusing us…
That CT scanner is like a D&D magic item that lets you conjure up to 2 hit-dice worth of medicated animals…
We destroy capitalism or capitalism (finishes) destroying us. Appear to be the only two options available.
Boring, slow incremental progress is great. Not ideal, but great.
However, a two-party system where one party is ALWAYS a single lost election from the advent or fascism is a democracy too brittle to survive.
Won in 2012
Won in 2018
Won in 2020
Won in 2022
And this is where it got us.
So… They are just going to pretend he’s mentally sound, and for as long as they do, this shit just gets worse and worse until we all die from it.
Salient points, all.
Yeah… Finally got around to reading Hamlet and “it’s just a bunch of cliches”
But my main reservation with this adaptation is not which artistic choices are being made or the direction they decide to take things or even the difficulties in adapting the story (actually argued the other side of all this in FAVOR of the latest Dune) - and more that the source material was (likely) chosen simply for being a rich vein of dork-culture ore, one intended to be quickly and easily processed into a homogenized block of monetized consumer content…
The end result, once stripped of all pedigree and drained of any residial artistic expression, left as little more than a thumbnail to be scrolled past and forgotten alongside other milquetoast sci-fi projects like Travelers, or Continuum, Solo, etc…
An adaptation with nothing to say; “art” as a meaningless multimedia content experience
Neuromancer without devolving into self-parody…
What was that bit about trying to read Hamlet and deciding it was just people sitting around in castles speaking in cliches?
I mean, if they can make a 3rd adaptation of Dune: The Consumable Content Experience then I’m sure someone can find a way to make a Neuromancer that would be me than just a generic block of media - greenlit while pointing to the mere existence of The Peripheral as financial onus.
Maybe next time then.
Looks like she’s walking out of an Apple store
Do the lenses. They, aside from the razor blade nails, were the defining characteristic.
Do them right.
Rather than set up a lazy shot-reverse-shot ala Attack of the Clones, every scene Molly is in gives us a background that can be flipped and displayed in the lenses in order to showcase what the character is feeling.
And then cast her with someone who can do a Carl Urban-as-Dredd performance without ever showing us her actual eyes.
Experimental? Edgy? Overly difficult? Artistically pretentious even?
Maybe.
But these stills are shot at day and without neon? So, much better than whatever paint-by-numbers checklist they are using to produce this abomination…
No… Hell no.
She had her tear ducts reversed so she spit out her tears.
Yeah this adaptation is fucked.
… Now?
The Devil’s Eyebrow
If you dial the resolution back beyond the bed, you have the whole human experience.
Finding meaning within a finite existence framed against the infinite is not easy but, if you pick up your fucking room a little, maybe it can be done with a bit more class and comfort?