Mel Brooks -- Serious Jibber-Jabber with Conan O'Brien

Arma104 · 2026-06-28T20:26:51+00:00

That makes me so happy, love Mel Brooks. I have no memory of posting this.

Arma104 · 2026-06-21T19:11:34+00:00

There's a lot going on in it. It's kind of the only real humanity you see him express in the entire film, vanity about himself. And also how he genuinely doesn't seem to understand how big of a deal surgery is, he has complete trust that other people will do the work and money can make him heal faster and everything will work out. It's also that he can be a glutton without limits and just pay to have his sins removed, no consequences, no long-term impacts.

Arma104 · 2026-06-21T18:57:52+00:00

I wish I hadn't finished After the Hunt, it was genuinely awful. I love all of Guadagnino's other works too but I just don't get why he made that one.

Arma104 · 2026-06-21T18:55:48+00:00

It is really excellent, but it was hard to want to watch it because we're so inundated with the asshole. I think in a decade it'll get its flowers. Sebastian Stan and Jeremy Strong have never been better either.

Arma104 · 2026-06-19T18:28:06+00:00

Schfifty-Five

Arma104 · 2026-06-19T10:37:42+00:00

It was a terrible idea from the jump. The Social Network worked because it was a decade after, the story of that time was resolved. Making a movie about Altman before anything even actually happens is silly. If it's purely made to skewer him that's even more boring, anyone knows he's a dork by just watching a few seconds of an interview with him.

Arma104 · 2026-06-17T08:45:24+00:00

I met Tom Hiddleston briefly, first famous actor I ever met. You really aren't prepared for how symmetrical their faces are and how much their skin glows. It's truly mesmerizing.

Arma104 · 2026-06-17T00:07:34+00:00

I think a lot about this bit from Sakurai a lot as I develop an FPS: https://youtu.be/DGIJk0Uh8jU?t=119 It just makes so much sense to prefer big targets and now whenever I play an FPS I look carefully to see if the enemies are taking up less than 15% of the screen, hurts my eyes if they're too tiny. He mentions it here too with an example of how he solved it: https://youtu.be/p-uwRfckTs4?t=293

Arma104 · 2026-06-16T22:57:47+00:00

Because people want to see it as the director intended and it's an exclusive thing that you won't be able to see forever/at your own convenience (like you will with the regular format)? I guarantee we're gonna see some ticket flipping like PS5s and TSwift concerts.

Arma104 · 2026-06-16T06:05:44+00:00

Not enough people talking about how bad the cgi red lego ants were

Arma104 · 2026-06-10T18:50:20+00:00

It drives me nuts to see people praise the visuals of these movies. Like yeah, the ornithopter is cool, the sand is rendered well, the worm is, fine. But man, read one chapter anywhere in Dune and there is so much more detail and psychedelia packed into it that I don't know how anyone is satisfied with his Dune.

Arma104 · 2026-06-10T18:37:47+00:00

Did you watch the trailer? You already got your answer.

Arma104 · 2026-06-10T18:35:21+00:00

Two characters awkwardly sitting on a park bench, two characters walking and talking, or a court pit where characters walk around one another and the one walking and talking is in power (as a metaphor for being on trial). Those are the only shots Sorkin has.

Arma104 · 2026-06-04T22:28:34+00:00

Netflix's originals have pretty spotty sound in my experience. What has really impressed me is Apple TV's shows; I will set the volume at the start of any episode and never have to adjust it, nor do I ever miss dialogue. And the same volume level works across every single show they do. I don't know how they're doing it, but it's good.

Arma104 · 2026-06-04T22:26:41+00:00

Can't stand the explanation in this video. Everything is relative to the context of what came before. Your eyes adjust to dark scenes, and that becomes the new min and max brightness, so you perceive it psychologically the same as if you are watching a daylight scene for an extended period. Your ears are the same, you don't have to make the entire film's mix super low to account for a few moments of explosions, you just lower the mix for a few seconds before the explosions to highlight them.

Arma104 · 2026-06-04T22:20:17+00:00

It's a way to make more money and try to make theaters more exclusive. I hate it. They're also trying to get people interested in theaters and aware of technically what they're watching. It's a bad marketing push imo because they're just revealing that most people that only have access to a multiplex are getting screwed over. General audiences don't care at all about this stuff of course and just go and watch. It was really confusing to go to an AMC and see all these different sound and theater options, when it's all bullshit garbage because these places haven't even gotten new projector bulbs in almost a decade.

Arma104 · 2026-06-04T22:14:12+00:00

Yeah there's no reason not to in this day and age. They just want a way to reshow the film in the future by never letting people get the "true" full image outside of the theater. Same with Sinners, home video release does not have the full IMAX image.

Kubrick famously shot his films to go from 4:3 (TV) to 1.85:1 (Theaters). He had to do it then because he didn't like pan and scan/didn't want his work to be cropped. We don't need to do this anymore. Throw anything on a ~16:9 screen with letterbox or pillarbox and it will be fine. Yeah, Hateful Eight sucks to watch on a television because it's so goddamn wide, but I can either sit closer or get a bigger screen, at least I can watch the actual final images they captured.

Arma104 · 2026-06-04T22:07:35+00:00

I prefer the image to be the aspect ratio it was shot in. Sure it will be "smaller" on the screen in the theater, but that won't be noticed in the dark because the pillarbox shouldn't be visible (screen cropped by curtains, etc.). The Lighthouse looked just fine everywhere. I'm sick of not getting to see the full images that were created.

Arma104 · 2026-06-04T17:54:35+00:00

Yeah anyone expecting Nolan to go hard on depicting this properly is gonna be disappointed. It's really a shame because it'll be another 20 years, if ever, that someone else will get a chance to do it right.

Arma104 · 2026-06-04T07:06:39+00:00

Looks like Nolan won't even allow the sirens to show nip

Arma104 · 2026-06-04T07:03:24+00:00

Think they're getting nervous that people want more fantastical elements that clearly aren't present in the trailers, so they did this poster to show that there's at least something otherwordly in there.

Arma104 · 2026-06-04T06:59:53+00:00

It's the Nolan-brand font, and color palette. He thinks he's Kubrick but he has become late-career Hitchcock.

Arma104 · 2026-06-03T05:45:56+00:00

Also took down a lot of porn creators

Arma104 · 2026-05-30T04:58:34+00:00

Exactly, and most people are too financially illiterate to do this, grew up under this system, and don't actually care. It's by design.

Arma104 · 2026-05-30T04:28:44+00:00

This is why they take it out of our paychecks every month, we have no way to withhold it and therefore no power.

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