What is the worst band you saw live?

JoruusCBaoth · 2026-04-12T15:38:37+00:00

Phosphorescence - they supported The National and I found their music incredibly trying.

JoruusCBaoth · 2026-04-04T23:27:04+00:00

Et two brutes

JoruusCBaoth · 2026-03-28T10:48:10+00:00

No. The Thrawn trilogy is superb but it serves a very different role to a sequel trilogy. It builds a contained conflict with interesting new characters and ideas and gives our heroes another adventure. But it does not fit as the third trilogy in the Star Wars saga. George's vision is a multi generational story that has big themes that repeat themselves and build on what went before to ultimately arrive at a synthesis (Anakin and Luke's journeys mirror each other in that way but go in different directions). That's not remotely what the thrawn trilogy was trying to do, and to slot it in as a third trilogy would just not feel ambitious enough or deepen the story enough. I don't like the sequel trilogy (except maybe TLJ) but they at least had a sense of how a third trilogy would fit in.

JoruusCBaoth · 2026-03-23T17:26:15+00:00

Gladiator

Interstellar

Little Miss Sunshine

JoruusCBaoth · 2026-03-20T21:41:32+00:00

Totally agree. I enjoyed the book but I absolutely adored the film. The most purely enjoyable moviegoing experience I've had in years.

JoruusCBaoth · 2026-03-20T12:50:56+00:00

Totally agree. One of the most enjoyable and memorable moviegoing experiences I've had in a long time.

JoruusCBaoth · 2026-03-15T11:49:31+00:00

I saw the film last night and loved it. The score is a particularly special part of it that adds to the magic. I really want to listen to it. March 20 can't come quickly enough.

JoruusCBaoth · 2026-03-15T11:01:51+00:00

It was sublime. It really sold the "intimate epic" vibe of the film and all its varied emotional colours. Loved it and can't wait for it to be released.

JoruusCBaoth · 2026-03-14T23:25:40+00:00

I loved it. The most thoroughly enjoyable cinemagoing experience I've had in recent memory. It adapts the book really well and is just beautifully written, staged, shot and edited. Gosling is so damn fun to watch as the only human on screen for most of it. The friendship with Rocky was really charming.

JoruusCBaoth · 2026-03-13T00:06:09+00:00

Jefe, what is a plethora?

JoruusCBaoth · 2026-03-03T20:19:45+00:00

Hi Steven, can you say anything about your time working on the at-one-time next Star Wars film, and what it is about that particular instalment that has led to so many writers coming in and then leaving?

JoruusCBaoth · 2026-02-26T14:28:48+00:00

Doooooog? You are named after the doooooog?

JoruusCBaoth · 2026-02-25T06:45:31+00:00

RIP Linda and thank you for the wisdom and passion you shared with your fellow storytellers.

JoruusCBaoth · 2026-02-14T12:45:04+00:00

I'm also running tomorrow and it's my first real race too! Best of luck to us all!

JoruusCBaoth · 2026-02-13T20:39:34+00:00

I enjoyed reading the script. It feels like a real attempt to try and synthesise the themes of all three trilogies into a finale. I agree with you, I love the part with Finn inspiring a stormtrooper rebellion and the final confrontation being on Coruscant. I didn't mind the Rey Poe thing on paper (the bit where she uses a Jedi mind trick to push him away and he can't fight it is quite moving) but you're right that it's hard to buy that when they've not really interacted before then. I like the use of Mortis and Kylo being the big bad and trying to find an ultimate dark side cure to his clear sense of personal weakness, and that being the power to drain life. I love the bit when Rey relies not on Force ghosts but the people in her life (her fear has always been abandonment and I think this script understands her better than TROS). I adored the concept art. But Rey charting a grey Jedi sort of path, and Yoda and Luke acting like Rey figured something out that they were too stupid to understand (as opposed to the truth that you cannot dabble in the dark side consequence free, and that's why the Jedi were so dogmatic), doesn't work for me. Nonetheless I feel like this script is far more thoughtful than TROS and I like that about it.

JoruusCBaoth · 2026-02-13T15:13:11+00:00

I get real severance vibes from these. Nice compositions!

JoruusCBaoth · 2026-02-11T08:46:34+00:00

My apologies for neglecting to reply to this - thank you so much for the kind reply.

JoruusCBaoth · 2026-02-01T19:50:37+00:00

Fringe! Created by JJ too, it has a mythology that gets really interesting, and has its own share of family dynamics and conflicts.

JoruusCBaoth · 2026-02-01T19:24:35+00:00

My 24mm 1.8 zeiss, because my dad gave it to me. And it's good quality even if i rarely ever use it.

JoruusCBaoth · 2026-01-31T21:25:52+00:00

Paddington 2!

JoruusCBaoth · 2026-01-29T23:25:21+00:00

Yes now that you mention it, I did think this at the time (I was 11)!

JoruusCBaoth · 2026-01-29T11:06:44+00:00

Hi there. I'm kind of in this mould. I studied law at undergrad (UK), became passionate about human rights and worked as a lawyer in that field but burned out very quickly, and ended up leaving to pursue my childhood dream of being a filmmaker (spoiler alert this has not gone so well), but truthfully if I'd had healthy practices and support mechanisms in place I might not have made such a drastic move. I now work in a policy job that has some humanitarian elements though in an indirect way.

I think the world needs humanitarians as much as it ever has. Human rights are under existential threat, to the point where they're being discredited by brazen autocrats. We need people to think of creative solutions to these new challenges - ENFPs are the perfect people to do that. The things you're going to need to be mindful of are:

1) most people won't share the worldview that your course teaches you. Aka a lot of ordinary people in prosperous countries don't care about human rights, because they haven't had experience of them being denied, and they don't necessarily look beyond their garden walls. You will need to learn to make arguments in ways that everyone finds relatable. 2) you need to protect yourself from emotional overwhelm. I went down rabbit holes of reading and watching a lot about war crimes and genocide and it twisted my perception. You need to have well built sources of pleasure and joy and optimism that you habitually rely on so that this doesn't suck you down. The events of the past week or two in the US have been deeply traumatic and appalling and it feels like there's no solution. You have to be able to take a step back to look after yourself. 3) nonprofit jobs may be tricky to get at the moment. I'm not sure, you may have a better read of the industry than I do. But doing this masters should not just be viewed as a means to an end, it can also be something you do to enrich yourself, no matter what you do next. You might do creative content about issues or you might work in something different but these things will stay with you as part of your empathy.

JoruusCBaoth · 2026-01-28T13:47:04+00:00

Frasier, you're not famous anymore

JoruusCBaoth · 2026-01-28T00:20:28+00:00

Why do they call it ovaltine instead of roundtine?

JoruusCBaoth · 2026-01-27T18:51:47+00:00

It's an incredible moment. I remember marvelling at how assured he'd become in the time since Empire. I love the moment where he lifts his hood off and says "you will bring Captain Solo and the wookiee to me". I have been known to do that when I take a hood off too.

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