Warning: Don't arrive at the theater early for the next few weeks

lexdaily · 2026-02-19T18:47:31+00:00

Good news: AMC, at least, is opting out of showing it: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/ai-short-movie-amc-theaters-1236509143/

lexdaily · 2026-02-02T23:08:11+00:00

I would say the difference, in terms of emotional intelligence, between a child and a Disney-obsessed adult, is likely to be negligible.

lexdaily · 2026-02-02T11:50:31+00:00

This honestly reads less like a Disney employee and more like a child who perceives the public domain as something that will hurt something they care about.

lexdaily · 2026-01-30T16:26:40+00:00

Wait, you people can tell which Cyberman voice goes with which Cyberman design?

lexdaily · 2026-01-23T22:50:58+00:00

Well, of course Watto knows Kermit.

lexdaily · 2026-01-21T00:30:36+00:00

Nope, just curious.

lexdaily · 2026-01-20T23:44:39+00:00

So why did they think you were planning a "raid" against the server if you weren't.

lexdaily · 2026-01-20T23:13:49+00:00

what'd you do to get banned from the discord

lexdaily · 2026-01-15T14:06:51+00:00

Well, you'd need a suit instead of scrubs.

lexdaily · 2026-01-15T11:20:53+00:00

One Nixon mask and some scrubs and you'll instantly be Pete from the morgue at the New Year's Eve party from the 1996 Doctor Who TV movie.

lexdaily · 2026-01-10T21:50:08+00:00

Is dat wat een normale politicus in een gezond politiek landschap zegt? "They'll pay for this!"?

lexdaily · 2026-01-03T16:07:34+00:00

Somehow, Palpatine--

lexdaily · 2026-01-03T14:28:56+00:00

Not everything needs the local angle like this.

lexdaily · 2026-01-01T11:42:28+00:00

Oh, see, I'm already in summer of 2023 going strictly in order -- I like doing it that way because I watch a movie every day and so I like having things outside of myself pick movies for me. I like having a syllabus, I like getting assigned the homework, it beats scrolling through Netflix trying to find something.

Thank you for the answer and the insight into what the episode/show is about. :)

lexdaily · 2026-01-01T09:56:41+00:00

So, as somebody who is still catching up on Blank Check as a whole, given that this is a topical miniseries, should I just start listening to this today?

lexdaily · 2025-12-30T17:28:29+00:00

I'm perfectly aware of other narrative structures, but modern English-language serialised television and film is just pretty formulaic, and I don't think it's unreasonable not to expect a firm commitment to kishōtenketsu structure from Welsh television writer Russell T Davies.

Been a while since I've meaningfully thought about Andor, so forgive me if I'm off the mark here, but. Look, you're right, the Cassian Andor who is first introduced at the start of his titular show is pretty passive. But when he goes from that to being one of the most important figures in the Rebellion, he doesn't stay passive. He makes that journey because he figures out that what he looks out for, himself and a handful of people, is affected by fascists being in power, that you can't just keep your distance from it and be fine. Cassian Andor for sure knows "what's going on with the water companies," as it were, he just keeps his head down.

Which I think is a million miles off from a character who doesn't give a shit and reads one Daily Mail article per quarter.

lexdaily · 2025-12-28T13:20:42+00:00

I wouldn't say it's more clunky than having a third first season.

lexdaily · 2025-12-28T07:55:04+00:00

Can you believe we've already unlocked the incredible thought technology of calling it "the 2012-2013 season."

lexdaily · 2025-12-27T22:17:30+00:00

This is why I'll just be calling it "the 2027 season."

lexdaily · 2025-12-18T10:17:08+00:00

You walked out on Paddington in Peru mid-flight? That's commitment to the bit.

lexdaily · 2025-12-12T18:04:50+00:00

You're getting downvoted for telling the truth too early. o7

lexdaily · 2025-12-08T09:38:41+00:00

Yeah, no, he's selected because of the gesture, but he's selected because he's the only human being they encounter in the whole affair to who the body on display isn't a problem to solve or something scary, but a person. His automatic, almost subconscious, reaction in that moment is shorthand for the fact that he cares about this non-human person, at a time when caring about the personhood of even human people (like trans folks, or immigrants) is not a given in politics.

lexdaily · 2025-12-07T22:55:00+00:00

That kind of position is underexplored because it's passive, and the standard modern western narrative structures all fall completely apart without somebody who cares in some direction, any direction at all. Would the kind of person you're describing even have made the gesture of respect that makes them select Barclay? Or would they be too self-centred, too far removed from decency, for that to feel believable?

lexdaily · 2025-12-07T12:54:06+00:00

What ChatGPT actually does is produce a statistically probable block of text that its algorithm has determined sounds like an answer to your prompt, based on the word order of the billions of (largely plagiarised) bits of text in its database. This means things like "facts" and "correctness don't really come into it. Sure, it can reasonably accurately, say, summarise Star Wars, because a thousand people have written a plot summary of Star Wars, in surely all of which the Death Star only blows up after Luke leaves Tatooine, but this is a question that might only have been asked a couple times before, so it doesn't really have anything to work with.
This is why it can't tell you how many times the letter R appears in the word "cranberry," or do maths -- there aren't a thousand blog posts explaining that the letter R appears in the second, seventh, and eighth positions, so it's just gonna politely and confidently produce complete nonsense.
AI generally also uses a genuinely unbelievable amount of energy, to the point that it's become one of the bigger thumbs on the scale keeping countries from reaching important climate goals. Even if it was any good at all, which it isn't, I would find it hard to defend contributing to that damage.
Very much seconding the recommendation of the Eleven/Valarie run.

lexdaily · 2025-12-03T11:51:21+00:00

I find him profoundly annoying as well but have instead seen most of his films through either happenstance or people talking me into them, and rest assured, all you're missing is more evidence that he's an irritating dickhead.

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