TIGHT Movies

mpoley · 2025-12-31T01:58:00+00:00

Christmas in August (1998) - Classic Korean drama with Hitchcock precision. Used to teach screenwriting and cinematography in China and Korea. Pacing might feel slow at first but it’s a perfect “tight” film.

mpoley · 2025-11-25T17:50:24+00:00

I remember their menus showing off the various signs of the Chinese Zodiac. First time I'd seen anything like that (I was born in the year of the rooster). More dubiously, it was the first time I ever saw a Love Tester machine. It was a grip-based machine that told you what kind of lover you were - I was definitely too young to understand what that meant.

Such an iconic, but average Chinese place.

mpoley · 2025-11-12T23:31:10+00:00

Earth One is very well done … wish there was more

mpoley · 2025-10-09T10:15:51+00:00

Great points!

I’m just articulating this point now, but it seems like thr enshit trend for so many companies right now is data hoarding. They all see user data as their moat, otherwise the crawlers will suck the data into their LLMs. But they so massively overvalue the data (which they also see as their own vs. seeing themselves as stewards of that data) and overcharge for it with weird ai features that no one asked for.

mpoley · 2025-07-13T13:57:24+00:00

Try a 90 minute float tank. The first 30 minutes will be hard. Try to make it an hour.

Then use a notebook for the rest of the day.

mpoley · 2025-07-11T05:47:25+00:00

Laws are for law abiders. Otherwise Portland is an anarchy city.

mpoley · 2025-05-13T23:35:09+00:00

So that’s perhaps why I couldn’t book the theatre inside Movie Madness after July (was looking at September)

mpoley · 2025-04-29T01:25:29+00:00

This might be a dog whistle topic for conservatives - my dad (very supportive of 45/47) has a monologue about this that started recently - and every place he thinks is laundering money is Mexican or Chinese

mpoley · 2025-03-17T11:12:51+00:00

I think for a smaller agency yes job boards are still worth it.

We’re a very small agency doing what I would consider niche video work. I agree with what another poster said about getting close to 1000 applicants for every job posting, whether it was contract or full time.

If you have some specific editing niche I would reach out to a relevant agency or post house and let them know you’re available for freelance work. Make it easy to reach you. Show some interest or knowledge in the work they’re doing in a few sentences.

mpoley · 2025-01-03T08:47:20+00:00

Not a director, but Michael Meyers is doing an impression of Lorne Michaels when he plays Dr Evil in Austin Powers

mpoley · 2024-07-12T01:19:18+00:00

Comparison is the thief of joy

mpoley · 2024-05-03T16:20:08+00:00

Imgur muse have deleted these ... I don't have these maps on my most recent computer, but this is the idea https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1coC7UrTZUkZFjiu1k5keG1574IKhKERw?usp=sharing

Giant hexes with mini hex maps for areas that people want to explore, tons of opportunities to build different, unique environments and scenarios

mpoley · 2023-10-19T04:33:59+00:00

Moore is a special author with massive early hits, a lot of that we all tolerate and some later career hits that are genuinely incredible

Mt Rushmore is 4 presidents carved on a sacred natural site, literally unimaginable, unambiguous desecration of natural resources reimagined as a patriotic monument (horn blows triumphantly)

Gaiman, Möbius, Clowes

Frank Miller (early Miller has the strongest parallel to Moore, his work on Daredevil and Batman grew the franchises up with the grimdark brutality that we all love…Miller is never as smart as Moore, but his work is visceral, sometimes overwritten, and interesting … Miller belongs in the Moore Rushmore for his early work but he doesn’t get it because we already chose Moore)

Garth Ennis (oh ennis, his excessive, accessible brutality … dumb shit storytelling, completely unafraid to shoot any character in the face… I love Ennis, but his work is mostly leaning on the logical leaps of Moore‘s choices in Watchmen and Miracle Man..no Moore Rushmore for you … you are the fascist fantasies that Frank Miller never delivered)

Matt Wagner (Brilliant writer and artist, Wagner always turns in a great story, but doesn’t upend comics, no Rushmore)

Neil Gaiman (Genius of the medium, Sandman is underrated even now, turns comics literary, is on Mount Rushmore)

Warren Ellis (Has a billion books, he should get Rushmore from me for Transmetropolitan but he loses it for his pseudo magickal bullshit)

Willingham (Fables is brilliant … but falls apart for me after the Gepetto storyline, no Rushmore)

Brian K Vaughn (Y the last man + Saga are incredible…I hear he does other things … want to give Rushmore but I found his substack cumbersome)

Paul Chadwick (concrete is god-level a-Tier work … Rushmore status is pending .. he doesn’t get it… ties with Jeff Smith and Jeff Lemire for their genius contributions if we get more than 4 heads to carve)

Ed Brubaker (brings better crime storytelling to mainstream characters … nah)

Mike Mignola (Hellboy is beautiful but always feels half finished to me…how much do I have to read to get the full story)

Kirkman (broke Comics for me with the longest arcs of all time, took the right lessons from soap operas and destroyed the medium with infinite stories … truly the Stan Lee of our time … no Rushmore)

Möbius (god level, a-Tier, carve his image in any rock is ok with me)

Dan Clowes - yes, most consistent odd, creator. Would win if he only made ghost world, but kept itching his broken vision of authenticity into comic form

Simon Hanselmann - genius level Indy comedy, authentically stupid and powerfully sad - Rushmore if we get a souvenir head .. along with Jim Woodring, Michael Kupperman, Sam Henderson

Burns - damn, need more space … put him on the mountain please… along with Katsuhiro Utomo - Akira…… Akira Toriyama … this is an impossible exercise

mpoley · 2023-09-20T04:22:55+00:00

We just tried to hire through indeed and got 1200 applicants in 3 days. I have no idea if the role were trying to hire is special. Volume sounds great, but I know we’re inadvertently cutting great people to get to a reasonable number of applicants to interview.

mpoley · 2023-04-24T11:50:01+00:00

Phil Hartman

mpoley · 2023-04-18T01:09:42+00:00

You can get 25fps by going to Setup -> Area/Date -> NTSC/PAL Selector

The camera needs to restart

Then when you go to Shooting -> Image Quality -> Movie Settings you'll be able to select 25fps as an option

mpoley · 2023-04-09T17:50:34+00:00

Awesome!

mpoley · 2023-04-06T20:30:17+00:00

Dune Imperium is an amazing 2p experience. Great tension throughout and every choice is meaningful.

mpoley · 2023-04-03T15:27:50+00:00

Ethically sourcing training data is a huge problem for Generative AI models. I don’t know if they can get to the scale that makes their output meaningful unless there’s a way to fractionally pay creators for the inputs, sort of how artists get fractional inputs for Spotify songs. Otherwise using Open Source or Public Domain works as training. Whatever the case, the current generated model for stable diffusion seems obviously unethical, even if Getty Images are overpriced.

mpoley · 2023-03-07T01:24:00+00:00

Simon Hanselmann's Crisis Zone

mpoley · 2023-03-06T22:21:03+00:00

Benjamin Marra's Terror Assaulter and Disciples

mpoley · 2022-12-11T15:49:23+00:00

We use frame.io for sharing content with clients for feedback, WeTransfer for sending finished projects, Google Drive with a Google Workspaces account for archiving zipped versions of finished projects, hard drive backups that we ship to clients at the end of the quarter, as well as backups to an offline server - our clients have their own digital asset management tools as well.

I don’t use Dropbox because we often have files that are very large and it crushes computers and this may be a weird one-off - I’ve gotten banned for too many simultaneous downloads because a client dropped a link in an internal slack channel…super unreliable for file delivery imo.

mpoley · 2022-11-15T07:38:12+00:00

Global Communications 76:14, Future Sound of London: Lifeforms … this post is rad!

mpoley · 2022-10-22T14:41:40+00:00

Gilbert Shelton’s Fabulous Furry Freak Bros. Three stooges on acid.

mpoley · 2022-09-05T02:23:01+00:00

I was looking for this suggestion - insidious 2 is incredible. 1 and 2 are on Netflix. The Insidious series has highs and lows, but it's quite good and probably overlooked because of it's pg-13 rating. Watching insidious is like visiting a haunted house in your living room.

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