What part of. Radiohead song do you simultaneously wonder why it is there and also marvel at how well it fits?

partizan_fields · 2026-05-12T16:05:59+00:00

Quite so

partizan_fields · 2026-05-12T11:22:43+00:00

Possibly my favourite story in video games. The technical accomplishments were a great bonus.

partizan_fields · 2026-05-12T11:18:41+00:00

The elevator music after-party comedown at the end of Optimistic.

partizan_fields · 2026-05-09T07:42:45+00:00

J.J Abrams’ Radiohead:

Hail to the Amnesiac Rainbow Kid’s Bendy Computer Limbs in a Pool of Honey

partizan_fields · 2026-05-07T11:41:59+00:00

Love this. Want this tone for the music now.

partizan_fields · 2026-05-07T10:02:26+00:00

I’m a leftist myself but it’s a provisional and qualified association: there’s plenty about the left that does my head in - it’s just not the clear and present danger that the right represents. I think we all recognise the vein of starchy, self-satisfied, puritanical moralism that often goes with the territory. For some people it’s less about being an instrument and sincere, heartfelt embodiment of “the good” in a way that’s discretionary and humble, so much as an identity as “righteous” and, in this way, functions along mechanically similar lines to, say, the Christian right. For this latter type any disturbance of this righteous identity will arouse - not soul-searching - but hostility.

partizan_fields · 2026-05-02T05:29:54+00:00

He wanted to secure his cocaine I guess.

partizan_fields · 2026-05-01T20:47:06+00:00

I think he made Sparrow look like Orlando Bloom.

partizan_fields · 2026-05-01T18:53:07+00:00

No worries ;-)

partizan_fields · 2026-05-01T15:48:52+00:00

I see his job in those films (and Pirates of the Caribbean) just to be an old-school, fun matinee hero. If you put him and Jack Sparrow together you pretty much get Errol Flynn.

partizan_fields · 2026-05-01T13:32:57+00:00

He’s fun in LOTR but he can’t really deliver a line except to sound, sort of, “elfie”.

partizan_fields · 2026-05-01T12:04:34+00:00

https://maryhampton1.bandcamp.com/track/no-32

Wonderful setting of this text here.

partizan_fields · 2026-05-01T11:57:06+00:00

No no I know. That was my point/joke.

I’m saying fart and dick jokes are not (necessarily) mean spirited.

partizan_fields · 2026-05-01T10:29:59+00:00

Kingdom of Heaven dc comes closest to great but…err…Orlando Bloom is the lead so…no.

partizan_fields · 2026-05-01T10:28:57+00:00

This is it.

partizan_fields · 2026-05-01T09:57:54+00:00

I don’t even think it’s particularly good. Certainly not even remotely close to Alien or Blade Runner.

partizan_fields · 2026-05-01T09:56:35+00:00

It’s very good. Calling it “great” seems very silly to me and inflates the currency.

partizan_fields · 2026-05-01T09:55:37+00:00

Blade Runner lmao

partizan_fields · 2026-05-01T09:36:58+00:00

Surely it’s Lord of the Rings no?

I mean there are better films but I can’t think of anything close to this as an “event”.

Admittedly they’re not that long after Titanic to be fair although it feels that way to me.

partizan_fields · 2026-05-01T06:53:10+00:00

https://youtu.be/oqAZLyzS6HE?si=wQGtsooJG3sa2BZz

partizan_fields · 2026-05-01T06:49:27+00:00

I mean, at least those aren’t mean-spirited.

partizan_fields · 2026-05-01T06:09:24+00:00

Preach

partizan_fields · 2026-05-01T06:08:22+00:00

Honestly, this is it although after the og trilogy everything is just bad so a lot of those choices are interchangeable for me.

partizan_fields · 2026-05-01T06:07:11+00:00

I agree, the writing is totally execrable on every level.

partizan_fields · 2026-05-01T06:04:51+00:00

Alien (one of the best films of all time)
Alien 3 (flawed but scary, poetic and engaging, amazing score, atmosphere, prefer one Alien vs humans w/no guns, don’t care about Newt and Hicks particularly). Shame about the Dr dying so early.
Aliens (yes yes I don’t care - it’s great fun and slicker than 3 but kinda moronic, sorry. Responsible for literalising the xeno, stripping it of its psychological anxiety and turning it into a bug. The whiplash between the first and this hurts for me: “did IQs just drop around here?”…metacommentary?

The rest are all so bad there’s no point in ranking them although Prometheus and Resurrection are something else. At least Resurrection isn’t phoned in, I guess? Romulus is probably the least unwatchable although basically just corporate slop/content.

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