Deadlines? What Deadlines?

The Batman and Oblivion used volume or "volume-ish" technology and both looked fantastic. The problem isn't the volume, it's that they need more experienced cinematographers who understand the limits of the tech. Observe-é-vous, bitches.

From the people who promised a roadster capable of 0-60 in under 1 second (that's already 3 years late and counting)... The future, Bitches.

No. Remember that the Baron intended to annihilate the Fremen in the course of paving the way for Feyd, and, rebuilding his finances after the Atreides liquidation. And this result also doesn't solve the longer term problem of human survival. The Bene Gesserit take some blame for that as well. It's also not clear that their motivations in creating the Kwisatz Haderach are entirely pure, or couldn't be perverted in some way. Presumably they never stopped to ask should they do this. The morality of Paul and Leto II's actions is difficult to define, given their prescience and the timescales involved. I had a whole thing about that but I'm tired. But yeah, genocide is bad tho.

How long were you planning on keeping it around? I had a block in the fridge that went fuzzy once but that was 500g wedge that a friend brought back from Italy for me. I just got lazy making pasta for a few weeks.

Allowing it to “mature” in the fridge overnight is definitely a thing. It worked great with a pork shoulder I did once, partly because it was easier to skim off the congealed fat after it cooled. I think you’re supposed to pour off the juice when it’s still warm and separate it that way but what do I know? Also I had 4kg of the stuff. That makes a lot of juice. Bolognese also generally tastes better the next day. This is known. As far as freezing it goes: freezing/thawing will also have an effect on texture and likely flavour. Water expands when frozen; cell walls; etc. But any chemical reactions should all but cease after it’s frozen and in the absence of fresh air. This is why vacuum sealing and freezing is so good at preserving foods. Bread freezes well without effecting it too much. They say cheese does too but I’ve never tried it.

Just popped in to check the conversation vectors and I see they've gone off the rails nicely. Well done, people. (slow clap)... (slow clap, indeed) There are plenty of examples of people who are simultaneously high-profile-respectable and low-profile-scumbags. See Jimmy Saville. The idea that some low level flunkie who fetched coffee for him for a year would have detailed knowledge of his low-profile-scumbaggery is reaching just a little bit. In other news, It's been two days and I still haven't seen the trailer yet! I might actually fucking make it this time!!!** FREEEEEEDOOOOOOOOMMMmm... **I accidentally saw the poster and yeah it's kinda cool I guess.

Oh, I did that before the film came out. It'll cross a $1 billion. I'm sticking with that for now but I'll concede that it's starting to look like a bit of a stretch. Call it $850m to $1.05 Billion. I'm still formulating my thoughts on the other subject. The ideas are just purring out of me.

It's like Wes Anderson woke up one day and got fed all the drugs and all the wrong drugs. That's a bit reductive, I'll admit. Tongue planted firmly in cheek. people. It does what it does without ever tipping over into the worst aspects of it. The visuals are trippy and stylized, without being gimmicky or derivative (Gilliam comes to mind). The film could be dismissed as being incredibly misogynist, but I think it handles the subject matter well. I'm still a bit disturbed about: I don't know how to feel about that. And Stone is great in it. I'd definitely watch it again.

Poor Things WHAT IS THIS FUCKING MOVIE?!? I think I liked this better than Oppenheimer. Brilliant.

I think the protein pancakes have me backed up a little. God damn.

No. I'll explain later. My tablet needs to recharge and I'm doing a lot of shitting today.

Er mehgawd. So much fucking drama. Or, y'know, you could, like, just not be a pussy and have the courage to not call the thing by what it is because it'll reduce the discomfort of the fear that you're so comfortable with. Or something. Would it be inappropriate to mention I got jabbed last week? It had been a while and I was at the clinic for something else and the clinic had a pharmacy attached to it so I roll over to the pharmacy to get my prescription filled and after I place my order I say, "Hey! 'You doing walk-in jabs, Motherfucker?" To which the Pharmacist replied, "Da Fuck?!? 'You callin' my game 'weak', Buddy?" "Your game is weak, Guy." "Well, lickitty split your ass over this way, Sunshine. We'll fix you up right. Bivalent. No side effects." "High five!" *smack* And it went on like that. True story.

Wonka Still trying to process this, so here goes: Muad'Dib, tripping balls on spice, dreams he came to earth to sell hallucinogenic chocolate. He seems very cheerful despite many hardships. The Lady Jessica gave him some chocolate once that is very special to him. The Spacing Guild says to him, "Fuck off Muad'Dib! We sell the chocolate around here!" The Harkonnens tricks him into forced labour doing laundry (?) or something . He meets Chani in the laundry prison. They milk a giraffe for some reason. Apparently it's really easy to do if you give them mints first. So yeah, pretty good movie. I'm about half-way through. It's got all of Chalamet's skinny charisma and he sings too.

I just discovered this channel. This guy is amazing. I haven't tried this, but if you want to impress someone with a nutritious, delicious, home-cooked meal that's relatively straightforward to make, this will do it.

The opening paragraph of that article isn't quite as emphatic as the headline... It's also bullshit. It's a matter of precision. It doesn't matter if the symptoms are no better or worse. It's like saying we should do away with the term "alcoholism" or "opiate addiction" and just cover it with a general term "Substance addiction". What a useless conversation. "Oh, hey, You sick?" "Yup." "What you got?" "An illness."

The exhibitors keep roughly 50% of the gate. If what I read was true about Nolan's first dollar gross percentage, he effectively got the other 50%. That's a bit of an exaggeration but not by much. The deal George Lucas made with Alan Ladd Jr. and 20th Century Fox for SW:ESB would have actually yielded zero profit for the studio. "You guys made all the money on the last one; I want the money from this one.", and, "We'll do a side deal for distribution". Then Irvin Kershner went over schedule and over budget and Lucas had go back to Ladd for more money.

Season 1 of American Gods was pretty damn good. Then things kinda went downhill.

I don't know exactly what the production process was like, but based on some of the other recent DC stuff, I think it's likely the studio can take the lion's share of the blame on that one. These guys saw the critical reaction to Shazam! and said, "Yes! we need more like this and more of this. WW84 and Shazam! Fury of the Gods later...

Speaking of Oscars, I posted this on page one of the Oppenheimer thread an eternity ago. Like, before there was even a teaser trailer. I'd say that worked out well.

Amphetamines. She was trying to lose weight so she could fit in her dress for that game show that she hallucinated she got invited to. She ends up suffering from acute amphetamine psychosis. But, because the films heroes all descend into their own personal hells, which are utterly dehumanizing and fucking merciless, and because the symptoms for amphetamine psychosis resemble schizophrenia; Ah, fuck it. Warm up the electroshock machine and let her ride the lightning. No. I don't want to watch them being mean to Ellen Burstyn again. I'll watch her in Interstellar where she's happy and surrounded by her family at the space hospital and gets visited by her younger dad.

I did most of my comic buying in the 80's. I bought the Secret Wars off the rack back in '85. Spider-Man appeared in the black suit in a Spider-Man comic (I was also collecting) before he got the suit in Secret Wars. Mind blown. I wish I kept those books. If I knew then... I was also a big X-Men fan at the time. But I never got into the animated show. Yeah, the animation was bad but it was also pretty underwhelming to me in general. At the time, Batman TAS and Superman TAS were perfect. Everything I could want. and yeah, head and shoulders above the X-Men series.

Nightmare fuel.

I can't read the subsequent posts because I don't have a twitter account. However, this would not surprise me. There were allegations of comic book writers in the 90's and 00's recycling old storylines IIRC. I don't think anything came of it. Does that mean it'll have less yellow in it? Seriously I don't get it. Each to their own but the original run of this show might be one of my least favorite animated series.

Very different. Yeah, pretty much. Apart from the film being made for basically nothing, Aronofsky talks about how the was the film was shot, cut, and scored as to make the audience progressively more uncomfortable.

Same. Would I to want to watch it again, would I to want to own a copy (back when physical media was a thing), and would I recommend it to others? Those are the tests of a good movie for me. Requiem for Dream is a special case though. That ending is pretty devastating. It sticks with you. Speaking for myself, my brain continued to grind on the fate of its characters long after the movie was over. Days. I'm talking days.