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Thanks! I was traveling too much while it was in the cinema, but it’s one of the few movies in recent years I’ve been sad to miss. If nothing else it looks like something different. Happy to hear it’s not universally hated!

I think most great artists pursue their art because of a love of the art. Film making is expensive and like everyone else they need to put food on the table, but any artist who is in it for the money is already lost.

I haven’t seen Megalopolis yet, but I think it’s a great example of a film maker having no interest in return of investment. The closing statements of Life of Brian is another great example: “I told him, I said to him, Bernie, I said, they’ll never make their money back.”

As for Fortnite, it might be more similar to Roblox than I thought. ;)

Yeah, and it’s particularly unreliable for new movies. And even when it’s not abused it’s obviously just a measure of popular taste - which is widely known to be pretty shit. So yeah, I agree with your reluctance towards that source.

Nevertheless, checking 10/10 reviews of Tarantino’s short on IMDB, one of the top reviews boast about how “the entire fight scene including the usage of curses like the original films do”—as if hearing a character from their favorite video game swear is such a thrill it justifies a top score. It’s hard to be to optimistic.

I don’t think the haters care much about fortnite, we just don’t like sell-outs. My only feelings towards fortnite is that I’m happy my nephew is finally playing something else than fucking roblox. Tarantino would have been equally wise to team up with either, in my opinion.

(also, I’m not here to tell you how to live your life, but you might hopefully find a slightly less toxic open source community over at !opensource@programming.dev )

Yeah. It’s hard to stomach.

I only hope he got a shit ton of money and raised it to spend it on something more worthwhile. Maybe it’s a way to gain independence from the major studios.

Maybe. But I feel like he just sold out.

Oh well—it’s not worse than the Weinstein company.

Yuki’s Revenge on IMDB, rocking a predictable 5.6 score.

Here’s the trailer on YouTube. I haven’t watched it with sound, but the art style is horrendous. Bloody shame.

I just want a proper, no bullshit live action Kill Bill 3 with Uma Thurman where a now grown up daughter of Copperhead comes back for revenge. Is that really too much to ask.

It’s for Kiddo—I guess they got it messed up.

I guess there’s a justification of sorts in the way Kill Bill itself deals with the animated sequence, having the style of animation change as we progress through time. So in a way this puts it in the present. Which would be easier to justify had Kill Bill been a new movie, but maybe this sequence takes place a few years later.

But even if so… Yeah, I find this hard to accept. Why not cooperate with a real studio. I would have been so excited—now I just don’t care at all.

I think instances with ideological underpinnings is fine, and maybe inevitable. The crucial thing is that they need to be honest about it, so that those not interested can go elsewhere.

The problem with lemmy.ml is that it pretends to be a catch-all instance when it’s in fact very much not, and that it doesn’t tell users up front what it’s all about. Both Hexbear and Lemmygrad are better in that respect—at least they’re honest.

It’s legit. I guess they receive LineageOS updates directly, in which case I don’t think there’s any real disadvantage here.

The admins over there have some profoundly questionable views, which tends to push away reasonable people and attract bootlickers.

The problem is not the users as much as the site itself and its admins. I wish reasonable people (not bootlickers) would stop using lemmy.ml and go somewhere better. Lemmy.ml’s biggest function right now is to scare away good people who would have been happy elsewhere.

I think whoever wants to promote anything on the fediverse should probably just pick an instance they enjoy and promote that, without caring to explain how it’s all part of a federated network or whatnot.

To be fair, telling people it was founded by Motorhead fans is a better selling point than that it was started by Marxist leninists.

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Who are the fools supporting this shit. If you want to support a better internet, Servo and Bonfire are two good examples of worthier causes.

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Yes, this is true - I forgot that the trial happened in Lithuania where crime of passion actually has a formalized role. But the french media nevertheless accepted the narrative and the French public largely followed suit.

As for the second murder/death which happened in France, there has been what is hard to describe as anything else than at best an active neglectance on the side of both the French police and justice system, both leading up to and following the death. I guess this is more symptomatic of the French tendency to simply not take women or their deaths seriously—ascribing the crime of passion to France was probably unfair of me.

I had Bertrand Cantat in mind when I wrote the comment. The fucker got away (except a very minor prison sentence once) with murdering two of his partners, all in full view of a public spectacle. There’s a Netflix series about him from this year that’s well worth a watch. It’s not that the crime of passion is explicitly used as a legal argument, but there is a romanticized idea that men will sometimes kill their partners out of “loving them too much” and that this is only tragic and not something that we should blame them too harshly for. So it’s not recognized in the law, but French judges have more or less routinely shown themselves to be sympathetic to the argument.

The European Court of Human Rights has recently had a series of rulings in which it calls out France for being particularly shit with regards to women’s rights.

When a cop murders a black man it’s self defence, when a man murders a woman it’s a brief display of bad judgment in a moment of passion. Society has never seen murder as murder “the end”.

Meanwhile in France they’ll label it a crime of passion and let you go scot-free.

Anyone questioning why this is necessary should probably take a minute or two to read up about femicide and how we tend to treat it as a society.