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Mike D’Angelo @gemko.bsky.social · 6h

“Why would Weird Al do that?” I’m gonna be briefly wondering on a regular basis for the rest of my life.

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Mike D’Angelo @gemko.bsky.social · 1d

slate.com/culture/2022...

It’s the Most Acclaimed Movie of the Year. So Why Are Critics Talking About It All Wrong?

Everyone is taking Tár at face value, but the final act suggests that nothing is as it seems.

slate.com

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Mike D’Angelo @gemko.bsky.social · 1d

Remember the people who favored an interpretation of TÁR’s ending for which there was zero support in the actual movie? I’m about to become that guy for BUGONIA.

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Mike D’Angelo @gemko.bsky.social · 1d

At 57 I may have only 20 or so years left, and when I measure that by movies—the time remaining to me is the time since, say, CACHÉ—it feels frighteningly close. But then I remind myself that YouTube and Twitter and smartphones didn’t exist 20 years ago, and it feels unimaginably distant.

Alissa Wilkinson @alissawilkinson.bsky.social · 1d

Something I keep thinking about is that YouTube didn't exist 20 years ago

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Mike D’Angelo @gemko.bsky.social · 1d

(The cut to the Gettysburg re-enactment actually made me think “Oh, it’s gonna be several ‘house of dynamite’ scenarios from throughout history.” Which I might have preferred.)

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Mike D’Angelo @gemko.bsky.social · 1d

“Why would anyone structure it like this?” I spent the whole last hour-plus wondering. Finally realized it’s because they wanted the illusion of real time decision-making and it doesn’t take anywhere near the length of a movie for a missile to reach U.S. soil. “No choice” but to keep rewinding.

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Mike D’Angelo @gemko.bsky.social · 2d

Although now I’m watching the trailer for something called MERCY and I correctly ID’d Ferguson in that. Guess it depends. (But I thought she was Condon the whole way through HOUSE OF DYNAMITE.)

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Mike D’Angelo @gemko.bsky.social · 2d

Just discovered that I can’t tell Rebecca Ferguson from Kerry Condon if the role calls for an American accent. (Quick search reveals I’m not alone in this.)

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Mike D’Angelo @gemko.bsky.social · 2d

The idea behind Tapestry is actually an all-in-one RSS-type feed—you can toss in subreddits, YouTube channels, anything with a public API (so not Twitter or Instagram)—but that’s not something I want. It’s the plentiful customization I like.

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Mike D’Angelo @gemko.bsky.social · 2d

Been mourning Twitterrific for 3 years, so was happy to belatedly discover that its creator now offers a reader, Tapestry, that makes this joint considerably less bland, with color-coded list integration and customizable font / text size and such. Can’t post/reply yet, but they’re working on it.