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Mace

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'95, he/him, 🏳️‍🌈, from Ontario, my more or less general purpose sfw account but still 🔞 no minors pls. 🇵🇸Free Palestine 🇵🇸 🏳️‍⚧️Trans rights are human rights 🏳️‍⚧️

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Mace @macelikespace.bsky.social · 4h

I hate how AI has to dominate art and media discussion around a lot of circles now. We can never just agree it sucks and move on. Someone always has to butt in and say "it's here to stay bro!"

Mace @macelikespace.bsky.social · 5h

Yeah. It's still relatively dense and filled with his usual digressions but if you get into the style it's not super opaque or anything.

Mace @macelikespace.bsky.social · 7h

Been a question going around about films that have changed reputations over the years. Anyone remember when Talk to Her (2002) was considered a classic of world cinema? No way that's happening again

Mace @macelikespace.bsky.social · 8h

Works for a nightmare quest film like Beau is Afraid but in Eddington it's just clumsy as hell

Mace @macelikespace.bsky.social · 8h

PTA and Ari Aster both had movies this year about themselves feeling out of touch trying to grapple with Our Times, PTA succeeded because he actually likes people and understands struggle while Aster can only streamline conflict down to meaningless psychosis.

Mace @macelikespace.bsky.social · 19h

Watching One Battle After Another pretty recently ain't doing this one any favors

Mace @macelikespace.bsky.social · 21h

Watching Eddington now. This is a movie that takes place in the USA in 2020

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Mace @macelikespace.bsky.social · 19h

Watching One Battle After Another pretty recently ain't doing this one any favors

Mace @macelikespace.bsky.social · 21h

Watching Eddington now. This is a movie that takes place in the USA in 2020

Mace @macelikespace.bsky.social · 21h

Watching Eddington now. This is a movie that takes place in the USA in 2020

Mace @macelikespace.bsky.social · 1d

Watching American Dad! which may be the only show I've seen that truly captures what America is all about

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Willow Catelyn Maclay @willowcatelyn.bsky.social · 1d

Wishing a happy 101st Birthday to Ed Wood. Ghosts, transvestites, Bela Lugosi as God, what a strange, fascinating picture he gave us. Other than David Lynch, no other Hollywood-adjacent director had a better grasp on the surreal spaces underneath movies--even if Ed maybe only found them by accident.

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scaryssa walmart dog @meo.bsky.social · Aug 27

imagine all the peoeple .. living lemonly. OohooOOo

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Mace @macelikespace.bsky.social · 1d

Movies

A Snake of June - 4.5/5
Rob Zombie's Halloween - 2/5
Silent Hill: Revelation - 4/5
Vampire's Kiss - 4.5/5

Mace @macelikespace.bsky.social · 1d

We thought it was so funny when Homer choked Bart and they got away with it just because it was a cartoon but this picture shows that when it happens in real life it really isn't funny

Mace @macelikespace.bsky.social · 1d

I don't smoke cigarettes, but it's only because I don't have a good guide to which ones to smoke

Mace @macelikespace.bsky.social · 1d

They should make a 1001 Cigarette Brands To Smoke Before You Die book

Mace @macelikespace.bsky.social · 1d

You backed your car into a cop car and he just drove away? Damn those are some chill cops. Wait what is a fake Jamaican

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Mace @macelikespace.bsky.social · 1d

Just finding out the kids don't like the French pop band Phoenix anymore :/

Mace @macelikespace.bsky.social · 1d

Genius.com says 'He is so gangsta (and so thug)"

Genius | Song Lyrics & Knowledge

Genius is the world’s biggest collection of song lyrics and musical knowledge.

Genius.com

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Mace @macelikespace.bsky.social · 1d

So gangsta, I'm so thug

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Mace @macelikespace.bsky.social · 1d

The best soy latte that you've ever had and me ♥️

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Not the Guy @notnotnuanced.bsky.social · 2d

always love these anecdotes where Pynchon’s New Yorker roots come through……

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Mace @macelikespace.bsky.social · 2d

Why is the Letterboxd plot synopsis for Little Man (2006) so long and poorly written

After leaving the prison, the dwarf criminal Calvin Sims joins to his moron brother Percy to steal an expensive huge diamond in a jewelry for the mobster Walken. They are chased by the police, and Calvin hides the stone in the purse of the executive Vanessa Edwards, whose husband Darryl Edwards wants to have a baby. Percy convinces Calvin to dress like a baby and be left in front of the Edwards's house to get inside the house and retrieve the diamond. Darryl and Vanessa keep Calvin for the weekend and decide to adopt him, while Walken threatens Darryl to get the stone back.

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Mace @macelikespace.bsky.social · 3d

"Treehouse of Horror V" (The Simpsons S6:E6)

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Mace @macelikespace.bsky.social · 2d

Watched a movie by the Tetsuo guy but it's not Tetsuo. It's just as good tho! Starts off like a noiry psychological thriller but then turns into something very strange and Lynchian (in the proper way that it feels like someone's dream broadcast live on screen). It's pretty incredible!

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Mace @macelikespace.bsky.social · 2d

It's not even good wordiness to me. He loves cliches and redundancy. It's just not fun to read. I don't get why people revere him that much!

Mace @macelikespace.bsky.social · 2d

There's a chapter in IT where he defends himself saying he doesn't write for pretentious academics but he also doesn't have the fun escapism and swift fast paced action of pulp fiction. His books aim squarely for the middle brow which is the least interesting brow!