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Damon Houx @damonhoux.bsky.social · 2h

science fiction movies fit but don’t into this where it’s JURASSIC WORLD: REBIRTH or TWISTERS where the end result is they accomplish something that has no effect on the real world so it’s totally uninteresting.

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Damon Houx @damonhoux.bsky.social · 2h

Things I often think about watching modern blockbusters:
- Do characters have goals?
- Do characters or the structure have arcs?
- Do character believably exist outside of the story?
- Is the protagonist interesting outside of the narrative? (and sometimes inside it)
95/100 no on all of this.

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Damon Houx @damonhoux.bsky.social · 3h

ROCKY HORROR: A rock opera pastiche, my biggest complaint is that it doesn’t believe in anything so much as combines Bowie, King Kong, ‘50s sci-fi, TEXAS CHAIN SAW, then-queerness into a gumbo. SHOCK TREATMENT proves it was a fluke. Tim Curry unassailable. Seeing with a packed house is better.

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Damon Houx @damonhoux.bsky.social · 5h

Yes, but they control the means of distribution.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

"There's truth underneath all this fake outrage. Conservatives really are at a disadvantage in pop culture because most creative people are liberals, which has always been true & probably always will be. While MAGA has had some success building a culture machine, what it produces is mostly banal."

Whiny MAGA freaks out over Super Bowl halftime show

Songs in Spanish? In America?

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Damon Houx @damonhoux.bsky.social · 5h

One of the problems with this film is a problem with a lot of modern movies: No one has a goal that is an actual goal. Everyone is going to meet someone or on their way someplace else.

Damon Houx @damonhoux.bsky.social · 6h

I wonder if SILVERADO would have worked better with actual Western stars. Since it’s kinda playing a greatest hits package, it might go over better with Woody Strode, Robert Mitchum,etc. (this works better if it was made in 1975).

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Damon Houx @damonhoux.bsky.social · 7h

The President said Portland looks like a war zone and I know the overton of it all, but seriously, things that can be refuted by… everything? Stupid, lying, is being Truman Showed, whatever we are an absurd nation if that isn’t disqualifying (we’re absurd).

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 11h

Everyone can set aside partisanship, psychologizing, pathologizing, whatever, and—I would hope—still see that it’s incredibly dangerous for a political leader to be this disconnected from the real conditions in the country.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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Damon Houx @damonhoux.bsky.social · 13h

Most “thinks he fucks when he doesn’t” director going.

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Damon Houx @damonhoux.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t think it’s a death sentence, but when writers and directors get involved in television - if it’s not theirs - the job is less about creating and more about problem solving and at a certain point TV writers fucking suck at movies, hence a lot of the LOST writers and directors movies.

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Damon Houx @damonhoux.bsky.social · 1d

Watching TRON: LEGACY, and Hollywood has for a while now had a protagonist program. A tech bro’s kid who’s for free shit but then is excited to play gales for real, but everything there is poorly backwards engineered.

Damon Houx @damonhoux.bsky.social · 1d

One of the funny things about TRON, which is in some ways the start of the digital revolution: it’s weirdly human.

Damon Houx @damonhoux.bsky.social · 2d

Oscars are what they are, but I’m calling it now: Ryan Coogler’s gonna get a screenplay Oscar for SINNERS.

Damon Houx @damonhoux.bsky.social · 3d

Donald Trump is definitionally a terrorist. Sorry, but he fits the definition. Opinion and math are weird these days, this isn’t opinion.

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Damon Houx @damonhoux.bsky.social · 3d

The problem with people who say things like “both sides” is they think it makes them look like they are above it all and will choose based on the best options, where most people see it now as people who are conservative but won’t admit it. If you think there are both sides to racism you’re racist.

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Damon Houx @damonhoux.bsky.social · 3d

There is no point in acknowledging “both sides” if one side is racist or sexist or homophobic, etc. It’s then not opinion, it’s right and wrong. And if you don’t get that you’re the problem, because you think it’s okay.Trump is a racist monster who hates America. There’s no other side to it.

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Damon Houx @damonhoux.bsky.social · 3d

One thing about doing QC is that you may find an issue on the tenth iteration and since a lot of video issues are a frame or two, It’s understandable how it was missed but it’s a weird feeling of success when you know it’s going to be embarrassing/expensive to fix it, which they may not.

Damon Houx @damonhoux.bsky.social · 3d

For a movie that (domestically) got no hype, it’s outstanding. One of those films that avoids everything that could be bad about it.

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Damon Houx @damonhoux.bsky.social · 3d

I only think this distinction is important because it points out that not everyone who does something offensive is the enemy. It’s for betterment of humanity to know the difference. Like the difference between actual Christians and Mike Johnson.

Damon Houx @damonhoux.bsky.social · 3d

I’m not saying this to forgive them, but a lot of 20th century uses of trans characters in horror or thrillers is less commentary and more “fooled you!” And though it doesn’t forgive them, in a less biased universe, it’s just a desperate attempt to keep audiences guessing.

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Damon Houx @damonhoux.bsky.social · 3d

One thing about Portland is that what everyone thinks is Portland is actually Eugene. But also, Portland and Eugene are like Wonder Twins. It’s just Portland is the dude who always ends up the bucket or whatever. Eugene is the freak house. Portland is the adult who also gets stoned on the reg.

Damon Houx @damonhoux.bsky.social · 3d

One of the things I find existentially terrifying is how much Oscar films are fucking garbage. It’s one thing to make a not great “important” movie. But the way films like THE COURIER and even CODA are just gone from pop culture scares me. People making art for algorithms.

Damon Houx @damonhoux.bsky.social · 3d

Sometimes the fun of old or foreign (often Asian) movies is experiencing the “I saw a nipple, so naughty!” anticipation/excitement in an era where you are two clicks away from watching people be fucked sideways.

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Simon Abrams @simonsaybrams.bsky.social · 3d

And I wrote the liner notes essay!

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Damon Houx @damonhoux.bsky.social · 3d

Watching MAC AND ME in 4K because it proves God doesn’t exist. It’s an affront to God so heinous that he literally can’t exist if it is real. God isn’t dead, death presumes life. We are the result of infinite possibilities not grand design. Death is not celebrated because we are afraid of our truth.

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