This may be the best explanation I’ve ever read re: Avatar success

Turned what is usually a 30 minute trip downtown into a 2 hour alternating hell of gridlocked shuttle busses, packed and panicky subway stations and literally sprinting down the street in -10 weather

Spielberg: AI 🤯☠️👾ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE 👺👺👹🤖🤖🦾💥💥
Brian Aldiss: Supertoys last all summer long 👦🏼🍭🌞

My main take was I fundamentally don’t understand or believe the majority of people being indifferent, or even happy about the eventuality of having their individuality stripped by an unknowable, murderous cosmic force. And everyone said I was crazy for thinking that!

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I don’t like the growing trend of excusable dishonesty. He said “here’s the thing that no reports have ever said about this.” Thats just not a true thing. More than excusing errors, there’s this growing idea that lying for attention is an expectation & actually good & getting upset about it is bad

That is supposed to say Nov18 silly me. Still technically $100 more than listed American price but ofc that is CAD
www.shop.tiff.net/collections/criterion

Criterion pop-up store coming to TIFF Lightbox Mov18-Dec 31 !! Hold strong

But also have we seen picnicface’s Saving Private Ryan end credits youtu.be/QTuoq6Tr3gE?...

I love this weirdo disheartening macabre musical

I owe GTA V the entire GDP of Monaco

the irony of cutting so many critic roles? sure, every publication might have a review of a new show, but at least they are *different*. you can't say the same about silly celebrity news items that no one will ever return to.

It is not a critic's job to reflect your opinions back at you.

I repeat:

It is not a critic's job to reflect your opinions back at you.