just told my 11y/o that I was certain about something ‘to a reasonable margin of error’ and she said ‘shut up nerd’ and my wife dropped her bowl from laughing so hard
Daniel Gorman
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Daniel Gorman
@DanielGorman20
The ultimate tragedy of Sponge Bob is that one wishes to reach through the screen and help Squid Ward, but must accept that this cannot be done.- Disney buying Fox was bad because corporate consolidation is bad - people lost jobs, fewer movies get made, there’s less competition, and rep screenings are now more difficult. Stop worshipping brands!Remember when Disney bought Fox and you all thought they were gonna water down, bury and/or ruin a bunch of the older brands? Well…
- Going to be very funny to be the dad who doesn’t really care if his kids smoke or try out alcohol but really puts his foot down if he catches them using AI instead of doing their own reading & writing
- Watching Hunger Games with the 10y/o, she’s been dying to see it and I figured she’s old enough now. She’s loving it but I totally forgot about the single dumbest shot I’ve ever seen in a movie:
- Shot of the decade in the sense that it encapsulates everything bad about contemporary mainstream aesthetics, this is our streaming era formalism:shot of the decade
- death penalty:bro brought a whole laptop to the theater
- guy who’s made 3 or 4 of the most expensive movies ever: we gotta make movies cheaperJames Cameron says blockbusters can only survive if we "cut the cost in half." As a result, he's seeing how AI might assist "VFX workflow" without "laying off half the staff." “If we want to continue to see the kinds of movies that I’ve always loved and that I like to make and
The lost 43 minutes of Orson Welles‘ 1942 film “The Magnificent Ambersons” is the holy grail of cinema. Well, an AI company is stepping in to help: indiewire.com/news/breaking-…- Replying to @DanielGorman20not sure how I feel about this tweet detailing my wife and child mercilessly mocking me becoming popular amongst my online homeys. Ego at an all time low lol
- happy anniversary to one of the most singularly disturbing sequences in all of cinema - both hauntingly beautiful and oozing malevolence
On this day 70 years ago, Charles Laughton's immortal classic THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER released. If you love his film like I do, I don't normally plug my work so soon after its debut but given what today is, I recommend you give my anniversary piece a read over on @FANGORIA - If your movie looks like this call me asap
I'm not impressed by ppl shooting on imax quality camera. show me what you can do with a flip - Hold up is Guadagnino this fire?!"If you do not have the ontological necessity of vision that these masters have, the way in which they see the frame, and at the same time they way they see reality and the political aspect of that, it all becomes empty." Guadagnino on Carpenter, Hooper, Romero, and Cronenberg
00:00 - Images I’ve been carrying around in my brain for years and years, long live Mann
