General Motors Co said on Tuesday it will delay production of electric pickup trucks at its plant in Michigan's Orion Township by a year as the No. 1 U.S. automaker grapples with flattening demand for electric vehicle.
Never forget Rule 34.
While you touched on the Vimeo ban, no one has yet mentioned the "goose/gander" problem here with Vimeo. Maybe I should have linked to the other videos in question to see what Vimeo us allowing? Or, judging by the reactions here to only Li's video, maybe not...!
@[email protected], don't take these things personally.
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TAYLOR SWIFT: THE ERAS TOUR Discussion Megapost 2023-10-13 👩🎤🎶
| Title | Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour | | --- | --- | | Genre: | Musical, Documentary | | MPAA Rating: | NA | | Runtime | 02:48:00 | | Release Date (USA): | October 13, 2023 | | Director: | Sam Wrench | | Main Cast: | Taylor Swift, Amanda Balen, Taylor Banks | | Summary: | The phenomenon that is Taylor Swift continues, now on the big screen! Immerse yourselves in this once-in-a-lifetime concert film event and witness the history-making tour in theatres. Within hours after tickets went on sale, the film surpassed $10 million in pre-sales, which box-office analysts likened to the performance of a Marvel film. Admit it: you're going! |
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BBC: Tom Hanks warns dental plan ad image is AI fake
The actor says he is the latest celebrity to fall victim to a deepfake scam, and has "nothing to do with it".
…or just possibly screengrabs of Polar Express…?
Thank you, Blaze! 🤗
How about a non-archive.today link, please? It's insecure (http) and more often than not times out.
"Really good movie" is so subjective! Let's put it this way: if you like any of the Scheer-Harryhausen collaborations as an adult, you'll still love 20 Million. It's not 2001: A Space Odyssey but it's got one of the best stop-motion monsters, dare I say, ever!
Mongoose's Drive-In HorrorHouse presents... 20 Million Miles to Earth
It's Sunday, mein mouth-breathing mavens of the monsterous! Time for a visit to the HorrorHouse™! Today's selection, for the pedantic 200 of you out there, isn't strictly a horror film but a sub-genre, a member in a cross-section in your Horror ∩ Science-Fiction Venn diagram: the monster movie. And what an example of the monster movie it is! Featuring the always-breathtaking work of animation legend, Ray Harryhausen, 1957's 20 Million Miles to Earth!
Suspension-of-disbelief helmets strapped on tight? The movie, one of the extremely few horror or science-fiction films based in Italy ("it's sempre New York or Tokyo!"), tells of an alien egg brought back to Earth by the first explorers to Venus. This egg hatches and gives birth to a little monster that in no time at all—spoiler!—becomes a big monster and wrecks havoc in Rome. Aww… did I give something away?
Obviously important to cinema history (MovieSnob never sleeps) is Harryhausen's beautiful stop-motion work, the classic scenes at the Colosseum especially be to noted. One thing TIL that Harryhausen shot in Rome because he wanted to vacation there! Hey, films have been shot for more self-serving reasons.
YouTube Link to the movie…
- https://youtube.com/watch?v=6Fm0LLsB9FM
Google-free links…
- https://yewtu.be/watch?v=6Fm0LLsB9FM
- https://yt.artemislena.eu/watch?v=6Fm0LLsB9FM
- https://iv.melmac.space/watch?v=6Fm0LLsB9FM
So, sorry for the slight deviation in programming…no, no I'm not and you all like deviations anyway! See you next week, my knuckledragging nightcrawlers, here at Mongoose’s Drive-In HorrorHouse™! And remember…Parma spelled backwards is AMRAP!
Ease Your Mind - GRiZ x Ganja White Night - 2021
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/6431618
> We'd like to ease your mind regarding the recent visitations (abduction is such a dirty word). They're not experiments... they're invitations. That is, if you've got the brass be bearable for extended space travel...
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Whatever precious jewel there is in the heavenly worlds, there is nothing comparable to one who is Awakened.
~ Gautama Buddha
This is exactly one of the reason actors in the SAG are on strike. I mean, if it was produced better…you know, if their faces wouldn't morph while in the shot…little details like that…and that day is coming. If I were either Statham, Elba or Ms Johanssen, I'd already be on the phone to my agent, who'd then be on their phone to my attorneys.
Wouldn't you? You see it as a little fan/research project, I (and they) see it as identity theft.
Only out of perverse curiosity, where are you from?
It's a junior high school humor punchline with 2002 3D animation set to not much more than a drum machine and moaning. What can I tell you? Maybe there were extremely few submissions for consideration at the various film festivals that year…?
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Now you got another moment to tell him in 20 years! 😁 ❤
I forgot to add...
WARNING: This video may potentially trigger seizures for people with photosensitive epilepsy. Viewer discretion is advised.
The King cares. 🫶
Detroit man hacked gas station pumps -- steals 800 gallons!
Some gas station owners are falling victim to a sophisticated scam.
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Paramount, Nickelodeon, and Spin Masters' canine sequel also finished the weekend second at the global box office.
Paramount, Nickelodeon, and Spin Masters' canine sequel also finished the weekend second at the global box office.
ROCK AND ROOOOOOOOLL!!!
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Over the top of over the top! Flying saucers from outer space…check! Absurd, drug-fueled cartoon characters…check! Thai zombies with exploding heads…check! Loud, fast, distorted rock 'n roll…CHECK! ALL SYSTEMS GO!
We're talking about the lo-fi, lo-budget Wild Zero, the 1999 punk rock Night of The Living Dead starring power trio Guitar Wolf. This Japanese cult film pays homage to all things rock 'n roll filtered through western Pacific sensibilities. Framed within the buzzsaw roars of Guitar Wolf's "jet rock 'n' roll", you're gonna get cars, motorbikes and microphones that spit fire like the 1966 Batmobile! Of course there's the Yakuza and gallons of fake blood! There's even military-grade weaponry that wouldn't seem out of place in Michigan's upper penninsula! Oh, and the soul searching…
It's a bunch of stupid fun for the whole family…if your surname is Addams or Manson! See it!
> Love knows no nationalities, genders or borders! Rock and roll!
Color me embarassed. Link has been corrected. The responsible LinkMonkey(s)™ will be severely reprimanded!
Afterthought EDIT: thanks for bringing that to my attention. I was wondering if anybody was clicking any of the links.
Some Words of Wisdom From The Other Ol' Blue Eyes
Saw the 2021 documentary about the life of actor Paul Newman the other day, Pierre-François Gaudry's Paul Newman, derrière les yeux bleus (Paul Newman, Behind Blue Eyes). It's hard not to make a film about Newman's life without sanctifying the man, although he really did come close with all of his humanitarian work aside from all of the iconic roles he'd played in his career. But I'm not here to list his filmography nor his philantrophic endeavors today. Possibly another time.
Something Newman said, it had to be around 1977-1980 (it's unclear from the film exactly when), stuck with me as it's as timely today as it was 40-odd years ago—maybe more so.
It's very hard to take a lot of pride in your craft if the three biggest stars in America are two robots and a shark.
THE EXORCIST: BELIEVER Discussion Megapost 2023-10-06 😈🤮
| Title | The Exorcist: Believer | | --- | --- | | Genre: | Horror | | MPAA Rating: | R | | Runtime | 02:01:00 | | Release Date (USA): | October 6, 2023 | | Director: | David Gordon Green | | Main Cast: | Leslie Odom Jr, Ann Dowd, Jennifer Nettles, Ellen Burstyn, Norbert Leo Butz | | Summary: | A 12-year-old girl is possessed by a mysterious demonic entity, forcing her mother to seek the help of two priests to save her. |
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FOE Discussion Megapost 2023-10-06 👫🕴
| Title | Foe | | --- | --- | | Genre: | Science Fiction, Thriller | | MPAA Rating: | R | | Runtime | 01:50:00 | | Release Date (USA): | October 6, 2023 | | Director: | Garth Davis | | Main Cast: | Saoirse Ronan, Paul Mescal, Aaron Pierre | | Summary: | The lives of a married couple are thrown into turmoil when an uninvited stranger shows up at their door with a startling proposal. Based on best-selling author Iain Reid's novel. |
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THE ROYAL HOTEL Discussion Megapost 2023-10-06 🇦🇺 💼
| Title | The Royal Hotel | | --- | --- | | Genre: | Thriller | | MPAA Rating: | R | | Runtime | 01:31:00 | | Release Date (USA): | October 6, 2023 | | Director: | Garth Davis | | Main Cast: | Julia Garner, Jessica Henwick, Hugo Weaving, Toby Wallace, Ursula Yovich | | Summary: | Americans Hanna and Liv are backpacking in Australia. After they run out of money, they take a temporary live-in job at a pub called ’The Royal Hotel’ in a remote Outback mining town. Soon they find themselves trapped in a situation that grows rapidly out of control. |
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Bloody Disgusting: These 7 New Horror Movies Just Released at Home...
The Halloween season is in full swing, and the next several weeks are absolutely jam-packed with fresh horrors. In fact, we've been treated to SEVEN new
...Today Yesterday.
Sue me.
Reminder: the linked article is USA-centric, meaning those of us in the rest of the world may not have the same streaming services available and/or release dates may be different.
@[email protected] (the account I'm responding to) has been made Moderator. Did you want @[email protected] to be a Moderator also?
Carrie ❤ And don't forget about Carpenter's remake of The Thing!
Screaming Skulls To Sleep By 💀
🎬Newlyweds Eric and Jenni Whitlock retire to his desolate mansion, where Eric's first wife Marianne died from a mysterious freak accident. Jenni, who has a history of mental illness, begins to see strange things including a mysterious skull, which may or may not be a product of her imagination. Sus...
Do you all know how much your King Mongoose loves you? I care for all of you defective darlings so much that I sat through this stinker of a film just to tell you, no, warn you to stay away, far away!
The dog of a movie in question is 1958's The Screaming Skull. You know a movie has to suck (and I don't mean blood) if it has to start out offering free funeral services to those who may die of fright in the audience. Oh, please! You could show this to your cardiopathic granny or your nine-year-old niece or nephew and the only fear generated would be that of your guests kicking your shins for showing them this tedious film! Its only real saving grace is that it's just over an hour (01:08:00), "free burial services" sequence included. I can't help question if it had been filmed hoping to be included in one of the anthology shows popular at the time such as Alfred Hitchcock Presents but ultimately rejected. Clumsily edited, dread factor zero, bare minimum production values, mediocre acting, trite script with the "clues" being dribbled as if from an eyedropper.
There's the haunted portrait of the departed wife created by someone from a beginner art class, painted not on canvas but posterboard!—there is a scene where the cursed painting is to be burned on a pyre and it curves under its own weight! There's a screaming skull, yes, but there are actually two—one is a stand-in, I suppose?—and you can see the difference! There's a shot of the titular skull on the staircase and you can see the stick that makes it "leap" from the step! One laughably "ominous" shot of perched birds flying away from their branch…not because of some ghostly force but because someone threw a rock at them clearly visible in the shot!
Run, my children, run away! Watch whatever else is "suggested for you" or next on the playlist! Or better yet, put down your cellphones, go outside and get some fresh air…and maybe some Halloween candy too, while you're at it!
Done! 🧞 You'll find it at [email protected]. Post something there and I'll make you a moderator.
Suggestions for new Lemmy communities and their moderators:
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- Creating a new community is easy, an excellent primer at lemmy.world
- The new community is going to need an icon, a banner and a sidebar with a description of the community. If you need help with this stuff, buzz me!
- Post over at [email protected] and [email protected] to let the federated world know about the new community!
Now You See It: The Most Important Filmmaker You Haven't Heard Of
Go to curiositystream.com/nowyouseeit and enter the code ‘nowyouseeit’ when prompted during the signup process. Your membership is completely free for the first 30 days with our code. When discussing groundbreaking films, we tend to talk a lot about the vision of the writer/director. But does that ...
...Or maybe this crowd has heard of legendary Dede Allen (RIP).
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Sure! Any preferences as to the name of the community? I ask this seemingly silly question because c/lupin is (IMHO) vague: is this community about all instances of Lupin or just the anime or just the Netflix series with Omar Sy or blah blah blah. Get my drift?
Yeah! I felt the same way about...wha...John Davi...sorry, I thought we were talking about Avatar.
The Power of Black and White @ Now You See It
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.film/post/1636501
> 🔗🐒 Hi! I'm the MovieSnob LinkMonkey™! 🔗🐒 Enjoy these Google-free links! > > Link 1: A Study of Black and White Filmmaking > > Link 2: Film Noir: The Case for Black and White > > *** > > > Have you ever heard somebody say "I can't watch black and white movies?" I have a problem with this. Not because some of the most important movies are in black and white but because black and white can do just as much—if not more—than color. > > Thanks, MovieSnob LinkMonkey™! Have a banana! And thanks to YouTube Channel Now You See It for both these videos succinctly and smartly analyzing the use and history of black and white in cinema. > > Regarding the above opening quote (from the linked Film Noir video), an excellent recent example of this, forgive me if I'm repeating myself, is Robert Egger's 2019 The Lighthouse. > > MovieSnob Ad Warning: as some YT vids are want to do, the first link contains promotional content (translated: advertising) fortunately at the end of the video (roughly at 00:13:14). Act accordingly. *** Cross-posting here because, frankly, this was going to be a [email protected] one-link post pointing only to the second link. As you know how going down rabbitholes can be (or eating just one potato chip), it turned into a [email protected] post. Call yer lawyer. Better yet, watch Link #2 first then, if you like, watch the second more-subject-encompassing Link #1.
The Power of Black and White @ Now You See It
🔗🐒 Hi! I'm the MovieSnob LinkMonkey™! 🔗🐒 Enjoy these Google-free links!
Link 1: A Study of Black and White Filmmaking
Link 2: Film Noir: The Case for Black and White
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> Have you ever heard somebody say "I can't watch black and white movies?" I have a problem with this. Not because some of the most important movies are in black and white but because black and white can do just as much—if not more—than color.
Thanks, MovieSnob LinkMonkey™! Have a banana! And thanks to YouTube Channel Now You See It for both these videos succinctly and smartly analyzing the use and history of black and white in cinema.
Regarding the above opening quote (from the linked Film Noir video), an excellent recent example of this, forgive me if I'm repeating myself, is Robert Egger's 2019 The Lighthouse.
MovieSnob Ad Warning: as some YT vids are want to do, the first link contains promotional content (translated: advertising) fortunately at the end of the video (roughly at 00:13:14). Act accordingly.
Geez, I really want to contest this seemingly unfair declaration…but after perusing Ms Bernhard's (my mistake adding the final "t") fimography, of all of her performances listed that I'm familar with…
I just can't. This is her shining moment.
Jerry...Jerry...
How many buttons does this movie push? The cult of personality. Stalking. Delusional disorder. Prisoner of fame. Local boy makes good. If Travis Bickle had stand-up aspirations. Today in 2023, even though Todd Phillips has already 'fessed up to it, it's hard not to notice the resemblance in Todd Phillips' Joker (2019), especially with De Niro standing in for Jerry Lewis and…himself as the neurotic Bickle Pupkin. Was Scorsese just decades ahead of his time, like with New York, New York? Yes and no.
Although Scorsese himself admits an inspiration from Porter's Life of an American Fireman (1903)[^1], in my research neither our director nor any film critics mention the resemblance to Steno's post WWII comedy Un americano a Roma (1954) starring Italian national treasure Alberto Sordi (RIP). Like Scorsese's Pupkin, Steno's Nando Mericoni also has an unrealistic obsession: to be American. Just as delusional as Pupkin, Nando's particular obsession with all things American brings him to the point of speaking English-sounding gibberish: his actual command of the language is almost nonexistent so he babbles to his friends and family in what sounds like American to their ears. He does so at any opportuniy, even when detained in a German prisoner camp during wartime!
Comedian Jerry Lewis plays comedian and Johnny Carson-like late night talk show host Jerry Langford: the duality (irony?) here is that when Langford is off stage Lewis' performance is delivered as serious as the proverbial heart attack. He is a man cornered, seething with a rage, and Lewis shows his dramatic skills brilliantly. Sandra Bernhardt Bernhard as crazed heiress and Langford's other stalker shines hilariously during her scene with her masking-taped hostage. Robert De Niro is just like other NYC natives The Ramones: even when The Ramones covered Louis Armstrong's What A Wonderful World, it was still inescapably The Ramones. This is a role like not quite like other in his repertoire and De Niro tries—and mostly succeeds—as obsessed nebbish Pupkin. But it's still De Niro, a tough and menacing presence and that's hard to reconcile with the Pupkin character.
It's got laughs. Cringey laughs. As is, you'll find yourself laughing at the most uncomfortable things in this film. It could have had more laughs if Scorsese had decided to play it as a straight-up comedy. This is most likely why The King of Comedy flopped at the box office. The tide had turned: the era of The Blockbuster was in full swing and people wanted easier entertainment than the New Hollywood was giving them. Friedkin had spent (and lost) millions with his epic Sorcerer (for another post), Cimino was about to bankrupt United Artists with Heaven's Gate and the New Hollywood was in the process of being shown the door. If Scorsese had gone more Taxi Driver on the treatment and played it straight-up drama, then The King of Comedy might have won Best Picture at the 1983 Academy Awards instead of Joker at the 2020 Oscars®…?
As for the open ending…I've made my own conclusion. You?
Bonus link: Porter's The Life of an American Fireman. See if you can find the inspiration.
[^1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_King_of_Comedy_(film)#cite_note-15