Project Hail Mary plays incredibly well. An enormous middle-school movie with enough grit to work for most of us old jaded types
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Project Hail Mary plays incredibly well. An enormous middle-school movie with enough grit to work for most of us old jaded types
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Here's someone with 150k+ followers who agrees, so you don't need to trust me.
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an artistic inversion of the science by accident model
3. This is a movie about an unwilling delivery driver sent on a suicide mission by a global monopoly. Along the way, he saves the universe and makes a friend. Which is to say that it is an Amazon movie.
she said yes on the condition that she get to sing that Harry Styles song. For Goddard, this is an emblem of what happens when you gather a team of artists who all care about the project and believe in each other. An offscreen inversion of her relation with Gosling onscreen;
![[Chorus]
Just stop your crying, it's a sign of the times
We gotta get away from here
We gotta get away from here
Just stop your crying, it'll be alright
They told me that the end is near
We gotta get away from here
[Verse 2]
Just stop your crying, have the time of your life
Breaking through the atmosphere
Things look pretty good from here
Remember everything will be alright
We can meet again somewhere
Somewhere far away from here](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ql4m4m77ao67hokkgmn4om7c/bafkreigrwkuokmc4ogfu24lnuvfrl3sew6stmdqt2iwgmaslmcvaoh65qy)
[Chorus] Just stop your crying, it's a sign of the times We gotta get away from here We gotta get away from here Just stop your crying, it'll be alright They told me that the end is near We gotta get away from here [Verse 2] Just stop your crying, have the time of your life Breaking through the atmosphere Things look pretty good from here Remember everything will be alright We can meet again somewhere Somewhere far away from here
2. A corollary: the project-power, artistic happenstance allegory. At one point Sandra Hüller sings Harry Styles's "Sign of the Times" at karaoke. The lyrics are ludicrously on point but it wasn't written that way. Gosling overheard her singing in her trailer and suggested her for the scene,
So, what bullshit allegorical reading will you offer of *this one*, J.D.?
1. The usual teamwork allegory. As writer Drew Goddard explained: "The movie is about working together to solve problems, and that's what we were doing....What we were going through in the work informed what we see on screen
Project Hail Mary plays incredibly well. An enormous middle-school movie with enough grit to work for most of us old jaded types
Act III: Analog shenanigans ensue as the grads scheme to put their plan into effect in time for the dedication of the new Altdelete School of AI at the university. Will they pull it off? Or is the power of edtech capital too great? Find out in: Publish or Perish
ActIIB: Turns out Expertly has been running its own kill squads that make offers you can't refuse to stars like her adviser. Now on the run, desperate to clear her name, and up against Sam Altdelete's money and henchmen, our heroine turns to the ragtag band of grad students from Act I
Act IIA: She does some quick research with Expertly's AssassinAIte subscription upgrade to plan. On the day of the appointed murder, she arrives at her adviser's luxe, big city apartment to find him already dead; black-clad men are running away; and she is now the leading suspect.
Here's the pitch: Act I: a complit grad student is desperate for feedback from her legendary, and AI–hating adviser, and is getting nowhere. So in desperation she decides to kill him, hoping the ExpertlyAI will train on his work and give her the advice she needs.
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Link page for DailyMail article showing Dubai on fire and a woman in a floral dress hed "I'm trapped and under attack in Dubai - while back home in Chichester my daughters are furious, the labradoodles are sick and, worst of all, I left my Mounjaro pen in the fridge
Financial Times link page showing a guy on a cell phone in Dubai with the hed "Wealthy Dubai residents race back to UAE to avoid tax bills" dek "Some risk spending too few days in the emirate and too many in the UK"
I can see it now: Wifeswap, Late Late Capitalism edition
Nicole Holofcener Wicked Pavilion
Working on a theory that Striplaw is part of the Severance extended universe. You have an innie, and outie, and a cartoonie. That way—
Hold on, there are a bunch of well-armed men at the door going "Tudum! Tudum!"
I heard that motherfucker had, like, 30 goddamn dicks
CLAP, CLAP, CLAPCLAPCLAP
Not the best, but since you've seen none, Old Man and the Gun is a tidy piece of work
A bag of Torres Selecta De La Vera Smoked Paprika potato chips. The bag has a cartoon illustration of some potatoes, one cut, a pile of smoked paprika, and some long red peppers in addition to the name of the company
I do not eat swine, but I stand alongside all those who are jamón ibérico posting in defense of my shoppy shop patatas fritas.
This is my version of being a Kaihara Mills selvedge snob
(the uniball Jetstream .7mm is about $3, so, not really much of a snob)
You and Trump!
There is a version of the hot sauce guy who aspires to the fancy grocery store
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This week's @hollywoodhandbook.bsky.social with William H. Macy has what could be a hacky bit where they redo Fargo with AI, but the results are so off-kilter that it reaches that transcendent point @hayesdavenport.bsky.social's old Indochino ad reads used to.
It's like the Purloined Letter
The most bawlmer to ever do it. (I assume his tour de force in Gremlins 2 will be next on the watchlist.)
Cover of the Color Treasury of Mushrooms and Toadstools
*and also
Most people rejected his message, etc. etc.
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