Sergio @ Sergio @slrpnk.net Posts 126Comments 1,318Joined 6 mo. ago
OK I'm sold, I'm definitely gonna watch it through the end at some point.
I'm not sure I'm convinced by your argument. It seems to boil down to:
- Thing A is bad.
- Thing B is also bad, but you didn't say anything about that.
- Therefore thing A is not bad.
The word has a long history of use, applied to various cultures. Generally, someone you are unable to marry for some reason, but with whom you have some kind of married-like relationship. For more info see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concubinage
Genesis P-Orridge of seminal industrial group Throbbing Gristle did something similar:
[P-Orridge] married Jacqueline Breyer, later known as Lady Jaye, in 1995, and together they embarked on the Pandrogeny Project, an attempt to unite as a "pandrogyne", or single entity, through the use of surgical body modification to physically resemble one another. P-Orridge continued with this project of body modification after Lady Jaye's 2007 death.
I like the one on the left -- at first glance it looks like just a decorative piece, but the rounded top recalls a natural phenomena, something at the cosmic level like the formation of constellations, or at the atomic level perhaps; so the "tentacles" come off as bursts of energy. The one in front is fun, it makes me think of an octopus riding a chicken that's laying an egg.
My favorite discussion of this question is here: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/27906556
Hating on new tools is some dumb shit.
The algorithms are beautiful, revolutionary, a true achievement of humanity.
The way the corporations have used those algorithms is unethical, inartistic, a true embarrassment of humanity.
The argument is: the dish requires the use of the fucked-up knife.
If AI art only used ethically-sourced data, there'd be a lot less objection to it.
Yeah, now that you say that, I remember thinking that the recent Nosferatu has really good cinematography, and that I should start watching it again when I can pay more attention to it.
I think the men's equivalent is a kung fu shoe.
On the other hand, you're still alive and a lot of people aren't...
This is a future worse than Nausicaa...
yeah but only if you're a "WILD CARD"!!!
I previously posted about Gothic Vampires from Hell, which was very poorly made but kinda fun as a B-movie.
I want to say Dracula 2000 sticks in my mind as being just kinda boring. Though now that I look at the wikipedia page, I notice it had Slayer, Pantera, Disturbed, and System of a Down on the soundtrack so there's that.
I caught the first half-hour of that recent Nosferatu movie at a friend's house, and it was tedious and overwritten. I didn't finish watching it tho so maybe it doesn't count. (COUNT... haha)
You shoulda just posted this on !are_the_straights_ok@lemmy.blahaj.zone , it's getting upvoted there.
I'm guessing the title is also riffing off New Jack City, which came out a couple years before.
The article focuses more on the effects of Watchmen, and less on why. Yes, Watchmen introduced (or at least popularized) the "grim" style in mainstream comics, especially to people who weren't familiar with euro comics as introduced to the US in the Heavy Metal anthology (shoutout to !eurographicnovels@lemm.ee btw). And sure, there was meta commentary about comic books.
But aside from its effect or its commentary on comic books, it was just a well-crafted story focused on character. Moore plotted the story panel-by-panel and populated it with characters who were realistic enough for any type of story. Imagine a Watchmen where we get rid of the violence and supernatural, and make it all about, say, investment banking intead of superheros. We begin with the disappearance of a grizzled veteran who had some shady work in his past. His former coworker, a creepy-old-man private investigator, looks into it and starts visiting the people who worked with him in the past -- the guy who works for the government, the guy who retired and just sits at home now, etc. It all turns out to be a plot to do something spectacular on the world markets, and on the way you still have the disillusionment of the Comedian-character, the disaffectedness of the Owl-guy-character, the existential angst of the blue guy character, the alienation of the Rorschach-character, etc.
tldr: character presentation is the heart of Watchmen, quite apart from anything it said about or did to comic books.
Critters 2: The Main Course (1988) - Mastodon watch party this Sunday evening!
