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.
Absolutely! By all means. 🤝
@[email protected], don't take these things personally.
To keep the body in good health is a duty…otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.
~ Gautama Buddha
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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This is
Bad bot. piped.video doesn't handle live feeds.
To the (few) users who flagged this post, while personally I agree with the sentiment of your complaint, it is a television feed of this distasteful situation which does make this post on-topic.
@[email protected], whatever happened to your plans for a news- and media-specific community/magazine? You must admit, this would be more appropriate there than here, no?
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…?
Whatever precious jewel there is in the heavenly worlds, there is nothing comparable to one who is Awakened.
~ Gautama Buddha
Only out of perverse curiosity, where are you from?
ROCK AND ROOOOOLLLLL!!! 👍 🎸🧟♂️ 🧟♀️ 😎
Now you got another moment to tell him in 20 years! 😁 ❤
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.
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
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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@[email protected] (the account I'm responding to) has been made Moderator. Did you want @[email protected] to be a Moderator also?
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:
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).
Alternate Google-free links:
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
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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
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
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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lighthouse_(2019_f
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](https://
What, the Lynch Dune wasn't a feast for the eyes??
"Format" or "initialise"? "Directory" or "folder"...or maybe "drawer"? It's already termed "instance" for a few years now by the Devs, so...
🧘 A man asked Gautama Buddha, I want happiness. Buddha said, First remove I, that's Ego, then remove want, that's Desire. See now you are left with only Happiness
~Gautama Buddha
Of all the "thumbs down" this movie is getting here, your insights are actually very interesting! I'm surprised no one else had picked upon that! Well...not THAT surprised, really. 🙄
Now, the question is has it escaped everyone here who's seen it or are you reading too much into it? 😇
You mean tar and gzip?
THE CREATOR Discussion Megapost 2023-09-29 👶🔫
| Title | The Creator |
|---|---|
| Genre: | Science Fiction, Action |
| MPAA Rating: | PG-13 |
| Runtime | 02:13:00 |
| Release Date (USA): | September 29, 2023 |
| Director: | Gareth Edwards |
| Main Cast: | John David Washington, Madeleine Yuna Voyles, Gemma Chan, Ken Watanabe |
| Summary: | Joshua, an ex-special forces agent, and his team of elite operatives are recruited to kill the Creator, the elusive architect of advanced AI who has developed a mysterious weapon with the power to end the war… and mankind itself. They journey into AI-occupied territory only to discover the world-ending weapon is in the form of a young child. |
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DUMB MONEY Discussion Megapost 2023-09-29 🤪🤑
| Title | Dumb Money |
|---|---|
| Genre: | Biographical, Comedy |
| MPAA Rating: | R |
| Runtime | 01:45:00 |
| Release Date (USA): | September 29, 2023 |
| Director: | Craig Gillespie |
| Main Cast: | Paul Dano, Pete Davidson, Vincent D'Onofrio, America Ferrera, Nick Offerman, Anthony Ramos |
| Summary: | Based on the true story of a group of rag-tag investors from the Reddit r/WallStreetBets, who banded together to put the squeeze on hedge funds that had bet that GameStop shares would fall. |
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SAW X Discussion Megapost 2023-09-29 🪚🩻
| Title | Saw X |
|---|---|
| Genre: | Horror |
| MPAA Rating: | R |
| Runtime | 01:58:00 |
| Release Date (USA): | September 29, 2023 |
| Director: | Kevin Greutert |
| Main Cast: | Tobin Bell, Shawnee Smith, Synnøve Macody Lund, Steven Brand, Michael Beach |
| Summary: | A sick and desperate John Kramer travels to Mexico in hopes of a miracle cure for his cancer, only to discover the entire operation is a scam. Armed with a newfound purpose, the infamous serial killer returns to his work, turning the tables on the con artists in his signature visceral way through devious, deranged, and ingenious traps. |
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Compare And Contrast 4: Love Letters
La La Land (Damien Chazelle, 2016)
New York, New York (Martin Scorsese, 1977)
He's not wrong
I'd like to thank @[email protected] for posting this article from the L.A. Times over at [email protected]. A hot topic with some interesting (and less interesting) takes on the subject. This was going to be a mere cross-posting but, of course, you're always going to get your mouth-breathing audience in any discussion regarding the—ugh—superhero genre, so I felt the need to distance myself from that.
Did you not see the name of this community?
While I might admit under pressure to some exaggeration on Prof. emeritus Scorsese's part (it's Martin Scorsese, for Buddha's sake!), he's certainly not wrong. One thing that few have understood, like Scorsese has, is that while cinema has always had cookie-cutter formulas and copycat movie
D.O.A. (1949)
cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/9036783
Film Noir
Edmond O'Brien, Pamela Britton
Annoying whistle sound, intermittently.
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Film Noir 101, one of the best of the genre: a near-perfect blend of melodrama, pacing, atmosphere and hard-boiled dialogue. The entire production careens just over the edge of "over-the-top". Neville Brand's Chester is iconic! If you've seen it, see it again because you've surely forgotten how good this movie is. If you haven't, well, you know what you have to do.
N.B.: The audio on this copy isn't great and suffers much like today's tone-deaf cinema: barely audible then deafening. You've been warned. The "annoying whistle sound" mentioned in the original post is a (supposedly) incidental wolf whistle in the actual movie soun
