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Damon Houx

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Damon Houx @damonhoux.bsky.social · 11m

How does AI know how to act? It will be able to read, sure, and maybe have intonations that sounds Monroe-esque, but the reasoning and decision making? Nah.

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 1d

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

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Damon Houx @damonhoux.bsky.social · 1h

Drew Struzan was nerd shorthand. If you knew who he was, you were probably okay. As such, he could also be a default setting, but the dude did ten of your favorite posters.

Damon Houx @damonhoux.bsky.social · 13h

Really bummed my essay “Dating a Woman With a Life Size Tattoo of Richard Kind’s Face on Her Back Eventually Ruins Sex” only came in third. Mostly because it’s a question of “did they want to go higher and couldn’t?” or “was it too real for them?”

Damon Houx @damonhoux.bsky.social · 16h

One of the things that shows how the industry is top heavy is that most trailers don’t feature credits, but will highlight a producer who was one of many on a successful franchise. I don’t think I’ve known anyone who has gone to a movie for the producer since the heyday of Joel Silver and Bruck.

Damon Houx @damonhoux.bsky.social · 1d

I think it is fair to say that television is dead and whatever animated it will live on in the next iteration in the same way radio begat TV. Serialized entertainment in ten years won’t have much in common with I LOVE
LUCY.

Damon Houx @damonhoux.bsky.social · 1d

This ties into the cultural moment, but everyone gets that NIN is not straight, yeah? Industrial music emerged from gay culture. I don’t know who Trent wants to feel from the inside but it could go either way.

Damon Houx @damonhoux.bsky.social · 1d

One weird thing about being married or in a long term relationship is sometimes you have people in your life where you are as intimate - if not more so - with someone but no one’s going to spring for a hotel. Just as some times people only want to fuck you because you’re off the market.

Damon Houx @damonhoux.bsky.social · 1d

As a six four dude who identifies as “Martin Starr in FREAKS AND GEEKS” it is the weirdest feeling when you meet someone and know to your core that you have chemistry. That you are less than ten good or bad decisions from being naked with someone.

Damon Houx @damonhoux.bsky.social · 1d

Though I didn’t hate it, THE NAKED GUN reboot is very much a film of its moment. The original - and almost all ZAZ films - are about chaos and the unexpected. How do you remake that? How do you templatize chaos?

Damon Houx @damonhoux.bsky.social · 1d

Liberals take politics like reality (mostly), conservatives treat politics like sports, where they are the sixth man in both ways (“we won.” “they lost.”)

Damon Houx @damonhoux.bsky.social · 1d

One of the biggest problems with a lot of modern films is that there’s no baseline for four quad stuff. A film might be shit but if Madeline Stowe smoke and fucks in it or JCVD kicks dudes I got what I came for. I am not satisfied by brands being brands.

Damon Houx @damonhoux.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t like that a lot of boutique releases are based less on people’s weirdo fascinations with certain movies and more about what’s marketable. I think the last 20 years of cinema is a wastleland partly because marketable trumped “I want to tell this story.”

Damon Houx @damonhoux.bsky.social · 1d

As much as I am a person who if Vinegar Syndrome put out a 1983 HK film called THE RAPE MONSTER in 4K I would be like “might blind buy, hope for rental,” I saw Urotsukidōji: Legend of the Overfiend as an impressionable 15-year old and was like “No. That’s gross.” So I trust my radar.

Damon Houx @damonhoux.bsky.social · 1d

Guys, I just checked with God, and… two things, yes Diane got into heaven, she loves it, but man people be bum rushing her. Also, he told me it’s okay to like Woody Allen films without liking Woody Allen.

Damon Houx @damonhoux.bsky.social · 1d

Here is a good way to tell if something is art or porn: If you can tell the filmmaker is saying “I like this” versus “you like this.” With the latter, unless it is commentary, That’s a pornë.

Damon Houx @damonhoux.bsky.social · 1d

There is nothing worse than being lightly buzzed and completely forgetting where you car is, so you have to walk around Burbank for like two hours to find it. Or so I have read.

Damon Houx @damonhoux.bsky.social · 1d

Though it seems like a bit, I honestly think giving my nephew permission to be a jerk to my brother is actually the job of an uncle. We’re there not to take authority away, but to remind their children that while their parents are their parents, they’re also people.

Damon Houx @damonhoux.bsky.social · 2d

I went to an MPEG party. I met cool people, supported my union, and threw axes. Actually pretty good at throwing axes. Like, have a good shot of surviving a horror movie axe throwing skills. Also I rode a mechanical bull and - for the first time - ate a hot dog on a stick. 7/10, demerits for no sex.

Damon Houx @damonhoux.bsky.social · 2d

As Keaton’s passing spotlights it: Woody Allen: great filmmaker, shit human. I am skeptical of some charges - though he’s an icky gross dude - not because I love ANNIE HALL, but pathology. Still, he was dating 17-year olds in the late 70s, but if that’s a line breaker never listen to pop music again

Damon Houx @damonhoux.bsky.social · 2d

This made me weep. We are too cruel.

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 3d

I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning:

www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...

Damon Houx @damonhoux.bsky.social · 2d

Look, Diane Keaton was so good I watched a lot her Marvel-inspired team up old women movies. AND ENJOYED THEM.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 2d

I don't argue with anyone who won't watch a Woody Allen movie; it's a personal choice, different for everyone. But Diane Keaton is a big reason I almost never say "[Movie X] is dead to me." My argument isn't "Separate the artist from the art"; it's that movies are never just one person's legacy.

Damon Houx @damonhoux.bsky.social · 2d

One of the best part of being an uncle is getting my nephew to repeat verbatim to my brother “this pizza doesn’t have enough garlic. You’re a shit cook.”

Damon Houx @damonhoux.bsky.social · 2d

Diane Keaton, RIP. Dear lord. Trans and fashion icon, incredible performer. It’s too bad Woody’s not dead so everyone would enjoy throwing on some of her best work. An iconoclast, a trailblazer, a women who is why we invent adjectives, A great artist has left us and world is smaller for it.

Damon Houx @damonhoux.bsky.social · 2d

I think a lot of people hate Rian Johnson’s films because they’re smart, and it makes most criticisms hard to get past. There may be real things to dislike about his art, but often is it’s like “this is too clever.” Leftover high school resentment of the dude who ruins the curve.