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Danny Sullivan
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I have to catch two fucking trains to get to my gate? I am never going to Seattle again for the rest of my life
Wrote about Metal Gear Solid 2, which I genuinely think is one of the most important works of art of the 21st century. It dramatizes the imposition of simulation onto the world and presages with startling clarity our current age of hyperreality.
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A virtual grunt for the digital age
Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty (2001)
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what if we based the entire economy on robbing Peter to pay Paul
WEIL: “.. Circularity can be virtuous on the upside, and vicious on the downside. The deals can work fine, until they don’t.”

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[STAR WARS] The excitement of those who call it the film of the year goes way past nostalgia to the feeling that now is the time to return to childhood. (1977)
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Metroidvanias are either Protestant or Catholic. Castlevania? Catholic, of course. Metroid? Protestant. Blasphemous is Catholic. Dead Cells, Protestant.

Hollow Knight is Protestant, but Hollow Knight: Silksong is Catholic. That's why people are complaining the game is hard. Cause it's Catholic now.
I wrote about Blood Meridian and River of Shadows, and I wrote about genocide and technological progress and the act of bearing witness and the trauma of time itself. I put everything I had into this one
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Enough death to bind a nation
Witnesses to the dawn of modernity in Blood Meridian and River of Shadows
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and another thing: im not scared. please dont put in the new yorker that i got scared.
ALIEN, with its horrible mutating creature (you never knew what form it would take), made you dread the scenes to come; it tied your innards in a knot. ALIENS isn't that scary...This movie has clumping feet. (1986)
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i constantly think about this post
incredible work in the alt-text here
I reviewed Metallic Realms by @thelincoln.bsky.social, which is both an insightful look at the Millennial experience and a hilarious romp through nerd culture via homages to some of the sci-fi greats. Definitely recommended!
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The Charles Kinbote of Millennial Losers
Metallic Realms (Lincoln Michel, 2025)
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Incredible how Pauline Kael could look at a single movie and predict the filmmaker’s entire filmmaking identity and future career arc. This is basically exactly my opinion of Spielberg: an undeniable savant of the cinematic art possessing the moral and intellectual sophistication of an eighth grader
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Thank you to my son and his day care for this terrifying Father’s Day gift.
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For those who are infatuated with what they loathe, the battle within themselves never stops. (1977)
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Every article about the inevitability of AGI
My Coen Brothers retrospective takes a detour to dig into the critical and commercial response to their first five films and to take the temperature of their career at the ten-year mark theunderline.substack.com/p/the-pressu...
The pressures are very visible and very legitimate
Vibe checking the Coen brothers’ career at the 10-year mark
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SANTA FE!! Next Tuesday, June 10, I will be presenting Fargo at CCA for our monthly Closer Looks series. I'll be giving a short talk, followed by the film. Please come see it!!
Info and tickets here: ccasantafe.org
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Amazing, thank you! My post promoting my Fargo screening was just upthread above my question. So so appreciate a share!
@mattzollerseitz.bsky.social is your "will always retweet rep screenings" rule still in effect?