David Daut
@davidmdaut.com
Movie fan. Animation enthusiast. One-time pretend cowboy. Features writer & producer for the SOC’s Camera Operator magazine and co-creator of Hollow Medium. (He/him)
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It's a desperately bleak state of affairs when news that Netflix is acquiring Warner Bros. is not the worst possible outcome.
December 5, 2025 at 4:58 PM
It's a desperately bleak state of affairs when news that Netflix is acquiring Warner Bros. is not the worst possible outcome.
Say what you will about the state of comic book movies two decades later, but at least we got SPIDER-MAN 2 and THE DARK KNIGHT. Between the dreadful SUPER MARIO BROS. MOVIE and FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY’S, I fear this new wave of video game adaptations is fated to be artless slop straight from the jump.
It brings me no joy to report that I have written my first F review for The A.V. Club www.avclub.com/five-nights-...
Is it an Easter egg that Five Nights At Freddy's 2 is so terrible?
The malfunctioning video game adaptation goes fully on the fritz with the inane, sprawling Five Nights At Freddy's 2.
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December 4, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Say what you will about the state of comic book movies two decades later, but at least we got SPIDER-MAN 2 and THE DARK KNIGHT. Between the dreadful SUPER MARIO BROS. MOVIE and FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY’S, I fear this new wave of video game adaptations is fated to be artless slop straight from the jump.
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This rules people.com/halle-berry-...
December 4, 2025 at 8:54 PM
This rules people.com/halle-berry-...
Seen at the Knott’s Merry Farm woodcarver’s booth.
December 4, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Seen at the Knott’s Merry Farm woodcarver’s booth.
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99% of complaints about things being better in the past boil down to "you miss not having adult responsibilities". The other 1% is that everything is manufactured to break after two years now.
Because you're an adult you fucking muppet. You gotta pay the magic forward.
December 3, 2025 at 5:48 PM
99% of complaints about things being better in the past boil down to "you miss not having adult responsibilities". The other 1% is that everything is manufactured to break after two years now.
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Lotta ways to put to rest "Did Avatar have a lasting cultural impact?" but the easiest is to point out that, by insisting theaters could only show it if they went digital, Cameron forced exhibitors to abandon film -- maybe the biggest change since the introduction of multichannel Dolby stereo.
December 2, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Lotta ways to put to rest "Did Avatar have a lasting cultural impact?" but the easiest is to point out that, by insisting theaters could only show it if they went digital, Cameron forced exhibitors to abandon film -- maybe the biggest change since the introduction of multichannel Dolby stereo.
ZOOTOPIA 2: well, the buddy cop mystery is half-baked and the comedy mostly falls flat, but hey, at least it’s not astoundingly racist like the first movie.
December 1, 2025 at 1:05 AM
ZOOTOPIA 2: well, the buddy cop mystery is half-baked and the comedy mostly falls flat, but hey, at least it’s not astoundingly racist like the first movie.
Christmas decorating day yesterday. Splurged for some of those fancy vintage-style LED lights for the patio this year!
November 29, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Christmas decorating day yesterday. Splurged for some of those fancy vintage-style LED lights for the patio this year!
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November 29, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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i don’t know about the final season of stranger things
November 27, 2025 at 3:12 PM
i don’t know about the final season of stranger things
In addition to my “Jizz” playlist (over six hours of diegetic Star Wars music), I’ve been working on a second playlist with songs inspired by Star Wars. I call it “Jatz”
Hat tip to @blastpoints.bsky.social for highlighting most of these over the years.
Hat tip to @blastpoints.bsky.social for highlighting most of these over the years.
Jatz
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November 26, 2025 at 11:05 PM
In addition to my “Jizz” playlist (over six hours of diegetic Star Wars music), I’ve been working on a second playlist with songs inspired by Star Wars. I call it “Jatz”
Hat tip to @blastpoints.bsky.social for highlighting most of these over the years.
Hat tip to @blastpoints.bsky.social for highlighting most of these over the years.
The opinion I hold that has most calcified into a contrarian annoyance is that the theatrical cuts of THE LORD OF THE RINGS are better, actually.
November 26, 2025 at 4:00 PM
The opinion I hold that has most calcified into a contrarian annoyance is that the theatrical cuts of THE LORD OF THE RINGS are better, actually.
So, when is Criterion (or anybody, really) gonna put GLASS ONION out on Blu?
November 26, 2025 at 5:28 AM
So, when is Criterion (or anybody, really) gonna put GLASS ONION out on Blu?
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Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller
November 24,1953
November 24,1953
November 25, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller
November 24,1953
November 24,1953
The sixth best STAR WARS movie is THE PHANTOM MENACE. I will not be taking additional questions at this time.
November 24, 2025 at 10:27 PM
The sixth best STAR WARS movie is THE PHANTOM MENACE. I will not be taking additional questions at this time.
In response to J.B. Pritzker’s STAR WARS rankings (I have some quibbles, but mostly solid), Gavin Newsom is going to go on a podcast to complain about the Canto Bight sequences in LAST JEDI.
November 24, 2025 at 7:29 PM
In response to J.B. Pritzker’s STAR WARS rankings (I have some quibbles, but mostly solid), Gavin Newsom is going to go on a podcast to complain about the Canto Bight sequences in LAST JEDI.
There is stuff I do genuinely like about CRYSTAL SKULL (mostly in the first half), but it is one of the most made under duress movies of all time.
Funny thing is that Spielberg didn’t want to do aliens with a flying saucer, so Lucas did a rethink and said, “Okay, they’re actually inter-dimensional beings, not extraterrestrials,” and Spielberg was like, phew, okay, so what do they look like, and Lucas said “aliens with a flying saucer.”
November 23, 2025 at 9:38 PM
There is stuff I do genuinely like about CRYSTAL SKULL (mostly in the first half), but it is one of the most made under duress movies of all time.
I maintain that Apple is responsible for the modern plague of people watching videos on their phone at full volume with their “courageous” move to kill the headphone jack.
Do people just... not wear headphones anymore? Bc I maintain there's a special place in hell for people who watch videos with the volume on and no headphones in public.
And if I can hear your dumbass videos above the music in the headphones I *am* wearing, your volume is way too fucking loud.
And if I can hear your dumbass videos above the music in the headphones I *am* wearing, your volume is way too fucking loud.
November 22, 2025 at 8:29 PM
I maintain that Apple is responsible for the modern plague of people watching videos on their phone at full volume with their “courageous” move to kill the headphone jack.
There’s a new Rian Johnson movie about to come out, so a lot of stories are trotting out the line that THE LAST JEDI “divided” fans. Is it too much to hope that by the film’s 10th anniversary we can jettison this ahistorical axiom and just be honest that the movie was broadly well received (1/2)
November 22, 2025 at 4:39 PM
There’s a new Rian Johnson movie about to come out, so a lot of stories are trotting out the line that THE LAST JEDI “divided” fans. Is it too much to hope that by the film’s 10th anniversary we can jettison this ahistorical axiom and just be honest that the movie was broadly well received (1/2)
Not totally sure what to make of this. It’s such a weird, off-handed way to break news that contradicts what both Johnson and Kathy Kennedy have said over the past several years. Still, this (might?) officially be time of death for Rian Johnson’s STAR WARS trilogy.
November 21, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Not totally sure what to make of this. It’s such a weird, off-handed way to break news that contradicts what both Johnson and Kathy Kennedy have said over the past several years. Still, this (might?) officially be time of death for Rian Johnson’s STAR WARS trilogy.
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"Trump is a fucking idiot who gets rolled by anyone who's nice to him" theory remains undefeated, putting someone like Mamdani in there is like having Randy Johnson sub in for a 5th grade Little League game
Q: Stefanik has called Mamdani a 'jihadist.' Do you think you're standing next to a jihadist right now?
TRUMP: No, I don't. I met with a man who's a very rational person
TRUMP: No, I don't. I met with a man who's a very rational person
November 21, 2025 at 9:17 PM
"Trump is a fucking idiot who gets rolled by anyone who's nice to him" theory remains undefeated, putting someone like Mamdani in there is like having Randy Johnson sub in for a 5th grade Little League game
"I don't know anyone who has seen an AVATAR movie" is the new "I don't own a TV".
November 19, 2025 at 12:39 AM
"I don't know anyone who has seen an AVATAR movie" is the new "I don't own a TV".
I need someone to release an exhaustive format guide for AVATAR: FIRE & ASH so I can try to track down any theater that is playing it in 3D at 24 frames per second. I have tickets to see it in IMAX on opening night, but will gladly switch to avoid the miserable HFR version.
November 18, 2025 at 6:42 PM
I need someone to release an exhaustive format guide for AVATAR: FIRE & ASH so I can try to track down any theater that is playing it in 3D at 24 frames per second. I have tickets to see it in IMAX on opening night, but will gladly switch to avoid the miserable HFR version.
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People logging back into Bluesky for the first time in a year
October 16, 2025 at 2:58 AM
People logging back into Bluesky for the first time in a year