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geha714 @geha714.bsky.social · 8d

www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vGo... The Best 2020s Movies You Haven't Seen by @tomvanderlinden.bsky.social

The Best 2020s Movies You Haven't Seen

YouTube video by Like Stories Untold

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Tom van der Linden @tomvanderlinden.bsky.social · 16d

New video out now! Comparing Cormac McCarthy's No Country for Old Men to the Coen Brothers adaptation, which revealed some surprising differences: youtu.be/_g1TK-TPW-0

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Tom van der Linden @tomvanderlinden.bsky.social · 16d

New video out now! Comparing Cormac McCarthy's No Country for Old Men to the Coen Brothers adaptation, which revealed some surprising differences: youtu.be/_g1TK-TPW-0

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Tom van der Linden @tomvanderlinden.bsky.social · 17d

I got a new video on Nebula! It's about the surprising differences between the movie No Country for Old Men, and the Cormac McCarthy novel it was based on: nebula.tv/videos/lsoo-...

Like Stories of Old — I Read the Book and Now the Movie is Even Better

I always thought the movie No Country for Old Men was a pretty much perfect adaptation from its source material, but then I read the book...

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Tom van der Linden @tomvanderlinden.bsky.social · 20d

New project on the 2nd channel is now live: a multi-part recap of the best movies of the 2020s so far, examining not just the most prestigious movies, but also the future cult classics, hidden gems and blockbuster favorites: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAtO...

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Imran Javaid @imranjj.bsky.social · 22d

I really love the videos @tomvanderlinden.bsky.social has been making and this one hits me deep inside. I love it when a movie makes you think about who you are as a person and additionally prompts you to rise up and change. The movies mentioned here did the same to me.

Tom van der Linden @tomvanderlinden.bsky.social · Sep 16

To act in this world is to put yourself in moral peril, to shake the foundations of your own philosophy, sometimes overwhelmingly so. In such times, when you're no longer sure which way is right, where do you go? Who do you become?
New video out now: youtu.be/qJJzA-YWc3s

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Tom van der Linden @tomvanderlinden.bsky.social · Sep 16

To act in this world is to put yourself in moral peril, to shake the foundations of your own philosophy, sometimes overwhelmingly so. In such times, when you're no longer sure which way is right, where do you go? Who do you become?
New video out now: youtu.be/qJJzA-YWc3s

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Tom van der Linden @tomvanderlinden.bsky.social · Sep 16

To act in this world is to put yourself in moral peril, to shake the foundations of your own philosophy, sometimes overwhelmingly so. In such times, when you're no longer sure which way is right, where do you go? Who do you become?
New video out now: youtu.be/qJJzA-YWc3s

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Tom van der Linden @tomvanderlinden.bsky.social · Sep 15

New video out now on Nebula: nebula.tv/videos/lsoo-...

Like Stories of Old — Movie Monologues that Radicalized my Moral Philosophy

What man is a man who does not make the world better?

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Tom van der Linden @tomvanderlinden.bsky.social · Sep 8

Next video is going to be classic Like Stories of Old; philosophical reflections, clips from like a 100 movies, evocative music, looking for meaning and hope in the dark

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Tom van der Linden @tomvanderlinden.bsky.social · Sep 5

Good times

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Tom van der Linden @tomvanderlinden.bsky.social · Sep 3

"Alien: Earth's new episode is the best Alien movie in 39 years"
Soooo about that: www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEJb...

"the best Alien movie in 39 years"

YouTube video by Like Stories Untold

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Tom van der Linden @tomvanderlinden.bsky.social · Sep 3

Well, in the cinema-related video essay space, it does look like a lot of the attention has shifted toward what I guess can be best called the post-cinemastix-movement, where a bunch of relatively smaller and newer creators are doing quite well

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Tom van der Linden @tomvanderlinden.bsky.social · Sep 3

One more potential reason: more and better competition. I feel like young folks now have a much better grasp of the basics of editing, audio mixing, storytelling... etc., and new creators come out the gate swinging. Makes it harder for the old folks who have been mostly coasting on 'experience'

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Tom van der Linden @tomvanderlinden.bsky.social · Sep 3

**Creators have also always come and gone, but don't think there has ever been as big of a 'generation' of full-time creators as we have now, and so we might just be seeing a more clearly pronounced version of that tipping point where bigger creators start losing more fans than they are gaining

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Tom van der Linden @tomvanderlinden.bsky.social · Sep 3

* Trends have always come and gone but we could simply seeing a more significant change, though of course, this itself might be a temporary trend too...

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Tom van der Linden @tomvanderlinden.bsky.social · Sep 3

- major shift in audience taste*
- state of the world causing general shift in cultural priorities
- continuation of cultural dilution; more creators/niches but smaller audiences for each of them
- result of the first large group of established creators moving past their peak**

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Tom van der Linden @tomvanderlinden.bsky.social · Sep 3

Pretty much my experience as well, I'm still doing fine but it's been a strange year and I definitely feel like I've lost my grip on the 'audience' a bit. Don't think it's the algorithm, but I also can't really think of any other obvious changes that would explain this, so far all I got is...

Skill Up @skillup.bsky.social · Sep 3

Idk what dial YouTube turned but they definitely did something. Viewership is inexplicably down around 30% for myself and many channels I watch/follow. I've never blamed the algorithm for anything in my 10 years on YT, but this is too obvious to ignore. Spoken to others who have noticed it, too.

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geha714 @geha714.bsky.social · Aug 30

www.youtube.com/watch?v=bO0T... So CAUGHT STEALING is basically a Guy Ritchie movie, except...
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So CAUGHT STEALING is basically a Guy Ritchie movie, except...

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geha714 @geha714.bsky.social · Aug 27

www.youtube.com/watch?v=kReZ... Dexter needs to go to prison by @tomvanderlinden.bsky.social

Dexter needs to go to prison

YouTube video by Like Stories Untold

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Tom van der Linden @tomvanderlinden.bsky.social · Aug 25

New video out now on Nebula! Two real life serial killer cases resulted in two investigative movies that would have been virtually identical, except... one of them is directed by David Fincher: nebula.tv/videos/lsoo-...