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15 Nov, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Does the Star Wars franchise literally have a business practice of announcing future projects from huge names and then quietly or casually dropping them the second the person makes some movie that isn't universally praised and loved?
It's already happened with Josh Trank (Fant4stic), Colin Trevorrow (Book of Henry), D&D (Game of Thrones season 8), Rian Johnson (Last Jedi), Lord and Miller (Solo test footage) and now it seems they did it to Patty Jenkins over Wonder Woman 84.
As I was saying.
Lucasfilm's film division has been an absolute disaster since day 1.

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16 Nov
I don't buy the argument that since some Star Wars movies made $1 billion plus and the Mandalorian was a huge hit is proof that Kathleen Kennedy is excellent and the envy of producers everywhere and that criticizing her makes no sense.
I mean her contract was renewed so clearly they are at the very least happen *enough* with her. It took 8 years to boot Ike Perlmutter from Marvel. The last Jedi isn't even 4 years old yet. These things don't happen super quickly.
If Kennedy were really humming along as well as Feige, they would have had serious production problems with three of their five films and have cancelled at least four future high-profile projects.
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16 Nov
I hate it when directors trash superhero movies. If you want to critique them, don't be an internet shitposter. People worked on those movies just as hard as you work on yours, and they provide entertainment for millions. Sorry your historical French tragedy didn't make bank.
It's not the industry's or the audience's fault that you made a movie about subject matter that most people don't care enough about to drag themselves to a theater during covid. Oh yay, a movie about a woman on trial for being raped. Fun Friday night activity!
Audiences are not dumber. They just have options. We are in a golden age of prestige TV and you'll never run out of quality stuff to watch until a movie like this is on demand. A theater used to be the only way to watch something like this.
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15 Nov
It would be nice if people stopped angrily advocating for unnecessary covid measures for things they never actually do themselves. If you're not going to theaters right now anyway, don't lecture the people who do go on how safe you think they should be. Mind your fucking beeswax.
You don't get to police the activities that I do and you don't just so you can feel safer about not getting it elsewhere. If you're worried, YOU be more careful. Wear an N95 and an ABC suit. Don't police my life for your peace of mind.
We're also acting like these measures make sense. DC gyms have been begging the city to let them instate a vaccine mandate as a replacement for masking and were told no. So you can go work out unvaccinated around people if you have a cloth mask half on your face. Good job, DC!
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14 Nov
Oh my god. I had an epiphany about TENET and something about how it works and how to look at the entire movie clicked in my brain and now I absolutely love it.
This isn’t something I can explain in a tweet but a good place to start is this video by @BenChinapen .

A couple of tips:
1. Anyone reversed already knows what’s happened.
2. During the plane crash scene, there are three Protagonists, not two.
I’m looking at this movie like Primer from now on. Multiple watching slowly holding more of the entire story in my head until everything just works. I’m almost there with this.
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13 Nov
In the coming collectivist dystopian future, the only type of permitted individualism will be minor cosmetic alterations to your government-issued NFT avatar. Image
My NFT hot take is that the second an NFT is part of a series or collection, it ceases to be nonfungible, even if market forces assign arbitrarily different values to them. At the end of the day, any two beanie babies are interchangeable unless you're a beanie baby collector.
A quarter that's 100 years old will get more money at a coin auction than a quarter from last year. That doesn't make quarters nonfungible. Someone willing to pay more for one over the other doesn't determine fungibility.
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12 Nov
I agree that Biden backtracked to correct himself as I see him do it a lot. But contrasted with the exceedingly bad faith pileup on the Rittenhouse judge for something that was *clearly* a supply chain joke solely because he isn't hostile to the defense validates the complaints.
I seriously cannot highlight enough that people think the judge is biased because *he isn't as mad as they are at Rittenhouse*

A judge should be as angry as Twitter or else he's not impartial. That's where we're at.
The lack of a racial component or a sympathetic victim to highlight means they need some other way to keep fueling anger-driven clicks and ratings. So playing the "fixed fight" angle with regards to guns and Trump and white supremacy is all they have left.
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