Is the Spotify DJ AI really that bad that it picks the same six selections of genre songs each time?
Frumpleton 🦛
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2:25am idea -- Frank Walker from National Tiles being one of the voices for guided meditation on the Headspace app.
@MaggieMaeFish Any word on the next Lynchpins podcast ep? I'm enjoying them!
Anyone used the Dymocks online store? Slowest website I've ever used. Terrible! My kingdom for Booktopia!
I'll have to be content with whatever BS Logitech '3D' simulated audio setting.
Special thanks to this piece of crap bricking two Blu-ray players (I tried separate power plugs to it, turns out the device just overcharges the player no matter what) in my pursuit for proper 5.1 sound on my surround system.
And then finally here's a short review I did of a film I've really liked of this past decade that's been mostly bad revivals of long dead franchises, or the factory Marvel movies, or slightly odd spec fic art films that don't say much. Here's a film that brings back the sensibilities of that 70s gritty realism without needing to insert the bloody Joker into it: https://qutemag.tumblr.com/post/739789577339961344/the-movie-guy-reviews-first-reformed
I also did a negative review of Thunderball I got around to putting on my blog because why not (dunno why I'm on a rant mode with film opinions these past few weeks): https://qutemag.tumblr.com/post/739788749676953600/the-movie-guy-reviews-thunderball-by-benjamin
Just heard yet another youtuber film essayist refer to Christopher Nolan as "influential" along with the other 'accepted' great directors. You know, the white American dudes he lists off Martin Scorsese and Wes Anderson because his opinions are the milquetoast recycling of reddit filmbro patter.
Nolan is not influential. He has his moments of gravitas bouyed by Hans Zimmer and an understanding of how to film good stunt work, but his films won't stand the test of time, hell, they don't even make a good rewatch. The hype around Oppenheimer was absurd when the film is simply A Beautiful Mind done without the heart or the thought.
It is fitting the youtuber uses this opening as a bridge into "what happened to Robert Zemeckis?" a much more talented filmmaker than Nolan who yes, has recently made some duds, but has more understanding of story and good filmmaking in his pinky than Nolan has on his big ass IMAX projector reel that limited his self-indulgently ridiculous and shallow biopic to a mere 3 hours because that was all the IMAX holder could handle.
And then he gets on interviews and says the film is transformative in IMAX. Nah mate, a big screen won't save the poor characterisation. A big screen won't save the terrible structure, the borderline idiotic sound mixing that Nolan blames the audience for hating. Or how about that the only cinema in the southern hemisphere to even be able to screen his hubris in his 'intended' IMAX size is only in Melbourne. People from Japan have to book flights to flipping Melbourne for a movie.
I really am tired of the same old hype trains for this hack. Nolan hasn't made a deservingly good movie since Inception. Funnily enough out of all his recent work I liked Dunkirk most, if only because Nolan worked out he could disguise his abominable storytelling skills by making the film mostly unconnected war vignettes without much dialogue.
All these youtube reviews being like Airpods Max is just slightly better than the Sony XM5's!
Yeah, the Airpods Max are also $900 on Amazon and XM5 are $500.