100%. How many people are thinking: oh I’m interested what a C-list actress spouse of a former junior member of another country’s royal family thinks about this topic!

It’s a pacing issue between wanting to be an action movie vs a character-driven comedy.

I actually think this article really nails the problem: “not that it’s dumb, but that it’s the wrong kind of dumb—that is, that it’s not an Indiana Jones kind of dumb”

“I could gather the evidence to solve this mystery if it didn’t take me hours to slowwwwlly walk across this immense hallway!” - Professor Plum.

“Let people enjoy things?” Well I enjoy being critical and judging the tastes of others - so let me enjoy that!

It’s pretty cruel to put Nicki, inarguably one of the most talented rappers alive, on the same track with Ice Spice’s amateur-hour sleepy mumble flow.

“So if you do work in AI, you should know, your industry doesn’t get to define what plagiarism or theft is. The owners of the data your models are trained on get to define it, and it’s based entirely around consent.”

Hey, not all of us can save orphans from burning buildings all day like you do! There are only so many orphanage fires!

Haha, fair experiment! I just posted the same prompt into a model I’m working with, and while it didn’t get as specific with the names (different training set) it also definitely went in a close-to-Batman direction.

Ah I think you’ve confused the debate though - the debate of is it “real art” vs “not real art” is different from the debate between is it “plagiarized” and “not plagiarized”

“AI is inherently plagiaristic. Artificial intelligence (at least in its current form) can’t create; it can only re-create based on art that already exists”

Idk, I think the Monsters Inc pitch to kids is pretty simple:

You mean she missed Tár in theaters? Come on, that’s just bad parenting!

And it’s not like those early greats didn’t have real-life themes:

That’s IRS, the Island Revenue Service. They collect property taxes for Suffolk County, Long Island. 

Timothy Chalament! I loved him in Call You By That Name with Arnie Hemmler and Michelle Stoolberg!

An attempted ranking of all Wes Anderson films from the most emotionally real/character-driven/humanist to the least. (which I call the “arthouse-to-dollhouse spectrum”). Note this is NOT a ranking of their quality, which will vary according to taste:

That’s the irony: If Wes Anderson had always and forever just been a creator of confectionary dollhouses with gorgeous art direction, funny lines, and unrealistic zero-stakes characters, I’d be ok with that and expect it. I’d enjoy him as like a very talented music video director.

If you liked Mr Fox, you should see Tenenbaums - I think it’s his most successful at filling his dollhouse aesthetic with real (occasionally dark!) emotional stakes that anyone with a family can empathize with. And if that works for you, Life Aquatic and Rushmore too.

Using trope to mean cliche is a trope though