The second I saw that the original founder was replaced by a 31 year old woman I knew she would last days (more of a comment on Silicon Valley politics than Mira Muarti herself).

Before they put the rest of us out of work, it’s nice to see one of them lose their job.

“AI actually has potential to be a useful technology.” For the people who absolutely don’t need anymore power, sure. It’s not for us (unless you think being a better consumer is ‘useful’). 

I don’t believe that for even one second. Think about it: it’s a non-profit with a for-profit subsidiary. The whole point is to use the non-profit status to justify their theft (“the stolen material in the datasets are for research purposes!”), protect them from criticism (we’re not just trying to line our pockets, we…

“I have guns, gold, potassium iodide, antibiotics, batteries, water, gas masks from the Israeli Defense Force, and a big patch of land in Big Sur I can fly to.”

“Became” a circus?  It’s been one since the beginning. It’s the same all the same idiots running the crypto scams now moving into the AI scam and the same tech “journalists” are falling for the same scam all over again. 

French GQ, for example, apparently called the film “deeply clumsy, unnatural, and unintentionally funny, French newspaper Le Figaro comparing its versions of Napoleon and Josephine to Ken and Barbie, and Napoleon biographer Patrice Gueniffey calling it “very anti-French and very pro-British. Scott, who of course is Bri…

Fuck sake AV Club, does the constant directionless snark and eyerolling smirking not get exhausting? Could you not just outright say what you sincerely think about something without drowning every sentence in smug irony to the point where it’s impossible to tell what you’re actually trying to say about the subject?

From the guy who saw Commodus, an emperor notorious for styling himself with long hair and a beard because he wanted to look like Hercules, and decided to throw a bowl cut and eyeliner on Joaquin Phoenix. 

“Historical people all sounded British ..all of them ..Greeks , Egyptians, Romans, *British, Vikings,   ..except the important, really good looking ones , who sound American.” Every Hollywood ‘historical’ movie ever.

“Scott, who of course is British, shrugged off comments like that in typical Ridley Scott-style, arguing that, “the French don’t even like themselves.””

I definitely could not spend 150 minutes looking at Phoenix’s single, dour expression and listening to his truly awful monotone delivery. And don’t even get me started on why Phoenix is the only one with an American accent while everyone else in this movie about a France uses a British one. 

because that kind of very-online anti-fun/creativity “criticism” is exhausting and pretentious

Gladiator was over 20 years ago, and people expect him to get *more* historically accurate with time?

French GQ, for example, apparently called the film “deeply clumsy, unnatural, and unintentionally funny, French newspaper Le Figaro comparing its versions of Napoleon and Josephine to Ken and Barbie, and Napoleon biographer Patrice Gueniffey calling it “very anti-French and very pro-British. Scott, who of course is…

Yes, exactly. I think Scott had two or three good movies in him and the rest have been mediocre at best. He gets by on bluster and arrogance and “you’re no smart enough to understand my art”, not on what he produces.

Yeah and only Germans should do films about Hitler.

no other director has had a run of bad movies like ridley. It’s incredible. Nobody else would get to deliver that many bombs and still get hired. The reason it happens now of course is that he’s willing to soil his (ill-deserved imo) reputation as a big, epic historical filmmaker on cheap streaming junk like this

That little to do on a friday that you need to pop into every comment to register your dislike of T&E style anticomedy, huh?

Watching things done 1:1 through an ironic lens has an energy that just watching a bad thing unfold doesn’t. Otherwise people would stuff theaters full of the worst comedies just to laugh AT…

Damn. Sometimes something is so embarrassing that the best way to mock it is to just copy it exactly with no changes. Just brutal.