Well, Hollywood can make anything into the end of the world, but two thoughts come to mind. The first is that if millions of people’s jobs were destroyed all at once, the backlash would be so intense and so swift, we’d force politicians to respond. Our modern legislative system seems to only pass large bills during a…

It will never ever happen, but as I get older I have come around on the idea of taxing capital usage (as we do labor) and distributing that to an ever-growing pool of people displaced by technology. Obviously there are some massive issues to address with that, but it is a start.

The review is claiming that movie is proselytizing AI uncritically in any shape and form.

with the benefit of hindsight it gets funnier and funnier that joaquin phoenix’s job in ‘her’ is writing personalized greeting cards.

If we had unemployment at 40-50% with no hope of it ever improving, there’d be some explosions.

A movie about that wouldn’t be nearly explodey enough 

We still haven’t really had a good sci-fi movie about the more realistic threat AI poses — that it may eliminate or severely downsize many different types of work all at once, without creating new human jobs in sufficient numbers to replace them. Previous technological advances have made some labor obsolete but also…

Then you have the confounding sentiments that AI, in any shape or form, is beneficial to humanity.

Given how many billions Netflix has wasted dumping unwatchable garbage, it’s hard to argue that giving GLOW its final season would somehow not have been worth the money.

Fuck yeah, break ‘em up.

The stop motion sand worms replaced by CGi trying to be stop motion looks bad in a non-whimsical way. Also that brief plane crashing image looked really bad. Like that has to be a bit on the movie right, that can’t be an actual plane crash in this movie. It looks like it was generated on a PS2

Catherine O’Hara in that scene is one of the funniest performances ever captured on film.

I was thinking that exact thing. Not old fashioned sails, but those rigid sails they use in yacht racing now.

They aren’t meant to sail slower than necessary, they’re meant to sail at the precise speed which allows them to arrive when it is time to dock - instead of burning extra fuel to get there 10 hours early and then wait. Read it again.

All I hope is that the movie starts with Beetlejuice finally reaching the front of the line in the waiting room where he tried to swap his number 3 billion (or whatever it was) for number 2.

You can still minimize the shipping. 

One of my favorite memories so far is of watching “Beetlejuice” for the first time, on VHS with my mother. I literally don’t remember her ever laughing so hard or so long before or since, as she did at the “Day-o” scene. When the shrimps came up and grabbed their faces, she literally screamed with laughter.

Have you heard Trump speak in the past decade? There’s clearly some “Weekend at Bernie’s” type shenanigans going on here.

“Calling Ticketmaster a monopoly may be a PR win for the DOJ in the short term, but it will lose in court because it ignores the basic economics of live entertainment, such as the fact that the bulk of service fees go to venues...”

Well Woody Guthrie wrote a song about how much he sucked, so he wasn't nobody.  But he definitely fell between the cracks between then and now.