So I guess Stephen King is just taking money for endorsing films now? Because a couple of years ago, after he got an early screening of the Flash, he said it was the best superhero movie he’d ever seen. So either he’s getting paid for these quotes, or he has terrible taste in movies.
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Maybe reviews are his new horror genre?
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“One of the best movies I’ve seen this year” covers a multitude of sins, so to speak.
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Not gonna watch the preview not gonna watch the preview not gonna watch the preview THEY BETTER NOT FUCK THIS UP!!!
(I’m already worried because the took “The” and “Diaries” out of the title)
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Matt Murdoch, latest episode of Daredevil:
We’re not serving justice here, you know? We’re babysitting chaos.
And he wasn’t talking about Daredevil, but about the legal work his firm is doing. It feels timely.
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It was really good. And then Matt took a bullet for Fisk?!? OMG!
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Yes! And the foreshadowing! When Bullseye told him “Isn’t that what you’re supposed to do? Defend your worst enemy?” Really good stuff.
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Hmmm… still think the character is miscast but who knows, i’m still intrigued.
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I think, in the US, at least, we are far too invested in a view of technology as only a positive. We tend to ignore very real problems that technology can cause, and only see it as “progressive”…
Technological pessimism will insure against a more dystopian tomorrow.
So will pretending that any and all technological changes are “good” for us, rather than taking a critical eye to such things, which is what the tech-dude-bros want us to to, because it financially benefits them.
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Yup.
Besides, it’s arguably mostly realism, not pessimism.
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Exactly… it’s like when people throw about the term “luddite” to describe any skepticism of technology, ignoring the fact that the Luddites were a labor movement and had an important argument to make about who new technology was benefiting and who it should benefit.
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Watched Monkey Man the other night. It certainly is violent and not for the faint of heart but it’s cathartic at the moment to see a triumph over religious fascism. And it actually feels refreshing to have cartoon villains and good guys instead of trying to find the bad in the good and the good in the bad.
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That’s on my list of movies to watch. Also i really need to see Polite Society
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You really do. It’s fun.
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Totally looks right up my alley, bummed i didnt get a chance to see it in theaters but you never know. Alamo Drafthouse might have it back on in the future.
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I think a lot of people who don’t watch it miss the really positive episodes where a lot of good can come out of new tech like in San Junipero, but i just watched the first episode of the new series and it portrays a grim future of enshittifcation through subscription models which i wouldn’t recommend to those people. The positive moments are few and far between in Black Mirror but they are there, they’re just unevenly distributed.
Technological pessimism will not insure against a more dystopian tomorrow.
That’s the quote from the article though, that one word change really alters the context.
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Polite Society is a blast! Monkey Man kicked ass too. Also check out Boy Kills World!
And speaking of monkeys, The Monkey is hilarious, if you dig comedy horror. Mr. Perkins is absolutely killing it, and this one is so completely unlike his previous films.
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Oh yeah, I do think the show has both positive and negative things to say about technology… but I don’t think the author is correct that most of our discourse over technology in our culture is overly critical of technological change. If anything, I find it the opposite, too in love with technology as the answer to all our problems… people in the US (and in the west in general) tend to be more techno-optimist instead of techno-pessimist, especially in the ruling class. It’s often just a means of not asking difficult questions, I think.
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Especially environmental. I’m all for being as prudent and conservative (in the sense of actual conservation) as possible, building back up buffers and repairing what we’ve damaged, letting the population dwindle back down to a more sustainable level as it seems to thankfully be leaning towards, switching to green energy, less plastic and optimized recycling, hoarding our depleted fossil fuels and other limited resources in case of some unpredictable future planet-wide emergency where we might need them.
Meanwhile, most of the world seems to be all “Let’s grow and expand forever and use up everything as quickly and frivolously as possible- some new tech innovation will come along and save us like it always has for a couple centuries now, which is totally a long enough timeline to take for granted that pattern is eternal and worth gambling the survival of our species on! And if it doesn’t, meh, that’s FUTURE humanity’s problem, fuck those guys (even if we screw things up so rapidly they’re still us)!”
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