Reheated (54)
For newcomers, more items from the archives.
You Look Like You Need Some Art.
In which we thrill to the creative eruptions of Ms Sandrine Schaefer.
The pretence of intellectual heft and critical discernment is quite funny, given the unspoken rules of pretend artists and their pretend art. Like practically all of her fellow hustlers, Ms Schaefer tells us that she “investigates” and “questions” things, and presumably interrogates them; but despite this allegedly relentless curiosity, I doubt that any specific insight or profundity is ever conveyed to her audience, such as it is, via the art, such as it is. And of course, we’re not supposed to notice this, or notice the comical mismatch of arch rhetoric and inept flummery. And so, in order to feign discernment, one has to not discern any number of really obvious things.
Don’t Oppress My People With Your Big Hooped Earrings.
On the woes of radical accessorising at Pitzer College, Claremont, California.
It does, I think, take a particular chutzpah to publicly claim to be oppressed - by other people’s earrings – while spending more than the median household income at a glorified holiday resort.
Woke educators attempt to inculcate dishonesty, bemoan pockets of resistance.
“White fragility” is the unremarkable fact that people by and large don’t like being slandered as racists and then assigned with some pretentious collective guilt, the supposed atonement for which requires deference to actual racists and predatory hokum merchants.
But Not All Feminists, Apparently.
Feminists gather to discuss The Accursed Male and his many, many faults.
“Cis-masculinity is fundamentally oppressive and violent” says Mr Utt. Apparently, a single incident of exasperated table-slamming is damning evidence of patriarchal brainwashing, proof that the author has been “socialised to be abusive,” along with all other men. However, the gender-damning meaning of female table-slamming, or door-slamming, or general fits of irritation, or any number of aggressive and passive-aggressive displays indulged in by women, remain oddly unexplored. Instead, Mr Utt equates this apparently all-pervasive patriarchy with “related systems of oppression like white supremacy.” Adding, “It’s important that I situate myself within my positionality.”
There’s more, should you want it, in the greatest hits.
Also, open thread.
It does, I think, take a particular chutzpah to publicly claim to be oppressed – by other people’s earrings – while spending more than the median household income at a glorified holiday resort.
Missed that one. 🙂
Missed that one. 🙂
She’s so oppressed she’s spending $60,000 a year on a degree in “media studies with a concentration in critical theory.” As downtrodden people do.
And hey, Ms Martinez and Ms Aguilera had to email the entire campus, repeatedly, with their views on hooped earrings and who should be allowed to wear them. That’s “emotional labour,” you know.
I’m still catching up on all the ‘reheated’ stuff.
“It’s important that I situate myself within my positionality.”
Gold.
I’m still catching up on all the ‘reheated’ stuff.
Slacker. You do realise there’s a test at the end of the month…?
Meanwhile, not everything is reheated, in today’s episode of Mining For Outrage, join us for “Don’t Sis Me Bro !”
I see, a word that actually can be traced back to Latin has “roots” in black church and “queer” communities, and only “African Americans” can use it. My sister will be relieved because she never liked being called that, but I expect there to be some rending of garments among the feminist community who use the term. It is also not clear if British African Americans, African African Americans, or Mohammedans of any pigmentation who use the term still get to use the word.
But wait ! That’s not all, for an extra added bonus to solve this mystery…
What a profoundly idiotic and ignorant comment, I guess by using the internet we here are appropriating “black culture” ? I cannot imagine how cushy and boring one’s life must be to have to resort to dreaming up garbage like this for a brief burst of titillation over the Outrageous Outrage™.
Here, everyone, have some bean pie. A nice change from hump fat.
I’m sorry, madam. You’re not allowed to eat your own food on the premises.
But we do have a special today.
Nommy-nommy-nom.
http://www.unz.com/isteve/black-math-prof-discovers-he-made-bad-career-choice-campaigns-to-get-more-blacks-to-make-same-bad-choice/
Don’t Sis Me Bro!
Every time I read this sort of nonsense, I get the feeling that we’re edging (or charging) closer and closer to Fran Porretto’s short story, The Two Doors.
Hump-ble pie, anyone?
David – if you’re still in the mood to update the blogroll, please consider Matt Christiansen’s youtube channel.
Measured, entertaining, and lots of content. So, unlike my Drunken Uncle recommendation, this one won’t give you the vapors. =)
Don’t Sis Me Bro!
Bro? Fucking BRO?? Did you just cis-sis me, bigot?!?
if you’re still in the mood to update the blogroll,
Heh. Mr Christiansen’s channel is one of my YouTube subscriptions. Added to blogroll.
Posted by: Unnonplussed
Dude, you’re baiting me.
I’ll just drop this here” Sargon looks at Wisecrack’s video about how Starship Troopers is fascist (yeah, I know) and dismantles it.
tl;dr; Idiot confuses fascism with militarism.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95OQlvEQNRM
Dude, you’re baiting me.
He’s a master.
Idiot confuses fascism with militarism.
I wouldn’t even call the novel militaristic, just guilty of honoring the military.
Dude, you’re baiting me.
He’s a master.
ISWYDT.
On the Starship Troopers video, I think that video posted misses some of the hints and possible deeper stuff going on.
In any case, the best ‘theory’ for that film is that its an in-universe To Hell and Back. Johnny Rico plays himself in a fictionalised story of his life.
He’s a master.
So long as he washed his hands before digging into the pickled “eggs”.
Hey, wait a minute…did you just assume xis gender? Or perhaps just xis anatomy?
“I wouldn’t even call the novel militaristic, just guilty of honoring the military.”
I mean in the movie. Just because people act like they’re in the military doesn’t mean they’re fascist. They’re just very, very efficient.
Idiot confuses fascism with militarism.
I wouldn’t even call the novel militaristic, just guilty of honoring the military.
Ehn, from a skim through the video, I think Sargon’s discussion might be more a review of Verhoeven’s Really Badly Done Bug Show rather than actually being a discussion of Starship Troopers.
Myself, I think that once someone finally makes a movie or miniseries of Starship Troopers, that would be quite interesting.
House of Windsor didn’t vet Meghan half as much as it should have.
Ehn, from a skim through the video, I think Sargon’s discussion might be more a review of Verhoeven’s Really Badly Done Bug Show…
My apologies, I forgot about the movie.
In any case, the best ‘theory’ for that film is that its an in-universe To Hell and Back.
The author of the novel, Heinlein, said that he wrote the novel to honor the infantry, aren’t glamorous like aviators but deserve our respect and gratitude.
…male, pale, and stale…
Darleen, I didn’t know “stale” was a synonym for competent and qualified. It must be a UK thing. Perhaps David could clarify.
I thought Verhoeven’s Starship Troopers was clearly a gleefully savage satire of Fascism and a timely warning about the USA’s trajectory, from a Dutch director who grew up under the Nazi occupation of Holland.
To call the movie an apology for Fascism is like calling Robocop a celebration of privatisation!
I’ve been involved with DOD for 59 years. Born in an Army hospital. “Military” does not necessarily mean “ efficient.” They do try hard, though, and sometimes they really are efficient.
I was a little disgruntled when I tried to pull my horoscope free and found the site (HQ’d in Europe, I believe) didn’t think Fort Knox, KY existed!
I guess I’ll have to stick with the newspaper.
I tried to pull my horoscope free
Pogonip, do they still make those little horoscope books that you could by at the drugstore counter? Some of them were little books and some were scrolls. I used to put them in Christmas Stockings but I haven’t found them for years.
“It’s important that I situate myself within my positionality.”
Where does an ass position himself? Other than by sitting?
Mostly likely on a porcelain throne doing important work bound up in emotional labor…
Steve, I can’t remember the last time I saw those cute little books and scrolls!
Verhoeven could have done his attack on fascism without a**-raping Heinlein’s book. What he did is unforgivable.
Verhoeven could have done his attack on fascism without a**-raping Heinlein’s book. What he did is unforgivable.
Ah yes.
Dune, by Frank Herbert.
vs
David Lynch’s Flying Worms In SPAAAAAAAAAAAACE!!!!!!!!!! by Dino De Laurentiis.
Coincidentally, the Starship Troopers movie is on TV here in Australia this very night. And the Australian multicultural channel has been doing a season of “so bad they are facinating” movies over the last few weeks. Tonight it’s Masters of the Universe, and a couple of weeks ago it was Battlefield Earth.
Why are science fiction movies over represented in the population of the monumentally bad? Indeed are there any truly great science fiction movies? Only the Ridley Scott Harrison Ford Blade Runner comes to mind, but I may be narrow in my view.
Verhoeven’s script was written before he bought the rights to use the title “Starship Troopers”. He absolutely detested Heinlein so delighted in his abortion of a movie.
Why are science fiction movies over represented in the population of the monumentally bad?
I think partly because anything approaching special effects was so primitive. It’s hard to suspend disbelief when you spot the zipper running down the monster’s back.
There are some effective and good sci-fi films – from serious to comedy
My faves include (short list):
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Forbidden Planet
20 Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Planet of the Apes (original)
Empire Strikes Back
ET
Andromeda Strain (original)
War of the Worlds (1953)
Arrival
Back to the Future
Why are science fiction movies over represented in the population of the monumentally bad?
They aren’t—Or at least my impression is more a matter of visibility. Consider, by contrast, just how many movies have been cranked out over the decades, and not everything is Lawrence Of Arabia . . . .
Indeed are there any truly great science fiction movies?
Going for what I’ve noted as an SF noir trilogy, Alien, Outland, and yes, Blade Runner.
And certainly adding in Aliens and Alien 3
—Oh, yes, I know of immense moaning and wringing of hands over the latter, simply because it’s not its predecessors. Well, of course it’s not.
Alien is Ten Little Indians in a haunted house.
Aliens is a classic war movie.
Alien 3 is about death, and being an adult—as in You are going to die . . . . now are you going to die standing up, or will you die on your knees?
And continuing . . . The Terminator. I’ll throw in Star Wars just from the impact of reminding that it’s ok to have have a little dirt and dust in front of the camera . . . .
Indeed are there any truly great science fiction movies? Only the Ridley Scott Harrison Ford Blade Runner comes to mind, but I may be narrow in my view.
If you are talking “awesome”, there is also 2001: A Space Odyssey and Alien. For merely “really good” you could add Aliens, Metropolis, Terminator, Total Recall, Ex Machina and many others. I’d include Solaris but David would cut off my drinks as he did last time.
. . . I’d include Solaris . . .
. . . . . . . Um . . . Sol . . . Solaris . . . Ah, Yes!, Solaris!!!
Here you are.
As David keep stating when he shows a movie, Yes, I know, I’m spoiling you, It’s a luminescent work. Powerful and magnetic.
If nothing else, the next time that David does a performance art piece, you now have something to reply with . . . !
Oh.
—Was just staring at the shelves.
Rollerball.
Another thought, and hopefully back to configuring someone’s Python obscurity.
Echoing on 2001and 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea and all of the original Apes movies.
All of the Mad Maxes.
Going over to TV, The Prisoner.
Be seeing you.
I’d include Solaris but David would cut off my drinks as he did last time.
[ From the kitchen, muttered epithets can be heard. ]
Here you are.
As I said a while ago,
[ Heads back to kitchen. Door slams. ]
Suggested edit: The more recent Soderbergh version is better, in that things actually happen, and is in some respects closer to the novel and it has Natascha McElhone sans kit, so woo-hoo!
I like the music too…
I like the music too…
Yes, the score, by Cliff Martinez, is agreeable, in a minimalist sort of way. I like the scene – I think it’s Kelvin’s first sleep on the station – where we see Solaris doing something as Kelvin dreams – lots of luminous connections being made, not unlike neurons.
Meanwhile…
Facial recognition software is better at determining the actual sex of people than SJWs, nevertheless, it is, of course, transphobic.
In entertainment news, the outrage du jour, we find that The Duke was not Woke™. To compound this nitwit’s agony, The Duke also took a shot at socialism.
A 1971 interview, we are getting into some serious outrage mining.
In entertainment news, the outrage du jour, we find that The Duke was not Woke™.
Or, “Man born in 1907, and who died 40 years ago, held views no longer considered fashionable or polite.”
The left believes in science, though they seem to be struggling with biology.
though they seem to be struggling with biology.
The word woman is doing some heavy lifting there.
Also biologically, and female, and her.
though they seem to be struggling with biology.
It occurs to me that if trans activists were to settle for the categories of trans man and trans woman – rather than the more contentious demand that we ignore biology, logic and the evidence of our own eyes – their presumed goal, of accommodating people with gender dysphoria, might more easily be achieved.
David Lynch’s Flying Worms In SPAAAAAAAAAAAACE!!!!!!!!!! by Dino De Laurentiis.
First of all, had I never seen Dune that description would have sold me, despite your mocking intention.
Second of all, Dune is great.
cis women are so threatened by trans women
I’m not “threatened” by flat-earthers or Holocaust deniers or anti-vaxxers. My pushback against anti-science nonsense and the cult bullying that accompanies it is called “integrity”.
OT but here you go…
https://museumofnonvisibleart.com
Now don’t say I never gave you anything.
I’m not “threatened” by flat-earthers or Holocaust deniers or anti-vaxxers.
Ah, but any demurral, whatever its particulars, must be framed as driven by fear. Activists do like to flatter themselves.
As I’ve said before, I’m generally willing to go with the categories of ‘trans man’ and ‘trans woman’ as things that exist in the world. Contrary to rumour, I’m an easy-going guy and don’t wish to be gratuitously mean to people with gender dysphoria.
But there’s something disagreeably surreal about being confronted with what is often an obvious mismatch, a category error, and being expected, not just to be civil, but to declare – and pretend to oneself – that the mismatch isn’t there. I realise that gender dysphoria entails quite a bit of psychological dissonance. But foisting that dissonance on others – to the extent that even politely acknowledging any distinction between the categories of ‘woman’ and ‘trans woman’ is seized on as proof of wickedness – will inevitably result in resistance.
Demanding that people lie, and lie to themselves – demanding that they see five lights, as it were – isn’t a great way to make friends.
…their presumed goal, of accommodating people with gender dysphoria …
‘Presumed’. There’s your mistake. There is no goal whose accomplishment would ever satisfy these people. They are craven attention-whores and piss-takers.
…what is often an obvious mismatch…
You have to wonder what’s going on in “xir’s?” head–aside from the gender dysphoria. “I’ve found a home?” “I’ll dominate these lesser beings?” “Wow, this is a really competitive game?”
It would be like adults playing a competitive game against small children. How can that possibly be satisfying for anyone?
It would be like adults playing a competitive game against small children.
In the case of the transgender powerlifter mentioned recently, I think it was more akin to being a forgettable also-ran in the men’s competition then becoming state champion in the women’s.
It seems to me we already have the Special Olympics and said olympics have a myriad of different competitive categories. There shouldn’t be a problem adding a couple more.
““Military” does not necessarily mean “ efficient.” They do try hard, though, and sometimes they really are efficient.”
Compared to what I’ve seen in the real world, I mean.
Certainly, when it comes to the military’s primary job of making things go boom with the consequent results, they’re really, really good at it.*
* In the U.S. In other countries, YMMV.
Well, not necessarily. The U. S. hasn’t won a war since 1945–which, I guess, explains our politicians’s eagerness to send our troops everywhere. They figure we need more practice. 🙄
Here’s one for David’s Nutty-Colleges file:
http://thefederalist.com/2019/02/20/12-craziest-college-classes-america-subsidized-tax-dollars/
They all sound a lot easier than Principles of Accounting!
The U. S. hasn’t won a war since 1945…
Shut up! It was a tie!
…we already have the Special Olympics…
Then I could identify as trans-cognitively-delayed, and brag to all my woke friends about my collection of gold medals. I’m a winner! Yes sirree!
What happened to my URL? Let’s try this again:
Shut up! It was a tie!
The U. S. hasn’t won a war since 1945…
We also haven’t fought a war since then, either. Reviewing the authorization to use military force exhibitions we come out with a mixed record:
Korea: Intent = stop Korea from being commie. Result = Half of Korea is commie. Draw.
Cuba: Intent = stop Cuba from being commie. Result = Cuba is commie. Loss.
Vietnam: Intent = stop Vietnam from being commie. Result = Vietnam is commie. Loss.
Dominican Republic: Intent = stop DR from being commie. Result = DR is not commie. Win.
Lebanon: Intent = kill Lebanese for revenge. Result = Many Lebanese killed. Win.
Grenada: Intent = stop Grenada from being commie. Result = Grenada is not commie. Win.
Panama: Intent = foreign drug bust. Result = Drug kingpin gone, drugs still available. Draw.
Gulf War 1: Intent = wreck Saddam’s shit in Kuwait. Result = Kuwait not part of Iraq. Win.
Somalia: Intent = fix Somalia’s shit. Result = Somalia is still shit. Loss.
Haiti: Intent = restore Haitian pres to power. Result = Pres is in power. Win.
Bosnia: Intent = stop genocide. Result = Genocide. Loss.
Kosovo: Intent = stop genocide. Result = Genocide. Loss.
Afghanistan: Intent = wreck Taliban’s shit, kill Bin Laden. Result = Taliban wrecked, replaced. OBL eventually dies from autoerotic asphyxiation in cave. Loss.
Iraq: Intent = kill Saddam and break his toys. Result = everything broken. Win.
Iraq II: Intent = build a democratic nation in the middle east that serves as a bulwark against the regional muslim theocracies, notably Iran, while establishing a stable trading partner per western oil interests. Result = Gonna call this one an “L”.
So all told a 6-7-2 record, which for all the money spent on transfer fees, free agency, and facilities is a disappointment. Perhaps a few more friendlies and some infusion of transgender talent and the US will be ready to declare a war for real and finally score some hardware to accompany the “Back-To-Back World War Champs” trophy that’s collecting dust.
. . . . and the US will be ready to declare a war for real and finally score some hardware to accompany the “Back-To-Back World War Champs” trophy that’s collecting dust.
Of course there’s the proverbial Be careful what you wish for . . . .
After Valentine’s Day, it’s clear the Pentagon is in love with great power competition
The Marines are looking for new missiles to blast holes in enemy ships ‘as fast as possible’
The Marines are training to fight big wars again
@Sam
Vietnam: Intent = stop Vietnam from being commie. Result = Vietnam is commie. Loss.
Vietnam sort of commie, but now also very capitalist and also now a Pacific partner with whom we have trade and mil-mil exchanges and training. Slowest win in history.
Bosnia: Intent = stop genocide. Result = Genocide. Loss.
Nope, Sava crossed, M1 tank barrels stuck in Bosnian faces, genocide stopped. Win.
Kosovo: Intent = stop genocide. Result = Genocide. Loss.
Ditto above but with Kosovars. Win.
OIF and OEF-A – wins thrown away by politicians.
OEF-P: Assist AFP in containing Moslem terrorists* in the Philippines – successful. Win.
The biggest problem is not military, but with feckless politicians who won’t let the military fight as it should.
*Includes the most unfortunately named group, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, or MILF)
@Steve
It would be like adults playing a competitive game against small children. How can that possibly be satisfying for anyone?
It’s like an eight-year-old playing a competitive game against five-year-olds. Eight-year-olds really like that. Winning becomes easy, and it comes with the thrill of utterly dominating your opponent. Eight-year-olds have no problem ignoring their unfair advantage. Thing is, adults usually don’t play along with that.
Eight-year-olds have no problem ignoring their unfair advantage. Thing is, adults usually don’t play along with that.
You also have to wonder how the female competitors feel. Presumably, there’s some social pressure to pretend everything is fine, even when, as in the powerlifting and basketball examples, their physical disadvantage is quite pronounced.
Today (OK, it was yesterday) in other competition news, The Guardian goes off the rails again.
Whether BAME students actually learn anything is irrelevant as long as there are enough of them and they are pushed through a diploma mill with undeserved grades, I guess.
However, in other diversity competition news, congrats to the West Yorkshire 5-0 Diversity Champs 2019 !
Presumably, there’s some social pressure to pretend everything is fine,
Even professional athletes aren’t immune from the Transcult mob. How can relatively unknown women, who have spent their lives training, make a stand and risk being barred from their sport altogether?
What’s a BAME student?
What’s a BAME student?
“Black, Asian, and minority ethnic.”
Re: Adults vs. Children: https://youtu.be/HKv6o7YqHnE?t=23s
Another level-headed feminist.
I think John Scalzi’s fans are 100% woke and he is trying to put off the day rhey notice he’s white. I also think it won’t help much when that day comes. Too bad. His blog is enjoyable.
Do the ESP powers come before or after you get the blue checkmark?
It’s amazing how the blue-few are able to divine what people really mean. In these days of declining and questionable literacy among the general population, I’m amazed to discover just how nuanced people are in their communications. So much so that it takes a BlueCheck to interpret.
I think John Scalzi’s fans are 100% woke…
Did I miss a Scalzi reference in one of the links?
Indeed are there any truly great science fiction movies?
Not yet. There is some fairly decent writing these days in various series, at least, generally when writers seem to realize that it’s well past time to 1) cease missing expectations by constantly trying to surpass them and 2) just stop making militarism and horror in a vacuum.
I may have repeated myself there. Anyway, hope springs eternal. The genre deserves far better than what it’s been saddled with for 50 years.
just stop making militarism and horror in a vacuum
Sorry pal, but people like the pew-pew, and for good reason. Horror is also common in the genre because sci-fi is already about the strange and unknown and the most common reaction to those things is fear.
As someone who was tired of comic book movies after X-Men 2 I understand your frustration, but if the market has poor taste then tough titties.
I think Reitman’s Ghostbusters is going to do GIGANTIC numbers, in no small part because of the inevitable official and unofficial shit-flinging by the blue checkmarks. Fans of the original (here meaning people that have seen Ghostbusters more than 3 times in their lifetime) represent a huge amount of people, and something like 99% of them will go see this. Compared to the 2016 Fembusters – that did everything it could to alienate said fans – only the blue-hair contingent will boycott this one, which will push those on the fence TO the theater.
Given that Ballbusters 2016 grossed $128MM in the US, I’ll say Rebootbusters hits $275MM domestic. That’s (non-inflation adjusted) top 100 movies territory. Anyone want to take that bet?
Pst314, it’s David’s “another level-headed feminist” link.
I thought a remake of “Ghostbusters” was silly. Why not make a movie about the daughters of the original Ghostbusters instead?
Behold, I give you the you the biologically female penis.
a biologically female penis
Words. They used to have meanings.
Words. They used to have meanings.
From an author I’m sure you’ll find familiar, my frabjous friend:
That last statement is as close to a holy creed as you’ll find on the Left.
If a woman has a penis, her penis is a biologically female penis.
Next time on Woke Statement or Wesley Willis Lyric!?
Words. They used to have meanings.
Literally.
The Marines are training to fight big wars again.
Duh. The US Army gained a lot of combat experience in VN, but it wasn’t the type that helps you win against a peer opponent. It took over a decade to re-learn how to fight against a peer force. We were pointed to the story of Task Force Smith as a what not to do.
I’ve been out of the service over 20 years now, but I imagine that we’ve learned a lot about small unit operations against an enemy who has no air support, signal intercept, or access to indirect fires. That won’t help a lot against, say, China.
Sorry pal, but people like the pew-pew, and for good reason…I understand your frustration, but if the market has poor taste then tough titties.
Other than “for good reason” I guess that’s an observation.
tough titties.
Band name.
Not so incidentally, I just loved your take on original Solaris, David, and the excerpt from it of the Japanese highway really made the point.
Too many scifi films went that direction – that droning, obtuse, naval-inspecting tripe that has reviewers blathering about human conditions and reflections and reconsidering and all that crap that has nothing to do with what makes great scifi. Even 2001 succumbed to too much of it – as much arthouse fodder as it was notably original. That novelty can’t last.
Some of the better writing in the field could be turning up in the oddest places. The Lost in Space reboot is marvelous for its restraint, modest goals, exceptionally developed science, high production values, and authentic human portrayals without pretense. Apparently someone remembered what Allen modeled the original after, even without all its running around between life-threatening catastrophes.
The Expanse is rushed, hamfisted, and overly dramatic at times, but when it gets rolling it really gets rolling. Some of the most interesting hard science in a series.
It could be Netflix turns out to be the astute bunch in the mix, and if Amazon actually does Ringworld and doesn’t wreck it, good on them. Known Space not being on film yet is a shame – it’d counter-balance all the portentous thought pieces, like the variable PK Dick treatments…
On the whole Ghostbusters hullabaloo, I find it truly annoying that the initial ploy worked so well, and continues to pay dividends. As I remember things, the producers only started pushing the sexism angle after they figured out that they had a bomb on their hands. It was a calculated, cynical ploy to stoke the SJW fires in an attempt to drum up free publicity, to guilt people into buying tickets to prove that they weren’t the “wrong” kind of fans, and to provide a built-in excuse for the poor box office numbers that they knew they were going to see.
It worked, and it continues to work, and if I had any hair I’d be pulling it out in frustration (and a fair bit of envy, since these schemes never seem to pay off for anybody I find sympathetic). My one consolation is that they managed to lose a lot of money, as no amount of hysterics could motivate most people to cough up a pile of dough for the privilege of watching such a train wreck.
Pst314, it’s David’s “another level-headed feminist” link.
Thanks.
I think John Scalzi’s fans are 100% woke and he is trying to put off the day rhey notice he’s white.
Could be. I vaguely recall that when he first started blogging he was so Politically Correct, but quickly shifted far left in response to fan pressure. If true, that’s pretty shamefully spineless. But regardless, I don’t read him because I do not crave being lectured about “white privilege” by a gasbag who swallowed a Newspeak dictionary.
The Lost in Space reboot is marvelous for its restraint, modest goals, exceptionally developed science, high production values, and authentic human portrayals without pretense.
I’m not sure what version you’re talking about, but around here we watched the Netflix reboot with fascination, then horror, then unrelenting mockery. So far the working theory is that the Resolute is actually the B Ark.
No, wait, I’m sorry, I have to call this out:
exceptionally developed science
Protip: if you’re stranded outside in temperatures so cold they can flash-freeze saltwater, put on a hat.
I’ll say Rebootbusters hits $275MM domestic. That’s (non-inflation adjusted) top 100 movies territory.
Hmmm. Of what I see online, that seems to be Ghostbusters 3, as opposed to, say, older ghostbusters, and thus its own movie.
Adjusting for inflation, ’cause time did happen . . .
One, budget of $72m, box office of $714m
Two, budget of $89m, box office of $520m
Three . . . As Three I don’t see more than ~$370m, aka about $180m for the original returns . . . And even if it manages to be its own movie, it’s still not The First Time, so even then I’d say prolly more just $405m for 2019 . . . .
I think John Scalzi’s fans are 100% woke and he is trying to put off the day rhey notice he’s white.
Could be. I vaguely recall that when he first started blogging he was so Politically Correct, but quickly shifted far left in response to fan pressure.
As I recall Scalzi was an Instapundit find, and greatly fawned over.
As I recall Scalzi was an Instapundit find,
Now that you mention it, yes, I recall that now.
and greatly fawned over.
My recollection isn’t that good. 🙂 Are all those old Instapundit posts still accessible?
The Lost in Space reboot is marvelous for its restraint, modest goals…
I’m not sure what version you’re talking about, but around here we watched the Netflix reboot with fascination, then horror, then unrelenting mockery. So far the working theory is that the Resolute is actually the B Ark.
You missed the restraint and modest goals. Probably the context too.
What it isn’t is the truly endless barrage of scifi embarrassments. What it has are at least a few references to physics of a depth I don’t recall from filmed scifi, which considering that it’s also not the usual mindless spectacle – Kirk on motocross to save the day, banking through endless visible stars at multiples of lightspeed, or universe-killing rocks and God characters – is a feature. Sorry, that last is part of the fantasy universe and not strictly scifi.
To those scientific high points LOS ’18 added natural character development, good acting and story-telling, and believable predicaments. The point being that for throwaway scifi, someone cared to write like it wasn’t, the reverse of $12 big screen scifi.
But mockery it’ll be. Ourscifi is serious to the point of spectacle.
Oops: intended to write “…he was NOT so Politically Correct…”
Hal
Boxofficemojo, as far 30 seconds of perusal can tell, reports non-inflation adjusted numbers, and I’m not using a damned calculator for an internet bet. They also report domestic vs international, which I did not see you differentiate. I don’t know what you mean by “it’s own movie”. Yes, it will be a movie. With actors and everything. The main thrust of the bet was that the 2019 movie would gross roughly double US what the 2016 version did.
I’ll put you down for the “over”.