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William Bibbiani

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Film critic. Host of @CriticAcclaim . Soap at @SaltCatSoap . Partner of @_MLopesDaSilva . Greysexual. He/him. Formerly verified.

Los Angeles, California

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To the fans of everything everywhere... You’re not nostalgic for the time before art was political. Art has ALWAYS been political. You’re nostalgic for the time before *you* were political. So move forward, not backward! Embrace complex and challenging art! It’s fun!

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No it fucking does not.

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Disney's THE LION KING (1994) returned to theaters but lifted up just $1M in 1,330 venues, $809 per. Sadly, this means audiences prefer the newer version.

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When Glen Powell tried to explain how the stock exchange works... to Bane.

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what's one important moment in glen powell cinematic history

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So nobody paid attention to the prequel trilogy, in which George Lucas painted the Jedi as hopelessly out of touch, living on pedestals in an ivory tower, who do literally nothing about systemic evils like slavery, and get easily manipulated into becoming weapons of fascism?

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If you hate anachronistic music in period pieces, you are absolutely going to hate the original GLADIATOR, since orchestral music wasn’t invented until over a thousand years after that movie takes place.

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"No Church in the Wild doesn't belong in a movie about gladi-"

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HAHAHAHAHA they're buying up everything and throttling the art form in front of our eyes and people are celebrating in the streets because Wolverine can finally fight a raccoon or whatever and this all sucks every single part of it.

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I never, in my wildest dreams, thought I would have to explain the @nbcsnl "Cowbell" sketch to another human being, but okay, here we go.... First: Yes, there's a joke, and no, it's not watching other people pretend they get it. They actually get it. You're the one who's lost.

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Today there's a Disney LGBTQIA+ walkout. Can we spread the word about that instead of giving them free advertising with trailer reactions? Because you KNOW they've banking on positive coverage of their hit franchise overshadowing negative coverage of their corporate practices.

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RT if you love CLUE! (I've got a film critic friend who thinks it doesn't qualify as a comedy classic, and I'm trying to prove my point.)

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The best part of the new #LittleMermaid is the scene right at the beginning where the filmmakers apparently forgot that Scuttle isn't a fish, so they just show a bird talking and breathing underwater for several minutes.

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I’m increasingly of the opinion that it might be the best Star Wars in general.

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Do you think that ANDOR is the best live-action star wars show?

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@ZoeRoseBryant I interviewed the director of this and I tried to explain why I saw it as a terrifying horror movie and that was an awkward conversation.

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I’m telling you for the last time: THE MUPPETS.

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Who should host the #Oscars in 2020?

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Rose's sister Paige, who died in the first scene of THE LAST JEDI, had more screen time than Rose does in THE RISE OF SKYWALKER.

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#RoseTico played by the iconic Kelly Marie Tran only has 1min 16 sec of screen time, out the 2h 22m runtime of #StarWars : #TheRiseOfSkywalker . Source: @Slate

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The older I get, the more I realize that this is the best Indiana Jones movie.

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I just remembered that in 2011 there was a sci-fi film starring Justin Timberlake about a future where time has replaced money as currency, so rich people lived forever, and in one scene Timberlake stole millions of years from a time bank and said, "Now THAT's some quality time!"

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If you removed all the sequels, remakes and reboots, these would be the highest grossing films of 2019 in the U.S. (as of today): 1. Us 2. Once Upon a Time... 3. Hustlers 4. Rocketman 5. Ford v Ferrari 6. Alita 7. Good Boys 8. Yesterday 9. Scary Stories to Tell... 10. Knives Out

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So I assume all the folks who rallied to get a director’s vision released by the studio that scrapped it will immediately throw all their weight behind BATGIRL now, right?

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There's no filmmaker in history with better taste in sunglasses than Tony Scott.

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Laughter doesn't stem from nonsense. Laughter stems from discovery, the sudden realization of a truth or a lie: the things we take for granted getting explored in unexpected ways, the assumptions we make getting questioned and recontextualized. Humor is sanity, not insanity.

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The joke of the SNL "Cowbell" sketch is that there is a song, which everyone knows, that has an unusual element right in plain sight (so to speak) that nobody really thought about before. This is what's called "observational comedy."

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The sketch takes this observation and works backwards, suggesting at some point there was no cowbell in the song, and then someone had the idea to put it in there, and they had to convince the band it was a good idea. It's an absurd conversation to have! That's absurdist humor.

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Best villain of 2024 so far?

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NEW RULE: Anytime someone admits they haven't seen an important/famous/cult/classic movie, instead of shaming them or demanding they see it immediately, you have to reveal one significant film you haven't seen either.

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2 years

Lots of respect to Tatiana Maslany for prominently wearing a “Support Trans Futures” shirt in a Disney ad.

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SMASH THAT 💚 BUTTON 👊 Like this tweet to receive updates when new episodes of Marvel Studios' #SheHulk : Attorney at Law, an Original series, start streaming on @DisneyPlus .

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Dear @TheAcademy , You can give away the Best Editing, Production Design, Sound, and Makeup/Hairstyling #Oscars off-camera. But only if you do the whole show in one static shot. Of an empty stage. Without sound. And none of the presenters can wear makeup or do their hair.

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Bruce, played by Christopher Walken, only wants MORE of the thing that's obviously "wrong" with the song. And we know he ultimately wins because in reality, there IS a cowbell in this hit song. Observational humor and total absurdism are intertwining. It's a great joke.

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The first layer of the gag in the "Cowbell" sketch is: there's a massively popular, iconic song that's considered totally dark and meaningful, but one of the instruments Blue Öyster Cult used to make it was a cowbell. An inherently silly instrument. Nobody looks cool playing it.

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SHE-HULK revealed itself to be a story about a woman struggling to tell her own story, her own way, in a culture, a workplace, a franchise and a genre that kept trying to dictate her path for her. The ending rather brilliantly brought that to a satisfying conclusion.

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@WilliamBibbiani Thoughts on the She Hulk finale?

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The real joke here is that humor warrants sophisticated analysis and yet many people are eager to write it off as ineffable nonsense. Or worse, as "gaslighting," which makes no sense in this context. You're not making the audience doubt their sanity. You're making them laugh.

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I’m so glad JURASSIC WORLD 2 is doing something new, like sending snarky people back to save dinosaurs from a greedy corporation that brings the dinosaurs back to the U.S. where a giant carnivore escapes and attacks a suburb at night and OH WAIT THAT’S THE LOST WORLD NEVER MIND.

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If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a hundred times. The key to starting a modern Universal Monsters universe was to make just one MUMMY movie, and then make Rick and Evie fight Dracula, then Frankenstein, etc. Have them meet a sexy young Van Helsing. THEN give him a spin-off.

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Given the massive success of THE MUMMY from the same director, Universal had expected VAN HELSING to be a surefire hit. They planned a sequel bringing in more monsters, theme park attractions, and a TV series TRANSYLVANIA to launch in the fall after the movie's release.

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Remember when Robert Rodriguez was going to direct MASK OF ZORRO? (He even cast Antonio Banderas!) Zorro's budget was $35m. Rodriguez wanted $45m. The studio said no. He asked for $42m. The studio said $41m was their max. So they hired Martin Campbell. Final budget? $95m

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Whatever you do, even if you pretend you get the joke, DON'T make the assumption that everyone who actually DOES get the joke is an idiot. And definitely don't declare it in public. There's an exceptional possibility that you will discover that the real joke is on you.

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RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (1981) Budget: $20 million Box Office: $389.9 million Adjusted for inflation, that's the modern equivalent of... Budget: $66.9 million Box Office: $1.3 billion (with a "b") STOP MAKING MOVIES THAT COST TOO DAMN MUCH.

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@WilliamBibbiani This opening would be okay…. IF THE MOVIE DIDN’T COST $295 MILLION TO PRODUCE!!!

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The next layer of the gag is that the cowbell wasn't the band's idea. It was a studio note from a producer who's ultra successful but doesn't seem to understand music. The well-intentioned band, which just wants to produce a good song, tries to say no but they can't argue.

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The band knows that the cowbell is really loud and distracting, so they try to subtly hint that something is awry, but the producer is on a totally different wavelength. That conflict, where an unstoppable force (logic) meets an immovable object (absurdity) generates humor.

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And yet, as ridiculous as this is, it also makes a kind of (laughable) sense. Again, the sketch plays off the very real observation that there is, indeed, a cowbell in Don't Fear the Reaper. It had to get in there SOMEHOW. There IS a story to be told there. And maybe this is it.

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Will Ferrell, the cowbell player, earns the freedom to take over the stage and become totally obnoxious, embarrassing and annoying the band. The creation of a legendary song now looks like nonsense. The irony is undeniably amusing.

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A new... live-action... adaptation of AVATAR: THE LAST AIRBENDER... on Netflix... from the original creators of the show. ... WHAT THE HELL IS HAPPENING AND WHO WILL PLAY THE CABBAGE VENDOR?!

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The perspective shifts from total sympathy with the band in an annoying situation to genuine sympathy for their seeming oppressor, whose life is another kind of cosmic joke. He's a cowbell expert in a world where cowbells are considered "inherently silly." That's tragic comedy.

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There's a reason critics rarely delve deeply into joke construction. It transforms a gag that seems completely natural into an unwieldy form of verbal algebra, as we break down all the little contrasts, tensions and twists that underly the various genres of comedy.

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The "Cowbell" sketch works because it's an organic ecosystem of humor, naturally self-sustaining on multiple levels, all informing and bolstering each other. It's not a delivery system for a contrived single gag (which makes up a lot of sketch comedy... even the good stuff).

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Their lives have become a tragic example of dark, almost fatalistic humor. This is Blue Öyster Cult's version of hell. And then the gag evolves AGAIN. The cowbell player confesses he's only trying to make the most of this rare, rare opportunity to play cowbell in a rock song.

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Ah yes, because the one thing we know for certain about being a Jedi is that size matters. That must be why, in THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK, Yoda famously says, "Judge me by my size, do you? Well you SHOULD! Because the Force only works if you're FUCKING RIPPED."

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@PodcastTENP This tweet was literally the first time I heard about it.

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In other words, the old saw is true: If you have to explain it, it isn't funny. Again, laughter stems from the audience's sense of personal discovery, not from watching a joke get reduced to its base conceptual and thematic components.

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The comic tension finally breaks when the cowbell player, feeling unappreciated, defiantly starts playing out of synch with the band. He's the bane of their existence and they can do nothing about it. Fate, it seems, is testing Blue Öyster Cult.

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Disney is literally claiming that if you signed up for Disney Plus - even just a free trial - you have waived your right to EVER sue them for ANYTHING. Even WRONGFUL DEATH.

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Disney is arguing that the arbitration clause of the TOS the decedent agreed to when signing up for a Disney+ free trial covers a wrongful death claim relating to food served at a Disney restaurant… Good luck with that.

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The scene keeps building in tension as logic repeatedly comes into conflict with the illogical, but finds itself utterly incapable of being heard. We know an outburst is coming, but we don't know how far the band can be pushed.

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I'm looking forward to the Oscars being over so people can stop posting clips of JOJO RABBIT completely out of context and in extremely bad faith. It's a structured feature film that uses humor confrontationally, with satirical purpose. It's not just wacky scenes in a vaccuum.

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THIS IS WHY WE CAN'T HAVE NICE THINGS.

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#Bumblebee had the smallest debut of any #Transformers installment with $20.9 million

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@heroesahead Because things get better and worse all the time. The Jedi were peacekeepers for thousands of generations. The High Republic era alone was about 400 years. Do you honestly think there would be no fluctuations in all that time, as different Jedi rose to positions of influence?

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I think the lesson we learned here today is that if you don't get a joke, it's okay to say you don't get it. The people who are laughing can probably explain it to you. And then you'll be able to understand similar jokes in the future and get them all on your own.

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Someone gets murdered during the opening song at the Oscars. Benoit Blanc spends the whole ceremony interrogating guests to solve the crime. The story evolves depending on who wins each award. It’s the biggest all-star murder mystery ever. THAT is how you fix the Oscars.

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#DoctorSleep is one of my favorite films of the year. It’s not just a great horror film about substance abuse and trauma, it’s having a complex conversation about why Kubrick’s and King’s different interpretations of THE SHINING are equally valid and can absolutely coexist.

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It. Is. Not. A. Critic’s. Job. To. Affect. Or. Reflect. The. Box. Office. It’s our job to improve/contribute to the conversation about cinema, to raise reasonable criticisms about the art form/industry, and to increase awareness of underappreciated/overlooked films.

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Bohemian Rhapsody’s runaway success confirms it – 2018 is the year of the critic-proof movie

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Today marks the 25th anniversary of THE SIXTH SENSE. Today also marks the 25th anniversary of THE IRON GIANT. Today also marks the 25th anniversary of MYSTERY MEN. Today also marks the 25th anniversary of THE THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR. Now THAT was a great week for movies.

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It’s anti-Nazi.

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At the risk of reading a bunch of tweets that get me riled up, can anyone explain to me what it is about #IndianaJonesAndTheDialOfDestiny that people are seeing as “woke”?

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I finally saw WONDER WOMAN 1984 and wow, is that a poorly developed screenplay.

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“What are studios supposed to do, make all their shows and movies available forever?” Yes. That would be ideal. Thank you.

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I just saw #Valerian . It is one of the most spectacularly gorgeous movies I have ever seen. Cara Delevingne steals the whole film.

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Dear Disney Plus, Why is ANYTHING leaving your service? Don’t you own them all? Wasn’t that literally the whole point of subscribing, to have access to ALL your films and shows? To open the vaults once and for all? What. The. Heck, Disney? Sincerely, Me

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⁦ @WilliamBibbiani ⁩ your fears were realized! Unknown to everyone ⁦ @disneyplus ⁩ has removed and vaulted content they own including Home Alone 1 & 2 as well as a Pirates movie!

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I would kill for just a few years where we all agreed to actually move on with our lives and not dip into the same old wells. Just as a treat. Just to try it.

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Now that #MichaelKeaton is keen to wear the cape and cowl again, would you rally for a big-screen #BATMAN return directed by #TimBurton with music by #DannyElfman ?

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Ashton Kutcher seems pretty excited about the prospect of putting countless people out of work by stealing and devaluing their art, but the part I can’t get over is how impressed he is that someone spent a billion dollars to invent an inferior version of stock footage.

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Ashton Kutcher has access to a beta version of OpenAI's Sora and says it will lead to personalized movies and a higher standard of content through increased competition

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Here's a joke: Why did the chicken cross the street? To get to the other side! Now, let's analyze that. I promise, it won't be funny.

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READY PLAYER ONE: “The soul of an artist lives on in their work, so we have a moral and ethical responsibility to protect their creations from being exploited by people who won’t stay true to the author’s original intent.” Also READY PLAYER ONE:

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This is your daily reminder that THE DAY OF THE DOLPHIN has the best tag line in movie history.

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That's an accurate representation of why the joke is a timeless classic. It's not particularly hilarious but it teaches people how humor works. Expectations are established, often by the audience themselves, only to be dashed by an unexpected application of off-kilter logic.

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ADDENDUM: Quite a few people have replied that, in my example of "Why did the chicken cross the street?", there's an alternate interpretation of the punchline "to get to the other side," in which "the other side" refers to the afterlife. Good observation! Let's talk about that!

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Hans Zimmer just won an Oscar for Best Score, for DUNE. It's only his second Academy Award win. The last time was nearly 30 years ago, for THE LION KING. Kind of a big deal. No mention on ABC. Classssssy.

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I guess I’ll to be explaining this until the day I die: “Live-action” and “animation” are PRODUCTION PROCESSES, not STYLES. Robert Altman’s POPEYE had an animated “style.” That didn’t make it an actual cartoon. THE LION KING ‘19 has a live-action “style.” It’s still animated.

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I'm the same way with the word "cemetery," and for the record I blame Stephen King for that.

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Rebekah McKendry, PhD

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I have been a professional writer for almost 15 years, and I still cannot spell “restaurant” or “silhouette” without having to look it up.

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In the aforementioned joke I made you think logically about a hypothetical situation, concocting a reason for a chicken to do something mundane. Then I surprised you with the revelation that there's no deeper meaning behind that mundanity. Sometimes life itself has no meaning.

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@WilliamBibbiani

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@WilliamBibbiani

1 year

In this article an Academy voter says "Viola Davis and the lady director need to sit down, shut up, and relax" because "we voted, and we voted for the five we thought were best." Then later in the article they say they didn't see THE WOMAN KING.

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4 anonymous Oscars voters reveal brutally honest secret ballot picks for the Academy Awards

Four 2023 Oscars voters share juicy secret ballot picks for the Academy Awards winners.

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@WilliamBibbiani

William Bibbiani

@WilliamBibbiani

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Okay, it's official, I'm muting this thread. Reasonable people can differ but unreasonable people seriously need to grow up.

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@WilliamBibbiani

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@WilliamBibbiani

4 years

Friendly reminder that the widespread industry pivot to streaming instead of physical media is VERY SPECIFICALLY a way to screw audiences out of their basic, fundamental rights as consumers.

@THR

The Hollywood Reporter

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Amazon argues users don't actually own purchased Prime Video content

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Everybody at Warner Bros. should be ashamed of themselves and everyone who supports or even just shrugs at this practice should be ashamed of themselves. They’re burning art.

@DiscussingFilm

DiscussingFilm

@DiscussingFilm

2 years

‘Final Space’ creator Olan Rogers confirms that the series is becoming a tax write-off for Warner Bros Discovery and will be gone forever from all official channels after Netflix takes the series down internationally. All physical copies of the series have already stopped.

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@WilliamBibbiani

William Bibbiani

@WilliamBibbiani

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After all that build up to stuff like ZSJL and GODZILLA VS. KONG, it was MARE OF EASTTOWN that was so popular that it broke HBO Max? I *love* that.

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@WilliamBibbiani

William Bibbiani

@WilliamBibbiani

4 years

I think the scene in WW84 that completely lost me was the one where Kristen Wiig beats up the man who tried to sexually assault her twice and the music gets all scary ominous like she's suddenly the bad guy now, instead of THE GOD DAMNED HERO IN THAT MOMENT.

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@WilliamBibbiani

William Bibbiani

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I’m technically a millennial. I remember going to Blockbuster on a Friday night. It was understaffed, it was understocked, it was overpriced, it censored movies, and its intentionally predatory business model put all the better stores out of business so it was overcrowded too.

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Scott Barber

@thescottbarber

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Millennials would never understand

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@WilliamBibbiani

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@WilliamBibbiani

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Everyone, seriously, buy DVDs and Blu-rays. Streaming services are not a library. They're not reliable and they don't care about history.

@disquietville

Dan Spottswood

8 years

There are only 72 movies made before 1970 left on Netflix.

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@WilliamBibbiani

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@WilliamBibbiani

5 years

By the way I co-host three podcasts! Check out CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED for new movie reviews, THE TWO-SHOT for strange double features, and CANCELED TOO SOON for reviews of TV shows that only lasted one season or less! @CriticAcclaim @CanceledCast

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@WilliamBibbiani

William Bibbiani

@WilliamBibbiani

2 years

I finally saw RRR. My biggest takeaway is this...

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2 years

To clarify: There are multiple Disney walkouts planned this month to set the stage for a full walkout on March 22nd. Today is one of the smaller walkouts, but it still matters!

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RT if you would go see #SpiderManNoWayHome even if the trailer NEVER came out. No previews, no early clips, just a release date announced and then the day comes and BOOM, it’s in theaters (and possibly streaming). Would you still watch it?

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@WilliamBibbiani

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1 year

It's been estimated that 75% or more of the films from the first quarter of the 20th century are lost. Thanks to streaming, and heartless studios, we're at risk of history repeating itself. Treating film and TV as merely content, not art, is an active attack on art itself.

@FilmUpdates

Film Updates

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‘Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies’ has been canceled at Paramount+ and will reportedly be removed from the streaming service in the coming days.

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William Bibbiani

@WilliamBibbiani

3 years

People who want WB to cancel their upcoming films to preserve the creative vision of one person are proving that they don’t care about creative visions at all. If they did they’d care about preserving EVERYONE’s creative visions, instead of exclusively their favorite director’s.

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William Bibbiani

@WilliamBibbiani

3 years

Holy shit. They really did it. They made *another* great SCREAM movie. Well done, everybody.

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William Bibbiani

@WilliamBibbiani

1 year

And yes, in regards to the first post, I know that some birds can dive underwater. I'm not talking about diving. I'm talking about breathing, which she's clearly seen doing. Unless birds have always been able to breathe saltwater and I missed that memo, it's still distracting.

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@WilliamBibbiani

William Bibbiani

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Rest in peace, Jessica Walter, the multifaceted star of PLAY MISTY FOR ME, ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT, ARCHER, DINOSAURS, the original DOCTOR STRANGE movie, and the sadly forgotten but classic slasher HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS. You had an incredible career and you will be missed.

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@WilliamBibbiani

William Bibbiani

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I really, REALLY liked #JusticeLeague . The plot and villain are generic but the cast is great, their screen time is balanced (something the Avengers movies have had trouble with) and there are more than a few moments that absolutely delighted me.

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@WilliamBibbiani

William Bibbiani

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Anyway, the LITTLE MERMAID remake is the textbook definition of a mixed bag. The cast is excellent but it does that Disney remake thing where they want to add new ideas to the story but also keep all the old scenes everyone loves, even when those elements contradict each other.

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William Bibbiani

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“Thin people hate us so much that this is what it looks like when they’re trying to like us.” That’s one hell of a line. It’s apt, too. Lindy West wrote a great piece about the inherent cruelty of this film that thinks it’s doing its victims a favor.

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The Whale is not a masterpiece – it’s a joyless, harmful fantasy of fat squalor

The Oscar nomination for The Whale must mean it’s great, right? Wrong! It is a shallow and stigmatising reflection of thin people’s assumptions about fat bodies

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So apparently Todd Phillips doesn't understand what a musical is.

@DCFilmNews

DC Film News

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Todd Phillips doesn't want to label 'JOKER 2' a musical. "Most of the music in the movie is really just dialogue. It’s just Arthur not having the words to say what he wants to say, so he sings them instead." (via: )

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The movie is called IN TIME, and while the central conceit would probably have made for a pointed, punchy OUTER LIMITS or BLACK MIRROR episode, as a feature film it quickly turns into an excuse for writer/director Andrew Niccol to whip out a bunch of hilarious time puns.

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William Bibbiani

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The first half of Kevin Costner's HORIZON: AN AMERICAN SAGA is an excellent reminder that hot DAMN, does Costner know how to direct a motion picture. He's an elegant storyteller and a natural visual filmmaker. It's a pleasure to watch him cook.

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William Bibbiani

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WEST SIDE STORY made me believe in life after death. Because Ansel Elgort kills the whole movie every time he’s on screen, and every time he leaves the rest of the cast brings it back to life again.

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William Bibbiani

@WilliamBibbiani

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Hot Take: If any actor deserves an Oscar nomination for AVENGERS: ENDGAME, it’s Karen Gillan.

@ComicBook

ComicBook.com

5 years

Some Marvel fans think Jeremy Renner deserves an Oscar nomination. #AvengersEndgame

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DAMN IT, @NETFLIX , YOU HAVE TO ACTUALLY TELL US THESE THINGS

@HorrorCalendar

The Horror Calendar

@HorrorCalendar

3 months

Would you believe that a brand new Takashi Miike movie quietly premiered on Netflix today? It's titled Lumberjack the Monster. "A self-proclaimed psychopath becomes obsessed with stopping an ax-wielding serial killer."

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