Notices by Narwhal (narwhal), page 14
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@cawlliflower I'm fine with Scarlett Johansson as an actresses, but I dislike how her casting is reflective of wider racist tendencies in Hollywood film casting choices
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@cawlliflower I can't make this stuff up http://io9.gizmodo.com/our-first-look-at-scarlett-johansson-as-ghost-in-the-sh-1770937689
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Although in all honesty the original 1995 Ghost in the Shell film still holds up really well, so just watch that. No director has or will handle the franchise as well as Mamoru Oshii did with that film.
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@mrmattimation I've had various degrees of enjoyment with all his films that I've seen and am confident in his filmmaking
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And then come Oscar season when all the nominations are white you'll hear people say it's because non-white actors were underperforming when they're not given big opportunities in the first place
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And also for goodness sake there are so many talented Japanese actresses you could cast in the lead
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@tiffany Now see, were it directed by someone along the lines of Ridley Scott or Christopher Nolan I'd at least have some hope and interest in the project (or if you want a newer director, I could see Alex Garland handling the material well) but as of right now I just can't see Rupert Sanders doing it justice.
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@tiffany Rupert Sanders, who also directed Snow White and the Huntsman (which I ended up finding pretty tedious and drab)
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The news of an upcoming Hollywood live action Ghost in the Shell film just has me wishing Hollywood never, ever manages to make an Evangelion adaptation
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What the frosted flakes did you just frootloop about me you little captain crunch? I’ll have you know I’m a part of a balanced breakfast and have under 300 confirmed calories per a serving. You are nothing to me. Just a generic brand. I will pour milk into my cereal at the perfect consistency for a television commercial, mark my words. You think you can get away with eating candy for breakfast? Think again reese’s puff cereal. As of right now I am going to my local grocery story store and purchasing boxes of cherrios so you better prepare for a cholesterol drop. The cholesterol drop that makes you bee happy and bee healthy. Your chances of having a heart attack have been lowered. You can eat cereal anytime, everyday and can buy over 700 different brands, and that’s just general mills cereal. Not only can I buy general mills cereal, a part of a balanced breakfast, but I also have access to all Kellogg’s brand cereal and will use it to its fu…
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@cawlliflower I certainly think there's a lot flexibility in the ways we can interpret them, they're very contextual in nature after all.
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@cawlliflower Oh yeah, it's a young medium still finding its footing, there's just also the oft received impression on my end that past the initial topicality the precedent to create and share memes is for their own sake. I should clarify that I don't dislike memes, it's like you said in that there's a love/hate relationship with them. I like (as you also said) that they are experimental in form, I'm just apprehensive about tautological jokes (which is to say so many memes quickly or eventually just become their own punchline).
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@cawlliflower Many memes these days tend to be topical, or more so emerge topically in regards to the internet as a wider group of subcultures, but I guess in the case of many memes my issue comes in the manner and speed in which they evaporate as cultural commodities. Their tiredness comes as quickly as their rawness, and the cultural economy of their existence becomes invoking said existence for its own sake. So for as much as their spontaneity enriches communicative cultural spaces, it also limits them.
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@cawlliflower I like the idea of dissecting and reassembling culture through destructive humour and counter-culture (I'm also just intermittently a sucker for "bad" jokes) but I also think the (not sure if pun intended here) mimetic nature and instant expiry dates of memes themselves (specifically internet memes in our current ostensibly post-internet revolution age) kinda turn me off from them. The relationship is complicated.
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Four hundred and twenty set it on fire
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@razzleberry Cool, I'll have to check it out sometime
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pls tag that if you repost it metal
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@redenchilada All hail the plush mound
