https://twitter.com/BJMendelson/status/1565013162629398528
Russia did everything bad ever
Russia is why you can't get a girlfriend
Russia is why your fries are soggy
Russia is why your poop smells
Russia is why the icecream machine at Mcdonald's is always broken
Russia is why the icecream machine at Mcdonald’s is always broken
thanks Russia for saving my pant size!! :che-laugh:
According to Rolling Stone, the site that sparked the hashtag movement, Forsnydercut. com, temporarily had a digital marketing consultant, Xavier Lannes, listed as its registrant. He was described on the networking platform LinkedIn as the CEO of MyAdGency, a Los Angeles-based digital ad firm.he agency's website is no longer functional, but once offered services including "cheap, instant Avatar traffic to your website," adding, "We use the latest technology concentrated in the palm of your customer’s hands to grow your business beyond your wildest dreams!" When asked about the #ReleaseTheSnyderCut movement's link to a viral ad agency, Snyder himself denied ever contacting Lannes.
Source: Article linked within the one in the tweet.
Weird how a Russian bot farm is based in Los Angeles. How could we possibly have let them do work on our home soil? THIS IS AN ACT OF WAR. WORST THING SINCE PEARL HARBOR:angery:
Why are people so fucking stupid? Bots aren't something that is exclusive to Russia.
The largest social media bot network in 2016 was run by CTR, a pro-Clinton Super-PAC.
Holy shit this is the dumbest and most pathetic logical stretch I've seen since the ones they used to take down Corbyn
I think the snyder cut is bad because capeshit is a neoliberal idea of what culture should be
You say that, but if you actually watched Spider-man you'd realize that Peter Parker is basically Lenin in his fight against the rise of fascism in the form of the green goblin, aka Voldemort. The movie was a great reflection of the rise of the proletariat against the bourgeoisie class and the need to incorporate the many different groups suffering under capitalism: hence the joining of the different Spider-mans from different worlds (as in, every group suffering under capitalism has it's own Lenin). Andrew Garfield Spider-man saving MJ is a reflection of different groups saving one another during the revolution against the tyrannical capitalists. And MJ and Ned? I mean come on, they're obviously an allusion to Marx and Engels. Spider-man choosing to get involved and save the villains when he didn't even have to is a reflection of him rising up against traditionalist narratives and is sending the message of "you have nothing to lose but your chains". It's hardly even subtext anymore, it's just text at this point.
Lol, the snyder cut exists in the format it exists because of Covid and the need to figure out what content they could actually generate during the pandemic.
Also: hot take but I always actually kind of passively liked the idea of releasing the "snyder cut" in whatever format it was before he left production. The movie was never going to be "good", but I really liked the idea of actually seeing a workprint cut with all the greenscreen, sound mixing, scoring, color grading, et al moving magic not in the frame yet. So much of these capeshit movies are built in post production I really think it would be fascinating to see what it looks like before all the digital artists do their magic.
I mean I don't even think the Snyder cut was trying to milk the movie for more revenue - the original flopped and there's no way to prove the movie made money on streaming, so they probably did it for a bigger tax write-off on the movie.
"Revenue" isn't the word I'd use. The better term is probably "market share". During covid the big push was to fight for dominance in the streaming wars, and content was king.
Also: the original wasn't really that huge a flop. It made like 230 million domestically and over 650 million worldwide. Given the production and advertising costs for capeshit these days I recognize that its not really a 'hit' unless you're in the billion dollar club...but EOD the movie probably broke even or came close so I think milking it a bit more to actually generate a tiny 'profit' probably makes more sense than any sort of write-off.
That's a great point, tho honestly I think lots of streaming stuff is definitely used for 'creative accounting' sort of purposes.
Uwe Boll made his career exploiting loopholes in German tax law, and if you can finance a movie/show for next to no interest like you could for the last decade and release it on a platform where the success of the content is measured in views, then you can probably realize a pretty big tax write-off by misrepresenting the profitability of your productions - Netflix only paid a 1% income tax rate in 2021
There's also a lot of dick-waving involved in film performance. Supposedly a movie is only a "hit" if it breaks opening-weekend box office records. Anything beyond that is irrelevant because the producers have already been selected for their next projects.
That's true, and also usually the longer a theatrical run is the greater the percentage goes to the theater. Opening weekend is basically make or break as a result.
Also: hot take but I always actually kind of passively liked the idea of releasing the “snyder cut” in whatever format it was before he left production. The movie was never going to be “good”, but I really liked the idea of actually seeing a workprint cut with all the greenscreen, sound mixing, scoring, color grading, et al moving magic not in the frame yet. So much of these capeshit movies are built in post production I really think it would be fascinating to see what it looks like before all the digital artists do their magic.
Sometimes they include stuff like that on special features for a movie, but usually only for a few scenes.
I can appreciate that we at least have two versions of roughly the same movie from two different directors. Being able to see some of the same scenes put into different contexts was a fun treat. Shame that it's for a shit movie, though.
I mean, it was a shit movie, but it wasn't nearly as shit as what was originally released. And I also kinda feel that there's a good hour and a half movie to be mined from those four hours.
Whenever something mildly inconveniences me: "This must be the work of an enemy state!"
I enjoy using Twitter. I've been using it for almost 15 years now.
jfc log the fuck off and touch grass :picard:
Snyder Cut actually exits because of the need to maintain movie production while filming was difficult due to covid.
Poster's brain filed this away as "Snyder Cut exits because of $current_bad_thing"
The media now ignores covid and so presently $current_bad_thing == "Russian invasion of Ukraine"
Imagine being this willing to show your entire ass to the internet
It looks like the real treats were the Russian hackers we made along the way
Russia hoping to cut off US aid to Ukraine by boring all Americans to death
