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Freddy Noriega
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Geek/Editor. Everybody's Free To Hakuna Matata

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It’s FINALLY here!! Check out the trailer I cut for ABSOLUTE DOMINION (which I also cut!), written and directed by the incomparable Lexi Alexander!!!!...
#AbsoluteDominion
We should all get to live the consequence-free life of a rich asshole...
#JustForAChangeOfPace
February 19, 2026 at 5:55 AM
Colbert interviewing him would be the Frost/Nixon our times deserve...
#ThatIWouldWatch
We know President Trump watches Hannity. Will he take Fox News political strategist Caroline Sunshine's advice and challenge Stephen Colbert to have him on 'The Late Show'? "Based on Colbert's response, we'll find out who's silencing who," she says.
February 19, 2026 at 5:44 AM
I’d rather watch THE ROOM than any AI video, and I fucken’ haaaaate that movie and the ironic love for it...
#StillBetterThanSlop
every shot-on-video, made-with-a-camcorder horror movie that's just some teenage friend group fucking around in the woods with some fake blood and a monster mask contains more artistic merit, human joy and creative light than anything AI has ever made or will ever, ever make
February 19, 2026 at 4:44 AM
Hard disagree. It very clearly has that scene where they give the Simmons character golden lighting and a hero shot while he says ‘the worst thing you can say is good job’ as if it was some huge pearl of wisdom and not a SCIENTIFICALLY proven fallacy. Flick is very much pro-toxicity...
#NotMyTempo
Lately I've seen a few things that make me think other people took different things away from the movie "Whiplash" than I did.

Like, the movie isn't simply *against* obsessive training for excellence and cruel teaching to bring it out, but it sure isn't simply *for* them either.
February 19, 2026 at 4:22 AM
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Tom Morello has something to tell you:
February 19, 2026 at 2:24 AM
This is the crux of it. It’s an empty promise. Always has been, always will be...
#MotherfuckAI
February 19, 2026 at 2:12 AM
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We've now been doing AI hype for 3-4 years and they're still faking the quality of the outputs of their video generators. A flagrant con job pulled on the internet and everyone who shared this video.
And after all that, the Pitt/Cruise AI fight scene appears to have been just digital BG and face replacement on multi-angle green screen reference videos of two real live human stuntees fighting.

In other words, like most AI hype — it was a con. www.shokunin.studio/blog/2026/2/...
February 19, 2026 at 1:31 AM
Oh, and of course, how could I forget WHIPLASH. That evil EVIL fucken’ movie. Tho thankfully I saw it at home so others didn’t have to see me seething in rage at a movie that doesn’t understand a lick about jazz or music-making and presents toxicity as aspirational...
#FuckThatMovie
fun question: what’s the maddest you’ve ever been leaving a movie theater? not necessarily worst movie you’ve seen, but the one that just pissed you off the most. mine is Batman v Superman
February 19, 2026 at 1:13 AM
Started watching THE WHOLE BLOOD AFFAIR. For some reason, I thought this was some kinda re-edit but half an hour in it’s all the same (except for the title card). Is this just the two movies back to back with the animated thing thrown in between?
#IfSoHowMeh
February 19, 2026 at 12:36 AM
February 18, 2026 at 11:12 PM
Easy, that Gareth Edwards GODZILLA movie that has little to no Zilla actually in it. Man alive, that movie pissed me off…
#StillMad
fun question: what’s the maddest you’ve ever been leaving a movie theater? not necessarily worst movie you’ve seen, but the one that just pissed you off the most. mine is Batman v Superman
February 18, 2026 at 10:02 PM
My finances and money flow right now:
a group of men are standing next to each other in a field .
ALT: a group of men are standing next to each other in a field .
media.tenor.com
February 18, 2026 at 8:55 PM
February 18, 2026 at 8:25 PM
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Like AI, this premise hallucinates a reality that doesn't exist. AI does not make "great and watchable" stories. It steals and then regurgitates slop. This is akin to asking someone if they could drop ingredients into a stomach and then claim that chunky, half-digested vomit is a meal. Same logic.
Writers if you could drop your novel or short story into an AI and have it make a great and watchable movie out of your story, and you could sell that movie, would you do it? #writers #WritingCommunity
February 18, 2026 at 7:35 PM
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The constant condescension about ai is another aspect of it that makes me hate it more. The assumption is you can only be against it because you don't understand it like I do. No man. I don't like voluntarily making every human enterprise dependent on a tech run by a tiny group of financial maniacs
February 18, 2026 at 5:08 AM
So, does this mean I’m *not* uncultured swine for also thinking it was kinda mid?...
#ImWithIan
Sir Ian McKellen hits out at ‘improbable’ Hamnet: ‘I don’t get it’
‘I’m not very interested in trying to work out where Shakespeare’s imagination came from, but it certainly didn’t just come from family life,’ the British thespian said
www.independent.co.uk
February 18, 2026 at 6:47 AM
I would venture the hot take that John Williams ALWAYS delivers the goods, even when the movies don’t. There’s no such thing as a bad or even mid JW score...
#KingJohnny #GOAT
Hot take: the John Williams score for JAWS 2 is top-notch work
JAWS 2 is a bit more camp, a bit more spectacle, a bit more horror. There are still grounded, human, elements, but they're not given the attention that Spielberg did...the goal here is to create a bigger, badder, grislier, shark film that looks good...and JAWS 2 succeeds pretty admirably at it.
February 18, 2026 at 6:33 AM
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Colbert and Kimmel have met the moment under our slide into fascism in a way that institutions, press, and the Democratic Party haven’t
February 18, 2026 at 5:19 AM
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Oh, man. Tom Noonan died? His performance as Francis Dolarhyde in Manhunter is one of the most terrifying, mesmerizing I've ever seen in a film.
February 18, 2026 at 4:09 AM
Great double header...
February 18, 2026 at 12:25 AM
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To recap: “Artificial Intelligence” is
- driving up electricity prices
- ruining the livelihood of artists
- killing journalism
- wasting obscene amounts of water
- spitting out ugly art, incorrect facts and bad writing
- making students lazier
- making hard drives unavailable
- killing jobs
STOP 🛑
February 17, 2026 at 9:36 PM
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"what's the plan?" my goodness - beyond self-parody at this point

WHAT'S THE PLAN? YOU'RE DESCRIBING THE ARTISTIC PROCESS YOU BOZOOOOOSSSSS
AI filmmaking is completely unserious.

You've got people with $30k begging the internet for ideas by next week because they have nothing of their own to say, it's just slop for the sake of slop. Embarrassing state of affairs.
February 17, 2026 at 8:43 PM
All this for a piece of shit tech that doesn’t work and nobody really wants or needs...
#MotherfuckAI
“.. ‘many system vendors will go bankrupt or exit product lines due to a lack of memory. Mobile phone production will be reduced by 200-250 million units, and PC and TV production will be significantly reduced.’ Yikes.”

@pcgamer.com #DRAM
www.pcgamer.com/hardware/mem...
February 17, 2026 at 9:29 PM
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AI filmmaking is completely unserious.

You've got people with $30k begging the internet for ideas by next week because they have nothing of their own to say, it's just slop for the sake of slop. Embarrassing state of affairs.
February 17, 2026 at 4:47 PM
February 17, 2026 at 6:11 PM