The semi-ironic part is that AI wasn’t even Spielberg’s movie. It was Stanley Kubrick’s, but he died before making it and since him and Spielberg were great friends, Spielberg decided ro make Kubrick’s last film in his honor. Must have been a difficult movie to make, both technically, but also emotionally.

Kermit needs to hide Miss Piggy else Pascal’s gonna grope her too.

It’s the same weirdness when some (usually) Christian Americans think it’s a gotcha when an atheist says “omg”.

I hope they bring that same energy to themselves when they live by the weekdays that were all named after Norse gods or refer to the other planets in the solar system by the names they were given from the Roman gods.

Omg did you just say WEDNESDAY? You believe in Odin, huh?

There are still DVDs and Blurays being made for new movies. Some movies are 100% digital, but in my experience they tend to be the ones that the streaming platforms produce themselves and they have an interest in keeping people on their service.

But most other movies still get dvds and blurays made and are still sold in stores.

I mean, you can just skip the trailers and not every disc has the piracy ad. At least that is not my experience! Out of all the dvds I own or have borrowed from the library, only a handful of them have the unskippable piracy ad. In fact, I have experienced a lot of dvds that don’t even have ads and just skip straight to the menu. Those rarely have extra material either. Only language options and a play button. Seems to mostly be a thing with modern dvd movies.

I went back to physical media half a year ago. Fuck streaming. I don’t miss that shit. My local library has tons of dvds and blurays so my household gets to experience many interesting films these days.

New money energy.

I also didn’t notice it until my friend pointed it out to me a month ago. I was too busy being upset when Trump and Vance bullied Zelenskyj to notice their hip hop gangsta crib at the time.

Ah a fellow papa meat fan. Hunter is legit one of the funniest and realest internet personalities currently.

Ah a fellow papa meat fan. Hunter is legit one of the funniest and realest internet personalities currently.

That is contemporary art. :)

I genuinely disagree with you on the placebo argument, but that is okay.

Sometimes I like an abstract painting or sculpture because of shape, color, composition and so on. I don’t think abstract art would be popular with many people is the works didn’t stir something in them just by how they looked.

Again, I completely respect that this type of art doesn’t do anything for you, but I think you are entirely wrong in claiming that there is nothing to abstract art unless there is a title for context. That isn’t true. Abstract art can evoke all kinds of emotions in people without any context. Disgust, euphoria, sadness, happiness, fear, anger, calmness etc. It is not a trick that an abstract art piece can evoke emotions. It is simply a matter of the art piece being created by someone who has an eye for composition, color theory and is in tune with the emotion he or she intents to transfer onto the canvas.

Also forgot to mention that one of my all time favourite contemporary art pieces was a long table in a small room with let’s say 50 identical white vases lined up on either side. Next to the vases, on the table lay a bunch of cheap permanent markers. Out of the 50 identical white vases stood maybe 10 white vases with gold leaf patterns on them.

All the vases were scribbled over with drawings and words except the vases with the gold leafs on them.

I picked up a marker myself and drew on some of the plain vases, but it took me a bit of courage to start drawing on one of the gold leaf vases. At least one other person had drawn on one of the gold leaf vases but only on the white parts. I found myself instinctively doing the same.

It made me think about a lot of things. What we put value to, why, even when we are given the go-ahead, most of us still hesitate to destroy something that we perceive to be valuable even if the only difference between it and the other pieces is cheap gold patterns on the side.

Furthermore, nowhere did it say that you weren’t allowed to smash the vases, but nobody had done it. You could probably do whatever you wanted to do to these vases, ans yet people only allowed themselves to do the safest form of vandalism.

I thought about the other people who had written and drawn on the vases. I felt their presence and the thoughts they had gone through when interacting with this piece. I thought about the artist and their intentions with it. The fact that I interacted with their piece made it very clear that all the thoughts they had put into their piece was realized in me as part of the installation.

I have no idea what the made of that piece was. Not a clue. But it still affected me because of how well it was executed and I understood the message(s) the artist intented. Maybe not all of them, but the main point, I got.

Contemporary art can be so amazing if one opens themselves up to it.

That’s a fair point of view, but that is literally the point of art. Not just abstract and contemporary art. The more context you have with a piece of art, the more it will make you feel and think about what it is trying to communicate.

Try and look up the painting Stańczyk by Jan Matejko.

In isolation, you’d look at that painting and see a sad jester in a chair. You may feel something, but it won’t be very deep.

When the context is added for that painting, it starts taking on a completely and much more complex meaning. The most basic takeaway with context is “while the politicians, kings and nobelmen are partying, only the jester is understanding the severity of the country’s predicament.”

But if you take the time and start diving into the meaning of the comet outside the window, the cultural and historical significance of the court jester Stańczyk to Poland’s history and culture, the letter on the table, the fact that Matejko used his own face as a reference for the jester, dive into Matejko’s own life and his views, interests and concerns you will get a much greater and much more nuanced interpretation of what you’re looking at. It will basically educate you on something you most likely know nothing about.

That is what art does.

Asger Jorn’s Stalingrad is the same for me.

It is so miss the point of art to think that you should be able to just glance at it briefly and get anything out of it.

Art is also not supposed to be pleasant or pretty. It is supposed to move people. There is tons of art out there that bores me to tears or that I think is bullshit, but others may connect with it where I couldn’t and that is worth something.

Are there bulshitters and bulshit art out there? Absolutely. One of my favourite horror satirea Velvet Buzzsaw very much takes the piss out of the art scene and the silly snobs in it.

But I think it is a mistake to think that having context for an art piece is somehow cheating when all art ever made has a title and an intent and context by default.

I like it. Generally, when abstract and contemporary art is well executed, I find it to be thought provoking and exciting to experience. One of my personal favourite paintings is Asger Jorn’s “Stalingrad”.

It is entirely useless to look at that painting on a tiny screen on a search engine because it looks like shit online.

However, in real life, you enter the room where it is hanging and it is HUGE. Whites and blacks and blues ans yellows and reds in a turbulent mix on the canvas and if you sit down on the bench and soak it in, you start to feel the emotions Jorn was trying to evoke in the viewer. War is hell. War in the deep of Russian winters is worse than hell. It is blind, cold, desperate chaos and you’re supposed to fight in this inferno while being able to tell friend from foe, but they all look the same, their blood looks the same in the snow and dirt beneath them.

I’m always exhausted when I look at that painting, but I do it every single time I’m at the Asger Jorn museum.

There definitely is shitty abstract and contemporary art out there. I have seen my fair share of bullshit pieces, but it is sad to me how some people entirely close themselves off to this aspect of art just because it is different. But, at the end of the day it is a taste thing, and that is okay.

I find it funny how my country seem to have an animal related scandal every few decades. And by scandal I mean hypocritical and sensitive foreigners becoming upset at zoos doing zoo stuff.

My country has more pigs than it has people and the vast majority of pork we produce is exported to you all in the rest of the world. People are getting upset that a zoo allows people to donate old and sick pets for feedings when the very same people are the ones contributing to the pig production industry that is not just inhumane and grotesque, it also destroys my country’s nature. 60% of Danish soil is used for farming and most of those fields are used to grow pigs feed. On top of that we import soybeans for pigs feed from South America which not only means more pollution due to unnecessary transport, but also the destruction of more rainforest so that the soy farmers can keep up with the demand. Oh, and we also transport our pigs to Poland for euthanasia because it’s cheaper, adding to the transportation pollution bill. You’d think that with how much pollution and space Danish farmers take up and dumps into the world, that their contribution to our BNP would be fucking astronomical, but no. They contribute less than 2 fucking percent. If it was up to me, pork production would be made illegal tomorrow and people wpuld have to look for another food source than pork.

If anyone complains about a Danish zoo feeding animals old pets that have been humanely euthanized beforehand, yet still consume pork, you have absolutely no leg to stand on and you’re a hypocrite.

Isn’t it better that they go back into the food chain instead of being tossed in an cremation oven?

Lol. What do you think the wolf eats? Or does it only matter when the word “pet” is attached to the animal that being used for food?

Thank you for your list! I haven’t forgotten you, my friend! I have started compiling a list of films, but will probably not send it before the weekend when I have the mental capacity to sort through it without being distracted by work week stuff, lol.

I really hope I have something in my arsenal that you haven’t seen and that will make you excited to check out xD

I think you’re giving OP too much credit tbh.

That said, it is definitely an issue that affects all of us, not just men. Totally agree there. The fact that some men think it’s exclusively a male issue is of course silly and can be a problem if they end up falling into these Tate-esk parts of the internet, but when it comes to men being lonely, I do take their issues seriously and I’m not so quick to sit and mock them for being in the situation they are in.

I would also be interested in seeing some studies about how loneliness affects both genders and in what way. Maybe there is in fact a higher number of men who suffer from loneliness than women. Maybe it’s the other way around. Maybe it is 50/50. I don’t know because I haven’t looked into it.

But no I don’t agree with the OP because the point OP was making wasn’t that everybody is lonely, it was that men who don’t align with her ideology are lonely because they can’t get laid and I think that is a very reductive way to contribute to this specific conversation. It is people like OP who actually helps push lonely guys into the arms of the manosphere and that is why I react harshly to her behavior.

I’m late almost all the time too Dx however my anxiety has an iron grip on my finances so I will probably never have to deal with overspending and financial ruin.

The problem is that my anxiety has convinced me that homelessness and bankruptcy is right around the corner at all times so I can’t even enjoy the fact that I’m financially stable.