No, even being a kids movie couldn’t save this pile of crap. Even the crappiest kids movies have some heart. Like Dogman was legitimately fucking stupid, but it had heart to it, I cared about the characters despite how stupid it all was. A Minecraft Movie fails in every measure to have characters you care about at all. I feel nothing for these idiotic jabronis breezing through the film, the writing and acting is legitimately that bad.

Thank you, I’m glad someone sees this as the value of MeFi and not Lemmy. I’m just sharing a 16 year old comment from MeFi. It took a long time to get there, but they are a now non-profit that actually pays their admin and moderator team like the job that it is.

I personally found it on soulseek, most trackers are avoiding it because pre-release brings extra heat.

Seriously, I watched the leaked workprint. It’s really, really bad. Bad script, bad acting, bad styling, just bad bad bad. First time I’ve legitimately seen Jack Black phone it in.

As an American, I’m glad others have noticed this, too. We could be building community and supporting one another, but it’s not even on anyone’s roadmap. Our hyper-individualistic society has turned into pure toxicity and inability to organize in any meaningful or helpful way. It’s pretty maddening that I know a bunch of people that want to buy guns, but almost nobody that wants to start a community garden.

Also see my comment here for more context.

I don’t have much to add except this highly relevant post made by Dee Xtrovert in 2009 on MetaFilter about their experience in the siege of Sarajevo:

Well, unlike the majority of you (I assume), I actually lived several years in a period of savagery and killing, during which nothing - food, water, electricity, phone, clothing, sense of safety, school, the ability to go out in public, etc - was available, except during totally unpredictable, brief and sporadic occasions.

Of those who couldn’t leave my city, Sarajevo:

Some people (very few) were prepared for what they thought would be the “long haul” - this tended to be a couple of months. These people were widely seen as lunatics and dangerously pessimistic ones at that.

Most people were not at all prepared. This included my family. Many of those - like my family - considered the idea of “preparation” to be an affront to the decency we felt most people possessed. Were we wrong? Well, I don’t know. We suffered greatly; my parents were killed. But speaking only for myself, I never felt I cheapened my soul by betting on calamity. Today, that still feels like it’s worth something.

But here’s the main point: “Preparing” for the disaster really didn’t do anyone much good. Those who “prepared” ate a little better for a while. They stayed warmer for a few extra days. They enjoyed the radio for a while longer (via batteries.) But in the end, they ended up hungry, cold and bored too, just like the rest of us. Guns and weapons helped no one directly and were even of little to no use in the defense of Sarajevo, since they were toys compared to the shells, bombs and high-powered armaments of the attacking forces. The worst parts of war were psychological - the fear, anxiety, boredom, loneliness, paranoia, bad dreams. Respite from those things came with sharing food with a neighbor, finding a piece of clothing that would fit someone you knew, commiserating with others in your position, figuring out how to make make-up from brick or french fries from wheat paste and spreading this newly-acquired war knowledge around the mahala.

We knew who had extra food and supplies. For the most part, they weren’t attacked or hassled or bothered. Contrary to what these survivalists say, those in dire times generally hold on to their personal sense of pride even more than they do in normal times. I’d take a bite of a friend’s salad without bothering to ask in normal times. I’d never have done that in wartime, no matter how hungry I was.

Within the domain of those trapped in the city, civility greatly increased.

You often hear how Holocaust survivors felt guilt at surviving. Well, during war, that was a feeling everyone was aware of - people started dying right away (my parents were killed near the start of the siege, for instance) - and there was a palpable enough common sense of karma to make everyone into good Samaritans. None of us understood why we survived while others didn’t. I shared food when I had it, even though I often knew I wouldn’t have a crumb the next day. Which was no big achievement, because nearly everyone did the same.

Those who’d prepared, well, the majority of them shared their food and whatever else they had as soon as someone else was clearly in need. I can’t swear it, but I think they felt a little foolish to have been so self-obsessed, and giving away that stuff might have lessened that feeling. There were a few people who hoarded things until they ran out of stuff - eventually everybody ran out of anything worth hoarding - and they soon became wishful beggars like the rest of us. Again, I can’t swear it, but I hear stories, and it seems that these people suffer from post-war trauma, guilt and nightmares more than the rest of us.

Those survivalists, I feel sorry for them. It’s no way to live.

Added emphasis is mine. I’ve had this bookmarked for about a decade or more now.

In short, stop stocking up, start building community. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Not actually all that surprising.

Surgery recovery slowly continues. A lot of time in bed reading and watching televsion. Kinda going out of my mind with boredom.

Keep it.

Dr. Zoidberg? More like Bender.

The above is actually similar for the US. If no one lays claim to it, it becomes yours. It’s really hard to prove the source of a wad of cash with no evidence of ownership (like not being in a wallet), so it actually often ends up going to the person who found it.

Surgery recovery was going good and now its going bad.

I feel like Sneakers was incredibly prescient and incredibly political due to that. The drive to control the flow of information is deeply political at this point.

Capitalism? Capitalism.

I think it’s more that Reddit suffers from a lot of engagement farming. Unpopular Opinion is an easy one to game.

Kinda sad there wasn’t more love for this answer. Cleo’s legwarmers and her big 80’s hair spoke to me.

Literally related, also Fiona Dourif…

Billy Bibbit?

🥵 🥵

They hype up all these outfit changes and only give us one shot of our boy Waluigi in his fancy new duds…

I’m bald anyway so it doesn’t really matter, cut or uncut, it’s all the same.

gawrsh