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[–] freamon 6 points 1 year ago

Before the shaky cam though, there was the Steadicam, the invention of which (1975) is pretty much my cut-off for how far I'll go back. But yeah, 'the angry whispers' is A) a great name for a band, and B) one of the reasons why we're all so newly dependent of subtitles

[–] freamon 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think there was a change to the API in a recent release of Lemmy, that .world hasn't accounted for correctly. I'm guessing because this post has the two most common responses to tech questions about .world: silence from anyone who could actually answer, and the usual "it'll be them DDOS attacks".

[–] freamon 6 points 1 year ago (5 children)

This is very much a failing of mine, but I don't have time for old films (although, compared to modern stuff, this film comes in at a trim 90 minutes). The movement of the camera is too ponderous and the sound of the voices too grating for me to enjoy. If asked what my favourite film was, it'd be really cool to say something from the 40s/50s/60s, but the truthful answer is probably RoboCop.

[–] freamon 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oops. I didn't realise it was you. Well, it's not for me to say what belongs in your Community, but I prefer it when people go through a film to find the rare shot that's so well composed it could stand on its own as a painting, but for Wes Anderson films, it's all so artfully composed in the first place, it feels like he's done half the work for you.

[–] freamon 2 points 1 year ago

Rest in Peace, William Friedkin.

[–] freamon 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Posting Wes Anderson is kinda cheating.

[–] freamon 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

No. Just .world. Every other instance returns an empty array when the end of the list of Communities is reached. We'd know if they didn't, because they'd break web crawlers too.

[–] freamon 3 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Looks like that's for the non-magical kind.

[–] freamon 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Did Yoda go from someone who occasionally mangles the syntax of a sentence, in the way someone speaking English as a second language might, to someone who practically says everything the wrong way around? Or have I imagined it, hmm?

[–] freamon 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

On one of the Culture worlds, as depicted by Iain M Banks.

I'd just be one of the hedonist citizens though. If Special Circumstances suddenly wanted my involvement, I'd be 'No, thanks!'

[–] freamon 1 points 1 year ago

Seems likely, yeah.

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