A really funny and disturbing satire of conspiracy theories, political polarization, and epistemic echo chambers. I suspect that people who criticize this as 'irresponsible' are really just upset that it's not joining in on the discourse it's trying to give us a reflection of.

Rather than making fun of people who care about issues like police racism or mask mandates, it shows how media--especially social media--prevents us from even comprehending the issues or engaging with them in a meaningful way.…

It's not as awful as everyone says, but it's not even 1% as good as the book.

I don't think John Krasinski really 'got' the novel. I think this because the way he edited out parts of the book that were key to understanding it. Wallace tends to write in a way where every new part makes you reinterpret the parts that came before.

Here, we get a sense that this is a movie where a bunch of awful men…

The most wholesome movie ever. Miyazaki manages to successfully give us a vision of a wholesome and beautiful world full of innocence, stillness, joy, awe, and love.

The very ability to do that is really difficult. It requires a lot of depth and wisdom, an ability to see what's good and worth paying attention to and to be present with it.

The result is something that has given me a new place inside my heart that seems to represent everything…

I really liked this as a kid. I went back to watch it, and was shocked. The opening quote was, " "A great civilisation is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within."

The film portrays the Mayas in a totally hateful way, making them look superstitious, unthinking, sadistic, cruel, and decadent. Basically the way you'd expect to see 'pagans' described by Western Europeans 1,000 years ago, or 'barbarians' described by Romans 2,000 years ago. And the…

I don't like the future of space. This is scarier than a horror movie, on a visceral level, the sort of cosmic scariness that Lovecraft was all about.

Having said that, it's pretty amazing and awe-inspiring, and I guess fear can be a part of awe. (A friend told me that Kant's conception of the sublime included a combination of awe, beauty, and terror-- that would fit here for sure).

Michio Kaku comes in with a little bit of hope--…

I don't really get why Bergman is characterized as this depressing, nihilistic filmmaker. His films definitely take you to dark places, some of the scariest things about the human experience-- including things like death and absence of certainty about objective meaning or values in the world. But ironically, this very way of filmmaking is so human and attentive to value that it somehow cancels out the nihilism the characters grapple with. There's also a lot of warm and funny moments…

I take this to be a film about objectification and intimacy, and why we objectify others (so that our own unacceptable inner alien self won't be revealed). So we do whatever we can to remain subjects-- which is also why the whole thing starts with an image of an eye.

The alien remains a subject during the first half of the movie by objectifying men, the house and the pool she lures them into is her own subjectivity, her own…

I can't remember the last time I felt such delight-- someone called it 'stomach magic'-- in the theater. Part of it, sure, is that I love The Matrix. But it's also the sense that during this big blockbuster film, there is a human on the other end who actually wants to communicate with me. It's that wonderful feeling that art can do, make the world less lonely. And the film risks just what it must risk to do that-- dorkiness,…