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Adrian M Lopez
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Desktop nostr is far less addictive

Knots v Core still raging? Ok. Social media cleanse continues.

There was gonna be a baby but now there isn’t. What happened to the baby?

Saaame. I love me a feel bad movie.

Replying to Avatar HODL

I know a lot about bitcoin and investing and economics, but at one time I knew nothing about any of these things.

20 years ago I knew nothing about investing.

11 years ago I knew nothing about bitcoin.

7 years ago I knew nothing about economics.

So what changed?

Well I was curious and then I followed that curiosity where it took me.

I became obsessed with the things I was obsessed with.

Some people look at how expensive a house is and think they’ll never afford one, other people think “I wonder how I can make it cheaper?” And then they learn to build a house.

Time is going to pass.

Your time is going to pass.

It’s been 10 years since I’ve been in bitcoin.

That time passed and I know plenty of people who have nothing to show for it.

In fact that’s the norm.

I’m the exception.

You know why?

Because they weren’t curious about anything and I am.

I care.

I care about my life, I want things. I believe if others have it so can I.

Somebody out there has the life you want.

You can have it too, but you have to give a shit about yourself.

You have to talk differently to yourself.

You have to focus your energy.

You have to break free and very often you will have to go it alone.

But the time is going to pass regardless and do you really want to have nothing to show for it?

Don’t do it because you need to prove something to other people.

Do it because you’re not living up to your potential otherwise.

Do you want all of the best things about you to remain hidden and buried and to one day rest alongside you in the graveyard?

Or do you want to be who you were meant to be?

It’s your call.

I made my decision some time ago.

You’re the GOAT

I’ve been mentioned in notes but can’t find the note so forgive me if I “ignore” something.

That would be great for massage therapists. I’ve been considering going all in on tallow based lotions.

IGN: At what point while making the original film did you decide that Deckard would be a Replicant?

RS: Oh, it was always my thesis theory. It was one or two people who were relevant were... I can't remember if Hampton agreed with me or not. But I remember someone had said, “Well, isn't it corny?” I said, “Listen, I'll be the best f#@king judge of that. I'm the director, okay?” So, and that, you learn -- you know, by then I'm 44, so I'm no f#@king chicken. I'm a very experienced director from commercials and The Duellists and Alien. So, I'm able to, you know, answer that with confidence at the time, and say, “You know, back off, it's what it's gonna be.” Harrison, he was never -- I don't remember, actually. I think Harrison was going, “Uh, I don't know about that.” I said, “But you have to be, because Gaff, who leaves a trail of origami everywhere, will leave you a little piece of origami at the end of the movie to say, ‘I've been here, I left her alive, and I can't resist letting you know what's in your most private thoughts when you get drunk is a f#@king unicorn!’” Right? So, I love Beavis and Butthead, so what should follow that is “Duh.” So now it will be revealed [in the sequel], one way or the other.

I’m being hyperbolic because it’s so normal to bow down to Ridley Scott and lick his balls when his movies have glaring issues

Did those sores escalate to any meaningful tension in the story? Nope. Just a vague detail to remind you that yes malnutrition is a thing but don’t worry, he’s just so smart and quippy that it won’t even slow him down! The body double looked great and the next scene it’s fat Matt Damon again. It’s okay to admit that Ridley Scott is a hack

Honestly, not really but I feel like I should! The whole concept is great!

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Alien review continued:

What’s interesting about the writing in alien is it manages to have all the pieces of a proper screenplay but somehow fuck it up. Here’s just one example:

There’s a plot development where the alien gets bigger and more dangerous. And that’s a great piece of escalating tension. However, the way they decide to reveal this to the audience is the characters split up, prioritizing the safety of a house cat over the safety of themselves. It’s revealed after what felt like 40 minutes of a guy walking around a dirty rusty room (even stopping for a bit to take a shower in dirty run off water) that the alien got bigger because he gets killed by it. A great piece of development executed with contrived reasoning and logic.

And before the midwits come and say, “Omg, characters don’t have to act like perfect logical beings to be interesting or well written!” That’s not what I’m saying. What I’m saying is the characters aren’t acting realistically based off of the established threat in the film nor their established character development. Just imagine, this alien, despite being tiny has killed one of your crew mates and you’re just gonna go off by yourself, looking for a cat? And a crew of professional miners are going to allow this? And in fact, encourage this? In potentially dangerous work environments (like deep space mining) you never go anywhere alone and that’s without a hostile alien threat being around. How can I take any of his character actions seriously? The character wasn’t established to care much about the cat to begin with, so I can’t justify his behaviors that way either. It’s just bad writing.

To be fair, a lot of movies do stuff like this especially horror movies. But for an American classic that sits among the highest rated films on IMDb, I expect better.

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Alien review continued:

Despite escalating tension written into the script, the movie still has a repetition problem. Visually it all looks the same after a while. The general structure is like this: characters try a plan, fail at plan, then cut to the characters sitting in a room debriefing about how they failed the plan. It’s always in debrief where the characters are talking about how there’s no body or no blood but you never SEE them react to it. You never SEE the aftermath.

And again midwits before you say, “OMG use your imagination, less is more!” I’m not disagreeing with that point and ambiguity is appreciated as I mentioned before. But I would like to see these characters react to these shocking details in real time so i can relate to them. Instead, we just get the same style of shot composition, characters sitting in rooms that all start to blur together, and there’s simply no energy to the direction. It’s just languid static shots until you fall asleep or the movie ends.

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The original Alien is shit.