I’ll see it

The article is two paragraphs. Here it is in its entirety:

Israeli Culture Minister Miki Zohar is threatening to pull funding from the Ophir Awards, Israel’s version of the Oscars, after a film critiquing Israel won the top prize. The Sea, helmed by Israeli director Shai Carmeli-Pollak and Palestinian producer Bahaer Agbarian, tells the story of a 12-year-old Palestinian boy living in the West Bank on his way to visit the sea for the first time. His journey is halted when Israeli authorities deny him entry at a checkpoint, per Deadline‘s description. “Determined to fulfil his dream, he sneaks into Israel and embarks on a dangerous journey to the coast, dodging checkpoint, military and police,” it continues.

“There is no greater slap in the face of Israeli citizens than the embarrassing and detached annual Ophir Awards ceremony,” Zohar, a member of Israel’s conservative party, said in a statement calling the win “disgraceful,” as reported by Israeli media (via Deadline). “Starting with the 2026 budget, this pathetic ceremony will no longer be funded by taxpayers’ money. Under my watch, Israeli citizens will not pay from their pockets for a ceremony that spits in the faces of our heroic soldiers.”

I thought this was an interesting take:

“The reason I did Mandalorian was that Luke had a beginning and an end. There was no middle. It was like making a trilogy about James Bond as a young boy who first became aware of the Secret Service and wanted to be a part of it. Part two was him training to be an agent. Part three is earning his license to kill — The End. No From Russia With Love, Dr. No or Goldfinger. You never got to see Luke as a Master Jedi at the peak of his powers.”

If you actually just need a replacement PS/2 cable, it looks like eBay has them for sale.

Monoprice sells PS/2 to USB dongles.

It’s bad faith, of course

This looks interesting… if only Jared Leto wasn’t in it. I don’t know why this creep keeps getting cast in anything, and in a starring role no less.

The plot of this is basically what CLU was trying to do in Tron: Legacy. He wanted to escape the Grid and impose his vision of perfection on the real world. In this it seems like humans just did it for him.

I would like to know what happened to Sam and Quorra, the characters from Legacy. Even just a cameo or mention would be fine.

In general most people are just not intentional about what they watch and will just watch whatever’s popular, in whatever the most convenient format for that is. They wouldn’t be able to name a single favorite director. Streaming is fine for them.

I own thousands of movies and TV shows on Blu-ray and 4K Blu-ray, and I have a home theater. I’m crazy enough that lately for some streaming-only movies I’ve gotten into buying Academy screener Blu-ray copies on the second-hand market. They pressed DVDs for that purpose until just a few years ago, because no one seems to care about presentation—even people trying to sway directors to vote for their film.

My mom still has the TV on a swivel up by the ceiling. I secretly turned off soap opera mode the first time I visited after she bought it. She can’t tell the difference.

The ending of Glass Onion was pretty cathartic.

I don’t care about spoilers to this move, but I just want to point out that most people don’t scroll one comment at a time

Magic Crystal is a rip-off 22 years before Kingdom of the Crystal Skull was made? It doesn’t even resemble that movie except in the loosest way possible. It’s a kids’ adventure movie with kung fu. As far as the themes go it owes way more to ET.

At least he acknowledges that King Solomon’s Mines inspired Indiana Jones:

It certainly mines a lot from Lucas and Spielberg, but given Quartermain’s adventures were part of the inspiration for Jones, it’s a little more full circle than full-blown rip off.

Although I’ve never seen that version because everyone seemed to hate it.

Armour of God owes more to 007 than Indiana Jones, but was definitely influenced by both. As a side note I’m a big Jackie Chan fan (I own and have watched nearly his entire filmography) and I don’t really like this one and the sequel, mainly because of the character he plays.

And to be fair to Romancing the Stone, this screenplay was written long before Raiders of the Lost Ark premiered. It’s a case of a studio exec yelling, “Quick! What do we have that’s like Indiana Jones?”

My best wishes to anyone trying to enforce it

Sure I do. I buy on disc.

One of my favorites. Top 20, maybe. Definitely one of the best by the Coen brothers.

If you have little to no experience with programming at all, I suggest trying the assembly game TIS-100 first to wrap your head around the concepts, rather than trying to learn 6502 right away.

I would pair it with this tutorial, which is really just a bottom-up programming course.

Python is very different from assembly, but assembly isn’t hard to learn if you apply yourself and take it slow. It will seem kind of abstract without something like the game above to challenge your understanding.

What I really believed at the time, and thought might be possible with some of the boldness shown in Last Jedi as well as the talk about letting the past die (and the title), was that they were setting up Kylo and Rey to join together and find a “middle way” in the Buddhist sense—not Jedi or Sith, but something new and truly balanced. Like he would become the antagonist, but Rey would bring him back and together they would discover this new approach. That would fulfill the chosen one prophecy more deeply, tying into the prequels, as well as give more meaning to burning “the sacred texts!” It would end the entire series on a hopeful note of breaking the cycle.

Then they could have all the movies and TV shows they wanted after that by setting them 10,000 years in the past or as side stories or whatever.

I was the world’s biggest Star Wars fan in the '90s. I read all the books and comics, I had the little spaceships. When I left the theater in 1997 after seeing the Star Wars Special Edition, it was like a punch to the gut. So many stupid changes. I hoped for more with Empire, but Luke screamed after his noble sacrifice, which really irritated me. By the time of Jedi, I was already expecting the worst, and boy, they delivered with that awful musical number.

But somewhere deep in my heart I held out hope for Phantom Menace. And that finally killed Star Wars for me. Later I sold or gave away all that stuff. I only kept the original Timothy Zahn trilogy, because I first read those before I even saw the movies.

So by the time we got the sequels I had zero investment. Force Awakens was… fine. A rehash with no original ideas. But I get it. Remind people why they like Star Wars.

I liked Last Jedi a little more than most, despite the clear trilogy pacing screw ups and go-nowhere B plots (casino planet, etc.). I actually really liked Luke’s arc. It was something new and unexpected, but many Star Wars fans want the same warmed-over meal instead of something more dynamic. Same goes for the “anyone can be Force sensitive.” Same goes for “the sacred texts!” And Luke demonstrated total mastery over the Force, holding to his Jedi beliefs, before he died. It was bold, not the typical corporate safe plots with all sharp edges filed down. It could have led in an interesting direction. Killing Snoke was surprising, but I had to imagine there was a plan there. This was a billion dollar franchise. Surely someone had a conversation before they approved the script.

Well, no. They didn’t. I had assumed it was setting up Kylo Ren as the primary antagonist for the next movie. But Rise of Skywalker ended up being one of the worst movies I’ve seen in my life. Not worst Star Wars movie: worst movie period.

How do you make a good Star Wars 9 after 8? Well you sure don’t bring Palpatine back in the 9th inning with zero foreshadowing. And you definitely don’t materialize 10 million Star Destroyers out of thin air.

The original trilogy was great. The prequels were flawed and silly, but at least there was a singular flawed and silly creative force behind them trying to say something. The sequels on the whole just sucked.

Sadness is a deep coldness on the inside, and he doesn’t know yet that it will last for ever.

Let the kids in on the secret early

Yep, I do the same. Zero reason to show up on time to chain theaters.

Who is “the movies”? Creators largely have. The money men won’t unless they lose money on it. Guess which outcome wins.

Producer Stephen Curry