Allan Mott
Broadcast the BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM and make them all dance to it.
Co-Host of @cinemashame.bsky.social
He/Him
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- Swing and a miss! Think of a Wynn-er.
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- You assume incorrectly! It's one of the lesser films that I found delightful! (FF did get mentioned but might not make final cut.)
- I always believed he could do it but I never told him because I knew he needed the fire in his belly,
- I don't like Natasha Lyonne's pro-AI stance but I will defend to my death her strong advocacy for one of the sexiest of all clothing accessories--the knee sock.
- Ooh Arthur Marks and Jack Arnold? I'm intrigued. (A Marks movie took the top spot in our upcoming 1975 episode.)
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- Be weirder if you wouldn't.
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- He was a sociopath. He once told me that he came up with the concept for another author's YA book even though I was the only person that author shared the idea with before it was pitched. The publisher knew I knew he was lying but did it anyway just because he knew I wouldn't call him on it.
- I think it says a lot about how people have romanticized the idea of being a writer for so long that it leads people to pursue it as a career even though they can't actually do the one thing you need to be able to do as a writer. It's like deciding to be a fire fighter and refusing to fight fires.
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- It's actually bitten me in the ass because I am human and do make mistakes and they've ended up in print because my work wasn't scoured as thoroughly as other writers who the editors knew needed more attention. 😂
- Love it when directors are proud of their work.
- True story: My first publisher hired a caterer he liked to write a cook book. When it was being edited he decided he wanted to be listed as a co-author. He hadn't written a word but felt like he deserved the credit for hosting several parties where the recipes had been used. Eventually he--
- "compromised" by creating a pen name instead of using his own, so he could tell people that he had really helped co-write the book but didn't want to steal attention away from his "co-writer" by putting his own name on it.
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- Speaking as someone who has written professionally since 2001, I know I (someone with only a high school diploma) got some random lucky breaks to get me to the point where I make a good living as a writer, but those opportunities only worked out because I could do the work. It's really that simple.
- You know you're a film nerd when you shout "John Sayles!" when John Sayles appears onscreen in the new episode of POKER FACE.
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- You just reminded of the brief moment during the pandemic where online grocery shopping wasn't reliably available yet and I mostly survived on items I bought in bulk from Amazon. Several boxes of Cuban Lunch's were purchased and--for possibly the first time--actually eaten as someone's lunch.
- I've told a lot of wild negative stories about my former publisher over the years but here's one I just remembered that was I recently reminded of. My friend who helped me get the job at the company pitched the idea of doing the company's first young adult novel. Harry Potter was at its apex--
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View full threadbook to be overweight because he wanted all of the characters in the first full-length novel he published to be hot and sexy and that one character ruined the vibe for him. The book never did get published (more because of the company's archaic sales strategy than anything else) but I always--
- thought it was telling that this publisher would have so much disdain for a character who was obviously based on him without him even knowing they were based on him.
- so the publisher decided to let him write it. The first draft was completed and the publisher glanced at it (he didn't have the attention span to read anything he actually published--even the books he insisted be co-credited to him for random reasons he'd make up) and protested the inclusion of--
- a minor early character who was described as being overweight. I never asked my friend but it seemed clear to me that the character as described was a pretty solid match for our publisher, but our publisher was way too vain and egotistical to notice that. No, he didn't want the character in the--
- And yet, 100% of racist idiots are still gonna insist that the medical examination proved George Floyd wasn't murdered.
- In the past, I've had editors comment on how easy it was for them to edit my work and I'm always like, "I'm just doing what I was paid to do. Doesn't everyone do that?" Turns out, many don't cuz they're more into the idea of being a writer than actually doing the job properly.
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- Which is actually a great argument for abolition! 🤣
- The most trivial thing I'm mad about right now is that Scotch has apparently discontinued the reliable poster tabs I've used for years and replaced them with a new version that has caused every poster I've tried it with to fall off the wall no matter how small or light that poster is.
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- Is "lonlier" like an outlier but sadder?
- LADY FRANKENSTEIN is one of the bona-fide masterpieces, though.
- Oh, don't get me wrong, I'd have zero issue if LLM went away forever tomorrow. I just think it's interesting that the people who want to use it for evil will have to do a lot more work than think to make it as evil as they want it to be.
- The Grok thing is low-key fascinating. It shows how someone like Musk can fuck up the algorithm to present irrelevant info to a mass audience, while also showing that so long as a LLM depends on mass sources for its info, it can do so in a way that essentially negates the intention of the fuck up.
- It suggests that for the right to fully use "AI" for its purposes it needs to fund enough non-AI writing to contradict the factual writing that disproves their points. If a Musk-owned LLM ordered to refer to "white genocide" in every answer can't find evidence of a white genocide, that says a lot.
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- I don't always agree with Kat, but the last thing I would ever describe her as is "dim". She's clearly a very smart person. Why are people mad at her? Have I missed something?
- The thing that amazes me about pizza places that make shitty pizza is that it actually takes more effort to make a shitty pizza than it does a good one. Bad pizza isn't something that just happens. You have to put effort into it.
- Yeah, he was also great on THE LARRY SANDERS SHOW where he played "Werewolves of London".
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- Why would I want guns when I can get drugs?
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- I kid, I kid. Please don't make me sent out for lawyers, drugs and money.
- It says so much about Trump that he thinks people need to have the concept of "buying food" explained to them as if it's this new thing he's only just heard about himself.
- Watching the trailer for AMERICANA and was like, "Did they create a CGI version of young Lara Flynn Boyle for this low budget indie movie?" and then I realized it's Halsey, who I always mistake for a young Lara Flynn Boyle.
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- Nope, a new Tarantino-esque comedy crime indie about a bunch of small town weirdos killing each other over a valuable First Nations artifact.
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- I'm a bit biased because the director is a friend of mine, but yes, yes you should. Here's a piece I wrote that touches on it as I explain how SLUMBER PARTY MASSACRE has two different part 2s:
- I dunno, the cult of SLUMBER PARTY MASSACRE II grows bigger every day....
- I decided to take a look at the quote responses to Moira's original post and blocked the first dude who said, "Two things can be true!" and then I blocked the next one and the next one and the next one and....
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- Watching it now!
- A 75 second clip has never made me pre-order a movie I did not previously know existed faster than this one did. Is this an action movie DANCE GODDESS? Has @dekkoparsnip2.bsky.social seen it to confirm it?
- If you can identify the "middest" movie you've seen--regardless of how it emotionally affected you--you need to see more movies and do less math.
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- I feel like the only easy way to identify the most average movie you've seen is if you've only seen 11 movies and even then you lack the necessary experience to even know what average is.
- Already seeing people dismissing Ben Cohen's (of Ben & Jerry's fame) protest arrest because he once did an interview with Tucker Carlson and other people criticizing Jerry Greenfield for not doing it with him. You don't HAVE to be these people, people. Be better than this.
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- Historically, New Coke is viewed as a bungle, but arguably it helped the company in the long run because it allowed them to introduce the "classic" version with cheaper corn syrup (which was the major reason they released the new version), while bringing it back boosted their sales over Pepsi.
- "Y'see, it's terrible when boys have to deal with the same uncertainties and lack of guarantees that girls have faced for centuries because girls have centuries of experience with it, but this is the first time it's happening to boys, so we have to stop it."
- It helps to remember that when they say "falling behind" it means "from the peak of the unfair advantage they still possess". This is all about how some men now actually have to compete harder for stuff instead of just having it handed to them.
- I feel like right now is a really fucking good time for a movie that tells us it's important to do the right thing no matter what some people will "say" about it.
