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Not sure if I'd call Novocaine a flop yet considering it had a relatively modest budget of $18m. It might make enough to break even or profit still. The bigger indictment is Black Bag with a budget of $50m and opening lower than Novocaine.

I think instead we're seeing more evidence that the mid budget movie doesn't have a place in theaters anymore and the only movies worth putting in theaters are tentpole blockbusters or lower budget movies that don't have to make a ton to break even.

I think Novocaine is original. Mickey 17 is an adaptation of the novel Mickey7

Interlibrary Loan isn't available everywhere (at least back when I used to work at a library ~10 years ago it wasn't). If it is, it often has an associated fee (usually at least shipping fees, sometimes an additional service fee). I think the common exception to that is public university libraries.

But I can't pirate copyrighted materials to "train" my own real intelligence.

Just saw it. I thought it was good, but definitely stretched too thin in some ways. It was like they were trying to fit as much from the book as possible but the runtime was too short for that. Overall still good and worth a watch IMO.

My own little pet theory is that 17 is a liberal and 18 is a leftist.

I think many of us don't realize that there's a better option. As in, this is just the way it is. Many who do learn there are alternatives then fall to propaganda about how the alternatives are worse or communist, etc.

In the past week I've seen:

Ne Zha

The Rule of Jenny Pen (theater)

Ne Zha was decent. Really fun action sequences and great visuals in the action sequences. Some of the humor didn't land, likely because it's a kids movie and maybe because I'm American and Chinese humor just doesn't land as well for me.

The Rule of Jenny Pen was certainly something. Its basically John Lithgow physically and mentally abusing elderly people with a puppet. I'd recommend watching it. Lithgow does a great job playing an absolutely unhinged psychopath.

I think the first one I remember is It with Tim Curry (technically a TV miniseries I think but whatever). I think I was maybe around 6 or 7 at the time.

Most likely someone at the AI company would catch it and filter those strings out of the training data.

It stems back to a PR from the SerenityOS project where someone changed a "he" to a "they" in the documentation and the PR was declined for "personal politics"

Here's an article about it: https://hyperborea.org/reviews/software/ladybird-inclusivity/

It does leave out this response by Kling on Twitter:

They release these on Saturday or early Sunday pretty frequently, projected from presales, previews, and Friday #s. They can be a little off but they're usually pretty close.