You ever think about writing a book on office politics
That was EPIC XD
Wow Stormfront...Classic Gretchen behaviour
"Well, if you've totally got the authority to make decisions, totally make the decision to cooperate with our requests. Or we'll totally come back with a warrant. And I might phone ya dad."
This is a mess... There's no directions, it's like every 20 minutes each character has a new storyline. The viewer can't commit to the show, you know?!You, the people who write this! I thought you're supposed to be professionals... So sad to see such great show become a fruitless and empty sack of scenes...
That teeth pulling scene was unsettling... probably the most disturbing thing next to Annalise's bones being broken to fit in a suitcase.
"I don't care about apps. When does it turn sour?"
This documentary mainly follows two persons, Professor David Carroll and Brittany Kaiser. The former is a privacy and data-rights advocate and the latter is a former executive at Cambridge Analytica (CA), the company that in joint abuse of privacy stole great amounts of beyond-extremely private data from Facebook users and their friends.
The documentary started out better than I had expected: Carroll expertly and clearly shows that our personal experiences and behaviour are more valuable than oil, that they are the commodities that are being sold and, most importantly, used against us.
Who are "us"? The documentary goes into that, too, by interviewing former CA staff, Carole Cadwalladr—an investigative journalist with The Guardian who exploded the CA story—and Carroll himself, as he tries to find out exactly what data of his it is that SCL/CA have.
The entire documentary takes place in context of two big political events: the 2016 USA presidential election and the UK Brexit election.
The documentary makers do a quite good job at showing how Facebook not only helped CA, but also endorsed their use of Facebook to not only sift data from users, but also attempt to change their behaviour to make them do what they wanted. CA enabled Ted Cruz's campaign trail, and did the very same for Donald Trump.
At the same time, the documentary takes a human aspect as it introduces Brittany Kaiser. As a former executive at CA, she had access to many exclusive documents which she later used against CA; she knew Alexander Nix, the CEO of CA, well.
We learn that Trump's administration spent approximately one million USD/day on Project Alamo, the code name for Trump's database of voter information for his campaign. Much of this money went into CA and trying to convert "the persuadables," i.e. people who had not yet made up their mind on whom to vote for.
Remember, 70,000 votes made the American election in 2016.
Seeing Alexander Nix be interrogated and asked "So you are the victim in all of this?" and answer "Yes" is quite overwhelming, especially when the documentary makers display a CA sales presentation that displays not only how they swung the most recent political Trinidad/Tobago election by generating apathy in non-Indian persons, but how Nix boasts of this.
Cadwalladr points out how "British election laws are not fit for purpose" and cannot be, because of "completely unaccountable tech giants."
Facebook evades responsibility. WhatsApp—owned by Facebook—is used to generate fake news (which is proven fact). Myanmar military initiated genocide thanks to Facebook. Russia created Black Lives Matter posts and protest invitations to create divides in the USA.
"Is this how you want history to remember you? As handmaidens to totalitarianism?" Cadwalladr asks during a TED talk.
Carroll says our dignity is at stake, and pushes for data rights to be included as a basic human right.
This documentary pushes matters far, but not far enough. Sure, this book focuses on CA, but could have included more, e.g. how Amazon, Microsoft, and to a much farther extent, Google, to show how human behaviour is commoditised and sold to benefit a few capitalists.
I recommend seeing Laura Poitras's "Citizenfour" on top of this, to see how Edward Snowden's information came out.
"Send the dothraki first since they are barbarians"
"Dragons are our heavy artillery let's keep them flying in circles without doing NOTHING for say 2/3 of the battle. Even if they all stop before a flaming trench and sit there nearly aligned for tenths of minutes. We can not win the easy way this must be EPIC"
"It's a massive invasion of Savage, quick and merciless undead but we like to walk orderly and calmly in libraries"
"By the way, libraries are still dead silent while people are being ripped to shreds outside"
"Hey, look, Arya slipped past 4.000 undead and learned Rey's air saber trick"
"Every major character gets to live even after being surrounded by dead. (jorah and theon were already half dead - oh yeah, theon, seems Arya waited in the shadows while you were impalled too. Go team.".
A disappointment. It's not horrible, but it is far from having the quality GoT had in the early seasons. The writing is piss poor since the end of season 6 tbh. Most people seem to have liked it, even though it doesn't feel like game of thrones anymore. The writers have no guts, GoT shouldn't be about taking the easy way out. This was the most hyped battle in the show and managed to be the worst of them all in my opinion.
I'll be waiting for the books.
This movie about a mass murder is not too bad. At 2hr 30 mins in length it goes completely off the rails at the 2 hour mark, just switch it off. Seriously... it becomes completely detatched, irrelevant and just dumb at the point he returns to the warehouse and goes inside. That's the point it goes into the toilet and doesn't come back out. For the first 2 hours I'd give it a 7.5/10. The last half hour 0/10
I absolutely love these one-take shots! The shooting scene was awesome.
This movie was pretty raw, in that it barely bothered with dialog or plot, but went straight for emotions and desires. It is well done on a technical level (some great shots there), and the acting by the always adorable Carey Mulligan and especially by Michael Fassbender were absolutely amazing. I'm not sure if I will watch it again, but I will definitely check out McQueens other work.
This movie wasn't entirely terrible. It does require the viewer to completely suspend disbelief and let some plot holes slide. I wouldn't recommend it to everyone but watching it once isn't a complete waste of time.
The whole Neegan thing is just not believable, and this episode made that more clear. The amount of people that would view him with pure hatred would be off the charts, and unlike other fictional bad guys who act like this, he keeps no security around him 95% of the time. The guy would have been dead 1000 times over in a faithfully realized TWD universe. Hell, I've hardly got off my couch for the last 7 years and I could have killed him at least 20 times in this episode alone, not even counting the obviously missed opportunity by a battle hardened and hate filled teen in the early minutes. Also the Neegan performance was even more one-note-wondery than usual tonight. This show is really losing me now, I'm sad to say.