I strongly suspect Joe Dante was told a Gremlins sequel would be made with or without him, by the corporate studio that owned the rights to his creations. So he took the money, and made that studio the butt of the joke.
Except that unlike Matrix Regurgitated, which is a dumpster fire where pointless ideas go to die - to salt the earth and prevent a repeat I suspect - Gremins 2: The New Batch is a masterwork of anticorporate satire.
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WW3 is no fun with all this AI slop everywhere. From YouTube to social media to primetime news... slop slop slop. Instead of seeing or reading something and going "Holy feck, under your desk everyone" I now have to squint into the screen and look for slop characteristics or cipher whether the dialect and writing style is human or not.
Way to go tech. You enshitified WW3. #Satire
Meanwhile, on “FOX and Friends” this morning, they showed B-roll of the FOTUS at a December dignified transfer without one of his nearly $50 hats.
#USpol
#Satire
#StonekettleStation
“I stand for the flag, kneel for the cross, and wear my merch hat and check my fat ugly tie for ketchup stains when it's dead soldiers.
And after the transfer, there'll be a mandatory showing of ‘Melania’ in the hanger for the families.” - Jim Wright
Familiar with the "Bean Soup Theory"?
Rhys Nicholson explains it in an excellent segment from The Weekly w/ Charlie Pickering
i had not heard of it, but it is very interesting. So i made it into a ➿😁
It reminds me of prop 8 in CA when all the bible thumping "straight people" complained that if gays can marry, it will ruin heterosexual marriage. 😞 so dumb
https://loops.video/v/ehygEGGYxC
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