Everyone really is a boomer now
It looks like it’s just idiocracy but swap out TV and Carl’s JR for Phones and VR.
I thought it was fun.
Better than I was expecting. It had some pretty dark satirical bits that I enjoyed. It’s more than just “phone bad”, anyway.Good to hear! Don’t let my snarky bit ruin your fun
Ehh it was sorta fun at times, but the stances it took were all completely surface level and didn’t really offer anything stimulating imo
what’s the new phone bad movie?
the last one i remember was Cell (2016) which has an 11% even though i think it is awesome and periodically rewatch it.
I’m talking about Good Luck Have Fun Don’t Die. I’m being facetious as I haven’t seen the movie. I just saw a clip that had phone zombies and rolled my eyes the hell out of there lol.
It was fun overall. B+. The funniest parts of the movie weren’t the main plot, but the flashbacks to what the cast was doing before the main plot started, so I think it would have been better as a disconnected anthology than a single film.
The first hour was great, the second hour should have been 10 minutes
Maybe I’ll check it out
The trailer looks more anti-AI to me. It also looks like pretty bonkers fun.
Hot take: I sometimes do think phones are kinda bad.
(Me too, to be honest. I just think most media misses the point of why. They often attack the individual for being too ‘weak’ and relying on technology instead of addressing the systemic and social conditioning that capitalism uses to both force it upon us and make it addictive. Making phones integral to fitting in in modern society but at the same time shaming people for using them is unproductive and cruel)
I also have this thought but then I think that that’s a reactionary take and the true take is that phones are awesome and it’s addictive social media that’s bad
There’s a big conflation, but I think phones are bad in the same way I think the luddites were right -
I’m not saying phones inherently suck, I’m saying they’re so widely employed in a way that worsens peoples’ lives that we would all be collectively happier if they simply didn’t exist.
This is the correct take. Technology is not inherently bad, it is the way that it is implemented and handed by capitalism that is bad.
I liken it to food. Food isn’t bad, but if society made it so that the only thing available and socially acceptable to eat was McDonalds, you’re going to get sick.
congrats, youre a luddite
Thank you!
A little nuance though, some technology does lend itself to more good or more ill. Like a combine harvestor can cause harm if the technology is used to prop up an exploitative empire and jealously guarded, but it’s much easier for a nuclear bomb to cause harm.
I’ve seen some reductionism taking your reasonable point (tech isn’t inherently one or the other) to mean the stronger and imho worse position “technology is morally neutral”.
Personaly I think smartphone are tech to be cautious around because while remote communication is obviously incredible, bundling it with general purpose computing comes with a lot of hazard. We ought to be able to heavily curtail the harm though by removing incentives for addictive design.
Absolutely, I agree 100%
… is it actually called phone bad? 🤔
No but now I want to make a movie called phone bad
And I’m limited to six images. You got lucky.
These are all fucking amazing I want access to your stash 😩
I got them from here: https://www.resetera.com/threads/boomer-comics-complaining-about-the-kids-and-their-damn-cell-phones.101749/page-35
Uhh, content warning though, it is boomer humour after all.
It shows how on your phone you are that you know what movies are coming out this week and what scores they are getting. For shame!
It’s OK once we establish communism I’ll only be able to use the communal phone so it will balance out
Good point, comrade! It all evens out in the long run.
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