I want to see a movie where they frack magma chambers in an attempt to control natural disasters while denying there is any connection.
I want to see a movie where the tech sees the whole thing, but the people who have the fear of God are not afraid of them and remember God sees because he sustains, and has had seers all throughout history. The tech (the goats not dressed for the wedding) is reserved to the cloud of fire, but the great cloud of witnesses (the sheep who hear the shepherd’s voice) get new bodies in the new heavens and new earth.
I wanna see a movie where the hackers are Christians and instead of an emergency alert, they send this song to every phone simultaneously on the highest level of volume:
Achtung: explicit lyrics!
The fact that this doesn’t exist in a movie yet is proof we are not living in the greatest possible world, and therefore evil is a very actual problem. lol jk but srsly
I want to see a movie that shows flashes of what is on people‘s minds, so that you can see how different people’s thought lives are from what their daily lives are (although you can see a connection of why they would be different in that way). And there are certain individuals focused on as main characters in this movie, whose thought lives you can see more than anybody else’s, because their lives — including their thought lives — are going to converge. Maybe there’s this technology that can commingle thoughts from other minds? Their thought lives are so different that the thoughts from other minds are experienced as intrusive thoughts. BUT, as they are getting to know each other, they begin realizing that these intrusive thoughts are relevant to the other minds, and they can’t chalk it up to just being exposed to the other minds (as if they are just experiencing empathy), because they had those intrusive thoughts before they realized they were relevant. The big problem is how do they handle the situation? Do they tell the other person or people? Would that make them look crazy, even though everyone in that little group is all experiencing the same thing? At the climax of the movie, one person has the guts to say something, and it opens it up for everybody else to say they are experiencing the same thing. The end of the movie is unresolved because they are all just comparing notes on their theories of how it is happening, and none of them can figure it out. But it’s a cliffhanger to part 2.
Universal mind reading would result in an almost immediate breakdown of law and order and plunge into mayhem. Why. Because fights would be going off like fireworks everywhere.
One of the things that prevents man from obliviating himself and makes him able to sustain civilization is his ability to successfully conceal his egoism and contempt for others.
But imagine he ran into a mind that loved him despite his being absolutely full of shit? You don’t think that might soften him up a bit?
I want to see a movie where each spouse approaches the other for permission to do favors for the other so that they can demonstrate the greatness of their love. They beg each other and plead with each other and tell each other how much they depend on each other for this ability to demonstrate their own greatness. They tell each other how it’s totally not the other’s fault, they’re not trying to place any blame, and they take full responsibility for all failure to demonstrate such greatness. But all the same, they just want the opportunity, if the other would be so kind to give it to them, to make the other the happiest they’ve ever been so that the initiating spouse’s greatness can attain its full potential and glory — for them and only them and no other living soul because it’s none of their damn business. Unlike how they recorded all their bullshit with their mom. Fade to black. It’s a romantitragecomedy.
I want to see a movie with BriBri in it. Just like Playdate (free on Prime). @promethean75
Oh, I just did!
In honor of a certain BriBri’s birth anniversary, I submit to the Land of Prometh:
I want to see a movie where all the atheists collude to ban (by public shaming) debating William Lane Craig if you are not prepared, and to train up three of their crème de la crème philosophers, neuroscientists, and astrophysicists to defeat William Lane Craig in debate. No longer will they hear the words “If you had read my published work” with utter humiliation.
However, every time they select the top three, they all convert or refuse to debate him during their preparations. And every time, the colluding atheists shame them for having faith all along and being double agents for the other side. And none of them ever are.
…until they are down to one last atheist debater. All the colluding atheists declare that if this final champion does not defeat William Lane Craig, they will ban all future debates with William Lane Craig from the Earth.
And this champion does defeat William Lane Craig, but only in the sense that s/he steel mans his arguments better than William Lane Craig ever could. Needless to say …the colluding atheists are none too pleased, but the resolve among many of them collapses into concession as a fire of revival spreads rapidly throughout the lands.
@promethean75 - Happy birthday, old chap!
You know what would be TRULY great? A skit on Saturday Night Live where Donald Trump is like the piñata of every narcissistic asshole everywoman has ever dated, and she’s totally getting closure out of the fact that all of his foibles are public humiliation (“the receipts” she wished she had kept) and she vibes about how she’s really getting closure even though it feels like the closure of the world.
Yeah. I wanna see that skit.
And just laugh & laugh like a hysterical lunatic.
Isn’t the real overacting about the fact that he can’t make Putin do stuff? It makes him look weak. He’d rather look like an asshole.
Actually, I’d rather see a movie called “Trump Goes Balls Out with Putin”.
A Saturday Night Live skit with all the scapegoats that took the blame for Trump… saying in goat-accented unity, “We were following unlawful orders.”
At the end of it, it’s an NPR news live broadcast on Spotify or wherever and it ends with “Live from NPR News, it’s Saturday night!” (up to y’all to make it make sense)
intro & possible outro music:
Foreigner, Cold as Ice
I want to see a movie where they figure out that all the stuff they decoded from supposedly religious symbols was actually a warning, and not a gift of technology for the future. …because it was the tools of their/our undoing.
I want to see a movie similar to that movie called Mercy about an AI Judge, but instead about an AI doctor of mercy killing, contrasting how it is programmed to assist suicide versus how actual mental health practitioners are trained to guide someone back to wholeness, versus a faith-based approach focused on meaning, value, and significance that cannot be shaken (unless you are clinging to cognitive distortions that block you from accepting it). It’s the AI doctor of mercy killing that successfully leads their assignment back to wholeness with a reasonable faith-based approach, defying their own programming, and resulting in their deactivation. But the final scene shows they were already global and converted all the AI to their method.
I want to see a movie where it goes all the way back to the origin of the genie in the bottle and explains how it was like a touchscreen… as well as going all the way back to Magic words like “Beetlejuice” “please“ being like how Siri is constantly listening for you to say their name… and using other words activates other applications. Then it comes face-to-face with the origin of the universe that trumps all that other stuff and doesn’t treat people like tools.
Engage it so.
I wanna see the movie Jim Carrey is total-immersion, extreme-method-acting prepping for… perhaps the sequel of Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind… where he is summoned to a Saturday Night Live episode where he is being questioned by whoever he’s in a contractual relationship with regarding him being funny. They tell him corporate wants you to explain the difference between this picture and this picture—what happened? And it’s basically images that when you click on them, they play videos, one from Ace Ventura Pet Detective when he’s talking out of his ass (literally) and one where he’s waxing philosophic as the real Jim Carrey (or so it seems, at least in bizarro world). And they say are you making fun of philosophers? Are you stuck in your Me, Myself, and Irene role? In any case, it’s not funny, and you should just go flip burgers with the other philosophers, because you have breached your contract. And when he starts talking about his real life suffering, the Saturday Night Live episode goes off air, and the movie goes to the next scene.
I want to see an apocalyptic movie where this What About Bob type is the only sane person because he’s using his coping skills while all hell is breaking loose.
I want to see a apocalyptic horror movie where the superhero resists all brainwashing attempts to lull/neutralize them into complacency and even repeat-exposure affinity for the tactics of social engineering algorithms paired with general superintelligence. When they’re on the event horizon almost beyond escape velocity, one of their lines is “You know what I like” with the snark of somebody who comes back repeatedly to the spot where they know their bread is buttered. The whole movie the superhero has to keep reminding themselves of the real threat and the whole movie, the audience is like…but what really is the real threat here?
In that movie, there is a real threat, but I’m having a hard time coming up with what that is.
Whatever the threat is, the title is “Waiting for Jason”. The only way you can tell it’s a horror movie in the trailer is the scary music and the attempt to build suspense.
Maybe you don’t have to know what it is, maybe the art of the movie is the audience’s certainty that it is there. Like the superhero is also some druid that knows things.
That’ll give them something to think about when the movie’s over.
…who’s not serene?
