#UI Movie Reviews

[aqualityofthought]

Natural Born Killers was a good movie! Very funny. Time to add another Tarantino film to the list of good ones.

[rafsanrajkin]

Movie App UI Design for Mobile using Figma for a buyer. Project link here: https://www.behance.net/gallery/214496103/Movie-App-UI-Design-For-Mobile-using-Figma

[telugufundahyd]

Revisiting Upendra’s ‘Super’ Dystopian Political Drama Ahead of its Spiritual Sequel, UI - Telugu Funda

Upendra is one of very few original voices of India. His films often get cult status. Ahead of the release of his latest UI on December 20th, let’s revisit UI’s spiritual prequel released in 2010, Super. 

Super is a story about Subhash Chandra Gandhi, the man who made utopian India possible with his unthinkable political philosophy. The story starts in 2030’s India where English-speaking foreigners, especially Britishers and Americans, are begging in front of the Warangal International Airport. The world economics are flipped in 2030: the dollar’s value has plummeted, Indian ethnic wear is seen as fashionable over the western wear, public spaces are filled with Hindu gods, Indians are considered as well cultured and foreigners are seens as only Rupee grabbing opportunists. As usual, the first thirty minutes was taken solely to position Upendra’s ideas of India in 2030 leaving the rest of the film to the quiet not-so-very-genetic plot of how he did what he did. 

Also Read: UI The Movie 1stSingle Set to Unveil a Musical Marvel

Aptly named, Subhash Chandra Gandhi, is a rich sentimental nationalist living in Britain, only to realise that his love for India as it is not worth it, the harsh reality hits him as he tries to solve the simple pension problem of a poor man. He also realises that the woman, Indira (Nayanthara) he married turns out to be a dupe set out to take vengeance for the injustice Gandhi allegedly caused to her elder sister Mandira. These realities make him a bad person from a good person and he sets out to teach a lesson to the whole India by becoming the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh. 

Also Read: Real Star Upendra Commands Dubbing for the Magnum Opus “UI: The Movie” in Hyderabad

Let’s get real. Upendra as a filmmaker is not for everyone. Upendra’s ideas are very eccentric. He is no less than an auteur. His cultural commentaries through the films like Upendra and A are quite problematic in the real sense. However, what makes Upendra a true genius is his borderline-satire fused with preaching of ideals, HIS ideals. His views on democracy, women, monogamy, sex, public decency etc might not be accepted by all. He never imposes his ideas as preachiness. He preaches. But, not through the spectrum of black and white, but through the true essence of character itself. To make thighs more difficult, he plays both the good and the bad in his movies. Oftentimes, the character transformation is not from bad to good, but from good to bad to good (the conclusion depends on U). Therefore, it becomes frustratingly difficult to understand if the filmmaker Upendra is speaking or the character that is passing on the message. 

Upendra’s utopian Super set in 2030 is a must-watch ahead of the release of his UI, the dystopian political drama set in 2040.

 UI is going to hit the theatres on December 20th, 2024.  Follow Telugu Funda on trending Social Media Platforms for more Cinema, OTT, Political, And Sports updates

[sashasspace]

MOVIE LOVER TRAIT BY SASHA'S SPACE

This CAS trait is for sims who love to watch movies. The movies from Movie Hangout and movie theater options from Growing Together are included in this trait. This trait is meant for child sims to elder sims. There are 34 in-game movies, so that means your sims will have 34 wants plus other social-related wants. Thank you so much for supporting my first-ever mod, the love language mod.

Packs Needed: Mostly Growing Together and Movie Hangout, but there are some wants that have Get Famous and one want is from Kids Hangout.

HOW DOES THIS MOD WORK? Your sim will wants to watch movies. For Growing Together’s movie theater wants, the symbol will all be the same. This is also true for Movie Hangouts. IMPORTANT NOTE: Sims who don’t enjoy a movie won’t have a want completed, so I recommend you to cheat it with UI cheats mod. Right-click over the want and complete it like that.

Child sim wants: Watch Moonlight Massacre III Watch SuperKids Cortex Catastrophe  Watch Lost Dog’s Journey Home Watch The Adventures of Spaceship Simulation Watch the Sheriff from Alpha Centauri Watch Yibs Yibs! Watch A Room with No Door Watch Of Tea & Treachery Watch VoidBop: The Movie Watch Critters from Mauven Forest: The Last Llama Watch Peter Barker’s Homecoming Hijinks Watch SuperKids: Agent Diaper Eat Popcorn Imitate movie scene Read books under the covers Discuss love for movies Complain about movie Talk about your favorite movie Talk about the movie you last watched Declare your favorite movie genre Text a friend about a movie Invite a friend and watch a movie with them Watch a movie Perform a puppet show Dream about the cartoon world Join the drama club Host a sleepover *you can use MizoreYuuki's mod that unlocks plan social events for child sims as a bonus way to complete the want if you want* Read the book from that one movie

Teens to Elder wants: Watch Simder Watch College Cram Watch Moonlight Massacre III Watch Roaring Vice Watch SuperKids: Cortex Catastrophe Watch Lost Dog’s Journey Home The Khlumzee Sisters Watch Diamonds Are For Sims Watch The Adventures of Spaceship Simulation Watch the Sheriff from Alpha Centauri Watch Yibs Yibs! Watch Of Tea & Treachery Watch VoidBop: The Movie Watch Princess Cordelia’s Pirates Watch Captain Sigma: Olympus Landing Watch All My Friends are Fred Watch Tournament of Honor Watch A Room with No Door Watch Critters from Mauven Forest: The Last Llama Watch Packs & Prejudice Watch Treasures of Aarbyville Watch The Great Pickle Capers Watch Dusk Glow 3: Shadowmoon Watch Peter Barker’s Homecoming Hijinks Watch Simder 2: Master Suite Watch Live and Let Diamond Watch Missing Handlebars Watch Gentlemen Corgi: A Memoir Watch SuperKids: Agent Diaper Watch Untamed Treachery of the Heart Eat Popcorn Discuss love for movies Complain about movie Talk about your favorite movie Talk about the last movie you watched Text a friend about a movie Declare a movie as your favorite genre Video Call Call a friend and talk to them about movies Cuddle while watching a movie Argue about movie Take a selfie with a movie star Ask for autograph Watch movie with Watch movie Gossip about actors Throw a movie party Movie and chill Create a movie review SimTube channel Reenact a scene on a mirror Ask a celeb for a hug  Ask to take a picture of a celebrity Talk about Starlight Accolades Go to the movie theatre alone Talk to a youngin’ about old movies **Adults and Elder sims only** Reminisce about past movies *Elder Sims only* Join the acting career **Young Adult Sims to Elder Sims only** Join the Drama Club *Teen and Child Sims only* 

I don't recommend this mod for people who use movie overrides because it may be a bit annoying to keep getting wants on movies you don't have in your game since you have an override. I'll consider making an override user-friendly version for this trait in the future♥

General mods I recommend for people who play with wants Wants Reroll by Lumpinou UI cheats by Weerbesu Searchable Pie menu by Twisted Mexi

Credits

Ravasheen for listing all the Growing Together movies

SimsVIP for listing all the movies from Movie Hangout

Zerbu mod constructor v5

Lot51 Tuning Builder

Sims 4 Studio

EA & The Sims

TwistedMexi Better Exceptions

Nisa K x Scumbumbo Tuning Error Notifier

Tee for teaching me how to create wants/buffs 🫶🏾

Cepzid for helping me with a situation goal

Jordy for motivating me and for inspiring me to add a scary buff+ starlight accolade tea

My amazing testers love you 🥹

Pose makers and the cc creators I used for the thumbnail tysm♥

To all my motivators, my family, friends, subscribers on YouTube, and all of you who’ve been leaving amazing comments on all my social media, I worked on this for you. Thank you for being part of this journey with me. To celebrate all my recent milestones, check my video out to join the giveaway for Growing Together and Movie Hangout to celebrate all my recent milestones. The video also shows how this mod works. This mod will be in early access for two weeks.

For any modder who wants to translate any of my mods, I don't mind if you upload it on your Patreon or any other website that monetizes, BUT I do not want you to post it on CurseForge. I would also like it if you keep the mods up publicly for download no early access/paywall. If any translator translates mods before the early access period, please wait till the mod is public to release it for everyone.

A bonus mod I recommend to help the in-game movie experience is the RVSN film reaper mod (movie theaters in all worlds). Btw I will create a Tumblr post on all my favorite mods for movie gameplay in the coming days!

DOWNLOAD EARLY ACCESS// Public August 25,2024

[alexanderwales]

TV Review: Pantheon

I watched the first season of Pantheon when it came out, and have only gotten around to watching the second season of it now.

There are things that I liked about it, and things that I found kind of frustrating. Part of the frustration is that a lot of the topics of the show like AI and brain uploading are things that I've spent a long time thinking about, so take all this with a grain of salt.

Spoilers follow.

One of the main problems with depicting either of artificial intelligence or brain uploads is that the actual substance and experience is surely going to be much different from the real world. There's already a problem in TV and movies with depicting what it's like to be sitting at a computer doing things, something that's not fully solved.

Pantheon opts for depicting a kind of fantasy world, though sometimes with other, more grounded scenes. It gets a little muddled with this sometimes, but I feel their pain, particularly when they have to show that a program is "damaged", so they have little glitches and exposed code underneath, and ... I just hate this. The metaphor is that they're fighting each other on a green field with swords, but the reality is ... I don't know, that they're specifically targeting subprocesses or something?

So the fights are cool and pretty imaginative and I liked them, but I kept thinking to myself "but what's going on really" and it did seem like it was wishy-washy in terms of what was actually happening and how it was happening, and if every fight feel like it's just bullshit after bullshit, then there's no tension at all. And particularly in season 2, there are a fair number of these fights, so I'm enjoying them on the visual level, and think they're fun to watch ... but on the narrative level, not so much.

Like a lot of my favorite scifi, Pantheon is a show about ideas, or at least, it's trying to be. Sometimes it succeeds, other times ... not so much.

To me, the key to getting at some of these philosophical issues is having two people on either side of a debate, so the work is asking the question of "what measure is a man" and there are people with different opinions, and then the person watching can make up their own mind, maybe with the writer showing a little bias.

Pantheon is very very clearly on the side of "uploaded people and artificial intelligences are people", which I think somewhat weakens it. But it's also so much on the side of "these things are people" that it seems to forget all the ways in which this doesn't apply, and maybe doesn't forget, but just ... doesn't want to deal with any of it.

If you can scan a brain and get a connectome out of it and then launch some kind of emulation process, you can copy it, back it up, fork it, etc. IIRC there was some lip service paid to quantum computing and how you can't measure the quibits or something, but I don't really buy this, because the connectome they're getting from the scanning process isn't quantum in nature, and if it were, that would run into the same measurement problem. I accept it for the sake of the show, but it does also make me think "none of this actually matters in real life, even theoretically, this is a future that is basically completely implausible for the sake of narrative" and then also gives me a bunch of munchkin thoughts like "alright, so you can't make copies, what can you do".

There are a lot of things that the show just sort of glosses over, and part of that is because it's just not that long, but some of the gaps bug me. After the end of season 1, the internet gets shut off for some period of time, and I'm just thinking "okay, but in modern society that means everyone is completely fucked, people are going to die, this means global mass panic". They invent an anti-AI program in season 2 called Safe Surf, and it's apparently more capable than every single UI and CI put together, and ... how does that work? There's a 20 year timeskip and UBI gets implemented somehow, with all the work being done by virtual people, and this is just sort of explained by "oh, the virtual people will do all the work", which just flies in the face of the realpolitik understanding of the world in the first season, where all the major "digital superpowers" were fighting for supremacy on the basis of needing gigacompute and wanting to be crowned god. Really unclear to me what changed to make a virtual utopia whose only dividing line was "is the virtual world as good as the real world".

The last two episodes have some timeskips, and I'm generally a fan of timeskips, but this also has some of the shakiest science in a show that already has some shaky science.

Biggest two offenders that I noticed were "space solves the cooling problem" which ... no, it absolutely does not, cooling is harder in space than on Earth, cooling is a major challenge on the ISS today, you need water and giant radiator panels and it's much easier to just run some cold water from a river by the compute clusters you want to keep cool.

And the other one, which comes halfway through the second episode, is "Inside that deceptively simple base-4 code is the epigenetic memory of everyone who ever lived", which is just ... not what epigenetics is. The epi- prefix means "in addition to" or "on top of". The whole point is that it's not actually a part of your DNA. And epigenetic memory is the process of passing on changes to expression of those genes, it's not stored in the DNA, that's the whole point.

And look, it's scifi, it's not a scientific paper, but these kinds of errors do seriously hamper my enjoyment of a work of science fiction, I'm sorry. It's the combination of "supposedly smart character" and "obviously wrong thing", I guess. Maybe you can argue that things like this are just shorthand, or there's some explanation that makes sense, or that it's character error, whatever, I don't like it.

Also in the last episode Maddie calls it a Dyson Sphere even though it's clearly a Dyson Swarm, so what the hell?

Overall, it's a show that I would have liked better if it was the first time I had encountered any of these concepts, which is starting to get common with scifi stuff. Met on its own terms, I did enjoy it, particularly some of the season 1 twists. I think it was worth watching, I guess, just retreading some old, familiar ground.

[codemerything]

LET ME RE-INTRODUCE MYSELF👋🏾

My former handle used to be "leaveblackbrosalone" but @a-fox-studies gave me this new handle and I use it everywhere now, so thank you so much!

My name is Emery I really love movies and music, I take it very seriously and I sometimes write reviews on Letterboxd. I'm heading towards being a full-stack developer (I almost forget to add this)

Programming Languages 💻

Javascript (Primarily) Solidity (Secondary) I'm yet to learn but eventually will when I map out a timetable for it. Node.js too

Skills 🤹🏾‍♀️

Technical Writing Graphic Design UX/UI - I like to do everything myself so I picked this up and I'm decent with it I have a couple of articles on my blog here I mostly like to talk about subtle nuances in tech and I will be writing more this year hopefully! check out my GitHub here(maybe you can use some of my .README styles lol) and check out my projects too ~!

I love to build projects and hopefully I will be building more this year and sharing some of my interests and daily activities here (daily activities posts are quite tough for me but I'll figure something out)