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if the tmdb mods are gonna allow what is essentially an e3 demo to stay then they have to allow every single piece of recorded video on the internet i'm sorry

you know i went straight to the tmdb discussion page. shall be keeping a close eye on this one as things progress. cyclone200 fights for justice

i do get the rationale that these are weird because they're showing up on streaming services and/or TV formatted as short films, but it is kind of strange they don't include ari aster's shorts and whatnot given they include thesis films and festival-only stuff otherwise

(GTA:SA The Introduction is extra weird because it and the RDR one probably have the most actual claim to "is a coherent short film worth noting" but it was never actually released in this format and was a special edition extra with the game itself)

yeah i mean the tmdb mods are famously just evil and particularly cruel to independent filmmakers without traditional distribution, who cant even get their movies listed on the database service everyone uses. huge problem in online film culture space. this gta thing is just a funny expression of it

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yeah, no, i get that i guess the best way i could put where i stand is, i lean towards maximum inclusivity on it *because* the line's weird and blurry, so while i want stuff like the aster shorts and the channel awesome movies on there i'm also conversely not mad the video game stuff is up

and the aster shorts in particular seem really weird to not have because like, those are thesis films made by a pretty renowned mainstream filmmaker? that kind of stuff has historically been uncontroversially fine on there the entire time, you can still log cronenberg and lynch's shorts for ex

A lot of the time what happens is that 15 years ago there was an argument and the mods hated being wrong and decided to never concede on that issue again. Kamen Rider shows are forced into one big season on TVDB while Super Sentai is split up. It's incoherent and all because the wrong mod got mad.