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The World's End
2013 · Film · 109 min
Directed by Edgar Wright
Five friends who reunite in an attempt to top their epic pub crawl from 20 years earlier unwittingly become humankind's only hope for survival.
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The author should check out the 2013 Edgar Wright movie The World's End, pointing out the growing uniformity of local pubs. Also, it has awesome fight scenes.
I coded a similar prototype during covid and predicted we are going to see a lot more of this now that WebRTC is pretty universal, and also that people are comfortable with the concept due to Zoom and others being everywhere.
I did a virtual pub crawl based on the 12 pubs in the movie The World's End, and it was a lot of fun. We had a really good time.
What I'm curious to see are the more creative uses of this. Yes, we can make virtual rooms and connect people in a common way, but it seems like there needs to be some creative brainstorming around new was to organize and interact. I would love to join with others to explore these concepts.
That's funny, I agree with a lot of the article because I've been experimenting with creating different types of video conferencing.
I created:
https://drinkingclass.com
To host these experiments. For instance, if you want to chat with people around tables organized by pubs in the golden mile (from the movie The World's End), go to:
https://drinkingclass.com/go/goldenmile.cfm
If you want to watch random questions from jeopardy with others:
https://drinkingclass.com/go/jeopardy.cfm
I am looking for creative and interesting uses for video conferencing technologies. Also interested if you find any issues.
> Adults are watching this stuff, and taking it seriously!
Wait, seriously how? Who? How many of them?
> Films used to be about challenging, emotional journeys.
Charlie Chaplin. Laurel and Hardy. Buster Keaton. John Wayne. Die Hard. Lethal Weapon. Airplane.
The World's End.
> Now we’re really not thinking about anything, other than the fact that the Hulk just had a fight with a robot.”
Yep. I took an afternoon off to treat a few people to Age of Ultron. It was awesome. Afterward, I went back to work.
I think this article can go sit right next to the nonsense about Clint Eastwood and the empty chair: "Person states opinions about society and ends up in the news because they're an actor, more at 11."