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@ATRightMovies "They shouldn't have, even with him." -me

On this day in 2009, STAR TREK was released in cinemas. Leonard Nimoy had turned down every invitation to return as Spock. Then three men knocked on his door, and what they said changed everything. For years, Leonard Nimoy had been offered chances to reprise the role of Spock. He turned them all down. He'd retired from acting in 2000, moved into photography, and seemed content to leave the pointy eared Vulcan behind for good. Then Star Trek died. The tenth film, Nemesis, flopped. The TV series Enterprise was cancelled. Paramount were on the verge of losing the franchise rights entirely. They needed a film and fast. Enter J.J. Abrams, screenwriters Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman, and a script that would reboot the entire universe. But they had a problem. They needed Nimoy. Not as a cameo or a favour. As the emotional bridge between old Trek and new. So the three of them went to his house. Orci later described Nimoy's reaction as a cautious "Who are you guys, and what are you up to?" They laid out their vision. They told him how important he was not just to the film, but to the story they were trying to tell. Then Abrams said the line that changed everything: "We cannot make this film without you, and we won't make this film without you." After they left, his wife Susan told the creative team what happened next. He had remained in his chair, emotionally overwhelmed by the decision he knew he had to make. The man who had spent years walking away from Spock couldn't walk away from this. He said yes because for the first time, a Star Trek script explored the full sweep of Spock's life. Not just the half-human, half-Vulcan conflict he'd played for decades, but the character's entire history, from beginning to end. As Nimoy put it: "We have dealt with Spock being half-human and half-Vulcan, but never with quite the overview that this script has of the character's entire history." And then he gave them one final gift they never asked for. His last scene was originally written as a quiet, wordless exit - Spock Prime walking thoughtfully away. After filming, Nimoy approached Abrams and said: "If you give me one more take, I have a thought I would like to inject here." They rolled the camera and Nimoy said: "Thrusters on full." Abrams later called him to say how perfectly it led into the final scene, where Sulu mentions the thrusters, but Nimoy told him the line wasn't about the ship. It was his way of saying to the younger cast: "Go ahead. Take the torch and go." Star Trek made $385.7 million worldwide and became the first film in the franchise to win an Academy Award. But it started with a knock on a door and three words: "We won't without you."

@ATRightMovies What's Eating Gilbert Grape

@SaltyGoat17 Pure slime.

Am I the only one that thinks he literally looks like a DC comic villain?

@libsoftiktok "Unkowingly?" You unknowingly raced a man? Come on...

Madness. She lost a national title to a man and is facing a ban for speaking up about it When will this insanity end?!

@AntiLeftMemes No. I voted for an elbow to the face first.

ICE agent PUSHES a man to the ground for blocking their federal vehicle. Is this what you voted for??

@SuitablePolitic Stop losing so ruthlessly!

Two days ago, people were talking about if the United States had the ability to actually put down Iran. Now? People are talking about if Trump is too ruthless in the way he wants to put down Iran. This kind of narrative shift is meaningful.

@KurtSchlichter Not if you write it first...

Somebody’s gonna make a movie about this rescue and I have a feeling the pilot is going to have a sassy obese lesbian of color sidekick.

@Mwenemutapaland @visionergeo @grok So basically an inverse Biden.

@grok why would such an invincible army like the USA with such air & ground superiority choose to destroy four of its warplanes worth >$400 000 000 and leave in a huff as if they were fleeing from some monister? Why not rush the rescued injured pilot to safety & let the bulk of the force attend to the mechanical issues of the warplanes then safely fly back to base since we are told there were no casualties on the USA side meaning there was no threat from IRGC

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱 BIG | Israeli Channel 12: New details have emerged about the rescue of the American F‑15E navigator shot down over Iran. The officer was unconscious with a concussion and did not transmit a distress signal initially. He made first contact at 12:00 on Friday, climbed to the highest point to avoid detection, walked 10‑12 kilometres and hid in a crevice, from where he sent precise coordinates on Friday night. Israel refrained from striking in the area and provided intelligence. During Friday and Saturday, Israel was asked to assist with air superiority and struck relevant targets. U.S. forces seized a farm 18 kilometres from his hideout, landing two aircraft and small helicopters. The helicopters extracted him from the crevice and returned him to the farm. During takeoff, two C‑130s became stuck in sand; three smaller planes were called to evacuate the navigator and special forces. Fighter jets then bombed the two stranded aircraft to prevent capture. See the latest updates with us: @visionergeo

@Hot_Pepper76 Sara Smile

Name one song you love by these two. Whichever gets the most picks, I will share with its backstory.

@AzPetrich So Adrian Brody, not William Hurt... Got it.

Just a reminder for Christian's celebrating Easter this week. Jesus looked like the guy in the first picture - not the second.

@Hot_Pepper76 Heard it again recently at a hardware store. Went home and bought it.

"Overkill" (1983) Men at Work reached No. 3 in the U.S. with this one. I never really thought about the lyrics until I looked into the backstory today. Did this one hit you differently as you got older?x.com/calmalgodown/s…

@michelle_ogno @RealJamesWoods Why was he in the engine compartment?🤔

@RealJamesWoods But did he?

The AutoPen Fool left astronauts to die in outer space. President Trump sent an army to rescue one wounded American. 🇺🇸

@RealJamesWoods ...we are not the same.🫡🇺🇸

@Arrogance_0024 We'll let you know when we need someone to negotiate the terms of surrender... Until then, STFU.🏳️🫵

The "leave no man behind" doctrine is actually a strategic weakness disguised as a virtue. Name one other military on earth that destroys 6 aircraft and fights a ground battle inside a sovereign nation to recover one pilot. You can't. Because no other military confuses tactical sentimentality with strategic logic. Soldiers serve the mission. The mission doesn't serve the soldier. The US has now established that Iran can shoot down an F-15, then watch America spend $300M and expose Delta Force trying to prove it didn't happen. That's not military doctrine. That's politics with weapons. A military that cannot accept the risk of loss cannot win wars. The US hasn't won one since 1945.

@KobeissiLetter I just hope no more of our bombs get destroyed by Iranian infrastructure and top leaders...

BREAKING: President Trump's advisors are reportedly texting Iran's Foreign Minister Araghchi in an attempt to continue negotiations, per Axios. Two sources involved in the negotiations said the talks are also taking place through Pakistani, Egyptian, and Turkish mediators.

@FoxNews That is strange since he got millions more votes than Obama. 🤔🤷‍♂️

EGG ON THE FACE: The Democratic Party is facing criticism after it posted an Easter-themed message about "Better times at the White House" featuring former President Barack Obama, while leaving out former President Joe Biden and bypassing his presidency altogether. "Why are y’all skipping over Biden?" one user replied.

@MissyIsMaga @DonaldJTrumpJr 🤣...so mean!

@DonaldJTrumpJr Btw Marco will be available for photos with the kids at 4PM today at the White House. Happy Easter! 😂🐇

This is the Easter miracle I was praying for today. Pilot, WSO rescued and all rescue operators safely out of Iran. What an extraordinary mission behind enemy lines. Shot down in Good Friday rescued on Easter. You couldn't ask for anything more perfect. Happy Easter all.

@librab103 @dIx0n_MaThIs @OccupyDemocrats The US just built a forward base in the middle of Iran... You're IQ is showing! 🤣🤣🤣🤦‍♂️

@dIx0n_MaThIs @OccupyDemocrats How so? The US got its ass whooped and ran away with its tail between its leg.

BREAKING: French General Michel Yakovleff tells Trump and his team to "stop sniffing coke" after they hatch an insane plot to seize Iran's uranium with a risky raid that would involve building a runway INSIDE of Iran. Yakovleff really didn't hold back... "I was a planner. I see a planner who tells me I have a great idea, chief, and then all you have to do is make a complete air base, etc," the general said of the proposed American plan during a TV appearance. "I say, you have to stop sniffing coke on the desk between your meetings. That's not possible. That's not possible!" "You don't sniff coke in Brussels?" asked the other man on the panel. "No, exactly. But here, I wonder... It's become so 'wow!' We are beyond science fiction. It's taking over to make an air base. It's Dien Bien Phu, if you want," Yakovleff said, referring to the disastrous 1954 battle between French forces and the Viet Minh in Vietnam. "The French have done it too. Do you want to see Dien Bien Phu? Go ahead. Enjoy." The similarities between Trump's battle plan and Dien Bien Phu are striking. The French inserted soldiers into a basin deep within Viet Minh-controlled territory, established a fortified base, and were promptly surrounded and pummeled by the enemy. The French suffered over 12,400 casualties. Yakovleff served as a three general in the French Army, as the commander of the French Foreign Legion, and in top positions in NATO. When he speaks on military issues, the world listens. "In addition to that, it's to go and look for fluids that were buried following the bombing," he continued, referring to the uranium. "I mean, the bombings probably made the galleries collapse, etc. In other words, even the Iranians, if they want to go and look for them, they need mass engineering." "They need builders. They need to recreate tunnels. They need to look for where the tunnels were before they collapsed to go and look for the stuff," he added. "So guys, even the Iranians, in peacetime, will take weeks or months to do this kind of excavation. So we don't see the Americans doing it. We're going to do it anyway. We're going to do it? Have fun, guys! The reporting on the proposed plan does indeed suggest a massive logistical operation will be needed in addition to the strictly military one. Isfahan, where roughly half the uranium is stored, is roughly 300 miles inland inside Iran. Al Jazeera reports that American forces would need heavy equipment, including excavators, to dig it up. They'd have to transport all of that while under constant attack from Iranian rockets, missiles, drones, and ground forces. Quite simply put, if Trump proceeds with this plan it will turn into one of the greatest military debacles in history. American troops will die in droves, all so that Israel can destabilize a regional enemy and continue its own territorial expansion. Please ❤️ and share to demand an immediate end to the Iran War!

@amyklobuchar Amy's definition of a fork:

So Trump is filing an “emergency” appeal to build his BALLROOM! How about fixing these “emergencies” first: 1. A plan to end the war 2. Ending harm inflicted by his tariffs 3. Getting House Republicans to vote for TSA/FEMA funding plan supported by all 100 senators

@JohnJHarwood ...and John Harwood KNOWS chickenshit!

pretending that the threat Donald Trump poses to America and the world is comparable to any other modern president of either party is the very definition of chickenshit