Tom Trombone

@ParkerFoxtrot @woebetidesus @John_Attridge Gremlins 2: Has John Glover Gremlins 1: No John Glover checks out

@woebetidesus @John_Attridge Hot take: Gremlins 2 is better than Gremlins 1

Film literacy among young people is at an all time low. My gen z students are shockingly unfamiliar with many key landmarks of modern cinema that were released in the 1990s

@Napnyc1Napnyc White and Black Warbler

Upside down Black and White Warbler

For anyone who used a computer between 1990 & 2005… what’s the one game you still think about?

@TAGACAT @GamewithDave This is the one.

@robertpmodell @st_louis_stan But where’s the shark???

@st_louis_stan This is why it's the best of his Batman movies. The climax is Batman running around with a bomb just like in the Adam West feature.

There was nothing quite like experiencing this scene for the first time and slowly realizing after that nothing about it made any sense at all

@Hatercles @M3S0soic They used an excavator, but yeah, basically.

@M3S0soic Isn’t that how they kill the t-Rex in Dinosaurus?

The ending of The Valley of Gwangi is so messed up that I'm wondering who was the guy with massive problems (for the record O'Brien's ending had Gwangi being driven off a cliff by a truck)

@BlighttownNIMBY @FredTaming this should earn you an instant internship at NASA

@FredTaming the real reason it's wrong is that there have been at least a few humans born since that picture was taken

dear lord open the schools

@emilyjobot yeah, i know the feeling

sorry for cat spam they simply won’t stop being so cute n perfect all the time

@jenmakesthings @somethings_awry that actually sounds fantastic

@somethings_awry Love brie grilled cheese with a jam, I make one with Brie, arugala, prosciutto and a spiced pear spread on sourdough.

Brie, wild blueberry, and basil grilled cheese served alongside homemade roasted tomato soup

@fripper509 @vurnt22 I like to think the story about the original ending is true.

@vurnt22 X: The Man with X-ray Eyes is a classic Corman bit of Lovecraftian horror.

2 other Cosmic Horror films that, imo, are deeply Lovecraftian in tone, if not text? Carpenter’s The Thing, & Cronenberg’s The Fly. BTW? I’m sorry but Hellraiser is more on the mark than From Beyond. In your mind, hear Pinhead intoning “Humans are such easy prey!”. And weep.

@KaijuPictures I only recently saw the flying footage for the first time. Always wondered about those wings as a kid myself.

@Samizdat2003 I saw the English cut, not the Danish one.

I finally got round to watching Reptilicus (specifically the English version) and it’s definitely a stinker. The many mostly uninteresting characters are mostly performed either poorly or just fine and the story takes a while to get going with plenty of padding in the first half.

@KaijuPictures “Weird he has wings yet doesn’t use them.” youtu.be/JyrsEHxf3nQ?si…

Still, the Danish setting/production is one of the few notable things about the film. Reptilicus is pretty generic personality-wise but his regeneration adds an interesting dilemma. Weird he has wings yet doesn’t use them. Otherwise, okay design but poor execution.

@mcfc_son @intothecrevasse Ok, but From is the only thing on MGM+ that interests me, and I don’t really want to subscribe to yet another service for just one show. Seems like a bit of a problem to me.

Just because a show is on a less known streaming platform doesn’t mean it reflects what’s gone wrong with TV. Niche audiences exist for a reason, some series thrive precisely because they aren’t tied to mass market hype. If someone’s excited for the new season of From, that just means the show has found its fans. Fragmentation isn’t necessarily a problem, it’s more choice, more diversity and a chance for unique storytelling that wouldn’t survive on traditional networks. Not every cultural touchstone needs to be a barroom conversation starter.

1. a show called "From" 2. getting four seasons 3. on a streaming network that cannot be surely said to exist has to encapsulate something about what's gone wrong with TV. Imagine going to a bar and asking a stranger if they're psyched for the new season of From

@NickSim86353344 @TheCinesthetic And it ground the movie to a halt, just like Merian C. Cooper said it would.

@TheCinesthetic And then Peter Jackson brought it into his Kong film

The infamous “Spider Pit” sequence from King Kong was said to have been cut after audiences supposedly fainted watching it. In The Black Scorpion (1957) Willis O’Brien and Pete Peterson reused the original spider model built for that lost sequence.

@Blueelectron4 @DocOldFossil And the hammers would be so poorly lit we’d barely even see them.

@DocOldFossil They'd beat you with hammers if you tried to light a scene this well today.

thinking about the beams of light in jurassic park

@Moon_1_mr @ronancebot It’s was Hurley’s show all along.

@sc_world_2010 @14_kaiju @YellowFlashGuy It’s on Netflix in the U.S., which admittedly may not help you much.

@14_kaiju @YellowFlashGuy Me frantically searching for Godzilla Minus One Minus Color online

Nicolas Cage says he found ‘Godzilla Minus One’ was “even more stunning” in black & white. “When Godzilla Minus One came out in Japan, I saw it in color. I thought it was stunning. But it was even more stunning when they reissued it in black and white. It looked like an old Godzilla movie. I thought that was really beautiful that I could experience it both ways.” (source: esquire.com/entertainment/…)

@amolitor99 @AshtonForbes @johndrewmarkley

@AshtonForbes @johndrewmarkley Say hi to Archimedes Plutonium for me!

I hate to tell some people this, but a guy saying "heavier than air flight is impossible" 150 years ago is not, in fact, a very good reason to think relativity must have some loophole that will yield to us if we wax poetic about the Human Spirit insistently enough.

@sykesjeff Nice shot! Here’s mine.

My best ever Kingfisher shot, give me a little retweet if you think the same.

@KaiserKnightMax Orthochromatic Shin came close.

It's a beautifully shot film. A haunting oscillation between docudrama realism and nightmarish expressionism. I sometimes wish we got more Godzilla films with this aesthetic.