Not Paul Klee

@DrHelenFry I had a coworker who told me he was a guard at Spandau and he had Hess' autograph from that period. I offered to buy it, but he told me he was saving it for his daughter, whom I bet probably didn't understand its significance and likely threw it away.

‘I did what I did for the sake of a greater Germany.’ ‘I know I shall hang. You know I shall hang. I am ready.' Göring ‘still possessed all the forcefulness, brutality, ruthlessness and lack of conscience which made him the ideal executive for Adolf Hitler.’

@wtfcetialpha5 Kolchak was the boss!

Five shows to get to know me: 1. Kolchak the Night Stalker 2. Star Trek TOS 3. The X-Files 4. Monty Python's Flying Circus 5. The Expanse

@hollywoodscifi Planet Earth!!! Ha ha ha

We own John Saxon's gun from this. How many of you know what this is?

@BestMovieMom One of the greatest scenes in movie history....

R. Lee Ermey wasn't supposed to play Hartman in Full Metal Jacket (1987). He was a technical advisor until he recorded a 15-minute tape of himself screaming insults while being pelted with tennis balls. Kubrick was so impressed he cast him instantly.

Barbara eden and Elizabeth Montgomery both bewitching

@HistoryWJacob Desoto, according to George Costanza.

Who is your favorite explorer? I like Shackleton. When his ship was crushed by ice in the Antarctic, he was able to get all 28 crew members back to civilization alive. "When disaster strikes and all hope is gone, get down on your knees and pray for Shackleton."

@TheCinesthetic Paul Henreid was the worst player in an otherwise excellent film. Ingrid Bergman's performance illustrates why she is considered one of the best actresses of all time.

The “La Marseillaise” scene in Casablanca (1942) still lands with staggering power. Many extras were actual refugees from Nazi-occupied Europe, which is why it feels so painfully genuine.

@cicero_mn If you are older than 15 and walking, you have issues....

I picked up a hitchhiker today for the first time in probably twenty years. He got in the car and immediately started digging around in his backpack. Clearly, something was mentally wrong. Safely dropped him off a few miles down the road at his destination. Anyway, I’m now done picking up hitchhikers. 🤣

@joeroganhq "Let the left hand not know what the right hand is doing. Surely, he has his reward."

Bill Gates to donate 99% of his $200 billion fortune to Africa and other charities over the next two decades.

@Jim_Malmstrom @BestMovieMom Not the way the movie portrayed it.

@JohanDasche @BestMovieMom Single class of securities. And it happened.

Despite its A-list cast, Margin Call (2011) was shot in just 17 days on a budget of about $3.5 million. Most of the film takes place on a single floor of a vacant Manhattan office building, which helped keep the production fast and inexpensive.

@Incognito_Guy07 @SteveMichaels11 @BestMovieMom Not at all. That movie's plot had no similarity to the 2008 financial crisis. Again, the firm was over leveraged on one security and the world collapsed. Total BS.

@JohanDasche @SteveMichaels11 @BestMovieMom A classic example of the Dunning-Kruger effect. A bit of advice, mate. It is better to remain quiet and be thought a fool thzn to open one's mouth and confirm it.

@anishmoonka Over rated movie.

Kevin Spacey had two Oscars when he signed on. Jeremy Irons had one. Demi Moore, Stanley Tucci, Paul Bettany, Zachary Quinto. Every one of them took the lowest wage their actors' union allows because they read this script and said yes on the spot. The whole movie cost $3.5 million. The Wolf of Wall Street cost $100 million to make. The Big Short cost $50 million. Margin Call cost $3.5 million and still grossed close to $24 million. The director, J.C. Chandor, wrote the script while sleeping on a couch in a borrowed office. Couldn't afford an apartment. His dad was a career banker at Merrill Lynch, one of the biggest firms on Wall Street. Chandor sat down to write in the days after Lehman Brothers, another massive bank, went under and helped trigger the 2008 financial crash. The CEO in the movie is named "John Tuld," a mashup of two real bank CEOs from that era: John Thain at Merrill Lynch and Richard Fuld at Lehman Brothers. 80% of the movie was shot on the 42nd floor of One Penn Plaza in Manhattan. The offices had just been cleared out by a real trading firm. They made a movie about Wall Street collapsing inside a building that Wall Street had already walked out of. Chandor could have had more money. Investors showed up with bigger checks, but they wanted the ending rewritten. The CEO hauled off in handcuffs, the good guys walking out in protest. Chandor turned them down. He wanted the version where everyone compromises and goes home. That refusal is why the budget stayed at $3.5 million. He had his own close call with the crash. A bank handed him and some friends $10 million to buy a building in New York before 2008. Almost no questions asked. A former banker he knew told them to sell fast. They got out right before the bottom dropped. The film hit theaters in October 2011. That same week, Occupy Wall Street protesters were camping out a few blocks from where the crew had filmed. The producers put it on iTunes and cable the same day it opened in theaters. Around 500,000 people rented it for $6.99 each. That was roughly $5 million that a traditional release would have left on the table. Matt Levine at Bloomberg called it the best finance movie in 2022. David Denby at The New Yorker said the same thing when it premiered in 2011. A movie about a bank pulling the coldest trade of its life turned out to be one of the coldest trades indie film has seen.

@kenaviba @DrHelenFry Albert was a saint and an anti-Nazi; Herman was a devil, but he saved Albert from the Nazi's on numerous occasions.

@JohanDasche @DrHelenFry Goering's brother Albert saved a number of Jews. In fact, their godfather was Jewish and essentially raised them both in the absence of diplomat father and his wife.

The commander of the Luftwaffe and Hitler’s deputy surrendered in full marshal’s uniform. Yet even in his tiny prison cell, Göring still acted like he owned the place. This is the rare eyewitness account from the young Jewish translator who came face-to-face with him: (🧵)

Don't think so. The crash was a result of dem policies that encouraged subprime borrowing, was it not? Then when rates rose, mortgage payments rose and said subprime borrowers couldn't qualify for refinancing (many used ARM's to get low payments) which lead to default. Then banks holding the mortgages lost money because mortgages weren't repaid. That movie is BS.

@JohanDasche @BestMovieMom The plot was based on a real world event. How doesn't it make sense?

@Syraavibes I dated a nympho once and it was horrible after week two. I had to sleep at my own house because she was constantly pawing at me.... Plus her twat was huge....

Men love sex untill they meet a female who likes to fuck 6 time a day.

@mikemoviez A great film, the three prime players, Menjou, Douglas, and McReady were superb. McReady was the standout.

PATHS OF GLORY [1957] Directed by Stanley Kubrick ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "In one of the most moving antiwar films ever made, a fiery Kirk Douglas stars as a World War I French colonel who goes head-to-head with the army’s ruthless top brass when his men are accused of cowardice after being unable to carry out an impossible mission. This haunting, exquisitely photographed dissection of the military machine in all its absurdity and capacity for dehumanization (a theme Kubrick would continue to explore throughout his career) is assembled with its legendary director’s customary precision, from its tense trench warfare sequences to its gripping courtroom climax to its ravaging final scene."

@MobtownDare @SoundMoneyG LOL. Too funny.

@JohanDasche @SoundMoneyG I live on North Ave with zero issues. Youre just a pussy.

I have no problem with people, residents, being proud of their city, or their block. But stop making up junk about how "great" Baltimore is. Its commercial properties... waterfront properties... are DECLINING in valuation. Its flagship commercial area has LOST business.

@CinemaTweets1 Paths of Glory

Glengarry Glen Ross stands next to LA Confidential as one of the best casts I’ve ever seen in a film. I challenge anyone reading this tweet to find me a film with a better cast than either of these films. You can’t. It’s impossible. These two movies have insanely talented casts.