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@DonaldClarke63 @user183737376 @fuzzyyarns Sorry before. They are consecutive through I believe which would fit this arbitrary criteria.

@MLF9988 @user183737376 @fuzzyyarns It’s also not right after it. It’s two years before

DISCLOSURE DAY is Steven Spielberg's 2nd consecutive film to top-bill a woman, after THE FABELMANS. Martin Scorsese & Christopher Nolan could never.

@user183737376 @fuzzyyarns It’s not great.

@MLF9988 @fuzzyyarns Has anyone actually watched Boxcar Bertha

@SeanFennessey “Stuff” 😅

I made this week's piece on Projections free for everyone to read. It's about Spielberg, this moment at the box office, and me tying up my mom's landline while downloading stuff off the internet in 1994. seanfennessey.substack.com/p/three-times-…

@fuzzyyarns So that’s doesn’t count? Also, Boxcar Bertha is right after this. I can’t say the same about Nolan but you may want to rethink your arbitrary approach here.

@MLF9988 Only 52 years ago.

110 Million over 4 years. That’s a million dollars per CAREER reception. Who negotiates these contracts in Green Bay? 😭😭😭

I like Scorsese but why is everyone talking about him like he's Ingmar Bergman... he's a very competent filmmaker but not singular and clearly not infallible

@ComicBookBookie @faceuh8

@faceuh8 There’s not a single redeemable thing about the Irishman and I was at the first showing of Gangs of New York opening morning. If you like the Irishman you’re just a poser. You can’t quote one line bc it’s not a good movie. It borders on self-parody.

Anyone still so hung up on this that it ruins the film for them, or even brings the film down for them even a little bit, deserves nothing good in life.

@TheRewatchables Ok so now you have to get Scorsese to do Vertigo when “What Happens at Night” comes out.

'2001: A Space Odyssey' with the one, the only... STEVEN SPIELBERG!!! FULL EPISODE OUT NOW!

@jowrotethis What about neurodivergent people who use it to get their executive function online for the first time in their lives? It sucks it’s a big dumb corpo, but helpful. (I say this begrudgingly)

I’ve still never used ChatGPT. It’s unbelievably easy not to.

@misskubelik No notes. Asteroid City is top 5 Wes. Might be top 4.

I disagree with this on a few levels but it collapses anyway because why would I bar his Wes Anderson collaborations? If you ignore the good movies he's made ... has he made any good movies? ASTEROID CITY is one of the best of the '20s so far.

@historyinmemes Doubtful this guy was clairvoyant. Probably just understood what the dangers were on the high seas and the ambitions of the then modern ship makers.

In 1898, author Morgan Robertson published a novel describing a massive luxury ocean liner that hits an iceberg in the North Atlantic and sinks because it carries too few lifeboats. The fictional vessel, named the Titan, closely resembles what would later happen in real life—14 years before the construction of the RMS Titanic. In 1898, American author and former sailor Morgan Robertson published Futility, or the Wreck of the Titan, a novella about a gigantic British passenger liner called the Titan that strikes an iceberg in the North Atlantic and sinks due to a lack of lifeboats. The striking resemblance to the real-life sinking of the RMS Titanic in 1912, 14 years later, has intrigued readers for more than a century. In Robertson’s story, the Titan is described as the largest ship ever built, widely regarded as “unsinkable,” and capable of remarkable speed—details that eerily echo how the Titanic was later promoted and perceived. Despite these apparent parallels, most historians view the similarities as coincidence rather than prophecy. Robertson drew on his maritime background and on real trends in late 19th-century shipbuilding, when ocean liners were rapidly growing in size, speed, and prestige. There were also key differences between the fictional and real disasters, including ship specifications, passenger numbers, and the exact circumstances of the collisions. Even so, The Wreck of the Titan remains one of the most famous examples of fiction seeming to anticipate a real-world tragedy.

@StarWarsDaily_ Hell to the nah, I don’t agree.

Do you agree?

@LukeBarnett I would flip the top two. Otherwise this is correct.

Top 5 Coen Bros 1. No Country 2. Fargo 3. Llewyn Davis 4. Lebowski 5. Raising Arizona

Which insanely popular or successful movie you secretly hate but are afraid to say if in the open fearing backlash from "fans"?

@everymovieplug The last like 45-60 min of this movie are Nolan’s finest work. The Prestige probably his best overall.

At the end of The Dark Knight Rises (2012), Bruce Wayne secretly survives by using The Bat to carry the nuclear bomb away from Gotham. While the world believes Batman died a hero, Alfred later spots Bruce living peacefully in Italy with Selina Kyle, and John Blake discovers the hidden entrance to the Batcave hinting that Gotham's legacy will continue.

@CruiseCrave Here is pretty awesome. People will catch up to that one. Man called Ove also a good movie. He’s just older and good parts for older people are few and far between. He’s basiaclly Jimmy Stewart. I’m not completely well read on Stewart’s last half but can imagine it was up/down

Has anyone noticed (bar his Wes Anderson collaborations) Tom Hanks hasn’t been in a good movie for over a decade? Like this isn’t just a slow spot now, it’s been like 12 years now. I feel like no one talks about this but it’s really weird that he seems to be genuinely struggling to find good roles

@maxlevine66 @CruiseCrave Asteroid City is wayyy better than people realize. Give it time.

@CruiseCrave The Post, News of the World? Also Asteroid City is terrible and the Phoenician Scheme is whatever.

@haikuforidiots @mjarbo @ManaByte I got to do a focus screening and I really liked it. Didn’t see the Final Cut so not sure how different it ended up being. Anyways, I had a good time at the movies watching it.

@mjarbo @ManaByte The creator looked ( and was!) fabulous!

I am seeing people attack Gareth Edwards for saying he is excited about generative AI in filmmaking. But this is probably the least surprising take he could have. He made *Monsters* for roughly $500,000, handling much of the visual effects work himself. Then he made *The Creator* look like a $200 million sci-fi blockbuster on an $80 million budget by shooting smartly and using VFX to expand the world. This is what Gareth Edwards does. He uses technology to put bigger ideas on screen without wasting money. So of course he is interested in AI. But people seem to be ignoring the most important thing he said: AI has “no taste whatsoever.” It can help test ideas, build worlds and stretch a budget. But it still needs a filmmaker behind it who knows what they want to say and why they want to say it. If Gareth Edwards can use AI to make another original sci-fi movie like *The Creator* without needing $200 million to do it, I am absolutely here for that.

“I’ll kill your whole f–king family. Your whole f–king family is dead. Your children, your wife, all dead." A left-wing activist in Newark was caught on camera shouting those words at an unmasked ICE officer as protests outside the Delaney ICE facility turned chaotic. Acting AG Todd Blanche is now firing back, promising that the "disgusting" activist will be caught and charged, emphasizing that threatening a federal officer and their family is a federal crime. “That is disgusting … and we see his face and I promise you we will find him, and when we find him, we will arrest him."