Colby Conrad

My short film Escape the Usual will be available to stream across Canada via @cbcgem starting March 4, 2024 and it’s impossible to articulate how insane that is for me to type out.

@LizarddFish @EPM106 This is fair

@ColbyConrad @EPM106 I think that was less the cold and more just Alberta

Ottawa girl who lived in Texas for a few years confirming that -30C clears so hard

@JamesPPoole Ryan Gosling does not give a single fuck what you need him to do and you’re just going to have to accept that.

I’m sure PROJECT HAIL MARY is great, and this is not the movie’s fault… But I’m gonna need Ryan Gosling to take on more challenging roles soon. Seeing one of the greatest leading actors of my generation kind of coast for the past 10 years has been, frankly, disheartening.

@magills_ I’m yet again here to remind you that you pathetic dolts always misinterpreted these people’s music and they always have and always will hate your guts

The Gen X icons are all lame and gay now

@CO323232 @avoidextremes @HistoricHub

@ColbyConrad @avoidextremes @HistoricHub Jesus Christ you lefties need to learn how to insult. Fucking phaggot

This song was written in 20 minutes of pure rage after hearing how a senator got his son out of the draft for Vietnam...

@CO323232 @avoidextremes @HistoricHub Imagine being such a dork, incel loser that you pull some stalker shit like this lmfao

@ColbyConrad @avoidextremes @HistoricHub This is the dude trying to talk shit. 🤣

@CO323232 @avoidextremes @HistoricHub You’re an anonymous incel dork on the internet suffering from psychosis. Thankfully, due to the agony of your miserable existence, you’ll be dead soon.

@ColbyConrad @avoidextremes @HistoricHub Canadian phaggots gonna say anything to anyone…. You guys got taken over by Ahmed’s and they’re raping all your women. Worry about yourself bitch

@7reggie0 @thesovereignceo Reggie, you used the wrong “too” in your attempt to call me stupid. There is no measurement of intelligence in existence that you would outscore me. The only activity you’re superior to me at is licking the boots of the elites who want to use your cadaver as an energy source.

@ColbyConrad @thesovereignceo You liberal morons continue too show how stupid you are

Just listened to Pierre’s interview with Joe Rogan. Anyone raging about this interview a) clearly didn’t listen to this friendly conversation of Jujitsu and love for Canadian cities and b) has also never listened to Joe Rogan in general. And unfortunately this seems to sum up most left leaning Canadians. Extremely strong emotional reactions to things that they actually don’t know much about.

@AnishA_Moonka @Ian_Fisch @FunnyPirat There’s very clearly a bunch of sequences where Rocky is completely CGI. I don’t know who’s paying you to be disingenuous, but this level of hyperbole in film twitter “reviews” is getting nauseating

@Ian_Fisch @FunnyPirat Clarified here, Ian.

You're watching a $248 million film and not a single green or blue screen was used. The alien is a handmade puppet. The cockpit physically rotates to simulate gravity. I looked at the production tech behind this 95% score, and the engineering is wild. Phil Lord and Chris Miller, directing their first live-action movie in 12 years, built the entire Hail Mary spacecraft as a real set at Shepperton Studios in England. Not a miniature. Not a digital model. A full-size ship interior you can walk through. Production designer Charlie Wood studied the International Space Station, Russia's Mir station, and the Boeing 747 cockpit to get the look right. He deliberately made the panels mismatched, because real spacecraft are assembled from parts made by different companies. Nothing matches perfectly. That's what makes it feel real. The cockpit is only about 8 feet wide. It sits on a mechanical platform that can tilt, spin, and shake, so when the ship changes direction or enters different gravity conditions, the whole set moves. Chairs end up on walls. Ladders flip direction. Gosling was suspended inside a spinning ring so he could float and move through the ship for real, reacting to actual hardware around him. No guessing where a wall might be added later. Then there's Rocky. He's the alien co-lead, and he's not CGI. Neal Scanlan, the creature designer who built the Porgs for Star Wars, spent a full year on this character. Over 300 designs before they landed on the final look. Rocky is a thin, hollow shell, 3D-printed from a digital sculpture, then hand-painted in see-through layers so light passes through him like skin. His arms pop off and swap out depending on the scene: one set has a closed fist for walking, another has tiny motorized fingers strong enough to pick up objects. Five puppeteers (nicknamed the "Rockyteers") operated him in every scene. James Ortiz, an award-winning puppet designer from New York theater, voiced Rocky and controlled him on set. When Scanlan met him, he told Ortiz, "You're Frank Oz, and I'm making Yoda for you." Every reaction Gosling gives to the alien is to something physically in front of him. Greig Fraser, who won the Oscar for shooting Dune, filmed the space scenes in the larger IMAX format (that taller image you see in IMAX theaters) and the Earth flashbacks in regular widescreen. Then the team did something unusual: they took the digital footage and printed it onto real film strips, twice, using two different types of film stock. Then they scanned those strips back into digital. It sounds redundant, but it adds a texture and warmth that you can only get from physical film. Fraser used the same technique on Dune and The Batman. Drew Goddard spent six years writing this screenplay. His last adaptation of Andy Weir's novel, The Martian, earned him an Oscar nomination. He described the challenge this way: a screenplay gets about 5% of a novel's word count. The lead is alone for most of the runtime. When he finally gets a co-star, that co-star doesn't speak English, communicates through sounds closer to whale song, and has no face. Goddard called it a screenwriter's nightmare, then said that difficulty was the whole point. He and the directors fought studio pushback to keep Weir's original ending intact. 95% from 212 critics. 98% from over 2,500 audience ratings. And the lead isn't a superhero, a cop, or a soldier. He's just an ordinary middle school science teacher.

@avoidextremes @HistoricHub Every time I check the comments on Twitter the top reply is some schizophrenic redneck spouting off about some bigoted, asinine nonsense that is only tangentially related to the initial reply

@HistoricHub Now we have to sing "Some folks come here illegally and get free insurance, free housing, don't have to work and can violate property and people's rights.... but it ain't me, it ain't me, I ain't no illegal alien no no no..."

@MediumSizeMeech You think you’re supposed to look the same at 37 as you did at 25?

The “Emma Stone got a new face” allegations will always be so weird to me. These photos are 12 years apart. She’s a 37 year old woman. She looks the same

Okay guys for real this time, I’ve had enough. It’s over for me. I cannot continue

Alright yall, I’m done. Best of luck with everything.

@pmarca Further proof that the losers in high school have made it their mission to ruin the world for the rest of us

Current status: Retardmaxxing.

@NWOHelwani @blurayangel @IMAX @dunemovie @warnerbros

@blurayangel @IMAX @dunemovie @warnerbros Rob was genuinely afraid after he turned around and saw this creep breathing down his neck

Robert Pattinson sat in front of me in the IMAX theater and I had to say this to him for all of us BATMAN fans 😂 @IMAX @dunemovie @warnerbros | #dunemovie #dune3

@diandrasdiandra He grew a mustache and is in movie shape. The reaction to this is perplexing

it was no less than 20 years, let's be real

This billionaire is crashing out and posting incel style memes because he publicly outed himself as being a sociopath

@rundry I can tell you’re under 25

I burst out laughing in the theater. It's so funny that they were in the cutting room like yup looks great. Put it in there

@KlondikeYkt @cigarettesummer I hope the men’s wear guy sees this and takes you to school

@cigarettesummer Jeans and white socks would look way better with sneakers

At some point you gotta outgrow sneakers