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@Andrew__Boley This will bomb like nothing before. Think Waterworld and then times by ten.

Am I nuts or is this feeling like a disaster?

@anishmoonka DEI woke garbage. Not for me

Christopher Nolan asked IMAX to build him a new camera. They did. Then he and Matt Damon spent four months filming The Odyssey on the open ocean, on the largest modern Viking longship in the world, with no green screens at all. The shoot ran 91 days, from late February to August 2025. Seven countries: Morocco, Greece, Italy, Iceland, Scotland, Western Sahara, and Malta. Aside from one indoor studio in Los Angeles, every shot was filmed on real ground. In Italy, the cast and crew climbed 900 feet up a mountain every morning. Imagine walking up a 60-story building before breakfast. In Iceland, they filmed the underworld scenes by lantern light while rain came at them sideways. The four months at sea actually happened at sea. Damon and the actors playing his crew sailed on a real ship called the Draken Harald Hårfagre, used here as a Greek warship. Nolan called the experience "primal." He said the cast and crew were exhausted in a way he had never seen before. The cameras were the other big problem. IMAX cameras have always been too loud to record clean dialogue, which is why directors mostly save them for big action scenes. Nolan asked IMAX to fix this. They engineered a new soundproof case for the camera, a kind of quiet jacket, that lets the lens get within a foot of an actor's face while they whisper and still pick up clean audio. The new cameras also came out lighter and about 30% quieter than the old ones. To prove it worked, the lead cameraman Hoyte van Hoytema filmed a tight close-up of a child reciting a David Bowie song, "Sound and Vision." Nolan watched the test and called it "electrifying." Damon went all-in on the role. He dropped to 167 pounds on a strict no-gluten diet. He grew a real beard for a full year because Nolan refused to allow a fake one. The crew built a full-scale wooden Trojan Horse and shot the attack scene at an ancient walled town in Morocco called Aït Benhaddou. Nolan himself climbed inside the horse with the cast and his cameraman to get the shot. Across the whole shoot they used 2 million feet of film. That comes out to around 380 miles of it, longer than the drive from Los Angeles to San Francisco. At about $1.50 a foot, they spent roughly $3 million just on the film itself. The full budget was $250 million, the biggest of Nolan's career. They wrapped nine days ahead of schedule. Tickets went on sale on July 17, 2025, exactly one year before the movie's release. That had never been done before in cinema history. Half of the 22 US theaters offering IMAX 70mm sold out within 12 hours, bringing in around $1.5 million in a single morning. Nolan called the shoot "an absolute nightmare to film, but in all the right ways." He did not destroy a single IMAX camera. He has wrecked several over his career.

BOYCOTT BLACK-WASHED FILMS ❌ Helen of Troy was said to be the most beautiful woman in the world. Helen is described in ancient texts with "xanthus" (golden) hair, blindingly white skin & a divine appearance that could "drive men mad". Helen was European. She was NOT a Sub-Saharan African 😡 This is White European History, These are our Stories, our historical figures, characters etc.. Imagine if we replaced all the Africans in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever with White people.. This is so insulting & disrespectful!

@ArchRose90 Hypocritical slime. If London vote for them they deserve them. More tax, more money burned on illegal immigrants, more rapes, more robberies, more theft, more DEI, and more anti-semitism. Fuck that.

The most Green Party story I’ve ever read. The Greens reparations officer, Antoinette Fernandez, who supports the idea of Britain paying trillions of pounds in slavery reparations, is descended from a Nigerian royal family that traded slaves. One of them owned 1,400 slaves.

@benwehrman Stop whining about it and just switch off. I don’t watch DEI crap so I don’t get triggered by it.

Harry potter goes to hoodwarts

Winston Churchill used to lay 200 bricks per day to keep his mind busy when feeling down. Depression hates a moving target.

@CyberRobooo Seriously just look at the hand. The Optimus unit (Tesla) is vastly superior to anything Boston Dynamics has.

Boston Dynamics just had a brutal C-suite shakeup CEO Robert Playter retired in February, the COO and CSO bounced right after, CTO Aaron Saunders jumped ship to Google DeepMind… and a ton of senior engineers and researchers are gone too. This is happening right as the company gears up for IPO and tries to scale Atlas from flashy lab prototypes into real mass production. Hyundai (the parent company) is cracking the whip: they want tens of thousands of these humanoids in their factories ASAP. Basically going from “cool robot video dreamers” to “actual factory workforce suppliers” overnight. Board is in full panic mode. With Optimus, Figure,Unitree and the rest breathing down their necks, losing this much talent at crunch time… oof.

When you see this kind of extreme worship and reverence displayed by groups of sycophants and grifters it is not hard to see how religious cults begin. If people like my Grandfathers, returning from defeating the Nazis, had been offered a fat mentally ill pervert as entertainment they would have flatly rejected it. Never mind reward it and expose vulnerable children to the filth. At best Sam Smith needs genuine medical help to get him the mental and physical help he needs before he kills himself. x.com/THR/status/205…

Just settling down at the Odeon on Panton St (London) to watch the Akira re-release in 4K - great start to the Bank Holiday. Smaller screen but cinema packed . Why aren’t more places showing this? Both Manga and Cyberpunk don’t get any better.

The Green Party has complained about this cartoon of Zack Polanski by the The Times. They’re deeply unhappy with it. Whatever you do, do not repost!

Crime statistic analysis is really interesting w.r.t to ethnic/cultural groups. If you have a particular group that shows a high propensity for a particular anti-social behaviour then it makes sense to focus prevention measures on that group. In London when you watch the criminals evading fares on the metro the percentage of individuals that are young, black, males is alarming.

A black American from Tennessee went on a trip to visit Shanghai, China She shows in a retail store, a worker is assigned to follow her around and make sure she doesn’t steal anything No matter where she walks, the Chinese worker follows According to real FBI crime statistics, the likelihood of a black person stealing from a store is over 10x higher than a Chinese person stealing from a store Stereotypes seem to exist in multiple countries

Rare old clip: London Mayor Sadiq Khan and UK Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood, together in Pakistan years ago long before they rose to power. It looks as if they were carefully hand-picked and groomed from a young age to lead Britain in a very specific direction. This has all the hallmarks of long-term, well-funded planning the quiet Muslim Brotherhood-style takeover of Britain from within. And now, with both in senior positions, Britain is paying the price. Jewish citizens live in fear. Ordinary Brits are afraid to speak their minds. Parents are scared to let their daughters walk alone at night. This wasn’t an accident. What do you think, was this planned?

@its_The_Dr Black Americans have suffered more from the rising migrant population than the white middle-class that normally do all the complaining.

What is going on in Chicago? Black People are fighting with Muslims?

In 20 years they will not believe how deranged society became in the first years of the new millennium. Young people will think that historians are exaggerating and it is up to those that lived through the madness to make sure they know the truth. Essentially fat degenerate morons instead of being admonished or encouraged to improve themselves were tolerated, praised for their failings, and encouraged to evermore ludicrous levels of anti-social narcissism and self-harm. x.com/GOP_is_Gutless…

In 20 years they will not believe how deranged society became in the first years of the new millennium. Young people will think that historians are exaggerating and it is up to those that lived through the madness to make sure they know the truth. Essentially fat degenerate morons instead of being admonished or encouraged to improve themselves were tolerated, praised for their failings, and encouraged to evermore ludicrous levels of anti-social narcissism and self-harm. x.com/GOP_is_Gutless…

🚨 WATCH THIS 😂 Local Democrat Party Chairwoman who identifies as a DOG… gets attacked by a dog. You literally cannot make this up. Peak 2026 liberal insanity! #Democrats #IdentifyAsDog #WhatCouldGoWrong

@BasilTheGreat @Godfrey_Bloom Shocking

🚨LABOUR MAYOR AND SON LOCKED UP The son, Diwan Khan, has been given 12 years for raping a 15 year old girl The Labour Mayor, Naheed Ejaz, has been given 3 years for trying to hide his phone from police so he could delete the evidence Is this was integration looks like?

I am not anti-Iran at all. I worked with Iranians in the Caspian and Chinese oil-fields. To suggest Iran “holds the global economy in its hands …” is just not true. They are literally at the mercy of the US blockade and unless they surrender the US/Israel will kill more of their citizens in a brutal fashion. Encouraging the IRGC to continue is irresponsible and increases the suffering of Iranians. Remember that people were telling us for ages that the Palestinians were fighting the good fight and making the Israeli’s pay. Now Gaza has been obliterated.

Trump’s latest message of lies should be read as an admission of defeat. Iran holds the global economy in its hands through the oil and gas platforms in the region and the strait of Hormuz. It is just a basic geopolitical fact.

@hagar_shezaf @ZackPolanski I think we are beyond perception and we have the objective reality of serious danger when Jews are being stabbed and run over outside the places of worship.

I asked @ZackPolanski yesterday what is the Green Party's response to the recent wave of attacks against Jewish sites in the UK. His response: “I'm concerned about rising antisemitic attacks. We saw arson attacks on ambulances for instance and we know that increasingly jewish communities are feeling unsafe. There’s a conversation to be had about whether it’s a perception of unsafety or whether it’s actual unsafety, but neither are acceptable”.