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You’ll never forget your first. The tangible memento which reminds you daily that your art is appreciated, that your effort was worth the energy, that this is only the beginning, that it’s always best to march by the beat of your own drum because you don’t know any other way.

@TheStingisBack You mean Gremlins but Toys?😂

Joe Dante's Small Soldiers (1998) is criminally overlooked. It’s Toy Story’s unhinged sibling: the toys don’t play, they declare war. Brilliant Stan Winston effects, great cast, Tommy Lee Jones and Frank Langella voice work, biting satire and an edgy kids’ thriller. Magical stuff

@historigins “If you raise your kids, you can spoil your grand kids, if you spoil your kids you have to raise your grand kids.”

A granddaughter is the best revenge for a strict father 😂

@DannyDrinksWine Crazy, because I rewatched the first three recently and it’s easily my favorite.

Steven Spielberg explains why he didn't like 'Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom' (1984) & why he felt he was fated to make the movie: “I wasn’t happy with 'Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom' (1984) at all. It was too dark, too subterranean, & much too horrific. I thought it out-poltered 'Poltergeist' (1982). There’s not an ounce of my own personal feeling in 'Temple of Doom'. I look back and I say, ‘Well, the greatest thing that I got out of that movie was I met Kate Capshaw. We were married years later that to me was the reason I was fated to make 'Temple of Doom'.” ("Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom: An Oral History", Paul Bullock, Medium, 2017)

@cliftonaduncan Turtle Power is still 🔥. I bet you still know the words.

I saw this movie when it first premiered and loved it. I watched it again recently and was shocked by how well it holds up. It works because they turned a film with an absurd premise (mutant sewer-dwelling turtle-ninjas, mentored by a rat) into a timeless story about the importance of family: Master Splinter (the rat) is the Sage archetype, and a father figure for the adolescent turtles, and @Heyjude629 smartly plays April O'Neil as a tough, stabilizing maternal force. Shredder, the villain, is the Dark Father. The film reveals early on that his Foot Clan is, like many gangs, comprised entirely of wayward teenage boys. The story resolves only after the titular heroes learn to unite under the leadership of their father. Only then can the Shredder be defeated (and his young male followers shown a better way). Because the animatronics and puppetry are so exquisite, suspension of disbelief is much easier than it would be with expensive but alienating CGI. The film feels more "real" because all this work was done by humans, not by computers. The reason there's so much nostalgia for decades past--and why so much media from the past enjoys popularity today--is that no matter how young you are you feel the emptiness of modern society, and part of that emptiness you feel is the result of a mechanized pop culture created by cynical people who are ideologically hostile to everything that makes life worth living.

@MuseZack @LukeBarnett Have you checked out his episodes of Jim Henson The Storyteller? His work is stuck in my head.

@LukeBarnett Steve Barron was the director. Look at how many iconic videos he directed for MTV, including this one.

I legitimately think it may be the best comic movie of all time.

@LukeBarnett Did you watch the 35th anniversary release last year? I’ve studied every frame of this movie.

@KevOnStage Some of you in these comments are stupidly hilarious, this show is gonna be massive and it’s gonna show the gap between reality and Twitter. Its success might just pull you out this matrix.

I will be watching that new Harry Potter from episode 1.

@MuseZack Have you checked out the Shadow of Mordor and Shadow of War games? Great Storytelling, world building, conflict, drama, etc. It’s all you just described.

If I were gonna make a movie from Tolkien leftovers I'd probably choose a sidequel like "Here's how humans and dwarves teamed up to hold off Sauron's northern forces at the Lonely Mountain while the story you know was going on to the south." There are juicier stories to tell.

@LukeBarnett @robinsonishyde He may have forgotten the business side of this thing.

@robinsonishyde As someone who has produced 7 features, I don’t possibly know how he’d only get paid $5K on a $1.5M budget unless that was his choice? Not that he’d be getting rich on that budget, but $5K is what you make on like, a $100K budget.

As someone who makes film budgets for indie films as a living. Y’all have no idea how little some of these folks are getting paid.

@Todd_Garner @BrandonDavisBD This is why you’ve been producing for so long, you know how to sell your movie.

@BrandonDavisBD They are obsessed with us…

Cody Rhodes clapped back at the Mortal Kombat 2 cast after Street Fighter's Andrew Schulz started a feud t the Video Game Awards. "We will dog walk anybody from Mortal Kombat." Full ep: youtube.com/watch?v=DFGrcE…

@speakeasytlkshw @EmmanuelAcho Did you tell us about you and Joy? No you didn’t you kept it a secret.

@NYJetsTFMedia Without question.

Do you want the #Jets to re-sign Breece Hall❓

@MuseZack @walterkirn I loved parts of his childhood when he spoke of the autonomy his father gave his, like when he went to buy a horse.

On @walterkirn's advice I'm reading President Grant's memoirs and...they're some of the best writing I've ever read. I'm at the end of the Mexican-American War (which he regarded as an unjust land grab) & he's describing his disgust at the cruelty of a bullfight. A good dude.

@MuseZack Will do I! I just finished The Iliad on a reread last week so I’m hyped.

@OniffeWhite Let me know what you think!

My favorite Trojan War-themed fiction is the hard-to-find but excellent The Shattered Horse, S.P. Somtow's imaginative sequel to The Iliad that brings in everything from the Late Bronze Age collapse to the Bicameral Mind hypothesis. Look at that praise from the great Gene Wolfe!

@itbetk @spectrumarvel Stan Lee didn’t create him as an antihero he was created as a superhero.

@spectrumarvel everyone tryna have a “gotcha moment” under this tweet with blade is wrong, he’s a antihero. meteor man & hancock were both solo superhero movies, black panther was not the first.

Remembered leaving the theatre feeling so empowered after watching this peak movie. Black Panther was the first black superhero solo movie ever! #BlackHistoryMonth

@ColdCriti Go make that anime then.

One way I think Frieren could have done something more interesting with its premise was if Himmel was a more flawed/grey character and the idealized picture of him we see in Frieren's memories was a distortion showing how the passage of time leaves only the most positive memories

@MuseZack 😂

God forbid a senior citizen have a hobby.

@MuseZack @nxd1979 Actors act.

@nxd1979 She also played a ginger Irish mom in Titanic!

one of the most memorable latinas in film was played by a jewish lady from beverly hills

@ClayWendler Either 12 or 15.

One of these things is not like the others...