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@QiaochuYuan Very true, also there's subtle tension between Parker & Brett and the rest because they're the mechanics -- and the casual mealtime conversation (when they first wake up and in the infamous later interrupted meal) is fantastically natural.

the thing that struck me the most about alien is how aggressively working-class-coded the nostromo is. the set design does an amazing job of evoking a mechanic’s garage in space. the characters are ordinary workers trying to make a buck (“space truckers”), so they should look ordinary. they are exploitable and expendable; forced to investigate the beacon at the beginning to avoid forfeiting their wages. it significantly heightens the tension - they are not jedi, they do not have lightsabers, advanced technology will not magically save them, in fact technology creates the conditions for their exploitation

@ViolentSperg @NothingGoodDoes why no paracoronal or paratransverse?

@NothingGoodDoes Coronal

"We need to cut the world's population in half." "How are you going to kill 4 billion people?" "4? I'm talking about all 8." "How is that half—"

@ThatEricAlper Technically that license plate should be on any car BUT a bug 🤣

@DunderMifflinAS My fav Toby line delivery is when Dwight brings a dead goose into the office and Toby walks up real close to him and murmurs "cmon dwight, we talked about this" without moving his lips 🤣🤣🤣

This move was actually improvised by Michael. It wasn’t in the script, which is why Toby’s stunned reaction looks so genuine.

@NoahGarfinkel So Mr Jo-el you have had a heart attack-ack-ack-ack-ack-ack

(Doctors huddling outside of Billy Joel’s hospital room after test results just came back showing he had a heart attack.) “So, when we tell him, do we do the thing?”

@Cullivanpeter @mikemoviez Plus 3 more Anthony Mann/Jimmy Stewart collaborations-- The Man from Laramie Far Country Bend of the River

@mikemoviez The Naked Spur Shenandoah Winchester 73 The Gunfighter The Last Sunset Warlock

I'd like to get a list of good westerns going, but not the typical ones. The John Ford and Sergio Leone stuff, Magnificent Seven, True Grit, High Noon, The Wild Bunch etc. I'm looking for good westerns that aren't mentioned as often or have slipped under the radar 🤠

@JennyB311 Atheist here -- This is a smug meanspirited waste of time-- the heckler is not saying anything offensive and the argument is pointless, and his ad hominem hysteria is ugly and out of proportion.

Absolutely fucking class! He try’s very hard but you can see the tension in his face at the end. Well done!!

@athanasios32747 @TheCinesthetic "I wanted to see her again, without that silly staircase in the way..."

@TheCinesthetic double indemnity

a movie in which a character’s life is ruined from a single moment?

🎶Hinky dinkle dee ... hinky dinkle dum .. was the _______ interesting song that he sung ... 🎶 -- The African Queen @NYTGames #spellingbee @thegridkid

@ArthurKolchak Ishmael disappears after the famous opening sentence and the first 4 chapters, with one brief reappearance in the blubber rendering chapter and a third-person reference in one of the last chapters, finally reappearing in the epilogue

A lot of classic literary works are like this. Moby-Dick is a much *weirder* book than the simplified thumbnail sketch of the basic plot in circulation in the wider culture would have you believe (it tends to present the events as a simple moral parable about the dangers of obsession and revenge).

@rhodeislander @cowboy_postbop "Lose the arm."

@cowboy_postbop RoboCop definitely was not the brainless summer popcorn action flick people assumed it would be, that's for sure.

are there other pieces of media with as wide a gap between its assumed vibe and its actual vibe as “Saturday Night Fever”?

@bookisbetterpod @TheCinesthetic It's on a movie marquee in the background in a scene in Silver Linings Playbook

@TheCinesthetic 2008 Midnight Meat Train

What's a movie that you swear no one else has watched but yourself and a few others?

@gaykittycorps Begins by celebrating the (partial) destruction of books by order of a leader who doesn't approve of their content (he thinks it's too dry and pedantic)-- how about a discussion about how to write about poetry & leaving the pages there for future kids to make up their own minds?

rewatched dead poets society after years of not being able to put my finger on why I didn't like it, and it finally clicked. god that feels good

@Dales_Starman @AkiyoshiKitaoka Or the girl with the pearl earring

@AkiyoshiKitaoka Difficult. But it's normally Lincoln, Van Gogh, or the Mona Lisa.

Who is it?

@NYMag Yesterday's puzzle had 3 clues with the same answer-- I thought I was losing my mind but it was legit

Last weekend — for the first time in the puzzle’s 84-year history — ‘The New York Times Magazine’ printed an unsolvable crossword. Clues didn’t align with their corresponding answers or were missing altogether. The grid was correct online, but for print-magazine solvers, the damage to their weekends, and esteem, had already been done. Some solvers who complete the Sunday puzzle in the print magazine (often with pen) complained on crossword forums and social media, saying they were “nearly in tears,” some with fears of “sudden onset dementia” or, worse yet, ineptitude. When Mike McFadden, in New Jersey, couldn’t crack it, he thought, “something was wrong with me. I didn’t think that they would have an error.” It nagged at him all day. For others, the error triggered an existential crisis. “We trust that it’s always going to be something that at least somebody can figure out,” Irene Papoulis, a former writing instructor at Trinity College, said. “The world is making less and less sense. So it’s like, ‘The crossword puzzle? Not you, too!’” Several people said they felt robbed of a sacred morning routine. “Maybe I’m overreacting,” McFadden said. “But it ruined the best hour of my week.” Maggie Duffy reports on the crisis in the crossword community after an erroneous grid was published in the ‘Times’: nymag.visitlink.me/dVShF6

[Thread] Obama years, in no particular order ....

@Astrophysicslad This short-short from the late great OMNI magazine describes a catastrophic misinterpretation of one of the charming welcome messages on the golden record williamflew.com/omni17a.html

Has no one in Hollywood ever explored a movie about the Voyager spacecraft, where an alien civilization discovers the Golden Record, deciphers its messages, and follows it back to Earth to make contact with humanity? That would be absolutely incredible to watch.

@enbocacinefago @ngelSorianomor2 And had a heart attack!

@ngelSorianomor2 Ya que pones a Martin Sheen, recordemos que el tipo iba tan borracho (de verdad) rodando la escena del comienzo de "Apocalypse Now", que se cortó realmente con el espejo al darle un puñetazo y siguieron rodando.

@owenbroadcast The difference between an orchestra and a bull is that on a bull the horns are in front and the asshole's in the back

there’s a musician joke: night of the big performance. the orchestra is all about to go on stage, but the conductor falls and smashes both his hands. he’s taken to an ambulance. all the musicians are standing in the wings, offstage, wondering: what now? the audience is waiting. the second chair violinist is feeling brave. he knows this whole piece. all the parts. he steps to the front, to the concert director. he says: i can conduct this. the director says: alright. they all go on stage. the violinist goes up to the conductors podium. sweating. he starts. does the whole piece perfectly. standing ovation. the next day they all come in for rehearsal. the violinist is back in his second chair. the first chair turns to him and says, “hey man, where were you last night?”

@Noirchick1 We know her as 1750, which is the amount of her savings (that's $17.50, not $1,750) she shyly requests from George Bailey in It's a Wonderful Life

I became a well-known character actress who appeared in many films and television episodes.... and became most famous in my older age in a memorable role. Who Am I?