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@CoveredGeekly Who?

Mortal Kombat 2 writer Jeremy Slater says Arcana will never be mentioned in the movie universe ever again "[It] was just something that the hardcore fans never responded to" (via ign.com/articles/morta…)

Democrat politicians under 40 are putting themselves back in the closet and people will tell you social conservatism hasn’t gained ground under Trump

@KevinLamb74 Are fans really this stupid? RoTJ was made BEFORE RoTS. The blunder, if there is one, is with RoTS.

ERROR: Fans call out Return of the Jedi blunder during scene where Leia says she remembers her mother, despite Padme clearly dying in Revenge of the Sith while Leia is barely a minute or two old. Should ROTJ be forgiven for this obvious continuity error or does it disqualify Episode VI from being considered canon?

@Andercot Consumers never had much of a chance to demo VR. With TVs, you just go to the store, and there is the TV. You see how it looks, and can compare it to the other TVs. I've seen hundreds of TVs. I've never even had the opportunity to try VR.

The absolute non-takeoff of VR and AR is probably one of the big upsets in consumer electronics history Pretty much everyone thought this would be huge and it sort of just isn't

@CopaExMachina You weren't asking whether or not the movie was good, or well made. It can be that, and I can also hate it.

@knight_liquid I think when artist sets out with a certain intention and achieves the desired outcome it's a W of sorts It hit all the marks and goals it set out for being a sickening ride of an acid trip being one of them. There's some real craftsmanship to achieve that.

I'm sure they're out there but I yet to find one person who's seen Fear and Loathing and hated it REVEAL YOURSELF for my personal amusement

@CopaExMachina That's like giving me bad acid and saying: "See, it works." Like, yeah, it's doing what it's supposed to do, I guess, and you could call that a success, but it is very unpleasant (not that a film has to be pleasant).

@knight_liquid "It made me feel like I was on bad psychedelics." Yes! That's how you know it's working

@erinotoole @_kruptos Mr. O'Toole, I am not on your side here, but you really need to stop trying to defend yourself from this, and move on. All you're doing is laying out a buffet for your critics, and they're feasting on you.

@_kruptos The policies we proposed were oriented towards smart reopening, safeguarding the vulnerable, reducing division and addressing the negative mental health aspects of closures and restrictions. I am quite proud of the way we approached it.

And here we finally have the admission of the truth: “Doing nothing was not an option.” This underscores what I have been saying, that every decision made in regards to Covid was political, driven by the need to “do something,” That these decisions were not based on “the science” is obvious because prior to this the best research said that there is little you can do to stop the spread of viruses. And so new research was found that was politically more suitable. And the so called “vaccine” was rushed into use in spite of having received little meaningful testing or any real sense of whether it was doing anything. It certainly didn’t stop the spread of the virus or people from having adverse reactions. Then there was the effect on school kids, businesses and people who lost their jobs. There was the inflationary pressure of injecting billions of new money into the economy without any meaningful economic activity, lowering the standard of living for working class Canadians. The real crisis was the state “solution” to a problem that would have worked itself out in due course. There is no way to demonstrate that anything our government did had any meaningful positive impact. That is the beauty of it. @erinotoole gets to cite all of the “smart” proposals his party put forward. They were see “doing something.” And that was the point. He will defend to his grave that all of the “doing something” he proposed made things better.

@RetroMoviesDB The Rocketeer is one of those films where they didn't have the tech to make it right. There is very little Rocketeering. The most memorable parts are actually Timothy Dalton, who is having a blast playing the villain, and Jennifer Connelly, who is hot.

Scoring an unjustified 67% on 🍅... The Rocketeer (1991) is perfect. Disney originally wanted Johnny Depp as Cliff Secord. After he passed, Billy Campbell (who looked just like the comic character) got the role and even cut his long hair and shaved for the screen test.

@TheLaurenChen It's already been confirmed that Page isn't Achilles.

Rumors are swirling that Christopher Nolan's Odyssey will have Elliot Page as Achilles and Lupita Nyong'o as Helen of Troy The movie isn't even out yet, but people are already calling out the possible attempt to undermine masculinity and European beauty culture

@GreeneMan6 Nolan has already done The Odyssey twice (kinda): Inception and Interstellar.

Agreed. If the entire Odyssey (or Iliad) was just transported to an African context no one would care. In fact, most RWers would think that it was epic. It’s this “let’s keep it in Europe but imply everyone in Europe was black!” attitude that bothers people. It feels fake and darkly nefarious.

@RazorFist Last Samurai is much, much better than Dances.

Search your feelings. You know it to be true.

@NewsWire_US He is on camera 10x more than Biden.

Trump Has Now Fallen Asleep on Camera More Times Than Biden

@BreannaMorello When you see a story that says "Something happened, according to Anna Paulina Luna," you can pretty much disregard it.

🚨EXCLUSIVE REPORT🚨 The CIA did NOT raid DNI Tulsi Gabbard’s office. I spoke with a Trump official that tells me the actual events unfolded differently. Last fall, the CIA did visit the ODNI to retrieve certain documents. This Trump official emphasized there was NO RAID. The visit is part of a broader, year-long standoff between the CIA and the ODNI. The official said the CIA has been blocking the transfer of specific responsive documents to Gabbard’s team. Among the materials the source believes are being withheld are documents related to COVID-19. Gabbard’s team has requested documents, and responsive materials are being blocked, the official said. The tensions highlight ongoing friction between intelligence agencies as the Trump administration works to gain access to sensitive records. I have reached out to Gabbard’s team for comment on this matter. I will update you when I hear back.

@MattWalshBlog A big contributor is the mergers and acquisitions of these mega media corps. When you buy Star Wars for $4 billion, that means you need to keep pumping out content to profit. So Star Wars went from being a major cultural event to mundane.

There's a reason that the 00s feel like the last real decade. Something happened in 2009. iPhones invented two years before. Then in 2009, Facebook rolled out its personalized algorithm-driven feed. Twitter and Instagram followed a few years later. I really think, if you have to point to just one culprit (though there are several), it would be this. The algorithm killed the monoculture more than anything else. We live now in a culture almost entirely shaped by the algorithm, which is to say that we have no culture.

Every decade in modern American history can be identified and defined by its own style, its own approach to music, film, fashion, its own aesthetic. That seems to have stopped right around 2010. The 2010s don't really have their own unique feel, even in retrospect. The 2020s certainly don't. We're more than halfway through the decade. What are the movies, music, style, and trends that this decade will be remembered for? It's like we fell into some kind of cultural blackhole 15 years ago.

@OnlyInBOS You couldn't design it to look nice?

Boston University's new 19 story building runs with: No gas No fossil fuels No emissions One of the greenest buildings in New England.

@nonregemesse Lupita wasn't cast as Helen, she was cast as the anti-Helen.

Greeks and ‘Anglo-Saxons’ are the same race and Helen of Troy was not Kenyan. I don’t know why these people try to make these ridiculous arguments.

@lordsxnpaij Look, I love this game. I've played it twice. I plan to play it again with my brother. But the story is NOT its best quality. In fact, the story is its weakest element.

If you don't like great stories don't play this game.

@nonregemesse It's the same problem Wolfgang Petersen as director of Troy. He'd never done something set so far in the past.

Although he is a great filmmaker, he has never done a film set this far in the past or even beyond WWII. He seems to have struggled with making the associated aesthetic choices.

@ianmSC Oppenheimer was already woke. It tries to gloss over the rise and spread of communism in America.

Christopher Nolan has always been committed to accuracy and attention to detail in his movies, “Interstellar” and “Dunkirk” especially, and much of “Oppenheimer” Now he throws it all out for “The Odyssey” to make Hollywood happy? Inexplicable