Matt Packer

Very pleased to say my latest mag-editing project - the Drucker Forum Special Report 2020 for @InstituteLM & @GDruckerForum - is out as an online PDF. This is my 4th year at the helm of the Report & I'm really proud of what we've put together. issuu.com/revistabibliod… via @issuu

@steveasbell Noa and Mae are superb, engaging characters and it would be nuts to cast them aside. Kingdom is a fantastic, gorgeous, thoughtful, gripping movie and its tantalising story threads must be honoured and resumed.

I guess it depends on how you define "continuation?"

@robhawkes @StuartKells Kudos and thanks to your granddad for some seriously iconic handiwork!

This is my grandad, he built the original R2-D2 for the first Star Wars film… Jack was a master sheet metal worker, and was roped into using his skills on an obscure project to turn the sketches for the droid into something that could be constructed out of aluminium sheets. I always knew he'd helped make part of R2-D2. However I only found this photo in recent years and have since learned that he was actually instrumental to the construction of the entire droid, particularly with working out how to machine the complex shapes like the dome and legs out of single sheets of aluminium. He didn't just build one either, he ended up constructing a handful of the droids for various uses in the film. I still have no idea how he did it, especially without modern software and computer-controlled machining. Unfortunately I never got to know him as he died when I was a baby, though I have a feeling we share a lot in common. I also have his old Dragon 32 computer that he was using to learn programming in the 1980s, with reams of hand-written code that still works on the computer. #MayThe4th #maythefouthbewithyou #StarWars

@SolaceCinema - Michael Bay - Michael Bay - Michael Bay Fixed it.

A list of directors who could potentially take over ‘TOP GUN 3’ has been circulating: • John M. Chu (‘WICKED’) • Joachim Rønning (‘TRON: ARES’) • Adil El Arbi & Bilall Fallah (‘BAD BOYS: RIDE OR DIE’)

@TheInSneider Michael Bay is by far the best candidate. The most ardent disciple of Tony Scott, and someone who has an instinctive flair for blending cheesy jingoism, spellbinding action and ravishing photography. Has a string of massive setpieces on his CV that put him well ahead of the pack.

I’m so curious who people think should direct TOP GUN 3. Like, a realistic choice. Joseph Kosinski wasn’t exactly Christopher Nolan when he signed on for TOP GUN 2. Feel free to throw out some names…

@MikeBales @mrtnkeady Wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then. = Bob Seger, Against The Wind

Hello darkness, my old friend…

@nightwriter22 Gotta be Michael Bay.

Director Joseph Kosinski will not be returning to direct Top Gun 3. Paramount still wants to proceed with the follow-up to 2022's Top Gun: Maverick with Tom Cruise and is going to begin searching for a new director. Kosinski is busy developing two major projects, Miami Vice and his UFO thriller.

@leicesterliz Will it support firms with illegally trousering vast quantities of other companies' intellectual property?

Sovereign AI supports firms with investment, access to supercomputers and bringing in global talent so companies start here, scale here, and create good jobs across the UK. We are betting on Britain because we believe in Britain

@vurnt22 The inventiveness and kineticism of his drumming in the Gabriel era of Genesis is criminally underrated - not least because it often had to lead some rrrrrrrrrreallly long songs through numerous different sections, movements and time changes. Supper's Ready - 23 mins, anyone?!?!

Phil Collins is a complete rarity in a UK context; he’s the Prog bloke, that people at The Pub could relate to. He laid the groundwork to utterly capture Pop, whilst maintaining an absolute sense of authenticity. Even if you don’t dig it - you never think he doesn’t mean it.

@HiddenYorkshire Thank goodness for this honesty - it's an utterly tedious, disjointed slog of a film and definitely feels like an overextended student short.

Watched The Green Knight (2021) and found it very...plodding. Yes, it's very creative, but it feels a bit like a final year film student short film in creating an endless sequence of Atmospheric Shots and expecting the viewer to simply bathe in it, regardless of how the Atmospheric Shots move the story forwards. It also drags a lot and could easily have 30 mins cut out of it. Yet another critically acclaimed, artistic film which I just feel I don't get.

@bspm1998 @AGoldmund The execution is Joel Schumacher shooting the medical scenes like white-knuckle action sequences and filming insanely attractive cast members in really cool-looking apartments, all draped in the gorgeous lighting of *Jan De Bont*. I struggle to see any trace of a problem, here.

@AGoldmund Flatliners is awsome, the execution is what it is, but it’s still an amazing movie

@aliensexpanded Yep, experienced it at the Troc and was all sorts of jangled up. Can only describe it as nerve-shreddingly authentic. I believe a strong alcoholic beverage was immediately consumed thereafter.

Alien War was an interactive immersive experience back in the 90s that has sadly faded away. Did you get the chance to experience Alien War?

@Darren_Mooney The IT movies were perfunctory misfires that barely scratched the surface of the imperious novel and meekly chickened out of the book ending's genre switch to cosmic abstraction. Welcome to Derry was absolutely staggering - felt like the work of a completely different artist.

As somebody who is broadly speaking fond of Muschietti - “IT” remains a remarkable accomplishment - what he did do is deliver the studio a seemingly unfilmable and cursed “Flash” movie without seeming to say “no” to a single studio note. He was a good soldier. He got promoted.

@BrandonFugal @depechemode Astounding - the lush, expansive, multilayered companion to Violator's zen minimalism. Dave was obsessed with Alice in Chains & Jane's Addiction and wanted DM to do a version of alt-rock. I heard Walking In My Shoes on the radio in a friend's car & bought SOFAD the very next day.

Believe it or not, “the most debauched rock tour in history” was Depeche Mode’s Devotional tour from 1993-1994, promoting their Songs of Faith and Devotion album - released exactly 33 years ago TODAY in 1993. The album had a profound effect on me & blew my mind. It was Depeche Mode’s answer to grunge, presenting on an even grittier, darker atmosphere. It is also one of the few albums you can truly listen to from start to finish, with EVERY song being hit-worthy, exploring the usual DM themes of lust, desire & redemption. My 3 favorites are One Caress (the orchestral arrangement with Martin Gore’s angelic vocals made this song transcendent), In Your Room (a grand tapestry of dark desire) & Rush (an unusually melodic & punchy industrial anthem).

@MikeVanderbilt Kaminski is a genius - a proper landmark DP. He utterly crushed it on WSS & Fabelmans. His symbiosis with Spielberg is fascinating and has produced a remarkable body of work. He fully understands the effect that the director wants to have on the audience.

I like modern Spielberg: I just wish he’d ditch Janusz Kamiński.

@paranoiacs Afterburner is even more defiantly electro & delivers banger after banger after banger. Old-school Top fans detest it, but it's one of my favourite albums of all time. The programmed drums are amazing - the platonic ideal of fat, 80s overdriven snare. Whole album sounds majestic.

The miraculous result of Billy Gibbons' on-its-face- insane desire to make ZZ Top sound more like Depeche Mode, ‘Eliminator’ is forty-five minutes of ecstatic hooks and Fairlight boogie whose London-Texas groove is nothing less than a fully novel musical vernacular. A masterwork.

@moviesinfocus Action is more than proficient, it's astounding.

Kevin Reynolds’ Waterworld is a swashbuckler with a sci-fi edge that didn’t deserve bad press when it opened in 1995. Kevin Costner enjoys himself as the gruff antihero & Dennis Hopper camps-it-up as the villain. The action is proficient, the visuals strong & the score's great!

@BrophyJed @bendellwerry Dear Jed, saw all 3 Hobbit films multiple times on release in IMAX HFR 3D & thoroughly enjoyed them. Seen them many times since. They form a powerful treatise on the grip of avarice & are morally greyer than LOTR, which is fascinating. Thank you for all the work you all did 🙏

@bendellwerry Hard to make a prequel to an almost perfect trilogy . LOTR set such a high bar . Also Peter had zero prep time . But personally very proud of what we achieved

@GAltringham Absolute peak Gilliam - he was shattered by Ledger's passing, yet the ingenious solution he arrived at to complete the picture feels totally organic. Plus, in terms of pure imagination it's right up there with Munchausen and Time Bandits. A magnificent fable.

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus is one of the best movies of all time. If you haven't watched it yet, you're missing out on a masterpiece.

@m_jivetoaster @amendlocke Brilliant scene. Still rings true now - perhaps even more so. youtu.be/fMoPR2IA2Uk?si…

@amendlocke Douglas Adams basically did this over 40 years ago, with the Golgafrincham B Ark 572nd Colonisation Committee Meeting scene in HHGG

Pitch for _Lord of the Files_, in which a group of office workers are stranded on a desert island and revert to bureaucracy.

@kristapley @DevelopmenTrack Also phenomenal in Rush - by far the best work he's ever done.