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tomorrow, walking into work with nails for the first time in a while
Feel the same!
from a distance Nate Silver appears to be a long sad story of assimilationist brain, that’s all I see going on when he says he’s the prototype regular guy and people just have to be brave enough to prove it
Bone-petite
I wish, he’d be drier
Post a random picture or else everything will go bad in September
problem for me is I can’t say Rudy Giuliani wouldn’t happen upon such a person and call the cops for them, then use an unrelated car accident to brag about how amazing he was earlier. Can’t eliminate it as a scenario
RIP Graham Greene. Watch Clearcut.
One reason for Democrats to ditch their reflex to say "You have a point" to the other side is the right wing hasn't had a good point about anything in most of our lifetimes
chatgpt is actually doing to kids brains what every older generation thought would happen from tv and video games
life is too short to look up what kind of cheese Nate Silver thinks the moon is made out of this week
They couldn't make Ghosts Can't Do It today because now ghosts can do it.
That’s actually legit, it’s just week-old news so who knows why it was posted now
I have never seen a single news article about whether or not Hakeem Jeffries, Chuck Schumer or Kristen Gillibrand need to assure Muslim New Yorkers that they're against Islamophobia and anti-Arab / anti-Asian bigotry
The AI industry is driving most of this I reckon, waaaaay overvalued
What a prosperous time!
The last scene of BOLERO had Bo Derek making love in slow motion in a void with neon and fog, and it was more realistic than the next-to-last scene of GHOSTS CAN’T DO IT. No man without pants would slide face-first down a hay bale. Nary a one
Anyway now she’s filled with regret: Shoulda killed him for that great love of hers. She heads back to the beach for a climax I won’t livepost, but I will say the way it finally deals with the question “IS murder wrong?” is remarkably sick. This whole movie is a dirty old man
No idea how we’re supposed to take that scene. Laugh? I feel like I missed more failed attempts to establish this guy as a heel. There’s a scene where he flirts with someone and I guess you could say it with a leer, but he doesn’t, so he just seems like a guy
Now she tries to kill the guy a few different ways but keeps sobbing “I CAN’T!”, and Quinn disappears. Then the cops show up as she stands over a clubbed-but-alive Speedo guy, and she channels her sadness into claiming through tears he attacked her, and they haul him away
Looking back I guess they wrote the lines for the guy to be obnoxious, but Bo and Anthony are the last people you’d ask “who’s obnoxious” because how would they know. Maybe I missed a line where he said “inheritance tax is good” or something
They broke out pretty decent minimalist ominous music for all the early parts where Quinn was clutching his chest, but now that he’s telling his younger wife to poison a “worthless” guy so he can take his body, it’s using sad relationship-scene synth. I guess we’re supposed to ponder: Should she?
Bo has gone back to whatever beachy island she was on before Hong Kong, so now Quinn’s starting to bring up possession again. Bo has a new (?) Australian friend who might be able to help
btw Trump in this is (a) filmed entirely in a huge closeup and (b) in two scenes, not just the one. Just when you thought you’d seen the last of his wet pout in 35mm. Consumer note
The scene is not a big deal, this movie is amazingly sedate and wan and dorky about being a skin flick. Isabel Sarli would have eaten these people for breakfast
But this scene is clearly treated like a big deal, as all the men at this dock bar (it’s an actual dock?) look on in agitation, never having seen something so erotic as Bo Derek bending her knees in time Eventually a priest rails against her wanton display, but what the hell’s he doing in the bar
Now Bo Derek is dancing, but in clothes so takes a while to activate good framing mode. “Where’d you learn that?” asks Quinn’s ghost as we almost see her shoulders
So many shots that are a single face framed mid-forehead at the top and mid-chin at the bottom. John Derek said face Painting my nails
That’s the infamous Trump cameo scene, as they speedrun a “business lady talks tough just like the boys” act from a Sidney Sheldon novel. It worked and she celebrates with poor Don Murray as Quinn’s business partner, whom I hadn’t mentioned until now out of respect for Oscar nominee Don Murray
I think the joke of that is, she thinks this is a bad pitch. She doesn’t seem to care about the actual killing-a-guy part Now she’s in Hong Kong on a quest to prevent Quinn’s megacorp from being broken up just because he died. Heartwarming
Then a bizarre passage in which Quinn wants to possess a host body (for sex 😏) and shows an unseemly disinterest in finding a man he looks like, so Derek harasses some young guy in a Speedo like “hey would you like to die?”
No weirder than me with TARZAN I guess haha. I really couldn’t stand it, though I applaud that it also insisted on good-looking men
The way he manifestly did not know how to make a movie—no, really—and just moneyed his way through it, have to admit it makes for a weird fascination in the end result
But then Bo Derek strips and drapes herself across a beach and the interest in framing shoots up 900%, maybe because any one of those could be the poster
As a director of the camera, John Derek films like he wishes every shot was a mega-closeup of a nose but has grudgingly zoomed out just enough to capture the necessary action. He’d go to other countries for medium wides you could get in Burbank
But the age gap finally caught up with Quinn, and now he’s talking to Derek from The Other Side just when she was trying to grieve He’s filmed as a head in a black void, seen through a filter that’s like if a kaleidoscope lens fell into a glass of water. She keeps looking up when he talks. I dunno
If I died and the first person I met in the fog was Julie Newmar and she said “here’s how you can be on Earth,” I’d say “why” Anyway so far this has just been a story about Derek and Quinn being extremely in love, a real love full of joi de vivre. They both like riding horses in the snow, after all
now watching Anthony Quinn and Bo Derek in GHOSTS CAN’T DO IT, because for some reason I’m going to see all of those post-1980 disasters directed by her husband (BOLERO is unbearable; TARZAN THE APE MAN finds a sense of humor and even eroticism at some points, though never one for camera placement)
I've never seen such a disconnect between Dem elected/staff/consultants and actual Dem voters. The latter understand what's going on. The former are awash in right-wing brainrot, hence @schatz.bsky.social blaming COVID mitigation and BLM marches for the GOP's wanton destruction of public health.
![@EsotericCD It was in this moment that many of us hanging on to a thin sliver of trust in our institutions irrevocably lost faith in them. One of the most poisonous blows to public trust in living memory - worse than the effect of the Iraq War in many ways. RFK Jr is a direct result of this. Quote Steve Guest @SteveGuest · Aug 31 Politico 5 years ago: [screenshot of article falsely claiming public health officials lied about COVID measures then abandoned them for BLM protests] Views](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ddvus7otnqtlh7fdooxm6qat/bafkreihsypwydo5rcis7mc54cwct6h33l5co477nvh7g7hs7na2fz4jl3q@jpeg "Click to view full size")
Jack Black, best known for his role as a cab driver in “The Golden Palace” (1992-1993)
ok it’s almost touching that he thinks you just show Kennedy the good numbers and he’ll believe them. These people don’t even understand each other
Miles O'Brien fan club assemble.
the alpha energy of a president who looks like a 3000-year-old creature that just wants to die
here’s everything I’ve given 1/2* on Letterboxd
A few weeks ago I died and got a glimpse of erotic movie heaven. I'd like to go back, please, the earthly realm is too clean for me. www.rogerebert.com/the-unloved/...
the irony of losing a day’s pay because it’s Labor Day amuses me not at all
Happy birthday!
I don’t know about the cooking but he’s not hotter
The flamboyance you either dig or find tiresome, might change depending on the season too haha. I think it’s mostly fun
You've got until the end of tomorrow if you want to try and win a physical copy of Cult of the Drive-in. Because that marks the official end of drive-in season.
You gotta fold a $20 into your wallet when you’re showing it to him
Can vouch that there are actual short stories based on the hell of working for Troma, good warning before you move to the area. Thanks, horror authors!
Getting it as a Prime channel works and I think that’s it
Ooooof
You said it
Aha, mystery solved
I think you got it - the most aggressive part is that you’d be watching something almost designed to make you feel exhausted about walking, and if the movie’s good the perversity of that seems like it could be funny. “Two people gave up during That Scene” kind of stuff
haha same! This one was at the local library and I believe my mom even borrowed it once
100%. Excruciating movie, cool sets
Is he saying the perpetrator rear-ended him, or just trying to tug the heartstrings about what a swell guy we almost lost? Nooooo idea
It’s so funny, who was asking?
did a body pop out of Giuliani’s trunk on impact or something, what is that statement lol
Oh I don’t even mean that—just like what other kind will there be by then haha, good luck on the screenings boys
*This was 2006 and truly, you could have fooled me. They keep remastering stuff from the ‘90s so it didn’t even occur to me that the HD video was a tipoff, but I could have clocked the cast’s ages more carefully haha
Looks like I wildly misstated the year, this one was 2006. (2006?) The earthquake was late ‘90s though yep
Ironside is the villainous scientist whose reckless work opened up a lava outlet in Manhattan. By now half his face has been burned and he’s glower-sneering with the best of them. His character may be the movie’s only good idea, certainly it’s the best one
who the hell remembers THE ELECTRIC HORSEMAN, what a bad skeet
The Electric Six Horsemen
It would be an honor to be held at gunpoint by Michael Ironside 😌
Standard disaster stuff on the story, although I wish Alexandra Paul seemed to be in a better mood. Maybe it’s how she stopped herself from giggling. I really wish the camerawork could have waited for the volcano. You get motion sickness watching the tunnel-dig foreman talk to a panhandler
Paul Greengrass knew how to push this to the limit imo, but it’s easy not to know. I wouldn’t be able to So you watch a stuffy politician talk about “indications of a tremor” in a quiet meeting room and yell out “check the camera!” because it’s still being filmed like the movie is ducking gunfire
Because they were like, the more you add the more realistic it is! Shake it! But as the camerawork loses any reason in the actual scene be so anti-composed, it turns into a scene about camera ops with ants in their pants
And of course this filtered to outright fiction as visual language indicating authenticity, and that is not new, but NYPD Blue and apparently this were kind of fascinating for the vague understanding they seemed to have of why that handheld look indicates “reality”
The feeling would come from, among other things, seeing changes in focus and framing that usually got cut from professional productions. It communicated (not necessarily truthfully, it’s a tool!) a sense that it was capturing reality as it unfolded, and not packaging it for you
This is the telephone game version of cinéma vérité, where a handheld camera devoted more to following its subject than composing a shot was one of the elements lending a feeling of authenticity to a documentary, in a way different from research presented as a package of narration and interviews
Guys talking across a desk in a workshop and the camera darts, shimmies, wavers, does little “corrective” zooms that change nothing, and makes you think about how silly it must have looked seeing the camera ops wave themselves around on set. Acting is a real job
We are watching the 1996 TV disaster movie DISASTER ZONE: VOLCANO IN NEW YORK starring Costas Mandylor and Alexandra Paul I wasn’t regretting it until the credits were over and it began with the non-stock footage, because this thing is shot like NYPD Blue. This camera is agitated
that apology is so prissily defensive lol. Dude needs to grow up
I don’t even want him contemplating his mortality, not while in office
Someone who would have reason to know took one look at that first emerging pic of him and said “that’s steroids”
Weird thing was I tried Polish for that reason, and got no translation! His little joke, maybe (More likely just the translator’s inadequacies haha)
Not much to it—as soon as that started coming out I just went “have a good night!” and walked to the other end of the bar. I think the difference was that it was fast and not very inflamed and I had no urge to debate him. Making someone mad he would have enjoyed, I think
hahaha
That truly must be it; the Wal Mart effect I must have been spoiled because there were a decent amount of indie places in my area, until time passed on and they all got squeezed out
I’m so self-conscious about my choices lol, I never dare more than 2 or 3 at a time
Less likely in New York; I shoulda found out what he did for a living. Probably banking or real estate, if I had to guess
that dude was a very hot dad, great workout regimen I'm sure, and I'm still so unhappy that he turned out to be a smug bigot I wouldn't touch with tongs lol But hey the bartender complimented me on how I ended the conversation, he'd seen this little one-act play before with that guy
