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@CinemaTweets1 There Will Be Blood, but they're both so incredible.

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@TheCinesthetic I still think the first Austin Powers is the most unstoppably funny film there is. I’m a sucker for fish-out-of-water humor and the whole movie is amazingly that, the entire time.

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@DannyDrinksWine Older movies were more likely to be original properties, not fiduciary franchises. Even with the biggest budgets. That's the most striking distinction that comes to mind, and it might be the most important.

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@historyrock_ This is tough. But I would pick The Doors. I just think their discography is by far the most consistent, in terms of quality, out of these artists.

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@crockpics Straight to Hell. Their opus. I can't believe that song exists. It's one of those rare, rare pieces that captures both the external political climate and the internal emotional anguish it triggers. It's so hard to do that, artistically.

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@TheBushArchive 😆 I love how awkward this was. Everybody felt bad for Bush! This was a big backfire, for sure.

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@ThatEricAlper Siamese Dream is a really good example. The Smashing Pumpkins' first album, Gish, introduced the concept of the band and set the musical model for everything that followed. The second album's job was to broaden their appeal and to do something sonically and thematically distinct

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@NolanAnalyst This one was something of a misfire, at least for his standards. The concept isn’t nearly as interesting as he thinks it is? And it’s really messy. It’s a pain to follow. There are a few really groundbreaking action scenes, though.

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@ElectionWiz 10. He’s incredible. He’s creator-driven content. Trump just riffing for a couple hours beats a million bucks of prep for Harris. Can’t beat real.

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@Matt_Pinner Realistically, probably Bob Dylan? He has dozens of albums, spanning six decades. Each era special, each album unique. There’s just nothing else quite like that in popular music.

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@kdollsweety This book walks you through 500 years of cultural/intellectual Western history and it does so splendidly. Everybody should read it. It definitely made me able to contextualize how we think, talk, and vote about things in a way I wouldn’t have before.

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@JBondPersuader Tomorrow Never Dies has the best concept of any Bond film. And it is, in fact, a good movie.

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@MASKEDMANIACXXX They’re surprisingly similar things? Big-ass, action-powered James Cameron sequels to brilliant, game-changing sci-fi horrors made on humble budgets. But T2 did this significantly better.

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@TheExtremeMusi1 Love it. If not for Joshua Tree, it would be impossible to imagine a better U2 album.

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@WhiteHouseHstry This is art.

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@Matt_Pinner The problem with this question is that it's basically meaningless without knowing the "take" on Bond. I just hope they pick the right creator and let that creator pick who they want?

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@GRCinemaTicket 5/5. I think it comes in right after Episodes 4 and 5, among the Star Wars movies. It's hard to top those, but this one came very close.

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@ThatEricAlper This one is super underrated.

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@RetroMoviesIM Pierce Brosnan, because I grew up with him and loved him in the role. That's always *my* Bond, on a personal level. I wish Dalton's movies were a bit better, because his take on the character is closest to Fleming's. Connery wins, though. He did what he wanted to do, perfectly,

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@sherrilynthinks There's certainly a chance the reports aren't true. We don't know for sure yet. Looks believable to me though. And I hope he does get out and endorse Trump! Now's the right time.

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@CinemaTweets1 Blade Runner transcends its genre. It changes the way you feel about life. The Matrix doesn't even particularly attempt that? It's happy being a dweeby actioner. But I love them both.

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@keithellison The two biggest issues of this election are inflation and immigration. He's closer to Trump's views on both of those topics. He also seems more inclined toward Trump's stances on foreign policy, censorship, lockdowns and free-market solutions to societal problems, generally.

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@RobertKennedyJr Beautiful post! Agreed — we must look to the example set by Lincoln, and stop this “cold civil war” from turning hot. Two steps at a time, if you will. 🇺🇸 🎩

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@NateSilver538 Not sure if I agree or disagree, because I’m unclear what you mean? Here’s what I *do* agree with: Vance wants to be an “organic intellectual” yet he struggles to find his *own* ideas and seems mostly inclined toward absorbing those of others into his brand, when they “win.”

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@GRCinemaTicket 5. One of the smartest and funniest flicks I've ever watched. This is the life!

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Today, I filed my declaration to run for city council at the county recorder’s office. Excited to begin this new adventure! We have lots of work to do.

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@SWCozyCoffee Unnecessary is a great word for it. It *is* good. It's totally watchable and has some Grade-A Star Wars moments, to be sure. I enjoy it quite a bit. But no, I think the lesson of Rogue One and Solo was that Star Wars should keep these sorts of stories in other mediums.

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@MarkHalperin I think that’s why Pete Buttigieg is a thing.

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@SecondGentleman This is what representative democracy has produced in Iowa. While the issue remains contentious, the Republican Party leans pro-life, and Iowans have voted them into power in safe margins. Why must the federal government control how state legislatures respond to this issue?

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@RobertKennedyJr Let’s hope not! To be fair, Lindsey Graham already has these resolutions drafted up for every conceivable country. But concerning all the same.

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@TheCinesthetic Man. I think 10 is about the age when you decide watching R-rated movies is the coolest thing in the world? So probably Terminator 2. That was my first favorite R-rated movie. My parents would let me watch it, and it was always on TV, too.

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@PeteButtigieg Got it. Let us know when you can defend your own plans. 😂

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@whitleyjyates This is definitely, exactly what Trump was arguing. I still don’t understand the media-generated outrage over everything. He’s entitled to that perspective, if he wants. It’s not some “factual error” or wild negligence on his part. And he’s not the first to make the point.

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@FrankLuntz Yes to all of this, but the Politico article misses the biggest shift (which Frank brings up a lot), that may even accelerate, post-Kamala: Union voters moving toward Trump. And that’s the most salient change we’re seeing, with the biggest implications going forward.

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@UAW Per statement: "Under federal law, workers cannot be fired for going on strike, and threatening to do so is illegal under the National Labor Relations Act." Whom are they threatening to fire? Doesn't it sound more like they're just critiquing a system with which they disagree?

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@TheCinesthetic I watched this movie way back in theaters and never forgot it. It's really stuck with me, all these years. I've never really heard anybody talk about it?

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@TPUSA Let’s not call it an “extremely high chance,” but people probably don’t realize that the chance of a legitimate, “hot” civil war is decidedly, scarily nonzero. We’re in a “cold civil war” right now, already. Things look eerily reminiscent of the 1850s, in many respects. The

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@SupermanOnFilm I absolutely do. At the end of the day, he is *the* superhero. All others are derivative of him. You just can't beat the original recipe. The Clark Kent/Superman duality still reigns supreme in the "secret identity" department, in terms of making for compelling storytelling.

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@FrankLuntz I don't think she's there quite yet. Republicans still win on the issues, especially those Americans are presently prioritizing. It's close though; her challenge will be to maintain the momentum as the weeks turn to months.

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@RalphNader They've made many attempts, and it never works! It's like the movie Liar Liar, where the stepdad tries to do "the claw"? It just comes across as a cheap imitation and the kid thinks it's dumb. Democrats need to stop imitating Trump and generate some original content.

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@ClassicGuitarR1 That Y2K-era swing revival was a weird thing we all had to live through.

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@toys_retro ayy

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@TheExtremeMusi1 Frank, Elvis, Bob, Michael all have legitimate claims to this. It's too early to tell about some of the newer ones. I also think Tom Waits has a weirdly valid argument in his favor here because he's such a good *artist*. In the art way. Like, a character he's constructed?

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@RetroMoviesIM Can't beat Raiders! Or nobody has yet, at least.

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@Whotfismick Thriller is the answer. I feel like almost every song that album was a literal hit?

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@RepLisaMcClain 👏

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@CinemaTweets1 Titanic, and it's not hard. It's one of the great concepts for a film -- star-crossed lovers on a sinking luxury ship, one rich, one poor, each reciprocal souls, based on a true story, one of our major historical traumas -- and it's executed stunningly well. Good Will Hunting

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@kdollsweety It's better than some people act like it is? These networks are mostly staffed by people with good intentions who mostly do good work. Spare the occasional bad apple, they deserve praise. We just have to think critically about it. Nothing can free us from that burden. Ignoring

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@Variety Willing to bet real, hard money that if QT watched Toy Story 4 he would conclude it's the best Toy Story movie though. 🤣

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@ASavageNation They have, historically, and I don't see what's changed about how we conduct polls to suppose they aren't still underestimating him. Bottom line: Trump still wins on the issues. Once the announcement, and now the convention boost, ends, we revert to the reality where (hopefully)

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@AnnaRMatson I hope he'll endorse Trump, personally, and I'd love to see him serve in a Trump White House. If he does, he should think very carefully about what he wants to do. He'll need to have a mission statement. I get that public health might be his major issue, right now, but I'd hope

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@yashar @ShaneGoldmacher @reidepstein I thought this was one of her better picks, strategically. We'll see whom she ends up going with.

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@justinamash 💯

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@TheCinesthetic Not really a "documentary" but kind of?

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@hakeemjeffries It had come down to two (or three) possibilities, and he was the wisest, indeed.

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@TaraBull808 Not sure about strangest, but the first thing that comes to mind is walking around NYC about a decade ago and hearing a passerby say to his friend, "No, no, I stabbed HIM with the icepick!"

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@TheCinesthetic It's not the *actual* best, but the shootout in Enemy of the State is legit *one* of the best in cinema history, and people forget that easily.

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@TONYxTWO I do. I think it's 50/50, right now. It's super normal for the odds to fluctuate as the campaign continues. If the election were held today, she'd probably win? But we have a long time till November, and the issues are in the GOP's favor, to be sure.

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@NBCLA Smart.

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@historyinmemes He could do it all.

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@90sManiax Ah, yes, literature.🧐

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@isaac_schorr He was probably the best pick Trump had available, realistically, looking toward the future and appointing a successor to his throne. But that’s the only sense in which he was even arguably the best pick, agreed.

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@scobie It’s hard for public figures to convincingly exude confidence *and* vulnerability. It’s almost impossible for them to do it at the same time. She’s doing both in this clip and it’s really powerful to watch.

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@90sManiax When are we bringing this back?

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@SupermanOnFilm Perfectly stated! I have so much hope. So much faith. So much love. James Gunn is an *amazing* creator. To my way of thinking, he’s one of a very small number of filmmakers who introduced a unique model — Favreau, Nolan and Coogler being others — for a superhero movie this

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@othingstodo_com Eggs cannot be eaten without a little salt. This is natural law.

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@KurzedZuko Absolutely. I could use a top-to-bottom rewatch of that show.

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@SharylAttkisson @DavidLimbaugh We’re caught in a polarization trap. It’s no accident that the increase in polarization has correlated with an obvious decrease in cultural and intellectual innovation. We just fight the same boring battles. Eventually, people will have to think more deeply about the root causes

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@mikemovies I still feel like Brokeback Mountain is the most interesting one? Instead of their homosexuality defining their characterizations, it seems more like an aspect or facet of their lives that cuts through their otherwise hetero-cowboy lifestyles. So many people are like this in the

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Kennedy endorsing Trump is big; Kennedy moving to the Republican Party is bigger. I'm not holding my breath on the second part, but it would be a powerful transition and a wise usage of his political capital.

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@JosephFordCotto I think he clearly just found out what Twitter Spaces are… ? Like, whenever he agreed to this a week ago or whatever? Said “wow…” And now Spaces officially is a thing that will make money for Elon going forward. 😂 I seriously think that’s the power of Trump’s brand.

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@timecaptales This one’s weird because there actually are instances of his monocle popping up in official products. 🧐

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@ksorbs This is a very interesting question; it’s deceptively simple? Reducing it to a single number is very challenging. In some ways, we should be grateful that our government is as trustworthy as it is; we have it better than many other systems, now and historically. In other ways,

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@CollinRugg Big if true!

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@LarrySabato We will have swing states decided by margins smaller than 5%, so, he matters. What he really does, however, is add more left-leaning voters to the Trump constituency and generally broaden his appeal. A lot of Kennedy supporters hated Trump; this may reshuffle that deck.

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@RepLuna Are you implying that there is information not being shared with the public that points this direction…?

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@LeadingReport Exactly my thinking. Kamala wins about four out of ten times, as it looks right now. And that's up from three out of ten, or so, in the last week. She's doing better than expected.

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@tracegallagher So far as I’ve seen, he continues to take more votes from Trump than Harris? So yes, it would probably benefit the GOP ticket more than the Democratic one. A Trump White House would be far more likely to work with Kennedy than Harris, at that. If he does that, it’s entirely

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@RealPData I think the data still shows Vance as a net loss for the campaign. And since Trump hasn't rebounded in the polls yet, I think it would be hard to argue against that, no?

Everyone Hates J.D. Vance: Poll

J.D. Vance’s popularity levels have taken an embarrassingly brutal hit.

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@DrGuitar Best: Jimi Hendrix. Personal favorite: Marc Ribot.

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@ATRightMovies Great thread. Serious perspective: I bet if Bill Clinton wrote a book on movies, it would be weirdly, weirdly good.

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@BruceWuollet @patrickbetdavid Absolutely. I’d like to learn more about him. Patrick always has the right questions.

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@RpsAgainstTrump But he’ll be term-limited? I think that’s a wacky take, TBH.

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@EricRWeinstein Absolutely not, and it's something I struggle to understand about those who want a uniform legal policy on abortions, regardless of the term. We can debate when life begins, in the abstract, and that's to be encouraged. But there must be some discernible difference between the

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@alucard8791 @MovieEndorser Tech Noir for the win!

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@ATRightMovies Of the one’s I’ve seen, probably Zodiac? I love that movie so much. Jake Gyllenhaal up all night with a pot of coffee solving mysteries is my favorite cinematic genre.

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@johnmyers I just hope somebody is collecting all of GN's absurd photos he's been sharing lately. 🤣 It's kiiiinda the best thing going on in politics right now.

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@MASKEDMANIACXXX 8.

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@carldemaio Wow. Audit the voter roll, indeed. The #1 reason for jury summons rejection in CA is that the person isn’t a citizen — and those summons come from voter rolls! 😂 Unreal.

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@JDunlap1974 I think this is simply coincidence but it is *really* funny! 🤣

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FWIW: I’ve probably asked about 30 residents for ballot-access signatures, so far, and 24 of them signed. Two of these outcomes hinged on Trump: one said yes because I was supporting Trump for the election; one said no. On this basis alone. Just something I find interesting.

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