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@jblacksomething

2 months

Ghibli food always looks so good.

Molly Knox Ostertag - Updates

@MollyOstertag

4 years

if you could eat one food from any animated movie, what would it be? mine is the eggs from Shrek

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Literally a scene where Justice Smith wears a dress and immediately beams into more of a person than the rest of the runtime and people still acted like fandom nostalgia was the central thesis of the movie.

ZAYNA🇵🇸 FREE PALESTINE

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i love you with all my heart ☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️

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The creative choice to have the only glimmer of sentient thought and intent in this unknowable and agonized thing’s head be a non-diegetic opera lamentation where Godzilla is soprano (victim) and bass (villain) both, it’s insane cooking. I will never be normal about it.

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4 months

A man of the people 🥰

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Retweet to ward off Phil Lord like garlic to a vampire

One Perfect Shot

@OnePerfectShot

2 months

I AM CUBA (1964) Cinematography by Sergey Urusevskiy Directed by Mikhail Kalatozov

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Ages ago, I was talking with a guy about Kill Bill who gushed about the practical Tokyo set and how Tarantino used it. The minute I told him it was on loan from a Godzilla movie (2001’s GMK), his face soured and he immediately changed his tune. “Explains why it looked so fake.”

Jayce

@jblacksomething

2 months

As a kid it always bugged me that experts would praise the (gorgeous!!) LA in The War of the Worlds while the Tokyo of the first Godzilla and the Fukuoka of the original Rodan were derided (especially considering the actual history of what a colossal success Rodan was in the US).

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When a gay filmmaker starts doing this with bears and husky guys, then we’ll talk.

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2 months

걸 디너 ~

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I WILL CAST ABOMINABLE FILTH AT YOU. MAKE YOU VILE. MAKE YOU A SPECTACLE.

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Biollante rivals and stands proud with anything from The Thing, The Blob, or James Cameron’s 80s run. Just incredible craft, and Godzilla being a more regal (if bestial) classic appearance is such an intentioned visual contrast with her.

Cryptid McDonald (Writer of Daikaiju Rumble)

@chris_kaiju

2 months

I want cinephiles to look at me dead in the eye and say Tokusatsu effects are "cheap" and "worse" after seeing the Godzilla vs. Biollante behind-the-scenes footage.

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I can’t quite put my finger on it, but something in Tennant’s acting… you can tell he thought long and hard about how his Doctor’s performance and soul would be different after being Capaldi and Jodie.

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Mr. Chau

@Srirachachau

2 months

Remember that year Take Me Home, Country Roads was in every movie

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Found footage horror may have already existed, but to convey such a terrifying high concept, B-movie poetry, in such a raw way that predicts the same chill and terror of Blair Witch or Noroi… nothing else quite like it. Genuine genius from Carpenter.

🦋The Other Happy Place🦋

@otherhappyplace

2 months

to answer the question, Prince of Darkness, the "dream" that isn't a dream made me SICK

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2 months

This is such a powerful example of how unfairly these movies are viewed compared to Hollywood. Roger Ebert explicitly called this Tokyo set cheap painted cardboard and it’s just… actively not true? The craft is so rich and so apparent and so THERE.

philbybear.bsky.social

@fiddlersgreen92

3 months

Speaking of miniature sets? Return of Godzilla absolutely cooked with its own Blade Runner-esque, smokey, neon-lit Tokyo set. It provides such a beautiful backdrop to frame against Godzilla’s silhouette.

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2 months

The double-edged sword of Minus One’s unparalleled modern success is the narrative that it’s the only good Godzilla in seven decades. The only one worth your time, the only one worth something. Hell, I know someone who flatout says the original is now “not needed,” outdated.

Cryptid McDonald (Writer of Daikaiju Rumble)

@chris_kaiju

2 months

Ok seriously did Minus One erased this film from the collective memory of non-Godzilla fans?

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@jblacksomething

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It’s been months and I have to be honest. I am still a little stuck on the fact that RTD called “Sue Tech” an anagram.

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@jblacksomething

2 months

God, Walt Simonson took no fucking prisoners with that comic

C.Z.くれいな

@ishigamicureyna

2 months

in the early screening of 1979 Alien there was a scene in the final act of the movie where “alien gracefully unfolds from a box like shape”. illustration of it from heavy metal magazine. It was also referenced in Prometheus. The only pictures of it we have those those:

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Just a really strange season. I can’t get a handle on it. Terrific highs, great pieces, but so breathlessly cut within in an inch of its life, centered around a baffling villain return, and Ruby barely shines. Russell’s big comeback is just Series 7B 2: Electric Boogaloo.

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@jblacksomething

11 months

Seen (very fair!) critique about Rose’s identity being defined by unhappiness, and I think it’s inherent to RTD’s grasp on queerness. The man’s personal reboot of the Doctor was as an AIDS epidemic survivor. No matter how celebratory, RTD’s queerness always carries its trauma?

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@jblacksomething

11 months

Wild Blue Yonder, the RTD: Midnight (though now with the comfort of your best friend's hand in yours). The existential dread and body horror. Years of hidden feelings breaking, screaming. Ridiculous triumph, camp spitting in the face of cruelty. Doctor Who as a queer narrative.

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@jblacksomething

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It’s crazy to me that it was such common and repeated fan wisdom that these guys were cheap and clunky relics, an embarrassment we should all celebrate being replaced with sleek chrome, as if they are not actively one of the most terrifying things the show has ever put on screen.

sad-o-lantern 🎃👻✨

@tombakertit

3 months

I adore the design and voices of the original cybermen in the tenth planet. Their sing-songy voices, surgical gauze on their face, how they just open their mouth and a voice comes out, it's all so genuinely creepy and really cements the alien, menacing nature of cybermen.

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@jblacksomething

3 months

are we, uh, sold to that title?

DiscussingFilm

@DiscussingFilm

3 months

Kevin Feige confirms the ‘WHITE VISION’ series is in the works from Terry Matalas. “It was from his amazing work on ‘Star Trek: Picard’ Season 3. I said: This is incredible… Let me find the person who made this.” (Source: )

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This is why I find a lot of the “meritless Cronenberg parroting” takes a little unfair and not quite accurate to the movie’s vein? This is fully Re-Animator and Evil Dead.

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@jblacksomething

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whyyyyyyyyyy are the colorsssssssss like thaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaatttttttttt

Film Updates

@FilmUpdates

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New look at “Defying Gravity” in ‘WICKED’

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@jblacksomething

2 months

Yep! Remember kids, “Godzilla” was coined by Toho itself for international distribution, it’s the official Anglicization. It and “Gojira” are the same word, the narrative that one is more “correct” than the other is a fallacy.

Disney Legend Paul Dehn🇵🇸

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Same with Gojira

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Rebel Moon’s DC opens with a near 10 minutes of genocide, vicious murder and enslavement, a royal family eventually cornered and murdered via bludgeoning. Amidst it, the toppled king has a two minute slow-mo goodbye with his family’s pet critter. That then suicide bombs itself.

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@jblacksomething

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Hartnell’s terrified and foreboding “YOU CAN’T REWRITE HISTORY” even as his curiosity sharpens into a sixth sense for evil vs Troughton looking the Lords who impose that ruling in the eye and calling them complicit to the fucking Daleks. Perfect bookends.

eleni 🫧

@oswaldtales

4 months

no one has ever doctored as hard as Two did here

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As a kid it always bugged me that experts would praise the (gorgeous!!) LA in The War of the Worlds while the Tokyo of the first Godzilla and the Fukuoka of the original Rodan were derided (especially considering the actual history of what a colossal success Rodan was in the US).

Jayce

@jblacksomething

2 months

This is such a powerful example of how unfairly these movies are viewed compared to Hollywood. Roger Ebert explicitly called this Tokyo set cheap painted cardboard and it’s just… actively not true? The craft is so rich and so apparent and so THERE.

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11 months

Mel’s gonna drag Fourteen to one of those companion support group meetings with cupcakes and Yaz will just

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1 year

I’m sorry but it’s lowkey crap that the last four years of mainline Batman have regurgitated online gotchas and talking points as if they’re nuanced subversions or “AHAs” to the character. This is weak and condescending writing.

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It’s so special that he was involved in the first TV depiction of the origin. Still bringing that great performance to a really ideal tonal blend?

Hamish Steele is @ MCM London Comic Con October

@hamishsteele

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I wish I could say Adam West was the finest to ever do it without people thinking I'm joking or creating bait. What a performance.

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2 months

Not a specific film, but I can get impatient with people’s attitudes towards pre-90s special effects. If you can’t level with the magic trick or “can’t handle” evidence of craft and creativity, can’t feel your imagination fire, we aren’t going to see eye-to-eye on movies at all.

۟jas☁️

@overstayedtime

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whats that one film thats ur non negotiable? like if someone doesnt like it, it genuinely tarnishes ur opinion of them bc i know mine😭😭😭

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@jblacksomething

2 months

Shin Godzilla does this really, REALLY well.

dobferatu🇵🇸

@justdobber

2 months

“the more you understand something the scarier it becomes” is such a fucking wicked statement but audiences and filmmakers are so repulsed by this idea that its annoying

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It’s the sad truth of adoring the Capaldi era but knowing it’s where people tuned out en masse. Narratively it became somewhat necessary to know the show backwards and forwards while aesthetically it turned dark and dour in a way I don’t think its popularity could contend with.

Hamish Steele is @ MCM London Comic Con October

@hamishsteele

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I like it a lot and this is MY era but I think this is really when Who's popularity fell apart. My parents, who never watched Doctor Who, were interested to check out the guy from the Thick of It. They never watched again. Making his first ep Paternoster focussed was a misstep.

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I gotta be honest I’m still thinking about Jonathan Groff watching An Unearthly Child and apparently being enamored with it and immediately spinning a queer reading off of it.

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@jblacksomething

2 months

Some of the best special effects of the 2020s. Fully using digital to recreate, often shot-for-shot, the Showa uncanny artifice. It creates an interesting discussion as the actual traditional methods get pushed aside, but it’s stellar stuff to watch. Nothing else looks like this.

Ultraman's Strongest Soldier

@UchuKeibitai

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In #ShinUltraman , Ultraman's flying pose is modeled directly after the flight props that were used in Ultraman 1966. To pay homage to the practical effects of the Showa-era, Ultraman is completely stiff and prop-like when he flies in the movie. #ultramanrising #Ultraman

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She went from Three’s flirtation following the Jo heartbreak, very much his straight man, to a daffy caretaker of an inhuman psychopath who was only the hero because saving the day was his manic hyperfocus. I really love it.

Travis Hedge Coke at negotiable prices

@TravisHedgeCoke

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I'll never get Sarah Jane haters. She's fucking nuts. And, she's basically horny for adventure, which is a fantastic vibe even when she becomes the mum figure late in the game.

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Stephen McKinley Henderson

scary ellie ahh

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gun to your head, pick an american to play doctor who. and no you can’t say sydney sweeney. and no you can’t pull the trigger.

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This is still the funniest goddamn joke 😂

Ultraman's Strongest Soldier

@UchuKeibitai

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Opening montage of #ShinUltraman . The movie recreates the opening swirl of the original Ultraman 1966 TV show, followed by a montage of the events of #UltraQ , leading to the formation of the SSSP. #Ultraman

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I like Aliens a lot but it’s really weird that Vasquez is just flat-out brownface and it just kinda continues to not be treated or viewed as such in the movie’s iconic reputation…?

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I was today years old when I realised the Irish mammy telling her kids about Tír na nÓg in Titanic, is also Vasquez from Aliens

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"RTD decanonized Turlough!" good, perish the dye job twink, it was Liz who was truly besmirched.

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@jblacksomething

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Genuinely the funniest zenith of Gary Frank’s hellbent determination to draw Christopher Reeve.

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There’s an encyclopedia somewhere that asserts the “brain-wave scanning” process doesn’t have to be painful or fatal at all. The Daleks simply ensure that it is.

Bad Wolf Archives

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1 year

Series 2’s scariness factor is overlooked

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1 year

It fascinates me how important Genesis of the Daleks is to the revival. Not even including RTD’s assertion that it was the first shot of the Time War or any status as an influential classic favorite, it’s one of very few serials actively impacting the characters and story.

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That period where they were THE Daleks… we need to go back 😭

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@jblacksomething

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(Also the racism. The condescending engagement with Toku is racist. Toho was considered a pinnacle of special effects well to Kubrick’s 2001, but Hollywood’s standards quickly became a “us vs them” conversation, especially with film critics. Roger Ebert was VERY bad about this.)

Daniel Dockery

@dandock

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One of Tokusatsu's biggest problems in the US will always be the fact that so many people are raised to believe that the "best" special effects are the ones that most closely resemble reality and that not achieving this is some kind of failure of technique.

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Love how Ncuti describes Scarman’s tomb looting expedition with such disgust?

-𝐉𝐀𝐌𝐈𝐄 to the World- ❤️❤️⭐️🌲 | ♟️

@AMadmanNotABox

4 months

Ncuti Gatwa’s Fifteenth Doctor introduces… #TalesOfTheTardis #PyramidsOfMars !

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Like is this not one of the actively scariest and striking designs/creatures of the 50s?? Literally no American Cold War classic or Harryhausen creature gets described this way, and so consistently, on lists or summations like this.

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Like. We all see what backhanded compliments this description and framing is oozing with, right? You understand why this pisses me off, yes?

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There is nothing insightful I can add to this discourse, but is there any other franchise where it is so normalized in nerd spaces to write off decades of its history as utter artless dreck? Kind’ve feels the opposite of the usual nostalgia and legacy sequel discussions.

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@Godzill60740717

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WHY DOES NO ONE DO RESEARCH ON GODZILLA'S FILM HISTORY?!?!!

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5 years

This picture is the equivalent of 2012 reaching through the screen, grabbing me by the throat, and smashing my skull against my computer.

Entertainment Weekly

@EW

5 years

Thank heavens for #Supernatural ! In dark days, we need good guys. @jarpad , @JensenAckles and @mishacollins spill on their years-long journey and share what fans can expect from the show’s grand finale in our May cover story. Story by @samhighfill

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@jblacksomething

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I'm rewatching Batman Forever, and Nicole Kidman's character taking her intro to immediately establish, no questions asked, how much she wants to rail Batman within the first three minutes of the movie will never not be utterly hilarious. Good for you, honey.

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@jblacksomething

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And like, fuck, Megalon still pulled off stunning work despite that time and resources crunch! There’s always been such a magic and craft to these things, even at its most choked or stressed, it’s mesmerizing.

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@gigantisminus1

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The sentiment that Godzilla had bad effects never made sense to me. Sure films like vs megalon looked bad because of the micro budget and time restrictions. But everything before and after was either on par with or exceeding American effects.🧵(1/3)

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“Gallifrey” and “Skaro” are just such perfect words.

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Still a huge fan of these dudes. Like, a "think they're an era all-timer and am a little bummed no one else seems to" fan of these dudes. Adore how visually striking they are.

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@jblacksomething

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I love that 73 Yards didn’t explain shit. Really wish the show did that way more.

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@jblacksomething

1 year

The My Adventures With Superman premiere lowkey adapts The Mechanical Monsters into an Evangelion reference, God fucking bless 😂

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The TV Movie’s influence still strong!!!

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THAT’S TOO MANY OF YOU! TOO MUCH ENGAGEMENT! AT FIELD UP!

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@jblacksomething

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It's fun that RTD's last Dalek story has a catharsis of mockery towards them. The Daleks were always treated with threatening intensity through every finale or appearance, yet here they go out with slapstick and Pertwee-pushing down hallways, flailing. They're humiliated.

Ethan Luke 💫

@Ethan_LMP

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So camp and wholesome, I love it!

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@jblacksomething

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I'm still just swept-off-my-feet-enamored how Jo Martin, prior to figuring out who the Thirteenth Doctor is, totally plays her attitude towards Whitaker as the Doctor trying to flirt and swagger a new companion into the TARDIS, Tennant and Smith style.

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@jblacksomething

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It’s “Missing the Twelfth Doctor” Hours, lads

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@jblacksomething

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Quietly one of the best movies ever made, actually.

Animation Obsessive

@ani_obsessive

2 years

A surrealist moment from Night on the Galactic Railroad (1985), dir. Gisaburo Sugii, Group TAC

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The way the news is being broken is iffy, but take the Neil Gaiman allegations seriously. Listen to survivors. I hope they get closure and justice.

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@jblacksomething

2 years

Still can’t believe Chibnall’s era gave me the Other, Lungbarrow, the Anchoring of the Thread, and Timewyrm Revelation/Zagreus 😂

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@jblacksomething

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This scene is so off the walls and bombastically funny, I adore it so much.

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@jblacksomething

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It just gets funnier the more you think about it. What the fuck Russell 😂

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@jblacksomething

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Today I learned that Dr. Doom’s diplomatic immunity is Kissinger’s fault????

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@jblacksomething

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I really like, from the Doctor’s perspective, Villengard is destroyed. He tore it down for the benefit of a banana grove joke, conversed with Rusty in its Dalek-infested ruins. Yet the scar it leaves in the universe, the Terminus Inc and Androzani flavor, lives on.

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doctor who is soooo back

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Y’all I’m gonna be 100% honest, while I always took as read “sure, it unfolded out from the box,” I have never noticed before it’s literally sticking out of the top of the box like a fucking Looney Tunes gag.

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@rob_heighton

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Saw an image of the Moment and briefly thought "wow how does all that fit inside the box" before realising that's, like, an iconic core concept of the show

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@jblacksomething

1 year

He’s giving Stan Winston???? 😍😍😍

GORMARU

@GormaruIsland

1 year

Behold! Godzilla Minus One! #Godzilla

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@jblacksomething

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And that’s got pros and cons, ESPECIALLY when the queerness is specifically not his lane. I think there’s a lot of really interesting discussion to be had!

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@jblacksomething

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I keep thinking about Oliver Ono’s Kamacurus spread and the Ebirah page from Monster Island Summer Camp. No real coherent thoughts, just brain buzz. Completely perfect Showa loving. Ono and Nick Marino’s colors are beyond gorgeous, too.

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@jblacksomething

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King. In a period of limited resources, and support, unfairly defined by stock footage, Nakano and his team brought a new style and visual flair to Godzilla. The Mechagodzilla duo are breathtaking, and sometimes I really do think the Godzilla of 1984 is the definitive version.

Godzilla Novelization Project

@Danzilla93_GNP

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Remembering the late, great Teruyoshi Nakano – pioneering special effects director, master of explosions, and the resourceful mind behind the 1970s Godzilla films, SUBMERSION OF JAPAN, THE RETURN OF GODZILLA, and more – on what would’ve been his 89th birthday.

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@jblacksomething

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I find it interesting that Chibnall clearly had no interest in Pertwee’s mournful recollection of lost friendship from Sea Devils (which RTD and Moffat built their approaches from) and was so focused on Beevers or Ainley’s pitiful, cowardly lost causes.

Tigoralloween 🎃

@Tigfore

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this still is my favourite Master line ever bc you just know he was waiting centuries to say it and that epitomises how pathetic he is i love him so much i hope an anvil drops on his head

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@jblacksomething

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@RahulKohli13 @ManMadeMoon

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@jblacksomething

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Y’know, I think this is a whole other thing about (traditional) kaiju and toku. It’s a magic trick with a short lifespan. A little special effects miracle you get to enjoy, cinematically immortal, before it’s physically gone.

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@jblacksomething

11 months

I think about the “You Can’t Rewrite History!” bit from The Aztecs a lot because, even with the Time Lords retcon, it feels far less like the Doctor stressing rules, and more implying a terrifying personal experience. Something somewhen went terribly wrong. “Believe me. I KNOW.”

Jayce

@jblacksomething

11 months

His claim of being a pioneer and the clear implication through the 60s that something tragic, even quite horrible, has happened to the rest of his family. It all sits on everything done with the character since like a stone, meant for us all to have our own ideas. I love it.

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@jblacksomething

11 months

Wild Blue Yonder, the Moffat: History as a punchline, the show's rules as a game. The puzzle of the countdown, the answer in plain sight. The monsters as ideas, metatext given flesh. Classic lore and TARDIS "rules of war" as trappings, jokes and character entrapment both.

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@jblacksomething

2 months

God this is why I’m always raving about Godzilla’s craft. This just looks completely fucking real. It’s three feet tall.

André

@ShowaAddict

11 months

The Ghidrah 4K BD features some newly uncovered unused effects footage for the forest fire in the climax of the film.

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@jblacksomething

3 months

It’s funny how many guys I know and have interacted with who are absolute diehard “PRACTICAL > CGI ALWAYS” that cannot handle a single traditionally made Godzilla movie and are often the first to nastily decimate tokusatsu’s craft. And by funny I mean stupid and lowkey racist.

Will Shop of Horrors (SpaceTree Studios)

@SpaceTreeStudio

3 months

*looks side to side* Ok but when a Japanese film does it suddenly it’s cheesy to you guys sure.

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@jblacksomething

11 months

Wild Blue Yonder, the Chibnall: The Flux, the Timeless Child. The universe too vast, too stark, too indifferent. Desolation, emptiness, home a normality too far away. Victory in the sacrifices of the dead, but no solace. The universe is still too big, and the dead still dead.

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@jblacksomething

4 months

I really don’t believe “silliness” is as inherent to the show’s DNA as asserted. I think it’s based in a really reductive and condescending perception of the original show and is used to soften or defend some pretty insipid creative choices from all three modern showrunners.

Jack Alexander 🔜 MCM LONDON 🔶⬛

@An_awful_Jack

4 months

What's a Doctor Who opinion you'll defend like this? For me it's that Legend Of the Sea Devils is kinda alright actually

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@jblacksomething

3 years

One of my kiddos watched Eve of the Daleks after literally no prior Dalek experience and in the last two days has screeched “EXTERMINATE” no fewer than eighty-one times. I… okay, universe, I see you, stop bullying me.

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@jblacksomething

1 year

It’s fascinating how not good it is!

Art of Lost Media

@ArtofLostMedia

1 year

Here's footage for Tim Curry's Joker voice performance from Batman the Animated Series before being replaced by Mark Hamill

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Jayce

@jblacksomething

5 months

I actually really love this moment in The Devil’s Chord because it’s far more in line with the liminal horror of the Toyroom in Hartnell’s Toymaker.

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Jayce

@jblacksomething

2 months

Genuinely cool as shit how much of this effect is just a guy.

Neb | 🏳️‍🌈

@NebsGoodTakes

2 months

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@jblacksomething

3 years

The fact that Graham can see ghosts...

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@jblacksomething

4 months

People are really bad about pre-CGI special effects in just about anything. It’s why Tokusatsu is still so mocked, it’s why Trek is now only available with replaced animation. There is craft and context to even the cheapest Who serial, and the teasing attitudes get on my nerves.

Jayce

@jblacksomething

4 months

I’m just fully against doing it for any of them. Redesigns for big villain returns are one thing, but redoing the old effects comes from a reductive and condescending attitude that these things NEED fixing that’s frankly a really bad means of engaging with older media.

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@jblacksomething

4 years

RIP to a real one 😭😭😭 Gone but not forgotten 😭💞

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@jblacksomething

1 month

Actually treating the design work of the original show with a level of care and respect without a single joke or any embarrassed irony, framing the retrofuture kitsch at their most fake and trundling as pure, unironic horror is the best Dalek imagery of the revival, don’t @ me.

Jayce

@jblacksomething

1 month

The vein the era hits from here to Capaldi’s bow is the only stuff I can think of remotely (ish) like what Anno and Higuchi do with the Shin movies, but that energy is ESPECIALLY present in the use of the Raymond Cusick Dalek City. It’s only missing the ‘63 sound design.

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@jblacksomething

11 months

- The Rwandan proverb is gorgeous. - I love how easily he slips in and out of the diegesis of lore + Gallifreyan aesthetics. - I love how completely new that design is, really feels like the show is gonna keep to moving away from established design ethos. - God he’s beautiful.

Doctor Who

@bbcdoctorwho

11 months

The Doctor’s NEW Sonic! ⚡️ Ncuti Gatwa tours us through the Doctor’s new version of his essential gadget, the Sonic Screwdriver! #DoctorWho

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@jblacksomething

1 year

Christ, remember how the World Enough and Time prototype has its nose blatantly stapled down 🫣

verypete lambert

@Prof_Quiteamess

1 year

quite a rude thing to say to him actually

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@jblacksomething

7 months

It was also a really striking special effects show? It had incredibly imaginative visual craft, and I think it’s an aspect of its reputation that gets accidentally written off when the anti-legacy sequel argument (which I mostly agree with!) gets reductive to the movie.

caroline (going woman)

@soonrightaway

7 months

the original Ghostbusters is good because they let Dan Aykroyd do his stupid Lovecraft fanfiction and made everyone play it like a James L Brooks movie

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@jblacksomething

4 months

As the Doctor convinces her to embrace her inner child, Sladen let her chemistry with Baker overwrite the no-nonsense and strait-laced reporter performance in Pertwee’s swansong, and by Pyramids (and onwards) Sarah’s a legit fucking weirdo. I adore it. I adore her.

Council of Geeks

@councilofgeeks

4 months

Ok I know a whole bunch of Doctor Who fans went back and watched or rewatched Pyramids of Mars. How are NONE of you talking about the fact that Sarah Jane literally licks her lips at Sutekh’s defeat?!?

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@jblacksomething

5 years

The more I think about how blatantly Moffat makes fun of himself and the "INSERT HERE of the Doctor" trilogy with The Day of the Doctor novelization's chapter titles, the more convinced I am that he actually saw this post.