JWMangrum
@jwmangrum.bsky.social
Just a random guy on the internet. Used to use social media to riff into the void, but mostly just listening these days. RPG writer and Half Moon ship’s chronicler in former lives.
At my arson trial; Your honor, you have to understand, he was giving me side-eye
In 1931 the Production Code wouldn’t let Tod Browning show off Bela Lugosi rocking’ those alligator boots
In 1931 the Producer Code wouldn’t let Tod Browning show off Bela Lugosi rocking’ those alligator boots
49 feet is about mid-range for a yacht.
Generally, 33-78 feet = yacht, 79-130 feet = large yacht, 131+ feet = superyacht.
Using an image, show a movie you’re sure you’ve watched more than ten times.
Using an image, show a movie you’re sure you’ve watched more than ten times.
The grads should keep that photo handy and send it back every time they receive alumni fundraising e-mails for the rest of their lives.
What’s your sign
Even more than that. Every time you decide to see a movie based just on its premise, knowing nothing about its cast & crew, maybe based on a cool poster, you’re entering the world Corman helped build.
I don’t like watching *actually* bad movies but I do enjoy watching flawed, limited, and/or rough-hewn movies.
Corman directed and produced some real keepers, but folks are choosing to forget that he also *created* the kinds of movie making they’re complaining about now (*including* the first wave of Marvel movies).
Ugh. I could barely handle it the one time Roy Dotrice forgot how to do Dolorous Ed's voice for a chapter.
This is literally the argument an OmniCorp executive makes in Robocop 2.
I got to see this on the big screen once. The first movie I ever saw at the annual Ebertfest in Champaign, back in 2005, and arguably still my favorite of everything I’ve seen there since.
The game may be great, but if the theme doesn't interest me, I'll never be drawn to it to find out.
Simulationism vs Narrativism? (With Gamism being the third leg of the stool.)
The exact type of courage it takes to order a military invasion of a country that attacked you and then, immediately, because you’re in the mood, to attack an entirely unrelated country as well
I don’t know about that; if Twitter taught me anything it’s that the physical act of reading text makes you a good and wise person
Recently unfollowed a “Big Name” here because they wouldn’t or couldn’t stop
1. Jousting with randos
2. Complaining about randos jousting with them
3. Complaining about people asking them to stop jousting with randos
Some days it makes me wish I believed in the Antichrist, because it would explain so, SO much
Feels to me that they’re focusing on “it was completely legal” because that’s the one component not under contention.
Interesting. I read the whole article, and it turns out the part that confounded scholars for centuries washed right over me, while the part that confounded me get brushed past in the article.
I’ve always been fine with the Birg Queen but doing so has always required maintaining an extremely specific and conceptually fragile concept of what “she” is, a concept not necessarily always supported by the text.
GIFs!
Fox News doesn't want to report on those Arizona results too early, no doubt
ABIGAIL is a hoot in the theater, but like TERMINATOR 2 and FROM DUSK TIL DAWN, it’s a movie essentially, and perhaps inescapably, being betrayed by its own marketing.
When the Wizard War comes to Northeastia, I hope we see King Tomblain command a series of battalions.
Honestly, the pitch for this movie was "We're already marketing these hard-R movies to kids with toys and Saturday morning cartoons, so maybe we should make a movie they're *supposed* to be allowed to watch."
Ah, that melancholy feeling when you sense you may be doing something you love for the last time, ever. Been a while since I've felt that.
(In this case, Ebertfest, which began in 1999 and I've attended since 2005, may not return next year.)
DoTI. Federation HR only hates Kirk for the things he's *already* done.