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@plh85.bsky.social

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Video Editor/Filmmaker with rejection sensitive dysphoria foolishly trying to be noticed on a social media site. Is this a recipe for disaster? You betcha! Sometimes posts animation clips from film I’m working on.

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paul @plh85.bsky.social · Mar 31

I am still making this very long animated film.
One frame at a time.
#Animation

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paul @plh85.bsky.social · 1h

BEFORE SUNRISE.
One of Richard Linklater's many movie miracles.
Flawless chemistry between two phenomenal masters of their craft. No single line feels false or written and that's insane!
Pure magic!

paul @plh85.bsky.social · 2h

No one ever really takes about the wild places things go in the fourth BEFORE movie.

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paul @plh85.bsky.social · 2h

Gonna revisit a perfect movie and then go to bed.

paul @plh85.bsky.social · 3h

MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM UNICORN.
Gundam does everything Star Wars pretends to do.
Great writing, strong characters and an intelligent sci-fi story about generational conflicts that allows new characters to take center stage.
Loved this one.
And the romance didn't fall apart at the last minute!

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Caroline Casey @cacasey.bsky.social · 5h

this is objectively hilarious

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Daniel Kibblesmith @kibblesmith.com · 4h

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 6h

Breaking: Ghazala Hashmi wins Virginia Lieutenant Governor race, flipping the seat from red to blue.

(Source: @decisiondeskhq.bsky.social)

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paul @plh85.bsky.social · 6h

if there's no wise hot older Oded Fehr telling the O'Connell's what happened thousands of years ago to make the Mummy so pissed then what's the point of all this?

paul @plh85.bsky.social · 6h

I figure this has to be for an animated sequel to PREDATOR: KILLER OF KILLERS cause a live action return to Dutch has long past.
Guy's in great shape but he is almost 80.

I've just always like each Predator being a standalone. Lore does nothing for me.

paul @plh85.bsky.social · 6h

Maybe I'm built different but I've never wanted Arnold Schwarzenegger to return to PREDATOR.
Great one off story.

(Arnie's right that Predator is much better fit for a franchise than Terminator. Terminator IS James Cameron. Like the other movies or not none are even half as good as the first two.)

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paul @plh85.bsky.social · 6h

Honestly insane Deadline opens an article about PREDATOR: BADLANDS saying it has a “subtle ALIEN crossover” when the marketing has pushed the Weyland-Yutani logo front and center.

deadline.com/2025/11/pred...

paul @plh85.bsky.social · 7h

The Clintons fucking suck, man.
Always have.
Always will.
Throw them into the abyss.

flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 19h

What Hillary is saying here is a conspiracy theory and not even a tame, silly one, but a whopper. A more balefully consequential and widespread one than e.g. Trump complaining that the media lied about his crowds being big.

Hillary Clinton on the generational shift on Israel inside the Democrats.
"We have done a miserable job teaching young people history.
"And, you know, those of us who have lived through it, I went to Israel for the first time in 1980, so a long time ago, and I've been back many times. And obviously, you know, with my husband, deeply involved in all kinds of activities to support Israel and to try to be as helpful as possible. But it was astonishing to me because I had so many conversations, and frankly, they often started as confrontations with students, not just at Columbia, but elsewhere.
"Where were they getting their information?
They were getting it from social media. They were getting it most particularly from TikTok, which is governed by an algorithm until at least up till now, still largely manipulated by the Chinese Communist Party.

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paul @plh85.bsky.social · 10h

Oh my!
I know some people on here who like me will be very happy about this.

Pandoran Vault @pandoranvault.bsky.social · 10h

New image from the from Fire and Ash of Quarich and Varang holding hands! #avatarsky #varang

Quarich and Varang holding hands inside a dark area illuminated by fire. In the background is Lyle and some Mangkwan members.

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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 14h

The failure of the “blue no matter who” crowd to rally behind Mamdani really just lays the reality of that position bare, doesn’t it?

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paul @plh85.bsky.social · 11h

They're pretty good.
More people should give them a chance.

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paul @plh85.bsky.social · 11h

Just obvious lying and misdirection 24/7.
Like how the government shutdown and everything that comes from it is not happening because of the party that is in charge of all three branches of the government but because of the 'radical democracts".

Children are running the country.

paul @plh85.bsky.social · 11h

Everyone is talking about Del Toro's new take on FRANKENSTEIN - it's very good - but SPLICE is the true masterpiece made for real sick monsterfuckers like myself!

Cinematic Second Chances @cinemaseconds.bsky.social · 11h

Splice (2009) Dir. Vincenzo Natali – A cautionary tale disguised as a creature feature, this unsettling film explores scientific hubris and the horrors of playing god. Adrien Brody and Sarah Polley sell the madness as their creation turns on them. It’s not nice to fool with "monster" nature.🎞️📽️

paul @plh85.bsky.social · 11h

I thought my last post was pretty good but my inability to reach anyone who doesn't already follow me seems to be my social media curse.

ah well.

paul @plh85.bsky.social · 12h

Problem with the bad biopic template - most true for the ones based on musicians - is they adaptat their Wikipedia page.
A great biopic - like THE IRISHMAN - finds a smart in like "The 'Greatest Generation' never dealt with their WW2 PTSD and what little they had left away to be middlemen"

paul @plh85.bsky.social · 12h

Biopics aren't bad.
BAD biopics that follow a bad template are bad.

For example: Most of Martin Scorsese's best movies are biopics. We don't think of them as such because he uses the person to study a trait or flaw in them to talk about a greater human story.

Keith Phipps @kphipps3000.bsky.social · 8d

Hey! You can read at @slate.com making an argument for reclaiming the term "biopic."

One Movie Genre Has Become So Maligned That Even Its Makers Are Disavowing It. They’re Wrong.

Yes, many biopics are clichéd and laughable. But they can also be fantastic.

slate.com

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jeeyon shim 심지연 @jeeyon.bsky.social · 14h

"Bury him face down." This barn burner of an obit might feel hyperbolic to people who entered the world in the wake of 9/11; it's not. Cheney was one of the architects of today's American Christian conservatism. He was directly responsible for millions of deaths. Salt the earth where he's buried.

Defector @defector.com · 15h

Dick Cheney departs the world he made: defector.com/dick-cheney-...

Dick Cheney Departs The World He Made | Defector

At its heart, American conservatism is a fantasy. It’s a vision of a world too evil to be saved or cared about, and fearsome enough to justify any and every impulse toward cruelty and violence that a…

defector.com

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paul @plh85.bsky.social · 13h

Normally I vote early but felt so unmotivated this year after what happened in 2024.
But i just “did the thing“ and hopefully things will go well this e evening and things will start to turn around.

paul @plh85.bsky.social · 14h

I mean Bijaz would offer the silly voice but I’m sure he could find something kooky to do for Scytale.

(Pretty sure he’s Scytale)

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zerosuitbae.bsky.social @zerosuitbae.bsky.social · 15h

THIS IS FUNNY AF

Chris Sommerfeldt @c-sommerfeldt.bsky.social · 18h

Mamdani was unaware Dick Cheney had died when I asked just now:

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paul @plh85.bsky.social · 14h

I do hope you talk about it after you have experienced those films on a massive screen

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