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Brendan Foley

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Part time imaginary friend. Contributor to http://Cinapse.co. Co-host of https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/brendanagnew. BUY MY BOOK: https://www.amazon.com/Little-Terrors-1-Brendan-Foley-ebook/dp/B08YX8G6RK/ref=sr_1_1?crid=F79LKMDQ573T&dib=eyJ2IjoiM

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jof @wordsbyjof.bsky.social · 1h

We always and rightly laud the pioneering CGI of TRON, but let's not forget the movie's innovations in the area of farming out all the rotoscoping of VFX shots to an army of artists in the Far East and then not giving them any credit

An image of a Kodalith used in the production of the movie TRON with areas painted black by hand to hold out primary exposure of the rephotographed frame before a second exposure fills in those areas with the signature colours of, in this case, the interior of the tank

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Andrew Doull @andrewdoull.bsky.social · 11h

This is known as the Mel Brooks method www.slashfilm.com/1109726/mel-...

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Brendan Foley @thetruebrendanf.bsky.social · 3h

The music has a pulse and the movie has none, so the two just never sync up.

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Andy @andy.wrestlejoy.com · 11h

Mexican luchador Charro Negro being helped by a fan to avoid being eliminated touching the floor during a Battle Royal match. 🤼

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Brendan Foley @thetruebrendanf.bsky.social · 3h

Best Halloween movie.

Up next on TCM @tcm-up-next.bsky.social · 3h

HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL (1958) — 7:15 am ET — 1h 15m

Vincent Price, Carol Ohmart, Richard Long; directed by William Castle

A millionaire offers total strangers a fortune to spend the night in a haunted house.

#TCM #TCMParty

House on Haunted Hill (1958)

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Brendan Foley @thetruebrendanf.bsky.social · 11h

But even Bart, it's funny how quickly (i.e. ten years in) Cartwright lost track of the classic voice.

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Brendan Foley @thetruebrendanf.bsky.social · 11h

Wild to think that the era in which the SIMPSONS characters actually sound how you remember them sounding now makes up less than a third of the show's lifespan.

Eric D. Snider @ericdsnider.bsky.social · 11h

It’s finally happened. Thanks to the very talented Nancy Cartwright’s real-life aging process, Bart Simpson’s voice is finally getting deeper. He joins Mr. Burns, who now sounds pitiably old and frail instead of malevolent, and Marge, who now sounds like Patty and Selma (who sound like kaiju).

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Brendan Foley @thetruebrendanf.bsky.social · 11h

The stretch of this movie that is just beautiful women in blood-soaked gowns chasing each other around a haunted castle is just caaaaaaaaaaandy.

Brendan Foley @thetruebrendanf.bsky.social · 13h

It's not a ghost story,

It's a story with a ghost in it.

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Brian Tallerico @briantallerico.bsky.social · 11h

THIS. Give me bad but passionate or ambitious every day over soulless.

somuchformedia @somuchformedia.bsky.social · 12h

There are so many bad horror movies I’ve enjoyed watching just because you can tell everyone involved is doing it for the love of the art, AI is not capable of that

Bright Wall/Dark Room @bwdr.bsky.social · 12h

One thing AI is good for is reminding people how even the very worst movie they’ve ever seen is better than AI “movies”

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Brendan Foley @thetruebrendanf.bsky.social · 12h

It's too bad, especially since it feels like the ALICE movies became an anchor rather than a help. It's not her fault those movies are drivel.

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Brendan Foley @thetruebrendanf.bsky.social · 12h

This was pretty much the end of Mia Wasikowska's nascent movie star run. The following year was the disastrous ALICE IN WONDERLAND sequel, and after that she pretty much evacuated back to Australia and has stayed in the arthouse.

Brendan Foley @thetruebrendanf.bsky.social · 13h

It's not a ghost story,

It's a story with a ghost in it.

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Brendan Foley @thetruebrendanf.bsky.social · 12h

It's funny that del Toro took such umbrage with this movie getting labeled horror. Gothic romance, sure, but that still leaves the matter of poor Jim Beaver's skull.

Brendan Foley @thetruebrendanf.bsky.social · 13h

It's not a ghost story,

It's a story with a ghost in it.

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Brendan Foley @thetruebrendanf.bsky.social · 12h

In the grand scheme of things, the Scooby who probably shoulda gone out mid-battle was Giles. Have him make some kind of peace with Buffy, and then send him out swinging.

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Brendan Foley @thetruebrendanf.bsky.social · 13h

Go yell about it on a podcast whydontcha.

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Brendan Foley @thetruebrendanf.bsky.social · 13h

It's not a ghost story,

It's a story with a ghost in it.

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Brendan Foley @thetruebrendanf.bsky.social · 13h

They never did, but Darla and Dru were at it together anytime the boys were away.

Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 13h

Do we think Angel and Spike ever slept together? Decades of time together with Darla and Dru? Had to happen at least once right?

Brendan Foley @thetruebrendanf.bsky.social · 13h

Forgetting even the physics of getting sucked into the magic world inside a computer...WHY do "users" have god-like powers in The Grid? I can't will my iPhone into doing stuff with The Force.

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Roxana Hadadi @roxana-hadadi.bsky.social · 19h

the ending of THE GODFATHER, the best american movie ever made, doesn't work without diane keaton's final look --- at the realization of who she's married and what her life is going to become and what corruption lurks behind closed doors. unforgettable, inimitable work. RIP.

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Jaime N. Christley @rohmersimpson.bsky.social · 15h

I know I'm going to get the answer in less than 12 hrs time but where in FUCK did the Coens find Michael Stuhlbarg, he's instantly a star from A Serious Man, he's in 3-4 films from that point forward and never bad. Plus he's got *character*.

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Ashley Lynch ✂️🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 14h

Tron will forever be to me a broken world building concept that aged horribly and is impossible to make work. This is why the best results will always be "it looks pretty and has a good soundtrack."

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Justin LaLiberty @jlalibs.com · 17h

What an absolute treasure Diane Keaton was. Her wit never tired, nor did her style.

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Brendan Foley @thetruebrendanf.bsky.social · 18h

Darkly funny to post this the same day we lose the great Diane Keaton and everyone gets back into their feels about ANNIE HALL.

Brendan Foley @thetruebrendanf.bsky.social · 1d

Having thought about this a bit, I do think maybe the most quietly seismic shift is the erasure of Woody Allen’s whole canon. He was basically a genre of classic cinema unto himself, and these days his stuff just does not come up.

Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 1d

throwing this prompt from Twitter in here. what examples you got?

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Max Deering @odstspartan.bsky.social · 18h

There is no other way about it. This was elite. Kenji Tanigaki's kinetic direction combined with Kensuke Sonomura's rapid pace fight choreography makes for maybe the most thrilling action film of the year. The finale fight I can only describe as The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly...

Max Deering @odstspartan.bsky.social · 1d

Fourth film of Sitges. The one many of you have been waiting for.

Now Seated for Kenji Tanigaki's THE FURIOUS.

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👻 Pablo Hidalghost 👻 @infinata.bsky.social · 20h

This question is how Inside Llewyn Davis began development.

Quintessa Knight @quietblkgrl.blacksky.app · 21h

What would be the wildest concert for a fight to break out at?

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britt hayes @britthates.bsky.social · 18h

Jared Leto *is* AI: a tacky thing corporations keep forcing on consumers by putting him in everything even though he’s unprofitable and nobody likes it

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