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Mike Cook

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Lover of film, television, comedy and horror. Former advertising creative. I am pro Star Trek and antifascist. AI sucks. Humanity rules. 🇨🇦 My creative work: Mikecookonline.com

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Mike Cook @mikecook82.bsky.social · Aug 6

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Mike Cook @mikecook82.bsky.social · 1h

This Torontonian thanks you!

Mike Cook @mikecook82.bsky.social · 3h

And we still get to see him a skeletor, so that will be fun! 🤯 🔫

Mike Cook @mikecook82.bsky.social · 4h

I don’t know dude, I’m not his accountant. That’s why I said “and other shit”. The point is he’s kicking in his own cash to star in these movies.

Mike Cook @mikecook82.bsky.social · 8h

I read recently that he has a lot of money from his band and other shit and that he actually invests his own money in the production if they hire him. So he’s basically paying the studios to be in some of these movies. Which explains a lot.

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Mike Cook @mikecook82.bsky.social · 10h

I have never in my life encountered scalding hot mashed potatoes. Like, I don’t think it possible for them to be scalding.

Mike Cook @mikecook82.bsky.social · 1d

Karma credit.

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Mike Cook @mikecook82.bsky.social · 2d

Wait till you hear about this band called the clash. Deeply uncool, but I think there’s something there. Twit.

Mike Cook @mikecook82.bsky.social · 2d

Disappointed by this season. Had some good stuff but felt a little aimless and padded to me and that last episode was more like a coda. The season just felt a little underbaked and thin, like you could tell Gunn was grinding the scripts out under a deadline. First season was bigger with more action.

Mike Cook @mikecook82.bsky.social · 2d

I’m just gonna have to chock this up to “old and confused”.

Mike Cook @mikecook82.bsky.social · 2d

Like in This is the End, just as Aziz starts to crawl out of career hell after getting me too’d, somebody kicks him back in! 😂

Mike Cook @mikecook82.bsky.social · 2d

Booooooo!

Mike Cook @mikecook82.bsky.social · 2d

American’s pathological refusal to ever simply just admit they fucked up and will try and do better, is going to kill us all.

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Mike Cook @mikecook82.bsky.social · 3d

My favourite zombie movie and my favourite zombie!

Mike Cook @mikecook82.bsky.social · 3d

I’m still super bummed they killed the prequel series. I liked it even better than resurrection!

Mike Cook @mikecook82.bsky.social · 3d

Thanks! I know it’s superficial, but this is a media battle as well as a physical one. So combating the fake narrative that these are dangerous anti American anarchists and disrupting their ability to craft propaganda is one flank of the larger battle. Pepper spraying Uncle Sam is a bad look.

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Mike Cook @mikecook82.bsky.social · 3d

Did I tell anyone how to protest? No, I said I thought it could be powerful and help disrupt the regime’s narrative for people to dress “patriotically”, in reply to a post that was literally about how the optics of a protest can be powerful, in that case, dressing as an inflatable frog.

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Mike Cook @mikecook82.bsky.social · 3d

Oh, and btw, Canadians are cleaning up our back yard. In a recent election conservatives (taken over by maple maga nuts) were a lock to win, until we got our shit together and voted to keep them out, averting disaster. We’re far from perfect, but if you wanna compare score cards we can do that.

Mike Cook @mikecook82.bsky.social · 3d

This may shock you, but what happens in America affects other people in other places. We are being crushed and are teetering on recession because of America’s tariffs, while american big tech spreads and fuels hate globally. In the 30’s should Americans have minded their own business about Germany?

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Mike Cook @mikecook82.bsky.social · 3d

He sucks. Blumhouse puts out a million movies and most are unwatchably cheap and artless crap for streaming libraries. He should talk to the heads of fullmoon and cannon about what happens when you only pump out low quality “content” with no regard for audience standards… oh wait.

Mike Cook @mikecook82.bsky.social · 3d

These people are all deranged sadists and fantasists. It all a gleeful game of torture the enemy to them. They’re the mean little brats who bite other kids and hurt animals. They pretend to be children of god while really being children of the corn. Not just amoral but anti moral.

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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 3d

🚨🚨 #Denmark aims to ban #socialmedia for children under 15. PM Mette Frederiksen says "We have unleashed a monster" to Danish lawmakers. 🧵https://www.politico.eu/article/denmark-mette-frederiksen-partially-ban-social-media-children-under-15/

Denmark aims to ban social media for children under 15, PM says

“We have unleashed a monster,” Mette Frederiksen tells Danish lawmakers.

www.politico.eu

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Mike Cook @mikecook82.bsky.social · 3d

I’m Canadian so I’m not going be traveling to the states anytime soon. I think masked goons vs. a sea of red white and blue would be a powerful image and an effective anti propaganda tactic to combat the state narrative of “dangerous anti American terrorists” in Portland or anywhere else in America.

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Mike Cook @mikecook82.bsky.social · 3d

Halloween is the most egregious example I can think of in terms of the gulf between the original and everything after. By far the worst of the big horror franchises. But what are examples of the opposite? Big franchises that grew out of bad or mediocre movies? Maybe fast and furious?

Mike Cook @mikecook82.bsky.social · 3d

Similarly, I think people should start wearing bright red white and blue clothing with big American flags on their shirts. They’re patriots, so they should dress like it and let the videos and pictures show masked men in camo attacking and abducting people who clearly love America, not “evil antifa”

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Mike Cook @mikecook82.bsky.social · 3d

The latest 4K AI uprez of terminator 2 currently available for streaming is a crime against art. It’s so bright and so smooth and so sharp it looks fucking awful! I hope I live long enough to see studios reissue “restored” hi rez versions of all the films they’re currently ruining with AI.