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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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Brendan Foley @thetruebrendanf.bsky.social · 3h

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 · 3h

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 · 3h

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 · 3h

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 · 5h

It's not a ghost story,

It's a story with a ghost in it.

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Brian Tallerico @briantallerico.bsky.social · 4h

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

somuchformedia @somuchformedia.bsky.social · 4h

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 · 5h

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 · 4h

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 · 4h

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 · 5h

It's not a ghost story,

It's a story with a ghost in it.

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Brendan Foley @thetruebrendanf.bsky.social · 5h

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 · 5h

It's not a ghost story,

It's a story with a ghost in it.

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Brendan Foley @thetruebrendanf.bsky.social · 5h

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 · 5h

Go yell about it on a podcast whydontcha.

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Brendan Foley @thetruebrendanf.bsky.social · 5h

It's not a ghost story,

It's a story with a ghost in it.

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Brendan Foley @thetruebrendanf.bsky.social · 6h

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

Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 6h

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 · 6h

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 · 11h

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 · 7h

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 · 7h

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 · 10h

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

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Brendan Foley @thetruebrendanf.bsky.social · 10h

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 · 16h

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 · 11h

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 · 16h

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 · 13h

This question is how Inside Llewyn Davis began development.

Quintessa Knight @quietblkgrl.blacksky.app · 14h

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

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britt hayes @britthates.bsky.social · 11h

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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Brendan Foley @thetruebrendanf.bsky.social · 13h

I mean, I think a strong breeze would carry the Maras over state lines.

Brendan Foley @thetruebrendanf.bsky.social · 13h

I don’t think it’s wholly successful but the first half especially has some of the most harrowing horror writing you’re ever gonna get.

Brendan Foley @thetruebrendanf.bsky.social · 13h

Ever read the book?

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Brendan Foley @thetruebrendanf.bsky.social · 13h

oh wow it’s so wild that people didn’t go see the sequel to the movie they didn’t like now starring a guy who sucks

Cosmic Marvel @dailycosmicmarvel.bsky.social · 15h

‘TRON: ARES’ has earned $14.3M in its opening day at the domestic box office.

For comparison, ‘MORBIUS’ opened to $17.3M.

Brendan Foley @thetruebrendanf.bsky.social · 15h

Not his first masterpiece, but certainly the moment he took up mantle of one of all-time greats, a distinction he has more than upheld for the subsequent 19 years.

𖤐 Bri 𖤐 @brianimator.bsky.social · 16h

Guillermo del Toro’s PAN’S LABYRINTH was released in Spain on this day in 2006 #filmsky