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rob dunson @wormsgreenrealm.bsky.social · 18h

William pivoted to covering wrestling and deleted his entire catalogue of film content. awful

rob dunson @wormsgreenrealm.bsky.social · Jul 8

You better not think I forgot about William's Cinema. I ain't no fairweather YouTube follower. Watched his latest video unboxing a John Wayne collection and remain bodied by the branding of his channel. Observe, for example, the disparate images in his 15-20 second channel intro.

From the William's Cinema video intro: two images of William himself

From the William's Cinema video intro: an image of Dr. Phil on his show (please note that Dr. Phil does not feature in the video)

From the William's Cinema video intro: stock footage of a person alone on a park basketball court (please note that basketball is neither played nor mentioned in the video)

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DOKI DOKI CRT PANIC @crtpixel.bsky.social · 23h

SUPER MARIO WORLD
NINTENDO 1991
SNES

Mario showing off his tiny hitbox alongside a big Bullet Bill

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rob dunson @wormsgreenrealm.bsky.social · 1d

Ottman of course notoriously WON the Editing Oscar for Bohemian Rhapsody, which naturally and notoriously spawned its own Twitter shitstorm. Ottman was Bryan Singer's editor AND composer for all of his career up to that point, from 1993's Public Access all the way up through Bohemian Rhapsody

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rob dunson @wormsgreenrealm.bsky.social · 1d

Found a story from 2018 about Scott Derrickson fighting people on Twitter because he thought Bohemian Rhapsody was good. A Deadline report doesn't include this juicy detail: Derrickson's first Hollywood gig was co-writing BoRhap editor John Ottman's sole directorial effort Urban Legends: Final Cut.

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rob dunson @wormsgreenrealm.bsky.social · 23h

Making West African Peanut Stew for dinner tonight. Sweet potato, chiles and tomatoes, spinach, peanut butter…topped with peanuts, served over farro...gonna be sick

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rob dunson @wormsgreenrealm.bsky.social · 23h

I remember reading the script for A Serious Man some time before release (before there were trailers even I’m pretty sure) and thinking (1) wow this is crazy, absolute god-tier masterpiece even just on the page and (2) why tf does this busted copy I downloaded cut off right when there’s a tornado

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Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 1d

another good one: Bamboozled, went from an odd unseen one in Lee’s filmography to masterpiece, largely thanks to @ashcclark.bsky.social

Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 1d

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

tweet by @Caol_MacCormaic that reads, uncs of film twitter: what are some movies that are canonical now but were basically unknown when we were coming up? like Come and See or Possession. inversely: what are some movies or filmmakers that seem to have fallen off? (Takashi Miike comes to mind)

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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 1d

Some obsessions take me back

youtu.be/Bt9W5sfeXhI

lit freestyle

YouTube video by probablyChase

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rob dunson @wormsgreenrealm.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah I thought about Lynch's rep in general circa Inland Empire versus the time The Return rolled around, let alone now when it feels like he's a solidly common pick for Greatest Director

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Peter Labuza @labuzamovies.com · 1d

For years the only Wiseman films that got talked about were the Titicut and High School. Now there's a lot more interest in the years where film criticism basically ignored him (which changed around Belfast). I'm not sure a consensus one has emerged (maybe Welfare or The Store).

Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 1d

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

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rob dunson @wormsgreenrealm.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah maybe, I guess I've never tried wayback with twitter but it must work for some things...??? I'll give it a go, good shout haha

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rob dunson @wormsgreenrealm.bsky.social · 1d

One of the biggest surges I've witnessed from adolescence to adulthood is the reputation of horror in general, particularly a lot of giallo, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and Carpenter's oeuvre. There was also only a hint of Chantal Akerman and Agnes Varda's now total canonization when I was a kid.

Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 1d

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

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rob dunson @wormsgreenrealm.bsky.social · 2d

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the "car flying off a highway exit at the last second" meme; the highway heads toward "finally seeing One Battle After Another on Saturday morning" but the car swings off the highway instead to exit "10am Roofman showing"

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rob dunson @wormsgreenrealm.bsky.social · 1d

Scott Derrickson deleting his Twitter is a veritable burning of the Library of Alexandria for the podcast research I'm trying to do

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rob dunson @wormsgreenrealm.bsky.social · 1d

The amount of casual bestiality jokes I encounter in amateur or otherwise low-level stand-up these days has me wondering if there’s a hacky new textbook ala Save the Cat for comedy that is teaching prospective comedians about an unfortunate alternative to Save the Cat / Kick the Dog

rob dunson @wormsgreenrealm.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah not the most appealing public personality I've ever encountered lol

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rob dunson @wormsgreenrealm.bsky.social · 1d

Scott Derrickson deleting his Twitter is a veritable burning of the Library of Alexandria for the podcast research I'm trying to do

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rob dunson @wormsgreenrealm.bsky.social · 1d

unfortunately this article is from 20 years ago when the film was released lol

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rob dunson @wormsgreenrealm.bsky.social · 1d

Anyway the article is about the studio's successful attempt to garner Christian viewership. Exorcism "is a great topic for genre filmmaking," says Derrickson; additionally, it's "something that a lot of people believe in, and a lot of people don't...that makes it interesting as well." mmhmm okay

rob dunson @wormsgreenrealm.bsky.social · 1d

And Hellraiser 5 was straight to video. This was his theatrical debut. Why did this (1) not merit mentioning and (2) get digested by this writer as "having directed several previous features"???

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rob dunson @wormsgreenrealm.bsky.social · 1d

Reading a Wall Street Journal piece about The Exorcism of Emily Rose. Really wishy-washy and bad article in general, but the worst part is where they say Scott Derrickson has "directed several previous horror movies, including Hellraiser 5." He had directed ONE previous horror movie: Hellraiser 5.

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rob dunson @wormsgreenrealm.bsky.social · 1d

One of the best movies!! we're so blessed to be living in a time where you can just watch this in nice quality; when I was a teenager it was such a grubby, cursed, obscure artifact that you had to appreciate in terrible pirated .avi quality lol

Jaime N. Christley @rohmersimpson.bsky.social · 1d

this Canadian masterpiece got a shoutout from Hesse on the recent Movie Mindset

youtu.be/afc4PoAFiL0?...

Crime Wave (John Paizs, 1985) | 2K Restoration Trailer

YouTube video by Matchbox Cine

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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 1d

Paddy McAloon in all his interviews when "Swoon" was released in 1984.

The @junkfilterpod.bsky.social series on Prefab Sprout is starting early next week

Timothee Chalamet accepting his SAG Award for Best Actor "I'm really in pursuit of greatness. I know people don't usually talk like that but I want to be one of the greats"

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rob dunson @wormsgreenrealm.bsky.social · 1d

Ottman of course notoriously WON the Editing Oscar for Bohemian Rhapsody, which naturally and notoriously spawned its own Twitter shitstorm. Ottman was Bryan Singer's editor AND composer for all of his career up to that point, from 1993's Public Access all the way up through Bohemian Rhapsody

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rob dunson @wormsgreenrealm.bsky.social · 1d

Found a story from 2018 about Scott Derrickson fighting people on Twitter because he thought Bohemian Rhapsody was good. A Deadline report doesn't include this juicy detail: Derrickson's first Hollywood gig was co-writing BoRhap editor John Ottman's sole directorial effort Urban Legends: Final Cut.

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