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Dan Hassler-Forest

@danhf.bsky.social

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Author, speaker, all-purpose movie guy, media studies prof @ Utrecht University. Notorious Disney-basher. Forthcoming: books on the Fast & Furious franchise and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.

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Dan Hassler-Forest @danhf.bsky.social · May 6

Today, we finally settled on a final title for my forthcoming book:

FAST AND FURIOUS FRANCHISING: HOW THE SERIALIZED BLOCKBUSTER REMADE HOLLYWOOD

Coming this autumn from @uminnpress.bsky.social.

a fast and furious advertisement with vin diesel

Alt: Dominic Toretto saying "You might want to buckle up"

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damned soul-o-man @dansolomon.com · 9h

i’ve wondered whether the traditional tactic of peaceful resistance to shock the conscience of observers who see nonviolence met with force is still possible in a media environment where only novelty can get the attention of the people you need to be shocked, and portland seems to have an answer

Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 10h

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

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Dan Hassler-Forest @danhf.bsky.social · 6h

I happened to re-watch PUSHER 3 (a longtime favorite) between my second and third viewings of SUPERMAN and realizing that Zlatko Burić plays evil dictator Ghurkos blew my mind.

bakoon @bakoon.bsky.social · Aug 15

kids if you liked 'superman' make sure to check out Pusher 3 to see your favorite new actor at wurk

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Dan Hassler-Forest @danhf.bsky.social · 6h

ten horror movies that made me a horror addict:

invaders from mars ('53)
invasion of the body snatchers ('56)
psycho
evil dead ii
jaws
dawn of the dead
don't look now
the thing
re-animator
eraserhead

Charlie Brigden @filmsonwax.bsky.social · 6h

ten horror movies that made me a horror movie addict

jaws
an american werewolf in london
the evil dead
the incredible melting man
dracula: prince of darkness
tarantula
captain kronos: vampire hunter
the thing
halloween
aliens

weinberg @weinberg.social · 7h

ten horror movies that made me a horror movie addict

👾Alien
🐺An American Werewolf in London
🧟‍♂️Dawn of the Dead '78
📖The Evil Dead
🪓Friday the 13th
🐲Gojira
🎃Halloween
👬Invasion of the Body Snatchers '78
🦍King Kong '33
🚀The Thing

Dan Hassler-Forest @danhf.bsky.social · 19h

In today’s mail: the greatest t-shirt ever made.

Dan Hassler-Forest @danhf.bsky.social · 23h

CNN: Trump says violence on street of Portland is rising

scene from Repo Man where to characters say: "Let's go get sushi and not pay."

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Standplaats Kraków @standplaatskrk.pl · Nov 2

ratsofftoya

"fuck all philosophy except for whatever the hell Diogenes was trying to teach"

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Image: statue of Diogenes:"In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face.
-Diogenes of Sinope"
direct action

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"How about just being polite & going into a debate with those who hold diffrent beliefs then you?"

ratsofftoya

"how about you eat my shit and hair"

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Dan Hassler-Forest @danhf.bsky.social · 1d

Chancellor Hitler is bucking tradition and legal precedent in pushing to invade neighboring Poland due to what he says is the rampant persecution of ethnic Germans and to support his crackdown on global jewry. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

NPR @npr.org · 1d

President Trump is bucking tradition and legal precedent in pushing to deploy the National Guard to Democratic-led cities like Portland, Oregon, and Chicago due to what he says is rampant crime and to support his crackdown on illegal immigration.

Trump's power to deploy National Guard, explained

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The Wonder Years of Lead @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 1d

Look I think there is a limit to what mockery practically achieves but it fucking rules that the American Himmler had to go on TV to sputter about how he’s not actually under five feet tall

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1d

Stephen Miller responding to AOC calling Miller a clown and saying he is angry that he is 4’10”: We knew her brain didn't work—now we know their eyes don't work.

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Dan Hassler-Forest @danhf.bsky.social · 1d

Hard to imagine a more perfect week to teach Susan Sontag’s “Notes on Camp,” SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN, and SHOWGIRLS, LOL. 🤩

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Feral Millennial Communists of Late Stage Capitalism @feralcommie.bsky.social · 1d

What a stick of dynamite this one turned out to be
👇💪

Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 1d

“I urge everyone to join the global uprising for justice, freedom, and equality. And to apply real pressure on our governments and institutions to fulfill their legal obligations to ensure human rights for everyone. We have truth, morale, international law, justice, love, history, solidarity with...

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Dan Hassler-Forest @danhf.bsky.social · 1d

America’s greatest living actor.

Dan Hassler-Forest @danhf.bsky.social · 1d

a man in a suit and tie has his mouth open

ALT: a man in a suit and tie has his mouth open

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Dan Hassler-Forest @danhf.bsky.social · 1d

Best found footage film this side of REC.

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Dan Hassler-Forest @danhf.bsky.social · 1d

Hasn’t seen it in ages. Happy to report this movie still fucking slaps.

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Dan Hassler-Forest @danhf.bsky.social · 1d

OMG you speak Dutch! 🫶🏻

Dan Hassler-Forest @danhf.bsky.social · 1d

I did quite a bit of writing on CLOVERFIELD a long time ago as part of my dissertation on post-9/11 Hollywood.

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Dan Hassler-Forest @danhf.bsky.social · 1d

Tonight’s double bill:

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Dan Hassler-Forest @danhf.bsky.social · 1d

May we all aspire to have just a little bit of this young woman's courage, focus, and clarity. 🙏🏻🔥✊🏻

v e l o c i t y @velocity69.bsky.social · 1d

Greta Thunberg has arrived in Greece following her deportation from Israel,
after the Gaza aid flotilla was intercepted
#GlobalSumudFlotilla
She said:
“I could talk for a very,very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment.
Trust me, but that is not the story.”
#Athens airport

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Dan Hassler-Forest @danhf.bsky.social · 1d

1. 1989
2. Red
3. Reputation
4. Folklore
5. Lover
6. Midnights
7. Evermore
8. Speak Now
9. Fearless
10. TTPD

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 2d

Shocked to learn that the world’s preeminent transphobe is also a genocide apologist.

JK Rowling:

"Pro-Palestinian demonstrators couldn’t give it a rest – not even for 24 hours. They were chanting all the old slogans and ducking all the hard questions. ‘Globalise the intifada,’ they cried – does that mean killing Jews in Manchester?" ✍️@NickCohen4

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Dan Hassler-Forest @danhf.bsky.social · 1d

The link, by popular demand.

[approach with caution, obviously]

www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6Cs...

Is The Lion King A "Fascistic Story"?

YouTube video by DailyWire+

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Dan Hassler-Forest @danhf.bsky.social · 1d

of all the far-right ideologues who fancy themselves pop culture experts, i have a particular fondness for shapiro, who once took the time on his youtube channel to read out every single word of an essay i'd written.

a man in a black shirt is sitting in a chair holding a tablet

Alt: michae jordan laughing and shaking his head while looking at a tablet

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Dan Hassler-Forest @danhf.bsky.social · 1d

the great Movie Understander has entered the fray, LMAO

What Ever Happened to Baby Jaime? (Rebanal) 🇵🇸 @firewalkwjaime.bsky.social · 2d

In case you needed another reason to watch One Battle After Another.

Woke Movie promotes VIOLENCE against ICE — video by Ben Shapiro

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Dan Hassler-Forest @danhf.bsky.social · 2d

for all those comrades who leap to conclusions about OBAA's "problematic leftist politics" 😁💪🏻

Dan Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 2d

Read some lefty reviews like "well this gives the wrong idea of how revolutions happen, there's no mass movement here." And yes that's the whole point of the dang movie! Everyone (bar Sensei) is locked in a fight inside their own dang heads that isolates them from the world they're trying to save.

Dan Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 3d

Gorgeous--and what a paranoid soundtrack! Sexualizing the fight could've been dumb as hell but Sean Penn made it a real Male Fantasies fascism. Give him an Oscar.

Dan Hassler-Forest @danhf.bsky.social · 2d

Already changed my mind on the entire thing just because I forgot to include Portrait of a Lady on Fire

homer simpson from the simpsons is driving a car and says d' oh

ALT: homer simpson from the simpsons is driving a car and says d' oh

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