disabled Self advocate RISEde . writer , film critic. public speaker, . follow for movie Star Wars and theme park talk, and DE left. He/him Views mine
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Getting sniped out of the blue and put in ICU is not losing a fight. JFK served in the military. He probably had his fair share of fights. He did not “lose a fight“ to Lee Harvey Oswald lol. This is what I mean, when I said this stuff is not confusing.
But the opening of Superman said that Superman had never lost a fight before. So this doesn’t make sense. It’s all so confusing
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Of future Star Trek shows was forever changed.
Star Trek became an ensemble piece because people like Walter Koenig put so much heart, humor and love into their smaller roles that we all came to accept that they were all stars of the show we loved.
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I have faith this will be good but pretty bummed by the visuals here –– stylized production design benefits from strong sets and locations, but many of Gerwig's images are sadly textureless and garishly digital. Lots of people standing around VFX backdrops. It's a little ugly!
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I took the app for a test run around Chicago and wow
So I recently badgered my cinematographer @steveyedlin into making my ideal iPhone still camera app. It shoots RAW, bypasses the iPhone's look processing and instead uses the same image processing we use on our movies. apps.apple.com/app/apple-sto…
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Yeah same, I’ve not been entirely sold on the “next generation with her as mentor because she’s either a year younger now or the same age as Harrison was when he made the original movie, but “star cross lovers (from the jump)“ is an interesting angle that serves JW well
I kinda DO like the idea of Rey as a mentor figure having to deal with two Jedi who have romantic attachment to each other. Immediately sets her up to possibly challenge some of the old ways.
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To celebrate DC Super-Villain month, we've decided to lay down the law on whether The Suicide Squad is canon in the DCU - and discuss other behind-the-scenes fun facts along the way in a new Official The Suicide Squad "Is It Canon?" Podcast. With my charming cohosts, @jennlholland and Steve Agee. @DCOfficial @SuicideSquadWB
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Unpopular opinion apparently but I think this rules. Yes continuity stuff is always tedious, but this makes it fun. I wholeheartedly endorse this thing.
To celebrate DC Super-Villain month, we've decided to lay down the law on whether The Suicide Squad is canon in the DCU - and discuss other behind-the-scenes fun facts along the way in a new Official The Suicide Squad "Is It Canon?" Podcast. With my charming cohosts, @jennlholland and Steve Agee. @DCOfficial @SuicideSquadWB
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This is the first time you’ve said this about a movie I actually like lol
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someone send this to haley stevens and her fiancee, thanks
Hillary Clinton: “His surrogates and a lot of the independent expenditure media is really fear-mongering against El-Sayed as a Muslim, trying to link him to the Muslim Brotherhood, Trump is doing that. I’m just tired of that and I hope people are tired of that. Judge somebody on who they are, what they stand for, what they produce. This is not about woke, this is about broke. If you can’t win on affordability, if you are bankrupting the country and enriching yourself personally, try to divert attention”
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Weaponizing orientalism to oust a republican white lady…. Mississippi continues to be on the innovative cutting edge of racism
#MississippiSenate
AdImpact: Democratic Super PAC that opposes Cindy Hyde-Smith releases ad in Chinese
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No, we are not doing this! I think the PT is among the pinnacle of modern American popular art but no one else saw it that way at the time! The fans were super toxic and annoying! You do not get to rewrite history on this! No!
As an older millennial that was a teenager for these movies, I do not remember anybody saying the prequels sucked at the time.
That was social media revisionism by nerdy edgelords on social media 10 years later.
Episode I is a masterpiece (and Empire is still my favorite)
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I am a proud and loyal Democrat. I served in President Clinton’s National Security Council and worked for Madeleine Albright at the State Department. I ran for Congress as a Democrat, have voted Democratic all my life, and expect to continue doing so.
But I would never vote for Abdul El-Sayed. In my judgment, he does not represent the values of our party or our nation. I urge my fellow patriotic Democrats in Michigan to leave the Senate line blank or vote for Republican Mike Rogers.
This is an exceptional case, and I do not make this recommendation lightly. We can support Democratic majorities nationally while refusing to support a candidate who violates our core values. Loyalty to our party should strengthen our principles, never require us to abandon them.
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We deserve a Dave Green Oscar nomination.
'Coyote vs. Acme' will submit for Best Animated Feature in a major Looney Tuney Oscar shake-up goldderby.com/film/2026/coyo…
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One thing (perhaps the only thing) I will give Junior credit for is he reconciled with Sirhan Sirhan, and believed he did not pull the trigger. I hesitate to say it’s what makes these racist comments surprising because I don’t like Junior, but it does make them more upsetting.
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Never thought I’d say this, but you’d have to hand it too the two of them. This is as racist a comment as I’ve ever seen, and it deeply upsets me
Morning Joe gets emotional over RFK Jr.'s racist anti-Arab remarks
Bobby Kennedy was the reason I got involved in politics and I told Jr. that. He understood that we were stronger as were more diverse.
It's hard to even imagine how ashamed he would be of his son for denigrating over a billion people because of their faith.
Specifically when Bobby Kennedy talked about how America had to move to becoming a country that moved beyond prejudices based on faith and race.
This is what RFK Jr. did when he campaigned with Mike Rogers, another guy that I've known, liked, respected—who's running an abhorrent, racist, bigoted campaign.
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