THE MEME IS REAL

QUATERMASS AND THE PIT (1967) | Dir: Roy Ward Baker

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Video game remasters

Forgot that Jackass 3D opens with Beavis and Butthead explaining 3D technology. Every 3D movie should do this. James Cameron should have Spider wearing 3D glasses and trying to bite the images in front of him like a dog

there’s an almost pathological need in games media to present oneself as an expert on every aspect of the culture, no matter how often one’s obvious lack of knowledge and/or experience results in embarrassing moments like this

Unfortunately, The Will of Sessler is being carried on by a new generation of dipshits.

@elvingjack.bsky.social have you SEEN how they're promoting One Battle After Another? I can't believe this is real

still no funnier punchline in history to me than the stan lee superhero reality show promising the contestants they'd get their own movie and the actual prize was one minute of screen time in "Megasnake"

All the speculation about Cade Skywalker from the Starfighter set photos... folks, the only Cade casting I recognize is Chad Kroeger from Nickelback. 🎵SOMEDAY, SOMEHOW🎵 🎵GONNA BE A JEDI, BUT NOT RIGHT NOW🎵 harryhenry1.tumblr.com/post/7833236...

In the pantheon of "cover songs better than the original", The Dickies' pop punk version of the Banana Splits theme, "The Tra La La Song (One Banana, Two Banana)" has to be up there. You'd never think this was originally for a Hanna-Barbera kid's show: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0h86...

Atsuko Asahi during the production of Mario Kart World's soundtrack, 200 takes in: "It's still not done. I'm hearing more electric guitars. And I want an army of Harmonicas. 50 THOUSAND Harmonicas!"

"Make sure you subscribe..."

idk what was in the water in 1999 specifically but we need it back

they’re the same picture dot png

I swear the discourse about "John Byrne's Superman" is just exhausting at this point. Byrne's flaws as a writer, artist, and person aren't a big secret, but at this point people are starting to act like anything they dislike about Superman begins and ends with Byrne, when there's so much more to it.

i think often about this discussion between Yoshiyuki Tomino and Hideaki Anno. it's one of the funniest ways anyone has ever talked about restraint vs self indulgence in art.

Apropos of nothing, here's the cover of the Vapors' 1981 album Magnets, a high-profile assassination drawn by Martin Handford (Yes, the same Martin Handford who'd later create the Where's Wally/Waldo books)

The most diplomatic answer to powerscalers. People make fun of lore junkies, but honestly these kinds of "who would win?" debates bring out the ugliest and most toxic fanboy impulses.

This is so funny in retrospect because Byrne is exactly that kind of fan who does not accept that stories are fictional and has a compulsion to over-explain everything. Also he never had any intention of fixing the Vision again.

Chris Claremont's brain when he was trying to think of a character that would plausibly know the true name of Wolverine:

Tagging @comradebullski.bsky.social because I know he'll get a kick out of this!

Here's E. Nelson Bridwell writing in the letters section of his Super Friends comic, explaining how he incorporated Wendy & Marvin and the Wonder Twins into the framework of the Justice League in a way that made sense. I appreciate the effort for such often-reviled characters!

They should invent a computer powerful enough to load all the ads on a fandom dot com wiki page.

“Real sets…. Practical effects….”

Decided to use my Lifeforce review to soapbox a bit about Tobe Hooper boxd.it/aZbwED

Everything about The Wizard of Oz at the Sphere sounds like an uncanny nightmare, but I am plagued by what the reaction is like in that room when people realize for the first time, at that size, that Scarecrow is packing heat.

[avgn voice] metroidvania, not metroidvania, maybe metroidvania... this shit is giving me a hemorrhoidvania!!

There isn’t a single documented instance on the productions of the original trilogy where Gary Kurtz said “George, this idea sucks.” You are pining for a history that never happened. Grow up.

Ah yes, noted yes-men like... Ben Burtt, one of the most important contributors to Star Wars, who happily worked with Lucas again. Was he also "given too much control"???

Literally just this.

RIP, still have great memories watching both their Magic School Bus and Tintin shows as a kid.

film flubs: in the movie spartacus (1960), several different characters identify themselves as spartacus. this scene was mistakenly left in the final cut of the film

People love to tell me that as if it’s going to make me like her music. Folks, “did she write it?” isn’t what determines if I like a song.

loved the wizard of oz at the sphere!

if i had to see this then so do the rest of you

Crunchyroll killed my library system's anime clubs by cutting off their services to public libraries. Hell of a way to get teens to lose any desire to legally stream your products.

The headline gets worse the further you read.

quick question karen, who established ice

It's like with every president, americans' memory resets. Everything bad is new. The before times are not responsible for today. Evil ghouls will eventually get rehabilitated.

I really liked Girlmode, I’m a little surprised I haven’t seen it mentioned more around here (this is me saying you should go read it & then we should talk about it)

So much irony in this when they bought Marvel in 2009 specifically because they wanted a franchise that could appeal to boys... and now we've come full circle!

"You IDIOTS! You've captured their STUNT DOUBLES!" www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwV6...

feels like this really highlights the emptiness of bothering with a new Harry Potter adaptation, like even aside from Joan having a soul full of gunk the actual material is SHOCKINGLY thin? there's nothing you can do to make it different (and it's already too long in the movies)

the observation is old, old hat by now but the ideological content of art isn't really effective as propaganda. you can make an explicitly communist or anarchist fantasy story or whatever (and you SHOULD, if you want to) but at the end of the day comforting the afflicted is just an anaesthetic

"Though it was unusual to spend 45 minutes talking about Kirby Air Riders, this reporter found it impossible to stop talking. It's just really fascinating news, folks."

First the mold came for JK Rowling and I said nothing