nobody talks about how these are real images from Shrek (2001)

our long national nightmare is over

there’s a new 28 years out that’s supposed to be nuts

@dominicknero.bsky.social on the Mirror of Galadriel — “It has the vision of fantasy; it has direct, unfiltered communication of the text; and it has [Jackson's trademark] old fashioned, practical effects, stagecraft horror... all of that together represents, to me, the full effort of this film”

it's movie 2 of our rings trilogy on @eyeoftheduckpod.com this week and man do i miss this era of digital effects. it seems so long ago! vfx artists were given the time and resources to actually produce miracles like gollum and they didnt even need to boil the ocean with AI to do it

something that keeps me hopeful is watching my toddler discover art. he loves making things. by the time he comes of age, ppl will have grown so sick of low-effort ai generated slop and fascistic advertising propaganda that the arts will be flourishing again. his generation is going to make it

2026 is here, which means it’s the 25th anniversary of Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings films! we’re dropping the first of our three FOUR-HOUR episodes on the trilogy today over on @eyeoftheduckpod.com 👑💍

the strategy to distract from the epstein files by starting an illegal war with venezuela is so shamelessly obvious it's hilarious. how braindead does he think we are? he truly believes he can cancel out being a pedophile by being a war criminal. flawless plan mr president

You should be embarrassed to be a member of congress and issuing anything other than impeachment resolutions. You're in the model UN. They should give you legos and a propeller hat

made an opening crawl for this year in filmmaking

in 2026 its no longer “buddy” or “bro” or “my guy”. this year we’re saying “my lord”

we've been doing @eyeoftheduckpod.com for 5 years now and it just so happens that episode 250 coincides with the release of my co-host's feature debut, Drink and Be Merry (which i edited!) so this week, @adamvole.com and i are celebrating the movie with guest host @dodgyboffin.com! very surreal 🎅

dasher and dancer after santa chooses rudolf as his new favorite

beatles fans never talk about how even though ringo might have been the worst musician of the group, he was the only one who was pure of heart and humble enough to carry the ring to mordor. hence his name

gandalf was actually talking about increasing shareholder value when he said this

it’s crazy meeting people who tell you they’re “bi” because it’s like uhhhhh okay buddy unless you’re robin williams trapped inside a robot’s body i don’t think you’re the bicentennial man

it’s honestly insane how accurately tim and eric predicted the ai era with this sketch. a braindead corporate guy clocking in to generate completely pointless slop and the ai is so bad it ends up glitching out and destroying itself. also it inevitably just becomes porn. extremely prophetic

im developing a theory that there will be a berenstain bears / sinbad "shazaam" type situation where in a decade or so, people will mistakenly remember this movie being about mark wahlberg stopping the 9/11 planes

david zaslav retiring to his doomsday bunker after destroying thousands of careers, shuttering movie theaters everywhere, ruining physical media and film preservation as we know it, and hand-delivering one of the last remaining hollywood institutions to a tech company

why are you so mad that i keep butt dialing you. my ass wants to establish contact. you have been chosen. you should be honored

seeing a lot of posts about how funny it is that this random scene in pluribus is so gorgeous and colorful. just wanna say there's no reason tv (or film) cant look like this all the time. in fact i think this used to be the standard and this scene is only surprising bc the bar has gotten so low

something ppl who arent video editors probably dont know about is how projects in adobe premiere can become haunted. something will happen where everything just starts acting insane and there's no way of fixing it. youll get notes back on a video and have to be like, "cant do it. project's haunted."

woke up with this edit in my brain

He looks like Napoleon Dynamite's grandma

i don’t know if people outside of new york hear the ads on the radio but “spektor and associates” sounds like how gandalf would describe a ghost army

look how they massacred my boy (box office of regal kaufman astoria)

i love how literally every major corporation on earth is putting the majority of their investment dollars in artificial intelligence and yet we still don’t have functional voice-to-text. ill say my sons name to siri and it’ll type something insane like “baby beef man”

ralph bakshi is still alive. let him finish his rotoscope lord of the rings trilogy !!!!!!

we’re finally doing rings on @eyeoftheduckpod.com !! starting monday we’re kicking off a miniseries exploring the origins of the epic fantasy genre, the jackson trilogy, and then the movies inspired by lotr. and yes we’re going to talk about that scene where viggo kicks the thing and hurts himself

could ethan hunt carry the ring to mordor

i feel insane reading some of these reactions to frankenstein because i honestly cannot fathom seeing that film as anything other than guillermo del toro's masterpiece and easily one of the best of the year

it’s crazy how you get all the way through hollow knight silk song just to fight some random guy named seth

we just finished a months-long miniseries on found footage horror films and im so happy that we capped it off with the scariest found footage film of them all, Rap World. i mean this without exaggeration, i think it is a truly horrific movie and also one of the funniest in years

how am i expected to feel anything other than hostility towards these ghouls? they got *richer* during the pandemic, hoard their wealth, don’t pay taxes, and bankroll the the most openly evil fascist politicians in history. this city doesn’t belong to them! so leave! fuck off!!!

curtis sliwa disappearing back into the subway tunnels after helping zohran end andrew cuomo’s political career

being carried out on a stretcher from my local elementary school because i was so excited after voting for zohran that i tried to dunk on the junior-height basketball rim and ended up breaking the backboard

this movie is a huge win for weird sad lanky guys everywhere. my tall spindly clinically depressed brothers, this is the representation we've been waiting for. we finally made it

steven spielberg when he needs a soundtrack for his new ufo movie but john williams tells him he’s retired

my buddy jeff's album is out this week!! it has major magical mystery tour vibes and it's been very cool to watch him put it together. back in the winter we went down to coney island in the snow and i took these very strange photos of him for the album art https://ffm.to/7ebxdg4

we need a name for this genre of photo

i dont think they should ever do a new season of seinfeld but i would very much like to see a cobra kai style spinoff about how a pompous rich comedian and his evil friends bullied a working class mailman into complete insanity, and the show's called NEWMAN

for the past few months we've been doing found footage on the podcast, and we're finishing out with screenlife movies now. it's an extremely rad (and underrated) subgenre of horror!! this week the director of unfriended: dark web tells us how to make a macbook terrifying

[typing for an app in the search bar of my iphone] My iPhone: okay, before we load up the app, howabout a forgotten friend from ur contact list who u lost touch with many years ago. was it your fault? is it too late to reconnect? what is our purpose here on this earth

it's good the ben solo spinoff got shut down because that character is an irredeemable genocide hitler dweeb and even if you disagree, he literally dies in rise of skywalker so bringing him back would only make us have to continue remembering that terrible stupid movie. move on

been watching a lot of toy story with my toddler and wondering if anyone has ever pointed out that buzz developing an instant crush on jesse has the same energy as george dating a lady who looks exactly like jerry

ya it's crazy when the screenwriting is good and the choices of a character actually have real consequences

he's not the mayor we need but the guardian we deserve

curtis sliwa disappearing back into the subway tunnels after helping zohran end andrew cuomo’s political career

tron: ares is a movie about jared leto’s journey from looking like a dollar store star wars action figure to the fake johnny depp from tim and eric’s billion dollar movie

a horror movie about old timey baseball players haunting a farmer’s cornfield and it’s called “field of nightmares”