Currently lamenting all the dead pilots, half-made miniseries, undistributed films, and productions shelf-locked because of rights disputes/owners that hate each other. An entire universe of lost media.
@thoughtpunks For one brief moment, Tim Burton's "Batman" had cast Willem Dafoe as Batman & Robin Williams as the Joker. It unfortunately fell through. Michael Keaton & Jack Nicholson really hit it out of the park, but just imagine what we could have had!
"Big Trouble in Little China" was supposed to be a Western, but they changed it to the modern day to save money on building period sets.
It's like winning a million in the lottery and finding out you were one digit off from winning a billion.
June Squibb gives a performance of endless charm and wit as a loving grandmother who gets scammed and then deliciously, hilariously, and very satisfyingly, gets revenge. #movies#moviereview
Today in Labor History June 21, 1982: John Hinckley was found not guilty by reason of insanity for the attempted assassination of U.S. President Ronald Reagan in 1981. A Few years later (1990), Reagan was found not guilty by reason of dementia, when he said “I don’t recall,” 88 times during the Iran-Contra hearings, a rate of more than 10 per hour. (In 1994, he was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s). Hinkley said he tried to assassinate Reagan to impress actress Jody Foster, who had played Iris, a twelve-year-old prostitute in the film Taxi Driver. In that film, Robert DeNiro’s character, Travis Bickle, tries to assassinate the president. And from all this came one of the more amusing band names from the classic era of Hardcore Punk, JFA, or Jody Foster’s Army.
#OnThisDay, June 19, 1964, having survived a 60-day filibuster, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 passed the US Senate, a milestone in the struggle to extend civil, political, and legal rights and protections to African Americans and to end segregation (depicted in All The Way, 2016)
#OnThisDay, June 17, in 1972, five burglars connected to senior figures in the Nixon administration were arrested in the office of the Democratic National Committee, in the Watergate complex of buildings in Washington, D.C. (depicted in All the President’s Men, 1976)
I finally watched the Blue Beatle movie. I wish it was better. There were good parts, but it suffered from DCs inability to make a super hero movie not “gritty”.
The “we aren’t killers” message in the middle and very end is kinda undermined by all the killing the heroes allies do back half of the movie.
I love Jaime in the comics. I love Ted Kord as well. It’s a shame they didn’t translate it well to the movie. I blame the director, the writers, and WB management.
A friend worked in printer/plotter service for a long time. He picked up 3D printing, 3D design, and Photoshop stuff as a hobby. He made the designs for these lightsabers for himself, printed them, painted them - There's no metal in this picture.
He's at loose ends, mid-life, and wants to change careers. Big Time movie buff. I would love to get him in touch with some people in special effects/film and make magic happen. #movies#film#design#GetFediHired