Please tell me #theacolyte is gonna give us more of this David Caruso Padawan, who learned an entire Jedi SWAT Team was killed and concluded “maybe they were eaten by moths?”
Forget The Dark Knight, forget The #batman, forget the Snyder Cut.
For my money, you haven’t lived until you’ve seen the 1949 Batman and Robin serial.
Let me walk you through the most absurd depiction of Batman you will ever see.
🧵1/10 #comics
The depiction of the invasion of New York in #AQuietPlace: Day One makes it even more hilariously absurd that someone at the New York Post decided it was a good idea to turn on an extremely loud printing press
#movies
As a Canadian child of the late-80s, there are times, to this day, when I find myself alone, and my blood will run cold and my skin will goose-pimple, because I think I hear a sound—a single word, floating through empty, liminal spaces.
“Polkaroo”
And I know then that he wakes. And he hungers.
In Back to the Future, Marty doesn’t just perform Johnny B. Goode for Chuck Berry to steal, Marty is responsible for ALL of modern pop music.
Hear me out, cause I brought receipts
🧵1/13
Reminder that Aaron Swartz was facing 35 years in prison and financial devastation for trying to programmatically download and open the contents of JSTOR, which led to him taking his own life.
But OpenAI is going to scrape all of academia and make billions by plagiarizing it.
New version of chatbot reaches level of function where it responds to all queries by making a little twisty-wrist gesture with pinched fingers and saying “But isn’t it more *complicated* than that?”
The most relatable part of Inside Out 2 is how the protagonist’s *End Of The World* is, in reality, something that has zero stakes, consequences, or importance whatsoever
Forget the iconic Akira Slide.
Today I learned that the massive diagonal elevator lifts that seem to be everywhere in video games and nowhere in real life, can also be sourced to the Akira manga.
They’re everywhere, and among game developers in the 90s they were known as “Akira Lifts”
After watching Ep 3 of The Acolyte it seems pretty clear what element breaks Star Wars forever.
Everyone knows handrails don’t exist in the Star Wars universe.
The best thing about the new Planet of the Apes movies is their consistent quality is matched by my consistent ability to forget how good they are. So I’m always pleasantly surprised.
TRIVIA TIME
Did you know Dick Miller and Jackie Joseph’s appearance as husband and wife in Gremlins was a cheeky reference to their first, similarly themed film together: The Little Shop of Horrors
I just saw Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem, so obviously I’m digging my old Turtles toys out of the basement because this is all I care about now
