Markku Ylipalo

Writer at /Affiliations: @bondaillaan @matakuupodcast @elokuvakerho Born and raised in Kittilä

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It’s always startling to see how tall Diana was

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Princess Diana greets Liza Minnelli & co. backstage at the Royal Albert Hall, at Liza’s all-star tribute to Sammy Davis, Jr. (1991)

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@mikemovies I started out as a full-blown CIA/FBI/magic bullet truther, but nowadays I'm in the "Yeah, it was probably Oswald" camp

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@RadioFreeTom The 90s revival wasn't as good, but most of the original 1970s stuff still holds up, maybe because it is so clearly from a bygone age.

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Interestingly, Columbo never had a black antagonist on the show. Back in the 70s, the elite was mostly white, but this held even during the 90s revival.

Sammy Davis Jr. was briefly in talks to play the show’s first African-American villain back in the day, but it wasn’t to be.

[Joyce Carol Oates @JoyceCarolOates]

the surprise of "Columbo," watching it decades later as one who'd never watched it in the past, is how relentlessly Bernie Sandersian it is---meaning: literally every murder is perpetrated by a snooty wealthy smug person living in a mansion in hills above the city who is tracked down doggedly by a sweetly affable, seemingly clumsy & clueless lovable prole in a rumpled trench coat: "And one more thing...."

always always the clever prole makes a fool out of the snooty rich smug sap & his snooty friends in their fancy snooty mansions with their fancy sports cars & women with bouffant hair & diamonds.

but "Columbo" always ends abruptly. just--ends.
we don't get to see the snooty wealthy smug murderer acquitted of all his crimes because he has hired the very best criminal lawyer in California because he IS wealthy.

so take that, Columbo, & Bernie Sanders. the American Way.

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@ethanves It can only be

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Watching the tv version of The Day of the Jackal (2024). In the very first episode the lead investigator misses her kid’s school appointment because she busy hunting the bad guys and it cannot be overstated how great it was that the og novel and movie avoided ALL that bullshit

[greg @gandalf_thegreg]

toddlers to people with deformities in the grocery store

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He’s right.

[Auteur House @auteurhouse]

Quentin Tarantino believes 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' is better than 'Star Wars'.

“Of course, I liked ‘Star Wars.’ What’s not to like?” Tarantino says. “But I remember — and this is not a ‘but’ in a negative way but in a good way. The movie completely carried me along and I was just rocking and rolling with these characters. ... When the lights came on, I felt like a million dollars. And I looked around and had this moment of recognition, thinking, ‘Wow! What a time at the movies!’

“Now, that’s not necessarily my favorite exact type of film,” he continues. “At the end of the day, I’m more of a ‘Close Encounters [of the Third Kind]’ guy, just the bigger idea and Spielberg setting out to make an epic for regular people, not just cinephiles. Few films had the kind of climax that ‘Close Encounters’ had. It blew audiences away.”

Do you agree with Quentin?

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@daveweigel For some reason in my mind I always hear it in Sarah Palin’s ”mocking the libs” voice: ”The Demmi-crat purrdy.”

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@MikeKalinowski Honestly, what do people want? It’s a movie, not an MMA fight, you sometimes have to do retakes, you can’t beat up a person for real on camera.

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@victim_burn77 This right here: He’s only ever experienced the fun stage of drinking. You’re not an alcoholic until you’ve experienced a massive, crippling multi-day hangover in your thirties and fourties

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@Srirachachau @Cit_rusK Would’ve been awesome if that thing or something equally as horrifying showing up caused O’Connor’s freakout during the memory scene.

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@DistressDark I don’t think I’ve ever seen her real face. It’s always some joke AI edit that makes you go ”Oh, right.”

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As an 80s kid, I enjoyed the new Masters of the Universe. It’s a goofy, good-looking adventure in the vein of the Dungeons and Dragons movie.

That said, I totally get why it flopped. There’s no massive Barbie-style audience for this, the toys were a big deal 40 years ago.

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@snowboiiii That one lady extra in the crowd earning her SAG card, going: ”I can’t believe it! I just can’t believe it!”

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@LarryBarry654 @HubPointless She turns back, yells for the secret service guys to duck and says ”Hey Lyndon! Eat this!” as she fires the second rocket over their heads at the VP’s car

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@bluewmist Turns out if some weirdo you don’t know wants to talk to you, you *don’t* have to politely listen to what they have to say.

You can just walk away and it’s fine, you don’t even have to say anything.

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@SeanMBurns Andrew Garfield playing someone’s dad is going to hit like a ton of bricks.

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Peter Griffin, if he won the lottery

[Moe Davis (U.S. Air Force, Retired) @ColMoeDavis]

This is Trump donor and Mar-a-Lago neighbor John Cafaro who got the no-bid contract to install a water purification system for the reflecting pool. He has 2 prior convictions, one for bribing a member of Congress and another for an illegal loan that violated campaign finance laws.

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Robert Pattinson is giving a Woody Allen performance in The Drama and that’s a beautiful thing