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[molasses @alfalfaaaaaaa]

he’s getting so much hate for this but unless i’m wrong, neither Rahm or Ari Emanuel are zionists and are actually very progressive, David Zalslav is a zionist but not supportive of Trump, and Larry David isn’t even sitting by Robert Kraft

[Josh Billinson @jbillinson]

What a crew sitting next to the Spurs bench: Rahm Emanuel, Ari Emanuel, Larry David, David Zaslav, and Robert Kraft?

[RickRaptor105 @RickRaptor105]

The Moby Dick fandom is dying.

Retweet if you're a true Dickhead.

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

NASA has released a full gallery of photos captured of the Moon by the Artemis II crew.

[Mark Ruffalo @MarkRuffalo]

This is something I have been worrying a lot about. We have psychopaths waging this war. We have seen Netanyahu gleefully carry out a genocide in Gaza reducing it to a nuclear bomb site. Why would he not go further now in Iran? There has been absolutely no consequences for his war crimes in Gaza. Trump has only assisted them. This has got to stop. As the citizens of the world we have to stop this. They can not be allowed to carry out a nuclear strike on the millions of innocent people of Iran. These are our fellow human beings, regardless of their leaders. This is insanity.

[🦫🇺🇾 @doubtpointv2]

Make him Bond.

[molasses @alfalfaaaaaaa]

right wagner moura should’ve swept

[josie elewa, professional old taker @Promythious]

Just watching Marty Supreme and the fact that this was ever an argument is incredible

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

You're watching a $248 million film and not a single green or blue screen was used. The alien is a handmade puppet. The cockpit physically rotates to simulate gravity. I looked at the production tech behind this 95% score, and the engineering is wild.

Phil Lord and Chris Miller, directing their first live-action movie in 12 years, built the entire Hail Mary spacecraft as a real set at Shepperton Studios in England. Not a miniature. Not a digital model. A full-size ship interior you can walk through. Production designer Charlie Wood studied the International Space Station, Russia's Mir station, and the Boeing 747 cockpit to get the look right. He deliberately made the panels mismatched, because real spacecraft are assembled from parts made by different companies. Nothing matches perfectly. That's what makes it feel real.

The cockpit is only about 8 feet wide. It sits on a mechanical platform that can tilt, spin, and shake, so when the ship changes direction or enters different gravity conditions, the whole set moves. Chairs end up on walls. Ladders flip direction. Gosling was suspended inside a spinning ring so he could float and move through the ship for real, reacting to actual hardware around him. No guessing where a wall might be added later.

Then there's Rocky. He's the alien co-lead, and he's not CGI. Neal Scanlan, the creature designer who built the Porgs for Star Wars, spent a full year on this character. Over 300 designs before they landed on the final look. Rocky is a thin, hollow shell, 3D-printed from a digital sculpture, then hand-painted in see-through layers so light passes through him like skin. His arms pop off and swap out depending on the scene: one set has a closed fist for walking, another has tiny motorized fingers strong enough to pick up objects. Five puppeteers (nicknamed the "Rockyteers") operated him in every scene. James Ortiz, an award-winning puppet designer from New York theater, voiced Rocky and controlled him on set. When Scanlan met him, he told Ortiz, "You're Frank Oz, and I'm making Yoda for you." Every reaction Gosling gives to the alien is to something physically in front of him.

Greig Fraser, who won the Oscar for shooting Dune, filmed the space scenes in the larger IMAX format (that taller image you see in IMAX theaters) and the Earth flashbacks in regular widescreen. Then the team did something unusual: they took the digital footage and printed it onto real film strips, twice, using two different types of film stock. Then they scanned those strips back into digital. It sounds redundant, but it adds a texture and warmth that you can only get from physical film. Fraser used the same technique on Dune and The Batman.

Drew Goddard spent six years writing this screenplay. His last adaptation of Andy Weir's novel, The Martian, earned him an Oscar nomination. He described the challenge this way: a screenplay gets about 5% of a novel's word count. The lead is alone for most of the runtime. When he finally gets a co-star, that co-star doesn't speak English, communicates through sounds closer to whale song, and has no face. Goddard called it a screenwriter's nightmare, then said that difficulty was the whole point. He and the directors fought studio pushback to keep Weir's original ending intact.

95% from 212 critics. 98% from over 2,500 audience ratings. And the lead isn't a superhero, a cop, or a soldier. He's just an ordinary middle school science teacher.

[molasses @alfalfaaaaaaa]

i mean what did you expect did you watch the trailers or read the book it’s an incredible adaptation of a story of this guy doing science with a rock alone in space

[niall @niallpta]

two hours of ryan gosling talking to a rock

[molasses @alfalfaaaaaaa]

nah i deadass did that too

[Melody 🇻🇦🍁💙 (Pope Leo Loyalist) @Hopelesserain]

You honestly should be fired.

[molasses @alfalfaaaaaaa]

all these great actors and if they continue making the movies after villenueve is done, only Jason Momoa will be in all of them 😭

[Variety @Variety]

Denis Villeneuve teases the resurrection of Jason Momoa’s Duncan Idaho in #DunePartThree:

“He comes back just at the right moment in the story. And it’s a very important comeback. Paul is struggling with his identity, and having that kind of strong Atreides figure coming back from the past will have a tremendous impact.”

https://t.co/PYqBCsQXyS

[Christopher Miller @chrizmillr]

IT IS TIME GO
to the movies.

PROJECT HAIL MARY is in cinemas tonight. This is a very special film & I’m really proud of it. It’s a rare thing these days for a studio to make a big original non-franchise movie, so take advantage & see it on the biggest screen you can!

[Sam @SammySwoosh]

Staying alive because I still have so many movies to see

[Luke Barnett @LukeBarnett]

My only real Oscars critique: there was basically no mention of TRAIN DREAMS. My favorite film of the year, nominated for Best Picture. Felt like the movie didn't even exist. Anyway, if you haven't seen it, I can't say enough...

[molasses @alfalfaaaaaaa]

i think amy madigan gave a generational, oscar worthy villain performance that was still the worst performance in the category this year

[nyck ⎊ @starkstille]

not rooting for timothee or for michal b. jordan but a SECRET third option 🫦

[Zak @zakfilm]

The Academy should be more like Stellan Skarsgard

[molasses @alfalfaaaaaaa]

stellan skarsgaard robbed 💔

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

Wagner Moura says he’ll make history for Brazil if he wins Best Actor at the #Oscars tonight, and hopes it means something

“to young actors from Latin America.”

[Film Updates @FilmUpdates]

Rose Byrne photographed by Sami Drasin for the #Oscars

(https://t.co/jY94YmsnP0)

[max @lynchinist]

the secret agent is peak cinema………why did i wait 4 hours before the oscars to see it