Christopher Herman

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[Christopher Herman @consptheory77]

Taking up the #365DaysChallenge #FictionalCharactersILove

1. Benton Fraser from the TV series #DueSouth

A symbol of The Good Canadian: polite, self-effacing, open-minded, and rational

[Christopher Herman @consptheory77]

@DWLundberg I remember William Fredkin talking about directing both Benicio del Toro and Tommy Lee Jones in The Hunted, and they had two different acting styles, and he had to manage that, which it sounded like he did with relative ease

[Christopher Herman @consptheory77]

@DWLundberg I found the clip

https://t.co/9vPr4aOvjb

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@DWLundberg The long awaited sequel to "Seems Like Old Times": Seems Like Older Times

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@DWLundberg Um, she was in Interstellar? I'd say most people know her as the mom from The Exorcist. Although maybe not as much now as before.

[Christopher Herman @consptheory77]

"During the 2024 presidential election, Donald Trump promised that if he were elected president again, he would reduce the price of a gallon of gas by 50% within a year of taking office. “12 months from January 20th… your gasoline for your car is going to be 50% cheaper,” Trump declared at a speech to the Detroit Economic Club on October 10, 2024. “That’s a big thing.”

On January 20, 2025, the day Trump took office for a second term, the average price for a gallon of gas was $3.12. Had Trump kept his pledge, gas would now cost about $1.57 per gallon.

On Tuesday, the average price of a gallon of gas was $4.02. Instead of the 50% reduction in gas prices that Trump promised, prices have increased by more than 28%."

https://t.co/DcNw020dhn

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@JimmyLevendia I never even knew what they looked like until now - I just remember their disembodied voices on a California beach.

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So after several years since I last saw it, I watched it again last night on 4K, and I still like it a lot, but at my age now, I can see some inconsistencies that did not immediately register because of the aesthetic effect, as well as some poor creative choices.

1. The southern accents sound exaggerated - just make Kevin and Mary Ann from California. Reeves is not a bad actor, he is just not good with accents.

2. Mary Ann's isolation would have been less likely with modern day technology, although that's just the way the film has dated.

3. Christabella starts out as an Italian and by the end her accent shifts to what sounds American, and then the actress is Danish. Make the character one ethnicity, and then hire an ethnically appropriate actress.

4. When I was an adolescent at the time, Christabella's nudity was an exciting moment, but now I'm just thinking how skinny the actress was and also feeling a bit sorry for that nudity being put on for public display for what I'm going to argue was a bit of a unnecessary and cheap thrill.

5. It's not clear how many of the characters are "minions". Does everyone at the firm realize he's The Devil? Surely not. Christabella seems torn up about Eddie Barzoon, but the others do not. Were the other lawyers at the firm demons themselves or S*tanists?

6. I'm going to suggest that the reset was not a dream or vision but a supernatural reset. If Kevin was actually the son of the Devil, he was half-angel and could not die.

7. Could an angel have a baby with a human? The Bible suggests this, but how seriously are the filmmakers taking it? The film is a Christian morality play made by people who are probably not religiously observant, for a general audience, the shock elements probably amplified its appeal at the time, but if they were a bit more restrained and subtle (though not of Pacino, he's fine) they might have had a more enduring classic.

The solutions here in part would be to have the firm function a tiered initiation: associates who are being groomed, partners who are signed (S*tanists), and then an inner circle of Nephilim. Have Christabella be the dark mirror to Kevin: is it just her physical allure that attracts him, or is she a better intellectual match for him than Mary Ann? And you could put some of Kevin's mother into Mary Ann. Perhaps she has a pure and religious character, and that's why she is targeted, because she has the intuition to match Kevin, if not the intellect, and she tries to warn him. The film does suggest she has an intuition to match which Kevin refuses to see because he is a bit of a chauvinist. It's interesting to brainstorm how one would recast a remake, but who could replace Pacino?

[Christopher Herman @consptheory77]

Die Hard, The Fifth Element, Die Hard 3, Tears of the Sun

Most of the rest? I'd rather re-watch Moonlighting.

[I Love To Talk Film @ILoveToTalkFilm]

What is your favorite Bruce Willis movie?

[Christopher Herman @consptheory77]

Trump was Yesterday's Democrat, just like Reagan, and "conservatives" will always fall for this and always be disappointed by this

[Rod Dreher @roddreher]

I wanted no new and stupid foreign wars, a better economy, immigration reform and the devastation of wokeness. That's it. I don't think that was a big ask. Guess I was wrong. Two out of four isn't bad, but the badness of the failed two stands to be pretty catastrophic.

[Christopher Herman @consptheory77]

@roddreher If a man hasn't been faithful to his wife, I'm not sure why you would think he would be faithful to whatever reason it is that you voted for him.

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When a film can reasonably be alternately entitled "Life of a Prick"...

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

‘MARTY SUPREME’ didn’t win any Oscars out of its 9 nominations.

See the full winners list: https://t.co/2LO8EZqZIM

[Christopher Herman @consptheory77]

A level of pathos not achieved or matched by the later Marvel conceptions of The Hulk, which is why they leave me feeling meh.

[All The Right Movies @ATRightMovies]

The “Lonely Man” theme from THE INCREDIBLE HULK was composed by Joe Harnell for the Bill Bixby series, and producers liked his simple piano piece so much they barely orchestrated it, leaving that stripped‑down sound.

[Christopher Herman @consptheory77]

The shootout at the end of Sinners reminded me of Rambo First Blood Part II, which was definitely not a great film overall, but it was a great action film.

[Mike Harlow @NotMikeHarlow]

I think it’s more emblematic of how the average quality of movies has deteriorated. Sinners was great but it’s insane to even be out in the same discussion as Titanic or any average Oscar winning film prior to the last decade. Same thing with Anora last year (which I also loved but was similarly overrated). If these films came out in the 90’s or 2000’s they wouldn’t even be considered Top 20 of the year

[Christopher Herman @consptheory77]

My favorite film of 2025 is Companion, which wasn't nominated. If one wants to go more arty, "The Materialists" and "Die My Love" were at least as good as these two - and they weren't nominated for anything either, unlike F1, which was, and also won for Best Sound, I guess because it was the most obnoxiously loud movie I've ever attended in a theater and I almost walked out because of it but just decided to cover my ears instead.

[I Love To Talk Film @ILoveToTalkFilm]

Sinners vs. One Battle After Another.

Which film SHOULD win Best Picture at the Academy Awards?

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@DWLundberg In my estimation, three stars from Ebert didn't necessarily mean "a solidly good film", it often meant it was something flawed but worth watching.

[Christopher Herman @consptheory77]

There was a point in time when Oscar gave box office impetus to "prestige" films like Ghandi or Chariots of Fire. Then in the 90's, Oscars were given to films which were already box office successes like Forrest Gump or Titanic. The 90's was when Oscar peaked. Now, adjusted for inflation, the titles favorited to win have done a fraction of the box office. It could be because movies are worse, it could also be because technology and demographics have made cultural suzerainty impossible.

[Rod Dreher @roddreher]

Trying to remember the last year I cared about the Oscars. Or really cared about the movies. I was a professional film critics in the 1990s. It was a good time -- rise of indies, Miramax, etc. But now, hard to imagine taking any pleasure in that job.

[Christopher Herman @consptheory77]

@DavQuinn @roddreher Which happens to be what PTA said when he accepted the Oscar.

[Christopher Herman @consptheory77]

It's one of those many instances in which the gradation of Hollywood technical talent overcomes questionable premises. Would Hollywood ever make a film about "flawed but sympathetic" right-wing radicals? Am I really supposed to believe in the existence of white supremacist secret societies in modern America? Do I even like DiCaprio or Penn? But it was a well-made action film and I surprisingly enjoyed it on those terms.

[Laura Robinson @LauraRbnsn]

It wasn't even my favorite movie of the year but I genuinely do not understand disliking OBAA.
Every criticism I've heard of it makes me feel like the critic and I just don't even agree what a movie is.
"The characters are bad people." Yeah, it's not a moral treatise.
"It's

[Christopher Herman @consptheory77]

It was never important how many stars Ebert gave a film, but rather why he rated it that way