Matt Salyers

Hi, I’m Matt, Matthew for long. Sometimes I use big words to sound more photosynthesis. My bad knowledge of Greek Mythology has always been my Achilles elbow.

[Matt Salyers @Matty_Dane]

Jesus hates guns.

[Matt Salyers @Matty_Dane]

@holloway_1952 @mychaelschnell Sir, you have MAGA in your name and Trump in your PF pic. What are you saying

[Tim Miller @Timodc]

The discipline of @piersmorgan to just sit there silently for the excruciating 90 seconds of page turning without interjecting at all…props

[Tim Walz @Tim_Walz]

The President has lost his mind.

[GENE @jonghopilled]

mfs will blow up schools and kill little kids then talk about some god

[AF Post @AFpost]

State Sec. Rubio: “Imagine if instead of spending billions on weapons, Iran spent that money on its people. They’d have a much different country.”

Follow: @AFpost

[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.

[davey @jerseyh0mo]

there was a time not long ago when masculinity was associated with intelligence, professionalism, creativity and being a gentleman. now it’s synonymous with being a caveman.

[Baptist News Global @baptist_news]

"Southern Baptists nurtured the gospel of Jesus into me and later gave me my first teaching job at one of their seminaries.

Then the denomination took a theo-political turn that sent me packing. The SBC deserted me. Jesus didn’t."
https://t.co/pADmoSasmK

[hasanabi @hasanthehun]

this is how you talk about trans issues w the median voter btw.

[CangurSediciós ✯☭ 🇨🇺🇵🇸🇪🇭🇱🇧🇷🇺🇨🇳🇷🇸🔻🦘 @CangurSedicios]

I still can’t process the fact the White House is openly boasting of committing war crimes, crimes against humanity and against the law of the sea. 200 young men returning from a ceremonial naval exercise thousands of nautical miles away from the conflict zone, a ship with no active weapons as it was in India on an invitation to participate in a naval event/festivity which includes sporting events between sailors, last thing they would expect is to be a military target. Not only attacked and sunk but then left to drown, Nazi U-Boats would help rescue the sailors of the ships they sank, when the British and Spanish sank each other’s galleons and frigates they would pull the sailors out of the water and leave them at the nearest port… it is an age old law amongst seamen and also part of the Geneva Convention

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

An unarmed Iranian ship was invited, along with the U.S., to be part of an Indian Naval exercise, and its sailors paraded on land before the president.

The U.S. at the last minute pulled out of the exercise and instead attacked the Iranian ship with a torpedo.

Breaking with all norms of civilization and warfare, we then refused to rescue the drowning survivors. The Sri Lanka Navy was left to pull the dead bodies from the water.

I am hard pressed to think of any other nation throughout history that would do something so cowardly and despicable. We are genuinely in a league of our own, and American media — mostly shrugging off the bombing of a girls school and acting as if carpet bombing Tehran is a normal military tactic — is deeply complicit.

[Mason Mennenga @masonmennenga]

i don’t think enough people realize how much republican foreign policy is actually shaped by this fictional book series

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

Begging the many morons who follow me for some reason and keep insisting Iran struck its own girls school to read this

[Matt Salyers @Matty_Dane]

@jakepaul

[Bonhoeffer's Child @bonhoefferchild]

I don't know who needs to hear this, but ... if you're "demoralized" when a brown American citizen sings at the Superbowl ... it's because you're just a trashy racist.

But then, we already knew what @megbasham was. After all she fluffed kinist Doug Wilson for a series of videos.

[Jennifer A. Frey @jennfrey]

This is the most pro marriage halftime show ever, LOL.

[Matt Salyers @Matty_Dane]

@conservmillen Call me extreme, but I don’t think the government should be able to kill you on the street.

[Matt Salyers @Matty_Dane]

@SEBryan14 @DerwinLGray This you?

[Phil Vischer @philvischer]

Exhibit A for Christians envying coercive, anti-Christian power: