.

I want everything and nothing at the same time

[★ v a l e ★ @cosmic_val]

LA PUTA PIÑATA VETE ALV

[TheConnorWebber @TheConnorWeb]

Good god…

Speed Racer was meant to be seen in @IMAX. That was an out of body experience

[Jake the Band the Show the Movie @JakeStaFrm]

"You don't climb into a T-180 to be a driver. You do it because you're driven."

[IMAX @IMAX]

when i die, bury me in the colors of Speed Racer 😩

[IMAX @IMAX]

Speed is back on the track! Speed Racer returns exclusively to IMAX with a 4k digital restoration for one night only April 20. Get tickets now: https://t.co/BFR4r6FdJk

[jolie @lunarbisou]

how it feels to be Mexican on the beach with a JBL

[No Context Tobey Maguire @OocTobeyM]

Sam Raimi filmed a jump scare for Spider-Man 3 where Peter looks in the mirror and briefly sees Venom screaming back at him.

Sony cut it...

[noa @missedtheheart]

how it feels to walk out of the theater after having seen project hail mary

[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.

[Basil 🌱 @Basil_Mage]

Monkey

[Opulence! @Theopulenceman]

In 10,000 years, your country won’t exist. The borders will be dissolved, and your language will be extinct or unrecognizable.

Your digital footprint will be gone, and data will rot faster than stone. Most of what defined us today, money, politics, status and online lives, will vanish without context.

What survives will be fragments: misread, mythologized, guessed at, and wrong.

The uncomfortable truth is this: human certainty is an illusion built on missing data. We don’t know where we truly came from. We don’t know how many civilizations rose, advanced, and quietly reset before us.

As history shows us, it isn’t a straight line of progress, it’s a series of collapses, with survivors writing the story. And we don’t know if we’re evolving… or just approaching another reset.

[Wes Anderson Universe @WesAndersonfc]

Isle of Dogs (2018) deliberately refuses to translate most Japanese dialogue. It makes you sit inside misunderstanding, the same space where scapegoating happens: decisions are made about you, in a language you cannot fully access.

[sese ୭ৎ ࣪ ׅ ⊹ @tsirvya]

getting a headache and a tummy ache at the same time

[Amaan Jahangir @AmaanJah]

fool’s paradise

[luffy @0xluffy]

probably one of the softest, most tender ways to love someone
is simple curiosity

to love someone is to watch the movie they keep talking about
just to understand why matt damon matters to them

to love someone is to eat garlic bialy with oj in the morning
just to understand why they never get tired of it

to love someone is to sit with their favourite songs
and understand why there’s shrek on their playlist

love is wanting to understand the small things and see the world through their eyes