Sharon Junge

[Sharon Junge @sharonj1017]

This is one of the funniest things I’ve seen on SNL! 🤣😂

[Saturday Night Live @nbcsnl]

a scene from the crumbling marriage of two auctioneers

[Sharon Junge @sharonj1017]

@TheCinesthetic

[Sharon Junge @sharonj1017]

@PeterSweden7 My feed has been filled with Japanese translated posts since this weekend. Yours is my first translated from Swedish!! Replying to say Hi! 👋 and hope I start seeing more from Sweden now!

[Sharon Junge @sharonj1017]

@AiPinfu2003

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@akevittnvg You can’t believe it until you see it with your own eyes! Buc-ees stores are amazing!

[Sharon Junge @sharonj1017]

@nanshisweets Yes, I see your post in English! And yes, I eat pumpkin pie every Thanksgiving! It’s my favorite pie!

[Sharon Junge @sharonj1017]

@akevittnvg Very cool!! My husband took kendo classes in college and his protective gear looked nothing like that! His was very basic. I like yours much better!

[Sharon Junge @sharonj1017]

@DabsMalone Like the first tweet you see about it and it will happen organically! I’m seeing more tweets from Japan than I am anything else right now!

[Sharon Junge @sharonj1017]

I can’t wait to see this movie!!

[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.

[Sharon Junge @sharonj1017]

@CriticalRole Why is the live stream on YouTube popping in short ads during the stream? That’s never happened before and is making us miss little parts!

[Sharon Junge @sharonj1017]

@PilsterJr Yes!! I’ve never had that happen before on the livestream and it’s ticking me off!

[Mitch Goldich 🐙 @mitchgoldich]

The biggest game of the first round is on Friday, when Long Island battles Arizona for iced tea supremacy

[Sharon Junge @sharonj1017]

@dissproportion Our favorite place in a suburb of Fort Worth this like this!

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[Sharon Junge @sharonj1017]

@HannahAyomide10 @HenpeckedHal For real. When my daughter realized Santa, she was sad. When she put 2 and 2 together a few weeks later about the tooth fairy, she was PISSED!! 🤣

[Sharon Junge @sharonj1017]

@samriegel @vaguesnail I miss FCG! I’m on episode 94 and the tears are still falling!!

[Sharon Junge @sharonj1017]

@crumbl 🥧 Yum!!

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@lady_valor_07 Paper clips and batteries…preferably drained ones.

[Sharon Junge @sharonj1017]

@horrormuseum I loved this show!!

[Sharon Junge @sharonj1017]

@justalexoki Yeah, it was great the first year or so I used it, but they changed my deals in the past few months so I don’t have any good offers anymore, just $1 off this or B1G1 of a sandwich I don’t eat or 20% off delivery (not getting McD delivered..sorry)