John Boren

I understand the sentiment, but ‘someday, someone will benefit from your good works’ is never going to beat ‘I got mine, fuck you’ in this top-down, power-law curve society we’re currently stuck in

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Picture of a closed window, the blind drawn up, looking out on a yard. There’s a large bush, and a tree, with leaves turning yellow, amber, crimson. Very much a view of late fall.

I took out the air conditioner that sits in this window, getting ready for the first freeze tonight. It’s not the most spectacular view, but I like it. Cue the Charlie Brown Thanksgiving music.

Wow, I dropped Disney+ a few months ago like the proverbial bad habit. Nice to see the company itself reassuring me I made the correct choice.

Dig around for behind the scenes info on this one, it was a troubled, bizarre shoot. For example, Kirk Douglas, at sixty, was going through a mid-life crisis on set, and boy, does it show! It's definitely worth a look for its production design, if nothing else.

Good to know!

I understand the sentiment, and I assume this is a bit, but just in case, you really don’t want to take too much Tylenol, it will kill your liver in a hurry. Sorry for being literal, but I’ve got this dumb thing I do, I care about people, it gets me into trouble all the damn time

Personally, my favorite part is the Logan’s Run shirt, but of course the whole damn thing is magnificent

13-year-old me loved the original. I thought Legacy was flawed, but it at least tried, and had a killer soundtrack. This thing just makes me feel like crawling into the nearest tar pit

This will fill a two hour block on Disney+ that people will turn on and have in the background, while they do something on their computer, or phone. It’s not a film, or even a movie. It’s content.

colored drawing of chapel, kirk, rand, scotty, uhura, mccoy, spock, chekov, and sulu sitting on or around a couch holding drinks and chatting with each other

pretend i actually posted this on star trek day

If you know, you know

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No shade on the Star Wars OST, obviously a GOAT, but the Jerry Goldsmith score for Star Trek: The Motion Picture is what did it for me

Planets was very early ‘80s, maybe even late 1970s. He-Man, I watched as a teen-ager, very self-consciously, feeling I’d aged out, but Skeletor always made me laugh, and Evil-Lyn was just too cool to not watch

Oh wow, good question. I lived in semi-rural Alabama, growing up as a kid, and what I grew up with was way out of sync with whatever was currently popular at the time. So, Speed Racer, Rocky & Bullwinkle, Battle Of The Planets, He-Man and She-Ra, to name a few.

We didn’t have Thundercats where I grew up, and I was always sad I missed that party. Great art, and as you say, freaking cool animation

I remember Usenet, an early proto-social media, and how it would light up with people talking about ‘Did you see Mulder put his hand on Scully’s shoulder? It was there for a full three seconds!’ Ah, youth.

Saw it in the theater, with the glasses and everything. Ridiculous, cocaine suffused production. Highly entertaining. Jaws 4 requires even more dangerous narcotics be involved, trust me

Honestly, solid plan. Well, you know what I mean

Fascinating thread on 1970s-80s animation methods, techniques, & materials

My spouse developed type 2 diabetes in the past year or so, and I suffer from gout, so we’re constantly trying to find ways around our dietary limitations. Zero sugar ice cream and veggie burgers for the win

DROIDS (1985)
and another happy 40th to droids, whose main title seems to be fully custom (or at least based on a font i've never found), but whose subtitle is GROTESQUE NO. 9 ITALIC (with LUCASFILM being set in what looks like NEWS GOTHIC with numbers from AKZIDENZ-GROTESK)

EWOKS (1985)
happy 40th to the animated ewoks, whose title is set in a slightly altered PUTTY BOLD (with LUCASFILM being set in FUTURA BOOK)

Thank you, we agree on something! You do the same.

‘labor shouldn’t be treated like shit by an indifferent executive class’ is a simple idea, true, but I’ll take it over any bullshit ‘complex’ justifications.

Try working a minimum wage job sometime, retail, food service. You’ll see plenty of Ashes and Dallases, a Kane or two, and untold legions of Ripley wanna-be’s, trust me on that

It’s labor vs. management. It’s office politics. That subtext has been talked about in this movie for decades.

It’s labor vs management, same as it ever was.

Straight up, I do not. Dallas is that guy who’s managed to get a tiny slice of the executive pie, and is forever self-impressed. Kane was a weird brown-noser to Dallas. Ash is that asshole from headquarters, always looking for an excuse to fire someone.

I see. You’re light years from home, the only way you have to get home is damaged, but instead of helping out any way you can, as an act of good leadership, you’re just going to sit on your ass and let the *staff* deal with it. Underpaid staff, I might add. Says a lot, that response.