Dan Olson

Brazil was the big one of these for me.

The scene where everyone at the UN put up their hand to sponsor Superman got to me, I like Nuclear Man, there's something I enjoy about the fight on the moon where they're going at each other like pro wrestlers.

Plus there's a nostalgia angle as IV was the only one I saw in theatres (I was 5)

Oof.

Superman IV

This is firmly in lukewarm defence territory for me. I know why it bombed, and the reasons aren't even really wrong: so many effects look incredibly bad, the titles are visibly far cheaper than the previous films, the editing is janky AF, but I think there's a salvageable core in there

Superman III

I think if you cut a half hour out of this (notably all of Lester's interminable slapstick chain-reactions) it'd be pretty good.

Superman II (theatrical)

Kind of a mess. Zod and crew are a lot of fun, but a lot of the action lacks any kind of weight or fun, and it's janky. This isn't solely a Lester issue, either, as the "Superman gives up his powers only to reclaim them ten minutes later" is in the Donner cut, too.

Superman (1978)

GOATed. Despite the dated effects I still found myself getting really invested in scenes like the falling helicopter. The Superman/Lois sexual tension is sizzling, the comedy hits just right.

God, my brain's full of so many amazing tweets today, how do I do it

It is scurrilous to suggest that Squirrel Girl is squirrel-less

The goal is "cringe", not "correct"

Like Orpheus my head game is lethal

Sparkling water tastes bitter to some people but not others.

I found some people writing about the science of carbonation, that it concentrates ions, especially things like potassium salts, that are already in the water, but no one seems to know why some people find it bitter and others don't beyond "probably genetic, IDK"

okay, well, duly noted, I'll stock up.

If you're sensitive to the flavour of the CO2 like me then it tastes like metal.

I think it's because the interaction of sour and bitter combined with mental expectations from aroma creates a phantom sweetness. One way or another even if it is sugar being bundled as a "natural flavour" it's gotta be trace enough quantities to fall below reporting thresholds.

That's why good old Municipal Tap Water is one of the few sponsorships I've taken over the years.

Not specifically, no, I can do the same, it's cans 2-5 that are the problem.

The trap is that if you’re a daily soda drinker, without caffeine or sugar to make you feel sick if you drink too much you can just reflexively guzzle this stuff.

Bubly’s lemon sorbet is good, orange is good, lime’s okay, blueberry pomegranate is tolerable, mango sucks, pineapple’s tolerable.

If you’re trying to drink less soda and looking at sparkling water as a fizzy replacement, but you normally find it unpleasantly bitter, I’ll tell you this right now: stick to citrus flavours, it masks the bitterness.

People are revisiting their thoughts on older Superman media after a new Superman movie came out?! That's unpossible! How and why would that happen?!

Oh, Darth's back! I'm sure he has very normal, very hinged opinions about Gunn's Superman.

Uuuuuuhhhhhhh, there's an unreleased Corman/Eichinger Fantastic Four film that was made purely so Eichinger could keep the rights he had purchased for very, very cheap, but "deliberately destroyed in a fire" is a new evolution to that story. (Bootlegs of the film are widely available)

Wit, cool bonus, photos of the DAT cassettes! bsky.app/profile/benj...

I did not expect this to lead to Soul Asylum's A&R guy weighing in!

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This is really cool!

Wow, I did not figure that this random irritation over a missing citation would lead to this! Thanks so much for tagging in!

The Famous “Runaway Train” Music Video “Saved” 21 Kids. We Found Them. They Don’t Remember It That Way. Most of those missing kids actually had really good reasons to leave home.

FWIW I still haven't given it a listen, but in stumbling through the subject at random I did find this really good 2023 follow up on the Runaway Train "missing kids" video written by Nick Keppler
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