I'm not sure if Death To Smoochy counts as a cult classic, but it damn well ought to. Screw critics, screw naysayers: That movie is bold, and it is fucking hilarious.
The original Blade Runner (1982) didn’t do as well as expected at the box office upon release. I originally thought it lost money but when conducting research for this post I found that it apparently did turn a small profit according to Wikipedia.
Now it’s considered a cult classic and some argue it’s one of the best sci-fi movies ever made and its influence can be felt in many other movies, TV shows, anime/manga, and games.
Super Mario Bros. - I'm sorry for Hopper & Hoskins' experiences (RIP). But between the directorial chaos, editorial saves, and constant drunkenness, they turned out a pretty solid dark cyberpunk movie that feels more like "two New York plumbers save the day" than the recent movie. The visuals mostly still hold up, the story is okay. There's maybe a few things that could be improved, but overall I don't think it's all that bad.
Blade Runner. It did very poorly at the box office, and the critics were lukewarm at best, but I loved it. I was a big fan of Philip K. Dick, so a film by Ridley Scott based on one of his novels was right up my alley. I dragged my friend to see it the week it came out, and I was blown away. Even back then I wasn’t alone. It almost immediately became a cult film that regularly played in smaller repertory theaters.
I remember reading an interview with Arthur C. Clarke back then where he mentioned that he had recently spoken with Stanley Kubrick, and Kubrick had said that Blade Runner was the most visually beautiful film he had ever seen.
I feel like the sequel had similar problems. I think it did end up making its money back but based on what they spent vs what it made it wasn't a home run at all. But everyone I've talked to who has seen it thought it was great, myself included.
I get the feeling that both the original and the sequel are the kind of film where word of mouth just doesn't do it for some reason. I had a friend years ago who mentioned that she had never seen Blade Runner, and immediately followed that by saying not to bother telling her how good it was.
There was this duplex in '82 that was showing Blade Runner (rated R) on one screen and Clint Eastwood's Cold War thriller Firefox (rated PG) on the other. As an unaccompanied teen I had to see Firefox, but I do remember that Vangelis soundtrack, which you could hear from the lobby area. I really wanted to see it then, but it didn't happen until I rented the VHS tape a year later, maybe even a bit longer than that.
I had trouble with the show. I really wanted to like it, but there are too many things I didn’t like about it. But the movie was amazing. I just watched it for the first time in the past year.
How far along did you get in the show? It starts out sort of slow and cheesy, but ramps up to having really big overarching storylines and super epic battles!
John Carpenter's The Thing was critically and commercially panned on release. It lost the special effects Oscar to ET. It got such a bad response John Carpenter considered retiring.
Weird Al's UHF is hilarious and would have done well except that it came out the same weekend as a whooole bunch of other classic movies. The weekend of July 21, 1989 the other movies you could see were:
I used Twitter for a very short bit, and that was simply to follow updates from content creators from youtube and other sites. After Musk took over, I deleted my account, and that was a few days before the massive data breach.
I've been trying Mastodon, and just started getting used to it. But the nature of it compared to Twitter is it is very manual, like you have to make a deliberate effort to find the content you want to follow rather than it being pushed to you. There is a front page kinda, but it doesn't update frequently enough to justify browsing. I don't know if it is a Mastodon thing or a problem with all microblogs, but it kinda feels like I'm talking to Noone half the time compared to kbin and lemmy.
I've actually found it easier to interact with Mastodon via Kbin's microblog feature. I just tend to see more post I normally wouldn't see via Mastodon, and get a lot more interaction as well. In the end, kbin might just be my hub for community interaction and microblogging.
I browse tumblr from time to time, but mostly to follow certain artists work, and get memes and creations from certain fanbases I follow.
I've been getting this too, even though nsfw content is supposed to be filtered for me. I also sometimes see straight up nudes in the microblog as well. Either something is not working correctly, or the nsfw filter only works for the threads so far.
I don't have any NSFW filtering enabled but I almost never get see any NSFW posts. Today was the first time I ever saw one (it was some footage from Ukraine), I have seen lots of complaints about this issue and was wondering if the NSFW filters were inverted.
For random sidebar posts from non-local instances, it would be nice to add a bit of a delay where image posts won't show up there until 1 hour or so after the post? That would give time for instance moderators to do their thing perhaps.
Tried Mastodon for a few weeks, but it just seemed to be people talking at themselves. Despite claims that one needs to follow people & tags and that nothing is pushed, there was so much stuff I wasn’t following in my feed.
Also found the whole hashtag system to be incredibly frustrating. Their inclusion in comments breaks up the flow, to search (or block) you have to guess what things could be tagged as, then too many people tag stuff unnecessarily, so you effectively get masses of spam when trying to follow a topic.
On top of that, strongly disliked the need to follow strangers - it feels creepy & weird to me, no matter how interesting their posts are.
Oh and the rate of reblogging of very trite stuff was doing my nut in. Fine, if it is something you believe your followers will want to read, but otherwise it is more spam in their feed
Always ask if they can give you a free upgrade. I've been given one a couple of times because I've always asked politely, and explained that I cramp easily in narrow seats. Sometimes I'll get a "I'll see what I can do" and if the plane is not completely booked, I might be given a seat with extra leg space, economy plus, or even business class.
I used to fly between Japan and America constantly, and I've been given a business upgrade twice simply by asking. I seem to have the most success with Delta and ANA.
Always ask for an upgrade, especially if you're above base level on their rewards scheme. I got heaps of Emirates upgrades to BC doing this. Also, I once had my seat double booked on an a380, was a great economy with good leg room. If this happens, and the plane is at full capacity, don't fight for your seat. Arrived at seat, taken, check boarding passes, double booked. I told the lady to keep the seat, called a flight attendant over to sort it out, BC upgrade right in front of her!
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