#OnThisDay, July 27, in 1996, a pipe bomb exploded at Centennial Olympic Park during the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia (depicted in Richard Jewell, 2019)
What Life in Barbie’s Dazzlingly Pink World Would Do to Her Brain—And Yours: The Barbie movie’s plastic pink world might not be that fantastic in real life. https://archive.is/JtFSn
You're all going to love the #space battles in my upcoming big-budget #scifi#movie. Completely soundless! Beam weapons are targeted by computers, fire continuously for several minutes, are invisible to outside view, and never miss! Protective fields don't exist! Hull punctures cause explosive decompression and the immediate death of the entire crew!
#OnThisDay, July 18, in 1936, a military uprising led by the Fascist General Francisco Franco against the democratically elected government of Spain started the 3-year-long Spanish Civil War (depicted in While At War, 2019)
The rule is #books are better than #movies based on them. I think they accomplish different things though: books have more detail, movies can show what you may have missed
While I think usually books are better, I have a theory that #childrensbooks DO adapt well. Simply, they have less material to adapt so they can add more depth to what is there. A great example is Wizard of Oz. I've read the book - it's good, not great. The movie is, especially for its time, amazing
@theotherotherone@movies@bookstodon The Princess Bride is my go-to example for #books and #movies have different purposes and can both be great. There's so much back story to characters that is lost in the movie, because otherwise it would have been painful 3+ hours long. But at the same time, the book cannot capture the brilliance of scenes like the sword fight.
If you're a fan of period tv shows and mini-series, I curate a list of nearly 300 streaming mini-series / TV found here: https://exitpursuedbyabear.net/projects/put-a-cravat-on-it/ (updated yearly). Both link to streaming services it is available on. Enjoy!
#OnThisDay, July 11, in 1924, Scottish Olympian Eric Liddell won the gold medal in the 400m at the 1924 Paris Olympics, after refusing to run in the heats for 100m, his favored distance, on a Sunday due to his religion (depicted in Chariots of Fire, 1981)
There are some fun hidden details in Fringe. For instance, in the parallel universe of the series, when the Observers come out of the movie theatre after having watched Back to the Future, Eric Stoltz is listed as the main actor (episode 2x15).
Stoltz was in fact initially cast as Marty McFly, and they recorded several scenes with him before he was replaced by Michael J. Fox. Apparently, that didn't happen in the parallel universe 😁
Es ist Mittwoch 🎊 meine Kerle!
Ich glaube dass es ein Wimmelbild mit all meinen Lieblings-Bewegtbildmedien braucht! Liket wenn ja, kommentiert falls „f‘jeden Fall Bro!“, ignoriert falls klar