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DO IT AGAIN! AND AGAIN! fml Kubrick Ghost is exhausting
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# ? Mar 12, 2024 22:50 |
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FreudianSlippers posted:One of the late night phone calls was Kubrick telling King that he thought ghost stories were inherently optimistic because the existence of ghosts meant consciousness continued after death.
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# ? Mar 12, 2024 22:54 |
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Was there ever any confirmation by Kubrick that he made the calls?
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# ? Mar 12, 2024 22:58 |
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FreudianSlippers posted:One of the late night phone calls was Kubrick telling King that he thought ghost stories were inherently optimistic because the existence of ghosts meant consciousness continued after death. I think it would be amazing and hilarious to get random fact or philosophical musings phone calls from Kubrick out of the blue.
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# ? Mar 12, 2024 23:05 |
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FreudianSlippers posted:One of the late night phone calls was Kubrick telling King that he thought ghost stories were inherently optimistic because the existence of ghosts meant consciousness continued after death. This has always been my view. I grew up reading Sagan and was interested in dispelling hoaxes, how cults work, etc. But I’ve never had the zealotry a lot of myth busters display. Ghosts are the best example, I will argue against their existence even while I hope someone could prove them real because then there is an afterlife and the primary existential dread we deal with is settled. That would be so freeing.
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# ? Mar 12, 2024 23:12 |
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It never occurred to me to check if the Shining was filmed in the UK (most of it was), so Kubrick would've probably made his calls in daytime without bothering to care what time it was in the US.
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# ? Mar 13, 2024 07:08 |
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ah the reverse Tolkien
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# ? Mar 13, 2024 07:13 |
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Alan Smithee posted:ah the reverse Tolkien I don't know the story behind this so I'm just going to assume Tolkien stayed up late to call friends in the USA and even through his natural British stuffiness they could tell he was dead tired and told him to just call earlier.
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# ? Mar 13, 2024 08:08 |
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davidspackage posted:It never occurred to me to check if the Shining was filmed in the UK (most of it was), so Kubrick would've probably made his calls in daytime without bothering to care what time it was in the US. The exterior of the Overlook is a hotel in Oregon that's apparently pretty cool, has a way more interesting interior and history.
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# ? Mar 13, 2024 11:32 |
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galagazombie posted:Going to the Ghost Bureau after I die hoping to get assigned something cool like “Slain soldier eternally fighting the battle of Gettysburg” and instead getting “Poltergeist that occasionally jingles the silverware in a house built in 1984”. Do you think you have to do exactly the same moves every battle or is it different each time.
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# ? Mar 13, 2024 13:55 |
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The real hotel that inspired Overlook is haunted by YouTubers making travel/horror content.
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# ? Mar 13, 2024 13:57 |
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The MSJ posted:The real hotel that inspired Overlook is haunted by YouTubers making travel/horror content. Jack Torrance and Co. got them? You'd think they'd be to annoying for the hotel to want to add them to their ghoul'ish ado forever and ever and ever. Like way to annoying.
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# ? Mar 13, 2024 14:06 |
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https://twitter.com/DiscussingFilm/status/1767930013813195230?t=cu_qsHicfOBFqhyeBwk6SA&s=19
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# ? Mar 13, 2024 16:07 |
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is this about Frankie
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# ? Mar 13, 2024 16:15 |
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Hi it’s me, Zachary Levi, star of Harold and the Purple Crayon. In this movie I play a kid who has a crayon that makes everything he draws real. But you know what isn’t real? *sits on chair backwards* The COVID-19 vaccines
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# ? Mar 13, 2024 16:23 |
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Is the purple crayon what he uses to create his Shazamily?
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# ? Mar 13, 2024 16:35 |
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Her Dryer posted:Do you think you have to do exactly the same moves every battle or is it different each time. If I'm remembering my very real and true ghost knowledge (from Ghost Adventures), a violent death generally means you're replaying that moment over and over like a time loop.
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# ? Mar 13, 2024 16:55 |
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The Saddest Rhino posted:https://twitter.com/DiscussingFilm/status/1767930013813195230?t=cu_qsHicfOBFqhyeBwk6SA&s=19 seriously what is this. why would you make Harold an adult instead of just, y'know, adapting the goddamn books
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# ? Mar 13, 2024 17:01 |
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Bc Levi thinks he’s good at playing a child He’s not
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# ? Mar 13, 2024 17:06 |
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CelticPredator posted:Bc Levi thinks he’s good at playing a child He gives off awful vibes for this sort of thing, way to smarmy.
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# ? Mar 13, 2024 18:31 |
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Barry Convex posted:seriously what is this. why would you make Harold an adult instead of just, y'know, adapting the goddamn books Because, as proved by the box office smash Hook, the way you make a nostalgia piece is to make the main character a bitter adult version.
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# ? Mar 13, 2024 20:03 |
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Flying Zamboni posted:He gives off awful vibes for this sort of thing, way to smarmy. Yeah. He was a bad choice for Shazam. Honestly someoen like Andy era chris Pratt could’ve done it.
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# ? Mar 13, 2024 20:15 |
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Macdeo Lurjtux posted:Because, as proved by the box office smash Hook, the way you make a nostalgia piece is to make the main character a bitter adult version. Ah, what a film. So good! And now to just look up the box office returns...
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# ? Mar 13, 2024 21:06 |
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I feel like the giant purple dildo look is intentional, but I know nothing about the franchise, so I don't know if I should be laughing, cringing, or mortified
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# ? Mar 13, 2024 21:43 |
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It's a kid's book about a kid who finds a crayon and draws like a little path to walk down or a boat and pretends to sail on it. It is basically nothing aside from "kid draws pictures and pretends to be in them."
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# ? Mar 13, 2024 22:31 |
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The Saddest Rhino posted:https://twitter.com/DiscussingFilm/status/1767930013813195230?t=cu_qsHicfOBFqhyeBwk6SA&s=19 What the gently caress
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# ? Mar 13, 2024 22:45 |
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Levi is going to draw his imaginary friend Jesus into existence.
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# ? Mar 13, 2024 22:47 |
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The Saddest Rhino posted:https://twitter.com/DiscussingFilm/status/1767930013813195230?t=cu_qsHicfOBFqhyeBwk6SA&s=19 Trying to calculate how many years ago this movie would have starred Adam Sandler. Zac Levi is no Adam Sandler.
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# ? Mar 14, 2024 06:57 |
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Barry Convex posted:seriously what is this. why would you make Harold an adult instead of just, y'know, adapting the goddamn books Maybe they shouldn’t make it at all?
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# ? Mar 14, 2024 13:41 |
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X-Ray Pecs posted:Hi it’s me, Zachary Levi, star of Harold and the Purple Crayon. In this movie I play a kid who has a crayon that makes everything he draws real. But you know what isn’t real? *sits on chair backwards* The COVID-19 vaccines
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# ? Mar 14, 2024 13:47 |
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It's a kids book for literal babies and the most grow'd up thing I can associate it with is once in D&D we ended up with the purple crayon and it was among our most powerful magic items.
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# ? Mar 14, 2024 17:29 |
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Jack B Nimble posted:It's a kids book for literal babies and the most grow'd up thing I can associate it with is once in D&D we ended up with the purple crayon and it was among our most powerful magic items. Did it wind up in a butt
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# ? Mar 14, 2024 17:35 |
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Alan Smithee posted:Did it wind up in a butt Mostly doors, Beetlejuice style. They didn't take a lot of lines; we needed a boat once but we realized it would use up the whole crayon to draw something that large and complicated.
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# ? Mar 14, 2024 17:36 |
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Grendels Dad posted:Trying to calculate how many years ago this movie would have starred Adam Sandler.
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# ? Mar 14, 2024 18:06 |
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Not even Uncut Gems?
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# ? Mar 14, 2024 19:33 |
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I think Sandler did make this movie, it was called Bedtime Stories and it's basically a fine and totally forgettable movie that's very much for kids.
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# ? Mar 14, 2024 19:46 |
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Professor Shark posted:Not even Uncut Gems?
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# ? Mar 14, 2024 20:38 |
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People making increasingly bad decisions is the hallmark of a good comedy.
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# ? Mar 14, 2024 20:46 |
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Casimir Radon posted:It was a loud unpleasant slog that he did nothing to enhance. For the most part I tend not to like movies where someone makes bad decisions for 2 hours with a few exceptions. The introductory scene in the African mine kind of got my hopes up, but the rest of the movie just sucked. hosed up
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# ? Mar 14, 2024 21:10 |
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# ? Jun 3, 2024 22:42 |
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I only like media that has intelligent characters masterminding through problems, like YuGiyoh
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