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Dan Hassler-Forest

@danhf.bsky.social

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Author, speaker, all-purpose movie guy, media studies prof @ Utrecht University. Notorious Disney-basher. Forthcoming: books on the Fast & Furious franchise and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.

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Dan Hassler-Forest @danhf.bsky.social · 4h

The proofs for my new book came in the mail today!

Fast and Furious Franchising: How the Serialized Blockbuster Remade Hollywood will be coming from @uminnpress.bsky.social this March. 🤩🙌🏼

Fast and Furious Franchising: cover page

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Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 1h

The use of AI to marionette a woman whose tortured existence was spent trying to carve her own life and identity out of the space men forced her into is both damningly macabre and a surprisingly perfect encapsulation of the problems with this ghoulish use of technology.

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 1d

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

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Dan Hassler-Forest @danhf.bsky.social · 1h

The Harry Potter books were awful to begin with, irrespective of the fact that their author turned out to be a malicious ogre.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Dan Hassler-Forest @danhf.bsky.social · 3h

Everything about the HAIRSPRAY musical is fabulous, except for John Travolta in drag. Tim Curry would have shot that whole thing into orbit.

Jake_Vig @jakevig.bsky.social · 1d

Pick a movie that could have been great. Recast ONE role to fix it.

Mine is "The Godfather- Part 3," recasting Sophia Coppola (great director, but should not have been given this role) with Jennifer Jason Leigh.

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Dan Hassler-Forest @danhf.bsky.social · 3h

Catching up with the magnificent Apple TV series #SlowHorses, where Jonathan Pryce does particularly heartbreaking work in season 4.

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 9h

This is why the inflatable costumes works so well -- it works the same way calling them "weird" or "creepy" did. It disrupts their narrative, and makes them seem pathetic rather than cool-and-cruel.

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 18h

You need to see this:

“The show of force is the point. They want these images to be out…The Department of Homeland Security is walking around Chicago with a film crew.” @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social

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Dan Hassler-Forest @danhf.bsky.social · 4h

Of all Drew Struzan’s iconic 1980s movie posters, his spectacular work for my favorite Indiana Jones movie has a special place in my heart. ♥️

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Dan Hassler-Forest @danhf.bsky.social · 4h

The proofs for my new book came in the mail today!

Fast and Furious Franchising: How the Serialized Blockbuster Remade Hollywood will be coming from @uminnpress.bsky.social this March. 🤩🙌🏼

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Paul Duane 🥔 @paulduane.bsky.social · 5h

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO UDO KIER, WHO GAVE THE GREATEST EVER ANSWER EVER GIVEN IN AN INTERVIEW

Steven Sheil @scsheil.bsky.social · 5h

I love this Udo Kier quote too and mentioned it often on Twitter and someone sent me the actual audio

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Nate Patrin @natepatrin.bsky.social · 5h

after getting over the initial shock I got a follow-up "oof" remembering he was just in the Sly Stone doc talking about how white rock stars get to grow old and comfortable

RIP to the man with the greatest three-albums-in-20-years career in music history

D'Angelo - Devil's Pie

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Dan Hassler-Forest @danhf.bsky.social · 5h

Kind of funny how Time magazine hoped to stroke Trump’s ego by going Full Nazi with their low-angle Trump cover photo, only to have him complain because it makes him look bald and accentuates his hideous neck. 🤭

Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 1d

Time magazine doing Nazi propaganda and using its language

This is very very specific language they only had one parallel and it’s originally in German.

TIME
HIS
TRIUMPH
by ERIC CORTELLESSA
THE LEADER
ISRAEL NEEDED
by EHUD BARAK
HOW GAZA HEALS
by MUHAMMAD BIN ABDULKARIM AL-ISSA

Dan Hassler-Forest @danhf.bsky.social · 5h

RIP to the legendary Drew Struzan.

Andy Kelly @ultrabrilliant.xyz · 5h

Drew Struzan's poster for The Thing, depicting a man in a winter coat with an eerie light emanating from his hood.

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Jessica Kiang @jessicakiang.bsky.social · 15h

Some superb bracket work from Siddhant here.

Siddhant Adlakha @siddhantadlakha.bsky.social · 1d

At the center of “Tron: Ares” is a woefully miscast Greta Lee (“Past Lives”) and an unfortunately visible Jared Leto ("accusations from underage girls"), making even more unpleasant an already haphazard cinematic headache. joysauce.com/tron-ares-is...

‘Tron: Ares’ is a waste of time and talent

Greta Lee gets stuck inside a digital mess alongside Jared Leto in Joachim Rønning’s threequel to the 1980s classic.

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ʙᴜη ₊˚⊹⋆ @bun.is.a.cutie.fyi · 18h

!!!

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Dan Hassler-Forest @danhf.bsky.social · 13h

Finally sat down to watch KPOP DEMON HUNTERS and boy, I'm not surprised it's so wildly popular: what a great time. 💜

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Dan Hassler-Forest @danhf.bsky.social · 1d

Zes

Dan Hassler-Forest @danhf.bsky.social · 1d

I can still recite the number for my best friend in elementary school without even thinking about it.

bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 1d

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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Dan Hassler-Forest @danhf.bsky.social · 1d

a man in a cowboy hat says well everyone knows custer died at little bighorn in front of a crowd

ALT: a man in a cowboy hat says well everyone knows custer died at little bighorn in front of a crowd

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Dan Hassler-Forest @danhf.bsky.social · 1d

I love @kierlajanisse.bsky.social’s spoken introductions to the films in the marvelous HOUSE OF PSYCHOTIC WOMEN box set — though it’s hard not to be a little distracted by the cat that’s quietly grooming itself in the couch just behind her shoulder. 🐱 🥰