Eric Vespe
@EricVespe
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Formerly Quint of Ain't It Cool News, current co-host of The Kingcast ( @Kingcast19 ). Bylines at Slashfilm, Collider, Syfy Wire, Fangoria. ericvespe @gmail .com
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I am very happy to announce The Kingcast, a project I’ve been cooking up with
@ScottWamplerBMD
for many months. We’re big
@StephenKing
dorks and so, it seems, are many filmmaker friends. Make sure to follow
@Kingcast19
to be the first to know all the fun stuff we have in store!
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Josh Brolin went to an '80s themed birthday party as himself from Goonies and all is right in the world.
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For those going to see The Batman tonight, pay extra close attention to the way Matt Reeves filmed the big car chase set piece. For most of it he locks the camera to either the Batmobile or Penguin’s car…
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Stephen King’s IT made over $700m. Deadpool and Deadpool 2 made more money than the first two Captain America and Ant-Man movies. Can we please retire the myth that an R-rating automatically limits box office potential?
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Dan Stevens is just the best. We need to figure out why he’s not the biggest star of his generation because the dude has it all. He’s movie star handsome AND a big fucking weirdo, which is such a winning combination.
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Listen, Lily Gladstone is fantastic in Killers of the Flower Moon, but please refrain from under-valuing the flat out miracle performance Emma Stone gave in Poor Things. It’s a part that could have (and maybe should have) been a disaster, but turned out extraordinary.
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Ran into JJ Abrams on the Sony lot a couple months ago & he was saying nothing but nice things about Rian Johnson and TLJ. In fact, he said he viewed the set up for IX Johnson gave him as a big gift. This shouldn’t be a surprise to anybody not named Grace Randolph.
J.J. Abrams Says New
#StarWars
Won’t Play It Safe Like ‘Force Awakens,’ Thanks to Rian Johnson
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Got tired of arguing with random Twitterers about their bad takes on The Last Jedi, so I wrote a very spoiler-heavy summary of the themes of the movie and why I love it so much. I'm not kidding about the spoilers, don't click if you haven't seen the movie!
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I just learned that pretty much every under-30 Twitterer thinks this gif is Zach Galifianakis nodding, not Robert Redford in Jeremiah Johnson. Someone hold me and tell me everything will be okay.
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Happy birthday, The Last Jedi. You rule, we clearly don’t deserve you, but thanks for being so thoughtful and truly understanding the subtext of the stories that have meant so much to me for so long.
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Just saw someone confidently assert that Glass Onion isn’t really a sequel to Knives Out because the only thing that connects the two is the same lead character/actor doing what he did in the first film: solve a mystery. Apparently if you’re a sequel now you must carry over plot.
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I know it's the go-to joke, but if they did replace TJ Miller with Christopher Plummer in future Deadpool movies it'd be one of the most amazing meta-jokes they could possibly do and would totally fit in that universe.
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I love Netflix and the freedom they give their filmmakers. But if they’re going to present themselves as the wardens of cinema then they should probably have more than 17 movies made before 1995 on their platform.
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@kumailn
Their official statement is he "tripped and fell." At some point they're going to realize every single thing they do right now is being recorded from a hundred different angles, right?
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Can you imagine this level of honesty happening with literally any movie today? “What’s it like working with Bruce Willis?” “Honestly, he’s phoning it in and that’s a shame.”
CHRISTOPHER REEVE talks to Letterman about working with Marlon Brando on SUPERMAN (1978). Reeve was not impressed with the legendary actor...
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I don't think there was a more satisfying superhero moment this year than the No Man's Land sequence in Wonder Woman.
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Eternals is everything all the loudest MCU critics were demanding and they all shit on it. Singular vision, real locations, complicated characterization, sex, minimal goofiness, and it built a complicated, nuanced world. Not perfect, but it’s the movie many say they wanted.
Some of us boarded the Eternals train while it was still in the station. Some of us became the founder, treasurer, and secretary of the Eternals fanclub. SOME OF US.
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Guillermo del Toro has spent so many years struggling to tell his stories without compromise, losing so many of his cherished projects along the way, I can't help but tear up thinking of how much validation he must feel right now and how much more wide open his future looks.
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When we’re on Batman the camera is pointed forward. Penguin’s camera is almost always pointed backwards. It’s subtle, but it’s wonderful visual storytelling. Penguin is always looking over his shoulder at his pursuer, Batman’s focused forward, intent on catching his target.
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Call me crazy, but maybe the person who built her whole online persona around Mean Girling Jessica Chastain, Henry Cavill and Kathleen Kennedy should be the last person to demand an end to “bullying movies,” whatever that means.
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One more sweet sign spotted after the Austin march was winding down. Look at
@rianjohnson
’s words bolstering political action!
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Love or hate Stranger Things, you gotta hand it to their marketing team. They always put out gorgeous posters!
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I liked the new Doctor Strange. It’s a tad clunky and some stuff feels unearned, but I can’t be mad at a movie so unapologetically bonkers. Definitely a different feel and tone from the rest of the MCU (and that’s a good thing).
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This writer can fuck right off and that goes double for whatever editor assigned them.
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Throughout the entire sequence Reeves only breaks those two perspectives a few times. Just a little filmmaking flair that I was impressed by and wanted to point out.
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I’m not a weed smoker but this lighter/ashtray is rad as hell and I want one.
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My girl is gonna lose that Nobel Peace Prize when she finally manages to stop Trump’s heart with her mind.
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So yeah, I LOVED Ready Player One. It’s perhaps the geekiest movie ever made. So so so happy right now!
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Never starred in a sequel, you say?
Unlike virtually every other A-lister,
@LeoDiCaprio
has rebuffed franchises, has never donned spandex, wielded a lightsaber or starred in a sequel – yet he has dominated the box office (and awards season) for more than two decades
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Holy shit, look at his pipe!
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Breaking: Disney just now realizing the writer of Tromeo and Juliet made gross jokes over a decade ago! This is a bunch of horseshit.
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The Last Jedi is incredible. Character at the forefront, amazing action and so so so much emotional payoff decades in the making. I will be watching this one a lot.
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It is true that this was a huge audience moment. People went bananas. I still feel it was a terrible misreading of Yoda’s character to give him a lightsaber in the first place (the force is all he needs), but can’t deny Lucas knew what the fans wanted.
Seeing Yoda flawlessly shift from elder sage to badass duelist for the first time on-screen will forever be one of the best moments from the prequels. ✨️
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On this May the 4th let me share a Star Wars observation: the prequels were universally shat upon. It was a 100x more vitriolic and pervasive than the sequel trilogy anger and now a whole generation reveres the PT. Look at TikTok and YouTube. The ST will have the same life.
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Rest In Peace Wilford Brimley. You were the cool grandpa to my entire generation whether you wanted to be or not. You will be missed.
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Evil Dead Rise is rad! The tone falls somewhere between the 2013 remake and Evil Dead 2, there’s so much gore, and even more child endangerment. Also, there’s a nod to The Shining that had me applauding in my seat. Don’t miss it.
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Yes, Shazam has some scary stuff in it. Yes, parents should be warned in advance. But also, yes, it’s good for kids to get scared at movies. All the stuff I grew up with had terrifying stuff in it. It’s part of what made me fall in love with movies.
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I’m an old man, so let me share my wisdom with you all. Timothee Chalamet seems to be entering the same “everybody hates him because he’s good looking and their girlfriends all want him” stage of his career that Leonardo DiCaprio did when I was a young blogger.
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I’m sure all the hot takes are coming but I found the Game of Thrones finale to be wholly satisfying in much the same way that I loved the multiple endings of Return of the King. Nitpicks here and there these last two seasons, but still a monumental achievement.
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Was reminded of this photo today. Pre-Shaun of the Dead release. We were all infants.
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I can now say I’ve seen the first two episodes of Fallout (and maybe even more) and this longtime Fallout nerd is very pleased. Superb production design, fully realized world, straight up bizarre humor, surprising gore… everything I want in a Fallout story + God-tier Goggins.
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My biggest takeaway from the revelation that
@TheRock
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Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes keeps the winning streak going. I have no idea why the powers that be continue to allow this one franchise be the complex, meaningful spectacle that it is, but I hope whatever wizard’s curse is in place doesn’t go away anytime soon.
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I’ve been covering movies in some form or another since 1997. In that time I’ve gotten to meet my heroes, see the process of putting together a movie of all sizes and all genres, and even witness cinema history as it happened. One very strong memory was visiting the set of LOTR.
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The SXSW cancellation is a devastating blow on multiple levels. A year’s work went into creating our short film, Seek, which beat the odds and got accepted to the festival. This was our big moment to take a bit of a victory lap and celebrate the hard work of our cast and crew.
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I’m really hoping Beetlejuice 2 is good, mostly because I want them to make a third film and call it Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Beetlejuice.
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Cutting to Martin Scorsese during the Eminem musical number is automatically next year’s best short film winner.
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Um… Alex Garland’s Civil War is incredible. A true knockout. The movies I want to compare it to will force an overhype situation, so I’ll just leave it at that. One of the most engrossing movies I’ve seen in years. Goddamn.
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But how could this be? A bunch of sputtering mad YouTube randos with walls of Funkos behind them said their uncle’s cousin’s roommate works at Lucasfilm and heard Kennedy was on the way out!
Kathleen Kennedy has reportedly extended her Lucasfilm contract for another 3 years
(via
@PuckNews
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That’s two Jokers who won an acting Oscar now. Jared Leto sits in a corner quietly asking why not him.
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Horror has a long tradition of killing kids and causing outrage from pearl-clutchers like this person. Frankenstein did it in 1931 and was censored. See the new Terrifier or don’t. Performative outrage is just silly and no better than the religious right shit I grew up with.
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There’s a parallel universe out there where James Cameron is making, like, 5 True Lies movies with Jamie Lee and Arnold as married spies saving the world and I have to live in the one where we’re getting neverending Avatars. Smdh.
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Hey,
@TMobile
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So far, Billy Dee Williams defending Lando’s honor is the best part of the Episode IX panel. “I’m sick and tired people saying I betrayed Han. Did anybody die?!? I was going up against Darth Vader. I had to figure something out.”
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Kevin Tsujihara being out at WB is great news. Beyond the grossness of the scandal that got him out filmmakers and employees have hated him for years. I've been told numerous times he had zero understanding of storytelling, the very definition of a soulless bottom line exec.
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The very next day I got an email from Spielberg's office, passing along this note from the man himself. I've never shared it before.
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I've seen a growing number of Film Twitter poo-pooing the idea of owning physical media. Weirds me out because these should be the people fighting tooth & nail for best film presentation available. Or maybe I'm stupid for wanting guaranteed access to uncompressed video & audio.
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I have a suspicion/fool’s hope that the Cinerama Dome will be saved by some deep-pocketed cinephile, but if it really is going away Hollywood will have lost one of its most important historic landmarks.
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Anyway, I got tons more, but those are the highlights. I'll leave you guys with hands down my favorite photo I took over these three months. On stage during a rain cover day, as
@IanMcKellen
's Gandalf is about to save the dwarves from the Goblin King (with some direction from PJ)
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Last two Book of Boba Fett eps have been top tier. Went from obligation viewing to must-watch-the-second-it-drops and I couldn’t be happier about it.
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More Carrie Fisher birthday celebratory goodness! Carrie, Harrison, Alec and the Queen.
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A man passed away from COVID complications who you probably don’t know by name, but he had a massive impact on geek culture. His name is Charles Lippincott and he was the advertising publicity promotion and marketing supervisor on the original Star Wars. (Thread)
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Blade Runner 2049 is the new gold standard for legacy sequels. Builds on the original without just being a collection of winks and nods.
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Top guesses for whatever's going down at Bethesda today:
1) Remastered Fallout 3/New Vegas/4 headed to Switch.
2) Fallout Online Is Finally Announced
3) Vault Boy Accused of Inappropriate Behavior, Makes Public Statement
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It is very funny to me to imagine the poor bastard tasked with cutting together a teaser video of this episode under strict orders not to give anything away.
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You don’t say. It’s almost as if the shittiest, loudest minority was trying to direct a narrative on social media that simply wasn’t what was happening in the real world. Strange.
'True Detective: Night Country' Hits Series Ratings Highs for HBO
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Frank Marshall and Kathy Kennedy have been Spielberg’s secret weapons since Raiders. That’s one of the reasons my eyes just about roll out of my head whenever I see some random neckbeard dude on Twitter demand she resigns from Lucasfilm.
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Pro-tip: if you want to get a bunch of sputtering mad MAGA chuds up in your mentions, just (correctly) inform them that George Carlin would have fucking hated them and everything they stood for.
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Been playing the original Knights of the Old Republic all day. First time. Outside of getting used to the gameplay mechanics of a 15 year old game it’s been pretty damn great. Made me even more excited for the planned Star Wars series that have zero connection to the Saga films.
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Pretty sure A24’s building their own Dark Universe but filled only with arty horror animals. Black Phillip is obviously the leader.
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Remember when the right wing tried to claim George Carlin would be on their side, making it clear they never really listened to anything Carlin actually said?
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Spielberg just said he makes many films, like The Post, from behind the camera. He made Ready Player One from the audience. That’s the perfect summation of this experience.
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Me neither. It is now forever Art Is Anal Cheese. Thanks to whatever blessed soul thought this was a good idea.
Thanks, accidentally hysterical ad campaign gif making person. I'll never be able to read Artisanal "normally" again.
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Been seeing a few questionable takes about Bad Boys being better than Bad Boys 2. Upon a rewatch of both I must declare all such takes to be foolish and objectively incorrect. Does Bad Boys have Michael Shannon in it? Nope. Does it have horny rats? Also, no. Case closed.
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Avatar: The Way of Water is miles better than the first. The ocean environment is incredible and Cameron clearly is wearing his environmentalist heart on his sleeve here. I connected to this one in a way I couldn’t with the original.
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Episode IX guess from the trailer. Palpatine is in the movie, but not in physical form. Maybe a force ghost showdown is in the cards? Could you imagine? Anakin, Obi-Wan, Luke and Yoda facing down powerful force ghost Palpatine? Holy shit, that speculation is nerdy, even for me.
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Reminder: it’s possible to like Get Out without shitting on The Shape of Water. This narrative about how in 20 years nobody will remember Shape of Water is some Grade A horseshit.
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And then there was this moment of brevity as Orlando Bloom, Peter Jackson and
@TheRealLukevans
pose for a primo photo op.
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Okay, two more Hobbit pics. Me and
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Here's your yearly reminder that the Razzies nom'd Kubrick as worst director for The Shining. They are worthless.
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Today marks the 15th anniversary of The Mist and to celebrate I wrote a comprehensive oral history from many of the key players, including Frank Darabont. Pull up a chair, shoo away the spiders with human teeth, and give it a read, why dontcha?
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I’m really happy with this interview with
@rianjohnson
and Ram Bergman. Completely spoiler free but gives you a keen insight into the creative process of not just The Last Jedi, but the new trilogy as well. Set aside 20 mins and enjoy!
We sat down with
#StarWars
The Last Jedi director
@rianjohnson
and producer Ram Bergman to talk about the new movie & future trilogy. Check it out!
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Again, I can't get angry over Gary Oldman finally getting his much deserved Oscar. He's great, as usual, in Darkest Hour, but this is pretty obviously a career achievement award. I'm gonna pretend this is for The Fifth Element.
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Yes! The Oscars should be the Movie Super Bowl. Debut the first look at the new Superman, announce the next Star Wars title. If you want to make the Oscars an event again, make the commercial breaks part of the show!
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I’ve seen Civil War twice now. It’s a masterpiece and I’m 99% sure most of the folks I see hemming and hawing on it at the moment will be telling people they loved it from the jump in 10 years time.
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Since this thing isn’t slowing down, but we know people are gonna party anyway on Halloween, here are some safe-ish costume idea suggestions:
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Bradley Cooper introduced the first trailer for A Star Is Born. It's obviously a passion project for him and that earnestness shows in the footage. Lady Gaga was really impressive even in a couple minutes of footage. Very natural, real, vulnerable. This one might be something.
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You’ll never predict the insane lineup of mid-‘80s talent on display here.
At the premiere of GHOSTBUSTERS (1984), Hollywood A-listers are asked if they believe in ghosts.
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Now that
@RealGDT
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