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Andrew David Ferrell @andrewdavidferrell.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I can't believe an economy based on "make as much as you can while spending as little as you can" has created a society made up entirely of scared unhappy people ripping each other off all day every day.

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Andrew David Ferrell @andrewdavidferrell.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I had relatively mild shingles at 33 and it was the most physically painful six weeks of my entire life. I know several older Millennials my age with even worse stories. Get it on the wrong spot and it can disfigure you for years. Everybody should be given access to every possible drug to avoid it.

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Andrew David Ferrell @andrewdavidferrell.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Another thing: The Prequels and the passage of time meant we were never ever going to get Sequels driven by the Original Trilogy leads. The existence of the OT makes a full-blown continuation of the PT impossible. The ST is their only shot at a blue-sky continuation with known actors under 60.

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Andrew David Ferrell @andrewdavidferrell.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

1999 until the Disney sale was all prequels all the time, then an aggressive snarky distancing until TPM turned 20. ST stuff receded once Mando was in full swing. If things are truly cyclical, Mando fades in favor of the next thing and dissatisfaction/nostalgia will create a window for ST stuff.

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Andrew David Ferrell @andrewdavidferrell.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Watched Twisted Nerve (1968) for the first time tonight so I can finally understand what she was whistling about in Kill Bill. This movie is wild. Moves nicely. Borderline offensive but agreeably stylish and sleazy.

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Andrew David Ferrell @andrewdavidferrell.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Also as soon as somebody finds an audience that enjoys seeing them dislike the thing, it accelerates and there's really nothing left but a dull loop of performative hatred that poisons the air around it. Personally if I genuinely don't care for something I just kind of move on from it pretty fast?

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Andrew David Ferrell @andrewdavidferrell.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I took a college course called "Directors: Martin Scorsese" and there was a dude (who I otherwise liked) whose whole thing, all day, every day, was that he did not like the films of Martin Scorsese.

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Andrew David Ferrell @andrewdavidferrell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

My favorite piece of John Williams music from the last 20 years. You just knew in the theater the first time she slid down that hill. Distinctly hummable and the way it builds in stages from tentative to sweeping to calm. Versatile and memorable. Classic Johnny.

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Andrew David Ferrell @andrewdavidferrell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I still think about the Nathan For You series finale like once a week.

Nathan For You "She'd love me to her grave"

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Andrew David Ferrell @andrewdavidferrell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is the ideal and correct breakdown for a wave of Black Series Star Wars figures to make both friends and money: 4 waves per year 9 figures per wave: 2x Original Trilogy 2x New Release 1x Prequel 1x Sequel 1x TV or spin-off movie 1x Animation 1x Legends or video game or concept art grab bag

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Andrew David Ferrell @andrewdavidferrell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I'd say there is a 17% chance incoming leadership is aware this movie exists. They wasted like half a decade on various do-overs of Terminator 3 until Tom Cruise decided to gift them their only genuine mega-hit. There is no precedent for taste or even savvy IP-management here.

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Andrew David Ferrell @andrewdavidferrell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The Hasbro SW team is like if the Marvel team was like "we only recognize 1960's first appearances and X-Men: The Animated Series".

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Andrew David Ferrell @andrewdavidferrell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I trust the Hasbro figure selection team will become a SCOTUS-style obstructionist check on any attempts to make stuff people want to buy in the post-sequel timeline.

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Andrew David Ferrell @andrewdavidferrell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Tell me Mr. Hasbro, why can I buy a NECA figure from Friday the 13th Part Whatever or a Predator movie from the same parent company as Star Wars with 3 heads, fully custom packaging and every object he ever looked at for $35?

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Andrew David Ferrell @andrewdavidferrell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Crait Luke Ephant Mon Fancy wig-swappin' Luthen Rael with store display

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Andrew David Ferrell @andrewdavidferrell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Genuinely feels like a grudging contractual obligation to do anything new post-TLJ. Only the Mandoverse has gotten prolonged support and I think a lot of that stems from how much they've been able to mine from a handful of existing basic designs.

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Andrew David Ferrell @andrewdavidferrell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I'm not saying this to disparage Mando & Grogu, but the fact that there will be entire pegs full of the warlord guy from the opening scene for the next 18 months but they couldn't cost out a Ben Solo while people are renting planes and billboards bearing his name feels a bit like trolling.

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Andrew David Ferrell @andrewdavidferrell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It was a little hard to understand but I think they were saying maybe these would have new card images as a selling point...or were they talking about unproduced characters? They also indirectly mentioned "a new movie coming out" so I'm sure there will be one Ryan Gosling figure out by March 2029.

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Andrew David Ferrell @andrewdavidferrell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

(A version of) Freddy vs. (a version of) Jason vs. a semi-canceled actor in a $15 million dollar Angel Studios-type movie frantically produced in November to meet the annual quota.

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Andrew David Ferrell @andrewdavidferrell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Screw it, HasLab the entire Exegol scene with the remaining Knights of Ren, a couple red guards...add a little mummy man and a Snoke tube as stretch goals. One and done for all parties involved.

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Andrew David Ferrell @andrewdavidferrell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

My thought process when I saw the Stormtrooper: 1. Again? No! 2. Actually that does look pretty good if the final version comes out close to that... 3. Pfft...that's not even the right Kenner card photo...

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Andrew David Ferrell @andrewdavidferrell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I don't understand why they can't even dip their toes into ST stuff with some crossover appeal. Even among various haters, a deluxe Sith throne or arcade claw machine Palpatine would probably outsell a lot of stuff they've released in the last couple years.

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Andrew David Ferrell @andrewdavidferrell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Imagine having this deep bench of neat-looking unproduced stuff from movies that made billions of dollars and there's a whole subset of people who haven't had any reason to buy from you in 5 years and you're like "Guys, your prayers are finally answered. Two words. CLONE. TROOOPER."

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Andrew David Ferrell @andrewdavidferrell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Pete Hegseth and JD Vance are just out here every day giving the worst Best Man toasts you have ever heard.

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Andrew David Ferrell @andrewdavidferrell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

1 company handles affordable kids stuff. 1 company continues Black Series at a couple waves a year with fun something for everyone choices (see the new Trek line). 1 company can do a couple retro waves a year. Vintage too expensive to exist much longer...sorry.

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Andrew David Ferrell @andrewdavidferrell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It's time to break up this license. It's just a feedback loop of comment section dudes trying to make it 2006 forever who get actively annoyed when there's a new project to promote. (I do really want that BS Queen Amidala though)

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Andrew David Ferrell @andrewdavidferrell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

When you look at the Skydance/Paramount/WB merger, all you need to know is that Skydance has only ever produced one movie in the top 100 grossers (Maverick at #17) and their finances hinge on AI speculation and foreign aristocracy... ...in other words, who wants a couple studios in 2032-ish?

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Andrew David Ferrell @andrewdavidferrell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I wish more people would allow themselves to accept that sometimes stuff in Star Wars is neat. This being one of those times.

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Andrew David Ferrell @andrewdavidferrell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I genuinely believe a substantial number of adult fans had their brains broken by having to finally move on from the image in their heads of the forever Ewok party and confront stuff like their faves aging and the galaxy backsliding at the same time it was happening in their real lives.

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Andrew David Ferrell @andrewdavidferrell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Like if people are just fundamentally opposed to the premise it wouldn't matter and this wouldn't do much for the casual viewer, but I do wonder if we'd endure so much of this particular bit of the discourse if they'd had like one random Kaminoan hanging out on Exegol.

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Andrew David Ferrell @andrewdavidferrell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

RE: Digger, I was pretty thrown by the twist that Tom Cruise was playing Sting on his way to rescue Bart from that well.

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Andrew David Ferrell @andrewdavidferrell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

To be clear, I find myself rolling my eyes when anybody glazes anything too much and I do find a lot of the jabs very funny but, like, it's all kind of on a spectrum of stuff that I don't think is very healthy for any of us.

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Andrew David Ferrell @andrewdavidferrell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I have seen Digger but such movies were more fun to talk about in the previous iteration of the internet because now social media factions form almost instantaneously and everybody is just trying to get those likes with blind praise or outrageous insults. It smothers really unpacking anything.

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Andrew David Ferrell @andrewdavidferrell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I keep telling people it's essentially a Tales From the Crypt episode if they kept making the show after MeToo.

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Andrew David Ferrell @andrewdavidferrell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

NORMALS: TFA (years of hype with a release that felt like a cultural celebration, like a do-over of the late 90's) -or- Mando (Baby Yoda and a captive quarantined audience) FANS: TLJ (essentially a religious schism) CRITICS: Andor (already making the lists) -or- TLJ (best-reviewed Disney movie)

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Andrew David Ferrell @andrewdavidferrell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

What makes it seem even crazier to me is that the franchise basically went through a speed run of 3 major design overhauls (Motion Picture, Wrath of Khan, TNG) in the span of 8 years.

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Andrew David Ferrell @andrewdavidferrell.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Okay but for real I would like to see him scoot out of one of those Endgame portals.

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Andrew David Ferrell @andrewdavidferrell.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Our neighborhood Starbucks is one of the spots that is closing and it's a 90's hang-out in an interesting space with friendly baristas. Lot of people came to pay their heartfelt respects to corporate location #3,000 and that feeling will not simply carry over to the next one a mile down the road.

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Andrew David Ferrell @andrewdavidferrell.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

3/3 ... You can also draw a straight line from Perverted Justice to today's internet obsessions and it's not lost on us that these guys really REALLY like doing this work. Whole movie feels like an insomniac doomscrolling at 2 AM. Also distressing to see 20 years ago as a fuzzy pre-HD period piece.

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Andrew David Ferrell @andrewdavidferrell.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

2/3 ...good surprise appearances by some unexpected actors. Love that another hidden camera series plays such a big part in the back half. Pattinson is everything you want but Wever and Gisondo are almost co-leads and do equally strong work. Darkly funny but also makes you feel pretty nauseous...

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Andrew David Ferrell @andrewdavidferrell.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

1/3 Primetime feels like something born from the brain of Faye Dunaway's Network character. Killer cold open that probably wrong-foots some viewers who may expect it to then double back to more of an origin story Act I. Lots of great details the movie doesn't underline too much (Pattinson's vest)...

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Andrew David Ferrell @andrewdavidferrell.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Everything now has the air of a guy who owns but has never worked at the store telling us all to embrace the self-checkout line. Except in this case the guy just recently closed a failed chain of grocery stores themed around tiny portions.

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Andrew David Ferrell @andrewdavidferrell.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The only movie I want to see at the Las Vegas Sphere is Barry Levinson's 1998 adaptation of Michael Crichton's Sphere. And only if it plays there for a minimum of six months.

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Andrew David Ferrell @andrewdavidferrell.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

If I were Donald Trump and I wanted to end all this speculation about my weird gross hands, I would simply have my doctors install those Wolverine knuckle-hole things from the comics.

Wolverine claw knuckles to replace Trump's weird gross hands.

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Andrew David Ferrell @andrewdavidferrell.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Everything Tim Curry does in this movie is obviously gold but there are some line readings from Madeline Kahn and Michael McKean that will stay with me long after I'm dead.

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Andrew David Ferrell @andrewdavidferrell.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

My CA-native wife took me to Disneyland for the first time ever right after they updated Star Tours. Before we went, she pulled up the OG ride on YouTube and did this exact thing to me so I'd understand the world I had missed.

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Andrew David Ferrell @andrewdavidferrell.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Nearly every Universal Monsters movie is essentially a rom-com where the woman must choose between a bland handsome guy and a monster who really understands her. Except the monster's big gesture is always throwing a guy out a window and knocking over a bunch of chemicals.

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Andrew David Ferrell @andrewdavidferrell.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is so close to what my film criticism professor used to say that he might have cribbed it from her. He used to talk about how good film actors don't need the range to "do it all". They just need to work for certain parts and people need to know when to plug them into their movie.

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Andrew David Ferrell @andrewdavidferrell.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

There is a shot in the new Resident Evil movie that actually for a split-second successfully convinced my brain that I was going to fall to my death and that has never happened in any IMAX 3D whatever.

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