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Darkest Timeline JDP @jamesdavidpatrick.bsky.social · 14h

I’d love that poster on my wall. Love the film. I hadn’t seen it until maybe five years ago. Fell in love with the film and inspired me to go to Venice.

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Darkest Timeline JDP @jamesdavidpatrick.bsky.social · 14h

Share a film that has significance to you for whatever reason🎥🎬... #FilmSky #movies

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Darkest Timeline JDP @jamesdavidpatrick.bsky.social · 21h

Little Shop of Horrors Aliens Star Trek IV Earth Girls Are Easy

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Darkest Timeline JDP @jamesdavidpatrick.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

YES! Sometimes I feel like I'm the only one championing BELOW. I hope the 4K finds some new fans since the Blu-ray had an inexcusable sound mix...

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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 01/10/2026

Several weeks ago, Phil Tippett's legendary animation studio in Berkeley, CA closed. An anonymous hero noticed a folder of CDs. This turned out to be hundreds of unseen hi-res images and videos from Star Wars, Robocop, Jurassic Park, etc. ~90 isos for you to browse: archive.org/details/tipp...

A casual Star Wars alien fella at the cantina, in a sun faded, reddish photo. Someone will be mad at me for not knowing who this is.

Phil, a balding Caucasian man, poses a model of the garthok, an antagonist from the Coneheads movie.

Phil, a balding caucasian man, points at some CG on a CRT computer monitor, as a younger man looks on. The screen shows a model of a dinosaur attacking a jeep, while there's an actual physical model of that event in the foreground for reference.

an isolated shot of a star wars vehicle. Sorry, I don't know star wars lol

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Darkest Timeline JDP @jamesdavidpatrick.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

There was also a mess of old Hollywood actors in this thing. Lew Ayres!? Sylvia!

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Darkest Timeline JDP @jamesdavidpatrick.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

And yeah that finale is a little clumsy. Sheesh. But I had more fun with this than I did the first -- it's a far less polished film, but it had just enough WTF.

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Darkest Timeline JDP @jamesdavidpatrick.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Holden is giving this movie way more than it's worth. Peck played a Gregory Peck stock character and that was fine? I guess. I just love Lee Grant, so I'm a little biased from the get go.

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Darkest Timeline JDP @jamesdavidpatrick.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

You sliced Mesach Taylor in half! DAMIEN, NOW YOU'VE GONE TOO FAR. TOO. FUCKING. FAR. #TheOmenII

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Darkest Timeline JDP @jamesdavidpatrick.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Wow. There’s a way to shoot and edit a scene depicting a semi-truck hitting a woman and not toss a limp dummy around like a ping-pong ball. But hey— at least it’s not Meet Joe Black levels of CGI stupid. #TheOmenII

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Darkest Timeline JDP @jamesdavidpatrick.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I am a big fan of the archaeological elements in The Exorcist and The Omen. Works to ground the more fantastical elements in historical context — similar utility in the first Indiana Jones movies. Concretizes religious symbols and makes them, at least in part, science.

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Darkest Timeline JDP @jamesdavidpatrick.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

GTFO. Lee Grant is 52ish here? She looks like a babe compared to Holden… and Holden is only 60? He looks older than Peck (who was also 60 in The Omen).

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Darkest Timeline JDP @jamesdavidpatrick.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

And that tirade is just a teaser for my next two tirades.

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Darkest Timeline JDP @jamesdavidpatrick.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Get ready for my tirade on this particular topic.

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Darkest Timeline JDP @jamesdavidpatrick.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Zandalee and Naked Killer in the same list. @jlalibs.bsky.social even found a couple that I haven't seen in this genre, in which I considered myself rather well-schooled. Well done, sir.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 30/09/2026

53 years ago, hip-hop was born at a back-to-school party in the Bronx. Now, the Bronx School of Hip Hop is preparing a new generation of artists to shape what comes next. I sat down with Nas to talk about the past, present, and future of hip-hop in NYC — from the turntables to our classrooms.

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Mayor and Nas sit down to discuss the past, present and future of hip hop in NYC

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Darkest Timeline JDP @jamesdavidpatrick.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I cannot argue. Stunning in black & white.

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Darkest Timeline JDP @jamesdavidpatrick.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Lee Remick -- who's 40 in #TheOmen -- playing opposite Gregory Peck (60) makes their age difference look even more gappy. Since we're on the subject, here's a promo photo for Anatomy of a Murder featuring 24yo Lee Remick.

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Darkest Timeline JDP @jamesdavidpatrick.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Father Brennan has a hell of a filmography. I couldn't place the actor, but I felt like it was a Hammer film. (And I was right about something... because THE GORGON!) But then I saw how I should have/could have recognized him from five other movies and I can only blame old brain. #TheOmen

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Darkest Timeline JDP @jamesdavidpatrick.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Why is there a drive-thru baboon park? I was born in 1978, so it's possible I just missed the 1970s drive-thru monkey park craze, but this feels like a weird stretch just to showcase violent animal reactions to Damien.

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”

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Darkest Timeline JDP @jamesdavidpatrick.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Watching THE OMEN for the first time in 30+ years. I have to wonder how many Rottweilers suddenly appeared in animal shelters because they gave their owner glancing side-eye. I mean the dude is just standing there and the music says LOOK HE'S A HELLHOUND! #NowWatching #Hooptober #31DaysofHorror

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Darkest Timeline JDP @jamesdavidpatrick.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Anyway. Here’s a few shots from Muna’s show in Pittsburgh.

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

😂😂😂

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Darkest Timeline JDP @jamesdavidpatrick.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The his crowd is so happy the lesbians are vibing with the police standing near the exit. Pittsburgh can be fucking cool sometimes. Other times it’s just a fucking Steelers game and fuck Aaron Rodgers.

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Darkest Timeline JDP @jamesdavidpatrick.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Honestly, I just like watching the numbers go up. For those counting at home this is 8/8. At least for now.

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Darkest Timeline JDP @jamesdavidpatrick.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

If you’ve read this far, this is truly the most useless thread you’ll read this week.

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Darkest Timeline JDP @jamesdavidpatrick.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Woman next to me is vibing with “Like a Prayer” — good on ya Gen Z girl.

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Darkest Timeline JDP @jamesdavidpatrick.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

But hey they’re playing my favorite Madonna song to entertain the masses between sets.

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Darkest Timeline JDP @jamesdavidpatrick.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Because I still go to these shows I’m really starting to feel the Dazed and Confused line about getting older and “they” stay the same age. But it’s not good/bad. I just feel more alien.

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Darkest Timeline JDP @jamesdavidpatrick.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I thought I saw another straight guy but he confused me by wearing a hoodie around his neck like a cowl and now I don’t understand anything.

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Darkest Timeline JDP @jamesdavidpatrick.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The opening act is carrying around a bedazzled broadsword and I have no one to tell.

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Darkest Timeline JDP @jamesdavidpatrick.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Back in the old pre-apocalypse Twitter I used to have the best chats during the opening acts of concerts and I’ve just lost all my faith in the ability of social media to secret people-watch and make old man observations about the bizarre demographics.

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Darkest Timeline JDP @jamesdavidpatrick.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I’m decidedly lacking in sparkle or eye-liner for this show. 😂 I mean I knew, but I didn’t know.

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Darkest Timeline JDP @jamesdavidpatrick.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I have to pick this one up. A whole mess of memoirs out this month that I’m interested in reading.

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Darkest Timeline JDP @jamesdavidpatrick.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I tried that. It got me an MFA. I fired the wind.

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Darkest Timeline JDP @jamesdavidpatrick.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Do you ever just sit and think about all the shitty decisions you’ve made to get to this point? If not, it’s a literal fuck ton.

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Darkest Timeline JDP @jamesdavidpatrick.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The title “The Grapes of Wrath” is just so wasted on its subject. It should be a Benoit Blanc murder mystery on a vineyard. And now we’ll never that.

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Darkest Timeline JDP @jamesdavidpatrick.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

And it was! I hadn’t flipped idly through vinyl bins in months.

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Darkest Timeline JDP @jamesdavidpatrick.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I went shopping instead of writing this afternoon. Whoops.

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Darkest Timeline JDP @jamesdavidpatrick.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

5. Count Dracula's Great Love (1973) Satisfied: Decade (1970s), Country: Spain "Cleavage-heavy women find themselves stranded at a remote castle that belongs to a dashing aristocrat that's def not a vampire and how dare you suggest otherwise." thirtyhertzrumble.com/count-dracul... #Hooptoper

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Count Dracula’s Great Love (1973)

At a certain everyone involved was probably sick or maimed while fliming Count Dracula’s Great Love (1973).

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