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Todd Vaziri

@tvaziri.com
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I work on movies and talk about movies. www.tvaziri.com

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Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 17m
trying hard to push away the existential dread by working on a "Halloween 4" (1988) project, as one does
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Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 1h
if anyone was at the "Digger" screening+Q&A (and stayed for the Q&A) last night 9/29 in Los Angeles, can you DM me please
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Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 1h
Final Cut Pro editors - do you use a hardware "jog/shuttle" accessory that you love and would recommend?
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Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 16h
why all the empty seats in Houston
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Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 22h
A very good read. Pirating the Pirates - Notes from the underground of film preservation, by Devan Scott mubi.com/en/notebook/posts/pi...
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Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 29/09/2026
this featurette about the making of the dinosaurs of "The End of Oak Street" (2026) is really good,—surprisingly good for a studio-created video, and features my old friend VFX supervisor Jay Cooper and VFX by ILM but PLEASE watch the movie first before watching this video youtu.be/0LpMllnZxBc
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The End of Oak Street | Bringing Dinosaurs To Life | Behind The Scenes | Warner Bros. Entertainment
YouTube video by Warner Bros. Entertainment
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Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 29/09/2026
is it October yet
Michael Myers in Halloween
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Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 28/09/2026
insanely jealous of anyone in LA that got to see "Halloween" (1978) at the Academy Museum with Carpenter and Curtis
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Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 28/09/2026
maybe gatekeeping content on the internet is a good idea
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Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 28/09/2026
I'm reasonably aware of how time works but it really blows my mind that the temporal distance between the release of "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan" (1982) and the premiere of "Star Trek: The Next Generation" was only FIVE (5) YEARS
wrath of khan posternext generation post
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Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 28/09/2026
"Computers don't think. If we had programmed this to come out a car instead of a monkey, you'd be looking at a hairy Buick." "No Way Out" (1987), with a remarkably prescient summary of how machine learning can work with "restoring" images
a series of images from the movie NO WAY OUT where they do a remarkable job summarizing how machine learning works in "restoring" a photograph
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Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 27/09/2026
more trains? NO better roads? NO affordable housing? NO better public transportation? NO more solar+wind infrastructure? NO ^ these things that would provably make people’s lives better are expensive and would take too long data centers? NO PROBLEM, HOW MANY DO YOU WANT?
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Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 27/09/2026
I strongly believe documentaries should present archival news reports, newsreels, and any other found footage in their original aspect ratios. Stop cropping!
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Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 26/09/2026
John Knoll on Corridor Crew. It's a good discussion. youtu.be/lvBbHzou3GU
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VFX Artists React to Bad & Great CGi 244 Ft. John Knoll
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Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 25/09/2026
A MIRTHLESS CHUCKLE
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Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 25/09/2026
a rare bump up in MPAA rating for a sequel
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
the padres and diamondbacks play each other in the final series thus there is no scenario where both teams can win out and both overtake the cubs
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Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 25/09/2026
Explain to me as if I'm a child why the Cubs have clinched a playoff spot and the Padres — who have a better record — have not yet clinched a playoff spot.
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Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 24/09/2026
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Hyped Up Major League Baseball
Alt: GO CUBS GO
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 23/09/2026
How many Watergates did we have today. Feels like the average is three
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Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 24/09/2026
Lucy from peanuts holding a football
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Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 24/09/2026
The time I was on The Incomparable to talk about “Pitch Black” (2000). What a picture. www.theincomparable.com/theincompara...
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Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 24/09/2026
National league wild card race — Cubs Phillies and San Diego all exactly tied with the same record of 87 and 70
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Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 24/09/2026
huh that’s weird
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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The vast majority of creatives are struggling. Writers are leaving LA in droves. Directors are driving Uber when they aren't lucky enough to get gigs directing dubs or subs for foreign films. Recognizable actors are finding jobs they won't be recognized in. The whole industry is shitty right now.
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Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 23/09/2026
seems bad
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Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 23/09/2026
ED SHEERAN?
THE GAME OF THRONES ACTOR?
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Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 23/09/2026
this guy was almost our attorney general
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O @omagus.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Like @joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social said, Mamdani just pushed the button.
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
reminder to every democratic rival to bring up trump ever harder lol
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Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 21/09/2026
Watching "Citizen Kane" (1941) the way it was meant to be seen — an 80's era NTSC telecine stretched to the wrong aspect ratio played on an airplane seat back monitor.
A frame from citizen Kane seen on an airplane The sledLeonardo DiCaprio pointing
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Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 22/09/2026
this one from "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan" is one of my very favorite moments in all of cinema and I'm very glad Mike included it
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Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 22/09/2026
Nerdy Mac topic - I have two Macs on the same *wired* local network and I was experiencing EXTREMELY slow transfer rates. To fix it I had to disconnect both computers from my Wi-Fi network. Bad bug, Apple! @snell.zone wrote about it: sixcolors.com/post/2026/09...
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When your Mac just won’t let go of the Wi-Fi connection
You ever have one of those moments when you start to copy a large file in the Finder and groan when the Progress Window tells you it's going to take forever? I used to have them all the time, and i…
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Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 22/09/2026
when are we gonna get to infrastructure week
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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Agree! Seems like we should do everything we can to stop media companies from being controlled by his cronies!
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
You read that right: Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Qatar will, thanks to the approval of Trump's FCC, own 49.5% of Paramount Warner Brothers, and CBS, and CNN. One of many things to keep in mind when you cast your vote in the next six weeks.
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Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 21/09/2026
I’m not going to shit on any movie’s VFX I’ve worked on several super hero and space fantasy movies and they each have their own style and priorities. (And more often than not, “bad” VFX is usually the product of bad planning, an ever changing script/edit and direction, and unrealistic schedules.)
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Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 21/09/2026
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Woman's Hilarious Spit Take Drink Reaction
ALT: Woman's Hilarious Spit Take Drink Reaction
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Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 21/09/2026
I have time to kill. How about an impromptu Q&A about filmmaking and visual effects? I’ll reply to specific questions and quote post other ones that might interest a broader audience.
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
We need to build a period cramps simulator but for basic empathy. Everyone should be required to spend five minutes a day with it on.
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Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 21/09/2026
who else has MANK fever
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This will be a catastrophe for both filmed entertainment and news, and it's a great shame that the California AG caved. Trump and his people will celebrate this news today. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/21/b...
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Paramount to Resolve Antitrust Lawsuit, Clearing the Way for Warner Bros. Acquisition (Gift Article)
The deal would remove the last significant hurdle the media mogul David Ellison faced to create a news and entertainment empire, home to movie studios, HBO, CBS and CNN.
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Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 21/09/2026
Watching "Citizen Kane" (1941) the way it was meant to be seen — an 80's era NTSC telecine stretched to the wrong aspect ratio played on an airplane seat back monitor.
A frame from citizen Kane seen on an airplane The sledLeonardo DiCaprio pointing
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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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Merlin Mann @hotdogsladies.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
"I'm in a Hurry." _The Dropout_, season 1, episode 1, Hulu, 3 Mar. 2022.

Amanda Seyfried as Elizabeth Holmes
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Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 19/09/2026
Grandma got run over by a reindeer
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Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 18/09/2026
"I can always spot 'CGI'" - - - - - - - - - toupee fallacy
The crowd thing is a true epidemic. I have not seen one example of a CGI crowd that works. GET IT OUT OF YOUR MOVIE! If it's in your treatment, write another sceneTOUPEE FALLACY A form of selection bias in which a thing whose quality is measured in terms of being difficult to detect is wrongly judged to be of poor quality in general, caused by the fact that most people only notice poor-quality instances of A form of selection bias in which a thing whose quality is measured in terms of being difficult to detect is wrongly judged to be of poor quality in general, caused by the fact that most people only notice poor-quality instances of
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Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 19/09/2026
Update: The Trump administration is considering proposals for at least 12 data centers and data center-related infrastructure projects to be built on federal public lands
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Trump Is Considering More Data Centers on Public Lands Than Previously Known
The data center proposals cover at least 17,600 acres of public lands across six Western states.
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Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 18/09/2026
Amanda Peet as Nancy Mace
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Todd Vaziri @tvaziri.com · 18/09/2026
"I can always spot 'CGI'" - - - - - - - - - toupee fallacy
The crowd thing is a true epidemic. I have not seen one example of a CGI crowd that works. GET IT OUT OF YOUR MOVIE! If it's in your treatment, write another sceneTOUPEE FALLACY A form of selection bias in which a thing whose quality is measured in terms of being difficult to detect is wrongly judged to be of poor quality in general, caused by the fact that most people only notice poor-quality instances of A form of selection bias in which a thing whose quality is measured in terms of being difficult to detect is wrongly judged to be of poor quality in general, caused by the fact that most people only notice poor-quality instances of
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