Elf M. Sternberg

Elf M. Sternberg @elfsternberg.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 05:23 UTC

Wait, that's right. The mothership weighed a quarter of the moon. It all entered the atmosphere. What did that much mass do to the Earth?

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Elf M. Sternberg @elfsternberg.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 05:21 UTC

And the little kid gets the last line of the film.

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Elf M. Sternberg @elfsternberg.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 05:19 UTC

"Do you take coffee with your radar?"

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Elf M. Sternberg @elfsternberg.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 05:15 UTC

So much healthy masculinity in this film.

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Elf M. Sternberg @elfsternberg.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 05:13 UTC

Y'know, if kilotons of starship crash right on top of your underground base, that's still kilotons.

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Elf M. Sternberg @elfsternberg.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 05:04 UTC

Thank Cthulhu the aliens have absolutely no infosec! Goldblum Hacker voice: "We're in."

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Elf M. Sternberg @elfsternberg.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 04:53 UTC

Was President Whitmore's decision to put his life in danger just a day after his wife died, endangering his daughter to orphanhood, wise?

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Elf M. Sternberg @elfsternberg.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 04:50 UTC

And now, The Whitmore Speech.

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Elf M. Sternberg @elfsternberg.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 04:50 UTC

David Levinson and Mordin Solis have the same line in common: "Had to be me. Somebody else might have gotten it wrong."

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Elf M. Sternberg @elfsternberg.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 04:47 UTC

Omaha thinks the scene where Russel joins the attack is poorly written. He talks about how he was abducted by aliens 10 years prior, and the assessment team roll their eyes. But why? They now know aliens are real, and interested in Earth's ecology.

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Elf M. Sternberg @elfsternberg.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 04:46 UTC

"And in conclusion, So there's no confusion, Let me say it once again, Though your genitalia Has been known to fail ya, You can bet your ass on the brain!"

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Elf M. Sternberg @elfsternberg.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 04:43 UTC

"He can't do that!" "Well, he just, um ... did." God, the delivery of that moment is brilliant.

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Elf M. Sternberg @elfsternberg.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 04:22 UTC

The sheer pornographic thrill the Secretary of Defense gets from being allowed to launch a nuke during his appointment is well-acted. That is all.

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Elf M. Sternberg @elfsternberg.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 04:19 UTC

"Let's nuke da bastards."

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Elf M. Sternberg @elfsternberg.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 04:19 UTC

Poor David is drinking from square liquor bottles. Nothing good comes in a square liquor bottle.

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Elf M. Sternberg @elfsternberg.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 04:18 UTC

As the least talented of the Baldwin brothers shoots the alien in the head, did nobody ask, "Is that where they keep their brain?"

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Elf M. Sternberg @elfsternberg.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 04:15 UTC

I'm really quite impressed with the design of the alien powersuit, the quaibiological layers meant to keep the occupant comfortable for days or even weeks on end.

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Elf M. Sternberg @elfsternberg.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 04:12 UTC

Good on the writers, directors, and producers for letting Vivica Fox defend sex work.

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Elf M. Sternberg @elfsternberg.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 04:11 UTC

Wait, they didn't secure the body before they started working on it? What kind of mad scientists are these idiots?

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Elf M. Sternberg @elfsternberg.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 04:04 UTC

"Guess who's coming to dinner." Getting a black man to deliver that line about the aliens was... interesting.

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Elf M. Sternberg @elfsternberg.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 04:01 UTC

The Jeff Goldblum brow, by itself, outclasses the acting skills of most of the rest of the film crew.

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Elf M. Sternberg @elfsternberg.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 03:57 UTC

Michael Bay tried SO HARD to make that work in the fourth Transformers movie and totally didn't get it.

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Elf M. Sternberg @elfsternberg.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 03:55 UTC

Emmerich had, and I don't know where he lost it, a pacing that lets him intertwine plot details with the tragedy of the little people involved during high energy moments.

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Elf M. Sternberg @elfsternberg.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 03:54 UTC

It's weird to realize that Independence Day was three years after Jurassic Park, and (a) it's overwhelmingly practical, with very little CGI, and (b) aside from some compositing limitations, it's incredibly effective nonetheless.

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Elf M. Sternberg @elfsternberg.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 03:53 UTC

Randy Quaid's "Look at all that" scene is paced weird and acted kinda flat... and despite it not fitting into the style of the film, it's kinda perfect, a quiet moment of "un-movie" in the middle of the alien attack that invites the audience completely into the film.

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Elf M. Sternberg @elfsternberg.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 03:53 UTC

"I could have been at a barbecue!" Well, Captain Hiller, there's a huge barbecue of mostly human meat back in LA.

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Elf M. Sternberg @elfsternberg.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 03:52 UTC

It's a shame that there isn't an Oscar for casting director, because if there were, Independence Day should have won in 1996. There isn't a single misfire.

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Elf M. Sternberg @elfsternberg.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 03:51 UTC

I love the Jewish banter. He's a head programmer for a major digital distributor, and his dad is disappointed that he's still just a computer programmer and not a doctor or a lawyer.

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Elf M. Sternberg @elfsternberg.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 03:51 UTC

It's okay. One is grey and skinny, the other brown and pudgy. But they have similar patterns, and the camera doesn't capture the subtleties well.

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Elf M. Sternberg @elfsternberg.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 03:47 UTC

"... despite..." Damned voice to text.

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Elf M. Sternberg @elfsternberg.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 03:47 UTC

Sienna's the healthy one. Necco (pictured here) is recovering well from her procedure. No word yet on what they found. But the medication they gave is has made her a little more sprightly, decide the heat.

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Elf M. Sternberg @elfsternberg.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 03:38 UTC

"'All you need is love.' John Lennon. Smart man. Shot in the back. Very sad." There is no single line in all of cinema more Jewish than that.

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Elf M. Sternberg @elfsternberg.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 03:13 UTC

Judd Hirsch is a national treasure. (Watching Independence Day.)

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Elf M. Sternberg @elfsternberg.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 03:09 UTC

I remember "A Man's Guide to Fatherhood" that had an entire chapter that, overall, had just one message: "Don't try to fuck the babysitter. Just... don't."

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Elf M. Sternberg @elfsternberg.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 03:07 UTC

Capt. Steve Hiller and Capt. Jimmy Wilder have the kind of healthy heterosexual relationship terminally online men's rights activists fear with their very souls.

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