James Van Fleet

Nathan Matta @nmatta.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 17:29 UTC

I'm growing concerned about the short-term memory of the NY Times

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James Van Fleet @horrorfilms101.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 02:05 UTC

I still can’t get past Kaiju Vet letting a mosquito poke into his bloodstream, sir, this is not Theme Time, that buzzy bastard has Hollow Earth malaria.

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James Van Fleet @horrorfilms101.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 00:07 UTC

As someone who enjoys the "Final Destination" series on balance, feels like nobody yet has fully dug into the implications of the core premise: death is coming for you, you ultimately can't stop it, how do you make your peace with that? Or would going in that direction feel like Diet "It Follows"?

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James Van Fleet @horrorfilms101.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 22:00 UTC

Immediately post-TROS.

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James Van Fleet @horrorfilms101.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 21:57 UTC

Writing a fanfic for the first time, it’s kinda fun, no stress of any kind, just vibing. (It’s a horror story with cosmic horror elements set in the “Star Wars” universe. 👀)

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James Van Fleet @horrorfilms101.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 21:54 UTC

I’m a thief but focused early on STR with ax and heavy armor. Move like a tank, need to work on endurance. Good call on DEX. That’s cool that you’re diving back in! 👍🏻 I’m sure it improves on a second play.

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James Van Fleet @horrorfilms101.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 18:33 UTC

I am drawing a game map, have not done this since OG Zelda and Metroid. This game is becoming an obsession.

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James Van Fleet @horrorfilms101.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 18:01 UTC

Huh. I’m a horror kinda guy and land in the middle. Hardly tame, with the blood eagle in particular, but at times it plays more like a darker-than-black comedy; maybe its streak of fatalism lands harder with folks that are more exposed to entertaining horror.

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James Van Fleet @horrorfilms101.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 04:53 UTC

“Gila Monster” is so damn good. “You know, a smart feller could put his knee up on such a thing!”

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James Van Fleet @horrorfilms101.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 04:17 UTC

“Put the men’s room in the tower— what was I thinking?”

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James Van Fleet @horrorfilms101.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 04:10 UTC

Now here’s a prompt I can support. Off the top of the ol’ dome: 10. Soultaker 9. Cry Wilderness 8. Cave Dwellers 7. Manos the Hands of Fate* 6. Werewolf 5. Pod People 4. The Final Sacrifice 3. Mitchell 2. I Accuse My Parents 1. Space Mutiny * Not among the funniest, but among the most interesting.

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James Van Fleet @horrorfilms101.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 02:50 UTC

This might be a distinction without a difference, but I think for many of them it’s less that they’re *incapable of* and more that they’re *disinterested in* intellectual engagement. Fascists and fascist-likes view intellectualism with contempt and perceive intellectuals as weak-willed effeminates.

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James Van Fleet @horrorfilms101.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 00:51 UTC

Best episode of TV I ever watched? I don’t know why, but lately I keep thinking about the “Twilight Zone” ep “I Am the Night - Color Me Black.” Its blunt assessment of how hatred grows and kills the light of this world just sits with ya. Humanity’s never had to be as cruel as it’s chosen to be.

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James Van Fleet @horrorfilms101.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 08, 2024 at 00:29 UTC

You’ll have to post your thoughts! 👍🏻

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James Van Fleet @horrorfilms101.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 21:52 UTC

The best way to make a new “Ghostbusters” is to simply not make a new one and instead move on, we can all move on, it’s genuinely okay to stop making these things, there’s no malice in recognizing that this thing was a one-and-done like “Men in Black.”

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James Van Fleet @horrorfilms101.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 15:35 UTC

Big ups for “Running Up That Hill” covers by Placebo and Meg Myers.

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James Van Fleet @horrorfilms101.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 15:01 UTC

Nah, between “Head” and “Cabin.” I don’t get it. He cited the movie as one influence among many, but it really doesn’t feel that way. 🤷🏻‍♂️

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James Van Fleet @horrorfilms101.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 14:56 UTC

Just wrapped, focusing on a tragic antagonist gives “Disappearance at Devil’s Rock” its own identity for a while, but I’m genuinely shocked by how much seems to come straight from “Lake Mungo.” 1. Cabin at the End of the World 2. Head Full of Ghosts 3. Survivor Song 4. Disappearance at Devil’s Rock

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James Van Fleet @horrorfilms101.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 14:41 UTC

That one sucks because 99% of the time it’s effect = noun and affect = verb, but also “effecting change” is a thing.

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James Van Fleet @horrorfilms101.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 04:43 UTC

I mean, I’d definitely challenge “Winter Soldier,” I thought “First Avenger” was better; better style, better approach with its throwback sincerity, a less annoying climax than “deploy the helicarriers.” (I also think “A New Hope” is a peer to “Empire,” not inferior.) Agreed on “Gremlins 2” tho.

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James Van Fleet @horrorfilms101.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 04:01 UTC

Just rewatched the og “Mad Max,” hadn’t seen it in years, it’s amazing what Miller and Co. were able to achieve on their debut, and equally amazing that so much “Mad Max” DNA is already in the flick: gun-toting granny, crow sounds, low angles, Nightrider all but shouting “Witness me!” to Toecutter.

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James Van Fleet @horrorfilms101.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 20:22 UTC

Awesome pickups, that edition of “Hellbound” ❤️

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James Van Fleet @horrorfilms101.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 23:03 UTC

Sup yall, it’s your girl Pandora, coming to you live with a new unboxing

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James Van Fleet @horrorfilms101.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 17:26 UTC

Okay, kept thinking “Disappearance” felt familiar, and then last night I realized now that it seems the book is just “Lake Mungo,” often shamelessly so. (Tremblay’s admitted the flick was an inspiration, but wow.) A real surprise given the effectiveness of “Cabin” and “Head.”

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James Van Fleet @horrorfilms101.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 13:52 UTC

Ironically they were happy to use CGI and AI to paste elements of ATJ’s face on the young actress to smooth the transition from child to young adult. (Maybe the only thing in the flick that bugs me.)

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James Van Fleet @horrorfilms101.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 04:11 UTC

There’s something so cool too about that bit where Ford helps the wounded kid. You could argue it doesn’t move the plot forward, it doesn’t give TLJ a clue, we already know Ford is a kind man— but it still works! (Arguably it helps melt TLJ’s icy heart a bit, but also the scene is about itself.)

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James Van Fleet @horrorfilms101.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 03:46 UTC

Rewatching “The Fugitive” with the GF, and I’m in awe. If anything I underestimated this flick, and I already thought it was fantastic. Amazing on a script level, an editing level, fantastic camerawork. It’s also awesome how the flick doesn’t give Kimble a Character Flaw, it just gives him a goal!

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