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@JdeBP__dup_33984@mastodonapp.uk · Feb 09, 2026
#Fortress (2021) is an abysmal movie. The protagonist, with whom we are apparently meant to sympathize, being a cryptocurrency scammer trying to fleece his parent for more money, was not a good start, and it went downhill from there. Pretty much everyone's acting was either completely over the top or wooden as Hell. The plot was ludicrous; the ubiquitous special effects mist and random camera angles, annoying. The final straw, at which point I just stopped and deleted it from the TiVo, was when the character who had been speaking with a vaguely Australian accent for the entire movie until that point apologized to another character for putting on a British accent. Apparently, they made a sequel at the same time. Avoid both. #USMovies
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@JdeBP__dup_33984@mastodonapp.uk · Feb 02, 2026
@ColinHaynes@mastodon.scot It's interesting how the general public's idea of a #GlobalThermonuclearWar, rooted in fiction, has changed. #OnTheBeach is definitely an example of the idea of MAD, and #TomLehrer's "We'll all go together when we go!", that was present right up through #WarGames in 1983. Then in 1984 with #TheTerminator the idea returned that with just enough 'duck and cover!' we might survive a thing that in reality we could not. (They had to make the T-1000 in #TerminatorGenisys ridiculously pause to do banter with its target in order to make it evadable by a human. Killing machines would kill the species stone dead very effectively.) #USMovies #history #sociology
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@JdeBP@mastodon.scot · Jan 30, 2026
@arrrg@kolektiva.social I too was concerned for their wellbeing afterwards. And they don't have the option of doing what that lady who left after 20 minutes did. https://mastodon.scot/@JdeBP/115983497912180622 The Daily Record reported a total of 16 tickets sold in Edinburgh and Glasgow as of this morning. ABC reported 50 pre-booked tickets across the whole of Australia for opening day. https://dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics/melania-trump-documentary-sells-just-36641836 https://abc.net.au/news/2026-01-31/melania-trump-movie-and-why-we-might-need-to-follow-the-money/106285248 @cstross@wandering.shop #Melania #MelaniaTrump #USMovies
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@JdeBP@mastodon.scot · Jan 30, 2026
@cstross@wandering.shop They're not far off, either. I just turned up this. Apparently, 4 people joined The Metro's reviewer on opening night, plus an additional 1 who was apparently another movie reviewer. So a third of the audience was people who were being paid to watch the movie. (-: https://metro.co.uk/2026/01/30/sat-a-near-empty-cinema-melania-thought-26612808/ Amusing coincidence: Kimberly Bond also writes features for Cosmo. @GetCarter@mastodonapp.uk #Melania #MelaniaTrump #USMovies #Amazon #TheMetro
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@JdeBP@mastodon.scot · Jan 30, 2026
@cstross@wandering.shop The review in @GetCarter@mastodonapp.uk 's thread is one of those recycled quotes that actually comes from elsewhere according to Snopes; but lower in the thread people have suggested that the ticket sales for these places can be accounted for *entirely* by the news/magazine movie reviewers who did not have advance screenings. https://mastodonapp.uk/@GetCarter/115982369126621417 #Melania #MelaniaTrump #USMovies #VueCinema #Islington #Amazon
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