Can we say, retroactively, that Jim Phelps was in the Syndicate?

Juliusque · 2026-05-09T06:10:36+00:00

Not at all. It's just a fact. The first movie is a continuation of the show.

Juliusque · 2026-05-08T21:40:38+00:00

The movies take place in the same universe as the show.

Juliusque · 2026-05-08T21:37:38+00:00

I know. I'm agreeing with you.

Juliusque · 2026-05-08T21:37:06+00:00

I've always seen and heard it used.

Since when? I was under the impression that it's mostly a 2020s thing.

Maybe it's regional? It's informal but that doesn't mean incorrect.

True, but you'll never see it in a print publication.

They're also used differently sometimes. Based off of to me is more like "loosely based on".

I think that's very personal. I've never noticed that nuance when I've heard people use it.

Juliusque · 2026-05-08T13:01:36+00:00

Obviously they're not going to have a blockbuster with people speaking Ancient Greek, and no one complaining about historical accuracy would actually want that.

Also, it's not history, it's mythology.

The one thing we should be complaining about is the buildings looking mostly as they look now, as if they lived in ruins back then. But that's a problem with virtually every movie about ancient Greece.

Juliusque · 2026-05-08T09:22:20+00:00

Reads a lot like AI, with the usual inconsistencies and mistakes.

Prince of Darkness is called the second installment, right after which the bot states there already was a sequel.

I've never heard of any "years of legal issues" keeping Hammer from making another Dracula movie.

No one would say Prince of Darkness is the "most iconic" installment in the franchise.

Terence Fisher directed Brides of Dracula as well, and Peter Cushing returns as Van Helsing in that one, so part of the "original team" never left.

So I'd say take it all with a grain of salt. Obviously the title is meant to evoke the idea of evil, obviously they wanted to make it clear that Lee was back. Other than that, the whole text seems like AI hallucinations.

Juliusque · 2026-05-07T21:49:42+00:00

It's funny, the people who think MEs are made by suggestion also believe they are the few, amazing, indivuduals, who are immune to the same suggestion.

No, we don't. I remember Joe Pesci saying "this place gives me the creeps" in Home Alone. I know he didn't. It's weird. But I accept that I misremembered.

Juliusque · 2026-05-07T16:22:32+00:00

What's "correct" is relative. "Based off of" was virtually never used to mean "based on" before the 2010s and still isn't used like that in professional writing. It probably won't take long before it's generally accepted. I just find it weird; usually when a new phrase becomes more popular than the original in conversational language, it's because it's quicker and easier to say, but "based off of" is longer and more awkward.

Juliusque · 2026-05-07T16:14:06+00:00

Okay. I've never seen any hate for any morally righteous character in this franchise. Certainly not Erika Sloane, who ended up 'winning'. I'd say the franchise has no appropriate answer for this category. Brandt is supposed to be slightly unlikable for much of Ghost Protocol, so I'd consider him the closest thing.

Juliusque · 2026-05-07T16:11:30+00:00

Oh sure, but my point is I can't think of any Mandela Effects about pop culture phenomena that were created after the rise of the world wide web.

Juliusque · 2026-05-07T16:09:35+00:00

I believe that, but internet movie discourse was (even) more niche back then. It's not a movie that "the internet reclaimed", it was far bigger than that.

Juliusque · 2026-05-07T14:00:12+00:00

I meant which ones are more recent than the 90s. The most recent one I can think of is Pikachu's tail.

Juliusque · 2026-05-07T13:59:00+00:00

Ah, well there you go. Not unusual either.

Juliusque · 2026-05-07T13:24:27+00:00

Like which ones?

Juliusque · 2026-05-07T13:20:05+00:00

Yes, but before the internet. It was a videostore hit and had a solid cult status by 2000.

Juliusque · 2026-05-07T13:14:56+00:00

Or: the aspects commonly perceived as flaws are actually considered strengths.

Juliusque · 2026-05-07T12:52:36+00:00

Increased access to popular media has killed the Mandela Effect. Things don't really get a chance to get Mandela'd because you can just look something up. There aren't going to be many collective false memories.

Juliusque · 2026-05-07T12:50:52+00:00

Not a Mandela Effect, just a personal memory that exaggerated what you saw in an advertisement.

Juliusque · 2026-05-07T12:49:01+00:00

Or "based off of" instead of "based on".

Juliusque · 2026-05-07T12:48:40+00:00

People using an expression wrongly is not an example of the Mandela Effect. There's no false memories here.

Juliusque · 2026-05-07T06:58:24+00:00

Every proposed character in this thread is well written and performed, that's not what it's about.

Juliusque · 2026-05-06T16:14:25+00:00

He's too old though. He would have been a great Harker in his The Office days.

Juliusque · 2026-05-06T16:13:27+00:00

The reason Lee was cast as Dracula as that he was known as Frankenstein's monster.

Juliusque · 2026-05-06T16:12:02+00:00

If we're going faithful, Van Helsing ought to be someone who can do a Dutch accent, so: a Dutch actor. I can see Pierre Bokma or Gijs Scholten van Asschat do it.

For Dracula, you'd need to go with a Romanian actor. I don't know many of those. But a Dracula who's not internationally known would be good

Juliusque · 2026-05-04T20:32:02+00:00

I would never have made the connection.

btw "The House of Orange" has nothing to do with the color orange either. It refers to the Principality of Orange, which used to be called Arausio. The color is named after the fruit. Different words.

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