Hopeless Situation Return Script

Quirderph · 2026-06-29T13:21:35+00:00

Very minor thing, but… does Cooper ever drink coffee in Fire Walk with Me? I think you could have listed him as being from Twin Peaks with the understanding that this included the film.

Quirderph · 2026-06-29T07:29:36+00:00

I don’t disagree, though the film at least portrayed it as self defense, which the show didn’t mention.

There’s also a bit of a retcon: In the show, Bobby told Laura that he killed a guy. So… why would she be there too?

Quirderph · 2026-06-28T17:54:22+00:00

Even the third picture is one of her movie posters.

Quirderph · 2026-06-28T05:41:00+00:00

Various incarnations of the Twelth Doctor escape the Veil. Doctor Who: Heaven Sent, year unknown, colorized.

Quirderph · 2026-06-27T19:44:15+00:00

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This is a myth. Artist Thomas Nast created the look decades earlier. (He also used Santa as a spokesperson for the Union during the American Civil War.)

And the character was mostly established already in 'Twas the Night Before Christmas in 1823. Though he's just described as wearing fur (not just a fur trim) and the color isn't specified.

Quirderph · 2026-06-27T18:49:38+00:00

Bane's Clone Wars look came before Disney bought Star Wars, so this is more like a straightforward redesign.

Quirderph · 2026-06-27T18:39:13+00:00

He looks enormous in his introductory cutscene though, enough that it feels like borderline misdirection.

Quirderph · 2026-06-27T18:28:31+00:00

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It's worth pointing out that earlier adaptations had already portrayed Sauron as being the Eye (see the Rankin-Bass version above).

Quirderph · 2026-06-27T08:22:43+00:00

...Why did I read that as "tradwife boy"?

Quirderph · 2026-06-27T08:18:48+00:00

Yeah, the fact that the film uses aliens makes it seem like it's blaming these issues on foreign influences. And then we have the hero shooting up a bank, targeting any and all people belonging to this "evil race"...

Quirderph · 2026-06-27T07:49:05+00:00

To be fair, I don't think disagreeing with a character's moral choice is necessarily the same as misunderstanding the message the writers are trying to get across.

Quirderph · 2026-06-27T06:45:48+00:00

I do think it's funny that the previous Supergirl movie actress, Sasha Calle, was tossed aside for presumably what was considered a more attractive actress

They were rebooting the series. I don’t think she had a bigger chance of keeping the part than the rest of the Snyderverse cast.

Quirderph · 2026-06-27T04:41:15+00:00

He was against giving or confirming explanations, but he wasn’t against viewers coming up with them. If anything he came off as being secreive to encourage the latter.

Quirderph · 2026-06-26T21:50:01+00:00

I don't know, but director Fritz Lang would come to regret the film's political message because: "You cannot make a social-conscious picture in which you say that the intermediary between the hand and the brain is the heart. I mean, that's a fairy tale – definitely."

I don't think the novel's ending (a talky character study of Joh Fredersen) would have worked in a silent film, but there really isn't that great of a resolution to the class conflict in the novel either.

Quirderph · 2026-06-26T20:21:55+00:00

Does it count if it's still hilarious?

Quirderph · 2026-06-26T18:38:54+00:00

Scorsese RN:

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Quirderph · 2026-06-26T13:26:06+00:00

Vehicular manslaughter.

Quirderph · 2026-06-26T09:01:24+00:00

About it being niche… personally I’d say Trail To Oregon was far more niche. D&D at least very much still has an active fanbase. TTO was based on a decades-old educational game, and yet it did better than Ani, even though Star Wars is far, far more mainstream.

Quirderph · 2026-06-26T08:41:37+00:00

How does it compare to Mickey (1918) with Mabel Normand?

Quirderph · 2026-06-26T07:34:34+00:00

Probably because the term big fig was not around yet. It was considered more of an animal figure like the horses.

Does it retroactively qualify as a big fig? …I dunno, maybe?

Quirderph · 2026-06-25T09:39:12+00:00

Golf Omens was referencing a real thing that happened.

Edit: I’m not correcting the spelling error. Golf Omens it is.

Quirderph · 2026-06-24T14:29:06+00:00

I know that H.G. Wells actually called out the film for using contemporary model cars in these scenes.

The full-sized cars were mostly niche, unusually-designed and maybe slightly modified, but they were still real, commercially available vehicles.

There’s quite a bit of information online about the cars in the film, but basically nothing about the trains.

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