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itsscromp · 7 months

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Could I ask for Insomniac Peter with a GN reader who's a big musical theatre fan? Maybe he needs to miss a few shows and it upsets them

Peter parker x reader

Oooh a very interesting idea. Gives me Raimi vibes with this request. Now my musical knowledge may be slim so bare with me lol. Word count:1K

"Dude come on it's the last show before it stops !!" You pleaded him to join you.

"Y/n, I know how much you've been looking forward to it but I can't guarantee it OK ??"

You have been a musical fan all your life, You were able to remember each act of certain shows off the back of your head from repeat viewings. But your dream musical you wished to see live was in the heights. Peter would always catch you humming to one of the songs. You wouldn't even stop bragging when the movie came out. But tomorrow was its last ever show, You had many chances to go and always wanted to bring Peter with you. But every time that happened. Spider-Man was needed, Peter made a promise to himself to go to this show with you.

He had his ticket ready, Standing in line at the theatre and waiting for you. No trouble seemed to be in sight, But then his phone began to buzz from miles.

"Miles ??' He answered.

"Pete I need your help man, Scorpion is on the loose !!"

He knew he would be grilled from you for missing the last show, But right now the city was in danger.

"Ok I'm on my way miles, hang tight" He then left the line and then changed into his suit, ready to stop scorpion.

You stood there in line as you waited for Peter, But he was nowhere to be seen, Soon after the line began to move as the theatre began to take its final patrons. You didn't want to go in without peter, But you didn't want to miss the show, but as you tried to get in the ticket person stopped you as the theatre was now full and the no disturbance policy was in place.

You never felt so angry and sad, You missed your favourite show and your best friend ditched you again, for the 5th time in a row. You felt utterly betrayed.

As soon as scorpion was taken care of, Peter swung back to the theatre as fast as he could, But when he saw you sitting on the curb, the guilt in him rose, He almost forced you to miss out because he had to stop scorpion.

"Y/n I'm so so sorry..."

"This was the last show... Possibly forever... And you ditched me again !!!" You yelled at him.

"Please you have to understand..."

"You always do this Peter !!!!" You were almost beyond for calming down. You were almost a volcano that erupted.

His guilt rose from hearing your frustrations, This was incredibly important to you and he pretty much stopped you from seeing it.

"I know the city needs Spider-Man... But I need my best friend..." You wiped your tears as you stormed off.

"Y/n wait..." He rushed too you but you drove off.

He mentally punched himself when he got home, Leaving many voicemails and texts full of apologies. He never felt so guilty in his life, His thoughts almost trained to if you wouldn't be friends with him anymore because of this...

He had to make it up to you, But how was the biggest question, Maybe he could rent out an entire movie theatre to show a private screening of the movie ?? No, you've already seen it 10 times when it came out. Or maybe a local production could work, Quickly researching. No one was doing such a thing. "Damn it"

Just when all hope seemed lost, He got a suggestion on his social media that showed that due to popular demand, they're doing an encore tonight. He quickly booked the tickets. But now to tell you was the hardest part.

He Picked up the phone and dialed your contact, It took a few rings until you finally picked up.

"Peter ??"

"Y/n I have something important to tell you"

"If this is another apology peter I really don't..."

"No y/n this is more than an apology, Look I screwed up ok ?? I know it... I don't do these things on purpose I swear." He took a deep breath as the guilt emerged again. "I really want to fix this OK?? I really do."

You remained quiet for a bit until you finally spoke up.

"How do you wanna fix it ??" You said it in a way you weren't convinced.

"Look I got tickets to it, They're doing an encore because of popular demand" He even sent pictures to prove it.

"Are you serious ??" Your light heartened tone slightly returned.

"I promise, I really promise. Hell, all the promises I will be there ok ??, I'll get Miles to cover the patrol for tonight ok ??"

You went quiet again before saying...

"Ok"

The night arrived and you were standing at the curb of the theatre again, You wanted to trust Peter in his word, but a small portion of you said it would happen again, He would bail once again, But how that portion was proven wrong when you saw him in the corner of your eye.

"Hey.." He then pulled your ticket out of his pocket and handed it to you. With an apology letter written in the most peter way, You couldn't help but smile.

"I'm really sorry y/n, For the 5 times that I missed the show... I really am..." He looked down at the ground.

"I... I'm sorry for yelling at you, It wasn't your fault dude. The city needed you." You apologised.

"So... we're cool ??' Peter slightly perked up

"We're cool" You smiled as you held out your hand, Peter smiling as you both engaged in your secret handshake.

"Let's go enjoy the show shall we ??"

The show was an absolute blast from start to finish, Peter couldn't help but softly chuckle every time he turned to you as you had a bright smile on your face for the entirety of the show. Like a kid in a candy shop.

After the show finished he offered to drop you home.

"That was... amazing !!!" You cheered in the car

"It really was huh, They really had some catchy tunes, Had me tapping my foot." Peter chuckled

"Thank you, Peter... Really" You raised your fist for a fist bump. Which he happily returned.

No matter what happens, Nothing could split you two apart, Never ever. Peter knew this. From the way you smiled It could light up Washington heights showing you two were as thick as thieves.

(Hehe see what I did their)

Taglist @callofdudes @fun-k-board

#platonic #reader insert #peter parker #insomniac games peter parker #Insomniac games #peter parker x reader #insomniac peter parker

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colorful-white-ideas · 1 month

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Is this a safe space to finally say that the BKW promotion WAS NOT ENOUGH and started a bit too late?

A movie as fun and full of action like this one deserved more. For what I've read in Twitter / X not even south African people knew about this.

In Latin America I saw more ads from the distribution companies ( in Portuguese and Spanish) but the bkw ig page doesn't seem to have paid for ads on IG or fb.

And to make things worse, the face: Bill Skarsgård didn't do anything else to promote it besides attending the premiere. Valter and Eija did more for him by sharing the clip and trailer on their IG stories.

I mentioned this before I'll say it again , there were Q&A clips from the red carpet SAM RAIMI himself took the time to play along and answer ... Where was the star? *crickets*

This past week the zendaya movie premiered too and did better than BKW marketing wise because since the beginning people were able to link one face to the product. Bill could have done the same , putting himself out there to compensate the -lets admit it - lazy marketing campaign.

Let's hope things get better in the near future , because if Lionsgate and Bill's team are going to manage the promotion for "The crow" like this then ... It'll flop terribly.

#bill skarsgård #bill skarsgard #billskarsgard #boy kills world

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altocat · 7 months

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why do u like crisis core the writing is so bad

The same reason why I love the Sam Raimi Spiderman films: Sincerity.

I would take a million clumsy, goofy, clunkily-written/acted products that shamelessly wear their heart on their sleeve over something manipulative and corporate and hollow. We've gotten way too cynical about everything. I think it's totally fine to be wholeheartedly sincere and earnest in the story you're trying to write, even with its flaws. Sometimes, the best messages you take out of content are the kinds that appeal solely to emotions over logic. This isn't to say that smart, well-written content isn't valuable or sincere, god no. But only that sincerity can go across multiple layers of content, flawed and flawless. And what you take out of them is ultimately a sign of their value, regardless of the shabby spots.

Crisis Core is not especially well written or well executed. But it is 100% genuine in how it tells Zack's story. It probably needed several dozen rewrites and waaay more content and expansion, but the story it DOES tell has some value across the Compilation, and to the player. That's how I see it, at least.

#ff7 #asks #ffvii #final fantasy 7 #crisis core #Final fantasy

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brokehorrorfan · 5 months

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Scream Factory has revealed the specs for its Darkman 4K UHD + Blu-ray. Releasing on February 20, the 1990 superhero film will be available in both Steelbook and standard packaging

Sam Raimi (The Evil Dead, Spider-Man) directs from a script he co-wrote with Ivan Raimi (Army of Darkness), Chuck Pfarrer (The Jackal), Daniel Goldin, and Joshua Goldin. Liam Neeson, Frances McDormand, Colin Friels, Larry Drake, and Ted Raimi star.

Darkman has been newly restored in 4K from the original negative in Dolby Vision, approved by Sam Raimi and director of photography Bill Pope, with DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 and 2.0 sound.

Special features - including new deleted scenes - are listed below.

Disc 1 - 4K UHD:

Audio commentary by filmmaker/fan Josh Ruben (new)

Audio commentary by director of photography Bill Pope

Disc 2 - Blu-ray:

Audio commentary by filmmaker/fan Josh Ruben (new)

Audio commentary by director of photography Bill Pope

Deleted scenes (new)

Interview with actor Liam Neeson

Interview with actor Frances McDormand

Interview with actor Larry Drake

Interviews with actors Danny Hicks and Dan Bell

Interview with makeup designer Tony Gardner

Interview with production designer Randy Ser and art director Philip Dagort

Vintage making-of featurette

Vintage interviews with Sam Raimi, Liam Neeson, and Frances McDormand

Theatrical trailer

TV Spots

Still galleries: posters & production stills, behind the scenes, make-up effects, and storyboards

When the laboratory of Dr. Peyton Westlake (Liam Neeson) is blown up by gangsters, he is burned beyond recognition. Altered by an experimental medical procedure, he assumes alternate identities in his quest for revenge.

Pre-order Darkman.

#darkman #sam raimi #liam neeson #frances mcdormand #larry drake #horror #90s movies #1990s movies #90s horror #1990s horror #scream factory #dvd #gift #josh ruben #ted raimi

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mariacallous · 3 days

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Forty-seven years ago today, everything changed. True believers might already know what it was: On May 25, 1977, Star Wars hit movie theaters and irrevocably altered nearly everything pertaining to the act of moviegoing. Lines around the block, overly excited nerds, an appetite for action figures. Star Wars taught Hollywood that certain genres—sci-fi, fantasy, anything that percolated in the offbeat TV shows, books, and comics of the 1950s and ’60s—had fans, and those fandoms would show up. Star Wars made a meager $1.6 million in the US in its opening weekend. But people kept coming back, and by the end of its initial run it had made more than $300 million. Hollywood’s Next Big Thing had arrived.

Common wisdom dictates that Jaws, which came out in 1975 and made some $260 million, was the first summer blockbuster. That’s true, but it was Star Wars that shifted the idea of what kind of film future popcorn flicks tried to be. In the years after its release, a trove of sci-fi and genre films landed in theaters: Blade Runner, Alien, E.T., the Mad Max sequel The Road Warrior. By the ’90s, the summer movie energy had shifted to action fare—Twister, Speed, Jurassic Park, Independence Day—but nerd stuff still ruled. For every Forrest Gump there was a Batman Returns or Terminator 2: Judgment Day.

Then came a little juggernaut called Marvel. By the time Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man movies started clearing nine-figure opening weekends in the aughts, it was obvious that comic book heroes’ true superpowers involved making your money disappear. The Avengers opened in early May 2012 and nearly recouped its $200-million-plus production budget in three days. Suddenly, there were at least two superhero movies every year, if not every summer, and some new Star Wars flicks at the holidays.

The one-two punch of Covid-19 theater closures and streaming pretty much kneecapped this entire process. The summer of 2020 had virtually no blockbusters, and by the time moviegoers returned to multiplexes in 2021 and 2022, there had been a vibe shift. Movies like Black Widow and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness did well, but they weren’t events. Rushing to Fandango for tickets didn’t feel as urgent as it once did. Last summer, Barbenheimer was the buzziest thing in movies. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 made money, but they still got beat by Barbie’s might.

Overall, this year could be a wake-up call for studios that superhero fatigue has fully set in, says Chris Nashawaty, author of The Future Was Now, a new book out in July about how the movies of 1982—Blade Runner, E.T., Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan, among others—ushered in the current blockbuster era. That epoch, he says, “was always going to be something that couldn’t last forever; I’m frankly surprised that it lasted as long as it did.”

Nashawaty says the success of Barbenheimer—both movies—indicates that audiences are hungry for smart films, but Hollywood’s risk aversion likely means studios will greenlight more projects based on toys and games like Monopoly rather than movies about physicists. “This is a real existential moment in Hollywood right now,” he adds, and studios need to be bold to stay relevant.

Summer 2024, which unofficially begins this weekend, promises a move away from the formula that has been in play for decades. There are only a handful of big popcorn-ready movies coming, and they’re decidedly less family-friendly than the blockbusters of yore. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, which dropped on Friday, is a teeth-chatteringly gritty prequel about a kidnapped woman (Anya Taylor-Joy playing the younger version of Charlize Theron’s character from Mad Max: Fury Road) who ends up in a war between two overlords and has to fight her way out. Deadpool & Wolverine is a Marvel movie, yes, but it’s apparently a paean to pegging and cocaine so hard-R that Ryan Reynolds won’t shut up about it.

The series of weird indies coming in the next few months—the thriller Cuckoo, Ti West’s latest horror flick MaXXXine, a new collab from Poor Things pals Emma Stone and Yorgos Lanthimos called Kinds of Kindness—finally have some room to get into the summer movie conversation.

Make no mistake: I am typing these things with glee and admiration. Glossy family movies have their place, but they’ve grown awfully predictable. Safe—not necessarily in their plots, but in their substance. No matter how fun last year’s barn-burner The Super Mario Bros. Movie was, you can’t say anything about it was surprising, much less new. No one walked into the theater for Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 and walked out as gobsmacked as they were when they saw Star Wars, or even Speed.

This is not a “Hollywood is so homogenized” argument. Rather, it’s a reminder that Tinseltown wasn’t always this way. Its influence used to introduce people to the future. What’s happening now has the potential to mark a return to the kind of startlingly original movies that used to be hits. Between the pandemic, streaming, and the Hollywood strikes of last summer, a lot of old habits got broken, and there’s a sense that a renaissance is afoot.

This revitalization won’t come easy, if it comes at all. Summer 2024 still has its share of redos and sequels—a new Inside Out movie, reboots of ’90s summer staples The Crow and Twister. (The latter is the aptly-named Twisters; there are more tornadoes this time, apparently.) But even those movies at least feel like they’re grasping for the prefranchise days, even if they’re birthing franchises in the process.

Furiosa is currently projected to bring in more than $40 million at the US box office this weekend, a figure that would bring it close to Fury Road’s tally but may not convince Hollywood execs that it should bankroll more R-rated, original shockbusters. It would, presumably, best The Garfield Movie, which is also out this weekend and has the makings of a more surefire hit: well-known IP, animated, PG-rated. (For the record, though: Critics seem to think it sucks.) Early ticket sales for Deadpool & Wolverine are already breaking records for an R-rated movie. Should it dominate the conversation for a couple weeks while also raking in money, that embrace of a very not-Disney Disney movie—coupled with Furiosa and Hot Barbenheimer Summer—could signal a tipping point.

Look, nothing will ever completely derail Hollywood’s reliance on sure things. Video game adaptations remain poised to take the crown long held by superhero flicks. (Borderlands, starring Cate Blanchett, is coming to theaters this August.) But if this summer’s ever-sprawling slate turns up just enough weird hits, maybe we’ll once again know the feeling of walking out of Star Wars for the first time.

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everythingispirates · 7 months

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We have to face the fact that Elizabeth hated piracy and left it for good. She wanted a peaceful life and that is exactly what she got.

We have to face the fact that Bruce Lorne Campbell (born June 22, 1958) is an American actor and moviemaker. He is known best for his role as Ash Williams in Sam Raimi's Evil Dead horror series, beginning with the short movie Within the Woods (1978). He has also featured in many low-budget cult movies such as Crimewave (1985), Maniac Cop (1988), Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat (1989), and Bubba Ho-Tep (2002).

Bruce Lorne Campbell[1] was born in Royal Oak, Michigan, on June 22, 1958,[2] the son of advertising executive and college professor Charles Newton Campbell and homemaker Joanne Louise (née Pickens).[3] He is of English and Scottish ancestry,[1] and has an older brother named Don and an older half-brother named Michael.[4] His father was also an actor and director for local theater.[3] Campbell began acting and making short Super 8 movies with friends as a teenager. After meeting future moviemaker Sam Raimi while the two attended Wylie E. Groves High School, they became good friends and collaborators. Campbell attended Western Michigan University and continued to pursue an acting career.[5]

Campbell and Raimi collaborated with a 30-minute Super 8 version of the first Evil Dead movie, titled Within the Woods (1978), which was initially used to attract investors.[6] He and Raimi got together with family and friends to begin working on The Evil Dead (1981). While featuring as the protagonist, Campbell also participation with the production of the movie, receiving a co-executive producer credit. Raimi wrote, directed, and edited the movie, while Rob Tapert produced. After an endorsement by horror author Stephen King, the movie slowly began to receive attention and offers for distribution.[7] Four years after its original release, it became the most popular movie in the UK. It was then distributed in the United States, resulting in the sequels Evil Dead II (1987) and Army of Darkness (1992).[8]

Campbell was also drawn in the Marvel Zombie comics as his character, Ash Williams. He is featured in five comics, all in the series Marvel Zombies vs. Army of Darkness. In them, he fights alongside the Marvel heroes against the heroes and people who have become zombies (deadites) while in search of the Necronomicon (Book of the Names of the Dead).[9] Campbell also played as Coach Boomer in the movie “Sky High”.

He has appeared in several of Raimi's movies other than the Evil Dead series, notably having cameo appearances in the director's Spider-Man film series.[10] Campbell also joined the cast of Raimi's movie Darkman[11] and The Quick and the Dead, though having no actual screen time in the latter movie's theatrical version.[12] In March 2022, Campbell was announced to have a cameo in Raimi's Marvel Cinematic Universe film Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.[13]

Campbell often performs quirky roles, such as Elvis Presley for the movie Bubba Ho-Tep.[14] Along with Bubba Ho-Tep, he played a supporting role in Maniac Cop and Maniac Cop 2, and spoofed his career in the self-directed My Name is Bruce.[15]

Other mainstream movies for Campbell include supporting or featured roles in the Coen Brothers movie The Hudsucker Proxy, the Michael Crichton adaptation Congo, the movie version of McHale's Navy, Escape From L.A. (the sequel to John Carpenter's Escape From New York), the Jim Carrey drama The Majestic and the 2005 Disney movie Sky High.[16]

Campbell had a major voice role for the 2009 animated adaptation of the children's book Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, and a supporting voice role for Pixar's Cars 2.[17]

Campbell produced the 2013 remake of The Evil Dead, along with Raimi and Rob Tapert, appearing in the movie's post-credits scene in a cameo role with the expectation he would reprise that role in Army of Darkness 2.[18] The next year, the comedy metal band Psychostick released a song titled "Bruce Campbell" on their album IV: Revenge of the Vengeance that pays a comedic tribute to his past roles.

Campbell worked as an executive producer for the 2023 movie Evil Dead Rise.[19]

Other than cinema, Campbell has appeared in a number of television series. He featured in The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. a boisterous science fiction comedy western created by Jeffrey Boam and Carlton Cuse that played for one season.[20] He played a lawyer turned bounty hunter who was trying to hunt down John Bly, the man who killed his father. He featured in the television series Jack of All Trades, set on a fictional island occupied by the French in 1801. Campbell was also credited as co-executive producer, among others. The show was directed by Eric Gruendemann, and was produced by various people, including Sam Raimi.[21] The show was broadcast for two seasons, from 2000 to 2001. He had a recurring role as "Bill Church Jr." based upon the character of Morgan Edge from the Superman comics on Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman.[22]

From 1996 to 1997, Campbell was a recurring guest actor of the television series Ellen as Ed Billik, who becomes Ellen's boss when she sells her bookstore in season four.[23]

He is also known for his supporting role as the recurring character Autolycus ("King of Thieves") on both Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and Xena: Warrior Princess, which reunited him with producer Rob Tapert.[24] Campbell played Hercules/Xena series producer Tapert in two episodes of Hercules set in the present.[25] He directed a number of episodes of Hercules and Xena, including the Hercules series finale.[26]

Campbell also obtained the main role of race car driver Hank Cooper for the Disney made-for-television remake of The Love Bug.[27]

Campbell had a critically acclaimed dramatic guest role as a grief-stricken detective seeking revenge for his father's murder in a two-part episode of the fourth season of Homicide: Life on the Street. Campbell later played the part of a bigamous demon in The X-Files episode "Terms of Endearment".[28] He also featured as Agent Jackman in the episode "Witch Way Now?" of the WB series Charmed, as well as playing a state police officer in an episode of the short-lived series American Gothic titled "Meet The Beetles".

Campbell co-featured in the television series Burn Notice, which was broadcast from 2007 to 2013 by USA Network. He portrayed Sam Axe, a beer-chugging, former Navy SEAL now working as an unlicensed private investigator and occasional mercenary with his old friend Michael Westen, the show's main character. When working undercover, his character frequently used the alias Chuck Finley, which Bruce later revealed was the name of one of his father's old co-workers.[29] Campbell was the star of a 2011 Burn Notice made-for-television prequel focusing on Sam's Navy SEAL career, titled Burn Notice: The Fall of Sam Axe.[30]

In 2014, Campbell played Santa Claus for an episode of The Librarians. Campbell played Ronald Reagan in season 2 of the FX original series Fargo. More recently Campbell reprised his role as Ashley "Ash" Williams in Ash vs Evil Dead,[31] a series based upon the Evil Dead series that began his career. Ash vs Evil Dead began airing on Starz on October 31, 2015, and was renewed by the cable channel for second[32] and third seasons,[33] before being cancelled.[34]

In January 2019, Travel Channel announced a new version of the Ripley's Believe It or Not! reality series, with Campbell serving as host and executive producer. The 10-episode season debuted on June 9, 2019.[35]

Campbell is featured as a voice actor for several video games. He provides the voice of Ash in the four games based on the Evil Dead movies series: Evil Dead: Hail to the King, Evil Dead: A Fistful of Boomstick, Evil Dead: Regeneration and Evil Dead: The Game.[36] He also provided voice talent in other titles such as Pitfall 3D: Beyond the Jungle, Spider-Man, Spider-Man 2, Spider-Man 3, The Amazing Spider-Man,[37] and Dead by Daylight.[38]

He provided the voice of main character Jake Logan for the PC game, Tachyon: The Fringe, the voice of main character Jake Burton for the PlayStation game Broken Helix and the voice of Magnanimous for Megas XLR. Campbell voiced the pulp adventurer Lobster Johnson in Hellboy: The Science of Evil and has done voice-over work for the Codemaster's game Hei$t, a game which was announced on January 28, 2010 to have been "terminated". He also provided the voice of The Mayor for the 2009 movie Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, the voice of Rod "Torque" Redline in Cars 2, the voice of Himcules in the 2003 Nickelodeon TV series My Life as a Teenage Robot, and the voice of Fugax in the 2006 movie The Ant Bully.[37]

Despite the inclusion of his character "Ash Williams" in Telltale Games' Poker Night 2, Danny Webber voices the character in the game, instead of Bruce Campbell.[39]

He has a voice in the online MOBA game, Tome: Immortal Arena in 2014.[40] Campbell also provided voice-over and motion capture for Sgt. Lennox in the Exo Zombies mode of Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare.[41]

In addition to acting and occasionally directing, Campbell has become a writer, starting with an autobiography, If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B Movie Actor, published in June 2001.[42] The autobiography was a successful New York Times Best Seller.[43] It describes Campbell's career to date as an actor in low-budget movies and television, providing his insight into "Blue-Collar Hollywood".[42] The paperback version of the book adds details about the reactions of fans during book signings: "Whenever I do mainstream stuff, I think they're pseudo-interested, but they're still interested in seeing weirdo, offbeat stuff, and that's what I'm attracted to".[42]

Campbell's next book Make Love! The Bruce Campbell Way was published on May 26, 2005. The book's plot involves him (depicted in a comical way) as the main character struggling to make it into the world of A-list movies.[44] He later recorded an audio play adaptation of Make Love with fellow Michigan actors, including longtime collaborator Ted Raimi. This radio drama was released by the independent label Rykodisc and spans 6 discs with a 6-hour running time.

In addition to his books, Campbell also wrote a column for X-Ray Magazine in 2001, an issue of the popular comic series The Hire, and comic book adaptations of his Man with the Screaming Brain. Most recently he wrote the introduction to Josh Becker's The Complete Guide to Low-Budget Feature Filmmaking.

In late 2016, Campbell announced that he would be releasing a third book, Hail to the Chin: Further Confessions of a B Movie Actor, which will detail his life from where If Chins Could Kill ended. Hail to the Chin was released in August 2017, and accompanied by a book tour across the United States and Europe.[45]

Campbell maintained a weblog on his official website, where he posted mainly about politics and the movie industry, though it has since been deleted.[46]

Since 2014, the Bruce Campbell Horror Film Festival, narrated and organized by Campbell, was held in the Muvico Theater in Rosemont, Illinois. The first festival was originally from August 21 to 25, 2014, presented by Wizard World, as part of the Chicago Comicon.[47] The second festival was from August 20 to 23, 2015, with guests Tom Holland and Eli Roth.[48] The third festival took place over four days in August 2016.[49] Guests of the event were Sam Raimi, Robert Tapert and Doug Benson.[50]

Campbell married Christine Deveau in 1983, and they had two children before divorcing in 1989. He met costume designer Ida Gearon while working on Mindwarp, and they were married in 1992.[51] They reside in Jacksonville, Oregon.[51]

Campbell is also ordained and has performed marriage ceremonies.[52]

#ask #long post

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just got done seeing the re-release of sam raimi's spider-man on the big screen and now y'all are gonna hear my thoughts whether you like it or not:

the danny elfman music kicked on during the opening credits and i had full-body goosebumps before the marvel logo even came up on screen because i'm a fucking loser.

speaking of opening credits, remember when movies used to have those? i miss it. bring them back.

the upside-down kiss remains the greatest cinematic kiss of all time. don't argue with me when i'm right.

the setup and repetition of "don't tell harry." fantastique.

the cinematographyyyy. bitch. the way the camera follows spider-man swinging through traffic, up and around buildings, across the city…..i just don't get the same feeling of movement in either of the reboots. they're too clean. they're like iphone commercials. they're gross.

speaking of iphones, during the festival scene in times square there was a billboard ad for cingular and i thought about how i used to have a cingular phone and i almost committed suicide in the theater. i'm so old.

everyone calls her "aunt may" – including norman osborn, a grown-ass man. 'twas adorable.

"and i know i'm not your father—" "then stop pretending to be!" maybe i WILL kill myself in this alamo drafthouse.

watching this made me miss having regular-degular goons and scumbags in comic book movies. i'm tired of the "i want to rule the world, i want all the power" schtick. rob a bank. hijack a train. kidnap the mayor. have fun with it. you're in a comic book movie, for fuck's sake.

the balance between campy fun superhero stuff and earnest, genuine emotion was better than i remembered – and one never came at the expense of the other.

jk simmons. nothing else to add here – i just wanna remind people that he fucking crushed this role and burned it down and nobody has been able to touch it since.

on a similar note: willem dafoe. he didn't just chew the scenery – he had a fucking feast. fuck, man. he's great.

unrelated to the film-making itself, but....what exactly is the military purpose of a glider where the pilot is completely exposed? and why did it already look like a halloween machine before osborn becomes the goblin? questions i ask.

anyway, i realize you could hand-wave a lot of this as me falling for the nostalgia of it all (which i absolutely am), but also...i dunno. there's an undercurrent of sincerity to this movie that i just don't really feel in comic book movies anymore. that's probably because the current spate of comic book movies aren't even really movies anymore – they're products. they're vacuum-sealed, rubber-stamped, climate-controlled products to sell you a disney+ subscription or whatever the fuck the warner bros equivalent is (is it max? i think it's max). and every movie has an ending setup that tries to sell you on the next product, and the next, and the next...

anyway. with this first spider-man, yes it's silly at times, but this movie embraces it, warts and all. there's a well-balanced mix of goofy dialogue ("are you in or are you out?" "it's you who's out, gobbie – out of your mind!") and heartfelt moments (i mean, do i even need to say it? "with great power comes great responsibility"). i know it's a hack thing to say "they don't make movies like they used to" but.....man, they REALLY don't make movies like they used to.

#*t #part review; part rant #i'm INCREDIBLY bummed i won't be around to see the spider-man 2 re-release #and uhh. i think i'll be skipping the re-release of the third one lmao.#but i'm glad i made it to at least the first one. what a movie.

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Excerpt from this story from Inside Climate News:

This year is likely to bring two seemingly incongruous milestones. Sales of electric vehicles will hit an all-time high, and so will global oil consumption. It is as if the transition away from fossil fuels is moving faster than ever while barely gaining ground.

In fact, experts say, adoption of electric vehicles, or EVs, is accelerating more quickly than many people expected, despite some recent setbacks. Government subsidies and mandates in China, the United States and Europe have begun noticeably shifting sales of new cars, trucks and buses. Last year, nearly one in five new cars sold in the world was electric, according to the International Energy Agency, or IEA.

Yet oil demand has continued to climb nonetheless and now sits around 100 million barrels per day, underscoring how difficult it will be to shift the world’s engines away from fossil fuels fast enough to avoid more extreme climate warming.

“Under current policies, EVs are not an existential threat to global oil demand, not even close,” said Daniel Raimi, a fellow at Resources for the Future, an environment and energy research institute. “If we’re going to achieve our long-term climate goals we need additional public policies and technological innovation to get us where we need to go.”

Oil demand has grown faster than expected over the last couple of years, according to the IEA, and is now slightly higher than it was before the COVID-19 pandemic hit. And while the agency expects demand will peak before the end of the decade, oil consumption could remain strong for decades without new subsidies or mandates for electric vehicles.

The IEA’s “Stated Policies Scenario,” which aims to model what would happen under national policies that have already been adopted, foresees oil consumption declining only 3 percent by 2050.

But many experts say the IEA’s modeling fails to capture how quickly the world is changing. The Stated Policies Scenario, for example, is already out of date: It did not include the emissions rules for cars and trucks adopted by the Biden administration in March. Those rules are expected to speed adoption of electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles, which made up about 9 percent of new car sales last year, according to Wards Intelligence. EVs and plug-in hybrids are now expected to cut gasoline and diesel consumption by the equivalent of 2.7 million barrels per day by 2050, or about 14 percent of U.S. oil consumption, according to the Environmental Protection Agency.

China, the global leader in electric vehicle sales, hit its 2025 target three years early. Last year, 37 percent of new cars sold in that country were electric, according to Raymond James, a financial firm.

This year, that figure could climb to 45 percent of new car sales in China, according to the IEA.

A report last year by RMI, an energy research institute, said these accelerating adoption rates are a better predictor of the future. Falling battery costs, increased policy support and shifting consumer attitudes could mean that electric vehicles will account for more than 60 percent of new vehicle sales globally by 2030, the report argued.

This more rapid adoption would mean that oil demand could start falling faster than current policies would suggest. The IEA has developed a separate modeling scenario based on countries’ broader climate and net-zero targets, independent of whether they are backed yet by specific policies, and determined that oil consumption would fall by nearly 8 percent by 2030 if nations were to meet these goals. By 2050, oil demand would be cut nearly in half.

That shift is not a foregone conclusion. Some oil companies have remained bullish on demand for their core product, and continue to resist policies that would speed adoption of electric vehicles.

#electric vehicles #oil and gas

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