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Comment on Blade Runner by Jareth

Jareth — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 01:12:51 +0000

In reply to Aasasd.

The text mentions that according to the source novel all such images are supposedly holographic and another shot of Rachel and her “mother” is presented as a first and probably too subtle example of this.

Talking about subtle clues: on rewatching the scene I noticed for the first time there are two glasses on the dresser in the back. Maybe also meant as a hint that there are two people in that appartement?

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Comment on 2001: A Space Odyssey by Clay Halliwell

Clay Halliwell — Tue, 08 Oct 2024 22:48:17 +0000

Can’t overlook the glorious use of Copperplate Gothic in this pre-release teaser: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJV_-x67qCQ

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Comment on WALL·E by Beni Cherniavsky-Paskin

Beni Cherniavsky-Paskin — Sun, 14 Jul 2024 14:39:10 +0000

Do any of the other (non WALL series) bots use interpunct in their name?

BURN·E the separate short’s poster styles it same at WALL·E with circular interpunct and red circle background for the the E; however on the bot itself there is no E circle and some shots show maybe a squarish interpunct but some clearly show a short dash? SUPPLY·R from same short appears to use an interpunct to me.

M·O looks like interpunct to me but could be an extremely short dash? You spelled it both ways in this article.

VAQ-M I’m not sure about.

In any case, many robots clearly use a dash. Do you have any insights on the variance?

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Comment on WALL·E by mosermichael123

mosermichael123 — Fri, 12 Jul 2024 15:05:44 +0000

Thank you for this amazing article! Now one detail from the movie that i didn’t quite understand is WallE’s pet cockroach. Do you know why EVE did not classify the cockroach as life? (Another interesting detail is that Disney didn’t sell any pet cockroaches as movie merchandize 🙂

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Comment on Alien by José Ferreira

José Ferreira — Tue, 11 Jun 2024 16:52:25 +0000

This was awesome to read. Fun fact related to the opening text about the cargo and crew, In Portugal the title was translated to “the 8th passenger” (“o 8⁰ passageiro”) so viewers would very quickly get a hint about what would happen

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Comment on About by Jason

Jason — Wed, 15 May 2024 09:42:11 +0000

Bought and love the book. Any chance you might be working on a second part of the book, with new entries?

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Comment on Alien by Jo King

Jo King — Sat, 11 May 2024 20:04:21 +0000

I now more that ever realize how resourceful Ripley is. We might even call her the Talented Mrs Ripley.

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Comment on Alien by H van den Berg

H van den Berg — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 13:00:21 +0000

Google

Om mani padme hum

and some of the keys make more sense, perhaps.

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Comment on Star Trek: The Motion Picture by Harry Hab

Harry Hab — Wed, 06 Dec 2023 17:13:08 +0000

Pump Demi, the name revives a lions-repressed crush I had on a certain actress that has her heyday in the 80s.

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Comment on Fontspots: Eurostile by Michael Okuda

Michael Okuda — Thu, 28 Sep 2023 15:45:40 +0000

In reply to Dave Addey.

I might add that the solid version of Starfleet Bold Extended was used for some relatively small lettering on the refit Enterprise model in Star Trek: TMP, for some small registry numbers and ship names. In starship models made for subsequent films, the inline version of Starfleet Bold was still used for the big registry numbers, but (ironically for the topic of this thread) on some models, the smaller lettering was Eurostile.

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