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astralbondpro · 2 months

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Star Trek Nemesis (2002) // Dir. Stuart Baird

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watching-pictures-move · 1 year

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Movie Review | Executive Decision (Baird, 1996)

This review contains mild spoilers.

After I decided to give Under Siege a rewatch because I saw it was about to leave Canadian Netflix, I saw this other Steven Seagal "classic" was about to leave too, and ended up squeezing in a rewatch. This despite the fact that I can say with certainty that I own this movie, as I bought one of those four packs years ago for the express purpose of watching this movie. But you see that date lingering in the corner of the Netflix screen, and well, some things take priority. Also, I don't remember where I placed my copy of this either. Maybe I should get better at organizing my collection? Anyway, while its ownage is less firm than that of Under Siege, I still had a pretty good time.

As far as Die Hard clones go, this has the most in common with Air Force One, which came out the following year. They both take place on a plane, and also feature an opening commando raid and kidnapping (here, two separate scenes, in the other movie, combined into one). I do think this movie compares unfavourably to that one, and Under Siege, and of course, Die Hard, for one main reason: not a lot happens here. All those other movies, after their initial setup, give their heroes a weapon but also a series of problems to solve, so that there's a constant stream of incident. Here, once we get onto the plane, there's really just a handful of problems that the heroes have to solve for, all bundled together: defuse the bomb before the terrorists can set it off or kill any of the hostages. There isn't much shooting until the last few minutes, and while it's competently staged, it lacks the verve of those other movies. Where those movies have the heroes navigating all different parts of their respective settings, here much of the movie has them sweating it out in the belly of the plane.

That being said, I don't think this is inherently a flaw, and does make the movie involving in another sense, in that it's essentially an ode to problem solving and using brains over brawn. (The film's nerdy streak also manifests in the way it lovingly lingers on all the technical equipment, from all the flickering lights on the plane's different consoles and systems, to the extreme wide angle pinhole cameras used by the commandos.) The commando raid at the beginning of the movie yields paltry results, and once the characters are on the plane, a shoot 'em up solution favoured by the de facto lead commando is quickly understood to be the worst possible option in this situation. The heroes largely operate with intelligence and a good amount of deliberation. This whole subgenre came out of a reaction to the meathead muscleman action movies of the '80s, and despite Seagal also emerging as a star after that period, his casting as the trigger-happy lead commando is effective in evoking that period. Also, his death scene is really funny. Seagal's character is such an asshole (a trait inherited from real life) from when he first appears on screen that we start sweating like the heroes later do. We begin to dread that we're stuck with this guy as the hero for the whole movie, so it's a joy to see him get killed off as unceremoniously as he does so we can hang out with Kurt Russell and his friends instead. I like to say this is a good movie if you like Kurt Russell, but a great one if you hate Steven Seagal.

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Whereas in Die Hard the authority figures attempting to manage the situation from the outside are actively detrimental, and in most other examples of this subgenre, they're usually useless, here they are operating with a certain logic. The solution they lean towards is not a desirable one, but makes a certain amount of tactical sense given what information they have and what the stakes are. And once they reestablish contact with the team on the plane, they wisely get out of their way.

It is a bit jarring to see a 9/11-style scenario with Islamic terrorists in a movie made before 9/11, which probably makes it go down less easily than other movies in this subgenre. The version I watched on Netflix changed some of the dialogue to downplay the religious motivations of the villains. This is noted by Vern in Seagalogy as having one of the most bizarre examples of the "guy in a control room" trope, where a movie tries to mitigate negative portrayals of certain demographics or dodge accusations of racism by placing a character from that group in the "control room", so he's technically helping the heroes even if he might not be doing a lot. This one has one of the terrorists push back on the lead terrorist's plan for being too extreme, which, uh, is a choice. This might have gone over better had the movie attempted to define them as individuals, but they're basically cartoon villains here. For what it's worth, David Suchet is effective as the lead terrorist in a mustache-twirling way, even if he appears sans mustache.

#film #movie review #executive decision #stuart baird

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food-in-movies · 11 months

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U.S. Marshals (1998)

#us marshals #stuart baird #1998

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whileiamdying · 14 years

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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit S11E16 — Witness (2010)

A potential witness in a rape case is reluctant to testify because she is an illegal immigrant who both witnessed and was the victim of unspeakable war crimes against women in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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isagrimorie · 24 days

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I listened to the All Access Trek Podcast. Laurie Ulster said something that piqued my curiosity. Laurie mentioned that the writers of season 5 of Discovery want to be more connected to the larger Trek universe.

Then, Laurie and Anthony Pascal noted how different this attitude was from the early seasons of Discovery. Both Laurie and Anthony were involved in and around Trek productions, and Laurie herself was a host of After Trek (back when it existed).

Laurie mentioned that in season 1 of Discovery, studio executives would freak out if other Trek properties (specifically 90s Trek) were mentioned or alluded to. The TOS era is allowed, but it seems anything related to 90s-era Trek was not allowed.

And, it’s all because Star Trek Nemesis flopped big time.

(According to Jonathan Frakes he was told that Nemesis was the one that actually lost money.)

The effects of Star Trek Nemesis’s flop were so wide-ranging it almost killed the franchise. A few years later, they canceled Enterprise and any upcoming Trek live-action projects.

Nemesis is to blame for why neither Deep Space Nine nor Voyager had a live-action movie.

According to BTS reports and what the TNG actors have mentioned, Nemesis was a troubled production from the start. It got worse when the director, Stuart Baird, didn’t even care to know the actors’ names (famously mispronouncing LeVar Burton’s name). Additionally, he never bothered to watch a single episode of TNG. Marina Sirtis and LeVar Burton have been outspoken about how much they dislike Nemesis and the director (more from Marina on this).

(Both Marina and Gates McFadden weren’t fond of the other TNG era movies either, especially Gates because she was little more than a cameo in the movies.)

After Nemesis flopped it took years for Star Trek to return, and after that, there seemed to be a mandate from the studio to never mention 90s Trek.

This is why Star Trek: Picard was such a big deal, especially since it directly references events from Nemesis.

(And, an even bigger deal for Picard Season 3 reunion getting produced.)

The Nemesis effect continues to have an impact on the movie side of the franchise. The majority of announced projects take place in the pre-TOS era, TOS era, or the Kelvin timeline but there are no projects set during or after the 90s-era Trek.

This is why mentioning a ship class called Janeway was big but even bigger, showing Picard and directly referencing to the Dominion War and Deep Space Nine and Discovery is a big deal.

Anyway, I just wanted to mention all this because it baffled me why the executives were so into TOS-era trek and there seemed to be no interest for 90s-era Trek. And, learning about all this finally answered all my questions.

TLDR, I like TOS era but I’m not into the TOS-era and I enjoy the Kelvin timeline as much as anyone else but it is not the era of Trek I’m interested in. So the movies set all TOS or Pre-TOS era— its just not something I’m going to jump around about.

#star trek #thinky thoughts

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colonel-kira-nerys · 1 year

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Content Warning: Discussion of Sexual Assault in Nemesis

As discussed in this video, Stuart Baird, the director of Nemesis, was...difficult to work with, to say the least. For six weeks, he called LeVar Burton "Laverne," and he refused to watch a single episode of TNG before directing the movie, so let's just say there was some tension on the set between the actors and the director.

Marina Sirtis said in a previous interview that if she spoke up about any of his direction being contrary to the history of her character ("my character wouldn't do that" and other similar protests) Stuart Baird would be dismissive and would make her continue doing the scene over and over again until she bent to his will and gave him what he wanted.

Then, in this video from DragonCon above, we hear her describe how emotionally difficult it was for her to do the first rape scene (I say "first" because there were more than one, including an incredibly disturbing one in a turbolift that Stuart Baird later lamented having to cut because he "liked that scene" and was proud of how it was so artistically shot with a snorkel camera). It just disturbs me to no end that Marina was put in the position of having to do multiple rape scenes under the direction of a man who displayed exactly zero respect for her and the rest of the TNG cast. She says she needed a "stiff drink" and a cigarette on those days, not just because of the scene itself, but because filming takes a long time, and she would have to act those rape scenes for five or six hours at a time.

I feel like we don't talk enough about how psychologically and emotionally intense it is for some people to do these kinds of scenes, but we especially don't talk enough about how it's directors like Stuart Baird who make an already difficult situation for an actress to perform even more so through their blatant lack of respect for their actors.

#marina sirtis #levar burton #star trek nemesis #deanna troi #rape mention tw #Youtube

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scotianostra · 2 months

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On 14th March 1952 we saw the first TV programme to be broadcast in Scotland

The broadcast showed the Royal Scottish Country Dance Society performing the Duke of Edinburgh Reel.

The BBC’s new television studios, grandly called Broadcasting House, were located at 5 Queen Street. The invitation had specified “Dress -- Highland or Dinner Jacket”.

Guests included Scotland’s aristocratic and cultural elite (Highland attire), plus a handful of London-based BBC executives (Dinner Jackets) who had ventured to their new outpost in what they saw as the frozen North.

In the main studio, the VIP audience was in the focus of live television cameras and the atmosphere was tense. The pictures on the monitor screens were small and horizontally lined, and , of course, in black and white.

In his speech opening the transmitter, the Secretary of State for Scotland, James Stuart, found the time to put in a good word for John Logie Baird. This was followed by a Prayer of Dedication by the Very Rev Charles L. Warr, Dean of the Thistle and Chapel Royal.

After a Vote of Thanks by James Miller, Lord Provost of Edinburgh, the stage was taken over by the first live television entertainment from Scotland: a performance by the Royal Scottish Country Dance Society, with Tim Wright and his band.

By 8 p.m. the studio was off the air and the tension relaxed. A buffet was opened and glasses of wine appeared while the guests watched the rest of the evening’s programme from London, starting with Television Newsreel.

The show was seen by a large audience in England but the Scottish viewing numbers were small, with only 2730 licence holders on record as of March 14 1952, this in a time where only the very few dared not to have a Licence! In Helensburgh, John Logie Baird’s birthplace, there were just ten licence holders.

Five years later it was the turn of STV.

"This is Scotland" was an hour of entertainment, anchored by James Robertson Justice, to mark the opening of STV on August 31st 1957.

STV dispensed with dignitaries and there was no prayer of dedication, but instead a big variety show featuring singers and dancers and other celebrities including Alastair Sim, Ludovic Kennedy and Stanley Baxter.

The STV programme has considerable Helensburgh interest, including Jimmy Logan in his prime, and a film clip from the south of France in which Deborah Kerr was interviewed with David Niven. John Logie Baird was not forgotten; James Robertson Justice paid him an elaborate tribute and showed a replica of the early 'Televisor' set.

Jack Buchanan in the inevitable top hat and tails; rather incongruously he led the audience in a chorus of " belong to Glasgow. It must have been one of Buchanan’s last public appearances, he was to die of cancer just two months after the STV opening.

#scotland #scottish #history #television #broadcasting

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i'm going to transition the event convos that i have and i'm gonna drop the pre event convos for our sanity haha some of my muses changed their status so i'm going to put it here and you can go ahead and feel free to request even new starter for our connections if you prefer or out of fandom as well just feel free to ask as many as you want (:

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#hw; starter call

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betashift · 1 year

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STAR TREK: nemesis (2002), dir. stuart baird

#nemesis #star trek: nemesis #star trek #trekedit #filmedit #scifiedit #trekdaily #*mine #:(

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A friend and I have a question about Georgian seed-cakes, and, having followed your quest for an authentic period seed-cake, I thought I would apply to you for assistance! All of the period seed-cake recipes we have seen seem to be light sponges, but we encountered a reference in The Lyon in Mourning to a piece of seed-cake being sent from Edinburgh to Rome around the 1760s/1770s, as a gift for Charles Edward Stuart from a Jacobite Supporter.

"Ay !" said he [Charles Edward Stuart], "a piece of cake from Scotland, and from Edinburgh too !" Then rising from his seat and opening a drawer, "Here," said he, "you see me deposite it, and no teeth shall go upon it but my own!"

Do you have any knowledge of a historical seed-cake recipe that might travel so well as that?

Thank you for the interesting question! I have only traveled briefly with seed cakes, so I don't have a specific recipe that I can recommend for that purpose. One of my cookbooks explores the historical background of seed cake, the excellent Setting a Fine Table: Historic Desserts and Drinks from the Officers' Kitchens at Fort York by Elizabeth Baird and Bridget Wranich.

Baird and Wranich adapt a recipe from 1755, "A Seed Cake, Very Rich" written by Elizabeth Cleland in A New and Easy Method of Cookery. They explain, "Early seed cakes were raised by the addition of yeast. Initially, eggs were added to enrich the cake and, as recipes evolved, they eventually replaced yeast as the leavening. In the 18th century, it was popular to serve seed cakes at harvest time." And they contrast its dense, moist fine crumb against airy commercial pound cakes of the present day.

I found a cookbook from the specific historical era you mention, The Compleat Housewife, Or, Accomplished Gentlewoman's Companion by Eliza Smith, published 1773. There are at least five different recipes for seed cake in this book, all over the place: "A good Seed Cake," "Another Seed Cake," "A rich Seed Cake, called the Nun's Cake." (I've never heard of Nun's Cake). The first one I found seemed pretty different from the recipe I use, although it does have the very metal verbiage "blood-warm."

Some of her alternate recipes are closer to what I make, using brandy for depth of flavour and just whipped eggs for leavening.

Every seed cake recipe I have made, including the not-very-historical one in The Fort George Bill of Fare that uses baking powder, produces a very dense, rich, butter-heavy cake. I imagine that if you tightly wrapped it it would travel well and stay moist, and the addition of more alcohol is also a possibility (some of Eliza Smith's recipes call for sack i.e. fortified wine).

Both Cleland and Smith specify using the hands to work the butter into a cream, and Baird and Wranich note that their museum staff and historical interpreters do this for visitors at Fort York. (I find an electric mixer much faster and easier).

#seed cake #recipes #culinary history #foodways #food #cakes #18th century #cooking with shaun #asks #lmk if you want pictures of the 'setting a fine table' recipe #it's very good but a bit of a production and needs parchment-lined cake pan hoops

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typhlonectes · 2 years

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Range of the Ensatina eschscholtzii complex in Western North America. Names refer to subspecies.

via: Thomas J. Devitt, Stuart J.E. Baird and Craig Moritz - (2011). "Asymmetric reproductive isolation between terminal forms of the salamander ring species Ensatina eschscholtzii revealed by fine-scale genetic analysis of a hybrid zone". BMC Evolutionary Biology 11 (1): 245. DOI:10.1186/1471-2148-11-245.

#evolution #species #biology #salamander #plethodontidae #amphibian #herpetology #north america #PNW #california #animals #nature #science

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Luke Davies remembered in New Farm Park

New Post has been published on https://qnews.com.au/luke-davies-remembered-in-new-farm-park/

Luke Davies remembered in New Farm Park

The family of Qantas flight attendant Luke Davies paid tribute to the much-loved Qantas steward in a memorial service at New Farm Park this afternoon.

Luke and partner Jesse Baird were allegedly murdered by a serving NSW Police officer in February.

Constable Beau Lamarre-Condon allegedly killed the couple at Jesse’s terrace house in Paddington.

Before moving to Sydney, Luke Davies lived in the inner-city Brisbane suburb of New Farm.

Hundreds of family and friends gathered in New Farm Park this afternoon for the memorial service. Many wore white in honour of Luke.

Luke’s brother John spoke movingly of a sibling taken too soon.

“I will go on forever trying to forever be like you…”

Stuart Chrichton, a former teacher of Luke’s, said his ‘infectious positivity would overshadow the darkness of his death’.

“He brought pure goodness, light; he had a cheeky, fun-loving demeanour.”

Friend Claire Horsfield spoke about the sheer number of people who attended the memorial.

“It shows the impact he had: he was just one person, but everyone has been brought here today.

“It’s a sad moment, but it’s one we want to cherish.”

A reception will follow the memorial service at the neighbouring Powerhouse.

Remembering Luke and Jessie:

Family and friends farewell Jesse Baird at Melbourne memorial

Luke Davies’ mum Sandra shares tribute to her son

Hundreds attend Sydney vigil for Jesse and Luke

Mardi Gras tribute for Jesse Baird and Luke Davies

For the latest LGBTIQA+ Sister Girl and Brother Boy news, entertainment, community stories in Australia, visit qnews.com.au. Check out our latest magazines or find us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube.

#luke davies jesse baird

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Speak Now [Taylor Swift]

Okay this has been 75% completed in my inbox long enough so I'm not doing the vault tracks as initially planned but! Just lmk if you do wanna see the vaults

also I am apparently so attached to assigning Enchanted to ships I should just do an edit series for couples. And Innocent was so hard to assign

Mine ; Thomas Mayfair (with Brady Mariano @randomestfandoms-ocs ), Ashton Daniels (with Blaine Anderson), Emmeline Fitzherbert (with Mal), Cassidy Fuchs (with Grace Chasity)

Sparks Fly ; Ruby Fitzherbert (with Evie), Natalia Finch (with Obie Bergmann)

Back To December ; Ashton Daniels (with Sam Evans), Sebastian Van Wyck (with Henry, pre-RWRB), Katherine Keller (young with FP Jones)

Speak Now ; Tiffany Holloway (with Max Jägerman), Jasmine Teller (with Jess Mariano), Robin Davidson (with Betsy McDonough), Theodosia Fortescue (with Colin Bridgerton), Sampson Lockhart (with Arabella Kingsley)

Dear John ; Belladonna Callow (with Malachi), Gabriel Legume (with the unnamed ex), Genevieve Sterling (with Hiram Lodge)

Mean ; Felicity Moore, Cassidy Fuchs, CJ Kelly

The Story Of Us ; Genevieve Sterling (with Hiram Lodge), Steve Schuester (with Jesse St James), Serafina Hollander (with Tristan Dugray), Solana Reed (with Val), Carrie Ryan (with Noah Puckerman)

Never Grow Up ; Chloe Brown (with Eloise Sol @randomestfandoms-ocs ), Lottie Tyler (with Rose Tyler), Silas Green (with Hannah Foster)

Enchanted ; Leticia Beaumont (with Colin Bridgerton), Arabella Kingsley (with Sampson Lockhart), Calliope Angelos (with Nora Holleran), Kendall Frost (with Beatrice Mountchristen-Windsor), Cassie Rose (with Annabeth Chase), Vincent James (with Jenny Banks), Tamora Snow (with Lucy Gray Baird), Charles Pond (with Clara Oswald), Odelia Roth (with David Nolan & Odessa Pavlova)

Better Than Revenge ; Gabriel Legume (with Ben, Audrey's POV), Delilah Curdle (@ Betty Cooper), Catalina Cabrera (with Dan Humphrey, Serena's POV), Carrie Ryan (honestly this is just Rachel @ Carrie for all of their shared boyfriends)

Innocent ; Chloe Brown, Ginevra Gothel

Haunted ; Carrie Ryan (with Noah Puckerman), Steve Schuester (with Jesse St James), Wrenley Daring (with Jay), Gabriel Legume (with Harry Hook), Victor Chase (with Billy Loomis), Lorelai Cooper (with Chuck Clayton)

Last Kiss ; Steve Schuester (with Jesse St James), Carrie Ryan (with Sam Evans), Ashton Daniels (with Sam Evans), Thomas Mayfair (with Lane Kim), Tiffany Holloway (with Max Jägerman in most timelines), Catalina Cabrera (with Nate Archibald)

Long Live ; Sage Rowe, Nathan Price, Ashton Daniels, Carrie Ryan, Silas Green, Cassidy Fuchs, Ivy Perkins, Abigail James, Felicity Moore, Zeke Beiste

Ours ; Arabella Kingsley (with Sampson Lockhart), Karina Jimenez (with Brittany Pierce), Felix Dosier (with Finn Hudson), Ashton Daniels (with Blaine Anderson), Gabriel Legume (with Ben), Theo Gleason (with Jess Mariano)

Superman ; Carrie Ryan (with Jesse St James), Silas Green (with Lex Foster), Sebastian Van Wyck (with Henry Hanover-Stuart-Fox, pre RWRB), Katherine Keller (with FP Jones), Madeline Stevens (with Frank Delfino)

Send me an album and, if I know the artist, I will try to associate to every song an oc/ship/crossover

#answered #ginevrastilinski #album association game #I'm tagging everyone later

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erla-film · 7 months

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When you open the link, delete the "https://href.li/?" link fragment from the beginning

#film movie #film #movie

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refocilador · 8 months

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#movies #reseña #cinema #pelicula

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saturdaynightmatinee · 1 year

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CALIFICACIÓN PERSONAL: 5 / 10

Título Original: The Pale Door

Año: 2020

Duración: 96 min.

País: Estados Unidos

Dirección: Aaron B. Koontz

Guion: Cameron Burns, Aaron B. Koontz, Keith Lansdale

Música: Alex Cuervo

Fotografía: Andrew Baird

Reparto: Stan Shaw, Melora Walters, Natasha Bassett, Zachary Knighton, James Landry Hébert, Devin Druid, Bill Sage, Noah Segan, Pat Healy, Tina Parker, Alexandra Harris, Darryl Cox, Jake Ryan Scott, Jonny Mars, Holt Boggs, Peggy Schott, Mark Adam Goff, Danielle Evon Ploeger, Collin Place, Jennifer Rader, Kent Shelton, Jeremy King, James Whitecloud, Debbi Tucker, Doug Van Liew, Caroline Kelly, Miranda Poteet, Seth Stuart, Emily Bertels, William Tate, Greg Williams

Productora: Paper Street Pictures. Distribuidora: Front Row Filmed Entertainment

Género: Horror;Drama;Western

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9178402/

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