And I don’t think many people would have expected that there’d be much point to such an effort. The vast majority of explosive eruptions in recorded history have gone more-or-less upward. A delay of minutes, or even an hour or so, in filming such an eruption wouldn’t really miss very much. I think the scale and speed…

I think Lloyd-Webber’s Phantom is past-peak in popular consciousness, and in that respect isn’t really any harder to reboot than the others. The main issues are that you probably can’t anchor him to a suitable lair anymore (what’s the modern equivalent of the Palais Garnier? The Sidney Opera house? Would modern…

So if the definition of “time crystal” is as stated here, isn’t life essentially a time crystal?

It helped that Tarkin wasn’t the most kinetic of roles. Cushing was mostly called upon to preside over his scenes imperiously, rather than running or fighting or emoting hammily. That carried over easily to a pretty static role for his CGI duplicate. If you tried to replicate one of his more dynamic performances (Frank…

The Academy topped itself a couple years later by nominating “Ave Satani”, from The Omen, but that didn’t win either.

That Morey’s Pier stuff sounds pretty awesome, both for its gleeful disregard of copyrights and its ambitious shoestring-budget improvisation. I love that they were working a Futuro house into their attractions:

I believe you’re correct that tsunamis don’t actually “rise up” until they hit shallow coastal water. I’m not sure whether a truly massive wave might reach destructive height while passing over some relatively shallow (say 100' or less) water that a ship was coincidentally also crossing. Any such wave off the coast of…

I believe the 2006 remake used the “rogue wave” rationale.

The tiger bit sounds pretty inspired, actually. Pity it got cut.

There was indeed a second group of survivors in Beyond the Poseidon Adventure, who the salvagers work to rescue and Savalas’ group of thugs try to kill, because they’re witnesses of his attempt to recover an arms shipment (and possibly nuclear material, as I recall).

I’ve seen dealers screw up on occasion, but more than once or twice, and especially where there’s a big pay-out, and I’m sure it would be caught by the Pit Boss and/or security, and they’d switch dealers at least, and really focus their attention on the benefiting player.

As I believe someone else mentioned in the thread, he could potentially telepathically influence whether other players hit or passed, which could slightly benefit his card counting.

“Water bomb” is the literal translation of ‘Wasserbombe”, which is the German word for “depth charge”. I assume there was a machine translation involved.

In a setting like Disneyland, I’d imagine that plastic would have the practical advantage of holding up better over time under hot lights. Bone will definitely deteriorate.

The story goes that it was done in the early 1700s, when most Europeans were unfamiliar with how real lions looked:

When I was in fourth grade (circa 1973) we had a real human skeleton for lessons in anatomy. The teacher told us at the time that such skeletons typically came from India, where sometimes the family couldn’t afford enough fuel for the customary cremation and scattering in the Ganges. So barely scorched bodies were…

a woman (a nearly unrecognizable Melora Hardin, who later played Jan on The Office) talks to Buzzy at the hotel.

No air-cooled machine gun could really do sustained suppressive fires of the sort that was fashionable in WWI. The British and Russians, and to a lesser extent the US, fielded water-cooled weapons in WWII, but I’m not sure how often the less trench-bound nature of combat (and greater flexibility of artillery to pummel…

I seem to recall reading that they used the modern MG3 (which is pretty difficult to distinguish) as the basis for the movie originals. It’s debatable whether those or vintage MG42s would be more readily available to movie propmasters after all these years refighting WWII.

The RoF and ammo are a bit better than the BAR (900RPM, 50 round drum). The original German MG42 had a RoF of 1,500, which is a bit excessive unless you’re firing from a tripod and have a lot of belts handy.