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Finding Dory’s real emotional power comes from Dory’s relationship with her memory condition. And here, the film is exceptionally smart and careful, both about dealing with disability personally, and about dealing with other people. Dory’s forgetfulness clearly exasperates and frustrates Marlin, but the film never portrays that as Dory’s problem; it’s up to him to learn tolerance and kindness, with Nemo as his conscience.
And while Stanton sets up their dynamic so Dory can stand in for anyone fighting a handicap, the script never treats her as a class, or as the subject of well-meaning lectures. Again, the movie is specific and personal rather than didactic about its messages, which makes them go down much smoother.
This is a community that has been defined by violence. Venus Xtravaganza. Matthew Shepard. Brandon Teena. Millions more, dead thanks to Ronald Reagan’s inaction on HIV. One-fifth of hate crimes in America are because of sexual orientation; it is the second-most common type. (The most common type, accounting for nearly half of all single-bias hate crimes, was racism.) The people in this crowd know Paul Ryan, Mike Huckabee, Donald Trump, and the other Islamophobic shills don’t give a shit about them.
In a way, the political moves after the massacre made sense: just pit Muslims against gay people and bring down the left by pretending it’s hypocritical to care about Muslim and LGBT lives at the same time. Except, of course, that “gay” and “Muslim” are more like a Venn diagram; there are people who are both. Maybe the straight community can be fooled by the faked grief from a group of people who consistently legislated against LGBT folks. But here in the Castro, the LGBT community and the Muslim community made a point of embracing. The anger in the crowd — and there was plenty — was aimed squarely at bigotry and at guns. When Tom Ammiano, a state assembly member, said “Fuck the NRA,” the crowd cheered. I did, too.
Zee.Areo is a mysterious startup that is reportedly completely funded by Google cofounder Larry Page, who has spent over $100 million on his flying car dreams.
Henry Ford said the single-seat Flivver would be “the Model T of the air,” but after a prototype crashed in 1928, killing the pilot, the industrialist abandoned the idea.
The Volocopter makes the Joby commitment to rotors look tame in comparison. The helicopter-drone hybrid, which aims to be completely on demand and autonomous, took its first manned flight in Southern Germany earlier this year.
The Piasecki VZ-8 Airgeep, also known as the flying Jeep, was developed for the US Army in 1957 to takeoff and land vertically.
The Moller M400 Skycar graced the cover of Popular Mechanics in 1991, teasing readers with the ability to “take off from your driveway, land anywhere.” To date, the company has yet to conduct a successful test flight.
Blade Runner, the seminal 1982 sci-fi noir, featured flying police cars call Spinners.
The Sky Commuter is a duct-fan based vertical-takeoff-and-landing (VTOL) aircraft designed by former Boeing engineer Fred Barker in the 1980s. In 2008, the remaining prototype was sold for £86k on eBay.
“Roads? Where we’re going, we don’t need roads.” With those words, Back to the Future’s Doc Brown and Marty McFly gave flying cars an 80s-sleek vibe.
Ron Weasly used a flying 1962 Ford Angilia to rescue his friend Harry Potter in The Chamber of Secrets.
The AeroMobil 3.0, a two-seat aircraft that can retract its wings and transform into a long roadster, was unveiled in Vienna in 2014.
A lot of the public’s fantasies about flying cars can be traced back to The Jetsons, the 1960s-era animated sitcom.
Joby Aviation plans on flying its first 12-rotor prototype by the end of the year. Future versions will seat four and look more planelike.
The Fifth Element featured its own flying cop cars, as well as aerial taxis. I wonder if Bruce Willis’ Korben Dallas would ever fly for Uber?
The Xplorair, first announced in 2007, was funded by the French Armed Services and plans its first test flight in 2017.
The Terrafugia Transition has been in development since 2006 and flying since 2009. In 2012, the winged auto flew for eight minutes and reached an altitude of 1,400 feet.
The German-made Lillium Jet plans to introduce the world’s first all-electric VTOL aircraft in 2018. It will seat two, range 300 miles, and will reach a max speed of 250 mph.
The flying car from 1968’s Chitty Chitty Bang Bang was originally conceived by Ian Flemming, the creator of James Bond. The original Chitty Bang Bang’s motor was from a Zeppelin dirigible.
Anyone want to pretend to be Tom Cruise for a minute?
In the ‘90s, there was a popular Korean TV show called Curiosity Heaven (It does not translate well) that conducted experiments based on these weird hypothetical questions.
In one episode of Curiosity Heaven, the hosts took ants to the top of the 63 Building (Seoul’s equivalent of The Tall Skyscraper Tourist Attraction in Every City, named for the number of floors it has) to drop them off. The question of the episode: if you drop an ant off a skyscraper, will it survive?
After coming to a theoretical conclusion through a lot of math and physics that the ants would survive an 820-foot fall, the plan was put into action. But as the hosts summited the top of the skyscraper, they discovered all of the ants had exploded from the atmospheric pressure. That’s right: exploded.
If that’s not the biggest plot twist I’ve ever read in my life, then I don’t know what is.
ABC’s really been hyping up this episode with dramatic teasers of this week’s “two-night television event,” and last night’s episode ended with shots of dudes bleeding from the face and (presumably) Chad’s wounded knuckles. But knowing how The Bachelorette producers love a good troll, I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s revealed in tonight’s episode that the only reason they’re bleeding is because they all somehow managed to impale each other at the pool party while running around on the slippery tiles with their weird, spiky puka shell necklaces.
God bless all the non-contestant characters on today’s episode! From the girl who could orgasm on command on stage at open mic night (“I never asked for this” -everyone) to the cameo-thirsty security guard patrolling the Bachelor mansion in case of a roid-rage Chad attack, they were the true stars of this episode. And by “god bless” I actually mean, “Where did they find these people?”
This week’s group date takes JoJo and 12 men to a spoken word event where the guys have to share their most embarrassing sex stories. I guess the guys’ stories would have been much too raunchy for network TV, so the producers cut out pretty much everything. Except they may have left too much up to our own imaginations when the only snippet of Damn Daniel’s story we got was how he always has a knife on him and he cut off some girl’s hair as part of a freaky sex thing. The camera cut to a quick shot of him drawing some kind of stick figure during the 45-min prep period, and I can only guess what kind of scene it might have been depicting:
With tensions at an all-time high in the house, Evan uses the opportunity to take some cheap shots at Chad, insinuating that he takes steroids. Chad does not take this well, and grabs Evan by the back of his American Apparel v-neck, stretching it out a comical amount.
JoJo took James T. the muppet singer-songwriter on a one-on-one date that included a 1950s costumed group dance number that looked like it was straight out of a Johnny Rockets training video for new employees. James T. has two left feet, and you can’t convince me that JoJo wasn’t actually dancing with a cardboard cutout.
And of course, James T. wouldn’t be James T. if he didn’t carry around a guitar with him everywhere he went. He whips out his “second baby” and starts serenading an ecstatic JoJo with Wonderwall some song he wrote, and they kiss! I can’t find anything bad to say about this, he brings out her Texas accent when they’re together and it’s adorable!!
The Hound is back, and still grumpy! These two could have an HGTV spin-off called The Piety Brothers, just spitballing here.
Even though Game of Thrones is once again feeling very crowded, it was still really nice to see the Blackfish! Clive Russell was occasionally slipping into a Robert DeNiro impression I didn’t quite understand, but I still wanted to stand up and cheer when he roasted Jaime, who really deserves it right now. I can’t remember the last time he said something that wasn’t related to incest.
Lyanna Mormont, a hard-ass 10-year-old, who doesn’t like being spoken to by adult men, but will sensibly believe them when they say White Walkers are REAL AS HELL AND TERRIFYING. She has mastered the art of Sheryl Sandberg’s Leaning In and is all about shaming people about their last names.
Septon Meribald (aka Ray?), it was nice to know you. Book readers have awaited you on baited breath for months, and now you have come and gone faster than Christmas morning. You had some great lines, like “We’re talking about life,” and “It’s never too late to stop robbing people and stop killing people.” Thank you for being the fourth hanged man whose bloated purple face we’ve had to look at in close-up this season.
If I could spoon food into mouth using just my nose, I’d have abandoned silverware long ago.
“I’m so close to giving it up. I thought I would be BlackBerry ‘til I die. I do still love my buttons, but you know, I think eBay has almost run out of this model… I think there’s been a few more models since then which I didn’t like as much, and I feel like I’m so close to just having the iPhone 6S.”
Can you imagine being in an eBay bidding war with Kim Kardashian?
