Hollywood in Danger of Becoming "The Next Detroit Auto Industry" as Film Productions Flee the State

Hollywood is suffering a well-earned contraction.

But 2025 looks like another Grime Milestone.

Lately, creative workers are increasingly chasing their Hollywood dreams in production hubs far from Hollywood. LA continues to hold the lion's share of film and TV jobs in America, but after a long grind of jobs slowly slipping away, the exodus from the city has accelerated in recent years. A recent analysis of Bureau of Labor Statistics figures conducted by Patrick Adler and Taner Osman of Westwood Economics & Planning Associates found that the figure was 22% in August, down from about 33% two years earlier.
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The filmed entertainment industry's center of gravity is shifting further from Hollywood at a time of upheaval. The decadelong shift to streaming was exacerbated by the pandemic, which stalled, then boosted, production as people stayed inside and became couch potatoes. Peak TV came to a halt in 2022 when networks, studios, and streamers couldn't make the financial math for all those new streaming shows work. And filming was shut down once again in 2023 because of the Hollywood actors and writers strikes.
When projects slowly got back on their feet, fewer of them were turning their lights on in LA. FilmLA, which issues permits for production in the region, found that Greater Los Angeles' share of US-produced TV and film projects declined from 23% in 2021 to 18% last year. The number of people employed in the traditional entertainment industry in LA, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, hit a 30-year low in June. At the same time, jobs related to video gaming, live events, and the creator economy rose in the city as people's media diet shifted toward social video and away from traditional TV and movies.

That article is from late 2024.

Now some in the industry are warning that LA may see a collapse similar to the one Detroit suffered.

Hollywood At Risk of Becoming the "Next Detroit Auto." L.A. Production Insiders Voice Alarm
As a new tally shows plummeting shoot days in Los Angeles, organizers gathered to strategize on ways to get postproduction and music incentives included in California's bill to boost the industry.

The specter of Los Angeles becoming another Detroit, a city built on a specific industry that became a shell of its former self when that business moved out, loomed over a compelling film and TV industry town hall that tackled not only the calamitous drop in production in Hollywood and California, but also the fight to get the state to increase its entertainment production tax incentive.
The event on Monday night drilled down into a later stage of the entertainment production pipeline that is also currently in crisis: scoring and postproduction.
"This is not hyperbole to say that if we don't act, the California film and TV industry will become the next Detroit auto," said Noelle Stehman, a member of the "Stay in LA" campaign who spoke at the event.

California doesn't want to offer tax breaks to productions -- which other states have used to lure movies to film there, so that Alec Baldwin can satisfy his thirst for killing women -- because they see such incentives as "tax breaks for the rich."

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"These jobs haven't vanished, they've moved," intoned ProdPro CEO Alex LoVerde, pointing out that the United States has seen a decrease in production of 26 percent since 2022. One beneficiary has been Australia, which has seen a gain of 14 percent.
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The music and scoring panel was even more sobering. Music contractors and producers Peter Rotter and Jasper Randall, whose Encompass Music Partners hosted the event, pointed out how booked recording days for scoring stages in L.A. have collapsed, from a high during Peak TV in 2022 with 127 days to only a bleak 11 this year so far. They also explained that scoring work costs two-thirds less in Vienna, Austria, and 90 percent less in Bratislava, Slovakia.

Thanks to their own choices, a once-thriving American industry is collapsing. Writing jobs have fallen forty-two percent from last year.

Even with the 2023 strikes in Hollywood's rearview mirror, writers are still feeling the pinch.
On Friday, the Writers Guild of America released new job statistics highlighting recent declines in television-writing jobs across various levels of the hierarchy. Post-Peak TV, those at the peak of profession were the largest casualties (in numbers).
Of the 1,319 fewer TV writer jobs for the 2023-24 season (vs. 2022-23; pre-strikes), 642 jobs were lost -- a decline of 40 percent -- at the co-executive producer or higher (up to showrunner) level. Lower-level writers (staff writer, story editor, executive story editor) were the next most affected with 378 fewer jobs versus the prior season, down 46 percent. Mid-level positions (co-producer through consulting/supervising producer) declined by 299 (-42 percent).

All told, there were 1,819 television writing jobs last season, a 42 percent decline from the 2022-23 season. Last season's numbers are far fewer than even the COVID season of 2019-20, which employed 2,722 writers.
Cord-cutters and corporate greed are to blame, the WGA says.
"With an industry in transition -- cable TV subscriptions and cable programming declining, a massive run-up and then pullback in streaming series as Wall Street demands quicker streaming platform profits -- the number of TV jobs has declined," the WGA's latest jobs report reads.
The report said the "studios' prolonged unwillingness to negotiate a fair deal in 2023" was also to blame as it shortened the 2023-24 TV season.

The strike itself didn't help, you know. The former customers found alternatives.

As usual, this post is just an excuse to pound on Disney.

Marvel is hoping that people will care about their new Thunderbolts* movie, consisting mostly of characters from their bad TV shows.

But the movie is looking at a $70 million opening. Or, $63 million to $77 million.

This is lower than what Captain America made in its opening ($88 million).

Idiot feminist Grace Randolf remarked that Hollywood likes to see the movie that opens the summer season open at $100 million or more, or else it's a "bad sign" for the summer overall.

Marvel's 'Thunderbolts*' Tracking for Fair $70M U.S. Opening

The superhero pic -- introducing a new team of antiheroes and villains to the big screen -- hopes to grow that number by the time it kicks off the summer box office season May 2.
It's a virtual given that the 2025 summer box office will get off to bigger start than last year when Marvel's Thunderbolts* flies into theaters over the first weekend of May. However, the antihero comic book pic still has its work cut out for it.
According to tracking, the tentpole is headed for a domestic debut in the $63 million to $77 million range, with a target number of $70 million. While a fair number in and of itself, that's on the lower end for a Marvel Cinematic Universe title opening in summer.
Disney insiders say there's plenty of room for growth, noting that the film's rag-tag team of antiheroes and villains are making their appearance on the big screen for the first time, so aren't a known property (advance ticket sales, which commenced earlier this week, are on the slower side so far).
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Disney's well-oiled marketing machine has three weeks left to unleash the heart of the campaign for the movie, which stars Florence Pugh, Sebastian Stan, David Harbour, Wyatt Russell, Olga Kurylenko, Hannah John-Kamen and Julia Louis-Dreyfus, among others.

Barely anyone knows who those actors are, or what characters they play.

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Marvel and Disney are leaning into the creative team's indie roots in selling Thunderbolts* as something other than the usual MCU title. The pic is directed by Jake Schreier, known for the A24-produced Netflix show Beef and 2012's Robot & Frank.
"It ended up becoming this quite badass indie, A24-feeling assassin movie with Marvel superheroes," Pugh told Empire magazine in a recent joint interview with the Thunderbolts* cast and crew.

Sounds like someone's preparing the explanation: "It's a great opening for an A24 independent movie!"

Per Google's AI, long-range predictions for Fantastic Four, which opens July 25th, aren't great.

Long-range projections for "The Fantastic Four: First Steps" (scheduled for July 25, 2025) suggest a potential domestic opening weekend range of $70M-$85M, with some predicting a more modest opening between $35M-$50M. The overall performance is expected to be in the range of $250M-$300M.

That would be a failure. These movies cost at least $200-250 million and that doesn't include marketing and it doesn't take into account that theaters take about half the box office.

Elaboration:
Opening Weekend:
Early projections for "Fantastic Four: First Steps" put the potential domestic opening weekend at $70M-$85M for a three-day weekend and $80M-$95M for a four-day weekend, according to a report from Boxoffice Pro [2]. However, another analysis on a YouTube video suggests a more conservative opening of $35M-$50M, with a potential 250-300 million dollar gross.

The animated Jesus film from Angel Studios is the second-biggest movie in America.

Christian movies are dominating the box office this week, led by the animated hit "The King of Kings," which is backed by the studio behind the controversial 2023 smash "Sound of Freedom" and is being promoted by right-wing influencers on social media, who have billed it as an anti-"woke" movie.
"The King of Kings" finished second behind blockbuster "The Minecraft Movie" at the box office this past weekend with $19.3 million, which is only about $200,000 behind the opening weekend of Angel Studios' "Sound of Freedom."
Four of the top 10 films at the box office this week are faith-based movies, according to Box Office Mojo's latest daily totals, including all three parts of the television series "The Chosen: Last Supper," which distribution company Fathom Entertainment released in theaters.
"The King of Kings" is an animated film featuring a star-studded cast that follows writer Charles Dickens as he teaches his son about the life of Jesus Christ, while "The Chosen: Last Supper" is the fifth season of the historical drama series that depicts Jesus's life.
"The King of Kings" had the biggest box office weekend for a biblical animated film, surpassing the Oscar-winning animated movie "The Prince of Egypt," which earned $14.5 million in its opening weekend in 1998.

Disney-financed Dr. Woke suffered its worst ratings of all time with its latest gay woke episode. Only 1.58 million watched the latest Dr. Who show per overnight ratings, an all-time low.

This follows the first episode of the season, which got the worst-ever ratings for a season's debut episode, at 2.0 million overnight viewers. I think the previous low was 2.6 million (from the previous season).

Also note that the last episode of the prior season received the worst ratings ever for a Dr. Who finale.

I saw someone speculating that Disney encouraged Dr. Who to go as woke as possible so it would absolutely collapse and they could then buy the IP from the BBC at firesale prices. I don't think that's true. Not because Disney isn't a dirty company, but because Disney's reason for encouraging the BBC to go as woke and gay as possible is just their corporate mission statement.

Disney is going to have serious competition for its Orlando park this summer. Universal's Epic Universe opens May 22, and Disney's cutting ticket prices to draw crowds.

Universal Epic Universe opens in Orlando, Florida in 46 days.
The park is currently testing out operations for team members, their families and the media. On Saturday, FOX Business got a sneak peek at the massive attraction that features portals into "five immersive worlds" that offer shopping, dining, new rides and experiences.
Park guests' first portal entry takes them into Celestial Park, also called "the heart of Universal Epic Universe" in a media release. It features gardens with lush foliage, pathways and walkways to bring back the "park" element of a theme park.
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Universal Destinations and Experiences, a unit of Comcast NBCUniversal, is fourth in the top 10 theme park operators worldwide, according to the 2023 TEA/AECOM Theme Index and Museum Index, which provides some of the most recent data. Disney Experiences is number one, and the two mega-entertainment operators have parks in proximity in central Florida.
The two companies are prepared for a scorching-hot summer of competition, with Disney offering deals on tickets, stays and opening new shows featuring "The Little Mermaid" and "Disney Villains."

Disney is trying to blunt the impact of Epic Universe by offering $99 per night rates at one hotel.

Epic has five different parks. One is all about Nintendo/Mario and related characters, one's about How to Train Your Dragon. Another one is a big (new) Harry Potter ride.

The one that I'm the most interested in is their Universal Monster Park. The animatronics look pretty good. More of Frankenstein here.

If you saw that Jenny Nicholsen video, you may remember that one of her big complaints about Disney's Star Wars park is that they promised free-ranging robots, but delivered none. Well, one, sometimes -- sometimes you can see an R2-D2 rolling around, but she dismissed that, claiming that was just the same remote-controlled R2-D2 they sell in their store, so it's really more of a product demo than an attraction.

But apparently Epic Universe does have free-ranging baby dragons wandering around. (We'll see how long they work for before they start breaking down.)

Under its skin, it's one of those Boston Dynamics dog-bots.

A couple of "Is This Something?" trailers. "Warfare" is getting good reviews. Chris Gore and Alan Ng of Film Threat says it's not political, except in the way every war drama is political -- isn't war terrible? It's about urban combat in, I think, Fallujah.

There's a Japanese samurai movie called 11 Rebels that looks good, too.

Another samurai movie. This one has a Badass Girlboss in the lead, which is just perfectly timing the moment.

Posted by: Ace at 04:10 PM

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1 couldn't happen to a nicer group.

and i'd say the last one to leave should turn out thelight, but it's cali, so it won't have enough juice to turn on anyway...

Posted by: Sturmtoddler at April 21, 2025 04:11 PM (nXhwP)

2 corgis called

Posted by: Sturmtoddler at April 21, 2025 04:12 PM (nXhwP)

3 and that's a first again

Posted by: Sturmtoddler at April 21, 2025 04:12 PM (nXhwP)

4 can i get the home run?

Posted by: Sturmtoddler at April 21, 2025 04:12 PM (nXhwP)

5 woohoo, now off to the content

Posted by: Sturmtoddler at April 21, 2025 04:12 PM (nXhwP)

6 Die Mouse
Die Hollywood

Posted by: illiniwek at April 21, 2025 04:12 PM (Cus5s)

7 I don't quite get the appeal of a team where half the group are Captain America rejects/wannabes. How are they supposed to beat an overpowered villain aside from pulling out the "Do better" speech from the crappy TV show?

Posted by: Octochicken at April 21, 2025 04:13 PM (oCS0o)

8 *pops champagne* 🍾

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 21, 2025 04:14 PM (CWlRD)

9 I love movies but I'm ready for Hollywood to crash and burn.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at April 21, 2025 04:14 PM (xcxpd)

10 Penitence is a sanifying discipline.

Progressives do not want the constraints under which they could repent, so no repentance is possible.

They just have to wind themselves out--taking a lot of people with them.

Posted by: Axeman at April 21, 2025 04:14 PM (krQz2)

11 The mantra has been "survive until 25."

Why, what were they waiting for?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at April 21, 2025 04:15 PM (Vqx30)

12 Hollywood has been casting film production out for a while. There have been several movies-“Den of Thieves” comes to mind-that have been set in Los Angeles but obviously filmed in Atlanta. And hoorah. California is hell bent on taxing every profitable industry out of the state altogether. And unless you’re making a zombie apocalypse movie, you can’t film in LA anyway.

Posted by: UGAdawg at April 21, 2025 04:16 PM (se/Tc)

13 This summer should be good for Hollywood. Superman should make good money, there's a new stupid Dinosaur film coming out and those always make bank. The Minecraft movie is doing unexpectedly well (although its slowed a lot). Fantastic Four might make some money but that's really hard to predict. There is some hope for Hollywood but not a lot.

Basically they woked themselves into oblivion, fired all their established talent, promoted radical extremists into positions they are wholly unprepared to even attempt, and the strike about gutted interest. Add to that the way that the younger generation has the attention span of a fruit fly and prefers to watch movies on their phone, and its not looking good.

Honestly I don't think there is much sympathy out there though. Hollywood is run by horrendous people doing awful stuff and getting away with it for nearly a century. Now that the crap they have pulled finally is catching up with them people are shrugging and looking away.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 21, 2025 04:17 PM (2VST1)

14 This can't happen soon enough IMO. The independents have been putting out some good stuff the last few years.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 21, 2025 04:18 PM (e5NfL)

15 Local town a decade ago had FIVE theatres, all with multiple screens.

We are now down to 2.

What has killed it is a combination of Streaming AND Technology. I can now Stream in HD... to my 80 Inch Super HD TV, with sound through a Dennon Surround sound system... through my Klipsch 3 1/2 ft tall floor speakers.... without anyone interrupting my movie.

Why go to a theatre...

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 21, 2025 04:19 PM (QAkQ3)

16 Asian girlbosses are nothing new and frankly they're less annoying than when Western Feminists do it. Because Asians don't preach about girl power, they just cut someone's throat open.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at April 21, 2025 04:19 PM (xcxpd)

17 Quick search of Warfare. Battle of Ramadi. Cosmo Jarvis is in it. Who??? The dude who played Blackthorne in new Shōgun.

Posted by: runner at April 21, 2025 04:19 PM (g47mK)

18 Why, what were they waiting for?

The strike in '23 and Wuhan Flu lockdowns before that gutted their production rate. Basically they staggered through 2024 and hoped 25 would turn things around but its not looking very hopeful.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 21, 2025 04:19 PM (2VST1)

19 The two companies are prepared for a scorching-hot summer of competition, with Disney offering deals on tickets, stays and opening new shows featuring "The Little Mermaid" and "Disney Villains."

I'm sure there are *millions* of little girls across America who can't wait to see a balding fat dude dressed up as Ariel.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at April 21, 2025 04:19 PM (Vqx30)

20 7 I don't quite get the appeal of a team where half the group are Captain America rejects/wannabes. How are they supposed to beat an overpowered villain aside from pulling out the "Do better" speech from the crappy TV show?

Posted by: Octochicken at April 21, 2025 04:13 PM (oCS0o)

That is exactly how they'll win. There's no drama b/c you know the ending - by excluding either an uber-smart super (like Zemo, who was a Thunderbolt, could have been), a mentalist, a magician, or a small g god from the team, they have no way to win...and really no way to fight.

So, there will be some "we feel your pain" moment after enough public chaos and death, and they'll get the auto-win...yeah, a great movie there...

Posted by: Nova Local at April 21, 2025 04:19 PM (tOcjL)

21 We be alls hope the next Pope will be a Pope of Coler.

Posted by: Mary Clogginstein from Brattleboro, Vt at April 21, 2025 04:19 PM (FDlb9)

22 The preshow, set in Dr. Victoria Frankenstein’s lab,

Oh, fuck off. Just keep fucking off with this nonsense. FFS.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 21, 2025 04:19 PM (mlg/3)

23 Yeah that SAG-AFTRA strike with Fran Drescher really helped the Hollywood screenwriters...

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 21, 2025 04:20 PM (xD2dw)

24 I think we have 4 active theaters in town and one is shutting down. And its the one downtown in a nice location.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 21, 2025 04:20 PM (2VST1)

25 Didn't they just have a strike? Didn't that fix everything?

Were they fiddling while LA burned?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 21, 2025 04:20 PM (fkviG)

26 that is only name I recognized

Posted by: runner at April 21, 2025 04:21 PM (g47mK)

27 Monroe has one theater and I'm 99% sure it's only open because it has a $1 lease agreement with the city. They sure aren't surviving on ticket sales.

I'm frequently one of the only people in the theater and I don't go all that often anymore.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at April 21, 2025 04:21 PM (xcxpd)

28 22 The preshow, set in Dr. Victoria Frankenstein’s lab,

Oh, fuck off. Just keep fucking off with this nonsense. FFS.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 21, 2025 04:19 PM (mlg/3)

Awww... come on.... you don't like the Silver SurfHER?

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 21, 2025 04:21 PM (QAkQ3)

29 Will we see Hollywood actors on the street that read, "WILL SMUG FOR FOOD"?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 21, 2025 04:22 PM (L/fGl)

30 Butt who will run the pedophile ring?

Posted by: Elrond Hubbard at April 21, 2025 04:22 PM (VJc7E)

31 What super powers will Olga Kurylenko have?

Posted by: wth at April 21, 2025 04:22 PM (v0R5T)

32 We be alls hope the next Pope will be a Pope of Coler.
Posted by: Mary Clogginstein from Brattleboro, Vt at April 21, 2025 04:19 PM (FDlb9)

Actually that would be awesome. The African guys are motivated and conservative as hell.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 21, 2025 04:22 PM (fkviG)

33 25 Didn't they just have a strike? Didn't that fix everything?

Were they fiddling while LA burned?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 21, 2025 04:20 PM (fkviG)

Gonzo fiddles while George Burns!

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at April 21, 2025 04:22 PM (xcxpd)

34 Why are they determined to keep giving us these Fantastic Four movies?

They don't work. None of them have worked.

You already waste enough money on DEI movies, Hollywood; I don't think you can afford another, more conventional bomb.

Posted by: Dr. T at April 21, 2025 04:23 PM (WDfJQ)

35
Thanks to their own choices, a once-thriving American industry is collapsing. Writing jobs have fallen forty-two percent from last year.

Suck it you woke dumbasses.
BWAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
*Deep breath*
*Violent orgasm*
Bwahahahahahahahahahaha

Posted by: BifBewalski at April 21, 2025 04:23 PM (MsrgL)

36 So I wonder. Is this so bad ?

Because this much I know about California ... Sacramento and North are a completely different culture and state. I LIKE that part of the country. Very Ag heavy, a bit more culturally free than the East, yet still plenty normal enough.

So what happens if Hollywood crumbles ? Does that yank enough money out of LA that the South no longer rules the North. Or does San Francisco - which really is the wealth and political power center of the state - still hold sway ?

Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 21, 2025 04:23 PM (si91G)

37 damn ace, that is some body stackin going on right there.

please continue to dance on the grave of hollywood as it collapses and dies and painful death.

Posted by: Sturmtoddler at April 21, 2025 04:23 PM (nXhwP)

38 31 What super powers will Olga Kurylenko have?
Posted by: wth at April 21, 2025 04:22 PM (v0R5T)

Oral?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at April 21, 2025 04:23 PM (xcxpd)

39 32 We be alls hope the next Pope will be a Pope of Coler.
Posted by: Mary Clogginstein from Brattleboro, Vt at April 21, 2025 04:19 PM (FDlb9)

Actually that would be awesome. The African guys are motivated and conservative as hell.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 21, 2025 04:22 PM (fkviG)

And would throw Americas racial politics into a tizzy.

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 21, 2025 04:23 PM (QAkQ3)

40 Cord-cutters and corporate greed are to blame, the WGA says.
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As usual, they blame everyone but themselves.

Have they even considered that TERRIBLE WRITING might contribute to the problem?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 21, 2025 04:23 PM (7fElN)

41 Fantastic Four, yes I really do want to go see a movie with the Silver Suffragette up-talking like a Mean Girl...

Not.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 21, 2025 04:24 PM (xD2dw)

42 It's a win-win. Real druggy hobos can sleep on a fake NYC downtown urban street on MGM's backlot without freezing in the winter.

Posted by: 13times at April 21, 2025 04:24 PM (3hM5H)

43 Its too bad "Man From Uncle" didn't do enough business to justify a second film. I liked it, and was hoping to see the curly-wurly shoes go into action.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 21, 2025 04:24 PM (v6iF3)

44 Jeebus, Ace, only idiots watch super hero movies.

Posted by: Pudinhead at April 21, 2025 04:24 PM (pZ64F)

45 And would throw Americas racial politics into a tizzy.
Posted by: Romeo13 at April 21, 2025 04:23 PM (QAkQ3)

Let Justice be done though the Heavens fall.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 21, 2025 04:24 PM (fkviG)

46 That's all right, Governor Newsom asked for a bailout from the FedGov. Who knew the insane policy of medical care for all, regardless of citizenship, would blow an enormous hole in the CA budget?

Well, okay, everyone with a functioning brain knew medical care for all was budgetary stupidity.

Not only that, but, Newsom, is also suing the FedGov over tariffs. Newsom really has Trump on the ropes, I'm sure.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at April 21, 2025 04:24 PM (tT6L1)

47 Marky Mark moved to Las Vegas and opened a production company there. Mel Gibson has done some work there but he is committed to staying in CA and trying to get the things changed that are causing production to flee.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 21, 2025 04:25 PM (VofaG)

48 I don't quite get the appeal of a team where half the group are Captain America rejects/wannabes. How are they supposed to beat an overpowered villain aside from pulling out the "Do better" speech from the crappy TV show?

Nobody is excited for Thunderbolts. Hardly anyone even knows who the team members are and only modern Marvel Zombies have even heard of the villain. They want to make it a new Guardians of the Galaxy but for all Gunn's many faults he actually can write a story.

But those trailers, from the slow version of an old pop song to the lame millennial humor jokes and tired cynicism, to the pathetic name drop... does not inspire.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 21, 2025 04:25 PM (2VST1)

49 David Harbour fatigue. There’s something a little off about that guy. Creepy.

Posted by: haffhowershower at April 21, 2025 04:25 PM (5SvjB)

50 43 Its too bad "Man From Uncle" didn't do enough business to justify a second film. I liked it, and was hoping to see the curly-wurly shoes go into action.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 21, 2025 04:24 PM (v6iF3)

Same. Guy Ritchie has flair.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at April 21, 2025 04:25 PM (xcxpd)

51 America is simply no longer a movie going culture and with a bazillion streaming services, Youtube, video games and other distractions, the movie business may indeed be going the way of the Dodo.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 21, 2025 04:25 PM (XV/Pl)

52 Burn mouse, burn.

Also the rest of the hollyweirdos can join them.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 21, 2025 04:25 PM (N1tpc)

53 This post is a hell of a movie review.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 21, 2025 04:26 PM (/iLcI)

54 "Cord-cutters and corporate greed are to blame, the WGA says."

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LOL

These people just cannot live in reality.

Posted by: Jay in PA at April 21, 2025 04:26 PM (i7Q7S)

55 The Fantastic Four: Steps in poo.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at April 21, 2025 04:26 PM (zUBPx)

56 I predict that Hollywood itself will crumble. "Movies" (funny term really, moving pictures. Over 100 years old) will be made elsewhere.

All of our cultural icons will fail. NFL, MLB, NBA. boring.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at April 21, 2025 04:26 PM (ZmEVT)

57 32 We be alls hope the next Pope will be a Pope of Coler.
Posted by: Mary Clogginstein from Brattleboro, Vt at April 21, 2025 04:19 PM (FDlb9)

Mary, how about your Chocolate Jesus (Obama) or Big Mike become the next Pope ?????

Black and Gay Pope........ Kills two birds with one stone .....

Posted by: Allota Fagina at April 21, 2025 04:26 PM (A2iSa)

58 Mobland another one from MTV is decent. Not Taylor Sheridan iirc, but does reuse 1923 grandmother.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 21, 2025 04:26 PM (h9KKO)

59 I can’t wait to NOT see Fantastic Four starring Pudgy Mustache as Mr. Fantastic, Generic Brit as Invisible Woman, and Kirk Lazarus as Human Torch.

Posted by: Open Channel D at April 21, 2025 04:27 PM (UYpeS)

60 Its too bad "Man From Uncle" didn't do enough business to justify a second film. I liked it, and was hoping to see the curly-wurly shoes go into action.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 21, 2025 04:24 PM (v6iF3)

For whatever reason , Hollywood doesn't like to do sequels to movies that didn't do great at the box office ( no matter the reason) but did great with rentals , streaming and DVD sales.

I'm looking at you Dredd.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 21, 2025 04:27 PM (VofaG)

61 Fantastic Four should be a no-brainer, they have the technology to bring Jack Kirby's vision to life, the problem is there isn't anyone in Hollywood with a millionth of Kirby's talent.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 21, 2025 04:27 PM (XV/Pl)

62 What super powers will Olga Kurylenko have?

Beating up muscular trained male fighters more than twice her size, judging by every other Marvel movie.

As for the Fantastic Four, they COULD make a good movie out of it but nobody seems to understand how. Did you like The Incredibles? That was a good FF movie.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 21, 2025 04:27 PM (2VST1)

63 America is simply no longer a movie going culture and with a bazillion streaming services, Youtube, video games and other distractions, the movie business may indeed be going the way of the Dodo.

And my 4K TV is literally too big for my living room now and cost less than 500 bucks. I can stream anything I want. Microwave great popcorn whenever while I pause the show.

I agree with you, showing up at the Big Screen is a no go now. And it makes sense. "Events" are a thing that's going away with the older generation that rhymes with Oomer.

Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 21, 2025 04:28 PM (si91G)

64 As a new tally shows plummeting shoot days in Los Angeles, organizers gathered to strategize on ways to get postproduction and music incentives included in California's bill to boost the industry.

They don't need tax incentives, they need to stop being d***s to their potential audiences.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 21, 2025 04:28 PM (s8j++)

65 Ah so.

Posted by: wth at April 21, 2025 04:28 PM (v0R5T)

66 Actually I find generic brit as invisible woman kinda hot. She has next level crazy eyes.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 21, 2025 04:28 PM (fkviG)

67 But apparently Epic Universe does have free-ranging baby dragons wandering around. (We'll see how long they work for before they ~~start breaking down~~ kill a park visitor.)

Under its skin, it's one of those Boston Dynamics dog-bots.

FIFY

Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I WAS The Science at April 21, 2025 04:28 PM (lg881)

68 40 Cord-cutters and corporate greed are to blame, the WGA says.
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As usual, they blame everyone but themselves.

Have they even considered that TERRIBLE WRITING might contribute to the problem?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 21, 2025 04:23 PM (7fElN)

Aw, come on! Can't be the writing! Almost every movie they do is a reimaging of a past successful movie!

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 21, 2025 04:28 PM (QAkQ3)

69 I can’t wait to NOT see Fantastic Four starring Pudgy Mustache as Mr. Fantastic, Generic Brit as Invisible Woman, and Kirk Lazarus as Human Torch.

Don't forget the 4'10 Girl Silver Surfer

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 21, 2025 04:28 PM (2VST1)

70 Snow White made $1.1 million over the entire weekend in the US. Won't hit $90 million total before it's out of theaters.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at April 21, 2025 04:29 PM (UBKzV)

71 Greater Los Angeles' share of US-produced TV and film projects declined from 23% in 2021 to 18% last year

More than Three-quarters of US TV and film production is no longer in Hollywood, and people still think it's the place to go if you want to work in the business?

Posted by: FeatherBlade at April 21, 2025 04:29 PM (hB7mE)

72 Black and Gay Pope........ Kills two birds with one stone .....
Posted by: Allota Fagina at April 21, 2025 04:26 PM (A2iSa)

Already had the fag pope. A straight one would be a surprise at this point.

Posted by: tcn in AK at April 21, 2025 04:29 PM (a4NoL)

73 There are plenty of other things to do than watch movies. Hollywood is learning the hard way.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 21, 2025 04:29 PM (vm8sq)

74 Everything is being made in OK WY etc and in Britain because of tax breaks.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 21, 2025 04:29 PM (h9KKO)

75 I hope hollywood dies and all those who live and work there end up behind The Dollar Store servicing OTR trucker's sexual needs to make a buck.

Posted by: Die Hollywood Die! at April 21, 2025 04:30 PM (cnVbw)

76 Oh - and blame Bose. For less than $200, you can also buy a soundbar that rocks your living room as well as anything in the theater.

Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 21, 2025 04:30 PM (si91G)

77 Epic Universe 'dinosaurs,' are we sure Boston Dynamics does not have a 'war' setting on their critters? Be a shame if one went full AMEE.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 21, 2025 04:30 PM (xD2dw)

78 From Not the Bee:

https://tinyurl.com/uau2b7ar

Posted by: John Cornyn at April 21, 2025 04:30 PM (paSBy)

79 69 I can’t wait to NOT see Fantastic Four starring Pudgy Mustache as Mr. Fantastic, Generic Brit as Invisible Woman, and Kirk Lazarus as Human Torch.

Don't forget the 4'10 Girl Silver Surfer
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 21, 2025 04:28 PM (2VST1)

With that stupid hair and stupid voice

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at April 21, 2025 04:30 PM (xcxpd)

80 Actually I find generic brit as invisible woman kinda hot. She has next level crazy eyes.

Yeah she is pretty but she's kinda long in the tooth for a long term contract playing a character. Marvel signs 7-film contracts and she's already pretty up there. So is Pedro Pascal and his lame knockoff Burt Reynolds 'stache

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 21, 2025 04:30 PM (2VST1)

81 The Chosen.

Posted by: Come and see at April 21, 2025 04:31 PM (dg+HA)

82 Disney offering deals on tickets, stays and opening new shows featuring "The Little Mermaid" and "Disney Villains."

Yeah, they've actually started advertising to families with children again.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at April 21, 2025 04:31 PM (hB7mE)

83 "We be alls hope the next Pope will be a Pope of Coler."

As long as he's not a Pope of Choler, or if so, about the correct things.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 21, 2025 04:31 PM (42Vb+)

84 Aside from metaphorically, too bad it wasn't physically burned to the ground as well.

Posted by: ShainS --Waking Up Early is White Supremacy at April 21, 2025 04:31 PM (7nvAD)

85 Hopefully these sodomites are relocating out of the country. Try Canada, they love your demonic pedo crap up there.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 21, 2025 04:31 PM (/U5Yz)

86 I just pray for a Catholic Pope.

Yeah. I know.

Not a joke.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at April 21, 2025 04:31 PM (ZmEVT)

87 Who goes to the movies anymore?

Posted by: dantesed at April 21, 2025 04:31 PM (Oy/m2)

88 There's a YouTube of a CA mayor proposing to lower the unhoused population by handing out free fentanyl.

He's kidding.

I think.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at April 21, 2025 04:31 PM (wBaIH)

89 Test screenings of Fantastic Four have apparently revealed that Invisible Woman is the main character and Mr. Fantastic is weak and full of self-doubt. Total pass for me, and I loved those characters when I was a kid. What is stunning to me is that they aren’t even using Kirby’s designs to tell their shitty story.

Posted by: Open Channel D at April 21, 2025 04:31 PM (UYpeS)

90 > David Harbour fatigue. There’s something a little off about that guy. Creepy.

He's reportedly a former alkie, cheated on his wife, and has bipolar disorder.

I too get a creepy vibe from him. I never bought the fatherly protector act he put on for Stranger Things.

Posted by: bonhomme at April 21, 2025 04:32 PM (lIio7)

91 RLM dropped a long video. Part of the problem is going to a theater has become like riding the subway.

https://youtu.be/I0Jwv40MkiY

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at April 21, 2025 04:32 PM (7bz5Y)

92 I note that movie studios are releasing their movies, at time of theater release or soon after, for home rental . The price is ridiculous but they see the trend of waiting months for it to be released for rental or streamed rather than going to the theater to see it immediately.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 21, 2025 04:32 PM (VofaG)

93 Chick Silver Surfer...they have learned nothing. They deserve to fail at this point.

Posted by: Francis at April 21, 2025 04:32 PM (bbuBP)

94 I like that their business is suffering, in Hollywood and California generally. I hope entertainment executives are reduced to roasting rats over a barrel fire. They can enjoy their artisanal, alley-to-table ratwursts while they watch other down-at-the heels studio bigshots mutilate each other in prizefights beneath a burned out shell of an overpass in the devastated ruins of Los Angeles.

But I really love that the age of celebrity appears to be ending. One day, maybe actors will go back to their designated, normal role in human societies - as broadly reviled, degenerate misfits who are viewed like trained monkeys dancing for the amusement of audiences. They can live in kennels and be remunerated with Ozempic shots and monkeypox salve.

It would be nice to live in a culture that didn't have to pretend these animalistic idiots have valuable mindthoughts people should hear about and discuss.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 21, 2025 04:32 PM (BI5O2)

95 The Invisible Woman, aka actress Kirby, well do not look at her Twitter feed. She is such a hardcore Leftist loon

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 21, 2025 04:32 PM (xD2dw)

96 $300 Million
-$ 90 Million
It lost money.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 21, 2025 04:32 PM (h9KKO)

97 >>We be alls hope the next Pope will be a Pope of Coler."

Cardinal Robert Sarah FTW !

Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 21, 2025 04:32 PM (/U5Yz)

98 I'm one of the people who got an early admit to Epic Universe. It is indeed the best park in Orlando, and I am terrified at how long the lines are likely to be when it opens.

Frankenstein Castle is a pretty good ride, but I liked the real world Mario Kart fun of Bowsers Castle (whatever the official ride is, it's Bowsers Castle from Super Mario World).

Universal Monsters area, while nice, actually is probably the least interesting part of the park.

And there are free walking animatronics, there was a small white dragon walking around for photo ops in Dragon Land.

Posted by: Locarno at April 21, 2025 04:33 PM (KQAFE)

99 How come none of you told me that Trump declared martial law yesterday?

All the liberals predicted yesterday was The Day of Martial Law.

And they don't lie, exaggerate or tolerate any who do.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 21, 2025 04:33 PM (5Hv8M)

100 We're talking about comic books, right?

Posted by: Just got here at April 21, 2025 04:33 PM (dg+HA)

101 The animatronics look pretty good. More of Frankenstein here.

Dr Victoria Frankenstein?

Still pandering to the woke, I guess.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at April 21, 2025 04:33 PM (hB7mE)

102 But apparently Epic Universe does have free-ranging baby dragons wandering around. (We'll see how long they work for before they start breaking down kill a park visitor.)

Under its skin, it's one of those Boston Dynamics dog-bots.

FIFY
Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I WAS The Science at April 21, 2025 04:28 PM (lg881)
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I've seen that episode of The Simpsons...It doesn't end well for Itchy and Scratchy Land.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 21, 2025 04:34 PM (7fElN)

103 There's a Japanese samurai movie called 11 Rebels that looks good, too.
_______________________

Ooooo....a gore movie with subtitles. A personal pet peeve of mine. Action movies with subtitles guarantee you miss something disgusting while reading:

"OH NO, YOU CUT MY ARM OFF!!!"

(and you miss the arm being cut off)

Posted by: Orson at April 21, 2025 04:34 PM (dIske)

104 She Hulk Season 2?

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 21, 2025 04:34 PM (h9KKO)

105 Generic Brit is all wrong for Sue Storm, who is the All American girl-next-door.

Posted by: Open Channel D at April 21, 2025 04:34 PM (UYpeS)

106 they're still all in on"capeshit forever"

Posted by: brak at April 21, 2025 04:34 PM (jGJov)

107 There is a Critical Drinker show about Fantastic Four: First Steps with others and they were being bothered about the Thing. Something seemed off. One of the commentors pointed it out, Ben's head is too small for the rest of his body. Once you realize that, you can't unsee it; the Thing has a tiny head.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 21, 2025 04:35 PM (xD2dw)

108 Test screenings of Fantastic Four have apparently revealed that Invisible Woman is the main character and Mr. Fantastic is weak and full of self-doubt.

The trailers look that way. But that honestly bothers me less than the overall tone. I love the 60s retro-future vibe, that's terrific. But the tone feels like its bleak and sad, the trailers don't feel hopeful and exciting, not uplifting and fun. They feel mopey and tragic.

And the Thing's voice and appearance is wrong. He sounds like some doofy dude, and he's shorter than Sue. It looks like he was supposed to be huge, because his head is smaller than Sue's as well. Like they used the console and changed his scale with a cheat code.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 21, 2025 04:35 PM (2VST1)

109 It's a write off, Jerry.
They just write it off.

Posted by: Kramer at April 21, 2025 04:35 PM (dg+HA)

110 I stopef watching Cape Shit at age 9.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 21, 2025 04:36 PM (h9KKO)

111 There's a YouTube of a CA mayor proposing to lower the unhoused population by handing out free fentanyl.

Killing all the druggies in a plausibly deniable way is certainly one way to solve the problem.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at April 21, 2025 04:36 PM (hB7mE)

112 But I really love that the age of celebrity appears to be ending. One day, maybe actors will go back to their designated, normal role in human societies - as broadly reviled, degenerate misfits who are viewed like trained monkeys dancing for the amusement of audiences.

Yes. And take Sports Star, and Hollywood Hunk and Babe, and Politician Everyone Must Agree With along with them.

It always seemed so New Soviet Man to me. Even as those that sneered at New Soviet Man loved them some John Wayne and Cowboys or Steelers and on and on.

Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 21, 2025 04:36 PM (si91G)

113 Test screenings of Fantastic Four have apparently revealed that Invisible Woman is the main character and Mr. Fantastic is weak and full of self-doubt.
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Can't wait to watch her slap The Thing around with Grrrl Power!

Posted by: Axeman at April 21, 2025 04:36 PM (krQz2)

114 More than Three-quarters of US TV and film production is no longer in Hollywood, and people still think it's the place to go if you want to work in the business?
Posted by: FeatherBlade

That's where their headquarters are. That's where the casting directors are. You won't find too many decision makers out in rural Wyoming or outback New Mexico.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 21, 2025 04:36 PM (/iLcI)

115 Posted by: dantesed at April 21, 2025 04:31 PM (Oy/m2)

I went to see "King of Kings" twice within a few days-Once with FenSpouse and once with a woman friend.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 21, 2025 04:36 PM (42Vb+)

116 62 What super powers will Olga Kurylenko have?

Beating up muscular trained male fighters more than twice her size, judging by every other Marvel movie.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 21, 2025 04:27 PM (2VST1)

I don't think that's really a "super" power anymore. They can pretty much all do that now. I just caught 10 minutes of G20 the other day, with Viola Davis doing that to a young military looking dude (got him basically in a head lock with a rifle and choked him out).

Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I WAS The Science at April 21, 2025 04:36 PM (lg881)

117 Other than the first Spider-Man movie with Kirsten Dunst (mmmmm..., back in the day) I have not seen any superhero movie.

And I'm OK with that.

Posted by: Bulg at April 21, 2025 04:36 PM (77rzZ)

118 I saw Grime Milestone open for Cradle Of Filth at The Garage in '95.

Posted by: ShainS --Waking Up Early is White Supremacy at April 21, 2025 04:37 PM (7nvAD)

119 I can’t wait to NOT see Fantastic Four starring Pudgy Mustache as Mr. Fantastic, Generic Brit as Invisible Woman, and Kirk Lazarus as Human Torch.
Posted by: Open Channel D

Whoopi as the Thing.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 21, 2025 04:37 PM (L/fGl)

120 We can only hope

Posted by: Skip at April 21, 2025 04:37 PM (ypFCm)

121 I like the retro aesthetic, but it is insane to me that they aren’t using Kirby’s designs for the uniforms, the Baxter Building, the Fantasticar, etc.

Posted by: Open Channel D at April 21, 2025 04:37 PM (UYpeS)

122 Julia Louis Dreyfus' superpower: Dancing like her body is doing a dry heave.

Posted by: Minuteman at April 21, 2025 04:37 PM (47/pr)

123 I stopped watching Cape Shit at age 9.

There were superhero movies in the 60s?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 21, 2025 04:37 PM (2VST1)

124 Woke entertainment. I used to read and watch scifi for the amusingly entertaining factor.. now, it's all woke shit, full of annoying bossy women, beta males, and gay/ lesbian backstory wherever they can shoehorn it in... tiresome and boring. If I need a lecture and scolding I can find it other places.

Posted by: tubal at April 21, 2025 04:37 PM (PCK5/)

125 There's a YouTube of a CA mayor proposing to lower the unhoused population by handing out free fentanyl.

Killing all the druggies in a plausibly deniable way is certainly one way to solve the problem.
Posted by: FeatherBlade

Quit subsidizing and handing out narcan.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 21, 2025 04:38 PM (/iLcI)

126 Just listened to a Bill Maher clip discussing his visit to the see Trump, who gave Maher a short tour after the meal. Maher says his personal tour highlight was seeing the Clinton-era Blowjob Room, next to the Oval Office.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 21, 2025 04:38 PM (UBTFf)

127 Hollywood suffers the same malady that many institutions and cities have fallen victim to: complete atrophy.

I think about those old songs -- odes to cities like San Francisco, Chicago, and New York. "I left my heart..." "My kind of town..." "If you can make it here..." But if you visit those places today, at best you will be sorely disappointed at the decay, the filth, the homelessness and drug use infiltrating the former hot-spots. At worst, you'll meet your demise after having wandered into the wrong neighborhood or get pushed onto subway rails or lit on fire by a vagrant. Simply put: These places ain't what they used to be.

Similarly, Hollywood is a pathetic shell of its former self. There are no starlets or hunky men worth a damn, and the storytelling -- on themes that were universal and poignant -- have evaporated in inverse proportion with the technical wizardry. Add the ludicrous ticket prices and antics of fellow moviegoers, and there is absolutely no motivation to spend a night out at the cinema.

Posted by: red speck at April 21, 2025 04:38 PM (0Id0S)

128 Late 60's Batman reruns.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 21, 2025 04:39 PM (h9KKO)

129 The FF uniforms are the wrong shade of blue compared to the comics. They also changed the color of the belts and trim.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 21, 2025 04:39 PM (xD2dw)

130 it is insane to me that they aren’t using Kirby’s designs for the uniforms, the Baxter Building, the Fantasticar, etc.

I agree, that does seem like an unforced error.

I don't think that's really a "super" power anymore. They can pretty much all do that now.

Good point. Tiny weird faced Bella Ramsey "beats up" a guy that outweighs her like 2½ times in raw muscle in the Last of Us second season and we're just supposed to accept it.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 21, 2025 04:39 PM (2VST1)

131 What you call “capeshit” used to be American mythology until it was ultimately perverted and destroyed.

Posted by: Open Channel D at April 21, 2025 04:39 PM (UYpeS)

132 Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 21, 2025 04:28 PM (si91G)

Is it possible for you to get through an entire thread on which you post without alluding to "Boomers" (Or "oomers") at least once?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 21, 2025 04:39 PM (42Vb+)

133 Here are the top cardinals who could replace Pope Francis after the conclave..

1. Nolan Arenado
2. Lars Nootbaar
3. JoJo Romero
4. Joe Torre
5. Brendan Donovan

Posted by: Franklin Stein at April 21, 2025 04:39 PM (S8RIM)

134 Dr Victoria Frankenstein?

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Shegore bringsthe bottle with the abnormal penis.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 21, 2025 04:40 PM (L/fGl)

135 Oh wow, that was quick - Mickey 17 is on streaming.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 21, 2025 04:40 PM (xD2dw)

136 @105

>>Generic Brit is all wrong for Sue Storm, who is the All American girl-next-door.

As loopy as Grace Randolph is, her entire aesthetic seems to be centered around looking like Sue Storm.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 21, 2025 04:40 PM (XV/Pl)

137 I just watched the Marvel movie Shang Chi. Didn't know it was a comic book movie . I thought it was enjoyable.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 21, 2025 04:40 PM (VofaG)

138 Social media killed the movie star. They killed their following whining and spouting off on twitter, and a new generation cares more about influencers on social media than rich people who read off a script. And that's not counting the coming AI boom in entertainment

Posted by: brak at April 21, 2025 04:40 PM (jGJov)

139 The Girl Bosses should be wearing yogapants.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 21, 2025 04:40 PM (h9KKO)

140 I happened to watch The Sting recently. Really enjoyed it.
1973.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at April 21, 2025 04:40 PM (dg+HA)

141 I might feel a bit of sympathy for Hollywood if they had shown any sympathy for other American industries that got moved overseas.

Posted by: Caffinated Werewolf at April 21, 2025 04:40 PM (XH2WK)

142 Woke entertainment. I used to read and watch scifi for the amusingly entertaining factor.. now, it's all woke shit, full of annoying bossy women, beta males, and gay/ lesbian backstory wherever they can shoehorn it in... tiresome and boring. If I need a lecture and scolding I can find it other places.

How about angst and ennui? Can we sell you on characters full of angst and ennui? (White males only, of course, the women and blacks are all bosses) We sure hope so, because that's all we've got.

Posted by: Hollywood at April 21, 2025 04:40 PM (s8j++)

143 128 Late 60's Batman reruns.
Posted by: Boss Moss

and I Dream Of Jeannie reruns because, Barbara Eden's belly button.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 21, 2025 04:40 PM (/U5Yz)

144 2. Lars Nootbaar

Oh please please please let the next Pope be named "Lars Nootbaar."

Posted by: Bulg at April 21, 2025 04:41 PM (77rzZ)

145 I assume the free-roaming dragons are being used to train AI for the dog bots when they're used to corral the undesirables in few years.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 21, 2025 04:41 PM (ExV1e)

146 Republicans should stack the tax code against Hollywood for the kill shot. Overnight, companies like Disney would crash. Reform copyright law as well.

Posted by: Leupold at April 21, 2025 04:41 PM (4pwAx)

147 Try sitting 18 feet from the big screen in a theater. 18' from a 80 incher is not even close to the same. Not. Even. Close.

Posted by: Francis at April 21, 2025 04:41 PM (bbuBP)

148 "Cord-cutters and corporate greed are to blame, the WGA says."

Good, long may the delusion last.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at April 21, 2025 04:42 PM (CwhoI)

149 and I Dream Of Jeannie reruns because, Barbara Eden's belly button.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 21, 2025 04:40 PM (/U5Yz)

You mean them not showing her belly button?

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 21, 2025 04:42 PM (VofaG)

150 They need to sunset intellectual property much sooner.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 21, 2025 04:42 PM (h9KKO)

151 WE GIVE THIS POST TWO CRUEL THUMBS UP!!

Posted by: Zombie Siskel & Ebert at April 21, 2025 04:43 PM (wtvvX)

152 Tiny weird faced Bella Ramsey "beats up" a guy that outweighs her like 2½ times in raw muscle in the Last of Us second season and we're just supposed to accept it.

She's a beauty. Watched about ten minutes of that from the hotel last week. Things I learned ...

1 - Sometimes, just let the flat-faced girl die
2 - Sometimes, stop being the cuck
3 - Lets hear what the sentient fungus people have to say

Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 21, 2025 04:43 PM (si91G)

153 Re: Victoria Frankenstein. She's supposedly following in the footsteps of her grandfather ("they called him mad! Mad!") and of course the whole point of the ride is that things immediately go to hell when she starts screwing around, so it doesn't feel like girlboss nonsense.

Posted by: Locarno at April 21, 2025 04:43 PM (N4w84)

154 NPR reporting Hegseth is out. No confirmation from a reputable news source yet.

Posted by: Ian S. at April 21, 2025 04:43 PM (2ocoG)

155 Here are the top cardinals who could replace Pope Francis after the conclave..

1. Nolan Arenado
2. Lars Nootbaar
3. JoJo Romero
4. Joe Torre
5. Brendan Donovan
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One of the best plays I've ever seen in baseball was Joe Torre at 1B chasing a blooper backwards towards right field and making a wildly off-balance catch and having the presence of mind to then FLIP the ball to in-charging right-fielder Reggie Smith who gunned down the runner from third who had tagged up on the play!

Posted by: Crusader at April 21, 2025 04:43 PM (TN0g+)

156 We're talking about comic books, right?
Posted by: Just got here at April 21, 2025 04:33 PM (dg+HA)

GRAPHIC NOVELS!!

Posted by: Some Neckbeard Guy at April 21, 2025 04:43 PM (dGCAG)

157 Is the Lars Nootbar the one with caramel or the one with coconut?

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at April 21, 2025 04:43 PM (dg+HA)

158 I happened to watch The Sting recently. Really enjoyed it.
1973.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty

One of the great twist endings.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 21, 2025 04:44 PM (L/fGl)

159 Speaking of shambling zombie wrecks of their former selves, I give you the Hugo Awards.

Out of approximately 1,700 ballots only 1,300+ were deemed valid. Some categories, like fan author - WTF? a category for fan fiction when the other stories being judged ARE fan-fiction slop?? - were decided by only 100 votes total.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 21, 2025 04:44 PM (xD2dw)

160 NY Times seems to be saying the opposite.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 21, 2025 04:44 PM (h9KKO)

161 Speaking of shambling zombie wrecks of their former selves, I give you the Hugo Awards.

I read that as "Hogg Awards" for a second and thought the DNC grift had gone plaid.

Posted by: Ian S. at April 21, 2025 04:45 PM (2ocoG)

162 David Harbour:

Yeah. Liked him in "Stranger Things."

Turns out the guy in not a guy that I would associate with.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at April 21, 2025 04:45 PM (ZmEVT)

163 Fantastic Four might make some money but that's really hard to predict.

The Iron Law of the Movie Universe is that Fantastic Four might make some money but won't.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 21, 2025 04:45 PM (ExV1e)

164 NPR reporting Hegseth is out. No confirmation from a reputable news source yet.
Posted by: Ian S. at April 21, 2025 04:43 PM (2ocoG)

most of lefty site are reporting it, Trump and co denied it this morning

Posted by: runner at April 21, 2025 04:45 PM (g47mK)

165 I happened to watch The Sting recently. Really enjoyed it.
1973.

They still made movies with plot in the 70s.

Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 21, 2025 04:45 PM (si91G)

166 What kind of an idiot would listen to NPR?

Posted by: Estelle Costanza at April 21, 2025 04:45 PM (cnVbw)

167 154 NPR reporting Hegseth is out. No confirmation from a reputable news source yet.
Posted by: Ian S. at April 21, 2025 04:43 PM (2ocoG)

That would be an incredibly stupid move.

Posted by: tubal at April 21, 2025 04:45 PM (PCK5/)

168 133 Here are the top cardinals who could replace Pope Francis after the conclave..

1. Nolan Arenado
2. Lars Nootbaar
3. JoJo Romero
4. Joe Torre
5. Brendan Donovan

Posted by: Franklin Stein at April 21, 2025 04:39 PM (S8RIM)

"TORRE CHARGES OUT OF THE ANGEL'S SACRISTY TO ARGUE THE CALL!!!"

Posted by: Zombie Siskel & Ebert at April 21, 2025 04:45 PM (wtvvX)

169 I think the rumors might have been another sting op, to root out the leakers.

Posted by: runner at April 21, 2025 04:46 PM (g47mK)

170 Did I mention SF with the NFL and the NBA?

SF will die because reality will be so much worse.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at April 21, 2025 04:46 PM (ZmEVT)

171 Ooooo....a gore movie with subtitles. A personal pet peeve of mine. Action movies with subtitles guarantee you miss something disgusting while reading:

"OH NO, YOU CUT MY ARM OFF!!!"

(and you miss the arm being cut off)
Posted by: Orson

I hate when that happens.

Posted by: Michelle Fields at April 21, 2025 04:46 PM (v0R5T)

172 NPR? Oh they post on DU don't they?

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 21, 2025 04:46 PM (xD2dw)

173 Try sitting 18 feet from the big screen in a theater. 18' from a 80 incher is not even close to the same. Not. Even. Close.
Posted by: Francis

Because my son and his friend wanted to, I sat in the front row at that Godzilla movie that came ought in the 2010s with Brian Cranston in it. Damn near hurled right there in my seat.

Posted by: Bulg at April 21, 2025 04:46 PM (77rzZ)

174 off filmy sock

Posted by: Tex Lovera at April 21, 2025 04:46 PM (wtvvX)

175 Holy shitstains, the fake pope died?

Oh well, they got him through Easter.

Sort of.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 21, 2025 04:46 PM (dGCAG)

176 I hear Pedro Pascal is up for the new Pope role.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at April 21, 2025 04:46 PM (wBaIH)

177 Anne Barnhardt is my fave for Pope.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at April 21, 2025 04:47 PM (ZmEVT)

178 We had a secretary of defense preside over foreign policy disaster after foreign policy disaster and who went AWOL, twice, and yet, survived all four years.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 21, 2025 04:47 PM (XV/Pl)

179
We saw the new movie "Sinners" about a couple of brothers opening a juke joint in the 1920s(?) South.

Very well-made. Probably very expensive too. Good directing. Good acting and action. Script is a bit of a dog's breakfast with the first part being the strongest of the movie. It plays out a lot like an updated blues version of "From Dusk Till Dawn".

The only downside of "Sinners" is that it is another one of Hollywood's endless series of "I sure hate me some white people. Aren't they the worst. Especially, the Irish(!)."

Not quite sure why all the Irish antipathy but the main villain is an Irish vampire and the over-arching conflict seems to be The Blues as a Cosmic Force of Good VS Eeeeeevil Irish Music and Eeeeevil Riverdancing(!).

I guess the writer/director's mother got fucked by a leprechaun.

Anyway, check it out. If it sounds like something you'd enjoy, you probably will enjoy it.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 21, 2025 04:47 PM (iJfKG)

180 Pope Pedo?

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 21, 2025 04:47 PM (xD2dw)

181 Oh well, they got him through Easter.

Sort of.

Did they?

Posted by: no one of any consequence at April 21, 2025 04:47 PM (ZmEVT)

182 Some libs have started saying that maybe JD Vance killed the pope. That was predictable.

Posted by: Ian S. at April 21, 2025 04:48 PM (2ocoG)

183 154 NPR reporting Hegseth is out. No confirmation from a reputable news source yet.
Posted by: Ian S.

U.S. Service Members Face Potential Military Removal Over Flu Vaccine

If this is true, he should be shown the door.

https://tinyurl.com/ycy8athp

Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 21, 2025 04:48 PM (/U5Yz)

184 Top five best bets for Pope. Some of them not too bad. Others ewwww!

https://shorturl.at/ACwvG

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 21, 2025 04:48 PM (L/fGl)

185 I happened to watch The Sting recently. Really enjoyed it.

That is one fine movie, just excellent writing, set design, casting, everything. One of my favorites. The sequel was very disappointing. Sure, not painful like jumping on a bicycle with the seat missing but... disappointing.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 21, 2025 04:48 PM (2VST1)

186 Because of the Catholic members of the Horde I will refrain from Pope comments.

Posted by: tubal at April 21, 2025 04:48 PM (PCK5/)

187 116 62 What super powers will Olga Kurylenko have?

Beating up muscular trained male fighters more than twice her size, judging by every other Marvel movie.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 21, 2025 04:27 PM (2VST1)

I don't think that's really a "super" power anymore. They can pretty much all do that now. I just caught 10 minutes of G20 the other day, with Viola Davis doing that to a young military looking dude (got him basically in a head lock with a rifle and choked him out).
Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I WAS The Science at April 21, 2025 04:36 PM (lg881)

That movie's so bad I couldn't even make it through Critical Drinker's review.

Posted by: Octochicken at April 21, 2025 04:49 PM (oCS0o)

188 Well, the Irish did come over and love, love, love themselves the slavery.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at April 21, 2025 04:49 PM (ZmEVT)

189 Honestly I thought they learned enough of a lesson that the writers they got rid of were the DEI hires but I guess the in screen results will lag until next year at least.

Posted by: steevy at April 21, 2025 04:49 PM (YwEeS)

190 One of the best plays I've ever seen in baseball was Joe Torre at 1B chasing a blooper backwards towards right field and making a wildly off-balance catch and having the presence of mind to then FLIP the ball to in-charging right-fielder Reggie Smith who gunned down the runner from third who had tagged up on the play!
Posted by: Crusader at April 21, 2025 04:43 PM (TN0g+)

In Bouton's book, he tells the story of how Torre and some other guy went to one of their teammate's room, a guy who was always scoring with the ladies.

So they were hiding in his closet, when they heard the gal say "I don't usually do this, this is my first time" or something like that.

To which Torre and the other guy, in unison, called out from the closet "YEAH, SURE!!!"

Posted by: BurtTC at April 21, 2025 04:49 PM (dGCAG)

191 Too bad about not shooting in LA (Los Angle-Eez) not Lower Alabama!

I love crime and heist movies set in LA. You can do so much with that location. Plus LA is exotic in the movies for those of us in flyover country.

Vancouver is just such a generic big city.

For outdoor action movies, quite a few have already been shot in Lower Slobodia or wherever it’s super cheap. Beautiful scenery though.

Posted by: haffhowershower at April 21, 2025 04:49 PM (5SvjB)

192 Last Pope was a Communist... Maybe the next Pope will be a Venezuelan Gangbanger in prison in El Salvador placed there by the Antichrist Trump......

Posted by: Franklin Stein at April 21, 2025 04:49 PM (H8ppk)

193 Christ rose on Easter and the Pope died on Easter

Is there a message there?

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 21, 2025 04:49 PM (xD2dw)

194 Try sitting 18 feet from the big screen in a theater. 18' from a 80 incher is not even close to the same. Not. Even. Close.

In a standard movie theater, the field of view, or the amount of the screen visible from a given seat, typically ranges from 36 to 60 degrees. IMAX theaters often expand this field of view to around 70 degrees, creating a more immersive experience.

According to THX, for a cinematic experience (40° field of view) is to multiply your viewing distance (in inches) by 0.835 to determine your appropriate screen size (in diagonal inches). For mixed viewing (30° field of view), you’d multiply your viewing distance (in inches) by 0.65.

...7 feet away ...you’d want a 70” screen for a more immersive, cinematic experience, or a 55” screen for a mixed entertainment space.
Immersive experience (40° field of view)
Viewing distance = 7 feet (84 inches)
84 x 0.835 = 70” screen

Mixed viewing (30° field of view)
Viewing distance = 7 feet (84 inches
84 x 0.65 = 55” screen

Sit close enough, they are absolutely comparable.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 21, 2025 04:49 PM (s8j++)

195 *Some libs have started saying that maybe JD Vance killed the pope. That was predictable.*

Sounds like a good movie plot...

Posted by: Get the popcorn at April 21, 2025 04:50 PM (dg+HA)

196 Up next:

Gavin Newsom will find some dumb way to spin it and call it a positive that any reasonable person will just see is One More Lie.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 21, 2025 04:50 PM (RIvkX)

197 @185

>>I happened to watch The Sting recently. Really enjoyed it.

It's got a cast of Pipe Hitters and Nueman doesn't make bad films.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 21, 2025 04:50 PM (XV/Pl)

198 I hear Pedro Pascal is up for the new Pope role.

As limp-wristed as he's been with Flat Faced Girl ? If a man can't put her in her place with a Sentient Fungal Menace just over the wall ?

Yeah - they'll probably make him pope.

Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 21, 2025 04:50 PM (si91G)

199
Hitler would have never let the German press treat his cabinet ministers like this.

Posted by: Auspex at April 21, 2025 04:51 PM (j4U/Z)

200 Christopher Taylor, Chukkkles might enjoy a bicycle without a seat.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 21, 2025 04:51 PM (xD2dw)

201 Top five best bets for Pope. Some of them not too bad. Others ewwww!

https://shorturl.at/ACwvG
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 21, 2025 04:48 PM (L/fGl)

Come on, man, if he wasn't Neon Deion's kid, he'd not even be a first rounder.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 21, 2025 04:51 PM (dGCAG)

202 NPR reporting Hegseth is out. No confirmation from a reputable news source yet.

Posted by: Ian S. at April 21, 2025 04:43 PM

Both Trump and the press secretary have denied that rumor. Yet another bullshit piece by an organization that Trump is trying to get cut off from taxpayer money.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 21, 2025 04:51 PM (e5NfL)

203
Ben's head is too small for the rest of his body. Once you realize that, you can't unsee it; the Thing has a tiny head.

You have to be careful what you wish for.

Posted by: Genie in the lamp at April 21, 2025 04:51 PM (63Dwl)

204 Vancouver is just such a generic big city.

Having been through Cincinnati, Denver, Portland, Sacramento, Seattle, Spokane, Chicago, and Milwaukee, it is my impression that nearly all of them look pretty much the same. Portland felt a little different, but not much.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 21, 2025 04:51 PM (2VST1)

205 Posted by: naturalfake at April 21, 2025 04:47 PM (iJfKG)

I can longer ignore DEI , girl power and white man bad.

Admittedly I probably now see it where no one else does . They've beaten me in the head with it continuously so now I see it behind every rock. I'm trying to check myself though.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 21, 2025 04:51 PM (VofaG)

206 Hegseth is out because he didn't declare marshall law yesterday!!!1!

Posted by: leftists at April 21, 2025 04:52 PM (Vqx30)

207 If Hegseth is indeed out, that is disheartening.

Any confirmation besides NPR?

Posted by: Leupold at April 21, 2025 04:52 PM (4pwAx)

208 Sorry, but the superhero obsession is off-putting. It's children's entertainment in the purest sense of the concept. Infallible guys in fun costumes who make all the bad men go away with their mighty magic powers is an infantile storyline. Adults are supposed to enjoy something more nuanced than that. Not that all cultural products for adults need to be an intellectual tour-de-force, but it's really weird to see adults obsessed with this kid stuff.

Then, add in the fact that all these "supermen" are wan catamites in Lycra unitards, and it just gets ridiculous. Behold the manly mega powers of Ezra Miller and tremble, evildoers!

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 21, 2025 04:52 PM (BI5O2)

209 I am a Catholic member of the Horde. If you have something unkind to say about Francis, come over and sit next to me.

The Jesuit was an heretic, apostate, and anti-pope. I thank God that his anti-pontificate is over. I pray that our next Pope is at least, at a bare minimum, a Catholic.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at April 21, 2025 04:52 PM (ZmEVT)

210 JD Vance in The Vatican Job

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 21, 2025 04:52 PM (xD2dw)

211 NY Times seems to be saying the opposite.
Posted by: Boss Moss

NYT v. NPR? Who you gonna believe?

A variation on liar's poker?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 21, 2025 04:52 PM (L/fGl)

212 Tornado, no nippies, not Japanese.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 21, 2025 04:52 PM (EJQ63)

213 To which Torre and the other guy, in unison, called out from the closet "YEAH, SURE!!!"

Posted by: BurtTC at April 21, 2025 04:49 PM (dGCAG)

Didn't know Torre was a catcher. He sure did block the plate there. For some derivation of plate.

Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 21, 2025 04:52 PM (si91G)

214 Not quite sure why all the Irish antipathy

Ireland stereotypically has a lot of redheads, and woke Hollywood really hates redheads. They think that reflexively swapping redheads for blacks is Mensa-level clever because "ginger" is an anagram for the N word.

Posted by: Ian S. at April 21, 2025 04:52 PM (2ocoG)

215 Christopher Taylor, Chukkkles might enjoy a bicycle without a seat.

Who am I to judge?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 21, 2025 04:52 PM (2VST1)

216 I only recently learned that Suits was filmed in Toronto, although it's set in NYC.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 21, 2025 04:53 PM (s8j++)

217 Because of the Catholic members of the Horde I will refrain from Pope comments.
Posted by: tubal

Why? They seem to hate him more than the non-Catholics.

Posted by: Bulg at April 21, 2025 04:53 PM (77rzZ)

218 I pray that our next Pope is at least, at a bare minimum, a Catholic.
Posted by: no one of any consequence
---

I prayed that he would be a Christian.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 21, 2025 04:53 PM (EJQ63)

219 Watching "The Studio" on Apple +. Seth Rogan is hilarious in his role as head of a Hollywood film biz, the studio desperately trying anything to survive the onslaught of streaming.

The first thing the owners (Bryan Cranston) want him to do is an action feature, "Kool Aid." Scorcese gets a call to direct, thinks it's gonna be Jim Jones and mass suicide, but he's got that all wrong.

Kathryn Hall is over the top funny, a mouth like a sailor, and Catherine O'Hara is great in her role, too. Lotsa cameos.

Posted by: Mr Gaga at April 21, 2025 04:53 PM (KiBMU)

220 For those that like The Sting ... what about Rounders ? Glen Gary Glen Ross ?

Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 21, 2025 04:53 PM (si91G)

221 *Having been through Cincinnati, Denver, Portland, Sacramento, Seattle, Spokane, Chicago, and Milwaukee, it is my impression that nearly all of them look pretty much the same.*

Cleveland has entered the chat.

Posted by: Mistake by the... at April 21, 2025 04:54 PM (dg+HA)

222
Nueman doesn't make bad films.
Posted by: Thomas Bender

The Silver Chalice was on TCM this past weekend.

Posted by: Genie in the lamp at April 21, 2025 04:54 PM (63Dwl)

223 Hollyweird is puzzled as to why audiences don't want to see guys kissing and fondling each other. It's all the rage in the circles they travel in.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 21, 2025 04:54 PM (Dv3i1)

224 >>210 JD Vance in The Vatican Job
Posted by: Anna Puma
LOL

Does polonium have a role in this film?

Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 21, 2025 04:54 PM (/U5Yz)

225 > Florence Pugh, Sebastian Stan, David Harbour, Wyatt Russell, Olga Kurylenko, Hannah John-Kamen and Julia Louis-Dreyfus...Barely anyone knows who those actors are, or what characters they play.

Mostly true, with the exception of Pugh (she's delectable) and Louis-Dreyfus (who I've been loathing for 40 years).

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 21, 2025 04:54 PM (W5ArC)

226 Because of the Catholic members of the Horde I will refrain from Pope comments.
Posted by: tubal

Why? They seem to hate him more than the non-Catholics.
Posted by: Bulg at April 21, 2025

Eh, just seems like bad form for
some reason, nevermind..

Posted by: tubal at April 21, 2025 04:55 PM (PCK5/)

227 AWFLs listening to NPR on their way home must be creaming their pants over the Hegseth rumors

Posted by: brak at April 21, 2025 04:55 PM (jGJov)

228 "I prayed that he would be a Christian."

If your baptism is valid, LOL, all you Protestants are bad Catholics.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at April 21, 2025 04:55 PM (ZmEVT)

229 Mostly true, with the exception of Pugh (she's delectable)

Based on Oppenheimer, I must respectfully disagree.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 21, 2025 04:55 PM (s8j++)

230 To which Torre and the other guy, in unison, called out from the closet "YEAH, SURE!!!"

Posted by: BurtTC at April 21, 2025 04:49 PM (dGCAG)

Didn't know Torre was a catcher. He sure did block the plate there. For some derivation of plate.
Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 21, 2025 04:52 PM (si91G)

Spent about half his career behind the plate. If you see some of his early baseball cards, he's in the pose of setting up to catch the pitch, the mitt looks like a fat sack of meat, and his face looks like he's been beaten by a raccoon.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 21, 2025 04:55 PM (dGCAG)

231 Considering the late Pope's health, a power failure probably could have taken him out.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 21, 2025 04:55 PM (xD2dw)

232 For those that like The Sting ... what about Rounders ? Glen Gary Glen Ross ?

I liked Rounders okay but Mamet's writing annoys me.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 21, 2025 04:55 PM (2VST1)

233 Dibs on the Popemobile.

Posted by: wth at April 21, 2025 04:55 PM (v0R5T)

234 That movie's so bad I couldn't even make it through Critical Drinker's review.
Posted by: Octochicken at April 21, 2025 04:49 PM (oCS0o)

Yeah, my wife was watching it (G20). I caught about 15 minutes over 3 points when I was in the next room. It looked so dumb. I actually did go and check the Drinker's review as I figured he'd have done one and it would be funny

Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I WAS The Science at April 21, 2025 04:55 PM (lg881)

235
NYT v. NPR? Who you gonna believe?

A variation on liar's poker?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks,
----------

Spike or mushroom boat anchor?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 21, 2025 04:56 PM (EJQ63)

236 221 *Having been through Cincinnati, Denver, Portland, Sacramento, Seattle, Spokane, Chicago, and Milwaukee, it is my impression that nearly all of them look pretty much the same.*

Cleveland has entered the chat.

*St. Louis and New Orleans have entered the chat*

Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 21, 2025 04:56 PM (/U5Yz)

237 My money is on Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo Besungu form Kinsasha, checks all the boxes, African, Not Woke, and looks like Ida Amin's surely cousin.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 21, 2025 04:56 PM (XV/Pl)

238 Some libs have started saying that maybe JD Vance killed the pope.

-
From the Bee.

World · Apr 21, 2025 · 23
Dalai Lama Quietly Cancels Scheduled Meeting With JD Vance

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 21, 2025 04:56 PM (L/fGl)

239 Yeah, there is a custom, a good custom, to not speak ill of the dead.

Let me just say that I am joyful.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at April 21, 2025 04:56 PM (ZmEVT)

240 What am I, chopped liver?

Posted by: Memphis at April 21, 2025 04:56 PM (CwhoI)

241 Even when these movies aren't spitting in you're face with THE MESSAGE, they just move from one scene to the next with worn out cliched tropes and hackneyed dialogue.

That's how Deadpool stood out so well, mocking this nonsense by regurgitating it and rubbing their faces in it. It's like the movie-business version of Idiocracy. Which worked even better for Tropic Thunder.

Which brings me to the movie I really want to see: A vehicle with Tom Cruise as Les Grossman producing a Marvel Universe/DC/Star Wars Universe/Snow White failing movie with every wrongheaded decision made that makes him find some Thanos level solution that puts the world into a Great Depression but his studio comes out smelling like a rose.

Posted by: Minuteman at April 21, 2025 04:57 PM (47/pr)

242 >>> 237 My money is on Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo Besungu form Kinsasha, checks all the boxes, African, Not Woke, and looks like Ida Amin's surely cousin.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 21, 2025 04:56 PM (XV/Pl)

Don't call me Shirley.

Posted by: Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo Besungu at April 21, 2025 04:57 PM (Vqx30)

243
Again, as with Kristi Noem, not to bang our side, but would ask Pete Hegseth why he would think spending so much time getting tatted up was a good idea.

Posted by: Auspex at April 21, 2025 04:57 PM (j4U/Z)

244 I think Robert Redford is a terrible actor. Way overrated but he's in some of my most watched movies.

Jeremiah Johnson
Brubaker
The Natural
This Property is Condemned
The Sting
War Hunt

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 21, 2025 04:57 PM (VofaG)

245
We re-saw a movie that I really like from 2002 titled, "Spun".

Which is about a loosely affiliated group of meth junkie scumbags. Sort of like "Requiem for a Dream" but played as a comedy.

It's also shot in a very twitchy, loud style to simulate what's it's like to be on meth while watching this day in the life of meth junkies.

A lot of fun. Great directing. Great acting...it's loaded with good actors. Interesting, well-written script.

Much more like real life than something like "Breaking Bad"...maybe think of it sort of as "Monty Python's Breaking Bad".

Check it out. Now streaming on HULU.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 21, 2025 04:57 PM (iJfKG)

246 214 Never heard the ginger anagram theory. Funny old world.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at April 21, 2025 04:57 PM (wBaIH)

247 >>>what about Rounders
---

Good name for the female protagonist.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 21, 2025 04:57 PM (EJQ63)

248 The Papacy is the oldest extant political institution in Europe, and possibly the world.

Therefore, I have to admit that, hardcore Protestant that I am, but also hardcore history buff that I am, the Papacy has always fascinated me.

Posted by: Bulg at April 21, 2025 04:58 PM (77rzZ)

249 186 Because of the Catholic members of the Horde I will refrain from Pope comments.
____

Pope Comments I ? So, Sponge?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 21, 2025 04:58 PM (Dv3i1)

250 My money is on Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo Besungu form Kinsasha, checks all the boxes, African, Not Woke, and looks like Ida Amin's surely cousin.

I'd love to see an African Pope. Those guys are seriously anti-woke. They told Obama to shove gayness up his ass, although Obama already does that.

Posted by: Ian S. at April 21, 2025 04:58 PM (2ocoG)

251 > 236 221 *Having been through Cincinnati, Denver, Portland, Sacramento, Seattle, Spokane, Chicago, and Milwaukee, it is my impression that nearly all of them look pretty much the same.*

Cleveland has entered the chat.

*St. Louis and New Orleans have entered the chat*
Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 21, 2025 04:56 PM (/U5Yz)

Houston, too close to New Orleans.

Posted by: Jerry Garcia at April 21, 2025 04:58 PM (W5ArC)

252 Which brings me to the movie I really want to see: A vehicle with Tom Cruise as Les Grossman producing a Marvel Universe/DC/Star Wars Universe/Snow White failing movie with every wrongheaded decision made that makes him find some Thanos level solution that puts the world into a Great Depression but his studio comes out smelling like a rose.

We'll never see an industry-mocking movie like that again, but it would be a great story to shoot. And, here is again where I say that Michael Crichton's Looker needs to be remade (the plot is that a studio is scanning people into computers and killing them so that they can keep using the person in ads and movies forever without paying them).

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 21, 2025 04:59 PM (2VST1)

253 Hollywood is dead, it just doesn't know it. Going to a movie theater will be a obsolete as going to a vaudeville show soon.

AI-CGI will soon make shooting a movie using actual humans as obsolete as going whaling to make lamp oil.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at April 21, 2025 04:59 PM (Cukj+)

254 I can longer ignore DEI , girl power and white man bad.

Admittedly I probably now see it where no one else does . They've beaten me in the head with it continuously so now I see it behind every rock. I'm trying to check myself though.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 21, 2025 04:51 PM (VofaG)

I am most of the way there too, and it saddens me. I used to just see it but let it pass, now it lessens a lot of enjoyment for me and outright ruins some.

Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I WAS The Science at April 21, 2025 04:59 PM (lg881)

255 Some libs have started saying that maybe JD Vance killed the pope.

-
From the Bee.

World · Apr 21, 2025 · 23
Dalai Lama Quietly Cancels Scheduled Meeting With JD Vance
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 21, 2025 04:56 PM (L/fGl)
----
President Trump should send JD Vance on a world tour to meet with the leaders of countries who are hostile to the United States.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 21, 2025 04:59 PM (7fElN)

256 > Again, as with Kristi Noem, not to bang our side

I'd be happy to give that a try.

Screen door. Hurricane.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 21, 2025 04:59 PM (W5ArC)

257 176 I hear Pedro Pascal is up for the new Pope role.

well, he does have a lot of experience wearing a hat...

Posted by: anachronda at April 21, 2025 05:00 PM (v3pYe)

258 I liked Rounders okay but Mamet's writing annoys me.

I am not an Arts or Cinema guy, so I honestly didn't know who Mamet was until just now. Looked it up.

Liked several of them enough to watch once. Liked GGR and Ronin enough to watch twice.

Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 21, 2025 05:00 PM (si91G)

259 Again, as with Kristi Noem, not to bang our side, but would ask Pete Hegseth why he would think spending so much time getting tatted up was a good idea.

Have you met any military guys? They've been human Bob Ross canvases going back at least 100 years.

Posted by: Ian S. at April 21, 2025 05:00 PM (2ocoG)

260 Flash Back from the Past from the Father Sarducci.....

https://vimeo.com/140059003

Posted by: Franklin Stein at April 21, 2025 05:00 PM (YZi/I)

261 I hear Pedro Pascal is up for the new Pope role.

well, he does have a lot of experience wearing a hat...

An asshat?

Posted by: Archimedes at April 21, 2025 05:00 PM (s8j++)

262 > AI-CGI will soon make shooting a movie using actual humans as obsolete as going whaling to make lamp oil.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at April 21, 2025 04:59 PM (Cukj+)

Sure. AI is already capable of cranking out derivative, formulaic crap. No reason to pay communists money for that any more.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 21, 2025 05:01 PM (W5ArC)

263 I think Robert Redford is a terrible actor. Way overrated but he's in some of my most watched movies.

He is not a particularly great actor (especially when contrasted with Paul Newman) but he is charismatic and interesting on screen: you want to see what he does and how. Its like Steve McQueen, he didn't look so great and wasn't all that distinctive but he was so fascinating to watch, he was riveting, even just standing there.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 21, 2025 05:01 PM (2VST1)

264 And, here is again where I say that Michael Crichton's Looker needs to be remade (the plot is that a studio is scanning people into computers and killing them so that they can keep using the person in ads and movies forever without paying them).
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 21, 2025 04:59 PM (2VST1)
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I'm sure Hollywood is already looking into that--not making the movie, but doing away with actors so they can reuse their likenesses in perpetuity.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 21, 2025 05:01 PM (7fElN)

265 237 My money is on Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo Besungu form Kinsasha, checks all the boxes, African, Not Woke, and looks like Ida Amin's surely cousin.
Posted by: Thomas Bender
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My limited experience, admittedly, but the 4-5 black priests that I have seen seem to take Catholicism seriously, and at the same time approach the mass and homily with joy. Plus, great accents. Hopefully the sound system in the church is good.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 21, 2025 05:01 PM (Dv3i1)

266 There's a pretty funny meme going around with the pic of JD Vance talking to Pope Francis one on one with a caption "Criticized Once, Fucking Dies"

JD might be the only notable person that ever called out the Pope's bullshit.

Posted by: Leupold at April 21, 2025 05:01 PM (4pwAx)

267 Again, as with Kristi Noem, not to bang our side, but would ask Pete Hegseth why he would think spending so much time getting tatted up was a good idea.

because he wanted to? who cares

Posted by: brak at April 21, 2025 05:01 PM (jGJov)

268
The new mantra is, "Lock the gates by '28"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at April 21, 2025 05:01 PM (UHI6z)

269 241 A vehicle with Tom Cruise as Les Grossman producing a ...

hmmm... *scribbles note* a vehicle with tom cruise as les nessman

Posted by: anachronda at April 21, 2025 05:01 PM (v3pYe)

270 I hear tell one of the big hat priest dudes under consideration is named Pizzaballa.
Oh, please let it be the pizza guy. Please let it be the pizza guy...

Posted by: But I'm not Catholic at April 21, 2025 05:02 PM (dg+HA)

271
Dammit Wicket. I've got some serious self-induced chafing on my dick after reading this post.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 21, 2025 05:02 PM (y9nCu)

272 208 Sorry, but the superhero obsession is off-putting.
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For me it's not off-putting, I just don't understand the appeal. Comic book movies aren't entertaining to me. A couple of years ago I thought I wasn't giving the genre a chance, so I forced myself to watch Wolverine.

It sucked.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at April 21, 2025 05:02 PM (paSBy)

273 I'd love to see an African Pope. Those guys are seriously anti-woke. They told Obama to shove gayness up his ass, although Obama already does that.

Posted by: Ian S. at April 21, 2025 04:58 PM (2ocoG)

From your lips to God's ear...

Posted by: Tex Lovera at April 21, 2025 05:02 PM (wtvvX)

274 "... Ambongo stated that the African rejection of the document was due it being perceived as "a kind of Western imperialism", and to force same-sex blessing on African culture would be akin to 'cultural colonization'.[21]

In a 2024 audio recording, Cardinal Ambongo can be heard saying Westerners have 'decadent morals'.[20]

In April 2024, the prosecutor general of the Court of Cassation ordered the opening of a judicial investigation against Fridolin Ambongo Besungu. Fridolin Ambongo Besungu is accused of seditious remarks constituting 'false rumors, inciting populations to revolt and attacks against human lives'.[22]"

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at April 21, 2025 05:02 PM (Vqx30)

275 9 days of morning. Can they do that?

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 21, 2025 05:02 PM (h9KKO)

276 the Thing has a tiny head.

I guess we know why he can't find love.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 21, 2025 05:02 PM (ExV1e)

277 Have you met any military guys? They've been human Bob Ross canvases going back at least 100 years.

Yeah I agree its wasteful and stupid but... its his money and time to waste and hardly unique among military types.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 21, 2025 05:02 PM (2VST1)

278 And, here is again where I say that Michael Crichton's Looker needs to be remade
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I've been hoping that State of Fear would be made into a movie for a long time. Not ready to touch it yet though, it absolutely crushes the global warmingnistas. Maybe by the end of Trump's third term.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 21, 2025 05:03 PM (Dv3i1)

279 Robert Redford plays the same character in every movie. He couldn't even be bothered to attempt an accent when playing a British big game hunter in Out of Africa.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at April 21, 2025 05:03 PM (CwhoI)

280 Have you met any military guys? They've been human Bob Ross canvases going back at least 100 years.

I'm convinced most here are either AI, in a retirement home, or simply trolls. Just by what they say about the military. Because that military didn't exist 30 years ago when I was in the military.

Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 21, 2025 05:03 PM (si91G)

281 "Music contractors and producers Peter Rotter and Jasper Randall,..."

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Jasper? Jasper? Sorry to any Jaspers in the Horde, but if I were a dude, I would not want that name.

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 21, 2025 05:03 PM (qBdHI)

282 > They've been human Bob Ross canvases going back at least 100 years.
Posted by: Ian S. at April 21, 2025 05:00 PM (2ocoG)

The real Bob Ross was an Air Force top kick.

When he retired, he resolved that he was never going to yell at anyone ever again.

And he didn't.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 21, 2025 05:04 PM (W5ArC)

283 Three days of the Condor.

The CIA hates us.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at April 21, 2025 05:04 PM (ZmEVT)

284 President Trump should send JD Vance on a world tour to meet with the leaders of countries who are hostile to the United States.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 21, 2025 04:59 PM (7fElN)

Vance's Far East travel schedule updated to included Beijing!

Posted by: runner at April 21, 2025 05:04 PM (g47mK)

285 277 Have you met any military guys? They've been human Bob Ross canvases going back at least 100 years.

Yeah I agree its wasteful and stupid but... its his money and time to waste and hardly unique among military types.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 21, 2025 05:02 PM (2VST1)

80's and 90's... no visible tats were allowed...

Not sure when or why that changed...

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 21, 2025 05:04 PM (QAkQ3)

286 Again, as with Kristi Noem, not to bang our side, but would ask Pete Hegseth why he would think spending so much time getting tatted up was a good idea.
Posted by: Auspex at April 21, 2025 04:57 PM (j4U/Z)

Because he's young, and was in the military.

You aren't going to see too many future DoD Secretaries that look like Don Rumsfeld, with greasy hair, and the face of a defense contractor.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 21, 2025 05:04 PM (dGCAG)

287 Maybe if Hollywood made one more "Guy is getting out of crime, but decides to pull off one last big heist" movie they would have survived?

Posted by: Pauly Two Noses at April 21, 2025 05:04 PM (qUkBO)

288 Jasper? Jasper? Sorry to any Jaspers in the Horde, but if I were a dude, I would not want that name.

"Don't even get me started"
--A Boy Named Sue

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 21, 2025 05:04 PM (2VST1)

289 It sucked.
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at April 21, 2025 05:02 PM (paSBy)

I'm also not a comic book movie fan and don't watch them on purpose but I thought Logan was pretty good.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 21, 2025 05:04 PM (VofaG)

290 Jasper is better than Bruce or Wayne, or horrors, Leslie.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at April 21, 2025 05:05 PM (ZmEVT)

291 What am I, chopped liver?
Posted by: Memphis at April 21, 2025 04:56 PM (CwhoI)
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Yer on the banks of the Big Muddy.

Chopped catfish, most likely.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at April 21, 2025 05:05 PM (tT6L1)

292 How come none of you told me that Trump declared martial law yesterday?

All the liberals predicted yesterday was The Day of Martial Law.

And they don't lie, exaggerate or tolerate any who do.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 21, 2025 04:33 PM (5Hv8M)

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When do we get the Renaissance of the Military Parade of tanks, planes, soldiers, and other equipment down Pennsylvania Avenue as originally scheduled in 2018?

That was when he was supposed to initially declare martial law ...

Posted by: ShainS --Waking Up Early is White Supremacy at April 21, 2025 05:06 PM (pJWq2)

293 I hope Hollywood is indeed cratering, but I don’t believe these numbers. They seem clearly planted by industry people to try to extort subsidies and tax breaks.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at April 21, 2025 05:06 PM (DStAq)

294 I think Robert Redford is a terrible actor. Way overrated but he's in some of my most watched movies.

Did a great job for a short time in A Bridge Too Far. As did many others. That movie was considered a little "edgy" at its time for showing the Allies in a less than perfect light. I thought it was about perfect, according to my experience with Uncle Sam.

Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 21, 2025 05:06 PM (si91G)

295 I stopped watching Cape Shit at age 9.

Just Proust and Dostoevsky. Anything which can provide the smallest amount of mindless amusement is anathema. As a child I would stab myself in the leg with a fork while watching Bugs Bunny.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 21, 2025 05:06 PM (ExV1e)

296 I'm also not a comic book movie fan and don't watch them on purpose but I thought Logan was pretty good.

Its just a genre, sometimes they are good, sometimes they suck. For a while they were guaranteed box office because the concept was kind of fresh and offered unusual spectacle.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 21, 2025 05:06 PM (2VST1)

297 Then, add in the fact that all these "supermen" are wan catamites in Lycra unitards, and it just gets ridiculous. Behold the manly mega powers of Ezra Miller and tremble, evildoers!
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 21, 2025 04:52 PM (BI5O2)
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Cruel.
-Superman

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 21, 2025 05:06 PM (RIvkX)

298 206 Hegseth is out because he didn't declare marshall law yesterday!!!1!
Posted by: leftists

martial dillon > marshall law

Posted by: anachronda at April 21, 2025 05:06 PM (v3pYe)

299 279 Robert Redford plays the same character in every movie.
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Agreed, and that character is ... himself. An actor playing a too self-aware actor.

Posted by: Pauly Two Noses at April 21, 2025 05:07 PM (qUkBO)

300 > 290 Jasper is better than Bruce or Wayne, or horrors, Leslie.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at April 21, 2025 05:05 PM (ZmEVT)

Let's not even get into Jayden, Braden, Gayden.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 21, 2025 05:07 PM (W5ArC)

301 Memo to Hollywood a new MEME suggestion from all America

Sniff our Hiney
Till 2020 Niney!

Posted by: I was Gumby Damn it will be moving to a new nick location at April 21, 2025 05:07 PM (r3F/z)

302 I thought about becoming a Gynecologist so I could meet Hot Chicks, but my friends said it still would not work for me......

Posted by: Senator Adam Schiff at April 21, 2025 05:07 PM (A2iSa)

303 Infallible guys in fun costumes who make all the bad men go away with their mighty magic powers is an infantile storyline.

Even adults need a reminder that evil can be defeated once in a while.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at April 21, 2025 05:08 PM (hB7mE)

304 292 When do we get the Renaissance of the Military Parade of tanks, planes, soldiers, and other equipment down Pennsylvania Avenue as originally scheduled in 2018?

*checks notes* 80th anniversary of v.e. day?

Posted by: anachronda at April 21, 2025 05:08 PM (v3pYe)

305 "martial dillon > marshall law"

marsh gas > marshall mathers

Posted by: Citizen Cake at April 21, 2025 05:08 PM (CwhoI)

306 Politics is downstream from culture.
And their culture is dying.
They hollowed out their myths and have nothing left.
Good.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 21, 2025 05:09 PM (NwfFc)

307 Now Sec. Hegseth will have plenty of time to hit the bottle and the wife.

Posted by: NPR at April 21, 2025 05:09 PM (/U5Yz)

308 Sit close enough, they are absolutely comparable.
Posted by: Archimedes
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But my mom always yelled at me for that.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at April 21, 2025 05:09 PM (UBKzV)

309 Robert Redford plays the same character in every movie.

A lot of actors do that.

Posted by: dantesed at April 21, 2025 05:09 PM (Oy/m2)

310 Lemme guess, Roberts is going to call for full, unchecked funding, right?

@yashar BREAKING via WSJ

Harvard University said it has filed a federal lawsuit against the Trump administration, arguing it has violated the university’s constitutional rights by freezing billions of dollars in federal funding, illegally imperiling its academic independence.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 21, 2025 05:09 PM (mlg/3)

311 302 I thought about becoming a Gynecologist so I could meet Hot Chicks, but my friends said it still would not work for me......
Posted by: Senator Adam Schiff
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I come visit you! I love giant head and skinny neck. Like lollipop!

Posted by: Fang Fang at April 21, 2025 05:09 PM (Dv3i1)

312 As the late Paul Newman said of Robert Redford, "Robert never married because he could never find someone he loved as much as he loved himself."

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at April 21, 2025 05:09 PM (tT6L1)

313 Infallible guys in fun costumes who make all the bad men go away with their mighty magic powers is an infantile storyline.

Replace the magic powers with a badge.

Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 21, 2025 05:09 PM (si91G)

314 Because that military didn't exist 30 years ago when I was in the military.
Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 21, 2025 05:03 PM (si91G)

My father was in the Marines 1951 to 59 and Air Force 1960 until he retired. He got his tats in the Marines.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 21, 2025 05:09 PM (VofaG)

315 unusual_whales @unusual_whales 7h
Disney, $DIS, has reportedly halted on development of a live-action version of its animated hit “Tangled,” due to Snow White's performance, per TheWrap.

Posted by: andycanuck (mZtdJ) at April 21, 2025 05:10 PM (mZtdJ)

316 illegally imperiling its academic independence.
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Government Funding = Academic Independence ?

No wonder why Harvard is adding remedial courses.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 21, 2025 05:10 PM (Dv3i1)

317 > 309 Robert Redford plays the same character in every movie.

A lot of actors do that.
Posted by: dantesed at April 21, 2025 05:09 PM (Oy/m2)

I resemble that remark.

Posted by: Nick Jackalson at April 21, 2025 05:10 PM (W5ArC)

318 Harvard University said it has filed a federal lawsuit against the Trump administration, arguing it has violated the university’s constitutional rights by freezing billions of dollars in federal funding, illegally imperiling its academic independence.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 21, 2025 05:09 PM (mlg/3)
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That's not how academic freedom works.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 21, 2025 05:10 PM (7fElN)

319
Have you met any military guys? They've been human Bob Ross canvases going back at least 100 years.

It's a movie of course, but in Lethal Weapon, a kid eyewitness tells Riggs about a perp's snake tattoo, which he reveals to Murtaugh as a Special Forces tattoo.

In real life, the French Foreign Legion has a decades-long system of tats, rather like the Russian Mob types, except they can actually shoot straight.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 21, 2025 05:10 PM (y9nCu)

320 As the late Paul Newman said of Robert Redford, "Robert never married because he could never find someone he loved as much as he loved himself."

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My brother once saw him in an airport. Said he was short, and his face was very haggard. As in, he looked like crap.

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 21, 2025 05:10 PM (qBdHI)

321 The real Bob Ross was an Air Force top kick.

When he retired, he resolved that he was never going to yell at anyone ever again.

And he didn't.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at April 21, 2025 05:04 PM (W5ArC)

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There's a guy who works at our local DMV -- whom I've gotten assigned to during my last three visits -- with a little Bob Ross bobblehead on his desk.

Cracks me up every time ...

Posted by: ShainS --Waking Up Early is White Supremacy at April 21, 2025 05:11 PM (pJWq2)

322 Jasper? Jasper? Sorry to any Jaspers in the Horde, but if I were a dude, I would not want that name.
Posted by: Lady in Black

Some big out-of-town Jasper.

Posted by: Bulg at April 21, 2025 05:11 PM (77rzZ)

323 Ms. First Amendment.

Department of Government Efficiency News@DOGE__news
Hillary Clinton says Americans who spread "propaganda" should be sent to prison.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 21, 2025 05:11 PM (L/fGl)

324 278 And, here is again where I say that Michael Crichton's Looker needs to be remade
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I've been hoping that State of Fear would be made into a movie for a long time. Not ready to touch it yet though, it absolutely crushes the global warmingnistas. Maybe by the end of Trump's third term.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 21, 2025 05:03 PM (Dv3i1)

State of Fear (Globull Warmering). Andromeda Strain (genetic engineering of a plague). The Terminal Man (Brain Implants). Jurassic Park (Bringing back Dinosaurs... or wolves). Next (Genetic Engineering and who owns what).

Somehow every single Cautionary Tale Micael Crichton wrote, has become a How To manual.

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 21, 2025 05:12 PM (QAkQ3)

325
My brother once saw him in an airport. Said he was short, and his face was very haggard. As in, he looked like crap.
Posted by: Lady in Black at April 21, 2025 05:10 PM (qBdHI)
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Well, Robert has been around a while. His first memorable role, I believe, was playing Death in a Twilight Zone episode.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at April 21, 2025 05:12 PM (tT6L1)

326 Its just a genre, sometimes they are good, sometimes they suck.

Like Kanye?

Posted by: gKWVE shouldn't have opened twitter today at April 21, 2025 05:12 PM (gKWVE)

327 I'll do a cameo for a Hollywood porn opus.

Posted by: Pelosi...drunk California at April 21, 2025 05:12 PM (f7iwu)

328 323 Ms. First Amendment.

Department of Government Efficiency News@DOGE__news
Hillary Clinton says Americans who spread "propaganda" should be sent to prison.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 21, 2025 05:11 PM (L/fGl)

Hmmmm.... YOU FIRST!!!! Trump Russia Collusion?

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 21, 2025 05:13 PM (QAkQ3)

329 I thought that stupid broad from Snow White must definitely be prettier than the photo I saw of her last week. Nope. I just looked at a bunch of publicity shots for the film. That's just how she looks.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 21, 2025 05:13 PM (BI5O2)

330 267 Again, as with Kristi Noem, not to bang our side, but would ask Pete Hegseth why he would think spending so much time getting tatted up was a good idea.

because he wanted to? who cares
Posted by: brak

You're right. Sam Brinton's luggage hobby is none of my business either.

Posted by: Auspex at April 21, 2025 05:13 PM (j4U/Z)

331 My brother once saw him in an airport. Said he was short, and his face was very haggard. As in, he looked like crap.
Posted by: Lady in Black at April 21, 2025

Short? Wow. I've always thought he was tallish. I was fooled.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at April 21, 2025 05:13 PM (kTd/k)

332 The reason they pushed superhero movies so much (after cheap profits, of course) was that the Democrats were always the hero.

Always the party of the underdog, the little guy, the regular man.
And the Democrat Politician was the hero fighting for you.

That's what they were going for, get audiences jazzed up about heros.
Then, media saturation to encourage, "and this Democrat Politician is a hero!"

Trump is the new superhero.

And they can't deal with it.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 21, 2025 05:13 PM (NwfFc)

333 Well, Robert has been around a while. His first memorable role, I believe, was playing Death in a Twilight Zone episode.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at April 21, 2025 05:12 PM (tT6L1)

War Hunt was his first film where he was introduced as a lead. I thought a really good war movie and one of the few about the Korean War.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 21, 2025 05:14 PM (VofaG)

334 If spending three minutes in space makes you an astronaut, then I'm a gynecologist.

Posted by: Al Bundy at April 21, 2025 05:14 PM (dg+HA)

335 >>> 323 Ms. First Amendment.

Department of Government Efficiency News@DOGE__news
Hillary Clinton says [commies gotta commie]
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 21, 2025 05:11 PM (L/fGl)

Is it wrong to hope that evil cvnt and her 'husband' drop dead very soon?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at April 21, 2025 05:14 PM (Vqx30)

336 Department of Government Efficiency News@DOGE__news
Hillary Clinton says Americans who spread "propaganda" should be sent to prison.

-

It's weird to realize they're just talking about people expressing their own opinions.

Posted by: Boron Quidquid - you realize Darwin disproved evolution, right? at April 21, 2025 05:14 PM (e/wnL)

337 My father was in the Marines 1951 to 59 and Air Force 1960 until he retired. He got his tats in the Marines.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 21, 2025 05:09 PM (VofaG)

Exactly. And all these "wholesome, Norman Rockwell" soldiers ? Didn't exist when I was in, during the 90s. Race was a big thing. Affirmative Action was a big thing. Also, guys retiring out that were 'Nam Era - they were the best NCOs.

And dudes micro-dosing on Acid to avoid the piss tests. And the first forcing of women into units down at the field level.

Again - most of the people here that talk about the military ? They were not in. But they talk about it quite a bit.

Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 21, 2025 05:14 PM (si91G)

338 Hollywood should come out with a film about the Epstein documents in B/W. Mostly black.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 21, 2025 05:14 PM (/U5Yz)

339 I just looked at a bunch of publicity shots for the film. That's just how she looks.

She can be cute enough but yeah she's ... odd looking. Not quite as walleyed as a lot of new young starlets, but too much so.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 21, 2025 05:15 PM (2VST1)

340 Going to cut the cord tomorrow. No more cable connection.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 21, 2025 05:15 PM (u82oZ)

341 In 'Eaters of the Dead', Crichton wrote about a cautionary tale of neanderthals eating Vikings. Then the Vikings got stabby.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at April 21, 2025 05:15 PM (CwhoI)

342 > I just looked at a bunch of publicity shots for the film. That's just how she looks.

Zegler's eyes are almost as far apart as a sheep's eyes.

Posted by: bonhomme at April 21, 2025 05:16 PM (lIio7)

343 The Papacy is the oldest extant political institution in Europe, and possibly the world.

Therefore, I have to admit that, hardcore Protestant that I am, but also hardcore history buff that I am, the Papacy has always fascinated me.

Posted by: Bulg at April 21, 2025 04:58 PM

The Japanese emperor lineage goes back to 660 BC. Granted there are a few breaks and some questions, but they were established well before the papacy.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 21, 2025 05:16 PM (e5NfL)

344 If spending three minutes in space makes you an astronaut, then I'm a gynecologist.
Posted by: Al Bundy

Three minutes!?

Show off!!

Posted by: Tonypete at April 21, 2025 05:16 PM (vKNmo)

345 Oh, so the Constitution spells out how Cultural Marxists Seminaries are owed billions of tax dollars.
Somehow I missed reading that line

Posted by: Skip at April 21, 2025 05:16 PM (ypFCm)

346 arguing it has violated the university’s constitutional rights by freezing billions of dollars in federal funding, illegally imperiling its academic independence.

"We are less academically free, because we won't have to massage our research results to appeal to the latest fashions among government bureaucrats to keep the money they've been giving us"

Posted by: FeatherBlade at April 21, 2025 05:16 PM (hB7mE)

347 The girl I had a crush on in Xth grade had a crush on Robert Redford. Which means I saw
The Way We Were too many times.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 21, 2025 05:16 PM (RIvkX)

348 Hillary Clinton says Americans who spread "propaganda" should be sent to prison.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 21, 2025

Agreed, Hill-Dawg. Go round up everyone from your entire regrettable career, and all their media friends, and meet me in front of Florence ADX tomorrow morning.

Let's get this done. I'll bring a stun baton.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 21, 2025 05:16 PM (BI5O2)

349 >>340 Going to cut the cord tomorrow. No more cable connection.
Posted by: NaCly Dog

Bask in the feeling of total liberation.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 21, 2025 05:16 PM (/U5Yz)

350 Only thing that could get me back to a theatre would be an IMAX re-release of the Jerry Lewis classic "Hardly Working".

Posted by: Going Postal at April 21, 2025 05:16 PM (G5+As)

351 Scandis probably taste terrible.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 21, 2025 05:16 PM (h9KKO)

352 Yep, that fucker is short.

Posted by: Tom Cruise at April 21, 2025 05:17 PM (v0R5T)

353 Harvard University said it has filed a federal lawsuit against the Trump administration, arguing it has violated the university’s constitutional rights by freezing billions of dollars in federal funding, illegally imperiling its academic independence.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 21, 2025 05:09 PM (mlg/3)

Rights are granted by God or Nature according to the Founders... so how can anything made by MAN, have Rights?

Privileges? Powers? Authorities? OK... but the idea that a Legal Construct has RIGHTS? Only our modern Supremes are that silly.

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 21, 2025 05:17 PM (QAkQ3)

354 >>> 330 267 Again, as with Kristi Noem, not to bang our side, but would ask Pete Hegseth why he would think spending so much time getting tatted up was a good idea.

because he wanted to? who cares
Posted by: brak

You're right. Sam Brinton's luggage hobby is none of my business either.
Posted by: Auspex at April 21, 2025 05:13 PM (j4U/Z)

You can have an opinion about whatever you like, although if you like carrots in chili you are Wrong.

Sam's luggage hobby is illegal most places; afaik having tattoos is not illegal anywhere in the US.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at April 21, 2025 05:17 PM (Vqx30)

355 Robert Redford was first cast in a Perry Mason episode. So many future stars were on his show. It's amazing really.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 21, 2025 05:17 PM (/U5Yz)

356 I think a really big budget reboot of The Lone Ranger would do the trick.

Posted by: Crotalus Atrox at April 21, 2025 05:18 PM (cF1yG)

357 Here's a hint to all of you "independent" researchers: If you depend on any sort of grant, you're not independent. You're a contractor paid to solve a problem.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at April 21, 2025 05:18 PM (tT6L1)

358 "Robert Redford plays the same character in every movie.

A lot of actors do that."

John Wayne did that for decades.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at April 21, 2025 05:18 PM (ZmEVT)

359 Zegler's eyes are almost as far apart as a sheep's eyes.

Its the new thing with starlets, like they are trying to sexualize foetal alcohol syndrome. Florence Pugh, Rachel Zegler, Halle Bailey, Gemma Ward, Brandy, Lily Donaldson. Its like the Innsmouth Look is hot in Hollywood or something.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 21, 2025 05:18 PM (2VST1)

360 Tom Cruise played a 6'6" character who wasn't a fudge packer.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 21, 2025 05:18 PM (h9KKO)

361 Praying for you Salty.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at April 21, 2025 05:18 PM (dg+HA)

362 351 Scandis probably taste terrible.
Posted by: Boss Moss

Like mackerel left out in the sun all day.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 21, 2025 05:19 PM (/U5Yz)

363 Leftist destroy everything they touch - sports, academia, military, and entertainment to name a few. Newsome suing Fed.Gov over tariffs contending that tariffs will be ruinous to the state without ever looking in the mirror at all of the strangulating policies and regulations that the Marxists in that state have enacted over the last several decades. Add in the cultural rot and they are doing themselves in.

Posted by: Cheri at April 21, 2025 05:19 PM (oiNtH)

364 Is it wrong to hope that evil cvnt and her 'husband' drop dead very soon?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket

No, but paying someone to do it, that'd be wrong.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 21, 2025 05:19 PM (L/fGl)

365 The girl I had a crush on in Xth grade had a crush on Robert Redford. Which means I saw
The Way We Were too many times.
Posted by: San Franpsycho
.......

I thought that movie was funny. They tried to make Barbara Streisand pretty.

Posted by: wth at April 21, 2025 05:20 PM (v0R5T)

366 I thought that stupid broad from Snow White must definitely be prettier than the photo I saw of her last week. Nope. I just looked at a bunch of publicity shots for the film. That's just how she looks.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 21, 2025 05:13 PM (BI5O2)

Some people seem to think she's pretty. I don't see it.

I mean, she's young, which means she's got tight skin, and apparently she's in good shape, so she's not homely or anything. She's not quite bag-over-the-head material.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 21, 2025 05:20 PM (dGCAG)

367 John Wayne did that for decades.

Often with the same supporting cast.

Yet, Sulu wasn't gay in The Green Berets. A Hollywood Miracle.

Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 21, 2025 05:20 PM (si91G)

368 Granted there are a few breaks and some questions, but they were established well before the papacy.

But there have been so few knavish imbeciles.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at April 21, 2025 05:20 PM (ZmEVT)

369 The girl I had a crush on in Xth grade had a crush on Robert Redford. Which means I saw
The Way We Were too many times.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 21, 2025 05:16 PM (RIvkX)

---------------

My first love was a fan of the TV series Dallas.

While watching it with her one night, when she turned to me and said rhetorically "Why can't you be charming like (the actor who played JR's brother) Patrick Duffy?"

I've had a viceral hate for that guy ever since ...

Posted by: ShainS --Waking Up Early is White Supremacy at April 21, 2025 05:21 PM (3aJIj)

370 In personal news, my son had his first soccer game of the season this last weekend. He played well. He got a couple of good shots on goal. Neither went in, but they were good shots. A fellow teammate kicked a ball hard into his hand during the game and he powered through the pain. He's nine, so that's a good accomplishment. His team won. I'm a proud papa.

Posted by: bonhomme at April 21, 2025 05:21 PM (lIio7)

371 At worst, you'll meet your demise after having wandered into the wrong neighborhood

The problem now is the entire city is "the wrong neighborhood"

Posted by: Chuck C at April 21, 2025 05:22 PM (D0HYP)

372 320 As the late Paul Newman said of Robert Redford, "Robert never married because he could never find someone he loved as much as he loved himself."

--

My brother once saw him in an airport. Said he was short, and his face was very haggard. As in, he looked like crap.
Posted by: Lady in Black at April 21, 2025 05:10 PM (qBdHI)

Paul newman was slight- probably 5'7" (in boots) and 145 lbs? I stood next to him and felt large. Redford is basically a ginger who got too much sun. Haggard sums it up.

Posted by: LASue at April 21, 2025 05:22 PM (lCppi)

373 342 > I just looked at a bunch of publicity shots for the film. That's just how she looks.

Zegler's eyes are almost as far apart as a sheep's eyes.
Posted by: bonhomme at April 21, 2025 05:16 PM (lIio7)

At least the Photoshop and filters screen out her pelt pretty well.

Posted by: Fur Piece From Here at April 21, 2025 05:22 PM (G5+As)

374 Yet, Sulu wasn't gay in The Green Berets. A Hollywood Miracle.
Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 21, 2025 05:20 PM (si91G)

The end of that movie killed me.

Peter-son ! Peter-son!

Have you seen my Peter-son?

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 21, 2025 05:22 PM (VofaG)

375 She's not quite bag-over-the-head material.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 21, 2025 05:20 PM

No, she isn't. Just not pretty enough to do a job whose only requirement is "be very, very pretty," and literally nothing else.

A well-trained parrot could do their jobs. They don't use parrots because people don't want to have sex with parrots.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 21, 2025 05:22 PM (BI5O2)

376 Some people seem to think she's pretty. I don't see it. I mean, she's young, which means she's got tight skin, and apparently she's in good shape, so she's not homely or anything. She's not quite bag-over-the-head material.

To me, she's just dark white. Facial features, physique. She's really, really tan white. And trying so, so hard not to be.

Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 21, 2025 05:22 PM (si91G)

377 366 I thought that stupid broad from Snow White must definitely be prettier than the photo I saw of her last week. Nope. I just looked at a bunch of publicity shots for the film. That's just how she looks.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 21, 2025 05:13 PM (BI5O2)

Some people seem to think she's pretty. I don't see it.

I mean, she's young, which means she's got tight skin, and apparently she's in good shape, so she's not homely or anything. She's not quite bag-over-the-head material.
Posted by: BurtTC

Depends on the lighting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFeUrC2gR30

Posted by: Maj. Healey at April 21, 2025 05:22 PM (/U5Yz)

378 I thought that movie was funny. They tried to make Barbara Streisand pretty.

Yeah they really tried to push her as a romantic lead for years at Hollywood, it was baffling. But then, they thought guys like Al Pacino and Richard Benjamin were manly too back then.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 21, 2025 05:22 PM (2VST1)

379 Re Hillary:
Lock. Her. UP.

Posted by: gKWVE at April 21, 2025 05:23 PM (gKWVE)

380 Tom Cruise played a 6'6" character who wasn't a fudge packer.
Posted by: Boss Moss at April 21, 2025 05:18 PM (h9KKO)

I signed up for Prime so I could get something delivered quickly. I have 30 days to cancel (which I will).

Decided to watch the Reacher show.

Meh. It's not terrible, I guess. Tom Cruiser has more charisma in his teeth than this guy has in his whole 6' 20" frame.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 21, 2025 05:23 PM (dGCAG)

381 It doesn't really matter where films are made if they insist on not making films most do not want to see.

The current crop of writers have to go, and they're not the only ones.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at April 21, 2025 05:23 PM (4/BuS)

382 https://instapundit.com/715554/
APRIL 21, 2025
TIME FOR A REVOLUTION: Germany Is Revoking Gun Rights from AfD Supporters - and It's a Warning Shot for the West.
Posted at 5:00 pm by Glenn Reynolds

linked article @ Truth About Gubs:
https://shorturl.at/STngb

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at April 21, 2025 05:24 PM (Vqx30)

383 Zegler's eyes are almost as far apart as a sheep's eyes.
Posted by: bonhomme at April 21, 2025 05:16 PM (lIio7)

————

“That’s hot!”

— Akmed

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at April 21, 2025 05:24 PM (DStAq)

384 Wait. Hegsex is a Marine. .

Lots of Marines get LOTS of tattoos. My son has a few.

What is the issue?

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 21, 2025 05:24 PM (Xwwcf)

385 That Bacon guys got skeletons.

@amuse
SABOTAGE: The behind the scenes effort to oust Pete Hegseth was started by DOD appointee John Ullyot. Now that he's been ousted he's working with allies in the House securing Rep Bacon's call for the SecDef's resignation. Bacon fought to keep DEI in the military and is now fighting to stop Pete from eliminating it.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 21, 2025 05:24 PM (mlg/3)

386 A well-trained parrot could do their jobs. They don't use parrots because people don't want to have sex with parrots.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 21, 2025 05:22 PM (BI5O2)

Awww... shit...

Posted by: Old Jimmy Buffet fan at April 21, 2025 05:24 PM (QAkQ3)

387 Tom Cruiser has more charisma in his teeth than this guy has in his whole 6' 20" frame

Yeah, Richson does okay but he's not exactly gripping. I liked the first season. The other two have been disappointing so far.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 21, 2025 05:24 PM (2VST1)

388 Robert Redford was first cast in a Perry Mason episode. So many future stars were on his show. It's amazing really.
Posted by: Maj. Healey

If I stay up late enough, I still watch that show at night and love it. Some established stars were on it as well such as Bette Davis and Hugh Marlowe.

Posted by: Cheri at April 21, 2025 05:24 PM (oiNtH)

389 What am I, chopped liver?
Posted by: Memphis at April 21, 2025 04:56 PM (CwhoI)
---------------

Yer on the banks of the Big Muddy.

Chopped catfish, most likely.

Posted by: blake -

We had an 18 wheeler spilled load of chicken guts in Guntersville, AL over the weekend.

Posted by: BifBewalski at April 21, 2025 05:25 PM (MsrgL)

390 Decided to watch the Reacher show.

That show could be accurately titled "Bright Ape Punches His Problems." It's so dumb.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at April 21, 2025 05:25 PM (4/BuS)

391 The current crop of writers have to go, and they're not the only ones.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at April 21, 2025 05:23 PM (4/BuS)
-----------------------

The problem is, Hollywood chased off all of the writers who had talent and replaced them with people with sub par creativity.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at April 21, 2025 05:25 PM (tT6L1)

392 "Cord-cutters and corporate greed are to blame"

Or maybe - just maybe - your product sucks and people aren't willing to watch anymore?

I cannot recall the last, actual, first-run TV show I watched.

Throw me some Hunter. Some Hill Street Blues. King of Queens. Raymond.

Posted by: Bea Arthur's Dick at April 21, 2025 05:25 PM (eYAt4)

393 Have you seen my Peter-son?

A classic. We could derail the thread with great John Wayne movie moments. Lets do.

I liked The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence best. And its not Wayne's best work by any stretch. I think Jimmy Stewart carries the film, as a complete cuck. But Wayne plays a great, obvious foil until the end. I didn't see a man like his character getting drunk and setting his own farm on fire. That was weak story telling.

Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 21, 2025 05:25 PM (si91G)

394 They don't use parrots because people don't want to have sex with parrots.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 21, 2025 05:22 PM (BI5O2)

Speak for yourself, man!

No but seriously, you have her in the role of "the fairest in the land," and the gal she's up against is Gal Gadot.

Who might actually BE the fairest in all of the land.

I don't know what they were thinking.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 21, 2025 05:25 PM (dGCAG)

395 linked article @ Truth About Gubs:
https://shorturl.at/STngb
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at April 21, 2025 05:24 PM (Vqx30)

Wow...

Posted by: Old Jimmy Buffet fan at April 21, 2025 05:26 PM (QAkQ3)

396 An internal executive memo has been sent to top NPR officials stating that the outlet faces defunding after falsely reporting that the White House is seeking to replace Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

https://tinyurl.com/2rbscckn

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at April 21, 2025 05:26 PM (paSBy)

397 Hope Universal crushes Disney. And the Tornado movie could be entertaining as long as the chick isn't a marisu.

Posted by: Entertainment thought at April 21, 2025 05:26 PM (TbWk/)

398 That show could be accurately titled "Bright Ape Punches His Problems." It's so dumb.

Its odd how they try to do it. He's a moron, until he's brilliant. Then back to moron.

But many of the characters around him are at least interesting. Just not him.

Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 21, 2025 05:27 PM (si91G)

399 That show could be accurately titled "Bright Ape Punches His Problems." It's so dumb.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at April 21, 2025 05:25 PM (4/BuS)

So far he's banged two hot chicks. Both of whom had to get nekkid and force themselves on him.

I think he's gay.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 21, 2025 05:27 PM (dGCAG)

400 The problem is, Hollywood chased off all of the writers who had talent and replaced them with people with sub par creativity.

That's what MeToo and the strike was all about: cleaning out the old writers, producers, etc who were too male and pale. Replacing them is an array of oddities who only know one story: their life.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 21, 2025 05:27 PM (2VST1)

401 That show could be accurately titled "Bright Ape Punches His Problems." It's so dumb.

Its odd how they try to do it. He's a moron, until he's brilliant. Then back to moron.

But many of the characters around him are at least interesting. Just not him.

Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson

He books were much better than the show OR the movies.

Posted by: BifBewalski at April 21, 2025 05:28 PM (MsrgL)

402 Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 21, 2025 05:25 PM (si91G)

The Shootist...

“I won't be wronged. I won't be insulted. I won't be laid a-hand on. I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same from them.”

Posted by: Old Jimmy Buffet fan at April 21, 2025 05:28 PM (QAkQ3)

403 And, here is again where I say that Michael Crichton's Looker needs to be remade (the plot is that a studio is scanning people into computers and killing them so that they can keep using the person in ads and movies forever without paying them).
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 21, 2025 04:59 PM (2VST1)
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I'm sure Hollywood is already looking into that--not making the movie, but doing away with actors so they can reuse their likenesses in perpetuity.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 21, 2025 05:01 PM (7fElN)

Once the tech is good they'll pay new hopefuls a couple hundred to be scanned to see if they'll work in film, the studio (or whatever) keeps the rights of the image, and they'll use that without paying the big bucks to the newbies. The only other thing they'll get is a visit or two to the casting couch.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 21, 2025 05:28 PM (ExV1e)

404 >>> 384 Wait. Hegsex is a Marine. .

Lots of Marines get LOTS of tattoos. My son has a few.

What is the issue?
Posted by: nurse ratched at April 21, 2025 05:24 PM (Xwwcf)

Well at least ONE person is paying attention to the AoS Style Guide.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at April 21, 2025 05:28 PM (Vqx30)

405 Loved The Chosen.
First time is a theater in a long time.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 21, 2025 05:28 PM (W/lyH)

406 Who might actually BE the fairest in all of the land.

I don't know what they were thinking.

They redefined "fairest" as "most socially just"

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 21, 2025 05:29 PM (2VST1)

407 Reacher becomes judge, jury, and executioner.

Same reason I quit Longmire.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at April 21, 2025 05:29 PM (ZmEVT)

408 I thought the Hegseth news was including his wife and brother on the Signals thing. The DoD is in shock and reeling ////

Posted by: Ben Had at April 21, 2025 05:29 PM (yp8Vj)

409
Zegler's eyes are almost as far apart as a sheep's eyes.

Its the new thing with starlets, like they are trying to sexualize foetal alcohol syndrome. Florence Pugh, Rachel Zegler, Halle Bailey, Gemma Ward, Brandy, Lily Donaldson. Its like the Innsmouth Look is hot in Hollywood or something.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 21, 2025 05:18 PM (2VST1)

Anya-Taylor Joy...

The queen of that look was Joan Collins

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 21, 2025 05:29 PM (y9nCu)

410 Is that Rep. Bacon the same jackass who gets on X late at night after four shots of tequila?
Great representation you got NB-2, 100 proof / 100

Posted by: gKWVE at April 21, 2025 05:30 PM (gKWVE)

411 “I won't be wronged. I won't be insulted. I won't be laid a-hand on. I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same from them.”

Posted by: Old Jimmy Buffet fan at April 21, 2025 05:28 PM (QAkQ3)

One of the best damn lines from ANY movie - or Western Civ. I kid you not. Right up there with many from Outlaw Josie Wales.

Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 21, 2025 05:30 PM (si91G)

412 I've been impressed with The Chosen. Writing, acting, character development, music, videography, costumes. All crowd funded. Stream the first four seasons free of charge.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at April 21, 2025 05:30 PM (dg+HA)

413 The Asians have been making BADASS GIRLBOSS action and martial arts movies for decades. It’s dumb af, but that’s the genre and usually they cast an eye candy hottie. They also usually come up with some half-assed mystical explanation for why the girl is so great a fighter.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at April 21, 2025 05:30 PM (DStAq)

414 I saw "Warfare" yesterday.

It's good. Very good. But I don't recommend it to anyone who doesn't want to experience MTSD*.

*Mid-traumatic stress disorder: This movie shows very well that PTSD doesn't actually wait for the traumatic event to be over to start stressing people out. If you've wondered what it feels like, this is your flick.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at April 21, 2025 05:30 PM (asXVI)

415 I didn't read any of the Reacher books so I didn't mind Cruise's portrayal at all. The second movie had to have the girl power theme though. Took me right out of it.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 21, 2025 05:30 PM (VofaG)

416 Here is one for you. An actual writer was in a hotel room, and nothing was on except the movie "The Last jedi" (how did the marketing department, whose job it is to sell toy lightsabers, let that one pass?). It was so bad he did two things. First, he wrote a book about it, "The Last Straw". That is a useful book to see how NOT to write a movie. Then, he is writing a series of books, starting with "Starquest, Space Pirates of Andromeda"", two books so far, to basically replace Starwars.

Posted by: Nightfall at April 21, 2025 05:30 PM (Sp2+L)

417 I thought that I had read everything Michael Crichton wrote. "Looker?"

Posted by: no one of any consequence at April 21, 2025 05:30 PM (ZmEVT)

418 I figured on reviewing "Warfare" and "Ballad of Wallis Island" on the movie thread Saturday.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at April 21, 2025 05:31 PM (asXVI)

419 I am glad that "King of Kings" did so well; It deserved to.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 21, 2025 05:31 PM (42Vb+)

420 315 unusual_whales @unusual_whales 7h
Disney, $DIS, has reportedly halted on development of a live-action version of its animated hit “Tangled,” due to Snow White's performance, per TheWrap.
Posted by: andycanuck (mZtdJ) at April 21, 2025 05:10 PM (mZtdJ)

There was nothing wrong with the original. I have no idea how they would do the horse in a live action film. Could not possibly be as funny as the original.

Come up with a new story already. It is okay if the Greeks already did it, it has been a while, but Tangled was only a few years ago.

Posted by: tcn in AK at April 21, 2025 05:31 PM (a4NoL)

421 Is that Rep. Bacon the same jackass who gets on X late at night after four shots of tequila?
Great representation you got NB-2, 100 proof / 100
Posted by: gKWVE

Yep, same asshole. The one that told a Marine that he needed to be harassed.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 21, 2025 05:31 PM (mlg/3)

422 Reacher books are okay one every few years or so, he's a ridiculous Marty Stu who is always smarter, stronger, bigger, more knowing, and better than everyone everywhere. He's like a pulp character, Doc Savage type who is never seriously in danger or challenged. Its a fun read but you cannot string too many together.

For me, the better version of "badass dude tears through villains" type of stories is the Levon Cade books by Chuck Dixon

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 21, 2025 05:31 PM (2VST1)

423 Have you met any military guys? They've been human Bob Ross canvases going back at least 100 years.
======
I'm convinced most here are either AI, in a retirement home, or simply trolls. Just by what they say about the military. Because that military didn't exist 30 years ago when I was in the military.
Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 21, 2025 05:03 PM (si91G)

Air Force?

I got out a bit over 30 years ago and there were lots of people tatted up. Not as many as now but there also wasn't as much actual combat.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 21, 2025 05:32 PM (ExV1e)

424 419 I am glad that "King of Kings" did so well; It deserved to.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 21, 2025 05:31 PM (42Vb+)

Excellent source material.

Posted by: tcn in AK at April 21, 2025 05:32 PM (a4NoL)

425 Once the tech is good they'll pay new hopefuls a couple hundred to be scanned to see if they'll work in film, the studio (or whatever) keeps the rights of the image, and they'll use that without paying the big bucks to the newbies. The only other thing they'll get is a visit or two to the casting couch.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 21, 2025 05:28 PM (ExV1e)

They'll go NIL, same as college sports. Then AI will just create totally fake people and voila! Profit!!!

Posted by: Diogenes at April 21, 2025 05:32 PM (W/lyH)

426 Zegler.

He's straight out of some erotic Tolkien fanfic.

Bilbo saw Gollum frolicking in the cave, and said to himself, "I'm going to bang this creature."

"Put this dress on, Smeagol. You're a girl now."

Why does hobbitsy dress have a hole in the back?!? Nasty hobittses full of trickses."

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at April 21, 2025 05:32 PM (4/BuS)

427 Hollywood sells its movies to investors based on star power (Bruce Willis!) and saleable concepts (Spiderman vs the Green Goblin!). Now they have neither.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at April 21, 2025 05:33 PM (wBaIH)

428 *waves to Helena*

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 21, 2025 05:33 PM (gjFiG)

429 I thought that I had read everything Michael Crichton wrote. "Looker?"

Albert Finney, Susan Dey, and Gene Simmons. If you'd got cable in the 80s ? You would have seen Looker. A million friggin' times.

Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 21, 2025 05:33 PM (si91G)

430 Not particularly in favor of states using tax breaks to entice film productions to their locales, I find it quite amusing that California voters are so stupid to kill their cash cow with the economically illiterate policies. Reap what you sow.

Posted by: Grapeape at April 21, 2025 05:33 PM (rCSYB)

431 I thought that I had read everything Michael Crichton wrote. "Looker?"

I think Looker was a Crichton movie, not based on a book. He directed and wrote it.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 21, 2025 05:33 PM (2VST1)

432 I read all of the Bantam Books Doc Savage editions when I was a kid—the comparison to Reacher is apt.

Posted by: Open Channel D at April 21, 2025 05:34 PM (UYpeS)

433 Harvard University said it has filed a federal lawsuit against the Trump administration, arguing it has violated the university’s constitutional rights by freezing billions of dollars in federal funding, illegally imperiling its academic independence.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 21, 2025 05:09 PM

Wow that's a new one on me.....academic independence granted by billions and billions of taxpayer dollars while they sit on $50 BILLION in un taxed endowments.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 21, 2025 05:34 PM (e5NfL)

434 An internal executive memo has been sent to top NPR officials stating that the outlet faces defunding after falsely reporting that the White House is seeking to replace Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

https://tinyurl.com/2rbscckn

==

hahahahahah!

Posted by: runner at April 21, 2025 05:34 PM (g47mK)

435 The AI will tell you "Looker" is based on a novel, however, I do not believe that it is.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at April 21, 2025 05:35 PM (asXVI)

436 Susan Dey.

Bunk.

"I think I love you..."

Posted by: no one of any consequence at April 21, 2025 05:35 PM (ZmEVT)

437 For me, the better version of "badass dude tears through villains" type of stories is the Levon Cade books by Chuck Dixon
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 21, 2025 05:31 PM (2VST1)

The Destroyer.... Remo Williams.

Posted by: Old Jimmy Buffet fan at April 21, 2025 05:35 PM (QAkQ3)

438 The Asians have been making BADASS GIRLBOSS action and martial arts movies for decades. It’s dumb af, but that’s the genre and usually they cast an eye candy hottie. They also usually come up with some half-assed mystical explanation for why the girl is so great a fighter.
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at April 21, 2025 05:30 PM (DStAq)

And there actually is some historical precedent for female samurai (onna-musha) and ninjas (kunoichi).

Posted by: Fun to watch usually at April 21, 2025 05:35 PM (TbWk/)

439 So it was Ullyot. How berry , berry interesting.

Posted by: runner at April 21, 2025 05:36 PM (g47mK)

440 It was about 30 years ago when tats required a waiver to enlist. I recall a command sergeant major chewing out a couple Samoan soldiers for excessive tats. He had to be set straight about the Samoan heritage. The CSM retired.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 21, 2025 05:36 PM (W/lyH)

441 Zimbabwe is offering reparations to white farmers that got their land taken to bring them back and to attract them to invest in farming.

Posted by: ryukyu at April 21, 2025 05:36 PM (r+m2N)

442 Taking that disgruntled employee to hole 'nother level.

Posted by: runner at April 21, 2025 05:36 PM (g47mK)

443 I didn't read any of the Reacher books so I didn't mind Cruise's portrayal at all. The second movie had to have the girl power theme though. Took me right out of it.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth

While reasonably well written, it's obvious the author was never in the U.S. Army, or anywhere within voice distance of anyone that was. Still entertaining, good mental chewing gum, after a day full of cow-orker political back stabbing BS, senior career engineers that should know better, and mid-career engineers that think they do know better.

Posted by: BifBewalski at April 21, 2025 05:36 PM (MsrgL)

444 Again, as with Kristi Noem, not to bang our side, but would ask Pete Hegseth why he would think spending so much time getting tatted up was a good idea.

because he wanted to? who cares
Posted by: brak

You're right. Sam Brinton's luggage hobby is none of my business either.
Posted by: Auspex at April 21, 2025 05:13 PM (j4U/Z)

Are you equating getting a tattoo with thievery?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 21, 2025 05:36 PM (ExV1e)

445 434 An internal executive memo has been sent to top NPR officials stating that the outlet faces defunding after falsely reporting that the White House is seeking to replace Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

https://tinyurl.com/2rbscckn

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hahahahahah!
Posted by: runner at April 21, 2025 05:34 PM (g47mK)

Yeah.... about that whole defunding people who spread Propaganda thing?

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 21, 2025 05:37 PM (QAkQ3)

446 House of the Flying Daggers has entered the chat

Posted by: Ben Had at April 21, 2025 05:37 PM (yp8Vj)

447 The Destroyer.... Remo Williams.

He's a lot more fallible than Reacher yeah. Although he never really faces a serious challenge. The Executioner (Mack Bolan) is even more human.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 21, 2025 05:37 PM (2VST1)

448 I thought that I had read everything Michael Crichton wrote. "Looker?"

Posted by: no one of any consequence

How about Dealing, or The Berkeley-To-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues? A very young Michael and his brother Douglas wrote it under the pseudonym Michael Douglas.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 21, 2025 05:37 PM (L/fGl)

449 House of the Flying Daggers has entered the chat

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Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon 1&2!

Posted by: runner at April 21, 2025 05:37 PM (g47mK)

450 My son told me that tats were considered "desecration of government property."

He was Navy.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at April 21, 2025 05:38 PM (ZmEVT)

451 Honestly I don't think there is much sympathy out there though. Hollywood is run by horrendous people doing awful stuff and getting away with it for nearly a century. Now that the crap they have pulled finally is catching up with them people are shrugging and looking away.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 21, 2025 04:17 PM (2VST1)

I made a quick trip to the 'Couldn't Give a Fuck" store and they were all out.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at April 21, 2025 05:38 PM (quqPW)

452 Wow that's a new one on me.....academic independence granted by billions and billions of taxpayer dollars while they sit on $50 BILLION in un taxed endowments.

Posted by: Mister Scott

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Nobody is really free and independent unless they know they are lordng it over the underlings.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at April 21, 2025 05:38 PM (WfeZa)

453 I might even go see 28 Years Later, if for no other reason than the trailers are brilliant.

Posted by: Seriously they are a masterclass at April 21, 2025 05:38 PM (TbWk/)

454 They also usually come up with some half-assed mystical explanation for why the girl is so great a fighter.

Well, and they are also recognizably female, not only in appearance but behavior. They don't make the badass girl tough by making her a woman, they make her a very capable girl.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 21, 2025 05:39 PM (2VST1)

455 runner, 2? I had no idea.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 21, 2025 05:39 PM (yp8Vj)

456 "Excellent source material"

Very true, tcn!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 21, 2025 05:40 PM (42Vb+)

457 I cannot recall the last, actual, first-run TV show I watched

Justified.

Posted by: Chuck C at April 21, 2025 05:40 PM (D0HYP)

458 450 My son told me that tats were considered "desecration of government property."

He was Navy.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at April 21, 2025 05:38 PM (ZmEVT)

Destruction of Gov Property.... same as they would take you to mast for right out of boot camp if you got too bad of a sunburn on your first time off

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 21, 2025 05:41 PM (QAkQ3)

459 Ben Had, it is Called Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny.

Posted by: runner at April 21, 2025 05:41 PM (g47mK)

460 Zimbabwe is offering reparations to white farmers that got their land taken to bring them back and to attract them to invest in farming.
Posted by: ryukyu

Each farmer gets a boxcar full of Zimbabwean currency?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at April 21, 2025 05:41 PM (L/fGl)

461 Harvard University said it has filed a federal lawsuit against the Trump administration, arguing it has violated the university’s constitutional rights by freezing billions of dollars in federal funding, illegally imperiling its academic independence.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 21, 2025 05:09 PM

People doing their utmost to shred the Constitution and then using it to shield themselves with it, is one of the things I detest the most about the Left.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at April 21, 2025 05:41 PM (quqPW)

462 Well, and they are also recognizably female, not only in appearance but behavior. They don't make the badass girl tough by making her a woman, they make her a very capable girl.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 21, 2025 05:39 PM (2VST1)

And when shown to be training they have to train hard and get the shit kicked out of them, a lot, in order to get good. They don't just spring fully formed combat powers like the Star Wars chick.

Posted by: some big differences at April 21, 2025 05:41 PM (TbWk/)

463 Zimbabwe is offering reparations to white farmers that got their land taken to bring them back and to attract them to invest in farming

Just enough to get them established so that the black population can raid them, kill them all, and steal their land again.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 21, 2025 05:42 PM (2VST1)

464 Speaking of Detroit, note how they've made cars far less reliable with turbos, CVTs, engines that switch off at stop signs and every moving part reliant on electronics?

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at April 21, 2025 05:42 PM (wBaIH)

465 He's a lot more fallible than Reacher yeah. Although he never really faces a serious challenge. The Executioner (Mack Bolan) is even more human.

And after comic books ? Mack Bolan was how I learned to read. I absolutely kid you not. Able Team and Phoenix Force.

In High School, I moved onto the classics like Starship Troopers and Foundation and Dune and such.

Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 21, 2025 05:42 PM (si91G)

466 Reacher books are okay

I want to see the one where two gangs klutz kill each other off in a running converging screw-up gun fight in one sides hide-away.

Posted by: DaveA at April 21, 2025 05:42 PM (FhXTo)

467 runner, Thank you. If it shows up in the pawn shop I'll pick it up.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 21, 2025 05:42 PM (yp8Vj)

468 Zimbabwe is offering reparations to white farmers that got their land taken to bring them back and to attract them to invest in farming.

Start with re-naming it Rhodesia.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at April 21, 2025 05:43 PM (quqPW)

469 463 Zimbabwe is offering reparations to white farmers that got their land taken to bring them back and to attract them to invest in farming

Just enough to get them established so that the black population can raid them, kill them all, and steal their land again.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 21, 2025 05:42 PM (2VST1)

Yeah, any White Farmer who goes back should be nominated for a Darwin Award.

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 21, 2025 05:43 PM (QAkQ3)

470 Speaking of Detroit, note how they've made cars far less reliable with turbos, CVTs, engines that switch off at stop signs and every moving part reliant on electronics?

Yeah its because of the increasingly idiotic and extreme regulations. I would love to see Trump dial that back, because he has the power.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 21, 2025 05:44 PM (2VST1)

471 Ben Had, only if it is one of those 10 for a dollar type things.

Posted by: runner at April 21, 2025 05:44 PM (g47mK)

472 Zimbabwe is offering reparations to white farmers that got their land taken to bring them back and to attract them to invest in farming.

Fool Me Once, Shame on You.

Now, for those of you that are interested, read up on Mandela. And Rhodesia.

Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 21, 2025 05:45 PM (si91G)

473 464 Speaking of Detroit, note how they've made cars far less reliable with turbos, CVTs, engines that switch off at stop signs and every moving part reliant on electronics?
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at April 21, 2025 05:42 PM (wBaIH)

I'm actually looking at the Mazda Miata RF (retractable roof) once the Tariff stuff gets resolved... pretty simple fun convertible...

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 21, 2025 05:45 PM (QAkQ3)

474 runner, 2 for a buck is the pawn shop price.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 21, 2025 05:45 PM (yp8Vj)

475 Nood. Dept. of Ed.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 21, 2025 05:46 PM (Wnv9h)

476 nood, apparently

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 21, 2025 05:46 PM (2VST1)

477
I want to see the one where two gangs klutz kill each other off in a running converging screw-up gun fight in one sides hide-away.

Posted by: DaveA

Ice Tea and Ice Cube made a movie like that. Had William Saddler in it and Bill Paxton in it. Basic treasure hunt with gunfire.

Posted by: BifBewalski at April 21, 2025 05:46 PM (MsrgL)

478 Gnu Fred

Posted by: Elrond Hubbard at April 21, 2025 05:49 PM (VJc7E)

479 and just like that it's a movie thread.

...wait...

Posted by: toby928 at April 21, 2025 06:36 PM (5coB7)

480 Saw Warfare at IMAX and it was totally awesome! Highly recommend it.

Posted by: JackWayne at April 21, 2025 08:51 PM (axPrk)

481 As everyone knows, I am no fan of Grime Milestones, under Any Circumstances!

Posted by: Great Reagan's Deplorable Ghost at April 22, 2025 02:52 AM (l9BCz)

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