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After Reducing the Value of the Star Wars IP Somewhat Lower Than the Value of the Stretch Armstrong IP, Kaffeine Kennedy Might Finally Be Fired?
Well, they say she might "retire." But she has reportedly refused to retire previously because she was determined to only go out after a big success, and she's a horrible ditzy incompetent, so that's just never going to happen.
I don't think it matters any longer. Not to be like the millionth person to say this, but Star Wars is dead. Even people like me who used to talk about Star Wars being dead don't talk about it any longer, because there is no point telling people that a corpse that has been dead for so long that it doesn't even stink any longer is dead. Everyone knows. But... Doomcock was right? Eventually?Puck's Matthew Belloni reports today (paywall, sorry) that 2026 will finally be Kennedy's last as president of Lucasfilm. "In the next week or two, Disney will finally confirm what we've all known for months: Kathleen Kennedy is indeed stepping down as Lucasfilm president, and Dave Filoni, currently the chief creative officer of the Star Wars unit, will be elevated into the top job."He's a ball-less wonder who is as woke as she is and almost as untalented. If you think he's going to be a game-changer, he gave us Ashoka. God bless you! Dave Filoni looks at Rion Johnson and shivers at how toxically masculine Rion Johnson is.
Ten years ago, I would have jumped up and down at the news that Filoni was taking over, but after squandering The Mandalorian and completely wasting Rosario Dawson in whatever the hell Ahsoka was supposed to be, these days I'm less excited. But back to Kennedy. She took over Lucasfilm after Disney bought the company from founder George Lucas in 2012, and her performance can be described in just six words: She couldn't make money on Star Wars. Emphasis added. Because HOLY SHI'ITE. I ran the numbers last year, and this is what I found: "My back-of-the-envelope math indicates that Disney has spent $7.35 billion acquiring and producing Star Wars entertainment and generated $6.41 billion in revenues we can see." Disney+ streaming revenues can't be attributed to any particular show or property, but except for the little-watched Andor and the first two seasons of Mando, Disney's live-action Star Wars TV shows haven't scored well with critics or audiences. And you can forget about all that fabulous toy revenue. Nine-year-old boys aren't exactly clamoring for Rose Tico or Admiral Holdo action figures. "If Disney has realized an actual profit on its $4.05 billion Lucasfilm investment, I'd be shocked," I concluded then, and that was before we learned that Kennedy spent nearly a quarter of a billion dollars (!!!) producing and marketing The Acolyte for Disney+.Steven Green has more, including a run-down of all the cancelled projects and fired directors we saw under the chaotic, emotional rule of Kaffeine Kennedy.
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: fd at January 06, 2026 05:32 PM (vFG9F)
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Posted by: fd at January 06, 2026 05:32 PM (vFG9F)
Zendaya saves the planet by doing yoga, poorly.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 06, 2026 05:35 PM (06Hmj)
In short--it sucked. Bigly.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 06, 2026 05:35 PM (ESVrU)
Horse, barn door, some assembly required.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 06, 2026 05:35 PM (AV9Wq)
Posted by: Diogenes at January 06, 2026 05:35 PM (2WIwB)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 06, 2026 05:36 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Competence and hard work are for chumps at January 06, 2026 05:36 PM (TbWk/)
Basically Star Wars needs to be turned over to people who actually like Star Wars.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 06, 2026 05:36 PM (XV/Pl)
I's a write off, Jerry. They just write it off.
Posted by: Max Power at January 06, 2026 05:36 PM (SwyyQ)
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 06, 2026 05:36 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Skip at January 06, 2026 05:36 PM (Ia/+0)
Posted by: jmel at January 06, 2026 05:36 PM (bVhJi)
Posted by: zombie at January 06, 2026 05:36 PM (se8lQ)
Posted by: Competence and hard work are for chumps at January 06, 2026 05:36 PM (TbWk/)
you wouldn't say that if you were an astronaut.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 06, 2026 05:36 PM (06Hmj)
No. Only the 987,655th person. I’ve been counting.
Posted by: Elric the Blade at January 06, 2026 05:37 PM (6iIXQ)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 06, 2026 05:37 PM (AV9Wq)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 06, 2026 05:37 PM (pkeXY)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 06, 2026 05:37 PM (0U5gm)
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 06, 2026 05:38 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 06, 2026 05:39 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 06, 2026 05:39 PM (ScJGb)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 06, 2026 05:39 PM (06Hmj)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 06, 2026 05:39 PM (8Xy/A)
Basically Star Wars needs to be turned over to people who actually like Star Wars.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 06, 2026 05:36 PM (XV/Pl)
^This. We keep seeing beloved IP such as Star Wars, Star Trek, and various assorted comic properties absolutely ruined because at best the producers don't understand the property or at worst outright hate it, despite being handed a veritable license to print money.
Posted by: See also Snow White at January 06, 2026 05:40 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 06, 2026 05:40 PM (2GVsD)
Right Count de Monet?
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 06, 2026 05:36 PM (2GVsD)
Right!
Posted by: Count de Monet at January 06, 2026 05:40 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: tubal at January 06, 2026 05:40 PM (pDt9x)
Girls are not Star Wars, Westerns or Star Trek. The rare one here or there, but by and large no.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 06, 2026 05:40 PM (zZu0s)
— Turn Sherlock Holmes into a black tranny.
— Reveal the true secret behind James Bond: He has been a communist double-agent this whole time. And that's makes him even cooler.
– Winnie the Pooh gets a new job, as the mascot for NAMBLA.
Posted by: zombie at January 06, 2026 05:41 PM (se8lQ)
And it's not be hot the genre. I like Star Trek. Huge fan of Farscape. Serenity was really good .
Star Wars was just campy to me.
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 06, 2026 05:41 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 06, 2026 05:41 PM (0U5gm)
Today is my 50th birthday! Cake for dinner. And breakfast, too!
Posted by: jmel at January 06, 2026 05:36 PM (bVhJi)
Happy birthday, now get off my lawn and take your cake with you.
Posted by: Whippersnappers! at January 06, 2026 05:41 PM (TbWk/)
And the really sad thing in all of this woke bull$hit is the fact that they literally had an entire galaxy where they could make up almost anything they wanted to, along with a rabid fan base in the hundreds of millions that would shower them with $$$$.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 06, 2026 05:41 PM (0N4FZ)
Somehow I doubt nine-year-old girls are, either.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 06, 2026 05:41 PM (ULPxl)
As I related in the last thread, I just had ChatGPT create a sprite sheet of Star Trek characters for a little game I'm going to make in Godot.
The sheet it made was perfect, The Tribbles are cute, Harry Mudd is dead on.
I even had it generate that green chick that Kirk banged.
Why won't Hollywood simply give us what we want and will pay for if given the chance.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 06, 2026 05:41 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 06, 2026 05:41 PM (ESVrU)
Today is my 50th birthday! Cake for dinner. And breakfast, too!
Posted by: jmel at January 06, 2026 05:36 PM (bVhJi)
This man knows how to live!
Posted by: Count de Monet at January 06, 2026 05:41 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 06, 2026 05:41 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 06, 2026 05:42 PM (zZu0s)
what about me?
Posted by: GENERALISSIMO FRANCISCO FRANCO at January 06, 2026 05:42 PM (oY6Yp)
she failed, and unlike 6 years ago I could not care less.
Good worth Kathleen.
Posted by: sven at January 06, 2026 05:42 PM (MUJd1)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 06, 2026 05:37 PM (0U5gm)
The first 3 from back in the day were okay. They were made years before I watched them. The were very movie-like.
Posted by: tubal at January 06, 2026 05:42 PM (pDt9x)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 06, 2026 05:39 PM (ScJGb)
Law of large cocks. Numbers. I meant numbers.
Posted by: Had to happen eventually at January 06, 2026 05:42 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: zombie at January 06, 2026 05:43 PM (se8lQ)
-Biologically determined
-Somehow behind the career of every powerful man in the galaxy
....
Holy crap.
The force IS female!
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 06, 2026 05:43 PM (06Hmj)
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 06, 2026 05:43 PM (2GVsD)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 06, 2026 05:43 PM (rX9hT)
They made the Ewoks shrink, and they convinced Lucas the Empire was America and the Ewoks the VC....
I hope whomever the intern that orally changed his mind on some things was as skilled as the damage to the IP has been.
Posted by: sven at January 06, 2026 05:44 PM (MUJd1)
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 06, 2026 05:43 PM (2GVsD)
The fellow does seem a bit monomaniacal. I wonder if he has ANY other interests in life?
Posted by: tubal at January 06, 2026 05:45 PM (pDt9x)
Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 06, 2026 05:45 PM (emBoF)
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 06, 2026 05:45 PM (2GVsD)
I checked out when they iced Solo the way they did after cucking him out on the Falcon to a naif...we all reached our cut point mine was just early.
Posted by: sven at January 06, 2026 05:45 PM (MUJd1)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 06, 2026 05:45 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 06, 2026 05:41 PM (0N4FZ)
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All they had to was adapt the Star Wars: New Jedi Order storyline and they could be printing money today. It was already set up to be adaptable to both small and large screen storytelling. Or they could have MCU'd the storyline into an epic, decade-long, 20 movie franchise.
The original characters were even just about the right age (maybe a little older) to pass the torch to the next generation (Jacen, Jaina, and Anakin Solo and Ben Skywalker) in New Jedi Order.
Idiots.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 06, 2026 05:45 PM (ESVrU)
hmmm.... *scribbles note* citizen kane holiday special. this'll be bigger than star wars!!!
Posted by: anachronda at January 06, 2026 05:45 PM (oY6Yp)
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 06, 2026 05:43 PM (2GVsD)
He did a Drinker movie run down on Star Trek 5 where he waxed eloquent on how it was all in Kirks head and was great when you thought of it that way.
Stfu. ST5 has some... decent elements, but it is a mess. Shut the hell up, Bobby Ewing.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 06, 2026 05:45 PM (zZu0s)
And it's not be hot the genre. I like Star Trek. Huge fan of Farscape. Serenity was really good .
Star Wars was just campy to me.
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 06, 2026 05:41 PM (KDPiq)
they even lost that level of fun after the 80s.
Posted by: Oldcat at January 06, 2026 05:45 PM (8avO+)
... isn't that technically eight words?
Posted by: FeatherBlade at January 06, 2026 05:45 PM (a+4eV)
Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at January 06, 2026 05:46 PM (d+OQ+)
And it's not be hot the genre. I like Star Trek. Huge fan of Farscape. Serenity was really good .
Star Wars was just campy to me.
Posted by: Opinion fact]
Ditto.
I saw the original Star Wars, and then the JarJar Bionks one. Thought both were ridiculous. I'm done. Next IP, please!
Posted by: zombie at January 06, 2026 05:46 PM (se8lQ)
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 06, 2026 05:46 PM (jc0TO)
The nice thing about Seth is like Amy Schumer he does not need much of a costume...
Posted by: sven at January 06, 2026 05:46 PM (MUJd1)
This always happens. Happened with Pirates of the Caribbean, too. Also Back to the Future. I think Toy Story is the only franchise in the history of cinema that didn't go off a cliff after episode one.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 06, 2026 05:46 PM (AV9Wq)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 06, 2026 05:46 PM (pkeXY)
... isn't that technically eight words?
Posted by: FeatherBlade at January 06, 2026 05:45 PM (a+4eV)
7
Posted by: But who's counting at January 06, 2026 05:47 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 06, 2026 05:47 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 06, 2026 05:47 PM (zZu0s)
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This is also how you deal with Tucker and Owens: don't talk about them. They only get hate clicks, so deny them that. the more "respectable" people rip on them, the longer they last. Instead, when some idiot leftist tries to play gotcha, just act like they referenced a specific plot point of some Disney + Star Wars: "Sorry, don't know and don't care."
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 06, 2026 05:47 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: tubal at January 06, 2026 05:47 PM (pDt9x)
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 06, 2026 05:41 PM (2GVsD)
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I thought Sherlock Holmes was a lesbian lizard woman from the dawn of time in the Whoniverse.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 06, 2026 05:47 PM (ESVrU)
In the trailer Seth tells Fozzi that being on the Muppets have always been a dream.
Fozzi Bear, "you got any other dreams?"
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 06, 2026 05:47 PM (2GVsD)
KK went from fetching coffee and typing for Spielberg and Lucas to running the biggest IP in the world into the ground.
She's Pepper Potts without the corporate and business talent.
Nice going, Disney. Die, mouse, die.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 06, 2026 05:48 PM (y9nCu)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 06, 2026 05:43 PM (rX9hT)
Same. I haven't seen a thing since the Mandalorian.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 06, 2026 05:48 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: zombie at January 06, 2026 05:46 PM (se8lQ)
"Oooh, oooh, I got one, Hollywood! It's in space, and there's this hero, who has this power, and she gathers a posse, and---"
"Sit down and shut up, Zack."
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 06, 2026 05:48 PM (06Hmj)
Han *did* have an awesome backstory going back literally to 78, they used none of it and declared it all legends and it was written by writers who were writing not engaging in psychiatric scream therapy.
Solo lost and bargained away all his morals down to one "slavery is bad" and the growth of him back to the character that became a rebel was grown back from that one flicker of morals.
Posted by: sven at January 06, 2026 05:48 PM (MUJd1)
Those Stretch Armstrong figures were really dense, like a sandbag. You could seriously clobber somebody with one of those.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at January 06, 2026 05:48 PM (azNOR)
Posted by: anachronda at January 06, 2026 05:48 PM (oY6Yp)
Maybe James Bond lasted longer only because most of its lifespan was before woke.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 06, 2026 05:48 PM (0U5gm)
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 06, 2026 05:47 PM (KDPiq)
Karl Urban Dredd > Stallone Dredd
Posted by: By Mega orders of magnitude at January 06, 2026 05:48 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 06, 2026 05:43 PM (2GVsD)
In fairness, every week she was one week closer to being gone.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 06, 2026 05:49 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 06, 2026 05:47 PM (zZu0s)
Same.
I miss Professor Tosspot quite a bit.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 06, 2026 05:49 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: But who's counting
I'm never sure whether to count the "n't"s as their own words or part of the one they're appended to.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at January 06, 2026 05:49 PM (a+4eV)
Posted by: AgathaPagatha at January 06, 2026 05:49 PM (zDWkG)
Posted by: sven at January 06, 2026 05:42 PM (MUJd1)
As Tommy "Landman" Norris would put it, that's as easy as selling pussy in a men's prison.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 06, 2026 05:49 PM (IG3/x)
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 06, 2026 05:49 PM (2GVsD)
Pretty good. The casting is annoying woke in that putrescent 2022 way, but the series itself isn’t woke. At least not for the first 3-4 episodes.
Posted by: Elric the Blade at January 06, 2026 05:49 PM (6iIXQ)
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 06, 2026 05:49 PM (eq9pm)
Eh, I went back and rewatched some old episodes of the Muppets...Mark Hammill was stoned a lot.
Posted by: sven at January 06, 2026 05:49 PM (MUJd1)
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 06, 2026 05:41 PM (2GVsD)
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I thought Sherlock Holmes was a lesbian lizard woman from the dawn of time in the Whoniverse.
huh. i never realized she was supposed to be sherlock holmes.
Posted by: anachronda at January 06, 2026 05:50 PM (oY6Yp)
Posted by: sven at January 06, 2026 05:44 PM (MUJd1)
Too much hatred of the ex-wife in the prequels IMHO for that timeline to make sense.
Posted by: Oldcat at January 06, 2026 05:50 PM (8avO+)
Somehow I doubt nine-year-old girls are, either.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 06, 2026 05:41 PM (ULPxl)
My nine-year-old just told me she didn't think ownership of a Admiral Holdo action figure would really accomplish meaningful change in fighing the patriarchial heteonormative systems of oppression who need to be upended. Wiping a proud tear from my eye, I agreed with her.
Posted by: Karen McKarensdottor at January 06, 2026 05:50 PM (2Axwl)
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 06, 2026 05:49 PM
Yeah, gag. Right after they stressed that her parents were nobodies.
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 06, 2026 05:50 PM (jc0TO)
Not just that it failed.
Or that it failed spectacularly.
But in the concept.
It's like, "hey, you know what is an untapped market worth billions?
What?
People who want to cosplay for 48 or more hours!
All cosplay people?
No, just those who are real big Star Wars fans!!
And that's a multi-billion dollar market?
Yes!"
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 06, 2026 05:50 PM (HXT0k)
I miss Professor Tosspot quite a bit.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 06, 2026 05:49 PM (xcxpd)
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Professor Tosspot's smackdown of The Rise of Skywalker is EPIC!!!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 06, 2026 05:50 PM (ESVrU)
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 06, 2026 05:50 PM (eq9pm)
Posted by: sven at January 06, 2026 05:45 PM (MUJd1)
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I was dragged to part 7 against my will by the family, who still loved it. I set a personal record for watch-checking, and refused to see the rest of the sequels.
I saw Rogue One and do not understand why people claim it is in any way good. Zombie Tarkin and Fake Leia plus a Darth Vader so overpowered you wonder why he even needed Stormtroopers in the original film.
It all sucks. There were only ever three movies. If you want the back story, read Man of Destiny by me. Much better than Lucas' crap version.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 06, 2026 05:51 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 06, 2026 05:51 PM (KDPiq)
No joke, the kids who watched Star Wars when it was new were ready to hand the thing off to their grandkids...*and* she fucked it all up....great work Kathleen this is not as egotistical as it sounds... *I* could not have fucked that up.
Posted by: sven at January 06, 2026 05:51 PM (MUJd1)
I was so close to walking out of the farts awakens...I toughed it out to the very end.
Completely stupid and lowbrow parodycomedy.
Every single character was dumb. Every one.
Han Solo...unbelieveable.
I dont think I saw the next two, I know I didnt see the last one, might have seen the other one, but totally forget if I did because it sucked.
Posted by: Rev DR E Buzz at January 06, 2026 05:51 PM (et1vG)
New Theory!!!!
Disney's Star Wars and Marvel movies have been such retard-level hand rolled spitballs that-
Avatar has been able to thrive by simply being competently made, pretty-looking repeats of the exact same movie that they seem like a combination of "Casablanca" and "Citizen Kane" for the month and a half you're stuck in the theater watching them.
Well done, James Cameron for turning "not shitting the bed" into a money-making empire.
Posted by: naturalfake at January 06, 2026 05:52 PM (iJfKG)
Posted by: Skip at January 06, 2026 05:52 PM (Ia/+0)
The prequels had a chance for greatness but Lucas got too cute, the 2nd movie should have been the first with the kid in flashbacks and it should have focused on Dooku's fall, Anakin's rise to beat him and THEN the fall....
they could fuck up a wet dream.
Posted by: sven at January 06, 2026 05:52 PM (MUJd1)
Posted by: thug dolphin at January 06, 2026 05:52 PM (EyfuW)
Posted by: Elric the Blade at January 06, 2026 05:49 PM (6iIXQ)
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I haven't watched that series, but I know in other series, they often wait until episode 5+ to start steering to the Woke Side.
Or they wait until Season 2 and begin by going full Woke.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 06, 2026 05:52 PM (ESVrU)
Posted by: naturalfake at January 06, 2026 05:53 PM (iJfKG)
Westworld without Robots... non starter.
Posted by: Romeo13 at January 06, 2026 05:53 PM (mP0Kj)
I liked Rogue One, mostly. Maybe it was just that it was a SW movie without any of the old characters. And one had to weep for the Bothans.
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 06, 2026 05:53 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: tubal at January 06, 2026 05:47 PM (pDt9x)
Lore is that SW was a call-back to the old Flash Gordon serials, so Lucas went back to old Stepin Fetchit clips for Jar Jar
Posted by: Oldcat at January 06, 2026 05:53 PM (8avO+)
I never seen anyone dressing up as a Navi or anything after the hype from the first one died down.
They are pretty, empty, intensely stupid movies. They make money like the Jurassic Park movies do. But nobody seems to love them.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 06, 2026 05:54 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: By Mega orders of magnitude at January 06, 2026 05:48 PM (TbWk/)
This. Aka as a truism.
1=1
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 06, 2026 05:54 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: sven at January 06, 2026 05:51 PM (MUJd1)
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My kids were primed to love it, and turned hard against it. I'll show the original 3 to my grandkids, but only the OTR versions.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 06, 2026 05:54 PM (ZOv7s)
Or they wait until Season 2 and begin by going full Woke.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 06, 2026 05:52 PM (ESVrU)
Yeah, if they manage to evade management for a while, Season 2 changes that quick.
Posted by: Oldcat at January 06, 2026 05:54 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Gmac - WTF did you think was going to happen? at January 06, 2026 05:55 PM (qZdIZ)
Posted by: Jeff Weimer at January 06, 2026 05:55 PM (gUs21)
In babecock, people take an image of a beautiful girl, and then a totally unrelated image of an erect penis, and then stick them together side-by-side in the same jpg. Then they post the combo___ online in the social media platform or porn forum of their choice.
The purpose of babecock is controversial. Is it intended to brainwash heterosexual males into associating sexual arousal (in the form of the girl) with erect penises (the "...cock" part of the image), thereby turning them gay? Is it instead aimed at some weird subset of bisexuals who want to see naked girls and erect penises simultaneously? Or it is just for people who can't decide? The debate rages.
Posted by: zombie at January 06, 2026 05:55 PM (se8lQ)
Posted by: eleven at January 06, 2026 05:55 PM (aTgV0)
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 06, 2026 05:55 PM (eq9pm)
Posted by: thug dolphin at January 06, 2026 05:55 PM (EyfuW)
I never seen anyone dressing up as a Navi or anything after the hype from the first one died down.
They are pretty, empty, intensely stupid movies. They make money like the Jurassic Park movies do. But nobody seems to love them.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 06, 2026 05:54 PM
I've watched them both and can literally not name any characters besides Jake Sully. Is the chick Na-ter-i?
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 06, 2026 05:55 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: By Mega orders of magnitude at January 06, 2026 05:48 PM (TbWk/)
Yeah I screwed up.i should have said Dredd and not Judge Dredd.
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 06, 2026 05:56 PM (KDPiq)
Up almost 10%
Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at January 06, 2026 05:56 PM (d+OQ+)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at January 06, 2026 05:56 PM (Kt19C)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 06, 2026 05:54 PM (xcxpd)
'Dancing with Smurfs' seems to explain the depth of the worldbuilding completely.
Posted by: Oldcat at January 06, 2026 05:56 PM (8avO+)
Why Jar-Jar Binks is what I want to know from the Horde.
Posted by: tubal at January 06, 2026 05:47 PM (pDt9x)
Considering how Lucas kept calling Jar-Jar the most important character in the prequels, I suspect that the old fan theory of "Jar-Jar is a secret Sith Lord" was actually going through Lucas' mind, until he saw how poorly he was received in the first prequel. Maybe if Lucas wasn't such a racist cockbite, he might have made Jar-Jar less of a Stepin Fetchit embarrassment, which would have made the Sith Lord reveal truly frightening.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 06, 2026 05:56 PM (y9nCu)
Because hardcore porn turned guys gay?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 06, 2026 05:56 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 06, 2026 05:56 PM (eq9pm)
Posted by: Amazon Prime Creative Dept. at January 06, 2026 05:57 PM (2Axwl)
Posted by: Bill C at January 06, 2026 05:57 PM (qh1Pk)
Another look at Superball....by Whammo?
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 06, 2026 05:57 PM (iMotb)
Bob Iger is flailing and has no idea.
They all are.
Apparently Netflix seems to think they know what they are doing, but that's about it.
Posted by: eleven at January 06, 2026 05:57 PM (aTgV0)
I never seen anyone dressing up as a Navi or anything after the hype from the first one died down.
They are pretty, empty, intensely stupid movies. They make money like the Jurassic Park movies do. But nobody seems to love them.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 06, 2026 05:54 PM
avatar combined so many anti themes in those movies I don't think anyone really knows what the point was so they don't do the cos play stuff like they do with every other big franchise movie.
Anti corporate, anti industry, anti military, anti gun, anti exploration, anti mining, anti colonialism, anti technology, etc. They over did it and lost their audience base.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 06, 2026 05:57 PM (0N4FZ)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 06, 2026 05:57 PM (L/fGl)
The prequels had a chance for greatness but Lucas got too cute, the 2nd movie should have been the first with the kid in flashbacks and it should have focused on Dooku's fall, Anakin's rise to beat him and THEN the fall....
they could fuck up a wet dream.
Posted by: sven at January 06, 2026 05:52 PM (MUJd1)
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That's why I wrote Man of Destiny. It stuck with me, so I did writing therapy. I made Anakin an adult to start with, and made the future Emperor a complex an interesting character, basing him on a master politician who showed me the ropes years ago.
I'm told book 2 is the best of the series because it has a ton of character development, and the pilots in my unit loved the section where our talented young pilot goes through officer training.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 06, 2026 05:58 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 06, 2026 05:56 PM (eq9pm)
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"Smack Talk" by Voxis Productions
The videos are hilarious puppetry.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 06, 2026 05:58 PM (ESVrU)
.......
Nah.
Star Wars 25; RETURN OF THE MARCO
Posted by: wth at January 06, 2026 05:58 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 06, 2026 05:58 PM (uWKK8)
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 06, 2026 05:58 PM (KDPiq)
You strike me as someone who really appreciates abuse while, simultaneously, feeling an unwarranted moral superiority. Almost European.
Have you considered finding a nice corner somewhere and fucking right off?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 06, 2026 05:59 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 06, 2026 05:59 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 06, 2026 05:55 PM (jc0TO)
I haven't watched any, and I think the chick is Nateri.
Posted by: Oldcat at January 06, 2026 05:59 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 06, 2026 05:59 PM (xcxpd)
The point of Doomcock is not to be right but to sound all doomy. He is the Art Bell of something but I am not sure what exactly.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convicitions at January 06, 2026 05:59 PM (HTCU3)
Posted by: SMOD at January 06, 2026 05:59 PM (r5p5k)
Even that isn't a guarantee after what he let happen to Mandalorian but he would have been ten times better than Feloni.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at January 06, 2026 06:00 PM (6ydKt)
This always happens. Happened with Pirates of the Caribbean, too. Also Back to the Future. I think Toy Story is the only franchise in the history of cinema that didn't go off a cliff after episode one.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 06, 2026 05:46 PM (AV9Wq)
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I think Kung Fu Panda actually got better. And Shrek made it through pretty good.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at January 06, 2026 06:00 PM (Vh9CX)
Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 06, 2026 06:00 PM (emBoF)
"Somehow Kathleen Kennedy returned!"
Posted by: Blast Hardcheese at January 06, 2026 06:01 PM (V362x)
Posted by: ace at January 06, 2026 06:01 PM (1wjle)
Nobody ever lets me name things. But if they asked me for a name to identify that particular perversion it would be:
cockworkorange
Posted by: banana Dream at January 06, 2026 06:01 PM (fIo92)
DEI saturation has made me over sensitive. But still I also thought it was very good.
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 06, 2026 06:01 PM (KDPiq)
Bob Iger is flailing and has no idea.
They all are.
Apparently Netflix seems to think they know what they are doing, but that's about it.
Posted by: eleven
Stay tuned for: Titanic, Part II
- Hollywood creative team, desperately looking for another movie to replicate instead of coming up with something new.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 06, 2026 06:01 PM (0U5gm)
Or they wait until Season 2 and begin by going full Woke.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 06, 2026 05:52 PM (ESVrU)
True. The butt fucking usually doesn't start until the middle of the season. Even foreign films are using this model.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at January 06, 2026 06:01 PM (g8Ew8)
Imagine if they hired actually good storytellers? Imagine if they could flesh out real characters and tell a not-retarded story and coax the general timewasting audience into feeling like "yeah, this little girl totally saved the universe by being awesome!"
Instead, they just make all their shit a boring call and response exercise, where they say out loud "this girl saved the universe by being awesome" and you are just expected to drone out "yes this girl blah blah drool fart" whatever.
It's just plain lazy is what it is. You got an axe to grind. Fine. You know you suck at it. Hire someone who isn't. But arrogance and magical thinking forbid. So you get laughable crap that doesn't even rise to the aesthetic threshold of actual Brutalism. It's just.... sludge.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 06, 2026 06:01 PM (06Hmj)
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No one loves any modern movie. They are bland, formulaic, and dumbed down so the even third world audiences will get them. Loving a Hollywood film is like loving a McDonald's hamburger.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at January 06, 2026 06:01 PM (f0sNM)
How did Palpatine return? Because Jar Jar was actually Darth Plagueis and returned him from the dead. The dipshittery was a disguise.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 06, 2026 06:01 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 06, 2026 06:02 PM (jc0TO)
i liked BTTF 2 (but not 3)
but I don't know if I've seen BTTF 2 since I first saw it in theaters. It might be that, now that I know the neat trick of revisiting the first movie, it falls flat.
Posted by: ace at January 06, 2026 06:02 PM (1wjle)
the people who bought my parents' house had to have 1000s of those things hidden in the walls or something
they would just disappear somewhere all the time! bounce bounce bounce wtf where did it go?
Posted by: BlackOrchid at January 06, 2026 06:02 PM (emBoF)
They did a decent job with Palpatine in the Pelagius book, essentially Lucas fucked up when he made the force space cooties to a point but even that could have been made to work....they had a real opportunity to show the flaws in the Jedi order and the Sith with that interlocking story and the epiphany by Obi-Wan mourning Qui-Gon after Anakin's fall that the Jedi seem to have a cycle too.
I am kicking around an idea of my own for a pantheon I may work out some book thread since I do not go out to the field until; March.
Posted by: sven at January 06, 2026 06:02 PM (MUJd1)
Up almost 10%
Posted by: Aliassmithsmith"
Oh yeah...Disney will ALWAYS make money.
There is almost no possible way they go out of business. No matter how bad they fail, that "dumb people market" will be there to throw billions of dollars at them.
There literally is no mechanism by which Disney could go bankrupt.
But everyone who has a functioning brain stem is done with Disney.
They will never be a part of culture anymore.
Posted by: eleven at January 06, 2026 06:02 PM (aTgV0)
Posted by: SMOD
Wow. I got to meet him several years ago, great guy.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 06, 2026 06:02 PM (0U5gm)
I never seen anyone dressing up as a Navi or anything after the hype from the first one died down.
They are pretty, empty, intensely stupid movies. They make money like the Jurassic Park movies do. But nobody seems to love them.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 06, 2026 05:54 PM
avatar combined so many anti themes in those movies I don't think anyone really knows what the point was so they don't do the cos play stuff like they do with every other big franchise movie.
Anti corporate, anti industry, anti military, anti gun, anti exploration, anti mining, anti colonialism, anti technology, etc. They over did it and lost their audience base.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 06, 2026 05:57 PM (0N4FZ)
That's kinda the point of what I was saying.
They are a beautifully constructed vacuum. They should be flops and yet they aren't. Why?
What makes them fantastically successful...moneywise. And Star Wars such a flop.
Posted by: naturalfake at January 06, 2026 06:02 PM (iJfKG)
@TdLeaker
‼️‼️🚨🚨BREAKING: SOURCES SAY AFTER LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS AND COURT RULINGS THE TRUMP ADMIN IS WORKING ON A PURCHASE AGREEMENT AND REPARATIONS PACKAGE TO PURCHASE
After years of Canada's governing liberal elite insisting that the country is built on stolen native land, it would be extremely funny if Trump took them at their word and purchased the entire country from Chief Scamming Elk in exchange for a skidoo and a carton of smokes.
Posted by: SMOD at January 06, 2026 06:03 PM (r5p5k)
Nobody ever lets me name things. But if they asked me for a name to identify that particular perversion it would be:
cockworkorange
Posted by: banana Dream at January 06, 2026 06:01 PM
Boom.
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 06, 2026 06:03 PM (jc0TO)
Funny how Vietnam ended up being the most capitalistic communist country in the world, a few decades after running through the commie genocide playbook. Probably helps that there's a centuries-long hatred of the Chinese in Vietnam, no matter who was in charge.
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Not to me. I dated an off-the-boat Vietnamese for a couple years. Came here on foreign exchange and opted to stay.
Anyway, her dad was a Commie bigshot who'd been a NVAF pilot, and eventually an ambassador to another Commie Hellhole of some significance.
When she got here she was bubbling over with Marxist nonsense, and within 6 months she was bootlegging American consumer goods into Vietnam.
Then she just bailed on the whole thing and stayed here forever. Vietnamese people suck ass at socialism.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at January 06, 2026 06:03 PM (BI5O2)
the people who bought my parents' house had to have 1000s of those things hidden in the walls or something
they would just disappear somewhere all the time! bounce bounce bounce wtf where did it go?
Posted by: BlackOrchid
Once they accelerate to a certain speed, they enter a parallel universe.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 06, 2026 06:03 PM (0U5gm)
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo
Triple cheeseburger baby. I bet Trump makes them with extra ketchup.
Posted by: Kratwurst at January 06, 2026 06:03 PM (tmARj)
Posted by: Smell the Glove"
He was right all along!!!!!!
Posted by: eleven at January 06, 2026 06:04 PM (aTgV0)
The second film made the legend grow. There was more story to be told -- the Empire had not been defeated -- and there was the darker edge to the story; and the stunning surprise about Vader.
The third one began really well with fantastic derring-do. And then it all began to fail. *Another* Death Star? We've seen this before. The Ewoks were too cute (though I found them kind of disturbing with those dark lips). And everything wrapped up a bit too neatly.
Still there were loads of stories left to tell. And it all came crashing down.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 06, 2026 06:04 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 06, 2026 06:04 PM (+mUZM)
Posted by: naturalfake at January 06, 2026 06:02 PM
Pandora itself. The characters don't matter.
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 06, 2026 06:04 PM (jc0TO)
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The Hero's Journey: A hero embarks on an adventure, faces challenges, gains knowledge, and returns home transformed.
The Girlboss's Journey: She starts being awesome but doesn't realize how awesome she is but eventually realizes how awesome she is.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at January 06, 2026 06:05 PM (f0sNM)
Posted by: banana Dream - note, not agree immediately is legally identical to taunting at January 06, 2026 06:05 PM (fIo92)
https://tinyurl.com/3r6tzseu
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 06, 2026 06:05 PM (ix8EF)
What makes them fantastically successful...moneywise. And Star Wars such a flop.
Posted by: naturalfake at January 06, 2026 06:02 PM (iJfKG)
They are constructs, as you say. There is no soul to them. Star Wars is campy and its worldbuilding is weak, but there is somethin in it you could like for the OT.
Posted by: Oldcat at January 06, 2026 06:05 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 06, 2026 05:56 PM (y9nCu)
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Lucas is haunted by his failed marriage to Marcia, and the Special Editions was part of his way of expressing that rage.
The prequels were likewise about settling scores, writing HIS story the way HE wanted it, and of course the romance in it was shit because he didn't understand women at all. And this time, Fox wasn't there to keep him on the rails.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 06, 2026 06:06 PM (ZOv7s)
CSPAN
@cspan
January 6th participant Pamela Hemphill, who refused President Trump's pardon: "Once I got away from the MAGA cult and started educating myself about January the 6th, I knew what I did was wrong...I am guilty, and I own that guilt...I had fallen for the president’s lies."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 06, 2026 06:06 PM (L/fGl)
superball was crazy, yo
Posted by: ace at January 06, 2026 06:01 PM (1wjle)
Super Elastic Bubble Plastic. I'm amazed we survived that shit. Here kid, blow bubbles with a huffing compound.
Posted by: A different time it was at January 06, 2026 06:06 PM (TbWk/)
CSPAN
@cspan
January 6th participant Pamela Hemphill, who refused President Trump's pardon: "Once I got away from the MAGA cult and started educating myself about January the 6th, I knew what I did was wrong...I am guilty, and I own that guilt...I had fallen for the president’s lies."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 06, 2026 06:06 PM (L/fGl)
Gooble, gobble....
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 06, 2026 06:07 PM (06Hmj)
Turn that crapola off already.
Posted by: Old Fart Who Knows The Mystery at January 06, 2026 06:07 PM (R/m4+)
That's why I loved Alita Battle Angel.
They did 'girl power' perfectly
Another movie where I thought girl power was perfect was Red Sparrow.
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 06, 2026 06:07 PM (KDPiq)
Marcia saved the damned thing, Lucas and Spielberg both are pervs and left to their own devices they rabbit hole into strange alienating shit...Lucas' initial vision of the film would have had Sir Alec macking on Leia.
Posted by: sven at January 06, 2026 06:07 PM (MUJd1)
@cspan
January 6th participant Pamela Hemphill, who refused President Trump's pardon
Wow. What an insignificant person.
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 06, 2026 06:07 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: SMOD
Sad.. He was the good Child. The other 2 are screaming ass Liberals... RIP
Posted by: It's me donna at January 06, 2026 06:07 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at January 06, 2026 06:05 PM (f0sNM)
Alternate Girlboss Journey - Nobody positions her for success
Posted by: ... at January 06, 2026 06:08 PM (E0p3T)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?
v=DGxfiHjwahY&pp=ygURdm94aXMgcHJ
vZHVjdGlvbnM%3D
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 06, 2026 06:08 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 06, 2026 06:06 PM (ZOv7s)
You just don't know the chicks I landed by comparing them to sand and other mineral deposits.
Posted by: Oldcat at January 06, 2026 06:08 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: SMOD
Sad.. He was the good Child. The other 2 are screaming ass Liberals... RIP
Posted by: It's me donna at January 06, 2026 06:07 PM
He had a sister that was right. I think she's dead too.
Nancy is the one that cooked up the retard twins.
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 06, 2026 06:09 PM (jc0TO)
@cspan
January 6th participant Pamela Hemphill, who refused President Trump's pardon
No doubt an Antifa plant and never a Trump supporter...
Posted by: It's me donna at January 06, 2026 06:09 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 06, 2026 06:04 PM (wzUl9)
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Well it was supposed to be a crowd-pleaser, and it was.
I also think that people claiming Jedi is weak or bad, need to do a reality check. We know what bad endings do to a franchise. Even if you don't personally like Jedi, it nailed the landing. This is not even debatable.
Compare it to The Matrix or Game of Thrones, or just about any modern epic. It stuck the landing and for that reason MUST be considered the best of the films.
When Death Star II blew up, people cheered. When do you see that these days?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 06, 2026 06:09 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at January 06, 2026 06:05 PM (f0sNM)
Alternate Girlboss Journey - Nobody positions her for success
Posted by: ... at January 06, 2026 06:08 PM (E0p3T)
No matter how much head she gives she just can't get ahead.
Posted by: Echoes of Kamala, born a poor black child at January 06, 2026 06:09 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 06, 2026 06:06 PM (L/fGl)
LMAO is that their best?
Posted by: ... at January 06, 2026 06:09 PM (E0p3T)
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Wait, wait, wait--you're going to have to narrow that down a little!
Posted by: Crusader at January 06, 2026 06:09 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at January 06, 2026 06:09 PM (FCrpy)
Nancy is the one that cooked up the retard twins.
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 06, 2026 06:09 PM (jc0TO)
Yes Maureen.. Sadly she passed quite awhile ago
Posted by: It's me donna at January 06, 2026 06:10 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: chudface at January 06, 2026 06:10 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 06, 2026 06:10 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: InspiredHistoryMike at January 06, 2026 06:10 PM (KaHlS)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 06, 2026 06:06 PM (L/fGl)
So when do the paid appearances and book advances start?
Posted by: If they haven't already at January 06, 2026 06:10 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: fd at January 06, 2026 06:10 PM (vFG9F)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Like Shakespeare Except More Betterer at January 06, 2026 06:06 PM (L/fGl)
Where is her daycare center located?
Posted by: ... at January 06, 2026 06:11 PM (E0p3T)
Posted by: tubal at January 06, 2026 06:11 PM (pDt9x)
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 06, 2026 06:11 PM (KDPiq)
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 06, 2026 06:11 PM (KDPiq)
Who dat?
Posted by: tubal at January 06, 2026 06:12 PM (pDt9x)
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at January 06, 2026 06:09 PM (FCrpy)
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I figured it would come to this eventually. They can print huge bucks with Blu-ray and 4k releases of the OTR and everyone knows it. Even I, who hate Disney with the intensity of 1,000 suns, will buy them.
And I'd love to see in the theater again. Take all the kids and the grandkids.
You listening, Disney?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 06, 2026 06:12 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 06, 2026 06:12 PM (eq9pm)
Posted by: eleven at January 06, 2026 06:12 PM (aTgV0)
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 06, 2026 06:12 PM (jc0TO)
maybe they should lay off the chipotle
Posted by: anachronda at January 06, 2026 06:12 PM (oY6Yp)
Posted by: zombie at January 06, 2026 05:55 PM
Narrator: Let us turn to the ultimate referee, Urban Dictionary:
"A video/pic of babes next to cocks, where you are training your mind to associate sexual feelings towards the sex you already like with the other sex of your choice.
(e.g.) The man was watching some babecock videos to become a sissy"
Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 06, 2026 06:12 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: It's me donna at January 06, 2026 06:13 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: InspiredHistoryMike at January 06, 2026 06:10 PM (KaHlS)
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Tomorrow Never Dies is actually really good, and eerily prescient about the media making up news to change reality.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 06, 2026 06:13 PM (ZOv7s)
I thought the Bond movies died with the Soviet Union. I think I only enjoyed one movie since .
Posted by: InspiredHistoryMike at January 06, 2026 06:10 PM (KaHlS)
Goldeneye was a pretty good sendoff to the Soviets, Bond-style. Especially Robbie Coltrane. It helped that Brosnan was like a pissed-off rattlesnake as Bond.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 06, 2026 06:14 PM (y9nCu)
She pleaded guilty to one count of demonstrating, picketing, or parading in a Capitol building, a misdemeanor charge.
In May 2022, she was sentenced to 60 days in prison, three years of probation, and ordered to pay $500 in restitution.
You may now continue.
Posted by: @SOEarpiece at January 06, 2026 06:14 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: banana Dream at January 06, 2026 06:14 PM (fIo92)
I figured that out 7 years ago.
Posted by: eleven at January 06, 2026 06:14 PM (aTgV0)
Posted by: tubal at January 06, 2026 06:12 PM (pDt9x
J6 participant who refused the Trump pardon.
Posted by: Opinion fact at January 06, 2026 06:15 PM (KDPiq)
I'm only a few levels in trying to get the graphics settings dialed in, but it's interesting as a game and looks great.
It has several difficulty levels so you can play it easy or maxed out hard.
I haven't gotten too far a long in the story so far but it appears to be centered on an ancient race of giants.
Probably the best Indiana Jones entry since The Holy Grail, at least so far. I'll reserve final judgement if I ever finish the thing, which isn't guaranteed.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at January 06, 2026 06:15 PM (6ydKt)
But the powers out there have no idea what good storytelling is, how to create suspense, etc. And they no longer understand quick smart dialog.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 06, 2026 06:15 PM (wzUl9)
Posted by: eleven at January 06, 2026 06:12 PM
Apparently she just had a misdemeanor charge.
Posted by: @SOEarpiece at January 06, 2026 06:15 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: InspiredHistoryMike at January 06, 2026
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Skyfall would be a superb adventure even if it were not about someone called James Bond.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 06, 2026 06:16 PM (wzUl9)
60 days for parading ? Must have flipped out or something from the pressure....
Posted by: It's me donna at January 06, 2026 06:16 PM (VE6XX)
since The Last Crusade.
Been awhile since I watched the flick and forgot the name.
A title I wonder if Hollywood could get away with these days.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at January 06, 2026 06:17 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: tubal
Ron, Jr and Patty. The adopted children with Jane Wyman, Maureen and Michael, were ok.
Posted by: Tuna at January 06, 2026 06:18 PM (lJ0H4)
But the powers out there have no idea what good storytelling is, how to create suspense, etc. And they no longer understand quick smart dialog.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius"
nonononononono
Hollywood would ruin Niven. Just no.
Hollywood 50 years ago maybe.
Kubrick or somebody.
Posted by: eleven at January 06, 2026 06:18 PM (aTgV0)
Posted by: SpeakingOf at January 06, 2026 06:18 PM (6ydKt)
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 06, 2026 06:18 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: banana Dream at January 06, 2026 06:18 PM (fIo92)
Posted by: Tuna at January 06, 2026 06:18 PM (lJ0H4)
Maureen wasn't adopted Michael was...
Posted by: It's me donna at January 06, 2026 06:18 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: banana Dream at January 06, 2026 06:19 PM (fIo92)
Fore Awakens was an un-original ripoff of the original and had the idiotic killing off of Han Solo, but Last Jedi is in a class of DOGSHIT all its own.
Posted by: deadrody at January 06, 2026 06:20 PM (vgB0v)
https://tinyurl.com/3hm7kn8v
Posted by: toby928(c) at January 06, 2026 06:18 PM (jc0TO)
Would not hemp
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at January 06, 2026 06:20 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at January 06, 2026 06:20 PM (XMwZJ)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at January 06, 2026 06:12 PM (0sNs1)
Thanks. I think I'll stick with big tits and vaginas if it's all the same.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 06, 2026 06:20 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 06, 2026 06:20 PM (mlg/3)
Posted by: deadrody at January 06, 2026 06:20 PM (vgB0v)
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I didn't see 8 or 9, and it's nice not knowing how awful it was.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 06, 2026 06:21 PM (ZOv7s)
Posted by: eleven at January 06, 2026 06:21 PM (aTgV0)
Hollywood would ruin Niven. Just no.
Hollywood 50 years ago maybe.
Kubrick or somebody.
Posted by: eleven at January 06, 2026
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Watching SW in 1977, seeing the incredible model work, I realized they could do Ringworld and make it believable. The aliens then would have been a problem; but they can CGI them now. Imagine Idris Elba's voice for the kzin Speaker to Animals, for instance.
But yes, they probably would ruin the concepts.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 06, 2026 06:21 PM (wzUl9)
Fore Awakens was an un-original ripoff of the original and had the idiotic killing off of Han Solo, but Last Jedi is in a class of DOGSHIT all its own.
Posted by: deadrody at January 06, 2026 06:20 PM (vgB0v)
I agree, but I knew Force Awakens was bot going to be good early on when my eyes were doing barrel rolls early on with the rip-off Vader character having a meltdown and Rey going full Mary Sue Girl Boss in her first 20 minutes on screen.
"I know how to run without you holding my hand!"
Oh it's going to be that kinda movie.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at January 06, 2026 06:23 PM (6ydKt)
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Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 06, 2026 06:20 PM (zZu0s)
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I think its an admission that degeneracy is not organic; people have to be initiated into it, trained to like it because it is unnatural. No one is 'born that way,' they are groomed into it.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 06, 2026 06:24 PM (ZOv7s)
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Posted by: eleven at January 06, 2026
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They retitled it "The Slaver Weapon," recast the puppeteer as Spock the vegetarian, and had Sulu and Uhura as the human man and woman. And it worked. In only some 22 minutes, it had the sense of wonder, details about kzin culture and attitudes, logical deduction from both Spock and Sulu, and a slam-bang climax. One of the very best Trek episodes ever.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 06, 2026 06:24 PM (wzUl9)
And I'd love to see in the theater again. Take all the kids and the grandkids.
You listening, Disney?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 06, 2026 06:12 PM (ZOv7s)
Project 4K77 where fans sent in the cut strips of film that Lucas cut up and sold to fans and they scanned and cleaned up you can go to Internet Archives and they should have a copy up loaded there
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at January 06, 2026 06:25 PM (FCrpy)
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Posted by: SpeakingOf at January 06, 2026 06:24 PM (6ydKt)
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They reunited the original cast and then...never reunited them on screen.
Beyond retarded.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 06, 2026 06:27 PM (ZOv7s)
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dang
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We Haz Rangs World.
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Niven himself has said there's been multiple stabs at it in the fifty-five years since the novel appeared. He's not a young man any more; I wonder if he'll ever get to see one of his stories adapted to a film, good or not. His own script for Trek Animated showed that, like Larry McMurtry, he can adapt his stuff. Can anyone else?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 06, 2026 06:30 PM (wzUl9)
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Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 06, 2026 06:24 PM (ZOv7s)
Or traumatized into it.
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Posted by: toby928(c) at January 06, 2026 06:02 PM (jc0TO)
It would appeal to current day femboys and furries, that's for sure. Hard pass for me.
CJ writes her men like women. Soft women. Her females tend to be the more masculine and active.
Her muff diving habits probably contributing to them.
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Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
Sure, but screenwriting is entirely different than novel writing. 2nd, H-wood hates, hates, hates allowing the original author to have a hand in the screenplay. Don't know if it's because of the screenwriters guild or just a general prejudice.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 06, 2026 06:35 PM (mlg/3)
When the talkies came in movies died.
Posted by: Really?? at January 06, 2026 06:39 PM (Q/qJ3)
Posted by: See also Snow White at January 06, 2026 05:40 PM (TbWk/)
Look at the film version of “Starship Troopers”.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at January 06, 2026 06:42 PM (MjXxC)
When the talkies came in movies died.
Posted by: Really?? at January 06, 2026 06:39 PM (Q/qJ3)
We didn’t get smaller, the screens did.
- Nora Desmond
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at January 06, 2026 06:43 PM (MjXxC)
Posted by: InspiredHistoryMike at January 06, 2026 06:56 PM (KaHlS)
But the powers out there have no idea what good storytelling is, how to create suspense, etc. And they no longer understand quick smart dialog.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 06, 2026 06:15 PM (wzUl9)
Nivens major issue as a writer was developing traps for his worldbuilding for himself. Modern authors know how to do that already. They just can't write.
Posted by: Oldcat at January 06, 2026 07:25 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: InspiredHistoryMike at January 06, 2026 06:56 PM (KaHlS)
Jerry was good at 'grounding' Niven. Both improved each other markedly.
Posted by: Oldcat at January 06, 2026 07:26 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 06, 2026 06:20 PM (mlg/3)
There is a chick in them. The psychopath Angelina who he chases down and marries after they supposedly adjust her to be sane again. He keeps remarking that some of her comments in later books are backsliding.
Posted by: Oldcat at January 06, 2026 07:31 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at January 06, 2026 08:54 PM (EGW4m)
I don't remember which Youtuber or blogger I first read this(apologies if it was Ace.)
Basic points are-
Snoke was produced based on cloning tech and the use of Baby Yoda.
In Rebels, Ashoka Tano dies fighting Darth Vader as the Sith Temple collapses.
Later in Rebels, Ezra Bridger goes to the Vale of the Force, basically that thing The Flash was using to roll back time,
and pulls Ashoka Tano out of the temple in the past and brings her to the present.
Ashoka Tano's appearance in The Mandalorian led to rescuing Baby Yoda from Gus Fring.
Ashoka's existence means that Ezra's pulling of Ashoka is in this timeline which has changed and erased the timeline where Baby Yoda is in the hands of the remnants of the Empire..
Posted by: MikeN at January 06, 2026 09:20 PM (8uQGY)
Also two lines later.
"I ran the numbers"
Uh. . . by using the colon to separate the line, you are expressing what you are describing. So you are saying that the six words you would use to describe her performance,insert colon to indicate the description, and then you.. . .use 7 words.
and IMMEDIATE after, you are listing your acumen with numbers, while not being able to count, or being shit at english.
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