"Elliot" Page, Who Plays a Great Greek Warrior in Christopher Nolan's <i>Odyssey</i>: Gender Is Just a "Quaint Myth"

"Elliot" Page, Who Plays a Great Greek Warrior in Christopher Nolan's Odyssey: Gender Is Just a "Quaint Myth"

If you see this movie, you love Elliot Page.

She's a transgender Rachel Zegler. She's taking down a movie because she just can't shut her enormous mouth.

Transgender actor and The Odyssey star Elliot Page came out against traditional gender roles, calling the male-female dynamic a "quaint myth" and insisting that if animals can engage in "queer" sex, why shouldn't humans.
Appearing on the extremist, left-wing Democracy Now podcast, Page attacked the "cis hetero patriarchal structure" and claimed that the traditional way we view gender is scientifically inaccurate.
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On the podcast, Page, who narrates the film, insisted that the normal gender ideas that mankind have supported for all of recorded history are "absurd."
"In terms of looking at nature as if it's some sort of cis hetero patriarchal structure is absurd, and that this, you know, gender binary that we've created is nothing but a quaint little myth," Page said.
The actor added that Second Nature, the documentary he is flogging on the podcast, "really shows what we have been taught in school in regards to these structures -- men being superior, women being inferior. You know, submissive or what have you -- it being this heterosexual existence is just completely false."
Page goes on to assert that the idea that queer is normal and traditional gender roles are "false" has been "suppressed" from general knowledge.

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The five foot one, 106-pound actor recently sparked controversy by being cast as a Greek Warrior in director Christopher Nolan's epic remake of The Odyssey. Detractors thought it was absurd to cast a tiny trans actor as a powerful warrior in the epic tale.

It turns out the 5'1" woman is not playing mighty Achilles, but another great warrior, "Sinon," I think they said, who was called "the greatest soldier" in the Greek army.

Chris Gore and Alan Ng saw the movie. They split in their reviews: Gore says it's disappointing and boring but "not a disaster," while Ng says it is a disaster, and so boring it's hard to get through.

They do say that the Stunt Casting isn't too much of a factor because those are small roles with little screen time. I mean, yes, we knew that Helen of Troy would just be in the beginning, but still this absurd casting stops any audience member from enjoying what should be the point of making a historical, or mythic, epic: feeling that this is something like what it must have really looked like.

Some of what they said, if you don't want to watch the vid:

Ng checked out early. "I was bored out of my mind," he says, adding he was gone "pretty much from the beginning." The sound didn't help. He says he couldn't make out the dialogue at first, and once he could, he realized "how bad the dialogue is."
His verdict: "This is the most pretentious movie I've seen all year." And the kicker: "I can't wait to not see this movie again." When the two wrapped up, the one-word summary of Ng's reaction was simply "disaster."
Gore: 'Not A Disaster,' But Mixed
Gore lands softer, though it's no rave. The modern-sounding accents "diminished the film" for him and made Nolan's period epic play more like Alejandro Jodorowsky's El Topo, "a modern epic," in his words. He also says parts drag, especially in the first half.
The highlights, per Gore: the Cyclops material, the fall of Troy, and Samantha Morton as the witch Circe, the same performance Nolan has been comparing to Heath Ledger's Joker. He also calls the way the soldiers transform "very clever," while declining to spoil how.

I think Circe turns his men into pigs.

"I'm still marinating on it," Gore says. "It's not a disaster." His final word is "mixed," and unlike Ng, he's going back for a second viewing.

That's a quote you want on your movie poster -- "It's not a disaster."

Here's a digest of some reviews, echoing most of what Gore and Ng said -- the film is very slow in its first half, and of course it's three hours long, and no one seems to be in character. As Gore said, it's just Matt Damon and Tom Holland reading lines. You never feel like you're watching people who aren't celebrity actors.

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Early, TRUSTED reactions of The Odyssey are confirming what I feared would happen. The Odyssey is a pretentious slog to get through.

The specific critiques are fairly consistent.
Casting controversy: Ellen Page and Lupito Nyong'o appear in glorified cameos. For all the controversy their casting generated, they had no meaningful presence in the film, which gives weight to the theory that they were brought on as stunt casting and Oscar bait.
Music/Sound: A consistent Nolan criticism across several of his films is the bad sound mixing. That problem persists here. Further, the Travis Scott "rap" at the end is described as "painfully cringey."
Main Actors: Aside from the one or two standouts, such as Samantha Morton as Circe, none of the actors embody or immerse themselves in their roles. The ensemble presents as actors simply reading through the script.
Visuals: The historical foibles regarding armor, weapons, and ships have been dissected to death, but the bigger problem is the overall aesthetic that's grey and dark. It's as if Nolan shot the film in a frequently overcast corner of Northern Europe instead of any locale that resembles the Mediterranean regions.
Pacing: The film doesn't "get going" until at least 30 minutes in. A 3-hour film is a lot to ask of an audience, so if the opening hook is sedate, you've got a problem on your hands.
Dialogue: The modern language frequently takes viewers out of the story, particularly with all the actors speaking in their respective native accents. There's no sense of period or commonality around a culture and its people.
Will The Odyssey be a commercial hit or bomb?
Too soon to tell, but it does appear clear that the controversies were self-inflicted, that this "interpretation" of Homer's Odyssey was meant to appeal to a very small set of cinephile elitists and Hollywood backscratchers, and that Christopher Nolan forgot the one thing that a director should never forget...
A film's first and primary job is to entertain.

The movie comes out on Thursday. I already have my tickets to not see it reserved. If you haven't gotten your tickets to not see it yet, you better act quick, they're running out.

Not seeing The Odyssey is going to be the cultural event of the year.

Meanwhile, the remake of Little House on the Prairie is just as woke as everyone feared it would be.

Fandom Pulse
@fandompulse
Little House on the Prairie showrunner Rebecca Sonnenshine on why she rebuilt the frontier classic around a new lens:
"I think a lot of our pop culture portrays the West as men riding around with guns and solving problems with violence and posturing, but that is just not how it was settled... We really are trying to do a show that does not fall back on tropes of sort of masculinity."
Is a story about settling the American frontier supposed to avoid masculinity?

Little House on the Prairie showrunner Rebecca Sonnenshine on why she rebuilt the frontier classic around a new lens:

"I think a lot of our pop culture portrays the West as men riding around with guns and solving problems with violence and posturing, but that is just not how it… pic.twitter.com/mdxI5Rkw53
— Fandom Pulse (@fandompulse) July 13, 2026

There's no other way for me to put this: Netflix did indeed woke-ify Little House on the Prairie. This new version makes a deep bow to contemporary concerns about the politics of the source material. Some of the Ingalls family's closest new friends on the show are an Osage couple, a black doctor and black storekeeper, and a French Canadian woman who wears trousers and practices free love."--Rebecca Onion, Slate

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1 A quaint notion if you are full of shit.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at July 14, 2026 03:10 PM (R/obY)

2 LOL!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 14, 2026 03:10 PM (VyBeY)

3 Yep

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 14, 2026 03:10 PM (HW/1v)

4 A quaint myth if you are full of shit.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at July 14, 2026 03:11 PM (R/obY)

5 But mostly full of shit.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at July 14, 2026 03:11 PM (R/obY)

6 That's so 2021, lady.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 14, 2026 03:11 PM (GKzf4)

7 EARLYISH!

Posted by: tbodie Lurker. Unless you are reading this. at July 14, 2026 03:11 PM (mXOPV)

8 Uh, if Gender is a Myth, then why did you cut off your tits to 'change' gender?

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 14, 2026 03:11 PM (mP0Kj)

9 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 14, 2026 03:12 PM (2YhKe)

10 Little Blouse on the Fairy.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 14, 2026 03:12 PM (HW/1v)

11 my tickets are firmly in hand!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 14, 2026 03:12 PM (VyBeY)

12 A self inflicted pierced large bowel full of shit.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at July 14, 2026 03:12 PM (R/obY)

13 Deranged c*** says what?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 14, 2026 03:12 PM (1z8ji)

14 This is what happens when the sodomites are let loose on a society instead of being tossed off of tall buildings.

Posted by: Kareem Abdul Jabbar at July 14, 2026 03:13 PM (F1rMs)

15
Transgender actor and The Odyssey star Elliot Page came out against traditional gender roles, calling the male-female dynamic a "quaint myth" and insisting that if animals can engage in "queer" sex, why shouldn't humans.

What the smothered in gravy f*ck blaspheme lunacy is this?

Animals have queer sex?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 14, 2026 03:13 PM (2YhKe)

16 Probably used Elric’s blade to pierce the bowel that filled one with shit.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at July 14, 2026 03:13 PM (R/obY)

17
>>Second Nature, the documentary he is flogging on the podcast

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I don't even need to read the rest to know this will be in grade schools soon.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 14, 2026 03:14 PM (mmrXZ)

18 "There's no sense of period or commonality around a culture and its people."

just what they want to turn us into.

whole crap movie is like that. sick-brain commie wishcasting.

*spit*

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 14, 2026 03:14 PM (VyBeY)

19 Quaint myth ? Ellen.... May I ask where you came from ? Did you have a mother and a Father ? Even if you are a test tube result it still required a Female =Egg.. And a male = sperm

Posted by: It's me donna at July 14, 2026 03:14 PM (F1quE)

20 It turns out the 5'1" woman is not playing mighty Achilles, but another great warrior, "Sinon," I think they said, who was called "the greatest soldier" in the Greek army.

Achilles: The Ultimate Warrior
Role: The greatest warrior of the Greek army and the central hero of Homer’s Iliad.
Abilities: Nearly invulnerable due to being dipped in the River Styx by his mother, with his heel being his only weak spot.
Key Feats: Slew the Trojan champion Hector and won countless battles before being killed by Paris with a poisoned arrow to his heel.

Sinon: The Ultimate Deceiver
Role: A cunning Greek spy who was cousin and trusted companion to Odysseus.
Abilities: A master of manipulation and persuasion.
Key Feats: He allowed himself to be captured by the Trojans and spun an elaborate lie that convinced them to bring the Trojan Horse inside their city walls, ultimately sealing Troy's fate. Sinon does not appear in Homer’s Odyssey but plays a prominent role in Virgil’s Aeneid

Posted by: Archimedes at July 14, 2026 03:14 PM (Riz8t)

21 Can we drop this accursed term "gender" already? It's "sex" and there are two of them.

Keep "gender" confined to grammar, where it belongs.

Posted by: Bulg at July 14, 2026 03:14 PM (77rzZ)

22 Appearing on the extremist, left-wing Democracy Now podcast...

Those people are insane, if you're unaware. And really hate Jews. And white Americans. And America. And morality. Capitalism...yeah, it's a long list, actually.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 14, 2026 03:15 PM (oI/gx)

23 Transgender actor and The Odyssey star Elliot Page came out against traditional gender roles, calling the male-female dynamic a "quaint myth" and insisting that if animals can engage in "queer" sex, why shouldn't humans.

What the smothered in gravy f*ck blaspheme lunacy is this?

Animals have queer sex?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 14, 2026 03:13 PM (2YhKe)

Totally a dominance maneuver, as it is with musloids.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 14, 2026 03:15 PM (1z8ji)

24 Add this to the list of bullshit people make up for money. Academia is full of it, the arts have been full of it for decades, and now it's movies nobody wants to see.

Since when did blowing smoke become a money maker?

I hope it fails spectacularly. I suspect it will.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 14, 2026 03:15 PM (bl07w)

25 A new lens. What fucking bullshit, lady.

Your job is to destroy something good and wholesome.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 14, 2026 03:15 PM (HW/1v)

26 I think this movie was Nolan making a bet with someone to see how offensive to his audience he could be and still make piles of money.

I'm only half joking.

I mean, it's hard to imagine how much worse the casting could be. I don't even like Matt Damon as Odysseus.

Ellen Page as purely cast as a big "fuck you" to his audience.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 14, 2026 03:15 PM (iFTx/)

27 If gender is just a myth, the are you pretending to be a different gender? Make it make sense.

Posted by: zombie at July 14, 2026 03:15 PM (Av6i5)

28 I dare you to find evidence that any Sodomite was thrown off a building in the Old Testament chastisement, though

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at July 14, 2026 03:15 PM (R/obY)

29 Saw a comment on X today that television and movies began to crater around 2015, precisely when the percentage of white male writers plunged from ~60% to ~15%. The point at which DEI took over. I'd mark it earlier; everything that is terrible today began with Obama.

What can't go on forever won't. The question is just how much money are the corporate heads willing to lose in this quixotic ideological pursuit.

Posted by: alanon at July 14, 2026 03:15 PM (jHMkm)

30 "I am a male! Also, maleness doesn't exist."

Posted by: zombie at July 14, 2026 03:16 PM (Av6i5)

31 We all know that The Odyssey will clean up at the Oscars, because of all the brave, vibrant diversity. That's what this is about.

And Hollywood will still not learn the lesson.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 14, 2026 03:16 PM (Riz8t)

32 I don't even like Matt Damon as Odysseus.

It's a terrible choice, and I like Matt Damon.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 14, 2026 03:16 PM (nTGnD)

33 I can't believe that in real actual reality, the only candidate running against Nigel Farage in the Clacton By-Election is "Count Binface," a novelty candidate played by a stand-up comedian with a garbage can on his head.

Seriously.

None of the major parties are running candidate against Farage, because they know they'd lose. So the only opponent left is Count Binface.

As crazy as that might seem, it's not even the craziest part. Are you ready for this?

The Left actually expect Count Binface to win!

Although he is a joke candidate, he is suddenly receiving massive donations and thousands of volunteers flooding into Clacton to help him campaign against Farage. Because the entire left and the entire fake-conservative Establishment are lining up behind Count Binface in an attempt to humiliate Farage by having him lose to a joke candidate.

Of all the crazy elections in 2026, this mkay well be the craziest.

Posted by: zombie at July 14, 2026 03:17 PM (Av6i5)

34 Call it what it is... by their own rulez...

This is blatant cultural appropriation, and thus should be condemned.

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 14, 2026 03:17 PM (mP0Kj)

35 What the smothered in gravy f*ck blaspheme lunacy is this?

Animals have queer sex?
Posted by: Sponge

Don't make this weird, man.

Posted by: the dog humping your leg at July 14, 2026 03:17 PM (VHUov)

36 Appearing on the extremist, left-wing Democracy Now podcast, Page attacked the "cis hetero patriarchal structure" and claimed that the traditional way we view gender is scientifically inaccurate.

Huh. Cut off your tits. Become a scientist.

Interesting.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 14, 2026 03:17 PM (2YhKe)

37 21 Can we drop this accursed term "gender" already? It's "sex" and there are two of them.

Keep "gender" confined to grammar, where it belongs.
Posted by: Bulg at July 14, 2026 03:14 PM (77rzZ)

This, x1000.

Also wrong: Democratic Party. They are not democratic at all. They are the Democrat Party, no ic.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 14, 2026 03:17 PM (bl07w)

38 The nice thing about being bi-sexual is that everybody has an asshole.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 14, 2026 03:17 PM (sYM3s)

39 If its such a quaint myth why go to all the trouble and expense of hacking bits of your body off in the process?

Posted by: Oldcat at July 14, 2026 03:17 PM (uhVAy)

40 Rebecca looks just like Weird Al.

Posted by: tubal at July 14, 2026 03:17 PM (Gqar8)

41 31 We all know that The Odyssey will clean up at the Oscars, because of all the brave, vibrant diversity. That's what this is about.

And Hollywood will still not learn the lesson.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 14, 2026 03:16 PM (Riz8t)

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Let's see how the box office turns out before we go on talking about how Hollywood is going to get an obvious lesson they can't miss.

I still suspect The Odyssey will do very well at the box office.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 14, 2026 03:17 PM (GKzf4)

42 Which bathroom on the ship does she use?
Because bathrooms are everything.

Posted by: wth at July 14, 2026 03:17 PM (UjdFS)

43 "Elliot" Page, Who Plays an Old Greek Homo

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 14, 2026 03:17 PM (Kt19C)

44 I dare you to find evidence that any Sodomite was thrown off a building in the Old Testament chastisement, though
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at July 14, 2026 03:15 PM (R/obY)

Being thrown off a mud hut isn't all that life-changing, though.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 14, 2026 03:17 PM (1z8ji)

45 28 I dare you to find evidence that any Sodomite was thrown off a building in the Old Testament chastisement, though
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at July 14, 2026 03:15 PM (R/obY)

-------

-5 points for not socking James Talarico.

Posted by: Unofficial AoSHQ Sock Monitor at July 14, 2026 03:17 PM (brIJB)

46 15, spot-on!

Animals have queer sex? wishcasting again

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 14, 2026 03:18 PM (VyBeY)

47 >>if animals can engage in "queer" sex, why shouldn't humans.

What about fucking goats? Asking for a friend.

Posted by: Muhammad al Muhammad at July 14, 2026 03:18 PM (J4Dwc)

48 lol, sure!

When it’s our values it’s a “quaint myth.”
Nope!!

Posted by: Lizzy at July 14, 2026 03:18 PM (4KUe5)

49 30 "I am a male! Also, maleness doesn't exist."

Also, it's good that it doesn't exist. Or does. It's Schrodinger's gender.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 14, 2026 03:18 PM (Riz8t)

50 It can go EBOD.

Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen at July 14, 2026 03:18 PM (Q/FnY)

51 >>> 23
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Totally a dominance maneuver, as it is with musloids.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 14, 2026 03:15 PM (1z8ji)

Hey, I'm not a Muslim!

Posted by: Graham Platner at July 14, 2026 03:18 PM (R+iUD)

52 Little Blouse on the Fairy.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 14, 2026 03:12 PM (HW/1v)

Early entry for thread winner.

Although I would think that would star Dylan Mulvaney.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 14, 2026 03:18 PM (2YhKe)

53 If "gender" doesn't exist, why does she want to become a man?

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 14, 2026 03:19 PM (bl07w)

54 The nice thing about being bi-sexual is that you like men and little boys.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 14, 2026 03:19 PM (Kt19C)

55 “Rebecca” is one fucking ugly broad. Or a guy? I mean, it’s sad not everyone was born attractive but ugly on the inside is worse. This Page girl was born attractive and probably well adjusted at one time. Now she has mutilated her body and turned into a circus freak. That’s awfully sad too.

Society needs to stop humoring delusional people

Posted by: Common Tater at July 14, 2026 03:19 PM (ot51Z)

56 "0.01% of the population is hermaphroditic, which means that binary gender is a lie. Also, cutting off my tits and putting a fake dick between my legs makes me just like them."
-smart people

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 14, 2026 03:19 PM (GKzf4)

57 What makes Ellen a male now ? She cut off her boobs ? Does she have a new dick ?

Posted by: It's me donna at July 14, 2026 03:19 PM (F1quE)

58 Appearing on the extremist, left-wing Democracy Now podcast, Page attacked the "cis hetero patriarchal structure" and claimed that the traditional way we view gender is scientifically inaccurate.

She attacked a strawman and lost...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 14, 2026 03:19 PM (l3cgK)

59 >>if animals can engage in "queer" sex, why shouldn't humans.

What about fucking goats? Asking for a friend.
Posted by: Muhammad al Muhammad

Sick bastards.

Posted by: Rabid Moroccan Donkey with a ruptured asshole at July 14, 2026 03:20 PM (HW/1v)

60 Nolan really shit the bed with his casting here.
I'm out.

And Ellen Page needs a better therapist.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at July 14, 2026 03:20 PM (xcxpd)

61 Is this the new justification: if it happens in nature it’s totally cool for humans to do it?

Because that could get out of hand quite quickly.
Thought humans were more civilized.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 14, 2026 03:20 PM (4KUe5)

62 What about fucking goats? Asking for Big Sheep.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 14, 2026 03:20 PM (Kt19C)

63 Human nature says if two male humans have a uncompromisable conflict they resolve it with violence. I'm sure Page would like the non-natural way western humans are taught in school when finding themselves in that situation.

Posted by: polynikes at July 14, 2026 03:20 PM (/WQyy)

64 57 What makes Ellen a male now ? She cut off her boobs ? Does she have a new dick ?

Posted by: It's me donna at July 14, 2026 03:19 PM (F1quE)

If she does, it's a tiny 3" max length frankenstein made from skin of her arm...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 14, 2026 03:20 PM (l3cgK)

65 Always smart to have a showrunner who has never read the books the shows are based on. Top notch work.

And of course, there's very little violence and gunplay in the Little House books at all to be reacting against.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 14, 2026 03:20 PM (uhVAy)

66 Let's see how the box office turns out before we go on talking about how Hollywood is going to get an obvious lesson they can't miss.

I still suspect The Odyssey will do very well at the box office.

Oh, I think it will do reasonably well, but the question is what would it have done absent the woke nonsense? When I first heard that there was going to be a big budget Odyssey movie, I was excited enough to contemplate going to the theater for the first time in years. When I found out what they were doing to it, that impulse evaporated. I'm quite sure I'm not alone.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 14, 2026 03:20 PM (Riz8t)

67 58, lol!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 14, 2026 03:20 PM (VyBeY)

68 Hey, I'm not a Muslim!
Posted by: Graham Platner at July 14, 2026 03:18 PM (R+iUD)

Potayto, potahto.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 14, 2026 03:20 PM (1z8ji)

69 58 Appearing on the extremist, left-wing Democracy Now podcast, Page attacked the "cis hetero patriarchal structure" and claimed that the traditional way we view gender is scientifically inaccurate.

Why doesn't she just admit she's attracted to women ?

Posted by: It's me donna at July 14, 2026 03:20 PM (F1quE)

70 Went to the movies this weekend for the first time in eight years. Saw Young Washington.

There were things with which I could quibble but overall I really enjoyed it.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher, phoning it in at July 14, 2026 03:20 PM (zs0ZQ)

71 The nice thing about being bi-sexual is that everybody has an asshole.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 14, 2026 03:17 PM (sYM3s)

I thought assholes only applied to opinions.

Posted by: tbodie Lurker. Unless you are reading this. at July 14, 2026 03:21 PM (mXOPV)

72 57 What makes Ellen a male now ? She cut off her boobs ? Does she have a new dick ?
Posted by: It's me donna at July 14, 2026 03:19 PM (F1quE)

She probably burps and farts and scratches her privates in public, too. Just to be sure.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 14, 2026 03:21 PM (bl07w)

73 "I've seen worse"

"It's not as long as it seems"

"Be sure to check your surroundings for personal items before exiting so you don't have to come back"

Posted by: Oglebay at July 14, 2026 03:21 PM (2ap+5)

74 Is this the new justification: if it happens in nature it’s totally cool for humans to do it?

Because that could get out of hand quite quickly.
Thought humans were more civilized.
Posted by: Lizzy at July 14, 2026 03:20 PM (4KUe5)

Yeah . I don't think they would like the law of the jungle where it's might makes right and finders keepers.

Posted by: polynikes at July 14, 2026 03:21 PM (/WQyy)

75 I'm surprised they didn't turn the show into Little House on Brokeback Mountain.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at July 14, 2026 03:21 PM (wtvvX)

76 57 What makes Ellen a male now ? She cut off her boobs ? Does she have a new dick ?
Posted by: It's me donna at July 14, 2026 03:19 PM (F1quE)

No, she changed her name, and deaccessorised.

Posted by: tubal at July 14, 2026 03:21 PM (Gqar8)

77 I am predicting Heaven's Gate II

Posted by: alanon at July 14, 2026 03:21 PM (jHMkm)

78 >>>Huh. Cut off your tits. Become a scientist.

oh I had intended to say: "When I want to learn about science, I always turn to a female actress whose highest education was high school in a New Age school based on meditation." Which I found out was the school she went to, the "Shambhala school."

Posted by: ace at July 14, 2026 03:22 PM (1wjle)

79 Transgender actor and The Odyssey star Elliot Page came out against traditional gender roles, calling the male-female dynamic a "quaint myth" and insisting that if animals can engage in "queer" sex, why shouldn't humans.

——-

Well to start, we are given the gift of reasoning.
Some of us, at least.

Posted by: Piper at July 14, 2026 03:22 PM (p4NUW)

80 74 Is this the new justification: if it happens in nature it’s totally cool for humans to do it?

Because that could get out of hand quite quickly.
Thought humans were more civilized.
Posted by: Lizzy at July 14, 2026 03:20 PM (4KUe5)

Yeah . I don't think they would like the law of the jungle where it's might makes right and finders keepers.

Posted by: polynikes at July 14, 2026 03:21 PM (/WQyy)

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Monkeys murder each other for stealing bananas.

So, killing thieves is just natural.

I mean...it is.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 14, 2026 03:22 PM (GKzf4)

81 The movie comes out on Thursday. I already have my tickets to not see it reserved. If you haven't gotten your tickets to not see it yet, you better act quick, they're running out.

*eyes Jar of F*cks*

*sees too few*

*will spare no F*cks on this*

All set!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 14, 2026 03:22 PM (2YhKe)

82 Elliot needs to sack up, shut up, and remember no one cares about the opinion of a white male in Hollywood circles

Posted by: Kindltot at July 14, 2026 03:22 PM (rbvCR)

83 59 >>if animals can engage in "queer" sex, why shouldn't humans.

What about fucking goats? Asking for a friend.
Posted by: Muhammad al Muhammad

Sick bastards.

Posted by: Rabid Moroccan Donkey with a ruptured asshole at July 14, 2026 03:20 PM (HW/1v)

Yes, animals will do it with others of the same sex (or imitate it). I once saw a buck try to mount another buck, and a third buck tried to get into the action by mounting buck #2, but fell off...
My wife laughed when I told her about it...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 14, 2026 03:22 PM (l3cgK)

84 I don't think Hokey Pokey likes this movie.

Posted by: wth at July 14, 2026 03:22 PM (UjdFS)

85 A cis hetero patriarchal structure is exactly what Ace has created here at AoSHQ.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 14, 2026 03:22 PM (l4RKn)

86 Nolan actually hired out of work gender reassignment butchers to make many Man-Pigs I bet.

And Sinon is not even in the Odyssey, but the Aeneid.

One YT channel says that Nolan stripped the story down to its structure like he did with Dark Knight. But with the Odyssey that doesn't work because Odysseus is not Bruce Wayne.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 14, 2026 03:22 PM (QGJ7D)

87 Appearing on the extremist, left-wing Democracy Now podcast, Page attacked the "cis hetero patriarchal structure"

Anyone still using that kind of leaden, clanking jargon in 2026 is about 10 years behind the zeitgeist. Someone should tell her.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 14, 2026 03:22 PM (Riz8t)

88 78 >>>Huh. Cut off your tits. Become a scientist.

oh I had intended to say: "When I want to learn about science, I always turn to a female actress whose highest education was high school in a New Age school based on meditation." Which I found out was the school she went to, the "Shambhala school."

Posted by: ace at July 14, 2026 03:22 PM (1wjle)

=======

You should say that, then!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 14, 2026 03:22 PM (GKzf4)

89 73 "I've seen worse"

"It's not as long as it seems"

"Be sure to check your surroundings for personal items before exiting so you don't have to come back"

Posted by: Oglebay at July 14, 2026 03:21 PM (2ap+5)

The popcorn didn't give me explosive diarrhea. But the movie did.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at July 14, 2026 03:22 PM (wtvvX)

90 I posted this before. It's video of Ellen Page in an oddly big suit and clunky shoes attempting to walk and move like a man. She's smack dab in the uncanny valley.

All the fake "science" in the world can't turn a woman into a man.

http://tiny.cc/v2q6101

Posted by: bonhomme at July 14, 2026 03:22 PM (mkw2N)

91 Cis-hetero-patriarchy? STFU Ellen it's 2026, not 2021

Posted by: NJ Class Traitor at July 14, 2026 03:22 PM (4tXtB)

92 You will notice they only cast "trans" actors in films with a predominantly male audience. "Elliot" Page as a Greek Warrior is "brave" because it's "fighting the patriarchy."

But they will never cast "Elliot" Page or someone like her as the male romantic lead in a movie aimed at women. Because it's not about "representation," it's about tearing down things men like.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at July 14, 2026 03:22 PM (C8Jhg)

93 “Rebecca” is one fucking ugly broad. Or a guy? I mean, it’s sad not everyone was born attractive but ugly on the inside is worse. This Page girl was born attractive and probably well adjusted at one time. Now she has mutilated her body and turned into a circus freak. That’s awfully sad too.

Society needs to stop humoring delusional people
Posted by: Common Tater at July 14, 2026 03:19 PM (ot51Z)

But she will be the poster child because she's one of the few that has yet to off herself.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 14, 2026 03:23 PM (2YhKe)

94 Why doesn't she just admit she's attracted to women ?
Posted by: It's me donna at July 14, 2026 03:20 PM (F1quE)

She claimed to be a lesbian for a while. IOW, she was afraid of men. Now she wants to be one, but of course she cannot explain what a man is, so....

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 14, 2026 03:23 PM (bl07w)

95 I hate this Hollywood penchant for taking old stories and wrecking them. I shall join you, Ace, in making my reservation not to see The Odyssey.

And how dare they corrupt Little House on the Prairie! My husband read those books aloud to our kids when they were little and his takeaway from them was that "Pa was a badass - he almost dies in every chapter." Like when a panther was sighted in the region and Pa just takes his gun off the wall, says goodbye, and goes off to stalk the panther and kill it. No drama, just a man of action.

Posted by: bluebell at July 14, 2026 03:23 PM (afFes)

96 Not the Little House on the Prairie! Even as a kid I noticed the TV "updates" which were nominally acceptable. But woke. Please can we bankrupt these losers and keep them away from producing anything?

Posted by: Iris at July 14, 2026 03:23 PM (286+n)

97 Coincidentally, I also built my view of the new "Little House On The Prairie" around a new lens!

It's a dark lens. In fact, you can't see through it, it's so dark. So I'm not watching the new version through a dark lens.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 14, 2026 03:24 PM (YUOR9)

98 > What makes Ellen a male now ? She cut off her boobs ? Does she have a new dick ?

She cut off her boobs and installed fake abs.

I don't know about the plumbing.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 14, 2026 03:24 PM (mkw2N)

99 Saw a comment on X today that television and movies began to crater around 2015, precisely when the percentage of white male writers plunged from ~60% to ~15%. The point at which DEI took over. I'd mark it earlier; everything that is terrible today began with Obama.

What can't go on forever won't. The question is just how much money are the corporate heads willing to lose in this quixotic ideological pursuit.
Posted by: alanon at July 14, 2026 03:15 PM (jHMkm)

That probably sped it up, but these days even white male writers in Hollywood are self emasculated to the point that hiring 100 percent white dudes would not fix the problem.

And the answer is the corporate heads are willing to lose money forever. We already know that, even when they luck into a movie someone likes they make sure they don't do it again - Joker vs Joker 2, etc.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 14, 2026 03:24 PM (uhVAy)

100 The question is just how much money are the corporate heads willing to lose in this quixotic ideological pursuit.
———-

What if they didn’t have to lose any money?

What if … an extensive laundering operation was used, mostly with phony baloney confetti-bucks?

I can’t prove this per se, but I know that’s what’s been happening. The Narrative is Everything, but nobody will pay for it voluntarily. Not with their own money anyhow.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 14, 2026 03:24 PM (ot51Z)

101 "The modern-sounding accents "diminished the film" for him..."

_____________________________

Just watching the trailer had me questioning why all the actors (inclusive of the Brits) were using "American" accents. The usual formula is for British accents...although Damon's disaster Scotish accent in "The Great Wall" might have put the nail in that coffin.

Additionally, the modern language is a joke. In the trailer Holland is speaking to Pattinson and says, "My dad will return soon." Ummmmm...this is a Greek fundamental story. Sure, they used endearment terms in that time....BUT "dad" in Greek is "pappas" which is the origin of the term "Papa." That is very distracting to even someone like me who could give a shit about the movie. But, such an oversight is unforgivable when hundreds of millions are involved.

Posted by: Orson at July 14, 2026 03:25 PM (dIske)

102 85 A cis hetero patriarchal structure is exactly what Ace has created here at AoSHQ.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 14, 2026 03:22 PM (l4RKn)

With ewoks and busy lesbians

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 14, 2026 03:25 PM (l3cgK)

103 Monkeys murder each other for stealing bananas.

So, killing thieves is just natural.

I mean...it is.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 14, 2026 03:22 PM (GKzf4)

Some tune-age in keeping with this theme:

https://youtu.be/OLaW9NnKU6M

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 14, 2026 03:25 PM (1z8ji)

104 All the fake "science" in the world can't turn a woman into a man.

http://tiny.cc/v2q6101
Posted by: bonhomme at July 14, 2026 03:22 PM (mkw2N)

God is not pleased.........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 14, 2026 03:25 PM (2YhKe)

105 insisting that if animals can engage in "queer" sex, why shouldn't humans.

Well to start, we are given the gift of reasoning.
Some of us, at least.
Posted by: Piper

We were all given the gift. A few of us returned it for store credit, apparently.

Posted by: mikeski at July 14, 2026 03:25 PM (VHUov)

106 "... if animals can engage in "queer" sex, why shouldn't humans."

I can't believe they still blabber this nonsense. Their "Animals are gay too" falsehood was debunked a jillion times already, but reality and facts are irelevant to them.

It has been proven that the 0.0001% of animal species that occasoinally "engage" in "homosexual mating" only do so in response to extreme environmental distress, generally "all the females in the local populatin dying out" or something similar. Obviously the "trait"m of homosexuality can be passed down genetically, so it never evolved in animals. Duh. And their other argument, that some male animals perform child-rearing roles that in our worldview are "feminine"-seeming -- that too is just anthro-centric bias, not anytihg to do with maleness or femaleness. If a seahrse male protects the newborn seahorses by hiding them in his mouth when predators swim by, doe that make him gay? Or "feminine"? No. That's jut what ,ale seahorses do. Etc.

The lEft lies and lies and lies and lies and lies, and never stop lying, and debunking their lies doesn't stop them from lying. Their existence in nothing but lying.

Posted by: zombie at July 14, 2026 03:25 PM (Av6i5)

107 Willow'd: If you happen to know any Democrats, you could let them know that Rep. Ro Khanna (CA-17) is actually Zion-approved, according to the same incident that he tried to spin as hostile to him.

Despite Rohit playacting Jewphobia for the American press, once settler security confirmed his identity, he was free to proceed, as you would expect of their Punjabi Best Pal. They just needed to make sure that it wasn't some vile terrorist impersonating their Hindu Homie, since Khanna is kind of an idiot and forgot to call ahead and let his Hebrew Brothers From Another Mother know he was dropping by.

Posted by: SciVo at July 14, 2026 03:25 PM (Sy6m/)

108 65 Always smart to have a showrunner who has never read the books the shows are based on. Top notch work.

And of course, there's very little violence and gunplay in the Little House books at all to be reacting against.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 14, 2026 03:20 PM (uhVAy)

Exactly. Anyone who talks about men running around with guns has not read the book series by LAURA INGALS WILDER. Fucking hack.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at July 14, 2026 03:25 PM (xcxpd)

109 Come on, you guys, the Odyssey was written by a guy named "Homo." It's right there in his name!

Posted by: Bulg at July 14, 2026 03:25 PM (77rzZ)

110 Ellen Page was good in Juno and Inception.

Too bad she f*cked up a mildly successful career by becoming a mutant.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 14, 2026 03:26 PM (l4RKn)

111 78 >>>Huh. Cut off your tits. Become a scientist.

oh I had intended to say: "When I want to learn about science, I always turn to a female actress whose highest education was high school in a New Age school based on meditation." Which I found out was the school she went to, the "Shambhala school."

Posted by: ace at July 14, 2026 03:22 PM (1wjle)

Ron White: "I'm smart, but you can't prove it on paper."

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 14, 2026 03:26 PM (bl07w)

112 Think we can agree that Rebecca Sonnenshine would’ve lasted about 5 minutes out West.

She’s talking out of her a$$. Pioneers distance the luxury of considering the patriarchy and gender roles. Their goal was survival, which at times required violence.

And if she has a problem with men attacking Native Americans, there’s always Hannah Dustin, who took care of business when she needed to, and she was still in New England.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 14, 2026 03:26 PM (4KUe5)

113
The Little Bathhouse on the Prairie was "Man's Country" -- ask the Barky.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 14, 2026 03:26 PM (ixS3i)

114 I may be in the minority but I really liked the movie Troy. Though I think they pussified Paris too much. Otherwise I thought it was really well done.

Posted by: polynikes at July 14, 2026 03:26 PM (/WQyy)

115 108
Exactly. Anyone who talks about men running around with guns has not read the book series by LAURA INGALS WILDER. Fucking hack.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at July 14, 2026 03:25 PM (xcxpd)

=======

All Westerns before right now are John Wayne and Randolph Scott shooting injuns.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 14, 2026 03:26 PM (GKzf4)

116
What makes Ellen a male now ?

Posted by: It's me donna

==============

If you ask her, she always was male. She was finally able to "become who she truly is" by bravely declaring it (and affording intense medicalization).

She's never gotten back to us on her screaming rant about Jussie Smollett. "What did you think would happen!?" No one's asked her to her face that I know of.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 14, 2026 03:26 PM (mmrXZ)

117 it's a shame. Nolan could have made a good film.

and the three hours thing. WHY

did all the editors get murdered?

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at July 14, 2026 03:27 PM (j+aD2)

118 homosexuality can be passed down genetically
=
homosexuality CAN'T be passed down genetically

I hate that typo-- reverses the meaning of my entire comment. Ugh.

Posted by: zombie at July 14, 2026 03:27 PM (Av6i5)

119 114 I may be in the minority but I really liked the movie Troy. Though I think they pussified Paris too much. Otherwise I thought it was really well done.

Posted by: polynikes at July 14, 2026 03:26 PM (/WQyy)

========

I like it when it's focused on the rage of Achilles.

I find it deeply frustrating when it's setting up and then resolving the Trojan War at the bookends.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 14, 2026 03:27 PM (GKzf4)

120 I won't be going to see it as hard as I can.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 14, 2026 03:27 PM (2Ez/1)

121 78 >>>Huh. Cut off your tits. Become a scientist.

oh I had intended to say: "When I want to learn about science, I always turn to a female actress whose highest education was high school in a New Age school based on meditation." Which I found out was the school she went to, the "Shambhala school."

Posted by: ace at July 14, 2026 03:22 PM (1wjle)

I can tell my sister by the by the boobies she cut off
On the road to Shambala
I can tell my brother by the boobies he don't got
On the road to Shambala

Posted by: Tex Lovera at July 14, 2026 03:27 PM (wtvvX)

122 113
The Little Bathhouse on the Prairie was "Man's Country" -- ask the Barky.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 14, 2026 03:26 PM (ixS3i)

Bear country...

Posted by: Don Lemon at July 14, 2026 03:27 PM (l3cgK)

123 Additionally, the modern language is a joke. [ . . . ]
Posted by: Orson at July 14, 2026 03:25 PM (dIske)

They could have done it like Death of Stalin, and everyone used their own native accent. All the warriors were from different city states and would have spoken a wee bit different anyways. It would have emphasized the friction among the Greeks.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 14, 2026 03:28 PM (rbvCR)

124 I am proud to announce we are rebuilding Hollywood through a new lens. In this second, really yuge!, iteration of the famous industry, there will be no showpiece films designed to lose money but appease weird sexual fantasy groups, no pedo monster directors, no cocaine-fueled script meetings with gaggles of writers, and no marketing boondoggles. That's right! We are going to be all about entertainment in our new version of Hollywood! And normal too!

Posted by: Said No Hollywood Type Ever at July 14, 2026 03:28 PM (YUOR9)

125 114 I may be in the minority but I really liked the movie Troy. Though I think they pussified Paris too much. Otherwise I thought it was really well done.

I loved it! I never got why it was panned?

it's awesome. but that's the Iliad.

this is the Odyssey, my not-as-favorite of the two. I think there is an old one that's good with some Italian actors I dunno. I might try The Return which I've heard is good.

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at July 14, 2026 03:28 PM (j+aD2)

126 "As Gore said, it's just Matt Damon and Tom Holland reading lines."

I think I'd prefer having Matt Damon yell out "Matt Damon!" to any query in the same voice used in "Team America: World Police" for 3 hours than watch this shit pile.

Posted by: Thrawn at July 14, 2026 03:28 PM (LviRI)

127 With ewoks and busy lesbians

Busty lebsians.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 14, 2026 03:28 PM (Kt19C)

128 r/askreddit What is your expectations for the odyssey?

A lot of angry idiots and a decently good movie

It's looking like it's gonna be great. Critic reception has been great, and non critics who have gotten to see it early seem to like it as well. Considering its Nolan I was always gonna give it a shot, but I'm quite excited now.

It'll be pretty good and a lot of people will write their reviews before having seen it because they've already decided that they are going to hate it or love it.

A decent enough movie to be rated a 6-9. Good performances and cool scenes. In spite of what it achieves, there's going to be automatic haters and they'll be loud about it.

The cast is loaded, Nolan is a good director, the Odyssey itself is pretty cool. There's fake controversy from content creators despite nitpicking details from stills and trailers that may not be true in the finished movie; they've never seen the movie but they already despise it.

Richard Roeper calls The Odyssey one of the best films of the decade and one of the most memorable since watching movies as a critic in the 80s

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 14, 2026 03:28 PM (oI/gx)

129 I actually have a good update on grammie winger! I spoke to her today; she is out of the hospital and at her daughter's home. She was in the hospital for 16 days. She is to go back once a week for treatment (she has chemo tomorrow) and is able to walk with a walker now, no more wheelchair. She is able to eat a little bit but gets most of her nutrition via IV.

She was overwhelmed with gratitude for all the cards she got - she said she probably got 35 or 40. Well done, Horde!

Thank you to all who sent her notes, and please feel free to keep sending them and above all, please keep her in your prayers. If anyone needs her address, email me at moroncookbook at gmail dot com. You all are the best!

Posted by: bluebell at July 14, 2026 03:28 PM (afFes)

130 And I will always remember Ellen Page as the person she was in Whip It.

Mental Illness sucks.

Posted by: polynikes at July 14, 2026 03:29 PM (/WQyy)

131 To me the definitive edition will always be The Odyssey miniseries from the 90s with Armand Assante.

Perfect? Far from it. But they stuck to the story and encounters felt suitably epic, and most of the cast did very well despite NOT being big name celebrities.

I go back and watch it every few years, I'll go back and watch it again rather than this pretentious Nolan mess.

Posted by: DudeAbiding at July 14, 2026 03:29 PM (setIA)

132 All Westerns before right now are John Wayne and Randolph Scott shooting injuns.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Arnold Ziffel approves.

Posted by: Bulg at July 14, 2026 03:29 PM (77rzZ)

133 114 I may be in the minority but I really liked the movie Troy. Though I think they pussified Paris too much. Otherwise I thought it was really well done.

Posted by: polynikes at July 14, 2026 03:26 PM (/WQyy)

Paris being a huge pussy is accurate to the Greek original. After all, when being bribed by three goddesses he chose to steal some dude's wife as his best option.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 14, 2026 03:29 PM (uhVAy)

134 I might try The Return which I've heard is good.

I liked it.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 14, 2026 03:29 PM (Riz8t)

135 Exactly. Anyone who talks about men running around with guns has not read the book series by LAURA INGALS WILDER. Fucking hack.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at July 14, 2026 03:25 PM (xcxpd)

Pa had a pistol at the railroad camp when the teams got paid off, or didn't, and some of the rowdies were armed.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 14, 2026 03:29 PM (rbvCR)

136 oh I had intended to say: "When I want to learn about science, I always turn to a female actress whose highest education was high school in a New Age school based on meditation." Which I found out was the school she went to, the "Shambhala school."

Posted by: ace at July 14, 2026 03:22 PM (1wjle)

The 'Scamhollla' school. Come holla at yo new boy!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 14, 2026 03:29 PM (2YhKe)

137 127 With ewoks and busy lesbians

Busty lebsians.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 14, 2026 03:28 PM (Kt19C)

Yeah, typo. Busy Busty Lesbians?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 14, 2026 03:29 PM (l3cgK)

138 bluebell thank you so much for that update on Grammie!

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at July 14, 2026 03:29 PM (j+aD2)

139
If animals consume each other, why can't humans?

If animals can shit on the carpet, why can't humans?

If animals can eat another animal's poop for the nutrients it left behind, why can't humans?

It's almost counter-human to make that "argument".

Posted by: Axeman at July 14, 2026 03:29 PM (Fi81e)

140 >>Monkeys murder each other for stealing bananas.

>So, killing thieves is just natural.

They also trade surplus bananas for sex.

You can learn a lot about nature from monkeys.

Doesn't make them any less asshole-y, though. They are like China that way.

Posted by: garrett at July 14, 2026 03:30 PM (uzmqU)

141 Mrs Olsen is running chicks with dicks prostitutes down at the general store.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 14, 2026 03:30 PM (HW/1v)

142 Armand Asante as Odysseus, that's the movie to watch.

Troy is a masterpiece compared to Nolan's movie.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 14, 2026 03:30 PM (QGJ7D)

143 Ellen Page was homely, overrated actress that far too many roles than her talent should have allowed.

Elliot Page is an insufferable Omega Male that is only working due to diversity.

F--- they/them and this version of the Odyssey.

Posted by: ironwolf32 at July 14, 2026 03:30 PM (bQx3C)

144 I think that the 1997 Armand Assante version of the Odyssey was good. Isabella Rossellini as Athena was a good choice. Vanessa Williams was smoking hot as Calypso as was Bernadette Peters as Circe.

Posted by: Jmel at July 14, 2026 03:30 PM (3TlS+)

145 I actually have a good update on grammie winger! I spoke to her today; she is out of the hospital and at her daughter's home. She was in the hospital for 16 days. She is to go back once a week for treatment (she has chemo tomorrow) and is able to walk with a walker now, no more wheelchair. She is able to eat a little bit but gets most of her nutrition via IV.

She was overwhelmed with gratitude for all the cards she got - she said she probably got 35 or 40. Well done, Horde!

Thank you to all who sent her notes, and please feel free to keep sending them and above all, please keep her in your prayers. If anyone needs her address, email me at moroncookbook at gmail dot com. You all are the best!
Posted by: bluebell at July 14, 2026 03:28 PM (afFes)

awesome news! so happy!! thanks bluebell!

Posted by: runner at July 14, 2026 03:30 PM (GD0B3)

146 Posted by: bluebell at July 14, 2026 03:28 PM (afFes)

Good news

Posted by: It's me donna at July 14, 2026 03:30 PM (F1quE)

147 Posted by: bluebell at July 14, 2026 03:28 PM (afFes)

Thanks for the update, Bluebell! Good to hear!

Posted by: Bulg at July 14, 2026 03:30 PM (77rzZ)

148 131 To me the definitive edition will always be The Odyssey miniseries from the 90s with Armand Assante.

that's the one! yes thanks!

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at July 14, 2026 03:30 PM (j+aD2)

149 I never found Nolan's movies to be entertaining. The Dark Knight wasn't even that good, it was preposterous. In fact, that's a good summary of his movies, preposterous.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at July 14, 2026 03:30 PM (NbKRl)

150 I think I'd prefer having Matt Damon yell out "Matt Damon!" to any query in the same voice used in "Team America: World Police" for 3 hours than watch this shit pile.
Posted by: Thrawn at July 14, 2026 03:28 PM (LviRI)
___________________________

If I were Matt Damon, that would be my ringtone.

Posted by: Orson at July 14, 2026 03:30 PM (dIske)

151 139
If animals consume each other, why can't humans?

If animals can shit on the carpet, why can't humans?

If animals can eat another animal's poop for the nutrients it left behind, why can't humans?

It's almost counter-human to make that "argument".

Posted by: Axeman at July 14, 2026 03:29 PM (Fi81e)

My cats lick their assholes...
I certainly wouldn't do that to myself, even if I was flexible enough...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 14, 2026 03:31 PM (l3cgK)

152 With ewoks and busy lesbians
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 14, 2026 03:25 PM (l3cgK)

SWIDT?

Posted by: Autocucumber at July 14, 2026 03:31 PM (brIJB)

153 135 Exactly. Anyone who talks about men running around with guns has not read the book series by LAURA INGALS WILDER. Fucking hack.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at July 14, 2026 03:25 PM (xcxpd)

Pa had a pistol at the railroad camp when the teams got paid off, or didn't, and some of the rowdies were armed.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 14, 2026 03:29 PM (rbvCR)

After years of watching 'Have Gun will Travel' or 'The Rebel', or Mavericks...

We used to call that show Little Fairy on the Prairie.

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 14, 2026 03:31 PM (mP0Kj)

154 With ewoks and busy lesbians
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 14, 2026 03:25 PM (l3cgK)
====================
"busty lesbians gettin' busy"

Posted by: Lemme Help You With That at July 14, 2026 03:31 PM (YUOR9)

155 Thanks for the update, bluebell!!

Posted by: Lizzy at July 14, 2026 03:31 PM (4KUe5)

156 I watched Little House as a kid.

Probably nostalgia to some degree, but it's one of those that was done so well that a remake (even if attempted by someone serious) seems foolhardy.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 14, 2026 03:32 PM (nTGnD)

157 >>> Monkeys murder each other for stealing bananas.

So, killing thieves is just natural.

I mean...it is.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 14, 2026 03:22
++++++++++

Speaking of animals trying to kill each other, it's what we learned about every Saturday morning:

https://youtu.be/QqlgC5pjUrY

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 14, 2026 03:32 PM (2Ez/1)

158 Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at July 14, 2026 03:28 PM (j+aD2)

Yes but it's Homer so I didn't think it was too much OT😉

Posted by: polynikes at July 14, 2026 03:32 PM (/WQyy)

159 recently watched:

Undertone. I liked it. a one-set type low budget film, but interesting and I thought sort of thoughtful with a surprising take on religion. the main actress wasn't as good as the one in Obsession tho.

Obsession. Kicks ass.

He-Man. ALSO!

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at July 14, 2026 03:32 PM (j+aD2)

160 152
Busty lebsians.
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 14, 2026 03:28 PM (Kt19C)

You asked for it.........

https://shorturl.fm/9iqZ9

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 14, 2026 03:31 PM (2YhKe)

DO NOT CLICK AT WORK...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 14, 2026 03:32 PM (l3cgK)

161 Thank you to all who sent her notes, and please feel free to keep sending them and above all, please keep her in your prayers. If anyone needs her address, email me at moroncookbook at gmail dot com. You all are the best!
Posted by: bluebell at July 14, 2026 03:28 PM (afFes)

Great news, Bluebell!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 14, 2026 03:32 PM (1z8ji)

162 My cats lick their assholes...
I certainly wouldn't do that to myself, even if I was flexible enough...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 14, 2026 03:31 PM (l3cgK)

Yeah, and sorry those of you who think Pets are their children... we made LAWS to keep dogs out of restaurants for a reason...

They lick their own ass, smell poop... and then you want them wandering around a Restaurant?

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 14, 2026 03:32 PM (mP0Kj)

163 The clowns in their debauched sh*tholes expect us to recognize their mental breakdowns as "cultural achievements" and pay for the privilege.

Posted by: mrp at July 14, 2026 03:33 PM (rj6Yv)

164 Thank you to all who sent her notes, and please feel free to keep sending them and above all, please keep her in your prayers. If anyone needs her address, email me at moroncookbook at gmail dot com. You all are the best!
Posted by: bluebell
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Wonderful news! Prayers continue. Thank you, bluebell!

Posted by: screaming in digital at July 14, 2026 03:33 PM (hPLSE)

165 149 I never found Nolan's movies to be entertaining. The Dark Knight wasn't even that good, it was preposterous. In fact, that's a good summary of his movies, preposterous.

agree

the only one I liked was Memento and it did not hold up on rewatch

Posted by: Black Orchid (j+aD2) at July 14, 2026 03:33 PM (j+aD2)

166
Thank you to all who sent her notes, and please feel free to keep sending them and above all, please keep her in your prayers. If anyone needs her address, email me at moroncookbook at gmail dot com. You all are the best!
Posted by: bluebell at July 14, 2026 03:28 PM (afFes)

That is truly wonderful news.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 14, 2026 03:33 PM (2YhKe)

167 Animals have queer sex?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

Some of them allegedly have trouble telling the difference sometimes, deep in the throes of the mating season, especially in species with low sexual dimorphism like swans.

But making it out to be a routine thing instead of a rare accident is just the left wishcasting.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at July 14, 2026 03:33 PM (vJrRc)

168 "As Gore said, it's just Matt Damon and Tom Holland reading lines."
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I watched that "made by China, for China, cause China is the awesome" The Great Wall.

Yeah. Matt Damon isn't even trying to be an actor anymore.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 14, 2026 03:33 PM (3cUTc)

169 Which bathroom on the ship does she use?"

"Head"

/stomps off aft thru the bulkhead.

Posted by: man at July 14, 2026 03:33 PM (KVa9+)

170
DO NOT CLICK AT WORK...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 14, 2026 03:32 PM (l3cgK)

It's not anything worse than say, the Art Thread, but there's no nudity.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 14, 2026 03:34 PM (2YhKe)

171 Iirc, Simon is from the Aeneid- which is the Roman attempt to cement their place as an ancient people by tracing backwards to Troy. It was written by Virgil under Augustus explicitly as propaganda.

So take the Aeneid with a grain of salt.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 14, 2026 03:34 PM (zZu0s)

172 One of the MkUltra spook contractor scientists, not a good guy by the way, whose name escapes me now, had a theory that mental illness is basically “contagious”. He didn’t come right out and say it, but this is a good thing, as far as it goes. Depending on what one is trying to accomplish.

He also believed however, that mental illness is also passed on or inherited.

In any case, clearly the answer is stay the fuck away from crazy people, and keep your kids away from them as well.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 14, 2026 03:34 PM (ot51Z)

173 Sinon, not Simon. My phone is an illiterate chud.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 14, 2026 03:34 PM (zZu0s)

174 Helen Of Detroit.

Posted by: Minnfidel at July 14, 2026 03:34 PM (ewjUl)

175 I never found Nolan's movies to be entertaining. The Dark Knight wasn't even that good, it was preposterous. In fact, that's a good summary of his movies, preposterous.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at July 14, 2026 03:30 PM (NbKRl)

I commented earlier he's a mixed bag for me. I liked Interstellar and Memento and also Insomnia. The rest of his work insisted upon themselves .

Posted by: polynikes at July 14, 2026 03:34 PM (/WQyy)

176 They lick their own ass, smell poop... and then you want them wandering around a Restaurant?
Posted by: Romeo13

I mean, if you visit San Francisco, New York, London, Paris...there's a good chance you're going to smell poop.

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at July 14, 2026 03:35 PM (oI/gx)

177 Didn't the 1990s version with Armand Assante also have a black lady in the cast? The ravishing Vanessa Williams. I think she was Calypso. I don't remember any backlash about that casting. Calypso was clearly a white lady in the myth, IIRC.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 14, 2026 03:35 PM (iFTx/)

178 Men solving problems with guns and violence. Yes, that was the way of the Little House of Pancakes in the old days.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at July 14, 2026 03:35 PM (NYInA)

179 Good afternoon Ace and everyone

Posted by: Skip at July 14, 2026 03:35 PM (Ia/+0)

180 Sinon, not Simon. My phone is an illiterate chud.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 14, 2026 03:34 PM

Wasn't that a TV show in the 80's?

Posted by: Minnfidel at July 14, 2026 03:35 PM (ewjUl)

181 Little Outhouse on the Prairie
Gender neutral, of course.

Posted by: wth at July 14, 2026 03:35 PM (UjdFS)

182 I think a lot of our pop culture portrays the West as men riding around with guns and solving problems with violence and posturing
So, we didn't commit violence against the Indians. Got it.

Posted by: nerdygirl at July 14, 2026 03:35 PM (0Htd1)

183 They lick their own ass, smell poop... and then you want them wandering around a Restaurant?
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 14, 2026 03:32 PM (mP0Kj)

I can't disagree really.
But then whenever I'm in public and use a restroom, I watch people exits stalls and walk right out the door without washing their hands.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 14, 2026 03:35 PM (nTGnD)

184 174 One of the MkUltra spook contractor scientists, not a good guy by the way, whose name escapes me now, had a theory that mental illness is basically “contagious”. He didn’t come right out and say it, but this is a good thing, as far as it goes. Depending on what one is trying to accomplish.

He also believed however, that mental illness is also passed on or inherited.

In any case, clearly the answer is stay the fuck away from crazy people, and keep your kids away from them as well.
Posted by: Common Tater at July 14, 2026 03:34 PM (ot51Z)

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Unfortunately I married a woman with mental illness. They can hide it pretty well when they want to.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at July 14, 2026 03:36 PM (NbKRl)

185 It's almost counter-human to make that "argument".
Posted by: Axeman at July 14, 2026 03:29 PM (Fi81e)

My son keeps telling me that smoking dope is natural. So is snake venom, but I'm not inhaling that.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 14, 2026 03:36 PM (bl07w)

186 Great news on grammie!

Tell her you cant keep a good pirate down!

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 14, 2026 03:36 PM (zZu0s)

187 For those interested: the Odyssey, ( the one with Armando Assante ) , is streaming free on Amazon Prime.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at July 14, 2026 03:36 PM (PiwSw)

188 They lick their own ass, smell poop... and then you want them wandering around a Restaurant?
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 14, 2026 03:32 PM

They wander around our houses. But let me talk to you a minute about handwashing, or lack there of!

Posted by: Piper at July 14, 2026 03:36 PM (p4NUW)

189 I tolerated Nolan moobies until I saw "Tenet". WTF.

Posted by: Thrawn at July 14, 2026 03:36 PM (LviRI)

190 Someone should tell Elliot to sack up and quit bitchin. Nobody cares what a white man has to say these days.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at July 14, 2026 03:36 PM (/WHpM)

191 Why can't she just say. "I was a child actor in Hollywood. Hollywood is full of active, enthusiastic pedophiles. I got passed around like a joint at Dead show. I have issues for a damn good reason."

We all know what happened.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at July 14, 2026 03:36 PM (w/O5Q)

192 He also believed however, that mental illness is also passed on or inherited.

In any case, clearly the answer is stay the fuck away from crazy people, and keep your kids away from them as well.
Posted by: Common Tater at July 14, 2026 03:34 PM (ot51Z)

I've said for years that 'dysfunction is contagious'.

Let it near your life, and it seems to spread.

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 14, 2026 03:37 PM (mP0Kj)

193 Is a woke reboot of Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman next?

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher, phoning it in at July 14, 2026 03:37 PM (zs0ZQ)

194 What I want to know is, if Rachel Zegler and Elliot Page have an affair, who is on top?

Posted by: nerdygirl at July 14, 2026 03:37 PM (0Htd1)

195 The Ingalls were broke, as in grinding poverty with the only benefit being Pa hunting and having enough land for a cash crop, a cow and being able to feed themselves.
I think they lived mostly on the loans Pa got on the land he claimed

Posted by: Kindltot at July 14, 2026 03:37 PM (rbvCR)

196 Animals have queer sex?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

I have queer giraffes.

Posted by: Richard Harris at July 14, 2026 03:37 PM (HW/1v)

197 How about a white guy in a powdered wig playing Scott Joplin's "The Entertainer"?

LINK: https://tinyurl.com/n6npvyx7

Posted by: mrp at July 14, 2026 03:37 PM (rj6Yv)

198
DO NOT CLICK AT WORK...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 14, 2026 03:32 PM (l3cgK)

Wait....

Nevermind.

That is my bad. It was only supposed to be one image....not the rest.

He is correct.

NSFW. If a COB wants to clean that up, I wouldn't take offense.

Sorry.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 14, 2026 03:37 PM (2YhKe)

199 I reserved my tickets to not see the odyssey as soon as I saw ‘elliot page’ was involved. Now I have also reserved my time to not-watch the woke little house on the prairie.

Note: anyone who uses language like the dingbat showrunner, incorporating ‘tropes’ and ‘sort of’ unmasks as a performative woketard, “…We really are trying to do a show that does not fall back on tropes of sort of masculinity."

Posted by: Chunk at July 14, 2026 03:37 PM (KKkVN)

200 I would likw to enter into evidence, exhibit D.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 14, 2026 03:37 PM (w1wpe)

201 The Bourne Identity was a good movie but it could have been great with a different casting of Bourne.

Damon was perfect though in The Talented Mr Rippley. I don't know if he won anything for it but should have.

Posted by: polynikes at July 14, 2026 03:37 PM (/WQyy)

202 So take the Aeneid with a grain of salt."

Don't take Aeneid if you're allergic to Aeneid or any of it's ingredients...

Posted by: man at July 14, 2026 03:37 PM (KVa9+)

203 I love when libs use what animals do as some sort of guide for human behavior. Animals will eat shit and and may other unsavory things and are brutal in ways we can hardly imagine.

So I don't really give a fuck about their supposed homosexual behavior.

Posted by: Ripley at July 14, 2026 03:37 PM (GUOwU)

204 I don't remember any backlash about that casting. Calypso was clearly a white lady in the myth, IIRC.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 14, 2026 03:35 PM (iFTx/)

Peak Vanessa Williams 'could' be Helen of Troy though. If they cast her it would be 'oh, I can see that.'

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 14, 2026 03:37 PM (zZu0s)

205 I never found Nolan's movies to be entertaining. The Dark Knight wasn't even that good, it was preposterous. In fact, that's a good summary of his movies, preposterous.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at July 14, 2026 03:30 PM (NbKRl)
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There's a good YouTube video out there that breaks down the opening bank robbery scene, explaining just why it would never, ever actually work in real life. Far too dependent on contrived coincidences.

Looks clever, though.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 14, 2026 03:37 PM (FZ29D)

206 Didn't the 1990s version with Armand Assante also have a black lady in the cast? The ravishing Vanessa Williams. I think she was Calypso. I don't remember any backlash about that casting. Calypso was clearly a white lady in the myth, IIRC.

She's clearly not pure black. Her striking blue eyes are her best feature, IMHO.

Vanessa Williams is not half white. Both of her parents identify as monoracial Black.

However, her DNA is highly admixed. A DNA test she took revealed her genetic makeup to be roughly 53% Sub-Saharan African, 34% European (including British Isles, Finnish, Portuguese, and Southern European), and 13% Indigenous American. She also has a documented history of mixed-race ancestry on her family tree, including an interracial marriage from the 1870 census

Posted by: Archimedes at July 14, 2026 03:37 PM (Riz8t)

207 Didn't the 1990s version with Armand Assante also have a black lady in the cast? The ravishing Vanessa Williams. I think she was Calypso. I don't remember any backlash about that casting. Calypso was clearly a white lady in the myth, IIRC.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 14, 2026 03:35 PM (iFTx/)

Wasn't Calypso a goddess or demigoddess? Not fully human, so could be portrayed as "other than Greek".

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 14, 2026 03:38 PM (1z8ji)

208
and that Christopher Nolan forgot the one thing that a director should never forget...

A film's first and primary job is to entertain.

Sean Penn has built a whole career making movies that don't entertain... until the money starts to dry up.

As Spicoli put it during an interview on Inside the Actor's Studio, films are not made for entertainment. Direct quote: "If you want entertainment, then go buy yourself a hooker and an eight-ball."

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 14, 2026 03:38 PM (dv49b)

209 207 There's a good YouTube video out there that breaks down the opening bank robbery scene, explaining just why it would never, ever actually work in real life. Far too dependent on contrived coincidences.

Looks clever, though.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 14, 2026 03:37 PM (FZ29D)

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Imagine if they had broken out into coordinated song and dance.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 14, 2026 03:38 PM (GKzf4)

210 It's ironic. Filmmakers used to pursue awards to attract an audience that will create funding for their next movie. Now to qualify for nomination you must DEI your film and drive away your audience.

Ive posted before how money is made in today's Hollywood. I will do so again if you want.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at July 14, 2026 03:38 PM (wBaIH)

211 NSFW. If a COB wants to clean that up, I wouldn't take offense.

Sorry.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 14, 2026 03:37 PM (2YhKe)

Now im curious, but im also at work.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 14, 2026 03:38 PM (zZu0s)

212 I tolerated Nolan moobies until I saw "Tenet". WTF."

Yeah.

Posted by: man at July 14, 2026 03:39 PM (KVa9+)

213 169 Animals have queer sex?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

Some of them allegedly have trouble telling the difference sometimes, deep in the throes of the mating season, especially in species with low sexual dimorphism like swans.

But making it out to be a routine thing instead of a rare accident is just the left wishcasting.
Posted by: FeatherBlade

Some West African frogs have been known to spontaneously change sex from male to female in a single sex environment, so obviously people can, too. Especially the Black ones. Slay Queens!!!!!

Posted by: Queer Dr. Alan Grant at July 14, 2026 03:39 PM (oI/gx)

214 Great news bluebell. Love grammie!

Posted by: ... at July 14, 2026 03:39 PM (Qr870)

215 As Spicoli put it during an interview on Inside the Actor's Studio, films are not made for entertainment. Direct quote: "If you want entertainment, then go buy yourself a hooker and an eight-ball."
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 14, 2026 03:38 PM (dv49b)

LOL. He takes himself way too seriously.

You're nothing but a court jester that get paid way too much to do it, fool.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 14, 2026 03:39 PM (2YhKe)

216 Someone should tell Elliot to sack up and quit bitchin. Nobody cares what a white man has to say these days.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at July 14, 2026 03:36 PM

THIS! You're part of the problem now Elliot! S/

Posted by: Minnfidel at July 14, 2026 03:39 PM (ewjUl)

217 My issue with Nolan is the same one I have with Tarantino. They use the same actors in all their projects. It can be distracting, which I think sort of plays into Ace's comment:

"You never feel like you're watching people who aren't celebrity actors."

Posted by: Orson at July 14, 2026 03:39 PM (dIske)

218 Iirc, Simon is from the Aeneid- which is the Roman attempt to cement their place as an ancient people by tracing backwards to Troy. It was written by Virgil under Augustus explicitly as propaganda.

So take the Aeneid with a grain of salt.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 14, 2026 03:34 PM (zZu0s)

I can see why they would invent a 'trickster' character to explain why the Trojans let the horse into the city since it was such a blunder after holding off the Greeks so long.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 14, 2026 03:39 PM (uhVAy)

219 Didn't the 1990s version with Armand Assante also have a black lady in the cast? The ravishing Vanessa Williams. I think she was Calypso. I don't remember any backlash about that casting. Calypso was clearly a white lady in the myth, IIRC.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 14, 2026 03:35 PM (iFTx/)

Wasn't Calypso a goddess or demigoddess? Not fully human, so could be portrayed as "other than Greek".
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 14, 2026 03:38 PM (1z8ji)
________

A nymph, IIRC. Daughter of Atlas, again IIRC.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 14, 2026 03:39 PM (iFTx/)

220 26 I think this movie was Nolan making a bet with someone to see how offensive to his audience he could be and still make piles of money.

I'm only half joking.

I mean, it's hard to imagine how much worse the casting could be. I don't even like Matt Damon as Odysseus.

Ellen Page as purely cast as a big "fuck you" to his audience.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 14, 2026 03:15 PM (iFTx/)

There was an artist years ago; maybe a painter or sculptor, supposedly he said he could sh*t in a can and sell it as art and people would spend ridiculous amounts of money to buy it.
I think this movie is Nolan's sh*t in a can; see how many people he can get to see, spend money on and defend this garbage. I hope if fails and I hope men get blamed again for it's failure because all many of us are doing is just refusing to spend money on this twaddle.

Posted by: Nelly at July 14, 2026 03:40 PM (6+ehB)

221
>>Second Nature, the documentary he is flogging on the podcast

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I don't even need to read the rest to know this will be in grade schools soon.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

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Yup, this found it on X:

Transgender actress Elliot Page promotes her new nature documentary teaching kids animals can be gender fluid and LGBTQI+.

“It is so exceptional sharing this information that we did not learn in school about gender and sexuality in the natural world.”

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 14, 2026 03:40 PM (mmrXZ)

222 212 It's ironic. Filmmakers used to pursue awards to attract an audience that will create funding for their next movie. Now to qualify for nomination you must DEI your film and drive away your audience.

Ive posted before how money is made in today's Hollywood. I will do so again if you want.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at July 14, 2026 03:38 PM (wBaIH)

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The pursuit of awards was always the ends unto itself. There was a period of a few decades where they coincidentally lined up.

It was when the studios were using the awards to pat themselves on the back for making money.

That changed in the late 60s and early 70s when the studio system finally collapsed. The point of the big awards became disassociated from box office over time.

Hollywood was never, ever going to nominate Ghostbusters for Best Picture in 1985, and it was the #1 movie of the year at the box office.

And that was 40 years ago.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 14, 2026 03:41 PM (GKzf4)

223 Vanessa Williams is white for all intents and purposes.

Posted by: polynikes at July 14, 2026 03:41 PM (/WQyy)

224 Its safe, depending if your search preferences have safe search on.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 14, 2026 03:41 PM (zZu0s)

225 "Elliot" needs some growth hormones... 5 ft 1 male ?

Posted by: It's me donna at July 14, 2026 03:41 PM (F1quE)

226
Now im curious, but im also at work.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 14, 2026 03:38 PM (zZu0s)

It was SUPPOSED to be a link to an image with to older ladies, still dressed, starting some lesbian stuff......the rest of the page had really graphic lesbian stuff.

An Ace level error on my part.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 14, 2026 03:41 PM (2YhKe)

227 Tell me more about the free love trouser french canuck lady.

Asking for a friend.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 14, 2026 03:41 PM (n5tGW)

228 34% European (including British Isles, Finnish, Portuguese, and Southern European"

Wait a sec... DNA can show nationality?

/

Posted by: man at July 14, 2026 03:41 PM (KVa9+)

229 Cant wait for the Modern Woke Western as it "really was"..Little Female Sheriff: Now, take this under consideration, Big Jake. If you dont behave better I wiil have no option but to file an injunction against you that could lead to substantial penalties and damage your standing in the community. Big Jake (looking frustrated and sheepish): Oh. Sorry maam. (holsters 6 shooter and rides slowly away)

Posted by: Azjaeger at July 14, 2026 03:41 PM (mMytc)

230 Virgil used The Sack of Troy, for Sinon. One of the epics that did not get ascribed to Homer so did not survive to get copied by the Christians.
Switching those epics around to be told from the Trojan POV seems to be Virgil's innovation. Obviously it worked, because that part of Virgil's epic DID get copied.

Posted by: gKWVE at July 14, 2026 03:41 PM (gKWVE)

231 Netflix engaging in Deconstructivism and Critical Theory. And they will produce shit

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 14, 2026 03:41 PM (m2wmY)

232 197 The Ingalls were broke, as in grinding poverty with the only benefit being Pa hunting and having enough land for a cash crop, a cow and being able to feed themselves.
I think they lived mostly on the loans Pa got on the land he claimed
Posted by: Kindltot at July 14, 2026 03:37 PM (rbvCR)

I think most people on the frontier were broke. That's why they went out there. But the Ingalls didn't go very far. They were always within settled areas.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 14, 2026 03:41 PM (bl07w)

233 An Ace level error on my part.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

Text Doof. He can zap it.

Posted by: Piper at July 14, 2026 03:42 PM (p4NUW)

234 Adam Carolla noted that taking advice from animals about sex is not a very good plan since approx 99% of animal sex is usually rape with the typical act being the male coming up from behind the female, holding the female down, and plunging in. Probbaly doesn't meet the foreplay expectations of most human females.

Posted by: hate_the_deepstate at July 14, 2026 03:42 PM (2Dncg)

235 34% European (including British Isles, Finnish, Portuguese, and Southern European"

Wait a sec... DNA can show nationality?

Whatever she is, she's gorgeous.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 14, 2026 03:42 PM (Riz8t)

236 They do say that the Stunt Casting isn't too much of a factor because those are small roles with little screen time.

What ruins the movie is when they try to shove their political agenda down your throat. I go to the movies to be entertained, not to have some unsubtle gender crap pushed at me. I like going to movies at the theater. Fortunately for me, I like horror movies, and those tend to be less likely to push political stuff.

Posted by: nerdygirl at July 14, 2026 03:42 PM (0Htd1)

237 Wasn't Nolan's "Westworld" the modern woke Western?

Posted by: games are problematic at July 14, 2026 03:42 PM (gKWVE)

238
Text Doof. He can zap it.
Posted by: Piper at July 14, 2026 03:42 PM (p4NUW)

TJM and CBD are here, I'd hope they'd take care of it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 14, 2026 03:42 PM (2YhKe)

239 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 14, 2026 03:41 PM (GKzf4)

It's my opinion that Uncle Buck should have won or at least been nominated for Best Picture. Only 1/3 joking.

Posted by: polynikes at July 14, 2026 03:43 PM (/WQyy)

240 231 Cant wait for the Modern Woke Western as it "really was"..Little Female Sheriff: Now, take this under consideration, Big Jake. If you dont behave better I wiil have no option but to file an injunction against you that could lead to substantial penalties and damage your standing in the community. Big Jake (looking frustrated and sheepish): Oh. Sorry maam. (holsters 6 shooter and rides slowly away)

Posted by: Azjaeger at July 14, 2026 03:41 PM (mMytc)

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The Western is the oldest, most enduring genre in film.

It's been rebooted, subverted, redefined, and deconstructed constantly since like the 30s.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 14, 2026 03:43 PM (GKzf4)

241 Virgil used The Sack of Troy, for Sinon. One of the epics that did not get ascribed to Homer so did not survive to get copied by the Christians.
Switching those epics around to be told from the Trojan POV seems to be Virgil's innovation. Obviously it worked, because that part of Virgil's epic DID get copied.

Posted by: gKWVE at July 14, 2026 03:41 PM (gKWVE)
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Plus, probably fewer people wanted to hear a story about Troy's sack...

Posted by: Axeman at July 14, 2026 03:43 PM (Fi81e)

242 Scientists stunned as E. Page proves DNA false!

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 14, 2026 03:43 PM (n5tGW)

243 239 Wasn't Nolan's "Westworld" the modern woke Western?

Posted by: games are problematic at July 14, 2026 03:42 PM (gKWVE)

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His brother Jonathan ran Westworld.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 14, 2026 03:43 PM (GKzf4)

244 TJM

Could you nuke comment 152, please?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 14, 2026 03:43 PM (2YhKe)

245 Just watched the TV special of The Odyssey on Amazon (I know, I hate myself for having it), and it was a lot of fun! The corniness, ADR voicing and 90’s special effects added to the charm.

Posted by: Cray Cray at July 14, 2026 03:43 PM (iJMtg)

246 210
and that Christopher Nolan forgot the one thing that a director should never forget...

A film's first and primary job is to entertain.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 14, 2026 03:38 PM (dv49b)
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It's hard to pick out a movie with Brad Pitt in a role where it wasn't entertaining regardless of the director. He even pointed out in SEVEN the studio wanted to replace the human head with a dog's head, and he said he'd walk if they did because that's what makes the movie, and why people will be invested in the conclusion.

Posted by: Orson at July 14, 2026 03:44 PM (dIske)

247
My issue with Nolan is the same one I have with Tarantino. They use the same actors in all their projects. It can be distracting, which I think sort of plays into Ace's comment:

"You never feel like you're watching people who aren't celebrity actors."
Posted by: Orson at July 14, 2026 03:39 PM (dIske)

The John Ford Stock Company would like a word...

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 14, 2026 03:44 PM (dv49b)

248 Transgender actress Elliot Page promotes her new nature documentary teaching kids "

Not my kids, sweetie...

Posted by: man at July 14, 2026 03:44 PM (KVa9+)

249 I have queer giraffes.
Posted by: Richard Harris at July 14, 2026 03:37 PM (HW/1v)

Dude, Proximo had the queer giraffes. Richard Harris had already been smothered by Commodus at that point.

Posted by: Nelly at July 14, 2026 03:44 PM (6+ehB)

250 "Elliot" needs some growth hormones... 5 ft 1 male ?
Posted by: It's me donna at July 14, 2026 03:41 PM (F1quE)

Elliot Page is the Robert Reich of Ru Pauls.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 14, 2026 03:44 PM (zZu0s)

251 animals can engage in "queer" sex, why shouldn't humans.

You take that back! My dogs were NOT fags! *sob.

Posted by: nerdygirl at July 14, 2026 03:44 PM (0Htd1)

252 Pa comes in crying that the locust are eating the crops and falls to his knees. Ma and the three girls strip naked dance circles around a steaming cauldron chanting " We dont need no man.We dont need no man. Gaia saves from this pestilence and also makes the locust go away". When the sun comes up there is nothing but golden corn as far as the eye can see and the locust have stripped Pa's bones clean.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at July 14, 2026 03:44 PM (/WHpM)

253 246 TJM

Could you nuke comment 152, please?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 14, 2026 03:43 PM (2YhKe)

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Done.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 14, 2026 03:44 PM (GKzf4)

254 The word you're looking for is transexual.
Gender refers to possessive pronouns, such as his, hers, their, and its.

As any school child can tell you.

Posted by: Please make a note of it at July 14, 2026 03:44 PM (2Ez/1)

255
Elliot Page is the Robert Reich of Ru Pauls.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 14, 2026 03:44 PM (zZu0s)

Perfect.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 14, 2026 03:44 PM (2YhKe)

256 Ellen Page was a kind of cute girl. Now it's a surgically altered mentally ill looking girl

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 14, 2026 03:44 PM (m2wmY)

257 Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 14, 2026 03:41 PM (2YhKe)

Could have been worse. Could have been Queensryche.

Posted by: ... at July 14, 2026 03:44 PM (Qr870)

258 Didn't the 1990s version with Armand Assante also have a black lady in the cast? The ravishing Vanessa Williams. I think she was Calypso. I don't remember any backlash about that casting. Calypso was clearly a white lady in the myth, IIRC.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 14, 2026 03:35 PM (iFTx/)

Wasn't Calypso a goddess or demigoddess? Not fully human, so could be portrayed as "other than Greek".
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 14, 2026 03:38 PM (1z8ji)

She was a nymph. Also as she was along on his travels in the Med, she didn't have to be Greek either. Usually they put her somewhere near Libya. Recently saw some zany Odyssey map having him sail all the way to the Americas - Scylla and Charybdis was somewhere near NYC.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 14, 2026 03:45 PM (uhVAy)

259
Done.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 14, 2026 03:44 PM (GKzf4)

Much obliged, sir.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 14, 2026 03:45 PM (2YhKe)

260
Could have been worse. Could have been Queensryche.

Posted by: ... at July 14, 2026 03:44 PM (Qr870)

Fact.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 14, 2026 03:45 PM (2YhKe)

261 162 152
Busty lebsians.
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 14, 2026 03:28 PM (Kt19C)

You asked for it.........

https://shorturl.fm/9iqZ9

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 14, 2026 03:31 PM (2YhKe)

DO NOT CLICK AT WORK...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 14, 2026 03:32 PM (l3cgK)

Oooh. a boobs thread.

https://tinyurl.com/eya5s3jr

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at July 14, 2026 03:45 PM (w/O5Q)

262 254 246 TJM

Could you nuke comment 152, please?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 14, 2026 03:43 PM (2YhKe)

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Done.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 14, 2026 03:44 PM (GKzf4)

More Queensryche?

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 14, 2026 03:45 PM (nTGnD)

263

"On the podcast, Page, who narrates the film"

And she has such a great voice for doing so.

These goddamned Communists never stop with this shit.

Posted by: Rev Dr E Buzz PhD Esq at July 14, 2026 03:46 PM (et1vG)

264 the traditional way we view gender is scientifically inaccurate.
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This is a gobbledygook sentence.

Posted by: ... at July 14, 2026 03:46 PM (Qr870)

265
240 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 14, 2026 03:41 PM (GKzf4)

It's my opinion that Uncle Buck should have won or at least been nominated for Best Picture. Only 1/3 joking.

Posted by: polynikes at July 14, 2026 03:43 PM (/WQyy)

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Uncle Buck suffers from a specific problem, I think. It's the same problem that John Ford's 3 Godfathers suffers from.

The main character is supposed to be at least something of a bad guy in the beginning who learns to be a good guy, but they start the film as good, affable, likeable guys so there's no where for the character to actually go.

William Wyler made a version of the 3 Godfathers story in the very early sound era called Hell's Heroes. The three start the film arguing about which one is going to rape the dying woman with the baby. They grow and become better people by the end.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 14, 2026 03:46 PM (GKzf4)

266 And then someone quotes it!

I love this place .

Can't stop the signal, Mal.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 14, 2026 03:46 PM (zZu0s)

267 Men did tame the West , viciously and often with cruelty

Woman came in and destroyed the alpha male

Unfortunately

Posted by: Gonzotx at July 14, 2026 03:46 PM (nGraA)

268 Dude, Proximo had the queer giraffes. Richard Harris had already been smothered by Commodus at that point."

Are we not entertained?

Posted by: man at July 14, 2026 03:47 PM (KVa9+)

269 And then someone quotes it!

I love this place .

Can't stop the signal, Mal.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 14, 2026 03:46 PM (zZu0s)

Was about to say the same thing.......

I'm no longer responsible.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 14, 2026 03:47 PM (2YhKe)

270 TJM, 1984 was full of good movies, so the Academy had a lot to choose from. This Is Spinal Tap was easily a contender against Ghostbusters even in the comedy sphere. Arguably had better story-structure.
I still need to watch Dreamscape and Night Of The Comet.

Posted by: gKWVE at July 14, 2026 03:47 PM (gKWVE)

271 She was a nymph. Also as she was along on his travels in the Med, she didn't have to be Greek either. Usually they put her somewhere near Libya. Recently saw some zany Odyssey map having him sail all the way to the Americas - Scylla and Charybdis was somewhere near NYC.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 14, 2026 03:45 PM (uhVAy)

If Vanessa Williams were to indulge her nymphomania on me, I would not complain.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 14, 2026 03:47 PM (1z8ji)

272 I’m going to make my own Little House on the Prairie, except with Blackjack and hookers!

Posted by: Bender at July 14, 2026 03:48 PM (iJMtg)

273

Oh

" He says he couldn't make out the dialogue at first, and once he could, he realized "how bad the dialogue is."

Well, that's good though. That weasel did the same thing with Tenet, and that overrated pile of shit Oppenheimer.

How does he get away with such awful production? It's literally terrible, you can't make out what the actors are saying. How is this good?

Posted by: Rev Dr E Buzz PhD Esq at July 14, 2026 03:48 PM (et1vG)

274 Saw a AI YouTube with Page doing movie manly roles but getting beat downs

Posted by: Skip at July 14, 2026 03:48 PM (Ia/+0)

275 Tell you. When the Left turns to their men with guns it's gonna be super ugly. They will be like kids in a candy store.

The Left: "Whoa! This is the EASY way to enact our 'change'. Why didn't anyone tell us this??!!"

Right before all the killings and orgasms start.

Posted by: ... at July 14, 2026 03:48 PM (Qr870)

276 Oh c'mon man. There is an infinite supply of tickets to not see it.

There's a new DeNiro film that I already have my ticket to not see it.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at July 14, 2026 03:48 PM (qFwJc)

277 "I think a lot of our pop culture portrays the West as men riding around with guns and solving problems with violence and posturing, but that is just not how it was settled... We really are trying to do a show that does not fall back on tropes of sort of masculinity."

I don't recall any of this in Little House.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at July 14, 2026 03:48 PM (w6EFb)

278 222
>>Second Nature, the documentary he is flogging on the podcast

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I don't even need to read the rest to know this will be in grade schools soon.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

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Yup, this found it on X:

Transgender actress Elliot Page promotes her new nature documentary teaching kids animals can be gender fluid and LGBTQI+.

“It is so exceptional sharing this information that we did not learn in school about gender and sexuality in the natural world.”

Some herd animals let the males fight to near death then all the females get knocked up by the herd alpha Chad.

You know, like tinder.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at July 14, 2026 03:49 PM (/WHpM)

279 I want my history brought to life, not a retarded delusional version of life brought to my history.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 14, 2026 03:49 PM (S41Gd)

280 271 TJM, 1984 was full of good movies, so the Academy had a lot to choose from. This Is Spinal Tap was easily a contender against Ghostbusters even in the comedy sphere. Arguably had better story-structure.
I still need to watch Dreamscape and Night Of The Comet.

Posted by: gKWVE at July 14, 2026 03:47 PM (gKWVE)

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Trust me. It wasn't that "there were too many good movies" that Ghostbusters wasn't nominated.

In 1928? Ghostbusters would have been nominated. It might not have won, but it would have been nominated. Through the first decade, all of the winners were top three at the box office.

By the 80s, there was a very clear break where box office winners had to be the "right" kind of movie to be considered, much less win.

The awards have been gatekeeping since the inception, it's just that the early gatekeepers valued success in commerce more than messages because they had Western Union to send messages.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 14, 2026 03:49 PM (GKzf4)

281 99% of animal sex is usually rape with the typical act being the male coming up from behind the female, holding the female down, and plunging in. Probbaly doesn't meet the foreplay expectations of most human females.
Posted by: hate_the_deepsta

If she's in estrus, she's down for sextrus! Uh, she wants some pleasin', cause she's in season? When she's in heat, she'll take the meat!

Posted by: Horny lion coming up with corny rape justifying rhymes at July 14, 2026 03:49 PM (oI/gx)

282 Posted by: runner at July 14, 2026 03:30 PM (GD0B3)

That’s great news, it’s a War

Posted by: Gonzotx at July 14, 2026 03:49 PM (nGraA)

283
I don't recall any of this in Little House.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at July 14, 2026 03:48 PM (w6EFb)

I mean, it's lot like they even watched the show or anything......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 14, 2026 03:49 PM (2YhKe)

284
It's hard to pick out a movie with Brad Pitt in a role where it wasn't entertaining regardless of the director. He even pointed out in SEVEN the studio wanted to replace the human head with a dog's head, and he said he'd walk if they did because that's what makes the movie, and why people will be invested in the conclusion.
Posted by: Orson at July 14, 2026 03:44 PM (dIske)

Seven Years in Tibet?

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 14, 2026 03:49 PM (dv49b)

285 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 14, 2026 03:46 PM (GKzf4

No the intention was for him to be the unmotivated fun loving black sheep uncle who was finally put into a situation where he had to grow up.

That's how I saw it.

Posted by: polynikes at July 14, 2026 03:50 PM (/WQyy)

286 273 I’m going to make my own Little House on the Prairie, except with Blackjack and hookers!
Posted by: Bender at July 14, 2026 03:48 PM (iJMtg)

And... Dolly Parton?

Posted by: Burt Reynolds at July 14, 2026 03:50 PM (mP0Kj)

287 @271 Night of the Comet and The Last Starfighter both came out in 1984. Two small fun , funny sci-fi movies

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 14, 2026 03:50 PM (m2wmY)

288 If you haven't changed your chromosomes, you haven't changed your sex.

Posted by: Science! at July 14, 2026 03:50 PM (2Ez/1)

289 You suckers! I got free tickets not to see it when I didn't see Supergirl.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 14, 2026 03:50 PM (n5tGW)

290 251 "Elliot" needs some growth hormones... 5 ft 1 male ?
Posted by: It's me donna at July 14, 2026 03:41 PM (F1quE)
______________________

Peter Dinklage is going to be pissed.

Posted by: Orson at July 14, 2026 03:50 PM (dIske)

291 286 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 14, 2026 03:46 PM (GKzf4

No the intention was for him to be the unmotivated fun loving black sheep uncle who was finally put into a situation where he had to grow up.

That's how I saw it.

Posted by: polynikes at July 14, 2026 03:50 PM (/WQyy)

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I saw the intention that he was a fuckup, but he never actually fucks up that bad because he's so lovable. Because John Hughes loved John Candy (no homo).

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 14, 2026 03:50 PM (GKzf4)

292 I don't even need to read the rest to know this will be in grade schools soon.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

=========

Yup, this found it on X:

Transgender actress Elliot Page promotes her new nature documentary teaching kids animals can be gender fluid and LGBTQI+.

“It is so exceptional sharing this information that we did not learn in school about gender and sexuality in the natural world.”

Some herd animals let the males fight to near death then all the females get knocked up by the herd alpha Chad.

You know, like tinder.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at July 14, 2026 03:49 PM (/WHpM)
_________

So the trans lunatics are now resorting to saying that animals do it, so we should too? Animals eat their own shit. Should we do that? Oh wait -- don't ask these lunatics that.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 14, 2026 03:51 PM (iFTx/)

293 When my cat starts uptalking I might get worried.

Posted by: wth at July 14, 2026 03:51 PM (UjdFS)

294 Um, Elliot. Go back in time and tell the Romans that they did not build their empire with Swords and Blood.

Go ahead, I'll wait.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at July 14, 2026 03:51 PM (zZu0s)

295 El Sleezo Patron: He did too. He touched me.
El Sleezo Tough: Ugh. Wash up, you'll get warts.
Kermit: That's a myth.
El Sleezo Tough: Yeah, but she's my "myth"!
Kermit: No, no, myth, myth!
Myth: Yeth?

Posted by: SMOD at July 14, 2026 03:51 PM (RHGPo)

296
In 1928? Ghostbusters would have been nominated. It might not have won, but it would have been nominated. Through the first decade, all of the winners were top three at the box office.

In 1928 Ghostbusters would've been something of The Devil and banished to Hell for being some kind of heretic thing........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 14, 2026 03:51 PM (2YhKe)

297 A version of 'Little House of the Prairie' based directly on the book, would be quite good. At least according to my sister. She's read them. It was a series of books. They have a harshness and cruelty in them that wasn't in the TV show or whatever this abomination is. 19th Century western America was a rough, unyielding, place.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at July 14, 2026 03:51 PM (sAmhv)

298 I don't recall any of this in Little House.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at July 14, 2026 03:48 PM (w6EFb)

I mean, it's lot like they even watched the show or anything......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 14, 2026 03:49 PM (2YhKe)
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For all we know, they simply picked an IP out of a hat.

It could just as easily have been a remake of Columbo.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 14, 2026 03:51 PM (FZ29D)

299 Posted by: Orson at July 14, 2026 03:44 PM (dIske)

The dude is more than just a pretty boy. He can act. He should have won an Oscar for Kalifornia.

Harley was a great character.

Posted by: polynikes at July 14, 2026 03:51 PM (/WQyy)

300 Took me a minute to find the safe search 'off' prompt.

Posted by: Muhammad al Muhammad at July 14, 2026 03:51 PM (J4Dwc)

301

""Try and block out the noise from absolute vile losers, who must just be so profoundly uncomfortable with themselves,"

I mean, this little troll chopped her tits off.

That's more projection than the AMC 20 with every camera running.

Posted by: Rev Dr E Buzz PhD Esq at July 14, 2026 03:52 PM (et1vG)

302 297
In 1928? Ghostbusters would have been nominated. It might not have won, but it would have been nominated. Through the first decade, all of the winners were top three at the box office.

In 1928 Ghostbusters would've been something of The Devil and banished to Hell for being some kind of heretic thing........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 14, 2026 03:51 PM (2YhKe)

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Well, Sponge's exposure to pre-Code films is deeply woeful.

Pre-Code Hollywood was kinda nuts.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 14, 2026 03:52 PM (GKzf4)

303 Juno was enjoyable for what it was, and Page fit the sullen, smart-ass, teenage girl role well.

But everything else she’s played in it seems like she was on anti-depressants and Xanax in every scene.

Now she’s just juiced up on mental illnesses and testosterone pills.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 14, 2026 03:52 PM (6ydKt)

304 "This word we completely changed the meaning of, isn't what science has always said it is."

Huh. You don't fucking say.

Posted by: ... at July 14, 2026 03:52 PM (Qr870)

305 Brad Pitt's cameo in The Lost City with Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum was a hoot.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at July 14, 2026 03:53 PM (PiwSw)

306 approx 99% of animal sex is usually (graphic description of 99% of femme romantasy slop)

We could argue about the percentages, but I think it differs from animal to animal. You can usually tell by the dimorphism of what comes next.
For instance, most cats are difficult to tell if they are male or female excepting of course the lion. If you've had a female cat in heat then you know she is consenting to just about any tomcat who can get in reach.
Among primates, orangutans are ridiculously different. I recall reading that orangutan mating tends to be Platner-tier forceful as a rule.

Posted by: gKWVE at July 14, 2026 03:53 PM (gKWVE)

307 I have seen Denzel Washington play and Italian Duke. I don't care. I just want good performances. Roscoe Lee Brown did Shakespeare too and I don't think it was Othello.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at July 14, 2026 03:53 PM (qFwJc)

308
Well, Sponge's exposure to pre-Code films is deeply woeful.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 14, 2026 03:52 PM (GKzf4)

Valid.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 14, 2026 03:53 PM (2YhKe)

309 Of course. All women in the prairie in the 1870's practiced free and wore trousers, right? . It's subtext is an homage to George Sand and the Paris of earlier days, correct . Uggh!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 14, 2026 03:53 PM (Bw1/o)

310 306 Brad Pitt's cameo in The Lost City with Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum was a hoot.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at July 14, 2026 03:53 PM (PiwS

Yes... That's a very funny movie

Posted by: It's me donna at July 14, 2026 03:53 PM (F1quE)

311 the traditional way we view gender is scientifically inaccurate.
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This is a gobbledygook sentence.

Posted by: ... at July 14, 2026 03:46 PM (Qr870)
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Well, it is somewhat true in that "gender" was a linguistic word to tell which ending a word got and never a scientific term.

However all words in all languages got the gender they got. There are positive statements that can be said to be true, so that's kind of like science.

Posted by: Axeman at July 14, 2026 03:53 PM (Fi81e)

312
308 I have seen Denzel Washington play and Italian Duke. I don't care. I just want good performances. Roscoe Lee Brown did Shakespeare too and I don't think it was Othello.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at July 14, 2026 03:53 PM (qFwJc)

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Sharlto Copely would play a great Black Panther.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 14, 2026 03:53 PM (GKzf4)

313 I was more of a Grizzly Adams guy. Little house was
boring.

Posted by: Reforger at July 14, 2026 03:54 PM (05hbD)

314
Bathrooms are a social/human construct.

Thus bathrooms aren't real. So, what's the deal with bathrooms?

Posted by: Axeman at July 14, 2026 03:54 PM (Fi81e)

315 Brad Pitt playing the stoner roommate in True Romance was a hoot

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 14, 2026 03:54 PM (m2wmY)

316 I saw the intention that he was a fuckup, but he never actually fucks up that bad because he's so lovable. Because John Hughes loved John Candy (no homo).
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 14, 2026 03:50 PM (GKzf4)

He didn't fuck up in the movie because of the specific situation he was put in. The back story indicates he fucked up plenty.

Posted by: polynikes at July 14, 2026 03:55 PM (/WQyy)

317 Manners are a social construct. Gender is not.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at July 14, 2026 03:55 PM (qFwJc)

318 It's my opinion that Uncle Buck should have won or at least been nominated for Best Picture. Only 1/3 joking.
==
I agree. I liked Uncle Buck a lot. Summer rental also another John Candy movie. I think the point with him is he is kind of any everyman slub. Mired in his own existence, struggling against life, just like the rest of us maybe a little to self concerned, and in the end, unlike most of us, he wins through. Its not a complicated character arc. He's us, except it turns out okay in the end for him. That's the payoff. That's a legitimate leading role. He was good at it. But I'm not a movie critic.

Posted by: not joe bob briggs at July 14, 2026 03:55 PM (anL5R)

319 Bathrooms are a social/human construct.

Thus bathrooms aren't real. So, what's the deal with bathrooms?
Posted by: Axeman at July 14, 2026 03:54 PM (Fi81e)

Just pull up a curb. Shit wherever.

Posted by: San Francisco at July 14, 2026 03:55 PM (2YhKe)

320
Predator
Robocop
Lethal Weapon
The Naked Gun
The Untouchables
Die Hard
Midnight Run
Spaceballs
A Fish Called Wanda

All came out within about a year of each other.

Posted by: ... at July 14, 2026 03:55 PM (Qr870)

321 Brad Pitt's cameo in The Lost City with Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum was a hoot.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at July 14, 2026 03:53 PM (PiwS

Yes... That's a very funny movie
Posted by: It's me donna at July 14, 2026 03:53 PM (F1quE)
_____

His cameo was the best part. But it kinda backfired because it showed how bland and boring Channing Tatum is. The movie would have been much better if Brad Pitt had the lead role.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 14, 2026 03:55 PM (iFTx/)

322 316 He didn't fuck up in the movie because of the specific situation he was put in. The back story indicates he fucked up plenty.

Posted by: polynikes at July 14, 2026 03:55 PM (/WQyy)

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Yeah, there's my problem.

"He's a fuckup."

"Give me an example."

"No! Look at how loveable John Candy is! Just hug him!"

It's what creates the distance I feel in Uncle Buck.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 14, 2026 03:56 PM (GKzf4)

323
Some herd animals let the males fight to near death then all the females get knocked up by the herd alpha Chad.

You know, like tinder.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless

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As I come to think of it, how do these evolutionary biologists even determine that an animal is gay? Dogs hump human legs and probably upholstered chair legs -- does this mean they're necrophiles of some sort? I suspect there's a lot of anthropocentrism in this thesis.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 14, 2026 03:56 PM (mmrXZ)

324 In 1928 Ghostbusters would've been something of The Devil and banished to Hell for being some kind of heretic thing........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 14, 2026 03:51 PM (2YhKe)

I don’t know, Topper was a big hit less than a decade later and it was a comedy about ghosts.

They also did I Married A Witch with the beautiful Veronica Lake not long after.

Supernatural comedies have been a thing for awhile.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 14, 2026 03:56 PM (6ydKt)

325 My favorite John Candy movie is Who's Harry Crumb?

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at July 14, 2026 03:56 PM (PiwSw)

326 Kilgore: Smell that? You smell that?
Lance: What?
Kilgore: Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world smells like that. I love the smell of napalm in the morning. You know, one time we had a hill bombed, for 12 hours. When it was all over, I walked up. We didn't find one of 'em, not one stinkin' dink body. The smell, you know that gasoline smell? The whole hill. Smelled like... victory. Someday this war's gonna end.

... yeah, someday this war's gonna end.

Posted by: SMOD at July 14, 2026 03:56 PM (RHGPo)

327 >>Night of the Comet and The Last Starfighter both came out in 1984. Two small fun , funny sci-fi movies

Lance Guest and my first wife dated for a spell while attending Saratoga High School.

I met him years later when we ran into him a bicycle shop in Los Gatos. He's a bit of a dick.

Posted by: one hour sober at July 14, 2026 03:56 PM (J4Dwc)

328 Just pull up a curb. Shit wherever.

Posted by: San Francisco at July 14, 2026 03:55 PM
+++++
Especially in Clark's neighborhood.

Posted by: Cousin Eddie at July 14, 2026 03:56 PM (2Ez/1)

329 324 I don’t know, Topper was a big hit less than a decade later and it was a comedy about ghosts.

They also did I Married A Witch with the beautiful Veronica Lake not long after.

Supernatural comedies have been a thing for awhile.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 14, 2026 03:56 PM (6ydKt)

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Cat and the Canary's first version was 1928. Dracula was 1931. The whole Universal monster verse started up just shortly thereafter.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 14, 2026 03:57 PM (GKzf4)

330 A version of 'Little House of the Prairie' based directly on the book, would be quite good. At least according to my sister. She's read them. It was a series of books. They have a harshness and cruelty in them that wasn't in the TV show or whatever this abomination is. 19th Century western America was a rough, unyielding, place.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at July 14, 2026 03:51 PM (sAmhv)

I read them all too, except perhaps the first one. The TV show was set in the Minnesota area later in time which was more settled and 'easier' than some early books where they are having trouble even getting crops working.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 14, 2026 03:57 PM (uhVAy)

331 Thus bathrooms aren't real. So, what's the deal with bathrooms?
Posted by: Axeman at July 14, 2026 03:54 PM (Fi81e)

It’s a room, with a bath…but what if it doesn’t have a bath, but a shower. We don’t call it showerrooms!

Posted by: Jerry Seinfeld at July 14, 2026 03:57 PM (iJMtg)

332
I don’t know, Topper was a big hit less than a decade later and it was a comedy about ghosts.

They also did I Married A Witch with the beautiful Veronica Lake not long after.

Supernatural comedies have been a thing for awhile.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 14, 2026 03:56 PM (6ydKt)

I was leaning along the lines of the special effects and all.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 14, 2026 03:57 PM (2YhKe)

333 But it kinda backfired because it showed how bland and boring Channing Tatum is. "

This. The Liberty insurance guy is more likeable.

Posted by: man at July 14, 2026 03:57 PM (KVa9+)

334 Hollywood loves remakes.
They should do Romancing the Stone.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 14, 2026 03:58 PM (6ydKt)

335 >This. The Liberty insurance guy is more likeable.
Posted by: man at July 14, 2026 03:57 PM

++++
I'm sitting right here.

Posted by: The Emu at July 14, 2026 03:58 PM (2Ez/1)

336
I watched a reaction video of a Page interview, she said that she's "happier" as a man. The reactor said "She should tell her face."

She also says that her manly ways includes a "cry a day". So, I totally get that she "feels like a guy". (NOT!)

And she does not view that "masculinity" has to be "emotionally shut down" (the way women describe men being the way men want to be).

Posted by: Axeman at July 14, 2026 03:58 PM (Fi81e)

337 This. The Liberty insurance guy is more likeable.

Posted by: man at July 14, 2026 03:57 PM (KVa9+)

"The line......."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 14, 2026 03:58 PM (2YhKe)

338 99+% of animal sex is heterosexual. Now what

Posted by: ... at July 14, 2026 03:58 PM (Qr870)

339 Underrated John Candy movie is Volunteers

Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 14, 2026 03:59 PM (iFTx/)

340 John Candy as a fuck-up?

"Planes, Trains, and Automobiles."

I bust a gut laughing.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at July 14, 2026 03:59 PM (qFwJc)

341 Two of my favorites are :

Snatch

&

Burn After Reading

Posted by: Orson at July 14, 2026 03:59 PM (dIske)

342 They should do Romancing the Stone."

Gator's dead...

Posted by: man at July 14, 2026 03:59 PM (KVa9+)

343 323
Some herd animals let the males fight to near death then all the females get knocked up by the herd alpha Chad.

You know, like tinder.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless

==============

As I come to think of it, how do these evolutionary biologists even determine that an animal is gay? Dogs hump human legs and probably upholstered chair legs -- does this mean they're necrophiles of some sort? I suspect there's a lot of anthropocentrism in this thesis.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 14, 2026 03:56 PM (mmrXZ)

In the wild when the females of a pride take up with a new alpha Chad male, the new male kills all the cubs from the previous male.

Lots of things go on in nature that I'm pretty sure Elliot would find weird and unacceptable.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at July 14, 2026 03:59 PM (/WHpM)

344 336
I watched a reaction video of a Page interview, she said that she's "happier" as a man. The reactor said "She should tell her face."

She also says that her manly ways includes a "cry a day". So, I totally get that she "feels like a guy". (NOT!)

And she does not view that "masculinity" has to be "emotionally shut down" (the way women describe men being the way men want to be).

Posted by: Axeman at July 14, 2026 03:58 PM (Fi81e)

========

I cry once a day.

At the thought that Marcus Aurelius died as a true Stoic and that I will never match him.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 14, 2026 03:59 PM (GKzf4)

345 "Topper" is great. A couple drink and drive and die.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at July 14, 2026 04:00 PM (qFwJc)

346 Underrated John Candy movie is Volunteers"

Tuttle from Tacoma?

Posted by: man at July 14, 2026 04:00 PM (KVa9+)

347 It’s worse than animal buggery, “Rape” is a human construct, by their own lights. There is no such thing, it necessarily follows. Is that what they want?

Leftists are basically infants, as far as thinking goes, and philosophy.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 14, 2026 04:00 PM (Yq6vM)

348 I watched a reaction video of a Page interview, she said that she's "happier" as a man. The reactor said "She should tell her face."

She also says that her manly ways includes a "cry a day". So, I totally get that she "feels like a guy". (NOT!)

And she does not view that "masculinity" has to be "emotionally shut down" (the way women describe men being the way men want to be).
Posted by: Axeman at July 14, 2026 03:58 PM (Fi81e)
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Yea, in all those interviews where she's claiming she's happier now, she looks fucking miserable, and usually like she's stoned out on something. It's a hostage video.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 14, 2026 04:00 PM (iFTx/)

349 Uggh!
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

There's a lot of controversy about the "Little House" novels we did get, on to what degree Laura Ingalls was actually telling the story or Rose Wilder her daughter was filtering it all.
Ingalls was brilliantly intelligent and a force of nature, which you had to be to survive as a woman in the Great Plains at the time. Rose... was something... similar. But different. Kind of an American Ayn Rand. Like if a tomboy raised a tomboy.

Posted by: gKWVE at July 14, 2026 04:00 PM (gKWVE)

350 I was leaning along the lines of the special effects and all.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 14, 2026 03:57 PM (2YhKe)

Ahh, yes, they would have been imprressive in 1928.

I wonder what the Roaring Twenties would have thought of CGI and AI Slop.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 14, 2026 04:01 PM (6ydKt)

351 She's not a real man. She has no functioning penis.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at July 14, 2026 04:01 PM (qFwJc)

352 Look, "Elliott":

I'm sorry you got passed around Hollywood like a spliff of ditchweed at a traveling Grateful Dead camp, or that your stepdaddy nailed you when you didn't want him to, or didn't nail you when you did want him to, or whatever, but chopping off your tits is not the answer.

I just checked... it looks like her sperm and egg donors (I won't call them "parents") started pimping her out to show biz at the age of 10. After a hundred years of movies (and I'm thinking live theatre wasn't/isn't immune to this), I think we can safely say that any "parent" who puts a kid in show biz knows EXACTLY what's going to happen to that kid. They just don't give a shit, as long as the checks clear.

Posted by: Peter Sellers at July 14, 2026 04:01 PM (IG3/x)

353
I still need to watch Dreamscape and Night Of The Comet.
Posted by: gKWVE at July 14, 2026 03:47 PM (gKWVE)

"Daddy would have got us Uzis."

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 14, 2026 04:01 PM (dv49b)

354 348
Yea, in all those interviews where she's claiming she's happier now, she looks fucking miserable, and usually like she's stoned out on something. It's a hostage video.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 14, 2026 04:00 PM (iFTx/)

========

"I leave this world happier than I could ever feel."
-Ellen Page's suicide note

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 14, 2026 04:01 PM (GKzf4)

355 One book Rose and Laura didn't let us read was the book about when Laura's dad was running a hotel in Iowa, for instance.
"Little Hotel Where My Little Brother Died" might have been a bummer to read though.

Posted by: gKWVE at July 14, 2026 04:02 PM (gKWVE)

356 At the thought that Marcus Aurelius died as a true Stoic and that I will never match him."

Just plan for the shiite..

Posted by: man at July 14, 2026 04:02 PM (KVa9+)

357 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 14, 2026 03:56 PM (GKzf4)

What's your definition of a fuck up? Does he have to commit a crime or something like that. You don't think a 40 something year old guy who can't hold down a job and is a degenerate gambler with a piece of crap ca and a crappy apartment isn't a fuck up?

John Daly was a huge fuck up in real life and his peers and fans loved him.

Posted by: polynikes at July 14, 2026 04:02 PM (/WQyy)

358 She's not a real man. She has no functioning penis.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at July 14, 2026 04:01 PM (qFwJc)

Nor prostate.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 14, 2026 04:02 PM (2YhKe)

359 Bathrooms are a social/human construct.

Thus bathrooms aren't real. So, what's the deal with bathrooms?
Posted by: Axeman

They're for speed dating.

Posted by: Mayo Pete at July 14, 2026 04:02 PM (UjdFS)

360 354 348
Yea, in all those interviews where she's claiming she's happier now, she looks fucking miserable, and usually like she's stoned out on something. It's a hostage video.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 14, 2026 04:00 PM (iFTx/)

========

"I leave this world happier than I could ever feel."
-Ellen Page's suicide note
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 14, 2026 04:01 PM (GKzf4)

"I tried to sack up, but I just didn't have the balls."

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at July 14, 2026 04:03 PM (/WHpM)

361 As I come to think of it, how do these evolutionary biologists even determine that an animal is gay? Dogs hump human legs and probably upholstered chair legs -- does this mean they're necrophiles of some sort? I suspect there's a lot of anthropocentrism in this thesis.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 14, 2026 03:56 PM (mmrXZ)

In the wild when the females of a pride take up with a new alpha Chad male, the new male kills all the cubs from the previous male.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at July 14, 2026 03:59 PM (/WHpM)
______

That would be a helluva "land acknowledgment"-type declaration ....

Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 14, 2026 04:03 PM (iFTx/)

362 99% of animal sex is usually rape with the typical act being the male coming up from behind the female, holding the female down, and plunging in.
==
*throws flag*

Okay, so we have a birdhouse that has been hanging in the same spot every spring for years. The birds fight over it. There are usually multiple sets of birds born in it every year from spring through summer months.

Every time its the same thing. Once the first round of eggs hatches and the fledglings are off, a female bird lands on top of the bird house. She sticks her butt up and tail feathers out of the way until a male hops on her. She wears him out. At this point I typically yell at that them to get a room. We are going on our third round of eggs this year. Its like we are hosting a redlight district flop house on our back porch.

Posted by: the female is always the aggressor - my history professor from college at July 14, 2026 04:03 PM (anL5R)

363 357 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 14, 2026 03:56 PM (GKzf4)

What's your definition of a fuck up? Does he have to commit a crime or something like that. You don't think a 40 something year old guy who can't hold down a job and is a degenerate gambler with a piece of crap ca and a crappy apartment isn't a fuck up?

John Daly was a huge fuck up in real life and his peers and fans loved him.

Posted by: polynikes at July 14, 2026 04:02 PM (/WQyy)

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I need the dramatics of the film to sell me that he's a fuck up that needs to grow up.

Him making a mess isn't enough. He needs to get something really wrong. Lose a kid on accident, or something.

Then he has to correct because he's learning a life lesson. He earns a new lease on life by self-reflection and action to affirm it. Music swells. Tears earned.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 14, 2026 04:03 PM (GKzf4)

364 I cry once a day.

At the thought that Marcus Aurelius died as a true Stoic and that I will never match him.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 14, 2026 03:59 PM (GKzf4)
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I don't believe you. But, see, at least that's not a "cry a day", but a particular cry on the manly side--cause Stocism.

Posted by: Axeman at July 14, 2026 04:04 PM (Fi81e)

365 >"In terms of looking at nature as if it's some sort of cis hetero patriarchal structure is absurd, and that this, you know, gender binary that we've created is nothing but a quaint little myth," Page said.
----

Genuine Internet Gibberish

Posted by: Don Black at July 14, 2026 04:04 PM (ZxPkt)

366 On the whole, I choose to regard the existence of elliot page as a myth, though boring rather than quaint.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 14, 2026 04:04 PM (VyBeY)

367 “ I think we can safely say that any "parent" who puts a kid in show biz knows EXACTLY what's going to happen to that kid. They just don't give a shit, as long as the checks clear.”

Yeah.

Posted by: The Coreys at July 14, 2026 04:04 PM (AvVQO)

368 Underrated John Candy movie is Volunteers

Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 14, 2026 03:59 PM (iFTx/)

That was great.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 14, 2026 04:04 PM (S41Gd)

369 In 1928 Ghostbusters would've been something of The Devil and banished to Hell for being some kind of heretic thing........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

Or something inspired by Carnacki the Ghost-Finder, which was only about 20 years before.

Posted by: That lady from The Office at July 14, 2026 04:04 PM (OUMaO)

370 or maybe insipid is the word I was looking for ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 14, 2026 04:05 PM (VyBeY)

371 Yea, in all those interviews where she's claiming she's happier now, she looks fucking miserable, and usually like she's stoned out on something. It's a hostage video.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 14, 2026 04:00 PM (iFTx/)

========

"I leave this world happier than I could ever feel."
-Ellen Page's suicide note
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 14, 2026 04:01 PM (GKzf4)
_______

There is a non-zero change that she actually writes that. I don't see a long life for her. Drug OD or suicide, most likely.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 14, 2026 04:05 PM (iFTx/)

372 "In terms of looking at nature as if it's some sort of cis hetero patriarchal structure is absurd,

I absolutely agree with her, but perhaps not in the way she intended.

Posted by: t-bird at July 14, 2026 04:05 PM (gb3qv)

373 Summer Rental is another favorite John Candy movie. It also has the added benefit of showing boobs.

Posted by: polynikes at July 14, 2026 04:05 PM (/WQyy)

374 364 I cry once a day.

At the thought that Marcus Aurelius died as a true Stoic and that I will never match him.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 14, 2026 03:59 PM (GKzf4)
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I don't believe you. But, see, at least that's not a "cry a day", but a particular cry on the manly side--cause Stocism.

Posted by: Axeman at July 14, 2026 04:04 PM (Fi81e)

=======

*gets verklempt at the wisdom, courage, temperance, and justice that I cannot fully master*

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 14, 2026 04:05 PM (GKzf4)

375 Mentally ill woman has opinions? Yawn.

Posted by: Dispatch from Limbo at July 14, 2026 04:05 PM (qUkBO)

376 Elliot Page is a quaint myth herself.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 14, 2026 04:05 PM (3Sc5L)

377 She's not a real man. She has no functioning penis.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at July 14, 2026 04:01 PM (qFwJc)

Nor prostate.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at July 14, 2026 04:02 PM (2YhKe)

Neither does half our male senators.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 14, 2026 04:06 PM (Ot/FD)

378 Every trans, homo, pedo, etc in Hollywood should be conscripted into the Iranian army.

Posted by: Going deep. Out. at July 14, 2026 04:06 PM (IKyq4)

379 Brad Pitt playing the stoner roommate in True Romance was a hoot

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 14, 2026 03:54 PM (m2wmY)
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One of my favorites.

Up there with McConaughey as the unintelligible trucker in Larger than Life.

Posted by: Axeman at July 14, 2026 04:06 PM (Fi81e)

380
Roscoe Lee Brown did Shakespeare too and I don't think it was Othello.
Posted by: no one of any consequence

============

Polonius.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 14, 2026 04:06 PM (mmrXZ)

381 All remaining US military forces will be out of Iraq by the end of September, the nation’s new prime minister Ali al-Zaidi said during a Tuesday visit to the White House. “On the 30th of September, the US forces will be out of Iraq, while these companies will be inside Iraq,” al-Zaidi said through a translator when speaking to reporters alongside President Trump in the Oval Office. About 2,000 US troops currently are stationed in Iraq, mostly at the Harir Air Base in Erbil in the northern Kurdistan region.

Posted by: SMOD at July 14, 2026 04:06 PM (RHGPo)

382 378 Every trans, homo, pedo, etc in Hollywood should be conscripted into the Iranian army.

Posted by: Going deep. Out. at July 14, 2026 04:06 PM (IKyq4)

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Hamas.

Hamas is the only organization that truly appreciates gay and trans rights.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 14, 2026 04:06 PM (GKzf4)

383 What's your definition of a fuck up? Does he have to commit a crime or something like that. You don't think a 40 something year old guy who can't hold down a job and is a degenerate gambler with a piece of crap ca and a crappy apartment isn't a fuck up?
==
You forgot: he won't make an honest woman of his long time suffering girlfriend - Shanice.

His settling down in a real job and moving toward commitment is his growth.

Posted by: the female is always the aggressor - my history professor from college at July 14, 2026 04:06 PM (anL5R)

384 Only a woman who is mentally ill would have her breasts amputated

Ellen Page is striving to be her version of normal. But she will never have a normal life. She will never have a sex life.

The regrets will come, and they will be unbearable.

Posted by: Don Black at July 14, 2026 04:06 PM (ZxPkt)

385 There is a non-zero change that she actually writes that. I don't see a long life for her. Drug OD or suicide, most likely.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 14, 2026 04:05 PM (iFTx/)

Well switch or no switch the suicide rate is about 50 50.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 14, 2026 04:06 PM (uhVAy)

386 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 14, 2026 04:03 PM (GKzf

I give that review a 1 out of 4 stars.

Posted by: polynikes at July 14, 2026 04:06 PM (/WQyy)

387 386 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 14, 2026 04:03 PM (GKzf

I give that review a 1 out of 4 stars.

Posted by: polynikes at July 14, 2026 04:06 PM (/WQyy)

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Well, I am an illiterate asshole.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 14, 2026 04:07 PM (GKzf4)

388 20 years into the future or even 10, poor Ellen is gonna face a reckoning.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 14, 2026 04:07 PM (n5tGW)

389 God made parts that fit and do a thing. You have to come to terms with that.

Posted by: ... at July 14, 2026 04:07 PM (Qr870)

390 Summer Rental is yet another movie I never saw.
I get a lot of recommendations from this place

Posted by: gKWVE at July 14, 2026 04:07 PM (gKWVE)

391
In the wild when the females of a pride take up with a new alpha Chad male, the new male kills all the cubs from the previous male.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at July 14, 2026 03:59 PM (/WHpM)
______

That would be a helluva "land acknowledgment"-type declaration ....
Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 14, 2026 04:03 PM (iFTx/)

And what happens after the cubs are all murdered? Every female in the herd/pride/pack goes into heat. Tell me that this has nothing to do with chicks digging the bad boys, turning nice guys into incels.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 14, 2026 04:07 PM (dv49b)

392 For Candy movies, I prefer Planes, Trains and Automobiles or maybe Delirious (although that's perhaps more about the meta).

Posted by: Axeman at July 14, 2026 04:07 PM (Fi81e)

393 Yea, in all those interviews where she's claiming she's happier now, she looks fucking miserable, and usually like she's stoned out on something. It's a hostage video.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at July 14, 2026 04:00 PM (iFTx/)

Indeed. There is nothing about her body language, tone of voice, affect, facial expression, cadence of speech or eye contact that suggests she is at all "comfortable" with herself, let alone happy. She looks and sounds like someone at rock bottom.

Posted by: Everything about her screams despair at July 14, 2026 04:07 PM (TbWk/)

394 Was Lebowski a fuckup?

I tend to think so based solely on the amount of White Russians consumed.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 14, 2026 04:07 PM (6ydKt)

395 I do enjoy the willful conflation of "gender roles" with sex.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 14, 2026 04:07 PM (Ot/FD)

396 Loyal servant to the true emperor Marcus Aurelius
Not as great a movie as people say but that's a great scene by any standard

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 14, 2026 04:08 PM (m2wmY)

397 394 Was Lebowski a fuckup?

I tend to think so based solely on the amount of White Russians consumed.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 14, 2026 04:07 PM (6ydKt)

======

That's just, like, your opinion, man.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 14, 2026 04:08 PM (GKzf4)

398 I have seen Denzel Washington play and Italian Duke. I don't care. I just want good performances.

But that's not what you get with DEI stuntcasting, which Denzel does not need, because King Kong ain't got shit on him.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 14, 2026 04:08 PM (nTGnD)

399 Also: Espana 1, Le Francais 0 at halftime

Posted by: Don Black at July 14, 2026 04:08 PM (ZxPkt)

400 365 >"In terms of looking at nature as if it's some sort of cis hetero patriarchal structure is absurd, and that this, you know, gender binary that we've created is nothing but a quaint little myth," Page said.
----

Genuine Internet Gibberish
Posted by: Don Black at July 14, 2026 04:04 PM (ZxPkt)

This is what it sounds like when mentally ill gender radicals burrow deep into the psychiatric profession.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at July 14, 2026 04:08 PM (/WHpM)

401 398 I have seen Denzel Washington play and Italian Duke. I don't care. I just want good performances.

But that's not what you get with DEI stuntcasting, which Denzel does not need, because King Kong ain't got shit on him.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 14, 2026 04:08 PM (nTGnD)

=======

He and Antoine Fuqua (director of Training Day) were developing a movie about Hannibal with Netflix, but Netflix pulled the plug because of the cost of the film (over $200 million).

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 14, 2026 04:09 PM (GKzf4)

402 @397 Shut the fuck up Donnie

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 14, 2026 04:09 PM (m2wmY)

403 389 God made parts that fit and do a thing. You have to come to terms with that.
Posted by: ... at July 14, 2026 04:07 PM (Qr870)

*slowly pulls finger out of nostril*

... shut up.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 14, 2026 04:09 PM (Ot/FD)

404 this "interpretation" of Homer's Odyssey was meant to appeal to a very small set of cinephile elitists

So, Prometheus promoters?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 14, 2026 04:09 PM (0sNs1)

405 Lebowski is The Dude. He just abides. Walter Sobchak is the fuck up.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 14, 2026 04:09 PM (nTGnD)

406 Summer Rental is another favorite John Candy movie. It also has the added benefit of showing boobs.
==
The boobs were good. Candy's movie wife was also way too hot for him.

Richard Crenna as the villain was great. Helped round out the movie.

Definitely a fun summer movie.

Posted by: the female is always the aggressor - my history professor from college at July 14, 2026 04:09 PM (anL5R)

407 19 Ellen.... May I ask where you came from ?

... I believe she sprung full grown from Zeus, much like Athena

Posted by: SMOD at July 14, 2026 04:09 PM (RHGPo)

408 Not every kid gets a chance to join Little Lebowski Urban Achievers

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 14, 2026 04:09 PM (n5tGW)

409 Ok, I looked up this elliot page person. They seriously cast this little turd as a greek warrior? She should have stayed a chick and maybe..maybe been believable as a minor xena, but noooo, gotta go with the eunuch look. Hollywood needs to be nuked from orbit.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 14, 2026 04:09 PM (S41Gd)

410 402 @397 Shut the fuck up Donnie
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 14, 2026 04:09 PM (m2wmY)

He's like a child who walks in to the middle of a movie and demands to be told what's going on.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 14, 2026 04:10 PM (Ot/FD)

411
I need the dramatics of the film to sell me that he's a fuck up that needs to grow up.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison

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He didn't take care of his human connections. He barely knew his brother's family, he neglected his girlfriend's needs. He turned around when he realized how vulnerable people are, like his hostile niece. He needs to take care of his human connections -- that's his change for the better.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 14, 2026 04:10 PM (mmrXZ)

412 Posted by: gKWVE at July 14, 2026 04:00 PM (gKWVE)

O.K. Thanks .I read the "Little House " books
ages ago and saw the original series but I don't recall the "free love" aspect of it.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 14, 2026 04:10 PM (D+BhG)

413 409 Ok, I looked up this elliot page person. They seriously cast this little turd as a greek warrior? She should have stayed a chick and maybe..maybe been believable as a minor xena, but noooo, gotta go with the eunuch look. Hollywood needs to be nuked from orbit.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 14, 2026 04:09 PM (S41Gd)

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I suspect Nolan gave her a small role out of pity. He would never phrase it that way, but I suspect that's the underlying reasoning.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 14, 2026 04:10 PM (GKzf4)

414 I mean it would have been funnier if "Elliot" Page played Juno...

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 14, 2026 04:10 PM (Ot/FD)

415 In the wild when the females of a pride take up with a new alpha Chad male, the new male kills all the cubs from the previous male.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at July 14, 2026 03:59 PM (/WHpM)

Interestingly enough this happens in the human world all too often with mommy's new boyfriend or mommy herself, once mommy kicks out daddy and brings her whoring around home with her

Posted by: Still just animals at July 14, 2026 04:10 PM (TbWk/)

416 Posted by: the female is always the aggressor - my history professor from college at July 14, 2026 04:09 PM (anL5R)

I thought Rip Torn was great.

Posted by: polynikes at July 14, 2026 04:11 PM (/WQyy)

417 Walter Sobchak is the fuck up.

well, he was in Nam, man.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 14, 2026 04:11 PM (n5tGW)

418 "In terms of looking at nature as if it's some sort of cis hetero patriarchal structure is absurd, and that this, you know, gender binary that we've created is nothing but a quaint little myth," Page said.
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Genuine Internet Gibberish
Posted by: Don Black at July 14, 2026 04:04 PM (ZxPkt)
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It is human to structure (subdue) nature to our ends.

Go shit in the woods if you want the leading of nature. Leave our huts and frolic in Nature's bounty.

Nature does not take structured images and put them on celluloid or magnetic tapes, either. Guess you'd have no reason to be prominent or anything more than the village idiot.

Posted by: Axeman at July 14, 2026 04:11 PM (Fi81e)

419 409 Ok, I looked up this elliot page person. They seriously cast this little turd as a greek warrior? She should have stayed a chick and maybe..maybe been believable as a minor xena, but noooo, gotta go with the eunuch look. Hollywood needs to be nuked from orbit.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 14, 2026 04:09 PM (S41Gd)

Loved that video of her hopping down the stairs like a little girl being trailed by the 6 foot 6 bodyguard super good-looking hollywood prototype. But Elliot was perfect for the role of sinon.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at July 14, 2026 04:12 PM (/WHpM)

420 In terms of looking at nature as if it's some sort of cis hetero patriarchal structure is absurd, and that this, you know, gender binary that we've created is nothing but a quaint little myth,"
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Whenever a sexually confused, professional pretender calls something about society absurd and or a quaint myth, I know the opposite is true. That the absurdity came from the mouth of the confused pretender who is the one attempting to live out a myth.

Posted by: Rule of thumb at July 14, 2026 04:12 PM (anL5R)

421 Candy was good in Only the Lonely which doesn’t get enough love.

But Ps,Ts,and As is the one I remember the most, probably because I’ve seen it about 50 times over the years.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 14, 2026 04:12 PM (6ydKt)

422 Walter Sobchak is the fuck up.

well, he was in Nam, man.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 14, 2026 04:11 PM (n5tGW)
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Shut up, Donny!

Posted by: Axeman at July 14, 2026 04:12 PM (Fi81e)

423 402 @397 Shut the fuck up Donnie
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 14, 2026 04:09 PM (m2wmY)

He's like a child who walks in to the middle of a movie and demands to be told what's going on.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 14, 2026 04:10 PM (Ot/FD)

The world does not start and stop at your convenience, Donny!

Posted by: Walter Sobchak at July 14, 2026 04:12 PM (TbWk/)

424 388 20 years into the future or even 10, poor Ellen is gonna face a reckoning.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 14, 2026 04:07 PM (n5tGW)

Judging by her demeanor, I'd say she has about two years left. Cutting off your ability to have meaningful sex will do that to a person.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 14, 2026 04:12 PM (bl07w)

425 414 I mean it would have been funnier if "Elliot" Page played Juno...

Ha! Woman whose breakout role is literally a PREGNANT GIRL denies the existence of gender.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at July 14, 2026 04:12 PM (K40fF)

426
But that's not what you get with DEI stuntcasting, which Denzel does not need, because King Kong ain't got shit on him.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 14, 2026 04:08 PM (nTGnD)

My man.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 14, 2026 04:12 PM (dv49b)

427 I suspect Nolan gave her a small role out of pity. He would never phrase it that way, but I suspect that's the underlying reasoning.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 14, 2026 04:10 PM (GKzf4)

Plus he needs to follow the rules for Oscar noms.

Posted by: Oldcat at July 14, 2026 04:12 PM (uhVAy)

428 That's just, like, your opinion, man.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 14, 2026 04:08 PM

To be fair, "Yeah, well, you know that's just like, uh, your opinion man" is The Dude's actual quotation.

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at July 14, 2026 04:12 PM (0sNs1)

429 Shut up, Donny!
Posted by: Axeman at July 14, 2026 04:12 PM (Fi81e)

Fuck it, let's bowl.

Posted by: tcn in AK at July 14, 2026 04:13 PM (bl07w)

430

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at July 14, 2026 04:13 PM (0sNs1)

431 428 That's just, like, your opinion, man.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 14, 2026 04:08 PM

To be fair, "Yeah, well, you know that's just like, uh, your opinion man" is The Dude's actual quotation.

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at July 14, 2026 04:12 PM (0sNs1)

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Shut up, Wesley!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 14, 2026 04:13 PM (GKzf4)

432 402 @397 Shut the fuck up Donnie
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 14, 2026 04:09 PM (m2wmY)

He's like a child who walks in to the middle of a movie and demands to be told what's going on.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 14, 2026 04:10 PM (Ot/FD)

Substitute wife or girlfriend for the person and Kelly's Heroes or The Guns of Navarone for the movie and it still works.

Posted by: Priapus at July 14, 2026 04:13 PM (wVcYX)

433 State workers have completed their first full work week since California Gov. Gavin Newsom ordered them to return to the office four days a week starting July 1 — and in addition to parking complaints, workers now claim they’re being forced to work in disease-plagued state offices.

Workers’ union Service Employees International Union Local 1000 claimed recently that “unsafe, or potentially unsafe working conditions” have been reported at government buildings, specifically at the Department of Industrial Relations Building in Lodi.

The union said Legionella bacteria was detected in the building last month, contaminating a line that connects to an icemaker.

Posted by: SMOD at July 14, 2026 04:13 PM (RHGPo)

434 I don't want to sound smug but I had got my tickets to not see "The Odyssey" when I got the matching set for "Interstellar" and "Oppenheimer."

Nolan bores me to tears.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at July 14, 2026 04:13 PM (K40fF)

435 432 402 @397 Shut the fuck up Donnie
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 14, 2026 04:09 PM (m2wmY)

He's like a child who walks in to the middle of a movie and demands to be told what's going on.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 14, 2026 04:10 PM (Ot/FD)

Substitute wife or girlfriend for the person and Kelly's Heroes or The Guns of Navarone for the movie and it still works.

Posted by: Priapus at July 14, 2026 04:13 PM (wVcYX)

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I was actually doing this last night to Dolley because I decided to start watching House of Dragons with her, but I haven't seen anything since episode 3 of the first season. And it's episode 4 of season 3 we're watching.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 14, 2026 04:14 PM (GKzf4)

436 Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett says her son,12, asked why she had a bulletproof vest after Dobbs leak

Posted by: SMOD at July 14, 2026 04:14 PM (RHGPo)

437 Her reckoning is already here. She sees it every day.

Posted by: ... at July 14, 2026 04:14 PM (Qr870)

438 What about the Waltons?

Posted by: wth at July 14, 2026 04:14 PM (UjdFS)

439 The union said Legionella bacteria was detected in the building last month, contaminating a line that connects to an icemaker.
Posted by: SMOD at July 14, 2026 04:13 PM (RHGPo)

Well a few years back it was Typhus, so they are improving!

Posted by: Oldcat at July 14, 2026 04:14 PM (uhVAy)

440 Posted by: the female is always the aggressor - my history professor from college at July 14, 2026 04:09 PM (anL5R)

I thought Rip Torn was great.
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Yeah, he almost always is. I'd watch a movie or TV show just for him being in it.

Posted by: Rule of thumb at July 14, 2026 04:14 PM (anL5R)

441 Nood. ICE.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 14, 2026 04:15 PM (ExV1e)

442 You don't get to pretend it's interesting that a woman is pretending to be a man and playing a male role and yet also pretend it's not interesting that a totally a man you guys is playing a male role.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 14, 2026 04:15 PM (Ot/FD)

443 428 That's just, like, your opinion, man.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 14, 2026 04:08 PM

To be fair, "Yeah, well, you know that's just like, uh, your opinion man" is The Dude's actual quotation.

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at July 14, 2026 04:12 PM (0sNs1)

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Shut up, Wesley!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, discovering British horror with Hammer Films at July 14, 2026 04:13 PM (GKzf4)

You see what happens? You see what happens when you fuck a stranger in the ass?!

Posted by: Or find one in the Alps at July 14, 2026 04:15 PM (TbWk/)

444 Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett says her son,12, asked why she had a bulletproof vest after Dobbs leak
Posted by: SMOD at July 14, 2026 04:14 PM (RHGPo)

Did they embrace and start crying too?

Posted by: Oldcat at July 14, 2026 04:15 PM (uhVAy)

445 The Mossad's Farsi-language account on X took a shot at some of Iran's most senior officials on Wednesday, speculating that they may all be Israeli agents, following a report about contacts between former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the Israeli spy agency.

The image posted by the Mossad depicts several senior Iranian political figures, including Speaker of the Parliament Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, President Masoud Pezeshkian, and Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi, as well as former President Ahmadinejad (Imadinnerjacket).

Posted by: SMOD at July 14, 2026 04:15 PM (RHGPo)

446 Release the pedants!
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To be fair, "Yeah, well, you know that's just like, uh, your opinion man" is The Dude's actual quotation.

Posted by: Don Black at July 14, 2026 04:16 PM (ZxPkt)

447 I laugh at the investors in this movie that allowed the mental freak to be hired in the first place. They could have said no. Instead, their political correctness destroyed their investment.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at July 14, 2026 04:16 PM (Uvvcx)

448 412 Posted by: gKWVE at July 14, 2026 04:00 PM (gKWVE)

O.K. Thanks .I read the "Little House " books
ages ago and saw the original series but I don't recall the "free love" aspect of it.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 14, 2026 04:10 PM (D+BhG)Simon.

Sort of on topic related to modernism in history shows. Watching the show Victoria, about the queen. Two obviously gay aristocrats were spied on by a young and homely girl. She says, "i saw the two of you playing bagpipes the other day. Perhaps we could go out to the forrest and you could teach me?"

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at July 14, 2026 04:16 PM (/WHpM)

449 > Kelly's Heroes

This would actually be a decent, though not conclusive, test as to whether a woman "is a man inside".

Put 'em in an environment where Kelly's Heroes comes at random points in the movie.

If the "trans man" stops to watch it, that's positive evidence, though it should be confirmed with The Three Stooges, Ultimate Fighting Championship, tractor pull competitions, etc.

Posted by: Peter Sellers at July 14, 2026 04:18 PM (IG3/x)

450 307 I have seen Denzel Washington play and Italian Duke. I don't care. I just want good performances. Roscoe Lee Brown did Shakespeare too and I don't think it was Othello.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at July 14, 2026 03:53 PM (qFwJc)

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Not me....I want a female Dr. Who ....make her black, a lesbian and lame.

However, there are exceptions. Female Starbuck on Battlestar Galactica seemed to work, female M in the Bond series seemed to work; Ripley in the Alien movie series was written for a man, but worked with Sigourney.

Posted by: Orson at July 14, 2026 04:18 PM (dIske)

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