Disney Buys Fox Movie and TV Entertainment Properties for $52 Billion in Stock

BREAKING: Walt Disney Company to acquire 21st Century Fox, including the Twentieth Century Fox Film and Television studios, along with cable and int’l TV businesses, for approx. $52.4 billion in stock. pic.twitter.com/IgvuUSVR1P
— Good Morning America (@GMA) December 14, 2017

I think the actual Fox broadcast network (as opposed to its content-producing studios) will remain part of Fox, as there are rules against the same company owning two tv broadcasters in the same market. FoxNews will remain with Fox, too, as will FoxSports.

But that report says that Fox's other cable channels, FX, FXX, and NatGeo (which I didn't know Fox owned) will be going to Disney.

So Always Sunny will now be a Disney product. And Archer.

I had previously read that the Murdoch sons wanted some high-ranking positions in Disney, should the deal go through -- but I don't hear anything about that.

Will they just be major shareholders? And if so, does that trip additional anti-trust concerns? Fox and Disney might not formally own together both ABC TV and Fox TV, but if the Murdoch family owns all that stock in Disney plus the Fox broadcast TV business, is that an anti-trust concern? Will they have to sell of their shares to avoid anti-trust concerns?

I dunno.

Ed Morrissey talks about possible anti-trust action. Even though the deal is structured to avoid the red flags of a merger, this still reduces the Big Six of movie studios down to a Big Five. And one of the "Big Five" isn't big at all -- Paramount is often called the "minnow" of the Big Six (now five).

And will Paramount remain its own studio? They took a $500 million loss a year ago which they're still writing down. One can imagine Paramount wishing to merge with or be bought by some other studio.

What would the anti-trust concern be? Well, Disney is already imposing some tough conditions on exhibitors (theaters) -- for example, demanding that a Star Wars film has to be shown on a theater's biggest screen for at least four weeks. True, theaters don't have to take that deal, but that means they'd not be showing the biggest film in the country in a week in which most other studios do not release films (to stay out of the way of Star Wars).

Disney already has a lot of power here. Now that they'll be about half of the remaining Big Five (or Big Four and a Half), they can impose those kind of conditions more frequently for more of their franchises.

And franchises they will have. Disney already had Star Wars, the Disney kids' brand, Pixar stuff, and the Marvel Cinematic Universe; now they'll be adding the two parts of the comic book Marvel universe that Fox had, the Fantastic Four and the jewel of the crown, the X-Men franchise(s).

The rights to Spider-man are still owned by Sony/Columbia, though they've worked out a deal by which Marvel Studios produce Spider-man movies while giving a lot (or all) of the theatrical profits to Sony. But Sony could end that deal when it likes.*

And Universal actually owns The Hulk, but Universal routinely licenses that to Marvel Studios.

I suppose they could do their own Hulk movie, but... eh, they tried that (the Ang Lee ) film and it didn't make a lot of money. Even the Marvel licensed version didn't make a big amount of money.

Meanwhile, this gives Disney even more of a library for its own coming streaming service which will compete with Netflix. Now armed with all of Disney's library plus all of Fox's library, plus whatever films they license from other studios, they just might bump Netflix down to number two in this market.

On the other hand, I do think maybe Disney bought high, just as they did when they bought out LucasFilm. I think we're past peak Star Wars and peak Marvel. This stuff will continue to make money, but I have to imagine at some point the value of these properties will begin to decay. Just as the value of ESPN has decayed.

I think we're in an entertainment bubble. There's a feeding frenzy to buy content creation companies or invent them. But there is an upper limit to how much TV (including movies on TV) people are actually capable of watching.

Bob Iger, often rumored to be running as an unpologetic Social Justice Warrior presidential candidate in 2020, is said to have his hands too full to do that now, but is he? Half of this shit runs on autopilot (Kevin Feige needs little oversight) and he'll be able to claim, "I make great deals."

* Sony's also threatening -- I don't know how seriously to take this -- to make a series of movies with minor characters that they have the rights to through the Spider-man deal, which will not feature Spider-man (he being on loan to Marvel). So there's claims there'll be a Spider-man-free Venom movie, and a Spider-man-free Silver Sable and Black Cat team-up. I just don't believe the latter at all, and I barely believe the former.

PS, Marvel comics has for some time been imposing a strike against the X-Men and Fantastic Four, in a calculated bid to make those properties less valuable and hence more likely to be sold back to Marvel Studios for exploitation. The Fantastic Four's book got cancelled, and I hear that the X-Men stuff is all recycling old villains and old plots, because Marvel comics doesn't want to create any new characters or new ideas -- any new stuff they debuted in X-Men would go right to Fox, due to the rights deal Fox had for all stuff originating in X-Men comics.

Thus the thread of doing the Dark Phoenix storyline in the next X-Men film... again.

Guys, we get it. Enough of the Dark Phoenix.

So, on the comics side, for anyone who cares (and based on sales numbers -- no one cares), at least Marvel comics might re-start the Fantastic Four comic and do some X-Men stories that aren't just The Gang Recycles Their Trash.

Posted by: Ace at 03:28 PM

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1 1st?

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at December 14, 2017 03:25 PM (+Dllb)

2 Any truth to the rumour that Chuck Schumer is giving up his seat to become a full time rabbi ?

Posted by: undocumented illegal SMOD at December 14, 2017 03:26 PM (e8kgV)

3 More new movies I won't watch, yay

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at December 14, 2017 03:26 PM (6Ll1u)

4 I'm sorry guys, but I'm going to see Star Wars in about 4 hours. I bought the tickets like 3 months ago.

I've got a problem, and I'd love to boycott the Mouse, but when it comes to Star Wars, Disney has me by the balls and they know it.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at December 14, 2017 03:26 PM (KUaJL)

5 hard to believe Disney almost went under in the 70's

Posted by: Toddler Don Jr. at December 14, 2017 03:27 PM (nFwvY)

6 >>>>> I think we're past peak Star Wars and peak Marvel.
.
.
.We are way past peak Marvel, unless they can get another 3 or 4 Iron man movies into the can with Robert Downey, Jr.

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at December 14, 2017 03:27 PM (+Dllb)

7 Introducing the newest character, R2Dmouse...

Posted by: Anon a mouse at December 14, 2017 03:27 PM (MINbv)

8 Three words: Victor Von Doom.

*mic drop*

Posted by: Max Power at December 14, 2017 03:28 PM (q177U)

9 I'm sorry guys, but I'm going to see Star Wars in about 4 hours"

Just remember Jar Jar...

Posted by: Anon a mouse at December 14, 2017 03:28 PM (MINbv)

10 Just remember Jar Jar...
Posted by: Anon a mouse at December 14, 2017 03:28 PM (MINbv)

I've been trying to forget for 10 years.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at December 14, 2017 03:30 PM (KUaJL)

11 It's curious why they don't simply roll all the studios up into their parent entity, The DMD (Democrat Media Division).

It would be less confusing, and with fewer people masturbating in front of unsuspecting women.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 14, 2017 03:31 PM (VpIIl)

12 Meanwhile, this gives Disney even more of a library for its own coming streaming service which will compete with Netflix. Now armed with all of Disney's library plus all of Fox's library, plus whatever films they license from other studios, they just might bump Netflix down to number two in this market.

Compete all you want.

F Disney.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 14, 2017 03:31 PM (lmYrx)

13 I don't watch cable TV often but usually when I do I wind up on NatGeo or NatGeo Wild.

It will be sad to see Disney destroy those channels, too.

Posted by: filbert at December 14, 2017 03:31 PM (s5o+q)

14 Should Disney have to sell ABC?

Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 14, 2017 03:32 PM (QQ+il)

15 Introducing the newest character, R2Dmouse...
Posted by: Anon a mouse

Jar JarGoofy

Posted by: rickb223 at December 14, 2017 03:32 PM (lmYrx)

16 Just think, a while back they could have added Newsweek for a buck.

I guess this merger means something to people who watch TV. What is the significance?

Posted by: Meremortal at December 14, 2017 03:33 PM (3myMJ)

17 Reposted Willowed LOLCAT fights Mouse takeover

Cookbook sales bring new traffic to AoSHQ

http://cheezburger.com/9103621888

Noob skips longbow vs. crossbow debate - goes straight for Seszzzions joke.

http://cheezburger.com/9103634688

Posted by: DaveA at December 14, 2017 03:33 PM (FhXTo)

18 Disney is the Rodale Press of television.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 14, 2017 03:33 PM (QQ+il)

19 Will any of this affect on-line streaming porn?

Asking for a friend.

Posted by: Roy at December 14, 2017 03:33 PM (7n4KQ)

20 OMG I work with a millennial who thinks the prequels are good.

SMDH

Posted by: blaster at December 14, 2017 03:33 PM (WonQS)

21 Really, NatGeo was one of the better channels. C'est La Vie.

Will we now get "Combat Rescue: The Gay Blades"?

Posted by: Marcus T at December 14, 2017 03:33 PM (VpIIl)

22 What bothers me about this is that the government is super careful to prevent all sorts of mergers and concentration of control over one sector of the economy or another. If two steel companies are going to merge, lots of congressional hearings take place, news articles are written.

But nearly all the entertainment, toy, snack food, and television stations in the nation are controlled by 3 mega corporations now. And Disney just ate one.

Disney is talking about yanking all their properties off Netflix now, for their own Disney-only channel. I don't think anybody wins from that.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 14, 2017 03:33 PM (39g3+)

23 We may have reach Marvel's peak but there is no way we are past it. Avengers 3 and 4 which are coming back to back in 2018 and 2019 will be the biggest comic book movie event in all of human history. Featuring all of Marvels characters together, side by side in both films (including the Guardians of the Galaxy). They will make gobs of money. But certainly this may signal the beginning of the end. Marvel is planning on killing off more than one main character, and future franchises might not finds lead actors as compelling as these ones.

Posted by: Max Power at December 14, 2017 03:34 PM (q177U)

24 It's all fun and games until Mickey is accused of wanking it in front of the Mouseketeers.

Posted by: wth at December 14, 2017 03:34 PM (HgMAr)

25 I'd love to be able to buy the Star Wars rights. It'd be nothing but Jar Jar movies from here on out. Hell, I'd reedit the iriginal three to give Jar Jar ample screen time.

Posted by: Hater at December 14, 2017 03:34 PM (UubSE)

26 Disney already has a lot of power here. Now that they'll be about half of the remaining Big Five (or Big Four and a Half), they can impose those kind of conditions more frequently for more of their franchises.

Sounds like we need movie neutrality.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 14, 2017 03:34 PM (KYzKs)

27 I don't watch cable. We do Netflix, and now we are considering Amazon streaming, however in hell we set that mess up. Either way, I couldn't stand to watch another commercial for the rest of my days.

When do people find the time to watch all that crap on TV, anyway? I guess I have a hectic life or something.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 14, 2017 03:34 PM (7UW64)

28 Years ago in my Salad Days Disney and ABC were in bed together anyway. They got into a big fight though over who owned the rights to Zorro the TV series which is why that show was cancelled half-way through the second season. I guess they have kissed and made up now.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at December 14, 2017 03:34 PM (mpXpK)

29 Cryogenically speaking, Walt Disney's continues to be a head of the competition.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at December 14, 2017 03:34 PM (ATVNj)

30 "Bob Iger, often rumored to be running as an unpologetic Social Justice Warrior presidential candidate in 2020, is said to have his hands too full to do that now, but is he?"

Let the Democrats crank up the "War on Women" and we'll see if he has any time for any thing other than damage control.

Posted by: *Mikey NTH - Sleigh Your Friends with the Holiday Delights from the Outrage Outlet! at December 14, 2017 03:34 PM (hLRSq)

31 they bought it for stock? WTH?

Murdock got screwed, unless he's planning on dumping that stock pretty quick.

Posted by: simplemind at December 14, 2017 03:34 PM (0p0jX)

32 Did they get Kaboom cereal in the deal?

Posted by: Dr Spank at December 14, 2017 03:34 PM (4e+hS)

33 But nearly all the entertainment, toy, snack food, and television stations in the nation are controlled by 3 mega corporations now. And Disney just ate one.

Relax, and go grab yourself a cold Bud.

Posted by: Roy at December 14, 2017 03:34 PM (7n4KQ)

34 This is a good thing.

Less for me to watch.

Posted by: WitchDoktor, AKA VA GOP Sucks at December 14, 2017 03:34 PM (tVWQB)

35 20 OMG I work with a millennial who thinks the prequels are good.

SMDH
Posted by: blaster at December 14, 2017 03:33 PM (WonQS)

Has anyone shown these people 'good' movies? Maybe they just do not have their 'taste' receptors fully developed yet.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 14, 2017 03:35 PM (ycWCI)

36 24 It's all fun and games until Mickey is accused of wanking it in front of the Mouseketeers.

Posted by: wth at December 14, 2017 03:34 PM (HgMAr)

Now you know the secret magic of the Magic Kingdom.

Just don't go out behind the haunted mansion when Mickey is around.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 14, 2017 03:35 PM (7UW64)

37 Sounds like we need movie neutrality.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 14, 2017 03:34 PM (KYzKs)

Entertainment Neutrality.

(and watch the SJW's get triggered by THAT.)

Posted by: filbert at December 14, 2017 03:35 PM (s5o+q)

38 This stuff will continue to make money, but I have to imagine at some point the value of these properties will begin to decay.

=

agree

Posted by: runner at December 14, 2017 03:35 PM (QC/4S)

39 They can now re-cast Treasure Island into a pedo film.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at December 14, 2017 03:35 PM (7ZVPa)

40 I work with a millennial who thinks the prequels are good.

The younger someone is, the more likely it is they like the prequels. They were great to little kids.

I guess this merger means something to people who watch TV. What is the significance?

Fox puts out more than TV shows. They also do tons of movies and own some pretty significant franchises.

Like X-Men and Fantastic Four, which would be nice to see done better by Marvel Studios (owned by Disney)

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 14, 2017 03:35 PM (39g3+)

41 I am stealing this but I think it's funny so reappropriating to me it is.

Disney bought 20th Century Fox. 20th Century Fox owns the Aliens franchise. The Xenomorphs have a queen. That means that the female Xenomorphs are now Disney princesses.

Also since this got willowed:

Official White House Christmas portrait.

http://bit.ly/2C8Kn0S

Melania is so pretty.

Posted by: alexthechick - Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at December 14, 2017 03:35 PM (mf5HN)

42 This is an obvious attack on the LGBTQ community, and must not be allowed!

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 14, 2017 03:36 PM (KYzKs)

43 >>It's all fun and games until Mickey is accused of wanking it in front of the Mouseketeers.

Apparently you've never watched the shows on Disney-owned ABC Family/Fusion channel. It's all tween/teen dysfunction and 100% on board with normalizing the latest SJW fad.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 14, 2017 03:36 PM (W+vEI)

44 just more recycled, commie generated shit i won't watch anyway. fuck disney with the barbed cock of satan. for eternity.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at December 14, 2017 03:36 PM (KP5rU)

45 It's Always Sunny is nearing an end IMHO. I think the next season will be the last or 2nd to last with Dee and Dennis having other gigs.

Disney will destroy Archer.

And Marvel's shit is way over rated outside of the a couple of films. They are not rewatchable and borderline unwatchable.

Posted by: Monk at December 14, 2017 03:36 PM (g4lFK)

46 20 OMG I work with a millennial who thinks the prequels are good.

SMDH
Posted by: blaster at December 14, 2017 03:33 PM (WonQS)

When I was a child, I spoke and thought and reasoned as a child. But when I grew up, I put away childish things.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at December 14, 2017 03:36 PM (KUaJL)

47 That means that the female Xenomorphs are now Disney princesses.

Oh, so THAT'S where they get the queens who run Disney.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 14, 2017 03:36 PM (KYzKs)

48 "Melania is so pretty.

Posted by: alexthechick - Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at December 14, 2017 03:35 PM (mf5HN)"
I believe the word you are searching for is "delicious".

Posted by: Marcus T at December 14, 2017 03:37 PM (VpIIl)

49 12
Meanwhile, this gives Disney even more of a library for its own coming
streaming service which will compete with Netflix. Now armed with all of
Disney's library plus all of Fox's library, plus whatever films they
license from other studios, they just might bump Netflix down to number
two in this market.

Compete all you want.

F Disney.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 14, 2017 03:31 PM (lmYrx)

Disney/ABC already owned Hulu which is better than Netflix which my wife got.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at December 14, 2017 03:37 PM (mpXpK)

50
39 They can now re-cast Treasure Island into a pedo film.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at December 14, 2017 03:35 PM (7ZVPa)

Rum, sodomy and the lash.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 14, 2017 03:37 PM (7UW64)

51 I cut the cord about 2 years ago, and haven't watched Fox News since then. I wasn't watching it much before then, in any case. I'll scan their website, probably once a day, but that's it.

There's not a lot of news out there anymore. Everyone is a "commentator" and use that to defend why they aren't unbiased. Think about it: Fox puts out about as much on-air news time as ABC or CBS. An hour in the evening, plus updates through the day. OK, so they have a "ticker." So what?

Prior to the evening news? "The Five," which isn't news. Then we have the things from 7:00PM, all of which aren't news. CNN is this times two. They are NEVER not spinning.

So the "news" networks are generally a waste of time. If I want opinion, and I do, I come here.

As for Fox's other assets, I could care less.

Posted by: RobM1981 at December 14, 2017 03:37 PM (VVBN7)

52 We now return you to "Mickey's Meth Lab" on Disney Kids.

Posted by: *Mikey NTH - Sleigh Your Friends with the Holiday Delights from the Outrage Outlet! at December 14, 2017 03:37 PM (hLRSq)

53 The Avengers franchise is rotten garbage.

Posted by: Dr Spank at December 14, 2017 03:37 PM (4e+hS)

54 31 they bought it for stock? WTH?

Murdock got screwed, unless he's planning on dumping that stock pretty quick.
Posted by: simplemind at December 14, 2017 03:34 PM (0p0jX)

My thought exactly. I'd start dumping that stock tomorrow.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 14, 2017 03:38 PM (KYzKs)

55 52 We now return you to "Minnie's guide to Anal Sex" on Disney Kids.
Posted by: *Mikey NTH - Sleigh Your Friends with the Holiday Delights from the Outrage Outlet! at December 14, 2017 03:37 PM (hLRSq)

FIFY

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at December 14, 2017 03:38 PM (KUaJL)

56 My grandpa was a general contractor on the original Disneyland, we got free passes until I was six. I worked on four different projects for my company in California Disney. Got a couple free passes out of it.

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at December 14, 2017 03:38 PM (6Ll1u)

57 http://www.harlanellison.com/iwrite/mostimp.htm

#3

At Disney, nobody fucks with The Mouse.

Posted by: DaveA at December 14, 2017 03:38 PM (FhXTo)

58 Did they get Kaboom cereal in the deal?
Posted by: Dr Spank

If ANYTHING deserves to be brought back, it's that!

Posted by: rickb223 at December 14, 2017 03:38 PM (lmYrx)

59 Perhaps the Murdoch boys will end up like Ted Turner's sons.

Out of a job.

Posted by: JAS at December 14, 2017 03:39 PM (7JbXq)

60
Did Fox throw in Joe Buck? You know, to sweeten the deal?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 14, 2017 03:39 PM (KDGGM)

61 Iron Man, also rotten garbage.

Posted by: Dr Spank at December 14, 2017 03:39 PM (4e+hS)

62 And Marvel's shit is way over rated outside of the a couple of films. They are not rewatchable and borderline unwatchable.

Posted by: Monk at December 14, 2017 03:36 PM (g4lFK)

You failed to account for the pre-teen crowd, who loves these movies with amazing ardor.

My son has wall stickers of them, for heaven's sake, and can't wait to see them in 3D when they come out.

So, guess who has to take him, to the tune of $12 apiece?

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 14, 2017 03:39 PM (7UW64)

63 Oops, it's Freeform" that is the old ABC Family channel. Not family-friendly programming.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 14, 2017 03:39 PM (W+vEI)

64 willowed from canary trap thread:

Has anyone mentioned CTH's theory--Sessions spoke of forming a "special unit" to deal with leaks a la Clinton, etc, and we haven't heard anything since. If a government entity is providing the false info to potential leakers, that changes things

Posted by: artemis at December 14, 2017 03:39 PM (AwPyG)

65 just more recycled, commie generated shit i won't watch anyway. fuck disney with the barbed cock of satan. for eternity.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at December 14, 2017 03:36 PM (KP5rU)
...........

Word.

Posted by: 3 year old Don Jr. at December 14, 2017 03:39 PM (HgMAr)

66 "OMG I work with a millennial who thinks the prequels are good.
"

I work with a millennial who believes he will be CEO in two years.

I told him to get ready for one thing. The sound of his body being thrown down the fire-stairs.

Either that, or memorizing simple phrases like "would you like fries with that?".

Posted by: Marcus T at December 14, 2017 03:39 PM (VpIIl)

67 moar disney rides in disney parks

Posted by: runner at December 14, 2017 03:40 PM (QC/4S)

68 >>>Three words: Victor Von Doom.

Yeah, I've seen people speculate that the most valuable part of the Fantastic Four rights package is the villains, Doom and Galactus, because Marvel villains generally suck and they really need serious Big Bads to sustain interest in the next "Phase" of Marvel movies.

By the way, in the Infinity Gauntlet movie, Thanos has four minions who serve him. They kind of look like the Fantastic Four, in the sense that one is female, and one is a huge bruiser.

Here's an idea I just had: This gives Marvel the opportunity to claim these four underbosses are iare actually mind-controlled and body-transformed Fantastic Four, which may be revealed upon their defeat, which may be an explanation as to how the heroes can stop Thanos (like, the FF is now on the heroes' side, and have inside information about Thanos), and they get Reed Richards' brain and tech to help.

Also, it's an easy way to explain why the FF has been missing from the marvel universe -- they went out into space and got captured and transformed by Thanos.

But now they'll be back on earth.

Posted by: ace at December 14, 2017 03:40 PM (8rNrN)

69 s super careful to prevent all sorts of mergers and concentration of control

If they'd kept a better foot on Reuters I'd be working in NJ still.

Posted by: DaveA at December 14, 2017 03:40 PM (FhXTo)

70 My guess is the mousketeers already had to deal with significant abuse and sexual misconduct. There's a reason they all turned out to be messed up so badly in the last incarnation. Disney takes cute, talented girls and grinds them into nasty little tramps.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 14, 2017 03:40 PM (39g3+)

71 You'd think, with all the beelions and beelions they spend, that they'd occasionally produce something that doesn't suck.

Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at December 14, 2017 03:40 PM (398bZ)

72 Annette Funicello is expected to accuse Mickey of groping her.

Posted by: Northernlurker at December 14, 2017 03:40 PM (TisfY)

73 Oh oh oh oh oh oh this is where I do my rant about how copyright law should now be known as the Disney's IPs will never go out of copyright ever in the history of ever law.

I'm convinced the reason Lucas sold Star Wars to Disney was to ensure that the Disney copyright law machine would make sure Star Wars never fell into the public realm.

Posted by: alexthechick - Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at December 14, 2017 03:40 PM (mf5HN)

74 Why can't they just simply make a good Disney movie with some spanking?

IF they can't do that, I'm not watching.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 14, 2017 03:41 PM (VpIIl)

75 74 Why can't they just simply make a good Disney movie with some spanking?

Rum, sodomy and the lash.

Posted by: Roy at December 14, 2017 03:41 PM (7n4KQ)

76 Posted by: ace at December 14, 2017 03:40 PM (8rNrN)

That's way better than the plot that they're going to end up using.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at December 14, 2017 03:41 PM (KUaJL)

77 So in other words, Disney is finding a way to destroy fun decent politically incorrect TV show, I hate Disney.

Posted by: Monk at December 14, 2017 03:42 PM (g4lFK)

78 I'm going to buy the Big Five, merge them, and move all the studios to the moon. Maybe Mars. Haven't thought that far ahead yet. Then I'll rename the space object Amazonia.

Posted by: Jeff Bezos at December 14, 2017 03:42 PM (H8S+R)

79 65 just more recycled, commie generated shit i won't watch anyway. fuck disney with the barbed cock of satan. for eternity. Posted by: chavez the hugo at December 14, 2017 03:36 PM (KP5rU)

Yeah, that's what I meant to say.

Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at December 14, 2017 03:42 PM (398bZ)

80 Oh oh oh oh oh oh this is where I do my rant about how copyright law should now be known as the Disney's IPs will never go out of copyright ever in the history of ever law.

I'm right with you there. If there ever was a character that belongs in the public domain, its Mickey Mouse.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 14, 2017 03:42 PM (39g3+)

81 This is now a Spiderman thread.

Posted by: Lost /b/tard at December 14, 2017 03:42 PM (UubSE)

82 My only comment on this is that Black Cat has one of the best superheroine costumes, if one were inclined to fo an image search of some kind.

Just, you know, FYI.

Posted by: Lance McCormick at December 14, 2017 03:43 PM (u0s1P)

83 >>>That's way better than the plot that they're going to end up using.

not necessarily. There was a lot of speculation about this when the silhouettes of the four Black Minions were released. Marvel might have been planning for this eventuality, creating a pathway for it to happen, if their plan of buying back the FF came to fruition.

Posted by: ace at December 14, 2017 03:43 PM (8rNrN)

84 -
--

Why can't they just simply make a good Disney movie with some spanking?

IF they can't do that, I'm not watching.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 14, 2017 03:41 PM

---------------------------

I've not seen it, but I assumed that's what Moan-a was about.

Posted by: irright at December 14, 2017 03:43 PM (pMGkg)

85 Disney befouls Fox with hound!

Posted by: Eromero at December 14, 2017 03:43 PM (zLDYs)

86
To Disney, the "limited term" of a copyright should be eternity, minus one day.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 14, 2017 03:43 PM (9+ltl)

87 Oh good, more content to boycott.

Posted by: Under Fire at December 14, 2017 03:43 PM (r9UYA)

88 Annette Funicello is expected to accuse Mickey of groping her.

Will she be doing from the grave?

Posted by: tu3031 at December 14, 2017 03:43 PM (O5Q3r)

89 Cryogenically speaking, Walt Disney's continues to be a head of the competition.

ISWYDT

Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 14, 2017 03:44 PM (QQ+il)

90 when the silhouettes were revealed NOT be the FF, people stopped speculating, but seriously, this is a comic book universe, it's very easy to say Thanos used Whatever Power Gem and turned the FF into his black minions.

Posted by: ace at December 14, 2017 03:44 PM (8rNrN)

91 This thread is giving me massive wood.

Posted by: Roy Moore at December 14, 2017 03:44 PM (4e+hS)

92 This is now a Spiderman thread.

"Oy, de Spidermans, I knew them vell."
-Old Jewish Guy

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 14, 2017 03:44 PM (39g3+)

93 Adam Smith's Invisible Hand is looking for someone to slap!

Posted by: zombie at December 14, 2017 03:44 PM (42M22)

94 No puny studio owns Hulk.
HULK owns Hulk!

Posted by: Hulk, still incredible at December 14, 2017 03:44 PM (EzdLW)

95 (do not fo)

Posted by: Lance McCormick at December 14, 2017 03:44 PM (u0s1P)

96 Meh.

What with the utter inevitability of anything commies / sjw's do turning into trash, I say good riddance to bad rubbish.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez, they are gaslighting us 24/365 at December 14, 2017 03:44 PM (HySvC)

97 >>
My guess is the mousketeers already had to deal with significant abuse
and sexual misconduct. There's a reason they all turned out to be
messed up so badly in the last incarnation. Disney takes cute, talented
girls and grinds them into nasty little tramps.

Britney Spears, Christine Aguilera, Linsay Lohan, Miley Cyrus, (also Shia LaBoef)...

Posted by: Lizzy at December 14, 2017 03:45 PM (W+vEI)

98 "Enough of the Dark Phoenix."

This about me?

Posted by: Hope Solo at December 14, 2017 03:45 PM (Dp6qK)

99 89 Cryogenically speaking, Walt Disney's continues to be a head of the competition.

ISWYDT
Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 14, 2017 03:44 PM (QQ+il)

This is about me, isn't it? - Ted Williams

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 14, 2017 03:45 PM (KYzKs)

100 >>>91 This thread is giving me massive wood.
Posted by: Roy Moore

I am Groot!!!

Posted by: I am Groot at December 14, 2017 03:45 PM (8rNrN)

101 -
--
Annette Funicello is expected to accuse Mickey of groping her.

Will she be doing from the grave?

Posted by: tu3031 at December 14, 2017 03:43 PM

------------------------

They froze her whole, so Mickey can occasionally grab a frosty feel.

Posted by: irright at December 14, 2017 03:45 PM (pMGkg)

102 Abomination.

Posted by: Brother Cavil, Don Cyleon at December 14, 2017 03:45 PM (AM1GF)

103 "Oy, de Spidermans, I knew them vell."
-Old Jewish Guy
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

"Goldberg, iceberg -- what's the difference?"

Posted by: -- Old Asian guy at December 14, 2017 03:45 PM (42M22)

104 52 Billion just so they can put Wolverine and maybe Deadpool in the Avengers movies...

Posted by: Hikaru at December 14, 2017 03:46 PM (9RI/g)

105 estimated to control 39% (read 40) of the market- a little too much in the hands of one studio

Posted by: runner at December 14, 2017 03:46 PM (QC/4S)

106
"Disney takes cute, talented girls and grinds them into nasty little tramps."
That's a feature...not a bug!

Posted by: The Dirty Rat at December 14, 2017 03:46 PM (/zwDg)

107 >>>My only comment on this is that Black Cat has one of the best superheroine costumes, if one were inclined to fo an image search of some kind.

She's got tits like a little boy.

Posted by: Power Girl at December 14, 2017 03:46 PM (8rNrN)

108 Why not do another Star Wars spinoff with Jar Jar as Old Yeller? Box office gold.

Posted by: Fritz at December 14, 2017 03:46 PM (2Mnv1)

109 George Stephanopolous might have some short pants tips for little 'ettes around here.

Posted by: Hands at December 14, 2017 03:46 PM (EzdLW)

110 not only is there the coercive power of the conglomerate in pushing theaters around, but all the consolidation puts the leftist narratives in the hands of the oligarchs.

One would think (as FoxNews sorta did), that would make room for more conservative messaging, but PC seems to dominate, and startups in $100M films is not easy.

But the general public in mutual funds invests their retirement in these conglomerates, and mostly care about the funny money free ride continuing forever.

Posted by: illiniwek at December 14, 2017 03:47 PM (otAqJ)

111
Disney takes cute, talented girls and grinds them into nasty little tramps.

Finishing school for slut debutantes.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 14, 2017 03:47 PM (akqs+)

112 Want to see me undress?

Posted by: Jessica Rabbit at December 14, 2017 03:47 PM (r9UYA)

113 "Meanwhile, this gives Disney even more of a library for its own coming streaming service which will compete with Netflix."

Previously, Disney owned 30% of Hulu. With this purchase, they now own 60% of Hulu. Looks like that's going to be the Disney Streaming Service from here on. (and they're probably going to take all of their properties off of Netflix and Amazon)

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 14, 2017 03:47 PM (k1TUh)

114 estimated to control 39% (read 40) of the market- a little too much in the hands of one studio

Exactly my concern, and with the properties they just got, that's only going to grow.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 14, 2017 03:47 PM (39g3+)

115 >>>104 52 Billion just so they can put Wolverine and maybe Deadpool in the Avengers movies...

it does seem a bit indulgent. but they're also getting fox's cable channels, etc. It's not like Twentieth Century Fox is without value EXCEPT for the Marvel stuff.

Posted by: ace at December 14, 2017 03:47 PM (8rNrN)

116 I used to wear my Mouseketeers hat to watch Annette every afternoon. I couldn't figure out for a while just how it was that the hat gave me that weird tingly feeling.

Weird, but certainly not unpleasant.

Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at December 14, 2017 03:47 PM (398bZ)

117 'This is now a Spiderman thread."

Spiderdude, Spiderdude.
Do whatever a spider do.

Posted by: *Mikey NTH - Sleigh Your Friends with the Holiday Delights from the Outrage Outlet! at December 14, 2017 03:47 PM (hLRSq)

118 I guess it is for the content, because I don't think theatres will be around in twenty years.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at December 14, 2017 03:48 PM (7ZVPa)

119 they are also getting Hulu to compete with Netflix

Posted by: runner at December 14, 2017 03:48 PM (QC/4S)

120 68. Your lunch money. Give it to me.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at December 14, 2017 03:48 PM (fA1SL)

121 -
--
My only comment on this is that Black Cat has one of
the best superheroine costumes, if one were inclined to fo an image
search of some kind.

She's got tits like a little boy.

Posted by: Power Girl at December 14, 2017 03:46 PM
-----------------

Yes, YES!! Don't stop now!

Posted by: Harry Reid at December 14, 2017 03:48 PM (pMGkg)

122 My guess is the mousketeers already had to deal with significant abuse
and sexual misconduct. There's a reason they all turned out to be
messed up so badly in the last incarnation. Disney takes cute, talented
girls and grinds them into nasty little tramps.

Britney Spears, Christine Aguilera, Linsay Lohan, Miley Cyrus, (also Shia LaBoef)...
Posted by: Lizzy

A friend of mine was shortlisted for becoming a Mouseketeer (when she was 10), but they ended up cutting her off the list at the final cut. She was devastated then, and remains totally devastated to this day, decades later. She basically cites that moment at the day her life was ruined and never recovered.

Posted by: zombie at December 14, 2017 03:48 PM (42M22)

123 Why not go around Marvel, if you own X-Men, and create your own new story-line/villains?

Posted by: TexasDan at December 14, 2017 03:48 PM (yL25O)

124 I alwas sing
Spiderman, Spiderman
Does whatever a spider can
Spins a web any size
He eats bugs, and he eats flys

Posted by: Skip at December 14, 2017 03:49 PM (aC6Sd)

125 But Netflix puts out Marvel material? How will sharing Daredevil and Punisher and The Defenders stuff work out?

Posted by: Monk at December 14, 2017 03:49 PM (g4lFK)

126 'This is now a Spiderman thread."

That isn't spidey silk he's shooting into the ficus.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 14, 2017 03:49 PM (lmYrx)

127 When I was a child, I spoke and thought and reasoned as a child. But when I grew up, I put away childish things.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at December 14, 2017 03:36 PM (KUaJL)

These days, leftists take pride inh never putting away childish things.

Posted by: redbanzai at December 14, 2017 03:49 PM (SrkNc)

128 20 OMG I work with a millennial who thinks the prequels are good.

SMDH

Posted by: blaster at December 14, 2017 03:33 PM (WonQS)

Meesa thinks that yousa in dan-ger from hissa gonna go postal.

Posted by: JarJar at December 14, 2017 03:49 PM (Dp6qK)

129 So let's look forward to the new SJWs at the Marvel comics division finding new ways to ruin old properties like Fantastic Four and X-Men!

Come to think of it, Logan always gave off that vibe that he really identified as a woman.

Posted by: WitchDoktor, AKA VA GOP Sucks at December 14, 2017 03:49 PM (eytER)

130 Let me guess, Kurt Russell will be in the next Stars War.

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at December 14, 2017 03:49 PM (6Ll1u)

131
My only comment on this is that Black Cat has one of
the best superheroine costumes

A real firecracker.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 14, 2017 03:49 PM (IqV8l)

132 She was devastated then, and remains totally devastated to this day, decades later. She basically cites that moment at the day her life was ruined and never recovered.

Based on what happened to the kids, she's probably better off. I mean, she might have been a lot richer but...

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 14, 2017 03:50 PM (39g3+)

133 Perhaps the biggest takeaway...does this mean that Hugh Jackman will portray Wolverine in an Avengers movie?

Posted by: Biggs Darklighter at December 14, 2017 03:50 PM (mynhJ)

134 [We now return you to "Minnie's guide to Anal Sex" on Disney Kids.

Starring Miley Cyrus.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 14, 2017 03:50 PM (QQ+il)

135
Why not do another Star Wars spinoff with Jar Jar as Old Yeller? Box office gold.

Posted by: Fritz at December 14, 2017 03:46 PM (2Mnv1)

Instead of crying, the audience laughs and cheers. The repeat box office is huge, just to see that scene again.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 14, 2017 03:51 PM (Unkz5)

136 they are also getting Hulu to compete with Netflix
Posted by: runner

Hulu complements Netflix. They don't have the same stuff.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 14, 2017 03:51 PM (lmYrx)

137
Federal Judge in Hawaii just reinstated Net Neutrality. And canceled Christmas.

Posted by: Half Senile Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at December 14, 2017 03:51 PM (mHQeW)

138 The first movies based on comic book characters were interesting because they were new superheroes. Now thay are all #metoo, #metoo, #metoo, #metoo copies of copies. Nothing original.

As I think about it, it probably is a good thing that copyright is forever. Otherwise we would have a hundred copies of Star Wars Jedi prequel variations time travel with monster alien transformer sequel fast and furious cars frozen spy kids generations of star trek the first generation through a worm hole finding Alice in the Borg continuum through the star gate.

Wouldn't that be great?

Posted by: Skandia Recluse at December 14, 2017 03:51 PM (KdDCu)

139 Perhaps the biggest takeaway...does this mean that Hugh Jackman will portray Wolverine in an Avengers movie?

==

cross pollination with Star Wars, Wolverine at the controls of the Millennium Falcon

Posted by: runner at December 14, 2017 03:51 PM (QC/4S)

140 Perhaps the biggest takeaway...does this mean that Hugh Jackman will portray Wolverine in an Avengers movie?

Posted by: Biggs Darklighter at December 14, 2017 03:50 PM (mynhJ)

zombie Fred MacMurray

Posted by: *Mikey NTH - Sleigh Your Friends with the Holiday Delights from the Outrage Outlet! at December 14, 2017 03:52 PM (hLRSq)

141 >>>125 But Netflix puts out Marvel material? How will sharing Daredevil and Punisher and The Defenders stuff work out?

Netflix doesn't own those characters; they invested in the production, but I don't think they have any ownership beyond the series produced. And I imagine, given how angry Marvel is at its past decisions to permanently license characters, there's some provision permitting the series already produced to lapse back to Marvel after a time, or some kind of forced repurchase clause.

Posted by: ace at December 14, 2017 03:52 PM (8rNrN)

142 These days, leftists take pride inh never putting away childish things.

Yeah they warn growing up is a trap, and bemoan having to do "adulting" in between fun times.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 14, 2017 03:52 PM (39g3+)

143 If the Net Neutrality crowd thinks government regulation means fair access for everyone, they really ought to look at the movie distribution industry regs.

Or beer distribution.

Or automobile distribution.

BTW, how are the HQ hamsters holding up without NN? short rations and double shifts, no doubt.

Posted by: TexasDan at December 14, 2017 03:52 PM (yL25O)

144 Missed the last thread due to finishing my baking for Christmas.
On for fuck sake! These are not newspaper professionals. They are whores!
Now back to boxing the aforementioned cookies to be mailed to people I love and care about.
None are going to journalists.

Posted by: never enough caffeine at December 14, 2017 03:52 PM (N3JsI)

145 138. I see SOMEBODY has been playing with the Puzzlebox. Or been looking at Deviantart.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at December 14, 2017 03:52 PM (fA1SL)

146 Annette Funicello is expected to accuse Mickey of groping her.

Will she be doing from the grave?

Posted by: tu3031 at December 14, 2017 03:43 PM

Bitch was begging for it. Just look at the way she dressed. Huh, huh.

Posted by: Mickey Mouse at December 14, 2017 03:53 PM (Dp6qK)

147
This is gonna sound stupid, but give it a minute to stew in your brain:

A Star Wars / Star Trek crossover movie.

Posted by: Half Senile Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at December 14, 2017 03:53 PM (mHQeW)

148 does this mean that Hugh Jackman will portray Wolverine in an Avengers movie?

Possibly but I'd much rather see the entire X-Men recast and rebooted.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 14, 2017 03:53 PM (39g3+)

149 "Why not do another Star Wars spinoff with Jar Jar as Old Yeller? Box office gold."

Robot Chicken covered that: "Hey Ani! Meesa ghost person!"

Posted by: *Mikey NTH - Sleigh Your Friends with the Holiday Delights from the Outrage Outlet! at December 14, 2017 03:53 PM (hLRSq)

150 Hulu complements Netflix. They don't have the same stuff.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 14, 2017 03:51 PM (lmYrx)

they (disney) wanted a streaming service, they got it, now they will compete - have more content to use plus new stuff; at least that is what I think they are doing based on what I read

Posted by: runner at December 14, 2017 03:53 PM (QC/4S)

151 Remember Jack Bauer and 24?

If Disney owns Fox tv, I'm guessing stuff like that will be verboten. Nothing but positive depictions of terrorists, and claiming that torture does not work.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at December 14, 2017 03:53 PM (/qEW2)

152 If Samuel L. Jackson can be a jedi, why not Kurt Russell.

Better yet: Snake Plissken / Star Wars crossover.

Posted by: Lost /b/tard at December 14, 2017 03:53 PM (UubSE)

153 In honesty, is an entertainment monopoly something that we need to prevent by regulation? Entertainment is, after all, something you can live without.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 14, 2017 03:53 PM (QQ+il)

154 "She basically cites that moment at the day her life was ruined and never recovered."

I can't think of anything sadder than someone thinking they had peaked at age 10, and that it was all downhill from there. Reminds me of a guy I worked with in his 40's, who would openly say that his senior year in high school was the best year of his life, and that everything had pretty much sucked since then. If that's how you feel, just go crawl into a bottle and stay there.

(I would resist the urge to grab him by the lapels and say "you want to know why? Because everything since then has just been the consequences of the way you lived your adult life, you idiot!!!")

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 14, 2017 03:53 PM (k1TUh)

155 "Federal Judge in Hawaii just reinstated Net Neutrality. And canceled Christmas."

We're just going to have to impose a gag order on Hawaii. It talks like a fag and its sh*t's all retarded.

Posted by: SCOTUS at December 14, 2017 03:54 PM (H8S+R)

156 They froze her whole, so Mickey can occasionally grab a frosty feel.
Posted by: irright at December 14, 2017 03:45 PM

Stay frosty my friends.

Posted by: The Most Interesting Mouse in the Kingdom at December 14, 2017 03:54 PM (ctuyM)

157 Pivotal case of U.S. v. Paramount where the Supreme Court took on Hollywood and the theatres.

http://alturl.com/8fcue

"In an opinion from Justice William O. Douglas, the court killed the block booking system, and recommended the breakup of the studio-theater monopolies. The justices asked the lower court to decide the issue of selling the theaters."

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at December 14, 2017 03:54 PM (ATVNj)

158 This is giving me a headache; it sounds like a complete cluster fuck.

Posted by: Monk at December 14, 2017 03:54 PM (g4lFK)

159 Here's an idea I just had: This gives Marvel the opportunity to claim these four underbosses are iare actually mind-controlled and body-transformed Fantastic Four, which may be revealed upon their defeat, which may be an explanation as to how the heroes can stop Thanos

It's a cool idea but I fear they are much too far gone on the production of Avengers 4 to do something that major.

Posted by: Max Power at December 14, 2017 03:54 PM (q177U)

160 147
This is gonna sound stupid, but give it a minute to stew in your brain:

A Star Wars / Star Trek crossover movie.
Posted by: Half Senile Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at December 14, 2017 03:53 PM (mHQeW)

This will inevitably explode the internet and destroy two of the largest fan communities as they attack each other from outside and from within.

So yeah, probably a net positive.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at December 14, 2017 03:54 PM (KUaJL)

161 A Star Wars / Star Trek crossover movie.

==

I have a bad feeling about this

Posted by: runner at December 14, 2017 03:54 PM (QC/4S)

162 Reminds me of a guy I worked with in his 40's, who would openly say that his senior year in high school was the best year of his life, and that everything had pretty much sucked since then.

"I know how he feels. State record, 4 touchdowns in a single game!"
--Al Bundy

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 14, 2017 03:54 PM (39g3+)

163 BTW, how are the HQ hamsters holding up without NN? short rations and double shifts, no doubt.

The lash.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 14, 2017 03:54 PM (QQ+il)

164 A Star Wars / Star Trek crossover movie.

Posted by: Half Senile Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at December 14, 2017 03:53 PM (mHQeW)

Didja hear that Tarantino is supposed to be doing an R rated Trek movie?

Posted by: blaster at December 14, 2017 03:55 PM (WonQS)

165 >>>In honesty, is an entertainment monopoly something that we need to prevent by regulation?

well most things you can live without; the necessity of a thing has not been a factor in anti-trust law.

you can live without a web-browser, but the courts forbade Microsoft from using its market position as an OS to favor its own browser and disfavor competing browsers.

Posted by: ace at December 14, 2017 03:55 PM (8rNrN)

166 Didja hear that Tarantino is supposed to be doing an R rated Trek movie?

It should be interesting seeing how he works the n- word and "Silver Surfer" references into Star Trek.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 14, 2017 03:56 PM (39g3+)

167 Better yet: Snake Plissken / Star Wars crossover.

Posted by: Lost /b/tard at December 14, 2017 03:53 PM (UubSE)

Escape from Tattooine

Posted by: blaster at December 14, 2017 03:56 PM (WonQS)

168 Fucking Rubio says he's a no vote on the tax bill unless he get's his child tax credit handout.

What an absolute fraud that asshole is.

Not only has that "credit" (read giveaway) been abused by illegal immigrants. But it largely goes to people who don't pay any taxes.

Last I checked it was about a $60b a year giveaway that if eliminated would substantially increase GDP, raise employment an allow for about a 4% tax cuts.

But yeah, Rubio's Mr. Conservative.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 14, 2017 03:56 PM (VpIIl)

169 Half Senile Soothsayer: "A Star Wars / Star Trek crossover movie."

Sure. Might as well imagine a long, crossbow while you're at it. Or a cross, longbow.

You must enjoy war. And at Christmas, too.

Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at December 14, 2017 03:56 PM (H8S+R)

170 It should be interesting seeing how he works the n- word and "Silver Surfer" references into Star Trek.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 14, 2017 03:56 PM (39g3+)

Set your phasers on m---f---ing blow their brains out.

Posted by: blaster at December 14, 2017 03:57 PM (WonQS)

171 161
A Star Wars / Star Trek crossover movie.

==

I have a bad feeling about this

Posted by: runner at December 14, 2017 03:54 PM (QC/4S)

Nuke it from orbit.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at December 14, 2017 03:57 PM (Dp6qK)

172 "My guess is the mousketeers already had to deal with significant abuse
and sexual misconduct."

I'll have to ask my ex-mousketeer friend about that. He's the only unknown from the mouseketeer group - Brittany S., Justin T. and Christine A. His name is Matt and he writes pop hits. Doesn't care to perform, though he is a great singer.

Posted by: Meremortal at December 14, 2017 03:57 PM (3myMJ)

173 161 A Star Wars / Star Trek crossover movie.
==
I have a bad feeling about this

It would be too short. The Enterprise would vaporize a Death Star or any other tech in that universe with a single phaser blast. And their lame ass lasers couldn't touch her shields.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 14, 2017 03:57 PM (k1TUh)

174 Didja hear that Tarantino is supposed to be doing an R rated Trek movie?

_____________________________________

Good. Maybe he can explain why inhabitants of every other planet speak English.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at December 14, 2017 03:58 PM (ATVNj)

175 Yeah.....Rubio confirms the rumors.

Cases of shoe polish need to be shipped to him. Pallet loads

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at December 14, 2017 03:58 PM (fA1SL)

176 >>>It's a cool idea but I fear they are much too far gone on the production of Avengers 4 to do something that major.

Spider-man was added fairly late in the Civil War production. They were trying to get him, but couldn't, so the script featured more Black Panther. When they did strike the deal, they quickly wrote Spider-man into it and cast him and etc.

This was before filming and all (I think), but late in the scouting/set-building/etc process (again, I think).

besides, in the idea I'm proposing, the revelation of the FF is a very late, near-the-end-of-the-second-act-in-Avengers-4 sort of thing.

Posted by: ace at December 14, 2017 03:58 PM (8rNrN)

177 Why can't they just simply make a good Disney movie with some spanking?
IF they can't do that, I'm not watching.

Here you go. Disney + Spanking

https://youtu.be/55OAGCWXfHM?t=59

Posted by: Hands at December 14, 2017 03:58 PM (EzdLW)

178
52 billion - take the money and run.

oh, they didn't get money, they got paper?

Well, with inflation, paper is going to be big. They not making any more of it. Everyone is going digital.

Posted by: Skandia Recluse at December 14, 2017 03:58 PM (KdDCu)

179 I think we're in an entertainment bubble.

The sooner that bubble pops, the saner our society will be.

Posted by: rickl at December 14, 2017 03:59 PM (xjiRE)

180 Good. Maybe he can explain why inhabitants of every other planet speak English.

It's Galactic, which by odd coincidence sounds exactly like English.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 14, 2017 03:59 PM (QQ+il)

181 If this is done right (and the MCU track record is fantastic so far,) the MCU is going to get even better.

Yes I loathe hollywood, but I love having fun, (relatively) uplifting event movies to take a whole group to.

So in this case, go Disney. Start a rumor you're going to buy WB while you're at it, just to see the internet melt down.

(Plus they'd totally make a Disney Princess named Martha just to mock the you-know-what catastrophe.)

Posted by: What's a Seawolf? at December 14, 2017 03:59 PM (72PAC)

182 adding the FF would be pretty easy: Three characters are CGI and one's invisible.

The Invisible Woman? Easy to add. Just have people trip occasionally and then say "Damn you, Invisible Woman!"

Posted by: ace at December 14, 2017 03:59 PM (8rNrN)

183 Back when Walt was in charge you can say one thing about Disney. Their movies and TV show were family friendly and he really looked after his child stars. There never would have been any of those trashy bimbos around when he was around, and there certainly when have been no child sexual abuse.

Sadly that is no longer true. His ashes are probably spinning in his grave

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at December 14, 2017 03:59 PM (mpXpK)

184
Didja hear that Tarantino is supposed to be doing an R rated Trek movie?

A few years ago an X-rated pron movie was made of Star Trek The Next Generation.

It has since been re-edited with all teh sex scenes deleted, and is now a Star Trek "fan-flick." Unfortunately, the original cannot be found on the internet, anymore. But you can find some short clips of the pron scenes. Weird.

Posted by: Half Senile Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at December 14, 2017 03:59 PM (mHQeW)

185 169>>>

If you've never intentionally snapped another man's limbs, you're not a real man.

I... don't actually know if this is /s or not.

Posted by: Hikaru at December 14, 2017 03:59 PM (9RI/g)

186 I finally saw Deadpool a couple weeks ago (they had the DVD for free at the library).

Everyone praised it so much that I expected to hate it. But, shockingly, I neither hated it nor loved it. For me (I know this is a rare opinion) it was a great big "Meh."As juvenile as I thought, but not totally cringe-inducing. And what is it with the endless "origin stories"??? First you need to make the audience CARE about a character enough for them to be interested in the character's origins. Take an early superhero-of-sorts, Sherlock Holmes. For the first 20 stories or so, Conan Doyle just portrayed him as a nearly superhuman thinking machine, and then only AFTER the character was famous dis he get into his family story (with Mycroft and so forth). That's what they should do with modern superheroes -- don't drag us through an origin story of someone we don't yet care about.

Posted by: zombie at December 14, 2017 03:59 PM (42M22)

187 >>>I have a bad feeling about this
A Star Wars / Star Trek crossover movie.<<<

No contest. Hyper drives are clearly inferior to warp drives.

Posted by: Fritz at December 14, 2017 03:59 PM (2Mnv1)

188 Why doesn't the Anti-Trust Commission block this?

Posted by: logprof at December 14, 2017 04:00 PM (GsAUU)

189 It's Galactic, which by odd coincidence sounds exactly like English.
__________________________________

Maybe we should adopt Galactic in New York so I don't need a different interpreter every six blocks.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at December 14, 2017 04:00 PM (ATVNj)

190 Galaxy Quest started off as an R rated script, and then as they were filming everyone started to realize it was going to have a lot of appeal to younger viewers, and so they cut most of the r-rated stuff out. But traces of it still remain if you look closely, especially once scene where Sigourny clearly yells "FUCK!" but a more benign word's been dubbed in it's place.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 14, 2017 04:00 PM (k1TUh)

191 Didja hear that Tarantino is supposed to be doing an R rated Trek movie?
Posted by: blaster at December 14, 2017 03:55 PM

The breakthrough will be sandals for 7 of 9.

Posted by: Quentin T. at December 14, 2017 04:00 PM (ctuyM)

192 Floor trading wench Nicole Petallides is looking good in her dark brown dress, and big-mouthed Melissa Francis has a weird metallic dog collar like thingy on her neck. She is in a solid black dress.

I think those two should wrestle each other on the studio floor.

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at December 14, 2017 04:00 PM (8iiMU)

193 Snake Plissken vs. Alien vs. Predator vs. Mr. Data

Posted by: x at December 14, 2017 04:01 PM (nFwvY)

194 Lots of famous mousketeers:

Josh Ackerman
Keri Russell
Christina Aguilera
Brittney Spears
Justin Timberlake
Ryan Gosling

but most of the long term ones, who were on the show the most, either unknowns or very minor bit actors and behind the scenes. Most of the big names were only on a few episodes, according to IMDB.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 14, 2017 04:01 PM (39g3+)

195 you can live without a web-browser, but the courts forbade Microsoft from using its market position as an OS to favor its own browser and disfavor competing browsers.

Posted by: ace at December 14, 2017 03:55 PM (8rNrN)

During the clinton years, and strangely, Gates became a big lefty philanthropist after that.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at December 14, 2017 04:01 PM (Dp6qK)

196 152 If Samuel L. Jackson can be a jedi, why not Kurt Russell.

Better yet: Snake Plissken / Star Wars crossover.
Posted by: Lost /b/tard

I want to see a Space Cadillac with chandeliers on its hood.

Posted by: zombie at December 14, 2017 04:02 PM (42M22)

197 $52 billion. Isn't that what they paid in hush money for Harvey Weinstein's victims?

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at December 14, 2017 04:02 PM (ATVNj)

198 Eh. Break up the megacorps. Google, Disney, Apple. Break them all up into tiny pieces so they can't go full-fascist for a century or so.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at December 14, 2017 04:02 PM (oVJmc)

199 "Federal Judge in Hawaii just reinstated Net Neutrality. And canceled Christmas."

I wonder if this is true or a joke.
Please be a joke !

Posted by: sock_rat_eez, they are gaslighting us 24/365 at December 14, 2017 04:02 PM (HySvC)

200 Didja hear that Tarantino is supposed to be doing an R rated Trek movie"

Pulp Trektion?

Posted by: Anon a mouse at December 14, 2017 04:02 PM (MINbv)

201 Fritz: "No contest. Hyper drives are clearly inferior to warp drives."

Pfft. Melange is where it's at, man.

Posted by: Space Navigators at December 14, 2017 04:03 PM (H8S+R)

202 Well, we've mined this vein for all it is worth. What's next?

Oh, wait, Star Wars Porn! Ya, that's the ticket. With a wave of his hand and The Force, every woman on screen has an orgasm. It would make billions.

Posted by: Skandia Recluse at December 14, 2017 04:04 PM (KdDCu)

203 200 Didja hear that Tarantino is supposed to be doing an R rated Trek movie"

Pulp Trektion? Posted by: Anon a mouse

Kill Bill Shatner

Posted by: x at December 14, 2017 04:04 PM (nFwvY)

204 That's what they should do with modern superheroes -- don't drag us through an origin story of someone we don't yet care about.

Yeah I agree. My friends and I have talked about this quite a bit. I've probably whined about it on here too, but the need to put origin stories into superhero movies is really annoying and time consuming. Its like having a third of Dr No be James Bond's background. We need to see Indiana Jones as a little boy learning Greek from his dad in the first movie!

Just show the heroes doing their thing. Eventually let some stuff slip, but you don't need to show origins. Just assume they're in the story and go for it.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 14, 2017 04:04 PM (39g3+)

205 200.
Does Mister Spock look like a bitch?
Is there a sign that says 'Dead Klingon storage'?

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at December 14, 2017 04:04 PM (fA1SL)

206 LMAO, just heard Michelle Malkin say "pink pussy-hatted adolescents"

Posted by: logprof at December 14, 2017 04:04 PM (GsAUU)

207 Hyper drives are clearly inferior to warp drives."

Is that over 12 parsecs?

Posted by: Anon a mouse at December 14, 2017 04:04 PM (MINbv)

208 200
That's very interesting. Do they speak Galactic on What?

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at December 14, 2017 04:05 PM (fA1SL)

209 Darth Vader vs a Bene Gesserit Reverend Mother.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 14, 2017 04:05 PM (k1TUh)

210 And get this: Infinity War is supposedly going to be about Thanos. Its going to be his story, with his background and how he came to love death etc.

Who gives a crap??? I mean yeah, I get why they decided to go with that stupid looking Josh Brolin with purple skin and a fake chin look instead of the previous menacing barely-human looking Thanos from before. So he can act and stuff, since apparently only Hugo Weaving can act without showing his face.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 14, 2017 04:06 PM (39g3+)

211 you can live without a web-browser, but the courts forbade Microsoft from using its market position as an OS to favor its own browser and disfavor competing browsers.

Posted by: ace at December 14, 2017 03:55 PM (8rNrN)

And then the tech bubble crashed.

Posted by: blaster at December 14, 2017 04:06 PM (WonQS)

212 205,
Snort.

Posted by: Anon a mouse at December 14, 2017 04:06 PM (MINbv)

213 209. I find your lack of Spice disturbing.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at December 14, 2017 04:06 PM (fA1SL)

214 "Federal Judge in Hawaii just reinstated Net Neutrality. And canceled Christmas."

I wonder if this is true or a joke.
Please be a joke !
Posted by: sock_rat_eez,

Please be true!
We can get the burning times on early!

Posted by: rickb223 at December 14, 2017 04:07 PM (lmYrx)

215 Didja hear that Tarantino is supposed to be doing an R rated Trek movie
...........

mmmm. Green boobehs.

Posted by: wth at December 14, 2017 04:08 PM (HgMAr)

216 . I find your lack of Spice disturbing"

Victoria Beckham hardest hit?

Posted by: Anon a mouse at December 14, 2017 04:08 PM (MINbv)

217 That's no Guild Navigator.

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at December 14, 2017 04:08 PM (8iiMU)

218 Breaking News: Congress announces the VPAEA* legislative package, establishing a system of single payer entertainment that will ensure ALL Americans have access to quality, affordable entertainment choices. If you like your sitcom, you can keep your sitcom. People below 600% of the federal poverty level will be eligible for taxpayer subsidies to level the playing field and avoid out-of-pocket entertainment costs. Open enrollment starts December 15 and will remain open until July 31, 2018. Sign up now your state exchange at entertainment.gov

*Viewer Protection and Affordable Entertainment Act

Posted by: Muldoon at December 14, 2017 04:08 PM (wPiJc)

219 161 A Star Wars / Star Trek crossover movie.

- - - -

Pre the utter rape of Star Wars by Ep 7 and assuredly Ep 8, I would have loved this.

Star Wars would have wiped the floor with the Trekkies.

Now?

If it happens, I hope it involves a universe destroying death star that nukes everything.

Posted by: What's a Seawolf? at December 14, 2017 04:08 PM (72PAC)

220 Meesa love the spice!

Posted by: Jar Jar, Spacing Guild Agent at December 14, 2017 04:08 PM (UubSE)

221 A Star Wars / Star Trek crossover movie

These are not the tribbles you're looking for

Posted by: Harcourt Fenton Kenobi at December 14, 2017 04:08 PM (EzdLW)

222 Victoria Beckham hardest hit?

Posted by: Anon a mouse at December 14, 2017 04:08 PM (MINbv)

Like a screen door in a tornado.

Posted by: blaster at December 14, 2017 04:08 PM (WonQS)

223 Sardukhar vs Storm Troopers.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at December 14, 2017 04:09 PM (fA1SL)

224 Fremen vs Klingons

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 14, 2017 04:10 PM (39g3+)

225 *Viewer Protection and Affordable Entertainment Act
Posted by: Muldoon at December 14, 2017 04:08 PM (wPiJc)

Lemme guess. This includes a $7 billion subsidy for CNN and ESPN.

Posted by: golfman at December 14, 2017 04:10 PM (48QDY)

226 Whatever the mashup is, JJ Abrams will be directing.

He's going to bring balance to the SciFi verses.

Posted by: blaster at December 14, 2017 04:10 PM (WonQS)

227
Death Star meets Doomsday Machine.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 14, 2017 04:10 PM (nZt/D)

228 Freaking beam a Terminator onto the Nostromo why don't you?!?!

Posted by: blaster at December 14, 2017 04:10 PM (WonQS)

229 I think with this deal the distribution rights for the original Star Wars will be under the control of Disney right? So perhaps finally a blu day release of a remastered original theatrical version of Star Wars.

Posted by: Buzzion at December 14, 2017 04:10 PM (lKs2v)

230 Just yesterday, I read a free preview of the new Avengers storyline in the comics, called No Surrender. A return to classic Avengers action, so they say. And what do we get on the very first page?

Living Lightning, a token Hispanic Avenger from back in the 90s, flirting with a cop. Both males, mind you. So Living Lightning hits the SJW daily double, Hispanic AND gay.

Return to classic Avengers action, and they have to hit us with Teh Ghey on the very first page, with a character who to my knowledge was never gay before.

We get Teh Ghey right in our faces, right off the bat. Because Marvel.

Bah.

Posted by: tsj017 at December 14, 2017 04:11 PM (4YUWF)

231 Breaking: Darth Vader Accused of Sexual Assault.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at December 14, 2017 04:11 PM (Dp6qK)

232
Christmas is a Pagan Christian holiday and should be banned.
-----Surly McSourpuss, the grump who hates happy children.

Look, who need happy children. They turn maniacal. They race around, screaming. and then crash. Turn and into unhappy little brat tyrants that demand to be happy again. Who needs that?

Posted by: Skandia Recluse at December 14, 2017 04:11 PM (KdDCu)

233 Atreides v Romulans

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at December 14, 2017 04:11 PM (8iiMU)

234 Good. Maybe he can explain why inhabitants of every other planet speak English.

It's Galactic, which by odd coincidence sounds exactly like English.

==
universal translator, part of theater distribution

Posted by: runner at December 14, 2017 04:12 PM (QC/4S)

235 Didja hear that Tarantino is supposed to be doing an R rated Trek movie

So, basically just another Star Trek movie, but with moar f-bombs and blood spilled by the barrel full.

And Samuel L. Jackson as a really pissed-off Klingon.

Posted by: Hands at December 14, 2017 04:12 PM (EzdLW)

236 Fox and Disney together, hunh?

Can we get Jack Bauer torturing Jiminy Cricket?

Posted by: zombie at December 14, 2017 04:12 PM (42M22)

237 >>>alaxy Quest started off as an R rated script, and then as they were filming everyone started to realize it was going to have a lot of appeal to younger viewers, and so they cut most of the r-rated stuff out. But traces of it still remain if you look closely, especially once scene where Sigourny clearly yells "FUCK!" but a more benign word's been dubbed in it's place.

Also, I'm 99% sure that Tech Sergeant Chen was shown smoking pot, which would explain why he's so chill, so out of it, and wanders off from the group to get snacks.

I think they cut the potsmoking to get the PG. But once you think of "pot," you cannot unthink it when you see Chen's behavior.

Posted by: ace at December 14, 2017 04:12 PM (8rNrN)

238 I sense a disturbance in the Peak Nerd Wars.

Posted by: Darth Spock at December 14, 2017 04:12 PM (H8S+R)

239 Atreides vs Palpatine - Emperor vs Emperor - in the Thunderdome.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at December 14, 2017 04:12 PM (fA1SL)

240 I thought Walt Disney's head was in cryo-storage along with Ted Williams. Not true?

Posted by: Muldoon at December 14, 2017 04:13 PM (wPiJc)

241 Star Trek and Star Wars?

Dabo tables in the cantina?

Posted by: logprof at December 14, 2017 04:13 PM (GsAUU)

242 Breaking: Darth Vader Accused of Sexual Assault.

==

i was going to say something about Ewoks...but..company, you know...

Posted by: runner at December 14, 2017 04:13 PM (QC/4S)

243 Goateed Spock vs Goateed Obi Wan

Posted by: x at December 14, 2017 04:13 PM (nFwvY)

244 He's going to bring lens flare to the SciFi verses"

Fify

Posted by: Anon a mouse at December 14, 2017 04:13 PM (MINbv)

245 OT:
it they won't have cheap Netflix anymore.

Netflix is doomed from overpaid content anyways. Whether making it's subscribers pay the true transport costs delay or accelerate this fall is another entertainment.

Posted by: DaveA at December 14, 2017 04:13 PM (FhXTo)

246 We get Teh Ghey right in our faces, right off the bat. Because Marvel.

The worst example of this is when they turned womanizing half elf speedster Northstar into a homosexual suddenly (as in one issue suddenly he's fabulous) to fit some kind of quota: Marvel had no openly fruity heroes.

Or the Ultimate universe Spider-man who is half black, half Puerto Rican. Because of teh diversity!

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 14, 2017 04:14 PM (39g3+)

247 Bones, Spock! Skywalker no longer needs the weirding module!

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at December 14, 2017 04:14 PM (fA1SL)

248 C'mon, he doesn't even have boy parts under that suit. Ani jr. got burned off by the lava. And there are no female stormtroopers. What chicks does he even know besides Leia?

Posted by: Jar Jar, Spacing Guild Agent at December 14, 2017 04:14 PM (UubSE)

249 Is that over 12 parsecs?

Posted by: Anon a mouse at December 14, 2017 04:04 PM

no, it's heavier than that

Posted by: AltonJackson at December 14, 2017 04:14 PM (ZQfW9)

250 231 Breaking: Darth Vader Accused of Sexual Assault.
Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at December 14, 2017 04:11 PM (Dp6qK)

Well hell, if you got to make a person into basically an android, you'd add some fun parts too.

Posted by: Emperor Palpatine - Gigity at December 14, 2017 04:14 PM (72PAC)

251 And Samuel L. Jackson as a really pissed-off Klingon.

Posted by: Hands at December 14, 2017 04:12 PM (EzdLW)
...............

What's in your wallet? Hand it over, puny earthling.

Posted by: wth at December 14, 2017 04:14 PM (HgMAr)

252 Ewoks vs. Vulcan sehlats (baby Spock's pet)

Posted by: Hands at December 14, 2017 04:14 PM (EzdLW)

253 I am a Jedi, not a Doctor !!!

Posted by: runner at December 14, 2017 04:15 PM (QC/4S)

254 In honesty, is an entertainment monopoly something that we need to prevent by regulation?

well most things you can live without; the necessity of a thing has not been a factor in anti-trust law.

you can live without a web-browser, but the courts forbade Microsoft
from using its market position as an OS to favor its own browser and
disfavor competing browsers.

Posted by: ace at December 14, 2017 03:55 PM (8rNrN)

When that monopoly is used to shape society for the worse, I think we very much need to worry about it.

Posted by: redbanzai at December 14, 2017 04:15 PM (SrkNc)

255 Also, I'm 99% sure that Tech Sergeant Chen was shown smoking pot, which would explain why he's so chill, so out of it, and wanders off from the group to get snacks.

Probably true, but its a lot funnier if he's just really mellow rather than Cheech.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 14, 2017 04:15 PM (39g3+)

256 Breaking: Darth Vader Accused of Sexual Assault.

*****

Probably Forced himself on someone.

Posted by: Muldoon at December 14, 2017 04:15 PM (wPiJc)

257 Terminator goes back in time, long, long ago. Enterprise whiplashes around a black hole, same thing. They land on Prometheus planet and find the Rebel Alliance has a base there, creating a bio weapon to use against the Empire.

Posted by: blaster at December 14, 2017 04:15 PM (WonQS)

258 F Disney. Let it and everything related to it die

Posted by: TheQuietMan at December 14, 2017 04:15 PM (493sH)

259 And Samuel L. Jackson as a really pissed-off Klingon"

I'm tired of the tribbles on this mother f'n plane!

Posted by: Anon a mouse at December 14, 2017 04:16 PM (MINbv)

260 Ani jr. got burned off by the lava. And there are no female stormtroopers.

Yeah you gotta love how they could save his life after having his limbs hacked off and half his body melted in lava, literally bursting into flames from the heat... but not complications in pregnancy.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 14, 2017 04:16 PM (39g3+)

261 258 F Disney. Let it and everything related to it die
Posted by: TheQuietMan at December 14, 2017 04:15 PM (493sH)

Are you saying you want them to...let it go?

Posted by: Elsa - The One and Only Queen at December 14, 2017 04:16 PM (72PAC)

262 Breaking: Darth Vader Accused of Sexual Assault.

l found her lack of putting-out disturbing

Posted by: Vader at December 14, 2017 04:16 PM (EzdLW)

263 Probably Forced himself on someone.

Posted by: Muldoon at December 14, 2017 04:15 PM

well played

golf clap

Posted by: AltonJackson at December 14, 2017 04:16 PM (ZQfW9)

264

Pull me.

Posted by: The Plug at December 14, 2017 04:17 PM (XSUzW)

265 * Leia, blood running from her nose *

It's Spock! He's taken the water of life.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at December 14, 2017 04:17 PM (fA1SL)

266 Walt Disney's brother Roy Disney was the ruthless, pragmatic one of the Disney brothers. Roy was the deal-maker, the wheeler-dealer, the cold, calculating business mind behind the beginnings of the Disney empire. While Walt was dreaming in the studio or at his drawing board, Roy was screwing some inbred yokels out of big chunks of Florida real estate for pennies on the dollar.

Roy's pet name for Walt's first moneymaking creation? "That fucking mouse". (He said it affectionately.)

The way things are going, that fucking mouse is going to one day own us all.

Posted by: troyriser at December 14, 2017 04:17 PM (raGQi)

267 They land on Prometheus planet and find the Rebel Alliance has a base there, creating a bio weapon to use against the Empire.

But they're stopped by the Na'avi blue people led by Paul Atreides and Gandalf

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 14, 2017 04:17 PM (39g3+)

268 Weird, when a kid we seldom spent much time with comics and even less with super hero comics. I suspect this obsession with super heros is a distinctly recent urban and maybe suburban phenomena. As kids, we were always outside playing with other kids. I don't see that happening too much anymore.

Posted by: Puddin Head at December 14, 2017 04:17 PM (YV+SU)

269 258 F Disney. Let it and everything related to it die
Posted by: TheQuietMan at December 14, 2017 04:15 PM (493sH)

--The Big Rat is way too fat.

Posted by: logprof at December 14, 2017 04:17 PM (GsAUU)

270 >>>Yeah I agree. My friends and I have talked about this quite a bit. I've probably whined about it on here too, but the need to put origin stories into superhero movies is really annoying and time consuming. Its like having a third of Dr No be James Bond's background. We need to see Indiana Jones as a little boy learning Greek from his dad in the first movie!

i was annoyed that the Conan reboot featured an Origin Story, as if we needed an explanation as to how a man could be muscular and good with a sword.

Yeah I know, the original Conan movie did that too, but it was just better, and the origin story, unnecessary as it was, was/is a classic.

Also both the original and the reboot featured a lifelong villain who'd killed Conan's parents. Unnecessary. Again, the original pulled it off just because it was good and good movies get away with a lot.

a friend and I always wrap up a movie discussion with that observation: Yeah, you can nitpick good movies for the same stuff you nitpick bad movies for, but you don't, because good movies get away with plotholes and stuff, because they're good, and goodwill papers over a lot of plothole.

Posted by: ace at December 14, 2017 04:17 PM (8rNrN)

271 19 Will any of this affect on-line streaming porn?

Asking for a friend.

Same question, asking for a guy I know at the car wash.

Posted by: mikeyslaw at December 14, 2017 04:17 PM (JZJ9v)

272 Bones, Spock! Skywalker no longer needs the weirding module"

S**t Gandalf said at Hogwarts, vol. 2.

Posted by: Anon a mouse at December 14, 2017 04:17 PM (MINbv)

273 runner: "I am a Jedi, not a Doctor !!!"

OK, my gut just about busted there.

And, no, no Jabba the Hut jokes, please. Just enjoy Crossover McCoy.

Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at December 14, 2017 04:17 PM (H8S+R)

274
I recently noticed that YouTube is in a pissing match with Amazon and will cut off Amazon Fire Stick access to YouTube after the first of the year. So I fired up Kodi on my Fire Stick and discovered that YouTube plays just fine. Actually better. No commercials. Which YouTube wants you to pay to avoid.

Suck it Google.

Posted by: Acme Explosives at December 14, 2017 04:17 PM (ajiE5)

275 JarJar is a killing word.

Posted by: Fritz at December 14, 2017 04:18 PM (2Mnv1)

276
Yeah you gotta love how they could save his life after having his limbs hacked off and half his body melted in lava, literally bursting into flames from the heat... but not complications in pregnancy.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 14, 2017 04:16 PM (39g3+)

Woman's Health took a back seat then.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 14, 2017 04:18 PM (XdXac)

277 But they're stopped by the Na'avi blue people led by Paul Atreides and Gandalf

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 14, 2017 04:17 PM (39g3+)

That's just stupid

Posted by: blaster at December 14, 2017 04:18 PM (WonQS)

278 Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 14, 2017 04:01 PM (39g3+)

Yes, interesting how well Spears, Timberlake and Christine have done, as well as Matt Morris, who was with them. Timberlake produces Matt's music, Matt wrote 5 songs for Christine's first album, and soap opera Spears you know about.

Mouseketeers are usually the children of stars, which helps of course.

Posted by: Meremortal at December 14, 2017 04:18 PM (3myMJ)

279 I can't resist Star Wars. I'll be seeing it in 3.5 hours.

Posted by: CDR M at December 14, 2017 04:18 PM (EkJOK)

280 my hope is for the rise of interesting independent production distribution franchises; it is easier now with the intertubes and digital- put it on Youtube, and there you go...of course that is Google...

Posted by: runner at December 14, 2017 04:18 PM (QC/4S)

281 There is good news in all of this: I don't consume any of the shit these fuckheads produce, not even for free, (and I make damn sure they don't get any of my money). So the good news is I couldn't give a shit less and they can have each other. May they give each other drip dick.

Posted by: Esteban at December 14, 2017 04:18 PM (7+cLN)

282 The most tiresome thing about the media is their blackout on Melania. We are not allowed to see what she wears. We are not allowed to say how beautiful and stylish she is. Jackie Kennedy would look dowdy next to her.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 14, 2017 04:18 PM (Lqy/e)

283 AI will now be able to take care of all your pron needs, want one with a certain Vulcan from a certain Star Trek series? Done. Believe me, your sexbot will learn to be a western wife faster than a Russian mail order bride.

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at December 14, 2017 04:19 PM (6Ll1u)

284 >>>
Probably true, but its a lot funnier if he's just really mellow rather than Cheech.

I can't think of any other reason for Tech Sgt Chen to wander off, confusedly, to a vending machine to buy funions.

What is that doing there? Why is he so calm about everything?

Posted by: ace at December 14, 2017 04:19 PM (8rNrN)

285 Late to thread.

Dark Phoenix of the Sith?

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 14, 2017 04:19 PM (eN2PK)

286 I was annoyed that the Conan reboot featured an Origin Story, as if we needed an explanation as to how a man could be muscular and good with a sword.

That was the only good part of the film, sadly. The rest was pretty boring.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 14, 2017 04:19 PM (39g3+)

287 Breaking: Darth Vader Accused of Sexual Assault.
............

Uhura, I am your father!

Posted by: wth at December 14, 2017 04:19 PM (HgMAr)

288 Jem'Hadar vs Storm Troopers

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 14, 2017 04:19 PM (IqV8l)

289 a friend and I always wrap up a movie discussion with that observation: Yeah, you can nitpick good movies for the same stuff you nitpick bad movies for, but you don't, because good movies get away with plotholes and stuff, because they're good, and goodwill papers over a lot of plothole.

Posted by: ace at December 14, 2017 04:17 PM (8rNrN)

Same goes for tv. Walking Dead always had its flaws and plot holes, but it was so good you could easily ignore them.

Now it has become a mockery of existence and the disastrous writing and plot holes are punching you in the face.

Posted by: What's a Seawolf? at December 14, 2017 04:19 PM (72PAC)

290 Mickey Mouse is trying to divorce Minnie.

His lawyer calls him to tell him that the judge ruled that her being insane is not sufficient grounds for divorce.

Mickey tells him, "No, I said she was *fucking* Goofy!"

Posted by: logprof at December 14, 2017 04:19 PM (GsAUU)

291 >>>279 I can't resist Star Wars. I'll be seeing it in 3.5 hours.

I can. I did want to hear about the spoilers so I looked up a World Class Bullshitters videos about leaked spoilers.

I'm not loving it.

Posted by: ace at December 14, 2017 04:19 PM (8rNrN)

292 What we need is a Conan netflix series/miniseries based on Howard's original short stories.

Posted by: Bear with Assymetrical Balls at December 14, 2017 04:20 PM (UubSE)

293 279 I can't resist Star Wars. I'll be seeing it in 3.5 hours.
Posted by: CDR M at December 14, 2017 04:18 PM (EkJOK)

--Time to kick the habit.

I don't even care for the Muppets anymore now that the Rat owns them.

Posted by: logprof at December 14, 2017 04:20 PM (GsAUU)

294 Tech Sergeant Chen was shown smoking pot,

I just thought he was wobbly-legged from the tentacle-job.

Posted by: DaveA at December 14, 2017 04:20 PM (FhXTo)

295

Hhmmm, I'm sensing a story idea. In 'Bystanders of the Galaxy' uniquely talented couch potatoes invent the 'improbability' version of the 'impossibility drive' and go back in time to the age of the dinosaurs when one of them steps off the path and kills a butterfly, thus triggering the butterfly effect which causes the galaxy to overheat from all the human activity, and we get a new big bang that wipes out all life and God starts everything all over again.

Posted by: Skandia Recluse at December 14, 2017 04:20 PM (KdDCu)

296 I wager 30,000 quatloos on the Empire!

Posted by: Triskelion brain at December 14, 2017 04:21 PM (EzdLW)

297 True, theaters don't have to take that deal, but that means they'd not be showing the biggest film in the country in a week in which most other studios do not release films (to stay out of the way of Star Wars).

Here's the thing though: THIS week, we have options. Go to Rottentomatoes:

-Ferdinand and Birdboy, for Hispanics and families... also Coco is still #1

-Beyond Skyline, for dumb SF but less dumb than MouseWars

-Ballad of Lefty Brown, for adult Western fans

Might be worth checking out if anyone is still running The Room / Disaster Artist parties around Denver, too. Possibly.

Anyway, the low-budget studios have some interesting stuff out, for those who care.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at December 14, 2017 04:21 PM (6FqZa)

298 Meesa not scared. Scared being killa da mind. Scared being da lil' def what bringa de big gonzo. Meesa let scared pass over me.....

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at December 14, 2017 04:21 PM (fA1SL)

299 Kirk shot first!

Posted by: Han Solo at December 14, 2017 04:21 PM (EzdLW)

300 >>>A Star Wars / Star Trek crossover movie

Or a martial arts / Fantastic Four crossover movie

Posted by: Jean-Claude Von Doom at December 14, 2017 04:22 PM (/qEW2)

301 I have never seen the whole Star Wars movie. I have seen little parts here and there of the first one, but never cared enough to watch the whole thing. And I like Science Fiction.

Posted by: Weasel at December 14, 2017 04:22 PM (Sfs6o)

302 Uhura, I am your father!

*******

More like, "Uhura, who's your daddy!"

Posted by: Muldoon at December 14, 2017 04:22 PM (wPiJc)

303 ace: "What is that doing there? Why is he so calm about everything?"

Because he's a throwaway character who knows his job is over when the scene is done. He has no hope or future and is just punching the clock. He's playing his irrelevance to the hilt.

Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at December 14, 2017 04:22 PM (H8S+R)

304 Star Wars is addictive, and there is another standalone (staring Daenerys Targaryen) that is in the works

Posted by: runner at December 14, 2017 04:22 PM (QC/4S)

305 So who's pumped for "Disney Presents Feminist Star Wars: The 2.5 Hour Toy Commercial for Neckbeards"?

opening this weekend!

Posted by: brak at December 14, 2017 04:22 PM (WjCgM)

306
I don't even care for the Muppets anymore now that the Rat owns them.

Posted by: logprof at December 14, 2017 04:20 PM (GsAUU)

So what does PBS now use to convince us of their indispensability?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 14, 2017 04:23 PM (iSFFU)

307 301 I have never seen the whole Star Wars movie. I have seen little parts here and there of the first one, but never cared enough to watch the whole thing. And I like Science Fiction.
Posted by: Weasel at December 14, 2017 04:22 PM (Sfs6o)

--It's more space opera than science fiction.

Posted by: logprof at December 14, 2017 04:23 PM (GsAUU)

308 What we need is a Conan netflix series/miniseries based on Howard's original short stories.

Movie Conan fans would barely recognize the character

I love those books.

v

I sure can. The last 5 movies pretty well ended my interest in the franchise. That and Mark Hamhill talking about how much he disagreed with what they were doing with his character.

I can summarize though: black stormtrooper and Mary Sue Jedi save the world from bad guys by being just better than everyone else.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 14, 2017 04:23 PM (39g3+)

309 But they're stopped by the Na'avi blue people led by Paul Atreides and Gandalf

****
That's just stupid

****

We are SO doing this!!

Posted by: Disney producer at December 14, 2017 04:23 PM (XSUzW)

310 Yeah you gotta love how they could save his life after having his limbs hacked off and half his body melted in lava, literally bursting into flames from the heat... but not complications in pregnancy.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 14, 2017 04:16 PM (39g3+)

Dammit! She lost the will to live. Don't you nerds know anything. It's like Han didn't shoot first. Idiots.

Posted by: George Lucas at December 14, 2017 04:23 PM (suO/a)

311 I can. I did want to hear about the spoilers so I looked up a World Class Bullshitters videos about leaked spoilers.

I'm not loving it.

Posted by: ace at December 14, 2017 04:19 PM (8rNrN)

Star Wars is dead (obviously not monetarily, but I don't think the gravy train is going to run as long as Disney thinks.) Ep 7 could have done so much for the franchise, but stabbed it in the gut a few times.

Ep 8 will no doubt finish it off.

I'm actually happy the prequels were so bad, because if I was attached to SW as I once was, I'd be devastated.

Posted by: What's a Seawolf? at December 14, 2017 04:23 PM (72PAC)

312

Ah, I see the problem. I'm wrapped in Harry Potter's "cloak of invisibility"

Just let me take my pants off.

Posted by: Skandia Recluse at December 14, 2017 04:23 PM (KdDCu)

313 >>> Just yesterday, I read a free preview of the new Avengers storyline in the comics, called No Surrender. A return to classic Avengers action, so they say. And what do we get on the very first page?

Living Lightning, a token Hispanic Avenger from back in the 90s, flirting with a cop. Both males, mind you. So Living Lightning hits the SJW daily double, Hispanic AND gay.

...

marvel has been an unholy garbage fire but they fired their SJW E-i-C and replaced him with someone people have hopes for. However, the changes will not be reflected in the books for 6 months (long lead time for issues).

I still think they'll be trash -- personnel is policy, and they're stocked to the gills with SJWs -- but some people have (naive) hope.

Posted by: ace at December 14, 2017 04:24 PM (8rNrN)

314 Greatest movie ever - The Day The Earth Stood Still.

Posted by: Weasel at December 14, 2017 04:24 PM (Sfs6o)

315 I can't resist Star Wars. I'll be seeing it in 3.5 hours.

A vendor rented out the theater tomorrow so we can watch.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 14, 2017 04:24 PM (QQ+il)

316 The most tiresome thing about the media is their
blackout on Melania. We are not allowed to see what she wears. We are
not allowed to say how beautiful and stylish she is. Jackie Kennedy
would look dowdy next to her.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at December 14, 2017 04:18 PM (Lqy/e)

They can't have anyone upstaging the... ummm... goddess that is the ex first lady.

Posted by: redbanzai at December 14, 2017 04:24 PM (SrkNc)

317 The most tiresome thing about the media is their blackout on Melania"

So earlier today someone posted that the official WH Christmas portrait was out. Tried the Google, and guess who was the subject of the first four results? Oddly enough, the Bushes made the first page as well.

Posted by: Anon a mouse at December 14, 2017 04:25 PM (MINbv)

318 314. Tarkovsky's 'Stalker'

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at December 14, 2017 04:25 PM (fA1SL)

319 Didja hear that Tarantino is supposed to be doing an R rated Trek movie?

Posted by: blaster at December 14, 2017 03:55 PM (WonQS)

========

Instead of facing a giant amoeba or a giant cornucopia, the Enterprise will be facing a giant Uma Thurman foot that will try to destroy it with a dikironium odor cloud.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at December 14, 2017 04:25 PM (/qEW2)

320 --It's more space opera than science fiction.
Posted by: logprof at December 14, 2017 04:23 PM (GsAUU)
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Perhaps you'll help us with the cookbook screenplay.

Posted by: Weasel at December 14, 2017 04:25 PM (Sfs6o)

321 Cookbooks received! Ordered on the 11th.

Posted by: Gref at December 14, 2017 04:25 PM (AMIL/)

322
Star Wars has been pure drek since the prequels. The Farce Awakens was boring. Thrown in a large bit of SJW, super duper girl is the bestest Jedi ever and it was even worse then add in Justin Trudeau as Darth Vader Jr and it got laughably bad.

Posted by: TheQuietMan at December 14, 2017 04:25 PM (493sH)

323 -
--
Kirk shot first!

Posted by: Han Solo at December 14, 2017 04:21 PM

---------------

Now that sounds gay.

Posted by: irright at December 14, 2017 04:25 PM (pMGkg)

324 Amazon has a lot of that funny money from their stock explosion. They produce their own movies and series ... not sure if they use the major studios or are building their own thang.

They use that dotcom stock money (losing money for 20 years, still barely profits) to run others out of business. They want to be a grocery, and delivery service, and already sell everything.

They offer credit cards through Chase (I think), but they might as well become a "bank". Many of the blue chip stocks made much profit off their financial side ... not sure if they were "banks" exactly.

Posted by: illiniwek at December 14, 2017 04:26 PM (otAqJ)

325 OK, my gut just about busted there.

=

: )

Posted by: runner at December 14, 2017 04:26 PM (QC/4S)

326 "The Carbonite Maneuver"

Captain Janeway frozen in carbonite, shipped back to Tatooine to be Jabba the Hut's slave.

Posted by: Hands at December 14, 2017 04:26 PM (EzdLW)

327 160 147
This is gonna sound stupid, but give it a minute to stew in your brain:

A Star Wars / Star Trek crossover movie.
Posted by: Half Senile Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at December 14, 2017 03:53 PM (mHQeW)

That's nothing.

You want to really fry your noodle?

You're not ready for this.

No one is ready for this.

But here it comes.

*pause for effect*

Half
Life
III

Posted by: TexasDan at December 14, 2017 04:26 PM (yL25O)

328 I grew up with 70s movies, and lots of great stuff on non-network channels in NYC. So I have perspective.

These franchise movies mostly suck. But good movies get made. Try Three Billboards, for instance. Or Dunkirk.

The more interesting stuff on TV has been surprises. Places like the Mouse House don't like surprises. So anything they touch will suck.

Netflix has been an interesting game changer. And there will be more streaming services, and I'm already overwhelmed.

The beat goes on ...

Posted by: Ignoramus at December 14, 2017 04:26 PM (cAXIk)

329 JJ Abrams is really good at putting out dazzling spectacle that people say "THAT WAS AWESOME" when they come out and then a week later, thinking about it go "you know... that was really stupid"

His first Star Trek movie people raved about until the high from the dazzling visuals were over. Then they started saying "you know... where in Kansas is there a canyon like that?" and "that kid was nothing like Kirk" and "why did Vulcan have absolutely zero defenses other than orbital platforms?"

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 14, 2017 04:26 PM (39g3+)

330 Han, Chewie and Sulu travel back in time to consult with whales on totes reversing an Earth-shattering Climate Change catastrophe

Posted by: Fritz at December 14, 2017 04:26 PM (2Mnv1)

331 323 -
--
Kirk shot first!

Posted by: Han Solo at December 14, 2017 04:21 PM

Now that sounds gay.
Posted by: irright at December 14, 2017 04:25 PM (pMGkg)

Make Kirk gay? GREAT IDEA!

Posted by: Some SJW exec, probably at December 14, 2017 04:27 PM (72PAC)

332 Mr. Scot drinking at the Star Wars Bar wearing a kilt.

Darth Vader and Captain Pike exchanging pointers on mechanical life support devices.

Princess Leia and Yeoman Janice Rand on how to braid and bun your hair.

Tribbles and Ewoks having inter-species sex.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at December 14, 2017 04:27 PM (ATVNj)

333 Perhaps you'll help us with the cookbook screenplay.

==

hmmm, has potential - murder mystery ?

Posted by: runner at December 14, 2017 04:27 PM (QC/4S)

334 I used to be a media addict like you, but then I took an arrow to the knee.

Posted by: Brother Cavil, Don Cyleon at December 14, 2017 04:27 PM (AM1GF)

335
321 Cookbooks received! Ordered on the 11th.
Posted by: Gref at December 14, 2017 04:25 PM (AMIL/)
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Hope you like it, and thanks for your patience with Amazon.

Posted by: Weasel at December 14, 2017 04:27 PM (Sfs6o)

336 I have never seen the whole Star Wars movie. I have seen little parts here and there of the first one, but never cared enough to watch the whole thing. And I like Science Fiction.

Posted by: Weasel at December 14, 2017 04:22 PM (Sfs6o)

--It's more space opera than science fiction.

Posted by: logprof at December 14, 2017 04:23 PM (GsAUU)

It is? I don't remember anyone singing in the movie

Posted by: TheQuietMan at December 14, 2017 04:27 PM (493sH)

337 What we need is a Conan netflix series/miniseries based on Howard's original short stories. "

Throw in plenty of boobehs and you'll get greenlit.

Posted by: Anon a mouse at December 14, 2017 04:27 PM (MINbv)

338 Greatest movie ever - The Day The Earth Stood Still.

Posted by: Weasel at December 14, 2017 04:24 PM (Sfs6o)
............

You die last friend.

Posted by: Gort at December 14, 2017 04:28 PM (HgMAr)

339 Half
Life
III
Posted by: TexasDan at December 14, 2017 04:26 PM (yL25O)

By mentioning Half Life 3, you have delayed its release by one month. Half Life 3 will now release January 15, 2347.

Posted by: That Awesome Reddit Bot at December 14, 2017 04:28 PM (72PAC)

340 Greatest movie ever - The Day The Earth Stood Still.

The 27th Day > TDTESS

Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 14, 2017 04:28 PM (QQ+il)

341 -
--
The Farce Awakens was boring. Thrown in a large bit
of SJW, super duper girl is the bestest Jedi ever and it was even worse
then add in Justin Trudeau as Darth Vader Jr and it got laughably bad.

Posted by: TheQuietMan at December 14, 2017 04:25 PM

------------------------------

What dipshit decided the heavy should be a whiny brat who throws hissy-fits?

Posted by: irright at December 14, 2017 04:28 PM (pMGkg)

342 Kirk always shoots first.

*sigh*

Posted by: The Green Chick at December 14, 2017 04:28 PM (ATVNj)

343 333. Umberto Eco did it. (Now, guess which novel!)

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at December 14, 2017 04:29 PM (fA1SL)

344 321 Cookbooks received! Ordered on the 11th.

Posted by: Gref at December 14, 2017 04:25 PM (AMIL/)

Mine too! Great delivery time, considering it was USPS.

I'll probably pick out a recipe for the weekend, since we've got 2 days of leftovers we need to consume in the 'fridge.

Posted by: jwb7605 at December 14, 2017 04:29 PM (DofIg)

345 a friend and I always wrap up a movie discussion with that observation: Yeah, you can nitpick good movies for the same stuff you nitpick bad movies for, but you don't, because good movies get away with plotholes and stuff, because they're good, and goodwill papers over a lot of plothole.

Posted by: ace

I've watched the Bogart version of "The Maltese Falcon" at least 20 times, and even read the original novel twice, and I still don't completely understand the motivation of the femme fatale for walking into Sam Spade's office in the first place. It's a big confusing plot hole that no one ever complains about because the rest of the film is so good.

Interesting bit of trivia:

The Elisha Cook character in The Maltese Falcon is, in the original book, very flamboyantly homosexual, and is having an affair with the Peter Lorre character (if I remember correctly). But in the movie, of course, they removed any reference to that. EXCEPT (here's the interesting part) Bogart refers to Elisha Cook as a "gunsel," an underworld slang term that the audience just assumed must mean "gunslinger" (since Cook's character is an assassin). But in reality, "gunsel" is just 1920s slang for what we would now call a "twink" -- a teenage/young-looking gay boy kept as a receptive "bottom" by an older dominant gay guy. Dashiell Hammett used this slang term in the book, and the director decided he could get away with keeping it in the film, since neither the audience nor the censors would get the reference! And he was right -- the censors didn't notice and let the line stand.

Posted by: zombie at December 14, 2017 04:29 PM (42M22)

346 "Oh, That's Not Right!"

- my favorite line from Galaxy Quest

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 14, 2017 04:29 PM (k1TUh)

347 JJ Abrams is really good at putting out dazzling spectacle that people say "THAT WAS AWESOME" when they come out and then a week later, thinking about it go "you know... that was really stupid"

Cloverfield was tolerable because a kaiji stepped on all Abrams' annoying hipster buddies. Just wish it had taken the time to boot Abrams across the Long Island sound too

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at December 14, 2017 04:29 PM (6FqZa)

348 So what are the thoughts on boycotting cartoon movies that are as SJW controlled as the NFL?

Posted by: JackStraw at December 14, 2017 04:29 PM (/tuJf)

349 Thing is Ace, post-peak Marvel and post-peak Star Wars still make more money than basically anything else outside the Disney umbrella put out.

It's basically a matter of efficiency. Post-peak Marvel means the new Mega-MCU takes 7 years to pay back the deal instead of 5 (or something along those lines, plug in the right numbers as needed).

Posted by: TheBlackBaron at December 14, 2017 04:29 PM (6DO4N)

350 Marvel comics has for some time been imposing a strike against the X-Men and Fantastic Four, in a calculated bid to make those properties less valuable and hence more likely to be sold back to Marvel Studios for exploitation. The Fantastic Four's book got cancelled, and I hear that the X-Men stuff is all recycling old villains and old plots, because Marvel comics doesn't want to create any new characters or new ideas -- any new stuff they debuted in X-Men would go right to Fox

========

I'd think that most of the value of the franchise would be in the fact that Fox owned the rights to the characters. Why wouldn't they just hire their own authors for the movies? By this time I'd expect most of the moviegoers are not comic book fans who would expect the movie to be based on this or that "genuine" Marvel book series.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at December 14, 2017 04:29 PM (/qEW2)

351 Umberto Eco did it. (Now, guess which novel!)

==

The Name of the Rose - what do I win ?

Posted by: runner at December 14, 2017 04:29 PM (QC/4S)

352 or is it *kaiju. meh.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at December 14, 2017 04:29 PM (6FqZa)

353 In general, Disney knows how to make entertaining movies and understands its audiences and brands. The leftward tilt will always generate poor performing movies and lower revenues. It does feel like the consolidation of ownership will make it very difficult for independent movies to be seen and gain an audience.

Posted by: IanDeal at December 14, 2017 04:29 PM (qcIL3)

354 The new Crait map from TLJ in SWBF2 is fantastic. The game is still fun to play. Thankfully the last update yesterday fixed the rubber banding issues.

Posted by: CDR M at December 14, 2017 04:29 PM (EkJOK)

355 Kirk can spring a logic trap on r2d2 and c3po and put and end to their crap

Posted by: x at December 14, 2017 04:30 PM (nFwvY)

356 God, I'm sick to death of X-Men. Movies and TV shows about them have been springing up and multiplying at a dizzying pace like fungus on a pile of shit.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at December 14, 2017 04:30 PM (ppaKI)

357 The Farce Awakens was boring. Thrown in a large bit of SJW, super duper girl is the bestest Jedi ever and it was even worse then add in Justin Trudeau as Darth Vader Jr and it got laughably bad.

Yeah it was pretty terrible, but even worse: it was calculated. Every single character, every scene, every line, carefully calculated for specific effect. Emotional reaction A, cute robot for merchandizing B, grrl power C, minority hero D, etc. It was so obviously manipulative. And that puts aside the absolutely ridiculous parts like a sun-eating weapon that fires a beam so powerful it jumps between solar systems in an instant.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 14, 2017 04:30 PM (39g3+)

358 333 Perhaps you'll help us with the cookbook screenplay.

==

hmmm, has potential - murder mystery ?
Posted by: runner at December 14, 2017 04:27 PM (QC/4S)
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Yes! Murder-mystery-action-adventure-drama with (classy) busty lesbian porn

Posted by: Weasel at December 14, 2017 04:30 PM (Sfs6o)

359 "Michael Rennie was ill the day the earth stood still..."

Posted by: Anon a mouse at December 14, 2017 04:30 PM (MINbv)

360 "Kirk always shoots first."

In. His. Dreams.

Posted by: The Paolo at December 14, 2017 04:30 PM (H8S+R)

361 Peak Marvel and Star Wars? Sure - so what? They made a shit load of money off them, more than enough to justify the purchases.

And Disney is the pro when it comes to marketing - that content will be paying them back for decades to come. once a movie has paid back all the production and marketing costs, you get decades of free income via other streams. fan boys gotta fan.

Hell, Disney has enough Marvel stuff right now to set up a Nothing but Marvel TV cable channel.

Posted by: Dean Wormer at December 14, 2017 04:30 PM (fftfA)

362 then add in Justin Trudeau as Darth Vader Jr and it got laughably bad

ha! can't unsee that now

Posted by: brak at December 14, 2017 04:30 PM (WjCgM)

363 Netflix making a a original Conan series and a Grand Theft Auto series would be incredible.

Both of these would be monster hits if done correctly.

Posted by: Randy West at December 14, 2017 04:30 PM (fvkPE)

364 351. Second Book of the Poetics.

Enjoy!

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at December 14, 2017 04:31 PM (fA1SL)

365 Looking forward to the Star Wars / Star Trek crossover Christmas Special

Posted by: Hands at December 14, 2017 04:31 PM (EzdLW)

366 a Grand Theft Auto tv series would be incredible.

Both of these would be monster hits if done correctly.
Posted by: Randy West at December 14, 2017 04:30 PM (fvkPE)

Now that you mention it, I'm shocked this hasn't become a thing yet.

Posted by: What's a Seawolf? at December 14, 2017 04:31 PM (72PAC)

367 By mentioning Half Life 3, you have delayed its release by one month. Half Life 3 will now release January 15, 2347.
Posted by: That Awesome Reddit Bot at December 14, 2017 04:28 PM (72PAC)

...

This is the real reason we need anti-aging drugs.

Posted by: TexasDan at December 14, 2017 04:31 PM (yL25O)

368 "Remember the Tauntauns"

Posted by: Disney presents at December 14, 2017 04:31 PM (XSUzW)

369 314 Greatest movie ever - The Day The Earth Stood Still.
Posted by: Weasel at December 14, 2017 04:24 PM (Sfs6o)

I LOVE Keanu Reeves!

(ducking for cover...)

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 14, 2017 04:32 PM (hcyUh)

370 Force Awakens was a Thing That Should Not Be, "Star Wars" as they watch it in Ringworld's Dungeon-Dimensions. An absolute abomination. Watching it twice brings gibbering madness.

Rogue One, I would rate "salvageable". Like Phantom Menace/Edit and Revenge of the Sith.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at December 14, 2017 04:32 PM (6FqZa)

371 Mickey Mouse is a MONSTER!!!!

Posted by: Minnie Mouse at December 14, 2017 04:32 PM (xFBfz)

372 Hope you like it, and thanks for your patience with Amazon.

Posted by: Weasel at December 14, 2017 04:27 PM (Sfs6o) >>>

No problems for me. I was a bit worried about delivery based on comments. Monday order to Thursday delivery is OK by me if they are print-on-demand.

Do you know the print-shipping process? The FROM address on the UPS box is Amazon Fulfillement Services, Las Vegas, NV.

Posted by: Gref at December 14, 2017 04:32 PM (AMIL/)

373 I've watched the Bogart version of "The Maltese Falcon" at least 20 times, and even read the original novel twice, and I still don't completely understand the motivation of the femme fatale for walking into Sam Spade's office in the first place. It's a big confusing plot hole that no one ever complains about because the rest of the film is so good.

She needs an ally. She's betrayed and alienated every single other person in the story. Plus, she needs to make sure the partner of the man she killed doesn't find out and turn on her, so she's going to seduce him and be safe. At least that's how I see it.

The film is almost perfect, except for Brigid's casting (wrong girl) and they left out the explanation Sam gives her about why he doesn't believe her (the story of the man who moves to Spokane).

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 14, 2017 04:33 PM (39g3+)

374 301 I have never seen the whole Star Wars movie. I have seen little parts here and there of the first one, but never cared enough to watch the whole thing. And I like Science Fiction.
Posted by: Weasel/i]

That explains everything right there.

It really isn't science fiction. Just a melodramatic opera that happens to take place in space.

Trust me, you aren't missing anything.

Posted by: zombie at December 14, 2017 04:33 PM (42M22)

375 unitalic

Posted by: zombie at December 14, 2017 04:33 PM (42M22)

376 a Spider-man-free Silver Sable and Black Cat team-up.

Will there be a protracted, gratuitous and exploitative shower scene involving the two of them?

Posted by: Insomniac - Nobody in Particular at December 14, 2017 04:33 PM (NWiLs)

377 Second Book of the Poetics.

Enjoy!

==

is that the name of Ecco's book ?

Posted by: runner at December 14, 2017 04:33 PM (QC/4S)

378 apparently the new Star Wars has some new fuzzy little made for the toy aisle critter in it. so be prepared to be inundated with that if you have kids or are ever around kids.

at least the prequels tried to tell some kind of story, even if it sucked. the new Disney ones are just rehash of the same story from the originals, plus SJW elements and new toys

Posted by: brak at December 14, 2017 04:33 PM (WjCgM)

379 The worst part about the last 2 SW films has been that they were about the death star or something just like it. Gotta have a new topic. The whole franchise cannot be death stars all the way down. (But they sucked for myriad other reasons too.)

Posted by: Bear with Assymetrical Balls at December 14, 2017 04:33 PM (UubSE)

380 "marvel has been an unholy garbage fire but they fired their SJW E-i-C and replaced him with someone people have hopes for. However, the changes will not be reflected in the books for 6 months (long lead time for issues).

I still think they'll be trash -- personnel is policy, and they're stocked to the gills with SJWs -- but some people have (naive) hope. "

I hear ya, brother. I also had the thought that this story probably began under the dreaded Axel Alonso.
But I'm also not sure the new guy will be much different about such things.

I've disliked Alonso ever since he edited the JMS run on Spider-Man, which was so misguided and god-awful that I actually quit reading Spider-Man for the only time since 1971. It was that bad.

So after ruining Spider-Man, Alonso gets promoted to ruin the entire line. Well done, Marvel!

Posted by: tsj017 at December 14, 2017 04:33 PM (4YUWF)

381 Umberto Eco's that is

Posted by: runner at December 14, 2017 04:34 PM (QC/4S)

382 Rogue One seems to polarize fans. For myself, I thought it was third-best SW film, behind the original and Empire.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at December 14, 2017 04:34 PM (ppaKI)

383 I LOVE Keanu Reeves!

(ducking for cover...)

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 14, 2017 04:32 PM (hcyUh)

Unironically, I do too. I love John Wick and Keanu seems to be a genuinely decent human being. As a bonus, I have never heard him open his yob about politics.

Posted by: redbanzai at December 14, 2017 04:34 PM (SrkNc)

384 377 & 381. Nope. Novel was The Name of the Rose - damned fine novel.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at December 14, 2017 04:35 PM (fA1SL)

385 Gotta have a new topic. The whole franchise cannot be death stars all the way down.

The Extended Universe, unfortunately, went for the easy NEW SOOPER WEPPIN money grab here too. When they brought Timothy Zahn back to do more books for it he mocked that.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at December 14, 2017 04:35 PM (6FqZa)

386
WOOHOO!
Now I can pitch my movie about a talking pie.
Mmmm, pie.

Posted by: Homer Simpson at December 14, 2017 04:35 PM (t6XCL)

387 -
--

I have never seen the whole Star Wars movie. I have seen little parts
here and there of the first one, but never cared enough to watch the
whole thing. And I like Science Fiction.

Posted by: Weasel at December 14, 2017 04:22 PM (Sfs6o)

--It's more space opera than science fiction.

Posted by: logprof at December 14, 2017 04:23 PM (GsAUU)

It is? I don't remember anyone singing in the movie

Posted by: TheQuietMan at December 14, 2017 04:27 PM

---------------------------------------------

Oh, come on. Chewbacca was yodeling in every other scene.

Posted by: irright at December 14, 2017 04:35 PM (pMGkg)

388
I LOVE Keanu Reeves!
(ducking for cover...)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 14, 2017 04:32 PM (hcyUh)
------
I need to lay down with a wet washcloth on my forehead.

Posted by: Weasel at December 14, 2017 04:35 PM (Sfs6o)

389 Wow. Morons really love their cartoons.

Posted by: LASue at December 14, 2017 04:35 PM (XpDAo)

390 Wheres my fucking service animal!!!!

Posted by: Minnie Mouse at December 14, 2017 04:35 PM (xFBfz)

391 I mean comics!

Posted by: LASue at December 14, 2017 04:35 PM (XpDAo)

392 So perhaps finally a blu day release of a remastered original theatrical version of Star Wars.
Posted by: Buzzion at December 14, 2017 04:10 PM (lKs2v)

Yes. Return of the Jedi was on TV a few nights back with all of Lucas' cringe worthy "additions" to that movie. "Noooooo. Nooooo."

I would have laughed if it wasn't so pathetic.

Posted by: Keith at December 14, 2017 04:35 PM (USf3s)

393 Did they play that live version of A Christmas Story yet? It'll put your eye out.

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at December 14, 2017 04:36 PM (6Ll1u)

394 Apropos of nothing, why didn't you Morons warn me that Valerian and the City Where Nothing Interesting Happens was a waste of time? I mean, other than Bubble's Dance which was fucking amazing.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 14, 2017 04:36 PM (QQ+il)

395 Ordered the cookbook, plus signed up for Amazon Prime for a month. I know Amazon is owned by a scumbag, but heck, so are probably most of the other places I shop at.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 14, 2017 04:36 PM (39g3+)

396 383 I LOVE Keanu Reeves!

(ducking for cover...)

I always wanted to see Bill and Ted's Excellent Matrix.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 14, 2017 04:36 PM (k1TUh)

397 Rogue One seems to polarize fans. For myself, I thought it was third-best SW film, behind the original and Empire.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at December 14, 2017 04:34 PM (ppaKI)

Was that the diversity rebels fighting the white supremacist Empire?

Posted by: TheQuietMan at December 14, 2017 04:36 PM (493sH)

398 and I still don't completely understand the motivation"

Always saw her as another foreign element (like the aforementioned falcon) introduced into what was a "normal" or everyday existence...

Posted by: Anon a mouse at December 14, 2017 04:37 PM (MINbv)

399 "The Force Awakens was boring. Thrown in a large bit of SJW, super duper girl is the bestest Jedi ever and it was even worse then add in Justin Trudeau as Darth Vader Jr and it got laughably bad."

It was pretty awful. And no one noticed - it was simply an inferior re-make of what came before, right down to the whole destroy the death star thingy. "Make Luke a girl and Lea a black dude" is not exactly an original idea.

But the whole SJW crowd is never exactly original in their thinking. It is all about signaling each other that they are with it baby, yeah! They say things like "I'm so excited the hero is a girl." not "I'm so excited it is star wars", or "I'm so excited over the terrific plot!" What they really mean is "I'm so excited we stole this great thing from someone else to make our silly SJW point."

Posted by: Dean Wormer at December 14, 2017 04:37 PM (fftfA)

400 Donald Jr. pulled my tail in preschool!!

Posted by: Minnie Mouse at December 14, 2017 04:37 PM (xFBfz)

401 Gotta have a new topic. The whole franchise cannot be death stars all the way down.

SW meets Starship Troopers.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 14, 2017 04:37 PM (lmYrx)

402
Meesa tink yousa Jedi ees weak.

*waves hand*

Deesa aren't da droids yousa seek.

*goggles eyes*

HEY! Dazza rhyme!

*reaches for rasta-colored lightsaber*

Posted by: Darth Binks at December 14, 2017 04:37 PM (veoSD)

403
@384 @351

Posted by: runner at December 14, 2017 04:37 PM (QC/4S)

404 Will there be a protracted, gratuitous and exploitative shower scene involving the two of them?

It starts out as a fight, but ends up with them ripping pieces of costume off and into the shower where they make out.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 14, 2017 04:38 PM (39g3+)

405 Unironically, I do too. I love John Wick and Keanu seems to be a genuinely decent human being. As a bonus, I have never heard him open his yob about politics.
Posted by: redbanzai at December 14, 2017 04:34 PM (SrkNc)

(TBH, I agree... just looking to get a rise out of the Horde about that remake of TDTESS he was in...

)

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 14, 2017 04:38 PM (hcyUh)

406 "The Force Awakens was boring. Thrown in a large bit of SJW, super duper girl is the bestest Jedi ever and it was even worse then add in Justin ~~Trudeau~~ Bieber as Darth Vader Jr and it got laughably bad."

Fixed for worseness.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 14, 2017 04:39 PM (lmYrx)

407 Klaatu was a damn busybody.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 14, 2017 04:39 PM (IqV8l)

408 Was that the diversity rebels fighting the white supremacist Empire?
Posted by: TheQuietMan at December 14, 2017 04:36 PM (493sH)

That was one of the most noticeably terrible things about that movie.

They were PURE SJW diversity BS hires. I love asking people who claim RO is so great, 'what were the names of the characters?'

Because outside of Jyn almost no one can remember, BECAUSE THEY ALL SUCKED AND HAD NO CHARACTER.

Posted by: What's a Seawolf? at December 14, 2017 04:39 PM (72PAC)

409 Rogue One was literally one of the most forgettable movies I've ever seen.

Posted by: Randy West at December 14, 2017 04:39 PM (fvkPE)

410 Looking forward to the Star Wars / Star Trek crossover Christmas Special

Posted by: Hands at December 14, 2017 04:31 PM (EzdLW)

The Ringo TV special from 1978 is on youtube. Art Carney plays Ringo's dad and Ringo sings You're 16 to Carrie Fisher. At least they didn't include Bea Arthur

Posted by: TheQuietMan at December 14, 2017 04:39 PM (493sH)

411 -
--
"Oh, That's Not Right!"

- my favorite line from Galaxy Quest

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 14, 2017 04:29 PM

-------------------

Was Kevin Meaney in that?

Posted by: irright at December 14, 2017 04:40 PM (pMGkg)

412 As they are fond of saying in the Star Wars movies: "I've got a bad feeling about this."

Posted by: Darth Randall at December 14, 2017 04:40 PM (6n332)

413 Actually, Universal only has the [still potentially lucrative] distribution rights to Hulk solo movies. So Marvel can use Hulk with other heroes (i.e. Thor Ragnarok) or can make a Hulk solo movie, but it would be distributed by Universal instead of Disney.

Posted by: Holdfast at December 14, 2017 04:40 PM (Q6rS8)

414 O/T, sorta, the guy my daughter lives with is into comics or graphic novels or whatever it's called.

Anyway, in searching through Amazon for a gift for the boyfriend, I stumbled across a book called "The League of Regrettable Superheroes:Half Baked Heroes from Comic Book History" which I promptly purchased and sent. Looks to be a hoot.

https://tinyurl.com/ybkjm9yl

Posted by: Blake at December 14, 2017 04:40 PM (qC1Sy)

415 Keanu does seem to be a really great guy, and again I want to plug his documentary Side by Side. It is super interesting and well done and you learn a ton about film making and where things are headed.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 14, 2017 04:40 PM (39g3+)

416 I LOVE Keanu Reeves!

He was superb as Jordan Peele's kitty cat.

Posted by: Hands at December 14, 2017 04:40 PM (EzdLW)

417 I remember stunning a much younger relative, who thought "Force Awakens" was Absolutely Wonderful, by observing "Did you realize that was mostly a scene by scene remake of A New Hope, and not as good as the original?"

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 14, 2017 04:40 PM (k1TUh)

418 404 Will there be a protracted, gratuitous and exploitative shower scene involving the two of them?

It starts out as a fight, but ends up with them ripping pieces of costume off and into the shower where they make out.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 14, 2017 04:38 PM (39g3+)

SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY!!!

Posted by: Insomniac - Nobody in Particular at December 14, 2017 04:40 PM (NWiLs)

419 Donald Trump made me eat Cheese Whiz from the can!!

Posted by: Minnie Mouse at December 14, 2017 04:40 PM (xFBfz)

420 Further encirclement by Cultural Marxist propaganda disguised as entertainment.

If you've got kids, you have probably seen Disney's Saturday morning children's shows. They are rotten with this stuff.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 14, 2017 04:41 PM (3XQfZ)

421 why didn't you Morons warn me that Valerian and the City Where Nothing Interesting Happens was a waste of time?

They did. You just didn't listen.

I didn't either btw. And yes, it was an overly-episodic confused mess. And Luc Besson's moral is that colonialism is bad, if Brits do it, not like us Frenchmen.

I propose airdropping Besson into Port-au-Prince, butt-naked except for one of those cute berets on his head.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at December 14, 2017 04:41 PM (6FqZa)

422 why didn't you Morons warn me that Valerian and the City Where Nothing Interesting Happens was a waste of time"

It's French.

You're welcome.

Posted by: Anon a mouse at December 14, 2017 04:41 PM (MINbv)

423 Plot twist: Tatooine is Arakis

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at December 14, 2017 04:41 PM (fA1SL)

424
Unironically, I do too. I love John Wick and Keanu seems to be a
genuinely decent human being. As a bonus, I have never heard him open
his yob about politics.

Posted by: redbanzai at December 14, 2017 04:34 PM (SrkNc)

(TBH, I agree... just looking to get a rise out of the Horde about that remake of TDTESS he was in... )

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 14, 2017 04:38 PM (hcyUh)

He also makes really cool looking motorcycles: https://www.wired.com/story/keanu-reeves-latest-excellent-adventure-making-motorcycles/

Posted by: redbanzai at December 14, 2017 04:42 PM (SrkNc)

425 A test of how good the recent star wars movies are: how many characters names can you remember?

I mean new ones, not the old characters like Leia and Han that showed up.

Can you even remember any of them without looking anything up? I can remember one: Darth Justin Trudeau guy.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 14, 2017 04:42 PM (39g3+)

426 Doesn't FOX own the Alien franchise?

Ridley Scott has basically murdered it with his horrible "Prometheus" and "Prometheus Goes to Paris" movies.

Honestly, who thought that there would ever be a worse Alien movie than "Alien 4: We're European All Over Your Hopes For This Movie".

Disney certainly couldn't do worse....perhaps an all-singing, Alien Princess cartoon.

Posted by: naturalfake at December 14, 2017 04:42 PM (NyJwR)

427
Donald Jr. pulled my tail in preschool!!
Posted by: Minnie Mouse at December 14, 2017 04:37 PM (xFBfz)

He pinned one on me

Posted by: The Donkey at December 14, 2017 04:43 PM (lKyWE)

428 I propose airdropping Besson into Port-au-Prince, butt-naked except for one of those cute berets on his head.

=

murder-mystery

Posted by: runner at December 14, 2017 04:43 PM (QC/4S)

429 >>>I know Amazon is owned by a scumbag, but heck, so are probably most of the other places I shop at.

I rarely boycott any company; if they produce a product I want for a price I'm willing to pay, I buy it. I even drop a few bucks now and then on those insufferable faux-hippies Ben and Jerry. Of course, if they weren't such self-righteous douchebags, I'd spend a lot more.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at December 14, 2017 04:43 PM (ppaKI)

430 Cloverfield stole the ending from Miracle Mile and added a kaiju.

Posted by: Hands at December 14, 2017 04:43 PM (EzdLW)

431 Disney certainly couldn't do worse....perhaps an all-singing, Alien Princess cartoon.
Posted by: naturalfake at December 14, 2017 04:42 PM (NyJwR)

Whirling around, singing "A Whole New Abdomen!"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 14, 2017 04:43 PM (hcyUh)

432 346 "Oh, That's Not Right!"

- my favorite line from Galaxy Quest
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 14, 2017 04:29 PM (k1TUh)

The way he says it is just hilarious. Sam Rockwell is definitely an underrated actor.

Posted by: Insomniac - Nobody in Particular at December 14, 2017 04:43 PM (NWiLs)

433 Annette Funicello appropriated my ears! That bitch! She was NOT a mouse in real life!

Posted by: Minnie Mouse at December 14, 2017 04:43 PM (xFBfz)

434 Cookbook: The Movie will borrow heavily from The Matrix franchise.

Posted by: Weasel at December 14, 2017 04:44 PM (Sfs6o)

435 Here's some of the most outrageous college classes of 2017-18: REPORT

https://preview.tinyurl.com/y8t9djl4

I want every one of these assholes to pay back every dime of their student loans. Every. Dime.

Posted by: Under Fire at December 14, 2017 04:44 PM (r9UYA)

436 Was there a sex scandal today? I've lost track.

Posted by: shibumi at December 14, 2017 04:44 PM (aT+Bx)

437 434 Cookbook: The Movie will borrow heavily from The Matrix franchise.
Posted by: Weasel at December 14, 2017 04:44 PM (Sfs6o)

Who gets the sex scene?

Posted by: What's a Seawolf? at December 14, 2017 04:44 PM (72PAC)

438 What dipshit decided the heavy should be a whiny brat who throws hissy-fits?

Posted by: irright at December 14, 2017 04:28 PM (pMGkg)

I don't know but when he took off his mask I thought, It's Justin Trudeau. If he's going to be Darth 2.0 they might want to rethink that. Of course for the pajama bois he might be menacing.

Posted by: TheQuietMan at December 14, 2017 04:45 PM (493sH)

439 for SF fans... might have to read Moira Greyland's The Last Closet

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at December 14, 2017 04:45 PM (6FqZa)

440 426 Doesn't FOX own the Alien franchise?

Ridley Scott has basically murdered it with his horrible "Prometheus" and "Prometheus Goes to Paris" movies.

Honestly, who thought that there would ever be a worse Alien movie than "Alien 4: We're European All Over Your Hopes For This Movie".

Disney certainly couldn't do worse....perhaps an all-singing, Alien Princess cartoon.
Posted by: naturalfake at December 14, 2017 04:42 PM (NyJwR)

Next time it'll be an all-ghey cast desperately trying to escape an alien stalking them in an off world rave club.

Posted by: Insomniac - Nobody in Particular at December 14, 2017 04:45 PM (NWiLs)

441 Who gets the sex scene?
Posted by: What's a Seawolf? at December 14, 2017 04:44 PM (72PAC)

Doesn't matter.

Whole thing'll be covered by a Sonobi ad anyway.

Sad!

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 14, 2017 04:45 PM (hcyUh)

442 437 434 Cookbook: The Movie will borrow heavily from The Matrix franchise.
Posted by: Weasel at December 14, 2017 04:44 PM (Sfs6o)

Who gets the sex scene?
Posted by: What's a Seawolf? at December 14, 2017 04:44 PM (72PAC)
--------
The Amazon order processing people.

Posted by: Weasel at December 14, 2017 04:45 PM (Sfs6o)

443 436. Kentucky state rep jumped off a bridge last night. #MeToo of 'merica again.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at December 14, 2017 04:46 PM (fA1SL)

444 Sam Rockwell is great, he's one of those That Guy actors who is so good you know his name. But he's so different in each role. Did a great job in Moon too. Very capable actor. Galaxy Quest was really well cast though, excellent actors in roles they were perfect for.

You have a last name, Guy!

DO I? DO I??

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 14, 2017 04:46 PM (39g3+)

445 Entertainment is now the financial king in a world that has made living relatively easy. Movies, TV , internet, books, tourism, gambling and sports. I would include the fashion world in that.

Wait until the robots take over.

Posted by: Roc Ingersol at December 14, 2017 04:46 PM (2DOZq)

446 Part of Disney's business model is changing society for their own selfish benefit, like cockroaches gaining access to the building climate control and cranking it up to 90 degrees and 85% humidity.

Miley Cyrus was featured in a children's show on Disney when she was younger. Just look at her now. The little shiksa was a plaything I bet.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 14, 2017 04:46 PM (3XQfZ)

447 Was there a sex scandal today? I've lost track.

Posted by: shibumi at December 14, 2017 04:44 PM (aT+Bx)

Tavis Smiley was yesterday, I think. As was Salma Hayak jumping on the #metoo bandwagon and upping the ante by not very believably claiming Weinstein threatened to MURDER HER (15 years ago).

Posted by: redbanzai at December 14, 2017 04:46 PM (SrkNc)

448 >>436 Was there a sex scandal today? I've lost track.

Posted by: shibumi at December 14, 2017 04:44 PM (aT+Bx)

Hard to keep track. Another chef baked some sausage bread.

Posted by: Under Fire at December 14, 2017 04:46 PM (r9UYA)

449 There was a sex scene in Matrix?

Posted by: auscolpyr at December 14, 2017 04:46 PM (suO/a)

450 RINO Rubio is not the only one welching on the Tax Cut bill over the BS
child tax credit. Mike Lee who is normally as conservative as he can be
is welching too want more child tax credit.

http://tinyurl.com/y8xyakez

The tax cut is dead because of back stabbing assholes.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at December 14, 2017 04:46 PM (mpXpK)

451 Cookbook: The Movie will borrow heavily from The Matrix franchise.
Posted by: Weasel at December 14, 2017 04:44 PM (Sfs6o)

Who gets the sex scene?
Posted by: What's a Seawolf?

Betty Crocker & The Pillsbury Dough Boy.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 14, 2017 04:47 PM (lmYrx)

452 >>>Plot twist: Tatooine is Arakis

Well, in Jedi there WAS a giant worm in the sand. It munched on a yummy Boba Fett snack.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at December 14, 2017 04:47 PM (ppaKI)

453 What dipshit decided the heavy should be a whiny brat who throws hissy-fits?

My guess is that he's supposed to develop, age, and grow over the film so he starts out a petulant teen but... it was awful. And I didn't see it in a theater, but I heard people just laughed out loud hen he showed his pimply soy boy face.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 14, 2017 04:47 PM (39g3+)

454 Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 14, 2017 04:46 PM (39g3+)

That is a coincidence.

Posted by: Roc Ingersol at December 14, 2017 04:47 PM (2DOZq)

455 Wait until the robots take over.

I have robot insurance.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 14, 2017 04:47 PM (QQ+il)

456 409 Rogue One was literally one of the most forgettable movies I've ever seen.
Posted by: Randy West at December 14, 2017 04:39 PM (fvkPE)

Which one was that again?

Posted by: TexasDan at December 14, 2017 04:47 PM (yL25O)

457 444 Sam Rockwell is great, he's one of those That Guy actors who is so good you know his name. But he's so different in each role. Did a great job in Moon too. Very capable actor. Galaxy Quest was really well cast though, excellent actors in roles they were perfect for.

You have a last name, Guy!

DO I? DO I??
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 14, 2017 04:46 PM (39g3+)

Loved that scene.

"Oh yeah? Then what's my last name?"

"It's um...ummm...."

"SEE!? YOU DON'T KNOW!"

Posted by: Insomniac - Nobody in Particular at December 14, 2017 04:47 PM (NWiLs)

458 Eat a bag of dicks Disney.

Posted by: Archer at December 14, 2017 04:47 PM (gbWkA)

459 I propose airdropping Besson into Port-au-Prince, butt-naked"

Haiti has suffered enough

Posted by: Anon a mouse at December 14, 2017 04:47 PM (MINbv)

460
Further encirclement by Cultural Marxist propaganda disguised as entertainment.

If you've got kids, you have probably seen Disney's Saturday morning children's shows. They are rotten with this stuff.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug

Thank goodness there was none of that crap in Popeye or Huckleberry Hound.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 14, 2017 04:48 PM (IqV8l)

461 Kentucky state rep jumped off a bridge last night. #MeToo of 'merica again.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at December 14, 2017 04:46 PM (fA1SL)

Because of leftie sexual accusations along the same lines that Roy Moore suffered. Even though the police found no truthfulness to his teenage accuser's story, he was still being hounded to resign.

Posted by: redbanzai at December 14, 2017 04:48 PM (SrkNc)

462 So what are the thoughts on boycotting cartoon movies that are as SJW controlled as the NFL?

Posted by: JackStraw at December 14, 2017 04:29 PM (/tuJf)

========

As much as it's a shame for such things to be supported, everyone needs to decide for themselves on whether the sacrifice is worth it - I only ask them to keep the following in mind if they decide to keep watching - "Is my enjoyment enough to counterbalance the annoyance caused by the propaganda bullshit? Or am I making myself miserable out of habit, or some false obligation to keep up with trends? Do I have some vain hope that this time the movie will be good, like Charlie Brown thinking Lucy will not pull the football away this time?" If people consciously ask themselves this, it might help a few to honestly quit.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at December 14, 2017 04:48 PM (/qEW2)

463 458 Eat a bag of dicks Disney.
Posted by: Archer at December 14, 2017 04:47 PM (gbWkA)

We own you now.

Posted by: Disney at December 14, 2017 04:48 PM (72PAC)

464 >>The tax cut is dead because of back stabbing assholes.

It's not dead, it's typical last minute negotiating when individuals have the most leverage.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 14, 2017 04:48 PM (/tuJf)

465 Yeah, Scott has really degraded the franchise. I think its time to try something totally different - a high art stage plage in which Meryl Streep plays the xenomorph without make-up or costume. Sort of Vagina Monologues meets Alien.

I don't know why the studios don't answer my letters.

Posted by: Bear with Assymetrical Balls at December 14, 2017 04:48 PM (UubSE)

466 Ace, just to clarify, Universal only owns the distribution rights to Hulk, not the character itself. Ragnarok is basically a favorite Hulk shoreline disguised as a Thor film.

Posted by: Max Power at December 14, 2017 04:48 PM (Hucnr)

467 Stay classy:

Leftists phone in BOMB THREAT to stop FCC meeting repealing Net Neutrality:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5180015/ Protesters-gather-U-S-regulators-meet-end-net-neutrality.html

Posted by: zombie at December 14, 2017 04:48 PM (42M22)

468 "Warp speed, Number Two."

Posted by: Disney presents at December 14, 2017 04:49 PM (XSUzW)

469 he tax cut is dead because of back stabbing assholes.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at December 14, 2017 04:46 PM (mpXpK)

Its not dead yet and we need to call them and let them know how very unhappy we are.

Posted by: redbanzai at December 14, 2017 04:49 PM (SrkNc)

470 Which one was that again"

The one with the brown wizard, I think.

Posted by: Anon a mouse at December 14, 2017 04:49 PM (MINbv)

471 465 Yeah, Scott has really degraded the franchise. I think its time to try something totally different - a high art stage plage in which Meryl Streep plays the xenomorph without make-up or costume. Sort of Vagina Monologues meets Alien.

I don't know why the studios don't answer my letters.
Posted by: Bear with Assymetrical Balls at December 14, 2017 04:48 PM (UubSE)

The franchise peaked at Aliens then went completely to shit.

Posted by: Insomniac - Nobody in Particular at December 14, 2017 04:49 PM (NWiLs)

472 Its not dead yet and we need to call them and let them know how very unhappy we are.
Posted by: redbanzai at December 14, 2017 04:49 PM (SrkNc)

Ha. Haha. HahahahAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

Suck it, peasants.

Posted by: The Uniparty at December 14, 2017 04:50 PM (72PAC)

473 I don't mind the SJW controlling interests as much if they aren't violating the product. If there's a Captain America movie all about his white privilege and he retires after a 30 minute apology and hands Whoopi Goldberg his shield, yeah boycott city.

But I can't boycott everything that has crappy ownership or I'd be making everything from what I can find in the nearby park woods.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 14, 2017 04:50 PM (39g3+)

474 Wait until the robots take over.
---

We're all going to die. I'd rather be taken out by a rogue super intelligent Skynet type thing than a splodey dope with the IQ of plastic bag.

But then again, that's me.

Posted by: shibumi at December 14, 2017 04:50 PM (aT+Bx)

475
"Warp speed, Number Two."

I'm on it!

Posted by: Metamucil at December 14, 2017 04:51 PM (IqV8l)

476 473 I don't mind the SJW controlling interests as much if they aren't violating the product. If there's a Captain America movie all about his white privilege and he retires after a 30 minute apology and hands Whoopi Goldberg his shield, yeah boycott city.

But I can't boycott everything that has crappy ownership or I'd be making everything from what I can find in the nearby park woods.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 14, 2017 04:50 PM (39g3+)

He'll exchange his Super Soldier serum for soy milk. Sad!

Posted by: Insomniac - Nobody in Particular at December 14, 2017 04:51 PM (NWiLs)

477 449 There was a sex scene in Matrix?
Posted by: auscolpyr at December 14, 2017 04:46 PM (suO/a)

In the second one. It was intertwined with an orgy rave.

(Not making this up.)

Posted by: What's a Seawolf? at December 14, 2017 04:51 PM (72PAC)

478 "I even drop a few bucks now and then on those insufferable faux-hippies Ben and Jerry."

The wife and I stopped at the Ben and Jerry factory in Vermont after a trip to Montreal. Didn't bother with the tour, but did get a few cones of salted caramel ice cream.

Actually, it was pretty good.

Posted by: Jwest at December 14, 2017 04:51 PM (/roJx)

479 Part of the Net Neutrality thing I heard is content is the big gorilla in the room. Who owns what you see is what the fight is going to be about, not who sends the info to you.

Posted by: Skip at December 14, 2017 04:51 PM (aC6Sd)

480 I think 21st Century was purchased for $600 million, so, assuming it has been profitable along the way, $52 billion seems like a nice profit.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 14, 2017 04:52 PM (w1zJX)

481 Frankly I wish they would lower the overall rates for everybody and totally end the child tax credits. It should be a flat tax with no deductions or credits.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at December 14, 2017 04:52 PM (mpXpK)

482 52 Billion?! HOLY SCHNIKES!!!

Posted by: Steamboat Willy at December 14, 2017 04:52 PM (U5Xeq)

483 We're all going to die. I'd rather be taken out by a rogue super intelligent Skynet type thing than a splodey dope with the IQ of plastic bag.

But then again, that's me.

Posted by: shibumi at December 14, 2017 04:50 PM (aT+Bx)

Best-case-worst-case scenario:

Splodey dope gets killed by Skynet.
I get a job working for Skynet.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 14, 2017 04:52 PM (hcyUh)

484 So what are the thoughts on boycotting cartoon movies that are as SJW controlled as the NFL?

Posted by: JackStraw at December 14, 2017 04:29 PM (/tuJf)

Do these cartoon movies directly disrespect the flag and National anthem? When they become that in your face I do not see any other choice. For some people even that is not enough.

Posted by: Roc Ingersol at December 14, 2017 04:52 PM (2DOZq)

485
I've watched the Bogart version of "The Maltese Falcon" at least 20 times, and even read the original novel twice, and I still don't completely understand the motivation of the femme fatale for walking into Sam Spade's office in the first place. It's a big confusing plot hole that no one ever complains about because the rest of the film is so good.

She needed a patsy. Someone to take point in dealing with all of these dangerous characters, because she wasn't strong enough to do so alone. Killing Miles was a calculated way to get Spade to commit, to give him the motivation to go all in. Much like how she lead him by the nose and got him to fall in love with her.

And once Spade got the Falcon for her, she'd shiv him in the liver and disappear.

Posted by: Darth Binks at December 14, 2017 04:52 PM (veoSD)

486 Han Solo flew the Maltese Falcon like a boss.

Posted by: Insomniac - Nobody in Particular at December 14, 2017 04:53 PM (NWiLs)

487 and totally end the child tax credits."

You ogre. What about the chillen?

Posted by: Anon a mouse at December 14, 2017 04:53 PM (MINbv)

488 I think its time to try something totally different - a high art stage
plage in which Meryl Streep plays the xenomorph without make-up or
costume. Sort of Vagina Monologues meets Alien.

I don't know why the studios don't answer my letters.

Posted by: Bear with Assymetrical Balls at December 14, 2017 04:48 PM
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This is brilliant on several levels, and therefore, I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.

Posted by: shibumi at December 14, 2017 04:53 PM (aT+Bx)

489 ... or I'd be making everything from what I can find in the nearby park woods.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 14, 2017 04:50 PM

Yoo hoo!

Posted by: Hillary! Fresh from another (D) victory! at December 14, 2017 04:53 PM (ctuyM)

490
Well, Little Marco is showing his little twink ass, bless his little heart.

Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at December 14, 2017 04:54 PM (8O3HH)

491 Part of the Net Neutrality thing I heard is content is the big gorilla in the room"

So it's a mid morning thread?

Posted by: Anon a mouse at December 14, 2017 04:54 PM (MINbv)

492 There wouldn't be any need for things like child tax credits if the Feds would stop taxing the ever living shit out of us. But we all know that's never going to happen.

Posted by: Insomniac - Nobody in Particular at December 14, 2017 04:54 PM (NWiLs)

493 477 449 There was a sex scene in Matrix?
Posted by: auscolpyr at December 14, 2017 04:46 PM (suO/a)
In the second one. It was intertwined with an orgy rave.
(Not making this up.)

Is that where Agent Smith and Neo decided they need to get inside each other?

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 14, 2017 04:54 PM (k1TUh)

494 Eat a bag of dicks Disney.
Posted by: Archer at December 14, 2017 04:47 PM (gbWkA)

We own you now.
Posted by: Disney
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Is Sonobi the Kim Philby of Disney? You decide.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 14, 2017 04:55 PM (w1zJX)

495 490
Well, Little Marco is showing his little twink ass, bless his little heart.
Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at December 14, 2017 04:54 PM (8O3HH)

*fans self*

Posted by: Anderson Cooper at December 14, 2017 04:55 PM (NWiLs)

496 Best-case-worst-case scenario:

Splodey dope gets killed by Skynet.

I get a job working for Skynet.

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You have thought this out.

Well done sir. Well done.

Posted by: shibumi at December 14, 2017 04:55 PM (aT+Bx)

497 And once Spade got the Falcon for her, she'd shiv him in the liver and disappear.
Posted by: Darth Binks at December 14, 2017 04:52 PM (veoSD)

I just re-read 'The Maltese Falcon' for the nth time. It's about style, mood, setting, pacing, character. Hammett could give a damn about plot.

Posted by: troyriser at December 14, 2017 04:55 PM (raGQi)

498 >>Do these cartoon movies directly disrespect the flag and National anthem? When they become that in your face I do not see any other choice. For some people even that is not enough.

Kind of hair splitting. No, they don't always disrespect the anthem or the flag largely because it's rarely included as part of the product. But they do inject much more SJW content into the actual content.

I don't really care what people watch or don't watch, just wondering given the huge backlash against the NFL.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 14, 2017 04:55 PM (/tuJf)

499 You ogre. What about the ~~chillen~~ niños?

Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 14, 2017 04:55 PM (QQ+il)

500 >> Han Solo flew the Maltese Falcon like a boss.

And his daughter hope hid the Maltese Falcon from him in her special place.

Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at December 14, 2017 04:55 PM (8O3HH)

501 You're not wrong about Alien/Aliens, Insomniac.

I think the third movie is actually good, it just should not have been an Alien movie or else not involved charachters from the first two films.

In a perverse way, I admire the balls of whoever wrote and made Alien III. Has anyone ever told their audience to fuck off harder? (Oh, you like Hicks and Newt do you?)

Posted by: Bear with Assymetrical Balls at December 14, 2017 04:55 PM (UubSE)

502 The Atlanta Fed increased its real-time estimate of GDP growth to 3.3%. Their last estimate was 2.9% on Dec 8.

Turrible.

Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at December 14, 2017 04:56 PM (398bZ)

503 Eat a bag of dicks Disney.
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"Eat a bag of dicks", heretofore referred to as The Phrase, and all derivative phrases are the wholly owned property of Walt Disney, Inc. All rights reserved. Private use is strictly prohibited. Unauthorized use of The Phrase or similar material will result in prosecution to the fullest extent of the law up to and including the death penalty. Have a nice day and be sure to visit Disneyworld and Disneyland. Now.

Posted by: Disney presents at December 14, 2017 04:56 PM (XSUzW)

504 Well, Little Marco is showing his little twink ass, bless his little heart.

Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at December 14, 2017 04:54 PM (8O3HH)

*fans self*

Posted by: Anderson Cooper at December 14, 2017 04:55 PM (NWiLs)

I am sure all of his pensioner constituents will be thrilled at paying more taxes to save child tax credits for other people... right?

Posted by: redbanzai at December 14, 2017 04:57 PM (SrkNc)

505 STAR WARS A New, New Hope

-- Screen Crawl to John Williams Score

Having Killed his father and quieted his internal conflicts, Kylo Ren learns of a new and disturbing development-- he senses the aura of another Solo. An Aunt?

-- Accelerates towards retreating TIE fighter

(FINN) Look at him he's heading for that small moon. I think I can get him before he gets there. He's almost in range."

(REY) That's no moon!

Posted by: Keith at December 14, 2017 04:57 PM (USf3s)

506 486. 'Do you have any idea, sir, of how many quatloos can be got for that Wookie? - Kaspar the Hutt

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at December 14, 2017 04:57 PM (fA1SL)

507 Cookbook: The Movie will borrow heavily from The Matrix franchise.
Posted by: Weasel at December 14, 2017 04:44 PM

And willow's scene is after the credits?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 14, 2017 04:58 PM (ctuyM)

508 Posted by: JackStraw at December 14, 2017 04:55 PM (/tuJf)

It is not hair splitting. The NFL boycott is directly related to the kneeling. It is the straw that broke the camels back for most. Any other institution that decides to do that on the scale of the NFL will get the same results.

Posted by: Roc Ingersol at December 14, 2017 04:58 PM (2DOZq)

509 "Eat a bag of dicks", heretofore referred to as The Phrase, and all derivative phrases are the wholly owned property of Walt Disney, Inc. All rights reserved. Private use is strictly prohibited. Unauthorized use of The Phrase or similar material will result in prosecution to the fullest extent of the law up to and including the death penalty. Have a nice day and be sure to visit Disneyworld and Disneyland. Now.
Posted by: Disney presents at December 14, 2017 04:56 PM (XSUzW)

Well, you say that...

Posted by: Insomniac - Nobody in Particular at December 14, 2017 04:58 PM (NWiLs)

510 Do you get the child tax credits if you don't itemize? Why should a married couple with 6 children be taxed at the same rate as a married couple with no children? I'm fine with a flat tax, but that's not happening this year. So I'm good with a child tax credit. Either that, or every adult gets taxed as an individual.

Posted by: grammie winger - stunned by Christmas at December 14, 2017 04:58 PM (lwiT4)

511 Doesn't FOX own the Alien franchise?

Ridley Scott has basically murdered it with his horrible "Prometheus" and "Prometheus Goes to Paris" movies.

Honestly, who thought that there would ever be a worse Alien movie than "Alien 4: We're European All Over Your Hopes For This Movie".

Disney certainly couldn't do worse....perhaps an all-singing, Alien Princess cartoon.

Posted by: naturalfake at December 14, 2017 04:42 PM

I suspect the Alien series is beyond being salvaged. Ridley Scott has no idea what's he's doing anymore and a good movie would have to write off everything he's done on his 2 latest flicks.

Posted by: otho at December 14, 2017 04:58 PM (qGuLD)

512 The Bogart movie that really is incoherent is "The Big Sleep", although it's a lot of fun to watch. He starts off looking for this missing Chauffeur, and by the end of the movie it looks like everyone has forgotten that the chauffeur even existed.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 14, 2017 04:59 PM (k1TUh)

513 Which is beating a deader horse: Another Star Wars, or another Marvel movie?

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at December 14, 2017 04:59 PM (oVJmc)

514 Celebrities Melt Down over Net Neutrality Repeal: 'F*ck the FCC'
-BB

Another indicator this is a very good thing.

Posted by: Under Fire at December 14, 2017 04:59 PM (r9UYA)

515 There are so many things wrong with all this...

First, if we had sane copyright laws, would Disney have the money to do this? I cannot accept anything they've done as being halfway ethical since they bought Mary Bono and enough of Congress to corrupt our IP laws.

Second, people really give a shit about this comic-book/superhero garbage? I've seen one or two in the past twenty years and the impression they made on me was so profound that I couldn't tell you what they were or who was in them. Disney, Marvel, whoever, none of that crap ever gets me to pay to see any of it.

Posted by: JEM someday I can comment from my desk again at December 14, 2017 04:59 PM (MXbyW)

516
And willow's scene is after the credits?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 14, 2017 04:58 PM (ctuyM)
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Right!

Posted by: Weasel at December 14, 2017 04:59 PM (Sfs6o)

517 I liked the 4 alien movies, each one is a different sort of film and each worked in what it was about. The first two were the best, but they were all fun and entertaining enough. Its when Scott came back and put out his "prequel" films that they lost their way.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 14, 2017 04:59 PM (39g3+)

518 2 Rabbi? Chuck's pushing to go straight to Learned Elder...

Posted by: Richard McEnroe at December 14, 2017 04:59 PM (Mo4sx)

519 Han Solo flew the Maltese Falcon like a boss.

And his daughter hope hid the Maltese Falcon from him in her special place.

She spies, with her big assed brown eye...

Posted by: rickb223 at December 14, 2017 04:59 PM (lmYrx)

520
I think its time to try something totally different - a high art stage
plage in which Meryl Streep plays the xenomorph without make-up or
costume. Sort of Vagina Monologues meets Alien.

I don't know why the studios don't answer my letters.

Posted by: Bear with Assymetrical Balls at December 14, 2017 04:48 PM
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This is brilliant on several levels, and therefore, I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.

Posted by: shibumi at December 14, 2017 04:53 PM (aT+Bx)

As if that humorless, dessicated commie scrunt Meryl would stoop so low as to do a genre film.

Hell, frickin' Glenn Close has done a zombie flick.

GLENN CLOSE.

The Girl With All The Gifts

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 14, 2017 04:59 PM (veoSD)

521 I just re-read 'The Maltese Falcon' for the nth time. It's about style, mood, setting, pacing, character. Hammett could give a damn about plot.
Posted by: troyriser
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My plots were simple, kill commies.

Posted by: Micky Spillane at December 14, 2017 05:00 PM (y3sT9)

522 the first star wars was just a remake of the maltese falcon. casper gutman was jabba.

Posted by: x at December 14, 2017 05:00 PM (nFwvY)

523 Do you get the child tax credits if you don't
itemize? Why should a married couple with 6 children be taxed at the
same rate as a married couple with no children? I'm fine with a flat
tax, but that's not happening this year. So I'm good with a child tax
credit. Either that, or every adult gets taxed as an individual.

Posted by: grammie winger - stunned by Christmas at December 14, 2017 04:58 PM (lwiT4)

You do get it even if you don't itemize AND it is refundable even if you don't owe any tax so long as you have three or more eligible children.

Posted by: redbanzai at December 14, 2017 05:00 PM (SrkNc)

524 477 449 There was a sex scene in Matrix?
Posted by: auscolpyr at December 14, 2017 04:46 PM (suO/a)

In the second one.

There was a second one?

Posted by: Anachronda at December 14, 2017 05:01 PM (sGtp+)

525 522. See 506.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at December 14, 2017 05:01 PM (fA1SL)

526 The Venom movie is filming, Tom Hardy is playing Venom.

Posted by: josephistan at December 14, 2017 05:01 PM (ANIFC)

527 Celebrities Melt Down over Net Neutrality Repeal: 'F*ck the FCC'
-BB

Another indicator this is a very good thing.
Posted by: Under Fire
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That

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 14, 2017 05:01 PM (y3sT9)

528 Hell, frickin' Glenn Close has done a zombie flick.

GLENN CLOSE.

The Girl With All The Gifts
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 14, 2017 04:59 PM (veoSD)

I hated that movie.

Posted by: Insomniac - Nobody in Particular at December 14, 2017 05:01 PM (NWiLs)

529 I can't imagine Disney making a movie I want to watch. Fast & Furious XXXV?

Posted by: Phildirt at December 14, 2017 05:02 PM (KyDU4)

530 So I'm good with a child tax credit. Either that, or every adult gets taxed as an individual.

Posted by: grammie winger - stunned by Christmas at December 14, 2017 04:58 PM (lwiT4)

Tax credits are un-Constitutional and evil. Tax deductions are the legal process.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at December 14, 2017 05:02 PM (8gDQu)

531 [iI liked the 4 alien movies, each one is a different sort of film and each worked in what it was about.

Honestly, you liked Alien:Resurrection?

I didn't think it was half as good as AvP 1 or 2 and that's a damn low bar.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 14, 2017 05:02 PM (QQ+il)

532 >>It is not hair splitting. The NFL boycott is directly related to the kneeling. It is the straw that broke the camels back for most. Any other institution that decides to do that on the scale of the NFL will get the same results.

And I say it is. The NFL is largely regulated with the one of the few exceptions being the anthem. The even fine players for wearing their socks wrong. The anthem is the one time players have to inject their views and that's where they have chosen to inject their SJW rhetoric.

Comics have become increasingly a vehicle of the left to spew their SJW themes, I am just curious if there is going to any significant backlash against them for doing so.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 14, 2017 05:03 PM (/tuJf)

533 Marco is signalling a no vote because of the 250,000 Puerto Ricans expected migrate and vote in Florida after Irma.

Posted by: Randy West at December 14, 2017 05:03 PM (fvkPE)

534 The Bogart movie that really is incoherent is "The Big Sleep", although it's a lot of fun to watch.

The book is pretty much the same way. Its about the journey rather than the mystery, but the film added in more romance between Bogie and Bacall. And toned down the sexiness.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 14, 2017 05:03 PM (39g3+)

535 development-- he senses the aura of another Solo. An Aunt?

An UNCLE.

Posted by: JEM someday I can comment from my desk again at December 14, 2017 05:04 PM (MXbyW)

536 Guardians of the Galaxy only comic book movie I liked . Even liked the sequel.

Posted by: Roc Ingersol at December 14, 2017 05:04 PM (2DOZq)

537 Marco is signalling a no vote because of the 250,000 Puerto Ricans expected migrate and vote in Florida after Irma.

Posted by: Randy West at December 14, 2017 05:03 PM (fvkPE)

Vote how? They are no more citizens with voting rights here than they were there are they?

Posted by: redbanzai at December 14, 2017 05:05 PM (SrkNc)

538 Hammett could give a damn about plot.

Plot was pretty simple: Sam Spade's partner is killed by someone tangled up with the theft of a very valuable object. Sam digs out who did it and nails everyone who stole the object as well.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 14, 2017 05:05 PM (39g3+)

539
The Bogart movie that really is incoherent is "The Big Sleep", although it's a lot of fun to watch. He starts off looking for this missing Chauffeur, and by the end of the movie it looks like everyone has forgotten that the chauffeur even existed.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 14, 2017 04:59 PM (k1TUh)

Heh. In one of Stephen Hunter's Earl Swagger books, there's a throwaway line where Humphrey Bogart is drinking with William Faulkner and telling him not to worry about resolving the question of who killed the chauffeur, the audience won't care.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 14, 2017 05:05 PM (veoSD)

540 development-- he senses the aura of another Solo. An Aunt?

An UNCLE.

Posted by: JEM someday I can comment from my desk again at December 14, 2017 05:04 PM (MXbyW)

Open Channel D. And they really botched that movie

Posted by: TheQuietMan at December 14, 2017 05:05 PM (493sH)

541 Vote how? They are no more citizens with voting rights here than they were there are they?
Posted by: redbanzai at December 14, 2017 05:05 PM (SrkNc)

And now they are.

Posted by: Random Hawaii Judge #7 at December 14, 2017 05:06 PM (72PAC)

542 They are no more citizens with voting rights here than they were there are they?

Ricans are US citizens.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 14, 2017 05:06 PM (QQ+il)

543
Hell, frickin' Glenn Close has done a zombie flick.

GLENN CLOSE.

The Girl With All The Gifts
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 14, 2017 04:59 PM (veoSD)

I hated that movie.

Posted by: Insomniac - Nobody in Particular at December 14, 2017 05:01 PM (NWiLs)

I didn't say it was a GOOD zombie flick........

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 14, 2017 05:06 PM (veoSD)

544 Guardians of the Galaxy is an example of a film so entertaining you ignore the gaping plot holes and nonsense. Both films are full of ridiculous dumb crap that is shrugged at by the audience because they are so entertained and the characters are so interesting.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 14, 2017 05:06 PM (39g3+)

545 537 Marco is signalling a no vote because of the 250,000 Puerto Ricans expected migrate and vote in Florida after Irma.

Posted by: Randy West at December 14, 2017 05:03 PM (fvkPE)

Vote how? They are no more citizens with voting rights here than they were there are they?
Posted by: redbanzai at December 14, 2017 05:05 PM (SrkNc)

Every Puerto Rican is a U.S. citizen.

Posted by: josephistan at December 14, 2017 05:06 PM (ANIFC)

546 456 409 Rogue One was literally one of the most forgettable movies I've ever seen.
Posted by: Randy West at December 14, 2017 04:39 PM (fvkPE)

Which one was that again?

Something about climbing a big tower that was actually an IKEA shelving unit full of 8-track tapes, I think.

Posted by: Anachronda at December 14, 2017 05:07 PM (sGtp+)

547 And now they are.

Posted by: Random Hawaii Judge #7 at December 14, 2017 05:06 PM (72PAC)

Sorry random Hawaii judge, Florida isn't in your circuit:-P

Posted by: redbanzai at December 14, 2017 05:07 PM (SrkNc)

548 Every Puerto Rican is a U.S. citizen.

Posted by: josephistan at December 14, 2017 05:06 PM (ANIFC)

They do not have voting rights.

Posted by: redbanzai at December 14, 2017 05:07 PM (SrkNc)

549 I want the Puerto Ricans to move to Florida and New York and for a bunch of developers to move to PR and make it a resort island.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 14, 2017 05:07 PM (QQ+il)

550 they could not vote for a US Senator in Florida when they were in PR - now they can

Posted by: runner at December 14, 2017 05:07 PM (QC/4S)

551 I started to watch Alien 3 years ago. As soon as I found out that they had killed off Newt for no good reason at all, I shut it off and have never watched another Alien movie since. Well unless Alien vs Predator counts, because I do kinda like the Predator movies. Except the 2nd AvP, which ends up killing almost everyone in the movie at the end with a nuke, so you think "what the hell was the point of anything anyone did in this film?"

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 14, 2017 05:08 PM (k1TUh)

552
And now they are.

Posted by: Random Hawaii Judge #7 at December 14, 2017 05:06 PM (72PAC)

Sorry random Hawaii judge, Florida isn't in your circuit:-P

Posted by: redbanzai at December 14, 2017 05:07 PM (SrkNc)

As if they think that matters....

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 14, 2017 05:08 PM (veoSD)

553 Alien 3, many years ago

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 14, 2017 05:08 PM (k1TUh)

554 537 Marco is signalling a no vote because of the 250,000 Puerto Ricans expected migrate and vote in Florida after Irma.

Posted by: Randy West at December 14, 2017 05:03 PM (fvkPE)

Vote how? They are no more citizens with voting rights here than they were there are they?
Posted by: redbanzai at December 14, 2017 05:05 PM (SrkNc)

PR is a US Territory. Florida is expecting an extra 250,000 voters migrating and becoming residents from PR to Florida by 2020. Because Irma.

Posted by: Randy West at December 14, 2017 05:08 PM (fvkPE)

555 467
Leftists phone in BOMB THREAT to stop FCC meeting repealing Net Neutrality:

Posted by: zombie at December 14, 2017 04:48 PM (42M22)

Well, now I'm convinced they're on the right side of the issue.

Posted by: rickl at December 14, 2017 05:09 PM (xjiRE)

556

Puerto Rico - I have a plan for an entertainment park, of sorts

Posted by: Lucky Luciano at December 14, 2017 05:09 PM (QC/4S)

557 Last comic book I bought was "Sally of the Wasteland" because it's by Victor Gischler who wrote the futuristic gumshoe novel "Gestapo Mars".

Pretty sure neither of those properties are going to be made into Disney movies.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 14, 2017 05:09 PM (qJtVm)

558 Last comic book I bought was "Sally of the Wasteland" because it's by Victor Gischler who wrote the futuristic gumshoe novel "Gestapo Mars".

Pretty sure neither of those properties are going to be made into Disney movies.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 14, 2017 05:09 PM (qJtVm)

559 "They do not have voting rights."

If they move to any State, they do. Automatically.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 14, 2017 05:09 PM (k1TUh)

560 Marco Rubio forced me to do the Dirty Sanchez back in the dorm.

Posted by: Coed from 30 Years Ago at December 14, 2017 05:09 PM (r9UYA)

561 Well, now I'm convinced they're on the right side of the issue.
Posted by: rickl at December 14, 2017 05:09 PM (xjiRE)

Hey, if you ain't committed at least a few felonies in pursuit of your political aims, well, you just ain't tryin' that hard, are you now?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 14, 2017 05:10 PM (hcyUh)

562 (REN) I have the power of the light side of the force. It will prevail, in the end.

(KYLO) The light side of the force ultimately fails, will always fail, because it is not the natural way. We all lean towards the darkside.

--Figure emerges from the mist.

(HOPE SOLO) The light side? Dark side? I laugh at your force. Behold the power of a fully operational Browneye!

Posted by: Keith at December 14, 2017 05:10 PM (USf3s)

563 560. He deliberately got polish on the cuffs of my new dress pants.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at December 14, 2017 05:10 PM (fA1SL)

564 Leftists phone in BOMB THREAT to stop FCC meeting repealing Net Neutrality

This is what gets me: why do they think its that important to keep? Even if they are right that these eeevil ISPs will start charging for everything and twitter will charge half a cent per character... why go that far to stop it??

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 14, 2017 05:11 PM (39g3+)

565 Sorry random Hawaii judge, Florida isn't in your circuit:-P
Posted by: redbanzai at December 14, 2017 05:07 PM

It's cute you think it matters.

Posted by: Random Hawaii Judge #9 at December 14, 2017 05:11 PM (ctuyM)

566 as of this month, Amazon Studios (a division of Amazon) announced it will be its own self distributing company.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Studios

Posted by: illiniwek at December 14, 2017 05:12 PM (otAqJ)

567 "Marvel comics has for some time been imposing a strike against the X-Men and Fantastic Four, in a calculated bid to make those properties less valuable and hence more likely to be sold back to Marvel Studios for exploitation. Thus the threat of doing the Dark Phoenix storyline in the next X-Men film... again. Guys, we get it. Enough of the Dark Phoenix... "

Oh, God yes. Stop. And while I'm bitching, enough already with Magneto. Stop shoving him into every single story you're adapting. Every. Movie. Apocalypse was a good choice for an antagonist... but, why is Magneto in it? Why not do "Age Of Apocalypse"... in which Magneto actually DOES play a major part? Would have been a better story, anyway. Better than "Days of Future Past" also... which they screwed up anyway.

Interesting take on what's happening to the X-Men comics.
Disney doesn't bode well for Deapool, I suspect.

Posted by: otho at December 14, 2017 05:12 PM (qGuLD)

568 Well the department of justice came after AT&T time warner for the reason of controlling access to content so I am thinking they may question this as well

Posted by: Long time ago at December 14, 2017 05:12 PM (UNyae)

569 If they move to any State, they do. Automatically.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 14, 2017 05:09 PM (k1TUh)
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only if they actually register to vote.

Posted by: redc1c4 at December 14, 2017 05:12 PM (EQMiV)

570 394 Apropos of nothing, why didn't you Morons warn me that Valerian and the City Where Nothing Interesting Happens was a waste of time? I mean, other than Bubble's Dance which was fucking amazing.

More like Valerian and the Joys Sexual Harassment in the Workplace, if you ask me.

Posted by: Anachronda at December 14, 2017 05:12 PM (sGtp+)

571 But I can't boycott everything that has crappy ownership or I'd be making everything from what I can find in the nearby park woods.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 14, 2017 04:50 PM (39g3+)

He'll exchange his Super Soldier serum for soy milk. Sad!

Posted by: Insomniac
***********************

I want real milk on my sugar flakes while I watch Wonder Woman does Xer Men daddy.

Posted by: Charlotte at December 14, 2017 05:12 PM (9S+EN)

572 Every Puerto Rican is a U.S. citizen.

Posted by: josephistan at December 14, 2017 05:06 PM (ANIFC)

They do not have voting rights.

Posted by: redbanzai at December 14, 2017 05:07 PM (SrkNc)

And they are not citizen, citizens (as Whoopie would say) as they are citizens of an unincorporated territory. They have to go through the process of becoming citizen, citizens.

Posted by: redbanzai at December 14, 2017 05:13 PM (SrkNc)

573 It's cute you think it matters.
Posted by: Random Hawaii Judge #9 at December 14, 2017 05:11 PM (ctuyM)

It's cute YOU think anything matters.

Posted by: SKYnet Justicar Subroutine 57-x-Gamma, thirty years from now. at December 14, 2017 05:13 PM (hcyUh)

574 noooood

Posted by: runner at December 14, 2017 05:13 PM (QC/4S)

575 @21: "Will we now get "Combat Rescue: The Gay Blades"?"

Wait until you see their new show about LBGTQWERTY professional basketball players: "Swish"

Posted by: FaCubeItches at December 14, 2017 05:13 PM (rznWS)

576 >> Behold the power of a fully operational Browneye!

Hope has potential as a Star Wars character. She could wield a lightsaber type butt plug. Lightsaber strap-on, etc, etc.

Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at December 14, 2017 05:13 PM (8O3HH)

577 **wwhhhheeeeeeeeetttttttt!**

Corgis, head over to the new thread!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 14, 2017 05:14 PM (ctuyM)

578 557 Last comic book I bought was "Sally of the Wasteland" because it's by Victor Gischler who wrote the futuristic gumshoe novel "Gestapo Mars".

Pretty sure neither of those properties are going to be made into Disney movies.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 14, 2017 05:09 PM (qJtVm)

558 Last comic book I bought was "Sally of the Wasteland" because it's by Victor Gischler who wrote the futuristic gumshoe novel "Gestapo Mars".

Pretty sure neither of those properties are going to be made into Disney movies.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at December 14, 2017 05:09 PM (qJtVm)

Oooh! Stereo! Let me fetch my 3D glasses...

Posted by: Anachronda at December 14, 2017 05:14 PM (sGtp+)

579 >>This is what gets me: why do they think its that important to keep? Even if they are right that these eeevil ISPs will start charging for everything and twitter will charge half a cent per character... why go that far to stop it??

I think it's important to remember that the vast majority of the liberal shock troops are dumber than toe jam and just follow orders. They are Ron Burgundy of political activists, they will read anything that is put in front of them.

They are told by their masters who love net neutrality that the point of net neutrality is "fairness" and anyone who wants to take it away is an evil, white, racist, yada, yada and they must fight to the death to protect gaia.

That's what we are largely fighting, idiots.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 14, 2017 05:15 PM (/tuJf)

580 510
Do you get the child tax credits if you don't itemize? Why should a
married couple with 6 children be taxed at the same rate as a married
couple with no children? I'm fine with a flat tax, but that's not
happening this year. So I'm good with a child tax credit. Either that,
or every adult gets taxed as an individual.

Posted by: grammie winger - stunned by Christmas at December 14, 2017 04:58 PM (lwiT4)

It is a "credit' not a deduction so you get it regardless of how you file as long as you have a child under 17. It is just another welfare payment that benefits large families in the ghetto. You also get the EIC credit because booth of these are means tested for low income.

This credit is different from the dependents you take credit for at the begging of the form too.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at December 14, 2017 05:16 PM (mpXpK)

581 Leftists phone in BOMB THREAT to stop FCC meeting repealing Net Neutrality

This is what gets me: why do they think its that important to keep? Even if they are right that these eeevil ISPs will start charging for everything and twitter will charge half a cent per character... why go that far to stop it??
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

Because they can. Because I know no one will ever be arrested nor charged. And if arrested and charged, no one will ever be convicted

Posted by: rickb223 at December 14, 2017 05:16 PM (lmYrx)

582 Vote how? They are no more citizens with voting rights here than they were there are they?

Posted by: redbanzai

Voting in PR is one thing.
Voting in FL...quite another.

Posted by: Brother Cavil, Don Cyleon at December 14, 2017 05:17 PM (AM1GF)

583
If they move to any State, they do. Automatically.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 14, 2017 05:09 PM (k1TUh)
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only if they actually register to vote.

Posted by: redc1c4 at December 14, 2017 05:12 PM (EQMiV)

I don't think they can. They have to be naturalized like all other foreign nationals (except by act of congress they do not have to swear they have no allegiance to their former citizenship which was also American).

Posted by: redbanzai at December 14, 2017 05:17 PM (SrkNc)

584 More like Valerian and the Joys Sexual Harassment in the Workplace, if you ask me.

Posted by: Anachronda

Or Valerian and the Female Lead With Whom He Has Zero Chemistry, honestly.

Casting on that flick was awful, which is why I avoided it. A shame.

Posted by: Brother Cavil, Don Cyleon at December 14, 2017 05:19 PM (AM1GF)

585 since i avoid 99.999% of all current media "product", and since the merger is taking place more than 10 miles from my house, i don't see this merger affecting me much.

at best, it just changes which company *doesn't* get my entertainment dollars.

Posted by: redc1c4 at December 14, 2017 05:19 PM (EQMiV)

586
I have gained a greater appreciation for the train wreck that is Alien 4 since Scott started doing his prequels things. It has it's charms. I don't consider it a real Alien movie, but, it's ok and it has it's moments.

Posted by: otho at December 14, 2017 05:20 PM (qGuLD)

587 They do not have voting rights.

Posted by: redbanzai at December 14, 2017 05:07 PM (SrkNc)

Not in Puerto Rico ... because it's not a state.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at December 14, 2017 05:20 PM (8gDQu)

588 INA: ACT 302 - PERSONS BORN IN PUERTO RICO

Sec. 302. [8 U.S.C. 1402] All persons born in Puerto Rico on or after April 11, 1899, and prior to January 13, 1941, subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, residing on January 13, 1941, in Puerto Rico or other territory over which the United States exercises rights of sovereignty and not citizens of the United States under any other Act, are hereby declared to be citizens of the United States as of January 13, 1941. All persons born in Puerto Rico on or after January 13, 1941, and subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, are citizens of the United States at birth.

http://bit.ly/2BoF14I

Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 14, 2017 05:21 PM (QQ+il)

589 "....the Ultimate universe Spider-man who is half black, half Puerto Rican."
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What the hell does that even mean?
I guess they mean half black whatever and half white P Rican.
Or maybe they mean Diana Ross and Roberto Clemente had a Spider-kid who was then half African-US-American and half P Rican. But that would make him all black and half P Rican....which might account for his super powers since he would be 150% "diverse."
Okay.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at December 14, 2017 05:23 PM (0jtPF)

590 INA: ACT 302 - PERSONS BORN IN PUERTO RICO

Sec. 302. [8 U.S.C. 1402] All persons born in Puerto Rico on or
after April 11, 1899, and prior to January 13, 1941, subject to the
jurisdiction of the United States, residing on January 13, 1941, in
Puerto Rico or other territory over which the United States exercises
rights of sovereignty and not citizens of the United States under any
other Act, are hereby declared to be citizens of the United States as of
January 13, 1941. All persons born in Puerto Rico on or after January
13, 1941, and subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, are
citizens of the United States at birth.

http://bit.ly/2BoF14I

Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 14, 2017 05:21 PM (QQ+il)

But even with that they are not Constitutional citizens with a right to vote.

Posted by: redbanzai at December 14, 2017 05:33 PM (SrkNc)

591 But even with that they are not Constitutional citizens with a right to vote.

I have no idea what you are trying to say here. Adult citizens get to vote unless they have lost their franchise.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 14, 2017 05:38 PM (QQ+il)

592 Rubio is the new McCain?

Posted by: Meremortal at December 14, 2017 05:38 PM (3myMJ)

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