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J.J. Abrams, Who's Directing Episode 9 of Star Wars: Anyone Who Criticizes Star Wars Is Just "Threatened" By Women;
Joss Whedon No Longer Attached to "Batgirl" Project
First, on Joss Whedon. Most articles use vague wording like that he's "departed" the long-threatened Batgirl film; Grace Randolph says "fired."
She notes the three reasons he's likely "no longer attached to" or "fired from" Batgirl: 1, he got into fights with Kevin Feige over Age of Ultron, and that film disappointed. 2, he re-shot Zack Snyder's version of Justice League, and that film is, reportedly, a total mess and would probably have ended the DCEU if Wonder Woman had not been a big cushioning hit. 3, although Joss Whedon continues to play the Sensitive Male Feminist card, and thus come up as an obvious choice to direct a Grrrl power movie like Batgirl, his ex-wife's revelations about his use of the Sensitive Male Feminist card to cheat on her and score easy ****y sort of makes his association with a female-based property questionable. You gotta know that if Batgirl were real, Joss Whedon would be inviting her up to his apartment to see his Chinese etchings and his coffin coffee table. He's a one-trick dick and I'll be glad when he get shit out of the lower intestine of the film industry. Meanwhile, J.J. Abrams is resorting to using the the public relations defense that worked so well forGhostbusters: If you don't like our stupid corporate art-by-committee cashgrab, you're misogynist and bigot."Their problem isn’t Star Wars, their problem is being threatened," Abrams told IndieWire when asked about a social media group that admitted to deliberately trying to bring down The Last Jedi‘s Rotten Tomatoes score. "Star Wars is a big galaxy, and you can sort of find almost anything you want to in Star Wars. If you are someone who feels threatened by women and needs to lash out against them, you can probably find an enemy in Star Wars," Abrams added. "You can probably look at the first movie that George [Lucas] did [Star Wars: A New Hope] and say that Leia was too outspoken, or she was too tough. Anyone who wants to find a problem with anything can find the problem. The internet seems to be made for that."I hope the Ghostbusters Defense works equally well for Disney's Star Wars IP. The problem might have something to do with producer Kathleen Kennedy explicitly re-making Star Wars into a feminism-boosting fantasy. The Force is Female, you know. As Gandhi once said: Fuck all these people.
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Star Trek is a joke.
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at February 23, 2018 04:23 PM (4Nwi3)
btw, Ace, doesn't this sound familiar to you?
Remember those dopey feminists you used to want to poke so you'd flirt with them and then they said you were "afraid of the vagina?" Remember them?
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at February 23, 2018 04:25 PM (4Nwi3)
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at February 23, 2018 04:25 PM (fceHP)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at February 23, 2018 04:26 PM (Mouru)
Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at February 23, 2018 04:26 PM (+Dllb)
It's always a "phobia" with these leftist jerkoffs.
It's always Your Problem if you're not down with their agenda.
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at February 23, 2018 04:26 PM (4Nwi3)
I can't believe they used the words "threatened by women."
that doesn't even make sense when you think about it
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at February 23, 2018 04:26 PM (fceHP)
Heh.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at February 23, 2018 04:27 PM (F5+ro)
Since this is kinda a movie thread, what's your favorite shootout scene?
What's the worst shootout scene?
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at February 23, 2018 04:27 PM (4Nwi3)
What's the worst shootout scene?
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at February 23, 2018 04:27 PM (4Nwi3)
Favorite? Han v Greedo.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at February 23, 2018 04:28 PM (F5+ro)
Posted by: Surfperch at February 23, 2018 04:28 PM (BwJGV)
watching him go on his trump hating twitter rampage after the election, he's dead to me. I swore never to say anything good about anything he had done or ever will do again. And i've kept my word.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 23, 2018 04:28 PM (k1TUh)
Posted by: steevy at February 23, 2018 04:28 PM (LiyEm)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at February 23, 2018 04:29 PM (Mouru)
Posted by: CN at February 23, 2018 04:29 PM (5gaNQ)
What's the worst shootout scene?
...
my favorite is Blondie and Tuco vs. Angel-Eyes and his minions in the abandoned town that's simultaneously being shelled by Cannons in The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly.
I love that the fucking town is being pounded while they're having this cat-and-mouse gunfight.
Posted by: ace at February 23, 2018 04:29 PM (8rNrN)
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That's pretty close to a straw man, because I have heard literally *no one* say something like that.
Posted by: Axebot at February 23, 2018 04:29 PM (vDqXW)
If that's his story .. I agree .. he has no story
Posted by: undocumented illegal SMOD at February 23, 2018 04:29 PM (e8kgV)
Posted by: golfman at February 23, 2018 04:29 PM (48QDY)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 23, 2018 04:29 PM (QQ+il)
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at February 23, 2018 04:29 PM (4Nwi3)
Posted by: Lord Culvert at February 23, 2018 04:29 PM (GMuVj)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Deeply Concerned at February 23, 2018 04:29 PM (xPJvm)
Posted by: kallisto at February 23, 2018 04:29 PM (kD8Fh)
Posted by: Axebot at February 23, 2018 04:30 PM (vDqXW)
Posted by: kallisto at February 23, 2018 04:30 PM (kD8Fh)
Posted by: Zombie Gandhi at February 23, 2018 04:30 PM (PiDY/)
Posted by: Cashin at February 23, 2018 04:30 PM (WsI4b)
that doesn't even make sense when you think about it
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at February 23, 2018 04:26 PM (fceHP)
Perhaps AtC.
But I would be defended by SPIDERS.
Posted by: golfman at February 23, 2018 04:30 PM (48QDY)
Posted by:
Grump928(C) at February 23, 2018 04:29 PM
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.Well he is already dead.
Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at February 23, 2018 04:30 PM (+Dllb)
Posted by: Under Fire at February 23, 2018 04:30 PM (r9UYA)
Posted by: Skip at February 23, 2018 04:30 PM (aC6Sd)
Posted by: ScoggDog at February 23, 2018 04:30 PM (fiGNd)
Me. They're driving away me.
Also I TOLD YOU SO about Joss Whedon. *points wildly* I TOLD YOU SO!
Posted by: alexthechick - Breathe. Namaste. Prayer hands. Warrior pose. at February 23, 2018 04:30 PM (dEQP3)
Another great one is the wheatfield one-on-one shootout in the Bourne Identity.
Posted by: ace at February 23, 2018 04:31 PM (8rNrN)
Posted by: steevy at February 23, 2018 04:28 PM (LiyEm)
Don't be so rash there, Robin.
https://tinyurl.com/ya585khm
Posted by: Batman at February 23, 2018 04:31 PM (Mouru)
Posted by: Surfperch at February 23, 2018 04:31 PM (BwJGV)
I liked the end of Enemy of the State.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 23, 2018 04:31 PM (QQ+il)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?t=2s&v=og77pfVFJTs
Posted by: Porg Buffet at February 23, 2018 04:31 PM (+i+0x)
Worst mixed metaphor in history. But it goes well with talk about Star Wars and comic book movies.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at February 23, 2018 04:31 PM (8gDQu)
Not very imaginative, and usually wrong too...
Posted by: Kortezzi at February 23, 2018 04:31 PM (HGwPM)
Posted by: garrett at February 23, 2018 04:31 PM (PiDY/)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 23, 2018 04:31 PM (YqDXo)
My friend's husband pretended he liked yoga and meditation...and it worked.
Posted by: kallisto at February 23, 2018 04:31 PM (kD8Fh)
Posted by: professor disarray, gumdrop gorilla channel at February 23, 2018 04:31 PM (hLB6Q)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at February 23, 2018 04:32 PM (KP5rU)
Posted by: Ace
Yes, But To Be Fair (tm), immediately after, the orgy commenced.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 23, 2018 04:32 PM (KXVP7)
Ace, since you mentioned The Good, The Bad & The Ugly, you'll probably like this:
The Danish Symphony Orchestra does it up first class all the way:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkM71JPHfjk
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at February 23, 2018 04:32 PM (4Nwi3)
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at February 23, 2018 04:27 PM (4Nwi3)
Anything with idiots shooting with their pistols sideways ... so, every shootout scene since 2005.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at February 23, 2018 04:32 PM (8gDQu)
What's the worst shootout scene?
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at February 23, 2018 04:27 PM (4Nwi3)
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I always kind of liked the Hotel shootout in 48 hours. (Walter Hill has been a favorite director of mine.)
For the other, I'm guessing some shootout in a Uwe Boll movie.
Posted by: Axebot at February 23, 2018 04:32 PM (vDqXW)
I originally saw the previews and planned to go .. but as the release date came closer, there was this move to make it into social movement .. and I decided to sit it out.
Let them crash and burn on their own
Posted by: undocumented illegal SMOD at February 23, 2018 04:33 PM (e8kgV)
Did either one graduate high school? Or is that just a trait of the actors in Pervywood?
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Profoundly Unserious at February 23, 2018 04:33 PM (3BFzK)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, 501st Kremlin Jewbot Gvardii at February 23, 2018 04:33 PM (fA1SL)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 23, 2018 04:33 PM (IqV8l)
Posted by: steevy at February 23, 2018 04:33 PM (LiyEm)
Posted by: Retard Strength Trumps Smart Power at February 23, 2018 04:33 PM (vgjlG)
Posted by: Dr Spank at February 23, 2018 04:33 PM (4e+hS)
As Gandhi once said: Fuck all these people.
My favorite Gandi quote:
If I have the belief that I ███ do it, I shall surely █████ the capacity to
██ it even if I may not have it ██ the beginning.
Posted by: James Comey, teetering closer to the edge of the abyss at February 23, 2018 04:33 PM (2FqvZ)
Posted by: ace at February 23, 2018 04:34 PM (8rNrN)
Posted by: Surfperch at February 23, 2018 04:34 PM (BwJGV)
Today had to go to Social Security to get a replacement card. Right above my booth was a portrait of Preezy TGE and his number two Pence.
Made me so happy.
Posted by: kallisto at February 23, 2018 04:34 PM (kD8Fh)
It's about the worst insult I can think of, too.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 23, 2018 04:34 PM (YqDXo)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=og77pfVFJTs
Posted by: Max Power at February 23, 2018 04:34 PM (q177U)
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at February 23, 2018 04:34 PM (so+oy)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 23, 2018 04:32 PM (KXVP7)
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And afterwards, we examined each other's scat.
Posted by: Mohandas K. Ghandi, who was weirdly obsessive about scat. at February 23, 2018 04:34 PM (vDqXW)
Posted by: CN at February 23, 2018 04:34 PM (5gaNQ)
Star Trek is a joke.
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at February 23, 2018 04:23 PM (4Nwi3)
I haven't seen but bits and pieces of any of the new movies.
I never even got around to watching all of the original series, although I've seen more than a few of them.
I particularly enjoyed the episode where Spock attempted to make some sort of grenade out of what looked like a can with dry ice in it.
I did read about some of the idea behind Star Trek and that seemed a lot more interesting to me than any of the shows. Especially the back story of the Vulcans. Turns out they embraced the whole logic thing because they're actually hyper-emotional beings, to the point where they were constantly at war with one another. They almost destroyed their entire planet because of it. Then the guy came along with the thing and they evolved. I'd rather see a movie about that back story than trannies in space or whatever they're planning now.
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at February 23, 2018 04:34 PM (4ErVI)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, 501st Kremlin Jewbot Gvardii at February 23, 2018 04:34 PM (fA1SL)
What did make sense was why they sent in an all-female team. They'd sent in male teams and hardly anyone came back, so - yeah - some pointy haired boss was likely going to grab that straw eventually.
Also, that they're going into The Cronenberg - Giger Dimension means we're dealing with body horror here, and this has a resonance for women. See also, Alien and more so Aliens. And Splice.
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at February 23, 2018 04:34 PM (6FqZa)
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 23, 2018 04:35 PM (k1TUh)
Also, virtually every action sequence in The Rundown.
Posted by: ace at February 23, 2018 04:35 PM (8rNrN)
If Star Wars is such a big galaxy, why don't they focus on the part of
the galaxy that is interesting and is populated with compelling
characters?
Posted by: Retard Strength Trumps Smart Power
LOL.
Posted by: Dr Spank at February 23, 2018 04:35 PM (4e+hS)
Posted by: Chase at February 23, 2018 04:35 PM (RbV5J)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Deeply Concerned at February 23, 2018 04:35 PM (xPJvm)
As others have said better than I, our elites are worse fun-spoilers than the Quakers, by far. People who love God sincerely tend to love life and laughter.
Posted by: BarcelonaCarmen at February 23, 2018 04:35 PM (RHjCR)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at February 23, 2018 04:35 PM (xJa6I)
What's the worst shootout scene?
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at February 23, 2018 04:27 PM (4Nwi3)
My favorite is the snowball scene from Elf. The worst was Inception (why did we even need shootout scenes in that movie?)
Posted by: Lord Culvert at February 23, 2018 04:35 PM (GMuVj)
Posted by: ScoggDog at February 23, 2018 04:30 PM
For certain values of 'ep'.
In this case, where 'ep' = 0 on the ScoggDog Scale(tm).
Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 23, 2018 04:35 PM (ctuyM)
Posted by: steevy at February 23, 2018 04:35 PM (LiyEm)
I won't say The Greatest (I'll leave that for him), but BTVS was possibly the best show in the history of television.
Posted by: BurtTC at February 23, 2018 04:35 PM (9chmE)
Happened to be on at an acquaintance's house. I burst out laughing.
Posted by: goodluckduck at February 23, 2018 04:35 PM (rwaEp)
Posted by: garrett at February 23, 2018 04:36 PM (PiDY/)
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at February 23, 2018 04:36 PM (fceHP)
I was going to check it out of the library sometime this summer. But yes, I think you are right, probably won't even do that now.
Posted by: moon_over_vermont at February 23, 2018 04:36 PM (kUmUV)
Made me so happy.
Posted by: kallisto
............
Not sure about your branch office.. but around here the wait times are hours..
I got there 45 minutes before they opened and a line was forming outside.. I still waited over 45 minutes!
But yeah.. It's nice to see PDT's pic up in gummint offices!
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at February 23, 2018 04:36 PM (so+oy)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcHBUqpxOMg
Posted by: Max Power at February 23, 2018 04:36 PM (q177U)
Posted by: ScoggDog at February 23, 2018 04:36 PM (fiGNd)
Let's say that in defiance of all probability - not to mention relative numbers - there were a revolution, and the bruthas took over. What would that look like?
I'm guessing East St. Louis would be a good approximation, since it's kind of a microcosm of what we're talking about.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 23, 2018 04:36 PM (YqDXo)
Which is sad, because it is one of the things my wife and I used to enjoy was going to the movies.
Posted by: Blake at February 23, 2018 04:36 PM (qC1Sy)
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at February 23, 2018 04:37 PM (ATVNj)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Deeply Concerned at February 23, 2018 04:37 PM (xPJvm)
Has anyone mentioned the last one from Unforgiven? And if not, what are we doing here?
Posted by: Dr Spank at February 23, 2018 04:37 PM (4e+hS)
What's the worst shootout scene?
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at February 23, 2018 04:27 PM (4Nwi3)
Favorite? Han v Greedo.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at February 23, 2018 04:28 PM (F5+ro)
Favorite shoot out scene?
Tombstone...
You ain't no daisy... no daisy at all....
Posted by: DAP'er Don Q.... at February 23, 2018 04:37 PM (NgKpN)
Posted by: Vashta Nerada at February 23, 2018 04:37 PM (7ZVPa)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at February 23, 2018 04:37 PM (zdM/+)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 23, 2018 04:37 PM (QQ+il)
Posted by: steevy at February 23, 2018 04:37 PM (LiyEm)
After the cops took in the dad, they drove my friend the 5 year old home.
If that had occurred today instead of in the 1970s my bud's dad would have been well ventilated dog meat.
Posted by: kallisto at February 23, 2018 04:37 PM (kD8Fh)
Posted by: garrett at February 23, 2018 04:38 PM (PiDY/)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 23, 2018 04:38 PM (QQ+il)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0biqMZrxJ0
Posted by: Max Power at February 23, 2018 04:38 PM (q177U)
Posted by: Uma Thurmond's Feet at February 23, 2018 04:38 PM (VLcKX)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 23, 2018 04:38 PM (YqDXo)
Also, virtually every action sequence in The Rundown.
Posted by: ace at February 23, 2018 04:35 PM (8rNrN)
The Rundown is a fun movie that knows it's a silly fun movie and doesn't try to be anything else and thus succeeds far better than it has any right to succeed.
Holy crap that came out 15 years ago.
*stares mournfully into the distance*
Posted by: alexthechick - Breathe. Namaste. Prayer hands. Warrior pose. at February 23, 2018 04:38 PM (dEQP3)
Team America: World Police
Nothing compares to the hilarious carnage.
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at February 23, 2018 04:38 PM (fceHP)
Also, virtually every action sequence in The Rundown.
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Yeah. I'm changing my answer.
Always loved the way that Walter Hill (combat vet) shot a combat scene so you could tell exactly the tactical positions and angles, but yeah, the Rundown, where the Rock gets a gun.
Posted by: Mohandas K. Ghandi, who was weirdly obsessive about scat. at February 23, 2018 04:38 PM (vDqXW)
Nothing.
Movies are dead to me.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at February 23, 2018 04:37 PM (ATVNj)
12 Strong... Pro US Military... shows bad guys being bad guys... and based on a True story.
In theatres now...
Posted by: DAP'er Don Q.... at February 23, 2018 04:38 PM (NgKpN)
That was the original MSM claim that THEIR news is real, all else is fake. The Narrative ... believe it and thou shalt be saved, otherwise you go to hell.
It's a safe place to live, till you have to put down the baseball bats and change the green hair to brown, and get a real job. And in the safe space the bats are cool, but in Real World such threats could get them arrested.
Posted by: illiniwek at February 23, 2018 04:38 PM (bT8Z4)
What's the worst shootout scene?
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at February 23, 2018 04:27 PM (4Nwi3)
I won't say greatest, but a great shootout was One False Move. Nearly forgotten film these days, I expect. One of Bill Paxton's best films.
Posted by: BurtTC at February 23, 2018 04:39 PM (9chmE)
I liked The Rundown, too. Only watched it once. Might be time for another viewing.
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at February 23, 2018 04:39 PM (4Nwi3)
Posted by: Max Power at February 23, 2018 04:39 PM (q177U)
Posted by: garrett at February 23, 2018 04:39 PM (PiDY/)
The more I thought about that movie, the less I liked it.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at February 23, 2018 04:39 PM (xJa6I)
Citation?
I am leafing through my Gandhi stuff and cannot find that quote.
Posted by: Marcus T at February 23, 2018 04:39 PM (y8ipU)
... not to mention, dead.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 23, 2018 04:38 PM (YqDXo)
That'll slow ya down a bit.
Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at February 23, 2018 04:39 PM (CPk08)
Posted by: Darth Randall at February 23, 2018 04:39 PM (6n332)
"I said I never had much use for a pistol. I never said I didn't know how to use one."
Posted by: Vashta Nerada at February 23, 2018 04:40 PM (7ZVPa)
Team America: World Police
Nothing compares to the hilarious carnage.
Posted by: artisanal 'ette
I'd give you the thumbs-up emoji if we had that technology here.
Posted by: Dr Spank at February 23, 2018 04:40 PM (4e+hS)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, 501st Kremlin Jewbot Gvardii at February 23, 2018 04:40 PM (fA1SL)
Posted by: alexthechick - Breathe. Namaste. Prayer hands. Warrior pose. at February 23, 2018 04:30 PM (dEQP3)
At this point, I guess I have to give credit for the creation of Mal Reynolds to Tim Minear. There is no way that asshole Joss Whedon made up my fictional husband!
Posted by: Antifa at February 23, 2018 04:40 PM (qf8IB)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, 501st Kremlin Jewbot Gvardii at February 23, 2018 04:40 PM (fA1SL)
THEY'RE FUCKING MOVIES, FOLKS!!! THEY'RE NOT A WAY OF LIFE!!!
Posted by: tu3031 at February 23, 2018 04:40 PM (O5Q3r)
and yet, oddly, not in the film. They are going to have to explain her absence now.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 23, 2018 04:41 PM (QQ+il)
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at February 23, 2018 04:41 PM (6FqZa)
There are so many shots fired from so many guns that it might as well be called Shootout Porn.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 23, 2018 04:41 PM (k1TUh)
Then he goes all socialists WTF?! How can you have something that libertarian and then go full socialist? In the original Captain America movie he actually wanted to have Cap go full SJW. If he wouldn't have been able to have resisted that impulse the MCU would have been aborted at birth.
Posted by: AdamPM at February 23, 2018 04:41 PM (vTCSA)
Since this is kinda a movie thread, what's your favorite shootout scene?
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at February 23, 2018 04:27 PM (4Nwi3)
The one from It's A Wonderful Life, where they take down Potter's Thai sex slave operation.
Posted by: Vanya at February 23, 2018 04:41 PM (JSr1G)
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at February 23, 2018 04:36 PM (fceHP)
Mrs Guevara and I were walking around in Japan, and I felt like Godzilla and mate. In rural villages little kids used to follow us around, fascinated.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 23, 2018 04:41 PM (YqDXo)
JJ has just chased his last paying viewers away from the stinking pile of dreck
Posted by: auscolpyr at February 23, 2018 04:41 PM (suO/a)
- Best Western - bedbugs stay for free!
- Enterprise Rent A Car -
- Hertz - had a killer as their spokesrunner
- First National Bank of Omaha (?) - assume Uncle Estate Tax had something to do with that
- Symantec - Oh, man, that's funny. Good luck blocking malware with that!
- MetLife - dog flies their blimp
I've said before, I'm not big into guns and am not in the NRA, but the left's ballooning batshitedness pushed me back here. Tracers work both ways.
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at February 23, 2018 04:41 PM (hqZPQ)
the galaxy that is interesting and is populated with compelling
characters?
That's called the Thrawn trilogy by Timothy Zahn.
Here's the Gandhi essay mentioned above. I reread it every year or so myself.
https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/the-gandhi-nobody-knows/
Posted by: Mrs. Peel at February 23, 2018 04:41 PM (8yIWK)
Heck, they took a break so I could reload.
Posted by: Hillary! 2020! IT'S MY TURN, BEYOCHES!!! at February 23, 2018 04:42 PM (ctuyM)
and I have to say that "The Last Jedi" killed any interest in seeing
episode 9. Only way I'll consider seeing it is if the audience reviews
(and not the critics reviews) are outstanding.
I don't know. The audience reviews for TFA were pretty positive and I consider that one of the worst Star Wars films of the series.
Posted by: dr mr badman at February 23, 2018 04:42 PM (al2Cf)
Posted by: steevy at February 23, 2018 04:42 PM (LiyEm)
Posted by: goodluckduck at February 23, 2018 04:42 PM (rwaEp)
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"Going South" with Jack Nicholson
Posted by: Javems at February 23, 2018 04:42 PM (HaLzo)
Posted by: tu3031 at February 23, 2018 04:40 PM (O5Q3r)
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How does that even work?
Posted by: Axebot at February 23, 2018 04:42 PM (vDqXW)
Posted by: steevy at February 23, 2018 04:37 PM (LiyEm)
I think that's a tip of the hat to the Dahomey female warriors.
Of course...the Dahomey were big slave traders so...likely want to gloss over that.
It's the guy with a lid in his lip that just made me break out laughing every time he was on the screen. Really made it hard to take anything seriously when he's talking.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at February 23, 2018 04:42 PM (xJa6I)
Posted by: steevy at February 23, 2018 04:43 PM (LiyEm)
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... not to mention, dead.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 23, 2018 04:38 PM (YqDXo)
And some promoter would STILL be willing to rank him in the Top 10, give him a title shot, and put him in a ring.
And he'd probably be more entertaining than a Klitchko brother.
Posted by: BurtTC at February 23, 2018 04:43 PM (9chmE)
Citation?
I am leafing through my Gandhi stuff and cannot find that quote.
Posted by: Marcus T at February 23, 2018 04:39 PM (y8ipU)
It was right after he said, "Imma cut a bitch!"
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 23, 2018 04:43 PM (YqDXo)
I may have mentioned something about no gravity in a loud voice.
Posted by: Vashta Nerada at February 23, 2018 04:43 PM (7ZVPa)
Then he goes all socialists WTF?! How can you have something that libertarian and then go full socialist? In the original Captain America movie he actually wanted to have Cap go full SJW. If he wouldn't have been able to have resisted that impulse the MCU would have been aborted at birth.
Posted by: AdamPM at February 23, 2018 04:41 PM (vTCSA)
See re: Tim Minear.
Posted by: alexthechick - Breathe. Namaste. Prayer hands. Warrior pose. at February 23, 2018 04:43 PM (dEQP3)
His "Much Ado About Nothing" is brilliant, clever, entertaining as hell and yet stayed truer to the text than just about anyone ever has.
Dammit, why did it have to be him that made it.
Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at February 23, 2018 04:43 PM (juCZM)
That was one of the beginning movies that had that theme. If it hadn't been for the cool effects and space battles it would not have done as well. I think the next movie (Empire strikes back?) toned that shit down a bit which is why everyone likes it better than most of the others.
Not saying women are weak but the incessant drum beat of having gurrls out smart and out fight the boys all the time gets real old when you know that's false and not necessary for the story.
And since then boys have been pretty much taken some big hits along the way in school and in how much help they get compared to the girls.
Gee do you think that maybe that's why boys feel so little valued and that their thoughts and ways of doing things disdained and mocked that we have so many confused and angry boys running around shooting people and places up? And lately of trying to become girls so that they too can feel appreciated and wanted by society. A society that tells them in so many ways that men suck and aren't necessary so shut up and sit down you toxic boy you.
Posted by: jakee308 at February 23, 2018 04:43 PM (C4l4A)
Team America - Shoot Out Scene
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0B3T9hv7UmU
Team America: Paris Opening Scene
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lrf29R4H9pQ
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at February 23, 2018 04:43 PM (fceHP)
"Arrrrrtifact. It's a worrrd. In the English langguage."
Posted by: goodluckduck at February 23, 2018 04:42 PM (rwaEp)
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Go away, MONKEETH!!
Posted by: Axebot at February 23, 2018 04:43 PM (vDqXW)
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at February 23, 2018 04:43 PM (hqZPQ)
I am leafing through my Gandhi stuff and cannot find that quote.
Posted by: Marcus T at February 23, 2018 04:39 PM (y8ipU)
Did you find the stuff about giving teenage girls enemas?
Posted by: Vanya at February 23, 2018 04:43 PM (JSr1G)
Its all in-your-face. It frequently doesn't make sense for the plot. Its all "diversity" and "inclusion" for their own sake, or the remaking of beloved IPs in some kind of feminist style.
After awhile, the pervasive misandry and virtue signalling preaching really starts to grate. And there is no refuge except to withdraw from everything (which is what they want).
Posted by: Revenant at February 23, 2018 04:43 PM (yXLbm)
And now he's lecturing us ala Lucas? Feh.
Posted by: 13times at February 23, 2018 04:43 PM (K3B2k)
after all the rapes, assaults, abuse and careers ruined, hollywood is the champion of women after all. how about that!
Posted by: musical jolly chimp at February 23, 2018 04:43 PM (Pg+x7)
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 23, 2018 04:43 PM (k1TUh)
"You gotta know that if Batgirl were real, Joss Whedon would be inviting her up to his apartment to see his Chinese etchings and his coffin coffee table."
I feel the need to point out how freaking hilarious both of these are, Ace. Well done.
Posted by: NYC Moron at February 23, 2018 04:43 PM (Yx9SN)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 23, 2018 04:43 PM (YqDXo)
Then he took a swig of his own pee from a turmeric dipped goblet and called it a night.
Posted by: kallisto at February 23, 2018 04:44 PM (kD8Fh)
I think the part in The Mill on the Floss where Maggie finally confronts Dr Kenn. It isn't just the insanely understated choreography of the shootout, but the way Maggie, in confronting the Reverend, really encounters herself.
Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at February 23, 2018 04:44 PM (CPk08)
Doesn't much work on us depressives though. We're already pretty sure we're headed there and we're skeptical that the Leftist gnosis is what's going to save us. Several world religions make more sense than Leftism on that score, even Islam, and that is saying a lot.
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at February 23, 2018 04:44 PM (6FqZa)
Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at February 23, 2018 04:44 PM (juCZM)
JJ has just chased his last paying viewers away from the stinking pile of dreck
Posted by: auscolpyr at February 23, 2018 04:41 PM (suO/a)
Smack Talk is a hoot!
I love me some saucy puppets.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at February 23, 2018 04:44 PM (xJa6I)
Hollywood libertarians seem to only claim being libertarian so long as it suits them. Joe Rogan has a similar bent to him (though I actually like Joe and listen to his podcast all the time). He'll claim to be a libertarian, but also says he thinks Obama was a great president. Whenever he gets called out for it, he says, "I think he was great for what he represented."
Of course, he usually says this in the episodes where he's very stoned and not just his normal average everyday stoned, so I take his thought process with a grain of salt. Being a "lolbertarian" is about as close to conservative as you can get in Hollywood without being blackballed.
Posted by: The Deplorable Mr. Trumpkin at February 23, 2018 04:45 PM (wwd4n)
That's no certainty, but I thought it was interesting. Solo is in theory supposed to appeal to original series fans, but those are the people Disney pissed off with its abominable treatment of Luke Skywalker, and men generally. So I think many of us are not going to show for Solo. The question is, will Disney's new, improved soviet justice warrior crowd show up when there's no obvious cause (neither GRRL POWER nor the nonsense surrounding Black Panther) driving it.
I got her to bet me an equal amount that I personally wouldn't see it for a year because she thinks I'm more addicted to star wars than my own self respect.
And she thinks she cannot possibly lose.
Posted by: Methos at February 23, 2018 04:45 PM (XQvuQ)
Posted by: Hatcher at February 23, 2018 04:45 PM (8rNrN)
Posted by: Skip at February 23, 2018 04:45 PM (aC6Sd)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 23, 2018 04:38 PM
buzzion hasn't seemed to mind.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 23, 2018 04:45 PM (ctuyM)
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at February 23, 2018 04:45 PM (4Nwi3)
... not to mention, dead.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 23, 2018 04:38 PM (YqDXo)
That'll slow ya down a bit.
Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at February 23, 2018 04:39 PM (CPk0
It's the ultimate Rope-A-Dope.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 23, 2018 04:45 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: The Deplorable Mr. Trumpkin at February 23, 2018 04:45 PM (wwd4n)
His "Much Ado About Nothing" is brilliant, clever, entertaining as hell and yet stayed truer to the text than just about anyone ever has.
Dammit, why did it have to be him that made it.
Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at February 23, 2018 04:43 PM (juCZM)
This is my problem with The Avengers.
It might be the best Superhero movie ever made. And that weak, impotent neckbeard made it.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at February 23, 2018 04:46 PM (xJa6I)
Any good?
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at February 23, 2018 04:45 PM (4Nwi3)
It's got Nicholas Cage in it.
'Nuff said.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 23, 2018 04:46 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: musical jolly chimp at February 23, 2018 04:46 PM (Pg+x7)
Not a shootout thought; merely shooting.
Posted by: ace at February 23, 2018 04:46 PM (8rNrN)
Posted by: buzzion at February 23, 2018 04:46 PM (lKs2v)
libertarian. I mean Firefly they are flying around the galaxy thumbing
their nose at Big Government. Hell, Big Government was the bad guy in
the movie and wiped out an entire colony of people.
Then he goes
all socialists WTF?! How can you have something that libertarian and
then go full socialist? In the original Captain America movie he
actually wanted to have Cap go full SJW. If he wouldn't have been able
to have resisted that impulse the MCU would have been aborted at birth.
Posted by: AdamPM at February 23, 2018 04:41 PM (vTCSA)
Ironically enough, he needed to go full SJW/lefty-socialist in order to make a shedload of money.
His libertarian tv shows failed miserably, one after another, in spite of being terrific.
And he's otherwise not too bright, so....
Posted by: BurtTC at February 23, 2018 04:46 PM (9chmE)
Posted by: steevy at February 23, 2018 04:46 PM (LiyEm)
Most leftists don't believe in a literal hell, they just want to make your life a living hell.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 23, 2018 04:46 PM (8+Ozj)
Posted by: garrett at February 23, 2018 04:46 PM (PiDY/)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 23, 2018 04:46 PM (QQ+il)
Any good?
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at February 23, 2018 04:45 PM (4Nwi3)
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Enjoyable. If I remember.
Posted by: Axebot at February 23, 2018 04:46 PM (vDqXW)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 23, 2018 04:46 PM (QQ+il)
If smelly assholes didn't exist we'd all be full of shit and die.
Every now and then jerks will do something really well. Doesn't mean being a jerk is a good thing.
Posted by: jakee308 at February 23, 2018 04:47 PM (C4l4A)
The more I thought about that movie, the less I liked it.
The trend is REALLY bad for Disney Star Wars.
#Soon.
Posted by: Max Power at February 23, 2018 04:47 PM (q177U)
It's not the grrrl power. It's the boring as sh*t part.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Bama's Boot Stomping on the Face of College Football Forever at February 23, 2018 04:47 PM (ks6bw)
I've never seen Red Rock West, with Nick Cage. 1993.
Any good?
I have fond memories. It's a modern noir with some good humor. I think the ending/solution to the "mystery" is a bit goofy (IIRC), but who cares.
Posted by: ace at February 23, 2018 04:47 PM (8rNrN)
His "Much Ado About Nothing" is brilliant, clever, entertaining as hell and yet stayed truer to the text than just about anyone ever has.
Dammit, why did it have to be him that made it.
Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at February 23, 2018 04:43 PM (juCZM)
*pats couch*
Come, sit by me.
My Whedon loathing is long standing and well known but, remember, it stems from being a Buffy fangirl betrayed.
When Whedon manages to lift his head up from the self-fellatio, he's staggeringly talented. It's merely that he very rarely does that now.
Posted by: alexthechick - Breathe. Namaste. Prayer hands. Warrior pose. at February 23, 2018 04:47 PM (dEQP3)
Posted by: Axebot at February 23, 2018 04:47 PM (vDqXW)
I think the odds are good she deflects blaster fire with her eyebrows.
Posted by: The Deplorable Mr. Trumpkin at February 23, 2018 04:47 PM (wwd4n)
Dammit, why did it have to be him that made it."
I know, right? If he could have just been run over by a bus and killed just after he made that movie, he would have been a favorite of mine forever. Life just never works out the way it should.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 23, 2018 04:47 PM (k1TUh)
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at February 23, 2018 04:47 PM (8gDQu)
Posted by: garrett at February 23, 2018 04:48 PM (PiDY/)
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Bama's Boot Stomping on the Face of College Football Forever at February 23, 2018 04:48 PM (ks6bw)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 23, 2018 04:48 PM (QQ+il)
And she thinks she cannot possibly lose.
Posted by: Methos at February 23, 2018 04:45 PM (XQvuQ)
Expect for her to give it to you as a Christmas present to try and force the issue.
Posted by: buzzion at February 23, 2018 04:48 PM (lKs2v)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9hwGZFPSmw
It starts out positive and then...oh man you got to see it.
Posted by: Max Power at February 23, 2018 04:48 PM (q177U)
Posted by: #neverskankles at February 23, 2018 04:48 PM (wHXst)
Posted by: ace at February 23, 2018 04:48 PM (8rNrN)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 23, 2018 04:49 PM (ctuyM)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 23, 2018 04:43 PM (YqDXo)
Then he took a swig of his own pee from a turmeric dipped goblet and called it a night...
Posted by: kallisto at February 23, 2018 04:44 PM (kD8Fh)
... laying down between a couple of naked young girls.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 23, 2018 04:49 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at February 23, 2018 04:49 PM (4Nwi3)
Hey, I like "Mill on The Floss"
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 23, 2018 04:49 PM (8+Ozj)
Not a shootout thought; merely shooting.
Posted by: ace at February 23, 2018 04:46 PM (8rNrN)
I think Goldeneye had the best gunplay.
Casino Royale had some of the best physical stunts but I can't recall any real gunfights in it.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at February 23, 2018 04:49 PM (xJa6I)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 23, 2018 04:49 PM (8+Ozj)
Posted by: Diogenes at February 23, 2018 04:49 PM (0tfLf)
Posted by: ScoggDog at February 23, 2018 04:50 PM (fiGNd)
Posted by: Hands at February 23, 2018 04:50 PM (EzdLW)
which was no Knowing.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 23, 2018 04:48 PM (QQ+il)
Knowing was a great movie! Best visual effects, ever. Everything about that movie was done superbly ... so well that even Cage's standard cardboard acting couldn't ruin it.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at February 23, 2018 04:50 PM (8gDQu)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, 501st Kremlin Jewbot Gvardii at February 23, 2018 04:50 PM (fA1SL)
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at February 23, 2018 04:50 PM (4Nwi3)
Posted by: #neverskankles at February 23, 2018 04:48 PM (wHXst)
If they have any good sense, they won't. Enterprise is getting blowback left and right and will likely end up much poorer for their stupidity.
Posted by: Antifa at February 23, 2018 04:50 PM (qf8IB)
Then he goes all socialists WTF?! How can you have something that libertarian and then go full socialist? In the original Captain America movie he actually wanted to have Cap go full SJW. If he wouldn't have been able to have resisted that impulse the MCU would have been aborted at birth.
Posted by: AdamPM at February 23, 2018 04:41 PM (vTCSA)
----------------------
This.
Posted by: Blake at February 23, 2018 04:50 PM (qC1Sy)
Posted by: garrett at February 23, 2018 04:46 PM (PiDY/)
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Cage Wicker Man? That's a recommendation.
Woodward Wicker Man -- well, Red Rock is not horror/dread.
Posted by: Axebot at February 23, 2018 04:50 PM (vDqXW)
Truth is all they crank out is shit, and all they know how to do to distract from that is to blame the audience with smears.
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at February 23, 2018 04:50 PM (oVJmc)
Posted by: ace at February 23, 2018 04:50 PM (8rNrN)
Posted by: tu3031 at February 23, 2018 04:50 PM (O5Q3r)
Posted by: steevy at February 23, 2018 04:51 PM (LiyEm)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 23, 2018 04:49 PM (8+Ozj)
Actually, so do I. Eliot was an amazing writer.
Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at February 23, 2018 04:51 PM (CPk08)
Posted by: redbanzai the Southerner at February 23, 2018 04:51 PM (qf8IB)
Posted by: #neverskankles at February 23, 2018 04:48 PM (wHXst)
Will they stop shipping guns?
Sniff.
Sniff.
Is that an opportunity I smell?
Posted by: Vanya at February 23, 2018 04:51 PM (JSr1G)
I didn't know they had those. I'll have to look them up. Mind you, if the form of warfare is ambush and sniping from the jungle - as they say today, Colt is the great equaliser.
John Man (lol) has a good book out now about the Scythians and Sauromatians: 'Searching for the Amazons'. It argues that the classical Amazons were real. They too took advantage of archery, in their case from horseback. Or just taunting invading Persians and luring them into ambushes. That's what got Cyrus the Great killed
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at February 23, 2018 04:51 PM (6FqZa)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, 501st Kremlin Jewbot Gvardii at February 23, 2018 04:50 PM (fA1SL)
It was remade.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at February 23, 2018 04:51 PM (8gDQu)
I love that movie.
Posted by: ace at February 23, 2018 04:51 PM (8rNrN)
Posted by: Methos at February 23, 2018 04:45 PM (XQvuQ)
So if she loses, does she have to make you sammiches?
Posted by: professor disarray, gumdrop gorilla channel at February 23, 2018 04:51 PM (hLB6Q)
Posted by: Monk at February 23, 2018 04:52 PM (g4lFK)
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Bama's Boot Stomping on the Face of College Football Forever at February 23, 2018 04:52 PM (JwkED)
Posted by: ace at February 23, 2018 04:48 PM (8rNrN)
Yup.
No good deeds goes unpunished.
Posted by: alexthechick - Breathe. Namaste. Prayer hands. Warrior pose. at February 23, 2018 04:52 PM (dEQP3)
Great cinematography too.
The Cohens know their shit.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at February 23, 2018 04:52 PM (xJa6I)
EPIC takedown of Last Jedi, on par, maybe surpassing, any Plinkett
review.
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I recommend this series from Mauler. There's two more parts, which humorously makes the point that discussing everything wrong with TLJ takes twice as long as the movie, and he still has to skip some minor stuff.
Just came out a couple days ago, E;R (that's e semicolon r) put out his
EPIC takedown of Last Jedi, on par, maybe surpassing, any Plinkett
review.
Posted by: Methos at February 23, 2018 04:52 PM (XQvuQ)
That's what's probably going to kill Annihilation, despite that the movie was good.
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at February 23, 2018 04:52 PM (6FqZa)
Posted by: itsatax at February 23, 2018 04:52 PM (/1c+O)
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 23, 2018 04:47 PM (k1TUh)
Well actually it does
Posted by: MAC SOG and nothing will happen at February 23, 2018 04:52 PM (czkHE)
Posted by: Methos at February 23, 2018 04:52 PM (XQvuQ)
In this case, where 'ep' = 0 on the ScoggDog Scale(tm).
However p=p.
Posted by: ahzoo at February 23, 2018 04:52 PM (wK745)
Then he goes all socialists WTF?! How can you have something that libertarian and then go full socialist? In the original Captain America movie he actually wanted to have Cap go full SJW. If he wouldn't have been able to have resisted that impulse the MCU would have been aborted at birth.
Posted by: AdamPM at February 23, 2018 04:41 PM (vTCSA)
Because the Libertarian bent wasn't from Joss Whedon. It was from Tim Minear.
Posted by: buzzion at February 23, 2018 04:52 PM (lKs2v)
I wasn't happy with him as a choice for Batgirl to begin with but I'm sure they will now get Lesby McBulldyke to direct it, call her batWOMAN and she'll be smarter, faster, stronger, and better than Batman in everything.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 23, 2018 04:52 PM (39g3+)
Either of the John Wick films.
Posted by: Diogenes at February 23, 2018 04:52 PM (0tfLf)
Posted by: kallisto at February 23, 2018 04:44 PM
Proverbs 5:15
Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.
Posted by: James Comey, teetering closer to the edge of the abyss at February 23, 2018 04:52 PM (2FqvZ)
sheriffs, schools, social workers, and FBI are the ones responsible for
that shooting.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Bama's Boot Stomping on the Face of College Football Forever at February 23, 2018 04:52 PM (JwkED)
The left's motto is never let a tragedy go to waste... there is no requirement that the be intellectually honest.
Posted by: redbanzai the Southerner at February 23, 2018 04:53 PM (qf8IB)
Except we don't need them to display courage and skill, but more "fight like a trapped rat".
It's not a question of braving the gunfire, but being confronted with it and having no other way out. Sadly, I expect some bystander injuries and fatalities will come with this, but I suspect the body count would be reduced.
Posted by: Downcast at February 23, 2018 04:53 PM (Fz+VE)
they are flying around the galaxy thumbing their nose at Big Government.
Hell, Big Government was the bad guy in the movie and wiped out an
entire colony of people.
--
They got rid of Firefly because its essentially a re-imagining of the post-war west, with the hero being a Confederate vet (the Reavers are the indians).
It wasn't PC enough.
Posted by: Revenant at February 23, 2018 04:53 PM (yXLbm)
Leo's still an artist with a Thompson.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 23, 2018 04:53 PM (QQ+il)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, 501st Kremlin Jewbot Gvardii at February 23, 2018 04:53 PM (fA1SL)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, 501st Kremlin Jewbot Gvardii at February 23, 2018 04:50 PM (fA1SL)
It was remade.
THE BEES! THE BEES!!!!!
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 23, 2018 04:53 PM (k1TUh)
Posted by: #neverskankles at February 23, 2018 04:53 PM (wHXst)
She was a bada**, at times spoiled princess that tamed the heart of a space pirate. One of the best Disney princesses evar.
I am one of the few here that liked The Last Jedi, but they made Leia boring, which is a crime. And purple haired chick was super boring. It should have been Leia that sacrificed herself for the others on the ship, but they wanted their Luke/Leia reunion.
DONT MAKE THINGS BORING JJ. Sexism has nothing to do with it!
Posted by: LizLem at February 23, 2018 04:53 PM (hvf9s)
Posted by: steevy at February 23, 2018 04:54 PM (LiyEm)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 23, 2018 04:54 PM (IqV8l)
I didn't know they had those. I'll have to look them up. Mind you, if the form of warfare is ambush and sniping from the jungle - as they say today, Colt is the great equaliser.
John Man (lol) has a good book out now about the Scythians and Sauromatians: 'Searching for the Amazons'. It argues that the classical Amazons were real. They too took advantage of archery, in their case from horseback. Or just taunting invading Persians and luring them into ambushes. That's what got Cyrus the Great killed
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at February 23, 2018 04:51 PM (6FqZa)
I read that and mostly agreed with it.
The Dahomey female bodyguards were part harem and part ruthless killers. They were cross-tribal and they were equipped with European guns, if I recall right.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at February 23, 2018 04:54 PM (xJa6I)
Even if it only a small portion of the program, you know what they say, a gallon of vanilla ice cream mixed with a tablespoon of dog shit tastes more like dog shit than vanilla ice cream. It doesn't take much to ruin it for me.
So, if a studio or director takes the time to tell me in advance that they are going to use their production to advance some stupid SJW agenda, I will gladly stay away. It is a whole big world out there, with lots of fun things to do. If JJ Abrams wants to ruin Star Wars, I say let the baby have his bottle. I'll be playing golf.
Posted by: Gridlock at February 23, 2018 04:54 PM (UPYPp)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at February 23, 2018 04:54 PM (xJa6I)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 23, 2018 04:54 PM (39g3+)
Empire also had an actual human with the XX chromosome-pair, Leigh Brackett, writing the Leia / Han arc.
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at February 23, 2018 04:55 PM (6FqZa)
Did Batgirl drink her own urine?
No, she did not.
So, who's the tough guy around here?
That's right!
Me.
Ghandi!
Kicking ass and drinking piss.
What're you looking at asshole?
How'd you like a Calcutta Karate Chop?
Posted by: Ghandi at February 23, 2018 04:55 PM (E3rQ4)
Posted by: Kensington at February 23, 2018 04:55 PM (Cw3TC)
Posted by: steevy at February 23, 2018 04:54 PM (LiyEm)
True, but she's also a placeholder character. She exists solely so Marvel wouldn't take the name. She has no impact on the world.
And the lesbian porn is sub-par in the comics.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at February 23, 2018 04:55 PM (xJa6I)
Posted by: alexthechick - Breathe. Namaste. Prayer hands. Warrior pose. at February 23, 2018 04:55 PM (dEQP3)
Posted by: #neverskankles at February 23, 2018 04:48 PM (wHXst)
If they have any good sense, they won't. Enterprise is getting blowback left and right and will likely end up much poorer for their stupidity.
Posted by: Antifa at February 23, 2018 04:50 PM (qf8IB)
Is this true? Our side is finally fighting back using the left's tactics? Never thought I'd see the day. Once this happens, the companies will see it as a zero sum game and stop caving to either side...and stay out of politics.
Posted by: professor disarray, gumdrop gorilla channel at February 23, 2018 04:56 PM (hLB6Q)
I wasn't happy with him as a choice for Batgirl to begin with but I'm sure they will now get Lesby McBulldyke to direct it, call her batWOMAN and she'll be smarter, faster, stronger, and better than Batman in everything.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 23, 2018 04:52 PM (39g3+)
There already is a Batwoman. And she's a lesbian.
Posted by: buzzion at February 23, 2018 04:56 PM (lKs2v)
Posted by: MAC SOG and nothing will happen at February 23, 2018 04:56 PM (czkHE)
Sooth adding that YouTube link of Good the Bad and the Ugly to my listening play list,
Posted by: Skip
It's so amazing. I could listen to it every day.
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at February 23, 2018 04:56 PM (4Nwi3)
Posted by: kallisto at February 23, 2018 04:44 PM
Proverbs 5:15
Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.
Posted by: James Comey, teetering closer to the edge of the abyss at February 23, 2018 04:52 PM (2FqvZ)
You first.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 23, 2018 04:56 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: jakee308 at February 23, 2018 04:43 PM (C4l4A)
Well the last star wars was pretty big on girl power. They made sure Luke was a whiney fool. and Poe dameron got his ass chewed out for excessive testosterone.
Oh yeah, it ended with maybe 5 1/2 rebels left alive, and the rebellion ground to dust. Good job...good job.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Divison at February 23, 2018 04:56 PM (aMlLZ)
Trailer:
https://youtu.be/uVBPl__63jU?t=14
Possibly NSFW clip:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFTCAuhiZNI
* "The Batwoman"
Posted by: Hands at February 23, 2018 04:56 PM (EzdLW)
and Moon.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 23, 2018 04:56 PM (QQ+il)
Leo's still an artist with a Thompson.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 23, 2018 04:53 PM (QQ+il)
Damn right
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at February 23, 2018 04:57 PM (xJa6I)
don't surrender on the first day of the war. Do you think any NRA member is going to say "oh wow, I can't get a 5% discount at Best Western, I guess I quit!!!"
nope.
Time for the NRA to plan and carry out a counterstrike, metaphorically speaking of course.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 23, 2018 04:57 PM (k1TUh)
Anybody see "Mom and Dad"?
It looks like it's chock full o' Triple Strength Nick Cage Crazy.
Lousy reviews tho.
Posted by: naturalfake at February 23, 2018 04:57 PM (E3rQ4)
Posted by: Holier than Thou Asshole Bot at February 23, 2018 04:57 PM (SkuXa)
and having no other way out. Sadly, I expect some bystander injuries
and fatalities will come with this, but I suspect the body count would
be reduced.
It's not a simple matter of 'reducing the number killed.'
The likelihood of armed resistance should make more of these wanna-be killers drop the idea entirely. Or at least select other targets.
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at February 23, 2018 04:57 PM (oVJmc)
Abrams told IndieWire when asked about a social media group that
admitted to deliberately trying to bring down The Last Jedi's Rotten
Tomatoes score.
"Star Wars is a big galaxy, and you can sort of find almost anything you
want to in Star Wars. If you are someone who feels threatened by women
and needs to lash out against them, you can probably find an enemy in
Star Wars," Abrams added. "You can probably look at the first movie that
George [Lucas] did [Star Wars: A New Hope] and say that Leia was too
outspoken, or she was too tough. Anyone who wants to find a problem with
anything can find the problem. The internet seems to be made for that."
...
*Gurp*
AND SNIPERS! AND MACEDONIANS!
*Gawk*
Posted by: a doddering, drunk old dyke at February 23, 2018 04:57 PM (x25VP)
Posted by: Vashta Nerada at February 23, 2018 04:57 PM (7ZVPa)
Posted by: DaveA at February 23, 2018 04:57 PM (FhXTo)
Yeah I know but not in the cinematic version. Commissioner Gordon's kid running out and trying to be batman is a great concept, and while it was ghastly, I think Killing Joke was a very well done turn on her story. She got even better with her response becoming Oracle.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 23, 2018 04:58 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: Downcast at February 23, 2018 04:58 PM (Fz+VE)
Posted by: Axebot at February 23, 2018 04:58 PM (vDqXW)
Trailer:
https://youtu.be/uVBPl__63jU?t=14
Possibly NSFW clip:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFTCAuhiZNI
* "The Batwoman"
Posted by: Hands at February 23, 2018 04:56 PM (EzdLW)
That is one wild, wild world of Batwoman right there.
Rowr.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at February 23, 2018 04:58 PM (xJa6I)
Posted by: goodluckduck at February 23, 2018 04:58 PM (rwaEp)
Posted by: 18-1 at February 23, 2018 04:58 PM (Z8FFX)
Yeah I know but not in the cinematic version. Commissioner Gordon's kid running out and trying to be batman is a great concept, and while it was ghastly, I think Killing Joke was a very well done turn on her story. She got even better with her response becoming Oracle.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 23, 2018 04:58 PM (39g3+)
Note:
Batgirl and Batwoman are two different characters.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at February 23, 2018 04:58 PM (xJa6I)
Horror gets too many bad reviews in the mainstream. People are very hard on horror movies.
Posted by: Kensington at February 23, 2018 04:59 PM (Cw3TC)
using the left's tactics? Never thought I'd see the day. Once this
happens, the companies will see it as a zero sum game and stop caving to
either side...and stay out of politics.
Posted by: professor disarray, gumdrop gorilla channel at February 23, 2018 04:56 PM (hLB6Q)
From the twitter feed at least, conservatives (and conservative businesses) are cancelling contracts with Enterprise/plans to rent from Enterprise effective immediately. The contracts worth hundreds of thousands of dollars a year will especially hurt them.
Posted by: redbanzai the Southerner at February 23, 2018 04:59 PM (qf8IB)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, 501st Kremlin Jewbot Gvardii at February 23, 2018 04:59 PM (fA1SL)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at February 23, 2018 04:59 PM (l9m7l)
Posted by: goodluckduck at February 23, 2018 04:58 PM (rwaEp)
It has good gun handling in that movie.
But some of the tactics are suspect. They burn through all their AR ammo just doing blind suppressing fire. Dumb.
They get ganked by an old guy with a .38, as I recall.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at February 23, 2018 04:59 PM (xJa6I)
Posted by: MAC SOG and nothing will happen at February 23, 2018 04:56 PM (czkHE)
Neither were Ford, MacArthur (IIRC), Heinz, etc.
Typically the pater familias is pretty conservative, but his spawn - aided by Communist penetration, of course - turn out to be useless wankers.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 23, 2018 04:59 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 23, 2018 04:59 PM (k1TUh)
Posted by: Axebot at February 23, 2018 04:59 PM (vDqXW)
Posted by: The Guy Who Will Always Be Stiffler at February 23, 2018 05:00 PM (rwaEp)
Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at February 23, 2018 04:51 PM (CPk0
I prefer her work to Dickens actually/ Middlemarch is my favorite, but Daniel Deronda has one of the best narcissist villains in literature and Middlemarch seems very true as to to relationship between a brother and sister and feeling out of place-maybe so real because-as you know it was based on Eliot's relationship with her brother..
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 23, 2018 05:00 PM (8+Ozj)
don't surrender on the first day of the war. Do you think any NRA member is going to say "oh wow, I can't get a 5% discount at Best Western, I guess I quit!!!"
nope.
Time for the NRA to plan and carry out a counterstrike, metaphorically speaking of course.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 23, 2018 04:57 PM (k1TUh)
Yep. I don't think this is why folks pay NRA dues.
Now when KOA dumps them, I'd worry.
Posted by: golfman at February 23, 2018 05:00 PM (48QDY)
Posted by: buzzion at February 23, 2018 04:56 PM
Two words provide me for hope for the brave new future... Deepfake Celebrity Porn.
It's unreal and it's spectacular.
Posted by: Acme Explosives at February 23, 2018 05:00 PM (2FqvZ)
Honestly, after the first five minutes, Way of the Gun kinda sucked.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 23, 2018 05:00 PM (39g3+)
think any NRA member is going to say "oh wow, I can't get a 5% discount
at Best Western, I guess I quit!!!"
nope.
Time for the NRA to plan and carry out a counterstrike, metaphorically speaking of course.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 23, 2018 04:57 PM (k1TUh)
More like NRA members will stay elsewhere and let Best Western know exactly why.
Posted by: redbanzai the Southerner at February 23, 2018 05:00 PM (qf8IB)
I thought we did this already. Anyway, best shootout obviously is BUGSY MALONE:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIRPaKgPwEs
Posted by: Hands at February 23, 2018 05:01 PM (EzdLW)
All of Any Which Way But Loose.
Posted by: garrett at February 23, 2018 05:01 PM (PiDY/)
Don't make me link Patrick McKenna again.
Posted by: DaveA at February 23, 2018 05:01 PM (FhXTo)
Posted by: steevy at February 23, 2018 05:01 PM (LiyEm)
In 'Drive Angry', Nick Cage has a shootout while banging a hooker...and he does NOT stop having sex during the shootout.
That's some anime-level of pervy commitment, right there.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at February 23, 2018 05:01 PM (xJa6I)
Yes, society is doomed.
https://tinyurl.com/ycp3f3p4
Posted by: LizLem at February 23, 2018 05:01 PM (hvf9s)
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 23, 2018 04:59 PM (k1TUh)
I'd like to see her cast as a ballerina. The expression on the male ballet dancer's face when he saw would be priceless.
"I've got to lift THAT over my head, and catch her flying through the air?? I quit!"
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 23, 2018 05:02 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: ScoggDog at February 23, 2018 05:02 PM (fiGNd)
Any episode of The A-Team.
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Nobody ever got shot. Ever.
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at February 23, 2018 04:50 PM
What other shootouts have the interesting math where you take the number of shots fired and divide it by the number of people shot.
Q.E.D.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 23, 2018 05:02 PM (ctuyM)
Posted by: Jewells45 at February 23, 2018 05:02 PM (dUJdY)
Posted by: MAC SOG and nothing will happen at February 23, 2018 04:56 PM (czkHE)
centralized everything
centralized government, horde mentality
centralized hollywood, horde mentality
centralized silicon valley, horde mentatity
centralized power like Google, even within ONE company, so huge, horde mentality, others purged
Also, love of country
I envision all of those libs falling off the same cliff.
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at February 23, 2018 05:02 PM (fceHP)
Worst shootout is any movie in which a character throws the gun at his/her nemesis after running out of bullets
Posted by: Hands at February 23, 2018 05:02 PM (EzdLW)
Posted by: #neverskankles at February 23, 2018 05:03 PM (wHXst)
Usually Abrams films start out big because his visuals and directing are dazzling. But after a few days people remember the movie and go "you know, this part was pretty dumb and that didn't make sense and it wasn't really very satisfying."
This time, fans went 'well that stunk' right out of the gate, and that's a bad sign.
Frankly, Adams seems to be doing his pet film school project of refilming the original trilogy his way, but bigger and more EPIC with grrl power and its just not very good.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 23, 2018 05:03 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: Citizen Cake at February 23, 2018 05:03 PM (ppaKI)
https://youtu.be/yoU39Rpp4FI
Posted by: astronaut achmed at February 23, 2018 05:03 PM (PUKsa)
It's unreal and it's spectacular.
100,000 people were subscribed to the reddit for that stuff - and who knows how many lurkers - before the SJWs shut it down. It's too late. Soon my dream will come true: Nicolas Cage and Steve Buscemi spit roasting Bea Arthur.
Posted by: wooga at February 23, 2018 05:03 PM (hyJz8)
Posted by: steevy at February 23, 2018 05:03 PM (LiyEm)
Heat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZL9fnVtz_lc
Posted by: tu3031 at February 23, 2018 04:50 PM (O5Q3r)
What about me?
Posted by: Fredo at February 23, 2018 05:03 PM (48QDY)
Posted by: steevy at February 23, 2018 05:01 PM (LiyEm)
The 'real' parodies are pretty good.
There are also a LOT of SFM (Steam Film Maker) porn out there that's pretty good too, for animated porn.
Just...well, sometimes the chicks have dicks. Because Internet.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at February 23, 2018 05:03 PM (xJa6I)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 23, 2018 04:59 PM (YqDXo)
Yea, we used to say that the first generation built it and the second generation lived life large see Walmart.
But these multi billionaires that today are so fucking liberal is hard to understand.
Posted by: MAC SOG and nothing will happen at February 23, 2018 05:03 PM (czkHE)
Posted by: buzzion at February 23, 2018 04:48 PM (lKs2v)
I got her to agree to very specific terms about my intent to watch the thing. Stuff like, it doesn't count if I'm at my sister's place and she throws it on 'for her kids' and such.
Like I spelled out several times the fact that she was giving me an extra hundred dollar incentive not to see something I had explained at great length that I had no interest in seeing.
She just really firmly believes there's no consequences to leftists letting their freak flags fly.
Posted by: Methos at February 23, 2018 05:03 PM (XQvuQ)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Divison at February 23, 2018 04:56 PM (aMlLZ)
---
Po was a naughty boy, with wild, childish, testosterone-driven ideas about machismo saving the day, and his Moms both showed him they really knew better.
Posted by: Axebot at February 23, 2018 05:04 PM (vDqXW)
Love that movie.
Posted by: garrett at February 23, 2018 05:04 PM (PiDY/)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 23, 2018 04:56 PM (QQ+il)
Oh Moon.
*draws hearts*
That reminds me, Mute is streaming on Netflix now.
Sort of obligatory Sam Rockwell dancing clip:
https://youtu.be/MXv3aeGTlZw
Posted by: alexthechick - Breathe. Namaste. Prayer hands. Warrior pose. at February 23, 2018 05:04 PM (dEQP3)
Me too. Its time to move on, do something different and interesting. Babylon 5 has an interesting universe...
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 23, 2018 05:04 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: buzzion at February 23, 2018 04:56 PM
Is she busty?
Asking for a Commenter.
Posted by: J. Random Moron at February 23, 2018 05:04 PM (ctuyM)
Yeah, kinda tough to top Sarah Silverman getting viciously punched in the face.
Posted by: tu3031 at February 23, 2018 05:04 PM (O5Q3r)
The immediate reaction was to change one attraction to the Seven Dwarves Mine Train, because apparently boys like the dwarves from Snow White. Never mind that's still a princess property...
The longer-term reaction was buying Marvel and LucasArts.
Inexplicably, they let the man-hating SJWs turn the Marvel comics into their private playgrounds, destroying their fan base. The movies did well, though, although bizarre licensing restrictions kept them from doing much with Marvel in the parks.
Even worse, they couldn't keep idiots from getting hold of Star Wars and doing as bad a job as Lucas did with the prequels. "Oh, we'll just reshoot the original film, but with an expressionless chick as the star. Oh! And we'll kill off one of the most popular characters!" They tossed Finn and Black Stormtrooper in so "boys will identify with these characters", but Finn is lame and B.S. is whiny and spends most of his time being rescued.
Then the second movie... all the mystery set up in the first is deflated, the returning Big Star is thrown away, and it mostly just doesn't make sense.
But... The Disneyland Star Wars expansion is supposed to open this year (I think), WDW expansion next January, and you sales are cranking along, so they haven't completely destroyed themselves.
But if the Star Wars movies keep being playgrounds for Hollyweird personalities more interested in working out their fetishes than telling a good story, they'll crash. And not even a beautifully done themed resort that feels like you're in space will sell rooms after that.
Posted by: Rob Crawford at February 23, 2018 05:04 PM (i00hk)
Posted by: #neverskankles at February 23, 2018 05:05 PM (wHXst)
10% discount at Hertz. Bit it just gave the left a yuuge win and energy
boost to push for gun bans. This is starting to feel like gay marriage
all over again.
Posted by: #neverskankles at February 23, 2018 05:03 PM (wHXst)
Calm your tits, Scankles. This is something they try whenever they can. The ONLY way they win is if we let them.
Posted by: redbanzai the Southerner at February 23, 2018 05:05 PM (qf8IB)
Posted by: ace at February 23, 2018 05:05 PM (8rNrN)
It really takes Captain Janeway depleting the entire rebel alliance.
Posted by: Axebot at February 23, 2018 05:05 PM (vDqXW)
Posted by: goodluckduck at February 23, 2018 05:05 PM (rwaEp)
Posted by: alexthechick - Breathe. Namaste. Prayer hands. Warrior pose. at February 23, 2018 04:55 PM (dEQP3)
"Sunshine" is awesome just the way it is. It reaches for the great unknown even if TGU is just beyond it's grasp.
Also, BONUS! I think "Annihilation" was written by the same dude.
"Knowing" is so great until the last moment when the heretofore creepyish motives unknown aliens-
are revealed as angels who cart the kiddies off to Ice Cream Sundae Heaven World.
That kinda spoils the whole thing.
Posted by: naturalfake at February 23, 2018 05:05 PM (E3rQ4)
Posted by: Citizen Cake at February 23, 2018 05:05 PM (ppaKI)
There's usually a easily identified good and bad guy, and good wins, and that's that.
Favorite? Can't remember anything about it except this;
It was a cat and mouse in a warehouse, the actors didn't have unlimited ammo, and the setup and the fear was palpable. I remember for sure the one guy was so afraid to breathe for fear he'd be heard, so he held his breath.
Then you could hear his heartbeat.
Wish I could remember anything more than that.
Posted by: OneEyedJack at February 23, 2018 05:06 PM (z79tQ)
They manage to be pretty realistic (and close to the facts with the OK Corral) but also to reveal something about the characters in the way the fight and react to the fight.
That's good storytelling.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at February 23, 2018 05:06 PM (xJa6I)
The shootout is the last half hour of the movie, and provides payoff for all the little details from the previous hour-and-a-half.
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at February 23, 2018 05:06 PM (oVJmc)
Think that's Source Film Maker, and Overwatch FTW (never played the game, though)
Posted by: The Deplorable Mr. Trumpkin at February 23, 2018 05:07 PM (wwd4n)
Posted by: Methos at February 23, 2018 05:07 PM (XQvuQ)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, 501st Kremlin Jewbot Gvardii at February 23, 2018 05:07 PM (fA1SL)
https://youtu.be/jiIaFt_cb4M
LA Story was the only film I've ever seen where Sarah Jessica Parker was kinda cute.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 23, 2018 05:07 PM (39g3+)
Yeah. Bullets are heavy and generally cumbersome. Nobody carries a fraction of the rounds that are usually spent in a typical 'shootout' scene.
Posted by: garrett at February 23, 2018 05:07 PM (PiDY/)
Posted by: Rob Crawford at February 23, 2018 05:04 PM (i00hk)
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That was Ford's idea, I hear. He didn't want to keep doing Star Wars.
Posted by: Axebot at February 23, 2018 05:07 PM (vDqXW)
Posted by: redbanzai the Southerner at February 23, 2018 05:00 PM (qf8IB)
Yea, I'm wondering how this will play out. The SJWs probably don't even use the products of these companies...at least not in the same volume. The NFL caved to them, and it didn't work out well...bcz not their viewers.
Same with Target, they caved to SJWs, but again, not their customers and they've yet to recover.
Also, I've known sponsors to drop out bcz of these firestorms. But then a few months later they are back, after the fire has died down. Will it be the same with NRA...don't know.
Posted by: professor disarray, gumdrop gorilla channel at February 23, 2018 05:07 PM (hLB6Q)
The shootout is the last half hour of the movie, and provides payoff for all the little details from the previous hour-and-a-half.
Also, it has Chekov's sea mine.
Posted by: goodluckduck at February 23, 2018 05:07 PM (rwaEp)
But the less corporate political partnerships the better, it just goes 1000-1 against our side though. We need to be better about making these liberal organizations radioactive.
If anything, I could see corporate sponsors/partners being able to talk the NRA into a more "centrist" position much like Big Business does with Republicans and immigration. So it might be a good thing to just have an NRA with the only money coming in being from individuals committed to the 2nd Amendment.
Posted by: Maritime at February 23, 2018 05:07 PM (lKmt3)
Posted by: Seems Legit at February 23, 2018 05:07 PM (U+nHb)
No guns involved but most brutal scene is the Elevator Scene in Drive.
violent, so beware
Drive - Elevator Scene
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5ufgkJ-uVE
this scene never left me
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at February 23, 2018 05:08 PM (fceHP)
There should also be some rethinking out they conduct fire/emergency evacuations. It seems that that teachers did not lead their students out of the classrooms. In an emergency the first person out of a classroom should be an adult so as to gauge the threat (fire, tornado, shooter whatever) and then guide the students accordingly.
When asshole hit the fire alarm teachers leaving the classroom would've been his first targets and the students would then know what was out side the door. Next there should be classes in the school drilling the kids on what to do in those cases.
Simply staying in the class room would've slowed the carnage down and if the doors could be locked from inside the number of dead would be a lot lower.
As to the SRO that stayed outside. He wasn't properly trained or vetted and why hasn't that asshole Sheriff resigned yet? He's the leader what happened is ALL his fault and if he had any honor he would be resigning along with the SRO that failed.
Let's have some calls for this jerk to be fired since he can't bring himself to do the right thing just like his deputy.
Posted by: jakee308 at February 23, 2018 05:08 PM (C4l4A)
Posted by: wooga at February 23, 2018 05:03 PM
Thanks to Donald Trump and the roaring economy, I'm thinking the only unemployed person in Chappqua, New York in a starring roll.
Posted by: Acme Explosives at February 23, 2018 05:08 PM (2FqvZ)
Posted by: alexthechick - Breathe. Namaste. Prayer hands. Warrior pose. at February 23, 2018 04:55 PM (dEQP3)
Sunshine is one of my all-time favorites. (The space "never take a lefty on a critical mission" movie). The other Sunshine movie is okay, but a bit demented.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at February 23, 2018 05:09 PM (8gDQu)
Posted by: Seems Legit at February 23, 2018 05:07 PM (U+nHb)
Does she put out?
Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at February 23, 2018 05:09 PM (CPk08)
Has that move EVER worked?
Not if you duck!
Posted by: Superman at February 23, 2018 05:09 PM (O5Q3r)
Think that's Source Film Maker, and Overwatch FTW (never played the game, though)
Posted by: The Deplorable Mr. Trumpkin at February 23, 2018 05:07 PM (wwd4n)
Ah, Source not Steam?
Thank you, corrected for future.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at February 23, 2018 05:09 PM (xJa6I)
http://youtu.be/GFMyMxMYDNk
Posted by: steevy at February 23, 2018 05:09 PM (LiyEm)
That's good storytelling.
And that's the point of a fight scene. Its not just to have action and excitement, its part of the storytelling. It has to be more than just violence or its as pointless as a sex scene in a story. Reveal something about characters, move the plot along, set the scene, tell us something about the story. Don't just have people hurting each other.
And I was thinking of the Nicholas Cage film Next, not Knowing which I thought was kind of dull.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 23, 2018 05:09 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 23, 2018 05:09 PM (2DOZq)
Posted by: Jewells45 at February 23, 2018 05:09 PM (dUJdY)
I think his career in "public service" is coming to a close.
Posted by: girldog at February 23, 2018 05:09 PM (g5YYQ)
Calm your tits, Scankles. This is something they try whenever they can. The ONLY way they win is if we let them.
Posted by: redbanzai the Southerner at February 23, 2018 05:05 PM (qf8IB)
Corporate America just told everyone that guns are icky and to be avoide. You dont think that will have an impact?
Posted by: #neverskankles at February 23, 2018 05:10 PM (wHXst)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 23, 2018 05:10 PM (QQ+il)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, 501st Kremlin Jewbot Gvardii at February 23, 2018 05:07 PM (fA1SL)
Love that movie. Better off dead is good too... though there are no shootouts.
Posted by: redbanzai the Southerner at February 23, 2018 05:10 PM (qf8IB)
Posted by: Rob Crawford at February 23, 2018 05:10 PM (i00hk)
"Knowing" is so great until the last moment when the heretofore creepyish motives unknown aliens-
are revealed as angels who cart the kiddies off to Ice Cream Sundae Heaven World.
That kinda spoils the whole thing.
Posted by: naturalfake at February 23, 2018 05:05 PM (E3rQ4)
I am in the camp that the aliens in Knowing are actually the Strangers from Dark City. That puts a whoooole different spin on the ending.
One of the things I like best in Knowing is that Rose Byrne has actual human reactions to Nic Cage's ramblings which is to assume he's insane and to take the kids and flee.
Posted by: alexthechick - Breathe. Namaste. Prayer hands. Warrior pose. at February 23, 2018 05:10 PM (dEQP3)
sheriffs, schools, social workers, and FBI are the ones responsible for
that shooting.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Bama's Boot Stomping on the Face of College Football
Forever at February 23, 2018 04:52 PM
.
.
.
.The left needs a boogeyman and right now it is the NRA which had squat to do with the School shooting.
Problem is, they are going to go full gun control on this and won't stop and it will cost them in November just like it did in 2012.
Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at February 23, 2018 05:10 PM (+Dllb)
It hasn't before.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 23, 2018 05:10 PM (QQ+il)
It's about family.
Posted by: Rob Crawford at February 23, 2018 05:10 PM (i00hk)
And subverting our expectations!
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at February 23, 2018 05:11 PM (xJa6I)
Posted by: professor disarray, gumdrop gorilla channel
________
Same with Churches that start endorsing gay marriage. The actual church members leave and the gay activists certainly aren't filling the pews on Sunday Morning.
Usually these "corporate" events are caused by Twitter. Some retard tweets something and some 25 year old living in San Francisco manning the Twitter feed for MegaCorp makes a big call and somehow convinces the higher ups they better cave. It really is amazing how much of our culture is being changed over that stupid app.
Posted by: Maritime at February 23, 2018 05:11 PM (lKmt3)
And it was the one really standout scene in an otherwise kind of dull film. All that spectacle and stuff going on and so little to really hold your interest.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 23, 2018 05:11 PM (39g3+)
It should have been handled better. Emo Sith killing him in cold blood was stupid.
Posted by: Rob Crawford at February 23, 2018 05:11 PM (i00hk)
It had a lot of killing by blades . I would rather get shot.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 23, 2018 05:11 PM (2DOZq)
another nasty scene from Drive
brutal
Motel shootout - 'Drive' (HD)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqm1TJPD5QM
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at February 23, 2018 05:12 PM (fceHP)
Me too. Its time to move on, do something different and interesting. Babylon 5 has an interesting universe...
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 23, 2018 05:04 PM (39g3+)
I don't think they've worn out their welcome. Its just that Hollywood has no clue how to handle them. They only have two modes, nostalgiafest to the point of ridiculousness, or shoehorning in their newest cause du jour. They're not interested in telling a good story which might actually grow the franchise. They just want to check their boxes and think it will be good. Make sure its got nostalgia, make sure it has enough women, make sure it has enough minorities. Story? Huh?
Posted by: buzzion at February 23, 2018 05:12 PM (lKs2v)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 23, 2018 05:12 PM (8+Ozj)
Well played MSM, well played.
Posted by: #neverskankles at February 23, 2018 05:12 PM (wHXst)
Posted by: Lord Culvert at February 23, 2018 05:12 PM (GMuVj)
Posted by: Cheri at February 23, 2018 05:13 PM (oiNtH)
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But plenty of pure snow...it's everywhere!
Posted by: astronaut achmed at February 23, 2018 05:13 PM (PUKsa)
The gunfight was not really at the OK corral, but it was near it. Gunfight at the photography studio (which was closer) doesn't really have the same cachet.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 23, 2018 05:13 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: #neverskankles at February 23, 2018 05:12 PM (wHXst)
I can't see how anyone could square that with the 2nd amendment. The Constitution doesn't have any special attachment to the age of 21.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at February 23, 2018 05:14 PM (8gDQu)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, 501st Kremlin Jewbot Gvardii at February 23, 2018 05:14 PM (fA1SL)
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The left *always* needs a bogeyman. They will always need an Emmanuel Goldstein.
It's a good thing Republicans get elected to the central office of our republic often enough, that it gives the left a fresh supply.
Posted by: Axebot at February 23, 2018 05:14 PM (vDqXW)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 23, 2018 05:14 PM (2DOZq)
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at February 23, 2018 05:14 PM (oVJmc)
Posted by: redbanzai the Southerner at February 23, 2018 05:05 PM (qf8IB)
Corporate America just told everyone that guns are icky and to be avoide. You dont think that will have an impact?
Posted by: #neverskankles at February 23, 2018 05:10 PM (wHXst)
It will have the impact of wrecking their businesses and increasing NRA membership... not exactly what they are trying to do.
Read up on Operation Chokepoint and understand that Obama threw the entire weight of the federal bureaucracy behind manufacturing the pretext for more gun control and failed miserably. These yahoos are not going to succeed either... and perhaps one or two of those traumatized teen-agers that are being used now will have the liberal blinders lifted
Posted by: redbanzai the Southerner at February 23, 2018 05:14 PM (qf8IB)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, 501st Kremlin Jewbot Gvardii at February 23, 2018 05:14 PM (fA1SL)
THE BEES! THE BEES!
Posted by: alexthechick - Breathe. Namaste. Prayer hands. Warrior pose. at February 23, 2018 05:14 PM (dEQP3)
A dozen companies are the entirety of corporate America?
Huh. I thought this country was a lot bigger, and that a hell of a lot more went on than what gets the most noise.
Posted by: Rob Crawford at February 23, 2018 05:15 PM (i00hk)
Posted by: Sporkatus at February 23, 2018 05:15 PM (HtLSE)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, 501st Kremlin Jewbot Gvardii at February 23, 2018 05:14 PM (fA1SL)
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Is Edward Woodward "et al"?
Posted by: Axebot at February 23, 2018 05:15 PM (vDqXW)
Over/under on whether he wins an Oscar this year? There was an attempt to push a smear campaign against him (but the character he plays is RACIST! We can't award someone for brilliantly playing a RACIST!), but I don't think it had legs.
Posted by: LizLem at February 23, 2018 05:15 PM (hvf9s)
Posted by: alexthechick - Breathe. Namaste. Prayer hands. Warrior pose. at February 23, 2018 05:15 PM (dEQP3)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 23, 2018 05:15 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: steevy at February 23, 2018 05:15 PM (LiyEm)
And the same can be said of the one in Eastwood's "Unforgiven." Violent, real, and fast.
Posted by: Les Kinetic at February 23, 2018 05:15 PM (5OEn4)
Right, it was behind the OK Corral. We have visited Tombstone twice. To walk down the same street that Doc and Wyatt walked down was quite an experience! I understand they tore up the pavement and put dirt down again to make it more realistic. Definitely going back this summer!
Posted by: Jewells45 at February 23, 2018 05:16 PM (dUJdY)
The gunfight was not really at the OK corral, but it was near it. Gunfight at the photography studio (which was closer) doesn't really have the same cachet.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 23, 2018 05:13 PM (39g3+)
Yup.
One of the things about Wyatt Earp that made him so deadly was the guy apparently just never panicked. He'd draw, take aim, fire and hit. Then do the same thing again until everyone else was dead.
Never got a scratch on him.
Not saying he's a saint, something else the movie makes clear, but he was one-in-a-million.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at February 23, 2018 05:16 PM (xJa6I)
Posted by: Rob Crawford at February 23, 2018 05:04 PM (i00hk)
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That was Ford's idea, I hear. He didn't want to keep doing Star Wars.
Posted by: Axebot at February 23, 2018 05:07 PM (vDqXW)
But Disney expects people to believe he personally tutored the guy cosplaying Solo on how to play Solo.
Posted by: Methos at February 23, 2018 05:16 PM (XQvuQ)
And I was thinking of the Nicholas Cage film Next, not Knowing which I thought was kind of dull.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 23, 2018 05:09 PM
Which film is the one with Jessica Biel? Because that's the one I like. Because Jessica Biel. And the other film is the one where the world ends, no?
Posted by: Hands at February 23, 2018 05:16 PM (EzdLW)
Well played MSM, well played.
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.
.I got $50 that says that will not get through the Legislature.
Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at February 23, 2018 05:16 PM (+Dllb)
Because I'd like to retain hammer on these good looking British and Swedish women.
Posted by: Anchorbabe fashion cop at February 23, 2018 05:16 PM (8iiMU)
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Bama's Boot Stomping on the Face of College Football Forever at February 23, 2018 05:16 PM (JwkED)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 23, 2018 05:10 PM (QQ+il)
yep
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at February 23, 2018 05:16 PM (fceHP)
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at February 23, 2018 04:50 PM (4Nwi3)
Nope, nope, nope. There was one episode where "Howling Mad" Murdock was shot and wounded. That moment is seared, seared into my memory.
Posted by: antisocial justice botnik (unindicted) at February 23, 2018 05:16 PM (NL6wI)
Posted by: Eromero at February 23, 2018 05:17 PM (zLDYs)
Posted by: torabora at February 23, 2018 05:17 PM (K0z2U)
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at February 23, 2018 05:14 PM (oVJmc)
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And that's a shame because Jason Isaacs is in it. (I still won't watch it, but Isaacs makes me kind of think want to.)
Posted by: Axebot at February 23, 2018 05:17 PM (vDqXW)
Then he went all Vader 5 minutes later...grrrrr
Posted by: astronaut achmed at February 23, 2018 05:17 PM (PUKsa)
Posted by: Jewells45 at February 23, 2018 05:17 PM (dUJdY)
Posted by: Texican(ette) at February 23, 2018 05:17 PM (CjE8v)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, 501st Kremlin Jewbot Gvardii at February 23, 2018 05:17 PM (fA1SL)
Jim Henson of course was a main part but I think the direction was Aussie. I really do not know now that you mention it.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 23, 2018 05:17 PM (2DOZq)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 23, 2018 05:17 PM (pNxlR)
Posted by: steevy at February 23, 2018 05:17 PM (LiyEm)
They donate so little to politicians, particularly compared to big lefty organizations, its kind of hilarious.
I still detect zero buzz about Star Trek: Disgustery.
Let's put it this way: they'll renew it for next year but the budget is going to be slashed. It was supposed to be the tentpole for their new streaming pay service, and it hasn't made a fraction of what they needed it to. I think only really hardcore Star Trek fans are watching.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 23, 2018 05:18 PM (39g3+)
Honestly, I'm amazed they have a guy playing the role.
Posted by: Rob Crawford at February 23, 2018 05:18 PM (i00hk)
I know it's the first movie I ever walked out of feeling like my perceptions had changed somehow.
I was totally there in that galaxy fighting that war wherever the f**k it was.
And if you notice there wasn't a lot of blood and gore. Sure lots of action and guys falling down but no gratuitous violence.
It was like a big Saturday afternoon shootout between kids in the empty lot next door with lots of yelling and running and people shooting and getting shot and all sorts of fun.
Took all of us back to a more innocent time in our lives I think. Subconsciously?
The last 3 were received so badly because there weren't FUN.
No noble cause, no wisdom against sterile logic.
Ah well. We've all seen the elephant since then. We can't go back to our innocence.
Posted by: jakee308 at February 23, 2018 05:18 PM (C4l4A)
Right, it was behind the OK Corral. We have visited Tombstone twice. To walk down the same street that Doc and Wyatt walked down was quite an experience! I understand they tore up the pavement and put dirt down again to make it more realistic. Definitely going back this summer!
Posted by: Jewells45 at February 23, 2018 05:16 PM
I've been there too. Sis and I posed with one of the statues, I think it was a Clanton, which they had set up inside the corral. I was surprised at how small the actual corral is.
Posted by: Hands at February 23, 2018 05:18 PM (EzdLW)
Posted by: steevy at February 23, 2018 05:19 PM (LiyEm)
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Bama's Boot Stomping on the Face of College Football Forever at February 23, 2018 05:19 PM (JwkED)
Either Sons of Katie Elder or Rio Bravo.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 23, 2018 05:19 PM (2DOZq)
I think his career in "public service" is coming to a close.
Posted by: girldog
No. I'm the last to hear that.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 23, 2018 05:19 PM (sMMcg)
I am in the camp that the aliens in Knowing are actually the Strangers from Dark City. That puts a whoooole different spin on the ending.
I'm sorry but I can't take this seriously...
They don't wear bowlers.
No bowlers = No Strangers.
Posted by: naturalfake at February 23, 2018 05:20 PM (E3rQ4)
Honestly, I'm amazed they have a guy playing the role.
Posted by: Rob Crawford at February 23, 2018 05:18 PM (i00hk)
The 'guy' won't be the main character.
They have a chick and a chick robot for that.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at February 23, 2018 05:20 PM (xJa6I)
Posted by: Jewells45 at February 23, 2018 05:20 PM (dUJdY)
Posted by: alexthechick - Breathe. Namaste. Prayer hands. Warrior pose. at February 23, 2018 05:20 PM (dEQP3)
Posted by: Rob Crawford at February 23, 2018 05:20 PM (i00hk)
The left, who cackled with glee when Lisa Ann pulled off a credible Sarah Palin in 'Who's Nailin' Palin' won't think it's so funny when the Rooskies next election have a million bots promoting some Bernie Sanders, Nancy Pelosi, Joe Biden three-way Deepfake Celebrity Porn sex scene.
I eagerly await their discomfort.
Posted by: Acme Explosives at February 23, 2018 05:20 PM (2FqvZ)
I just heard, for the first time, the Sheriff of Broward County speaking.
With apologies to my Northern brethren, the guy is a yankee. I mean, his accent rivals that of Norm Abrams. It is grating to Southern ears. How the hell did this guy wind up as sheriff of a Florida county?
We have loads of half-backs here. I'm always amused when I ask them where they are from, and they say 'Florida'. I never let them off of the hook, I simply say, 'No, I mean originally'.
Having made a mess of NJ (or Nu Yawk), then despoiling FL, they are now here doing the same shit...and expecting us to be grateful.
If I sound resentful, it's because I am resentful.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 23, 2018 05:20 PM (RwYr/)
It's unreal and it's spectacular.
100,000 people were subscribed to the reddit for that stuff - and who knows how many lurkers - before the SJWs shut it down.
X-----------
That should have been shut down. I'm no SJW, but I applaud them. That software is seriously dangerous for society. It's not just about porn. And people should be able to own their own image and not have it manipulated for some sick fantasy. Hope they make it a crime. And not just for porn, but everything.
Ya know, your brain doesn't know the difference. Chris Rock did something recently about his porn addiction and how it really messed him up. Anyway, there is too much porn out there, and people watch too much of it, and as a woman I see the negative implications of it. May be the only thing I will ever agree with Paltrow about. JMO, of course.
Posted by: professor disarray, gumdrop gorilla channel at February 23, 2018 05:21 PM (hLB6Q)
Next is the one where Nicholas Cage scores way, way above his pay grade with Jessica Biel. But she is, again, basically a nonentity, forgettable other than her looks. She has no charisma, really.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 23, 2018 05:21 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: Jewells45 at February 23, 2018 05:21 PM (dUJdY)
Posted by: steevy at February 23, 2018 05:21 PM (LiyEm)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 23, 2018 05:04 PM (39g3+)
Yeah, it's a shame that the spinoffs never succeeded--also, that the majority of the cast is dead. Still, it's one of my two Sci-Fi TV shows and it'd be nice to see something more come of the universe. Imagine a B5 show with a reasonable budget...
Posted by: antisocial justice botnik (unindicted) at February 23, 2018 05:21 PM (NL6wI)
The first step before confiscation in all instances has been registration.
Every damn one of them
We will have to draw a line if they pass such a bill.
We can't wait for the confiscations to begin.
Emulate the Californians, New Yorkers and CT'ers and do not register.
Posted by: jakee308 at February 23, 2018 05:21 PM (C4l4A)
https://thechive.files.wordpress.com/2018/02/55-iqmtl1x.gif?w=300
Posted by: alexthechick - Breathe. Namaste. Prayer hands. Warrior pose. at February 23, 2018 05:20 PM (dEQP3)
Aw. He acts the same way my pup does when he wants attention.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at February 23, 2018 05:21 PM (xJa6I)
Posted by: ScoggDog at February 23, 2018 05:21 PM (fiGNd)
35 another great gunfight is the one at the climax of LA Confidential.
Another great one is the wheatfield one-on-one shootout in the Bourne Identity.
Posted by: ace at February 23, 2018 04:31 PM (8rNrN)
Both good choices!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 23, 2018 05:22 PM (pNxlR)
A dozen companies are the entirety of corporate America?
Huh. I thought this country was a lot bigger, and that a hell of a lot more went on than what gets the most noise.
Posted by: Rob Crawford at
More like 25 and some of the biggest consumer names...Fedex, Hertz, Wyndham, Chubb, Symantec. And now they are looking to Amazon to throw NRA off AWS.
And its not the absolute number its the fact that 80 to 90% of partners bailed within the span of 24 hours.
Next step will be getting banks to no longer do business with with anything gun related. No credit card processing. No website hosting. They are being othered in real time.
Posted by: #neverskankles at February 23, 2018 05:22 PM (wHXst)
No. I'm the last to hear that.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 23, 2018 05:19 PM (sMMcg)
Saw it on Reason which quotes it from the Sun Sentinel--the main Broward newspaper.
Not surprisingly, there have been previous reports of corruption in the Sheriff's office. Apparently that was his response when questioned.
Posted by: girldog at February 23, 2018 05:22 PM (g5YYQ)
What? Cage is in the remake. Edward Woodward was in the original movie. If your post was humor I missed its subtlety.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 23, 2018 05:22 PM (8+Ozj)
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Rick Scott was, is and always shall be a dumbfuck RINO. He is doing his version of the "Maverick" proving once and for all his GOPe/elitist totalitarian bonafides.
Stupid asswipe can't SPELL Constitution.
Thanks for the heads-up , Dicky Spaceboy.
We WILL remember.
Posted by: skip intro at February 23, 2018 05:22 PM (x25VP)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, 501st Kremlin Jewbot Gvardii at February 23, 2018 05:17 PM (fA1SL)
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Absolutely. He played his character as an ass, to a T.
He's also in another one of my favorite psych horror films: The Appointment (1981). I don't know why more people don't love that movie the way I do.
Posted by: Axebot at February 23, 2018 05:23 PM (vDqXW)
okie dokie
https://thechive.files.wordpress.com/2018/02/11-qwb62cb.gif?w=400
Posted by: alexthechick - Breathe. Namaste. Prayer hands. Warrior pose. at February 23, 2018 05:15 PM
Self-towing trailers, driven by hitch-bots!
Posted by: Hands at February 23, 2018 05:23 PM (EzdLW)
Posted by: LASue at February 23, 2018 05:23 PM (hZ+us)
Just heard this.
There the Broward SRO was not alone. There were 2 deputies with him.
Not one lone govt worker with a mere pistol. Four.
Ho Li Sheet
Posted by: Ripley at February 23, 2018 05:23 PM (MxEKc)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 23, 2018 05:23 PM (8+Ozj)
Man, you're an eeyore. And a boring one at that.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 23, 2018 05:23 PM (QQ+il)
Posted by: Rob Crawford at February 23, 2018 05:23 PM (i00hk)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 23, 2018 05:22 PM (8+Ozj)
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I think he just refuses to recognize that movie.
Posted by: Axebot at February 23, 2018 05:23 PM (vDqXW)
What? Cage is in the remake. Edward Woodward was in the original movie. If your post was humor I missed its subtlety.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 23, 2018 05:22 PM (8+Ozj)
I think Palpy feels about Wicker Man the way I feel about The Matrix.
There was no remake/sequel.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at February 23, 2018 05:24 PM (xJa6I)
Posted by: Nicholas Cage at February 23, 2018 05:24 PM (SkuXa)
Another brilliant and funny point today Ace.
You've been on fire.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at February 23, 2018 05:24 PM (3/sUh)
I think his career in "public service" is coming to a close.
Posted by: girldog
No. I'm the last to hear that.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 23, 2018 05:19 PM (sMMcg)
I'm the last, last to hear that. And wtf?
Posted by: professor disarray, gumdrop gorilla channel at February 23, 2018 05:24 PM (hLB6Q)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 23, 2018 05:23 PM (QQ+il)
That's my job.
Posted by: ScoggDog at February 23, 2018 05:24 PM (fiGNd)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine
Now that's what I call ACTING !
Posted by: Just the punchline... at February 23, 2018 05:25 PM (/CcIR)
So it's juts a loathing of the remakel-which never took place. ;^)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 23, 2018 05:25 PM (8+Ozj)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 23, 2018 05:25 PM (2DOZq)
Posted by: Sharkman at February 23, 2018 05:25 PM (BfOXk)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 23, 2018 05:23 PM (8+Ozj)
Same here.
Posted by: professor disarray, gumdrop gorilla channel at February 23, 2018 05:25 PM (hLB6Q)
If the NRA membership puts you off and the price, you can join Gun Owners of America for 15 dollars. (GOA)
I don't like the NRA cause they're a bit relentless on getting you to keep signing up. Like telling you your membership will expire in 9 months so sign up again now.
They spam a lot too.
Posted by: jakee308 at February 23, 2018 05:25 PM (C4l4A)
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Notice how none of this shit flew under Obama , or Bush or Clenis?
Just typical WallStreet posturing and pants-shitting. It will be forgotten as quickly as The Great Bathroom Confusion of 2016.
Past is preterite.
Posted by: skip intro at February 23, 2018 05:26 PM (x25VP)
But at least he's easily swayed. He's got that weather-vane thing going for him.
Posted by: Rob Crawford at February 23, 2018 05:26 PM (i00hk)
Posted by: #neverskankles at February 23, 2018 05:12 PM (wHXst)
Does his "universal background checks" imply mandating intrastate transfers go through an FFL--thus, creating a gun registry?
Posted by: antisocial justice botnik (unindicted) at February 23, 2018 05:26 PM (NL6wI)
Posted by: Moron Robbie -
Rio Bravo
Posted by: JT at February 23, 2018 05:26 PM (/CcIR)
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Boy, he's going to enjoy the Trump presidency. Hopefully the DOJ, too. Good and hard.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Bama's Boot Stomping on the Face of College Football Forever at February 23, 2018 05:26 PM (JwkED)
It would have blown the lid off of everything and been a refreshingly different direction. So of course JJ didn't do it and let them play it safe. Sigh. Having crazy redhead take over ruling the empire would have been awesome.
The more I analyze The Last Jedi's faults the more disappointed I get.
Posted by: LizLem at February 23, 2018 05:27 PM (hvf9s)
Posted by: Axebot at February 23, 2018 05:23 PM (vDqXW)
To be fair, that is a valid life choice.
Posted by: alexthechick - Breathe. Namaste. Prayer hands. Warrior pose. at February 23, 2018 05:27 PM (dEQP3)
- Best Western - bedbugs stay for free!
- Enterprise Rent A Car -
- Hertz - had a killer as their spokesrunner
- First National Bank of Omaha (?) - assume Uncle Estate Tax had something to do with that
- Symantec - Oh, man, that's funny. Good luck blocking malware with that!
- MetLife - dog flies their blimp
I've said before, I'm not big into guns and am not in the NRA, but the left's ballooning batshitedness pushed me back here. Tracers work both ways.
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at February 23, 2018 04:41 PM
(hqZPQ)
Shit that's my bank.
Not a member of the NRA, but I'm going to have to look into that further. I may not be able to change banks due to my current working arrangement (it's a fucked up situation changing to another bank with a new account number has caused problems for other workers before and I can't afford to not be able to work for up to a week before it gets hashed out), but that shit is fucked up. Like a bank should even be giving two shits about stuff like this.
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at February 23, 2018 05:27 PM (4ErVI)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, 501st Kremlin Jewbot Gvardii at February 23, 2018 05:27 PM (fA1SL)
Sheriff saying that "Lions don't care about the opinions of sheep" when
asked about corruption?
I think his career in "public service" is coming to a close.
Posted by: girldog
No. I'm the last to hear that.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 23, 2018 05:19 PM
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.Didn't hear that either. Anyone have a link?
Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at February 23, 2018 05:27 PM (+Dllb)
Metaphysics rises above the physical thus no concerns with physical reproduction.
The Bible, I believe, makes the point that those in Heaven are genderless.
Even the Angels (messengers) are asexual except for certain "missions".
Posted by: jakee308 at February 23, 2018 05:28 PM (C4l4A)
Posted by: Hands
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We were very surprised by Stonehenge. Sad, really.
Posted by: Spinal Tap at February 23, 2018 05:28 PM (RwYr/)
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Bama's Boot Stomping on the Face of College Football Forever at February 23, 2018 05:28 PM (JwkED)
Don't own a gun, have very little likelihood of ever owning one in NJ, but I feel like joining the NRA because of the shaming by the SJW's and the stupidity of Enterprise.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 23, 2018 05:23 PM
I'm starting to feel the same way. And I have never owned a gun, never even fired one. Have no intentions of even buying one. Yet I'm still considering joining the NRA, because of all of this crap.
Posted by: Hands at February 23, 2018 05:28 PM (EzdLW)
Its like the second Highlander film. Never happened.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 23, 2018 05:28 PM (39g3+)
...
He hasn't caved.
His mask was ripped away.
Behold, the power of this fully OPERATIONAL Trump Administration!
Posted by: skip intro at February 23, 2018 05:28 PM (x25VP)
I am confused by your math.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth"
Oops. There are reports there were three deputies on-site in addition to the SRO. We'll see if that is true.
Posted by: Ripley at February 23, 2018 05:29 PM (MxEKc)
Corporate America just told everyone that guns are icky and to be avoide. You dont think that will have an impact?
Since when do people care what corporate America thinks?
Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at February 23, 2018 05:29 PM (lKyWE)
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Bama's Boot Stomping on the Face of College Football Forever at February 23, 2018 05:30 PM (JwkED)
Posted by: jakee308 at February 23, 2018 05:25 PM (C4l4A)
I blocked their phone number. But I still re-up every three years.
And I just joined GOA, because why the hell not!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 23, 2018 05:30 PM (wYseH)
Posted by: Superman at February 23, 2018 05:30 PM (O5Q3r)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, 501st Kremlin Jewbot Gvardii at February 23, 2018 05:30 PM (fA1SL)
I didn't even know they had those lol.
I wonder if they have a card showing B-52s carpet bombing North Vietnam?
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at February 23, 2018 05:30 PM (4ErVI)
Wonder Woman bought an invisible truck?
Good find AtC!
Posted by: LizLem at February 23, 2018 05:30 PM (hvf9s)
Posted by: Spinal Tap
"Yeah the Dwarves didn't help any."
--Concert Goer
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 23, 2018 05:30 PM (39g3+)
Fuck you, I explained.
Posted by: Sharkman at February 23, 2018 05:30 PM (BfOXk)
Posted by: Rob Crawford at February 23, 2018 05:31 PM (i00hk)
Posted by: Scogg
So bad it's good.
Posted by: Monk at February 23, 2018 05:31 PM (g4lFK)
It would have blown the lid off of everything and been a refreshingly different direction. So of course JJ didn't do it and let them play it safe. Sigh. Having crazy redhead take over ruling the empire would have been awesome.
The more I analyze The Last Jedi's faults the more disappointed I get.
Posted by: LizLem at February 23, 2018 05:27 PM (hvf9s)
That moment really woke me outta my this movie blows stupor.
I thought, what a brilliant twist! OMG! Are they really going to do this?
But....nope.
So, back to vaguely irritated stupor until TLJ ended on a sucktasticly stupid note.
Posted by: naturalfake at February 23, 2018 05:31 PM (E3rQ4)
The only way to make it effective is to have a registry of ALL firearms in the country so that every firearm comes with an ownership history.
Once you have registration you are a EO from having confiscation.
Germany, Russia, Britain, Japan, Australia.
All enacted firearms registration before confiscation. And enforced it using spies and informers to rat people out for owning a firearm.
Posted by: jakee308 at February 23, 2018 05:31 PM (C4l4A)
Posted by: Mrs. JTB at February 23, 2018 05:32 PM (V+03K)
Posted by: Eromero at February 23, 2018 05:32 PM (zLDYs)
Posted by: #neverskankles at February 23, 2018 05:32 PM (wHXst)
Edward Woodward was a very fine actor. I saw him perform onstage in London. Nicholas Cage-not so much.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 23, 2018 05:33 PM (8+Ozj)
Yes, society is doomed.
Posted by: LizLem at February 23, 2018 05:01 PM (hvf9s)
How do they cope with Swiss cheese?
Posted by: hobbitopoly at February 23, 2018 05:33 PM (MX7xj)
Posted by: Scogg
So bad it's good.
Posted by: Monk at February 23, 2018 05:31 PM (g4lFK)
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No. No, it's not.
Posted by: Axebot at February 23, 2018 05:34 PM (vDqXW)
..
Gonna be an early night.
Posted by: skip intro at February 23, 2018 05:34 PM (x25VP)
Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at February 23, 2018 05:27 PM (+Dllb)
I saw it at Reason.com. I think they got it from The Sun Sentinel, a Broward newspaper. The good sheriff has a history.
Posted by: girldog at February 23, 2018 05:35 PM (g5YYQ)
They tried to push through a registry when Obama was President after Newtown. In my opinion, it was a big reason why Republicans won in 2014 and 2016. Before, Democrats had sort of left gun control alone.
Posted by: Maritime at February 23, 2018 05:36 PM (lKmt3)
It's not the grrrl power. It's the boring as sh*t part.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Bama's Boot Stomping on the Face of College Football Forever at February 23, 2018 04:47
Above some mentioned the movie Gandhi...talk about BORING! I tried to watch it twice, didn't succeed either time.
Posted by: Farmer at February 23, 2018 05:39 PM (lfXAE)
Posted by: Stalin at February 23, 2018 05:41 PM (8Ls/+)
Crap, I'll have to check. I love mine. But every time I use it I don't leave it unattended, and unplug it after.
Posted by: LizLem at February 23, 2018 05:42 PM (hvf9s)
The good sheriff also compared himself to Don Shula, Abraham Lincoln, MLK, and Gandhi. Asked what he had done differently than any of those men.
He used to be a Republican before running for Sheriff. In South Florida corruption is bi-partisan.
Posted by: girldog at February 23, 2018 05:42 PM (g5YYQ)
Posted by: Northernlurker Worldwide Moron Tour at February 23, 2018 05:52 PM (5fRCd)
Posted by: Locke Common at February 23, 2018 06:22 PM (0gm7K)
Not if you duck!
Posted by: Superman at February 23, 2018 05:09 PM (O5Q3r)
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Yep
Posted by: W at February 23, 2018 06:42 PM (K0z2U)
Before I saw it, I thought that might be the case, that people were spamming the user reviews to lower the score.
Then I saw it. Liked it in real time, but then afterwards, it got worse over time until I started to look at some of the criticism and they were right on. Worst Star Wars story telling ever.
Now, people ARE spamming the RT score, AND I believe RT has altered their "like" algorithm to actually boost the score. Go read a couple pages of reviews. One star reviews are generally well thought out and rational. 5 star reviews are one line, stating "best move in the series". Also, they claim a review constitutes a "like" if it gets 3.5 or more stars. Go check. Virtually every page is 20-25% or less reviews that are 3.5 stars or better.
Nothing like a loaded question, based on a lie, to elicit pro-feminist idiocy from Abrams. The story and treatment of Skywalker in that film is near criminal. There are certainly SJW aspects of it that suck, but that is way down the list of criticisms of The Last Jedi. Maybe someone should ask him about all the setup he did in Force Awakens, and his thoughts on Rian Johnson pissing all over them.
Posted by: deadrody at February 23, 2018 08:12 PM (4yA46)
Posted by: #neverskankles at February 23, 2018 05:22 PM (wHXst)
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Fuck 'em. Fact is, you probably shouldn't be financing guns anyhow. Luckily, cash still works, huh. The idea that this NRA protest bullshit is going to move any needle at all is laughably stupid.
Well, except in the direction OF the NRA, that is.
Posted by: deadrody at February 23, 2018 08:20 PM (4yA46)
Posted by: Castle Guy at February 23, 2018 10:03 PM (Lhaco)
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