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Double-Woke Seven: Daniel Craig Whines That They Tried to Keep Trump and Brexit Out of Our New James Bond Fantasy Film, But They Sadly Failed
Trump and Brexit and RUSSIAN INTERFERENCE!!!
Who's psyched?! I can't wait to see James Bond's newest mission for the British Soycret Soyvice.In other Bonfire of the IPs news: CBS All Access won't tell us how many people are watching the Fake Star Trek Picard show -- which suggests to me that the numbers are soft -- but we do know how many people are watching in Canada, where it's broadcast over the airwaves. While it's still doing pretty well, it's lost half a million viewers as the series has ground on.
If it seems like the Trump presidency seeps into everything that is good and pure in the world and poisons it. That's because it does. Well, you can now add James Bond to the list of things that the world’s most depressingly omnipresent news story has infected, as Daniel Craig related to Sam Knight for this month’s cover story. "We struggled to keep Trump out of this film," Craig told Knight of No Time To Die. "But of course it is there. It's always there, whether it’s Trump or whether it's Brexit or whether it’s Russian influence on elections or whatever." Craig goes on to voice his exasperation at the sudden willingness to turn insular among his fellow Britons: "There are British people working in the top industries in the world and at the top of those industries. We do that and we are good at that. And somehow we’re kind of breaking all that apart. Whether that's breaking from Europe... There is a sort of nihilism, isn't there?"
Sony's doing a Cinderella movie, and they've decided to make the Fairy Godmather "genderless" -- that is, transgender.
With Episode 5 only clocking in 1.309 million, it lost 111,000 viewers [from episode 4]. That's almost a 30% decline in viewership in just 5 episodes. The show is losing on average 108,000 viewers per episode. It has lost 542,000 total since the premiere episode.
Actor Billy Porter recently revealed he will be playing a "genderless" Fairy Godmother in Sony’s upcoming Cinderella film. The live-action adaptation by Kay Cannon will attempt to modernize the classic tale with an all-star cast and some social messaging. Porter let the cat out of the bag that the Fairy Godmother would be "genderless" in an interview with CBS News.I'm sure parents can't wait to bring their little ones to that. I've mentioned Fake Doctor Who's ratings a lot, but the final, consolidated numbers came in, where they add in everyone who watched the show on-demand/streaming for a week. The finale -- the finale! of the show posted the worst ratings in all of the "New Who" series (that is, since they brought the show back in 2005). Furthermore, of the lowest ten rated episodes in all of Doctor Who history, going all the way back to the Kennedy assassination (when Doctor Who had the bad luck of premiering), six of the worst-rated episodes occurred this season. This season -- when they actually add in viewers watching on demand the week after broadcast. People hate this show so much the BBC had to issue a formal response.
"Doctor Who is a beloved long-running series and we understand that some people will feel attached to a particular idea they have of the Doctor, or that they enjoy certain aspects of the programme more than others. Opinions are strong and this is indicative of the imaginative hold that Doctor Who has -- that so many people engage with it on so many different levels."Shut the f*** up, c**k. This actually might be part of a major political issue in the UK. The BBC is funded by forced licensing fees. But Boris Johnson wants to do away with forcing the public to pay for leftwing propaganda and make the BBC compete for its money. The creator of Downton Abbey and screenwriter of Gosford Park -- who seems to lean conservative -- says the BBC has put its forced licensing grift at risk with its "ridiculous" bias. He comes just short of saying the BBC should be abolished, at least as a taxpayer-supported propaganda mill. Which is a major thing from a creative who works a lot with the BBC.
In an apparent attack on the BBC’s political stance and Brexit coverage, the Oscar-winning dramatist told The Mail on Sunday: 'I think it's very difficult to justify tax expenditure being used by a corporation that does not show a broad spectrum of beliefs and philosophies. 'I think if you are going to do it on public money then you do have a responsibility.' The 70-year-old Tory peer added: 'When you [consider that] the side they are not representing is essentially the majority, then the situation becomes even more ridiculous.'No one cares about CW's super-#Woke "Batwoman," which is why it's suffering its lowest ratings ever. So's Supergirl. And the CW's other garbage shows aren't doing that great, either. Meanwhile, DC Comics -- which has disastrously followed the #Woke Marvel model, including hiring non-writer Zoe Quinn to write a book for them (spoiler alert: it was cancelled for low sales) -- might get the axe from newly merged corporate parent AT&T/Warner Bros within a couple of years. Though the "axe" would just mean licensing its characters to third-party comic book publishers while it retains the rights to exploit them for TV and movies. AT&T and Warner want to get into the streaming game, and DC characters -- while not so hot at the moment -- are at least something. Still, a lot of comic book writer/artist deadweight would likely be jettisoned. "The Greta Thunberg of Marvel," Brie Larson, recently tried to remake her terrible public image as the most annoying, entitled cooze in show business by guest-hosting Jimmy Fallon. In that appearance, she -- get this! -- actually smiled a lot, and showed cleavage. Like, a lot of it. Like, more than you'd think. At about the same time, she put out a video on Twitter that showed her bouncing, bouncing, jiggling and bouncing as she ran down some stairs.
Brie Larson bouncing as she goes down the stairs 👀 pic.twitter.com/cZVPIb7Wrf
— Celebs 🔥 (@FameBabes) December 27, 2019
The #AllNewNissanSentra is here!!! So much fun creating this campaign for a car that refuses to compromise. 🙌🏻#RefuseToCompromise #Ad pic.twitter.com/k3vLIn4Okj
— Brie Larson (@brielarson) March 6, 2020
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Bruce at March 11, 2020 02:53 PM (ONqMO)
Posted by: Bruce at March 11, 2020 02:53 PM (ONqMO)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 11, 2020 02:54 PM (XyVor)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 11, 2020 02:54 PM (XyVor)
that was literally 15 years ago. What has he done for me lately?
Posted by: ace at March 11, 2020 02:54 PM (PbpT7)
Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at March 11, 2020 02:54 PM (RD7QR)
Posted by: Weinstein at March 11, 2020 02:54 PM (irezo)
Posted by: ace at March 11, 2020 02:54 PM (PbpT7)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 11, 2020 02:55 PM (ptqGC)
What am I missing?
Posted by: Lizzy at March 11, 2020 02:55 PM (bDqIh)
Posted by: Flyguy at March 11, 2020 02:55 PM (v30M8)
Posted by: DocJ at March 11, 2020 02:55 PM (77WPm)
Posted by: Thanatopsis at beautiful Chancre del Diablo ranch at March 11, 2020 02:55 PM (b1SKE)
well he's lying. They didn't try to keep this stuff out of the movie. He's preparing the audience for Double-Woke Seven.
Posted by: ace at March 11, 2020 02:56 PM (PbpT7)
Old Jerry Lewis take on Cinderella.
It already had a cross dressing Fairy God Father.
Posted by: Romeo13 at March 11, 2020 02:56 PM (NgKpN)
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at March 11, 2020 02:56 PM (so+oy)
Fuck you and fuck Rian Johnson.
War.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo. Yes, you. at March 11, 2020 02:56 PM (l4C/z)
I'm not going to watch it like twenty times in the theaters.
It's going to be like 1977 again, except with not watching a movie.
Posted by: ace at March 11, 2020 02:56 PM (PbpT7)
Posted by: ace at March 11, 2020 02:54 PM (PbpT7)
He has been a chump in the long run.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 11, 2020 02:56 PM (XyVor)
Posted by: Elizabeth Warren at March 11, 2020 02:56 PM (l3+k2)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 11, 2020 02:56 PM (BrtK1)
Posted by: ... at March 11, 2020 02:56 PM (irezo)
Yeah, it's Trump's fault that all the leftists drag him into every goddamned thing.
(I pass over as not worth rebutting the notion that leftists have anything good and pure.)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 11, 2020 02:56 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: Broseidon - New Work Computer, Same Work Ethic at March 11, 2020 02:57 PM (oZ6kz)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMWxa8PwJsA
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 11, 2020 02:57 PM (trdmm)
Posted by: Moki at March 11, 2020 02:57 PM (mFoNl)
Posted by: davidt at March 11, 2020 02:57 PM (l3+k2)
Posted by: Mikey NTH - Post Primary Sale - Used Prognostications & Predictions 1/2 Off at The Outrage Outlet! at March 11, 2020 02:57 PM (hLRSq)
I don't have teets but if I did I certainly would know if they were bouncing around
under my shirt.
Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a gentle glide applicator tip at March 11, 2020 02:57 PM (WGTJ9)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 11, 2020 02:58 PM (ptqGC)
Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at March 11, 2020 02:54 PM (RD7QR)
Robert Asprin had the fairy God Father, Don Bruce.
Posted by: Mikey NTH - Post Primary Sale - Used Prognostications & Predictions 1/2 Off at The Outrage Outlet! at March 11, 2020 02:58 PM (hLRSq)
Seems easy. "Hey writers. No true world politics in this movie."
And, there ya go.
Fuck off and die, Craig. You suck as bond anyway. Eat shit.
Posted by: Sponge at March 11, 2020 02:58 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at March 11, 2020 02:58 PM (+y/Ru)
_________
Releasing after the election? Villain is probably a Trumpalike and they didn't want it to backfire. Who knows. It'll be something stupid.
Posted by: ... at March 06, 2020 05:34 PM (uEbPt)
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Posted by: ... at March 11, 2020 02:58 PM (irezo)
Posted by: Sponge at March 11, 2020 02:58 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: FrodoB,
because hobbits don't wear socks at March 11, 2020 02:58 PM (veJcn)
I feel this is actual cultural news and a nice break in the day, a break from all more real-news stories.
but what's the readership's feeling on that?
Posted by: ace at March 11, 2020 02:58 PM (PbpT7)
The characters and IPs are still worth something.
Posted by: Broseidon - New Work Computer, Same Work Ethic at March 11, 2020 02:58 PM (oZ6kz)
Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at March 11, 2020 02:59 PM (1CjJc)
Opinions are strong and this is indicative of the imaginative hold that Doctor Who has -- that so many people engage with it on so many different levels."
I engage with it on the "not at all" level, same as I always have.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 11, 2020 02:59 PM (pNxlR)
Old Jerry Lewis take on Cinderella.
It already had a cross dressing Fairy God Father.
Posted by: Romeo13 a
I remember that, very cute. So obviously, hollywood has absolutely NOTHING original anymore.
Posted by: Moki at March 11, 2020 02:59 PM (mFoNl)
Posted by: tubal at March 11, 2020 02:59 PM (bCLt0)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo. Yes, you. at March 11, 2020 02:59 PM (l4C/z)
Posted by: Not Voting Our Way Out Of This at March 11, 2020 02:59 PM (AXS9h)
Although Star Wars is pretty huge.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 11, 2020 02:59 PM (XyVor)
Posted by: ... at March 11, 2020 02:59 PM (irezo)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo. Yes, you. at March 11, 2020 02:59 PM (l4C/z)
Posted by: tubal at March 11, 2020 02:59 PM (bCLt0)
Yeah, it's Trump's fault that all the leftists drag him into every goddamned thing.
(I pass over as not worth rebutting the notion that leftists have anything good and pure.)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 11, 2020 02:56 PM (YqDXo)
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I could easily write a James Bond movie that had nothing to do with modern politics.
Hell, it was rare for a Bond movie to touch on anything topical, though it did happen.
I, though, can't wait to see James Bond fight against the Russian influence that forced the stupid British rubes to turn their backs on the EU betters.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trapped in a fish bowl with Terry Gilliam screaming at a hamster to run at March 11, 2020 02:59 PM (zZbCU)
Posted by: Moki at March 11, 2020 02:57 PM (mFoNl)
It's hard to ban the roving troll.
Posted by: Sponge at March 11, 2020 02:59 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: henry at March 11, 2020 03:00 PM (JMDly)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 11, 2020 03:00 PM (ptqGC)
Posted by: JT at March 11, 2020 03:00 PM (arJlL)
Alternate post title:
All TV and Movies Have Now Become Vapid 90+ Minute Live-Action Tweets By Hollywood Celerys
Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a gentle glide applicator tip at March 11, 2020 03:00 PM (WGTJ9)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 11, 2020 03:00 PM (7CwRG)
yeah it doesn't work for me either.
But I guess she followed her PR advisor's advice, briefly.
Posted by: ace at March 11, 2020 03:00 PM (PbpT7)
Posted by: deplorable unperson -To Mars! at March 11, 2020 03:00 PM (wgmJy)
Posted by: Moki at March 11, 2020 02:59 PM (mFoNl)
Hey! Not so loud!
Posted by: Will Shakespeare at March 11, 2020 03:00 PM (hLRSq)
The jiggling is appreciated. The more jiggling the better.
All day jiggling would be great.
Posted by: davidt at March 11, 2020 03:00 PM (l3+k2)
Posted by: zeera BMGG - Books Make Great Gifts! at March 11, 2020 03:00 PM (X+a7J)
Downton Abbey is very woke. It didn't start out that way but got more and more lefty message as the show went on
Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 11, 2020 03:00 PM (Un9AW)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at March 11, 2020 03:00 PM (KP5rU)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo. Yes, you. at March 11, 2020 02:59 PM (l4C/z)
If going out, wear your bird beak mask.
Posted by: tubal at March 11, 2020 03:00 PM (bCLt0)
Posted by: ok at March 11, 2020 03:00 PM (d24SS)
the badger or the beaver. So cute.
I want a raven or a crow, too.
Posted by: ace at March 11, 2020 03:00 PM (PbpT7)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 11, 2020 03:00 PM (FVrDO)
Posted by: DR.WTF at March 11, 2020 03:00 PM (aS1PU)
Pity she's only flashing them for the chicks! Must be, right?
Anything else would be sexist pig stuff!
Posted by: DamnedYankee at March 11, 2020 03:01 PM (e284m)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo. Yes, you. at March 11, 2020 02:59 PM (l4C/z)
Link?
Posted by: Sponge at March 11, 2020 03:01 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Broseidon - New Work Computer, Same Work Ethic at March 11, 2020 03:01 PM (oZ6kz)
there is a "Crucible" moment coming for the US ?
Posted by: REDACTED at March 11, 2020 03:01 PM (rpxSz)
I feel this is actual cultural news and a nice break in the day, a break from all more real-news stories.
but what's the readership's feeling on that?
Posted by: ace
Opinions are strong...
I think this sums up the horde. We read your posts, and then do whatever the heck we want. Except on the Art thread, where we wait 100 posts to do what we want, and the Book thread, we we wear pants, and do what we want.
Posted by: Moki at March 11, 2020 03:01 PM (mFoNl)
Wow, did they seriously fuck up a really good reboot.
Some people just seem to be experts at pissing money away, aren't they?
Posted by: Dave in Fla at March 11, 2020 03:01 PM (WafOK)
Ummm.....yeah, that's kinda the point of a successful series. So you decided, 'well F that!'....and look what happened.
Idiots. How do these people cross the street without help?
Posted by: Tami at March 11, 2020 03:01 PM (cF8AT)
How about just sell soap based on it's ability to clean, not "empower" its users?!
Posted by: Lizzy at March 11, 2020 03:01 PM (bDqIh)
Maybe Daniel Craig should be annoyed with writer Phoebe Waller? That's what you get when you hire a woke feminist screenwriter.
What am I missing?
Posted by: Lizzy
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I read his gripe as "We wanted to be entertaining, but in this miserable world where monsters and betrayals loom, how could we? Even the erstwhile-immune Bond was infected by Trump, Brexit, and the end of net neutrality."
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 11, 2020 03:01 PM (M9ntN)
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I remember some video before Chiball (or whatever) took over and talked about he had no background in scifi and his few Doctor Who episode writing credits were not exactly thrilling.
So, perfect to run the show.
I'm really glad that I stopped following Doctor Who years ago.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trapped in a fish bowl with Terry Gilliam screaming at a hamster to run at March 11, 2020 03:01 PM (zZbCU)
After Spectre, a reporter asked Craig if he'd consider doing more Bond films, to which Craig replied, "I'd rather break this glass and slash my wrists. No, not at the moment. Not at all. That's fine. I'm over it at the moment. We're done. All I want to do is move on."
Posted by: bonhomme at March 11, 2020 03:01 PM (9t0Zz)
Downton Abbey is very woke. It didn't start out that way but got more and more lefty message as the show went on
Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 11, 2020 03:00 PM (Un9AW)
They had the Bolshie Irish lackey guy, for starters.
Posted by: tubal at March 11, 2020 03:01 PM (bCLt0)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 11, 2020 03:01 PM (BrtK1)
Posted by: Vanya at March 11, 2020 03:02 PM (H5ZlJ)
This new version will be so full of PC version BS it will not be worth seeing. Disney sure has gone to shit since old Walt died.
Posted by: Vic at March 11, 2020 03:02 PM (mpXpK)
Posted by: Sponge at March 11, 2020 03:01 PM (Zz0t1)
Nevermind.
I know to read the content first before commenting on the content, but ITS JUST SO HARD!!!!!
Posted by: Sponge at March 11, 2020 03:02 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at March 11, 2020 03:02 PM (KP5rU)
Posted by: ... at March 11, 2020 03:02 PM (irezo)
Posted by: Sleepy Joe at March 11, 2020 03:02 PM (W+TLY)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo. Yes, you. at March 11, 2020 02:59 PM (l4C/z)
Link?
Posted by: Sponge at March 11, 2020 03:01 PM (Zz0t1)
Ace linked above, in the content
They are very nice
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo. Yes, you. at March 11, 2020 03:02 PM (l4C/z)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at March 11, 2020 03:02 PM (+y/Ru)
Posted by: kallisto at March 11, 2020 03:02 PM (i1tGd)
Posted by: ace at March 11, 2020 03:00 PM (PbpT7)"
If you buy Ray Rice, remember he needs at least 5 acres to graze in and an elevator with some bitches to smack around.
Posted by: Broseidon - New Work Computer, Same Work Ethic at March 11, 2020 03:02 PM (oZ6kz)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 11, 2020 03:00 PM (FVrDO)
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I get the sense it's the retconning that pissed people off the most.
Changing things going forward was one thing, but going back and changing the history was something else.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trapped in a fish bowl with Terry Gilliam screaming at a hamster to run at March 11, 2020 03:02 PM (zZbCU)
Posted by: Miss Issippi at March 11, 2020 03:02 PM (sI15f)
I used to work with a lot of Japanese people. From what I've seen they are not markedly smarter in practical applications like business stuff. Some are very smart, some are TOTAL nimrods.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 11, 2020 03:02 PM (bQe8/)
Posted by: zombie at March 11, 2020 03:02 PM (N9G0H)
Posted by: Lizzy
But.....but.....but then we'd just be.....ordinary.
Posted by: Ad writers at March 11, 2020 03:03 PM (T6t7i)
Ya'll the word has gone out:
Today's talking point is "Trump's Katrina."
Please adjust your bullshit meters accordingly.
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at March 11, 2020 03:03 PM (Boy/L)
Why give the audience what *they* want when you can give them what *you* want, and then bitch when they don't appreciate all that you have done for them. The ungrateful sods.
Posted by: Mikey NTH - Post Primary Sale - Used Prognostications & Predictions 1/2 Off at The Outrage Outlet! at March 11, 2020 03:03 PM (hLRSq)
Posted by: steevy at March 11, 2020 03:03 PM (KNsKs)
It's essentially the Okay Boomer response. Such condescending pricks
Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 11, 2020 03:03 PM (Un9AW)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 11, 2020 03:03 PM (1ISKN)
People are attached to the Doctor as he was for 50 years. the character and the shows your fucking ancestors made for us. You decided, all on your own, to take that character, and make it into something else. No reason.
Imagine someone going to the Acropolis and saying, gee, this would make a great nail salon. We understand that some people will feel attached to a particular idea they have of the Acropolis, or that they enjoy certain aspects of the Acropolis more than others.
It's cultural vandalism. Worse, it uncreative - it does nothing to extend and improve the franchise, it simply takes a wrecking ball to facts already established.
Posted by: Inspector Kemp at March 11, 2020 03:03 PM (+DS2f)
I feel this is actual cultural news and a nice break in the day, a break from all more real-news stories.
but what's the readership's feeling on that?
Posted by: ace
Long answer yes, with an "if"; short answer no, with a "but"
Posted by: josephistan at March 11, 2020 03:03 PM (Izzlo)
the badger or the beaver. So cute.
I want a raven or a crow, too.
Posted by: ace at March 11, 2020 03:00 PM (PbpT7)
How about parrots? They are amazingly smart and fun loving.
Posted by: tubal at March 11, 2020 03:03 PM (bCLt0)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 11, 2020 03:00 PM (FVrDO)
Yup.
This is the story of the rage of Achilles
would be a bit different if Helen was a Gay dude.
Posted by: Romeo13 at March 11, 2020 03:04 PM (NgKpN)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 11, 2020 02:58 PM (ptqGC)
He was good as a sadistic priest sent by the Pope to assassinate Elizabeth in the (extremely anti-Catholic) film of the same name.
Posted by: JoeF. at March 11, 2020 03:04 PM (CqE5x)
A bias indicates that you are drawing a conclusion from your interpretation of facts, an agenda means you have a conclusion and the facts only matter as far as they support your position.
Posted by: Kindltot at March 11, 2020 03:04 PM (6rS3m)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at March 11, 2020 03:04 PM (KP5rU)
Posted by: Lizzy
I miss the days of being able to see a makeup ad without a guy as the model.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 11, 2020 03:04 PM (ptqGC)
Posted by: Vashta Nerada at March 11, 2020 03:04 PM (YslsA)
Posted by: pahound at March 11, 2020 03:04 PM (4OFsP)
Italy reported 2,313 new cases of coronavirus over the past 24 hours and 196 new deaths, raising the total to 12,462 cases and 827 dead
https://mobile.twitter.com/BNODesk/status/ 1237812623904776195
Damn.
Posted by: ok at March 11, 2020 03:04 PM (d24SS)
I feel this is actual cultural news and a nice break in the day, a break from all more real-news stories.
but what's the readership's feeling on that?
Posted by: ace
Long answer yes, with an "if"; short answer no, with a "but"
Posted by: josephistan at March 11, 2020 03:03 PM (Izzlo)
I love your placement as is.
Posted by: tubal at March 11, 2020 03:04 PM (bCLt0)
********
Why compromise when you can flat out surrender?
Posted by: Muldoon at March 11, 2020 03:04 PM (m45I2)
Why give the audience what *they* want when you can give them what *you* want, and then bitch when they don't appreciate all that you have done for them. The ungrateful sods.
Posted by: Mikey NTH - Post Primary Sale - Used Prognostications & Predictions 1/2 Off at The Outrage Outlet! at March 11, 2020 03:03 PM (hLRSq)
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To be fair, pandering is not a great avenue for great art.
To take it in another direction, No one was asking for the iPhone until Apple released it and everyone realized they wanted it.
The Doctor Who problem is not that people weren't asking for it, it's that they said they didn't want it after they got it and the BBC kept giving them what they didn't want.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trapped in a fish bowl with Terry Gilliam screaming at a hamster to run at March 11, 2020 03:05 PM (zZbCU)
correct
Posted by: ace at March 11, 2020 03:05 PM (PbpT7)
Posted by: ShainS at March 11, 2020 03:05 PM (4wD3j)
Posted by: USNtakim profoundly deplorable. at March 11, 2020 03:05 PM (0OmEj)
No, get your mind out of the gutter. I am saying Demi Rose, not her two boobies, which are delectable.
Posted by: Morticus Khan at March 11, 2020 03:05 PM (fgP0q)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 11, 2020 03:03 PM (1ISKN)
You been here four movie! You go now!
Posted by: Vanya at March 11, 2020 03:05 PM (H5ZlJ)
Posted by: zombie at March 11, 2020 03:05 PM (N9G0H)
Posted by: t-bird at March 11, 2020 03:05 PM (CE5C/)
How about just sell soap based on it's ability to clean, not "empower" its users?!
Posted by: Lizzy
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Dove, the soap for long-term cancer survivors. No longer do you have to order supplies from Sad Loser Consumer Goods.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 11, 2020 03:05 PM (M9ntN)
Posted by: FrodoB,
because hobbits don't wear socks at March 11, 2020 03:05 PM (veJcn)
nyuk nyuk nyuk. Seriously how can you not hear that in Moe's voice?
Again, I predict this will be the first Bond film in history to lose money.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 11, 2020 03:05 PM (KZzsI)
I'm pretty sure the Mudejares and Moriscos were still in spain in 1697.
Posted by: bonhomme at March 11, 2020 03:05 PM (9t0Zz)
And then everything went fart noise.
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at March 11, 2020 03:05 PM (Boy/L)
Posted by: deplorable unperson -To Mars! at March 11, 2020 03:05 PM (wgmJy)
Its all a vehicle for the various creators to spread their particular propaganda, and whatever you do - DO NOT emotionally invest yourself in any entertainment property. Because they will hold that shit hostage and lean even harder to shape your views.
Shitty ? Yes. It's a shitty world.
Posted by: Always Watching at March 11, 2020 03:06 PM (ISejo)
I may or may not have contributed to the total in either direction.
Posted by: boulder t'hobo at March 11, 2020 03:06 PM (ykYG2)
Posted by: tubal at March 11, 2020 03:01 PM (bCLt0)
That was beyond ridiculous. In real life if he even looked sideways at that daughter he would have been shot.
Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 11, 2020 03:06 PM (Un9AW)
they seem nice. but I saw a video about a raven that follows its owner to school every day, then follows her home.
Posted by: ace at March 11, 2020 03:06 PM (PbpT7)
Posted by: ace at March 11, 2020 03:00 PM (PbpT7)
Crows are highly intelligent, and are known to be attracted to shiny things. They've been known to hoard pieces of jewelry they've found in their nests.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 11, 2020 03:06 PM (ptqGC)
Yeah, I should've put the sarc tag on it
Whiny actors, ugh. . .
Posted by: Lizzy at March 11, 2020 03:06 PM (bDqIh)
The goodness! The pureness! They MADE US destroy the Formula 409 cleanliness of James Bond!!!
Posted by: ... at March 11, 2020 03:06 PM (irezo)
/sarc
Posted by: Flyguy at March 11, 2020 02:55 PM (v30M
I am told due to one thing and another, Disney no longer sells Tinkerbell T-Shirts in adult male sizes anymore.
Posted by: Kindltot at March 11, 2020 03:06 PM (6rS3m)
Make him more sensitive...well. He's not James Bond now is he? he's just some dude.
Posted by: Inspector Kemp at March 11, 2020 03:06 PM (+DS2f)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 11, 2020 03:06 PM (1ISKN)
Someone needs to tell the Democrats in Congress that CoronaVirus doesn't care what party you are in. We need to protect ALL Americans!
Posted by: Tami at March 11, 2020 03:06 PM (cF8AT)
Posted by: bonhomme at March 11, 2020 03:05 PM (9t0Zz)
I think the last Moors were kicked out of Spain in 1492.
Posted by: Mark1971 at March 11, 2020 03:06 PM (xPl2J)
I feel this is actual cultural news and a nice break in the day, a break from all more real-news stories.
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I agree. And politics is just upstream.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 11, 2020 03:06 PM (M9ntN)
I feel this is actual cultural news and a nice break in the day, a break from all more real-news stories.
but what's the readership's feeling on that?
Posted by: ace at March 11, 2020
I was just thinking about this. I like it because I don't have time to follow all of it and yet it's interesting.
Posted by: Sleepy Joe at March 11, 2020 03:06 PM (W+TLY)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 11, 2020 03:00 PM (FVrDO)
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I get the sense it's the retconning that pissed people off the most.
Changing things going forward was one thing, but going back and changing the history was something else.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trapped in a fish bowl with Terry Gilliam screaming at a hamster to run at March 11, 2020 03:02 PM (zZbCU)
Since the whole premise of Doctor Who is time travel, maybe a producer who doesn't hate the character can send a new Doctor back in time to retcon everything
Posted by: josephistan at March 11, 2020 03:06 PM (Izzlo)
Posted by: DR.WTF at March 11, 2020 03:00 PM (aS1PU)
You're right. If transported back in time, he's have been hired to play one of the Bond villain's henchmen.
Posted by: JoeF. at March 11, 2020 03:07 PM (CqE5x)
1m
BREAKING
The Supreme Court rules to allow the Trump Administration to continue enforcing the "Remain In Mexico" policy.
Posted by: Ghost Of Qassem Soleimani at March 11, 2020 03:07 PM (BqBId)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 11, 2020 03:02 PM (bQe8/)
So 'People' in other words.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 11, 2020 03:07 PM (XyVor)
I don't like smoking I am just using it to guage in a neutral way.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at March 11, 2020 03:07 PM (/ohJ0)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 11, 2020 03:07 PM (NVYyb)
Make him more sensitive...well. He's not James Bond now is he? he's just some dude.
Posted by: Inspector Kemp at March 11, 2020 03:06 PM (+DS2f)
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Roger Moore wasn't nasty to the ladies.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trapped in a fish bowl with Terry Gilliam screaming at a hamster to run at March 11, 2020 03:07 PM (zZbCU)
1m
BREAKING
The Supreme Court rules to allow the Trump Administration to continue enforcing the "Remain In Mexico" policy.
Posted by: Ghost Of Qassem Soleimani at March 11, 2020 03:07 PM (BqBId)
WINNING
Posted by: JoeF. at March 11, 2020 03:07 PM (CqE5x)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 11, 2020 03:07 PM (M9ntN)
Posted by: ... at March 11, 2020 03:07 PM (irezo)
Posted by: Iblis at March 11, 2020 03:07 PM (9221z)
Posted by: zombie David Niver at March 11, 2020 03:07 PM (fgnH4)
There were no blacks in Europe in 1697.
I'm pretty sure the Mudejares and Moriscos were still in spain in 1697.
Posted by: bonhomme at March 11, 2020 03:05 PM (9t0Zz)
That can't be right. Who built their factories? Their public buildings? Their railroads? Whites can't do that shit by themselves you know!
Posted by: DamnedYankee at March 11, 2020 03:07 PM (e284m)
Posted by: bonhomme at March 11, 2020 03:05 PM (9t0Zz)
I think the last Moors were kicked out of Spain in 1492.
Posted by: Mark1971 at March 11, 2020 03:06 PM (xPl2J)
Yes.Alfonso of Aragon did the driving, I believe.
Posted by: tubal at March 11, 2020 03:08 PM (bCLt0)
problem is no one wants that.
So you settle instead for taking over something else and making it what you want.
Posted by: Inspector Kemp at March 11, 2020 03:08 PM (+DS2f)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trapped in a fish bowl with Terry Gilliam screaming at a hamster to run at March 11, 2020 03:07 PM (zZbCU)
He slapped around one pretty good. I forget which film.
Posted by: JoeF. at March 11, 2020 03:08 PM (CqE5x)
Posted by: Vanya at March 11, 2020 03:08 PM (H5ZlJ)
By then? The Moriscos were expelled 1610ish. And they were mostly Berber anyway, not black.
Posted by: boulder t'hobo at March 11, 2020 03:08 PM (ykYG2)
Danielle Craig is such a lefty douchebag. I'd rather watch Roger Moore's rotting corpse in the role than Craig
Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 11, 2020 03:08 PM (Un9AW)
problem is no one wants that.
So you settle instead for taking over something else and making it what you want.
Posted by: Inspector Kemp at March 11, 2020 03:08 PM (+DS2f)
Exactly this.
Make up your own shit.
Posted by: JoeF. at March 11, 2020 03:08 PM (CqE5x)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 11, 2020 03:08 PM (NVYyb)
Man With the Golden Gun. He was half-Connery, half-Moore in that.
Posted by: ace at March 11, 2020 03:08 PM (PbpT7)
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at March 11, 2020 03:09 PM (dKiJG)
She looks good when she smiles.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at March 11, 2020 03:09 PM (Ejm1K)
I'm pretty sure the Mudejares and Moriscos were still in spain in 1697.
Posted by: bonhomme at March 11, 2020 03:05 PM (9t0Zz)
And that Moslem Witchhunter who was helping Robin Hood!
Posted by: Romeo13 at March 11, 2020 03:09 PM (NgKpN)
when people start laying people off and closing businesses
that's why Trump needs to have a rally
Posted by: REDACTED at March 11, 2020 03:09 PM (rpxSz)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trapped in a fish bowl with Terry Gilliam screaming at a hamster to run at March 11, 2020 03:07 PM (zZbCU)
He slapped around one pretty good. I forget which film.
Posted by: JoeF. at March 11, 2020 03:08 PM (CqE5x)
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The Man with the Golden Gun.
Moore never did anything like that to a lady again because he hated that Broccoli forced him to do it. It was much more in line with how Connery played the character.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trapped in a fish bowl with Terry Gilliam screaming at a hamster to run at March 11, 2020 03:09 PM (zZbCU)
Nissan basically relies on Renault for life support , and their now-former French-installed CEO Carlos Ghosn is literally on the run from the law in multiple countries.
Posted by: Ian S. at March 11, 2020 03:09 PM (ZGrMX)
Posted by: Broseidon - New Work Computer, Same Work Ethic at March 11, 2020 03:09 PM (oZ6kz)
https://tinyurl.com/s768bhh
https://tinyurl.com/t2t75mw
Posted by: notsothoreau at March 11, 2020 03:09 PM (JKNZq)
Posted by: JoeF. at March 11, 2020 03:08 PM (CqE5x)
Maud Adams in The Man With the Golden Gun
Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 11, 2020 03:09 PM (Un9AW)
do not be fooled. Women are wizards with tape and supports and wonderbras.
Posted by: ace at March 11, 2020 03:09 PM (PbpT7)
he's a guy
an ugly guy, but a guy nonetheless
Posted by: THE_BlackOrchid_STATE! at March 11, 2020 03:09 PM (j9HX3)
Posted by: Uncle Pinochet's Heli Tours at March 11, 2020 03:09 PM (Ayk4B)
IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE SPANISH WEALTH FROM THE NEW WORLD DISTORTED THE SPANISH ECONOMY AND MADE THE PENINSULA A BACKWATER RELATIVE TO 17TH CENTURY EUROPE.
Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at March 11, 2020 03:09 PM (ykYG2)
Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at March 11, 2020 03:09 PM (4/5px)
Posted by: mr tmz at March 11, 2020 03:09 PM (m/Gc2)
Posted by: Muldoon at March 11, 2020 03:10 PM (m45I2)
This is not fucking rocket science. Tell a good story. Have likeable characters. People will put up with a fucking shit ton if you do these things.
Apologies to the ettes.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 11, 2020 03:10 PM (XyVor)
Posted by: Iblis at March 11, 2020 03:07 PM (9221z)
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Science.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 11, 2020 03:10 PM (NVYyb)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 11, 2020 03:10 PM (ptqGC)
Posted by: creeper at March 11, 2020 03:10 PM (XxJt1)
Posted by: ace at March 11, 2020 03:00 PM (PbpT7)
Crows are highly intelligent, and are known to be attracted to shiny things. They've been known to hoard pieces of jewelry they've found in their nests.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 11, 2020 03:06 PM (ptqGC)
Amazing creatures. If they had hands, they would have given primates a run for their money.
Posted by: tubal at March 11, 2020 03:10 PM (bCLt0)
It's a trap! Anyone who notices Brie Larson will be accused of patriarchy!!!
Posted by: tbodie at March 11, 2020 03:10 PM (V0CWC)
This new version will be so full of PC version BS it will not be worth seeing. Disney sure has gone to shit since old Walt died.
Posted by: Vic
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Sony, not Disney.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 11, 2020 03:10 PM (M9ntN)
Posted by: Iblis at March 11, 2020 03:07 PM (9221z)
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Science, right there.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 11, 2020 03:10 PM (NVYyb)
He slapped around one pretty good. I forget which film.
One of his best moments, most Bond-like. He was cruel and ruthless to get the job done.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 11, 2020 03:10 PM (KZzsI)
I'm pretty sure the Mudejares and Moriscos were still in spain in 1697.
If there were any in England or Northern Europe at that time, they were MAYBE diplomats--or curiosities in cages on display.
Posted by: JoeF. at March 11, 2020 03:10 PM (CqE5x)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xYMnb5Dyko&feature=emb_logo
He might change your mind. I went through the whole, "I want to get a raven or a crow thing", right after my, "I want to get those poisonous frogs they make the darts from" phase.
Strangely, the frog thing is much easier than the bird.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 11, 2020 03:10 PM (1ISKN)
Roughly $200.
33% more than standard Netflix per year.
66% more than Amazon Prime annual lump sum.
Posted by: Walter Freeman at March 11, 2020 03:10 PM (+oVP5)
Posted by: Tami at March 11, 2020 03:10 PM (cF8AT)
https://www.theflemingvilla.com/
a female friend is a huge bond fan, so her husband took her there for their honeymoon.
Posted by: ace at March 11, 2020 03:10 PM (PbpT7)
Posted by: Inspector Kemp at March 11, 2020 03:10 PM (+DS2f)
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at March 11, 2020 03:09 PM (dKiJG)
there only chance to bring it back to cannon is to put in a New Male Doctor, and show him fixing the TARDIS while griping about alternate timelines.
Posted by: Romeo13 at March 11, 2020 03:10 PM (NgKpN)
Posted by: bonhomme at March 11, 2020 03:05 PM (9t0Z
I thought they were North african muslims. Those were not black.
Posted by: Vic at March 11, 2020 03:10 PM (mpXpK)
Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at March 11, 2020 03:09 PM (4/5px)
General facial structure is similar. Summer is a lot prettier and more human.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 11, 2020 03:11 PM (XyVor)
Posted by: Muldoon at March 11, 2020 03:11 PM (m45I2)
Make up your own shit.
Posted by: JoeF. at March 11, 2020 03:08 PM (CqE5x)
They have no creativity. Everything they do is either self-insert fanfiction or ripoffs.
Disney paid 4 billion for the Star Wars IP and immediately trashed the entire Expanded Universe. Then they broke out their first movie, the first in a decade, continuing the story for the first time in 30 years, and it was...
...The 1977 movie with a gender flipped lead and a black guy.
Posted by: Vanya at March 11, 2020 03:11 PM (H5ZlJ)
The Japanese applied German engineering quality control to small cars.
That was pretty much it.
And then the rest of their society went slowly insane. Here we are.
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at March 11, 2020 03:11 PM (Boy/L)
Posted by: Brie 'Ironing Board' Larsen at March 11, 2020 03:11 PM (wgmJy)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 11, 2020 03:10 PM (KZzsI)
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That means that the rest of the Moore run (6 of the 24 movies, a full 1/4) weren't "Bond".
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trapped in a fish bowl with Terry Gilliam screaming at a hamster to run at March 11, 2020 03:11 PM (zZbCU)
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at March 11, 2020 03:11 PM (DY3v8)
Posted by: Uncle Pinochet's Heli Tours at March 11, 2020 03:09 PM (Ayk4B)
The magic of Hollyweird.
Posted by: Iblis at March 11, 2020 03:11 PM (9221z)
Posted by: Broseidon - New Work Computer, Same Work Ethic at March 11, 2020 03:11 PM (oZ6kz)
Right? I have loved ones who have survived cancer, including breast cancer, and it just feels icky to be using that to sell something. Can't explain it, just weird the way advertising is nowadays, especially women's products. Not everything is "empowering."
Posted by: Lizzy at March 11, 2020 03:12 PM (bDqIh)
@BNODesk
·
2h
BREAKING: Coronavirus can be characterized as a pandemic, WHO says
Japan and Germany now lose $500 million to "relief efforts". The bonds they held since 2017 were to come due in July if no corona or flu "pandemic" were declared by WHO by then.
Posted by: t-bird at March 11, 2020 03:12 PM (DCYln)
Um yeah. Watch those movies again sometime.
Posted by: Inspector Kemp at March 11, 2020 03:10 PM (+DS2f)
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I literally just went through them all.
Aside from his one moment in The Man with the Golden Gun, he was a gentleman to them all.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trapped in a fish bowl with Terry Gilliam screaming at a hamster to run at March 11, 2020 03:12 PM (zZbCU)
Posted by: creeper at March 11, 2020 03:12 PM (XxJt1)
DISTORTED THE SPANISH ECONOMY AND MADE THE PENINSULA A BACKWATER
RELATIVE TO 17TH CENTURY EUROPE.
Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at March 11, 2020 03:09 PM (ykYG2)
Possibly, I have another theory, and it involves culture and possibly "The" church.
Posted by: DamnedYankee at March 11, 2020 03:12 PM (e284m)
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at March 11, 2020 03:12 PM (Boy/L)
do not be fooled. Women are wizards with tape and supports and wonderbras.
Posted by: ace at March 11, 2020 03:09 PM (PbpT7)
True, but when they actually JIGGLE, there's no doubt.
Posted by: JoeF. at March 11, 2020 03:12 PM (CqE5x)
Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at March 11, 2020 03:09 PM (4/5px)
Except for the angry Dwarf part, well
Posted by: tubal at March 11, 2020 03:12 PM (bCLt0)
BBC inadvertently admits they're just not very good at writing stories and they do not give a shit:
"What was written does not alter the flow of stories from William
Hartnell's brilliant Doctor onwards --it just adds new layers and
possibilities to this ongoing saga."
The last part is important because it pertains to how Game Of Thrones was spoiled, too.
The writers feel they can do whateverthefuck to the story, the plot, and the characters and it won't matter because Consistency, Continuity, and Logic mean absolutely nothing to these people.
Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a gentle glide applicator tip at March 11, 2020 03:12 PM (WGTJ9)
The Fairy Godfather smoked a cigar, wore a double breasted suit and a tutu, and gave things that "fell of the back of a truck"
Posted by: Kindltot at March 11, 2020 03:12 PM (6rS3m)
I'll give her that. Wait, is 'her' the right pronoun? She? I've probably committed crimes or sumting.
Posted by: GnuBreed at March 11, 2020 03:12 PM (Z4rgH)
It would be a boob-sharing Service, linking those with boobs they'd like to share with those who'd appreciate getting a boob for a while.
So, which name?
a) Byft
b) Buber?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 11, 2020 03:12 PM (qco33)
Gotcha. I knew they remained even after Granada was taken, but I wasn't sure when the last of them left.
Posted by: bonhomme at March 11, 2020 03:12 PM (9t0Zz)
God, no. Please get your vision checked.
Posted by: Ian S. at March 11, 2020 03:13 PM (ZGrMX)
Posted by: 11B40 at March 11, 2020 03:13 PM (evgyj)
https://www.theflemingvilla.com/
a female friend is a huge bond fan, so her husband took her there for their honeymoon.
Posted by: ace at March 11, 2020 03:10 PM (PbpT7)
Wow!
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 11, 2020 03:13 PM (ptqGC)
Posted by: Broseidon - New Work Computer, Same Work Ethic at March 11, 2020 03:11 PM (oZ6kz)
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Ms. Goodnight.
The worst Bond girl.
Oh, no, you're thinking of the Russian girl. That's not Ms. Goodnight, but less terrible than Ms. Goodnight.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trapped in a fish bowl with Terry Gilliam screaming at a hamster to run at March 11, 2020 03:13 PM (zZbCU)
IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE SPANISH WEALTH FROM THE NEW WORLD DISTORTED THE SPANISH ECONOMY AND MADE THE PENINSULA A BACKWATER RELATIVE TO 17TH CENTURY EUROPE.
Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at March 11, 2020 03:09 PM (ykYG2)
The Spanish golden age took off a few decades after discovering the New World. Castille was a backwater prior to this, mostly due to centuries of Islam related devastation.
Posted by: Someguy at March 11, 2020 03:13 PM (5qroD)
Posted by: DamnedYankee at March 11, 2020 03:12 PM (e284m)
MAX WEBER IN THE HOUSE!!!!!!
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at March 11, 2020 03:13 PM (Boy/L)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trapped in a fish bowl with Terry Gilliam screaming at a hamster to run at March 11, 2020 03:13 PM (zZbCU)
Posted by: Muldoon at March 11, 2020 03:13 PM (m45I2)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trapped in a fish bowl with Terry Gilliam screaming at a hamster to run at March 11, 2020 03:12 PM (zZbCU)
Conning Solitaire? Not that I blame him. Late 70's Jane Seymour.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 11, 2020 03:13 PM (XyVor)
Its such a simple, easy to meet minimum criteria. Don't suck. Don't preach. Don't treat your fans with contempt. This is so basic its not even minimal. Its what you know before you even open the door.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 11, 2020 03:13 PM (KZzsI)
When the apocalypse comes, I wanna die with nice nails....
Posted by: Tami at March 11, 2020 03:10 PM (cF8AT)
ya mean claws dontja ?
Posted by: REDACTED at March 11, 2020 03:13 PM (rpxSz)
join the cult of Bhagwan Shri Rajneesh, until he was deported after a
tax evasion conviction.
Posted by: SMOD at March 11, 2020 03:13 PM (3aI0K)
I mean... I could answer you but it would be possibly the most non PC thing I've ever said here
aaaaahhhh ok
so you've heard the term "mongoloid" right? maybe? errrrrr
welp it referred somewhat to the way a Chinese or Mongolian face looked. and there used to be three races, but we're not allowed to speak of that either. one was "mongoloid."
so Summer is part Asian
and Greta has some developmental delays
ok! so that's why (hides)
Posted by: THE_BlackOrchid_STATE! at March 11, 2020 03:13 PM (j9HX3)
Bond (gun to her head): Well, I wouldn't have done it *before.*
Posted by: ace at March 11, 2020 03:13 PM (PbpT7)
Posted by: Not Voting Our Way Out Of This at March 11, 2020 03:13 PM (AXS9h)
Posted by: boulder t'hobo at March 11, 2020 03:13 PM (ykYG2)
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at March 11, 2020 03:13 PM (dKiJG)
Brie Larson. Eh, whatever. Nice job showing us your boobs. Still not watching your movie or anything else you do. But, nice boobs.
Daniel Craig was a good Bond in Casino Royale. He's a twit, though. This new Bond movie is going to be crap and the franchise will need a reboot in another few years.
Posted by: turambar at March 11, 2020 03:14 PM (Gylu/)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 11, 2020
*
*
A very good adaptation of the novel. And Skyfall is probably the best Bond film after From Russia With Love. Don't get me wrong; Connery was still the embodiment of Fleming's character; but Craig is excellent, and the 2012 movie is dynamite.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at March 11, 2020 03:14 PM (Ejm1K)
No, the obviously 20 something skater girl in For Your Eyes Only, playing a 16 year old. Moore turned her away.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 11, 2020 03:14 PM (KZzsI)
Posted by: SMOD at March 11, 2020 03:14 PM (3aI0K)
I paid for 5 BBC licenses when I was stationed there, and I had Sky the whole time. They suggested that one could face UCMJ issues if the "licence" wasn't paid.
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at March 11, 2020 03:14 PM (DY3v8)
Posted by: RDittmar at March 11, 2020 03:14 PM (gW9nM)
Ms. Goodnight.
The worst Bond girl.
no he means Lynn Holly Johnson, "Beebee," from FYEO.
he did Miss Goodnight.
Posted by: ace at March 11, 2020 03:14 PM (PbpT7)
Japan and Germany now lose $500 million to
"relief efforts". The bonds they held since 2017 were to come due in
July if no corona or flu "pandemic" were declared by WHO by then.
Posted by: t-bird
Shittin' me?
Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a gentle glide applicator tip at March 11, 2020 03:14 PM (WGTJ9)
Posted by: Allie at March 11, 2020 03:14 PM (UnA8+)
Posted by: bonhomme at March 11, 2020 03:14 PM (9t0Zz)
Posted by: pahound at March 11, 2020 03:15 PM (4OFsP)
Posted by: Muldoon at March 11, 2020 03:15 PM (m45I2)
Ms. Goodnight.
The worst Bond girl.
no he means Lynn Holly Johnson, "Beebee," from FYEO.
he did Miss Goodnight.
Posted by: ace at March 11, 2020 03:14 PM (PbpT7)
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Yeah, I incorrectly corrected myself there.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trapped in a fish bowl with Terry Gilliam screaming at a hamster to run at March 11, 2020 03:15 PM (zZbCU)
Posted by: creeper at March 11, 2020 03:12 PM
Tell me about it.
Posted by: Cooper's ligament at March 11, 2020 03:15 PM (qco33)
Yes but isn't this the perfect opportunity to warn people about the end of net neutrality?
Posted by: BourbonChicken at March 11, 2020 03:15 PM (/ohJ0)
Doctor Who's finale racked up about 4.6 million viewers.
Star Trek Picard gets about a million in Canada. Say you quadruple it on this side of the border and add some. Call it 4.5 million viewers.
"Unsellable Houses" on HGTV - which follows a couple of hip young women in (I think) Portland who help sellers make their houses hip and sellable in exchange for some of the sale price - racks up 7 million viewers.
A real estate show on HGTV with somewhat limited appeal gets nearly double what these former cultural-icon programs bring in.
Such are the wages of wokeness.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 11, 2020 03:15 PM (I2dne)
Posted by: Broseidon - New Work Computer, Same Work Ethic at March 11, 2020 03:16 PM (oZ6kz)
Posted by: Muldoon at March 11, 2020 03:16 PM (m45I2)
Posted by: Muldoon at March 11, 2020 03:13 PM (m45I2)
Oh man. *golf clap*
Posted by: DR.WTF at March 11, 2020 03:16 PM (aS1PU)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 11, 2020 03:16 PM (KZzsI)
Posted by: Muldoon at March 11, 2020 03:10 PM (m45I2)
+++++++
Nah, she got jiggly wit it.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 11, 2020 03:16 PM (I2dne)
DISTORTED THE SPANISH ECONOMY AND MADE THE PENINSULA A BACKWATER
RELATIVE TO 17TH CENTURY EUROPE.
Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at March 11, 2020 03:09 PM (ykYG2)
Possibly, I have another theory, and it involves culture and possibly "The" church.
Posted by: DamnedYankee at March 11, 2020 03:12 PM (e284m)
On that note the Spanish Inquisition(like most Inquisitions) ceded power to the local national authority, that is the Spanish monarchy. Attempts to withdraw it ended in failure. The Spanish monarchs were able to use the Inquisition to control the nobility, leading to an earlier rise of absolutism than most of Europe(absolutism typically requires the crown to first subjugate the clergy in some fashion).
Posted by: Someguy at March 11, 2020 03:16 PM (5qroD)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 11, 2020 03:16 PM (WI7YS)
Make it so, Number One!
Posted by: Fritz at March 11, 2020 03:16 PM (2Mnv1)
Posted by: Romeo13 at March 11, 2020 03:10 PM (NgKpN)
Just have the Dr show up and say that THE MASTER cloned a fake Dr etc
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at March 11, 2020 03:16 PM (dKiJG)
thelatinlibrary.com/imperialism/notes/spanishempire.html
scroll to 'The Empire of the last Spanish Habsburgs (1643-1713)'
Posted by: boulder t'hobo at March 11, 2020 03:16 PM (ykYG2)
Yes but isn't this the perfect opportunity to warn people about the end of net neutrality?
Posted by: BourbonChicken at March 11, 2020 03:15 PM (/ohJ0)
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George Lazenby's take was essentially that of a child with a gun. He barely seemed to know that he was killing people and bedding women. His time at Blofeld's lair felt like the first time he'd been with women, and we'd seen him with the Countess earlier in that film.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trapped in a fish bowl with Terry Gilliam screaming at a hamster to run at March 11, 2020 03:16 PM (zZbCU)
Pffft.
Goldfinger
Thunderball
For Your Eyes Only
Casino Royale
[huge gap]
everything else.
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at March 11, 2020 03:17 PM (Boy/L)
but what's the readership's feeling on that?
Posted by: ace
It's good. It's not like we stay committed to real news in the comments, either.
Posted by: t-bird at March 11, 2020 03:17 PM (OiC69)
Posted by: JoeF. at March 11, 2020 03:08 PM (CqE5x)
Maud Adams in The Man With the Golden Gun
Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 11, 2020 03:09 PM (Un9AW)
That movie--and Live and Let Die--were total hoots and each utilized all the tropes of '70's Hollywood films- martial arts, gangsters, southern sheriffs, blaxpoitation, etc.
Posted by: JoeF. at March 11, 2020 03:17 PM (CqE5x)
1. I like the posts
2. Without the breaks it all becomes one long thread. I like riffing on different subjects, but even the best ones can quickly go stale. Lot of fertile minds here but that means we run the gamut easily. Entertainment is a great cross pollinator.
3. Talking pure politics is actually incredibly annoying and by breaking out on tangent posts instead of just Top Stories, I feel we "break" the hypnotic and often demoralizing Narrative the DNC-Media wants us to talking/thinking about. Do you really want to do 1 Weinstein, 1 stock market, 1 Biden, and 2 Coronavirus posts? It's depressing when you look at it like that. And that's not just today, it's every day.
4. Be better, Ace
I know movies aren't everyone's bag but I genuinely think #3 is incredibly important for camaraderie and our own mental well being.
Posted by: ... at March 11, 2020 03:17 PM (irezo)
Posted by: SMOD at March 11, 2020 03:17 PM (3aI0K)
"Doctor No Means No"
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 11, 2020 03:17 PM (I2dne)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 11, 2020 03:16 PM (KZzsI)
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Connery, I got the sense, that his Bond never actually enjoyed the sex he had in the films. The sex was just part of the job. A tool to get what he needed to complete the mission.
Moore felt like the kind of Bond who got into the spy game as an excuse to sleep with women.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trapped in a fish bowl with Terry Gilliam screaming at a hamster to run at March 11, 2020 03:18 PM (zZbCU)
...The 1977 movie with a gender flipped lead and a black guy.
Posted by: Vanya at March 11, 2020 03:11 PM (H5ZlJ)
China hated the Female Lead with people saying she wasn't good looking enough and well they are Racist and they Hated the Black lead.
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at March 11, 2020 03:18 PM (dKiJG)
Super hot but crashing through the 4th wall
Best Bond girl Vesper
Posted by: BourbonChicken at March 11, 2020 03:18 PM (/ohJ0)
I mean let the movie drop before the election so you can influence some votes. That way you will not feel so bad when it looses all that money.
Posted by: Picric at March 11, 2020 03:18 PM (9u8cp)
Posted by: ace at March 11, 2020 03:00 PM (PbpT7)
I toss walnuts to crows when I walk, and in the winter and Spring when they tend to hang out in groups, I can get a whole cloud spinning around me begging.
There are few things as happy as a crow with a whole un-shelled walnut all to himself.
Posted by: Kindltot at March 11, 2020 03:18 PM (6rS3m)
Posted by: Allie at March 11, 2020 03:14 PM (UnA8+)
Grift is a verb, graft is a noun
Posted by: Ghost of Lee Atwater at March 11, 2020 03:18 PM (nJjal)
Posted by: boulder t'hobo at March 11, 2020 03:18 PM (ykYG2)
Pffft.
Goldfinger
Thunderball
For Your Eyes Only
Casino Royale
[huge gap]
everything else.
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at March 11, 2020 03:17 PM (Boy/L)
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Thunderball is booooooooring.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trapped in a fish bowl with Terry Gilliam screaming at a hamster to run at March 11, 2020 03:18 PM (zZbCU)
Posted by: DamnedYankee at March 11, 2020 03:18 PM (e284m)
Posted by: pahound at March 11, 2020 03:18 PM (4OFsP)
A real disappointment, because the first novel in what I imagine will be a trilogy was actually very good.
That novel got picked up for a show, so I imagine they will give it the full Watchmen treatment and go full-bore woke with it.
Posted by: Retard Strength Trumps Smart Power at March 11, 2020 03:19 PM (RKQ/v)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 11, 2020 03:19 PM (1ISKN)
winter and Spring when they tend to hang out in groups, I can get a
whole cloud spinning around me begging.
There are few things as happy as a crow with a whole un-shelled walnut all to himself.
Posted by: Kindltot at March 11, 2020 03:18 PM (6rS3m)
*perks up* What a cool idea!
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 11, 2020 03:19 PM (ptqGC)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 11, 2020 03:19 PM (KZzsI)
Posted by: Ghost of Lee Atwater at March 11, 2020 03:18 PM (nJjal)
+++++++++++
Yes! You run a grift (like you run a con). You rake in the graft.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 11, 2020 03:19 PM (I2dne)
I've said before, if they wanted to go woke but keep the audience, they could (and did) do much worse than techno-babbling Martha Jones into the Doctor. Black female? Check. Good looking? Check. Acts circles around Jodie Whittaker? Check.
Posted by: Ian S. at March 11, 2020 03:19 PM (ZGrMX)
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They did major costuming to hide that on Capt. Marvel I think.
Posted by: FrodoB,
because hobbits don't wear socks at March 11, 2020 03:19 PM (veJcn)
Posted by: t-bird at March 11, 2020 03:19 PM (lK7fO)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trapped in a fish bowl with Terry Gilliam screaming at a hamster to run at March 11, 2020 03:18 PM (zZbCU)
I can and will shoot you in the ass with a spear gun.
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at March 11, 2020 03:19 PM (Boy/L)
Posted by: REDACTED at March 11, 2020 03:20 PM (rpxSz)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trapped in a fish bowl with Terry Gilliam screaming at a hamster to run at March 11, 2020 03:18 PM (zZbCU)
I can and will shoot you in the ass with a spear gun.
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at March 11, 2020 03:19 PM (Boy/L)
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It will take you roughly 4 minutes to go through that entire action, during which time I will take a nap and then get out of the way.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trapped in a fish bowl with Terry Gilliam screaming at a hamster to run at March 11, 2020 03:20 PM (zZbCU)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trapped in a fish bowl with Terry Gilliam screaming at a hamster to run at March 11, 2020 03:18 PM (zZbCU)
++++++++++++
I have >50% confidence that Thunderball started as a pr0n script.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 11, 2020 03:20 PM (I2dne)
Posted by: Dr Spank at March 11, 2020 03:20 PM (royi5)
Cows do that too, sometimes. Animals can be very surprising
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 11, 2020 03:20 PM (KZzsI)
Posted by: Headless Body of Agnew at March 11, 2020 03:20 PM (e1mEI)
Posted by: Not Voting Our Way Out Of This at March 11, 2020 03:13 PM (AXS9h)
Why?
I mean....why? Not the official reason.
Posted by: JoeF. at March 11, 2020 03:20 PM (CqE5x)
Goldfinger: No, Ms. Bond. I expect you to cry like a soy-soaked sissy.
Posted by: Goldfinger at March 11, 2020 03:20 PM (1CjJc)
Posted by: BourbonChicken at March 11, 2020 03:18 PM (/ohJ0)
Define worst, because holy hell she was something to look at.
What? 'Acting skills'? What are you, gay or something?
Posted by: Vanya at March 11, 2020 03:20 PM (H5ZlJ)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at March 11, 2020 03:20 PM (+y/Ru)
The Brits have a thing about who "wins" the TV rankings race on Christmas Day.
Same goes for number one radio song during Christmas week.
It's been a big fucking deal over there since the '50s.
Doctor Who moved their annual Christmas Special to New Years Day when Jodie came on board.
Kinda obvious the BBC knew they were in trouble from the very beginning of the "Thirteenth" Doctor's run.
Posted by: Walter Freeman at March 11, 2020 03:21 PM (+oVP5)
Don't they carry those big umbrellas, or is that just disney?
Posted by: FrodoB,
because hobbits don't wear socks at March 11, 2020 03:21 PM (veJcn)
Also who needs another Cinderella movie. Hollywood's movie ideas seem to be limited to do remakes, but put in a bunch of social justice crap.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 11, 2020 03:21 PM (r+sAi)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trapped in a fish bowl with Terry Gilliam screaming at a hamster to run at March 11, 2020 03:18 PM (zZbCU)
++++++++++++
I have >50% confidence that Thunderball started as a pr0n script.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 11, 2020 03:20 PM (I2dne)
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Shoulda stayed like that.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trapped in a fish bowl with Terry Gilliam screaming at a hamster to run at March 11, 2020 03:21 PM (zZbCU)
I heard a ruckus, and a pair of bluejays were having a fit. A crow was up in a branch eating one of their babies.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 11, 2020 03:21 PM (ptqGC)
Posted by: MAGA at March 11, 2020 03:21 PM (UwT8B)
Posted by: Transmission diffraction tomography at March 11, 2020 03:21 PM (qco33)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrica balls at March 11, 2020 03:21 PM (iys0/)
I found Jimmy Dean as a thinly-disguised Howard Hughes to be funny as hell.
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at March 11, 2020 03:21 PM (Boy/L)
I mean....why? Not the official reason.
Posted by: JoeF. at March 11, 2020 03:20 PM (CqE5x)
+++++++++++++
it was overbought and due for a correction and then the Wuhan Virus bomb went off and turned the correction into a panic.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 11, 2020 03:21 PM (I2dne)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 11, 2020 03:21 PM (1ISKN)
Posted by: creeper at March 11, 2020 03:21 PM (XxJt1)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 11, 2020 03:22 PM (KZzsI)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 11, 2020
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Seconded. I passed these on to Miss Linda, and the squeeing could be heard for miles.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at March 11, 2020 03:22 PM (Ejm1K)
I really liked Craig in Casino Royale, liked the gritty feel. Thought he was a good Bond. Planned to watch the rest, never got around to it.
Never will now. Ya'll have said the movies got shittier and woker, and Craig turned out to be a Weinstein sucking ambulatory English splooge receptacle...
KThxBy, my money will be spent supporting those who at least respect my right to hold my values...
Posted by: My Pimp Shot My Dealer at March 11, 2020 03:22 PM (64QSU)
To really screw things up, the Brits use one of those (graft, I think) to mean "hard work", as in putting in the hard work necessary for success.
Posted by: t-bird at March 11, 2020 03:22 PM (lK7fO)
Posted by: Jaqen H'ghar at March 11, 2020 03:22 PM (5fSr7)
Posted by: tubal at March 11, 2020 03:22 PM (bCLt0)
Posted by: SMOD at March 11, 2020 03:17 PM (3aI0K)
LOL! This is what I was saying this morning should have happened from the start. Hunter, you idiot - you always had to pay her anything she asked for, plus her court costs, to keep your families name out of the Courts. What an idiot to spend so much on your own lawyers just to get to where you already were months ago!!!
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 11, 2020 03:22 PM (trdmm)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 11, 2020 03:21 PM (ptqGC)"
I didn't see shit, man!
Posted by: Ray Lewis at March 11, 2020 03:22 PM (oZ6kz)
Posted by: thomas hobbes at March 11, 2020 03:22 PM (ykYG2)
Posted by: Murrican Ninja War Eeyore at March 11, 2020 03:22 PM (xptlg)
As for the Larson video: nice jigglies but her butt is as flat as plywood.
Posted by: Ghost of Lee Atwater at March 11, 2020 03:22 PM (nJjal)
This is pretty impressive.
Hollywood has produced a James Bond movie, which I have zero desire to see.
Good job, a-holes.
I haven't seen a single Star Wars product since the execrable TLJ.
So, who knows if I'll ever go back to watching Bond.
Sad.
Posted by: naturalfake at March 11, 2020 03:22 PM (9wmyx)
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They did major costuming to hide that on Capt. Marvel I think.
Posted by: FrodoB,
because hobbits don't wear socks at March 11, 2020 03:19 PM (veJcn)
She seems to have HIPS while she's bouncing down the stairs.
Can't see the back though....
Posted by: JoeF. at March 11, 2020 03:22 PM (CqE5x)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 11, 2020 03:23 PM (KZzsI)
Posted by: Dr Spank at March 11, 2020 03:20 PM (royi5)
Yes, she has improved the smiling thing... when she's acting.
Posted by: DR.WTF at March 11, 2020 03:23 PM (aS1PU)
...
Posted by: My Pimp Shot My Dealer at March 11, 2020 03:22 PM (64QSU)
+++++++++++
1) I think Craig did well as bond, especially in the first two he did before he apparently got bored with it.
2) Vesper (Eva Green) was a great Bond Girl.
3) You nick makes me laugh my ass off every time I see it.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 11, 2020 03:23 PM (I2dne)
I heard a ruckus, and a pair of bluejays were having a fit. A crow was up in a branch eating one of their babies.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 11, 2020 03:21 PM (ptqGC)
A crow will eat anything, except another crow.
Posted by: tubal at March 11, 2020 03:23 PM (bCLt0)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 11, 2020 03:22 PM (KZzsI)
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Bond is super aggressive with that nurse. Uncomfortably so.
And then he gets trapped in an exercise machine and has to get rescued.
Also, the first hour goes almost no where. The action is dull because it's all filmed underwater and cut slowly.
Ugh. I just don't understand the appeal of that film.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trapped in a fish bowl with Terry Gilliam screaming at a hamster to run at March 11, 2020 03:23 PM (zZbCU)
It's to catch bugs, but it's still pretty smart.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 11, 2020 03:23 PM (1ISKN)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 11, 2020 03:20 PM (I2dne)
"Are you here to check my pipes?"
"Yes, ma'am. Bond... James Bond."
Posted by: Vanya at March 11, 2020 03:23 PM (H5ZlJ)
surpasses all current mega shows in viewership. In some instances like
five times more viewers. And I think that show only broke the top ten
once.
Posted by: MAGA at March 11, 2020 03:21 PM (UwT8B)
Someone was bragging about how big of hit GoT was. I went back to 1980 and looked at average ratings for the year. The GoT finale tied with the average viewing of Little House on the Prairie which I think was in the 8-10 standings wise. That's with a lot fewer people in the country. These shows would have been cancelled within three episodes and everyone banished.
Posted by: WOPR at March 11, 2020 03:24 PM (sGCGQ)
Posted by: Pliney at March 11, 2020 03:24 PM (nzKWW)
Posted by: squid_hunt at March 11, 2020 03:24 PM (B0mGw)
I feel this is actual cultural news and a nice break in the day, a break from all more real-news stories.
but what's the readership's feeling on that?
Posted by: ace at March 11, 2020
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Ace, as much as I appreciate your political posts, the entertainment threads are the ones where I feel I can really contribute. (Aside from the pun threads, I mean.)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at March 11, 2020 03:24 PM (Ejm1K)
Can't see the back though....
Posted by: JoeF. at March 11, 2020 03:22 PM (CqE5x)
She needs to do some squats, and STFU
Posted by: Somewhere on Ventura Highway at March 11, 2020 03:24 PM (M+Lyo)
To be fair, that show is just (former HGTV megahit) "Flip or Flop" with a host duo that's in no danger of cheating on each other and ruining the golden goose.
Posted by: Ian S. at March 11, 2020 03:24 PM (ZGrMX)
Posted by: Mr. Scott (Formerly GWS) at March 11, 2020 03:24 PM (JUOKG)
It was a pretty steep drop off after that. Skyfall was the least awful of the rest but still... not great. Really lame bad guy, even weaker than Casino Royale.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 11, 2020 03:24 PM (KZzsI)
But I like the threads because it allows me to keep an eye on what these Communist mediocrities are up to in their war against normality without actually having to consume their dishwater-dull Soylent Culture content.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 11, 2020 03:24 PM (bQe8/)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at March 11, 2020 03:25 PM (E+OcO)
Downton Abbey is very woke. It didn't start out that way but got more and more lefty message as the show went on
Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 11, 2020 03:00 PM (Un9AW)
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It's nowhere near woke. Every gay character (and it's not that many) is completely unlikable.
The only woke part is how the landed gentry responded to the massive changes of the early 20th century. And that pretty historically accurate. And the successful Downton Abbey responded by embracing capitalism.
Posted by: MAGA at March 11, 2020 03:25 PM (UwT8B)
Posted by: Ian S. at March 11, 2020 03:24 PM (ZGrMX)
++++++++++
This makes the point even more effectively. A real estate show *retread* on HGTV with somewhat limited appeal gets nearly double what these former cultural-icon programs bring in.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 11, 2020 03:25 PM (I2dne)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 11, 2020 03:25 PM (XyVor)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 11, 2020 03:21 PM
Or the Florida Crowes.
Posted by: Dewey Crowe at March 11, 2020 03:25 PM (qco33)
I'm biased toward the books, so found every movie after From Russia With Love increasingly ridiculous.
I'd love to see a retro Bond film remake set in the actual time period adapted straight from the novel.
Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at March 11, 2020 03:25 PM (H8QX8)
Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at March 11, 2020 03:25 PM (4/5px)
You sound like people who say Citizen Kane is nothing special because everyone does that stuff now.
That underwater action sequence was unbelievable, shocking, stunning. It still is held up as one of the most amazing film achievements ever.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 11, 2020 03:25 PM (KZzsI)
Posted by: LASue at March 11, 2020 03:25 PM (YxML+)
Pffft.
Goldfinger
Thunderball
For Your Eyes Only
Casino Royale
[huge gap]
everything else.
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at March 11, 2020 03:17 PM (Boy/L)
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Thunderball is booooooooring.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trapped in a fish bowl with Terry Gilliam screaming at a hamster to run at March 11, 2020 03:18 PM (zZbCU)
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You are correct. I actually slightly prefer the renegade Never Say Never Again. It's exactly the same movie but with Barbara Carrera.
Posted by: RDittmar at March 11, 2020 03:26 PM (gW9nM)
there is a "Crucible" moment coming for the US ?
Posted by: REDACTED at March 11, 2020 03:01 PM (rpxSz)
I wouldn't be surprised. These sorts of moral panics come about because of exceptional stress on closed societies, where the power structure is trying to bleed off societal tension due to perceived failure, loss, or discredited social order.
Often there is a drive to identify the enemy without, and then find the colluders within
Sometimes there is scapegoating, in fact often it is identifying someone to be destroyed as a scapegoat is the act, followed up by a search to identify the next scapegoat. If it is an ongoing thing, it scares the little people into being in line and rolls them into the social order to search out the scapegoats, if only to make sure they aren't picked up as the next victim instead.
Posted by: Kindltot at March 11, 2020 03:26 PM (6rS3m)
Posted by: Somewhere on Ventura Highway at March 11, 2020 03:26 PM (M+Lyo)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 11, 2020 03:21 PM
Or the Florida Crowes.
Posted by: Dewey Crowe at March 11, 2020 03:25 PM
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Didn't Raylan Givens shot you?
Posted by: Mr. Scott (Formerly GWS) at March 11, 2020 03:26 PM (JUOKG)
C'mon. This is The Horde you're talking about.
Posted by: creeper at March 11, 2020 03:26 PM (XxJt1)
I heard a ruckus, and a pair of bluejays were having a fit. A crow was up in a branch eating one of their babies.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 11, 2020 03:21 PM
The crow was probably an assassin paid by the robins whose babies a pair of bluejays ate in my maple three years ago."The ciiiiirrrcle of liiiiiiiife!"
Posted by: NaughtyPine at March 11, 2020 03:26 PM (fxCK2)
Posted by: Mr. Scott (Formerly GWS) at March 11, 2020 03:24 PM (JUOKG)
This was ALWAYS going to be the outcome. It's only because of Hunter's idiocy that the case ever went as far as it did. And I'll bet he had to end up paying her a lot more than she would have settled for 3 months ago.
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 11, 2020 03:26 PM (trdmm)
Break em out, hon. Gain a fan base that will look past your batshit craziness for a little while.
Posted by: Sponge at March 11, 2020 03:26 PM (Zz0t1)
Yeah I've said this before several times, but that's what my reboot would look like. Period pieces, with more accuracy to the books. Granted, they wouldn't do as well as the spectacular action Bonds but still, that's what I want to see on the screen.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 11, 2020 03:26 PM (KZzsI)
Utterly stunning in every way. I would sell all y'alls kids into slavery for her.
Well, maybe not, but I'D THINK ABOUT IT!
And TY Joe
Posted by: My Pimp Shot My Dealer at March 11, 2020 03:27 PM (64QSU)
So like virtually every other character on Downtown Abbey then?
It seemed preposterously woke to me.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrica balls at March 11, 2020 03:27 PM (iys0/)
Posted by: Mr. Scott (Formerly GWS) at March 11, 2020 03:27 PM (JUOKG)
responded to the massive changes of the early 20th century. And that
pretty historically accurate. And the successful Downton Abbey responded
by embracing capitalism.
Posted by: MAGA at March 11, 2020 03:25 PM (UwT8B)
And the leftist Irishman became a part of the family and ends up saving King George V from assassination in the movie.
Posted by: Mark1971 at March 11, 2020 03:27 PM (xPl2J)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 11, 2020 03:26 PM (KZzsI)
Wasn't that what the Man from Uncle remake was?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 11, 2020 03:27 PM (XyVor)
You sound like people who say Citizen Kane is nothing special because everyone does that stuff now.
That underwater action sequence was unbelievable, shocking, stunning. It still is held up as one of the most amazing film achievements ever.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 11, 2020 03:25 PM (KZzsI)
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Please, the implication that I would find Citizen Kane not worthwhile is insulting and below you.
Underwater sequences are hard to do at all, and much harder to make exciting.
Everything moves more slowly naturally. You can't see anyone's faces, so it's harder to determine who's who and who's doing what to whom. And, it was filmed like a nature documentary.
They're action scenes that move like glaciers.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trapped in a fish bowl with Terry Gilliam screaming at a hamster to run at March 11, 2020 03:27 PM (zZbCU)
However, I never want to hear this patriarchy feminist bullshit ever again.
You wear that dress to show the goods.
You asked to be objectified. Which I shall oblige.
Posted by: fox at March 11, 2020 03:27 PM (hdFyL)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 11, 2020 03:24 PM (KZzsI)
Quantum of Solace has to be one of the biggest drops in quality from one movie to the next, ever. It's like they used up every good idea and line on Casino Royale and just couldn't think of anything. They wrote the elevator pitch into the script with no alterations.
"It's in Bolivia! And... Water! There's an airplane chase in DC-3! And... um... solar power! And Felix Leiter!"
Posted by: Vanya at March 11, 2020 03:27 PM (H5ZlJ)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trapped in a fish bowl with Terry Gilliam screaming at a hamster to run at March 11, 2020 03:18 PM (zZbCU)
I agree.
The underwater scenes play like a real time sequence of Bond -
taking the bus to the local Dunkin Donuts, taking his time choosing his donuts, then changing his mind and choosing other donuts, then getting back on the bus and going home, then entering his apartment, mixing his breakfast martini, sitting down to eat his donuts, then going to brush his teeth.
Only that would be more exciting than the Underwater Scenes in "Thunderball".
Posted by: naturalfake at March 11, 2020 03:28 PM (9wmyx)
Posted by: tubal at March 11, 2020 03:28 PM (bCLt0)
It was well done but Connery is so obviously too old it mars the film. It is surprisingly well done, but he's just too decrepit to play that role believably.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 11, 2020 03:28 PM (KZzsI)
That, and Albert's heroin addiction and the rapist clown.
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at March 11, 2020 03:28 PM (DY3v8)
Posted by: blaster at March 11, 2020 03:28 PM (9VeU0)
The movies they're making now are derived from comic books that nerds have read for years. How many new nerds are not buying the new woke comics and won't go watch a woke movie from a comic they never read?
Hollywood seems to have forgotten that people watch movies and television as escapism, not to be scolded at and lectured.
Yeh, they have a shitload of money now, but they're going on momentum like a charging rhino with a bullet in it's brain
Posted by: kbdabear at March 11, 2020 03:28 PM (qAR6u)
Also, Game of Thrones was HBO-- already a limited audience, but it got incredible amounts of favorable coversge. Shows like NCIS and Blue Bloods get waaaay higher numbers but TV reviewers look down on them so they don't get the publicity.
Posted by: Lance McCormick, 3rd Level Thief/Red Mage at March 11, 2020 03:29 PM (l8gTz)
Posted by: notsothoreau at March 11, 2020 03:29 PM (JKNZq)
Posted by: tubal at March 11, 2020 03:03 PM (bCLt0)
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They also outlive most of their owners
Posted by: ShainS at March 11, 2020 03:29 PM (68GeL)
Wasn't D Craig in a really bad "western" "sci-fi" movie about Cowboys and dinosaurs and Han Solo as a bad guy?
Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a gentle glide applicator tip at March 11, 2020 03:29 PM (FfnE5)
Quantum of Solace has to be one of the biggest drops in quality from one movie to the next, ever. It's like they used up every good idea and line on Casino Royale and just couldn't think of anything. They wrote the elevator pitch into the script with no alterations.
"It's in Bolivia! And... Water! There's an airplane chase in DC-3! And... um... solar power! And Felix Leiter!"
Posted by: Vanya at March 11, 2020 03:27 PM (H5ZlJ)
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It's a victim of the writer's strike. All the plot stuff was stuff that Paul Haggis shat out 2 hours before the strike began. All the character based stuff (which is in there) was all stuff they made up on set.
The biggest drop from one movie to the next, I think, is from Death Wish to Death Wish 2.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trapped in a fish bowl with Terry Gilliam screaming at a hamster to run at March 11, 2020 03:29 PM (zZbCU)
Posted by: LASue at March 11, 2020 03:29 PM (YxML+)
Writers Guild of America strike. They finished the first draft of the script literally hours before the strike officially began, and all subsequent edits and rewrites had to be done by non-professional writers.
Posted by: Walter Freeman at March 11, 2020 03:30 PM (+oVP5)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trapped in a fish bowl with Terry Gilliam screaming at a hamster to run at March 11, 2020
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I agree. Oh, there are some good parts, like with Luciana Paluzzi the Italian redhead, and the opening sequence at the spa straight out of Fleming's novel. But footage of people swimming under the sea fills me with mild but waning interest.
And Bond is always at his best when he is the lone agent standing between the villain and his nefarious plan. See Doctor No as the classic example. Having the CIA, FBI, and the U.S. Navy helping him out is not as much fun.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at March 11, 2020 03:30 PM (Ejm1K)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 11, 2020 03:30 PM (1ISKN)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 11, 2020 03:25 PM (KZzsI)
It's not as good as the underwater sequence in TOP SECRET!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3VTW9JAeLk
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 11, 2020 03:30 PM (trdmm)
Sigh. I'm sorry that I came across as seeming like I was saying you would not find Citizen Kane worthwhile.
I was trying to draw an equivalence between people who come to Citizen Kane without knowing how groundbreaking and revolutionary it was to you seeing the underwater sequences in Thunderball without realizing how groundbreaking and revolutionary it was.
There had been nothing remotely like it before. It was unbelievable at the time. Nobody had even considered trying such a thing.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 11, 2020 03:30 PM (KZzsI)
Posted by: notsothoreau at March 11, 2020 03:30 PM (JKNZq)
ot
Supreme Court allows Trump to enforce 'Remain in Mexico' policy
good, yes, as others said earlier
Winning.
Bigly.
More than ever Trump should be able to use his powers to protect the nation.
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at March 11, 2020 03:30 PM (vEIlU)
Posted by: pahound at March 11, 2020 03:30 PM (4OFsP)
Posted by: MAC SOG'''' at March 11, 2020 03:30 PM (P4Pk9)
It's not as good as the underwater sequence in TOP SECRET!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3VTW9JAeLk
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 11, 2020 03:30 PM (trdmm)
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Verified. Greatest underwater sequence ever.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trapped in a fish bowl with Terry Gilliam screaming at a hamster to run at March 11, 2020 03:30 PM (zZbCU)
Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a gentle glide applicator tip at March 11, 2020 03:29 PM (FfnE5)
375 364
Cowboys and Aliens. I liked it.
Posted by: DR.WTF at March 11, 2020 03:30 PM (aS1PU)
Posted by: ... at March 11, 2020 03:31 PM (irezo)
Posted by: tubal at March 11, 2020 03:31 PM (bCLt0)
Donald J. Trump
11 Mar 2020 - 3:18:35 PM
I am fully prepared to use the full power of the Federal Government to deal with our current challenge of the CoronaVirus!
Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 11, 2020
Posted by: Ghost Of Qassem Soleimani at March 11, 2020 03:31 PM (BqBId)
Doesn't look like there is an end of day rally coming.
Posted by: blaster at March 11, 2020 03:28 PM (9VeU0)
I would ask what the hell is going on, but I'm fairly sure nobody on Earth actually knows right now.
Posted by: Vanya at March 11, 2020 03:31 PM (H5ZlJ)
Cowboys vs. Aliens.
Harrison Ford starts bad, but sees the light.
The aliens are some kind of roided weasel.
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at March 11, 2020 03:31 PM (Boy/L)
Posted by: Vincent Hanna at March 11, 2020 03:31 PM (qAR6u)
And here comes Pelosi's massive virus spending bill that will pass.
Posted by: Not Voting Our Way Out Of This at March 11, 2020 03:31 PM (AXS9h)
This excuse always bothers me. There are millions, literally millions of writers out there who could give them terrific material. A few of the more commonly used ones going "on strike" does not compel someone to put out trash.
Their problem is that they refused to go find other talent and tried to wing it themselves, not that there wasn't writing talent available.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 11, 2020 03:31 PM (KZzsI)
I'm fcuked onto death. The People Against Goodness and Normalcy over at ZeroHedge will be picking at my bones.
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at March 11, 2020 03:31 PM (DY3v8)
Posted by: Vanya at March 11, 2020 03:11 PM (H5ZlJ)
Picking Jar-Jar "Tribute Director" to do the movie was an obvious mistake. Putting KK in overall control was a disaster.
Posted by: WOPR at March 11, 2020 03:31 PM (sGCGQ)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 11, 2020 03:32 PM (WI7YS)
Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a gentle glide applicator tip at March 11, 2020 03:29 PM (FfnE5)
375 364
Cowboys and Aliens. I liked it.
Posted by: DR.WTF at March 11, 2020 03:30 PM (aS1PU)
Yep, me too. He actually was okay. And, Olivia Wilde.
Posted by: tubal at March 11, 2020 03:32 PM (bCLt0)
Posted by: Chris W at March 11, 2020 03:32 PM (Y9uNK)
There had been nothing remotely like it before. It was unbelievable at the time. Nobody had even considered trying such a thing.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 11, 2020 03:30 PM (KZzsI)
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It still needs to, you know, work. And be exciting as an action sequence.
Which it's not.
They didn't get an underwater sequence exciting until For Your Eyes Only.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trapped in a fish bowl with Terry Gilliam screaming at a hamster to run at March 11, 2020 03:32 PM (zZbCU)
Willowed:
Ya'll the word has gone out:
Today's talking point is "Trump's Katrina."
Please adjust your bullshit meters accordingly.
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at March 11, 2020 03:03 PM (Boy/L)
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That's so last week ... I expected it to have morphed into "Trump's Chernobyl" by now.
Posted by: ShainS at March 11, 2020 03:32 PM (68GeL)
*******
Well mollifying the masses vis-a-vis coronavirus might be tough when they have canceled all the Circuses.
They'd better hope the Bread holds up.
Posted by: Muldoon at March 11, 2020 03:32 PM (m45I2)
He wasn't bad, but the movie was sort of aimless and couldn't decide where to go or what it was doing. The story was meandering and plotless, the aliens were kind of underwhelming. It was sort of dull.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 11, 2020 03:32 PM (KZzsI)
Posted by: Sickle and Egbert at March 11, 2020 03:33 PM (VWOf+)
Posted by: Walter Freeman at March 11, 2020 03:30 PM (+oVP5)
Well, that explains it. But if that was what they were building from, IDK if it would have been good anyway...
Posted by: Vanya at March 11, 2020 03:33 PM (H5ZlJ)
Working-class Dublin was heavily Protestant up to the 1920s, and became loyal to the UK. Hence 'come out ye black & tans'.
Left / Right doesn't apply well to 20th-century Irish politics. Independent Ireland because a strange sort of national-socialist ultra Catholic dystopia. It's been likened to Peronist Argentina.
Posted by: boulder t'hobo at March 11, 2020 03:33 PM (ykYG2)
Posted by: blaster at March
better that way
Posted by: not so at March 11, 2020 03:33 PM (HALdu)
Tomorrow the buy algorithms will control the market.
Repeat until baseball season.
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at March 11, 2020 03:33 PM (Boy/L)
Posted by: brak at March 11, 2020 03:33 PM (2l08Q)
Posted by: Miss Issippi at March 11, 2020
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I've seen worse. But I've seen a hell of a lot better too. Not much arch.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at March 11, 2020 03:33 PM (Ejm1K)
Posted by: tubal at March 11, 2020 03:32 PM (bCLt0)
Olivia Wilde. Moonbatty but very easy on the eyes.
Posted by: DR.WTF at March 11, 2020 03:33 PM (aS1PU)
Everyone knew this was going to happen but the 9th doesn't care.
Posted by: Mr. Scott (Formerly GWS) at March 11, 2020 03:33 PM (JUOKG)
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Yeah? Well, you've got stupid on your dick!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at March 11, 2020 03:33 PM (+y/Ru)
I was a theatre person in high school. : )
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 11, 2020 03:32 PM (WI7YS)
Theres an exception to every rule.
Posted by: LASue at March 11, 2020 03:33 PM (YxML+)
Posted by: Archer at March 11, 2020 03:33 PM (EVRlu)
DISTORTED THE SPANISH ECONOMY AND MADE THE PENINSULA A BACKWATER
RELATIVE TO 17TH CENTURY EUROPE.
Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at March 11, 2020 03:09 PM (ykYG2)
See? Anyone can read Jesus Huerta de Soto!
Posted by: Kindltot at March 11, 2020 03:34 PM (6rS3m)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 11, 2020 03:34 PM (KZzsI)
Donald J. Trump
11 Mar 2020 - 3:18:35 PM
I am fully prepared to use the full power of the Federal Government to deal with our current challenge of the CoronaVirus!
Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 11, 2020
Posted by: Ghost Of Qassem Soleimani at March 11, 2020 03:31 PM (BqBId)
He needs to and he will. He should have a lot more leniency during this "global pandemic".
I hope this allows him to go around the House.
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at March 11, 2020 03:34 PM (vEIlU)
Fifty five years ago (yes, the Bond franchise has been alive that long) my stepbrother and I got lost on a back road in Jamaica. The car got stuck and my stepbrother went in search of help. Being more than a little intoxicated (no drinking age in Jamaica) I let him. He came back with a fellow named Timothy Moxon...a planter who had played the part of General Strangways, whose murder opened the film.
It turned out we were lucky to find him. The place where we got stuck was between two areas...one designated the "Region of Look Behind and the other called "Me No Send, You No Come.
Posted by: creeper at March 11, 2020 03:34 PM (XxJt1)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at March 11, 2020 03:34 PM (E+OcO)
Fair enough, but those big budget Hollywood folks are super serious about their unions, and any writer caught working on script rewrites would be dead on arrival for future movie projects, and the producers, directors, and actors using scab rewrites would have black eyes going forwards too.
If Hollywood does know how to do one thing right, then it's holding grudges.
Posted by: Walter Freeman at March 11, 2020 03:34 PM (+oVP5)
Posted by: Sickle and Egbert at March 11, 2020 03:33 PM (VWOf+)
12 Angry Xers
Posted by: Mark1971 at March 11, 2020 03:35 PM (xPl2J)
That's just it. Everyone knew it OUGHT to happen but these days, who knows? This shouldn't be cause for celebration, it should be just "yeah, of course" but we live in stupid times.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 11, 2020 03:35 PM (KZzsI)
Does he still get to use the title?
Hey, Harry Windsor-- fuck off.
Posted by: Vanya at March 11, 2020 03:35 PM (H5ZlJ)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 11, 2020 03:35 PM (1ISKN)
Posted by: Vanya at March 11, 2020 03:31 PM (H5ZlJ)
Actually it's quite simple. The Saudi's, now with the help of the UAE, have decided it's time to crash the international financial system in order to A) destroy US oil producers and B) eliminate Iran once and for all. The second goal is arguably in our favor, which is probably why we're not doing much to stop them.
The US economy should over time react decently to the shock. Lower consumer prices and lower manufacturing costs will be good for us. BUT the balance sheets of almost every major International Corp are going to be wrecked along the way, which is why the Stock Market is crashing - and now I think will continue to crash for a while longer.
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 11, 2020 03:35 PM (trdmm)
It was well done but Connery is so obviously too old it mars the film. It is surprisingly well done, but he's just too decrepit to play that role believably.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 11, 2020 03:28 PM (KZzsI)
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Agree. He is too old. The funny thing though is that he somehow manages to look a little better in this one than he did in Diamonds Are Forever. He'd really let himself go by the time they talked him into doing that one.
Posted by: RDittmar at March 11, 2020 03:35 PM (gW9nM)
Posted by: Lance McCormick, PROP ROOM at March 11, 2020 03:35 PM (l8gTz)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 11, 2020 03:34 PM (KZzsI)
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And having secret meetings during an opera in which they talk to themselves and each other through earpieces in the audience.
Because they're super secret.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trapped in a fish bowl with Terry Gilliam screaming at a hamster to run at March 11, 2020 03:36 PM (zZbCU)
Posted by: NaughtyPine at March 11, 2020 03:36 PM (fxCK2)
he was the same age as Roger Moore, who appeared that summer in Octopussy, IIRC.
And then really was way way too old a couple of years later for View to a Kill.
Posted by: ace at March 11, 2020 03:36 PM (PbpT7)
Tomorrow the buy algorithms will control the market.
Repeat until baseball season.
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at March 11, 2020 03:33 PM (Boy/L)
I wasn't going to buy anymore but Im starting to think Soros and/or Lil Mike and their minions are behind this attempt tp crash and are willing to lose lots to make us suffer. F*&^ him. Anyway, Prices are too good to pass up.
Posted by: LASue at March 11, 2020 03:36 PM (YxML+)
The show is losing on average 108,000 viewers per episode. It has lost 542,000 total since the premiere episode.
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That's not too bad. They could lose 100,000,000 viewers a week and still have a million viewers at the end of the season.
Posted by: CNN math at March 11, 2020 03:36 PM (KUaJL)
Posted by: Vanya at March 11, 2020 03:31 PM (H5ZlJ)
Actually it's quite simple. The Saudi's, now with the help of the UAE, have decided it's time to crash the international financial system in order to A) destroy US oil producers and B) eliminate Iran once and for all. The second goal is arguably in our favor, which is probably why we're not doing much to stop them.
The US economy should over time react decently to the shock. Lower consumer prices and lower manufacturing costs will be good for us. BUT the balance sheets of almost every major International Corp are going to be wrecked along the way, which is why the Stock Market is crashing - and now I think will continue to crash for a while longer.
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 11, 2020 03:35 PM (trdmm)
yep
Trump has knocked a few hornets nests. China, Saudi Arabia, Iran, NK...
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at March 11, 2020 03:36 PM (vEIlU)
he looked horrible in that one. All jowly and bent over, like a NeverTrumper at a cuck party.
Posted by: ace at March 11, 2020 03:36 PM (PbpT7)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 11, 2020 03:32 PM (KZzsI)
It had that aliens are big and bad and take a million rounds to kill them until it becomes convenient that a single shot kills them.
Same as Battle for Los Angeles.
Posted by: blaster at March 11, 2020 03:37 PM (9VeU0)
Posted by: ace at March 11, 2020 03:37 PM (PbpT7)
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 11, 2020 03:37 PM (trdmm)
Posted by: tbodie at March 11, 2020 03:37 PM (V0CWC)
Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at March 11, 2020
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Summer is what Greta WISHES she looked like.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at March 11, 2020 03:38 PM (Ejm1K)
Same as Battle for Los Angeles.
Posted by: blaster at March 11, 2020 03:37 PM (9VeU0)
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"I've learned my life lesson, now my bullets have +3000 damage."
-Harrison Ford
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trapped in a fish bowl with Terry Gilliam screaming at a hamster to run at March 11, 2020 03:38 PM (zZbCU)
Posted by: creeper at March 11, 2020 03:38 PM (XxJt1)
Posted by: Ignoramus at March 11, 2020 03:38 PM (9TdxA)
Posted by: ace at March 11, 2020 03:38 PM (PbpT7)
I'm callin shenanigans!
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 11, 2020 03:38 PM (1ISKN)
I think I might not see this one, and most certainly not pay for it.
Can't believe I just typed that...what a state that shit is in. Craig sucks.
Posted by: Rev. Dr. E Buzz Miller, Lesbian at March 11, 2020 03:38 PM (TRIN8)
Posted by: ace at March 11, 2020 03:37 PM (PbpT7)
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Moore started in his 40s. Such a weird choice.
I liked him, but starting him so old was odd.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trapped in a fish bowl with Terry Gilliam screaming at a hamster to run at March 11, 2020 03:38 PM (zZbCU)
I wonder if the $50-70k they are asking for a replacement for my ageing QX can be paid in $$ earned by a man.
LOLGF
No, they have not yet reached peak stupid.
Posted by: Tonypete at March 11, 2020 03:39 PM (Y4EXg)
the local theater while the new Onward is ending after a week. Jack
London stories > woke Pixar
Posted by: NaughtyPine at March 11, 2020 03:36 PM (fxCK2)
Onward simply looks bland and unoriginal. I'm not sure what it is meant to be.
Posted by: WOPR at March 11, 2020 03:39 PM (sGCGQ)
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 11, 2020 03:37 PM (trdmm)
Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends.
(reference stolen from someone the other day)
Posted by: DR.WTF at March 11, 2020 03:39 PM (aS1PU)
Just hit Summer Glau directly in the face with the back of a spade 3 or 4 times, and she'd be a dead ringer...
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 11, 2020 03:39 PM (bQe8/)
At least Octopussy was fairly clever and well done (mostly). But View To A Kill was terrible other than the theme song.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 11, 2020 03:39 PM (KZzsI)
He has accumulated 9,347,782 votes in primaries and caucus so far compared to 2004 George W. Bush who received 7,853,863 votes in the primary. In 2012 Barack Obama received 8,906,078 votes in the primary.
And the primary season is only half way done.
Republican turnout is not going to be an issue in November.
Posted by: Mr. Scott (Formerly GWS) at March 11, 2020 03:39 PM (JUOKG)
Posted by: phoenixgirl at March 11, 2020 03:39 PM (0O7c5)
Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at March 11, 2020 03:39 PM (4/5px)
What exactly do they expect Trump to have done, to do?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 11, 2020 03:39 PM (WI7YS)
And the leftist Irishman became a part of the family and ends up saving King George V from assassination in the movie.
Posted by: Mark1971 at March 11, 2020 03:27 PM (xPl2J)
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That character was always the worse part of the series, but even that's not woke in the sense of the term.
Posted by: MAGA at March 11, 2020 03:39 PM (UwT8B)
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 11, 2020 03:35 PM (trdmm)
I like a good market theory better than buy conspriracy theory, but what's the connection between the balance sheet of , for instance, a microchip producer or credit card company and what the Saudis are doing with oil pricing?
Posted by: LASue at March 11, 2020 03:40 PM (YxML+)
Posted by: tubal at March 11, 2020 03:40 PM (bCLt0)
Boning 12 year olds is the whole point of the series!
Posted by: George Lucas & Stephen Spielberg at March 11, 2020 03:40 PM (ykYG2)
the local theater while the new Onward is ending after a week. Jack
London stories > woke Pixar
I forgot to mention Onward.
Disney's going to have a tough year. Finally.
Posted by: ace at March 11, 2020 03:40 PM (PbpT7)
Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at March 11, 2020 03:39 PM (4/5px)
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His final Bond movie, The Rock, co-starring Nicholas Cage, was a quality way to go out with the character.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trapped in a fish bowl with Terry Gilliam screaming at a hamster to run at March 11, 2020 03:40 PM (zZbCU)
Posted by: Its like I can see teh future at March 11, 2020 03:40 PM (iqCBC)
Posted by: boulder t'hobo at March 11, 2020 03:40 PM (ykYG2)
Posted by: ace at March 11, 2020 03:38 PM (PbpT7)
If you want to see Connery too old to play a part, watch the horrible League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.
Posted by: WOPR at March 11, 2020 03:40 PM (sGCGQ)
ahhhhh... yes, very good point
I think Marion was supposed to be 11!
Posted by: ace at March 11, 2020 03:40 PM (PbpT7)
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at March 11, 2020 03:41 PM (DY3v8)
Posted by: tmitsss at March 11, 2020 03:41 PM (A+ohD)
Posted by: boulder t'hobo at March 11, 2020 03:41 PM (ykYG2)
Hollywood believes, like shrillary said, that we are all Deplorables. They believe they are so right on every issue, so they keep pushing their ideology. It has worked up to this point.
Until we started getting streaming and more choices. It's not just going to "Blockbuster" to see the movies that already played in the theater.
Or Redflag.
We can just watch other stuff.
So in the end, they are wrong and subject to their own demise. So be it.
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at March 11, 2020 03:41 PM (vEIlU)
Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 11, 2020
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Yea, I'd rather Trump over react than under react.
We're here because it's essentially impossible to wall anything off because globalism has become the new god the elites worship.
FWIW, I have a friend that's a doctor at Mayo, they had a briefing and shared the memo with me. This thing is out the bag and they really are preparing for armageddon. It's all over, and there's only so many respirators, etc. There's going to be calls made like "this person dies, this person get treatment, etc"
We can all say it's just like the flu, but if like 20,000 plus Americans die of this, you don't want to be the leader that 's trying to make that comparison.
Posted by: Raven at March 11, 2020 03:42 PM (6RfEx)
Posted by: WitchDoktor, turns out lots of people give a damn! at March 11, 2020 03:42 PM (VoHHi)
The US economy should over time react decently to the shock. Lower consumer prices and lower manufacturing costs will be good for us. BUT the balance sheets of almost every major International Corp are going to be wrecked along the way, which is why the Stock Market is crashing - and now I think will continue to crash for a while longer.
Posted by: Tom Servo at March
do you think oil is affecting the markets that much?
I think the oil moves were unexpected and require everybody to adjust but that is relatively easy.
the uncertainty with everything else is harder for the market to adjust to
Posted by: not so at March 11, 2020 03:42 PM (HALdu)
Posted by: boulder t'hobo at March 11, 2020 03:41 PM (ykYG2)
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There's a line of dialogue from a female character about her wife/girlfriend, or something.
From what I understand, the movie overall ends up being a very warming tale of brotherhood and loss.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trapped in a fish bowl with Terry Gilliam screaming at a hamster to run at March 11, 2020 03:42 PM (zZbCU)
he looked horrible in that one. All jowly and bent over, like a NeverTrumper at a cuck party.
Posted by: ace at March 11, 2020 03:36 PM (PbpT7)
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And what's up with that tie?
https://tinyurl.com/uvt7qkf
Posted by: RDittmar at March 11, 2020 03:42 PM (gW9nM)
Posted by: THE FOUNDERING RATHERS at March 11, 2020 03:42 PM (rpxSz)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 11, 2020 03:42 PM (KZzsI)
Posted by: dantesed at March 11, 2020 03:42 PM (88xKn)
Posted by: JoeF. at March 11, 2020 03:43 PM (CqE5x)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at March 11, 2020 03:43 PM (KP5rU)
Posted by: JoeF. at March 11, 2020 03:43 PM (CqE5x)
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Craig and Cruise work out.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trapped in a fish bowl with Terry Gilliam screaming at a hamster to run at March 11, 2020 03:43 PM (zZbCU)
Posted by: Richard at March 11, 2020 03:43 PM (kdZIT)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 11, 2020 03:32 PM (KZzsI)
It had that aliens are big and bad and take a million rounds to kill them until it becomes convenient that a single shot kills them.
Same as Battle for Los Angeles.
Posted by: blaster at March 11, 2020 03:37 PM (9VeU0)
Battle for LA at least had a scene of them figuring out how to kill them. Giving a point where to aim to take them down. I did like that movie.
Posted by: Buzzion at March 11, 2020 03:43 PM (G2zl5)
Posted by: dantesed at March 11, 2020 03:42 PM (88xKn)
She is kind of cheesy.
Posted by: tubal at March 11, 2020 03:43 PM (bCLt0)
The only woke part is how the landed gentry responded to the massive changes of the early 20th century. And that pretty historically accurate. And the successful Downton Abbey responded by embracing capitalism.
Posted by: MAGA at March 11, 2020 03:25 PM (UwT8B)
They were continually pushing the it's a changing world and the old ways and attitudes and beliefs are out of date. Except for the Maggie Smith character. The father was the typical clueless prat.
Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 11, 2020 03:43 PM (kw5n8)
You're not wowed by the realism of Moonraker?
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at March 11, 2020 03:43 PM (iys0/)
20,000 plus Americans die of this, you don't want to be the leader that
's trying to make that comparison.
Posted by: Raven at March 11, 2020 03:42 PM
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You do know that 20,000+ Americans die each year from the regular annual flu right?
Not sure how that turns this into Armageddon.
Posted by: Mr. Scott (Formerly GWS) at March 11, 2020 03:44 PM (JUOKG)
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We expect him to die, of course. He's nearly 80 after all, and Chinese Lung Aids kills effectively in that age grouping.
*twirls villainous moustaches villainously*
Posted by: the Global Hegemony of Evil at March 11, 2020 03:44 PM (1Qv/o)
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at March 11, 2020 03:44 PM (oVJmc)
Battle for LA at least had a scene of them figuring out how to kill them. Giving a point where to aim to take them down. I did like that movie.
Posted by: Buzzion at March 11, 2020 03:43 PM (G2zl5)
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It's a solid combat movie.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trapped in a fish bowl with Terry Gilliam screaming at a hamster to run at March 11, 2020 03:44 PM (zZbCU)
*******
In many ways this is the story of Quasimodo.
Posted by: Muldoon at March 11, 2020 03:44 PM (m45I2)
And the primary season is only half way done.
Republican turnout is not going to be an issue in November.
Posted by: Mr. Scott (Formerly GWS) at March 11, 2020 03:39 PM (JUOKG)
+++
I voted for Trump in the primary, not because I needed to, but because I wanted to. It felt right.
Posted by: washrivergal at March 11, 2020 03:44 PM (jSEze)
Posted by: tubal at March 11, 2020 03:44 PM (bCLt0)
I like a good market theory better than buy conspriracy theory, but what's the connection between the balance sheet of , for instance, a microchip producer or credit card company and what the Saudis are doing with oil pricing?
Posted by: LASue at March 11, 2020 03:40 PM (YxML+)
Mostly it threatens the banks, who bought a lot of oil debt.
Posted by: Someguy at March 11, 2020 03:44 PM (5qroD)
he looked horrible in that one. All jowly and bent over, like a NeverTrumper at a cuck party.
Posted by: ace at March 11, 2020 03:36 PM (PbpT7
Connery actually improved when he kept his hair short or went bald.
of course he could have had a jowl-lift too at some point.
Posted by: JoeF. at March 11, 2020 03:44 PM (CqE5x)
https://tinyurl.com/uvt7qkf
...
terrible.
A lot of Bond fashion is horrible.
Posted by: ace at March 11, 2020 03:45 PM (PbpT7)
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at March 11, 2020 03:45 PM (oVJmc)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 11, 2020 03:45 PM (KZzsI)
There are better things to do with Summer Glau.
Posted by: FrodoB,
because hobbits don't wear socks at March 11, 2020 03:45 PM (veJcn)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trapped in a fish bowl with Terry Gilliam screaming at a hamster to run at March 11, 2020 03:43 PM (zZbCU)
I'm fairly certain that Tom Cruise has a painting hiding somewhere that is aging for him.
Posted by: CNN math at March 11, 2020 03:45 PM (KUaJL)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 11, 2020 03:45 PM (NVYyb)
https://tinyurl.com/uvt7qkf
...
terrible.
A lot of Bond fashion is horrible.
Posted by: ace at March 11, 2020 03:45 PM (PbpT7)
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*looks down at puffy shirt*
"What do you mean?"
-George Lazenby
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trapped in a fish bowl with Terry Gilliam screaming at a hamster to run at March 11, 2020 03:45 PM (zZbCU)
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at March 11, 2020 03:45 PM (KUaJL)
*******
In many ways this is the story of Quasimodo.
Posted by: Muldoon
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I can't recall his name but the face rings a bell.
-- Just the punchline.
Posted by: Tonypete at March 11, 2020 03:45 PM (Y4EXg)
Posted by: notsothoreau at March 11, 2020 03:46 PM (JKNZq)
Posted by: FrodoB,
because hobbits don't wear socks at March 11, 2020 03:46 PM (veJcn)
Yeah, FUCK YOU
Posted by: JoeF. at March 11, 2020 03:46 PM (CqE5x)
M:
Too many free radicals. That's your problem.
James Bond:
"Free radicals," sir?
M:
Yes. They're toxins that destroy the body and the brain, caused by eating too much red meat and white bread and too many dry martinis!
James Bond:
Then I shall cut out the white bread, sir.
Posted by: ace at March 11, 2020 03:46 PM (PbpT7)
Posted by: WitchDoktor, turns out lots of people give a damn! at March 11, 2020 03:46 PM (VoHHi)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, USS Lone Fire at March 11, 2020 03:46 PM (PD1/H)
Posted by: tubal at March 11, 2020 03:40 PM (bCLt0)
The thing about Summer Glau is every time her tv series gets cancelled she came back looking hotter in the next one.
Posted by: Buzzion at March 11, 2020 03:46 PM (G2zl5)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 11, 2020 03:46 PM (1ISKN)
Damn kids these days.
Posted by: DamnedYankee at March 11, 2020 03:46 PM (e284m)
MUMR's been licking corona-infected windows again.
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at March 11, 2020 03:45 PM (oVJmc)
_________
... and toads, but mostly toads.
Posted by: ShainS at March 11, 2020 03:47 PM (68GeL)
Time spent on bullshit impeachment?
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at March 11, 2020 03:47 PM (oVJmc)
Posted by: tubal at March 11, 2020 03:47 PM (bCLt0)
IeeeeeeIIEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeEEEEeeee... we are all not going to die.
Posted by: USNtakim profoundly deplorable. at March 11, 2020 03:47 PM (0OmEj)
Posted by: Mark1971 at March 11, 2020 03:27 PM (xPl2J)
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That character was always the worse part of the series, but even that's not woke in the sense of the term.
Posted by: MAGA at March 11, 2020 03:39 PM (UwT8B)
It wasn't woke but an insult to anyone's intelligence. A buddy of mine both his parents came from Ireland said if the chauffeur so much as looked at her they would have taken Paddy out back and shot him
Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 11, 2020 03:47 PM (kw5n8)
Posted by: Chris M at March 11, 2020 03:48 PM (eAZVt)
They're not ridding themselves, last I heard; they were looking into a full merger with Renault, and even being part of the proposed Renault/Fiat/Chrysler merger.
Posted by: Ian S. at March 11, 2020 03:48 PM (ZGrMX)
Not sure how that turns this into Armageddon.
Posted by: Mr. Scott
________________
Yes, but when 3,000 people died in 9/11, it's sort of like saying "that's how many die on the highway every month, so let's not make too big a deal out of this"
It's a new form of death, and there are people that are high risk.
I have a FIL for example that is undergoing cancer treatment, if a family member brings this anywhere near him, he's essentially a guranteed fatality according to his doctor.
If Trump decides to just be "people are making too much of this" he's dead in the water.
Posted by: Raven at March 11, 2020 03:48 PM (6RfEx)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, USS Lone Fire at March
I like moore but it is hard not to say that was an awful movie
something wrong with James Bond driving the back of a fire truck.
Posted by: not so at March 11, 2020 03:48 PM (HALdu)
Posted by: WitchDoktor, turns out lots of people give a damn!
The thing is, Patrick Stewart now is so old, the whole series is just a slow moving geriatric joke.
Woke?
It's naptime at the old Starfleet home.
Posted by: Bozo Conservative....menace to society at March 11, 2020 03:48 PM (vcOmj)
Yeah but 50 in the 70s is not the same as 50 now. People are staying fit and healthy and vital much older than they used to. People joke about how Aunt May looked too old in the comics, but back in the early 60s, that's what someone in their 50s reasonably would look like.
You can see it in old TV shows and movies, anyone past 40 is a bent old crone or withered old man. White hair, rheumatism, etc. Life was very hard for their earlier years, plus everyone smoked like a chimney.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 11, 2020 03:48 PM (KZzsI)
Well, then, it will be just like the Liverpool Pathway under Socialized medicine, correct?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 11, 2020 03:48 PM (WI7YS)
Posted by: turambar at March 11, 2020 03:48 PM (Gylu/)
Flaming Chief Sealth skull, or something.
Posted by: Mike in Seattle at March 11, 2020 03:48 PM (EL4ni)
Posted by: ace at March 11, 2020 03:48 PM (PbpT7)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at March 11, 2020 03:48 PM (KP5rU)
Posted by: gaius martius at March 11, 2020 03:49 PM (hMlTh)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 11, 2020 03:49 PM (1ISKN)
Posted by: ace at March 11, 2020 03:49 PM (PbpT7)
=====
So the it will still be about 20 K dead. Except they'll all die in about the same 30 days.
With the flu it spans over a season and the peak is attenuated by the flu shots.
theres no shot for this and its pretty contagious, so everyone is going to get it about the same time. The resources will be over taxed and you'll get a lot of people who will not make it because they didn't have a ventilator available.
They do a lot of non invasive ventilation now for ARDS which will help a lot, but it's still gonna suck till like July. Peak will probably be in May.
Posted by: Expect cancellations of NCAA/St Patricks day and first two months of baseball at March 11, 2020 03:49 PM (BYS0Y)
... directly in the face with the back of a spade 3 or 4 times, and she'd be a dead ringer...
*******
In many ways this is the story of Quasimodo.
Posted by: Muldoon at March 11, 2020 03:44 PM (m45I2)
_________
Funny.
Posted by: ShainS at March 11, 2020 03:49 PM (68GeL)
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at March 11, 2020 03:49 PM (oVJmc)
Posted by: Raven at March 11, 2020 03:48 PM (6RfEx)
If you care so deeply about Trump, why not write to him and tell him, unless you want him "dead in the water."
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 11, 2020 03:50 PM (WI7YS)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 11, 2020
*
*
Thrush did better, except in one episode a character hands his hat to a hatcheck girl, and we see the fighting bird symbol in the lining.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at March 11, 2020 03:50 PM (Ejm1K)
The thing is, Patrick Stewart now is so old, the whole series is just a slow moving geriatric joke.
Woke?
It's naptime at the old Starfleet home.
Posted by: Bozo Conservative....menace to society
--
I mainly watch to get a glimpse of the hot Romulan sister. Thank goodness she doesn't look like Ben Shapiro.
Posted by: WitchDoktor, turns out lots of people give a damn! at March 11, 2020 03:50 PM (VoHHi)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trapped in a fish bowl with Terry Gilliam screaming at a hamster to run at March 11, 2020 03:44 PM (zZbCU)
I enjoyed that movie. It's fun for what it is. The science is horrible. Ignore that and have a good time.
Posted by: WOPR at March 11, 2020 03:50 PM (sGCGQ)
Posted by: Somewhere on Ventura Highway at March 11, 2020 03:50 PM (M+Lyo)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at March 11, 2020 03:50 PM (KP5rU)
Posted by: boulder t'hobo at March 11, 2020 03:41 PMThe problem is that news stories trumpeted the historic LGBQT+ character voiced by a gay person. Maybe it's a small character in the movie, but it was blown up so that parents passing it by. That's rather unusual in my area because family-friendly movie nights are still a thing.
Posted by: NaughtyPine at March 11, 2020 03:50 PM (fxCK2)
That is one of the funnier sequences in the novel, where M goes on a health kick and forces all his agents (especially boozing Bond) on it as well, shoving him into a health clinic/resort ("sanitarium" back then). Bond goes along with it because he knows within a few months M will be back to his old ways and he can relax again.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 11, 2020 03:51 PM (KZzsI)
I think we can find an unused railcar in France to have this discussion.
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at March 11, 2020 03:51 PM (DY3v8)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 11, 2020 03:51 PM (1ISKN)
Posted by: bleakdaze at March 11, 2020 03:51 PM (gqm8O)
You think she's hot because she played a Terminator, which is just a wink and a nod away from a sex bot in the right situation.
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at March 11, 2020 03:51 PM (KUaJL)
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at March 11, 2020 03:51 PM (oVJmc)
--
Glau has a dancer's body. Thunberg has body by Volvo.
Posted by: tubal at March 11, 2020 03:47 PM
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It's boxy, but it's bad.
Posted by: irright at March 11, 2020 03:51 PM (pMGkg)
Posted by: WitchDoktor, turns out lots of people give a damn! at March 11, 2020 03:52 PM (VoHHi)
Posted by: brak at March 11, 2020 03:52 PM (2l08Q)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trapped in a fish bowl with Terry Gilliam screaming at a hamster to run at March 11, 2020 03:40 PM (zZbCU)
This.
They never came out and said he was 007 in it, but the implication was there.
Posted by: blaster at March 11, 2020 03:52 PM (9VeU0)
Posted by: dantesed at March 11, 2020 03:42 PM (88xKn)
She's an actress. An assless actress.
Posted by: Sponge at March 11, 2020 03:52 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, trapped in a fish bowl with Terry Gilliam screaming at a hamster to run at March 11, 2020 03:42 PM
That's what you said about me.
Posted by: Prometheus at March 11, 2020 03:52 PM (chve5)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 11, 2020 03:52 PM (KZzsI)
Posted by: Raven at March 11, 2020 03:48 PM (6RfEx)
If you care so deeply about Trump, why not write to him and tell him, unless you want him "dead in the water."
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 11, 2020 03:50 PM (WI7YS)
*snort*
Posted by: LASue at March 11, 2020 03:52 PM (YxML+)
Well, then, it will be just like the Liverpool Pathway under Socialized medicine, correct?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
___________
Exactly, except we're not used to the rationing that goes along with socialized medicine.
There's going to be high risk people that ordinarily the health care system can absorb and treat but not if it comes all at once like the way Corona is spreading.
Posted by: Raven at March 11, 2020 03:52 PM (6RfEx)
Posted by: tubal at March 11, 2020 03:52 PM (bCLt0)
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at March 11, 2020 03:53 PM (oVJmc)
you could almost say a fivehead.
Posted by: ace at March 11, 2020 03:49 PM (PbpT7)
She could Terminate me any time.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at March 11, 2020 03:53 PM (XyVor)
There were a few scenes in the Moore movies that showed what Roger could have done with the role if they played it a bit more seriously. Barbara Bach bringing up his dead wife was one
Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 11, 2020 03:53 PM (mpeBU)
Posted by: pahound at March 11, 2020 03:53 PM (4OFsP)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 11, 2020 03:52 PM (KZzsI)
Details, details, details
Posted by: tubal at March 11, 2020 03:53 PM (bCLt0)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 11, 2020
*
*
I've watched some of his early (ca. 1962) Saint episodes, and he would have been good as Bond at that point. Not quite the dark panther that Connery was, but a solid believable figure.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at March 11, 2020 03:53 PM (Ejm1K)
Posted by: LASue at March 11, 2020 03:53 PM (YxML+)
Posted by: Sponge at March 11, 2020 03:52 PM
She chaps you?
Posted by: Khan at March 11, 2020 03:53 PM (chve5)
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Wasn't Walt's death. Something after Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin et. al.
Like most things it was after the FemiNazis slithered in. Just can't pin down the timeline.
Posted by: Vlad the impaler,whittling away like mad at March 11, 2020 03:53 PM (d6mdH)
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There's actually a law against transporting unstable critical patients.
Reasonably good chance its going to suck pretty hard.
That said, we have a greater capacity to work from home than even 10 years earlier. So that will flatten the curve a fair amount.
Posted by: Expect cancellations of NCAA/St Patricks day and first two months of baseball at March 11, 2020 03:54 PM (yrdgp)
Posted by: tubal at March
meh, more that she is hot because guys have the ability to convince themselves of anything to get laid
"she's hot and she's not that crazy"
Posted by: not so at March 11, 2020 03:54 PM (HALdu)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 11, 2020 03:54 PM (1ISKN)
They're fine for what they are. Something about the reboot old movies doesn't work for met at all. They feel wrong, and there are too many "what the???" moments.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 11, 2020 03:54 PM (KZzsI)
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at March 11, 2020 03:54 PM (oVJmc)
Posted by: brak at March 11, 2020 03:52 PM (2l08Q)
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Even the strategic deployment of Eva Green's boobs could not save that movie.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, USS Lone Fire at March 11, 2020 03:54 PM (PD1/H)
Raven - the same is true for the flu. I'm going to continue to keep my kids away from my immunocompromised dad with lung disease for the next few months. But I'd be doing that regardless of the overall virus situation. Even RSV could be very dangerous for my dad right now.
(Also, apparently most people *don't* wash their hands 10-15 times a day? Ewwww.)
Posted by: Mrs. Peel at March 11, 2020 03:55 PM (rWZ8Y)
Like most things it was after the FemiNazis slithered in. Just can't pin down the timeline.
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Disney went to shit when they stopped working with Kurt Russell.
Last thing Walt wrote on his notepad before he died was a name. . .
Posted by: Kurt Russell at March 11, 2020 03:55 PM (yrdgp)
Posted by: DamnedYankee at March 11, 2020 03:55 PM (e284m)
Posted by: MIRROR UNIVERSE MITT ROMNEY at March 11, 2020
*
*
This is funny.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at March 11, 2020 03:56 PM (Ejm1K)
The original X-Men movie was surprisingly good given that basically every line of dialogue was by a different writer. (The jokes that worked were by Joss Whedon, IIRC).
Posted by: Ian S. at March 11, 2020 03:56 PM (ZGrMX)
Posted by: WitchDoktor, turns out lots of people give a damn! at March 11, 2020 03:58 PM (w2QL7)
Posted by: Sponge at March 11, 2020 03:59 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
Capitulate to their brand of transnational fascism, duh.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 11, 2020 03:59 PM (KZOdf)
Posted by: gaius martius at March 11, 2020 04:00 PM (hMlTh)
Posted by: Raven at March 11, 2020 03:48 PM
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Why do you think Trump is saying that?
He has established National task Force to deal with the problem and approved billions for fighting this virus. .
He has the drug companies on board to expedite a vaccine and treatment.
He is talking about making a deal with Congress to mitigate income losses from people who miss work because of the virus.
He suspended travel to and from virus hot spots. Some of which are most certainly going to be challenged in Court.
What more can he do?
Posted by: Mr. Scott (Formerly GWS) at March 11, 2020 04:00 PM (JUOKG)
Yes, the engagement is certainly getting more selective, though. No one's imagining that.
Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at March 11, 2020 04:00 PM (6eEQ+)
Posted by: Sharkman at March 11, 2020 04:02 PM (7ThNu)
I think she's hot because she beat up a bunch of Reavers in Serenity
Posted by: FrodoB,
because hobbits don't wear socks at March 11, 2020 04:02 PM (veJcn)
Im starting to think Soros and/or
Lil Mike and their minions are behind this attempt tp crash and are
willing to lose lots to make us suffer. F*^ him.
not certain whether typo or conspiracy theory about toilet paper.
Posted by: Anachronda at March 11, 2020 04:02 PM (sGtp+)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 11, 2020 03:39 PM (WI7YS)
Pshaw. Cause the temperatures to go down and make the oceans recede.
Like King Canute.
Posted by: Kindltot at March 11, 2020 04:03 PM (6rS3m)
An ugly, woke, witch of a woman pretending to have a personality transplant. I don't think it's going to fool many people.
Posted by: Just A Guy at March 11, 2020 04:03 PM (dDlo8)
Posted by: gaius martius at March 11, 2020 04:04 PM (hMlTh)
Posted by: Mr. Scott (Formerly GWS) at March 11, 2020 03:44 PM (JUOKG)
Everything is gonna kill us. It's Alarmageddon!
Posted by: Kindltot at March 11, 2020 04:07 PM (6rS3m)
Posted by: BourbonChicken at March 11, 2020 04:08 PM (/ohJ0)
Posted by: BourbonChicken at March 11, 2020 04:10 PM (/ohJ0)
oh, and in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Connery was only 12 years older than his "son," Harrison Ford.
Posted by: ace at March 11, 2020 03:38 PM (PbpT7)
At one point, someone observed that there was a character problem with Henry Jones Sr banging Alison Doody, namely that he wouldn't have. The response was, no, Henry Jones wouldn't, but Sean Connery would have banged her to within an inch of her life.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 11, 2020 04:13 PM (EGyGV)
Posted by: gaius martius at March 11, 2020 04:15 PM (hMlTh)
Posted by: Carl Sagan at March 11, 2020 04:20 PM (dvrQB)
but what's the readership's feeling on that?
Posted by: ace at March 11, 2020 02:58 PM
Works for me.
Posted by: Bob in Houston at March 11, 2020 04:27 PM (YBLgY)
Posted by: mikethemoose at March 11, 2020 04:28 PM (lQn8Y)
He was semi OK on SNL but then that show has sunk too, Jost & Che are beyond anti Trumpers,they are boringly unfunny,i record it and spin thru the whole hour and a half in 15 minutes....soon to ignore.
Posted by: saf at March 11, 2020 04:51 PM (5IHGB)
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin -- current occupation: cat furniture at March 11, 2020 05:13 PM (3aySp)
That's what James Bond was about: thrills and stunts you had never seen before and exotic sights 1000 times better than your boring life.
And crushing a car with a man inside.
Posted by: Texican ette at March 11, 2020 05:30 PM (gou4q)
Posted by: Lurky McLurkface at March 11, 2020 05:58 PM (wwKHQ)
Posted by: Shoey at March 11, 2020 06:04 PM (lg4FP)
and
from what I hear the screenings of this Bond film went very, very bad.
Posted by: PJ at March 11, 2020 06:27 PM (qlTN9)
Posted by: rgranger at March 11, 2020 08:17 PM (yCDuR)
anyone else notice how women are the group that always loses in these victim contests nowadays? Just saying...
Posted by: Beverly at March 11, 2020 08:44 PM (bnyag)
So I wasn't even interested in Picard until I was informed that he was turned into a character with some actual depth. Gotta admit they weren't wrong, and if there was any woke shit in it, I must have missed it.
Posted by: Saber Alter at March 11, 2020 08:48 PM (Yd+10)
Posted by: Dr. Taco Monster at March 11, 2020 08:52 PM (H3MF8)
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at March 11, 2020 08:54 PM (H3MF8)
Transgender: physical or mental attributes? Both? Will she compete with the prince for Cinderella's affection?
Posted by: n.n at March 11, 2020 09:13 PM (qfsFY)
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