Cindy-Anna Jones: Super-Woke Actress Phoebe Waller-Bridge Rumored to be the Real Lead of the Next (Fake) Indiana Jones Movie

This has long been suspected: Super-woke actress Phoebe Waller-Bridge, last seen playing an SJW Droid in the Han Solo bomb, may take over as the lead in the so-called "Indiana Jones" movie.

This would be partly because Harrison Ford injured himself very shortly into filming (as one can expect of an 80 year old doing action scenes) and partly because this is what Kathleen Kennedy does to every IP she hijacks. Just make the male character a girl.

What amazing creativity.

Phoebe Waller-Bridge may flip the script on Indiana Jones.
The English actress, 37, could be replacing Harrison Ford as the lead in the fifth installment of the "Indiana Jones" franchise, which is set to hit theaters next summer, according to The Daily Mail.
Sources told the outlet that producer Kathleen Kennedy was looking to make "big" changes -- which could include replacing the lead character with a woman.
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It’s not clear who Waller-Bridge's will portray in the upcoming movie, but a source told the Mail, "The gossip on the set is that this character will slot into the leading role."

In other words: Yet another white, British brunette Kathleen Kennedy sticks into a historically male-led action franchise as a Mary Sue self-insert.

In more Hollywood news:

Shang-Chi will probably not get a China release, because star Simu Liu has previously called China a shithole country.

The prospects for Disney/Marvel's Shang-Chi And The Legend Of The Ten Rings getting a China release date are dwindling. This in the wake of comments originally made by star Simu Liu in 2017 which resurfaced this week and have made waves on Chinese social media. In a 2017 interview with the CBC, the Chinese-Canadian actor referenced his parents telling him of conditions under Communist rule and referring to China as a "third world" country where people were "dying of starvation."

China is already unlikely to exhibit Marvel's "The Eternals" movie due to the director's comments about China being "a place where there are lies everywhere."

Disney's efforts to please and promote the CCP are failing.

Singer Alanis Morissette says she was the victim of sexual assault as a child.

Alanis Morissette said she was raped by multiple men when she was a 15-year-old Canadian pop star in a new documentary for HBO, reports the Washington Post.
"It took me years in therapy to even admit there had been any kind of victimization on my part," the singer says in the documentary. "I would always say I was consenting, and then I'd be reminded like 'Hey, you were 15, you're not consenting at 15.'"The legal age of consent in Canada is 16.
"Now I'm like, 'Oh yeah, they're all pedophiles. It's all statutory rape,'" she said.

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The alleged rapes would have occurred before Morissette became a certified rock star. Before that, she appeared in five episodes of the Canadian teenage sketch comedy show You Can't Do That On Television, which ran in reruns on Nickelodeon after its Ottawa TV run, and can still be seen on streamer Paramount+.

Nickelodeon. Again.

I just got a text from Gavin Newsom asking me if I knew Alanis Morissette's email address.

Posted by: Ace at 04:41 PM

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1 Frsit.

Posted by: flounder at September 13, 2021 03:41 PM (KnJdm)

2 not sponge

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at September 13, 2021 03:41 PM (LvTSG)

3 Almost first. I'll get the otters.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at September 13, 2021 03:42 PM (dfRN6)

4 top 5?

Posted by: Inogame at September 13, 2021 03:42 PM (53oGX)

5 Phoebe Waller-Bridge, not a 1. Looks like a young-ish Jen Rubin.

Posted by: flounder at September 13, 2021 03:42 PM (KnJdm)

6 I think they should recast T'challa in Black Panther with Sharto Copley.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at September 13, 2021 03:43 PM (LvTSG)

7 She had to be reminded that she couldn't consent because she was 15 and not 16 ? Seriously ?

Posted by: It's me donna at September 13, 2021 03:43 PM (L91xj)

8 Deep Inside Indie-Ana Jones

Posted by: garrett at September 13, 2021 03:43 PM (5LLTU)

9 "Nickelodeon. Again."

Isn't it ironic?

Posted by: Crom's Tankard at September 13, 2021 03:43 PM (SQsJE)

10 9 "Nickelodeon. Again."

Isn't it ironic?
Posted by: Crom's Tankard at September 13, 2021 03:43 PM (SQsJE)

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I don't get it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at September 13, 2021 03:43 PM (LvTSG)

11 The idea of a pop starlet from TV being molested by men is hardly difficult to believe. She's certainly a mess.

[]Shang-Chi will probably not get a China release, because star Simu Liu has previously called China a shithole country.

And, they hate, HATE, HATE Fu Manchu as a character and in the comics he's Shang Chi's dad. The headfake of making him the Mandarin didn't fool the Chicoms.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 13, 2021 03:43 PM (KZzsI)

12 The Critical Drinker reviewed Shang-Chi. He was not merciful, and said "Aquafina" was by far the worst part of the film.

I will enjoy not seeing Indiana Jones 5, and shame on Ford for allowing this shit to happen.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at September 13, 2021 03:43 PM (XSRBF)

13 on one hand kudos to the actors and directors speaking truth. On the other this was years ago.

Posted by: Corona-exile lost in spaces at September 13, 2021 03:43 PM (3wNhr)

14 9 "Nickelodeon. Again."

Isn't it ironic?
Posted by: Crom's Tankard at September 13, 2021 03:43 PM (SQsJE)

Don't you think ?

Posted by: It's me donna at September 13, 2021 03:43 PM (L91xj)

15 I just got a text from Gavin Newsom asking me if I knew Alanis Morissette's email address.

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I just got a text from Gruesome Newsom saying if you vote for Larry Elder, you ain't black.

Posted by: ShainS -- Unauthorized Freedom Exhibitionist at September 13, 2021 03:44 PM (0Iszm)

16 "Cindy-Anna Jones" made me chuckle.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Keith's Son at September 13, 2021 03:44 PM (xPJvm)

17 Indiana Jones Does Dallas

Posted by: garrett at September 13, 2021 03:44 PM (5LLTU)

18 Oh look another fucked up child star

Posted by: steevy at September 13, 2021 03:44 PM (uUDKV)

19
Sharp anti-woke Youtubers are calling this the Ol' Bait 'n Switch, wherein the producers pretend to make a movie or tv show about a Man lead, but it's really about that Man being Cucked and Shown-up and handing the "mantle" over to a Woman lead, without Earning it.

Posted by: Soothsayer at September 13, 2021 03:44 PM (oYLWM)

20 Not to be rude, but the franchise outlived its natural life at least a decade ago.

The Shia LeBeouf movie was decent, but Shia is a talented actor. I wonder what abuses he suffered, and I bet a lot.

Posted by: BarcelonaCarmen at September 13, 2021 03:44 PM (CCcN5)

21 I saw headlines about how Shang Chi held strong in its second week.

It fell 67%.

Even with pandemic expectations that's not good.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at September 13, 2021 03:44 PM (LvTSG)

22 Hey, don't blame me! I only dumped green goo on her!

Posted by: The guy that dropped the green goo at September 13, 2021 03:45 PM (DpkTQ)

23 >> You Can't Do That On Television

Not even on CineMax.

Posted by: garrett at September 13, 2021 03:45 PM (5LLTU)

24 Phoebe Waller-Bridge isn't particularly attractive in those pics and she seems without charisma in her films, why on earth cast her?

For that matter, why they hell even make an Indy movie? And what happened to Skeezix or whatever ludicrous faux greaser was in the last one? His son just vanished?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 13, 2021 03:45 PM (KZzsI)

25 Horse heads in the beds of all these hollyweird pederasts...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at September 13, 2021 03:45 PM (/1l9x)

26 So wait a moment, here. You mean to tell me that I can watch another Indiana Jones movie? Another one that, like the fourth installment, nobody asked for? And this time it doesn't star the titular character, and it also doesn't star Shia Lebouff (or however you spell his stupid name), who they set up as his successor? And this time it instead stars some bitter and shrewish SJW who isn't even all that hot? And it's being written by Disney writers who have demonstrated great ability to write poor screenplays that are full of both Mary Sue characters and plot holes while also destroying the worlds built by writers who came before them?

Man, oh man! Where do I get in line????

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 13, 2021 03:45 PM (3p5uk)

27 This would be partly because Harrison Ford injured himself very shortly into filming (as one can expect of an 80 year old doing action scenes)

The pussy. Clint Eastwood rode a horse and threw punches in his ne western. At 91.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 13, 2021 03:45 PM (OCTRt)

28 24 Phoebe Waller-Bridge isn't particularly attractive in those pics and she seems without charisma in her films, why on earth cast her?

For that matter, why they hell even make an Indy movie? And what happened to Skeezix or whatever ludicrous faux greaser was in the last one? His son just vanished?
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 13, 2021 03:45 PM (KZzsI)

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Hollywood tried to give Lena Dunham the Barbie movie.

Hollywood is not acting rationally.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at September 13, 2021 03:45 PM (LvTSG)

29 >>>Morissette did not reveal any identities of her alleged rapists.

Hmmm.

Posted by: flounder at September 13, 2021 03:46 PM (KnJdm)

30 Some people will excuse female teachers having sex with boys because boys want to score and it's awesome. But girls want to be grown up and they love to be grown up and have adult attention. And we've got statutory rape as a defined crime BECAUSE of that fact.

I hope this lady names names in that documentary.

Posted by: Synova at September 13, 2021 03:46 PM (BD/yx)

31 >>>Sharp anti-woke Youtubers are calling this the Ol' Bait 'n Switch, wherein the producers pretend to make a movie or tv show about a Man lead, but it's really about that Man being Cucked and Shown-up and handing the "mantle" over to a Woman lead, without Earning it.

Posted by: Soothsayer

It's also why Hollywood is losing lots of money on recent releases. No one wants to see this garbage, and the fans are finally fighting back.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at September 13, 2021 03:46 PM (XSRBF)

32 You want Harrison Ford.

You'll settle for Shia LeBeouf

You'll get generic Problematics GRRRRL number 17.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 13, 2021 03:46 PM (DpkTQ)

33 Name names Alanis. This is why I have a hard time with these stories, they can't/won't name names.

Posted by: lowandslow at September 13, 2021 03:46 PM (4thlk)

34 Any parent who lets their kids anywhere near Hollywood (or its orbiters) is at best complicit in their abuse.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 13, 2021 03:46 PM (3p5uk)

35 Dickelodeon

Posted by: JoeF. at September 13, 2021 03:46 PM (mR6Gs)

36 Fail! It's Tomb Raider with B cups.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at September 13, 2021 03:47 PM (LCt05)

37 Time to ruin another beloved movie franchise. Fuck Hollywood, let the industry burn

Posted by: Guzalot at September 13, 2021 03:47 PM (Rz36l)

38
Trans Mandiana Jones FTW!

Posted by: ShainS -- Unauthorized Freedom Exhibitionist at September 13, 2021 03:47 PM (0Iszm)

39 >>>Phoebe Waller-Bridge isn't particularly attractive in those pics and she seems without charisma in her films, why on earth cast her?

Because she's uber-woke. Worse than most Antifa blue-hairs. She's really that terrible.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at September 13, 2021 03:47 PM (XSRBF)

40 Bet you miss me now.

Posted by: Shia LeBeouf at September 13, 2021 03:47 PM (Ectld)

41 Nippleodeon would be a huge hit if it existed

Posted by: JoeF. at September 13, 2021 03:48 PM (mR6Gs)

42 "Phoebe Waller-Bridge isn't particularly attractive in those pics and she seems without charisma in her films, why on earth cast her?"

You just don't understand Hollywood, do you?

Posted by: Rebel Wilson at September 13, 2021 03:48 PM (FJYfm)

43 They are making movies for post exploited American's history.
Here, have another Soma, is good.

Posted by: Braenyard at September 13, 2021 03:48 PM (Foy17)

44 So, Phoebe Waller-Bridge is the UK's Lena Dunaham?

Pass.

Posted by: sinalco at September 13, 2021 03:48 PM (yODqO)

45 Who is that actress? checked out her pic at the link - she looks like a pinch face angry spinster

Posted by: IC at September 13, 2021 03:48 PM (hV9ir)

46 FBI interviewed idiot Blinken, *since* he has disgraced the 7th Floor of State, about Hunter's (presumably) incriminating laptop.

And the BlankSlate refused to comment on the leaked Biden call with Ghani in which the vegetable begged Ghani to happy-talk the military situation in A'stan, during congressional testimony.

A slowly boiled frog famously doesn't have much sensory acuity (that's kinda the point of the metaphor), but those of certain age and especially with certain background are now most impressed that we can be continually stupefied and amazed at the collapse in the civic culture.

Posted by: rhomboid (OTzUX) at September 13, 2021 03:48 PM (OTzUX)

47 I don't get it.

Its like rain on your wedding day

Posted by: 18-1 at September 13, 2021 03:48 PM (DpkTQ)

48 Yikes! Just checked images and whoever said she looks like a younger Jen Ruben wasn't kidding.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at September 13, 2021 03:48 PM (dfRN6)

49 womb raider

Posted by: REDACTED at September 13, 2021 03:48 PM (uCLWI)

50 Doomcock had a rumor video a few months ago, and mentioned there was time travel involved in one of the early script revisions. Not sure if he had his own source or was discussing stuff from Reddit though.

Something along the lines of old future Indy sacrificing himself in the past to save Phoebe Waller-Bridge's character, save the future from another time traveling baddie, and set PWB's character on a treasure hunting path similar to his own, in part so they can do sequels in the more interesting pre-WWII and WWII timeframes.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at September 13, 2021 03:48 PM (+WWsf)

51
Imagine buying tickets to see the Beatles, and a bunch of girls go on stage and tell the Beatles to "screw, we're The Beatles, now, and we're even better than you!"

Posted by: Soothsayer at September 13, 2021 03:48 PM (oYLWM)

52 No idea who Phobe is, have to go Google her

Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2021 03:48 PM (2JoB8)

53 Why do we have to build our own banks, social media platforms, country, planet, etc, etc, but these lame-ass Gurrrlz-powerzzz types can't even come up with their own fucking make-believe characters? Hell, call in DR Ballsy Fraud or Julie "Teen Train" Swetnik for some sick, er, sicko, screenwriting skillz.

Posted by: Crom's Tankard at September 13, 2021 03:48 PM (SQsJE)

54 Fail! It's Tomb Raider with B cups.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at September 13, 2021 03:47 PM (LCt05)

They chose . . . poorly.

Posted by: flounder at September 13, 2021 03:49 PM (KnJdm)

55 >>Sources told the outlet that producer Kathleen Kennedy was looking to make "big" changes -- which could include replacing the lead character with a woman.

IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE THAT WORKED SO FABULOUSLY WITH HER STAR WARS MOVIES, PARTICULARLY THE ANNOYING AF PANSEXUAL ROBOT FEMINIST VOICED BY. . . PHOEBE WALLER-BRIDGE!

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at September 13, 2021 03:49 PM (+Rh4C)

56 >>Who is that actress? checked out her pic at the link - she looks like a pinch face angry spinster

Mouth like a Cat's Ass?

Posted by: garrett at September 13, 2021 03:49 PM (5LLTU)

57 Could we get a list of Nick/Disney child actresses that weren't molested? It would be easier to keep track of.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 13, 2021 03:49 PM (DpkTQ)

58 This chick is bring down the curve.

Posted by: Phoebe Cates at September 13, 2021 03:49 PM (vPfpo)

59 "No idea who Phobe is, have to go Google her"

Go with God, Skip.

Posted by: squid_hunt at September 13, 2021 03:49 PM (Ectld)

60 "You Cant Do That on Television" made Nickelodeon. There was no slime on Nick before that show. Can you imagine Nickelodeon without slime? Their 90s shows capitalized on that including Double Dare.

Posted by: Mishdog at September 13, 2021 03:49 PM (cqAUI)

61 Hollywood will not stop until every single one of my 80s/90s movie icons are sufficiently murdered, plundered, skinned and replaced with a tranny Mary Sue.

Posted by: The Maskless Ranger at September 13, 2021 03:49 PM (hQVBP)

62 The new Hawkeyes series same thing, handing over his balls to a new female hero

Posted by: steevy at September 13, 2021 03:49 PM (uUDKV)

63 If this recasting of male action heroes with women is just "for the story" then I think the next Alien movie should have a man as the main character.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at September 13, 2021 03:49 PM (LvTSG)

64 I'm thinking Walt ain't happy. Walt the cat, not Walt the mouse artista.

Posted by: Eromero at September 13, 2021 03:49 PM (0OP+5)

65 Has anybody seen the Bridge?

Posted by: dantesed at September 13, 2021 03:49 PM (88xKn)

66 I really wish we didn't have the same word to mean both "had sex with a 15 year old who legally couldn't consent" and "forced a woman to have sex at gunpoint."

I'm not even saying one is necessarily worse than the other...well, okay, I am saying that, but that's not really the point, just for the sake of clarity really.

Posted by: Broseidon at September 13, 2021 03:49 PM (EUl/V)

67 Short-Round shoud be the next Indy.
Fight me.

Posted by: 29Victor at September 13, 2021 03:49 PM (BJKQV)

68 "Raiders" movies? Still? Now?

Wouldn't this be the equivalent of remaking new "Casablanca" movies into the early 1960s, maybe 1970s?

Jeebus.

Posted by: rhomboid (OTzUX) at September 13, 2021 03:49 PM (OTzUX)

69 >>>No idea who Phobe is, have to go Google her

Posted by: Skip

You will regret that.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at September 13, 2021 03:50 PM (XSRBF)

70 Cast Patrick Stewart as the new Indy.

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at September 13, 2021 03:50 PM (TNyrE)

71 A female Indiana Jones? Sure. What could go wrong. A female Dr. Who did wonders for that franchise. I'm hoping for a female remake of 'Ishtar'.

Posted by: Puddleglum at September 13, 2021 03:50 PM (QFVV9)

72 I saw headlines about how Shang Chi held strong in its second week.

It fell 67%.

Yeah there's this odd alternate reality that they're promoting about this movie. They project it will earn over 300 million (enough to make money), but its barely over the 240 million mark woldwide and plunging in ticket sales with a brief uptick last weekend. I mean, with streaming and DVD release, maybe? But that's not free either, so the cost goes up...

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 13, 2021 03:50 PM (KZzsI)

73 How come those who want to replace every male superhero with a woman are never told to "create your OWN super heroes", you know, as a "blessing of liberty?"

Posted by: JoeF. at September 13, 2021 03:50 PM (mR6Gs)

74 >>>"Raiders" movies? Still? Now?

It ended with last Crusade. A vary good end to the series.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at September 13, 2021 03:51 PM (XSRBF)

75 I was hoping for a role.

Posted by: german lawyers wife at September 13, 2021 03:51 PM (h46h7)

76 yuk! her wiki pic
https://tinyurl.com/35kc22yy

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 13, 2021 03:51 PM (yrol0)

77 WAIT -- WHAT REALLY MAKES IT FUNNY IS THAT PHOEBE WALLER-BRIDGE'S ROBOT CHARACTER BEING DOWNLOADED INTO THE MILLENIUM FALCON WAS USED TO RETCON AWAY HAN SOLO'S PILOTING ABILITIES. THAT WILL BE THE SECOND TIME PHOEBE REPLACES A HARRISON FORD CHARACTER, IN A WAY. . .

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at September 13, 2021 03:51 PM (+Rh4C)

78 You can't tell me that Phoebe Bridgers and Phoebe Waller-Bridge aren't the same person. I just absolutely refuse to believe otherwise.

Posted by: Broseidon at September 13, 2021 03:51 PM (EUl/V)

79 Alanis, U mad bro?

Posted by: wth at September 13, 2021 03:51 PM (v0R5T)

80 They really should have gone with a Man.

Posted by: Elliot Paige at September 13, 2021 03:51 PM (5LLTU)

81 @24: "... she seems without charisma in her films, why on earth cast her?"

Posh family background, well educated, and her early reputation as an all-around auteur. primarily a writer, and actress second. She makes Hollywood production types weak in the knees with her accent alone, and she's clever enough to chat about story ideas.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at September 13, 2021 03:51 PM (+WWsf)

82 As for Indiana Jones. He's got to be replaced by someone and if I took my random number generators out of their little box and rolled one, the replacement could be a man or a woman. That is not the important part.

The important part is "it would be a big statement..."

No. As soon as it's a "statement" you've screwed the pooch. It's not supposed to be a "statement", it's supposed to be an adventure. A popcorn movie. Lots of popcorn.

Posted by: Synova at September 13, 2021 03:51 PM (BD/yx)

83 You will regret that.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp
___

Knowing some of the 'Rons here, they thought Phoebe Cates and just ran with that.

Posted by: SMH - The War has been won, only the battles remain, as usual at September 13, 2021 03:51 PM (FMpy3)

84 Huge surprise. We should have... *types* *deletes*... before they had a chance to ruin these franchises.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 13, 2021 03:52 PM (z4k8L)

85 72 Yeah there's this odd alternate reality that they're promoting about this movie. They project it will earn over 300 million (enough to make money), but its barely over the 240 million mark woldwide and plunging in ticket sales with a brief uptick last weekend. I mean, with streaming and DVD release, maybe? But that's not free either, so the cost goes up...
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 13, 2021 03:50 PM (KZzsI)

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It probably needs $500 million to break even. And it's not even getting Disney+ premium access money.

It's interesting that Disney is continuing to double down on the theatrical release strategy with Eternals. It's almost like the streaming option was making their big new releases just more content in competition with whatever Netflix shat out at the same time. You know, what I predicted a year ago.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at September 13, 2021 03:52 PM (LvTSG)

86 Rey literally never saw the Falcon before jumped in and flew it better than Han and Chewie ever did

Posted by: steevy at September 13, 2021 03:52 PM (uUDKV)

87 You oughta know.

Posted by: Alanis at September 13, 2021 03:52 PM (Ectld)

88 How come those who want to replace every male superhero with a woman are never told to "create your OWN super heroes", you know, as a "blessing of liberty?"
Posted by: JoeF. at September 13, 2021 03:50 PM (mR6Gs)
++++
Because it isn't about the heroes, it's about subversion. They don't want to make their own, they want to subvert and take over *yours* to take them away from you.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 13, 2021 03:52 PM (3p5uk)

89 >>>Knowing some of the 'Rons here, they thought Phoebe Cates and just ran with that.

Posted by: SMH

Mmm... red bikini...

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at September 13, 2021 03:52 PM (XSRBF)

90 Maybe Alanis should have written and diss track about her rapists instead of about Dave Coulier.

Posted by: Broseidon at September 13, 2021 03:52 PM (EUl/V)

91 65 Has anybody seen the Bridge?
Posted by: dantesed
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The TV show that was on FX?

Posted by: Puddleglum at September 13, 2021 03:52 PM (QFVV9)

92 Phoebe Waller-Bridge is a dead ringer for Sandra Fluke. Separated at birth?

Posted by: JuJuBee at September 13, 2021 03:52 PM (UsshY)

93 After the hot mess that was "Crystal Skull" I was not entertaining the idea of seeing Indy 5.

Posted by: Darth Randall at September 13, 2021 03:52 PM (3TihK)

94 Dave Coulier is 15 years older then Alanis, so she does seem to like older men.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 13, 2021 03:52 PM (DpkTQ)

95
The activist and fake "comedian" and "actor" patton oswald canceled his events (supposedly) because the venues wouldn't require a vax.

None of us have a problem with this, of course, but all he's doing is hurting his own alt-left fans. Who else would go see him?

Posted by: Soothsayer at September 13, 2021 03:52 PM (oYLWM)

96 It ended with last Crusade. A vary good end to the series

I agree. I made an eggregious mistake. I went to see Kingdom of the Crystal Skull in theaters.

So sorry I did that.

I prefer my phoebes to be cates.

Phoebe Cates >>>Phoebe on Friends >>>>this Phoebe

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 13, 2021 03:53 PM (KZzsI)

97 Could we get a list of Nick/Disney child actresses that weren't molested? It would be easier to keep track of.
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They never touched me.

Posted by: Howdy Doody at September 13, 2021 03:53 PM (ND2NW)

98 TJM, can we get a "I don't get it" for the Kathleen Kennedy plans? Seem applicabale here.

Posted by: Lizzy at September 13, 2021 03:53 PM (+Rh4C)

99 Rey never even heard of the Force until she touched Luke's lightsaber and suddenly she was empowered...wait. I think I get it.

Posted by: squid_hunt at September 13, 2021 03:53 PM (Ectld)

100 Why is Indiana Jones getting a sex change from a British Woke woman?

OK, I just answered myself

Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2021 03:53 PM (2JoB8)

101 And they destroyed Han Solo in The Force Awakens. Harrison Ford is a cuck if he keeps signing up for this shit.

Posted by: Mark1971 at September 13, 2021 03:53 PM (xPl2J)

102 Kathleen Kennedy: so stunning, so brave!

Posted by: Blake - semi lurker at large at September 13, 2021 03:53 PM (Y1fI+)

103 It's as if Hollywood likes me never forking over money to see their movies. They must have shared their marketing secrets with Big Sportball.

Posted by: Ripley at September 13, 2021 03:53 PM (MxEKc)

104 >>>Rey literally never saw the Falcon before jumped in and flew it better than Han and Chewie ever did

Posted by: steevy

Maybe the worst trilogy in cinematic history.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at September 13, 2021 03:53 PM (XSRBF)

105 China bitch-slapping Disney is a commie (and abuser) tactic to keep them compliant. No matter how much they kowtow they'll never know when a "rule" has been broken and the slap is coming so they'll never stop groveling.

Posted by: 29Victor at September 13, 2021 03:54 PM (BJKQV)

106 Disney must love watching Kennedy destroy Star Wars and now Indiana Jones. This plugging in a female lead into old franchises has been done dozens of times and almost never works. Disney pulled it off with The Force Awakens because it hadn't been done yet and Ridley at the time seemed like a pleasant person.

Shang Chi wasn't bad, though I agree that Awkwafina is awful. The first half of the movie is quite good, the lead is okay and the villain is solid. The Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon rip off scene with hero's parents towards the beginning was exceptional. But even though it's Disney, I'm apt to support the film and The Eternals to encourage Hollywood to ignore the Chinese market and the CCP which has been ruining movies.

Posted by: TRich at September 13, 2021 03:54 PM (SVn11)

107 98 TJM, can we get a "I don't get it" for the Kathleen Kennedy plans? Seem applicabale here.
Posted by: Lizzy at September 13, 2021 03:53 PM (+Rh4C)

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Am I the only one allowed to type that?

I don't get it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at September 13, 2021 03:54 PM (LvTSG)

108 Indy 4 was a stupid movie. Yes the fridge. Yes the aliens. All stupid.

But the dumbest thing? They kept ranting about "The Red Scare" while commie agents chased them around the country.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 13, 2021 03:54 PM (DpkTQ)

109 By god she has a magnificent face for radio.

Posted by: motionview (prep train organize) at September 13, 2021 03:54 PM (RKp8A)

110 Indiana Jones 5: Get Off My Lawn I Don't Want a Reverse Mortgage

Posted by: steevy at September 13, 2021 03:54 PM (uUDKV)

111 It probably needs $500 million to break even. And it's not even getting Disney+ premium access money.

They rumor is that it cost $150 million to make but I dunno. That sounds low for a Disney production but apparently the CGI is... Black Panther levels.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 13, 2021 03:54 PM (KZzsI)

112 Just a reminder about Kathleen Kennedy's priorities (she's the one in black in this picture, I think):
https://is.gd/i8ucSO

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 13, 2021 03:54 PM (3p5uk)

113 It's amazing that we have arrived at time in our culture that it is impossible to create anything new or unique or even something that is derivative that is enjoyable.

Incredible.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 13, 2021 03:54 PM (5LIDS)

114 Considering that Hollywood repeats ideas why don't they have an adventure movie with "Idaho" or "Indiananapolis" Jones, his son or grandson and have Harrison come in as the wisecracking father role?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 13, 2021 03:54 PM (AJzTi)

115 We can haz stronk?

Posted by: 496 at September 13, 2021 03:55 PM (VXZ1n)

116 "it is impossible to create anything new or unique or even something that is derivative that is enjoyable."

Peasants working fields don't have time for culture.

Posted by: squid_hunt at September 13, 2021 03:55 PM (Ectld)

117 Awkwafina is so bad that she's in a rare list of people where I'll just refuse to see a movie if she's in it. Stop trying to make her a thing.

Posted by: Broseidon at September 13, 2021 03:55 PM (EUl/V)

118 I saw a report over the weekend that Marvel killer the New Warriors show because it was too gay even for them.

Posted by: Mark1971 at September 13, 2021 03:55 PM (xPl2J)

119 111 It probably needs $500 million to break even. And it's not even getting Disney+ premium access money.

They rumor is that it cost $150 million to make but I dunno. That sounds low for a Disney production but apparently the CGI is... Black Panther levels.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 13, 2021 03:54 PM (KZzsI)

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I assumed $150 million, plus the same to promote, and then they have to account for theater takes on the ticket sales. Yeah, $500 million is probably the break even point round abouts.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at September 13, 2021 03:55 PM (LvTSG)

120 After that 4th Indiana Jones movie, no one's getting another dime from me for that franchise.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at September 13, 2021 03:55 PM (QU5/8)

121 Soon we'll see a whole generation of young men who never had a hero to look up to.

Posted by: weew at September 13, 2021 03:55 PM (+m+uH)

122 It is shocking that Star Wars managed to make a trilogy so bad that the prequels didn't seem so awful in comparison.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 13, 2021 03:56 PM (KZzsI)

123 China vs Disney - Whoever wins, we lose.

Posted by: Broseidon at September 13, 2021 03:56 PM (EUl/V)

124 "Soon we'll see a whole generation of young men who never had a hero to look up to."

Feminism is about equality.

Posted by: squid_hunt at September 13, 2021 03:56 PM (Ectld)

125 And I have no idea who Phoebe Waller-Bridge is.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 13, 2021 03:56 PM (AJzTi)

126 Morissette did not reveal any identities of her alleged rapists

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As I recall, she "dated" Dave Coulier before she had her big hit song.

Posted by: Darth Randall at September 13, 2021 03:56 PM (3TihK)

127 Indiana Jones 5: The Hovaround Battery Died.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at September 13, 2021 03:56 PM (bZjuH)

128 121 Soon we'll see a whole generation of young men who never had a hero to look up to.
Posted by: weew at September 13, 2021 03:55 PM (+m+uH)

========

"Young white men should look up to black women for their inspiration."

"Young black men cannot look up to white men for inspiration. It's impossible."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at September 13, 2021 03:56 PM (LvTSG)

129 >> Could we get a list of Nick/Disney child actresses that weren't molested? It would be easier to keep track of.

"Leave me outta this."
-- Raini Rodriguez

Posted by: Lizzy at September 13, 2021 03:56 PM (+Rh4C)

130 Hard pass.

I'm also pretty much at the place where I pass on ANY modern entertainment with a female lead.
#CantTrustIt

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Failure happens, giving up is a choice at September 13, 2021 03:56 PM (XvPQV)

131 >>>Kathleen Kennedy: so stunning, so brave!

Posted by: Blake - semi lurker

I have no idea why she's still employed. Seriously, she has put out flop after flop and she still earns a paycheck. As for Doomcock, dude is right about 5% of the time. Cannot tell you how many times claimed Kennedy was getting fired.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at September 13, 2021 03:56 PM (XSRBF)

132 Hey Indiana in the never happened Skulls movie apparently had one kid, why not another one speaking in a posh English accent. That she has boobs ...

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 13, 2021 03:56 PM (oEMN+)

133

I thought it was a porn flick: "In Diana Jones"

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 13, 2021 03:56 PM (s2VJv)

134 >>Wouldn't this be the equivalent of remaking new "Casablanca" movies into the early 1960s, maybe 1970s?

From the sadly forgotten "Book of Sequels":
"Force 10 from Casablanca": The problem? Get Hitler. The solution? Send in the gang from Rick's!

Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at September 13, 2021 03:57 PM (O6DoG)

135 yuk! her wiki pic
https://tinyurl.com/35kc22yy
Posted by: rhennigantx at September 13, 2021 03:51 PM (yrol0)

Barrrooooo!

Posted by: the neighborhood dogs at September 13, 2021 03:57 PM (v0R5T)

136 You Can't Do That on Television? I don't remember Alanis but I do remember Christine McGlade. And the cheesy Laugh-In-like humor . . . but mostly Christine McGlade.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at September 13, 2021 03:57 PM (c6xtn)

137 By moving the dash around, you can almost make her sound like an esoteric physics concept.
"The Phoebe-Waller Bridge"

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 13, 2021 03:57 PM (3p5uk)

138 Yeah cause no 15 yo girls has ever had imagings about having sex with them. Of course they imagine it will be love at first sight or something and she'll be in control all the way. Then the situation arises and she finds herself swept away by her emotions/reactions and then when she realizes it wasn't the way she dreamed about she blames herself or the men and maybe tries again. And of course maybe some drugs are involved. Not saying the men aren't doing wrong but the 15 year old (unless she's being held down and forced) has in some way acquiesced to the situation.

Then when they get older they find out that they could get those guys who ruined her dreams and maybe get some sympathy and some publicity (as their career is cratering lately) so suddenly she becomes a CHILD with no responsibility or will in the situation because of course she was seduced.

Sorry that's baloney. And there's a reason why they're called jail bait and not just because of the age but of how quick they will turn on the guy so that they can look all innocent.

Posted by: jakee308 at September 13, 2021 03:57 PM (z0px1)

139 "I'm also pretty much at the place where I pass on ANY modern entertainment with a female lead."

I refuse anything on streaming that has a woman center stage on the cover.

Posted by: squid_hunt at September 13, 2021 03:57 PM (Ectld)

140 >>>I'm also pretty much at the place where I pass on ANY modern entertainment with a female lead.
#CantTrustIt

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards,

I may - MAY - see the new Matrix film because my 12-year old girl is begging me to take her.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at September 13, 2021 03:57 PM (XSRBF)

141 "Pop" culture is no longer popular culture. AgitPop, maybe? Eh, I just read and watch older stuff, and not (just) due to incipient fogey-ism. Much.

*reburies nose in "Foundation and Empire*

In its defense, I thought "Solo" was a fun flick. At least it wasn't about a fucking Death Star.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Live! from the Dungeon of Discord at September 13, 2021 03:57 PM (Dc2NZ)

142 122 Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 13, 2021 03:56 PM (KZzsI)

It used to be people would "hate watch" shit entertainment....

now "creators" hate craft shit for the masses.

Posted by: sven at September 13, 2021 03:57 PM (Lzpvj)

143 Phoebe Waller-Bridge. Not hot. Plus she's got a partial Gorby.

Posted by: Crom's Tankard at September 13, 2021 03:57 PM (SQsJE)

144 They are remaking the Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic game. Don't ask me why, its still playable and quite good.

But the woman they picked to head the game hates Star Wars, hates Star Wars fans, and is a huge leftist tw*t.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 13, 2021 03:57 PM (KZzsI)

145 I think Doomcock's source is Q....

Posted by: steevy at September 13, 2021 03:57 PM (uUDKV)

146 The Devil In Diana Jones

Posted by: garrett at September 13, 2021 03:57 PM (5LLTU)

147 Who the hell is Kathleen Kennedy? What did she ever do to get a high paying job in the film industry?

Don't bother answering that, I think I know the answer.

Posted by: dantesed at September 13, 2021 03:58 PM (88xKn)

148 >>"Soon we'll see a whole generation of young men who never had a hero to look up to."

Pssst! Starting to get why Michael Bay and "Fast and Furious" movies are so popular?

Posted by: Lizzy at September 13, 2021 03:58 PM (+Rh4C)

149
The way they're going, Tennessee Williams will be infinitely more macho/manly thank Indiana Jones.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 13, 2021 03:58 PM (s2VJv)

150 Seriously they keep Kathleen Kennedy employed out of spite

Posted by: steevy at September 13, 2021 03:58 PM (uUDKV)

151 Harrison Ford is still alive?

Huh

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 13, 2021 03:58 PM (BFigT)

152 144 They are remaking the Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic game. Don't ask me why, its still playable and quite good.

But the woman they picked to head the game hates Star Wars, hates Star Wars fans, and is a huge leftist tw*t.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 13, 2021 03:57 PM (KZzsI)

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And I was on the verge of getting excited about that. Too bad.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at September 13, 2021 03:58 PM (LvTSG)

153 I have no idea why she's still employed. Seriously, she has put out flop after flop and she still earns a paycheck. As for Doomcock, dude is right about 5% of the time. Cannot tell you how many times claimed Kennedy was getting fired.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at September 13, 2021 03:56 PM (XSRBF)

Rumor has it she has serious dirt on people, which is why she's still employed.

And I'm pretty much tired of Doomcock's persona, as you mentioned, his track record ain't so good anymore.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Failure happens, giving up is a choice at September 13, 2021 03:58 PM (XvPQV)

154 What exactly are we talking about here?

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at September 13, 2021 03:58 PM (JUOKG)

155 147 She was getting coffee for Steven Spielsberg I believe...

Posted by: steevy at September 13, 2021 03:59 PM (uUDKV)

156 @98: "98 TJM, can we get a "I don't get it" for the Kathleen Kennedy plans? Seem applicabale here."

My theory on Kathleen Kennedy has always been that's she got oodles of mid-level, career embarrassing, but not career ending blackmail on both Spielberg and Lucas. It's weird though because she herself behaved like one of the boys way back when, and let them get away with whatever they wanted, so long as she got what she wanted too.

Nowadays, both guys can't be bothered to confront her 'cause it's just not worth the time, trouble, and petty drama.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at September 13, 2021 03:59 PM (+WWsf)

157 Kind of funny (though not Ironic) that these two stories are in the same thread, since iirc Marion was originally meant to be 15 but they thought that made Indy seem like too much of a piece of shit to root for.

Posted by: Broseidon at September 13, 2021 03:59 PM (EUl/V)

158 >>Harrison Ford is still alive?

Can't rest until he finds that one-armed man.

Posted by: garrett at September 13, 2021 03:59 PM (5LLTU)

159 Alanis Morrissette had consensual sex with many men at 15. Sounds like she slept with Nickelodeon execs for parts. Then she had to be persuaded that she had been taken advantage of. Where were her parents when she was 15? Where was her inner voice telling her this is wrong? Why broadcast such a private matter to the world? She has no feelings about it but being a victim is currency.

Posted by: JuJuBee at September 13, 2021 03:59 PM (UsshY)

160 Harrison Ford is a cuck if he keeps signing up for this shit.

Posted by: Mark1971 at September 13, 2021 03:53 PM (xPl2J)

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Harrison Ford, after "Cowboys and Aliens," basically said he's to the point in his career that as long as the checks don't bounce, he's good. (Paraphrasing)

Posted by: Blake - semi lurker at large at September 13, 2021 03:59 PM (Y1fI+)

161 147 Who the hell is Kathleen Kennedy? What did she ever do to get a high paying job in the film industry?

Don't bother answering that, I think I know the answer.
Posted by: dantesed at September 13, 2021 03:58 PM (88xKn)

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She was Spielberg's producer from the 80s on until a decade or so ago. She rode his coattails, making sure he had budgets to make his movies. And when she struck out on her own, she thought she was a creative resource with ideas.

She is pretty much the epitome of the clueless studio executive.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at September 13, 2021 03:59 PM (LvTSG)

162 62 The new Hawkeyes series same thing, handing over his balls to a new female hero

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Just saw the trailer for that. Really disappointing.

Posted by: sinalco at September 13, 2021 03:59 PM (yODqO)

163 99 Rey never even heard of the Force until she touched Luke's lightsaber and suddenly she was empowered...wait. I think I get it.

marketing hype for the harvey weinstein franchise?

Posted by: Kulak Anachronda, behind the Newsom curtain at September 13, 2021 03:59 PM (v3pYe)

164 137 By moving the dash around, you can almost make her sound like an esoteric physics concept.
"The Phoebe-Waller Bridge"
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 13, 2021 03:57 PM (3p5uk)

"Mr. Data, initiate the Phoebe-Waller Bridge field immediately!"

- Captain Picard

Yeah, it would work.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at September 13, 2021 03:59 PM (dfRN6)

165 Awkwafina
......................
I have no idea who this is. I'm fine with that.

Posted by: Puddleglum at September 13, 2021 04:00 PM (QFVV9)

166 >>>Don't bother answering that, I think I know the answer.

Posted by: dantesed

She was Spielbergs' assistant. Only reason why she was hired by Disney. They assumed she knew something about moviemaking. They chose... poorly.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at September 13, 2021 04:00 PM (XSRBF)

167
"It took me years in therapy to even admit there had been any kind of victimization on my part," the singer says in the documentary.

Um, I'm pretty sure all her songs were about her sad youth.

Also, sounds like she was spreading her legs for these men and now wants to say she was r*ped because she wasn't 16. Technically, yes, I suppose.

I also agree that the men who sexed her were pedos, though.

Posted by: Soothsayer at September 13, 2021 04:00 PM (oYLWM)

168 Phoebe Waller-Bridge. Not hot. Plus she's got a partial Gorby.
Posted by: Crom's Tankard at September 13, 2021

***
I searched for images and wish I hadn't. Not hot -- concur.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at September 13, 2021 04:00 PM (c6xtn)

169 I look forward to not paying to watch these movies.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at September 13, 2021 04:00 PM (yQpMk)

170 "he's to the point in his career that as long as the checks don't bounce, he's good."

That explains his role in Expendables.

Posted by: squid_hunt at September 13, 2021 04:00 PM (Ectld)

171 The way they're going, Tennessee Williams will be infinitely more macho/manly thank Indiana Jones.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at September 13, 2021 03:58 PM (s2VJv)

Tennessee Tuxedo too.

Posted by: Napoleon XIV at September 13, 2021 04:00 PM (AiZBA)

172 Be awesome if someone with talent tried to tackle the Powder Mage series.

Posted by: garrett at September 13, 2021 04:00 PM (5LLTU)

173 Hell, they have managed to make Temple of Doom better than 99% of all movies made during the last two decades.

Remember that? Remember when the fucking movies were so good, we complained about Temple of Doom?!?! Oh, Kate Capshaw (still a fox) is annoying! Ohhhh, Short Round is kiddifying the series. Ohhh, Monkey's brains.

We'd kill for that movie to be released now.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 13, 2021 04:00 PM (z4k8L)

174 To be fair, I wasn't all that excited about seeing Indiana Jones And The Early Bird Special anyway.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at September 13, 2021 04:00 PM (kTF2Z)

175 Awkwafina is apparently another unfunny female "comedian" who gets work because if diversity

Posted by: steevy at September 13, 2021 04:00 PM (uUDKV)

176 154 What exactly are we talking about here?
Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at September 13, 2021 03:58 PM (JUOKG)

Same thing we always talk about, Mister Scott: Human stupidity and arrogance.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 13, 2021 04:01 PM (z4k8L)

177 158 >>Harrison Ford is still alive?

Can't rest until he finds that one-armed man.

missed it by *that* much

Posted by: michelle fields at September 13, 2021 04:01 PM (v3pYe)

178 The serious dirt involves kiddy diddling. That's why she still has a lucrative job.

Posted by: JuJuBee at September 13, 2021 04:01 PM (UsshY)

179 I refuse anything on streaming that has a woman center stage on the cover.

I am at the point where I almost never get a book written by a non-ette female with a female lead. I've tried many and almost all of them are either just bad, or are woke/feminist in historical setting/men are terrible.

I see a female writer, I tend to move on. Its not fair but there's so much terrible crap out there I just don't have time to try another and see if its one of the rare ones that isn't lousy.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 13, 2021 04:01 PM (KZzsI)

180 15 year olds have some agency but can't be expected to make rational adult decisions and an older man that fucks a 15 year old is a piece of garbage, even if she "wanted it."

Posted by: Broseidon at September 13, 2021 04:01 PM (EUl/V)

181 173 Well Kate Capshaw was in that because Speilsberg was banging her

Posted by: steevy at September 13, 2021 04:01 PM (uUDKV)

182 Feminism apparently only pushes teenage girls to be wild and rebellious so they can get into their 30's and turn into victims. You can't deliberately sexualize an eleven year old and expect there not to be issues.

Posted by: squid_hunt at September 13, 2021 04:02 PM (Ectld)

183
Pssst! Starting to get why Michael Bay and "Fast and Furious" movies are so popular?
Posted by: Lizzy at September 13, 2021 03:58 PM (+Rh4C)

I was thinking of that but... well... those movies look too damn cheesy to be taken seriously. But, absent any other franchise I guess that'll have to do.

Posted by: weew at September 13, 2021 04:02 PM (+m+uH)

184 >>>Awkwafina is apparently another unfunny female "comedian" who gets work because if diversity

Posted by: steevy

She has a series on Comedy Central, whose only funny shows are South Park... and South Park.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at September 13, 2021 04:02 PM (XSRBF)

185 Look at me!
Remember me?
1995?
Jagged Little Pill?!?
It was HUGE! I'm HUGE! Well, I'm not huge, but huge! I did an acoustic version of Jagged Little Pill in 2005! I'm going to do an orchestral version of Jagged Little Pill in 2022! I'm performing a song from Jagged Little Pill with AKB48 at the opening of the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks baseball game against the Chunichi Dragons July 12, 2022! REMEMBER ME?!?!?

Posted by: Alanis Morissette at September 13, 2021 04:02 PM (wAnMi)

186 181 173 Well Kate Capshaw was in that because Speilsberg was banging her
Posted by: steevy at September 13, 2021 04:01 PM (uUDKV)

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He started banging her during production. They're still married, I believe.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at September 13, 2021 04:02 PM (LvTSG)

187 Chicks, why does it always have to be chicks ?

Posted by: Dr Jones at September 13, 2021 04:02 PM (2cfUo)

188 Why doesn't Hollywood just make a blooper reel of all of the times Harrison Ford was injured on the job or crashed/crash-landed his helicopter/plane?

Posted by: Dr. Bone at September 13, 2021 04:03 PM (LCt05)

189 183
Pssst! Starting to get why Michael Bay and "Fast and Furious" movies are so popular?
Posted by: Lizzy at September 13, 2021 03:58 PM (+Rh4C)

I was thinking of that but... well... those movies look too damn cheesy to be taken seriously. But, absent any other franchise I guess that'll have to do.
Posted by: weew at September 13, 2021 04:02 PM (+m+uH)

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I get their appeal. I have a real soft spot for Michael Bay, and I've seen enough of the Fast movies to, I think, understand them.

They big entertainments with hearts of gold. They may also be dumb, but their hearts are in the right place: entertain.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at September 13, 2021 04:03 PM (LvTSG)

190 Hell, they have managed to make Temple of Doom better than 99% of all movies made during the last two decades.

Remember that? Remember when the fucking movies were so good, we complained about Temple of Doom?!?! Oh, Kate Capshaw (still a fox) is annoying! Ohhhh, Short Round is kiddifying the series. Ohhh, Monkey's brains.

We'd kill for that movie to be released now.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 13, 2021

***
Great moment in it, though, is when they go to dinner in India or wherever it is, and Indy shows up in a tweed jacket, bow tie, and his professor glasses.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at September 13, 2021 04:03 PM (c6xtn)

191 We'd kill for that movie to be released now.

Yeah. Temple of Doom was disappointing after the first but still pretty good. If you cut out all the Kate Capshaw appearances, its much better, even. Short Round was kind of annoying but a minor character.

But yeah I'd beg for them to put something like that out rather than Crystal Skull. So terrible.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 13, 2021 04:03 PM (KZzsI)

192 @166: "She was Spielbergs' assistant. Only reason why she was hired by Disney."

To be fair, she climbed her way up from studio assistant to Executive Producer as far back as 1983, so she had top line credits on a whole bunch of highly successful movies.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at September 13, 2021 04:03 PM (+WWsf)

193 With two you get eggroll.

Posted by: Zombie General Tso at September 13, 2021 04:03 PM (Xrfse)

194 158 >>Harrison Ford is still alive?

Can't rest until he finds that one-armed man.

missed it by *that* much
Posted by: michelle fields at September 13, 2021 04:01 PM (v3pYe)

He said "man", bitch.

Posted by: Inspector Krogh at September 13, 2021 04:04 PM (v0R5T)

195 I hope this lady names names in that documentary.
Posted by: Synova at September 13, 2021 03:46 PM (BD/yx)

Yep, names or it didn't happen.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at September 13, 2021 04:04 PM (yQpMk)

196
Well Kate Capshaw was in that because Speilsberg was banging her

Posted by: steevy at September 13, 2021 04:01 PM

it's a proven technology

-Sondra Locke

Posted by: AltonJackson at September 13, 2021 04:04 PM (DUIap)

197 151 Harrison Ford is still alive?

Huh

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 13, 2021 03:58 PM (BFigT)

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Hasn't he crashed his private plane twice already?

Posted by: ShainS -- Unauthorized Freedom Exhibitionist at September 13, 2021 04:04 PM (0Iszm)

198 Why doesn't Hollywood just make a blooper reel of all of the times Harrison Ford was injured on the job or crashed/crash-landed his helicopter/plane?
Posted by: Dr. Bone at September 13, 2021 04:03 PM (LCt05)

Evil Knievel is jealous.

Posted by: Napoleon XIV at September 13, 2021 04:04 PM (AiZBA)

199 15 year olds have some agency but can't be expected to make rational adult decisions and an older man that fucks a 15 year old is a piece of garbage, even if she "wanted it."

Exactimundo.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 13, 2021 04:04 PM (KZzsI)

200 I just realized, I think Kate Capshaw is where I got my blonde bombshell thing.

Posted by: squid_hunt at September 13, 2021 04:04 PM (Ectld)

201 172 Be awesome if someone with talent tried to tackle the Powder Mage series.
Posted by: garrett at September 13, 2021 04:00 PM (5LLTU)

He's a good writer, I'd like that.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Failure happens, giving up is a choice at September 13, 2021 04:04 PM (XvPQV)

202 There is apparently a new musical out called "Six" which tells the story of the wives of Henry VIII, but it is described as a 21st century "grllll power" movie. Uggh. The picture from the release show the wives in costumes that look like sort of sexed up black space attire with spikes and none of the wives look European or anything like the portraits because...of course.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 13, 2021 04:04 PM (AJzTi)

203 197 Hasn't he crashed his private plane twice already?
Posted by: ShainS -- Unauthorized Freedom Exhibitionist at September 13, 2021 04:04 PM (0Iszm)

========

His plane that uses more carbon energy in a single flight than my entire house uses in a month?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at September 13, 2021 04:04 PM (LvTSG)

204 Remember how RomComs and Situation Comedies in the late 70s and 80s got to the point where you could write the storyline just by reading the title and seeing who the leads were?

And so finally you stopped going to movies because why bother so then they came out with Block buster and such and local little stores with odd ball offerings? And then that started to fizzle cause there's only so many good movies and then they came out with Netflix and other streaming channels so it was even easier to get stuff you hadn't seen but didn't want to bother with going and getting it but now it's right there at your fingertips?

And now they run out of ideas and since they long ago ran out of stories they're applying filters and we're back in the 70s cause we all know what will be on the screen from the title and stars and the director.

*spit* They can only be saved by holograms or immersion virtual reality.

Posted by: jakee308 at September 13, 2021 04:05 PM (z0px1)

205
I'm not into "gaming" because gaming is a waste of Life, but I heard they just changed the name of some popular game from "Midnight Sons" to Midnight Suns.

Too male, is the speculation.

Posted by: Soothsayer at September 13, 2021 04:05 PM (oYLWM)

206 Phoebe Waller-Bridge is...not pretty. She's a caricature of the homely British girl, with bad teeth and an absurd jawline. But looks don't matter. I'm sure if Harrison Ford had looked like Tater, he'd still have gotten the Han Solo role.

Posted by: pep at September 13, 2021 04:05 PM (ZsR3z)

207 Not movie but musical.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 13, 2021 04:05 PM (AJzTi)

208 If Kathleen Kennedy has heavy oversight and isn't in charge of a production, she does pretty good work. She's like JJ Abrams in that she shouldn't be the one in charge, she should be doing second unit work, at most.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 13, 2021 04:05 PM (KZzsI)

209 this recasting of male action heroes with women is just "for the story" then I think the next Alien movie should have a man as the main character.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison

They'd go even more woke with an addadicktome "man".

Posted by: Crom's Tankard at September 13, 2021 04:05 PM (SQsJE)

210 Yeah he is so concerned about the planet he literally burns thousands of pounds of jet fuel to go get a burger....

Posted by: steevy at September 13, 2021 04:05 PM (uUDKV)

211 180 15 year olds have some agency but can't be expected to make rational adult decisions and an older man that fucks a 15 year old is a piece of garbage, even if she "wanted it."

Posted by: Broseidon at September 13, 2021 04:01 PM (EUl/V)

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Well....I mean you know, let's not get all judgy and shit OK?

Posted by: Roman Polanski at September 13, 2021 04:05 PM (GQ5VU)

212 Hasn't he crashed his private plane twice already?
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at least once, on a golf course.

he's been injured on film sets since then.

He's pretty old. Don't think he's flying anymore.

Posted by: I'm not in the FAA but . . . at September 13, 2021 04:06 PM (XwF9m)

213 Awkwafina is apparently another unfunny female "comedian" who gets work because if diversity
Posted by: steevy at September 13, 2021 04:00 PM (uUDKV)

I like her getting roles in big movies, only because it so pisses off the racist Left

Posted by: Wally at September 13, 2021 04:06 PM (FJYfm)

214 >>I get their appeal. I have a real soft spot for Michael Bay, and I've seen enough of the Fast movies to, I think, understand them.

They big entertainments with hearts of gold. They may also be dumb, but their hearts are in the right place: entertain.

Also: Male leads, hot chicks, fast cars, explosions, no Mary Sues and NOT WOKE.

Posted by: Lizzy at September 13, 2021 04:06 PM (+Rh4C)

215 They big entertainments with hearts of gold. They may also be dumb, but their hearts are in the right place: entertain.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at September 13, 2021 04:03 PM (LvTSG)

And they're about Family

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Failure happens, giving up is a choice at September 13, 2021 04:06 PM (XvPQV)

216 Blade should be played by Zac Efron because Blade being black isn't that important to the story.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at September 13, 2021 04:06 PM (LvTSG)

217 I saw Shang Chi and..... it's fine. It's not good, it's not particularly interesting, but it is full of plot contrivances. You can tell the lead actor is legit in the non-CGI fight scenes, but there aren't really many of those. Wait for streaming, if you bother at all.

Posted by: Xander Crews at September 13, 2021 04:06 PM (MpOGS)

218 "And they're about Family"

*pukes*

Posted by: squid_hunt at September 13, 2021 04:06 PM (Ectld)

219 > Why doesn't Hollywood just make a blooper reel of all of the times Harrison Ford was injured on the job or crashed/crash-landed his helicopter/plane?

It'd be a 6 hour slogfest

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 13, 2021 04:06 PM (BFigT)

220 What exactly are we talking about here?

*************

Movies that would be better if Brazzers were to make them than Disney.

Which nowadays would be all of them.

Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at September 13, 2021 04:06 PM (Uqk0T)

221 Can we have a male lead as Wonder Woman? Supergirl? Cuz why not?

Posted by: Joe XiDen - Delta Delta Delta Can I help ya help ya help ya Variant at September 13, 2021 04:06 PM (GQ5VU)

222 @178: "178 The serious dirt involves kiddy diddling. That's why she still has a lucrative job."

It doesn't have to be anything that conspiratorial or nefarious. She could have had first hand knowledge of Lucas's affairs that she leveraged back when his divorce could have blown up his original trilogy fortune. Same thing goes with Spielberg and his later divorce that did cost him $100m in 1989 dollars.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at September 13, 2021 04:07 PM (+WWsf)

223 215 They big entertainments with hearts of gold. They may also be dumb, but their hearts are in the right place: entertain.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at September 13, 2021 04:03 PM (LvTSG)

And they're about Family
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Failure happens, giving up is a choice at September 13, 2021 04:06 PM (XvPQV)

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"Dom, we can't go into space! They don't have roads!"

"It's not about roads. It's about familyl."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at September 13, 2021 04:07 PM (LvTSG)

224 Awkwafina's schtick is being fake black woman with asian face. She gets laughs by doing that even without any jokes or being funny. Somehow this qualifies her for roles in big movies.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 13, 2021 04:07 PM (KZzsI)

225 Yeah. Temple of Doom was disappointing after the first but still pretty good. If you cut out all the Kate Capshaw appearances, its much better, even.

Her entire acting repertoire appears to consist of "shriek, scream, and inhale".

Posted by: pep at September 13, 2021 04:07 PM (ZsR3z)

226 When the lead is too old, they give ancient supporting cast. It doesn't work.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at September 13, 2021 04:07 PM (/hXfz)

227 I just realized, I think Kate Capshaw is where I got my blonde bombshell thing.
Posted by: squid_hunt at September 13, 2021

***
Perfect hind paws in that scene on the bed, too.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at September 13, 2021 04:07 PM (c6xtn)

228 Yeah Henry VIIIth empowered the heck out of his wives...

Posted by: steevy at September 13, 2021 04:07 PM (uUDKV)

229 Indiana Jones does quite a bit of punching and kicking and fighting, doesn't he?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - (BMWRT) remember when they cancelled the foreign policy presidential debate? at September 13, 2021 04:08 PM (dPePg)

230 I demand a sequel to Underworld where Kate Beckinsale has to teach the much smarter, homely, and younger man how to be the ultimate Death Dealer. This young man should be infinitely better than her at everything before the end of the first act.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at September 13, 2021 04:08 PM (LvTSG)

231 Who would be a good Indiana Jones /Ford replacement?

Posted by: runner at September 13, 2021 04:08 PM (V13WU)

232 Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 13, 2021 04:04 PM (KZzsI)

OH I agree with that. It's just that the 15 year old isn't lacking fault here and I don't quite agree that they don't know what they're getting into. OH they don't realize the full ramification but they understand enough. Sure there's some that have been groomed and are actually innocent but I would guess that there's more lolita's the most older fathers want to admit.

Posted by: jakee308 at September 13, 2021 04:08 PM (z0px1)

233 Awkwafina
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In all seriousness, I thought that was a typo. Are you people telling me this is some type of celebrity?

Posted by: Scratches head at September 13, 2021 04:09 PM (QUVCc)

234 If they had indy be basically his dad in Last Crusade, I could see that work. He's 100% professor now, doesn't wear the hat, its the 1960s and he's old and broken down from all the crap he used to do.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 13, 2021 04:09 PM (KZzsI)

235
Someone should do a montage of all the kids in Spielberg movies "acting" scared. They all do the same exact "acting:" eyes wide open, petrified, and shaking.

I hate kids in the Spielberg movies.

Posted by: Soothsayer at September 13, 2021 04:09 PM (oYLWM)

236 With six you get coof.

Posted by: Zombie General Tso at September 13, 2021 04:09 PM (Xrfse)

237 hola chamucos y chamucas

Posted by: 5280 greaser at September 13, 2021 04:09 PM (oSX/P)

238 I happen to like the lead actor in Shang Chi from his work on Kim's Convenience but then he turned into a little bitch, publicly complaining about how a show exclusively about Canada's minority communities wasn't woke enough. He'll redeem himself somewhat if he doesn't backtrack on the shit he talked about Canada like little bitch John Cena.

Posted by: Xander Crews at September 13, 2021 04:09 PM (MpOGS)

239 Remember how RomComs and Situation Comedies in the late 70s and 80s got to the point where you could write the storyline just by reading the title and seeing who the leads were?

I have no idea what you mean.

Posted by: When Harry Got Mail in Seattle at September 13, 2021 04:09 PM (ZsR3z)

240 Have never heard the name Phoebe Waller-Bridge before today, have no idea who she is or what she's been in, and I have no desire to find out

Posted by: radar at September 13, 2021 04:09 PM (aCYZU)

241 239 Remember how RomComs and Situation Comedies in the late 70s and 80s got to the point where you could write the storyline just by reading the title and seeing who the leads were?

I have no idea what you mean.
Posted by: When Harry Got Mail in Seattle at September 13, 2021 04:09 PM (ZsR3z)

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This was also the Judd Apatow model of titles.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at September 13, 2021 04:10 PM (LvTSG)

242 It was Lucas that wrote Marion as a 15 year okd in his story. Spielsberg knew they had to change that

Posted by: steevy at September 13, 2021 04:10 PM (uUDKV)

243 They won't, of course, but like all of those movies from the 80s the lead characters should be the older, wiser versions of themselves and new stories should be made for new characters.

A two hour movie with three minutes of Harrison Ford being consulted on a scheme.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - (BMWRT) remember when they cancelled the foreign policy presidential debate? at September 13, 2021 04:10 PM (dPePg)

244 Men should not sleep with 15-year-olds. And if they are prosecuted near the time of the events, I'll live with it (even though I have doubts about the wisdom of such criminal prosecutions). But it's going to take exceptional circumstances for me to be moved by a grown woman who now regrets her 15-year-old sexual relations many, many years after the fact.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at September 13, 2021 04:10 PM (QU5/8)

245 221 Can we have a male lead as Wonder Woman? Supergirl? Cuz why not?

careful. i'm half expecting a trans wonder woman before the decade is out.

Posted by: Kulak Anachronda, behind the Newsom curtain at September 13, 2021 04:10 PM (oY6Yp)

246 Awkwafina is apparently another unfunny female "comedian" who gets work because if diversity

Posted by: steevy

Oh well, at least she medaled in the retarded name olympics.

Posted by: Crom's Tankard at September 13, 2021 04:10 PM (SQsJE)

247
The Shia LeBeouf movie was decent, but Shia is a talented actor. I wonder what abuses he suffered, and I bet a lot.
Posted by: BarcelonaCarmen at September 13, 2021 03:44 PM (CCcN5)

You mean from the serried keyboards of 4-Chan?

Posted by: Kindltot at September 13, 2021 04:10 PM (ssx3L)

248 245 221 Can we have a male lead as Wonder Woman? Supergirl? Cuz why not?

careful. i'm half expecting a trans wonder woman before the decade is out.
Posted by: Kulak Anachronda, behind the Newsom curtain at September 13, 2021 04:10 PM (oY6Yp)

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Well, men do make the best women.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at September 13, 2021 04:10 PM (LvTSG)

249 This young man should be infinitely better than her at everything before the end of the first act.
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So like the boys under 16 soccer team that played the US Wymn team?

Posted by: Yeah, nobody goes to the movies to see true stories at September 13, 2021 04:10 PM (2bGNn)

250 Anyone see Eastwoods's new movie trailer? A mashup of Grand Tornino and The Mule with Clint whispering the lines.
I'm sure nobody is going to tell Clint enough is enough but enough is enough.

Posted by: lowandslow at September 13, 2021 04:11 PM (4thlk)

251 -
Have never heard the name Phoebe Waller-Bridge before today, have no idea who she is or what she's been in, and I have no desire to find out
Posted by: radar at September 13, 2021 04:09 PM -
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Just look in the dictionary under Pinch-faced-scold.

Posted by: irright at September 13, 2021 04:11 PM (SchQD)

252 Please don's say Dwayne Johnson...

Posted by: runner at September 13, 2021 04:11 PM (V13WU)

253 I hate kids in the Spielberg movies.

Posted by: Soothsayer

They're all screamers and snarky smart asses to the clueless "adults". I can't watch his movies as a result.

Posted by: pep at September 13, 2021 04:11 PM (ZsR3z)

254 Who would be a good Indiana Jones /Ford replacement?
Posted by: runner at September 13, 2021 04:08 PM (V13WU)

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Brendan Fraser did it pretty well in The Mummy.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at September 13, 2021 04:12 PM (kTF2Z)

255 f they had indy be basically his dad in Last Crusade, I could see that work. He's 100% professor now, doesn't wear the hat, its the 1960s and he's old and broken down from all the crap he used to do.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 13, 2021 04:09 PM (KZzsI)

Since it's the '60's maybe they can script in so that Jones can bump onto James Bond.
Too bad Sean Connery ain't around.

Posted by: JoeF. at September 13, 2021 04:12 PM (mR6Gs)

256 >>15 year olds have some agency but can't be expected to make rational adult decisions and an older man that fucks a 15 year old is a piece of garbage, even if she "wanted it."

I think it's safe to assume that these weren't just random men, they were likely entertainment people with real or perceived power over her career preying on her. A 15 year old being told by, say, the show's producer that she needs to go along in order to keep her job, that sort of thing. This is why kids should not be in Hollywood -- it's just not safe, and so often the parents don't notice or don't care when the presented offer is: We'll make your kid a star (in exchange for stuff we won't mention right now)!

Posted by: Lizzy at September 13, 2021 04:12 PM (+Rh4C)

257 233 Awkwafina
==
In all seriousness, I thought that was a typo. Are you people telling me this is some type of celebrity?

some type, in much the same sense that many things are some type of weasel.

Posted by: Kulak Anachronda, behind the Newsom curtain at September 13, 2021 04:12 PM (sGtp+)

258 way back when when I first got an e-Reader there were self publishing sites, and one of the big things was to take pulp adventure stories and change the gender of the main character.
The only reason I tried them was because they were the only sources at the time for some of the pulpier pulp stores.

Dull, otherwise.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 13, 2021 04:12 PM (ssx3L)

259 The alleged rapes would have occurred before Morissette became a certified rock star.

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Is there a bureau that does these certifications? Is there someone I can contact to have Billy Joel disbarred from the Rock Star Association?

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 13, 2021 04:12 PM (FvCkv)

260 Posted by: steevy at September 13, 2021 04:07 PM (uUDKV)

No; They empowered themselves. Gaaaah!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 13, 2021 04:12 PM (AJzTi)

261 Let me guess. In the opening scenes, Indiana dies from prostate issues, Waller-Bridge puts on his fedora and picks up his whip, and instantly masters the bullwhip in the same scene, snuffing out candles on the other side of the room. Man, I can hardly wait.

Well, we certainly know by now any "rumors" about Kennedy getting the boot were greatly exaggerated, or straight-up wet dreams from guys like Dicktor Van Doomcock. The only place she's going is up. The big question is, what IP is next to destroy? Will they continue to focus on ruining the childhood of millennials, or will they attempt to branch out? Homo Ninja Turtles? Or maybe go after boomers with Sherlock Holmes? He could transition, or we could meet the real brains of the family, his sister. NO, his adopted sister from Africa! Yeah, that's the ticket. Yes, you better go after the boomers while you still can. The rest will be around for a while.

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at September 13, 2021 04:12 PM (wAnMi)

262 Brendan Fraser did it pretty well in The Mummy.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at September 13, 2021 04:12 PM (kTF2Z)

Agreed.
I'd put Chris Pratt into the Indy role if you really, really, really NEED to reboot Indiana Jones.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Failure happens, giving up is a choice at September 13, 2021 04:13 PM (XvPQV)

263 She makes Hollywood production types weak in the knees with her accent alone, and she's clever enough to chat about story ideas.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at September 13, 2021 03:51 PM (+WWsf)

This, too. Is the story of J. J. Abrams.

Funny thing, he's almost single-handedly responsible for Disney's decision to snub the original trilogy in the park expansions. They fully bought into his bullshit "vision" as he pitched it to groups around the company.

Posted by: Grudge Harbor at September 13, 2021 04:13 PM (uhPTO)

264 262
Agreed.
I'd put Chris Pratt into the Indy role if you really, really, really NEED to reboot Indiana Jones.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Failure happens, giving up is a choice at September 13, 2021 04:13 PM (XvPQV)

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"But money."
-Producer guy

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at September 13, 2021 04:13 PM (LvTSG)

265 158 >>Harrison Ford is still alive?

Drank from the Holy Grail!... duh!

Posted by: Romeo13 at September 13, 2021 04:13 PM (oHd/0)

266 260 Well he has their heads chopped off...

Posted by: steevy at September 13, 2021 04:13 PM (uUDKV)

267 Anyone see Eastwoods's new movie trailer? A mashup of Grand Tornino and The Mule with Clint whispering the lines.
I'm sure nobody is going to tell Clint enough is enough but enough is enough.
Posted by: lowandslow at September 13, 2021 04:11 PM (4thlk)

He's earned the right to do whatever he wants to do for as long as he can do it.
He won't be around that much longer.

Posted by: JoeF. at September 13, 2021 04:13 PM (mR6Gs)

268 Please don's say Dwayne Johnson...

I hate to say it, but he's the best I can think of. He's really not a terrible actor.

Posted by: pep at September 13, 2021 04:13 PM (ZsR3z)

269 233 Awkwafina
==
In all seriousness, I thought that was a typo. Are you people telling me this is some type of celebrity?

Yeah, she started off as a comedian I think, and it's a bit of a weird nom-de-openmic, but she's not bad.

I have to admit to enjoying Shang-Chi, certainly more than I expected to. I generally loathe superhero movies.

The Awkwafina character is basically the comic relief, the Falstaff, the...okay, not the Jar-Jar Binks.

Posted by: JEM at September 13, 2021 04:13 PM (8erNz)

270 ... I would guess that there's more lolita's the most older fathers want to admit.

Posted by: jakee308 at September 13, 2021 04:08 PM (z0px1)
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They used to phrase it as, 'girls mature at a younger age than boys'.

Posted by: Braenyard at September 13, 2021 04:13 PM (Foy17)

271 That broad ain't much to look at. Men should always cast women because women do not know what is attractive.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at September 13, 2021 04:14 PM (vN+oL)

272 250 Anyone see Eastwoods's new movie trailer? A mashup of Grand Tornino and The Mule with Clint whispering the lines.
I'm sure nobody is going to tell Clint enough is enough but enough is enough.
Posted by: lowandslow

He'll still be more masculine than all the current soy boys in Hollyweird.

Posted by: Puddleglum at September 13, 2021 04:14 PM (QFVV9)

273 Agreed.
I'd put Chris Pratt into the Indy role if you really, really, really NEED to reboot Indiana Jones.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Failure happens, giving up is a choice at September 13, 2021 04:13 PM (XvPQV)

Oh, I'm up for the job, if you need a real hero.

Posted by: Brian Stelter at September 13, 2021 04:14 PM (PiwSw)

274 Nora Lum?

"That ain't Lum!" - sayeth the Lum fan club as they start the alien summoning dance.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 13, 2021 04:14 PM (oEMN+)

275 264 "But money."
-Producer guy

"butt money"
-harvy weinstein

Posted by: Kulak Anachronda, behind the Newsom curtain at September 13, 2021 04:14 PM (v3pYe)

276
btw, I watched PIG.

I Liked it. The movie gets a bit too artsy and vague and tries to be "smart" by not telling the audience what's going on, which is fine. But I wish these directors would know it's "okay" to put a real ending on their smartsy-artsy films, with some resolution.

Posted by: Soothsayer at September 13, 2021 04:14 PM (oYLWM)

277 Let me guess. In the opening scenes, Indiana dies from prostate issues, Waller-Bridge puts on his fedora and picks up his whip, and instantly masters the bullwhip in the same scene, snuffing out candles on the other side of the room.
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*furious note taking*

this is great!!!

Posted by: Kathleen Kennedy at September 13, 2021 04:14 PM (XwF9m)

278 "My previous chauvinistic, patriarchal colonialist views? They belong in a museum. Now go queen....slaaaay!"

Posted by: Indiana Jones at September 13, 2021 04:14 PM (I4hmj)

279 And that these 15 yos have these thoughts and the knowledge of how to put it together and how to act comes direct from Hollywood and the print media that caters to Hollywood and the teens and tweens with all their garbage.

And that's derived from the left's bringing chaos and destruction to the family and religion. That's where it starts and the left is right there pushing it.

Posted by: jakee308 at September 13, 2021 04:15 PM (z0px1)

280 Brendan Fraser did it pretty well in The Mummy.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at September 13, 2021 04:12 PM (kTF2Z)

Oh man, poor Brendan. Have you seen him lately? Put it this way, he's in an upcoming movie where he plays a derelict morbidly obese man.

He doesn't need much makeup work.

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at September 13, 2021 04:15 PM (wAnMi)

281 I don't care if Shang Chi is good, won't give one penny to Disney

Posted by: steevy at September 13, 2021 04:15 PM (uUDKV)

282 Rey literally never saw the Falcon before jumped in and flew it better than Han and Chewie ever did
Posted by: steevy at September 13, 2021 03:52 PM (uUDKV)

Was there reason to believe that she had ever flown a spacecraft before? Wasn't she just a poor scrapper?

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at September 13, 2021 04:15 PM (yQpMk)

283 Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at September 13, 2021 04:12 PM (wAnMi)

Yeah, remember that Female Russian Agent in the last movie?

Kinda looks like the new actress.... so... Luv Child between her and Indy? A new Detent as it were?

Posted by: Romeo13 at September 13, 2021 04:15 PM (oHd/0)

284 So like the boys under 16 soccer team that played the US Wymn team?

**

Ahem. I believe it was under 15 and it was a completely unremarkable local team. I suspect that extra year (16 vs 15) would be like watching superheroes play 8th graders when they went against the Wymynx Olympic team.

I still say have $100 that says a state (or above) championship-winning elementary school boys team - meaning no older than 5th graders - would beat the sh*t out of the womens olympic team.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - (BMWRT) remember when they cancelled the foreign policy presidential debate? at September 13, 2021 04:15 PM (YUvzq)

285 Kennedy is going to nuke the fridge.

Posted by: rd at September 13, 2021 04:15 PM (Z32m1)

286 -
The alleged rapes would have occurred before Morissette became a certified rock star.
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Uh, how do you think they get "certified" as a rock star?

Posted by: The Entertainment/Child Trafficking Industry at September 13, 2021 04:16 PM (SchQD)

287 269 The Awkwafina character is basically the comic relief, the Falstaff, the...okay, not the Jar-Jar Binks.

true. jar-jar binks could never be an archer.

Posted by: Kulak Anachronda, behind the Newsom curtain at September 13, 2021 04:16 PM (oY6Yp)

288 231 Who would be a good Indiana Jones /Ford replacement?

Posted by: runner at September 13, 2021 04:08 PM (V13WU)

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For a while, I thought Nathan Fillion might be a good choice, but even he's getting too old now.

Posted by: Pennsyltucky at September 13, 2021 04:16 PM (lNHqD)

289 Nolte had a good article pointing and laughing about how Hollywood sold out to China and now China is shutting them out of money they desperately need.

Making soulless, sexless, woke films no one wants to see, and still is not enough for the Chinese overlords.

Suck it HW. You dug this grave.

Posted by: LizLem at September 13, 2021 04:16 PM (Lf9W7)

290 "But money."
-Producer guy
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at September 13, 2021 04:13 PM (LvTSG)

Yeah yeah yeah

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Failure happens, giving up is a choice at September 13, 2021 04:16 PM (XvPQV)

291 Hollywood wokism - Lets make every classic male lead a female lead!

Brilliance! Plus it's easier than coming up with a ID.

Posted by: Archer at September 13, 2021 04:16 PM (gmo/4)

292 That broad ain't much to look at. Men should always cast women because women do not know what is attractive.

Kennedy absolutely knows that Phoebe-Warbler Mangrove is homely. That's the point. She's saying you don't need to be beautiful to play the role. The box office will say otherwise.

Posted by: pep at September 13, 2021 04:16 PM (ZsR3z)

293 Because if you didn't know, and saw this picture you would automatically think of the 16th century and the six wives of Henry VIII-right?

https://tinyurl.com/53b9bxue

I bet Henry is a big fat white guy though, which he was after his initial slimness as a younger man/

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 13, 2021 04:16 PM (AJzTi)

294 Yud I believe it has happened to many female music artists just as actresses

Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2021 04:16 PM (2JoB8)

295 286 The alleged rapes would have occurred before Morissette became a certified rock star.
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Uh, how do you think they get "certified" as a rock star?

300 bucks and pass a test, same as security+

Posted by: Kulak Anachronda, behind the Newsom curtain at September 13, 2021 04:17 PM (oY6Yp)

296 Oh man, poor Brendan. Have you seen him lately? Put it this way, he's in an upcoming movie where he plays a derelict morbidly obese man.

He is pretty chubby in No Sudden Move, though in fairness, he is the kind of fat that could get in shape in six months of working out.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at September 13, 2021 04:17 PM (yQpMk)

297 Harrison Ford always jokes that it's all about the money.

And so it is.

Posted by: Regular joe at September 13, 2021 04:17 PM (L9P9s)

298 ...The Awkwafina character is basically the comic relief, the Falstaff, the...okay, not the Jar-Jar Binks.
Posted by: JEM at September 13, 2021 04:13 PM (8erNz)

I thought she was a very good Danny DeVito in "Jumanji: The Next Level". Her accent was perfect because that's how she talks.

Posted by: Napoleon XIV at September 13, 2021 04:17 PM (AiZBA)

299
I can't believe I'm saying this, but Nick Cage has Range.

He can pull off some wide-ranging characters, from Raising Arizona to Adaptation to Ghost Rider to Pig.

He's not like Ethan Hawke, who sucks. Cage is up there with Christian Bale as far as talent for an Adult Pretender (actor).

Posted by: Soothsayer at September 13, 2021 04:17 PM (oYLWM)

300 Did anyone get a Mike Pompeo text message with "critical election info"?

It then said "delete after reading".

WTF, is this Mission Impossible now? Wouldn't this sort of thing call for the cone of silence?

Whatever they're paying the winred brain trust they should reduce it.

Posted by: banana Dream at September 13, 2021 04:17 PM (59DiK)

301 Who would be a good Indiana Jones /Ford replacement?

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Who was the guy in Moon? I liked his personality he portrayed there.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - (BMWRT) remember when they cancelled the foreign policy presidential debate? at September 13, 2021 04:17 PM (YUvzq)

302 Hollywood? Do I care? No.

Posted by: Some Rat at September 13, 2021 04:17 PM (r1z5A)

303 Who would be a good Indiana Jones /Ford replacement?
Posted by: runner at September 13, 2021

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Chris Pratt. As soon as I saw his performance in Jurassic World, I said, "That's it, put him in a fedora and a leather jacket and give him a good period piece story. Gold."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at September 13, 2021 04:17 PM (c6xtn)

304 When a man sees a pretty girl in her late teens, say 18-19:

In his mid to late 20s: Wow, she's hot!

In his mid to late 30s: Who the hell let her out of the house looking like that?

Posted by: Duke Lowell at September 13, 2021 04:17 PM (kTF2Z)

305 I like Brendan, but..I think he's been out of the game too long and he is very associated with the knockoff The Mummy franchise..Pratt is a bland and uninteresting. Johnson is a joke. They need someone absolutely new.

Posted by: runner at September 13, 2021 04:18 PM (V13WU)

306
Who the hell is Kathleen Kennedy? What did she ever do to get a high paying job in the film industry?

Don't bother answering that, I think I know the answer.
Posted by: dantesed at September 13, 2021 03:58 PM (88xKn)

She started as George Lucas' secretary.

Kathleen Kennedy is the LucasFilm Pepper Potts, but without the talent.

Which of course, is faint praise indeed.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 13, 2021 04:18 PM (n+4am)

307
Kennedy absolutely knows that Phoebe-Warbler Mangrove is homely. That's the point. She's saying you don't need to be beautiful to play the role. The box office will say otherwise.
Posted by: pep at September 13, 2021 04:16 PM (ZsR3z)

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Yep. It's all on purpose, too. Embrace ugliness, America.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - (BMWRT) remember when they cancelled the foreign policy presidential debate? at September 13, 2021 04:18 PM (YUvzq)

308 Looks like a girl band

Posted by: steevy at September 13, 2021 04:18 PM (uUDKV)

309 When Harry Got Mail in Seattle

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Would that be our fifteenth or sixteenth installment from that particular series?

Posted by: Brazzers at September 13, 2021 04:18 PM (Uqk0T)

310 Flashback Cinema has been showing the extended Lord of the Rings trilogy.

Great movies. Sadly, the Extended editions are not formatted correctly for the big screen, so there are resolution and confusing camera shake in actions scenes.

But SO much better than anything made since Infinity War.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Failure happens, giving up is a choice at September 13, 2021 04:18 PM (XvPQV)

311 Rey is the Mary Sue of all Mary Sues. She doesn't need any tutoring or training to become proficient in anything. Be it a star pilot, at least Luke had his land speeder, to wielding a light-sabre, Luke don't point the open at yourself okay.

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 13, 2021 04:18 PM (oEMN+)

312 Hollywood wokism - Lets make every classic male lead a female lead!

I can't wait for Sally Spade in the Maltese Falcon.

Posted by: pep at September 13, 2021 04:18 PM (ZsR3z)

313 I saw in the previous thread that we are going to send aid money to Taliban controlled Afghanistan??

I thought the taliban just did a press conference with China and Russia, basically declaring themselves the new axis of evil. Let their two new evil besties bail them out.

Posted by: LizLem at September 13, 2021 04:18 PM (Lf9W7)

314 He is pretty chubby in No Sudden Move, though in fairness, he is the kind of fat that could get in shape in six months of working out.

Yeah I could see him easily turn it around. He had health problems and went through some really rough stuff. I'd love to see him make a big comeback and he definitely could do Indy. He basically was a more jaded version in The Mummy.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 13, 2021 04:18 PM (KZzsI)

315 That broad ain't much to look at. Men should always cast women because women do not know what is attractive.

Kennedy absolutely knows that Phoebe-Warbler Mangrove is homely. That's the point. She's saying you don't need to be beautiful to play the role. The box office will say otherwise.
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You can bet my flat ass on that one!!!

Posted by: Name Withheld at September 13, 2021 04:19 PM (0wAM5)

316
I'll also mention that Ace has always liked and defended Nicholas Cage, and some of us dunked on him.

Ace was right.

Posted by: Soothsayer at September 13, 2021 04:19 PM (oYLWM)

317 If only the state of CA had an AG who would investigate things like child sexual abuse in Hollywood and jail people involved with it...wouldn't that be nice?

Posted by: 18-1 at September 13, 2021 04:19 PM (DpkTQ)

318 289 Nolte had a good article pointing and laughing about how Hollywood sold out to China and now China is shutting them out of money they desperately need.
Making soulless, sexless, woke films no one wants to see, and still is not enough for the Chinese overlords.
Suck it HW. You dug this grave.
Posted by: LizLem at September 13, 2021 04:16 PM (Lf9W7)

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The pandemic and loss of revenues has got to be giving migraines to executives at the highest levels. They're someone saved by the fact that every studio is facing the same issues, so there's enough blame to go around and prevent any one executive from being the fall guy.

However, you've got bunches of movies that were predicted to bring in so much money now bringing in half of that, maybe. It's got to be wrecking balance sheets like crazy. I was saying it last year when Black Widow was being delayed, but that movie's delay effectively left a billion dollar hole in Disney's books for 2020. The eventual returns are simply not good enough.

China cutting them off will take a while to manifest because it takes so long to make movies, but things could change and pretty soon.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at September 13, 2021 04:19 PM (LvTSG)

319 Oh man, poor Brendan. Have you seen him lately? Put it this way, he's in an upcoming movie where he plays a derelict morbidly obese man.

He doesn't need much makeup work.

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at September 13, 2021 04:15 PM (wAnMi)

To be fair, I believe he put on a lot of weight for that role. Pretty risky for an older actor.

Posted by: Grudge Harbor at September 13, 2021 04:19 PM (uhPTO)

320 @280: "Oh man, poor Brendan. Have you seen him lately?"

I saw No Sudden Move in July on HBO Max, and needed half of the movie before realizing it was him.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at September 13, 2021 04:19 PM (+WWsf)

321 Who was the guy in Moon? I liked his personality he portrayed there.

Sam Rockwall. He's a decent actor in general.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at September 13, 2021 04:19 PM (QU5/8)

322 Posted by: steevy at September 13, 2021 04:18 PM (uUDKV

Well, it is a musical but I never knew Henry was married to a couple of Black women and an Asian one.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 13, 2021 04:19 PM (AJzTi)

323 "It took me years in therapy to even admit there had been any kind of victimization on my part

I wonder what this sentence means. Does it mean it was consensual and she only learned it was bad later? Not excusing any behavior, but there have been a lot of wild claims that evaporate on closer examination.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at September 13, 2021 04:19 PM (OU+8W)

324 James McAvoy ? Is he any good ?

Posted by: runner at September 13, 2021 04:19 PM (V13WU)

325 He's not like Ethan Hawke, who sucks.

I like Ethan Hawke.

*hangs head*

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at September 13, 2021 04:19 PM (yQpMk)

326 Chris Pratt + Tales of the Gold Monkey?

Posted by: Anna Puma at September 13, 2021 04:20 PM (oEMN+)

327 299
I can't believe I'm saying this, but Nick Cage has Range.

He can pull off some wide-ranging characters, from Raising Arizona to Adaptation to Ghost Rider to Pig.

He's not like Ethan Hawke, who sucks. Cage is up there with Christian Bale as far as talent for an Adult Pretender (actor).
Posted by: Soothsayer at September 13, 2021 04:17 PM (oYLWM)

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He needs a director who knows how to use him. Scorsese in Bringing Out the Dead or Cage's uncle Coppola in Peggy Sue Got Married. Otherwise he just does whatever he wants.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at September 13, 2021 04:20 PM (LvTSG)

328 297 Harrison Ford always jokes that it's all about the money.

And so it is.

I think it was whatever Jaws movie Michael Caine was in...

"I have not seen the film, I'm told it's terrible. I have, however, seen the house it paid to build, and it's magnificent".

Posted by: JEM at September 13, 2021 04:20 PM (8erNz)

329 Who was the guy in Moon? I liked his personality he portrayed there.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - (BMWRT) remember when they cancelled the foreign policy presidential debate? at September 13, 2021 04:17 PM (YUvzq)

Sam Rockwell.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at September 13, 2021 04:20 PM (PiwSw)

330 Disney's efforts to please and promote the CCP are failing.

I know that I really shouldn't GAS about this one way or the other but it makes me happy.

Posted by: Oddbob at September 13, 2021 04:21 PM (nfrXX)

331 In the novel adaption they talk about Luke being a great pilot in his Skyhopper( made by the same company with similar controls as the X-Wing)

Posted by: steevy at September 13, 2021 04:21 PM (uUDKV)

332 She was cute in that teen slime show. Yes the leftists in the tv/movie industry are scum as are leftists in any other environment.

Posted by: banana Dream at September 13, 2021 04:21 PM (59DiK)

333 They wanted to remake Murder She Wrote with Octavia Spencer, but Angella Lansbury has enough clout she shut that cash grab crap down. Said there is only one Jessica fletcher. Bless her!

Seriously. Make a new show Hollywood if you want Octavia to be a lead in a murder mystery.

Posted by: LizLem at September 13, 2021 04:21 PM (Lf9W7)

334 313 I saw in the previous thread that we are going to send aid money to Taliban controlled Afghanistan??

not possible. antony blinken assured us in today's hearing that the money will be laundered through the un and a variety of ngos, providing plausible deniability.

Posted by: Kulak Anachronda, behind the Newsom curtain at September 13, 2021 04:21 PM (sGtp+)

335 326 Remember that? Set in 1936 yet he had already been in the AVG LOL

Posted by: steevy at September 13, 2021 04:21 PM (uUDKV)

336 Sam Rockwell.

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Thanks. I don't know him from Adam, but I could see him as Indy. Or the Doctor, honestly.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - what if Marek's was the experiment? at September 13, 2021 04:22 PM (3DjGn)

337 Who was the guy in Moon? I liked his personality he portrayed there.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - (BMWRT) remember when they cancelled the foreign policy presidential debate? at September 13, 2021 04:17 PM (YUvzq)

Sam Rockwell. He's great, but I don't know if I see him as Indy.

Posted by: Jordan61 at September 13, 2021 04:22 PM (Ez6QX)

338 James McAvoy I think does good range of characters

Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2021 04:22 PM (2JoB8)

339 Yeah, remember that Female Russian Agent in the last movie?
Kinda looks like the new actress.... so... Luv Child between her and Indy? A new Detent as it were?
Posted by: Romeo13 at September 13, 2021 04:15 PM (oHd/0)

It would make a LOT of sense if she was related to Indy then she'd just naturally absorb all of his powers through osmosis and genes. I wonder if Kennedy would allow that - because audiences might very well buy into that - heck I might. Assuming that Shia died in a motorcycle accident or the Anal Intruder being a 110 in a 220 European socket...

I'd almost think that whatever Mary Sue KK props up would have to have all of her powers in spite of Indy, not because.

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at September 13, 2021 04:22 PM (wAnMi)

340 254 Who would be a good Indiana Jones /Ford replacement?
Posted by: runner at September 13, 2021 04:08 PM (V13WU)

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Brendan Fraser did it pretty well in The Mummy.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at September 13, 2021 04:12 PM (kTF2Z)

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I was just about to comment on this. Brendan Fraser would be a great replacement, assuming they can come up with a script that's not just a money grab.

Which of course means there's no chance in hell they'd offer him the role.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at September 13, 2021 04:22 PM (CAJOC)

341 Let me guess. In the opening scenes, Indiana dies from prostate issues, Waller-Bridge puts on his fedora and picks up his whip, and instantly masters the bullwhip in the same scene, snuffing out candles on the other side of the room. Man, I can hardly wait.

Well, we certainly know by now any "rumors" about Kennedy getting the boot were greatly exaggerated, or straight-up wet dreams from guys like Dicktor Van Doomcock. The only place she's going is up. The big question is, what IP is next to destroy? Will they continue to focus on ruining the childhood of millennials, or will they attempt to branch out? Homo Ninja Turtles? Or maybe go after boomers with Sherlock Holmes? He could transition, or we could meet the real brains of the family, his sister. NO, his adopted sister from Africa! Yeah, that's the ticket. Yes, you better go after the boomers while you still can. The rest will be around for a while.
Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at September 13, 2021 04:12 PM (wAnMi)

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There are so many intellectual properties to destroy

Posted by: Disney Corporate MisManagement at September 13, 2021 04:22 PM (Z32m1)

342 333 They wanted to remake Murder She Wrote with Octavia Spencer, but Angella Lansbury has enough clout she shut that cash grab crap down. Said there is only one Jessica fletcher. Bless her!

hmm. i wonder if this explains the "murder, she baked" series on the hallmark movies and mysteries channel.

Posted by: Kulak Anachronda, behind the Newsom curtain at September 13, 2021 04:22 PM (sGtp+)

343 Awkwafina

Sounds like the name of some spring water.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 13, 2021 04:22 PM (AJzTi)

344 I watched a bit of football at a friends house yesterday and saw an ad for the Queen Latifah Equalizer. Her beating up some big black dude. So stupid LOL

Posted by: steevy at September 13, 2021 04:23 PM (uUDKV)

345 Guy Pearce would be a good Indy.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at September 13, 2021 04:23 PM (PiwSw)

346 When Harry Got Mail in Seattle

************

Would that be our fifteenth or sixteenth installment from that particular series?

That would be When Hairy Got Male in Seattle. It's from their gay line.

Posted by: pep at September 13, 2021 04:23 PM (ZsR3z)

347 James McAvoy ? Is he any good ?
Posted by: runner at September 13, 2021 04:19 PM (V13WU)

Also great, but also can't picture him as Indy.

Posted by: Jordan61 at September 13, 2021 04:23 PM (Ez6QX)

348 Alanis Morissette said she was raped by multiple men when she was a 15-year-old Canadian pop star in a new documentary for HBO, reports the Washington Post.

Did she name names? I'm always skeptical of these kinds of claims when names aren't attached to the accusations. There's cache in victimhood, after all.

Also, having sex with a sexually mature teenager, while it may be illegal, is not pedophilia. Pedophiles are a different level of criminals, and we shouldn't dilute the language associated with that kind of behavior.

Posted by: Ace's liver at September 13, 2021 04:23 PM (wGeit)

349 326 Chris Pratt + Tales of the Gold Monkey?
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 13, 2021 04:20 PM (oEMN+)

"Take my money!"

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Failure happens, giving up is a choice at September 13, 2021 04:23 PM (XvPQV)

350 I would say Tom Hardy, as him and Chris Pratt are the only two actor names I can think of that aren't pretty old already.

Posted by: irright at September 13, 2021 04:23 PM (SchQD)

351 Eris, Agit-Pop is a very good, very trenchant descriptor.

I wish more people had the background to understand it.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 13, 2021 04:23 PM (ssx3L)

352 I saw a car yesterday that had a CPTMRVL license plate.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 13, 2021 04:23 PM (FvCkv)

353 >>>Yud I believe it has happened to many female music artists just as actresses
Posted by: Skip at September 13, 2021 04:16 PM (2JoB

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Brittney Spears and Tiffany have actual talent, darn it!

Posted by: I do not like my nic at September 13, 2021 04:24 PM (RUa/k)

354 "I have not seen the film, I'm told it's terrible. I have, however, seen the house it paid to build, and it's magnificent".

That's how an adult talks. I love MC.

Posted by: pep at September 13, 2021 04:24 PM (ZsR3z)

355 James McAvoy I think does good range of characters

He played a character with split personality disorder in one movie (Split), and played more distinct characters in that movie then Schwarzenegger played in his whole career.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 13, 2021 04:24 PM (DpkTQ)

356 Chris Pratt + Tales of the Gold Monkey?
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 13, 2021 04:20 PM (oEMN+)

"Take my money!"
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Failure happens, giving up is a choice at September 13, 2021 04:23 PM (XvPQV)

Outa my way, buddy!

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at September 13, 2021 04:24 PM (yQpMk)

357 80 They really should have gone with a Man.
Posted by: Elliot Paige
They should have gone with Becky Lynch,
WWE's The Man. Hubba hubba.

Posted by: Downcast at September 13, 2021 04:24 PM (wp6Z6)

358 He's pretty old. Don't think he's flying anymore.
Posted by: I'm not in the FAA but . . . at September 13, 2021 04:06 PM (XwF9m)

His handlers won't let him. He's not night rated any more and during the day there's 50/50 chance he gets confused and heads into the bright light.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at September 13, 2021 04:24 PM (u1eUk)

359 Phoebe Waller-Bridge is the force behind BBC America's series "Killing Eve". All of the women are strong, brave and intelligent., not to mention murderous, the main character bring a lesbian assassin. The men characters not so much. Amazon has the first three seasons, six episodes each. I've watched them all at least three times. Requires suspension of disbelief. Has Jodie Cormer,

Posted by: Javems at September 13, 2021 04:24 PM (AmoqO)

360 >>>Who would be a good Indiana Jones /Ford replacement?

>Robert Downey Jr. "Ironman Jones and the Forgotten Megahit"

Posted by: Dr. Bone at September 13, 2021 04:24 PM (LCt05)

361 @323: "I wonder what this sentence means. Does it mean it was consensual and she only learned it was bad later? Not excusing any behavior, but there have been a lot of wild claims that evaporate on closer examination."

I'm pretty sure it means that she couldn't admit how fucked up and irresponsible her parents were until she had her own kids in recent years.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at September 13, 2021 04:25 PM (+WWsf)

362 Wow... Alanis Morissette was raped as a child-star. That almost never happens. Prolly has no connection to her self-loathing, anti-patriarchy anthem, though.

As an aside, we were a young family who'd just bought our first house when that album came out, and the teenage girl around the corner played You Oughta Know -- on repeat -- for an entire weekend, and every time she got home from school that month. I break out in hives when I hear it.

Posted by: red speck at September 13, 2021 04:25 PM (gS3OW)

363 And who will be the new Bond ?

Posted by: runner at September 13, 2021 04:25 PM (V13WU)

364 I think my favorite young male actor is Tom Hardy. Don't know if he would make a good Indy though ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Unauthorized Freedom Exhibitionist at September 13, 2021 04:25 PM (0Iszm)

365 I hate kids in the Spielberg movies.
Posted by: Soothsayer at September 13, 2021 04:09 PM (oYLWM)

What's worse is the female leads. Or the ones with his SO in them.

I cringed for the whole movie with Capshaw and her "Indie" Indie" "indie". sheesh lady give it a rest.

yeah and totally believable asian kid "short round". I'm surprised the Asian anti defamation league didn't sue them.

Posted by: jakee308 at September 13, 2021 04:25 PM (z0px1)

366 Adam Baldwin as Indy?

Posted by: Count de Monet, unvaccinated Kulak-American at September 13, 2021 04:25 PM (4I/2K)

367 He played a character with split personality disorder in one movie (Split), and played more distinct characters in that movie then Schwarzenegger played in his whole career.
Posted by: 18-1 at September 13, 2021 04:24 PM (DpkTQ)

He was fantastic in that. You could tell just by a subtle shift in his facial expression which personality he was playing.

Posted by: Jordan61 at September 13, 2021 04:26 PM (Ez6QX)

368 I seem to recall, though, that Brendan Fraser's career got derailed for some reason, though I can't seem to remember why. Not that he's not working, but he was on his way to leading man stardom, and then.... something...

Posted by: No One of Consequence at September 13, 2021 04:26 PM (CAJOC)

369 363 Some black chick that will be the bestest ever...

Posted by: steevy at September 13, 2021 04:26 PM (uUDKV)

370 363 And who will be the new Bond ?
Posted by: runner at September 13, 2021 04:25 PM (V13WU)

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Probably that half black guy Rege-Jean Page.

I think the guy from Outlander would be an interesting choice, though.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at September 13, 2021 04:26 PM (LvTSG)

371 One upon a time Hollywood could make Indiana Jones movies and separately Brendan Frasier's The Mummy series and have them both be good with no need to "remake" anything.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 13, 2021 04:26 PM (DpkTQ)

372 @327: "Otherwise he just does whatever he wants."

And lots of lesser directors hire Cage specifically to let him do whatever he does; hoping some of his madness rubs off on them in a good way.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at September 13, 2021 04:26 PM (+WWsf)

373 Assuming that Shia died in a motorcycle accident or the Anal Intruder being a 110 in a 220 European socket...
Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at September 13, 2021 04:22 PM (wAnMi)

Just wanted to let you know that this reference was noted and appreciated.

*polite applause*

Posted by: hogmartin at September 13, 2021 04:26 PM (P4LRL)

374 Tom Cruise can pull of a 40 yr. old action hero for another decade or so, depending on tech advancement.

Posted by: lowandslow at September 13, 2021 04:26 PM (4thlk)

375 Owlkitty makes a gray cameo in the original Indiana Jones movie.

Just sayin.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 13, 2021 04:26 PM (ZmbWA)

376 How about, instead of replacing the actor- they make their own fucking properties to set on fire and destroy. How about that?

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 13, 2021 04:26 PM (z4k8L)

377 I think my favorite young male actor is Tom Hardy.

He's in his early forties now. Are there any mid-late-twenties rising male stars?

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at September 13, 2021 04:26 PM (yQpMk)

378 He's not like Ethan Hawke, who sucks. Cage is up there with Christian Bale as far as talent for an Adult Pretender (actor).
Posted by: Soothsayer at September 13, 2021 04:17 PM (oYLWM)

Cage does a GQ interview where he breaks down his most iconic characters. I love watching him talk about the craft of acting; he's very knowledgeable and self-aware. He definitely doesn't look at the world the way regular people do.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at September 13, 2021 04:27 PM (mdjgu)

379 I think my favorite young male actor is Tom Hardy. Don't know if he would make a good Indy though ...

Good actor, and he's 43, so probably about the right age. Also, British.

Posted by: pep at September 13, 2021 04:27 PM (ZsR3z)

380 Disney's efforts to please and promote the CCP are failing.

I know that I really shouldn't GAS about this one way or the other but it makes me happy.
Posted by: Oddbob at September 13, 2021 04:21 PM (nfrXX)

Honest! We Really Meant to Do That!

Posted by: Disney Corporate MisManagement at September 13, 2021 04:27 PM (Z32m1)

381 Just wanted to let you know that this reference was noted and appreciated.

*polite applause*
Posted by: hogmartin at September 13, 2021 04:26 PM (P4LRL)

Top Secret was an overlooked gem.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 13, 2021 04:27 PM (z4k8L)

382 Awkwafina did stand up and I will give her one point of approval for this:

Ever since Sarah Silverman nearly every single female comedienne has done one schtick: act cute and talk like a little girl but say incredibly filthy stuff, especially focusing on her girl bits.

Awkwafina didn't do that, she instead acted like she was a black woman when she's an asian. So at least she was different.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 13, 2021 04:27 PM (KZzsI)

383 368 I seem to recall, though, that Brendan Fraser's career got derailed for some reason, though I can't seem to remember why. Not that he's not working, but he was on his way to leading man stardom, and then.... something...
Posted by: No One of Consequence at September 13, 2021 04:26 PM (CAJOC)

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He lost out on the Superman role to Brandon Routh and entered a certain state of depression, I believe. He'd been beaten up physically from the Mummy movies, and he lost the fire. I've also heard indistinct rumors of him refusing the advances of some male producer at a party.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at September 13, 2021 04:27 PM (LvTSG)

384 I seem to recall, though, that Brendan Fraser's career got derailed for some reason

He was groped by a male director. He loudly complained about it, and got cancelled.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 13, 2021 04:27 PM (DpkTQ)

385 366 Adam Baldwin as Indy?
Posted by: Count de Monet, unvaccinated Kulak-American at September 13, 2021 04:25 PM (4I/2K)

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Can't see him as Indy, but maybe if they did an Indy type movie in The Orville style.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at September 13, 2021 04:27 PM (CAJOC)

386 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqYyE2JNMfg

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 13, 2021 04:27 PM (W2Pud)

387 Pedophiles are a different level of criminals, and we shouldn't dilute the language associated with that kind of behavior.

We've already passed that exit. People have lost their minds, including plenty on the right. Somehow normal suburbanites have convinced themselves that if they let their 11-year-old girl ride her bike down to the park, she'll have her veins filled with smack and all three holes filled by sex traffickers before sundown. We're approaching 80s Satanic Panic levels of paranoia about all things involving sex and minors.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at September 13, 2021 04:28 PM (QU5/8)

388 Tom Cruise can pull of a 40 yr. old action hero for another decade or so, depending on tech advancement.

No he can't. He can't even do it now. Plus, mannequin.

Posted by: pep at September 13, 2021 04:28 PM (ZsR3z)

389 After "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" not sure I can work up the energy to give a toss.

Posted by: aelfheld at September 13, 2021 04:28 PM (Zy9Yy)

390 The betting boards are saying Tom Hardy is the next Bond...so....

Posted by: runner at September 13, 2021 04:28 PM (V13WU)

391 As far as Morrisette goes... her "Jagged Little Pill" album is pretty angry at a lot of people, especially some men.

Wouldn't surprise me if she was working through some trauma there.

I think the technical term is ephebilia? Not pedophilia?

For being attracted to underage but physically mature girls?

Which, after all, is nature, right? Once they can breed, they start being attractive to males (and likely vice versa... witness the surge in female teachers getting caught molesting their male charges). Kings used to marry off their daughters like at age 12 to cement alliances and suchlike.

None of which makes what happened, allegedly, ok.

Posted by: Rafal Gan Ganowicz at September 13, 2021 04:28 PM (DN0pc)

392 >>>Who would be a good Indiana Jones /Ford replacement?

Hear me out. I'm younger that Harrison Ford. I learned to crack a bull whip in the Boy Scouts. I can read and talk. I don't wear a fedora but I can learn. And I'll settle for half of Ford's salary. Win-win.

Posted by: Napoleon XIV at September 13, 2021 04:28 PM (AiZBA)

393 Cage does a GQ interview where he breaks down his most iconic characters. I love watching him talk about the craft of acting; he's very knowledgeable and self-aware. He definitely doesn't look at the world the way regular people do.
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Since he's undying, duh. Obviously.

Posted by: Name Withheld at September 13, 2021 04:28 PM (v1qY+)

394 390 The betting boards are saying Tom Hardy is the next Bond...so....
Posted by: runner at September 13, 2021 04:28 PM (V13WU)

========

Betting boards got Craig wrong, if I remember correctly.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at September 13, 2021 04:28 PM (LvTSG)

395 Rocky 9: Rocky transitions and starts knocking bitches out left and right in UCF to help Paulie pay off gambling debts. Megan Rapinoe costars as Rockette's trainer.

Posted by: x at September 13, 2021 04:29 PM (oA+QO)

396 Good actor, and he's 43, so probably about the right age. Also, British.

However, not classically handsome. Not even close.

Posted by: pep at September 13, 2021 04:29 PM (ZsR3z)

397
As a side note, I re-watched American Graffiti this weekend with family, and realized that it isn't a feel-good coming-of-age movie. It's George Lucas taking a great big shit on his home town of rural Modesto, CA. In the epilogue, every one of the main characters either dies horribly, has their illusions shattered because Home drags them back into obscurity, or they have to go into exile in Canada in order to live a complete life.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 13, 2021 04:29 PM (n+4am)

398 396 Good actor, and he's 43, so probably about the right age. Also, British.

However, not classically handsome. Not even close.
Posted by: pep at September 13, 2021 04:29 PM (ZsR3z)

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Like Daniel Craig?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at September 13, 2021 04:29 PM (LvTSG)

399 Somehow normal suburbanites have convinced themselves that if they let their 11-year-old girl ride her bike down to the park, she'll have her veins filled with smack and all three holes filled by sex traffickers before sundown. We're approaching 80s Satanic Panic levels of paranoia about all things involving sex and minors.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls

If you need a cop right now, just sit, by yourself, at the park. There'll be one right there in minutes.

*if you are a man over 50*

Posted by: Tonypete at September 13, 2021 04:30 PM (mD/uy)

400 However, not classically handsome. Not even close.

OTOH, neither is Daniel Craig, and he's the best Bond for my money.

Posted by: pep at September 13, 2021 04:30 PM (ZsR3z)

401 yeah alanis was MAD at that french-canadian goalie right? potvin?

he dumped her before Jagged Little Pill or something

ANYWAY ... I believe Alanis, and having later relationships with older guys was her way of "proving" she wasn't victimized - when she kind of was - she was imprinted by those early experiences

same reason a lot of young men who are raped by older men become gay, actually. to prove they WEREN'T actually victims but liked it and it was ok

Posted by: BlackOrchid at September 13, 2021 04:30 PM (j9HX3)

402 Like Daniel Craig?

Great minds.

Posted by: pep at September 13, 2021 04:31 PM (ZsR3z)

403 He definitely doesn't look at the world the way regular people do

Yeah, what he thinks he's doing and what he thinks the character is... isn't really? But it works anyway so he creates very interesting characters and shows a lot of variety in his roles.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 13, 2021 04:31 PM (KZzsI)

404 >>> Ace has always liked and defended Nicholas Cage, and some of us dunked on him.

Ace was right.

Who knew in the 90s Nicholas cage and Keanu Reeves would turn out to be who they are. Life is full of surprises!

Also fat Andy from parks and rec. Star lord the raptor ranger is one of the last bankable action stars left. And they try to destroy him because he is a proud Christian.

Posted by: LizLem at September 13, 2021 04:31 PM (Lf9W7)

405 Betting boards got Craig wrong, if I remember correctly.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at September 13, 2021 04:28 PM (LvTSG)

you are not fun....

Posted by: runner at September 13, 2021 04:31 PM (V13WU)

406 However, not classically handsome. Not even close.

OTOH, neither is Daniel Craig, and he's the best Bond for my money.
Posted by: pep at September 13, 2021 04:30 PM (ZsR3z)

*types*
*deletes*

*pats pep on the head*

Posted by: Napoleon XIV at September 13, 2021 04:31 PM (AiZBA)

407 377 I think my favorite young male actor is Tom Hardy.

He's in his early forties now. Are there any mid-late-twenties rising male stars?
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at September 13, 2021 04:26 PM (yQpMk)

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There's Tom Holland, from the latest spiderman (and other Marvel) movies.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at September 13, 2021 04:31 PM (CAJOC)

408 *no fun

Posted by: runner at September 13, 2021 04:31 PM (V13WU)

409 On the one hand, the paranoia about people just waiting to prey on your kids is over stated. On the other hand the current President is a child groper. So....

Posted by: 18-1 at September 13, 2021 04:31 PM (DpkTQ)

410 >>> 368 ...Not that (Brendan Fraser's) not working, but he was on his way to leading man stardom, and then.... something...

Monkeybone would kill anyone's career.

Posted by: Fou Troll at September 13, 2021 04:31 PM (HLwmB)

411 > adult comes out as being raped as a child by Hollywood Pedos.

-- The media reporting: and you can catch him or her on this show when the taping was occurring streaming here, here, and here.

Ugh.

Posted by: Widespread Pepe at September 13, 2021 04:31 PM (400ik)

412 Probably too old, but Timothy Oliphant could be fun as Indy?

Posted by: Lizzy at September 13, 2021 04:31 PM (+Rh4C)

413 405 Betting boards got Craig wrong, if I remember correctly.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at September 13, 2021 04:28 PM (LvTSG)

you are not fun....
Posted by: runner at September 13, 2021 04:31 PM (V13WU)

========

You've been talking to Dolley, haven't you?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at September 13, 2021 04:31 PM (LvTSG)

414 Is there any scene in any Daniel Craig Bond movies where he smiles and is charming?

I love Casino Royale but looking back, his casting and the writing of those movies was terrible.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Failure happens, giving up is a choice at September 13, 2021 04:31 PM (XvPQV)

415 OTOH, neither is Daniel Craig, and he's the best Bond for my money.
Posted by: pep at September 13, 2021 04:30 PM (ZsR3z)

et tu, pep?

Casino Royale was a good resume, but we bought a lemon who did not want to BE Bond. As Drinker puts it: they managed to find the one guy on the face of the fucking planet who does not want to be James Bond.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 13, 2021 04:31 PM (z4k8L)

416 As a side note, I re-watched American Graffiti this weekend with family, and realized that it isn't a feel-good coming-of-age movie. It's George Lucas taking a great big shit on his home town of rural Modesto, CA. In the epilogue, every one of the main characters either dies horribly, has their illusions shattered because Home drags them back into obscurity, or they have to go into exile in Canada in order to live a complete life.

omg this is SO TRUE - I rewatched to expose the kids to a film I thought was good. it's ... not.

but the music was awesome and Wolfman Jack was awesome so screw you Lucas

Posted by: BlackOrchid at September 13, 2021 04:32 PM (j9HX3)

417 You've been talking to Dolley, haven't you?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at September 13, 2021 04:31 PM (LvTSG)

Yes.

Posted by: runner at September 13, 2021 04:32 PM (V13WU)

418 same reason a lot of young men who are raped by older men become gay, actually. to prove they WEREN'T actually victims but liked it and it was ok
Posted by: BlackOrchid

Some gals do that too. (assaulted by older women as children)

Posted by: Tonypete at September 13, 2021 04:32 PM (mD/uy)

419 Daniel Craig is handsome in his own way. Certainly an alpha male.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 13, 2021 04:32 PM (wdGUX)

420 They are reluctant to recast but Obi Wan and Bilbo found good actors.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at September 13, 2021 04:33 PM (/hXfz)

421 Daniel Craig would make a great KGB agent alternating working with/thwarting James Bond.

But a Bond he is not.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 13, 2021 04:33 PM (DpkTQ)

422 Star lord 's amazon movie Forever War or something was pretty good actually. Not awesome, but for a free Prime Movie, pretty good. The chick from CHUCK is in it also. Good little actress.

Posted by: Name Withheld at September 13, 2021 04:33 PM (XwF9m)

423 Screw Britian. Give 007 to that Dirk Diggler guy.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at September 13, 2021 04:33 PM (obcVG)

424 Some gals do that too. (assaulted by older women as children)

yes, forgot that but also yes

Posted by: BlackOrchid at September 13, 2021 04:33 PM (j9HX3)

425 I love Casino Royale but looking back, his casting and the writing of those movies was terrible.

It worked despite having Craig in it because they followed the book very closely.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 13, 2021 04:33 PM (KZzsI)

426 Craig's a dork. So is Pratt. All these dudes are lame. Let Bond and Indy die. Make movies about dorks and give these dorks dorky roles they're suited to.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 13, 2021 04:33 PM (FvCkv)

427 Who is the current version of character actor Jonathan Banks?

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at September 13, 2021 04:33 PM (yQpMk)

428 I really wish we didn't have the same word to mean both "had sex with a 15 year old who legally couldn't consent" and "forced a woman to have sex at gunpoint."

I'm not even saying one is necessarily worse than the other...well, okay, I am saying that, but that's not really the point, just for the sake of clarity really.
Posted by: Broseidon

A rape room button works better than a gun, and you don't have to clean it!

Posted by: Matt Lauer at September 13, 2021 04:33 PM (VYjdj)

429 The new Bond will be called Jane Bond, and be played by the vivacious, body-positive Stacey Abrams, who will have a Beretta 418 deployed through the gap in her front teeth.....

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at September 13, 2021 04:33 PM (PiwSw)

430 I think my favorite young male actor is Tom Hardy.

He's in his early forties now. Are there any mid-late-twenties rising male stars?
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at September 13, 2021 04:26 PM (yQpMk)

###########

How about that Cooper guy from the the Biden White House Sitcom?

Posted by: rd at September 13, 2021 04:33 PM (Z32m1)

431 et tu, pep?

Fraid so, but hear me out. If Sean Connery were starting out as Bond now, it might be different. But the old movies are so stilted and obviously fake that it's hard to lose yourself in the moment.

DC is just a nasty piece of work, which is what Bond should be.

Posted by: pep at September 13, 2021 04:34 PM (ZsR3z)

432 Somehow normal suburbanites have convinced themselves that if they let their 11-year-old girl ride her bike down to the park, she'll have her veins filled with smack and all three holes filled by sex traffickers before sundown. We're approaching 80s Satanic Panic levels of paranoia about all things involving sex and minors.

**

Yep, and it all goes back to the Democrats closing down insane asylums (JFK and LBJ got the ball rolling) and forcing crazy people into local communities.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - (BMWRT) remember when they cancelled the foreign policy presidential debate? at September 13, 2021 04:34 PM (YUvzq)

433 The ultimate will be The Dirty Dozen with an all female cast.

Including the Nazis.

Posted by: jakee308 at September 13, 2021 04:34 PM (z0px1)

434 430 How about that Cooper guy from the the Biden White House Sitcom?
Posted by: rd at September 13, 2021 04:33 PM (Z32m1)

==========

Gary Cooper?

He's dead, mate.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at September 13, 2021 04:34 PM (LvTSG)

435 It would be nice to someone like George Lazenby play Bond.

Posted by: runner at September 13, 2021 04:34 PM (V13WU)

436 *to have

Posted by: runner at September 13, 2021 04:34 PM (V13WU)

437
Who knew in the 90s Nicholas cage and Keanu Reeves would turn out to be who they are. Life is full of surprises!

Posted by: LizLem

Indeed. New respect for both of them.

Your Jib is as cut as ever, LizLem.

Posted by: Soothsayer at September 13, 2021 04:34 PM (oYLWM)

438 I like Chris Pratt but he's too devil may care goofy for Indy. He'd do a better Robin Hood.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 13, 2021 04:34 PM (KZzsI)

439 Oh and Alanis Morisette's boyfriend who dumped her, that fueled Jagged Little Pill is....Uncle Joey from Full House, Dave Coulier.

Wrap your mind around those two having sex in a theater.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Failure happens, giving up is a choice at September 13, 2021 04:34 PM (XvPQV)

440 The ultimate will be The Dirty Dozen with an all female cast.

Including the Nazis.

If they want a female Hitler I think a certain Speaker from CA would be a perfect choice. I mean hell, its even in her name.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 13, 2021 04:35 PM (DpkTQ)

441 There was an adorable little girl who won "America's Got Talent" competition a few years ago, when she was 11. Her name is Grace Vanderwaal. Bright, innocent, and adorable. You can find her songs from that show, the first one called "I Don't Know My Name", and the second one, "Clay" -- ironically talking about how she isn't clay to be molded.

When I saw both I said, she'll be used, corrupted, and definitely molded by these demonic people. Now she's 17, and if you watch her latest videos, you'll see how prescient I was. She's exhibiting all industry-standard demonic symbolism now, right down to the shaved head and devil horns. Won't be molded like clay, huh? How'd that work out for you? I'd love to see a frank conversation between her and Morisette.

Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at September 13, 2021 04:35 PM (OssQ4)

442 430 How about that Cooper guy from the the Biden White House Sitcom?
Posted by: rd at September 13, 2021 04:33 PM (Z32m1)

==========

Gary Cooper?

He's dead, mate.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at September 13, 2021 04:34 PM (LvTSG)

Sooper Dooper!

Posted by: Young Frankenstein's Monster at September 13, 2021 04:35 PM (AiZBA)

443 Craig went from new spy to too old in 4 movies.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at September 13, 2021 04:35 PM (/hXfz)

444 I wonder what this sentence means. Does it mean it was consensual and she only learned it was bad later? Not excusing any behavior, but there have been a lot of wild claims that evaporate on closer examination.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at September 13, 2021 04:19 PM (OU+8W)

It means that she only learned that she wasn't the one making all the choices, later, but was being taken advantage of by older men and people who should have been protecting her.

Frankly, I've known men who were abused as teens who decided that because they weren't physically forced and enjoyed a moment or two, that they were gay. No 12 year old, or 13 year old, or 14 year old or 15 year old thinks of him or herself as a child. It's looking back when you know better when you realize that you were a child.

Posted by: Synova at September 13, 2021 04:35 PM (BD/yx)

445 that age of consent thing, does it apply to the gheighs and boys 15 yrs old or younger?

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at September 13, 2021 04:36 PM (sJHOI)

446 The new Indy can only be played by Idris Elba in a dress, accompanied by a sidekick named Lil Tran, a 12-year-old labyboy.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at September 13, 2021 04:36 PM (QU5/8)

447 >> Some gals do that too. (assaulted by older women as children)

Yup, see Sam Taylor-Johnson and Aaron Taylor-Johnson.
Oh wait -- that dude could do Indy easily.

Posted by: Lizzy at September 13, 2021 04:36 PM (+Rh4C)

448 I love Casino Royale but looking back, his casting and the writing of those movies was terrible.

It worked despite having Craig in it because they followed the book very closely.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 13, 2021 04:33 PM (KZzsI)

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

The Casino Royale with David Niven and Woody Allen was a better casting job.

Posted by: rd at September 13, 2021 04:36 PM (Z32m1)

449 Oh and Alanis Morisette's boyfriend who dumped her, that fueled Jagged Little Pill is....Uncle Joey from Full House, Dave Coulier.

Wrap your mind around those two having sex in a theater.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Failure happens, giving up is a choice at September 13, 2021 04:34 PM (XvPQV)

This is a terrible Snapple Fact and a terrible VH1 Pop-Up Video caption at the same time.

Posted by: hogmartin at September 13, 2021 04:36 PM (P4LRL)

450 >>>Is there any scene in any Daniel Craig Bond movies where he smiles and is charming?

>Any Bond movie with Craig in it is melancholy and miserable. I want a popcorn movie with hot chicks, impossible gadgets and swaggering. At the end of the Craig Bonds I feel like slashing my wrists.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at September 13, 2021 04:37 PM (LCt05)

451 Won't be molded like clay, huh? How'd that work out for you? I'd love to see a frank conversation between her and Morisette.
Posted by: Taqiyyologist

Make it really interesting - invite their mothers too!

Posted by: Tonypete at September 13, 2021 04:37 PM (mD/uy)

452 We're approaching 80s Satanic Panic levels of paranoia about all things involving sex and minors.

I think there's a lot more going on than is generally known but yeah the terror of letting your child out to play without three chaperones, a policeman nearby and a drone filming everything just in case... things are crazy out there. Kids are not in any danger now than they were in the past, in my opinion.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 13, 2021 04:37 PM (KZzsI)

453 Wrap your mind around those two having sex in a theater.

LIFE IS NOT FAIR! WOOOHAAAAHAAAA!

Posted by: Pee Wee herman at September 13, 2021 04:37 PM (DpkTQ)

454 I've said that Craig would be great as Red Grant.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at September 13, 2021 04:37 PM (/hXfz)

455 As a side note, I re-watched American Graffiti this weekend with family, and realized that it isn't a feel-good coming-of-age movie. It's George Lucas taking a great big shit on his home town of rural Modesto, CA. In the epilogue, every one of the main characters either dies horribly, has their illusions shattered because Home drags them back into obscurity, or they have to go into exile in Canada in order to live a complete life.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 13, 2021 04:29 PM (n+4am)

They did that to illustrate the "loss of innocense" about Kennedy assassination/Vietnam,
Remember AG came took place in 1962 and it was released in 1973, and it DID seem like a big change back then.

Posted by: JoeF. at September 13, 2021 04:37 PM (mR6Gs)

456 Is there any scene in any Daniel Craig Bond movies where he smiles and is charming?

I love Casino Royale but looking back, his casting and the writing of those movies was terrible.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Failure happens, giving up is a choice at September 13, 2021

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There are several scenes in Skyfall (the best Bond film ever) where he smiles and is charming. When Moneypenny is shaving him, for instance. And he smiles faintly and dryly when he is driving M out of London on their mission to draw Silva after them.

M (about the car): "Not very comfortable, is it?"
Bond: "Are you going to complain the whole way?"
M: "Oh, go on then, eject me. I don't care."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at September 13, 2021 04:37 PM (c6xtn)

457 There is an entire missing generation of action heroes. Jason Statham is 54, for crying out loud. Stallone is 75.

Posted by: pep at September 13, 2021 04:38 PM (ZsR3z)

458 Any Bond movie with Craig in it is melancholy and miserable. I want a popcorn movie with hot chicks, impossible gadgets and swaggering. At the end of the Craig Bonds I feel like slashing my wrists.
Posted by: Dr. Bone at September 13, 2021 04:37 PM (LCt05)

In other words, a Kingsman movie.

Posted by: Napoleon XIV at September 13, 2021 04:38 PM (AiZBA)

459 Any crossover male adult pron star as Indy?

Posted by: Count de Monet, unvaccinated Kulak-American at September 13, 2021 04:38 PM (4I/2K)

460 Probably too old, but Timothy Oliphant could be fun as Indy?
Posted by: Lizzy at September 13, 2021 04:31 PM (+Rh4C)

I have enjoyed Deadwood and Justified but Oliphant's pigeon toed swish just puts me off.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at September 13, 2021 04:38 PM (yQpMk)

461 Oh and Alanis Morisette's boyfriend who dumped her, that fueled Jagged Little Pill is....Uncle Joey from Full House, Dave Coulier.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards

Oh, part of the cast that utterly destroyed the Olson twins?

Huh. No shit.

Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at September 13, 2021 04:38 PM (OssQ4)

462 "No Ms Bond, I expect you to diet"

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at September 13, 2021 04:39 PM (sJHOI)

463 I love Casino Royale but looking back, his casting and the writing of those movies was terrible.

It worked despite having Craig in it because they followed the book very closely.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 13, 2021

***
CR was a great adaptation, but Skyfall would be a terrific film adventure even if it weren't a Bond.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at September 13, 2021 04:39 PM (c6xtn)

464 Kids are not in any danger now than they were in the past, in my opinion.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 13, 2021 04:37 PM (KZzsI)

I dunno. I worry that our society is looking at kids as objects to be used, in every sense- be it sexual, political props, whatever. That's not a good place for a society to be in.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 13, 2021 04:39 PM (z4k8L)

465 They need someone absolutely new.
Posted by: runner at September 13, 2021 04:18 PM (V13WU)

Dave Smith. Sure, he's a comedian, but so was Jerry Lewis, and he has timing.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 13, 2021 04:40 PM (ssx3L)

466 Jagged Little Pill was all written by some dude

Posted by: steevy at September 13, 2021 04:40 PM (uUDKV)

467 The new Indy can only be played by Idris Elba in a dress, accompanied by a sidekick named Lil Tran, a 12-year-old labyboy.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at September 13, 2021 04:36 PM (QU5/

Ya know, I've been thinking of Liam Neeson for the crunchy old tranny spy in "The Transaction," but Elba could work.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 13, 2021 04:40 PM (FvCkv)

468 She was generic pop before that

Posted by: steevy at September 13, 2021 04:40 PM (uUDKV)

469
Cindy-Anna Jones: Super-Woke Actress Phoebe Waller-Bridge Rumored to be the Real Lead of the Next (Fake) Indiana Jones Movie

I do not care - replace him with a banana slug for all I care.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at September 13, 2021 04:41 PM (pNxlR)

470 I like Chris Pratt but he's too devil may care goofy for Indy. He'd do a better Robin Hood.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 13, 2021

***
I wouldn't mind a new interpretation of the character, as long as it's a good adventure.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at September 13, 2021 04:41 PM (c6xtn)

471 omg this is SO TRUE - I rewatched to expose the kids to a film I thought was good. it's ... not.
but the music was awesome and Wolfman Jack was awesome so screw you Lucas
Posted by: BlackOrchid at September 13, 2021 04:32 PM (j9HX3)

I thought it sucked when it came out. I guess I was a curmudgeon when I was 16. I'm an extra in a crowd somewhere - a bunch of us took a bus from Redwood to Tamalpais High when they were filming. I've never spotted me though - then again just because cameras were pointed doesn't mean that didn't wind up on the floor.

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at September 13, 2021 04:41 PM (wAnMi)

472 David Niven was who Fleming had in mind but he was too old by the tine the movies were made

Posted by: steevy at September 13, 2021 04:41 PM (uUDKV)

473 Any crossover male adult pron star as Indy?
Posted by: Count de Monet, unvaccinated Kulak-American at September 13, 2021 04:38 PM (4I/2K)

Ron Jeremy, FTW

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 13, 2021 04:41 PM (FvCkv)

474 "No Ms Bond, I expect you to diet"
Posted by: ghost of hallelujah

That's awesome.

Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at September 13, 2021 04:42 PM (OssQ4)

475
Could we get a list of Nick/Disney child actresses that weren't molested? It would be easier to keep track of.
====
They never touched me.
Posted by: Howdy Doody

That was because you always had good wood.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at September 13, 2021 04:42 PM (pNxlR)

476 442 Sooper Dooper!

sooper dooper pooper!

Posted by: Dima Kolyadenko at September 13, 2021 04:42 PM (v3pYe)

477 >>> who will be the new Bond
>>> Probably that half black guy Rege-Jean Page.
I think the guy from Outlander would be an interesting choice, though.

Both are pretty enough. Oddly enough, both are in series where their characters are sexually assaulted. Someone mentioned Brendan Fraser was assaulted IRL by a male honcho. Also terry Crews and Kevin Sorbo.

My brain is making weird connections today.

Posted by: LizLem at September 13, 2021 04:42 PM (Lf9W7)

478 377 I think my favorite young male actor is Tom Hardy.

He's in his early forties now. Are there any mid-late-twenties rising male stars?
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at September 13, 2021 04:26 PM (yQpMk)

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

Was going to suggest Stephen Root, but found out they're almost the same age.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at September 13, 2021 04:42 PM (CAJOC)

479 He describes Bond as looking like Hoagy Carmichael,who just happened to look a bit like Fleming himself...

Posted by: steevy at September 13, 2021 04:42 PM (uUDKV)

480 Kids are not in any danger now than they were in the past, in my opinion.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
==
Used to be you'd sneak a peak at somebody's dad's playboy.

Nowadays, you don't want to know by what age most kids have seen hard core porn. The kids, are dangerous to EACH OTHER as a result. Its not creepy old men assaulting 10 year olds, its other 10 year olds.

Posted by: Name Withheld at September 13, 2021 04:42 PM (ND2NW)

481 446 The new Indy can only be played by Idris Elba in a dress, accompanied by a sidekick named Lil Tran, a 12-year-old labyboy.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls

Dammit!! Don't give them any ideas!!

Posted by: Puddleglum at September 13, 2021 04:42 PM (QFVV9)

482 I mean as a parent - not a helicopter parent either - I think it's more dangerous for my kids than it was for me when I was there age

there are ZERO ADULTS anymore! at least here where I live. big-ass children is all

old people are creepy and think (and act like) they're still teens

I used to go to the city with my friends alone - I am glad they never want to my God no way

Posted by: BlackOrchid at September 13, 2021 04:42 PM (j9HX3)

483 David Niven was who Fleming had in mind but he was too old by the tine the movies were made
Posted by: steevy

Hoagy Charmichael.

Posted by: runner at September 13, 2021 04:42 PM (V13WU)

484 397
As a side note, I re-watched American Graffiti this weekend with family, and realized that it isn't a feel-good coming-of-age movie. It's George Lucas taking a great big shit on his home town of rural Modesto, CA.

I wonder if it was Lucas's immaturity or just the prevailing attitude of Hollywood. My son studied filmmaking, and all his fellow students' film projects comically ended in death. It was almost a prerequisite. Like a bunch of kids thinking, "What's the deepest subject matter you can tackle? Ooh! I'll have all my characters die!" If you look at the marquees of the early 70s, all the movies were of the Father Knows Best contrarian model -- the anti-Baseball-and-Apple-Pie view. I'm sure if Lucas had any thoughts of making a feel-good movie end happily, they were quickly dispelled by the "experts" in the industry.

Posted by: red speck at September 13, 2021 04:43 PM (gS3OW)

485 I think there's a lot more going on than is generally known but yeah the terror of letting your child out to play without three chaperones, a policeman nearby and a drone filming everything just in case... things are crazy out there. Kids are not in any danger now than they were in the past, in my opinion.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

The ironic part is if children are brought up right, they trust adults. And 90% of adults are trustworthy. It's how does one warn about the 10% without making them into cynical, distrusting old people like me.

Posted by: Some Rat at September 13, 2021 04:43 PM (r1z5A)

486 He's in his early forties now. Are there any mid-late-twenties rising male stars?
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at September 13, 2021 04:26 PM (yQpMk)

Nope. All dorks and pussies like everyone else that age.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 13, 2021 04:43 PM (FvCkv)

487 You know what's interesting, they keep going back to these wells even when they have examples of how recooking the same meal is never as good as the original.

Star Wars prequels may look better now, but they were not as good as the originals.

Indy 4 was another example of the same down thing.

The Marvel movies, we have watched in real time how the quality has declined, even as their popularity has increased, but in that case the quality did not come to the cliff's edge until after the completion of the grand arc.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 13, 2021 04:43 PM (z4k8L)

488 Name Withheld - that's another super important point - the internet porn and the Only Fans and the other garbage

middle school kids are sharing nooods

awful

Posted by: BlackOrchid at September 13, 2021 04:43 PM (j9HX3)

489 "non-binary" former "field organizer" for Washington Democrats convicted of terrorist acts against a railroad. AntiFa claimed responsibility at the time for the acts.

https://bit.ly/3AloUjq

Apparently they pit a bunch of wires across the tracks that interfere with signals.

Posted by: bonhomme at September 13, 2021 04:43 PM (i0wNm)

490 No more foreplay.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at September 13, 2021 04:43 PM (obcVG)

491 Well that was a cut/paste fail. What I was commenting on was:

427 Who is the current version of character actor Jonathan Banks?
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at September 13, 2021 04:33 PM (yQpMk)

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Was going to suggest Stephen Root, but found out they're almost the same age.
Posted by: No One of Consequence at September 13, 2021 04:42 PM (CAJOC)

Posted by: No One of Consequence at September 13, 2021 04:44 PM (CAJOC)

492 466 Jagged Little Pill was all written by some dude
Posted by: steevy at September 13, 2021 04:40 PM (uUDKV)

12 of the 13 tracks have Alanis as the sole songwriter. Who is the dude supposed to have written Jagged Little Pill?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Failure happens, giving up is a choice at September 13, 2021 04:44 PM (XvPQV)

493
Who is the current version of character actor Jonathan Banks?
Posted by: G'rump928(c)

Aquafina, apparently.

Posted by: Soothsayer at September 13, 2021 04:44 PM (oYLWM)

494 "Ron Jeremy, FTW"

And they think Brendan Fraser looks bad.

Posted by: lowandslow at September 13, 2021 04:44 PM (4thlk)

495 Navy assistant coach Billy Ray Stutzmann fired after failing to receive exemption for COVID-19 vaccine

Navy has fired assistant coach Billy Ray Stutzmann after he failed to abide by the Naval Academy Athletic Association's policy regarding the COVID-19 vaccination. The policy requires all coaches and staff to be vaccinated against the virus. Stutzmann says he failed to receive a religious exemption that would have allowed him to stay unvaccinated. The Pentagon announced in August that members of the United States military will be required to get the COVID-19 vaccine.

"Based on my religious convictions, and after much thought and prayer, I am unable to follow the requirements of the Naval Academy's COVID-19 policy, as it has changed these last few months," he wrote on his Twitter account. "After applying for a religious exemption and attempting to further negotiate alternative working arrangements, I was ultimately relieved of my duties here at Navy. I continue to stand firm in my conviction of faith, but I understand and respect that each individual and institution has a choice on how they wish to manage these issues. I wish Navy football nothing by the best in the future."

Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe at September 13, 2021 04:44 PM (MFZ8i)

496 I had to look this guy up (because I can't name a lot of actors in their 20's - odd for a 29 year old, eh?) , but he could do Indy: Glen Powell. Heck, Wyatt Russell would be fun, and being Kurt Russell's kid

. . .

Posted by: Lizzy at September 13, 2021 04:44 PM (+Rh4C)

497 Phoebe Waller-Bridge isn't particularly attractive in those pics and she seems without charisma in her films, why on earth cast her?
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 13, 2021 03:45 PM (KZzsI)

Late entry: exactly my reaction. She's an average-looking woman, no more than that, and doesn't seem the slightest bit interesting.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 13, 2021 04:44 PM (YqDXo)

498 I know she is beyond woke, but I really liked her in Fleabag. What a slut. What a family. What a fucked-up mess of Brits.

They seem to do a particularly wonderful kind of fucked-uppedness, for English-speaking people, don't they? I mean the Brits. And that includes the Irish and Welsh and Scots.

Different from us, with all our different brands and regions, from Boston southie, to Manhattan east, to Baton Rouge coon ass, to west Texas cowboy, and let's never forget the deepest depravity of all, the Arkansas Oachita.

Posted by: Mr Gaga at September 13, 2021 04:44 PM (saYnF)

499 OT-I just got a spam request from someone claiming to be my denomination head hierarchy guy who wants me to help him with a "discrete " request, but I should just e-mail and not call. e-mail slightly different than the real one. I briefly thought of asking the spammer what the discrete request was, but I decided against it.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 13, 2021 04:45 PM (AJzTi)

500 Nowadays, you don't want to know by what age most kids have seen hard core porn. The kids, are dangerous to EACH OTHER as a result. Its not creepy old men assaulting 10 year olds, its other 10 year olds.

Posted by: Name Withheld

In some circles, groups of 12-14 year old girls compete in who can post the trashiest tic tok vid of themselves. And you're ostracized if you opt out of the 'competition'.

lose/lose

Posted by: Tonypete at September 13, 2021 04:45 PM (mD/uy)

501 Navy assistant coach Billy Ray Stutzmann fired after failing to receive exemption for COVID-19 vaccine

Navy football coaches can be fired but actual military heads responsible for A'stan stay put.

Posted by: JoeF. at September 13, 2021 04:46 PM (mR6Gs)

502 Nowadays, you don't want to know by what age most kids have seen hard core porn. The kids, are dangerous to EACH OTHER as a result. Its not creepy old men assaulting 10 year olds, its other 10 year olds.

Posted by: Name Withheld

"Till you are 18, I have access to every email, EM, twitter, facebook post you make, or receive."

Posted by: Some Rat at September 13, 2021 04:46 PM (r1z5A)

503 He describes Bond as looking like Hoagy Carmichael,who just happened to look a bit like Fleming himself...
Posted by: steevy at September 13, 2021

***
The young Carmichael was a pretty good-looking guy. Someone has done up a Twitter parody ostensibly written by "James Bond of Universal Export," with an image from Carmichael's youth as the Bond figure. The gag is that he relates the stories of the Bond novels with illustrations of the time and other artwork, but maintains the fiction that he is a world-traveling salesman/executive for the company.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at September 13, 2021 04:46 PM (c6xtn)

504 Grace Vanderwaal.

Yeah she's got that little girl abused and gone cray cray look. Trying for a Miley Cyrus look I guess.

Her page says she's brilliant so it's good to see she's kept her ego under control.

It's like they go anti establishment and anything that the parents like and that fits I guess cause that's what teenagers do.

Posted by: jakee308 at September 13, 2021 04:46 PM (z0px1)

505 [How about that Cooper guy from the the Biden White House Sitcom?
Posted by: rd at September 13, 2021 04:33 PM (Z32m1)

That's "Kooper" I made the same mistake. Boy, that's one turd they'd like to keep flushed, huh? I've got no doubts whoever dreamed that one up still got a promotion.

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at September 13, 2021 04:46 PM (wAnMi)

506 In some circles, groups of 12-14 year old girls compete in who can post the trashiest tic tok vid of themselves. And you're ostracized if you opt out of the 'competition'.

yep it was about that age my daughter came to me crying that she didn't want to do an in-shower video of herself but all her friends had done so and they were teasing her - those were snapchat days

Posted by: BlackOrchid at September 13, 2021 04:46 PM (j9HX3)

507 492 this guy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glen_Ballard

Posted by: steevy at September 13, 2021 04:46 PM (uUDKV)

508 I briefly thought of asking the spammer what the discrete request was, but I decided against it.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 13, 2021 04:45 PM (AJzTi)

One that is standalone and entirely self-contained, I suppose. Doesn't relate to or depend on any other requests.

Posted by: hogmartin at September 13, 2021 04:47 PM (P4LRL)

509 Appears there really is no obvious replacement for Ford. Let's just do a mash-up then: Vin Diesel in John Riddick, Space Archaeologist.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at September 13, 2021 04:47 PM (QU5/8)

510 Skyfall would be a terrific film adventure even if it weren't a Bond.

Yeah it was a fun story, just not a James Bond story.

Ian Fleming is really clear how he depicts James Bond:
"Bond reminds me rather of Hoagy Carmichael, but there is something cold and ruthless."
--Vesper Lynd
This sounds crazy but here's what Hoagy looked like at the time:

https://tinyurl.com/4j58n2pf

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 13, 2021 04:47 PM (KZzsI)

511 The Marvel movies, we have watched in real time how the quality has declined, even as their popularity has increased, but in that case the quality did not come to the cliff's edge until after the completion of the grand arc.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 13, 2021 04:43 PM (z4k8L)

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I think that's part of the problem. Where do Marvel movies go from here? Endgame really should have been the end of it. All the stuff that's come out lately just kind of feels like mopping up.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at September 13, 2021 04:47 PM (CAJOC)

512 i no longer care about the "culture wars"... let it burn.

then we can start over

Posted by: redc1c4 *OTUS Zhou Bai-Din Cheated & we all know it at September 13, 2021 04:47 PM (8xiTL)

513 One that is standalone and entirely self-contained, I suppose. Doesn't relate to or depend on any other requests.
Posted by: hogmartin at September 13, 2021 04:47 PM (P4LRL)
++++
I wasn't gonna, but I'm glad you did...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 13, 2021 04:49 PM (3p5uk)

514 Increasingly I find if difficult to give a shit about these people.

Actually... I never did. Sorry for the misdirection. And fuck them all with a flaming barbed wire wrapped pineapple, sideways with a chaser of hot sauce.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 13, 2021 04:49 PM (BFigT)

515 499 OT-I just got a spam request from someone claiming to be my denomination head hierarchy guy who wants me to help him with a "discrete " request, but I should just e-mail and not call. e-mail slightly different than the real one. I briefly thought of asking the spammer what the discrete request was, but I decided against it.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 13, 2021 04:45 PM (AJzTi)

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Maybe he needs math help...

Posted by: No One of Consequence at September 13, 2021 04:49 PM (CAJOC)

516 Afternoon.

Goddamn scammers are a sly bunch these days. They nearly got me with this one.

https://tinyurl.com/xucctn6k

Posted by: Robert *Be Ungovernable* - Iron Maiden, Senjutsu, OUT NOW!!! at September 13, 2021 04:49 PM (1Yy3c)

517 lose/lose
Posted by: Tonypete at September 13, 2021 04:45 PM (mD/uy)

Social media is cultural cancer. I can't even imagine what it's like. I'm blessed I had nothing like that. Sure, I'd have loved to have been able to "film" things for artistic reasons. Back then, that meant 8mm and audio equipment.

Sane parents won't let their kids have phones, but they're pretty rare. Too many hand them a tablet baby sitter and never talk to them again.

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at September 13, 2021 04:49 PM (wAnMi)

518 >>> Nowadays, you don't want to know by what age most kids have seen hard core porn. The kids, are dangerous to EACH OTHER as a result. Its not creepy old men assaulting 10 year olds, its other 10 year olds.
Posted by: Name Withheld at September 13, 2021 04:42 PM (ND2NW)

The private school my kid was going to would not take the kids phone's away. There were older kids, teens, generally always girs, getting busted showing other girls and boys porn and stuff. The idiots at the school acted like it was an insurmountable great mystery of the universe level problem to solve.

My wife was a teacher at another private school. The rule was no phones, ever. They were taken at the beginning of the day and given back when they go home. Never a problem there.

Posted by: banana Dream at September 13, 2021 04:49 PM (SdC0P)

519 I think that's part of the problem. Where do Marvel movies go from here? Endgame really should have been the end of it. All the stuff that's come out lately just kind of feels like mopping up.
Posted by: No One of Consequence at September 13, 2021 04:47 PM (CAJOC)

They have so much material, it's not even funny. But they got no brains or balls.

They could reboot around the Fantastic Four, if they had any decent writers.

They could do the X-men and rise of Mutants.

They could lean into the Cosmic space stuff.

Tons of options. But they want the M She U shit and multi-cultural pro-china Benneton ads now.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Failure happens, giving up is a choice at September 13, 2021 04:49 PM (XvPQV)

520 All the stuff that's come out lately just kind of feels like mopping up.

I would be shocked if they can capture that magic again, particularly with the characters that are left. It just doesn't feel special any longer.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 13, 2021 04:49 PM (KZzsI)

521 Taqiyyologist, that is sad to hear about Grace!! There is so much talent that gets wasted.

They did the same to Billie Eilish. Her big appeal to her fans was she did not dress for sex appeal. Her look plus her brother producing a brilliant record for her totally stood out in the crowd. Hollywood was dying to get her in a corset and sexy shoot and they finally did, now she is like every other tartlet.

Posted by: LizLem at September 13, 2021 04:50 PM (Lf9W7)

522 . All the stuff that's come out lately just kind of feels like mopping up.
Posted by: No One of Consequence at September 13, 2021 04:47 PM (CAJOC)

You couldn't pay me enough to mop up after Hollywood people. You're definitely getting AIDS at that job.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 13, 2021 04:50 PM (FvCkv)

523 Goddamn scammers are a sly bunch these days. They nearly got me with this one.

How could you resist those eyes?

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at September 13, 2021 04:50 PM (yQpMk)

524 Posted by: hogmartin at September 13, 2021 04:47 PM (P4LRL)

Last time a spamming e-mail went out from someone claiming to be him it was-of course-some plea for a worthy cause. The denominational guy got his tech people on it right away.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 13, 2021 04:50 PM (AJzTi)

525 I thought Skyfall was beautifully shot but insufferably stupid. Ace's review back in the day was pretty spot on.

Posted by: Robert *Be Ungovernable* - Iron Maiden, Senjutsu, OUT NOW!!! at September 13, 2021 04:50 PM (1Yy3c)

526 OT-I just got a spam request from someone claiming to be my denomination head hierarchy guy who wants me to help him with a "discrete " request, but I should just e-mail and not call. e-mail slightly different than the real one. I briefly thought of asking the spammer what the discrete request was, but I decided against it.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 13, 2021 04:45 PM (AJzTi)
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Presumably as opposed to a "continuous" request. Or maybe he meant "discreet."

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 13, 2021 04:51 PM (YqDXo)

527 Yeah it was a fun story, just not a James Bond story.
Ian Fleming is really clear how he depicts James Bond:
"Bond reminds me rather of Hoagy Carmichael, but there is something cold and ruthless."
--Vesper Lynd
This sounds crazy but here's what Hoagy looked like at the time:
https://tinyurl.com/4j58n2pf
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 13, 2021

***
Not crazy at all. The pic exudes confidence and a certain charming menace.

Skyfall was not a "Bond film" like Goldfinger, no, but it was solidly done, and we got some background into Bond as a human being.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at September 13, 2021 04:51 PM (c6xtn)

528 I wasn't gonna, but I'm glad you did...
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 13, 2021 04:49 PM (3p5uk)

Kinda stuck at work right now so still in that frame of mind.

Posted by: hogmartin at September 13, 2021 04:51 PM (P4LRL)

529 Billie Eilish looks a dopehead, and her music could bore a sloth out of a tree.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 13, 2021 04:51 PM (FvCkv)

530 One that is standalone and entirely self-contained, I suppose. Doesn't relate to or depend on any other requests.
Posted by: hogmartin at September 13, 2021 04:47 PM (P4LRL)
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It's like Bender's computer dating service, which is both discreet and discrete.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 13, 2021 04:51 PM (3p5uk)

531
Glen Ballard was the guy who wrote JLP for Alanis.

I suspect that Alanis' contribution was just writing a few trite poems that he hammered into shape.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 13, 2021 04:51 PM (n+4am)

532 I don't trust Marvel to do XMen or the FF right. They're locked into a "Everything must be done like Guardians of the Galaxy" rut and have nothing fresh or new to offer.

They seemed to have learned the lesson DC never did: cast great people, give them a great director and writers, and hand them the budget they need to make it work.

But they're giving films to unknown bleh directors, lame writers, and cutting the budget back as they stopped pulling in a billion per movie.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 13, 2021 04:52 PM (KZzsI)

533 Billie Eilish looks a dopehead, and her music could bore a sloth out of a tree.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 13, 2021 04:51 PM (FvCkv)
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"Bore a sloth out of a tree" is going in my quip book.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 13, 2021 04:52 PM (3p5uk)

534 Eastwood's kid might make a decent Indiana Jones

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at September 13, 2021 04:52 PM (Vxu+H)

535 sideways with a chaser of hot sauce.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

Frank's Red Hot?
Crystal?

Posted by: Tonypete at September 13, 2021 04:53 PM (mD/uy)

536 Skyfall was not a "Bond film" like Goldfinger, no, but it was solidly done, and we got some background into Bond as a human being.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at September 13, 2021 04:51 PM (c6xtn)

1. Bangs gal
2. Finds Bad Guy
3. Kills him and his organizations

Did I miss something.

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 13, 2021 04:53 PM (yrol0)

537 >>> https://tinyurl.com/xucctn6k
Posted by: Robert *Be Ungovernable* - Iron Maiden, Senjutsu, OUT NOW!!! at September 13, 2021 04:49 PM (1Yy3c)

I think my mike Pompeo text was a scam. It had a link embedded in it. Who says "delete this after reading" in a text message? 100yo people? People in the amazon newly introduced to tech?

Posted by: banana Dream at September 13, 2021 04:53 PM (SdC0P)

538 CIA...durning upheavals see which movement bookies are betting on. Act accordingly.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at September 13, 2021 04:53 PM (obcVG)

539 White House cuts feed as Biden is in the middle of a question.

https://bit.ly/3Cec9bj

Posted by: bonhomme at September 13, 2021 04:53 PM (i0wNm)

540 531
Glen Ballard was the guy who wrote JLP for Alanis.

I suspect that Alanis' contribution was just writing a few trite poems that he hammered into shape.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 13, 2021 04:51 PM (n+4am)

Thankee

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Failure happens, giving up is a choice at September 13, 2021 04:53 PM (XvPQV)

541 I think that's part of the problem. Where do Marvel movies go from here?
Posted by: No One of Consequence at September 13, 2021 04:47 PM (CAJOC)

Back to 10 year-olds as the critical demographic, i.e., the people who read comic books?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 13, 2021 04:53 PM (YqDXo)

542 Movies and movie stars. Rock solid conservatives to a man. I bet they just love us Trump deplorables. Glad to give them the attention they are so desperately looking for.

Posted by: grammie winger at September 13, 2021 04:53 PM (45fpk)

543 >>Did I miss something.

Daddy issues?

Posted by: Lizzy at September 13, 2021 04:54 PM (+Rh4C)

544 Indiana Jones and the Temple of Poon ?

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at September 13, 2021 04:54 PM (M+Lyo)

545 I went to see Guardians of the Galaxy hoping for some fun dialog and banter among the characters as well as a space adventure. Despite my admiration for Chris Pratt, I think that movie was dull. No one in H'wood seems to know how to write sparkling dialog any more, I guess because American wit in English would be lost on Chinese audiences.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at September 13, 2021 04:54 PM (c6xtn)

546 540 I did give you a link

Posted by: steevy at September 13, 2021 04:54 PM (uUDKV)

547 NPR claims...

A man who suffered a cardiac emergency died after being turned away from 43 ICUs in 3 states -- all at capacity from COVID.

His obit includes this plea: "In honor of Ray, please get vaccinated if you have not, in an effort to free up resources for non COVID related emergencies."

https://twitter.com/MarinaMedvin/status/
1437487310564626434

Real explanation: Phone calls, not visits. And many of the ICUs turned him down for lack of expertise (why he was being transferred in the first place) not unavailability due to covid, but that's not as politically charged a story/headline so it's buried. [From 'Vancouver Osprey' on twatter.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at September 13, 2021 04:54 PM (UHVv4)

548 Tiny little girl hands

Posted by: Braenyard at September 13, 2021 04:55 PM (Foy17)

549 1. Bangs gal
2. Finds Bad Guy
3. Kills him and his organizations

Did I miss something.
Posted by: rhennigantx

1 and 2 can be exchanged.

Posted by: Some Rat at September 13, 2021 04:55 PM (r1z5A)

550 All Hollywood is any more is just a money laundering center for the dems. They could give a big shit if they make good movies. It's not their purpose.

Posted by: Justsayin' at September 13, 2021 04:55 PM (Fs5vw)

551 Why worry about it? Men & women are interchangeable now. Just ask Celine Provost.

Posted by: aelfheld at September 13, 2021 04:55 PM (Zy9Yy)

552 I think my mike Pompeo text was a scam. It had a link embedded in it. Who says "delete this after reading" in a text message?

He sent me one that said "burn after reading." Now I need a new laptop.

Posted by: Oddbob at September 13, 2021 04:55 PM (nfrXX)

553 Skyfall was not a "Bond film" like Goldfinger, no, but it was solidly done, and we got some background into Bond as a human being.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at September 13, 2021

1. Bangs gal
2. Finds Bad Guy
3. Kills him and his organizations

Did I miss something.
Posted by: rhennigantx at September 13, 2021

***
Yes. We see Bond's relationship with M, we see him as a tactician and strategist, we find out something about his history, and we get M quoting Tennyson.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at September 13, 2021 04:55 PM (c6xtn)

554 1. Bangs gal
2. Finds Bad Guy
3. Kills him and his organizations

Did I miss something.

Gadgets.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at September 13, 2021 04:55 PM (vN+oL)

555 Billie Eilish is Cillian Murphy in a wig, also a shitty singer/performer

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Failure happens, giving up is a choice at September 13, 2021 04:55 PM (XvPQV)

556 Rogue One pilots were so 70s British it hurt. Orange hair and mutton chops. It was terrific.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at September 13, 2021 04:56 PM (/hXfz)

557 Despite my admiration for Chris Pratt, I think that movie was dull. No one in H'wood seems to know how to write sparkling dialog any more, I guess because American wit in English would be lost on Chinese audiences.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at September 13, 2021 04:54 PM (c6xtn)

One word: Talking Raccoon.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at September 13, 2021 04:56 PM (yQpMk)

558 My problem with the Guardians of the Galaxy movies is that everyone is a bad guy. Starlord is the least bad, but they're all awful people who do terrible stuff then winks at us because we're supposed to laugh at it. There's no heroism, unless people are forced into it by a menacing force. There's no guarding at all, except of themselves.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 13, 2021 04:56 PM (KZzsI)

559 "Bore a sloth out of a tree" is going in my quip book.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 13, 2021 04:52 PM (3p5uk)

I saw a show where the catch sloths that have wandered into urban areas and relocate them to the forest.

Turn out that the best way to catch a sloth is to walk up to it and grab it. I don't know who the survived evolution.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at September 13, 2021 04:56 PM (UuD2k)

560 This Cooper is the new hero for Disney:

https://tinyurl.com/z2vnmk22

Posted by: rd at September 13, 2021 04:56 PM (Z32m1)

561 ...Real explanation: Phone calls, not visits. And many of the ICUs turned him down for lack of expertise ...
Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at September 13, 2021 04:54 PM (UHVv4)
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Which is the story of Canadian medicine.

Posted by: Braenyard at September 13, 2021 04:56 PM (Foy17)

562 Billie Eilish - is that a look that is suppose to attract fans/followers?

Posted by: Tonypete at September 13, 2021 04:57 PM (mD/uy)

563 NPR claims...

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at September 13, 2021 04:54 PM (UHVv4)

Die, NPR, die!

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 13, 2021 04:57 PM (YqDXo)

564 My wife was a teacher at another private school. The rule was no phones, ever. They were taken at the beginning of the day and given back when they go home. Never a problem there.
Posted by: banana Dream at September 13, 2021 04:49 PM (SdC0P)

Exactly. Treat it like any other distraction, which kids have had since the beginning of time. We always had some idiot toy, and it went in a box, and we got it when we left. What did they do with Gameboys? Or a Walkman? And a private school I'd certainly hold to higher standards.

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at September 13, 2021 04:57 PM (wAnMi)

565 Real explanation: Phone calls, not visits. And many of the ICUs turned him down for lack of expertise (why he was being transferred in the first place) not unavailability due to covid, but that's not as politically charged a story/headline so it's buried. [From 'Vancouver Osprey' on twatter.
Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4)

If we had an ethical press 90% of these "fear porn" covid stories would be shown to be bullshit.

Posted by: Some Rat at September 13, 2021 04:57 PM (r1z5A)

566 Billie Eilish looks a dopehead, and her music could bore a sloth out of a tree.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 13, 2021 04:51 PM (FvCkv)

I don't think I've heard a single song of hers (or if I did, I wasn't aware of it) but I did receive a marketing email from Fender a few months back, advertising the Billie Eilish Signature Ukulele with a picture of a sad, green-haired girl in some kind of homespun monk's robe poncho sort of thing, grasping a ukulele with visible disinterest.

So, there's that.

Posted by: hogmartin at September 13, 2021 04:57 PM (P4LRL)

567 Related Movies:

Ohio Jones Tracks down adjoining states where he can collect welfare.

Illinois Jones Shoots random people in Da Hood.

Kentucky Jones Meets and fucks gals at family reunions and church socials.

Michigan Jones Got nothing.

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 13, 2021 04:57 PM (yrol0)

568
billy eyelash looks she Stinks

like her body stinks

Posted by: Soothsayer at September 13, 2021 04:58 PM (oYLWM)

569 562 Billie Eilish - is that a look that is suppose to attract fans/followers?
Posted by: Tonypete at September 13, 2021 04:57 PM (mD/uy)
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She looks like the valedictorian from the University of Chernobyl.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 13, 2021 04:58 PM (YqDXo)

570 Billie Eilish - is that a look that is suppose to attract fans/followers?

Its hot if you're a 17 year old goth guy or lesbian.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 13, 2021 04:58 PM (KZzsI)

571 One word: Talking Raccoon.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at September 13, 2021

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I was hoping for more from him and from Pratt's character. Remember the banter we got from Solo and Illya, from Kelly and Scotty on I Spy, and between Sundance and Butch in that film? GotG came nowhere near those.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at September 13, 2021 04:58 PM (c6xtn)

572 534 Eastwood's kid might make a decent Indiana Jones
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at September 13, 2021 04:52 PM (Vxu+H)

Concur. He is very good looking.

Posted by: IC at September 13, 2021 04:58 PM (hV9ir)

573 You don't have to care about movies that debuted 40 years ago. It's like worrying about the 5 or 6 the installment of the Scarlet O'Hara saga in 1979 or whatever.

Posted by: Match Checksout at September 13, 2021 04:58 PM (dYe5S)

574 I went to see Guardians of the Galaxy hoping for some fun dialog and banter among the characters as well as a space adventure.

The best part of both movies was the CGI dancing baby Groot in the opening of the second one. The rest is all forgettable.

Posted by: Oddbob at September 13, 2021 04:58 PM (nfrXX)

575
Rogue One pilots were so 70s British it hurt. Orange hair and mutton chops. It was terrific.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at September 13, 2021 04:56 PM (/hXfz)

Because most of them WERE 70s British. They re-used cockpit clips from the original film.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 13, 2021 04:58 PM (n+4am)

576 No one in H'wood seems to know how to write sparkling dialog any more, I guess because American wit in English would be lost on Chinese audiences.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at September 13, 2021 04:54 PM (c6xtn)

DING DING DING!!!!!!

Give this man a cupie doll.

Posted by: Robert *Be Ungovernable* - Iron Maiden, Senjutsu, OUT NOW!!! at September 13, 2021 04:58 PM (1Yy3c)

577 Its hot if you're a 17 year old goth guy or lesbian.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

But you repeat yourself.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 13, 2021 04:59 PM (mD/uy)

578
"Cindy-Anna Jones And The Curse..."

That's it, just The Curse.

Get it?

(it's a period joke, and also properly "woke")

Posted by: Soothsayer at September 13, 2021 04:59 PM (oYLWM)

579 Turn out that the best way to catch a sloth is to walk up to it and grab it. I don't know who the survived evolution.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe

Fainting goats. Their defense mechanism is to fall over...

Posted by: Some Rat at September 13, 2021 04:59 PM (r1z5A)

580 Is anal sex really rape?

Posted by: Dr. Tara Graff Pharma Expert at September 13, 2021 04:59 PM (dynG0)

581 One word: Talking Raccoon.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at September 13, 2021 04:56
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Got to admit, that 'coon has some 'tude.

Posted by: olddog in mo, Pontoon Captain* (like a real captain, only drunker) at September 13, 2021 04:59 PM (ju2Fy)

582 No one in H'wood seems to know how to write sparkling dialog any more, I guess because American wit in English would be lost on Chinese audiences.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at September 13, 2021

DING DING DING!!!!!!

Give this man a cupie doll.
Posted by: Robert *Be Ungovernable* - Iron Maiden, Senjutsu, OUT NOW!!! at September 13, 2021

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Thank you. I doubt somehow that the fantastic dialog in Gilmore Girls translates well into Mandarin.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at September 13, 2021 05:00 PM (c6xtn)

583 545 I went to see Guardians of the Galaxy hoping for some fun dialog and banter among the characters as well as a space adventure. Despite my admiration for Chris Pratt, I think that movie was dull. No one in H'wood seems to know how to write sparkling dialog any more, I guess because American wit in English would be lost on Chinese audiences.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at September 13, 2021 04:54 PM (c6xtn)

I think it's the movie that makes me the happiest when I watch it. It has all the wonder and excitement (and yes, humor) I want in a sci fi movie.

The dialog is more 1950's Warner Brothers cartoon than Steven Fry, but if you were looking for sparkling wit, it probably isn't the right movie for that.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Failure happens, giving up is a choice at September 13, 2021 05:00 PM (XvPQV)

584 The Billie Eilish Signature Ukelele is the perfect gift for that special someone you'd like to beat the shit out of you.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 13, 2021 05:00 PM (FvCkv)

585 I'm still waiting for Hollywood to remake "Birth of a Nation." They've remade everything else, and have no original ideas, so it's only a matter of time.

Maybe cast BLM as the KKK?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 13, 2021 05:00 PM (YqDXo)

586 like her body stinks

Yes, she looks like a girl who bathes rarely and celebrates not using any deodorant. Or shaving anything.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 13, 2021 05:01 PM (KZzsI)

587
What I'm waiting and hoping for is a The Most Ridiculous Clown-World Class Action Suit to commence: The lawsuit against "the unvaxxed" for "xxxxx-amount" of deaths "they caused."

Posted by: Soothsayer at September 13, 2021 05:01 PM (oYLWM)

588 (it's a period joke, and also properly "woke")
Posted by: Soothsayer at September 13, 2021 04:59 PM (oYLWM)

IT LIKE GIRLS DO THAT THING YA KNOW AND THEY HAVE THAT ISLE AT WALGREENS AND STUFF YA KNOW

Posted by: BEN ROTHILESSTHANBERGER at September 13, 2021 05:01 PM (yrol0)

589 The Billie Eilish Signature Ukelele is the perfect gift for that special someone you'd like to beat the shit out of you.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

I'll take six.
-- Marquis de Sade

Posted by: Tonypete at September 13, 2021 05:01 PM (mD/uy)

590 Did I miss something.
Posted by: rhennigantx at September 13, 2021 04:53 PM (yrol0)

Get seriously beaten around
Get a female lead killed

Posted by: Kindltot at September 13, 2021 05:01 PM (ssx3L)

591 Give this man a cupie doll.

cupie or kewpie?

Posted by: olddog in mo, Pontoon Captain* (like a real captain, only drunker) at September 13, 2021 05:02 PM (ju2Fy)

592
Morrisette should name names.

And why do these films keep giving Kathleen Kennedy a job? Its like they want to fail.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at September 13, 2021 05:02 PM (r+sAi)

593 Presumably as opposed to a "continuous" request. Or maybe he meant "discreet."
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 13, 2021 04:51 PM (YqDXo)

Yes, which was why I laughed before I let the real guy know someone was playing games with his e-mail. I don't want to do anything discreet with him. He's a kind of a nice looking guy....but no.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 13, 2021 05:02 PM (AJzTi)

594 Got to admit, that 'coon has some 'tude.
Posted by: olddog in mo, Pontoon Captain* (like a real captain, only drunker) at September 13, 2021 04:59 PM (ju2Fy)

Trash Panda

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 13, 2021 05:02 PM (yrol0)

595
I think it's the movie that makes me the happiest when I watch it. It has all the wonder and excitement (and yes, humor) I want in a sci fi movie.

The dialog is more 1950's Warner Brothers cartoon than Steven Fry, but if you were looking for sparkling wit, it probably isn't the right movie for that.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Failure happens, giving up is a choice at September 13, 2021 05:00 PM (XvPQV)

Yeah, it's just a fun movie. When Pratt grabs the space rat in mid-pounce and uses it as a microphone, I'll admit that I busted a gut laughing.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 13, 2021 05:02 PM (n+4am)

596 I don't actually know who Billie Eilish is but image search looks like she lives on PCP.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at September 13, 2021 05:02 PM (yQpMk)

597 558 My problem with the Guardians of the Galaxy movies is that everyone is a bad guy. Starlord is the least bad, but they're all awful people who do terrible stuff then winks at us because we're supposed to laugh at it. There's no heroism, unless people are forced into it by a menacing force. There's no guarding at all, except of themselves.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 13, 2021 04:56 PM (KZzsI)

Starlord literally sacrifices his life for Gamora...he survives it but the motivation was there.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Failure happens, giving up is a choice at September 13, 2021 05:02 PM (XvPQV)

598 567 *Trimmed for Pixy*

Kentucky Jones Meets and fucks gals at family reunions and church socials.

Michigan Jones Got nothing.
Posted by: rhennigantx at September 13, 2021 04:57 PM (yrol0)

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What? No Florida Jones? Two hours of him just doing crazy shit.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at September 13, 2021 05:02 PM (CAJOC)

599 The dialog is more 1950's Warner Brothers cartoon than Steven Fry, but if you were looking for sparkling wit, it probably isn't the right movie for that.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Failure happens, giving up is a choice at September 13, 2021

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Maybe not, but some actual laugh-out-loud dialog would have been nice. I recall an episode of I Spy where Kelly and Scotty have to change a baby's diaper on a motorcycle trip in the desert; or another where Kelly is writing to their bosses to get reimbursed for ruining his watch on a mission. Classic stuff.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at September 13, 2021 05:02 PM (c6xtn)

600 So Kennedy is going to do to IndyJones what Chibnall did to Dr Who.

Say, was Jones born a poor black baby?

As they say, I can't wait to miss it.

Posted by: Flyover at September 13, 2021 05:02 PM (Rbu5d)

601 I liked both Guardian movies. Fun Saturday-Matinee type flicks. Might watch them again tonight.

Posted by: Justsayin' at September 13, 2021 05:03 PM (Fs5vw)

602 Turn out that the best way to catch a sloth is to walk up to it and grab it. I don't know who the survived evolution.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at September 13, 2021 04:56 PM (UuD2k)

They taste bad and there is not much meat on them.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 13, 2021 05:03 PM (ssx3L)

603 The best part of both movies was the CGI dancing baby Groot in the opening of the second one. The rest is all forgettable.
Posted by: Oddbob at September 13, 2021 04:58 PM (nfrXX)

I don't think there's a single marvel movie that did anything for me. Granted, I've seen maybe 4-5 tops. After friends raved and raved about Guardians, I finally gave it a spin. Took me a few days to slog through it. Turned it off the first few minutes, tried again, then finally started to accept it and watch. I honestly don't remember much if anything. And my brain shuts down the instant I see design by committee cute like baby groot and baby yoda - basically baby anything which I've come to understand as desperation. Baby Loony Toons. Baby Scooby Doo. Baby Muppets. Can't think of a compelling character, or something is getting stale? BABY!

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at September 13, 2021 05:04 PM (wAnMi)

604 I GOT IT ! Jonny Lee Miller - New Bond !

Posted by: runner at September 13, 2021 05:04 PM (V13WU)

605 Starlord literally sacrifices his life for Gamora...he survives it but the motivation was there.

Yeah, their little group. Nobody else. And not because they like each other because they don't seem to. Every joke and comment is at the excuse of someone else, constantly.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 13, 2021 05:04 PM (KZzsI)

606 Who ?

Posted by: SOMEASSHOLESTOLEMYPEN at September 13, 2021 05:05 PM (ytSiK)

607 Noodus quick-hittius

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at September 13, 2021 05:05 PM (c6xtn)

608 They taste bad and there is not much meat on them.
Posted by: Kindltot at September 13, 2021 05:03 PM (ssx3L)

Just like Billie Eilish

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 13, 2021 05:05 PM (FvCkv)

609 Nood

Posted by: Furious George at September 13, 2021 05:05 PM (9vQJW)

610 Jonny Lee Miller - New Bond !
Posted by: runner at September 13, 2021

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The Sherlock from Elementary? Surely you jest, and yes, I will call you Shirley.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at September 13, 2021 05:06 PM (c6xtn)

611 Is anal sex really rape?
Posted by: Dr. Tara Graff Pharma Expert at September 13, 2021 04:59 PM (dynG0)

Ummmmm....Yes.

Posted by: Zombie Ned Beatty at September 13, 2021 05:06 PM (R/m4+)

612 Minneapolis Mosque Bomber was sentencded to 53 years in prison.

The bomber from Illinois has now transitioned to female prior to he/she/its sentencing.

I don't blame her, I would rather do my time in a female prison too. Lots fewer Islamic and racist gangs.

Posted by: rd at September 13, 2021 05:06 PM (Z32m1)

613 Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at September 13, 2021 05:04 PM (wAnMi)

Baby Groot appears only at the very end of the first movie but is featured a lot in the second GOTG.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Failure happens, giving up is a choice at September 13, 2021 05:06 PM (XvPQV)

614 Guardians Of The Galaxy was a giant excuse for a 70s pop and rock soundtrack.

Posted by: Robert *Be Ungovernable* - Iron Maiden, Senjutsu, OUT NOW!!! at September 13, 2021 05:06 PM (1Yy3c)

615 No, seriously, a nood. Get over there.

Posted by: Furious George at September 13, 2021 05:06 PM (9vQJW)

616 Come on ! He is perfect.

Posted by: runner at September 13, 2021 05:06 PM (V13WU)

617 526 OT-I just got a spam request from someone claiming to be my denomination head hierarchy guy who wants me to help him with a "discrete " request, but I should just e-mail and not call. e-mail slightly different than the real one. I briefly thought of asking the spammer what the discrete request was, but I decided against it.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 13, 2021 04:45 PM (AJzTi)
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Presumably as opposed to a "continuous" request. Or maybe he meant "discreet."

maybe he's looking for help setting up a computerized dating service; it'd be discreet and discrete.

Posted by: Bender Rodriguez at September 13, 2021 05:06 PM (sGtp+)

618 Nood.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 13, 2021 05:06 PM (z4k8L)

619 Billy Joe McCallister was gonna jump off the Waller Bridge but it was too snooty and judgmental.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at September 13, 2021 05:07 PM (r+sAi)

620 Wait Morissette admits to consenting to group sex with multiple men at 15 and uses the "I wasn't old enough in the modern world to 'consent'" to claim victim status instead of whore status? Nice for her I guess.

Posted by: Prickly Pete Salmonella at September 13, 2021 05:07 PM (cJqki)

621 The Sherlock from Elementary? Surely you jest, and yes, I will call you Shirley.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at September 13, 2021 05:06 PM (c6xtn)

He is next ! Bernard Lee's grandson. Muay Thai and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu champ. Looks good in a tux. That's it !

Posted by: runner at September 13, 2021 05:08 PM (V13WU)

622 Billie Eilish

Oooh, I know that look, it is Brendan Fraser in "Airheads"!

Posted by: Kindltot at September 13, 2021 05:09 PM (ssx3L)

623 I was that girl in the 90s that obsessed over female music, did Lilith Fair and the whole works. Billie Eilish should hit that same note for me and does not for some reason. I must be getting old.

But yeah her baggy shapeless clothes, unappealing dye job, etc was an appealing counterculture to girls growing up in a world drenched in a post millennial, social media sexualized world. Could have kept that train going a while but she sold out at last. The head honcho pervs convinced her she needed to bear skin for feminism.

Also she bashes men when her brother and the unique sound he gave her is what made her music what it is. Oh well.

Posted by: LizLem at September 13, 2021 05:11 PM (Lf9W7)

624 For that matter, why they hell even make an Indy movie? And what happened to Skeezix or whatever ludicrous faux greaser was in the last one? His son just vanished?
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 13, 2021 03:45 PM (KZzsI)

Nope. Xhe became a trans-woman now played to perfection by smirky Phoebe Waller-Bridge.

Finally! An Indiana Jones movie that looks like America.

So stunning! So brave!

Posted by: naturalfake at September 13, 2021 05:11 PM (5NkmN)

625 558 My problem with the Guardians of the Galaxy movies is that everyone is a bad guy. Starlord is the least bad, but they're all awful people who do terrible stuff then winks at us because we're supposed to laugh at it. There's no heroism, unless people are forced into it by a menacing force. There's no guarding at all, except of themselves.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

Nothing new about that. Leone's Spaghetti Westerns were all about this. I liked GOTG, the first one anyway.

Posted by: Puddleglum at September 13, 2021 05:12 PM (QFVV9)

626 This will bomb badly.

By the time this makes it too the screen, audiences will have had their fill a some lame ass FemaWoke actress taking over male roles or dominating a movie where they should be a bit part.*

*See "DUNE'.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 13, 2021 05:14 PM (5NkmN)

627 You wonder what stunning and brave move they're going to try next when this gets played out (note: it's already played out, even if they haven't figured that out yet).

My guess: trannies. Superman will be a tranny. Batman will be a tranny. The Incredible Hulk will be a tranny.

And then they'll wonder why the box office revenues continue to slide.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 13, 2021 05:58 PM (oL4gB)

628 Ah, I SPY...

After a major fiasco --
Kelly: How are we gonna explain this?
Scotty: We can use the word 'inundated.' We were inundated by half a dozen black belt karate men and thirteen apes.
Kelly: Won't work. Apes don't come in thirteen.
Scotty: No?
Kelly: No, man. They come in the door.

Something delightful every week on that show. I can still watch it with pleasure. And you could find terrific banter between David Janssen and Anthony Zerbe in HARRY O as well. And THE ROCKFORD FILES was frequently funny enough to cause death by laughter (an episode called "The Hawaiian Headache" comes immediately to mind). I miss that stuff. Nothing today comes close.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at September 13, 2021 06:15 PM (JzDjf)

629 "Statutory" rape.

SO Morrissette WILLLING started selling her body at age 15.

In other words, she is a lifelong whore.

I swear to god--Napoleon was wrong about his mother.

Posted by: WinnieSC at September 13, 2021 06:16 PM (0HQgb)

630 She has a strong, manly chin.

Posted by: Baldy at September 13, 2021 07:03 PM (OLCH5)

631 Remember how RomComs and Situation Comedies in the late 70s and 80s got to the point where you could write the storyline just by reading the title and seeing who the leads were?

I have no idea what you mean.
Posted by: When Harry Got Mail in Seattle at September 13, 2021 04:09 PM (ZsR3z)

There's nothing much wrong in a formula, if it means you use it as the skeleton of the building you are doing with setting up the scenes, characters and the like. You can even tweak it a bit without losing those who like the formula and pull in some those that don't. But if you have lost the ability to write or film a scene, make a character, or have a plot you follow then without this structure you have jello.

Posted by: Oldcat at September 13, 2021 07:16 PM (eoQWY)

632 China also said they would be banning movies if the males were too feminine. They are talking about Shang-Ti.

Posted by: MikeN at September 13, 2021 07:56 PM (o/eHL)

633 Back when Morrisette was getting gang banged the age of consent in Canada was only 14. So, legally no, she was not raped.

Posted by: Denizen of Canuckistan at September 13, 2021 08:00 PM (WKv85)

634 >Denizen of Canuckistan

I was just about to point that out, although depending on exactly who, the "in a position of trust or authority" clause might have applied which kicks it up to 18.

Nickelodeon didn't have anything to do with the production of You Can't Do That On Television. Nickelodeon only paid for the syndication broadcast rights. No connection.

Morissette has repeatedly complained in the past that her parents forced her into a music career because they wanted to be the parents of a teen pop star; if I had to bet I'd place money on it being music producers or agents.

Also, Morissette's dysfunctional behaviour as an adult makes a lot more sense when you realize that it's Complex PTSD ("You Oughta Know" is about Dave Coulier who broke up with her because she didn't want to get married and have a family with him)

Posted by: Daniel Ream at September 13, 2021 09:39 PM (ArYuy)

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