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Hollywood Is Dying and Jessica Chastain is the Grisly Angel of Death Dragging It to the Grave
Two stories I've meant to write about for a while.
First, woke is killing Hollywood, and the white liberals are starting to complain that they are blacklisted. Or, whitelisted.Note the suggestion that the truth should be covered up for the sake of, what, protecting diversity initiatives?
Hollywood will barely dare whisper it but the woke revolution that has driven out white men and ensures that every production is ideologically sound will kill the entertainment industry, writes PETER KIEFER and PETER SAVODNIK ... We spoke to more than 25 writers, directors, and producers--all of whom identify as liberal, and all of whom described a pervasive fear of running afoul of the new dogma. This was the case not just among the high command at companies like Netflix, Amazon, and Hulu, but at every level of production. How to survive the revolution? By becoming its most ardent supporter. 'Best way to defend yourself against the woke is to out-woke everyone, including the woke,' one writer said. ... 'Everyone has gone so underground with their true feelings about things,' said Mike White, the writer and director behind the hit HBO comedy-drama 'The White Lotus.' 'If you voice things in a certain way it can really have negative repercussions for you, and people can presume that you could be racist, or you could be seen as misogynist.' ... 'Now, they'll just say, 'Sorry, diversity quotas. We're just not allowed to hire you,' said a 48-year-old white, male comedy writer who was recently dropped by his agent. Zack Stentz, a writer and producer who was a screenwriter on 'Agent Cody Banks' and the Marvel movie 'Thor,' said, 'A really toxic thing that does happen is that agents will tell their clients, especially white clients, when they don't get a job, 'Oh yeah, it's because they had to hire a minority writer.' Stentz added: 'Even if it's true, it's not a helpful thing to say.'
And speaking of Woke movie-making: Jessica Chastain's latest vanity project, her attempt to prove that she can be an Action Movie Star, bombed abysmally, taking in an incredibly embarrassing $4.3 million at the box office in its opening weekend. After five full weeks at the box office, plus an additional weekend, it took in $28 million worldwide. It's out on PPV now so that about wraps up its box office take. The Spider-Man movie is almost at $1.8 billion globally so this can't be blamed on covid. Below, the trailer.
One showrunner, afraid to send his emails to us out of fear of them accidentally winding up on the wrong screen, agreed to show us correspondence with agents, writers, and studio chiefs that capture the new thinking at the highest levels of the Hollywood food chain. Sitting in his office, in a casita behind his house and next to the pool, we scrolled through the emails on his laptop: 'This one a dead end -- they are going to limit search to women and bipoc candidates' 'How tied to hiring him are you? There are some internally that don't like the idea of hiring a white guy. I wish I had a better way to frame it. Hate this shit.' 'Studio now telling us this job must go to a female / bipoc writer. Sorry -- it sucks' When we wrapped up, the showrunner said: 'This is all going to end in a giant class-action lawsuit.' The creatives who embrace this agenda think all of this is laughable, a lie, a rationalization. 'HI AGENTS AND MANAGERS of white folks in this industry,' the actor and director Natalie Morales tweeted in November. 'For fucks sake, please stop blaming 'diversity hires' for why your client isn't getting a job. It's either that you're not working hard enough or that they're not good enough. Be honest with them. You are harming us.' Rochée Jeffrey, a black writer on 'Grownish,' 'Santa Inc.,' and 'Woke,' said: 'I don't care if white people aren't comfortable because black people are uncomfortable all the fucking time. I can't tell you how many times I've had to bite my tongue so as not to offend white sensibilities, so I don't give a shit if they're nervous.' The showrunner said that the new politics is making it hard to get work done. He added that Human Resources departments at the studios and streaming services are awash in complaints directed at white, male showrunners just for doing their job. 'It's gotten to the point where I won't give notes on a script any longer to a woman or person of color.' Stentz said that he hasn't run into any problems with 'young millennial staffers with more, shall we say, of a social justice emphasis.'
Who is this for?, Nolte asks. Well, it's for Jessica Chastain. Apparently she conceived of the project expressly as a culture war vehicle -- she wanted to "challenge the notion that the action-spy genre belonged to men." That's not an artistic motivation. It's a purely political one. It's not that she has a love of spy action films, it's not that she had a story idea, it's not that she had this "idea burning inside me" -- she just saw something boys were doing and said "girls should plant a flag there to claim territory from the boys." That's about as far from a creative impulse as you can get. It's not even a money-grubbing impulse -- which could result in good art, because good art will often produce money. No, this is a spiteful impulse, an impulse to denigrate and beat up on men -- while also demanding they come give you money to see your movie. As Charlie's Angels did a few years ago. The (female) writer kind of gives away that spiteful motivation. It's not about the story, or the genre, or the love of the action-spy format. Explaining that the Penelope Cruz character is a mother, which is what makes her different than the average male character...
"Registering one of the worst-ever openings for a film its size... [the] globe-trotting spy movie The 355 is expected to make $4.3 million in its debut weekend," reports Collider. "Conservative estimates had put the film's opening at between $5 million and $7 million, but this is a terrible result for a film playing in over 3,000 theaters and featuring the sort of cast that it does." Yeah, well, conservative estimates said $5 to $7 million in the hopes of spinning a $9 or $10 million opening a success. Deadline accidentally points out the one big reason why this movie tanked. "The 355 seemed like a perfect title for Universal to acquire a domestic [opening of] $20M, the movie fitting in its theatrical slate, which is about diversity and representation." Diversity and representation. Oh, yeah, that's why we go to the movies, for two hours of diversity and representation. Good grief.
There's much more of a present sense of responsibility to the future of our children and our families. There's the sense of, "This is not everything," that comes out of Lupita's character, where she's trying to disentangle herself from this world. Every now and then I see Tom Cruise doing something like that, but it sort of feels like this world has a deeper soul around: Why are we doing this and why is it essential that we do not stop until we do? It's not a game to them, as it is a game to the men who end up all involved in the corrupt and creepy auction at the end. For them, it's all about money and power. For the women, it's all about: We're not going to just let you blow up the world.So men do not have souls and do not care about children or families or the world, just money and "games" and power. Got it. And so of course the movie failed. And who could have guessed a Jessica Chastain project would fail miserably?
You can tell they had no story they wanted to tell, besides "Girls Do Mission: Impossible," because apparently they simply filmed a beat-for-beat genderswapped remake of the first Mission: Impossible movie. But with Girls, see? And all the men are bad, see? The plot's about a stolen NOC list, a beloved colleague is killed early in the film during the NOC list heist, there's a videocamera hidden in eyeglasses, and, at the end, the beloved colleague you thought was dead turns out not to be dead at all, but the Bad Guy. In this movie, the beloved colleague is Jessica Chastain's boyfriend, and he's Evil, because All Men are Bad. They always do this in these movies and then they keep whining: Why don't men see our horrible, uninspired, dull rip-off movies which depict men as stupid weakling monsters? They did the exact same thing in Charlie's Angels, and then did the exact same whining. And they are whining about why men didn't show up for this one, too: This reviewer concedes that the movie is "mediocre," but then demands that you like this mediocre movie, or else just admit you're a misogynist.
However, this movie was not bad at all; it did not run too long and did not disappoint in regards to what it promised.It didn't run too long? Wow, what a triumph. "It was under two hours; movie of the year!"
"The 355" is advertised as a typical action movie, and that is exactly what it was. Most action movies are quite similar to one another and truly do not have much substance and depth to them. So what is so unlikable about this one? The difference between this movie and other action/spy movies is that the protagonists are women, and the villains are men. This is not cheap or overplayed; it is refreshing and necessary. The world needs predictable, mindless spy movies about women to counteract and balance the enormous repertoire of male-led ones.In male-led spy movies, the villains are not women, because they are not gener-bashing political manifestos disguised as entertainments.
... "The 355" is not necessarily revolutionary -- perhaps even easily forgotten -- but then again, so are most action movies. They are made for the sole purpose of mind-numbing entertainment, and this film accomplishes just that. There is something so special about tuning out the world to settle into a film that transfers its audience to a more exciting, secret life they could never possibly live.As you can see from this review, this reviewer -- a woman -- plainly herself does not like action movies and thinks almost all of them are stupid and unnecessary, and so she's asking Stupid Men: Why don't you like this stupid, uninspired, mind-numbing action movie? It's just as stupid as all of the other ones you like. I mean, that's the problem right there. Women don't like action movies. So... why would they make them, and why would they expect women to go see them? And why would they expect something approaching gender-parity in the number of men and women working on action movies, or seeing action movies? I know that some women will object: But I like action movies! I mean, sure, you like Raiders of the Lost Ark. You like Die Hard. You like Star Wars. You like... the absolute creme de la creme. But do you like... War? Do you like Passenger 57? Do you like Cliffhanger? Do you like Stone Cold? Do you like The Hidden? Well okay, I didn't like all those myself, but I saw all of them. Liking the tip-top first tier offerings of a genre doesn't mean you like the genre, it just means you like tip-top first tier offerings. But I like Little Shop of Horrors. I've seen it thirty times. I like Chicago. I've seen that like eight times. But I haven't seen any other musicals and I'd have to be dragged to see a musical. So I really don't think that Hollywood would get rich trying to make more musicals to appeal to "The Ace of Spades Demographic." I don't think producers should try to make a musicals with my hobbies and interests in mind, such as dogs, erecting quality shelves, looking cool on a Vespa, or banging Garrett's mom. I mean, I'm a "discriminating viewer of musicals" which means I'm extremely choosy. An industry can't survive on choosy customers. It needs voracious customers. It doesn't need discriminating viewers; it needs very undiscriminating viewers. You don't make action movies for women and you don't make musicals for me. You will sometimes make movies that are so good in either of those genres that you will attract atypical audience members, and in those cases, you have cross-over hits or even blockbusters. But you don't make action movies for women. Unless you want to keep making Charlie's Angels ($8 million opening weekend) and The 355 ($4.3 million opening weekend). To date, after five full weeks of exhibition, plus a bonus weekend, The 355 has made only $28 million. Globally. I hope they do keep making these movies, to be honest. I like watching them burn. And just to prove that men like action movies in a way women don't, I wrote a short quiz. I'm going to ask about some real stinker action movies. Definitely not tip-top first tier offering. Bottom tier to just short of the middle tier, at best. I bet that Male Morons of a Certain Age will get a surprising number of questions correct.
In the godawful Bruce Willis stinker Striking Distance, Willis is busted down to serving as a cop with what sort of unusual jurisdiction? In what city? Who is his female costar? What creepy oldie pop song does the killer play when he kills young women? Who does the killer turn out to be? I mean the actor. I sure the hell don't know character names in this piece of filth. In Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man, who played Harley Davidson? Who played the Marlboro Man? Which one rode a Harley? Which one smoked? Which Baldwin played one of the leather trenchcoat wearing bad guys?
Jean-Claude Van Damme picked up an outrageous New Orleans accent to star in what "The Most Dangerous Game" rip-off movie? Who directed it? What military outfit was Van Damme's character formerly a part of? (Hint: Think about his background.) What older actor showed up as an ally, sporting an almost even more outrageous Cajun accent? What weapon did this older actor use? What unlikely element does Van Damme incorporate into a snare trap? Who played the bad guy? What high-class, artistic action is the bad guy doing as he's introduced, setting up a cliche that would haunt action movies for the next 20 years as every other bad guy had to also be shown doing something high class?
Which rapper starred in another "The Most Dangerous Game" rip-off, Surviving the Game? Name at least one actor playing the bad guys. What general area of the country was that movie set in?
Who were the co-leads of Showdown in Little Tokyo, the movie which has tricked ten million people into getting excited thinking, wrongly, that it was Big Trouble in Little China? What bizarre, homoerotic compliment did the dark-haired lead give to the light-haired lead? Answers:
In Striking Distance, Bruce Willis gets in trouble and is busted down (yawn) to acting as some kind of river patrol cop. In Pittsburg. His female lead is the newcomer Sarah Jessica Parker who went on to win the Preakness later that year. The song the killer plays is "Little Red Riding Hood" by Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs. The killer, IIRC, turns out to be the uninsurable Tom Sizemore. His name is Tommy or something dumb, and think he starts screaming like a baby at the end something like "Tommy's the good boy! Tommy's the good boy!" or something. It's embarrassing. I still remember that. No wonder he did drugs and filmed himself banging prostitutes. In many ways, this was the story of Hunter Biden. Update: Jordan61 says I'm wrong, and Wikipedia confirms: There were two soy, weak, schlubby Italian-looking guys, Tom Sizemore and Robert Pastorelli, playing "Danny" and "Jimmy." Although Tom Sizemore is suspected of being the killer for a lot of the movie, it turns out to be this "Jimmy" character, who... um, was previously believed to have committed suicide but Oh No He Didn't. Okay, I got that one wrong. I told you I was going from memory! I can't believe I saw this movie, which I hated, so many times that I remember this much of it. (But not all of it, it turns out.)
Mickey Roarke played Harley Davidson. Don Johnson played the Marlboro Man. They both rode Harleys. They both smoked. Basically they were named according to their cute outfits: Roarke wore biker leathers, Johnson wore denim, a vest, and a cowboy hat. The Baldwin bad guy was Daniel Baldwin, who for years was known as "the Least Baldwin," until Alec heroically wrenched that title away from him by killing a six-point cinematographer on the last day of crew season. I saw this piece of shit in the theater. I paid real money to get in to see it. It wasn't part of a money-laundering operation or anything, it was a legit transaction. The Jean Claude Van Damme "Most Dangerous Game" rip-off was Hard Target. It was the first (IIRC) American movie directed by Noted Dove Choreographer and Church Interior Designer John Woo. I am 99.9% sure that Van Damme's character was a French Foreign Legionnaire. The older actor who shows up is Wilfred Brimley. He's Van Damme's Uncle Guillaume or something dumb like that. He kills several people with a bow. I think Jean Claude Van Damme sets up a trap involving a venomous snake, where the snake drops down or pops up when you step on a tripwire. It's so dumb I don't know if it really happened or I dreamed it later. The bad guy was Lance Henrikson. He is introduced playing a classical piece on a grand piano. This was hilariously spoofed in MacGruber, as Dieter Van Cunth is introduced painting a portrait of naked old cleaning woman. This movie wasn't actually terrible, exactly; it was just dumb and low-achieving and also dumb and tastelessly overstuffed with Van Damme. It was "fun" if your idea of fun is Dumb Things and kicks in the face and Van Damme doing splits and sucking in his cheeks to look pretty. It was a big disappointment because I was on the John Woo craze of the, what, early 90s? I expected more. Another correction: a commenter says Van Damme was a Force Recon vet in this movie, and that I'm confusing his French Legionnaire background from another movie, maybe Legionnaire (appropriately enough). Surviving the Game starred Ice-T. The bad guys were played by Rutger Hauer and Gary Busey. The movie was set somewhere in the Pacific Northwest. I don't remember anything else except that Ice-T played a homeless man and military veteran which was almost exactly the same as Van Damme in Hard Target. Except Van Damme wasn't homeless, he just had friends who were homeless who were disappearing. But the plot was the same -- bad guys hiring homeless military guys to be the "quarry" in a human hunt. The co-leads of Showdown in Little Tokyo were Dolph Lundgren and Brandon Lee. This is the bizarre homoerotic compliment. I didn't really see much of this movie. I always turned it off when I realized it wasn't Big Trouble in Little China. I only know the quote because they nominated it for a Weirdest Moment award in an MTV Movie Awards show.
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at February 14, 2022 05:20 PM (V6f9+)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at February 14, 2022 05:20 PM (V6f9+)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 14, 2022 05:22 PM (eN2PK)
Posted by: clutch cargo - Now fortified with Vanax37, M390 and CPM-S90V at February 14, 2022 05:22 PM (wAnMi)
Posted by: SH (Overturn Roe) at February 14, 2022 05:22 PM (sX1BW)
In the godawful Bruce Willis stinker Striking Distance, Willis is busted down to serving as a cop with what sort of unusual jurisdiction? In what city? Who is his female costar? What creepy oldie pop song does the killer play when he kills young women? Who does the killer turn out to be? I mean the actor. I sure the hell don't know character names in this piece of filth.
I'm a female and I know most of these answers.
Posted by: Jordan61 at February 14, 2022 05:22 PM (Ez6QX)
Posted by: James T Kirk at February 14, 2022 05:23 PM (F9322)
River boat patrolman. Pittsburg. That horse faced gal from Sex in the City (although she looked hot here.) Do not remember the song (I only have eyes for you?) His former partner that skeevy italian actor.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 14, 2022 05:23 PM (eN2PK)
Posted by: clutch cargo - Now fortified with Vanax37, M390 and CPM-S90V at February 14, 2022 05:24 PM (wAnMi)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 14, 2022 05:24 PM (eN2PK)
Posted by: SH (Overturn Roe) at February 14, 2022 05:25 PM (sX1BW)
Posted by: ace at February 14, 2022 05:25 PM (0G13K)
Posted by: JT at February 14, 2022 05:25 PM (arJlL)
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at February 14, 2022 05:25 PM (M+Lyo)
Posted by: Jordan61 at February 14, 2022 05:25 PM (Ez6QX)
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at February 14, 2022 05:25 PM (M+Lyo)
Blind Fury. Hauer was in some gems.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 14, 2022 05:26 PM (eN2PK)
Posted by: Azathoth at February 14, 2022 05:26 PM (W3VUu)
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at February 14, 2022 05:26 PM (PiwSw)
??? wasn't he going johnny's the bad boy, johnny's the bad boy?
Posted by: ace at February 14, 2022 05:26 PM (0G13K)
Posted by: clutch cargo - Now fortified with Vanax37, M390 and CPM-S90V at February 14, 2022 05:24 PM (wAnMi)
I think at this point it's B.
Posted by: Jordan61 at February 14, 2022 05:26 PM (Ez6QX)
Posted by: JT at February 14, 2022 05:26 PM (arJlL)
Posted by: fd at February 14, 2022 05:26 PM (vrz2I)
Posted by: Iris at February 14, 2022 05:26 PM (DibdT)
Posted by: Azathoth at February 14, 2022 05:26 PM (W3VUu)
Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at February 14, 2022 05:27 PM (i+3WY)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 14, 2022 05:27 PM (KZzsI)
By becoming its most ardent supporter.
I'm frankly surprised there has not yet been a vigilante movie about killing non maskers or Trump supporters. That would get Chinese funding.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 14, 2022 05:27 PM (5kI0z)
Posted by: ShainS -- Keep on HONKING in the Free World! at February 14, 2022 05:27 PM (Jqvra)
Posted by: World's Smallest Violin at February 14, 2022 05:27 PM (HmZuC)
Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at February 14, 2022 05:27 PM (bVYXr)
57 and Cliffhanger were good.
Although, I even kind of liked the Cable Guy.
And I've never not had sex with a girl after watching The Princess Bride.
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at February 14, 2022 05:27 PM (nDrPh)
sort of the authorial voice of the whole series, captain of the writers room. Doesn't write every script but suggests a lot of story idea and approves the ones proposed by writers. assigns scripts to writers/writer teams. I think they probably also have producer function but I kinda don't know what a producer does.
Posted by: ace at February 14, 2022 05:27 PM (0G13K)
Posted by: kraken at February 14, 2022 05:28 PM (Vr12I)
Posted by: ace at February 14, 2022 05:26 PM (0G13K)
I don't remember that part. I just remember you are supposed to think it's Sizemore because the other guy (his brother) is supposedly dead.
Posted by: Jordan61 at February 14, 2022 05:28 PM (Ez6QX)
Posted by: N.L. Urker, Honk Justin Trudeau at February 14, 2022 05:28 PM (eGTCV)
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at February 14, 2022 05:28 PM (PiwSw)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at February 14, 2022 05:28 PM (V6f9+)
Posted by: Rolling Donut Unharmed By gp's Flying Leap at February 14, 2022 05:28 PM (qpX6U)
It also didn't hurt that it was a good film.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 14, 2022 05:28 PM (Wqc9l)
Posted by: Jordan61 at February 14, 2022 05:25 PM (Ez6QX)
Yeah, looking at IMDB, I think Robert Pastorelli was the killer, his dad covered it up and shot Willis' Dad (who was also Frasier Crane's Dad.)
Lot of greek style tragedy going on here- without the homo.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 14, 2022 05:29 PM (eN2PK)
My oldest daughter takes a perverse delight in watching Truly Bad Films. She's absolutely hellbent on dragging me to see "Moonfall" when it comes out.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at February 14, 2022 05:29 PM (dfRN6)
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They give roles to underage kids that are "willing" to have sex with them.
Posted by: SH (Overturn Roe) at February 14, 2022 05:29 PM (sX1BW)
And pronounced with a sxktz.
Sizemore played the killers useless brother.
Posted by: DaveA at February 14, 2022 05:29 PM (FhXTo)
He watched Cats once out of curiosity and boredom.
Posted by: Narrator's voice at February 14, 2022 05:29 PM (hQzem)
Yet white people like Sarah Silverman, Jimmy Kimmel, and Seth Rogen will keep landing roles well beyond their abilities.
Posted by: trev006 at February 14, 2022 05:29 PM (22U4t)
Posted by: SOMEASSHOLESTOLEMYPEN at February 14, 2022 05:29 PM (hObqH)
It used to be you'd go to a movie expecting it to be good and disappointed when it was not.
Now you go to a movie expecting it to be bad and surprised when its not.
That's a pretty huge shift. I mean... I haven't darkened the door of a movie theater since SPECTER so I am talking about seeing movies on streaming, but still the principle applies. You used to expect quality and now you expect it to suck.
I think that's why superhero stuff generally does well: it doesn't suck, usually. Its not great, I mean its the quality level of Commando with Ahnold, but its fun and entertaining with a minimum level of really offensive plot holes. And when they do suck? People generally hate them except for comic book zombies who still think having a movie made from a comic is super fresh and wonderful.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 14, 2022 05:29 PM (KZzsI)
Posted by: Harvey Weinstein at February 14, 2022 05:30 PM (QYPq3)
A good one basically does most of the writing and directing in early seasons until they've found enough underlings to keep running things smoothly, or they get bored and leave to let the show crater without them.
Bad showrunners do constant diversity in Hollywood speaking engagements and hand out co-producer credits like they're free candy.
Posted by: Walter Freeman at February 14, 2022 05:30 PM (4NlP1)
A budding Billy Wilder, struck down by cruel fate.
Posted by: Rolling Donut Unharmed By gp's Flying Leap at February 14, 2022 05:30 PM (qpX6U)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 14, 2022 05:30 PM (Wqc9l)
Posted by: Azathoth at February 14, 2022 05:30 PM (W3VUu)
This is actually pretty brilliant. Almost sounding like Benny Shapiro. "You just didn't compete hard enough in the marketplace, honey." Never mind that giant thumb on the scale.
I guess we're going to be locked into the cycle of racial grievance politics for eternity...
Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at February 14, 2022 05:30 PM (i+3WY)
Posted by: Hands at February 14, 2022 05:30 PM (786Ro)
Posted by: kraken at February 14, 2022 05:30 PM (Vr12I)
Even then I was happy to escape at the end of the day (sundown!) back to the SoCal beaches. That Rodney King day was a long-ass commute!
Posted by: NC Ref at February 14, 2022 05:30 PM (RAodA)
That chick in the most dangerous game was a total smoke show
Yancy or something
Posted by: Yo! at February 14, 2022 05:30 PM (FO5wa)
Posted by: radar at February 14, 2022 05:30 PM (3Zp/H)
Posted by: PabloD at February 14, 2022 05:31 PM (EOWxc)
Actually, China's number 1 movie right now is a Korean War flick where the Chinese heroes kill Americans. Fair enough. But imagine if someone in Hollywood wanted to make a Korean War movie that featured Chinese being killed.
Posted by: Citizen Cake at February 14, 2022 05:31 PM (HmZuC)
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I think Justice O'Connor said only for 25 more years.
Posted by: SH (Overturn Roe) at February 14, 2022 05:31 PM (sX1BW)
Posted by: JackStraw at February 14, 2022 05:31 PM (ZLI7S)
Posted by: Azathoth
Or any and all Chuck Norris movies for that matter.
Posted by: Chuck Norris Fan Club Vice President at February 14, 2022 05:31 PM (hQzem)
Posted by: ace at February 14, 2022 05:27 PM (0G13K)
We're the heavies.
Posted by: Chili Palmer at February 14, 2022 05:31 PM (QYPq3)
Posted by: washrivergal at February 14, 2022 05:31 PM (e1M3j)
Plus the action is really good. And the movie is really dumb. It is SO 80's. It, and Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man, were two of my buddy Greg's favorite flicks.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at February 14, 2022 05:31 PM (V6f9+)
Thus, it will play well in China? Bet she's some kind of hero.
I note, I've never watched a Chinese subtitle movie on Amazon prime, yet a couple months ago in my recommendations, I am getting a LOT of Chinese subtitle films. Geeeee... wonder why that is.
Posted by: Romeo13 at February 14, 2022 05:31 PM (oHd/0)
Posted by: ace at February 14, 2022 05:27 PM (0G13K)
Don't they put up money for the project?
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 14, 2022 05:32 PM (yQpMk)
Posted by: N.L. Urker, Honk Justin Trudeau at February 14, 2022 05:28 PM (eGTCV)
black, indigenous, person of color (I think)
Posted by: Jordan61 at February 14, 2022 05:32 PM (Ez6QX)
Posted by: Hands at February 14, 2022 05:32 PM (786Ro)
oh i saw that too
Some other ones I should have included: I Come In Peace, Silent Rage (the one that is basically Chuck Norris vs. a Michael Myers from Halloween knockoff superhuman slasher), The Hidden
Posted by: ace at February 14, 2022 05:32 PM (0G13K)
Posted by: buzzion at February 14, 2022 05:32 PM (vMCab)
Posted by: BifBewalski @ (IJES/) - at February 14, 2022 05:32 PM (IJES/)
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Bridge Blockading Acts of War Requiring Military Response Department -- BBAWRMRD.
Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at February 14, 2022 05:32 PM (UHVv4)
sort of the authorial voice of the whole series, captain of the writers room. Doesn't write every script but suggests a lot of story idea and approves the ones proposed by writers. assigns scripts to writers/writer teams. I think they probably also have producer function but I kinda don't know what a producer does.
Posted by: ace at February 14, 2022 05:27 PM (0G13K
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In movies, the director is generally king. In television, the executive producer is generally king.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone, read some movie thoughts at February 14, 2022 05:33 PM (LvTSG)
The producers of Dr Who are bringing back David Tennant and the show runner from the Tennant era and basically told him he could do whatever the hell he wanted and would get zero notes or input from the studio.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 14, 2022 05:33 PM (Wqc9l)
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at February 14, 2022 05:25 PM (M+Lyo)
Blind Fury. Hauer was in some gems.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 14, 2022 05:26 PM (eN2PK)
Hobo With A Shotgun was brilliant. Absolutely inspired in places, and by far the best of the Grindhouse homages that came out in that period. The Plague in particular were awesome - the scene in the dungeon classic.
Posted by: clutch cargo - Now fortified with Vanax37, M390 and CPM-S90V at February 14, 2022 05:33 PM (wAnMi)
Posted by: In Reel Life (yes, dummy, on purpose) at February 14, 2022 05:33 PM (QYPq3)
Posted by: Azathoth
Or any and all Chuck Norris movies for that matter.
Posted by: Chuck Norris Fan Club Vice President at February 14, 2022 05:31 PM (hQzem)
Chuck? he's in hiding, he made a Kyle Rittenhouse joke and is running scared... (kidding)
Posted by: Romeo13 at February 14, 2022 05:33 PM (oHd/0)
Posted by: ace at February 14, 2022 05:33 PM (0G13K)
***************
And brutal, you felt every punch that guy took, and he still kept on going.
Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger at February 14, 2022 05:33 PM (VTu1l)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 14, 2022 05:33 PM (KZzsI)
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 14, 2022 05:34 PM (yQpMk)
Love it, Ace. Hollywood needs the Rabid Puppies treatment, too, along with the sportsball leagues. Give them everything they want, faster, please. And let them wither on the vine.
Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at February 14, 2022 05:34 PM (OssQ4)
Posted by: Citizen Cake at February 14, 2022 05:31 PM (HmZuC)
Red Dawn's remake had to go in and do cgi post production to change the bad guys from Chinese to North Korean.
Posted by: buzzion at February 14, 2022 05:34 PM (vMCab)
Posted by: huerfano at February 14, 2022 05:34 PM (MzKgG)
https://tinyurl.com/4su2jze9
Posted by: Thrawn at February 14, 2022 05:34 PM (Rl7KJ)
Posted by: kraken at February 14, 2022 05:34 PM (Vr12I)
The producers of Dr Who are bringing back David Tennant and the show runner from the Tennant era and basically told him he could do whatever the hell he wanted and would get zero notes or input from the studio.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 14, 2022 05:33 PM (Wqc9l)
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$5 says Russel T Davies, guy who invented Captain Jack Harkness, ups the gay quotient by 50.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone, read some movie thoughts at February 14, 2022 05:34 PM (LvTSG)
But I haven't seen any other musicals and I'd have to be dragged to see a musical.
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No South Park the movie? Wha?
Posted by: Bete at February 14, 2022 05:34 PM (F9322)
Lot of greek style tragedy going on here- without the homo.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop
Frasier Crane and Bruce Willis are half-brothers?
I DID NOT KNOW THAT!
Posted by: Bozo Conservative...Living on the Prison Planet at February 14, 2022 05:34 PM (vcOmj)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at February 14, 2022 05:34 PM (2NHgQ)
Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at February 14, 2022 05:34 PM (P0TaT)
These people have been mocking and demonizing white normies for decades. Sucks discovering you're part of the "out group" isn't it?
Posted by: Lizzy at February 14, 2022 05:34 PM (URNdm)
********
I always confuse this with Big Trouble in Little China. Does that make me racist?
Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger at February 14, 2022 05:35 PM (VTu1l)
Posted by: Yo! at February 14, 2022 05:30 PM (FO5wa)
Yancy Butler?
*looks it up* Don't see it on her IMDB. Awesome eyes that one.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 14, 2022 05:35 PM (eN2PK)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 14, 2022 05:29 PM (KZzsI)
I grew up watching Spielberg movies. Like all of them. If any director depicted blacks the way he treats Germans, a producer would gently pull them aside and insist that unless their actual parents were eaten in the Congo they needed to dial it back a notch.
The agenda was always there, and it always detracted from the overall quality. It's just that now the hatred isn't for the politically incorrect villain but white people generally.
Posted by: trev006 at February 14, 2022 05:35 PM (22U4t)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 14, 2022 05:35 PM (KZzsI)
A friend gave me his Plex account sign-in. He's had No Time to Die up for a month and a half. I haven't bothered watching it. I did start watching it, like the first three minutes, and decided I just wasn't into it and turned it off.
Posted by: ace at February 14, 2022 05:35 PM (0G13K)
Posted by: kraken at February 14, 2022 05:34 PM (Vr12I)
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Looks extremely digital instead of practical, and producers have said racism is the most important thing.
That's a skip.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone, read some movie thoughts at February 14, 2022 05:35 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB at February 14, 2022 05:35 PM (nxdel)
The Blood of Heroes.
Nuff said.
Posted by: Romeo13 at February 14, 2022 05:36 PM (oHd/0)
Posted by: ChockyChockyChip at February 14, 2022 05:36 PM (ufJfM)
Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger at February 14, 2022 05:36 PM (VTu1l)
Posted by: kraken at February 14, 2022 05:36 PM (Vr12I)
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
catches breath
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at February 14, 2022 05:36 PM (OalnH)
Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger at February 14, 2022 05:35 PM (VTu1l)
Probably.
Posted by: Jordan61 at February 14, 2022 05:36 PM (Ez6QX)
Posted by: PabloD at February 14, 2022 05:31 PM (EOWxc)
Lionheart, I think. But him being a Legionnaire was just his background - he went AWOL to help out his brother's wife (?).
Posted by: Thrawn at February 14, 2022 05:36 PM (Rl7KJ)
Posted by: kraken
Anytime I see her in something she comes off as unlikable. I have no earthly idea why she has a career in Hollywood in front of the camera. She has anti-charisma.
Posted by: Brother Tim has nothing much to say, lately at February 14, 2022 05:36 PM (OUMaO)
Posted by: ace at February 14, 2022 05:36 PM (0G13K)
++++
Always loved William Powell.
Posted by: washrivergal at February 14, 2022 05:36 PM (e1M3j)
Posted by: ace at February 14, 2022 05:35 PM (0G13K)
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I thought it was pretty much laughably bad.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone, read some movie thoughts at February 14, 2022 05:36 PM (LvTSG)
@BarackObama - 4h
Happy Valentines' Day, Michelle! With a smile that lights up the world, you're truly one-of-a-kind. Today and always, I am thankful to have you in my life.
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I wonder if she'll bother visiting you in prison?
Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 14, 2022 05:36 PM (ptqGC)
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at February 14, 2022 05:36 PM (M+Lyo)
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 14, 2022 05:34 PM (yQpMk)
This.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 14, 2022 05:36 PM (eN2PK)
sort of the authorial voice of the whole series, captain of the writers room. Doesn't write every script but suggests a lot of story idea and approves the ones proposed by writers. assigns scripts to writers/writer teams. I think they probably also have producer function but I kinda don't know what a producer does.
Posted by: ace at February 14, 2022 05:27 PM (0G13K)
Aren't they just basically an onset executive producer, but Hollywood got a hard-on for the British term of "showrunner" and so they started giving the head person on set that title so they could be even more important.
Posted by: buzzion at February 14, 2022 05:36 PM (vMCab)
Oh, okay Yeah that sounds right about Legionaire.
Posted by: ace at February 14, 2022 05:37 PM (0G13K)
No. Overpriced crap films and shutting down for a year killed theaters. Streaming is just the alternative.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 14, 2022 05:37 PM (KZzsI)
>>$5 says Russel T Davies, guy who invented Captain Jack Harkness, ups the gay quotient by 50.
Yeah, but you know what, it worked, I liked John Barrowman, I saw him at a CON and talked to him for a bit, he was pretty cool.
And ironically, he may be a closeted conservative.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 14, 2022 05:37 PM (Wqc9l)
Posted by: JT at February 14, 2022 05:37 PM (arJlL)
Posted by: soft white underbelly at February 14, 2022 05:37 PM (6O0gM)
ooh, Vespa's are *tight*
Posted by: Hands at February 14, 2022 05:37 PM (786Ro)
*Also hides copy of Hudson Hawk*
Posted by: Bete at February 14, 2022 05:37 PM (F9322)
Posted by: ace at February 14, 2022 05:33 PM (0G13K)
My life is now complete.
Posted by: Jordan61 at February 14, 2022 05:37 PM (Ez6QX)
Posted by: kraken at February 14, 2022 05:34 PM (Vr12I)
Looks extremely digital instead of practical, and producers have said racism is the most important thing.
That's a skip.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone, read some movie thoughts at February 14, 2022 05:35 PM (LvTSG)
Suddenly Galadriel is an Elvish Female Super Warrior...
uh... OK then...
Posted by: Romeo13 at February 14, 2022 05:37 PM (oHd/0)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 14, 2022 05:37 PM (ptqGC)
Posted by: Ben Shapiro at February 14, 2022 05:37 PM (4thlk)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at February 14, 2022 05:31 PM (V6f9+)
I never heard of it, and I like Dolph. Even though almost everything he's in is a dog. I do have a soft spot for Rocky IV though. Have to wonder what would have happened had he just stuck with chemical engineering. Maybe I'll look for Showdown. Can't be worse than anything that's a first run at the moment.
Posted by: clutch cargo - Now fortified with Vanax37, M390 and CPM-S90V at February 14, 2022 05:37 PM (wAnMi)
Posted by: kraken
Anytime I see her in something she comes off as unlikable. I have no earthly idea why she has a career in Hollywood in front of the camera. She has anti-charisma.
Posted by: Brother Tim has nothing much to say, lately at February 14, 2022 05:36 PM (OUMaO)
I would still hit that like the fist of an angry god. She looks ... obtainable.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 14, 2022 05:38 PM (yQpMk)
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at February 14, 2022 05:36 PM (M+Lyo)
I need to watch that one all the way through. I have only ever caught bits and pieces.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 14, 2022 05:38 PM (eN2PK)
Watched Branagh's 'Murder on the Orient Express' with the wife last night. It's a very well made movie but damn did they put some stank on it adding 'diversity' to characters who didn't need it.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at February 14, 2022 05:38 PM (V6f9+)
Posted by: Piper at February 14, 2022 05:38 PM (FXYsU)
"...I should get my license again!"
Posted by: Brother Tim has nothing much to say, lately at February 14, 2022 05:38 PM (OUMaO)
Posted by: ... at February 14, 2022 05:38 PM (dscaa)
No. Overpriced crap films and shutting down for a year killed theaters. Streaming is just the alternative.
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I think the market was adjusting before Covid, which certainly accelerated things. I mean movies didn't kill the play industry. But it did shrink it in terms of everyday entertainment.
Posted by: SH (Overturn Roe) at February 14, 2022 05:38 PM (sX1BW)
Posted by: Theskepticalschnauzer aka THELonebadger at February 14, 2022 05:38 PM (lIDCz)
That was the last and final time I would ever go to the movies.
Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger at February 14, 2022 05:38 PM (VTu1l)
Posted by: ace at February 14, 2022 05:38 PM (0G13K)
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at February 14, 2022 05:38 PM (nDrPh)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 14, 2022 05:38 PM (KZzsI)
Posted by: ace at February 14, 2022 05:38 PM (0G13K)
Posted by: Yo! at February 14, 2022 05:30 PM (FO5wa)
Yancy Butler?
Yancy Derringer's daughter ?
Posted by: JT at February 14, 2022 05:38 PM (arJlL)
um, why not ask me my middle name?
Posted by: Tim Riggins at February 14, 2022 05:39 PM (ZZK0E)
>>$5 says Russel T Davies, guy who invented Captain Jack Harkness, ups the gay quotient by 50.
Yeah, but you know what, it worked, I liked John Barrowman, I saw him at a CON and talked to him for a bit, he was pretty cool.
And ironically, he may be a closeted conservative.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 14, 2022 05:37 PM (Wqc9l)
Yeah, no he was a big Obama supporter. Also apparently a creep who liked to take out his member on sometimes put it on people who were in makeup, so he ain't coming back.
Posted by: Bete at February 14, 2022 05:39 PM (F9322)
Posted by: Thrawn at February 14, 2022 05:39 PM (Rl7KJ)
And ironically, he may be a closeted conservative.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 14, 2022 05:37 PM (Wqc9l)
No chance in hell he's conservative.
Posted by: buzzion at February 14, 2022 05:39 PM (vMCab)
It doesn't work in reverse.
Posted by: soft white underbelly at February 14, 2022 05:37 PM (6O0gM)
Well I'm an outlier, as Ace said, but I can't stand chick flicks.
Posted by: Jordan61 at February 14, 2022 05:39 PM (Ez6QX)
Posted by: kraken
Not for me - it was the shit scripts, actors, backstories, marketing and storylines that did them in. I realize I am not the target demographic but it would be nice to have a few films made for the over 29 crowd (with shit tons of disposable $$$).
I might, just might then go out to a theater.
Posted by: Tonypete at February 14, 2022 05:39 PM (mD/uy)
Posted by: ChockyChockyChip
LOL
Lawdy Dem Rangz will be garbage.
Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at February 14, 2022 05:39 PM (OssQ4)
Posted by: G'rump928(c)
yep; good actor.
Posted by: JT at February 14, 2022 05:37 PM (arJlL)
He played both cops and criminals perfectly. I guess his background helped there.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 14, 2022 05:39 PM (yQpMk)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 14, 2022 05:37 PM (KZzsI)
Just watched the New Dune at home for $10 on the 4K with surround sound.
Would have been $14 at the Theatre, with less comfortable seats and much more expensive popcorn.
Posted by: Romeo13 at February 14, 2022 05:40 PM (oHd/0)
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at February 14, 2022 05:36 PM (M+Lyo)
I need to watch that one all the way through. I have only ever caught bits and pieces.
...
i love Man from UNCLE. They make some changes but it's really good. I wish that Napoleon was the main character (they shift the main character to Ilya)
Posted by: ace at February 14, 2022 05:40 PM (0G13K)
that movie is terrible but I cannot stop watching it.
Posted by: ace at February 14, 2022 05:38 PM (0G13K)
Only movie I have ever left a theatre for
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at February 14, 2022 05:40 PM (M+Lyo)
They have a formula
- actors who are tolerable to look at, sometimes even interesting
- action to keep things moving
- something resembling plot, tension, arc, intrigue,..
- maybe even some clever dialog or lines.
They don't have much else but that is what formula movies are.
Then new shit throws out the formula and inserts wokeism. I don't enjoy bad action movies, but I don't hate them. I don't feel like I gotta turn on my brain and get angry that it was made....
Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at February 14, 2022 05:40 PM (P0TaT)
And I'm a known hater of girl power movies.
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at February 14, 2022 05:40 PM (7QnCd)
A chick can be effective in a spy flick, e. G., as a honeypot or a mild mannered bespectacled secretary who is actually a spy or traitor, mastermind, etc. , but they refuse to admit that women can't do everything men can and vice versa.
Posted by: chique l'African Viking Math Queen King of Greenland, the Merciless (don't/stop/believin') at February 14, 2022 05:40 PM (+55Yu)
Feel jilted ladies? Why not swat your ex? We we can shoot him for you all nice and legal!
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 14, 2022 05:40 PM (eN2PK)
Excited I was. Late 70's and 80's action movies entertained us from age 6 till mumble mumble.
Posted by: i can smell your axe wound body spray from here at February 14, 2022 05:40 PM (hQzem)
Posted by: Thrawn at February 14, 2022 05:39 PM (Rl7KJ)
I recommend Melonie Mac Go Boom on youtube for her videos on Woke-ien
Posted by: buzzion at February 14, 2022 05:40 PM (vMCab)
Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB at February 14, 2022 05:40 PM (nxdel)
And not particularly well done digital either.
There's another Uncanny Valley, not just for realism, but "does it look like they really spent the reported budget", and so far, Amazon LOTR fails that test badly.
Posted by: Walter Freeman at February 14, 2022 05:40 PM (4NlP1)
Posted by: ballistic at February 14, 2022 05:40 PM (pGZdS)
Posted by: Russ Rules at February 14, 2022 05:40 PM (fEFt5)
Posted by: Diogenes at February 14, 2022 05:40 PM (axyOa)
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 14, 2022 05:34 PM (yQpMk)
This.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 14, 2022 05:36 PM (eN2PK)
He almost steals every movie he's in, from Get Shorty to Bottle Shock...the latter of which is almost insufferable despite also having Alan Rickman and Bill Pullman in it.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at February 14, 2022 05:40 PM (V6f9+)
Posted by: USNtakim deplorable still. at February 14, 2022 05:40 PM (0OmEj)
Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at February 14, 2022 05:41 PM (OalnH)
Posted by: buzzion at February 14, 2022 05:36 PM
More like each show has 15+ producers (because that's where the money's at) so they have to somehow indicate which one of the producers is the actual producer.
Posted by: Chuck C at February 14, 2022 05:41 PM (EughT)
$25
To rent a movie.
TWENTY FIVE DOLLARS.
Get the fook out of here with that ridiculous bullshit.
Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger at February 14, 2022 05:41 PM (VTu1l)
ooh, Vespa's are *tight*
...
i wish garret were here to find out i've been banging his mom
Posted by: ace at February 14, 2022 05:41 PM (0G13K)
uh... OK then...
Posted by: Romeo13 at February 14, 2022 05:37 PM (oHd/0)
And the dwarf kween doesn't have a beard, which I'm pretty sure goes directly against Tolkien lore.
Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at February 14, 2022 05:41 PM (i+3WY)
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at February 14, 2022 05:41 PM (nDrPh)
Posted by: Thrawn at February 14, 2022 05:39 PM (Rl7KJ)
But of course. They'll shoehorn in the Many Colors of Bennetton, plus as much sexual deviance as possible, I'm afraid.
Posted by: kraken at February 14, 2022 05:41 PM (Vr12I)
Posted by: goodluckduck at February 14, 2022 05:41 PM (pCXlW)
Posted by: JT at February 14, 2022 05:41 PM (arJlL)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 14, 2022 05:41 PM (KZzsI)
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at February 14, 2022 05:41 PM (7QnCd)
Posted by: ace at February 14, 2022 05:41 PM (0G13K)
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lol
Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 14, 2022 05:42 PM (ptqGC)
And yet again Atomic Blonde is just swept away as if it doesn't exist.
Oh. Wait. That's right, that was just a kick ass action movie that wasn't trying to make any kind of statement other than do you want to see Charlize Theron kick ass and make out with a chick?
Look, as a woman who likes actions movies, including whatever the latest Liam Neeson Action Movie is called, I like them because they are action movies. That's the point of liking them, it's stupid fun stuff. I don't want them to change (more Charlize making out with chicks would be acceptable though), I like them for what they are.
Posted by: alexthechick - Boobs and hysteria at February 14, 2022 05:42 PM (GbPPJ)
Posted by: Shooter McGavin at February 14, 2022 05:42 PM (734Sg)
While libs were all for affirmative action when it came to normies. Now it's come for them. Oooopsie.
Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at February 14, 2022 05:42 PM (OalnH)
It doesn't work in reverse.
Posted by: soft white underbelly
I still remember this chic I dated in DC. We planned to go to Trainspotting, but she talked me into A Few Good Men once we go to the theater.
Good Grief.
Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at February 14, 2022 05:42 PM (P0TaT)
Posted by: kraken
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As someone whose bookcase has two entire shelves full of the works of Tolkien, I'm going to take a hard pass on Le'shondra the dwarven princess and Lenny Henry, the 6'3 black man moonlighting as a not-a-Hobbit.
Posted by: Azathoth at February 14, 2022 05:42 PM (W3VUu)
Posted by: goodluckduck at February 14, 2022 05:41 PM (pCXlW)
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Fun with plenty of mayhem.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/)) at February 14, 2022 05:42 PM (5pTK/)
Might've done better with a musical quiz, as long as it stopped at 1965.
Would've killed on a horror quiz. Or just a slasher quiz.
Posted by: moviegique at February 14, 2022 05:42 PM (asXVI)
>>Also apparently a creep who liked to take out his member on sometimes put it on people who were in makeup.
Doesn't everyone at some point in their lives take out their member and put it on people in makeup chairs?
Tough room.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 14, 2022 05:42 PM (Wqc9l)
$25
To rent a movie.
TWENTY FIVE DOLLARS.
Get the fook out of here with that ridiculous bullshit.
Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger
Hey! Electrons are expensive to push down a line yo.
Posted by: Tonypete at February 14, 2022 05:42 PM (mD/uy)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse
I feel like he DOES steal Get Shorty. His therapy session with Gene Hackman's face is legend. LEGEND
Posted by: Theskepticalschnauzer aka THELonebadger at February 14, 2022 05:42 PM (lIDCz)
But stop it with the preaching and point making. Just entertain me.
Posted by: chique l'African Viking Math Queen King of Greenland, the Merciless (don't/stop/believin') at February 14, 2022 05:43 PM (+55Yu)
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And just like that I have a movie to add to the old watch list.
Posted by: SH (Overturn Roe) at February 14, 2022 05:43 PM (sX1BW)
it is terrible but the basic concept is solid, including the DaVinci McGuffin.
It's just... obviously a Bruce Willis Vanity Vehicle at the peak of his vanity. So much dumb stuff that he thinks is funny and no one could tell him "No it's not funny." Like the CIA agents, and being named after candy bars.
Posted by: ace at February 14, 2022 05:43 PM (0G13K)
Because a people who live with little sun exposure tend to be dark-skinned, right?
Posted by: Citizen Cake at February 14, 2022 05:43 PM (HmZuC)
Then it just goes off the freaking rails.
Posted by: Hands at February 14, 2022 05:43 PM (786Ro)
I've only seen one episode so far but I enjoyed it, very well done. Although; that's not how prison works. You are not going to be harassed, robbed, and raped by big black men simply by walking through the door.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 14, 2022 05:43 PM (KZzsI)
Posted by: is hotdog sandwich? at February 14, 2022 05:43 PM (hQzem)
I liked the twists. In RS, she was basically out-scheming everyone.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 14, 2022 05:43 PM (yQpMk)
That's Atomic Blonde and Red Sparrow.
I also forgot about Point of No Return. Really liked that one.
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at February 14, 2022 05:43 PM (7QnCd)
Posted by: Jordan61
you & smash both. she likes action movies, but not war movies. she watched 'red scorpion' because joe bob brigs said it had 'two breasts, both dolph's' and gave it two thumbs up.
Posted by: BifBewalski @ (IJES/) - at February 14, 2022 05:44 PM (IJES/)
Posted by: H Badger at February 14, 2022 05:44 PM (n/0Nw)
ooh, Vespa's are *tight*
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This sounds like an offhand dig Garrett's mom?
Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at February 14, 2022 05:44 PM (OssQ4)
Posted by: alexthechick - Boobs and hysteria at February 14, 2022 05:42 PM (GbPPJ)
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Yeah, things have gotten to the point where just telling a story is considered a revolutionary act.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/)) at February 14, 2022 05:44 PM (5pTK/)
Saw it the the theater. Went back the next day and saw it again.
Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB at February 14, 2022 05:44 PM (nxdel)
$25
Get the fook out of here with that ridiculous bullshit.
Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger at February 14, 2022 05:41 PM (VTu1l)
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$25 is for new releases right? Compare that to going to see one at the theater. It's $10-15 per person at a theater. So if you have 2 people watching you've already broken even. If you have an entire family watching you're ahead.
Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at February 14, 2022 05:44 PM (OalnH)
Posted by: goodluckduck a
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it's pretty good, maybe awesome. I've said that Cruise's Reacher is a morph, a new product. Cruise's Reacher was great...but I heard the nerds say "buh it innt reacher reacher" and now seeing some fucking giant play the role AND after reading a few books, the size is kind of his thing...and so, no, Cruise's reacher is not the real reacher but it's a good reacher. Amazon's Reacher is the real Reacher and, yeah, that's a good reacher.
the problem is is that it's gonna be at least a year before season 2.
Posted by: Tim Riggins at February 14, 2022 05:44 PM (ZZK0E)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 14, 2022 05:44 PM (ptqGC)
Important question? Horizon or Elden Ring?
Posted by: buzzion at February 14, 2022 05:44 PM (vMCab)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at February 14, 2022 05:40 PM (V6f9+)
Ok, another horrible movie.
Robert Logia plays a mob boss (go figure.) He is targeted by a vampire who only kills criminals (a sexy french actress.) She flubs killing him and he goes on to go crazy making mob vampires. She enlists the help of a human cop (that one guy from So I married an axe murderer.) Wackiness ensues.
Horrible movie. Yet taking up real estate in my brain.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 14, 2022 05:44 PM (eN2PK)
Posted by: Baldy at February 14, 2022 05:44 PM (o0Akw)
Blacklisted and canceled by British society for rampant nudity and tomfoolery on set. Shame, because Davies likely would have done a Torchwood revival alongside the next season of Who. You could see the BBC trying to lay the groundwork during Jodie's run, and Barrowman's many appearances on panel shows at the time, but oh well.
Posted by: Walter Freeman at February 14, 2022 05:44 PM (4NlP1)
have you seen Kairo/Pulse, J-horror from 2001? I just came across the Slow Moving Ghost clip and bought the movie.
Posted by: ace at February 14, 2022 05:44 PM (0G13K)
Posted by: Hands at February 14, 2022 05:44 PM (786Ro)
How can that be?
Posted by: lowandslow at February 14, 2022 05:44 PM (4thlk)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone, read some movie thoughts at February 14, 2022 05:44 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: Rolling Donut Unharmed By gp's Flying Leap at February 14, 2022 05:44 PM (qpX6U)
Posted by: Azathoth at February 14, 2022 05:44 PM (W3VUu)
Posted by: chique l'African Viking Math Queen King of Greenland, the Merciless (don't/stop/believin') at February 14, 2022 05:44 PM (+55Yu)
Important question? Horizon or Elden Ring?
Posted by: buzzion at February 14, 2022 05:44 PM (vMCab)
Dying Light 2.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 14, 2022 05:44 PM (eN2PK)
Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at February 14, 2022 05:44 PM (OalnH)
Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at February 14, 2022 05:44 PM (i+3WY)
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It wasn't bad actually, they made a point of being more faithful to the book especially with a accurate portroyal of Reacher who is supposed to be a bulky big boy, as opposed to tom cruise's dwarf 4 feet high portrayal.
Not much woke or silliness in it either other than the absolutely ridiculous body count. Guy leaves town with a mess that would take the feds 20 years to sort out completely unscathed. Sure.
Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger at February 14, 2022 05:45 PM (VTu1l)
uh... OK then...
Posted by: Romeo13 at February 14, 2022 05:37 PM (oHd/0)
Yeah. Look, Galadriel can destroy whole armies with her elven sorcery and stand against Sauron himself on a macro level. Adding this nonsense not only cheapens the character but gives an early indicator to what the work will be like.
Posted by: trev006 at February 14, 2022 05:45 PM (22U4t)
Posted by: Tim Riggins at February 14, 2022 05:45 PM (ZZK0E)
Posted by: ace
That's what she said!
Posted by: Hands at February 14, 2022 05:44 PM (786Ro)
*golfclap*
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 14, 2022 05:45 PM (eN2PK)
Posted by: Eternity Matters at February 14, 2022 05:45 PM (MTm8X)
Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators, LTD. at February 14, 2022 05:45 PM (onF8C)
Yeah it had promise and turned terrible. I could have put up with the show tunes as timers gag, sorta but it got so awful so fast and never got better. Worst bad guys ever.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 14, 2022 05:45 PM (KZzsI)
Posted by: chique l'African Viking Math Queen King of Greenland, the Merciless (don't/stop/believin')
Posted by: JT at February 14, 2022 05:45 PM (arJlL)
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at February 14, 2022 05:45 PM (N39Ws)
Posted by: moviegique at February 14, 2022 05:45 PM (asXVI)
Posted by: Eternity Matters at February 14, 2022 05:45 PM (MTm8X)
Okay, let's discuss Hot Fuzz. That works both as a send up of the buddy cop movie and as a buddy cop movie because everyone involved REALLY REALLY REALLY loves buddy cop movies and wanted to make their own because otherwise no one would ever cast them in one.
That's the key. Liking the genre in which you're working. Then you can subvert it because you aren't subverting so much as poking gentle fun at things you like.
Posted by: alexthechick - Boobs and hysteria at February 14, 2022 05:45 PM (GbPPJ)
Posted by: chique l'African Viking Math Queen King of Greenland, the Merciless (don't/stop/believin') at February 14, 2022 05:45 PM (+55Yu)
Oh. Wait. That's right, that was just a kick ass action movie that wasn't trying to make any kind of statement other than do you want to see Charlize Theron kick ass and make out with a chick?
and Theron was super-powered. Just with an indomitable will to survive in the fight scenes.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 14, 2022 05:45 PM (yQpMk)
that said I am female last I checked and yet I do watch a whole lot of craptastic action films and especially like the crazy Hong Kong ones. they all kind of blur together BUT Hard Target is really good, come on! It's a CLASSIC
Posted by: Black Orchid at February 14, 2022 05:46 PM (j9HX3)
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 14, 2022 05:46 PM (yQpMk)
Seriously. They way they fight makes no sense. They try to fight like men. Anyone who's been in a fight can tell you that's a bad idea. The competition in upper body strength just doesn't work out in their favor. Lower body strength works better, Wing Chun was developed by female monks for women, it's why it works the way it does. (Watch Michelle Yeoh in any of her older films, you'll get a good idea how it SHOULD work.)
It's one of those things that just bugs me, like chainmail bikinis and boob plate armor.
Posted by: Brother Tim has nothing much to say, lately at February 14, 2022 05:46 PM (OUMaO)
What can I say, I was a fan of the man, back when he gave a shit about the movies he made.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at February 14, 2022 05:46 PM (V6f9+)
Posted by: Tim Riggins at February 14, 2022 05:46 PM (ZZK0E)
Posted by: goodluckduck at February 14, 2022 05:41 PM (pCXlW)
First couple were good... but I lost interest about episode 5... became predictable.
Posted by: Romeo13 at February 14, 2022 05:46 PM (oHd/0)
Perhaps it has something to do with National Knee Grow Month.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at February 14, 2022 05:46 PM (jYQlA)
For me, that honor belongs to Out of Africa. Two-something hours of Meryl Streep writing in her diary about her syphilis and talking to Robert Redford about her syphilis. Won best picture, of course.
Posted by: Citizen Cake at February 14, 2022 05:46 PM (HmZuC)
Diversity necessary for BAFTA awards, and soon, the Oscars too. You can fake your way to the mandatory qualification quotas behind the camera, but that takes much more effort than gender and race swapping major characters.
Posted by: Walter Freeman at February 14, 2022 05:46 PM (4NlP1)
Posted by: ... at February 14, 2022 05:47 PM (dscaa)
No. Overpriced crap films and shutting down for a year killed theaters. Streaming is just the alternative.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 14, 2022 05:37 PM (KZzsI)
Yes and no...streaming took women viewers away from theaters. Men still go...they want to watch men things...thus killing lots of what Hollywood had coming down the pipe b/c 2020 (and this coming decade) was supposed to be the big BIPOC movie revolution...see Marvel's original plans, which have now taken a slight turn in out years...
Posted by: Nova local at February 14, 2022 05:47 PM (exHjb)
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I'm single, so just like with my taxes I always get fucked.
Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger at February 14, 2022 05:47 PM (VTu1l)
haven't seen it but I hear good things. I would guess that it's not trying to be a Manifesto movie, or a.. Womanifesto movie, and is just a spy action movie with a woman, instead of trying to be a Statement that Girls Get It Done.
Which is what Charlies Angles and The 355. Again, they're made out of spite.
Posted by: ace at February 14, 2022 05:47 PM (0G13K)
Posted by: Lizzy at February 14, 2022 05:47 PM (URNdm)
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at February 14, 2022 05:47 PM (PiwSw)
Innocent Blood? I really enjoyed that film. Don Rickles' last role too I think.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 14, 2022 05:47 PM (KZzsI)
Posted by: chique l'African Viking Math Queen King of Greenland, the Merciless (don't/stop/believin') at February 14, 2022 05:47 PM (+55Yu)
It doesn't work in reverse.
Posted by: soft white underbelly at February 14, 2022 05:37 PM (6O0gM)
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Oh yeah? I've been dragged to more action, sci-fi, fantasy movies than I can count. And I never did a payback as I don't care for chick flicks either.
Posted by: washrivergal at February 14, 2022 05:47 PM (e1M3j)
No. Overpriced crap films and shutting down for a year killed theaters. Streaming is just the alternative.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 14, 2022 05:37 PM (KZzsI)
Television killed theatres. The generation since then was just using up the capital in men/women with experience acting in well written/acted/directed world of movies. The 80s and 90s were with people who had at least worked with those of that generation. Today's Hollywood has no experience of being trained up in writing and directing by churning out lots of stuff and taking criticism, so they hire writers who can't write, actors that can't act, and nobody has any idea of what part the audience plays in the business.
Posted by: Oldcat at February 14, 2022 05:47 PM (eoQWY)
My girlfriend forced me to walk out of Aykroyd's "Dragnet." Too bad. Dan had that board-up-the-ass Webb Walk nailed.
Posted by: Rolling Donut Unharmed By gp's Flying Leap at February 14, 2022 05:47 PM (qpX6U)
Posted by: ... at February 14, 2022 05:47 PM (dscaa)
Lead was a little stiff at the start IMO but he grew on me. Far more in line with the books themselves and as long as they keep each season as stand alones and don't bring back multiple actors from previous seasons I think they've got something to build off of successfully for quite awhile.
Posted by: H Badger at February 14, 2022 05:47 PM (n/0Nw)
But here's the kicker, it hasn't yet effected how they vote. Both voted Biden .
Posted by: Blago at February 14, 2022 05:47 PM (PwNLq)
Okay, let's discuss Hot Fuzz. That works both as a send up of the buddy cop movie and as a buddy cop movie because everyone involved REALLY REALLY REALLY loves buddy cop movies and wanted to make their own because otherwise no one would ever cast them in one.
That's the key. Liking the genre in which you're working. Then you can subvert it because you aren't subverting so much as poking gentle fun at things you like.
Posted by: alexthechick - Boobs and hysteria at February 14, 2022 05:45 PM (GbPPJ)
Its why Galaxy Quest and The Orville work.
Posted by: buzzion at February 14, 2022 05:48 PM (vMCab)
Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at February 14, 2022 05:48 PM (i+3WY)
Posted by: ... at February 14, 2022 05:48 PM (dscaa)
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at February 14, 2022 05:36 PM (M+Lyo)
I need to watch that one all the way through. I have only ever caught bits and pieces.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 14, 2022 05:38 PM (eN2PK)
I actually bailed on that one. Once the awesome fashions and vintage cars ran their course, the plot and pacing was killing me. Usually if I get more than halfway through a movie, I stick it out. This was a first.
I loved the first season of the TV show, but it suffered the same Batman fate as any other formerly serious TV show between 1965 and 1967.
Posted by: clutch cargo - Now fortified with Vanax37, M390 and CPM-S90V at February 14, 2022 05:48 PM (wAnMi)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLYZGfKgYFM
it went from being WOW WHAT WAS THAT MOVE to "oh that again?"
Posted by: ace at February 14, 2022 05:48 PM (0G13K)
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at February 14, 2022 05:47 PM (PiwSw)
He died in 2020. I don't think the current holders of the estate have the same integrity.
Posted by: Oldcat at February 14, 2022 05:49 PM (eoQWY)
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter
I've seen that and the original la Femme Nikita it was a remake of. Both excellent.
Posted by: Brother Tim has nothing much to say, lately at February 14, 2022 05:49 PM (OUMaO)
Posted by: Jordan61 at February 14, 2022 05:37 PM (Ez6QX)
**fistbump** congrats!
Posted by: Iris at February 14, 2022 05:49 PM (DibdT)
The male testosterone can be used for good or evil, but plenty of women took BigMoney from their dead husbands, and turned it to leftist causes (Kerry's Heinz fortune, McCain, many others). Then Hillary comes to mind in the race for most Evil Bitch, or Witch Gretchen in Michigan. ... or all those soccer mom Karens.
Posted by: illiniwek at February 14, 2022 05:49 PM (Cus5s)
haven't seen it but I hear good things. I would guess that it's not trying to be a Manifesto movie, or a.. Womanifesto movie, and is just a spy action movie with a woman, instead of trying to be a Statement that Girls Get It Done.
Which is what Charlies Angles and The 355. Again, they're made out of spite.
Posted by: ace at February 14, 2022 05:47 PM (0G13K
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It is the female Jamea Bond they say they want, but there was no effort to turn it into a franchise because they dont want a female action spy movie, they want to destroy James Bond.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone, read some movie thoughts at February 14, 2022 05:49 PM (LvTSG)
Luke Besson's "Anna" is pretty good - Russian chick is recruited, works as a Paris model while doing spy and assassination stuff. Not glamorous.
Posted by: Lizzy at February 14, 2022 05:49 PM (URNdm)
Christopher Tolkien died
and the estate does not seem to care as much as they did when he was alive.Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 14, 2022 05:49 PM (KZzsI)
Oh. Wait. That's right, that was just a kick ass action movie that wasn't trying to make any kind of statement other than do you want to see Charlize Theron kick ass and make out with a chick?
and Theron was super-powered. Just with an indomitable will to survive in the fight scenes.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 14, 2022 05:45 PM (yQpMk)
Kate Beckinsale in the Underworld Franchise. Worked because... Vampire.
Posted by: Romeo13 at February 14, 2022 05:49 PM (oHd/0)
No? Then what is wrong with these wimmen directors and producers who need to show men that WIMMEN CAN BE ACTION HEROES TOO!!!
If they weren't so mentally ill they'd learn to stay in their lane.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 14, 2022 05:49 PM (VxC1e)
Posted by: Tim Riggins at February 14, 2022 05:49 PM (ZZK0E)
Posted by: Marcus T, Recovering at February 14, 2022 05:49 PM (Ue1mI)
Isn't she the last of the Noldor in Middle Earth? Having lived for millennia in the Undying Lands and learning at the feet of the gods will power you up.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 14, 2022 05:49 PM (yQpMk)
Call it Cuntasian.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at February 14, 2022 05:49 PM (YA914)
Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at February 14, 2022 05:48 PM (i+3WY)
Train to Busan FTW!
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at February 14, 2022 05:49 PM (PiwSw)
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at February 14, 2022 05:49 PM (7QnCd)
apparently she couldn't be bothered to watch atomic blonde.
Posted by: Kulak AnacHONK!da, behind the Newsom curtain at February 14, 2022 05:49 PM (sGtp+)
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at February 14, 2022 05:49 PM (jYQlA)
Innocent Blood. Literally the only thing I remember is the first five minutes where the lead is completely naked. Anna Parillaud? (Mathilda May also looks nice completely naked, and that's for the first half of "Lifeforce".)
Posted by: moviegique at February 14, 2022 05:50 PM (asXVI)
Posted by: steevy at February 14, 2022 05:50 PM (CYnTg)
>>Men get dragged to chick flicks. It doesn't work in reverse.
I have a wife and granddaughters so I don't mind being dragged to a chick flick, the problem is they don't even make chick flicks anymore.
The last chick flick I saw was Leap Year which came out over a decade ago.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 14, 2022 05:50 PM (Wqc9l)
Oh yeah. The French version is much grittier.
Posted by: Lizzy at February 14, 2022 05:50 PM (URNdm)
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at February 14, 2022 05:47 PM (PiwSw)
There's a reason that this didn't happen until after Christopher Tolkien died, it's his kids.
Posted by: buzzion at February 14, 2022 05:50 PM (vMCab)
He dead.
Posted by: me at February 14, 2022 05:50 PM (9p+wn)
i remember being keen on seeing it and thinking it was dumb. Much more of a Van Damme movie than a John Woo movie (doves excepted)
Posted by: ace at February 14, 2022 05:50 PM (0G13K)
For me, that honor belongs to Out of Africa. Two-something hours of Meryl Streep writing in her diary about her syphilis and talking to Robert Redford about her syphilis. Won best picture, of course.
Posted by: Citizen Cake at February 14, 2022 05:46 PM (HmZuC)
Didn't actually leave, but I had a huge bruise on my ribcage for weeks after "Love Actually" where my wife kept slamming her elbow into me for my constant snickering.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at February 14, 2022 05:50 PM (dfRN6)
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes
Christopher is dead. Third generation of Tolkien Trust members are calling the shots.
Posted by: whig at February 14, 2022 05:50 PM (Iq9dF)
Posted by: buzzion at February 14, 2022 05:44 PM (vMCab)
Horizon but HZD is my all time favorite game.
Increased quality of TVs killed theaters along with the cost of it.
To take me to a movie by myself is about $25 between ticket price, popcorn, and a drink. That $25 pays for, what, at least two streaming services.
And at home I have just as good picture, I can adjust the volume so I can actually hear the dialogue (unless it's a Nolan movie don't get me started), I can browse internet/phone without being an asshole and, let's be honest this the biggest reason, pause and go to the bathroom at will. Also my own snacks and drinks. The cost isn't worth the hassle.
Posted by: alexthechick - Boobs and hysteria at February 14, 2022 05:50 PM (GbPPJ)
Never saw the remake but La Femme was excellent. Same girl as Innocent Blood by the way
French can make killer action movies.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 14, 2022 05:50 PM (KZzsI)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone, read some movie thoughts at February 14, 2022 05:49 PM (LvTSG)
And then there's 'Chuck'. Kick ass Female CIA agent... but because of the premise, it worked.
Posted by: Romeo13 at February 14, 2022 05:50 PM (oHd/0)
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That was my experience, started watching a Korean thriller thinking it was going to be stupid, only to pleasantly realize, say, there's no gay, no woke, and omg there's a story too. WTF
And everyone is Korean in these Korean movies. Like you're not gonna see Italians in downtown Seoul.
Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger at February 14, 2022 05:51 PM (VTu1l)
Action movie or fantasy movie.
Only pick one.
*Action movie*
Posted by: is hotdog sandwich? at February 14, 2022 05:43 PM (hQzem)
The fantasy part of Conan was much in there, especially with Thulsa Doom's parts, with him turning into a snake during the orgy scene. What I really like about Conan is Conan's arc, he didn't start off being a wrecking machine. He needed to build himself up, driven by his will and yearning for revenge. He also needed help from his comrades too, which helps with the story.
Posted by: Thrawn at February 14, 2022 05:51 PM (Rl7KJ)
Posted by: alexthechick - Boobs and hysteria at February 14, 2022 05:50 PM (GbPPJ)
*nods knowingly* Cheerwine.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at February 14, 2022 05:51 PM (PiwSw)
Posted by: PabloD at February 14, 2022 05:31 PM (EOWxc)
Lionheart, I think. But him being a Legionnaire was just his background - he went AWOL to help out his brother's wife (?).
Posted by: Thrawn at February 14, 2022 05:36 PM (Rl7KJ)
Van Damme was a UN blue hatted dude in Street Fighter.
Now to try to get the memory of that film out of my head.
Posted by: Bete at February 14, 2022 05:51 PM (F9322)
Posted by: lowandslow at February 14, 2022 05:51 PM (4thlk)
What we really need is another movie about the Blacklist and how those brilliant commie writers were made to suffer.
Posted by: Auspex at February 14, 2022 05:52 PM (Xo3T0)
Posted by: goodluckduck at February 14, 2022 05:41 PM (pCXlW)
First couple were good... but I lost interest about episode 5... became predictable.
Posted by: Romeo13
Lol, wut?
Don't listen to him, Thad Castle is a American Treasure. Happy he found a leading role and will get paid for his talents.
Posted by: guy who hasn't read the books at February 14, 2022 05:52 PM (hQzem)
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Its not just the standard. It is was is pushed. DEI is above all else. Who cares how many planes crash so long as you are good on DEI.
Posted by: SH (Overturn Roe) at February 14, 2022 05:52 PM (sX1BW)
The Kingdom series on Netflix was a pretty good series for this genre too.
Posted by: H Badger at February 14, 2022 05:52 PM (n/0Nw)
Graham Yost (exec producer/showrunner): Justified, The Pacific, John Adams, and From the Earth to the Moon.
Writer for 2 episodes of Band of Brothers.
Posted by: Chuck C at February 14, 2022 05:52 PM (EughT)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 14, 2022 05:52 PM (fs1hN)
Heh, "Swingers" is the closest thing to a a dude-centered romcom.
Posted by: Lizzy at February 14, 2022 05:52 PM (URNdm)
I liked Salt, btw. It was well done and Jolie's character didn't hate men. Nothing about it was aimed at sticking it to the patriarchy. So, female spy movie right there. Supposedly it had been written for a male actor and Jolie said she wanted it and they only modified it a bit.
Atomic Blond. Another not entirely bad female spy movie.
You know, those "for guys" action movies usually have something in common...lots of exposed muscle. Lots of men being effective and powerful. Why wouldn't women like those shows? I'm guessing probably you male morons watching Van Damme aren't looking at them exactly the same way as I do.
Posted by: Synova at February 14, 2022 05:52 PM (BD/yx)
What ?
I know nothing of these people, and care less.
though in a generic sense I am all in favor of doom falling upon people who hate me and want me dead ...
Posted by: sock_rat_eez (5JfcP) at February 14, 2022 05:52 PM (5JfcP)
i had a heavyset black friend who would do an impression of Thulsa Doom turning into a snake. He would just draw back his hands into his sleeves like Thulsa Doom did, stare out as if meditating, and then jut his lower jaw out like it was turning into a snake jaw.
It was fantastic, funniest two second impression I've ever seen.
Posted by: ace at February 14, 2022 05:52 PM (0G13K)
Posted by: Rolling Donut Unharmed By gp's Flying Leap at February 14, 2022 05:47 PM (qpX6U)
I just rewatched that for the first time in decades. Heck, it's easily been 30 years since I last watched it. And oddly, the only parts I remember were the only parts worth remembering. "The virgin Connie Swale". And uh... Hmm. That's about it I think. Akroyd was good, Hanks mediocre, and the rest was just the rest. There's really not a lot to it, probably why I never bothered to revisit it and had actually forgotten it existed until it popped up free on streaming.
Posted by: clutch cargo - Now fortified with Vanax37, M390 and CPM-S90V at February 14, 2022 05:52 PM (wAnMi)
But yeah, I saw Chastain in a film about her being a hit-man and sorry, chicks don't have the muscle to fist-fight.
Posted by: Nobody of any consequence at February 14, 2022 05:52 PM (lKAqb)
Hahaha. Yeah, like that ever happened.
Posted by: Rolling Donut Unharmed By gp's Flying Leap at February 14, 2022 05:52 PM (qpX6U)
23 degrees out, light wind and a Canadian whiskey to warm me up now
Posted by: Skip at February 14, 2022 05:53 PM (2JoB8)
People who do not like or understand fantasy or the Conan books got hold of the property and proceeded to put out utter crap. So, that franchise was ruined.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 14, 2022 05:53 PM (KZzsI)
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at February 14, 2022 05:47 PM (PiwSw)
As I understand it, Christopher Tolkien kept derailing every idea they tried to put in practice and turning down every woke piece of shit they proposed. Then he died. Tom Shippey (Tolkien scholar- see Peter Jackson extra material) was attached, but they managed to can his ass by tricking him into giving an interview and saying he violated his NDA.
Then we get this shit, which is predictable as the fucking sun rising in the east.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 14, 2022 05:53 PM (eN2PK)
If they had approached the entire character of Black Widow from a physical standpoint the way they did in Atomic Blonde she probably would have been a more successful character. Charlize Theron won her fights in the movie but she got the living s*** beat out of her doing it. They also had her fighting very smart and very dirty.
Posted by: Azathoth at February 14, 2022 05:53 PM (W3VUu)
Worse, Amazon, and the rest of the Tolkien family, were all stuck waiting for him to die, so they could move the show in their preferred direction.
He was 95.
Posted by: Walter Freeman at February 14, 2022 05:53 PM (4NlP1)
He also urged all elected officials and government workers who may have left Ukraine to return in the next day.
As hard as comedy is, I think Zelensky probably misses it, compared to dealing with literally everyone in this mess - his own people, his own allies, and the Russians.
Posted by: rhomboid at February 14, 2022 05:53 PM (OTzUX)
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hollywood thought they could sell shit on a stick to china forever to make up for forcing gayballz on america
Posted by: Tim Riggins at February 14, 2022 05:53 PM (ZZK0E)
The last chick flick I saw was Leap Year which came out over a decade ago.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 14, 2022 05:50 PM (Wqc9l)
Most recent romantic comedies were all made for men or BIPOC - lots of gay men romances, some Asian romances, and some "fantasy ugly guy meets cute girl" romances...but no "women appealing" romantic comedies.
Posted by: Nova local at February 14, 2022 05:53 PM (exHjb)
i remember being keen on seeing it and thinking it was dumb. Much more of a Van Damme movie than a John Woo movie (doves excepted)
Posted by: ace at February 14, 2022 05:50 PM (0G13K
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John Woo is a hack.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone, read some movie thoughts at February 14, 2022 05:53 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at February 14, 2022 05:54 PM (7QnCd)
French can make killer action movies.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
Yep. Made a star out of Jean Reno. And yeah, I can see why Luc Besson hooked up with Anne Parilaud.
Posted by: Brother Tim has nothing much to say, lately at February 14, 2022 05:54 PM (OUMaO)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 14, 2022 05:54 PM (VxC1e)
Posted by: Citizen Cake at February 14, 2022 05:54 PM (HmZuC)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 14, 2022 05:54 PM (eN2PK)
If they expect men to watch an action movie "for women", what is in the movie for men?
Posted by: Synova at February 14, 2022 05:54 PM (BD/yx)
My wife and my adult daughter both like action movies. Real action movies. Nobody and John Wick level action movies. Of course they like girl-movies, too.
But then they like men. So.
Posted by: SlaveDog at February 14, 2022 05:54 PM (w6HA3)
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almost as big of a laugh as the victim-supremacist's insane lie that "black children are too scared to go outside"
Posted by: Tim Riggins at February 14, 2022 05:55 PM (ZZK0E)
What he means by "offend white folks" is "cannot be filled with open hatred and contempt for white people in a racist rant" and "can't talk back to the director about what he's told to do"
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 14, 2022 05:55 PM (KZzsI)
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As the saying goes, shirt sleeves to shirt sleeves in three generations.
Posted by: Azathoth at February 14, 2022 05:55 PM (W3VUu)
Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB at February 14, 2022 05:55 PM (nxdel)
But yeah, I saw Chastain in a film about her being a hit-man and sorry, chicks don't have the muscle to fist-fight.
Posted by: Nobody of any consequence at February 14, 2022 05:52 PM (lKAqb)
Kirsten Stewart is lucky that Hemsworth didn't hit her with his axe based on her wooden acting.
Posted by: buzzion at February 14, 2022 05:55 PM (vMCab)
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 14, 2022 05:49 PM (yQpMk)
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She's one of a very, very few. Gildor, who Frodo spoke with in Woody End, was of the House of Finrod (Galadriel's brother).
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at February 14, 2022 05:55 PM (W/MyG)
Posted by: Marcus T, Recovering at February 14, 2022 05:55 PM (Ue1mI)
Posted by: ace at February 14, 2022 05:52 PM (0G13K)
Conan is a perfect example of a good movie being elevated to great because of the soundtrack. It could have been an epic failure in somebody else's hands. Commando is a prime example of how a soundtrack can drag a film into the muck. An ok movie made nearly intolerable by a hokey score.
Posted by: clutch cargo - Now fortified with Vanax37, M390 and CPM-S90V at February 14, 2022 05:55 PM (wAnMi)
Posted by: chique l'African Viking Math Queen King of Greenland, the Merciless (don't/stop/believin') at February 14, 2022 05:55 PM (+55Yu)
If you can call the guy he pays to wash the whitewalls on his Vespa a "friend", then yeah, sure. Let's go with that.
Posted by: Walter Freeman at February 14, 2022 05:56 PM (4NlP1)
Posted by: Lizzy at February 14, 2022 05:49 PM (URNdm)
Thanks I will check it out. And I love Swingers. Vince Vaughn when he was fresh and funny.
Posted by: ... at February 14, 2022 05:56 PM (dscaa)
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at February 14, 2022 05:56 PM (7QnCd)
Hillary Clinton
@HillaryClinton
Computer scientists have apparently uncovered a covert server linking the Trump Organization to a Russian-based bank.
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That damn Trump and his Russian connections!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Proprietor of the Outrage Outlet at February 14, 2022 05:56 PM (FVME7)
yeah I liked her and Richard E. Grant... I mean, sort of. Hudson Hawk was plainly his attempt at Oceans 11, and Oceans 11 did not attempt to be a Real Movie. It was just a vanity project with movie stars playing themselves. The audience was never supposed to believe there was a person named "Danny Ocean," you were supposed to know this was just Frank Sinatra hanging out with his pals.
Hudson Hawk is like that, and Sandra Bernhardt plays herself, etc. etc. it's all a cartoon.
Posted by: ace at February 14, 2022 05:56 PM (0G13K)
Posted by: it's true at February 14, 2022 05:56 PM (hQzem)
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I will only marry a woman who likes action movies.
Hence why I'm single.
Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger at February 14, 2022 05:56 PM (VTu1l)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 14, 2022 05:56 PM (eN2PK)
Posted by: rhennigantx at February 14, 2022 05:56 PM (yrol0)
Right? Besson's "District B13" is a wild ride.
And the Hollywood remake was meh - Paul Walker was poor imitation of parkour originator David Belle.
Posted by: Lizzy at February 14, 2022 05:56 PM (URNdm)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 14, 2022 05:54 PM (eN2PK)
No goat skin pants at BLM rallies
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at February 14, 2022 05:57 PM (V6f9+)
Why aren't conservatives pushing for copyright reform? Make it something closer to patents that only get 20 years.
I think something like 40 years is plenty, then it becomes public domain. Watch every Hollywood studio instantly become worth about 90% less.
Posted by: Blago at February 14, 2022 05:57 PM (0qRd3)
Worse, Amazon, and the rest of the Tolkien family, were all stuck waiting for him to die, so they could move the show in their preferred direction.
He was 95.
Posted by: Walter Freeman at February 14, 2022 05:53 PM (4NlP1)
The estate better cash those checks quick because when it bombs Amazon may try and claw some of that back.
I've long since stopped being angry at movie and book authors destroying their own work. I just deny any validity to the bad shows or explanations about what they 'really meant'
Posted by: Oldcat at February 14, 2022 05:57 PM (eoQWY)
Nothing.
Nothing for men in anything. That's called "justice"
John Woo is a hack.
I don't think that's fair. He's an amazing stunt director and visual guy but should never be put in charge of direction. Yes, The Killers was great, but that's the only story he knows how to tell. I mean, literally, every one of his movies was that same story.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 14, 2022 05:57 PM (KZzsI)
how dare you malign the 48 Hrs soundtrack
(Commando basically was just the 48 Hrs soundtrack)
Posted by: ace at February 14, 2022 05:57 PM (0G13K)
"here's generic fantasy tale with gay elves and black dwarves fighting American southerners storming the captiol" just wouldn't sell on its own.
Posted by: Tim Riggins at February 14, 2022 05:57 PM (ZZK0E)
The last chick flick I saw was Leap Year which came out over a decade ago.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 14, 2022 05:50 PM (Wqc9l)
The Lost City with Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum looks super fun, what with being a remake of Romancing the Stone even though it's not technically that WINK, and I cannot remember the last time there was just a fun action romance movie.
I'm still 13 year old boy snickering that the name of the romance novel is The Lost City of D.
Posted by: alexthechick - Boobs and hysteria at February 14, 2022 05:57 PM (GbPPJ)
Related:
@FellowshipFans·35m BREAKING: 'Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim' Anime Feature Set for April 2024 Release by Warner Bros.
Like Star Wars, you're going to see an avalanche of Middle Earth shows coming soon. And 90% will be utter shit.
Posted by: Citizen Cake at February 14, 2022 05:57 PM (HmZuC)
But then they like men. So.
Posted by: SlaveDog at February 14, 2022 05:54 PM (w6HA3)
My mom, sister and I watched the John Wick movies for movie night. Sister and I don't like chick flicks.
Posted by: chique l'African Viking Math Queen King of Greenland, the Merciless (don't/stop/believin') at February 14, 2022 05:58 PM (+55Yu)
couldn't handle red sparrow. i'm squeamish. planing the skin off someone is way outside my wheelhouse.
Posted by: Kulak AnacHONK!da, behind the Newsom curtain at February 14, 2022 05:58 PM (sGtp+)
Posted by: JackStraw at February 14, 2022 05:58 PM (ZLI7S)
Posted by: ... at February 14, 2022 05:56 PM (dscaa)
Best Vince Vaughn movie is the out of character Brawl in Cell Block 99.
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at February 14, 2022 05:58 PM (7QnCd)
Aw, ya got me, I'm weak on J-Horror. I've probably only seen a dozen or so: Miike, Shimizu, Nagata. Kurosawa's "The Cure" is on my list, though.
"My oldest kid is starting to get hooked on Korean horror and drama. Can't blame him, it seems like they still try to tell an actual story and not shoehorn in The Message"
Yes! I saw 120 movies in the theater in 2019 (a light year for me until the outbreak of sic sember tyrannus) and more Korean films than movies in the US Top 40.
The Koreans don't hate me! They probably don't think about me at all, frankly, and if they did, they'd probably consider me sub-human but even then, I don't think they'd hate me. (Not like they do the Japanese, or Hollywood does me.)
Posted by: moviegique at February 14, 2022 05:58 PM (asXVI)
Posted by: ace at February 14, 2022 05:58 PM (0G13K)
HARLEY DAVIDSON AND THE MARLBORO MAN WAS A TOUR DE FORCE OF A MOVIE!!! A BRILLIANT GEM OF CINEMA!! IF YOU DISAGREE, YOUR WORSE THAN PELOSI!!
Posted by: Puddleglum at February 14, 2022 05:58 PM (sAmhv)
John Woo is a hack.
I don't think that's fair. He's an amazing stunt director and visual guy but should never be put in charge of direction. Yes, The Killers was great, but that's the only story he knows how to tell. I mean, literally, every one of his movies was that same story.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 14, 2022 05:57 PM (KZzsI)
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John Woo is the Neill Blomkamp of Ed Woods.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone, read some movie thoughts at February 14, 2022 05:58 PM (LvTSG)
Like Star Wars, you're going to see an avalanche of Middle Earth shows coming soon. And 90% will be utter shit.
Posted by: Citizen Cake at February 14, 2022 05:57 PM (HmZuC)
90% seems really low.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 14, 2022 05:58 PM (eN2PK)
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tell me you're gay without telling me you're gay
actually, though, a friend who likes sound design pointed out that the soundtrack and such on American Assassin was garbage and had no relation to the action on screen and I got her point.
Posted by: Tim Riggins at February 14, 2022 05:58 PM (ZZK0E)
Why aren't conservatives pushing for copyright reform? Make it something closer to patents that only get 20 years.
I think something like 40 years is plenty, then it becomes public domain. Watch every Hollywood studio instantly become worth about 90% less.
Posted by: Blago at February 14, 2022 05:57 PM (0qRd3)
Why bother? Just make up new stories. Nobody needs to see another SpiderMan retread, invent "ScorpionDude"
Posted by: Oldcat at February 14, 2022 05:58 PM (eoQWY)
Posted by: stvitalkid at February 14, 2022 05:58 PM (6Y/1Q)
The rest, umm, what were they again?
Oh yeah, Van Damme was doing a parody series, started off well, and quickly went sideways.
Had all kinds of potential, could have been really good, and, well.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/)) at February 14, 2022 05:59 PM (5pTK/)
It's just... obviously a Bruce Willis Vanity Vehicle at the peak of his vanity. So much dumb stuff that he thinks is funny and no one could tell him "No it's not funny." Like the CIA agents, and being named after candy bars.
Posted by: ace at February 14, 2022 05:43 PM (0G13K)
He is credited with the story. And no one ever let him do that again.
Posted by: Bete at February 14, 2022 05:59 PM (F9322)
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at February 14, 2022 05:59 PM (cupoy)
Posted by: rhennigantx at February 14, 2022 05:59 PM (yrol0)
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tell me you're gay without telling me you're gay
actually, though, a friend who likes sound design pointed out that the soundtrack and such on American Assassin was garbage and had no relation to the action on screen and I got her point.
Posted by: Tim Riggins at February 14, 2022 05:58 PM (ZZK0E)
You are supposed to be counting the kills, not listening to the score.
Posted by: Oldcat at February 14, 2022 05:59 PM (eoQWY)
The prior one was Pirates of Penzance.
No, I don't think I am the musical audience the studios are looking for.
Sergei Eisenstein was the the greatest voice in Soviet film, and in his career he placed an indelible mark on film making, yet in the end he was purged because he was focused on making films that were art, and not films that were politically appropriate.
Posted by: Kindltot at February 14, 2022 05:59 PM (xhaym)
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that's like 2/3 of the way through the movie?
Posted by: Tim Riggins at February 14, 2022 05:59 PM (ZZK0E)
Posted by: Jamaica Queens at February 14, 2022 05:59 PM (b+v9B)
Same with fantasy novels. I'll read older stuff but nothing published with a female lead that's been published in the past 10 years.
My suspension of disbelief has bottomed out.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at February 14, 2022 05:59 PM (V6f9+)
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The worst of John Woo had to be MI:2. I was only started to become familiar with his work but the stupidity of that movie made it all the more obvious that it was a Woo film.
Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger at February 14, 2022 06:00 PM (VTu1l)
Now their Trannie flix
Posted by: Skip at February 14, 2022 06:00 PM (2JoB8)
Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at February 14, 2022 06:00 PM (P0TaT)
Diversity and representation
Diversity and representation
Diversity and representation!
...
I need a smoke
Posted by: Grace Randolf at February 14, 2022 06:00 PM (0IWnW)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at February 14, 2022 05:55 PM (W/MyG)
Those who survived the Grinding Ice were a hardy bunch.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 14, 2022 06:00 PM (yQpMk)
I need to get very busy with building up some cash reserves for when the Biden junta follows suit. Feels like the risks of having cash at home are becoming much less than having it in a bank.
Posted by: PaleRider is simply irredeemable at February 14, 2022 06:00 PM (3cGpq)
Posted by: Dr. Bone at February 14, 2022 06:00 PM (dA9eR)
This, too, is the story of Prometheus.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 14, 2022 06:00 PM (a3Q+t)
Posted by: Puddleglum at February 14, 2022 06:01 PM (sAmhv)
Japanese media is kicking the s*** out of the US comic industry because they actually believe in telling a story and they're not required by law to s*** all over white men and Western civilization.
Posted by: Azathoth at February 14, 2022 06:01 PM (W3VUu)
Posted by: Ktgreat at February 14, 2022 06:01 PM (AD3JT)
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at February 14, 2022 05:49 PM (PiwSw)
Yeah, he really likes that one.
Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at February 14, 2022 06:01 PM (i+3WY)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone, read some movie thoughts at February 14, 2022 05:58 PM (LvTSG)
Hong Kong John Woo is amazing. Anything made after 1996 is crap.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at February 14, 2022 06:01 PM (V6f9+)
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American Assassin, like a lot of movies written by interns has (well, it has its moments) too much exposition and "talking about feelings and how you need to get with the program if you're ever going to get revenge for your girlfriend" and then the problem becomes the soundtrack tried to "lift" some dialog or create interest where it doesn't exist. I think Hitman's Bodyguard was another example.
Posted by: Tim Riggins at February 14, 2022 06:01 PM (ZZK0E)
Posted by: Oldcat at February 14, 2022 05:58 PM (eoQWY)
Milli-Pedo: A superhero with 100 arms and he uses all of them to molest twelve year-old boys.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 14, 2022 06:01 PM (VxC1e)
Die Hard is a romantic comedy made for men.
Posted by: Ted Torgerson at February 14, 2022 06:01 PM (vN+oL)
Posted by: clutch cargo - Now fortified with Vanax37, M390 and CPM-S90V at February 14, 2022 05:52 PM (wAnMi)
I got the soundtrack for my birthday. Probably still have it somewhere.
Posted by: Bete at February 14, 2022 06:01 PM (F9322)
Posted by: chique l'African Viking Math Queen King of Greenland, the Merciless (don't/stop/believin') at February 14, 2022 05:58 PM (+55Yu)
Watch Peppermint. It's the female John Wick but I think they did well to make it as good as you can make a 'girl power' movie allowing you to suspend the necessary belief.
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at February 14, 2022 06:01 PM (7QnCd)
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes
He died. The heirs are not as protective of JRR's legacy, to understate considerably.
Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at February 14, 2022 06:02 PM (OssQ4)
Posted by: Face Off at February 14, 2022 06:02 PM (VTu1l)
NO ONE CARES WHAT YOU MAIN CHARACTERS DOES WITH THEIR DICK OR VAJAJA.
Give us a story.
Posted by: rhennigantx at February 14, 2022 06:02 PM (yrol0)
Posted by: Azathoth at February 14, 2022 05:26 PM (W3VUu)
Everything Chuck Norris made belongs on that list. Does not mean we stopped going to the $2 Tuesday Matinees to watch them.
Posted by: rd at February 14, 2022 06:02 PM (Z32m1)
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 14, 2022 05:49 PM (yQpMk)
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She's one of a very, very few. Gildor, who Frodo spoke with in Woody End, was of the House of Finrod (Galadriel's brother).
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at February 14, 2022 05:55 PM (W/MyG)
this story arc is supposedly from the Silmarillion. Looking for Sauron or something.
Posted by: Romeo13 at February 14, 2022 06:02 PM (oHd/0)
Posted by: Ripley at February 14, 2022 06:02 PM (MxEKc)
Totally miscast if you read the book.
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at February 14, 2022 06:03 PM (7QnCd)
The Nolan Batman score sounds amazing in the movie because its so well used, but if you listen to it without the songs aren't really songs. They're like one really cool motif that drags into background sounds, then a great motif, or just ends suddenly.
Captain America's theme song was utterly forgettable, but then there's this wonderful march at the end for the credits which OBVIOUSLY should have been the main theme, but for some reason they shoved to the end.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 14, 2022 06:03 PM (KZzsI)
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That wasn't bad really. She was like Nobody before Nobody became Nobody.
Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger at February 14, 2022 06:03 PM (VTu1l)
Posted by: steevy at February 14, 2022 06:03 PM (CYnTg)
Posted by: Darth Randall at February 14, 2022 06:04 PM (3TihK)
Ick! And yet woke chicks swoon over that.
Posted by: Lizzy at February 14, 2022 06:04 PM (URNdm)
Posted by: Ted Torgerson at February 14, 2022 06:01 PM (vN+oL)
Jewelry and shoes are main subjects. I rate this comment as 100% True.
Posted by: The people that rate comments at February 14, 2022 06:04 PM (yrol0)
Posted by: Anti
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interesting. I liked the lead guy's overall tone and such. skinny yet strong mma kid with brains.
Posted by: Tim Riggins at February 14, 2022 06:04 PM (ZZK0E)
Posted by: Citizen Cake at February 14, 2022 05:57 PM (HmZuC)
90% seems really low.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 14, 2022 05:58 PM (eN2PK)
Star Wars had lots of books to steal from. LOTR outside of the War of the Ring has about 100 pages of mostly names and a few disconnected notes. The one with the most content, the Silmarillion spans a huge time period and has elves acting more like Vikings and might fail even if it was done as well as Jackson did LOTR. And it has the 'good guys' losing, finding out that they were unable to even stand to touch the gems they had spent all that time and blood to recover from a God.
Posted by: Oldcat at February 14, 2022 06:04 PM (eoQWY)
Posted by: ... at February 14, 2022 06:04 PM (dscaa)
Posted by: Face Off at February 14, 2022 06:02 PM (VTu1l)
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Yeah, we're pretty sure Travolta did that one for the paycheck.
We know Cage did.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/)) at February 14, 2022 06:04 PM (5pTK/)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 14, 2022 06:04 PM (a3Q+t)
Posted by: ace at February 14, 2022 05:52 PM (0G13K)
Yeah, but could he beckon "come, my child" in that sexy deep baritone and get virgins to fling themselves off a cliff? Hmmmmm???
Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at February 14, 2022 06:04 PM (i+3WY)
Posted by: kraken
Tolkein's human and elf romances were so unusual and remarkable, he mentions the only 3 in all of his mythology. But in Amazonia, of course, there has to be another. It is between a black elf (Tolkien's creation myth had the elves created before the creation of the sun, I suppose its possible that melanin could have developed in the thousands of years after the sun was created, so, unlikely but plausible). The human is described as a single mother. Why, it's as if today's "creators" can't conceive of audiences that can relate to a historical mythology unless it includes elements of a Hallmark movie.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 14, 2022 06:04 PM (fs1hN)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards,"
weird; I was thinking something very similar a few days ago.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez (5JfcP) at February 14, 2022 06:04 PM (5JfcP)
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you see, that's the thing, smaller studios (i hope I'm right) are popping up actually making shit that people want to see.
Posted by: Tim Riggins at February 14, 2022 06:05 PM (ZZK0E)
I can kinda enjoy stuff like Face Off but they're ultimately lame movies. There are bits that are great, but mostly just not good.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 14, 2022 06:05 PM (KZzsI)
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 14, 2022 05:49 PM (yQpMk)
I think Gil-Galad is still in Middlearth.
Posted by: N.L. Urker, Honk Justin Trudeau at February 14, 2022 06:05 PM (eGTCV)
Posted by: ... at February 14, 2022 06:04 PM (dscaa)
I have never seen Once upon
Posted by: rhennigantx at February 14, 2022 06:05 PM (yrol0)
My suspension of disbelief has bottomed out.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at February 14, 2022 05:59 PM (V6f9+)
Ditto. Will still read the Honor Harrington stuff as it comes out, but not much else.
Posted by: Romeo13 at February 14, 2022 06:05 PM (oHd/0)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 14, 2022 06:04 PM (a3Q+t)
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If I remember correctly, when I first talked to ace about a movie thread, he specifically said not to talk about Russ Meyer.
It's the only feedback I've ever received from him.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone, read some movie thoughts at February 14, 2022 06:05 PM (LvTSG)
Not bad, but they just skipped the part where she becomes badass/proficient in fighting and violence. Kinda a big transformation and it's never explained how that happened.
Posted by: Lizzy at February 14, 2022 06:06 PM (URNdm)
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 14, 2022 06:06 PM (yQpMk)
>>The Nolan Batman score sounds amazing in the movie because its so well used, but if you listen to it without the songs aren't really songs.
Danny Elfman's score for Batman was on par with a Williams score.
The main march theme is easily in the top ten of scores.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 14, 2022 06:06 PM (Wqc9l)
well... there's mom and dad save the world...
Posted by: Kulak AnacHONK!da, behind the Newsom curtain at February 14, 2022 06:06 PM (sGtp+)
Posted by: Oldcat at February 14, 2022 05:58 PM (eoQWY)
Supposedly Sam Raimi was trying to make a Shadow movie but couldn't get the rights from the publisher, so he made Darkman instead.
In a way it is something, in another, I suppose more people would see another Spiderman or The Shadow movie before they see "guy in a hat does Parkour and laughs"
Posted by: Kindltot at February 14, 2022 06:07 PM (xhaym)
NO ONE CARES WHAT YOU MAIN CHARACTERS DOES WITH THEIR DICK OR VAJAJA.
Give us a story.
Posted by: rhennigantx at February 14, 2022 06:02 PM (yrol0)
...Story?
Posted by: Pron hub at February 14, 2022 06:07 PM (F9322)
I prefer my womens sports to be rudderless!
Posted by: rhennigantx at February 14, 2022 06:07 PM (yrol0)
Look at 90% of tv ads out. Where are the white men? They're usually either out of focus, or they're the doofus dad who needs mom or daughter to set him straight. Most couples are either two black folks or a black guy and white wife. For the longest time, it was little boys -- same treatment. Little Sally wins the sports trophy or science project while Jimmy is either nonexistent or some useless extra, barely discernible in the background.
You want to reflect reality? Then do it. Stop preaching your shit. It's just laundry soap, ffs.
Posted by: red speck at February 14, 2022 06:07 PM (gS3OW)
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I could have sworn there was a bit in there where she goes to live with some monks in Babunatalfagar and learns the ways of the kung fu martial arts but maybe I'm thinking of the wrong movie.
Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger at February 14, 2022 06:07 PM (VTu1l)
Posted by: Garrett's mom at February 14, 2022 06:08 PM (iPbC0)
Posted by: Pron hub at February 14, 2022 06:07 PM (F9322)
Heres your pizza and *zip* heres is your pepperoni!
Posted by: rhennigantx at February 14, 2022 06:08 PM (yrol0)
Posted by: N.L. Urker, Honk Justin Trudeau at February 14, 2022 06:05 PM (eGTCV)
He was killed in the first war against Sauron.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 14, 2022 06:08 PM (yQpMk)
Posted by: rhennigantx at February 14, 2022 06:05 PM (yrol0)
I loved it but it's hit or miss with some people because it's slower than a slow burn. And a little indulgent in places.
Posted by: ... at February 14, 2022 06:08 PM (dscaa)
They don't understand or care about fantasy or what JRR Tolkien created. They only care about money and power and pushing their corrupt, perverted narrative.
Yeah, there are black dudes around us. But in Middle Earth there aren't any (possibly Southrons? But Tolkien doesn't deal much with them).
Even if the showmakers gave a single damn about Tolkien or the source material, they would fear being attacked for making an all-cracker low grrl-power product and would feel they had to do this anyway.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 14, 2022 06:08 PM (KZzsI)
Posted by: Lizzy at February 14, 2022 06:06 PM (URNdm)
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Probably on a cutting room floor somewhere, because some bean counter decided they didn't want an extra 10 minutes in the film.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/)) at February 14, 2022 06:09 PM (5pTK/)
Look at 90% of tv ads out. Where are the white men? They're usually either out of focus, or they're the doofus dad who needs mom or daughter to set him straight. Most couples are either two black folks or a black guy and white wife. For the longest time, it was little boys -- same treatment. Little Sally wins the sports trophy or science project while Jimmy is either nonexistent or some useless extra, barely discernible in the background.
You want to reflect reality? Then do it. Stop preaching your shit. It's just laundry soap, ffs.
Posted by: red speck at February 14, 2022 06:07 PM (gS3OW)
Now do education.
Now do economics.
Posted by: rhennigantx at February 14, 2022 06:09 PM (yrol0)
Posted by: N.L. Urker, Honk Justin Trudeau at February 14, 2022 06:05 PM (eGTCV)
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Nope. Dead at the end of the War of the Last Alliance. Burned to death by Sauron's body heat.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at February 14, 2022 06:09 PM (W/MyG)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 14, 2022 06:09 PM (VxC1e)
Posted by: Tim Riggins at February 14, 2022 06:04 PM (ZZK0E)
JK Simmons would have been a perfect Stan.
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at February 14, 2022 06:09 PM (7QnCd)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 14, 2022 06:04 PM
I think you had to grow up in a urban area during the sixties to watch his movies. I don't think I've ever seen one.
Posted by: lowandslow at February 14, 2022 06:09 PM (4thlk)
We'll need a whole generation before the sci-fi writers associations and award groups detangle themselves from enforced diversity. All major publishers are beyond captured at this point.
People forget, but back when white men were the only ones writing sci-fi, most "published" work was barely readable, never mind merely enjoyable, or timeless.
Writers who happen to be women or people of color, and the people who pay them, will need to learn the same lesson eventually. The vast majority will be average writers at best.
Race and gender are not a magical shortcut to artistic greatness.
Posted by: Walter Freeman at February 14, 2022 06:09 PM (4NlP1)
Posted by: Citizen Cake at February 14, 2022 06:09 PM (HmZuC)
-Jedi handwave
Posted by: Eromero at February 14, 2022 06:09 PM (0OP+5)
Here's your ancient Chinese secret.
Posted by: Garrett's mom at February 14, 2022 06:09 PM (iPbC0)
Actually, China's number 1 movie right now is a Korean War flick where the Chinese heroes kill Americans. Fair enough. But imagine if someone in Hollywood wanted to make a Korean War movie that featured Chinese being killed.
Posted by: Citizen Cake at February 14, 2022 05:31 PM (HmZuC)
Doesn't it tell the story of their "Chosin Frozen"?
Posted by: Fox2! at February 14, 2022 06:09 PM (p/bSX)
Posted by: rhennigantx at February 14, 2022 06:09 PM (yrol0)
Posted by: Pron hub at February 14, 2022 06:07 PM (F9322)
Heres your pizza and *zip* heres is your pepperoni!
Posted by: rhennigantx at February 14, 2022 06:08 PM (yrol0)
There are only six stories in pr0n.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 14, 2022 06:09 PM (VxC1e)
well... there's mom and dad save the world...
Posted by: Kulak AnacHONK!da, behind the Newsom curtain at February 14, 2022 06:06 PM (sGtp+)
I watch Love Actually... it's one of my Christmas time movies...
Colin, God of Sex!!!! And then when Claudia Shiffer shows up for the grieving Dad. Good stuff.
Posted by: Romeo13 at February 14, 2022 06:10 PM (oHd/0)
He's just told all of Canada, many parts of it that can't stand him, that the government can have the banks turn you into a beggar on the street.
All they had to do was something not incredibly stupid and the whiny 12 year old in charge couldn't manage it.
Posted by: Azathoth at February 14, 2022 06:10 PM (W3VUu)
Quite helpful if you think about it.
Posted by: Golfman at February 14, 2022 06:10 PM (hOMhY)
Watch Peppermint. It's the female John Wick but I think they did well to make it as good as you can make a 'girl power' movie allowing you to suspend the necessary belief.
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at February 14, 2022 06:01 PM (7QnCd)
Motivated heroine.
I'm tentatively hopeful for Ambulance because psycho Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Bay yes, please.
The other day I was watching Final Girl, which isn't actually good, but I like it because it was at least trying to do something a bit different. Moderately interesting failure.
Posted by: alexthechick - Boobs and hysteria at February 14, 2022 06:10 PM (GbPPJ)
But, they don't love me back anymore.
Ah well, lots of older stuff still unseen. Hell, even 80's schlock is better than most of what's out now. At least most 80's shlock was intended to entertain.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at February 14, 2022 06:10 PM (V6f9+)
Posted by: Oldcat at February 14, 2022 05:58 PM (eoQWY)
Supposedly Sam Raimi was trying to make a Shadow movie but couldn't get the rights from the publisher, so he made Darkman instead.
In a way it is something, in another, I suppose more people would see another Spiderman or The Shadow movie before they see "guy in a hat does Parkour and laughs"
Posted by: Kindltot at February 14, 2022 06:07 PM (xhaym)
Correct on Raimi. Now imagine The Shadow with a Darkman twist, and forget that The Shadow film we got wasted Tim Curry's performance on only had a cool (though re-done for the film) theme.
Posted by: Bete at February 14, 2022 06:10 PM (F9322)
I liked Darkman, but generally I like Raimi's work. The Spider-Man theme by Elfman for Raimi's movies was great too.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 14, 2022 06:10 PM (KZzsI)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at February 14, 2022 06:11 PM (2NHgQ)
So I really don't think that Hollywood would get rich trying to make more musicals to appeal to "The Ace of Spades Demographic." I don't think producers should try to make a musicals with my hobbies and interests in mind, such as dogs, erecting quality shelves, looking cool on a Vespa, or banging Garrett's mom.
...
How about gladiator movies Ace?
Posted by: banana Dream at February 14, 2022 06:11 PM (fpNLg)
-Jedi handwave
Posted by: Eromero at February 14, 2022 06:09 PM (0OP+5)
69 YO that needs hearing aids, a home mortgage, and medicare avantage with a side of loss of bladder control?
Posted by: rhennigantx at February 14, 2022 06:11 PM (yrol0)
Posted by: rhennigantx at February 14, 2022 06:09 PM (yrol0)
And now, Nominated for Best Luggage in a Romantic Comedy category, we have....
Posted by: Oscars at February 14, 2022 06:11 PM (oHd/0)
In a way it is something, in another, I suppose more people would see another Spiderman or The Shadow movie before they see "guy in a hat does Parkour and laughs"
Posted by: Kindltot at February 14, 2022 06:07 PM (xhaym)
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I would pay good money to see a decent "Shadow" movie, complete with "Who knows what darkness lies in the heart of man? The Shadow knows!" Oh, yeah, the bad guys get a last meal of 230 grain copper jacketed lead.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/)) at February 14, 2022 06:11 PM (5pTK/)
Posted by: banana Dream at February 14, 2022 06:11 PM (fpNLg)
And Steve Reeves??
Posted by: rhennigantx at February 14, 2022 06:11 PM (yrol0)
Posted by: Lizzy at February 14, 2022 06:06 PM (URNdm)
She also seemed to practice Psychic Fighting where she knew too much of everything that was going to happen in advance. That's employed in every single action movie but I felt it was way too much there. Superhero physicality is one thing. But a superhero mind too?
Posted by: ... at February 14, 2022 06:12 PM (dscaa)
Posted by: dantesed at February 14, 2022 06:12 PM (88xKn)
capture the new thinking at the highest levels of the Hollywood food chain.
Meet the new thinking.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 14, 2022 06:12 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Skip at February 14, 2022 06:12 PM (2JoB8)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at February 14, 2022 06:09 PM (W/MyG)
I believe he was the one who took Frodo to the ford in the book. I know it wasn't Arwen.
Posted by: N.L. Urker, Honk Justin Trudeau at February 14, 2022 06:12 PM (eGTCV)
Accelerate!
Lmao
Posted by: lol at February 14, 2022 06:12 PM (WMHk0)
Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger at February 14, 2022 06:12 PM (VTu1l)
Posted by: logprof at February 14, 2022 06:12 PM (mHPHa)
Frank Hennenlotter mentioned this on The Last Drive-In Friday: After making "Basket Case", "Brain Damage", "Frankenhooker"--all of which, I have to say, seem positively delightful in the 2020s--he started Video Wasteland, which was almost Vinegar Syndrome before Vinegar Syndrome.
They specialized in oddball things like "nudie cuties" and had the hardest time explaining to a younger generation why anyone would watch an hour of naked people playing volleyball.
Russ Meyer was in that category of not-quite-porn that got wiped out by hardcore.
Posted by: moviegique at February 14, 2022 06:13 PM (asXVI)
Posted by: alexthechick - Boobs and hysteria at February 14, 2022 05:57 PM (GbPPJ)
*insert Lenny emoji here*
Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at February 14, 2022 06:13 PM (i+3WY)
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/)) at February 14, 2022 06:11 PM (5pTK/)
The trailer for the Black People in Poltergeist is longer than the movie.
Posted by: rhennigantx at February 14, 2022 06:13 PM (yrol0)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 14, 2022 06:13 PM (a3Q+t)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at February 14, 2022 06:10 PM (V6f9+)
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Seen the original Nightmare Alley?
I'm gonna finish reading the book tonight or tomorrow and then watch both versions.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone, read some movie thoughts at February 14, 2022 06:13 PM (LvTSG)
But, they don't love me back anymore.
Ah well, lots of older stuff still unseen. Hell, even 80's schlock is better than most of what's out now. At least most 80's shlock was intended to entertain.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse
Zombeavers!
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 14, 2022 06:13 PM (qlUBr)
I like global warming, beats freezing
Posted by: Skip at February 14, 2022 06:13 PM (2JoB8)
Very short explanation that easily could have been missed. Gone for five years during which time she fought MMA matches and learned about weapons.
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at February 14, 2022 06:13 PM (7QnCd)
Posted by: logprof at February 14, 2022 06:12 PM (mHPHa)
It's already great but once you realize that it's using the Disney formula beat by beat, it becomes even funnier.
Posted by: alexthechick - Boobs and hysteria at February 14, 2022 06:14 PM (GbPPJ)
Posted by: N.L. Urker, Honk Justin Trudeau at February 14, 2022 06:12 PM (eGTCV)
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No, that was Glorfindel.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at February 14, 2022 06:14 PM (W/MyG)
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I saw an old movie the other day, Please Murder Me, in which Angela Lansbury was the evil femme fatale who duped an unknowing Raymond Burr into helping her murder her husband. When he finally figured out that he'd been used, he manipulated her into murdering him so she could be convicted of murder even if it was wrong one.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Proprietor of the Outrage Outlet at February 14, 2022 06:14 PM (FVME7)
I was so excited for the movie and while I kinda enjoyed the Alec Baldwin performance, its ... not the Shadow and not very good. Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow was a better Shadow movie.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 14, 2022 06:14 PM (KZzsI)
Lmao
Posted by: lol at February 14, 2022 06:12 PM (WMHk0)
I want to see full on hard ons with gals swimming in NCAA.
Posted by: rhennigantx at February 14, 2022 06:14 PM (yrol0)
Posted by: hurricane567 at February 14, 2022 06:14 PM (aUNk3)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at February 14, 2022 06:14 PM (2NHgQ)
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at February 14, 2022 05:59 PM (cupoy)
They just need to make the Sorority House Massacre Movie where the heroine is the brave Trans-Woman that was rejected by the sorority but saves her former Lesbian BIPOC lover who is a member of the Sorority.
Also make the Villain an Evil Repressed Homosexual White Christian Male Hetero "Striking down the Harlots" for Fornication and Licentiousness, which allows you to film lots of steamy erotic scenes to draw in the Horny Teenage Audience, while taking down the Patriarchy.
Posted by: rd at February 14, 2022 06:14 PM (Z32m1)
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 14, 2022 05:49 PM (yQpMk)
I think Gil-Galad is still in Middlearth.
Posted by: N.L. Urker, Honk Justin Trudeau at February 14, 2022 06:05 PM (eGTCV)
Gil Galad is dead. Sauron killed him just before he went after the king, and his son Isildur cut off the Ring.
Glorfindel is the one still in Middle Earth, product of Tolkien forgetting that there already a Glorfindel killed at the fall of Gondolin. So he decided that they were the same one, and somehow he got sent back, which is against the mythos that all the elven dead end up in some big place in Valinor while Humans go somewhere out of the universe entirely.
Posted by: Oldcat at February 14, 2022 06:14 PM (eoQWY)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 14, 2022 06:08 PM (KZzsI)
They don't. They want to conquer Tolkien. They want what a rapist wants: power and gratification of conquest. As the Critical Drinker mentioned recently, if they REALLY wanted to tell the story of POC in Middle Earth, they could have set stuff in the south or the east, where they existed canonically.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at February 14, 2022 06:14 PM (V6f9+)
Posted by: moviegique at February 14, 2022 06:13 PM
Isn't there a reprise of the beach volleyball scene in the new Maverick: Top Gun or whatever it's called?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 14, 2022 06:15 PM (a3Q+t)
"Robin Hood: Men in Tights" is one of the greatest musicals ever made.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 14, 2022 06:13 PM
an also-ran to the masterpiece that is Paint Your Wagon
Posted by: AltonJackson at February 14, 2022 06:15 PM (DUIap)
Maybe it can be found pirated elsewhere.Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at February 14, 2022 06:15 PM (i+3WY)
Glorfindel, I think. I'd have to look it up and don't care much now.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 14, 2022 06:15 PM (KZzsI)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 14, 2022 06:13 PM (a3Q+t)
Robin had an English Accent.
Ever notice that Robin and Dun Bear have same accent!
Posted by: rhennigantx at February 14, 2022 06:15 PM (yrol0)
Posted by: Citizen Cake at February 14, 2022 06:09 PM (HmZuC)"
old white men like the framers of the Constitution.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez (5JfcP) at February 14, 2022 06:15 PM (5JfcP)
Posted by: Lady Gagme at February 14, 2022 06:15 PM (D836D)
Money order outfits may end up with a bonanza out of this.
Posted by: PaleRider is simply irredeemable at February 14, 2022 06:16 PM (3cGpq)
Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger at February 14, 2022 06:12 PM (VTu1l)
Speaking of that did Brad Pitt have a 2 second cameo in Dead Pool 2 ?
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at February 14, 2022 06:16 PM (7QnCd)
Posted by: moviegique at February 14, 2022 06:13 PM (asXVI)
Speaking of Russ Meyeresque stuff - this looks interesting -
https://youtu.be/Awg3cWuHfoc
Then again, A24 puts out interesting stuff.
Posted by: alexthechick - Boobs and hysteria at February 14, 2022 06:16 PM (GbPPJ)
"Sleepaway Camp" series, kinda, sorta.
Posted by: moviegique at February 14, 2022 06:16 PM (asXVI)
Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 14, 2022 06:15 PM (a3Q+t)
They added a man on man blowjob to make it gheyerist!
Posted by: rhennigantx at February 14, 2022 06:16 PM (yrol0)
I was so excited for the movie and while I kinda enjoyed the Alec Baldwin performance, its ... not the Shadow and not very good. Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow was a better Shadow movie.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 14, 2022 06:14 PM (KZzsI)
They did a 'Shadow' serial back in like 1940... I'd love that format to come back.
Posted by: Oscars at February 14, 2022 06:17 PM (oHd/0)
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at February 14, 2022 06:16 PM (7QnCd)
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Yes, and Clint had a cameo in Caspar.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone, read some movie thoughts at February 14, 2022 06:17 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at February 14, 2022 06:17 PM (i+3WY)
Its important to remember here that the Silmarillion was not a book. It was just JRR Tolkien's notes on backstory and how things got to where they were in Lord of the Rings. So if the story is disjoined and odd, that's because when Christopher Tolkien stitched together the notes into a book he had to make sense of those moments an author wakes up in the middle of the night and scribbles something on the notepad by their bed.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 14, 2022 06:17 PM (KZzsI)
Posted by: Lizzy at February 14, 2022 06:17 PM (URNdm)
Posted by: N.L. Urker, Honk Justin Trudeau at February 14, 2022 06:12 PM (eGTCV)
Glorfindel
Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 14, 2022 06:17 PM (fs1hN)
Posted by: banana Dream at February 14, 2022 06:17 PM (fpNLg)
Posted by: Match Checksout at February 14, 2022 06:17 PM (dYe5S)
>>I love Sam Raimi for no other reason than giving us the Bruce Campbell cameos.
Bruce Campbell does the best William Shatner impression.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 14, 2022 06:17 PM (Wqc9l)
***
Hey, when you single-handedly take down a balrog you get to make demands.
Posted by: Azathoth at February 14, 2022 06:18 PM (W3VUu)
There is some question as to whether Glorfindel in Rivendale is the reincarnated Glorfindel from Gondolin.
/nerd off
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 14, 2022 06:18 PM (yQpMk)
Posted by: moviegique at February 14, 2022 06:13 PM (asXVI)
Oh, that is where Attack of the Killer Tomatoes got that from.
Posted by: Bete at February 14, 2022 06:18 PM (F9322)
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at February 14, 2022 06:16 PM (7QnCd)
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Yes, he did. He offered to work for scale, and the condition that Ryan Reynolds would bring him his coffee. Which Reynolds did.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at February 14, 2022 06:18 PM (W/MyG)
Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at February 14, 2022 06:18 PM (Qynnp)
Posted by: Skip at February 14, 2022 06:18 PM (2JoB8)
-Jedi handwave
Posted by: Eromero at February 14, 2022 06:09 PM (0OP+5)
This.
I'm getting tired of hearing Kevin Hart shouting "What!" on every other commercial.
Posted by: Diogenes at February 14, 2022 06:18 PM (axyOa)
maybe. if they ever bother to release it.
Posted by: Kulak AnacHONK!da, behind the Newsom curtain at February 14, 2022 06:18 PM (sGtp+)
Glorfindel, I think. I'd have to look it up and don't care much now.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 14, 2022 06:15 PM (KZzsI)
I thought Gil-Galad was restored to physical life, or was it Glofindel.
Could I be wrong $?
I'm so ashamed.
Posted by: N.L. Urker, Honk Justin Trudeau at February 14, 2022 06:18 PM (eGTCV)
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty of DILLIGAF at February 14, 2022 06:18 PM (5P6Lv)
-Jedi handwave
Posted by: Eromero at February 14, 2022 06:09 PM (0OP+5)
69 YO that needs hearing aids, a home mortgage, and medicare avantage with a side of loss of bladder control?
Posted by: rhennigantx at February 14, 2022 06:11 PM (yrol0) Well, maybe the hearing aids but not that other stuff. But like I said, I don't do commercials. And commercials. Except for the Walter The Cat. Watched that a couple times on ewetoob. And no I ain't buying no chevy truck. Unless I win a lottery.
Posted by: Eromero at February 14, 2022 06:19 PM (0OP+5)
I'll just go out and come back in again.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 14, 2022 06:19 PM (yQpMk)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at February 14, 2022 06:14 PM (V6f9+)
Were'nt the Corsairs of Umbar Black? And I seem to remember some Black troops at the gate of Mordor?
Posted by: Oscars at February 14, 2022 06:19 PM (oHd/0)
Couple palm slaps to the chest and he crumples in a heap.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 14, 2022 06:19 PM (F4b8f)
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 14, 2022 06:19 PM (aAWc5)
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at February 14, 2022 06:19 PM (bkUtD)
I saw an old movie the other day, Please Murder Me, in which Angela Lansbury was the evil femme fatale who duped an unknowing Raymond Burr into helping her murder her husband. When he finally figured out that he'd been used, he manipulated her into murdering him so she could be convicted of murder even if it was wrong one.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Proprietor of the Outrage Outlet at February 14, 2022 06:14 PM (FVME7)
++++
Gonna look for that one.
Posted by: washrivergal at February 14, 2022 06:19 PM (e1M3j)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 14, 2022 06:17 PM (KZzsI)
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CJRT worked with Guy Gavriel Kay, who became quite a good fantasy author in his own right.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at February 14, 2022 06:20 PM (W/MyG)
Posted by: Diogenes at February 14, 2022 06:18 PM
What??
Posted by: Kevin Hart at February 14, 2022 06:20 PM (a3Q+t)
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/)) at February 14, 2022 06:11 PM (5pTK/)
The one nice thing about Mystery Men and the Watchmen (even Kick Ass for that matter) was the step away from the various canons to make a new world, and a lot about it was that the bad guys got shot in the head.
Not sure if that would be possible today
Posted by: Kindltot at February 14, 2022 06:20 PM (xhaym)
Posted by: banana Dream at February 14, 2022 06:11 PM (fpNLg)
And Steve Reeves??
Posted by: rhennigantx at February 14, 2022 06:11 PM (yrol0)
A Steve Reeves/Alan Steele Hercules Clone Movie!
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at February 14, 2022 06:20 PM (PiwSw)
Um, except for the repressed gay part, sounds like a recent college campus Christmas-themed horror movie I saw. Forget the name. . .
Posted by: Lizzy at February 14, 2022 06:20 PM (URNdm)
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/)) at February 14, 2022 06:11 PM (5pTK/)
Razorfist agrees. His "Reject Modernity, Embrace Pulp" manifesto was quite good.
Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at February 14, 2022 06:20 PM (i+3WY)
Posted by: Eromero at February 14, 2022 06:19 PM (0OP+5)
And no I ain't buying no chevy truck. PERIOD
Posted by: rhennigantx at February 14, 2022 06:20 PM (yrol0)
I'm gonna finish reading the book tonight or tomorrow and then watch both versions.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone, read some movie thoughts at February 14, 2022 06:13 PM (LvTSG)
I have, actually. Tyrone Power fought tooth and nail to get the part.
You are in for an interesting, but rough, time.
Very Noir.
This is not a happy story.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at February 14, 2022 06:20 PM (V6f9+)
Posted by: Oscars at February 14, 2022 06:17 PM (oHd/0)
Picked that up on DVD a few years back.
Posted by: Bete at February 14, 2022 06:20 PM (F9322)
Posted by: Diogenes
***
I'm just tired of hearing Kevin Hart.
Posted by: Azathoth at February 14, 2022 06:21 PM (W3VUu)
That house, those exterior shots--straight up Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
Posted by: moviegique at February 14, 2022 06:21 PM (asXVI)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 14, 2022 06:21 PM (KZzsI)
PS Tom Sizemore isn't the killer. It's that other guy, the one that was on Murphy Brown.
Posted by: Jordan61
He also was the mule team driver who took Lieutenant John Dunbar to Ft. Buffalo Wallow and then was slain on the return journey by marauding Indians. He died worrying about his mule team rather than the fact that he wasn't going to get to finish the bacon that he was cooking.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars at February 14, 2022 06:21 PM (pNxlR)
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at February 14, 2022 06:20 PM (PiwSw)
kinda ghey but enjoyable kinda ghey
Posted by: rhennigantx at February 14, 2022 06:21 PM (yrol0)
Posted by: Azathoth at February 14, 2022 06:18 PM (W3VUu)
Yup
Posted by: Gandalf the White at February 14, 2022 06:21 PM (oHd/0)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 14, 2022 06:21 PM (eN2PK)
Posted by: Dr. Bone at February 14, 2022 06:21 PM (dA9eR)
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at February 14, 2022 06:22 PM (7QnCd)
Posted by: Lizzy at February 14, 2022 06:17 PM (URNdm)
And in You're Next, it's explained why the woman has those skills. And I liked Ready or Not but did not at all expect that ending. That's a compliment.
Look, the final girl is a huge trope. A trope I love but it's not new and cutting edge in any way.
Hell, female spies aren't a new thing, right, Mrs. Peel?
Posted by: alexthechick - Boobs and hysteria at February 14, 2022 06:22 PM (GbPPJ)
Posted by: Oscars at February 14, 2022 06:19 PM (oHd/0)
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Never explicitly said. IIRR, the dead Haradrim soldier seen by Sam was described as "swarthy", but that's about as far as it goed.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at February 14, 2022 06:22 PM (W/MyG)
Posted by: Jamaica Queens at February 14, 2022 06:22 PM (b+v9B)
I have, actually. Tyrone Power fought tooth and nail to get the part.
You are in for an interesting, but rough, time.
Very Noir.
This is not a happy story.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at February 14, 2022 06:20 PM (V6f9
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I think i stumbled across Stan's fate while reading something else. Seems like the perfect place for him to end up, right where the book began.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone, read some movie thoughts at February 14, 2022 06:22 PM (LvTSG)
Writers who happen to be women or people of color, and the people who pay them, will need to learn the same lesson eventually. The vast majority will be average writers at best.
Race and gender are not a magical shortcut to artistic greatness.
Posted by: Walter Freeman at February 14, 2022 06:09 PM (4NlP1)
A growing field needs places for youths to learn to write. The pulp and glossy magazines used to provide that. These died out in the 50s for the most part.
Some of the better SF in that era was more mainline than you might think - Stanley Weinbaum in the 30s had many stories where there was a courtship in the first story, and husband / wife teams. Often the woman was the smart scientist one, the guy was more experienced out on the frontiers. Had the standard romance novel initial misunderstanding that go from hostility to lurve when they managed to talk to each other.
Posted by: Oldcat at February 14, 2022 06:22 PM (eoQWY)
Posted by: Diogenes
I'm getting tired of hearing Kevin Hart shouting
I'm getting tired of hearing Uncle Joe whispering
I'm getting tired of hearing BULLSHIT
Posted by: rhennigantx at February 14, 2022 06:22 PM (yrol0)
Posted by: Kevin Hart at February 14, 2022 06:22 PM (a3Q+t)
Posted by: Jamaica Queens at February 14, 2022 06:22 PM (b+v9B)
And yet, that does not make it right.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 14, 2022 06:22 PM (eN2PK)
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/)) at February 14, 2022 06:23 PM (5pTK/)
Posted by: Oscars at February 14, 2022 06:19 PM (oHd/0)
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Never explicitly said. IIRR, the dead Haradrim soldier seen by Sam was described as "swarthy", but that's about as far as it goed.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at February 14, 2022 06:22 PM (W/MyG)
There is a group called the Black Numenorians but like most Tolkien, this means Evil more that skin color.
Posted by: Oldcat at February 14, 2022 06:23 PM (eoQWY)
Judge Rakoff dismissed Sarah Palin's lawsuit against the NYT, saying they screwed up badly but she could not demonstrate they acted with malice.
If knowingly misstating facts to put her in the worst light possible for now other reason than to purposely damage her reputation is not enough to demonstrate malice, than what does it? What is enough?
Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at February 14, 2022 06:23 PM (Qynnp)
Posted by: Lizzy at February 14, 2022 06:17 PM (URNdm)
So. Somebody finally jumps into the idling car to escape?
Posted by: Diogenes at February 14, 2022 06:23 PM (axyOa)
I watched that the other day also, YouTube or Rumble. I liked it.
Posted by: lowandslow at February 14, 2022 06:23 PM (4thlk)
Burr's voice was terrific in radio, he did so much great stuff.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 14, 2022 06:24 PM (KZzsI)
***
That's because they're all as clueless as he is.
Posted by: Azathoth at February 14, 2022 06:24 PM (W3VUu)
Posted by: Oscars at February 14, 2022 06:19 PM (oHd/0)
The 'Black Corsairs' was a reference to their morality.
But there were Haradrim and Easterlings in the battle against Gondor.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at February 14, 2022 06:24 PM (V6f9+)
It was also a running gag on the TV show "M*A*S*H".
They were always getting these "naturalist" reels.
Posted by: moviegique at February 14, 2022 06:24 PM (asXVI)
Posted by: Kevin Hart at February 14, 2022 06:22 PM (a3Q+t)
tits 2 each
vajaja 1 each
legs to their ass 2 each
Posted by: rhennigantx at February 14, 2022 06:24 PM (yrol0)
You are in for an interesting, but rough, time.
Very Noir.
This is not a happy story.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at February 14, 2022 06:20 PM (V6f9+)
++++
It is really very good and disturbing at the same time.
Posted by: washrivergal at February 14, 2022 06:24 PM (e1M3j)
Strinking Distance is best remember for the crash scene with the truckload of IC Pumpers party ball kegs.
Poured one out for Jimmy every time that happened.
And a good car chase down Mt Washington, and then dahntahn. They didn't even stop for directions!
Posted by: Dr.Rev. Senator Your Highness E Buzz Miller, Esq PhD MA MS at February 14, 2022 06:24 PM (XnbJC)
Posted by: rhennigantx at February 14, 2022 06:11 PM
As long as it's visual, and not too abysmal.
Posted by: Dr. Frank N. Furter at February 14, 2022 06:25 PM (a3Q+t)
Judge Rakoff dismissed Sarah Palin's lawsuit against the NYT, saying they screwed up badly but she could not demonstrate they acted with malice.
Isn't that for a jury to decide?
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 14, 2022 06:25 PM (yQpMk)
Welcome to the party, pal!
Posted by: Jon McClain, speaking for 90% of conservatives trying to stay employed at February 14, 2022 06:25 PM (NCgXW)
Did you know "Virginia City" had Errol Flynn, Randolph Scott, and Humphrey Bogart in it?
Posted by: rd at February 14, 2022 06:25 PM (Z32m1)
Posted by: rhennigantx at February 14, 2022 06:25 PM (yrol0)
fight me.
Or not.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/)) at February 14, 2022 06:23 PM (5pTK/)
I laughed so hard at that I started choking. Note, you're supposed to laugh.
Posted by: alexthechick - Boobs and hysteria at February 14, 2022 06:25 PM (GbPPJ)
Posted by: Meremortal at February 14, 2022 06:25 PM (Bwqq4)
AH, OK. Missed that, but would have felt more complete if there was some view into that? Soccer mom becomes badass fighter/slayer of cartels is huge. At least in Bruce Willis' vigilante movie you see him research, learn to shoot, mess up, as well as get injured, etc..
Posted by: Lizzy at February 14, 2022 06:25 PM (URNdm)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars at February 14, 2022 06:21 PM (pNxlR)
Heeeyyy! Lt Dunbar was the guy they got out of Stalag 17!
Posted by: Diogenes at February 14, 2022 06:25 PM (axyOa)
This is from least totalitarian to most. Former British empire only.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at February 14, 2022 06:26 PM (ufFY8)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at February 14, 2022 06:26 PM (W/MyG)
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Fighting words these are. (The 2nd statement)
Posted by: Not TJM but I'm married to a strawberry blonde at February 14, 2022 06:23 PM (t1JPS)
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Except for her face, which doesn't move from its statue-like frozen state except in the most extreme circumstances, she is probably pretty attractive. Her face is a problem, though. I try not to look.
Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at February 14, 2022 06:26 PM (Qynnp)
we're looking at decades of tiny slices of freedom being removed one by one, and hearing all the warnings be laughed off.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez (5JfcP) at February 14, 2022 06:26 PM (5JfcP)
Posted by: N.L. Urker, Honk Justin Trudeau at February 14, 2022 06:26 PM (eGTCV)
Posted by: Match Checksout
Real chick action movie has never been tried!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Proprietor of the Outrage Outlet at February 14, 2022 06:26 PM (FVME7)
Posted by: Diogenes
***
I'm just tired of hearing Kevin Hart.
Posted by: Azathoth at February 14, 2022 06:21 PM (W3VUu)
I admit I liked Kevin Hart in the movie , The Upside. Good based on a true story movie. The real life characters were European and Middle Eastern .
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at February 14, 2022 06:26 PM (7QnCd)
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at February 14, 2022 06:26 PM (PiwSw)
Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at February 14, 2022 06:23 PM (Qynnp)
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The judge was leaned on to toss the case.
And, these days, it seems more likely than not.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/)) at February 14, 2022 06:26 PM (5pTK/)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 14, 2022 06:21 PM (eN2PK)
I guess if I had billions to throw away, like Bezos, I'd turn over the Tolkein stuff to the Japanese. I think they would know how to give the proper treatment of his literary masterpiece. Then again, we may end up with a Galadriel with giant eyes and a short school girl skirt. Could go either way.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 14, 2022 06:26 PM (fs1hN)
did the Jury come back? or did he just dismiss?
Posted by: Gandalf the White at February 14, 2022 06:26 PM (oHd/0)
Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at February 14, 2022 06:23 PM (Qynnp)
They didn't bring in Counselor Troi to testify "Captain, I sense that the New York Times is acting with malice against Sarah Palin."
Tough break.
Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at February 14, 2022 06:26 PM (i+3WY)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 14, 2022 06:27 PM (KZzsI)
And there is very little to replace them.
Posted by: Inspector kemp at February 14, 2022 06:27 PM (nkp5d)
Welcome to the party, pal!
Posted by: Jon McClain, speaking for 90% of conservatives trying to stay employed at February 14, 2022 06:25 PM (NCgXW)
Every 6 years. *spits* Damned Hobbits.
Posted by: John McCain Riding Satan's Barbed Cock at February 14, 2022 06:27 PM (F9322)
***
See, now you're just playing with my emotions.
Posted by: Azathoth at February 14, 2022 06:27 PM (W3VUu)
Posted by: Match Checksout
Real chick action movie has never been tried!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Proprietor of the Outrage Outlet at February 14, 2022 06:26 PM (FVME7)
Modesty Blaze.... nuff said...
Posted by: Gandalf the White at February 14, 2022 06:27 PM (oHd/0)
Posted by: rhennigantx at February 14, 2022 06:28 PM (yrol0)
You say that like it's a bad thing.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 14, 2022 06:28 PM (yQpMk)
Posted by: N.L. Urker, Honk Justin Trudeau at February 14, 2022 06:26 PM (eGTCV)
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You could get to sleep by contemplating all seven sons of Feanor.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at February 14, 2022 06:28 PM (W/MyG)
Judge Rakoff dismissed Sarah Palin's lawsuit against the NYT, saying they screwed up badly but she could not demonstrate they acted with malice.
Isn't that for a jury to decide?
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 14, 2022 06:25 PM (yQpMk)
I've seen conflicting stuff on what the ruling actually is, by which I mean is it dismissed now or if it's ruling under advisement waiting jury verdict (which is a thing).
Here's the deal: judge decides the law, jury decides the facts. But a judge can decide if there are enough facts presented to meet the burden of proof. So, yeah, it's a shit show.
Posted by: alexthechick - Boobs and hysteria at February 14, 2022 06:28 PM (GbPPJ)
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at February 14, 2022 06:28 PM (PiwSw)
Posted by: PaleRider is simply irredeemable at February 14, 2022 06:28 PM (3cGpq)
Posted by: Kevin Hart at February 14, 2022 06:22 PM (a3Q+t)
WHAT!!!???
Posted by: Diogenes at February 14, 2022 06:28 PM (axyOa)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 14, 2022 06:27 PM (KZzsI)
Evil Dead the Musical is a Hoot!
Posted by: Romeo13 at February 14, 2022 06:28 PM (oHd/0)
Hollywood keeps pushing soy types as action heroes now. They aren't tough, muscled, hard, or wise. They're soft and small and usually outshone by the girls.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 14, 2022 06:28 PM (KZzsI)
Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at February 14, 2022 06:26 PM (Qynnp)
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Ah, the Scarlett Johansson school of acting.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/)) at February 14, 2022 06:28 PM (5pTK/)
Posted by: Skip at February 14, 2022 06:28 PM (2JoB8)
I gotta wonder, this seems to all be on purpose, as if they don't care how much they lose.
Look at Fidel's shithead son, what he's doing...he doesn't care. And Biden, he doesn't care.
It's really weird.
Posted by: Dr.Rev. Senator Your Highness E Buzz Miller, Esq PhD MA MS at February 14, 2022 06:28 PM (XnbJC)
The Shape of Things with Rachel Weisz
man that is a fucked up movie
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at February 14, 2022 06:29 PM (M+Lyo)
Posted by: N.L. Urker, Honk Justin Trudeau
It's quite simple. Glorfindel was the Glorfindel in Simon and Glorfindel.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Proprietor of the Outrage Outlet at February 14, 2022 06:29 PM (FVME7)
So if the story is disjoined and odd, that's because when Christopher Tolkien stitched together the notes into a book he had to make sense of those moments an author wakes up in the middle of the night and scribbles something on the notepad by their bed.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
It's too bad that JRR jotted one of those notes over a discarded shopping list. Poor Christopher never could make sense out of the sentence, "Watchmen would be equipped with shopworn handbags destined to be donated to SA".
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars at February 14, 2022 06:29 PM (pNxlR)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 14, 2022 06:26 PM (fs1hN)
You say that like it is a bad thing.
Dammit Grump, beat me to it!
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at February 14, 2022 06:29 PM (ufFY8)
Hollywwod's fav phrase
a is true and z is true, therefore the rest is true
Posted by: REDACTED at February 14, 2022 06:29 PM (us2H3)
So I don't expect we'll see generations of stars any more.
Posted by: moviegique at February 14, 2022 06:29 PM (asXVI)
anyway Night Flight has a streaming channel now
I really really want to subscribe! looks awesome
lots of 80s b movies
Posted by: Black Orchid at February 14, 2022 06:30 PM (j9HX3)
Posted by: buzzion at February 14, 2022 06:30 PM (vMCab)
Yup.
Posted by: Lizzy at February 14, 2022 06:30 PM (URNdm)
Judge Rakoff dismissed Sarah Palin's lawsuit against the NYT, saying they screwed up badly but she could not demonstrate they acted with malice.
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Isn't that for a jury to decide?
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 14, 2022 06:25 PM (yQpMk)
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No, the Establishment did not even want to risk a New York City jury might decide an evil right wing pro life white supremacist snowbilly might have the right to not be slandered by the New York Times.
Posted by: rd at February 14, 2022 06:30 PM (Z32m1)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez (5JfcP) at February 14, 2022 06:30 PM (5JfcP)
>>I'd turn over the Tolkein stuff to the Japanese.
Akira Kurosawa and Hayao Miyazaki produced some of the greatest films ever committed to celluloid but there is a lot of derivative stuff being made in Japan now.
Maybe some Korean movie studio could do it justice.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 14, 2022 06:30 PM (Wqc9l)
***
Just don't sit in a tub of water near a toaster and read the Children of Hurin.
Posted by: Azathoth at February 14, 2022 06:30 PM (W3VUu)
Posted by: Lady in Black at February 14, 2022 06:30 PM (sVtYq)
And there is very little to replace them.
Posted by: Inspector kemp at February 14, 2022 06:27 PM (nkp5d)
Nancy 82
Pacino Same
Ford Same
Pesci Same
Posted by: rhennigantx at February 14, 2022 06:30 PM (yrol0)
Posted by: Lizzy at February 14, 2022 06:31 PM (URNdm)
Posted by: Jamaica Queens at February 14, 2022 06:31 PM (b+v9B)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 14, 2022 06:31 PM (KZzsI)
did the Jury come back? or did he just dismiss?
Posted by: Gandalf the White at February 14, 2022 06:26 PM (oHd/0)
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The story I read is Rakoff is letting the jury continue to deliberate, though they will now obviously know his ruling (and his opinion of the key issue). His stated reasoning is that he expects the case to be appealed, and therefore he wanted the jury to continue.
Bizarre ending, if that is what it actually is.
Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at February 14, 2022 06:31 PM (Qynnp)
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at February 14, 2022 06:32 PM (7QnCd)
Posted by: Tim Riggins at February 14, 2022 06:32 PM (ZZK0E)
Posted by: rd at February 14, 2022 06:30 PM (Z32m1) "
spot-on !
too important to just leave it to chance.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez (5JfcP) at February 14, 2022 06:32 PM (5JfcP)
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/)) at February 14, 2022 06:28 PM (5pTK/)
Just watched Ghost in the Shell... Scar Jo type cast as an unfeeling android... her best role IMO as she did not really have to act.
Posted by: Romeo13 at February 14, 2022 06:32 PM (oHd/0)
Posted by: lowandslow at February 14, 2022 06:32 PM (4thlk)
As Jack Buck said about Kirk Gibson's walkoff HR in the
'88 Series, "I don't believe what I just saw!"
Posted by: Shooter McGavin at February 14, 2022 06:32 PM (734Sg)
Again, Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974). The first "final girl", I believe.
Posted by: moviegique at February 14, 2022 06:32 PM (asXVI)
The story of the Children of Hurin is complete enough to make a movie. The tale of the hapless was pretty good.
Heck, there is probably enough to make a move about Hurin himself, Greatest of Mortal Warriors.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 14, 2022 06:33 PM (yQpMk)
Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at February 14, 2022 06:33 PM (aTPO/)
Judge Rakoff dismissed Sarah Palin's lawsuit against the NYT, saying they screwed up badly but she could not demonstrate they acted with malice.
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Isn't that for a jury to decide?
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 14, 2022 06:25 PM (yQpMk)
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No, the Establishment did not even want to risk a New York City jury might decide an evil right wing pro life white supremacist snowbilly might have the right to not be slandered by the New York Times.
Posted by: rd at February 14, 2022 06:30 PM (Z32m1)
They have 5 or 6 emails where they ignored the fact the scope was NOT true.
Posted by: rhennigantx at February 14, 2022 06:33 PM (yrol0)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 14, 2022 06:33 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: avi at February 14, 2022 06:33 PM (hMd9S)
Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions
That's my problem with her. She doesn't look like a human. She's a replicant.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at February 14, 2022 06:33 PM (bkUtD)
everytime I see them, I'm happy
and I don't have to see jesus immersed in piss to be happy
and most movies are jesus immersed in piss
Posted by: REDACTED at February 14, 2022 06:33 PM (us2H3)
Posted by: Tim Riggins at February 14, 2022 06:33 PM (ZZK0E)
So it appears the initial play by the Dem-Media Complex may be the usual one for all Clinton bad news: It's Old News, It's Time for Everyone to Move On!
Posted by: Gref at February 14, 2022 06:34 PM (AMIL/)
Posted by: rhennigantx at February 14, 2022 06:34 PM (yrol0)
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 14, 2022 06:33 PM (yQpMk)
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The part where he's stuck on a mountaintop for thirty years might drag a little.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at February 14, 2022 06:34 PM (W/MyG)
Posted by: rd at February 14, 2022 06:34 PM (Z32m1)
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Fighting words these are. (The 2nd statement)
Posted by: Not TJM but I'm married to a strawberry blonde at February 14, 2022 06:23 PM (t1JPS)
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Except for her face, which doesn't move from its statue-like frozen state except in the most extreme circumstances, she is probably pretty attractive. Her face is a problem, though. I try not to look.
Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions
Wait until we add that Joker Smile to her the next time she comes in for a nip tuck. (All the White Women get one.)
Posted by: Plastic Surgeon Union Boss at February 14, 2022 06:34 PM (6ynqm)
And there is very little to replace them.
Posted by: Inspector kemp at February 14, 2022 06:27 PM
Fuck you! I'm a bright up-and-comer just oozing masculinity!
https://tinyurl.com/2p95743c
Posted by: Rory Culkin at February 14, 2022 06:35 PM (NCgXW)
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at February 14, 2022 06:35 PM (sWM8x)
Posted by: buzzion at February 14, 2022 06:30 PM (vMCab)
The orcs had "life after the manner of the firstborn" so, twisted elves.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 14, 2022 06:35 PM (yQpMk)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Proprietor of the Outrage Outlet at February 14, 2022 06:35 PM (FVME7)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 14, 2022 06:35 PM (F4b8f)
Posted by: rhennigantx at February 14, 2022 06:35 PM (yrol0)
Here's the deal: judge decides the law, jury decides the facts. But a judge can decide if there are enough facts presented to meet the burden of proof. So, yeah, it's a shit show.
Posted by: alexthechick - Boobs and hysteria at February 14, 2022 06:28 PM (GbPPJ)
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Sounds like this fits the story I read. From now on, I leave the trial explanations to AtC. She, who knows shit.
Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at February 14, 2022 06:35 PM (Qynnp)
Posted by: Tim Riggins at February 14, 2022 06:35 PM (ZZK0E)
Posted by: Gandalf the White at February 14, 2022 06:26 PM
The judge is going to dismiss when the jury returns a verdict. Which would totally piss me off if I were a juror. Thanks for wasting my time, judge.
Posted by: Chuck C at February 14, 2022 06:35 PM (EughT)
Posted by: rhennigantx at February 14, 2022 06:35 PM (yrol0)
Oh so you think you know me, Ace?
Be clear that I did not know every single tidbit! I just happened to grow up in Pittsburgh. And maybe I watch a lot of bad action movies. I watch MST3k re-runs too, so sue me. And I found it disappointing "I Come In Peace" was not in your list.
But don't think you can judge me. I'm complex. With layers. Like an onion.
P.S I'd hit Garret's mom, too.
Posted by: Fatty McFattington at February 14, 2022 06:36 PM (uJ1Uy)
I pretty much only watch action movies. And increasingly, my taste runs toward older, cheaper shit I would have hated twenty years ago, because it's so low-budget and chanky.
But at least it's not soulless corporate agitprop packed with bien-pensant lectures. I can just watch some dude beat the crap out of generic bad guys without some long-winded explanation about how the bad guys robbed that bank because they were brainwashed by Jordan Peterson into funding a plot to kidnap a black female scientist who found the cure to white supremacy.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 14, 2022 06:36 PM (CARG2)
Posted by: rd at February 14, 2022 06:34 PM (Z32m1)
We are?
Posted by: Russia at February 14, 2022 06:36 PM (oHd/0)
"In Striking Distance, Bruce Willis gets in trouble and is busted down (yawn) to acting as some kind of river patrol cop. In Pittsburg. His female lead is the newcomer Sarah Jessica Parker who went on to win the Preakness later that year. "
you xir,have outdone yourself......lololololol
Posted by: uncouth jay marks at February 14, 2022 06:36 PM (GT8Ln)
Posted by: Tim Riggins at February 14, 2022 06:36 PM (ZZK0E)
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A judge can decide that the plaintiff or prosecutor hasn't actually provided any evidence of the claimed wrong-doing. For example, if a prosecutor alleges that the defendent robbed a store, but then never actually provides evidence of a robbery taking place, the judge can dismiss the case. The jury determines whether the evidence has merit. But the judge can decide that even if the provided evidence is true, it still doesn't qualify as a crime. That's what has happened here. The judge has allowed the jury to deliberate as he knows that his decision will be appealed.
Posted by: junior at February 14, 2022 06:36 PM (GLTyb)
So it appears the initial play by the Dem-Media Complex may be the usual one for all Clinton bad news: It's Old News, It's Time for Everyone to Move On!
Posted by: Gref at February 14, 2022 06:34 PM
I think you mean, "what difference, at this point, does it make?"
Posted by: Hillary "Hic!" Clinton at February 14, 2022 06:36 PM (NCgXW)
Posted by: rd at February 14, 2022 06:34 PM (Z32m1)
NYC Nuked
Moscow in flames
Film at 11
Posted by: MSM Reporter at February 14, 2022 06:37 PM (yrol0)
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at February 14, 2022 06:37 PM (QRdjz)
Hosts for Oscars will be Wanda Sykes, Amy Shumer, Regina Hall.
Can it possibly go more woke? No don't answer that...
Posted by: Mr Wolf at February 14, 2022 06:37 PM (hiYlW)
Posted by: Plastic Surgeon Union Boss at February 14, 2022 06:34 PM (6ynqm)
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You're responsible for what happened to Meg Ryan, aren't you?!
Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at February 14, 2022 06:37 PM (Qynnp)
Posted by: Chuck C at February 14, 2022 06:35 PM (EughT) "
"Ingrate ! we paid you $18.75 a day !"
Posted by: sock_rat_eez (5JfcP) at February 14, 2022 06:37 PM (5JfcP)
I have my bad 80's ski movie collection on Blue Ray now...
Ski School, Ski Patrol, Hot Dog the Movie, Aspen Extreme.
and of course, not ski but in the genre, Up the Creek.
Posted by: Romeo13 at February 14, 2022 06:37 PM (oHd/0)
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at February 14, 2022 06:37 PM (PiwSw)
Judge Rakoff dismissed Sarah Palin's lawsuit against the NYT, saying they screwed up badly but she could not demonstrate they acted with malice.
this is why all this scum resides in NYC/DC
they will never be found guilty or responsible for anything there
ask Greg Craig
In a twisted, sick way, Comey was correct
Posted by: REDACTED at February 14, 2022 06:37 PM (us2H3)
I have never, ever been impressed with her. I can't even figure out why people think she's so gorgeous. She's not bad but big hooters is not enough for me to consider a woman pretty. Jessica Alba isn't a very good actress but she can actually act. Scarlett just never did anything for me.
Jennifer Lawrence is the same way for me. She's okay as an actress? But nothing special or noteworthy.
I just watched To Have and Have Not a couple days ago and my God in heaven, Lauren Bacall about melted the screen. She was so gorgeous but she could also ACT. She was damned good, in fact her only flaw was that she really couldn't sing very well. Compared to someone like that, hell I wouldn't even SEE Scarlett Johannsen in a room with Lauren Bacall in it.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 14, 2022 06:38 PM (KZzsI)
See, that's what I'm talking about. Enjoy Sack Lunch, Iowandslow.
Posted by: Iowandslow's Date at February 14, 2022 06:38 PM (YFAIE)
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/)) at February 14, 2022 06:28 PM (5pTK/)
Just watched Ghost in the Shell... Scar Jo type cast as an unfeeling android... her best role IMO as she did not really have to act.
Posted by: Romeo13
I know, right?
Posted by: Jessica Biel running away in every scene of Texas Chainsaw Massacre at February 14, 2022 06:38 PM (6ynqm)
So it appears the initial play by the Dem-Media Complex may be the usual one for all Clinton bad news: It's Old News, It's Time for Everyone to Move On!
Posted by: Gref at February 14, 2022 06:34 PM (AMIL/)
No doubt he presented it in his calm, folksy, lets all be reasonable manner.
Posted by: Diogenes at February 14, 2022 06:38 PM (axyOa)
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at February 14, 2022 06:37 PM (QRdjz)
You just like horse movies.
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at February 14, 2022 06:38 PM (7QnCd)
Pig. Nightmare Alley. Dune.
I think that's it.
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis
I haven't seen a new film since The Last Jedi. Not looking forward to any movies in the future, either.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at February 14, 2022 06:38 PM (bkUtD)
"In Striking Distance, Bruce Willis gets in trouble and is busted down (yawn) to acting as some kind of river patrol cop. In Pittsburg. His female lead is the newcomer Sarah Jessica Parker who went on to win the Preakness later that year. "
you xir,have outdone yourself......lololololol
Posted by: uncouth jay marks at February 14, 2022 06:36 PM (GT8Ln)
Southpark beat her like a horse in the 8th race at Churchhill!
Posted by: MSM Reporter at February 14, 2022 06:38 PM (yrol0)
Posted by: DB at February 14, 2022 06:39 PM (geLO8)
Ski School, Ski Patrol, Hot Dog the Movie, Aspen Extreme.||
What was that guy's name? Dean Cameron?
I had a friend who was in "Hot Dog". Or wait, maybe she was in "Hamburger"...
Posted by: moviegique at February 14, 2022 06:39 PM (asXVI)
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis
I liked it, too.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at February 14, 2022 06:39 PM (bkUtD)
No particular facts except Putin is winning big right now, without firing a shot? Why change tactics when you're on a roll?
Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at February 14, 2022 06:39 PM (Qynnp)
Posted by: Bete at February 14, 2022 06:39 PM (F9322)
Posted by: Gandalf the White at February 14, 2022 06:26 PM
The judge is going to dismiss when the jury returns a verdict. Which would totally piss me off if I were a juror. Thanks for wasting my time, judge.
Posted by: Chuck C at February 14, 2022 06:35 PM (EughT)
So, the Jury goes home because, not sequestered, and hears the Judge is going to dismiss... andddddd.... mistrial.
Posted by: Romeo13 at February 14, 2022 06:40 PM (oHd/0)
Nood -- "problematic" Joe Rogan
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars at February 14, 2022 06:40 PM (pNxlR)
Posted by: Diogenes at February 14, 2022 06:38 PM (axyOa)
Yup.
Posted by: Gref at February 14, 2022 06:40 PM (AMIL/)
She basically jumped to movie fame seven or eight years later in The Help followed closely by Zero Dark Thirty. Definitely not the usual career arc, and makes me wonder who, how, and why it happened.
Posted by: Walter Freeman at February 14, 2022 06:41 PM (4NlP1)
great features
damn
Posted by: DB at February 14, 2022 06:39 PM (geLO
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great, as in face-carved-into-a-mountain "great".
monumental. large. immovable.
Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at February 14, 2022 06:41 PM (Qynnp)
Posted by: Tim Riggins at February 14, 2022 06:33 PM (ZZK0E)
Because it turns out Peacemaker is really about racism and how terrible white men are.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at February 14, 2022 06:41 PM (V6f9+)
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I just bought Cannonball Run on blu-ray, simply because its distribution history is so convoluted, no one can seemingly stream it now.
Posted by: Tim Riggins at February 14, 2022 06:42 PM (ZZK0E)
No particular facts except Putin is winning big right now, without firing a shot? Why change tactics when you're on a roll?
Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at February 14, 2022 06:39 PM (Qynnp)
Since Biden made the entire winter invasion story up, Putin would have to scramble to invade.
Posted by: Oldcat at February 14, 2022 06:42 PM (eoQWY)
Posted by: DFCtomm at February 14, 2022 06:42 PM (OHy0b)
Posted by: N.L. Urker, Honk Justin Trudeau at February 14, 2022 06:26 PM (eGTCV)
Don't feel pregnant. I read that as Gil Gadot or whatever the Israeli actress name is.
Posted by: Eromero at February 14, 2022 06:42 PM (0OP+5)
A Russian security guard drew some eyes on the faceless figures in this 90-year-old $1,000,000 painting and honestly he kinda improved it
https://bit.ly/3uPAjrT
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Proprietor of the Outrage Outlet at February 14, 2022 06:42 PM (FVME7)
Posted by: Tim Riggins at February 14, 2022 06:43 PM (ZZK0E)
Sort of a meta commentary on woke Hollywood, innit?
Posted by: me at February 14, 2022 06:44 PM (9p+wn)
Yeah I saw that story. While I do not condone or encourage graffiti on artwork, those were not exactly wonderful treasures of history.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 14, 2022 06:44 PM (KZzsI)
Posted by: tmitsss at February 14, 2022 06:45 PM (zAbLx)
Posted by: Bruce Willis at February 14, 2022 06:46 PM (sWM8x)
(well, I guess that includes the rather hefty chunk of Ukrainian real estate grabbed by Moscow 8 years ago, because that subject never comes up in any coverage apart from Ukrainian official comments)
Posted by: rhomboid at February 14, 2022 06:47 PM (OTzUX)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 14, 2022 06:38 PM (KZzsI)
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Ingrid Bergman.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/)) at February 14, 2022 06:49 PM (5pTK/)
Posted by: moviegique at February 14, 2022 06:49 PM (asXVI)
Posted by: rhomboid at February 14, 2022 06:49 PM (OTzUX)
Posted by: lowandslow at February 14, 2022 06:32 PM (4thlk)
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I irritated my date a few minutes after that snoozefest by telling her I had just received my new Indian name: "Pisses for Days."
Posted by: Interesting Times at February 14, 2022 07:01 PM (ieN7O)
the irony, it burns.
Posted by: vivi at February 14, 2022 07:01 PM (33kEg)
Posted by: dartist at February 14, 2022 07:05 PM (+ya+t)
Posted by: Ottomam Empire at February 14, 2022 07:07 PM (z9npv)
ooh, Vespas are *tight*
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Okay, hat have you got against Lambrettas?
Posted by: Ciampino at February 14, 2022 07:15 PM (qfLjt)
Posted by: Just Some Guy at February 14, 2022 07:21 PM (JzDjf)
Wonder when they all broke for lunch that day...
Posted by: Just Some Guy at February 14, 2022 07:29 PM (JzDjf)
Posted by: David Groenier at February 14, 2022 08:03 PM (DwnPl)
Posted by: JustSo at February 14, 2022 08:47 PM (fdpot)
Now that is funny
Posted by: SMOD at February 14, 2022 09:00 PM (X5CsJ)
Also, I can't believe I'm not the only person who saw, and remembers, Harley Davidson and the Marlborough Man.
Posted by: Ace's liver at February 14, 2022 09:39 PM (wGeit)
Posted by: Paul in Texas at February 14, 2022 09:41 PM (31kJn)
Posted by: lowandslow at February 14, 2022 06:32 PM (4thlk)
That movie was made a hundred times. That particular version was really well done, though as you say, a little long. But there was nothing new in it.
I think Avatar finally killed the genre.
Posted by: Ace's liver at February 14, 2022 09:42 PM (wGeit)
This is from least totalitarian to most. Former British empire only.
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You left out quite a few - India, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania, etc,
Posted by: Ciampino at February 14, 2022 09:50 PM (qfLjt)
I fear that somewhere in their strategy they intend to burn down every institution they command. This is just the way they disembowel our cinema.
Posted by: Paul in Texas at February 14, 2022 10:12 PM (31kJn)
I mean can you imagine Tarantino's "Kill Bill" with a FEMALE lead?
What? Why is everyone pointing and laughing again?
Did I say something funny?
What was it?
Posted by: gekkobear at February 14, 2022 11:22 PM (I388C)
Posted by: Jonah Kyle at February 15, 2022 12:10 AM (R4j1g)
Fun how these chick-action flicks fail, while reactionary right-wing filth like Wick and Reacher thrives. I am good with this.
Posted by: FilthyScandiSnowbilly at February 15, 2022 06:01 AM (LJY6O)
Posted by: americanbehindenemylines at February 16, 2022 12:01 PM (GfjUX)
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