Is This Something?<br>Added: Is <i>The Terminal List</i> Something?

Is This Something?
Added: Is The Terminal List Something?

Did you see It Follows?

So this is It Smiles.

Oh, to clarify: It's not called It Smiles; it's just "Smile." I was making a joke because it's similar to It Follows. It Follows made the simple, mundane act of walking horrific; this makes the simple, everyday act of smiling horrific.

Here's something scary I found: A scene from a Japanese movie called Kairo (also called Pulse), which came out early in the era of the Internet, when it was generally accepted that The Internet Can Do Anything.

I think the film's premise was that there was some kind of secret room on the internet. Maybe a connection to the underworld where evil ghosts live. A guy found it and was then found dead under suspicious, maybe supernatural, circumstances.

His friend drives to the guy's crime scene tape sealed apartment and goes inside.

I have it cued to 3:01, when he gets to the apartment. Worth the three minutes.

This might be fun:

I've been watching The Terminal List on Amazon, which is good.

The critics hate it, because they hate Chris Pratt because he believes in Jesus and that is a crime, and because the show has families in it and I think in one scene they say grace. And also it has the military and guns, so it's "anti-woke."

To complain: It's doing that thing that all Premium Quality Cable TV Shows do, which is to suggest it has Dramatic Weight by making people talk slowly and having scenes go on for longer than they need to. The show's got some unneeded flab.

But on the plus side: In every episode so far (I've watched six of eight episodes), there is at least one big moment that justifies your having spent 50 minutes watching it.

It's an action vengeance story with an interesting character twist: the main character, while a good and decent man, may have some serious mental issues, so his judgment is not very good. In the usual action vengeance fantasy, you're completely on-board with the hero's plan to just kill the bad guys.

In this one, you're not always sure he's mentally together enough to have correctly deduced who the bad guys are and you're sometimes very opposed to the extreme means he uses to exact vengeance. Like detonating a bomb on a crowded street.

Instead of always rooting for him, I'm frequently thinking, "Please don't do this." I don't want him to be just a crazy killer.

The tension there, between wanting him to succeed and wanting him to come out of this okay, but also being... worried by his behavior and shaky grasp of reality, is exciting. It keeps you interested.

This is overstating it for effect, but it's almost as if, "What if Joker was the good guy?" Or at least he's got some Travis Bickle DNA in him to go along with his John Rambo DNA. (Or, I guess: He's like Rambo for the first movie, except not just reacting, but acting proactively.)

Posted by: Ace at 04:09 PM

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1 Sponge

Posted by: Roy at July 11, 2022 04:09 PM (Ti+Tv)

2 Thanks, Ace!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 11, 2022 04:10 PM (uLr+K)

3 SPONGE!

Posted by: Jordan61 at July 11, 2022 04:10 PM (DRSnL)

4
Rippaverse is surpassing expectations.

btw, "writer" and pedo and old dyke, steven king, is still a lying cunt.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at July 11, 2022 04:10 PM (I9qiW)

5 another SPONGE

Posted by: SturmToddler (po3vF) at July 11, 2022 04:10 PM (p03vF)

6 Too soon to tell if it's something

Posted by: Zeera at July 11, 2022 04:11 PM (IBlzG)

7 If she were a little younger, her mouth is in perfect position.

Posted by: Pedo Peter at July 11, 2022 04:11 PM (86+0p)

8 Palate cleanser!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 11, 2022 04:11 PM (Mdfxc)

9 That Smile trailer freaked me out, not watching anything else in this post. I HATE scary movies.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at July 11, 2022 04:12 PM (Mzdiz)

10 It smells?

Posted by: NALNAMSAM - not as lean, not as mean, still a Marine at July 11, 2022 04:12 PM (+ldAm)

11 Did you see It Follows?

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I loved that. Bought it, and haven't watched it since.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 11, 2022 04:12 PM (ucNJQ)

12 9 That Smile trailer freaked me out, not watching anything else in this post. I HATE scary movies.
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at July 11, 2022 04:12 PM (Mzdiz)

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I'm guessing the Smile trailer puts someone firmly in the Uncanny Valley (smiles aren't that big and don't last that long), so it's just naturally unsettling.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 11, 2022 04:13 PM (ucNJQ)

13 Tonite on Better Call Saul, Lalo will drown Kim in the blue-lit fishtank.

Posted by: Lithiated gp For Vigor at July 11, 2022 04:13 PM (qpX6U)

14 Sponge?

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at July 11, 2022 04:13 PM (U3uv2)

15 KING HARV!

Posted by: Axeman at July 11, 2022 04:13 PM (krQz2)

16 Doubt I will get to see it, but like horror movies

Posted by: Skip's phone at July 11, 2022 04:13 PM (2JoB8)

17 MATT DAMON!

Posted by: MATT DAMON at July 11, 2022 04:14 PM (U3uv2)

18 Nothing is anything.

Posted by: Nihilist at July 11, 2022 04:14 PM (WWh8n)

19 I think the film's premise was that there was some kind of secret room on the internet. A guy found it and was then found dead under suspicious, maybe supernatural, circumstances.

Yup. Sounds like total fiction to us.

Posted by: Vince Foster, Eppstein, et al at July 11, 2022 04:14 PM (oMmSx)

20
Terminal List, anyone?

I also just started The Killing, a series from 2011.
And Dark Matter. And The Expanse.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at July 11, 2022 04:14 PM (I9qiW)

21 I always thought the American remake of Pulse was extremely unsettling. Weird monsters living in unknown realms of bandwidth that can devour us mere humans...Only red tape seemed to be a way to stop it (probably had to do with the wavelength of red).

The sequel was not nearly as good.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 11, 2022 04:15 PM (YIVH2)

22 We all float down here.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 11, 2022 04:15 PM (ZLI7S)

23 There's enough scary stuff in the world. I feel no need to seek it out. That Smile trailer is freaky, but they missed an obvious tie-in by featuring Joetato and his caps.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 11, 2022 04:15 PM (/NCI4)

24 Showing one's teeth is a submission signal in primates. When someone smiles at me, all I see is a chimpanzee begging for its life.

Posted by: Dwight Schrute at July 11, 2022 04:15 PM (h5TKJ)

25 I used to like horror movies when I was younger. Nowadays I'd rather watch action/adventure or comedy. Unfortunately there is a dearth of good new movies.

Posted by: Jordan61 at July 11, 2022 04:15 PM (DRSnL)

26 I never liked scary movies.

Who needs the fear?

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at July 11, 2022 04:15 PM (C1rbv)

27 I find there's enough real evil in the world that I don't have to watch fiction in scary movies.

Posted by: Archer at July 11, 2022 04:15 PM (gmo/4)

28 Saorise Ronan and Sam Rockwell in a movie together is Must See.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at July 11, 2022 04:15 PM (lvXGL)

29 Will. Not. Click.

I'm still not sleeping well after finishing The Terminal Files.

Yeah, I'm a lightweight when it comes to terror and violence.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 11, 2022 04:15 PM (ptqGC)

30 See How They Run does look good. It doesn't take itself ultra-seriously, at least in the trailer scenes. One would hope it would take the traditions of the murder mystery seriously, though, and actually have a closed mystery with a thunderbolt solution.

IMDb.com says that the writer, Mark Chappell, wrote one episode of Hustle in 2010, the series with Robert Vaughn, as well as other items I've never heard of. The trivia section says that the film is based on the Christie play The Mousetrap.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at July 11, 2022 04:15 PM (txdEq)

31 I'm guessing the Smile trailer puts someone firmly in the Uncanny Valley (smiles aren't that big and don't last that long), so it's just naturally unsettling.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 11, 2022 04:13 PM (ucNJQ)
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That's one reason why the Joker from Batman is so terrifying...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 11, 2022 04:16 PM (YIVH2)

32
I also just watched Altered Carbon's first season (of two).

Nine episodes of excellent television, and then it shit the bed in the finale.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at July 11, 2022 04:16 PM (I9qiW)

33 We all float down here.

Are you made of ducks?

Posted by: Archimedes at July 11, 2022 04:16 PM (/NCI4)

34 Yeah Buddy

Posted by: That Guy What Always Says Yeah Buddy TM at July 11, 2022 04:16 PM (R5lpX)

35 BACK BOIL BABE!!!

Posted by: Diogenes at July 11, 2022 04:16 PM (anj39)

36 31 That's one reason why the Joker from Batman is so terrifying...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 11, 2022 04:16 PM (YIVH2)

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Stolen from The Man Who Laughs, of course.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 11, 2022 04:17 PM (ucNJQ)

37 Smile seems like it could be good scary fun.

Posted by: thathalfrican - Up in arms like Minutemen at July 11, 2022 04:17 PM (YglAn)

38 they missed an obvious tie-in by NOTfeaturing Joetato and his caps.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 11, 2022 04:17 PM (/NCI4)

39 Yeah Buddy

Posted by: That Guy What Always Says Yeah Buddy TM at July 11, 2022 04:16 PM (R5lpX)

That's his own hair.

Posted by: Microwave oven movers, Inc. at July 11, 2022 04:17 PM (gmo/4)

40 I thought somebody said whore movie thread!

Posted by: King Harv at July 11, 2022 04:17 PM (krQz2)

41 Lots of jump scares. Smile? More like Yawn.

Posted by: unknown at July 11, 2022 04:17 PM (wKi1F)

42 Terminal List, anyone?

I also just started The Killing, a series from 2011.
And Dark Matter. And The Expanse.
Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at July 11, 2022 04:14 PM (I9qiW)

The new season of What We Do in the Shadows starts this week. I'm looking forward to that.

Posted by: Jordan61 at July 11, 2022 04:18 PM (DRSnL)

43 I added my thoughts on Terminal List.

Posted by: ace at July 11, 2022 04:18 PM (B3oWe)

44 Yeah, I'm a lightweight when it comes to terror and violence.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 11, 2022 04:15 PM (ptqGC)
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Me too. I can't watch scary anything. The news headlines are bad enough, I don't need any more terrifying thoughts.

Posted by: bluebell at July 11, 2022 04:18 PM (aeePL)

45 Scary movies like these scare the crap outta me.

Posted by: Jerry Nadler at July 11, 2022 04:19 PM (4I/2K)

46 Chris Pratt is good.

Posted by: Archer at July 11, 2022 04:19 PM (gmo/4)

47 I thought somebody said whore movie thread!
Posted by: King Harv at July 11, 2022 04:17 PM (krQz2)

So did Hunter Biden.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 11, 2022 04:19 PM (ZGrMX)

48 That's one reason why everyone hates clowns.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at July 11, 2022 04:19 PM (C1rbv)

49 Watched The Terminal List w/ the GF. It's definitely something. Up there w/ Reacher.

Posted by: redchief at July 11, 2022 04:20 PM (VARQE)

50 Smile looks unsettling and intriguing . . . but why does everything have to be so poorly lit in movies now? Even in rooms where there would normally be a strong light source like that of the psychiatrist at the start of the trailer, everything is badly lit.

The bearded guy saying, "A patient died brutally in front of you": Is that Kal Penn, late of House?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at July 11, 2022 04:20 PM (txdEq)

51 The new season of What We Do in the Shadows starts this week. I'm looking forward to that.

BAT!

Posted by: Ian S. at July 11, 2022 04:20 PM (ZGrMX)

52 To complain: It's doing that thing that all Premium Quality Cable TV Shows do, which is to suggest it has Dramatic Weight by making people talk slowly and having scenes go on for longer than they need to. The show's got some unneeded flab.

That was my biggest criticism. I still don't understand what the grackle means. Otherwise, really enjoyed it, and it's a two-fer since you know it annoys all the right people.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 11, 2022 04:20 PM (/NCI4)

53 Chris Pratt is good.
Posted by: Archer at July 11, 2022 04:19 PM (gmo/4)
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Concur. If you're going to eat rat, be sure to cook it nice and crisp.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 11, 2022 04:20 PM (WWh8n)

54 Almost as scary as Hunter sitting in his fart bubbles in a jacuzzi while puffing crack.

Posted by: wth at July 11, 2022 04:20 PM (v0R5T)

55 13 Tonite on Better Call Saul, Lalo will drown Kim in the blue-lit fishtank.
Posted by: Lithiated gp For Vigor
_______________________

This episode was shown a couple weeks ago at some festival. Leaks about what happens are out there. Won't spoil.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 11, 2022 04:21 PM (es0Dj)

56 If Saioris Rohan and Sam Rockwell are both in it, I'm twice as likely to watch it as I am a movie with just one of them.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at July 11, 2022 04:21 PM (+R5dc)

57 That Smile movie gives a whole 'nother context to Amazon's logo...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 11, 2022 04:21 PM (YIVH2)

58 Chris Pratt is good.
Posted by: Archer at July 11, 2022

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The only actor I can think of who could play a young Indiana Jones and convince me.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at July 11, 2022 04:21 PM (txdEq)

59 The bearded guy saying, "A patient died brutally in front of you": Is that Kal Penn, late of House?

It is. Where's Harold? At White Castle?

Posted by: Archimedes at July 11, 2022 04:21 PM (/NCI4)

60 Smile looks good to me.

Terminal List is pretty mediocre overall, but it is not woke, which makes it more than watchable in today's market.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 11, 2022 04:21 PM (ppBhU)

61 Oh no! COVID has Chuck Schumer.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at July 11, 2022 04:21 PM (U3uv2)

62 The Terminal List is outstanding. Well done and a lot of attention paid to detail. The realistic angle on PTSD adds to its value. Well done, Jack Carr.

Posted by: Marcus T at July 11, 2022 04:21 PM (j8UPs)

63 The bearded guy saying, "A patient died brutally in front of you": Is that Kal Penn, late of House?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at July 11, 2022 04:20 PM (txdEq)

And the Obama administration, don't forget. Yeah, it looks like him.

Posted by: Jordan61 at July 11, 2022 04:21 PM (DRSnL)

64 I am 4 episodes into the Terminal List. So far so good.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at July 11, 2022 04:22 PM (8GBH4)

65 I also just started The Killing, a series from 2011.
And Dark Matter. And The Expanse.
Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at July 11, 2022 04:14 PM (I9qiW)

Having watched all four seasons of The Killing....eh.

First season is pretty good, second is pretty bad, third is decent, fourth is off-the-rails stupid, especially in the finale.

Posted by: Dr. T at July 11, 2022 04:22 PM (Vgw1E)

66 There is a great quote in "The Terminal List." Something something about one shouldn't aggravate a man that has perfected the art of violence.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at July 11, 2022 04:22 PM (C1rbv)

67 Terminal List is excellent. Even Mrs D liked it. Watched it twice.
Now into the books and have to say, both are well worth the time.
Pratt nails it. Shock, vengeance, justification (?). It is all there for the viewer. And...is the character really all there in spite of his grief?

Posted by: Diogenes at July 11, 2022 04:22 PM (anj39)

68 Oh no! COVID has Chuck Schumer.
Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at July 11, 2022 04:21 PM (U3uv2)

Oh please oh please oh please...

Posted by: Jordan61 at July 11, 2022 04:22 PM (DRSnL)

69 "Smile" looks like it could be a fun horror flick. If nothing else, it doesn't look super gruesome in the trailer, and it's been a while since there was a serious horror offering that wasn't all blood and gore.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 11, 2022 04:22 PM (WWh8n)

70 The tension there, between wanting him to succeed and wanting him to come out of this okay, but also being... worried by his behavior and shaky grasp of reality, is exciting. It keeps you interested.
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Good. Because I was wondering if it wasn't just me that liked Reece less as the plot went on.

And I think Carr is actually including remorse with the last person Reece crosses off his list.

Which, I would argue makes it more than the "revenge fantasy" caricature the Hwood libs want to make out of it.

Posted by: Axeman at July 11, 2022 04:22 PM (krQz2)

71 Most disturbing movie I've ever seen is "I Saw The Devil". It was so damn good, but, I put it on the one and done list.

I was drained by the end of it.

Posted by: thathalfrican - Up in arms like Minutemen at July 11, 2022 04:22 PM (YglAn)

72 59 The bearded guy saying, "A patient died brutally in front of you": Is that Kal Penn, late of House?

It is. Where's Harold? At White Castle?
Posted by: Archimedes at July 11, 2022 04:21 PM (/NCI4)

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On the Enterprise, gaying things up.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 11, 2022 04:22 PM (ucNJQ)

73 It Smiles sort of seems like a mashup of The Ring (if you watch the movie, you die in seven days) and Fallen (fallen angel can move between hosts through touch).

I like the idea. Very creepy.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 11, 2022 04:23 PM (kDGvA)

74 Terminal List is a Vince FLynn thriller; like Flynn's books it's a violent revenge story where it is absolutely right to cheer him on, and it very much needs an editor.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at July 11, 2022 04:23 PM (lvXGL)

75 Kal Penn couldn't pass the piss test to land that job in the Obama WH.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at July 11, 2022 04:23 PM (C1rbv)

76 Any actor who can play in Guardians of the Galaxy AND the Terminal List deserves accolades.

Posted by: Marcus T at July 11, 2022 04:23 PM (j8UPs)

77 "Smile" looks like it could be a fun horror flick. If nothing else, it doesn't look super gruesome in the trailer, and it's been a while since there was a serious horror offering that wasn't all blood and gore.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 11, 2022 04:22 PM (WWh8n)
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That's part of the appeal of horror for me--taking something that should be nice and good (a friendly smile) and then inverting it so that it becomes terrifying...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 11, 2022 04:23 PM (YIVH2)

78 The Terminal List was good but it continues the Leftist meme that joining the military for the US out of patriotism is naive and the powers that be will treat you like pawns. Also going into battle will leave all soldiers emotional, physical wrecks who will wander aimlessly and broken with a death wish .

Posted by: dri at July 11, 2022 04:24 PM (T8So0)

79 Peter Pedo picked a peck of pickled penii.

Posted by: Roland THTG at July 11, 2022 04:24 PM (j40lz)

80
~~The Killing~~

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at July 11, 2022 04:24 PM (I9qiW)

81 Tonite on Better Call Saul, Lalo will drown Kim in the blue-lit fishtank.
Posted by: Lithiated gp For Vigor at July 11, 2022 04:13 PM (qpX6U)

Having him kill Howard for no particular reason was ... dumb.

Posted by: spindrift at July 11, 2022 04:24 PM (h5TKJ)

82 The only actor I can think of who could play a young Indiana Jones and convince me.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at July 11, 2022 04:21 PM (txdEq)
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That kind of exposition would take me right out of the movie.

Posted by: Axeman at July 11, 2022 04:24 PM (krQz2)

83 9 That Smile trailer freaked me out, not watching anything else in this post. I HATE scary movies.
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at July 11, 2022 04:12 PM (Mzdiz)

It might be as good as Babadook. Babadook is pretty good.

Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at July 11, 2022 04:24 PM (Qhnrt)

84 To complain: It's doing that thing that all Premium Quality Cable TV Shows do, which is to suggest it has Dramatic Weight by making people talk slowly and having scenes go on for longer than they need to. The show's got some unneeded flab.

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Ever since you mentioned this, Ace, and applied it to the Westworld TV series, I've realized that this is why so much of modern TV bores me. (Or would if I wanted to pay for any of it.) Your notion that producers know that viewers will spend half the time on their phones or other devices, and will look up only occasionally to see what's going on within the show, thus the slowness, seems exactly on target.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at July 11, 2022 04:24 PM (txdEq)

85 61 Oh no! COVID has Chuck Schumer.
Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at July 11, 2022 04:21 PM (U3uv2)

Its spike protein is gonna fall off.

Posted by: Roy at July 11, 2022 04:24 PM (Ti+Tv)

86 Terminal List, anyone?

Waiting for Season 2. Thought Season 1 was pretty good.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 11, 2022 04:24 PM (c8pZY)

87 29 Will. Not. Click.

I'm still not sleeping well after finishing The Terminal Files.

Yeah, I'm a lightweight when it comes to terror and violence.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 11, 2022 04:15 PM (ptqGC)

While I'm mostly desensitized, I can't cross over into "F*** YEAH, GET 'EM, BADASS!" territory like a lot of people can.

I know this will disappoint many.

Posted by: Allie at July 11, 2022 04:25 PM (UnA8+)

88 82 The only actor I can think of who could play a young Indiana Jones and convince me.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at July 11, 2022 04:21 PM (txdEq)

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He's Raiders of the Lost Ark age now.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 11, 2022 04:25 PM (ucNJQ)

89 I've been watching The Old Man. So far so good. My trepidation is they are going to screw it up and I would have wasted a lot of time.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 11, 2022 04:25 PM (aToww)

90 Im watching "The Old Man" and really like it. I watched "the Unbearable Burden of Massive Talent" and "The Eyes of Tammy Faye" on the plane this weekend. Both movies are entertaining , even the Nicholas Cage one. I had forgotten much of the Bakker story, including that it was Jessica Hahn who Jim Bakker had an affair with.

Posted by: LASue at July 11, 2022 04:25 PM (Ed8Zd)

91 Fact checkers have rated the statement that Shinzo Abe tweeted hours before his suicide "I have definitive proof regarding Hillary Clinton." mostly false.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 11, 2022 04:25 PM (a3Q+t)

92 The only actor I can think of who could play a young Indiana Jones and convince me.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at July 11, 2022
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That kind of exposition would take me right out of the movie.
Posted by: Axeman at July 11, 2022

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Not sure what you mean?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at July 11, 2022 04:25 PM (txdEq)

93 > Smile looks unsettling and intriguing . . . but why does everything have to be so poorly lit in movies now? Even in rooms where there would normally be a strong light source like that of the psychiatrist at the start of the trailer, everything is badly lit.

Movie genres all have a color palette and a lighting concept. Horror is poorly lit. Sci Fi is green. Happy movies are full of sunlight.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 11, 2022 04:25 PM (kDGvA)

94 Terminal List is good

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 11, 2022 04:25 PM (kf6Ak)

95 Ok, See How They Run looks pretty enjoyable. Might watch.

Posted by: Dr. T at July 11, 2022 04:25 PM (Vgw1E)

96 >>>Sci Fi is green.

The Blue Hell it is.

Posted by: James "Tech Noir" Cameron at July 11, 2022 04:26 PM (B3oWe)

97 A guy I work with said, "Terminal List? Great, another right wing revenge movie." I replied, "it could be a foreshadowing of the left's future, dunce."

Posted by: Marcus T at July 11, 2022 04:26 PM (j8UPs)

98 Like a few have mentioned, I don't need to seek out scary things. I have enough ghosts and frights in my past that still visit late at night while sleeping.

Posted by: Beartooth at July 11, 2022 04:26 PM (u9Awk)

99 Kiyoshi Kurosawa(director of Pulse/Kairo) is a director who knows how to get under your skin.

I saw his movie "Creepy" recently.

Very well done and "creepy". A detective is looking into a case of a disappearance. Meanwhile, his wife has met the next door neighbors and things may not be as they seem.

Check it out.

Posted by: naturalfake at July 11, 2022 04:26 PM (5NkmN)

100 I think Taylor Kitsch is pretty underrated as well.

Posted by: Axeman at July 11, 2022 04:26 PM (krQz2)

101 I'm digging The Old Man so far. Pretty, pretty good.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 11, 2022 04:27 PM (es0Dj)

102 Aargh!!! I can't run. I can't hide. They're like cockroaches.

My county sent me this Staff Racial Equity & Inclusion Competency Survey. It's literally mining employees for BLM / Antifa foot soldiers. I don't know if this link will work: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/Q9ZMQ2J

Posted by: Some one who doesn't want to be identified at July 11, 2022 04:27 PM (AD14M)

103 When I felt like Hollyweird had completely abandoned me and was giving me the double-middle-finger in every scene of every movie....

I started cruising my streaming service for older movies for which I had fond memories. First, I started to notice that I simply could not watch ANYTHING made after 2010. Like a switch, things when from "cringy ham-fisted messageing" to "sledgehammer to the face Left-wing messaging" around that time.

The other thing I noticed was all the old action movies I used to love developed a pattern. Starting in the 80s and moving forward, most action movies featured a protagonist who was explicitly employed by the government. Cop, US Military, CIA, and FBI were the prime associations. Male action heroes who were not on a government paycheck of some kind could only be found in fantasy-adventure movies. Ash, from the Evil Dead comes to mind.

So, now when I see Hollyweird commercials to worship men who live off my tax dollars, I just move on from those, as well, because that's part of the subtle programming that's been going on for generations.

You can trust the government, because of all those angelic men who cash checks from it.

Posted by: insurgens ad opus at July 11, 2022 04:27 PM (wjUzA)

104 I finished watching Joe Pickett on Paramount+ - I like it.
Very unusual that main character is a happily married man and a good dad.

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 11, 2022 04:27 PM (kf6Ak)

105 The only actor I can think of who could play a young Indiana Jones and convince me.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at July 11, 2022
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He's Raiders of the Lost Ark age now.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 11, 2022

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When I say "young," I mean "in his prime" like in Raiders or Temple of Doom -- not geriatric 1950s Indy, and not 20-year-old Indy as in the TV series of long ago.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at July 11, 2022 04:27 PM (txdEq)

106 I've been watching The Old Man. So far so good. My trepidation is they are going to screw it up and I would have wasted a lot of time.
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 11, 2022 04:25 PM (aToww)

I'm watching that, too. I love the dogs. Also liked Outer Range and The Outlaws on Amazon Prime.

Posted by: Jordan61 at July 11, 2022 04:27 PM (DRSnL)

107 On the Enterprise, gaying things up.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 11, 2022 04:22 PM

Is that really needed?

Posted by: George T. at July 11, 2022 04:27 PM (a3Q+t)

108 The tension there, between wanting him to succeed and wanting him to come out of this okay, but also being... worried by his behavior and shaky grasp of reality, is exciting. It keeps you interested.
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Good. Because I was wondering if it wasn't just me that liked Reece less as the plot went on.

And I think Carr is actually including remorse with the last person Reece crosses off his list.

Which, I would argue makes it more than the "revenge fantasy" caricature the Hwood libs want to make out of it.
Posted by: Axeman at July 11, 2022 04:22 PM (krQz2)
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I watched it a second time with the perspective that yes, while grieving and set on vengeance, there was a part that was cold and calculating. Exactly what he was trained to be, and exactly what he needed to be.
I liked it.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 11, 2022 04:28 PM (anj39)

109 Been watching Chris Pratt since Everwood.
IMDb says he has 9 projects upcoming.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 11, 2022 04:28 PM (c8pZY)

110 74 Terminal List is a Vince FLynn thriller; like Flynn's books it's a violent revenge story where it is absolutely right to cheer him on, and it very much needs an editor.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at July 11, 2022 04:23 PM (lvXGL)

It's actually Jack Carr.

Posted by: redchief at July 11, 2022 04:28 PM (VARQE)

111 Terminal List is worth the time. If they stay true to the books their is no reason to worry, Reece is the good guy throughout. With Jack Carr and Chris Pratt onboard I’m sure it will work out.

Posted by: Nevada Dave at July 11, 2022 04:28 PM (3DzQz)

112 The only actor I can think of who could play a young Indiana Jones and convince me.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at July 11, 2022
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That kind of exposition would take me right out of the movie.
Posted by: Axeman at July 11, 2022

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Not sure what you mean?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at July 11, 2022 04:25 PM (txdEq)
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It was a sort of joke. Picturing the idea of an actor taking an aside to the screen to convince me why it's not so bad that he plays this role.

Posted by: Axeman at July 11, 2022 04:28 PM (krQz2)

113 A "well lit" horror story, properly done, could be terrifying. Play with standard movie making tropes to make it seem like you're watching something that shouldn't be horrifying, then do something utterly grotesque to a character.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 11, 2022 04:28 PM (QaN7Q)

114 lol, Musky Tweet.

https://t.co/JcLMee61wj

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at July 11, 2022 04:28 PM (U3uv2)

115 I would be annoyed at you guys for the Better Call Saul spoilers, but then I never made it past the first season, so whatevs.

Posted by: Dr. T at July 11, 2022 04:29 PM (Vgw1E)

116 100 I think Taylor Kitsch is pretty underrated as well.
Posted by: Axeman at July 11, 2022 04:26 PM (krQz2)

Agreed on this. From what I have seen, he does well here.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 11, 2022 04:29 PM (diceA)

117 The other thing I noticed was all the old action movies I used to love developed a pattern. Starting in the 80s and moving forward, most action movies featured a protagonist who was explicitly employed by the government.

Now, with action movies all being funded by China anyway, they're either anti-government (there was a recent Liam Neeson one like that) or the government doesn't exist (John Wick).

Posted by: Ian S. at July 11, 2022 04:29 PM (ZGrMX)

118 It follows, It smiles... I wonder when the pelosi movie It Lives comes out.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 11, 2022 04:29 PM (VwHCD)

119 He's Raiders of the Lost Ark age now.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 11, 2022 04:25 PM (ucNJQ)

It's not the years, it's the milage.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at July 11, 2022 04:29 PM (44ww/)

120 I think of Chris Pratt more like his character in Take me Home Tonight (which I really liked) or the schlubby good guy in Parks and Rec. But I'm willing to consider him as a killer. He's from Edmonds or Lake Forest, right?

Posted by: LASue at July 11, 2022 04:29 PM (Ed8Zd)

121 107 On the Enterprise, gaying things up.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 11, 2022 04:22 PM

Is that really needed?
Posted by: George T. at July 11, 2022 04:27 PM (a3Q+t)

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When they made Sulu gay in Star Trek Beyond, they went to Takei first to get his blessing. They thought he'd be over the moon.

He wasn't. He didn't give his blessing. He told them to make a new character that was gay instead of appropriating an existing, not gay, one.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 11, 2022 04:30 PM (ucNJQ)

122 Oh that It Smiles trailer is creepy!

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 11, 2022 04:30 PM (kf6Ak)

123 So, Sosie Bacon is the star of Smile? Sosie bacon was in Kyra Sedgwick and so was Kevin Bacon.

I might have done that wrong.

Posted by: Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon at July 11, 2022 04:30 PM (cupoy)

124 "See How They Run" reminds me of that great whodunnit, "Clue."

A mystery where everyone could be a suspect, but there's enough ambiguity you can't be sure that you have the correct perpetrator.

And a cast of fun and interesting characters portrayed by actors who seem to be enjoying themselves.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 11, 2022 04:30 PM (YIVH2)

125 It's not called It Smiles; it's just "Smile." I was making a joke because it's similar to It Follows. It Follows made walking horrific; this makes smiling horrific.

Posted by: ace at July 11, 2022 04:31 PM (B3oWe)

126 Coolest thing about Chris Pratt? Hoe torques libs by defending hunting and eating what he kills and doesn't apologize for it.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 11, 2022 04:31 PM (c8pZY)

127 I've been thinking about watching Terminal List. It looks good and yeah.. Chris Pratt. Need something to fill in while I'm waiting for the new episode of The Old Man.

Posted by: jewells45 at July 11, 2022 04:32 PM (nxdel)

128 Been watching Chris Pratt since Everwood.
IMDb says he has 9 projects upcoming.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 11, 2022

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Everwood has been kind of forgotten for some reason. Treat Williams was a semi-major movie star, so the casting was noteworthy, and we also got sexy Emily VanCamp.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at July 11, 2022 04:32 PM (txdEq)

129 A "well lit" horror story, properly done, could be terrifying. Play with standard movie making tropes to make it seem like you're watching something that shouldn't be horrifying, then do something utterly grotesque to a character.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 11, 2022 04:28 PM (QaN7Q)
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Cube 2: Hypercube played around with this. As I recall, the cube was very well lit and lots of horrible stuff happened, including some pretty bizarre things because of the nature of the environment.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 11, 2022 04:33 PM (YIVH2)

130 "may have some serious mental issues"

Not to sound like a pussy lib, but it's PTSD. And the portrayal is extraordinarily authentic.

Posted by: Marcus T at July 11, 2022 04:33 PM (j8UPs)

131 I watched The Wrath of God on netflix last night. It's an Argentinian suspense mystery. The antagonist has a very Al Pacino in Devil's Advocate vibe.
I liked it, but I checked the imdb ratings afterwards and most reviews hated it. Heh. Guess I'm weird.

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 11, 2022 04:33 PM (kf6Ak)

132
It's not called It Smiles; it's just "Smile." I was making a joke because it's similar to It Follows. It Follows made walking horrific; this makes smiling horrific.
Posted by: It Explains

It's not funny when you have to explain it.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at July 11, 2022 04:33 PM (I9qiW)

133 He wasn't. He didn't give his blessing. He told them to make a new character that was gay instead of appropriating an existing, not gay, one.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Except he's gay IRL.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 11, 2022 04:33 PM (c8pZY)

134 Happy birthday to Sophia Vergara

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at July 11, 2022 04:33 PM (sZ8Ea)

135 I saw Carr on Tucker's show and they were laughing at the Politico review that was almost calling elements like "country music, the American flag, and beer" subversive.

No, they didn't use the word "subversive", but what they were saying about "red state elements", it definitely would have fit.

Posted by: Axeman at July 11, 2022 04:33 PM (krQz2)

136 Watched The Terminal List in 2 sittings over 2 days. Get through the 1st episode which lays out the main issue and it pure awesome from there. Have not enjoyed a show that much since the first season of Mind Hunters. Do it.

Posted by: Ethan Saunders at July 11, 2022 04:34 PM (W1E3x)

137 I am kind of two minds on this show. I have only seen the first couple of episodes. I HATE the modern fascination with labyrinthine plots. I also have come to hate the 'plot twist' that 'changes everything'.

This show starts in on the rat fuck so quickly, that it never establishes the trust you need (that 'sense of normalcy') that builds credit with the audience that you are not going to fuck them in the ass right off the bat.

In short, I am kind of iffy on this one so far. Pratt and Kitsch seem to be doing a good job. Plus, the plot twist/motivation at the end of the first episode really fucking pissed me off. The only worse thing they could have done was the rape thing. There are some things I hate as plot devises, Josey Wales not withstanding. Note: I do not watch OJW when I am in a good mood and looking to just have something entertaining- I watch Rio Bravo.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 11, 2022 04:34 PM (diceA)

138 I don't know if this link will work: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/Q9ZMQ2J

HordeSourcing a survey like that could prove interesting.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 11, 2022 04:34 PM (a3Q+t)

139 Coolest thing about Chris Pratt? Hoe torques libs by defending hunting and eating what he kills and doesn't apologize for it.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 11, 2022 04:31 PM (c8pZY)

That's cool. If I ran across him in the woods, I'd give him kudos for his work and ask him about what he's seeing out there.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at July 11, 2022 04:34 PM (U3uv2)

140 121 Wow. George Takei said something sensible?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 11, 2022 04:34 PM (Oh/xF)

141 Except he's gay IRL.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 11, 2022 04:33 PM (c8pZY)
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I think you spelled "AF" wrong.

Posted by: Axeman at July 11, 2022 04:34 PM (krQz2)

142 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 11, 2022 04:30 PM (ucNJQ)

That's a gigantic surprise

Posted by: thathalfrican - Up in arms like Minutemen at July 11, 2022 04:35 PM (YglAn)

143 >>>Showing one's teeth is a submission signal in primates.

Is it? I thought it was the complete opposite and was interpreted as a sign of aggression. I remember that case where a 'pet' chimp chewed a woman's face off because she grinned at it.

Posted by: Citizen Ultra Cake at July 11, 2022 04:35 PM (HmZuC)

144 133 He wasn't. He didn't give his blessing. He told them to make a new character that was gay instead of appropriating an existing, not gay, one.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Except he's gay IRL.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 11, 2022 04:33 PM (c8pZY)
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So, he wanted the character to be "born gay" and not made gay by circumstance?

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at July 11, 2022 04:35 PM (sZ8Ea)

145 It's not funny when you have to explain it.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at July 11, 2022 04:33 PM (I9qiW)

Unless you're Norm McDonald.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at July 11, 2022 04:35 PM (U3uv2)

146 Monty Norman, composer of iconic James Bond theme, dead at 94

Posted by: SMOD at July 11, 2022 04:35 PM (RHGPo)

147 129 A "well lit" horror story, properly done, could be terrifying. Play with standard movie making tropes to make it seem like you're watching something that shouldn't be horrifying, then do something utterly grotesque to a character.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 11, 2022 04:28 PM (QaN7Q)

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The Shining did this.

It usually takes someone outside of the genre to approach it like that.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 11, 2022 04:35 PM (ucNJQ)

148 It's not funny when you have to explain it.

WUT?

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at July 11, 2022 04:35 PM (ppBhU)

149 Except he's gay IRL.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 11, 2022 04:33 PM (c8pZY)
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I think you spelled "AF" wrong.

The accepted nomenclature is "as a daffodil".

Posted by: F. Mercury at July 11, 2022 04:35 PM (/NCI4)

150 121 Wow. George Takei said something sensible?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 11, 2022 04:34 PM (Oh/xF)
++++
Stopped clock, etc.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 11, 2022 04:35 PM (WWh8n)

151 133 He wasn't. He didn't give his blessing. He told them to make a new character that was gay instead of appropriating an existing, not gay, one.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Except he's gay IRL.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 11, 2022 04:33 PM (c8pZY)

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True, but he still told them not to make Sulu gay.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 11, 2022 04:36 PM (ucNJQ)

152
My county sent me this Staff Racial Equity & Inclusion Competency Survey. It's literally mining employees for BLM / Antifa foot soldiers. I don't know if this link will work: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/Q9ZMQ2J
Posted by: Some one who doesn't want to be identified

Link works. Took the survey.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 11, 2022 04:36 PM (63Dwl)

153 Terminal List episode 6 is very much "First Blood"

I just rewatched the series over the weekend. Glad I did because somethings didn't make sense to me and it turns out I must have dozed off for about 30 minutes during the first time through.

Posted by: Fool Otto at July 11, 2022 04:36 PM (DB16e)

154 Seems like they changed the premise of Terminal List from the original book enough that maybe it'll be worth watching. My experience with the source material was spoiled by outside events that I won't go into here in case it's relevant to the TV show, but I think I may be souring with the "former/current US Spec Ops badass does whatever it takes to take down a nefarious and far-reaching conspiracy by himself" genre.

Posted by: Octochicken at July 11, 2022 04:36 PM (oCS0o)

155 The Japanese guy's apartment has the feel of an underground parking garage.

The Smile lady looks like Harry's Wife. (shudder)

Posted by: JuJuBee at July 11, 2022 04:36 PM (5HLLH)

156 Have not enjoyed a show that much since the first season of Mind Hunters. Do it.
Posted by: Ethan Saunders at July 11, 2022 04:34 PM (W1E3x)
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*fistbump* on Mind Hunters.

They'll never get to BTK, now.

Posted by: Axeman at July 11, 2022 04:36 PM (krQz2)

157 It might be as good as Babadook. Babadook is pretty good.
Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at July 11

That is a great flick. I will admit that it is somewhat more disturbing to me now as a widow with kids than it was the first time I saw it.

Posted by: Hunter B. at July 11, 2022 04:36 PM (ftFVW)

158 What Is A Woman? is good.

It's got some laugh moments in it, some WTF moments, some sobering moments, some angry moments and some inspirational moments. It's really quite entertaining for a documentary.

If you haven't watched it yet, you should.

It's available for free in its entirety in Rumble. Not sure about YT, as I try not to use YT whenever possible.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 11, 2022 04:36 PM (b6m9k)

159 It follows, It smiles... I wonder when the pelosi movie It Lives comes out.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 11, 2022 04:29 PM (VwHCD)
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I think Hollywood would much prefer their audience to survive the theater experience.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/) at July 11, 2022 04:36 PM (5pTK/)

160 reece is not the joker, more like michael weston on steroids, his team was targeted by the secretary of defense who was using his men as guinea pigs, you tend to take that seriously,
I know spoilers, more like a chuck norris film from the 70s, with james franciscus,

Posted by: no 6 at July 11, 2022 04:36 PM (i0Lci)

161 I remember that case where a 'pet' chimp chewed a woman's face off because she grinned at it.

Nah, we just do it for grins. Get it? Grins? *tap tap* Is this thing on?

Posted by: The Chimp at July 11, 2022 04:37 PM (/NCI4)

162 I minority disagree with you about "The Terminal List", Ace.

I didn't find any narrative fat on it. Once it gets going, it's one lean mean action machine.

Posted by: naturalfake at July 11, 2022 04:37 PM (5NkmN)

163 Joker *was* the good guy.

Always has been.

Posted by: Jesus Hosafat at July 11, 2022 04:37 PM (1dzqn)

164 Damn sock

Posted by: She Hobbit at July 11, 2022 04:37 PM (ftFVW)

165 I took the survey as well.

Posted by: thathalfrican - Up in arms like Minutemen at July 11, 2022 04:38 PM (YglAn)

166 Joker *was* the good guy.

Always has been.

Posted by: Jesus Hosafat at July 11, 2022 04:37 PM (1dzqn)

He knew what we are just now coming to understand.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at July 11, 2022 04:38 PM (U3uv2)

167 154 Seems like they changed the premise of Terminal List from the original book enough that maybe it'll be worth watching. My experience with the source material was spoiled by outside events that I won't go into here in case it's relevant to the TV show, but I think I may be souring with the "former/current US Spec Ops badass does whatever it takes to take down a nefarious and far-reaching conspiracy by himself" genre.
Posted by: Octochicken at July 11, 2022 04:36 PM (oCS0o)

It is an interesting but mine filled genre. I really enjoyed the book version of 'Without Remorse' for example.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 11, 2022 04:38 PM (diceA)

168 It follows, It smiles... I wonder when the pelosi movie It Lives comes out.

I believe someone has optioned "They Sag".

Posted by: Archimedes at July 11, 2022 04:38 PM (/NCI4)

169 By chance I just met Carr's parents over the 4th of July. Very nice people.

Since I have never read any of Carr's books, or even heard his name before, I had to fake it a little but they didn't seem to care. A nice couple.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at July 11, 2022 04:39 PM (sZ8Ea)

170 Have not enjoyed a show that much since the first season of Mind Hunters.

Fantastic show. I was so pissed when it wasn't renewed.

Posted by: jewells45 at July 11, 2022 04:39 PM (nxdel)

171 My county sent me this Staff Racial Equity & Inclusion Competency Survey. It's literally mining employees for BLM / Antifa foot soldiers. I don't know if this link will work: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/Q9ZMQ2J
Posted by: Some one who doesn't want to be identified

Link works. Took the survey.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 11, 2022 04:36 PM (63Dwl)

Ooh survey!
Should I answer with first choice on everything or last choice?

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 11, 2022 04:39 PM (kf6Ak)

172 Saw "Thor: Love and Thunder".

It's okay. But, just okay. Maybe lower third tier of Marvel movies. Even Disney knows the movie has problems cuz they were handing out long sheets where you could give your opinions on the movie.

The movie is a dog's breakfast wherein it's starts out as a kind of 1960s Batman TV show version of Thor. Thor is a big beefy blowhard idiot who causes more problems than he solves.
I suppose they handle the Lady Thor dealio about as well as they could given Marvel's New Universal Plot Point wherein the big name hero becomes a kind of sidekick in his own movie.
Then stronk grrrrrl section gets mixed up with a big Kidz Rock! movie section.
Then they try to end it all by asking us to take Big Dumb Thor seriously as a romantic hero who ultimately becomes a Sitcom Dad.
And, of course, Disney is still committed to grooming your kids with extraneous sucker punch teh ghey scenes throughout.
No there isn't a teh ghey Thor / Peter Quill scene as some have reported.
It had one truly great joke, which i'll remember. Otherwise, a forgettable mess. Avoid.

Posted by: naturalfake at July 11, 2022 04:39 PM (5NkmN)

173 >>>In short, I am kind of iffy on this one so far. Pratt and Kitsch seem to be doing a good job.

i think it's worth staying with, though i'm only three quarters through.

Posted by: ace at July 11, 2022 04:39 PM (B3oWe)

174 So the Japanese guy is afraid of ... Wynona Ryder?

Or is that Bobby Crimo?

Posted by: Jesus Hosafat at July 11, 2022 04:39 PM (1dzqn)

175 Terminal List is definitely a part of the Jason Bourne series, only with Chris Pratt, who is hotter and more believable as a badass than Matt Damon.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 11, 2022 04:39 PM (b6m9k)

176 Terminal List was ok, but hated the ending.

Pratt was somebody I would have rooted for more zealously if he had killed a lot more deep staters.

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Emotionally Supporting Sexy Russian Women Who Have Been Cancelled at July 11, 2022 04:39 PM (VTu1l)

177 Damn sock
Posted by: She Hobbit at July 11, 2022 04:37 PM (ftFVW)
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Off! Off! Damn sock!

Posted by: Lady McSock at July 11, 2022 04:39 PM (krQz2)

178 (I've said before) I would make a movie about Henry Jones Sr and Marcus Brody unofficial title Two Nerds in Cairo. They deal with a villain like Beloq and unlike Indy have a hard time of it. Jude Law and James McAvey.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at July 11, 2022 04:39 PM (44ww/)

179 I didn't find any narrative fat on it. Once it gets going, it's one lean mean action machine.

Gotta disagree. It would have been better as 6 episodes.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 11, 2022 04:39 PM (/NCI4)

180 The Shining did this.

It usually takes someone outside of the genre to approach it like that.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 11, 2022 04:35 PM (ucNJQ)

Speaking of The Shining, I finally got around to watching Dr. Sleep.

What a missed opportunity that was. Other than the evil chick being kinda hot, that was a snooze fest.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 11, 2022 04:40 PM (Y5qcH)

181 >>>0 Have not enjoyed a show that much since the first season of Mind Hunters.

Fantastic show. I was so pissed when it wasn't renewed.

oooh, samesies!

yeah, all that great build-up to BTK, which is now unresolved.

Posted by: ace at July 11, 2022 04:40 PM (B3oWe)

182 It's like demon chasing you. It's as scary as the Federal Budget! And it's coming to a theater near you this summer...

Posted by: Simile - The Movie at July 11, 2022 04:40 PM (cupoy)

183 He knew what we are just now coming to understand.

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"I'm not a monster. I'm just ahead of the curve."

Posted by: Jesus Hosafat at July 11, 2022 04:40 PM (1dzqn)

184 I haven't been in the mood for dramas lately, which is why I was pleasantly surprised by Top Gun: Maverick as it did a great job balancing the tension. However, Wellington Paranormal is a fun little show with no drama whatsoever. It's a spinoff of the movie What We Do In The Shadows, with New Zealand police dealing with ghosts and zombies and other stupid paranormal bullshit. It's in the style of a mockumentary, it's profoundly low budget and cheesy, but it's charmingly stupid.

Posted by: Xander Crews at July 11, 2022 04:40 PM (MpOGS)

185 It follows, It smiles... I wonder when the pelosi movie It Lives comes out.

I believe someone has optioned "They Sag".

Posted by: Archimedes at July 11, 2022 04:38 PM (/NCI4)

They Auger is probably still available.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 11, 2022 04:40 PM (VwHCD)

186 181 oooh, samesies!

yeah, all that great build-up to BTK, which is now unresolved.
Posted by: ace at July 11, 2022 04:40 PM (B3oWe)

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David Fincher wants to spend years making a single movie again.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 11, 2022 04:41 PM (ucNJQ)

187 some really great performances from the "killers." Just great stuff. the big fat guy who killed his mother the best of all.

Amazing use of Zeppelin's "In the Light" to end season one (the heart attack scene, or was it just a panic attack?).

Posted by: ace at July 11, 2022 04:41 PM (B3oWe)

188 If everyone wore a mask, nobody could see a smile.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 11, 2022 04:41 PM (lTGtQ)

189 Saw "Thor: Love and Thunder".

It's okay.

. . .

And, of course, Disney is still committed to grooming your kids with extraneous sucker punch teh ghey scenes throughout.

Posted by: naturalfake at July 11, 2022 04:39 PM (5NkmN)

These do not reconcile.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at July 11, 2022 04:41 PM (U3uv2)

190 Fantastic show. I was so pissed when it wasn't renewed.

This is the problem with Netflix and Amazon. There have been at least 5 shows that I started and which were then cancelled, without any resolution. They just went away. Altered Carbon is an example.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 11, 2022 04:41 PM (/NCI4)

191 Saw "Thor: Love and Thunder".
...
a forgettable mess. Avoid.

Posted by: naturalfake at July 11, 2022 04:39 PM (5NkmN)
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Sad.

Posted by: Axeman at July 11, 2022 04:41 PM (krQz2)

192 Saw the "Get Back" series about the Beatles
I have mind thoughts.

1)The break-up of the Beatles was due to 2.5 things
a)The constant presence of Yoko broke up the established way P&J wrote songs together. Paul complains at one point that they used to lock themselves in a hotel and emerge with songs after a week or so. This turned the sessions into endless boring rehashing of same few songs.
b) George Harrison's passive/agressive dickishness. Even when he gets his way, he's unhappy and a drag mostly. He wants to do his own thing, but wants the others to give him permission(or kick him out???)
c) McCartney gets tired of riding herd on the others. Except for Ringo, no one's ready to go but him. No one's bringing much to the table but him.
2) McCartney is a musical genius. But, he can be wrong in his suggestions sometimes for the others' music. And even goes down the protest path for "Get Back" until he figures it out.
3) John is more charming than McCartney(!) and tries to jolly things along. Often pays old r&r tunes they all love to try to get some comradely feeling going.
Interesting but not essential.

Posted by: naturalfake at July 11, 2022 04:41 PM (5NkmN)

193 Twitter took another beating today

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Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 11, 2022 04:41 PM (yQpMk)

194 I have an irrelevant question for the many experts here.
I just saw an 18 wheeler drive past with one axle, the second from the end, lifted.
Why do they do that? This has no importance. I'm just curious.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, my trench is full of chickens at July 11, 2022 04:41 PM (VdGjU)

195 i think it's worth staying with, though i'm only three quarters through.
Posted by: ace at July 11, 2022 04:39 PM (B3oWe)

I'll give it a shot then. You were right on Edge of Tomorrow, so you have some credit... at least where movie/tv advice is concerned.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 11, 2022 04:41 PM (diceA)

196 Took the survery. Hope I skewed the results.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at July 11, 2022 04:42 PM (sZ8Ea)

197 >>>This is the problem with Netflix and Amazon. There have been at least 5 shows that I started and which were then cancelled, without any resolution.

i think I read that Fincher pulled the plug. Not sure if my memory is right about that, or if he's telling the truth if he did say it.

Posted by: ace at July 11, 2022 04:42 PM (B3oWe)

198 I have an irrelevant question for the many experts here.
I just saw an 18 wheeler drive past with one axle, the second from the end, lifted.
Why do they do that? This has no importance. I'm just curious.
Posted by: N.L. Urker

Weight distribution if they are loaded heavy. If not, don't need the extra drag.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 11, 2022 04:43 PM (c8pZY)

199 Binged the Terminal List. Was somewhat predictable with a clever twist. There is bit of Monty Python-esque "armless legless man" continues the fight that is stretched. Also some satisfying revenge pron.

Posted by: Actually Inside the Beltway at July 11, 2022 04:43 PM (fMhOl)

200 However, Wellington Paranormal is a fun little show with no drama whatsoever. It's a spinoff of the movie What We Do In The Shadows, with New Zealand police dealing with ghosts and zombies and other stupid paranormal bullshit. It's in the style of a mockumentary, it's profoundly low budget and cheesy, but it's charmingly stupid.
Posted by: Xander Crews at July 11, 2022 04:40 PM (MpOGS)

OK, now I have to go find this.

Posted by: Jordan61 at July 11, 2022 04:43 PM (DRSnL)

201 I just saw an 18 wheeler drive past with one axle, the second from the end, lifted.
Why do they do that? This has no importance. I'm just curious.

Posted by: N.L. Urker,

Empty trailer, saves wear on a pair of tires. The double axle is for spreading the weight of a load.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 11, 2022 04:43 PM (lTGtQ)

202 I've come around to the industry-spun wisdom that you don't have a movie until you cast your main character. The Solo movie would have absolutely killed with Chris Pratt.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at July 11, 2022 04:43 PM (44ww/)

203 osted by: Dwight Schrute at July 11, 2022 04:15 PM (h5TKJ)

I am glad I don't have that reaction

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 11, 2022 04:43 PM (Oh/xF)

204 I have an irrelevant question for the many experts here.
I just saw an 18 wheeler drive past with one axle, the second from the end, lifted.
Why do they do that? This has no importance. I'm just curious.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, my trench is full of chickens at July 11, 2022 04:41 PM (VdGjU)

I always wondered about that. I guess when there is no weight it isn't needed, so why waste the tires for no reason.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 11, 2022 04:43 PM (VwHCD)

205 Trailer does look scary

Posted by: Skip at July 11, 2022 04:43 PM (2JoB8)

206 I'll say this, the first 2 episodes do a good job of almost making you realize or believe that Pratt is just fucking crazy and actually the bad guy. Maybe he did kill his family. Or even he's being directed to kill people like in a Memento style manipulation.

But then there's a real clue...awesome.

Posted by: sockamster-moderate level poster at July 11, 2022 04:43 PM (OuH7W)

207 This is the problem with Netflix and Amazon. There have been at least 5 shows that I started and which were then cancelled, without any resolution. They just went away. Altered Carbon is an example.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 11, 2022 04:41 PM (/NCI4)

The Tick, which was stupid as fuck, but I enjoyed.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 11, 2022 04:43 PM (diceA)

208 32
I also just watched Altered Carbon's first season (of two).

Nine episodes of excellent television, and then it shit the bed in the finale.
Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at July 11, 2022 04:16 PM

I need to yell at my agent. I didn't hear anything about this role, and I would have been PERFECT! I need the money, too...

Posted by: Amber Heard at July 11, 2022 04:43 PM (JCZqz)

209 Ooh Wellington Paranormal sounds like just my cuppa tea!
Where's it at?

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 11, 2022 04:44 PM (kf6Ak)

210 I watched The Terminal List -- I think it was good.
The critics do hate it because they hate Chris Pratt but I also think they hate it because it isn't woke.
It isn't actively anti-woke by any means (besides all the "toxic" masculinity, of course) but there is no boss who converted to Islam just so there could be a scene where a "bigot" French guy can complain about whole areas of Paris becoming "no go" zones so the Muslim boss can take out his tasbih (Muslim prayer beads) to tell said bigot he was praying to Allah to keep his cool (the exact scene I stopped watching the Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan series on Amazon, btw).
But now, the fact it isn't woke is pretty much anti-woke, imo.

Posted by: Ultra MAGA Venus at July 11, 2022 04:44 PM (YVBLw)

211 BTW, Smile was the mid 70's beauty pageant movie with Bruce Dern.

Posted by: Actually Inside the Beltway at July 11, 2022 04:44 PM (fMhOl)

212 I told you not tell me I'd look better if I just smiled!

Posted by: Angry Feminists Everywhere at July 11, 2022 04:44 PM (ESjRY)

213 197 i think I read that Fincher pulled the plug. Not sure if my memory is right about that, or if he's telling the truth if he did say it.
Posted by: ace at July 11, 2022 04:42 PM (B3oWe)

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He's currently in post on The Killer, a movie starring Michael Fassbender. It's probably possible that he could go back and do more Mindhunter afterwards, but it's not going to be for a while.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 11, 2022 04:44 PM (ucNJQ)

214 Somebody needs to tell Fiege that making the "hero" a sidekick in a movie titled with their character isn't working that well.

Posted by: Axeman at July 11, 2022 04:44 PM (krQz2)

215 I've been watching Dark Winds, a crime/drama show on AMC. Takes place on a Navajo reservation. Has some supernatural elements. Not perfect. But interesting and well acted so far.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 11, 2022 04:44 PM (ppBhU)

216 I have an irrelevant question for the many experts here.
I just saw an 18 wheeler drive past with one axle, the second from the end, lifted.
Why do they do that? This has no importance. I'm just curious.
Posted by: N.L. Urker, my trench is full of chickens at July 11, 2022 04:41 PM (VdGjU)

Was it an empty flatbed or lowboy? Many of them have an extra axle to lower the weight per tire for their heavy loads but they can lift them when not needed to save on the rolling friction and gain a bit of mileage.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 11, 2022 04:44 PM (yQpMk)

217 Don't want to see any horror movies or their trailers,

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 11, 2022 04:44 PM (Oh/xF)

218 My county sent me this Staff Racial Equity & Inclusion Competency Survey. It's literally mining employees for BLM / Antifa foot soldiers. ...
Posted by: Some one who doesn't want to be identified
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This is a real "when did you stop beating your wife" kind of survey. I am asked to agree whether or not county executives support communication on racial nonsense (which I am sure they do), not whether I think that's a good idea or not. There are few sensible questions (do you think 'equity' trash is important, and do you know what 'equity' trash is). Most of the questions *must* be answered from the position that the 'equity' trash is the right thing to do. "I know how to advance racial equity in my current position" is not a valid response question because it presupposes that my answer to question #1 (do you think it's important) was "strongly agree."

This survey can get only a few valid responses to questions, because most of the questions are incompatible with any opposition position. The final tally will show huge support by definition. This was written by an unskilled amateur who acknowledges but does not accept that someone, somewhere, might disagree.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 11, 2022 04:44 PM (WWh8n)

219 These do not reconcile.
Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at July 11, 2022 04:41 PM (U3uv2)

In essence, what I meant was (but said poorly),

if you, an adult, want to see a meh movie, go ahead but don't bring the kids.

Posted by: naturalfake at July 11, 2022 04:44 PM (5NkmN)

220 I remember that case where a 'pet' chimp chewed a woman's face off because she grinned at it.

Nah, we just do it for grins. Get it? Grins? *tap tap* Is this thing on?
Posted by: The Chimp at July 11, 2022

***
In that Ted Bessell show Me and the Chimp, did they dope the animal to make it safe to work with? There's a still on IMDb of the chimp wrapping a paw around Bessell's chin and cuddling its cheek next to his. Sounds scary.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at July 11, 2022 04:44 PM (txdEq)

221
197 >>>This is the problem with Netflix and Amazon. There have been at least 5 shows that I started and which were then cancelled, without any resolution.

i think I read that Fincher pulled the plug. Not sure if my memory is right about that, or if he's telling the truth if he did say it.
Posted by: ace at July 11, 2022 04:42 PM (B3oWe)

It's the " Firefly Syndrome".

Posted by: kraken at July 11, 2022 04:45 PM (Vr12I)

222 A Pratt factoid. He was a wrestler in high school in Washington State. Was very good and wrestled at the State level.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 11, 2022 04:45 PM (anj39)

223 >>>b) George Harrison's passive/agressive dickishness. Even when he gets his way, he's unhappy and a drag mostly. He wants to do his own thing, but wants the others to give him permission(or kick him out???)

yes definitely. But also, Paul repeatedly cuts on him, too. Paul really is tired of George. I can't blame him. But George will start talking (usually about himself) nad Paul will very indiscreetly not pay attention. John, even tho he's high, will pay attention, or pretend to. Not Paul!

Also paul throws in digs about the Mahirishi, which he should know will set George off.

c) McCartney gets tired of riding herd on the others. Except for Ringo, no one's ready to go but him. No one's bringing much to the table but him.

Definitely. John contributed like one song, or two? George contributed more.

Posted by: ace at July 11, 2022 04:45 PM (B3oWe)

224 yeah, all that great build-up to BTK, which is now unresolved.

Yep, they kept showing little snippets during the show when they were working another case building up to what would have been the next season of them on the trail of the BTK killer. So disappointing. It was very well done.

Posted by: jewells45 at July 11, 2022 04:45 PM (nxdel)

225 I knew the Horde could answer my question.
Who needs Quorom?

Posted by: N.L. Urker, my trench is full of chickens at July 11, 2022 04:45 PM (VdGjU)

226 I also just watched Altered Carbon's first season (of two).

Nine episodes of excellent television, and then it shit the bed in the finale.
Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales

NAILED IT! And it pisses me off to no end when they do that.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 11, 2022 04:46 PM (c8pZY)

227 "Don't want to see any horror movies or their trailers,"

Maybe Joe will post some links to keep you entertained.

Posted by: fd at July 11, 2022 04:46 PM (sn5EN)

228 oh, ace and guys...

there's another good show I want to pimp. Imagine a game show doing standard trivia things but you can still win if you convince people your wrong answer was actually correct.

I saw Netflix's Bullshit and was hooked. The contestants run the gamut from cringe to mid to awful but it's fun as they try to convince the panel of contestants that they actually knew the answer.

here's the thing, the trivia questions are hard. I could barely get 50% right in my head. So there's no gimmies. You could plop out on q1. Recommend.

Posted by: sockamster-moderate level poster at July 11, 2022 04:46 PM (OuH7W)

229 I have an irrelevant question for the many experts here.
I just saw an 18 wheeler drive past with one axle, the second from the end, lifted.
Why do they do that? This has no importance. I'm just curious.
Posted by: N.L. Urker, my trench is full of chickens at July 11, 2022 04:41 PM (VdGjU)
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I think it's because under light load it reduces wear and tear (don't need that axle, so don't wear out the tires) and also reduces the axle count which can reduce tolls.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 11, 2022 04:46 PM (WWh8n)

230 I still miss The Unit. Dennis Hayesbert was awesome, in fact, the whole team was.

Posted by: thathalfrican - Up in arms like Minutemen at July 11, 2022 04:47 PM (YglAn)

231 They'll never get to BTK, now.
Posted by: Axeman at July 11, 2022 04:36 PM

Alas, no. And what was beautiful was how they were laying the groundwork for one of FIB's most comprehensive mis-profiles.

Survivor in back seat of car: "I'm afraid of him all the time. He could be anywhere and I wouldn't recognize him. In a restaurant. At church."
Tench: "This guy doesn't go to church."

Rader was a deacon or elder or something. Also, head of a household, stable job history -- the unit ruled those out from the start, too.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at July 11, 2022 04:47 PM (+R5dc)

232 The Tick, which was stupid as fuck, but I enjoyed.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 11, 2022 04:43 PM (diceA)
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Yeah, that sucked. (My avatar on a number of boards is the original Townsend Coleman Tick)

Posted by: Axeman at July 11, 2022 04:47 PM (krQz2)

233 oh right and the next man up on BS is the guy from the panel who figured out the most correctly if the main contestant was right or Bsing. So, there's the motivation to really get it right.

Posted by: sockamster-moderate level poster at July 11, 2022 04:47 PM (OuH7W)

234 With the first season having wrapped up, Strange New Worlds was quite good apart from the infamous 15 seconds of "January 6th almost cracked the Earth's core" bullshit in the pilot. (The episodes are standalone, so you can skip the pilot and not miss anything). Unlike Discovery there's actual character depth and building, things happen in a logical order without being enslaved to arcs, and Nurse Chapel is possibly too hawt. The TOS reference density's almost as thick as Ghostbusters Afterlife, including the music cues we all love, but it mostly works and is a lot of fun.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 11, 2022 04:48 PM (ZGrMX)

235 I think it's because under light load it reduces wear and tear (don't need that axle, so don't wear out the tires) and also reduces the axle count which can reduce tolls.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 11, 2022 04:46 PM (WWh8n)

Also, akin to lifting a leg to go pee pee

Posted by: Archer at July 11, 2022 04:48 PM (gmo/4)

236 230 I still miss The Unit. Dennis Hayesbert was awesome, in fact, the whole team was.
Posted by: thathalfrican - Up in arms like Minutemen at July 11, 2022 04:47 PM (YglAn)

Excellent series. And again, why did they stop?

Posted by: kraken at July 11, 2022 04:48 PM (Vr12I)

237 The unresolved nature of long-term storytelling, or the crappy endings of stuff like How I Met Your Mother, are one key reason why I tend to stay away from TV.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 11, 2022 04:48 PM (ucNJQ)

238 This survey can get only a few valid responses to questions, because most of the questions are incompatible with any opposition position. The final tally will show huge support by definition. This was written by an unskilled amateur who acknowledges but does not accept that someone, somewhere, might disagree.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 11, 2022 04:44 PM (WWh8n)
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Most of these types of surveys are going to be written by someone with an agenda.

They already know their desired results--they just need "data" to provide validation that their position is correct.

But you know that already, of course!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 11, 2022 04:48 PM (YIVH2)

239 217 Don't want to see any horror movies or their trailers

Me either. I do not enjoy or abide. I was that way going back to my teens. All my friends would go see horror movies and I went once. After that I would just say no thanks. Never outgrew it. I just don't like to feel the way they make me feel.

Posted by: Ethan Saunders at July 11, 2022 04:48 PM (W1E3x)

240 The Vichy Senate Republicans stood on the stage like props as Lettuce Brain called for more assaults on our Second Amendment. Every one of them who isn't retiring needs to be primaried out.

Posted by: Marcus T at July 11, 2022 04:49 PM (j8UPs)

241 some really great performances from the "killers." Just great stuff. the big fat guy who killed his mother the best of all.

Posted by: ace at July 11, 2022 04:41 PM (B3oWe)

Ed Kemper? I read some book, not Mindhunter but something similar, and the guy said he was scary AF in person.

Posted by: Jordan61 at July 11, 2022 04:49 PM (DRSnL)

242 207 This is the problem with Netflix and Amazon. There have been at least 5 shows that I started and which were then cancelled, without any resolution. They just went away. Altered Carbon is an example.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 11, 2022 04:41 PM (/NCI4)

The Tick, which was stupid as fuck, but I enjoyed.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop

Sneaky Pete was really good.
It was when the Amazon studios leadership changed that they cancelled a bunch of shows

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 11, 2022 04:49 PM (kf6Ak)

243 This survey can get only a few valid responses to questions, because most of the questions are incompatible with any opposition position. The final tally will show huge support by definition. This was written by an unskilled amateur who acknowledges but does not accept that someone, somewhere, might disagree.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 11, 2022 04:44 PM (WWh8n)
***
Heh.
I had a job (briefly) where I wrote survey questions. Every question was written with the desired outcome already known.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 11, 2022 04:49 PM (anj39)

244 It's the " Firefly Syndrome".
Posted by: kraken at July 11

Damn their eyes for cancelling Firefly!

Posted by: She Hobbit at July 11, 2022 04:49 PM (ftFVW)

245 I think Anna Torv was in Mindhunter. She was great in Fringe, in a very layered role.

She had to play someone else besides her main character. Then her main character pretending to be that someone else. Then that someone else pretending to be her main character.

Then her main character forgetting a bunch of important shit including who she is. Also particularly easy on the eyes with a way above average pair of gams.

Posted by: ... at July 11, 2022 04:50 PM (dscaa)

246 I've found out that Kevin Costner has a house within half an hour from my house.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, my trench is full of chickens at July 11, 2022 04:50 PM (VdGjU)

247 ill Biden said Hispanics are as “unique” as tacos.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 11, 2022 04:50 PM (Y5qcH)

248 It's the " Firefly Syndrome".
Posted by: kraken at July 11

Damn their eyes for cancelling Firefly!
Posted by: She Hobbit

Probably the BIGGEST own goal in the history of television.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 11, 2022 04:50 PM (c8pZY)

249 Rage Against the Machine. First they support COVID "vaccine" mandates. Now they support abortion and "birth-givers".

Paul Joseph Watson video: https://bit.ly/3yAP3Ls

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at July 11, 2022 04:50 PM (Do5/p)

250 The Tick has been turned into a show three times, and that's excessive.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at July 11, 2022 04:51 PM (44ww/)

251 I have a feeling the theme song for "Smile" isn't Nat King Cole.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 11, 2022 04:51 PM (H8QX8)

252 My wife read the books for Terminal List and was a big fan.

I've already been told the overall series spoiler, if it hasn't been revealed yet.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 11, 2022 04:51 PM (1JwxG)

253 Mindhunter. Excellent series. But again - eh, screw it!! Serve up some Swill.!

Posted by: kraken at July 11, 2022 04:51 PM (Vr12I)

254 I saw Netflix's Bullshit and was hooked. The contestants run the gamut from cringe to mid to awful but it's fun as they try to convince the panel of contestants that they actually knew the answer.

Posted by: sockamster-moderate level poster at July 11, 2022 04:46 PM (OuH7W)
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I second that recommendation. Yeah, a number of those questions were not easy

Posted by: Axeman at July 11, 2022 04:51 PM (krQz2)

255 Posted by: kraken at July 11, 2022 04:48 PM (Vr12I)

IIRC the budget was too big and their viewership couldn't justify it. The worst part is Mamet admitted he wanted just one more season to end it.

There were rumors awhile ago that they were going to do a movie as a finale but that's never gonna fly.

Posted by: thathalfrican - Up in arms like Minutemen at July 11, 2022 04:52 PM (YglAn)

256 Comet TV (digital broadcast) is running eps of Buffy the Vampire Slayer in order, 2 a weeknight, 6 and 7 pm CDT. They're about halfway through the third season (Buffy's senior year in high school) already. Still one of the best things to come out of regular TV in the last 25 years.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at July 11, 2022 04:52 PM (txdEq)

257 >>>I saw Netflix's Bullshit and was hooked. The contestants run the gamut from cringe to mid to awful but it's fun as they try to convince the panel of contestants that they actually knew the answer.

there's a game called Balderdash like that, which you can play at home just with a dictionary. The Caller looks up a hard word and writes down a definition, using casual english (that is, not using the dictionary's highly technical definition). Then he tells everyone the word. Then everyone writes down their own made up definiton (or the real one, if they know it).

Posted by: ace at July 11, 2022 04:52 PM (B3oWe)

258 Don't want to see any horror movies or their trailers

Me either.

We can all go do something else together, then. I hate 'em.

Posted by: And Away We Go at July 11, 2022 04:52 PM (dI4uN)

259
Once that's done, the caller reads out the definitions and everyone chooses which one he thinks is the real one. You get one point for everyone *besides you* who picks your fake definition as a real one. You get one point for choosing the real definition and another point for having written the real definition yourself.

It's a lot of fun. People can get pretty inventive trying to come up with fake definitions that sound semi-plausible. People also get stuck in patterns that make their fakery identifiable as theirs: Like one guy I used to play with would always go with a variation of "a type of 18th century schooner."

Posted by: ace at July 11, 2022 04:52 PM (B3oWe)

260 > The Japanese guy's apartment has the feel of an underground parking garage.

In France, in some of the neighborhoods with, shall we say primitive residents, there are hotel rooms that are almost all concrete inside. It makes it harder to destroy the place.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 11, 2022 04:52 PM (kDGvA)

261 249 Rage Against the Machine. First they support COVID "vaccine" mandates. Now they support abortion and "birth-givers".

Paul Joseph Watson video: https://bit.ly/3yAP3Ls
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at July 11, 2022 04:50 PM (Do5/p)

Isn't the point of abortion to not give birth?

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 11, 2022 04:52 PM (b2nrj)

262 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 11, 2022 04:48 PM (ucNJQ)

Justified solved that problem by telling great season-long stories that pretty much completely resolve, and one great overarching story that pretty much completely resolves.

I despise the stupid cheap Cliffhanger nature of TV, ESPECIALLY when it's handled in the first episode of the next season with a Six Months Later. Which honestly I could have broken a few TV's over that bullshit.

Posted by: ... at July 11, 2022 04:52 PM (dscaa)

263 The Tick has been turned into a show three times, and that's excessive.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at July 11, 2022 04:51 PM (44ww/

I liked The Tick. Pure funny stupid.
But you know that going in. And that's the difference.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 11, 2022 04:53 PM (c8pZY)

264 One series that made me not care to see another season was Westworld. That third season was such a dud. What they did in the real outside world ruined the story line.

Posted by: She Hobbit at July 11, 2022 04:53 PM (ftFVW)

265 A 23-year-old American tourist fell into Mount Vesuvius after taking a selfie and dropping his cell phone inside. They should have left him in there.

Posted by: fd at July 11, 2022 04:53 PM (sn5EN)

266 262
I despise the stupid cheap Cliffhanger nature of TV, ESPECIALLY when it's handled in the first episode of the next season with a Six Months Later. Which honestly I could have broken a few TV's over that bullshit.
Posted by: ... at July 11, 2022 04:52 PM (dscaa)

========

I tend to discover TV long after it's stopped airing. I'll probably watch Justified at some point.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 11, 2022 04:53 PM (ucNJQ)

267 *throws wooden clogs*

How come computer updates never improve work flow?

Posted by: nurse ratched at July 11, 2022 04:53 PM (mD2Jq)

268 Sneaky Pete was really good.
It was when the Amazon studios leadership changed that they cancelled a bunch of shows

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 11, 2022 04:49 PM (kf6Ak)
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Sneaky Pete was GREAT in Season 1, but by Season 3, I saw a limp.

Posted by: Axeman at July 11, 2022 04:53 PM (krQz2)

269 One fun thing is being able to say "Oh, an 18th century epaulette? Gee I wonder WHO wrote THAT?" And then it's fun because sometimes that turns out to be the actual definition.

Posted by: ace at July 11, 2022 04:53 PM (B3oWe)

270 That Smile trailer freaked me out, not watching anything else in this post. I HATE scary movies.
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at July 11, 2022 04:12 PM (Mzdiz)

Try turning the sound off. They quickly get boring.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 11, 2022 04:53 PM (anj39)

271 Then her main character forgetting a bunch of important shit including who she is. Also particularly easy on the eyes with a way above average pair of gams.
Posted by: ... at July 11, 2022 04:50 PM (dscaa)

I 'think' she was hotter in the early seasons, plus the show went all Dawson's Creek a bit too much. I do not mind romance, just the teen angst drama.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 11, 2022 04:54 PM (diceA)

272 264 One series that made me not care to see another season was Westworld. That third season was such a dud. What they did in the real outside world ruined the story line.
Posted by: She Hobbit at July 11, 2022 04:53 PM (ftFVW)

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The second season devolved into "tricking the Westworld Reddit thread", and it was a mess. I never went back.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 11, 2022 04:54 PM (ucNJQ)

273 240 The Vichy Senate Republicans stood on the stage like props as Lettuce Brain called for more assaults on our Second Amendment. Every one of them who isn't retiring needs to be primaried out.
Posted by: Marcus T at July 11, 2022 04:49 PM (j8UPs)

Either completely oblivious or completely contemptuous of their base. Amazing.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 11, 2022 04:54 PM (H8QX8)

274 I got hooked on The Unit straight away

Posted by: Skip at July 11, 2022 04:54 PM (2JoB8)

275 Ed Kemper? I read some book, not Mindhunter but something similar, and the guy said he was scary AF in person.
Posted by: Jordan61 at July 11, 2022 04:49 PM (DRSnL)

Found it, it was Whoever Fights Monsters by Robert Ressler. Good book if you're into such things.

Posted by: Jordan61 at July 11, 2022 04:54 PM (DRSnL)

276 I also just watched Altered Carbon's first season (of two).

Nine episodes of excellent television, and then it shit the bed in the finale.
Posted by: Soothsayer's Untrue But Accurate Tales at July 11, 2022 04:16 PM

I liked the concept. The 2nd season is equally bizarre.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 11, 2022 04:54 PM (yQpMk)

277 have an irrelevant question for the many experts here.
I just saw an 18 wheeler drive past with one axle, the second from the end, lifted.
Why do they do that? This has no importance. I'm just curious.
Posted by: N.L. Urker, my trench is full of chickens

The extra axle is deployed for very heavy loads to meet truck & trailer weight to axle ratio for highway standards. IIRC, 80,000 lbs is for a normal max load. Anything above you need special permits or the extra axle. Been a number of years since I knew this stuff

Posted by: Beartooth at July 11, 2022 04:55 PM (u9Awk)

278 248 It's the " Firefly Syndrome".
Posted by: kraken at July 11

Damn their eyes for cancelling Firefly!
Posted by: She Hobbit

Probably the BIGGEST own goal in the history of television.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 11, 2022 04:50 PM (c8pZY)
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Most probably know this, but my understanding is that it was originally aired out of order by the network -- which was confusing to viewers.

But once it became a cult classic, they were stupid not to revive it.

Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, it gets worse here every day at July 11, 2022 04:55 PM (SK7R7)

279 yeah, but here you have Howie Mandel in full no fucks given mode and a chance at a million. I do loves me some at home games tho.

Posted by: sockamster-moderate level poster at July 11, 2022 04:55 PM (OuH7W)

280 My gosh, I didn't realize how late it was! Time to go home!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at July 11, 2022 04:55 PM (txdEq)

281 i think I read that Fincher pulled the plug. Not sure if my memory is right about that, or if he's telling the truth if he did say it.
Posted by: ace at July 11, 2022 04:42 PM (B3oWe)

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I think that because of Covid and other scheduling/strategic issues, he basically freed up the principals so they could move on and get other work, and with that it became an "indefinitely" sort of situation.

The good thing about the BTK timeline though, is they could get the whole team back together in 10 years with 10 years of real-time aging on them and still be right where they need to be, still looking in all the wrong corners.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at July 11, 2022 04:56 PM (+R5dc)

282 Also TV suffers from what I long ago dubbed Gilligan's Island Syndrome. Also to a lesser extent Wile E. Coyote Syndrome. And what most people would probably call Lost Syndrome.

Where the setup and main story for the show has a rule that can't be broken or the point of the show is utterly destroyed. In other words, the characters can never get off the Island. Or the chaser can never catch the chased.

Excellent writers can and do handle this situation well, and it's impressive when done correctly, but mediocre writers, which is 98% of TV, put themselves in this corner and then stay stuck there. Beyond a season or at most three, it makes for a frustrating and eventually very boring and pointless watch.

Posted by: ... at July 11, 2022 04:56 PM (dscaa)

283 I haven't watched The Terminal List, but I read the book and the next two in the series, True Believer and Savage Son.

All three are excellent. Jack Carr is a talented writer and clearly weaves a lot of real-world SEAL training and experience into his characters.

He also has some really, really dark shit in his head that comes out sometimes and you'll finish a chapter, put the book down, and say to yourself, "Well that was fucked up." and go have a drink.

Posted by: ballistic at July 11, 2022 04:56 PM (oXNqT)

284 I believe someone has optioned "They Sag".

Posted by: Archimedes at July 11, 2022 04:38 PM (/NCI4)

They Auger is probably still available.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 11, 2022 04:40 PM

Y'all keep talking about Nanzi's mammiform protuberances, and Ace will treat us to another treatment, perhaps even a 'compare and contrast' with Pisshockey.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at July 11, 2022 04:56 PM (a3Q+t)

285 Sneaky Pete was GREAT in Season 1, but by Season 3, I saw a limp.
Posted by: Axeman

A limp? I saw a wheelchair.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 11, 2022 04:56 PM (c8pZY)

286 Ace, I'm late to the party today, but I was just reading the Hunter post below. Something I noticed on the linked PJ story: the second FBI contact has a JWICS email address listed (note the use of "ic" in the address). Why would Hunter have a Top Secret network email listed on his phone and not an unclassified network email like the one in the first FBI contact?

Posted by: Bert G at July 11, 2022 04:56 PM (YMvfk)

287 278 Most probably know this, but my understanding is that it was originally aired out of order by the network -- which was confusing to viewers.
But once it became a cult classic, they were stupid not to revive it.
Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, it gets worse here every day at July 11, 2022 04:55 PM (SK7R7)

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They also forced a new pilot.

And then they made a movie! A big budget feature!

It bombed horribly.

I think the Firefly fanbase is tiny.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 11, 2022 04:56 PM (ucNJQ)

288 240 The Vichy Senate Republicans stood on the stage like props as Lettuce Brain called for more assaults on our Second Amendment. Every one of them who isn't retiring needs to be primaried out.
Posted by: Marcus T at July 11, 2022 04:49 PM

Was Ernst one of the Senators? Voting for the bill was bad enough...adding to the optics is disgusting.

Posted by: Iowa Farm Boy at July 11, 2022 04:57 PM (JCZqz)

289 yeah, one thing also I like doing is dropping shows the minute they get ... whatever. Like Altered Carbon or Westworld. It's not homework people. AC got a bit much. goofy.

For All Mankind is pretty pretty good. Joel Kinneman tracks as Ed Baldwin in an alternate take on the space race with its impact on subsequent history if the Soviets got to the moon firs.t

Posted by: sockamster-moderate level poster at July 11, 2022 04:57 PM (OuH7W)

290 > Ed Kemper? I read some book, not Mindhunter but something similar, and the guy said he was scary AF in person.

Kemper is high IQ at ~145 and HUGE. He's 6'9". I can imagine someone like that who has killed at least ten people would be very scary in person.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 11, 2022 04:57 PM (kDGvA)

291 Ben Edlund will remake the show until he is as old as The Terror, but never bring back the jazz band.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at July 11, 2022 04:57 PM (44ww/)

292 >>>That Smile trailer freaked me out, not watching anything else in this post. I HATE scary movies.

the last video, the one I said "looks fun," is a comedy whodunnit spoof which is not at all scary. You should watch that one.

Posted by: ace at July 11, 2022 04:57 PM (B3oWe)

293 Posted by: fd at July 11, 2022 04:46 PM (

I do quite often post other things as I ve done today without commenting on babes and boobs, whom I don't regard as horror s
Movies but thanks for the encouragement.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 11, 2022 04:57 PM (Oh/xF)

294 But you know that already, of course!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 11, 2022 04:48 PM (YIVH2)
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Of course. Is it too much to ask, however, that they show a modicum of sophistication when being a bunch of manipulative ideologues?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 11, 2022 04:58 PM (WWh8n)

295 A brilliant, unique dramedy call "Patriot" was canceled after only two seasons by Amazon Prime. Primo annoying ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, it gets worse here every day at July 11, 2022 04:58 PM (SK7R7)

296 I'm sitting in the sun on the patio of the pub watching the traffic go by.
I have another silly question. I never see any beater motorcycles. I see lots of crappy cars but every motorcycle looks gorgeous.
Where are the rust bucket equivalents in motorcycles?

Posted by: N.L. Urker, my trench is full of chickens at July 11, 2022 04:58 PM (VdGjU)

297 DENVER (KDVR) — The new Denver Broncos’ ownership group announced it has added former Secretary of State and University of Denver alumna Condoleezza Rice to the team.

Posted by: DB at July 11, 2022 04:58 PM (geLO8)

298 The second season devolved into "tricking the Westworld Reddit thread", and it was a mess. I never went back.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 11

I enjoyed the Shogun world stuff, so that kept me from writing them off in season 2. But yeah, there was a bit of "too clever by half" feeling to it.

Posted by: She Hobbit at July 11, 2022 04:58 PM (ftFVW)

299 yeah, Mindhunters was too good to last. How long are you going to have Fincher for anyway?

Posted by: sockamster-moderate level poster at July 11, 2022 04:58 PM (OuH7W)

300 I 'think' she was hotter in the early seasons, plus the show went all Dawson's Creek a bit too much. I do not mind romance, just the teen angst drama.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 11, 2022 04:54 PM (diceA)

It definitely petered out (ha) but the midpoint of season 2 to the midpoint of season 3 was one of the most enjoyable seasons of TV I've ever seen.

It probably doesn't hold up that well, especially because "the thing" has been done to absolute death now (see Rick and Morty). Whereas it was fresh and new and even a bit mindblowing at the time. And yeah she was definitely hotter earlier but that's not something I can pin against the poor woman.

Posted by: ... at July 11, 2022 04:59 PM (dscaa)

301 Next story to come out of the Hunter's icloud:

Hunter Biden could face prostitution charges for transporting hookers across state lines and disguising checks to them as payments for 'medical services'.

Photos from Hunter's iPhone show he wrote checks disguised as medical services to prostitutes supplied by Moreva, whose website offers a 'girlfriend experience'

Posted by: fd at July 11, 2022 04:59 PM (sn5EN)

302 My county sent me this Staff Racial Equity & Inclusion Competency Survey. It's literally mining employees for BLM / Antifa foot soldiers. I don't know if this link will work: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/Q9ZMQ2J
Posted by: Some one who doesn't want to be identified

Link works. Took the survey.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 11, 2022 04:36 PM (63Dwl)

Ooh survey!
Should I answer with first choice on everything or last choice?
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 11, 2022 04:39 PM (kf6Ak)

I responded as a "maybe" person of color who knows everything about race . I commented that the county should just pay all empl0yees to sit around and take about race all day long.

Posted by: LASue at July 11, 2022 04:59 PM (Ed8Zd)

303 The Vichy Senate Republicans stood on the stage like props as Lettuce Brain called for more assaults on our Second Amendment.

Again, the GOP don't mind losing, as long as they control their own party. At some point, they'll go along with gun confiscation, just to purify who supports the GOP.

Posted by: And Away We Go at July 11, 2022 05:00 PM (dI4uN)

304 Patriot was fantastic as was the other show by that dude. It had Ben Kingsley in it.

Posted by: ... at July 11, 2022 05:00 PM (dscaa)

305 Interestingly, the RMBS Mom recommended The Terminal List. I still haven't gotten around to watching it, though.

Watched a movie from a few years back called The Librarian. Kind of Raiders of the Lost Ark meets Men in Black. It was good light comedy.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 11, 2022 05:00 PM (RkC6l)

306 >>Where are the rust bucket equivalents in motorcycles?

Posted by: N.L. Urker

at Sturgis
you see a lot of 'home-built' bikes there
saw one bike there, footpads were made of sewer grate and the seat was unpadded metal seat from an old tractor

Posted by: DB at July 11, 2022 05:00 PM (geLO8)

307 295 A brilliant, unique dramedy call "Patriot" was canceled after only two seasons by Amazon Prime. Primo annoying ...
Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, it gets worse here every day at July 11, 2022 04:58 PM (SK7R7)

Second that. Patriot was great.

Posted by: Xander Crews at July 11, 2022 05:00 PM (MpOGS)

308 The Terminal List is basically if the Borne Identity movies had a baby with the Punisher franchise. I really wanted to love this, but I don't. It's watchable despite the first 20 minutes of the pilot being borderline awful. A coworker suggested that Chris Pratt is not the best candidate for this role and I would agree. I'm on the third episode and I feel like the series has shown some improvement.

Posted by: Max Power at July 11, 2022 05:00 PM (k7+BO)

309 Rage Against the Machine. First they support COVID "vaccine" mandates. Now they support abortion and "birth-givers".

Every time they do something like that the "Rage In Favor Of The Machine" photoshops go flying on Twitter.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 11, 2022 05:00 PM (1TuZk)

310 A Pratt factoid. He was a wrestler in high school in Washington State. Was very good and wrestled at the State level.
Posted by: Diogenes at July 11, 2022 04:45 PM (anj39)
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The vast majority of his life he was in tip-top athletic shape and *put on* some weight to play Andy Dwyer on Parks and Rec.

Posted by: Axeman at July 11, 2022 05:00 PM (krQz2)

311 Grackles are noisy blackbirds. They are all over Texas.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at July 11, 2022 05:00 PM (44ww/)

312 This was written by an unskilled amateur who acknowledges but does not accept that someone, somewhere, might disagree.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 11, 2022 04:44 PM (WWh8n)
_____________________

1. I think it is valuable to examine and discuss the impacts race has on our work at Mendocino County.
Hell no
2. I have a basic understanding of racial equity concepts.
That's why I said no to #1
3. I know how to identify examples of institutional, interpersonal/individual and structural racism.
Yep, just not in places you think
4. I feel comfortable talking with others about race in the work place.
Are you kidding me? I have a family to feed.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 11, 2022 05:00 PM (fs1hN)

313 Another great show that went on for far too long? Supernatural. The first few seasons I thought were genuinely scary and well written.

Then it just kept going and going and...

Posted by: thathalfrican - Up in arms like Minutemen at July 11, 2022 05:01 PM (YglAn)

314 * Instead of always rooting for him, I'm frequently thinking, "Please don't do this." I don't want him to be just a crazy killer.

Same. It... doesn't get any better in that respect.

Overall, good though.

Posted by: lymond at July 11, 2022 05:01 PM (Jvjtu)

315 Speaking of big rigs, I was driving down the highway the other day and heard a very loud pop! I instinctively ducked. Looked in my side mirror and saw a semi pulling over, looks like he blew a tire. It was freaking loud!

Posted by: jewells45 at July 11, 2022 05:01 PM (nxdel)

316 I have a suggestion -- I just finished watching The Vow on HBOMax.

It's a documentary about the creepy NXIVM sex cult that a lot of rich white liberal women got caught up in.

Pretty interesting if you're curious how people get involved in these kinds of things. Semi-spoiler: the main guy sold them on how being in NXIVM made them super-ethical and enlightened beings who were make the world a better place. He knew his targets.

The media really did not pay attention to this story as it was happening. One or two articles here or there but basically ignored.

It is funny how when 2 of the top level people first left and went to the FBI they were told they couldn't do anything because the women were over 18 and consented to being "slaves" and being branded. Then, once Trump takes office, his DOJ does prosecute and these libtards can't put 2 and 2 together. They think it is solely the media campaign former tv-star Catherine Oxenburg went on (her daughter was in the cult, had been branded and was refusing to leave it) that caused the DOJ to prosecute.

S1 is 9 episodes and ends with cult leaders arrests. S2 will cover trials (starts in October).

Posted by: Ultra MAGA Venus at July 11, 2022 05:01 PM (YVBLw)

317 Worth the three minutes

I much prefer these three minutes: https://bit.ly/3yzv683

Way back in January 2020. Amazing, and sad, to think that the world would be changing forever 2 months later...

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at July 11, 2022 05:01 PM (Do5/p)

318 I like the first season of See, the concept was fascinating, the 2nd season was not as good and then the Vid delayed the 3rd season until now. I hope the 3rd season is more on a par with the first.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 11, 2022 05:01 PM (yQpMk)

319 Ha ha holy shit - Jill Biden today said "[Hispanics] are as unique as breakfast tacos in San Antonio."

Posted by: Citizen Ultra Cake at July 11, 2022 05:02 PM (HmZuC)

320 A 23-year-old American tourist fell into Mount Vesuvius after taking a selfie and dropping his cell phone inside. They should have left him in there.

Right? They could have just waited and recovered him in Pompeii the next time Vesuvius gets cranky.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 11, 2022 05:02 PM (VwHCD)

321 The scariest thing coming up is the all star break.
The vichy R's are there to suppress turnout. We have to show up every chance we get until they lose. NYC is nice, isnt it?

Posted by: Jamaica NYC at July 11, 2022 05:02 PM (b+v9B)

322 Watched a movie from a few years back called The Librarian. Kind of Raiders of the Lost Ark meets Men in Black. It was good light comedy.

There were I think 3 or 4 of those movies standalone and a pretty good (but uneven) series by the producers of Leverage.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 11, 2022 05:02 PM (1TuZk)

323 297 DENVER (KDVR) — The new Denver Broncos’ ownership group announced it has added former Secretary of State and University of Denver alumna Condoleezza Rice to the team.
Posted by: DB at July 11, 2022 04:58 PM (geLO8

Two words, Condi: Laces out.

Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at July 11, 2022 05:03 PM (Qhnrt)

324 >>>Another great show that went on for far too long?

M*A*S*H. They should have ended it by having the team transfer to Vietnam since they spent a decade in Korea.

Posted by: Citizen Ultra Cake at July 11, 2022 05:04 PM (HmZuC)

325 Where are the rust bucket equivalents in motorcycles?

Posted by: N.L. Urker

at Sturgis
you see a lot of 'home-built' bikes there
saw one bike there, footpads were made of sewer grate and the seat was unpadded metal seat from an old tractor

Posted by: DB at July 11, 2022 05:00 PM (geLO

I saw a dude cruising down the strip in sturgis with a frigging motorized picnic table, and another in a motorized e-z chair. You see it ALL there.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 11, 2022 05:04 PM (VwHCD)

326 Saw a woman in the supermarket today. Maybe in her late 30's early 40's.

Wearing a shirt that said "I'd rather die on my feet than live on my knees", pictured over a big American flag and DTOM snake on the back. Fuck yeah I thought as I glanced over at her. I don't live in an area where you see these sorts of things much.

When she turned to face me..... she was wearing a mask.

Posted by: ... at July 11, 2022 05:05 PM (dscaa)

327 I thought The Terminal List lead actors should have switched roles, with Taylor Kitsch as the protagonist. I can't take Chris Pratt seriously as a heroic lead.

Posted by: Ordinary American at July 11, 2022 05:05 PM (H8QX8)

328 Watched a movie from a few years back called The Librarian. Kind of Raiders of the Lost Ark meets Men in Black. It was good light comedy.

There were I think 3 or 4 of those movies standalone and a pretty good (but uneven) series by the producers of Leverage.
Posted by: Ian S. at July 11, 2022 05:02 PM (1TuZk

Didn't these shows have Bob Newhart in them?

Posted by: Beartooth at July 11, 2022 05:05 PM (u9Awk)

329 Watched a movie from a few years back called The Librarian. Kind of Raiders of the Lost Ark meets Men in Black. It was good light comedy.

I saw a prequel once of the Alien franchise, called Prometheus. It sucked.

Posted by: And Away We Go at July 11, 2022 05:05 PM (dI4uN)

330 Posted by: ... at July 11, 2022 05:05 PM (dscaa)

Well.

Plot twist.

Posted by: thathalfrican - Up in arms like Minutemen at July 11, 2022 05:06 PM (YglAn)

331 319 Ha ha holy shit - Jill Biden today said "[Hispanics] are as unique as breakfast tacos in San Antonio."

Posted by: Citizen Ultra Cake at July 11, 2022 05:02 PM (HmZuC)

Wait, what? What does that even mean?

-hispanics are not unique?
-Breakfast tacos are hated in san antonio and therefore, Hispanics ARE unique?

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 11, 2022 05:06 PM (diceA)

332 @259 Once that's done, the caller reads out the definitions and everyone chooses which one he thinks is the real one. You get one point for everyone *besides you* who picks your fake definition as a real one. You get one point for choosing the real definition and another point for having written the real definition yourself.

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Sounds like a game I've played in the past. Might be called Balderdash?

Posted by: junior at July 11, 2022 05:06 PM (au1bp)

333 NOOD Quicky.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 11, 2022 05:06 PM (Mdfxc)

334 Another great show that went on for far too long?

Falling Skies

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 11, 2022 05:06 PM (yQpMk)

335 "Looked in my side mirror and saw a semi pulling over, looks like he blew a tire. It was freaking loud!
Posted by: jewells45"

That's one reason I don't follow 18 wheelers too close. Not only can you not see what's in the road ahead, if a tire blows pieces are very likely to hit you.

Posted by: fd at July 11, 2022 05:06 PM (sn5EN)

336 Ooh survey!
Should I answer with first choice on everything or last choice?
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 11, 2022 04:39 PM (kf6Ak)
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I went with the first choice on every response, just in case. It's possible the survey is encoded to disregard the last response as valid data (Qualtrics can do this).

I also love how it takes you to another survey link (on current events) when you are done with the first survey.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 11, 2022 05:06 PM (YIVH2)

337 Then it just kept going and going and...
Posted by: thathalfrican - Up in arms like Minutemen at July 11

Angels and demons storyline really took them off the rails. It was much more fun when they were fighting something new every episode. Though I did like the episode well into their run when the all girls high school does a musical of their travails. It was nice to see them make fun of themselves.

Posted by: She Hobbit at July 11, 2022 05:06 PM (ftFVW)

338 Watched a movie from a few years back called The Librarian. Kind of Raiders of the Lost Ark meets Men in Black. It was good light comedy.

There were I think 3 or 4 of those movies standalone and a pretty good (but uneven) series by the producers of Leverage.
Posted by: Ian S. at July 11, 2022 05:02 PM (1TuZk

Didn't these shows have Bob Newhart in them?

Posted by: Beartooth at July 11, 2022 05:05 PM (u9Awk)

Yup. They eventually made it a series.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 11, 2022 05:07 PM (VwHCD)

339 When she turned to face me..... she was wearing a mask.
Posted by: ... at July 11, 2022 05:05 PM (dscaa)

To be fair, dude who manages the customer side of the site I am at has a wife who is going through cancer treatment. Based as fuck, but he wore a mask.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 11, 2022 05:07 PM (diceA)

340 I think all the 4chan stuff released on Hunter Biden is incredible.

Ho-lee-shit is he a degenerate. And so are Joe and Jill.

Posted by: Seems Legit at July 11, 2022 05:08 PM (DcKNO)

341 Speaking of big rigs, I was driving down the highway the other day and heard a very loud pop! I instinctively ducked. Looked in my side mirror and saw a semi pulling over, looks like he blew a tire. It was freaking loud!
Posted by: jewells45 at July 11, 2022 05:01 PM (nxdel)

I remember driving outside of Dallas when one of my trailer tires blew out. The pick-up truck that was tailgating me had only just gotten out of the way of the tire tread flying right at him.

Posted by: Robert at July 11, 2022 05:09 PM (CtcCt)

342 Berserker do you make the annual trek to Sturgis?

Posted by: jewells45 at July 11, 2022 05:09 PM (nxdel)

343 > Another great show that went on for far too long? Supernatural. The first few seasons I thought were genuinely scary and well written.

Supernatural was originally planned out for five seasons.
You might want to fact check me on that. They finished the five seasons, then just ... kept going. If anyone starts watching now, you're better off just quitting at that point.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 11, 2022 05:09 PM (kDGvA)

344 To be fair, dude who manages the customer side of the site I am at has a wife who is going through cancer treatment. Based as fuck, but he wore a mask.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 11, 2022 05:07 PM (diceA)

I tried to rationalize this kind of thing to myself. It's July.

Wearing that shirt around here is enough to get your car egged.

Posted by: ... at July 11, 2022 05:10 PM (dscaa)

345 that first video reminds me a bit of this short film

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I61l_f-328c

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at July 11, 2022 05:12 PM (sJHOI)

346 "(Or, I guess: He's like Rambo for the first movie, except not just reacting, but acting proactively.)"

Oh, like "Rambo: Blood First" (instead of just "First Blood").

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at July 11, 2022 05:13 PM (Wg1SU)

347 For All Mankind is pretty pretty good. Joel Kinneman tracks as Ed Baldwin in an alternate take on the space race with its impact on subsequent history if the Soviets got to the moon firs.t
Posted by: sockamster-moderate

Probably Appletv's only good shoe
Too bad our free access expired so.I can't watch the new season

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 11, 2022 05:13 PM (kf6Ak)

348 *show

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 11, 2022 05:14 PM (kf6Ak)

349 Watched a movie from a few years back called The Librarian. Kind of Raiders of the Lost Ark meets Men in Black. It was good light comedy.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

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TNT made a series of that movie, but Noah Wylie (the Librarian in the movie) was only a recurring character. The series focused on 3 new librarians The Library recruits plus Rebecca Romijn as the "Guardian." Each librarian has areas of expertise and they all work together to solve whatever end of the world crisis that occurs each episode plus an overarching season crisis. It is called The Librarians (with an "s") and it is also a good light adventure/fantasy comedy. Ran 4 seasons and is streaming on Amazon Prime, IIRC.

Posted by: Ultra MAGA Venus at July 11, 2022 05:16 PM (YVBLw)

350 343 > Another great show that went on for far too long? Supernatural. The first few seasons I thought were genuinely scary and well written.

The Scooby Doo episode was the perfect self-aware finale for that show IMHO.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at July 11, 2022 05:16 PM (Wg1SU)

351 What if Joker was the good guy?

How do you mean "what if"?

Posted by: Daniel Ream at July 11, 2022 05:18 PM (TMX68)

352 Didn't these shows have Bob Newhart in them?
Posted by: Beartooth at July 11, 2022 05:05 PM (u9Awk)

Iirc the movies had Bob Newhart and the tv series had John Laroquette

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 11, 2022 05:18 PM (kf6Ak)

353 Overall, I liked the Terminal List. Except...

The heroine journalist. My willing suspension of disbelief only goes soooooo far. It's hard to imagine a fair, intelligent journalist more interested in the truth than the party line.

Posted by: Lee Also at July 11, 2022 05:19 PM (YPgjG)

354 343 > Another great show that went on for far too long? Supernatural.

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I love that series, long toothed as it got.

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 11, 2022 05:19 PM (kf6Ak)

355 I like the story of "The Terminal List." I just think the material is way too dark for Chris Pratt to be in the role. It is unrelentingly serious and he's just not right for something which has zero humor.

Posted by: germanicus3 at July 11, 2022 05:19 PM (kB491)

356 Another great show that went on for far too long? Supernatural.

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I love that series, long toothed as it got.
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 11, 2022 05:19 PM (kf6Ak)
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Yeah, the first 5 seasons are great...the middle 5 seasons lag a bit, then the last 5 seasons get pretty good again.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 11, 2022 05:20 PM (YIVH2)

357 Who are these trolls that give away key plot points. I dont recognize the names so they must be coming special to be dicks.

Posted by: Regular joe at July 11, 2022 05:20 PM (nnp+f)

358 This is overstating it for effect, but it's almost as if, "What if Joker was the good guy?" Or at least he's got some Travis Bickle DNA in him to go along with his John Rambo DNA.

this Ace, and my rant, what is different if we declare Auric Goldfinger as the hero, seeking to break the central bank's lock on fiat currency while holding the world reserves of gold hostage while fighting the states monopoly on violence in the personification of MI-6's assassin?

Posted by: Kindltot at July 11, 2022 05:22 PM (xhaym)

359 356
Yeah, the first 5 seasons are great...the middle 5 seasons lag a bit, then the last 5 seasons get pretty good again.

I got tired of all the "one of the two brothers goes evil, while the other brother fights to bring him back to normal, then the first brother has to deal with the guilt of the things he did while evil" storylines being recycled ad nausuem.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at July 11, 2022 05:24 PM (Wg1SU)

360 Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Pulse reminds me of some of the same atmospherics one finds in Ju-on: The Grudge. Both movies came out around about the same time.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at July 11, 2022 05:37 PM (ZSK0i)

361 Kairo/Pulse is my all time favorite Japanese horror movie! It's not a secret internet room. The spirit world is overflowing with ghosts and they use our increasing use of technology as a bridge to cross. They steal people's life essence like the guy in your clip and they eventually die and turn into ashes.

There's an American remake, Pulse (2006): https://tinyurl.com/2p9em397 that gets the idea across a bit more clearly though I prefer the Japanese one.

Posted by: DaveX64 at July 11, 2022 05:45 PM (CJtyX)

362 My son and I saw the Smile teaser before The Northman. We laughed.
I like crazy Japanese stuff as much as the next person. The girl coming out of the well and jerk walking and then out of the TV scared the snot out of me. They made fun of this in Cabin in the Woods.
The history blogger Dan Carlin said the Japanese are like everybody else, but even more so. And that's probably true. We're still getting creeped out by their ghosts partially because we are sort of used to rules of our ghosts. They have to keep changing the rules to make out ghosts seem more deadly. Essentially turning them into demons.
I bet Smile won't work.

Posted by: mpputtre at July 11, 2022 05:51 PM (/77uJ)

363 >>>Kairo/Pulse is my all time favorite Japanese horror movie! It's not a secret internet room. The spirit world is overflowing with ghosts and they use our increasing use of technology as a bridge to cross. They steal people's life essence like the guy in your clip and they eventually die and turn into ashes.

oh okay, I haven't seen it yet. I actually bought it on amazon after seeing that clip but only watched the first ten minutes or so.

Posted by: ace at July 11, 2022 06:02 PM (B3oWe)

364 I can't believe I napped through this thread. I think the Terminal List is fantastic. Chris Pratt is amazing.Ace describes the tension perfectly. It makes the book come alive.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at July 11, 2022 06:10 PM (Y+l9t)

365 I thought the Terminal List was pretty good. I feel like I've seen the story before, and I think most of the tension Ace describes is resolved by the 2nd episode (probably to the show's detriment, imho). The mental instability that lent itself to an unreliable narrator aspect that had a lot of potential interest was too quickly resolved in the main character's favor. I think if they could have left the question of whether we could trust his memory open for longer it would have added something. Maybe they couldn't realistically keep that up though. Anyway, the moral tension does pretty much remain, but the mental one kind of fizzles out even though they keep up with the fragmented flashbacks throughout. The final "twist" was a bit predictable, but it didn't quite work for me, and felt a little tacked on. Still, I thought it was overall quite good and enjoyable

Posted by: tintex at July 11, 2022 08:42 PM (jo1wU)

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