Disney Marvel's Ant-Man is Antifa-Man?<br>And Is Disney Marvel Releasing Another Box-Office Turd?

Disney Marvel's Ant-Man is Antifa-Man?
And Is Disney Marvel Releasing Another Box-Office Turd?

Before that, an update on the Norman Peltz proxy fight to join Disney's board: He's ended that effort. I think that was why, when I posted on this last week, the website promoting the proxy fight was down.

He gave up the proxy fight because Bob Iger surrendered and agreed to all of his demands. Laying off 7,000 employees, cutting three billion (with a B) from Disney's budget for producing content, restoring the dividend Disney used to pay out to shareholders... Peltz wanted Disney to stop spending like a drunken sailor and start paying out dividends again, instead of hoarding its cash to buy more studios, and Iger gave him that.

So Peltz dropped his demand to join the board.

I would have strongly preferred if Peltz had continued to fight -- Iger cannot be trusted and is a Woke lunatic -- but, whatever.

Speaking of Iger being a Woke Lunatic: Apparently Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania is loaded with pro-antifa and pro-socialist messaging.

Right-leaning observers on YouTube such as Midnight's Edge and Overlord DVD and Chris Gore are starting to smell another box office disappointment. Quantumania earlier was projected to bring in $280 million worldwide in its five-day opening weekend. That includes the typical Thursday night release for blockbusters, plus Monday for Presidents Day.

Wait, there's a holiday this Monday? So long, suckers!

Those projections have now been lowered to $255 million.

Disney Marvel keeps seeing these projections go down further and further as the release date approaches.

Box office projections for Marvel's Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania have been lowered heading into its opening weekend. Domestically, the superhero threequel is expected to make between $95 million and $100 million in its first three days, according to Variety, with the number increasing to $110 million across the four-day extended President's Day weekend. A couple of weeks ago, the film was tracking for a $120 million debut.
Nevertheless, Ant-Man 3 is pacing ahead of both its predecessors, although it's falling well short of the super-sized box office hauls some of the more illustrious Marvel Cinematic Universe projects tend to deliver. By comparison, the first Ant-Man film made a solid (if not spectacular) $57 million in its domestic opening weekend back in 2015. Its 2018 sequel, Ant-Man and the Wasp, delivered a $76 million debut. For further context, the most recent MCU releases have all comfortably cleared three-digits in their opening weekends -- Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness delivered a $185 million debut, Thor: Love and Thunder made $144 million, while Black Panther: Wakanda Forever did $181 million.
Ant-Man 3 also happens to be only the second MCU film since 2019's Avengers: Endgame to score a China release. Of course, China's contribution to overall numbers has greatly shrunk post-pandemic -- the Middle Kingdom barely allows imports at all anymore -- but a projected opening between $35 million and $55 million will play a key role in the film clearing the $160 million overseas estimates that it is currently aiming for. This number could eventually fall anywhere between $130 million and $190 million. All in all, Ant-Man 3 is currently estimated to deliver a $255 million global opening.

Critics used to pan science-fiction and especially superhero movies -- that is, until Disney went full woke and started injecting Current Year Identity Politics into Star Wars and Marvel movies. Then they began loving Disney Star Wars and Disney Marvel.

But even the Woke Critics are sour on this movie: It manages only a 50% "fresh" rating, meaning it's officially rotten.

You might wonder if woke critics are down it because it's not woke enough. According to Chris Gore and the guys from Midnight's Edge, no, it's woke. Not as obnoxiously, in-your-face woke as some of Marvel's recent turds, but still woke.

First of all, Ant-Man is once again not the star of his own movie. Ant-Man became the comedic sidekick to a Stronk Empowered Wasp in the last film, and in this one, he's second fiddle to the real star, who is also a Stronk Empowered Woman. Critics seems split, though, on which Stronk Empowered Woman is the real star -- Janet Van Dyne (the original Wasp, played by Michelle Pfeiffer) or Ant-Man's teenaged daughter.

But they do agree: He's a co-star in his own movie once again.

But the real wokeness, they say, is in the movie's pro-antifa and pro-socialist messaging.

Among the bits of woke messaging:

Ant-Man's daughter Cassie is part of a protest group with similarities to antifa. Reportedly, it's a "homelessness rights" protest group, but it's said that the group was "peacefully protesting" before being dispersed and menaced by cops.

In the Quantum Realm itself, there are lots of human beings, for some reason. And they have formed a "resistance" against the rulership of Black Trump, I mean Kang the Conqueror, and are heard to yell "Burn it all down."

Finally, Hank Pym, who'd you'd guess is more conservative and also more capitalistic, observes the cooperation of ants, all taking orders from their unquestioned queen and acting as the organic robots in a hive-mind, and says something like, "No one wants to say it, but socialism works!"

See, the ants who are all just cogs in a great Social Machine directed by an elite are proof that socialism works.

Gee, I wonder why China permitted this movie of all movies to play there...?

The reactions I've heard from different right-leaning reviewers are, basically, this is better than Phase 4 Marvel movies except for the only good one, Spider-Man: No Way Home. And they point out, being better than The Eternals and Thor: Love and Thunder is not a high bar to cross.

The other complaints are: Marvel has once again turned a possibly-interesting movie into rubbish by sticking all of their "stupid jokes" into inappropriate places, because no Marvel movie can go three minutes without a, as Andrej from Midnight's Edge says in his Norwegian accent, "another asshole joke." He means a joke written by an asshole, not about an actual asshole.

The Quantum Realm is a computer-rendered non-place entirely unlike earth, which makes it hard to "connect" with it at all, or feel that it's a real place that "you can touch," as Chris Gore's partner Alan said.

Also, a lot of people seem to agree that this is yet another Marvel CGI shitshow, with 95% of the movie taking place in this completely CGI generated world. And some reviewers (not even those on the left) say that Marvel's abusive treatment of CGI artists has resulted in a movie with, yet again, some distractingly bad CGI.

If you liked Michael Pena's role as the logarrhea-afflicted ex-con Luis, too bad, because he can't shrink and so doesn't appear in the movie at all. None of the X-Cons appear. I think Chris Gore suggested that Pena could have at least been hired to provide the opening narration which catches people up on what Ant-Man's been doing since Endgame, and that's a fantastic idea because no one tells a story like Luis, but no, that narration is voiced by Paul Rudd.

They also say that the villain Modok is wasted and is a pretty minor mook and a joke of one, and that even Kang, who is supposed to be the Thanos of Phase 5 and 6, comes off as unthreatening.

I don't want to spoil a superhero movie, but Kang is temporarily defeated in this movie. Which means the Thanos-level threat of the next two phases begins his career... with a loss, to little comedic-sidekick barely-a-superhero Ant-Man.

That kind of makes Kang the Conqueror seem like he's not so threatening at all.

More like Kang the Conquered amirite?

The prediction I've heard for box office is the typical solid-but-not-quite-up-to-expectations opening that all Marvel movies (except Spider-Man, which is a Sony co-production) are experiencing lately, with a big drop-off in ticket sales as word of mouth gets out.

I really liked the first Ant-Man and while the second was an absolute null storywise -- it was just Ant-Man and his allies trading possession of a piece of rolling luggage with some human punching bags for two hours -- it did have the wildest shrinking/growing set-pieces. It's a real shame that almost all of these nifty shrinking/growing gags were totally given away and spoiled in the trailers.

This one seems like another miss, and partly made worse by eleventh hour reshoots, which the Midnight's Edge guys seem to think were 1, ordered by the returning Bob Iger, and 2, ordered to fill the movie up with more "asshole jokes" because, again, Marvel doesn't even pretend to make real movies any more, they're just woke sitcoms in between CGI punch-ups that carry no weight because everyone now knows that nothing means anything in the Marvel Universe.

Did Bog Iger also demand the inclusion of praise for the Chinese system of authoritarian socialism just to get the movie screened there? I don't know, but it feels like a Bob Iger thing to do.

It's rumored that Bob Iger called Kevin Feige into his office to tell that he has to mix some actual entertainment in with the woke messaging. Now, the praise for the authoritarian socialism of ants -- "socialism works!" -- is of course woke messaging, but if it was added to get the movie screened in China, that would suggest Bob Iger has realized that woke messaging is bad for business, making the China opening all the more critical.

I hope it fails.

Meanwhile:

A recent South Park made it official: Wokeness is killing Hollywood.

The set-up is that kids in the school hear that the Jews control Hollywood. This leads them to believing something even more incredible: That the specific Jew who controls Hollywood is the fourth-grade student Kyle Bronflowsky.

Randy Marsh also comes to believe that the fourth-grader Kyle Bronflowsky runs Hollywood -- I guess he heard it from the other fourth-graders -- and so goes to Kyle's dad to tell him to get Kyle to stop with all the woke crap already.

"You know wokeness ruined the MCU, don't you?" he says.

When South Park says it, that means that everyone is now thinking the same thing.

If Cartman had said that, people could say, "Well Cartman is a racist junior member of QAnon, that doesn't mean the writers think it's true."

But Cartman isn't saying this. Stan's dad is saying this. And while Stan's dad is an idiot like most of the characters on South Park, he's not Right-Wing Racist or anything.

Kyle, please tell Bog Iger and Kevin Feige to stop ruining Marvel.

Posted by: Ace at 04:22 PM

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1 SPONGE!

Posted by: Inogame, Si vi pacium para bellum at February 16, 2023 04:22 PM (53oGX)

2 Hopefully

Posted by: Skip at February 16, 2023 04:22 PM (xhxe8)

3 first.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at February 16, 2023 04:22 PM (uNylN)

4 MCU's worst reviewed movie so far, too.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, mired in filth and awfulness with Ralph Bakshi at February 16, 2023 04:22 PM (LvTSG)

5 ant man was good when it first came out.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at February 16, 2023 04:23 PM (uNylN)

6 Ted Cruz:

Heidi & I are lifting John up in prayer. Mental illness is real & serious, and I hope that he gets the care he needs.

Regardless of which side of the political aisle you’re on, please respect his family’s request for privacy

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, Set the Earth to fire and reshape it closer to the heart's desire at February 16, 2023 04:23 PM (DK4U1)

7 See, the ants who are all just cogs in a great Social Machine directed by an elite are proof that socialism works.

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We should all be as individualistic as ants!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, mired in filth and awfulness with Ralph Bakshi at February 16, 2023 04:24 PM (LvTSG)

8 >>>5 ant man was good when it first came out.

i really like it. One of my favorite marvel movies.

Posted by: ace at February 16, 2023 04:24 PM (C1Zwz)

9 They could rebrand Batman as Assman.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Not a Real Simulation at February 16, 2023 04:25 PM (FVME7)

10 But Cartman isn't saying this. Stan's dad is saying this. And while Stan's dad is an idiot like most of the characters on South Park, he's not Right-Wing Racist or anything.

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Stan's dad is a follower, mostly.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, mired in filth and awfulness with Ralph Bakshi at February 16, 2023 04:25 PM (LvTSG)

11 Ant Man has a $200M production budget.

It's not doing well overseas.
It will not do well here.
It will hope to break even theatrically.

Breaking even theatrically is an unmitigated disaster for corporate Disney b/c MCU is their movie cash cow series...

Posted by: Nova Local at February 16, 2023 04:26 PM (exHjb)

12 first in my house to see this on my laptop.

Posted by: gnats local 678 at February 16, 2023 04:26 PM (kFrCu)

13 KANGZ!

Posted by: Trainwreck: Billions of people stuck with a broken immune response at February 16, 2023 04:26 PM (yK9py)

14 I actually thought the trailers for QM made it look pretty good. What I'm reading here tells me that every "good" bit is in the trailer, and they saved all the propagandizing for after you've bought a ticket. Well, that won't be happening.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 16, 2023 04:27 PM (eOEVl)

15 Watching Disney set its own reputation on fire is a lot more entertaining than any of the steaming piles that get squeezed from the Mouse Factory Conveyor Belt of Shit Content these days.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 16, 2023 04:27 PM (guGkK)

16 Disney has also announced that they're slowing down on releasing MCU stuff.

They had 5 shows planned for 2023. Only 2 are guaranteed to actually premiere in 2023 now.

They soaked the market with shit over the past two years, and it's really put a dent into the whole enthusiasm on the part of the masses.

But, still, Thor 4 made over $700 million and Black Panther 2 made about $800 million. That's not chump change, just not Phase 3 money and puts the movies in places where it's questionable whether they're in the black or the red. Also, everything on Disney+ is a money suck.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, mired in filth and awfulness with Ralph Bakshi at February 16, 2023 04:27 PM (LvTSG)

17 See, the ants who are all just cogs in a great Social Machine directed by an elite are proof that socialism works.

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We should all be as individualistic as ants!

You know what ants eat? That's right, bugs.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 16, 2023 04:27 PM (eOEVl)

18 "Regardless of which side of the political aisle you’re on, please respect his family’s request for privacy"

Did they make a request for privacy or did they throw out news of Fetterlump's medical problems like some tasty tasty clickbait?

Posted by: FeatherBlade at February 16, 2023 04:28 PM (lXTkJ)

19 Only because I know ace is reading, and this is the last time I'll post it:

"The fingerprints of unvaccinated New York City teachers were reportedly sent to the FBI with "problem code" flags, prompting outrage from former educators who lost their jobs over the mandate. "

https://tinyurl.com/2gusz3gj

"Problem codes" mean the people who committed no crime will fail their next background check for employment.

Posted by: Trainwreck: Billions of people stuck with a broken immune response at February 16, 2023 04:28 PM (yK9py)

20 14 I actually thought the trailers for QM made it look pretty good. What I'm reading here tells me that every "good" bit is in the trailer, and they saved all the propagandizing for after you've bought a ticket. Well, that won't be happening.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 16, 2023 04:27 PM (eOEVl)

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I saw the first trailer and immediately checked out because I could see the same "future craziness" they brought to Doctor Strange 2, which is to say, "slightly futuristic Earth."

The whole idea of the multiverse was supposed to promise wild, reality bending visuals and stuff, and the only movie that's really captured that on any level is the first Dr. Strange...which was a Phase 2 movie.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, mired in filth and awfulness with Ralph Bakshi at February 16, 2023 04:29 PM (LvTSG)

21 Modok? MODOK?

The stupid angry faced robot thing?

Imagine Ultron. Drawn by a toddler. That's never seen a human face. And that's Modok.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 16, 2023 04:29 PM (lc5cP)

22 Meh

Posted by: Zeera. 'We want fun and we wanna get wasted!' at February 16, 2023 04:29 PM (L9NLB)

23 It's rumored that Bob Iger called Kevin Feige into his office to tell that he has to mix some actual entertainment in with the woke messaging.

"But not too much. That shit's EXPENSIVE!"

-- Bob Iger

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 16, 2023 04:29 PM (guGkK)

24 "Regardless of which side of the political aisle you’re on, please respect his family’s request for privacy"

He's a US Senator, spends my money stupidly, and makes laws for me. He doesn't get that consideration.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 16, 2023 04:29 PM (eOEVl)

25 They should stop rating movies by how much money they make, and start by measuring how many butts are planted in the seats to see it.

You can't measure success when Movies made 10 years ago make 3/4ths of the money, when movie tickets were half the price then.

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 16, 2023 04:29 PM (oHd/0)

26 James, did you watch Peaky Blinders? I'm been bingeing on them for the first time and am really enjoying them.

Posted by: Puddinhead at February 16, 2023 04:29 PM (D8mow)

27 See, the ants who are all just cogs in a great Social Machine directed by an elite are proof that socialism works.

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We should all be as individualistic as ants!

You know what ants eat? That's right, bugs.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 16, 2023 04:27 PM (eOEVl)

Not sure its a winner even to the most cog like NPC to say they are ants and should be proud of it.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 16, 2023 04:30 PM (eoQWY)

28 26 James, did you watch Peaky Blinders? I'm been bingeing on them for the first time and am really enjoying them.
Posted by: Puddinhead at February 16, 2023 04:29 PM (D8mow)

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I watch very little TV, and no, I have not watched Peaky Blinders.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, mired in filth and awfulness with Ralph Bakshi at February 16, 2023 04:30 PM (LvTSG)

29 Loved the first Ant-Man. Didn't completely hate the second.

Have no plans whatever to see this one.

I would not have predicted this 20 years ago but it's possible I may never go to a theater again.

Posted by: Just Lily at February 16, 2023 04:30 PM (oJLNP)

30 Kyle's mom broke the casting couch

Posted by: ... at February 16, 2023 04:30 PM (LVcGs)

31 "Regardless of which side of the political aisle you’re on, please respect his family’s request for privacy"

He's a US Senator, spends my money stupidly, and makes laws for me. He doesn't get that consideration.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 16, 2023 04:29 PM (eOEVl)

Isn't Ted violating that with this Tweet?

Posted by: Oldcat at February 16, 2023 04:30 PM (eoQWY)

32 All the trailers for the next ant man make it look like it's going to be "IN THREE-DEE!"

Hard pass. I have enough trouble with my glasses without adding another set on top of them.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at February 16, 2023 04:31 PM (lXTkJ)

33 Bruce Willis' family announced Bruce has dementia. How sad. I loved most of his movies.

Posted by: Archer at February 16, 2023 04:31 PM (gmo/4)

34 If the Festival of Flops continues much longer Disney may be in a position where they can't afford to pay Kathleen Kennedy to continue pissing on the Star Wars franchise.

Truth is, you could hire someone to destroy Star Wars for a lot less scratch and Disney knows it.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 16, 2023 04:31 PM (guGkK)

35 Wait I'm not a joke anymore?

What year did that happen?

You all know where I rank in the Marvel Universe, right?

I should be the bottom row of the spreadsheet.

Posted by: Ant-Man at February 16, 2023 04:31 PM (0A5+1)

36 Peak Blinders is great until they changed directors in S5. I skipped 6 have no idea if it was any good. First four seasons are worth watching though.

Posted by: ... at February 16, 2023 04:31 PM (LVcGs)

37 Best Ant movie?

Phase IV

Posted by: Archer at February 16, 2023 04:32 PM (gmo/4)

38 24 "Regardless of which side of the political aisle you’re on, please respect his family’s request for privacy"

He's a US Senator, spends my money stupidly, and makes laws for me. He doesn't get that consideration.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 16, 2023 04:29 PM (eOEVl)

Simpler, when you volunteer to become a Public Figure, and Servant, you loose any expectation of Privacy.

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 16, 2023 04:32 PM (oHd/0)

39 It entertains me that not only was Phase 4 widely considered an artistic and corporate failure, but Phase 5 is starting with the MCU's worst reviewed movie that's most likely going to underperform.

Feige should be thinking Science that he has James Gunn doing Guardians of the Galaxy 3, because I have a feeling it's going to be the only bright spot in the whole thing.

Also, I doubt it'll be that good. Gunn has shown himself to be so completely undisciplined narratively that it's going to be an overlong mess. It'll just be an overlong mess that more people will actually like.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, mired in filth and awfulness with Ralph Bakshi at February 16, 2023 04:32 PM (LvTSG)

40 You almost got away with it, Kyle- you sneaky butthole.

But seriously, I wouldn't give a fuck about AntMan even if I was still being begged to watch Marvel movies, which I am not. Oh gosh, Hollywood elites continue to promote white genocide, child sexualization and Bolshevism- same shit, different day.

Posted by: trev006 at February 16, 2023 04:32 PM (DTm0P)

41 What was that animated movie where woody allen and sylvester stalonne were ants? Are we looking for those kind of woke ants?

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at February 16, 2023 04:32 PM (uNylN)

42 Had enough of that smarmy bastard, Paul Crudd.

Posted by: Regular joe at February 16, 2023 04:32 PM (nnp+f)

43 10 But Cartman isn't saying this. Stan's dad is saying this. And while Stan's dad is an idiot like most of the characters on South Park, he's not Right-Wing Racist or anything.

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Stan's dad is a follower, mostly.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, mired in filth and awfulness with Ralph Bakshi at February 16, 2023 04:25 PM (LvTSG)

Even followed his giant balls while carting them around in a wheelbarrow.

Posted by: Medicinal Fried Chicken at February 16, 2023 04:32 PM (UKe2c)

44 Sorry, I'm waiting for June Bug Woman. The space-faring hottie who keeps getting squashed by rolling alien ships.

Posted by: wth at February 16, 2023 04:32 PM (v0R5T)

45 2nd best Ant movie?

Them!

Posted by: Archer at February 16, 2023 04:32 PM (gmo/4)

46 "Regardless of which side of the political aisle you’re on, please respect his family’s request for privacy"

-

Done. I promise I won't call him.

Posted by: Trainwreck: Billions of people stuck with a broken immune response at February 16, 2023 04:33 PM (yK9py)

47 I'll never watch another marvel movie. Ever.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 16, 2023 04:33 PM (fGgGl)

48 Sad news about Willis though it was sort of already known before it was official. I don't remember him being a commie POS either but who knows.

Posted by: ... at February 16, 2023 04:33 PM (LVcGs)

49 Sorry, I'm waiting for June Bug Woman. The space-faring hottie who keeps getting squashed by rolling alien ships.

Not laughing here

Posted by: Rachel Corrie at February 16, 2023 04:33 PM (lc5cP)

50 I assumed Daddy Pym was a hardcore capitalist. Disappointing to have them put nonsense in his mouth.

Ants might be socialist, but they also have a destructive hive mind, are brutal and will turn on each other, are cannibals, the queen eats the males, etc. But let's conveniently forget that!

At the Nerdrotic Live YT channel, the Nerdrotic Nooner had Chris Gore on, and it was a good shooting the breeze on how bad this film is. He will also be on Friday Night Tights this week for more Ant-Man kvetching, yay!

They said Michelle Pfeiffer is one of the best things about it, which makes sense. She elevated Batman Returns as Catwoman. Knows how to give a potentially silly role the grounding it needs to be believable.

Posted by: LizLem at February 16, 2023 04:33 PM (wH/Zo)

51 Oh, and I got my 4K of Lifeforce today.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, mired in filth and awfulness with Ralph Bakshi at February 16, 2023 04:33 PM (LvTSG)

52
I await the WASP going full out Viking on the other soiboi myth folk ...

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 16, 2023 04:33 PM (pNxlR)

53 30 Kyle's mom broke the casting couch
Posted by: ... at February 16, 2023 04:30 PM (LVcGs)

/loads....

Posted by: Kyle Rittenhouse at February 16, 2023 04:33 PM (oHd/0)

54 Even if you made the Citizen Kane of Ant-Man movies, how many people like Ant-Man enough to pay $10 to see it and buy the merch? What is the estimated NPV of the 'intellectual property' called Ant-Man? $Billions?

Posted by: Durable Yet Minimal gp-Based Barrier at February 16, 2023 04:33 PM (24fqN)

55 Ant Man 3 will be the John Fetterman of the Disney Marvel
lineup.

Posted by: mrp at February 16, 2023 04:34 PM (rj6Yv)

56 Look, if you'll pay money to see a second Ant-Man sequel, you derserve all the bad things.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at February 16, 2023 04:34 PM (ppBhU)

57 Ant-man? Might as well make him a tranny and call it Aunt-man.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at February 16, 2023 04:34 PM (Bd6X8)

58 54 Even if you made the Citizen Kane of Ant-Man movies, how many people like Ant-Man enough to pay $10 to see it and buy the merch? What is the estimated NPV of the 'intellectual property' called Ant-Man? $Billions?
Posted by: Durable Yet Minimal gp-Based Barrier at February 16, 2023 04:33 PM (24fqN)

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It's Marvel. We're at a point where Marvel can put it's label on a bucket of spit, and it'll make $300 million at the box office.

They did, actually. It was called Eternals.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, mired in filth and awfulness with Ralph Bakshi at February 16, 2023 04:34 PM (LvTSG)

59 Even if you made the Citizen Kane of Ant-Man movies, how many people like Ant-Man enough to pay $10 to see it and buy the merch?

$10 for a movie ticket? Where do you live, Calcutta?

Posted by: Archimedes at February 16, 2023 04:34 PM (eOEVl)

60
because no Marvel movie can go three minutes without a, as Andrej from Midnight's Edge says in his Norwegian accent, "another asshole joke."

Yay!

He means a joke written by an asshole, not about an actual asshole.

Awww, ma-a-a-a-an!

You mean no jokes at all about Wasp's asshole!

It's a ripoff.

Posted by: naturalfake at February 16, 2023 04:34 PM (KLPy8)

61 >>> Best Ant movie?
Phase IV

possibly true

Posted by: ace at February 16, 2023 04:35 PM (C1Zwz)

62 Stan's dad is Lorde. Do what you will with that information.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at February 16, 2023 04:35 PM (uPgE/)

63 Kyle's mom broke the casting couch
Posted by: ... at February 16, 2023 04:30 PM (LVcGs)

More likely Cartman's mom. She a sloot.

Posted by: She did German scheisse pron! at February 16, 2023 04:35 PM (UKe2c)

64 South Park killed it last night. I don't watch much tv anymore, but it is nice to have two old Gen X friends back with South Park and Beavis and Butthead on Wednesdays. Can't imagine much of that audience is sticking around for The Daily Show tho.

Posted by: Milquetoast Mortgage-Paying Neighbor in Flyover Country at February 16, 2023 04:35 PM (5C4od)

65 IIRC, there were pictures of Modok with Trump's face put in starting to circulate the Interwebs about 2016-2017-ish.

And how can Kang lose even temporarily, being able to manipulate time itself?

Posted by: Thrawn at February 16, 2023 04:35 PM (Rl7KJ)

66 49 Sorry, I'm waiting for June Bug Woman. The space-faring hottie who keeps getting squashed by rolling alien ships.

Not laughing here
Posted by: Rachel Corrie at February 16, 2023 04:33 PM (lc5cP)

/Lips not in sync with words...

Do you know... Praying Mantis?

Posted by: Chopsocki Movie at February 16, 2023 04:35 PM (oHd/0)

67 My favorite part of Guardians of the Galaxy 3 is when they hugged and said "We're all in this together!" while injecting a climate-saving mRNA vaccine into earth while Captain Marvel twerks.

Posted by: ... at February 16, 2023 04:35 PM (LVcGs)

68 It's Marvel. We're at a point where Marvel can put it's label on a bucket of spit, and it'll make $300 million at the box office.

They did, actually. It was called Eternals.

Perhaps, but every time they do something like that, another swathe of their potential customers vows never to see another MCU movie. The turds have a cumulative effect.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 16, 2023 04:36 PM (eOEVl)

69 Turn the TV on to a random channel.

Notice its shit.

And keep in mind people are watching this shit with what should be their precious free time.

Presumably Woke AntBoi is better then whatever is on NBC tonight so...they are exceeding their rather low bar.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 16, 2023 04:36 PM (lc5cP)

70 Feige should be thinking Science that he has James Gunn doing Guardians of the Galaxy 3, because I have a feeling it's going to be the only bright spot in the whole thing.

Also, I doubt it'll be that good. Gunn has shown himself to be so completely undisciplined narratively that it's going to be an overlong mess. It'll just be an overlong mess that more people will actually like.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, mired in filth and awfulness with Ralph Bakshi at February 16, 2023 04:32 PM (LvTSG)

There have been plenty of times they just wanted to slavishly copy something successful but failed and partly or mostly woke-ized it. And in these days the alt-review crowd has a very quick trigger when that happens and comes down like an avalanche.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 16, 2023 04:36 PM (eoQWY)

71 hiya

Posted by: JT at February 16, 2023 04:36 PM (T4tVD)

72 "What was that animated movie where woody allen and sylvester stalonne were ants?"

That would be... Antz.

Has a great sound-track.

Also not a bad movie, despite Woody Allen.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at February 16, 2023 04:36 PM (lXTkJ)

73 Critical Drinker has a good video about Disney running out of money, even with the Avatar money. Iger greenlighted all the crap that has led to the collapse. It will only get worse. Good

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 16, 2023 04:37 PM (StQQf)

74 68 Perhaps, but every time they do something like that, another swathe of their potential customers vows never to see another MCU movie. The turds have a cumulative effect.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 16, 2023 04:36 PM (eOEVl)

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It does need repeating that Thor 4, which no one really liked and got a cumulative shrug from everyone, made $761 million at the box office.

That's probably right around break even.

The brand is still surprisingly strong.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, mired in filth and awfulness with Ralph Bakshi at February 16, 2023 04:37 PM (LvTSG)

75 >>>See, the ants who are all just cogs in a great Social Machine directed by an elite are proof that socialism works.

It works until 'ol Cake buys a $4 can of Raid.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at February 16, 2023 04:37 PM (CwhoI)

76 James Gunn the man you call if you want an ok superhero movie or some really bad jokes about having sex with kids.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 16, 2023 04:37 PM (lc5cP)

77 Best Ant movie?

Phase IV - The 1974 version

Posted by: Archer at February 16, 2023 04:37 PM (gmo/4)

78 There have been plenty of times they just wanted to slavishly copy something successful but failed and partly or mostly woke-ized it. And in these days the alt-review crowd has a very quick trigger when that happens and comes down like an avalanche.

Critical Drinker has a buttload of followers. He is very anti-woke.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 16, 2023 04:37 PM (eOEVl)

79 Apparently South Park destroyed Harry and Me-agan last night. They go on a magical mystery, international rainbow tour to tell the world to just leave them alone! Excited to watch it.

https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1626236958774292484

Posted by: LizLem at February 16, 2023 04:37 PM (wH/Zo)

80 69 Turn the TV on to a random channel.

Notice its shit.

And keep in mind people are watching this shit with what should be their precious free time.

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Actually, most people are looking at their phones so often that they end up watching very little and comprehending even less.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at February 16, 2023 04:37 PM (UuD2k)

81 72 "What was that animated movie where woody allen and sylvester stalonne were ants?"

That would be... Antz.

Has a great sound-track.

Also not a bad movie, despite Woody Allen.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at February 16, 2023 04:36 PM (lXTkJ)

A Bug's Life > Antz

Posted by: Pick Flick! at February 16, 2023 04:37 PM (UKe2c)

82 59 Even if you made the Citizen Kane of Ant-Man movies, how many people like Ant-Man enough to pay $10 to see it and buy the merch?

$10 for a movie ticket? Where do you live, Calcutta?
Posted by: Archimedes at February 16, 2023 04:34 PM (eOEVl)

Yeah, just went and looked an the internet says (which makes it very suspect) that average US movie prices are now like $9.80 a ticket.

Not sure where THOSE theatres are, because sure as hell not around here.

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 16, 2023 04:37 PM (oHd/0)

83 There have been plenty of times they just wanted to slavishly copy something successful but failed and partly or mostly woke-ized it. And in these days the alt-review crowd has a very quick trigger when that happens and comes down like an avalanche.

Critical Drinker has a buttload of followers. He is very anti-woke.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 16, 2023 04:37 PM (eOEVl)

and he's one of the more recent inductions into the ranks.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 16, 2023 04:38 PM (eoQWY)

84 if you want to learn about 'respecting privacy' check out what lorenz taylor did to the libs of tiktok lady's relatives. and then learn to cry when you get called on it.

Posted by: gnats local 678 at February 16, 2023 04:39 PM (kFrCu)

85 It does need repeating that Thor 4, which no one really liked and got a cumulative shrug from everyone, made $761 million at the box office.

That's probably right around break even.

The brand is still surprisingly strong.

I've seen the first three Thor movies on TV, and thought they ranged from excellent to passable. Thor 4 is apparently a gigantic pile (I haven't seen it). I think that's going to have an impact on Thor movies going forward.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 16, 2023 04:39 PM (eOEVl)

86 I honestly think the days of theater blockbusters is over. Who wants to pay big bucks to sit in a theater with noisy people when they can wait a few months and own the film for the same money?

Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 16, 2023 04:39 PM (lTGtQ)

87 Hollywood sure "learned" from Top Gun Maverick didn't they.

Oh no wait they have zero plans or desire to learn because it's about subjugating you, destroying whitey, and shitting on anything and everything you like for the cheapest, most easily obtainable and abundant resource on Earth...

Woke Points.

Posted by: ... at February 16, 2023 04:39 PM (LVcGs)

88 Some people seem to think that ants will be our future protein food source, so maybe Ant-Man won't seem so absurd after all.

Posted by: mrp at February 16, 2023 04:40 PM (rj6Yv)

89 85 I've seen the first three Thor movies on TV, and thought they ranged from excellent to passable. Thor 4 is apparently a gigantic pile (I haven't seen it). I think that's going to have an impact on Thor movies going forward.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 16, 2023 04:39 PM (eOEVl)

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It's...not good. Imagine Thor 3 but the jokes never land and the bad guy is super serious.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, mired in filth and awfulness with Ralph Bakshi at February 16, 2023 04:40 PM (LvTSG)

90 "I'm not fat, I'm big boned. In the ass."

Brie Larsen.

Posted by: Marcus T at February 16, 2023 04:40 PM (pIKd9)

91 "$10 for a movie ticket? Where do you live, Calcutta?"

Mea culpa. I haven't been in a theater since "Armageddon" (1998.) So I was spitballing it. I'd have to visit Calcutta to see for sure how it compares to my city, Shitburg IL.

'SHE'S GONNA BLOW!!!!!' Armageddon was rated in Guinness as the loudest movie ever made.

Posted by: Durable Yet Minimal gp-Based Barrier at February 16, 2023 04:40 PM (24fqN)

92 Just went and looked... Movie ticket price here? $15.50

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 16, 2023 04:40 PM (oHd/0)

93 while Captain Marvel twerks.

How can you tell it's twerking when someone with no visible butt does it?

Posted by: Ian S. at February 16, 2023 04:40 PM (ZGrMX)

94 I've seen the first three Thor movies on TV, and thought they ranged from excellent to passable. Thor 4 is apparently a gigantic pile (I haven't seen it). I think that's going to have an impact on Thor movies going forward.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 16, 2023 04:39 PM (eOEVl)

Not having Thor in it might impact viewership going forward, isn't it Lady Thor now?

Posted by: Oldcat at February 16, 2023 04:40 PM (eoQWY)

95 Only good part of that Thor movie was the screaming goats. They should get their own movie.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at February 16, 2023 04:40 PM (UuD2k)

96 Ant-man? Might as well make him a tranny and call it Aunt-man.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at February 16, 2023 04:34 PM (Bd6X

!!!!! Get writers up here NOW!

Posted by: Marvel Studios at February 16, 2023 04:41 PM (v0R5T)

97 Afternoon.

Variety: Bruce Willis Diagnosed With Dementia After Retiring Due to Aphasia

https://tinyurl.com/5azyaxd7

Posted by: Robert at February 16, 2023 04:41 PM (EZGDs)

98 Daddy Pym is a hardcore capitalist and an intelligent man.

He is not, and has not been, the Ant Man in the MCU. The Ant Man in the MCU has been the guy who became Ant Man by stealing Pym's suit.

Posted by: Nova Local at February 16, 2023 04:41 PM (exHjb)

99 >>> It does need repeating that Thor 4, which no one really liked and got a cumulative shrug from everyone, made $761 million at the box office.
That's probably right around break even.
The brand is still surprisingly strong.

As they say: There's a lot of ruin in a civilization.

Often there's a long glide-path down from success. It doesn't crumble to dust all at once, but it does crumble.

None of the recent marvel movies, except Spider-Man, is true success. All are performing below expectations.

Posted by: ace at February 16, 2023 04:41 PM (C1Zwz)

100 > Best Ant movie?

Them!

James Whitmore, James Arness, Fess Parker, and Leonard Nimoy (in a bit part) fighting giant ants with Tommy guns and cyanide bombs.

Now, that's entertainment.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 16, 2023 04:41 PM (bW8dp)

101 95 Only good part of that Thor movie was the screaming goats. They should get their own movie.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at February 16, 2023 04:40 PM (UuD2k)

They can at least be in the next Taylor Swift music video.

Posted by: Thrawn at February 16, 2023 04:41 PM (Rl7KJ)

102 Thor was dogshit. I actually walked out before the end and told the guy who dragged me there I was going to run him over in the parking lot for wasting time I could never get back.

Posted by: Marcus T at February 16, 2023 04:41 PM (pIKd9)

103 "Screaming Goats" sounds like a great band name.

Posted by: mrp at February 16, 2023 04:42 PM (rj6Yv)

104 The Post Millennial@TPostMillennial
Pete Buttigieg: “While this horrible situation has gotten a particularly high amount of attention, there are roughly 1000 cases a year of a train derailing.”

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So it's all good.

I'm beginning to think this Buttguy is not too smart.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Not a Real Simulation at February 16, 2023 04:42 PM (FVME7)

105 87 Hollywood sure "learned" from Top Gun Maverick didn't they.

Oh no wait they have zero plans or desire to learn because it's about subjugating you, destroying whitey, and shitting on anything and everything you like for the cheapest, most easily obtainable and abundant resource on Earth...

Woke Points.
Posted by: ... at February 16, 2023 04:39 PM (LVcGs)

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Hollywood chooses to learn what lessons it wants to learn.

When Inception came out and was surprisingly successful financially, Hollywood chose to learn nothing. "It's just the Christopher Nolan effect. We can't replicate that." There's an article about it in Insider, I think, that includes interviews with producers where they just come to that conclusion.

They could have come to, "People want smart, intricately designed high concept films." They could have come to, "We need strong, auteur filmmakers who will use our money wisely and well." Instead they came to, "It was a fluke we have no ability to replicate."

With Top Gun, it's the same thing. The lessons are there. Hollywood chooses to ignore them.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, mired in filth and awfulness with Ralph Bakshi at February 16, 2023 04:42 PM (LvTSG)

106 When have I ever ragged on the Jews, ~~Kyle~~ Ace??

Posted by: eric cartman at February 16, 2023 04:42 PM (Vwz3I)

107 I saw Brie Larsen in a car commercial the other day. In it, she frowned and smirked, thereby using her entire repertoire of faces. She must have been exhausted.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at February 16, 2023 04:42 PM (CwhoI)

108 I liked Thor when he turned into a fat drunk.

Posted by: wth at February 16, 2023 04:42 PM (v0R5T)

109 Might as well make him a tranny and call it Aunt-man.

Tyler Perry, is that you?

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at February 16, 2023 04:43 PM (ppBhU)

110 94 Not having Thor in it might impact viewership going forward, isn't it Lady Thor now?
Posted by: Oldcat at February 16, 2023 04:40 PM (eoQWY)

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No, she dies at the end. It's Thor and bad guy's daughter. Next one will probably have the daughter be a teenager and show "dad" how its done.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, mired in filth and awfulness with Ralph Bakshi at February 16, 2023 04:43 PM (LvTSG)

111 Hollywood sure "learned" from Top Gun Maverick didn't they.

Oh no wait they have zero plans or desire to learn because it's about subjugating you, destroying whitey, and shitting on anything and everything you like for the cheapest, most easily obtainable and abundant resource on Earth...

Woke Points.
Posted by: ... at February 16, 2023 04:39 PM (LVcGs)

And Joker before that was the same sort of movie, but dark and edgy, but was very successful. The alt Review doesn't just hate everything, just the Woke crap and bad crap.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 16, 2023 04:43 PM (eoQWY)

112 > In it, she frowned and smirked, thereby using her entire repertoire of faces.

So she's the new Meryl Streep, you're saying?

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 16, 2023 04:43 PM (bW8dp)

113 "They did, actually. It was called Eternals."

Cautiously added to my to-view list, just for kicks. Maybe I can spin another 32-word review out of it.

Posted by: Durable Yet Minimal gp-Based Barrier at February 16, 2023 04:43 PM (24fqN)

114 >>> I honestly think the days of theater blockbusters is over.

Spielberg thanked Tom Cruise for saving the theater industry. I think Tom tried to suture the bleeding of a fatal wound, not save it. But bless him, he tried.

Actually care about ENTERTAINING your audience as your #1 goal, and respect them, don't try to talk down to them or preach to them. I don't get why this is so hard for Hollywood to get.

Hollywood will fall, and new entertainers not beholden to the Hollywood hive mind will emerge. It's a strange, but potentially exciting time, to see what happens. And I have my DVDs of great classics to tide me over until the dust settles.

Posted by: LizLem at February 16, 2023 04:43 PM (wH/Zo)

115 Thor was dogshit. I actually walked out before the end and told the guy who dragged me there I was going to run him over in the parking lot for wasting time I could never get back.

Posted by: Marcus T

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I would love to start a movie review site where this sort of review is the only content allowed.

Posted by: RIP Tyler Nichols - Those white supremacist cops will face justice at February 16, 2023 04:44 PM (0fs9V)

116 108 I liked Thor when he turned into a fat drunk.
Posted by: wth at February 16, 2023 04:42 PM (v0R5T)

No. My favorite Thor was serious and yet fish-out-of-water Thor in #1...as he got sillier and sillier, he became a bigger and bigger joke in his movies, when he's supposed to be a dang (lowercase) god of thunder...

Posted by: Nova Local at February 16, 2023 04:44 PM (exHjb)

117 "Sorry, I'm waiting for June Bug Woman."

Amy Adams? Worth waiting for.

Posted by: Durable Yet Minimal gp-Based Barrier at February 16, 2023 04:44 PM (24fqN)

118 Hollywood will fall, and new entertainers not beholden to the Hollywood hive mind will emerge.

*cough*

Posted by: K-dramas at February 16, 2023 04:44 PM (eOEVl)

119 99 Often there's a long glide-path down from success. It doesn't crumble to dust all at once, but it does crumble.

None of the recent marvel movies, except Spider-Man, is true success. All are performing below expectations.
Posted by: ace at February 16, 2023 04:41 PM (C1Zwz)

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Gosh, that Spider-man made a lot of money...

But yeah, we're just not at the "broke" part of the equation. What's sinking Disney is mostly Disney+, not the MCU's miscalculations. Those aren't helping by buoying parts of the entertainment division like it could before, but the drag is Disney+ and the overpromise of subscription models that's the major problem.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, mired in filth and awfulness with Ralph Bakshi at February 16, 2023 04:44 PM (LvTSG)

120 Not having Thor in it might impact viewership going forward, isn't it Lady Thor now?
Posted by: Oldcat at February 16, 2023 04:40 PM (eoQWY)

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No, she dies at the end. It's Thor and bad guy's daughter. Next one will probably have the daughter be a teenager and show "dad" how its done.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, mired in filth and awfulness with Ralph Bakshi at February 16, 2023 04:43 PM (LvTSG)

Of course half of everyone died a few movies back but they 'got better'.

But increasingly Woke-yWood won't let a man be the hero. That will continue to eat into the satisfaction in a Thor movie.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 16, 2023 04:44 PM (eoQWY)

121 113 "They did, actually. It was called Eternals."

Cautiously added to my to-view list, just for kicks. Maybe I can spin another 32-word review out of it.
Posted by: Durable Yet Minimal gp-Based Barrier at February 16, 2023 04:43 PM (24fqN)

No need to view that, either...

Posted by: Nova Local at February 16, 2023 04:45 PM (exHjb)

122 I saw Screaming Goats open for Springsteen at the Cpw Palace in '85. They stole the show!

Posted by: wth at February 16, 2023 04:45 PM (v0R5T)

123 To make matters worse, Disney thought Thor was so popular they gave Chris Hemsworth a whole series on n Disney Plus. After ruining my life seeing Thor, I was like, no, just, no.

Posted by: Marcus T at February 16, 2023 04:45 PM (pIKd9)

124 I'm available.

Posted by: Dung Beetle Man at February 16, 2023 04:45 PM (iayUP)

125 113 "They did, actually. It was called Eternals."

Cautiously added to my to-view list, just for kicks. Maybe I can spin another 32-word review out of it.
Posted by: Durable Yet Minimal gp-Based Barrier at February 16, 2023 04:43 PM (24fqN)

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Dolley and I watched the first fifteen minutes on a cruise. We did it on her insistence. I wasn't interested.

After fifteen minutes, she leaned over to me and begged me to leave.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, mired in filth and awfulness with Ralph Bakshi at February 16, 2023 04:46 PM (LvTSG)

126 "I honestly think the days of theater blockbusters is over."

The home-viewing experience is superior to the theater experience in dozens of ways.

Posted by: Durable Yet Minimal gp-Based Barrier at February 16, 2023 04:46 PM (24fqN)

127 Bring back grindhouse sexploitation movies. Women in prison having to shower in groups and dodging the aggressive lesbian wardeness to varying degrees of success is a timeless genre.

Posted by: True entertainment at February 16, 2023 04:46 PM (UKe2c)

128 > *cough*
Posted by: K-dramas at February 16, 2023 04:44 PM (eOEVl)

I've seen a few. Surprisingly good. Nothing I'd nominate for the Greatest Films of All Time list, but good.

I never was able to make much sense of Bollywood (or Japanese anime, for that matter) but the Korean stuff at least makes sense.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 16, 2023 04:46 PM (bW8dp)

129 Yeah, just went and looked an the internet says (which makes it very suspect) that average US movie prices are now like $9.80 a ticket.

Not sure where THOSE theatres are, because sure as hell not around here.

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 16, 2023 04:37 PM (oHd/0)

First shows are usually cheap, and I'll bet they are counting all of the free tickets that people can get from cereal boxes and condom packs and whatever.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 16, 2023 04:46 PM (XIJ/X)

130 It manages only a 50% "fresh" rating, meaning it's officially rotten.

As fresh as a tranny front-hole. Or back hole.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 16, 2023 04:46 PM (ynpvh)

131 It is absolutely impossible for Miami-Dade to have changed from DEEP blue to red in the last election, unless it was never blue to start with.

Remember, Trump got the same percentage of black votes nation wide - except for the four cities that swung the election to Biden: Atlanta, Philly, Detroit, and Milwaukee, where Trump got almost no black votes. Had Trump gotten that same percentage of black votes in those cities that he did in the rest of the country, he would have won the election. That strongly argues vote count fraud.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at February 16, 2023 04:46 PM (CecP5)

132 Oh, and the new Mission Impossible movie screened very recently (last couple of days).

It's 3 hours long and, apparently, the test audience was over the moon for it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, mired in filth and awfulness with Ralph Bakshi at February 16, 2023 04:46 PM (LvTSG)

133 > Bring back grindhouse sexploitation movies.

Sadly, Roger Corman is retired.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 16, 2023 04:47 PM (bW8dp)

134 124 I'm available.
Posted by: Dung Beetle Man at February 16, 2023 04:45 PM (iayUP)

Kung Fu Mantis Man has potential.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at February 16, 2023 04:47 PM (UuD2k)

135 James, did you watch Peaky Blinders? I'm been bingeing on them for the first time and am really enjoying them.
Posted by: Puddinhead at February 16, 2023 04:29 PM (D8mow)

Excellent series. Very un-woke.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at February 16, 2023 04:47 PM (BdMk6)

136 Bob is bogged down.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 16, 2023 04:47 PM (63Dwl)

137 I'm looking for a roll with the next turd..

Posted by: Dung Beetle Man at February 16, 2023 04:47 PM (iayUP)

138 No, she dies at the end. It's Thor and bad guy's daughter. Next one will probably have the daughter be a teenager and show "dad" how its done.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, mired in filth and awfulness with Ralph Bakshi at February 16, 2023 04:43 PM (LvTSG)

But you see, the GENIUS of the MCU universe is that nothing is set in stone because of time travel.

They can switch stories and even characters... and make woke versions or retcons of Classic White Male Heroes, because its a NEW TIMELINE! Yeah!

Next Thor they can just do a Time Warp (lets do the time warp agaaaaiinnnnn...) and say she didn't die.

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 16, 2023 04:47 PM (oHd/0)

139 YouTube's Susan Wojcicki is stepping down, ending a nine-year tenure as CEO of the Google-owned video site.

Posted by: RTC at February 16, 2023 04:47 PM (2gl7i)

140 I watched the first five minutes of Thor 4. It was terrible. The prologue with the bizarre god was laughably stupid, and you need it to seem real because this is the villain's origin story and motivation. But you can't believe it; it's played for laughs. And there are no laughs. It's just played for them.

Then came the hideous part with the Guardians, which was nothing but slapslick Bugs Bunny level jokes in what is supposed to be a big combat. If fighting and combat aren't taken seriously with real stakes, what is the point of including this expensive-to-CGI crap in the movie at all?

After that absurd CGI shitshow, they cut to Jane Porter in a cat scan imager, and than tonal shift from bugs bunny CGI to cancer was just so incompetent and unprofessional I turned it off.

That's as far as I got.

Posted by: ace at February 16, 2023 04:47 PM (C1Zwz)

141 "A Bug's Life > Antz"

On can almost miss the days when rival studios would come with movies made on the same conceit, in the same year.

There was the year of the ant movies, and the year of the asteroid movies, and the year of the volcano movies...

Posted by: FeatherBlade at February 16, 2023 04:47 PM (lXTkJ)

142 132 Oh, and the new Mission Impossible movie screened very recently (last couple of days).

It's 3 hours long and, apparently, the test audience was over the moon for it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, mired in filth and awfulness with Ralph Bakshi at February 16, 2023 04:46 PM (LvTSG)

MI-7 is my #1 movie for this summer...trust the Cruise missile...

Posted by: Nova Local at February 16, 2023 04:47 PM (exHjb)

143 138 They can switch stories and even characters... and make woke versions or retcons of Classic White Male Heroes, because its a NEW TIMELINE! Yeah!

Next Thor they can just do a Time Warp (lets do the time warp agaaaaiinnnnn...) and say she didn't die.
Posted by: Romeo13 at February 16, 2023 04:47 PM (oHd/0)

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They're in the middle of multiverse stuff, so they can just jump universes.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, mired in filth and awfulness with Ralph Bakshi at February 16, 2023 04:47 PM (LvTSG)

144 128 > *cough*
Posted by: K-dramas at February 16, 2023 04:44 PM (eOEVl)

I've seen a few. Surprisingly good. Nothing I'd nominate for the Greatest Films of All Time list, but good.

I never was able to make much sense of Bollywood (or Japanese anime, for that matter) but the Korean stuff at least makes sense.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 16, 2023 04:46 PM (bW8dp)

Ever seen the Korean flick "Oldboy"?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 16, 2023 04:47 PM (ynpvh)

145 The wife and I streamed Wakanda Forever last weekend, and afterwards agreed it was utter dogshit. I honestly believe the script was written by an angry 14-year-old girl.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at February 16, 2023 04:48 PM (CwhoI)

146 The radio is playing I've Been Through the Desert on a Horse with Ptomaine.

Posted by: That Northern skulker at February 16, 2023 04:48 PM (VdGjU)

147 Dolley and I watched the first fifteen minutes on a cruise. We did it on her insistence. I wasn't interested.

After fifteen minutes, she leaned over to me and begged me to leave.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, mired in filth and awfulness with Ralph Bakshi at February 16, 2023 04:46 PM (LvTSG)

You're watching movies on a cruise? Shouldn't you be knocking back colorful tiki drinks, falling down drunk by noon and vomiting on the lido deck?

Posted by: Robert at February 16, 2023 04:48 PM (EZGDs)

148 > Ever seen the Korean flick "Oldboy"?

Nope. I'll put it on the list if you recommend it, though.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 16, 2023 04:48 PM (bW8dp)

149 140 After that absurd CGI shitshow, they cut to Jane Porter in a cat scan imager, and than tonal shift from bugs bunny CGI to cancer was just so incompetent and unprofessional I turned it off.

That's as far as I got.
Posted by: ace at February 16, 2023 04:47 PM (C1Zwz)

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It gets ~~better~~ um...

Never mind.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, mired in filth and awfulness with Ralph Bakshi at February 16, 2023 04:48 PM (LvTSG)

150 That's as far as I got.
Posted by: ace at February 16, 2023 04:47 PM (C1Zwz)

So you missed that goats? The goats were the best part.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at February 16, 2023 04:48 PM (UuD2k)

151 >>> They can at least be in the next Taylor Swift music video. Posted by: Thrawn at February 16, 2023 04:41 PM (Rl7KJ)

I think she made out or cuddled with a trans person in her latest video? I don't want to see what she would do to the poor goats in her next music video. It would put the infamous play The Goat, or Who is Sylvia? to shame.

Posted by: LizLem at February 16, 2023 04:48 PM (wH/Zo)

152 Wait, there's a holiday this Monday? So long, suckers!

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Will Lamont the Big Dummy be filling in for you?

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Posted by: ShainS -- Slaves no longer require coercion because they love their servitude at February 16, 2023 04:48 PM (TLn9R)

153 After that absurd CGI shitshow, they cut to Jane Porter in a cat scan imager, and than tonal shift from bugs bunny CGI to cancer was just so incompetent and unprofessional I turned it off.

That's as far as I got.
Posted by: ace at February 16, 2023 04:47 PM (C1Zwz)

It didn't get better tonally. It was a disaster start to finish...it was my least favorite super for 2022, tying Morbius...and no, I didn't pay to watch either one...

Posted by: Nova Local at February 16, 2023 04:49 PM (exHjb)

154 Oh, another Disney bright idea. Remake National Treasure, which for some reason I found intriguing, with an all female lead cast. I was like, where the fuck is Nicholas Cage and WTF am I watching you ass pirates? Total, medical waste three alarm dumpster fire.

Posted by: Marcus T at February 16, 2023 04:49 PM (pIKd9)

155 You're watching movies on a cruise? Shouldn't you be knocking back colorful tiki drinks, falling down drunk by noon and vomiting on the lido deck?

You have to pay extra to vomit on the tiki deck.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 16, 2023 04:49 PM (eOEVl)

156 Dolley and I watched the first fifteen minutes on a cruise. We did it on her insistence. I wasn't interested.

After fifteen minutes, she leaned over to me and begged me to leave.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, mired in filth and awfulness with Ralph Bakshi at February 16, 2023 04:46 PM (LvTSG)

The true apogee is when you walk in again so you can storm out a second time.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 16, 2023 04:49 PM (eoQWY)

157 148 > Ever seen the Korean flick "Oldboy"?

Nope. I'll put it on the list if you recommend it, though.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 16, 2023 04:48 PM (bW8dp)

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It gets kind of sick by the end. I love the thing, but it does get pretty sick.

Just be forewarned about that.

I just love who Park Chan-Wook makes movies.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, mired in filth and awfulness with Ralph Bakshi at February 16, 2023 04:49 PM (LvTSG)

158 Why can't Disney make a movie like "Rob Roy"? RR is diverse, with the protagonist wearing a skirt during the entire movie.

Posted by: mrp at February 16, 2023 04:49 PM (rj6Yv)

159 World Bank President David Malpass announced on LinkedIn that he’s stepping down – without giving specifics – nearly a year before his term was due to end. Malpass faced criticism for his views on climate change, though he touted record climate financing during his tenure in his LinkedIn post. An American has been at the helm since 1940 and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said the U.S. would put forward a new candidate soon. The U.S. is the World Bank’s largest shareholder and provides a lot of its funding.

Posted by: RTC at February 16, 2023 04:49 PM (2gl7i)

160 138 No, she dies at the end. It's Thor and bad guy's daughter. Next one will probably have the daughter be a teenager and show "dad" how its done.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, mired in filth and awfulness with Ralph Bakshi at February 16, 2023 04:43 PM (LvTSG)

But you see, the GENIUS of the MCU universe is that nothing is set in stone because of time travel.

They can switch stories and even characters... and make woke versions or retcons of Classic White Male Heroes, because its a NEW TIMELINE! Yeah!

Next Thor they can just do a Time Warp (lets do the time warp agaaaaiinnnnn...) and say she didn't die.

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 16, 2023 04:47 PM (oHd/0)

Or be in an alternate universe

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 16, 2023 04:49 PM (ynpvh)

161 Ever seen the Korean flick "Oldboy"?

Nope. I'll put it on the list if you recommend it, though.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 16, 2023 04:48 PM (bW8dp)

I got tricked into watching that.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at February 16, 2023 04:50 PM (UuD2k)

162 $255 million in projected earnings?
Well, it's no Zardoz... (<$7k earnings, per imdb).

Posted by: PabloD at February 16, 2023 04:50 PM (6+pFt)

163 Dear Disney,

The next time the Good Idea Fairy visits, punch her in the throat. It will help your bottom line.

With love,
Marcus T

Posted by: Marcus T at February 16, 2023 04:50 PM (pIKd9)

164 > 122 I saw Screaming Goats open for Springsteen at the Cpw Palace in '85. They stole the show!
Posted by: wth at February 16, 2023 04:45 PM (v0R5T)

I thought it was The Who, not Springsteen. That's the one where Keith Moon swiped a bunch of animal tranquilizers from the goats and wound up having to be understudied by an audience member.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 16, 2023 04:50 PM (bW8dp)

165 I honestly believe the script was written by an angry 14-year-old girl.
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The Proud Family?

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at February 16, 2023 04:50 PM (Vwz3I)

166 I liked some of The Avenger movies, and Ironman was a hoot.

I even liked the first three Thor movies, but have no plans to see the fourth because it sounds stupid and that asshole TJM gave away the ending anyway.

In fact, I have no plans to see any of them from now on! Disney has managed to alienate me so thoroughly that I can't imagine seeing another Disney product.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 16, 2023 04:50 PM (XIJ/X)

167 145 The wife and I streamed Wakanda Forever last weekend, and afterwards agreed it was utter dogshit. I honestly believe the script was written by an angry 14-year-old girl.
Posted by: Citizen Cake at February 16, 2023 04:48 PM (CwhoI)

Just watched it, too - it's world's better than MoM and Thor 4, but still terrible. At least the Wakanda scenes, the actresses tried.

But everything outside Wakanda (NY, UN, underwater) - garbage. I did appreciate finding a superhero way to beat Namor, vs Wanda just quitting from sadz in MoM...

Posted by: Nova Local at February 16, 2023 04:50 PM (exHjb)

168 That's as far as I got.
Posted by: ace at February 16, 2023 04:47 PM (C1Zwz)
........

That's pretty far.

Posted by: wth at February 16, 2023 04:50 PM (v0R5T)

169 No. My favorite Thor was serious and yet fish-out-of-water Thor in #1...as he got sillier and sillier, he became a bigger and bigger joke in his movies, when he's supposed to be a dang (lowercase) god of thunder...

Posted by: Nova Local at February 16, 2023 04:44 PM

You can't be a Capital *G* god when you get your a$$ kicked by a plain vanilla Jotunn.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at February 16, 2023 04:50 PM (uNylN)

170 Stan's dad voted for Obama.

You got a problem with that?

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 16, 2023 04:50 PM (KbCG3)

171 134 124 I'm available.
Posted by: Dung Beetle Man at February 16, 2023 04:45 PM (iayUP)

Kung Fu Mantis Man has potential.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at February 16, 2023 04:47 PM (UuD2k)

With the Praying Mantis, isn't it the Female of the Species that eats the male once they have sex?

So, Kung Fu Mantis would probably be a female..

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 16, 2023 04:50 PM (oHd/0)

172 >>> 118 Hollywood will fall, and new entertainers not beholden to the Hollywood hive mind will emerge.

*cough*
Posted by: K-dramas at February 16, 2023 04:44 PM (eOEVl)

*cough cough* -- Tollywood and Bollywood

Posted by: LizLem at February 16, 2023 04:51 PM (wH/Zo)

173 >>> I saw Screaming Goats

The Screaming Goats did "I Nearly Lost Ewe There"

Posted by: ace at February 16, 2023 04:51 PM (C1Zwz)

174 148 > Ever seen the Korean flick "Oldboy"?

Nope. I'll put it on the list if you recommend it, though.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 16, 2023 04:48 PM (bW8dp)

It's a interesting movie...but the final reveals are...disturbing.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 16, 2023 04:51 PM (ynpvh)

175 I would have strongly preferred if Peltz had continued to fight -- Iger cannot be trusted and is a Woke lunatic -- but, whatever.
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True, and these guys do actual damage. That said, a very good outcome on net - though it takes time - is for these guys to drive their institutions into the ground so that someone else can come in and clear up the wreckage. It would probably have been better if Iger *didn't* capitulate and was instead ousted so an outsider could stalk through the halls with a scythe, smash existing projects with a sledgehammer and try like hell to start over before the money runs out. In so doing, they will have to stop doing what the last guys did, and might possibly stop doing active damage to the culture.

Like Zaslav is doing at Warner. Time will tell if it works.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 16, 2023 04:51 PM (t0OGg)

176 Why can't Disney make a movie like "Rob Roy"? RR is diverse, with the protagonist wearing a skirt during the entire movie.
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But he kills a fag at the end so that would have to be rewritten.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at February 16, 2023 04:51 PM (Vwz3I)

177 No holiday for me on Monday. My work is having an all day mandatory "Development" Day.

Nothing like forced participation to beef up my morale. Wow.

Posted by: Archer at February 16, 2023 04:52 PM (gmo/4)

178 I think it would be a good idea for some YouTubers to cut MCU trailers of their own, leave out the action and exciting bits and just include the woke bits of the movies.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 16, 2023 04:52 PM (cMXNt)

179 "Nearly Lost Ewe" by the Screaming Goats

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PE5f561Y1x4

Posted by: ace at February 16, 2023 04:52 PM (C1Zwz)

180 You might wonder if woke critics are down it because it's not woke enough. According to Chris Gore and the guys from Midnight's Edge, no, it's woke. Not as obnoxiously, in-your-face woke as some of Marvel's recent turds, but still woke.
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Then it isn't woke.

If you're not woking to excess, you're not woking.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 16, 2023 04:52 PM (t0OGg)

181 You're watching movies on a cruise? Shouldn't you be knocking back colorful tiki drinks, falling down drunk by noon and vomiting on the lido deck?

You can always crash in my cabin, sailor...

Posted by: Captain Bill Kristol at February 16, 2023 04:52 PM (NCgXW)

182 >>>But you see, the GENIUS of the MCU universe is that nothing is set in stone because of time travel.

You could argue that strategy ruined the Star Trek franchise. And your argument would be sound.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at February 16, 2023 04:53 PM (CwhoI)

183 The Screaming Goats did "I Nearly Lost Ewe There"
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And "I Love Head-Butts"... yes, I do.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at February 16, 2023 04:53 PM (Vwz3I)

184 Posted by: Nova Local at February 16, 2023 04:50 PM (exHjb)

so, isn't Wakanda suddenly ruled by a Queenie? You know... Wakanda, the country where the most powerful warrior become ruler in a trial by Combat?

Yeah... OK...

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 16, 2023 04:53 PM (oHd/0)

185 MCU and Disney Star Wars are DONE. Stick a fork in 'em.

They should put those properties on the shelf for the next twenty years. Then a new batch of hopefully non-woke story-tellers can resurrect them for a new generation.

They'll make bank if they do this, but they are too stupid to figure it out.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 16, 2023 04:53 PM (YIVH2)

186 Oh, another Disney bright idea. Remake National Treasure, which for some reason I found intriguing, with an all female lead cast. I was like, where the fuck is Nicholas Cage and WTF am I watching you ass pirates? Total, medical waste three alarm dumpster fire.
Posted by: Marcus T at February 16, 2023 04:49 PM (pIKd9)

National Treasure, a budget Romancing the Stone, which was a lesser Raiders of the Lost Ark is being remade. Talk about small ambitions.

And then with no men, no romance subplot and no jokes at the expense of driven single minded men like in Ghostbusters with Egan.

Sounds like a good start.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 16, 2023 04:53 PM (eoQWY)

187 Itagundam vid: woke comics vs manga. Manga is crushing it, store shelves are proof.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmiDBX6_91w&t=2s

Posted by: LizLem at February 16, 2023 04:53 PM (wH/Zo)

188 MCU's worst reviewed movie so far, too.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, mired in filth and awfulness with Ralph Bakshi at February 16, 2023 04:22 PM (LvTSG)

Seriously? Worse than Love and Thunder or Dr. Strange 2?

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 16, 2023 04:53 PM (yQpMk)

189 They aren't going to stop making this woke, leftist garbage. Socialists destroy everything they touch and deliberately, so there can never be a return to the good entertainment of the original story, television show or movie franchise.

Oh and Nikki Haley 2024 can fuck right off, along with Faux News, Chris "meatball" Christie, the Bushes, McCains, Romneys, Pences, Kemps, Duceys, CNN and the entire Republican Party. GO ALL OF YOU AND FUCK YOURSELVES IN THE ASS WITH A CHEESE GRATER!

FIX 2020 OR DIE.

FUCK YOU, G.O.P.! FUCK YOU TO HELL!

Posted by: Tracy at February 16, 2023 04:53 PM (EyZnF)

190 The Screaming Goats did "I Nearly Lost Ewe There"
Posted by: ace at February 16, 2023 04:51 PM (C1Zwz)

That's Muldoon-level stuff!

Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at February 16, 2023 04:53 PM (t4BDZ)

191 I saw the Wakanda trailer and I'm pretty sure I'd rather light myself on fire or jump into a waste deep barrel of acid then watch that.

Posted by: Marcus T at February 16, 2023 04:53 PM (pIKd9)

192 YouTube's Susan Wojcicki is stepping down, ending a nine-year tenure as CEO of the Google-owned video site.

Posted by: RTC

A number off YouTubers hated her due to the crap way the platform treats most content creators. Odds are they found someone even worse to replace her.

Posted by: Brother Tim, still the worst commenter on the blog at February 16, 2023 04:53 PM (OUMaO)

193 The reactions I've heard from different right-leaning reviewers are, basically, this is better than Phase 4 Marvel movies except for the only good one, Spider-Man: No Way Home. And they point out, being better than The Eternals and Thor: Love and Thunder is not a high bar to cross.
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"It doesn't small as bad as its peers and I only felt like hurling once" is not much of an endorsement.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 16, 2023 04:53 PM (t0OGg)

194 >>>But you see, the GENIUS of the MCU universe is that nothing is set in stone because of time travel.

well marvel's time travel is that you can't actually change the past, but if you make changes, you create a divergent timeline in a parallel universe, so you CAN create alternate-timeline versions of people. So yeah, basically, you're right.

Posted by: ace at February 16, 2023 04:54 PM (C1Zwz)

195 Posted by: Nova Local at February 16, 2023 04:50 PM (exHjb)

so, isn't Wakanda suddenly ruled by a Queenie? You know... Wakanda, the country where the most powerful warrior become ruler in a trial by Combat?

Yeah... OK...
Posted by: Romeo13 at February 16, 2023 04:53 PM (oHd/0)

You can bet the rules will change next ritual so the heir doesn't have to forgo the super man drug to fight a challenger.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 16, 2023 04:54 PM (eoQWY)

196 182 >>>But you see, the GENIUS of the MCU universe is that nothing is set in stone because of time travel.

You could argue that strategy ruined the Star Trek franchise. And your argument would be sound.
Posted by: Citizen Cake at February 16, 2023 04:53 PM (CwhoI)

And Star Wars was ruined by making it both a Soap Opera, and Woke.... and now Gay.

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 16, 2023 04:54 PM (oHd/0)

197 171 134 124 I'm available.
Posted by: Dung Beetle Man at February 16, 2023 04:45 PM (iayUP)

Kung Fu Mantis Man has potential.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at February 16, 2023 04:47 PM (UuD2k)

With the Praying Mantis, isn't it the Female of the Species that eats the male once they have sex?

So, Kung Fu Mantis would probably be a female..
Posted by: Romeo13 at February 16, 2023 04:50 PM (oHd/0)

Ant-Man seems like a bit of a misnomer to me. There aren't a lot of male ants - their only purpose is to inseminate the queen ant. The worker ants - who do all the work and fighting - are female.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at February 16, 2023 04:54 PM (/iWhV)

198 The home-viewing experience is superior to the theater experience in dozens of ways.

What, you don't want to sit down with a mob of unruly savages and bask in the glow of their phones for two hours?

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at February 16, 2023 04:54 PM (ppBhU)

199 "You're watching movies on a cruise? Shouldn't you be knocking back colorful tiki drinks, falling down drunk by noon and vomiting on the lido deck?"

All day at the buffet. The plumbing in those ships must be stupendous to handle all that shit without breakdowns.

Posted by: Durable Yet Minimal gp-Based Barrier at February 16, 2023 04:54 PM (24fqN)

200 Once when she was making an album, Yoko Ono got laryngitis, and since they were on a tight schedule, they asked me to help out, so I got the Screaming Goats to overdub her tracks, so it all worked out. I also helped do the final mix. My word as a...Jill I made a poopie!

Posted by: Joe Biden at February 16, 2023 04:54 PM (PiwSw)

201 188 MCU's worst reviewed movie so far, too.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, mired in filth and awfulness with Ralph Bakshi at February 16, 2023 04:22 PM (LvTSG)

Seriously? Worse than Love and Thunder or Dr. Strange 2?
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 16, 2023 04:53 PM (yQpMk)

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Yes!

Thor 4: 64%
Dr. Strange 2: 74%
Eternals: 47%

The Ant Man reviews should continue to come in over the weekend and drive them below Eternals.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, mired in filth and awfulness with Ralph Bakshi at February 16, 2023 04:55 PM (LvTSG)

202 184 Posted by: Nova Local at February 16, 2023 04:50 PM (exHjb)

so, isn't Wakanda suddenly ruled by a Queenie? You know... Wakanda, the country where the most powerful warrior become ruler in a trial by Combat?

Yeah... OK...
Posted by: Romeo13 at February 16, 2023 04:53 PM (oHd/0)

For a time - yes. After Chadwick/BP dies to start the movie. Then, she's dead, too.
Then, a guy takes over, but Black Panther is a separate role - which made more sense than BP being king and superhero...

Posted by: Nova Local at February 16, 2023 04:55 PM (exHjb)

203 The first Ant Man was okay, but that's where it ended. I hope this third film sees very little audiences

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at February 16, 2023 04:55 PM (d2bW3)

204 >>>But you see, the GENIUS of the MCU universe is that nothing is set in stone because of time travel.

well marvel's time travel is that you can't actually change the past, but if you make changes, you create a divergent timeline in a parallel universe, so you CAN create alternate-timeline versions of people. So yeah, basically, you're right.
Posted by: ace at February 16, 2023 04:54 PM (C1Zwz)

Even without time travel OR alternate unis, they can just make up nonsense reasons to bring back anyone that dies. Hell, Sherlock Holmes came back when Doyle tried to kill him around 1900 or so.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 16, 2023 04:55 PM (eoQWY)

205
What is this? A center for ants??!!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 16, 2023 04:55 PM (pNxlR)

206 I'll just watch old Rockford Files episodes.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 16, 2023 04:56 PM (cMXNt)

207 it was my least favorite super for 2022, tying Morbius...

Posted by: Nova Local at February 16, 2023 04:49 PM (exHjb)

Holy Shit! Somebody else watched it? I thought I was the only one!

Damn...it sucked.

And I LOVE vampire movies.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 16, 2023 04:56 PM (XIJ/X)

208 "The Man from Nowhere" is a good Korean flick

Posted by: Fool Otto at February 16, 2023 04:56 PM (DB16e)

209 well marvel's time travel is that you can't actually change the past, but if you make changes, you create a divergent timeline in a parallel universe, so you CAN create alternate-timeline versions of people. So yeah, basically, you're right.
Posted by: ace at February 16, 2023 04:54 PM (C1Zwz)
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Stories about multiverse adventures are *very* difficult to craft. Disney should leave it to the experts like Michael Moorcock.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 16, 2023 04:56 PM (YIVH2)

210 The worker ants - who do all the work and fighting - are female.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at February 16, 2023 04:54 PM (/iWhV)

They aren't capable of reproduction at all. They just work and then die. Nature may being showing us the solution to the nonbinary/transgender issue.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at February 16, 2023 04:56 PM (UuD2k)

211 >>>But the real wokeness, they say, is in the movie's pro-antifa and pro-socialist messaging.

Pass, which is a shame, because Ant-Man actor, Crapbag, is one of my favorites. Eat all the dicks and die, Disney.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 16, 2023 04:56 PM (PyOKD)

212 I'm available.
Posted by: Dung Beetle Man at February 16, 2023 04:45 PM (iayUP)
........

I'd watch Dung Beetle Man. But what are his superpowers?

Posted by: wth at February 16, 2023 04:56 PM (v0R5T)

213 184 Posted by: Nova Local at February 16, 2023 04:50 PM (exHjb)

so, isn't Wakanda suddenly ruled by a Queenie? You know... Wakanda, the country where the most powerful warrior become ruler in a trial by Combat?

Yeah... OK...

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 16, 2023 04:53 PM (oHd/0)

Must've been against Wakandan soy boys.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 16, 2023 04:56 PM (ynpvh)

214 so what they're going to do in the Avengers movie is do the "incursion" storyline where universes are colliding and destroying each other.

There will also be a "Battleworld"/Secret Wars movie with lots of alternate versions of characters from other universes.

Spoiler: A universe with an alternate Tony Stark and Captain America will be destroyed, but they themselves will live, and will join the main Marvel Universe as Iron Man and Captain America. They'll be played by younger, cheaper actors.

This won't save things, though. It's the Wokeness that is killing Marvel (and the incompetence, and the samey-sameyness). Just introducing a new woke Iron Man and new woke Captain America doesn't fix things.

Posted by: ace at February 16, 2023 04:56 PM (C1Zwz)

215 But Cartman isn't saying this. Stan's dad is saying this. And while Stan's dad is an idiot like most of the characters on South Park, he's not Right-Wing Racist or anything.
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Randy will often (or would - I haven't seen the show in years) enthusiastically and aggressively jump on board whatever pop culture phenomenon and go full retard about it. That's one of the purposes of his character.

Global warming? Randy was all in.
Obama? Randy was all in.
The "Battlestar Galactica" spin-off Caprica? Randy was all in.
Avatar? Randy was all in.

If he's going all-in on "the MCU sucks now" then that is *very* strong evidence that it's a pretty huge trend.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 16, 2023 04:56 PM (t0OGg)

216 If you want fucked up movies check out some Takashi Miike films such as Ichi the Killer, Audition, and Gozu.

Posted by: Weird shit at February 16, 2023 04:57 PM (UKe2c)

217 Maybe they can do a sequel entitled Anti-Man. Or Ant-Trans ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Slaves no longer require coercion because they love their servitude at February 16, 2023 04:57 PM (TLn9R)

218 MCU and Disney Star Wars are DONE. Stick a fork in 'em.

Agreed. At some point, you've got to accept that you've saturated the market.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 16, 2023 04:57 PM (eOEVl)

219 Thor 4: 64%
Dr. Strange 2: 74%
Eternals: 47%

The Ant Man reviews should continue to come in over the weekend and drive them below Eternals.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, mired in filth and awfulness with Ralph Bakshi at February 16, 2023 04:55 PM (LvTSG)

These percentages contain a big lump of fake votes they use to prop up the ratings while people are paying attention. Its often seen that a move will stall at one percentage level for days, or weeks.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 16, 2023 04:57 PM (eoQWY)

220 Ant Lion Man might be a good villain. Like a Morlock, but shallower lair.

Posted by: Durable Yet Minimal gp-Based Barrier at February 16, 2023 04:57 PM (24fqN)

221
It's...not good. Imagine Thor 3 but the jokes never land and the bad guy is super serious.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, mired in filth and awfulness with Ralph Bakshi at February 16, 2023 04:40 PM (LvTSG)

Yeah, I didn't mind the super-serious (kinda) bad guy.

Because, it potentially could have/ should've had a real twilight of the gods thing with lots of death and desperation. And that would've fit Thor to a T.

Bu-u-u-t, nah. It was just a framework for lame-ass jokes and Dopey Thor Sidekicking it in his own movie, and Kid Powah!!!!!! and shitting all over the IP in general.

Yeah, you're right Ace. Superhero sitcoms. With the superhero as the Dopey Clueless Dad.

Posted by: naturalfake at February 16, 2023 04:58 PM (KLPy8)

222 Holy Shit! Somebody else watched it? I thought I was the only one!

Damn...it sucked.

And I LOVE vampire movies.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 16, 2023 04:56 PM (XIJ/X)

I watch almost all supers movies as a lifelong comics fan. I just don't pay to do so for many anymore...

Posted by: Nova Local at February 16, 2023 04:58 PM (exHjb)

223 i heard Morbius isn't that bad if you turn your brain off.

But I turned it off after the exposition-dump opening, with multiple prologues (pro-tip: You get one single prologue and THAT IS IT, BUSTER), so I can't say if any of it works.

I heard the special effects are, suprirsingly, good.

Posted by: ace at February 16, 2023 04:58 PM (C1Zwz)

224 Global warming? Randy was all in.
Obama? Randy was all in.
The "Battlestar Galactica" spin-off Caprica? Randy was all in.
Avatar? Randy was all in.

If he's going all-in on "the MCU sucks now" then that is *very* strong evidence that it's a pretty huge trend.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 16, 2023 04:56 PM (t0OGg)

How dare you leave out legalized marijuana!

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 16, 2023 04:58 PM (KbCG3)

225 Next up. Ant Man will become Ant Sally.

Posted by: Marcus T at February 16, 2023 04:58 PM (pIKd9)

226 The worker ants - who do all the work and fighting - are female.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at February 16, 2023 04:54 PM (/iWhV)
.........

Do they have boobehs?

Posted by: wth at February 16, 2023 04:58 PM (v0R5T)

227 They aren't capable of reproduction at all. They just work and then die. Nature may being showing us the solution to the nonbinary/transgender issue.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at February 16, 2023 04:56 PM (UuD2k)

Unlike Ants, they complain more than work.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 16, 2023 04:59 PM (eoQWY)

228

Bruce Willis’ aphasia condition has progressed to frontotemporal dementia (known as FTD), according to a statement from his family.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 16, 2023 04:59 PM (63Dwl)

229 219 These percentages contain a big lump of fake votes they use to prop up the ratings while people are paying attention. Its often seen that a move will stall at one percentage level for days, or weeks.
Posted by: Oldcat at February 16, 2023 04:57 PM (eoQWY)

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I do not consider a 3/5 rating to be positive. I consider it to be middling and leaning more towards negative, but RT reviewers (they assign the positive or negative) split on whether they are positive or negative.

On Disney movies (well, Disney movies that Disney is trying to push which is most of them except Dumbo which is hilariously anti-Disney in content), those on the cusp reviews tend to all count as positive.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, mired in filth and awfulness with Ralph Bakshi at February 16, 2023 04:59 PM (LvTSG)

230 207 it was my least favorite super for 2022, tying Morbius...

Posted by: Nova Local at February 16, 2023 04:49 PM (exHjb)

Holy Shit! Somebody else watched it? I thought I was the only one!

Damn...it sucked.

And I LOVE vampire movies.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 16, 2023 04:56 PM (XIJ/X)

Did Jared Leto really say, "It's Morbin' time"?

Cuz sweet Jiminy Christmas that's awful.

Posted by: Robert at February 16, 2023 04:59 PM (tGSEU)

231 > I'd watch Dung Beetle Man. But what are his superpowers?

I was bitten by a radioactive barnacle from a Russian nuclear sub.

My super power is clinging on to the hull of your boat, thus slightly reducing its speed and fuel economy.

Hey, it's a living.

Posted by: Barnacle Man at February 16, 2023 04:59 PM (bW8dp)

232 212 I'm available.
Posted by: Dung Beetle Man at February 16, 2023 04:45 PM (iayUP)
........

I'd watch Dung Beetle Man. But what are his superpowers?

Posted by: wth at February 16, 2023 04:56 PM (v0R5T)

Better watch your ass...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 16, 2023 04:59 PM (ynpvh)

233 I used to have an ant farm.

Posted by: wth at February 16, 2023 04:59 PM (v0R5T)

234 Stories about multiverse adventures are *very* difficult to craft. Disney should leave it to the experts like Michael Moorcock.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 16, 2023 04:56 PM (YIVH2)

Key with the Moorcock stories was that even though Elric and Moonglum played around in different universes, they usually 'remembered' at least part of their other lives... at least towards the end of the stories... (if memory serves, have not read them since I was a teenager... and that was a LONNGGG time ago).

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 16, 2023 04:59 PM (oHd/0)

235 Hey, it's a living.
Posted by: Barnacle Man at February 16, 2023 04:59 PM (bW8dp)

Sounds dreamy.

Posted by: Intestinal Parasite Man at February 16, 2023 05:00 PM (PiwSw)

236 I'd watch Dung Beetle Man. But what are his superpowers?

He can roll all the dung for miles around up into a ball and move it around for all to see. Not unlike Disney.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 16, 2023 05:00 PM (eOEVl)

237
Dolley and I watched the first fifteen minutes on a cruise. We did it on her insistence. I wasn't interested.

After fifteen minutes, she leaned over to me and begged me to leave.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, mired in filth and awfulness with Ralph Bakshi

Please tell me that you insisted she sit there and watch the whole thing with you. Mainly because I'm a mean sonofabitch who wants to hear that she skinned you alive in your cabin that evening.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 16, 2023 05:00 PM (n+4am)

238 Spoiler: A universe with an alternate Tony Stark and Captain America will be destroyed, but they themselves will live, and will join the main Marvel Universe as Iron Man and Captain America. They'll be played by younger, cheaper actors.
Posted by: ace at February 16, 2023 04:56 PM (C1Zwz)

Didn't they just introduce discount female Tony Stark in the Wakanda movie?

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 16, 2023 05:00 PM (yQpMk)

239 I should add in Wakanda, there is no BP once Chadwick dies til the last 20 minutes in the movie, when Shuri discovers how to make the magic herb that gives you all the powers/healing/ability to talk to ancestors (that had all burned up in movie 1) - so they at least gave a reason why it's her and why she doesn't immediately die as a skinny girl...

Posted by: Nova Local at February 16, 2023 05:00 PM (exHjb)

240 The bombardier beetle shoots noxious chemicals from its abdomen to defend itself.

Only creature that has weaponized farts in all of Nature.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at February 16, 2023 05:00 PM (UuD2k)

241 Turn the TV on to a random channel.
Notice its shit.

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I saw a Wagon Train the other day. A preacher led his followers to the Promised Land but messed it up causing great suffering. He blamed it on his sin of pride. He abandons his followers intending to die in the wilderness as penitence. He comes to recognize that decision also as the sin of pride since his life is God's and not his to abandon. He eventually accepts himself and his mistakes and move forward with his life perhaps sadder but wiser

When is the last time you saw anything so inte!ligent and moral on TV. Now it's stunning and brave to abandon your wife and kids for a life of homo sex and depravity.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Not a Real Simulation at February 16, 2023 05:00 PM (FVME7)

242 I heard the special effects are, suprirsingly, good.
Posted by: ace at February 16, 2023 04:58 PM (C1Zwz)

Who did you hear that from? Senator Fetterman?

Nah bro. There is nothing at all of any redeeming value in Morbius. It's terrible at everything.

Posted by: blaster at February 16, 2023 05:00 PM (pwExq)

243 Hey...remember Moon Knight?

Remember when Moon Knight was almost a thing for a week?

That thing cost $165 million.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, mired in filth and awfulness with Ralph Bakshi at February 16, 2023 05:00 PM (LvTSG)

244 After fifteen minutes, she leaned over to me and begged me to leave.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, mired in filth and awfulness with Ralph Bakshi at February 16, 2023 04:46 PM (LvTSG)
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Story of my life.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 16, 2023 05:00 PM (t0OGg)

245 I'm familiar with "Atom Ant" the cartoon, but not "Ant Man" the cartoon. I'm also significantly older than 29, but identify as 29.

So, anyway...

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 16, 2023 05:00 PM (Q4IgG)

246 >>>
Who did you hear that from? Senator Fetterman?

i forget, maybe Zack, whose taste in movies is absolutely terrible.

Posted by: ace at February 16, 2023 05:01 PM (C1Zwz)

247 "I'd watch Dung Beetle Man. But what are his superpowers?
Posted by: wth"

I can push a ball of shit 10X my size. What's yours?

Posted by: Dung Beetle Man at February 16, 2023 05:01 PM (iayUP)

248 >>>I'd watch Dung Beetle Man. But what are his superpowers?

Like Lawyer Man, without the law license.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at February 16, 2023 05:01 PM (CwhoI)

249 51 Oh, and I got my 4K of Lifeforce today.
___

I'm holding out for the 8K of Mathilda May!

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 16, 2023 05:01 PM (fs1hN)

250
I'd watch Dung Beetle Man. But what are his superpowers?
Posted by: wth

He keeps shouting "Let's Roll!"

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 16, 2023 05:02 PM (63Dwl)

251 Sad to hear ab out Bruce Willis. One of my favorite movies was Hudson Hawk. I await the scorn that opinion will bring but that was one funny movie.

Posted by: Eromero at February 16, 2023 05:02 PM (MF3yS)

252 I heard the special effects are, suprirsingly, good.

Posted by: ace at February 16, 2023 04:58 PM (C1Zwz)

The effects are fine. Nothing awful, but I have come to expect pretty solid stuff from Hollywood...

The acting was abysmal (good actors, bad direction and bad writing), and the plot had holes you could put Fetterman's lump through.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 16, 2023 05:02 PM (XIJ/X)

253 Whatever RT states, I generally do the opposite and I'm good. Didn't they try to flame Top Gun and the Terminal List Series?

Posted by: Marcus T at February 16, 2023 05:02 PM (pIKd9)

254 228
Bruce Willis’ aphasia condition has progressed to frontotemporal dementia (known as FTD), according to a statement from his family.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 16, 2023 04:59 PM

So, he's available to run for president in 2024? Sounds like a top tier candidate!!!

Posted by: Both Political Parties at February 16, 2023 05:02 PM (NCgXW)

255 it was my least favorite super for 2022, tying Morbius...

Posted by: Nova Local at February 16, 2023 04:49 PM (exHjb)

Holy Shit! Somebody else watched it? I thought I was the only one!

Damn...it sucked.

And I LOVE vampire movies.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 16, 2023 04:56 PM (XIJ/X)

It was streaming, so I watched it thinking that "it can't possibly be as bad as everyone says."

Welp, I'm an hour and a half older and wiser now.

What a garbage pit.

Posted by: naturalfake at February 16, 2023 05:03 PM (KLPy8)

256 >>>Didn't they just introduce discount female Tony Stark in the Wakanda movie?

I don't think they'll push her as the new Iron Man. I think they're introducing all these woke teenage characters to do a terrible, terrible Young Avengers movie where every character is either a POC or gay. (Or both.)

If they try to push Iron Heart as the new Iron Man, I mean... Good luck with that.

Posted by: ace at February 16, 2023 05:03 PM (C1Zwz)

257 252 The acting was abysmal (good actors, bad direction and bad writing), and the plot had holes you could put Fetterman's lump through.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 16, 2023 05:02 PM (XIJ/X)

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One of Jared Leto's first starring roles was in Ralph Bakshi's live action Showtime movie Cool and the Crazy.

It is very bad.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, mired in filth and awfulness with Ralph Bakshi at February 16, 2023 05:03 PM (LvTSG)

258 251 Sad to hear ab out Bruce Willis. One of my favorite movies was Hudson Hawk. I await the scorn that opinion will bring but that was one funny movie.
Posted by: Eromero at February 16, 2023 05:02 PM (MF3yS)

You must be the other guy who likes that movie! High five!

Posted by: blaster at February 16, 2023 05:03 PM (pwExq)

259 Key with the Moorcock stories was that even though Elric and Moonglum played around in different universes, they usually 'remembered' at least part of their other lives... at least towards the end of the stories... (if memory serves, have not read them since I was a teenager... and that was a LONNGGG time ago).
Posted by: Romeo13 at February 16, 2023 04:59 PM (oHd/0)
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Yeah, the Eternal Champion is a very interesting literary concept that Moorcock pulls off quite well. Most of his stories involve various incarnations of the same entity that can cross through time and space, but seldom interact with each other except at critical nexus points. Pretty wild stuff.

Roger Zelazny also excelled at multiversal stories with his Amber universe. There you have a bipolar universe (or maybe multipolar) and between them are "shadow worlds" that take on the characteristics of the polar realm as you get closer to them.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 16, 2023 05:03 PM (YIVH2)

260 Who did you hear that from? Senator Fetterman?

i forget, maybe Zack, whose taste in movies is absolutely terrible.
Posted by: ace at February 16, 2023 05:01 PM (C1Zwz)

I think I heard that Senator Fetterman bumped into Senator Feinstein in a hallway. Neither one had much to say.

Posted by: mrp at February 16, 2023 05:03 PM (rj6Yv)

261
The bombardier beetle shoots noxious chemicals from its abdomen to defend itself.

Only creature that has weaponized farts in all of Nature.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe

You never met my childhood dog, Bismarck....

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 16, 2023 05:03 PM (n+4am)

262 Dung Beetle Man could just absorb the bad guys into his giant ball of shit. Every time he absorbs someone he increases his power.

But with giant shitballs, comes great responsibility.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at February 16, 2023 05:03 PM (UuD2k)

263 > The bombardier beetle shoots noxious chemicals from its abdomen to defend itself.

*Boiling hot* noxious chemicals at that, propelled at the victim by live steam.

I remember a sidebar about it from my organic chem text, way back. At least at that time, it was the only known biological organism that could function at boiling temperatures (nowadays we know about those deep sea hydrothermal vent critters).

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 16, 2023 05:03 PM (bW8dp)

264 253 Whatever RT states, I generally do the opposite and I'm good. Didn't they try to flame Top Gun and the Terminal List Series?
Posted by: Marcus T at February 16, 2023 05:02 PM (pIKd9)

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Top Gun Maverick has a 96% on Rotten Tomatoes. Stay far away!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, mired in filth and awfulness with Ralph Bakshi at February 16, 2023 05:04 PM (LvTSG)

265 >>>Roger Zelazny also excelled at multiversal stories with his Amber universe. There you have a bipolar universe (or maybe multipolar) and between them are "shadow worlds" that take on the characteristics of the polar realm as you get closer to them.

that's my jam

well, the first three books were great, the ending was a let down

Posted by: ace at February 16, 2023 05:04 PM (C1Zwz)

266 Welp, I'm an hour and a half older and wiser now.

What a garbage pit.
Posted by: naturalfake at February 16, 2023 05:03 PM (KLPy

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And unlike a character in the MCU, you can't snap your fingers and reclaim that lost time.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 16, 2023 05:04 PM (YIVH2)

267 >>>Didn't they just introduce discount female Tony Stark in the Wakanda movie?

Yes. The bad guys were discount Avatarians. A lot of discounts in that movie.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at February 16, 2023 05:04 PM (CwhoI)

268 "Dung Beetle Man could just absorb the bad guys into his giant ball of shit. Every time he absorbs someone he increases his power."

Then I put a baby in 'em.

Posted by: Dung Beetle Man at February 16, 2023 05:05 PM (iayUP)

269 South Park also ripped on Megan and Harry:

"Well I just think some people might say your Instagram-loving bitch wife actually *doesn't* want her privacy."

https://bit.ly/3IrbRn8

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at February 16, 2023 05:05 PM (Do5/p)

270 One of Jared Leto's first starring roles was in Ralph Bakshi's live action Showtime movie Cool and the Crazy.

It is very bad.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, mired in filth and awfulness with Ralph Bakshi at February 16, 2023 05:03 PM (LvTSG)

I don't know if the timeline fits, but I think they saw Leto in Bladerunner 2049 and said, hey, let's get him to do that look as a vampire!

And then they spent all their budget on hookers and blow and then someone said oh hey we were supposed to do a movie.

Posted by: blaster at February 16, 2023 05:05 PM (pwExq)

271 "I'd watch Dung Beetle Man. But what are his superpowers?
Posted by: wth"

I can push a ball of shit 10X my size. What's yours?
Posted by: Dung Beetle Man at February 16, 2023 05:01 PM (iayUP)
........

I control the remote.

Posted by: wth at February 16, 2023 05:05 PM (v0R5T)

272 Hey...remember Moon Knight?

Remember when Moon Knight was almost a thing for a week?

That thing cost $165 million.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, mired in filth and awfulness with Ralph Bakshi at February 16, 2023 05:00 PM (LvTSG)
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That's $27.5 million per episode. How? Who the hell approves spending that kind of per-episode money?

For some perspective, "This is Us" - NBC's top rated show - costs about a million bucks per episode.

I get it. The MCU is big and bright and uses lots of elaborate graphics and sets and it's not comparable to a family drama, but damn near $30 million per episode? There must be a staggering amount of money being wasted.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 16, 2023 05:05 PM (t0OGg)

273 This is the part of the thread where an old guy says 'In my day, we had Popeye in black & white and we LIKED IT'

Posted by: DB - Spanning the globe at February 16, 2023 05:05 PM (geLO8)

274 that's my jam

well, the first three books were great, the ending was a let down
Posted by: ace at February 16, 2023 05:04 PM (C1Zwz)
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Conceptually, Amber is a really neat idea. I agree that the execution is flawed. Personally, I loved Zelazny's Changeling/Madwand duology much more. That series is great! And involves a multiverse as well.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 16, 2023 05:05 PM (YIVH2)

275 Posted by: Tracy

Dayum.

*passes anger issues baton to Tracy*

Posted by: BifBewalski at February 16, 2023 05:06 PM (3CCua)

276 Ant-Man's daughter Cassie is part of a protest group with similarities to antifa. Reportedly, it's a "homelessness rights" protest group, but it's said that the group was "peacefully protesting" before being dispersed and menaced by cops.
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In case no one has mentioned it, homelessness in the MCU is a result of Thanos' snapping away half the people in the universe for 5 years. Folks moved into their homes, but they got them back when in Endgame.

So the big social justice issue is the squatters not being allowed back into the homes of people who were snapped.

Also, Kang was already defeated once in the Loki series.

Posted by: Methos at February 16, 2023 05:06 PM (kOpft)

277 272 I get it. The MCU is big and bright and uses lots of elaborate graphics and sets and it's not comparable to a family drama, but damn near $30 million per episode? There must be a staggering amount of money being wasted.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 16, 2023 05:05 PM (t0OGg)

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Disney is doing great and should change nothing about it's operations because we're getting all the disposable entertainment that we forget in a week that we can consume!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, mired in filth and awfulness with Ralph Bakshi at February 16, 2023 05:06 PM (LvTSG)

278 If they try to push Iron Heart as the new Iron Man, I mean... Good luck with that.

Posted by: ace at February 16, 2023 05:03 PM (C1Zwz)

Iron Heart? is that like a Super Hero who fights against Valentines Day? if so? I'M ALL IN!

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 16, 2023 05:06 PM (oHd/0)

279 that's my jam

well, the first three books were great, the ending was a let down
Posted by: ace at February 16, 2023 05:04 PM (C1Zwz)
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Yeah. It felt kinda like Zelazny either needed to write another half dozen books to flesh it out, or should have ended it sooner. I like the Amber series, but the start is much stronger than the finish.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 16, 2023 05:06 PM (t0OGg)

280 Nah bro. There is nothing at all of any redeeming value in Morbius. It's terrible at everything.
Posted by: blaster at February 16, 2023 05:00 PM (pwExq)

Morbius was written by a 6 year old who only writes 1 sentence paragraphs/scenes.

Posted by: Nova Local at February 16, 2023 05:07 PM (exHjb)

281 Dung Beetle Man could just absorb the bad guys into his giant ball of shit. Every time he absorbs someone he increases his power

He eventually makes friends with a priest. Wait for it...

Posted by: I smell something at February 16, 2023 05:07 PM (UKe2c)

282 ""No one wants to say it, but socialism works!""

Not exactly original; Robert Heinlein said it in Starship Troopers. Of course, RAH had a brain cell functional, so he included the necessary pre-requisite: "In a species which has been adapted to it by evolution." Like the Bugs. Or ants.

Posted by: SDN at February 16, 2023 05:07 PM (roWCJ)

283 "Nearly Lost Ewe" by the Screaming Goats

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No joke. A man disguised himself as a sheep to escape prison.

https://bit.ly/3EdNjf8

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Not a Real Simulation at February 16, 2023 05:07 PM (FVME7)

284 I'm familiar with "Atom Ant" the cartoon, but not "Ant Man" the cartoon.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 16, 2023 05:00 PM (Q4IgG)

Well, as long as we are talking about shitty ants, how about Adam Ant?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 16, 2023 05:07 PM (XIJ/X)

285 That's $27.5 million per episode. How? Who the hell approves spending that kind of per-episode money?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 16, 2023 05:05 PM (t0OGg)
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I believe Babylon 5 cost less than that for an entire season (in 1990s dollars) of 22 episodes.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 16, 2023 05:07 PM (YIVH2)

286 Celery Man was pure brilliance compared to their latest dreck.

Posted by: Nude Tayne at February 16, 2023 05:07 PM (gaSe6)

287 Dance Off!

Posted by: Corybantic Man at February 16, 2023 05:07 PM (PiwSw)

288 269 South Park also ripped on Megan and Harry:

"Well I just think some people might say your Instagram-loving bitch wife actually *doesn't* want her privacy."

https://bit.ly/3IrbRn8

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at February 16, 2023 05:05 PM (Do5/p)

"This media has been disabled in response to a report by the copyright owner"

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 16, 2023 05:08 PM (ynpvh)

289 Zelazny wrote a lot of "artsy" short stories (which were very, very good... he was much better at shorts than novels, IMO).

A visitor once asked him why he'd stopped writing those in lieu of cranking out a new Amber novel every year or two.

His response was to just smile and point out the window at his kids.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 16, 2023 05:08 PM (bW8dp)

290 > Well, as long as we are talking about shitty ants, how about Adam Ant?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 16, 2023 05:07 PM (XIJ/X)

Oh, yeah, he sucked. Big time. I liked most of the New Wave and first gen punk stuff. Not him.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 16, 2023 05:09 PM (bW8dp)

291 No joke. A man disguised himself as a sheep to escape prison.

https://bit.ly/3EdNjf8
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Not a Real Simulation at February 16, 2023 05:07 PM (FVME7)

It can happen.

Posted by: Polyphemus at February 16, 2023 05:09 PM (PiwSw)

292 No joke. A man disguised himself as a sheep to escape prison.

https://bit.ly/3EdNjf8
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Not a Real Simulation at February 16, 2023 05:07 PM (FVME7)

Didn't Odysseys hide under a sheep to escape the Cyclops? This guy was probably trying to escape a different kind of one eyed monster.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at February 16, 2023 05:09 PM (UuD2k)

293 No joke. A man disguised himself as a sheep to escape prison.

https://bit.ly/3EdNjf8
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Not a Real Simulation at February 16, 2023 05:07 PM (FVME7)

It can happen.
Posted by: Polyphemus at February 16, 2023 05:09 PM (PiwSw)

He was on the lamb.

Posted by: mrp at February 16, 2023 05:09 PM (rj6Yv)

294 Posted by: SDN at February 16, 2023 05:07 PM (roWCJ)

Starship Troopers came out in 1959... before he really lost his mind IMO.

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 16, 2023 05:10 PM (oHd/0)

295 Well, as long as we are talking about shitty ants, how about Adam Ant?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 16, 2023 05:07 PM

Did I tell you you're wonderful?

http://bit.ly/3YA6OXp

Posted by: Adam Ant at February 16, 2023 05:10 PM (Do5/p)

296 The Screaming Goats did "The Kids are Alright"

Posted by: BourbonChicken at February 16, 2023 05:10 PM (44ww/)

297
The Bad Cat just wrote a good one one the E. Palestine thing:

https://tinyurl.com/2p2fsd96

Short version: don't set your hair on fire.

And something I was wondering about. Was releasing the stuff and setting it on fire the best way to deal with it, or was it the most expedient for the interests of the railroad.

It was probably the best way to deal with it given the circumstances.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (Mzdiz) at February 16, 2023 05:10 PM (Mzdiz)

298 In 20 years, who would future teenagers and if they are free thinkers, see as the biggest trader to America?

Posted by: humphreyrobot at February 16, 2023 05:10 PM (5jvEc)

299 280 Nah bro. There is nothing at all of any redeeming value in Morbius. It's terrible at everything.
Posted by: blaster at February 16, 2023 05:00 PM (pwExq)

Morbius was written by a 6 year old who only writes 1 sentence paragraphs/scenes.

Posted by: Nova Local at February 16, 2023 05:07 PM (exHjb)

Look up Axe Cop, created by a 6-year-old...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 16, 2023 05:10 PM (ynpvh)

300 >>>Didn't they just introduce discount female Tony Stark in the Wakanda movie?

I don't think they'll push her as the new Iron Man. I think they're introducing all these woke teenage characters to do a terrible, terrible Young Avengers movie where every character is either a POC or gay. (Or both.)

If they try to push Iron Heart as the new Iron Man, I mean... Good luck with that.

Posted by: ace at February 16, 2023 05:03 PM (C1Zwz)

The character apparently tanked in the actual comics and got no readers, so I doubt she will be any more successful on the big screen.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 16, 2023 05:10 PM (eoQWY)

301 >No joke. A man disguised himself as a sheep to escape prison.

"Screw ewe guys! I'm outta here!"

Posted by: Fool Otto at February 16, 2023 05:11 PM (DB16e)

302 Following these comic book movie stuff is way beyond my ability. I saw Thor, which was meh. Also the first Wonder Woman which wasn't bad and was helped by great visuals (Gal Gadot). And some movie that had Superman come back to life and had Batman and WW and a couple of others. Again meh. I'm on the middle-upper edge of 29 and these pop culture things don't entertain me.

Pshew, glad I got that off my chest!

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 16, 2023 05:11 PM (fs1hN)

303 285 That's $27.5 million per episode. How? Who the hell approves spending that kind of per-episode money?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 16, 2023 05:05 PM (t0OGg)
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I believe Babylon 5 cost less than that for an entire season (in 1990s dollars) of 22 episodes.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 16, 2023 05:07 PM (YIVH2)

I liked Babylon 5.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 16, 2023 05:11 PM (ynpvh)

304 "In 20 years, who would future teenagers and if they are free thinkers, see as the biggest trader to America?
Posted by: humphreyrobot"

Taco Bell?

Posted by: Dung Beetle Man at February 16, 2023 05:12 PM (iayUP)

305 Well, as long as we are talking about shitty ants, how about Adam Ant?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 16, 2023 05:07 PM (XIJ/X)

Hey now!

Ant Music for Ant People!

Though Adam and the Ants >>>> Adam Ant

Posted by: blaster at February 16, 2023 05:12 PM (pwExq)

306 I saw Box Office Turd open for Pat Boone at Roy Rodgers Broke Back Ranch and Assless Chaps Emporium in '59 Gabby Hayes was on drums

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damnit! at February 16, 2023 05:12 PM (jUecV)

307 The cartoon movies lost me when they feature insectoids with mammaries. More focus should be placed on tight asses.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at February 16, 2023 05:13 PM (Jg7EG)

308 Didn't Odysseys hide under a sheep to escape the Cyclops? This guy was probably trying to escape a different kind of one eyed monster.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at February 16, 2023 05:09 PM (UuD2k)

His men used two tied together and I think as the last one out he just clung on below the stomach.

Sicilian Sheep must have been much larger in the past for this to work.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 16, 2023 05:13 PM (eoQWY)

309 BTW, does anyone recall the name of the Netflix movie about E. Palestine Ohio experiencing a train derailment that preceded the real life event?

Posted by: gourmand du jour, gimpy edition at February 16, 2023 05:13 PM (jTmQV)

310 I had a GF who like Adam Ant. Mr Puddinpanties we called him.

Posted by: fd at February 16, 2023 05:13 PM (iayUP)

311 298 In 20 years, who would future teenagers and if they are free thinkers, see as the biggest trader to America?

Posted by: humphreyrobot at February 16, 2023 05:10 PM (5jvEc)

Probably not China or Mexico.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 16, 2023 05:13 PM (ynpvh)

312 Though Adam and the Ants >>>> Adam Ant

Posted by: blaster at February 16, 2023 05:12 PM (pwExq)

Low bar...very low bar. And I might argue the point.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 16, 2023 05:13 PM (XIJ/X)

313 Peaky Blinders is a hoot. But I found the last season a bit weak.

The same guy did SAS Rogue Heroes which is about the founding of the SAS during WWII and recently dropped. It's fantastic in many ways. It's BBC on EPIC in the US. Netflix should have picked it up.

Posted by: Ignoramus at February 16, 2023 05:13 PM (SJsWC)

314 Don't blame me. I voted for Kodos.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at February 16, 2023 05:14 PM (Vwz3I)

315 I just want to thank the people who control the weather, and we all know who "they" are, for a 70 degree day in February.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 16, 2023 05:14 PM (ZLI7S)

316 309 BTW, does anyone recall the name of the Netflix movie about E. Palestine Ohio experiencing a train derailment that preceded the real life event?
Posted by: gourmand du jour, gimpy edition at February 16, 2023 05:13 PM (jTmQV)

White Noise. Didn't see it, just looked it up the other day.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at February 16, 2023 05:14 PM (Y5qcH)

317 "Posted by: TheJamesMadison, mired in filth and awfulness with Ralph Bakshi at February 16, 2023 05:06 PM (LvTSG)"

I don't get all the tomatometer and other crap. Especially whatever they do when the movie first comes out. But they completely flamed The Terminal List and it's still 39%. Meanwhile the audience score is 97.

Posted by: Marcus T at February 16, 2023 05:14 PM (pIKd9)

318 Yeah. It felt kinda like Zelazny either needed to write another half dozen books to flesh it out, or should have ended it sooner. I like the Amber series, but the start is much stronger than the finish.

***

Sadly, I have to agree.

Posted by: Azathoth at February 16, 2023 05:14 PM (wb1YC)

319 I believe Babylon 5 cost less than that for an entire season (in 1990s dollars) of 22 episodes.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 16, 2023 05:07 PM (YIVH2)

I liked Babylon 5.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 16, 2023 05:11 PM (ynpvh)

Yeah, its in my library of shows... both on DVD and Online... even the special effects hold up pretty well.

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 16, 2023 05:14 PM (oHd/0)

320 BTW, does anyone recall the name of the Netflix movie about E. Palestine Ohio experiencing a train derailment that preceded the real life event?
------------
The Hillary Clinton Story.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at February 16, 2023 05:15 PM (Vwz3I)

321 Don't blame me. I voted for Kodos.
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at February 16, 2023 05:14 PM (Vwz3I)

Dang it. I was gonna say that, but I had to whizz.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Southpaw at February 16, 2023 05:15 PM (xPJvm)

322 Thanks, sniffy

Posted by: gourmand du jour, gimpy edition at February 16, 2023 05:15 PM (jTmQV)

323 "homelessness rights" protest group

Wait. This implies homeless people are having their rights impinged or infringed.

Posted by: Emmie at February 16, 2023 05:15 PM (Emce2)

324 I get it. The MCU is big and bright and uses lots of elaborate graphics and sets and it's not comparable to a family drama, but damn near $30 million per episode? There must be a staggering amount of money being wasted.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 16, 2023 05:05 PM (t0OGg)

Don't do the math on the Amazon Rings O' Power. Something like a billion for the 6 or 8 episodes, and it sure looks like they spent it all on Bitcoin because none of it got into the writing, plot, direction or acting.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 16, 2023 05:16 PM (eoQWY)

325 "I just want to thank the people who control the weather, and we all know who "they" are, for a 70 degree day in February.
Posted by: JackStraw"

It was 80 here. Took off my shirt and put on shorts.
Goodbye Winter, I hope.

Posted by: fd at February 16, 2023 05:16 PM (iayUP)

326 323 "homelessness rights" protest group

Wait. This implies homeless people are having their rights impinged or infringed.

Posted by: Emmie at February 16, 2023 05:15 PM (Emce2)

I guess squatters have rights?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 16, 2023 05:16 PM (ynpvh)

327 "This media has been disabled in response to a report by the copyright owner"

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 16, 2023 05:08 PM

Try this one: https://bit.ly/3I6DzUT

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at February 16, 2023 05:16 PM (Do5/p)

328 Dang it. I was gonna say that, but I had to whizz.
------------
You peeze, you leeze.

Something like that anyway.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at February 16, 2023 05:16 PM (Vwz3I)

329 movie about E. Palestine Ohio experiencing a train derailment that preceded the real life event?
Posted by: gourmand du jour, gimpy edition at February 16, 2023 05:13 PM (jTmQV)

White Noise. Didn't see it, just looked it up the other day.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at February 16, 2023 05:14 PM (Y5qcH)

When I heard about this, I thought of Super 8.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Southpaw at February 16, 2023 05:16 PM (xPJvm)

330 Yeah, its in my library of shows... both on DVD and Online... even the special effects hold up pretty well.
Posted by: Romeo13 at February 16, 2023 05:14 PM (oHd/0)
---
The special effects are definitely dated, but the quality of the writing on the show is good enough you don't care.

Red Dwarf had some of the cheapest sets ever and the show was just brilliant.

It's NOT spectacle that makes good entertainment, despite what Disney Execs may think. It's STORYTELLING, first, last and always.

Keep that in mind and you can entrance your audience if all you have for a background is a painted curtain.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 16, 2023 05:17 PM (YIVH2)

331 325 "I just want to thank the people who control the weather, and we all know who "they" are, for a 70 degree day in February.
Posted by: JackStraw"

It was 80 here. Took off my shirt and put on shorts.
Goodbye Winter, I hope.

Posted by: fd at February 16, 2023 05:16 PM (iayUP)

In low 60s here is sunny San Diego. Was in low-mid 50's for the high two days ago; were in the 30's last night.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 16, 2023 05:17 PM (ynpvh)

332 I don't get all the tomatometer and other crap. Especially whatever they do when the movie first comes out. But they completely flamed The Terminal List and it's still 39%. Meanwhile the audience score is 97.
Posted by: Marcus T at February 16, 2023 05:14 PM (pIKd9)

That's typical of the traditional 'good' movie that isn't politically correct and has been for a while.

Now if the numbers are reversed its crap, and if both are low its crap crap.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 16, 2023 05:17 PM (eoQWY)

333 I just want to thank the people who control the weather, and we all know who "they" are, for a 70 degree day in February.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 16, 2023 05:14 PM (ZLI7S)

You're welcome.

It was so warm this morning I went shooting at my outdoor range.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 16, 2023 05:18 PM (XIJ/X)

334 PJM: Chris Cuomo: 'I Was Going to Kill Everybody, Including Myself' After CNN Firing

https://tinyurl.com/2s378naa

Via Stephen Green at Insty.

Posted by: Robert at February 16, 2023 05:18 PM (vxy+S)

335 BTW, does anyone recall the name of the Netflix movie about E. Palestine Ohio experiencing a train derailment that preceded the real life event?

Posted by: gourmand du jour, gimpy edition at February 16, 2023 05:13 PM

White Noise

https://bit.ly/3Sda9ZV

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at February 16, 2023 05:19 PM (Do5/p)

336 In low 60s here is sunny San Diego. Was in low-mid 50's for the high two days ago; were in the 30's last night.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 16, 2023 05:17 PM (ynpvh)

Not very warm here (28-ish), but the sun feels nice, and no wind. We're looking to get more snow next week. But CO is notorious for late winter/early spring storms.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Southpaw at February 16, 2023 05:19 PM (xPJvm)

337 "Now if the numbers are reversed its crap, and if both are low its crap crap.
Posted by: Oldcat at February 16, 2023 05:17 PM (eoQWY)"

Yeah, I need diagrams and pictures when it comes to that crap. Otherwise, I just get frustrated and want to shoot it.

Posted by: Marcus T at February 16, 2023 05:19 PM (pIKd9)

338 The character apparently tanked in the actual comics and got no readers, so I doubt she will be any more successful on the big screen.

***

One of the dumbest of Marvel's creations in recent memory. If I recall correctly, she basically stole some of his tech, used it, and then Tony, out of the goodness of his heart, because of course he'd just turn all this over to a teenager, decided to let her keep it. You know, the same guy who took the suit away from Peter Parker because he felt he was far too reckless and would get people hurt.

See, according to woke Marvel, being a teenager with a high IQ means you automatically know all the science behind everything Tony does. Because that's how IQ works. According to stupid people.

Posted by: Azathoth at February 16, 2023 05:19 PM (wb1YC)

339 PJM: Chris Cuomo: 'I Was Going to Kill Everybody, Including Myself' After CNN Firing

What a tease

Posted by: blaster at February 16, 2023 05:19 PM (pwExq)

340 "homelessness rights" protest group

Wait. This implies homeless people are having their rights impinged or infringed.

Posted by: Emmie at February 16, 2023 05:15 PM

I don't recall seeing the word "homeless" in the US bill of rights. Maybe it's in the section with "musket" and "hunting" next to the 2nd amendment.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at February 16, 2023 05:19 PM (uNylN)

341 Roddenberry pitched the original Star Trek to the suits as "Wagon Train in Space."

There's a core group of characters that interact with others for just that one episode before moving on. Makes for interesting scripts.

Posted by: Ignoramus at February 16, 2023 05:20 PM (SJsWC)

342 84 I'm familiar with "Atom Ant" the cartoon, but not "Ant Man" the cartoon.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 16, 2023 05:00 PM (Q4IgG)

Well, as long as we are talking about shitty ants, how about Adam Ant?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 16, 2023 05:07 PM
Don't drink, don't smoke.

Posted by: Eromero at February 16, 2023 05:20 PM (MF3yS)

343 The Ant Man movies have already under-performed compared to other Marvel titles.

Going pro-Socialist won't help matters any.

I disliked the Wasp so much, I didn't even bother with the second movie. I won't bother with this one, either.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at February 16, 2023 05:20 PM (bzzlh)

344 >>>PJM: Chris Cuomo: 'I Was Going to Kill Everybody, Including Myself' After CNN Firing

>Pussy-boy couldn't even do that right. Instead, he got a hand job from Don LeMon.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at February 16, 2023 05:21 PM (Jg7EG)

345 Who's Ant Man's nemesis? Anteater Man?

Posted by: fd at February 16, 2023 05:21 PM (iayUP)

346 327 "This media has been disabled in response to a report by the copyright owner"

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 16, 2023 05:08 PM

Try this one: https://bit.ly/3I6DzUT

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at February 16, 2023 05:16 PM (Do5/p)

I LOL'ed at the name of the prince's book...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 16, 2023 05:21 PM (ynpvh)

347 @disclosetv
UPDATE - Biden tells reporters, "give me a break, man," then walks out without answering a single question after his remarks on "aerial objects" over the US.

https://tinyurl.com/pmt8katb

Reporters yelling out a bunch of questions about a variety of Joe screwups.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at February 16, 2023 05:21 PM (Vwz3I)

348 I just want to thank the people who control the weather, and we all know who "they" are, for a 70 degree day in February.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 16, 2023 05:14 PM (ZLI7S)

You're welcome.

It was so warm this morning I went shooting at my outdoor range. - CBD

I did that so often, the RO on duty would yell "Take cover!!" when I entered the parking lot.

Posted by: mrp at February 16, 2023 05:21 PM (rj6Yv)

349 Who's Ant Man's nemesis? Anteater Man?
Posted by: fd at February 16, 2023 05:21 PM (iayUP)

RAID.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 16, 2023 05:22 PM (eoQWY)

350 >>You're welcome.

>>It was so warm this morning I went shooting at my outdoor range.

Sat down by the beach for lunch today. It felt like Spring. I'm sure we will pay for it.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 16, 2023 05:22 PM (ZLI7S)

351 I guess squatters have rights?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 16, 2023 05:16 PM (ynpvh)

To other people's property. Hmmmm. I can think of some other people's property I would like the rights to. If I took some environmentalist's private jet, I bet my use of it would be a smaller carbon footprint than the environmentalist's.

Posted by: Emmie at February 16, 2023 05:22 PM (Emce2)

352 >Pussy-boy couldn't even do that right. Instead, he got a hand job from Don LeMon.

***

LeMon misunderstood his comment about "shooting him in the face".

Posted by: Azathoth at February 16, 2023 05:23 PM (wb1YC)

353
Thanks to streaming, I've seen a few movies with Jared Leto in them.

Jared Leto's got this weird anti-charisma. You just kinda hate him the minute he shows up on the screen.

Not sure why Hollywood likes him but if they're determined to let him into movies, they should stick with him as the odious scumbag or villain 0or weasel. Stuff like that. He could have a long and profitable Peter Lorre-ish career.

Anything else...nope.

Posted by: naturalfake at February 16, 2023 05:23 PM (KLPy8)

354 There was this chick in Thailand called the Anteater. But I'm pretty sure the context was different. But you know, there are superheroes everywhere.

Posted by: Marcus T at February 16, 2023 05:23 PM (pIKd9)

355 Who's Ant Man's nemesis? Anteater Man?
Posted by: fd at February 16, 2023 05:21 PM (iayUP)
........

Magnifying Glass Kid?

Posted by: wth at February 16, 2023 05:23 PM (v0R5T)

356 UPDATE - Biden tells reporters, "give me a break, man," then walks out without answering a single question after his remarks on "aerial objects" over the US.
____

And thus, norms are restored. You're welcome.

Posted by: National Review at February 16, 2023 05:23 PM (fs1hN)

357 345 Who's Ant Man's nemesis? Anteater Man?

Posted by: fd at February 16, 2023 05:21 PM (iayUP)

I hear he sucks.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 16, 2023 05:24 PM (ynpvh)

358 Throughout the pandemic sra blaster and I watched a lot of stuff on the streaming services. There is a LOT of real crap out there. Stuff that makes you realize that the crappiest big budget Hollywood stuff is way better.

But occasionally we see stuff with good bones - you can see a good story, or pieces of good writing, or, heck orginality! - and think man if that was redone with budget it could be something.

But what movie was that where these guys had a great movie where some chick dies in the gas chamber and they don't want Hollywood to take over and have Bruce Willis smash through the glass and save her in the end, and then they get the greenlight and make the movie and Bruce Willis smashes through the glass to save the girl and theyare totally stoked about it?

Posted by: blaster at February 16, 2023 05:24 PM (pwExq)

359 But Raggity Karine says Sundowner is the best communicator ever

Posted by: Skip at February 16, 2023 05:24 PM (xhxe8)

360 What they have done to superheroes sucks, watch some real heroes instead.

https://youtu.be/swJqbBPz_7I

American WW2 Hellmarch

Posted by: sven at February 16, 2023 05:25 PM (Lzpvj)

361 Jared Leto's got this weird anti-charisma. You just kinda hate him the minute he shows up on the screen.

Not sure why Hollywood likes him but if they're determined to let him into movies, they should stick with him as the odious scumbag or villain 0or weasel. Stuff like that. He could have a long and profitable Peter Lorre-ish career.

Anything else...nope.
Posted by: naturalfake at February 16, 2023 05:23 PM (KLPy

Bruce Dern got that way for me - seen him as the crazed loner killer too many times. One time I saw a gum commerical where pretty young gum lady went on a date and met a Dern lookalike and I shouted "RUN!"

Posted by: Oldcat at February 16, 2023 05:25 PM (eoQWY)

362 UPDATE - Biden tells reporters, "give me a break, man," then walks out without answering a single question after his remarks on "aerial objects" over the US.

Eh, that'sonly part of the story.

NY Post reporter yells out "are you compromised ny your family's dealings with China" and Biden says give me a break, man, then waves a couple other reporters to come talk to him somewhere that he can avoid that stuff.

Posted by: blaster at February 16, 2023 05:26 PM (pwExq)

363 I'm glad I gave up comic books around seventh grade.

Posted by: Chuck C at February 16, 2023 05:26 PM (xttsV)

364 Eh, that'sonly part of the story.

NY Post reporter yells out "are you compromised ny your family's dealings with China" and Biden says give me a break, man, then waves a couple other reporters to come talk to him somewhere that he can avoid that stuff.
Posted by: blaster at February 16, 2023 05:26 PM (pwExq)

He was compromised long before that, to be fair.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 16, 2023 05:27 PM (eoQWY)

365 The MCU and DC simply has no appeal to me. It seems like a giant waste of my time and money. This is probably because I left comic books behind by age 8. Last comic book movie I saw was Superman II and it sucked.

Posted by: Beartooth at February 16, 2023 05:27 PM (N52dd)

366 358 Posted by: blaster at February 16, 2023 05:24 PM (pwExq)

The movie within the movie for the Player I think.

Bruce Willis with Julia Roberts

Posted by: sven at February 16, 2023 05:27 PM (Lzpvj)

367 Nineteen shopping days left until the great State of Texas burns this kid-killer:
youtube.com/watch?v=cp7Jqbfxz74

Posted by: Durable Yet Minimal gp-Based Barrier at February 16, 2023 05:27 PM (24fqN)

368 Speaking of Babylon 5, it's in the catalog of the free-with-ads streaming platform Tubi now, with remastered CGI.

Posted by: ptschett at February 16, 2023 05:27 PM (uHE/j)

369 But it happens 1,500 times a year!

@TheInsiderPaper · 3h
JUST IN - White House says will "hold Norfolk Southern accountable" for the Ohio train derailment

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at February 16, 2023 05:28 PM (Vwz3I)

370
Who's Ant Man's nemesis? Anteater Man?

Posted by: fd

Pour Molten Aluminum into the Any Colony Man

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 16, 2023 05:28 PM (pNxlR)

371 The people who think we should be like ants all think that they're going to be the queens and the rest of us will live to serve them.

Posted by: Oddbob at February 16, 2023 05:28 PM (nfrXX)

372 362 Posted by: blaster at February 16, 2023 05:26 PM (pwExq)

The press have always been near whores socially amongst the powerful....

they are now lower than whores honestly.

Posted by: sven at February 16, 2023 05:28 PM (Lzpvj)

373 as Andrej from Midnight's Edge says in his Norwegian accent, "another asshole joke."

Those kinds of jokes are likely to wreck t'em, alrighty.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 16, 2023 05:29 PM (a3Q+t)

374 JUST IN - White House says will "hold Norfolk Southern accountable" for the Ohio train derailment
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at February 16, 2023 05:28 PM (Vwz3I)

Pretty strange place for Norfolk Southern to be. Last time I checked Ohio was Northern and Western of Norfolk.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 16, 2023 05:29 PM (eoQWY)

375 349 Who's Ant Man's nemesis? Anteater Man?
Posted by: fd at February 16, 2023 05:21 PM (iayUP)

RAID.
Posted by: Oldcat at February 16, 2023 05:22 PM (eoQWY)

OKIN Man!

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 16, 2023 05:30 PM (oHd/0)

376 Logarrhea-Afflicted Ex-Con open for the Sex Pistols at the Longhorn Dallas 1978.

Posted by: ShainS -- Slaves no longer require coercion because they love their servitude at February 16, 2023 05:30 PM (JTf3c)

377
Pour Molten Aluminum into the Any Colony Man

That has got to be one of the worst ways to expire.

One minute you are a jolly little worker fem and the next you are a crispified chitin exoskeleton

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 16, 2023 05:31 PM (pNxlR)

378 Try this one: https://bit.ly/3I6DzUT
==
Oh my. Those guys are messed up but, its hard not to appreciate the completely remorseless dedication to insult. They are a modern version of Don Rickles.

Posted by: Insult Comedy animated at February 16, 2023 05:31 PM (0pcj9)

379 For those that haven't seen it...

@TheInsiderPaper · 5h
BREAKING: Another train derailment, this time in Van Buren Township outside Detroit, Michigan, with one car carrying hazardous materials

@TheInsiderPaper · 3h
UPDATES - Reports say at least six train cars were observed off the track, with one of them carrying hazardous materials

@TheInsiderPaper · 1h
NEW 🚨 The train carrying hazardous materials that derailed outside of Detroit in Michigan today is from Norfolk Southern Railway Company

https://tinyurl.com/4ecvzy98

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at February 16, 2023 05:31 PM (Vwz3I)

380 >>>I'm glad I gave up comic books around seventh grade.

>Comic books are a gateway vice to Mad magazine, Cracked, and eventually Modern Man.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at February 16, 2023 05:31 PM (Jg7EG)

381 But what movie was that where these guys had a great movie where some chick dies in the gas chamber and they don't want Hollywood to take over and have Bruce Willis smash through the glass and save her in the end, and then they get the greenlight and make the movie and Bruce Willis smashes through the glass to save the girl and theyare totally stoked about it?
Posted by: blaster at February 16, 2023 05:24 PM (pwExq)
----------
The Player?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at February 16, 2023 05:31 PM (XlE1Z)

382 Jared Leto's got this weird anti-charisma. You just kinda hate him the minute he shows up on the screen.

Not sure why Hollywood likes him but if they're determined to let him into movies, they should stick with him as the odious scumbag or villain 0or weasel. Stuff like that. He could have a long and profitable Peter Lorre-ish career.

Anything else...nope.
Posted by: naturalfake at February 16, 2023 05:23 PM (KLPy

Bruce Dern got that way for me - seen him as the crazed loner killer too many times. One time I saw a gum commerical where pretty young gum lady went on a date and met a Dern lookalike and I shouted "RUN!"
Posted by: Oldcat at February 16, 2023 05:25 PM (eoQWY)

Bruce Dern makes a great bad guy in Diggstown. Plus it has James Woods, Louis Gosset jr and the breasts of Rollergirl

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at February 16, 2023 05:32 PM (bzzlh)

383 349 Who's Ant Man's nemesis? Anteater Man?
Posted by: fd at February 16, 2023 05:21 PM (iayUP)

RAID.
Posted by: Oldcat at February 16, 2023 05:22 PM (eoQWY)

OKIN Man!
Posted by: Romeo13 at February 16, 2023 05:30 PM (oHd/0)

Behold, Antithesis!

Posted by: mrp at February 16, 2023 05:32 PM (rj6Yv)

384 When I heard about this, I thought of Super 8.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Southpaw at February 16, 2023 05:16 PM (xPJvm)

I liked Super 8. An entertaining movie even though the ending was very predictable.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at February 16, 2023 05:32 PM (BdMk6)

385 Pour Molten Aluminum into the Any Colony Man

That has got to be one of the worst ways to expire.

One minute you are a jolly little worker fem and the next you are a crispified chitin exoskeleton
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 16, 2023 05:31 PM (pNxlR)

That's the sort of Toxic Masculinity the Fems are always complaining about. Do the women's studies department next.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 16, 2023 05:32 PM (eoQWY)

386 "But what movie was that where these guys had a great movie where some chick dies in the gas chamber and they don't want Hollywood to take over and have Bruce Willis smash through the glass and save her in the end, and then they get the greenlight and make the movie and Bruce Willis smashes through the glass to save the girl and theyare totally stoked about it?"

"I Want to Live, Hudson Hawk!"

Posted by: Durable Yet Minimal gp-Based Barrier at February 16, 2023 05:33 PM (24fqN)

387 Tits Romney/Mitt Romney 2024 -- ahoy!

Posted by: micky at February 16, 2023 05:33 PM (3byMq)

388 381 Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at February 16, 2023 05:31 PM (XlE1Z)

Yes it was the film within a film on the player....

Posted by: sven at February 16, 2023 05:33 PM (Lzpvj)

389 >>>I'm glad I gave up comic books around seventh grade.

>Comic books are a gateway vice to Mad magazine, Cracked, and eventually Modern Man.
Posted by: Dr. Bone at February 16, 2023 05:31 PM (Jg7EG)

Once they had "Sgt Fury and his Howling Commandos" comics had reached the Apex. No regular Commandos for him, he needed Howlers.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 16, 2023 05:33 PM (eoQWY)

390 Ant colony aluminum molds are pretty awesome

Posted by: Skip at February 16, 2023 05:34 PM (xhxe8)

391 "I just want to thank the people who control the weather, and we all know who "they" are, for a 70 degree day in February.
Posted by: JackStraw"

It was 80 here. Took off my shirt and put on shorts.
Goodbye Winter, I hope.

Posted by: fd at February 16, 2023 05:16 PM (iayUP)

In low 60s here is sunny San Diego. Was in low-mid 50's for the high two days ago; were in the 30's last night.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

High 70s with severe weather incoming. Tell whoever it is to get f***ed.

Posted by: Brother Tim, still the worst commenter on the blog at February 16, 2023 05:34 PM (OUMaO)

392 That's the sort of Toxic Masculinity the Fems are always complaining about. Do the women's studies department next.
Posted by: Oldcat at February 16, 2023 05:32 PM (eoQWY)

Poor Molten Aluminum over it?

Might be onto something there...

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 16, 2023 05:34 PM (oHd/0)

393 Poor Molten Aluminum over it?

Might be onto something there...
Posted by: Romeo13 at February 16, 2023 05:34 PM (oHd/0)

There's a Metallurgy Department around here somewhere...

Posted by: Oldcat at February 16, 2023 05:35 PM (eoQWY)

394
That's the sort of Toxic Masculinity the Fems are always complaining about. Do the women's studies department next.

Posted by: Oldcat

"What's in that huge crucible that those two sky choppers are carrying?"

* molten aluminum pouring over the roof begins *

"Waddle, no, RUN for your lives!"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 16, 2023 05:35 PM (pNxlR)

395 There are now ICD codes for the unvaccinated and un-boosted to allow Big Fucker to "track" us.

https://tinyurl.com/yjr8d224

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at February 16, 2023 05:35 PM (sWM8x)

396 I maintain my positions, re thor4/strange2..but who cares.

fuck it all, I think Deathsantis should make sure a soros like prosecutor helps make disney world just that much better for families as we now get daily viral videos of disneyworld being as safe as a public school with fighting hoards of teens.

Posted by: sockamster, Doctor at blogothopy at February 16, 2023 05:35 PM (MLrvz)

397 Once they had "Sgt Fury and his Howling Commandos" comics had reached the Apex. No regular Commandos for him, he needed Howlers.
Posted by: Oldcat at February 16, 2023 05:33 PM (eoQWY)

We need a 'Haunted Tank' Movie... done with the old story, not the revamped post Desert Storm one.

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 16, 2023 05:35 PM (oHd/0)

398 Looking forward to watch The Siege of Jadotville. No MCU characters in it I think.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 16, 2023 05:35 PM (fs1hN)

399 I liked Super 8. An entertaining movie even though the ending was very predictable.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at February 16, 2023 05:32 PM (BdMk6)

One thing I liked about Super 8 is that they managed to get some kid actors who were not irritating as fuck-all. A rare achievement.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Southpaw at February 16, 2023 05:35 PM (xPJvm)

400 You know, with the mention of Mardock it brought to mind one of the weakest "Phineas and Ferb" crossovers, the Marvel crossover, where Mardock was one of the villians.

Pretty much universally panned at the time as a weak crossover.

Sounds like that today it would be a creative masterpiece. I mean, Mardock and Doofenschmirtz trashing a mall? Comedy gold.... or at least comedy pyrite.

Posted by: GanGanowicz at February 16, 2023 05:36 PM (AxRGS)

401 79 For those that haven't seen it...

@TheInsiderPaper · 5h
BREAKING: Another train derailment, this time in Van Buren Township outside Detroit, Michigan, with one car carrying hazardous materials

@TheInsiderPaper · 3h
UPDATES - Reports say at least six train cars were observed off the track, with one of them carrying hazardous materials

@TheInsiderPaper · 1h
NEW 🚨 The train carrying hazardous materials that derailed outside of Detroit in Michigan today is from Norfolk Southern Railway Company

https://tinyurl.com/4ecvzy98
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at February 16, 2023 05:31 PM (Vwz3I)

Wow. I'm like totally shaking in my boots right now. What is this world coming to?!

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at February 16, 2023 05:36 PM (BdMk6)

402 good point, so, other universe tony stark will replace Downey Jr Stark (eggggzept for when he makes a cameo).

and it's gonna be a current thing representation of current liberal mental illness

Posted by: sockamster, Doctor at blogothopy at February 16, 2023 05:36 PM (MLrvz)

403 fuck it all, I think Deathsantis should make sure a soros like prosecutor helps make disney world just that much better for families as we now get daily viral videos of disneyworld being as safe as a public school with fighting hoards of teens.
Posted by: sockamster, Doctor at blogothopy at February 16, 2023 05:35 PM (MLrvz)

Fighting teens would be an improvement over the groomer Educators. Gangs can be fought or reasoned with.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 16, 2023 05:37 PM (eoQWY)

404 One thing I liked about Super 8 is that they managed to get some kid actors who were not irritating as fuck-all. A rare achievement.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Southpaw at February 16, 2023 05:35 PM (xPJvm

That too.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at February 16, 2023 05:37 PM (BdMk6)

405 "But what movie was that where these guys had a great movie where some chick dies in the gas chamber and they don't want Hollywood to take over and have Bruce Willis smash through the glass and save her in the end, and then they get the greenlight and make the movie and Bruce Willis smashes through the glass to save the girl and theyare totally stoked about it?"

/////////

the player. learn to love the money, sucker

Posted by: sockamster, Doctor at blogothopy at February 16, 2023 05:37 PM (MLrvz)

406 @TheInsiderPaper · 1h
NEW 🚨 The train carrying hazardous materials that derailed outside of Detroit in Michigan today is from Norfolk Southern Railway Company

https://tinyurl.com/4ecvzy98
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at February 16, 2023 05:31 PM (Vwz3I)

Wow. I'm like totally shaking in my boots right now. What is this world coming to?!
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at February 16, 2023 05:36 PM (BdMk6)

A gasping nation turns its eyes to Secretary of Transportation And Vacations ...

Posted by: mrp at February 16, 2023 05:38 PM (rj6Yv)

407 @TheInsiderPaper · 1h
NEW 🚨 The train carrying hazardous materials that derailed outside of Detroit in Michigan today is from Norfolk Southern Railway Company

https://tinyurl.com/4ecvzy98
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at February 16, 2023 05:31 PM (Vwz3I)

Wow. I'm like totally shaking in my boots right now. What is this world coming to?!
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at February 16, 2023 05:36 PM (BdMk6)

Look I know Michigan is playing Catch Up with Ohio State, but this is taking it too far.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 16, 2023 05:38 PM (eoQWY)

408 Fighting teens would be an improvement over the groomer Educators. Gangs can be fought or reasoned with.

///////

so, no. they can't

but.............

hear me out. Desatnis does a "bring an inner city yute to Disney thing" and let's nature run it's course as they beat the families of lib pukes who spent $10K to be there.

see how long that business model lasts

Posted by: sockamster, Doctor at blogothopy at February 16, 2023 05:38 PM (MLrvz)

409 Aren't there something like 1,700 derailments a year in the US? Not going to do the math but that is about 4.657534246575342 times a day.

Posted by: Beartooth at February 16, 2023 05:39 PM (N52dd)

410 401 Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at February 16, 2023 05:36 PM (BdMk6)

so did you notice that the media pretended Trump and Bush were responsible for every feather that fell from every sparrow's tail in the world?

You ever notice Clinton, Urkle, and Joey Plugz are not responsible for anything?

Posted by: sven at February 16, 2023 05:39 PM (Lzpvj)

411 409 Posted by: Beartooth at February 16, 2023 05:39 PM (N52dd)

It is a day ending in "y" the problem with the Ohio derailment was ignoring best practices on load planning....that is the story.....the problem is the assholes in the media are functionally illiterate in any business other than shitstirring.

Posted by: sven at February 16, 2023 05:40 PM (Lzpvj)

412 401 Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at February 16, 2023 05:36 PM (BdMk6)

so did you notice that the media pretended Trump and Bush were responsible for every feather that fell from every sparrow's tail in the world?

You ever notice Clinton, Urkle, and Joey Plugz are not responsible for anything?
Posted by: sven at February 16, 2023 05:39 PM (Lzpvj)

Interesting, no claims that the Chinese/Russians are involved, either.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 16, 2023 05:40 PM (eoQWY)

413 90 "I'm not fat, I'm big boned. In the ass."

Brie Larsen.

Posted by: Marcus T at February 16, 2023 04:40 PM (pIKd9)
----
Brie, is that cheese?

Posted by: Ciampino - Oui Monsieur at February 16, 2023 05:40 PM (qfLjt)

414 I take sabotage of NS for $1,000

Posted by: Ben Had at February 16, 2023 05:41 PM (fR7jR)

415 Pretty much all the Marvel hero intro movies were good; Iron Man, Captain America, AntMan, Thor, Guardians of the Galaxy, etc. (Although I personally didn't care for Dr. Strange, and by the time Black Panther 1 came out, the formula was stale). And then they all pretty much had their sophomore jinx. Only Captain America seemed to avoid that as Winter Soldier and Civil War were both good as well.

But I'm done and don't care anymore. Disney is killing all these franchises, and then beating the corpses, hoping that gold coins pop out a la Mario World bricks.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at February 16, 2023 05:41 PM (gwInx)

416 Ant colonies aren't socialist. It's an absolute monarchy.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 16, 2023 05:42 PM (9UlRk)

417 Happily a Anti-vaxed heathen

Posted by: Skip at February 16, 2023 05:43 PM (xhxe8)

418 414 Posted by: Ben Had at February 16, 2023 05:41 PM (fR7jR)

If Buffet doesn't own it he soon will.

Posted by: sven at February 16, 2023 05:43 PM (Lzpvj)

419 Ant colonies aren't socialist. It's an absolute monarchy.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 16, 2023 05:42 PM (9UlRk)

Possibly better defined as a single gestalt individual with ants of various types as the units

Posted by: Oldcat at February 16, 2023 05:44 PM (eoQWY)

420 mislabeling hazardous packaging is a federal offense, just so you know
knowingly transporting mislabeled hazardous materials is too

Posted by: DanMan at February 16, 2023 05:44 PM (DB6tu)

421 Happily a Anti-vaxed heathen
Posted by: Skip at February 16, 2023 05:43 PM (xhxe

I'm more partial to the term "cleanblood".

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 16, 2023 05:44 PM (9UlRk)

422 Ant colonies aren't socialist. It's an absolute monarchy.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 16, 2023 05:42 PM (9UlRk)

It's Metropolis on ant steroids.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at February 16, 2023 05:44 PM (BdMk6)

423 415 Posted by: Stu Podaso at February 16, 2023 05:41 PM (gwInx)

When you read neo-noir based piulp with badass normals that is better written from drivethrufiction where you can specialize your order with "hold the bullshit SJW retard" it puts things in perspective.

The Silencer is well-written.

Posted by: sven at February 16, 2023 05:45 PM (Lzpvj)

424 "Ant colonies aren't socialist. It's an absolute monarchy."

Hive mind. Like The Borg, which is what they want.

Posted by: Ignoramus at February 16, 2023 05:45 PM (SJsWC)

425 "mislabeling hazardous packaging is a federal offense, just so you know knowingly transporting mislabeled hazardous materials is too"

Labels don't make axles fail.

Posted by: Durable Yet Minimal gp-Based Barrier at February 16, 2023 05:45 PM (24fqN)

426 good point, so, other universe tony stark will replace Downey Jr Stark (eggggzept for when he makes a cameo).

and it's gonna be a current thing representation of current liberal mental illness
Posted by: sockamster

Oh, but we'll have Ironheart to replace him. You know the 15 year old black girl genius who steals Tony's armor because her teacher wouldn't be racist to her. Stunning and Blacktastic.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 16, 2023 05:45 PM (XF9Gj)

427 Sadly, plenty of kids will still watch this shit.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 16, 2023 05:45 PM (XtkZj)

428 Possibly better defined as a single gestalt individual with ants of various types as the units
Posted by: Oldcat at February 16, 2023 05:44 PM (eoQWY)

I guess the closest thing in human history would be the Inca.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 16, 2023 05:46 PM (9UlRk)

429 420 Posted by: DanMan at February 16, 2023 05:44 PM (DB6tu)

Quite aware I worked Hazmat for an air cargo company.

The "look for the union label" types are pencil whipping their load planning.

Bank on it.

Posted by: sven at February 16, 2023 05:46 PM (Lzpvj)

430
The base rate of train derailments in the US comes to about 3 per day.

So, any given day, you could have about 3 screaming headlines about it.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (Mzdiz) at February 16, 2023 05:46 PM (Mzdiz)

431 "Sadly, plenty of kids will still watch this shit."

Said every animation shop ever.

Posted by: Durable Yet Minimal gp-Based Barrier at February 16, 2023 05:46 PM (24fqN)

432 425 Posted by: Durable Yet Minimal gp-Based Barrier at February 16, 2023 05:45 PM (24fqN)

No but statistically shit happens....would you prefer it have properly seperated chemicals or "build your own love canal?"

I prefer the latter.

Posted by: sven at February 16, 2023 05:47 PM (Lzpvj)

433 Sadly, plenty of kids will still watch this shit.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 16, 2023 05:45 PM (XtkZj)

It likely wasn't the kids that made these into zillion dollar movies but the adults. And they are losing them unless they change course.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 16, 2023 05:47 PM (eoQWY)

434 yeah, no. that's it. I'm going to secretly organize bring your urban street gang to disney charities

Posted by: sockamster, Doctor at blogothopy at February 16, 2023 05:47 PM (MLrvz)

435 Is the smell of box office disappointment hazardous?

Posted by: torabora at February 16, 2023 05:48 PM (GpH/r)

436 Ever seen the Korean flick "Oldboy"?

-

Do not do this. Or the Audition.

Well, you can, because they're really interesting stories and well thought out movies in a way America is incapable of making.

But holy cow they'll leave a bad taste in your mouth.

Posted by: RIP Tyler Nichols - Those white supremacist cops will face justice at February 16, 2023 05:48 PM (UgZIK)

437 I'm still not sure why theyr'e going with this Kang character. The actor has all of the presence of a oreo-cookie pie. What a dumb call.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 16, 2023 05:48 PM (XF9Gj)

438 Sadly, plenty of kids will still watch this shit.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 16, 2023 05:45 PM (XtkZj)

At least they'll sit in a dark sticky room next to their parents watching videos of dogs biting people in their crotches on their phones while the movie vaguely happens on one of the walls and everything goes "BOOOMBOOOOMBOOOM" but they don't really give a shit because meh.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 16, 2023 05:48 PM (9UlRk)

439 they probably need to differentiate between derailments, eh?

like on a scale of a 1-5?

cause this sounds like obfuscation, 1000 derailments a year. sure...

Posted by: sockamster, Doctor at blogothopy at February 16, 2023 05:48 PM (MLrvz)

440 Just got my delivery of Girl Scout cookies. I know, I know but the little girl selling them was just so darned cute I couldn't resist.

Posted by: Tuna at February 16, 2023 05:49 PM (gLRfa)

441 437 Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 16, 2023 05:48 PM (XF9Gj)

Kang had the potential to be a worthy second villain to a well done Fantastic Four....

you'll note "a well done F4"....

Well that is hard for the tards to pull off.

Posted by: sven at February 16, 2023 05:49 PM (Lzpvj)

442 The Player was a great movie. Fantastic ending.

Posted by: SFGoth at February 16, 2023 05:49 PM (KAi1n)

443 The base rate of cataclysmic plumes of toxic shit radiating across multiple states is decidedly not three per day.

Maybe one.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 16, 2023 05:50 PM (9UlRk)

444 442 Posted by: SFGoth at February 16, 2023 05:49 PM (KAi1n)

Couldn't be made today, and frankly had it been made today I'd have ignored it.

I used to grant the fuckers a dispensation on their shit for artistic excellence and elegance.

That ship has sailed.

Posted by: sven at February 16, 2023 05:50 PM (Lzpvj)

445 White privilege personified

https://bit.ly/3xvmQpk

Posted by: micky at February 16, 2023 05:51 PM (3byMq)

446 nood

Posted by: Durable Yet Minimal gp-Based Barrier at February 16, 2023 05:51 PM (24fqN)

447 you got to wonder how many Clancy novel type gangs of sociopath foreign agents are currently going around the USA trying to fuck shit up.

russians, chinese, muslims-sunni, muslims-shia, antifa, and cartel...

they're all like, "wait, was that us?" at the latest catastrophe. One group's like, "wait, why eggs?"

Posted by: sockamster, Doctor at blogothopy at February 16, 2023 05:52 PM (MLrvz)

448 "build your own love canal?"
I prefer the latter.
Posted by: sven at February 16, 2023 05:47 PM

Us, too.

Posted by: M -> F trannies at February 16, 2023 05:53 PM (a3Q+t)

449 What we MIGHT be seeing with railroads is the loss of revenue due to inflation and worsening economy. Railroads get absolutely no help from the feds to maintain their roads (as opposed to taxpayer-funded highways).

When revenues go down, so does maintenance of roads and equipment.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at February 16, 2023 05:53 PM (BdMk6)

450 "Labels don't make axles fail."

axles don't have anything to do with not correctly identifying hazardous cargo either

they will try to blame the lowest man on the totem pole but that doesn't cover the exposure of the guy that signed off on it

I bet there is a lot of liability being run from

Posted by: DanMan at February 16, 2023 05:55 PM (DB6tu)

451 Who's Ant Man's nemesis? Anteater Man?
Posted by: fd at February 16, 2023 05:21 PM (iayUP)

The Terminixer

Posted by: another sock in the drawer! at February 16, 2023 05:58 PM (89Sog)

452 rats. i used the same sock twice. time to fix that!

Posted by: another sock in the drawer!! at February 16, 2023 05:59 PM (89Sog)

453 Heidi & I are lifting John up in prayer. Mental illness is real & serious, and I hope that he gets the care he needs.
---------

Uh, I think this may be something of a cold comfort expression of concern. There is a distinction between 'depression' and 'mental illness', I would say.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 16, 2023 06:03 PM (G3Ke+)

454 "There are also reports that Rama allies, such as Tirana mayor Erion Veliaj, paid McGonigal some 8 million euros to have a political rival, Ylli Ndroqi, declared non grata by Washington. A frequent critic of the Rama government, Ndroqi had his media empire seized by the ruling socialists in 2020 amid allegations of drug trafficking and money laundering — which are the same things the Rama government is widely alleged to be involved in."

I notice that the people always mad about Victor Orban but when its the socialists, it okay

Posted by: Harun at February 16, 2023 06:24 PM (Cg63x)

455 I was afraid Peltz was going to save Disney, and I want Disney to die in a fire, so this is good.

Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at February 16, 2023 06:28 PM (dQfJF)

456 nope

Posted by: Eromero at February 16, 2023 06:41 PM (MF3yS)

457 The pedos at Disney showing admiration for the pedos in Antifa?

And the Lincoln Project sitting there all alone.

Posted by: eddie at February 16, 2023 07:40 PM (4+Tgo)

458 Don't care. I won't give them money since they hate me

Posted by: Xavier Basora at February 16, 2023 08:40 PM (HZCl6)

459
https://tinyurl.com/6a3ezseh

Posted by: ShainS -- Slaves no longer require coercion because they love their servitude at February 16, 2023 08:47 PM (wsx8x)

460 154 Oh, another Disney bright idea. Remake National Treasure, which for some reason I found intriguing, with an all female lead cast. I was like, where the fuck is Nicholas Cage and WTF am I watching you ass pirates? Total, medical waste three alarm dumpster fire.
Posted by: Marcus T at February 16, 2023 04:49 PM (pIKd9)

Oh, yeah, that show actually came out, didn't it? I watch a lot of youtubers who base their channels on making fun of woke garbage, but even they ignored that show. One channel reviewed one episode and then gave up on it. Oh well.

Posted by: Castle Guy at February 16, 2023 09:37 PM (Lhaco)

461 >It felt kinda like Zelazny either needed to write another half dozen books to flesh it out, or should have ended it sooner.

Um, he did. Corwin's Chronicles are books 1-5, and Merlin's Chronicles are books 6-10.

Merlin's Chronicles aren't as good because he was dying of colon cancer while trying to finish the books, which is why the tenth book is three times the size of the rest.

Posted by: Daniel Ream at February 17, 2023 12:03 AM (vaLOp)

462 "Socialism WORKS"

Yes, if the "subjects" are ants, it works beautifully. The issue is that we are humans, and we have that whole pesky self-determination and sentience issue to deal with.

Humans generally aren't willing to sacrifice themselves en masse for the good of the "whole". Especially when that "whole" will inevitably be a powerful elite with way too much control over us ants... er, peons... uhh, I mean, CITIZENS.

That's actually the problem with our current cronyist instantiation of "capitalism" that we're effing around with right now. The power elite are all that matters.

Posted by: Goober at February 17, 2023 04:36 PM (Hgvgt)

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