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Ant-Man 3 Suffers Marvel's Second-Biggest Second Weekend Box Office Drop; Industry Shill Variety Asks, "After 'Ant-Man 3's' Second Weekend Box Office Collapse, Should Marvel Get Concerned?"
Variety is an industry rag so this is still an industry shill article. It's notable they're asking the question, though."Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania" took a sizable hit in its sophomore outing at the box office. Ticket sales for the third Marvel movie starring Paul Rudd's subatomic hero were down 69% from its $105 million debut, resulting in the biggest second-weekend drop in the franchise's history. That fall has inspired plenty of debate among analysts and experts: Is the film's performance a blip or an inflection point in Hollywood's biggest property? The answer is likely somewhere in between, according to senior Comscore analyst Paul Dergarabedian. ... In other words, its second-weekend turnout of $32 million is not exactly encouraging this early into its theatrical run, but let's see where ticket sales end up by the time "Quantumania" leaves the big screen.They said the same thing about Black Panther 2: Wakanda Forever -- "let's wait and see, it might leg it out and wind up surprising u. It disappointed big time. The first Black Panther made $1.3+ billion worldwide, the sequel made $858 million. Sure, that's money, but almost all of the Marvel movies make money... so far. They're just making less and less of it. I think the standard prediction for a Marvel blockbuster's performance is 2.5 times its initial worldwide opening. They don't have legs; most of the fans come out to see it opening weekend. (Note the $100 million figure being mentioned is the domestic take; the 2.5x figure would just give you the likely final domestic take. You'd have to figure in the international take too to get the total take.)
... "I don't think it's a big deal," says Jeff Bock, an analyst with Exhibitor Relations. "It had the biggest opening of the series, by far, which makes up for any drops."He's an industry shill. And he's saying it had the biggest opening of the Ant-Man series, which is the poorest-performing Marvel series, bar none. Note there may be poorer-performing Marvel standalone movies, but none that went to series. The article notes that many of Marvel's latest movies have had similar second-weekend drops, nearly as high as Ant-Man 3's 69%, and still made $700-800 million.
...Maybe. But the casual normie audience that would show up and blow these movies' box office up is gone.
Yet those movies -- with the exception of "Black Widow," which was released day-and-date on Disney Plus -- earned at least $760 million and as much as $955 million by the end of their theatrical runs. There's an argument that Marvel hasn't been appealing beyond its target audience, but that target audience sure is dependable. No other franchise, dozens of films in, has managed to come close to that kind of consistency. "The loyal fans are going to show up no matter what," Robbins says. "The increasingly front-loaded nature and, occasionally divisive reception, of some of their recent films might not necessarily be worrying to the brand overall as long as the core fanbase remains."
How many grand slams have they had since Endgame? Only one -- Spider-Man: No Way Home. Technically that was a Marvel co-production with Sony. And that was with Spider-Man, the biggest or second-biggest comic book character in the world, and also with the You Can Only Do This Once stunt of bringing back two previous Spider-Man actors to appear with the current one. I'm not sure they're going to excite the normies to see the next one when he's just fighting the Rhino again or whatever. Some are saying that it's embarrassing that Ant-Man 3 was in a dogfight for the number one spot with an R-rated goofball exploitation horror flick, Cocaine Bear. Point taken, but I don't know how much of a dogfight it is -- Ant-Man 3 made $32 million, which is crap for its second weekend, and Cocaine Bear made $23.1 million. Sure, they're in the same church, but in different pews. Still. I get why they're saying that. Why was there even a chance Cocaine Bear could beat the opening movie of Marvel Phase 5, and the introduction of Marvel's big Thanos-substitute villain for the next two phases? TheWrap notes that Marvel will have to adjust its expectations.
"You aren't going to always get a grand slam," says Bock. "But Marvel is hitting more home runs than anyone."
Making nearly as much money as movie released in 2018 isn't such a great thing, given inflation, and also given that this is being sold as a must-see movie that sets up the entire Chain of McGuffins of the next two Marvel phases. Note this article was published before Ant-Man 3's second weekend box officer returns were out. However, that level of box office fall is typical for Marvel movies, even if Ant-Man 3's was a bit worse than even most of the recent movies' fall-offs, and anyway, these estimates are based on the first weekend's box office. I just heard that Ant-Man's global take for the first weekend was $196 million so the 2.5x would suggest a less than $500 million total global haul.
Even as the grumblings that the Marvel Cinematic Universe is past its prime have gotten louder, the opening weekend of "Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania" has shown that Hollywood's top franchise is still a dependable hit machine. At the same time, the sub-$1 billion global totals MCU films have earned in the past year are likely to be the norm if the new movie's poor Chinese launch is a sign of things to come. How far "Ant-Man 3" goes over the next month will say a lot about Marvel's ability to create charming superheroes that audiences want to see over and over again, regardless of critics' reviews. The studio's new releases continue to struggle against word of mouth that falls short of the effusive praise the MCU consistently got prior to "Avengers: Endgame." ... "Quantumania" has garnered scores from critics and general audiences that nearly match the franchise lows posted by "Eternals" in fall 2021, with a 48% critics score on Rotten Tomatoes, a B on CinemaScore, and a 3.5/5 score among general audiences on Comscore/Screen Engine's PostTrak. But despite this, "Quantumania" has earned Marvel Studios its fifth straight $100 million-plus domestic opening with a $105 million three-day/$120 million four-day launch, beating the $71.2 million opening of "Eternals" and the $75.8 million opening of "Ant-Man and the Wasp" in 2018.
This likely leaves "Quantumania" with a global total in the $600 million range, around the neighborhood of the $622.6 million of "Ant-Man and the Wasp." That will be a decent result for this film considering the box office record of "Ant-Man" and the new normal studios face where Chinese revenue is merely a bonus rather than a reliable pillar for $1 billion-plus global totals.
The article points out that the MCU's intricate cross-connected continuity used to be its greatest strength. People might see a movie they weren't interested in just because they were invested in the greater meta-story and wanted to see all of the parts of it. But now, with so much bad Marvel TV and movies, people are skipping a lot of it -- they have to, who can watch all this crap? -- and so they can no longer follow the interconnected Marvel meta-story. They no longer know who this hero or that villain is. They no longer know what this McGuffin sets up or why this Whatzit matters. (Spoiler warning: None of it actually matters.) I've heard people complain, for example, that Dr. Strange 2 was not a sequel to Dr. Strange, but a sequel to the WandaVision TV show, which most people hadn't seen. And so a lot of people didn't know what was going on when the Nice Witch Girl they knew from the Avengers movies showed herself as a crazed villain in the first fifteen minutes of the movie and howled about lost children that they'd never known her to have. But just as all this interconnection used to draw people in to see marginal movies, now it might be pushing people away from seeing them, "turning what has been the MCU's greatest strength into its Achilles' heel." Apparently now understanding that Marvel is making too much poorly-made crap and people just don't want this quantity of poorly-made crap, the apparent Alt-Right Whyte Supremacist Kevin Fiege has announced a new strategy at Disney Marvel, and will be producing poorly-made crap on a more deliberate schedule so as not to glut the market with so much poorly-made crap at once.
But if "Quantumania" shows that MCU goodwill is shielding this franchise from truly flopping, it also shows that most installments going forward shouldn't expect the soaring highs of the pre-pandemic years. MCU fans are as devoted as ever, but casual audiences may skip films that don't hit "must-see" status.
Many shows were planned for 2023, and now only two are still confirmed to be running. Personally, I think that She-Hulk was the straw that broke Disney Marvel's back. I think that was what addicts call "hitting rock bottom," when you can't hide your addiction from yourself any longer, when you can't cover up all the harm and self-destruction you're doing. They have a related story: Kevin Feige Reveals Marvel Will Cut Back On Disney+ Shows After No Marvel Series Cracked The Top 15 Streaming Shows Of 2022 Cuttingly, Amazon's bloody superhero parody show The Boys is at number 11 on the original series list. I mentioned that The Marvels is being delayed for the fifth time, this time pushed back from its summer release to November. Oh well, summer's not a big time for blockbuster movies, now is it? Captain Marvel was so poorly received she isn't even getting her own sequel. Captain Marvel 2 is now The Marvels, and she's sharing the spotlight with two other characters, Ms. Marvel and some other person who was introduced in, oh right, Wandavision. I forget what she's called now. In the comic books she was the original female Captain Marvel. She was black, so racist Marvel had to replace her, of course. Here's the poster they released. Some have noticed a... subliminal sort of feminine vibe to it. A gynecological vibe. Do you see it?
According to a new report, in light of the plummeting interest of the studio's Disney Plus-specific output and the overall struggling health of the platform itself, Marvel is cutting back -- way back -- on the frequency of their streaming specific releases. This news was first brought to public attention on February 16th, courtesy of The Hollywood Reporter. Per their insider sources within the company, in light of studio head Kevin Feige's recent declaration to Entertainment Weekly that they would be both spacing out and scaling back their streaming release schedule so that each project can "get a chance to shine," Marvel will be making themselves scarce in the coming year.
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at February 28, 2023 12:05 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at February 28, 2023 12:05 PM (92BeF)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at February 28, 2023 12:05 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: gp Sets In Motion Various Apparatuses at February 28, 2023 12:05 PM (MvF+J)
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at February 28, 2023 12:05 PM (uNylN)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 28, 2023 12:06 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at February 28, 2023 12:05 PM (uNylN)
The first one was 'ok' but merely 'ok'. It wasn't horrible, but also not thrilling.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 28, 2023 12:07 PM (zZu0s)
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I think the funniest thing seems to be that the film has no real consequences outside of a credits sequence.
Nothing actually changes by the end. It's the start of Phase 5, and everything just returns to status quo ante. It doesn't seem like the start of some new phase of storytelling.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at February 28, 2023 12:07 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: gp Sets In Motion Various Apparatuses at February 28, 2023 12:07 PM (MvF+J)
Posted by: Archimedes at February 28, 2023 12:08 PM (eOEVl)
Posted by: rhennigantx at February 28, 2023 12:08 PM (BRHaw)
sometimes a cigar is just a cigar you know
Posted by: kallisto at February 28, 2023 12:08 PM (dCxaZ)
Posted by: Archimedes at February 28, 2023 12:09 PM (eOEVl)
Isn't this somehow harmful to trans dudes who do not have a bozo button?
Also, points docked for not using snizz in place of the more pedestrian 'hoo-ha'. Who are you ace, a member of the Golden Girls?
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 28, 2023 12:09 PM (zZu0s)
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A reset should have included a reset of how they approached stories.
You want a new decade of storytelling anchored by new heroes? Spend that time to introduce the new heroes.
They're doing the DCEU thing, which is kind of funny.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at February 28, 2023 12:09 PM (LvTSG)
There is a great video of Tom Cruise giving a speech at the PGA (?)awards. Also watched the trailer for the new Mission Inmpossible. Can't wait. Hell with Marvel.
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at February 28, 2023 12:09 PM (Y+l9t)
Posted by: gp Sets In Motion Various Apparatuses at February 28, 2023 12:07 PM (MvF+J)
Barnacle Man.
Origin: cut himself on a radioactive barnacle from a Soviet nuclear submarine.
Super power: clinging on to the hull of your boat, thus slightly reducing speed and fuel economy.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 28, 2023 12:09 PM (bW8dp)
Posted by: Archimedes at February 28, 2023 12:09 PM (eOEVl)
The clitoris.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 28, 2023 12:09 PM (zZu0s)
I really liked it. I still like it. But then I'm Ace (22 NB).
Posted by: ace at February 28, 2023 12:09 PM (C1Zwz)
Posted by: rhennigantx at February 28, 2023 12:09 PM (BRHaw)
In fact, the image of a copulating duo appeared on my toast this morning
Posted by: kallisto at February 28, 2023 12:09 PM (dCxaZ)
Posted by: gp Sets In Motion Various Apparatuses
Bed bug Man
Posted by: rickb223 at February 28, 2023 12:10 PM (aLGiU)
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I think she's called Mx Marvelicious
Posted by: ... at February 28, 2023 12:10 PM (hdnmi)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at February 28, 2023 12:05 PM (LvTSG)
"Entertainment"...that doesn't "entertain".
Posted by: BignJames at February 28, 2023 12:10 PM (AwYPR)
i'll check it out, thank you.
Posted by: ace at February 28, 2023 12:10 PM (C1Zwz)
Posted by: Dr. Varno at February 28, 2023 12:10 PM (X+Ku8)
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There's also Iger's announcement that they're cutting back by $3 billion in terms of dedicated resources for Disney+ content.
At the root of all of this is the problem with Disney+. It's simply not the cash cow that everyone wanted it to be. It's actually a drain on resources when executives want a $300 million event film released on it every month with roughly $200 million of other content releasing throughout the month as well.
It's a huge investment that simply doesn't return.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at February 28, 2023 12:11 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: ace at February 28, 2023 12:09 PM (C1Zwz)
And a filtyh Desantinite!
22NB?
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 28, 2023 12:11 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at February 28, 2023 12:11 PM (uNylN)
Posted by: Movie Moron at February 28, 2023 12:11 PM (JCZqz)
Right, that's the point. This was supposed to be the big movie, the blockbuster that really brought Kang to the screen as the next BIG THING for the Avengers to fight.
But instead its Loki the TV show season 2, and leads into the next season of Loki. Its basically TV show level quality stuff almost entirely done on a green screen, and not with the cleverness and style of something like Sky Captain or 300.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 28, 2023 12:11 PM (0hOvj)
If you see a bulge in a liberal woman’s pants, it’s a penis.
https://twitter.com/MsBlaireWhite/status/1630290476443082752
Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 28, 2023 12:11 PM (E+05M)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 28, 2023 12:11 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: ace at February 28, 2023 12:11 PM (C1Zwz)
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Now. By midway through Phase Bore, Marvel should have gotten concerned.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 28, 2023 12:11 PM (t0OGg)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 28, 2023 12:11 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 28, 2023 12:11 PM (YIVH2)
Posted by: Minnfidel at February 28, 2023 12:12 PM (oE0yX)
I understand that his mook buddies from prison aren't in this one. A shame if so --- they were pretty decent as comic relief.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 28, 2023 12:12 PM (bW8dp)
Hey, maybe Brie Larson's just too busy making those exciting EV commercials!
Posted by: Dr. T at February 28, 2023 12:12 PM (bhRsz)
She very well may be.. I've never met her, so I don't know it for a fact, but I'll defer to their superior knowledge.
Posted by: kallisto at February 28, 2023 12:12 PM (dCxaZ)
Origin: cut himself on a radioactive barnacle from a Soviet nuclear submarine.
Super power: clinging on to the hull of your boat, thus slightly reducing speed and fuel economy.
Whoa, that's too much action for me. I need a breather. How about teredo worm man?
Posted by: Archimedes at February 28, 2023 12:12 PM (eOEVl)
i'll check it out, thank you.
Posted by: ace at February 28, 2023 12:10 PM (C1Zwz)
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The new Mission Impossible screened a few weeks ago. It's 3 hours long and apparently awesome. Also, of course, just the first half of a two-parter.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at February 28, 2023 12:12 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: ace at February 28, 2023 12:11 PM (C1Zwz)
Ah, I missed most of that one after finishing work, then passing out when I got home.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 28, 2023 12:12 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 28, 2023 12:11 PM (zZu0s)
The notebook computer keyboard pointing device.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 28, 2023 12:12 PM (bW8dp)
Those fancy quantum suits that highlight the women's titties are the only reason to pay attention to this series.
Posted by: Dr. Bone at February 28, 2023 12:12 PM (Jg7EG)
Posted by: Puddinhead at February 28, 2023 12:12 PM (OTXUv)
Even after Wanda mind-raped and enslaved an entire town just because she couldn't get over losing her sechs-toy (Vision) in Infinity War, the WandaVision show still tried to make her a sympathetic character.
Posted by: Thrawn at February 28, 2023 12:12 PM (Rl7KJ)
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So which is it, Mr. Analyst? Is the core fanbase "going to show up no matter what" or do they have to defend that core fanbase to make sure it remains?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 28, 2023 12:13 PM (t0OGg)
I expect it to suck but be distracting with witty lines and wisecracks. They're 100% going to kill Starlord and at least one other (probably Bautista's character), and try to make that a weighty, emotionally manipulative event like the last one ended with (even if it made no sense).
Gunn is shockingly overrated, his movies are one-note and soulless.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 28, 2023 12:13 PM (0hOvj)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at February 28, 2023 12:13 PM (NFbv3)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 28, 2023 12:13 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 28, 2023 12:13 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: ... at February 28, 2023 12:14 PM (hdnmi)
Posted by: Archimedes at February 28, 2023 12:09 PM (eOEVl)
The clitoris
Clitori? I don't believe they exist. Particularly not ones of unusual size.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 28, 2023 12:14 PM (eOEVl)
If you see a bulge in a liberal woman’s pants, it’s a penis.
https://twitter.com/MsBlaireWhite/status/1630290476443082752
Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 28, 2023 12:11 PM (E+05M)
Ummm....I'm not sure Blaire White is the best spokesperson for that principle.
Posted by: Dr. T at February 28, 2023 12:14 PM (bhRsz)
Posted by: Thrawn at February 28, 2023 12:12 PM (Rl7KJ)
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The funniest thing about the Doctor Strange 2 reaction was people COMPLAINING that Scarlet Witch was the bad guy.
She's a monster in WandaVision. She's a horrifying monster who cannot control her emotions and is willing to hurt everyone around her to get what she wants.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at February 28, 2023 12:14 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: Ace at 12:05 PM
smh, that truly is juvenile
like what, 8th grade level?
be better Nerdrotic
Posted by: kallisto at February 28, 2023 12:14 PM (dCxaZ)
Posted by: Gdub at February 28, 2023 12:14 PM (4Corw)
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Fixed it for them.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 28, 2023 12:14 PM (t0OGg)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Not a Real Simulation at February 28, 2023 12:14 PM (FVME7)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 28, 2023 12:14 PM (zZu0s)
This is correct.
Posted by: ZOD at February 28, 2023 12:14 PM (HhIEb)
Posted by: rickb223 at February 28, 2023 12:14 PM (aLGiU)
Posted by: Blake - semi lurker at large at February 28, 2023 12:14 PM (2YtOq)
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at February 28, 2023 12:14 PM (Vwz3I)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at February 28, 2023 12:14 PM (LvTSG)
That's most people today, which is why our world is in the state which it is in.
Posted by: Colorado Alex in Exile at February 28, 2023 12:15 PM (wmDcS)
Posted by: polynikes at February 28, 2023 12:15 PM (G9MDg)
Posted by: Minnfidel at February 28, 2023 12:12 PM (oE0yX)
I hear Alec Baldwin has one in production.
Posted by: BignJames at February 28, 2023 12:15 PM (AwYPR)
You cannot unsee this.
Posted by: Tommy the Transvestigator at February 28, 2023 12:15 PM (dfz97)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at February 28, 2023 12:13 PM (NFbv3)
RazorFist made some alterations to that rule. It's first go broke, then get woke (to get that sweet, sweet ESG money), and then croak.
Posted by: Thrawn at February 28, 2023 12:15 PM (Rl7KJ)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 28, 2023 12:13 PM (t0OGg)
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Interesting how they seem to care about the "core fanbase" in this instance, but not with their other major property, Star Wars. There they deliberately chose to piss off the core fanbase to the point where few, if any, will watch the Disney Star Wars content.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 28, 2023 12:15 PM (YIVH2)
when I first starting seeing xer vids, s/he even fooled me
Posted by: kallisto at February 28, 2023 12:15 PM (dCxaZ)
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On how much budget? That's probably perilously close to break-even on a Marvel tentpole.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 28, 2023 12:15 PM (t0OGg)
I expect it to suck but be distracting with witty lines and wisecracks. They're 100% going to kill Starlord and at least one other (probably Bautista's character), and try to make that a weighty, emotionally manipulative event like the last one ended with (even if it made no sense).
Gunn is shockingly overrated, his movies are one-note and soulless.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 28, 2023 12:13 PM (0hOvj)
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I think the biggest problem with Gunn is that he loves his characters too much. He abandons structure and all other forms of storytelling to give every character a moment or three, pregnant with emotion, even if it doesn't actually feed the story they're in.
I expect a mess from Guardians 3. Much like the messes that were Guardians 2 and The Suicide Squad. Entertaining in some thin way, but messes.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at February 28, 2023 12:15 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: Dr. T at February 28, 2023 12:12 PM (bhRsz)
Also mayonnaise commercials.
Posted by: Jordan61 at February 28, 2023 12:15 PM (DRSnL)
yeah.
Some of the League of Chivalrous Gentlemen here -- this is my new put-down for the guys here who always rush in to white knight for any woman -- said that she was getting too much haterade for her sins. To be honest, I think they were right. I saw her at some premiere and she just looks defeated and beaten like a dog.
I think we won too much. and she really didn't do THAT much. she's just an annoying SJW who is bland and has no screen presence and no ass.
Posted by: ace at February 28, 2023 12:15 PM (C1Zwz)
Posted by: Hollywood! at February 28, 2023 12:15 PM (2tUFv)
Posted by: gnats local 678 at February 28, 2023 12:16 PM (kFrCu)
I think it's pretty simple. You can only watch so many greased up, spandex-clad catamites pretend to beat each other up to show who's the wokest. Meanwhile, watching a bear kill people while high on dust is new, and not so fucking boring or homoerotic.
There. Explained.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 28, 2023 12:16 PM (oINRc)
So, you know...what do you do twith that?
you bring in humorless scousebrows in a bait and switch
Posted by: sockamster, gator at February 28, 2023 12:16 PM (MLrvz)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 28, 2023 12:16 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Skip at February 28, 2023 12:16 PM (bx3Pl)
Posted by: Oddbob at February 28, 2023 12:16 PM (nfrXX)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at February 28, 2023 12:12 PM (LvTSG)
I've never watched an M:I movie in the theaters, but Tom Cruise has earned some goodwill from me for "Maverick," so I think I will this time.
Posted by: Dr. T at February 28, 2023 12:17 PM (bhRsz)
Such poetry. I see the top two, but the bottom one is a bit off. It's red, though, so I'm thinking it's menstrual discharge. So empowering! Period shaming is racist, or something...
Posted by: Movie Moron at February 28, 2023 12:17 PM (JCZqz)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at February 28, 2023 12:17 PM (lEVn+)
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On how much budget? That's probably perilously close to break-even on a Marvel tentpole.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 28, 2023 12:15 PM (t0OGg)
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I think all of the MCU movies have base budgets of $200 million. So, assuming that, you double the cost for marketing ($400) and then assume the theaters take 40% of the ticket sales, and that they need about $670 million to break even.
The Eternals probably ended up costing Disney about $200 million dollars.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at February 28, 2023 12:17 PM (LvTSG)
As for the Marvels poster, yeah the Holy Trinity of Boner Kill there.
In other more humorous news, Karen Gillian has apologized for her weird pose on the Guardians of the Galaxy 3 poster and making fun of herself while doing it.
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 28, 2023 12:17 PM (PcAlC)
Posted by: Archer at February 28, 2023 12:17 PM (gmo/4)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at February 28, 2023 12:14 PM (LvTSG)
Mom?
Posted by: Or maybe the ex-wife at February 28, 2023 12:17 PM (C3uQd)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at February 28, 2023 12:15 PM (LvTSG)
He loves HIS characters- which are all the outcasts and fringe folk. He does well with them, but also seems to hate say, Superman (see Brightburn.)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 28, 2023 12:17 PM (zZu0s)
LOL
that is hilarious, is that "real" or did you just make that up?
I might start calling it the "Devil's Doorknocker."
Posted by: ace at February 28, 2023 12:17 PM (C1Zwz)
Speaking of, I see that the publisher for the James Bond novels is now busily woking them up to "remove elements of misogyny and racism", etc.
Yeah, those are going to suck.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 28, 2023 12:17 PM (bW8dp)
Posted by: DB - Spanning the globe at February 28, 2023 12:17 PM (geLO8)
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Yup. They made the world's most expensive TV show. You can get away with if - and only if - every episode is at least good and the characters are interesting.
Marvel phases I-III did that. Every product was at least decent and the characters were good enough to make people interested in what they were up to, even if the episode itself was kinda "meh." None of it was actually bad, and none of the characters - except Captain Marvel - were actually hateful.
They wrecked that in Phase Bore. The product sucks and the characters suck. It's hard to pull people in to marginal episodes when that's the case, especially when there are so damn many episodes.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 28, 2023 12:18 PM (t0OGg)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at February 28, 2023 12:18 PM (lEVn+)
Surprising U"? Like, "oh gee is that a movie?", and on closer inspection you realize it's a pile of dog crap?
Posted by: Marcus T at February 28, 2023 12:18 PM (q3ANs)
One time in Vegas there were posters in plastic up and down the street for some lame comic. Someone had drawn big, giant penises on all the posters in the comic's crotch area. That was funnier than the comic hisself.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at February 28, 2023 12:18 PM (GE8Ol)
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 28, 2023 12:18 PM (yQpMk)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 28, 2023 12:18 PM (zZu0s)
When a new marvel movie came out ten years ago, people went "cool, I can't wait!" Today its "how much is this one gonna suck??"
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 28, 2023 12:18 PM (0hOvj)
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 28, 2023 12:17 PM (PcAlC)
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Karen seems to have a delightful sense of humor about herself.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 28, 2023 12:18 PM (YIVH2)
Apparently the original actress for the character was replaced, who in the earlier movie showed more love and emotion for her father in 5 seconds than this twat waffle did the entire movie
Obviously we cant have that now. Down with the patriarchy !
Posted by: The Unmasked and Unvaxed Ranger at February 28, 2023 12:18 PM (0MwUH)
Posted by: Masturbatin' Pete at February 28, 2023 12:18 PM (euLGA)
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I wonder how much of that is *because* it is a weird time. Hit theaters when there's little competition.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 28, 2023 12:18 PM (t0OGg)
Posted by: BignJames
It's like news that doesn't inform.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Not a Real Simulation at February 28, 2023 12:18 PM (FVME7)
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 28, 2023 12:18 PM (yQpMk)
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Apparently Ant-Man's daughter is in a thinly disguised antifa organization in the beginning.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at February 28, 2023 12:19 PM (LvTSG)
Watching a bear rape Leonardo DiCaprio isn't new, but it's still almost as good as seeing a bear kill people while high on dust. And watching a Werner Herzog movie about a bear eating Timothy Treadwell was almost as good as watching a bear rape DiCaprio.
Posted by: ZOD at February 28, 2023 12:19 PM (HhIEb)
Posted by: Tmitsss at February 28, 2023 12:19 PM (awV2G)
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 28, 2023 12:18 PM (yQpMk)
From what I have seen it is bad, PLUS has antifa/activist call to arms, positive comments on socialism AND a 'Burn it all down!' rallying cry.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 28, 2023 12:19 PM (zZu0s)
++++
*snort*
"Bozo button"
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 28, 2023 12:19 PM (t0OGg)
Posted by: Dr. T at February 28, 2023 12:17 PM (bhRsz)
I haven't seen any of them in the thya-tuh, either, but on streaming I found all of them to be decent enough popcorn movies.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 28, 2023 12:19 PM (bW8dp)
Posted by: ace
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always being the opposite guy here. Always remember Black Sheep from Scott Pilgrim. She's cute AF in that unicorn movie she did.
IDK, but she can't support a movie as the most OP girlboss in the marvel universe. You know?
The problem may be that disney/marvel wrote an uncharming girlboss superhero who had no charm and Brie couldn't do anything with nothing. Because the same writers ruined Loki. Took a great character and great actor and gave him a lunchables level script. Maybe if they made Capt Marvel like boys and act coquettish at times and maybe flustered at moments, in a cute romcom way, brie woulda done ok.
Posted by: sockamster, gator at February 28, 2023 12:19 PM (MLrvz)
AntMan is a cvck btw.
Posted by: Estranged Dads at February 28, 2023 12:19 PM (dfz97)
Posted by: polynikes at February 28, 2023 12:19 PM (G9MDg)
Posted by: Masturbatin' Pete at February 28, 2023 12:18 PM (euLGA)
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I'm played out on the whole genre.
I'm watching Ernst Lubitsch movies instead.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at February 28, 2023 12:19 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 28, 2023 12:19 PM (lTGtQ)
I killed someone on the set of Dust
She was my friend! We had dinner together!
Posted by: Alec Baldwin at February 28, 2023 12:20 PM (C1Zwz)
*******
There’s a scene that lectures us on the virtues of socialism and that’s why ants are superior to humans
Posted by: The Unmasked and Unvaxed Ranger at February 28, 2023 12:20 PM (0MwUH)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 28, 2023 12:20 PM (zZu0s)
>An action flick is what happens when those tight britches are pulled off the ladies at Marvel studios.
Posted by: Dr. Bone at February 28, 2023 12:20 PM (Jg7EG)
Posted by: Butch at February 28, 2023 12:20 PM (0APJ3)
Posted by: polynikes at February 28, 2023 12:15 PM (G9MDg)
I liked the first "Ant-Man." The second one was just okay, but more because the plot was meh, and then Rudd did fine in Endgame. Has plenty of comic moments without being too silly and distracting, so I wouldn't recommend skipping it for that reason alone.
Posted by: Dr. T at February 28, 2023 12:20 PM (bhRsz)
Posted by: Comrade flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 28, 2023 12:20 PM (PyOKD)
In the most recent Bond movie, Never Say Die To Dying Twice Again or whatever it's called, they kill Bond and the new 007 is a zaftig female POC.
Posted by: DB - Spanning the globe at February 28, 2023 12:20 PM (geLO8)
Posted by: Masturbatin' Pete
Punched him right in the CGI! Now he's got a black CG Eye!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Not a Real Simulation at February 28, 2023 12:20 PM (FVME7)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 28, 2023 12:20 PM (fs1hN)
I don't like these androgynous female leads. it is like a trans man. It just disgusts. Black Widow for example is still a woman. But Brie Larson displays no womanly virtues and has a pretty androgynous body so displays none of the attributes of either sex. Who is that supposed to appeal to?
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at February 28, 2023 12:20 PM (Y+l9t)
Posted by: gp Sets In Motion Various Apparatuses at February 28, 2023 12:07 PM
Stinkbug Man has potential. It's supposed to stink.
Posted by: Some Guy at February 28, 2023 12:20 PM (hTWNl)
CCP government 'intentionally released' COVID-19 'all over the world,' Chinese virologist says
Dr. Li Meng Yan says the CCP underestimated the virus' transmissibility
https://fxn.ws/41yz2Dv
Posted by: rickb223 at February 28, 2023 12:20 PM (aLGiU)
Posted by: SSBN656(G) at February 28, 2023 12:21 PM (tfZ8Q)
1. Woke monsters have taken control of the IP and are more concerned advancing, THE MESSAGE, rather writing compelling and rich stories
2. People are getting tired of the genre, so unless they can somehow reinvigorate the genre, doubtful, they will continue the downward spiral.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 28, 2023 12:21 PM (up/3i)
Posted by: Seen It All at February 28, 2023 12:21 PM (wrJpE)
Posted by: The Unmasked and Unvaxed Ranger at February 28, 2023 12:20 PM (0MwUH)
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There's a bit in the newest The Last of Us episode where a character who lives in the only functioning little society we've seen proudly announces that they're communists.
This from the people who made the Chernobyl television series.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at February 28, 2023 12:21 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at February 28, 2023 12:05 PM (LvTSG)
I don't get it.
Posted by: Doof at February 28, 2023 12:21 PM (6uyrZ)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 28, 2023 12:18 PM (zZu0s)
The praline. (no kidding)
Posted by: Louisiana Cajuns at February 28, 2023 12:21 PM (bW8dp)
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 28, 2023 12:21 PM (z5L8c)
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right. you have paul rudd and you go for charmless nobody.
like, what if the original Iron Man movie had decided, "you know, pepper potts is the real hero." like they did in Iron Man 2.
Posted by: sockamster, gator at February 28, 2023 12:21 PM (MLrvz)
Posted by: JT at February 28, 2023 12:21 PM (T4tVD)
Posted by: huerfano at February 28, 2023 12:22 PM (dTFZY)
I don't like these androgynous female leads. it is like a trans man. It just disgusts. Black Widow for example is still a woman. But Brie Larson displays no womanly virtues and has a pretty androgynous body so displays none of the attributes of either sex. Who is that supposed to appeal to?
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at February 28, 2023 12:20 PM (Y+l9t)
Plus, she viciously beats white motorcyclists who tell her to smile.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 28, 2023 12:22 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at February 28, 2023 12:05 PM (LvTSG)
IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE YOU'RE JAMES MONROE AND YOU DO MOVIE THREADS!
Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at February 28, 2023 12:22 PM (6uyrZ)
Is that a dude?
Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 28, 2023 12:22 PM (E+05M)
Posted by: Bozo Button at February 28, 2023 12:22 PM (ZVuYy)
The story was lacking, the propaganda was becoming more prominent and the suspension of disbelief required was getting more taxing.
It had great visuals and some humorous lines. But it was the end.
If Hollywood cared about telling good stories, it would have been the end.
But since it's run by people who hate me and want my family dead, I'm not all that heartbroken they've been killing their golden geese.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at February 28, 2023 12:22 PM (zjgNU)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 28, 2023 12:22 PM (q3iUt)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Not a Real Simulation at February 28, 2023 12:22 PM (FVME7)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 28, 2023 12:18 PM (YIVH2)
And a set of delightfully perky tits!
Posted by: SSBN656(G) at February 28, 2023 12:23 PM (tfZ8Q)
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 28, 2023 12:23 PM (PcAlC)
Posted by: polynikes at February 28, 2023 12:19 PM (G9MDg)
They should try making a movie that's nothing but 2 hours of Margot Robbie's ass.
I'd probably salute if that got run up the flag pole.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 28, 2023 12:23 PM (bW8dp)
Fans go to opening weekend and tweet from their theatre seats that it's a stinker.
Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at February 28, 2023 12:23 PM (TXFi7)
Both, apparently. The woke is more disguised but still there. Ant Man's daughter is a woke activist who lectures her dad about how he's not doing enough after saving the universe from Thanos, is always right, and is yet another in a now long string of super scientist teen girls who are Reed Richards x Tony Stark cubed. Hank Pym at one point starts praising socialism and how we should all be more like ants, who he thinks are socialist.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 28, 2023 12:23 PM (0hOvj)
Posted by: 18-1 at February 28, 2023 12:23 PM (lc5cP)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 28, 2023 12:23 PM (zZu0s)
Fuck everybody now
Posted by: The Unmasked and Unvaxed Ranger at February 28, 2023 12:23 PM (0MwUH)
More than Marv Throneberry ?
Posted by: JT at February 28, 2023 12:23 PM (T4tVD)
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Ms Marcy Darcy??
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at February 28, 2023 12:23 PM (Vwz3I)
In the most recent Bond movie, Never Say Die To Dying Twice Again or whatever it's called, they kill Bond and the new 007 is a zaftig female POC.
Posted by: DB
I’m Ian Fleming’s biographer – there’s no way James Bond can be made ‘PC’
https://bit.ly/3J2Xjut
Posted by: rickb223 at February 28, 2023 12:23 PM (aLGiU)
Posted by: polynikes at February 28, 2023 12:19 PM (G9MDg)
and it tried, oh it tried.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 28, 2023 12:23 PM (yQpMk)
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 28, 2023 12:17 PM (PcAlC)
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Karen seems to have a delightful sense of humor about herself.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 28, 2023 12:18 PM (YIVH2)
80% of the reason I'll probably go see that movie too.
Posted by: Dr. T at February 28, 2023 12:23 PM (bhRsz)
Posted by: Roy at February 28, 2023 12:23 PM (Pj9mr)
Posted by: sockamster, gator at February 28, 2023 12:19 PM (MLrvz)
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Brie Larson is a competent actress. *No* actress could have rescued Captain Marvel. It's a shit character in a story that was incompetently stitched together out of woke tropes. It was crap, and no actress could have saved it.
Where Larson made her catastrophic error was in piling on to the woke train about how everything is awesome and anyone who says otherwise is a troll covered in cheeto dust, nursing his hatred of women and minorities from the security of his mother's basement.
Had she not done that - had she just done the required marketing for the movie and hit the talk show circuit and said the movie was cool and people should go and see it - she wouldn't have become what she has become.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 28, 2023 12:24 PM (t0OGg)
One prominent Portland Antifa-ette, when she isn't getting arrested on felony riot and assault charges, sells dirty pictures of herself on the Internet, via OnlyFans.
She markets herself as a "slutty anarchist", charges $13.14 a month (numeric code for All Cops Are Bastards), and proudly describes herself as a "SW" (sex worker).
Shockingly, some prominent males in Portland Antifa have gotten the Wrong Idea about her, and think that she will do certain things in exchange for money or publicity.
One of these days I’m spilling all the tea on your fave blue check marks 💅 god damn misogyny is SO rampant on the left… The fact that some people think being a SW automatically means I have no limit to who I will sleep with or what I will do for opportunities speaks volumes in and of itself. If this is how you get people to work for you, to be on your show, etc, I don’t want any part in it.
Will no one defend this poor maiden's honor?
Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 28, 2023 12:24 PM (2tUFv)
what does that do to us? I mean, I don't care about Marvel at all. it doesn't affect me and I have as much media as I could ever watch and I'd never have to watch a single thing made in this century!
that's a new thing for the human race. it HAS to affect creativity
Posted by: BlackOrchid at February 28, 2023 12:24 PM (w0NJk)
This from the people who made the Chernobyl television series.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at February 28, 2023 12:21 PM (LvTSG)
So communes only work after the world has ended and are populated with about 300 people?
No wonder Our Betters want the Great Reset to kill several billion people before they usher in "Utopia".
Posted by: Thrawn at February 28, 2023 12:24 PM (Rl7KJ)
Posted by: Masturbatin' Pete
The only ones good are Iron Man 1, Thor and Thor Ranthrogook, Captain America and Winter Soldier and War, Gardians 1, and Infinity Wars. (I'm being generous btw).
Posted by: Gooning Gary at February 28, 2023 12:24 PM (dfz97)
Or a pair of X-ray specs which apparently would let you see through a woman's outer garments but not her bra and panties.
Posted by: Muldoon at February 28, 2023 12:24 PM (ykeLU)
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 28, 2023 12:17 PM (PcAlC)
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Karen seems to have a delightful sense of humor about herself.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 28, 2023 12:18 PM (YIVH2)
She needs spankings.
Posted by: Comrade flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 28, 2023 12:24 PM (PyOKD)
>>CCP government 'intentionally released' COVID-19 'all over the world,' Chinese virologist says
Something that was apparent in, oh, February of 2020.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 28, 2023 12:25 PM (up/3i)
>It was like Shakespeare in the Park. A festival of debauchery and larping.
Posted by: Dr. Bone at February 28, 2023 12:25 PM (Jg7EG)
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Ms Marcy Darcy??
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at February 28, 2023 12:23 PM (Vwz3I)
Monica Rambou?
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 28, 2023 12:25 PM (zZu0s)
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if its not homoerotic you are doing it wrong...
Posted by: Bear from the Revenant at February 28, 2023 12:25 PM (9WhrE)
Same here. But it will definitely be at one of those theaters with the cushy seats where they bring you food and beer.
Posted by: Oddbob at February 28, 2023 12:25 PM (nfrXX)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 28, 2023 12:25 PM (Irn0L)
Posted by: Marcus T at February 28, 2023 12:25 PM (q3ANs)
Dr. Li Meng Yan says the CCP underestimated the virus' transmissibility
I'm so sorry to hear of her upcoming suicide
Posted by: DB - Spanning the globe at February 28, 2023 12:25 PM (geLO8)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 28, 2023 12:22 PM (E+05M)
Yes.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop
OMG! I apologize to the horde for my indiscretion.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 28, 2023 12:25 PM (E+05M)
Posted by: Butch at February 28, 2023 12:25 PM (0APJ3)
"The Boston gig's been cancelled, but I wouldn't worry about it. It's not a big college town."
Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at February 28, 2023 12:25 PM (wzAuc)
youtu.be/JEtZCCQlxHI
Posted by: pookysgirl can't quite do it justice at February 28, 2023 12:25 PM (dtlDP)
Posted by: Gooning Gary at February 28, 2023 12:24 PM (dfz97)
The Rocketeer is very good.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 28, 2023 12:25 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 28, 2023 12:26 PM (2tUFv)
Wasn't he sort of an Ayn Rand type in the first movie?
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 28, 2023 12:26 PM (bW8dp)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 28, 2023 12:24 PM (t0OGg)
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She is cute as a button in 21 Jump Street and plays a convincing bitch in Scott Pilgrim.
I think one of the problems with Captain Marvel is that they tried to make the character quippy like Iron Man, probably hoping to make her the anchor of the next phase of MCU movies like Tony Stark had been. However, the quips weren't very good and Larson pulled them off poorly while the editing and sound mixes did them no favors at the same time. It felt like a morass of incompetence that was supposed to elevate this character to the stratosphere of MCU characters.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at February 28, 2023 12:26 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at February 28, 2023 12:26 PM (TXFi7)
Posted by: The Unmasked and Unvaxed Ranger at February 28, 2023 12:26 PM (0MwUH)
Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 28, 2023 12:24 PM (2tUFv)
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Nope.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 28, 2023 12:26 PM (t0OGg)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 28, 2023 12:27 PM (DSB5h)
Posted by: The Unmasked and Unvaxed Ranger at February 28, 2023 12:26 PM (0MwUH)
The Wall comes for all and is undefeated.
Posted by: Thrawn at February 28, 2023 12:27 PM (Rl7KJ)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 28, 2023 12:25 PM (E+05M)
It's getting dangerous out there, man. We have to watch out for each other.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 28, 2023 12:27 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: kallisto at February 28, 2023 12:27 PM (dCxaZ)
Posted by: ZOD at February 28, 2023 12:27 PM (HhIEb)
Thanks Dr T. I should have said haven't seen Ant Man 3. I've heard 1 & 2 were good and Rudd was his usual solid comedic performance.
Posted by: polynikes at February 28, 2023 12:27 PM (G9MDg)
So far my favorite is Rogue Nation
Posted by: DB - Spanning the globe at February 28, 2023 12:27 PM (geLO8)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at February 28, 2023 12:14 PM (LvTSG)
So a modern hero
Posted by: ... at February 28, 2023 12:27 PM (oFO+/)
At any rate, I must be either very receptive of these subliminal messages, or not at all, because I just don't see it. Adding the lines helps, but doesn't convince me that's what the producers of the poster had in mind.
Posted by: OneEyedJack at February 28, 2023 12:27 PM (FCbAQ)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 28, 2023 12:27 PM (DSB5h)
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Jessica Biel as Vera Miles in the movie Hitchcock (starring Anthony Hopkins as Hitch) is the best part of that movie.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at February 28, 2023 12:28 PM (LvTSG)
I honestly couldn't get thru it. I bailed out ofter 2 hours. It just kept getting more unwatchable.
Posted by: gourmand du jour, gimpy edition at February 28, 2023 12:28 PM (jTmQV)
Posted by: Nevergiveup
____
Call me "Ma'am"!, you literally erased my existence, hater!!!
*puts dick back in pants*
*flounces off*
Posted by: New School Entertainer at February 28, 2023 12:28 PM (fs1hN)
Posted by: John Fetterman at February 28, 2023 12:28 PM (vwCZJ)
I guess that makes me the resident AntMan Specialist. *ahem*
Okay, AM3 is better than Wakanda and Thor3, which is a low bar. And has all the weaknesses of recent Marvel movies. ie. AntMan is the sidekick in his own movie. He exists to be the goofy sitcom Dad to his superior brainy, stunningly brave daughter and to get the shit kicked out of him so he can be rescued by his wife, the Wasp. And the story is mostly about his mother-in-law's shenanigans.
There actually is the core of a pretty good superhero movie in here that claws it's way to the surface from time to time before it's shit all over by sitcom comedy and smarmy teen grrrrrl power.
And you are warned about the sitcom aspect cuz they use the theme from "Welcome Back, Potter" throughout the movie.
Kang is a dud. They need a better actor. This guy's main thing is looking like he's just about to cry. Like the-i-i-is close to crying. It's his Blue Steel.
AntMan daughter is just a woke annoyance. I was tired of her the first 3 minutes she was on screen.
Watch. Don't watch. Meh.
Posted by: naturalfake at February 28, 2023 12:28 PM (KLPy8)
Her talent is like her ass. Non existent.
Posted by: Marcus T at February 28, 2023 12:28 PM (q3ANs)
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My salts!!!!
Posted by: ... at February 28, 2023 12:29 PM (oFO+/)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at February 28, 2023 12:29 PM (NFbv3)
Oh the story starts in Uncanny X-Men #458 hops to The Amazing Spiderman #572, and concludes in Wolverine #69.
If you do not buy or watch all that came before, you will be lost.
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 28, 2023 12:29 PM (PcAlC)
Weirdo
Posted by: The Unmasked and Unvaxed Ranger at February 28, 2023 12:29 PM (0MwUH)
Posted by: REDACTED at February 28, 2023 12:29 PM (us2H3)
So far my favorite is Rogue Nation
Posted by: DB - Spanning the globe at February 28, 2023 12:27 PM (geLO
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I think my favorite is Fallout. It uses the franchise history well without being member-berries. It has fantastic action. Henry Cavill is a great addition to the cast. It uses the team really well.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at February 28, 2023 12:29 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: The Unmasked and Unvaxed Ranger at February 28, 2023 12:26 PM (0MwUH)
My younger son really liked the movie Real Steel when he was little. She made that movie more enjoyable to watch.
Posted by: Doof at February 28, 2023 12:29 PM (6uyrZ)
I honestly couldn't get thru it. I bailed out ofter 2 hours. It just kept getting more unwatchable.
I read the description. IIRC it starts off with an orgy where some hollywood exec is engaging in a sex act with a child or something like that right?
Posted by: 18-1 at February 28, 2023 12:29 PM (lc5cP)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 28, 2023 12:29 PM (zZu0s)
Wasn't he sort of an Ayn Rand type in the first movie?
>He punched Starks buttboy over the recipe for flubber, no?
Posted by: Dr. Bone at February 28, 2023 12:29 PM (Jg7EG)
The only movie I'm excited to see right now is Sisu. Despite the historically questionable villains (Nazis, who were only a minor villain to the Finns, compared to the Soviet monsters).
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 28, 2023 12:29 PM (n+4am)
Will have to drive to a Movie Tavern in the next town or to an AMC in KOP if we want to go see a movie in a theater.
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at February 28, 2023 12:30 PM (fUnHJ)
Posted by: ShainS -- Transgenderism is the Tip of the Transhumanism Spear at February 28, 2023 12:30 PM (7QclL)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at February 28, 2023 12:29 PM (LvTSG)
I'd agree with that one. Although I think it is the one before that has Rebecca Ferguson in the green dress slit up the side to the heavens.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 28, 2023 12:30 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 28, 2023 12:31 PM (q3iUt)
In fact, the image of a copulating duo appeared on my toast this morning
Posted by: kallisto at February 28, 2023 12:09 PM (dCxaZ)
And yet you ate it, didn't you, Caligula?
Posted by: OneEyedJack at February 28, 2023 12:31 PM (FCbAQ)
Posted by: ShainS -- Transgenderism is the Tip of the Transhumanism Spear at February 28, 2023 12:31 PM (7QclL)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at February 28, 2023 12:31 PM (lz5hY)
Posted by: Gooning Gary at February 28, 2023 12:24 PM (dfz97)
The Rocketeer is very good.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop
Just looked it up. Great cast and Jennifer Connolly (I assume she is over 18 🤞
Will give it a tumble this weekend.Posted by: Gooning Gary at February 28, 2023 12:31 PM (dfz97)
Posted by: Virgil Starkwell at February 28, 2023 12:31 PM (wrJpE)
Its not her fault the art department put a dude's body on her. I suspect very strongly she was originally leaning on Thor and they deleted him when the third crappy Thor movie was being written. But NOBODY looks good in the poster. Look at Chris whatsisface, he's a skinny chump, the other green girl looks like a guy, its just awful.
my God she looks like she aged 50 years in this movie since the last one
Her hair and makeup is bad, she looks harsh. Based on the woke stoplight movie poster for Marvels, they're doing the same thing with Brie Larson in the Marvels. Evidently she wasn't harsh and unpleasant enough in the last one.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 28, 2023 12:31 PM (0hOvj)
https://tinyurl.com/ykkunj48
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at February 28, 2023 12:32 PM (LvTSG)
Did I see a rumor he's going to be in a Warhammer themed movie?
Now that would drive woketards nuts.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 28, 2023 12:32 PM (lc5cP)
There was an orgy scene, didn't notice any kids in it.
Plenty of stomach turning stuff, I finally turned it off.
Posted by: gourmand du jour, gimpy edition at February 28, 2023 12:32 PM (jTmQV)
Hey it was worth a try
Posted by: Mayor Pete at February 28, 2023 12:32 PM (hTWNl)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop
Just looked it up. Great cast and Jennifer Connolly (I assume she is over 18 🤞 Will give it a tumble this weekend.
Posted by: Gooning Gary at February 28, 2023 12:31 PM (dfz97)
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It's just good, clean fun.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at February 28, 2023 12:32 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: The Unmasked and Unvaxed Ranger at February 28, 2023 12:26 PM (0MwUH)
Yeah, the difference between the ads for this one and her look in Ant-Man 2 really caught me off-guard. I think the hairdo's part of it, but...man.
Posted by: Dr. T at February 28, 2023 12:32 PM (bhRsz)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 28, 2023 12:27 PM (DSB5h)
Good movie.
Posted by: Archer at February 28, 2023 12:33 PM (gmo/4)
Posted by: MikeG at February 28, 2023 12:33 PM (VsUo2)
Did I see a rumor he's going to be in a Warhammer themed movie?
Now that would drive woketards nuts.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 28, 2023 12:32 PM (lc5cP)
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It's true. He's a big gaming nerd, and he's probably the major driving force behind it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at February 28, 2023 12:33 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: Gooning Gary at February 28, 2023 12:31 PM (dfz97)
Joe Jackson did the direction. It is just good wholesome fun- and Jennifer Connelly cleavage. Great music. It is like stepping into a time capsule. I recently got it on blu-ray.
He also did the first Captain America movie.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 28, 2023 12:33 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison,
I hope they make Ilsa Faust part of 'the team', but I haven't seen anything to that effect
Posted by: DB - Spanning the globe at February 28, 2023 12:33 PM (geLO8)
Posted by: mrp at February 28, 2023 12:33 PM (rj6Yv)
I think one of the problems with Captain Marvel is that they tried to make the character quippy like Iron Man, probably hoping to make her the anchor of the next phase of MCU movies like Tony Stark had been. However, the quips weren't very good and Larson pulled them off poorly while the editing and sound mixes did them no favors at the same time. It felt like a morass of incompetence that was supposed to elevate this character to the stratosphere of MCU characters.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at February 28, 2023 12:26 PM (LvTSG)
She has no flaws, she's always right, she is indefeatable (sp?). And she's a bitch. This is how not to make a character.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at February 28, 2023 12:33 PM (lEVn+)
Oh it will be coming soon. Trust me.
Posted by: Sandra Fluke at February 28, 2023 12:33 PM (lc5cP)
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 28, 2023 12:33 PM (PcAlC)
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I believe they call this damning with faint praise.
Posted by: ... at February 28, 2023 12:34 PM (oFO+/)
Posted by: polynikes at February 28, 2023 12:34 PM (G9MDg)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at February 28, 2023 12:31 PM (lz5hY)
*pulls up a chair to help Bill enforce his lawn boundaries*
Couldn't agree more!!
Posted by: Doof at February 28, 2023 12:34 PM (6uyrZ)
Posted by: The Unmasked and Unvaxed Ranger at February 28, 2023 12:26 PM (0MwUH)
The Wall comes for all and is undefeated.
Posted by: Thrawn
Men don't hit The Wall. We die.
Posted by: Gooning Gary at February 28, 2023 12:34 PM (dfz97)
I liked the first Ant-Man. Paul Rudd was Paul Rudd and it was fine. My understanding is the second one upstages him with a woman, and this new one upstages him with two women. Hollywood is not subtle.
Posted by: Ian S. at February 28, 2023 12:34 PM (ZGrMX)
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 28, 2023 12:33 PM (PcAlC)
He's really, really funny in Hot Fuzz
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at February 28, 2023 12:34 PM (lEVn+)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison,
I hope they make Ilsa Faust part of 'the team', but I haven't seen anything to that effect
Posted by: DB - Spanning the globe at February 28, 2023 12:33 PM (geLO
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They may. The addition of Hayley Atwell looks like fun. Bringing back Henry Czerny has me excited as well (he's just got that great voice that DePalma used perfectly in the first film).
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at February 28, 2023 12:34 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 28, 2023 12:33 PM (PcAlC)
+1 He does villains so very well. Hot Fuzz is peak.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 28, 2023 12:34 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Archer at February 28, 2023 12:35 PM (gmo/4)
Posted by: bonhomme at February 28, 2023 12:35 PM (eyxn4)
Posted by: Elric Blade at February 28, 2023 12:35 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at February 28, 2023 12:33 PM (lEVn+)
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I did just say "one of the problems". But yes, she's also an unlikable bitch with a massive chip on her shoulder. She's not fun in general.
But the quippiness fell shockingly short.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at February 28, 2023 12:35 PM (LvTSG)
He is what the Rock should have been, you know, an actual male
Posted by: The Unmasked and Unvaxed Ranger at February 28, 2023 12:35 PM (0MwUH)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 28, 2023 12:35 PM (zZu0s)
'OMG! I apologize to the horde for my indiscretion.'
Hahahahaha!! I'm dying!
Reminds me of this.
https://tinyurl.com/4ce6aphk
Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 28, 2023 12:35 PM (q3iUt)
Posted by: polynikes at February 28, 2023 12:34 PM (G9MDg)
Zazzie Beats is the actress, she's a race swapped 'Dominio' from the comics. I hated her in that movie. But I hated most of Deadpool 2, except for Cable and Juggernaut.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at February 28, 2023 12:35 PM (lEVn+)
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at February 28, 2023 12:36 PM (Y+l9t)
AntMan 3: "Honey The Exterminators Here!"
I hope this entire industry immolates itself.
Posted by: CZ=FNG, Free Republic of Florida at February 28, 2023 12:36 PM (MkuC5)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at February 28, 2023 12:31 PM (lz5hY)
Yes. Or a bit later with "Midway" in a theater with a decent sound system, or "Dr. Zhivago".
Posted by: mrp at February 28, 2023 12:36 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: Archer at February 28, 2023 12:35 PM (gmo/4)
RED was pretty damn good. The sequel was meh. That gal from Weeds was cute as a button.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 28, 2023 12:36 PM (zZu0s)
It's not just the shucking and jiving for The Message.... it's that the formula is busted and people are plain old bored with it all, i think.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 28, 2023 12:37 PM (/EuRN)
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 28, 2023 12:37 PM (PcAlC)
She was quite good, and while not particularly zaftig, her undergarments made maximum advantage of her assets.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 28, 2023 12:37 PM (eOEVl)
I just like the superpower. I thought it was hilarious.
Posted by: polynikes at February 28, 2023 12:37 PM (G9MDg)
I'd really like to see a movie where Soviet murderers and rapists (ask East Germans, Afghans, Ukrainians and Poles about that) get absolutely wiped by a remorseless revenge machine.
Posted by: Citizen Cake at February 28, 2023 12:37 PM (CwhoI)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at February 28, 2023 12:37 PM (lEVn+)
I wonder how much he's willing to do with it.
In Warhammer there are 4 Chaos gods, the newest one "Slaanesh" is the god of excess, mostly, but not exclusively, sexually.
So trannies, gay orgies, etc etc.
And when the civilized Elves started going too far down the hedonistic route they created or at least incredibly empowered it (Slaanesh is gender fluid of course) and almost destroyed the world.
Also the good guys burn witches - because witches are trying to summon those Chaos gods to destroy the world.
I can already smell angry blue hair.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 28, 2023 12:37 PM (lc5cP)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at February 28, 2023 12:34 PM (LvTSG)
Rebecca Ferguson AND Haley Atwell?
Fuck. I may have to go see that in the theater. Damn, I am actually excited.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 28, 2023 12:38 PM (zZu0s)
I think one of the problems with Captain Marvel is that they tried to make the character quippy like Iron Man, probably hoping to make her the anchor of the next phase of MCU movies like Tony Stark had been. However, the quips weren't very good and Larson pulled them off poorly while the editing and sound mixes did them no favors at the same time. It felt like a morass of incompetence that was supposed to elevate this character to the stratosphere of MCU characters.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
Brian Larson is a twink and a fiend.
Posted by: Gooning Gary at February 28, 2023 12:38 PM (dfz97)
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I believe they call this damning with faint praise.
Posted by: ... at February 28, 2023 12:34 PM (oFO+/)
A workmanlike performance.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 28, 2023 12:38 PM (yQpMk)
As for me, I have no fucking clue why ANYONE goes to the movies any more. I used to go all the time. Now I never go. I just wait a few months and see the movie in the privacy and convenience of my own home.
Posted by: Elric Blade at February 28, 2023 12:38 PM (iFTx/)
They killed him in this movie (sorry spoilers). They've killed two of his incarnations (there are a lot of Kangs out there, from various timelines) and he's accomplished nothing so far, he's starting out a loser. And get this -- that's on purpose. They are trying to make him seem sympathetic by having him fail and go through hardship, but each time he fails, he DIES, so there's no earned sympathy or hardship.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 28, 2023 12:38 PM (0hOvj)
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Her character I believe was race swapped from the comics because of course, BUT she does great justice to the role with her uplifting, perky, titillating demeanor if you know what I mean
Posted by: The Unmasked and Unvaxed Ranger at February 28, 2023 12:38 PM (0MwUH)
That's a plot point in Ringworld as well...
Posted by: 18-1 at February 28, 2023 12:38 PM (lc5cP)
Stop me. I'm a slasher. Of prices!
Our discounts are criminal!
Posted by: Simon Skinner at February 28, 2023 12:38 PM (C3uQd)
Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at February 28, 2023 12:38 PM (t4BDZ)
Fuck. I may have to go see that in the theater. Damn, I am actually excited.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 28, 2023 12:38 PM (zZu0s)
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And Vanessa Kirby is coming back.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at February 28, 2023 12:38 PM (LvTSG)
He's really, really funny in Hot Fuzz
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water
"Lock me up! I'm a slasher.... of prices!"
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 28, 2023 12:38 PM (n+4am)
'I want him manning a weather station in Alaska by the end of the day. Just mail him his clothes."
Posted by: DB - Spanning the globe at February 28, 2023 12:38 PM (geLO8)
There was an orgy scene, didn't notice any kids in it.
Plenty of stomach turning stuff, I finally turned it off.
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I lasted about 10 minutes, then decided it was just too over-the-top stupid.
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at February 28, 2023 12:39 PM (sWM8x)
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 28, 2023 12:39 PM (PcAlC)
I mean, would you want to fight that dude? I'm running the hell away.
Posted by: PabloD at February 28, 2023 12:39 PM (rUSNJ)
*******
I had that on an open tab on my browser, but now I can't seem to find it.
Posted by: Muldoon at February 28, 2023 12:39 PM (ykeLU)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at February 28, 2023 12:39 PM (lEVn+)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at February 28, 2023 12:37 PM (lEVn+)
I thought it was ok when it first came out, but when I bought it and rewatched it... It was just wonderful. It really does feel like you are sent back to that bygone era of no subtext. A guy, a gal, a villain and a jetpack. And patriotism.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 28, 2023 12:39 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 28, 2023 12:39 PM (/EuRN)
St. Louis had a population of 857K in 1950.
It now has a population of 293K.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 28, 2023 12:39 PM (2tUFv)
>>But the quippiness fell shockingly short.
She simply doesn't have the gravitas of a Private Vasquez to pull off the level of snark the writers are making her regurgitate.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 28, 2023 12:39 PM (up/3i)
Just stop, government, you're shitty at everything you do.
Posted by: Seems Legit at February 28, 2023 12:39 PM (DcKNO)
Posted by: DB - Spanning the globe at February 28, 2023 12:39 PM (geLO8)
'I want him manning a weather station in Alaska by the end of the day. Just mail him his clothes."
Posted by: DB - Spanning the globe at February 28, 2023 12:38 PM (geLO
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"Everybody has pressure points, Barnes. You find something that's personally important to him and you... squeeze."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at February 28, 2023 12:40 PM (LvTSG)
https://bit.ly/3KK2K2x
Seriously. Get out of the damn cities.
Posted by: bonhomme at February 28, 2023 12:35 PM (eyxn4)
There is no rebuttal.
Posted by: Comrade flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 28, 2023 12:40 PM (PyOKD)
__________
Nooooo, I don't really see it.
Oh, wait!
Posted by: Georgia O'Keefe at February 28, 2023 12:40 PM (lf83v)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at February 28, 2023 12:39 PM (lEVn+)
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So, they're going to make it drab and kind of dull?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at February 28, 2023 12:40 PM (LvTSG)
But the quippiness fell shockingly short.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at February 28, 2023 12:35 PM (LvTSG)
IIRC, part of the problem was that during the PR blitz for Endgame, Larson got extremely snappish with the male actors trying to joke around with her during interviews, to the point that Renner and Cheadle (I think) made it clear they were just done with her. Given that Capt Marvel was still in theaters at the time, I think that colored a lot of people's opinions of the character as well.
Posted by: Dr. T at February 28, 2023 12:40 PM (bhRsz)
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The closing scene of Peaky Blinders would make you happy. Total Steam Punk theater. Arthur and his mates set up IRA Commie assholes and dispatch them using Mustard Gas and .45s to the head. It made me feel good.
Posted by: Puddinhead at February 28, 2023 12:40 PM (OTXUv)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 28, 2023 12:40 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 28, 2023 12:40 PM (PcAlC)
That is one potential answer to the Fermi paradox. There are a bunch of aliens out there but they are all living in their own version of the matrix.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 28, 2023 12:41 PM (lc5cP)
Posted by: No Shirt Shylock at February 28, 2023 12:41 PM (PWI4f)
Posted by: Muldoon
Only emitted alpha particles.
Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at February 28, 2023 12:41 PM (w9Wax)
I honestly couldn't get thru it. I bailed out ofter 2 hours. It just kept getting more unwatchable.
Posted by: gourmand du jour, gimpy edition at February 28, 2023 12:28 PM (jTmQV)
It was pretty terrible. I've tried to get through it by watching it in chunks, and I still have the last half-hour or so to go, and little desire to finish.
Posted by: spindrift at February 28, 2023 12:41 PM (h5TKJ)
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I like the idea of those heroes, and the required unpredictability around them. Some really great movies could be made, with there being a decent chance that things are going to go REALLY badly.
I'm sure it never would, though. Luck would always be awesome and the world would always be saved, especially if an overweight black woman is involved.
IIRC there was one in the Teen Titans Go cartoon named Jinx that was similar. I only ever watched the goofy kids show, though, so I don't know anything beyond that.
Posted by: DOE confirms our patented COVID bioweapon was lab-created, released by China at February 28, 2023 12:41 PM (bWYk2)
Insane.
Posted by: Gooning Gary at February 28, 2023 12:41 PM (dfz97)
I'm surprised how well Duane turned out, given how big of a piece of shit his dad was. If you watch the show Young Rock, you'd come away with the idea Duane's dad was a shameless self promoter, a liar, and generally a man who makes poor decisions. That's an extremely softened picture. In addition to those things, he was a serial cheater, a huge racist, and a credibly accused rapist.
Posted by: bonhomme at February 28, 2023 12:41 PM (eyxn4)
I think one of the problems with Captain Marvel is that they tried to make the character quippy like Iron Man
They were trying to make her seem like the tough, rugged military type. Like Clint Eastwood, speaks through her teeth, rarely smiles, always seems unhappy, etc. Its a type of character that guys do well, but not women. Women come across as unpleasant and bitchy rather than strong and stoic.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 28, 2023 12:42 PM (0hOvj)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 28, 2023 12:42 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Dr. T at February 28, 2023 12:40 PM (bhRsz)
And Hemsworth. Apparently she's a miserable person to work with both on and off set.
Posted by: An unlikeable actress playing an unlikeable character at February 28, 2023 12:42 PM (C3uQd)
Who has seen Picard Season Three Episode One and liked it?
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 28, 2023 12:37 PM (PcAlC)
I've been pretty burned by Star Trek. I know some folks have mentioned Season 3 is good but that's all I know so far. Have you seen it, Anna?
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at February 28, 2023 12:42 PM (lEVn+)
Posted by: Dr. T at February 28, 2023 12:40 PM (bhRsz)
Pretty sure her and one of them Hemsworths had a bunch of really awkward interview moments. She just couldn't laugh at herself or anything and he was more than happy to egg her on. Loved it.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 28, 2023 12:43 PM (KbCG3)
It now has a population of 293K.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 28, 2023 12:39 PM (2tUFv)
And at least 200K of them need to be forcibly relocated to Illinois.
Posted by: Dr. T at February 28, 2023 12:43 PM (bhRsz)
Maybe they should launch a new character called "Disappearing Interest". Their main power can be to spout vapid, banal woke platitudes and change gender on demand, in order to make people disinterested and apathetic, lulling them to the point they walk away and watch grass grow, because that's more entertaining.
Posted by: Marcus T at February 28, 2023 12:43 PM (q3ANs)
Posted by: mrp at February 28, 2023 12:43 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: Puddinhead at February 28, 2023 12:40 PM (OTXUv)
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Great show & terrific actors.
Posted by: ShainS -- Transgenderism is the Tip of the Transhumanism Spear at February 28, 2023 12:43 PM (7QclL)
Posted by: Elric Blade at February 28, 2023 12:43 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Woke Lady Voltron at February 28, 2023 12:43 PM (/EuRN)
ha-ha, no!
I'm an artist so I quick grabbed the paints and brushes and gave it a more lifelike effect, then preserved it for posterity
Posted by: kallisto at February 28, 2023 12:43 PM (dCxaZ)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 28, 2023 12:42 PM (zZu0s)
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I think Cruise is an adrenaline junkie and he gets to do things almost no one else can do and pay himself for it by doing it through movies.
I'm not complaining because it's fun to watch.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at February 28, 2023 12:43 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at February 28, 2023 12:31 PM (lz5hY)
*pulls up a chair to help Bill enforce his lawn boundaries*
Couldn't agree more!!
Posted by: Doof at February 28, 2023 12:34 PM
*pulls up chair*
*lights cigar*
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 28, 2023 12:44 PM (Wnv9h)
Posted by: mrp at February 28, 2023 12:43 PM (rj6Yv)
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They should move to Canada.
Posted by: ShainS -- Transgenderism is the Tip of the Transhumanism Spear at February 28, 2023 12:45 PM (7QclL)
She was kind of bland, but the way they used her powers was clever and fun. Brad Pitt as the invisible guy was funny too.
Has that Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves movie hit theaters yet?
I have seen nothing about it since that first trailer dropped. It looked intriguing but I suspect its possibly as terrible as the first one, just with better effects.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 28, 2023 12:45 PM (0hOvj)
Posted by: DB - Spanning the globe at February 28, 2023 12:45 PM (geLO8)
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 28, 2023 12:45 PM (PcAlC)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at February 28, 2023 12:45 PM (lz5hY)
Posted by: Archer at February 28, 2023 12:45 PM (gmo/4)
St. Louis had a population of 857K in 1950.
It now has a population of 293K.
Posted by: The ARC of History!
Just saw a video of a black man slowly load a pistol and execute a homeless White man in broad daylight. Nobody did anything but film while the sun human took a good 1-2 minutes to load a mag.
But it's culture and the democrats fault I've been told repeatedly by colorblind conservatives.
Posted by: Gooning Gary at February 28, 2023 12:45 PM (dfz97)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 28, 2023 12:18 PM (YIVH2)
And a set of delightfully perky tits!
Posted by: SSBN656(G) at February 28, 2023 12:23 PM
Not if I have anything to say about it!
https://tinyurl.com/j9vwsb39
Posted by: Guardian's of the Galaxy 3 poster at February 28, 2023 12:45 PM (JCZqz)
And I enjoyed the first two Ant-Man movies. I like the character; always thought he could have held his own title. I even liked the Avengers Next comic with teen-aged Cassie.
But I have no interest in this movie. Same as with the Dr. Strange sequel, and he's my favorite character.
You did this, shell of Marvel. I don't hope you're happy.
Posted by: Weak Geek at February 28, 2023 12:45 PM (7BkPM)
It's kind of a horror dramedy, I guess.
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at February 28, 2023 12:45 PM (fUnHJ)
The first Ant-Man was okay. The second was so much worse, and I heard the new one is unwatchable.
Marvel does this all the time now. The white guy is the moron, but people like Captain Marvel are super awesome.
Marvel is dead. Let's toss it into the river.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at February 28, 2023 12:45 PM (d2bW3)
Posted by: Mishdog at February 28, 2023 12:45 PM (tYUMT)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at February 28, 2023 12:39 PM (lEVn+)
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So, they're going to make it drab and kind of dull?
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Shooting it in Cleveland. Obvs.
Posted by: *hand job motion* at February 28, 2023 12:45 PM (dEvit)
Same. When I saw it the first time, I thought it was a nice, but forgettable movie. I re-watched not long ago and absolutely loved it. That opening score as they open the aircraft hangar doors gives me goosebumps.
Posted by: bonhomme at February 28, 2023 12:46 PM (eyxn4)
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at February 28, 2023 12:46 PM (d2bW3)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at February 28, 2023 12:46 PM (NFbv3)
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It really is. I've just finished watching the sixth seasons this weekend. Now I have nothing to watch.
Posted by: Puddinhead at February 28, 2023 12:47 PM (OTXUv)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at February 28, 2023 12:31 PM (lz5hY)
*pulls up a chair to help Bill enforce his lawn boundaries*
Couldn't agree more!!
Posted by: Doof at February 28, 2023 12:34 PM
*pulls up chair*
*lights cigar*
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 28, 2023 12:44 PM (Wnv9h)
*pulls up chair*
*pours some Scotch*
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 28, 2023 12:47 PM (KbCG3)
Yeah he clearly was not putting up with any of her crap and was not impressed with her attitude. Brie Larson seemed to think this was her chance at the brass ring and she was gonna get it with both hands.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 28, 2023 12:47 PM (0hOvj)
*lights cigar*
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 28, 2023 12:44 PM (Wnv9h)
*tosses burning match on gasoline drenched pile of DVDs*
Posted by: CZ=FNG, Free Republic of Florida at February 28, 2023 12:47 PM (MkuC5)
I saw "Wolf of Wall Street for the first time last night.
Not for everyone, but man, what a great movie!
Excellent acting, script, directing.
I also like the use of the Vince Guaraldi jazz song, "Cast your Fate to the Wind" as the outdo theme over the credits.
Really well done start to finish.
Check it out.
Posted by: naturalfake at February 28, 2023 12:47 PM (KLPy8)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 28, 2023 12:09 PM
Isn't that semi-mythical, according to 'Ron lore?
Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 28, 2023 12:47 PM (a3Q+t)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop
I read an article recently that says Speilberg told Cruise exactly that- thanked him for 'saving the movies' with TG:M
Posted by: DB - Spanning the globe at February 28, 2023 12:48 PM (geLO8)
Not for everyone, but man, what a great movie!
Excellent acting, script, directing.
I also like the use of the Vince Guaraldi jazz song, "Cast your Fate to the Wind" as the outdo theme over the credits.
Really well done start to finish.
Check it out.
Posted by: naturalfake at February 28, 2023 12:47 PM (KLPy
Epic debauchery.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at February 28, 2023 12:48 PM (lEVn+)
Posted by: Archer at February 28, 2023 12:48 PM (gmo/4)
"Holy crap its hot here, and I wish they'd stop stabbing me with bee-covered pitchforks!"
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 28, 2023 12:48 PM (0hOvj)
"Kyle interviews two Federal Whistleblower who helped uncover different angles of the same problem: The US federal government assisting in settling "unaccompanied children" with known members of organized crime for sex and labor trafficking."
https://tinyurl.com/mt7ffnsr
Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at February 28, 2023 12:48 PM (CecP5)
Check it out.
Posted by: naturalfake at February 28, 2023 12:47 PM (KLPy
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Well...Scorsese.
The man who also made Silence. Practically the same movie!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at February 28, 2023 12:48 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 28, 2023 12:49 PM (DSB5h)
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at February 28, 2023 12:49 PM (d2bW3)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
Touche'.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at February 28, 2023 12:49 PM (d2bW3)
Posted by: Kamala Harris at February 28, 2023 12:49 PM (lc5cP)
Posted by: bill in arkansas
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So you dropped your Dad off at the bakery while you watched a three-and-a-half hour long movie? How many crullers was he buyig?
Posted by: Muldoon at February 28, 2023 12:49 PM (ykeLU)
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at February 28, 2023 12:49 PM (d2bW3)
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Because she used the casting couch to get started, and with MeToo pushing out men and replacing them with women in the power structure of Hollywood, female producers love her for being woke.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at February 28, 2023 12:49 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at February 28, 2023 12:48 PM (lEVn+)
Did the story really require such crude handling?
I don't think so.
Posted by: CZ=FNG, Free Republic of Florida at February 28, 2023 12:50 PM (MkuC5)
Posted by: Wyatt Earp
why can't I get the lid open
Posted by: DB - Spanning the globe at February 28, 2023 12:50 PM (geLO8)
looks like Alex Jones was right
Posted by: kallisto at February 28, 2023 12:50 PM (dCxaZ)
Insane.
Posted by: Gooning Gary at February 28, 2023
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Rumor hath it that he will play Napoleon Solo again in a new Man From U.N.C.L.E. movie. The flick is "in development," so who knows. But if Guy Ritchie helms it, I'll be glad to see it.
Apparently Armie Hammer is radioactive now, so they'll have to get someone else to do Illya Kuryakin. It's a shame; he and Cavill really worked well together.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 28, 2023 12:50 PM (J2vNu)
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 28, 2023 12:50 PM (trdmm)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at February 28, 2023 12:31 PM (lz5hY)
*pulls up a chair to help Bill enforce his lawn boundaries*
Couldn't agree more!!
Posted by: Doof at February 28, 2023 12:34 PM
*pulls up chair*
*lights cigar*
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 28, 2023 12:44 PM (Wnv9h)
*pulls up chair*
*pours some Scotch*
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 28, 2023 12:47 PM (KbCG3)
*drags up a cooler*
Anybody need a beer?
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 28, 2023 12:50 PM (yQpMk)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 28, 2023 12:49 PM (DSB5h)
*raises hand*
Also Teen Titans, Justice League, Justice League Unlimited, and Symbionic Titan, a cartoon that should've gotten way more love than it did.
Posted by: Yeah, at February 28, 2023 12:50 PM (C3uQd)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
It's puzzling because she's not a very good actress, IMO.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at February 28, 2023 12:50 PM (d2bW3)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at February 28, 2023 12:51 PM (lz5hY)
55 seconds in, the whole team space-walk, wearing different colored suits forming a rainbow of sorts. Subtle.
Posted by: Movie Moron at February 28, 2023 12:51 PM (JCZqz)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at February 28, 2023 12:39 PM (lEVn+)
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So, they're going to make it drab and kind of dull?
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Shooting it in Cleveland. Obvs.
Posted by: *hand job motion* at February 28, 2023 12:45 PM (dEvit)
The book at least is very colorful, bright lights with huge power plants (hence the 'Electric State'). We'll see what they come up with. They're competent directors.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at February 28, 2023 12:51 PM (lEVn+)
Hollywood doesn't want to do that.
They have a new story to tell and that story is that you are garbage, they are amazing and you should go fuck yourself for caring about anything. Also fuck you and die.
Posted by: ... at February 28, 2023 12:51 PM (oFO+/)
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This is slavery.
No one wants to talk about it, but this is slavery. They're even outright saying "labor trafficking" now.
Posted by: DOE confirms our patented COVID bioweapon was lab-created, released by China at February 28, 2023 12:51 PM (bWYk2)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at February 28, 2023 12:49 PM (LvTSG)
I will admit, she won me back a little with that outfit she wore when hosting one of those late night shows. She may be woke but she wasn't shy about letting the girls hang out.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 28, 2023 12:51 PM (KbCG3)
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at February 28, 2023 12:50 PM (d2bW3)
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Arnold's not a good actor, either.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at February 28, 2023 12:51 PM (LvTSG)
Couldn't agree more!!
Posted by: Doof at February 28, 2023 12:34 PM
*pulls up chair*
*lights cigar*
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 28, 2023 12:44 PM (Wnv9h)
*pulls up chair*
*pours some Scotch*
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 28, 2023 12:47 PM
* pulls up chair *
* issues accurate, but irritating utterance *
Posted by: Wesley Crusher at February 28, 2023 12:51 PM (a3Q+t)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 28, 2023 12:51 PM (/EuRN)
People began fleeing the cities as the black family started to collapse in the 1950's.
The reduction in crime rates from 1990-2020 reduced the risk of living in cities, and cities became trendy again, and began growing in population.
Now, with crime exploding and with Soros DAs in almost all big blue cities, the flight out of cities has resumed.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 28, 2023 12:52 PM (2tUFv)
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 28, 2023 12:51 PM (KbCG3)
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She's a 1.
But I'd give her a fake name and a phone number with 6 digits.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at February 28, 2023 12:52 PM (LvTSG)
Apparently Armie Hammer is radioactive now, so they'll have to get someone else to do Illya Kuryakin. It's a shame; he and Cavill really worked well together.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere
I loved that film. Watch it every time it's one. Cavill and Hammer were great playing off one another.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at February 28, 2023 12:52 PM (d2bW3)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 28, 2023 12:49 PM (DSB5h)
*raises hand*
Also Teen Titans, Justice League, Justice League Unlimited, and Symbionic Titan, a cartoon that should've gotten way more love than it did.
Posted by: Yeah, at February 28, 2023 12:50 PM (C3uQd)
Teen Titans was fun. Ever watch The Amazing World of Gumball? That show is bonkers.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 28, 2023 12:52 PM (KbCG3)
________
What if the spider that bit Peter Parker bit the Hulk?
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at February 28, 2023 12:52 PM (lf83v)
* issues accurate, but irritating utterance *
Posted by: Wesley Crusher at February 28, 2023 12:51 PM
*taps off cigar ash*
Shut up, Wesley.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 28, 2023 12:52 PM (Wnv9h)
They get to retire at 62
Socialism for me, but not for thee
Posted by: Paul at February 28, 2023 12:52 PM (S2Elw)
It's not just the shucking and jiving for The Message.... it's that the formula is busted and people are plain old bored with it all, i think.
>Now do the Jurrassic Park franchise.
Posted by: Dr. Bone at February 28, 2023 12:53 PM (Jg7EG)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at February 28, 2023 12:53 PM (LvTSG)
I did watch the first episode. I am not sure why people like Nerdrotic are so happy about it. Is it better than Kurtzman Trek? Yes but is that really praise?
Plot problem - Captain Shaw reads Picard and Riker the riot act and shoots down their suggestion. But next we find USS Titan HAS traveled to the edge of Federation space to move the plot along. But Shaw seems to have never visited his bridge and only now finds out that Seven of Nine, his XO, has disobeyed his orders. WHAT?
Then as I mentioned previously it seems the writer has lifted one of Kirk's stories and grafted it to Picard.
Dr. Crusher cut off contact with the whole crew twenty years prior. Ricker makes a comment about Picard having a fling with Beverly that went sour. When they board Beverly's ship Picard comments the music playing is music he selected for her. And only now do we see the person that has been hidden since the show started as he puts a phaser to Will Riker's head. He is Beverly's son.
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 28, 2023 12:53 PM (PcAlC)
In real life, the story wasn't really a good movie. The dope dealer bailed, but didn't make it. Went splat in some dude's driveway with a bag full of dope and nicer shoes than most dead guys have.
The bear ate a bunch of the coke, and of course promptly died. He was found by the forest rangers near the pile of the shit. Now he's all taxidermied as a tourist attraction at some restaurant or something in KY. Sad.
Colombians can't even leave our wildlife out of their money games.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 28, 2023 12:53 PM (oINRc)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
No, but he at least has a borderline personality.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at February 28, 2023 12:53 PM (d2bW3)
Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at February 28, 2023 12:48 PM (CecP5)
You don't expect Richie Rich to settle for less profit and hire American adults do you? Not when they can impress migrant kids and skip all that pesky shit like labor law and safe conditions. We're heading to the French Revolution.
Posted by: CN at February 28, 2023 12:53 PM (Zzbjj)
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Now THAT'S gay.
Posted by: The Teletubbies at February 28, 2023 12:54 PM (lf83v)
https://bit.ly/3IX829z
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Not a Real Simulation at February 28, 2023 12:54 PM (FVME7)
Domino
Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at February 28, 2023 12:54 PM (CjHGv)
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at February 28, 2023 12:53 PM (d2bW3)
I don't think that means what you think it means. LOL
Posted by: CN at February 28, 2023 12:54 PM (Zzbjj)
Posted by: Holy Crap at February 28, 2023 12:54 PM (glGDV)
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You'll rarely go wrong assuming everyone in the movies is related to someone who is the reason they're in the movies.
Posted by: DOE confirms our patented COVID bioweapon was lab-created, released by China at February 28, 2023 12:54 PM (bWYk2)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 28, 2023 12:55 PM (/EuRN)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
No, but he at least has a borderline personality.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at February 28, 2023 12:53 PM (d2bW3)
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Movie stars are simply different from actors. Tom Cruise should never lead a production of an Ibsen play, but he'll drag people into theaters for the right kind of film.
It's the heart of how the star system started. It wasn't about finding "actors". It was about finding people in front of the camera that matched the stories being told. It was about typecasting in a production environment that was supposed to mimic the assembly line. If you went to a Mary Pickford movie, you knew what kind of movie it was before you bought your ticket.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at February 28, 2023 12:55 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere
You commit cannibalism one time....
Posted by: Armie Hammer at February 28, 2023 12:55 PM (bhRsz)
I think the last really good Marvel film was .. I guess Iron Man 2? I didn't like any of the later Avengers films, and I didn't care less about Thor or Marvel, or any of those lame-ass films.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at February 28, 2023 12:55 PM (d2bW3)
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I got the feeling that it was originally intended to go multiseason but they got the word at 4:45 on a Friday to wrap it up. Loose ends were lying all over the place at the end. But it had really good chippy dialog, plus UberWalz.
Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at February 28, 2023 12:55 PM (wzAuc)
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at February 28, 2023 12:55 PM (d2bW3)
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Iron Man 2 is terrible.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at February 28, 2023 12:56 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: DB - Spanning the globe at February 28, 2023
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Funny how until recently H'wood was able to create long-running series that audiences loved. U.N.C.L.E. came up with clever plots for several years; M:I managed it for longer; the Bond series was top-notch (with certain exceptions) for several decades.
It's not so much that they are running out of plots. They're running out of writers who actually can tell a story.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 28, 2023 12:56 PM (J2vNu)
Teen Titans was fun. Ever watch The Amazing World of Gumball? That show is bonkers.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 28, 2023 12:52 PM (KbCG3)
Couldn't get into it. Samurai Jack and Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends - now those were good.
Posted by: Genndy Tartakovsky genius is at February 28, 2023 12:56 PM (C3uQd)
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It really is. I've just finished watching the sixth seasons this weekend. Now I have nothing to watch.
Posted by: Puddinhead at February 28, 2023 12:47 PM (OTXUv)
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What is this referring to?
Posted by: Seems Legit at February 28, 2023 12:56 PM (DcKNO)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at February 28, 2023 12:56 PM (lz5hY)
Funny how nostalgia changes your perception in the midst of living in a woke yeast infested vagina of a leftist commie shithole society
Posted by: The Unmasked and Unvaxed Ranger at February 28, 2023 12:57 PM (0MwUH)
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at February 28, 2023 12:57 PM (ssESX)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures
I like many of Cruise's films. I'm not sure why, but he usually picks good films. Let's forget the Mummy and a few others, however.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at February 28, 2023 12:57 PM (d2bW3)
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at February 28, 2023 12:57 PM (d2bW3)
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Lions for Lambs? His anti-Iraq war movie directed by Robert Redford?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at February 28, 2023 12:57 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 28, 2023 12:57 PM (DSB5h)
Armie Hammer is a pretty good actor and he's interesting on screen, but cannibalism is apparently a line even Hollywood is not interested in crossing... yet.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 28, 2023 12:57 PM (0hOvj)
It's not just the shucking and jiving for The Message.... it's that the formula is busted and people are plain old bored with it all, i think.
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Don't forget how queer the whole thing is. It's fine, I guess. H'wood is gay AF, and their work product reflects that. But, jeebus.
Why don't they just squeeze Timotheeeee Chalamet into a leotard and make Brokeback Galaxy: The Legend of Catamight, and get it over with.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 28, 2023 12:57 PM (oINRc)
Posted by: David French at February 28, 2023 12:58 PM (w+kcE)
I bet it won't take long before they take money out of SS for this crap.
Posted by: just saying this is ludacris at February 28, 2023 12:58 PM (Uy/WF)
Posted by: Seems Legit at February 28, 2023 12:39 PM (DcKNO)
Except fucking things up. Which is why they're in charge of the military.
Posted by: OneEyedJack at February 28, 2023 12:58 PM (FCbAQ)
Hollywood doesn't want to do that.
They have a new story to tell and that story is that you are garbage, they are amazing and you should go fuck yourself for caring about anything. Also fuck you and die.
Posted by: ... at
Yes.
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at February 28, 2023 12:58 PM (Y+l9t)
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at February 28, 2023 12:55 PM (d2bW3)
The Winter Soldier came after Iron Man 2, and was the greatest Marvel movie. Full stop.
Posted by: Dr. T at February 28, 2023 12:58 PM (bhRsz)
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Domino
Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at February 28, 2023
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The Teela Brown gene? As Louis Wu and his motley crew discovered, luck for Teela Brown was not always lucky for other people.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 28, 2023 12:58 PM (J2vNu)
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It really is. I've just finished watching the sixth seasons this weekend. Now I have nothing to watch.
Posted by: Puddinhead at February 28, 2023 12:47 PM (OTXUv)
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What is this referring to?
Posted by: Seems Legit at February 28, 2023 12:56 PM (DcKNO)
Peaky Blinders
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at February 28, 2023 12:58 PM (lEVn+)
Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer
I'm halfway thru the season. Too bad about the cancellation.
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at February 28, 2023 12:59 PM (fUnHJ)
Posted by: Genndy Tartakovsky genius
Foster's was great. My son looks exactly like Mac. I also loved Adventure Time and Regular Show.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at February 28, 2023 12:59 PM (d2bW3)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 28, 2023 12:59 PM (0hOvj)
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 28, 2023 12:59 PM (PcAlC)
This from the people who made the Chernobyl television series.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at February 28, 2023 12:21 PM (LvTSG)
That's why I can't watch Man in the High Castle again. The heroes of the movie are the communists.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at February 28, 2023 12:59 PM (BdMk6)
Armie Hammer is a pretty good actor and he's interesting on screen, but cannibalism is apparently a line even Hollywood is not interested in crossing... yet.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 28, 2023 12:57 PM (0hOvj)
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At least not for a straight white guy from a crazy rich family. Take away any of those elements, and . . . well, all bets are off. I'll bet almost any amount of money that a gay black ghetto tranny could get away with eating human meat.
Posted by: Elric Blade at February 28, 2023 01:00 PM (iFTx/)
And they completely butchered Philip K. Dick's novel.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 28, 2023 01:00 PM (2tUFv)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at February 28, 2023 12:58 PM (lEVn+)
An excellent series all the way around.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at February 28, 2023 01:00 PM (BdMk6)
Posted by: David French at February 28, 2023 12:58 PM
How do you cut back from 0? You don't even get to be in the same room to watch as her bull plows her? What is the sound of
Posted by: Moron Philosopher at February 28, 2023 01:01 PM (JCZqz)
Posted by: Gooning Gary at February 28, 2023 01:01 PM (dfz97)
>These people on the silver screen are freaks. Small bodies and huge heads. Not at all proportioned like normal people.
Posted by: Dr. Bone at February 28, 2023 01:01 PM (Jg7EG)
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I guess I shouldn't be surprised but I saw the other day that he was a WWII vet. In the radio room of a Navy warship IIRC.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Not a Real Simulation at February 28, 2023 01:01 PM (FVME7)
Posted by: Dr. T
Thought that was before. Then I concur. It is by far the best Marvel film ever. I'm also a fan of Spider-Man 2 and the first Blade film.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at February 28, 2023 01:01 PM (d2bW3)
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at February 28, 2023 12:59 PM (BdMk6)
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We watched the two most recent episodes of The Last of Us in one night this weekend, and I've just added another bit of evidence that almost no one can do long form storytelling in film.
They simply have no idea how to fill the 8-10 hours with enough story (not plot, story) to keep things moving and interesting. The last episode, essentially a recreation of the downloadable content from the first game, is really just about spinning wheels while explaining nothing about the main girl character. What's actually accomplished for the whole series is shockingly small in the hour set in that mall. Very little of it we didn't know before.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at February 28, 2023 01:01 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at February 28, 2023 01:01 PM (lz5hY)
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at February 28, 2023 12:59 PM (d2bW3)
I did not dig Adventure Time but Regular Show was a must-watch. The 80s nostalgia was fun but the totally oddball characters and storylines were great.
Posted by: More nerdiness at February 28, 2023 01:01 PM (C3uQd)
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at February 28, 2023
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A big part of why the original is still loved in certain quarters today. The onscreen chemistry between Vaughn and McCallum was great. Some MfU fans disdain the new movie, but I (as an original fan) felt the flick captured the *essence* of U.N.C.L.E..
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 28, 2023 01:02 PM (J2vNu)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 28, 2023 01:02 PM (zZu0s)
Yeah it looks good on screen but in real life they are odd looking people. I have heard that if someone is too attractive they don't show up as well on screen.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 28, 2023 01:02 PM (0hOvj)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at February 28, 2023
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Was it [An Enemy of the People?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 28, 2023 01:02 PM (J2vNu)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 28, 2023 01:02 PM (J2vNu)
Posted by: Seems Legit at February 28, 2023 01:02 PM (DcKNO)
Until the twist.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 28, 2023 01:03 PM (zZu0s)
Yeah, I'm sure Hammer crossed the wrong guy, somewhere along the line, or just didn't make enough money for the right people. So what if you eat people? It's Hollywood. They don't care. If he'd directed a blockbuster he could buttfuck and eat all the kids he wants.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 28, 2023 01:03 PM (oINRc)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop
She is crazy stupid hot.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at February 28, 2023 01:03 PM (d2bW3)
But man from uncle with a plot borrowed from moonraker was pretty good
Posted by: No 6 at February 28, 2023 01:03 PM (PXvVL)
"Today" co-anchor Savannah Guthrie left in the middle of Tuesday morning's broadcast after testing positive for COVID-19 while on air.
Guthrie hosted the first half hour of the show, but then did not appear after 7:30 a.m. Eastern following her positive COVID test.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 28, 2023 01:03 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 28, 2023 01:03 PM (zZu0s)
Also, Disney/Marvel is standing against parenthood. That is NOT a good idea, but they seem to double down on it. Remember the attempt to create a "The Golden Compass" only for it to totally crater when the not-so-secret-agenda of the books to introduce children to atheism was shared by concerned mothers. The same is happening across all Disney brands.
Disney/Marvel insults half of their audience. Yet, Disney doesn't seem to realize the whole 1/2 need not stay away, only the number of people who REPRESENT DISNEY'S profit margin. Even if they make fewer smaller movies, they will all continue to crash and burn as long as the profit margin goes elsewhere.
Universal animation has been kicking Disney's behind, and they are about to start doing to the same in the themeparks.
Disney needs to make a quick massive course change. If they don't it will be really tough to recover without ending up on the selling block.
Posted by: JakeSpeed at February 28, 2023 01:03 PM (Vu1jV)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at February 28, 2023 01:04 PM (lz5hY)
Posted by: No 6 at February 28, 2023 01:04 PM (PXvVL)
Doesn't sound like my bag of Earl Grey.
Hopefully they go all Lensmen soon and destroy Starfleet.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at February 28, 2023 01:04 PM (lEVn+)
Well, they certainly feel out of place, but not silly. They are didactic. They have very strong themes of right and wrong. They promote good citizenship, in a way that's not preachy or treacly. They show struggle. They show development. They show that doing what's right is not always easy, but it's always necessary.
And then you look at the preachy, self-righteousness of the latest garbage from Marvel, this CGI-enamored woke crap that some people actually reference as being culturally relevant north stars for where society should be headed (like that doofus from NATO recently), and you realize how far civilization has slid in a couple decades.
Posted by: red speck at February 28, 2023 01:04 PM (gS3OW)
Posted by: Braenyard's phone at February 28, 2023 01:04 PM (IpU2D)
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at February 28, 2023 01:04 PM (17s+e)
#297
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 28, 2023
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Kudos to you, Anna. I'm actually doing some work-work now, and haven't been able to read the whole thread.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 28, 2023 01:04 PM (J2vNu)
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I got bad news for you, cause they butched her up in the movie. you know, because marvel.
Posted by: sockamster, gator at February 28, 2023 01:04 PM (MLrvz)
Posted by: No 6 at February 28, 2023 01:05 PM (PXvVL)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 28, 2023 01:05 PM (FUVRY)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 28, 2023 01:05 PM (FUVRY)
They simply have no idea how to fill the 8-10 hours with enough story (not plot, story) to keep things moving and interesting. The last episode, essentially a recreation of the downloadable content from the first game, is really just about spinning wheels while explaining nothing about the main girl character. What's actually accomplished for the whole series is shockingly small in the hour set in that mall. Very little of it we didn't know before.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison,
You mean an apocalypse zombie monster show without fighting zombies sucks? Who knew that would be an issue considering what made the game and story was fighting the terrifying zombies.
Just pure retardation.
Posted by: Gooning Gary at February 28, 2023 01:06 PM (dfz97)
I'm reading "Narnia" to my daughter before bed. She can only make it 10 or 15 minutes before she dozes off, so I expect I'll get like 2 years out of this.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 28, 2023 01:07 PM (oINRc)
Never saw the series.
Posted by: Seems Legit at February 28, 2023
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I've read it twice, and don't to this day find it all that memorable. But I am no PKDick fan. It has good moments, but it's not a novel I heartily recommend to people, like Ringworld.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 28, 2023 01:07 PM (J2vNu)
Never saw the series.
Posted by: Seems Legit at February 28, 2023 01:02 PM (DcKNO)
It's typical Phillip K. Dick: an interesting concept he has no idea how to execute on as his drug addled brain fuzzes out at some point writing the plot.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at February 28, 2023 01:07 PM (lEVn+)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 28, 2023 01:07 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at February 28, 2023 12:57 PM (d2bW3)
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Lions for Lambs? His anti-Iraq war movie directed by Robert Redford?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at February 28, 2023 12:57 PM (LvTSG)
I tried watching LforL one night on HBO. Stopped after maybe 20-30 minutes. Just a pile of poo. Cruise was just plain bad too. A big zero all the way around.
I didn't hate the Mummy with Cruise but it forgot it was a horror movie or at least horror adjacent.
And the climax/ending was totally miswritten.
The funny thing is this was a movie Cruise had huge input in as it was shooting and was supposed to be his stepping stone to a director's chair.
And he was never seen near a director's chair again....*scary organ music*
Posted by: naturalfake at February 28, 2023 01:07 PM (KLPy8)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 28, 2023 01:07 PM (DSB5h)
>Wasn't she the little elf chick in Hobbit? Fine looking woman.
Posted by: Dr. Bone at February 28, 2023 01:08 PM (Jg7EG)
Just pure retardation.
Posted by: Gooning Gary at February 28, 2023 01:06 PM (dfz97)
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I was never that enamored of the storytelling in the game. It was the mechanics that made it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at February 28, 2023 01:08 PM (LvTSG)
Me either, I see a lame woke stoplight, but not anything like that.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 28, 2023 01:08 PM (0hOvj)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at February 28, 2023 01:07 PM (lEVn+)
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Thanks, maybe I'll skip it.
Posted by: Seems Legit at February 28, 2023 01:08 PM (DcKNO)
Posted by: davidt at February 28, 2023 01:08 PM (SYTee)
Did I mention Rafi has been assigned to find out where a stolen super weapon is? Well yes she has. And it seems she has been set up to fail. It is a giant portal gun.
And from the teaser trailer for the rest of the series, well it is giving me a strong Gundam 0083:Stardust Memory vibe.
"hahahaha, we are so secure in our might." - Star Fleet. But wait here comes Frontier Day when there are supposed to be these great reviews of ships. I get the feeling that Star Fleet's cats paw is going to go full Anval Gato on them with the secret weapon.
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 28, 2023 01:09 PM (PcAlC)
Yeah, like Mark said, Dick was a terrific idea guy but didn't carry it out as well as he thought of it. Blade Runner is a much better film than Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 28, 2023 01:09 PM (0hOvj)
Posted by: Seems Legit at February 28, 2023 01:09 PM (DcKNO)
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at February 28, 2023
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It was mentioned in one color episode of the original show that Illya had been a little boy in Kiev. Probably smack dab in the middle of The Great Patriotic War.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 28, 2023 01:09 PM (J2vNu)
Never saw the series.
Posted by: Seems Legit at February 28, 2023 01:02 PM (DcKNO)
It's typical Phillip K. Dick: an interesting concept he has no idea how to execute on as his drug addled brain fuzzes out at some point writing the plot.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at February 28, 2023 01:07 PM (lEVn+)
It's pretty good, but there really is no ending.
It sorta vaguely hints at a multiverse kind of idea and then..THE END.
Not fulfilling in the least.
Posted by: naturalfake at February 28, 2023 01:10 PM (KLPy8)
Just pure retardation.
Posted by: Gooning Gary at February 28, 2023 01:06 PM (dfz97)
Not to mention, they have tried to make the show (from what I have seen) not about the central relationship between Joel and Ellie- probably so they can kill Joel off easier. Good luck with that.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 28, 2023 01:10 PM (zZu0s)
She has no flaws, she's always right, she is indefeatable (sp?). And she's a bitch. This is how not to make a character.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water
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and her life challenges before becoming magic was that boys in the 90's hit on her and doubted, in the 90's, that girls could fly big boy jets.
marvel has their girl problem where they're doing gaybossing. they're keeping open the poss that they're gonna munch rug at any point. None of them has a romantic interest. well, except for wanda. but he's basically a space vibrator.
Posted by: sockamster, gator at February 28, 2023 01:10 PM (MLrvz)
Guthrie hosted the first half hour of the show, but then did not appear after 7:30 a.m. Eastern following her positive COVID test.
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Can someone please explain to me why the rest of the cast and crew is not also required to go home and isolate?
Posted by: DOE confirms our patented COVID bioweapon was lab-created, released by China at February 28, 2023 01:10 PM (bWYk2)
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at February 28, 2023 01:10 PM (0Qrr3)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 28, 2023 01:10 PM (63Dwl)
Good for you. Plug away! How old is she now? She might develop an interest as she gets older and will read them herself. I never read Narnia until I was in college. Maybe my mother read them to me (she was big on reading but I don't recall those. And since I don't know anything about fantasy films, I'll say this. The Narnia movies were great and had humor. is that also true of Superhero films?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 28, 2023 01:10 PM (FUVRY)
It's mildly amusing to me that the woke virus is destroying a skin tag on the corpus of pop culture, I guess.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 28, 2023 01:11 PM (tkR6S)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at February 28, 2023 01:08 PM (LvTSG)
Really? I thought the shooting/melee was naughtydog crap.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at February 28, 2023 01:11 PM (zZu0s)
Posted by: Seems Legit at February 28, 2023
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I tell people it's a kind of SF Wizard of Oz, except the Yellow Brick Road is 600 million miles long.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 28, 2023 01:11 PM (J2vNu)
Yeah it looks good on screen but in real life they are odd looking people. I have heard that if someone is too attractive they don't show up as well on screen.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 28, 2023 01:02 PM (0hOvj)
Son met Viggo Mortensen in Yellowstone some years ago. Nice guy, but short with a big head.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Southpaw at February 28, 2023 01:11 PM (xPJvm)
Need to get back to working on the B-17F. Plus get laundry out the washer. And food, though I am thinking of getting out of house for a Japanese/Chinese buffet.
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 28, 2023 01:11 PM (PcAlC)
Posted by: DOE confirms our patented COVID bioweapon was lab-created, released by China
It's Clown World now. 🤡
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at February 28, 2023 01:12 PM (r1ZRd)
>Wasn't she the little elf chick in Hobbit? Fine looking woman.
Posted by: Dr. Bone at February 28, 2023 01:08 PM (Jg7EG)
She's a cutie. Watch her appearances with Craig Ferguson on YouTube.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at February 28, 2023 01:12 PM (BdMk6)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 28, 2023 01:12 PM (FUVRY)
I just glanced at the HQ's Sidebar, or, the AoS Obituary Column, it seems like.
What happened to Ace's rule about no more dying?
Sad news about Wesminsterdogshow. Rest In Peace, dear friend.
Posted by: Soothsayer, the HQ's Most Respected Commenter at February 28, 2023 01:12 PM (j7i25)
Posted by: Dr. Bone at February 28, 2023 01:12 PM (Jg7EG)
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I liked it but it's not for everybody. Either it doesn't really have a point or I didn't get it. One of the most sympathetic characters is a honkey hating Japanese officer ruling over part of a conquered America.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Not a Real Simulation at February 28, 2023 01:12 PM (FVME7)
Posted by: BourbonChicken at February 28, 2023 01:12 PM (44ww/)
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 28, 2023 01:12 PM (PcAlC)
Posted by: DB - Spanning the globe at February 28, 2023 01:13 PM (geLO8)
I'm gonna repeat what someone here (Sorry I cannot remember who) tipped me about: the feminist hero's journey. This is, according to the author, the real "bible" that script doctors use in Hollywood to fix movies for female characters.
https://tinyurl.com/4a3fj589
First. The patriarchy is real and must be treated as such. The female protagonist is oppressed by it. This is not optional.
Second. She is already the key to a better world. She has all the skills she’ll need, inherently. She’s the Avatar, you just got to deal with it!
Third. Her biggest challenge isn’t defeating the antagonist, it’s defeating disbelief in her. Men, in particular, won’t believe she’s as amazing as she really is.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 28, 2023 01:13 PM (0hOvj)
Contact-tracing fail. Everyone she knows, has talked to, has been around, might have been around, needs to be harvested.
Posted by: ZOD at February 28, 2023 01:13 PM (78TBs)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 28, 2023 01:13 PM (J2vNu)
Fifth: She escapes the patriarchy and enters a new world that forces her to prove herself.
Sixth: She now breaks the chains that held her back. Usually by confronting her chief male oppressor.
Seventh: She is briefly overwhelmed but then bounces back. This is where she levels up her already enormous power.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 28, 2023 01:13 PM (0hOvj)
Ninth: She is now an independent woman who will never need a man. And she must continue her journey alone. Any other person in her life will hold her back. She will never be a wife or a mother. Those things would all hold her back. If she finds love at all, it’s with another woman.
Tenth: Realized self-actualization. She was always a goddess and just needed to believe how awesomely amazing she always was herself.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 28, 2023 01:14 PM (0hOvj)
Posted by: OneIronMacGuffin at February 28, 2023 01:14 PM (qkiE7)
That's a "strong, empowered woman" to the progs.
smh, that truly is juvenile
like what, 8th grade level?
be better Nerdrotic
Have you ever watched Friday Night Tights? Does "feeding the ducks" mean anything to you?
Posted by: Rob Crawford at February 28, 2023 01:14 PM (UJJWg)
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Ringworld is unstable!
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 28, 2023
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But it's immune to/shielded from the Core explosion, so there's that.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 28, 2023 01:14 PM (J2vNu)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 28, 2023 01:14 PM (0hOvj)
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 28, 2023 01:16 PM (PcAlC)
Posted by: ... at February 28, 2023 01:17 PM (oFO+/)
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 28, 2023 01:17 PM (PcAlC)
Dwarf sized - Large head. Truly odd looking in person because your memory is forced perspective of him looking a lot taller. He must hate meeting people in real life who are l OMG you are tiny.
Posted by: seriously at February 28, 2023 01:18 PM (WoX2+)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 28, 2023 01:18 PM (FUVRY)
In the movies, she's crazy and uncontrolled and not very attractive (for a movie star), and turns irredeemably evil, yet is told over and over that she did nothing wrong and is the real victim.
The vision/scarlet witch romance took years to develop and be played out in the comics. In the movies, it takes place between two films: they go from two people who are aware of each other to the deepest love affair total bond of all time without anything whatsoever depicting this transformation.
Then in her own miniseries she goes nuts because she lost her eternal love and cannot stand life without him, mind raping an entire town so badly that they beg her to just kill them.
Then in the next movie, she's totally blown off her eternal overwhelming love for Vision, he's not even mentioned or thought about, and is fixated on the nonexistent kids she invented with her powers and had around a couple of days.
Its all just terrible writing, even for a comic book.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 28, 2023 01:19 PM (0hOvj)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop
Yeah they forgot the part about why people loved Joel because he constantly battled zombies to protect Ellie. We have only 1 or 2 Clickers and only 2 episodes left.
Again it's a terrifying zombie show without the terrifying zombies because ghey reasons.
It's also obvious the only episodes they cared about was the homo episode because stunning and brave wins awards.
Posted by: Gooning Gary at February 28, 2023 01:19 PM (dfz97)
Fifth: She escapes the patriarchy and enters a new world that forces her to prove herself.
Sixth: She now breaks the chains that held her back. Usually by confronting her chief male oppressor.
Seventh: She is briefly overwhelmed but then bounces back. This is where she levels up her already enormous power.
Eighth: She defeats her male oppressor.
Ninth: She is now an independent woman who will never need a man. And she must continue her journey alone. Any other person in her life will hold her back. She will never be a wife or a mother. Those things would all hold her back. If she finds love at all, it’s with another woman.
Tenth: Realized self-actualization. She was always a goddess and just needed to believe how awesomely amazing she always was herself.
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Shorter: Stop it DAAAAD!
Posted by: seriously at February 28, 2023 01:21 PM (Uwg9/)
Posted by: An Observer at February 28, 2023 01:22 PM (2iqrO)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 28, 2023 01:18 PM (FUVRY)
Ben Barnes is the villain in Shadow & Bone, the fantasy series on Netflix. Still very handsome.
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at February 28, 2023 01:24 PM (fUnHJ)
anti-Christian
pro-obese
pro-masturbating to male porn (in the first sequence of the movie) Literally first scene.
honestly, they don't care if they make money any more
hopefully this will be their downfall - virtue signaling over making money
Posted by: artisanal ette at February 28, 2023 01:25 PM (9qHsE)
>Wasn't she the little elf chick in Hobbit? Fine looking woman.
I'm old enough to remember Lilly from those late-night commercials for desperate dudes (Lifeline or something?) She was cute back then, too -- and not all slutty like the other commercials. It was surprising to see her show up on Lost as a genuine actress. I thought: "One for the 'win' column."
Posted by: red speck at February 28, 2023 01:26 PM (gS3OW)
Dead Franchise Walking!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 28, 2023 01:28 PM (pNxlR)
Posted by: Fetterman's Lump at February 28, 2023 01:30 PM (Vu7A1)
And it's probably not going to get any better, because Feige either still doesn't see it or thinks he can't change course despite seeing it.
You can get away with bad stories. You can get away with bad acting. You can get away with boring actors/actresses playing important characters when the character is a known commodity. You can get away with bad effects. You can even get away with woke. And all of this is easier to get away with when you're dealing with an already established mega-product (see the 6 main Star Wars movies after the original trilogy).
But, when you've got a bunch of those major problems in movie after movie, people are eventually going to stop watching the movies. Even fanboys get tired of crap, sooner or later.
Posted by: Just A Guy at February 28, 2023 01:38 PM (dDlo8)
several things going on, Ace is right about some of it.
February is not the month that Hollywood releases big movies. Historically Jan and Feb are shit months, filled with crap big movies and a few late "oscar" hopefuls. March used to suck also, but The Hunger Games proved that you could do well in March, so they started extending the blockbuster season from March through July/Aug.
Sep sucks, you won't see anything in Sep worth seeing, same for Octobor till Halloween, which kicks off the holiday season Nov/Dec which is when the 2nd blockbuster season exists.
So the fact that Ant Man was released in FEB, tells you what Hollywood thought in advance.
Beyond this fact, Hollywood knows it is just hanging on by a thread. The movie theater business is broken and will never recover, therefore Hollywood is broken and will never recover. They can't make this money off STREAMING or DIRECT TO HOME services.
So enjoy Cocaine Bear and ANt Man while you can because eventually this stuff won't be available at your local theater, beccause the theater will be an apartment complex.
Posted by: joe fingerblaster at February 28, 2023 01:52 PM (3TalN)
You also have to account for inflation and ticket prices. Just talking about money made does not tell the full story.
Even if the sequel made $1.3 billion, it would not have been the same audience draw, as the ticket prices have increased since the first.
Ryan Kinel pointed this out recently. Showed that 10 years ago, ticket price average was ~$9 and now ticket price average is ~$10.
$1.3bil / $9 = 144.4 million tickets sold
$858 mil / $11 = 85.8 million tickets sold
So not only did it make $500mil less, they sold ~60 million less tickets. That's 60 million of audience lost.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at February 28, 2023 01:55 PM (Do5/p)
Posted by: Johnny Anditmightbeasin at February 28, 2023 01:55 PM (kB4cQ)
Yeah, but did it really have the biggest opening? When you jack up ticket prices it may look that way. But divide what the movie made by the ticket price and you find out the number of tickets sold. I would bet that they did not sell as many tickets for the second movie as they did for the first.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at February 28, 2023 01:58 PM (Do5/p)
Posted by: Alec Baldwin at February 28, 2023 02:02 PM (Lavx8)
Posted by: Marcus Gravey at February 28, 2023 02:02 PM (516e+)
Then Hollywood better start acting like it and not just dump the woke, but signal an apology to the middle class they insulted.
Posted by: JakeSpeed at February 28, 2023 02:07 PM (Vu1jV)
Posted by: MikeN at February 28, 2023 02:10 PM (XygMV)
Chrissie Mayr also quipped that it looks like a woke stoplight. Instead of Red-Yellow-Green, you have the Blue-Purple-Red outside colors and then the Black-White-Brown skin colors.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at February 28, 2023 02:27 PM (Do5/p)
'Devil's Doorbell.'
Hahahaha!
Sir. If you made that one up, you're a comic genius!
Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 28, 2023 12:22 PM (q3iUt)
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*added to personal vocabulary.
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at February 28, 2023 02:38 PM (i+mOk)
Posted by: naturalfake at February 28, 2023 12:28 PM
"Welcome Back, Potter"? Is that like "Welcome Back, Kotter", only with Harry Potter with a 'fro teaching at Hogwarts?
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at February 28, 2023 03:07 PM (Do5/p)
The whole reason for multiverses is to remove meaning and value from the universe. The whole point is that you don't have to care about any of it.
So, why would I care about their movies?
Posted by: Gridlock at February 28, 2023 03:07 PM (ggvN8)
The biggest feature was the multi episode big bad. Just like the comics.
Just like the comics the multiepisode big bad was cross tied across different comics. Encouraging you to get them all to get "the whole story".
Now what if, work with me here, you've got a bunch of socialism screed you don't want to explain to your kids, a bunch of LGBT content you don't want to explain to your kids problematic anti western civ preaching you don't want to explain to your kids, anti-white racism you don't want to explain to your kids.
Now say that affects 1/4 of the movies. Is the simpler solution now to just not watch at all and forgo the story and shared moment, to also avoid all the editing, skipping, and filling of gaps avoiding objectionable content will cause you. Understanding eroded enjoyment of the plot is a side effect thereof.
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Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at February 28, 2023 01:24 PM
If I am thinking of the right actor, he also played villain Jigsaw in the excellent Punisher Netflix series.
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