Rumor: Disney Marvel Is Recasting "Kang the Conqueror," the Alleged Next Thanos-Level Villian, in Wake of Domestic Assault Charges Against Jonathan Majors

Tom Connors of Midnight's Edge says he's heard a rumor from two sources -- who I guess can't confirm each other, as both are calling their information a rumor -- that Jonathan Majors is being fired from the M-She-U, despite the plan having been that his character, "Kang the Conqueror," would be the central fulcrum upon which the franchise turns for the next three or four years.

This follows Majors being arrested for domestic battery.

Majors was denounced by people who worked with him, with one of them saying something like, "I'm surprised it took this long." Connors points out that he can't find anyone besides Majors' lawyer who's willing to publicly defend him.

I guess this is just more Bad Luck for Disney.

I think there's an old saying that applies to the Failure Factory that is Woke Disney: Stupid, evil people tend to have bad luck, for some unfathomable reason.

Oh, and they released the trailer for the much-delayed, little-anticipated The Marvels.

A month or so ago, there were reports of a partial screening of the movie. They only showed people the first half or two thirds of the movie for some reason. I guess to reduce the chance of spoilers leaking out? Not sure.

Anyway, a guy who said he was at the partial screening said that it's not a movie for adults. It's a Disney XD sitcom for little girls.

This trailer seems to confirm that.

The first trailer for ‘THE MARVELS’ has been released.

The film releases on November 10 in theaters. pic.twitter.com/ufBIOElk71
— DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm) April 11, 2023

Marvel's hot streak continues!

Posted by: Ace at 04:17 PM

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1 First

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 12, 2023 04:17 PM (JMAcK)

2 Disney delenda est.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 12, 2023 04:17 PM (JMAcK)

3 Whut?

Posted by: Xipe Totec at April 12, 2023 04:17 PM (pohLc)

4 not sponge

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 12, 2023 04:18 PM (UVZX7)

5 Who???

Posted by: lin-duh at April 12, 2023 04:18 PM (UUBmN)

6 We wuz Kangs.

Posted by: wth at April 12, 2023 04:18 PM (v0R5T)

7 SPONGE!

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards (Logan Tiberius 2012-2021) at April 12, 2023 04:19 PM (xcxpd)

8 Yes, we have no fuks, we have no fuks today!

Posted by: Xipe Totec at April 12, 2023 04:19 PM (pohLc)

9 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 12, 2023 04:19 PM (Zz0t1)

10 Anyway, a guy who said he was at the partial screening said that it's not a movie for adults. It's a Disney XD sitcom for little girls.

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I wonder if there are any people who did work on DisneyXD product like 10 years ago who are in upper management of Disney now.

At least elevated to writers and such.

I'm not curious enough to look, though.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 12, 2023 04:19 PM (UVZX7)

11 5 Who???

Posted by: lin-duh at April 12, 2023 04:18 PM (UUBmN)

Ditto.

Posted by: Archer at April 12, 2023 04:19 PM (gmo/4)

12 Who? What?

Posted by: Notorious BFD at April 12, 2023 04:19 PM (Xrfse)

13 What is "something I don't give two shits about?"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 12, 2023 04:19 PM (Zz0t1)

14 What's this "Disney" you speak of?

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at April 12, 2023 04:20 PM (XMwZJ)

15 Hunter and Pop Biden roaming Ireland, what could go wrong?

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at April 12, 2023 04:20 PM (oWBc3)

16 "Kang" is owned by Groening and the Simpsons. There goes Disney stealing from other works again!

Posted by: Rolling Donut Unharmed By gp's Flying Leap at April 12, 2023 04:20 PM (MvF+J)

17 The MCU can die, and take Disney with it, please.

Posted by: XTC at April 12, 2023 04:20 PM (UnA8+)

18 *SHRUGS*

I voted for Konos.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Southpaw at April 12, 2023 04:20 PM (xPJvm)

19 KANGZ!!!

Finally! A movie with a black lead!

Posted by: Did you hear BRICS has overtaken G7 in GDP? at April 12, 2023 04:20 PM (SpC+Q)

20 Kodos!

Stupid 29 year old brain.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Southpaw at April 12, 2023 04:20 PM (xPJvm)

21 The MC who now?

Posted by: blaster at April 12, 2023 04:21 PM (pwExq)

22 Hunter and Pop Biden roaming Ireland, what could go wrong?
Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at April 12, 2023 04:20 PM (oWBc3)
.......

Joe could sell them our Navy.

Posted by: wth at April 12, 2023 04:21 PM (v0R5T)

23 People became suspicious when the only song on his phone was “Smack My Bitch Up”.

Posted by: Cybernetic at April 12, 2023 04:21 PM (xawZJ)

24 Another movie not going to see, ever.

Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators, LTD. at April 12, 2023 04:21 PM (Y2wSa)

25 13 What is "something I don't give two shits about?"
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 12, 2023 04:19 PM (Zz0t1)

Would you give one shit?

How 'bout haf a shit?

One 2" skidmark?

Going once, twice....

Posted by: Xipe Totec at April 12, 2023 04:21 PM (pohLc)

26 I thought Kang was the name of one of those aliens on The Simpsons.

Posted by: Jordan61 at April 12, 2023 04:22 PM (DRSnL)

27 I wonder how long it is before Hollywood fully adopts North Korean techniques.

The North Korean regime has digitally scrubbed a disgraced actor from an old television series in the latest effort to remove any trace of defectors.

The series in question, The Taehongdang Party Secretary, aired in the rogue state between 1998 and 2000, and previously starred North Korean actor Choe Ung Chol.

Advanced video technology has now been used to remove him from the series, and leave the rest of the programme unaltered.

t is understood that Choe displeased the Pyongyang regime due to his alleged womanising and favour of Jang Song Thaek, Kim Jong Un's disgraced uncle who was executed in 2013.

Instead Pak Jong Taek now stars as the protagonist for Korean Central Television reruns in the show that depicts the life of North Korean potato farmers in 1990s amid famine.

https://tinyurl.com/38jb3855

Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 12, 2023 04:22 PM (2tUFv)

28 that Jonathan Majors is being fired from the M-She-U

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HE WUZ KANG

Posted by: Did you hear BRICS has overtaken G7 in GDP? at April 12, 2023 04:22 PM (SpC+Q)

29 Kang the Conqueror? Hey! I'm just the guy for the part! Late 50's, full head of hair, maybe a bit of belly fat, inscrutable expressions galore, and a great sense of humor.

Oh, and I like beer. Real beer.

Posted by: Brewingfrog at April 12, 2023 04:22 PM (bZTDg)

30 Totally looking forward to seeing "Wu Tang the Conqueror"

Posted by: Wu Revolution at April 12, 2023 04:22 PM (VsUo2)

31 So Kang gets in bed with the Mouse and Kodos is left flipping burgers somewhere?

Show Biz is vicious.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at April 12, 2023 04:22 PM (N3zMI)

32 ...and I see about 4 people beat me to it.

Posted by: Jordan61 at April 12, 2023 04:23 PM (DRSnL)

33 Disney Marvel Is Recasting "Kang the Conqueror," the Alleged Next Thanos-Level Villian, in Wake of Domestic Assault Charges Against Jonathan Majors
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But mostly racism.

Posted by: Axeman at April 12, 2023 04:23 PM (krQz2)

34 This follows Majors being arrested for domestic battery.

I'm confused, isn't battery the primary function of Master's character?

You would think one would admire a man's dedication to his job by taking his work home.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at April 12, 2023 04:23 PM (YXHzG)

35 Kang story arc that brought about Secret Wars from the mid 80's. This shit will not translate. At least Infinity Wars was mid to late 90's. The Beyonder wearing a Sonny Crockett white suit with shoulder pads, sporting a mullet.

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at April 12, 2023 04:23 PM (OgrpQ)

36 30 Totally looking forward to seeing "Wu Tang the Conqueror"
Posted by: Wu Revolution at April 12, 2023 04:22 PM (VsUo2)

Don't know him, his cousin Poon, however......

Posted by: Xipe Totec at April 12, 2023 04:23 PM (pohLc)

37 Masters = Majors

Posted by: Reuben Hick at April 12, 2023 04:24 PM (YXHzG)

38 Who's the blonde with the rack in the trailer?

Posted by: Rolling Donut Unharmed By gp's Flying Leap at April 12, 2023 04:24 PM (MvF+J)

39 Let's hope half the film was already in the can!

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at April 12, 2023 04:24 PM (Vwz3I)

40 This follows Majors being arrested for domestic battery.
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Wait, a black man was married?

(see what I did there?)

Posted by: Did you hear BRICS has overtaken G7 in GDP? at April 12, 2023 04:24 PM (SpC+Q)

41 Wow....that trailer makes me want to do a drive-by on my own house.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 12, 2023 04:24 PM (Zz0t1)

42 not sponge
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 12, 2023 04:18 PM (UVZX7)
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Damn! And I had a murder board connecting you and Sponge as the same person!

Posted by: Axeman at April 12, 2023 04:24 PM (krQz2)

43 Ugh. Just watched the trailer for "The Marvels."

I feel dumber now. Lost at least 5 IQ points, maybe more.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 12, 2023 04:24 PM (YIVH2)

44 "Kang" is owned by Groening and the Simpsons. There goes Disney stealing from other works again!
Posted by: Rolling Donut Unharmed By gp's Flying Leap at April 12, 2023 04:20 PM (MvF+J)

Don't open that can of worms, Mister! The Simpsons uses Kang and Kodos.

But Star Trek: TOS owns Kodos, that executioner guy.

SO NOW WHAT?!

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at April 12, 2023 04:24 PM (ZSK0i)

45 When are they going to make a movie for adult heterosexual females so I can go to the movies again.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at April 12, 2023 04:25 PM (Y+l9t)

46 ---
Damn! And I had a murder board connecting you and Sponge as the same person!
Posted by: Axeman at April 12, 2023 04:24 PM (krQz2)

No, but he DID marry his wife on MY BIRTHDAY in tribute.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 12, 2023 04:25 PM (Zz0t1)

47 33 Disney Marvel Is Recasting "Kang the Conqueror," the Alleged Next Thanos-Level Villian, in Wake of Domestic Assault Charges Against Jonathan Majors
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But mostly racism.
Posted by: Axeman at April 12, 2023 04:23 PM (krQz2)

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It's true. Disney is racist.

All black people and allies should abandon Disney and boycott it forever until the entire board of directors and every C-suite officer is black. Also tranny.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 12, 2023 04:25 PM (UVZX7)

48 41 Wow....that trailer makes me want to do a drive-by on my own house.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 12, 2023 04:24 PM (Zz0t1)

Pay attention people - this is how you do a callback.

Posted by: blaster at April 12, 2023 04:26 PM (pwExq)

49 41 LOL

Posted by: Rolling Donut Unharmed By gp's Flying Leap at April 12, 2023 04:26 PM (MvF+J)

50 Easy path to hurt Disney - skip all their blockbusters in theater this year. It's as simple as don't buy a ticket.

Guardians of the Galaxy 3
Little Mermaid
Elementals
Indiana Jones 5
Haunted Mansion
The Marvels
Wish

(and skip White Men Can't Jump, The Boogeyman, Theater Camp, A Haunting in Venice, Next Goal Wins, True Love, and Magazine Dreams if you want to be a true completionist).

If those major movies get skipped, Disney will be in a world of hurt, and may actually moderate content...

Posted by: Nova Local at April 12, 2023 04:26 PM (exHjb)

51 But Star Trek: TOS owns Kodos, that executioner guy.

SO NOW WHAT?!
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at April 12, 2023 04:24 PM (ZSK0i)

Also Kang - Klingon Captain in "Day of the Dove".

Er, so I'm told...

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at April 12, 2023 04:26 PM (N3zMI)

52 Every Leftist act against racism is for race division

Posted by: Skip at April 12, 2023 04:26 PM (xhxe8)

53
Pay attention people - this is how you do a callback.
Posted by: blaster at April 12, 2023 04:26 PM (pwExq)

I'm still laughing at that comment.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 12, 2023 04:26 PM (Zz0t1)

54 44 When you get all the way to the bottom of the turtle stack, Groening owns everything.

Posted by: Rolling Donut Unharmed By gp's Flying Leap at April 12, 2023 04:27 PM (MvF+J)

55 Kind of interesting that they used an ancient song (199

by three white dudes (the Beastie Boys) to promote "The Marvels" instead of a song by a contemporary girl band.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 12, 2023 04:27 PM (YIVH2)

56 YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE TO COME DOWN HERE, KANG! YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE TO DO YOUR OWN DIRTY WORK!!

DO YOU HEAR ME, KANG?!

KAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNGGGGG!

*static*

Whoops! KHAN!! KHAN!!! I MEANT TO SAY, KHAN!

Posted by: Kirk at April 12, 2023 04:27 PM (krQz2)

57 Not gonna lie, Brie Larson looks hot with the implants. She would be insufferable to deal with, but she at least looks like fun now

Posted by: Shivv at April 12, 2023 04:28 PM (UFxIg)

58 Who the hell is Kang?

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at April 12, 2023 04:28 PM (Y+l9t)

59 I saw Domestic Assault open for The Sex Pistols and Bippo the Clown with his Wonder Dog Red Bone at the Grand opening of the Hormel meat processing plant and cooking oil outlet store is 85'

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damnit! at April 12, 2023 04:28 PM (bUQO2)

60 Only a fool fights in a burning house.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at April 12, 2023 04:28 PM (Vwz3I)

61 Wow....that trailer makes me want to do a drive-by on my own house.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 12, 2023 04:24 PM (Zz0t1)

Oh, admit it. You ogled RBF Larson's boobs in that tight shirt.

Posted by: Jordan61 at April 12, 2023 04:28 PM (DRSnL)

62 David Fench is more interesting

Posted by: REDACTED at April 12, 2023 04:29 PM (us2H3)

63 Anybody else hugely disappointed that this wasn't a movie of the Kurt Busiek/Alex Ross "Marvels" series?

Posted by: MartynWW at April 12, 2023 04:29 PM (Ur3df)

64 Not gonna lie, Brie Larson looks hot with the implants. She would be insufferable to deal with, but she at least looks like fun now
Posted by: Shivv at April 12, 2023 04:28 PM (UFxIg)
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Nope. She still has RBF.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 12, 2023 04:29 PM (YIVH2)

65 The Marvels and Indiana Jones V both appear to blow chunks, what with repeated rewrites and reshoots. They ' re hoping Guardians of the Galaxy III is a massive success otherwise Disney stock will nose dive

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 12, 2023 04:29 PM (386ly)

66 So...don't care enough to check how far back this goes but are the really trying to make a major character in an action series be named Rambo (fuck how they spell it, movies are an audial medium) but a black chick Rambo?

Posted by: nope at April 12, 2023 04:29 PM (jTbzG)

67 Is there nothing AI can’t do.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at April 12, 2023 04:29 PM (glGDV)

68 57 Not gonna lie, Brie Larson looks hot with the implants. She would be insufferable to deal with, but she at least looks like fun now
Posted by: Shivv at April 12, 2023 04:28 PM (UFxIg)

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She's a 1. Check her out in 21 Jump Street and Scott Pilgrim for further confirmation.

She seems insufferable, though.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 12, 2023 04:29 PM (UVZX7)

69
Oh, admit it. You ogled RBF Larson's boobs in that tight shirt.
Posted by: Jordan61 at April 12, 2023 04:28 PM (DRSnL)

Well, they're boobs.....and I'm no homo.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 12, 2023 04:29 PM (Zz0t1)

70 "Not gonna lie, Brie Larson looks hot with the implants. "

She got a butt-lift?

Posted by: FeatherBlade at April 12, 2023 04:30 PM (ou9hh)

71 So Brie Larson has man boobs now.

Posted by: Did you hear BRICS has overtaken G7 in GDP? at April 12, 2023 04:30 PM (SpC+Q)

72 But will recasting the character make people interested in watching the next movies? His first outing in the Phase V kickoff wasn't exactly critically-acclaimed.

Marvel is the last big thing Disney has left. I look forward to watching them finish it off.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 12, 2023 04:30 PM (t0OGg)

73 Hunter and Pop Biden roaming Ireland, what could go wrong?
Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at April 12, 2023 04:20 PM (oWBc3)

I would guess Irish political corruption is pretty small scale. Maybe Joe, Jim and Hunter can bring big-time corruption to their ancestral homeland.

Posted by: JmT at April 12, 2023 04:30 PM (ojNBr)

74 Disney, keep Marvel, sell Lucasfilm ltd.

Posted by: runner at April 12, 2023 04:31 PM (5a2xV)

75 So...don't care enough to check how far back this goes but are the really trying to make a major character in an action series be named Rambo (fuck how they spell it, movies are an audial medium) but a black chick Rambo?
Posted by: nope at April 12, 2023 04:29 PM (jTbzG)
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The Monica Rambeau character goes back to the 70s, IIRR.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at April 12, 2023 04:31 PM (2hlEI)

76 'What is "something I don't give two shits about?"'

I think Ace works 'in the biz,' so he delivers industry dish we can't get anywhere else. It's proto-viral, and I want to be clued in before everybody else, even if it is comic-book stuff.

Posted by: Rolling Donut Unharmed By gp's Flying Leap at April 12, 2023 04:31 PM (MvF+J)

77 Kang" is owned by Groening and the Simpsons. There goes Disney stealing from other works again!
Posted by: Rolling Donut Unharmed By gp's Flying Leap at April 12, 2023 04:20 PM (MvF+J)

...

I'm too lazy to look but I thought Kang was a TMNT villain. The brain thing with eyes?

Posted by: TexasDan at April 12, 2023 04:31 PM (z/ifB)

78 Who the hell is Kang?

Not having a clue, I'm guessing that he is in some way related to General Tso.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at April 12, 2023 04:31 PM (Xrfse)

79 The ~~film releases on~~starts tanking November 10 ~~in theaters~~.
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Fixed for accuracy.

Posted by: Axeman at April 12, 2023 04:32 PM (krQz2)

80
I think Ace works 'in the biz,' so he delivers industry dish we can't get anywhere else. It's proto-viral, and I want to be clued in before everybody else, even if it is comic-book stuff.
Posted by: Rolling Donut Unharmed By gp's Flying Leap at April 12, 2023 04:31 PM (MvF+J)

Wasn't faulting him for posting it. Movies and shit on those lines is his thing.

I was just stating a statistical fact.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 12, 2023 04:32 PM (Zz0t1)

81 Well, they're boobs.....and I'm no homo.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 12, 2023 04:29 PM (Zz0t1)

They aren't boobs. They are plastic bags full of saline or some shit lime that wrapped up in a pancake with an areola.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at April 12, 2023 04:32 PM (pohLc)

82 that Jonathan Majors is being fired from the M-She-U

Eh, he was awful anyway. JM had one acting move in the latest Antman movie.

He would literally look-like he was in pain and about to cry and then he would say whatever his line was.

"The bully took my lunch money again" was Jonathon Majors' "Blue Steel".

Or, maybe his "Blue Steel" was "Baby, you know this hurts me more than it hurts you when I gotta smack you up. It just tears me up inside."

Posted by: naturalfake at April 12, 2023 04:32 PM (RJQ8g)

83 65 The Marvels and Indiana Jones V both appear to blow chunks, what with repeated rewrites and reshoots. They ' re hoping Guardians of the Galaxy III is a massive success otherwise Disney stock will nose dive
Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 12, 2023 04:29 PM (386ly)

Presales for GOTG3 are running at 65-70% of Ant Man 3 - Disney is already in panic mode...

Posted by: Nova Local at April 12, 2023 04:32 PM (exHjb)

84 Biden also had the red headed Kennedy from MA with him also. Talk about Clichés.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at April 12, 2023 04:32 PM (Y+l9t)

85 Who the hell is Kang?

Not having a clue, I'm guessing that he is in some way related to General Tso.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at April 12, 2023 04:31 PM (Xrfse)
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Bah! General Tso is chicken!

Posted by: Miscellaneous Chinese General at April 12, 2023 04:32 PM (krQz2)

86
They aren't boobs. They are plastic bags full of saline or some shit lime that wrapped up in a pancake with an areola.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at April 12, 2023 04:32 PM (pohLc)

I didn't look THAT closely.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 12, 2023 04:33 PM (Zz0t1)

87 >>Hunter and Pop Biden roaming Ireland, what could go wrong?

They are there to chase their ancestry. And then Fuck It.

Posted by: garrett at April 12, 2023 04:33 PM (SIRiz)

88 Marvel is the last big thing Disney has left. I look forward to watching them finish it off.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 12, 2023 04:30 PM (t0OGg)

...

*huffs*

Posted by: Johnny Depp, Gay Pirate at April 12, 2023 04:33 PM (z/ifB)

89 Kang the Conqueror. Oh, that is hilarious. King Kang! Is anybody even trying at Disney anymore? Nope. It seems that the whole goal of being a Disney employee anymore is not to do good work, but to be sitting in the chair where the most powerful corporate executive lands on your dick when the music stops. And if you don't have a dick or if you have a dick and wear a bra, you get green lighted for your own series. Disney has become a cancer instead of a cultural icon.

Posted by: Lost In Space at April 12, 2023 04:33 PM (RustQ)

90 Cocaine Bear about to be streaming on Paramount which I get for free. Should I watch it?

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at April 12, 2023 04:33 PM (Y+l9t)

91 Re trailer for “The Marvels”. I get from the trailer that “No White Men Need Apply” but which of that gaggle is the tranny?

There’s got to be a tranny.

Posted by: Raspail at April 12, 2023 04:33 PM (hHW0C)

92 Who the hell is Kang?

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We wuz!

Posted by: Blak Pipo at April 12, 2023 04:33 PM (krQz2)

93 Gonna repost because willowed, "A federal court on Tuesday denied Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s request for a temporary restraining order to prevent House Judiciary Committee chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) from questioning a former prosecutor about Bragg’s case against former President Donald Trump."

Posted by: runner at April 12, 2023 04:34 PM (5a2xV)

94 Presales for GOTG3 are running at 65-70% of Ant Man 3 - Disney is already in panic mode...
Posted by: Nova Local at April 12, 2023 04:32 PM (exHjb)
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As well they should be. As inflation spirals out of control, what will people cut first? Food for their families? Or frivolous entertainment?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 12, 2023 04:34 PM (YIVH2)

95 83 Presales for GOTG3 are running at 65-70% of Ant Man 3 - Disney is already in panic mode...
Posted by: Nova Local at April 12, 2023 04:32 PM (exHjb)

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Heh.

James Gunn provided something fresh with GOTG1, but everything he's made since has been leaden and overstuffed. I thought I was in the minority of that opinion, but maybe not...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 12, 2023 04:34 PM (UVZX7)

96 David Fench is more interesting
Posted by: REDACTED at April 12, 2023 04:29 PM (us2H3)

David Felch you say?

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at April 12, 2023 04:34 PM (ZSK0i)

97 Presales for GOTG3 are running at 65-70% of Ant Man 3 - Disney is already in panic mode...
Posted by: Nova Local at April 12, 2023 04:32 PM (exHjb)
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They should be. GOTG is a pretty popular sub-franchise, and Ant-Man wasn't. They picked Ant-Man to kick off the next phase, but that is still a very, very bad sign.

Good.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 12, 2023 04:35 PM (t0OGg)

98 You can probably find a 'Kang' character back in the pulp scifi era. Doc Smith would have named him something like "Kangalon, The First of Dark Matter." But maybe some other guy used the diminutive.

Posted by: Rolling Donut Unharmed By gp's Flying Leap at April 12, 2023 04:35 PM (MvF+J)

99 Hunter and Pop Biden roaming Ireland, what could go wrong?

Cooking up the 500 billion dollar bailout of Anheuser-Busch

Posted by: Jeff Gillooly at April 12, 2023 04:35 PM (jM1wU)

100 Which is circling the drain faster -

-Disney
-USA

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 12, 2023 04:36 PM (fs1hN)

101 ++++
They should be. GOTG is a pretty popular sub-franchise, and Ant-Man wasn't. They picked Ant-Man to kick off the next phase, but that is still a very, very bad sign.

Good.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 12, 2023 04:35 PM (t0OGg)

CommVault offered me a free pass to a sales pitch and early viewing of 3.

I declined.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 12, 2023 04:36 PM (Zz0t1)

102 As well they should be. As inflation spirals out of control, what will people cut first? Food for their families? Or frivolous entertainment?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 12, 2023 04:34 PM (YIVH2)
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Usually, there is room for entertainment. Hollywood has often been counter-cyclical. During economic downturns, inflations, etc., shit sucks. Going to the movies is a nice escape. When the economy isn't doing great, movies still usually hold up or even exceed the market.

When they manage to fail during a down economy, they're doing something very, very wrong. This isn't an economy problem, it's a quality problem.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 12, 2023 04:36 PM (t0OGg)

103 You can probably find a 'Kang' character back in the pulp scifi era. Doc Smith would have named him something like "Kangalon, The First of Dark Matter." But maybe some other guy used the diminutive.
Posted by: Rolling Donut Unharmed By gp's Flying Leap at April 12, 2023 04:35 PM (MvF+J)
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The Kang the Conqueror character goes back to the early 60s, was an enemy of the Fantastic Four.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at April 12, 2023 04:36 PM (2hlEI)

104 Who the hell is Kang?

Kang the Conqueror. Powerful villain from the Golden Age of Marvel. First appeared in Fantastic Four (Kirby/Lee era). Like a 4th tier supervillain, so basically bottom of the barrel. I was hoping for Jack-O-Lantern or the Porcupine.

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at April 12, 2023 04:36 PM (OgrpQ)

105 Kang's super-power is that he makes a loud ringing noise when struck.

Posted by: Rolling Donut Unharmed By gp's Flying Leap at April 12, 2023 04:37 PM (MvF+J)

106 Oh, admit it. You ogled RBF Larson's boobs in that tight shirt.

Well I didn't but now I kinda have to, don't I?

Posted by: Oddbob at April 12, 2023 04:37 PM (nfrXX)

107 lets recap

David French

Kaite Porter

Tim Scott

Hollywood

Posted by: REDACTED at April 12, 2023 04:37 PM (us2H3)

108 Who the hell is Kang?

Not having a clue, I'm guessing that he is in some way related to General Tso.
Posted by: Notorious BFD

Kang Pao? Listed right below General Tso chicken?

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at April 12, 2023 04:37 PM (Y+l9t)

109 Ireland is one of the great money laundering hubs. And tax shelters.

Posted by: Thesokorus at April 12, 2023 04:37 PM (o3c5+)

110 Senator McCarthy and crew are rolling their eyes in their graves as we whine and complain on the current state of America. "You guys up there see what we were fighting successfully all those years"?

Posted by: Son of Dad at April 12, 2023 04:38 PM (8JB5s)

111 Based on that trailer, the only way they're going to make any money off that movie is if they just loop that two second shot of Brie Larson's cans towards the end of the trailer.

The rest of that thing looks like a Sci-Fi Network original from about 1997.

Posted by: Azathoth at April 12, 2023 04:38 PM (wb1YC)

112 I'm watching GotG3. It's that simple.

Got to support Chris Pratt.

Posted by: Axeman at April 12, 2023 04:38 PM (krQz2)

113 Biden in Ireland, any chance they keep him?

Posted by: Obligatory at April 12, 2023 04:38 PM (fs1hN)

114 97 They should be. GOTG is a pretty popular sub-franchise, and Ant-Man wasn't. They picked Ant-Man to kick off the next phase, but that is still a very, very bad sign.

Good.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 12, 2023 04:35 PM (t0OGg)

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Everything about Phase 4 and 5 feels off to me. Since Feige is still in charge and he seems to have been the main creative force behind the first three phases, that tells me something has changed.

Maybe he was never in charge? Maybe he's not in charge now? Maybe he's just creatively spent?

I dunno.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 12, 2023 04:38 PM (UVZX7)

115 the Porcupine.
Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at April 12, 2023 04:36 PM (OgrpQ)

Funny moment from Family Feud.

Harvey asks the question "What word usually follows the word 'pork?'"

Black dude buzzes in and answers with "Cupine."

Hilarity ensues.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 12, 2023 04:38 PM (Zz0t1)

116 90 Cocaine Bear about to be streaming on Paramount which I get for free. Should I watch it?

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at April 12, 2023 04:33 PM (Y+l9t)

No. Waste of time.

Posted by: JmT at April 12, 2023 04:38 PM (ojNBr)

117 Searching up vids of Brie Larson and stairs is fun.

Posted by: Thesokorus at April 12, 2023 04:38 PM (o3c5+)

118 Kang the Conqueror. Powerful villain from the Golden Age of Marvel. First appeared in Fantastic Four (Kirby/Lee era). Like a 4th tier supervillain, so basically bottom of the barrel. I was hoping for Jack-O-Lantern or the Porcupine.
Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at April 12, 2023 04:36 PM (OgrpQ)

I want Rob Schneider's The Copier Guy to be the next big villain.

Posted by: Wally at April 12, 2023 04:39 PM (Hkfn2)

119 Usually, there is room for entertainment. Hollywood has often been counter-cyclical. During economic downturns, inflations, etc., shit sucks. Going to the movies is a nice escape. When the economy isn't doing great, movies still usually hold up or even exceed the market.

When they manage to fail during a down economy, they're doing something very, very wrong. This isn't an economy problem, it's a quality problem.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 12, 2023 04:36 PM (t0OGg)
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Up to a point. I had a conversation with someone yesterday (a raging Lefty) talking about how she's now living a lot less comfortably than she did a couple of years ago, largely because of inflation. Even Lefties can be rational about their own finances and start making strategic cuts to keep the lights on and the family fed.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 12, 2023 04:39 PM (YIVH2)

120 Kang Pao? Listed right below General Tso chicken?

Good enough for me.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at April 12, 2023 04:39 PM (Xrfse)

121 I'm watching GotG3. It's that simple.

Got to support Chris Pratt.
Posted by: Axeman at April 12, 2023 04:38 PM (krQz2)

To be fair, he gets his money whether the movie tanks or not.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 12, 2023 04:39 PM (Zz0t1)

122 "Oh, admit it. You ogled RBF Larson's boobs in that tight shirt."

Shirt wasn't that tight. Ogled nevertheless. Face is pretty.

Posted by: Rolling Donut Unharmed By gp's Flying Leap at April 12, 2023 04:39 PM (MvF+J)

123 Everything about Phase 4 and 5 feels off to me. Since Feige is still in charge and he seems to have been the main creative force behind the first three phases, that tells me something has changed.

Maybe he was never in charge? Maybe he's not in charge now? Maybe he's just creatively spent?

I dunno.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 12, 2023 04:38 PM (UVZX7)
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I read that there was another fellow who held the reins on Feige during Phases I-III. Then they succeeded in getting rid of him.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at April 12, 2023 04:39 PM (2hlEI)

124 Everything about Phase 4 and 5 feels off to me. Since Feige is still in charge and he seems to have been the main creative force behind the first three phases, that tells me something has changed.

Maybe he was never in charge? Maybe he's not in charge now? Maybe he's just creatively spent?

I dunno.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 12, 2023 04:38 PM (UVZX7)
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Could be. Or Ike Perlmutter had more influence than they said he did.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 12, 2023 04:39 PM (t0OGg)

125 Searching up vids of Brie Larson and stairs is fun.
Posted by: Thesokorus at April 12, 2023 04:38 PM (o3c5+)

Seemed she had ample puppies under there. Not sure why she felt the need to get fakes.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 12, 2023 04:40 PM (Zz0t1)

126 Wait wait wait.

They expect people to *PAY* to sit through that shit.

Speaking of which is the girl supposed to be a Muslim or an Indian superhero?

Because if the former I think some people might do some things to quote a certain congressvermin.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 12, 2023 04:40 PM (lc5cP)

127 Makes you wonder why Disney paid billions of dollars to own a boy's comic-book company, only to then destroy it by turning it into a girl's princess company.

Posted by: DFCtomm at April 12, 2023 04:40 PM (vDj4Y)

128 112 I'm watching GotG3. It's that simple.

Got to support Chris Pratt.
Posted by: Axeman at April 12, 2023 04:38 PM (krQz2)

He's in Mario - you can support him there.
He'll also be in Illumination's Garfield movie coming next year (I think)...

Posted by: Nova Local at April 12, 2023 04:40 PM (exHjb)

129 102 When they manage to fail during a down economy, they're doing something very, very wrong. This isn't an economy problem, it's a quality problem.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 12, 2023 04:36 PM (t0OGg)

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Not really.

The Great Depression was awful for movies, and they were pretty much the only game in town at the time.

Only one studio stayed in the black through the Depression, MGM, and that was for a host of reasons. The rest were bleeding cash for years.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 12, 2023 04:40 PM (UVZX7)

130 Doesn't look as good as the Thundermans. Why can they make that movie?

Posted by: Mishdog at April 12, 2023 04:40 PM (LZL30)

131 Even Lefties can be rational about their own finances and start making strategic cuts to keep the lights on and the family fed.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 12, 2023 04:39 PM (YIVH2)
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"Everyone is conservative about the things he knows best."

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at April 12, 2023 04:40 PM (2hlEI)

132 Maybe he was never in charge? Maybe he's not in charge now? Maybe he's just creatively spent?

Lucas was nominally in charge of the first 6 movies.

The first two were gold. The third was meh, and the final three were shit.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 12, 2023 04:41 PM (lc5cP)

133 129 IDNKT!

Posted by: Rolling Donut Unharmed By gp's Flying Leap at April 12, 2023 04:41 PM (MvF+J)

134 I'm too lazy to look but I thought Kang was a TMNT villain. The brain thing with eyes?
Posted by: TexasDan at April 12, 2023

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Kang was a Klingon played by Michael Ansara in ST:TOS. Kodos, also in ST:TOS, was the genocidal guy who killed off half of the people in the colony he governed, so that (he said) the other half could survive. He comes aboard the Enterprise as the leader of a troupe of actors, along with his hot blonde actress daughter.

Matt Groening and The Simpsons seized on those names and have had lots of fun with them.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 12, 2023 04:41 PM (J2vNu)

135 Re trailer for “The Marvels”. I get from the trailer that “No White Men Need Apply” but which of that gaggle is the tranny?

There’s got to be a tranny.
Posted by: Raspail at April 12, 2023 04:33 PM (hHW0C)
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Now, first of all, I think "The Marvel Family" is one of the corniest, quaintest things ever done in comics and I've never been a fan, but I think this is Marvel trying to pre-empt Warner in their development of the Marvel Family.

I'm guessing they didn't know that Shazam 2 would tank so badly.

Posted by: Axeman at April 12, 2023 04:41 PM (krQz2)

136 Everything about Phase 4 and 5 feels off to me. Since Feige is still in charge and he seems to have been the main creative force behind the first three phases, that tells me something has changed.

Maybe he was never in charge? Maybe he's not in charge now? Maybe he's just creatively spent?

I dunno.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 12, 2023 04:38 PM (UVZX7)

Everything you liked about the Phases normally stemmed from Russo brother work...they even did after credit scenes around the Thanos saga...they were Cap 2, Cap 3, Infinity Wars, and Endgame, and the ending credits for things that affected these...

Posted by: Nova Local at April 12, 2023 04:41 PM (exHjb)

137 I choose to admire the past than rationalize the present

Posted by: REDACTED at April 12, 2023 04:41 PM (us2H3)

138 Some fake tits are better than others. Just sayin'

We lead the world wth the most fake tits per capita, followed by Brazil and Mexico.

Posted by: Ignoramus at April 12, 2023 04:41 PM (RqMSv)

139 Seemed she had ample puppies under there. Not sure why she felt the need to get fakes.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 12, 2023 04:40 PM (Zz0t1)

Because she is an insecure and superficial woke bitch with the IQ of a protozoa.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at April 12, 2023 04:41 PM (pohLc)

140 Would a cat-a-pus be a good pet?

Posted by: DaveA at April 12, 2023 04:42 PM (FhXTo)

141 Oh, admit it. You ogled RBF Larson's boobs in that tight shirt.
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Wait, I thought anything that may attract the Male Gaze is verboten now.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 12, 2023 04:42 PM (fs1hN)

142 127 Makes you wonder why Disney paid billions of dollars to own a boy's comic-book company, only to then destroy it by turning it into a girl's princess company.
Posted by: DFCtomm at April 12, 2023 04:40 PM (vDj4Y)

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I get that the princess thing is their thing, but were they dumb enough to think all these malecentric properties could be turned into princess fairy tales, and still maintain their male audience? If this is what they wanted to do all along, then why not just keep making their own new princess characters and keep that 4 billion?

Posted by: DFCtomm at April 12, 2023 04:42 PM (vDj4Y)

143 Well, all of this is totally out of my wheelhouse. Continued prayers for Jane and family. Hope to see y'all a bit later.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at April 12, 2023 04:42 PM (Xrfse)

144 Yes, Chris Pratt is also very nice to look at. If the sound track is as good as the first movie I'll watch it.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at April 12, 2023 04:42 PM (Y+l9t)

145
Because she is an insecure and superficial woke bitch with the IQ of a protozoa.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at April 12, 2023 04:41 PM (pohLc)

That'll do it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 12, 2023 04:43 PM (Zz0t1)

146 To be fair, he gets his money whether the movie tanks or not.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 12, 2023 04:39 PM (Zz0t1)
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Hollywood already would like not to have to cast him. I don't care about his money so much as his draw that keeps a decent Christian man working in Hollywood.

Posted by: Axeman at April 12, 2023 04:43 PM (krQz2)

147 Makes you wonder why Disney paid billions of dollars to own a boy's comic-book company, only to then destroy it by turning it into a girl's princess company.
Posted by: DFCtomm at April 12, 2023 04:40 PM (vDj4Y)
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Because they can't help themselves. They didn't buy it in order to wreck it. But they did end up wrecking it.

Just like Lucasfilm.
Just like Pixar.
Just like Disney Animation, which they already owned.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 12, 2023 04:43 PM (t0OGg)

148 Krang is the TNMT villain.

Posted by: TexasDan at April 12, 2023 04:43 PM (z/ifB)

149 126 Speaking of which is the girl supposed to be a Muslim or an Indian superhero?

Because if the former I think some people might do some things to quote a certain congressvermin.
Posted by: 18-1 at April 12, 2023 04:40 PM (lc5cP)

Kamala Khan.

Posted by: XTC at April 12, 2023 04:43 PM (UnA8+)

150 I keep hearing rumors that Hollywood is capable of making movies that are entertaining and watchable.

To date I have no confirmation.

Posted by: irongrampa at April 12, 2023 04:43 PM (KATBx)

151 The first time I know of a "Kang" was the Klingon captain in the 1969 Star Trek Original Series episode Day of the Dove played by Michael Ansara. Who was married to Barbara Eden.

Ansara reprised the Kang character in an episode of Star Trek Deep Space Nine in the episode "Blood Oath"

Matt Groening said several times that he named the aliens Kang and Kodos after the Star Trek TOS characters

Posted by: kbdabear at April 12, 2023 04:43 PM (IEw/x)

152 Speaking of movies...

We saw what I guess you would call a "cute" black comedy about murder last week on Shudder. It's titled-

"Small Town Killers"

It's about two couples living in a small Swedish town whose marriages are on the rocks. The two guys work together and decide that if they divorce their wives then it gonna be nothing but hookers and blow and high times cuz the wives don't know about the "hidden" reserves of cash from the business. But, the wives do know.

So, the divorce is going to cost the husbands a fortune. They get smashed and wish they could just get rid of their wives. While black out drunk, one of them hires a hit man from the dark web.

The wives find out and think "well, two can play that game." and hire their own hit woman to kill their husbands.

Hijinks ensue.

Just a fun little comedy. Not much gore. Sort of along the lines of "How to Murder Your Wife" from 1965 but a bit more violent. Just wants to entertain you and leave you smiling.

Check it out.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 12, 2023 04:44 PM (RJQ8g)

153 I still LOL when I remember they literally turned Brie Larsen into Captain Karen...complete with the hair cut...in the last marvel movie I watched.

That was...Endgame? Or the one after that maybe?

Posted by: 18-1 at April 12, 2023 04:44 PM (lc5cP)

154 132 Lucas was nominally in charge of the first 6 movies.

The first two were gold. The third was meh, and the final three were shit.
Posted by: 18-1 at April 12, 2023 04:41 PM (lc5cP)

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Lucas had Gary Kurtz as producer on the first two, providing him with some kind of creative counterbalance. He lost Kurtz between Empire and Return and he lost his editor wife during Return.

When he came back 17 years later to make more movies, he had Rick McCallum, a yes man who looks at the world like he's a complete idiot the whole time.

Lucas and Kurtz were a great team.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 12, 2023 04:44 PM (UVZX7)

155 The Great Depression was awful for movies, and they were pretty much the only game in town at the time.

Only one studio stayed in the black through the Depression, MGM, and that was for a host of reasons. The rest were bleeding cash for years.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 12, 2023 04:40 PM (UVZX7)
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The Depression was extremely long. Since then, Hollywood tends to do well during recessions. We're not in a depression yet. When that hits, we'll see if the trend holds. Thankfully, that one hasn't been tested in a long time.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 12, 2023 04:44 PM (t0OGg)

156 I think the Clown World that is now Disney is a good metaphor for the state of America.

A bunch of maniacs have seized control of a once grate company and are hell bent on leveling it, pissing on the ruins and then dancing around like the gibbering monkeys in 2001.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 12, 2023 04:44 PM (up/3i)

157
I get that the princess thing is their thing, but were they dumb enough to think all these malecentric properties could be turned into princess fairy tales, and still maintain their male audience? If this is what they wanted to do all along, then why not just keep making their own new princess characters and keep that 4 billion?
Posted by: DFCtomm at April 12, 2023 04:42 PM (vDj4Y)

Every so often Disney realizes that a male market exists, begins to make efforts to sell to it, then goes back to making things for women (really their core audience). Sticking to selling to both or selling to only one would be saner than the waffling back and forth yes.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 12, 2023 04:45 PM (eYoxG)

158 Everything you liked about the Phases normally stemmed from Russo brother work...they even did after credit scenes around the Thanos saga...they were Cap 2, Cap 3, Infinity Wars, and Endgame, and the ending credits for things that affected these...
Posted by: Nova Local at April 12, 2023 04:41 PM (exHjb)
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To be clear, Favreau contributed his portion to the quality as well.

Posted by: Axeman at April 12, 2023 04:45 PM (krQz2)

159 Kamala Khan, a.k.a. Ms. Marvel, is a Muslim Pakistani-American teenager from New Jersey.

Oh, things might get 'splody soon...

Posted by: 18-1 at April 12, 2023 04:45 PM (lc5cP)

160 I'm not going to see another Marvel movie. In fact I don't see much of anything coming up I want to watch.

With tens of thousands of good to great older movies free on the Internet that I have yet to see, I'd rather spend my time on that.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at April 12, 2023 04:45 PM (cMXNt)

161 "Not much light has been shed on his dating life, and there's also no record of him ever having married. However, in several interviews, he mentioned that he has a 9-year-old daughter, Ella Majors, who lives in Atlanta, Texas, with her mother."

For all I know, Majors has a composite girlfriend/ baby momma.

Posted by: trev006 at April 12, 2023 04:45 PM (DTm0P)

162 146 To be fair, he gets his money whether the movie tanks or not.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 12, 2023 04:39 PM (Zz0t1)
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Hollywood already would like not to have to cast him. I don't care about his money so much as his draw that keeps a decent Christian man working in Hollywood.
Posted by: Axeman at April 12, 2023 04:43 PM (krQz2)

He's got so many franchises lined up...and this one, and this role is dead. You can pass. Again, help his now gonna be huge Mario empire or kick off Garfield next year.

Posted by: Nova Local at April 12, 2023 04:45 PM (exHjb)

163 "Marvel's hot streak continues!"

en fuego

Posted by: eleven at April 12, 2023 04:45 PM (iziT8)

164 Ansara reprised the Kang character in an episode of Star Trek Deep Space Nine in the episode "Blood Oath"
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Not only him, but Koloth and Kor, played by their respective actors.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at April 12, 2023 04:46 PM (2hlEI)

165 I get that the princess thing is their thing, but were they dumb enough to think all these malecentric properties could be turned into princess fairy tales, and still maintain their male audience? If this is what they wanted to do all along, then why not just keep making their own new princess characters and keep that 4 billion?

Posted by: DFCtomm at April 12, 2023 04:42 PM (vDj4Y)
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One thing that upsets moderns is that males aren't willing to get into the backseat and shut up forever.

Posted by: Axeman at April 12, 2023 04:46 PM (krQz2)

166 @58 Who the hell is Kang?

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A time-traveling villain who's been in the comics for decades. IIRC, he's a descendent of Reed Richards from the Fantastic Four, but is mainly an Avengers antagonist.

Posted by: junior at April 12, 2023 04:46 PM (tww/B)

167 "OMG, you know what would be so funny here when
Brie Larson lands on that table? How about she pitches a little two or three second little girl tantrum complete with that little shaking arms thing? That would be awesome!"

The only heterosexual guy in the room who's there to deliver sandwiches: "Wait, didn't she like, fly through alien spaceships the size of Manhattan Island and shrug off a headbutt from Thanos?"

"WHY ARE YOU UNDRESSING ME WITH YOUR MALE PATRIARCHAL MISOGYNIST GAZE!!!?"

Posted by: Azathoth at April 12, 2023 04:46 PM (wb1YC)

168 Fast forward to the Biden Thanksgiving dinner table 2023.

Joe: What the fuck am I going to do 10% of fiddles and potatoes? You're a fucking idiot. At least you got good fake teeth out of the Chicoms. And what did I get but a shitty painting, millions of dollars, and Xi crawling up my ass everyday demanding I add his face to Mount Rushmore.

Posted by: Lost In Space at April 12, 2023 04:46 PM (RustQ)

169 136 Everything you liked about the Phases normally stemmed from Russo brother work...they even did after credit scenes around the Thanos saga...they were Cap 2, Cap 3, Infinity Wars, and Endgame, and the ending credits for things that affected these...
Posted by: Nova Local at April 12, 2023 04:41 PM (exHjb)

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I like Thor a lot. The Russos have proven themselves to be kind of big nothings, though. Does anyone remember Cherry? Does anyone remember The Gray Man?

They strike me a studio filmmakers in the blandest of senses. Even visually, they just loved sapping color out of everything. All of the Guardian stuff in Infinity War and Endgame are just drab to look at, especially in comparison to how Gunn films it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 12, 2023 04:46 PM (UVZX7)

170 158 Everything you liked about the Phases normally stemmed from Russo brother work...they even did after credit scenes around the Thanos saga...they were Cap 2, Cap 3, Infinity Wars, and Endgame, and the ending credits for things that affected these...
Posted by: Nova Local at April 12, 2023 04:41 PM (exHjb)
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To be clear, Favreau contributed his portion to the quality as well.
Posted by: Axeman at April 12, 2023 04:45 PM (krQz2)

Yes, he was another very important cog...it seems Feige was the least important one...

Posted by: Nova Local at April 12, 2023 04:47 PM (exHjb)

171 160 Yup.

Posted by: Rolling Donut Unharmed By gp's Flying Leap at April 12, 2023 04:47 PM (MvF+J)

172 Lawrence Kasdan did an uncredited rewrite of the first Star Wars movie and thus moved it away from tracking Kurosawa's Hidden Fortress and made it more of a old-fashioned 30s adventure serial.

He then wrote the second and part of the third.

In between he wrote Raiders on spec, and a bunch of other great things.

Posted by: Ignoramus at April 12, 2023 04:47 PM (RqMSv)

173 Kang Pao? Listed right below General Tso chicken?
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at April 12, 2023 04:37 PM (Y+l9t)

Note to self: If I ever do a comic, have a villain named General Tso, with an army of killer mutant chickens at his beck and call.

Those of his creations who displease him get served to guests, of course.

Posted by: Cato, Post-Apocalyptic Scourge of the Seas at April 12, 2023 04:47 PM (MIb2C)

174 That should be labeled "Tweener Trailer."

Poor, poor Disney.

*Bwahahahahahaha!!*

Posted by: LASue at April 12, 2023 04:48 PM (Ed8Zd)

175 The Depression was extremely long. Since then, Hollywood tends to do well during recessions. We're not in a depression yet. When that hits, we'll see if the trend holds.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 12, 2023 04:44 PM (t0OGg)

In theory that's true, but the foreign elite in charge of modern Hollywood HATES Americans too much to appeal to them, much less be creative. The goddamn MARIO movie can cruise in on pure 80s nostalgia and Jack Black, but merely refraining from black supremacy actually makes Seth Rogan tolerable.

Even if there is a depression, a lot of people will be consuming K-dramas, manga, and independent video games. That will weaken Hollywood and the Wall Street oligarchy further. Not empower them.

Posted by: trev006 at April 12, 2023 04:49 PM (DTm0P)

176 Brie Larson is a point of contention here. I get both sides. I come down on the pro Brie side.

Posted by: JmT at April 12, 2023 04:49 PM (ojNBr)

177 Lucas had Gary Kurtz as producer on the first two, providing him with some kind of creative counterbalance. He lost Kurtz between Empire and Return and he lost his editor wife during Return.

When he came back 17 years later to make more movies, he had Rick McCallum, a yes man who looks at the world like he's a complete idiot the whole time.

Lucas and Kurtz were a great team.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 12, 2023 04:44 PM (UVZX7)
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You wouldn't have liked to see the first one if his wife didn't re-edit the movie, cut out a ton of exposition and save the film.

Lucas is not a "self-made" man. He got a real screenwriter, Kasdan, for the second film. But he lost his guardian angel producer in RotJ.

Posted by: Axeman at April 12, 2023 04:49 PM (krQz2)

178
Ansara reprised the Kang character in an episode of Star Trek Deep Space Nine in the episode "Blood Oath"

Matt Groening said several times that he named the aliens Kang and Kodos after the Star Trek TOS characters
Posted by: kbdabear at April 12, 2023

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Along with John Colicos as Kor, the first Klingon we ever saw, and William Campbell as Koloth, the Klingon captain from "The Trouble With Tribbles." (I'm glad the writers and producers branched out from "K" names. That would get wearing at a tribal meeting. "Kang!" "No, I am Krang!" "Very well. Koloth!" "No, I am Kolang!")

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 12, 2023 04:50 PM (J2vNu)

179 Does anyone remember The Gray Man?

For mindless action, I thought it was pretty decent.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at April 12, 2023 04:50 PM (ppBhU)

180 Brie Larson is a point of contention here. I get both sides. I come down on the pro Brie side.

Brie from the front > Brie from the back

Posted by: 18-1 at April 12, 2023 04:50 PM (lc5cP)

181 Every so often Disney realizes that a male market exists, begins to make efforts to sell to it, then goes back to making things for women (really their core audience). Sticking to selling to both or selling to only one would be saner than the waffling back and forth yes.
Posted

This is not true. Women love heroic male characters. We do not care one whit about women superheroes. I don't know who they are making these movies for. Probably the woke audiences that like trannies and subservient men. And where masks to the screenings.
If they had any kind of real audience, these movies would make money but they don't.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at April 12, 2023 04:50 PM (Y+l9t)

182 Lawrence Kasdan did an uncredited rewrite of the first Star Wars movie and thus moved it away from tracking Kurosawa's Hidden Fortress and made it more of a old-fashioned 30s adventure serial.

He then wrote the second and part of the third.

In between he wrote Raiders on spec, and a bunch of other great things.
Posted by: Ignoramus at April 12, 2023 04:47 PM (RqMSv)
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Remember that Leigh Brackett wrote the initial script for "Empire", but she died and it's unknown how much of hers made it into the final script.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at April 12, 2023 04:50 PM (2hlEI)

183 Still don't see how the character is supposed to be some kind of threat. He just looks like another Power Ranger clone.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 12, 2023 04:50 PM (jzzG8)

184 I thought Brie had nice tits but a flat ass.

Posted by: Ignoramus at April 12, 2023 04:50 PM (RqMSv)

185 USA Today, Police document detailing President Biden's security information found on Belfast street

BELFAST, Northern Ireland – Ahead of President Joe Biden's speech here Wednesday, local police lost a document that detailed sensitive security information related to the president's visit.

A local resident is believed to have found the document on a street in Belfast, a U.S. law enforcement official said, confirming the authenticity of the paper on the condition of anonymity.
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But, all is well. Joey is happily stealing french fries off of Irish children.

Posted by: Lola- ALL the 1/6 videotapes from Alexandra and Jade, too. at April 12, 2023 04:50 PM (GshMh)

186 ... Even if there is a depression, a lot of people will be consuming K-dramas, manga, and independent video games. That will weaken Hollywood and the Wall Street oligarchy further. Not empower them.
Posted by: trev006 at April 12, 2023 04:49 PM (DTm0P)
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Right, that was my point. Hollywood is broken and they're going to get wrecked in the coming recession. It isn't escapist or even just entertaining anymore. When people are watching pennies, they're not going to waste those pennies on movies they didn't even like when times were better.

They will still scrimp and save to pay for entertainment - people always do - but my bet is that it will be something else.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 12, 2023 04:50 PM (t0OGg)

187 177 Lucas is not a "self-made" man. He got a real screenwriter, Kasdan, for the second film. But he lost his guardian angel producer in RotJ.
Posted by: Axeman at April 12, 2023 04:49 PM (krQz2)

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Real Lucas is THX-1138.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 12, 2023 04:50 PM (UVZX7)

188 Buddy just ordered a bacon cheese burg with double mashed potatoes and gravy on the side.

I'm stunned. Owned. Devastated. Whole bar feels alpha'd.

Posted by: Thesokorus at April 12, 2023 04:51 PM (iiwwl)

189 Remind me again why I should care?

Posted by: Gmac - WTF did you think was going to happen? at April 12, 2023 04:51 PM (qZdIZ)

190 This blonde in a dress has checked out of the Disney properties she used to follow:
https://is.gd/H5mfZ9

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 12, 2023 04:51 PM (t0OGg)

191 "Marvel's hot streak continues!"

en fuego
Posted by: eleven at April 12, 2023 04:45 PM (iziT

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When they burn the master print.

Posted by: Axeman at April 12, 2023 04:51 PM (krQz2)

192 They strike me a studio filmmakers in the blandest of senses. Even visually, they just loved sapping color out of everything. All of the Guardian stuff in Infinity War and Endgame are just drab to look at, especially in comparison to how Gunn films it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Marvel is complete dreck and has been for a decade. I would rather watch Homeward Bound 7 instead of any Marvel movie unless it has a robot woman rise up out of the earth with super hard nipples.

Posted by: Lost In Space at April 12, 2023 04:52 PM (RustQ)

193 Real Lucas has never been tried.

Posted by: Rolling Donut Unharmed By gp's Flying Leap at April 12, 2023 04:52 PM (MvF+J)

194 What's the word for being proud of your own ignorance about a particular topic?

Whatever it's called, it usually annoys me, but in this case I'm happy that I don't know any of the actors, movies , series or characters involved in this story.

Posted by: LASue at April 12, 2023 04:52 PM (Ed8Zd)

195 Lawrence Kasdan did an uncredited rewrite of the first Star Wars movie and thus moved it away from tracking Kurosawa's Hidden Fortress and made it more of a old-fashioned 30s adventure serial.

He then wrote the second and part of the third.

In between he wrote Raiders on spec, and a bunch of other great things.
Posted by: Ignoramus at April 12, 2023

***
Leigh Brackett, the print SF/fantasy and screenplay writer (The Big Sleep w/ Bogart), did the initial draft of the Empire screenplay, I've read.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 12, 2023 04:52 PM (J2vNu)

196 ***
Along with John Colicos as Kor, the first Klingon we ever saw, and William Campbell as Koloth, the Klingon captain from "The Trouble With Tribbles." (I'm glad the writers and producers branched out from "K" names. That would get wearing at a tribal meeting. "Kang!" "No, I am Krang!" "Very well. Koloth!" "No, I am Kolang!")
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 12, 2023 04:50 PM (J2vNu)

Never realized Klingons were supposed to live that long.

I always liked Colicos, especially as Baltar in the real Battlestar Galactica.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at April 12, 2023 04:52 PM (N3zMI)

197 Remind me again why I should care?
Posted by: Gmac - WTF did you think was going to happen? at April 12, 2023 04:51 PM (qZdIZ)
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Potentially two reasons, no mutually exclusive:
1. Because the corruption of American culture is worth paying to
2. Schadenfreude

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 12, 2023 04:52 PM (t0OGg)

198 Note to self: If I ever do a comic, have a villain named General Tso, with an army of killer mutant chickens at his beck and call.
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He could have a henchman named Colonel Sandurz.

Wait, that's already been done.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at April 12, 2023 04:52 PM (2hlEI)

199
This is not true. Women love heroic male characters. We do not care one whit about women superheroes. I don't know who they are making these movies for. Probably the woke audiences that like trannies and subservient men. And where masks to the screenings.
If they had any kind of real audience, these movies would make money but they don't.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at April 12, 2023 04:50 PM (Y+l9t)

She-hulk: Attorney at Law? It doesn't work because it's like trying to make a line of toy trucks aimed primarily at little girls, but it's pretty clearly taking what was originally a male-oriented IP and crossing it with women stuff and hoping to sell it to women. Which runs against the original intention of acquiring male-oriented IP to begin with.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 12, 2023 04:53 PM (eYoxG)

200 Be a shame if that Biden security document wound up in the hands of some...nefarious...people. Real bad shame...

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at April 12, 2023 04:53 PM (XMwZJ)

201 Does anyone remember The Gray Man?

For mindless action, I thought it was pretty decent.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at April 12, 2023 04:50 PM (ppBhU)
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Agree. It's in my Like column.

Posted by: Axeman at April 12, 2023 04:53 PM (krQz2)

202 He could have a henchman named Colonel Sandurz.

Wait, that's already been done.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at April 12, 2023 04:52 PM (2hlEI)

Whats the matter colonel, chicken?

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at April 12, 2023 04:53 PM (OgrpQ)

203 Brie from the front > Brie from the back

Posted by: 18-1 at April 12, 2023 04:50 PM (lc5cP)

ace has noted Bries lack off ass.

Posted by: JmT at April 12, 2023 04:53 PM (ojNBr)

204 To be clear, Favreau contributed his portion to the quality as well.
Posted by: Axeman at April 12, 2023 04:45 PM (krQz2)

Yes, he was another very important cog...it seems Feige was the least important one...
Posted by: Nova Local at April 12, 2023 04:47 PM (exHjb)

Not a Feige fan, but I really don't think anyone can make this multiverse thing work over a series of films. For one thing, all the action you see in inconsequential. They "kill" Kang in Quantumania - and then in the end scene you literally see a stadium full of Kangs, ready to go to battle. It's really all been rather meaningless since the "Time Heist" in Endgame. Nothing is permanent, except (maybe) Iron Man's death and Black Widow's death. All the others can and have been undone.

Posted by: Wally at April 12, 2023 04:54 PM (Hkfn2)

205 Watched the Marvel trailer (sound off). I liked the kittehs and Larson's tits.

Posted by: SamIam at April 12, 2023 04:54 PM (oasF3)

206 Fortunately Disneyland has been 400% too expensive and 1,479%+ over-crowded for years, so going isn't even a consideration.

Other than that, there's the Ducks' minor league team here, but not sure Disney has any remaining involvement, and I go for the sport anyway and don't care about the teams. Oh - and the Ducks are a long drive and about 500% too expensive for the product offered (applies to all NHL teams).

So, I'll always enjoy the memories of seeing Walt in the waving from the 2nd floor of the firehouse on Main Street, and how you could see the Matterhorn from miles away - while still driving through orange groves. That's enough.

Posted by: rhomboid at April 12, 2023 04:54 PM (OTzUX)

207 Real Lucas has never been tried.

Posted by: Rolling Donut Unharmed By gp's Flying Leap at April 12, 2023 04:52 PM (MvF+J)
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LOL.

Posted by: Axeman at April 12, 2023 04:54 PM (krQz2)

208 In all honesty Brie is pretty. When she doesn't have the RBF or Captain Karen haircut.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 12, 2023 04:55 PM (lc5cP)

209 To be fair, women don't watch superheroes and their movies at all. The fact Wonder Woman actually split the audience was huge b/c women on the whole do not tend to flock to the genre.

To this day, it's still the only movie that has split the audience. Other female led supers tend to still be seen 60-40 by men, and male centered ones/plots tend to be 66-33...

So, to ignore that primary demo is likely to get a Birds of Prey-like open...

Posted by: Nova Local at April 12, 2023 04:55 PM (exHjb)

210 Did Jonathan Majors dump boiling potatoes on his wife? If so, then he and "Bat Girl" below belong with each other.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 12, 2023 04:55 PM (55rOz)

211 She-hulk: Attorney at Law? It doesn't work because it's like trying to make a line of toy trucks aimed primarily at little girls, but it's pretty clearly taking what was originally a male-oriented IP and crossing it with women stuff and hoping to sell it to women. Which runs against the original intention of acquiring male-oriented IP to begin with.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 12, 2023 04:53 PM (eYoxG)
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She-Hulk had a tough row to hoe no matter what, but that wasn't its real problem. Its real problem was that it was vain, stupid, unlikable and poorly-written Millennial urban professional feminist wish-fulfillment that appealed to virtually nobody but the writers.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 12, 2023 04:55 PM (t0OGg)

212 You know why girls like Cinderella? Because she gets the prince who rescues her from her evil stepsisters. You know why girls like Snow White? Because she gets rescued by the prince who saves her from her evil step mother. It is a story as old as time...

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at April 12, 2023 04:55 PM (Y+l9t)

213 How many 'good' movies per year can we expect? Anything we value as good pushes everything else down the stack. There's some threshold where the stack pointer sez "stuff below here is 'not good'".

How many universally celebrated 'good' movies were made in 1939, the best year AFAIK? No more than 20, certainly. The stack has a limit.

Posted by: Rolling Donut Unharmed By gp's Flying Leap at April 12, 2023 04:55 PM (MvF+J)

214 Not a Feige fan, but I really don't think anyone can make this multiverse thing work over a series of films. For one thing, all the action you see in inconsequential. They "kill" Kang in Quantumania - and then in the end scene you literally see a stadium full of Kangs, ready to go to battle.

Posted by: Wally at April 12, 2023 04:54 PM (Hkfn2)
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But that's kind of a special feature of Kang.

He's the inevitable conqueror of Earth.

Posted by: Axeman at April 12, 2023 04:56 PM (krQz2)

215 Real Lucas is THX-1138.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at April 12, 2023 04:50 PM (UVZX7)

Spare us. It's tedious, and filmed in a boring way.

Unless you are saying that genuine Lucas actually sucks, and the first two Star Wars movies and American Graffiti and Raiders of The Lost Ark were just lucky.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 12, 2023 04:56 PM (mMC7/)

216
The most on-point shot of that whole trailer is StinkCheeze Larson doing her stompy-stompy tantrum. It's so on-point that Larson really didn't need to "act".

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 12, 2023 04:56 PM (n+4am)

217 How many 'good' movies per year can we expect? Anything we value as good pushes everything else down the stack. There's some threshold where the stack pointer sez "stuff below here is 'not good'".

Posted by: Rolling Donut Unharmed By gp's Flying Leap at April 12, 2023 04:55 PM (MvF+J)
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Right now, and for a while, each good movie is going to need to be a Maverick.

Posted by: Axeman at April 12, 2023 04:57 PM (krQz2)

218 Jonathan Michael Majors is an American actor. After graduating from Yale University with an MFA degree

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I assume that's a M*therF*ckin' Associate degree.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at April 12, 2023 04:57 PM (FVME7)

219 You know why girls like Cinderella? Because she gets the prince who rescues her from her evil stepsisters. You know why girls like Snow White? Because she gets rescued by the prince who saves her from her evil step mother. It is a story as old as time...

One thing that has consistently come out of every woman Brian Atlas has asked - from full trad con women to OF feminists - they want a man that chases them AND that can protect them physically.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 12, 2023 04:57 PM (lc5cP)

220 Favreau and Filini are lined up to mane Disney Movie.

Posted by: runner at April 12, 2023 04:57 PM (5a2xV)

221 184 I thought Brie had nice tits but a flat ass.

***

Yep. Back when they were filming the first Captain Marvel movie there was a meme going around showing a picture of her in the outfit from behind next to a picture of Tom Holland in the Spider-Man costume from behind. It did not do her any favors at all.

Posted by: Azathoth at April 12, 2023 04:57 PM (wb1YC)

222 *Filoni

Posted by: runner at April 12, 2023 04:57 PM (5a2xV)

223 205 Watched the Marvel trailer (sound off). I liked the kittehs and Larson's tits.
Posted by: SamIam at April 12, 2023 04:54 PM (oasF3)

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They should've made the Marvels with a bunch of scantily clad women with big boobs and asses. The kind of stuff you might see on a skank at a cosplay convention.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at April 12, 2023 04:58 PM (cMXNt)

224 Never realized Klingons were supposed to live that long.

I always liked Colicos, especially as Baltar in the real Battlestar Galactica.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at April 12, 2023

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The Picard era, which included Deep Space Nine, was, what, 75 years after Kirk's time? I'd guess the Klingons bought or stole longevity drugs from humans or other species. And maybe they were long-lived anyway, like turtles.

Certainly Kor, Koloth, and Kang were old old men by the time of the DS9 episode.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 12, 2023 04:58 PM (J2vNu)

225 209 To be fair, women don't watch superheroes and their movies at all. The fact Wonder Woman actually split the audience was huge b/c women on the whole do not tend to flock to the genre.

To this day, it's still the only movie that has split the audience. Other female led supers tend to still be seen 60-40 by men, and male centered ones/plots tend to be 66-33...

So, to ignore that primary demo is likely to get a Birds of Prey-like open...
Posted by: Nova Local at April 12, 2023 04:55 PM (exHjb)

And a huge portion of women who do attend are attending because of their spouse or boyfriend. Same thing in the opposite direction for romantic comedies.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 12, 2023 04:58 PM (eYoxG)

226 215 Spare us. It's tedious, and filmed in a boring way.

Unless you are saying that genuine Lucas actually sucks, and the first two Star Wars movies and American Graffiti and Raiders of The Lost Ark were just lucky.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 12, 2023 04:56 PM (mMC7/)

=======

I mean, I like THX-1138, but it's experimental and opaque, kind of the opposite of Star Wars. It's where George Lucas' heart really lies.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 12, 2023 04:58 PM (UVZX7)

227 I am an outlier but I have enjoyed most of Lucas's output, even liked Howard The Duck and the prequels, he was the executive director on Kagemusha as well.

And I really enjoyed Lucas Arts, that company is responsible for some of the best video games ever.

It's sad that he sold his company to a group who literally couldn't write a one act play for a community theater.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 12, 2023 04:58 PM (up/3i)

228 So she got bolt-ons but didn't have them add some fix-a-flat to her tuckus? Does she have no one in her life that loves her?

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at April 12, 2023 04:58 PM (ppBhU)

229 Damn racism!

Tom Elliott@tomselliott
Susan Rice: Racism has reduced the size of the economy by $16 trillion

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at April 12, 2023 04:59 PM (FVME7)

230 You know why girls like Cinderella? Because she gets the prince who rescues her from her evil stepsisters. You know why girls like Snow White? Because she gets rescued by the prince who saves her from her evil step mother. It is a story as old as time...
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at April 12, 2023 04:55 PM (Y+l9t)

Are you saying all stepmothers are evil?

Posted by: Dr. Jill Biden, MD, PhD, ED at April 12, 2023 04:59 PM (Hkfn2)

231 >>> 212 You know why girls like Cinderella? Because she gets the prince who rescues her from her evil stepsisters. You know why girls like Snow White? Because she gets rescued by the prince who saves her from her evil step mother. It is a story as old as time...
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at April 12, 2023 04:55 PM (Y+l9t)

REEEEEE!!!!!

Posted by: leftists at April 12, 2023 04:59 PM (llON8)

232
They should've made the Marvels with a bunch of scantily clad women with big boobs and asses. The kind of stuff you might see on a skank at a cosplay convention.

That is the way the characters are designed in the comic books and even say the "Injustice" video games.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 12, 2023 04:59 PM (lc5cP)

233 Speaking of Disney...

Florida Set to Pass Law Allowing Pedophiles to Be Executed
https://tinyurl.com/z3rd326d

if this is true, good
Been wanting this for a long time.

Is it retro active... Because someone we know has a list.

Posted by: artisanal ette at April 12, 2023 05:00 PM (uQPen)

234 It's sad that he sold his company to a group who literally couldn't write a one act play for a community theater.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 12, 2023 04:58 PM (up/3i)
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Not even "Backdraft: The Musical"?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at April 12, 2023 05:00 PM (2hlEI)

235 Don't knock little girl movies, especially since little girl movies are what I'm forced to watch when the granddaughters stay over. Just yesterday, I watched a Barbie movie, the one where Barbie trades places with a pretty princess who looks just like her and who wants to trade places with Barbie because she feels overwhelmed by all of that royal responsibility and attention. There's also a cute puppy chase in the airport scene. Ken complains he and Barbie don't get to spend nearly enough time together. Even my granddaughter Emma thinks Ken is a wimp. Riveting stuff.

Posted by: troyriser at April 12, 2023 05:00 PM (7Cx1V)

236 They will still scrimp and save to pay for entertainment - people always do - but my bet is that it will be something else.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 12, 2023 04:50 PM (t0OGg)

Mmhmm. And that is the worst part of the next two years for Hollywood. What, are they going to graft in scenes of Danvers looking for a husband and starting a family? Of course not. Ironically, her almost complete isolation from family and having few genuine friends should make her the most susceptible character to baby rabies. But that would stomp on the entire feminist vibe, and Marvel would rather burn the studio down than let that happen.

While a baby-seeking character arc did not improve Wanda Maximoff, to put it mildly, even the show runners of WandaVision unconsciously acknowledge that only her husband could stop her from acting like a total psycho bitch. But I'm getting off track.

Lord of the Rings continues to be a healthy franchise years after the last good movie came out, if you exclude Rings of Power. Mario can swoop in and effortlessly dominate the box office just by avoiding race swaps with mulatto gingers. It's easy to learn the lesson, but hard to implement it.

Posted by: trev006 at April 12, 2023 05:00 PM (DTm0P)

237 Meanwhile, Senate Minority Leader Lauren Book, a Democrat and victim of child sex abuse, appeared to support the bill.

“This is a life sentence that is handed down to young children,” Book said.

“We’re talking about the youngest of the young in this bill.

“I was one of those kids. I still to this day at … 38 years old deal with the very, very real lasting effects of this crime.

“It never goes away. Sometimes you close your eyes and you see it.

“I don’t get a chance to make it stop.”

from Slay piece

Posted by: artisanal ette at April 12, 2023 05:01 PM (uQPen)

238 So, I'll always enjoy the memories of seeing Walt in the waving from the 2nd floor of the firehouse on Main Street, and how you could see the Matterhorn from miles away - while still driving through orange groves. That's enough.

Posted by: rhomboid at April 12, 2023 04:54 PM (OTzUX)

Rom, did you actually see Walt or or you speaking metaphorically.

Posted by: JmT at April 12, 2023 05:01 PM (ojNBr)

239 Even my granddaughter Emma thinks Ken is a wimp.
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Everyone knew that Barbie preferred to date G. I. Joe.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at April 12, 2023 05:01 PM (2hlEI)

240 It's where George Lucas' heart really lies.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 12, 2023 04:58 PM (UVZX7)

You mean in a 2D boring dystopia?

That's even nastier than what I say about him.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 12, 2023 05:01 PM (mMC7/)

241 To be fair, women don't watch superheroes and their movies at all. The fact Wonder Woman actually split the audience was huge b/c women on the whole do not tend to flock to the genre.
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This is just not true. You tell me women didn't love Superman, Batman, Iron Man? Thor, Doctor Strange?
Teenage girls don't like Spider-Man?
That statement makes no sense.
Women love macho male roles. Wonder Woman was probably my least favorite movie. Chris Pine was the best part.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at April 12, 2023 05:02 PM (Y+l9t)

242 How dare they bastardize the Beastie Boys with this trash movie.

Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at April 12, 2023 05:02 PM (C4WAQ)

243 Any time we hear "racism caused or responsible for..." response should be , "what proof do you have?"

Posted by: runner at April 12, 2023 05:02 PM (5a2xV)

244 @tomselliott
Susan Rice: Racism has reduced the size of the economy by $16 trillion
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at April 12, 2023 04:59 PM (FVME7)
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Okay. Last year, US GDP was around $25.4 trillion. So Rice's assertion is that economic losses due to racism are nearly 60%, and that the GDP would be $41.4 trillion - that is, 63% higher - without racism.

Show your work, Susan. I look forward to it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 12, 2023 05:02 PM (t0OGg)

245 "Are you saying all stepmothers are evil?"

No Dr. Jill. You're special.

Imagine growing up with Dr Jill knowing that she drove your real mom to drive into an oncoming semi, with all your siblings.

Posted by: Ignoramus at April 12, 2023 05:02 PM (RqMSv)

246
To be fair, women don't watch superheroes and their movies at all. The fact Wonder Woman actually split the audience was huge b/c women on the whole do not tend to flock to the genre.

Posted by: Nova Local

When Modern Wimmens go to female superhero films at all, it's so that they can snark about how the lead actress' motorcycle leathers make her ass look fat.

Brie "Bonneville" Larson being the exception to the rule, of course.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 12, 2023 05:02 PM (n+4am)

247 Alex Berenson Sues Biden, Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla ‘And the Other People Who Believed That the mRNA Jabs Were More Important Than the First Amendment’

wow
go for it

https://tinyurl.com/2x45fvsz

he has gofundme and givesendgo links

Posted by: artisanal ette at April 12, 2023 05:03 PM (uQPen)

248 @242

>>How dare they bastardize the Beastie Boys with this trash movie.

The entire soundtrack is ripped completely from Paul's Boutique.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 12, 2023 05:03 PM (up/3i)

249 I could have agreed with Susan Rice if she'd said 16 jillion dollars.

Posted by: Wally at April 12, 2023 05:03 PM (Hkfn2)

250 Poland's 'Anti-Bug Law': The Battle Against the Globalist Agenda to Replace Meat with Bugs

Send their bugs to Brussels

Posted by: artisanal ette at April 12, 2023 05:04 PM (uQPen)

251 Everyone knew that Barbie preferred to date G. I. Joe.

***

What was the old joke ages ago?

Barbie comes with a townhouse, Corvette, and GI Joe.

Posted by: Azathoth at April 12, 2023 05:04 PM (wb1YC)

252 Okay. Last year, US GDP was around $25.4 trillion. So Rice's assertion is that economic losses due to racism are nearly 60%, and that the GDP would be $41.4 trillion - that is, 63% higher - without racism.

Real wages are down for the 22nd straight month. But...yeah racism is the problem.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 12, 2023 05:04 PM (lc5cP)

253 They should just break new ground and populartize beating women...or at least women who are cis women.

Cowards

Posted by: torabora at April 12, 2023 05:04 PM (OUiUM)

254 Send their bugs to Brussels
Posted by: artisanal ette at April 12, 2023 05:04 PM (uQPen)
++++
Eurocrat BBQ. A new delicacy.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 12, 2023 05:04 PM (t0OGg)

255 240 You mean in a 2D boring dystopia?

That's even nastier than what I say about him.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 12, 2023 05:01 PM (mMC7/)

=========

It's not like the Wagnerian implications of the prequels were all that well thought out or executed.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 12, 2023 05:04 PM (UVZX7)

256 I don't do superhero movies unless something seriously unorthodox. I liked Shang-Chi until it got a little silly toward the end. Couple others that never became franchises.

Otherwise stuff your Marvel up your ass.

Posted by: JEM at April 12, 2023 05:05 PM (8erNz)

257 The entire soundtrack is ripped completely from Paul's Boutique.

***
And it's literally only in there because of one line of the lyrics.

Posted by: Azathoth at April 12, 2023 05:05 PM (wb1YC)

258 To be fair, women don't watch superheroes and their movies at all. The fact Wonder Woman actually split the audience was huge b/c women on the whole do not tend to flock to the genre.
+++
This is just not true. You tell me women didn't love Superman, Batman, Iron Man? Thor, Doctor Strange?
Teenage girls don't like Spider-Man?
That statement makes no sense.
Women love macho male roles. Wonder Woman was probably my least favorite movie. Chris Pine was the best part.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at April 12, 2023 05:02 PM (Y+l9t)

100% agree Sharon

Posted by: artisanal ette at April 12, 2023 05:05 PM (uQPen)

259 lets recap

David French

Kaite Porter

Tim Scott

Hollywood
Posted by: REDACTED

You missed taco bell.

Posted by: Lost In Space at April 12, 2023 05:05 PM (RustQ)

260 Just watched the trailer. I saw some cats so it can't be too bad. True? TRUE?!!

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at April 12, 2023 05:05 PM (BdMk6)

261 Real wages are down for the 22nd straight month. But...yeah racism is the problem.
Posted by: 18-1 at April 12, 2023 05:04 PM (lc5cP)
++++
It obviously is. If we didn't have a black vice-president, wages would be up because Americans hate minorities. This is also why economic growth was stronger under Trump than under Obama. It's unconscious, but people work less hard and less efficiently when they are consumed with racial hatred for the executive.

If you were to ask people, they would not acknowledge it and most do not even know it. This is how unconscious bias works. But it is very real, and illustrates the deeply racist nature of most Americans. They will go so far as to unconsciously - just as a default, superficially inexplicable condition - make themselves poor just to lash out against powerful minorities.

Posted by: Your Kid's Economics Professor at April 12, 2023 05:06 PM (t0OGg)

262 255 240 You mean in a 2D boring dystopia?

That's even nastier than what I say about him.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 12, 2023 05:01 PM (mMC7/)

=========

It's not like the Wagnerian implications of the prequels were all that well thought out or executed.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 12, 2023 05:04 PM (UVZX7)

The prequels had several stories running in parallel. I don't think a lot of the implications were thought out, like the clones essentially being a slave army.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 12, 2023 05:06 PM (eYoxG)

263 This is just not true. You tell me women didn't love Superman, Batman, Iron Man? Thor, Doctor Strange?
Teenage girls don't like Spider-Man?
That statement makes no sense.
Women love macho male roles. Wonder Woman was probably my least favorite movie. Chris Pine was the best part.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at April 12, 2023 05:02 PM (Y+l9t)

It's the actual demos who attend the movies in person. This isn't a survey or push poll - it's real data. It's all data you can find online or follow if you follow movie performances (which I might have done....for...um...awhile)...

Posted by: Nova Local at April 12, 2023 05:06 PM (exHjb)

264 Looks to me like Disney's apparent strategy of "introduce new characters and plot elements in the streaming shows, so people will have to subscribe to Disney+ in order to understand wtf is going on in the movies" has backfired, and now people aren't going to the movies because they don't know wtf is going on or who these characters are.

LOL

Posted by: Cave Johnson at April 12, 2023 05:07 PM (9bp5t)

265 It's always racism. Racism, racism, racism. Noone wants to talk about black families: "The percentage of White children under 18 who live with both parents almost doubles that of Black children, according to the data. While 74.3 percent of all White children below the age of 18 live with both parents, only 38.7 percent of African-American minors can say the same."

Posted by: runner at April 12, 2023 05:07 PM (5a2xV)

266 Has anyone marketed a Ken doll that the kids can transition?

Posted by: torabora at April 12, 2023 05:07 PM (OUiUM)

267 I used to behead Ken with my Transformers

Mom had to buy me a lot a Ken dolls

I miss those days, life was simple

Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger at April 12, 2023 05:07 PM (VTu1l)

268 262 The prequels had several stories running in parallel. I don't think a lot of the implications were thought out, like the clones essentially being a slave army.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 12, 2023 05:06 PM (eYoxG)

=========

And droids being slaves. And jedi being a religion. And the justness of people wanting a change in government once it becomes corrupt and inept.

He had ideas. Lots of ideas.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 12, 2023 05:08 PM (UVZX7)

269
It's not like the Wagnerian implications of the prequels were all that well thought out or executed.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch

Lucas was more interested in dreaming up commie cocksucker Junior High School level snarky names for his villains. Like "Nute Gunray".

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 12, 2023 05:08 PM (n+4am)

270 Has anyone marketed a Ken doll that the kids can transition?
Posted by: torabora at April 12, 2023 05:07 PM (OUiUM)
++++
It would be fairly close to reality. Some expandable saline balloons and it remains dickless.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 12, 2023 05:08 PM (t0OGg)

271 The prequels had several stories running in parallel. I don't think a lot of the implications were thought out, like the clones essentially being a slave army.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 12, 2023 05:06 PM (eYoxG)
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They did explore some of the implications in the animated series and in the ancillary materials...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 12, 2023 05:08 PM (YIVH2)

272 Gentlemen need not apply

Posted by: Erik L at April 12, 2023 05:08 PM (x/8tY)

273 David Cole noted that the reason Mel Gibson survived in Hollywood was that he was personally liked and he supported the people around him, he paid the bond to resurrect Robert Downey's career when no one would hire him.

Posted by: JEM at April 12, 2023 05:09 PM (8erNz)

274 Well, to be fair, G.I. Joe had the same anatomical...issues...as Ken.

But I guess that Kung-Fu Grip could probably go a long way to compensate.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at April 12, 2023 05:09 PM (N3zMI)

275 Fix that Susan Rice.

Posted by: runner at April 12, 2023 05:09 PM (5a2xV)

276 268 262 The prequels had several stories running in parallel. I don't think a lot of the implications were thought out, like the clones essentially being a slave army.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 12, 2023 05:06 PM (eYoxG)

=========

And droids being slaves. And jedi being a religion. And the justness of people wanting a change in government once it becomes corrupt and inept.

He had ideas. Lots of ideas.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 12, 2023 05:08 PM (UVZX7)

It made for great fuel for the EU. Doesn't make for the most focused storytelling in a 2 hour movie though.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 12, 2023 05:09 PM (eYoxG)

277
266 Has anyone marketed a Ken doll that the kids can transition?
Posted by: torabora at April 12, 2023 05:07 PM (OUiUM)

Sounds like a job for Snap-On Tools

Posted by: Also works with Lesbo Barbie at April 12, 2023 05:09 PM (V6LRK)

278 More Hug-A-Thug!

Katy Grimes@KATYSaccitizen
California Bill Will Release Death Sentenced Murderers After 20 Years.
These are murderers who killed multiple victims or killed in concert with a rape, robbery, kidnapping or torture.

-
There was a blast from the past Dateline on the other night. Scott Peterson (of the Modesto Petersons) has now been incarcerated for 20 years so maybe he'll get a get out of jail free card.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at April 12, 2023 05:09 PM (FVME7)

279 Disney Marvel Is Recasting "Kang the Conqueror,"

Write-in campaign for Dylan Mulvaney! I'm nothing if not helpful.

Posted by: t-bird at April 12, 2023 05:10 PM (ptElO)

280 270 Has anyone marketed a Ken doll that the kids can transition?
Posted by: torabora at April 12, 2023 05:07 PM (OUiUM)

That's brilliant! I'm gonna get a big bonus for this!

Posted by: Mattel EVP of Marketing at April 12, 2023 05:10 PM (PiwSw)

281
And droids being slaves. And jedi being a religion. And the justness of people wanting a change in government once it becomes corrupt and inept.

He had ideas. Lots of ideas.

The easiest way to save most of the story line would have been to have Dooku and the separatists NOT controlled by the Sith. Just people that honestly wanted to separate from a corrupt regime.

And the Sith manipulating the Jedi into fighting them and building the Galactic Empire that way so that ultimately the Jedi are done in by their hubris.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 12, 2023 05:10 PM (lc5cP)

282 Anybody know anything about the anime "Suzume?"

Posted by: Oddbob at April 12, 2023 05:10 PM (nfrXX)

283 You missed taco bell.
Posted by: Lost In Space at April 12, 2023 05:05 PM (RustQ)

taco bell is in the interesting and not stupid column

Posted by: REDACTED at April 12, 2023 05:10 PM (us2H3)

284 281 The easiest way to save most of the story line would have been to have Dooku and the separatists NOT controlled by the Sith. Just people that honestly wanted to separate from a corrupt regime.

And the Sith manipulating the Jedi into fighting them and building the Galactic Empire that way so that ultimately the Jedi are done in by their hubris.
Posted by: 18-1 at April 12, 2023 05:10 PM (lc5cP)

=========

That would have been a positive change.

It would have done nothing for the terrible romance, though.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 12, 2023 05:11 PM (UVZX7)

285 The simp factor on that Twitter thread is off the charts.

Posted by: McLurkerson at April 12, 2023 05:11 PM (wNDOJ)

286 Just watched the trailer. I saw some cats so it can't be too bad. True? TRUE?!!
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at April 12, 2023 05:05 PM (BdMk6)

We need a Catturd movie!

Catturd ™ Retweeted
il Donaldo Trumpo @PapiTrumpo
GO WOKE, GO BROKE!!!😭🤣🤣🤣
ABusch loses more than $5Billion in value.
https://tinyurl.com/2p9h9psx
spot the Catturd!

Posted by: artisanal ette at April 12, 2023 05:11 PM (uQPen)

287 Sorry Nova Local. You'll have to give me a link to believe that. Those movies had huge box office and I just do not believe that the audience was primarily male. I never lined up at midnight to see one of those movies but I certainly saw them. I would say the turning point in my interest in those movies was Captain Marvel being female with absolutely no sex appeal and no sexual tension.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at April 12, 2023 05:12 PM (Y+l9t)

288
And droids being slaves. And jedi being a religion. And the justness of people wanting a change in government once it becomes corrupt and inept.

He had ideas. Lots of ideas.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch

People being controlled by smart bacteria called Midi-Chlorians.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 12, 2023 05:12 PM (n+4am)

289 But I guess that Kung-Fu Grip could probably go a long way to compensate.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at April 12, 2023 05:09 PM (N3zMI)

You know who else had a Kung-Fu Grip? Oh yeah.

Posted by: Willie Brown at April 12, 2023 05:12 PM (PiwSw)

290 Who other than Lucas has us talking about his movies still. Star Wars is it. And that is all Lucas.

Posted by: JmT at April 12, 2023 05:12 PM (ojNBr)

291 Kangs vs Yoms

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 12, 2023 05:12 PM (63Dwl)

292 The easiest way to save most of the story line would have been to have Dooku and the separatists NOT controlled by the Sith. Just people that honestly wanted to separate from a corrupt regime.

And the Sith manipulating the Jedi into fighting them and building the Galactic Empire that way so that ultimately the Jedi are done in by their hubris.
Posted by: 18-1 at April 12, 2023 05:10 PM (lc5cP)

The overall story arc wasn't a problem, it's that there's a bunch of things going on besides the core soap opera story of the Rise of Darth Vader(which is what the prequels were about when it comes down to it).

The OT was basically a fairly focused soap opera about the Skywalker family with the Galactic Civil War as the backdrop. Prequel trilogy was similar, except very unfocused. Kept deviating into exposition or side stories.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 12, 2023 05:13 PM (eYoxG)

293 Think he'll be alright...until the next time. Yale grad, lots of support from friends, girlfriend says fuhgeddaboudit.

Posted by: Lola- ALL the 1/6 videotapes from Alexandra and Jade, too. at April 12, 2023 05:13 PM (GshMh)

294 Die Mouse Die...

Majors as Kang? But hey what happened to 'representation' and all that? Kang should be Mongolian.

As for the Marvels if it ain't about Carol Danvers and Rogue, then forget about it.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 12, 2023 05:13 PM (Vv7ni)

295 Wow that looks bad.

Posted by: Eric at April 12, 2023 05:13 PM (a2F+C)

296 We need a Catturd movie!

Catturd ™ Retweeted
il Donaldo Trumpo @PapiTrumpo
GO WOKE, GO BROKE!!!😭🤣🤣🤣
ABusch loses more than $5Billion in value.
https://tinyurl.com/2p9h9psx
spot the Catturd!
Posted by: artisanal ette at April 12, 2023 05:11 PM (uQPen)\

After seeing him yesterday, I agree wholeheartedly!

Posted by: LASue at April 12, 2023 05:13 PM (Ed8Zd)

297 Catturd ™ @catturd2 4h

'THIS IS IMPEACHABLE' – Biden Removed President Trump's Executive Privilege in Order to Raid Mar-a-Lago to Cover-Up His Own Illegal Possession of Classified Docs #gatewaypundit via
@gatewaypundit
https://tinyurl.com/42pzr49b

eh?

Posted by: artisanal ette at April 12, 2023 05:14 PM (uQPen)

298 It would have done nothing for the terrible romance, though.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 12, 2023 05:11 PM (UVZX7)

At least Star Wars has had consistently terrible romantic dialogue.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 12, 2023 05:14 PM (eYoxG)

299 Kang is the past participle of King

Posted by: REDACTED at April 12, 2023 05:14 PM (us2H3)

300 People being controlled by smart bacteria called Midi-Chlorians.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 12, 2023 05:12 PM (n+4am)

Best line from the Robot-Chicken snippets was when Darth Vader brought this up and Mark Hammell replied, "Look, if you're not going to be serious about this, I'm outta here."

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at April 12, 2023 05:14 PM (N3zMI)

301 Dooku has his own backstory in the animated universe. Filoni added more with Tales of the Jedi.

Posted by: runner at April 12, 2023 05:14 PM (5a2xV)

302
ABusch loses more than $5Billion in value.

They'll make it up in volume.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 12, 2023 05:14 PM (63Dwl)

303 I loved Thor but did not see the most recent one with the female swap. Once they killed off Iron Man that was pretty much the end for me.
But I actually went to a theatre to see Top Gun.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at April 12, 2023 05:14 PM (Y+l9t)

304 Just watched the trailer. I saw some cats so it can't be too bad. True? TRUE?!!
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at April 12, 2023 05:05 PM (BdMk6)
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Adding cats to a movie is like adding bacon to a bowl of your least favorite food.

It'll make it better, but not necessarily good.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 12, 2023 05:14 PM (YIVH2)

305 The simp factor on that Twitter thread is off the charts.

***********

My balls had to recede into their cavernous hermit shells to protect themselves from the soy

Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger at April 12, 2023 05:14 PM (VTu1l)

306 The easiest way to save most of the story line would have been to have Dooku and the separatists NOT controlled by the Sith. Just people that honestly wanted to separate from a corrupt regime.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 12, 2023 05:10 PM (lc5cP)

Disney and Lucasfilm owe a Wookie life debt to Bioware for making Mandalorians more than a token costume. At the end of the day, the Jedi Civil War was done almost entirely without Sith influence: young Knights pissed off that their elders were fiddling while the galaxy burned at the hands of a Mandalorian uprising. The elders had their reasons, of course, and I do wonder if part of that reason was letting the Mandos overextend themselves, fail horribly at governing, and cause the galaxy to welcome the Jedi as liberators.

Posted by: trev006 at April 12, 2023 05:14 PM (DTm0P)

307 Susan Rice's speech said that the GDP had been reduced by $16B over 20 years. She said not her numbers, but Citibank's. How Citibank or anyone could arrive at such a number is, well, a really really good question.

Posted by: blaster at April 12, 2023 05:14 PM (pwExq)

308 In both the OT and prequels, the actual war itself was mostly skipped over. High points of it are fit alongside climactic events in the personal lives of the characters, but they're fundamentally not war movies but movies about a small group of people and their relationships.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 12, 2023 05:15 PM (eYoxG)

309 It would have done nothing for the terrible romance, though.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 12, 2023 05:11 PM (UVZX7)

At least Star Wars has had consistently terrible romantic dialogue.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 12, 2023 05:14 PM (eYoxG)
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Look, the audience knew it would never work out, so why put in any effort to make it believable?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 12, 2023 05:15 PM (YIVH2)

310 They'll make it up in volume.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 12, 2023 05:14 PM (63Dwl)

Ah, the Three Stooges school of economics.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at April 12, 2023 05:15 PM (ZSK0i)

311 Kang is the past participle of King
Posted by: REDACTED at April 12, 2023

***
"He kanged me."

Posted by: Checker Player, Losing at April 12, 2023 05:16 PM (J2vNu)

312 287 Sorry Nova Local. You'll have to give me a link to believe that. Those movies had huge box office and I just do not believe that the audience was primarily male. I never lined up at midnight to see one of those movies but I certainly saw them. I would say the turning point in my interest in those movies was Captain Marvel being female with absolutely no sex appeal and no sexual tension.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at April 12, 2023 05:12 PM (Y+l9t)

One of a thousand examples...

"The audience demographics for Avengers: Endgame on its opening weekend were 59.7% male and 53.4% over age 25."

https://tinyurl.com/53rfjadn

I can pull up every Marvel/DC/Sony super movie, and the MCU total fanbase stats...

Posted by: Nova Local at April 12, 2023 05:16 PM (exHjb)

313 Ken dolls have never had a, you know, that important part.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at April 12, 2023 05:17 PM (Y+l9t)

314 Firing Jonathan Majors opens the door for Laverne Cox.

No Wang Kang.

Posted by: Eric at April 12, 2023 05:17 PM (a2F+C)

315 Susan Rice's speech said that the GDP had been reduced by $16B over 20 years. She said not her numbers, but Citibank's. How Citibank or anyone could arrive at such a number is, well, a really really good question.

Posted by: blaster at April 12, 2023 05:14 PM (pwExq)

Take away the vast inflation and tech bro "capital" to believe it entirely. The Internet service sector is profoundly fragile, and always has been. Only easy money could let them carry on as long as they did, and those days are over.

Posted by: trev006 at April 12, 2023 05:17 PM (DTm0P)

316
Seriously, watch the original Emperor Kang on colorized versions of the 1930's Buck Rogers on Youtube, who hypnotizes the delicious Dale Arden to "marry" him.

Hot stuff. Sci-fi that was funny, over the top and damn sexy.

Posted by: Auspex at April 12, 2023 05:17 PM (j4U/Z)

317 The romance between Amidala and Anakin would have been better served if the scene where she takes Anakin to meet her parents had been left in the theatrical release. Instead for this movie we go from them being "eeehhh" and uncomfortable to "I love you!" while they are tied to pillars...

Wait hey Anakin why didn't you use your Force powers to untie yourself?

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 12, 2023 05:17 PM (Vv7ni)

318 Nova, 60/40 is not huge percentage difference.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at April 12, 2023 05:18 PM (Y+l9t)

319 At least Star Wars has had consistently terrible romantic dialogue.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 12, 2023 05:14 PM (eYoxG)

When Force Persuade is part of your standard kit, I imagine most Jedi will cheerfully let their Game atrophy.

Posted by: trev006 at April 12, 2023 05:18 PM (DTm0P)

320 Ant Man 3 - "Opening weekend audience for Ant-Man 3 typical for Marvel: 61% male, 84% general audience, 53% over age 25."

Posted by: Nova Local at April 12, 2023 05:18 PM (exHjb)

321 You said primarily male.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at April 12, 2023 05:18 PM (Y+l9t)

322 Seriously, watch the original Emperor Kang on colorized versions of the 1930's Buck Rogers on Youtube, who hypnotizes the delicious Dale Arden to "marry" him.

Hot stuff. Sci-fi that was funny, over the top and damn sexy.
Posted by: Auspex at April 12, 2023 05:17 PM (j4U/Z)

See, Force Persuade!

Posted by: trev006 at April 12, 2023 05:18 PM (DTm0P)

323 Marvel just murdered my favorite Beastie Boys songs.

Posted by: Max Power at April 12, 2023 05:18 PM (Hucnr)

324 318 Nova, 60/40 is not huge percentage difference.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at April 12, 2023 05:18 PM (Y+l9t)

It's 20% different...that's huge in revenue.

And that's for movies with female leads...the male led ones are way more skewed...

Posted by: Nova Local at April 12, 2023 05:19 PM (exHjb)

325 323 Marvel just murdered my favorite Beastie Boys songs.
Posted by: Max Power at April 12, 2023 05:18 PM (Hucnr)

I'll stir fry you in my wok!

Posted by: blaster at April 12, 2023 05:19 PM (pwExq)

326 Berenson went with US sec 1985(3) over 1983. Idk. They seem pretty smart.

Posted by: Thesokorus at April 12, 2023 05:19 PM (iiwwl)

327 Susan Rice's speech said that the GDP had been reduced by $16B over 20 years. She said not her numbers, but Citibank's. How Citibank or anyone could arrive at such a number is, well, a really really good question.

Posted by: blaster

Eye of newt, toe of frog
Wing of bat, tongue of dog

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at April 12, 2023 05:20 PM (FVME7)

328 Other than Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back, everything else is dreck.

Posted by: Lost In Space at April 12, 2023 05:20 PM (RustQ)

329 309 Look, the audience knew it would never work out, so why put in any effort to make it believable?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 12, 2023 05:15 PM (YIVH2)

======

*tears up draft of dialogue between Romeo and Juliet as useless now*
-Shakespeare

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at April 12, 2023 05:20 PM (UVZX7)

330 Marvel just murdered my favorite Beastie Boys songs.

So no more right to party? But are you still intergalactic?

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 12, 2023 05:21 PM (Vv7ni)

331 From Deadline.com for a DC male led movie...

"Black Adam drew 65% guys, 35% women, and the movie got its best grades with the latter, who scored it at 83%. Men over 25 led in attendance at 39%, followed by men under 25 (26%), women over 25 (22% who graded it 84%), and women under 25 (13% at 82%)."

Posted by: Nova Local at April 12, 2023 05:21 PM (exHjb)

332 5 billion ? It was 3 billion this morning.... 👍

Posted by: runner at April 12, 2023 05:21 PM (5a2xV)

333 Aren't trailers supposed to make you want to see something?

Posted by: Inogame at April 12, 2023 05:22 PM (53oGX)

334 I would never try to go opening weekend. Like I said, it is the ones willing to stand in line for a midnight first showing. But 40 % belie "women never go to Marvel movies".

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at April 12, 2023 05:22 PM (Y+l9t)

335 @329

>>*tears up draft of dialogue between Romeo and Juliet as useless now*
-Shakespeare

Are you suggesting that Anikan and Amidala are star-crossed lovers?

The deuce you say.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 12, 2023 05:22 PM (up/3i)

336 Deuce?

Who let the EPA in?

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 12, 2023 05:23 PM (Vv7ni)

337 334 I would never try to go opening weekend. Like I said, it is the ones willing to stand in line for a midnight first showing. But 40 % belie "women never go to Marvel movies".
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at April 12, 2023 05:22 PM (Y+l9t)

I never said women don't go - they go less and are NEVER the primary demo...b/c they are not. Men are for superhero movies and have been.

Posted by: Nova Local at April 12, 2023 05:23 PM (exHjb)

338
Marvel just murdered my favorite Beastie Boys songs.

So no more right to party? But are you still intergalactic?
Posted by: Anna Puma

Yeah, Marvel is straight up sabotage.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 12, 2023 05:24 PM (n+4am)

339 How Citibank or anyone could arrive at such a number is, well, a really really good question.

The method is probably pretty easy: take the GNP for the last 20 years, partition it into black and non-black. Notice that the ratio is greater than the ratio in the population as a whole. Assume that the mismatch can only be explained by racism. Adjust the GDP for blacks to be the same as for non-blacks proportionally. Et voila!

Did you spot the weak link in the chain of logic? I tried to help you out a little.

Posted by: Oddbob at April 12, 2023 05:24 PM (nfrXX)

340
ABusch loses more than $5Billion in value.

The poor summabitches who drove the beer just about everywhere now have to drive it back to AB where they'll be told their jobs are finished. While the woke bitch who started this shit sits atop her throne.

Sorry womenfolk, but you gotta 'man up' and call for her scalp. And btw: kick the tranny who likes to shower with you after yoga class to the curb, too.

This isn't rocket science, sweetheart.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 12, 2023 05:24 PM (enJYY)

341 Marvel movies now exist for one reason. They exist so you know to wear when you're going out burn down a Federal courthouse in Portland, Or.

Posted by: Lost In Space at April 12, 2023 05:25 PM (RustQ)

342 In both the OT and prequels, the actual war itself was mostly skipped over. High points of it are fit alongside climactic events in the personal lives of the characters, but they're fundamentally not war movies but movies about a small group of people and their relationships.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at April 12, 2023 05:15 PM (eYoxG)

Overdramatized emo movies are so much better than galactic battles.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at April 12, 2023 05:25 PM (BdMk6)

343 George Conway
@gtconway3d

Just drove by a strip club in Tampa and can’t believe Florida still allows that with the kids and all
9:59 AM · Apr 12, 2023
from Tampa, FL

***

George Conway, everybody.

Posted by: Azathoth at April 12, 2023 05:25 PM (wb1YC)

344 "Black Adam drew 65% guys, 35% women, and the movie got its best grades with the latter, who scored it at 83%. Men over 25 led in attendance at 39%, followed by men under 25 (26%), women over 25 (22% who graded it 84%), and women under 25 (13% at 82%)."

Black Adam was a Hollywood take on...ISIS.

Probably would have been a bigger deal if it came out 5-10 years ago.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 12, 2023 05:26 PM (lc5cP)

345 Black Adam got terrible reviews. It is when they stopped making hero movies that no longer had a male hero and a female lead with somesexual interest that the box office tanked.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at April 12, 2023 05:26 PM (Y+l9t)

346 @343

>>George Conway, everybody.

Kelly Ann Conway looks much happier since she shed that sack of soy sh*t

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 12, 2023 05:27 PM (up/3i)

347 Just drove by a strip club in Tampa and can’t believe Florida still allows that with the kids and all

Was he bringing his daughter?

Posted by: 18-1 at April 12, 2023 05:27 PM (lc5cP)

348 Trump is now up over Meatball by 6.4%

oh, sorry, 64%

Meatball is getting sauced

Posted by: REDACTED at April 12, 2023 05:27 PM (us2H3)

349 Nood Riley Gaines

Posted by: Dark Helmet at April 12, 2023 05:29 PM (Oka5v)

350 George Conway is a stupid person's idea of a stupid person.

Posted by: Azathoth at April 12, 2023 05:29 PM (wb1YC)

351 George Conway, everybody.
Posted by: Azathoth at April 12, 2023 05:25 PM (wb1YC)

George is a social media loudmouth

they aint uncommon

Posted by: REDACTED at April 12, 2023 05:29 PM (us2H3)

352 @348

>>Meatball is getting sauced

YOU LIE!

Meatball sleeps ROUSING.

He will prevail over Donald Trump who has bad breath.

--
Never Trumper Dead Enders, Dead Ending to the last.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 12, 2023 05:29 PM (up/3i)

353 George Conway, everybody.
Posted by: Azathoth at April 12, 2023 05:25 PM (wb1YC)

So, the fat is pretty much located in his braincase.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at April 12, 2023 05:29 PM (ZSK0i)

354 Redacted, show a little respect. I like Trump but disparaging a very good Republican Governor does not make me like him anymore than I already do and might actually work in reverse.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at April 12, 2023 05:31 PM (Y+l9t)

355 Phew. Saved by a nood.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at April 12, 2023 05:33 PM (Y+l9t)

356 320 84% general audience

is that code for "people of pallor"?

Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at April 12, 2023 05:35 PM (t4BDZ)

357 Just saw an Allegra commercial that featured skateboarders. Suddenly I like skeptical about where they're talking about. I'm thinking I might want to shoot industrial circle under my ass and then get back to them.

Earlier in the day here in Las Cruces I went out to golf course and one of the predominant sign was if you are going into rough you might get bit by a rattlesnake. There was a lot of practicing going on as far as I can tell. I so love living in New Mexico.

Posted by: Lost In Space at April 12, 2023 05:37 PM (RustQ)

358 201 Does anyone remember The Gray Man?

For mindless action, I thought it was pretty decent.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at April 12, 2023 04:50 PM (ppBhU)

Yes.

Posted by: marcus gravey at April 12, 2023 05:39 PM (516e+)

359 PITCH: This movie is like when women's periods synchronize, but only with SUPER POWRRS!!!

Posted by: tommylotto at April 12, 2023 06:20 PM (6QQM8)

360 Dylan Mulvaney is waiting by his phone...

Posted by: p-squared at April 12, 2023 08:44 PM (UxSB9)

361 Brie Larsen is trash and I'm happy to not only see her relegated to third place in the sequel but that this movie will crash and burn harder than Quantumania did.
China ain't gonna watch this in numbers.

Posted by: Jon at April 13, 2023 11:53 AM (H4mKV)

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