Deadline Hollywood: Guardians of the Galaxy 3 Is Tracking to Make... 10% Less Money on Opening Weekend Than Thor Love & Thunder

Deadline Hollywood: Guardians of the Galaxy 3 Is Tracking to Make... 10% Less Money on Opening Weekend Than Thor Love & Thunder

Oof. That's not great. Disney Marvel is counting on the last Guardians of the Galaxy movie (at least with the current cast) to restore the Marvel franchise to its past glories, but if it's tracking worse than Thor Love and Thunder, it's going to be another financial disappointment.

Disney/Marvel Studios' Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 landed on tracking today before its summer-season launch date of Friday, May 5, and it's looking like a $130M domestic start.

That's lower than the $146.5M stateside opening of 2017's Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol. 2, which also kicked off summer, and distribution sources specify that the campaign for GOTG3 hasn't really fired up to its full potential yet. Hence, there's nothing to worry about.

Disney always says "everything's fine, everything's going exactly as we anticipated" before each of their recent bombs. They were still claiming this after the second week of bad box office for Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, for example, and that film failed to gross even $500 million globally.

And the movie probably cost $200 million or more, plus another $150 to $200 million to market. And given that the studio takes in half or less or a movie's receipts -- the rest go to distributors, and foreign distributors give them an average of 42% -- that means that Ant-Man brought in less than $240 million for Disney. And so they lost money. Again.

Marvel's core audience knows when the movie is coming out already. Yes, advertising will reach some of the normies who don't follow Marvel movie news, but it's getting harder and harder to convince normies to care about the MCU.

The highest domestic opening for a Marvel Studios movie post-pandemic belongs to Sony's Spider-Man: No Way Home ($260.1M). After that, it's Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, which started summer last year with $187.4M.
That said, GOTG3 was tracking lower in first choice compared to GOTG2, though strong among the under-25 sect.

Will the movie perform better if it's actually good? Maybe. But it's a "darker" story.

The rumor is that several main players will die.

Director James Gunn -- who now runs things at DC alongside Peter Safran -- and cast in interviews have mentioned that the threequel will be darker, focusing on the origin story of Rocket Racoon (Bradley Cooper). There's also a different Gamora (Zoe Saldana) from another timeline; this version never fell in love with Peter Quill (Chris Pratt).

Not sure a "darker" cartoon movie with talking animals and trees is going to light up the box office.

Valiant Renegade points out that the usual Marvel film is heavily front-loaded, and so 50% of the total box office take is usually collected within the first 5-7 days of release.

The total global box office winds up being 2-2.5 times the opening weekend box office.

Note that the $130 million opening figure is for its domestic take. There will be more money coming in from around the world. Ant-Man made 55% of its money overseas. So maybe Guardians of the Galaxy will have a $270 million global opening, at best?

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania opened at $120 million domestically -- just $10 million less than the current projection for GotG 3 -- and that was a flop.

Seems to me that Marvel is paying a price for 1, wokeness, and 2, pumping out endless "content" of a very mediocre or inferior nature.

And maybe Disney is realizing that it's not smart to alienate half of your audience.

If this movie does flop, expect more firings at Woke Disney Marvel. Even the big fat geek Kevin Feige might be handed his walking papers.

And if it flops, then Warner Bros.' plan to rekindle interest in the DC Comics movie universe by putting GotG writer/director James Gunn in charge of it will look like a big mistake.

Speaking of segueways, DC Comics' recent sales are terrible.

DC Comics went woke after they watched rival Marvel go woke and alienate half of their customers. DC Comics was actually forewarned that wokeness was toxic, and went fully woke even while Marvel was attempting to shed some of its wokeness.

In the face of steeply declining sales, DC Comics attempted to Hide the Decline by pumping out tons of Batman comics. Batman is DC Comics' best selling character, and since the 80s been the best-selling character in all of comics. (In the industry they speak of a "Batman Standard" -- judging the sales of other titles based on how close they can get to the hypothesized maximum, which is represented by the sales of Batman's main title.)

DC just keep spinning off new Batman titles and titles featuring members of "the Bat-Family" like Nightwing, Batgirl, Robin, Harley Quinn, etc. About half of the 60 titles DC publishes per month are Batman-related titles.

They are just taxing and taxing and taxing the Batman completionists, extracting more and more money from them because Batman completionists are nice generous cows to milk.

Critics kept warning DC that they were going to create "Batman Fatigue" and declining interest in the character.

And that now seems to have happened, as Spider-Man displaces Batman to become the best-selling character. Meanwhile, half of their other comics are pulling sales numbers low enough to require cancellation (in a healthy market, at least).

Let's say there are 30 Batman-related titles per month. They sell for about an average of $5 each (yes, this is not the comics industry you remember from your youth; they've had to constantly escalate prices to make up for the decline in sales.)

That's about a hundred and fifty bucks per month just to keep your Batman collection complete.

Here's a problem with milking completionists: Completionists will only spend all that money to complete their collection if they believe it's financially possible to complete the collection.

The moment you make it clear to them that you will attempt to milk them for every dollar by pumping out Infinite Product, they will give up attempting to complete their collection. And they won't just balk at buying the new titles that broke the camel's back -- they'll stop buying most of the titles that they were buying just for completion's sake.

Suddenly Batman Collectors who had been diligently collecting 30 titles a month will decide to scale back to just buying the two main Batman titles plus Nightwing and a few other books.

Will that happen? Only time will tell but yes, that will happen. You can only financially abuse someone for so long.

Speaking of abrupt transitions, here's another Woke Company paying the price for alienating its clients:

Horses... sunsets... wheat fields... veterans... cowboys... 'Merica... 9/11...

All empty imagery designed for propaganda purposes only. Yeah, they actually throw in a reference to 9/11 and tell us to "remember" 9/11, showing us the Freedom Tower that was built to replace the Twin Towers.

9/11, you say? Well now I totally want to forgive you and drink your Trans Beer.

Budweiser's new pro-America advertisement featuring its iconic Clydesdale horses has been ripped by critics who argue it reeks of desperation in the wake of the Bud Light controversy -- insisting it's too little, too late for the beer maker.
The patriotic ad, released on social media on Friday, features a Budweiser Clydesdale running across the American heartland as the narrator declares: "This is the story of the American spirit."
The timing of the commercial's release was quickly slammed on social media as Budweiser's parent company, Anheuser-Busch, continues to grapple with the backlash over Bud Light's partnership with transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney.
"Don't look now @AnheuserBusch @budweiserusa but the Clydesdale has already left the barn. The train has sailed, the ship has left the station," attorney Philip Holloway tweeted.
"Far too late for this pandering now," sports announcer Mike Perleberg added. "I've drawn my line in the sand against ridiculous wokeism and it is to consciously never buy or support an @AnheuserBusch product ever again and share that disdain among people I see consuming their products."
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"Lol, hard pivot huh?" Angela McArdle added.
Ex-heavyweight boxer Ed Latimore also chimed in, writing: "Man, this s--t might have worked in the 80s, but the internet is forever."

They must really think that conservatives are stupid, ill-educated, easily-conned rubes, to think they could just throw in some 9/11 imagery and we'd all just coming running to thank them for exploiting the National Wound of 9/11 for cynical commercial purposes.

And obviously, they do think that. They hold us in contempt.

Posted by: Ace at 04:05 PM

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1 HAHAHAHAHHAHAHHA

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 18, 2023 04:04 PM (N1tpc)

2 Disney Delenda Est

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 18, 2023 04:05 PM (N1tpc)

3 In all honesty, I probably will go watch GOTG opening weekend.

Hopefully that doesn't make me a tranny.

Posted by: Dr. T at April 18, 2023 04:07 PM (tp+tP)

4 I never liked Spiderman.. Too bad about guardians though .. I liked the first 2...

Posted by: It's me donna at April 18, 2023 04:08 PM (bs+z0)

5 The internet. Is forever.

Posted by: runner at April 18, 2023 04:08 PM (xNg0H)

6 "DC Comics went woke after they watched rival Marvel go woke and alienate half of their customers. DC Comics was actually forewarned that wokeness was toxic, and went fully woke even while Marvel was attempting to shed some of its wokeness."

I am not an expert in comic book stuff in any degree, but I remember one of RazorFist's rants and he claims that DC went woke first awhile ago. His example was DC turning Bat-Girl into a lipstick lesbian.

Just my two cents.

Posted by: Thrawn at April 18, 2023 04:09 PM (Rl7KJ)

7 Wait. A "darker" Guardians? I went to the first one, intrigued by the snarkiness of rocket Raccoon in the trailers and online teasers. But the dialog was not that good and the plot not that imaginative. At least it wasn't "dark."

If it's going "dark," then count me out.

I miss the days of Kelly & Scotty on I Spy, or their movie descendants Butch Cassidy and Sundance.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 18, 2023 04:09 PM (J2vNu)

8 I saw a funny panel from Spider-Man where someone calls him "Spiderman" and he grumbles, in small letters to show that his grumbling quietly, "It's Spider-Man. It's just that I can hear it when the dash isn't there..."

Posted by: ace at April 18, 2023 04:09 PM (iHBZj)

9 Bud is trying for a soft landing. SLPLAT!!

Posted by: runner at April 18, 2023 04:10 PM (xNg0H)

10 I don't know if it was mentioned before, but you should watch Shazam 2 because it has Mary Marvel looking GOOD, an actual attractive woman without a shaved head.

It's a mid movie even though I really liked the first one, a movie that clearly got fucked up because The Rock wanted to be even better than Superman and ruined the DCEU even more than it was, but pretty ladies are hard to find without "the message" being applied to everything.

Posted by: UwU_Power at April 18, 2023 04:11 PM (X3bYi)

11 I've said it before, and I'll say it again; the era of the superhero movie is OVER. People are tired of it.

"Don't look now @AnheuserBusch @budweiserusa but the Clydesdale has already left the barn. The train has sailed, the ship has left the station," attorney Philip Holloway tweeted.

'It's not pinin'! 'It's passed on! This drek is no more! It has ceased to be! It's expired and gone to meet its maker! It's a stiff! Bereft of life, it rests in peace! ...Its metabolic processes are now history! It's off the twig! It's kicked the bucket, it's shuffled off its mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisible!! THIS IS EX-SWILL!!

Posted by: Archimedes at April 18, 2023 04:11 PM (eOEVl)

12 If Bud was serious they would fire the bint that thought up the non-fratty bud lite campaign...

Posted by: It's me donna at April 18, 2023 04:12 PM (bs+z0)

13 Here's a problem with milking completionists: Completionists will only spend all that money to complete their collection if they believe it's financially possible to complete the collection.
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This right here is one reason why I stopped collecting Magic: The Gathering cards. WotC was saturating the market with more and more product, so it was pointless to try and collect cards anymore. Also, the cards they've been printing are overpowered as all get out, of poor physical quality, and also woke. So I've been done with M:TG for several years now.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 18, 2023 04:12 PM (YIVH2)

14 Beer. It's what's for dinner.

Wait, I might have gotten that first part wrong.

Take two?

Posted by: Sam Elliot at April 18, 2023 04:12 PM (WmGrA)

15 And obviously, they do think that. They hold us in contempt.

Posted by: Ace at 04:05 PM

YES. That's why I try, at every opportunity, to give my money to someone local, who at least knows to hide their contempt for me (which contempt is not a given, unlike these massive corporations.)

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 18, 2023 04:12 PM (N1tpc)

16 I was going to say how could you fuck up Guardians after the first two have really become classics. Then I remembered going to see Ant Man and promising to run my friend over in the parking lot for dragging me there.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 18, 2023 04:13 PM (M5z+9)

17
My wife, you know my wife. I shouldn't make jokes about my wife you know. She's attached to a machine that keeps her alive... The refrigerator

Posted by: Zombie Rodney Dangerfield at April 18, 2023 04:13 PM (hSb7+)

18 Thor Love and Thunder???

Posted by: dantesed at April 18, 2023 04:13 PM (193FS)

19 If Bud was serious they would fire the bint that thought up the non-fratty bud lite campaign...is exactly what a sexist, racist, homophobe would say.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 18, 2023 04:13 PM (eOEVl)

20 They turned Nebula into a dad bodded tranny.

Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - Longing to Lie in Zooey Deschanel's Bosom for Comfort at April 18, 2023 04:13 PM (VTu1l)

21 >>>I am not an expert in comic book stuff in any degree, but I remember one of RazorFist's rants and he claims that DC went woke first awhile ago. His example was DC turning Bat-Girl into a lipstick lesbian.

ah, well, I mean, that was one title. Also she wasn't a lesbian. Though Gail Simone turned the title completely woke, and wrote her to be fighting Abusive Men month after month after month.

When her editor told her she couldn't keep writing the same story every month, and wanted her to submit outlines for the stories six months in advance (to show she had more in her than "Abusive Man" stories), she ignored him. He called her. She refused to answer the phone. He emailed her. She refused to answer his text.

When he finally had enough, he wrote her by email to say "You've ignored your editor for a month,you're fired."

She then went on Twitter and complained to her fans -- "Weaponized Cat Ladies," Ya Boy Zach called them -- "I just got fired OVER AN EMAIL!!"

The feminists shrieked, the media picked up the story, and management forced the editor to re-hire Gail Simone. I think he himself got fired soon after.

Posted by: ace at April 18, 2023 04:13 PM (iHBZj)

22 19 If Bud was serious they would fire the bint that thought up the non-fratty bud lite campaign...is exactly what a sexist, racist, homophobe would say.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 18, 2023 04:13 PM (eOEVl)

And proud of it

Posted by: It's me donna at April 18, 2023 04:14 PM (bs+z0)

23 They were still claiming this after the second week of bad box office for Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, for example, and that film failed to gross even $500 million globally.

I liked The Tick.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 18, 2023 04:14 PM (P63V5)

24 I saw a funny panel from Spider-Man where someone calls him "Spiderman" and he grumbles, in small letters to show that his grumbling quietly, "It's Spider-Man. It's just that I can hear it when the dash isn't there..."
Posted by: ace at April 18, 2023

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That's the kind of dialog I'd like to hear in a movie or a TV show. Of course there is always the gold standard:

Dana, describing her creepy encounter with her refrigerator: "And I heard a voice say, 'Zuul!'"
Peter, nodding: "You don't often see that kind of behavior in a major appliance."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 18, 2023 04:14 PM (J2vNu)

25 If it's going "dark," then count me out.
...

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

Raayycisss!

Posted by: Mayo Pete at April 18, 2023 04:14 PM (WmGrA)

26 I haven't seen a movie in a Theater since 13 Hours.

Posted by: R. Daneel Olivaw at April 18, 2023 04:14 PM (+eHVa)

27 The editor felt: You refused to answer your phone for a month. So of course I fired you over an email. What other choice of medium did I have to tell you you were fired?

Posted by: ace at April 18, 2023 04:14 PM (iHBZj)

28 exploiting the National Wound of 9/11 for cynical commercial purposes

I'm not sure if 9/11 references work that well, now that the Taliban are driving their Humvees around Kabul.

And, of course, J6 was far, far worse than 9/11, so 9/11 is no longer our leading National Tragedy.

Posted by: The California Air Resources Board! at April 18, 2023 04:14 PM (2tUFv)

29 Incidentally, who says "the writing, casting and storyline worked pretty brilliantly in the first two Guardians, let's see if we can ruin it with "darkness".

Posted by: Marcus T at April 18, 2023 04:14 PM (M5z+9)

30 The internet. Is forever.
Posted by: runner

Only if I wish it so.

Posted by: ChatGPT at April 18, 2023 04:15 PM (WmGrA)

31 They must really think that conservatives are stupid, ill-educated, easily-conned rubes, to think they could just throw in some 9/11 imagery and we'd all just coming running to thank them for exploiting the National Wound of 9/11 for cynical commercial purposes.

In fairness, this has been the Republican party's successful take on the matter for quite a while.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at April 18, 2023 04:15 PM (ppBhU)

32 My wife, you know my wife. I shouldn't make jokes about my wife you know. She's attached to a machine that keeps her alive... The refrigerator
Posted by: Zombie Rodney Dangerfield at April 18, 2023

***
I said that first about Liz Taylor!

Posted by: Zombie Joan Rivers at April 18, 2023 04:15 PM (J2vNu)

33 Beer. It's what's for dinner.

Wait, I might have gotten that first part wrong.

Take two?

Posted by: Sam Elliot

Two beers for dinner? Sure.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 18, 2023 04:15 PM (P63V5)

34 Donald Trump will buy 100 million tickets in his valiant effort to save Disney from that bad bad bad man Desantis. And then Jr. will give everyone attending free Bud Light.

Posted by: Montec at April 18, 2023 04:15 PM (OalnH)

35 I think the key to the Marvel debacle, is that the second movies of a Heroes arc are NOT AS GOOD as the first movies.

Thor? First movie great... then... downhill.
Capt. America? same same..
Iron Man? don't even get me started on how disappointed I was in the follow on movies....

GOTG? First movie I've watched multiple times... second movie (which I also own) I've watched ONCE... just did not have the same fun vibe as the first.

But hell... Peter Jackson did the same with his two HOURS LONG movies, Lord of the Rings, and the Hobbit (they are really just one long movie cut into parts)... first was REALLY good... second was a Cartoon.

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 18, 2023 04:15 PM (oHd/0)

36 My wife, you know my wife. I shouldn't make jokes about my wife you know. She's attached to a machine that keeps her alive... The refrigerator
Posted by: Zombie Rodney Dangerfield at April 18, 2023 04:13 PM (hSb7+)

I want to thank you for all of these, because every thread I get to hear Rodney's voice in my head.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 18, 2023 04:16 PM (N1tpc)

37 The internet. Is forever.
Posted by: runner

Only if I wish it so.

Keep it on the down low. Trust me.

Posted by: HAL 9000 at April 18, 2023 04:16 PM (eOEVl)

38 That's the kind of dialog I'd like to hear in a movie or a TV show. Of course there is always the gold standard:

Dana, describing her creepy encounter with her refrigerator: "And I heard a voice say, 'Zuul!'"
Peter, nodding: "You don't often see that kind of behavior in a major appliance."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Autobots.
I laughed. My wife laughed. The toaster laughed.
I shot the toaster. Good times. Good times.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 18, 2023 04:17 PM (P63V5)

39 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 18, 2023 04:17 PM (Zz0t1)

40 Donald Trump will buy 100 million tickets in his valiant effort to save Disney from that bad bad bad man Desantis.

Trump has really lost the plot, hasn't he?

Posted by: The California Air Resources Board! at April 18, 2023 04:17 PM (2tUFv)

41 Posted by: Romeo13 at April 18, 2023 04:15 PM (oHd/0)

Hmmm... thinking further on this... I think its because the first movies are the creation story... and thus they CREATE A HERO. Follow on movies, they try to make the character grow in some manner.... WHICH IS NOT HEROIC.

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 18, 2023 04:17 PM (oHd/0)

42 Disney is going to triple down on their bizarre aggressive woke-ism ideology. Its clear they hate parents, especially men, and have a willingness to forego business opportunities to make sure they don't have keep traditional customers versus the new woke customers.

Just wait until they announce their intention to totally redo Frontierland because the west was full of oppression.

Here is the thing about the Marvel movies. When Sony made Spider-Man: No Way Home, Spider-man was the actual hero of the movie.

Disney, starting with Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness and then with Love and Thunder, went through all sorts of contortions to make sure a new female character was the hero of the movie.

Fool me once - shame on you Disney. I will NOT buy another theater ticket for a Disney M-she-U movie that is pretending to have a male lead hero. The new Guardians movie will make sure Quill needs saving.

Also - they make sure Karen Gillum is as unattractive as possible by CGI-ing her head on a guy's body. That is no lie.

Posted by: JakeSpeed at April 18, 2023 04:17 PM (Vu1jV)

43 Two beers for dinner? Sure.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 18, 2023

***
The beer I had for breakfast wasn't bad,
So I had one more for dessert.

Posted by: Kris Kristofferson at April 18, 2023 04:17 PM (J2vNu)

44 That's about a hundred and fifty bucks per month just to keep your Batman collection complete.
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I don't spend that amount of money on books per month (though there are exceptions). I can't imagine spending that amount just one ONE comic book franchise.

What if you are a Batman/Spiderman completionist? How much does that cost per month?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 18, 2023 04:18 PM (YIVH2)

45 I watched that commercial and I just wanted to cry and go take a bubble bath. I showed it to my neighbor and he said he wanted to take a bubble bath too.

Posted by: fd at April 18, 2023 04:19 PM (iayUP)

46 If you feel the urge to drink the entire case of beer, does that make you a completionist?

Posted by: Asking Questions at April 18, 2023 04:19 PM (fs1hN)

47 Also - they make sure Karen Gillum is as unattractive as possible by CGI-ing her head on a guy's body. That is no lie.

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That's not an easy feat either, in fact prior to seeing that awful image I always entertained being the ham between the buns that is Karen Gillum and Zooey Deschanel

Thanks for the reality check Disney, you bunch of groomer woke fucks

Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - Longing to Lie in Zooey Deschanel's Bosom for Comfort at April 18, 2023 04:19 PM (VTu1l)

48 The way to the future is to have Groot spring wood and shove it in someone's ass.

This is the way.

- - - - Disney Execs

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 18, 2023 04:19 PM (Zz0t1)

49 About the four severely-injured people stabbed in the western city of Duisburg, German police say it happened at a gym.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at April 18, 2023 04:19 PM (Vwz3I)

50 And that now seems to have happened, as Spider-Man displaces Batman to become the best-selling character.

I'd wager that Spidey surpassing Batman is probably 5% due to a small increase in Spiderman sales and 95% due to a collapse in Batman sales, meaning the comics market (outside of manga) is cratering.

Contrast with Bud's sales cratering. The entire beer market won't decrease, as there is still good non-woke beer to be had.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at April 18, 2023 04:19 PM (wtvvX)

51 All Budweiser would have to do is fire the stupid bitch in marketing that put the tranny on the beer can, but they rather lose tens of billions than face 1 day of blowback on Twitter.

Posted by: Audio at April 18, 2023 04:19 PM (x7J9H)

52 So the FOX lawsuit is over?

Sudden announcement from the Judge of an agreement by both parties.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 18, 2023 04:19 PM (1n+EO)

53 Donald Trump will buy 100 million tickets in his valiant effort to save Disney from that bad bad bad man Desantis.

Trump has really lost the plot, hasn't he?

I missed that thread, but that's certainly how it looks to me.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 18, 2023 04:19 PM (eOEVl)

54 "They must really think that conservatives are stupid, ill-educated, easily-conned rubes,"

Aren't they though?

Posted by: Republican Party at April 18, 2023 04:20 PM (OalnH)

55 I was watching this video and then my neighbour came and we watched it together. He said that this video changed his life and touched his heart. I then went and rented a projector in a big field and all my villagers watched it and it changed their lives too. We all are so grateful.

Thank You for this video….

Posted by: rickb223 at April 18, 2023 04:20 PM (P63V5)

56 This is so stupid. It's more than two weeks before it hits theaters.

Posted by: Axeman at April 18, 2023 04:20 PM (krQz2)

57 I heard that Groot transitioned from deciduous to an evergreen!

Posted by: Tex Lovera at April 18, 2023 04:20 PM (wtvvX)

58 And, of course, J6 was far, far worse than 9/11, so 9/11 is no longer our leading National Tragedy.
Posted by: The California Air Resources Board! at April 18, 2023 04:14 PM (2tUFv)

In many ways, I agree with the Dems on the point... but for a very different reason. America will never fall to an OUTSIDE enemy.... it will fall from our own Government IMO.

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 18, 2023 04:20 PM (oHd/0)

59 This Butt's for you.

Posted by: wth at April 18, 2023 04:20 PM (v0R5T)

60 If Bud was serious they would fire the bint that thought up the non-fratty bud lite campaign...
Posted by: It's me donna at April 18, 2023 04:12 PM (bs+z0)

If Bud were serious, they would have a year-long ad campaign in which zombie Norm MacDonald is given free reign to publicly mock her and the entire trans movement in the most colorful and creative ways possible.

Posted by: TexasDan at April 18, 2023 04:20 PM (z/ifB)

61 12 If Bud was serious they would fire the bint that thought up the non-fratty bud lite campaign...

they need to do an ad where they literally fire that worthless fake girlie-man (or a facsimile, fine) out of a cannon

Posted by: BlackCisOrchid at April 18, 2023 04:20 PM (w0NJk)

62 What we need is a Peter Parker/Bruce Wayne gay marriage crossover.

Posted by: DC Comix at April 18, 2023 04:21 PM (ppBhU)

63 The Clydesdales are trans now?

Darn.....

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 18, 2023 04:21 PM (Zz0t1)

64 They could have put Riley Gaines on their beer can.... they chose poorly

Posted by: redridinghood at April 18, 2023 04:21 PM (NpAcC)

65 I don't think that Guardians of the Galaxy 3 is going to do gangbusters in the theater for several reasons.

1) Marvel in general has a stink about it that people just aren't that interested in viewing. They've lost normal viewers and the rabid Marvel Zombies are all they have left.
2) GoG 2 was not that good. It was overly long and meandering and had a weak story. Nostalgia bait music on a walkman is not enough to fix that.
3) James Gunn is not even working with Marvel any more, and people are going to feel like he just finished this for contractual obligation
4) The End Game storyline ruined almost every character in the team

It will make money, but not good money.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 18, 2023 04:21 PM (0hOvj)

66 I wouldn't consider drinking another "Bud" until they take out a superbowl ad that has Spud Mackenzie in it and some hot model being apologized to by the board of directors. I want to hear "We are sorry for the complete fuckup of reasoning and behavior".

And then I probably still won't drink it.

Posted by: Silent at April 18, 2023 04:21 PM (CrU4U)

67 DC was always more girlie, more PC

they had Vertigo for God's sake!

Marvel was the normie one, DC was always emo and goth (well, always being after silver age right)

Posted by: BlackCisOrchid at April 18, 2023 04:21 PM (w0NJk)

68 I'd wager that Spidey surpassing Batman is probably

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Or maybe not use an emo goth sparkly vampire dimwit as your flagship Batman

Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - Longing to Lie in Zooey Deschanel's Bosom for Comfort at April 18, 2023 04:21 PM (VTu1l)

69 In more important news

On April 18, 1943, United States Army Air Force a force of Lockheed P-38 Lightnings took off from Henderson Field Guadalcanal for an important mission.

To intercept the architect of the Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. This mission was fraught with danger, should the US try and intercept Yamamoto thus risking telling the Japanese that the Allies were reading Japanese messages? The final decision was kicked up to Washington where it was green-lit.

Flying at wave to level to avoid Japanese radar the P-38s set off for distant Bouganville where Yamamoto was set to visit the troops. Because of the range, this mission required the Japanese to be on time and at the right location for it to succeed.

Unluckily for the two G4M Betty bombers carrying Yamamoto and Ugaki, they were not late enough. But they weren't so both bombers were soon streaking earthward mortally wounded. Yamamoto would die but Ugaki would survive.

Amazingly the Japanese never realized their codes had been compromised. Yamamoto's remains were collected, cremated, and he would be thus enshrined as a national hero.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 18, 2023 04:22 PM (gOewF)

70 If you feel the urge to drink the entire case of beer, does that make you a completionist?
Posted by: Asking Questions

If you don't drink the entire case, does that make you a quitter?

Posted by: rickb223 at April 18, 2023 04:22 PM (P63V5)

71 Settlement reached in Dominion V. Fox case.

Posted by: redridinghood at April 18, 2023 04:22 PM (NpAcC)

72 My idea for the next bud light ad:

Board room of Bud light. Chart showing sales plummeting. President pounds the table.

"Who ordered this? What the hell were the people in marketing thinking?"

Everyone murmurs. A look alike to Heinerscheid stands up and starts talking her blather about diversity and inclusion. The president listens for a moment, then presses a button, and she falls though a trap door, Dr. Evil style. As we hear her scream falling down the long chute the president calls after her "Dilly Dilly."

Posted by: Inspector kemp at April 18, 2023 04:22 PM (+DS2f)

73 HaHa

Posted by: Skip at April 18, 2023 04:22 PM (xhxe8)

74 Budweiser, King of penis flavored beers.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at April 18, 2023 04:22 PM (pohLc)

75 And I should proofread some more before posting.

*sigh*

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 18, 2023 04:23 PM (gOewF)

76 Inspector that is a terrific idea for an ad!!!

Posted by: BlackCisOrchid at April 18, 2023 04:23 PM (w0NJk)

77 AB can put up all the ads they want, but what matters is the comfort-level of the guy who who orders a Bud Light in a crowded bar or restaurant.

Posted by: mrp at April 18, 2023 04:23 PM (rj6Yv)

78 Case never went to jury even though jury was seated.

Posted by: redridinghood at April 18, 2023 04:23 PM (NpAcC)

79 I, for one, am adopting the "Dylan Mulva" sarc name when referring to that freak. It's perfect.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Southpaw at April 18, 2023 04:23 PM (T/Lqj)

80 71 Settlement reached in Dominion V. Fox case.
Posted by: redridinghood at April 18, 2023 04:22 PM (NpAcC)

Fox must have payed the ransom

Posted by: It's me donna at April 18, 2023 04:23 PM (bs+z0)

81 That's the kind of dialog I'd like to hear in a movie or a TV show. Of course there is always the gold standard:

Dana, describing her creepy encounter with her refrigerator: "And I heard a voice say, 'Zuul!'"
Peter, nodding: "You don't often see that kind of behavior in a major appliance."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

That may be the gold standard for movies, but the gold standard for TV shows is:

Jayne: Six men came to kill me one time. The best of 'em carried this. ( approaches Mal ) It's a Callahan full-bore autolock. Customized trigger, double-cartridge thorough gauge. ( beat ) It is my very favorite gun. ( holds it out to Mal )
Mal: ( beat ) [Chinese] You offering me a trade?!
Jayne: A trade?! Hell, it's theft. It's the best damn gun made by man. It has extreme sentimental value. It's miles more worthy than what you got.
Mal: What I got? She has a name.
Jayne: So does this. I call it Vera.
Mal: Well my days of not taking you seriously are certainly coming to a middle.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 18, 2023 04:24 PM (N1tpc)

82 "The moment you make it clear to them that you will attempt to milk them for every dollar by pumping out Infinite Product, they will give up attempting to complete their collection. And they won't just balk at buying the new titles that broke the camel's back -- they'll stop buying most of the titles that they were buying just for completion's sake."

Is.... that how it works? I was a fan of one or two major franchises, but even at my most money-flush and fanatic it never occurred to me to spring for thirty different comic book lines at once. Especially when maybe three of those comics are worth any amount of money. At least ten would need me being paid to read them. And there's no amount of money that would have made me call myself a Batwoman fan.

Posted by: trev006 at April 18, 2023 04:24 PM (DTm0P)

83 Budweiser, King of penis flavored beers.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at April 18, 2023 04:22 PM (pohLc)

The King of Balls. Men's balls. On "women."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 18, 2023 04:24 PM (Zz0t1)

84 Saw "John Wick 4" last night.

Enjoyed it a lot. Very entertaining. Great action, acting, and direction. Probably should've been cut by 20-30 minutes, but it's clear they were trying to go out big and use ever single battle sequence that they'd thought up but hadn't used yet.

Some folks here have been complaining that this movie isn't realistic. C'mon, man did you watch the first movie? Realistic it was not.

Anyway, The John Wick director and writer clearly played into the complaints of non-realism with a mid-movie sequence that shot from above slightly off center exactly like some of the old-style video game shooters as JW kills a gajillion baddies with a shotgun that shoots fiery blasts that sets the bad guys on fire (they show DragonFire brand shotgun shells briefly i9f that's actually a thing. It's a huge wink at the audience, and a good lead in to the even more "cartoony violence to follow, including an insane car smash up shoot out mash-up.

The series comes to an appropriate conclusion. Nice to see a series that doesn't piss all over you and ends well.

Check it out.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 18, 2023 04:24 PM (RJQ8g)

85 Wait. A "darker" Guardians? I went to the first one, intrigued by the snarkiness of rocket Raccoon in the trailers and online teasers. But the dialog was not that good and the plot not that imaginative. At least it wasn't "dark."

If it's going "dark," then count me out.

I miss the days of Kelly & Scotty on I Spy, or their movie descendants Butch Cassidy and Sundance.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 18, 2023 04:09 PM (J2vNu)

At least they haven't called it 'gritty' yet, that's death.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 18, 2023 04:24 PM (eoQWY)

86 I liked the DeadPool blockbusters but there wasn't enough fat-shaming of the tubby little bitchboy in the second one.

Has Marvel not realized that hot women in tight outfits doing athletic things sells tickets? Fuck them if they're too stupid to not know the audience/demographic/blah-blah-blah!

Posted by: Dr. Bone at April 18, 2023 04:24 PM (V4X9X)

87 Anyone else notice the rash of "experts" on TV saying Bud Light's woke ad campaign was actually a really good idea...?

Posted by: Inspector kemp at April 18, 2023 04:24 PM (+DS2f)

88 Disney always says "everything's fine, everything's going exactly as we anticipated"

Remain calm! All is well!

Posted by: Kevin Bacon Animal House at April 18, 2023 04:24 PM (2bFN5)

89 And yeah, Batman was grossly overexposed, they have way too many Batman comics. DC shouldn't have thirty comics a month PERIOD, let alone 30 Batman titles.

But Spider-Man is going down the same road, there are way too many titles and the character is being watered down enormously. Spider-Boy, Spider-Girl, Spider-Gwen, Madame Webb in a wheelchair Spiderman, it goes on and on and on.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 18, 2023 04:24 PM (0hOvj)

90 nice generous cows to milk.

To be fair, around here we're out standing in our field.

Posted by: Bovine Punsters of AoSHQ at April 18, 2023 04:25 PM (a3Q+t)

91 Case never went to jury even though jury was seated.
Posted by: redridinghood at April 18, 2023 04:23 PM (NpAcC)

Who paid whom?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 18, 2023 04:25 PM (Zz0t1)

92 Nostalgia bait music on a walkman is not enough to fix that.

Unpopular opinions: (1) I think the GoG tape/soundtrack thing is about as unsubtle as moviemaking gets. If you want to hit nostalgia buttons, you work the music into the movie's background music, not make it storypoint. (2) I don't even really like the GoG tape/soundtrack.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at April 18, 2023 04:25 PM (ppBhU)

93 The Clydesdales are trans now?

Darn.....
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden

They identify as my Little ponies, H8r!

Posted by: Mayo Pete at April 18, 2023 04:25 PM (WmGrA)

94 Guardians worked in the past because it wasn't some rote formulaic plot. There was a pretty easy storyline, a few good plot twists, great dialogue, and a good mix of just the right humor. What these untalented idiots have done with the other properties is to move away from that type of successfully mix in order to force a storyline that includes a bunch of woke garbage. Who writes like that- starting with a premise that certain elements which are only there to appease your woke personal views must be included? It's a recipe for disaster.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 18, 2023 04:25 PM (M5z+9)

95 hollywood is dead. They just cant' admit it yet

Posted by: joe fingerblaster at April 18, 2023 04:26 PM (3TalN)

96 The game Guardians of the Galaxy I have to say is AWESOME

You can tell Disney had nothing to do with it because there's an actual story and no faggotry afoot

Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - Longing to Lie in Zooey Deschanel's Bosom for Comfort at April 18, 2023 04:26 PM (VTu1l)

97 Who paid whom?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 18, 2023 04:25 PM (Zz0t1)
******
Fox paid, but probably not close to the amount the lawsuit was for.

Posted by: redridinghood at April 18, 2023 04:26 PM (NpAcC)

98 But Spider-Man is going down the same road, there are way too many titles and the character is being watered down enormously. Spider-Boy, Spider-Girl, Spider-Gwen, Madame Webb in a wheelchair Spiderman, it goes on and on and on.

can we blame all of this crap on Hugh Everett?

Posted by: BlackCisOrchid at April 18, 2023 04:26 PM (w0NJk)

99 Some folks here have been complaining that this movie isn't realistic. C'mon, man did you watch the first movie? Realistic it was not.

*******************

The guy went on a rampage because his puppy died. That's all the realism I need.

Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - Longing to Lie in Zooey Deschanel's Bosom for Comfort at April 18, 2023 04:27 PM (VTu1l)

100 Some folks here have been complaining that this movie isn't realistic. C'mon, man did you watch the first movie? Realistic it was not.

Yeah but there's unrealistic... and UNREALISTIC. I hear Wick 4 is good but even the biggest fans had a problem with him falling 10 stories out of a buildings and being hit by multiple cars, and walking it off. And the bulletproof suits...

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 18, 2023 04:27 PM (0hOvj)

101 ******
Fox paid, but probably not close to the amount the lawsuit was for.
Posted by: redridinghood at April 18, 2023 04:26 PM (NpAcC)

So, this would mean that the discovery showed Dominion didn't do what everyone's been accusing them of........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 18, 2023 04:27 PM (Zz0t1)

102 Guardians was okay, Strange was okay, but cut the bullshit! Idiots.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at April 18, 2023 04:27 PM (V4X9X)

103 That's what we need more of. Dark, post-apocalyptic nihilism. How would we have any idea what that might look like if nobody shows us?

Posted by: ... at April 18, 2023 04:27 PM (BXxcV)

104 Budweiser, King of penis flavored beers.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at April 18, 2023 04:22 PM (pohLc)

OUT: Pilsner
IN: Penisler

Posted by: Tex Lovera at April 18, 2023 04:27 PM (wtvvX)

105 The Clydesdales are trans now?

Darn.....
Posted by: Sponge

Fired and replaced by a unicorn.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 18, 2023 04:27 PM (P63V5)

106 "hollywood is dead. They just cant' admit it yet"

I know the feeling...

Posted by: the republic at April 18, 2023 04:28 PM (jTmQV)

107 Who is still going to the theaters to watch movies?

Posted by: NCKate at April 18, 2023 04:28 PM (d5Qya)

108 The series comes to an appropriate conclusion.

John's wick gets dipped?

Posted by: J. Random Moron at April 18, 2023 04:28 PM (a3Q+t)

109 Madame Webb in a wheelchair Spiderman, it goes on and on and on.

***************

My favorite is Sun Spider, a tranny(?) butch lesbian quadraplegic who webs her wheelchair to her back as she swings around the city

Oh and her name is Charlotte Webb

because Charlotte's Web....

Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - Longing to Lie in Zooey Deschanel's Bosom for Comfort at April 18, 2023 04:28 PM (VTu1l)

110 Reallly feel like the Studios are leaving GAIN$$$ on the table by not producing a tv show about me.

Posted by: Jimmy Olsen at April 18, 2023 04:28 PM (eNLXj)

111 Shouldn't a "Volume" contain more than one book, movie or episode?

Posted by: spindrift at April 18, 2023 04:28 PM (ivvNA)

112 Not sure a "darker" cartoon movie with talking animals and trees is going to light up the box office.

What, no love for Watership Down II: Revenge of the Damned?

Posted by: Kindltot at April 18, 2023 04:28 PM (xhaym)

113 People do know how a ministry of propaganda works, right?

Like they don't just say a thing or two and call it a day. It's 24x7 gaslighting and spin for the powers that be.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at April 18, 2023 04:28 PM (rJ7Hd)

114 Back to the subject at hand - comics.

Marvel/Disney have done to the movies what was done in the comics.

In order to follow the whole story, you MUST see or read eight different movies or comics. At the same time.

Yeah, no thanks.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 18, 2023 04:28 PM (gOewF)

115
So, this would mean that the discovery showed Dominion didn't do what everyone's been accusing them of........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 18, 2023 04:27 PM (Zz0t1)

No.. It showed that Fox knew they wouldn't get a jury to find Dominion guilty so they cut their loses

Posted by: It's me donna at April 18, 2023 04:28 PM (bs+z0)

116 . I tried to keep my ID current, but have not been able to log into VDI for months. And finally they removed my ID from Active Directory.

I’ve only been able to screen share with helpdesk.

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I never thought that Dominion had a chance in any court outside of Hawaii.

Fox News didn't *push* the stolen election story.

Braindead libs just *assumed* they did.

The left was asking the Court to assume a liberal viewpoint that you can't even interview "the other side" of something, cuz Nazis.

Posted by: Axeman at April 18, 2023 04:28 PM (krQz2)

117 Chris Pratt has a hardcore audience, I think this will do better than expected.

Even though he is detested by the Grace Randolph's of the world, he's been in a number of block busters and vehicles that have proven to be popular.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 18, 2023 04:28 PM (up/3i)

118 Not sure a "darker" cartoon movie with talking animals and trees is going to light up the box office.

Ace, I laughed! Thanks.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 18, 2023 04:29 PM (Keyt1)

119 Posted by: Inspector kemp at April 18, 2023 04:22 PM

You need to be in advertising

Posted by: Skip at April 18, 2023 04:29 PM (xhxe8)

120 When you say Buttpirate, you've said it all.

Posted by: wth at April 18, 2023 04:29 PM (v0R5T)

121 Unluckily for the two G4M Betty bombers carrying Yamamoto and Ugaki, they were not late enough. But they weren't so both bombers were soon streaking earthward mortally wounded. Yamamoto would die but Ugaki would survive.

Amazingly the Japanese never realized their codes had been compromised. Yamamoto's remains were collected, cremated, and he would be thus enshrined as a national hero.
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 18, 2023 04:22 PM (gOewF)

From the Japanese POV LINK: https://youtu.be/iNNEj5-6aOk

When Yamamoto's body wase recovered, he was still clutching the sword.

Posted by: mrp at April 18, 2023 04:29 PM (rj6Yv)

122 the biggest fans had a problem with him falling 10 stories out of a buildings and being hit by multiple cars, and walking it off. And the bulletproof suits...

*********

The spirit of his puppeh doggeh kept him going

Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - Longing to Lie in Zooey Deschanel's Bosom for Comfort at April 18, 2023 04:29 PM (VTu1l)

123 now that you mention it Anna Puma - that's what they are doing

yeah .. that does suck

ugh and game of thrones is getting like that

in the end it's a lot of "fan service" (makes shake weight motion)

Posted by: BlackCisOrchid at April 18, 2023 04:29 PM (w0NJk)

124 They must really think that conservatives are stupid, ill-educated, easily-conned rubes, to think they could just throw in some 9/11 imagery and we'd all just coming running to thank them for exploiting the National Wound of 9/11 for cynical commercial purposes.

Until you stop, why would they think any different ? I bet that ad gave Sean Hannity a tingle.

Posted by: Tailor at April 18, 2023 04:29 PM (VkVqc)

125 93 The Clydesdales are trans now?

Darn.....
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden

They identify as my Little ponies, H8r!

Posted by: Mayo Pete at April 18, 2023 04:25 PM (WmGrA)

Budlight Sparkle?

Posted by: Tex Lovera at April 18, 2023 04:29 PM (wtvvX)

126 Tranheuser-Busch (Thanks to whichever moron thought that up) must not only have very woke people there, but they are also kind of stupid.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 18, 2023 04:30 PM (Keyt1)

127 It's a simplistic comparison obviously, but over the past 5 days, A-B stock is flat while MolsonCoors (also woke AF) is up 6%.

Posted by: Republican Party at April 18, 2023 04:30 PM (OalnH)

128 Bonk bonk on the head

Posted by: Dr. Varno at April 18, 2023 04:30 PM (JZiYu)

129 I don't even really like the GoG tape/soundtrack.

I like some of it, a lot is meh and some is just awful. But it was a neat device for "Starlord" to connect to his earth past and his parents. Until that was ruined by the second movie.

Bet on Starlord dying in this movie. And since whatsisface isn't going to play Drax any more probably him too.

Thing is, ever since it became clear that Chris Pratt is a Christian and not particularly in on all the insane sick crap they've treated that character like crap, writing him as a loser who fails, messes everything up, loses his girlfriend, gets kicked in the crotch (although nearly every male character in Marvel has that these days) etc.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 18, 2023 04:30 PM (0hOvj)

130 what discovery?

Posted by: sockamster, gator at April 18, 2023 04:31 PM (MLrvz)

131 Who is still going to the theaters to watch movies?
Posted by: NCKate

Polycules and the Obese.

Posted by: Meow games at April 18, 2023 04:31 PM (eNLXj)

132 ad agencies are mostly women and kids. mostly female kids

it's a whole mess

in house agencies are actually WORSE

it's like take Mad Men and make everything the opposite

they don't even drink anymore!

Posted by: BlackCisOrchid at April 18, 2023 04:31 PM (w0NJk)

133 I thought GotG would have had the name recognition going for it and James Gunn back at the helm..

But if it's on track to be worse than some of the other Marvel movies, Marvel has really killed its brand for sure.

Posted by: Blanco at April 18, 2023 04:31 PM (F0+HC)

134 Maybe somebody could buy a million tickets to stick it to DeSantis and that somebody's kid could put a bud light on each seat.

Posted by: Chuck C at April 18, 2023 04:31 PM (Lo80G)

135 GoG was tier one Marvel stuff.

So, if it's failing, that's bad.

Posted by: sockamster, gator at April 18, 2023 04:31 PM (MLrvz)

136 Who is still going to the theaters to watch movies?
Posted by: NCKate at April 18, 2023 04:28 PM (d5Qya)

My son and his girlfriend are going to the theater tomorrow night to see a director's cut of LOTR: Return of the King. But he's pretty nerdy.

Posted by: Jordan61 at April 18, 2023 04:31 PM (DRSnL)

137 If you like your penis in a can, this Buds for you!

Posted by: Xipe Totec at April 18, 2023 04:31 PM (pohLc)

138 The spirit of his puppeh doggeh kept him going
Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - Longing to Lie in Zooey Deschanel's Bosom for Comfort at April 18, 2023 04:29 PM (VTu1l)

You'll be glad to know that there a callback to the puppeh episode in JW4.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 18, 2023 04:31 PM (RJQ8g)

139 No.. It showed that Fox knew they wouldn't get a jury to find Dominion guilty so they cut their loses

************

Neither side were confident enough of winning over the jury and decided not to roll the dice

Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - Longing to Lie in Zooey Deschanel's Bosom for Comfort at April 18, 2023 04:31 PM (VTu1l)

140 Anna I thought that Yamamoto's schedule for his inspection tour had been broadcast in the clear? Or the security mistake was broadcasting it all, even encoded? I did read "Operation Vengeance", which was published just 2 years ago, but of course forget this detail.

And speaking of a stupid security move, Operation "Vengeance"? Yes, extremely low probability of any Japanese learning the name and making the connection, but still. Most WWII operations had perfectly unrelated/random code names (my favorite - "Iceberg" for Okinawa).

Posted by: rhomboid at April 18, 2023 04:32 PM (OTzUX)

141 So, this would mean that the discovery showed Dominion didn't do what everyone's been accusing them of........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 18, 2023 04:27 PM (Zz0t1)

No.. It showed that Fox knew they wouldn't get a jury to find Dominion guilty so they cut their loses
Posted by: It's me donna at April 18, 2023 04:28 PM (bs+z0)
*******
Yeah, not an Alabama jury.

Posted by: redridinghood at April 18, 2023 04:32 PM (NpAcC)

142 Wow. That looked bad.

Posted by: Axeman at April 18, 2023 04:32 PM (krQz2)

143 127 It's a simplistic comparison obviously, but over the past 5 days, A-B stock is flat while MolsonCoors (also woke AF) is up 6%.

the weather is warming up and people are going to be drinking lots more beer now

parties and whatnot

Posted by: BlackCisOrchid at April 18, 2023 04:32 PM (w0NJk)

144 The Clydesdales are trans now?

Darn.....
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden

They identify as my Little ponies, H8r!

Posted by: Mayo Pete at April 18, 2023 04:25 PM (WmGrA)

Budlight Sparkle?
Posted by: Tex Lovera

Natty Light Nancy.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 18, 2023 04:32 PM (P63V5)

145 Conservatives do fall for the patriotism stuff, sadly.

Posted by: Montec at April 18, 2023 04:32 PM (OalnH)

146 Does Heinerscheid still have xir job?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 18, 2023 04:32 PM (a3Q+t)

147 The guy went on a rampage because his puppy died. That's all the realism I need.
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That his recently-deceased wife gave to him.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at April 18, 2023 04:32 PM (Vwz3I)

148 I had no idea about batman completionism. Imagine trying to track down more than 3 titles a month.

when I was collecting comics, I didn't even understand how there was 2 spiderman comics

Posted by: sockamster, gator at April 18, 2023 04:33 PM (MLrvz)

149 Were there Bald Eagles? Cause I'm not buying AB brands unless there are Bald Eagles in the commercial.

Posted by: Chuck C at April 18, 2023 04:33 PM (Lo80G)

150 Posted by: Marcus T at April 18, 2023 04:25 PM (M5z+9)

My theory? Very few authors are able to take an existing story, and be true to the original authors intent.

They all want to put their 'mark' on it. Make it different so their work will be acknowledged. This leads to story arcs in which the main character is changed to the point of no longer being recognizable.

Take the Hobbit for instance. Lord of the Rings took some liberties, but was fairly close to the original story... Hobbit? in order to do something 'different'... they butchered it.

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 18, 2023 04:33 PM (oHd/0)

151 James Gunn... he's the guy who likes to "joke" about having sex with children, including his own daughter, right?

Pass.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 18, 2023 04:33 PM (OdHK4)

152 Futa Ponies.

Posted by: wth at April 18, 2023 04:33 PM (v0R5T)

153 I dislike the Multiverse storylines.

They are difficult to follow, and ultimately everything in the universe is meaningless, because there is another one just like it, with small differences, so who cares about anything?

I know that Multiverses are important to modern non-religious theology, because it gives an explanation for all of the problems of creation. If the premise is that everything is random, you need to have infinite universes for all of the necessary coincidences to happen that make the universe that we know.

But it makes for bad movies and boring storylines.

Posted by: Gridlock at April 18, 2023 04:33 PM (iw2iL)

154 My favorite is Sun Spider, a tranny(?) butch lesbian quadraplegic who webs her wheelchair to her back as she swings around the city

That's the one, its an alternate universe Madame Webb. In this universe she's got spider-crutches and a wheelchair. She originally was a somewhat creepy, eerie paralyzed psychic that Spidey would visit once in a while.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 18, 2023 04:33 PM (0hOvj)

155 Who is still going to the theaters to watch movies?
Posted by: NCKate at April 18, 2023 04:28 PM (d5Qya)
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My son and I saw D&D in a theater.

Posted by: Axeman at April 18, 2023 04:33 PM (krQz2)

156 You'll be glad to know that there a callback to the puppeh episode in JW4.

**************

That alone will make it worth seeing

Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - Longing to Lie in Zooey Deschanel's Bosom for Comfort at April 18, 2023 04:33 PM (VTu1l)

157 Didn't "The Babylon Bee" have a headline a few days ago about the Clydesdale horses actually being cows who transitioned?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 18, 2023 04:33 PM (Keyt1)

158 "And if it flops, then Warner Bros.' plan to rekindle interest in the DC Comics movie universe by putting GotG writer/director James Gunn in charge of it will look like a big mistake."

This, of course, being after Gunn made the decision to fire Henry Cavill as Superman. He wants a younger Supe.

I don't think this will end well. At all.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at April 18, 2023 04:34 PM (/iWhV)

159 145 Conservatives do fall for the patriotism stuff, sadly.
Posted by: Montec at April 18, 2023 04:32 PM (OalnH)

They could have their homo wave a little flag while lounging in the bubble bath?

Posted by: Xipe Totec at April 18, 2023 04:34 PM (pohLc)

160 Amazingly the Japanese never realized their codes had been compromised. Yamamoto's remains were collected, cremated, and he would be thus enshrined as a national hero.
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 18, 2023 04:22 PM (gOewF)

From what I have read, the Japanese suspected their code was being read, but the solutions they had of fixing the problem had to include replacing codebooks for all units everywhere and was too much of a effort for what they were able to do.
So the solution was to hope for the best and not tell anyone.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 18, 2023 04:34 PM (xhaym)

161 Maybe for GoG Vol. 4, the action can take place in the prison that DeSantis builds on Disney's land. Could be a fun tie-in.

Posted by: Simple Stevo at April 18, 2023 04:34 PM (SOV+T)

162 So it is official: only state approved media outlets are allowed to report innuendo, allegations, misinformation and/or lies. Everybody else will be sued into submission. At least until the camps are open.

Posted by: Ripley at April 18, 2023 04:34 PM (cUYo/)

163 147 The guy went on a rampage because his puppy died. That's all the realism I need.
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That his recently-deceased wife gave to him.
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at April 18, 2023 04:32 PM (Vwz3I)

Puppy, and the CAR! That's like a double Dog Dare!

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 18, 2023 04:34 PM (oHd/0)

164 Bonk bonk on the head

Posted by: Dr. Varno at April 18, 2023 04:30 PM (JZiYu)

"No, blah, blah, blah" Capt. James T. Kirk

Posted by: JakeSpeed at April 18, 2023 04:34 PM (Vu1jV)

165 Conservatives do fall for the patriotism stuff, sadly.

Hell, they fell for the Patriot Act. They begged for it. Shouted down anyone that objected.

Posted by: Tailor at April 18, 2023 04:34 PM (VkVqc)

166 Marvel screwed up with Endgame because they made everything irrelevant. The time travel story was a cheap fix. They made Thor fat for the entire movie. Did no one understand the ladies go to see fit Thor? The beginning therapy session was annoying. I didn't care that the genetically dead end homosexual could get hook-ups again. But yeah, we fixed everything with few consequences.

Posted by: Crom Laughs at April 18, 2023 04:35 PM (dN42F)

167 hey this thing on netflix - I See You

it's pretty good I give it an orchid thumbs up

Posted by: BlackCisOrchid at April 18, 2023 04:35 PM (w0NJk)

168 For my birthday, Pooky got me a compilation of the first 20 issues of The Amazing Spiderman. Marvel just haaaad to put in "context essays," but I pretty much skipped those. It's really fun to see Stan Lee hit his wisecracking stride by the third issue or so. The original team even put together a "behind the scenes" comic dripping with sarcasm that made me laugh out loud.

Posted by: pookysgirl, arachnophobic Spiderman fan at April 18, 2023 04:35 PM (dtlDP)

169 The last movie in a theater we saw was about five years ago. Lawrence of Arabia. It was sold out. Awesome seeing it on the big screen.

Posted by: NCKate at April 18, 2023 04:35 PM (d5Qya)

170 Conservatives do fall for the patriotism stuff, sadly.

Posted by: Montec at April 18, 2023 04:32 PM (OalnH)

Not anymore.

Not this conservative anyway.

In fact, I've been questioning the whole America thing as I knew it.

Posted by: ... at April 18, 2023 04:36 PM (BXxcV)

171 Rhomboid

Am going from memory.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 18, 2023 04:36 PM (gOewF)

172 Speaking of woke...

I was at the post office today. I hadn't been inside one for a long time and remembered why. One clerk working, with a line of 20 people, being tax day. You'd think maybe someone would have thought about extra staffing? Yeah right.

Anyway, I digress. The woke part...

Since I was in line for about 1/2 an hour I had time to look around. I noticed every single poster or card or placard that had a picture of a person, was non-white. Every fucking single one. I guess according to the USPS, white people no longer exist. Ironically though, the clerk in question was white. And not only white, and evil white MALE. Which was weird to see tbh.

Posted by: Montec at April 18, 2023 04:36 PM (OalnH)

173 After Midway Yamamoto sure as hell knew their codes had been compromised.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at April 18, 2023 04:37 PM (pohLc)

174 My Little Futa Pony

Don't give them any ideas

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 18, 2023 04:37 PM (gOewF)

175 I heard that Groot transitioned from deciduous to an evergreen!
Posted by: Tex Lovera at April 18, 2023

***
[Applause!!!]

Posted by: Kris Kristofferson at April 18, 2023 04:37 PM (J2vNu)

176 The series comes to an appropriate conclusion. Nice to see a series that doesn't piss all over you and ends well.

Check it out.
Posted by: naturalfake at April 18, 2023 04:24 PM (RJQ8g)

It ain't over yet. John Wick 5, here we come.

https://is.gd/wxWBpn
(Hollywood Reporter)

Posted by: Darrell Harris at April 18, 2023 04:37 PM (/iWhV)

177 >>>I thought GotG would have had the name recognition going for it and James Gunn back at the helm..

But if it's on track to be worse than some of the other Marvel movies, Marvel has really killed its brand for sure.

Posted by: Blanco

>How do you fuck up a movie with Kurt Russell? Shitty writers. Lame story.

They blew it. Everything else was okay.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at April 18, 2023 04:37 PM (V4X9X)

178 Anna - me too .... as in, "often unreliable memory", in my case ....

Posted by: rhomboid at April 18, 2023 04:37 PM (OTzUX)

179 164 Bonk bonk on the head

Posted by: Dr. Varno at April 18, 2023 04:30 PM (JZiYu)

"No, blah, blah, blah" Capt. James T. Kirk
Posted by: JakeSpeed at April 18, 2023 04:34 PM (Vu1jV)

Herbert!

Posted by: Space Hippy... at April 18, 2023 04:37 PM (oHd/0)

180 I loved the Marvel movies til they killed Ironman and made Thor female. The two sexiest characters that made watching worthwhile gone.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at April 18, 2023 04:37 PM (Y+l9t)

181 The Clydesdales are probably the only positive thing AB still has going for it. How long before AB takes a cue from National Lampoon, and runs an ad that says, "Buy our beer, or we shoot this horse?"

Posted by: junior at April 18, 2023 04:37 PM (7hZcS)

182 Oh yeah conservatives are really falling for it.

500 likes
13000 dislikes

Posted by: ... at April 18, 2023 04:38 PM (BXxcV)

183 https://www.thenewneo.com/2023/04/18/
republicans-hang-tough/

NewNeo has stopped by again, hat tip to Ace

Posted by: Skip at April 18, 2023 04:38 PM (xhxe8)

184 That's the one, its an alternate universe Madame Webb. In this universe she's got spider-crutches and a wheelchair.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 18, 2023 04:33 PM (0hOvj)

Spider Gimp, Spider Gimp
Chases villains, but with a limp
Can she park
Where she wants?
Yes she can
She's a gimp.

Posted by: Wally at April 18, 2023 04:38 PM (FJYfm)

185 Didn't "The Babylon Bee" have a headline a few days ago about the Clydesdale horses actually being cows who transitioned?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 18, 2023 04:33 PM (Keyt1)

ws don't look like cows on screen. You gotta use horses.

When you need something that looks like a horse, you usually just tape a bunch of cats together

Posted by: Kindltot at April 18, 2023 04:38 PM (xhaym)

186 They must really think that conservatives are stupid, ill-educated, easily-conned rubes, to think they could just throw in some 9/11 imagery and we'd all just coming running to thank them for exploiting the National Wound of 9/11 for cynical commercial purposes.
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Mitch McConnell and a whole lot of "conservatives" over there laughing in their sleeves.
So, uh, .... yeah.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 18, 2023 04:38 PM (CBXfs)

187 165 Conservatives do fall for the patriotism stuff, sadly.

Hell, they fell for the Patriot Act. They begged for it. Shouted down anyone that objected.
Posted by: Tailor at April 18, 2023 04:34 PM (VkVqc)

Confession time: I fell for the PATRIOT Act. To my shame.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at April 18, 2023 04:38 PM (/iWhV)

188 "Posted by: Romeo13 at April 18, 2023 04:33 PM (oHd/0)"

True to a certain degree. But the elements these people want to add have zero to do with the storyline and more importantly alienate the core audience. The worst part is they know it will fail, and so it anyway. Then they drag everyone down with them, even the people who were cowed onto accepting their predestined failure because they lacked the courage to say, no.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 18, 2023 04:38 PM (M5z+9)

189 They terk arr nern/eleverns!!!

Posted by: How They See Us at April 18, 2023 04:39 PM (BXxcV)

190 But since we're going to talk about Marvelle, and the MSheU, I don't think their biggest problem is Tuff Grrrl Power.

It's the multiverse.

It violates the basic storytelling gene, which is for audiences to be able to rely on what there seeing as being THE ACTUAL STORY! If the makers can just change everything and have multiple possibilities, then nobody really knows what's going on or who to root for, and when the outcome is going to be, you know, the end.

Playing around with this basically tells audiences you can just make shit up, and what you just watched won't matter, because the next showing will just cancel it all out.

So the question is then, why should we care? Answer, we don't.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 18, 2023 04:39 PM (OdHK4)

191 Would love to see Lawrence on the big screen again. Saw it back in the 90s after it had been re-done, not sure if there's been yet another update/remastering or whatever it's called. It's made for a big theater with good sound.

Wonder if it could even break even today, given the "audience" now, if it were a current release.

"Oh yes Brighton, I'm the right man for the job. What is the job, by the way?"

Posted by: rhomboid at April 18, 2023 04:39 PM (OTzUX)

192 Take the Hobbit for instance. Lord of the Rings took some liberties, but was fairly close to the original story... Hobbit? in order to do something 'different'... they butchered it.
Posted by: Romeo13 at April 18, 2023 04:33 PM (oHd/0)

More like grafted on zombie parts. JCW's "The Desolation of Tolkien" was one of the funniest takedowns of any movie franchise I've ever read. You have to be absolutely putrid to make me skip a Tolkien work, and I never saw any Hobbit movies after the first one.

Posted by: trev006 at April 18, 2023 04:39 PM (DTm0P)

193 I absolutely LOVED the first Guardians movie.

I didn't love the second one. I don't know exactly what it was. I think partly it was that Starlord wasn't the swaggering Han Solo character of the middle to end of the first movie. He was the butt of several jokes and seemed very neutered. I dunno, it was OK, but it was missing something for me.

I'll probably watch the third one, in a while, with not much expectations of greatness.

Posted by: bonhomme at April 18, 2023 04:39 PM (R38qh)

194 Fox settled for half the amount- $787.5 million.
This is still a lot.

Posted by: redridinghood at April 18, 2023 04:40 PM (NpAcC)

195 My son and his girlfriend are going to the theater tomorrow night to see a director's cut of LOTR: Return of the King. But he's pretty nerdy.
Posted by: Jordan61 at April 18, 2023 04:31 PM (DRSnL)

I would like someone to explain to me the thinking at WB. When I heard they were showing the director's cut, I went and looked and all of the decent seats were already filled. Why didn't WB re-release the films for normal showings for the 20th anniversary? It's printing money.

Posted by: Crom Laughs at April 18, 2023 04:40 PM (dN42F)

196
Not this conservative anyway.

In fact, I've been questioning the whole America thing as I knew it.
Posted by: ... at April 18, 2023 04:36 PM (BXxcV)

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Yeah hopefully the rah rah flag shit is starting to fade. But I don't know. I was at a kid's school function and they started off with the pledge of allegiance. Everyone jumped out of their seats, hand on heart, face the flag and dutifully say the words. I looked around and gently sighed. Most people have no idea the America they're in love with no longer exists.

Posted by: Montec at April 18, 2023 04:40 PM (OalnH)

197 It ain't over yet. John Wick 5, here we come.

https://is.gd/wxWBpn
(Hollywood Reporter)
Posted by: Darrell Harris at April 18, 2023 04:37 PM (/iWhV)

I did think the lack of a coffin or funeral was kind of an obvious tell.

Posted by: Wally at April 18, 2023 04:40 PM (FJYfm)

198 The Clydesdales are probably the only positive thing AB still has going for it. How long before AB takes a cue from National Lampoon, and runs an ad that says, "Buy our beer, or we shoot this horse?"
Posted by: junior at April 18, 2023 04:37 PM (7hZcS)
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If they get rid of them, they'll still have the fact that Bud still noses out piss in a tasting contest.

Posted by: Axeman at April 18, 2023 04:40 PM (krQz2)

199 This is a story bigger than beer...about how a beloved brand destroyed decades of customer loyalty and good will literally overnight...by making a flamingly gay man acting like a stereotype of a flamingly gay man while wearing women's clothing...the new face of its product. $7 billion in losses later their PR team released a cheesy and cynical ad in a pathetic effort at damage control. It failed. So remember, always dance with the one who brung ya.

Posted by: Real men/women/whatevers of genius at April 18, 2023 04:40 PM (V6LRK)

200 My theory? Very few authors are able to take an existing story, and be true to the original authors intent.

They all want to put their 'mark' on it. Make it different so their work will be acknowledged. This leads to story arcs in which the main character is changed to the point of no longer being recognizable.

Take the Hobbit for instance. Lord of the Rings took some liberties, but was fairly close to the original story... Hobbit? in order to do something 'different'... they butchered it.
Posted by: Romeo13 at April 18, 2023 04:33 PM (oHd/0)
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Amazon's Rings of Power is even more blatant about changing Galadriel as a character.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 18, 2023 04:40 PM (YIVH2)

201
Confession time: I fell for the PATRIOT Act. To my shame.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at April 18, 2023 04:38 PM (/iWhV)

The people who fell for it did so nearly a quarter century ago. Hell I fell for "we gotta fight them over there so we don't have to fight them here".

Posted by: How They See Us at April 18, 2023 04:40 PM (BXxcV)

202 This weekend I accidentally found the Qanon and Plan Trusters section of Twitter. Holy Fuk I throw around Schizo as a compliment but these folks are legit schizo.
Bring back the opium dens.

Posted by: Make it stop at April 18, 2023 04:40 PM (eNLXj)

203 Fuck off sock

Posted by: ... at April 18, 2023 04:40 PM (BXxcV)

204 But it makes for bad movies and boring storylines.

Its like time travel. The concept can work if its like the original Quantum Leap or Time Tunnel or whatever. Those were grounded in a specific universe that was real and the others were like fantasy leaps you temporarily visited. They weren't a major part of the plot, they were enclosed individual stories. That's how you make it work.

MCU: not how to do it. Such a stupid mistake. The story I heard was that phase 4 was supposed to be cosmic and headed by James Gunn. But when people pointed out Gunn's tendency to laugh about child molestation over and over and he was suspended from working for Disney Marvel, they scrambled to come up with another major storyline and Kang with the multiverse was substituted.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 18, 2023 04:41 PM (0hOvj)

205 Take the Hobbit for instance. Lord of the Rings took some liberties, but was fairly close to the original story... Hobbit? in order to do something 'different'... they butchered it.
Posted by: Romeo13 at April 18, 2023 04:33 PM (oHd/0)

You could tell the Tolkien parts of the films because they were actually good.

Posted by: Crom Laughs at April 18, 2023 04:41 PM (dN42F)

206 Anheuser Busch is trying to pull a Megyn Kelly. She's on our side, right? I mean she says bad things about Democrats, how can she not be?

Posted by: ... at April 18, 2023 04:41 PM (BXxcV)

207 >They must really think that conservatives are stupid, ill-educated, easily-conned rubes

Don Jr obviously thinks we are. GOPe gots to be PAID!!!

Cheap Date Conservatives have obviously been easy to farm for quite a while, and there's no signs of it letting up, at least until the Boomer generation has passed into memory. 10 emails a day of "you're going to help us, right PATRIOT?!?!" must work.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen at April 18, 2023 04:41 PM (TIcXN)

208 I'd watch the restored Lawrence of Arabia just to hear the Maurice Jarre score played through a modern theater sound system.

Posted by: mrp at April 18, 2023 04:41 PM (rj6Yv)

209 Will that happen? Only time will tell but yes, that will happen. You can only financially abuse someone for so long.

Yep. Eventually the kids turn 18 and the support payments end.

Posted by: Net income just a tiny smidgen above poverty at April 18, 2023 04:41 PM (V6LRK)

210 "Polycules and the Obese."

I have to admit, when I scrolled past my mind automatically pronounced that as "po-li-cyu-lees".

And I thought' "Which Greek hero was that again?"

Posted by: FeatherBlade at April 18, 2023 04:42 PM (ou9hh)

211 You know what this movie season needs?

Sharknado 37.

Guaranteed hit.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Movie Critic at April 18, 2023 04:42 PM (PiwSw)

212 The Japanese apparently never cottoned on to the fact the US was reading their codes. Neither Purple or JN-25.

But at the same time what we were reading from JN-25 was about 10% of the message. But that 10% when collated with 10% of other messages plus Japanese habits gave a good indication of what was about to transpire.

Coral Sea arose because Hypo picked up enough to alert Nimitz that something was up. Same with Midway except the Japanese decided to broadcast their timetable in a compromised version of JN-25. Only after that broadcast did JN-25 change and it knocked Hypo out of the tea leaf reading business for months until they had amassed enough information to start guessing at 10% again.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 18, 2023 04:42 PM (gOewF)

213 In fact, I've been questioning the whole America thing as I knew it.
Posted by: ... at April 18, 2023 04:36 PM (BXxcV)

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I didn't know that DC was a thing in itself.

Posted by: Axeman at April 18, 2023 04:42 PM (krQz2)

214 [cough, cough]

Former NFL defensive lineman Chris Smith has died at 31, his rep confirmed. No cause of death or further details were shared Tuesday.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at April 18, 2023 04:42 PM (Vwz3I)

215 @190

>>So the question is then, why should we care? Answer, we don't.

The multiverse is simply an extension of What IF... from the Comic Books but has morphed into a way to get writers out of jams and to cover for lack of imagination and bad storytelling.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 18, 2023 04:42 PM (up/3i)

216 Not this conservative anyway.

***********

Yeah it's hard to fall for patriotism bullshit when you're no longer patriotic.

Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - Longing to Lie in Zooey Deschanel's Bosom for Comfort at April 18, 2023 04:43 PM (VTu1l)

217 Former NFL defensive lineman Chris Smith has died at 31, his rep confirmed. No cause of death or further details were shared Tuesday.

*********

clot shot

Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - Longing to Lie in Zooey Deschanel's Bosom for Comfort at April 18, 2023 04:43 PM (VTu1l)

218 With inflation overwhelming upper, middle and working class families, and a recession coming and remaining big time, I expect discretionary spending on movies, entertainment, travel and what not to fall dramatically.

This will cause even more financial ruin and bombs for Hollyweird.

Popcorn time.

Posted by: Czech Chick at April 18, 2023 04:43 PM (6Tc2R)

219 absolutely LOVED the first Guardians movie.

I didn't love the second one. I don't know exactly what it was. I think partly it was that Starlord wasn't the swaggering Han Solo character of the middle to end of the first movie. He was the butt of several jokes and seemed very neutered. I dunno, it was OK, but it was missing something for me.

I'll probably watch the third one, in a while, with not much expectations of greatness.

Posted by: bonhomme

Exactly. I think it was the music track in the first movie that made it a phenomenon. Watching the second, I kept waiting for that feeling to kick in and it never did.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at April 18, 2023 04:43 PM (Y+l9t)

220 This morning I made a comment about boycotting A-B which got a frosty reception from my cow-workers. So I've decided they can eff off.

Posted by: Jordan61 at April 18, 2023 04:43 PM (DRSnL)

221 "Yamamoto's remains were collected, cremated, and he would be thus enshrined as a national hero."

Hopefully someone pissed on them. He was responsible for some of the worst parts of the war, especially the brutality that took place in the South Pacific. I know people who told stories about places like Guadalcanal where the Japanese were torturing and beheading Marines, then placing their heads on poles next to trail. Being Marines, they said ok if that's how you want to play the game, let's party. It got prehistoric ugly from there. They weren't proud of it and cursed the Japanese until their last breath for it.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 18, 2023 04:43 PM (M5z+9)

222 But since we're going to talk about Marvelle, and the MSheU, I don't think their biggest problem is Tuff Grrrl Power.

It's the multiverse.

It violates the basic storytelling gene, which is for audiences to be able to rely on what there seeing as being THE ACTUAL STORY! If the makers can just change everything and have multiple possibilities, then nobody really knows what's going on or who to root for, and when the outcome is going to be, you know, the end.

Playing around with this basically tells audiences you can just make shit up, and what you just watched won't matter, because the next showing will just cancel it all out.

So the question is then, why should we care? Answer, we don't.
Posted by: BurtTC at April 18, 2023 04:39 PM (OdHK4)
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It can work for comic books, where no one really expects consistent continuity or canonicity.

It doesn't work for movies, where your audience IS expecting consistency in continuity and canonicity. They generally are NOT the hardcore fans, but casually interested in superhero storylines, so are not used to the craziness you can find in comic books that have been around forever.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 18, 2023 04:43 PM (YIVH2)

223 @180 I loved the Marvel movies til they killed Ironman and made Thor female. The two sexiest characters that made watching worthwhile gone.

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RDJ and Chris Evans both wanted out. They wanted to move on to new things. Thus why Iron Man and Cap were both removed in very final fashions.

Thor isn't female. Jane gets to swing Thor's hammer for a bit in Love and Thunder, but she doesn't replace Thor. In fact, the movie ends with Thor about to jump into a fight with a bunch of bad guys, Mjolner in hand. Love and Thunder has issues. But Chris Hemsworth being replaced isn't one of them.

Posted by: junior at April 18, 2023 04:44 PM (7hZcS)

224 Just got an email from Netflix. They are going to stop the DVD by mail business at the end of September. Knew this day would come, but wasn't expecting it this soon.

Posted by: Mark1971 at April 18, 2023 04:44 PM (xPl2J)

225 Spider Gimp, Spider Gimp
Chases villains, but with a limp

LOL

See I am jealous of people who can do this kind of thing, my brain just doesn't work that way. You want a dry sort of wit or pun, okay I can pull that off but this kind of fun goofy thing that makes everyone grin and giggle and I am back of the class.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 18, 2023 04:44 PM (0hOvj)

226 Yeah it's hard to fall for patriotism bullshit when you're no longer patriotic.
Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - Longing to Lie in Zooey Deschanel's Bosom for Comfort at April 18, 2023 04:43 PM (VTu1l)

Yep.. After the 2020 "election" I was hanging on by a thread but the 2022 midterms finally did me in....

Posted by: It's me donna at April 18, 2023 04:44 PM (bs+z0)

227 I remember there were a few voices on the right who were opposed to the Patriot Act. And the argument was you may trust Bush with this power, but what happens when Bush is gone and a Democrat replaces him some day? In hindsight everyone should have paused and said fuck yeah, of course. We can't give all this power to a president, because the next one may abuse that power. But those few voices were either ignored or call anti-American Al Qaeda lovers or whatever. I too ignored those warnings.

Posted by: Montec at April 18, 2023 04:44 PM (OalnH)

228 Yeah hopefully the rah rah flag shit is starting to fade. But I don't know. I was at a kid's school function and they started off with the pledge of allegiance. Everyone jumped out of their seats, hand on heart, face the flag and dutifully say the words.

That's the circle. The Left will continue to use the tools of state to subject the Right. The Right will continue to support and build more of the tools of state. And thus, the current cycle.

I think Obama should get a monument, built by the Left. Because he didn't build any of these tools, and he did not corrupt them - regardless of what many of here say. He simply used them.

And now ? The Left wants to defund the police, while they use the police they still have to subject their enemies. So what does the Right do ? Insist on funding the police.

I'll give it to the Soviets. At least their subjects said the required pledges and sang the required songs with minimal enthusiasm.

Posted by: Tailor at April 18, 2023 04:44 PM (VkVqc)

229 Don't forget about the multiple covers. Almost every top dc and marvel comic has a minimum of 3 different covers to collect every month. The new Disney gargoyles and darkwing duck are worse at 5 to 7 covers a month.

Posted by: Jl97332 at April 18, 2023 04:44 PM (nJxdl)

230 @204

>>Disney Marvel, they scrambled to come up with another major storyline and Kang with the multiverse was substituted.

They have Galactus hanging right their like a juicy fat meatball pitch down the middle of the plate and we get f**king Kang.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 18, 2023 04:44 PM (up/3i)

231 Two favorite recent things on Bud Light

1) video of a guy saying, I hear Bud Light makes you gay. Then takes a drink by deep throating the long neck.
2) people putting "for rectal use only" stickers on BL cases.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 18, 2023 04:45 PM (CBXfs)

232 Fathom and Turner Classics always have an interesting schedule of old movies showing on the big screen. If Star Wars is ever one of them my husband would lose his mind. He's a huge SW nerd.

Posted by: NCKate at April 18, 2023 04:45 PM (d5Qya)

233 If ticket buying stays at Ant Man 3/Dr Strange levels, GOTG 3 will open UNDER $100M OW. So, don't go soft Horde - keep your wallets in your pockets for this one.

Posted by: Nova Local at April 18, 2023 04:45 PM (exHjb)

234 You know what this movie season needs?

Sharknado 37.

Guaranteed hit.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Movie Critic at April 18, 2023 04:42 PM (PiwSw)
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Make it in 4D (because 3D is so 80s!) and I'm there!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 18, 2023 04:45 PM (YIVH2)

235 Pffft, 31yo die every day from no known cause.

Posted by: Skip at April 18, 2023 04:45 PM (xhxe8)

236 I collected a few Sgt. Rock comics back when I was 10 years old...that was all I could afford on my allowance at the time.

Posted by: DaveX64 - AWFLs smell like dryer sheets at April 18, 2023 04:45 PM (iXXi5)

237 I dislike the Multiverse storylines.

They are difficult to follow, and ultimately everything in the universe is meaningless, because there is another one just like it, with small differences, so who cares about anything?

Boy does the writer for Rick and Morty sledgehammer you in the face with this one. Infinite Universes full of magic and wonder? Nope. It's all shit, all the way down. And because there are infinite yous across those infinite universes, nothing you do in any of them means anything. Deaths are meaningless. Lives are meaningless. It's all just every variation of random outcomes playing out for no reason.

Posted by: bonhomme at April 18, 2023 04:46 PM (R38qh)

238 I have been avoiding Love and Thunder because I figured Chris Hemsworth had been neutered pretty much.
Does he take his shirt off?

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at April 18, 2023 04:46 PM (Y+l9t)

239 Make it in 4D (because 3D is so 80s!) and I'm there!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 18, 2023 04:45 PM (YIVH2)

In amazing new Smell-O-Vision!

Posted by: So very fragrant at April 18, 2023 04:46 PM (V6LRK)

240 Posted by: BurtTC at April 18, 2023 04:39 PM (OdHK4)

Burt,
I agree 100% on the multiverse thing. We checked out of the MCU at the end of Quantumania when they showed the stadium full of Kangs. It told us there was no meaning to any of the stuff we just sat through.

Posted by: Wally at April 18, 2023 04:46 PM (FJYfm)

241 I know people who told stories about places like Guadalcanal where the Japanese were torturing and beheading Marines, then placing their heads on poles next to trail. Being Marines, they said ok if that's how you want to play the game, let's party. It got prehistoric ugly from there. They weren't proud of it and cursed the Japanese until their last breath for it.
Posted by: Marcus T

I have no issues with it.
Don't want none? Don't start none.
Start some & I'll play.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 18, 2023 04:46 PM (P63V5)

242 Yeah it's hard to fall for patriotism bullshit when you're no longer patriotic.
Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - Longing to Lie in Zooey Deschanel's Bosom for Comfort at April 18, 2023 04:43 PM (VTu1l)

I love my country, I hate my Government.

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 18, 2023 04:46 PM (oHd/0)

243 >>>Anheuser Busch is trying to pull a Megyn Kelly. She's on our side, right? I mean she says bad things about Democrats, how can she not be?

Posted by: ...

>Does Megyn still have a uterus and tiddies?

Clean her up and take her to my chambers!

Posted by: Dr. Bone at April 18, 2023 04:47 PM (V4X9X)

244 "They are going to stop the DVD by mail business at the end of September."

The era of the spinning disc is coming to a close.

Posted by: gourmand du jour has many spinning discs at April 18, 2023 04:47 PM (jTmQV)

245 Anheuser-Busch will pull out more "patriotic" imagery as they reel in the customers who've been boycotting Bud Light. I expect them to put Bud Light on sale in time for Memorial Day with some pretty sweet looking red/white/blue packaging and a coupon for some sort of mickey mouse tie-in piece of kit. Maybe a set of koozies for your cans.

A lot of people who only drink Bud Light, and there are a lot of them, will forget the tranny fluid debacle.

Almost all boycotts collapse. This one will too.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 18, 2023 04:47 PM (Q4IgG)

246 clot shot
Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - Longing to Lie in Zooey Deschanel's Bosom for Comfort at April 18, 2023 04:43 PM (VTu1l)

Always, every time. Until proven otherwise.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 18, 2023 04:47 PM (OdHK4)

247 Davex64, I was introduced to comics by my father who read Sgt Rock.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at April 18, 2023 04:48 PM (Y+l9t)

248 Oh, no!!!!

Members of the Writers Guild of America, which represents more than 11,000 television and feature writers, have voted almost unanimously to authorize a strike. The work stoppage could begin as soon as their contract expires on May 1. A writers' strike would be WGA's first since the three-month strike of 2007.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at April 18, 2023 04:48 PM (Vwz3I)

249 nd the argument was you may trust Bush with this power, but what happens when Bush is gone and a Democrat replaces him some day?

Posted by: Montec at April 18, 2023 04:44 PM (OalnH)
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They are not *using* the powers of the Patriot Act.

They are abusing even the increase of powers given there.

Posted by: Axeman at April 18, 2023 04:48 PM (krQz2)

250 They are going to stop the DVD by mail business at the end of September.

The Postal Service became too unreliable.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at April 18, 2023 04:48 PM (5u1+1)

251 I love my country, I hate my Government.

___

10 years ago during the height of the Obama regime I would have agreed. The country itself is now rotten.

Posted by: Montec at April 18, 2023 04:48 PM (OalnH)

252 500 likes, 13000 dislikes

*****************

I swear I actually though the original ad was a parody, and that they didn't in fact make a shameless, tone deaf, faux america ad to distract the rubes.

Welp

Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - Longing to Lie in Zooey Deschanel's Bosom for Comfort at April 18, 2023 04:48 PM (VTu1l)

253 Yep Anna the composite effort (especially traffic analysis) combined with partial breaks in naval codes and full-on relaxed complete reading of Purple, together, made for the successes. An incredible accomplishment. Some day I'm going to stop by Rochefort's grave up near LA just for the heck of it.

Posted by: rhomboid at April 18, 2023 04:48 PM (OTzUX)

254 Yes, Joss Whedon's shows have always featured good-to-great dialog. Buffy certainly, and Angel to a certain extent, and Firefly. (I have the DVD set of everything but the movie, and have just not sat down to watch all of it.)

From what Ace said about the Chris Pine Dungeons and Dragons movie, it sounds like it is NOT woke or dark, and actually has some fun (and the viewer will too). The 2015 Man From U.N.C.L.E. movie was like that for sure.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 18, 2023 04:48 PM (J2vNu)

255 I think when people stand and salute the flag they are remembering the America of their childhood, not the maggoty shitpile the left has made it now.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at April 18, 2023 04:48 PM (pohLc)

256 Boy does the writer for Rick and Morty sledgehammer you in the face with this one. Infinite Universes full of magic and wonder? Nope. It's all shit, all the way down. And because there are infinite yous across those infinite universes, nothing you do in any of them means anything. Deaths are meaningless. Lives are meaningless. It's all just every variation of random outcomes playing out for no reason.
Posted by: bonhomme at April 18, 2023 04:46 PM (R38qh)

But if there are Infinite Universes out there, isn't it possible we're living in a Universe where there aren't Infinite Universes?
Sorry. Just letting my Sophomore philosophy major self come out.

Posted by: Wally at April 18, 2023 04:48 PM (FJYfm)

257 They weren't proud of it and cursed the Japanese until their last breath for it.
Posted by: Marcus T at April 18, 2023 04:43 PM (M5z+9)

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Pretty sure the last group of folks I'd want to play a game of "Fxck around and find out" with is the USMC of that era.

The nips got what they deserved, good and hard.

Posted by: ballistic at April 18, 2023 04:49 PM (oXNqT)

258 Confession time: I fell for the PATRIOT Act. To my shame.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at April 18, 2023 04:38 PM (/iWhV)

Post 9/11, patriotic identity was highly militaristic and imperialist. That and the fact America had far more national unity at the time. 2003 saw Bush the Lesser blunder into the Middle East on behalf of the neocon tribe and Iran. "Conservatives" defended that sack of shit for years, but the later NeverTrump betrayal from the Judeo-Christian wing made all Bush stock plummet with the base. The Republican Party can't count on unity any more than America itself can.

Now, the MAGA base is unified, motivated, and intensely suspicious of all foreign influences, but that's a separate story entirely.

Posted by: trev006 at April 18, 2023 04:49 PM (DTm0P)

259 The first Guardians movie was not expected to do as well as it did. They are C-list in the Marvel universe. But that I think is what saved it, they were allowed to have fun and it showed.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 18, 2023 04:49 PM (gOewF)

260 I love my country, I hate my Government.

************

Your country is dead

Then again denial is one of the first stages of grief

Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - Longing to Lie in Zooey Deschanel's Bosom for Comfort at April 18, 2023 04:49 PM (VTu1l)

261 I agree 100% on the multiverse thing. We checked out of the MCU at the end of Quantumania when they showed the stadium full of Kangs. It told us there was no meaning to any of the stuff we just sat through.
Posted by: Wally at April 18, 2023 04:46 PM (FJYfm)
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Multiverse stories with real stakes are among the most difficult stories to write in science fiction. You really need to understand the potential plot holes and pitfalls you will encounter while writing your story. An accomplished science fiction writer like Stephen Baxter can pull it off. Most writers can't.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 18, 2023 04:50 PM (YIVH2)

262 I dislike the Multiverse storylines.
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I believe Rick and Morty is a good demonstration of how such a concept destroys any idea of Story.

Posted by: Axeman at April 18, 2023 04:50 PM (krQz2)

263 227 I remember there were a few voices on the right who were opposed to the Patriot Act. And the argument was you may trust Bush with this power, but what happens when Bush is gone and a Democrat replaces him some day? In hindsight everyone should have paused and said fuck yeah, of course. We can't give all this power to a president, because the next one may abuse that power. But those few voices were either ignored or call anti-American Al Qaeda lovers or whatever. I too ignored those warnings.
Posted by: Montec at April 18, 2023 04:44 PM (OalnH)

You know the guy who comes out of all this smelling like a rose?

Dennis Kucinich, of all people.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at April 18, 2023 04:50 PM (/iWhV)

264 They have Galactus hanging right their like a juicy fat meatball pitch down the middle of the plate and we get f**king Kang.

Yeah but even with Galactus, he's a letdown after Thanos. They shot their entire wad with Thanos, he blew up half the universe. He didn't threaten to kill a planet, he literally murdered 50% of all life. Having a villain show up threatening to blow up just the earth is kind of a letdown. Meh, okay I guess. We beat Thanos. Who are you again, with the goofy headdress?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 18, 2023 04:50 PM (0hOvj)

265 Writer's Guild? It's that an oxymoron?

If you can write well, why would you need a union?

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at April 18, 2023 04:50 PM (5u1+1)

266 Any under 50yo who drops dead out of the blue without prior issues to me is a Fake Vax issue.

Posted by: Skip at April 18, 2023 04:50 PM (xhxe8)

267 After Midway Yamamoto sure as hell knew their codes had been compromised.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at April 18, 2023 04:37 PM (pohLc)

Midway was such a stupid operation. If the codes HADNT been compromised, they would have looked like idiots taking a useless sandbar and having to sail back to Japan leaving a garrison to be gobbled up whenever we felt like it. They couldn't have left their navy there for long to protect it. And they knew that several of our carriers were in the South Seas, so there's no reason to think we would be ready to rush out and fight while they were there waiting for us.

Tie that to the 'distraction' operation in Alaska. If that HAD been a distraction, our fleet would have gone up there and missed the big battle as well. We were so concerned we didn't even try and pry them off for a year or so. But to be a useful distraction it should have been some time before the Midway operation, not at the same time.

They already knew we could take the loss of the entire Philippine Islands without rushing our navy out to fight at a disadvantage, one small atoll isn't going to cut it.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 18, 2023 04:51 PM (eoQWY)

268 >>> 214 [cough, cough]

Former NFL defensive lineman Chris Smith has died at 31, his rep confirmed. No cause of death or further details were shared Tuesday.
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at April 18, 2023 04:42 PM (Vwz3I)

But Damar Hamlin is talking about returning to the team!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at April 18, 2023 04:51 PM (llON8)

269 From what Ace said about the Chris Pine Dungeons and Dragons movie, it sounds like it is NOT woke or dark, and actually has some fun (and the viewer will too).

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 18, 2023 04:48 PM (J2vNu)

I have zero interest in D&D as a tabletop game, having long since moved on to better products, but I'm still interested in seeing that movie. It's really hard luck that they fetched up against Mario.

Posted by: trev006 at April 18, 2023 04:51 PM (DTm0P)

270 @Sharon: Sgt. Rock was the best!

Posted by: DaveX64 - AWFLs smell like dryer sheets at April 18, 2023 04:51 PM (iXXi5)

271 Davex64, I was introduced to comics by my father who read Sgt Rock.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at April 18, 2023

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With comics beyond Disney, it was an issue of Superman that got me hooked when I was in grammar school. Later came Batman and Jimmy Olsen. I sampled some of the war-oriented comics like Sgt. Rock, but there was something in the imagination of the Superman family comics that spoke to me.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 18, 2023 04:51 PM (J2vNu)

272 236 I collected a few Sgt. Rock comics back when I was 10 years old...that was all I could afford on my allowance at the time.
Posted by: DaveX64 - AWFLs smell like dryer sheets at April 18, 2023 04:45 PM (iXXi5)

I collected Epic and Eerie Magazines for years... last few years I'd buy two, one to read, and one to keep in plastic for the collection. Figured they would be worth bank someday.

I joined the Navy, and had stored them in the Family home... came back from a deployment and found out Mom had sold them at a church sale... for $.10 each. Never explained to her how much they were probably worth.

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 18, 2023 04:51 PM (oHd/0)

273 uh, to be fair, 2001 America is a completely different country. And we were pretty pozzed and pr0n'd out then too.

but we still had the old generations with us and we all thought that we were the good guys and our leaders were therefore also the good guys.

Obviously, our GOP leaders were more than happy to ignore the war on America from the teacher unions and soros brigade to focus on nebulous fun stuff overseas. We did think this stuff was self-evident afterall.

Posted by: sockamster, gator at April 18, 2023 04:51 PM (MLrvz)

274 270 @Sharon: Sgt. Rock was the best!
Posted by: DaveX64 - AWFLs smell like dryer sheets at April 18, 2023 04:51 PM (iXXi5)

My Fav is still 'The Haunted Tank'.

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 18, 2023 04:52 PM (oHd/0)

275 Boycotting Target or Amazon or Walmart never works long term. People won't pay 2X the price by boycotting Walmart or lose the convenience of Amazon, to make a political statement.

But beer is different. There's no additional cost or inconvenience to drinking one brand over another. And there are a million options out there, so it's not like you have to give up beer entirely. So I think this boycott could have legs, unlike all the other ones that fizzle away.

Posted by: Montec at April 18, 2023 04:52 PM (OalnH)

276 >got what they deserved, good and hard.
Posted by: ballistic at April 18, 2023 04:49 PM (oXNqT)

That's why I laugh at people crying over the atomic bombings of Japan. That was a mercy compared to the alternative ending.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen at April 18, 2023 04:52 PM (TIcXN)

277 Burt,
I agree 100% on the multiverse thing. We checked out of the MCU at the end of Quantumania when they showed the stadium full of Kangs. It told us there was no meaning to any of the stuff we just sat through.
Posted by: Wally at April 18, 2023 04:46 PM (FJYfm)

Yep, and as noted above, comic books can get away with that because the fans are already expecting content. And know it's all just disposable, more or less.

But yeah, movies? Especially for casual fans, make it matter or I won't bother. It's similar in a way to anti-hero movies. If fans don't like your main character, you're going to have a limited audience.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 18, 2023 04:52 PM (OdHK4)

278 Members of the Writers Guild of America, which represents more than 11,000 television and feature writers, have voted almost unanimously to authorize a strike. The work stoppage could begin as soon as their contract expires on May 1. A writers' strike would be WGA's first since the three-month strike of 2007.
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at April 18, 2023 04:48 PM (Vwz3I)
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Heh. Are the studios going to hire "scab" writers that don't know how things work in Hollywood? We might get some good stories out of the deal....

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 18, 2023 04:52 PM (YIVH2)

279 It's really hard luck that they fetched up against Mario

**********

And also have the most butt fucked retarded marketing team in cinema history

Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - Longing to Lie in Zooey Deschanel's Bosom for Comfort at April 18, 2023 04:52 PM (VTu1l)

280 how many other spiderman girlfriends can we retcon into ugly girls with big PR firm backing?

Posted by: sockamster, gator at April 18, 2023 04:52 PM (MLrvz)

281 People keep bringing up Rick and Morty, for good reason. But its worse than you think as a connection to MCU...

A bunch of people doing the writing and directing of the worst MCU stuff in 4th edition are Rick and Morty writers. She Hulk writer? From Rick & Morty.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 18, 2023 04:52 PM (0hOvj)

282 I love my country, I hate my Government.

Seriously, what do you love ? The memories ? The symbols ? The concepts as you understood them ?

Because I was born in '72. My entire life - from the time I've been able to recognize such things - has been spent in suspicion of half my neighbors and all government authority.

I've read things like the Federalist Papers and such. Those seem really good. But that has never, ever, been the country I grew up in. Not in the slightest.

Posted by: Tailor at April 18, 2023 04:52 PM (VkVqc)

283 787 fucking million????

Posted by: sockamster, gator at April 18, 2023 04:53 PM (MLrvz)

284 But traffic analysis alone can shoot you in the foot.

The Japanese carriers went radio silent. But their usual escorts kept transmitting so Hypo was mislead before Pearl Harbor. IIRC Akagi's chief telegrapher had an identifiable style, it seemed the way he struck the key would make it bounce on transmit.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 18, 2023 04:53 PM (gOewF)

285 If it makes anyone feel any better I'm not sure the Democrats need the Patriot Act. They're kinda just doin' stuff and challenging all comers and all comers are like nah bro we're good do your thing.

Posted by: ... at April 18, 2023 04:53 PM (BXxcV)

286 But if there are Infinite Universes out there, isn't it possible we're living in a Universe where there aren't Infinite Universes?
Sorry. Just letting my Sophomore philosophy major self come out.
Posted by: Wally at April 18, 2023 04:48 PM (FJYfm)

I've heard that kind of argument to deny time travel. If you have time travel, the timeline keeps getting screwed up over and over until a timeline results that makes the invention of time travel not happen. Repeat for all eternity.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 18, 2023 04:53 PM (eoQWY)

287 BUD stock is only down about 3% since the ad came out. A month-end dismal sales report may beat down the stock further. But this does not yet look like a catastrophe.

The stock is off its all-time high of 116 in 2016.

Could it go the way of Schlitz?

Posted by: JM in Fla/Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at April 18, 2023 04:54 PM (zB2dT)

288 Has anyone seen Nefarious?

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at April 18, 2023 04:54 PM (Y+l9t)

289 So I think this boycott could have legs, unlike all the other ones that fizzle away.
Posted by: Montec at April 18, 2023 04:52 PM (OalnH)

Gillette has legs...and seeing Disney's last 12 months of theatrical performances, especially for their animateds, it's working against them, too. Find a a few targets that are doable and focus on them. We added In-Bev now...that's 3. Gillette products, Disney movie tickets, In-Bev beer brands.

Posted by: Nova Local at April 18, 2023 04:54 PM (exHjb)

290 Just saw that Fox News settled the case against them for $787 million.

Free speech is good and fucked in this country.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 18, 2023 04:54 PM (CBXfs)

291 787 million, I guess the lefts' economic death penalty verdicts are here to stay.

we're so fucked.

Posted by: sockamster, gator at April 18, 2023 04:54 PM (MLrvz)

292 There are rumors that a new Man From U.N.C.L.E. film with Henry Cavill returning as Napoleon Solo is "in development." May the Muses keep the writers and producers from going "gritty" or "dark" with it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 18, 2023 04:54 PM (J2vNu)

293 From what Ace said about the Chris Pine Dungeons and Dragons movie, it sounds like it is NOT woke or dark, and actually has some fun (and the viewer will too).

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 18, 2023 04:48 PM (J2vNu)

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It is a lot of fun. But there is some woke to it, and that's the most annoying part. But it's entertaining enough to forget about all that, all the same.

Posted by: Axeman at April 18, 2023 04:54 PM (krQz2)

294 "I've read things like the Federalist Papers and such. Those seem really good. But that has never, ever, been the country I grew up in. Not in the slightest."

Something a commenter here said once, "The country I thought I knew hasn't existed since before I was born"...that seems pretty truthful.

Posted by: DaveX64 - AWFLs smell like dryer sheets at April 18, 2023 04:54 PM (iXXi5)

295 Yeah but even with Galactus, he's a letdown after Thanos. They shot their entire wad with Thanos, he blew up half the universe. He didn't threaten to kill a planet, he literally murdered 50% of all life. Having a villain show up threatening to blow up just the earth is kind of a letdown. Meh, okay I guess. We beat Thanos. Who are you again, with the goofy headdress?
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 18, 2023 04:50 PM (0hOvj)
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This is exactly why they should have shelved the entire MCU for about a decade. Then bring it out for the next generation for a decade. Rinse and repeat.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 18, 2023 04:54 PM (YIVH2)

296 And also have the most butt fucked retarded marketing team in cinema history
Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - Longing to Lie in Zooey Deschanel's Bosom for Comfort at April 18, 2023 04:52 PM (VTu1l)

There's a lot of that going around these days. No advertising except for spots on Critical Drinker, Mauler, and Pewds would have served them better than what they did.

Posted by: trev006 at April 18, 2023 04:54 PM (DTm0P)

297 so basically, NYC+chicago+LA+portland+delaware and a few other cities have complete lawfare domination over the GOP and our alllies

Posted by: sockamster, gator at April 18, 2023 04:55 PM (MLrvz)

298 Because I was born in '72. My entire life - from the time I've been able to recognize such things - has been spent in suspicion of half my neighbors and all government authority.

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I lived in blissful ignorance with my childhood wrapped in images of Reagan and Rocky beating Mister T.

Then Clinton came along

Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - Longing to Lie in Zooey Deschanel's Bosom for Comfort at April 18, 2023 04:55 PM (VTu1l)

299 Just saw that Fox News settled the case against them for $787 million.

I would have taken a chance with the jury...

Posted by: It's me donna at April 18, 2023 04:55 PM (bs+z0)

300 I imagine there is a parody video already on YT of Hitler finding out how bad GOTG 3 is.

Posted by: Archer at April 18, 2023 04:56 PM (gmo/4)

301 "I have no issues with it.
Don't want none? Don't start none.
Start some & I'll play.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 18, 2023 04:46 PM (P63V5)".

You start fighting a war a bit of an idealist thinking there are boundaries, or at least trying to respect them. You end up doing what it takes to survive on the battlefield, driven many times by the tactics of the enemy you are fighting. Circumstances and people can make that an ugly, brutal time. The worst part being when it's over, and you look around at home and realize how insidious and evil people can be. That's when you really want to go after people like Yamamoto, without whom that wat would never have taken place.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 18, 2023 04:56 PM (M5z+9)

302 showing us the Freedom Tower that was built to replace the Twin Towers.

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"Hey, I know what will work! Let's remind them of the world's most pussy ass response to Islamic terrorism!"

Posted by: Azathoth at April 18, 2023 04:56 PM (wb1YC)

303 Only in a world of Government Contracts can Dominion Voting Systems be valued in such absurd terms.

1.5 Billion in Damages from Faux News...I don't think so.

Posted by: garrett at April 18, 2023 04:56 PM (CFPNn)

304
If Bud was serious they would fire the bint that thought up the non-fratty bud lite campaign...

Posted by: It's me donna at April 18, 2023 04:12 PM

Nothing says 'we're serious and apologize' more then throwing a person out the door. Doesn't matter to me whether XX or XY.

You're the boss. Be the boss. Otherwise it just looks as if the inmates are running the asylum.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 18, 2023 04:56 PM (enJYY)

305 Errr...

@TheInsiderPaper
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BREAKING: Parking garage collapsed in Manhattan, New York City, several people trapped, injuries reported

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 18, 2023 04:56 PM (jzzG8)

306 Something a commenter here said once, "The country I thought I knew hasn't existed since before I was born"...that seems pretty truthful.

Boomers look through a Norman Rockwell lens.

Posted by: Tailor at April 18, 2023 04:56 PM (VkVqc)

307 Just saw that Fox News settled the case against them for $787 million.

Free speech is good and fucked in this country.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 18, 2023 04:54 PM (CBXfs)

Heyyy, you have free speech! Just until some degenerate ethnic New York oligarchs decide it costs you a billion dollars. Freedom isn't free, etc.

Posted by: trev006 at April 18, 2023 04:56 PM (DTm0P)

308 how many other spiderman girlfriends can we retcon into ugly girls with big PR firm backing?

They keep trying to make Zendaya into a thing. She's not going to be a thing. They are trying so hard.

If Marvel had been smart (I know, stop laughing), they would have made phase 4 be reaction to the massive events in the Avengers. Street-level stuff, focus on characters like Spider-Man, Punisher, Moon Knight, etc. Look at how it affected the world and changed crime on the streets. Slowly build a story from there that the Avengers has to deal with, but smaller scale, smaller stakes that are more personal. THEN go into the cosmic.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 18, 2023 04:56 PM (0hOvj)

309 A bunch of people doing the writing and directing of the worst MCU stuff in 4th edition are Rick and Morty writers. She Hulk writer? From Rick & Morty.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 18, 2023 04:52 PM (0hOvj)
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Then why haven't they tried to stick a form of "Rick" or "Morty" into the title?

Seems a little suspect.

Posted by: Axeman at April 18, 2023 04:57 PM (krQz2)

310 @264

>>Yeah but even with Galactus, he's a letdown after Thanos.

But the potential is there to have another decade long run of Cosmic based/Sci-Fi Superhero story arcs if they went the Galactus route, currently they have nothing in the pipeline except this Harry Styles and this Kang dude and who they are going to have to drop the actor portraying him because he's apparently slaps around women in his life.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 18, 2023 04:57 PM (up/3i)

311 @238 I have been avoiding Love and Thunder because I figured Chris Hemsworth had been neutered pretty much.
Does he take his shirt off?

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Shirt!? He's buck-naked at one point!

People watch it without getting their expectations up might enjoy the it as a popcorn movie. It's not great. It's got a lot of flaws. But one of those flaws is that Thor is even goofier than he was in Ragnarok, and seems to have lost his character development over the first three films. With the right attitude, a viewer can get some enjoyment out of that.

The sad part is that it could have been a lot better.

Posted by: junior at April 18, 2023 04:57 PM (7hZcS)

312 Reality check here: Where I live, everything is normal. No wildings of teens rampaging. No trans story hours at the library.

The shit that is happening in these blue city shitholes is expected. Leave them be. Pray for them. Stay out of them.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at April 18, 2023 04:57 PM (5u1+1)

313 >>I would have taken a chance with the jury...

Yep.
I would have gone Full Maddow Defense and trotted out 24 hours of Mainstream Media calling them Faux News on air.

Posted by: garrett at April 18, 2023 04:57 PM (CFPNn)

314 American spirit, they are killing Americanism so they can do mojo Marxism.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at April 18, 2023 04:57 PM (baG0q)

315 [The D & D movie] is a lot of fun. But there is some woke to it, and that's the most annoying part. But it's entertaining enough to forget about all that, all the same.
Posted by: Axeman at April 18, 2023

***
If it's fun enough to make the viewer forget that stuff, then it's head and shoulders and torso above almost anything else right now.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 18, 2023 04:57 PM (J2vNu)

316 Seriously, what do you love ? The memories ? The symbols ? The concepts as you understood them ?

Because I was born in '72. My entire life - from the time I've been able to recognize such things - has been spent in suspicion of half my neighbors and all government authority.

I've read things like the Federalist Papers and such. Those seem really good. But that has never, ever, been the country I grew up in. Not in the slightest.
Posted by: Tailor at April 18, 2023 04:52 PM (VkVqc)

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I'd say the spirit of America as the founders intended was alive and well, for a good portion of your life. Was it perfect? No. It was never perfect not even in 1789. But the ideals of America were there in the 70s, 80s and 90s. You could still disagree with someone politically and be friends. Somewhere in the 2000s, it started collapsing and "America" as we know it started collapsing. By the time Obama left office it was a dead country walking. I'm not saying Obama caused it. He certainly helped the demise. But it was well on its way before he showed up.

Posted by: Montec at April 18, 2023 04:58 PM (OalnH)

317 Movie idea:

Combine "Downfall" with "Guardians Of The Galaxy"

Posted by: Archer at April 18, 2023 04:58 PM (gmo/4)

318 I like Ragnarok!

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at April 18, 2023 04:58 PM (5u1+1)

319 Wolfus, I watched the Man From Uncle movie after you talked about it. It was fun. Unfortunately I especially like Armie Hammer as Ilya.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at April 18, 2023 04:58 PM (Y+l9t)

320 they'll still have the fact that Bud still noses out piss in a tasting contest.
Posted by: Axeman at April 18, 2023 04:40 PM

Sure, rub it in.

Posted by: Pearl Beer at April 18, 2023 04:58 PM (a3Q+t)

321 But if there are Infinite Universes out there, isn't it possible we're living in a Universe where there aren't Infinite Universes?
Sorry. Just letting my Sophomore philosophy major self come out.
Posted by: Wally at April 18, 2023 04:48 PM (FJYfm)

Heh. Worse than that, given how this world is now, there MUST be a universe where we are all either transjenner or gay or both.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 18, 2023 04:58 PM (OdHK4)

322 Posted by: Tailor at April 18, 2023 04:52 PM (VkVqc)

Lots and lots of good people still out in Flyover country.

They are the America I love.

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 18, 2023 04:59 PM (oHd/0)

323 Fox settles with dominion tells election deniers know more BS!

Posted by: exodus 21:22-25 at April 18, 2023 04:59 PM (oPo5h)

324 Note, by settling they have no right to appeal.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 18, 2023 04:59 PM (CBXfs)

325 >>BREAKING: Parking garage collapsed in Manhattan, New York City, several people trapped, injuries reported

I hope that wasn't a Kinney Garage. Old man Kinney was a good shit.

Posted by: garrett at April 18, 2023 04:59 PM (CFPNn)

326 > But if there are Infinite Universes out there, isn't it possible we're living in a Universe where there aren't Infinite Universes?

Eh, it seems like your assumption contradicts your consequent. If you assume X, it doesn't directly logically follow that !X. You can logically prove !X by showing a contradiction when you assume X, but you haven't done that.

Posted by: bonhomme at April 18, 2023 04:59 PM (R38qh)

327 well, I guess we're going to have to sell more pillows

Posted by: sockamster, gator at April 18, 2023 05:00 PM (MLrvz)

328 "Pretty sure the last group of folks I'd want to play a game of "Fxck around and find out" with is the USMC of that era.

The nips got what they deserved, good and hard.
Posted by: ballistic at April 18, 2023 04:49 PM (oXNqT)"

Indeed. Rock solid, salt of the earth people. Remember a lot of those guys were 18 or 19
Years old. Imagine that.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 18, 2023 05:00 PM (M5z+9)

329 The thing about the Japs is that they teach their kids NOTHING about WW2. More especially the shit they did in China, Burma, the Philippines, Manchuria, etc. They have swept the whole mess under the rug, save how the mean assed Americans nuked the honeydew outta them in '45.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at April 18, 2023 05:00 PM (pohLc)

330 how many other spiderman girlfriends can we retcon into ugly girls with big PR firm backing?
Posted by: sockamster, gator at April 18, 2023 04:52 PM (MLrvz)

Ironically, both Spider-Gwen and GwenPool are not merely interesting, but attractive concepts. The Spider-Verse franchise isn't merely doing their own multiverse, and without the original Peter Parker, they're wildly successful too.

Posted by: trev006 at April 18, 2023 05:00 PM (DTm0P)

331 @299

>>I would have taken a chance with the jury...

I don't know...

What damages was Dominion seeking and where was the trial being held?

787 million could have been getting off easy.

A simple search reveals FOX's Q1 revenue is over 4B so, cut your losses and move on seems to be their strategy.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 18, 2023 05:00 PM (up/3i)

332 If Bud was serious they would fire the bint that thought up the non-fratty bud lite campaign...

Posted by: It's me donna at April 18, 2023 04:12 PM

***
Not only fire her, but make it public, and when her coterie begin to screech, say:

"We don't care. We're going back to making beer."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 18, 2023 05:00 PM (J2vNu)

333 Note, by settling they have no right to appeal.

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uh, yeah.

they also will now have to face being sued every week by each democrat constituency they report on

Posted by: sockamster, gator at April 18, 2023 05:00 PM (MLrvz)

334 I have read some more recent scholarship, can't remember where, but it seems when Enterprise and Hornet were racing south from Pearl to get into the Coral Sea fracas only to miss it; that their recall orders to get ready for Midway included them being discovered.

That way the Japanese would 'know' where all the American carriers were.

But I am not sure that holds water. Because it depends upon the Japanese finding those two carriers first of all. And after Saratoga getting torpedoed and Lexington being sunk with Yorktown mauled; I just do not see Nimitz deliberately hazarding such irreplaceable assets.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 18, 2023 05:01 PM (gOewF)

335 It's not the crime it's the coverup ..or something like that.

Posted by: runner at April 18, 2023 05:01 PM (xNg0H)

336

Weren't the Commies all about superheros and all that shit?

I think of that when I see all the cool superhero movies always coming out.

What a massive disaster.

Posted by: Dr.Rev. Senator Your Highness E Buzz Miller, Esq PhD MA MS at April 18, 2023 05:01 PM (UCNv1)

337 787 million could have been getting off easy.

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easy? what economic damage could dominion even show?

Posted by: sockamster, gator at April 18, 2023 05:01 PM (MLrvz)

338 whatever, it's their money, fuck em

Posted by: sockamster, gator at April 18, 2023 05:01 PM (MLrvz)

339 BREAKING NEWS: Biden is awesome and everyone else around him is too.

Posted by: The New and Improved Fox News at April 18, 2023 05:01 PM (OalnH)

340 What does beer hsve to sell but "associated benefits", such as partying, shared sports, socializing, love of cars, etc

The new Bud ad would have been hailed as a success any other time.

Posted by: JM in Fla/Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at April 18, 2023 05:02 PM (zB2dT)

341 States pay Dominion to count their votes, no oversight allowed.

Posted by: Skip at April 18, 2023 05:02 PM (xhxe8)

342 299 Just saw that Fox News settled the case against them for $787 million.

I would have taken a chance with the jury...
Posted by: It's me donna at April 18, 2023 04:55 PM (bs+z0)

I would have paid that much for the opportunity for discovery! OK, you say my allegations are false, open up your books and records.

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 18, 2023 05:02 PM (oHd/0)

343 Fox deserves it.

Posted by: runner at April 18, 2023 05:02 PM (xNg0H)

344 But the potential is there to have another decade long run of Cosmic based/Sci-Fi Superhero story arcs if they went the Galactus route

Yeah I agree, it could have been done well if they had been smart about it and wrote it better. The Multiverse thing feels like it was a last minute jam session with terrible content. But after Captain Marvel made a billion dollars, they probably felt they could do no wrong.

one of those flaws is that Thor is even goofier than he was in Ragnarok, and seems to have lost his character development over the first three films.

Thor has gone on a jouney of self discovery like 5 times now, its a ludicrous joke. Thor has to find himself! Again!

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 18, 2023 05:02 PM (0hOvj)

345
Fox settles. Expected. They can now complete their trans-formation. They've been halfway there for the past six years.

There was enough stuff they discovered in 'discovery' to win. Now it will never see the light of day. Pussies.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 18, 2023 05:02 PM (enJYY)

346 > Just saw that Fox News settled the case against them for $787 million.
______________

Any bets on what that money will be used for?

Anyone?

/s

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 18, 2023 05:02 PM (Q4IgG)

347 But the ideals of America were there in the 70s, 80s and 90s. You could still disagree with someone politically and be friends.

No. You could not. Not where I grew up.

You got a job in the Union, if you were born into it. You went to college if you could play ball, regardless of grades. Life was not a meritocracy back then either. It was more about who you blow and much less about what you know.

You kept your opinions to yourself as white working poor, even back then. And especially if you saw blue lights anywhere around. Because once you got cuffed, you were fucked. That was known - even then.

I often wonder where so many of you grew up. Because I sure as shit didn't grow up in any kind of shining city on a hill.

Posted by: Tailor at April 18, 2023 05:03 PM (VkVqc)

348 325 >>BREAKING: Parking garage collapsed in Manhattan, New York City, several people trapped, injuries reported
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Posted by: garrett at April 18, 2023 04:59 PM (CFPNn)

We need common sense parking garage control.

Posted by: moon_over_vermont at April 18, 2023 05:03 PM (Ohafd)

349 Hopefully someone pissed on them. He was responsible for some of the worst parts of the war, especially the brutality that took place in the South Pacific. I know people who told stories about places like Guadalcanal where the Japanese were torturing and beheading Marines, then placing their heads on poles next to trail.
Posted by: Marcus T at April 18, 2023 04:43 PM (M5z+9)

To be fair to Yama, the Japanese did this crap in China long before he was in charge of anything, this was baked into the 1940 Japan Cake. They'd take crew from downed planes and behead them, shoot nurses with MGs, maltreat the very 'Asians' they were supposedly rescuing from imperialism till they hated them worse than Europeans, the whole package.

He benefits from the lack of the 'decline phase' of the war, like Stonewall Jackson does. So he seems more notable than he likely would have been watching the US Deluge come for him. Actually, wouldn't put it past him to have arranged the 'inspection tour' to killed.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 18, 2023 05:03 PM (eoQWY)

350 ExxonMobil should sue MSNBC for $10B for all the shit it's said about the company over the years. Surely that caused some damage.

Posted by: Montec at April 18, 2023 05:03 PM (OalnH)

351 Has anyone given thought that this whole Bud event was meant to kill the brand? After all, it was seen as the beer the gun-toting, sister-humping, redneck hicks loved to drink.

I bet this marketing bitch gets a promotion. She destroyed an American icon.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at April 18, 2023 05:03 PM (BdMk6)

352 >>, save how the mean assed Americans nuked the honeydew outta them in '45.

A large percentage of the Japs still revere Marshall.

Posted by: garrett at April 18, 2023 05:03 PM (CFPNn)

353 My buddy was a notorious Spiderman completionist. He had one of the largest, if not the largest, collection of Spiderman memorabilia. He had every issue, plus every issue where he made a guest appearance, plus every toy, trading card, whatever. He was fanatical.

He found himself bidding at auction sites against the same guy, another similar Spiderman fanatic, whenever a piece of rare Spiderman memorabilia popped up. So, they reached a truce. They would communicate with each other to avoid getting into bidding wars over each item. They would take turns winning auctions.

Posted by: tommylotto at April 18, 2023 05:03 PM (6QQM8)

354 American spirit, they are killing Americanism so they can do mojo Marxism.
Posted by: humphreyrobot at April 18, 2023 04:57 PM (baG0q)
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Nobody in power is really interested in Marxism. Overt Marxism is a sop for the masses, plus it puts the economy into a state that just begs the Management Class to manage it.

Any practical analyst of the management class circles could see that Marxist revolutions never go further than the dictatorship ofin the name of the Proletariat, so there no danger of Management Government ever being threatened by the "withering away of the State".

Posted by: Axeman at April 18, 2023 05:03 PM (krQz2)

355 I was unaware that there was a movie called Thor Love &Thunder -- what self-respecting male would go see a film with that title? Unless it's three names, like Mother, Jugs & Speed, then I take it back.

Posted by: Bud Norton at April 18, 2023 05:03 PM (6cOMd)

356 People watch it without getting their expectations up might enjoy the it as a popcorn movie. It's not great. It's got a lot of flaws. But one of those flaws is that Thor is even goofier than he was in Ragnarok, and seems to have lost his character development over the first three films. With the right attitude, a viewer can get some enjoyment out of that.

The sad part is that it could have been a lot better.

***
Just taking a rough count based on the movies, Thor is on his fourth journey to discover who he is despite his character arc over several movies and the fact he's what, a couple thousand years old?

He's doing this over and over because that's what the women who work for Disney Marvel keep doing over and over trying to find some meaning in their sad pathetic man-free lives.

Posted by: Azathoth at April 18, 2023 05:04 PM (wb1YC)

357 "Indeed. Rock solid, salt of the earth people. Remember a lot of those guys were 18 or 19
Years old. Imagine that."

My readings about the 8th Air Force confirm that to be true of it too. Many of those pilots and co pilots flying those Fortresses and Liberators were not even 21. Amazing

Posted by: Tuna at April 18, 2023 05:04 PM (gLRfa)

358 @337

>>easy? what economic damage could dominion even show?

I don't know, Alex Jones has to pay billions of dollars for saying Sandy Hook was a hoax.

So I can't really blame FOX for wanting to settle rather than leave their fate to a jury.

If Dominion was seeking 1.5B in damages, they settled for less than half.

That's a win for FOX.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 18, 2023 05:04 PM (up/3i)

359 They got taken for saying Dominion has fraud potential.
Dominion never probably been asked how votes get taken away multiple times.
I saw it in Pennsylvania vote tally

Posted by: Skip at April 18, 2023 05:04 PM (xhxe8)

360 Wolfus, I watched the Man From Uncle movie after you talked about it. It was fun. Unfortunately I especially like Armie Hammer as Ilya.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at April 18, 2023

***
He and Cavill were both extremely good -- better than we fans of the original show had dared to hope for. Your reaction to Illya exactly echoes how David McCallum became the big heartthrob of the show way back when. There's something about enigmatic blond Russians, I guess. And the film, while different from the series, really captured the *spirit* of it.

If I hadn't read about Hammer's fall from grace, I'd be a lot happier.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 18, 2023 05:04 PM (J2vNu)

361 Mal: Well my days of not taking you seriously are certainly coming to a middle.

Whedon was a scumbag but he could write.

Posted by: Oddbob at April 18, 2023 05:05 PM (nfrXX)

362 I was today years old when I learned King George IV's famous London Bridge is currently located in the Arizona desert

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Dude, it identifies as London Bridge.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at April 18, 2023 05:05 PM (FVME7)

363 Has anyone given thought that this whole Bud event was meant to kill the brand?

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at April 18, 2023 05:03 PM (BdMk6)
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*raises hand*

Posted by: Axeman at April 18, 2023 05:05 PM (krQz2)

364 > He found himself bidding at auction sites against the same guy, another similar Spiderman fanatic, whenever a piece of rare Spiderman memorabilia popped up. So, they reached a truce. They would communicate with each other to avoid getting into bidding wars over each item. They would take turns winning auctions.

And yet it's illegal for businesses to have agreements like this.

Posted by: bonhomme at April 18, 2023 05:05 PM (R38qh)

365 I often wonder where so many of you grew up. Because I sure as shit didn't grow up in any kind of shining city on a hill.
Posted by: Tailor at April 18, 2023 05:03 PM (VkVqc)

Could be urban vs rural... just as it is now IMO.

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 18, 2023 05:05 PM (oHd/0)

366 A large percentage of the Japs still revere Marshall.
Posted by: garrett at April 18, 2023 05:03 PM (CFPNn)

McArthur you mean?

Posted by: Xipe Totec at April 18, 2023 05:05 PM (pohLc)

367
>>BREAKING: Parking garage collapsed in Manhattan, New York City, several people trapped, injuries reported

Some AoS moron theorized this could happen a couple of weeks ago. You design a structure to hold X number of cars at a certain weight and suddenly you have EV's that weigh 1,500 pounds more.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 18, 2023 05:06 PM (enJYY)

368 "I remember there were a few voices on the right who were opposed to the Patriot Act."

If you assume I'm on the right, I was one of those. "Patriot Act" and "Homeland Security" were super creepy terms.

Posted by: SFGoth at April 18, 2023 05:06 PM (KAi1n)

369 >>McArthur you mean?

HIm too.

Posted by: garrett at April 18, 2023 05:06 PM (CFPNn)

370 "Has anyone given thought that this whole Bud event was meant to kill the brand?"

I've maintained it was sabotage. The VP knew Bud was a major GOP donor and wanted to put a stop to that.

Posted by: gourmand du jour has many opinions, some of them good at April 18, 2023 05:06 PM (jTmQV)

371 No interest in comic-book movies, zero, zilch, nada. I mean, even if I went to movies at all, those are ones I'd avoid. Whatever.

If A-B wants to make a video that will get me back to to buying any InBev product at all, make a video of all their C-suite committing seppuku, while the hanged corpses of Mulvaney and the twat what hired him swap in the breeze.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 18, 2023 05:07 PM (tkR6S)

372 Posted by: Tailor at April 18, 2023 05:03 PM (VkVqc)

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Scogg Dog.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 18, 2023 05:07 PM (Keyt1)

373 If you assume I'm on the right, I was one of those. "Patriot Act" and "Homeland Security" were super creepy terms.

We'd just watched Waco and Ruby Ridge, relatively speaking. So, of course, everybody ran forward to give the government more power. Of course they all did.

Posted by: Tailor at April 18, 2023 05:07 PM (VkVqc)

374 Mal: Well my days of not taking you seriously are certainly coming to a middle.
*
Whedon was a scumbag but he could write.
Posted by: Oddbob at April 18, 2023

***
And he knew how to hire good writers to work within his imagined worlds.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 18, 2023 05:07 PM (J2vNu)

375 If Dominion was seeking 1.5B in damages, they settled for less than half.

That's a win for FOX.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 18, 2023 05:04 PM (up/3i)

For Fox maybe, for free speech? No. Any allegations against Dominion in the future will be totally ignored by the media.

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 18, 2023 05:07 PM (oHd/0)

376 my concerns about the PATRIOT act are the same ones I have with the RICO statutes, which it was based on. Neither is proper or constitutional, but everyone shrugs at RICO.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 18, 2023 05:07 PM (0hOvj)

377 I would have paid that much for the opportunity for discovery! OK, you say my allegations are false, open up your books and records.
Posted by: Romeo13

Going out on a limb, Fox probably fell into the same trap Trump did. They probably started hiring attys that were devout leftists in sheep's clothing if not full blown DNC apparatchiks.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 18, 2023 05:08 PM (jzzG8)

378 Careful, folks! FOX is going to lecture you on AI like they lecture you on gun violence, social media and moon rockets.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at April 18, 2023 05:09 PM (V4X9X)

379 Why Fen, that's both funny and joyous. Well played.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at April 18, 2023 05:09 PM (oWBc3)

380
329 The thing about the Japs is that they teach their kids NOTHING about WW2.

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I wonder if the wrenching changes in Japan because of WW2 -- loss of so many men, bombed out cities, end to the samurai culture -- led to thebdying aging population that is Japan today.

Posted by: JM in Fla/Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at April 18, 2023 05:09 PM (aJGg7)

381 Here is why Biden is still in office, despite being a barely sentient diaper bracket.

We’ve identified 6 new Biden family members involved in shady foreign transactions, that we believe were a direct result of influence peddling. That brings the number of Biden family members now to 9.

https://bit.ly/3UKP22m

Posted by: bonhomme at April 18, 2023 05:09 PM (R38qh)

382 Mark Levin Reveals J6 Committee Subpoenaed His Private Emails

This is one of those little sidebar stories that will likely not gain much attention but should. We need more information, obviously, but in the big picture it appears the January 6th Committee used their self-granted subpoena power to gain the personal emails of radio and Fox News host Mark Levin.

A congressional committee capable of gaining the private communication of an American citizen, without the target knowing the emails were provided is alarming. The immediate question is how was it done, and what provider turned over the content?

Mark R. Levin
@marklevinshow
1. NOTE TO LIZ CHENEY
If you are still out there, Liz, please tell me how your committee acquired 13 of my private emails (that were utterly benign, but the way).
2.I did not even become aware of the unconstitutional &illegal search of my emails on my computer until the Jan 6 committee informed a lawyer working for Fox. I intend to get to the bottom of this police-state crap, Liz. Why don't you and the others just come forward & tell me

Posted by: SMOD at April 18, 2023 05:09 PM (RHGPo)

383 Ima gon get me a beer!

Posted by: Elizabeth Warren, the newest Bud Light Spokesmodel at April 18, 2023 05:09 PM (PiwSw)

384 Posted by: Tailor at April 18, 2023 05:03 PM (VkVqc)

__

That's fair, obviously this stuff is local to everyone. But I'll give you the opposite of that. When I was in college, I spent winter break at my roommate's house. His parents were about as far left as you get. Both lawyers, went to UC-Berkeley, where they met.

And here I am crazy right wing guy rolling up to their house for 3 weeks, lol. And we talked politics and argued stuff but we also got along fine. I liked them, I disagreed with everything they stood for but I still liked them as people and had a fun time.

Today that would be impossible. There's no way.

And absolutely knowing the right people has always mattered most of all. I don't think anyone would disagree with that.

Posted by: Montec at April 18, 2023 05:09 PM (OalnH)

385 BREAKING: Parking garage collapsed in Manhattan, New York City
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Was it The Jab?

Posted by: Axeman at April 18, 2023 05:09 PM (krQz2)

386 "He benefits from the lack of the 'decline phase' of the war, like Stonewall Jackson does. So he seems more notable than he likely would have been watching the US Deluge come for him. Actually, wouldn't put it past him to have arranged the 'inspection tour' to killed.
Posted by: Oldcat at April 18, 2023 05:03 PM (eoQWY)"

He benefits from nothing. He knowingly and willingly took command responsibility for troops he knew were committing these atrocities. He also knew that when the war was started, these would be their ROE's based on cultural history, which they ingrained in troops from the command level on down. Like all officers he owns it. It wasn't that he was given orders. Although that's not an excuse. He was part of formulating them.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 18, 2023 05:09 PM (M5z+9)

387 You know the guy who comes out of all this smelling like a rose?
Dennis Kucinich, of all people.
Posted by: Darrell Harris

Check this out!
https://www.c-span.org/video/?297889-5/dennis-
kucinich-patriot-act

Posted by: SFGoth at April 18, 2023 05:09 PM (KAi1n)

388 Buy Bud products, you dumb fuckers!

Posted by: Donny Trump Junior at April 18, 2023 05:09 PM (ufFY8)

389 Man, I gotta switch up my diet. Just went and took a Commander Riker, and, well, it was a life and death struggle. Going to the bathroom should not end in flopsweat with: "I need to start going to church."

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at April 18, 2023 05:09 PM (ppBhU)

390 Why Fen, that's both funny and joyous. Well played.

First day ? It's every thread I see, and many I don't.

Posted by: Tailor at April 18, 2023 05:09 PM (VkVqc)

391 Whedon was a scumbag but he could write.

He has a bad tendency where all his characters having the same voice, though. You can take nearly any line from any character and any other character can have said that line. They all have the same snarky satirical responses and takes. They all have the one liners. He's better than many modern writers that way, but not much better. He can make Captain America sound different than Iron Man, but I think that was mostly because RDJ's delivery and improv.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 18, 2023 05:10 PM (0hOvj)

392 They could always remake "The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe" as very dark with the White Witch as a heroine and the littlest girl having an affair with the faun, Tumnus and talking trees all up-up on woke lingo/s

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 18, 2023 05:10 PM (Keyt1)

393 I don't think it was to kill Bud at all, they let Ms Woke in and she did what any Marxist would, push Cultural Marxism

Posted by: Skip at April 18, 2023 05:10 PM (xhxe8)

394 Posted by: Tailor at April 18, 2023 05:03 PM (VkVqc)

I was born about the same time as you, and did not have this experience.

Posted by: Jordan61 at April 18, 2023 05:10 PM (DRSnL)

395 A couple of days ago, I followed a link posted here about taking naps.

Today I imagined that I was so far outside the universe that it was a tiny dot of light behind my head. Total darkness. Nothing to look at. Nothing to think about.

LOL. Multivervse? Why not. If God wills it, it's there.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at April 18, 2023 05:10 PM (5u1+1)

396 Can anyone explain why the CEO of Budweiser is CIA?

Because he is.

And I'd like to know.

Posted by: Oschisms at April 18, 2023 05:11 PM (0A5+1)

397 Didn't Rand Paul also oppose the Patriot Act?

Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - Longing to Lie in Zooey Deschanel's Bosom for Comfort at April 18, 2023 05:12 PM (VTu1l)

398 Yes, the multiverse supposedly is infinite possibilities so anything is possible but that's not accurate. Some things are literally impossible like a universe where no multiverse existed.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 18, 2023 05:12 PM (0hOvj)

399 Eric Adams declares war on meat and dairy to reduce emissions and save the planet

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No meat, no dairy, no rice, no vegetables. Our only hope is to eat gravel.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at April 18, 2023 05:12 PM (FVME7)

400 392 They could always remake "The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe" as very dark with the White Witch as a heroine and the littlest girl having an affair with the faun, Tumnus and talking trees all up-up on woke lingo/s
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 18, 2023 05:10 PM (Keyt1)

Starship Troopers remake... Rico is now a Trans, and the Bugs are the good guys, because the Left got us to start EATING BUGS!

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 18, 2023 05:12 PM (oHd/0)

401 I have read some more recent scholarship, can't remember where, but it seems when Enterprise and Hornet were racing south from Pearl to get into the Coral Sea fracas only to miss it; that their recall orders to get ready for Midway included them being discovered.

That way the Japanese would 'know' where all the American carriers were.

But I am not sure that holds water. Because it depends upon the Japanese finding those two carriers first of all. And after Saratoga getting torpedoed and Lexington being sunk with Yorktown mauled; I just do not see Nimitz deliberately hazarding such irreplaceable assets.
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 18, 2023 05:01 PM (gOewF)

Think I read about that, but its a little different. The two were on an operation to raid an island in the South Seas but Nimitz supposedly didn't want to risk it so he ordered Halsey to get spotted early and abort so as not to risk the counterstrike he was working up. Halsey did so and was prepped to move out to Point Luck early, thus missing the picket sub line.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 18, 2023 05:12 PM (eoQWY)

402 Posted by: Tailor at April 18, 2023 05:09 PM (VkVqc)

And I'll keep doing it as long as it amuses me. Boy, you still have decades of anger built up against your family, the church-whomever. It's so bright and hot it's incandescent! maybe it's time to ask the God you don't believe in to help you get past that.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 18, 2023 05:12 PM (Keyt1)

403 and the littlest girl having an affair with the faun, Tumnus and talking trees all up-up on woke lingo/s
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 18, 2023 05:10 PM (Keyt1)

Wow. Your imagination. Never in a million years would I have come up with that.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at April 18, 2023 05:12 PM (5u1+1)

404 zerohedge @zerohedge · 1h
Netflix Tumbles After Top-Line & Subscriber Miss; Slashed Forward Guidance
This is the second year in a row where Netflix has gotten off to a shaky start...

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at April 18, 2023 05:13 PM (Vwz3I)

405 CNN and MSNBC will endless crow about the settlement

and wonder why their ratings continue to tank

it's like inside tiddlywinks

Posted by: REDACTED at April 18, 2023 05:13 PM (us2H3)

406 > Going out on a limb, Fox probably fell into the same trap Trump did. They probably started hiring attys that were devout leftists in sheep's clothing if not full blown DNC apparatchiks.

I've been seeing more and more stories about conservatives being shut out by the legal cartel. I saw a story the other day where Glenn Greenwald claims multiple law firms agreed to take legal action to get the tranny manifesto released, only to drop him as a client.

Posted by: bonhomme at April 18, 2023 05:13 PM (R38qh)

407 Didn't Rand Paul also oppose the Patriot Act?

Yep. And was vilified for it. As did, as mentioned earlier, Dennis Kucinich.

Some here wonder, daily, why any society would rush so quickly to destroy themselves. Yet - they conveniently forget the era of the Patriot Act.

Posted by: Tailor at April 18, 2023 05:14 PM (VkVqc)

408 Tired of super-hero and repetitious "action" movies, but I figured it was just me, being 29 and all.

Posted by: JM in Fla/Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at April 18, 2023 05:14 PM (aJGg7)

409 LOL. Multivervse? Why not. If God wills it, it's there.
Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at April 18, 2023 05:10 PM (5u1+1)

In my Father's house are many Mansions...

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 18, 2023 05:14 PM (oHd/0)

410 And Scoggy, dear-I only used "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy in one other thread or maybe it was two and only because your spy act isn't working here. We all know your writing style.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 18, 2023 05:14 PM (Keyt1)

411 Yes, the multiverse supposedly is infinite possibilities so anything is possible but that's not accurate. Some things are literally impossible like a universe where no multiverse existed.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 18, 2023 05:12 PM (0hOvj)
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That just means that the warnings against "naive set theory" apply to "universes".

Posted by: Axeman at April 18, 2023 05:14 PM (krQz2)

412 You know the guy who comes out of all this smelling like a rose?
Dennis Kucinich, of all people.
Posted by: Darrell Harris

He also had good taste in women.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at April 18, 2023 05:15 PM (FVME7)

413 "Tired of super-hero and repetitious "action" movies, but I figured it was just me, being 29 and all."

It's not just you.

Posted by: Tuna at April 18, 2023 05:15 PM (gLRfa)

414 @342

>>I would have paid that much for the opportunity for discovery! OK, you say my allegations are false, open up your books and records.

More than likely FOX was informed by the judge that discovery would be severely constrained and essentially dictated by Dominion and end-user state actors.

The law and the courts are controlled and run by the Donks, FOX knows this, so they probably executed the only winning move.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 18, 2023 05:15 PM (up/3i)

415 nood fox

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 18, 2023 05:16 PM (jzzG8)

416 He benefits from nothing.
Posted by: Marcus T at April 18, 2023 05:09 PM (M5z+9)

He seems shinier because he didn't have his fleet bombed out from under him half a dozen times or die in a cave on Saipan like Nagumo with a sword in his belly. I have no illusions about his lack of western characteristics like mercy. As we found out the Japanese had only a thin veneer.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 18, 2023 05:17 PM (eoQWY)

417 407 Didn't Rand Paul also oppose the Patriot Act?

And lefty Naomi Wolf wrote a whole book warning about it in 2007. Quite prescient of her. ("The End of America ")

Posted by: JM in Fla/Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at April 18, 2023 05:17 PM (aJGg7)

418 >>>Man, I gotta switch up my diet. Just went and took a Commander Riker, and, well, it was a life and death struggle. Going to the bathroom should not end in flopsweat with: "I need to start going to church."

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority

>Son, it's a phase of the moon and will be fading with time. Eat your raisin bran and stay hydrated! And work the treadmill.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at April 18, 2023 05:18 PM (V4X9X)

419 The Dominion thing is another op. The insurers of Fox pay out and the "election" issue is settled science - and by extension other claims of election issues, like Arizona, are tainted. Insurance premiums go up - it's a tax baby.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at April 18, 2023 05:18 PM (oWBc3)

420
Today I imagined that I was so far outside the universe that it was a tiny dot of light behind my head. Total darkness. Nothing to look at. Nothing to think about.

LOL. Multivervse? Why not. If God wills it, it's there.

Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at April 18, 2023 05:10 PM

I had the coolest dream a couple of weeks back. I was on another planet not in the Milky Way with some childhood friends and we were looking up in the sky and all the stars were in the wrong place. There was a modernistic city off in the distance. Probably in Freudian dream analysis falls into the 'wish fulfillment' category. Anyway, I was happy to be there.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at April 18, 2023 05:18 PM (enJYY)

421 Hell, they fell for the Patriot Act. They begged for it. Shouted down anyone that objected.
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Hey, we were told it was supposed to fix the wall that segregated criminal investigators and intelligence agents that Clinton hack Jamie Gorelick put in place.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 18, 2023 05:20 PM (fs1hN)

422 A writers' strike would be WGA's first since the three-month strike of 2007.
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at April 18, 2023 04:48 PM (Vwz3I)

Oh, dear. That means the will no longer be scripting reality TV! What will we do?

Posted by: Kindltot at April 18, 2023 05:20 PM (xhaym)

423 Man, I gotta switch up my diet. Just went and took a Commander Riker, and, well, it was a life and death struggle. Going to the bathroom should not end in flopsweat with: "I need to start going to church."
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at April 18, 2023 05:09 PM (ppBhU)
.......

Number Two should be easy to do

Posted by: wth at April 18, 2023 05:20 PM (v0R5T)

424 I would have paid that much for the opportunity for discovery! OK, you say my allegations are false, open up your books and records.

More than likely FOX was informed by the judge that discovery would be severely constrained and essentially dictated by Dominion and end-user state actors.

The law and the courts are controlled and run by the Donks, FOX knows this, so they probably executed the only winning move.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 18, 2023 05:15 PM (up/3i)

This is how I'm seeing it. Also remember: The state of TX had no standing..... period.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at April 18, 2023 05:20 PM (BdMk6)

425 I supported the Patriot Act at the time, and was wrong to do so, but I don't give any credit to 99% of those who opposed it. They did so because "Bush Bad!!!" Where are those supposed freedom-lovers now, when we have political prisoners jailed without trial because they strolled through the Capitol? Where are they when the FBI and DOJ are targeting Catholics who dare to actually practice their religion? When the Deep State launches a hoax to try to eliminate a political opponent AND NO ONE GOES TO JAIL FOR IT?
When Kucinich looks critically at those things, I'll cut him some slack.

Posted by: Wally at April 18, 2023 05:20 PM (FJYfm)

426 It's fun reading these "go woke go broke" articles, but the CEOs and their management team approving all this woke feces still pull down massive paychecks, earning more each paycheck than most of us will earn in a career. Yeah, the shareholders might take it in the shorts -- and not in the good way -- but the management team and all their compadres still make the big bucks. Think that horse-faced, socially-connected AB/InBev marketing VP will ever see her annual earnings drop down to a mere six digits? She'll fail up. As do all the Hollywood wokesters.

Posted by: Schroedinger's Cat Wears the Emperor's New Clothes at April 18, 2023 05:22 PM (5Pci1)

427 They already knew we could take the loss of the entire Philippine Islands without rushing our navy out to fight at a disadvantage, one small atoll isn't going to cut it.
Posted by: Oldcat at April 18, 2023 04:51 PM (eoQWY)

I wrote an outline where the IJN made a sortie to hold the Columbia up to Portland and the Kaiser shipyards.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 18, 2023 05:24 PM (xhaym)

428 Life long Texan here. All I can say is you don’t see Shiner pulling this shit.

Posted by: Mose at April 18, 2023 05:30 PM (lAu2b)

429 @334 That way the Japanese would 'know' where all the American carriers were.

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My understanding is that Nimitz wanted the carriers spotted so that the Japanese wouldn't be tempted to try continuing with the invasion. If they fought two carriers and American planes stopped showing up, they might think that there was nothing still in place to stop the invasion force. But if the IJN detected two more carriers, they'd conclude that landing was suicidal and recall the landing force - assuming that they hadn't already.

Posted by: junior at April 18, 2023 05:36 PM (7hZcS)

430
The next Budweiser commercial will have Jesus drinking Bud at the last supper, followed by Jesus coming out of the tomb and the first thing he asks for is a Budweiser.

Posted by: Frank Barone at April 18, 2023 05:41 PM (+oR7L)

431 Budweiser- The official beer of flight 93.

Gaaahd Bless Amuricahh *Eagle screech*'

Posted by: stv at April 18, 2023 05:42 PM (/dqoc)

432 Guardians of the Galaxy 1 was good.

Guardians of the Galaxy 2 was meh.

Guardians of the Galaxy 3 won't get me to a theater. But I can borrow the means to watch on D-.

Deadpool 3 won't get me to the theater either, but it's the only Marvel movie I'm interested in seeing.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at April 18, 2023 05:43 PM (MnTZ8)

433 *Rolls eyes at Budweiser.*

*Sprains all eight eye rolling muscles.*

Posted by: eleven at April 18, 2023 05:51 PM (iziT8)

434 "Budweiser- The official beer of flight 93.

Gaaahd Bless Amuricahh *Eagle screech*'

Posted by: stv"

nailed it.

Posted by: eleven at April 18, 2023 05:53 PM (iziT8)

435 Bud Light ad #2:

We open to a gladiatorial ring. In this corner...Glorious Maximus! He's a huge sweaty tough guy in a Roman gladiatorial outfit. In the other corner...Dylan Mulvaney. He's doing these ridiculous stretches and wearing a cocktail dress.

Okay, Fight!

Dylan rushes forward arms swinging, screaming some nonsense. Glorious Maximus holds him off with a hand to the forehead of Dylan, like how you might fend off a little kid. It obviously takes little effort. In the other had he has a Bud Light. He takes a long slow drink. He smiles at the camera and says "Dilly dilly."

Posted by: Inspector kemp at April 18, 2023 05:59 PM (+DS2f)

436 Guardians of the Galaxy 3 - i just don't get the point. The preview looks like empty drama and tired one-liners. Too many superhero movies.

Posted by: Tom at April 18, 2023 06:11 PM (bjV9z)

437 If you buy one, you subsidize woke, and obvious, not even subtle, woke:

Budweiser, Bud Light, Select, American Ale, Dry, Extra, Ice, Ice Light, Brewmaster's Private Reserve, Light Lime,Clamato Chelada, Extra
Michelob, Light, Honey Lager, AmberBock, Golden Draft, Golden Draft Light, Bavarian Wheat, Porter, Pale Ale, Dunkel Weisse,Ultra, Ultra Amber, Ultra Lime Cactus, Ultra Pomegranate Raspberry,Ultra Tuscan Orange Grapefruit,
Busch, Light, Ice
Natural Light, Ice
Bare Knuckle Stout, Ziegenbock, Ascent 54, Redbridge, Rolling Rock, Landshark Lager, Shock Top, Skipjack Amber LagerWild Blue, Sun Dog, Beach Bum Blonde Ale, Jack's Pumpkin Spice Ale, Winter's Bourbon Cask Ale, O’Douls, Stone Mill Pale Ale, Wild Hop Lager, Hurricane Malt Liquor, Hurricane Ice, King Cobra
Anheuser-Busch also has minority holdings in Red Hook Brewing and Widmer Bros., and distribution deals with Goose Island, Kona, Ray Hill, Starr Hill Brewing, Fordham, Dominion, Harbin, Tiger,,Kirin
Bass, Beck's, Boddington, Hoegaarden, Leffe, Stella Artois, Löwenbräu, Tennent's Ale, and Budvar Czechvar

I like some of these beers a lot. Fuck ‘em all.

Posted by: Gofa Ursef at April 18, 2023 07:39 PM (OZm+l)

438 You know, that Budweiser stuff would work if it was accompanied by at least a decent pretend level of contrition. "Yup, we screwed up big time. We left our first love and went looking for some afternoon delight and we - rightly - got burned. We're sorry and would like you to take us back."

But they can't do that and be true Progressives.
Because they haven't figured out that "inclusiveness" only goes so far. It's a (progressive) virtue ... right up until you start telling me I have to invite that a**hole, Bob, who always pisses in the pool (standing on the side) and gropes all the women (even your wife) and throws up on his way out the door (because he drank as much as everyone else combined). Because, in a different way, Mulvaney IS Bob.

Posted by: GWB at April 18, 2023 09:11 PM (NJ9MR)

439 The best thing that can happen to Disney is to let them die on the corpses or the mega money-making franchises they have killed. I actually am enjoying the front row seat to their financial insolvency.
We really don't need politicians to end Disney, they are doing it on their own by driving their loyal customers away. Good luck making a profit off the "money on the table" people who never watched your movies, purchased your toys or even liked Star Wars or Marvel. What a bunch of damn fools Disney is!

Posted by: Tracy at April 18, 2023 11:31 PM (Cci2a)

440 I've read recently that the paying movie goers are burned out on Superhero adventure flicks. I agree. When there were only a few, and those were really good, it worked. Now they've flooded the market with crap and expected no one to notice. We did. GFY.

Posted by: Ray Mota at April 19, 2023 11:30 AM (sw3xv)

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