This. Is. Something.

I will probably see Mission: Impossible on Day One. I'm a fan of the series, and the last two entries have been great. A lot of people really like M:I 4. I thought that was okay, but not as good as 3, 5, and 6.

Based on the villain's lines here -- "You have no idea of the power I control" as well as his claim that Ethan's fate has already been seen and written -- I'm pretty sure this is about a super-intelligent AI capable of accurately forecasting the future. Among other things. Interestingly, the former head of the CIA from the first movie -- "McKittrick" -- has now gone private and apparently working with the tech mogul to control the world with his super-AI.

And based on lines from a previous teaser -- about "the chance to control the truth" -- the AI is designed to manipulate public opinion. Via, I imagine, AI generated-and-perfected "disinformation."

They probably won't talk about the more insidious and powerful threat to "the truth," the suppression/censorship of true information, because that's not as sexy as active lies. Who knows, maybe they'll hint at it, but I doubt it. It would be too controversial to suggest that The Regime actively censors the truth.

So not just forecasting the future, but pre-scripting the future.

A former head of the CIA attempting to control speech and dictate the future through censorship and computer algorithms? How does Hollywood come up with these completely-implausible fantasy scenarios?

Usually I don't care about the villain's plot in this type of movie -- he wants to blow up X, Y, or Z, yadda yadda yadda, who cares, it's just an excuse for action sequences -- but this particular plot really interests me, for obvious reasons. Seriously, I think this is the first Villain's Plot I've had any interest in since pretty much forever.

Oh and Haley Atwell's in it.

Here's the previous teaser in which the former head of the CIA, McKittrick, tells Ethan Hunt that they now have "the chance to control the truth, the concepts of right and wrong, for centuries to come."

By the way, of course Tom Cruise is not going to put in a divisive message which clearly links the left with this censorship/world control scheme. The plot will be deliberately apolitical and allow viewers to imagine that it's just Donald Trump behind "the truth... vanishing." In almost any dystopian movie (or threat of future dystopia), they're always written to allow everyone to imagine that his Designated Villain is responsible for the apocalypse.

But I'll know. There's only one political movement controlling AI and using AI to censor people's speech, and it's not MAGA.

Speaking of dangerous technology which has the potential for ending the world as we know it:

Someone was joking that you won't be able to understand the dialogue in this movie, like in every other Nolan film. Like they'll have Einstein in a Bane mask saying "Mmmf nnngth mmfh deuterium ngmmth mmmrhhg."

Five Nights at Freddy's is based on a videogame where you're working at a Chucky Cheese type restaurant and then the animatronic mascot characters come to life and start doing murders.

The trouble is, people liked this concept so much that two other movies already ripped it off before this new movie came to theaters: Nic Cage gave a nearly wordless performance in the rip-off Willy's Wonderland, and the Banana Splits "reimagining" turned the macots into killer robots. And maybe aliens? I dunno. I saw it but remember very little.

The "original" has already been beaten to the theaters by derivatives.

How weird is it that I've seen The Banana Splits movie and most of the Nick Cage version, Willy's Wonderland? What kind of an idiot am I? I see like ten new movies per year and these are what I rent on PPV. Well, I'm not going to see this one. I've seen the concept twice already and it didn't wow me either time.

Finally: Fast X tried to figure out a way they could appeal even harder to young men, and then they realized: Needs. Moar. Brie Larson.

She is playing a villain here, I think. And she's in this four minute trailer for a single line. Which probably indicates a career in trouble.

All I know is: This time, it's about Family.

Posted by: Ace at 04:19 PM

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1 Timing.

Posted by: Half Dozen at May 17, 2023 04:20 PM (eHovo)

2 First?

Posted by: Caunotaucarius at May 17, 2023 04:20 PM (PpguJ)

3 All I saw in this was "Haley Atwell"

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 17, 2023 04:21 PM (HrY9V)

4 What to do??? Stay here, or run my errands…

Posted by: tubal at May 17, 2023 04:22 PM (PCK5/)

5 Isn't Vin Diesel getting a bit long in the tooth for this sort of role?

Posted by: Archimedes at May 17, 2023 04:22 PM (eOEVl)

6 "You have no idea of the power I control" as well as his claim that Ethan's fate has already been seen and written -- I'm pretty sure this is about a super-intelligent AI capable of accurately forecasting the future. "

I am going with he has a time machine.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 17, 2023 04:23 PM (ncXxy)

7 not sponge

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 17, 2023 04:23 PM (LvTSG)

8 Oh and Haley Atwell's in it.

Yeah, but she's 41 now. Way past her prime.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 17, 2023 04:23 PM (eOEVl)

9 5 Isn't Vin Diesel getting a bit long in the tooth for this sort of role?
Posted by: Archimedes at May 17, 2023 04:22 PM (eOEVl)

You mean he gets up a LOT during the night??

Posted by: tubal at May 17, 2023 04:23 PM (PCK5/)

10 Nice eyes

Posted by: Zeera. 'We want fun and we wanna get wasted!' at May 17, 2023 04:24 PM (hIKhs)

11 I'm going to take back some of the things I said about Tom Cruise.

Posted by: Dr. T at May 17, 2023 04:24 PM (0EnJo)

12 Oh and Haley Atwell's in it.

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She has what I believe are scientifically called gozangas.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 17, 2023 04:24 PM (LvTSG)

13 >>>I am going with he has a time machine.

what is this, Indiana Jones?!

Posted by: ace at May 17, 2023 04:24 PM (iHBZj)

14 Could we do without the "If you do X, I will find you and kill you" line. It's utterly hackneyed and nobody's gonna do it better than Liam Neeson.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 17, 2023 04:24 PM (eOEVl)

15 "Is That Legal?" - Musk Chides OpenAI's For-Profit Pivot After His $50 Million Investment

OpenAI was originally formed as a nonprofit entity to ensure it was free to achieve its stated goal and then became a for-profit company back in 2019.

.. there was an email from a "Google engineer" that both Microsoft and Google were losing the AI war to the open source community.

Posted by: SMOD at May 17, 2023 04:24 PM (RHGPo)

16 Have not seen many Cruise movies that were not good…

Posted by: tubal at May 17, 2023 04:25 PM (PCK5/)

17 All I know is: This time, it's about Family.

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"Dom! We can't take a car into space! There are no roads!"

"It's not about roads. It's about family."

*drives GT out of spacedock*

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 17, 2023 04:25 PM (LvTSG)

18 I nooded the otters.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at May 17, 2023 04:25 PM (N3zMI)

19 I've never known anyone more "something" challenged than ace

Posted by: REDACTED at May 17, 2023 04:25 PM (us2H3)

20 14 Could we do without the "If you do X, I will find you and kill you" line. It's utterly hackneyed and nobody's gonna do it better than Liam Neeson.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 17, 2023 04:24 PM (eOEVl)

Aw shucks.

Posted by: Kerrmit the Frog at May 17, 2023 04:25 PM (PiwSw)

21 Someone was joking that you won't be able to understand the dialogue in this movie, like in every other Nolan film. Like they'll have Einstein in a Bane mask saying "Mmmf nnngth mmfh deuterium ngmmth mmmrhhg."
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"Inception" was comprehensible. He *can* do it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 17, 2023 04:26 PM (DU+/6)

22 >>>16 Have not seen many Cruise movies that were not good…

the mission impossible movies have all been good since 3. And, as you've probably heard, almost all the stunts are practical. and really spectacular.

Posted by: ace at May 17, 2023 04:26 PM (iHBZj)

23 If I knew how to link a picture, I would definitely post one of Haley Atwell

Posted by: Jay in PA at May 17, 2023 04:26 PM (i7Q7S)

24 they're always written to allow everyone to imagine that his Designated Villain is responsible for the apocalypse.

I did like in The Giver the villain, played by Meryl Streep, is clearly doing her best Hillary Clinton imitation.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 17, 2023 04:27 PM (lc5cP)

25 Finally: Fast X tried to figure out a way they could appeal even harder to young men, and then they realized: Needs. Moar. Brie Larson.

She is playing a villain here, I think. And she's in this four minute trailer for a single line. Which probably indicates a career in trouble.

All I know is: This time, it's about Family.
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Don't be silly, Ace. It's not *just* about family. It's also about Corona beer, you can be sure.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 17, 2023 04:27 PM (DU+/6)

26 Is Neeson still Taken??

Posted by: tubal at May 17, 2023 04:27 PM (PCK5/)

27 "It's not about roads. It's about family." *drives GT out of spacedock*

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thats literally what happened in the last movie

Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - Longing to Lie in Zooey Deschanel's Bosom for Comfort at May 17, 2023 04:27 PM (VTu1l)

28 She has what I believe are scientifically called gozangas.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 17, 2023 04:24 PM (LvTSG)
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Bazoombas. No scientific method. Just the ocular method.

Posted by: scampydog at May 17, 2023 04:27 PM (2bFN5)

29 There could be an outbreak of "Natural Intelligence" but don't count on it.

Posted by: SMOD at May 17, 2023 04:27 PM (RHGPo)

30 Ace just wants to ogle Haley’s ample sweater puppies

Not that there’s anything wrong with that

Posted by: browndog on his cellphone at May 17, 2023 04:27 PM (pY+ea)

31 I'm going to just throw this out there: MI:2 contained what could have been a decent movie but John Woo didn't know how to make that movie.

Posted by: Blake - semi lurker at large at May 17, 2023 04:27 PM (2YtOq)

32 Five Nights at Freddies got semi-cancelled for a while because the guy behind it is a Christian.

Note, he didn't DO anything, the internet just found out he was a Christian.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 17, 2023 04:27 PM (lc5cP)

33 21 Someone was joking that you won't be able to understand the dialogue in this movie, like in every other Nolan film. Like they'll have Einstein in a Bane mask saying "Mmmf nnngth mmfh deuterium ngmmth mmmrhhg."
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"Inception" was comprehensible. He *can* do it.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 17, 2023 04:26 PM (DU+/6)

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The sound design in Tenet is aggressive, but I've never understood the criticism that you can't understand what's going on. Sure, there are definitely moments where you can't hear what people are saying, but it's usually in moments like the tour of the art gallery at the airport. We've had clear dialogue about what the plan is, and everything, but when the sound drowns out dialogue is when the minor character is explaining security features...we already know about.

The bigger problem is that it's all silly nonsense that's hard to understand from a basic storytelling point of view. I get into it, though.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 17, 2023 04:28 PM (LvTSG)

34 I will probably see Mission: Impossible on Day One.

Hard pass. Hard to believe anything that squirt does.

(Especially as Jack Reacher)

Posted by: rickb223 at May 17, 2023 04:28 PM (Uh6Mj)

35 Brie Larsen 2016: https://is.gd/MkxyEN
Brie Larsen 2023: https://is.gd/ZDx60z

That is one titjob that definitely did *not* need to happen.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 17, 2023 04:28 PM (DU+/6)

36 Riley Gaines, a former top college athlete, called on Congress on Wednesday to pass the “Women’s Bill of Rights,” which would clarify that the term “woman” is based on biology rather than personal identity when it appears in federal law.

Matt Walsh .. call your office

Posted by: SMOD at May 17, 2023 04:28 PM (RHGPo)

37 27 "It's not about roads. It's about family." *drives GT out of spacedock*

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thats literally what happened in the last movie
Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - Longing to Lie in Zooey Deschanel's Bosom for Comfort at May 17, 2023 04:27 PM (VTu1l)

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They put rockets on a car. Totally different.

I just want a car driving out of a space station, window rolled down, and Dom hugging some member of his family.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 17, 2023 04:29 PM (LvTSG)

38 >>>27 "It's not about roads. It's about family." *drives GT out of spacedock*

I just watched the Pitch Meeting for that one (F9: The Fast Saga). As he's flying a car into low orbit to shoot a missile at a satellite, the driver says, "It's just physics. You can't argue with math."

And Producer Guy says, "oooh, the absolute audacity of saying that line in this scene!"

Posted by: ace at May 17, 2023 04:29 PM (iHBZj)

39 the mission impossible movies have all been good since 3. And, as you've probably heard, almost all the stunts are practical. and really spectacular.

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Thank God you said this because if you had said MI2 was good I would have slapped you one

I still cant get over how Woo replayed the same scene of Cruise shooting a car into a fiery blaze using a mere handgun for like 20 minutes.

Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - Longing to Lie in Zooey Deschanel's Bosom for Comfort at May 17, 2023 04:29 PM (VTu1l)

40 Which was see the MI that took place in the Chunnel ? That was beyond ridiculous.

Posted by: polynikes at May 17, 2023 04:29 PM (MNhXM)

41
'Oppenheimer' might get my derriere into a theater seat.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at May 17, 2023 04:29 PM (enJYY)

42 I hope Rebecca Ferguson is in the new MI movie because, well… Rebecca Ferguson..

Posted by: tubal at May 17, 2023 04:29 PM (PCK5/)

43 The bigger problem is that it's all silly nonsense that's hard to understand from a basic storytelling point of view. I get into it, though.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 17, 2023 04:28 PM (LvTSG)
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Nolan is a wildcard. Sometimes he does amazing work when he goes Maximum Nolan, and sometimes incomprehensible gibberish happens when goes Maximum Nolan.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 17, 2023 04:29 PM (DU+/6)

44 I first saw Atwell in Pillars of the Earth. She had a semi-nude scene, but was heavier then.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 17, 2023 04:29 PM (eOEVl)

45 >>>Hard pass. Hard to believe anything that squirt does.

(Especially as Jack Reacher)

i liked the reacher movie. The first one. I know he's way too short.

Posted by: ace at May 17, 2023 04:29 PM (iHBZj)

46 Will Haley Atwell go "Mmmf nnngth mmfh it's so big ngmmth mmmrhhg." ?

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty at May 17, 2023 04:30 PM (+2+Bx)

47 Cue the short jokes.

Posted by: wth at May 17, 2023 04:30 PM (v0R5T)

48 >>>40 Which was see the MI that took place in the Chunnel ? That was beyond ridiculous.

that was the first one

Posted by: ace at May 17, 2023 04:30 PM (iHBZj)

49 I still cant get over how Woo replayed the same scene of Cruise shooting a car into a fiery blaze using a mere handgun for like 20 minutes.
Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - Longing to Lie in Zooey Deschanel's Bosom for Comfort at May 17, 2023 04:29 PM (VTu1l)
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Not even Peak Thandie Newton could save MI: 2.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 17, 2023 04:30 PM (DU+/6)

50 43 Nolan is a wildcard. Sometimes he does amazing work when he goes Maximum Nolan, and sometimes incomprehensible gibberish happens when goes Maximum Nolan.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 17, 2023 04:29 PM (DU+/6)

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Maximum Nolan seems to be Inception/Tenet. I prefer Interstellar which may be Maximum Nolan, but is more grounded in something that could be real which keeps him from going too far up his own butt.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 17, 2023 04:31 PM (LvTSG)

51 Seriously, I think this is the first Villain's Plot I've had any interest in since pretty much forever.
Posted by: ace

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Since Lex Luthor threatened to buy Nevada and then nuke the San Andreas fault, eh?

Posted by: Muldoon at May 17, 2023 04:31 PM (kXYt5)

52 45 >>>Hard pass. Hard to believe anything that squirt does.

(Especially as Jack Reacher)

i liked the reacher movie. The first one. I know he's way too short.
Posted by: ace at May 17, 2023 04:29 PM (iHBZj)

Anything with Robert Duvall in it is worth watching..

Posted by: tubal at May 17, 2023 04:31 PM (PCK5/)

53 I will see it when it’s on TV. Cruise is a very good actor despite being a weirdo.

Posted by: Piper at May 17, 2023 04:31 PM (ZdaMQ)

54 45 i liked the reacher movie. The first one. I know he's way too short.
Posted by: ace at May 17, 2023 04:29 PM (iHBZj)

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I believe he only wanted to produce it with someone else starring in it, but no studio would back it unless he starred in it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 17, 2023 04:31 PM (LvTSG)

55 that was the first one

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Ah yes the first one, which takes the concept of a show that was all about a team working together, and then proceeds to kill the entire team sans Cruise in the first five minutes

Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - Longing to Lie in Zooey Deschanel's Bosom for Comfort at May 17, 2023 04:31 PM (VTu1l)

56 Well the trailer makes it clear in the first 10 seconds that Tom Cruise has fulfilled his contractual obligations in this new movie:
1. Motorcycles
2. Running

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 17, 2023 04:31 PM (DU+/6)

57 Yeah, but she's 41 now. Way past her prime.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 17, 2023 04:23 PM (eOEVl)
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You can get fired at CNN for saying this.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 17, 2023 04:31 PM (z5VAa)

58 I need to watch more of the MI movies. I saw the first two and stopped. I hear from everyone they get better.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, GotG vol 3 review at May 17, 2023 04:32 PM (xcxpd)

59 >>>
Ah yes the first one, which takes the concept of a show that was all about a team working together, and then proceeds to kill the entire team sans Cruise in the first five minutes

he does put a second team together, though. (Two of the four are traitors and working for the enemy. Who is course the team leader of the last team.)

Posted by: ace at May 17, 2023 04:32 PM (iHBZj)

60 Not even Peak Thandie Newton could save MI: 2.

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I half expected her to rip her mask off as well to reveal a Roseanne Barr the entire time.

Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - Longing to Lie in Zooey Deschanel's Bosom for Comfort at May 17, 2023 04:32 PM (VTu1l)

61
I am going with he has a time machine.
Posted by: Mister Scott

Reprise 'Edge of Tomorrow'?

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 17, 2023 04:33 PM (YGw7M)

62 Willie's Wonderland was awesome! Every 1980's horror movie cliche and Cage doesn't say one word. I have a t-shirt for that movie.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at May 17, 2023 04:33 PM (Wy1BU)

63 Instead of the Cannes film festival they should have a Cans film festival, a week of Cans

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at May 17, 2023 04:33 PM (S+j2h)

64 On movie judgements I always do a mind game of whether they would be better with a different lead or co lead. I like a lot of Cruise movies but a number of them could have been better with someone else in his role. Of course just IMHO.

Posted by: polynikes at May 17, 2023 04:33 PM (MNhXM)

65 If I eliminated watching movies that had weirdos in it, I would be down to watching Veggie Tales..

Posted by: tubal at May 17, 2023 04:33 PM (PCK5/)

66 >>>58 I need to watch more of the MI movies. I saw the first two and stopped. I hear from everyone they get better.

so much better. 3 was great, 4 was good (a lot of people say it was great, I don't agree), 5 was amazing, 6 was a strong follow-up to 5.

Posted by: ace at May 17, 2023 04:33 PM (iHBZj)

67 By the way, of course Tom Cruise is not going to put in a divisive message which clearly links the left with this censorship/world control scheme. The plot will be deliberately apolitical and allow viewers to imagine that it's just Donald Trump behind "the truth... vanishing." In almost any dystopian movie (or threat of future dystopia), they're always written to allow everyone to imagine that his Designated Villain is responsible for the apocalypse.
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Good. This is how it should be. It's an action movie, not a polemic. Make your villain, tell his story, let the audience draw any conclusion it wants. I don't need to be beaten about the face and neck with the blunt end of the political premise.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 17, 2023 04:33 PM (DU+/6)

68 he does put a second team together, though. (Two of the four are traitors and working for the enemy. Who is course the team leader of the last team.)

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yeh that was the saving grace that kept me watching

Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - Longing to Lie in Zooey Deschanel's Bosom for Comfort at May 17, 2023 04:33 PM (VTu1l)

69 58 I need to watch more of the MI movies. I saw the first two and stopped. I hear from everyone they get better.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, GotG vol 3 review at May 17, 2023 04:32 PM (xcxpd)

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I is a De Palma movie. II is a Woo movie in all the worst ways. III is an Abrams movie in its most generic form.

IV on are Cruise movies. He's been a producer since the beginning and there's an argument that the entire series reflects him (I is him wanting to work with interesting directors, II is him trying to prove himself as an action star, III is him trying to use his star to help an up and coming director), but as much as I enjoy IV on, they are the Cruise shows, not the Bird/McQuarrie shows.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 17, 2023 04:34 PM (LvTSG)

70 8 Oh and Haley Atwell's in it.

Yeah, but she's 41 now. Way past her prime.
Posted by: Archimedes

I'm willing to overlook that because I'm forward looking.

Posted by: Puddleglum at May 17, 2023 04:34 PM (sAmhv)

71
OT - But the Philly Mayors race it looks like a conservative Republican won. But she's a woman of color and ran as a Democrat. With Philly being 70% Democrat she's almost a sure lock in November.

Stock up on popcorn and cheese steaks.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at May 17, 2023 04:34 PM (enJYY)

72 Brie Larsen 2016: https://is.gd/MkxyEN
Brie Larsen 2023: https://is.gd/ZDx60z

That is one titjob that definitely did *not* need to happen.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 17, 2023 04:28 PM (DU+/6)
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This is a great piece of comparative analysis. Very thought provoking.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 17, 2023 04:34 PM (z5VAa)

73 Not even Peak Thandie Newton could save MI: 2.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 17, 2023 04:30 PM (DU+/6)

Great screw up in that film is the shot from behind the Ducati 797 street bike on the beach. It showed the back tire that had knobby tires instead of street tires.

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at May 17, 2023 04:34 PM (OgrpQ)

74 Is ace admitting he's an AI?

Posted by: blaster at May 17, 2023 04:34 PM (pwExq)

75 I need to watch more of the MI movies. I saw the first two and stopped.

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Yeah and no one would blame you, 2 was a complete clown show

Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - Longing to Lie in Zooey Deschanel's Bosom for Comfort at May 17, 2023 04:34 PM (VTu1l)

76 Matt Damon trying to play serious adult characters will never not be a sad joke.

Posted by: Emmett Milbarge at May 17, 2023 04:34 PM (3vCGB)

77 66 so much better. 3 was great, 4 was good (a lot of people say it was great, I don't agree), 5 was amazing, 6 was a strong follow-up to 5.
Posted by: ace at May 17, 2023 04:33 PM (iHBZj)

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3 irritates me because it relies entirely on a lie from the opening for an emotional resonance that...it doesn't need but seems to rely on.

I mean, the action is fun, but it's all a dumb mystery box.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 17, 2023 04:35 PM (LvTSG)

78 >>> III is an Abrams movie in its most generic form.

no, III was really good. I know we're all sick of Abrams now but III was a good movie and we didn't know his schtick well enough to be sick of it yet.

Posted by: ace at May 17, 2023 04:35 PM (iHBZj)

79 "FBI agents?? Mom, don't tell them anything."
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at May 17, 2023 03:39 PM (Vwz3I)
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Good advice from lawyers further on that thread -

Shut the F*** Up
https://twitter.com/i/status/1454135406501326849

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 17, 2023 04:35 PM (fs1hN)

80 i liked the reacher movie. The first one. I know he's way too short.
Posted by: ace

I preferred the Reacher series on Amazon.
Alan Ritchson is believable. Especially since I read Lee Child's books from the start.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 17, 2023 04:36 PM (Uh6Mj)

81 I really enjoyed the first MI movie. Yes, it's very very much a De Palma movie but that isn't a bad thing. That movie is shot beautifully, the stunts are spectacular, the story is fairly tight and Tom Cruise did a bang-up job.

I wasn't quite able to suspend my disbelief enough, though, to believe that the smoke show that played Claire would be married to John Voight ...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 17, 2023 04:36 PM (DU+/6)

82 Riley Gaines, a former top college athlete, called on Congress on Wednesday to pass the “Women’s Bill of Rights,” which would clarify that the term “woman” is based on biology rather than personal identity when it appears in federal law.
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But, who can really say what a "woman" is?

Posted by: Ketanji Brown-Jackson at May 17, 2023 04:36 PM (z5VAa)

83 78 >>> III is an Abrams movie in its most generic form.

no, III was really good. I know we're all sick of Abrams now but III was a good movie and we didn't know his schtick well enough to be sick of it yet.

Posted by: ace at May 17, 2023 04:35 PM (iHBZ

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I watched it again a few months ago. It's pretty generic Abrams. The action kicks, but the storytelling is all about tricking the audience.

At least Keri Russell looks really good.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 17, 2023 04:36 PM (LvTSG)

84 you know what would be a mission impossible? a class action lawsuit against the media peddlers of the russian collusion hoax for the mass harm they did. on the level of TV commercials . . . "have you or a loved one been conned into believing . . . "

Posted by: bored383 at May 17, 2023 04:36 PM (4Kzkx)

85 The charm of the Mission Impossible series is lost on me. I don't hate them. They just leave me cold. I'd much rather see Cruise doing sci-fi films like Oblivion and Edge of Tomorrow. But at least he's not doing anymore Mummy movies. So I've got that to not look forward to.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at May 17, 2023 04:36 PM (ppBhU)

86 78 >>> III is an Abrams movie in its most generic form.

no, III was really good. I know we're all sick of Abrams now but III was a good movie and we didn't know his schtick well enough to be sick of it yet.

Posted by: ace at May 17, 2023 04:35 PM (iHBZj)

I like action movies, movement on the screen.. not “ Remains of the Day”… Cruise movies bring it..

Posted by: tubal at May 17, 2023 04:36 PM (PCK5/)

87 81 I really enjoyed the first MI movie. Yes, it's very very much a De Palma movie but that isn't a bad thing. That movie is shot beautifully, the stunts are spectacular, the story is fairly tight and Tom Cruise did a bang-up job.

I wasn't quite able to suspend my disbelief enough, though, to believe that the smoke show that played Claire would be married to John Voight ...
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 17, 2023 04:36 PM (DU+/6)

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Funnily enough, they were writing the script as they filmed. They had the set pieces and then worked out how to connect them...while they were shooting.

That it works as well as it does is kind of amazing.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 17, 2023 04:37 PM (LvTSG)

88 I need to watch more of the MI movies. I saw the first two and stopped. I hear from everyone they get better.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, GotG vol 3 review at May 17, 2023 04:32 PM (xcxpd)

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I is a De Palma movie. II is a Woo movie in all the worst ways. III is an Abrams movie in its most generic form.

IV on are Cruise movies. He's been a producer since the beginning and there's an argument that the entire series reflects him (I is him wanting to work with interesting directors, II is him trying to prove himself as an action star, III is him trying to use his star to help an up and coming director), but as much as I enjoy IV on, they are the Cruise shows, not the Bird/McQuarrie shows.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 17, 2023 04:34 PM (LvTSG)

I am a big fan of Chris McQuarrie's writing, apart from some bad habits he (allegedly) picked up from Bryan Singer, he knows story structure.

Thanks TJM

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, GotG vol 3 review at May 17, 2023 04:37 PM (xcxpd)

89 >>>
I preferred the Reacher series on Amazon.
Alan Ritchson is believable. Especially since I read Lee Child's books from the start.

yeah I should watch that, I hear good things. But I don't like series, I don't like everything being so drawn out and padded.

Posted by: ace at May 17, 2023 04:37 PM (iHBZj)

90 Personally I miss Steven Hill as Dan Briggs, the original leader of the IM Force. He always gave me the impression that *he* outlined the way they would attack the problem or defeat the target. The others, like Rollin and Cinnamon, and of course Barney, would contribute their expertise and the plan would have to be modified. In the pilot, for instance, they clearly go through a brainstorming session (that we don't get, or need, to see). But to me the overall shape of the plan came from Briggs.

Peter Graves's Phelps never gave me that impression. Maybe that was why I was not bothered to have him turn out a traitor in the first Tom Cruise M:I film.

Do the modern films even give Bruce Geller a "created by" credit?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 17, 2023 04:37 PM (J2vNu)

91 Funnily enough, they were writing the script as they filmed. They had the set pieces and then worked out how to connect them...while they were shooting.

That it works as well as it does is kind of amazing.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 17, 2023 04:37 PM (LvTSG)
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Huh. Yeah, that's amazing.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 17, 2023 04:37 PM (DU+/6)

92 Great screw up in that film is the shot from behind the Ducati 797 street bike on the beach. It showed the back tire that had knobby tires instead of street tires.
Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at May 17, 2023 04:34 PM (OgrpQ)
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That whole movie was a massive screw up. Picking one thing in that movie of bad is like complaining about the surgeon missing a stitch on a dead patient.

Posted by: Blake - semi lurker at large at May 17, 2023 04:38 PM (2YtOq)

93 That is one titjob that definitely did *not* need to happen.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 17, 2023 04:28 PM (DU+/6)
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This is a great piece of comparative analysis. Very thought provoking.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 17, 2023 04:34 PM (z5VAa)
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There is no way she it that big now. Photo shop?

Posted by: WisRich at May 17, 2023 04:38 PM (G0vdT)

94 88 I am a big fan of Chris McQuarrie's writing, apart from some bad habits he (allegedly) picked up from Bryan Singer, he knows story structure.

Thanks TJM
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, GotG vol 3 review at May 17, 2023 04:37 PM (xcxpd)

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He brings the chops to a silly action adventure franchise without weighing them down with portentous pretentions.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 17, 2023 04:38 PM (LvTSG)

95 So Aquaman races cars?

Posted by: wth at May 17, 2023 04:38 PM (v0R5T)

96 > his claim that Ethan's fate has already been seen and written, I'm pretty sure this is about a super-intelligent AI capable of accurately forecasting the future.

I hope you're right. That sounds far more interesting than the standard evil Hollywood bad guy that's written to have some sort of non-descript religious fervor with a fixation on predestination.

Posted by: bonhomme at May 17, 2023 04:38 PM (j2Xg6)

97 Oppenheimer is another one where the movie's appeal is lost on me. Watching people emote about building the bomb, doubtless to a score that informs the docile audience how moved they should feel at every moment. Why?

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at May 17, 2023 04:38 PM (ppBhU)

98 Since Lex Luthor threatened to buy Nevada and then nuke the San Andreas fault, eh?
Posted by: Muldoon at May 17, 2023 04:31 PM (kXYt5)

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I’d vote for LL if ran on it.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at May 17, 2023 04:38 PM (cMXNt)

99 66 >>>58 I need to watch more of the MI movies. I saw the first two and stopped. I hear from everyone they get better.

so much better. 3 was great, 4 was good (a lot of people say it was great, I don't agree), 5 was amazing, 6 was a strong follow-up to 5.
Posted by: ace at May 17, 2023 04:33 PM (iHBZj)

So 5 is the best? Interesting. Can't say that about most movie series.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, GotG vol 3 review at May 17, 2023 04:39 PM (xcxpd)

100 99 So 5 is the best? Interesting. Can't say that about most movie series.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, GotG vol 3 review at May 17, 2023 04:39 PM (xcxpd)

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5 slaps. I think I prefer 6 because the bad guy is great.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 17, 2023 04:39 PM (LvTSG)

101 I is a De Palma movie. II is a Woo movie in all the worst ways. III is an Abrams movie in its most generic form.

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If Star Wars were a Soviet Russian movie.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bAJ7paJbc0k

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at May 17, 2023 04:39 PM (FVME7)

102 35 Brie Larsen 2016: https://is.gd/MkxyEN
Brie Larsen 2023: https://is.gd/ZDx60z

That is one titjob that definitely did *not* need to happen.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 17, 2023 04:28 PM (DU+/6)

Maybe it's just me, but I like her new tits. It might be the only thing I like about her.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, GotG vol 3 review at May 17, 2023 04:39 PM (xcxpd)

103 >>>Watching people emote about building the bomb, doubtless to a score that informs the docile audience how moved they should feel at every moment. Why?

I just want to get lost in the dreamy blue pools of Cillian Murphy's eyes.

Posted by: ace at May 17, 2023 04:39 PM (iHBZj)

104 Good advice from lawyers further on that thread -

Shut the F*** Up
https://twitter.com/i/status/1454135406501326849
Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 17, 2023 04:35 PM (fs1hN)
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Those guys have a good shtick.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 17, 2023 04:39 PM (DU+/6)

105 "I preferred the Reacher series on Amazon."

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It was good. Looking forward to the 2nd season.

Somehow, Amazon completely ruined the Jack Ryan series. My wife and I gave up after 3 episodes of the most recent season.

Posted by: Jay in PA at May 17, 2023 04:40 PM (i7Q7S)

106 I think Abrams is an asshoe for intentionally ignoring the Star Trek origin series and killing Pike instead of making him a vegetable.

That was Abram's right?

Posted by: polynikes at May 17, 2023 04:40 PM (MNhXM)

107 97 Oppenheimer is another one where the movie's appeal is lost on me. Watching people emote about building the bomb, doubtless to a score that informs the docile audience how moved they should feel at every moment. Why?
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at May 17, 2023 04:38 PM (ppBhU)

If they have feisty black women doing all the math??

Posted by: tubal at May 17, 2023 04:40 PM (PCK5/)

108 105 Somehow, Amazon completely ruined the Jack Ryan series. My wife and I gave up after 3 episodes of the most recent season.
Posted by: Jay in PA at May 17, 2023 04:40 PM (i7Q7S)

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They ruined Tom Clancy's celebration of the Deep State?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 17, 2023 04:40 PM (LvTSG)

109 Funnily enough, they were writing the script as they filmed. They had the set pieces and then worked out how to connect them...while they were shooting.

That it works as well as it does is kind of amazing.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 17, 2023

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The first movie was credited to Robert Towne, he of Chinatown fame. The odd thing is that he recycled some concepts from the one script he did for Man From U.N.C.L.E. almost 30 years before. In both an Eastern European country is seen by night; someone gets dropped off a bridge into a river; and the climaxes involve trains.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 17, 2023 04:40 PM (J2vNu)

110 Randi Weigarten does Kamala Harris.

https://bit.ly/3o8ujcU

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at May 17, 2023 04:40 PM (FVME7)

111 But, who can really say what a "woman" is?
Posted by: Ketanji Brown-Jackson

Does your "mom" have a prostate?

Because if she does, she isn't.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 17, 2023 04:41 PM (Uh6Mj)

112 So 5 is the best? Interesting. Can't say that about most movie series.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, GotG vol 3 review at May 17, 2023 04:39 PM (xcxpd)

William Shatner sobs.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at May 17, 2023 04:41 PM (N3zMI)

113 >>>So 5 is the best? Interesting. Can't say that about most movie series.

5 has this interesting opening that compellingly sets up the entire plot in like 90 seconds. It's a wonder of brevity, but also impact.

Then all the stunts and action sequences are great. Except for the "water cooled computer" break-in, but whatever. I'm not here for the Science.

Posted by: ace at May 17, 2023 04:41 PM (iHBZj)

114 109 In both an Eastern European country is seen by night; someone gets dropped off a bridge into a river; and the climaxes involve trains.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 17, 2023 04:40 PM (J2vNu)

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I think the finale of I is an homage to a Jean Pierre Melville film, Le Flic (The Cop). De Palma is the exact right generation of filmmakers who loved Melville, and the similarities are too strong.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 17, 2023 04:41 PM (LvTSG)

115 Maybe it's just me, but I like [Brie Larson's] new tits. It might be the only thing I like about her.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, GotG vol 3 review at May 17, 2023

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Definite improvement. And I looked up Haley Atwell. Hmmmm!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 17, 2023 04:42 PM (J2vNu)

116 That was a terrible photoshop on the Larsen photo.

Posted by: polynikes at May 17, 2023 04:42 PM (MNhXM)

117 113 Then all the stunts and action sequences are great. Except for the "water cooled computer" break-in, but whatever. I'm not here for the Science.

Posted by: ace at May 17, 2023 04:41 PM (iHBZj)

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Cruise learned to hold his breath for 2 minutes so that he could be placed in the middle of CGI nonsense that looks like he did it above ground.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 17, 2023 04:42 PM (LvTSG)

118 I think the finale of I is an homage to a Jean Pierre Melville film, Le Flic (The Cop). De Palma is the exact right generation of filmmakers who loved Melville, and the similarities are too strong.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 17, 2023

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How old is Le Flic? Because if it came out much prior to the U.N.C.L.E. ep in 1964, Towne might have been influenced by it too.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 17, 2023 04:43 PM (J2vNu)

119 Why does Brie Larsen think I want to look at her armpits?

Posted by: wth at May 17, 2023 04:43 PM (v0R5T)

120 I preferred the Reacher series on Amazon.
Alan Ritchson is believable. Especially since I read Lee Child's books from the start.

yeah I should watch that, I hear good things. But I don't like series, I don't like everything being so drawn out and padded.
Posted by: ace at May 17, 2023 04:37 PM (iHBZj)
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Yeah, there is some of that problem but the series is still pretty good. Also, despite even more padding, Jeff Bridges in "The Old Man" is pretty good too. The co-stars are two outstanding tough-guy dogs.

Posted by: Ketanji Brown-Jackson at May 17, 2023 04:43 PM (z5VAa)

121 I don't need to be beaten about the face and neck with the blunt end of the political premise.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

I don't understand those words in that order.

Posted by: Hollywood at May 17, 2023 04:43 PM (DgGvY)

122 There is no way she it that big now. Photo shop?
Posted by: WisRich at May 17, 2023 04:38 PM (G0vdT)
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Saw some clip of her recently and thought, "whoa, she was never flat but DAMN - she definitely had a boobjob!" That one might have been enhanced, yeah, based on some more shots I just looked at. Sorry for what might be fake news.

Here's another 2023-era pic and yeah, I still think she had some work done:
https://is.gd/8F6vBc

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 17, 2023 04:43 PM (DU+/6)

123 >>>Cruise learned to hold his breath for 2 minutes so that he could be placed in the middle of CGI nonsense that looks like he did it above ground.

yeah that one doesn't work. It is kind of tense, though, even if the CGI lets it down.

The problem was that he wanted things to look fast underwater and so he had the CGI people put in that big revolving blade-type thing. Should have just done it without that.

Posted by: ace at May 17, 2023 04:44 PM (iHBZj)

124 118 How old is Le Flic? Because if it came out much prior to the U.N.C.L.E. ep in 1964, Towne might have been influenced by it too.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 17, 2023 04:43 PM (J2vNu)

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1972, so older. It could have come from UNCLE instead, but I saw that ending of Un Flic and it was just too on the nose involving a helicopter and a train (no tunnel, though).

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 17, 2023 04:44 PM (LvTSG)

125 The last time I saw Tom Cruise in a movie was either "Taps" or that other crappy one with him playing pool.

He has had quite a career and I am happy to have missed most all of it.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at May 17, 2023 04:44 PM (i0IO3)

126 123 The problem was that he wanted things to look fast underwater and so he had the CGI people put in that big revolving blade-type thing. Should have just done it without that.
Posted by: ace at May 17, 2023 04:44 PM (iHBZj)

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It's hard to do action stuff underwater.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 17, 2023 04:44 PM (LvTSG)

127 Does your "mom" have a prostate?

Because if she does, she isn't.
Posted by: rickb223

Hold on, let me check.

Nope.

What?!

Posted by: Paul the Ignoramus at May 17, 2023 04:44 PM (qoGsy)

128 I've noticed a trend where Hollywood (at least the part of Hollywood that is still concerned with making good movies and profits) are starting to transition away from white American actresses to white British actresses. American white women are probably...scratch that...DEFINITELY the most left-wing population on the planet. They are absolutely bananas.

If you read some of the work of British left-wing white women, they are infinitely more conservative than American left-wing white women. They, generally, are the tip of the "TERF" spear and are highly suspicious of mass immigration from famously misogynistic countries.

We've finally reached a point in which American is FAR more left-wing than Europe. In fact, I think part of the reason for the massive divisiveness in American is because we have the most right-wing population in the world living shoulder to shoulder with the most left-wing population in the world. How could there not be contention?

Posted by: Lamont Cranston at May 17, 2023 04:44 PM (NVVQz)

129 Riley Gaines, a former top college athlete, called on Congress on Wednesday to pass the “Women’s Bill of Rights,” which would clarify that the term “woman” is based on biology rather than personal identity when it appears in federal law.
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These female athletes not speaking out and speaking out are missing the point. Women's athletics is being used to groom, advertise, and market to kids to change their sex. Why can't they connect that this is about confusing and grooming kids by depopulationists who occupy our institutions and it's a humiliation by going after the kids.
I mean at least she is doing something and speaking out but let's make the connection and expose and fight the beast coming after our kids.

Honestly, I don't think but only 10% of the parents even give a shit based on nobody standing up, speaking out, and anecdotal evidence when I bring this up to friends and acquaintances. It's beyond bizarre.... their non responses. I'm thinking they are after your kids too, retards then I punch them in the ding-a-ling (in my head with my 3rd eye because yoga.)

Posted by: Out of the Loop at May 17, 2023 04:44 PM (zztN+)

130 Why does Brie Larsen think I want to look at her armpits?
Posted by: wth at May 17, 2023 04:43 PM (v0R5T)
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The nerve of some women!

Posted by: Paula Cole at May 17, 2023 04:45 PM (2YtOq)

131 Plus her shoulder looks dislocated.

Posted by: wth at May 17, 2023 04:45 PM (v0R5T)

132 https://is.gd/8F6vBc
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 17, 2023 04:43 PM (DU+/6)

I think that's about the size she showed on the Kimmel show.

Posted by: polynikes at May 17, 2023 04:45 PM (MNhXM)

133 Not a movie, but if you're looking something to stream on Netflix, check out-

"Sanctuary"

It's about the rise of an up and coming Sumo wrestler set inside a low level sumo house/gym.

Excellent script, acting, and directing. One thing I like is that is white-washes nothing. The sumo training and time in the dohyo (ring) is brutal and humiliating if you're trying to climb up.

Being Japanese the story also lets you see and understand what also made the antagonists. As well as others around the protagonist. Like boxing, it is a hard and brutal profession often/usually populated by those angry at their lives with no where else to go.

It doesn't exactly reinvent the "young man finding his place in sports" story but the setting is unusual and the Japanese cultural spin is enough to make it feel like something you've never seen before.

The lovely and athletic Mrs naturalfake and I watched the whole series in one night. We were enjoying it so much.

Highly recommended. Check it out.

Posted by: naturalfake at May 17, 2023 04:45 PM (RJQ8g)

134 Doesn’t Brie Larson need some butt cheek implants?

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at May 17, 2023 04:46 PM (cMXNt)

135 105 Somehow, Amazon completely ruined the Jack Ryan series. My wife and I gave up after 3 episodes of the most recent season.
Posted by: Jay in PA at May 17, 2023 04:40 PM (i7Q7S)
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Didn't know new series was out. Bummer if they ruined it. I like all the Reacher stuff. Books, Amazon series and movies (even the leprechaun playing Reacher didn't bother me too much).

Posted by: scampydog at May 17, 2023 04:46 PM (2bFN5)

136 Oh and Haley Atwell's in it.

Well. There's two good reasons to see it.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 17, 2023 04:46 PM (anj39)

137 I love the old tv series and I will never forgive them for making Phelps a traitor.

Posted by: Nightowl at May 17, 2023 04:46 PM (DWVfL)

138 "They ruined Tom Clancy's celebration of the Deep State?"

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Well, they were trying to thwart actual terrorists. In season 1, the bad guy was a jihadi.

Someone got to them because now the evil people are all in Russia.

Posted by: Jay in PA at May 17, 2023 04:46 PM (i7Q7S)

139 Somehow, Amazon completely ruined the Jack Ryan series.

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I gave up like 1-2 shows into the first season.

1. Nobody from the Office is going to make a good Jack Ryan.

2. The rah rah muslims are awesome you bigot messaging can kindly fuck off to fuckoff ville

Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - Longing to Lie in Zooey Deschanel's Bosom for Comfort at May 17, 2023 04:46 PM (VTu1l)

140 Ooo...

New Scorsese movie trailer tomorrow...

An adaptation of Killers of the Flower Moon.

I is excite.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 17, 2023 04:46 PM (LvTSG)

141 It's hard to do action stuff underwater.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 17, 2023 04:44 PM (LvTSG)

Thunderball

Posted by: polynikes at May 17, 2023 04:46 PM (MNhXM)

142 I just want to get lost in the dreamy blue pools of Cillian Murphy's eyes.

Posted by: ace at May 17, 2023 04:39 PM (iHBZj)

Ace, please don't tell me you watch the opening scene of 28 Days Later over and over.

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at May 17, 2023 04:46 PM (OgrpQ)

143 I guess I'm Mr. Negativity today, because The Daft & Delirious, Part the Tenth, bums me out. I mean one through nine weren't enough to fully tell this Shakesperian tragedy in full? I'd really like some more Riddick before Vin Diesel dies of AIDS or whatever. But instead the public clamors for More Faster, More Furiouser.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at May 17, 2023 04:46 PM (ppBhU)

144 71
OT - But the Philly Mayors race it looks like a conservative Republican won. But she's a woman of color and ran as a Democrat. With Philly being 70% Democrat she's almost a sure lock in November.

Stock up on popcorn and cheese steaks.

---

The proggie candidate, Helen Gym, came in 3rd. Her and her supporters are throwing epic tantrums. Now, if they can figure out that they need to remove their Soros DA, the city can perhaps recede from the SF/Portland level of hell.

Posted by: Tarbash the Egyptian Magician at May 17, 2023 04:47 PM (uZ4Ij)

145 I can never follow the MI plots. Something about people chasing each other.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 17, 2023 04:47 PM (O6TxJ)

146 It's hard to do action stuff underwater.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 17, 2023 04:44 PM (LvTSG)

Thunderball

Posted by: polynikes at May 17, 2023 04:46 PM (MNhXM)

Never Say Never Again

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at May 17, 2023 04:47 PM (OgrpQ)

147 >>>Ace, please don't tell me you watch the opening scene of 28 Days Later over and over.

Guilty as cha-aarged!!!

Posted by: ace at May 17, 2023 04:47 PM (iHBZj)

148 I've only seen the first three MI movies. Should I see the fourth one?

Posted by: dantesed at May 17, 2023 04:47 PM (HyroA)

149 145 I can never follow the MI plots. Something about people chasing each other.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 17, 2023 04:47 PM (O6TxJ)

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They're about the vibes, man.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZStkUxC4iL4

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 17, 2023 04:48 PM (LvTSG)

150 "Didn't know new series was out. Bummer if they ruined it. I like all the Reacher stuff. Books, Amazon series and movies (even the leprechaun playing Reacher didn't bother me too much)."

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No, Reacher season 2 is not yet out.

Was talking about Jack Ryan. It started out good enough for mindless summer tv with the wife.

They ruined it.

Posted by: Jay in PA at May 17, 2023 04:48 PM (i7Q7S)

151 135 105 Somehow, Amazon completely ruined the Jack Ryan series. My wife and I gave up after 3 episodes of the most recent season.
Posted by: Jay in PA at May 17, 2023 04:40 PM (i7Q7S)
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Didn't know new series was out. Bummer if they ruined it. I like all the Reacher stuff. Books, Amazon series and movies (even the leprechaun playing Reacher didn't bother me too much).
Posted by: scampydog at May 17, 2023 04:46 PM (2bFN5)

That Reacher series on Amazon is the absolute TRUTH. Plus the guy playing Reacher is a vocal Christian, in the Chris Pratt mold, which is nice.

Posted by: Lamont Cranston at May 17, 2023 04:48 PM (NVVQz)

152 I can never follow the MI plots. Something about people chasing each other.

The trailer either has Cruise making faces or running while making faces.

Some focus group somewhere was trolling the researchers when coming up with the trailer.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at May 17, 2023 04:48 PM (YXHzG)

153 Posted by: PaulaGam at May 17, 2023 04:48 PM (Eion4)

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Wait a second...

I don't recognize this nic...

It's probably fine.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 17, 2023 04:49 PM (LvTSG)

154 I can never follow the MI plots. Something about people chasing each other.

Its about Family™

Posted by: Reuben Hick at May 17, 2023 04:49 PM (YXHzG)

155 I would go see it but won't by myself so won't get to see it.

Posted by: Skip at May 17, 2023 04:49 PM (xhxe8)

156 A movie I saw recently with the family is "It Ain't Over" about the baseball player/manager Yogi Berra. You don't have to be baseball fan to watch it, (I'm not) but he was a fine, fine player and I think ,a good man. Very good. pretty uplifting and amusing film. If you see it, stay through the credits where various people talk briefly about Berra.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 17, 2023 04:49 PM (Keyt1)

157 Eh, no clickee Paula..

Posted by: tubal at May 17, 2023 04:49 PM (PCK5/)

158 Cruise's stunt that opens Rogue Nation is just insane

I like the MI movies. Granted, the helicopter in the Chunnel was a stretch. And the germ warfare plots are wearing thin. But starting with Rogue Nation they've been really good.

imo ymmv

Posted by: DB - of the hill people at May 17, 2023 04:49 PM (geLO8)

159 >>>148 I've only seen the first three MI movies. Should I see the fourth one?

It's pretty good but if you're on the fence, I'd skip right to 5. 5 is great. 4 is just competent.

If you'll definitely watch them all, then yeah, start with 4 just so the continuity (loose as it is) is straight. But if you're on the fence, go to the really good one.

I think it's called "Rogue Nation."

Posted by: ace at May 17, 2023 04:49 PM (iHBZj)

160 Yeah I can't believe Jim Halbert is married to Emily Blunt.

Posted by: polynikes at May 17, 2023 04:50 PM (MNhXM)

161 I can never follow the MI plots. Something about people chasing each other.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 17, 2023 04:47 PM (O6TxJ)
.......

Sometimes there's laser beams and people crawling around on floors.

Posted by: wth at May 17, 2023 04:50 PM (v0R5T)

162 146 It's hard to do action stuff underwater.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 17, 2023 04:44 PM (LvTSG)

Thunderball

Posted by: polynikes at May 17, 2023 04:46 PM (MNhXM)

Never Say Never Again
Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at May 17, 2023 04:47 PM (OgrpQ)

The brief underwater battle in License to Kill is well done as well.

Posted by: Lamont Cranston at May 17, 2023 04:50 PM (NVVQz)

163 TJM,

Beeg Book sale at Omar Shrine this weekend, starting tomorrow.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at May 17, 2023 04:50 PM (PiwSw)

164 Watching Mission Impossible this weekend now that I've seen the trailer, and may ask a kind sweet girl on a movie date to see the new one. (Last movie I saw in theaters was Gone Girl).
Taco Bell and a Matinée for a date with the option to upgrade to Sucharos.

Posted by: Out of the Loop at May 17, 2023 04:50 PM (zztN+)

165 @12

>>She has what I believe are scientifically called gozangas.

The correct term is, bazoombas, gozangas are a brother owner operated landscaping conglomerate.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 17, 2023 04:50 PM (up/3i)

166 Ghost Protocol was good

Posted by: DB - of the hill people at May 17, 2023 04:50 PM (geLO8)

167 Well that's new. We've come a long way from lace wigs and WFH schemes.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 17, 2023 04:50 PM (DU+/6)

168 162 I can never follow the MI plots. Something about people chasing each other.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 17, 2023 04:47 PM (O6TxJ)
.......

Sometimes there's laser beams and people crawling around on floors.
Posted by: wth at May 17, 2023 04:50 PM (v0R5T)

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You may be recalling Entrapment.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 17, 2023 04:50 PM (LvTSG)

169 Posted by: PaulaGam at May 17, 2023 04:48 PM (Eion4)

Cleanup on aisle 153.

Posted by: m at May 17, 2023 04:50 PM (Fh8ec)

170 141 It's hard to do action stuff underwater.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 17, 2023 04:44 PM (LvTSG)

Thunderball
Posted by: polynikes at May 17, 2023 04:46 PM (MNhXM)

———

Perfect example.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at May 17, 2023 04:50 PM (cMXNt)

171 1972, so older. It could have come from UNCLE instead, but I saw that ending of Un Flic and it was just too on the nose involving a helicopter and a train (no tunnel, though).
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 17, 2023

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The climactic train sequence in the U.N.C.L.E. episode ("The Dove Affair," with Ricardo Montalban) is pretty tame, not flashy at all. More like the climax of the novel Von Ryan's Express. And there's no helicopter.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 17, 2023 04:50 PM (J2vNu)

172 146 It's hard to do action stuff underwater.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 17, 2023 04:44 PM (LvTSG)

as an eary fan of the hot tub, I have heard this rubbish often

Posted by: REDACTED at May 17, 2023 04:51 PM (us2H3)

173 >>>159 Cruise's stunt that opens Rogue Nation is just insane

yup, and so commenters know: The stunt in the beginning is REAL, baby. He's really outside the plane as it takes off. I mean, of course he's secured by a belt you can't see, but he's physically outside the plane.

Posted by: ace at May 17, 2023 04:51 PM (iHBZj)

174 164 TJM,

Beeg Book sale at Omar Shrine this weekend, starting tomorrow.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at May 17, 2023 04:50 PM (PiwSw)

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I went to that last year. Picked up Speaker for the Dead..which I'm finally finishing about now.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 17, 2023 04:51 PM (LvTSG)

175 I can never follow the MI plots. Something about people chasing each other.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 17, 2023 04:47 PM (O6TxJ)

I haven't had a problem, except with the last one. Well, I think I followed it, but it was just completely nonsensical. A real let-down of a film after the previous one.

Posted by: spindrift at May 17, 2023 04:51 PM (ivvNA)

176 4 is Ghost Protocol
then Rogue Nation
then Fallout

Posted by: DB - of the hill people at May 17, 2023 04:51 PM (geLO8)

177 I love The Deep. A lot of underwater stuff in that.

Posted by: ace at May 17, 2023 04:52 PM (iHBZj)

178 Cruise's stunt that opens Rogue Nation is just insane

yup, and so commenters know: The stunt in the beginning is REAL, baby. He's really outside the plane as it takes off. I mean, of course he's secured by a belt you can't see, but he's physically outside the plane.

Posted by: ace at May 17, 2023 04:51 PM (iHBZj)
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And they did seven takes.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at May 17, 2023 04:52 PM (2hlEI)

179 It does look good

Posted by: Skip at May 17, 2023 04:52 PM (xhxe8)

180 177 4 is Ghost Protocol
then Rogue Nation
then Fallout
Posted by: DB - of the hill people at May 17, 2023 04:51 PM (geLO

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then Dead Reckoning Part 1
then Dead Reckoning Part 2: Electric Bugaloo

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 17, 2023 04:52 PM (LvTSG)

181 "It Ain't Over" about the baseball player/manager Yogi Berra. You don't have to be baseball fan to watch it, (I'm not) but he was a fine, fine player and I think ,a good man.

Just as an example, in 1950, Berra had 597 at bats. He only struck out 12 times.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 17, 2023 04:52 PM (qoGsy)

182 Yeah I can't believe Jim Halbert is married to Emily Blunt.
Posted by: polynikes at May 17, 2023 04:50 PM (MNhXM)
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There's a really funny clip about John Krasinski and British customs. Graham Norton show.

Posted by: Blake - semi lurker at large at May 17, 2023 04:52 PM (2YtOq)

183 "Nobody from the Office is going to make a good Jack Ryan."

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Perhaps miscast, but he was good in '13 Hours' which caused the left to lose their minds as it showed how those warriors were abandoned by Obama/Hillary

Posted by: Jay in PA at May 17, 2023 04:52 PM (i7Q7S)

184 Someone got to them because now the evil people are all in Russia.

Will Amazon go ahead and Bud Light the Jack Ryan series by making the next villain MAGA and the MAGA King?

Posted by: Reuben Hick at May 17, 2023 04:53 PM (YXHzG)

185 By the way, of course Tom Cruise is not going to put in a divisive message which clearly links the left with this censorship/world control scheme. The plot will be deliberately apolitical and allow viewers to imagine that it's just Donald Trump behind "the truth... vanishing."

Sort of like a reverse The Live? The true Rorschach test of the 80's?

Posted by: Kindltot at May 17, 2023 04:53 PM (xhaym)

186 yup, and so commenters know: The stunt in the beginning is REAL, baby. He's really outside the plane as it takes off. I mean, of course he's secured by a belt you can't see, but he's physically outside the plane.
Posted by: ace at May 17, 2023 04:51 PM (iHBZj)
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Yup. Cruise does the job for real.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 17, 2023 04:53 PM (DU+/6)

187 187 Sort of like a reverse The Live? The true Rorschach test of the 80's?
Posted by: Kindltot at May 17, 2023 04:53 PM (xhaym)

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Red Dawn > They Live

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 17, 2023 04:53 PM (LvTSG)

188 17 All I know is: This time, it's about Family.

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"Dom! We can't take a car into space! There are no roads!"

"It's not about roads. It's about family."

*drives GT out of spacedock*

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 17, 2023 04:25 PM (LvTSG)
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Did the car scrape the side of the spacedock?

Posted by: Ciampino --- Leftists: Bright as Alaska in December. at May 17, 2023 04:53 PM (qfLjt)

189 Sometimes there's laser beams and people crawling around on floors.
Posted by: wth at May 17, 2023 04:50 PM (v0R5T)

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You may be recalling Entrapment.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 17, 2023 04:50 PM (LvTSG)

I'm recalling Catherine Zeta-Jones' ass at least

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, GotG vol 3 review at May 17, 2023 04:54 PM (xcxpd)

190 Sorry guys I gotta go and help out PaulaGam on her new sexy game.

You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at May 17, 2023 04:54 PM (cMXNt)

191 I love The Deep. A lot of underwater stuff in that.
Posted by: ace at May 17, 2023 04:52 PM (iHBZj)

They could have just put Bissett surfacing on a loop.

Posted by: polynikes at May 17, 2023 04:54 PM (MNhXM)

192 188 yup, and so commenters know: The stunt in the beginning is REAL, baby. He's really outside the plane as it takes off. I mean, of course he's secured by a belt you can't see, but he's physically outside the plane.
Posted by: ace at May 17, 2023 04:51 PM (iHBZj)
++++
Yup. Cruise does the job for real.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 17, 2023 04:53 PM (DU+/6)

But he’s so shoooort!!!

Posted by: tubal at May 17, 2023 04:54 PM (PCK5/)

193 191 I'm recalling Catherine Zeta-Jones' ass at least
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, GotG vol 3 review at May 17, 2023 04:54 PM (xcxpd)

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Day ending in 'y'.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 17, 2023 04:54 PM (LvTSG)

194 192 Sorry guys I gotta go and help out PaulaGam on her new sexy game.

You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at May 17, 2023 04:54 PM (cMXNt)

*frowns*
*starts flipping through rulebook*

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at May 17, 2023 04:54 PM (eYoxG)

195 This blonde in a dress will pass on Fast X, but will probably give the new Mission: Impossible a go:
https://is.gd/t0afsA

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 17, 2023 04:55 PM (DU+/6)

196 192 Sorry guys I gotta go and help out PaulaGam on her new sexy game.

You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at May 17, 2023 04:54 PM (cMXNt)

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It's really an act of charity you're performing. You should be celebrated.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 17, 2023 04:55 PM (LvTSG)

197 Cruise's stunt that opens Rogue Nation is just insane
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When I first saw it, I thought is was impossible to be a real stunt. Boy, was I wrong. Crazy.

Posted by: WisRich at May 17, 2023 04:55 PM (G0vdT)

198 @194

>>But he’s so shoooort!!!

He's actually not that short.

https://tinyurl.com/sfzft8d

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 17, 2023 04:55 PM (up/3i)

199 I always thought Phillip Seymour Hoffman played the best villain as Owan Davian. Total psychopath.

Posted by: Marcus T at May 17, 2023 04:55 PM (Jpad8)

200 The Daily Daddario tried to get a role in the new MI movie, but she used this headshot which does not highlight her best assets, and they passed her over for Atwell:

https://tinyurl.com/42cxutpf

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 17, 2023 04:55 PM (LvTSG)

201 Never seen the movies, but it is weird to me as a big fan of the TV show that the movies are basically a Jason Bourne type 1 man show. The T.V. was about the Mission Impossible team. You had Martin Landau the man of 1,000 faces, Barbara Bain, not really hot but tried her best, the black guy. Don't get that.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson DeSantis/Lake 2024 at May 17, 2023 04:55 PM (lzd36)

202 It's hard to do action stuff underwater.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 17, 2023

***
Yes. I love Ian Fleming's work and (most of) the Bond movies. But the novel and film of Thunderball leave me cold. Maybe it's partly that Bond is not really on his own against the threat, as he is in earlier books like Doctor No; he's got Leiter and a ton of U.S. intelligence people working with him in TB. Bond is best when he's the lone agent working against terrific odds to defeat a Mr. Big or a Hugo Drax.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 17, 2023 04:56 PM (J2vNu)

203 Sorry guys I gotta go and help out PaulaGam on her new sexy game.

You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at May 17, 2023 04:54 PM (cMXNt)
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Lol!

Posted by: bluebell at May 17, 2023 04:56 PM (pTb/Z)

204 If the villain is a tranny I'm going.

Posted by: torabora at May 17, 2023 04:56 PM (okFlE)

205 Did Cruise doing the stunt for real make it that much better than studio and CGI could have?

Posted by: polynikes at May 17, 2023 04:56 PM (MNhXM)

206 The Daily Daddario tried to get a role in the new MI movie, but she used this headshot which does not highlight her best assets, and they passed her over for Atwell:

https://tinyurl.com/42cxutpf
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 17, 2023 04:55 PM (LvTSG)
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Yeah. Rookie move.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 17, 2023 04:57 PM (DU+/6)

207 i liked the reacher movie. The first one. I know he's way too short.

I did too, the second one was not great but the first one was entertaining. You just have to think of it as not Reacher

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 17, 2023 04:57 PM (0hOvj)

208 Starbucks India
@StarbucksIndia
Your name defines who you are - whether it's Arpit or Arpita. At Starbucks, we love and accept you for who you are. Because being yourself means everything to us. #ItStartsWithYourName.

-
I'll take a venti shutthefuckup, on ice, with a spritz of whipped cream.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at May 17, 2023 04:57 PM (FVME7)

209 207 Did Cruise doing the stunt for real make it that much better than studio and CGI could have?
Posted by: polynikes at May 17, 2023 04:56 PM (MNhXM)

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Audiences get excited by feeling a sense of danger in their action movies.

The realness of the stunt is palpable in ways that CGI can't (yet?) mimic.

Yes, it was worth it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 17, 2023 04:57 PM (LvTSG)

210 26 Is Neeson still Taken??

Posted by: tubal at May 17, 2023 04:27 PM (PCK5/)
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It's time he does a new series of movies "Given".

Posted by: Ciampino - Leftists: Bright as Alaska in December at May 17, 2023 04:57 PM (qfLjt)

211 Barbara Bain, not really hot but tried her best, the black guy. Don't get that.
Posted by: Ted Torgerson DeSantis/Lake 2024 at May 17, 2023

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Oh, Barbara was hot. A slinky kind of hot that would be too subtle today (as the plots of the original TV show would be over the heads of today's audiences).

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 17, 2023 04:57 PM (J2vNu)

212 "Will Amazon go ahead and Bud Light the Jack Ryan series by making the next villain MAGA and the MAGA King?"

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Season 4, Episode 1 - "Up-and-coming CIA analyst Jack Ryan is thrust into a dangerous field assignment for the first time; he uncovers a pattern in terrorist communication that launches him into the middle of a dangerous gambit with a new breed of terrorism."

Gee, I wonder if this takes them to the hills of Tennessee with a Koresh type compound??

Posted by: Jay in PA at May 17, 2023 04:57 PM (i7Q7S)

213 Cruise's stunt that opens Rogue Nation is just insane

yup, and so commenters know: The stunt in the beginning is REAL, baby. He's really outside the plane as it takes off. I mean, of course he's secured by a belt you can't see, but he's physically outside the plane.

Posted by: ace at May 17, 2023 04:51 PM (iHBZj)

I have a fear of heights, so the stunt he pulled off in Ghost Protocol, where he climbed the Burj Kalifa, is much more impressive to me. If I were forced to choose, I would much rather be tethered to the side of C130 as it takes off.

Posted by: Lamont Cranston at May 17, 2023 04:58 PM (NVVQz)

214 Wait, Ghost Protocol is 4? Ok, I already have seen MI4 .

Posted by: dantesed at May 17, 2023 04:58 PM (HyroA)

215 Posted by: Tonypete at May 17, 2023 04:52 PM (qoGsy)

They mention in the film some ceromony for the greatest living baseball players. He was not included even though his record was higher than all the other fine players. His granddaughter turned to him and asked, "Are you dead?" an his response was "Not yet".

My only caveat was a brief mention towards the end of Berra being supportive of LBGT causes. I really doubt Berra would have been on board with transgenderism. I think he was just a person who didn't care if you were gay as long as you weren't shoving it in his face.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 17, 2023 04:58 PM (Keyt1)

216 @StarbucksIndia
Your name defines who you are - whether it's Arpit or Arpita. At Starbucks, we love and accept you for who you are. Because being yourself means everything to us. #ItStartsWithYourName. ...
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at May 17, 2023 04:57 PM (FVME7)
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What? My name is "shut up and make the coffee."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 17, 2023 04:58 PM (DU+/6)

217 >>>201 I always thought Phillip Seymour Hoffman played the best villain as Owan Davian. Total psychopath.

yeah. he's great. When Cruise tries to interrogate and intimidate him, he interrogates and intimidates cruise right back. Despite being a captive who's being threatened with death.

Posted by: ace at May 17, 2023 04:58 PM (iHBZj)

218 I think Cruise doing his own stunts means he takes his job seriously.

Posted by: Blake - semi lurker at large at May 17, 2023 04:58 PM (2YtOq)

219 197 This blonde in a dress will pass on Fast X, but will probably give the new Mission: Impossible a go:
https://is.gd/t0afsA
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 17, 2023 04:55 PM (DU+/6)

Flatter than Brie now but she does have hips.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, GotG vol 3 review at May 17, 2023 04:59 PM (xcxpd)

220 Never watched the series as I was ticked off when I found out they made Phelps the villain of the first.

Posted by: griff at May 17, 2023 04:59 PM (iWXHo)

221 219 >>>201 I always thought Phillip Seymour Hoffman played the best villain as Owan Davian. Total psychopath.

yeah. he's great. When Cruise tries to interrogate and intimidate him, he interrogates and intimidates cruise right back. Despite being a captive who's being threatened with death.
Posted by: ace at May 17, 2023 04:58 PM (iHBZj)

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I do like Hoffman as Davian a lot. I'm very mixed on III.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 17, 2023 04:59 PM (LvTSG)

222 This blonde in a dress will pass on Fast X, but will probably give the new Mission: Impossible a go:
https://is.gd/t0afsA
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 17, 2023 04:55 PM (DU+/6)

$20 same as in town.

Posted by: polynikes at May 17, 2023 04:59 PM (MNhXM)

223 I always thought Phillip Seymour Hoffman played the best villain as Owan Davian. Total psychopath.
Posted by: Marcus T at May 17, 2023 04:55 PM (Jpad

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Scary cold.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at May 17, 2023 04:59 PM (2hlEI)

224 czerny's back!!!

Posted by: sockamster, gator at May 17, 2023 04:59 PM (MLrvz)

225 >Did Cruise doing the stunt for real make it that much better than studio and CGI could have?

Posted by: polynikes

absolutely
it made all the action scenes that followed credible

Posted by: DB - of the hill people at May 17, 2023 05:00 PM (geLO8)

226 210 Starbucks India
@StarbucksIndia
Your name defines who you are - whether it's Arpit or Arpita. At Starbucks, we love and accept you for who you are. Because being yourself means everything to us. #ItStartsWithYourName.

-

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at May 17, 2023 04:57 PM (FVME7)
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Surely ... no Verily, I say unto you, that is Kamala-speak.

Posted by: Ciampino -- Leftists: Bright as Alaska in December at May 17, 2023 05:00 PM (qfLjt)

227 Domonic Toretto vs Aquaman?

Posted by: wth at May 17, 2023 05:00 PM (v0R5T)

228 226 czerny's back!!!
Posted by: sockamster, gator at May 17, 2023 04:59 PM (MLrvz)

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The one thing I'm most excited about in this movie.

He was in Scream VI, and they wasted him. Complete waste.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 17, 2023 05:00 PM (LvTSG)

229 >>>207 Did Cruise doing the stunt for real make it that much better than studio and CGI could have?
Posted by: polynikes

yes you can tell. There's a later motorcycle chase on this desert/mountain road and it's really gripping, because it's real. Well, if I had to guess, they're really driving at 100mph, but the traffic they're driving around is CGI added later. But you can't tell, and the speed is just amazing.

Posted by: ace at May 17, 2023 05:00 PM (iHBZj)

230 that is funny, wasn't MI3 the worst movie4 ever made

Posted by: sockamster, gator at May 17, 2023 05:00 PM (MLrvz)

231 "yeah. he's great. When Cruise tries to interrogate and intimidate him, he interrogates and intimidates cruise right back. Despite being a captive who's being threatened with death.
Posted by: ace at May 17, 2023 04:58 PM (iHBZj)"

He's completely confident he's going to get away, and then totally fucks with his head. Cruise knows when he gets away it's SHTF time. Owan I hen drivers later on. Of course that confidence is also his Achilles heel.

Posted by: Marcus T at May 17, 2023 05:00 PM (Jpad8)

232 Fen, another recent sports movie my wife and I enjoyed: Greater.

Posted by: Blake - semi lurker at large at May 17, 2023 05:00 PM (2YtOq)

233 >>>Ace, please don't tell me you watch the opening scene of 28 Days Later over and over.

Guilty as cha-aarged!!!
Posted by: ace at May 17, 2023 04:47 PM (iHBZj)

Noooo, stop, you don't know what you're doing!!!

Posted by: Scientist at May 17, 2023 05:00 PM (ZSK0i)

234 I like that Cruise more or less looks his age.

Posted by: Tuna at May 17, 2023 05:01 PM (gLRfa)

235 I never thought much of Barbara Bain other than the roles she played, she didn't work for me as a seductress. But all the cast were great, particularly Landau.

I watched the first two and decided that this franchise was not for me, but I am glad that it is working with a basic formula of hollywood: great action, tight enough writing, good casting.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 17, 2023 05:01 PM (0hOvj)

236 yes you can tell. There's a later motorcycle chase on this desert/mountain road and it's really gripping, because it's real. Well, if I had to guess, they're really driving at 100mph, but the traffic they're driving around is CGI added later. But you can't tell, and the speed is just amazing.

Posted by: ace at May 17, 2023 05:00 PM (iHBZj)
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At one point in the motorcycle chase, you can see Ethan's knee touch down (he's not wearing leathers). The flinch and pull back up is quite real.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at May 17, 2023 05:02 PM (2hlEI)

237 @StarbucksIndia
Your name defines who you are - whether it's Arpit or Arpita. At Starbucks, we love and accept you for who you are. Because being yourself means everything to us. #ItStartsWithYourName. ...
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

I'll start with "shouldn't your name be StarRupees?"

Posted by: mikeski at May 17, 2023 05:02 PM (DgGvY)

238 Sorry guys I gotta go and help out PaulaGam on her new sexy game.

She should have called herself Paula Gams or Betty Boobs in keeping with the sexy game theme..

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 17, 2023 05:02 PM (Keyt1)

239 There's only one political movement controlling AI and using AI to censor people's speech, and it's not MAGA.

Yes but they do it because they love us and want a better world. Nothing nefarious at all. NOTHING!

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at May 17, 2023 05:03 PM (17s+e)

240 ""You have no idea of the power I control" as well as his claim that Ethan's fate has already been seen and written -- I'm pretty sure this is about a super-intelligent AI capable of accurately forecasting the future. "

I suspect an AI to influence the world, edit information in real time and change records of the past as needed: a combination of MinTru, the Matrix and the Radio Yerevan joke "The future is always glorious, Comrade, it is the past that is subject to change"

And of course I will get on my soapbox to declare that the only way to control the world centrally is to cripple and reduce it to such a degree that any change is impossible, for good or for bad.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 17, 2023 05:03 PM (xhaym)

241 Starbucks India
@StarbucksIndia
Your name defines who you are - whether it's Arpit or Arpita. At Starbucks, we love and accept you for who you are. Because being yourself means everything to us. #ItStartsWithYourName.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
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Surely ... no Verily, I say unto you, that is Kamala-speak.
Posted by: Ciampino

The name is Armpit. And don't call me Shirley.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 17, 2023 05:03 PM (Uh6Mj)

242 Flatter than Brie now but she does have hips.

I'm fine with itty bitties, too. She has freckles too which is a nice addition. Not a blonde, though. Probably looks great as a brunette as well.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 17, 2023 05:03 PM (0hOvj)

243 MI 3 sucked donkey balls.

Posted by: weft-cut loop at May 17, 2023 05:04 PM (jzzG8)

244 Brie lost her ass when she was ejected from a Tesla and slid across thirty yards of concrete, after she crashed into Trump's wall. Now she's out to kill Vin Diesel because he's some kind of Mexican, and that wall wouldn't have been there if it weren't for people like him (who have the real family values).

So now Vin Diesel has to jump a jet-powered bike through her white supremacist helicopter, and scoop up Dylan Mulvaney before DeSantis throws her into a moat full of Russians.

Fin.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 17, 2023 05:04 PM (oINRc)

245 Wow, we got new ad spam, this time a game ad! Not as curious as lace wigs or as spunky as the girl saying you can make random amounts a week working at home, but bonus points for the ascii fruit.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 17, 2023 05:04 PM (0hOvj)

246 Oh, pr0n spam. Ace is moving up in the world~!!!

Posted by: weft-cut loop at May 17, 2023 05:05 PM (jzzG8)

247 In the MI2 motorbike chase, you can see the tires have been switched from street tires to offroad tires as the chase goes cross-country.

Posted by: spindrift at May 17, 2023 05:05 PM (ivvNA)

248 >>>232 that is funny, wasn't MI3 the worst movie4 ever made

no, 2 was the bad one.

Posted by: ace at May 17, 2023 05:05 PM (iHBZj)

249 Posted by: Blake - semi lurker at large at May 17, 2023 05:00 PM (2YtOq)

I don't know that film. What did you enjoy about it?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 17, 2023 05:05 PM (Keyt1)

250 I never thought much of Barbara Bain other than the roles she played, she didn't work for me as a seductress. But all the cast were great, particularly Landau. . . .

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 17, 2023

***
You have to remember that Barbara was 35 when the show started -- usually counted as "past it" in H'wood. A MILF before the term was coined. I was 13 then, and found her to be spectacular. Now I get a vibe of "Cinnamon is always thinking and calculating as she moves through a mission."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 17, 2023 05:05 PM (J2vNu)

251 Brie lost her ass when she was ejected from a Tesla and slid across thirty yards of concrete, after she crashed into Trump's wall. Now she's out to kill Vin Diesel because he's some kind of Mexican, and that wall wouldn't have been there if it weren't for people like him (who have the real family values).

So now Vin Diesel has to jump a jet-powered bike through her white supremacist helicopter, and scoop up Dylan Mulvaney before DeSantis throws her into a moat full of Russians.

Fin.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 17, 2023 05:04 PM (oINRc)
++++
SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 17, 2023 05:05 PM (DU+/6)

252 In the MI2 motorbike chase, you can see the tires have been switched from street tires to offroad tires as the chase goes cross-country.
Posted by: spindrift at May 17, 2023 05:05 PM (ivvNA)
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There were a lot of things wrong with that movie.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at May 17, 2023 05:06 PM (2hlEI)

253 you can see the tires have been switched from street tires to offroad tires as the chase goes cross-country.

MI tech, morphing tires! Actually now that I think of it, that's not impossible just wouldn't last long on the road.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 17, 2023 05:06 PM (0hOvj)

254 I preferred the Reacher series on Amazon.
Alan Ritchson is believable. Especially since I read Lee Child's books from the start.

yeah I should watch that, I hear good things. But I don't like series, I don't like everything being so drawn out and padded.
Posted by: ace at May 17, 2023 04:37 PM (iHBZj)

He takes his shirt off. I'm pretty sure nothing is padded. :-)

Posted by: Iris at May 17, 2023 05:06 PM (foa6+)

255 Surely ... no Verily, I say unto you, that is Kamala-speak.
Posted by: Ciampino

The name is Armpit. And don't call me Shirley.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 17, 2023 05:03 PM (Uh6Mj)

You all laugh, and it hurts.

Posted by: Harry Armpit at May 17, 2023 05:06 PM (PiwSw)

256 Fen, profession of faith walk on long shot college football player.

Posted by: Blake - semi lurker at large at May 17, 2023 05:07 PM (2YtOq)

257 "Your name defines who you are - whether it's Arpit or Arpita. At Starbucks, we love and accept you for who you are. Because being yourself means everything to us. #ItStartsWithYourName.

Unless you are a MAGA maggot. No coffee for you.

Posted by: Red Nutzack at May 17, 2023 05:07 PM (iayUP)

258 Chocolate milk bad. Pot, meth good.

Just when we thought public schools couldn't get any worse, the USDA announced that chocolate milk, one of public school's only redeeming factors, may soon be expelled from school cafeterias across the nation.

https://bit.ly/3IIcnx5

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at May 17, 2023 05:07 PM (FVME7)

259 The name is Armpit. And don't call me Shirley.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 17, 2023 05:03 PM (Uh6Mj)

You all laugh, and it hurts.
Posted by: Harry Armpit

Harry Paratestes is missed.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 17, 2023 05:07 PM (qoGsy)

260 yeah I should watch that, I hear good things. But I don't like series, I don't like everything being so drawn out and padded.

This has some of it, but honestly the stuff they added in was mostly good story. Its worth the viewing, although it has its flaws, they aren't many.

Reacher is a guy best taken in small doses, he gets really annoying and Marty Stu if you read a couple books in a row.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 17, 2023 05:08 PM (0hOvj)

261 @StarbucksIndia
Your name defines who you are - whether it's Arpit or Arpita. At Starbucks, we love and accept you for who you are. Because being yourself means everything to us. #ItStartsWithYourName.
.......

Dick N. Balschaef. Call me when its ready.

Posted by: wth at May 17, 2023 05:08 PM (v0R5T)

262 Paulagram, please tell me that you'll go deep inside my computer and infect it so badly the hard-drive will have to be shot.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 17, 2023 05:08 PM (YGw7M)

263 255 In the MI2 motorbike chase, you can see the tires have been switched from street tires to offroad tires as the chase goes cross-country.
Posted by: spindrift at May 17, 2023 05:05 PM (ivvNA)
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There were a lot of things wrong with that movie.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at May 17, 2023 05:06 PM (2hlEI)

Yeah MI2 was an absolute shitshow. There was about a five minute period in Hollywood where John Woo was the most sought-after director alive. Studio gave him way too much control for that movie.

Posted by: Lamont Cranston at May 17, 2023 05:08 PM (NVVQz)

264 So now Vin Diesel has to jump a jet-powered bike through her white supremacist helicopter, and scoop up Dylan Mulvaney before DeSantis throws her into a moat full of Russians.

Fin.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

Dayum. Bollywood is lit AF!

Posted by: rickb223 at May 17, 2023 05:08 PM (Uh6Mj)

265 Peak Bollywood is the dance/fight in RRR.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 17, 2023 05:09 PM (0hOvj)

266 Esai Morales is the main villain in MI: Dead Reckoning. He's been around for a long time, and the last movie I saw him in was Atlas Shrugged. Hoping this is his big breakout role #2. I've actually known him for quite a while.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at May 17, 2023 05:09 PM (/iWhV)

267 Posted by: Blake - semi lurker at large at May 17, 2023 05:07 PM (2YtOq)

Thanks; I'll have to look for that.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 17, 2023 05:10 PM (Keyt1)

268 Yeah MI2 was an absolute shitshow. There was about a five minute period in Hollywood where John Woo was the most sought-after director alive. Studio gave him way too much control for that movie.
Posted by: Lamont Cranston at May 17, 2023 05:08 PM (NVVQz)
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Wasn't there also a writers' strike going on? There was a lot more to the script that would have made the bad guy's plot at least kind of make sense, as I understand.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at May 17, 2023 05:10 PM (2hlEI)

269 I worked with an Indian girl named Kshiti.

She went by Kristi.

Posted by: blaster at May 17, 2023 05:10 PM (pwExq)

270 203 Never seen the movies, but it is weird to me as a big fan of the TV show that the movies are basically a Jason Bourne type 1 man show. The T.V. was about the Mission Impossible team. You had Martin Landau the man of 1,000 faces, Barbara Bain, not really hot but tried her best, the black guy. Don't get that.

Posted by: Ted Torgerson DeSantis/Lake 2024 at May 17, 2023 04:55 PM (lzd36)
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I disagree, Barbara Bain as a young'un - pretty nice
https://is.gd/uKmma6

Posted by: Ciampino --- Leftists: Bright as Alaska in December at May 17, 2023 05:10 PM (qfLjt)

271 that.
Posted by: Ted Torgerson DeSantis/Lake 2024 at May 17, 2023

***
Oh, Barbara was hot. A slinky kind of hot that would be too subtle today (as the plots of the original TV show would be over the heads of today's audiences).
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 17, 2023 04:57 PM (J2vNu)

Space: 1999. Yeah, she was hot. Especially for a 70s kid like me.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at May 17, 2023 05:11 PM (/iWhV)

272 Indie Movie BULL the main character has been missing for several years comes back looking for a son and let's nothing stand in his way
Link to the trailer
https://tinyurl.com/24axhp2h

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at May 17, 2023 05:11 PM (dKiJG)

273 It's hard to do action stuff underwater.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 17, 2023 04:44 PM (LvTSG)

???

Posted by: Lloyd Bridges at May 17, 2023 05:12 PM (AMIL/)

274 Harry Paratestes is missed.
Posted by: Tonypete

My name is Apaira Harrytestes. And I'm an over eater.

Posted by: Apaira Harrytestes at May 17, 2023 05:13 PM (Uh6Mj)

275 @StarbucksIndia
Your name defines who you are - whether it's Arpit or Arpita. At Starbucks, we love and accept you for who you are. Because being yourself means everything to us. #ItStartsWithYourName.
.......

Venti Latte extra foam for Barry MacCockenur

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at May 17, 2023 05:13 PM (OgrpQ)

276 271 Yeah MI2 was an absolute shitshow. There was about a five minute period in Hollywood where John Woo was the most sought-after director alive. Studio gave him way too much control for that movie.
Posted by: Lamont Cranston at May 17, 2023 05:08 PM (NVVQz)
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Wasn't there also a writers' strike going on? There was a lot more to the script that would have made the bad guy's plot at least kind of make sense, as I understand.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at May 17, 2023 05:10 PM (2hlEI)

That sounds right. John Woo was like the Zack Snyder of the late 90s. Every action scene MUST ......BE .......SLOW .....MOTION

Posted by: Lamont Cranston at May 17, 2023 05:13 PM (NVVQz)

277 the knock on MI3 was how stupid Phil S Hoffman's weapons dealer was. Just some guy with apparent omniscience.

whatever. I liked MI2, probably because Thandie was at her cutest

MI1 was the best movie. Everything after MI3 feels a bit unmemorable. "like,oh, cruise held on to an airplane that took off. and then a sandstorm" IDK

Posted by: sockamster, gator at May 17, 2023 05:14 PM (MLrvz)

278 Universal owns the rights to both Fast and Furious and Jurassic Park, just do a crossover where they have to rescue people from the park while also robbing the casino Billion Dollar Movie

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at May 17, 2023 05:14 PM (dKiJG)

279 It's hard to do action stuff underwater.

I know some people hate it but I loved the underground fight scene in Thunderball. Its wild 3d action with danger all around and stuff going on constantly in all directions in the background. Its not just a danger from the enemy but from enemies above and below and behind and the environment and even a shark.

Its absolutely wild and nothing like that had ever been tried before. James Bond used to be like that, it was the cutting edge of stunts and action. Now its Jason Bourne lite.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 17, 2023 05:15 PM (0hOvj)

280 Could we do without the "If you do X, I will find you and kill you" line. It's utterly hackneyed and nobody's gonna do it better than Liam Neeson.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 17, 2023 04:24 PM (eOEVl)

What if some baddy was saying that to Elon Musk? Is it OK then?

Posted by: Kindltot at May 17, 2023 05:15 PM (xhaym)

281 That sounds right. John Woo was like the Zack Snyder of the late 90s. Every action scene MUST ......BE .......SLOW .....MOTION
Posted by: Lamont Cranston at May 17, 2023 05:13 PM (NVVQz)
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And defy the laws of physics. Ethan and the baddie collide and go...sideways?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at May 17, 2023 05:15 PM (2hlEI)

282 Whiskey is Tight!!

Posted by: Montec at May 17, 2023 05:15 PM (8Nzzz)

283 261 Chocolate milk bad. Pot, meth good.

Just when we thought public schools couldn't get any worse, the USDA announced that chocolate milk, one of public school's only redeeming factors, may soon be expelled from school cafeterias across the nation.

https://bit.ly/3IIcnx5

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at May 17, 2023 05:07 PM (FVME7)
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Shouldn't school cafeteria menus be decided locally? You know, parents and budgets to be considered?

Posted by: Ciampino - Democrats: Bright as Alaska in December at May 17, 2023 05:16 PM (qfLjt)

284 Nolan is a wildcard. Sometimes he does amazing work when he goes Maximum Nolan, and sometimes incomprehensible gibberish happens when goes Maximum Nolan.
Posted by: Joe Mannix

And really....is this not the story of every AOSHQ commenter?

Posted by: Prime Sister at May 17, 2023 05:16 PM (tQL7r)

285 Hey, here’s a great idea. Let’s remake the Mission Impossible franchise with a female lead!

Posted by: Joe, living dangerously at May 17, 2023 05:16 PM (fKIdX)

286 Yogi Berra was in the Navy during WWII. He served on a support vessel during the Normandy invasion and one of his jobs was to pull dead servicemen out of the water.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 17, 2023 05:16 PM (Keyt1)

287 It's hard to do action stuff underwater.

Butt stuff is easy, though.

Posted by: Aquaman at May 17, 2023 05:16 PM (v0R5T)

288 Posted by: PaulaGam at May 17, 2023 04:48 PM (Eion4)

========

Wait a second...

I don't recognize this nic...

It's probably fine.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, on just the weirdest trip with John Boorman at May 17, 2023 04:49 PM (LvTSG)

I clicked, and now I owe $82 million to a Chinese shell company.

Posted by: Dr. T at May 17, 2023 05:17 PM (tp+tP)

289 I love John Woo's Hong Kong stuff, but like Ang Lee it seems like his sensibility and ideas just does not carry across well when he tries to work with Americans. I don't know if its like Jackie Chan where the US producers kept cutting out the stuff that made him funny and fun to watch but John Woo in America is to me uniformly disappointing. Although I did see some brilliant and wonderful stuff in Face/Off mixed into the terrible.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 17, 2023 05:17 PM (0hOvj)

290 Butt stuff is easy, though.

Posted by: Aquaman at May 17, 2023 05:16 PM (v0R5T)

Ya, I know.
~Amber Heard

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at May 17, 2023 05:17 PM (OgrpQ)

291 THE SANDBAGGERS it's on Britbox really good Cold War Drama, was watching the YouTube and Call ME Chato talked about how it's the greatest show you have never seen. It's Good Drama

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at May 17, 2023 05:17 PM (dKiJG)

292

Zero would be nice

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 17, 2023 05:18 PM (63Dwl)

293 If I eliminated watching movies that had weirdos in it, I would be down to watching Veggie Tales..
Posted by: tubal at May 17, 2023 04:33 PM (PCK5/)

Please talk to me about eyebrows. Acceptable or Heresy?

Posted by: Kindltot at May 17, 2023 05:18 PM (xhaym)

294 And defy the laws of physics. Ethan and the baddie collide and go...sideways?
Posted by: Captain Obvious

Every Chinese, kung fu movie, where they run up the outside of a three-story building.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 17, 2023 05:18 PM (Uh6Mj)

295 I got a half caf soy latte for Philip McCracken. .

Posted by: Montec at May 17, 2023 05:18 PM (8Nzzz)

296 Cruise seems to be on a run of great movies, when a lot of stars are slowing down and backing off.

This new MI looks great. Cuz yeah, if you can control the flow of information and media, you probably can plot out someone's death and when it occurs.

Here's an upcoming movie that looks pretty good:

"The Creator"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=573GCxqkYEg

If it has a hard edge this could be a classic. If it goes all soft and Spielbergy, it may suck.

It's a Gareth Edwards dealio though, and he capable of screwing up great ideas (Godzilla).

Posted by: naturalfake at May 17, 2023 05:18 PM (RJQ8g)

297 288 Hey, here’s a great idea. Let’s remake the Mission Impossible franchise with a female lead!

///

what about that olive oyl looking gal from Fleabag? She'd be a gerrreate action star.

"I got some good news and some bad news, buddy"

Posted by: sockamster, gator at May 17, 2023 05:18 PM (MLrvz)

298 And now for something completely different. It's enough to make you curl your tail. (16 seconds)

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hnSBgjk45i0

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at May 17, 2023 05:19 PM (FVME7)

299 How do those Fast & Furious movies make money? Who's watching that crap?

Posted by: Brisco County Sr at May 17, 2023 05:19 PM (Y0InX)

300 I clicked, and now I owe $82 million to a Chinese shell company.
Posted by: Dr. T at May 17, 2023 05:17 PM (tp+tP)
........

I'm pen pals with a Nigerian prince.

Posted by: wth at May 17, 2023 05:19 PM (v0R5T)

301 Have not seen many Cruise movies that were not good…
Posted by: tubal at May 17, 2023 04:25 PM (PCK5/)

Ditto.
Seen a few that I didn't care for movie, but he is an engaging actor. I willingly suspend my disbelief about stature.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 17, 2023 05:19 PM (anj39)

302 if we were actually living in Atlas Shrugged, the movie executives would sue Tom Cruise for disproportionate acquisition of talent and box office.

Posted by: sockamster, gator at May 17, 2023 05:19 PM (MLrvz)

303 @201 Phillip Seymour Hoffman was good in everything he did. At least acting .

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 17, 2023 05:19 PM (lRky4)

304 sometimes incomprehensible gibberish happens when goes Maximum Nolan.

Yeah the Nolans are really mixed. Some of it I love (Batman Begins, The Prestige) some I just find messy and spectacle with little story (Inception, Interstellar)

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 17, 2023 05:19 PM (0hOvj)

305 Can we get Ana D'aramas in something?

she nice

Posted by: sockamster, gator at May 17, 2023 05:20 PM (MLrvz)

306 Shit, Ford too...

twitter.com/carolinecwilder/status/1658883217082941443

Posted by: weft-cut loop at May 17, 2023 05:20 PM (jzzG8)

307 Took my dog to the dog park. It’s 10 mins walk there and 10 mins back. And she ran around at the mark for 15-20 mins. We get home. Does she curl up and take a nap? Nope starts running around the house with the cat.

The energy levels with these animals is amazing.

Posted by: Montec at May 17, 2023 05:21 PM (8Nzzz)

308
As far as Oppenheimer; I'm kinda curious about the people who knew they were taking a chance on setting the atmosphere on fire and ending life on Earth. Whether I'm the outlier we'll see. It also appeals to my nerd instincts. It looks like they're using duct tape to hold the bomb together. You never know when that kind of knowledge could come in handy when involved in DIY radiological experimentation.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at May 17, 2023 05:21 PM (enJYY)

309 So….good but basically the plot to Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of the Patriots

Posted by: Jollyroger at May 17, 2023 05:21 PM (PXOTI)

310 309 Shit, Ford too...

///

hr will make you gay, and they don't care about profits because they have a monopoly on every product you buy.

"just make your own car."

Posted by: sockamster, gator at May 17, 2023 05:21 PM (MLrvz)

311 How do those Fast & Furious movies make money? Who's watching that crap?

Well they are dumb and ridiculous but they are really amazing looking, exciting, and have really nice cars in them, so that's a draw for say, young men and teenage boys. They are a safe date movie, and you know the good guys win and there's not gonna be something sick or preachy.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 17, 2023 05:21 PM (0hOvj)

312 I like Nolan movies but I thought he lost it on Dunkirk

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 17, 2023 05:21 PM (lRky4)

313 These female athletes not speaking out and speaking out are missing the point. Women's athletics is being used to groom, advertise, and market to kids to change their sex.

Posted by: Out of the Loop at May 17, 2023 04:44 PM (zztN+)

Before that it was used to groom them to Lesbianism. Tomato, Tomahto.

The Trans Activist Community is coming for those nice cushy influential jobs the man hating feminists hold, and being men are stronger, meaner, and nastier than they are at infighting.

The parents are just captured by the conventional wisdom and are too mannerly to object to anything. And a group that accepts infanticide is easily going to accept a dude making them look silly and peeping in the bathrooms.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 17, 2023 05:22 PM (eoQWY)

314 I don't know if it's makeup or just acting, but Cillian Murphy looks really unhealthy in the "Oppenheimer" trailer.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at May 17, 2023 05:22 PM (2hlEI)

315 Watched MIRACLE last night and it always bothered me when Kurt Russell Kill those Commie bastards down plays it by saying it's just a hockey game, Disney did that because they didn't want to piss off the CCP

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at May 17, 2023 05:22 PM (dKiJG)

316 Hey, here’s a great idea. Let’s remake the Mission Impossible franchise with a female lead!

-
They wouldn't go on secret missions; they'd be well, if you don't know I can't tell you missions.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at May 17, 2023 05:22 PM (FVME7)

317 I like that with population replacement, to bring in..you know..hispanics to do the job americans won't do, that now includes Julio Rosas, from Townhall, who is apparently a clean articulate person who is able to slam the scion of the Levi Strauss fortune.

has a republican ever been able to do this before?

Posted by: sockamster, gator at May 17, 2023 05:22 PM (MLrvz)

318 Cruise seems to be on a run of great movies, when a lot of stars are slowing down and backing off.

This new MI looks great. Cuz yeah, if you can control the flow of information and media, you probably can plot out someone's death and when it occurs.

Posted by: naturalfake at May 17, 2023 05:18 PM (RJQ8g)
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I'm sure this has been pointed out above, but that's basically the plot of James Bond: Tomorrow Never Dies, where the villain (a media mogul) is *creating* tomorrow's news instead of just reporting it.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 17, 2023 05:22 PM (YIVH2)

319 I have heard such mixed reviews of Dunkirk I have no idea what to expect from it or if I even care.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 17, 2023 05:23 PM (0hOvj)

320 Pride month started 2 weeks early at Ford HQ I guess. Yeay!!

Posted by: Montec at May 17, 2023 05:23 PM (8Nzzz)

321 314 How do those Fast & Furious movies make money? Who's watching that crap?

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people need to stare at a screen.

they want to start at things that aren't ghey and retarded

Posted by: sockamster, gator at May 17, 2023 05:23 PM (MLrvz)

322 Can we get Ana D'aramas in something
........

clingy and revealing?

Posted by: wth at May 17, 2023 05:23 PM (v0R5T)

323 294 THE SANDBAGGERS it's on Britbox really good Cold War Drama, was watching the YouTube and Call ME Chato talked about how it's the greatest show you have never seen. It's Good Drama
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio

That and Palfrey of Westminster are two classics from UK. Palfrey is counterintel while Sandbaggers is MI 6. If you can dig up the BBC series Warship, made by the same producer/writer, it is also well done.

Posted by: whig at May 17, 2023 05:23 PM (Dx8Lq)

324 Five Nights at Freddy's is based on a videogame where you're working at a Chucky Cheese type restaurant and then the animatronic mascot characters come to life and start doing murders.

Three times in 20 years I've attended a child's party in a 'type restaurant.' After an hour, I wanted to kill myself or slap someone. Ergo, I could see myself aiding & abetting those animstronic mascot characters.
---
Persons of Interest - quite the imaginative show for awhile.

Posted by: Lola - ALL the videotapes from Alexandra & Jade, too. at May 17, 2023 05:24 PM (GshMh)

325 Hey, here’s a great idea. Let’s remake the Mission Impossible franchise with a female lead!

Posted by: Joe, living dangerously at May 17, 2023 05:16 PM (fKIdX)

Where will they find a woman that short?

Posted by: Oldcat at May 17, 2023 05:24 PM (eoQWY)

326 288 Hey, here’s a great idea. Let’s remake the Mission Impossible franchise with a female lead!
____________

Starring Amber Heard, Amy Schumer, Jada Pinkett, Rosie O'Donnell. Toss in Seth Rogan for the trinket male idiot role.

Posted by: scampydog at May 17, 2023 05:24 PM (2bFN5)

327 I preferred the Reacher series on Amazon.
Alan Ritchson is believable. Especially since I read Lee Child's books from the start.

yeah I should watch that, I hear good things. But I don't like series, I don't like everything being so drawn out and padded.
Posted by: ace at May 17, 2023 04:37 PM (iHBZj)

I liked both the Cruise and the Amazon Reachers. But I'm also easily entertained.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at May 17, 2023 05:25 PM (BdMk6)

328 As far as Oppenheimer; I'm kinda curious about the people who knew they were taking a chance on setting the atmosphere on fire and ending life on Earth.

That was a joke by Enrico Fermi.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at May 17, 2023 05:25 PM (ZSK0i)

329 clingy and revealing?
Posted by: wth

///

I think we need a full hour long featurette on the making of her "sex bot" love dance scene in blade runner

Posted by: sockamster, gator at May 17, 2023 05:25 PM (MLrvz)

330
I finally started binge-watching the Fast/Furious series for the first time and my big takeaway is: Dom Torretto's "family" is a bunch of criminal scumbags who are lucky that the Feds are made up of idiots who keep hiring them to fight discount Bond Villains.

On the other hand, the spinoff Hobbs/Shaw flick is a lot of really stupid fun.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 17, 2023 05:25 PM (n+4am)

331 I have heard such mixed reviews of Dunkirk I have no idea what to expect from it or if I even care.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 17, 2023 05:23 PM (0hOvj)

The Germans win.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 17, 2023 05:25 PM (eoQWY)

332 Isn't it lame to have a 'Part One' movie?

...and Cruise has a great plastic surgeon. He looks good.

Posted by: Chunky Cheese at May 17, 2023 05:25 PM (bewti)

333 314 How do those Fast & Furious movies make money? Who's watching that crap?

Well they are dumb and ridiculous but they are really amazing looking, exciting, and have really nice cars in them, so that's a draw for say, young men and teenage boys. They are a safe date movie, and you know the good guys win and there's not gonna be something sick or preachy.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 17, 2023 05:21 PM (0hOvj)

China, it's why Transformers keep getting made,

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at May 17, 2023 05:25 PM (dKiJG)

334 315 I like Nolan movies but I thought he lost it on Dunkirk
Posted by: Smell the Glove

Did not care for it and CGI overuse is why.

Battle of Britain still looks fresh and still has a stellar cast. Dunkirk, not so much.

Posted by: whig at May 17, 2023 05:26 PM (Dx8Lq)

335 The reason why Vin Diesel is so determined to defend Mulvaney from the right-wing helicopter death squad?

Well, he won the title to his jet-bike when he was the winning jockey in a harness race and Mulvaney was the horse.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 17, 2023 05:26 PM (oINRc)

336 finally started binge-watching the Fast/Furious series for the first time and my big takeaway is: Dom Torretto's "family" is a bunch of criminal scumbags who are lucky that the Feds are made up of idiots who keep hiring them to fight discount Bond Villains.

On the other hand, the spinoff Hobbs/Shaw flick is a lot of really stupid fun.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 17, 2023 05:25 PM (n+4am)

I had no idea that series was so realistic.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 17, 2023 05:26 PM (eoQWY)

337 How do those Fast & Furious movies make money? Who's watching that crap?
Posted by: Brisco County Sr

Oh, the sportos, the motorheads, geeks, sluts, bloods, wasteoids, dweebies, dickheads, they all adore it. They think they're righteous movies.

Posted by: weft-cut loop at May 17, 2023 05:26 PM (jzzG8)

338 Esai Morales is the main villain… I've actually known him for quite a while.

I wouldn’t know him if I saw him at the bus stop but I know his name is a favorite of crossword puzzle writers.

Posted by: Lee Greenwood at May 17, 2023 05:26 PM (nfrXX)

339 I have heard such mixed reviews of Dunkirk I have no idea what to expect from it or if I even care.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 17, 2023 05:23 PM (0hOvj)

It was okay but I didn't get all the hyper-praise.

Also, the overlaid timelines of the plot were at first confusing then annoying.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at May 17, 2023 05:27 PM (N3zMI)

340 In the Oppenheimer trailer, Kenneth Branagh is seen-

what person is he portraying (if an actual person)

I also saw a glimpse of A. Einstein (?)

Posted by: DB - of the hill people at May 17, 2023 05:27 PM (geLO8)

341 How do those Fast & Furious movies make money? Who's watching that crap?
Posted by: Brisco County Sr at May 17, 2023 05:19 PM (Y0InX)

I asked one of the kiddos who's a fan of F&F a movie or two back, and basically they said-

They are comedies. Big, crunchy action comedies. They all get their friends and girlfriends together and have a great time laughing at all the silly stuff. Ex: car in Space!!!1111!!!!

So, there you go.

Posted by: naturalfake at May 17, 2023 05:27 PM (RJQ8g)

342 8 'Oh and Haley Atwell's in it.

Yeah, but she's 41 now. Way past her prime.'

Happy Pride Month!

Posted by: Dr. Claw at May 17, 2023 05:27 PM (roH4R)

343 I have heard such mixed reviews of Dunkirk I have no idea what to expect from it or if I even care.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 17, 2023 05:23 PM (0hOvj)

It pretty much sucks.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at May 17, 2023 05:27 PM (BdMk6)

344 /four thread old sock

Posted by: Oddbob at May 17, 2023 05:27 PM (nfrXX)

345 The Germans win.
Posted by: Oldcat
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I thought that was when they bombed Pearl Harbor.

Posted by: whig at May 17, 2023 05:28 PM (Dx8Lq)

346 oh...agent carter. I thought it was the girl from true grit

Posted by: sockamster, gator at May 17, 2023 05:28 PM (MLrvz)

347 John Woo, like Van Damme, has one greatest movie, and that movie is "Hard Target."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 17, 2023 05:28 PM (oINRc)

348 That and Palfrey of Westminster are two classics from UK. Palfrey is counterintel while Sandbaggers is MI 6. If you can dig up the BBC series Warship, made by the same producer/writer, it is also well done.
Posted by: whig at May 17, 2023 05:23 PM (Dx8Lq)

Thank You I will

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at May 17, 2023 05:28 PM (dKiJG)

349 I like that with population replacement, to bring in..you know..hispanics to do the job americans won't do, that now includes Julio Rosas, from Townhall, who is apparently a clean articulate person who is able to slam the scion of the Levi Strauss fortune.

has a republican ever been able to do this before?
Posted by: sockamster, gator at May 17, 2023 05:22 PM (MLrvz)

I have often wondered how the Elites are so sure that the new population would share their values, or sillier yet have "gratitude" and keep voting them into power.

Posted by: Oldcat at May 17, 2023 05:28 PM (eoQWY)

350
As far as Oppenheimer; I'm kinda curious about the people who knew they were taking a chance on setting the atmosphere on fire and ending life on Earth.

That was a joke by Enrico Fermi.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at May 17, 2023 05:25 PM

We're five minutes away from setting the Earth's atmosphere on fire and it's no laughing matter.

Posted by: High Priest Al Gore at May 17, 2023 05:29 PM (enJYY)

351 Battle of Britain still looks fresh and still has a stellar cast.

Its a bit slow and doesn't really engage until that last ten, fifteen minutes with nothing but the music and the dogfights and it just becomes something more, its suddenly a work of art. All the setup is leading up to this and it just make me sit motionless, tears forming in my eyes.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 17, 2023 05:29 PM (0hOvj)

352 Speaking of Pride Month . . .

https://bit.ly/3Wb3WQd

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at May 17, 2023 05:29 PM (FVME7)

353 Gary Oldman is playing Harry Truman.

Weird. He would meet himself at the Potsdam Conference.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at May 17, 2023 05:29 PM (2hlEI)

354 I have often wondered how the Elites are so sure that the new population would share their values, or sillier yet have "gratitude" and keep voting them into power.
Posted by: Oldca

///

right? they want the 3rd world here but they don't want the 3rd world in their schools or neighborhoods

Posted by: sockamster, gator at May 17, 2023 05:29 PM (MLrvz)

355 NOOD fake hero

Posted by: Brother Tim sez Max Headroom for President! at May 17, 2023 05:29 PM (OUMaO)

356 309 Shit, Ford too...

twitter.com/carolinecwilder/status/1658883217082941443

Posted by: weft-cut loop at May 17, 2023 05:20 PM (jzzG

The plate number on the red pickup is 808 UVV.

The plate number on the rainbow pickup is HIY 188.

Random characters? Doubtful. I don't want to know what those decode to in WokeLand.

Posted by: Gref at May 17, 2023 05:30 PM (AMIL/)

357 I thought it was the girl from true grit

Which one? The cutie from the first one was in Stark Trek and even Better Off Dead

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 17, 2023 05:30 PM (0hOvj)

358 Which one?

///

bumblebee and pitchperfect 3

she's mid but she tries

Posted by: sockamster, gator at May 17, 2023 05:31 PM (MLrvz)

359 I liked Dunkirk, seen it twice now

Posted by: Skip at May 17, 2023 05:31 PM (xhxe8)

360 Can we get Ana D'aramas in something?

she nice
Posted by: sockamster, gator at May 17, 2023

***
Maybe a film based on Heinlein's Friday? Plenty of action in that.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 17, 2023 05:31 PM (J2vNu)

361 That was a joke by Enrico Fermi.

-
I loved his theme to The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at May 17, 2023 05:32 PM (FVME7)

362 Is there a release date for Indiana Jones V? I've been watching the videos on YouTube about it's complete chaos but is it actually going to be released?

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 17, 2023 05:32 PM (lRky4)

363 Its a bit slow and doesn't really engage until that last ten, fifteen minutes with nothing but the music and the dogfights and it just becomes something more, its suddenly a work of art. All the setup is leading up to this and it just make me sit motionless, tears forming in my eyes.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
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If you read period accounts, that is pretty much how it was--jumping from the unearthly beauty of that 1940 late spring, with all England waiting and bracing for attack, straight into a maelstrom in the air and land. Like the movie, it occurred slowly then all at once.

Posted by: whig at May 17, 2023 05:32 PM (Dx8Lq)

364 I can't wait to see this movie.

Regardless of what you think of Tom Cruise (I like him), he makes a heart-pounding thriller.

Throw in the AI we will inevitably have to deal with and this could be so good.

Posted by: Seems Legit. at May 17, 2023 05:33 PM (DcKNO)

365 Posted by: weft-cut loop at May 17, 2023 05:20 PM (jzzG

I'm surprised Ford didn't have the two trucks ram each other.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at May 17, 2023 05:34 PM (ZSK0i)

366 362 I liked Dunkirk, seen it twice now
Posted by: Skip

Try watching Battle of Britain (1969) free if you have Amazon Prime. Lucas stole the Death Star attack sequence from the dog fighting scenes in the movie of the Battle of Britain. Get to see and hear real vintage aircraft too instead of CGI.

Posted by: whig at May 17, 2023 05:34 PM (Dx8Lq)

367
That sounds right. John Woo was like the Zack Snyder of the late 90s. Every action scene MUST ......BE .......SLOW .....MOTION
Posted by: Lamont Cranston

He pretty much bought a house for every pigeon wrangler in Hollywood.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 17, 2023 05:36 PM (n+4am)

368 About MI Ving Rhames Pulp Fiction role could have stigmatized his reputation if not for the line. "I'ma get medevil on your ass" like Ted Beaty getting banged in the ass by that hillbilly in Deliverance. Just sayin.

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damnit! at May 17, 2023 05:40 PM (gDSTO)

369 @StarbucksIndia
Your name defines who you are - whether it's Arpit or Arpita. At Starbucks, we love and accept you for who you are. Because being yourself means everything to us. #ItStartsWithYourName.
.......

Yeah. Like you can pronounce my name, Kumar. Sorry, "Kevin"

Posted by: Kindltot at May 17, 2023 05:41 PM (xhaym)

370 Randi Weigarten does Kamala Harris.

https://bit.ly/3o8ujcU
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

Oh, my bad. I thought you meant Weingarten DOES Harris. I was gonna watch just for the pathetic energy.

Posted by: MkY at May 17, 2023 05:58 PM (cPGH3)

371 Saw the first three MI films, but I'm backlogged on the others. Liked them all, and say what you like about Cruise, he usually picks good films.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at May 17, 2023 06:05 PM (d2bW3)

372 I am so going to see this at IMAX.

Posted by: Balrog of Morgoth at May 17, 2023 06:15 PM (FBltX)

373 I suppose it's time for my Q2 uncloacking. [Been here, pretty much daily, since Rathergate.]

My son, who is in tech college and looking to get a BA in Game Design (his passion) and a minor in Cybersecurity (Thanks to his dad), says that the designer of Five Night is a strong Christian. In fact there was a significant attempt to cancel him several years ago because of his faith.

With him out of state, I'm probably not going to watch it. I'd ask Mrs. Calbadger, but the dogs leave too much fur on my side of the bed.

Posted by: Calbadger at May 17, 2023 07:28 PM (WRaOv)

374

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