Media Admits: <i>The Little Mermaid</i> Reboot May Not Even Break Even

Media Admits: The Little Mermaid Reboot May Not Even Break Even

The background: The Little Mermaid is the latest movie to be championed by the leftwing Identity Politics activist media. Some people object to the thirty-seventh gender- or race-swap in the past five years, and so the leftwing activist media has to scream "THE LITTLE MERMAID WILL BEAT ALL OF YOU RACISTS AND THEN YOU'LL SEE! OH, YOU'LL SEE, BIGOTS!" and lie about its actual level of success.

By the way, a friend said she thought the Matloch she-boot looked okay. I didn't watch the trailer. I like Kathy Bates and think she can play a detective. (I know Matlock's allegedly a lawyer but doesn't he get people off not through lawyering, but by finding The Real Killer?) She seems smart.

And I don't think it's a huge thing to race-swap a fairy tale character. Yes, the original myth comes from Denmark, I think, but whatever.

The problem is that Hollywood's only two ideas for the past ten years have been to 1, reboot an old IP which doesn't need a reboot, and 2, build up ESG points by getting rid of the icky men and the icky white people.

And yes, we're sick of it.

The media shouted with joy that the movie made $119 million over a four day weekend. They claimed it fell "just short" of expectations, of $120 million.

Well... it fell short of the final projection. But five days before that projection, it had been expected to make $140 million. They lowered that projection just before the opening, and then the movie failed to meet that lower projection.

And it's doing horribly overseas. I think it only made $44 million overseas, for a total opening cume of $164 million. No movie that makes so little overseas is going to be a big hit.

The leftwing shill media is now preparing their leftwing readers for the possibility -- probability, really -- that The Little Mermaid will fail to turn a profit and may even lose money.

Another woke disaster, in other words.

In a rare situation for a Disney tentpole, particularly a live-action title based on a treasured classic animated musical, The Little Mermaid looks to bank more at the domestic box office ultimately than overseas, with $300M-$350M U.S./Canada to $260M abroad.
At that level, per finance sources, off a reported $250M production cost and $140M global marketing spend, The Little Mermaid could very well break-even. However, anything in the low $400M global threshold and this fish is apt to be sinking to a loss of around $20M.

"Not a huge disappointment, but a disappointment, nonetheless," one film finance insider told Deadline, given the blockbuster streak often associated with Disney.

It gets worse for Disney. Because of course it does. They're not trying to please customers or shareholders, they're trying to please "stakeholders," which means, in practice, 300 unemployed shut-ins who post extremist LGBTQ+ memes on Twitter all day long.

This will be only the first of three massive disappointments, or outright failures, for Disney, this summer alone:

The studio's summer slate remains in a precarious position after it boldly world premiered two major titles in Cannes to lackluster reviews: Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (49% Rotten Tomatoes) and Pixar's Elemental (58% Rotten, $40M projected U.S. opening).
Little Mermaid's ebb tide at the box office is extreme when juxtaposed against the high water mark seen from the last Memorial Day Disney live action feature adaptation of a toon, Aladdin, back in 2019. That Will Smith pic cleared $1.05 billion worldwide, 66% of that gross generated abroad which also counted $53.4M from China. Little Mermaid's China ticket sales were non-existent with a $2.5M start. Given the quick burn of U.S. titles in the PRC, some believe that the Rob Marshall-directed musical may not even get to a double digit final gross there.

The article notes that blockbusters usually see 60% of their money coming from overseas. This movie won't even come close to that.

They have their excuses, though: Racist foreigners in China, Korea, and Germany, who are rejecting the race-swap movie. It's nice that for once it's the foreigners the shill media is calling racist, instead of US citizens.

The other excuse is "review bombing" -- a hypothetical practice where in Alt-Right N@zis post bad reviews about a Disney movie (and it's always a Disney movie) and then Disney leans on companies like Rotten Tomatoes to start deleting negative reviews to boost the movie's audience rating.

Again, they only do this for Disney.

Rotten Tomatoes has long given Disney the power to censor user reviews. Now Disney has pressured IMDB into deleting negative reviews to protect their latest bomb.

The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) has made changes to its rating system for Disney's live-action remake of "The Little Mermaid" after the new release became the latest target for "review bombing" -- a practice in which a production is flooded with negative reviews by users who wield multiple accounts or employ bots to create new ones.
Since its release, "The Little Mermaid" has garnered 41,000 user ratings on IMDb. While the film has earned a positive 7.0 (weighted) average score, more than 39% of the ratings are 1 star, the lowest possible option.
IMDb has placed a notice on the film's ratings page, writing that the site's "rating mechanism has detected unusual voting activity on this title. To preserve the reliability of our rating system, an alternate weighting calculation has been applied." This message has been employed before by IMDb in the cast of other atypical user score patterns.

The leftwing psychos on Twitter post hundreds of three word "i love it" reviews and 10/10 ratings for all of their identity politics movies (which they largely don't see -- they just want to "feel seen" by knowing they're "represented" in them).

They won't be deleting those Woke-Review Bombing ratings, of course.

Disney's next bomb will be Elementals, from the Pixar studio that Bob Iger bought and then turned from a critical darling and financial powerhouse into a woke bomb-factory.

Pixar's Elemental Becomes Lowest-Rated Original Movie In Studio History on Rotten Tomatoes
By Savannah Sanders Posted: May 28, 2023

Ahead of its theatrical debut, Disney and Pixar screened Elemental at the Cannes Film Festival, resulting in mixed early reviews and a record-breaking rating just like Lucasfilm's Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.

Oh, they released at Cannes, so that everyone has weeks to hear that this movie is bad.

Smart strategy, Iger!

In the wake of Elemental's debut at Cannes, Pixar's twenty-seventh film currently has a 57% critical approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
This is the lowest score for a Pixar film that's not a sequel or from an established franchise to date.
While critics noted Elemental's creativity, heart, and stunning visuals, all of which are Pixar trademarks, they also described the film as "heavy-handed" and a "misfire."

A woke Disney offering whose messaging is "heavy-handed"? What alt-right N@zi said that? That's unpossible!

You already saw in the first article that The Elementals is projected to open with $40 million in North America. For Pixar, once an absolute money-manufacturing titan, this is a dismal failure.

And Indiana Jones? Well you know what's coming there.

A "gloomy and depressing final act," says the Woke BBC, which won't even pretend it's a good movie just because it stars the British dollymop Phoebe Waller-Bridge as the film's actual hero.

Speaking of "fissures in time", Ford has been digitally de-aged to have the smoother face and thick brown hair he had in Raiders of The Lost Ark, but he gives off the uncanny-valley vibe of someone who isn't quite real. Indeed, this over-long prologue doesn't just hark back to the train set piece at the start of The Last Crusade, it's reminiscent of Spielberg's performance-capture Tintin cartoon, in that the narrow escapes are theoretically exciting, but are too obviously fake to set the pulse racing.
What's worse is that when the film jumps forward to 1969, the CGI-heavy unreality persists. Indy is now about to retire from a dispiriting teaching job in New York. There is no sign of the wife and son he had at the end of The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull -- Shia LaBeouf may not be missed, but Karen Allen certainly is -- and in general he seems to be as much of a relic as the ones he likes to unearth. But then his goddaughter, Basil's hearty archaeologist daughter, Helena (Phoebe Waller-Bridge), turns up to ask him about Archimedes' doohickey, which has been missing for decades...
Like another of Ford's so-called "legacy sequels", Star Wars: The Force Awakens, this one brings back old characters (John Rhys-Davies's Sallah has a pointless cameo), introduces new ones who are strangely similar to the old characters (Ethann Isidore plays a substandard copy of Short Round from Temple of Doom), and has the air of a film passing the torch (or whip) to the next generation. But it does all this in an even gloomier fashion than The Force Awakens did. I'm not sure how many fans want to see Indiana Jones as a broken, helpless old man who cowers in the corner while his patronising goddaughter takes the lead, but that's what we're given, and it's as bleak as it sounds.

Besides, everything is smaller and cheaper than it was in the original trilogy. Indy up against the military might of the Third Reich in 1936? We could all get behind that. But Indy up against one scientist and his silent, interchangeable henchmen in 1969? It's just not such a big deal. Mangold and his team dutifully crank out the action sequences, but it's often hard to tell what's happening or why, and there is a shortage of surprising, rip-roaring moments to make you stand up and cheer, despite the best efforts of John Williams' rousing classic theme. Take an early chase in New York, for instance. It's set during a ticker-tape parade for the three astronauts who were on the Apollo 11 moon mission, so you can imagine the high jinks that Spielberg might have cooked up: some slapstick with Buzz Aldrin, perhaps, or a giant papier-maché moon rolling down Fifth Avenue like the boulder in Raiders of The Lost Ark. But Mangold and his team do so little with the parade that you wonder why they bothered staging it.
It's the same with the scenes in which Indy is face to face with some snake-like eels, and when he finds his way into Archimedes' tomb. The jokes, the zest and the exuberance just aren't there, so instead of a joyous send-off for our beloved hero, we get a depressing reminder of how much livelier his past adventures were. Considering that the screenplay is credited to four writers -- Mangold, David Koepp and Jez and John-Henry Butterworth -- couldn't they at least have thought of something cool for Indy to do with his whip?

The movie's about a device invented by Archimedes, and sought by the N@zis, which points to "fissures in time" -- naturally-occurring time machines. You don't have to build the time machine; nature's already done that. You just have to find them and walk through.

In other words: It's the exact conceit of Mangold's earlier time-travel film, Kate & Leopold.

Here's a spoiler about the ending, according to people claiming to have seen the movie in France: Indy is broken and just wants to die. He has "nothing more to offer the world," he says. So when they go back through a "time fissure" to around 1 AD or thereabouts, he refuses to go back through the time fissure to 1969. He just wants to die in Rome (or Syria, or wherever) in 1 AD.

Phoebe-Waller bridge, the real hero, says he can't stay -- his existence in the past could screw up all time going forward.

The selfish, broken white man who really should just die to make room for his superior female replacement says he doesn't care what his existence in the past does to time, he's staying, and that's that.

But that's not that at all, because his Superior Female Replacement then knocks out Indy with a single punch and drags his tired, useless, humiliated white man ass back to the present.

Can you, like me, hear the Raiders March when you read that? Do the stirrings of adventure kindle in your heart?

Disney is killing itself and, as the kids say, I am here for that.

Shame about all that shareholder value being destroyed in a bonfire of the vanities of Bob Iger, Kevin Feige, and Kathleen Kennedy.

But then: they stopped caring about shareholder value long ago.

Re-linking the Midnight's Edge video about the replacement of shareholders as a corporation's primary and nigh-exclusive concern, with "stakeholders" -- the public generally, especially those in protected classes.

BONUS DAMAGE! This is an actual "song" in the Little Mermaid, rapped by the extremely annoying Awkwafina.

Her voice gets more obnoxious as the song goes on.

And boy, does Disney continue to amaze with its perfect, photorealistic CGI.

Posted by: Ace at 04:00 PM

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Posted by: Jordan61 at June 02, 2023 04:01 PM (DRSnL)

2 I loved the original cartoon. I bought it for my little sister, and she watched it over and over. So sick of these bullshit remakes/reboots.

Posted by: Jordan61 at June 02, 2023 04:02 PM (DRSnL)

3 What do they call a large mermaid?

Posted by: Puddinhead at June 02, 2023 04:02 PM (NsE9F)

4 Did the Lovecraft Mermaid help, or hinder??

Posted by: tubal at June 02, 2023 04:02 PM (PCK5/)

5 you guys have to listen to that "scuttlebutt" rap

Posted by: ace at June 02, 2023 04:03 PM (KRtlO)

6 DIE DISNEY DIE!!

(and not in the German the sense)

Posted by: Montec at June 02, 2023 04:03 PM (OalnH)

7 The left argues that black girls can't watch non-race swapped The Little Mermaid because...they don't feel part of a movie where the main character isn't black.

So...

1) If this is true no one but black girls will watch it and you need an asian, hispanic, albino, etc one as well

2) This is not true and there was never any reason to make it.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 02, 2023 04:03 PM (lc5cP)

8 but Drudge said it was a hit

Posted by: REDACTED at June 02, 2023 04:03 PM (us2H3)

9 Die Maus, Die!

Posted by: ace at June 02, 2023 04:04 PM (KRtlO)

10 Stop giving me long content I have a shrimp salad to make and I still have to chop the lettuce!

Wish I had some mushrooms...

Posted by: JEM at June 02, 2023 04:04 PM (8erNz)

11 I DARE YOU DISNEY!

Remake the Tarzan with a black man.

Go ahead. Make a movie of a black guy growing up in a jungle raised by apes.

I. DARE. YOU.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 02, 2023 04:04 PM (GIBR7)

12 (no one who speaks German can be bad)

Posted by: ace at June 02, 2023 04:04 PM (KRtlO)

13 5 you guys have to listen to that "scuttlebutt" rap
Posted by: ace at June 02, 2023 04:03 PM (KRtlO)

Awwww… do we Haaave to??? Okaaay… ( sorry, been watching my two grandkids for a week or so)..

Posted by: tubal at June 02, 2023 04:04 PM (PCK5/)

14 you guys have to listen to that "scuttlebutt" rap
Posted by: ace at June 02, 2023 04:03 PM (KRtlO)

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Do I really have to? FINE. *sigh*

Posted by: Jordan61 at June 02, 2023 04:04 PM (DRSnL)

15 Little Mermaid is doing okay domestically, if not great. Its absolutely BOMBING overseas. Its cratering like a meteorite. Other live action remakes like Lion King made over a billion because of huge overseas appreciation, but this one is annoying the crap out of people.

I think the rest of the world sees it as arrogant Americans race swapping Ariel who is a beloved character and are not happy with that.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at June 02, 2023 04:05 PM (0hOvj)

16 12 (no one who speaks German can be bad)
Posted by: ace at June 02, 2023 04:04 PM (KRtlO)

Hey, that's MY line!

Posted by: Clancy Wiggum at June 02, 2023 04:05 PM (PiwSw)

17 TL;DR.

Failed to break even on production, or production + P&A?

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 02, 2023 04:05 PM (oINRc)

18 The Little Mermaid Reboot May Not Even Break Even
........

Of course not, she didn't show us her tits.

Posted by: wth at June 02, 2023 04:05 PM (v0R5T)

19 Elementals, even if it wasn't woke, how was that ever going to work? They have remade the same stupid cartoon three or four times now, with a slightly different theme. Nobody wants that.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at June 02, 2023 04:06 PM (0hOvj)

20 Oh, and there are a bunch of Africa myths and legends as well.

If you want to tell a "black story" why not make a movie of one of those? Hey I bet some of the folks in Uganda have some great ideas for a culturally accurate African movie!

Posted by: 18-1 at June 02, 2023 04:06 PM (lc5cP)

21 I have a problem with them race swapping fairy tale characters. Fairy tales are typically tied to specific groups. I wouldn't want to see a race swapped Asian fairy tale anymore than than I want to see it happen to a European one. We have to stop saying, we don't mind.

Posted by: Crom Laughs - Celebrate American Ramadan at June 02, 2023 04:06 PM (dN42F)

22 America… increasingly ridiculous in the world’s eyes..

Posted by: tubal at June 02, 2023 04:06 PM (PCK5/)

23 LOL tubal.

Posted by: Jordan61 at June 02, 2023 04:06 PM (DRSnL)

24 Serves them right diving into Cultural Marxism

Posted by: Skip at June 02, 2023 04:07 PM (xhxe8)

25 Imma guessing the only way to mount a mermaid would be from the rear. Never had a hard on for scaly ass.

Posted by: Puddinhead at June 02, 2023 04:07 PM (NsE9F)

26 That is fucking horrific. How marvelous.

Posted by: May their product and revenues continue to deteriorate at June 02, 2023 04:08 PM (fiChp)

27 Don't touch nothin'! You can't negotiate turns, you can't signal properly, you can't maintain speed, you can't parallel park. Hell, you can't drive, honey! Shit, I can't swim. I know I can't! So you know what I do? I stay my black ass out the pool!
~Donny Astricky (Gone in 60 Seconds)

Posted by: Wierzbowski formerly QID at June 02, 2023 04:08 PM (OgrpQ)

28

No one in the entire world and I mean no one is interested in black fairy tale characters. Including my black African friends, who I specifically asked about this movie.

This SHIT is being crammed down our throats by very small percent of our population of to control with our media.

Lamppost. Piano wire.

Posted by: Rev. Martin Ssempa at June 02, 2023 04:08 PM (W/hnn)

29 I prefer the sweet, dulcet tones of Yoko Ono compared to that Little Mermaid song...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 02, 2023 04:08 PM (YIVH2)

30 >>> 7 The left argues that black girls can't watch non-race swapped The Little Mermaid because...they don't feel part of a movie where the main character isn't black.

That's because they are not part of any movie, they are viewers. Do people think they are in the movie if they are the same color as the star? What a bizarre take.

Posted by: DJ at June 02, 2023 04:09 PM (H5y4s)

31 Oh, and there are a bunch of Africa myths and legends as well.

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I'm betting black half-human half-fish monsters are hideously violent and eat the heck out of people.

Posted by: You had your day for dead GIs, now here's a month to celebrate men who are sexually aroused by feces at June 02, 2023 04:09 PM (n/6gj)

32 Imma guessing the only way to mount a mermaid would be from the rear. Never had a hard on for scaly ass.
Posted by: Puddinhead at June 02, 2023 04:07 PM (NsE9F)

***

This is about me isn't it...

Posted by: Cindy Lauper, Eczema Sufferer at June 02, 2023 04:09 PM (flINI)

33 Awkwafina is annoying AF anyway, let alone when she's trying to "rap."

Posted by: Jordan61 at June 02, 2023 04:09 PM (DRSnL)

34 I just assumed they picked that girl for the mermaid role because her eyes are on the sides of her head like a fish

Posted by: Milquetoast Mortgage-Paying Neighbor in Flyover Country at June 02, 2023 04:09 PM (5C4od)

35 Ok, nvmd it was bolded.

It's failing to break even on total budget. That's nice, but I was hoping it flopped under the production budget. That's completely disastrous, even to H'wood accountants.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 02, 2023 04:09 PM (oINRc)

36 The leftwing shill media is now preparing their leftwing readers for the possibility -- probability, really -- that The Little Mermaid will fail to turn a profit and may even lose money.

Oh no!

Anyway...

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 02, 2023 04:09 PM (llON8)

37 "And I don't think it's a huge thing to race-swap a fairy tale character. Yes, the original myth comes from Denmark, I think, but whatever."

I do. Only because it's only one way in the interest of diversity. Think one of their non white characters will every get replaced by a white person? Never, and that tells me all I need to know about their motives. Beyond that, I don't get the impulse to swap out any traditional character for another race or whatever. It seems like a cheap, hapless move by people who wouldn't know creativity of it crawled up their ass and waved at them through their teeth in the mirror.

Posted by: Veritas at June 02, 2023 04:09 PM (MV2Ia)

38 She has Innsmouth Syndrome…

Posted by: tubal at June 02, 2023 04:10 PM (PCK5/)

39 I did see a prediction that Indiana Jones will make more than Ant Man 3, which would not at all surprise me. I mean I like Ant Man but he's not a major draw and the trailer looked stupid and terrible.

Indy, as terrible as it looks, is still Indiana Jones, and that franchise still has draw even if the last one was a turd.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at June 02, 2023 04:10 PM (0hOvj)

40 What do they call a large mermaid?
Posted by: Puddinhead at June 02, 2023 04:02 PM (NsE9F)
.......

a transmaid? a mertrans?

Posted by: wth at June 02, 2023 04:10 PM (v0R5T)

41 No one in the entire world and I mean no one is interested in black fairy tale characters. Including my black African friends, who I specifically asked about this movie.

This SHIT is being crammed down our throats by very small percent of our population of to control with our media.

Lamppost. Piano wire.
Posted by: Rev. Martin Ssempa at June 02, 2023 04:08 PM (W/hnn)
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What's weird is that Africa has an amazing, rich, and complex mythology that could be used to generate some very cool stories. Tad Williams used this to tremendous effect in his "Otherland" series of novels, which feature a Bushman as one of the main characters. His traditional folk tales are key elements in the story.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 02, 2023 04:10 PM (YIVH2)

42 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 02, 2023 04:11 PM (Zz0t1)

43 I could make a movie studio a ton of money if they would listen to me. Do a Judge Dredd sequel and make a movie from the book Armor.

Easy Peasy. Like planting a money tree.

Posted by: polynikes at June 02, 2023 04:11 PM (MNhXM)

44 The fact is you can't sell a black cast in Asia. Might get away with it in the US especially if name brand but it will never sell in Asia.

Posted by: JEM at June 02, 2023 04:11 PM (8erNz)

45 I'm not sure how many fans want to see Indiana Jones as a broken, helpless old man who cowers in the corner while his patronising goddaughter takes the lead, but that's what we're given, and it's as bleak as it sounds.

Jones was basically a pulp serial that fell down on the serial part by having too-infrequent installments. If you want pulp stories, you hire to hire pulp writers, people who love the genre and its conceits, not as bunch of hipster douchebags bent on subverting expectations and modernizing the series so that it's simpatico with the church of what's happening right now. These people can't make a good Jones movie. Probably almost no one associated with Hollywood could at this point.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at June 02, 2023 04:11 PM (ppBhU)

46 Why are you guys boycotting my very good friends at Disney?

Posted by: Donald Trump at June 02, 2023 04:11 PM (bSPmw)

47 >>> 41

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What's weird is that Africa has an amazing, rich, and complex mythology that could be used to generate some very cool stories. Tad Williams used this to tremendous effect in his "Otherland" series of novels, which feature a Bushman as one of the main characters. His traditional folk tales are key elements in the story.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 02, 2023 04:10 PM (YIVH2)

That would require H'wood script "writers" to read.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 02, 2023 04:11 PM (llON8)

48 Mermaid is gender specific and that is a big time foul, Man. What if the Little Mermaid is transgender? Mermaid refers to a half female/half fish. What is the Mermaid has a fish tail, has balls, green hair, and says they are tri-sexual or non-binary. The children will be so confused if this is not settled by the Supreme Court today !!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Ferd Berfall at June 02, 2023 04:11 PM (66jxp)

49 Bulkmaid

Posted by: JEM at June 02, 2023 04:12 PM (8erNz)

50 Drudge moved into the Democrats Propaganda Ministry years ago

Posted by: Skip at June 02, 2023 04:12 PM (xhxe8)

51 When does Mulan get remade with a sassy black girl? Still in 6th century China of course.

Posted by: Why not? Makes as much sense as the rest of this shit at June 02, 2023 04:13 PM (fiChp)

52 Straight up. At the top of their powers with no outside intervention who wins Hitler or Stalin?

Posted by: JmT at June 02, 2023 04:13 PM (4upfP)

53 Mermaid is gender specific and that is a big time foul, Man. What if the Little Mermaid is transgender? Mermaid refers to a half female/half fish. What is the Mermaid has a fish tail, has balls, green hair, and says they are tri-sexual or non-binary. The children will be so confused if this is not settled by the Supreme Court today !!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: Ferd Berfall at June 02, 2023 04:11 PM (66jxp

I don't see any lady parts?

Posted by: polynikes at June 02, 2023 04:13 PM (MNhXM)

54 >>>Mermaid is gender specific and that is a big time foul, Man. What if the Little Mermaid is transgender? Mermaid refers to a half female/half fish.

Mer-Man, Dad! Mer-MAN!!!

Posted by: Derek Zoolander at June 02, 2023 04:13 PM (KRtlO)

55 Most racist place in the world is either Japan or Korea. I'm going to say Japan

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at June 02, 2023 04:13 PM (flINI)

56 The fact is you can't sell a black cast in Asia. Might get away with it in the US especially if name brand but it will never sell in Asia.

I wonder if they lightened her skin color for the Chinese market?

Posted by: 18-1 at June 02, 2023 04:13 PM (lc5cP)

57 Disney should do a remake of “The Naked Prey”.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at June 02, 2023 04:13 PM (R/m4+)

58 If they're going to keep spending a quarter billion dollars to make a turd shouldn't the EPA get them for a Clean Water Act violation.

Posted by: DaveA at June 02, 2023 04:14 PM (FhXTo)

59 That would require H'wood script "writers" to read.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 02, 2023 04:11 PM (llON

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It's their loss, I suppose. Otherland is pretty long. Maybe they'd prefer Neil Gaiman's "Anansi Boys" instead...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 02, 2023 04:14 PM (YIVH2)

60 JmT, calm down, stop trying to divert every conversation to your apparent singular interest.

Posted by: ace at June 02, 2023 04:14 PM (KRtlO)

61 When does Mulan get remade with a sassy black girl? Still in 6th century China of course.

They did have Matt Damon Matt Damoning the Great Wall for some reason in a recent movie.

MATT DAMON!

Posted by: 18-1 at June 02, 2023 04:14 PM (lc5cP)

62 If they need the tax write off send me the money. I'll make a horrid flick for them.

Posted by: SOMEASSHOLESTOLEMYPEN at June 02, 2023 04:14 PM (ytSiK)

63 Posted this earlier today, but would still like to see if The Horde has any suggestions:

I believe there are some in The Horde that are in the private health insurance business. Wife is leaving her current job and with that, we lose health insurance on her and our daughter. Adding her back to mine would take my monthly costs back up to near $1000 a month.

I would love to talk with someone about private insurance and see if there's a better alternative.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 02, 2023 11:39 AM (Zz0t1)

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 02, 2023 04:14 PM (Zz0t1)

64 "I can't relate to a character who isn't black."

Huh? Then I guess Wakanda and Sade should have blowout audiences in the black demo.

*checks*

Nope. These are more of the professional complainers and gadfly's who don't watch any of these movies to begin with.

Posted by: Veritas at June 02, 2023 04:14 PM (MV2Ia)

65 43 I could make a movie studio a ton of money if they would listen to me. Do a Judge Dredd sequel and make a movie from the book Armor.

Easy Peasy. Like planting a money tree.
Posted by: polynikes at June 02, 2023 04:11 PM (MNhXM)

As long as the Dredd sequel has Karl Urban reprising the role.

Posted by: He made a damn good Dredd at June 02, 2023 04:15 PM (fiChp)

66 If they keep making crappy reboot movies they will eventually go out of business. Their theme parks are hemorrhaging money left and right.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 02, 2023 04:15 PM (ncXxy)

67 JmT, calm down, stop trying to divert every conversation to your apparent singular interest.
Posted by: ace at June 02, 2023 04:14 PM (KRtlO)

But don't you know who HE IS??!!?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 02, 2023 04:15 PM (Zz0t1)

68 She has Innsmouth Syndrome

Yeah she is funky looking, but still cute. Good casting in terms of her face and her ability to sing but apparently she has no acting talent.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at June 02, 2023 04:15 PM (0hOvj)

69 hey hollywood: you can have this for free. a remake of 'splash', replace darryl hannah with lizzo.

Posted by: gnats local 678 at June 02, 2023 04:15 PM (B1FKF)

70 >>> 56

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I wonder if they lightened her skin color for the Chinese market?
Posted by: 18-1 at June 02, 2023 04:13 PM (lc5cP)

Apparently the poster *is* different for the CCP, featuring a silhouetted (-ish?) view of the main character.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 02, 2023 04:15 PM (llON8)

71 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rld3gOeNqlQ

Posted by: JEM at June 02, 2023 04:15 PM (8erNz)

72 Was there a Little Mermaid / Flipper sex scene?
No? Then I'll pass.

Posted by: wth at June 02, 2023 04:15 PM (v0R5T)

73 As long as the Dredd sequel has Karl Urban reprising the role.

And Olivia Thirlby...topless

Posted by: Obligatory at June 02, 2023 04:15 PM (lc5cP)

74 I saw the trailer for Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny. I would not be surprised at all if they pull the movie after a week and destroy it and just go for the total loss on this one. I thought I really didn't want to see this movie because of how terrible Crystal Skull was, and the trailer makes me want to never watch any Indiana Jones movie again.

Were they going for total backlash with the trailer? If those were the best scenes they could find, it may hit a 0 audience score on rotten tomatoes.

Posted by: Nutsy at June 02, 2023 04:16 PM (OfVjg)

75 Jones was basically a pulp serial that fell down on the serial part by having too-infrequent installments. If you want pulp stories, you hire to hire pulp writers, people who love the genre and its conceits, not as bunch of hipster douchebags bent on subverting expectations and modernizing the series so that it's simpatico with the church of what's happening right now. These people can't make a good Jones movie. Probably almost no one associated with Hollywood could at this point.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at June 02, 2023 04:11 PM (ppBhU)
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You could apply this to ANY genre movie in Hollywood. None of the writers of this dreck have any familiarity or love of the genres in which they are writing. It's sad, really. At best, they might read the TV Tropes summary or Cliffs Notes.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 02, 2023 04:16 PM (YIVH2)

76 Yes, yes, dyslexic casting director looking for gingers, etc.

What are you watching outside the Hollywood system? Say what you want about Netflix, at least they broadened my mind to dramatic yet somewhat traditional entertainment- in Korea. Talk about Daily Wire films- anything. One thing I like about Mauler is that he doesn't repeat the same talking points I hear on every anti-left YouTube review channel.

Posted by: trev006 at June 02, 2023 04:16 PM (ZyRtd)

77 We have to stop saying, we don't mind.
Posted by: Crom Laughs - Celebrate American Ramadan

They like that you notice so they can call you Racist.
It's one of the points of the exercise.

Posted by: DaveA at June 02, 2023 04:17 PM (FhXTo)

78 If I want to see a weak old man looking feeble and pathetic, I'll just stay home, save my money and watch Biden fall on stages and stairs for hours on end, thank you very much.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at June 02, 2023 04:17 PM (KbCG3)

79 That rap - it's like a female Gilbert Gottfried from Compton.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at June 02, 2023 04:17 PM (bNf8H)

80 9 figures in four days isn't nothing.

As soon as I saw those estimates a few days before the weekend, I knew the real game was going to be the next weekend.

A 30% drop, and this thing has legs. A 65% drop or more, and this is going to drop like a stone.

The CinemaScore (which does have predictive value) was ridiculously high with an A, which indicates legs. But models are always wrong and sometimes useful.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at June 02, 2023 04:17 PM (LvTSG)

81 I would love to talk with someone about private insurance and see if there's a better alternative.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 02, 2023 11:39 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 02, 2023 04:14 PM (Zz0t1)

Weirddave is our resident insurance dude.

Posted by: I'd start there at June 02, 2023 04:17 PM (fiChp)

82 >>> 63
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I would love to talk with someone about private insurance and see if there's a better alternative.
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Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 02, 2023 04:14 PM (Zz0t1)

I can't recall if he does *health* insurance specifically but WeirdDave is one of the Morons in the industry.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 02, 2023 04:17 PM (llON8)

83 @55
Concur.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at June 02, 2023 04:17 PM (ssESX)

84 As long as the Dredd sequel has Karl Urban reprising the role.
Posted by: He made a damn good Dredd at June 02, 2023 04:15 PM (fiChp

Of course. It has to be the same formula that made the first Dredd a dvd / rental blockbuster.

Posted by: polynikes at June 02, 2023 04:17 PM (MNhXM)

85 Never heard of this thing before, but I can safely say Awkwafina sucks. Bigly.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 02, 2023 04:18 PM (Zz0t1)

86 phoebe waller bridge is so goddam unlikeable, that it's amazing. pure anti-charisma.

Posted by: x at June 02, 2023 04:18 PM (ZBPE2)

87 84 As long as the Dredd sequel has Karl Urban reprising the role.
Posted by: He made a damn good Dredd at June 02, 2023 04:15 PM (fiChp

Of course. It has to be the same formula that made the first Dredd a dvd / rental blockbuster.
Posted by: polynikes at June 02, 2023 04:17 PM (MNhXM)

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Bring back Alex Garland to shadow direct!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at June 02, 2023 04:18 PM (LvTSG)

88 "What's weird is that Africa has an amazing, rich, and complex mythology that could be used to generate some very cool stories."

This is so true. There is an amazing amount of myths and mythology that come out of Africa. The problem is that writers and producers today suck at being creative and interesting. Nor do they ever go off the beaten path for a story. It's all the same rote, boring, repetitive, formulaic garbage underwritten by a primary desire to be woke, racist and partisan. That's a recipe for the crap we see on the screen.

Posted by: Veritas at June 02, 2023 04:18 PM (MV2Ia)

89 It is stupid to make European based fairy tales and not use actors of European descent.

It is just as stupid to make African, Asian, Indian, etc, based fairy tales and not use actors of African, Asian, Indian, and so on, descent.

Posted by: Archer at June 02, 2023 04:19 PM (gmo/4)

90
I can't recall if he does *health* insurance specifically but WeirdDave is one of the Morons in the industry.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 02, 2023 04:17 PM (llON8

WOOT.

I'll reach out next time I see him around.

THANKS!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 02, 2023 04:19 PM (Zz0t1)

91 JmT, calm down, stop trying to divert every conversation to your apparent singular interest.
Posted by: ace at June 02, 2023 04:14 PM (KRtlO)

My interests are multiple. At least 2 or 3, lol.

Posted by: JmT at June 02, 2023 04:19 PM (4upfP)

92 Yeah but Japan didn't have an official travel warning for Blacks like Spain did. Don't know if it was valid but it happened.

Posted by: polynikes at June 02, 2023 04:19 PM (MNhXM)

93 Who are these little girls who are half fish??? She don't look like them, she looks like a mermaid.

And her mom was a gigantic ho. Good lord, you see all those daughters? Every one is a different ethnic group, doesn't Triton notice this??

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at June 02, 2023 04:19 PM (0hOvj)

94 Disney is in a fuckton of trouble.
Comcast has a 'put' on Disney, forcing Disney to buy their share of Hulu in six months for AT LEAST $9b (floor value, actual value TBD), and Disney has like only $200m in available cash. They closed their Starcruiser hotel thingy, canceled their Lake Nona headquarters, wrote down shitty Willow, reduced making content, and are trimming back streaming content to try and conserve/increase cash.
Plus, their stock is dropping.

I have been watching Legal Mindset, Valiant Renegade, and WDW Pro on YouTube for the latest on this weirdness.

Only their parks are doing sort of ok. Sort of.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at June 02, 2023 04:19 PM (ufFY8)

95 Awkwafina was OK in "Crazy, Rich Asians" and it's been downhill ever since. This bird shit song she does in this trailer is the worst.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 02, 2023 04:19 PM (JfgVN)

96 >>> 86 phoebe waller bridge is so goddam unlikeable, that it's amazing. pure anti-charisma.
Posted by: x at June 02, 2023 04:18 PM (ZBPE2)

Somewhere else-blog I saw her referred to as "fleabag".

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 02, 2023 04:20 PM (llON8)

97 This is so true. There is an amazing amount of myths and mythology that come out of Africa. The problem is that writers and producers today suck at being creative and interesting. Nor do they ever go off the beaten path for a story. It's all the same rote, boring, repetitive, formulaic garbage underwritten by a primary desire to be woke, racist and partisan. That's a recipe for the crap we see on the screen.
Posted by: Veritas at June 02, 2023 04:18 PM (MV2Ia)
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I found an excellent essay about this phenomena related to literature that I'll be sharing on the Sunday Morning Book Thread in a couple of weeks. It's been going on far longer than most people realize.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 02, 2023 04:20 PM (YIVH2)

98 That Awkwafina song makes me want to time travel back to ancient Rome and die.

Posted by: Cave Johnson at June 02, 2023 04:20 PM (0+Z8q)

99 96 >>> 86 phoebe waller bridge is so goddam unlikeable, that it's amazing. pure anti-charisma.
Posted by: x at June 02, 2023 04:18 PM (ZBPE2)

Somewhere else-blog I saw her referred to as "fleabag".
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 02, 2023 04:20 PM (llON

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Fleabag is the name of her Amazon show that got her prominence. It's apparently about an extremely unlikeable British woman and her misadventures in romance.

So, you know, prime fodder for someone like Kathleen Kennedy.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at June 02, 2023 04:20 PM (LvTSG)

100 What's weird is that Africa has an amazing, rich, and complex mythology that could be used to generate some very cool stories.

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It has already been noted that none of the white people who don't live or work around black people have any interest or motivation in learning about African myths or reading anything that isn't tweeted from Beyonce or the like.

Add to that the established intellectual property, trademarks, toys, etc., and zero additional costs to produce new ideas.

Posted by: You had your day for dead GIs, now here's a month to celebrate men who are sexually aroused by feces at June 02, 2023 04:20 PM (n/6gj)

101 97 I found an excellent essay about this phenomena related to literature that I'll be sharing on the Sunday Morning Book Thread in a couple of weeks. It's been going on far longer than most people realize.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 02, 2023 04:20 PM (YIVH2)

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You know what else you found to share on the book thread...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at June 02, 2023 04:21 PM (LvTSG)

102 Matlock was Andy Griffith in court.

Bates will be Little Green Tomatoes in court.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at June 02, 2023 04:21 PM (lf83v)

103 Funny, I have no desire to see the Disney stuff. I did buy a copy of a new movie on DVD this week. It's Jesus Revolution. Wonder what the box office is for that?

Posted by: Notsothoreau at June 02, 2023 04:21 PM (ouTlx)

104 What do they call a large mermaid?
Posted by: Puddinhead at June 02, 2023 04:02 PM

40 Oz Old English 800 Mermaid?

Posted by: FRED SANFORD at June 02, 2023 04:21 PM (2znMt)

105 A 30% drop, and this thing has legs. A 65% drop or more, and this is going to drop like a stone.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at June 02, 2023 04:17 PM (LvTSG)

This particular film having legs would be ironic...

Posted by: trev006 at June 02, 2023 04:21 PM (ZyRtd)

106 I feel bad for the actress Cosplaying Ariel, she's been put in a tough spot.

Phoebe Waller Bridge is aggressively British, she has her spots but the fact that Hollywood is trying to make her a thing is going to fail even worse than trying to make Mindy Kaeling a thing.

Spoiler Alert: She'll never be a thing.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 02, 2023 04:21 PM (up/3i)

107 And her mom was a gigantic ho. Good lord, you see all those daughters? Every one is a different ethnic group, doesn't Triton notice this??
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at June 02, 2023 04:19 PM (0hOvj)
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Maybe Triton has a harem? A stable of wives? Do mermen practice polygamy?

Or maybe Triton is part of a "polycule."

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 02, 2023 04:21 PM (YIVH2)

108 Wenn sich jemand bewegt, bekommt es die Maus.

Posted by: Marcus T at June 02, 2023 04:21 PM (wgAtL)

109 >>> 101 97 I found an excellent essay about this phenomena related to literature that I'll be sharing on the Sunday Morning Book Thread in a couple of weeks. It's been going on far longer than most people realize.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 02, 2023 04:20 PM (YIVH2)

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You know what else you found to share on the book thread...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at June 02, 2023 04:21 PM (LvTSG)

Busty lesbian pr0n??? That would be... unexpected.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 02, 2023 04:21 PM (llON8)

110 If they keep making crappy reboot movies they will eventually go out of business. Their theme parks are hemorrhaging money left and right.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 02, 2023 04:15 PM (ncXxy)

Remake Ford Fairlane. "Suzuki Samurai, you Benson Hurst piece of shit." ~ Johnny Crunch

Posted by: Wierzbowski formerly QID at June 02, 2023 04:22 PM (OgrpQ)

111 Mer-made reboot...since the original Merfolk were likely Manatees, sea cows, should have just cast Lizzo...and gone whole hog.
That "Rap" song?...Jeeebus cripes, that was get up and walk out BAD, 70 year old southern baptist preacher(and wife) rapping awful.

Posted by: birddog at June 02, 2023 04:22 PM (uAI4S)

112 103 Funny, I have no desire to see the Disney stuff. I did buy a copy of a new movie on DVD this week. It's Jesus Revolution. Wonder what the box office is for that?
Posted by: Notsothoreau at June 02, 2023 04:21 PM (ouTlx)

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Good box office. $53 million off of a $15 million budget, and the marketing was probably pretty low since they weren't relying on major markets like NYC for ticket sales.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at June 02, 2023 04:22 PM (LvTSG)

113 Hey Sponge, here's the corrected URL from my "Hubba hubba!" post in the GAINZZ thread: Hubba hubba!
https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=2JxsGWKOw4g&t=255

No tats!

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at June 02, 2023 04:22 PM (ssESX)

114 Just because I like to point it out, I remember reading years ago that there is a distinct lack of boogy-men and scary monster tales in the rain forests because their lives are terrifying as they are. They don't need scary stories to convince their children to stay in bed at night. Their children will stay in bed at night because they know they will truly die if they don't.

Posted by: You had your day for dead GIs, now here's a month to celebrate men who are sexually aroused by feces at June 02, 2023 04:22 PM (n/6gj)

115 I didn't mind the race role switching in the Magnificent Seven remake with Denzel. Bass Reeves was a bad ass so it had a basis in history.

Posted by: polynikes at June 02, 2023 04:22 PM (MNhXM)

116 You know what else you found to share on the book thread...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at June 02, 2023 04:21 PM (LvTSG)
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It's on like Donkey Kong!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 02, 2023 04:22 PM (YIVH2)

117 I'll have no issue with a black Ariel as soon as a white actor hets to play Black Panther.

Posted by: Montec at June 02, 2023 04:23 PM (OalnH)

118 "I can't relate to a character who isn't black."
________
Wow. There's a lot of work for you and your therapist.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at June 02, 2023 04:23 PM (lf83v)

119 116 You know what else you found to share on the book thread...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at June 02, 2023 04:21 PM (LvTSG)
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It's on like Donkey Kong!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 02, 2023 04:22 PM (YIVH2)

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I look forward to a massive increase in sales that makes Stephen King blush with envy.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at June 02, 2023 04:23 PM (LvTSG)

120 Movies have generally sucked donkey balls for a decade or more.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 02, 2023 04:23 PM (Q4IgG)

121 117 I'll have no issue with a black Ariel as soon as a white actor hets to play Black Panther.
Posted by: Montec at June 02, 2023 04:23 PM (OalnH)

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Sharlto Copely is more African than Chadwick Boseman was.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at June 02, 2023 04:24 PM (LvTSG)

122 re Mermaid
We'll see. Many blacks have this race-loyalty thing and feel almost obligated to support those that are black and "make it".

Posted by: SamIam at June 02, 2023 04:24 PM (oasF3)

123 That is fucking horrific. How marvelous.
Posted by: May their product and revenues continue to deteriorate at June 02, 2023 04:08 PM (fiChp)

The suspense is killing me.
I hope it will last.

Posted by: The Best Willy Wonka at June 02, 2023 04:24 PM (ufFY8)

124 https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=2JxsGWKOw4g&t=255

No tats!
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at June 02, 2023 04:22 PM (ssESX)

Holy crap.....Gabby is......wow.....

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 02, 2023 04:24 PM (Zz0t1)

125 Mer-made reboot...since the original Merfolk were likely Manatees, sea cows, should have just cast Lizzo...and gone whole hog.

Prop marks and all

Posted by: Wierzbowski formerly QID at June 02, 2023 04:24 PM (OgrpQ)

126 comedy central gave awkwafina a sitcom a few years ago, still on, but i saw the first two or three episodes, and it seems they don't understand that comedy is supposed to be funny

Posted by: gnats local 678 at June 02, 2023 04:24 PM (B1FKF)

127 I have a whole, glittering rainbow of horrid concepts for woke movies. I've even pitched a few around here from time to time.

If Disney is looking for someone to help their braindead urban Eloi skels finish picking over the bloated, beached corpse of their century-old industrial behemoth, I'm available.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 02, 2023 04:24 PM (oINRc)

128 That "Rap" song?...Jeeebus cripes, that was get up and walk out BAD, 70 year old southern baptist preacher(and wife) rapping awful.
Posted by: birddog at June 02, 2023 04:22 PM (uAI4S)
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I was watching Critical Drinker and pals talk about it on his livestream yesterday. One of his guests said it was so cringey while watching it in the theatre it was causing actual physical discomfort.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 02, 2023 04:24 PM (YIVH2)

129 The original score was very witty and catchy; one hears more accomplished 'raps' than that linked thing on Sesame Street.

Posted by: Mr. Bingley at June 02, 2023 04:24 PM (FXT2u)

130 Disney should do a remake of “Dumb And Dumber” but in Da Hood this time.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at June 02, 2023 04:24 PM (R/m4+)

131 115 I didn't mind the race role switching in the Magnificent Seven remake with Denzel. Bass Reeves was a bad ass so it had a basis in history.
Posted by: polynikes at June 02, 2023 04:22 PM (MNhXM)

Was going to mention this. Wife and I watched recently and I thought it was awesome.

That said, I didn't think Denzel was there just because he was black and they wanted to race swap the role.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at June 02, 2023 04:24 PM (KbCG3)

132 re Mermaid
We'll see. Many blacks have this race-loyalty thing and feel almost obligated to support those that are black and "make it".

Posted by: SamIam

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YAAAAY!!!
- Urban dwellers after OJ was let off for murdering two people

Posted by: You had your day for dead GIs, now here's a month to celebrate men who are sexually aroused by feces at June 02, 2023 04:25 PM (n/6gj)

133 I'm waiting for Disney's remake of Aladdin, where the main character is a pimp called "Slade" and the princess is a rapper named "Jawanda". We can AI some new Biggie Smalls songs for the soundtrack.

Kathleen Kennedy- call me 🤙.

Good ideas, I've got a million of them.

Posted by: Marcus T at June 02, 2023 04:25 PM (wgAtL)

134 It has already been noted that none of the white people who don't live or work around black people have any interest or motivation in learning about African myths or reading anything that isn't tweeted from Beyonce or the like.

Posted by: You had your day for dead GIs, now here's a month to celebrate men who are sexually aroused by feces at June 02, 2023 04:20 PM (n/6gj)

One thing about Hollywood writers, whether white/ black/ "white," is that they are cringingly retarded. The tribal symbolism in the Wakanda movies is so awful I genuinely expected Africans and their allies to protest it. I'd love to see African works without the stench of woke. I will most likely find them among the Chinese.

Posted by: trev006 at June 02, 2023 04:25 PM (ZyRtd)

135 So sad for Disney; I'd give a f*ck, but my field has long been barren.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 02, 2023 04:25 PM (ynpvh)

136 Are we going to point and laugh when MI 7 hits and it takes in more than every Disney movie released this year?

Posted by: Blake - semi lurker at large at June 02, 2023 04:25 PM (2YtOq)

137
Sharlto Copely is more African than Chadwick Boseman was.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at June 02, 2023 04:24 PM (LvTSG)

Oh SNAP!

Posted by: It's true though at June 02, 2023 04:25 PM (fiChp)

138 comedy central gave awkwafina a sitcom a few years ago, still on, but i saw the first two or three episodes, and it seems they don't understand that comedy is supposed to be funny
Posted by: gnats local 678 at June 02, 2023 04:24 PM (B1FKF)

She was decent on Bojack Horseman.

Posted by: trev006 at June 02, 2023 04:26 PM (ZyRtd)

139 I wonder if they lightened her skin color for the Chinese market?

The 'Asian' market is a bunch of countries that have a history of warring on each other but they share a mistrust of western culture.

Think my wife and daughter are in Osaka right now. Korea is next. I'm home minding the dogs.

Posted by: JEM at June 02, 2023 04:26 PM (8erNz)

140 I'll have no issue with a black Ariel as soon as a white actor hets to play Black Panther.
Posted by: Montec at June 02, 2023 04:23 PM (OalnH)

I've been waiting for a remake of Shaft with some lily white guy playing the title role.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 02, 2023 04:26 PM (Zz0t1)

141 I missed the GAINZZ thread, so I'll mention here that, as of today, I've surpassed 50 pounds lost since January. A little over 20 to go until I'm content-ish.

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at June 02, 2023 04:26 PM (DTX3h)

142 That said, I didn't think Denzel was there just because he was black and they wanted to race swap the role.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at June 02, 2023 04:24 PM (KbCG3)

I think they specifically had Bass Reeves in mind.

Posted by: polynikes at June 02, 2023 04:26 PM (MNhXM)

143 136 Are we going to point and laugh when MI 7 hits and it takes in more than every Disney movie released this year?
Posted by: Blake - semi lurker at large at June 02, 2023 04:25 PM (2YtOq)

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There's a rumor going around the Tom Cruise is trying to get both Barbie and Oppenheimer's release dates moved so that MI7 has more exclusive IMAX space.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at June 02, 2023 04:26 PM (LvTSG)

144 I have no idea about any of these Disney characters, so going to go try reheating a pizza on the grill

Posted by: Skip at June 02, 2023 04:26 PM (xhxe8)

145 Ah, now I understand that Babylon Bee article that mentioned Awkwafina the other day.

Posted by: The Chap in the Deerstalker Cap at June 02, 2023 04:26 PM (KaIpx)

146 Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at June 02, 2023 04:26 PM (DTX3h)💪

👍

Posted by: polynikes at June 02, 2023 04:27 PM (MNhXM)

147 Not that I pay attention to this type of sportsball shit, but I read that LeBron's kid is graduating from HS. And he took a smoking hot white girl to prom. And black peeps were none too happy about that. Because of course they weren't. LOL

Posted by: Montec at June 02, 2023 04:27 PM (OalnH)

148 I feel bad for the actress Cosplaying Ariel, she's been put in a tough spot.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 02, 2023 04:21 PM (up/3i)

She's been all in on the racism accusations. I don't feel bad for her at all.

Posted by: Crom Laughs at June 02, 2023 04:27 PM (dN42F)

149 I was watching Critical Drinker and pals talk about it on his livestream yesterday. One of his guests said it was so cringey while watching it in the theatre it was causing actual physical discomfort.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 02, 2023 04:24 PM (YIVH2)

I watched Drinker's review and a couple things stood out:

The CGI really is pathetic.

Watching actual animals like crabs and fish talk is mind blowingly awful. I didn't think about this until he pointed it out. There's no cartoonishness to them at all. It's nightmare fuel.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at June 02, 2023 04:27 PM (KbCG3)

150 I'm kinda waiting for a new season of The Moon Knight.

Posted by: Marcus T at June 02, 2023 04:27 PM (wgAtL)

151 Wow, I watched the rap video from the movie. Yikes.

But what I didn't realize was how homely the new Little Mermaid is. Also yikes.

Way to go, Disney. Couldn't find any attractive black girls for black girls to identify with?

I'm betting that's on purpose, too.

Posted by: You had your day for dead GIs, now here's a month to celebrate men who are sexually aroused by feces at June 02, 2023 04:27 PM (n/6gj)

152 Jesus Revolution has made over 50 million worldwide, with a production cost of around 15 million, so its making money. This was a smash hit back in the 80s. Now its a modest success.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at June 02, 2023 04:27 PM (0hOvj)

153 Not that I pay attention to this type of sportsball shit, but I read that LeBron's kid is graduating from HS. And he took a smoking hot white girl to prom. And black peeps were none too happy about that. Because of course they weren't. LOL
Posted by: Montec at June 02, 2023 04:27 PM (OalnH)

Eyez on da pryze, baby.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 02, 2023 04:27 PM (Zz0t1)

154 They're gonna vote for Biden, aren't they?

@JusticeTristan 21m
Biden Cuts Off Navajo Nation From Oil And Gas Development ⁦@FDRLST

Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 02, 2023 04:28 PM (jzzG8)

155 If everything Disney currently owns simultaneously caught fire, I would find the nearest property and make s'mores over the embers.

Fuck all of these people. Stop giving them one thin dime.

Posted by: ballistic at June 02, 2023 04:28 PM (oXNqT)

156 Will they cast a black actor as Hitler in the remake of "Downfall"?

Samuel L. Jackson?

Chris Tucker?

Morgan Freeman?

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at June 02, 2023 04:28 PM (lf83v)

157 152 Jesus Revolution has made over 50 million worldwide, with a production cost of around 15 million, so its making money. This was a smash hit back in the 80s. Now its a modest success.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at June 02, 2023 04:27 PM (0hOvj)

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Inflation is real.

Enemy Mine cost $40 million. Doesn't seem like a lot now, but it was one of the most expensive movies ever made at the time.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at June 02, 2023 04:28 PM (LvTSG)

158 I missed the GAINZZ thread, so I'll mention here that, as of today, I've surpassed 50 pounds lost since January. A little over 20 to go until I'm content-ish.
Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at June 02, 2023 04:26 PM (DTX3h)

*pats back*

Noice!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 02, 2023 04:29 PM (Zz0t1)

159 It's their loss, I suppose. Otherland is pretty long. Maybe they'd prefer Neil Gaiman's "Anansi Boys" instead...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 02, 2023 04:14 PM (YIVH2)

That is a fantastic book and wonderful retelling of the myth. But since it's written by a white, British guy, no one will touch it.

Posted by: Moki at June 02, 2023 04:29 PM (JrN/x)

160 I've been waiting for a remake of Shaft with some lily white guy playing the title role.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 02, 2023 04:26 PM (Zz0t1)

I'm available!

Posted by: Danny DeVito at June 02, 2023 04:29 PM (PiwSw)

161 Watching actual animals like crabs and fish talk is mind blowingly awful. I didn't think about this until he pointed it out. There's no cartoonishness to them at all. It's nightmare fuel.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at June 02, 2023 04:27 PM (KbCG3)
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Drinker pointed out that the original animated version allowed the animated characters to emote much more than the CGI versions in the "live action" film, allowing them to connect with their intended audience (i.e., children.)

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 02, 2023 04:29 PM (YIVH2)

162 That said, I didn't think Denzel was there just because he was black and they wanted to race swap the role.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at June 02, 2023 04:24 PM (KbCG3)

I'm dying laughing here.....Oh, you're serious. Yes, they wanted to race swap it. However, it is not outside historical possibility. I was okay with it.

Posted by: Crom Laughs at June 02, 2023 04:29 PM (dN42F)

163 does joe biden's gait remind anyone besides me of the Thermians from Galaxy Quest?

Posted by: x at June 02, 2023 04:29 PM (ZBPE2)

164 @JusticeTristan 21m
Biden Cuts Off Navajo Nation From Oil And Gas Development ⁦@FDRLST
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 02, 2023 04:28 PM (jzzG8 )

The casinos should be PLENTY!

Posted by: Joe Biden at June 02, 2023 04:29 PM (Zz0t1)

165 5 you guys have to listen to that "scuttlebutt" rap
Posted by: ace

Ugh.

Fine. I'm Sending you a tapeworm.

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 02, 2023 04:29 PM (3weuU)

166 Enemy Mine cost $40 million. Doesn't seem like a lot now, but it was one of the most expensive movies ever made at the time.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at June 02, 2023 04:28 PM (LvTSG)

Rambo III was the first movie to have a budget of $100 million

Posted by: Wierzbowski formerly QID at June 02, 2023 04:30 PM (OgrpQ)

167 Will they cast a black actor as Hitler in the remake of "Downfall"?

Samuel L. Jackson?

Chris Tucker?

Morgan Freeman?

Jaleel White.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - did I do that? at June 02, 2023 04:30 PM (ppBhU)

168 166 Rambo III was the first movie to have a budget of $100 million
Posted by: Wierzbowski formerly QID at June 02, 2023 04:30 PM (OgrpQ)

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Avatar 2 cost at least $400 million.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at June 02, 2023 04:30 PM (LvTSG)

169 164 @JusticeTristan 21m
Biden Cuts Off Navajo Nation From Oil And Gas Development ⁦@FDRLST
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 02, 2023 04:28 PM (jzzG8 )

The casinos should be PLENTY!
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Or fireworks!

Posted by: Joe Dirt at June 02, 2023 04:30 PM (lf83v)

170 I'm waiting for Disney's remake of Aladdin

Already done, with Will Smith as a bargain Genie. It made a ton of money.

Parents see these movies as brief daycare: dump the kids in, they are distracted a couple hours. Who cares what the movie is like, its bright and colorful and fun for little ones, usually. Unless its remakes of Mulan or Pinnochio then its just crap.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at June 02, 2023 04:30 PM (0hOvj)

171 I don't know why Hollywood chose Black Panther as their signature Black comic book hero for America. Black Americans don't have the best attitude about Black Africans.

And Besides Blade is the signature black comic book hero in my book.

Posted by: polynikes at June 02, 2023 04:30 PM (MNhXM)

172 Disney is killing itself and, as the kids say, I am here for that.

Disney is not killing itself. Disney was taken over by the Marxist Left years ago and they are murdering Disney from within.

And I am not here for that. Every time the Marxist Left takes over and infects an American institution, corporation or brand and destroys it, it is destroying part of America and beloved American history. And it hurts. And no one should be cheering this on. It's like cheering on people dying of cancer.

This attitude collectively on the right to cheer on the Marxist Left's destruction of traditional American institutions, corporations and brands is just baffling. And depressing. Because if the right will not bother to fight to preserve traditional American institutions, corporations and brands, then there's no point to anything anymore.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at June 02, 2023 04:31 PM (Do5/p)

173 @131

>>That said, I didn't think Denzel was there just because he was black and they wanted to race swap the role.

Denzel was there because Denzel is awesome and he makes everything he is in better from his mere presence, see also Gene Hackman.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 02, 2023 04:31 PM (up/3i)

174 I'm waiting for Disney's remake of Aladdin, where the main character is a pimp called "Slade" and the princess is a rapper named "Jawanda". We can AI some new Biggie Smalls songs for the soundtrack.

IIRC Aladdin is actually supposed to be Chinese

Posted by: 18-1 at June 02, 2023 04:31 PM (lc5cP)

175
Denzel was there because Denzel is awesome and he makes everything he is in better from his mere presence, see also Gene Hackman.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 02, 2023 04:31 PM (up/3i)

They have something you want!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 02, 2023 04:31 PM (Zz0t1)

176 They're gonna vote for Biden, aren't they?

@JusticeTristan 21m
Biden Cuts Off Navajo Nation From Oil And Gas Development ⁦@FDRLST
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 02, 2023 04:28 PM (jzzG

https://www.eenews.net/articles/biden-may-prevail-
against-navajo-in-scotus-water-battle/

I suspect the Navajo could claim broad retaliation against their tribe at the Supreme Court. They might even win.

Posted by: trev006 at June 02, 2023 04:32 PM (ZyRtd)

177 Enemy Mine cost $40 million. Doesn't seem like a lot now, but it was one of the most expensive movies ever made at the time.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at June 02, 2023 04:28 PM (LvTSG)

It was good but not 40 million good.

Posted by: polynikes at June 02, 2023 04:32 PM (MNhXM)

178 170 I'm waiting for Disney's remake of Aladdin

Already done, with Will Smith as a bargain Genie. It made a ton of money.

Parents see these movies as brief daycare: dump the kids in, they are distracted a couple hours. Who cares what the movie is like, its bright and colorful and fun for little ones, usually. Unless its remakes of Mulan or Pinnochio then its just crap.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at June 02, 2023 04:30 PM (0hOvj)

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It wasn't the worst of these things. Guy Ritchie at least brought some of his standard energy to the thing, and it ends with an amusing Bollywood number (because Arabia and India are the same, or something, I don't care). It was similar to Sam Raimi retaining some of himself while making Doctor Strange 2. Still a corporate product, but somewhat less of a corporate product than the rest.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at June 02, 2023 04:32 PM (LvTSG)

179 IIRC Aladdin is actually supposed to be Chinese
______

Disney is asshoe.

Posted by: Ling Chow at June 02, 2023 04:32 PM (lf83v)

180 177 Enemy Mine cost $40 million. Doesn't seem like a lot now, but it was one of the most expensive movies ever made at the time.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at June 02, 2023 04:28 PM (LvTSG)

It was good but not 40 million good.
Posted by: polynikes at June 02, 2023 04:32 PM (MNhXM)

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Meh. Enemy Mine is dumb.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at June 02, 2023 04:32 PM (LvTSG)

181
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It wasn't the worst of these things. Guy Ritchie at least brought some of his standard energy to the thing, and it ends with an amusing Bollywood number (because Arabia and India are the same, or something, I don't care). It was similar to Sam Raimi retaining some of himself while making Doctor Strange 2. Still a corporate product, but somewhat less of a corporate product than the rest.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at June 02, 2023 04:32 PM (LvTSG)/i]

Doctor Detroit > Doctor Strange 2

Discuss......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 02, 2023 04:33 PM (Zz0t1)

182 Biden Cuts Off Navajo Nation From Oil And Gas Development

The Federal government has a long, long tradition of screwing over Navajo over mineral and other rights. And every other tribe.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at June 02, 2023 04:33 PM (0hOvj)

183 Oops. That was close.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 02, 2023 04:33 PM (Zz0t1)

184 Not that I pay attention to this type of sportsball shit, but I read that LeBron's kid is graduating from HS. And he took a smoking hot white girl to prom. And black peeps were none too happy about that. Because of course they weren't. LOL
Posted by: Montec at June 02, 2023 04:27 PM (OalnH)

What, it's pretty natural for people to want people to date within their group. I don't see what is funny about it.

Posted by: Crom Laughs at June 02, 2023 04:33 PM (dN42F)

185 They're gonna vote for Biden, aren't they?

@JusticeTristan 21m
Biden Cuts Off Navajo Nation From Oil And Gas Development ⁦@FDRLST
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 02, 2023 04:28 PM (jzzG

They have a proud tradition of joining the Marines so probably still Democrat but with a different outlook.

Posted by: polynikes at June 02, 2023 04:33 PM (MNhXM)

186 Disney should do a Papa Legba and Baron Samedi kid flick, in the interests of Diversity… and then, of course, gender swap either Papa or Baron, and make at least one of them Hispanic or Asian ( see how easy this is)????

Posted by: tubal at June 02, 2023 04:33 PM (PCK5/)

187 Who cares if a super-rich black boy takes their white daughter to prom, as long as he isn't a dope head or aspiring rapper? It doesn't even happen that often, and most white people quit caring about this shit decades ago. It's always gonna be the black people whining about it these days.

Wah wah wah. I'm tired of hearing this shit.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 02, 2023 04:33 PM (oINRc)

188 156 Will they cast a black actor as Hitler in the remake of "Downfall"?

Samuel L. Jackson?

Chris Tucker?

Morgan Freeman?
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at June 02, 2023 04:28 PM (lf83v)

Has to be Jackson to get the right level of intensity.

Keitel, Jodl, Krebs, Burgdorf, you muthafuckas stay right here. All the REST of you muthafuckas, GET YO ASSES GONE!!! Right now, get the fuck out!

Posted by: Actually it would be rather funny at June 02, 2023 04:34 PM (fiChp)

189 OT, it looks like the Dave Ramsey class action lawsuit is about him endorsing a company that gets people OUT OF timeshares, but that company fucked their customers over and defrauded them.
The allegation is that Ramsey sort of knew they were having trouble and still endorsed them publicly, but was backing away privately.
Also he made $30m (allegedly) from the endorsements.

My opinion:
1. He may be on the hook for some money.
2. Come on, people, how did you actually get screwed? I need more detail on that, because I would be skeptical of paying up front to get rid of an asset.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at June 02, 2023 04:34 PM (ufFY8)

190 I've been waiting for a remake of Shaft with some lily white guy playing the title role.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 02, 2023 04:26 PM (Zz0t1)

I'm available!
Posted by: Danny DeVito

Beat it, asshole.

Posted by: Peter Dinklage at June 02, 2023 04:34 PM (+Wcyp)

191 Funny, I have no desire to see the Disney stuff. I did buy a copy of a new movie on DVD this week. It's Jesus Revolution. Wonder what the box office is for that?
Posted by: Notsothoreau at June 02, 2023 04:21 PM (ouTlx)

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I still need to see that. I grew up in Riverside, and witnessed firsthand how fast Harvest grew.

Posted by: Jordan61 at June 02, 2023 04:34 PM (DRSnL)

192 Or how about a remake of Pinocchio, where he finally gets to show his pimp hand. Yo!

Posted by: Marcus T at June 02, 2023 04:34 PM (wgAtL)

193 187 Who cares if a super-rich black boy takes their white daughter to prom, as long as he isn't a dope head or aspiring rapper? It doesn't even happen that often, and most white people quit caring about this shit decades ago. It's always gonna be the black people whining about it these days.

Wah wah wah. I'm tired of hearing this shit.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 02, 2023 04:33 PM (oINRc)

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Listen, Comrade, if you're not outraged by an approved something today, then you're not alive!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at June 02, 2023 04:34 PM (LvTSG)

194 Ed Norton as Shaft. Lol

Posted by: Marcus T at June 02, 2023 04:35 PM (wgAtL)

195 Meh. Enemy Mine is dumb.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at June 02, 2023 04:32 PM (LvTSG)

Better space alien movie than ...... ah never mind

Posted by: polynikes at June 02, 2023 04:35 PM (MNhXM)

196 194 Ed Norton as Shaft. Lol
Posted by: Marcus T at June 02, 2023 04:35 PM (wgAtL)

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Pssh.

We know who would make the perfect white Shaft.

Michael Cera.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at June 02, 2023 04:35 PM (LvTSG)

197 You know who else didn't break even?

Posted by: ShainS -- Oppression Scientist wand Your AI Interpreter at June 02, 2023 04:35 PM (A1DyZ)

198 Blacks in commercials is pretty much the majority. Whites are an afterthought. Intetr racial Couples are the norm.

Posted by: JmT at June 02, 2023 04:35 PM (4upfP)

199 Ed Norton as Shaft. Lol
Posted by: Marcus T at June 02, 2023 04:35 PM (wgAtL)

With all his tattoos from American History X

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 02, 2023 04:36 PM (Zz0t1)

200 195 Meh. Enemy Mine is dumb.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at June 02, 2023 04:32 PM (LvTSG)

Better space alien movie than ...... ah never mind
Posted by: polynikes at June 02, 2023 04:35 PM (MNhXM)

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You weren't going to malign N.U.K.I.E. were you?!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at June 02, 2023 04:36 PM (LvTSG)

201 Or how about a remake of Pinocchio, where he finally gets to show his pimp hand. Yo!
___

Pinocchio, Fenocchio. . . what's the diff?

Posted by: Vito Icepick Garanzolli, Bensonhurst Queens at June 02, 2023 04:36 PM (lf83v)

202 Fuck Disney in the ass with a roll of rusty barbed wire. I'm getting drunk on the tears of their failures.

Posted by: Ligma Balzak from Fuggencrass, Vulgaria at June 02, 2023 04:36 PM (JNTt1)

203 I liked Enemy Mine, it was pretty good. I agree that budget seems high but they had to do all practical effects back then.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at June 02, 2023 04:36 PM (0hOvj)

204 Blacks in commercials is pretty much the majority. Whites are an afterthought. Intetr racial Couples are the norm.

Posted by: JmT at June 02, 2023 04:35 PM (4upfP)

And the white guys are ALWAYS dumb as f*ck.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 02, 2023 04:36 PM (Zz0t1)

205 Elon resigned another one.

Posted by: JEM at June 02, 2023 04:36 PM (8erNz)

206 203 I liked Enemy Mine, it was pretty good. I agree that budget seems high but they had to do all practical effects back then.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at June 02, 2023 04:36 PM (0hOvj)

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Aliens cost $16 million.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at June 02, 2023 04:36 PM (LvTSG)

207 If Disney is looking for someone to help their braindead urban Eloi skels finish picking over the bloated, beached corpse of their century-old industrial behemoth, I'm available.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 02, 2023 04:24 PM (oINRc)
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That is a lot of contemptuous cruelty embedded into a single sentence.

It's a work of art, really.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 02, 2023 04:37 PM (DU+/6)

208 Way to go, Disney. Couldn't find any attractive black girls for black girls to identify with?

Pam Grier in her prime would be awesome.

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at June 02, 2023 04:37 PM (ufFY8)

209 207 If Disney is looking for someone to help their braindead urban Eloi skels finish picking over the bloated, beached corpse of their century-old industrial behemoth, I'm available.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 02, 2023 04:24 PM (oINRc)
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That is a lot of contemptuous cruelty embedded into a single sentence.

It's a work of art, really.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 02, 2023 04:37 PM (DU+/6)

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It's obvious by this point who gets the HQ when Ace dies, right?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at June 02, 2023 04:37 PM (LvTSG)

210 "Ed Norton as Shaft. Lol
Posted by: Marcus T at June 02, 2023 04:35 PM (wgAtL)

With all his tattoos from American History X
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 02, 2023 04:36 PM (Zz0t1)"

That's groovy, baby. Superfine.

Posted by: Marcus T at June 02, 2023 04:37 PM (wgAtL)

211 Doctor Detroit > Doctor Strange 2

Discuss......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 02, 2023 04:33 PM (Zz0t1)

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I haven't seen either of the Doctor Strange movies, but Doctor Detroit sucks.

Posted by: Jordan61 at June 02, 2023 04:37 PM (DRSnL)

212 204 Blacks in commercials is pretty much the majority. Whites are an afterthought. Intetr racial Couples are the norm.

Posted by: JmT at June 02, 2023 04:35 PM (4upfP)

And the white guys are ALWAYS dumb as f*ck.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 02, 2023 04:36 PM (Zz0t1)

Unless they're faygelahs.

Posted by: Then they're smart, witty, hip, and urbane at June 02, 2023 04:38 PM (fiChp)

213 Ed Norton as Shaft. Lol

He should be available. His career has been complete shit for so long that he's probably available for floorwax commercials. What happened to him? He take off time to make everyone in his personal life miserable or something?

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - did I do that? at June 02, 2023 04:38 PM (ppBhU)

214 We know who would make the perfect white Shaft.

Michael Cera.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at June 02, 2023 04:35 PM (LvTSG)

Hey!! What about me?

Posted by: Timoth�e Chalamet at June 02, 2023 04:38 PM (PiwSw)

215 I believe there are some in The Horde that are in the private health insurance business

IIRC (and I may not), Weird Dave is one of those. You might try requesting in the ONT.

Posted by: Oddbob at June 02, 2023 04:38 PM (nfrXX)

216 I liked Alien Nation better as an alien buddy movie. James Caan and Mandy whatsisface, great talent and well written.

Although it has the same flaw as Signs: you came to be refugees on a planet that has 2/3rds of the surface covered with something lethal to you?

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at June 02, 2023 04:38 PM (0hOvj)

217 It doesn't even happen that often, and most white people quit caring about this shit decades ago. It's always gonna be the black people whining about it these days.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 02, 2023 04:33 PM (oINRc)

Oh, more whites than you know do care. They just can't say anything for fear of being cast into the outer void.

Posted by: Crom Laughs at June 02, 2023 04:38 PM (dN42F)

218 214 We know who would make the perfect white Shaft.

Michael Cera.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at June 02, 2023 04:35 PM (LvTSG)

Hey!! What about me?
Posted by: Timoth�e Chalamet at June 02, 2023 04:38 PM (PiwSw)

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Too masculine.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at June 02, 2023 04:38 PM (LvTSG)

219 Alien>Aliens>>> the rest of the Alien crap following…

Posted by: tubal at June 02, 2023 04:38 PM (PCK5/)

220 This busty brunette in her underwear is giving the self-immolation stage of Disney film properties a pass:
https://is.gd/CWn1dr

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 02, 2023 04:38 PM (DU+/6)

221 And the white guys are ALWAYS dumb as f*ck.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 02, 2023 04:36 PM (Zz0t1)

Or gay.

Posted by: JmT at June 02, 2023 04:38 PM (4upfP)

222 Listen, Comrade, if you're not outraged by an approved something today, then you're not alive!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at June 02, 2023 04:34 PM (LvTSG

I swear to G-d it's like the Twitter people think the non-Twitter people are living in To Kill A Mockingbird. The white girl just wants Lebron's son to "bust up this heah chifforobe."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 02, 2023 04:39 PM (oINRc)

223 There is only one reason to race swap the Little Mermaid, and that is pure anti-white hatred. They don't give a crap about black people; they want to destroy white people and European culture. They want to tear down every story and every memory and claim none of it belongs to whites.

Black Cleopatra, Black Anne Boylen, black Queen Charlotte, black Dickens characters, black Narnia actors - no story, not even history, will be allowed to be white.

I actively hate these people now.

Posted by: sunny-dee at June 02, 2023 04:39 PM (Z2HD7)

224 162 That said, I didn't think Denzel was there just because he was black and they wanted to race swap the role.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at June 02, 2023 04:24 PM (KbCG3)

I'm dying laughing here.....Oh, you're serious. Yes, they wanted to race swap it. However, it is not outside historical possibility. I was okay with it.

Posted by: Crom Laughs at June 02, 2023 04:29 PM (dN42F)

What I meant was, I didn't watch it and think the only reason Denzel was there was because he was black.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at June 02, 2023 04:39 PM (KbCG3)

225 =====

I haven't seen either of the Doctor Strange movies, but Doctor Detroit sucks.
Posted by: Jordan61 at June 02, 2023 04:37 PM (DRSnL)

*fistbump*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 02, 2023 04:39 PM (Zz0t1)

226 Aliens cost $16 million.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at June 02, 2023 04:36 PM (LvTSG)

With far better effects.

Posted by: Crom Laughs at June 02, 2023 04:40 PM (dN42F)

227 222 I swear to G-d it's like the Twitter people think the non-Twitter people are living in To Kill A Mockingbird. The white girl just wants Lebron's son to "bust up this heah chifforobe."
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 02, 2023 04:39 PM (oINRc)

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If it's not the Civil Rights Era, then what are they fighting for?

Perverts violating children without parental consent?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at June 02, 2023 04:40 PM (LvTSG)

228 More than a few black women are filled with unreasoning, berserk rage at seeing a black man with a white woman, especially a rich, eligible one with a hot blonde one. Red flags to a bull ain't in it.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at June 02, 2023 04:40 PM (0hOvj)

229 I haven't seen either of the Doctor Strange movies, but Doctor Detroit sucks.
Posted by: Jordan61 at June 02, 2023 04:37 PM (DRSnL)
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Everyone forgets about me. I was on the radio rather than in the movies, I wasn't nobody!

Posted by: Doctor Demento at June 02, 2023 04:40 PM (DU+/6)

230 I am still chuckling about "High Energy Garrett".

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at June 02, 2023 04:40 PM (ufFY8)

231 ( We keep nibbling around the edges of a movie thread)..

Posted by: tubal at June 02, 2023 04:41 PM (PCK5/)

232 229 Everyone forgets about me. I was on the radio rather than in the movies, I wasn't nobody!
Posted by: Doctor Demento at June 02, 2023 04:40 PM (DU+/6)

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You got in the movies with the greatest rock documentary of all time:

Weird: The Al Yankovic Story

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at June 02, 2023 04:41 PM (LvTSG)

233 https://is.gd/CWn1dr
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 02, 2023 04:38 PM (DU+/6)

She's got that face of the broad in Goodfellas.......The girlfriend that didn't wash the dishes in the cut room.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 02, 2023 04:41 PM (Zz0t1)

234 I have watched most of Dr Strange 2 and while its pretty bad it is visually fascinating, there are some really unique ideas in there. You can tell where Raimi was doing his thing and where the studio interfered. Dr Detroit is just vomit.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at June 02, 2023 04:41 PM (0hOvj)

235
I swear to G-d it's like the Twitter people think the non-Twitter people are living in To Kill A Mockingbird. The white girl just wants Lebron's son to "bust up this heah chifforobe."
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 02, 2023 04:39 PM (oINRc)

Oh I'm sure he'll bust her chifforobe, IYKWIMAITTYD.

Posted by: Let's just be real at June 02, 2023 04:41 PM (fiChp)

236 212 204 Blacks in commercials is pretty much the majority. Whites are an afterthought. Intetr racial Couples are the norm.

Posted by: JmT at June 02, 2023 04:35 PM (4upfP)

And the white guys are ALWAYS dumb as f*ck.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 02, 2023 04:36 PM (Zz0t1)

Unless they're faygelahs.
Posted by: Then they're smart, witty, hip, and urbane at June 02, 2023 04:38 PM (fiChp)

Or attempting to break into your home because you won't get an alarm system.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at June 02, 2023 04:41 PM (KbCG3)

237 There is only one reason to race swap the Little Mermaid, and that is pure anti-white hatred. They don't give a crap about black people; they want to destroy white people and European culture. They want to tear down every story and every memory and claim none of it belongs to whites.

Posted by: sunny-dee at June 02, 2023 04:39 PM (Z2HD7)
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It's reverse cultural appropriation, but none dare call it so.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 02, 2023 04:42 PM (YIVH2)

238 I swear to G-d it's like the Twitter people

Bitching about miscegenation is a staple in some quarters of so-called Black Twitter. They're a bunch of drooling, low-IQ racists. As committed to racial purity as Himmler.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - did I do that? at June 02, 2023 04:42 PM (ppBhU)

239 Ace, an angler in Europe caught a potential new world record catfish, over 9 feet in length. Might qualify as a mermaid.

Posted by: Lola - ALL the 1/6 videotapes from Jade, too. at June 02, 2023 04:42 PM (GshMh)

240 They have their excuses, though: Racist foreigners in China, Korea, and Germany,

nonsense. i've been reliably informed that americans are the most racist people on the planet.

Posted by: anachronda at June 02, 2023 04:42 PM (v3pYe)

241 Only white people that care about a black guy dating a white girl is if they really like big blondes thick like oatmeal.

Posted by: polynikes at June 02, 2023 04:42 PM (MNhXM)

242 Posted by: Doctor Demento at June 02, 2023 04:40 PM (DU+/6)

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You got in the movies with the greatest rock documentary of all time:

Weird: The Al Yankovic Story
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at June 02, 2023 04:41 PM (LvTSG)

I actually saw both of them in "concert" in Cambridge, MA.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at June 02, 2023 04:42 PM (ufFY8)

243 "Dollymop", ace. Lol. Haven't heard that in years.

Posted by: Marcus T at June 02, 2023 04:42 PM (wgAtL)

244 There is only one reason to race swap the Little Mermaid, and that is pure anti-white hatred.

She was a redhead, and Hollywood HAAAATES redheads now for some reason. They are constantly being swapped out or recast to eliminate them from cinema. I can only speculate why.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at June 02, 2023 04:43 PM (0hOvj)

245 240 They have their excuses, though: Racist foreigners in China, Korea, and Germany,

nonsense. i've been reliably informed that americans are the most racist people on the planet.
Posted by: anachronda at June 02, 2023 04:42 PM (v3pYe)

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We started slavery. It was when Thomas Jefferson realized that his paid servant was pretty and didn't want to pay her for the sex.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at June 02, 2023 04:43 PM (LvTSG)

246 172 Every time the Marxist Left takes over and infects an American institution, corporation or brand and destroys it, it is destroying part of America and beloved American history. And it hurts. And no one should be cheering this on. It's like cheering on people dying of cancer.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at June 02, 2023 04:31 PM (Do5/p)

I say the terminal Marxist infection of seemingly everything we've ever held in high regard is more analogous to, "The Thing" rather than cancer.

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at June 02, 2023 04:43 PM (DTX3h)

247 ++++
Everyone forgets about me. I was on the radio rather than in the movies, I wasn't nobody!
Posted by: Doctor Demento at June 02, 2023 04:40 PM (DU+/6)

Grew up listening to you, dude. You're good.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 02, 2023 04:43 PM (Zz0t1)

248
The movie's about a device invented by Archimedes, and sought by the N@zis

Sounds like Quest of the Delta Knights

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107910

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 02, 2023 04:43 PM (63Dwl)

249 244 There is only one reason to race swap the Little Mermaid, and that is pure anti-white hatred.

She was a redhead, and Hollywood HAAAATES redheads now for some reason. They are constantly being swapped out or recast to eliminate them from cinema. I can only speculate why.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at June 02, 2023 04:43 PM (0hOvj)

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Dolley mentioned the new Little Mermaid movie to me for the first time a couple of days ago.

Pure anger at the undoing of the redheadedness of Ariel.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at June 02, 2023 04:43 PM (LvTSG)

250 Aladdin isn't Chinese. It's from A Thousand and One Nights, which is a collection of Middle Eastern stories in Arabic. (Although it was added by a Frenchman, apparently from stories he heard in Syria.)

Posted by: sunny-dee at June 02, 2023 04:44 PM (Z2HD7)

251 Seagulls are nasty. You don't want one in your bed. Crabs either.

Posted by: fd at June 02, 2023 04:44 PM (iayUP)

252 Speaking of fey reboots, I just saw that Timothée Chalamet is going to star in a Willy Wonka reboot.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at June 02, 2023 04:44 PM (PiwSw)

253 I wonder if the depressed overseas sales have more to do with America's falling stature overseas than with the movie itself.

Posted by: naftali (havel) at June 02, 2023 04:44 PM (+EnXD)

254 The failure of these movies should tell Hollywood something about their audiences or actual demographics of movie goers. Odd.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at June 02, 2023 04:44 PM (oWBc3)

255 252 Speaking of fey reboots, I just saw that Timothée Chalamet is going to star in a Willy Wonka reboot.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at June 02, 2023 04:44 PM (PiwSw)

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Made by the man who wrote and directed both Paddington and Paddington 2, which are both masterpieces of family films.

I'm hopeful.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at June 02, 2023 04:44 PM (LvTSG)

256 Awkwafina sounds like someone tried to spell a brand of the bottle water but they were pretty much illiterate

Posted by: brak at June 02, 2023 04:44 PM (3BMQI)

257 angler in Europe caught a potential new world record catfish,

Turns out she used a fake pic in her Tinder profile?

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at June 02, 2023 04:45 PM (ufFY8)

258 I watched that "What is a Woman?" movie.. It's worth the time.

Posted by: lin-duh at June 02, 2023 04:45 PM (UUBmN)

259 Perhaps the problem is that the world sees America as Idiocracy…

Posted by: tubal at June 02, 2023 04:45 PM (PCK5/)

260 It's reverse cultural appropriation, but none dare call it so.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 02, 2023 04:42 PM (YIVH2)
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1. There is no such thing as "reverse cultural appropriation" anymore than there is "reverse racism." This is a linguistic trap and you should be wary not to fall into it. Prepending "reverse" onto the statement - racism, appropriation, etc. - is conceding the primary position of those who talk about this stuff. Their point is that the natural state of racism, appropriation, theft, racial hatred, etc. is white-on-non-white or western-on-non-western. It isn't "reverse" at all. "Reverse" does not exist. It is simply, merely racism. Or simply merely appropriation. Or whatever else. To acknowledge it as "reverse" is to concede the point they want you to concede and thus accept their terms.
2. The modern woke term you're looking for is "colonization." It's time to "decolonize" classic story properties!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 02, 2023 04:45 PM (DU+/6)

261 The movie's about a device invented by Archimedes, and sought by the N@zis

The first three films were about religious artifacts: Jewish, Hindu, Christian. Then the fourth went with goofy alien conspiracy crap, and this one is even more daffy. Archemides created a time travel device... then fixed it so anyone who used it will come back to save him in the Siege of Syracuse in case he got killed (which, he did, despite direct orders not to; all those bearded Greeks look alike to legionaries).

Instead of, you know, traveling through time himself to get more supplies or protection.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at June 02, 2023 04:45 PM (0hOvj)

262 260 1. There is no such thing as "reverse cultural appropriation" anymore than there is "reverse racism." This is a linguistic trap and you should be wary not to fall into it. Prepending "reverse" onto the statement - racism, appropriation, etc. - is conceding the primary position of those who talk about this stuff. Their point is that the natural state of racism, appropriation, theft, racial hatred, etc. is white-on-non-white or western-on-non-western. It isn't "reverse" at all. "Reverse" does not exist. It is simply, merely racism. Or simply merely appropriation. Or whatever else. To acknowledge it as "reverse" is to concede the point they want you to concede and thus accept their terms.
2. The modern woke term you're looking for is "colonization." It's time to "decolonize" classic story properties!
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 02, 2023 04:45 PM (DU+/6)

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Sock fail?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at June 02, 2023 04:45 PM (LvTSG)

263 164 @JusticeTristan 21m
Biden Cuts Off Navajo Nation From Oil And Gas Development ⁦@FDRLST
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 02, 2023 04:28 PM (jzzG8 )
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Typical democrat keeping the people of color down, especially the Native Americans.

What a POS the old corrupt pedophile is.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at June 02, 2023 04:45 PM (17s+e)

264 Don't know if you saw this as well Ace but reportedly Disney pulled something like 120 to 125 million from the marketing budget for Elementals to add it to the Little Mermaid.

Posted by: Azathoth at June 02, 2023 04:45 PM (wb1YC)

265 Awkwafina sounds like someone tried to spell a brand of the bottle water but they were pretty much illiterate
Posted by: brak at June 02, 2023 04:44 PM (3BMQI)

Eminem got sued by Mars for his name and Mars failed.

No standing.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 02, 2023 04:45 PM (Zz0t1)

266 #stopHollywoodGingercide

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 02, 2023 04:46 PM (DU+/6)

267 258 I watched that "What is a Woman?" movie.. It's worth the time.

Posted by: lin-duh at June 02, 2023 04:45 PM (UUBmN)

Can you elaborate a bit on why. I'm trying to motivate myself but a move on water being wet just sounds boring.

Posted by: naftali (havel) at June 02, 2023 04:46 PM (+EnXD)

268 Speaking of fey reboots, I just saw that Timothée Chalamet is going to star in a Willy Wonka reboot.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at June 02, 2023 04:44 PM (PiwSw)
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As Willy Wonka or Charlie Bucket? He's a little old to play the latter...(he just looks young)

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 02, 2023 04:46 PM (YIVH2)

269 Too bad about "Elementals." It sounded like it could be good.

Posted by: gp Isn't A Core Piece at June 02, 2023 04:46 PM (MvF+J)

270 264 Don't know if you saw this as well Ace but reportedly Disney pulled something like 120 to 125 million from the marketing budget for Elementals to add it to the Little Mermaid.

Posted by: Azathoth at June 02, 2023 04:45 PM (wb1YC)

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That's funny.

They've hollowed out Pixar (on purpose, mind you, when they put every release up to this point on Disney+ exclusively in addition to the firing of John Lassetter).

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at June 02, 2023 04:46 PM (LvTSG)

271 I unashamedly and unironically enjoyed Doctor Detroit and don't care who knows it. It's hilarious.

Posted by: leoncaruthers at June 02, 2023 04:46 PM (UfRqq)

272 >>But that's not that at all, because his Superior Female Replacement then knocks out Indy with a single punch and drags his tired, useless, humiliated white man ass back to the present.

Hello, elder abuse???

Posted by: Lizzy at June 02, 2023 04:47 PM (mo/0F)

273 "reverse cultural appropriation" I just call it what it is HATING WHITES.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at June 02, 2023 04:47 PM (17s+e)

274 Sock fail?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at June 02, 2023 04:45 PM (LvTSG)
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No, my point is what it is. I detest - and have always detested - the "reverse racism" term and all of its analogues. It is incredibly manipulative and deeply sinister.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 02, 2023 04:47 PM (DU+/6)

275 268 As Willy Wonka or Charlie Bucket? He's a little old to play the latter...(he just looks young)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 02, 2023 04:46 PM (YIVH2)

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It's a Wonka origin story, apparently. But, again, Paul King who made Paddington 2, so...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at June 02, 2023 04:47 PM (LvTSG)

276 "Racist foreigners in China, Korea, and Germany, who are rejecting the race-swap movie. It's nice that for once it's the foreigners the shill media is calling racist, instead of US citizens."

Have long wondered when the baleful leftist Eye of Sauron would finally turn on the Asian countries. If you think America's racist... hoo-boy. Their non-whiteness has protected them so far. And it will probably continue to, as long as one straight white man still exists in the world who can serve as a scapegoat for all our problems. But the fact is, Asians generally score even better on standardized tests than do whites, and most Asian groups outearn whites in America as well, which is embarrassing for those screaming about white supremacy.

Posted by: Rusty Trawler at June 02, 2023 04:47 PM (1gif2)

277 256 Awkwafina sounds like someone tried to spell a brand of the bottle water but they were pretty much illiterate
Posted by: brak at June 02, 2023 04:44 PM (3BMQI)

I wonder why PepsiCo hasn't sued her for infringement.

Posted by: They own the Aquafina brand at June 02, 2023 04:47 PM (fiChp)

278 Typical democrat keeping the people of color down, especially the Native Americans.

What a POS the old corrupt pedophile is.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at June 02, 2023 04:45 PM (17s+e)

I mean yeah on the POS etc. but I think attributing anything to him at this point is likely anthropomorphism. I think he's acting with the same political agency as feinstein and fetterman

Posted by: naftali (havel) at June 02, 2023 04:48 PM (+EnXD)

279 274 Sock fail?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at June 02, 2023 04:45 PM (LvTSG)
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No, my point is what it is. I detest - and have always detested - the "reverse racism" term and all of its analogues. It is incredibly manipulative and deeply sinister.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 02, 2023 04:47 PM (DU+/6)

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Oh, I read the start of it, felt like it fit your schtick of college professors, and didn't finish reading.

I'm a terrible person.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at June 02, 2023 04:48 PM (LvTSG)

280 Smeared by the modern Left.

Trump
Thomas

Posted by: JmT at June 02, 2023 04:48 PM (4upfP)

281 273 "reverse cultural appropriation" I just call it what it is HATING WHITES.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at June 02, 2023 04:47 PM (17s+e)

Proof: They say representation matters and that people want to see films starring people who look like them.

Which is why they are willing to make films featuring people who represent a minority of the population, i.e., they're more than happy to leave money on the table in the name of fuck whitey.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at June 02, 2023 04:48 PM (KbCG3)

282 I'm hopeful.

Interesting. That you possess any hope at all in general and about this thing in particular.

Seems like a hard film to do well. Simultaneously a children's film, but with some dark undercurrents that modern folks seem put off by. I hope your hope is realized.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - did I do that? at June 02, 2023 04:48 PM (ppBhU)

283
I wonder why PepsiCo hasn't sued her for infringement.
Posted by: They own the Aquafina brand at June 02, 2023 04:47 PM (fiChp)

Mars sued Eminem for his name and lost.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 02, 2023 04:49 PM (Zz0t1)

284 I'm a terrible person.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at June 02, 2023 04:48 PM (LvTSG)
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You heard it here first, folks!!!!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 02, 2023 04:49 PM (DU+/6)

285 I wonder why PepsiCo hasn't sued her for infringement.
Posted by: They own the Aquafina brand at June 02, 2023 04:47 PM (fiChp)
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They feel sorry for her because she sounds like a 70 year old chain smoker?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at June 02, 2023 04:49 PM (2hlEI)

286 Reverse Racism does not scan well… I just keep coming up with plain old racism…

Posted by: tubal at June 02, 2023 04:49 PM (PCK5/)

287 Typical democrat keeping the people of color down, especially the Native Americans.

What a POS the old corrupt pedophile is.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at June 02, 2023 04:45 PM (17s+e)

I mean yeah on the POS etc. but I think attributing anything to him at this point is likely anthropomorphism. I think he's acting with the same political agency as feinstein and fetterman

Posted by: naftali (havel)
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Agree! I usually try to say "the Biden junta" but didn't this time.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at June 02, 2023 04:49 PM (17s+e)

288
Black Cleopatra, Black Anne Boylen, black Queen Charlotte, black Dickens characters, black Narnia actors - no story, not even history, will be allowed to be white.

Frosty the snowman.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 02, 2023 04:49 PM (63Dwl)

289 282 Interesting. That you possess any hope at all in general and about this thing in particular.

Seems like a hard film to do well. Simultaneously a children's film, but with some dark undercurrents that modern folks seem put off by. I hope your hope is realized.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - did I do that? at June 02, 2023 04:48 PM (ppBhU)

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It's just that Paul King has earned a lot of trust through his Paddington movies with me. Maybe it'll be terrible, but considering his track record, I have hope.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at June 02, 2023 04:49 PM (LvTSG)

290 275 268 As Willy Wonka or Charlie Bucket? He's a little old to play the latter...(he just looks young)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 02, 2023 04:46 PM (YIVH2)

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It's a Wonka origin story, apparently. But, again, Paul King who made Paddington 2, so...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at June 02, 2023 04:47 PM (LvTSG)

Didn't they do this already with Depp?

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at June 02, 2023 04:50 PM (KbCG3)

291 I wonder if someone will try to achieve stardom by going with the name "Dawsaany."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 02, 2023 04:50 PM (DU+/6)

292
I'm a terrible person.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at June 02, 2023 04:48 PM (LvTSG)

Yes. Yes you are. But so am I.

Posted by: You're in good company for terrible people at June 02, 2023 04:50 PM (fiChp)

293 I am looking for a remake of "The Diary Of Anne Frank," with a black lesbian playing the title role, and Donald Trump playing Adolf Hitler.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 02, 2023 04:50 PM (ZCCyW)

294 Can you elaborate a bit on why. I'm trying to motivate myself but a move on water being wet just sounds boring.
Posted by: naftali
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It clearly shows how ridiculous the whole transgender thing is from their own words...

Posted by: lin-duh at June 02, 2023 04:50 PM (UUBmN)

295 I unashamedly and unironically enjoyed Doctor Detroit and don't care who knows it. It's hilarious.
Posted by: leoncaruthers at June 02, 2023 04:46 PM (UfRqq)

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My husband liked it, too. It's all good.

Posted by: Jordan61 at June 02, 2023 04:51 PM (DRSnL)

296 She was a redhead, and Hollywood HAAAATES redheads now for some reason. They are constantly being swapped out or recast to eliminate them from cinema. I can only speculate why.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at June 02, 2023 04:43 PM (0hOvj)

It's a noticeable enough trend that parts of the internet have invented a term for it "redplacement".

Posted by: Cato, Post-Apocalyptic Scourge of the Seas at June 02, 2023 04:51 PM (MIb2C)

297 >>Can you elaborate a bit on why. I'm trying to motivate myself but a move on water being wet just sounds boring.

Walsh lays it out quite well, he lets the various doctors and activists show themselves to be monsters while being direct but not exactly confrontational. It also includes a child psychologist and adult regretful/angry transman to refute the "experts." The visit to the Massai tribe weas a nice touch - hard for the Left to mock them given their wokeness and habit of quoting unsourced African wisdom ("it takes a village" stuff).

Posted by: Lizzy at June 02, 2023 04:51 PM (mo/0F)

298 244 She was a redhead, and Hollywood HAAAATES redheads now for some reason.

they didn't clean *everything* up. there's one point in the film where ursula refers to ariel as "red".

Posted by: anachronda at June 02, 2023 04:51 PM (v3pYe)

299 I am looking for a remake of "The Diary Of Anne Frank," with a black lesbian playing the title role, and Donald Trump playing Adolf Hitler.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 02, 2023 04:50 PM (ZCCyW)

I look forward to Dennis the Menace being cast by a prominent rapper's kid.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 02, 2023 04:51 PM (Zz0t1)

300 It's a Wonka origin story, apparently. But, again, Paul King who made Paddington 2, so...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at June 02, 2023 04:47 PM (LvTSG)

Didn't they do this already with Depp?
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at June 02, 2023 04:50 PM (KbCG3)

I wrote a short story in college about some of the kids from the original movie and their lives post visit. I think that would be more interesting. Charlie Bucket hating his life because he had to run a chocolate factory at the age of 11.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at June 02, 2023 04:51 PM (KbCG3)

301 It's a noticeable enough trend that parts of the internet have invented a term for it "redplacement".
Posted by: Cato, Post-Apocalyptic Scourge of the Seas at June 02, 2023 04:51 PM (MIb2C)
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"Redplacement" is pretty good. I think "Gingercide" is pretty good, too.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 02, 2023 04:51 PM (DU+/6)

302 A serious discussion of race swapping in the movies.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/jrcbmIRcdLM

No joke, man …

Posted by: My word as a Biden at June 02, 2023 04:51 PM (jonTH)

303 It's a Wonka origin story, apparently. But, again, Paul King who made Paddington 2, so...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at June 02, 2023 04:47 PM (LvTSG)
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*sigh* Unexplained mysteries are sometimes NECESSARY in storytelling. You don't need to fill in all the details about every single character's backstory, even the main character. Willy Wonka shows up as a mysterious, fully-formed character who has somehow cornered the candy market with his workforce of Oompa-Loompas. Leave it alone. It is what it is.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 02, 2023 04:51 PM (YIVH2)

304 Frosty the ~~snowman~~ Coal Man.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 02, 2023 04:49 PM (63Dwl)
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FiFY

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at June 02, 2023 04:51 PM (2hlEI)

305 290 It's a Wonka origin story, apparently. But, again, Paul King who made Paddington 2, so...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at June 02, 2023 04:47 PM (LvTSG)

Didn't they do this already with Depp?

yes, they did.

Posted by: anachronda at June 02, 2023 04:52 PM (v3pYe)

306 303 *sigh* Unexplained mysteries are sometimes NECESSARY in storytelling. You don't need to fill in all the details about every single character's backstory, even the main character. Willy Wonka shows up as a mysterious, fully-formed character who has somehow cornered the candy market with his workforce of Oompa-Loompas. Leave it alone. It is what it is.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 02, 2023 04:51 PM (YIVH2)

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I don't disagree. I'd rather Paul King have made Paddington 3, but here we are.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at June 02, 2023 04:52 PM (LvTSG)

307 My former wife punched me in the face with all her might. I let her do it because she said it was the only thing that would satisfy her rage. She cracked a tooth and gave me a swollen jaw but didn't knock me out.

She messed up her hand real bad and blamed it on me. "You knew I was going to hurt myself, you asshole". She was still furious but at least I was bleeding a little which seemed to satisfy her till the next time.

I've never heard of a woman knocking someone out with a barehanded punch.

Posted by: pawn at June 02, 2023 04:52 PM (kYVzH)

308 Mars sued Eminem for his name and lost.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 02, 2023 04:49 PM (Zz0t1)

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There's a scene in Superbad where a convenience store clerk is trying to describe the guy who robbed the place to the police, and she says he looks like Eminem. And they go, "so...circular?" Cracked me up.

Posted by: Jordan61 at June 02, 2023 04:52 PM (DRSnL)

309 "reverse racism" term and all of its analogues. It is incredibly manipulative and deeply sinister.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 02, 2023 04:47 PM (DU+/6)

And not nearly as much fun as the "reverse cowgirl."

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 02, 2023 04:52 PM (ZCCyW)

310 *sigh* Unexplained mysteries are sometimes NECESSARY in storytelling. You don't need to fill in all the details about every single character's backstory, even the main character. Willy Wonka shows up as a mysterious, fully-formed character who has somehow cornered the candy market with his workforce of Oompa-Loompas. Leave it alone. It is what it is.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 02, 2023 04:51 PM (YIVH2)

Surprise, he was actually born Wanda Wonka! Bet you didn't see that coming.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at June 02, 2023 04:53 PM (KbCG3)

311 I look forward to Dennis the Menace being cast by a prominent rapper's kid.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 02, 2023 04:51 PM (Zz0t1)

Has a diamond grill and knocks up ALL da bitches in da hood. Beats down Mr. Wilson, shown as an unregenerate white supremacist.

Posted by: D-Ness in da house yo! at June 02, 2023 04:53 PM (fiChp)

312 *sigh* Unexplained mysteries are sometimes NECESSARY in storytelling.

I hate sand.

Now, this is pod racing.

Posted by: GREAT MOMENTS IN CINEMA at June 02, 2023 04:54 PM (ppBhU)

313 The original Gene Wilder Wonka movie was perfect even if it didn't have the real dark undertones of the book. I think it had enough and should never be remade.

Posted by: polynikes at June 02, 2023 04:54 PM (MNhXM)

314 Surprise, he was actually born Wanda Wonka! Bet you didn't see that coming.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at June 02, 2023 04:53 PM (KbCG3)
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The BBC did that with The Doctor from Doctor Who and destroyed their entire fanbase.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 02, 2023 04:54 PM (YIVH2)

315 A serious discussion of race swapping in the movies.

https://www.youtube.com/
shorts/jrcbmIRcdLM

No joke, man …
Posted by: My word as a Biden at June 02, 2023 04:51 PM (jonTH)

It is funny, and sad, yet if a movie company DOES put white people in a 'black' role, the world loses it's f*cking mind.......These are the rules that have been set forth.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 02, 2023 04:54 PM (Zz0t1)

316 It's a Wonka origin story, apparently. But, again, Paul King who made Paddington 2, so...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at June 02,
==

The Back Hole and How Chocolate is Made.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at June 02, 2023 04:54 PM (17s+e)

317 288 Black Cleopatra, Black Anne Boylen, black Queen Charlotte, black Dickens characters, black Narnia actors - no story, not even history, will be allowed to be white.

Frosty the snowman.

frosty the yellow snowman

Posted by: anachronda at June 02, 2023 04:54 PM (v3pYe)

318 I am looking for a remake of "The Diary Of Anne Frank," with a black lesbian playing the title role, and Donald Trump playing Adolf Hitler.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 02, 2023 04:50 PM (ZCCyW)
__________

I'm looking for a race-swapped remake of "Birth of a Nation." Also a remake of "Triumph of the Will," featuring F. Joe Biden stumbling and falling getting off the plane, and again on the dais at Nuremburg.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 02, 2023 04:54 PM (YqDXo)

319 309

And not nearly as much fun as the "reverse cowgirl."
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 02, 2023 04:52 PM (ZCCyW)

With, or without, the YEE-HAW ???

Posted by: tubal at June 02, 2023 04:54 PM (PCK5/)

320 Bob Zemecks and Bob Gale actively work against any remakes of Back to the Future.

Once they go (probably just Zemeckis, Gale has no pull anymore), they'll start the remake process on that, I'm sure.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at June 02, 2023 04:55 PM (LvTSG)

321 Frosty the snowman.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 02, 2023 04:49 PM (63Dwl)
++++
Easy-peasy.

It's a period piece set in nineteen-teens Pittsburgh, and Frost is a snowman made by the sickly children of steel workers, who was made black snow because of all the coal pollution thanks to the steel industry, power and home heating. Black Frosty is hated because he acts as a reminder of the inescapable industrial hellscape of pollution and worker abuse, and thus he is made into the scapegoat for all of the capitalist over-reach and the suffering that results from it.

During the third act, he is finally able to convince them that he is only what they made him, and that they need to do better - to *be* better. The urbanites of Pittsburgh then rally for change, impose environmental protections, workers' rights and green energy. During the first post-coal snowfall, the snow is finally white and the steelworkers' kids make Black Frosty a white snowoman to accompany him and help him understand his toxic masculinity.

Fin

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 02, 2023 04:55 PM (DU+/6)

322 Bob Zemecks and Bob Gale actively work against any remakes of Back to the Future.

Once they go (probably just Zemeckis, Gale has no pull anymore), they'll start the remake process on that, I'm sure.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at June 02, 2023 04:55 PM (LvTSG)
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With Mary "Sue" McFly as the main character, no doubt...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 02, 2023 04:55 PM (YIVH2)

323
And not nearly as much fun as the "reverse cowgirl."
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 02, 2023 04:52 PM (ZCCyW)

Truedat.

It's like doggy style, only lazier.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 02, 2023 04:56 PM (Zz0t1)

324 >>Leave it alone.

Good Day, Sir!

Posted by: garrett at June 02, 2023 04:56 PM (7NAVD)

325 >>I am looking for a remake of "The Diary Of Anne Frank," with a black lesbian playing the title role, and Donald Trump playing Adolf Hitler.

Uh, CBD. . .? It's been done:
https://tinyurl.com/pymh6br4

Posted by: Lizzy at June 02, 2023 04:56 PM (mo/0F)

326 322 With Mary "Sue" McFly as the main character, no doubt...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 02, 2023 04:55 PM (YIVH2)

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No doubt.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at June 02, 2023 04:56 PM (LvTSG)

327 314 Surprise, he was actually born Wanda Wonka! Bet you didn't see that coming.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at June 02, 2023 04:53 PM (KbCG3)
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The BBC did that with The Doctor from Doctor Who and destroyed their entire fanbase.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 02, 2023 04:54 PM (YIVH2)

The BBC didn't destroy anything. It simply shed its loyal fans who exposed themselves as misogynists and bigots. To them I say, good day!

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at June 02, 2023 04:56 PM (KbCG3)

328 I've never heard of a woman knocking someone out with a barehanded punch.
Posted by: pawn at June 02, 2023 04:52 PM (kYVzH)

Jesus Christ, man. Should've dropped your head down so she punched you just above the forehead. Would've busted her hand and wrist all to shit. Never accept being abused. Ever. By anyone. Fuck.

Posted by: That's a horrible story at June 02, 2023 04:56 PM (fiChp)

329 309 "reverse racism" term and all of its analogues. It is incredibly manipulative and deeply sinister.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 02, 2023 04:47 PM (DU+/6)

And not nearly as much fun as the "reverse cowgirl."
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June

What would a preppy know about that?

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 02, 2023 04:56 PM (hUZEZ)

330 I've never heard of a woman knocking someone out with a barehanded punch.
Posted by: pawn at June 02, 2023 04:52 PM (kYVzH)

It is possible. If the guy is an out of shape drunk. The vid of the convenience store lady knocking the bully guy out has been posted here a number of times. Again it's the exception with a lot of factors necessary for it to happen.

Posted by: polynikes at June 02, 2023 04:57 PM (MNhXM)

331 ==

The Back Hole

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at June 02, 2023 04:54 PM (17s+e)

This is about me, isn't it.......

Posted by: Kumswala Harris at June 02, 2023 04:57 PM (Zz0t1)

332 Anyone remember a few decades or more ago when the race grift crowd was always slamming Hollywood because all of their entertainment was coming from a European culture mindset because there was this enormous treasure trove of African literature and myth they should use for movies?

Fast forward a decade or two and we get a black Heimdall and a half Mexican half Panamanian Valkyrie in a movie based on a comic character from Norse mythology.

Funny how that works.

Posted by: Azathoth at June 02, 2023 04:57 PM (wb1YC)

333 >>I've never heard of a woman knocking someone out with a barehanded punch.

Didn't one of those Instagram Thot Murderer chicks break a mr America's Jaw?

Posted by: garrett at June 02, 2023 04:58 PM (7NAVD)

334 And not nearly as much fun as the "reverse cowgirl."
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June

That sounds like another name for a tranny Cowboy these days.

Posted by: polynikes at June 02, 2023 04:58 PM (MNhXM)

335 And that little mermaid was me.

Posted by: Ms Harris at June 02, 2023 04:58 PM (SYTee)

336 The BBC did that with The Doctor from Doctor Who and destroyed their entire fanbase.

In this particular case though, you can see how BBC might have come to take Doctor Who fans for granted. I mean, they were willing to watch Doctor Who, after all.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at June 02, 2023 04:58 PM (ppBhU)

337 Now Disney has pressured IMDB into deleting negative reviews to protect their latest bomb.

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TJM's review of "Mars Needs Moms" hardest hit.

Posted by: ShainS -- Oppression Scientist wand Your AI Interpreter at June 02, 2023 04:59 PM (A1DyZ)

338 Speaking of redheads, Danny Bonaduce looks like shit. Apparently he has hydrocephalus.

Posted by: Jordan61 at June 02, 2023 04:59 PM (DRSnL)

339 Anne of Green Gables with a black lead.

Posted by: That Northern skulker at June 02, 2023 04:59 PM (MDRVz)

340 337 Now Disney has pressured IMDB into deleting negative reviews to protect their latest bomb.

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TJM's review of "Mars Needs Moms" hardest hit.
Posted by: ShainS -- Oppression Scientist wand Your AI Interpreter at June 02, 2023 04:59 PM (A1DyZ)

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I've actually seen that. I barely remember it because it was primarily boring.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at June 02, 2023 04:59 PM (LvTSG)

341 Made it 27 second into Awkwafina's song. and only because i was too hung over to move fast.

Posted by: Fat Jonah of Krypton at June 02, 2023 04:59 PM (MS5ih)

342 Maybe it was Mr Universe?

I don't know. One of those weirdo BodyBuilder Dudes.

Courtney Clenney or some shit.

Posted by: garrett at June 02, 2023 04:59 PM (7NAVD)

343 At least with a Wonka origin story, there's at least some source material to work with.

Posted by: Blake - semi lurker at large at June 02, 2023 04:59 PM (2YtOq)

344 nood, trany story time!

Posted by: lin-duh at June 02, 2023 05:00 PM (UUBmN)

345 Uh, CBD. . .? It's been done:
https://tinyurl.com/pymh6br4

Posted by: Lizzy at June 02, 2023 04:56 PM (mo/0F)

Oh boy. That is amazingly tone deaf.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 02, 2023 05:00 PM (ZCCyW)

346 >>Black Cleopatra, Black Anne Boylen, black Queen Charlotte, black Dickens characters, black Narnia actors - no story, not even history, will be allowed to be white.

Black woman as Richard III:

Richard III is one of Shakespeare's greatest roles. The villainous monarch has been played by actors from Laurence Olivier to Ian McKellen to Mark Rylance. This summer, it's being played with a twist. Danai Gurira, best known for her roles in Marvel films like Black Panther and television's The Walking Dead, is playing King Richard onstage.

Gurira is a classically trained actress, but when New York's Public Theater asked if she'd like to play Richard III this summer in Central Park, she was surprised.

"I remember just laughing and finding it really thrilling and scary," said Gurira. "And it felt right, but it was nothing I would ever have thought of myself." . . .

Posted by: Lizzy at June 02, 2023 05:00 PM (mo/0F)

347 Disney's profit for the last 12 months was 28.7 BILLION
ACE stop getting a chubby over "millions" they aren't really that important

Posted by: Paul at June 02, 2023 05:01 PM (Fs5lB)

348 *sigh* Unexplained mysteries are sometimes NECESSARY in storytelling. You don't need to fill in all the details about every single character's backstory, even the main character. Willy Wonka shows up as a mysterious, fully-formed character who has somehow cornered the candy market with his workforce of Oompa-Loompas. Leave it alone. It is what it is.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 02, 2023 04:51 PM (YIVH2)

Hollywood is amazingly, annoyingly stuck on origin stories.

It's been said that with the frequency of Batman reboots, that by 2050, there will be one every 200 microseconds.

Whatever happened to continuing a story, rather than retelling it?

Posted by: Cato, Post-Apocalyptic Scourge of the Seas at June 02, 2023 05:01 PM (MIb2C)

349 216 I liked Alien Nation better as an alien buddy movie. James Caan and Mandy whatsisface, great talent and well written.

huh. never realized sam francisco was mandy patinkin. must have been before i knew who mandy patinkin was.

Posted by: anachronda at June 02, 2023 05:01 PM (v3pYe)

350 Lizzo in Girth of a Nation...some may remember my former use of that...

Posted by: JEM at June 02, 2023 05:01 PM (8erNz)

351 >>> And I don't think it's a huge thing to race-swap a fairy tale character. Yes, the original myth comes from Denmark, I think, but whatever.

It only matters because the carefully cultivated look and style of each princess is a character "brand" they have built and cultivated. Black Ariel is off brand, even if the average audience members are fine with it.

Also, the same people preening that Ariel is now black are screaming murder about the older sister in the upcoming live action Stitch movie being lighter skinned. The actress is native Hawaiian but she's not the "right color" of Hawaiian. But race swapping Ariel is cool. It's just all dumb.

Posted by: LizLem at June 02, 2023 05:02 PM (+mkOR)

352 I don't hate Idris Elba, but Heimdall is literally the Shining One, so bright it's hard to look at him, per the myth. It's from his light that the rainbow bridge emanates.

Posted by: leoncaruthers at June 02, 2023 05:02 PM (UfRqq)

353
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TJM's review of "Mars Needs Moms" hardest hit.
Posted by: ShainS -- Oppression Scientist wand Your AI Interpreter at June 02, 2023 04:59 PM (A1DyZ)

Meh. Close enough..........

https://youtu.be/w9gOQgfPW4Y

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 02, 2023 05:02 PM (Zz0t1)

354 Little Mermaid also looks like a terrible crap shit movie with some creepy production design (Sebastian) that’s more likely to scare kids than entertain them. And without the love story with the studly prince, there is no “princess fantasy” for little girls to latch onto. It would be like making an action movie for guys … but not including any action.

Posted by: Elric Blade at June 02, 2023 05:04 PM (Yoz4I)

355 It is funny, and sad,

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden

It’s pretty much always Laugh or Cry … so I saw this and laughed …

Posted by: My word as a Biden at June 02, 2023 05:04 PM (jonTH)

356
noon Epstein

Posted by: AltonJackson at June 02, 2023 05:04 PM (ENBF0)

357 nood

Posted by: gp Isn't A Core Piece at June 02, 2023 05:04 PM (MvF+J)

358 Take heart, all! There's a new Spiderman movie out this weekend: Spider-Man Across the Spider-Verse.

The first one was GREAT and I am going to see this one ASAP. Probably next weekend for the grandkid's birthday.

Posted by: jocon307 at June 02, 2023 05:05 PM (EuROc)

359 But that's not that at all, because his Superior Female Replacement then knocks out Indy with a single punch and drags his tired, useless, humiliated white man ass back to the present.

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They should have had him go out with some dignity, like being decapitated by the rotor blades of a plane or something.

Posted by: ShainS -- Oppression Scientist wand Your AI Interpreter at June 02, 2023 05:05 PM (A1DyZ)

360 Posted by: Paul at June 02, 2023 05:01 PM (Fs5lB)

You DICK!!!!

Posted by: Jeff Spicoli at June 02, 2023 05:05 PM (Zz0t1)

361 While I love Michonne, do not ever get that woman talking. Good lord-like a tweaker downing Mountain Dew....

Posted by: pahound at June 02, 2023 05:05 PM (C9Ej7)

362 James Caan San Francisco...freebie and the Bean. Nothing else close.

Posted by: JEM at June 02, 2023 05:06 PM (8erNz)

363 Rolling Stone HATES the new Lin Manuel Miranda song in the new Little Mermaid song, hah. Says it's as cringe as last racist Disney sings. And Disney has a hard on for Awkwafina, she's scuttle rapping in yet another Disney thing.

I said this before, but the Broadway musical version of little mermaid is FANTASTIC. The way they build a nonverbal live story for Ariel and Eric is great. And great music. Should have stuck with that.

Instead they kill the love story which will turn off little girls and women. Make Ariel black which kills off the racist movie goers overseas. And whitewash the colonialism from setting it in Caribbean slave times but there is no slavery.

Good job Disney!

Posted by: LizLem at June 02, 2023 05:06 PM (+mkOR)

364 I am more upset they turned Scuttle into a girl than the race swapping of Ariel.

Posted by: Piper at June 02, 2023 05:06 PM (ZdaMQ)

365 Disney's profit for the last 12 months was 28.7 BILLION

You're only off by 700%. A job in climate "science" awaits.

Posted by: spindrift at June 02, 2023 05:11 PM (ivvNA)

366 "And I don't think it's a huge thing to race-swap a fairy tale character."

Sorry but beg to differ. The best fairy tales tap into something visceral in a culture, into its deepest values. You are tampering with Mother Nature when you start swapping out the main characters, destroying their connection to their original culture. Swapping out a few incidental characters like a guard or a friend is okay, but not the main ones the story centers around. Not if you keep the rest of the story's milieu intact.

If you want to borrow a fairy tale's plot and swap out the races, then change the setting entirely too. For example, one could make a Beauty and the Beast with black characters, but then the setting should change to, say, an African kingdom. That would actually be kind of cool.

Posted by: Rusty Trawler at June 02, 2023 05:12 PM (1gif2)

367 Posted by: Paul at June 02, 2023 05:01 PM (Fs5lB)

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What's the difference between gross profit and net profit?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at June 02, 2023 05:13 PM (LvTSG)

368
Harrison Ford has let them shit all over Han Solo so why not subjugate himself again.

Oh, yeah, money now, legacy gone.

Posted by: Auspex at June 02, 2023 05:16 PM (j4U/Z)

369 Will me streaming 2 episodes of The Simpsons every night be enough to keep Disney afloat...I hope not.

Posted by: Mishdog at June 02, 2023 05:16 PM (YXEoM)

370 >>>Now Disney has pressured IMDB into deleting negative reviews to protect their latest bomb.

Amazon bought IMDB, so it is fair to call it Amazon's IMDB site.

Posted by: No Name Today at June 02, 2023 05:27 PM (vlXMQ)

371 Why is Paul so strangely interested in Ace's "chubby"? Seems a bit odd to me.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 02, 2023 05:37 PM (Keyt1)

372 Great review of this "absolute bilge" at Critical Drinker: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhShXCslwow

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