Is Disney D.I.E.ing?<br> And Why Woke Hollywood Is Going to Make It Impossible To Make Any Big-Budget Movie With Anything But a White Male Lead

Is Disney D.I.E.ing?
And Why Woke Hollywood Is Going to Make It Impossible To Make Any Big-Budget Movie With Anything But a White Male Lead

Kathleen Kennedy: "Why sure I could absolutely see us making more 'Indiana Jones' movies starring Human Hormone Blocker Phoebe Waller-Bridge."

Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy recently admitted that "it's entirely possible" that Phoebe Waller-Bridge's character, Helena Shaw, could take over the Indiana Jones franchise.
Kennedy spoke with Variety about the upcoming Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny film, where she was asked if Disney and Lucasfilm see potential for Phoebe Waller-Bridge and her character, Helena Shaw, to carry on the franchise.
Kennedy informed the outlet that "it's entirely possible." However, she also added, "We're not having any of those conversations right now. We're just focused on finishing this with Harrison."

The leaks Doomcock got before the film's release -- which are 90% accurate -- said that the movie was a time-travel movie in which Indiana Jones is shot and killed in the past, thus, somehow, erasing him from history, and Phoebe Waller-Bridge takes hi hat and whip and in a quick montage, she is shown performing all the heroics Indiana Jones did in the first three (real) Indiana Jones movies.

And then the plan was to continue "Helena Shaws' Adventures" on Disney Minus.

Note "Helena Shaw" is almost (but not quite) a rhythmic sound-alike for Indiana Jones.

People screamed like hell at that plot leak. Although the current film does not feature Indiana Jones dying and Phoebe Waller-Bridge taking over for him, Indiana Jones is in fact shot in the chest and dying in 200 BC at the end of the movie. Then there's a hard cut-to-black after Waller-Bridge knocks Indiana Jones unconscious, and then he wakes up in his bed, apparently healed.

We know for a fact there were last minute reshoots, and this scene was almost certainly one of the scenes shot just months ago. Harrison Ford confirmed this, when he said that Karen Allen's cameo, which occurs in the Suddenly Back in Bed scene, was part of the last-minute reshoots.

So what I'm saying is: I think Doomcock was 100% right about the original intended ending, where Phoebe Waller-Bridge literally steps into Indiana Jones' skin and literally replaces him in history. They only changed that due to backlash.

So yeah, I think KK is still scheming to get her final Replacement of a Beloved Male Character With a Brunette of Very Average Sex Appeal. She literally wants to Self-Insert herself into every LucasFilm property she controls.

Plot details of the upcoming Star Wars movie have leaked. Or I should say "supposedly upcoming." Kathleen Kennedy leaks a lot of Star Wars projects that never get off the ground. And she has a backlog of 20 Star Wars movies, like Ryan Johnson's trilogy, which they claim are still "in development" even though everyone knows they've been shelved.

Anyway, the details are these: Rey will serve as Jedi master training two kids with force powers, a boy and a girl. Rey realizes the girl has force powers of such immense power as to never have been dreamed of before -- not even by Rey!

Whoa! Plot twist! You're saying that in a Kathleen Kennedy fanfic movie the girl is all-powerful, unstoppable, and, indeed, the Key to Everything?! I did not see that coming!

Now this All-Powerful Girlboss, Kathleen -- who do you have in mind for casting? Do you have in mind a brunette girl of very limited attractiveness? Maybe with a squint-eyed, needle-nosed ratface, by any chance?

I can't believe this font of e'er-flowing creative genius used to be paid just to fetch coffee and take notes!

So yes, Kathleen Kennedy is trying to make a movie in which her Unstoppable Girlboss Self-Insert trains an Even Moar Unstoppable Girlboss Self-Insert.

How does she do it? She's like the Beatles times Nicola Tesla times Leonardo DaVinci, but gender-swapped and given a British accent and drab haircut.

Disney allegedly "debunked" these plot leaks, by sending out word to their media shills that they are "largely inaccurate."

Well, that's as good as gold, then!

Even the leftwing shill critics have realized that Disney is too damaged to save, and are admitting that the new Secret Invasion show on Disney Minus is a cheap, incompetent bore.

The Telegraph:

Woke critics have been a crucial line of defense for Disney's bombs and misfires. If they lose the woke critics, then their movies will have to be judged on... quality and box office performance.

Ay! What a horror!

How much has Disney lost on its never-ending conveyor belt of woke content? Valliant Renegade ran the numbers, looking at the last eight Disney releases, Lightyear through Elemental. Including The Little Mermaid, Thor: Thud and Blunder, etc. All of them.

Based on reports, the movies cost $2.75 billion in total.

And how much did they produce in box office receipts? Well, Disney Obsessive and Pedophile "Juris" seems to think that every dollar made at the box office goes to Disney, but it doesn't; they have to split with the actual theaters showing the movies. That's why the theaters are even in business in the first place, to take a cut of the box office.

Domestically, Disney takes an average of 55% of ticket sales in the US. Internationally, except for China, they take 43%. China takes the biggest bite. Disney's (and other company's) deals with China are secret, but the best estimate is that China takes 75% of ticket sales, with the studio only getting 25%.

So, how much did the last eight Disney movies make, after splitting box office with the theaters?

$1.86 billion.

Do you see the problem, Juris? Disney' costs exceed its box office takings by $890 million. Almost a full billion, P3do.

By the way, Disney has also dropped the amount of money it makes from licensing these movies to other networks and streamers, because they make every Disney movie exclusive to Disney Minus. (Which is also losing a ton of money!)

And how much has Disney lost in what they could expect to license these eight movies to Netflix and other networks? About $125 million each, or about a billion all-in.

So even if they were licensing these movies to other outlets, they would still only make a "profit" (if you can call it that) of $110 million on eight "blockbuster" "tentpole" movies.

Tell me more about Captain Marvel, P3dophile.

An update to the "exit" of Disney's Chief Diversity Officer: According to one of the podcasts I listen to -- not sure which -- ousted Chief Diversity Officer Latondra Newton was also noisy about Chapek's initial decision to avoid the controversy around Ron DeSantis' Parental Rights in Education bill (now law). She was one of the people publicly criticizing his neutral stance, they say.

I actually can't find a print reference confirming that, though. Maybe they're wrong.

But in looking for that, I came across this: Disney has eliminated all "gendered language" in its parks. Staff can no longer say "ladies and gentlemen" or "boys and girls."

Karey Burke, president of Disney's General Entertainment Content, said the company must do more to make its content more inclusive in a company-wide Zoom call Monday that was later posted to Twitter.
"I'm here as a mother of two queer children, actually," Burke said on the call. "One transgender child and one pansexual child, and also as a leader."
Burke said she supports featuring "many, many" characters who are LGBTQIA, which stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer (or questioning), intersex, and asexual (or allies).
The call was part of Disney's "Reimagine Tomorrow" campaign, according to the video posted on Twitter Tuesday. Its website promises that 50 percent of regular and recurring characters across the Disney universe will come from "underrepresented groups."
The Disney honcho said she had been dismayed to learn from a colleague that the company only had a "handful" of queer lead characters in its content.
"And I went, 'What? That can't be true,'" Burke said. "And I realized it actually is true. We have many, many, many LGBTQIA characters in our stories and yet we don't have enough leads and narratives in which gay characters just get to be characters and not have to be about gay stories."
During the same call Monday, another Disney employee noted how the company has also eliminated the use of gendered pronouns throughout its theme parks last summer as part of its inclusivity efforts.
"Last summer we removed all gendered greetings in relationship to our live spiels," Disney diversity and inclusion manager Vivian Ware said on the call. "So, we no longer say ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls ... It's hello everyone or hello friends."
The diversity plan comes amid Gov. DeSantis's new "Don't Say Gay" policy.
Disney's diversity plan comes amid the controversy over Florida's new "Don't Say Gay" law.
Disney is now in the process of changing recorded messages in parks to match the inclusivity push, Ware said.
"We no longer say ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls," Ware continued. "We say dreamers of all ages."

I think there's another Disney executive who should "exit" the company to pursue her own "dream projects."

Fox News confirms that Elemental featured a non-binary character.

Pixar film "Elemental," which features the studio's first "non-binary" character, according to a voice actor for the film, earned only $29.5 million in its opening weekend.
It was the lowest opening weekend ever for Pixar, The New York Times reported Sunday. That was despite creative direction from Pixar, one of the most famous studios in the entertainment business, and support from Disney, which owns Pixar.
Outlets around the country took notice of the movie's dismal performance.
The movie "fell short of already-low expectations," Variety reported. "Pixar's 'Elemental' falls flat," The New York Times headlined Sunday. The Hollywood Reporter wrote that the move was "iced by moviegoers" along with "The Flash," a superhero flick that has suffered from its leading actor, Ezra Miller, becoming the center of scandal in 2022 after he was arrested multiple times.
"Elemental" acquired some notoriety of its own after it featured the first non-binary character in its history, "Lake." The actor who voiced Lake, Kai Ava Hauser, posted about the role on Twitter.

It may seems strange that we only hear the character is non-binary from the actor playing they/them, rather than it being definitely announced in the movie itself, but this is the way Disney often plays its Gay Insertions -- with plausible deniability. The actor would be told the character is non-binary, and to play they/them that way, and Disney would leak the news to receptive media channels, like my friend Dave's friends at Pink News. Disney often sneaks gay material in, well, sneakily, making sure that the material can be denied or cut out entirely for foreign markets.

One of the complaints about Elemental is that it is specifically an immigrant story. Specifically. As in, it's so culturally specific to immigrants that if you're not an immigrant, you'll find it hard to relate.

I've heard even immigrants complaining that it was too specifically about immigrant families.

The former head of Marvel physical production, Victoria Alonso, IIRC, said that she didn't want "diversity" to merely consist of stories about women and minorities. She said that wasn't enough; she wanted their stories to be specifically about the experiences (read: complaints) of women and minorities.

Elemental is apparently hewing to that rule.

A Hollywood journalist at Puck pointed out that Disney had abandoned its old paradigm of "populist" entertainments featuring universal themes and aspirations in favor of highly culturally-specific offerings.

By making their films so determinedly specific to small groups of people, they are alienating and excluding the great majority of the population, who does not share these highly specific experiences.

And how's that working out for them?

I propose a new term for this: Inclusion by Exclusion.

When I was a kid, we had some kind of reading material called "SRAs." Don't ask me what that stood for. I don't remember. But they were these cards upon which were printed short stories. You'd have to read so many in a week.

Some of the stories were very universal. One was about a boy getting lost in the woods, and having to figure out how to get to the highway.

Another story was a first-contact science fiction story where a ship with room for only three astronauts discovers a dying alien on a barren asteroid. Rather than leaving the alien to die on the planet, the captain tells his men to take the alien aboard and get him to earth, while he volunteers to remain on the rock and die. (There's no hope of another ship coming by before his oxygen runs out.)

He lays on the asteroid and watches his ship fly away as his oxygen reaches critical level, and he thinks:

To die is not the worst thing that can happen to a man.

Then mixed in with those kind of stories, there were the ethnic ones. And they were boring.

One was about a Jewish family. It was about, hand to God, gefilte fish and potato pancakes. (The latter I have since learned are tasty.)

Another was about a Latinx girl, call her Juanita, and su abeula. Juanita's abuela explains how to make plantains and about how the specific plantain recipe was invented on, I think, Puerto Rico.

Those last two are extremely boring stories with no appeal to anyone outside the targeted ethnic groups.

Who the fuck cares about plantains? I don't even think Hispanic people want to read a "story" literally about plantains.

Obviously I read the first couple stories a lot, and only read the latter two when I was forced to. And they kept showing up year after year. These cards were ranked in grade levels, but the ranking would be like "third to fifth grade," so these tedious ethnic cultural explainers would show up year after year like boring pennies.

The stories about the boy in the woods and the astronauts discovering a dying alien never specified the race or cultural backgrounds of the characters. They were interesting for what they were doing now, not because of the specific details of their Racial Backstories.

There's nothing wrong with female or minority leads. But Woke Hollywood is determined to make every movie with a female or minority lead very culturally specific to women or the targeted minority, alienating anyone outside of those demographics.

Usually the cultural specificity comes in the form of airing gender or racial grievances.

In Captain Marvel, a man tells Carl Manvers to smile more, and she uses her alien-augmented super-strength to beat him up and steal his leather jacket.

Charlie's Angels was nothing but 100 minutes of Superior Girlbosses humiliating physically and mentally inferior white men. (Spit.)

In Black Panther, Shuri -- another of Marvel's infinite number of teenage girl scientific geniuses -- calls a white man who is acting as her ally (and in fact acting with such devotion to Wakanda that he's a traitor to his actual country, America) a "colonizer," and we're supposed to think that's charming and cute.

Oh look, what an adorably precocious little racist! I love characters who stereotype me and insult me based upon my skin color! Doesn't everybody?!

In the upcoming Blue Beetle move from DC's House of Bombs, a racist Latino uncle calls Batman a "fascist."

And on. And on. And on. And on.

In what movie led by a white male would any of these expressions of hostility to women or people of other races be thought acceptable? Let alone "charming" or "cute."

The Wokies are actually destroying any chance of for women and minorities to lead more movies, because what they are teaching the audience is: If the movie stars a woman or a minority, it will be made only for women or minorities, and they will stuff it with boring culturally-specific filler as well as straight-up insults towards anyone outside of the groups they're pandering to.

Whereas if they just cast a woman or minority as the lead and then made a film about universal themes and aspirations, without toxic insults to white people and men, people might actually like those movies and say, "Give me more of that."

But no; if Hollywood makes a movie with a female lead, it must be about the more toxic aspects of fourth-wave feminism; and if Hollywood makes a movie with a minority lead, it must be about racial resentments about whites.

Why would men or whites show up for that kind of a movie?

I'm not saying there's no room for culturally-specific movie. There's always an audience for movies like Yentl, or My Big Fat Greek Wedding, or even a gay "rom-com" like Bros.

But they're not big audiences. They're not blockbuster audiences, they're not $200 million tentpole summer release audiences.

These are independent-type movies, passion-project movies, and should have the budget to match.

But Hollywood keeps spending $200-300 million on culturally divisive niche films and then wondering: Why aren't we making a billion dollars? I don't get it! I'm confuzzulated!

Hollywood thinks they're promoting women and minorities. In fact, they're destroying their ability to carry films. You can only make an alleged "blockbuster" focusing on divisive, exclusionary grievances and cultural tropes before people will start thinking, "I don't know if I want to see a Hispanic-led 'blockbuster.' The last three times I paid money to see a Hispanic-led blockbuster, it was all about grievances against the gringos. And plantains."

And then they'll just stop going to see would-be "blockbusters" starring Hispanics. And then, the financing for Hispanic-led blockbusters will dry up.

If they want to reach all "four quadrants" of the movie-viewing public, if they want to make true blockbusters which appeal to practically everyone, they can feature women and minority leads.

But they're going to have to give up the divisive political grievance-mongering and the alienating cultural specificity that have become the norm with women and minority led films.

Which, unfortunately for them, goes against their ethos of Identity Politics All The Time.

Posted by: Ace at 03:40 PM

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1 st?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 23, 2023 03:39 PM (t0OGg)

2 Kennedy informed the outlet that "it's entirely possible." However, she also added, "We're not having any of those conversations right now. We're just focused on finishing this with Harrison."
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Sure it's possible. It's also probably Kennedy's plan (or at least, her ambition).

But it isn't going to happen because Lusafilm is dead and won't be getting those budgets anymore.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 23, 2023 03:40 PM (t0OGg)

3 First

Posted by: NoLongerintheBellyoftheBeast at June 23, 2023 03:40 PM (5XUmo)

4 Burn mouse, burn.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at June 23, 2023 03:41 PM (N1DT3)

5 People screamed like hell at that plot leak. Although the current film does not feature Indiana Jones dying and Phoebe Waller-Bridge taking over for him, Indiana Jones is in fact shot in the chest and dying in 200 BC at the end of the movie. Then there's a hard cut-to-black after Waller-Bridge knocks Indiana Jones unconscious, and then he wakes up in his bed, apparently healed.
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Which still fits and could have easily been "fixed" with reshoots.

It would not surprise me if the original plan was to kill him, but they thought better of it after seeing the reaction to the leak.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 23, 2023 03:41 PM (t0OGg)

6 I have no idea who Phoebe Waller-Bridge is. She is playing Indiana Jones' daughter or granddaughter? Was she in Fleabag too? Didn't see that either. What is a human hormone blocker?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 23, 2023 03:42 PM (Keyt1)

7 So yeah, I think KK is still scheming to get her final Replacement of a Beloved Male Character With a Brunette of Very Average Sex Appeal. She literally wants to Self-Insert herself into every LucasFilm property she controls.
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Average? Yeah. Until she opens her mouth.

I have no idea why Hollywood is so enamored with this woman. She's nothing special to look at, isn't a good actress and is a walking charisma vacuum. She doesn't have chemistry with *anything* on screen - not even herself.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 23, 2023 03:42 PM (t0OGg)

8 Disney certainly isn't DEIfied. Or is it??

Never mind.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at June 23, 2023 03:43 PM (Vwz3I)

9 Jeepers, Disney sucks.

Posted by: Pudinhead at June 23, 2023 03:43 PM (HTCOy)

10 So yes, Kathleen Kennedy is trying to make a movie in which her Unstoppable Girlboss Self-Insert trains an Even Moar Unstoppable Girlboss Self-Insert.

How does she do it? She's like the Beatles times Nicola Tesla times Leonardo DaVinci, but gender-swapped and given a British accent and drab haircut.
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She's also talent and IQ inverted.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 23, 2023 03:43 PM (t0OGg)

11 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 23, 2023 03:43 PM (Zz0t1)

12 So, is this a movie thread?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 23, 2023 03:44 PM (Zz0t1)

13 Drove past the local movie theater the other day. Bums sleeping out back. Place looks like crap.

No loss.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 23, 2023 03:44 PM (e4fEA)

14 Based on reports, the movies cost $2.75 billion in total.
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Minimum. VR mentioned that he didn't try to estimate reshoots - and we know that some of these movies had extensive reshoots.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 23, 2023 03:44 PM (t0OGg)

15 I don't want to give away too much, but I've seen an advanced copy of the next script.

In the next film, Indiana wakes up and realizes it was all just a dream, and he and Bobby Ewing go and grab a beer together at Southfork.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at June 23, 2023 03:45 PM (qL3Hj)

16 Do you see the problem, Juris? Disney' costs exceed its box office takings by $890 million. Almost a full billion, P3do.
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A billion here, a billion there and pretty soon you're talking about real money.

And this era is going to cause problems in the parks in 5-10 years' time. Who wants to go on an Elemental ride? Or an Indy 5 ride? Nobody.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 23, 2023 03:45 PM (t0OGg)

17 I just did an image search of this Phoebe Waller-Bridge. Yech.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 23, 2023 03:46 PM (WQfQI)

18 I'd say I'd boycott Waltz Didley Corpse but I haven't bought one of their products for at 30 years.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at June 23, 2023 03:46 PM (17s+e)

19 >>>It would not surprise me if the original plan was to kill him, but they thought better of it after seeing the reaction to the leak.

it's not just killing him. He's an old man; I could see giving him a death scene.

It's the part about literally replacing him throughout history with his Superior Female Replacement.

Posted by: ace at June 23, 2023 03:46 PM (KRtlO)

20 > "We no longer say ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls," Ware continued. "We say dreamers of all ages."

Yeah, "cast members" at the parks only address people as friend(s) now.

Posted by: bonhomme at June 23, 2023 03:47 PM (R38qh)

21 And how much has Disney lost in what they could expect to license these eight movies to Netflix and other networks? About $125 million each, or about a billion all-in.
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Thanks to Hollywood Accounting, the studios will still get paid for the streaming rights.

They're just going to be paid by D+, so for Disney it's just shuffling the losses from one division to another. The corporation is still eating the losses, but they're coming out of a different budget. Wall Street hasn't cared about streaming losses until recently.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 23, 2023 03:47 PM (t0OGg)

22 I don't care if disney, marvel, or any of these companies implode.

Seems like there are a lot of options now compared to what we used to have.

Disney can go the way of the laser disc

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at June 23, 2023 03:47 PM (NtVYv)

23 No whore moans?

Hunter Biden hardest hit.

Posted by: Axeman at June 23, 2023 03:47 PM (krQz2)

24 "Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy recently admitted that "it's entirely possible" that Phoebe Waller-Bridge's character, Helena Shaw, could take over the Indiana Jones franchise."

Absolute, complete, unadulterated, cast-strength BULLSHIT. This is always what they do when faced with an almost sure box-office bomb: they talk up a phony sequel or NEXT season or or anything to make it look like the movie or show is popular or successful. I think they were talking up Season 14 of She Hulk even as the first season went down in flames.

Posted by: Elric Blade at June 23, 2023 03:47 PM (iFTx/)

25 What is a human hormone blocker?

Just a guess, but most likely someone so repulsive they'll make young men not want to go through puberty just so they won't have to risk dating someone like her.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at June 23, 2023 03:47 PM (Bd6X8)

26 Dang Ace, that's a hefty post for a Friday Afternoon! How in the heck am I suppose to read all of that.

Posted by: WisRich at June 23, 2023 03:47 PM (G0vdT)

27 But it isn't going to happen because Lusafilm is dead and won't be getting those budgets anymore.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 23, 2023 03:40 PM (t0OGg)

From a strict economic analysis? Of course. But I don't think that is happening much over at Disney, and they may keep funding LucasFilm forever. They really are that stupid.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 23, 2023 03:47 PM (PHmov)

28 On the Sidebar: Looting Is Out Of Control.

Looking forward to the return of in-control looting.

Posted by: Joe Mama at June 23, 2023 03:47 PM (lZVy/)

29 >>>What is a human hormone blocker?

A woman of such low appeal that she turns off men's testosterone production.

and yes, this is "Fleabag."

Posted by: ace at June 23, 2023 03:47 PM (KRtlO)

30 But in looking for that, I came across this: Disney has eliminated all "gendered language" in its parks. Staff can no longer say "ladies and gentlemen" or "boys and girls."
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That's fairly old news, and it was probably due to the recently-fired DEI boss.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 23, 2023 03:48 PM (t0OGg)

31 >>>It would not surprise me if the original plan was to kill him, but they thought better of it after seeing the reaction to the leak.

it's not just killing him. He's an old man; I could see giving him a death scene.

It's the part about literally replacing him throughout history with his Superior Female Replacement.
Posted by: ace at June 23, 2023 03:46 PM (KRtlO)

Hunter Biden ?

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at June 23, 2023 03:48 PM (NtVYv)

32

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Posted by: On a Cheerier Note at June 23, 2023 03:48 PM (i5lJm)

33 History, traditions, moral principles, and faith are on the chopping block. All that matters are what feels right and tight in the NOW, baby. It's all about the "replacement" process. Identify something that impedes the "mellow" and destroy it and move on to find another social impediment for the block.

Posted by: mrp at June 23, 2023 03:48 PM (rj6Yv)

34 The Left realized post-9/11 that *anything* that brought people together was the single most dangerous thing imaginable, and set about dividing along every class and made up line they could find, eventually moving into games, sports, news and all entertainment that could possibly see people uniting and rallying in any sort of brotherhood.

So the point of these exercises is not so much what small group they are appealing to, but the fact that they specifically will never appeal to "everyone" at large again.

It's called Divide and Conquer for a reason.

Posted by: ... at June 23, 2023 03:49 PM (tOuMZ)

35 "squint-eyed, needle-nosed ratface"

spot on, Ace!

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at June 23, 2023 03:49 PM (w/RvR)

36 I just did an image search of this Phoebe Waller-Bridge. Yech.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 23, 2023 03:46 PM (WQfQI)

When they dress her as a feminine woman she is okay, but she has a jutting jaw and a masculine face and that isn't my type.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 23, 2023 03:49 PM (PHmov)

37 No whore moans?

Hunter Biden hardest hit.
Posted by: Axeman at June 23, 2023 03:47 PM (krQz2

They do if you don't pay her.

So I'm told.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 23, 2023 03:49 PM (e4fEA)

38 Disney's diversity plan comes amid the controversy over Florida's new "Don't Say Gay" law.

Disney is now in the process of changing recorded messages in parks to match the inclusivity push, Ware said.

"We no longer say ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls," Ware continued. "We say dreamers of all ages."
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I think they mean Florida's "Parental Rights in Education" law.

And yeah, Ware should be shown the door, too. Probably won't be.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 23, 2023 03:49 PM (t0OGg)

39

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Posted by: On a Cheerier Note at June 23, 2023 03:49 PM (i5lJm)

40 narratives in which gay characters just get to be characters and not have to be about gay stories

Well, if the gay characters could just SHUT UP ABOUT BEING GAY and ALL THE GAY the love to do, then that would be possible. But that's never going to happen.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at June 23, 2023 03:49 PM (H9sxy)

41 >>>That's fairly old news, and it was probably due to the recently-fired DEI boss.

yeah it's old news. I'm just bringing it up as background.

(also I didn't remember it, though I must have heard it at some point)

Posted by: ace at June 23, 2023 03:49 PM (KRtlO)

42 "I'm here as a mother of two queer children, actually," Burke said on the call. "One transgender child and one pansexual child, and also as a leader."

Coo Coo Cachoo

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at June 23, 2023 03:49 PM (NtVYv)

43 I just did an image search of this Phoebe Waller-Bridge. Yech.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 23, 2023 03:46 PM (WQfQI)

She flashed her tits on screen already, so yeah, meh.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 23, 2023 03:49 PM (Zz0t1)

44 Afternoon.

Posted by: Robert at June 23, 2023 03:50 PM (Z2yLo)

45 "I'm here as a mother of two queer children, actually," Burke said on the call. "One transgender child and one pansexual child, and also as a leader."

I'm here as a severely mentally ill person, actually.

Posted by: Karey Burke! at June 23, 2023 03:50 PM (2tUFv)

46 It may seems strange that we only hear the character is non-binary from the actor playing they/them, rather than it being definitely announced in the movie itself, but this is the way Disney often plays its Gay Insertions -- with plausible deniability. The actor would be told the character is non-binary, and to play they/them that way, and Disney would leak the news to receptive media channels, like my friend Dave's friends at Pink News. Disney often sneaks gay material in, well, sneakily, making sure that the material can be denied or cut out entirely for foreign markets.
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But then they fail to control their actors and it all gets out anyway. That is probably by design, but it's extremely stupid.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 23, 2023 03:50 PM (t0OGg)

47

Anheuser-Busch InBev SA/NV (BUD)
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As of 03:50PM EDT. Market open.

Posted by: On a Cheerier Note at June 23, 2023 03:50 PM (i5lJm)

48 Read the content. Could have been first.

Rookie mistake.

Posted by: Robert at June 23, 2023 03:50 PM (Z2yLo)

49

Target Corporation (TGT)
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As of 03:50PM EDT. Market open.

Posted by: On a Cheerier Note at June 23, 2023 03:51 PM (i5lJm)

50

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As of 03:51PM EDT. Market open.

Posted by: On a Cheerier Note at June 23, 2023 03:51 PM (i5lJm)

51 The Walt Disney Company (DIS)
88.07 -0.42 (-0.48%)
As of 03:47PM EDT. Market open.

Posted by: On a Cheerier Note at June 23, 2023 03:48 PM (i5lJm)

Their peak was in March of 2021. Since then they have lost 55% of their value.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 23, 2023 03:52 PM (PHmov)

52 By making their films so determinedly specific to small groups of people, they are alienating and excluding the great majority of the population, who does not share these highly specific experiences.
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Which *can* work, but not the way Disney (and the rest of Hollywood) does it. If you want to target a very narrow audience, you can do that and do it profitably - but not if you're doing so with movies that cost multiple hundreds of millions of dollars. If that's your game, you need small, cheap movies because it's a small audience.

Disney is making tentpole-scale movies for pup-tent sized audiences, and they're losing megabucks doing it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 23, 2023 03:52 PM (t0OGg)

53 "SRAs."

Hey! We're both 29!! I remember those too. Had to do the same thing. No, I don't recall what they stand for.

Posted by: Puddleglum at June 23, 2023 03:52 PM (sAmhv)

54 So, is this a movie thread?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 23, 2023 03:44 PM (Zz0t1)
.......

Must be. I skimmed it and didn't see BOOBS anywhere.

Posted by: wth at June 23, 2023 03:52 PM (v0R5T)

55

Activision Blizzard, Inc. (ATVI)
81.90 -0.40 (-0.48%)
As of 03:52PM EDT. Market open.

Posted by: On a Cheerier Note at June 23, 2023 03:52 PM (i5lJm)

56 Hopefully, Die Mouse! Die!

Posted by: Skip at June 23, 2023 03:52 PM (xhxe8)

57 and the audience will stay away in droves.

Posted by: Count de Monet at June 23, 2023 03:52 PM (4I/2K)

58 Ace is in a good mood today, giving PWB the honors of “average sex appeal”.

Posted by: Sterling Archer at June 23, 2023 03:52 PM (2+QmR)

59 Phoebe Makes You Want to Run Into a Wall and Throw Yourself Off a Bridge

Posted by: ... at June 23, 2023 03:52 PM (tOuMZ)

60 Was Guardians of the Galaxy III woke ? How was their box office?

Posted by: polynikes at June 23, 2023 03:52 PM (W3A8K)

61
It's the part about literally replacing him throughout history with his Superior Female Replacement.
Posted by: ace at June 23, 2023 03:46 PM (KRtlO)

99% of women fight scenes suck balls. TV, movies, it doesn't matter.

I mean, I'm a fan of the John Wick series thus far, but casting Halle Berry was a HORRIBLE move. Her fight scenes make her look old. REALLY old.

They made a huge mistake there.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 23, 2023 03:52 PM (Zz0t1)

62 Phoebe Waller-Bridge is Eva Green's ugly sister.

Posted by: bonhomme at June 23, 2023 03:52 PM (R38qh)

63 A lot of these movies are subsidized. Whatever the cost and the estimated losses are they don't seem to take the subsidies into account.

Taking a guess but I think Disney hasn't lost nearly that much money.

They must still be made to suffer.

Posted by: Robert at June 23, 2023 03:52 PM (Z2yLo)

64 So the second highest earning black actor in Hollywood, Samual L Jackson became a naturalized citizen of Gabon.
Fuck him. And Disney.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 23, 2023 03:53 PM (e4fEA)

65 Also ace they announce that the male successor ( Spike, introduced in Chrystal Skull, died in Vietnam)

Posted by: steevy at June 23, 2023 03:53 PM (yezA1)

66 I realize Harry Ford is an insufferable prick, but this movie is a perfect metaphor, in that the man just wants his characters to die, and Dinsey won't let them.

It's an almost perfect argument for assisted suicide.

Kill..... Me....

No, we're going to have a woman drag you, kicking and bleeding, into the modern world.

Posted by: BurtTC at June 23, 2023 03:53 PM (dGCAG)

67 Read the content. Could have been first.

Rookie mistake.
Posted by: Robert at June 23, 2023 03:50 PM (Z2yLo)

That's all right. You didn't miss much.

Posted by: mrp at June 23, 2023 03:53 PM (rj6Yv)

68 Hmm, when was the last Star Wars movie?

Eh, I don't actually care.

Posted by: spindrift at June 23, 2023 03:53 PM (ivvNA)

69 "SRAs."

Hey! We're both 29!! I remember those too. Had to do the same thing. No, I don't recall what they stand for.
Posted by: Puddleglum at June 23, 2023 03:52 PM (sAmh

I read every one through the college level by 3rd grade. I liked them

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at June 23, 2023 03:53 PM (NtVYv)

70 How are Disney's parks doing? They've mastered the art of vacuuming every dollar from the patrons' wallets.

Posted by: mr tmz at June 23, 2023 03:53 PM (rJ48h)

71 There's nothing wrong with female or minority leads. But Woke Hollywood is determined to make every movie with a female or minority lead very culturally specific to women or the targeted minority, alienating anyone outside of those demographics.
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Yup. It isn't the casting (well, not just the casting), it's the wokeness. A female lead is fine. A woke-ass nonsense story about crap isn't.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 23, 2023 03:53 PM (t0OGg)

72 There are "culturally specific" films with specific racial complaints that are ALSO universal. Off the top of my head: (There's plenty more)

Shindler's List
Fiddler on the Roof

It's not just the topic, either. MOST racially specific complaints (at least legitimate ones) could be universal ones as well.

But that would require acknowledging the universality of human evil and not making WHITE MEN!!! the cause of all evil.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at June 23, 2023 03:53 PM (N1DT3)

73 Ace is in a good mood today, giving PWB the honors of “average sex appeal”.
Posted by: Sterling Archer at June 23, 2023 03:52 PM (2+QmR)

Wouldn't you be in a good mood if you're bowels just regurgitated this thread of literary masterpiece?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 23, 2023 03:53 PM (Zz0t1)

74 36 I just did an image search of this Phoebe Waller-Bridge. Yech.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 23, 2023 03:46 PM (WQfQI)

When they dress her as a feminine woman she is okay, but she has a jutting jaw and a masculine face and that isn't my type.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 23, 2023 03:49 PM (PHmov)
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I wouldn't fuck her with your dick and a bag over her head. She screams "man-hating thunder cunt" from a mile away. Shockingly, she has managed to marry or date at least two good-looking, desirable men. They are probably gay.

Posted by: Elric Blade at June 23, 2023 03:54 PM (iFTx/)

75 What is pan sexual?

Posted by: JackStraw at June 23, 2023 03:54 PM (ZLI7S)

76
Their peak was in March of 2021. Since then they have lost 55% of their value.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at June 23, 2023 03:52 PM (PHmov)

"Going woke is a solid business move."

- - - - Mark Cuban

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 23, 2023 03:54 PM (Zz0t1)

77 Yes, I remember SRA, too. 1st grade, I think.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 23, 2023 03:55 PM (WQfQI)

78 I'm an admitted over the top hater of girl power movies but I really enjoyed the female John Wick movie, Peppermint.

I feel kind of dirty😃

Posted by: polynikes at June 23, 2023 03:55 PM (W3A8K)

79 In Black Panther, Shuri -- another of Marvel's infinite number of teenage girl scientific geniuses -- calls a white man who is acting as her ally (and in fact acting with such devotion to Wakanda that he's a traitor to his actual country, America) a "colonizer," and we're supposed to think that's charming and cute.
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No, you're supposed to think that it's *powerful.*

She's a "powerful" character clapping back against the patriarchy. If you think it's charming and cute, you're still wrong. It's your male gaze and whatnot misinterpreting the truth-to-power mission of marginalized communities and you need to watch a more Disney movies to realize the error of your ways.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 23, 2023 03:55 PM (t0OGg)

80 64 So the second highest earning black actor in Hollywood, Samual L Jackson became a naturalized citizen of Gabon.
Fuck him. And Disney.
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I would imagine that Gabon's tax rates are attractive. Sam doesn't have too many pay days coming in the future.

Posted by: Pudinhead at June 23, 2023 03:55 PM (HTCOy)

81 Recent Disney movies I've enjoyed (but only watched because I have small kids):

Moana
Encanto
Coco
Luca

All fun or interesting stories. Each has its share of laughs. Nothing about it is overly condescending or preachy.

That said, I wouldn't have spent a dime to see any of them and only do so because my SiL shared her password with my wife.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at June 23, 2023 03:55 PM (KbCG3)

82 What is pan sexual?
Posted by: JackStraw at June 23, 2023 03:54 PM (ZLI7S)

Those that stick their dicks in bacon grease while still in the pan.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 23, 2023 03:55 PM (Zz0t1)

83 The Little Wokemaid would have done better had they cast someone that didn't have her eyes on the side of her head.

And bigger tits.

The fucking cartoon had more and better cleavage. That shit ain't right.

Posted by: Robert at June 23, 2023 03:55 PM (Z2yLo)

84 74 Somebody was sending superchats on Drinker's stream yesterday as " Phoebe Waler-Habsburg" LOL

Posted by: steevy at June 23, 2023 03:55 PM (yezA1)

85 What is pan sexual?

Having a fetish for items in the kitchen.

Posted by: Karey Burke! at June 23, 2023 03:55 PM (2tUFv)

86 But Hollywood keeps spending $200-300 million on culturally divisive niche films and then wondering: Why aren't we making a billion dollars? I don't get it! I'm confuzzulated!
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Once again, I should read further into the essay before posting real-time responses.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 23, 2023 03:55 PM (t0OGg)

87 I understand that Disney is going to do a live action Pinocchio, where he is a real boy and Gepetto molests him.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at June 23, 2023 03:56 PM (lTGtQ)

88 SRA = "Science Research Associates", the company that made the cards. According to Wikipedia, they were bought out by McGraw-Hill in 2000. And yes, I had color-coded cards in grammar school, too.

Posted by: Nemo at June 23, 2023 03:56 PM (S6ArX)

89 75 What is pan sexual?
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A horny half goat half man that lives in a cave and fucks anything that shows up.

Posted by: Pudinhead at June 23, 2023 03:56 PM (HTCOy)

90 > So the second highest earning black actor in Hollywood, Samual L Jackson became a naturalized citizen of Gabon.

Gabon as in the place where there was a military coup attempt four years ago?

Posted by: bonhomme at June 23, 2023 03:56 PM (R38qh)

91 No Mister Bond, I expect you to D.I.E

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 23, 2023 03:56 PM (ncXxy)

92 I've lost the plot. Who's Juris? And is he/she/zer/xim the pedo or is someone else the pedo?

Posted by: bed head at June 23, 2023 03:56 PM (Y1sOo)

93 I just did an image search of this Phoebe Waller-Bridge. Yech.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 23, 2023

***
It's been said that humans tend to fall into two general physiognomic groups: "pig-faces" and "fox-faces."

Seems to me we need what Ace suggested, a third category: "rat-faces."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 23, 2023 03:56 PM (J2vNu)

94 Was Guardians of the Galaxy III woke ? How was their box office?
Posted by: polynikes at June 23, 2023 03:52 PM (W3A8K)

I heard it wasn't. I don't think I'm going to be watching any James Gunn films anymore, but people say it's decent. Better than 2.

Posted by: BurtTC at June 23, 2023 03:56 PM (dGCAG)

95 >>>Ace is in a good mood today, giving PWB the honors of “average sex appeal”.

she's not ugly or anything.

Ya Boi Zach noticed in comics that all women had been mandated to have curveless, A-cup figures. All of them. He called this "the approved body type."

This seems to be the only kind of woman that the woke feminists running Hollywood will allow in movies.

I don't think PWB is unattractive, but she's in line with the very blah, not-super-attractive line of actresses that Kathleen Kennedy approves of. There are no hotties allowed in LucasFilm movies.

At best, they're Arthur Treacher's Fish and Chips 6s.

Posted by: ace at June 23, 2023 03:56 PM (KRtlO)

96 But in looking for that, I came across this: Disney has eliminated all "gendered language" in its parks. Staff can no longer say "ladies and gentlemen" or "boys and girls."

"Hey fuckers! Welcome to Disney World!"

(It's gender neutral)

Posted by: rickb223 at June 23, 2023 03:57 PM (GIBR7)

97 Tried to watch s01e01 of, "Secret Invasion."

- Failed

Posted by: Marooned at June 23, 2023 03:57 PM (kt8QE)

98 In case you missed it. Russia could be on the verge of a civil war.

*Wagner Chief accused Moscow of lying to get into war.

* Russian launches a missile strike on Wanger group.

* Wagner Chief vows revenge.

Wow.

Posted by: WisRich at June 23, 2023 03:57 PM (G0vdT)

99 No Mister Bond, I expect you to D.I.E
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 23, 2023 03:56 PM (ncXxy)

Driving through your neck of the woods in a bit. As earlier mentioned to rickb, I'll honk.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 23, 2023 03:57 PM (Zz0t1)

100 Disney ... abandoned its old paradigm of "populist" entertainments featuring universal themes and aspirations in favor of highly culturally-specific offerings.
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i.e. moralizing and boring lectures.

Posted by: Axeman at June 23, 2023 03:57 PM (krQz2)

101 If they want to reach all "four quadrants" of the movie-viewing public, if they want to make true blockbusters which appeal to practically everyone, they can feature women and minority leads.
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But not for a while. To your point, "female lead" or "minority lead" is now *synonymous* with "two hours of woke hectoring." Even if it isn't true for a movie, it *will* be the assumption for large chunks of the moviegoing public.

They are going to need a solid run of non-hectoring movies before they can overcome it - and that means taking more losses for a while until word-of-mouth catches up with the changes.

They've burned their own houses down. They have to be rebuilt.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 23, 2023 03:57 PM (t0OGg)

102 Phoebe Waller-Bridge is a Waffle House 4.

And that's being kind.

Posted by: polynikes at June 23, 2023 03:57 PM (W3A8K)

103 It's been said that humans tend to fall into two general physiognomic groups: "pig-faces" and "fox-faces."
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How about horse faces?

Posted by: Pudinhead at June 23, 2023 03:57 PM (HTCOy)

104 What is pan sexual?
Posted by: JackStraw at June 23, 2023 03:54 PM (ZLI7S)f

Avec, Fava beans and Chianti

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at June 23, 2023 03:57 PM (NtVYv)

105 What is pan sexual?
Posted by: JackStraw at June 23, 2023 03:54 PM (ZLI7S)

Sexual arousal from interacting with disposable cake, lasagna, roasting, chicken or other sized foil pans.

Posted by: Count de Monet at June 23, 2023 03:57 PM (4I/2K)

106 Retard witches losing 9 figures and getting rewarded.

Posted by: Eagle Lips at June 23, 2023 03:57 PM (xOL0y)

107 75 What is pan sexual?
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A horny half goat half man that lives in a cave and fucks anything that shows up.
Posted by: Pudinhead at June 23, 2023

***
And terrifies everybody while doing it!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 23, 2023 03:57 PM (J2vNu)

108 83 The Little Wokemaid would have done better had they cast someone that didn't have her eyes on the side of her head.

And bigger tits.

The fucking cartoon had more and better cleavage. That shit ain't right.
Posted by: Robert at June 23, 2023 03:55 PM (Z2yLo)
____________

Well, she is part fish, right? But I agree with you, the casting was bad even apart from the race-swap. Nobody complained about Jason Momoa as Aquaman, even though the character is white as fuck and he isn't.

Posted by: Elric Blade at June 23, 2023 03:58 PM (iFTx/)

109 At best, they're Arthur Treacher's Fish and Chips 6s.

Posted by: ace at June 23, 2023 03:56 PM (KRtlO)

So, a Popeyes 8.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at June 23, 2023 03:58 PM (i5lJm)

110 >>>2 I've lost the plot. Who's Juris? And is he/she/zer/xim the pedo or is someone else the pedo?

xe's an angry SWJ and Disney Obsessive who always posts in threads like this to tell me that Disney is making lots and lots of money, that's why they're firing all their c-suit staff, because when your team is successful, you fire them.

xe won't appear in this one because it's too embarassing for xim.

Posted by: ace at June 23, 2023 03:58 PM (KRtlO)

111 some kind of reading material called "SRAs." Don't ask me what that stood for

From wiki:

Science Research Associates (SRA) was a Chicago-based publisher of educational materials and schoolroom reading comprehension products. ...

In 1957, it moved into individualized classroom instruction with the iconic SRA Reading Laboratory Kit, a format that they translated to mathematics, science, and social studies commonly called SRA cards. The labs were large boxes filled with color-coded cardboard sheets, and each sheet included a reading exercise for students. Each student would work on it independently of the other students in the class, consulting with the teacher only if he got stuck. The student would then follow up with multiple choice questions. As the child moved ahead, the cards would advance in difficulty.

Posted by: Chuck C at June 23, 2023 03:58 PM (xttsV)

112 But they're going to have to give up the divisive political grievance-mongering and the alienating cultural specificity that have become the norm with women and minority led films.

Which, unfortunately for them, goes against their ethos of Identity Politics All The Time.
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Yup, which is why it won't happen until there's a near-death experience for the corporations they're running. Activist investor takeovers, massive losses (I mean existential-scale losses), etc. It will take a while, but I think the tide has started to turn.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 23, 2023 03:58 PM (t0OGg)

113 PWB is another woman who like Ethan Van Sciver said about Brie Larson " When I see her I feel like I owe her alimony"

Posted by: steevy at June 23, 2023 03:58 PM (yezA1)

114 ""I'm here as a mother of two queer children, actually," Burke said on the call. "One transgender child and one pansexual child"

============

No, actually, you are here as a mentally ill twat.

Posted by: Jay in PA at June 23, 2023 03:58 PM (i7Q7S)

115 How about horse faces?
Posted by: Pudinhead at June 23, 2023 03:57 PM (HTCOy)

Neigh !

Posted by: Sera Jurassic Parker at June 23, 2023 03:58 PM (NtVYv)

116 What is pan sexual?
Posted by: JackStraw at June 23, 2023 03:54 PM (ZLI7S)

It is an orgiesque celebration of the Greek or Roman god Pan.

Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd at June 23, 2023 03:58 PM (VdGjU)

117 What is pan sexual?

Someone who was hit in the nuts with a cast iron skillet.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 23, 2023 03:58 PM (GIBR7)

118 It's been said that humans tend to fall into two general physiognomic groups: "pig-faces" and "fox-faces."
--------------
How about horse faces?
Posted by: Pudinhead at June 23, 2023

***
I guess you're right.

Posted by: Sarah Jessica Parker at June 23, 2023 03:58 PM (J2vNu)

119 Phoebe Waller-Bridge is a Waffle House 4.

And that's being kind.
Posted by: polynikes at June 23, 2023 03:57 PM (W3A8K)

I'd hit it.

Posted by: Tiger Woods at June 23, 2023 03:59 PM (Zz0t1)

120
Kathleen Kennedy = A real-life Pepper Potts without the talent, competence and personality.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 23, 2023 03:59 PM (n+4am)

121 > What is pan sexual?

Well, a long time ago they used to call weirdos who were attracted to both sexes "bisexual." But now that there are 97 different sexes, you have to have a name for the weirdos who are attracted to ALL of the sexes. Those are the pan sexuals.

Posted by: bonhomme at June 23, 2023 03:59 PM (R38qh)

122 In case you missed it. Russia could be on the verge of a civil war.

*Wagner Chief accused Moscow of lying to get into war.

* Russian launches a missile strike on Wanger group.

* Wagner Chief vows revenge.

Wow.
Posted by: WisRich at June 23, 2023 03:57 PM (G0vdT)

*Puts on sunglasses all cool as a cucumber*

Posted by: Vlad Zelenskyyyyyyyyyyyy at June 23, 2023 03:59 PM (Z2yLo)

123 Whoa! Plot twist! You're saying that in a Kathleen Kennedy fanfic movie the girl is all-powerful, unstoppable, and, indeed, the Key to Everything?! I did not see that coming!
________

Star Wars: The Ovarian Supremacy.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at June 23, 2023 03:59 PM (lf83v)

124 Man this was a long essay.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 23, 2023 03:59 PM (t0OGg)

125 Kathleen Kennedy. Looked her up. Ugly. You're right about the hatchet face but why British accent since she was born in Berkley, CA ?

Posted by: Ciampino - Well that nose can split logs at June 23, 2023 03:59 PM (qfLjt)

126 Without 50 year old white guys you wind up in a debris field.

Posted by: As any school child can tell you at June 23, 2023 03:59 PM (DhOHl)

127 What is pan sexual?
Posted by: JackStraw

A horned goated man who plays a flute and who will fvck anything.

Posted by: Jimmy Comets at June 23, 2023 03:59 PM (xOL0y)

128
xe's an angry SWJ and Disney Obsessive who always posts in threads like this to tell me that Disney is making lots and lots of money, that's why they're firing all their c-suit staff, because when your team is successful, you fire them.

xe won't appear in this one because it's too embarassing for xim.
Posted by: ace at June 23, 2023 03:58 PM (KRtlO)

Paul?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 23, 2023 03:59 PM (Zz0t1)

129 The leaks Doomcock got before the film's release -- which are 90% accurate -- said that the movie was a time-travel movie in which Indiana Jones is shot and killed in the past, thus, somehow, erasing him from history, and Phoebe Waller-Bridge takes hi hat and whip and in a quick montage, she is shown performing all the heroics Indiana Jones did in the first three (real) Indiana Jones movies.

--

Here's the thing, though.

Indy fist-fights people. And he's a pretty regular guy, nothing special, and he can still mostly hold his own.

That can't possibly happen with a woman in the lead role. Even a professional MMA or whatever lady would get her but kicked by the vast majority of nobody guys down at the local pool hall.

Here's an idea: Make a female character that people can enjoy watching on her own merits. Give her flaws. Make her screw up and have to learn things on the journey to do something meaningful.

Posted by: The recovered remains of Hitler's cocaine filled flying submarine at June 23, 2023 04:00 PM (sSzZe)

130 BTW, the movies already have a Helena Shaw. She's named Lara Croft, and her movies have lots of action (and tits), without the finger-wagging lectures. And I think Lara could beat the crap out of Helena without breaking out in a sweat.

Posted by: Nemo at June 23, 2023 04:00 PM (S6ArX)

131 Kathleen Kennedy. Looked her up. Ugly. You're right about the hatchet face but why British accent since she was born in Berkley, CA ?
Posted by: Ciampino - Well that nose can split logs at June 23, 2023 03:59 PM (qfLjt)

Hey, fuck you too, pal.

Posted by: Madonna at June 23, 2023 04:00 PM (Zz0t1)

132
Ya Boi Zach noticed in comics that all women had been mandated to have curveless, A-cup figures. All of them. He called this "the approved body type."
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Could also call it the "prepubescent body type"

Posted by: ... at June 23, 2023 04:00 PM (tOuMZ)

133 Faster Mickeymouse! Kill! Kill!

Posted by: ShainS -- Oppression Scientist and Your AI Interpreter at June 23, 2023 04:00 PM (tUYq1)

134 I believe the temple of Pan in Israel was also known as the Gates of Hell.

Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd at June 23, 2023 04:00 PM (VdGjU)

135 Chatting with a friend jsut now about the wokification of Disney.
He said he was happy that "they" hadn't fucked up Superman and Louis yet.

Of course, that was a typo.

I told him not to give them any ideas.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at June 23, 2023 04:00 PM (ufFY8)

136 Wagner? I just met her.

Posted by: Rimshot at June 23, 2023 04:00 PM (DhOHl)

137 Totally unrelated, I went out the other night and some woman with tattoos, a weird outfit and a way over inflated sense of self thought she would attack the security guy. I'm guessing he was about maybe six foot, 225 ish. She was not a match, only in her mind. After swatting the guy a few times he pushed her away more like an annoying fly, until she hit him in the face. Welp, one shot to the jaw and she crumbled like a Kathleen Kennedy movie on opening night. It was both sad, revealing and riveting.

Posted by: Marcus T at June 23, 2023 04:00 PM (63An5)

138 PWB is another woman who like Ethan Van Sciver said about Brie Larson " When I see her I feel like I owe her alimony"
Posted by: steevy at June 23, 2023

***
More accurately, you should feel like "The court ordered me to pay her alimony"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 23, 2023 04:00 PM (J2vNu)

139 Can't say ever seen Phoebe in any movie, guess she doesn't do war or Westerns

Posted by: Skip at June 23, 2023 04:00 PM (xhxe8)

140 >>>65 Also ace they announce that the male successor ( Spike, introduced in Chrystal Skull, died in Vietnam)

they probably did that in reshoots, to explain why Marion had left him, to make it feel like a "happy ending" when she returns in the reshot ending.

I don't think Mutt (that's his name, not Spike) is much of a loss. Maybe if they recast him.

Posted by: ace at June 23, 2023 04:01 PM (KRtlO)

141 *Wagner Chief accused Moscow of lying to get into war.

* Russian launches a missile strike on Wanger group.

* Wagner Chief vows revenge.

Wow.
Posted by: WisRich at June 23, 2023 03:57 PM (G0vdT)

Who is Wagner Chief? Sounds like a guy who would send a styrofoam sub to the ocean floor.

Or maybe a fat ugly white rap singer.

Posted by: BurtTC at June 23, 2023 04:01 PM (dGCAG)

142 > Human Hormone Blocker

LOL!

Whenever I see her (she is a biological woman, right? Not entirely sure there) I start hearing the old Muddy Waters song "Mannish Boy" in my head.

Still an excellent tune, by the way:

https://is.gd/CIXYLE

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 23, 2023 04:01 PM (Y6AXb)

143 "I'm here as a mother of two queer children, actually," Burke said on the call. "One transgender child and one pansexual child"

--

And one vegan cat!

Posted by: The recovered remains of Hitler's cocaine filled flying submarine at June 23, 2023 04:01 PM (sSzZe)

144 130 PWB is going to work on that too, Amazon hired her for a Tombraider series...

Posted by: steevy at June 23, 2023 04:01 PM (yezA1)

145 In case you missed it. Russia could be on the verge of a civil war.

*Wagner Chief accused Moscow of lying to get into war.

* Russian launches a missile strike on Wanger group.

* Wagner Chief vows revenge.

Wow.
Posted by: WisRich at June 23, 2023 03:57 PM (G0vdT)

I might be jaded, but the first thought that came to mind was how much of that $6,200,000,000.00 Pentagon "accounting error" went to buy the Wagner Gang.

Posted by: mrp at June 23, 2023 04:01 PM (rj6Yv)

146 Kathleen Kennedy is going to fight the patriarchy down to Disney's last dollar.

I encourage this.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 23, 2023 04:01 PM (fs1hN)

147 Wondering why they aren't making a billion dollars?
I don't think they give a shit. These corporations make so much money elsewhere I don't think they care. We can boycott to our hearts content.......doesnt matter. Probably because they know the economic future of this country and we're not included in it.

Posted by: JROD at June 23, 2023 04:02 PM (IlL6s)

148 Am I the only guy that liked Peppermint? Do I need to turn in one of my man cards?

Posted by: polynikes at June 23, 2023 04:02 PM (W3A8K)

149 140 Right Mutt, I must admit to never seeing Chrystal Skull

Posted by: steevy at June 23, 2023 04:02 PM (yezA1)

150 >>>0 BTW, the movies already have a Helena Shaw. She's named Lara Croft, and her movies have lots of action (and tits), without the finger-wagging lectures. And I think Lara could beat the crap out of Helena without breaking out in a sweat.

well you're going to love who they cast for the Laura Croft reboot!!!

Take a guess!

https://www.ign.com/articles/tomb-raider-
phoebe-waller-bridge-
confirms-shes-working-on-amazon-series

Posted by: ace at June 23, 2023 04:02 PM (KRtlO)

151 Feels like the damn is breaking.

@kenvogel

Within 10 days of Hunter Biden's WhatsApp message to the Chinese official associated with CEFC, a CEFC subsidiary sent 2 payments totaling $5.1M to accounts linked to Hunter, according to records cited in the Senate GOP investigation.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 23, 2023 04:02 PM (ZLI7S)

152 ah, okay, mr. ace. thank you for getting back in the game.

Posted by: bed head at June 23, 2023 04:02 PM (Y1sOo)

153 >>>65 Also ace they announce that the male successor ( Spike, introduced in Chrystal Skull, died in Vietnam)

they probably did that in reshoots, to explain why Marion had left him, to make it feel like a "happy ending" when she returns in the reshot ending.

I don't think Mutt (that's his name, not Spike) is much of a loss. Maybe if they recast him.

Posted by: ace at June 23, 2023 04:01 PM (KRtlO)

Marion will free her son from the NVA prison camp.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at June 23, 2023 04:02 PM (i5lJm)

154 Valkyrie Wagner.
-Zombie U-Boat Chief

Posted by: Eromero at June 23, 2023 04:02 PM (z3WCn)

155 was she cast or is she just the writer?

Either way, Tomb Raider will be a disaster.

Posted by: ace at June 23, 2023 04:03 PM (KRtlO)

156 95 >>>Ace is in a good mood today, giving PWB the honors of “average sex appeal”.

she's not ugly or anything.

Ya Boi Zach noticed in comics that all women had been mandated to have curveless, A-cup figures. All of them. He called this "the approved body type."

This seems to be the only kind of woman that the woke feminists running Hollywood will allow in movies.

I don't think PWB is unattractive, but she's in line with the very blah, not-super-attractive line of actresses that Kathleen Kennedy approves of. There are no hotties allowed in LucasFilm movies.

At best, they're Arthur Treacher's Fish and Chips 6s.

Posted by: ace at June 23, 2023 03:56 PM (KRtlO)
__________

This has long been the casting MO for lower-budget rom-coms. The lead woman has to be reasonably attractive to make the movie work, but not so attractive that the target audience of women can't identify with her or use her as a vessel for wish fulfilment.

Posted by: Elric Blade at June 23, 2023 04:03 PM (iFTx/)

157 *getting ME back in the game

Posted by: bed head at June 23, 2023 04:03 PM (Y1sOo)

158 I'm glad Iger is back at the helm and I hope he stays there.

Disney is no longer "The House That Walt Built." It is now - and has been for a while - "The House That Bob Built."

This is his company, and it was his decisions that led it to where it is and made it do what it does. It is only fitting that he should oversee its failures and, hopefully, eventual collapse.

We won't get that lucky, though. He'll bow out to run for president and rescue the Democrat party after cutting a massive support deal with Big Tech (probably selling off rights or contracts to Apple).

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 23, 2023 04:03 PM (t0OGg)

159 How are Disney's parks doing? They've mastered the art of vacuuming every dollar from the patrons' wallets.

Posted by: mr tmz at June 23, 2023 03:53 PM (rJ48h)
===

In Kalifornia and Florida they have halved the price for going in. Much bigger cuts internationally, so I'd say not so good.... and the parks were the last division making any money.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at June 23, 2023 04:03 PM (17s+e)

160 And then they'll just stop going to see would-be "blockbusters" starring Hispanics. And then, the financing for Hispanic-led blockbusters will dry up.

Is Sonia Braga hispanic or Brazilian?

Posted by: Kindltot at June 23, 2023 04:03 PM (xhaym)

161 I had this theory about whats going on at Disney.

This entire misadventure is happening in order to disgust North Korea's Kim Jong Un so he will stop stealing Disney intellectual property.

Posted by: SMOD at June 23, 2023 04:03 PM (RHGPo)

162 PWB is another woman who like Ethan Van Sciver said about Brie Larson " When I see her I feel like I owe her alimony"
Posted by: steevy at June 23, 2023

***
More accurately, you should feel like "The court ordered me to pay her alimony"
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 23, 2023 04:00 PM (J2vNu)

Which really just means, my gut was telling me I should run the other way, but... eh, other parts, kept me there. Until it was too late.

Not like some of us don't know what that's like. And will probably do it again, if given the chance.

Posted by: BurtTC at June 23, 2023 04:04 PM (dGCAG)

163 What is pan sexual?
Posted by: JackStraw
.......

I think it's coitus when you're makin' bacon.

Posted by: wth at June 23, 2023 04:04 PM (v0R5T)

164 What is pan sexual?

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Somebody you gotta watch in the kitchen.

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

165 Attorney General Merrick Garland played the victim today after two IRS whistleblowers claimed the DOJ interfered with the investigation regarding Hunter Biden’s $2.2 million tax debt.

Smug asshole.

Posted by: SMOD at June 23, 2023 04:04 PM (RHGPo)

166 This woman (Sally hawkins) would be too old to play Indiana's grandaughter (born 1976) but she is an excellent actress (Saw her in a movie about the search for Richard III's final resting place. She usually plays rather average looking people, but here she looks kind of cute:

https://tinyurl.com/3jedyusp

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 23, 2023 04:04 PM (Keyt1)

167
well you're going to love who they cast for the Laura Croft reboot!!!

Take a guess!

--

o_O

That's insane.

Posted by: The recovered remains of Hitler's cocaine filled flying submarine at June 23, 2023 04:04 PM (sSzZe)

168 So yeah, I think KK is still scheming to get her final Replacement of a Beloved Male Character With a Brunette of Very Average Sex Appeal.
____________

I'd never heard of Phoebe Waller-Bridge, my distancing from pop culture being practically perfect, but on looking her up ... I was underwhelmed. She's at best of average looks; half of the checkout girls at Walmart look better than she does. How in the hell has she become featured in movies?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 23, 2023 04:04 PM (YqDXo)

169 I saw Dog Day Afternoon for the first time last night.

Could you imagine that being made today?

Would be him telling the tellers his motivation within the first minute and then two hours of the townspeople and banks giving him their money so he can pay for his lover's operation, with a bit left over to donate to the DNC.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at June 23, 2023 04:04 PM (KbCG3)

170 well you're going to love who they cast for the Laura Croft reboot!!!

Take a guess!

https://www.ign.com/articles/tomb-raider-
phoebe-waller-bridge-
confirms-shes-working-on-amazon-series
Posted by: ace at June 23, 2023 04:02 PM (KRtlO)
++++
Yup, Baffling, this obsession with this woman.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 23, 2023 04:04 PM (t0OGg)

171 *Wagner Chief accused Moscow of lying to get into war.

* Russian launches a missile strike on Wanger group.

* Wagner Chief vows revenge.

I think that Prigozhin's star is rapidly fading. He is claiming that the Ukrainians are blitzing through Zaporizhzhia (really), since he can't stand the idea that the Russian military is capable of fighting successfully without Wagner's help.

All the Wagner people are required to sign contracts with the Russian military by July 1st - Prigozhin is raging about that, but I don't think he can do much about it.

Posted by: Irrelvant And Obsessive! at June 23, 2023 04:04 PM (2tUFv)

172 I don't think PWB is unattractive...

Well she is not Bea Arthur

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at June 23, 2023 04:05 PM (17s+e)

173 Okay, we'll take the Fire creatures and the Airs but no Wetbacks!

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at June 23, 2023 04:05 PM (Vwz3I)

174 Who is Wagner Chief? Sounds like a guy who would send a styrofoam sub to the ocean floor.

Or maybe a fat ugly white rap singer.
Posted by: BurtTC at June 23, 2023 04:01 PM (dGCAG)

Yevgeny Prigozhin, mercenary. He's been "speaking truth to power" so to speak, about what a f*uckup the Ukraine war is and how Russia is getting its ass kicked.

Posted by: WisRich at June 23, 2023 04:05 PM (G0vdT)

175 "I'm here as a mother of two queer children, actually," Burke said on the call. "One transgender child and one pansexual child"

--
And one vegan cat!
Posted by: The recovered remains of Hitler's cocaine filled flying submarine at June 23, 2023

***
Not for long on the cat. And odds are the other two aren't going to be around her for too many years either.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 23, 2023 04:05 PM (J2vNu)

176 Steve Guest notices a change in Biden's messaging RE his crackhead son's business.

Biden used to claim, "I have never spoken to my son about his overseas business dealings."

Today, KJP angrily asserted, "The President was not in business with his son."

That's a significantly different claim. It's obviously still a lie, but the change is noteworthy.

https://tinyurl.com/yft8nc32

Posted by: bonhomme at June 23, 2023 04:05 PM (R38qh)

177 151 Feels like the damn is breaking.

@kenvogel

Within 10 days of Hunter Biden's WhatsApp message to the Chinese official associated with CEFC, a CEFC subsidiary sent 2 payments totaling $5.1M to accounts linked to Hunter, according to records cited in the Senate GOP investigation.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 23, 2023 04:02 PM (ZLI7S)

And the walls and wheels?

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at June 23, 2023 04:05 PM (KbCG3)

178 I liked Atomic Blonde. I think they knew it was essentually a cartoon. Not amazing but great action set pieces and It didn't punch above it's weight.

And it was fun. I miss fun in movies.

The woke scolds think fun is reserved for elite sex clubs and everyone else must constantly be "educated".

Posted by: ... at June 23, 2023 04:05 PM (tOuMZ)

179 Hey, maybe Disney can put in a bid for CNN.

Posted by: mrp at June 23, 2023 04:05 PM (rj6Yv)

180 GARLAND: “I certainly understand that some have chosen to attack the integrity of the Justice Department, its components and its employees by claiming that we do not treat like cases alike. This constitutes an attack on an institution that is essential to American democracy and essential to the safety of the American people. Nothing could be further from the truth. You’ve all heard me say many times that we make our cases based on the facts and the law. These are not just words, these are what we live by. They’re the foundation of the way we make these decisions. The agents of the FBI as well as the DEA, the ATF, our deputy U.S. Marshals every day, often at great personal risk, protect the American people and secure its safety. Our cases are based on their work. I could not be more proud to work with them.”

Posted by: SMOD at June 23, 2023 04:05 PM (RHGPo)

181 Chatting with a friend jsut now about the wokification of Disney.
He said he was happy that "they" hadn't fucked up Superman and Louis yet.

IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE
A. THE FRIEND WROTE LOUIS INSTEAD OF LOIS
B. SUPERMAN IS A DC PROPERTY, NOT DISNEY

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at June 23, 2023 04:05 PM (xttsV)

182 One reason these movies are so very expensive to make is the various bosses get to hire their friends, family, pad the payrolls, put in overtime (up to 250%), per diem, catering, insurance, etc.
And everything is unionized, right down to the janitorial staff.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at June 23, 2023 04:06 PM (MeG8a)

183 Attorney General Merrick Garland played the victim today after two IRS whistleblowers claimed the DOJ interfered with the investigation regarding Hunter Biden’s $2.2 million tax debt.

Smug asshole.
Posted by: SMOD at June 23, 2023 04:04 PM (RHGPo)
_____________

Boy, did we ever dodge a bullet when McConnell or Graham kept this a-hole off the Supreme Court. A "moderate," my ass.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 23, 2023 04:06 PM (YqDXo)

184 I'm losing track. Is this sternly worded letter day or is it remote cable show appearances talking about the upcoming sternly worded letters day?

Posted by: micky at June 23, 2023 04:06 PM (3byMq)

185 Ace must be getting paid by the word.

Posted by: wth at June 23, 2023 04:06 PM (v0R5T)

186 > BTW, the movies already have a Helena Shaw. She's named Lara Croft

Lara Croft is a 1. Helena isn't.

When they made the Tomb Raider movie back in the late 90s, they got Rhona Mitra to play Lara. She was SMOKIN' hot at the time. Haven't seen her lately.

Just checked: still a 1.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 23, 2023 04:06 PM (Y6AXb)

187 or use her as a vessel for wish fulfilment.
Posted by: Elric Blade at June 23, 2023 04:03 PM (iFTx/)

I did that !

Posted by: Horvey Weinerstein at June 23, 2023 04:06 PM (NtVYv)

188 "I'm here as a mother of two queer children, actually," Burke said on the call. "One transgender child and one pansexual child, and also as a leader."
___

Your child has sexual attractions and is also a 'leader'? I wonder how old that child is, maybe someone should call social services to check?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 23, 2023 04:06 PM (fs1hN)

189
It occurs to me that KK might just be deliberately tanking LucasFilm because she's pissed off about spending years on her knees in Spielberg's office, slobbing his knob, and he never even entertained the thought of leaving his wife for her.

Although, I'm not sure how being pissed at Spielberg translates into destroying George Lucas' IP. Maybe she needs a good Midol prescription.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 23, 2023 04:06 PM (n+4am)

190 No Mister Bond, I expect you to D.I.E
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 23, 2023 03:56 PM (ncXxy)

Driving through your neck of the woods in a bit. As earlier mentioned to rickb, I'll honk.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 23, 2023 03:57 PM

Be careful, we just got put under a severe thunderstorm watch and I hear some serious thunder north of me up towards Oklahoma heading our way.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 23, 2023 04:06 PM (ncXxy)

191 How in the hell has she become featured in movies?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 23, 2023 04:04 PM (YqDXo)

Same way the movies get made in the first place. She fits the agenda.

Posted by: ... at June 23, 2023 04:07 PM (tOuMZ)

192 War Monitor @WarMonitors
⚡️ Shoigu specially arrived in Rostov to carry out an operation to destroy the Wagner PMC — Prigozhin

⚡️ The Russian national guard are on high alert according to Russian and Ukrainian sources

⚡️ #BREAKING This is not a military coup, this is a march of justice — Prigozhin

⚡️ #BREAKING Peskov: Putin has been informed about the situation around Prigozhin, all necessary measures are being taken

War Monitor @WarMonitors
⚡️ Russian National Anti-Terrorism Committee:

"In connection with these statements (Prigozhin), the FSB of Russia initiated a criminal case on the fact of calling for an armed rebellion. We demand that illegal actions be stopped immediately."

⚡️ Prigozhin: Defence Minister ordered 2,000 Wagner bodies to be hidden at morgue

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at June 23, 2023 04:07 PM (Vwz3I)

193 Attorney General Merrick Garland played the victim today after two IRS whistleblowers claimed the DOJ interfered with the investigation regarding Hunter Biden’s $2.2 million tax debt.

--

BTW, the "ongoing investigation" scheme is apparently the coordinated (and clever) move by the government/ FBI / IRS / Secret Service etc. to be able to get people to shut up.

The sex cult club guy that kicked Hunter out? Apparently a week or two later he got visited by the IRS to look into his finances. How convenient. And he was informed that he couldn't discuss anything about Hunter or the Bidens because "there's an ongoing investigation."

Sound familiar? Very clever, isn't it?

Posted by: The recovered remains of Hitler's cocaine filled flying submarine at June 23, 2023 04:07 PM (sSzZe)

194 Actually I think the Roman god was Pan. The Greek God was Dionysius.

Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd at June 23, 2023 04:07 PM (VdGjU)

195 Parks are suffering.
Disney has packages for locals at $58/day.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at June 23, 2023 04:07 PM (ufFY8)

196 I watch Angelina Jolie in Tomb Raider or Mr and Mrs Smith and weep.

Posted by: Marcus T at June 23, 2023 04:07 PM (63An5)

197 What is pan sexual?
Posted by: JackStraw at June 23, 2023 03:54 PM (ZLI7S)

I don’t know Jack, but I think they are highly revered.

Posted by: RI Red at June 23, 2023 04:07 PM (gPomr)

198 >>>When they made the Tomb Raider movie back in the late 90s, they got Rhona Mitra to play Lara. She was SMOKIN' hot at the time. Haven't seen her lately.

didn't they get Angelina Jolie?

Posted by: ace at June 23, 2023 04:07 PM (KRtlO)

199 Hey, maybe Disney can put in a bid for CNN.
Posted by: mrp at June 23, 2023 04:05 PM (rj6Yv)
_____________

Start a conglomerate: Disney, CNN, Anheuser-Busch, Target, Kohl's.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 23, 2023 04:07 PM (YqDXo)

200 Russian civil wars never end well.

Posted by: Mark1971 at June 23, 2023 04:07 PM (xPl2J)

201
::What is pan sexual?::

Twenty bucks, same as...

Posted by: Oh, never mind at June 23, 2023 04:07 PM (DhOHl)

202 Not to be confused with Pam sexual, which is erotic non-stick cooking spray.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at June 23, 2023 04:07 PM (lf83v)

203 Ace,

Have you seen Extraction? Extraction and its sequel, creatively titled: Extraction 2, are worth the time.

I really enjoyed the second one a lot. They have of course non-white people in most of the roles, but the lead is some Australian guy no one's ever heard of, and it's great!

Terrific action, gun fighting on the new, modern level.

Posted by: .87c at June 23, 2023 04:07 PM (iuMoO)

204 Yevgeny Prigozhin, mercenary. He's been "speaking truth to power" so to speak, about what a f*uckup the Ukraine war is and how Russia is getting its ass kicked.
Posted by: WisRich at June 23, 2023 04:05 PM (G0vdT)

So basically he's a Russian Alexander Vindman.

Got it.

Posted by: BurtTC at June 23, 2023 04:07 PM (dGCAG)

205 ⚡️ #BREAKING This is not a military coup, this is a march of justice — Prigozhin

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Color revolution?

Posted by: The recovered remains of Hitler's cocaine filled flying submarine at June 23, 2023 04:07 PM (sSzZe)

206 >Whenever I see her (she is a biological woman, right? Not entirely sure there) I start hearing the old Muddy Waters song "Mannish Boy" in my head.

Still an excellent tune, by the way:

https://is.gd/CIXYLE

Johnny Winter produced that great album. Revitalized Muddy Waters' career.

Posted by: mr tmz at June 23, 2023 04:08 PM (rJ48h)

207 >>And the walls and wheels?

Closing and rolling.

Ken Vogel is a reporter for the New York Times. When the NYT is starting to report on the Biden crime family things have taken a turn.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 23, 2023 04:08 PM (ZLI7S)

208 "I'm confuzzulated!"

I'm going to work that one into my vocabulary.

Posted by: Bea Arthur's Dick at June 23, 2023 04:08 PM (Qt4kF)

209 "I'm here as a mother of two queer children, actually," Burke said on the call. "One transgender child and one pansexual child"

--
And one vegan cat!
Posted by: The recovered remains of Hitler's cocaine filled flying submarine at June 23, 2023
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The Twelve Days of Pridemonth just get better and better.

Posted by: Axeman at June 23, 2023 04:08 PM (krQz2)

210 Wagner? I just met her.
Posted by: Rimshot
--------------
If she says she wants to get you hammered, leave the bar immediately!

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at June 23, 2023 04:08 PM (Vwz3I)

211 When they made the Tomb Raider movie back in the late 90s, they got Rhona Mitra to play Lara. She was SMOKIN' hot at the time. Haven't seen her lately.

Just checked: still a 1.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 23, 2023 04:06 PM (Y6AXb)

She def had a look I'd like to know better. lalala

Posted by: Horvey Weinerstein at June 23, 2023 04:08 PM (NtVYv)

212 Is it time to short Disney stock?
From the info above, the stock should go lower in the near future, right?

Posted by: Ligma Balzak from Fuggencrass, Vulgaria at June 23, 2023 04:08 PM (JNTt1)

213 This woman (Sally hawkins) would be too old to play Indiana's grandaughter (born 1976) but she is an excellent actress (Saw her in a movie about the search for Richard III's final resting place. She usually plays rather average looking people, but here she looks kind of cute:

https://tinyurl.com/3jedyusp
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 23, 2023

***
Wasn't she the lead in the Shape of Water movie?

Got a kind of a Carly Simon vibe going there.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 23, 2023 04:08 PM (J2vNu)

214 Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper
BREAKING 🚨 Wagner chief accuses Russia military leadership of bombing its forces

UPDATE - Wagner chief vows to 'stop' Russian military leadership

UPDATE - Wagner chief accuses Russian defence minister of ordering strikes

UPDATE - Russian defence ministry denies strikes on Wagner forces

BREAKING 🚨 Wagner chief says "there are 25,000 of us', urges Russians to join after alleged strikes on its forces

JUST IN - Wagner head says carrying out march for 'justice,' 'not a coup' after it accuses Russian defense ministry of bombing on its forces

War Monitor @WarMonitors
⚡️#UPDATE Russian Ministry of Defense: All messages and video footage spread on social networks on behalf of Yevgeny Prigozhin about the alleged “strike by the Russian Defense Ministry on the rear camps of Wagner PMCs” do not correspond to reality and are an informational provocation.
https://tinyurl.com/s5hxwbe2
video/audio

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at June 23, 2023 04:08 PM (Vwz3I)

215 Phoebe Waller-Bridge has a face for radio.

Posted by: Jay in PA at June 23, 2023 04:08 PM (i7Q7S)

216 "PMC Wagner Commanders’ Council made a decision: the evil brought by the military leadership of the country must be stopped.

They neglect the lives of soldiers. They forgot the word “justice”, and we will bring it back.

Those, who destroyed today our guys, who destroyed tens, tens of thousands of lives of Russian soldiers will be punished.

I’m asking: no one resist. Everyone who will try to resist, we will consider them a danger and destroy them immediately, including any checkpoints on our way. And any aviation that we see above our heads.

I’m asking everyone to remain calm, do not succumb to provocations, and remain in their houses. Ideally, those along our way, do not go outside.

After we finished what we started, we will return to the frontline to protect our motherland.

Presidential authority, Government, Ministry of Internal Affairs, Rosgvardia, and other departments will continue operating as before.

We will deal with those who destroy Russian soldiers. And we will return to the frontline.

Justice in the Army will be restored. And after this, justice for the whole of Russia."

Posted by: Yevgeny Prigozhin! at June 23, 2023 04:09 PM (2tUFv)

217 Read Garlands's words coming from the insulting maw of Jim Comedy or Hillary Clintoon.

Easy, right?

Almost like it's all just scripted theater.

Posted by: ... at June 23, 2023 04:09 PM (tOuMZ)

218 I don't think PWB is unattractive

*does image search*

*yikes!*

I think I have a LensCrafters coupon around here somewhere for you, Ace.

Posted by: spindrift at June 23, 2023 04:09 PM (ivvNA)

219 It's entirely possible for the strong independent woman to take over the role of Indiana Jones, but then they would have to call it Tomb Raider, and it still wouldn't make money.

Posted by: DFCtomm at June 23, 2023 04:09 PM (NTi06)

220 Actually I think the Roman god was Pan. The Greek God was Dionysius.
Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd at June 23, 2023 04:07 PM (VdGjU)
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I think the Roman Dionysius was Bacchus.

Posted by: Axeman at June 23, 2023 04:09 PM (krQz2)

221 How in the hell has she become featured in movies?

-

Same way the movies get made in the first place. She fits the agenda.

---

Rich kid with connections.

Posted by: The recovered remains of Hitler's cocaine filled flying submarine at June 23, 2023 04:10 PM (sSzZe)

222 Is it time to short Disney stock?
From the info above, the stock should go lower in the near future, right?

Posted by: Ligma Balzak from Fuggencrass, Vulgaria at June 23, 2023 04:08 PM (JNTt1)

Ask Pelosi

Posted by: ... at June 23, 2023 04:10 PM (tOuMZ)

223 Phoebe Waller-Bridge has a face for radio.

Posted by: Jay in PA at June 23, 2023 04:08 PM (i7Q7S)

and a voice for print

Posted by: Mark1971 at June 23, 2023 04:10 PM (xPl2J)

224 > Who is Wagner Chief?

The top-end model in the Wagner line of spray paint guns?

Robert Wagner's half Native American brother?

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 23, 2023 04:10 PM (Y6AXb)

225 When they made the Tomb Raider movie back in the late 90s, they got Rhona Mitra to play Lara. She was SMOKIN' hot at the time. Haven't seen her lately.

Just checked: still a 1.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 23, 2023 04:06 PM (Y6AXb)

They used her in an Underworld movie.

At the time - Mitra > Beckinsale

Posted by: polynikes at June 23, 2023 04:10 PM (W3A8K)

226 Today, KJP angrily asserted, "The President was not in business with his son."
_____________

Every time I see her she reminds me that we need a new toilet brush.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 23, 2023 04:10 PM (YqDXo)

227 Justice in the Army will be restored. And after this, justice for the whole of Russia."
Posted by: Yevgeny Prigozhin! at June 23, 2023 04:09 PM (2tUFv)

Oh, they ran out of fuel. Pity.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at June 23, 2023 04:10 PM (i5lJm)

228

*Well she is not Bea Arthur*

Betty White has entered the chat.

Posted by: Muffins? at June 23, 2023 04:10 PM (DhOHl)

229 I think the Roman Dionysius was Bacchus.
_______

And Bacchus was Mr. Howell.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at June 23, 2023 04:10 PM (lf83v)

230 What is pan sexual?
......

It's Barry and Mooch makeup sex after she hits him over the head with the skillet.

Posted by: wth at June 23, 2023 04:11 PM (v0R5T)

231 Color revolution?
Posted by: The recovered remains of Hitler's cocaine filled flying submarine at June 23, 2023 04:07 PM (sSzZe)

The color of the "revolution" is Revolting Green.

Posted by: mrp at June 23, 2023 04:11 PM (rj6Yv)

232 Ken Vogel is a reporter for the New York Times. When the NYT is starting to report on the Biden crime family things have taken a turn.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 23, 2023 04:08 PM (ZLI7S)

can't wait for when the levee breaks

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at June 23, 2023 04:11 PM (NtVYv)

233 Today, KJP angrily asserted, "The President was not in business with his son."
_______

Put her under oath and ask her again.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at June 23, 2023 04:11 PM (lf83v)

234 they got Rhona Mitra to play Lara. She was SMOKIN' hot at the time.

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Yeah, she's been in my top 5 ever since Sweet Home Alabama IIRC

Posted by: The recovered remains of Hitler's cocaine filled flying submarine at June 23, 2023 04:11 PM (sSzZe)

235 Posted by: JackStraw at June 23, 2023 04:08 PM (ZLI7S)

How far away are we from the election?

This is the same gambit as always.

Soon it will all be old news and fully investigated and cooperated with.

Posted by: ... at June 23, 2023 04:11 PM (tOuMZ)

236 Color revolution?
Posted by: The recovered remains of Hitler's cocaine filled flying submarine at June 23, 2023 04:07 PM (sSzZe)
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So racist.

Posted by: Axeman at June 23, 2023 04:11 PM (krQz2)

237 Actually I think the Roman god was Pan. The Greek God was Dionysius.
Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd at June 23, 2023

***
No, Dionysus and Bacchus are usually equated. Pan was another category altogether -- not a major Olympian god, but a deity of the forests.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 23, 2023 04:11 PM (J2vNu)

238 "I'm here as a mother of two queer children, actually," Burke said on the call. "One transgender child and one pansexual child"
______________

Boy, did she trump all the others in the Pervert Super Bowl.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 23, 2023 04:12 PM (YqDXo)

239 >>>Have you seen Extraction? Extraction and its sequel, creatively titled: Extraction 2, are worth the time.

I have not, but I've been hearing good things.

Posted by: ace at June 23, 2023 04:12 PM (KRtlO)

240 GARLAND: “I certainly understand that some have chosen to attack the integrity of the Justice Department, its components and its employees by claiming that we do not treat like cases alike. This constitutes an attack on an institution that is essential to American democracy and essential to the safety of the American people. Nothing could be further from the truth. You’ve all heard me say many times that we make our cases based on the facts and the law. These are not just words, these are what we live by. They’re the foundation of the way we make these decisions. The agents of the FBI as well as the DEA, the ATF, our deputy U.S. Marshals every day, often at great personal risk, protect the American people and secure its safety. Our cases are based on their work. I could not be more proud to work with them.”
Posted by: SMOD at June 23, 2023 04:05 PM (RHGPo)
++++
A near-perfect series of lies.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 23, 2023 04:12 PM (t0OGg)

241 "can't wait for when the levee breaks"

When the levee breaks, I'll have no place to stay

Posted by: Robert Plant at June 23, 2023 04:12 PM (lf83v)

242 What is pan sexual?
Posted by: JackStraw at June 23, 2023 03:54 PM (ZLI7S)

I don’t know Jack, but I think they are highly revered.
Posted by: RI Red at June 23, 2023 04:07 PM

In my kitchen, that would be a well seasoned carbon steel pan.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 23, 2023 04:12 PM (Wnv9h)

243 Wagner Chief was a brand of cast iron from the 1930s. Highly prized by cooks everywhere.

Posted by: Martha Stewart at June 23, 2023 04:12 PM (DhOHl)

244 Color revolution?
Posted by: The recovered remains of Hitler's cocaine filled flying submarine at June 23, 2023 04:07 PM (sSzZe)
______________

Please. "Revolution of color."

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 23, 2023 04:12 PM (YqDXo)

245 I thought Phoebe was plain, but then she is British

Posted by: Skip at June 23, 2023 04:13 PM (xhxe8)

246 I have not, but I've been hearing good things.
Posted by: ace at June 23, 2023 04:12 PM (KRtlO)

It's John Wick 2.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at June 23, 2023 04:13 PM (i5lJm)

247 Red, going to a new restaurant here in town tonight. I'll scout it for your next visit.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 23, 2023 04:13 PM (ZLI7S)

248 Dial of Destiny is the Back to the Future of Tomb Raiders.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at June 23, 2023 04:13 PM (79Su5)

249 Every time I see her she reminds me that we need a new toilet brush.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara
........

Pick up one of those car wash sponges while you're at it.

Posted by: wth at June 23, 2023 04:13 PM (v0R5T)

250 Here is Phoebe Walker Kates looking her best on the carpet at an awards show -

https://tinyurl.com/mr88wkht

Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 23, 2023 04:13 PM (fs1hN)

251 GARLAND: “I certainly understand that some have chosen to attack the integrity of the Justice Department, its components and its employees by claiming that we do not treat like cases alike. This constitutes an attack on an institution that is essential to American democracy and essential to the safety of the American people...

--

What was the DOJ quote from a couple of years ago? The DOJ has a long and proud history of being good to the DOJ or something?

Posted by: The recovered remains of Hitler's cocaine filled flying submarine at June 23, 2023 04:13 PM (sSzZe)

252 "well you're going to love who they cast for the Laura Croft reboot!!!"

Will she be wearing falsies? Or are they "reimagining" her for "modern audiences"? Don't tell me, I already know the answer.

Oh, well, there goes another IP down the shitter ...

Posted by: Nemo at June 23, 2023 04:14 PM (S6ArX)

253 I watched both Extraction movies. I liked the first, the second was just too much, and I had no idea what was going on. A lot of shooting, explosions, etc. but I couldn't follow the story of #2.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at June 23, 2023 04:14 PM (MeG8a)

254 >>> Here is Phoebe Walker Kates looking her best on the carpet at an awards show -
https://tinyurl.com/mr88wkht

oof. well, she doesn't always look *that* bad.

Posted by: ace at June 23, 2023 04:14 PM (KRtlO)

255 Attorney General Merrick Garland played the victim today after two IRS whistleblowers claimed the DOJ interfered with the investigation regarding Hunter Biden’s $2.2 million tax debt.

Smug asshole.
Posted by: SMOD at June 23, 2023 04:04 PM (RHGPo)
_____________

Boy, did we ever dodge a bullet when McConnell or Graham kept this a-hole off the Supreme Court. A "moderate," my ass.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 23, 2023 04:06 PM

The turtle would have my vote no matter what if I still lived in Kentucky just for that one single act. We would have been fvcked for a generation if mcconnell had not stopped obama from getting him confirmed as a SCOTUS Judge.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 23, 2023 04:14 PM (ncXxy)

256 "By making their films so determinedly specific to small groups of people, they are alienating and excluding the great majority of the population, who does not share these highly specific experiences."

AKA: Bud Light marketing plan theory

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at June 23, 2023 04:14 PM (JkCto)

257 240 GARLAND: “I certainly understand that some have chosen to attack the integrity of the Justice Department, its components and its employees by claiming that we do not treat like cases alike. This constitutes an attack on an institution that is essential to American democracy and essential to the safety of the American people. Nothing could be further from the truth. You’ve all heard me say many times that we make our cases based on the facts and the law. These are not just words, these are what we live by. They’re the foundation of the way we make these decisions. The agents of the FBI as well as the DEA, the ATF, our deputy U.S. Marshals every day, often at great personal risk, protect the American people and secure its safety. Our cases are based on their work. I could not be more proud to work with them.”
Posted by: SMOD at June 23, 2023 04:05 PM (RHGPo)
++++
A near-perfect series of lies.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 23, 2023 04:12 PM (t0OGg)

"This constitutes an attack on an institution that is essential to American democracy and essential to the safety of the American people."

Beyond reproach. Unassailable. Also, fuck you.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at June 23, 2023 04:14 PM (KbCG3)

258 Here is Phoebe Walker Kates looking her best on the carpet at an awards show -

https://tinyurl.com/mr88wkht
Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 23, 2023 04:13 PM (fs1hN)

The beer goggles! They do nothing!

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at June 23, 2023 04:14 PM (i5lJm)

259
When they made the Tomb Raider movie back in the late 90s, they got Rhona Mitra to play Lara. She was SMOKIN' hot at the time. Haven't seen her lately.

didn't they get Angelina Jolie?
Posted by: ace at June 23, 2023 04:07 PM (KRtlO)

Jolie for the films. Rhona was the body model for a bunch of the games.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 23, 2023 04:14 PM (n+4am)

260 > Attorney General Merrick Garland played the victim today after two IRS whistleblowers claimed the DOJ interfered with the investigation regarding Hunter Biden’s $2.2 million tax debt.

It was much worse than that. Garland essentially accused anyone who would claim the DOJ handled Hunter's case differently than anyone else's case of treason.

"Some have chose to attack the integrity of the Justice Department by claiming that we do not treat cases alike. This constitutes an attack on an institution that is essential to American democracy."

https://tinyurl.com/wzwmuupp

Posted by: bonhomme at June 23, 2023 04:14 PM (R38qh)

261 Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper · 11m
BREAKING: Putin is aware of Wagner claims, 'necessary measures' being taken, Kremlin says

Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper · 8m
BREAKING: RUSSIA'S FEDERAL SECURITY SERVICE OPENS CRIMINAL CASE AGAINST WAGNER FOUNDER PRIGOZHIN FOR A CALL FOR ARMED MUTINY - TASS

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at June 23, 2023 04:14 PM (Vwz3I)

262 The recurring theme in all the great movies (Bridge over the River Kwai, Star Wars, etc,) was an older world weary British master actor passing the torch to a reckless but more vibrant American actor. (Sort of how the British Empire passed the torch after WWII) Now, as the genders are being reversed, so the the trans Atlantic power shift. Not only are the new heroes women, but British women. Not sure the source of this, but the end result is that American actresses can only get jobs in pr0n.

Posted by: tommylotto at June 23, 2023 04:15 PM (6QQM8)

263 > didn't they get Angelina Jolie?

Yep, you're right. Mitra was the live-action reference model for the computer games. That's what I was remembering, I guess. There are still promotional pics on the web of Mitra in the Lara Croft getup. Very nice.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 23, 2023 04:15 PM (Y6AXb)

264 Oh, they ran out of fuel. Pity.

Yeah, Wagner doesn't have its own logistics.

Prigozhin has been screaming out being insufficiently supplied by the Russian army for months.

Posted by: Irrelevant and Obsessive! at June 23, 2023 04:15 PM (2tUFv)

265 Here is Phoebe Walker Kates looking her best on the carpet at an awards show -
https://tinyurl.com/mr88wkht

--

Wow.

My open tab went from Rhona Mitra image results to that.

Ugh.

Posted by: The recovered remains of Hitler's cocaine filled flying submarine at June 23, 2023 04:15 PM (sSzZe)

266 Oh, and some Brillo pads.

Posted by: wth at June 23, 2023 04:15 PM (v0R5T)

267
Eh, it's probably more of the usual bullshit, but I hope the Wagner guy is right. He's saying Russia is getting its ass kicked in this counteroffensive, and effectively pushing for mutiny.

If any of that is realistic, maybe this is about to wrap up.

But, again, I'm betting on "moar bullshit." Everything else has turned out to be murky nonsense.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 23, 2023 04:15 PM (oINRc)

268 Gratuitous is the word I was looking for, re Extraction 2.
Wife agreed, and she loves all action movies.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at June 23, 2023 04:15 PM (MeG8a)

269 Garland essentially accused anyone who would claim the DOJ handled Hunter's case differently than anyone else's case of treason.
_________

So, Garland is basically retaliating against whistleblowers.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at June 23, 2023 04:16 PM (lf83v)

270 Yep, you're right. Mitra was the live-action reference model for the computer games.

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(goes to buy Tomb Raider series)

Posted by: The recovered remains of Hitler's cocaine filled flying submarine at June 23, 2023 04:16 PM (sSzZe)

271 Do you see the problem, Juris?

His syphlis has affected his vision. So, no.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at June 23, 2023 04:16 PM (ppBhU)

272 Bea Arthur was cute as a young person, but she was never going to be a Hollywood sex goddess and because Hollywood knew that, she was cast as the wisecracking friend/tough broad and often made to look older than she actually was:

Bea Arthur when young:

https://tinyurl.com/5cthtus4

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 23, 2023 04:16 PM (Keyt1)

273 249 Every time I see her she reminds me that we need a new toilet brush.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara
........

Pick up one of those car wash sponges while you're at it.
Posted by: wth at June 23, 2023 04:13 PM (v0R5T)

The Simpsons has Sideshow Bob. Biden has Shitshow Bob.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at June 23, 2023 04:16 PM (KbCG3)

274 The Phoebe-Waller Bridge is a theoretical physics concept first put forward by Dr. Richard Phoebe and Dr. Klaus Waller, both of Princeton University.

The Phoebe-Waller Bridge is hypothetical construct that would permit the rapid transmission of capital from the owners of the capital into the aether of deep space. If such a device could be constructed, the organizations that employ its use will go bankrupt as their capital is physically siphoned out and deposited into the unknowable voids of space.

As a physics thought experiment, the Phoebe-Waller Bridge fascinated theoretical physicists due to the complexity and strength of the underlying math. In reality, however, it is unlikely to ever be constructed as any organization that attempts it is guaranteed to go bankrupt.

Posted by: Fake Encyclopedia of Physics Terms at June 23, 2023 04:16 PM (t0OGg)

275 >>"Some have chose to attack the integrity of the Justice Department by claiming that we do not treat cases alike. This constitutes an attack on an institution that is essential to American democracy."

Nobody expects the modified Otter defense.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 23, 2023 04:16 PM (ZLI7S)

276 I read Merrick Garland's comment as a warning.

Posted by: JROD at June 23, 2023 04:16 PM (IlL6s)

277 Maybe Phoebe Walker Kates just needs a fourth name.

Posted by: It couldn't hurt at June 23, 2023 04:17 PM (DhOHl)

278 MTG just broke to Kudlow…
She has filed impeachment charges against Wray and Garland.

Posted by: SMOD at June 23, 2023 04:17 PM (RHGPo)

279 "GARLAND: “I certainly understand that some have chosen to attack the integrity of the Justice Department, its components and its employees by claiming that we do not treat like cases alike. This constitutes an attack on an institution that is essential to American democracy and essential to the safety of the American people. Nothing could be further from the truth. You’ve all heard me say many times that we make our cases based on the facts and the law."

========
I bet Andy McCarthy creamed his jeans hearing that...

Posted by: Jay in PA at June 23, 2023 04:17 PM (i7Q7S)

280 Here is Phoebe Walker Kates looking her best on the carpet at an awards show -
........

needs to get that thing on her forehead checked, and an upper lip installed.

Posted by: wth at June 23, 2023 04:18 PM (v0R5T)

281 > Actually I think the Roman god was Pan. The Greek God was Dionysius.

Pan was the Greek god of nature, fertility.
The Roman equivalent is Faunus.

Posted by: bonhomme at June 23, 2023 04:18 PM (R38qh)

282 U.S. domestic affairs...

Fox News @FoxNews
Garland denies interfering with Hunter Biden probe in first comments since whistleblower claims released

Stephen L. Miller @redsteeze
Something that has been proven to be statistically true is an attack on American democracy.

Stephen L. Miller @redsteeze
If Merrick Garland is worried about the appearance of impropriety, perhaps he should not have attended the state Dinner last night with the son of the president he's allegedly investigating.

Greg Price @greg_price11
Garland: "Some have chose to attack the integrity of the Justice Department by claiming that we do not treat cases alike. This constitutes an attack on an institution that is essential to American democracy... Nothing could be further from the truth."

Disclose.tv @disclosetv
NOW - Garland: "Some have chosen to attack the integrity of the Justice Department... This constitutes an attack on an institution that is essential to American democracy."
From Greg Price

MORE - Garland also denied whistleblower allegations that the Justice Department interfered with U.S. Attorney David Weiss' investigation into Hunter Biden.
https://tinyurl.com/4rhkufrv

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at June 23, 2023 04:18 PM (Vwz3I)

283 It would seem that Hollywood movies like streaming services (Apple or Amazon) have gone the way of media organizations - they've become vanity projects for wealthy tech gurus - in every production you need producers and...associate producers. These are called "investors" everywhere else. This is where tech liberal money comes in - so now Hollywood is funded by liberal billionaires that want to make movies that they like or socially affirm their idiotic beliefs - profitability be damned - it's just like the MSM. Eventually, they are going to run out of money...let me repeat that - eventually their hobbies are going to run them out of money - the most important thing in the world to them.

Posted by: Boswell at June 23, 2023 04:18 PM (K+UlC)

284 What's with the Phoebe Walker Kates thing? She's like the anti-Phoebe Cates.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 23, 2023 04:18 PM (Y6AXb)

285 But, again, I'm betting on "moar bullshit." Everything else has turned out to be murky nonsense.

--

I wouldn't be surprised if we didn't have some pasty looking guy in khaki shorts whispering in the leader's ear and making all of the decisions as a go-between like that scummy guy in Lord of the Rings.

Posted by: The recovered remains of Hitler's cocaine filled flying submarine at June 23, 2023 04:18 PM (sSzZe)

286 Maybe Phoebe Walker Kates just needs a fourth name.
__________

Then that would make her either a) a law firm or b) Spanish nobility.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at June 23, 2023 04:18 PM (lf83v)

287 I read Merrick Garland's comment as a warning.
Posted by: JROD at June 23, 2023 04:16 PM

That's how he intended it.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 23, 2023 04:18 PM (Wnv9h)

288
After that pic of Phoebe don't ever let me hear anybody calling one of Joe Mannix's madonnas a Walmart 2.5.

Posted by: Auspex at June 23, 2023 04:18 PM (j4U/Z)

289
I forget what that stick in the mud Phoebe Limey-Minge is famous for. Wasn't she on some British version of Girls about some homely mattressback livin' her best girl life 'n' shit? Or am I thinking of someone else.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 23, 2023 04:19 PM (oINRc)

290 What's with the Phoebe Walker Kates thing? She's like the anti-Phoebe Cates.
______

Right?

Posted by: Jerry Lee Lewis at June 23, 2023 04:19 PM (lf83v)

291 89 75 What is pan sexual?
----------------
A horny half goat half man that lives in a cave and fucks anything that shows up.
Posted by: Pudinhead at June 23, 2023 03:56 PM (HTCOy)
======

That would be a satyr.

Posted by: Ligma Balzak from Fuggencrass, Vulgaria at June 23, 2023 04:19 PM (JNTt1)

292 MORE - Garland also denied whistleblower allegations that the Justice Department interfered with U.S. Attorney David Weiss' investigation into Hunter Biden.
--

Okay. Now I'd like to hear about the threat of extortion by Hunter with his dad (and apparently the entire federal government) sitting beside him per that Whatsapp message, please.

Posted by: The recovered remains of Hitler's cocaine filled flying submarine at June 23, 2023 04:19 PM (sSzZe)

293 If any of that is realistic, maybe this is about to wrap up.

What is Wagner going to do - march on Moscow?

I doubt that they have the fuel to get there.

Posted by: Irrelevant and Obsessive! at June 23, 2023 04:19 PM (2tUFv)

294
*She has filed impeachment charges against Wray and Garland.*

What difference, at this point, does it make?

Posted by: Monica Lewinsky's ex-boyfriend's wife at June 23, 2023 04:19 PM (DhOHl)

295 Boy, did we ever dodge a bullet when McConnell or Graham kept this a-hole off the Supreme Court. A "moderate," my ass.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 23, 2023 04:06 PM

.....as a favor to Hillary who was a shoo-in to nominate someone even worse

Posted by: ... at June 23, 2023 04:19 PM (tOuMZ)

296 This busty Asian in a bikini didn't read the essay, but she's super fed up with unlikable, hectoring girl-bosses and hopes that their time is drawing to a close:
https://is.gd/JWbwVP

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 23, 2023 04:19 PM (t0OGg)

297 Pan was the Greek god of nature, fertility.
The Roman equivalent is Faunus.
Posted by: bonhomme at June 23, 2023

I never claimed to be smart.

Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd at June 23, 2023 04:19 PM (VdGjU)

298 >>Garland also denied whistleblower allegations that the Justice Department interfered with U.S. Attorney David Weiss' investigation into Hunter Biden.

Should be easy enough to see who is lying.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 23, 2023 04:20 PM (ZLI7S)

299 I read that at woke colleges, you're not allowed to say "mom" or "dad" because feelings.

Posted by: Mr Gaga at June 23, 2023 04:20 PM (4ZE6o)

300 I read Merrick Garland's comment as a warning.
Posted by: JROD at June 23, 2023 04:16 PM
----
That's how he intended it.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 23, 2023 04:18 PM (Wnv9h)
++++
Absolutely.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 23, 2023 04:20 PM (t0OGg)

301
Stephen L. Miller @redsteeze
If Merrick Garland is worried about the appearance of impropriety, perhaps he should not have attended the state Dinner last night with the son of the president he's allegedly investigating.

==========

He pled guilty. Isn't the investigation over?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 23, 2023 04:20 PM (lCaJd)

302 "Some have chose to attack the integrity of the Justice Department by claiming that we do not treat cases alike. This constitutes an attack on an institution that is essential to American democracy."

https://tinyurl.com/wzwmuupp
Posted by: bonhomme at June 23, 2023 04:14 PM (R38qh)
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That's how you can tell he would have made such a good addition to the Supreme Court.

Not realizing the difference between a police state, where the police power is central, and a "democracy", where it doesn't have to be so "essential".

Posted by: Axeman at June 23, 2023 04:20 PM (krQz2)

303 - Ya Boi Zach noticed in comics that all women had been mandated to have curveless, A-cup figures. All of them. He called this "the approved body type."

The androgyne. Girls look and act like boys and boys look and act like girls. Causes confusion and congestive dissonance, which generally men can't accept compared to women. Midwits can take it but the grugs and hermit wizards cannot.
We are having our old age destroyed and a new age religion, society, and culture shoved down our throats.

Posted by: Eagle Lips at June 23, 2023 04:21 PM (xOL0y)

304 Pan was the Greek god of nature, fertility.
The Roman equivalent is Faunus.
Posted by: bonhomme at June 23, 2023
______

The Latino equivalent is Paolo.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at June 23, 2023 04:21 PM (lf83v)

305 17 I just did an image search of this Phoebe Waller-Bridge. Yech.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 23, 2023 03:46 PM (WQfQI)
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Like the masochist that I am, I couldn't just take your word for it, o no I had to go look. I had just seen Tomahawk-face Kennedy!! This double-barreled nomenclatural misfit should stay a writer. Ugly!!

What a crazy name for an actress. Why not get a stage name as most do?

Posted by: Ciampino -- Well that nose can split logs at June 23, 2023 04:21 PM (qfLjt)

306 I prefer the physics of Phoebe Buffay.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at June 23, 2023 04:21 PM (Vwz3I)

307 Nap time, wake me if a nood comes along

Posted by: Skip at June 23, 2023 04:21 PM (xhxe8)

308 I wrote a song about a smelly cat.

Posted by: The other Phoebe at June 23, 2023 04:21 PM (DhOHl)

309 KJP

Kinko's in his Kinko car, pockets full of change
Lots of dirty pictures and sticky candy canes.
All the kids love Kinko for the presents that they get
Silly leather clothes to wear and happy cigaretts.

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at June 23, 2023 04:21 PM (NtVYv)

310 Okay. Now I'd like to hear about the threat of extortion by Hunter with his dad (and apparently the entire federal government) sitting beside him per that Whatsapp message, please.
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Ongoing investigation. We should have that wrapped up and can give you our investagation notes by the 5th of never.

Posted by: Merrick Garland at June 23, 2023 04:21 PM (fs1hN)

311 This busty Asian in a bikini didn't read the essay, but she's super fed up with unlikable, hectoring girl-bosses and hopes that their time is drawing to a close:
https://is.gd/JWbwVP
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 23, 2023 04:19 PM (t0OGg)

I have a sudden yen for sushi.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at June 23, 2023 04:22 PM (aD39U)

312 I have not seen the latest Indiana Jones movie. Is Waller-Bridges' character one where's she required to be attractive?
Doesn't she just save her decrepit dad or grandad, Indy?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 23, 2023 04:22 PM (Keyt1)

313 By the way, thanks for the writeup, Ace!
I read the whole thing before commenting, even though I know that's in poor taste.

As to the charge the Extraction 2 is gratuitous, I have no idea how to address that. Just go watch it, it's really quite good.

I thoroughly enjoyed it, I liked the action and the flow of things quite a lot, the plot is simple but direct. The characters had more heart than the first one, and the hot chick was in it more.

What do you people want from a movie? I tell ya...

Posted by: .87c at June 23, 2023 04:22 PM (iuMoO)

314 Yevgeny Prigozhin, mercenary. He's been "speaking truth to power" so to speak, about what a f*uckup the Ukraine war is and how Russia is getting its ass kicked.
Posted by: WisRich at June 23, 2023 04:05 PM (G0vdT)

The Russian state couldn't put Russian troops into Ukraine until a declaration of war, so they used Wagner group, who took it on the chin. Then after taking Bakhmut, some of his troops came under "friendly" fire from a very unfriendly Russian general's unit. This has caused a lot of hard feeling on Prigozhin's part. The Romans had a lot of problems with similar situations with mercenary contractors who felt targeted, IIRC

Posted by: Kindltot at June 23, 2023 04:22 PM (xhaym)

315 I agree with Garland.
We don't have a functioning Republic anymore, we have a democracy.
Demos, Greek for "demons"
-cracy = "rule by"
We are being ruled by demons.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at June 23, 2023 04:23 PM (MeG8a)

316 This busty Asian in a bikini didn't read the essay, but she's super fed up with unlikable, hectoring girl-bosses and hopes that their time is drawing to a close:
https://is.gd/JWbwVP
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 23, 2023 04:19 PM (t0OGg)
........

is that her "I'm letting a fart now and you're going to love it" pose?

Posted by: wth at June 23, 2023 04:23 PM (v0R5T)

317 I have not seen the latest Indiana Jones movie. Is Waller-Bridges' character one where's she required to be attractive?
Doesn't she just save her decrepit dad or grandad, Indy?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 23, 2023 04:22 PM (Keyt1)
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Leading ladies have to be attractive. And she isn't hideous, she's just nothing special. A far bigger problem than her looks is that she's a charisma sink.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 23, 2023 04:23 PM (t0OGg)

318 osted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 23, 2023 04:19 PM (t0OGg)

I doubt that she needs to worry about girl bosses.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 23, 2023 04:23 PM (Keyt1)

319 Waller Bridge had the charisma of Sean Connery.

Sean Connery now

Posted by: ... at June 23, 2023 04:23 PM (tOuMZ)

320
Eventually, they are going to run out of money...let me repeat that - eventually their hobbies are going to run them out of money - the most important thing in the world to them.
Posted by: Boswell

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They'll get subsidized by taxpayers one way or another.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 23, 2023 04:23 PM (lCaJd)

321 So we are about to see the real life movie The Rock?

Posted by: polynikes at June 23, 2023 04:24 PM (W3A8K)

322 Here is Phoebe Walker Kates looking her best on the carpet at an awards show -

https://tinyurl.com/mr88wkht
Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 23, 2023

***
As the old country expression had it, that girl could eat corn on the cob through a picket fence.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 23, 2023 04:24 PM (J2vNu)

323 They need new and improved minorities to "drive" their political agenda. Old minorities got out of hand and became unreliable.

Posted by: runner at June 23, 2023 04:24 PM (16bRC)

324 Russian Ministry of Justice: Yevgeny Prigozhin added to the register of foreign agents

Being a "foreign agent" in Russia is a Bad Thing.

Wow.

I didn't have "attempted coup" on my bingo card for this week.

Posted by: Irrelevant and Obsessive! at June 23, 2023 04:24 PM (2tUFv)

325 I read the whole thing before commenting, even though I know that's in poor taste.
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I bet you're wearing pants too.

You make me sick!

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at June 23, 2023 04:24 PM (Vwz3I)

326 >>He pled guilty. Isn't the investigation over?

Not according to US Attorney Weiss.

But since he did plead guilty he has given up his 5th Amendment rights. If Congress manages to grow a pair they should subpoena him.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 23, 2023 04:24 PM (ZLI7S)

327 Yeah, WallerBridge played snarky Ms MattressBack in her series "Fleabag," and it happened before the woketranny universe began and was actually quite good.

Her script, terrific cast and acting, dunno who directed. A tragic comedy. No gays, no trannys, all whypipples, IIRC.

She shoulda just done more of that. But like Ricky Gervais, they all gotta move on.

Posted by: Mr Gaga at June 23, 2023 04:25 PM (4ZE6o)

328 Ah, there we are. Same as always:

"Her grandfather, Cyprian Waller-Bridge (1918-1960), "a Wodehousian sort of character... 'the eccentric son of an eccentric vicar'",[11] was an actor and BBC announcer"

Rich girl with connections AND a history with the BBC and the like.

Posted by: The recovered remains of Hitler's cocaine filled flying submarine at June 23, 2023 04:25 PM (sSzZe)

329 >>>Phoebe Waller-Bridge has a face for radio.

Oh, is she the one with a map of Rhode Island on the side of her forehead?

Posted by: bed head at June 23, 2023 04:26 PM (Y1sOo)

330 And then the plantains began.

Posted by: 496 at June 23, 2023 04:26 PM (OEk9C)

331 There are "culturally specific" films with specific racial complaints that are ALSO universal. Off the top of my head: (There's plenty more)

Shindler's List
Fiddler on the Roof

It's not just the topic, either. MOST racially specific complaints (at least legitimate ones) could be universal ones as well.

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Tears of the Sun

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at June 23, 2023 04:26 PM (BdMk6)

332 This has caused a lot of hard feeling on Prigozhin's part.

The immediate issue is that all of his guys are supposed to join the Russian Army in a week.

Now Or Never time, apparently.

Posted by: Irrelevant and Obsessive! at June 23, 2023 04:26 PM (2tUFv)

333 Bunny Boiler from Boston Children's claims kids know, "seemingly from the womb" they are trannies.

https://tinyurl.com/2s3a4993

Posted by: bonhomme at June 23, 2023 04:26 PM (R38qh)

334 Boy, did we ever dodge a bullet when McConnell or Graham kept this a-hole off the Supreme Court. A "moderate," my ass.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 23, 2023 04:06 PM

.....as a favor to Hillary who was a shoo-in to nominate someone even worse

Posted by: ... at June 23, 2023 04:19 PM

Someone worse? Seriously?

How could it possibly be any worse?

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 23, 2023 04:26 PM (ncXxy)

335 Usually the cultural specificity comes in the form of airing gender or racial grievances.

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And what I've noticed - this is particularly evident if you watch the widely-distributed clips of She Hulk - they're all just petty, low-level grievances.

Instead of "smash the patriarchy" we get "smash that dude over there who did a microaggression". It's all such obvious wish fulfillment by some female writer who wishes she'd told off some random dude who told her to smile back in college.

Posted by: Klaus Schwab at June 23, 2023 04:27 PM (16rDL)

336 Pride month

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at June 23, 2023 04:27 PM (Vwz3I)

337 They need new and improved minorities to "drive" their political agenda. Old minorities got out of hand and became unreliable.

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There was a fantastic article about the push to have minorities in positions of power posted earlier in the week. I don't know if it was a commenter or ace or one of JJs, but don't miss it:

"Complex Systems Won’t Survive the Competence Crisis "

https://tinyurl.com/2jvohz4p

Posted by: The recovered remains of Hitler's cocaine filled flying submarine at June 23, 2023 04:27 PM (sSzZe)

338 >>>. Is Waller-Bridges' character one where's she required to be attractive?

well, speaking as a man, I'm a little tired of movies working hard to defeat "The Male Gaze" by featuring plain women when, I notice, movies made for women feature men considered attractive.

Hollywood has a notion that men's pleasure is inherently dirty. But of course, pandering to women's prurient interests is just "feeding female empowerment."

Posted by: ace at June 23, 2023 04:27 PM (KRtlO)

339 Bunny Boiler from Boston Children's claims kids know, "seemingly from the womb" they are trannies.

https://tinyurl.com/2s3a4993
Posted by: bonhomme at June 23, 2023 04:26 PM (R38qh)
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So transgender fetuses are going to be a thing now.

I wonder how the abortion enthusiasts will reconcile that.

Also, this woman is deranged and evil.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 23, 2023 04:28 PM (t0OGg)

340
OK yeah, I looked it up, I'm remembering right. It was a BBC version of our American "isn't it glamourous to be a big-city cum dumpster" genre. I'm not sure, but I figure a British rendition of this dumb idea would somehow be *even more awful* than our versions of it.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 23, 2023 04:28 PM (oINRc)

341 Everyone has differing tastes. My wife enjoys law enforcement movies and tv, and I don't, particularly.
Mainly because those always seem to feature law enforcement disregarding constitutional statutes and so on. I end up shouting at the tv "Stop talking to the cops! Wait for an attorney!"
Police state entertainment is hitting a little too close to the bone right now...

Posted by: gourmand du jour at June 23, 2023 04:28 PM (MeG8a)

342 304 Pan was the Greek god of nature, fertility.
The Roman equivalent is Faunus.
Posted by: bonhomme at June 23, 2023
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The Latino equivalent is Paolo.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at June 23, 2023 04:21 PM (lf83v)
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Is that like the Ron Jeremy?
Paolo is Italian. Is it also Spanish?

Posted by: Ciampino --- Well that nose can split logs at June 23, 2023 04:28 PM (qfLjt)

343 He pled guilty. Isn't the investigation over?

Not according to US Attorney Weiss.

But since he did plead guilty he has given up his 5th Amendment rights. If Congress manages to grow a pair they should subpoena him.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 23, 2023 04:24 PM

He could do the Oliver North thing, agree to spill his guts for blanket immunity and take the fall for everyone involved. That would get joe biden off the hook permanently. Not sure why they haven't done that already other than hunter biden is a crack head that can't remember who he stuck his dick in last night.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 23, 2023 04:29 PM (ncXxy)

344 A near-perfect series of lies.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 23, 2023 04:12 PM (t0OGg)

"This constitutes an attack on an institution that is essential to American democracy and essential to the safety of the American people."

Beyond reproach. Unassailable. Also, fuck you.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at June 23, 2023 04:14 PM (KbCG3)
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The Delta House in the movie Animal House tried to use the same argument to defend itself in the student-based "legal system" on campus. Didn't work then, either.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 23, 2023 04:29 PM (YIVH2)

345 is that her "I'm letting a fart now and you're going to love it" pose?

Posted by: wth

Count me in

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at June 23, 2023 04:29 PM (JkCto)

346 OK yeah, I looked it up, I'm remembering right. It was a BBC version of our American "isn't it glamourous to be a big-city cum dumpster" genre. I'm not sure, but I figure a British rendition of this dumb idea would somehow be *even more awful* than our versions of it.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 23, 2023 04:28 PM (oINRc)
++++
At some point, ranking them becomes pointless.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 23, 2023 04:29 PM (t0OGg)

347 MORE - Garland also denied whistleblower allegations that the Justice Department interfered with U.S. Attorney David Weiss' investigation into Hunter Biden.
https://tinyurl.com/4rhkufrv

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at June 23, 2023 04:18 PM (Vwz3I)
===

When they deny "it" you know "it" is true.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at June 23, 2023 04:29 PM (17s+e)

348 Bea Arthur was cute as a young person, but she was never going to be a Hollywood sex goddess and because Hollywood knew that, she was cast as the wisecracking friend/tough broad and often made to look older than she actually was:

Bea Arthur when young:

https://tinyurl.com/5cthtus4
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 23, 2023

***
Fen, I'd never seen a pic of her from that part of her life. You're right, she was cute. Apparently she got cast as the wisecracking friend, even as Eve Arden did.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 23, 2023 04:29 PM (J2vNu)

349 >>. Is Waller-Bridges' character one where's she required to be attractive?

That worst casting role winner belongs to Maggie Gyllenhaal in that Batman movie.

Posted by: polynikes at June 23, 2023 04:29 PM (W3A8K)

350 >>He could do the Oliver North thing, agree to spill his guts for blanket immunity and take the fall for everyone involved. That would get joe biden off the hook permanently. Not sure why they haven't done that already other than hunter biden is a crack head that can't remember who he stuck his dick in last night.

Every interview I've seen with Hunter leads me to believe he is not just a crack head but dumb as a post. I think they are terrified of putting him on the stand, there is no telling what he might say.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 23, 2023 04:31 PM (ZLI7S)

351 > And then the plantains began.

Ooh, someone brought plantains? I hope they're fried with a little bit of brown sugar on top.

Posted by: bonhomme at June 23, 2023 04:31 PM (R38qh)

352
"Paolo is Italian. Is it also Spanish?*

Turbo Javelin.

Posted by: Willowed at June 23, 2023 04:31 PM (DhOHl)

353 I remember the SRA reading program. At the time I participated, it was pretty much as Chuck C describes it.

And yeah, that was about 50 years ago and no, I don't recall there being these nuggets of boredom as Ace describes it. Those must have been added more recently.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at June 23, 2023 04:31 PM (ZSK0i)

354 I remember SRAs. I specifically remember the story about the Indian kid who wasn't sure if his or her moccasins would work on a blacktop and keep him/her from winning the race. I remember the story, but not the gender ironically enough.

Posted by: InZona at June 23, 2023 04:31 PM (QST1s)

355 So yes, Kathleen Kennedy is trying to make a movie in which her Unstoppable Girlboss Self-Insert trains an Even Moar Unstoppable Girlboss Self-Insert.

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Indiana She-Hulk and The Franchise of Doom.

Posted by: ShainS -- Oppression Scientist and Your AI Interpreter at June 23, 2023 04:32 PM (FUBfX)

356 SRA was Science Reading Associates. I loved those, but I was annoyed that the color coding wasn't consistent.

I'll read the review more thoroughly tonight.

Posted by: Weak Geek at June 23, 2023 04:32 PM (5YYjm)

357 Every interview I've seen with Hunter leads me to believe he is not just a crack head but dumb as a post.
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He's the smartest guy I know, not a joke, folks.

Posted by: Joe Biden at June 23, 2023 04:32 PM (fs1hN)

358 @144: "PWB is going to work on that too, Amazon hired her for a Tombraider series..."

Amazon hired her end of January which is roughly the same timeframe that the ending was being reshot and John Williams made an eyebrow raising comment about rescoring some of the film too.

Kennedy still pretending -- at this late date -- that the Indy series will continue beyond this movie is Baghdad Bob levels of denial.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at June 23, 2023 04:32 PM (k1Qly)

359 He could do the Oliver North thing, agree to spill his guts for blanket immunity and take the fall for everyone involved. That would get joe biden off the hook permanently. Not sure why they haven't done that already other than hunter biden is a crack head that can't remember who he stuck his dick in last night.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 23, 2023 04:29 PM (ncXxy)

Can't anybody here play this game?

Posted by: blaster at June 23, 2023 04:32 PM (pwExq)

360 On December 3rd, five days before the team’s planned “day of action,” they met with Delaware United States Attorney David Weiss and Assistant United States Attorney Lesley Wolf for 12 hours. During the meeting, Wolf told the team that she did not want them to ask the interviewees about Hunter’s father or references to “the big guy.” Wolf reportedly stated there was “no specific criminality to that line of questioning.”

At the meeting, the team devised “a plan for the FBI Los Angeles special agent in charge to reach out at 8 a.m. on December 8th to the Secret Service Los Angeles special agent in charge [of Hunter’s security detail] and tell them that we would be coming to the residence to seek an interview with Hunter Biden and that it was part of an official investigation.”

The night before the investigation, however, Shapley was told that “FBI headquarters had notified Secret Service headquarters and the transition team” about the day of action. “This essentially tipped off a group of people very close to President Biden and Hunter Biden and gave this group an opportunity to obstruct the approach on the witnesses,” said Shapley.

Posted by: SMOD at June 23, 2023 04:32 PM (RHGPo)

361 rhona mitra filled in for beckinsale in one of the underworld films,

Posted by: no 6 at June 23, 2023 04:32 PM (PXvVL)

362 Posted by: ace at June 23, 2023 04:27 PM (KRtlO)

I wouldn't know. I only see about four movies a year-maybe- and the attractiveness of the female lead has not been an issue,But then, they are not action movies. You would have to have good looking women in those, I imagine. Why would
men want to see James Bond Movies without sexy women leads?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 23, 2023 04:33 PM (Keyt1)

363 He's the smartest guy I know, not a joke, folks.
Posted by: Joe Biden at June 23, 2023 04:32 PM (fs1hN)
++++
I actually do believe that Biden is telling the truth about this.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 23, 2023 04:33 PM (t0OGg)

364
Feels like the damn is breaking.

@kenvogel

Within 10 days of Hunter Biden's WhatsApp message to the Chinese official associated with CEFC, a CEFC subsidiary sent 2 payments totaling $5.1M to accounts linked to Hunter, according to records cited in the Senate GOP investigation.
Posted by: JackStraw

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What's breaking? The dude got his deal.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 23, 2023 04:33 PM (lCaJd)

365 I end up shouting at the tv "Stop talking to the cops! Wait for an attorney!"
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I did it. And I'm glad I did it!

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at June 23, 2023 04:33 PM (Vwz3I)

366 @144: "PWB is going to work on that too, Amazon hired her for a Tombraider series..."

I read that as Tom Braider. Do they sit around and do hair?

Posted by: InZona at June 23, 2023 04:33 PM (QST1s)

367
Watched Extraction 2 last night.

Gratuitous, yes. But just a bit. Thor and the hawt warrior chick did pretty good, and the camera tricks (like the Mean Streets harness shot that Spike Lee has been stealing for decades) make the extended action scenes more interesting than they have any right to be.

The biggest problem with the film is a common one, the lack of a really compelling villain. The bad guy is evil enough for the villain role, but he's a generic cardboard cutout, VILLAIN, FOREIGN, 1 EA, OLIVE DRAB, NSN 3842-00-32-8859

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 23, 2023 04:33 PM (n+4am)

368 I'm not sure, but I figure a British rendition of this dumb idea would somehow be *even more awful* than our versions of it.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 23, 2023 04:28 PM

The dentistry alone....

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 23, 2023 04:33 PM (Wnv9h)

369 God save the queen, man.

Posted by: Even though she's dead at June 23, 2023 04:34 PM (DhOHl)

370 Oh -- Research, not Reading.

I never claimed to have a perfect memory.

Posted by: Weak Geek at June 23, 2023 04:35 PM (5YYjm)

371 @kenvogel

Within 10 days of Hunter Biden's WhatsApp message to the Chinese official associated with CEFC, a CEFC subsidiary sent 2 payments totaling $5.1M to accounts linked to Hunter, according to records cited in the Senate GOP investigation.
Posted by: JackStraw

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Don't make my father and everyone he knows in the federal government make you regret that you made this deal, yellow boy.

Posted by: The recovered remains of Hitler's cocaine filled flying submarine at June 23, 2023 04:35 PM (sSzZe)

372 SRA reading program must have started after my time or it's a northeast thing.

Scholastic Paperbacks was our program in Louisiana where books read was an end of the year certificate ceremony.

Posted by: polynikes at June 23, 2023 04:35 PM (W3A8K)

373 So in the last 10 years all of a sudden kids want to change genders.
Bullcrap

Posted by: Skip at June 23, 2023 04:36 PM (xhxe8)

374 Simple to determine, right? Get Garland and Weiss *under oath* simultaneously in front of some committee then watch out for the sternest of warnings about 'remind you two, that you are under oath'.

Haha.

Posted by: micky at June 23, 2023 04:36 PM (3byMq)

375 Do you see the problem, Juris? Disney' costs exceed its box office takings by $890 million. Almost a full billion, P3do.

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"But Ace, they're gonna make it up on volume!"

Posted by: ShainS -- Oppression Scientist and Your AI Interpreter at June 23, 2023 04:36 PM (45/dC)

376 Also, what's with the needless cruelty towards Harrison Ford's classic characters?

The last Indy movie sucked, but ended on a happy note at least - Indy finally married Marion and - turns out - they have a son together. This one apparently begins with him getting divorced from Marion, and his son was killed in Vietnam.

RoTJ ended with Han and Leia admitting their love for each other, and he's given up on the smuggler lifestyle... then the prequel piece of shit comes along, and he's split from Leia, he's back to being a smuggler - and apparently "really shitty smuggler who's constantly getting in debt to crime lords" is his dominant personality feature - and then he gets murdered by his own son, who's turned evil.

Same with Blade Runner - oh look, Rachel died a long time ago and Deckard's a sad old man. What a shock.

Posted by: Cave Johnson at June 23, 2023 04:37 PM (16rDL)

377 Uh oh.

>>But an analysis by DailyMail.com of the president's financial records shows $5.2million is unexplained

https://tinyurl.com/23cdd8mk

@kenvogel

Within 10 days of Hunter Biden's WhatsApp message to the Chinese official associated with CEFC, a CEFC subsidiary sent 2 payments totaling $5.1M to accounts linked to Hunter, according to records cited in the Senate GOP investigation.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 23, 2023 04:37 PM (ZLI7S)

378 See?? Letting Baldwin off doesn't matter. We got the real criminal!

||Prosecutors have charged the Rust film armourer with evidence tampering in connection to the fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.

Hannah Gutierrez-Reed has already been charged with involuntary manslaughter.

She will face an additional charge in relation to “the transfer of narcotics to another person”, prosecutors said.

Ms Gutierrez-Reed will plead not guilty to the new charge, her lawyer said, calling it “retaliatory and vindictive”.||

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at June 23, 2023 04:37 PM (Vwz3I)

379 I end up shouting at the tv "Stop talking to the cops! Wait for an attorney!"
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Don't watch The First 48 Hours then.

Posted by: polynikes at June 23, 2023 04:38 PM (W3A8K)

380 180 GARLAND: “I certainly understand that some have chosen to attack the integrity of the Justice Department, its components and its employees by claiming that we do not treat like cases alike. This constitutes an attack on an institution that is essential to American democracy and essential to the safety of the American people. Nothing could be further from the truth. You’ve all heard me say many times that we make our cases based on the facts and the law. These are not just words, these are what we live by. They’re the foundation of the way we make these decisions. The agents of the FBI as well as the DEA, the ATF, our deputy U.S. Marshals every day, often at great personal risk, protect the American people and secure its safety. Our cases are based on their work. I could not be more proud to work with them.”
Posted by: SMOD

They all sound the same. Sanctimonious, arrogant, and smug while lying about everything. Comey, Obama, Hillary, Garland, all of them. Same spirit rules them all.

Posted by: Puddleglum at June 23, 2023 04:38 PM (sAmhv)

381 @kenvogel

Within 10 days of Hunter Biden's WhatsApp message to the Chinese official associated with CEFC, a CEFC subsidiary sent 2 payments totaling $5.1M to accounts linked to Hunter, according to records cited in the Senate GOP investigation.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 23, 2023 04:37 PM (ZLI7S)

Well what do ya know, the sonofabitch sent the money

Posted by: Joe Bitem master of the English langauge Master baiter and orater at June 23, 2023 04:39 PM (NtVYv)

382 I dunno, I've seen too many law enforcement theme tv shows (NCIS, S.W.A.T., F.B.I., et al) where they get some suspect in an interrogation room, spilling his or her guts without counsel, or entering a home without a warrant, or doing any number of things that are clearly illegal for cops to do and routinely gets their cases dismissed in the real world.
While, in real life, no one gets arrested for anything, it seems...

Posted by: gourmand du jour at June 23, 2023 04:39 PM (MeG8a)

383 Also, what's with the needless cruelty towards Harrison Ford's classic characters?

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I figured it was kind of obvious. The people in charge now HATE heritage America and everything we love, and they do this sort of thing on purpose to try and ruin the characters for us.

Did you know the Gwen version of Spiderman in the latest movie has a "tranny kids are awesome" poster hanging in her room, and her cop dad wears a pro-tranny pin?

They can't create, only destroy. And they never rest.

Posted by: The recovered remains of Hitler's cocaine filled flying submarine at June 23, 2023 04:39 PM (sSzZe)

384 But in looking for that, I came across this: Disney has eliminated all "gendered language" in its parks. Staff can no longer say "ladies and gentlemen" or "boys and girls."

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That almost sounds like a Don't Say Male or Female law.

Posted by: ShainS -- Oppression Scientist and Your AI Interpreter at June 23, 2023 04:40 PM (45/dC)

385 >> a time-travel movie in which Indiana Jones is shot and killed in the past, thus, somehow, erasing him from history

It was that they meet Young Indiana Jones in the past and he gets killed. So nothing Indy did after that point ever happened.

Posted by: Oscar Meyer at June 23, 2023 04:40 PM (sHtXk)

386 >>>Another was about a Latinx girl

They had those way back when you were a kid? I thought they were a more recent phenomenon.

Posted by: No Name Today at June 23, 2023 04:41 PM (vlXMQ)

387 I realize Harry Ford is an insufferable prick, but this movie is a perfect metaphor, in that the man just wants his characters to die, and Dinsey won't let them.

Actually, he's a real nice guy. I met him in Jackson Hole back around Y2K. He taxiid in in his Beaver (nice beaver! I said), and wandered over to our Blackhawk. I gave him a tour, let him sit in the cockpit. He invited us all to land at his place for breakfast the next day, which was shot down by the Colonel. Anyway, nice, real guy.

Posted by: Hawkpilot at June 23, 2023 04:41 PM (opVjj)

388 . Is Waller-Bridges' character one where's she required to be attractive?

well, speaking as a man, I'm a little tired of movies working hard to defeat "The Male Gaze" by featuring plain women when, I notice, movies made for women feature men considered attractive.

Hollywood has a notion that men's pleasure is inherently dirty. But of course, pandering to women's prurient interests is just "feeding female empowerment."

Posted by: ace at June 23, 2023 04:27 PM (KRtlO)

As a man, I'd like to complain that when seeing the rating of a movie now that says said movie contains nudity,

there's a 96% chance that the only nudity you're going to see is some dude's stinky, old butt.

Whereas in the before times, there was a 100% chance that you were going to see some lovely lady's luscious boobies.

Collapse of civilization stuff...er, ah...I mean- Enjoy your victory, Ladies! and Gays!

Posted by: naturalfake at June 23, 2023 04:41 PM (fb7jX)

389 Also, what's with the needless cruelty towards Harrison Ford's classic characters?

Posted by: Cave Johnson at June 23, 2023 04:37 PM (16rDL)

Maybe it's just the interviews that I've seen with him, but Harry Ford the man gives the impression of being a humorless bore. More Deckard than Han or Indy.

If true, that makes his earlier roles that much more impressive that he could convincingly fake being funny and charismatic.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 23, 2023 04:41 PM (n+4am)

390 But in looking for that, I came across this: Disney has eliminated all "gendered language" in its parks. Staff can no longer say "ladies and gentlemen" or "boys and girls."

What do they call them now ? Subjects, partners, targets ?

Posted by: Joe Bitem master of the English langauge Master baiter and orater at June 23, 2023 04:41 PM (NtVYv)

391 Soylent Green on TCM, a gaunt Edward G Robinson tearlfully asking, "how did we come to this?" when he sees a flank steak. Say your prayers Amerkanski, and bless the Founders for the 2A.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at June 23, 2023 04:42 PM (oWBc3)

392 Indiana Jones and the colonoscopy of destiny.

Mr. Jones, we found some suspicious polyps.

Posted by: Archer at June 23, 2023 04:43 PM (gmo/4)

393 OUT: Magic Kingdom
IN: Misandrist Kinkdom

Posted by: Tex Lovera at June 23, 2023 04:43 PM (wtvvX)

394 When Disney begins full asset liquidation, I’m making an offer on the Tikki Birds.

Posted by: Queequeg the Harpooner at June 23, 2023 04:43 PM (9X60i)

395 Comrade?

Posted by: Skip at June 23, 2023 04:44 PM (xhxe8)

396 What do they call them now ? Subjects, partners, targets ?
Posted by: Joe Bitem master of the English langauge Master baiter and orater at June 23, 2023 04:41 PM (NtVYv)

Marks.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at June 23, 2023 04:44 PM (79Su5)

397 In real life the cops can question you without reading you your Miranda rights if they say that you are not under arrest and are just investigating a crime. You can refuse which most of these criminals don't do because they think they are smarter than anyone and can spin a story to their benefit.

Posted by: polynikes at June 23, 2023 04:44 PM (W3A8K)

398
*Subjects, partners, targets?*

Comrades.

Posted by: Stalinistas at June 23, 2023 04:45 PM (DhOHl)

399 Or the French Revolution
Citizen?

Posted by: Skip at June 23, 2023 04:45 PM (xhxe8)

400 Burn, Disney, Burn.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at June 23, 2023 04:45 PM (wtvvX)

401 Garland aptly named, is our current version of "pocket full of posies". Hide the stench of the rot and plague? No.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at June 23, 2023 04:45 PM (oWBc3)

402 Late to the thread, but I would opine that nobody, really, wants to watch these crappy movies…

Posted by: tubal at June 23, 2023 04:45 PM (PCK5/)

403 "We got the real criminal! "
I saw that coming a mile away. She is almost certainly negligent. She'll take the fall.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at June 23, 2023 04:45 PM (MeG8a)

404 "PWB is going to work on that too, Amazon hired her for a Tombraider series..."

I read that as Tom Braider. Do they sit around and do hair?
Posted by: InZona at June 23, 2023 04:33 PM (QST1s)

"Tom Braider the Cow Orker" is the name of the series.

Posted by: naturalfake at June 23, 2023 04:45 PM (fb7jX)

405 398
*Subjects, partners, targets?*

Comrades.

Posted by: Stalinistas at June 23, 2023 04:45 PM (DhOHl)

Suckers.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at June 23, 2023 04:45 PM (wtvvX)

406 Ace, I'll say this again. Ignore The Critical Drinker and watch Avatar 2. It has everything you say a blockbuster should have, and is the antithesis of all the movies you mentioned.

1. Strong alpha male leads
2. Strong female leads who are also feminine and actually supportive of their husbands
3. No woke messaging

The movie is not about protecting nature or saving whales or "Pocahontas in space." It's actually a love letter to fatherhood, strong fathers, and the importance of fathers in the lives of kids, especially boys. Childless, terminally online, nitpicky douches like The Drinker, Disparu, Mauler, etc couldn't see that.

Posted by: Jim at June 23, 2023 04:45 PM (bkAtW)

407 Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 23, 2023 04:41 PM (n+4am)

I've always said he has RBF and has never smiled or laughed in any of his roles. The most you get is a smirk or fake sarcastic laugh.

Posted by: polynikes at June 23, 2023 04:46 PM (W3A8K)

408 "I'm here as a mother of two queer children, actually," Burke said..."

Who she made that way. Count on it.

Posted by: Flyover, usually lurking at June 23, 2023 04:46 PM (Rbu5d)

409 Posted by: Joe Bitem master of the English langauge Master baiter and orater at June 23, 2023 04:41 PM (NtVYv)

I think the new word is "friends".

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 23, 2023 04:46 PM (Keyt1)

410
The Ukraine thing is like being trapped in a stadium in the 23rd inning of a game between the Royals and the A's. You don't give a fuck, you haven't been paying attention since the stretch, and you were only there because everyone else wanted to go. Only, the stadium doors are locked and the announcer is threatening to start making the audience's kids get in the game soon.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 23, 2023 04:46 PM (oINRc)

411 Any LEO, asks any question, including what time it is, gets nothing. People need to wake up to the times we live in.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at June 23, 2023 04:46 PM (oWBc3)

412 Someone should experiment with a movie that isn’t full of all these tropes and is just fun for families.

Oh wait…Super Mario Bros. And it wasn’t even that amazing of a movie, yet $1.339billion later…

Posted by: Piper at June 23, 2023 04:47 PM (ZdaMQ)

413 Isn't Avatar the one about blue people with donkey ears?

Posted by: Clueless at June 23, 2023 04:47 PM (DhOHl)

414 re: "The former head of Marvel physical production, Victoria Alonso, IIRC, said that she didn't want "diversity" to merely consist of stories about women and minorities..."

Can't have that umbrella of "diversity" stretching out too far, now can we.

In an ironic twist, it turns out the smallest tent of all may be the one named "diversity"

Posted by: Simple Stevo at June 23, 2023 04:47 PM (lbYUt)

415 Scholastic Paperbacks was our program in Louisiana where books read was an end of the year certificate ceremony.

Posted by: polynikes at June 23, 2023 04:35 PM (W3A8K)

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I remember the monthly book orders from Scholastic. Exciting times, those were.

Posted by: 496 at June 23, 2023 04:47 PM (5utji)

416 In real life cops also get to mislead, prevaricate, deceive, etc. in furtherance of what they perceive as the greater good.
Best to just stfu...

Posted by: gourmand du jour at June 23, 2023 04:48 PM (MeG8a)

417 @406 oh ffs. Cameron never made a movie like that.

Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at June 23, 2023 04:48 PM (oWBc3)

418 It was that they meet Young Indiana Jones in the past and he gets killed. So nothing Indy did after that point ever happened.
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So the Allies win "WW2" in 1936 when the German archeologist opens the Ark in front of all the Nazi High Command and they all get killed? Unless the Nazi archaeologist can't find the Ark with Jones leading him to the site?

Posted by: Dr Amy Farrah Fowler at June 23, 2023 04:48 PM (Vwz3I)

419 I always confuse the Avatar movie with The Phantom Menace…

Posted by: tubal at June 23, 2023 04:48 PM (PCK5/)

420 "I'm here as a mother of two queer children, actually," Burke said on the call. "One transgender child and one pansexual child, and also as a leader."

Wait, I thought Disney eliminated all gendered language! "Mother" is a gendered word. By Disney's own rules, she (or it, or they, or whatever) should be fired tout suite.

Posted by: Rusty Trawler at June 23, 2023 04:48 PM (1gif2)

421 We had Book It!, where you would read the books, and get free pizza from Pizza Hut.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 23, 2023 04:49 PM (oINRc)

422
Uh oh.

>>But an analysis by DailyMail.com of the president's financial records shows $5.2million is unexplained

https://tinyurl.com/23cdd8mk

@kenvogel

Within 10 days of Hunter Biden's WhatsApp message to the Chinese official associated with CEFC, a CEFC subsidiary sent 2 payments totaling $5.1M to accounts linked to Hunter, according to records cited in the Senate GOP investigation.
Posted by: JackStraw

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I assume this is outside of the things he already copped to, which were tax delinquency and illegal gun purchase?

Does this go anywhere?

I can see The Big Guy dismissing the whole story with a laughing "That's not true!"

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 23, 2023 04:49 PM (lCaJd)

423 Russian stock market is tanking.

Posted by: Irrelevant and Obsessive! at June 23, 2023 04:49 PM (2tUFv)

424 421 We had Book It!, where you would read the books, and get free pizza from Pizza Hut.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 23, 2023 04:49 PM (oINRc)

So you were being punished???

Posted by: tubal at June 23, 2023 04:49 PM (PCK5/)

425 73 Ace is in a good mood today, giving PWB the honors of “average sex appeal”.
Posted by: Sterling Archer at June 23, 2023 03:52 PM (2+QmR)

Wouldn't you be in a good mood if you're bowels just regurgitated this thread of literary masterpiece?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 23, 2023 03:53 PM (Zz0t1)
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I'm going to be anatomically pedantic: stomach regurgitates; bowel defecate ... You're welcome. But it is a literary masterpiece (see I can suck up to Ace-with-a-capital-A as well).
/s

Posted by: Ciampino - I'll never get the real-leather blunderbuss at June 23, 2023 04:50 PM (qfLjt)

426 one pansexual child, and also as a leader."

How old is her kid and is he/she a leader in being a pansexual? Oh, groovy!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 23, 2023 04:51 PM (Keyt1)

427 >>I assume this is outside of the things he already copped to, which were tax delinquency and illegal gun purchase?

Look again at that first sentence. They are talking about Joe's financial records not Hunter's.

There has always been a question where that $5 million came from.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 23, 2023 04:51 PM (ZLI7S)

428 Things wrong with secret invasion:

Emilia Clarke is a villain and looks about 16 years old.

Sam Jackson looks exhausted. Walks slow. Where's the eyepatch? The black leather jacket? he looks like a tired sailor.

They kill Maria Hill, who at least had a spark.

I can't understand Ben Mendleson's accent.

I don't understand the goals of the antagonists. They have space ships and want a new home world. Okay, go find one. No one is stopping them.

It drags.

Posted by: Comrade Roboto at June 23, 2023 04:51 PM (nJ1bF)

429 I liked Thor: Love and Thunder. It was fun. It wasn't great and may have been the worst Thor movie, but it was fun.

In some ways most of the woke stuff would be fine and I don't think that Thor was woke, it was actually an interesting enough story and no particular part of it was objectionable at an ideological level, and super powered girls are still interesting enough in stories that I don't think we'd really think twice about it if it wasn't presented as *important* or even deliberate.

Tell me they flipped a coin. Tell me it was actually random. If it was, I wouldn't react the same way because the "choice" wouldn't be a statement and someone might bother to write a decent character.

Posted by: Synova at June 23, 2023 04:51 PM (BD/yx)

430
So you were being punished???
Posted by: tubal at June 23, 2023 04:49 PM (PCK5/)

LOL, I suppose.

At the time, though, I loved winning those pizzas. I would have read anyway, but at least I was getting the propaganda they wanted me to read. I don't remember any of it, so I guess the program was sort of a wash.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 23, 2023 04:51 PM (oINRc)

431 Russian stock market is ~~tanking~~ T-72ing.
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Fixed.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at June 23, 2023 04:52 PM (Vwz3I)

432 Never saw Avatard, except for that it was constantly playing on the big TV in the Walmart break room when I worked there. What I saw was ridiculous.

Also saw snippets of one of the Night at the Museum movies and I learned that Amy Adams has a great butt. She's a cutie.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Gen X Ne'er-Do-Well at June 23, 2023 04:52 PM (T/Lqj)

433 Disney stock is gonna hit $50, I sold all my Stock and put it into Comcast, because they are not crapping on Families and insert lgbtq+2s character

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at June 23, 2023 04:54 PM (dKiJG)

434 I did SRAs too but that was back in the 70s when we were still cool about race.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 23, 2023 04:54 PM (RIvkX)

435
I wonder if I can find what the reading list for that thing was. Probably "Dialecticz for Kidz" and "The Littler Red Book," and "My First Engels," and so forth.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 23, 2023 04:55 PM (oINRc)

436 406 Ace, I'll say this again. Ignore The Critical Drinker and watch Avatar 2. It has everything you say a blockbuster should have, and is the antithesis of all the movies you mentioned.

1. Strong alpha male leads
2. Strong female leads who are also feminine and actually supportive of their husbands
3. No woke messaging

The movie is not about protecting nature or saving whales or "Pocahontas in space." It's actually a love letter to fatherhood, strong fathers, and the importance of fathers in the lives of kids, especially boys. Childless, terminally online, nitpicky douches like The Drinker, Disparu, Mauler, etc couldn't see that.
Posted by: Jim at June 23, 2023 04:45 PM (bkAtW)

I was a little surprised. I was speaking with a group of Scouts from my BSA troop, and it turns out that they love Avatar. All of them.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at June 23, 2023 04:55 PM (/iWhV)

437 I saw "Karey Burke" and went ahead and looked for a picture of her.

Yeah she looks exactly like what the mother of "two queer kids" would look like.

I also bet the kids' dad popped smoke 10 years ago because mom is a loon.

Posted by: ballistic at June 23, 2023 04:55 PM (oXNqT)

438 I did SRAs too but that was back in the 70s when we were still cool about race.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 23, 2023 04:54 PM (RIvkX)
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As did I, though I don't remember any of them. Ace's description knocked some of the cobwebs loose in my brain. I remember *doing* them, but I don't remember any of the stories I read. Of course, I was more interested in reading *real* books (e.g., Chronicles of Narnia, Chronicles of Prydain, etc.) than in going through the motions of reading tests.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 23, 2023 04:56 PM (YIVH2)

439 Huh. Just looked her up (PWB), and she wrote the last Bond film.

Posted by: Flyover, usually lurking at June 23, 2023 04:56 PM (Rbu5d)

440
Cameron couldn't write an adult script if his life depended on it. I rather suspect that Terminator, Aliens and T2 were actually written by his ex Gale Ann Hurd, with Cameron using a lot of white-out on the title page.

I mean, when that poofter fraud Ed Harris basically hates your guts and you're NOT a conservative, that has to tell you something.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 23, 2023 04:57 PM (n+4am)

441 Sometimes I like movies that get terrible reviews.
I enjoyed The Mule, for instance, altho' it was slow moving to start.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at June 23, 2023 04:58 PM (MeG8a)

442 When I was a kid all we had to read were normal books by normal authors. Mostly. Well not always. But no groomer lit, or commie shit.

Posted by: tubal at June 23, 2023 04:58 PM (PCK5/)

443
I remember recently seeing some James Cameron thing where he was saying that testosterone was poison, and that he wishes he could purge it from his body, though try as he might, he just can't.

That's right... James Cameron is an out-of-control, F4 T-ornado.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 23, 2023 04:59 PM (oINRc)

444 Russian stock market is tanking.
Posted by: Irrelevant and Obsessive! at June 23, 2023 04:49 PM (2tUFv)

It's midnight in Moscow, on a Friday. I kind of doubt their stock market is open.

Posted by: spindrift at June 23, 2023 05:00 PM (ivvNA)

445 When I was a kid all we had to read were normal books by normal authors. Mostly. Well not always. But no groomer lit, or commie shit.
Posted by: tubal at June 23, 2023 04:58 PM (PCK5/)
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One genius thought it was a good idea to give Animal Farm to 10 year-old Franpsycho.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 23, 2023 05:00 PM (RIvkX)

446 Why aren't we making a billion dollars? I don't get it! I'm confuzzulated!

You've been reading Pogo again, haven't you?

I liked Thor: Love and Thunder. It was fun. It wasn't great and may have been the worst Thor movie, but it was fun

That film's biggest problem wasn't girl Thor, as forced and lame as it was. The problem was that they never allowed a dramatic beat without Taika Watiti's middle school humor shoveled in, often by his literal stand in the big rock guy.

Something ghastly happens... and a cheap joke or a lame reference. They had a freaking ice cream store named after the events that killed half of life in the universe. Its like having a nice deli named Holocaust Sandwiches. Everything was off beat, tone deaf, and killed story building with lame gags.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 23, 2023 05:00 PM (0hOvj)

447 Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 23, 2023 04:49 PM (oINRc)

Be grateful that if you've forgotten the books you weren't given books about being transgender or "Heather has two mommies," or techniques for anal and oral sex for third graders.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 23, 2023 05:00 PM (Keyt1)

448 332 This has caused a lot of hard feeling on Prigozhin's part.

The immediate issue is that all of his guys are supposed to join the Russian Army in a week.

Now Or Never time, apparently.
Posted by: Irrelevant and Obsessive! at June 23, 2023 04:26 PM (2tUFv)

I would say never - Russian milbloggers are repeating reports that the Russian Military Command has launched missile strikes against Wager's forces. They're claiming that Wagner was trying to launch a coup, but I suspect that it's the High Command feeling that it's time to get rid of a rival they never wanted around.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 23, 2023 05:00 PM (i9ffA)

449 My wife calls something an "enchirito" moment. An enchirito is a terrible concoction of Taco bell. Like a lame cross between a burrito and an enchilada.

Anyway, an enchirito moment is when a character, out of nowhere, and unnecessary to the plot, reminds you they are ethnic, for no reason. Like a buddy cop movie where the two cops need to stop for lunch, and one cop says to the other "I know a place where they make the BEST Sopas, like my Abuela!" It pulls you out of the story, where you forgot the guy was Hispanic. Remember? he's HISPANIC. You have to always remember that. Not that's he's cool, or funny, or in danger, but HISPANIC.

Movies do this all the time, and it's about as ethnically authentic as an enchirito.

Posted by: Comrade Roboto at June 23, 2023 05:00 PM (nJ1bF)

450
Things wrong with secret invasion:

Emilia Clarke is a villain and looks about 16 years old.

Posted by: Comrade Roboto at June 23, 2023 04:51 PM (nJ1bF)

Emilia Clarke is turning into a gyno version of Ted McGinley.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 23, 2023 05:01 PM (n+4am)

451 Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 23, 2023 05:00 PM (RIvkX)

That's too young. I think I read "Animal Farm" in the 8th or 9th grade.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 23, 2023 05:01 PM (Keyt1)

452
Be grateful that if you've forgotten the books you weren't given books about being transgender or "Heather has two mommies," or techniques for anal and oral sex for third graders.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 23, 2023 05:00 PM (Keyt1)

Oh, I would have remembered that. My dad would have burned down the school.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 23, 2023 05:01 PM (oINRc)

453 445 When I was a kid all we had to read were normal books by normal authors. Mostly. Well not always. But no groomer lit, or commie shit.
Posted by: tubal at June 23, 2023 04:58 PM (PCK5/)
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One genius thought it was a good idea to give Animal Farm to 10 year-old Franpsycho.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 23, 2023 05:00 PM (RIvkX)

Hah!! I read Lord of the Flies when I was twelve…

Posted by: tubal at June 23, 2023 05:02 PM (PCK5/)

454 I am unaware of any such activity or operation, nor would I be disposed to discuss such an operation if it did, in fact, exist.

Posted by: Archer at June 23, 2023 05:02 PM (gmo/4)

455
Animal Farm is short, simply written, and compelling. A bright kid would do fine with it, I think.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 23, 2023 05:02 PM (oINRc)

456 I should adjust my internal programming so as to enjoy these movies.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at June 23, 2023 05:03 PM (nEdv5)

457 You have all been willowed.

Nood Hunter.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at June 23, 2023 05:03 PM (/iWhV)

458 455
Animal Farm is short, simply written, and compelling. A bright kid would do fine with it, I think.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 23, 2023 05:02 PM (oINRc)

Some fascists are more equal than others…

Posted by: tubal at June 23, 2023 05:04 PM (PCK5/)

459 Avatar 2 is all about the CGI. Man, it is brilliant. You'll believe what you're seeing.

But, it's still stuffed to the gills with woke silliness.

All the villains are white. There's one good father. The rest suck. Pregnant women warriors kicking ass has to be the silliest thing.
Humans are garbage that like to torture animals for profit, etc, etc.

on TV it would lose the best thing it has going for it and again...it has mind-glowingly good CGI.

Totally forgettable woke plot though.

Posted by: naturalfake at June 23, 2023 05:04 PM (fb7jX)

460 Animal Farm is short, simply written, and compelling. A bright kid would do fine with it, I think.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 23, 2023 05:02 PM (oINRc)
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I began to emulate Napoleon.
*sad trombone*

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 23, 2023 05:04 PM (RIvkX)

461 And an Enchirito moment is racist. because it's only point is to remind you of the race or sex of the character. And it's always handled in the lamest, most ham fisted way. "Stick something in there so the audience knows what race this guy is."

Posted by: Comrade Roboto at June 23, 2023 05:05 PM (nJ1bF)

462 The Acolyte is almost certainly yet another dead Star Wars project, and probably the new lame Rey-led trilogy will be canceled as well.

The Writer's strike is a perfect chance for studios to kill projects they are sour on or are worried cannot make it, like most of Marvel's future projects. Remember all those D-listers and "Who is that?" character movies they were going to make? I am betting almost none of them materialize.

They even pushed the next Avengers movie forward to like 2027. Good luck keeping interest and even actors engaged for that long. Especially since the roster is the island of misfit nobodies now.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 23, 2023 05:05 PM (0hOvj)

463 Pan Sexuals are those that want to bang a tribe of Lost Boys. Like that State Senator from California.

Posted by: Walsingham at June 23, 2023 05:05 PM (dCigj)

464 391 Soylent Green on TCM, a gaunt Edward G Robinson tearlfully asking, "how did we come to this?" when he sees a flank steak. Say your prayers Amerkanski, and bless the Founders for the 2A.
Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at June 23, 2023 04:42 PM (oWBc3)

Robinson had cancer at the time, and in fact he died 2 weeks after filming wrapped up. Eddie G's death scene in SG is extremely poignant, it is his goodbye to the movies, goodbye to life, not just for the movie, and everyone on the set knew it. Charlton Heston's tears for him in that scene were real.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 23, 2023 05:05 PM (i9ffA)

465 War Monitor @WarMonitors
⚡️ The “Fortress” plan has been announced in a number of police departments of the Rostov region, reports Baza.

Baza also writes that “employees are on alert. Whether anxiety is educational and what its causes are being investigated. The "Fortress" plan implies an emergency gathering of personnel and taking control of especially important objects of law enforcement agencies. The plan also provides for readiness to repel an external attack.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rostov_Oblast

Faytuks News Δ @Faytuks · 37m
Multiple Russian sources report that the "fortress" plan has been implemented in Moscow.

"The fortress plan implies an emergency gathering of police personnel & provides readiness to repel an external attack"

Faytuks News Δ @Faytuks · 16m
BREAKING: FSB put on alert in Moscow. Roadblocks set up on the Moscow-Voronezh-Rostov road. Those who are on duty are ordered to "open fire in case of a threat", sources tell BBC Russia

Faytuks News Δ @Faytuks · 7m
Donetsk-based telegram channel: "It is reported that the border from the DPR to the Rostov region is closed"

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at June 23, 2023 05:06 PM (Vwz3I)

466 I made the mistake of Googling Phoebe Waller-Bridge. Her photo on the cover of Vogue actually made me double-take, the throw up a little. Repulsive. Even in her best shots, she's fairly ugly. In no known universe is this PWB cunt attractive.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at June 23, 2023 05:06 PM (XMwZJ)

467 Animal Farm can be a kids book. It just becomes a fantasy book about talking animals. You don't have to know the symbolism. Like Gulliver's Travels or Alice in Wonderland.

Posted by: polynikes at June 23, 2023 05:06 PM (W3A8K)

468 ...They had a freaking ice cream store named after the events that killed half of life in the universe. Its like having a nice deli named Holocaust Sandwiches. Everything was off beat, tone deaf, and killed story building with lame gags.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 23, 2023 05:00 PM (0hOvj)

Oh...

I generally ignore "cookies" in movies but I may have watched the movie while in DEEP denial. Wow.

Posted by: Synova at June 23, 2023 05:07 PM (BD/yx)

469 In Avatar 1 Pandora was important because of the magic antigravity metal.

In Avatar 2 Pandora is important because they harvest longevity drugs from the brains of whales.

Too much to ask they stick to one McGuffin?

Posted by: Comrade Roboto at June 23, 2023 05:07 PM (nJ1bF)

470 There was a film star named Indy
Chucked out for a random bleak Cindy
It’s plot, it was woke
It’s theme, what a joke
Blockbuster transformed to an indie

Posted by: Hollywood Has Declared War On The Jones Boys! at June 23, 2023 05:07 PM (VsUo2)

471 When Hollywood makes a movie about women, for women and by women, as a white American heterosexual male I know my place, NOT at the theater. My money knows it's place as well, in my wallet.

You make crap, I don't pay. Not my first choice but there you go.

Posted by: JB1000 at June 23, 2023 05:08 PM (MD3V2)

472 Denzel Washington - who is black, always plays a man. Not an especially racially aggrieved man, but a man doing manly things, facing manly problems. You know what you're gonna get. And he has yet to be beaten up by a girl who weighs 105 lbs. Just sayin'.

Posted by: Joe at June 23, 2023 05:08 PM (m/BI6)

473 Oh, I would have remembered that. My dad would have burned down the school.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 23, 2023 05:01 PM (oINRc)

Sounds like a good man.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 23, 2023 05:08 PM (Keyt1)

474
I read Animal Farm in my first "gifted students" class in 7th grade.

Of course, every "gifted students" class I ever was assigned entailed a bunch of smart kids being essentially turned loose to create their own lesson plans, which was almost universally "lounge around the classroom reading comics or jerking off".

On the other hand, my 8th grade GS teacher was a hippie chick who never wore a bra, and had a habit of wearing button up shirts that were a bit too large for her.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 23, 2023 05:09 PM (n+4am)

475 Whereas if they just cast a woman or minority as the lead and then made a film about universal themes and aspirations, without toxic insults to white people and men, people might actually like those movies and say, "Give me more of that."

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"Sarah Connor? Come with me if you want to live ..."

Posted by: ShainS -- Oppression Scientist and Your AI Interpreter at June 23, 2023 05:12 PM (KKzEs)

476 The reason that Disney and Big Hollywood makes these movies is that they have "eff yoo money. They're permapissed that we dared to defy them and elect Trump so they have to make every movie about how superior that the checkmarks are, how wonderful they are in pointing it out and, of course, how us middle America-types are inferior to them and theirs. Once they run out of "eff yoou" cash, they'll poop out another Top Gun:Maverick or John Wick and most of the people will throw their money at it.

Posted by: C.M. Delta at June 23, 2023 05:15 PM (sPEYr)

477 Some have chose to attack the integrity of the Justice Department by claiming that we do not treat cases alike. This constitutes an attack on an institution that is essential to American democracy."

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1) The DoJ isn’t written in the Constitution therefore it cannot be essential to democracy

2) it’s a fact they don’t treat cases equally

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at June 23, 2023 05:15 PM (G+grJ)

478 But they're not big audiences. They're not blockbuster audiences, they're not $200 million tentpole summer release audiences.

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The tentpole has been surgically removed. And during Pride Month?

Posted by: ShainS -- Oppression Scientist and Your AI Interpreter at June 23, 2023 05:16 PM (KKzEs)

479 "I take his words as a threat."
... And with a "No shit, Sherlock!" thrown in.

How long is this shit-show of a Presidency going to go on? As long as the media can make it?

I would like to see Trump lay this all out, and say "Here's my platform.., put Joe and Jill and all their corrupt appointees in jail!"

Posted by: Ray Van Dune at June 23, 2023 05:21 PM (OqSlY)

480 ".....She's like the Beatles times Nicola Tesla times Leonardo DaVinci, but gender-swapped and given a British accent and drab haircut."

So, like Obama w/o the Brit accent? And even without the British accent ) Obama laid waste--especially with his Catspaw Dementia Joe--to the greatest country in the world.

Posted by: Voter theater. at June 23, 2023 06:49 PM (5xvZ1)

481 When I was in Jr. High we'd have to solve those mini-mystery stories every week. Without even knowing it we were being taught critical thinking skills. Betting that doesn't happen today

Posted by: the redknob at June 23, 2023 07:32 PM (8mDaR)

482 oh ffs. Cameron never made a movie like that.
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Yeah you didn't watch it. Sit down.

Posted by: Jim at June 23, 2023 08:07 PM (bkAtW)

483 Avatar 2 is all about the CGI. Man, it is brilliant. You'll believe what you're seeing.

But, it's still stuffed to the gills with woke silliness.

All the villains are white. There's one good father. The rest suck. Pregnant women warriors kicking ass has to be the silliest thing.
Humans are garbage that like to torture animals for profit, etc, etc.

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The main villains are blue, because they're Avatars.

Jake and Tonowari are good fathers. That's two. Quaritch bonds with his son. How many more do you need?

There's literally ONE pregnant woman who spears ONE guy. And she's a 9-foot tall Na'vi and he's a nameless human on a boat. The scene lasts about 2 seconds tops. And that's it.

Humans are whaling, which is a thing that really happens.

What is this "etc etc" that you speak of?

Posted by: Jim at June 23, 2023 08:13 PM (bkAtW)

484 In Avatar 1 Pandora was important because of the magic antigravity metal.

In Avatar 2 Pandora is important because they harvest longevity drugs from the brains of whales.

Too much to ask they stick to one McGuffin?

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Why? Dorks complained about "Unobtanium" in the first movie, and now they're complaining about the lack of Unobtanium. It's resources the humans are after.

Besides, just as you said - they're McGuffins. Plot devices to move the action forward. They're not what the movie is actually about. People here seem to love Top Gun: Maverick. What was the story of that movie?

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Is Disney D.I.E.ing?
And Why Woke Hollywood Is Going to Make It Impossible To Make Any Big-Budget Movie With Anything But a White Male Lead