Is the Collapse of Disney Something?

The media is still spinning like a top for their favorite Groomer Entertainment Corporation:

On the bright side for Independence Day bomb Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, its first five days at the box office of $82 million aren't as bad as Paramount/Skydance's Terminator Genisys.
That sequel's launch just prior to July 4, 2015 left a lot of methane in the air with $42.4M in its Wednesday-to-Sunday total. The attempted Arnold Schwarzenegger comeback movie ended its domestic run at $89.7M; Dial of Destiny will cross that mark before its first week is up.

Oh well, if it beat Terminator: Genisys, a movie so awful it doesn't know how to spell its own name, it's doing pretty well, really.

Comparing July 4th tentpole hits and bombs can be tricky. Since the holiday skips around -- sometimes studios launch on a Wednesday and sometimes a Friday -- for box office fanatics, everything is apples-to-oranges. The last time July 4th fell on a Tuesday was 2017 and 2006. In 2017, over the Friday-Tuesday frame, Illumination/Universal's Despicable Me 3 led with $99M, followed by Sony/MRC's Baby Driver with $29.97M.
With the $300M+ costing Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny tanking this weekend, it's as though box office history is repeating itself. Back in 2006 over July 4th, there was another expensive, highly anticipated franchise sequel attempt that was also rejected by fans with a B+ CinemaScore: Warner Bros/DC's Superman Returns, from Bryan Singer. The pic cost well in excess of $220M after endless stories of a runaway budget and Singer re-creating corn-filled Smallville, Kansas in Australia. Like Superman Returns, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny clocked in at a way-too-long 2 hours and 34 minutes, thus delivering fewer showtimes for exhibitors (and studio) to gross more.
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For you see, July 4th is a prime launchpad for studios to take their best shot with a questionable franchise tentpole and milk as much money as possible. If it doesn't look like you're going to post some sort of record over three days, go for the 4-day, 5-day, 6-day or 7-day stretch that Independence Day offers. Warners took advantage of that opportunity with Superman Returns, minting a $108M seven-day opening. It's a figure Dial of Destiny won't even touch.

Indiana Jones opened in the UK with a clear field -- no tentpole movies were released last week, and the ones left over from previous weeks were either bombs (The Flash, Elemental) or entering their second month of release (Spider-Man: Across the Universe).

But that didn't stop industry shill Variety for crowing about Indiana Jones' amazing performance in the UK:

At WDW_Pro, Jonas J. Campbell reported that there is an "emergency meeting" taking place at Disney today. People who were on vacation this week were given 12 hours to get back home for this meeting.

The meeting, he reports, was called by Alan Bergman, the co-chair of Disney Entertainment, which oversees all of Disney's six movie studios. The other co-chair, Dana Walden, is a defender of Kathleen Kennedy, and was not summoned to the meeting. (Though she might show up.)

This follows rumors that "Five Horsemen of the Apocalypse" from Disney's Burbank HQ showed up at Lucasfilm to inspect its financial records just after the movie's Thursday night premiere (and failure).

Does this mean Kathleen Kennedy will be fired? Probably not. She only has one year left on her contract; Disney will probably just let her serve that out as a figurehead.

But the people who definitely may be fired are Kathleen Kennedy's leftwing employees, like the idiots of the LucasFilm story group who have produced one woke disaster after another. They infamously filmed themselves brainstorming ideas for what every Star Wars fan would want to see in their new "High Republic" era; they decided what Star Wars fans really wanted was "diversity," "dinosaurs," and "diversity." Yes, diversity, the grift so nice they named it twice.

Many Lucasfilm critics point out that firing Kathleen Kennedy accomplishes nothing because she has the whole place staffed with her Force is Female loyalists. But this may be an opportunity to fire most of these people. Lucasfilm has nothing left to destroy anyway, and Disney is not going to be greenlighting any more Lucasfilm bombs anytime soon, so they might as well shutter the place and run it with a skeleton crew.

And speaking of billion-dollar evil groomer industries:

Is Sound of Freedom something? Commenters who saw it on July 4th say yes!

Dune 2:

Phil Tippet, a stop-motion animator who worked on the Star Wars movies, made Mad God on his own, a few frames at a time, for ten years. It's already on pay per view, and is on Shudder, if you have that.

Meg 2 knows exactly what kind of movie it is. skip to here to see what kind of movie that is, or watch the full trailer.

Regarding Mission: Impossible, I earlier said that, based on the trailers, the plot seemed to be about an AI which was controlling information and either spreading "misinformation" or falsely branding the truth as "misinformation."

Chris Gore saw the film, and confirms that is in fact the plot. Everyone I've seen who saw it says it's really good, though there is a little disappointment that, being a Part 1 of a two-part story, it doesn't fully conclude the story. (That is, the AI remains in charge of the world's information at the end.) I've heard people say it's almost but not quite as good as Mission: Impossible 5 (Rogue Nation) and 6 (Fallout). Those were really good, and 5 is my favorite of the series, so being almost as good as those is a positive thing. Obviously it would be more positive if it were better than those, but, again, this is only Part 1 of the two-movie "Dead Reckoning" story.

They also say that Haley Atwell is great in it. She plays a female trickster type character who is in opposition to Tom Cruise, though not an actual villain. So kind of like the Phloebag character except not stupid and girlbossy.

And also she's one of the hottest women alive, so.

Posted by: Lamont the Big Dummy at 03:17 PM

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Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 05, 2023 03:17 PM (FVJNG)

2 first.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 05, 2023 03:17 PM (ncXxy)

3 disney has some very deep pockets I think it is a bit premature to be sounding the alarm on their pending collapse.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 05, 2023 03:18 PM (ncXxy)

4 SPONGE!

Posted by: Inogame at July 05, 2023 03:18 PM (53oGX)

5 The Others have been summoned.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 05, 2023 03:19 PM (FVJNG)

6 Not a good day for my enemies

https://bityl.co/Jfzo

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 05, 2023 03:19 PM (aD39U)

7 But the cruises are still afloat. Why would Disney worry about a billion dollars in losses from their movies?

They have positive gross profit! Sure, net profit is significantly lower and they've been having massive shakeups at the highest levels of management, but that's what healthy companies do.

Paul told me.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 05, 2023 03:19 PM (LvTSG)

8 On the bright side for Independence Day bomb Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, its first five days at the box office of $82 million aren't as bad as Paramount/Skydance's Terminator Genisys.
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"It's not as bad an almost universally despised movie from many years ago" is a 'bright side?'

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 05, 2023 03:20 PM (t0OGg)

9 This follows rumors that "Five Horsemen of the Apocalypse" from Disney's Burbank HQ showed up at Lucasfilm to inspect its financial records

It would be really terrible if any of KK's minions submitted fraudulent expense reports.

Posted by: Chuck C at July 05, 2023 03:20 PM (xttsV)

10 Maybe Disney should take a swing remaking Ghost Ship?

Posted by: Pudinhead at July 05, 2023 03:20 PM (tiR3O)

11 Many Lucasfilm critics point out that firing Kathleen Kennedy accomplishes nothing because she has the whole place staffed with her Force is Female loyalists. But this may be an opportunity to fire most of these people. Lucasfilm has nothing left to destroy anyway, and Disney is not going to be greenlighting any more Lucasfilm bombs anytime soon, so they might as well shutter the place and run it with a skeleton crew.

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Dave Filoni will just end up making it worse. He'll make The Book of Boba Fett into a movie.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 05, 2023 03:20 PM (LvTSG)

12 Obviously it would be more positive if it were better than those, but, again, this is only Part 1 of the two-movie "Dead Reckoning" story.

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And Cruise has said that he wants to make these movies until he's 80.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 05, 2023 03:21 PM (LvTSG)

13 *yawn* I'll just hang around and wait for another busty bikini redhead.

Posted by: wth at July 05, 2023 03:21 PM (v0R5T)

14 Comparing July 4th tentpole hits and bombs can be tricky. Since the holiday skips around -- sometimes studios launch on a Wednesday and sometimes a Friday -- for box office fanatics, everything is apples-to-oranges.
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This whole thing is more or less a fiction. Independence Day is not a major movie-going holiday. It's a cookout and fireworks holiday. Independence Day isn't a huge movie draw.

This line of speculation is a lot more about crafting a narrative about how this bomb isn't as bad as it looks.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 05, 2023 03:22 PM (t0OGg)

15 Afternoon.

Huh. Apparently they're releasing a Star Trek: Picard Legacy Blu-ray box set that includes all seven seasons of TNG, the four TNG movies and all three seasons of Picard four about $245 bucks. Also includes a book, Star Trek badge fridge magnets, coasters and playing cards.

I have to admit it's a nice looking package and the per season cost is rather low.

Posted by: Robert at July 05, 2023 03:22 PM (/zLoA)

16 They’re comparing 2023 with 2006? Lol. OK I guess let’s pretend inflation isn’t a thing

Posted by: Montec at July 05, 2023 03:22 PM (HF0FJ)

17 8 "It's not as bad an almost universally despised movie from many years ago" is a 'bright side?'
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 05, 2023 03:20 PM (t0OGg)

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Right now? At Lucasfilm? "MGM fucked up worse than us!" is probably a common refrain.

I don't think this is as bad a failure as Rings of Power, to be honest.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 05, 2023 03:22 PM (LvTSG)

18 On the bright side for Independence Day bomb Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, its first five days at the box office of $82 million aren't as bad as Paramount/Skydance's Terminator Genisys.
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"It's not as bad an almost universally despised movie from many years ago" is a 'bright side?'
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At least it's not AIDS. Just monkeypox.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 05, 2023 03:22 PM (29rl5)

19 Semi related submitted for headline cruelty.

More Botting Plants Identifying as Closed Due to Tanking Bud Light Sales

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at July 05, 2023 03:22 PM (FVME7)

20 Obviously it would be more positive if it were better than those, but, again, this is only Part 1 of the two-movie "Dead Reckoning" story.

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And Cruise has said that he wants to make these movies until he's 80.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 05, 2023 03:21 PM (LvTSG)

I think the Dead Reckoning films are going to be his last in the franchise.

Posted by: Robert at July 05, 2023 03:23 PM (/zLoA)

21 Mad God has been around a while; anyway I highly recommend.

slightly depressing however

Posted by: BlackOrchid at July 05, 2023 03:23 PM (AcWfM)

22 The meeting, he reports, was called by Alan Bergman, the co-chair of Disney Entertainment, which oversees all of Disney's six movie studios. The other co-chair, Dana Walden, is a defender of Kathleen Kennedy, and was not summoned to the meeting. (Though she might show up.)
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Yup. If Bergman is making a power play, he's going to win or be out on his ass toot sweet. He's taking a run at the king (well, queen, in this case). Walden's name is often bandied about in speculation about who will replace Iger.

This is a game where I wish there could be no winners.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 05, 2023 03:23 PM (t0OGg)

23 And the new Dune trailer is boss.

Also, as of today, new trailer for Scorsese's latest film, Killers of the Flower Moon:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EP34Yoxs3FQ

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 05, 2023 03:23 PM (LvTSG)

24 I would bet 80 percent of the people that went and saw this movie were wearing a mask.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 05, 2023 03:23 PM (/MvYl)

25 20 I think the Dead Reckoning films are going to be his last in the franchise.
Posted by: Robert at July 05, 2023 03:23 PM (/zLoA)

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Since he just said the "80 years old" thing in the past couple of days, I'm sure that he's willing to adrenaline junkie his way through another half dozen.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 05, 2023 03:24 PM (LvTSG)

26 What exactly is the 'Dial of Destiny ' supposed to be?

Posted by: dantesed at July 05, 2023 03:24 PM (HyroA)

27 Is the Collapse of Disney Something?

Not to me. I have no ties to Disney, or their product. Therefore I shall lurk. Have fun and carry on!

Posted by: Mr. Big at July 05, 2023 03:24 PM (Xrfse)

28 Disney is tanking?

MOAR PLZ

Posted by: Tex Lovera at July 05, 2023 03:24 PM (wtvvX)

29 My complaint about Mission Impossible 6 is that the bad guy "twist"/reveal comes a little too early and was too obvious. Other than that it was a solid action movie for something that deep in a franchise.

Posted by: Octochicken at July 05, 2023 03:24 PM (oCS0o)

30 On the bright side for Independence Day bomb Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, its first five days at the box office of $82 million aren't as bad as Paramount/Skydance's Terminator Genisys.

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It could be worse. It could be raining.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at July 05, 2023 03:24 PM (FVME7)

31 Jim Caveizel and Tim Ballard were making the rounds in support of the July 4 Sound of Freedom release.

Here they are interviewed by Jordan Peterson:

https://tinyurl.com/mrm632kz

Posted by: kallisto at July 05, 2023 03:25 PM (dCxaZ)

32 24 I would bet 80 percent of the people that went and saw this movie were wearing a mask.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 05, 2023 03:23 PM (/MvYl)

Good idea.. I'd wear a mask too.. Wouldn't want anyone to know I paid to watch that crappy movie

Posted by: It's me donna at July 05, 2023 03:25 PM (bs+z0)

33 "*yawn* I'll just hang around and wait for another busty bikini redhead."

that one from the last thread wasn't enough? sheesh!

Posted by: DanMan at July 05, 2023 03:25 PM (DB6tu)

34 But the people who definitely may be fired are Kathleen Kennedy's leftwing employees, like the idiots of the LucasFilm story group who have produced one woke disaster after another. They infamously filmed themselves brainstorming ideas for what every Star Wars fan would want to see in their new "High Republic" era; they decided what Star Wars fans really wanted was "diversity," "dinosaurs," and "diversity." Yes, diversity, the grift so nice they named it twice.
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They'll have to be, and we'll see if Bergman has the juice *and* the balls to do it. Kennedy isn't even a problem anymore. She's done. She has completed her job and she will probably "retire" with honors and lifetime achievement awards when her contract expires.

But she's more than enough time to seed Lucasfilm with a bunch of vacuum-headed fellow travelers. They have to be purged if any recovery is to be possible.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 05, 2023 03:25 PM (t0OGg)

35 26 What exactly is the 'Dial of Destiny ' supposed to be?
Posted by: dantesed at July 05, 2023 03:24 PM (HyroA)

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Something Archimedes created to map fissures in time, according to RLM's review of the movie.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 05, 2023 03:25 PM (LvTSG)

36 I don't think this is as bad a failure as Rings of Power, to be honest.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 05, 2023 03:22 PM (LvTSG)
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The One Failure to Rule Them All

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 05, 2023 03:25 PM (YIVH2)

37 26 What exactly is the 'Dial of Destiny ' supposed to be?
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A bar of ancient alien soap.

Posted by: Pudinhead at July 05, 2023 03:25 PM (tiR3O)

38 Heh. Did you catch the endorsement from Kathleen Kennedy in that animated trailer? Small world, innit?

Posted by: Oddbob at July 05, 2023 03:25 PM (nfrXX)

39 Still, who is paying to see an 80 year old action/adventurer being pushed around by a tranny (eg British woman)?

Posted by: Regular joe at July 05, 2023 03:25 PM (nnp+f)

40 @8 On the bright side for Independence Day bomb Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, its first five days at the box office of $82 million aren't as bad as Paramount/Skydance's Terminator Genisys.
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"It's not as bad an almost universally despised movie from many years ago" is a 'bright side?'

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It's not as bad as a movie that was even more blatant about swapping a male character for a replacement female character. Genisys was the one that killed John Conner early on, and replaced him with a new girl for Sarah Conner to protect.

Posted by: junior at July 05, 2023 03:25 PM (3O4Ir)

41 I don't know if anyone else caught it, but the recs in the trailer for Mad God include none other than...Kathleen Kennedy. It looked interesting up to that point.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 05, 2023 03:25 PM (eOEVl)

42 ESPN is also hemorrhaging money for Disney.

Popcorn ready.

Posted by: Montec at July 05, 2023 03:25 PM (HF0FJ)

43
Can't wait until they compare the Indy Baller-Bridge flick with Ishtar...

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 05, 2023 03:25 PM (n+4am)

44 What this world needs is Indian Jones vs Terminator movie.

Posted by: Ripley at July 05, 2023 03:25 PM (KrJTL)

45 They also say that Haley Atwell is great in it. She plays a female trickster type character who is in opposition to Tom Cruise, though not an actual villain. So kind of like the Phloebag character except not stupid and girlbossy.
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So nothing like Phoebag, then.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 05, 2023 03:26 PM (t0OGg)

46 I saw the Mario movie recently as well...its was pretty good. Jack Black is entertaining with good direction, and Pratt and Anya Taylor-Joy are always good...

Posted by: 18-1 at July 05, 2023 03:26 PM (lc5cP)

47 >>>9 My complaint about Mission Impossible 6 is that the bad guy "twist"/reveal comes a little too early and was too obvious. Other than that it was a solid action movie for something that deep in a franchise.

I mean it was pretty obvious who the bad guy was from the poster.

I call it the Superfluous Handsome Man principle. A movie only needs one handsome man. If there are two, the other one will be killed by the middle of the movie to motivate the main hero. If he is not dead by the middle of the movie, he's the Villain.

Posted by: ace at July 05, 2023 03:26 PM (KRtlO)

48 On the bright side for Independence Day bomb Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, its first five days at the box office of $82 million aren't as bad as Paramount/Skydance's Terminator Genisys.

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No fate but what you make, as I've heard.

Posted by: The recovered remains of Hitler's cocaine filled flying submarine at July 05, 2023 03:26 PM (33ek6)

49 24 I would bet 80 percent of the people that went and saw this movie were wearing a mask.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 05, 2023 03:23 PM (/MvYl)

And a puke bucket, if they were really prepared...

Posted by: Tex Lovera at July 05, 2023 03:26 PM (wtvvX)

50 47 I mean it was pretty obvious who the bad guy was from the poster.

I call it the Superfluous Handsome Man principle. A movie only needs one handsome man. If there are two, the other one will be killed by the middle of the movie to motivate the main hero. If he is not dead by the middle of the movie, he's the Villain.

Posted by: ace at July 05, 2023 03:26 PM (KRtlO)

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Welcome back, ace.

You just know that Cavill stole the pump shotgun arm thing from you and you're jealous that he gets credit.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 05, 2023 03:27 PM (LvTSG)

51 You would think Disney could do something with Lovecraft's Cthulhu. Imagine the park ride that would make.

Posted by: Pudinhead at July 05, 2023 03:27 PM (tiR3O)

52 Here is a much shorter Daily Signal interview with Caviezel and the handsome Mexican producer:

https://tinyurl.com/3z5wzezu

towards the very end, the producer reveals that he believes the mexican and american govts. are either ignoring the huge problem of cross-border trafficking because they don't care...or because they are involved in it.

Posted by: kallisto at July 05, 2023 03:27 PM (dCxaZ)

53 Terminator: Genisys, a movie so awful it doesn't know how to spell its own name

*******

Dammit Lamont, you made me laugh, ya big dummy!!

Posted by: Muldoon at July 05, 2023 03:27 PM (kXYt5)

54 >>And also she's one of the hottest women alive, so.

Well. We're Waiting.

Posted by: garrett at July 05, 2023 03:27 PM (cE/Tp)

55 (That is, the AI remains in charge of the world's information at the end.)

That is, it's a documentary so they couldn't have done the finale, anyways.

Posted by: t-bird at July 05, 2023 03:27 PM (Sv58p)

56 I had a funny image in my head of MULDOON knee-walking drunk at a MD convention in the 80's going around telling people "I'm a f*cking High King of Tara by blood yah bastard! You look like an Englishman! Here's a limerick" But he just walks away.

Posted by: Thesokorus at July 05, 2023 03:27 PM (UhdgH)

57 The sad thing is LucasFilm doesn't have to produce more Star Wars or Indy films. They can green light anything they want. How about an original sci-fi of pulpy action movie? No? Just the same old shit?

It's like Disney just threw away five billion dollars for no good reason.

Posted by: Robert at July 05, 2023 03:27 PM (Z0FED)

58 You would think Disney could do something with Lovecraft's Cthulhu. Imagine the park ride that would make.

The left HATES Lovecraft and of late they've become more fond of monstrous ancient entities from another dimension...

Posted by: 18-1 at July 05, 2023 03:28 PM (lc5cP)

59 Sadly, the headline of this column (or "word hole," as JTM recommends) is incredibly optimistic. Disney is nowhere near collapse. No, the company can't keep hemorrhaging billions without limit, but it is nowhere near bankruptcy.

But it is now at an inflection point where things *have* to change. And change is going to be hard to come by so long as the architect of the current conditions - Bob Iger - is still there.

Disney has long since stopped being the "House that Walt Built." It's the "House that Bob Built" now, and nobody can pick up the pieces until he's out for good and the new guy has a clear mandate to clean up the shop.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 05, 2023 03:28 PM (t0OGg)

60 I don't know Ace, that screen shot of "Dial Of Destiny" is hot. That woman(?) just exudes raw sexuality. I can see them doing several more Indiana Jones movies with her!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo...non-binary at July 05, 2023 03:28 PM (PHmov)

61
What exactly is the 'Dial of Destiny ' supposed to be?
Posted by: dantesed at July 05, 2023 03:24 PM (HyroA)

Archimedes invents deodorant soap.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 05, 2023 03:28 PM (n+4am)

62 Of all the required trainings I've undergone as a teacher, the one on Human Trafficking was the one that upset me the most.
At least I know now what warning signs to be on the lookout for.

Posted by: goddessoftheclassroom at July 05, 2023 03:28 PM (goJt/)

63 And also she's one of the hottest women alive, so.

Two words.

Karen
Gillian

Posted by: 18-1 at July 05, 2023 03:28 PM (lc5cP)

64 51 You would think Disney could do something with Lovecraft's Cthulhu. Imagine the park ride that would make.
Posted by: Pudinhead at July 05, 2023 03:27 PM (tiR3O)

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Guillermo del Toro almost got a movie version of In the Mountains of Madness off the ground 15 years ago or so, starring Tom Cruise, but funding fell apart.

He's talking about swearing off live action films (after his version of Frankenstein) and just doing animation, while he's apparently developed a very healthy relationship with Netflix. They may fund something along those lines. Fingers crossed!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 05, 2023 03:28 PM (LvTSG)

65 Not enough boys running around in loin cloths. I wouldn't see either.

Posted by: Lindsey Graham at July 05, 2023 03:29 PM (/MvYl)

66 As we close out Independence Day week, we'd be remiss in not giving a hat tip to UFO blower-upper, combat pilot Russell Casse 10/1/1950 - 7/4/1996.

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 05, 2023 03:29 PM (4I/2K)

67 The left HATES Lovecraft and of late they've become more fond of monstrous ancient entities from another dimension...

But enough about Whoopi Goldberg.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 05, 2023 03:29 PM (eOEVl)

68 Still, who is paying to see an 80 year old action/adventurer being pushed around by a tranny (eg British woman)?

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Jeez, minus the tranny that could actually be a good movie. An old action man guy that has to help solve problems, but he's old and has to be helped around everywhere, loaded into cars, etc., and the team realizes that normal people can do what's needed, too, and the lesson is there's nothing really special involved in saving the world other than being in the right place at the right time for the movie to progress and getting lucky in the right ways when the movie needs the hero to succeed.

Posted by: The recovered remains of Hitler's cocaine filled flying submarine at July 05, 2023 03:29 PM (33ek6)

69 >>I don't know Ace, that screen shot of "Dial Of Destiny" is hot. That woman(?) just exudes raw sexuality.

Indy looks like he's regretting taking that Blue Pill.

Posted by: garrett at July 05, 2023 03:29 PM (cE/Tp)

70 "I don't think this is as bad a failure as Rings of Power, to be honest.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison"

It seems blockbuster movies are now mostly being rated on the "Not as bad as...(insert bad movie here)" scale.

Posted by: Ripley at July 05, 2023 03:29 PM (KrJTL)

71 59 Sadly, the headline of this column (or "word hole," as JTM recommends) is incredibly optimistic. Disney is nowhere near collapse. No, the company can't keep hemorrhaging billions without limit, but it is nowhere near bankruptcy.

But it is now at an inflection point where things *have* to change. And change is going to be hard to come by so long as the architect of the current conditions - Bob Iger - is still there.

Disney has long since stopped being the "House that Walt Built." It's the "House that Bob Built" now, and nobody can pick up the pieces until he's out for good and the new guy has a clear mandate to clean up the shop.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 05, 2023 03:28 PM (t0OGg)

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Word hole is good. Whoever JTM is, he sounds like a premiere wordsmith.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 05, 2023 03:29 PM (LvTSG)

72 >>>You just know that Cavill stole the pump shotgun arm thing from you and you're jealous that he gets credit.

i just saw the scene again, he's just limbering up. He's not actually "Recharging his arms" or anything.

I guess Mission: Impossible 4 set up Jeremy Renner to possibly be the secret villain, but then made him a new member of the team. But the twist there was, at *first* you suspected him of being a villain, then it turned out he wasn't.

and then in 5 they suggested he was a turncoat again.

Posted by: ace at July 05, 2023 03:29 PM (KRtlO)

73 Jim Caveizel and Tim Ballard were making the rounds in support of the July 4 Sound of Freedom release.

Here they are interviewed by Jordan Peterson:

Thank you. Watching right now.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at July 05, 2023 03:29 PM (Xrfse)

74 Not enough boys running around in loin cloths. I wouldn't see either.
Posted by: Lindsey Graham at July 05, 2023 03:29 PM (/MvYl)
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Just wait until we release our remake of Zardoz!

Posted by: Disney at July 05, 2023 03:29 PM (t0OGg)

75 They also say that Haley Atwell is great in it. She plays a female trickster type character who is in opposition to Tom Cruise, though not an actual villain. So kind of like the Phloebag character except not stupid and girlbossy.

And also she's one of the hottest women alive, so.

She's got what those in the business call "great tits".

Posted by: Tex Lovera at July 05, 2023 03:30 PM (wtvvX)

76 Of all the required trainings I've undergone as a teacher, the one on Human Trafficking was the one that upset me the most.
At least I know now what warning signs to be on the lookout for.

We had to take it annually. No, we didn't understand why a bunch of scientists had to waste time on that at work. Did they think we were keeping children in the lab?

Posted by: Archimedes at July 05, 2023 03:30 PM (eOEVl)

77 Hmmm. All of a sudden consequences will be a thing?

Magic 8-ball: Decidedly Not

Posted by: blaster at July 05, 2023 03:31 PM (pwExq)

78 Indian Jones And The Danger Of The Walk In Tub

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 05, 2023 03:31 PM (XqIlw)

79 She's got what those in the business call "great tits".
Posted by: Tex Lovera at July 05, 2023 03:30 PM (wtvvX)
++++
Confirmed:
https://is.gd/qeFWuD

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 05, 2023 03:31 PM (t0OGg)

80 We had to take it annually. No, we didn't understand why a bunch of scientists had to waste time on that at work. Did they think we were keeping children in the lab?

Um...wait, was that a Do or Do Not in the training?

Posted by: Fauci's guys at July 05, 2023 03:31 PM (lc5cP)

81 I call it the Superfluous Handsome Man principle. A movie only needs one handsome man. If there are two, the other one will be killed by the middle of the movie to motivate the main hero. If he is not dead by the middle of the movie, he's the Villain.

Posted by: ace at July 05, 2023 03:26 PM (KRtlO)

Nice. Mrs928 is very good at picking out the hidden before the reveal. She says that a movie is like a short story, there is nothing superfluous in it so anything odd is most likely The Clue.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 05, 2023 03:31 PM (aD39U)

82 I Saw Sound of Freedom on 7/4. It's hard to drum up suspense for a movie you KNOW is going to end happily. It's a terrific story (except for the guy ? leaving his wife and kids to Rambo off to Colombia to rescue 2 Guatemalan tykes he doesn't know) And the wife goes along. Hmmph. 'When God asks you you don't hesitate' I guess.

It's nice that the baddies get arrested and kids get rescued, and the 'special announcement' countdown over the final credits is kind of cute. Then Jim Caviezel comes on to hawk 'Sound' as the start of a groundswell movement to defeat child trafficking. A noble cause.

The screen then tells us that there are a million children in sex slavery worldwide -- Can this be true ???

Posted by: Aunt Ralph at July 05, 2023 03:31 PM (SbycW)

83 77 Hmmm. All of a sudden consequences will be a thing?

Magic 8-ball: Decidedly Not
Posted by: blaster at July 05, 2023 03:31 PM (pwExq)

=======

When interest on the money you borrowed to fund your disaster of a production is 5% instead of 0%, people tend to change their thinking.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 05, 2023 03:31 PM (LvTSG)

84 Why does Ace post as Lamont ?
Is there a background story, or an inside joke?
Thanks.

Posted by: Saxon at July 05, 2023 03:31 PM (QP35N)

85 >>They also say that Haley Atwell is great in it. She plays a female trickster type character who is in opposition to Tom Cruise, though not an actual villain. So kind of like the Phloebag character except not stupid and girlbossy.

Nobody puts Tom Cruise in a corner, NOBODY!!!!!

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 05, 2023 03:31 PM (rc3Z7)

86 I hate time travel stories. HG Wells did one that was ok, but since then it's just dumb.

Posted by: fd at July 05, 2023 03:31 PM (iayUP)

87 You would think Disney could do something with Lovecraft's Cthulhu. Imagine the park ride that would make.
Posted by: Pudinhead

And it'd be in sync with Disney's moral alignment.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at July 05, 2023 03:31 PM (FVME7)

88 >>>84 Why does Ace post as Lamont ?
Is there a background story, or an inside joke?
Thanks.

when I make a particularly stupid error, I have to show contrition by posting as Lamont the Big Dummy.

Posted by: ace at July 05, 2023 03:32 PM (KRtlO)

89 I hate time travel stories. HG Wells did one that was ok, but since then it's just dumb.

Primer

Posted by: Fauci's guys at July 05, 2023 03:32 PM (lc5cP)

90 >>Part 1 of a two-part story, it doesn't fully conclude the story.

This is an insult to the audience. I won't see a movie like this since Back To The Future pulled that shit.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at July 05, 2023 03:32 PM (f9EvM)

91 86 I hate time travel stories. HG Wells did one that was ok, but since then it's just dumb.
Posted by: fd at July 05, 2023 03:31 PM (iayUP)

========

Time travel is dumb, but it can be done well. Closed loop logic tends to work best. Back to the Future and the first Terminator are examples.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 05, 2023 03:32 PM (LvTSG)

92 MI:5 was entertaining, but Fallout was a convoluted and utterly nonsensical disappointment.

Also, Rebecca Ferguson did not wear a slinky dress in that one.

Boos all around.

Posted by: spindrift at July 05, 2023 03:32 PM (7YrZ7)

93 I haven't seen. movie in a theatre since the WW1 movie 7-8 years ago, but I'm going to see Sound of Freedom.

Please watch the interview by Jordan Peterson of Jim Caveziel and Tim Ballard. It will make you weep, make you furious, and make you want to know more.

I'll link it in a minute...

Posted by: LASue at July 05, 2023 03:32 PM (Ed8Zd)

94 Of all the required trainings I've undergone as a teacher, the one on Human Trafficking was the one that upset me the most.
At least I know now what warning signs to be on the lookout for.

--

Here's a fun one for you.

Think back to a few years ago when the left really started to push for illegal aliens to be accepted as normal in society.

Posted by: The recovered remains of Hitler's cocaine filled flying submarine at July 05, 2023 03:32 PM (33ek6)

95 >>>
Nice. Mrs928 is very good at picking out the hidden before the reveal. She says that a movie is like a short story, there is nothing superfluous in it so anything odd is most likely The Clue.

exactly, they're tightly written, there are no bits of information included that do not have plot relevance.

Posted by: ace at July 05, 2023 03:32 PM (KRtlO)

96 33 "*yawn* I'll just hang around and wait for another busty bikini redhead."

that one from the last thread wasn't enough? sheesh!
Posted by: DanMan at July 05, 2023 03:25 PM (DB6tu)

I never look back! It takes away from the now.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at July 05, 2023 03:32 PM (N3zMI)

97 Indian Jones And The Danger Of The Walk In Tub
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 05, 2023 03:31 PM

Or the taxi-way or golf course.

Posted by: Minnfidel at July 05, 2023 03:33 PM (GwxCX)

98 The screen then tells us that there are a million children in sex slavery worldwide -- Can this be true ???
Posted by: Aunt Ralph at July 05, 2023 03:31 PM (SbycW)
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Easily. It's probably understated, probably by a lot.

There are 2 billion people in the world under 15 years of age. A million is just 0.05% of that.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 05, 2023 03:34 PM (t0OGg)

99 I wonder what movie was playing when the Andrea Doria went down.

Posted by: Lights! Camera! Glug! at July 05, 2023 03:34 PM (T0tUU)

100 ESPN is about to make Pat McAfee (20+ million a year) the face of College Football and College GameDay.
Nobody wants this. He is Poochie the dog.

Posted by: Eagle Lips at July 05, 2023 03:34 PM (exeWe)

101 What this world needs is Indian Jones vs Terminator movie.
Posted by: Ripley

Indian Jones ?

Posted by: JT at July 05, 2023 03:34 PM (T4tVD)

102 theropods had feathers and lips, dammit.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 05, 2023 03:34 PM (xhaym)

103 @7: "Why would Disney worry about a billion dollars in losses from their movies?"

My take on Disney is that all of the current disappointment and chaos is a leading indicator that won't truly affect the bottom line for another ten or twenty years.

Dial of Destiny did as "well" as it did at the box office 'cause there are still a bunch of middle aged parents taking their kids to an old movie franchise they want to share together.

I have a hard time imagining that current kids and teenagers will wanna spend their future adult dollars on parks and cruises based off the media we've seen in the last few years.

Successful (hugely popular) multi-generational mass media from one company is probably an exception, not a rule.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at July 05, 2023 03:35 PM (k1Qly)

104 >>>99 I wonder what movie was playing when the Andrea Doria went down.

It's in my book, Astonishing Tales of the Sea.

Posted by: Cosmo Kramer at July 05, 2023 03:35 PM (KRtlO)

105 Indiana Jones and the Death of Disney.

Posted by: Joe Mama at July 05, 2023 03:35 PM (lZVy/)

106 therapods too

Posted by: Kindltot at July 05, 2023 03:35 PM (xhaym)

107 Had a crazy idea last night. If I were head of Disney, I'd demand five new action hero movies with four or five new main action characters budgeted at about 60M each and limited to 100 minutes in length (no more).

- A younger male action lead in the Chris Pratt vein, to play an everyman type forced into a 'Die Hard' type situation.

- A charismatic, younger Iblis-Elba-type playing a wealthy playboy with a double-life as an Equalizer-type vigilante.

- A younger Jet Li type playing a James Bond like superspy.

- An 'Enemy of the State' type thriller about a female Government agent who discovers the agency she works for has been covering up for the wealthy and powerful.

Give the projects to cheaper, more talented writers and directors and see if any of them stick.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at July 05, 2023 03:35 PM (9yUzE)

108
What exactly is the 'Dial of Destiny ' supposed to be?
Posted by: dantesed

=========

A time-travel device.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 05, 2023 03:35 PM (lCaJd)

109 I don't care about Dune 2. Actually, I don't care about any of them. I hope Sound of Freedom does well, though.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 05, 2023 03:35 PM (p+1gI)

110 Willowed

Pbbbffffffft!! - a limerick

The vagaries of the Brits are hard to parse
It's gotten to the point that it's a farce
Re: this proper title question
I have a small suggestion
Those royal twits can kiss my royal arse!

Posted by: Muldoon at July 05, 2023 03:35 PM (kXYt5)

111 Nobody wants this. He is Poochie the dog.
Posted by: Eagle Lips at July 05, 2023 03:34 PM (exeWe)

TO THE EXTREME!!

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 05, 2023 03:35 PM (aD39U)

112 And yet, we do NOTHING to stop or help the kids being trafficked across our open border. Nothing.

Posted by: Minnfidel at July 05, 2023 03:35 PM (GwxCX)

113 Maybe one of these days the mouse will understand people used to like disney to get away from real life and all it's problems and do not want this woke shit shoved in their face on top of being charged a fortune to be there or go to a movie.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 05, 2023 03:35 PM (pmmLi)

114 78 Indian Jones And The Danger Of The Walk In Tub
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 05, 2023 03:31 PM (XqIlw)

Indiana Jones and the Lost Dentures

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at July 05, 2023 03:36 PM (PiwSw)

115
What exactly is the 'Dial of Destiny ' supposed to be?
Posted by: dantesed

A deodorant soap that was created to whip Irish Spring's ass.

That, or a Timex watch -- still running and on time(!) -- found clutched in the skeletal paw of Archimedes

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 05, 2023 03:36 PM (ucEUz)

116
Indiana Jones and the TV Remote With Really Big Buttons

Posted by: DB - for a brighter tomorrow at July 05, 2023 03:36 PM (geLO8)

117 What exactly is the 'Dial of Destiny ' supposed to be?
Posted by: dantesed

=========

A time-travel device.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 05, 2023 03:35 PM

Sherman Peabody had the way-back machine!

Posted by: Minnfidel at July 05, 2023 03:36 PM (GwxCX)

118 107
Give the projects to cheaper, more talented writers and directors and see if any of them stick.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at July 05, 2023 03:35 PM (9yUzE)

========

Brian de Palma made Hitchcock homages in the 70s. He didn't make Hitchcock sequels.

Lucas made homages to Flash Gordon. He didn't make sequels to Flash Gordon.

Coppola made homages to gangster movies. He didn't make a sequel to White Heat.

Scorsese made homages to...Michael Powell and Fellini. He's his own beast.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 05, 2023 03:36 PM (LvTSG)

119 Dave Filoni will just end up making it worse. He'll make The Book of Boba Fett into a movie.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 05, 2023 03:20 PM (LvTSG)
---
What's so maddening about the decline of Star Wars is that there is a near-endless amount of content that could fuel GENERATIONS of stories on the big screen. With GOOD writing, it really is a license to print money.

But Wokeness >>>> Money in the House of Mouse

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 05, 2023 03:37 PM (YIVH2)

120 Successful (hugely popular) multi-generational mass media from one company is probably an exception, not a rule.
Posted by: Walter Freeman at July 05, 2023 03:35 PM (k1Qly)
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Yup. They're laying a ton of groundwork for future trouble.

Losing a billion dollars per year at the box office is rough. Losing a billion dollars per quarter on D+ is rough. Declining merchandising is rough. Declining parks attendance is rough.

But the box office - that is, the movies - feeds everything downstream of it. Having *no* hits for years spells trouble for the streaming service immediately, for the merchandising in the near term, and for the parks in the long term. There's nothing to feed the machinery that brings in large amounts of money over long periods of time.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 05, 2023 03:37 PM (t0OGg)

121 I don't think I want to go to the theater to see Sound of Freedom, but I think I will still buy a couple of tickets online for my local cinema, as a way of encouragement.

I did that with that abortion movie.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 05, 2023 03:37 PM (aD39U)

122
Indiana Jones and the Bead Dazzled Bed Pan

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 05, 2023 03:37 PM (ucEUz)

123 here's the interview link. Watch it! It's long, but worth it. TWSS.

https://tinyurl.com/4hrwa9a4

Posted by: LASue at July 05, 2023 03:37 PM (Ed8Zd)

124 >What exactly is the 'Dial of Destiny ' supposed to be?
Posted by: dantesed

part of an ancient gameshow invented by the equally ancient Phoenicians

Posted by: DB - for a brighter tomorrow at July 05, 2023 03:37 PM (geLO8)

125 What exactly is the 'Dial of Destiny ' supposed to be?
Posted by: dantesed

An ancient give-a-fuckometer. And it's stuck on zero.

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at July 05, 2023 03:37 PM (8ZsHS)

126 The last movie I saw was Super Mario Brothers, the next film I'm going to see is going to be Oppenheimer.

Fun Fact:

There is no black and white IMAX film stock so Nolan had to have the film stock engineered and fabricated especially for the film.

He also shot over 11 miles of film.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 05, 2023 03:37 PM (rc3Z7)

127 Timecop is a fun time-travel movie.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 05, 2023 03:38 PM (p+1gI)

128 Indiana Jones and the Jitterbug Phone.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 05, 2023 03:38 PM (l6UsA)

129
The sad thing is LucasFilm doesn't have to produce more Star Wars or Indy films. They can green light anything they want. How about an original sci-fi of pulpy action movie? No? Just the same old shit?

It's like Disney just threw away five billion dollars for no good reason.
Posted by: Robert at July 05, 2023 03:27 PM (Z0FED)

The one sure thing that they could have done to huge profits is the one thing that Lucas apparently insisted was verboten during the LucasFilm sale.

A high def remaster/release of the original trilogy theatrical versions.

Which makes me think grand conspiracy. Lucas sells to Disney but forbids a remaster/rerelease of the theatrical versions. Also insists on KK as head of LucasFilm at Disney. KK utterly sabotages LucasFilm, which Lucas buys back for pennies on the dollar. Lucas now does the remaster/rerelease to massive profits.

The only problem with that theory is that KK was entirely too enthusiastic with her sabotage.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 05, 2023 03:38 PM (n+4am)

130 They infamously filmed themselves brainstorming ideas for what every Star Wars fan would want to see in their new "High Republic" era; they decided what Star Wars fans really wanted was "diversity," "dinosaurs," and "diversity." Yes, diversity, the grift so nice they named it twice.

***

I remember seeing that a few years ago. The only reason dinosaurs made that list is because the only other movie franchise they could remember in those smooth brains of theirs was the Jurassic Park movies. All of these overweight unfuckables in the Disney / Marvel / Lucasfilms stable are notoriously famous for stating over and over that they haven't read any of the source material or watched any of the previous movies.

Posted by: Azathoth at July 05, 2023 03:38 PM (wb1YC)

131 Indiana Jones and the $9.99 Life Insurance Plan

Posted by: fd at July 05, 2023 03:38 PM (iayUP)

132 What's so maddening about the decline of Star Wars is that there is a near-endless amount of content that could fuel GENERATIONS of stories on the big screen. With GOOD writing, it really is a license to print money.

But Wokeness >>>> Money in the House of Mouse
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 05, 2023 03:37 PM (YIVH2)
++++
In her infinite wisdom, KK killed the Expanded Universe (I think that's what it's called - I'm not a huge Star Wars fan, though).

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 05, 2023 03:38 PM (t0OGg)

133 I had a funny image in my head of MULDOON knee-walking drunk at a MD convention in the 80's going around telling people "I'm a f*cking High King of Tara by blood yah bastard! You look like an Englishman! Here's a limerick"
Posted by: Thesokorus

******

That's actually not too far from the truth...

Posted by: Muldoon at July 05, 2023 03:38 PM (kXYt5)

134 Indiana Jones and the Flip Phone of Doom.

Posted by: Minnfidel at July 05, 2023 03:38 PM (GwxCX)

135 Coppola made homages to gangster movies. He didn't make a sequel to White Heat.

Scorsese made homages to...Michael Powell and Fellini. He's his own beast.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 05, 2023 03:36 PM (LvTSG)

Buckaroo Banzai was a live action anime.

It'll be another 10yrs before people catch up to what that movie was doing.

Posted by: Thesokorus at July 05, 2023 03:39 PM (UhdgH)

136 Who's the dude in that top photo with Harrison Ford as Indy?

Posted by: ShainS -- Semiquincentennial or Bust! at July 05, 2023 03:39 PM (3m/gK)

137
Indiana Jones and the TV Ears

"WHAT?"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 05, 2023 03:39 PM (ucEUz)

138 Alternate idea: Give Neil Breen $200M and tell him to make an MCU movie.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at July 05, 2023 03:39 PM (9yUzE)

139 Indian Jones And The Danger Of The Walk In Tub
Posted by: Hairyback Guy
.......

Indiana Jones and the CPAP of Doom

Posted by: wth at July 05, 2023 03:39 PM (v0R5T)

140 Indiana Jones and the Reverse Mortgage.

Posted by: Minnfidel at July 05, 2023 03:39 PM (GwxCX)

141 Indiana Jones and the Reverse Mortgage

Posted by: fd at July 05, 2023 03:39 PM (iayUP)

142
And the new Dune trailer is boss.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison,

==========

I'm tired of movies about Planets.

(high-relief backlit closeup of some person)
"Ouh wuhld... is in youh hands."

"Doom... is youh destiny."

"We can aonly succeed... if youh will puhmits it."

I'm making those lines up, so if they actually exist in any movie about a Planet, it just goes to show ya.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 05, 2023 03:39 PM (lCaJd)

143 Who's the dude in that top photo with Harrison Ford as Indy?
Posted by: ShainS -- Semiquincentennial or Bust! at July 05, 2023 03:39 PM (3m/gK)
++++
The "leading lady" of the film.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 05, 2023 03:39 PM (t0OGg)

144 I saw the Sound of Freedom last night. Excellent acting, great cinematography, depressing plot overall, and a bit uplifting at the end.

Posted by: Joe Mama at July 05, 2023 03:40 PM (lZVy/)

145 " Indiana Jones and the Reverse Mortgage.
Posted by: Minnfidel"

Get off my lawn!

Posted by: fd at July 05, 2023 03:40 PM (iayUP)

146 > Oh well, if it beat Terminator: Genisys, a movie so awful it doesn't know how to spell its own name

Apparently also a movie so awful that I don't even remember it existing.

They must've known it sucked mightily even before release, because I don't recall even seeing an ad for it.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 05, 2023 03:40 PM (Y6AXb)

147 132 In her infinite wisdom, KK killed the Expanded Universe (I think that's what it's called - I'm not a huge Star Wars fan, though).
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 05, 2023 03:38 PM (t0OGg)

=======

I don't mind that. It wasn't about making none of it available, it was about clearing the field so you didn't need a dissertation in Star Wars to understand what was going on. They pulled stuff here and there (Thrawn is going to be in the new Ashoka season, and I think he was in the Rebels show).

It's just, they cleared the deck for...JJ Abrams.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 05, 2023 03:40 PM (LvTSG)

148 Indian Jones and the Reverse Mortgage

Posted by: Amy Schumer at July 05, 2023 03:40 PM (cE/Tp)

149
What this world needs is Indian Jones vs Terminator movie.
Posted by: Ripley

Indian Jones ?
Posted by: JT at July 05, 2023 03:34 PM (T4tVD)

The wog? You're named after the wog?

Posted by: Sallah at July 05, 2023 03:40 PM (n+4am)

150 Indiana Jones and the Quest For No Bedsores

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 05, 2023 03:40 PM (4I/2K)

151 >>> 88

Thanks Ace!

Posted by: Saxon at July 05, 2023 03:40 PM (QP35N)

152 Indiana Jones and the Renegade Rollator.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at July 05, 2023 03:40 PM (PiwSw)

153
Indiana Jones and the Self-Lubicating Catheters

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 05, 2023 03:40 PM (ucEUz)

154 They must've known it sucked mightily even before release, because I don't recall even seeing an ad for it.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 05, 2023 03:40 PM (Y6AXb)
++++
It was a shit show and failed miserably.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 05, 2023 03:41 PM (t0OGg)

155
Sherman Peabody had the way-back machine!
Posted by: Minnfidel

=========

Pretty much like that, except the Dial of Destiny has a built-in surprise. I won't spoil.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 05, 2023 03:41 PM (lCaJd)

156 Time travel as a thing in scifi is a copout. You can solve any plot hole with it.

Time travel is like the color beige. It means you were supposed to come up with something, but it was too hard and you caved and said 'screw it'.

Posted by: DB - for a brighter tomorrow at July 05, 2023 03:41 PM (geLO8)

157 It's just, they cleared the deck for...JJ Abrams.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 05, 2023 03:40 PM (LvTSG)
++++
Bad robot! Bad, bad, bad robot!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 05, 2023 03:41 PM (t0OGg)

158 As everyone keeps pointing out, a well written movie with a $50M budget is a moneymaker. The $300M Tentpole is dead.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 05, 2023 03:41 PM (aD39U)

159 154 They must've known it sucked mightily even before release, because I don't recall even seeing an ad for it.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 05, 2023 03:40 PM (Y6AXb)
++++
It was a shit show and failed miserably.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 05, 2023 03:41 PM (t0OGg)

=====

I've seen defenses of it. I was unmoved, though.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 05, 2023 03:41 PM (LvTSG)

160 Indiana Jones and the Mobility Scooter of Death

(spoiler: the scooter itself isn't actually dangerous in any way -- Indy just happened to be riding it when he stroked out)

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 05, 2023 03:41 PM (Y6AXb)

161 Indiana Jones and the Jitterbug Flip phone for Seniors.

Posted by: Inogame at July 05, 2023 03:41 PM (53oGX)

162 Indiana Jones and the Crystal Hurry-Cane

Posted by: garrett at July 05, 2023 03:41 PM (cE/Tp)

163 Indiana Jones and the Medicare Gap Insurance Policy

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 05, 2023 03:41 PM (FVJNG)

164 Favorite scene is when Indy' sped his Lark scooter up to 7mph and shot all the Nazi's.

Posted by: Minnfidel at July 05, 2023 03:41 PM (GwxCX)

165 Go see Sounds of Freedom.

Caviziel at the end has a call to action to save kids from predators. And, oddly enough, to save moviegoing at the theater.

But mostly the kids.

After the first half hour, I was ready to quit work and go hunting pedophiles. Though my movie would look more like The Punisher than this.

Posted by: blaster at July 05, 2023 03:41 PM (pwExq)

166 Time travel as a thing in scifi is a copout. You can solve any plot hole with it.

Time travel is like the color beige. It means you were supposed to come up with something, but it was too hard and you caved and said 'screw it'.
Posted by: DB - for a brighter tomorrow at July 05, 2023 03:41 PM (geLO

++++
:: Multiverse has entered the chat ::

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 05, 2023 03:41 PM (t0OGg)

167 Indiana Jones and Arthritis

Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd at July 05, 2023 03:42 PM (VdGjU)

168
Indian Jones and the HoverRound

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 05, 2023 03:42 PM (ucEUz)

169 I've seen defenses of it. I was unmoved, though.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 05, 2023 03:41 PM (LvTSG)
++++
As was I.

Unlike you, though, I don't crow about the unappreciated glory of Prometheus ...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 05, 2023 03:42 PM (t0OGg)

170 Buckaroo Banzai was a live action anime.

It'll be another 10yrs before people catch up to what that movie was doing.
Posted by: Thesokorus at July 05, 2023 03:39 PM (UhdgH)

It was Doc Savage on coke, without paying for the IP.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 05, 2023 03:42 PM (xhaym)

171 Indiana Jones and the Left Blinker.

Posted by: Minnfidel at July 05, 2023 03:42 PM (GwxCX)

172 Jim Caveizel and Tim Ballard were making the rounds in support of the July 4 Sound of Freedom release.

Here they are interviewed by Jordan Peterson:

https://tinyurl.com/mrm632kz
Posted by: kallisto at July 05, 2023 03:25 PM (dCxaZ)

I see you had already posted it!

Posted by: LASue at July 05, 2023 03:42 PM (Ed8Zd)

173 Indiana Jones and the Quack Mail Order Pharmaceuticals for "Man Problems".

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 05, 2023 03:42 PM (Y6AXb)

174 I don't care about Dune 2. Actually, I don't care about any of them. I hope Sound of Freedom does well, though.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 05, 2023 03:35 PM (p+1gI)

Is that your freely considered opinion or is the cat making you say that?

Blink twice for help!

Posted by: Robert at July 05, 2023 03:42 PM (8ukWZ)

175 Speaking of time travel and dinosaurs, I just began this trilogy, Mintari: A World of Dinodaurs by Daniel Arenson. Pretty good so far.

https://tinyurl.com/52ua222e

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at July 05, 2023 03:42 PM (FVME7)

176 Indiana Jones and the Mystery Incontinence.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko stuff at July 05, 2023 03:43 PM (sIcnm)

177 I don't mind that. It wasn't about making none of it available, it was about clearing the field so you didn't need a dissertation in Star Wars to understand what was going on. They pulled stuff here and there (Thrawn is going to be in the new Ashoka season, and I think he was in the Rebels show).

It's just, they cleared the deck for...JJ Abrams.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 05, 2023 03:40 PM (LvTSG)
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Except they made it so that you *almost* needed a dissertation in the NEW Expanded Universe to even know what was going on. Where did the First Order come from? Read the books! How did that weird orange alien get her hands on Luke's lightsaber? Read the comics! How did Palpatine survive? Play the video game!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 05, 2023 03:43 PM (YIVH2)

178 When the media and government started telling me PizzaGate was a powerful example of the dangers of misinformation, I immediately knew then that Hollywood, Wall Street and the federal government traffic children for sexual perversion.

As movies like Sound of Freedom start shining the spotlight on the cockroaches you can see the pedos that run the world starting to get twitchy.

President Trump deserves a lot of credit for making it a priority and Governor DeSantis I believe has approved the death penalty for child rapists.

In response the UN started floating the proposition that sex with little kids can be consensual. and then AP, Snopes and others started running their "The UN didn't really say that" stuff, which when read reveals that they did, in fact, say that. They played the "it's false because your small brain is understanding it wrong" fact-check.

I hope all the child-diddlers and profiteers meet their end in cruel and unusual ways.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 05, 2023 03:43 PM (WRD4n)

179 This busty redhead in a red bikini would much rather hang out on the beach than watch a Disney movie:
https://is.gd/b9w570

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 05, 2023 03:43 PM (t0OGg)

180 Indiana Jones and This is not My First Rodeo

Which is funny when you tie all the threads together and realize that Tom Selleck would have been a better Indiana Jones.

Wait, I have proof *rummages through desk*

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Just Dang at July 05, 2023 03:43 PM (T/Lqj)

181 Be sure to see Sound of Freedom. This movie is GOD's Work.

Posted by: Eromero at July 05, 2023 03:43 PM (Uv0D2)

182 Jeez, minus the tranny that could actually be a good movie. An old action man guy that has to help solve problems, but he's old and has to be helped around everywhere, loaded into cars, etc., and the team realizes that normal people can do what's needed, too, and the lesson is there's nothing really special involved in saving the world other than being in the right place at the right time for the movie to progress and getting lucky in the right ways when the movie needs the hero to succeed.

that film was made

Bubba Ho-Tep

Posted by: BlackOrchid at July 05, 2023 03:43 PM (AcWfM)

183 156 Time travel as a thing in scifi is a copout. You can solve any plot hole with it.

Time travel is like the color beige. It means you were supposed to come up with something, but it was too hard and you caved and said 'screw it'.
Posted by: DB - for a brighter tomorrow at July 05, 2023 03:41 PM (geLO

Well, no jelly-babies for YOU!

Posted by: The Doctor at July 05, 2023 03:43 PM (N3zMI)

184 It was Doc Savage on coke, without paying for the IP.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 05, 2023 03:42 PM (xhaym)

That too!

And more!

They kept a lot of balls in the air.

Posted by: Thesokorus at July 05, 2023 03:43 PM (UhdgH)

185 It was Doc Savage on coke, without paying for the IP.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 05, 2023 03:42 PM (xhaym)

This is not wrong.

Posted by: blaster at July 05, 2023 03:43 PM (pwExq)

186 Indiana Jones and the Stuck Nirse Call Button

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 05, 2023 03:44 PM (l6UsA)

187 I want a do-over:

Raiders of the Lost Dentures

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at July 05, 2023 03:44 PM (PiwSw)

188 >>But the box office - that is, the movies - feeds everything downstream of it. Having *no* hits for years spells trouble for the streaming service immediately, for the merchandising in the near term, and for the parks in the long term. There's nothing to feed the machinery that brings in large amounts of money over long periods of time.

important point.

Posted by: ace at July 05, 2023 03:44 PM (KRtlO)

189
Indiana Jones Gets His Die-A-Beet-Us Supplies Delivered by Liberty Medical

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 05, 2023 03:44 PM (ucEUz)

190 The $300M Tentpole is dead.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 05, 2023 03:41 PM (aD39U)

The ladies agree that the Paolo's, how you say, tentpole, is worth $300M.

Posted by: The Paolo at July 05, 2023 03:44 PM (7YrZ7)

191 Indiana Jones and the Hip Replacement Disaster

Posted by: wth at July 05, 2023 03:44 PM (v0R5T)

192
Indiana Jones and the Discounted Homeowners Insurance

Posted by: DB - for a brighter tomorrow at July 05, 2023 03:44 PM (geLO8)

193 The new season of The Witcher is terrible.

No plot, no point, very weak story and story building.

And it doesn't help that I've forgotten most of 1 and 2 so I really don't recall who everyone is or why I should care.
And nothing in this season is interesting enough to make me care.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 05, 2023 03:44 PM (29rl5)

194 The Dial of Destiny is a time traveling device.

And as we all know, time travel is tight!!!

It's all over the metaverse...

Posted by: Regular joe at July 05, 2023 03:44 PM (nnp+f)

195 Is the collapse of Disney something?

Compared to what? The collapse of media, academia, medicine, the rule of law?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 05, 2023 03:44 PM (RIvkX)

196 188 >>But the box office - that is, the movies - feeds everything downstream of it. Having *no* hits for years spells trouble for the streaming service immediately, for the merchandising in the near term, and for the parks in the long term. There's nothing to feed the machinery that brings in large amounts of money over long periods of time.

important point.
Posted by: ace at July 05, 2023 03:44 PM (KRtlO)

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Listen, it's not like they're going to lose the exclusive copyright to Steamboat Willie in 6 months.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 05, 2023 03:44 PM (LvTSG)

197 Indiana Jones and the Scary Growth that Appeared Out of Nowhere

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 05, 2023 03:44 PM (Y6AXb)

198 :: Multiverse has entered the chat ::
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 05, 2023 03:41 PM (t0OGg)

The Multiverse plot device is an abomination. Literally nothing matters in the movie. Zero stakes for anyone.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 05, 2023 03:44 PM (aD39U)

199 It's just, they cleared the deck for...JJ Abrams.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Tranny Jar Jar Binks is gonna be lit!

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at July 05, 2023 03:44 PM (8ZsHS)

200
Indiana Jones and the Nice Cup Of Tea

Posted by: DB - for a brighter tomorrow at July 05, 2023 03:45 PM (geLO8)

201 "Mad God" has not only been around for a while, it's been reviewed on this very site! (It's also been on Shudder for the past year.)

Posted by: moviegique at July 05, 2023 03:45 PM (lpWi1)

202 Indiana Jones and the Pendulous Ball Sack.

Posted by: Muldoon at July 05, 2023 03:45 PM (kXYt5)

203 I did see most of The Aviator this past week and really liked it. My aversion to Leo DiCaprio is fading since Once Upon a Time In Hollywood. The Titanic really put me off the guy. Interestingly, Harvey Weinstein and his brother produced the Aviator.

Posted by: Pudinhead at July 05, 2023 03:45 PM (tiR3O)

204 Disney pretty much exists in its current form due to the insane copyright laws in the USA.

Anything older than twenty years should go into the public domain.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at July 05, 2023 03:45 PM (cMXNt)

205 Indiana Jones and the Senior Discount at Denny's

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 05, 2023 03:45 PM (Y6AXb)

206 Indiana Jones and the Polident Supergrip!

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 05, 2023 03:45 PM (4I/2K)

207 107 - A charismatic, younger Iblis-Elba-type playing a wealthy playboy with a double-life as an Equalizer-type vigilante.

idris elba playing count iblis in a battlestar galactica remake?

Posted by: anachronda at July 05, 2023 03:45 PM (v3pYe)

208 Off, Tom Baker sock.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at July 05, 2023 03:46 PM (N3zMI)

209 Indiana Jones and the Urethra-Strangling Prostate

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 05, 2023 03:46 PM (Y6AXb)

210 Without the characters, Disneyland is just Six Flags.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 05, 2023 03:46 PM (aD39U)

211 I am fascinated (and to be honest: horrified) by the idea that cinematic entertainment is considered anything other than that...entertainment.

Sure...one in a thousand movies has something interesting and perceptive to say, but the vast majority of them are simply vehicles to make us laugh or cry or oooh! away from the grind of life.

And that is great! It made money for an entire industry for a very long time, and seems to be a pretty solid business plan.

Is it the temptation to be special that drove Hollywood into the ground? Or is it the encroachment of leftists, who are humorless scolds in every single part of their miserable lives?

Yeah...it's both.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 05, 2023 03:46 PM (PHmov)

212 193 The new season of The Witcher is terrible.

thanks Hippo I had a bad feeling

will skip

poor Mr Cavill! it's kind of heartbreaking

ah! the perils of matriarchy

Posted by: BlackOrchid at July 05, 2023 03:46 PM (AcWfM)

213 203 I did see most of The Aviator this past week and really liked it. My aversion to Leo DiCaprio is fading since Once Upon a Time In Hollywood. The Titanic really put me off the guy. Interestingly, Harvey Weinstein and his brother produced the Aviator.
Posted by: Pudinhead at July 05, 2023 03:45 PM (tiR3O)

========

Weinstein screwed with Scorsese's cut on Gangs of New York, but apparently stopped after that. The Aviator seems to have been purely Scorsese with the Weinsteins just financing instead of playing David O. Selznick.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 05, 2023 03:46 PM (LvTSG)

214 Indiana Jones and the Tepid Bowl of Soup

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Just Dang at July 05, 2023 03:46 PM (T/Lqj)

215 195 Is the collapse of Disney something?
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It won't implode like the sub. It will just get tawdry and dirty and unnecessary.

Posted by: Pudinhead at July 05, 2023 03:46 PM (tiR3O)

216 The screen then tells us that there are a million children in sex slavery worldwide -- Can this be true ???

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You can't call it slavery!!! That's just black people!!!

Posted by: The recovered remains of Hitler's cocaine filled flying submarine at July 05, 2023 03:47 PM (33ek6)

217 The screen then tells us that there are a million children in sex slavery worldwide -- Can this be true ???

Exactly 1,000,000? Absolutely not!

Posted by: All Justice Departments and Intelligence Agencies Worldwide at July 05, 2023 03:47 PM (amJF4)

218 Time travel?

Time travel?

Time travel?

Posted by: Looper at July 05, 2023 03:47 PM (4I/2K)

219 13
*yawn* I'll just hang around and wait for another busty bikini redhead.
Posted by: wth at July 05, 2023 03:21 PM (v0R5T)
........

179
This busty redhead in a red bikini would much rather hang out on the beach than watch a Disney movie:
https://is.gd/b9w570
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 05, 2023 03:43 PM (t0OGg)
........

I knew hanging around would pay off.

Posted by: wth at July 05, 2023 03:47 PM (v0R5T)

220 Indiana Jones and the Left Blinker.
Posted by: Minnfidel

LOL !

Okay; that was funny !

Posted by: JT at July 05, 2023 03:47 PM (T4tVD)

221 The Multiverse plot device is an abomination. Literally nothing matters in the movie. Zero stakes for anyone.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 05, 2023 03:44 PM (aD39U)
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Even worse. Not only does nothing matter in the movie, nothing matters in the movie's entire *universe,* including retroactively. If the movie is a one-off, this doesn't matter - but this crap is everywhere in major franchises now.

They can go fuck with things way outside their own movies when they go down this road. Like in Marvel's "Loki" show where they just casually mentioned that there's no free will anywhere in the Marvel universe.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 05, 2023 03:47 PM (t0OGg)

222 >>>the Phloebag character

LOL!

Posted by: m at July 05, 2023 03:47 PM (ASp1y)

223 Indian Jones and the Summer I left Cleveland.

Posted by: JT at July 05, 2023 03:47 PM (T4tVD)

224 Posted by: Pudinhead at July 05, 2023 03:45 PM (tiR3O)

diCaprio did a solid job in "Blood Diamond," and he wasn't bad at all in "The Departed."

Maybe he's growing up as an actor?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 05, 2023 03:48 PM (PHmov)

225 Weinstein screwed with Scorsese's cut on Gangs of New York, but apparently stopped after that. The Aviator seems to have been purely Scorsese with the Weinsteins just financing instead of playing David O. Selznick.
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I have never been able to get through Gangs of New York. What the fuck is with the dead rabbit? Aviator is beautifully done.

Posted by: Pudinhead at July 05, 2023 03:48 PM (tiR3O)

226 Indiana Jones and the Elastic-Waist Golf Pants

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 05, 2023 03:48 PM (Y6AXb)

227

Can you name a movie that actually changed the way you thought about something, about a serious issue

Posted by: DB - for a brighter tomorrow at July 05, 2023 03:48 PM (geLO8)

228 The new season of The Witcher is terrible.

No plot, no point, very weak story and story building.

Yeah, it blew chunks. I guess Cavill was already out the door so he didn't care. The writing was incomprehensible, and the sound was so poor, I felt like I needed subtitles to follow the dialog.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 05, 2023 03:48 PM (eOEVl)

229 Disney bought Star Wars: 4 billion dollars

Cost for all three Disney Star Wars sequels: 720 million dollars.

Amount of money all three sequels made: 4.4 billion dollars

And that's assuming you can even remotely trust Disney's numbers on how much they cost to make and how much they actually made.

Posted by: Azathoth at July 05, 2023 03:48 PM (wb1YC)

230 https://is.gd/b9w570
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 05, 2023 03:43 PM (t0OGg)

Kissed by fire...

Posted by: Robert at July 05, 2023 03:48 PM (8ukWZ)

231 Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 05, 2023 03:43 PM (t0OGg)

Well, at least she wasn't taking a selfie.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 05, 2023 03:49 PM (Keyt1)

232 160 Indiana Jones and the Mobility Scooter of Death

well, dial of destiny *does* have a tuk-tuk car chase, which isn't that far off.

Posted by: anachronda at July 05, 2023 03:49 PM (v3pYe)

233 I don't know Ace, that screen shot of "Dial Of Destiny" is hot. That woman(?) just exudes raw sexuality.
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Yeah, cooking that shit ain't gonna help.

Posted by: Methos at July 05, 2023 03:49 PM (kOpft)

234 I wonder what movie was playing when the Andrea Doria went down.
Posted by: Lights! Camera! Glug!

I can't remember what movie was playing when Andrea went down.

Oh, you meant the ship. Nevermind.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 05, 2023 03:49 PM (+6bUL)

235 The Multiverse plot device is an abomination. Literally nothing matters in the movie. Zero stakes for anyone.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 05, 2023 03:44 PM (aD39U)
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Yeah, very, very few writers can make a multiverse storyline work. Zelazny does it well in his Amber series. Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter also make it work in their "Long Earth" series. And Michael Moorcock's Eternal Champion series is a category unto itself.

But all of those guys are exceptionally talented writers. Hollywood hacks have no idea what they are doing.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 05, 2023 03:49 PM (YIVH2)

236
It will just get tawdry and dirty and unnecessary.
Posted by: Pudinhead

Just like the lives of our former child stars who we cut loose!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 05, 2023 03:49 PM (ucEUz)

237 that film was made

Bubba Ho-Tep

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Thanks, I saw that a long time ago but don't remember it. I'll need to dig it up. Ha, get it?

Posted by: The recovered remains of Hitler's cocaine filled flying submarine at July 05, 2023 03:49 PM (33ek6)

238 Who is a bigger piece of wood; Robert Redford or Gregory Peck?

Posted by: Pudinhead at July 05, 2023 03:49 PM (tiR3O)

239 220 Indiana Jones and the Left Blinker.
Posted by: Minnfidel

LOL !

Okay; that was funny !
Posted by: JT at July 05, 2023 03:47 PM (T4tVD)

Yeah, also LOL!

Posted by: m at July 05, 2023 03:49 PM (ASp1y)

240 156 Time travel as a thing in scifi is a copout. You can solve any plot hole with it.

Posted by: DB

I mean, most of sci-fi is nothing but copouts of some kind.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at July 05, 2023 03:49 PM (f9EvM)

241 Which is funny when you tie all the threads together and realize that Tom Selleck would have been a better Indiana Jones.

Wait, I have proof *rummages through desk*

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Just Dang at July 05, 2023 03:43 PM (T/Lqj)

Tom Selleck in Lassiter was a make up for not getting the Raiders part. Unfortunately the soundtrack was done by Taco.

Posted by: Wierzbowski formerly QID at July 05, 2023 03:50 PM (OgrpQ)

242 Indiana Jones and the Golden Corral

Posted by: Muldoon at July 05, 2023 03:50 PM (kXYt5)

243 Bubba Ho-Tep is a deeply weird yet fun movie

Posted by: BlackOrchid at July 05, 2023 03:50 PM (AcWfM)

244 "Genisys!?!"

"Why that's almost as clever as 'unobtainium'!!!"

Posted by: James Cameron, WGA member at July 05, 2023 03:50 PM (0A5+1)

245 If it truly collapsed it would be a 3 cup pudding flaming 💀

Posted by: Skip at July 05, 2023 03:50 PM (xhxe8)

246 238 Who is a bigger piece of wood; Robert Redford or Gregory Peck?
Posted by: Pudinhead at July 05, 2023 03:49 PM (tiR3O)

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Peck.

Redford could smile.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 05, 2023 03:50 PM (LvTSG)

247 Hopefully this is the end of Pheobe Wallerbridge (sp) too,but i doubt it. She became popular with the wave of feminist who's job was to apparently not be good at their job, like how Hannah Gadsby was a comedian who wasn't funny, Phoebe was supposed to be a brilliant writer.....who was a 3rd rate for profit arts college writer at best.

I mentioned this in the overnight thread when someone talked of Indy bombing, but it would be good for the industry to get away from this bi-weekly mega movie release schedule. It used to be a big event, maybe once or twice a year, to see these big movies, but the way things have been for the last decade it makes each movie feel like just another release.

For people working in the industry it'd also be a lot better to go back to making more mid 8 figure films that are staffed by real crew members, and not 10,000 cgi artist in Pakistan or south Korea.

Posted by: Rbastid at July 05, 2023 03:50 PM (G0aea)

248 Indiana Jones Meets The Lumiere Brothers.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 05, 2023 03:50 PM (p+1gI)

249 Yeah, very, very few writers can make a multiverse storyline work. Zelazny does it well in his Amber series. Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter also make it work in their "Long Earth" series. And Michael Moorcock's Eternal Champion series is a category unto itself.

But all of those guys are exceptionally talented writers. Hollywood hacks have no idea what they are doing.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 05, 2023 03:49 PM (YIVH2)
++++
It requires rules and no free rides. Zelazny - which I never considered a "multiverse," though I suppose it fits the bill - was very strict about the rules. Who could do what, how it worked, what the consequences were, etc. And he was clear that there were no free lunches - that what happened in one realm could affect another, and what happened in the home realm could affect them all.

You have to have strict rules, and enforce them.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 05, 2023 03:50 PM (t0OGg)

250 I find Gangs of New York laugh out loud funny. Did they mean for it to be like that? Every scene, every accent, every plot device... hysterical.

Posted by: goatexchange at July 05, 2023 03:51 PM (APPN8)

251 Indiana Jones and the Broken Stair Lift

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at July 05, 2023 03:51 PM (17s+e)

252 Even worse. Not only does nothing matter in the movie, nothing matters in the movie's entire *universe,* including retroactively.

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Oh, don't look now, but Spiderman is a tranny.

https://tinyurl.com/25gfuxcs

Posted by: The recovered remains of Hitler's cocaine filled flying submarine at July 05, 2023 03:51 PM (33ek6)

253 Listen, it's not like they're going to lose the exclusive copyright to Steamboat Willie in 6 months.
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"Live action" Bambi is coming.

Posted by: Methos at July 05, 2023 03:51 PM (kOpft)

254
Still, who is paying to see an 80 year old action/adventurer being pushed around by a tranny (eg British woman)?
Posted by: Regular joe

=========

I did, as part of my one-woman pop culture literacy project, having never seen a single Indiana Jones movie before, if one can believe such virgins exist.

Even to my virgin eyes, the sin was that the movie was even made. They drag this formerly virile, optimistic, fun-loving hero out of the comforting oblivion of Happily Ever After for one last go-round and then drop him off at death's door and wish him luck.

That said, I didn't think it was nearly as bad as some of the hate reviews. The "tranny" was average girl who needed help from her friends, wanted things she couldn't have, relied on Indy occasionally to figure out a puzzle, and changed in the end.

I'm still typing away and hitting the character limit, so I'll let it go at that.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 05, 2023 03:51 PM (lCaJd)

255 Can you name a movie that actually changed the way you thought about something, about a serious issue

hmm

Salvador, but I had to change back to "sense in my head" when I got older

Oliver you asshat

Posted by: BlackOrchid at July 05, 2023 03:51 PM (AcWfM)

256 Can you name a movie that actually changed the way you thought about something, about a serious issue

Posted by: DB - for a brighter tomorrow at July 05, 2023 03:48 PM (geLO

"The King's Speech" put into perspective just how different royalty is. I never cared about them as human beings, and the practically unique example shown in the movie reinforced that they are, by and large, remote and despicable people.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 05, 2023 03:51 PM (PHmov)

257 Faster, Mickeymouse! Kill! Kill!

Posted by: ShainS -- Semiquincentennial or Bust! at July 05, 2023 03:51 PM (666nr)

258 Time travel as a thing in scifi is a copout. You can solve any plot hole with it.

If you go back more than a century:

Excusing the consistent/inconsistent causal loops or Grandfather Paradox, the more practical problem in that you will likely die because your body doesn't have the immunity to handle what you would eat, drink and breath.

May not even be able to communicate if you go back even further. (e.g. no one really knows what Koine Greek sounds like) and how is your Beowolf?

You would stick out, few people had Hollywood teeth and the height/body mass (due to nutrition issues). Pretty sure your clothes would be out of place and smell weird (laundry detergents and drier sheets).

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 05, 2023 03:52 PM (p8A+W)

259 > Who is a bigger piece of wood; Robert Redford or Gregory Peck?
Posted by: Pudinhead at July 05, 2023 03:49 PM (tiR3O)

Nice fake. It's Meryl Streep.

How she ever got the reputation of being a "great actress" is beyond me. She plays the same whiny blonde character in every friggin' movie.

If I wanted to listen to a skinny blonde white woman whine for two hours, I'd look up one of my ex-girlfriends (dodged a bullet there).

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 05, 2023 03:52 PM (Y6AXb)

260 Walt Didley Corpse is worth around $140 billion less than a couple years ago. Free money costs 8-10% now. So yes Didley Corpse could blink out.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at July 05, 2023 03:52 PM (17s+e)

261 Indiana Jones and the Untrustworthy Fart

Posted by: Wierzbowski formerly QID at July 05, 2023 03:52 PM (OgrpQ)

262 Bill O'Reilly should write a new book, Killing Disney.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at July 05, 2023 03:52 PM (FVME7)

263 Time travel is like the color beige. It means you were supposed to come up with something, but it was too hard and you caved and said 'screw it'.
Posted by: DB - for a brighter tomorrow at July 05, 2023 03:41 PM (geLO

Well, no jelly-babies for YOU!
Posted by: The Doctor

I'm sure there are exceptions but generally in DW the time travel wasn't used as a plot element so much as just an excuse for the set up.

Posted by: Oddbob at July 05, 2023 03:53 PM (nfrXX)

264 Can you name a movie that actually changed the way you thought about something, about a serious issue

Waiting for "Superman".

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 05, 2023 03:53 PM (WRD4n)

265 Indiana Jones and the gouty toe.

Posted by: Seems Legit. at July 05, 2023 03:53 PM (DcKNO)

266 250 I find Gangs of New York laugh out loud funny. Did they mean for it to be like that? Every scene, every accent, every plot device... hysterical.
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Seen only pieces of the movie but did they ever show the Irish lynching black guys? That was a big part of that draft riot.

Posted by: Pudinhead at July 05, 2023 03:53 PM (tiR3O)

267 "Live action" Bambi is coming.
Posted by: Methos at July 05, 2023 03:51 PM (kOpft)

Bronies with antlers. Ick.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Just Dang at July 05, 2023 03:53 PM (T/Lqj)

268 221 The Multiverse plot device is an abomination. Literally nothing matters in the movie. Zero stakes for anyone.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 05, 2023 03:44 PM (aD39U)

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There is a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle cartoon movie out there that delves into a TMNT multiverse. It’s bonkers insane but a real good piece of entertainment.

My daughter wanted to watch it so I loaded it up on Amazon Prime video not expecting much.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at July 05, 2023 03:54 PM (cMXNt)

269 It requires rules and no free rides. Zelazny - which I never considered a "multiverse," though I suppose it fits the bill - was very strict about the rules. Who could do what, how it worked, what the consequences were, etc. And he was clear that there were no free lunches - that what happened in one realm could affect another, and what happened in the home realm could affect them all.

You have to have strict rules, and enforce them.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 05, 2023 03:50 PM (t0OGg)
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Yep. Most authors who dabble in multiversal plots will do their best to establish a set of ground rules, so that when those rules are violated (usually via a loophole somewhere), there is a very steep price to be paid.

When there are no rules, there are no stakes. The audience is no longer invested in the outcome.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 05, 2023 03:54 PM (YIVH2)

270 Let's get real:

Indiana Jones and the Nose Hair Jungle

Posted by: Muldoon at July 05, 2023 03:54 PM (kXYt5)

271 Indiana Jones and the gouty toe.
Posted by: Seems Legit. at July 05, 2023 03:53 PM (DcKNO)

I've had gout. So I think I would skip that one.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Just Dang at July 05, 2023 03:54 PM (T/Lqj)

272 Indiana Jones and the Recalcitrant "Clapper" Lamp

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 05, 2023 03:55 PM (Y6AXb)

273 264 Can you name a movie that actually changed the way you thought about something, about a serious issue
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Behind the Green Door made rethink Ivory Soap.

Posted by: Pudinhead at July 05, 2023 03:55 PM (tiR3O)

274 Jim Caviezel is a righteous and brave man.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at July 05, 2023 03:55 PM (Xrfse)

275 If you go back more than a century:

Excusing the consistent/inconsistent causal loops or Grandfather Paradox, the more practical problem in that you will likely die because your body doesn't have the immunity to handle what you would eat, drink and breath.

--

I haven't watched it, but apparently Thanos killed a bunch of folks everywhere, and then they somehow were brought back to life exactly where they'd perished some time later.

Except the airplanes and cars and boats had continued moving.

As did the earth itself.

Posted by: The recovered remains of Hitler's cocaine filled flying submarine at July 05, 2023 03:55 PM (33ek6)

276 267 "Live action" Bambi is coming.
Posted by: Methos at July 05, 2023 03:51 PM (kOpft)

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From what I've heard, it's a combination of kitsch and 90s feminist argument that it's just so hard being a woman in today's world, you know?

Greta Garwig is going to go from that to making Narnia movies for Netflix.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 05, 2023 03:55 PM (LvTSG)

277
Hopefully this is the end of Pheobe Wallerbridge (sp) too,but i doubt it. She became popular with the wave of feminist who's job was to apparently not be good at their job, like how Hannah Gadsby was a comedian who wasn't funny, Phoebe was supposed to be a brilliant writer.....who was a 3rd rate for profit arts college writer at best.

Posted by: Rbastid

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Is Phoebe Waller-Bridge a confirmed bitch, like Brie Larson? I don't know what she's said in interviews, but I didn't mind her in Indy. She did the best she could with the role, and it was appropriate that "Helena Shaw" was not a stereotypical femme fatale or whatever people wanted her to be.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 05, 2023 03:55 PM (lCaJd)

278 I don't know Ace, that screen shot of "Dial Of Destiny" is hot. That woman(?) just exudes raw sexuality.

***

She is what writers before current era used to describe in books as "handsome".

Posted by: Azathoth at July 05, 2023 03:55 PM (wb1YC)

279 So it's a movie thread now?

Posted by: I gotta ask at July 05, 2023 03:55 PM (A2CCj)

280 Indiana Jones and the Slow Driving

Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd at July 05, 2023 03:55 PM (VdGjU)

281 Oliver you asshat
Posted by: BlackOrchid

Lisa Douglas never said that.

Posted by: JT at July 05, 2023 03:56 PM (T4tVD)

282 Walt Didley Corpse is worth around $140 billion less than a couple years ago. Free money costs 8-10% now. So yes Didley Corpse could blink out.
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It's an ESG darling, though. A whole lotta retirement money is getting funnelled by Blackrock and Vanguard into that pit before it goes.

Posted by: Methos at July 05, 2023 03:56 PM (kOpft)

283 277 Is Phoebe Waller-Bridge a confirmed bitch, like Brie Larson? I don't know what she's said in interviews, but I didn't mind her in Indy. She did the best she could with the role, and it was appropriate that "Helena Shaw" was not a stereotypical femme fatale or whatever people wanted her to be.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 05, 2023 03:55 PM (lCaJd)

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Speaking of Larson.

There are rumors that we're finally getting a third 21 Jump Street movie. It will star Larson and be a spinoff.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 05, 2023 03:56 PM (LvTSG)

284 https://ace.mu.nu/archives/399751.php#399751

Review of "Mad God" along with "Crimes of the Future", "Memoria", "Ninja Badass", "Wildmen" and "Cha Cha Real Smooth".

Last year, you may recall, was a wasteland, with only Top Gun saving the summer.

This year, Disney's big guns are: Kraven The Hunter and Haunted Mansion. And in the fall? The Marvels!

They're gonna be just fine.

Posted by: moviegique at July 05, 2023 03:56 PM (lpWi1)

285 Time travel as a thing in scifi is a copout. You can solve any plot hole with it.

If you go back more than a century:

Excusing the consistent/inconsistent causal loops or Grandfather Paradox, the more practical problem in that you will likely die because your body doesn't have the immunity to handle what you would eat, drink and breath.

May not even be able to communicate if you go back even further. (e.g. no one really knows what Koine Greek sounds like) and how is your Beowolf?

You would stick out, few people had Hollywood teeth and the height/body mass (due to nutrition issues). Pretty sure your clothes would be out of place and smell weird (laundry detergents and drier sheets).
Posted by: Reuben Hick

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 05, 2023 03:56 PM (+6bUL)

286 284 This year, Disney's big guns are: Kraven The Hunter and Haunted Mansion. And in the fall? The Marvels!

They're gonna be just fine.
Posted by: moviegique at July 05, 2023 03:56 PM (lpWi1)

========

Kraven the Hunter is Sony.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 05, 2023 03:56 PM (LvTSG)

287 You know, the plot to the Thundergun sequel-- the original before the gang remade it-- in Sunny was a better plot than this Indy

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 05, 2023 03:56 PM (29rl5)

288 Out: The Force is Female
In: The Farce is Female

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 05, 2023 03:56 PM (YqDXo)

289 Can you name a movie that actually changed the way you thought about something, about a serious issue
Posted by: DB - for a brighter tomorrow
........

Yeah, The Gopher in Caddyshack.

Posted by: wth at July 05, 2023 03:57 PM (v0R5T)

290 Indiana Jones and the Villiages Drip

Posted by: Wierzbowski formerly QID at July 05, 2023 03:57 PM (OgrpQ)

291 I'm sure there are exceptions but generally in DW the time travel wasn't used as a plot element so much as just an excuse for the set up.
Posted by: Oddbob at July 05, 2023 03:53 PM (nfrXX)
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Even in the Doctor Who universe, there are rules.

Rule 1: The Doctor's origins are to remain a mystery.

Chris Chibnall threw this rule out the window with the most recent season. He did to DW what KK did to SW.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 05, 2023 03:57 PM (YIVH2)

292 Indiana Jones and the Spongebath of Uncertainty

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 05, 2023 03:57 PM (4I/2K)

293 Maybe Disney should take a swing remaking Ghost Ship?
Posted by: Pudinhead

I think at this point, they would screw up a remake of the Ghost and Mr. Chicken.

Posted by: Cheri at July 05, 2023 03:57 PM (oiNtH)

294 269 It requires rules and no free rides. Zelazny - which I never considered a "multiverse," though I suppose it fits the bill - was very strict about the rules. Who could do what, how it worked, what the consequences were, etc. And he was clear that there were no free lunches - that what happened in one realm could affect another, and what happened in the home realm could affect them all.

You have to have strict rules, and enforce them.
Posted by: Joe Mannix

***

"You want me to make several hundred thousand rounds of ammunition but you want me to use jewelers rouge in place of gunpowder?"

Posted by: Azathoth at July 05, 2023 03:58 PM (wb1YC)

295 291 Even in the Doctor Who universe, there are rules.

Rule 1: The Doctor's origins are to remain a mystery.

Chris Chibnall threw this rule out the window with the most recent season. He did to DW what KK did to SW.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 05, 2023 03:57 PM (YIVH2)

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"It's timelocked," shit Moffat was throwing around all the time.

The idea that there were established rules around time travel in Doctor Who before Chibnall is silly. DW was fantasy for children made by people who were pushing out stories as fast as they could with limited budgets for decades.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 05, 2023 03:58 PM (LvTSG)

296 > Brie Larson

I've always wondered: who the hell names their kid after a cheese?

I kinda get the white-trash stripper names, where the kid gets named after something perceived to be fancy (Tiffany, Lexus, etc.) but cheese?

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 05, 2023 03:58 PM (Y6AXb)

297 From what I've heard, it's a combination of kitsch and 90s feminist argument that it's just so hard being a woman in today's world, you know?

--

Bless their hearts, one can only imagine.

Think of how tough it must be to get affirmative action AND men to pay for everything, and GRRRL POWRRR when nothing is wrong but "men, please fix this" when there's a spider.

Posted by: The recovered remains of Hitler's cocaine filled flying submarine at July 05, 2023 03:58 PM (33ek6)

298 Indiana Jones and the Al Dente Cream of Wheat

Posted by: Muldoon at July 05, 2023 03:58 PM (kXYt5)

299 Speaking of Larson.

There are rumors that we're finally getting a third 21 Jump Street movie. It will star Larson and be a spinoff.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler

Oh.

I thought you meant Gary Larson.

Posted by: JT at July 05, 2023 03:58 PM (T4tVD)

300 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 05, 2023 03:56 PM

I'm not a big sci-fi fan but I find time travel fascinating and would enjoy a well made time travel sci-fi movie.

Posted by: CaliGirl at July 05, 2023 03:58 PM (4xF2M)

301 278 I don't know Ace, that screen shot of "Dial Of Destiny" is hot. That woman(?) just exudes raw sexuality.

***

She is what writers before current era used to describe in books as "handsome".
Posted by: Azathoth at July 05, 2023 03:55 PM (wb1YC)

hahahahaha

Posted by: m at July 05, 2023 03:58 PM (ASp1y)

302 Indiana Jones Has Fallen And Can't Get Up.

Posted by: fd at July 05, 2023 03:59 PM (iayUP)

303 Indiana Jones and the Liver Spots

Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd at July 05, 2023 03:59 PM (VdGjU)

304 289 Can you name a movie that actually changed the way you thought about something, about a serious issue
Posted by: DB - for a brighter tomorrow
........

Yeah, The Gopher in Caddyshack.
Posted by: wth at July 05, 2023 03:57 PM (v0R5T)

Rebecca De Mornay in Risky Business.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at July 05, 2023 03:59 PM (N3zMI)

305 Can you name a movie that actually changed the way you thought about something, about a serious issue
Posted by: DB

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Not one movie or show, but media in general since the 70s.

The good guy is always the government guy.

Posted by: The recovered remains of Hitler's cocaine filled flying submarine at July 05, 2023 03:59 PM (33ek6)

306 Indiana Jones and The Child Proof Cap

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at July 05, 2023 04:00 PM (17s+e)

307 Can you name a movie that actually changed the way you thought about something, about a serious issue
Posted by: DB - for a brighter tomorrow at July 05, 2023 03:48 PM (geLO

Conan The Barbarian

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 05, 2023 04:00 PM (RIvkX)

308 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 05, 2023 03:56 PM

I'm not a big sci-fi fan but I find time travel fascinating and would enjoy a well made time travel sci-fi movie.
Posted by: CaliGirl

Yeah. That one was more 1949 Bing Crosby hokey.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 05, 2023 04:00 PM (+6bUL)

309
"If you want to send a message, call Western Union." - Sam Goldwyn

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 05, 2023 04:00 PM (wSyFG)

310 Can you name a movie that actually changed the way you thought about something, about a serious issue

————-

Unfortunately, Kung Fu Panda 3 got me thinking about the nature of reality.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at July 05, 2023 04:00 PM (cMXNt)

311 Diplomad 2.0 ( and is Always a good short read) went to Indy and said don't go

Posted by: Skip at July 05, 2023 04:00 PM (xhxe8)

312 How about another Tremors movie with Kevin Bacon? No one ever gets tired of giant worms.

Posted by: Pudinhead at July 05, 2023 04:00 PM (tiR3O)

313 This busty redhead in a red bikini would much rather hang out on the beach than watch a Disney movie:
https://is.gd/b9w570
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 05, 2023 03:43 PM (t0OGg)

Meh. Doesn't compare well with the one in the last thread.

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at July 05, 2023 04:00 PM (BdMk6)

314 I'm not a big sci-fi fan but I find time travel fascinating and would enjoy a well made time travel sci-fi movie.
Posted by: CaliGirl at July 05, 2023 03:58 PM (4xF2M)

Predestination.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 05, 2023 04:00 PM (aD39U)

315 289 Can you name a movie that actually changed the way you thought about something, about a serious issue
Posted by: DB - for a brighter tomorrow
........

The Tawny Kitaen shower scene in Witchboard

Posted by: Wierzbowski formerly QID at July 05, 2023 04:00 PM (OgrpQ)

316 Tim Ballard even more so.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at July 05, 2023 04:00 PM (Xrfse)

317 Indiana Jones and the Lost AARP card.

Posted by: Beartooth at July 05, 2023 04:01 PM (zQVw+)

318 Movies that changed my perspective on important matters?

Sure.

"12 Angry Men", e.g. And then, the Russian version, "12".

Israeli films, yeah. "God's Neighbors", "Fill The Void", "The Women's Balcony". A lot about how it is challenging to do the right thing, the do the moral thing, and where those lines cross.

Just off the top of my head.

Posted by: moviegique at July 05, 2023 04:01 PM (lpWi1)

319 Maybe Disney should take a swing remaking Ghost Ship?
Posted by: Pudinhead at July 05, 2023 03:20 PM (tiR3O)

They'll need a few prequels and origin story flicks to really set up the Ghost Ship Expanded Universe. Then in Phase VI Section B Lot 23, we'll finally get the remake.

Which will still not be as good as Triangle.

*runs*

Posted by: spindrift at July 05, 2023 04:01 PM (7YrZ7)

320 Indiana Jones and the Butterscotch Candies

Posted by: scampydog at July 05, 2023 04:01 PM (2bFN5)

321 Avengers: Endgame was the worst

'Hey the villain just killed everybody, like he said he would. We're too late.'

'No biggie- we'll just go back in time and stop him.'

Posted by: DB - for a brighter tomorrow at July 05, 2023 04:01 PM (geLO8)

322 Indiana Jones and The Bad Medic Alert Bracelet

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at July 05, 2023 04:01 PM (17s+e)

323 The good guy is always the government guy.
Posted by: The recovered remains of Hitler's cocaine filled flying submarine at July 05, 2023 03:59 PM (33ek6)
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Not in Ghostbusters

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 05, 2023 04:01 PM (RIvkX)

324 Indiana Jones and that Weird Mole on my Arm

*Narrator Voice* Quit Picking at It

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Just Dang at July 05, 2023 04:01 PM (T/Lqj)

325 307 Can you name a movie that actually changed the way you thought about something, about a serious issue

Jaws.

Posted by: No more swimming at July 05, 2023 04:01 PM (A2CCj)

326 Actor: "But what's my motivation?"
Alfred Hitchcock: "Your paycheque."

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 05, 2023 04:01 PM (Y6AXb)

327 > I kinda get the white-trash stripper names, where the kid gets named after something perceived to be fancy (Tiffany, Lexus, etc.) but cheese?

I've always thought naming your kid after booze was deeply weird.

Brandy?

Posted by: bonhomme at July 05, 2023 04:01 PM (eyxn4)

328 I think at this point, they would screw up a remake of the Ghost and Mr. Chicken.
Posted by: Cheri at July 05, 2023 03:57 PM

What the hell is Bon Ami?
- Kathleen Kennedy

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 05, 2023 04:01 PM (FVJNG)

329 Indiana Jones and The Coin Purse of Change

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at July 05, 2023 04:02 PM (17s+e)

330 Can you name a movie that actually changed the way you thought about something, about a serious issue
Posted by: DB - for a brighter tomorrow at Jul

The killing fields. It didn't change my mind but it made me aware of what happened when prior to the movie I was apathetic.

Posted by: CaliGirl at July 05, 2023 04:02 PM (4xF2M)

331 The idea that there were established rules around time travel in Doctor Who before Chibnall is silly. DW was fantasy for children made by people who were pushing out stories as fast as they could with limited budgets for decades.
-
2. The Doctor can't revisit a space and time he was previously at. Which got Adric killed permanently.
*Unless it's a crossover with previous Doctors
**Or a Christmas special

Posted by: Methos at July 05, 2023 04:02 PM (kOpft)

332 Indiana Jones and the Four Hour Nap

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 05, 2023 04:02 PM (Y6AXb)

333 I kinda get the white-trash stripper names, where the kid gets named after something perceived to be fancy (Tiffany, Lexus, etc.) but cheese?

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

And now, on center stage, give a big round of applause for Peppermint Stick!

Posted by: rickb223 at July 05, 2023 04:02 PM (+6bUL)

334 This busty redhead in a red bikini would much rather hang out on the beach than watch a Disney movie:
https://is.gd/b9w570
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 05, 2023 03:43 PM (t0OGg)

Meh. Doesn't compare well with the one in the last thread.
Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at July 05, 2023 04:00 PM (BdMk6)

So much filtering on that picture she might as well be Jessica Rabbit.

Not that it's not arty..

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 05, 2023 04:02 PM (aD39U)

335 How about another Tremors movie with Kevin Bacon? No one ever gets tired of giant worms.
Posted by: Pudinhead at July 05, 2023 04:00 PM (tiR3O)

No, we don't.

Posted by: Sandra Fluke at July 05, 2023 04:02 PM (4I/2K)

336 Indiana Jones and the Rambunctious Grandkids
(the prequel to Indiana Jones and the Four Hour Nap)

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 05, 2023 04:02 PM (Y6AXb)

337 Indiana Jones Meets Matlock

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 05, 2023 04:03 PM (YqDXo)

338 The good guy is always the government guy.

===
Not in Ghostbusters

Posted by: San Franpsycho

--

The EPA had some jokes made about them, but didn't the boys become government-adjacent to save the city?

But yeah, the early to mid 80s is right when the stragglers began to die off.

Posted by: The recovered remains of Hitler's cocaine filled flying submarine at July 05, 2023 04:03 PM (33ek6)

339 Indiana Jones and The Bad Medic Alert Bracelet
Posted by: Jukin

DNR

Posted by: rickb223 at July 05, 2023 04:03 PM (+6bUL)

340 Can you name a movie that actually changed the way you thought about something, about a serious issue
Posted by: DB - for a brighter tomorrow at July 05, 2023 03:48 PM (geLO

Showgirls

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at July 05, 2023 04:03 PM (BdMk6)

341 Kraven the Hunter is Sony.
----

I take it back, Disney is screwed.

Posted by: moviegique at July 05, 2023 04:03 PM (lpWi1)

342 Indiana Jones and the Courtesy Shuttle To Satellite Parking Lot C

Posted by: DB - for a brighter tomorrow at July 05, 2023 04:03 PM (geLO8)

343
Indiana Jones and the Early Bird Special

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 05, 2023 04:03 PM (wSyFG)

344 Can you name a movie that actually changed the way you thought about something, about a serious issue

***

There's about a three minute scene in From Dusk Till Dawn that made me think hard.

Posted by: Azathoth at July 05, 2023 04:03 PM (wb1YC)

345 > Brandy?

I think most of those are named after the song.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 05, 2023 04:03 PM (Y6AXb)

346 Chris Chibnall threw this rule out the window with the most recent season. He did to DW what KK did to SW.

I gave up half way through the first season with Capaldi.

Posted by: Oddbob at July 05, 2023 04:03 PM (nfrXX)

347 Can you name a movie that actually changed the way you thought about something, about a serious issue

Ain't gonna get your answer here.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at July 05, 2023 04:04 PM (Xrfse)

348 Trump's breath stinks so bad that it is destroying the ozone layer !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Dorcus Blimeline at July 05, 2023 04:04 PM (hSa/7)

349 Indiana Jones Tries Metamucil

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 05, 2023 04:04 PM (YqDXo)

350 How about another Tremors movie with Kevin Bacon? No one ever gets tired of giant worms.
Posted by: Pudinhead at July 05, 2023 04:00 PM (tiR3O)

Nope. Sorry. Fred Ward has passed away.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Just Dang at July 05, 2023 04:04 PM (T/Lqj)

351 Indiana Jones and The Lost Reading Glasses

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

352 312 How about another Tremors movie with Kevin Bacon? No one ever gets tired of giant worms.
Posted by: Pudinhead at July 05, 2023 04:00 PM (tiR3O)

They killed off Bert Gummer... Tremors is nothing with out Bert

Posted by: It's me donna at July 05, 2023 04:04 PM (bs+z0)

353 318 Movies that changed my perspective on important matters?

Sure.

"12 Angry Men"
Posted by: moviegique at July 05, 2023 04:01 PM (lpWi1)

Good one.

Posted by: m at July 05, 2023 04:04 PM (ASp1y)

354 Indiana Jones and the Mystery of the Remote Buttons

Posted by: Zek at July 05, 2023 04:04 PM (5FPX4)

355 The idea that there were established rules around time travel in Doctor Who before Chibnall is silly. DW was fantasy for children made by people who were pushing out stories as fast as they could with limited budgets for decades.
-
2. The Doctor can't revisit a space and time he was previously at. Which got Adric killed permanently.
*Unless it's a crossover with previous Doctors
**Or a Christmas special
Posted by: Methos at July 05, 2023 04:02 PM (kOpft)
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Look, he's a timey-wimey ball of wibbly-wobbly stuff all by himself, so his timeline is even more complex than Rincewind the Wizzard (Death keeps an hourglass of Rincewind's lifetimer on his desk as a curiosity since he doesn't know *when* Rincewind will actually die).

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 05, 2023 04:04 PM (YIVH2)

356 Indiana Jones and the Early Bird Special
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Indiana Jones and the 3:30 pm LuAnn Platter.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 05, 2023 04:04 PM (+6bUL)

357
Indiana Jobes and the Walk-In Tub

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 05, 2023 04:05 PM (wSyFG)

358 There it is:

"...and Venkman finally appeals to the possibility that the mayor could be responsible for saving the lives of millions of registered voters. Convinced, the Mayor throws Peck out of his office and offers whatever support he can to the Ghostbusters."

Posted by: The recovered remains of Hitler's cocaine filled flying submarine at July 05, 2023 04:05 PM (33ek6)

359 Andy Griffith meets Matlock.

Posted by: Freaky at July 05, 2023 04:05 PM (A2CCj)

360 Indiana Jones and The Left Turn Signal

Posted by: Beartooth at July 05, 2023 04:05 PM (zQVw+)

361 Indiana Jones and the Clap On-Clap Off

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 05, 2023 04:06 PM (YqDXo)

362 Can you name a movie that actually changed the way you thought about something, about a serious issue
Posted by: DB - for a brighter tomorrow at July 05, 2023 03:48 PM (geLO
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Joe's Apartment - never looked at a cockroach the same way ever again.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 05, 2023 04:06 PM (YIVH2)

363 Indiana Jones and Thirteen Items in the Express Lane

Posted by: Muldoon at July 05, 2023 04:06 PM (kXYt5)

364 Indiana Jones and The Lost Reading Glasses

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

Indiana Jones and What did I Come In This Room For?

Posted by: Wierzbowski formerly QID at July 05, 2023 04:06 PM (OgrpQ)

365 One of my engineers saw Indians Jones. He said they were literally the only two people in the theater.

They had a good time because they decided to laugh at it.

Apparently it includes a fifteen minute fight during which Indy is being hung from the neck the entire time? So he says anyway.

Posted by: TexasDan at July 05, 2023 04:06 PM (sBIgX)

366 Can you name a movie that actually changed the way you thought about something, about a serious issue
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The Day After Tomorrow made me realize what unserious buffoons climate alarmists are.

Posted by: Methos at July 05, 2023 04:06 PM (kOpft)

367 Can you name a movie that actually changed the way you thought about something, about a serious issue
Posted by: DB - for a brighter tomorrow at July 05, 2023 03:48 PM (geLO

Fatal Attraction.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at July 05, 2023 04:06 PM (N39Ws)

368 Matlock vs Frank Cannon

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 05, 2023 04:06 PM (aD39U)

369 Can you name a movie that actually changed the way you thought about something, about a serious issue

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Before West Side Story, I thought minority delinquent social geoups were just sociopathic gangs.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at July 05, 2023 04:06 PM (FVME7)

370 The EPA had some jokes made about them, but didn't the boys become government-adjacent to save the city?

Only if you consider "Hey, Let's run some red lights" to be government-adjacent.

Posted by: Chuck C at July 05, 2023 04:06 PM (xttsV)

371 Indiana Jones and the Computer Password. (don't laugh, I do this every fucking day).

Posted by: Pudinhead at July 05, 2023 04:06 PM (tiR3O)

372 The killing fields. It didn't change my mind

About what?

Posted by: Notorious BFD at July 05, 2023 04:06 PM (Xrfse)

373 Indiana Jones and the Senior Discount.

Posted by: TexasDan at July 05, 2023 04:06 PM (sBIgX)

374 > They killed off Bert Gummer... Tremors is nothing with out Bert

They did?

That guy was in like seven Tremors movies.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 05, 2023 04:07 PM (eyxn4)

375 Indiana Jones and the Friendly People on the Internet Who Want to Help Him Get His Bank Account Uncanceled

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 05, 2023 04:07 PM (Y6AXb)

376 Indiana Jones and the Balance of Nature

Posted by: Muldoon at July 05, 2023 04:07 PM (kXYt5)

377 Indiana Jones and What Was He Doing There In the Road?

Posted by: Zek at July 05, 2023 04:07 PM (5FPX4)

378 It's not just that time travel in an Einsteinian universe is impossible, it's also space and velocity travel.

Not only would you have to travel hundreds, millions and even billions of miles, you have to match the speed and location.

And everyone knows that the day the earth stood still in the Bible is when Venus, a former rouge planet, was finally fully captured into the solar system causing the Earth to reverse rotation and Venus to almost lose all rotation velocity and rotate in the opposite direction.
(An earlier pass by the Earth was the cause of the Flood as all the water from Venus was dumped on the Earth)

So, good luck accounting for that in your time machine.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 05, 2023 04:07 PM (29rl5)

379 You're a fine girl. What a good wife you would be.

Posted by: Obligatory at July 05, 2023 04:07 PM (A2CCj)

380 I see you had already posted it!

Posted by: LASue at July 05, 2023 03:42 PM (Ed8Zd)

that's ok, if the other posters are like me, they don't read every post they just kind of scan and skip around

Posted by: kallisto at July 05, 2023 04:07 PM (dCxaZ)

381 320 Indiana Jones and the Butterscotch Candies
Posted by: scampydog at July 05, 2023 04:01 PM (2bFN5)

; )

Posted by: m at July 05, 2023 04:07 PM (ASp1y)

382 Indiana Jones and the Failed Erection

Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd at July 05, 2023 04:07 PM (VdGjU)

383 Can you name a movie that actually changed the way you thought about something, about a serious issue

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Reversal Of Fortune got me thinking about our justice system and how limited knowledge makes injustices an inherent part of existence.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at July 05, 2023 04:08 PM (cMXNt)

384 Is the teacher retaining on human trafficking in how to prevent it or how to do it?

Posted by: Montec at July 05, 2023 04:08 PM (HF0FJ)

385 Sorry it's just not an interesting action/adventure when the hero doesn't care if he lives or dies

Posted by: Regular joe at July 05, 2023 04:08 PM (nnp+f)

386 Indiana Jones and the Same Damned Password for Every Website

Posted by: Muldoon at July 05, 2023 04:08 PM (kXYt5)

387 Only if you consider "Hey, Let's run some red lights" to be government-adjacent.

Posted by: Chuck C at July 05, 2023 04:06 PM (xttsV)

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I haven't seen it in years, but I looked up the synopsis. #358

It could be argued that the mayor saved the city.

Posted by: The recovered remains of Hitler's cocaine filled flying submarine at July 05, 2023 04:08 PM (33ek6)

388 314 I'm not a big sci-fi fan but I find time travel fascinating and would enjoy a well made time travel sci-fi movie.
Posted by: CaliGirl at July 05, 2023 03:58 PM (4xF2M)

Predestination.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 05, 2023 04:00

Thanks, I had a momentary blonde moment. I thought, oh, cool, a movie to check out. I searched and then read the dictionary and Wikipedia page on predestination and thought about free will and God's plan. Those were the top 3 or 4 hits. I laughed and thought, I thought he was recommending a movie, oh well. Then I hit page back and saw it was a movie. I feel silly sometimes.

Posted by: CaliGirl at July 05, 2023 04:08 PM (4xF2M)

389 People who were on vacation this week were given 12 hours to get back home for this meeting.
_________

Was Steiner invited?

Will Steiner come?

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at July 05, 2023 04:08 PM (lf83v)

390 Time travel as a thing in scifi is a copout.

Rob Kroese's Saga of the Iron Dragon series is excellent. Plus, he's based.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at July 05, 2023 04:08 PM (PiwSw)

391 Can you name a movie that actually changed the way you thought about something, about a serious issue
Posted by: DB - for a brighter tomorrow at July 05, 2023 03:48 PM (geLO

Texas Chainsaw Massacre - power equipment safety

Sharknado - the need to keep operable chainsaws handy

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 05, 2023 04:08 PM (4I/2K)

392 Meh. Doesn't compare well with the one in the last thread.
Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at July 05, 2023 04:00 PM (BdMk6)
.........

Yeah, but this one's peeing in the sand.

Posted by: wth at July 05, 2023 04:08 PM (v0R5T)

393 Indiana Jones Tells the Great-Grandkids Nightmare-Inducing Stories of How He Killed All Those Krauts and Nips in WWII

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 05, 2023 04:08 PM (Y6AXb)

394 Indiana Jones Do You Have a Student Loan?

Posted by: Zek at July 05, 2023 04:08 PM (5FPX4)

395 Indiana Jones and the Lost tube of Polident

Posted by: It's me donna at July 05, 2023 04:09 PM (bs+z0)

396 352 312 How about another Tremors movie with Kevin Bacon? No one ever gets tired of giant worms.
Posted by: Pudinhead at July 05, 2023 04:00 PM (tiR3O)

They killed off Bert Gummer... Tremors is nothing with out Bert
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Pretty sure they could lure Robert Duvall back for the role if the money was right.

Posted by: Pudinhead at July 05, 2023 04:09 PM (tiR3O)

397 Indiana Jones and the Reverse Morgages.

Posted by: TexasDan at July 05, 2023 04:09 PM (sBIgX)

398
Apparently it includes a fifteen minute fight during which Indy is being hung from the neck the entire time? So he says anyway.
Posted by: TexasDan

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That's in the opening scene, which aficionados say is the part they liked.

He gets hung, turns out he had freed his hands tied behind his back with a sharp object so he manages to grab the rope around his neck and not strangle, then the rope snaps, something else happens, blah blah I can't remember, but he gets that rope off his neck. Typical action scene.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 05, 2023 04:09 PM (lCaJd)

399 Indiana Jones and The Nut Bra

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at July 05, 2023 04:09 PM (17s+e)

400
Indiana Jones and the Third Bathroom Run

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 05, 2023 04:09 PM (wSyFG)

401 It's not just that time travel in an Einsteinian universe is impossible, it's also space and velocity travel.

Not only would you have to travel hundreds, millions and even billions of miles, you have to match the speed and location.

And everyone knows that the day the earth stood still in the Bible is when Venus, a former rouge planet, was finally fully captured into the solar system causing the Earth to reverse rotation and Venus to almost lose all rotation velocity and rotate in the opposite direction.
(An earlier pass by the Earth was the cause of the Flood as all the water from Venus was dumped on the Earth)

So, good luck accounting for that in your time machine.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice

I turn this knob, press these two buttons and what plot hole?

Posted by: rickb223 at July 05, 2023 04:09 PM (+6bUL)

402 best time themed story I ever saw was an episode of Red Dwarf, "Backwards". Kryten and Rimmer get marooned on a planet where time runs backwards, and wackiness ensues. Lister points out "it's not all bad - on this planet Adolf Hitler is a hero! He's the one who ended a terrible war and rebuilt Europe! Ah but Santa Claus, what a bastard! He's the bloke who shows up every Christmas morning and takes away all the kids favorite new toys!"

They realize they have to leave when Cat goes out in a field and tries to use the litter box - and it goes backwards.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 05, 2023 04:09 PM (i9ffA)

403 Indiana Jones and The Listen Fat Shuffle

Posted by: scampydog at July 05, 2023 04:09 PM (2bFN5)

404 Yeah, "Iron Dragon" is great.

Rob Kroese's BasedCon III is September!

Posted by: moviegique at July 05, 2023 04:10 PM (lpWi1)

405 Can you name a movie that actually changed the way you thought about something, about a serious issue

Three Days of the Condor

Posted by: kallisto at July 05, 2023 04:10 PM (dCxaZ)

406 391 Can you name a movie that actually changed the way you thought about something, about a serious issue
Posted by: DB - for a brighter tomorrow at July 05, 2023 03:48 PM (geLO
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Honest answer - yes. See My Octopus Teacher.

Posted by: Pudinhead at July 05, 2023 04:10 PM (tiR3O)

407 Raiders of the Lost Reading Glasses

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 05, 2023 04:10 PM (oINRc)

408 Indiana Jones and the Backwards Pants

Posted by: Muldoon at July 05, 2023 04:10 PM (kXYt5)

409 Indiana Jones Discovers He Now Needs to Get Up Two Times at Night to Pee, Not Just One

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at July 05, 2023 04:10 PM (Y6AXb)

410 indiana jones and the extended car warranty

Posted by: anachronda at July 05, 2023 04:10 PM (v3pYe)

411 They realize they have to leave when Cat goes out in a field and tries to use the litter box - and it goes backwards.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 05, 2023 04:09 PM (i9ffA)
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They were already on their way out. Cat just needed to make a quick pit stop in the bushes...The expression on his face when he emerges is priceless.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 05, 2023 04:10 PM (YIVH2)

412 Indian Jones And The Riddle Of The Hernia Mesh

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 05, 2023 04:11 PM (XqIlw)

413 And everyone knows that the day the earth stood still in the Bible is when Venus, a former rouge planet, was finally fully captured into the solar system causing the Earth to reverse rotation and Venus to almost lose all rotation velocity and rotate in the opposite direction.
(An earlier pass by the Earth was the cause of the Flood as all the water from Venus was dumped on the Earth)

You must have read someone who misread Emmanuel Velinkovsky's work "Ages in Chaos" and "Worlds in Collisionl"

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 05, 2023 04:11 PM (p8A+W)

414 People who were on vacation this week were given 12 hours to get back home for this meeting.

Sucks if you were in Europe - you probably can't get back to LA in twelve hours.

Posted by: The Ministry of Disinformation! at July 05, 2023 04:11 PM (2tUFv)

415 On the bright side for Independence Day bomb Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, its first five days at the box office of $82 million aren't as bad as Paramount/Skydance's Terminator Genisys.

*holding sides from laughing too hard*

Indy V cost like $350 million to make. Terminator Genesys cost $155 to make. If Indy doesn't make at least $600 million, its a flat out loss. The Terminator movie made over $400, so it actually earned money.

How anyone considered that a Schwarzenegger "comeback" movie is anybody's guess.

Posted by: Valerie Bertinelli at July 05, 2023 04:11 PM (0hOvj)

416 No offense, but I can't think of Waller-Bridge as anyone other than the slut in Fleabag.

Warning to fledgling stars--be careful what you choose for your breakthrough performance because it sticks.

Posted by: Mattress-back Jones at July 05, 2023 04:11 PM (VsUo2)

417 Indiana Jones and the Mysteriously Wet Carpet

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at July 05, 2023 04:11 PM (lf83v)

418 Anya Taylor-Joy is strange looking and beautiful

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at July 05, 2023 04:11 PM (NtVYv)

419 (That is, the AI remains in charge of the world's information at the end.)
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So, it's a documentary??

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at July 05, 2023 04:11 PM (Vwz3I)

420 Indiana Jones Versus Daylight Savings TIme

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at July 05, 2023 04:11 PM (17s+e)

421 227
Can you name a movie that actually changed the way you thought about something, about a serious issue
Posted by: DB - for a brighter tomorrow at July 05, 2023 03:48 PM
In ETEX we have been aware of human trafficking a long time. In 06 I saw discarded a girl's clothing strewn on our side of the Rio Grande. 15 feet away under some bushes was a pile of girl's clothing same size. That was one girl who did not connect with family or friends, who left the neatly folded clothes, but was instead probably kept by the coyote's for their own reasons. Sound of Freedom is what that one instance grew into. Human trafficking is at least as big as drug trafficking, it's worldwide and run by specialists.

Posted by: Eromero at July 05, 2023 04:11 PM (Uv0D2)

422 Indiana Jones and the Mysteriously Wet Carpet
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at July 05, 2023 04:11 PM (lf83v)

in socks

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at July 05, 2023 04:12 PM (NtVYv)

423 Indiana Jones Gets Stuck in a Hedge

Posted by: Joe Biden at July 05, 2023 04:12 PM (v0R5T)

424 Well, time to move on to other pursuits today.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at July 05, 2023 04:12 PM (Xrfse)

425 So, good luck accounting for that in your time machine.

Barely an inconvenience. You don't jump from one time to another, you are very briefly in all moments between where you start and where you end so gravity etc still affects you and you are dragged along with the Earth.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 05, 2023 04:12 PM (aD39U)

426 That Bertinelli chick really knows her movies

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 05, 2023 04:12 PM (0hOvj)

427 Indiana Jones and the ... uh ... uh ... I forget

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 05, 2023 04:12 PM (YqDXo)

428 Indiana Jones and the Dribble of Urine

Posted by: bonhomme at July 05, 2023 04:12 PM (eyxn4)

429 Indiana Jones Gets "Elected" President

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 05, 2023 04:13 PM (YqDXo)

430 CNN now blaming Philly shooting on Trump

Posted by: REDACTED at July 05, 2023 04:13 PM (us2H3)

431
Sucks if you were in Europe - you probably can't get back to LA in twelve hours.
Posted by: The Ministry of Disinformation! at July 05, 2023 04:11 PM (2tUFv)

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We tried to warn you. But did you listen? No.

Posted by: Concorde at July 05, 2023 04:13 PM (HF0FJ)

432 Can you name a movie that actually changed the way you thought about something, about a serious issue
Posted by: DB - for a brighter tomorrow at July 05, 2023 03:48 PM (geLO

My Tutor. The benefits of getting special additional instruction.

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 05, 2023 04:13 PM (4I/2K)

433

Indiana Jones and the Pesky Anal Rundown.

Posted by: Depends at July 05, 2023 04:13 PM (Cw2Ml)

434 Indiana Jones and the Presidential press conference.

Posted by: The Ministry of Disinformation! at July 05, 2023 04:13 PM (2tUFv)

435 365 Apparently it includes a fifteen minute fight during which Indy is being hung from the neck the entire time? So he says anyway.

yep.

Posted by: anachronda at July 05, 2023 04:13 PM (v3pYe)

436 I haven't seen it in years, but I looked up the synopsis.

"You will have saved the lives of millions of registered voters"
"Lets run some red lights"
Ghostbusters are dropped off in front of building. They then trudge up the stairs to the roof unassisted.

The only government help they got was being let of jail (which they were in because of EPA guy) and getting a lift sans red lights from City Hall to the Zuul building.

Posted by: Chuck C at July 05, 2023 04:13 PM (xttsV)

437 418 Anya Taylor-Joy is strange looking and beautiful

And, strangest of all, she can act!

Posted by: moviegique at July 05, 2023 04:13 PM (lpWi1)

438 430 CNN now blaming Philly shooting on Trump
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What's the rationale this time?

Posted by: Pudinhead at July 05, 2023 04:14 PM (tiR3O)

439 Raiders of the Lost Depends

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at July 05, 2023 04:14 PM (NtVYv)

440 Human trafficking is at least as big as drug trafficking, it's worldwide and run by specialists.
Posted by: Eromero at July 05, 2023 04:11 PM (Uv0D2)
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It may not officially be the world's oldest profession, but it's probably in the top 5.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 05, 2023 04:14 PM (YIVH2)

441 People who were on vacation this week were given 12 hours to get back home for this meeting.

Sucks if you were in Europe - you probably can't get back to LA in twelve hours.
Posted by: The Ministry of Disinformation!

But if one identifies as being present, all should be well. Right?

Posted by: Tonypete at July 05, 2023 04:14 PM (cn09p)

442 CNN now blaming Philly shooting on Trump
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What's the rationale this time?
Posted by: Pudinhead at July 05, 2023 04:14 PM (tiR3O)

Orange Man Bad.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 05, 2023 04:14 PM (aD39U)

443 So, good luck accounting for that in your time machine.

Its not really a time machine, it only takes you to one spot and point in time, in the past, to save Archimedes' life. So it makes sense it would put you safely in the right spot.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 05, 2023 04:14 PM (0hOvj)

444 Indiana Jones and he's a lousy cabinetmaker

Posted by: REDACTED at July 05, 2023 04:14 PM (us2H3)

445 Raiders of Las Vegas?

Posted by: Wierzbowski formerly QID at July 05, 2023 04:14 PM (OgrpQ)

446 438 430 CNN now blaming Philly shooting on Trump
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What's the rationale this time?

oh they're probably saying he wasn't crazy as a loon until Trump triggered him or something

Posted by: BlackOrchid at July 05, 2023 04:14 PM (AcWfM)

447 Vice headline

The Far Right Is Already Using the Philadelphia Shooting to Smear Trans People

Oh heavens no!!

Posted by: Concorde at July 05, 2023 04:15 PM (HF0FJ)

448 Verhoven’s Starship Troopers gets me thinking about what a progressive fascist society would look like.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at July 05, 2023 04:15 PM (cMXNt)

449 best time themed story I ever saw was an episode of Red Dwarf, "Backwards".

What was the one involving the Kennedy assassination? I won't say more because everyone should watch it without spoilers.

Posted by: Oddbob at July 05, 2023 04:15 PM (nfrXX)

450 Nonsense. The Deluge was just the catastrophic end of the Last Major Glaciation due to a comet impact on the North American ice sheet. Nothing to do with Venus as a potential rogue planet.

And it's ROGUE, FFS. Rouge is what your mom wears on dates with me.

Posted by: leoncaruthers at July 05, 2023 04:15 PM (UfRqq)

451 Indiana Jones and the Confusing Museum Floorplan

Posted by: bonhomme at July 05, 2023 04:15 PM (eyxn4)

452 What's the rationale this time?
Posted by: Pudinhead at July 05, 2023 04:14 PM (tiR3O)

he posted Trumplike grievances online

Posted by: REDACTED at July 05, 2023 04:15 PM (us2H3)

453 447 Vice headline

The Far Right Is Already Using the Philadelphia Shooting to Smear Trans People

Oh heavens no!!
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Smearing them would be an improvement.

Posted by: Pudinhead at July 05, 2023 04:15 PM (tiR3O)

454
So Mitch and Murray sent someone.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 05, 2023 04:16 PM (wSyFG)

455 Everything wrong is DJT's fault according to the Marxists

Posted by: Skip at July 05, 2023 04:16 PM (xhxe8)

456 430 CNN now blaming Philly shooting on Trump
Posted by: REDACTED at July 05, 2023 04:13 PM (us2H3)

I don't even know if this is snark anymore.

Posted by: blaster at July 05, 2023 04:16 PM (pwExq)

457 The only government help they got was being let of jail (which they were in because of EPA guy) and getting a lift sans red lights from City Hall to the Zuul building.

Posted by: Chuck C

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Like I said, I haven't seen it in a couple of decades and looked up the synopsis.

They were clearly aligned with the government at the end. There's no way around it. They might've been making fun of the situation and joking about the EPA and mayor, but the fact remains that they essentially became government agents to save the world.

Posted by: The recovered remains of Hitler's cocaine filled flying submarine at July 05, 2023 04:16 PM (33ek6)

458 418 Anya Taylor-Joy is strange looking and beautiful
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at July 05, 2023 04:11 PM (NtVYv)

If they ever do a movie adaptation of Bob's Saucer Repair, she has to play Nikki.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at July 05, 2023 04:16 PM (PiwSw)

459 People who were on vacation this week were given 12 hours to get back home for this meeting.
_________

Well, Dumbo, you better learn to bippity boppity boo your Peter Pan and Wendy ass here right now!

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at July 05, 2023 04:16 PM (lf83v)

460
My favorite was Indiana Jones and the Red Zone of Fate, where I killed Indy with my patented "Cordis Commotion" block after he tried to steal the crosshatching from the field.

Posted by: Brandon at July 05, 2023 04:16 PM (oINRc)

461 Indiana Jones and the Memory Care Facility

Posted by: The Ministry of Disinformation! at July 05, 2023 04:16 PM (2tUFv)

462 And again, the point isn't Ghostbusters.

The point is the constant persistent propaganda.

Posted by: The recovered remains of Hitler's cocaine filled flying submarine at July 05, 2023 04:16 PM (33ek6)

463 Indiana Jones and the Humid Casino Shuttle

Posted by: bonhomme at July 05, 2023 04:17 PM (eyxn4)

464 462 And again, the point isn't Ghostbusters.

The point is the constant persistent propaganda.
Posted by: The recovered remains of Hitler's cocaine filled flying submarine at July 05, 2023 04:16 PM (33ek6)

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Incorrect.

The point is always Ghostbusters. Ghostbusters is life.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 05, 2023 04:17 PM (LvTSG)

465 I can't recall what the ad was for, but it offered free tickets to see the Indian Jones movie if you bought two pizzas or a six pack or some stupid thing. I remember thinking how desperate the producers must be to bolster ticket sales by giving them away on the opening weekend. Not a good sign.

Posted by: red speck at July 05, 2023 04:17 PM (0Id0S)

466 Indiana Jones and Failing the Eye Test at the DMV

Posted by: Tonypete at July 05, 2023 04:17 PM (cn09p)

467 Indiana Jones and Arizona or Florida?

Posted by: bonhomme at July 05, 2023 04:18 PM (eyxn4)

468 >>Movies that changed my perspective on important matters?

A good counter example is The China Syndrome which is often wrongly credited for the death of the nuke industry in USA.

But what killed nukes was the NRC, and Shoreham. The NRC by changing regulations while it was being built, and Shoreham for tripling costs so much the rate payers refused to allow it to go online.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at July 05, 2023 04:18 PM (f9EvM)

469 Indiana Jones and the Chalice of Metamucil

Posted by: Kevin in ABQ at July 05, 2023 04:18 PM (Btu+d)

470 Indiana Jones and The Final Tapioca Pudding

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 05, 2023 04:18 PM (4I/2K)

471 465 I can't recall what the ad was for, but it offered free tickets to see the Indian Jones movie if you bought two pizzas or a six pack or some stupid thing.

applebee's was offering free tickets if you spent $35

Posted by: anachronda at July 05, 2023 04:18 PM (v3pYe)

472 Philly shooter is a black BLM activist and trans. So obviously MAGA.

Posted by: Montec at July 05, 2023 04:18 PM (HF0FJ)

473 It might be jarring, but it isn't at all debatable. IIRC it went back to Hoover.

"Hundreds of pages of FBI documents BuzzFeed News has obtained in response to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit reveal that the FBI actively seeks to control and burnish its image through consulting work on films. Over the past five years, the FBI’s Hollywood-focused Investigative Publicity and Public Affairs Unit has played a role in the development of hundreds of movies, television shows, and documentaries. "

https://tinyurl.com/yxshngqo

Posted by: The recovered remains of Hitler's cocaine filled flying submarine at July 05, 2023 04:18 PM (33ek6)

474 Indiana Jones And No I Don't Know How I Hit That Other Car, Officer

Posted by: The Ministry of Disinformation! at July 05, 2023 04:18 PM (2tUFv)

475 But what killed nukes was the NRC, and Shoreham. The NRC by changing regulations while it was being built, and Shoreham for tripling costs so much the rate payers refused to allow it to go online.

hmm maybe but also the Three Mile Island thing

that was a TOTAL FREAKOUT hereabouts

Posted by: BlackOrchid at July 05, 2023 04:18 PM (AcWfM)

476
Indiana Jones and the Suspicious Orderly Who's Always Around When His Stuff Goes Missing

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 05, 2023 04:18 PM (oINRc)

477 409 Indiana Jones Discovers He Now Needs to Get Up ~~Two~~ Four Times at Night to Pee, Not Just ~~One~~ Twice
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Fixed for 29-year-old accuracy.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at July 05, 2023 04:19 PM (Vwz3I)

478 Rouge is what your mom wears on dates with me.

I did finally discover the elusive Elf Rouge though.

https://tinyurl.com/29ur983e

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 05, 2023 04:19 PM (0hOvj)

479 Indiana Jones and the Damn Mole Ate My Carrots

Posted by: bonhomme at July 05, 2023 04:19 PM (eyxn4)

480 472 Philly shooter is a black BLM activist and trans. So obviously MAGA.
Posted by: Montec at July 05, 2023 04:18 PM (HF0FJ)

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He was only reacting to the right wing climate of hate.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 05, 2023 04:19 PM (LvTSG)

481 Indiana Jones and the Depends of Destiny

Posted by: Kevin in ABQ at July 05, 2023 04:19 PM (Btu+d)

482 This is the prediction about Kathleen Kennedy's demise that will be correct!

Or not.

Posted by: blaster at July 05, 2023 04:19 PM (pwExq)

483

Indiana Jones and the Unfoldable Paper Map.

Posted by: Depends at July 05, 2023 04:19 PM (Cw2Ml)

484 They were clearly aligned with the government at the end. There's no way around it. They might've been making fun of the situation and joking about the EPA and mayor, but the fact remains that they essentially became government agents to save the world.
Posted by: The recovered remains of Hitler's cocaine filled flying submarine at July 05, 2023 04:16 PM

Uh. Ok. (slowly backs out the door)

Posted by: Chuck C at July 05, 2023 04:19 PM (xttsV)

485 Indiana Jones and the Runway Moved

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 05, 2023 04:19 PM (oGiDo)

486 The point is always Ghostbusters. Ghostbusters is life.

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hahaha

Your little ones might be old enough for the Lego set. It's well worth it. The real one, not the chick one. There may or may not still be not-Lego sets available on Temu for $20 or so.

Posted by: The recovered remains of Hitler's cocaine filled flying submarine at July 05, 2023 04:20 PM (33ek6)

487 This is the prediction about Kathleen Kennedy's demise that will be correct!

Or not.
Posted by: blaster at July 05, 2023 04:19 PM (pwExq)

Clearly, she has the goods on somebody.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 05, 2023 04:20 PM (aD39U)

488 Indian Jones And The Last Handicap Sticker

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 05, 2023 04:20 PM (XqIlw)

489 But what killed nukes was the NRC, and Shoreham. The NRC by changing regulations while it was being built, and Shoreham for tripling costs so much the rate payers refused to allow it to go online.
Posted by: Gentlemen

The James Gavin plant in the AEP system was ready to generate power - the only thing needed was for the (nuclear) materials to be delivered on site.

AEP surveyed the regulatory landscape and said "Nah. Let's spend another Billion and convert the plant to coal fired."

So they did.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 05, 2023 04:21 PM (cn09p)

490 Indiana Jones and the Gold-Backed IRA

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 05, 2023 04:21 PM (oINRc)

491 Uh. Ok. (slowly backs out the door)

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No, you're right. You win. The part where the mayor chooses to employ their help and the men with guns help them reach the area without concern for laws is something else and I am wrong.

Posted by: The recovered remains of Hitler's cocaine filled flying submarine at July 05, 2023 04:21 PM (33ek6)

492 > There may or may not still be not-Lego sets available on Temu for $20 or so.

The hell is Temu?

Posted by: bonhomme at July 05, 2023 04:21 PM (eyxn4)

493
Indiana Jones and the Throne of Prunes

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 05, 2023 04:22 PM (oINRc)

494 Philly shooter is a black BLM activist and trans. So obviously MAGA.
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News chyron here just said "40-year-old man" [or whatever age] charged today.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at July 05, 2023 04:22 PM (Vwz3I)

495 This is the prediction about Kathleen Kennedy's demise that will be correct!

Or not.
Posted by: blaster at July 05, 2023 04:19 PM (pwExq)

You need to do this with the right screen name.

Posted by: Mike Zeroh at July 05, 2023 04:22 PM (Btu+d)

496 The hell is Temu?

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Don't search for it, and hide your wallet if you do.

Posted by: The recovered remains of Hitler's cocaine filled flying submarine at July 05, 2023 04:22 PM (33ek6)

497 493
Indiana Jones and the Throne of Prunes
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 05, 2023 04:22 PM (oINRc)

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Twist:

Indiana Jones is a Klingon warrior.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 05, 2023 04:22 PM (LvTSG)

498 490 Indiana Jones and the Gold-Backed IRA
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 05, 2023 04:21 PM (oINRc)

William Devane could probably do a good job.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at July 05, 2023 04:22 PM (PiwSw)

499 AEP surveyed the regulatory landscape and said "Nah. Let's spend another Billion and convert the plant to coal fired."

At least they got a functioning power plant out of it.

Posted by: The Ministry of Disinformation! at July 05, 2023 04:22 PM (2tUFv)

500 The hell is Temu?
Posted by: bonhomme

$20 - same as in town.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 05, 2023 04:22 PM (cn09p)

501 Sucks if you were in Europe - you probably can't get back to LA in twelve hours.
Posted by: The Ministry of Disinformation!

Fly west. It takes longer, but you cross the International Date line and gain 24 hours.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at July 05, 2023 04:23 PM (f9EvM)

502 The scene where the main character's wife (I guess) tells him to quit his job and go save the kids reminded me of Adrian telling Rocky Rocky 2, "There's only one thing I want you to do for me..."

Posted by: Oglebay at July 05, 2023 04:23 PM (ogTiX)

503
Indiana Jones and the Private Jet Mishap Part 6

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 05, 2023 04:23 PM (oINRc)

504 I meant east.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at July 05, 2023 04:23 PM (f9EvM)

505 I even like the smell of gold.

Posted by: William Devane at July 05, 2023 04:23 PM (v0R5T)

506 t the fact remains that they essentially became government agents to save the world.||

Not at all. They were saving the world all along and the government stopped them.

They had to talk the government out of locking them up and destroying their business.

This is a weird take.

Posted by: moviegique at July 05, 2023 04:23 PM (lpWi1)

507 Uh. Ok. (slowly backs out the door)
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No, you're right. You win. The part where the mayor chooses to employ their help and the men with guns help them reach the area without concern for laws is something else and I am wrong.
Posted by: The recovered remains of Hitler's cocaine filled flying submarine at July 05, 2023 04:21 PM

Wow. Just wow.

Posted by: Chuck C at July 05, 2023 04:23 PM (xttsV)

508 Tom Cruise turned 61 on Monday. Say what you will about his crazy mind, the guy can make a movie. His stunt work is incredible.

Posted by: Cheri at July 05, 2023 04:24 PM (oiNtH)

509 507 Wow. Just wow.
Posted by: Chuck C at July 05, 2023 04:23 PM (xttsV)

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And you people give me shit for Prometheus.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 05, 2023 04:24 PM (LvTSG)

510 Vice headline

The Far Right Is Already Using the Philadelphia Shooting to Smear Trans People

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Geez! A half dozen mass shootings by trannies and, just like that, crazy people bad!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at July 05, 2023 04:24 PM (FVME7)

511 Philly shooter is a black BLM activist and trans.
Posted by: Montec at July 05, 2023 04:18 PM (HF0FJ)
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This just in: the Philly shooter has announced his candidacy for the US Senate from PA.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 05, 2023 04:24 PM (YqDXo)

512 The part where the mayor chooses to employ their help and the men with guns help them reach the area without concern for laws is something else and I am wrong.

I figure a 2 minute sequence in a 105 minute movie isn't the defining moment.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 05, 2023 04:24 PM (0hOvj)

513 Also Forrest Gump was a redeeming story of humanity and not a sick horror movie about divine wrath and the torture of the mentally ill that, had it been made in Korea, we would be discussing completely differently.

Posted by: The recovered remains of Hitler's cocaine filled flying submarine at July 05, 2023 04:24 PM (33ek6)

514 Politico:

White House cocaine culprit unlikely to be found: Law enforcement official

But we looked everywhere!

Posted by: The Ministry of Disinformation! at July 05, 2023 04:24 PM (2tUFv)

515 Indiana Jones and the rearranged grocery store.

Posted by: Obligatory at July 05, 2023 04:25 PM (A2CCj)

516 Indiana Jones and the Presidential press conference.
Posted by: The Ministry of Disinformation! at July 05, 2023 04:13 PM (2tUFv)

Otherwise known as "Indiana Jones and the Buffoon of Doom."

Posted by: Boswell at July 05, 2023 04:25 PM (K+UlC)

517 he posted Trumplike grievances online
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The Heavy 'Five Facts About' yesterday played up the shooter not liking Biden.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at July 05, 2023 04:25 PM (Vwz3I)

518 511 This just in: the Philly shooter has announced his candidacy for the US Senate from PA.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 05, 2023 04:24 PM (YqDXo)

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And the GOPe will be worried about candidate quality!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 05, 2023 04:25 PM (LvTSG)

519 Indiana Jones and The Lost Morning Wood

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 05, 2023 04:25 PM (4I/2K)

520 456 430 CNN now blaming Philly shooting on Trump
Posted by: REDACTED at July 05, 2023 04:13 PM (us2H3)

I don't even know if this is snark anymore.
Posted by: blaster at July 05, 2023 04:16 PM (pwExq)

I don't snark

dumbass, sure but never snark

Posted by: REDACTED at July 05, 2023 04:25 PM (us2H3)

521 Adrian telling Rocky Rocky 2, "There's only one thing I want you to do for me..."
Posted by: Oglebay

The Tijuana corkscrew?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at July 05, 2023 04:25 PM (FVME7)

522 I watched a video from "Endymion" about this that quotes some of the same sources.

But he is convinced that, yes, this is the end for Kennedy. Maybe.

Also, the video is "Endymion" reading his rant with a bunch of visuals from Star Wars video games on screen that have nothing to do with his podcast or whatever. It's an annoying method of delivering his message.

Posted by: blaster at July 05, 2023 04:26 PM (pwExq)

523
Indiana Jones and the Primetime News Broadcast

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 05, 2023 04:26 PM (oINRc)

524 I figure a 2 minute sequence in a 105 minute movie isn't the defining moment.

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Sure, if the government element wasn't suddenly involved.

My point was that it was, and the movie shows it clearly. I know it sucks to accept that we're manipulated like that, but it's true.

Stay home stay safe!

Posted by: The recovered remains of Hitler's cocaine filled flying submarine at July 05, 2023 04:26 PM (33ek6)

525 Indiana Jones and the Private Jet Mishap Part 6

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 05, 2023 04:23 PM (oINRc)

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Indiana Jones and The Landing Strip of Doom.

Posted by: ShainS -- Semiquincentennial or Bust! at July 05, 2023 04:26 PM (HF85l)

526
I can't recall what the ad was for, but it offered free tickets to see the Indian Jones movie if you bought two pizzas or a six pack or some stupid thing. I remember thinking how desperate the producers must be to bolster ticket sales by giving them away on the opening weekend. Not a good sign.
Posted by: red speck

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Applebees. Minimum $35 check and you get a free Indy 5 ticket. I looked at the menu and there was no way I wanted $35 worth of Applebees food, so I sprang for the ticket.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 05, 2023 04:26 PM (lCaJd)

527 Indiana Jones and the Ointment of Dry Itchy Skin

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at July 05, 2023 04:26 PM (lf83v)

528 Fly west. It takes longer, but you cross the International Date line and gain 24 hours.

LOL. I once flew New Zealand -> LA -> Portland, and landed in Portland earlier than I took off from New Zealand.

Posted by: The Ministry of Disinformation! at July 05, 2023 04:26 PM (2tUFv)

529 Indiana Jones and I Stopped Taking My Psych Meds

Posted by: Chuck C at July 05, 2023 04:26 PM (xttsV)

530 Tom Cruise turned 61 on Monday. Say what you will about his crazy mind, the guy can make a movie. His stunt work is incredible.
Posted by: Cheri at July 05, 2023 04:24 PM (oiNtH)

Guys a fag.

Posted by: Fat Travolta at July 05, 2023 04:26 PM (v0R5T)

531 > I figure a 2 minute sequence in a 105 minute movie isn't the defining moment.

The only thing anyone remembers from my movie is when I uncrossed my legs.

Posted by: Sharon Stone at July 05, 2023 04:27 PM (eyxn4)

532 Indiana Jones and the Medical Power of Attorney

Posted by: The Ministry of Disinformation! at July 05, 2023 04:27 PM (2tUFv)

533 Indiana Jones and the newspaper delivered to the door

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 05, 2023 04:27 PM (0hOvj)

534 Did anyone see the chick ghostbusters and the reboot one after that?

What was the government employment angle in those?

Posted by: The recovered remains of Hitler's cocaine filled flying submarine at July 05, 2023 04:27 PM (33ek6)

535 The only thing anyone remembers from my movie is when I uncrossed my legs.
Posted by: Sharon Stone

When the producers offered you the part, that's the only part that mattered.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 05, 2023 04:28 PM (cn09p)

536 But we looked everywhere!
Posted by: The Ministry of Disinformation! at July 05, 2023 04:24 PM (2tUFv)

Remember when Merrick Garland said it was hard to catch the bombers of abortion alternative places because those people did things in the dark?

Turns out the person who left the cocaine was trying not to get caught. So that makes it tough to find them.

Posted by: blaster at July 05, 2023 04:28 PM (pwExq)

537 I figure a 2 minute sequence in a 105 minute movie isn't the defining moment.

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You know, THAT could be a fun movie thread.

Posted by: The recovered remains of Hitler's cocaine filled flying submarine at July 05, 2023 04:28 PM (33ek6)

538
I figure a 2 minute sequence in a 105 minute movie isn't the defining moment.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 05, 2023 04:24 PM (0hOvj)

There's a video around that long of the trial of the Ceausescus where one is.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 05, 2023 04:28 PM (oINRc)

539 White House cocaine culprit unlikely to be found: Law enforcement official
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*Seth Rich has joined the chat*

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at July 05, 2023 04:28 PM (lf83v)

540 Indiana Jones and the Too Long Thread

Posted by: It's me donna at July 05, 2023 04:28 PM (bs+z0)

541 Indiana Jones and the empathizing elders.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 05, 2023 04:28 PM (Keyt1)

542 Indiana Jones and The Landing Strip of Doom.
Posted by: ShainS -- Semiquincentennial or Bust! at July 05, 2023 04:26 PM (HF85l)
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Let's keep Phoebe Waller-Bridge out of this, okay.

Posted by: WisRich at July 05, 2023 04:28 PM (G0vdT)

543 These elderly reboots are getting out of hand. Brings new meaning to...

Posted by: Walker, Texas Ranger at July 05, 2023 04:28 PM (T0tUU)

544 anything that causes DeNIro pain is good

Posted by: REDACTED at July 05, 2023 04:28 PM (us2H3)

545 Indiana Jones And The Missed Early Bird Special

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 05, 2023 04:28 PM (XqIlw)

546 Indiana Jones and the 43 lottery purchases.

Posted by: Minnfidel at July 05, 2023 04:29 PM (GwxCX)

547 Indiana Jones and The Landing Strip of Doom.
Posted by: ShainS -- Semiquincentennial or Bust! at July 05, 2023 04:26 PM (HF85l)

This is about me, isn't it?

Posted by: Meghan Markle at July 05, 2023 04:29 PM (PiwSw)

548 The only thing anyone remembers from my movie is when I uncrossed my legs.
Posted by: Sharon Stone

I didn't. I never saw the movie.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 05, 2023 04:29 PM (Keyt1)

549
The hell is Temu?
Posted by: bonhomme

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Another cheapo Chinese-sourced online retail thing. If you watch YouTube, you'll be bombarded by their ads.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 05, 2023 04:29 PM (lCaJd)

550 Turns out the person who left the cocaine was trying not to get caught. So that makes it tough to find them.

I dunno - who in the White House would be arrogant enough and stupid enough to bring an illegal drug into one of the most surveilled places on the planet?

It's a mystery!

Posted by: The Ministry of Disinformation! at July 05, 2023 04:29 PM (2tUFv)

551 It's also neat that we've been able to nearly almost come up with one movie as an example.

Posted by: The recovered remains of Hitler's cocaine filled flying submarine at July 05, 2023 04:29 PM (33ek6)

552 Indiana Jones and The Time That Doctor Made Me Wait Over An Hour

Posted by: DB - for a brighter tomorrow at July 05, 2023 04:30 PM (geLO8)

553 513 Also Forrest Gump was a redeeming story of humanity and not a sick horror movie about divine wrath and the torture of the mentally ill that, had it been made in Korea, we would be discussing completely differently.
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Ji-Yoo was a real bitch!

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at July 05, 2023 04:30 PM (Vwz3I)

554 550 I dunno - who in the White House would be arrogant enough and stupid enough to bring an illegal drug into one of the most surveilled places on the planet?

It's a mystery!
Posted by: The Ministry of Disinformation! at July 05, 2023 04:29 PM (2tUFv)

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Everyone who works in the White House. Everyone who has worked in the White House over the past century.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 05, 2023 04:30 PM (LvTSG)

555 Posted by: REDACTED at July 05, 2023 04:28 PM (us2H3)

He's a left wing jerk, but no, having your grandson overdose is not a good thing.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 05, 2023 04:30 PM (Keyt1)

556 The only thing anyone remembers from my movie is when I uncrossed my legs.
Posted by: Sharon Stone

Speaking of which, Britney Spears had been at large without adult supervision and hasn't melted down. Not in public anyway.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at July 05, 2023 04:30 PM (FVME7)

557 Indiana Jones and What Were Those Three Words

Posted by: The recovered remains of Hitler's cocaine filled flying submarine at July 05, 2023 04:30 PM (33ek6)

558 > I didn't. I never saw the movie.

And yet you know exactly what I'm talking about.

Posted by: Sharon Stone at July 05, 2023 04:30 PM (eyxn4)

559 Drug test Hunter before he is allowed back on White House grounds.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at July 05, 2023 04:30 PM (lf83v)

560 530 Tom Cruise turned 61 on Monday. Say what you will about his crazy mind, the guy can make a movie. His stunt work is incredible.
Posted by: Cheri at July 05, 2023 04:24 PM (oiNtH)

Guys a fag.
Posted by: Fat Travolta at July 05, 2023 04:26 PM (v0R5T)

bro, you still pissed cuz I pulled out

Posted by: Cruiser at July 05, 2023 04:30 PM (us2H3)

561 Indiana Jones and the grocery store check.

Posted by: Minnfidel at July 05, 2023 04:31 PM (GwxCX)

562 And you people give me shit for Prometheus.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 05, 2023 04:24 PM (LvTSG)

Easier to do that than it would be to admit they secretly like Promethius.

Posted by: BifBewalski at July 05, 2023 04:31 PM (3CCua)

563 In ETEX we have been aware of human trafficking a long time.

yes it's awful and the "open borders" crowd facilitates it

Posted by: brak at July 05, 2023 04:31 PM (25k9m)

564 559 Drug test Hunter before he is allowed back on White House grounds.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at July 05, 2023 04:30 PM (lf83v)

From what I understand he is living there now

Posted by: It's me donna at July 05, 2023 04:31 PM (bs+z0)

565 107 Had a crazy idea last night. If I were head of Disney, I'd demand five new action hero movies with four or five new main action characters....

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo

I would get a good story, like To Have and Have Not, and give it to 5 directors to Rashomon it, having each independently tell the story from a different perspective making their guy the hero. No cross communication but they have to keep it the same basic story. Then release them all.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at July 05, 2023 04:31 PM (f9EvM)

566 Indiana Jones and the Riddle of Why Did I Come In This Room?

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at July 05, 2023 04:32 PM (lf83v)

567 Indiana Jones and Stay Off My Lawn

Posted by: Wierzbowski formerly QID at July 05, 2023 04:32 PM (OgrpQ)

568 Indiana Jones and The Fruitless Search For The White House Cokehead

Posted by: The Ministry of Disinformation! at July 05, 2023 04:32 PM (2tUFv)

569 Posted by: Sharon Stone at July 05, 2023 04:30 PM (eyxn4)

Probably because people have been mentioning it since the movie came out.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 05, 2023 04:32 PM (Keyt1)

570 I dunno - who in the White House would be arrogant enough and stupid enough to bring an illegal drug into one of the most surveilled places on the planet?

It's a mystery!
Posted by: The Ministry of Disinformation!

Surprised? Politico: Law enforcement says WH cocaine culprit 'unlikely to be found'

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You don't say?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at July 05, 2023 04:32 PM (FVME7)

571 > Indiana Jones and The Time That Doctor Made Me Wait Over An Hour

OK, maybe I'm old, but this pisses me off too. Especially when you intentionally get an early appointment with the idea they won't be too far behind schedule after meeting with only one or two people before you.

Posted by: bonhomme at July 05, 2023 04:32 PM (eyxn4)

572 Yankee game on Amazon Prime again tonight. WTF?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 05, 2023 04:32 PM (pmmLi)

573 Indiana Jones and the shitted bed

Posted by: Amber Heard at July 05, 2023 04:32 PM (us2H3)

574 515 Indiana Jones and the rearranged grocery store.
Posted by: Obligatory at July 05, 2023 04:25 PM (A2CCj)

; )

Posted by: m at July 05, 2023 04:32 PM (ASp1y)

575 Indiana Jones and The Landing Strip of Doom.
Posted by: ShainS -- Semiquincentennial or Bust! at July 05, 2023 04:26 PM (HF85l)
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Let's keep Phoebe Waller-Bridge out of this, okay.
Posted by: WisRich at July 05, 2023 04:28 PM (G0vdT)

Kummala's ugly relative has entered the chat.

Posted by: BifBewalski at July 05, 2023 04:32 PM (3CCua)

576 Indiana Jones and the Temu of Doom

Posted by: Regular joe at July 05, 2023 04:33 PM (nnp+f)

577 LOL. I once flew New Zealand -> LA -> Portland, and landed in Portland earlier than I took off from New Zealand.
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Sure! And don't buy the HQ any winning lottery tickets!!

Dickhead.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at July 05, 2023 04:33 PM (Vwz3I)

578 Indiana Jones and I Thought MY Foot Was On the Brake Pedal

Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd at July 05, 2023 04:33 PM (VdGjU)

579 Haley Atwell one of the hottest women alive? Hahahaha that thing isn't even in the top 10,000.

Posted by: Bob at July 05, 2023 04:33 PM (vHUcF)

580 578 Indiana Jones and I Thought MY Foot Was On the Brake Pedal
Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd at July 05, 2023 04:33 PM (VdGjU)

LOL... My favorite so far

Posted by: It's me donna at July 05, 2023 04:34 PM (bs+z0)

581 Indiana Jones and The Barbershop Afternoon

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 05, 2023 04:34 PM (4I/2K)

582 Indiana Jones and a case of Bud Light

Posted by: Dylan at July 05, 2023 04:34 PM (us2H3)

583 We asked like 10 people if they brought the cocaine in. All 10 said nope. Not much else we can do.

-FBI

Posted by: Montec at July 05, 2023 04:34 PM (HF0FJ)

584 Indiana Jones and the Bedpan of Doom...

Posted by: Mister Ghost at July 05, 2023 04:34 PM (TGPs7)

585 >Indiana Jones and the rearranged grocery store.
Posted by: Obligatory

OK this one is real

Posted by: DB - for a brighter tomorrow at July 05, 2023 04:34 PM (geLO8)

586 Indiana Jones and the Lost Supplemental Insurance

Posted by: WisRich at July 05, 2023 04:34 PM (G0vdT)

587 > Probably because people have been mentioning it since the movie came out.

Which only reinforces my point that a movie can have a defining moment regardless of plot.

Posted by: Sharon Stone at July 05, 2023 04:34 PM (eyxn4)

588 Casablanca was playing on the Titanic when it struck the iceberg.

Posted by: More Movie Facts at July 05, 2023 04:34 PM (T0tUU)

589 Indian Jones And The Taped Lawrence Welk Shows

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 05, 2023 04:34 PM (XqIlw)

590 Indiana Jones and the Visit to Taylor Lorenz's Childhood Home

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at July 05, 2023 04:34 PM (PiwSw)

591 I don't think Disney is in any remotest danger of shutting down or anything but they are in serious trouble which is absolutely shocking given that five years ago they were utterly on top of the world with most the most lucrative franchises in movie history and a gigantic back catalog of properties they could put on their new channel.

Now they're bleeding money so bad they are selling off old Disneyland ride bits and firing people by the thousand.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 05, 2023 04:34 PM (0hOvj)

592 Indiana Jones and the Torment of the Backpain Medicine on the Lowest Shelf

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at July 05, 2023 04:35 PM (lf83v)

593 Speaking of which, Britney Spears ~~had~~ has been at large without adult supervision for several months and hasn't melted down. Not in public anyway.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at July 05, 2023 04:35 PM (FVME7)

594 585 >Indiana Jones and the rearranged grocery store.
Posted by: Obligatory

OK this one is real
Posted by: DB

And have you seen the prices lately!

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at July 05, 2023 04:35 PM (f9EvM)

595 Gonna go see Sound of Freedom next week with my Kids (26, 23 and 16). Don't forget to go to Tim Ballard's website for Operation Underground Railroad and see if there is a way to get involved:

https://ourrescue.org/

Posted by: Sharkman at July 05, 2023 04:35 PM (YdDJ9)

596 We asked like 10 people if they brought the cocaine in. All 10 said nope. Not much else we can do.

-FBI
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No reasonable prosecutor standard.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at July 05, 2023 04:35 PM (lf83v)

597 Indiana Jones and The Time That Doctor Made Me Wait Over An Hour

OK, maybe I'm old, but this pisses me off too

Have you ever called the doctor and got to see him on a more emergency basis? (I have.) That's what causes the possible hour delay.

Posted by: Chuck C at July 05, 2023 04:36 PM (xttsV)

598 Indiana Jones and Jonathan From Colonial Penn.

Posted by: 9.95 Plan at July 05, 2023 04:36 PM (T0tUU)

599 And it's ROGUE, FFS. Rouge is what your mom wears on dates with me.
Posted by: leoncaruthers at July 05, 2023 04:15 PM (UfRqq)

Brag brag brag brag. I bet you have to run her to the buffet first.

Posted by: Kindltto at July 05, 2023 04:36 PM (xhaym)

600 Opposite
Titanic movie was playing in the theater next to Rick's Bar

Posted by: Skip at July 05, 2023 04:36 PM (xhxe8)

601 Yankee game on Amazon Prime again tonight. WTF?
Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 05, 2023 04:32 PM (pmmLi)

Hahahha.

You deserve it.

Hahahahha

Posted by: Thesokorus at July 05, 2023 04:36 PM (UhdgH)

602 And you people give me shit for Prometheus.

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Huh. Would you look at that. Idris Elba, who it looks like crashes the ship and saves the earth, had a military background.

Gosh, what are the odds?

Posted by: The recovered remains of Hitler's cocaine filled flying submarine at July 05, 2023 04:36 PM (33ek6)

603 587 > Probably because people have been mentioning it since the movie came out.

Which only reinforces my point that a movie can have a defining moment regardless of plot.
Posted by: Sharon Stone at July 05, 2023 04:34 PM (eyxn4)

Agreed.

Posted by: m at July 05, 2023 04:37 PM (ASp1y)

604 Indiana Jones and the Discount Catheters

Posted by: Wierzbowski formerly QID at July 05, 2023 04:37 PM (OgrpQ)

605 Posted by: Sharon Stone at July 05, 2023 04:34 PM (eyxn4)

Having not seen the film, what is the big deal about Sharon Stone uncrossing her legs?. She's not wearing underwear and you can see her private parts?.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 05, 2023 04:37 PM (Keyt1)

606 Indiana Jones and the Fourth Booster

Posted by: The recovered remains of Hitler's cocaine filled flying submarine at July 05, 2023 04:37 PM (33ek6)

607
Haley Atwell one of the hottest women alive? Hahahaha that thing isn't even in the top 10,000.
Posted by: Bob

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Jeez, I just looked at her. Strong Frida Kahlo vibes.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 05, 2023 04:37 PM (lCaJd)

608
Have you ever called the doctor and got to see him on a more emergency basis? (I have.) That's what causes the possible hour delay.

Posted by: Chuck C at July 05, 2023 04:36 PM (xttsV)

Isn’t that what the ER is for? It’s right there in the name and everything.

Posted by: Montec at July 05, 2023 04:37 PM (HF0FJ)

609 Indiana Jones and we Need a NOOD

Posted by: It's me donna at July 05, 2023 04:37 PM (bs+z0)

610 LOL. I once flew New Zealand -> LA -> Portland, and landed in Portland earlier than I took off from New Zealand.

I used to leave the office at noon friday in Japan, fly to CA and show up after lunch to finish the day. (Really just to prevent falling asleep at home.)

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at July 05, 2023 04:37 PM (f9EvM)

611 White House cocaine culprit unlikely to be found: Law enforcement official
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There is your proof they determined it was Hunter’s.

Posted by: polynikes at July 05, 2023 04:37 PM (MNhXM)

612 Huh. Would you look at that. Idris Elba, who it looks like crashes the ship and saves the earth, had a military background.

Gosh, what are the odds?
Posted by: The recovered remains of Hitler's cocaine filled flying submarine at July 05, 2023 04:36 PM (33ek6)

What about the Chinese guy?

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 05, 2023 04:37 PM (Qn59F)

613 Indiana Jones and The Coupon That Didn't Scan

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 05, 2023 04:38 PM (4I/2K)

614 Indiana Jones and the Penmar Golf Course Incident

It's real

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 05, 2023 04:38 PM (Q4IgG)

615
Having not seen the film, what is the big deal about Sharon Stone uncrossing her legs?. She's not wearing underwear and you can see her private parts?.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

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Exactly.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 05, 2023 04:38 PM (lCaJd)

616 Indiana Jones and The Coupon That Didn't Scan
Posted by: Count de Monet at July 05, 2023 04:38 PM

Spoiler. It was expired and he gets his whip out.

Posted by: Minnfidel at July 05, 2023 04:39 PM (GwxCX)

617 Indiana Jones and the Overly Long Thread

Posted by: The Ministry of Disinformation! at July 05, 2023 04:39 PM (2tUFv)

618 Huh. Would you look at that. Idris Elba, who it looks like crashes the ship and saves the earth, had a military background.

Gosh, what are the odds?
Posted by: The recovered remains of Hitler's cocaine filled flying submarine at July 05, 2023 04:36 PM

How many current airline pilots are ex-Air Force?

Posted by: Chuck C at July 05, 2023 04:39 PM (xttsV)

619 Haley Atwell is one of a thousand interchangable meh Brunettes that Hollywood is throwing at us now. I think the fired all the redheads.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 05, 2023 04:39 PM (0hOvj)

620 What about the Chinese guy?

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Looking on wikipedia I only see a black dude, a short haired chick, and Charlize Theron.

Posted by: The recovered remains of Hitler's cocaine filled flying submarine at July 05, 2023 04:39 PM (33ek6)

621
Also Forrest Gump was a redeeming story of humanity and not a sick horror movie about divine wrath and the torture of the mentally ill that, had it been made in Korea, we would be discussing completely differently.
Posted by: The recovered remains of Hitler's cocaine filled flying submarine at July 05, 2023 04:24 PM (33ek6)

Uhhh, actually it IS a horror film. The evil succubus Jenny keeps popping up in Forrest's life every time that things seem to be going well for him, only to tear him down and leave him devastated. Until her final vicious act of showing up with a kid, and giving Forrest a deadly disease before dying herself and leaving Forrest with the task of raising the kid for the next 12 years or so.

The last look of horror on his face in the final scene clinches it. That's not a look of serene redemption, it's utter terror.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 05, 2023 04:39 PM (n+4am)

622 Indiana Jones and whars ma teeth

Posted by: Dylan at July 05, 2023 04:39 PM (us2H3)

623 First time I flew back from Japan I almost went to the ER the jet lag was so bad. Days in bed sleeping.

Posted by: Thesokorus at July 05, 2023 04:39 PM (UhdgH)

624 Indiana Jones and the Templar Golden Hernia Truss

Posted by: Gref at July 05, 2023 04:39 PM (AMIL/)

625 nood

Posted by: m at July 05, 2023 04:39 PM (ASp1y)

626 Ace haz a NOOD

Posted by: Skip at July 05, 2023 04:39 PM (xhxe8)

627 Having not seen the film, what is the big deal about Sharon Stone uncrossing her legs?. She's not wearing underwear and you can see her private parts?.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

That's a bingo.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at July 05, 2023 04:39 PM (FVME7)

628 Yankee game on Amazon Prime again tonight. WTF?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 05, 2023 04:32 PM (pmmLi)

Way to guarantee that I won't watch! And I have Amazon Prime!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 05, 2023 04:39 PM (PHmov)

629 We asked like 10 people if they brought the cocaine in. All 10 said nope. Not much else we can do.

-FBI
Posted by: Montec

Very reassuring that at the very top of our government with every resource available, where money is no object, they "can't" solve this complex crime that every beat cop and drug sniffing dog in America does on a daily basis. They have truly exceeded my expectations.

Posted by: Cheri at July 05, 2023 04:40 PM (oiNtH)

630 Sharon Stone got all the buzz but Jeanne Triplehorn was hotter in it.

Posted by: Montec at July 05, 2023 04:40 PM (HF0FJ)

631 Having not seen the film, what is the big deal about Sharon Stone uncrossing her legs?. She's not wearing underwear and you can see her private parts?.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
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You can see the entrance to the Lincoln Tunnel.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at July 05, 2023 04:40 PM (lf83v)

632 448 Verhoven’s Starship Troopers gets me thinking about what a progressive fascist society would look like.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at July 05, 2023 04:15 PM
The book was better than the movie and the movie was very good.

Posted by: Eromero at July 05, 2023 04:40 PM (Uv0D2)

633 Dune 2 better not go too much girl power but I’m afraid it will.

Posted by: polynikes at July 05, 2023 04:40 PM (MNhXM)

634 Tom Hanks is the modern Robert Montgomery

Posted by: REDACTED at July 05, 2023 04:41 PM (us2H3)

635 Since no hood is my Temu of Doom a thread winner?

Posted by: Regular joe at July 05, 2023 04:41 PM (nnp+f)

636 How many current airline pilots are ex-Air Force?

Posted by: Chuck C

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Again, I'm not trying to convince anyone of the manipulation, and you don't have to believe your own eyes or the FBI documents posted in 473.

We're all in this together! Stay home stay safe!

Posted by: The recovered remains of Hitler's cocaine filled flying submarine at July 05, 2023 04:41 PM (33ek6)

637 The evil succubus Jenny keeps popping up in Forrest's life every time that things seem to be going well for him

Its okay though, she gives him AIDS and dies leaving him with the kid.

...wait.

Its just Boomer nostalgia nonsense, it was entertaining enough but nothing I want to own on DVD, which is my standard. Gary Sinese stole every scene he was in.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 05, 2023 04:41 PM (0hOvj)

638 Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 05, 2023 04:39 PM (n+4am)

https://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=340061

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 05, 2023 04:41 PM (PHmov)

639 Indiana Jones and the Impending Nood

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at July 05, 2023 04:41 PM (Vwz3I)

640 Prometheus | Destroy the Ship

https://ytube.io/3gP9

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 05, 2023 04:42 PM (Qn59F)

641 Bob, did you and Garrett have fun last night?

Posted by: Nightowl at July 05, 2023 04:42 PM (HZWzL)

642 630 Sharon Stone got all the buzz but Jeanne Triplehorn was hotter in it.
Posted by: Montec at July 05, 2023 04:40 PM (HF0FJ)

we're here all day !!

Posted by: Lenscrafters at July 05, 2023 04:42 PM (us2H3)

643 The last look of horror on his face in the final scene clinches it. That's not a look of serene redemption, it's utter terror.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur

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IIRC the movie has God destroy every other boat and livelihood of the families because Forrest needed shrimp, too.

Posted by: The recovered remains of Hitler's cocaine filled flying submarine at July 05, 2023 04:42 PM (33ek6)

644 Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at July 05, 2023 04:39 PM (FVME7)

Considering that absolute x rated dreck people can probably get on the internet now any hour or night it sounds pretty mild.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 05, 2023 04:42 PM (Keyt1)

645 I never saw Jenny as evil. I saw her as an abused child that befriended a retarded guy when no one else would.

Posted by: polynikes at July 05, 2023 04:43 PM (MNhXM)

646
https://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=340061
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 05, 2023 04:41 PM (PHmov)

Heh. I'd forgotten about that one.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 05, 2023 04:43 PM (n+4am)

647 indiana jones and the nood white house cocaine

Posted by: anachronda at July 05, 2023 04:44 PM (v3pYe)

648 Indiana Jones and the Money Pit

Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd at July 05, 2023 04:44 PM (VdGjU)

649 Uh... did anyone else catch who gave a promotional quote for Mad God @ 0:47 in?

Posted by: brainy435 at July 05, 2023 04:47 PM (cXPTC)

650 Indiana Jones and the Temple of Hospice Care.

Indiana Jones and the Empty Tube of Polident

Posted by: 13times at July 05, 2023 04:55 PM (ilh0z)

651 Thread by @ExposingBiden:

5/ @GlassLewis is an extremely powerful company, yet most people never heard of it. Glass Lewis and another firm, "ISS", form what is considered to be a duopoly in the proxy advisory industry. This means that nearly every shareholder vote in corporate American goes through them.

6/ What does Glass Lewis do with all that power?

They push wokeness and ESG.

Here's what we found:

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Posted by: Clyde Shelton at July 05, 2023 04:56 PM (60h0q)

652 >>> 585 >Indiana Jones and the rearranged grocery store.
Posted by: Obligatory

OK this one is real
Posted by: DB - for a brighter tomorrow at July 05, 2023 04:34 PM (geLO

Every time we do this we see an increase of 0.000001% in sales of a targeted item!!

Posted by: marketing sooper geniuses at July 05, 2023 05:07 PM (llON8)

653 Chip Chelios is on a god damn waverunner with a god damn katana doing a head to head run with a shark the size of a god damn aircraft carrier.

Take my god damn money already.

Posted by: Deepelemblues at July 05, 2023 05:40 PM (9mRsW)

654 What is a Ploebag character?

Posted by: Kevin at July 05, 2023 05:45 PM (Wjypf)

655 I just love the idea of "Star Wars" and "diversity".

They have fucking alien species and robots. How much more diverse can you get? What race was Yoda, exactly?

Both the original and prequel trilogies had plenty of people of other races, so what the hell are they even talking about? It is, and has been, a non-issue.

Posted by: Inspector kemp at July 05, 2023 06:35 PM (nJ1bF)

656 I enjoyed Jedi Survivor, but it is one of the few story driven games where I just stopped talking to the ambiance characters. So many of them were just so 'bowl of message'. Even the ones that started out interesting ended up wandering off into message push, that it wasn't worth seeing them get ruined.

It was overall a good game with a lot of fun gameplay, and I overall enjoyed it, but I'm not so certain about what comes next in that series.

Posted by: Voyager at July 05, 2023 06:50 PM (38mub)

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