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Forbes: Indiana Jones 5 Could Make a Mere $300 Million Worldwide, Less Than Its Production Budget
Less than the $322+ million it cost to make the film. And this ignores the $100+ million spent on marketing, whatever Harrison Ford's back-end is, etc.
Bob Iger undermined Bob Chapek until his allies could convince the board to fire him. But his appointment as CEO was supposed to last for only eighteen months. He's driven Disney into the ground and now demands to remain CEO so he can turn Disney around using the magic that's bringing Disney such success lately. And the board of directors -- all hand-picked Iger supporters -- just renewed his contract through 2026. Did I say 2026? Valliant Renegade says this Disaster Artist has really been renewed... through 2031. His "advisory contract" -- which he used to act as a stealth CEO while Bob Chapek was nominally in charge -- has been extended through 2031 as well. So he'll be CEO through 2026, and then Shadow CEO through 2031. And it was in his position as Shadow CEO that he contradicted Chapek's decision to stay out of the transgender-indoctrination-in-school-fight with DeSantis, and forced Disney to take the full Groomer position. So when he's an "advisor," he's actually still running the show. Amusingly, when Chapek came in as CEO, Iger kept the CEO's office. He reasoned that it was his office when he was CEO, and he was still on Disney's payroll, so why shouldn't he keep his old CEO office?
Disney faces it's fourth theatrical misfire of 2023, after Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny topped a mere $248 million in total global receipts from two weekends of theatrical release. This disastrous outcome means the film is likely destined for a franchise-worst $300+/- million worldwide gross. Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny took $26.5 million in North America over its second weekend, bringing the domestic total to $121 million. International figures are roughly tracking even with stateside numbers, and at the current expected rate we'll see somewhere in the neighborhood of $150 million for both domestic and foreign final tallies. Unless Dial of Destiny can push its receipts high enough to top $333 million, it will fail to beat the box office of 1984's Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, despite having a budget at least ten times that of the earlier picture. Unfortunately, I don't expect that to happen, as it appears the high end of probable outcomes for Dial of Destiny is somewhere around perhaps $320 million if it miraculously manages to slow its inevitable weekly slide despite the arrival of Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One this Wednesday. So it looks like it's Indiana Jones who faces the impossible mission this week.
This is epic, watch till end 😂.
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) July 13, 2023
Despite the media labeling it a Qanon conspiracy theory, Sound of Freedom was #1 at the box office beating Indiana Jones, and the groomers at Disney are mad!
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 13, 2023 04:31 PM (LvTSG)
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And, of course, Chapek was just following through on Iger's initiatives while trying to not be a woke idiot by limiting Disney's investment in a culture war.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 13, 2023 04:31 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 13, 2023 04:32 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: Meme dog at July 13, 2023 04:32 PM (sh1GZ)
Posted by: Zeera. 'We want fun and we wanna get wasted!' at July 13, 2023 04:33 PM (VefU6)
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He's cutting thousands of jobs and limiting content creation. He's pulling the reigns on the creatives because Disney is in such great shape right now they just can't even.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 13, 2023 04:33 PM (LvTSG)
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Failing to crack $350 million will be a complete disaster. I suspect it will get there, but perhaps only barely. Mission: Impossible is going to skull-fuck it, though, and that started this week. It's going to be hard for it to climb up there, and the international box office isn't loving it...
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 13, 2023 04:34 PM (t0OGg)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 13, 2023 04:34 PM (MoZTd)
Posted by: Meme dog at July 13, 2023 04:35 PM (sh1GZ)
.......
Who made it, the U.S. Government?
Posted by: wth at July 13, 2023 04:35 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 13, 2023 04:35 PM (N1DT3)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 13, 2023 04:34 PM (t0OGg)
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I miss the days when American movie studios made American movies for Americans and then were happy to make extra from the foreign ticket sales.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 13, 2023 04:35 PM (LvTSG)
Minnie is already standing on street corners, but business is slow.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 13, 2023 04:35 PM (eOEVl)
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Strike One.
If he fails to put out a dividend this year, that will be Strike Two.
Nelson Peltz might decide to restart his proxy war and this time, he will probably get more takers given the disastrous year DIS has had.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 13, 2023 04:35 PM (t0OGg)
Die, vampire pedo mouse
Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at July 13, 2023 04:35 PM (Rbu5d)
Posted by: In my best Seinfeld voice at July 13, 2023 04:35 PM (kv87a)
Although I'll cry
Ain't that a shame?
My tears fell like rain
Ain't that a shame?
You're the one to blame
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at July 13, 2023 04:36 PM (Wy1BU)
The original South Park episode it's based on is also hilarious and just underscores Disney's fascination with sexualizing their product for kids.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 13, 2023 04:36 PM (YIVH2)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 13, 2023 04:36 PM (MoZTd)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 13, 2023 04:35 PM (LvTSG)
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Yup. But be that as it may, movies this expensive *need* the global box office to make money.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 13, 2023 04:36 PM (t0OGg)
Another way to say that Iger is corkscrewing Disney into the ground.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 13, 2023 04:37 PM (p8A+W)
Posted by: Minnie at July 13, 2023 04:37 PM (RilAR)
I wish Peltz all the luck in the world.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 13, 2023 04:37 PM (t0OGg)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 13, 2023 04:36 PM (t0OGg)
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And it's a bubble. Pop it.
You can't expect billion dollar movies every other weekend year over year every year.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 13, 2023 04:37 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: Jmel at July 13, 2023 04:38 PM (bVhJi)
I wish Peltz all the luck in the world.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 13, 2023 04:37 PM (t0OGg)
Eh, not me. I want the company to die. That giant rat-scalp would like nice tacked to a board above the fireplace.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 13, 2023 04:38 PM (oINRc)
That's a funny way to say "Night of the Long Knives".
Posted by: Archimedes at July 13, 2023 04:38 PM (eOEVl)
to say goodbye
to all our companyyyyy
M I C...See ya real soon
K E Y...Why? Because we like you!
M O U S E...
Posted by: Diogenes at July 13, 2023 04:39 PM (e4fEA)
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at July 13, 2023 04:39 PM (lf83v)
Posted by: garrett at July 13, 2023 04:39 PM (qESX+)
Posted by: Emmie -- ArkanOklaMoMe details -- check your email at July 13, 2023 04:39 PM (Emce2)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 13, 2023 04:38 PM (oINRc)
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Sold for parts would be an amusing result.
Disney retains the parks and some of the key IP. It sells off the newer additions, most of the foreign parks, and maybe even the cruise line.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 13, 2023 04:39 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 13, 2023 04:37 PM (LvTSG)
Well you maybe could if you cared at all about what the viewing public was interested in buying tickets to see.
Posted by: Just Lily at July 13, 2023 04:39 PM (RLLZj)
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 13, 2023 04:39 PM (aD39U)
Posted by: Mika's geriatric snizz at July 13, 2023 04:39 PM (0u4Kn)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 13, 2023 04:39 PM (MoZTd)
No dong shot.
Fans expect a dong shot.
Thundergun that crap out of here.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 13, 2023 04:40 PM (/ptEt)
Iger: Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no...no, no, not at all. I, I, I just think that the.. uh.. the appeal is becoming more selective...
Posted by: Confused Tales at July 13, 2023 04:40 PM (JCZqz)
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Is Goofy gonna have to cut a bitch?
Posted by: Goofy at July 13, 2023 04:40 PM (lf83v)
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I'll grant you that movies are expensive to make. But gee, I used to see a movie as a kid for 2 bucks. Now its like 10 to 20 dollars for a ticket.
Posted by: its two hours of sitting in the dark at July 13, 2023 04:40 PM (sh1GZ)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 13, 2023 04:38 PM (oINRc)
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That would be my second-preferred outcome.
My most-preferred outcome would be for the company to be saved through the total repudiation of everything its executives and content kings have done over the past 5-10 years. They're all fired, the company is reorganized, they undo what those guys spent a decade building, they get back to basics, they make decent family content, stabilize, and make loads of money.
Utter and total humiliation for these people, in an unquestionable and loud way.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 13, 2023 04:40 PM (t0OGg)
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 13, 2023 04:40 PM (528Oq)
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Doesn't that fool think he's running for President somewhere in that time frame?
Posted by: Methos at July 13, 2023 04:41 PM (kOpft)
Posted by: Just Lily at July 13, 2023 04:39 PM (RLLZj)
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I'd say no, it's impossible, because investments at that size have to be done by corporations, and corporations always rot to the point where they can't address their core competencies anymore. They get too big, try to do too much, and end up doing everything badly.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 13, 2023 04:41 PM (LvTSG)
I detest it when reporters phrase a question as "I was wondering". Ask your silly question, and quit being so damn coy.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 13, 2023 04:41 PM (eOEVl)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at July 13, 2023 04:41 PM (ppBhU)
Posted by: William F. 'Buck' Dharma at July 13, 2023 04:41 PM (a9CYf)
Posted by: its two hours of sitting in the dark at July 13, 2023 04:40 PM (sh1GZ)
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Not all movies, only the giant tentpole movies with tons of effects. Those ones need the global box office. Most movies do not.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 13, 2023 04:41 PM (t0OGg)
Posted by: uniparty, Raping and Mutilating the Children They Don't Kill at July 13, 2023 04:41 PM (0q+t6)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 13, 2023 04:42 PM (MoZTd)
Posted by: Just Lily at July 13, 2023 04:39 PM (RLLZj)
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Yep.
Mediocre writing about wokeness is NOT the ideal way to get butts in seats worldwide. Even if the majority of Americans were keen on wokeness (spoiler: they're not), the rest of the world feels very differently. Trying to force it on the rest of the world won't work out in the long run.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 13, 2023 04:42 PM (YIVH2)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 13, 2023 04:41 PM (t0OGg)
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Sound of Freedom is definitely in the black now.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 13, 2023 04:42 PM (LvTSG)
Utter and total humiliation for these people, in an unquestionable and loud way.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 13, 2023 04:40 PM (t0OGg)
Watching the Rat die would make everyone else in the industry feel an ice cold dagger in their bowels.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 13, 2023 04:42 PM (oINRc)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 13, 2023 04:36 PM (t0OGg)
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So maybe make cheaper movies, and just a thought, include a plot and character development.
Nah.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 13, 2023 04:42 PM (YqDXo)
Indiana Jones return of the shingles
Indiana Jones and the heartbreak of dementia
Posted by: Just Stupid People doing stupid crap stupidly, its miraculous that they made hundreds of millions on at July 13, 2023 04:42 PM (sh1GZ)
Who exactly are these sophisticated people out there paying good money to see Indy 5?
Not looking too smart to me
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 13, 2023 04:42 PM (/ptEt)
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 13, 2023 04:35 PM (N1DT3)
Whistles quietly to self.
Posted by: Knotts Berry Farm at July 13, 2023 04:42 PM (e4fEA)
Posted by: Huey, Dewey, and Louie at July 13, 2023 04:42 PM (0u4Kn)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 13, 2023 04:42 PM (oINRc)
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The collapse of the comic book movie is causing much confusion on its own.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 13, 2023 04:43 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 13, 2023 04:43 PM (t0OGg)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at July 13, 2023 04:43 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Disney Apologist at July 13, 2023 04:43 PM (JCZqz)
But as we've discussed before, it's the giant tentpoles that are supposed to butts in theater seats. Less visually spectacular movies are better in one's own home.
People need to come to grips with the fact that movie theaters are obsolete. They're Sears, when people want Amazon.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 13, 2023 04:43 PM (eOEVl)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 13, 2023 04:42 PM (LvTSG)
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And has no international distribution, at least not yet.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 13, 2023 04:43 PM (t0OGg)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 13, 2023 04:43 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: 1970s Dalek at July 13, 2023 04:43 PM (kOpft)
When the blockbuster doesn't make money, don't go on strike asking for more money.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 13, 2023 04:43 PM (3hpq0)
Posted by: William F. 'Buck' Dharma at July 13, 2023 04:43 PM (a9CYf)
Fuck Kathleen Kennedy
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at July 13, 2023 04:43 PM (xcxpd)
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I look forward to her choosing to leave Disney and then being given complete and total control of someplace like Sony.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 13, 2023 04:44 PM (LvTSG)
JOE: Son of a bitch, Harrison shit my pants. Who are you?
Posted by: Diesel Jones, Biologist at July 13, 2023 04:44 PM (Vu7A1)
Posted by: gnats local 678 at July 13, 2023 04:44 PM (B1FKF)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 13, 2023 04:44 PM (MoZTd)
Even using the governments bogus numbers, $1.00 in 1984 would be $2.94 today.
So, even if it meets the revenue of that earlier movie, it made about 1/3rd in buying power.
Posted by: Wile E Coyote.. at July 13, 2023 04:44 PM (oHd/0)
Posted by: Archimedes at July 13, 2023 04:43 PM (eOEVl)
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So far, that's not holding up. Time will tell, of course, but going to the movies is a thing. It's an activity. I like doing it a couple of times a year.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 13, 2023 04:44 PM (t0OGg)
No dong shot.
I definitely don't need to see Ford's crooked, veiny old hog. But given how many people loved Game of Thrones, which showed lots of dongs, I can't say you're wrong. Apparently the people really want to see ding a lings.
Posted by: bonhomme at July 13, 2023 04:44 PM (R38qh)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at July 13, 2023 04:43 PM (xcxpd)
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I look forward to her choosing to leave Disney and then being given complete and total control of someplace like Sony.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 13, 2023 04:44 PM (LvTSG)
I want to believe...but she hasn't been kicked out yet, and as we just saw, Bob Iger was just rewarded for his failures. So we might be stuck with her.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at July 13, 2023 04:45 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: rickb223 at July 13, 2023 04:43 PM (3hpq0)
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When streaming is a giant money pit that is making no one actual money, don't go on strike demanding more money.
The studios are going to win both strikes with the writers and the actors. They're just going to wait them out while putting the kibosh on a host of expensive streaming content that was never going to actually have a positive ROI.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 13, 2023 04:45 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at July 13, 2023 04:45 PM (Mzdiz)
Indiana Jones return of the shingles
Indiana Jones and the heartbreak of dementia
Posted by: Just Stupid People doing stupid crap stupidly, its miraculous that they made hundreds of millions on at July 13, 2023 04:42 PM (sh1GZ)
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Indiana Jones and the ... uh ... you know, the thing.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 13, 2023 04:45 PM (YqDXo)
And that's not enough to keep theaters solvent.
Posted by: Archimedes at July 13, 2023 04:45 PM (eOEVl)
So they are drinking the last pallet of Bud Light from Costco here
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 13, 2023 04:45 PM (/ptEt)
For a GREAT tentpole blockbuster film, it's not uncommon for audiences to go see it in the theater multiple times. Or it used to be fairly common. I don't know anymore...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 13, 2023 04:45 PM (YIVH2)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 13, 2023 04:45 PM (PVx3i)
Posted by: Diogenes at July 13, 2023 04:46 PM (e4fEA)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 13, 2023 04:42 PM (oINRc)
Oh, someone else is a fan of the ole' Sweedish icicle, I see. Might be kinda fun to play with Chasten tonight...
Posted by: Pete Buttigieg at July 13, 2023 04:46 PM (JCZqz)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 13, 2023 04:46 PM (J2vNu)
Posted by: Disney Apologist
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*laughs hysterically, pisses self*
*continues analingus of dancer on stage*
Posted by: M Cyrus at July 13, 2023 04:46 PM (sh1GZ)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 13, 2023 04:42 PM (LvTSG)
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And has no international distribution, at least not yet.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 13, 2023 04:43 PM (t0OGg)
And the Left is loosing what little bit of mind it had left over this movie. It's almost like they want the Public not to KNOW about the SLAVERY going on today.
Of course, if it's the Dems, that fits history pretty well.
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 13, 2023 04:46 PM (oHd/0)
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Way to go, Film Actor's Guild
Posted by: Nerdrotic's Favorite Mantra at July 13, 2023 04:46 PM (kOpft)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at July 13, 2023 04:45 PM (xcxpd)
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So the power dive continues until Disney augers its way into the ground.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 13, 2023 04:47 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at July 13, 2023 04:45 PM (xcxpd)
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My larger point is that she won't be fired, she'll choose to leave, and another major studio will scoop her up to give her control because of her great stream of successes.
It would entertain me greatly if she got WB, kicking out Zaslav, and then all the woke idiots who think the Book of Boba Fett is the greatest thing in cinema history can cheer as she brings that same golden touch to DC.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 13, 2023 04:47 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: William F. 'Buck' Dharma at July 13, 2023 04:47 PM (a9CYf)
Posted by: Disney Apologist
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*laughs hysterically, pisses self*
*continues analingus of dancer on stage*
Posted by: M Cyrus at July 13, 2023 04:46 PM (sh1GZ)
Gotta admit... when Britney Spears got slapped last week... I didn't give a shit.
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 13, 2023 04:47 PM (oHd/0)
Posted by: otto partes at July 13, 2023 04:47 PM (sGtp+)
For a GREAT tentpole blockbuster film, it's not uncommon for audiences to go see it in the theater multiple times. Or it used to be fairly common. I don't know anymore...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 13, 2023 04:45 PM (YIVH2)
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Average ticket price is still around $9.50, so it'd be roughly 30 million people/tickets to get to $300 million.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 13, 2023 04:47 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 13, 2023 04:45 PM (YIVH2)
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Top Gun: Maverick was worth seeing twice.
Posted by: Blake - semi lurker at large at July 13, 2023 04:48 PM (2YtOq)
I wish Peltz all the luck in the world.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 13, 2023 04:37 PM (t0OGg)
This is a shame for Disney. Iger was a huge improvement over his predecessor, Michael Eisner. He bought Pixar to revive the fading animation area (over Eisner's reticence to do so), and he bought Lucasfilm to bolster the film and amusement park sector. Both moves made sense at the time and DIS was able to outperform the market spectacularly because of it.
His time had passed, however. He should have walked away completely the first time.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 13, 2023 04:48 PM (/iWhV)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 13, 2023 04:44 PM (t0OGg)
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It's always been a fun social activity for friends and family, so I don't think theaters will disappear entirely. Though the ever-increasing costs of going to one may put a damper on how often audiences can attend. It's starting to become a luxury good that not everyone can afford.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 13, 2023 04:48 PM (YIVH2)
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Imagine how much retirement money in ESG funds that would vaporize.
We might actually live to see some real change in this country.
Posted by: Methos at July 13, 2023 04:48 PM (kOpft)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 13, 2023 04:48 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at July 13, 2023 04:48 PM (wzAuc)
Posted by: Mayor Pete at July 13, 2023 04:48 PM (Vu7A1)
I've always been curious. What were the 1940s really like? Was everything sepia toned? Did people do the Charleston down the street?
Posted by: bonhomme at July 13, 2023 04:48 PM (R38qh)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 13, 2023 04:48 PM (MoZTd)
The collapse of the comic book movie is causing much confusion on its own.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 13, 2023 04:43 PM (LvTSG)
LOL.
HOW?!
How could you be in the media business and not know that, at some point, this well would go dry? You can't just make the same thing forever and ever. Today is the day it's tapped out.
I was surprised people didn't get tired of watching the same thing over and over again years ago. If I were in charge of a studio, then Expanded Comic Book Universe Thingies #4,653 - #4,800 would get shelved.
"This is it, boys, they're on to our crappy scam. Scrap everything that hasn't already been shot. Come up with some new crappy scam right now. No homo."
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 13, 2023 04:48 PM (oINRc)
Posted by: Serutan at July 13, 2023 04:48 PM (T0tUU)
Posted by: William F. 'Buck' Dharma at July 13, 2023 04:49 PM (a9CYf)
Snoop Dogg will perform "Zippity Doo Dizzle Mah Nizzle" and Rhihanna will perform nude for all of the underaged woodland creatures.
Posted by: Kathleen Kennedy at July 13, 2023 04:49 PM (lf83v)
IF I can find used on VHS at a garage sale. Not that I am looking, or can remember last time I went to a garage sale, but am willing.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 13, 2023 04:49 PM (ga8qR)
Along with the stockholders who didn't sell.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 13, 2023 04:49 PM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: UGAdawg at July 13, 2023 04:49 PM (tRd71)
I was surprised people didn't get tired of watching the same thing over and over again years ago. If I were in charge of a studio, then Expanded Comic Book Universe Thingies #4,653 - #4,800 would get shelved.
"This is it, boys, they're on to our crappy scam. Scrap everything that hasn't already been shot. Come up with some new crappy scam right now. No homo."
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 13, 2023 04:48 PM (oINRc)
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It lasted more than 10 years. That's a long time compared to other fads.
The YA dystopian thing only lasted about 5 years and only really worked with Lionsgate and The Hunger Games.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 13, 2023 04:49 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at July 13, 2023 04:49 PM (ppBhU)
Posted by: 496 at July 13, 2023 04:49 PM (oHJ9/)
Posted by: Porter Wagoner at July 13, 2023 04:50 PM (T0tUU)
Hollywood to grind to a halt as world's biggest stars vote to strike
https://tinyurl.com/mzwp455h
Posted by: redridinghood at July 13, 2023 04:50 PM (NpAcC)
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Bud Light has some job openings.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 13, 2023 04:50 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 13, 2023 04:47 PM (LvTSG)
$11.00 here for a MATINEE.
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 13, 2023 04:50 PM (oHd/0)
Posted by: Wile E Coyote.. at July 13, 2023 04:44 PM (oHd/0)
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That's a bad way to look at it, too. Movie tickets have different inflation.
1984 ticket price average: $3.36
"Temple of Doom" domestic Box Office: $179,880,271
1984 tickets sold: 53,535,795
2022 (latest available) ticket price average: $10.53
"Dial of Destiny" domestic Box Office: $200,000,000 (optimistic est)
2023 tickets sold: 18,993,352
The reality will be worse, since 2023 is more expensive than 2022. But using that close substitute, the new movie sold only 35.4% as many tickets as "Temple of Doom."
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 13, 2023 04:50 PM (t0OGg)
Posted by: Disney Apologist
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*laughs hysterically, pisses self*
*continues analingus of dancer on stage*
Posted by: M Cyrus at July 13, 2023 04:46 PM (sh1GZ)
Gotta admit... when Britney Spears got slapped last week... I didn't give a shit.
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 13, 2023 04:47 PM (oHd/0)
Pretty sure her little sister got knocked up by some old Disney bitch who was a producer.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 13, 2023 04:50 PM (KbCG3)
Posted by: William F. 'Buck' Dharma at July 13, 2023 04:50 PM (a9CYf)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 13, 2023 04:50 PM (O5XD1)
I wish Peltz all the luck in the world.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 13, 2023 04:37 PM (t0OGg)
A tree whose heartwood is dead rots from the inside until it eventually falls. It provides a home for fungus and parasites.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 13, 2023 04:50 PM (eoQWY)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 13, 2023 04:48 PM (YIVH2)
There used to be four theaters within a 10 minute drive from the Cave of Diogenes. Now there is one and while it used to be nice place, it is increasingly becoming a dive. Starting to see a few tweakers hanging around and brain dead kids.
Posted by: Diogenes at July 13, 2023 04:50 PM (e4fEA)
If the tape fails, Ford leaves no tracks.
Posted by: bonhomme at July 13, 2023 04:51 PM (R38qh)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 13, 2023 04:51 PM (MoZTd)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at July 13, 2023 04:51 PM (ScR16)
It's not like Disney was a conservative firm but it nominally presented as American and Family.
Now it's been hollowed out first by the gays and now by the trannies.
Posted by: TexasDan at July 13, 2023 04:51 PM (oKcl1)
Oh like those upper-crust sophisticates streaming over the Southern Border, or the ones in the Middle East strapping bombs to their children, or the cultural elite in Africa running around starving, nude, with bones in the nose and dung in the hair, or the elites in France burning the country to the ground? Or UK where the people are deciding how to best crash their economy with unchecked immigration, destroying the energy sector, out-of-control inflation, or all of the above?
Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 13, 2023 04:51 PM (p8A+W)
The code right now is pretty good, all you do is describe the mood you want, where the "hit points" on the film are, the duration, maybe even the key and tempo you want.
The sampled instruments are quite good.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at July 13, 2023 04:51 PM (MeG8a)
Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at July 13, 2023 04:51 PM (eYv2D)
Posted by: Diesel Jones, Biologist at July 13, 2023 04:51 PM (Vu7A1)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
Bring actual Bollywood writers and actors and actresses over. And they aren't subject to the strike.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 13, 2023 04:52 PM (3hpq0)
The code right now is pretty good, all you do is describe the mood you want, where the "hit points" on the film are, the duration, maybe even the key and tempo you want.
The sampled instruments are quite good.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at July 13, 2023 04:51 PM (MeG8a)
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Most film music these days is barely tonal anyway. The whole, "grand theme" days died sometime in the 00s.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 13, 2023 04:52 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: bonhomme at July 13, 2023 04:52 PM (R38qh)
Posted by: rocky the flying squirrel at July 13, 2023 04:52 PM (sGtp+)
Posted by: soooper genius movie troll #34627 at July 13, 2023 04:52 PM (llON8)
Posted by: William F. 'Buck' Dharma at July 13, 2023 04:52 PM (a9CYf)
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 13, 2023 04:47 PM (oHd/0)
Pretty sure her little sister got knocked up by some old Disney bitch who was a producer.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 13, 2023 04:50 PM (KbCG3)
That would be Dan Schneider, from Nickelodeon. Supposedly.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 13, 2023 04:52 PM (/iWhV)
Then they did The Chosen, and they are branching out to films. This does not appear to be doctrinal mormonism, but they are very christian conservative.
Very earnest people.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 13, 2023 04:52 PM (xhaym)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara
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I'd hear the pitch meeting on that one.
Indiana Jones and WTF do you mean I can't drive anymore
Posted by: Super Easy Barely and inconvenience at July 13, 2023 04:52 PM (sh1GZ)
Posted by: It's me donna at July 13, 2023 04:52 PM (bs+z0)
Hollywood to grind to a halt
Posted by: redridinghood at July 13, 2023 04:50 PM (NpAcC)
_________________
The world cheers.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 13, 2023 04:52 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: UGAdawg at July 13, 2023 04:52 PM (tRd71)
And then there are the people who can listen to a dozen announcements to silence their cell phone, yet their phone rings in the middle of the movie.
Posted by: Blake - semi lurker at large at July 13, 2023 04:52 PM (2YtOq)
>>I miss the days when American movie studios made American movies for Americans and then were happy to make extra from the foreign ticket sales.
Movies released in July of 1981
Escape From NY, Arthur, Blow Out.
Holdovers still in theaters from June of 1981
Raiders of The Lost Ark, Superman II, Canonball Run, History of The World, For Your Eyes Only, Clash of The Titans, Stripes.
That's just two months worth of classic movies in a single year.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 13, 2023 04:53 PM (ek0ng)
Posted by: eleven at July 13, 2023 04:53 PM (iziT8)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 13, 2023 04:53 PM (MoZTd)
Posted by: Kathleen Kennedy at July 13, 2023 04:53 PM (lf83v)
Posted by: Diogenes at July 13, 2023 04:53 PM (e4fEA)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
Bring actual Bollywood writers and actors and actresses over. And they aren't subject to the strike.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 13, 2023 04:52 PM (3hpq0)
Who knew the H in H1-B stood for Hollywood? Would be amazing to watch them get outsourced like that.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 13, 2023 04:53 PM (KbCG3)
Posted by: It's me donna at July 13, 2023 04:53 PM (bs+z0)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 13, 2023 04:53 PM (YqDXo)
HOW?!
In fairness, the American public's patience with the same basic plot shot with a different guy in a different cape and leotard outfit seemed pretty inexhaustible for a while. How many Spiderman movies alone in the last 20 years? At some point, we have to acknowledge that, like politics and government, it's not just the studios screwing the pooch. The American public is more or less getting the entertainment it deserves.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at July 13, 2023 04:53 PM (ppBhU)
That movie sucked so bad, I told my brother who took me to see it I was going to punch him in the liver.
Posted by: Marcus T at July 13, 2023 04:54 PM (mMqP+)
Posted by: Diesel Jones, Biologist at July 13, 2023 04:54 PM (Vu7A1)
There's only one little detail wrong about their hit piece: the author conflated the 2006 arrest of p3do-trafficker Earl Buchanan with the later Colombian op that is the basis of the SoF movie.
I guess it's hard to get one's facts all lined up when one is diligently focussed on snarking Ballard's religion.
That article claims Mel Gibson disavoed Ballard, when Gibson is out there promoting the movie and I believe he's working with Ballard to produce another film about that sordid subject called: Triple Take.
Posted by: kallisto at July 13, 2023 04:54 PM (NLBi5)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 13, 2023 04:42 PM (LvTSG)
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And has no international distribution, at least not yet.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 13, 2023 04:43 PM (t0OGg)
And the Left is loosing what little bit of mind it had left over this movie. It's almost like they want the Public not to KNOW about the SLAVERY going on today.
Of course, if it's the Dems, that fits history pretty well.
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 13, 2023 04:46 PM (oHd/0)
So you're saying they're going to be really pissed when .... well not the GOPe, but someone ... takes their slaves away AGAIN?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 13, 2023 04:54 PM (llON8)
Posted by: William F. 'Buck' Dharma at July 13, 2023 04:54 PM (a9CYf)
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at July 13, 2023 04:54 PM (lf83v)
Posted by: rickb223 at July 13, 2023 04:52 PM (3hpq0)
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Why bring the writers over? Leave them in Curryland and give them your email address.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 13, 2023 04:54 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 13, 2023 04:47 PM (oHd/0)
Pretty sure her little sister got knocked up by some old Disney bitch who was a producer.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 13, 2023 04:50 PM (KbCG3)
That would be Dan Schneider, from Nickelodeon. Supposedly.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 13, 2023 04:52 PM (/iWhV)
Damn, Nickelodeon. That's right. I stand corrected (supposedly).
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 13, 2023 04:54 PM (KbCG3)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 13, 2023 04:40 PM (t0OGg)
So, no "Packard" resolution?
Posted by: Kindltot at July 13, 2023 04:54 PM (xhaym)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 13, 2023 04:55 PM (YqDXo)
Of course, if it's the Dems, that fits history pretty well.
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 13, 2023 04:46 PM (oHd/0)
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What's really funny about it is that if Disney had just released it 2018 when they acquired Fox, it wouldn't have mattered.
In 2018, we had a good economy and things were looking healthy and the left hadn't started openly gunning for everyone's kids at all times. This movie would have been a notable drama that critics liked and most people didn't even hear about. It might have broken even, and then that would have been the end of it.
By locking it in the vault with the rest of the Fox properties and refusing to release it until Chapek screwed up and sold it to Angel, the world changed enough to make it *extremely* relevant.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 13, 2023 04:55 PM (t0OGg)
Posted by: Marcus T at July 13, 2023 04:55 PM (mMqP+)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at July 13, 2023 04:53 PM (ppBhU)
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The American public will go to other types of entertainment. At a bare minimum, think of horror films.
It's just those usually don't make a billion dollars.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 13, 2023 04:55 PM (LvTSG)
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Imagine how much retirement money in ESG funds that would vaporize.
We might actually live to see some real change in this country.
Posted by: Methos at July 13, 2023 04:48 PM
That's the plan...but not MUCH longer "than seeing" the change for you reactionaries.
Posted by: Shining Path Red Guard in America at July 13, 2023 04:55 PM (JCZqz)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 13, 2023 04:55 PM (J2vNu)
Posted by: In my best Seinfeld voice at July 13, 2023 04:55 PM (kv87a)
Posted by: NJ Class Traitor at July 13, 2023 04:55 PM (+aI/4)
The nearest one to me is over thirty minutes away. The only redeeming feature of it is that it has a bar.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 13, 2023 04:55 PM (p8A+W)
The code right now is pretty good, all you do is describe the mood you want, where the "hit points" on the film are, the duration, maybe even the key and tempo you want.
The sampled instruments are quite good.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at July 13, 2023 04:51 PM (MeG8a)
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If AI-generated entertainment is ever perfected, you will no longer have to worry about waiting for a movie to come out. You'll just specify some basic parameters and the AI-machine will spit something out for you to watch. Actors? fake. Script? auto-generated like a Mad Lib. Music? completely synthetic.
It'll be an interesting time...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 13, 2023 04:55 PM (YIVH2)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 13, 2023 04:55 PM (VfE50)
I use a product called NotePerformer.
It is very good and has fooled many of my very critical friends.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at July 13, 2023 04:55 PM (MeG8a)
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 13, 2023 04:35 PM (N1DT3)
Pretty much how I think of Disney now is the song "Burn the Flames" and the use of it in one scene from "Return of the Living Dead" is just the cherry on top: https://tinyurl.com/5z8z266b
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 13, 2023 04:56 PM (nRMeC)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 13, 2023 04:43 PM (t0OGg)
Taking bets on whether it will play in South America?
Posted by: Kindltot at July 13, 2023 04:56 PM (xhaym)
Hollywood to grind to a halt
Someone's taking the threat of a Hellywood strike seriously. Biden just called up reservists including IRR: https://tinyurl.com/rvw79bvt
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at July 13, 2023 04:56 PM (Bd6X8)
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at July 13, 2023 04:56 PM (lf83v)
Posted by: William F. 'Buck' Dharma at July 13, 2023 04:56 PM (a9CYf)
Escape From NY, Arthur, Blow Out.
Holdovers still in theaters from June of 1981
Raiders of The Lost Ark, Superman II, Canonball Run, History of The World, For Your Eyes Only, Clash of The Titans, Stripes.
That's just two months worth of classic movies in a single year.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 13, 2023 04:53 PM (ek0ng)
My son and I saw Clash of The Titans recently. It takes about 15 minutes to get over the (very!) dated special effects, but it sucks you in pretty easily after that. A great movie - much better than the 'modern' remake.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 13, 2023 04:56 PM (/iWhV)
"This is it, boys, they're on to our crappy scam. Scrap everything that hasn't already been shot. Come up with some new crappy scam right now. No homo."
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 13, 2023 04:48 PM (oINRc)
Look, the sappy love story movie still works after being redone a thousand times. The war movie, the action movie can be repeated over and over. Even cheezy ones like Fast N Furious make money.
The problem now is that they can't write even a copy of a winning movie that passes muster because they have a mission to force moviegoers to swallow their views. And if people don't go see it, they have no alternative but to give the customers a tongue-lashing over it.
Their other problem is that they are so bloated that they waste massive amounts of money producing these shows. There's nothing in there that costs 350 million. There is just waste and delays.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 13, 2023 04:56 PM (eoQWY)
It'll be an interesting time...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 13, 2023 04:55 PM (YIVH2)
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Don't watch this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0A2-Af5JEWU
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 13, 2023 04:56 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: bonhomme at July 13, 2023 04:56 PM (R38qh)
Posted by: UGAdawg at July 13, 2023 04:49 PM (tRd71)
One wonders if shareholder voting is any more hmm, auditable than say, political voting.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 13, 2023 04:57 PM (llON8)
Posted by: William F. 'Buck' Dharma at July 13, 2023 04:57 PM (a9CYf)
Posted by: Boswell at July 13, 2023 04:57 PM (K+UlC)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 13, 2023 04:55 PM (t0OGg)
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It's the weird confluence of events that does make one wonder if the Almighty had a hand in it...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 13, 2023 04:57 PM (YIVH2)
that's how I felt when my cousin dragged me to Avatar.
Posted by: kallisto at July 13, 2023 04:57 PM (NLBi5)
Posted by: bonhomme at July 13, 2023 04:57 PM (R38qh)
On top of those flops Disney has to buy the balance of Hulu from Comcast which will drain another 10-27b. They are screwed
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 13, 2023 04:58 PM (PVx3i)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler
I got it!
Dead Pool III - watch as he tries endlessly to get bottom surgery that works. It'll be sympathetis to the trannies and their distress at being accepted.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 13, 2023 04:58 PM (ga8qR)
Posted by: bonhomme at July 13, 2023 04:57 PM (R38qh)
LOL... Sadly, I can relate
Posted by: It's me donna at July 13, 2023 04:58 PM (bs+z0)
https://youtu.be/FGPr5cUaSs0
Posted by: Sharkman at July 13, 2023 04:58 PM (mSaEG)
Posted by: William F. 'Buck' Dharma at July 13, 2023 04:58 PM (a9CYf)
that's how I felt when my cousin dragged me to Avatar.
Posted by: kallisto at July 13, 2023 04:57 PM (NLBi5)
My wife was banned from picking movies for a month after making me watch the latest A Star is Born.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 13, 2023 04:58 PM (KbCG3)
Posted by: He's 29 at July 13, 2023 04:58 PM (kv87a)
Dead Pool III - watch as he tries endlessly to get bottom surgery that works. It'll be sympathetis to the trannies and their distress at being accepted.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 13, 2023 04:58 PM (ga8qR)
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Well, they are making Deadpool 3 now. It even has Hugh Jackman as Wolverine!
It'll make money, I'm sure, but it'll be another hard R movie in the franchise which will somewhat limit its earning potential.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 13, 2023 04:59 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: kallisto at July 13, 2023 04:57 PM (NLBi5)"
You think he would have learned. After Thor, I told him I was going to tie him to the front of my truck and drive into a lamppost.
Posted by: Marcus T at July 13, 2023 04:59 PM (mMqP+)
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It lasted more than 10 years. That's a long time compared to other fads.
The YA dystopian thing only lasted about 5 years and only really worked with Lionsgate and The Hunger Games.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 13, 2023 04:49 PM (LvTSG)
How many other contestants were there? I can only remember the "Divergent" series. I happened to catch that on cable late one night and it looked like the sfx budget was about $20 plus some couch change.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 13, 2023 04:59 PM (llON8)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0A2-Af5JEWU
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 13, 2023 04:56 PM (LvTSG)
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Damn, that was creepy!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 13, 2023 04:59 PM (YIVH2)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 13, 2023 04:55 PM (J2vNu)
The call of doody!
Posted by: Cheerful Reprobate at July 13, 2023 04:59 PM (rX8Ws)
Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 13, 2023 04:55 PM (p8A+W)
A bar!!!
Luxury. We have to brown bag it.
Posted by: Diogenes at July 13, 2023 04:59 PM (e4fEA)
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at July 13, 2023 04:59 PM (bkUtD)
https://youtu.be/FGPr5cUaSs0
Posted by: Sharkman at July 13, 2023 04:58 PM (mSaEG)
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Looks fun. I will probably see it.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 13, 2023 04:59 PM (t0OGg)
But the studios are making billions on streaming!
Of course they can give us more!
Posted by: The Delusional SAG! at July 13, 2023 05:00 PM (2tUFv)
Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 13, 2023 04:56 PM (/iWhV)
I'd wager that ANY movie made in 1980 is better than any movie made today.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at July 13, 2023 05:00 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Boswell
The sequel to Indiana Jones and the Oregon Trail.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 13, 2023 05:00 PM (3hpq0)
Posted by: William F. 'Buck' Dharma at July 13, 2023 05:00 PM (a9CYf)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 13, 2023 04:59 PM (llON
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The Maze Runner, The Giver, Ender's Game, Chaos Walking, and maybe even Ready Player One could classify.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 13, 2023 05:00 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: Super Easy Barely and inconvenience at July 13, 2023 05:00 PM (sh1GZ)
Posted by: Eeyore at July 13, 2023 05:00 PM (brAQZ)
Posted by: It's me donna at July 13, 2023 04:58 PM (bs+z0)
So true - beat me to it. My MIL is now living with us after surgery - senile, 88 years old - can't walk - basically the latest Kennedy movie encapsulated.
Posted by: Boswell at July 13, 2023 05:00 PM (K+UlC)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0A2-Af5JEWU
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 13, 2023 04:56 PM (LvTSG)
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Damn, that was creepy!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 13, 2023 04:59 PM (YIVH2)
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You're bad at following instructions.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 13, 2023 05:00 PM (LvTSG)
He's one of my favorites
Posted by: It's me donna at July 13, 2023 05:00 PM (bs+z0)
They also don't need to make a billion dollars.
But horror is a steaming pile of shit these days too. They're remaking every Stephen King property they can (consistent with the "not a new idea ever" reboot/sequel philosophy) but in as soulless a way as possible. And horror is filled to overflowing with diversity quota bullshit, and contemporary sexual weirdness. For example, There's Something Wrong With The Children, which featured two mixed-race couples, unsubtitled Spanish, and fawning talk of swinging.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at July 13, 2023 05:00 PM (ppBhU)
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Starring Nicholas Cage as F. Joe Biden.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 13, 2023 05:00 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 13, 2023 04:59 PM (YIVH2)
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I kind of liked it
Posted by: Bob Ogre at July 13, 2023 05:01 PM (htCUM)
Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 13, 2023
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Perseus' battle with Medusa in the shadowy chamber is a classic. The flickering firelight helped to smooth out Harryhausen's stop-motion animation -- what modern audiences would think of as dated.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 13, 2023 05:01 PM (J2vNu)
Posted by: the lower depths at July 13, 2023 05:01 PM (+b4rY)
>>A great movie - much better than the 'modern' remake.
Yeah, it's a fun movie.
But Hollywood can't make movies like that anymore.
That year of 1981 had somewhere in the vicinity of 3 dozen classic movies released.
I can't even think of a classic film out in the last decade.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 13, 2023 05:01 PM (ek0ng)
But horror is a steaming pile of shit these days too. They're remaking every Stephen King property they can (consistent with the "not a new idea ever" reboot/sequel philosophy) but in as soulless a way as possible. And horror is filled to overflowing with diversity quota bullshit, and contemporary sexual weirdness. For example, There's Something Wrong With The Children, which featured two mixed-race couples, unsubtitled Spanish, and fawning talk of swinging.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at July 13, 2023 05:00 PM (ppBhU)
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The movie studios are being run by finance departments that need to maximize profits, and if they can follow the trend, get the star, and open on the right weekend to get to $1 billion, they'd rather do that then invest in a series of films that could collectively get to $1 billion.
A more creatively minded studio would be fostering talent, like Irving Thalberg would.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 13, 2023 05:02 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: blaster at July 13, 2023 05:02 PM (pwExq)
Daily Mail-
Hollywood to grind to a halt
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Will anyone notice ?
Posted by: It's me donna at July 13, 2023 04:53 PM
To those of use who worked our asses off in the 80's and 90's when so much great comedy was produced, which we can now stream for mere pennies per day, they can strike for the next decade before I run out of funny stuff to nod off to with a smile on my face. A full nights sleep doesn't begin any better then that.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 13, 2023 05:02 PM (enJYY)
Posted by: whoopsie at July 13, 2023 05:03 PM (f8UDq)
Posted by: Sharkman at July 13, 2023 05:03 PM (mSaEG)
Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at July 13, 2023 04:51 PM (eYv2D)
Do NOT mock the Grand Duchy of Fenwick!
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 13, 2023 05:03 PM (oHd/0)
_________________
Not before time, either.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 13, 2023 05:03 PM (YqDXo)
Any news of that since Indy 5's release, or was that just executive bullshit to try and get some level of excitement going for a movie no one cared about?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 13, 2023 05:03 PM (LvTSG)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0A2-Af5JEWU
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 13, 2023 04:56 PM (LvTSG)
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Damn, that was creepy!
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 13, 2023 04:59 PM (YIVH2)
*******
Frightening!
Posted by: redridinghood at July 13, 2023 05:04 PM (NpAcC)
I've been sharing these with everyone at work after the immortal 'Indiana Jones And The Rearranged Grocery Store'.
Apropos of nothing, I had no idea until just now there were, in various guises and versions, of the Vickers-Armstrong Universal Carrier, 113,000 of them made. The most produced tracked military vehicle in history. It's astounding how few of them are left.
Posted by: LenNeal at July 13, 2023 05:04 PM (/BBNv)
Posted by: Divide by Zero at July 13, 2023 05:02 PM (enJYY)
It's all remakes and reboots anyway.
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 13, 2023 05:04 PM (oHd/0)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 13, 2023 05:00 PM (LvTSG)
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Look, just 'cause I'm excellent at writing them doesn't mean I follow them.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 13, 2023 05:04 PM (YIVH2)
Posted by: Megthered at July 13, 2023 05:04 PM (Y7FQD)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 13, 2023 05:01 PM (J2vNu)
The guy from LA Law played Perseus and the action was good - guest appearances by great character actors and even Lawrence Olivier - although insufferably over the top.
Posted by: Boswell at July 13, 2023 05:04 PM (K+UlC)
Posted by: UGAdawg at July 13, 2023 04:49 PM
I suspect the vast majority of disney stock is owned by retirement and investment funds and just a small group of people control about 20% of the voting stock, enough to shove their agenda through. After all just a few short years ago owning disney stock was a lock and retirement/investment funds were buying it up like mad.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 13, 2023 05:05 PM (ncXxy)
Just looked at imdb top 30 movies of 1980. Yeah, you are probably right.
Caddyshack, Raging Bull, Friday the 13th, Star Wars V, Private Benjamin, Airplane...
Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 13, 2023 05:05 PM (p8A+W)
Posted by: Darth Randall at July 13, 2023 05:05 PM (xT7BI)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 13, 2023 05:05 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: He's 29 at July 13, 2023 04:58 PM
Those fvckers do that on purpose.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 13, 2023 05:05 PM (ncXxy)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
In a nearby town there is a drive-in theater that is very popular. I love going to a good movie in a theater to get the full effect of the sound, etc. and it is fun with friends/family. It does cost mucho dinero.
Posted by: Cheri at July 13, 2023 05:06 PM (oiNtH)
straight to video and streamed only through Disney Plus, for the benefit of our 246 subscribers
Posted by: Bob Ogre at July 13, 2023 05:06 PM (htCUM)
Posted by: Diogenes at July 13, 2023 05:06 PM (e4fEA)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 13, 2023 05:01 PM (ek0ng)
Mav 2...
Midway
shit... that's about it IMO.
Funny how both are Pro USA Military movies.
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 13, 2023 05:06 PM (oHd/0)
Just looked at imdb top 30 movies of 1980. Yeah, you are probably right.
Caddyshack, Raging Bull, Friday the 13th, Star Wars V, Private Benjamin, Airplane...
Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 13, 2023 05:05 PM (p8A+W)
Am I the only one who couldn't get through Raging Bull?
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 13, 2023 05:06 PM (KbCG3)
Posted by: Super Easy Barely and inconvenience at July 13, 2023 05:06 PM (sh1GZ)
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The Maze Runner, The Giver, Ender's Game, Chaos Walking, and maybe even Ready Player One could classify.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 13, 2023 05:00 PM (LvTSG)
Ha, now that you mention these I remember all but Chaos Walking.
I'm not sure I'd put Ender's Game with the rest since that was an actual SF book but I can see it being called 'yout dystopian' in a pitch meeting.Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 13, 2023 05:06 PM (llON8)
Posted by: eleven at July 13, 2023 05:07 PM (iziT8)
Please no more "remakes," "reimaginings," gender or race swaps, no more homo characters, or any of that other crap.
Thanks,
Jay
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 13, 2023 05:07 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: He's 29 at July 13, 2023 04:58 PM
Indiana Jones and the inability to understand that 90% of his mail is just Scams for Seniors
Posted by: Boswell at July 13, 2023 05:07 PM (K+UlC)
Posted by: blaster at July 13, 2023 05:02 PM (pwExq)
I am thinking monster movies, they are cheap, CGI is better than rubber suits, and there is a cultural fear of both unseen monsters and authoritative overreach and overreaction threats.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 13, 2023 05:07 PM (xhaym)
Posted by: Cheri at July 13, 2023 05:06 PM (oiNtH)
Drive in Theatre near Fresno started doing LIVE concerts... which they had cameras going and showing on the screen... plays through your car stereo... started during Covid due to lockups, but they are so popular, they are still doing them.
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 13, 2023 05:07 PM (oHd/0)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 13, 2023 05:06 PM (llON
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Ender's Game was written long before any of the others. If anything, it might have inspired some of them.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 13, 2023 05:08 PM (YIVH2)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 13, 2023 05:06 PM (llON
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It was definitely greenlit because it's a science fiction movie about kids.
It's not really a kids' book, though, that doesn't make it any less part of that little blip of a fad.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 13, 2023 05:08 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 13, 2023 05:08 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: blaster at July 13, 2023 05:08 PM (pwExq)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 13, 2023 05:08 PM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 13, 2023 05:08 PM (oINRc)
Posted by: blaster at July 13, 2023 05:08 PM (pwExq)
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Doomcock has got to have the worst case of the blueballs in history.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 13, 2023 05:08 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: Diesel Jones, Biologist at July 13, 2023 05:08 PM (Vu7A1)
Any news of that since Indy 5's release, or was that just executive bullshit to try and get some level of excitement going for a movie no one cared about?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 13, 2023 05:03 PM (LvTSG)
If Doomcock's sources are correct, Kennedy puts out that bullshit like that all the time. Some of it is for reasons you mention, but in other cases it is to increase her clout in internicine warfare with people like Iger (e.g. "You can't fire me, I have SOOO many great projects lined up!").
Posted by: the lower depths at July 13, 2023 05:08 PM (+b4rY)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 13, 2023 05:08 PM (J2vNu)
Good. That way he can piledrive the entire place through the ground. The sooner. The faster. The better.
Posted by: Bea Arthur's Dick at July 13, 2023 05:09 PM (Qt4kF)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara
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You're good at this. Are you under contract anywhere?
Posted by: A sweaty and desperate Bob Iger at July 13, 2023 05:09 PM (sh1GZ)
Posted by: Boswell
If you're not at least a little over the top, are you really even trying with that genre?
Posted by: Brother Tim sez Max Headroom for President! at July 13, 2023 05:09 PM (OUMaO)
I just watched The Little Foxes on YT. It's a treat to view a film that is "crafted", rather than just produced following a template.
Posted by: kallisto at July 13, 2023 05:09 PM (NLBi5)
Posted by: blaster at July 13, 2023 05:02 PM (pwExq)
Reason the Superhero movie is trailing off? They are NOT the iconic Heroes we grew up with anymore. They are Woke imitations either gender or race swapped.
or... really really lame Supers... plus... reboots... how many damn flash movies and TV shows do you want to see? Where they REMAKE the story every damn time.
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 13, 2023 05:09 PM (oHd/0)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 13, 2023 05:10 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: Megthered at July 13, 2023 05:04 PM (Y7FQD)
Ooooo...great Old Yeller reference!
As for me, I am thinking Iger needs to go way back....waaayyyy back to Pollyanna and listen to what the Preacher, played by Karl Malden had to say:
"Death comes unexpectantly!!!"
Posted by: Diogenes at July 13, 2023 05:10 PM (e4fEA)
I can't help but notice that the younger actors never will have the star power of the boomer and old Gen-X era.
When you think of an Action Hero, no Millennial comes to mind, only a long list of Boomers - no wonder they dragged Ford into this shit show.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 13, 2023 05:10 PM (p8A+W)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 13, 2023 05:08 PM (YqDXo)
Indiana Jones and the inability to press the accelerator at a green light...
Posted by: Boswell at July 13, 2023 05:10 PM (K+UlC)
I hope they all die of rabies.
Posted by: Megthered
Suppurating anal warts.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 13, 2023 05:10 PM (3hpq0)
Posted by: REDACTED at July 13, 2023 05:10 PM (us2H3)
The idea movies repeat themselves is itself redundant.
3 Musketeers has been made something like 50 times.
Reboots and remakes have been with us, admission-paying saps such as we are, since the beginning of Film. Studios will stop it when we stop paying to see them, which be what, never.
Posted by: LenNeal at July 13, 2023 05:10 PM (/BBNv)
I just watched The Little Foxes on YT. It's a treat to view a film that is "crafted", rather than just produced following a template.
Posted by: kallisto at July 13, 2023 05:09 PM (NLBi5)
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Well, William Wyler was really good at the whole movie making thing.
Fun fact: Wyler got his first job in Hollywood through nepotism. His cousin was Carl Laemmle, owner of Universal Studios, where Wyler got his first directing job.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 13, 2023 05:11 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: A sweaty and desperate Bob Iger at July 13, 2023 05:09 PM (sh1GZ)
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Now THERE'S a sea change. Hiring someone who's actually good at something.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 13, 2023 05:11 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 13, 2023 05:11 PM (oHd/0)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 13, 2023
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The original novelette "Ender's Game" appeared in Analog, I think, in 1979 or '80. Card turned it into a novel later, and there were more in the series or set in that universe.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 13, 2023 05:11 PM (J2vNu)
Just looked at imdb top 30 movies of 1980. Yeah, you are probably right.
Caddyshack, Raging Bull, Friday the 13th, Star Wars V, Private Benjamin, Airplane...
Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 13, 2023 05:05 PM (p8A+W)
Am I the only one who couldn't get through Raging Bull?
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 13, 2023 05:06 PM (KbCG3)
It took me two tries. It's a movie I appreciate more than I enjoy watching.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at July 13, 2023 05:11 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: It's me donna at July 13, 2023 05:11 PM (bs+z0)
Posted by: Brother Tim sez Max Headroom for President! at July 13, 2023 05:11 PM (OUMaO)
A more creatively minded studio would be fostering talent, like Irving Thalberg would.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 13, 2023 05:02 PM (LvTSG)
The movie industry forgot that the utility of the B movies and other light fare needed to "stream" out to the many theatres people went to for a bit of entertainment at low cost is that it built a population of trained workers in all positions and gave them a place to practice and learn. Once that farm team died in the 60s, the people grown in that era began to age out and were not replaced.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 13, 2023 05:11 PM (eoQWY)
Posted by: blaster"
Kennedy isn't going anywhere. Which is fine with me. Burn it down KK.
Posted by: eleven at July 13, 2023 05:11 PM (iziT8)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara'
HAHAHA!
Brutal.
But I did convert at an age over 50 and made it work, so Nyahh.
Posted by: LenNeal at July 13, 2023 05:12 PM (/BBNv)
Reason the Superhero movie is trailing off? They are NOT the iconic Heroes we grew up with anymore. They are Woke imitations either gender or race swapped.
To point, take Tom Cruise out of Mission Impossible or Maverick and replace with any Millennial/Gen-Z and watch major losses at the box office.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 13, 2023 05:12 PM (p8A+W)
The classic antifascist fighting white supremacy class politics wymyn affirming movie is still out there waiting to be made.
Posted by: Auspex at July 13, 2023 05:12 PM (j4U/Z)
Too frickin funny.
Posted by: red speck at July 13, 2023 05:12 PM (0Id0S)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at July 13, 2023 05:12 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Diesel Jones, Biologist at July 13, 2023 05:12 PM (Vu7A1)
Posted by: UGAdawg at July 13, 2023 05:12 PM (tRd71)
When you think of an Action Hero, no Millennial comes to mind, only a long list of Boomers - no wonder they dragged Ford into this shit show.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 13, 2023 05:10 PM (p8A+W)
I think the public lost its taste for action movies *because* of the superhero thing - those are the new "action" movies.
Maybe after those die off, some studio can hire some 'roided out muscle freaks to beat the fuck out of sinister foreigners and throw them off of buildings again. Here's hoping.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 13, 2023 05:12 PM (oINRc)
Posted by: Bob Ogre at July 13, 2023 05:12 PM (htCUM)
or... really really lame Supers... plus... reboots... how many damn flash movies and TV shows do you want to see? Where they REMAKE the story every damn time.
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 13, 2023 05:09 PM (oHd/0)
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Lots of Mary Sues as well...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 13, 2023 05:12 PM (YIVH2)
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at July 13, 2023 05:13 PM (bkUtD)
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko stuff at July 13, 2023 05:13 PM (RRfMk)
Posted by: MkY at July 13, 2023 05:13 PM (cPGH3)
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 13, 2023 05:06 PM (KbCG3)
no, there's probablly people out there who didn't like it.
I did appreciate it though. Pesci's nailed it.
"You fat fvck!"
Posted by: kallisto at July 13, 2023 05:13 PM (NLBi5)
A remake going from Silent, to sound... then another to Color? Totally justified.
Remaking a classic with YOUR spin just... because? And not just a remake, but a total rewrite? With gender or Race swapped characters? Yeah... no...
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 13, 2023 05:13 PM (oHd/0)
Posted by: Reuben Hick
Action Heroes are anathema to the leftwank heresy. Toxic masculinity, don'cha know.
Posted by: Brother Tim sez Max Headroom for President! at July 13, 2023 05:13 PM (OUMaO)
Posted by: Oldcat at July 13, 2023 05:11 PM (eoQWY)
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When studios lost ownership of theaters, the need for B-movies vanished. They were to fill out blocks of films that the theaters booked, or independent theaters had to buy to get anything, and the Paramount Accords ended that.
But, B-movies did do important things for fostering talent. That changed over to television for a while (both Peckinpah and Spielberg started in television).
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 13, 2023 05:13 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: Brother Tim sez Max Headroom for President! at July 13, 2023 05:09 PM (OUMaO)
Not a bad point - at some point Olivier looked down at his name tag and said "wait! scene chewing is the whole reason I am here!" And he did...memorably.
Posted by: Boswell at July 13, 2023 05:13 PM (K+UlC)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 13, 2023
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The original novelette "Ender's Game" appeared in Analog, I think, in 1979 or '80. Card turned it into a novel later, and there were more in the series or set in that universe.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 13, 2023 05:11 PM (J2vNu)
1977. I didn't find that the bloating up improved anything.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 13, 2023 05:13 PM (eoQWY)
It's not really a kids' book, though, that doesn't make it any less part of that little blip of a fad.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, pe
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Enders Game. Harrison Fords last decent movie?
Posted by: TexasDan at July 13, 2023 05:13 PM (Li05/)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 13, 2023 05:14 PM (TZ75n)
Posted by: William F. 'Buck' Dharma at July 13, 2023 05:14 PM (a9CYf)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at July 13, 2023 05:12 PM (xcxpd)
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He can change the gravitational constant of the universe with a snap of his fingers?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 13, 2023 05:14 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 13, 2023 05:12 PM (YIVH2)
As someone on F Book pointed out, you want the ULTIMATE Mary Sue?
Kathleen Kenedy. All the Retconn'd now female Heroines? All Slender Brunettes... just like her.
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 13, 2023 05:14 PM (oHd/0)
Posted by: William F. 'Buck' Dharma at July 13, 2023 05:15 PM (a9CYf)
Posted by: Bosk of Port Kar at July 13, 2023 05:15 PM (VMFAF)
Posted by: LenNeal at July 13, 2023 05:15 PM (/BBNv)
Posted by: William F. 'Buck' Dharma at July 13, 2023 05:15 PM (a9CYf)
Kathleen Kenedy. All the Retconn'd now female Heroines? All Slender Brunettes... just like her.
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 13, 2023 05:14 PM (oHd/0)
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Critical Drinker and Nerdrotic have also pointed that out. It's pretty obvious after you've seen it three or four (or more) times.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 13, 2023 05:16 PM (YIVH2)
Posted by: Diesel Jones, Biologist at July 13, 2023 05:16 PM (Vu7A1)
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 13, 2023 05:11 PM (oHd/0)
Noice...
Posted by: Boswell at July 13, 2023 05:16 PM (K+UlC)
But, B-movies did do important things for fostering talent. That changed over to television for a while (both Peckinpah and Spielberg started in television).
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 13, 2023 05:13 PM (LvTSG)
Also Richard Donner. He directed the Nightmare at 20,000 Feet episode of The Twilight Zone. Just saw that one last night. Fantastic episode of a fantastic series.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 13, 2023 05:16 PM (/iWhV)
Posted by: eleven at July 13, 2023 05:16 PM (iziT8)
I've been watching the Star Trek original series episodes the last few days. Some of these episodes are so very very dumb.
A Piece of the Action for example. Every three seconds someone from the Enterprise gets captured by some gangster. At one point, Spock and Kirk receive assurances the gangster they're transporting to won't capture them. They go armed, and get immediately captured.
What's the big conclusion? Shatner whips out his best 30s gangster impression and tells everyone the Federation is now the big boss, and he's going to be back every year for his 40% cut. He "unifies" the planet's gangster bosses under this threat.
That's the big conclusion! This is supposed to be the brilliant solution to a planet undergoing constant gang warfare. They're all working for an off planet gangster boss.
This resolution solves nothing. They're still going to be constantly at war for control of the planet, with the understanding that they have to give up 40% to the Federation.
So dumb.
Posted by: bonhomme at July 13, 2023 05:17 PM (R38qh)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at July 13, 2023 05:12 PM (xcxpd)
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He can change the gravitational constant of the universe with a snap of his fingers?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 13, 2023 05:14 PM (LvTSG)
God, I hate Star Trek
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at July 13, 2023 05:17 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Diesel Jones, Biologist at July 13, 2023 05:17 PM (Vu7A1)
Posted by: William F. 'Buck' Dharma at July 13, 2023 05:15 PM (a9CYf)
Indiana Jones and the Urinary Tract Infection.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 13, 2023 05:17 PM (/iWhV)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 13, 2023 05:14 PM (LvTSG)
God, I hate Star Trek
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at July 13, 2023 05:17 PM (xcxpd)
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It told me that it hates you too.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 13, 2023 05:17 PM (LvTSG)
And they should make some big-budget JCVD and Chuck Norris-type action movies too, where they're halfway to being kung fu movies. Those were awesome. Not Seagal, but the rest of that genre.
Get some younger dudes to be the next Scott Adkins and Michael Jai White, etc., and promote the heck out of that shit.
If you can't come up with anything new, do the cool old stuff again.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 13, 2023 05:18 PM (oINRc)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at July 13
*music stops*
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 13, 2023 05:18 PM (U+mgI)
Posted by: Reuben Hick
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Boomers!
We lived in two different millennia
Best cars
Best movies
Best music
Best times!
Posted by: Diogenes at July 13, 2023 05:18 PM (e4fEA)
Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 13, 2023 05:16 PM (/iWhV)
Gotta love a pilot whose willing to fly under the world's largest storm cloud.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 13, 2023 05:18 PM (KbCG3)
Posted by: blaster at July 13, 2023 05:02 PM (pwExq)
I am thinking monster movies, they are cheap, CGI is better than rubber suits, and there is a cultural fear of both unseen monsters and authoritative overreach and overreaction threats.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 13, 2023 05:07 PM (xhaym)
True story and Biopics come out at a constant drizzle, you only notice them when the tall trees die out entirely.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 13, 2023 05:19 PM (eoQWY)
If you can't come up with anything new, do the cool old stuff again.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 13, 2023 05:18 PM (oINRc)
You could not make 'The Last Dragon' today... too full of stereotypes.
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 13, 2023 05:19 PM (oHd/0)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at July 13, 2023 05:17 PM (xcxpd)
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It told me that it hates you too.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 13, 2023 05:17 PM (LvTSG)
That explains Star Trek Discovery
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at July 13, 2023 05:19 PM (xcxpd)
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*Elite Star Chamber members look at each other awkwardly. Silence.*
Um, we'd better disappear that episode of star trek permanently.
Posted by: Close to home bro, close to home at July 13, 2023 05:19 PM (sh1GZ)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 13, 2023 05:19 PM (Q4IgG)
I got it!
Dead Pool III - watch as he tries endlessly to get bottom surgery that works. It'll be sympathetis to the trannies and their distress at being accepted.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher
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It would melt the lefts brains if Deadpool gets a bottom surgery and his body rejects the surgery and regrows boy parts.
Posted by: TexasDan at July 13, 2023 05:20 PM (viAvR)
Posted by: Diesel Jones, Biologist
Hush, Ace is reading these posts!
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at July 13, 2023 05:20 PM (bkUtD)
Good job MSM. Normal people now instinctively believe/do the opposite of your stupid narrative.
Posted by: Ripley at July 13, 2023 05:20 PM (KrJTL)
Indiana Jones 5 Could Make a Mere $300 Million Worldwide, Less Than Its Production Budget
.......
Who made it, the U.S. Government?
Posted by: wth at July 13, 2023 04:35 PM (v0R5T)
Heh. Only the US Government could run a world famous whorehouse in Nevada (the Mustang Ranch) and have it go broke.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 13, 2023 05:20 PM (n+4am)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 13, 2023 05:01 PM
Dude...it's the LITERAL definition of "dated", as well as the figurative. I still love the movies, and the effects are "neat" but they sure as hell aren't seamless, and it's obviously fake, so to pretend that it ultimately doesn't take away from the film is silly.
I wouldn't want it "fixed" in the old movies (Lucas!!!), because it's part of the fun of watching those old movies, but I wouldn't want it in a serious, modern movie.
Posted by: Movie Moron at July 13, 2023 05:20 PM (JCZqz)
I am that man.
Posted by: Don LeMon, Movie Imagineer at July 13, 2023 05:20 PM (mkzvC)
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I've been watching the Star Trek original series episodes the last few days. Some of these episodes are so very very dumb.
A Piece of the Action for example. Every three seconds someone from the Enterprise gets captured by some gangster. At one point, Spock and Kirk receive assurances the gangster they're transporting to won't capture them. They go armed, and get immediately captured.
What's the big conclusion? Shatner whips out his best 30s gangster impression and tells everyone the Federation is now the big boss, and he's going to be back every year for his 40% cut. He "unifies" the planet's gangster bosses under this threat.
That's the big conclusion! This is supposed to be the brilliant solution to a planet undergoing constant gang warfare. They're all working for an off planet gangster boss.
This resolution solves nothing. They're still going to be constantly at war for control of the planet, with the understanding that they have to give up 40% to the Federation.
So dumb.
Posted by: bonhomme at July 13, 2023 05:17 PM (R38qh)
Where do you think that 40% went? Who's the "big guy" now, huh??
Posted by: James T Kirk and the crew of the Enterprise at July 13, 2023 05:20 PM (llON8)
I would say Patriot Games was HF's last decent movie.
Posted by: bonhomme at July 13, 2023 05:21 PM (R38qh)
Posted by: Oldcat at July 13, 2023 05:19 PM (eoQWY)
Movies from Historic times. With CGI you could do some really cool battle scenes.. and there is a LOT of written material out there.
Hell, theres been what... 1 Horatio Hornblower movie?
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 13, 2023 05:21 PM (oHd/0)
So dumb.
Posted by: bonhomme at July 13, 2023 05:17 PM (R38qh)
That is what the Non-intervention policy requires. Minimize meddling.
The Culture's Special Circumstance would have done a better job, but with a much higher body count.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 13, 2023 05:21 PM (xhaym)
Every review of that movie I have ever seen blasts it for being yet another Kathleen Kennedy woke safari, complete with the "Strong Female Character" that does everything better than any man possibly could, including in this case Harrison Ford.
It's precisely because this flick is alienating those "old guys" that explains why it is failing. I've seen some detached-from-reality interpretations of things, but that review deserves note.
Posted by: Taylor at July 13, 2023 05:21 PM (4zCYk)
______
Slender?
Posted by: Kathleen Kennedy's pants at July 13, 2023 05:21 PM (i8ibG)
Posted by: polynikes. at July 13, 2023 05:21 PM (/WQyy)
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at July 13, 2023 05:21 PM (17s+e)
Posted by: William F. 'Buck' Dharma at July 13, 2023 05:21 PM (a9CYf)
Posted by: Boswell
Which is the point. Remember the first Dungeons & Dragons movie...what was it, 23 years ago now? (Holy shit, I'm old.) Jeremy Irons left his teeth marks all over the scenery, and looked like he was the only person actually having fun in that flick. (See also Frank Langella in Masters of the Universe as Skeletor--which he himself said was one of his favorite roles!)
Posted by: Brother Tim sez Max Headroom for President! at July 13, 2023 05:22 PM (OUMaO)
Posted by: This Buda-Pest? at July 13, 2023 05:22 PM (T0tUU)
Good job MSM. Normal people now instinctively believe/do the opposite of your stupid narrative.
Posted by: Ripley at July 13, 2023 05:20 PM (KrJTL)
*tee hee*
Posted by: The Streisand Effect at July 13, 2023 05:22 PM (llON8)
Posted by: LenNeal at July 13, 2023 05:22 PM (/BBNv)
Posted by: William F. 'Buck' Dharma at July 13, 2023 05:23 PM (a9CYf)
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at July 13, 2023 05:23 PM (9yUzE)
Posted by: President Select Decaf at July 13, 2023 05:23 PM (3JfbU)
Good job MSM. Normal people now instinctively believe/do the opposite of your stupid narrative.
Posted by: Ripley at July 13, 2023 05:20 PM (KrJTL)
This is a GREAT point. If not for here, and the Media blasting it, I never would have heard of that movie at all.
Thanks for the Advertising!
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 13, 2023 05:23 PM (oHd/0)
Posted by: William F. 'Buck' Dharma at July 13, 2023 05:23 PM (a9CYf)
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at July 13, 2023 05:23 PM (17s+e)
Posted by: It's me donna at July 13, 2023 05:24 PM (bs+z0)
Posted by: Bosk of Port Kar at July 13, 2023 05:24 PM (VMFAF)
Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at July 13, 2023 05:24 PM (wzAuc)
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 13, 2023 05:24 PM (KbCG3)
Posted by: William F. 'Buck' Dharma at July 13, 2023 05:24 PM (a9CYf)
Posted by: Reuben Hick
Action Heroes are anathema to the leftwank heresy. Toxic masculinity, don'cha know.
Posted by: Brother Tim sez Max Headroom for President! at July 13, 2023 05:13 PM
Nonsense! Supergirl, She-Hulk, She-Ra, Helena, Rey Skywalker, Batgirl...
Posted by: Modern Leftist at July 13, 2023 05:24 PM (JCZqz)
https://tinyurl.com/3vjxxbjn
Somewhat modest, ain't it. Hmm, what does that say?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 13, 2023 05:24 PM (15Elt)
Posted by: TexasDan at July 13, 2023 05:20 PM (viAvR)
I wish I could find the link to Sailor Deadpool manga. I lost on purpose.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 13, 2023 05:25 PM (xhaym)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 13, 2023 05:25 PM (mkzvC)
This resolution solves nothing. They're still going to be constantly at war for control of the planet, with the understanding that they have to give up 40% to the Federation.
So dumb.
Posted by: bonhomme at July 13, 2023 05:17 PM (R38qh)
It is a decent solution, it's common enough in states where there is one big boss (the king) that a weak or no king causes civil wars and fights over power while a strong king each middle tier boss does his own thing for fear that the big boss will rub him out.
It's a drek episode for sure, driven by the availability of pre made sets and costumes for the budget, but the politics of a strongman producing overall order among the lesser thugs is true thru all history.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 13, 2023 05:25 PM (eoQWY)
Posted by: Close to home bro, close to home at July 13, 2023 05:25 PM (sh1GZ)
But this was a special circumstance. A previous expedition to the planet left some books, including books on 1930s gangsters. The aliens copied the books and that's how the planet became such a mess in the first place. Kirk and Spock decide they have to meddle to fix the planet rather than just leaving because the Federation representatives are responsible.
So non-intervention doesn't explain the ending.
Posted by: bonhomme at July 13, 2023 05:25 PM (R38qh)
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at July 13, 2023 05:23 PM (9yUzE)
I see the head of pedomouse is going with the "we're not doing it but if we we're it would be good" defense.
This is *sure* to increase revenue across the board!
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 13, 2023 05:25 PM (llON8)
Posted by: William F. 'Buck' Dharma at July 13, 2023 05:25 PM (a9CYf)
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at July 13, 2023 05:23 PM (9yUzE)
_______________
That was a hanging curve ball for DeSantis's staff.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 13, 2023 05:25 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: Ripley at July 13, 2023 05:25 PM (KrJTL)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 13, 2023 05:25 PM (nRMeC)
Posted by: The Delusional SAG! at July 13, 2023 05:25 PM (2tUFv)
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 13, 2023 05:26 PM (oHd/0)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0A2-Af5JEWU
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 13, 2023 04:56 PM (LvTSG)
Very creepy, but still kind of fun to watch. It's like watching a plane load of politicians crash.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 13, 2023 05:26 PM (BdMk6)
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at July 13, 2023 05:26 PM (17s+e)
Posted by: Kindltot
Subversive monster movie idea: Unseen monster, lots of havoc, PLOT TWIST: There is no monster, the authorities made it up and are doing the destroying to make it look legit and do what authorities always do with cooked-up "crises".
Posted by: Brother Tim sez Max Headroom for President! at July 13, 2023 05:26 PM (OUMaO)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 13, 2023 05:26 PM (YqDXo)
the contract extension is intended to increase his termination payment when he is fired.
He knows how it is going to go, he just wants bigger bux.
Posted by: jc at July 13, 2023 05:26 PM (N1WXz)
Posted by: President Select Decaf at July 13, 2023 05:23 PM (3JfbU)
I think it is fine for Ace to hone his cruelty knives on these fools as they destroy what they could never build.
Even if these leftists made camps for us all we'd have to do the building and running of them.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 13, 2023 05:27 PM (eoQWY)
Posted by: It's me donna at July 13, 2023 05:27 PM (bs+z0)
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at July 13, 2023 05:27 PM (17s+e)
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at July 13, 2023 05:23 PM (9yUzE)
_______________
That was a hanging curve ball for DeSantis's staff.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 13, 2023 05:25 PM (YqDXo)
Wow, said that AFTER the pictures all over the net of the Trans worker at the candy shop in Disney?
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 13, 2023 05:27 PM (oHd/0)
Posted by: Indiana Jones at July 13, 2023 05:27 PM (aBJcM)
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at July 13, 2023 05:27 PM (bkUtD)
Posted by: Ortho-pedic at July 13, 2023 05:27 PM (T0tUU)
Posted by: William F. 'Buck' Dharma at July 13, 2023 05:27 PM (a9CYf)
Posted by: Kindltot
Subversive monster movie idea: Unseen monster, lots of havoc, PLOT TWIST: There is no monster, the authorities made it up and are doing the destroying to make it look legit and do what authorities always do with cooked-up "crises".
Posted by: Brother Tim sez Max Headroom for President! at July 13, 2023 05:26 PM (OUMaO)
So, Scooby Doo?
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 13, 2023 05:27 PM (eYoxG)
Posted by: LenNeal at July 13, 2023 05:28 PM (/BBNv)
Which is the point. Remember the first Dungeons & Dragons movie...what was it, 23 years ago now? (Holy shit, I'm old.) Jeremy Irons left his teeth marks all over the scenery, and looked like he was the only person actually having fun in that flick. (See also Frank Langella in Masters of the Universe as Skeletor--which he himself said was one of his favorite roles!)
Posted by: Brother Tim sez Max Headroom for President! at July 13, 2023 05:22 PM (OUMaO)
Raul Julia in Street Fighter
"For you, the day Bison graced your village was the most important day of your life. But for me, it was Tuesday."
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 13, 2023 05:28 PM (n+4am)
Posted by: PabloD at July 13, 2023 05:28 PM (tquah)
Posted by: Brother Tim sez Max Headroom for President! at July 13, 2023 05:26 PM (OUMaO)
So, Scooby Doo?
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 13, 2023 05:27 PM (eYoxG)
And we would have gotten away with it, except for those meddling MAGA Kids!
Posted by: Chris Wray Wray... at July 13, 2023 05:29 PM (oHd/0)
But in this case, the king is the Federation, and he's an absent king. Kirk names one gangster as the big boss in his absence, but given the gangster ethos of the planet, he won't last long. Kirk has committed the Federation to returning yearly and the gangland kill and be killed wars will continue unabated in his absence.
Posted by: bonhomme at July 13, 2023 05:29 PM (R38qh)
Posted by: LenNeal at July 13, 2023 05:29 PM (/BBNv)
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at July 13, 2023 05:29 PM (17s+e)
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at July 13, 2023 05:23 PM (9yUzE)
I see the head of pedomouse is going with the "we're not doing it but if we we're it would be good" defense.
This is *sure* to increase revenue across the board!
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 13, 2023 05:25 PM (llON
==================
Well put. When I saw the interview this morning I laughed, but CNBC made that their lede in the written story that followed. Which has now disappeared, so I assume Disney comm staff has been begging CNBC to hide it.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 13, 2023 05:30 PM (mkzvC)
Posted by: William F. 'Buck' Dharma at July 13, 2023 05:30 PM (a9CYf)
Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at July 13, 2023 05:30 PM (wzAuc)
Posted by: Brother Tim sez Max Headroom for President! at July 13, 2023 05:30 PM (OUMaO)
Posted by: William F. 'Buck' Dharma at July 13, 2023 05:30 PM (a9CYf)
M Night Shyamalan's The Village
Posted by: bonhomme at July 13, 2023 05:31 PM (R38qh)
Posted by: bonhomme at July 13, 2023 05:25 PM (R38qh)
what else are they going to do? Iain Banks would have identified the element of society that either prevented consolidation or funded splinters and made it kill itself. But that is a fantasy since it is probably impossible to guess things like that.
In a way a divided society is a better one for individual liberty because the feuding clans tend to limit expansion of each other and have to compete for "soldiers". Even if they form a syndicate, they cheat on each other.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 13, 2023 05:31 PM (xhaym)
Posted by: Brother Tim sez Max Headroom for President! at July 13, 2023 05:13 PM
Nonsense! Supergirl, She-Hulk, She-Ra, Helena, Rey Skywalker, Batgirl...
Posted by: Modern Leftist at July 13, 2023 05:24 PM
I almost feel like I'm in the Matrix, and can see the lines of code beneath everything. Visited my dad and sister, and they were watching a movie called "Ghosted". Pretty, slender, badass brunette super agent dragging a bumbling white guy farmer around, saving him from multiple issues. She fights, shoots, knows everything, belittled him...and he takes it and is whipped. Towards the end of the bit I saw, he redeems himself once by noticing a plant on a windowsill in a photo is unusual, which is where some secret genetic code is stored. It ticked off every modern girl-boss trope I could imagine.
Posted by: Moron Analyst at July 13, 2023 05:31 PM (JCZqz)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 13, 2023 05:31 PM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 13, 2023 05:31 PM (Cd885)
that's just crazy talk.
Posted by: john gill at July 13, 2023 05:32 PM (sGtp+)
Indiana Jones and the Curse of the Velcro Sneakers.
Posted by: Ortho-pedic at July 13, 2023 05:27 PM (T0tUU)
You know that you're a decrepit old boomer when you're checking out yootoob guitar videos and see an interview with Tony Iommi, the most evil guitarist ever to live.
And you realize that along with the cross jewelry, custom beat up Gibson SG, black leather and Fu Manchu mustache, he's also wearing black velcro walking shoes.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 13, 2023 05:32 PM (n+4am)
Posted by: Green Stamps, Too at July 13, 2023 05:33 PM (T0tUU)
Posted by: Stu Podaso at July 13, 2023 05:33 PM (UutP7)
JULY 13, 2023
Ordering the Selected Reserve and Certain Members of the Individual Ready Reserve of the Armed Forces to Active Duty
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including sections 121 and 12304 of title 10, United States Code, I hereby determine that it is necessary to augment the active Armed Forces of the United States for the effective conduct of Operation Atlantic Resolve in and around the United States European Command’s area of responsibility.
Just 3,000 people so far, but this is how it begins.
Posted by: A Provocative Parade Of Perverts! at July 13, 2023 05:33 PM (2tUFv)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 13, 2023 05:33 PM (15Elt)
Posted by: bonhomme
...I was trying to forget that movie existed, thanks for nothing.
Posted by: Brother Tim sez Max Headroom for President! at July 13, 2023 05:34 PM (OUMaO)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 13, 2023 05:34 PM (15Elt)
* adjusts onion on belt *
I remember that the local theater had a Saturday morning "Coke show" for kids. Admission was two refundable bottles. I think the movie was "Pete's Dragon" or "Darby O'Gill" or something like that. My cousin and I snuck into "Enter the Dragon" in the other theater instead.
Posted by: Oddbob at July 13, 2023 05:35 PM (nfrXX)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 13, 2023 05:36 PM (15Elt)
Just 3,000 people so far, but this is how it begins.
Posted by: A Provocative Parade Of Perverts!
Whomever had Nuclear War in August, please pick up your anti-radiation pills at the parimutuel window. Thank you.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 13, 2023 05:37 PM (3hpq0)
Posted by: bonhomme at July 13, 2023 05:29 PM (R38qh)
When they report back there will be a Fed consul coming back to be the big boss for real. The idea was that the boss' cut would be put back into the planet. That might have just been in the novelization, though.
They could always bring bearded Spock from the Mirror Mirror universe to teach them a lesson for real.
I'm pretty sure the "imitative race" idea came from Poul Andersen's Hoka series about a teddy bear race that is similarly imitative and are now all cowboys from westerns and each town is run by the town gambler and the sheriff is the most foolish dude around.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 13, 2023 05:37 PM (eoQWY)
JULY 13, 2023
Ordering the Selected Reserve and Certain Members of the Individual Ready Reserve of the Armed Forces to Active Duty
Just 3,000 people so far, but this is how it begins.
Posted by: A Provocative Parade Of Perverts! at July 13, 2023 05:33 PM (2tUFv)
To be fair, this puts those men closer to their weapons and such than they are now.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 13, 2023 05:41 PM (eoQWY)
Posted by: Just Lily at July 13, 2023 05:50 PM (RLLZj)
The people at Disney are deliberately destroying the last family friendly entertainment company as part of the elites attack on the nuclear family, which threatens their power. This is simply one front in that war.
There is no other plausible explanation for what's going on. It's become so much of a farce it's fodder for comedians. That's when you know it's the truth.
Posted by: Veritas at July 13, 2023 05:53 PM (90TCz)
I've always been curious. What were the 1940s really like? Was everything sepia toned? Did people do the Charleston down the street?
Posted by: bonhomme at July 13, 2023 04:48 PM (R38qh)
35 cents for kids in the 50's. 50 cents for adults. I lived in the local movie theater every Saturday and Sunday matinees. Movies played for three days, all a double features. Great time to be a kid.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy now with twice the crazy at July 13, 2023 06:17 PM (Zvtjl)
"America's Friendliest Home Town"
Where the county health departments had to massively increase their "Community Health" (aka STD Contact Tracing) staffs.
Posted by: Fox2! at July 13, 2023 06:27 PM (7ruhG)
Should take the proverbial "Long walk, on a short pier."
What a LCSPOS...even Spielberg has gone to ground because Lucus has been just pounding him for giving her such free reign and destroying the brand in the process.
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