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Barry Diller: Hollywood Faces an "Absolute Collapse" If Actor and Writer Strikes Are Not Resolved Soon
Via Ken Gardner who adds:
Former Paramount CEO Barry Diller delivered a grim prediction for Hollywood on Sunday, warning that the industry is facing an "absolute collapse" if the Writers' and Screen Actors Guild joint strike extends into the fall. "What will happen is, if in fact, it doesn't get settled until Christmas or so, then next year, there's not going to be many programs for anybody to watch. So, you're gonna see subscriptions get pulled, which is going to reduce the revenue of all these movie companies, television companies, the result of which is that there will be no programs," Diller said on CBS' "Face the Nation" Sunday. "And at just the time, [the] strike is settled that you want to get back up, there won't be enough money." ... Diller said Hollywood is in the throes of a "perfect storm," adding that he doesn't think there is enough "trust" between the parties to reach a resolution soon.In semi-related news: Bob Iger says that Disney might be forced to sell off the ABC television network, the FX and FXX networks, and all "non-linear" networks... and wants someone to come in as a coinvestor to share the losses from the dying ESPN.
Writer Eric Heisserer holds his writers strike sign on the fourth day of the writers strike in front of Netflix in Hollywood, followed by many other individuals "The problem is... all strikes get settled. The issue with this one is because...you had COVID, which sent people home to watch streaming television and killed theaters. You've had the results of huge investments in streaming which have produced all these losses for all these companies that are now kind of retrenching. So at this moment, this kind of perfect storm, it's okay if it gets settled in the next month but... what happens if it doesn't? And there doesn't seem enough trust and energy to get it settled soon." The IAC chairman said he believes a settlement deadline of September 1 should be agreed upon by studios, streaming services and union leaders representing film and television actors to prevent "devastating" effects on the entertainment industry. "I think there should be a settlement deadline because... this actually will have devastating effects if it is not settled soon," he said, adding that while the public might seem disinterested in internal Hollywood chaos, the truth is, "this is a huge business, both domestically and for world exporters." "It sounds like I'm crying to the skies," he added, "but these conditions will potentially produce an absolute collapse of an entire industry."
Walt Disney Company boss Bob Iger said the company is considering selling its TV assets while seeking a strategic partner for sports cable property ESPN. Iger told CNBC on Thursday that he has had discussions with potential investors about buying a minority stake in ESPN, though he would not specify. Iger said he hopes a partner would assist Disney with its sports-related "distribution or content," adding that the company "wants to stay in the sports business." Iger added that he would be open to selling or spinning off Disney's cable networks, which includes ABC, FX and National Geographic. Iger, who revealed on Wednesday he will remain CEO of Disney through 2026, told CNBC he did not anticipate the degree to which legacy television networks would be struggling. Disney's television properties "may not be core" to the company, Iger said.Note the properties he's considering selling are, mostly, companies that were purchased by Disney before Iger. FX and FXX were acquired by Iger when he bought Fox's entertainment divisions. But neither of those, I think, has ever been sold as standalone units and so do not have any valuations attached to them. I point this out because of either Valliant Renegade's or WDW_Pro's point (forget which) that Iger does not want to sell off the big properties he bought -- LucasFilm, Marvel, Pixar, and even Fox, as a whole -- because the selling price will be much, much lower than the purchase price. This would expose him as rube who consistently overpaid for other people' successful studios to cover-up Disney's own struggling creative output. And it would also confirm everyone's strong suspicion that all of these properties are worth only 25-50% of what was paid for them, and therefore maybe all of Disney is similarly only worth 25-50% of the current market valuation. He can't afford to sell anything that people know a recent purchase price for. He can only sell things acquired long ago (ABC) or which have never been sold on their own as standalone units (FX, FXX). But he will never sell anything that he over-paid for. He cannot afford to let the world know, in stark mathematical terms, just how poorly he's run Disney these past eight years. By the way, the last weekend's box office had Mission Impossible at number one and Sound of Freedom at number two. Phloebiana Jones fell to fourth. What a disgrace. The Sound of Freedom has made $85 million in two weeks of release.
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 17, 2023 03:52 PM (ncXxy)
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 17, 2023 03:52 PM (N1DT3)
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at July 17, 2023 03:52 PM (XMwZJ)
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 17, 2023 03:52 PM (ncXxy)
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at July 17, 2023 03:53 PM (fKIdX)
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 17, 2023 03:53 PM (N1DT3)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 17, 2023 03:53 PM (+sD5M)
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Posted by: rickb223 at July 17, 2023 03:56 PM (ZVVGW)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 17, 2023 03:56 PM (TZ75n)
Posted by: ... at July 17, 2023 03:56 PM (JBDkq)
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Posted by: John Fetterman at July 17, 2023 03:56 PM (5hfjS)
Posted by: Archer at July 17, 2023 03:56 PM (gmo/4)
Posted by: wth at July 17, 2023 03:56 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: Halfhand at July 17, 2023 03:57 PM (oBwqB)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 17, 2023 03:57 PM (Keyt1)
The spectrum of potential outcomes is interesting to consider.
Posted by: jc at July 17, 2023 03:58 PM (N1WXz)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at July 17, 2023 03:55 PM (xcxpd)
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Might I suggest the classic giallo Kill, Baby, Kill! instead.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 17, 2023 03:58 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: polynikes at July 17, 2023 03:58 PM (MNhXM)
Posted by: m at July 17, 2023 03:59 PM (LdYi7)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at July 17, 2023 03:55 PM (xcxpd)
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Might I suggest the classic giallo Kill, Baby, Kill! instead.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 17, 2023 03:58 PM (LvTSG)
Does it have a soundtrack by Rob Zombie?
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at July 17, 2023 03:59 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: kathysaysso at July 17, 2023 03:59 PM (PvVvQ)
Posted by: m at July 17, 2023 03:59 PM (LdYi7)
May the strike last as long as the Iran/Iraq war. And have the same outcome.
Posted by: Bea Arthur's Dick at July 17, 2023 03:59 PM (Qt4kF)
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at July 17, 2023 03:53 PM (fKIdX)
wut
Posted by: m at July 17, 2023 04:00 PM (LdYi7)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 17, 2023 03:58 PM (LvTSG)
Does it have a soundtrack by Rob Zombie?
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at July 17, 2023 03:59 PM (xcxpd)
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Shoulda been Goblin.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 17, 2023 04:00 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at July 17, 2023 04:00 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: BlackOrchid at July 17, 2023 04:00 PM (AcWfM)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at July 17, 2023 04:00 PM (ppBhU)
LOL
You would be better off just lighting $100 bills on fire.
Posted by: Jay in PA at July 17, 2023 04:00 PM (i7Q7S)
Posted by: Wierzbowski formerly QID at July 17, 2023 04:00 PM (OgrpQ)
The spectrum of potential outcomes is interesting to consider.
Posted by: jc at July 17, 2023 03:58 PM
I suspect they are going to solve the strike issues very quickly. We are already into prime script writing time for the new fall season and that is their bread and butter and they don't want to mess with that sacred cow.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 17, 2023 04:00 PM (ncXxy)
I will disagree with the "overpaying" part of that.
I think Lucasfilm could easily have been worth the money. But they put a talentless hack in charge that threw out already existing content that could have easily been mined for multiple movies/series.
Also, he's not a fool. What cost, TO HIM, has there been from his massive mismanagement? Sure, the company is hurting, but he's doing very well AND pushing THE MESSAGE he believes in. I'd say he's a huge success.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 17, 2023 04:00 PM (N1DT3)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 17, 2023 04:00 PM (DoxPw)
Posted by: polynikes at July 17, 2023 03:54 PM (MNhXM)
That has already happened. Now we're just waiting for them to be buried.
Posted by: m at July 17, 2023 04:01 PM (LdYi7)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 17, 2023 04:01 PM (TZ75n)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at July 17, 2023 04:00 PM (xcxpd)
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Imagine the 70s with today's mentality.
"We're on the red carpet of the premiere of the legacy sequel to Notorious with Ingrid Bergman and Cary Grant, directed by the up and coming director Brian de Palma."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 17, 2023 04:01 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: JmT at July 17, 2023 04:01 PM (18RTj)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at July 17, 2023 03:55 PM (xcxpd)
13 Burn baby burn.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 17, 2023 03:56 PM (ZVVGW)
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I honestly don't think I've ever seen that happen here before.
Posted by: jc at July 17, 2023 04:01 PM (N1WXz)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 17, 2023 04:01 PM (DoxPw)
Stick it to the man!
Posted by: Skip at July 17, 2023 04:01 PM (6+JZ7)
Posted by: InZona at July 17, 2023 04:01 PM (a9vhT)
Posted by: JT at July 17, 2023 04:02 PM (T4tVD)
sucks to be him
Posted by: wordperfect at July 17, 2023 04:02 PM (sGtp+)
Posted by: Roland THTG at July 17, 2023 04:02 PM (j40lz)
Suck it, Eye-gor and all the Hollywood p3d0s!!
Posted by: LASue at July 17, 2023 04:02 PM (Ed8Zd)
If the individual components of Disney are worth far less than the amounts Disney paid for them and claims they are still worth, then Disney itself, with an enormous amount of debt, might be worthless.
Posted by: My Ridiculously Circuitous Plan at July 17, 2023 04:02 PM (nd7dS)
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IMHO, this could be said about most corporations nowadays.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 17, 2023 04:02 PM (BdMk6)
Posted by: JmT at July 17, 2023 04:01 PM (18RTj)
America was around long before Hollywood.
Posted by: polynikes at July 17, 2023 04:02 PM (MNhXM)
Wait, am I supposed to care?
Posted by: RickZ at July 17, 2023 04:02 PM (emlEe)
Posted by: Cookie at July 17, 2023 04:02 PM (oOM+W)
Posted by: FRED at July 17, 2023 04:03 PM (2znMt)
Posted by: JT at July 17, 2023 04:03 PM (T4tVD)
Posted by: wth at July 17, 2023 04:03 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 17, 2023 04:04 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: FRED at July 17, 2023 04:03 PM (2znMt)
If you have Netflix, Longmire is pretty bad ass.
Posted by: tryhardneckbeard at July 17, 2023 04:04 PM (OLVeZ)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 17, 2023 04:04 PM (+sD5M)
I think Lucasfilm could easily have been worth the money. But they put a talentless hack in charge that threw out already existing content that could have easily been mined for multiple movies/series.
Which makes Iger look even worse! Valuable assets are now worth crap under his watch.
I hope he enjoys his new role as a boat anchor.
Posted by: Tex Lovera at July 17, 2023 04:04 PM (wtvvX)
Posted by: polynikes at July 17, 2023 03:54 PM (MNhXM)
That has already happened. Now we're just waiting for them to be buried.
Posted by: m at July 17, 2023 04:01 PM (LdYi7)
Nah; I think it will finally just rot away in the summer sun.
Posted by: LASue at July 17, 2023 04:04 PM (Ed8Zd)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 17, 2023 04:04 PM (63Dwl)
And then you can read Berserk which is a better Game of Thrones.
Posted by: UwU_Power at July 17, 2023 04:04 PM (3kWw+)
Posted by: huerfano at July 17, 2023 04:04 PM (7zEAH)
Posted by: XTC at July 17, 2023 04:04 PM (UnA8+)
Burn it to the ground.
We do NOT what you are selling.
Posted by: Czech Chick at July 17, 2023 04:04 PM (6Tc2R)
Posted by: wth at July 17, 2023 04:04 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: ballistic at July 17, 2023 04:04 PM (oXNqT)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 17, 2023 04:05 PM (FVJNG)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 17, 2023 04:05 PM (DoxPw)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at July 17, 2023 04:05 PM (ppBhU)
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at July 17, 2023 04:05 PM (fKIdX)
tanned, rested, and ready!
Posted by: ernest borgnine in future cop at July 17, 2023 04:05 PM (sGtp+)
Give it a few years and the actors will also be expendable.
If you want a REALLY weird rabbit hole to go down: look into how many professional script writers, especially for television, have total aphantasia (an inability to internally visualize things - in other words, they have no "mind's eye"). It's partly why so many half-assed plots sound like someone was stringing together sound byte plot legos - because they literally were.
When you're done being creeped out/wasting time with that, go look up estimates on what % of the population lacks internal monologue and then think about the philosophical implications of combining that condition with an inability to visualize. After which you will probably drink heavily. You're welcome.
Posted by: somedood at July 17, 2023 04:05 PM (BF5+T)
Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at July 17, 2023 04:05 PM (jgJfd)
"Barbie" deserves to bomb no matter how cute Margot Robbie is or good an actress she is. To make it inclusive, I suppose,, one online reviewnoted that there's a point where every person of any ethnic group as well as a "trans" "fake" woman is called Barbie. i guess Hollywood just can't just make a movie without some sort of wokeness.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 17, 2023 04:05 PM (Keyt1)
If the individual components of Disney are worth far less than the amounts Disney paid for them and claims they are still worth, then Disney itself, with an enormous amount of debt, might be worthless.
Posted by: My Ridiculously Circuitous Plan at July 17, 2023 04:02 PM (nd7dS)
If the assets on their balance sheet are worth about 50% of what they're carrying them at, then the equity is about worthless.
But actually valuing something like Disney is kind of difficult. The real estate is easier to figure, the theme parks a bit harder, but the IP stuff is ambiguous.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 17, 2023 04:06 PM (eYoxG)
Posted by: Tex Lovera at July 17, 2023 04:06 PM (wtvvX)
Posted by: Skip at July 17, 2023 04:06 PM (xhxe8)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 17, 2023 04:05 PM (FVJNG)
That would cost the State of California a ton of tax revenue.
Posted by: mrp at July 17, 2023 04:06 PM (rj6Yv)
Yeah. that would make me happy.
Posted by: Joey Sausage at July 17, 2023 04:06 PM (DZwT/)
Posted by: MAPs at July 17, 2023 04:06 PM (emlEe)
Posted by: wth at July 17, 2023 04:03 PM (v0R5T)
I think you only get commas with the silver or higher membership package here.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at July 17, 2023 04:07 PM (N3zMI)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 17, 2023 04:07 PM (+sD5M)
Posted by: polynikes at July 17, 2023 04:02 PM (MNhXM)
Yeah, but America around long before the automobile, just sayin.
Posted by: JmT at July 17, 2023 04:07 PM (18RTj)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at July 17, 2023 04:00 PM (xcxpd)
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Agree. There are easily thousands of good to great movies I’ve never seen. I don’t need anything new.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at July 17, 2023 04:07 PM (cMXNt)
This would expose him as rube who consistently overpaid for other people' successful studios to cover-up Disney's own struggling creative output. And it would also confirm everyone's strong suspicion that all of these properties are worth only 25-50% of what was paid for them, and therefore maybe all of Disney is similarly only worth 25-50% of the current market valuation.
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I'd analyze it in a more punishing way. Disney probably bought them at a fairly reasonable price, then itself mismanaged and destroyed them so that their value is now, optimistically 25 percent of what it was.
This mismanagement and poor customer relations will poison anything they make or acquire or sell going forward, so their value should be far, far less. You can't put Humpty Dumpty back together again.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2023 04:07 PM (eoQWY)
Posted by: Lawrence O'Donnell at July 17, 2023 04:07 PM (YqDXo)
That would cost the State of California a ton of tax revenue.
Posted by: mrp at July 17, 2023 04:06 PM (rj6Yv)
Oh wow. I didn't think my cock could break through this plastic table like that........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 17, 2023 04:07 PM (+sD5M)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 17, 2023 04:08 PM (DoxPw)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 17, 2023 04:04 PM (63Dwl)
Speaking of Madonna....
Posted by: Tex Lovera at July 17, 2023 04:08 PM (wtvvX)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 17, 2023 04:05 PM (FVJNG)
That would cost the State of California a ton of tax revenue.
Posted by: mrp at July 17, 2023 04:06 PM (rj6Yv)
Win/Win!
Posted by: Roland THTG at July 17, 2023 04:08 PM (j40lz)
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at July 17, 2023 04:05 PM (fKIdX)
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That will only bring about the demise of some conservative-friendly place. A Rob-Reiner-type infestation is worse than termites.
Posted by: jc at July 17, 2023 04:08 PM (N1WXz)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 17, 2023 04:08 PM (TZ75n)
I think Lucasfilm could easily have been worth the money. But they put a talentless hack in charge that threw out already existing content that could have easily been mined for multiple movies/series.
Also, he's not a fool. What cost, TO HIM, has there been from his massive mismanagement? Sure, the company is hurting, but he's doing very well AND pushing THE MESSAGE he believes in. I'd say he's a huge success.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 17, 2023 04:00 PM (N1DT3)
The problem with Iger selling any of those properties he bought (or okayed the purchase of) at a loss is that he either looks like he overpaid or he's ultimately responsible for the loss of value. It doesn't seem likely for him to find an outcome where he smells like roses.
Posted by: Octochicken at July 17, 2023 04:09 PM (oCS0o)
Posted by: XTC at July 17, 2023 04:09 PM (UnA8+)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 17, 2023 04:09 PM (+sD5M)
Posted by: Bea Arthur's Dick
2 Gulf wars for US and the mullahs still in power?
Posted by: DaveA at July 17, 2023 04:09 PM (FhXTo)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 17, 2023 04:07 PM (+sD5M)
A woke remark of the "Wizard Of Oz" is in the works.
Hollywood really hates you.
Posted by: Potato Of The United States at July 17, 2023 04:09 PM (t6XCL)
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at July 17, 2023 04:09 PM (17s+e)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 17, 2023 04:08 PM (DoxPw)
aka Chapter 10
Posted by: Tex Lovera at July 17, 2023 04:09 PM (wtvvX)
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I was really looking forward to the 'Jaws' remake where 3 women get on the boat to hunt the great beast...
Posted by: Jay in PA at July 17, 2023 04:09 PM (i7Q7S)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 17, 2023 04:09 PM (+sD5M)
But actually valuing something like Disney is kind of difficult. The real estate is easier to figure, the theme parks a bit harder, but the IP stuff is ambiguous.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 17, 2023 04:06 PM
Oddly enough, that is exactly what NY is suing trump for, over inflating his assets to get loans. He is facing criminal charges for the same thing disney and other woke companies are doing on a daily basis and no one bats an eye when they do it.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 17, 2023 04:09 PM (ncXxy)
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at July 17, 2023 04:05 PM (fKIdX)"
Conservative, sure. Pro-western or pro-American, probably not.
Posted by: somedood at July 17, 2023 04:09 PM (BF5+T)
Posted by: SMOD at July 17, 2023 04:10 PM (RHGPo)
Hollywood really hates you.
Posted by: Potato Of The United States at July 17, 2023 04:09 PM (t6XCL)
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We already had The Wiz in the 80s.
Another piece of evidence that nothing is fucking new about this crap.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 17, 2023 04:10 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 17, 2023 04:08 PM (DoxPw)
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I was just thinking I'd love for them to have a fire sale, just for the humiliation.
Evening must go, go, go!
Posted by: bluebell at July 17, 2023 04:10 PM (pTb/Z)
Posted by: NR Pax at July 17, 2023 04:10 PM (uvpeF)
Posted by: mrp at July 17, 2023 04:06 PM (rj6Yv)
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That would be a shame. Even though it would hurt me, as California will doubtless jack up taxes to make up the difference. Reduce expenditures, you say? Bite your tongue!
Posted by: Lawrence O'Donnell at July 17, 2023 04:10 PM (YqDXo)
I hope he enjoys his new role as a boat anchor.
Posted by: Tex Lovera at July 17, 2023 04:04 PM (wtvvX)
IF you judge him by the profitability standard.
The Baizuo faith is like the Muslim one. They will take everything that existed before they conquered and either turn it to their own purpose or destroy it. Sometimes both.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 17, 2023 04:10 PM (N1DT3)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 17, 2023 04:08 PM (DoxPw)
That's what happens when you fight with Ukrainian Nazis.
Posted by: RickZ at July 17, 2023 04:10 PM (emlEe)
This mismanagement and poor customer relations will poison anything they make or acquire or sell going forward, so their value should be far, far less. You can't put Humpty Dumpty back together again.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2023 04:07 PM (eoQWY)
If one were to try and turn it around, I think an asset-light licensing approach would work best. They've already proven they can't develop good products internally, so license the brands to people who can and allow them to restore your brand for you.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 17, 2023 04:10 PM (eYoxG)
Posted by: jc at July 17, 2023 04:01 PM (N1WXz)
you haven't seen two Firsts! in a row?
Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2023 04:10 PM (eoQWY)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 17, 2023 04:10 PM (DoxPw)
Whether it's the Boy Scouts or California or Disney or comics, it has been a story of parasitic takeover of conservative ideals, leading to thorough destruction. I can't think of a single instance -- CHAZ, BLM, Ben & Jerry's -- that started as leftist dreams, got off the ground, and if initially successful, gained MORE success by going harder with the overt leftism.
Posted by: red speck at July 17, 2023 04:10 PM (0Id0S)
Posted by: bluebell at July 17, 2023 04:10 PM (pTb/Z)
Posted by: Inogame at July 17, 2023 04:10 PM (53oGX)
Go see Sound of Freedom and Mission Impossible 7.
SKIP: BARBIE and ALL Disney - see I don't just boycott Disney - the new Barbie is a woke, transgender dream masquerading as a doll movie.
Posted by: Nova Local at July 17, 2023 04:11 PM (exHjb)
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at July 17, 2023
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The trouble with locations for a film industry is that southern CA's weather is so often perfect for filming -- frequent sunshine, warm temps, no snowfalls -- at least as compared to the Northeast or Midwest. I'd suggest parts of New Mexico, but that state, I've heard, has become a blue pesthole too; at least the cities have.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 17, 2023 04:11 PM (J2vNu)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 17, 2023 04:11 PM (+sD5M)
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 17, 2023 04:11 PM (b+YaX)
Hollywood really hates you.
Posted by: Potato Of The United States at July 17, 2023 04:09 PM (t6XCL)
Well, they made "The Wiz" 45 years ago. But I wouldn't characterize that as woke...
Posted by: Tex Lovera at July 17, 2023 04:11 PM (wtvvX)
Evening must go, go, go!
Posted by: bluebell
*peeks in*
Posted by: Crazy Eddie at July 17, 2023 04:11 PM (TZ75n)
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at July 17, 2023 04:11 PM (17s+e)
Posted by: JmT at July 17, 2023 04:01 PM (18RTj)
America existed for hundreds of years (no math!) before Hollywood and one smarter than me could very persuasively argue the US was better and smarter and tougher then. Hollywood only came into existence because of the weather and the ability to shoot almost year round, which are not even issues anymore so I'm fine if it dies a quick (or a slow and painful) death.
Most company towns (Detroit-cars; Seattle- planes, Pittsburgh, steel-etc.) are lucky to last more than 100 years dependent on that core business.
Posted by: LASue at July 17, 2023 04:11 PM (Ed8Zd)
LOL.
Posted by: Tex Lovera at July 17, 2023 04:06 PM (wtvvX)
Very good analogy.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 17, 2023 04:12 PM (BdMk6)
Posted by: wth at July 17, 2023 04:12 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 17, 2023 04:12 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 17, 2023
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Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 17, 2023 04:12 PM (J2vNu)
Posted by: Tex Lovera at July 17, 2023 04:12 PM (wtvvX)
/S
Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at July 17, 2023 04:13 PM (fMQtT)
Barry Diller: Hollywood Faces an "Absolute Collapse" If Actor and Writer Strikes Are Not Resolved Soon
"Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn."
Posted by: Potato Of The United States at July 17, 2023 04:13 PM (t6XCL)
Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at July 17, 2023 04:13 PM (jgJfd)
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 17, 2023 04:10 PM (eYoxG)
Well Pixar, say, was doing that reliably enough pre-purchase. Yet Disney purposely or accidentally did to them what Rome did to Carthage in the Third Punic War. Can't see why I'd trust anyone to turn it around, Bob Chapek couldn't.
Musk might have the stones to burn it all down and fire everyone but nobody else in corporate America can. They are all sprinting striding or creeping down Disney's path.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2023 04:14 PM (eoQWY)
1. Elite academia teaches that capitalism is bad and corporations are evil and need to be destroyed.
2. Corporate America puts the graduates of elite academia into position of power.
WTF did they think was going to happen?
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at July 17, 2023 04:14 PM (9yUzE)
CNN -- Energy Secretary vows to refill emergency oil stockpile — but warns that won’t happen before a second Biden term
.. guess that means .. NEVER
Posted by: SMOD at July 17, 2023 04:14 PM (RHGPo)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 17, 2023 04:14 PM (DoxPw)
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at July 17, 2023 04:14 PM (17s+e)
Posted by: brak at July 17, 2023 04:14 PM (25k9m)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 17, 2023 04:14 PM (LvTSG)
https://youtu.be/5Ioiag30eAI
Posted by: Puddleglum at July 17, 2023 04:14 PM (sAmhv)
Posted by: LASue at July 17, 2023 04:11 PM (Ed8Zd)
________________
San Diego used to be a one company town (Rohr-Convair) unless you also count the Navy, but when Rohr-Convair packed it in, San Diego successfully pivoted to a more *ahem* diverse economy. Diverse in a good way, not the Newspeak way.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 17, 2023 04:14 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: XTC at July 17, 2023 04:14 PM (UnA8+)
Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at July 17, 2023 04:14 PM (jgJfd)
Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 17, 2023 04:12 PM (J2vNu)
You asked for it.........
https://youtu.be/eunWuKxfAC8
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 17, 2023 04:15 PM (+sD5M)
Posted by: mrp at July 17, 2023 04:15 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: brak at July 17, 2023 04:14 PM (25k9m)
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I've heard good things. Also bad things.
I'm really looking forward to it. I got 6 months of AppleTV+ free a few days ago, so I'll at least be able to watch it at home.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 17, 2023 04:15 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at July 17, 2023 04:13 PM (jgJfd)
Pre Dr J, Magic, Byrd, Pistons and Bulls eras the NBA had no viewership either.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2023 04:15 PM (eoQWY)
New and Improved: Lets make a fairy tale about a German princess and use a Latino actress as the main character and a bunch of SF hobos and rejects from a renaissance fair as dwarfs.
Posted by: Archer at July 17, 2023 04:15 PM (gmo/4)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere
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Georgia, Toronto, and Vancouver have entered the conversation.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at July 17, 2023 04:15 PM (17s+e)
Posted by: brak at July 17, 2023 04:14 PM (25k9m)
The problem with that movie is still the casting - Napoleon is way too old and his wife is not...it should be reversed...
Posted by: Nova Local at July 17, 2023 04:15 PM (exHjb)
Posted by: jc at July 17, 2023 04:01 PM (N1WXz)
you haven't seen two Firsts! in a row?
Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2023 04:10 PM (eoQWY)
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Well, that's true, you got me there.
Posted by: jc at July 17, 2023 04:15 PM (N1WXz)
Posted by: garrett at July 17, 2023 04:16 PM (xChBq)
Posted by: mrp at July 17, 2023 04:16 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: Marcus T at July 17, 2023 04:16 PM (x7plP)
Posted by: mrp at July 17, 2023 04:15 PM (rj6Yv)
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There's an anonymous quote from an executive that said they were willing to go as long as it takes the writers to be homeless.
I'm rooting for injuries. I don't care.
It's not like Peter Weir was ever going to make another movie again, anyway.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 17, 2023 04:16 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at July 17, 2023 04:14 PM (17s+e)
A perfect example of someone who didn't have his face pounded into mush enough as a kid.
Posted by: XTC at July 17, 2023 04:16 PM (UnA8+)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 17, 2023 04:16 PM (fs1hN)
Posted by: 1941 at July 17, 2023 04:16 PM (4I/2K)
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 17, 2023 04:16 PM (b+YaX)
Posted by: Augusto Perez at July 17, 2023 04:17 PM (QEDky)
Posted by: XTC at July 17, 2023 04:14 PM (UnA8+)
Russia has made some amusing parody clips mocking US culture in the last few years. And I hear they have some decent war movies over the last decade or so.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2023 04:17 PM (eoQWY)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 17, 2023 04:16 PM (LvTSG)
The theory is that was Iger, since he went on the record saying close to the same stuff the next day (although less inflammatory)...
Posted by: Nova Local at July 17, 2023 04:17 PM (exHjb)
_____________
You got ripped off.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 17, 2023 04:17 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 17, 2023 04:17 PM (+sD5M)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 17, 2023 04:17 PM (DoxPw)
Also Hollywood: Let us remake the classics you like to cash in some more on that bad stuff.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 17, 2023 04:17 PM (m25NS)
Can you imagine the reverberation of those reforms to Prime Time and TeeVeeGnuz?
And with *any* well done, reasonably neutral news reporting, with decent writing and talented presenters...
... well, that'd be about the end of Fox News as we currently know it. They'd have to either revert to Ailes original vision, or simply close it down. 'Cause CNN already does what Fox has aspired to BE the past two, three years or so.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at July 17, 2023 04:17 PM (e6UQI)
Bob Iger's trying to blame the fans because they're burned out from Disney offering "too much awesome." *facepalm*
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 17, 2023 04:17 PM (nRMeC)
Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd at July 17, 2023 04:18 PM (wuvc4)
Happy times.
Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at July 17, 2023 04:18 PM (jgJfd)
He didn't anticipate a lot of things. He's a cultural vandal or he's just a horrible CEO.
Posted by: eleven at July 17, 2023 04:18 PM (iziT8)
When they sold it, they knew it would be released. Who sold it? Was an LGBTQ involved in the sale or non-release?
Posted by: william ferrin at July 17, 2023 04:18 PM (qGaNq)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 17, 2023 04:18 PM (aTw8w)
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You got ripped off.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 17, 2023 04:17 PM (YqDXo)
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They're also releasing Scorsese's next movie, Killers of the Flower Moon.
Access to those two films makes it worthwhile.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 17, 2023 04:18 PM (LvTSG)
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You got ripped off.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 17, 2023 04:17 PM (YqDXo)
I had a free year til May - I think I watched 3 things on it in my year, and one was the Peanuts specials...
Posted by: Nova Local at July 17, 2023 04:18 PM (exHjb)
"We're on the red carpet of the premiere of the legacy sequel to Notorious with Ingrid Bergman and Cary Grant, directed by the up and coming director Brian de Palma."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 17, 2023 04:01 PM (LvTSG)
Brian at least loves and respects the directors he imitates.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at July 17, 2023 04:18 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 17, 2023 04:16 PM (fs1hN)
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Introducing "America+"
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 17, 2023 04:18 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: Roland THTG at July 17, 2023 04:18 PM (j40lz)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 17, 2023 04:16 PM (fs1hN)
no more intentional than the drunken wastrel trust fund kid drinking and partying the inheritance. The action is purposeful the intent is unaware of the consequences.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2023 04:18 PM (eoQWY)
Posted by: 18-1 at July 17, 2023 04:18 PM (lc5cP)
There've been a lot of reports of random malfunctions. Or in some places the movie plays normally but the air conditioning in the theatres showing SoF magically doesn't work but it does in the lobby and theatres showing other movies.
Posted by: Ian S. at July 17, 2023 04:18 PM (ZGrMX)
He'd replace the Jerry Lewis Telethon with a Teddy Bears for Illegals Telethon.
Posted by: garrett at July 17, 2023 04:19 PM (xChBq)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 17, 2023 04:16 PM (fs1hN)
I haven't watched a movie in a theater since "The Return of the King" opened.
Posted by: mrp at July 17, 2023 04:19 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: Marcus T at July 17, 2023 04:16 PM (x7plP)
Girlfriend WAY long ago said she was taking her brother to see Free Willy. I responded with "How about Free MY Willy?"
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 17, 2023 04:19 PM (+sD5M)
Also Hollywood: Let us remake the classics you like to cash in some more on that bad stuff.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 17, 2023 04:17 PM (m25NS)
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Disney: Let us remake the classics in ways that we can't further monetize because to do so would require paying likeness royalties to the actors, ensuring that these are just flash in the pan films with no ability to grow our brand beyond their opening weekends.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 17, 2023 04:19 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: Skip at July 17, 2023 04:19 PM (xhxe8)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 17, 2023 04:16 PM (fs1hN)
The Left is actually extremely proud of that "soft power". Hard to imagine them intentionally running it into the ground.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 17, 2023 04:19 PM (eYoxG)
The thought of Hollywood dying leaves me oddly indifferent
Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd at July 17, 2023 04:18 PM (wuvc4)
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No, I don't know who you are. Please wait in line.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 17, 2023 04:19 PM (DoxPw)
The big beneficiaries of Hollywood's collapse seem to be...Japanese anime and Indian movies.
Not what our woke overlords want.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 17, 2023 04:19 PM (lc5cP)
Posted by: Phoebe Waller-Bridge at July 17, 2023 04:19 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 17, 2023 04:16 PM (fs1hN)
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Introducing "America+"
++good! how's the choco ration?
Posted by: parsons at July 17, 2023 04:19 PM (sGtp+)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 17, 2023 04:19 PM (YqDXo)
It's funny how, as we're seeing with Sounds of Freedom, conservative movies do well and usually at a low production cost, yet no one seems to really want to go all out on creating a full studio or major production company to fund these things, as they instead will fund some useless think tank that congres up with shitty ideas, and does nothing to actually try to lure the public to those ideas
Posted by: Rbastid at July 17, 2023 04:19 PM (MJrJU)
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at July 17, 2023 04:19 PM (17s+e)
Posted by: garrett at July 17, 2023 04:20 PM (xChBq)
Posted by: eleven at July 17, 2023 04:18 PM (iziT
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Disney+ was his idea, his baby.
It's a money pit and ground zero for their money problems right now. The underperformance of the theatrical features are a sideshow.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 17, 2023 04:20 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: Movie Moron at July 17, 2023 04:20 PM (JCZqz)
Asking for a friend.
Posted by: garrett at July 17, 2023 04:16 PM (xChBq)
With Blender and Source Film Maker you won't miss a beat.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at July 17, 2023 04:20 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 17, 2023 04:16 PM (fs1hN)
Maybe no entertainment means young men can go outside and find the Warrior Spirit again. Get into fights. Lift Weights. Be normal.
Posted by: XTC at July 17, 2023 04:20 PM (UnA8+)
Posted by: Hollywood needs to die at July 17, 2023 04:20 PM (uoAlb)
++good! how's the choco ration?
Posted by: parsons at July 17, 2023 04:19 PM (sGtp+)
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Going up from 30 grams to 20 grams. Woot!
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 17, 2023 04:20 PM (YqDXo)
Ok...ok...uh...and the dwarves include...women?
These people are stupid.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 17, 2023 04:20 PM (lc5cP)
Posted by: Regular joe at July 17, 2023 04:20 PM (nnp+f)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at July 17, 2023 04:18 PM (xcxpd)
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True, but I'm glad De Palma got to make Sisters and Blow Out rather than getting gobbled up by the machine to make sequels to movies with IP recognition.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 17, 2023 04:21 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: Movie Moron at July 17, 2023 04:20 PM (JCZqz)
Just like Congress when they can't pass legislation.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 17, 2023 04:21 PM (ynpvh)
When they sold it, they knew it would be released. Who sold it? Was an LGBTQ involved in the sale or non-release?
Posted by: william ferrin at July 17, 2023 04:18 PM (qGaNq)
It's pretty clear there was a political motive for Disney blocking the release from its Woke administration. The release was done under Chapek who was supposedly more bottom-line oriented until he was fired, but even he didn't want it released under Disney's own name.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2023 04:21 PM (eoQWY)
Actually that's almost laughable. Anyone ask the OF girls if they are striking as well?
Posted by: 18-1 at July 17, 2023 04:21 PM (lc5cP)
The Cons are already making movies, and that will continue. The Blaze, Daily Wire, are jumping in. So people will no longer pay for stinking woke products from the Bigs.
Posted by: PJ at July 17, 2023 04:21 PM (G1dq6)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 17, 2023 04:18 PM (aTw8w)
That one's not tanking, it's just not doing gangbusters, either.
I mean, it's worldwide opening weekend almost matched Flash's total, and it's about $70M under Indy's after 3 weeks. It's gonna do 2 times its budget minimum, which means it's not gonna bomb, like the former 2, it just might disappoint and break even theatrically (for real)...
Posted by: Nova Local at July 17, 2023 04:21 PM (exHjb)
Posted by: wth at July 17, 2023 04:21 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: eleven at July 17, 2023 04:18 PM (iziT
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Disney+ was his idea, his baby.
It's a money pit and ground zero for their money problems right now. The underperformance of the theatrical features are a sideshow.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 17, 2023 04:20 PM (LvTSG)
Well streaming was going to be the AI of entertainment.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 17, 2023 04:21 PM (eYoxG)
and the homeless camp of doom... in one harrowing scene Indy navigates a mine field of turds on an LA sidewalk
Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at July 17, 2023 04:21 PM (fMQtT)
Ok...ok...uh...and the dwarves include...women?
These people are stupid.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 17, 2023 04:20 PM (lc5cP)
Maybe they only identify as female.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 17, 2023 04:21 PM (ynpvh)
These people are stupid.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 17, 2023 04:20 PM (lc5cP)
And there's actually only one dwarf. The others are just dressed stupid and prancing around.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 17, 2023 04:21 PM (+sD5M)
My fear. I mean...my friend's fear is that the dialog and plot lines will suffer.
Posted by: garrett at July 17, 2023 04:22 PM (xChBq)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 17, 2023 04:22 PM (Keyt1)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 17, 2023 04:16 PM (LvTSG)
He was great in Buckaroo Banzai.
Posted by: Thesokorus at July 17, 2023 04:22 PM (2NfAC)
Posted by: Movie Moron at July 17, 2023 04:20 PM (JCZqz)
Just like Congress when they can't pass legislation.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 17, 2023 04:21 PM (ynpvh)
Also gives you and excuse for cutting projects likely to be doomed without being sued by those you have contracts with...strikes are written in as a cause to abort.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2023 04:22 PM (eoQWY)
Posted by: Ian S. at July 17, 2023 04:18 PM (ZGrMX)
^^Interestingly enough same thing happened to Sharon and me watching Mission Impossible on an IMAX screen. We got tickets for a free movie out of it. (AMC theatre so Disney sabatoge?? - but it's not like it works - we had already purchased the tickets..)
Posted by: Iris at July 17, 2023 04:22 PM (n3DL0)
Only call N.I.C.E. the NIH
Posted by: 18-1 at July 17, 2023 04:22 PM (lc5cP)
Posted by: Rbastid at July 17, 2023 04:19 PM (MJrJU)
Angel studios has 2 more movies coming out, including ones they made it house - The Shift Dec 23/Jan 24 and Cabrini Mar 24...so someone is trying...
Posted by: Nova Local at July 17, 2023 04:22 PM (exHjb)
These people are stupid.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 17, 2023 04:20 PM (lc5cP)
And there's actually only one dwarf. The others are just dressed stupid and prancing around.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 17, 2023 04:21 PM (+sD5M)
... like a bunch of Kansas City faggots.
Posted by: Taggart at July 17, 2023 04:23 PM (llON8)
For the morons who are acting and writing inclined, this is an opportunity. High quality cameras, sound, and lighting are within a modest budget reach. Consumers will want content and indie projects could fill the void. Stream on Twitter even. Get started now!
Posted by: InZona at July 17, 2023 04:01 PM (a9vhT)
Steven Segal is still making movies, even with his current micro-budgets.
Bruce Willis was still making micro-budget movies when he was in the "make all the cash I can until I retire for health reasons" phase.
Presumably, those films were turning a profit.
Sam Raimi made The Evil Dead by getting contributions from local investors, and if memory serves, a large number of them were dentists.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 17, 2023 04:24 PM (n+4am)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 17, 2023 04:22 PM (Keyt1)
Seems the only hope is to have him direct or produce the movie since nobody else has the willpower to oppose the mob.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2023 04:24 PM (eoQWY)
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 17, 2023 04:24 PM (b+YaX)
Glenn Reynolds was arguing that any "rich conservatives" would be better served buying women's magazine 10 years ago.
I suspect there are even fewer "rich conservatives" then you might think.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 17, 2023 04:24 PM (lc5cP)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 17, 2023 04:16 PM (fs1hN)
Same here. And that goes for most of the American institutions as we've known them. Slow, purposeful destruction.
The frog is dying.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 17, 2023 04:24 PM (BdMk6)
Posted by: brak at July 17, 2023 04:14 PM (25k9m)
Although, an OK actor, Joaquin Phoenix, is way too old to play Napoleon at the point in the movie. Napoleon was 35 when he was first crowned emperor and 51 when he died. Phoenix is 48.
Posted by: Archer at July 17, 2023 04:24 PM (gmo/4)
Apparently Peter Dinklage sounded the NOT WOKE klaxon and Disney got rid of the dwarves.
Posted by: bonhomme at July 17, 2023 04:24 PM (R38qh)
Posted by: Chuck Martel at July 17, 2023 04:24 PM (fs1hN)
if they don't do "they're coming to take me away, ha ha!" as he's being banished to elba, i, for one, will be disappointed.
Posted by: peasant scum anachronda at July 17, 2023 04:24 PM (sGtp+)
~Amber Heard
Posted by: Wierzbowski formerly QID at July 17, 2023 04:25 PM (OgrpQ)
Presumably, those films were turning a profit.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 17, 2023 04:24 PM (n+4am)
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The producer was selling the international and streaming rights to the films before they were even shot. It was essentially the Roger Corman model but worse.
Hard to do that without contacts.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 17, 2023 04:25 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 17, 2023 04:24 PM (n+4am)
True, but the guy reviewing the movies on YT is actually more entertaining than the actual movies.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 17, 2023 04:25 PM (+sD5M)
It's called "syndication" and "re-runs" sweetheart. You've got dang near 100 years of archives to draw on, draw on it.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at July 17, 2023 04:25 PM (ou9hh)
Happy times.
Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at July 17, 2023 04:18 PM
Channel 5, KTLA. Hell I'm so old I remember Chick Hearn hosting bowling for dollars.
Posted by: CaliGirl at July 17, 2023 04:26 PM (l3Uxg)
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 17, 2023 04:24 PM (n+4am)
Critical Drinker is working on a short film he wrote in cooperation with some film-makers independently. He crowdfunded the money in a week or so and got 5-10 times what he wanted. So they are adding more splosions.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2023 04:26 PM (eoQWY)
It's a mouth full but it is accurate.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at July 17, 2023 04:26 PM (17s+e)
~Amber Heard
Posted by: Wierzbowski formerly QID at July 17, 2023 04:25 PM (OgrpQ)
They're remaking that too......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 17, 2023 04:26 PM (+sD5M)
Historical movies...presuming they actually cover real history...are a good thing since so many Americans won't get exposed to history any other way....but how about a telling of the Terror? It was Woke V1.0 after all
Posted by: 18-1 at July 17, 2023 04:26 PM (lc5cP)
Posted by: Archer at July 17, 2023 04:24 PM (gmo/4)
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It's pretty obviously a life story thing. Waterloo is obviously there, so is his involvement in the Revolution. That's a few decades apart.
Meh. It's not the first time someone too old played a role.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 17, 2023 04:26 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: Skip at July 17, 2023 04:26 PM (xhxe8)
Don't laugh at me too much, but I'm surprised there's never been a Tom Swift franchise. You'd think it would be tailor-made for today's Hollywood: weak story lines and tons of special effects.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 17, 2023 04:26 PM (MoZTd)
Posted by: CaliGirl at July 17, 2023 04:26 PM (l3Uxg)
Dr Gene Scott?
Posted by: Thesokorus at July 17, 2023 04:26 PM (2NfAC)
Asking for a friend.
Posted by: garrett at July 17, 2023
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Like the lady said in a slightly different context:
"The amateurs have ruined the business."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 17, 2023 04:26 PM (J2vNu)
Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at July 17, 2023 04:26 PM (flINI)
The point of a strike is NOT to make it easy for the company.
Strikes work by exerting maximum leverage at the worst possible time. (Not that the rank and file member will see a dime of it.)
This is an uncommonly good time to strike. The unions are more lucky than smart and that's a good position to be in.
Posted by: Oschisms at July 17, 2023 04:27 PM (NfF+F)
Posted by: JmT at July 17, 2023 04:27 PM (18RTj)
~Amber Heard
Thinks about what this post actually means....
Get it....
EWWWWWWW
Posted by: 18-1 at July 17, 2023 04:27 PM (lc5cP)
Posted by: SOMEASSHOLESTOLEMYPEN at July 17, 2023 04:27 PM (ytSiK)
Posted by: Archer at July 17, 2023 04:24 PM (gmo/4)
Wow. He's only 48? I pegged him for 58 or higher.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 17, 2023 04:27 PM (+sD5M)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 17, 2023
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The puns would be over the audience's heads.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 17, 2023 04:27 PM (J2vNu)
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 17, 2023 04:27 PM (1wZKM)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at July 17, 2023 04:27 PM (FVME7)
Posted by: 18-1 at July 17, 2023 04:26 PM (lc5cP)
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I've been wanting to tell a Frankenstein story for a while, but I didn't know how to package it in a different, interesting way for my own tastes.
And then I started thinking about Louis St. Just...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 17, 2023 04:27 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: eleven at July 17, 2023 04:27 PM (iziT8)
Posted by: garrett at July 17, 2023 04:28 PM (xChBq)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 17, 2023 04:27 PM (+sD5M)
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He's got some city miles on him.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 17, 2023 04:28 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: Archer at July 17, 2023 04:24 PM (gmo/4)
Nappy in his youth in these campaigns was thin and gaunt, very active. He padded out to what we think of from British cartoonists only later.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2023 04:28 PM (eoQWY)
Posted by: wth at July 17, 2023 04:28 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at July 17, 2023 04:28 PM (jgJfd)
i dunno. we've already got the midget wrestling episode of "the lone gunmen".
Posted by: peasant scum anachronda at July 17, 2023 04:28 PM (sGtp+)
I must be getting stoopider because I shoulda seen the ending coming from miles away but was quite surprised.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at July 17, 2023 04:28 PM (N3zMI)
They already did The Wizard of Oz with a black dorothy...that's The Wiz.
And they did one where the Witch isn't the villain.
And they did one where Jewel's heaving rack played dorothy.
And I have to say I liked that last one the best.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 17, 2023 04:28 PM (lc5cP)
It appears to be coming true.
Hollywood is dead and it appears to be a case of suicide.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at July 17, 2023 04:29 PM (lf83v)
"This is Lars Ulrich.
" Lars was planning on installing a solid gold shark tank this summer..."
Posted by: garrett at July 17, 2023 04:29 PM (xChBq)
Posted by: Count de Monet at July 17, 2023 04:29 PM (4I/2K)
When you're done being creeped out/wasting time with that, go look up estimates on what % of the population lacks internal monologue and then think about the philosophical implications of combining that condition with an inability to visualize.
I can tell you from experience, many *art directors* suffer from aphantasia. Astonishing.
Posted by: Some guy at July 17, 2023 04:29 PM (LS1vr)
Posted by: Archer at July 17, 2023 04:24 PM (gmo/4)
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It's pretty obviously a life story thing. Waterloo is obviously there, so is his involvement in the Revolution. That's a few decades apart.
Meh. It's not the first time someone too old played a role.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 17, 2023 04:26 PM (LvTSG)
Yeah, he's an actor. He'll pretend and he might even do a great job. He did pretty good as Johnny Cash.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at July 17, 2023 04:29 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: JmT at July 17, 2023 04:27 PM (18RTj)
They've already done that, The Wiz.
Posted by: CaliGirl at July 17, 2023 04:29 PM (l3Uxg)
Posted by: 18-1 at July 17, 2023 04:26 PM (lc5cP)
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I've been wanting to tell a Frankenstein story for a while, but I didn't know how to package it in a different, interesting way for my own tastes.
And then I started thinking about Louis St. Just...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 17, 2023 04:27 PM (LvTSG)
Mad scientist stitches together a human from the incorrupt corpses of saints.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 17, 2023 04:29 PM (eYoxG)
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I can't even imagine how badly they would screw that up.
Not a chance in hell they could make a bunch of Muslim crazies that bad guys...
Posted by: Jay in PA at July 17, 2023 04:29 PM (i7Q7S)
but how about a telling of the Terror? It was Woke V1.0 after all
Posted by: 18-1 at July 17, 2023 04:26 PM (lc5cP)
Leftists would instantly identify with Robespierre and Marat.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 17, 2023 04:30 PM (MoZTd)
Posted by: JmT at July 17, 2023 04:27 PM (18RTj)
Already did that, it was called The Wiz
Posted by: Wierzbowski formerly QID at July 17, 2023 04:30 PM (OgrpQ)
"This is Lars Ulrich.
" Lars was planning on installing a solid gold shark tank this summer..."
Posted by: garrett at July 17, 2023 04:29 PM (xChBq)
He should stop playing drums like a wind-up monkey.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 17, 2023 04:30 PM (+sD5M)
Posted by: wth at July 17, 2023 04:28 PM (v0R5T)
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In the late silent era, Abel Gance made a 4 hour Napoleon epic that covered from his childhood to...Toulon.
His original idea was to make a new film every few years with the same actor and cover another section of Napoleon's life. He never got funding for a second part.
But that first part is one of those wild, fun, and incredibly amusing silent epics. The finale goes all triptych with three screens arranged side by side.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 17, 2023 04:30 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: Thesokorus at July 17, 2023 04:26 PM (2NfAC)
The guy wearing 5 pair of glasses at the same time?
Posted by: LASue at July 17, 2023 04:30 PM (Ed8Zd)
Posted by: mrp at July 17, 2023 04:30 PM (rj6Yv)
wikipedia says the cw did a series in 2022. it was cancelled after one season.
Posted by: peasant scum anachronda at July 17, 2023 04:30 PM (sGtp+)
Posted by: 18-1 at July 17, 2023 04:26 PM (lc5cP)
Nappy was a bit late for the Terror but did save the Directory government from rioters by firing a "whiff of grapeshot" from artillery guns into the crowds which diminished their urge for reform considerably.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2023 04:31 PM (eoQWY)
Posted by: mrp at July 17, 2023 04:30 PM (rj6Yv)
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*call me!*
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 17, 2023 04:31 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: Thesokorus at July 17, 2023 04:26 PM (2NfAC)
The guy wearing 5 pair of glasses at the same time?
Posted by: LASue at July 17, 2023 04:30 PM (Ed8Zd)
Yes! And talking about Pyramids and abstruse etymologies and occasionally Jesus!
Posted by: Thesokorus at July 17, 2023 04:31 PM (2NfAC)
I honestly don't know what it means for "the whole industry" to "completely collapse." I'm quite certain that for years to come, there will be annoying celebrities wearing sparkly dresses and in-side-out tuxedoes on red carpets, shows and movies featuring armies of actors and actresses I've never heard of, and terabytes of content on the streaming services that don't tempt me.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 17, 2023 04:31 PM (n7rxJ)
Posted by: mrp at July 17, 2023 04:30 PM (rj6Yv)
The War of 1812 is overlooked because nobody knows when it started.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2023 04:31 PM (eoQWY)
Posted by: Thesokorus at July 17, 2023 04:26 PM (2NfAC)
The guy wearing 5 pair of glasses at the same time?
Posted by: LASue at July 17, 2023 04:30 PM (Ed8Zd)
The pyramid guy?
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at July 17, 2023 04:32 PM (YwyqV)
Posted by: garrett at July 17, 2023 04:22 PM (xChBq)
Unlike now?
I think a lot of competent writers are blocked from entry into the industry because they don't write the right way for the right people/. At the cost of maybe buying two used semi-tractors, it may be possible to put out a pro-level film, and that really changes things.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 17, 2023 04:32 PM (xhaym)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 17, 2023 04:21 PM (+sD5M)
So it's also a remake of 'The Safety Dance' music video.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at July 17, 2023 04:32 PM (xcxpd)
I think a lot of competent writers are blocked from entry into the industry because they don't write the right way for the right people/. At the cost of maybe buying two used semi-tractors, it may be possible to put out a pro-level film, and that really changes things.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 17, 2023 04:32 PM (xhaym)
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There's also a propensity to dumb down dialogue to make it easier to translate for other markets.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 17, 2023 04:32 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: Thesokorus at July 17, 2023 04:31 PM (2NfAC)
Would you like to have a discussion about the royal cubit?
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at July 17, 2023 04:32 PM (YwyqV)
Posted by: garrett at July 17, 2023 04:33 PM (xChBq)
Posted by: Thesokorus at July 17, 2023 04:26 PM (2NfAC)
The guy wearing 5 pair of glasses at the same time?
Posted by: LASue at July 17, 2023 04:30 PM (Ed8Zd)
The pyramid guy?
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at July 17, 2023 04:32 PM (YwyqV)
Yes. And so much more. Werner Herzog mad a cool movie about him: God's Angry Man.
Posted by: Thesokorus at July 17, 2023 04:33 PM (2NfAC)
Official box office through Sunday for Sound of Freedom.
Posted by: Nova Local at July 17, 2023 04:33 PM (exHjb)
So it's also a remake of 'The Safety Dance' music video.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at July 17, 2023 04:32 PM (xcxpd)
Nailed it.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 17, 2023 04:33 PM (+sD5M)
Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at July 17, 2023 04:33 PM (jgJfd)
Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at July 17, 2023 04:33 PM (jgJfd)
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And you don't vote your way out. You just trade one dictator for another.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 17, 2023 04:34 PM (LvTSG)
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She was a slave on a farm in Kansas who was pursued by an Asian woman on a bicycle who wanted to cook her dog.
She ran away and met a Mexican man who sold cocaine as a miracle drug out of his traveling medicine show.
Her three uncles were drag queen readers at the local library.
Auntie Em was a slaver and "technician" at the local Planned Parenthood.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at July 17, 2023 04:34 PM (lf83v)
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at July 17, 2023 04:32 PM (YwyqV)
So very very much. Yes.
Posted by: Thesokorus at July 17, 2023 04:34 PM (2NfAC)
Leftists would instantly identify with Robespierre and Marat.
The left, TO THIS DAY, still is trying to come to terms with Charlotte Corday assassinating Marat. I mean...he was just the voice of the people right?
Posted by: 18-1 at July 17, 2023 04:34 PM (lc5cP)
Posted by: Ted Torgerson at July 17, 2023 04:34 PM (vN+oL)
Posted by: Wierzbowski formerly QID at July 17, 2023 04:34 PM (OgrpQ)
Can y'all actually see pictures in your head when you're trying to imagine things? I don't see anything. If I tell myself to imagine an apple, I can kind of *feel* the round, organic lines, but I don't see a thing in my head.
Posted by: bonhomme at July 17, 2023 04:34 PM (R38qh)
Posted by: Skip at July 17, 2023 04:34 PM (xhxe8)
Leftists would instantly identify with Robespierre and Marat.
The left, TO THIS DAY, still is trying to come to terms with Charlotte Corday assassinating Marat. I mean...he was just the voice of the people right?
Posted by: 18-1 at July 17, 2023 04:34 PM (lc5cP)
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I remember reading a quote from Jacobin that said the real problem with Robespierre was that he didn't kill enough people in La Vendee.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 17, 2023 04:34 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: Regular joe at July 17, 2023 04:35 PM (nnp+f)
Wouldn't that just be a shame
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 17, 2023 04:35 PM (0hOvj)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at July 17, 2023 04:35 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 17, 2023 04:21 PM (+sD5M)
So it's also a remake of 'The Safety Dance' music video.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at July 17, 2023 04:32 PM (xcxpd)
X-mas in Hollis
Posted by: Hey Beavis, is that a munchkin? at July 17, 2023 04:35 PM (uoAlb)
Posted by: JmT at July 17, 2023 04:35 PM (18RTj)
Posted by: 18-1 at July 17, 2023 04:35 PM (lc5cP)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 17, 2023 04:35 PM (kJa+y)
I also shout "cubits!"
Posted by: Thesokorus at July 17, 2023 04:35 PM (2NfAC)
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at July 17, 2023 04:32 PM (YwyqV)
So very very much. Yes.
Posted by: Thesokorus at July 17, 2023 04:34 PM (2NfAC)
We can also discuss not measuring the pyramid in metric, what the north star was 3000 (4000?) years ago, and what stonehenge has to do with the pyramids.
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at July 17, 2023 04:35 PM (YwyqV)
It appears to be coming true.
Hollywood is dead and it appears to be a case of suicide.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at July 17, 2023 04:29 PM (lf83v)
Oh those are lagging indicators. The leading indicators are the YT video makers and people doing skits in their own house with no administration. There is going to be a huge dieoff in bloated centralized studios as the means to make and distribute the shows drops toward 0 cost
Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2023 04:35 PM (eoQWY)
Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at July 17, 2023 04:35 PM (jgJfd)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at July 17, 2023 04:35 PM (xcxpd)
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Was Napoleon interested in ruling or in conquering?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 17, 2023 04:35 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: JmT at July 17, 2023 04:35 PM (18RTj)
LOLWUT
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 17, 2023 04:36 PM (+sD5M)
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I thought that was about random drug testing in the military?
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at July 17, 2023 04:36 PM (lf83v)
Posted by: Skip at July 17, 2023 04:36 PM (xhxe8)
Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2023 04:26 PM (eoQWY)
One of the jokes about the series Stargate was that their shooting budget line items for C4, Propane and Egyptologists were larger than anyone thought reasonable
Posted by: Kindltot at July 17, 2023 04:36 PM (xhaym)
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at July 17, 2023 04:36 PM (17s+e)
A friend of mine is an Emmy Award winning hair stylist. He and his husband (also an Emmy Award winning hair stylist) have been out of work since the writer's strike in April.
There's a movie called CAM about a woman who performs for an OnlyFans/Chaturbate type of site who has her likeness stolen and used in performances of more and more extreme acts that she would never have performed herself.
Time to boycott Big Media! It's time to cut back on Cinema, and pay TV. That is the only way this gets fixed quickly.
Good, replace them with robots, CGI assisted AI and Chinese sexbots, time for the future. Anything but more 85 y/o leading men and same old tired cookie cutter scripts. Buh bye Indy
CGI already ages poorly often enough. AI "actors" will also age poorly. Whatever technology they use now will look like shit even in a decade.
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 17, 2023 04:36 PM (JCZqz)
Can y'all actually see pictures in your head when you're trying to imagine things? I don't see anything. If I tell myself to imagine an apple, I can kind of *feel* the round, organic lines, but I don't see a thing in my head.
Posted by: bonhomme at July 17, 2023 04:34 PM (R38qh)
That's weird. Yeah, I basically picture everything in my head like watching a movie.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at July 17, 2023 04:36 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Skip at July 17, 2023 04:36 PM (xhxe
What's it about, are llamas involved?
Posted by: Kindltot at July 17, 2023 04:36 PM (xhaym)
Posted by: Skip at July 17, 2023 04:36 PM (xhxe
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Breaking news!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 17, 2023 04:36 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: bonhomme at July 17, 2023 04:34 PM (R38qh)
I can buy lazy so don't bother not worf it.
Posted by: Thesokorus at July 17, 2023 04:36 PM (2NfAC)
good chance he can get that one made this year.
Posted by: garrett at July 17, 2023 04:36 PM (xChBq)
That's pretty rude of him, making sure that he's the only short-arse who can get work in that town.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at July 17, 2023 04:37 PM (ou9hh)
Posted by: wth at July 17, 2023 04:37 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: Johnny Depp at July 17, 2023 04:37 PM (lc5cP)
Posted by: Skip at July 17, 2023 04:37 PM (xhxe8)
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at July 17, 2023 04:35 PM (YwyqV)
There wasn't one. At least in the Greek days they used the Big Dipper / Ursa Major to show north, as procession was moving the poles beside this constellation steadily.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2023 04:37 PM (eoQWY)
Posted by: Regular joe at July 17, 2023 04:35 PM (nnp+f)
He clambered onto the countertop and pulled his stepstool up with him.
Posted by: Typical limo liberal at July 17, 2023 04:37 PM (uoAlb)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 17, 2023 04:36 PM (+sD5M)
Wait, is she not a 1 over here at the HQ?
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at July 17, 2023 04:37 PM (YwyqV)
No. I get nothing.
I just hear the Soundtrack.
Posted by: garrett at July 17, 2023 04:37 PM (xChBq)
Good, replace them with robots, CGI assisted AI and Chinese sexbots, time for the future. Anything but more 85 y/o leading men and same old tired cookie cutter scripts. Buh bye Indy
CGI already ages poorly often enough. AI "actors" will also age poorly. Whatever technology they use now will look like shit even in a decade.
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 17, 2023 04:36 PM (JCZqz)
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Hollywood has no friends now. Weird.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 17, 2023 04:37 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at July 17, 2023 04:26 PM (flINI)
American Assassin is a favorite book of mine. They absolutely miscast the movie. Like no one read the book.
Posted by: polynikes at July 17, 2023 04:37 PM (MNhXM)
Posted by: bonhomme
I can.
But I grew up having to use an imagination a lot.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 17, 2023 04:37 PM (ZVVGW)
For what it's worth anecdotally, I paid to see MI8 in the theater on Saturday only because Sound of Freedom was sold out at every showing.
I'm not sure if that is a Texas trend, or if the box office tallies are unreliable.
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" the last weekend's box office had Mission Impossible at number one and Sound of Freedom at number two.
Posted by: Paul in Texas at July 17, 2023 04:37 PM (RaWcF)
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 17, 2023 04:37 PM (nS5l5)
That's pretty rude of him, making sure that he's the only short-arse who can get work in that town.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at July 17, 2023 04:37 PM (ou9hh)
As the other dwarf actors mentioned to no press coverage.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2023 04:38 PM (eoQWY)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at July 17, 2023 04:35 PM (xcxpd)
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Was Napoleon interested in ruling or in conquering?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 17, 2023 04:35 PM (LvTSG)
Both? He has the ego drive to conquer, but he also instituted reforms and standardizations that still persist to this day.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at July 17, 2023 04:38 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at July 17, 2023 04:38 PM (FVME7)
Posted by: 18-1 at July 17, 2023 04:38 PM (lc5cP)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at July 17, 2023 04:38 PM (FVME7)
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Much more better:
An all female The Longest Yard.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 17, 2023 04:38 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 17, 2023 04:21 PM (+sD5M)
Snow White and the Tall Hippie and the Three Average Guys Wearing Carpet Remnants and the Short Dude with a ‘Fro and the Sistah Who Plays Double Dutch and the One Dwarf.
Posted by: Some guy at July 17, 2023 04:39 PM (LS1vr)
Wait, is she not a 1 over here at the HQ?
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at July 17, 2023 04:37 PM (YwyqV)
There's a reasonably significant difference between being a 1 and being the hottest woman in our lifetime.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 17, 2023 04:39 PM (+sD5M)
It's ALWAYS been this way, there were always B movies, but their used to be double features... now, we have more choice and are MUCH more selective in what we watch.
So... unless a NEW movie really peaks my interest and I KNOW I will buy it anyway... I wait to watch it for free 6 months or so later.
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 17, 2023 04:39 PM (oHd/0)
Can we get Merle Olson to play the Tranny Prisoner / Nose Tackle for the Women's Prison Team?
Posted by: garrett at July 17, 2023 04:39 PM (xChBq)
Napoleon trailer
Posted by: Skip at July 17, 2023 04:39 PM (xhxe8)
Posted by: Rbastid at July 17, 2023 04:19 PM (MJrJU)
Hollywood does not believe films appealing to conservative American audiences will make money overseas. Other than action movies such as the John Wick series. So Hollywood is not interested. Their dis-interest is also due to Hollywood's entrenched Woke Culture.
Posted by: Gref at July 17, 2023 04:39 PM (AMIL/)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 17, 2023 04:34 PM (LvTSG)
And fiat money betrays a nation
Posted by: Kindltot at July 17, 2023 04:39 PM (xhaym)
Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at July 17, 2023 04:26 PM (flINI)
I've often wondered, if Flynn was still alive, what missions Mitch Rapp would have present-day. Would he even be with the CIA still, or a lone wolf seeking vengeance on our corrupt government?
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 17, 2023 04:39 PM (BdMk6)
Posted by: bonhomme
I'm like that, I don't think in pictures much at all. It's more like an audible description.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2023 04:39 PM (eoQWY)
I know this is wierd for an illustrator and writer, but I don't usually visualize things either, I conceptualize them. I figure out what they mean and how they work and how they interact, then I put that down into an image or a description. Somewhere along the way I translate the concept into image.
So if someone says "apple" I don't pop a picture of an apple up in my head, I pop the flavor, shape, how it grows on a tree, different stages of development, that way a leaf can leave a shadow on the fruit that doesn't develop color, how it has a pit, etc.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 17, 2023 04:39 PM (0hOvj)
Can y'all actually see pictures in your head when you're trying to imagine things? I don't see anything. If I tell myself to imagine an apple, I can kind of *feel* the round, organic lines, but I don't see a thing in my head.
Posted by: bonhomme at July 17, 2023 04:34 PM (R38qh)
Detail and resolution take more mental effort which depends on how complex the scene is, but yes.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 17, 2023 04:39 PM (eYoxG)
Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2023 04:37 PM (eoQWY)
Excuse me? Are you talking about this subject w/o kniwldge of Dr Gene?
Posted by: Thesokorus at July 17, 2023 04:39 PM (2NfAC)
That's pretty rude of him, making sure that he's the only short-arse who can get work in that town.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at July 17, 2023 04:37 PM (ou9hh)
I hope comedian Brad Williams roasts him good.
Posted by: polynikes at July 17, 2023 04:39 PM (MNhXM)
But I grew up having to use an imagination a lot.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 17, 2023 04:37 PM (ZVVGW)
Helps one escape the horrors of childhood.
Posted by: Not the best long-term strategy though at July 17, 2023 04:39 PM (uoAlb)
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With a purposeful grimace and a terrible sound
He pulls the spitting high-tension wires down
Posted by: Buck Dharma at July 17, 2023 04:40 PM (lf83v)
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 17, 2023 04:40 PM (b+YaX)
It's ALWAYS been this way, there were always B movies, but their used to be double features... now, we have more choice and are MUCH more selective in what we watch.
So... unless a NEW movie really peaks my interest and I KNOW I will buy it anyway... I wait to watch it for free 6 months or so later.
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 17, 2023 04:39 PM (oHd/0)
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B-movies were cheap, originally designed to fill out block programming for theaters that they had to buy (ended with the Paramount Accords and the end of the vertical integration within the industry).
B-movies are now the prestige pictures that get the most money.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 17, 2023 04:40 PM (LvTSG)
he might want to practice. See also: Kirk Hammett.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Lookin' for me wooden leg at July 17, 2023 04:40 PM (T/Lqj)
An all female The Longest Yard.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 17, 2023 04:38 PM (LvTSG)
All female Victory.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 17, 2023 04:40 PM (+sD5M)
Posted by: garrett at July 17, 2023 04:40 PM (xChBq)
When you're done being creeped out/wasting time with that, go look up estimates on what % of the population lacks internal monologue and then think about the philosophical implications of combining that condition with an inability to visualize.
I can tell you from experience, many *art directors* suffer from aphantasia. Astonishing.
Posted by: Some guy at July 17, 2023 04:29 PM (LS1vr)
AND yet another day that I discover how much I take for granted...
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 17, 2023 04:41 PM (N1DT3)
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I love stereotypes.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 17, 2023 04:41 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: Joe Biden watching the first half of Napoleon at July 17, 2023 04:41 PM (lc5cP)
Posted by: bonhomme
I'm like that, I don't think in pictures much at all. It's more like an audible description.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2023 04:39 PM (eoQWY
My brain plays it like a movie.
Posted by: polynikes at July 17, 2023 04:41 PM (MNhXM)
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at July 17, 2023 04:35 PM (YwyqV)
Slide into my DMs
Carl Munck?
Posted by: Thesokorus at July 17, 2023 04:41 PM (2NfAC)
Posted by: bonhomme
I'm like that, I don't think in pictures much at all. It's more like an audible description.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2023 04:39 PM (eoQWY)
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I have an *exceptionally* vivid visual imagination. Maybe that's why I love reading so much, as I can easily picture the events in my head as though a movie is playing.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 17, 2023 04:41 PM (YIVH2)
Posted by: Rbastid
We need solutions to fix social security otherwise our kids won't have it!
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at July 17, 2023 04:41 PM (wsSEe)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 17, 2023 04:38 PM (LvTSG)
Lingerie Bowl style. With multiple gratuitous shower scenes.
Posted by: Box office gold! at July 17, 2023 04:41 PM (uoAlb)
Michael Crichton. Lookers. Plastic surgeon Albert Finney is getting a log of models wanting precise little corrections done to their looks. Only for them to die later under mysterious circumstances.
Turns out Big Marketing has this computer that determines how to make the models more perfect. Then digitizes their new look before killing them. All in a plot to use the AI doppelgangers to brainwash the masses with subliminal messages.
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 17, 2023 04:41 PM (nS5l5)
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 17, 2023 04:37 PM (nS5l5)
.......
and said: "What is this mess? What a dump!"
Posted by: wth at July 17, 2023 04:42 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: Skip at July 17, 2023 04:42 PM (xhxe8)
You missed Danny Carey.
Not metal...
but George Hurley is the Best Drummer you don't know.
Posted by: garrett at July 17, 2023 04:42 PM (xChBq)
Posted by: Gref at July 17, 2023 04:39 PM (AMIL/)
it's never about the money.
They could make these films on a low budget and make a killing as SoF is doing forever and a day and they know it. And I bet SoF would do well overseas.
They dont' care about making money, which is why they are starting to not be able to make money. Even cynical pandering to our tastes would make them billions, but they just. don't. care.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2023 04:42 PM (eoQWY)
Do they not know that there is 80 years of tv and movies online? We don't need Horrywood.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 17, 2023 04:42 PM (ZVVGW)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 17, 2023 04:38 PM (LvTSG)
Lingerie Bowl style. With multiple gratuitous shower scenes.
Posted by: Box office gold! at July 17, 2023 04:41 PM (uoAlb)
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That it needed to be described further is a testament to the degradation of America.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 17, 2023 04:42 PM (LvTSG)
I'd pay to see him stomp Barbie.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 17, 2023 04:42 PM (lc5cP)
An all female The Longest Yard.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 17, 2023 04:38 PM (LvTSG)
All female Victory.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 17, 2023 04:40 PM (+sD5M)
All Female 'Behind The Green Door'
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at July 17, 2023 04:42 PM (xcxpd)
They are sucking a lot of dicks, but not making any money.
Posted by: garrett at July 17, 2023 04:43 PM (xChBq)
She is a raging loon but she was super good looking, very hot. She's just aged and the insanity radiates off her like Crispin Glover
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 17, 2023 04:43 PM (0hOvj)
I'd pay to see him stomp Barbie.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 17, 2023 04:42 PM (lc5cP)
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It'd fit Oppenheimer pretty well.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 17, 2023 04:43 PM (LvTSG)
All Female 'Behind The Green Door'
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at July 17, 2023 04:42 PM (xcxpd)
Viva le Strap On!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 17, 2023 04:43 PM (+sD5M)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 17, 2023 04:38 PM (LvTSG)
Lingerie Bowl style. With multiple gratuitous shower scenes.
Posted by: Box office gold! at July 17, 2023 04:41 PM (uoAlb)
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That it needed to be described further is a testament to the degradation of America.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 17, 2023 04:42 PM (LvTSG)
I'm picturing it in my head right now...
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at July 17, 2023 04:43 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: 18-1 at July 17, 2023 04:43 PM (lc5cP)
Posted by: Gref
Horrywood needs to check out what Bollywood makes.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 17, 2023 04:43 PM (ZVVGW)
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The entire DUmp could boycott Big Media and Big Media wouldn't even know it had happened. I remember all the "NOT ONE DAMN DIME days the DUmbass had that were of no consequence because they don't spend anything... they also don't save anything. The DUchebags just steal oxygen and $ from society.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at July 17, 2023 04:43 PM (17s+e)
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Had to let him go. Just couldn't keep him supplied with cocaine.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at July 17, 2023 04:43 PM (FVME7)
Posted by: eleven at July 17, 2023 04:44 PM (iziT8)
347 321 312 Hot take? Europe would have done better if it had been ruled by Napoleon instead of the Brits, Prussians and Austrians
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at July 17, 2023 04:35 PM (xcxpd)
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Was Napoleon interested in ruling or in conquering?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 17, 2023 04:35 PM (LvTSG)
Both? He has the ego drive to conquer, but he also instituted reforms and standardizations that still persist to this day.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at July 17, 2023 04:38 PM (xcxpd)
A good epic movie about Genghis Khan would be fantastic as well. He and the other Khans also shaped the modern world, in several ways.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 17, 2023 04:44 PM (/iWhV)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 17, 2023 04:41 PM (YIVH2)
I 'picture' books while reading too, I'm just not doing it in pictures. It's just more text, since I'm better at reading anyway.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2023 04:44 PM (eoQWY)
An all female The Longest Yard.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 17, 2023 04:38 PM (LvTSG)
All female Victory.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 17, 2023 04:40 PM
You could probably sell me on an all female remake of 300 if they kept the same costumes and the cast was fit...
Posted by: Perv Moron at July 17, 2023 04:44 PM (JCZqz)
Incredible at fighting weight but can't go up a single weight class.
Posted by: Thesokorus at July 17, 2023 04:44 PM (2NfAC)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 17, 2023 04:44 PM (MoZTd)
Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 17, 2023 04:44 PM (/iWhV)
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We already had that, pilgrim.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 17, 2023 04:44 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: JmT at July 17, 2023 04:44 PM (18RTj)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at July 17, 2023 04:42 PM (xcxpd)
FTFY
Posted by: Can't be too careful these days at July 17, 2023 04:44 PM (uoAlb)
You Can't Produce entertainment. Because you don't want to make stories that entertain your audience. Even if he writers weren't striking it's not like they were writing stuff you could sell.
Posted by: mikethemoose at July 17, 2023 04:44 PM (ocQil)
Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at July 17, 2023 04:45 PM (jgJfd)
You missed Danny Carey.
Not metal...
but George Hurley is the Best Drummer you don't know.
Posted by: garrett at July 17, 2023 04:42 PM (xChBq)
I don’t know if Buddy Rich is the best but I know he could kick every other drummers ass . Literally.
Posted by: polynikes at July 17, 2023 04:45 PM (MNhXM)
Posted by: garrett at July 17, 2023 04:45 PM (xChBq)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 17, 2023 04:45 PM (0hOvj)
Because the writing is better, the ideas even more weird, and well its anime.
Which explains the mobs of lemmings who fawn over the latest 'greatest' anime because everyone else is gushing over it. 9 times out of 10 this neko-grrl has stopped viewing such because I found them quite predictable.
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 17, 2023 04:45 PM (nS5l5)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 17, 2023 04:45 PM (+sD5M)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
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Second that.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at July 17, 2023 04:45 PM (17s+e)
especially the type that doesn't need a pre-amp to plug in a phonograph.
Posted by: peasant scum anachronda at July 17, 2023 04:45 PM (sGtp+)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 17, 2023 04:38 PM (LvTSG)
Lingerie Bowl style. With multiple gratuitous shower scenes.
Posted by: Box office gold! at July 17, 2023 04:41 PM (uoAlb)
One of the ideas Hollywood has had for a while is...
Men like action movies, men like looking at good looking women.
So if we make an action movie with a scantily clad hot actress we can get all the men to watch it AND sell it as girl power to their wives/girlfriends.
The problem is all those movies generally suck lock at Tomb Raider as a prime example.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 17, 2023 04:45 PM (lc5cP)
ahemBullshit. That's not what killed theaters and everyone knows it. What everyone knows is this: the same thing killed shopping malls. How can anybody take anything this guy says seriously when he begins with a lie?
Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at July 17, 2023 04:45 PM (kjOVp)
Posted by: 18-1 at July 17, 2023 04:43 PM (lc5cP)
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OK, I have to ask...did they do the pie scene?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 17, 2023 04:46 PM (YIVH2)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 17, 2023 04:45 PM (0hOvj)
One arm or two?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 17, 2023 04:46 PM (+sD5M)
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at July 17, 2023 04:43 PM
I thought that, too, but realized I was gasping for air from laughing too hard at their nonsense.
Posted by: Perv Moron at July 17, 2023 04:46 PM (JCZqz)
Big Swing Face is a motherfucker of a Live LP.
Posted by: garrett at July 17, 2023 04:46 PM (xChBq)
Posted by: garrett at July 17, 2023 04:45 PM (xChBq)
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The most interesting remakes to me are the ones that completely change cultures, like from Infernal Affairs to The Departed.
Infernal Affairs is very intimately tied to Hong Kong, but The Departed lives and breathes Boston. It gives it a flavor that's distinct from the original while retaining the general plot mechanics.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 17, 2023 04:46 PM (LvTSG)
Heh. I said 'good' movie about Genghis.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 17, 2023 04:46 PM (/iWhV)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 17, 2023 04:45 PM (0hOvj)
That's how AI sorts them based on number of limbs.
Posted by: Roy at July 17, 2023 04:46 PM (Phd8w)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 17, 2023 04:41 PM (YIVH2)
I 'picture' books while reading too, I'm just not doing it in pictures. It's just more text, since I'm better at reading anyway.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2023 04:44 PM (eoQWY)
That's one of the reasons I don't much like movie versions of my favorite books - I've already got my own images in my head.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at July 17, 2023 04:46 PM (N3zMI)
Yeah yeah, the Unitarians, but they don’t really believe in the Bible anyway.
Posted by: Some guy at July 17, 2023 04:46 PM (LS1vr)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 17, 2023 04:35 PM (LvTSG)
Both? He has the ego drive to conquer, but he also instituted reforms and standardizations that still persist to this day.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at July 17, 2023 04:38 PM (xcxpd)
Most conquerors are not particularly talented at ruling. Napoleon was unusual in that.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 17, 2023 04:47 PM (eYoxG)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 17, 2023 04:45 PM (0hOvj)
One arm or two?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 17, 2023 04:46 PM
(Sobs on Ben Shapiro's shoulder)
Posted by: Michelle Fields at July 17, 2023 04:47 PM (JCZqz)
A la Rosencrantz and Guilderstern are Dead?
Posted by: 18-1 at July 17, 2023 04:47 PM (lc5cP)
Posted by: garrett at July 17, 2023 04:45 PM (xChBq)
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*Rosencrantz & Guildenstern have entered the chat...*
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 17, 2023 04:47 PM (YIVH2)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 17, 2023 04:39 PM (0hOvj)
... when people describe things visually, the picture shows up in my head.
When people describe things in tactile terms, or scent, or sound, I sense those things internally.
When I recall events, they replay in my head. Often the soundtrack is more clear than the video-- I guess audio files take up less ram.
This is one of those things I just assumed everyone else did. Am I the strange one?
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 17, 2023 04:47 PM (N1DT3)
Heh. I said 'good' movie about Genghis.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 17, 2023 04:46 PM (/iWhV)
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Well, in that case, there was an Asian set of movies about him. Mongol, I think. I saw the first one. I've seen worse.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 17, 2023 04:47 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: Wierzbowski formerly QID at July 17, 2023 04:47 PM (OgrpQ)
You'd need the early life and development that turned Genghis into who he was, then one about his conquests, then one about his son Ogedai taking power and expanding, then Kublai, then the Mughul empire, at least.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 17, 2023 04:48 PM (0hOvj)
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 17, 2023 04:48 PM (eYoxG)
Posted by: polynikes at July 17, 2023 03:54 PM (MNhXM)
That's German for "The Hollywood, The!"
Posted by: Kevin in ABQ at July 17, 2023 04:48 PM (oJ6Se)
Heh. I said 'good' movie about Genghis.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 17, 2023 04:46 PM (/iWhV)
EXCELLENT!!!
Posted by: Bill and Ted at July 17, 2023 04:48 PM (+sD5M)
Can y'all actually see pictures in your head when you're trying to imagine things? I don't see anything. If I tell myself to imagine an apple, I can kind of *feel* the round, organic lines, but I don't see a thing in my head.
Posted by: bonhomme at July 17, 2023 04:34 PM (R38qh)
That's weird. Yeah, I basically picture everything in my head like watching a movie.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at July 17, 2023 04:36 PM
I've heard of this but I've never known anyone like this. How odd. The no inner monologue thing I've never heard of before. That's really strange.
So is face blindness, I've never met anyone that couldn't recognize faces either.
Posted by: CaliGirl at July 17, 2023 04:48 PM (l3Uxg)
Speaking of Madonna....
Posted by: Tex Lovera at July 17, 2023 04:08 PM (wtvvX)
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She dead yet?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 17, 2023 04:09 PM
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Nah. She's always smelled like that.
Posted by: irright at July 17, 2023 04:48 PM (NTUk0)
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at July 17, 2023 04:46 PM (N3zMI)
I am too lazy and low on the psychotic spectrum so I don't visualize books but at the same time I exoetience outrage at most casting of book characters.
Posted by: Thesokorus at July 17, 2023 04:48 PM (2NfAC)
Posted by: My Ridiculously Circuitous Plan at July 17, 2023 04:02 PM (nd7dS)
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As TJM has noted, Disney strangely mirrors MGM, and I think Disney will be purchased by someone else within 5 years. Their cash flow issues will sink them, with no way to restock their war chest. These sales are just the first. Selling things that cost them little and generate some cash flow, whose absence will just make the cash crunch worse.
Posted by: Black JEM at July 17, 2023 04:48 PM (UVyKP)
Incredible at fighting weight but can't go up a single weight class.
Posted by: Thesokorus at July 17, 2023 04:44 PM (2NfAC)
She could also drop that weight in bed...
Posted by: Inogame at July 17, 2023 04:48 PM (53oGX)
Posted by: bonhomme at July 17, 2023 04:34 PM (R38qh)
I've always been able to visualize objects, either real or fantasized. I think that's why enjoyed LoTR so much. It was a visual heaven for me.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 17, 2023 04:48 PM (BdMk6)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 17, 2023 04:45 PM (+sD5M)
She's still a steamer.
Posted by: Get it, steamer? at July 17, 2023 04:49 PM (v0R5T)
You'd need the early life and development that turned Genghis into who he was, then one about his conquests, then one about his son Ogedai taking power and expanding, then Kublai, then the Mughul empire, at least.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 17, 2023 04:48 PM (0hOvj)
I think starting with his conquests would be the way to start the movie series. Then do the prequel about his growing up.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 17, 2023 04:49 PM (eYoxG)
Posted by: Black JEM at July 17, 2023 04:48 PM (UVyKP)
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Someone listened to me! Yay!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 17, 2023 04:49 PM (LvTSG)
The problem is all those movies generally suck lock at Tomb Raider as a prime example.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 17, 2023 04:45 PM (lc5cP)
I thought The Mummy was the perfect balance.
Posted by: polynikes at July 17, 2023 04:49 PM (MNhXM)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at July 17, 2023 04:42 PM (xcxpd)
FTFY
Posted by: Can't be too careful these days at July 17, 2023 04:44 PM (uoAlb)
Correction cheerfully accepted
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at July 17, 2023 04:49 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 17, 2023 04:35 PM (LvTSG)
He started out being subordinate enough to his government, since the Revolution gave him huge opportunities that the old regime never would have given a provincial with no family. Since he was extremely intelligent he was able to leverage chance into actions and armies that turned France from threatened by its neighbors to dominating and conquering them.
As he rose higher in ranks, he began to have to get into Politics more and more and since he was so smart and driven he decided to 'fix' the problems by taking the job over too.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2023 04:49 PM (eoQWY)
An all female The Longest Yard.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 17, 2023 04:38 PM (LvTSG)
All female Victory.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 17, 2023 04:40 PM (+sD5M)
All Female 'The Longest Day'... because clearly they stormed the beaches at Normandy!
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 17, 2023 04:49 PM (oHd/0)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 17, 2023 04:30 PM (MoZTd)
Of course they'd identify with Robespierre.
They're CONSTANTLY talking about wanting to Guillotine anyone who isn't a troon of color.
Posted by: XTC at July 17, 2023 04:49 PM (UnA8+)
Let's make "Uncle Tom's Cabin", except the slave is white women, barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen. And "massa" sells her off to a Christian. He takes her clothes and forbids her from teaching Islam to the other workers.
Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at July 17, 2023 04:49 PM (jgJfd)
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at July 17, 2023 04:50 PM (eYoxG)
Posted by: Thesokorus at July 17, 2023 04:51 PM (pcSI6)
Posted by: eleven at July 17, 2023 04:51 PM (iziT8)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 17, 2023 04:52 PM (0hOvj)
Let's make "Uncle Tom's Cabin", except the slave is white women, barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen. And "massa" sells her off to a Christian. He takes her clothes and forbids her from teaching Islam to the other workers.
we already have handmaid's tale
Posted by: peasant scum anachronda at July 17, 2023 04:52 PM (sGtp+)
Posted by: bonhomme
Younger son does that too. Me, my brain is very visual, and if I am reading something well-written, I am no longer reading, in a sense, but seeing the visual. I discovered this the first time I read Lord of the Rings. First books I read that were not assigned as a book report in school.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Lookin' for me wooden leg at July 17, 2023 04:52 PM (T/Lqj)
The Star Wars star cruiser, after a $1 investment, has closed after a year.
Indy 5 needs about $700 million to break even. Little Mermaid tanked. So did the Pixar movie.
Bob Iger is Captain Smith and Disney is RMS Titanic with four watertight compartments flooded.
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 17, 2023 04:53 PM (nS5l5)
Its a more consistent storyline, the Mughuls were very screwy
I think starting with his conquests would be the way to start the movie series. Then do the prequel about his growing up.
Probably the more commercially viable way to do it.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 17, 2023 04:53 PM (0hOvj)
Posted by: Thesokorus at July 17, 2023 04:53 PM (pcSI6)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 17, 2023 04:52 PM (0hOvj)
My favorite story about Ringo is how a reporter breathlessly asked John Lenin if Ringo was the best drummer in rock and roll.
John looked puzzled and said " 'e's not even the best drummer in the Beatles".
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 17, 2023 04:53 PM (N1DT3)
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 17, 2023 04:54 PM (N1DT3)
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 17, 2023 04:54 PM (nS5l5)
Posted by: Joe Biden watching the first half of Napoleon at July 17, 2023 04:41 PM (lc5cP)
And after him a funny looking Kraut with a bad haircut conquered Russia again! Easy peasy, even for a 'tard like you. Go for it !
Posted by: a.moron at July 17, 2023 04:55 PM (tu3iY)
Posted by: Thesokorus at July 17, 2023 04:55 PM (pcSI6)
Battle wagons?
Slam damn dunk.
Posted by: Thesokorus at July 17, 2023 04:51 PM (pcSI6)
The film called "Medieval" released last year was supposedly based on Zizka. It was a flop and by all accounts horrible.
Posted by: My Ridiculously Circuitous Plan at July 17, 2023 04:55 PM (xj8d9)
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 17, 2023 04:55 PM (nS5l5)
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 17, 2023 04:53 PM (nS5l5)
And yet...the board re-upped him essentially until 2031. So they are fully on board with turning the Disney ship around and hitting the iceberg again!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 17, 2023 04:56 PM (PHmov)
Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at July 17, 2023 04:56 PM (krqg6)
Posted by: My Ridiculously Circuitous Plan at July 17, 2023 04:55 PM (xj8d9)
Utter incompetence.
Have they made a Sertorius movie?
Posted by: Thesokorus at July 17, 2023 04:56 PM (pcSI6)
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at July 17, 2023 04:37 PM (YwyqV)
She is the case study of "Don't put your dick in crazy"
Posted by: tryhardneckbeard at July 17, 2023 04:57 PM (OLVeZ)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, perfectly captured in the frame by William Wyler at July 17, 2023 04:38 PM (LvTSG)
Lingerie Bowl style. With multiple gratuitous shower scenes.
Posted by: Box office gold! at July 17, 2023 04:41 PM (uoAlb)
Shower scenes with hot female athletes are never gratuitous, they are essential to the integrity of the story.
Posted by: a.moron at July 17, 2023 04:57 PM (tu3iY)
There is a cover from the Godzilla fanzine G-Fan showing RMS Titanic sailing for an iceberg that is Godzilla.
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 17, 2023 04:58 PM (RH6eh)
Posted by: sound awake at July 17, 2023 04:59 PM (g7ym/)
Posted by: Archer at July 17, 2023 05:01 PM (gmo/4)
They needed a Roger Daltrey to beat the crap out of them all every so often
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 17, 2023 05:04 PM (0hOvj)
This is one of those things I just assumed everyone else did. Am I the strange one?
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at July 17, 2023 04:47 PM (N1DT3)
No idea if its strange but it's not at all how i do them. Certainly the description of a smell doesn't activate my nose and duplicate it for me.
There's an interesting SF story i read about a mind-viewer where you could see the world and both characters were repelled at how the other saw it - the woman's view was earthy, meaty, crawling with life and motion and repelled him, while his world was disgustingly flat and plain and colorless compared to her.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2023 05:04 PM (eoQWY)
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 17, 2023 04:58 PM (RH6eh)
Titanic could have handled Godzilla better than the iceberg, he's softer and the ship could move faster in a straight line than he could.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2023 05:05 PM (eoQWY)
In fairness a lot of Hollywood movies would have been watchable if they added Godzilla half way through.
I'd pay to see him stomp Barbie.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 17, 2023 04:42 PM (lc5cP)
*tiptoes away*
Posted by: Bambi at July 17, 2023 05:07 PM (n+4am)
Utter incompetence.
Have they made a Sertorius movie?
Posted by: Thesokorus at July 17, 2023 04:56 PM (pcSI6)
There is one, named Sertorius. No reviews in English.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2023 05:08 PM (eoQWY)
I'd pay to see him stomp Barbie.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 17, 2023 04:42 PM (lc5cP)
*tiptoes away*
Posted by: Bambi at July 17, 2023 05:07 PM (n+4am)
He would tenderly pick her up and put her at the top of the largest building in Tokyo, as is traditional.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2023 05:09 PM (eoQWY)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 17, 2023 04:56 PM (PHmov)
Or they are going to shoot him in the head and dump the body in one of the Parks.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 17, 2023 05:10 PM (eoQWY)
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at July 17, 2023 05:20 PM (I8nLU)
DISNEY OWNED SOUND OF FREEDOM AND REFUSED TO RELEASE IT.
Fox filmed it, and it was literally sitting on Disney's shelf gathering dust, until Angel crowdfunded enough to buy it from them and release it.
There was ZERO actual financial reason for Disney not to just release it. Fox had already made the movie. Sure you could argue that analysts claimed it wouldn't make much, but so what? It was already ready to go with zero investment. The ONLY reason not to release it and grab up a few million dollars was politics.
Angel has made tens of millions on that investment, while Disney looks like the woke political morons they are.
Posted by: DudeAbiding at July 17, 2023 05:50 PM (AjL/0)
Posted by: SamIam at July 17, 2023 06:49 PM (oasF3)
Posted by: Ring O' Fire at July 17, 2023 07:07 PM (J/pqx)
Sadz about Dizney.
Posted by: jimmymcnulty at July 17, 2023 07:58 PM (BJgzI)
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