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The Sound of Freedom Breaks $150 Million Domestically, and Prepares, Finally, for a Global Release
The Sound of Freedom has made $150,000,000 so far, and that is only domestically. It is still pulling in over $4 million a day without a single overseas screen showing the film.
But it's about to go global:
It opens in Mexico August 31. It was written and directed by Latinos, takes place in Mexico and Colombia, and about half of the dialogue is in Spanish, so it should make a good sum in Latin American countries. On the other hand, there's Disney. Yesterday I wrote up the allegations made by WDW_Pro's Disney whistleblower that Disney's advertising sales employees were no longer earning bonuses based just on ad sales, but also on "Championing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion," getting bonuses for just attending ever biweekly woke diversity lecture. Today WDW_Pro reports that his whistleblower says that Disney's ad sales for Disney+ and ESPN+ are in the toilet, coincidentally enough. His whistleblower tells him that "one of Disney's biggest ad partners" has exited its agreement with Disney. They feel that Disney overstated the "impact" that advertising on Disney would have (which may refer to Disney's less-than-stellar ratings, or viewers' lack of response to ads). Further, ratings, and ad rates, for Disney+ and ESPN+ are so bad that Disney is trying to hide that by bundling it in packages with other Disney offerings like ABC and Hulu. He also mentions that the co-president of Disney Entertainment (which overseas all Disney studios), Dana Walden, wanted to purge Disney of all "non-diverse" programming (anything starring a man or especially a white man). I guess that's not super-working-out for them. Iger's in a big enough hole that he's hired back former Disney executives to help dig him out. The executives will help him figure out how to return his struggling TV properties to profitability or near-profitability -- so they can be sold.
The faith-based political thriller Sound of Freedom is headed for cinemas overseas. Angel Studios on Wednesday announced release dates for 21 markets, including the U.K., Australia, Spain, South Africa and a host of countries in Latin America. It begins its foreign run next month. At the U.S. box office, the movie crossed the $100 million mark July 19, a little over two weeks after its release July 4. And it finished Tuesday of this week with a cume north of $130 million.
Disney CEO Bob Iger is reaching into his past, reportedly bringing back two former executives to help guide the media giant, according to multiple sources. Kevin Mayer and Tom Staggs have been rehired to advise Iger on how to deal with Disney's legacy television businesses, including the ESPN sports network, according to multiple news sources. Iger, in a recent interview with CNBC, confirmed he was mulling a potential sale of the assets.Bob Iger will face the wrath of his shareholders at an earnings call next week. One more thing: The nonsense lawsuit that Bob Iger filed against Ron DeSantis and Florida -- a lawsuit that essentially argued that Florida was required to give Disney special breaks and powers in perpetuity -- has seen a setback. The new oversight board of the Reedy Creek development district is suing the outgoing board, which purported to grant Disney perpetual rights to control the area as they were being tossed out the door. The new oversight board wants to prove that this grant is null and void, because it was obtained by "backroom dealing" between Disney and the Disney owned-and-operated former board. Disney moved to dismiss that lawsuit, and a judge has now dismissed Disney's motion.
A Florida judge on Friday rejected a Walt Disney Co (DIS.N) request to dismiss a lawsuit by an oversight district, a move that could make it harder for the entertainment giant to pursue its own case against Governor Ron DeSantis as part of a yearlong feud. The ruling allows the oversight district to pursue its case that seeks to void "backroom deals" favorable to Disney that were struck with a prior district board earlier this year. If those deals were voided, the district has said it would nearly wipe out Disney's federal case against DeSantis.Oh well! By the way, the whole reason the Reedy Creek Improvement District even exists is because Walt Disney planned to build there an actual city, a planned community, which would be his sci-fi-meets-nostalgia notion of the ideal place to live for workers and families. The government of Florida granted a special right to build this district, granting Disney unheard-of rights to basically run a corporation-owned city. But Disney abandoned this idea when he realized he couldn't actually control the people living in that community like he controlled his employees. In a planned city, there would be alcoholism, prostitution, infidelity, divorces, etc. -- things that aren't ideal and aren't part of the Disney brand. So he took the land he owned there and just build Walt Disney World, the theme park. The only vestige of the old "city of tomorrow" idea is Epcot Center. So that's how Disney wound up being granted, for 70 years or so, an unprecedented degree of corporate control over the government of a big piece of land people both work and live on. DeSantis cancelled that. He had every right to. It's highly dubious the grant should ever have been made in the first place.
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Hiya !
Posted by: JT at August 01, 2023 04:28 PM (T4tVD)
Posted by: Overseas at August 01, 2023 04:30 PM (ptElO)
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Howdy!
Posted by: Moonbeam at August 01, 2023 04:30 PM (rbKZ6)
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Yick!
Posted by: Hollywood at August 01, 2023 04:30 PM (krQz2)
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F' the mouse
Posted by: It's me donna at August 01, 2023 04:30 PM (bs+z0)
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Jeremiah had staying power too, just sayin.
Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at August 01, 2023 04:30 PM (oWBc3)
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The faith-based political thriller Sound of Freedom is headed for cinemas overseas.
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This annoys me because the funding was from Fox, it apparently has nothing to do with religion, and is just a straight forward thriller about sex trafficking.
The "faith-based" label is intended as a slur because most faith-based movies are kind of terrible.
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This annoys me because the funding was from Fox, it apparently has nothing to do with religion, and is just a straight forward thriller about sex trafficking.
The "faith-based" label is intended as a slur because most faith-based movies are kind of terrible.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir at August 01, 2023 04:30 PM (LvTSG)
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I tell ya, Jiminy, we've come a loooong way from the old days!
Posted by: Pinocchio at August 01, 2023 04:31 PM (J2vNu)
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The faith-based political thriller Sound of Freedom is headed for cinemas overseas.
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No, it isn't. It is not a "faith-based" movie. This is a lie told by every press outlet.
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No, it isn't. It is not a "faith-based" movie. This is a lie told by every press outlet.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 01, 2023 04:31 PM (t0OGg)
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this movie has gotten more word of mouth buzz than any film I can remember. People I know who *never* talk about politics and mostly are aloof from the culture are talking about this one. I hear about it from a different acquaintance every day.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 01, 2023 04:31 PM (i9ffA)
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So he took the land he owned there and just build Walt Disney World, the theme park. The only vestige of the old "city of tomorrow" idea is Epcot Center.
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Which is where you go to get DRUNK!
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Which is where you go to get DRUNK!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir at August 01, 2023 04:32 PM (LvTSG)
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The faith-based political thriller Sound of Freedom
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Have we finally admitted that “don’t fuck children” is a uniquely Judeo-Christian value?
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Have we finally admitted that “don’t fuck children” is a uniquely Judeo-Christian value?
Posted by: Joe, living dangerously at August 01, 2023 04:32 PM (fKIdX)
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The "faith-based" label is intended as a slur because most faith-based movies are kind of terrible.
The FBI guy Tim Ballard has 6 kids!!! What kind of example do you think that sets for our kids! His carbon footprint is enormous!
The FBI guy Tim Ballard has 6 kids!!! What kind of example do you think that sets for our kids! His carbon footprint is enormous!
Posted by: Iris at August 01, 2023 04:32 PM (NaH5I)
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His whistleblower tells him that "one of Disney's biggest ad partners" has exited its agreement with Disney. They feel that Disney overstated the "impact" that advertising on Disney would have (which may refer to Disney's less-than-stellar ratings, or viewers' lack of response to ads).
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"I gave you money and you didn't deliver the goods. Bye."
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"I gave you money and you didn't deliver the goods. Bye."
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 01, 2023 04:32 PM (t0OGg)
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I know folks, even right-wingers, who are convinced that the bulkl of the SOF earnings are a result of conservatives "papering the house" by donating to the Angel Studios Pay it Forward plan.
Sure, that may account for 5 or 10 million dollars, but...$160MM?
not likely
Sure, that may account for 5 or 10 million dollars, but...$160MM?
not likely
Posted by: kallisto at August 01, 2023 04:32 PM (WN6kz)
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"God's children are not for sale"
Posted by: kallisto at August 01, 2023 04:33 PM (WN6kz)
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Is it based on faith in Allah?
Posted by: Or Buddha? at August 01, 2023 04:33 PM (Ak4Zh)
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353 Steer clear of Banana Shows. Trust me on this one.
Posted by: Michael Douglas at August 01, 2023 04:24 PM
You think that's bad? Stay away from Alec Baldwin's trick shooting demonstration!
Posted by: Michael Douglas at August 01, 2023 04:24 PM
You think that's bad? Stay away from Alec Baldwin's trick shooting demonstration!
Posted by: Zombie Halyna Hutchins at August 01, 2023 04:33 PM (JCZqz)
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Disney CEO Bob Iger is reaching into his past, reportedly bringing back two former executives to help guide the media giant, according to multiple sources.
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How about some fresh blood from competitors who are doing better than you?
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How about some fresh blood from competitors who are doing better than you?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 01, 2023 04:34 PM (t0OGg)
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So, not fucking kids is Faith Based? Good to know.
Posted by: DOYLE at August 01, 2023 04:34 PM (Z8Yh2)
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Disney even had permission to build a nuke plant. LOL
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at August 01, 2023 04:34 PM (ufFY8)
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Would like to see it but most likely won't
Posted by: Skip at August 01, 2023 04:34 PM (xhxe8)
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The faith-based political thriller Sound of Freedom
They're sneering like tearing down the globalists' child sex rings is a bad thing.
They're sneering like tearing down the globalists' child sex rings is a bad thing.
Posted by: t-bird at August 01, 2023 04:34 PM (dNNCD)
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Angel Studios prepares to send far right conspiracy across the globe.
-some dolt in FNM, probably
-some dolt in FNM, probably
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 01, 2023 04:34 PM (MGB5H)
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19 Disney CEO Bob Iger is reaching into his past, reportedly bringing back two former executives to help guide the media giant, according to multiple sources.
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How about some fresh blood from competitors who are doing better than you?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 01, 2023 04:34 PM (t0OGg)
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Bring back John Lasseter. Fire Pete Doctor (it pains me to say that because he did Monster's Inc and Inside Out). Let Lasseter run PIXAR with a free hand for a decade.
That's one division solved.
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How about some fresh blood from competitors who are doing better than you?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 01, 2023 04:34 PM (t0OGg)
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Bring back John Lasseter. Fire Pete Doctor (it pains me to say that because he did Monster's Inc and Inside Out). Let Lasseter run PIXAR with a free hand for a decade.
That's one division solved.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir at August 01, 2023 04:35 PM (LvTSG)
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Bob Iger will face the wrath of his shareholders at an earnings call next week.
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I wonder if it's too late for Disney to partner with Fathom Events to live-stream the call and Q&A into movie theaters. Maybe they could finally come up with a box office winner that way.
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I wonder if it's too late for Disney to partner with Fathom Events to live-stream the call and Q&A into movie theaters. Maybe they could finally come up with a box office winner that way.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 01, 2023 04:35 PM (t0OGg)
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>>> this movie has gotten more word of mouth buzz than any film I can remember.
I think it helps that it has an interesting thriller aspect to the film, vs just a "human trafficking bad, Christianity good" theme. It has compelling characters and an interesting premise/plot, and good production values, in addition to the topic. So people feel comfortable recommending it and going to support it.
You know, like old school films used to be...
I think it helps that it has an interesting thriller aspect to the film, vs just a "human trafficking bad, Christianity good" theme. It has compelling characters and an interesting premise/plot, and good production values, in addition to the topic. So people feel comfortable recommending it and going to support it.
You know, like old school films used to be...
Posted by: LizLem at August 01, 2023 04:35 PM (Hzx5Z)
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Well this simply can't be....a movie revealing the liberal approved human trafficking/sex slavery and it's making money?
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 01, 2023 04:35 PM (QNSds)
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Speaking of movies , I just watched TheThin Man this morning for the first time. Fantastic how it holds up for being made in 1934.
Posted by: polynikes at August 01, 2023 04:35 PM (MNhXM)
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The ruling allows the oversight district to pursue its case that seeks to void "backroom deals" favorable to Disney that were struck with a prior district board earlier this year. If those deals were voided, the district has said it would nearly wipe out Disney's federal case against DeSantis.
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Disney's federal case is a joke anyway. That doesn't mean it wouldn't win that federal case - everything is hopelessly corrupt - but they don't have a leg to stand on.
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Disney's federal case is a joke anyway. That doesn't mean it wouldn't win that federal case - everything is hopelessly corrupt - but they don't have a leg to stand on.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 01, 2023 04:36 PM (t0OGg)
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DeSantis cancelled that. He had every right to. It's highly dubious the grant should ever have been made in the first place.
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Agree and agree.
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Agree and agree.
Posted by: Axeman at August 01, 2023 04:36 PM (krQz2)
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Bring back John Lasseter. Fire Pete Doctor (it pains me to say that because he did Monster's Inc and Inside Out). Let Lasseter run PIXAR with a free hand for a decade.
That's one division solved.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison,
Lasseter is running his own animation studio at Apple now.
That's one division solved.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison,
Lasseter is running his own animation studio at Apple now.
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 01, 2023 04:36 PM (MGB5H)
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DeSantis cancelled that. He had every right to. It's highly dubious the grant should ever have been made in the first place.
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This is hard to blame on Iger. Chapek is the one who gave into the woke crowd and decided to do what they wanted to fight DeSantis. He even ordered the lesbian kiss to be put back into Lightyear.
Not to say Iger wouldn't have done it, though. He probably would have.
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This is hard to blame on Iger. Chapek is the one who gave into the woke crowd and decided to do what they wanted to fight DeSantis. He even ordered the lesbian kiss to be put back into Lightyear.
Not to say Iger wouldn't have done it, though. He probably would have.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir at August 01, 2023 04:36 PM (LvTSG)
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By the way, the whole reason the Reedy Creek Improvement District even exists is because Walt Disney planned to build there an actual city, a planned community, which would be his sci-fi-meets-nostalgia notion of the ideal place to live for workers and families.
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The *real* "Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow." EPCOT wasn't supposed to just be a park.
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The *real* "Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow." EPCOT wasn't supposed to just be a park.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 01, 2023 04:36 PM (t0OGg)
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Good. More Please.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at August 01, 2023 04:36 PM (5L/TD)
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Angel Studios next Film is an Expose on the International Banana Trade.
Posted by: garrett at August 01, 2023 04:36 PM (k54EX)
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Jeremiah had staying power too, just sayin.
Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at August 01, 2023 04:30 PM (oWBc3)
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The bullfrog?
Posted by: Indignacio Vindacatorem at August 01, 2023 04:30 PM (oWBc3)
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The bullfrog?
Posted by: Axeman at August 01, 2023 04:36 PM (krQz2)
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The Thin Man series are pretty good
Posted by: Skip at August 01, 2023 04:37 PM (xhxe8)
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32 Lasseter is running his own animation studio at Apple now.
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 01, 2023 04:36 PM (MGB5H)
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Nothing another $5 million or so to his contract won't solve!
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 01, 2023 04:36 PM (MGB5H)
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Nothing another $5 million or so to his contract won't solve!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir at August 01, 2023 04:37 PM (LvTSG)
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I saw it on Sunday with Sharon (Willow's Apprentice). Surprisingly the 4:30 show was almost sold out. When we first sat down there were lots of empty seats up high that were marked reserved when we selected our seats - so we wondered that exact thing - were they just bought as a donation? - but they actually filled up. I guess people who regularly go to movies skip the previews. :-)
And just as TJM described it, it hints at the ugly but doesn't show it. And it was very exciting. Even knowing how it had to turn out.
And just as TJM described it, it hints at the ugly but doesn't show it. And it was very exciting. Even knowing how it had to turn out.
Posted by: Iris at August 01, 2023 04:37 PM (NaH5I)
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I think "faith based" is now code for any film that has a white, straight male in the lead, who succeeds in doing what he wants to do, and which doesn't glorify pedophilia or transgenderism.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 01, 2023 04:37 PM (i9ffA)
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But Disney abandoned this idea when he realized he couldn't actually control the people living in that community like he controlled his employees. In a planned city, there would be alcoholism, prostitution, infidelity, divorces, etc. -- things that aren't ideal and aren't part of the Disney brand.
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They still sort of did it. Celebration is a planned town designed by (or at least with) Disney. The EPCOT concept, though, was abandoned. Can't be done without totalitarian control.
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They still sort of did it. Celebration is a planned town designed by (or at least with) Disney. The EPCOT concept, though, was abandoned. Can't be done without totalitarian control.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 01, 2023 04:37 PM (t0OGg)
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I watched so many videos about this movie and the principals. The worst factoid I got from them (other than reaity or atrocious subject matter) is that the USA is the biggest producer and consumerr of CP. This is truly shameful,
Posted by: kallisto at August 01, 2023 04:38 PM (WN6kz)
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The faith-based political thriller Sound of Freedom is headed for cinemas overseas.
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No, it isn't. It is not a "faith-based" movie. This is a lie told by every press outlet.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 01, 2023 04:31 PM
they figured out that the "QANON" slur wasn't believable after all, so they've switched to "faith-based" as their derogatory of choice
The faith-based political thriller Sound of Freedom is headed for cinemas overseas.
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No, it isn't. It is not a "faith-based" movie. This is a lie told by every press outlet.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 01, 2023 04:31 PM
they figured out that the "QANON" slur wasn't believable after all, so they've switched to "faith-based" as their derogatory of choice
Posted by: AltonJackson at August 01, 2023 04:38 PM (ENBF0)
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40 And just as TJM described it, it hints at the ugly but doesn't show it. And it was very exciting. Even knowing how it had to turn out.
Posted by: Iris at August 01, 2023 04:37 PM (NaH5I)
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Not me. Probably moviegique. I haven't seen it.
I'm stuck in Australia with Peter Weir at the moment.
Posted by: Iris at August 01, 2023 04:37 PM (NaH5I)
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Not me. Probably moviegique. I haven't seen it.
I'm stuck in Australia with Peter Weir at the moment.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir at August 01, 2023 04:38 PM (LvTSG)
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"...So that's how Disney wound up being granted, for 70 years or so, an unprecedented degree of corporate control over the government of a big piece of land people both work and live on.
DeSantis cancelled that. He had every right to. It's highly dubious the grant should ever have been made in the first place."
As Paul Harvey once said, "now you know the rest of the story." It's amazing that the MSM never wrote about the history of how RCID even came into existence. And by 'amazing' I mean 'typical'. RDS is totally in the right on this one. It's funny that former Governors such as Rick Scott, Charlie Christ or Jeb Bush never thought about doing the same thing, but sooner.
DeSantis cancelled that. He had every right to. It's highly dubious the grant should ever have been made in the first place."
As Paul Harvey once said, "now you know the rest of the story." It's amazing that the MSM never wrote about the history of how RCID even came into existence. And by 'amazing' I mean 'typical'. RDS is totally in the right on this one. It's funny that former Governors such as Rick Scott, Charlie Christ or Jeb Bush never thought about doing the same thing, but sooner.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 01, 2023 04:38 PM (/iWhV)
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I worked on Pete Doctors house in Lafayette, ca.
Had Disney Imagineers working on it. Swiss Family Robinson Tree House with cabins in it, a railroad.
Next, next level.
Had Disney Imagineers working on it. Swiss Family Robinson Tree House with cabins in it, a railroad.
Next, next level.
Posted by: DOYLE at August 01, 2023 04:38 PM (Z8Yh2)
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DeSantis cancelled that. He had every right to. It's highly dubious the grant should ever have been made in the first place.
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And it is *still* a special district, it just isn't a special special district anymore. The new district works like all the other special districts in the state. Florida has a lot of them, and they all follow fairly similar rules. All except the super-duper-duper-special Reedy Creek. All the Florida legislature did was rectify that.
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And it is *still* a special district, it just isn't a special special district anymore. The new district works like all the other special districts in the state. Florida has a lot of them, and they all follow fairly similar rules. All except the super-duper-duper-special Reedy Creek. All the Florida legislature did was rectify that.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 01, 2023 04:39 PM (t0OGg)
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You know, like old school films used to be...
I think this is why it's a success, not because of its particular topic (trafficking) or conservative support. It's a standard action-adventure movie with an appealing male lead, not infected by stuntcasting or other wokisms. It's a normal movie in an industry filled with mediocrity and propaganda.
I think this is why it's a success, not because of its particular topic (trafficking) or conservative support. It's a standard action-adventure movie with an appealing male lead, not infected by stuntcasting or other wokisms. It's a normal movie in an industry filled with mediocrity and propaganda.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at August 01, 2023 04:39 PM (ppBhU)
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Where's the money, Bob?
Posted by: Comcast at August 01, 2023 04:39 PM (i5lJm)
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>But Disney abandoned this idea when he realized he couldn't actually control the people living in that community like he controlled his employees. In a planned city, there would be alcoholism, prostitution, infidelity, divorces, etc. -- things that aren't ideal and aren't part of the Disney brand.
Some enjoyable short fiction:
https://is.gd/gWCgRm
Some enjoyable short fiction:
https://is.gd/gWCgRm
Posted by: Dworkin Barimen at August 01, 2023 04:39 PM (r0Q9B)
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The "faith-based" label is intended as a slur because most faith-based movies are kind of terrible.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir at August 01, 2023 04:30 PM (LvTSG)
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The tag line became "God's Children Are Not For Sale".
Which is central in the movie as a saying of Ballard.
If that is it's tag line, it's not exactly not religious.
You're just saying that had Fox released it, that would have been just some character line from Ballard. Illustrating his motivation.
But that also would have been a framing (blunting) move of Fox.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir at August 01, 2023 04:30 PM (LvTSG)
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The tag line became "God's Children Are Not For Sale".
Which is central in the movie as a saying of Ballard.
If that is it's tag line, it's not exactly not religious.
You're just saying that had Fox released it, that would have been just some character line from Ballard. Illustrating his motivation.
But that also would have been a framing (blunting) move of Fox.
Posted by: Axeman at August 01, 2023 04:39 PM (krQz2)
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Still has a long ways to go to catch up with Passion of Christ.
I think that made well over 350 million domestically.
Pretty neat that Caviezel was in both.
I think that made well over 350 million domestically.
Pretty neat that Caviezel was in both.
Posted by: polynikes at August 01, 2023 04:40 PM (MNhXM)
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"there would be alcoholism, prostitution, infidelity, divorces, etc. -- things that aren't ideal and aren't part of the Disney brand."
Throw in grooming and pedophelia and you have the modern Disney brand.
Throw in grooming and pedophelia and you have the modern Disney brand.
Posted by: Joey Sausage at August 01, 2023 04:40 PM (or2+y)
Posted by: DOYLE at August 01, 2023 04:40 PM (Z8Yh2)
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Not me. Probably moviegique. I haven't seen it.
LOL, I guess I didn't realize there was more than one movie COB.
LOL, I guess I didn't realize there was more than one movie COB.
Posted by: Iris at August 01, 2023 04:40 PM (NaH5I)
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Walt was dead in 1966, it was his brother Roy and the Disney board that cancelled Walt's idea of a live work play community as impractical.
Posted by: whig at August 01, 2023 04:40 PM (bk5GW)
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Bring back John Lasseter. Fire Pete Doctor (it pains me to say that because he did Monster's Inc and Inside Out). Let Lasseter run PIXAR with a free hand for a decade.
That's one division solved.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir at August 01, 2023 04:35 PM (LvTSG)
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Good luck with that. Even if they wanted to do this, why would Lasseter do it? He's running Skydance Animation now, brought a ton of people with him, partnered with Apple, and has re-implemented his model. He basically rebuilt Pixar at Skydance. Why walk from that to go back to Old Pixar, just to face a bunch of Disney bullshit headwinds?
That's one division solved.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir at August 01, 2023 04:35 PM (LvTSG)
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Good luck with that. Even if they wanted to do this, why would Lasseter do it? He's running Skydance Animation now, brought a ton of people with him, partnered with Apple, and has re-implemented his model. He basically rebuilt Pixar at Skydance. Why walk from that to go back to Old Pixar, just to face a bunch of Disney bullshit headwinds?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 01, 2023 04:41 PM (t0OGg)
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>Can't be done without totalitarian control.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 01, 2023 04:37 PM (t0OGg)
Boy, do ve have plans for you!
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 01, 2023 04:37 PM (t0OGg)
Boy, do ve have plans for you!
Posted by: The WEF at August 01, 2023 04:41 PM (NgqoH)
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My favorite faith-based films are ones about the Rapture where the people go POOF! and all that is left is a neatly-folded pile of laundry.
Posted by: One Hour Martinizing at August 01, 2023 04:41 PM (tO+U3)
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58 Good luck with that. Even if they wanted to do this, why would Lasseter do it? He's running Skydance Animation now, brought a ton of people with him, partnered with Apple, and has re-implemented his model. He basically rebuilt Pixar at Skydance. Why walk from that to go back to Old Pixar, just to face a bunch of Disney bullshit headwinds?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 01, 2023 04:41 PM (t0OGg)
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"Well...shit...I guess I'll move Kathleen over to Pixar, then."
-Iger
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 01, 2023 04:41 PM (t0OGg)
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"Well...shit...I guess I'll move Kathleen over to Pixar, then."
-Iger
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir at August 01, 2023 04:41 PM (LvTSG)
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54 "there would be alcoholism, prostitution, infidelity, divorces, etc. -- things that aren't ideal and aren't part of the Disney brand."
Throw in grooming and pedophelia and you have the modern Disney brand.
Posted by: Joey Sausage
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The nearby senior Villages also have that going for them along with high STD rates.
Throw in grooming and pedophelia and you have the modern Disney brand.
Posted by: Joey Sausage
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The nearby senior Villages also have that going for them along with high STD rates.
Posted by: whig at August 01, 2023 04:41 PM (bk5GW)
63
Tim Pool had the founders of Angel Studios on last week.
Brothers from Utah (who did the squatty potty unicorn rainbow poop commercial - lol)
Fascinating story of how Disney tried to ELIMINATE them about ten years back. Their original company developed software to censor movies. Parents could select language, nudity, etc. to remove before showing their kids. Disney objected on copyright grounds ( although there is an exception, which the courts ignored).
Disney sued for $62m. The brothers put the company into bankruptcy, and their trustee discovered they could pay the money given time, because some projects were making money. Disney found out they could pay, so they settled, once they realized they could not destroy them.
They became Angel Studios and here we are.
Brothers from Utah (who did the squatty potty unicorn rainbow poop commercial - lol)
Fascinating story of how Disney tried to ELIMINATE them about ten years back. Their original company developed software to censor movies. Parents could select language, nudity, etc. to remove before showing their kids. Disney objected on copyright grounds ( although there is an exception, which the courts ignored).
Disney sued for $62m. The brothers put the company into bankruptcy, and their trustee discovered they could pay the money given time, because some projects were making money. Disney found out they could pay, so they settled, once they realized they could not destroy them.
They became Angel Studios and here we are.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at August 01, 2023 04:41 PM (ufFY8)
Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 01, 2023 04:41 PM (krqg6)
65
Maybe Disney should do a Zombie movie? They certainly have the personnel for it.
Posted by: Puddinhead at August 01, 2023 04:42 PM (DmtxH)
66
You may arrest my corpse.
Posted by: Eromero at August 01, 2023 04:42 PM (vlMl3)
67
Nerdrotic is sort of an American Critical Drinker. Here's his latest, in which he discusses the M-She-U's Secret Invasion, and the loathsome Samuel L. Jackson.
https://tinyurl.com/jsx98w9y
I also liked this discussion of the demise of The Witcher, in which the problem is identified as...you.
https://tinyurl.com/26f8zka4
https://tinyurl.com/jsx98w9y
I also liked this discussion of the demise of The Witcher, in which the problem is identified as...you.
https://tinyurl.com/26f8zka4
Posted by: Archimedes at August 01, 2023 04:42 PM (eOEVl)
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This is hard to blame on Iger. Chapek is the one who gave into the woke crowd and decided to do what they wanted to fight DeSantis. He even ordered the lesbian kiss to be put back into Lightyear.
Not to say Iger wouldn't have done it, though. He probably would have.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir
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Well, there's that rumor that Iger was pulling Chapek's strings all along.
This is hard to blame on Iger. Chapek is the one who gave into the woke crowd and decided to do what they wanted to fight DeSantis. He even ordered the lesbian kiss to be put back into Lightyear.
Not to say Iger wouldn't have done it, though. He probably would have.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir
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Well, there's that rumor that Iger was pulling Chapek's strings all along.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 01, 2023 04:42 PM (lCaJd)
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29 Speaking of movies , I just watched TheThin Man this morning for the first time. Fantastic how it holds up for being made in 1934.
Posted by: polynikes at August 01, 2023 04:35 PM (MNhXM)
The first 3 in the series are all good, screenwritten by the same husband and wife team. After that, other writers got involved, and the others in the series aren't bad but don't have the same crackle that the first 3 do.
Posted by: polynikes at August 01, 2023 04:35 PM (MNhXM)
The first 3 in the series are all good, screenwritten by the same husband and wife team. After that, other writers got involved, and the others in the series aren't bad but don't have the same crackle that the first 3 do.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 01, 2023 04:42 PM (i9ffA)
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The tag line became "God's Children Are Not For Sale".
Which is central in the movie as a saying of Ballard.
If that is it's tag line, it's not exactly not religious.
Does that mean the US government is religious because currency and documents say "In God We Trust"?
Which is central in the movie as a saying of Ballard.
If that is it's tag line, it's not exactly not religious.
Does that mean the US government is religious because currency and documents say "In God We Trust"?
Posted by: Moron Analyst at August 01, 2023 04:42 PM (JCZqz)
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they figured out that the "QANON" slur wasn't believable after all, so they've switched to "faith-based" as their derogatory of choice
Posted by: AltonJackson at August 01, 2023 04:38 PM (ENBF0)
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Which isn't derogatory unless you're one of the people who write these articles.
But that aside, it's just a misrepresentation. Angel does faith-based movies. That's their thing. This movie is a special case all around, but "journalists" can't be bothered to research anything they write about. And yeah, the tagline has "God" in it. But the movie isn't a Christian production.
Posted by: AltonJackson at August 01, 2023 04:38 PM (ENBF0)
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Which isn't derogatory unless you're one of the people who write these articles.
But that aside, it's just a misrepresentation. Angel does faith-based movies. That's their thing. This movie is a special case all around, but "journalists" can't be bothered to research anything they write about. And yeah, the tagline has "God" in it. But the movie isn't a Christian production.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 01, 2023 04:42 PM (t0OGg)
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*oversees
Posted by: Diesel Jones, Biologist at August 01, 2023 04:42 PM (Vu7A1)
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I watched "Memory" which is an ok Liam Neeson flick.
One of the points in the movie though is the US government does not care about sex trafficking minors...because powerful people want to have sex with them.
I'm not sure how it didn't get the FNM into a tizzy like Sound of Freedom did.
One of the points in the movie though is the US government does not care about sex trafficking minors...because powerful people want to have sex with them.
I'm not sure how it didn't get the FNM into a tizzy like Sound of Freedom did.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 01, 2023 04:42 PM (lc5cP)
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when I hear the whole "alcoholism, prostitution, infidelity, divorces, etc. -- things that aren't ideal and aren't part of the Disney brand" line, I sit back and think of the number of times a Disney movie has a nuclear family that is functional.
Posted by: Kevin in ABQ at August 01, 2023 04:42 PM (KM/q4)
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The bullfrog?
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Johnson.
[nods]
Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 01, 2023 04:41 PM
The cubs traded bullfrog?
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Johnson.
[nods]
Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 01, 2023 04:41 PM
The cubs traded bullfrog?
Posted by: Minnfidel at August 01, 2023 04:43 PM (eqKLj)
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The Thin Man series are pretty good
Posted by: Skip at August 01, 2023 04:37 PM (xhxe
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5 of 6 of the movies were on HBO Max, then my wife and I got through 2 of them and they were removed.
So we're half way through them. The Nick and Nora are really the best part of those movies. The mysteries are (for good reason) a little shop-worn.
Posted by: Skip at August 01, 2023 04:37 PM (xhxe
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5 of 6 of the movies were on HBO Max, then my wife and I got through 2 of them and they were removed.
So we're half way through them. The Nick and Nora are really the best part of those movies. The mysteries are (for good reason) a little shop-worn.
Posted by: Axeman at August 01, 2023 04:43 PM (krQz2)
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Good luck with that. Even if they wanted to do this, why would Lasseter do it? He's running Skydance Animation now, brought a ton of people with him, partnered with Apple, and has re-implemented his model. He basically rebuilt Pixar at Skydance. Why walk from that to go back to Old Pixar, just to face a bunch of Disney bullshit headwinds?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
The first movie he released with Apple "Luck" was quite enjoyable too.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
The first movie he released with Apple "Luck" was quite enjoyable too.
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 01, 2023 04:43 PM (MGB5H)
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When I was a kid, the Walt Disney show on Sunday evenings was a special event. But that hour was a showcase for Disney productions. Now, I'm a bit older, but, darn it, Disney is still an entertainment magnet. Watching those SOBs caught in the downdraft makes me happy.
Posted by: mrp at August 01, 2023 04:43 PM (rj6Yv)
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The "faith-based" label is intended as a slur because most faith-based movies are kind of terrible.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir at August 01, 2023 04:30 PM (LvTSG)
They really mean "morality based" - the kind of normal everyday human morality that they have long since lost or hate, really.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir at August 01, 2023 04:30 PM (LvTSG)
They really mean "morality based" - the kind of normal everyday human morality that they have long since lost or hate, really.
Posted by: Boswell at August 01, 2023 04:43 PM (K+UlC)
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The nearby senior Villages also have that going for them along with high STD rates.
Posted by: whig at August 01, 2023 04:41 PM (bk5GW)
Lol. So true. Viagra delivered by the barge load.
Posted by: whig at August 01, 2023 04:41 PM (bk5GW)
Lol. So true. Viagra delivered by the barge load.
Posted by: Joey Sausage at August 01, 2023 04:43 PM (or2+y)
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I wish nothing but failure and calamity for DisneyCorp.
"From hell's heart I stab at thee!"
"From hell's heart I stab at thee!"
Posted by: No Shirt Shylock at August 01, 2023 04:43 PM (PWI4f)
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The "faith-based" label exists to make you think it's going to be preachy from start to finish.
Ya know, like every liberal Hollywood movie today.
Ya know, like every liberal Hollywood movie today.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at August 01, 2023 04:43 PM (KbCG3)
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Was there even express religion in Sound of Freedom? Or has Faith Based been reduced to not perverted?
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 01, 2023 04:43 PM (i5lJm)
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82 The "faith-based" label exists to make you think it's going to be preachy from start to finish.
Ya know, like every liberal Hollywood movie today.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at August 01, 2023 04:43 PM (KbCG3)
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"You've got to do better, Senator."
-Captain America in the exciting final scene of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier
Ya know, like every liberal Hollywood movie today.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at August 01, 2023 04:43 PM (KbCG3)
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"You've got to do better, Senator."
-Captain America in the exciting final scene of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir at August 01, 2023 04:44 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: Jack Smith at August 01, 2023 04:44 PM (mEzxT)
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when I hear the whole "alcoholism, prostitution, infidelity, divorces, etc. -- things that aren't ideal and aren't part of the Disney brand" line, I sit back and think of the number of times a Disney movie has a nuclear family that is functional.
Posted by: Kevin in ABQ at August 01, 2023 04:42 PM
Oh they're functional. See if you've heard this before. The dad is a bumbling dork who can't do anything, wife has to do everything and save him from himself, kids are smarter than dad and everyone else. Rinse, lather, repeat.
Posted by: Kevin in ABQ at August 01, 2023 04:42 PM
Oh they're functional. See if you've heard this before. The dad is a bumbling dork who can't do anything, wife has to do everything and save him from himself, kids are smarter than dad and everyone else. Rinse, lather, repeat.
Posted by: Minnfidel at August 01, 2023 04:44 PM (eqKLj)
Posted by: Robert at August 01, 2023 04:44 PM (1Yy3c)
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Willowed...
282 I'm completely fine saying that no one who receives Secret Service protection and operates as a government agent with government clearances should be operating with encrypted / self-deleting apps on burner phones.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - The EPA has determined US has cooled since 1948 at August 01, 2023 04:11 PM (x7OL5)
That is a far cry from "no one needs" as asserted by Perfessor. Now, I have no idea if this a troll socking Perfessor, so the list migration isn't the same as a face-to-face statement. Think Friend, Uncertain, Foe. I take the "no one needs" thing as a Foe signature.
In the current social climate, I can very well see using what Perfessor described as being prudent behavior for a conservative activist to protect one's livelihood and family, for example.
Again, I invite Perfessor to address this.
282 I'm completely fine saying that no one who receives Secret Service protection and operates as a government agent with government clearances should be operating with encrypted / self-deleting apps on burner phones.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - The EPA has determined US has cooled since 1948 at August 01, 2023 04:11 PM (x7OL5)
That is a far cry from "no one needs" as asserted by Perfessor. Now, I have no idea if this a troll socking Perfessor, so the list migration isn't the same as a face-to-face statement. Think Friend, Uncertain, Foe. I take the "no one needs" thing as a Foe signature.
In the current social climate, I can very well see using what Perfessor described as being prudent behavior for a conservative activist to protect one's livelihood and family, for example.
Again, I invite Perfessor to address this.
Posted by: Iron Mike Golf A2E6, Easy 6 Titanium Enhanced at August 01, 2023 04:44 PM (8C7+r)
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If you liked Sound of Freedom, I highly recommend "The Abolitionists", the documentary about the sting operations done by Tim Ballard and Operation Underground Railroad. It's compelling because you see the actual footage of the stings, the recorded video and audio of them trapping the baddies. It's tough because you know those are real kids on camera (faces blurred out), not kid actors. But it's compelling footage for those that love true crime stuff.
trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFJCC6wYkP0
That's why I laughed when the left tried to make the trafficking shown in Sound of Freedom as some sort of Qanon conspiracy theory. Dude, the actual stings they based the movie on are ON TAPE!! By their logic, To Catch a Predator is a total Qanon setup.
trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFJCC6wYkP0
That's why I laughed when the left tried to make the trafficking shown in Sound of Freedom as some sort of Qanon conspiracy theory. Dude, the actual stings they based the movie on are ON TAPE!! By their logic, To Catch a Predator is a total Qanon setup.
Posted by: LizLem at August 01, 2023 04:45 PM (Hzx5Z)
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This is hard to blame on Iger. Chapek is the one who gave into the woke crowd and decided to do what they wanted to fight DeSantis. He even ordered the lesbian kiss to be put back into Lightyear.
Not to say Iger wouldn't have done it, though. He probably would have.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir
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He definitely would have. Iger is all-in. And Iger also never really left. I don't envy Chapek *or* the next CEO for that matter. You get to be "CEO" but Iger is still there in the C-suite doing whatever the hell he wants from the shadows, with his own cabal doing everything it can to make things stick.
Not to say Iger wouldn't have done it, though. He probably would have.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir
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He definitely would have. Iger is all-in. And Iger also never really left. I don't envy Chapek *or* the next CEO for that matter. You get to be "CEO" but Iger is still there in the C-suite doing whatever the hell he wants from the shadows, with his own cabal doing everything it can to make things stick.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 01, 2023 04:45 PM (t0OGg)
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Still think its funny that because conservatives liked a film, the Leftists knee-jerked themselves into being against an anti-child trafficking film. OTOH, half of them probably are pedo attracted persons.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at August 01, 2023 04:45 PM (8GBH4)
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What's really frightening is that consumers of CP could be anybody...not necessarily the dirty stinky pervy bum of lore. It could be Mike from Accounting, or your kid's teacher or a highly placed judge. Reading the reports of who gets busted, it's not just the lowlifes of our nightmares. Remember that show where they busted the perps? It was men from all walks of life, many white collar professionals.
Posted by: kallisto at August 01, 2023 04:45 PM (WN6kz)
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63 Tim Pool had the founders of Angel Studios on last week.
Brothers from Utah (who did the squatty potty unicorn rainbow poop commercial - lol)
Fascinating story of how Disney tried to ELIMINATE them about ten years back. Their original company developed software to censor movies. Parents could select language, nudity, etc. to remove before showing their kids. Disney objected on copyright grounds ( although there is an exception, which the courts ignored).
Disney sued for $62m. The brothers put the company into bankruptcy, and their trustee discovered they could pay the money given time, because some projects were making money. Disney found out they could pay, so they settled, once they realized they could not destroy them.
They became Angel Studios and here we are.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at August 01, 2023 04:41 PM (ufFY
Man, I love a story with a happy ending. I didn't know about the origins of Angel Studios. I remember that bowdlerization company - a great idea for movies back then. IIRC, there's actually a working version of that business model out there now.
Brothers from Utah (who did the squatty potty unicorn rainbow poop commercial - lol)
Fascinating story of how Disney tried to ELIMINATE them about ten years back. Their original company developed software to censor movies. Parents could select language, nudity, etc. to remove before showing their kids. Disney objected on copyright grounds ( although there is an exception, which the courts ignored).
Disney sued for $62m. The brothers put the company into bankruptcy, and their trustee discovered they could pay the money given time, because some projects were making money. Disney found out they could pay, so they settled, once they realized they could not destroy them.
They became Angel Studios and here we are.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at August 01, 2023 04:41 PM (ufFY
Man, I love a story with a happy ending. I didn't know about the origins of Angel Studios. I remember that bowdlerization company - a great idea for movies back then. IIRC, there's actually a working version of that business model out there now.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 01, 2023 04:45 PM (/iWhV)
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If I sat on Disney's board I would punch Iger right in his twatty face at that shareholder's meeting. He and the misandrist harpies he has working there have basically taken billions of dollars and mulched them. 100 years ago he would have jumped off a building in shame at that kind of failure.
Posted by: UGAdawg at August 01, 2023 04:45 PM (tRd71)
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Walt was dead in 1966, it was his brother Roy and the Disney board that cancelled Walt's idea of a live work play community as impractical.
Posted by: whig
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Walt's weirdest idea ever. Paraphrasing, "They won't have anything to commit crime *about*!"
Walt was dead in 1966, it was his brother Roy and the Disney board that cancelled Walt's idea of a live work play community as impractical.
Posted by: whig
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Walt's weirdest idea ever. Paraphrasing, "They won't have anything to commit crime *about*!"
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 01, 2023 04:45 PM (lCaJd)
96
You may arrest my corpse.
Posted by: Eromero at August 01, 2023 04:42 PM (vlMl3)
You'll regret that.
Posted by: Eromero at August 01, 2023 04:42 PM (vlMl3)
You'll regret that.
Posted by: Oliver Cromwell at August 01, 2023 04:46 PM (rj6Yv)
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Many reports of leftist monkey-wrenchers turning theater AC off, false fire alarms, projectors failing, inexplicable power failures etc. etc.
Posted by: 13times at August 01, 2023 04:46 PM (0Z82p)
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95 Walt's weirdest idea ever. Paraphrasing, "They won't have anything to commit crime *about*!"
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 01, 2023 04:45 PM (lCaJd)
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Utopians are deluded and dangerous.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 01, 2023 04:45 PM (lCaJd)
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Utopians are deluded and dangerous.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir at August 01, 2023 04:46 PM (LvTSG)
99
You know who else failed spectacularly on the world stage...
Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at August 01, 2023 04:46 PM (flINI)
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I'm not sure how it didn't get the FNM into a tizzy like Sound of Freedom did.
Posted by: 18-1
Cause Neeson played Kinsey and he's one of their pervert idols.
Posted by: 18-1
Cause Neeson played Kinsey and he's one of their pervert idols.
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 01, 2023 04:46 PM (MGB5H)
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Posted by: Jack Smith at August 01, 2023 04:44 PM (mEzxT)
No worries.. It's not being covered in the "media"
No worries.. It's not being covered in the "media"
Posted by: It's me donna at August 01, 2023 04:46 PM (bs+z0)
102
I hope the movie does very well
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at August 01, 2023 04:46 PM (xcxpd)
103
Disney will be losing copyright on the first version of Mickey Mouse on Jan 1, 2024 and there is no chance of them getting that copyright extended this time.
Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at August 01, 2023 04:46 PM (CecP5)
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Was there even express religion in Sound of Freedom? Or has Faith Based been reduced to not perverted?
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 01, 2023 04:43 PM (i5lJm)
It's "Faith Based" because it's distributed by a religious studio. The movie itself isn't religious.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 01, 2023 04:43 PM (i5lJm)
It's "Faith Based" because it's distributed by a religious studio. The movie itself isn't religious.
Posted by: Robert at August 01, 2023 04:46 PM (1Yy3c)
105
In two years the stock price of Disney has gone from 180 to about 90.
Posted by: Tom C at August 01, 2023 04:46 PM (LuS+c)
106
Is the Turtle dead yet?
Posted by: Maj. Healey at August 01, 2023 04:47 PM (/MvYl)
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 01, 2023 04:47 PM (i5lJm)
108
Faith in what? Are they afraid to say?
I probably won't see this movie but am glad it's doing so well. We need more Freedoms.
I probably won't see this movie but am glad it's doing so well. We need more Freedoms.
Posted by: fd at August 01, 2023 04:47 PM (hTSHN)
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Legal Mindset on utube has been covering the legal aspects of the Disney thing very well, as he was a special district lawyer from the area.
August 9 earnings call with the fucking Mouse will be lit AF. Valliant Renegade will cover it live on utube.
August 9 earnings call with the fucking Mouse will be lit AF. Valliant Renegade will cover it live on utube.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at August 01, 2023 04:47 PM (ufFY8)
110
Pray for me, I have to watch The Mosquito Coast again.
I hated it the first time, I'm afraid I'm going to hate it this time too.
I hated it the first time, I'm afraid I'm going to hate it this time too.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at August 01, 2023 04:47 PM (xcxpd)
111
In two years the stock price of Disney has gone from 180 to about 90.
Posted by: Tom C at August 01, 2023 04:46 PM
Turn those machines back on!
Posted by: Tom C at August 01, 2023 04:46 PM
Turn those machines back on!
Posted by: Minnfidel at August 01, 2023 04:47 PM (eqKLj)
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84 82 The "faith-based" label exists to make you think it's going to be preachy from start to finish.
Ya know, like every liberal Hollywood movie today.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at August 01, 2023 04:43 PM (KbCG3)
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"You've got to do better, Senator."
-Captain America in the exciting final scene of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir at August 01, 2023 04:44 PM (LvTSG)
Critical Drinker got several minutes of fantastic content out of that one line. Which is the only reason I've heard it.
Ya know, like every liberal Hollywood movie today.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at August 01, 2023 04:43 PM (KbCG3)
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"You've got to do better, Senator."
-Captain America in the exciting final scene of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir at August 01, 2023 04:44 PM (LvTSG)
Critical Drinker got several minutes of fantastic content out of that one line. Which is the only reason I've heard it.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at August 01, 2023 04:47 PM (KbCG3)
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103 Disney will be losing copyright on the first version of Mickey Mouse on Jan 1, 2024 and there is no chance of them getting that copyright extended this time.
Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at August 01, 2023 04:46 PM (CecP5)
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Well, I wouldn't say "no chance." This is the federal government we're talking about. They could throw in another extension in the middle of the omnibus spending bill we're probably going to get in another month.
But, most likely, they'll lose it. Fingers crossed.
Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at August 01, 2023 04:46 PM (CecP5)
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Well, I wouldn't say "no chance." This is the federal government we're talking about. They could throw in another extension in the middle of the omnibus spending bill we're probably going to get in another month.
But, most likely, they'll lose it. Fingers crossed.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir at August 01, 2023 04:47 PM (LvTSG)
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@46 It's funny that former Governors such as Rick Scott, Charlie Christ or Jeb Bush never thought about doing the same thing, but sooner.
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Status quo tends to stay that way until there's a provocation. If Disney had kept its nose out of Florida's politics, DeSantis probably wouldn't have done anything either. But Disney meddled in politics that didn't otherwise concern it. And it shouldn't have done that with a government that was giving it preferential treatment.
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Status quo tends to stay that way until there's a provocation. If Disney had kept its nose out of Florida's politics, DeSantis probably wouldn't have done anything either. But Disney meddled in politics that didn't otherwise concern it. And it shouldn't have done that with a government that was giving it preferential treatment.
Posted by: junior at August 01, 2023 04:47 PM (YjjOD)
115
If I sat on Disney's board I would punch Iger right in his twatty face at that shareholder's meeting. He and the misandrist harpies he has working there have basically taken billions of dollars and mulched them. 100 years ago he would have jumped off a building in shame at that kind of failure.
Posted by: UGAdawg at August 01, 2023 04:45 PM (tRd71)
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The Board put him there. The Board put him back. The Board extended his contract.
Iger has wrecked the company, but the Board needs to go, too. Entirely. Gone. Full replacement.
Posted by: UGAdawg at August 01, 2023 04:45 PM (tRd71)
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The Board put him there. The Board put him back. The Board extended his contract.
Iger has wrecked the company, but the Board needs to go, too. Entirely. Gone. Full replacement.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 01, 2023 04:47 PM (t0OGg)
116
Utopians are deluded and dangerous.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir at August 01, 2023 04:46 PM (LvTSG)
You....are not of the Body?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir at August 01, 2023 04:46 PM (LvTSG)
You....are not of the Body?
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at August 01, 2023 04:47 PM (N3zMI)
117
The key to bringing creative destruction to Disney and Warner Brothers and the rest of Hollywood is not faith-based films or BASED films or any other non-woke content production within the existing system.
The key is a superior business model that The System cannot co-opt.
The key is a superior business model that The System cannot co-opt.
Posted by: Candidus at August 01, 2023 04:48 PM (Zc7Fe)
118
Disney will be losing copyright on the first version of Mickey Mouse on Jan 1, 2024 and there is no chance of them getting that copyright extended this time.
Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at August 01, 2023 04:46 PM (CecP5)
Ahem.
Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at August 01, 2023 04:46 PM (CecP5)
Ahem.
Posted by: 20K Page Omnibus Budget Bill at August 01, 2023 04:48 PM (i5lJm)
119
One of the points in the movie though is the US government does not care about sex trafficking minors...because powerful people want to have sex with them.
One of the first agenda items of the Bidet administration was to redirect the anti-child trafficking unit that Trump had set up. They are now assigned to investigating and apprehending J6 participants.
One of the first agenda items of the Bidet administration was to redirect the anti-child trafficking unit that Trump had set up. They are now assigned to investigating and apprehending J6 participants.
Posted by: kallisto at August 01, 2023 04:48 PM (WN6kz)
120
In two years the stock price of Disney has gone from 180 to about 90.
In the same time the Dow has gone up 35%
In the same time the Dow has gone up 35%
Posted by: Tom C at August 01, 2023 04:48 PM (LuS+c)
121
Disney?
Too big to fail - GOP
Too big to fail - GOP
Posted by: Maj. Healey at August 01, 2023 04:48 PM (/MvYl)
122
Walt's weirdest idea ever. Paraphrasing, "They won't have anything to commit crime *about*!"
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 01, 2023 04:45 PM (lCaJd)
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He must have been planning on not allowing guests from out of town then.
Even if you "solved" the crime problem of citizens, they still have relatives that don't live there.
Not to mention that the town is owned by a "White guy" which would become problematic in a New York Minute after ~2000.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 01, 2023 04:45 PM (lCaJd)
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He must have been planning on not allowing guests from out of town then.
Even if you "solved" the crime problem of citizens, they still have relatives that don't live there.
Not to mention that the town is owned by a "White guy" which would become problematic in a New York Minute after ~2000.
Posted by: Axeman at August 01, 2023 04:48 PM (krQz2)
123
He quotes the Bible in one scene.
Posted by: Iris at August 01, 2023 04:48 PM (NaH5I)
124
110 Pray for me, I have to watch The Mosquito Coast again.
I hated it the first time, I'm afraid I'm going to hate it this time too.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at August 01, 2023 04:47 PM (xcxpd)
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I liked it more the second time than the first. Weir doesn't like utopians.
I hated it the first time, I'm afraid I'm going to hate it this time too.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at August 01, 2023 04:47 PM (xcxpd)
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I liked it more the second time than the first. Weir doesn't like utopians.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir at August 01, 2023 04:48 PM (LvTSG)
125
why would Lasseter do it? He's running Skydance Animation now, brought a ton of people with him, partnered with Apple, and has re-implemented his model. He basically rebuilt Pixar at Skydance. Why walk from that to go back to Old Pixar, just to face a bunch of Disney bullshit headwinds?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
Similar to how Ethan Van Sciver will never go back to mainstream comics, even if they invited him.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
Similar to how Ethan Van Sciver will never go back to mainstream comics, even if they invited him.
Posted by: Moron Analyst at August 01, 2023 04:48 PM (JCZqz)
126
Well, if disapproval of child sex trafficking is faith-based, then I think faith is a very good idea, and lack of faith is a very bad idea.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 01, 2023 04:48 PM (PHmov)
127
Are they still going to do the remake of Steambath Willie?
Posted by: The Grand Poof at August 01, 2023 04:48 PM (tO+U3)
128
The producer who is one of the stars is a big star in Mexico. The director is also Mexican.
They'll do a lot of screens in Mexico
They'll do a lot of screens in Mexico
Posted by: blaster at August 01, 2023 04:48 PM (LCpB6)
129
wish nothing but failure and calamity for DisneyCorp.
"From hell's heart I stab at thee!"
Posted by: No Shirt Shylock at August 01, 2023 04:43 PM (PWI4f)
I watched Star Trek : Into the Darkness yesterday.
Or the third Khan .
It was okay but I couldn’t get past the part where Scotty apparently traveled by shuttle craft to Jupiter from Earth in a matter of hours. They also killed Pike instead of making him a beep beep vegetable. 2 out of 4
"From hell's heart I stab at thee!"
Posted by: No Shirt Shylock at August 01, 2023 04:43 PM (PWI4f)
I watched Star Trek : Into the Darkness yesterday.
Or the third Khan .
It was okay but I couldn’t get past the part where Scotty apparently traveled by shuttle craft to Jupiter from Earth in a matter of hours. They also killed Pike instead of making him a beep beep vegetable. 2 out of 4
Posted by: polynikes at August 01, 2023 04:49 PM (MNhXM)
130
112 "You've got to do better, Senator."
-Captain America in the exciting final scene of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir at August 01, 2023 04:44 PM (LvTSG)
Critical Drinker got several minutes of fantastic content out of that one line. Which is the only reason I've heard it.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at August 01, 2023 04:47 PM (KbCG3)
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The only reason I know it. Dolley and I tried to watch the show, but we couldn't get 15 minutes into the first episode.
-Captain America in the exciting final scene of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir at August 01, 2023 04:44 PM (LvTSG)
Critical Drinker got several minutes of fantastic content out of that one line. Which is the only reason I've heard it.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at August 01, 2023 04:47 PM (KbCG3)
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The only reason I know it. Dolley and I tried to watch the show, but we couldn't get 15 minutes into the first episode.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir at August 01, 2023 04:49 PM (LvTSG)
131
"Kevin Mayer and Tom Staggs have been rehired to advise Iger on how to deal with Disney's legacy television businesses, including the ESPN sports network, according to multiple news sources."
The Patriarchy! Reeeeeee!
The Patriarchy! Reeeeeee!
Posted by: WisRich at August 01, 2023 04:49 PM (G0vdT)
132
110 Pray for me, I have to watch The Mosquito Coast again.
I hated it the first time, I'm afraid I'm going to hate it this time too.
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The book was better than the movie but the book did drag at times.
I hated it the first time, I'm afraid I'm going to hate it this time too.
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The book was better than the movie but the book did drag at times.
Posted by: Puddinhead at August 01, 2023 04:50 PM (0chEi)
133
Are they still going to do the remake of Steambath Willie?
Posted by: The Grand Poof at August 01, 2023 04:48 PM
Steam bath? Yes, starring Joe Biden. They are going to rename it A Family Affair.
Posted by: The Grand Poof at August 01, 2023 04:48 PM
Steam bath? Yes, starring Joe Biden. They are going to rename it A Family Affair.
Posted by: Minnfidel at August 01, 2023 04:50 PM (eqKLj)
134
including the ESPN sports network, according to multiple news sources."
The Patriarchy! Reeeeeee!
Posted by: WisRich at August 01, 2023 04:49 PM (G0vdT)
ESPN ? It's dead Jim
The Patriarchy! Reeeeeee!
Posted by: WisRich at August 01, 2023 04:49 PM (G0vdT)
ESPN ? It's dead Jim
Posted by: It's me donna at August 01, 2023 04:50 PM (bs+z0)
135
I think Walt and Roy died before Walt's planned Experimental Prototype City of Tomorrow (EPCOT) could get off the ground.
The Disney board canceled the city, and international airport, and just built the theme parks.
The Disney board canceled the city, and international airport, and just built the theme parks.
Posted by: rd at August 01, 2023 04:50 PM (XPXNB)
136
Since movie thread....my oldest girl made me sit down and watch MI's 4 through 7 these past couple weeks. I'd never seen them before and didn't really know what to expect.
I had a hell of a lot more fun than I thought I would.
I had a hell of a lot more fun than I thought I would.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at August 01, 2023 04:50 PM (N3zMI)
137
In two years the stock price of Disney has gone from 180 to about 90.
In the same time the Dow has gone up 35%
Posted by: Tom C at August 01, 2023 04:48 PM
And inflation reached double digits in those two years devaluing the money even further......
In the same time the Dow has gone up 35%
Posted by: Tom C at August 01, 2023 04:48 PM
And inflation reached double digits in those two years devaluing the money even further......
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 01, 2023 04:50 PM (QNSds)
138
119 One of the points in the movie though is the US government does not care about sex trafficking minors...because powerful people want to have sex with them.
One of the first agenda items of the Bidet administration was to redirect the anti-child trafficking unit that Trump had set up. They are now assigned to investigating and apprehending J6 participants.
Posted by: kallisto at August 01, 2023 04:48 PM (WN6kz)
^^THIS is the most horrifying thing about the complete and utter decline of our culture. How could they do this without being evil? All the more reason to arrest them and let none be pardoned. Maybe put it cells and forced to listen to "It's a Small World After All".
One of the first agenda items of the Bidet administration was to redirect the anti-child trafficking unit that Trump had set up. They are now assigned to investigating and apprehending J6 participants.
Posted by: kallisto at August 01, 2023 04:48 PM (WN6kz)
^^THIS is the most horrifying thing about the complete and utter decline of our culture. How could they do this without being evil? All the more reason to arrest them and let none be pardoned. Maybe put it cells and forced to listen to "It's a Small World After All".
Posted by: Iris at August 01, 2023 04:51 PM (NaH5I)
139
How do you guys know the names of all these animators and execs? Buncha nerds!
Posted by: Minnfidel at August 01, 2023 04:51 PM (eqKLj)
140
I hope the movie does very well
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at August 01, 2023 04:46 PM (xcxpd)
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It already has. Per today's figures from "The Numbers," the movie has made $151.3 million at the box office. It's creeping up on Indiana Jones in terms of total domestic box office revenues (Indy 5 is at $167.6 million). When its run finishes, it will probably have outdone Disney's last failed "tentpole" movie.
SoF is an objective hit. It's also simultaneous an utter humiliation for Disney.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at August 01, 2023 04:46 PM (xcxpd)
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It already has. Per today's figures from "The Numbers," the movie has made $151.3 million at the box office. It's creeping up on Indiana Jones in terms of total domestic box office revenues (Indy 5 is at $167.6 million). When its run finishes, it will probably have outdone Disney's last failed "tentpole" movie.
SoF is an objective hit. It's also simultaneous an utter humiliation for Disney.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 01, 2023 04:51 PM (t0OGg)
141
124 110 Pray for me, I have to watch The Mosquito Coast again.
I hated it the first time, I'm afraid I'm going to hate it this time too.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at August 01, 2023 04:47 PM (xcxpd)
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I liked it more the second time than the first. Weir doesn't like utopians.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir at August 01, 2023 04:48 PM (LvTSG)
I don't either. The problem is the protagonist is a utopian. Who likes icemakers. And he's a whiny bitch atheist.
I hated it the first time, I'm afraid I'm going to hate it this time too.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at August 01, 2023 04:47 PM (xcxpd)
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I liked it more the second time than the first. Weir doesn't like utopians.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir at August 01, 2023 04:48 PM (LvTSG)
I don't either. The problem is the protagonist is a utopian. Who likes icemakers. And he's a whiny bitch atheist.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at August 01, 2023 04:51 PM (xcxpd)
142
127 Are they still going to do the remake of Steambath Willie?
Posted by: The Grand Poof at August 01, 2023 04:48 PM (tO+U3)
SteamBath Willy and the Den of Sodomy
Posted by: The Grand Poof at August 01, 2023 04:48 PM (tO+U3)
SteamBath Willy and the Den of Sodomy
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 01, 2023 04:51 PM (i9ffA)
143
Anyone wealthy with a Burner Phone is as suspicious as Bill Gates in a homeless tent in LA. Something is going on there, and it isn't good.
Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at August 01, 2023 04:51 PM (CecP5)
144
Many reports of leftist monkey-wrenchers turning theater AC off, false fire alarms, projectors failing, inexplicable power failures etc. etc.
Posted by: 13times at August 01, 2023 04:46 PM (0Z82p)
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Crowd-sourced censorship.
That's not against the 1st amendment--because people are doing it!
Posted by: 13times at August 01, 2023 04:46 PM (0Z82p)
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Crowd-sourced censorship.
That's not against the 1st amendment--because people are doing it!
Posted by: Axeman at August 01, 2023 04:51 PM (krQz2)
145
Pray for me, I have to watch The Mosquito Coast again.
I hated it the first time, I'm afraid I'm going to hate it this time too.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at August 01, 2023 04:47 PM (xcxpd)
I need to know why you are forced to watch before I can pray.
I hated it the first time, I'm afraid I'm going to hate it this time too.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at August 01, 2023 04:47 PM (xcxpd)
I need to know why you are forced to watch before I can pray.
Posted by: polynikes at August 01, 2023 04:51 PM (MNhXM)
146
141 I don't either. The problem is the protagonist is a utopian. Who likes icemakers. And he's a whiny bitch atheist.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at August 01, 2023 04:51 PM (xcxpd)
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I'd say he gets his comeuppance in the end. It's not my favorite Weir, but Allie Fox is not exactly some kind of hero.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at August 01, 2023 04:51 PM (xcxpd)
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I'd say he gets his comeuppance in the end. It's not my favorite Weir, but Allie Fox is not exactly some kind of hero.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir at August 01, 2023 04:52 PM (LvTSG)
147
Kevin Mayer and Tom Staggs have been rehired to advise Iger on how to deal with Disney's legacy television businesses, including the ESPN sports network, according to multiple news sources.
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Kind of funny that every major league sport going woke and alienating their base has the happy side effect of further screwing Disney out of an audience.
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Kind of funny that every major league sport going woke and alienating their base has the happy side effect of further screwing Disney out of an audience.
Posted by: Joe, living dangerously at August 01, 2023 04:52 PM (fKIdX)
148
Ohhh, love the Thin Man series!! Powell and Loy are just the best together.
Even though some of the later films have moments that sag, or are a little cringe (softening Nick's drinking with milk, some cringe scene of the maid with the new fangled fellytone or playing racial/cultural stereotypes for laughs), they are always a great duo and they mysteries have fun angles. Look forward to a young Jimmy Stewart. Whole series is in my permanent collection and I love going back to them.
Even though some of the later films have moments that sag, or are a little cringe (softening Nick's drinking with milk, some cringe scene of the maid with the new fangled fellytone or playing racial/cultural stereotypes for laughs), they are always a great duo and they mysteries have fun angles. Look forward to a young Jimmy Stewart. Whole series is in my permanent collection and I love going back to them.
Posted by: LizLem at August 01, 2023 04:52 PM (Hzx5Z)
149
It's a "political thriller", you see. Because child sex trafficking is a political issue.
Insane.
Insane.
Posted by: Sharkman at August 01, 2023 04:52 PM (O0UOO)
150
SteamBath Willy and the Den of Sodomy
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 01, 2023 04:51 PM
Kinky! That's tight fat!
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 01, 2023 04:51 PM
Kinky! That's tight fat!
Posted by: Boe Jiden at August 01, 2023 04:52 PM (eqKLj)
151
He must have been planning on not allowing guests from out of town then.
Posted by: Axeman
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He'd gotten a little carried away with himself.
He must have been planning on not allowing guests from out of town then.
Posted by: Axeman
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He'd gotten a little carried away with himself.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 01, 2023 04:52 PM (lCaJd)
152
He quotes the Bible in one scene.
Posted by: Iris at August 01, 2023 04:48 PM (NaH5I)
Yeah, he references the millstone around a perp's neck.
And "God's children are not for sale. "
That is about it. Really "religious".
LOL
Another reason to distrust the media.
Posted by: Iris at August 01, 2023 04:48 PM (NaH5I)
Yeah, he references the millstone around a perp's neck.
And "God's children are not for sale. "
That is about it. Really "religious".
LOL
Another reason to distrust the media.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at August 01, 2023 04:52 PM (ufFY8)
153
103 Disney will be losing copyright on the first version of Mickey Mouse on Jan 1, 2024 and there is no chance of them getting that copyright extended this time.
Posted by: An Observation
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Early Disney was built on stories from common domain/out of copyright. Congress (GOP controlled extending the copyright to ludicrous length in order to benefit corporations is a perfect example of where an organized interest screwed the general public for fun and profit.) Scotus went along with it too which is another black mark.
Posted by: An Observation
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Early Disney was built on stories from common domain/out of copyright. Congress (GOP controlled extending the copyright to ludicrous length in order to benefit corporations is a perfect example of where an organized interest screwed the general public for fun and profit.) Scotus went along with it too which is another black mark.
Posted by: whig at August 01, 2023 04:52 PM (bk5GW)
154
Alcoholism! Prostitution! Infidelity!
Alcoholism! Prostitution! Infidelity!
Posted by: SFGoth at August 01, 2023 04:53 PM (KAi1n)
155
Iger should watch the movie Skyscraper Souls (1931) and emulate the main characters in it.
Posted by: Cruel, But Fair at August 01, 2023 04:53 PM (tO+U3)
156
Good luck with that. Even if they wanted to do this, why would Lasseter do it? He's running Skydance Animation now, brought a ton of people with him, partnered with Apple, and has re-implemented his model.
Was Luck decent? I haven't seen it yet, but if it's even just old Pixar average it's crapping all over current Pixar.
Was Luck decent? I haven't seen it yet, but if it's even just old Pixar average it's crapping all over current Pixar.
Posted by: Ian S. at August 01, 2023 04:53 PM (ZGrMX)
157
I liked it more the second time than the first. Weir doesn't like utopians.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir at August 01, 2023 04:48 PM (LvTSG)
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It's a tough watch, but I think it's an excellent film.
We like to like our protagonists. But I think it's a top performance by Ford.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir at August 01, 2023 04:48 PM (LvTSG)
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It's a tough watch, but I think it's an excellent film.
We like to like our protagonists. But I think it's a top performance by Ford.
Posted by: Axeman at August 01, 2023 04:53 PM (krQz2)
158
122 Walt's weirdest idea ever. Paraphrasing, "They won't have anything to commit crime *about*!"
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 01, 2023 04:45 PM (lCaJd)
Walt shoulda seen our current Congressmen.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 01, 2023 04:45 PM (lCaJd)
Walt shoulda seen our current Congressmen.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 01, 2023 04:53 PM (i9ffA)
159
I need to know why you are forced to watch before I can pray.
Posted by: polynikes at August 01, 2023 04:51 PM
Yea, It's not like he has to eat a bannana out of some ho's hoo-ha.
Posted by: polynikes at August 01, 2023 04:51 PM
Yea, It's not like he has to eat a bannana out of some ho's hoo-ha.
Posted by: Minnfidel at August 01, 2023 04:53 PM (eqKLj)
160
Well, if disapproval of child sex trafficking is faith-based, then I think faith is a very good idea, and lack of faith is a very bad idea.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 01, 2023 04:48 PM (PHmov)
Word.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 01, 2023 04:48 PM (PHmov)
Word.
Posted by: Your Old Buddy The Prophet Mohammed at August 01, 2023 04:53 PM (1Yy3c)
161
ESPN ? It's dead Jim
Posted by: It's me donna
College football and MNF are the only 2 things keeping its head above water.
Posted by: It's me donna
College football and MNF are the only 2 things keeping its head above water.
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 01, 2023 04:53 PM (MGB5H)
162
^^THIS is the most horrifying thing about the complete and utter decline of our culture. How could they do this without being evil?
Oddly Ashley Biden taking showers at two in the morning agrees with you.
Oddly Ashley Biden taking showers at two in the morning agrees with you.
Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at August 01, 2023 04:53 PM (CecP5)
163
SoF is an objective hit. It's also simultaneous an utter humiliation for Disney.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 01, 2023 04:51 PM (t0OGg)
Hitting a Daily Double!
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 01, 2023 04:51 PM (t0OGg)
Hitting a Daily Double!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 01, 2023 04:54 PM (PHmov)
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145 Pray for me, I have to watch The Mosquito Coast again.
I hated it the first time, I'm afraid I'm going to hate it this time too.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at August 01, 2023 04:47 PM (xcxpd)
I need to know why you are forced to watch before I can pray.
Posted by: polynikes at August 01, 2023 04:51 PM (MNhXM)
TJM is doing a Peter Weir retrospective on his blog. I actually like Weir and I've seen almost all his movies. But it's been a while for some of them, so I need to rewatch so I can comment intelligently rather than just make up stuff and talk about boobs or guns on his blog.
I hated it the first time, I'm afraid I'm going to hate it this time too.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at August 01, 2023 04:47 PM (xcxpd)
I need to know why you are forced to watch before I can pray.
Posted by: polynikes at August 01, 2023 04:51 PM (MNhXM)
TJM is doing a Peter Weir retrospective on his blog. I actually like Weir and I've seen almost all his movies. But it's been a while for some of them, so I need to rewatch so I can comment intelligently rather than just make up stuff and talk about boobs or guns on his blog.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at August 01, 2023 04:54 PM (xcxpd)
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160 Well, if disapproval of child sex trafficking is faith-based, then I think faith is a very good idea, and lack of faith is a very bad idea.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 01, 2023 04:48 PM (PHmov)
This, 1000%.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 01, 2023 04:48 PM (PHmov)
This, 1000%.
Posted by: Nova Local at August 01, 2023 04:54 PM (exHjb)
166
Are they still going to do the remake of Steambath Willie?
Posted by: The Grand Poof at August 01, 2023 04:48 PM (tO+U3)
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You mean Bathhouse Willie?
Posted by: The Grand Poof at August 01, 2023 04:48 PM (tO+U3)
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You mean Bathhouse Willie?
Posted by: Axeman at August 01, 2023 04:54 PM (krQz2)
167
I went to look up the 1940 Disney film Pinocchio. Family legend said that Mom brought me to see it, and the sequence with the whale scared me. We couldn't have gone in 1940 or '45, as I hadn't been born yet. But the next release, I was one year old; and the one after that, I was nine and would have been thrilled by the action scenes, not frightened. Maybe there was a road show release when I was four or five.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 01, 2023 04:54 PM (J2vNu)
168
But it's been a while for some of them, so I need to rewatch so I can comment intelligently rather than just make up stuff and talk about boobs or guns on his blog.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at August 01, 2023 04:54 PM (xcxpd)
Who are you and what have you done with the real MAE? :-)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at August 01, 2023 04:54 PM (xcxpd)
Who are you and what have you done with the real MAE? :-)
Posted by: Iris at August 01, 2023 04:55 PM (NaH5I)
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Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at August 01, 2023 04:54 PM (xcxpd)
Mosquito Coast ? Did that have Harrison Ford in it ?
Mosquito Coast ? Did that have Harrison Ford in it ?
Posted by: It's me donna at August 01, 2023 04:55 PM (bs+z0)
170
August 9 earnings call with the fucking Mouse will be lit AF. Valliant Renegade will cover it live on utube.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at August 01, 2023 04:47 PM
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Nagasaki 2.0?
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at August 01, 2023 04:47 PM
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Nagasaki 2.0?
Posted by: rd at August 01, 2023 04:55 PM (/dKp1)
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153 Early Disney was built on stories from common domain/out of copyright. Congress (GOP controlled extending the copyright to ludicrous length in order to benefit corporations is a perfect example of where an organized interest screwed the general public for fun and profit.) Scotus went along with it too which is another black mark.
Posted by: whig at August 01, 2023 04:52 PM (bk5GW)
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Copyright is generally stupid, but America has some of the dumbest. My favorite thing is when people defend extended copyright by wondering if we would ever have a Shakespeare or a Mozart without it. Of course, neither had copyright protection and their works got stolen immediately after the first productions with competing performances popping up a week or so later.
14 years with a single, optional, must be actively applied for extension of one more 14 year period. Must be held by an individual. Cannot be transferred in any way. If the artist dies, the works enter the public domain. That's what I want.
Posted by: whig at August 01, 2023 04:52 PM (bk5GW)
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Copyright is generally stupid, but America has some of the dumbest. My favorite thing is when people defend extended copyright by wondering if we would ever have a Shakespeare or a Mozart without it. Of course, neither had copyright protection and their works got stolen immediately after the first productions with competing performances popping up a week or so later.
14 years with a single, optional, must be actively applied for extension of one more 14 year period. Must be held by an individual. Cannot be transferred in any way. If the artist dies, the works enter the public domain. That's what I want.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir at August 01, 2023 04:55 PM (LvTSG)
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The movie does NOT even suggest that the reason for USG not pursuing child trafficking is high ranking people are behind it.
The character Ballard has a job of pursuing users/purveyors of child porn in the US.
He wants to save the children. Who are outside the US and his jurisdiction.
The character Ballard has a job of pursuing users/purveyors of child porn in the US.
He wants to save the children. Who are outside the US and his jurisdiction.
Posted by: blaster at August 01, 2023 04:55 PM (LCpB6)
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"Kevin Mayer and Tom Staggs have been rehired"
A couple of white guys to save the diversity mavens.
A couple of white guys to save the diversity mavens.
Posted by: Tom C at August 01, 2023 04:56 PM (LuS+c)
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Posted by: LizLem at August 01, 2023 04:52 PM (Hzx5Z)
yes Powell and Loy are a great team. I watched Myrna Loy in "The Rains Came", a 1938 movie, and I couldn't believe how compelling it was. The subject matter was one that I normally would pass over, but it was one of Ty Power's early movies so I watched it. The movies of those days always had excellent supporting cast, especially the Brits.
yes Powell and Loy are a great team. I watched Myrna Loy in "The Rains Came", a 1938 movie, and I couldn't believe how compelling it was. The subject matter was one that I normally would pass over, but it was one of Ty Power's early movies so I watched it. The movies of those days always had excellent supporting cast, especially the Brits.
Posted by: kallisto at August 01, 2023 04:56 PM (WN6kz)
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Another reason to distrust the media.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at August 01, 2023 04:52 PM (ufFY
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Overstocked.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at August 01, 2023 04:52 PM (ufFY
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Overstocked.
Posted by: Axeman at August 01, 2023 04:56 PM (krQz2)
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I never saw Mosquito Coast. I assume Ford plays a curmudgeon that never laughs and always seems miserable?
Posted by: polynikes at August 01, 2023 04:56 PM (MNhXM)
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Alcoholism! Prostitution! Infidelity!
Posted by: SFGoth at August 01, 2023 04:53 PM
(Sudden flash and puff of smoke)
I have been summoned!!!
Alcoholism! Prostitution! Infidelity!
Posted by: SFGoth at August 01, 2023 04:53 PM
(Sudden flash and puff of smoke)
I have been summoned!!!
Posted by: Hunter Biden at August 01, 2023 04:56 PM (JCZqz)
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Was Luck decent? I haven't seen it yet, but if it's even just old Pixar average it's crapping all over current Pixar.
Posted by: Ian S. at
Luck is quite enjoyable. I'd say mid tier old PIXAR.
Posted by: Ian S. at
Luck is quite enjoyable. I'd say mid tier old PIXAR.
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 01, 2023 04:56 PM (MGB5H)
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BREAKING: Trump just indicted again.
Posted by: ShainS at August 01, 2023 04:56 PM (wx9X4)
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Another reason to distrust the media.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at August 01, 2023 04:52 PM (ufFY
I know this is going to shock you, but the writer of that article went to Columbia Journalism, and worked in D.C. and NYC before moving to Los Angeles.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at August 01, 2023 04:52 PM (ufFY
I know this is going to shock you, but the writer of that article went to Columbia Journalism, and worked in D.C. and NYC before moving to Los Angeles.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 01, 2023 04:56 PM (PHmov)
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The Sound of Freedom Breaks $150 Million Domestically, and Prepares, Finally, for a Global Release
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That's $150 million+ that Disney could have had if it hadn't been so determined to champion perversion.
You've got to laugh.
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That's $150 million+ that Disney could have had if it hadn't been so determined to champion perversion.
You've got to laugh.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 01, 2023 04:56 PM (YqDXo)
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so I can comment intelligently rather than just make up stuff and talk about boobs
That is the most ridiculous thing I have read today.
That is the most ridiculous thing I have read today.
Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at August 01, 2023 04:57 PM (ufFY8)
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I'm surprised that Wolfus hasn't said that he lives in the Mosquito Coast.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 01, 2023 04:57 PM (i9ffA)
Posted by: Puddinhead at August 01, 2023 04:57 PM (0chEi)
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Further, ratings, and ad rates, for Disney+ and ESPN+ are so bad that Disney is trying to hide that by bundling it in packages with other Disney offerings like ABC and Hulu.
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Bottom line (?): the dogs don't like the dog food.
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Bottom line (?): the dogs don't like the dog food.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 01, 2023 04:57 PM (YqDXo)
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179 BREAKING: Trump just indicted again.
Posted by: ShainS at August 01, 2023 04:56 PM (wx9X4)
Must cover for the burner phone and the Ashley Biden shower diary
Posted by: ShainS at August 01, 2023 04:56 PM (wx9X4)
Must cover for the burner phone and the Ashley Biden shower diary
Posted by: It's me donna at August 01, 2023 04:57 PM (bs+z0)
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The movie does have a scene where they show a gay couple with a male child in a room. It couldn't have been more than 1 minute but I thought "couldn't be made today"
Posted by: Iris at August 01, 2023 04:57 PM (NaH5I)
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Barbie, Oppenheimer, AND MI:7 are all suddenly available to borrow. Does Eastern Europe get movies on stream or disc before the rest of the world?
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 01, 2023 04:58 PM (i5lJm)
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182 so I can comment intelligently rather than just make up stuff and talk about boobs
That is the most ridiculous thing I have read today.
Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at August 01, 2023 04:57 PM
Of course we COULD...but why would anyone?
That is the most ridiculous thing I have read today.
Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at August 01, 2023 04:57 PM
Of course we COULD...but why would anyone?
Posted by: Moron Analyst at August 01, 2023 04:58 PM (JCZqz)
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I believe Skydance made one of my favorite CG animations: Rango.
Posted by: Axeman at August 01, 2023 04:58 PM (krQz2)
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Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at August 01, 2023 04:54 PM (xcxpd
That’s not very Moron of you. I’ll pray anyway.
That’s not very Moron of you. I’ll pray anyway.
Posted by: polynikes at August 01, 2023 04:58 PM (MNhXM)
Posted by: JackStraw at August 01, 2023 04:58 PM (ZLI7S)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at August 01, 2023 04:58 PM (ppBhU)
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DeSantis cancelled that. He had every right to. It's highly dubious the grant should ever have been made in the first place.
Posted by: Ace
Thanks for the ammo to pierce through my in-laws' "All Heil Disney" armor. Last weekend, they made a taco bar based on a recipe they picked up there, and there was no cheese.
That's right, TACOS WITHOUT CHEESE (TACOS SIN QUESO).
Pookette gave them an earful, and for once, I didn't stop her.
Posted by: Ace
Thanks for the ammo to pierce through my in-laws' "All Heil Disney" armor. Last weekend, they made a taco bar based on a recipe they picked up there, and there was no cheese.
That's right, TACOS WITHOUT CHEESE (TACOS SIN QUESO).
Pookette gave them an earful, and for once, I didn't stop her.
Posted by: do not get between pookysgirl and her cheese at August 01, 2023 04:58 PM (dtlDP)
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I second the recommendation of Legal Mindset's YouTube channel.
The man actually did special districts and related property law in Orlando Florida before he moved to the far east.
He has a bunch of short (5-20 minute) videos on the Disney wars.
The man actually did special districts and related property law in Orlando Florida before he moved to the far east.
He has a bunch of short (5-20 minute) videos on the Disney wars.
Posted by: rd at August 01, 2023 04:58 PM (/dKp1)
Posted by: Tonypete at August 01, 2023 04:58 PM (u/66v)
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BREAKING: Trump just indicted again.
Posted by: ShainS at August 01, 2023 04:56 PM (wx9X4)
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*checks if day ends in -y*
*nods*
Posted by: ShainS at August 01, 2023 04:56 PM (wx9X4)
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*checks if day ends in -y*
*nods*
Posted by: Axeman at August 01, 2023 04:58 PM (krQz2)
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190 I believe Skydance made one of my favorite CG animations: Rango.
Posted by: Axeman at August 01, 2023 04:58 PM (krQz2)
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Gore Verbinski is a genius and should be given a billion dollars to make a Bioshock movie.
Posted by: Axeman at August 01, 2023 04:58 PM (krQz2)
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Gore Verbinski is a genius and should be given a billion dollars to make a Bioshock movie.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir at August 01, 2023 04:59 PM (LvTSG)
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The Thin Man series are pretty good
Posted by: Skip at August 01, 2023 04:37 PM (xhxe
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5 of 6 of the movies were on HBO Max, then my wife and I got through 2 of them and they were removed.
So we're half way through them. The Nick and Nora are really the best part of those movies. The mysteries are (for good reason) a little shop-worn.
Posted by: Axeman at August 01, 2023
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The second film is dynamite, and the movie of the first is never boring and actually funny, unlike the novel by Hammett. (Sacrilege, I know -- but I couldn't finish Maltese Falcon the novel the first two or three times I tried it.) After the Thin Man has one of the best exchanges:
Nick: "How many saloons would you say I've been thrown out of, Mrs. Charles?"
Nora: "That would be all of them, Mr. Charles."
Posted by: Skip at August 01, 2023 04:37 PM (xhxe
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5 of 6 of the movies were on HBO Max, then my wife and I got through 2 of them and they were removed.
So we're half way through them. The Nick and Nora are really the best part of those movies. The mysteries are (for good reason) a little shop-worn.
Posted by: Axeman at August 01, 2023
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The second film is dynamite, and the movie of the first is never boring and actually funny, unlike the novel by Hammett. (Sacrilege, I know -- but I couldn't finish Maltese Falcon the novel the first two or three times I tried it.) After the Thin Man has one of the best exchanges:
Nick: "How many saloons would you say I've been thrown out of, Mrs. Charles?"
Nora: "That would be all of them, Mr. Charles."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 01, 2023 04:59 PM (J2vNu)
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I don't have enough money to pay you for the coal. Maybe there's some other way I could pay you?
Posted by: Steamboat Willie at August 01, 2023 05:00 PM (krqg6)
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>>> Fascinating story of how Disney tried to ELIMINATE them about ten years back. Their original company developed software to censor movies...language, nudity, etc..Disney sued for $62m. The brothers put the company into bankruptcy...they settled, once they realized they could not destroy them.They became Angel Studios and here we are. Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at August 01, 2023 04:41 PM (ufFY
Yes and yes!! Started as Cleanflix. They bought DVDs and edited them for rentals, I used to go to their local rental place. Or you could bring in your own already paid for DVDs and get them edited.
ALL of Hollywood fought against them, using the excuse that they were destroying ART!!!. (Never mind that all the studios edited their films for TV or planes for content.) They fought the censoring art angle and that is what the judges sided with. They rebranded as Pureflix and did edited streaming, you selected how much to edit. (Their editing filters for Star Wars allowed you to actually edit out Jar Jar Binks, haha!)
But now Hollywood's streaming sites and even Criterion are censoring ART!!! themselves, including The French Connection. Oh how history does a 180 sometimes!
Yes and yes!! Started as Cleanflix. They bought DVDs and edited them for rentals, I used to go to their local rental place. Or you could bring in your own already paid for DVDs and get them edited.
ALL of Hollywood fought against them, using the excuse that they were destroying ART!!!. (Never mind that all the studios edited their films for TV or planes for content.) They fought the censoring art angle and that is what the judges sided with. They rebranded as Pureflix and did edited streaming, you selected how much to edit. (Their editing filters for Star Wars allowed you to actually edit out Jar Jar Binks, haha!)
But now Hollywood's streaming sites and even Criterion are censoring ART!!! themselves, including The French Connection. Oh how history does a 180 sometimes!
Posted by: LizLem at August 01, 2023 05:00 PM (Hzx5Z)
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Bolt is the best animation movie and never got the praise it deserved. The sound track is also very good.
Posted by: polynikes at August 01, 2023 05:00 PM (MNhXM)
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14 years with a single, optional, must be actively applied for extension of one more 14 year period. Must be held by an individual. Cannot be transferred in any way. If the artist dies, the works enter the public domain. That's what I want.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
I can see even extending a copyright until the writer dies but with an exception for writers that die immediately after like US Grant in order to support families for a period.
If a lot of old material was released from copyright, hell, then our society will be far richer at minimal costs to any corporation.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
I can see even extending a copyright until the writer dies but with an exception for writers that die immediately after like US Grant in order to support families for a period.
If a lot of old material was released from copyright, hell, then our society will be far richer at minimal costs to any corporation.
Posted by: whig at August 01, 2023 05:00 PM (bk5GW)
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Well, if disapproval of child sex trafficking is faith-based, then I think faith is a very good idea, and lack of faith is a very bad idea.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 01, 2023 04:48 PM (PHmov)
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This.
It's astonishing that the Reds are actually defending child sex trafficking. You'd think that if they don't like the faith-based message they'd just keep mum. But no, nothing doing.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 01, 2023 04:48 PM (PHmov)
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This.
It's astonishing that the Reds are actually defending child sex trafficking. You'd think that if they don't like the faith-based message they'd just keep mum. But no, nothing doing.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 01, 2023 05:01 PM (YqDXo)
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Walt Disney sounds almost as naive as Gene Roddenberry.
"Wait...the future is going to have people doing ickey things!?!?!?!
But it's... THE FUTURE!!"
"Wait...the future is going to have people doing ickey things!?!?!?!
But it's... THE FUTURE!!"
Posted by: eleven at August 01, 2023 05:01 PM (nf6V8)
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I like The Maltese Falcon but Bogart made the character more sympathetic than the novel version.
Same with The Big Sleep, as it happens.
Same with The Big Sleep, as it happens.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at August 01, 2023 05:01 PM (xcxpd)
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I'm surprised that Wolfus hasn't said that he lives in the Mosquito Coast.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 01, 2023
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Ha! That was true when I was a kid. No A/C or screens on our windows, which we left open, and every summer morning I'd wake up with new mosquito bites. Nowadays in the city they actually spray -- and I go outside as little as I can manage!
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 01, 2023
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Ha! That was true when I was a kid. No A/C or screens on our windows, which we left open, and every summer morning I'd wake up with new mosquito bites. Nowadays in the city they actually spray -- and I go outside as little as I can manage!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 01, 2023 05:01 PM (J2vNu)
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Gore Verbinski is a genius and should be given a billion dollars to make a Bioshock movie.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir at August 01, 2023 04:59 PM (LvTSG)
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That's what's impressive about Rango.
It's not just an entertaining animation, it's cinema.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir at August 01, 2023 04:59 PM (LvTSG)
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That's what's impressive about Rango.
It's not just an entertaining animation, it's cinema.
Posted by: Axeman at August 01, 2023 05:01 PM (krQz2)
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I believe Skydance made one of my favorite CG animations: Rango.
Posted by: Axeman at
Rango is AMAZING
Posted by: Axeman at
Rango is AMAZING
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 01, 2023 05:01 PM (MGB5H)
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184 179 BREAKING: Trump just indicted again.
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What did that rascal do now?
Posted by: Puddinhead at August 01, 2023 04:57 PM (0chEi
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They found a dozen mattresses at Mira Lago missing mattress tags!
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What did that rascal do now?
Posted by: Puddinhead at August 01, 2023 04:57 PM (0chEi
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They found a dozen mattresses at Mira Lago missing mattress tags!
Posted by: rd at August 01, 2023 05:01 PM (UDLjJ)
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Thanks for the ammo to pierce through my in-laws' "All Heil Disney" armor. Last weekend, they made a taco bar based on a recipe they picked up there, and there was no cheese.
That's right, TACOS WITHOUT CHEESE (TACOS SIN QUESO).
Pookette gave them an earful, and for once, I didn't stop her.
Posted by: do not get between pookysgirl and her cheese at August 01, 2023 04:58 PM
Geez. That's carrots in chili territory there.
That's right, TACOS WITHOUT CHEESE (TACOS SIN QUESO).
Pookette gave them an earful, and for once, I didn't stop her.
Posted by: do not get between pookysgirl and her cheese at August 01, 2023 04:58 PM
Geez. That's carrots in chili territory there.
Posted by: Minnfidel at August 01, 2023 05:02 PM (eqKLj)
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All of Iger's legal maneuvering with Florida...it's really quite bizarre. What the government grants, the government can ungrant. And new government is not bound by promises made by people kicked out of office.
Posted by: Comrade Roboto at August 01, 2023 05:02 PM (nJ1bF)
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All new news of Biden corruption ends up with a new Trump indictment. Sure as night follows day.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at August 01, 2023 05:02 PM (8GBH4)
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Nick: "How many saloons would you say I've been thrown out of, Mrs. Charles?"
Nora: "That would be all of them, Mr. Charles."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 01, 2023 04:59 PM (J2v
I think this is where Moonlighting got its inspiration. The banter not the drinking.
Nora: "That would be all of them, Mr. Charles."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 01, 2023 04:59 PM (J2v
I think this is where Moonlighting got its inspiration. The banter not the drinking.
Posted by: polynikes at August 01, 2023 05:02 PM (MNhXM)
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BREAKING: Trump just indicted again.
Posted by: ShainS at August 01, 2023 04:56 PM (wx9X4)
That does it...can't support him anymore!
Posted by: ShainS at August 01, 2023 04:56 PM (wx9X4)
That does it...can't support him anymore!
Posted by: Trump supporters in the delusional fever dreams of Leftists and Never Trumpers at August 01, 2023 05:02 PM (JCZqz)
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That's $150 million+ that Disney could have had if it hadn't been so determined to champion perversion.
You've got to laugh.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 01, 2023 04:56 PM (YqDXo)
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Oh, I don't think so. Assume that Disney didn't shove this movie into the vault when it bought Fox. Assume that they got the property in 2018 or 2019, put a bit of marketing behind it like any other small movie, and released it. It might have turned a small profit. Few people would have gone to see it and it would have been largely forgotten. Just another adult drama with a small budget that most people never heard of.
Back pre-2020, things were pretty good. The economy was humming along, the groomers weren't marching down the street in full parades at all times, the "Summer of Love" hadn't happened yet, there hadn't been a stolen election, the entire government and industrial systems hadn't been widely exposed as corrupt, etc. Things were *normal* and few people knew about any higher-than-average risks to kids. Had it released back then, it wouldn't have made a single wave.
They suppressed it for long enough for the world to change and for it to become extremely relevant.
You've got to laugh.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 01, 2023 04:56 PM (YqDXo)
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Oh, I don't think so. Assume that Disney didn't shove this movie into the vault when it bought Fox. Assume that they got the property in 2018 or 2019, put a bit of marketing behind it like any other small movie, and released it. It might have turned a small profit. Few people would have gone to see it and it would have been largely forgotten. Just another adult drama with a small budget that most people never heard of.
Back pre-2020, things were pretty good. The economy was humming along, the groomers weren't marching down the street in full parades at all times, the "Summer of Love" hadn't happened yet, there hadn't been a stolen election, the entire government and industrial systems hadn't been widely exposed as corrupt, etc. Things were *normal* and few people knew about any higher-than-average risks to kids. Had it released back then, it wouldn't have made a single wave.
They suppressed it for long enough for the world to change and for it to become extremely relevant.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 01, 2023 05:03 PM (t0OGg)
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August 9 earnings call with the fucking Mouse will be lit AF. Valliant Renegade will cover it live on utube.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at August 01, 2023 04:47 PM
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Nagasaki 2.0?
Posted by: rd at August 01, 2023 04:55 PM (/dKp1)
Iger was all blather and happy talk last time.
Comcast had their call last week which was positive, so Disney needs to be comparable (they overlap in parks and movies), but they can't, since all their operations are turning to shit, and they need 9b in cash in January for Hulu.
Plus, Iger caused some stir in a CNBC interview about the writer's strike, upsetting the *agents* of major talent.
Now, this weird DEI culty bullshit is surfacing.
Would be fun to have some hard questions put to those fascist Mice.
We will see.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at August 01, 2023 04:47 PM
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Nagasaki 2.0?
Posted by: rd at August 01, 2023 04:55 PM (/dKp1)
Iger was all blather and happy talk last time.
Comcast had their call last week which was positive, so Disney needs to be comparable (they overlap in parks and movies), but they can't, since all their operations are turning to shit, and they need 9b in cash in January for Hulu.
Plus, Iger caused some stir in a CNBC interview about the writer's strike, upsetting the *agents* of major talent.
Now, this weird DEI culty bullshit is surfacing.
Would be fun to have some hard questions put to those fascist Mice.
We will see.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at August 01, 2023 05:03 PM (ufFY8)
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Every hours spent on DEI is an hour not spent on your core business. What seems to be happening at Disney is they thought DEI WAS their business.
Posted by: Comrade Roboto at August 01, 2023 05:03 PM (nJ1bF)
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I remember one summer I was in St. Francisville, La, about this time of year, and the temperature was about 100 degrees, like now, and the humidity was about the same, and the only breeze was the mosquito wings beating on us.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 01, 2023 05:03 PM (i9ffA)
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213 All new news of Biden corruption ends up with a new Trump indictment. Sure as night follows day.
at some point it becomes laughable maybe this is the point
at some point it becomes laughable maybe this is the point
Posted by: BlackOrchid at August 01, 2023 05:03 PM (AcWfM)
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Bolt is the best animation movie and never got the praise it deserved. The sound track is also very good.
Posted by: polynikes
This came up on another post a bit back. Absolute hidden gem.
Posted by: polynikes
This came up on another post a bit back. Absolute hidden gem.
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 01, 2023 05:03 PM (MGB5H)
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I saw the movie Sunday. 4:30 show in Bethesda MD and the place was full. Aside from the politics, I think it was an incredibly well made movie. They managed to convey all the horrors of the situation without making it graphic. In a wasy it was harder to take because you had to imagine just how awful what those kids were going through. The child actors were almomst too real. I kept thinking they woild need counseling after portrahying those abused children. It just look real. The courage that it took for Ballard, a father of 6, to do what he did was off the charts. Talk about someone who deserves a Congressional Medal of Honor.
The movie had a temendous impact on me. No one left til Ballard's closing message came on.
Go see it.
The movie had a temendous impact on me. No one left til Ballard's closing message came on.
Go see it.
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 01, 2023 05:04 PM (t/2Uw)
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So one of the charges is Interfering in a Government proceeding... Wasn't Trump the "Government" still on Jan. 6th ?
Posted by: It's me donna at August 01, 2023 05:04 PM (bs+z0)
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Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper 1h
JUST IN - Body found in NYC Creek is missing Goldman analyst, police say
UPDATE: A body found floating in a New York City creek has been identified as missing Goldman Sachs staffer John Castic — Castic, 27, was last seen Saturday at about 2:30 a.m. leaving a "Zeds Dead" concert at The Brooklyn Mirage in East Williamsburg. - Fox 5
JUST IN - Body found in NYC Creek is missing Goldman analyst, police say
UPDATE: A body found floating in a New York City creek has been identified as missing Goldman Sachs staffer John Castic — Castic, 27, was last seen Saturday at about 2:30 a.m. leaving a "Zeds Dead" concert at The Brooklyn Mirage in East Williamsburg. - Fox 5
Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 01, 2023 05:04 PM (krqg6)
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1 - Latinos head for US border with intent to crash.
2 - Latinos get preyed on by sex traffickers from their own countries.
3 - Lax border policies a) attract ever more prospective border crashers, and b) make penetration by sex traffickers that much easier.
Is that how it's working? I haven't seen the movie and I don't know what the call to action is, but I think the US only has direct control over #3.
1 - Latinos head for US border with intent to crash.
2 - Latinos get preyed on by sex traffickers from their own countries.
3 - Lax border policies a) attract ever more prospective border crashers, and b) make penetration by sex traffickers that much easier.
Is that how it's working? I haven't seen the movie and I don't know what the call to action is, but I think the US only has direct control over #3.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 01, 2023 05:04 PM (lCaJd)
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163 SoF is an objective hit. It's also simultaneous an utter humiliation for Disney.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 01, 2023 04:51 PM (t0OGg)
SoF will be in the top 10 for Domestic Box office this year through the August releases. That's amazing!
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 01, 2023 04:51 PM (t0OGg)
SoF will be in the top 10 for Domestic Box office this year through the August releases. That's amazing!
Posted by: Nova Local at August 01, 2023 05:04 PM (exHjb)
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I went to look up the 1940 Disney film Pinocchio. Family legend said that Mom brought me to see it, and the sequence with the whale scared me. We couldn't have gone in 1940 or '45, as I hadn't been born yet. But the next release, I was one year old; and the one after that, I was nine and would have been thrilled by the action scenes, not frightened. Maybe there was a road show release when I was four or five.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 01, 2023 04:54 PM (J2vNu)
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I think that the first movie my mom took me to in a theater was Gentle Ben in the mid-60s.
Man, I can't believe I have a memory of that still ...
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 01, 2023 04:54 PM (J2vNu)
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I think that the first movie my mom took me to in a theater was Gentle Ben in the mid-60s.
Man, I can't believe I have a memory of that still ...
Posted by: ShainS at August 01, 2023 05:04 PM (wx9X4)
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203 If a lot of old material was released from copyright, hell, then our society will be far richer at minimal costs to any corporation.
Posted by: whig at August 01, 2023 05:00 PM (bk5GW)
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Without the Sonny Bono Act, we'd be at 1948 in the public domain.
With it, we're at 1927. 21 years set back.
Streetcar Named Desire would be PD. Same with Key Largo, The Lady from Shanghai, The Red Shoes, Fort Apache, Red River and so, so many more, including, most importantly, a bunch of smaller stuff that's been forgotten and never touched because of fear that the copyright holders would come and say something.
Ironically, the rise of the Internet has made avoiding copyright holders on lesser known works easier. Just put it on a hosting site, and walk away, But no one should be in fear of the Welles estate for promulgating The Lady from Shanghai. He's been dead since my 4 month birthday, nearly 38 years ago.
Posted by: whig at August 01, 2023 05:00 PM (bk5GW)
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Without the Sonny Bono Act, we'd be at 1948 in the public domain.
With it, we're at 1927. 21 years set back.
Streetcar Named Desire would be PD. Same with Key Largo, The Lady from Shanghai, The Red Shoes, Fort Apache, Red River and so, so many more, including, most importantly, a bunch of smaller stuff that's been forgotten and never touched because of fear that the copyright holders would come and say something.
Ironically, the rise of the Internet has made avoiding copyright holders on lesser known works easier. Just put it on a hosting site, and walk away, But no one should be in fear of the Welles estate for promulgating The Lady from Shanghai. He's been dead since my 4 month birthday, nearly 38 years ago.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir at August 01, 2023 05:04 PM (LvTSG)
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Well
@PelosiTracker_
Breaking🚨
The US Government has officially opened up an investigation into BlackRock
They're being accused of investing in Chinese companies that benefit their military
Interestingly enough, Politicians have been actively selling the asset manager this year
8 sells
0 buys
@PelosiTracker_
Breaking🚨
The US Government has officially opened up an investigation into BlackRock
They're being accused of investing in Chinese companies that benefit their military
Interestingly enough, Politicians have been actively selling the asset manager this year
8 sells
0 buys
Posted by: JackStraw at August 01, 2023 05:04 PM (ZLI7S)
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I can see even extending a copyright until the writer dies but with an exception for writers that die immediately after like US Grant in order to support families for a period.
If a lot of old material was released from copyright, hell, then our society will be far richer at minimal costs to any corporation.
Posted by: whig at August 01, 2023 05:00 PM (bk5GW
Disney should not rely on copyright. They should maybe try trademark law to protect Mickey, Minnie and Goofy.
If a lot of old material was released from copyright, hell, then our society will be far richer at minimal costs to any corporation.
Posted by: whig at August 01, 2023 05:00 PM (bk5GW
Disney should not rely on copyright. They should maybe try trademark law to protect Mickey, Minnie and Goofy.
Posted by: rd at August 01, 2023 05:04 PM (rknHx)
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206 I like The Maltese Falcon but Bogart made the character more sympathetic than the novel version.
Same with The Big Sleep, as it happens.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at August 01, 2023 05:01 PM (xcxpd)
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Bogie as Spade is sarcastic af in The Maltese Falcon and so fun...until he cries at the end. Bleh.
Same with The Big Sleep, as it happens.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo, food, water at August 01, 2023 05:01 PM (xcxpd)
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Bogie as Spade is sarcastic af in The Maltese Falcon and so fun...until he cries at the end. Bleh.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir at August 01, 2023 05:05 PM (LvTSG)
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Cheeseless tacos is downright unAmerican.
Posted by: eleven at August 01, 2023 05:05 PM (nf6V8)
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I remember one summer I was in St. Francisville, La, about this time of year, and the temperature was about 100 degrees, like now, and the humidity was about the same, and the only breeze was the mosquito wings beating on us.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 01, 2023 05:03 PM (i9ffA)
We used to do the bed and breakfast vacations twice a year or so. Need to get another lady friend as I would like to do it again.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 01, 2023 05:03 PM (i9ffA)
We used to do the bed and breakfast vacations twice a year or so. Need to get another lady friend as I would like to do it again.
Posted by: polynikes at August 01, 2023 05:05 PM (MNhXM)
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Speaking of the FIB. And this is NOT a Bee headline believe it or not.
FBI Ordered to Find Out Which Agency Disobeyed White House in Secret Deal, Finds Out It Was Itself
Top men. SMDH.
FBI Ordered to Find Out Which Agency Disobeyed White House in Secret Deal, Finds Out It Was Itself
Top men. SMDH.
Posted by: Minnfidel at August 01, 2023 05:06 PM (eqKLj)
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Every hours spent on DEI is an hour not spent on your core business. What seems to be happening at Disney is they thought DEI WAS their business.
Posted by: Comrade Roboto at August 01, 2023 05:03 PM (nJ1bF)
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That's why James Lindsay (and other) describe DIE as a virus. A virus gets into your system and starts manipulating your body to produce what IT wants, not your standard product.
DIE *is* a virus. And when the virus is thoroughly at home, the organization thinks that the goal is produce more Woke.
Posted by: Comrade Roboto at August 01, 2023 05:03 PM (nJ1bF)
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That's why James Lindsay (and other) describe DIE as a virus. A virus gets into your system and starts manipulating your body to produce what IT wants, not your standard product.
DIE *is* a virus. And when the virus is thoroughly at home, the organization thinks that the goal is produce more Woke.
Posted by: Axeman at August 01, 2023 05:06 PM (krQz2)
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Nick: "How many saloons would you say I've been thrown out of, Mrs. Charles?"
Nora: "That would be all of them, Mr. Charles."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 01, 2023 04:59 PM (J2v
I think this is where Moonlighting got its inspiration. The banter not the drinking.
Posted by: polynikes at August 01, 2023
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Very possibly. I was impressed with how the new Dungeons and Dragons movie handled the comic dialogue -- I actually laughed aloud more than once, and I have a hard time recalling the last modern movie that made me do that.
"That's one pudgy dragon!"
"Yeah, he's got a new den!"
"Did he *eat* the old one?"
Nora: "That would be all of them, Mr. Charles."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 01, 2023 04:59 PM (J2v
I think this is where Moonlighting got its inspiration. The banter not the drinking.
Posted by: polynikes at August 01, 2023
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Very possibly. I was impressed with how the new Dungeons and Dragons movie handled the comic dialogue -- I actually laughed aloud more than once, and I have a hard time recalling the last modern movie that made me do that.
"That's one pudgy dragon!"
"Yeah, he's got a new den!"
"Did he *eat* the old one?"
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 01, 2023 05:06 PM (J2vNu)
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Alcoholism! Prostitution! Infidelity!
Posted by: SFGoth at August 01, 2023 04:53 PM (KAi1n)
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But enough about Congress.
Posted by: SFGoth at August 01, 2023 04:53 PM (KAi1n)
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But enough about Congress.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 01, 2023 05:06 PM (YqDXo)
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I made some kicked up chili
Posted by: Skip at August 01, 2023 05:06 PM (xhxe8)
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UPDATE: A body found floating in a New York City creek has been identified as missing Goldman Sachs staffer John Castic — Castic, 27, was last seen Saturday at about 2:30 a.m. leaving a "Zeds Dead" concert at The Brooklyn Mirage in East Williamsburg. - Fox 5
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My condolences to Goldman Sachs.
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My condolences to Goldman Sachs.
Posted by: Puddinhead at August 01, 2023 05:06 PM (0chEi)
Posted by: It's me donna at August 01, 2023 05:08 PM (bs+z0)
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I remember one summer I was in St. Francisville, La, about this time of year, and the temperature was about 100 degrees, like now, and the humidity was about the same, and the only breeze was the mosquito wings beating on us.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 01, 2023
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My idea of a summer vacation would involve mountain air at about 6000 to 7000 feet.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 01, 2023
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My idea of a summer vacation would involve mountain air at about 6000 to 7000 feet.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 01, 2023 05:08 PM (J2vNu)
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Posted by: Comrade Roboto at August 01, 2023 05:03 PM (nJ1bF)
not so much their business , but their MISSION
these are true believers and they knew that their industry can greatly evangelize the masses. The part they missed is that the Message has to be acceptable to the masses.
Child grooming is not an "inviting" subject.
not so much their business , but their MISSION
these are true believers and they knew that their industry can greatly evangelize the masses. The part they missed is that the Message has to be acceptable to the masses.
Child grooming is not an "inviting" subject.
Posted by: kallisto at August 01, 2023 05:08 PM (WN6kz)
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HQ Issues Ripped From The Headlines...
Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper 4h
Where’s the beef? New York man sues Taco Bell over filling size
Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper 4h
Where’s the beef? New York man sues Taco Bell over filling size
Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 01, 2023 05:08 PM (krqg6)
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So one of the charges is Interfering in a Government proceeding... Wasn't Trump the "Government" still on Jan. 6th ?
Posted by: It's me donna at August 01, 2023 05:04 PM (bs+z0)
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Presidential Immunity FTW!
Posted by: It's me donna at August 01, 2023 05:04 PM (bs+z0)
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Presidential Immunity FTW!
Posted by: ShainS at August 01, 2023 05:08 PM (wx9X4)
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UPDATE: A body found floating in a New York City creek has been identified as missing Goldman Sachs staffer John Castic — Castic, 27, was last seen Saturday at about 2:30 a.m. leaving a "Zeds Dead" concert at The Brooklyn Mirage in East Williamsburg. - Fox 5
Was he paddle boarding? Does the creek connect to a pond in Martha's Vinyard at all?
Was he paddle boarding? Does the creek connect to a pond in Martha's Vinyard at all?
Posted by: Moron Analyst at August 01, 2023 05:09 PM (JCZqz)
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UPDATE: A body found floating in a New York City creek has been identified as missing Goldman Sachs staffer John Castic — Castic, 27, was last seen Saturday at about 2:30 a.m. leaving a "Zeds Dead" concert at The Brooklyn Mirage in East Williamsburg. - Fox 5
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My condolences to Goldman Sachs.
Posted by: Puddinhead at August 01, 2023 05:06 PM
And another young guy that went to the same concert was missing and showed up dead in the river as well. Hmmm.
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My condolences to Goldman Sachs.
Posted by: Puddinhead at August 01, 2023 05:06 PM
And another young guy that went to the same concert was missing and showed up dead in the river as well. Hmmm.
Posted by: Minnfidel at August 01, 2023 05:09 PM (eqKLj)
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Streetcar Named Desire would be PD. Same with Key Largo, The Lady from Shanghai, The Red Shoes, Fort Apache, Red River and so, so many more, including, most importantly, a bunch of smaller stuff that's been forgotten and never touched because of fear that the copyright holders would come and say something.
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Why do TV stations show "It's A Wonderful Life" all the time at Christmas?
Because the movie wasn't popular at first, and so the studio didn't bother to copyright it. Consequently, TV stations can show it without paying royalties.
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Why do TV stations show "It's A Wonderful Life" all the time at Christmas?
Because the movie wasn't popular at first, and so the studio didn't bother to copyright it. Consequently, TV stations can show it without paying royalties.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 01, 2023 05:09 PM (YqDXo)
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I was 7 when Jaws hit theaters. The family had been to San Diego for beach sun and fun on vacation and there was way too much familiar in the movie. My brain just spazzed. I freaked out when the kid on the blow-up raft got eaten. Mom ended up having to bring me home.
She was so pissed she made me take a bath.
Today, Jaws is one of my favorite all-time movies. Go figure.
She was so pissed she made me take a bath.
Today, Jaws is one of my favorite all-time movies. Go figure.
Posted by: Darth Chipmunk at August 01, 2023 05:09 PM (AD14M)
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MLB twatter is aghast that Detroit Tigers P Eduardo Rodriguez has vetoed a trade to the LA Dodgers. I so want this to be about the drag queen nuns.
Posted by: jhawk90 at August 01, 2023 05:09 PM (HgLuA)
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In an odd coincidence, Bob Iger and Dana Walden are both Jewish.
Posted by: T at August 01, 2023 05:10 PM (8ON4j)
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Why do TV stations show "It's A Wonderful Life" all the time at Christmas?
Because the movie wasn't popular at first, and so the studio didn't bother to copyright it. Consequently, TV stations can show it without paying royalties.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 01, 2023 05:09 PM (YqDXo)
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Yup. It was a bomb in its initial run.
Why do TV stations show "It's A Wonderful Life" all the time at Christmas?
Because the movie wasn't popular at first, and so the studio didn't bother to copyright it. Consequently, TV stations can show it without paying royalties.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 01, 2023 05:09 PM (YqDXo)
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Yup. It was a bomb in its initial run.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir at August 01, 2023 05:10 PM (LvTSG)
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>>> 224 Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper 1h
JUST IN - Body found in NYC Creek is missing Goldman analyst, police say
UPDATE: A body found floating in a New York City creek has been identified as missing Goldman Sachs staffer John Castic — Castic, 27, was last seen Saturday at about 2:30 a.m. leaving a "Zeds Dead" concert at The Brooklyn Mirage in East Williamsburg. - Fox 5
Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 01, 2023 05:04 PM (krqg6)
Let me guess... were all the street light and gas station and other nearby cameras out? did he still have his wallet?
JUST IN - Body found in NYC Creek is missing Goldman analyst, police say
UPDATE: A body found floating in a New York City creek has been identified as missing Goldman Sachs staffer John Castic — Castic, 27, was last seen Saturday at about 2:30 a.m. leaving a "Zeds Dead" concert at The Brooklyn Mirage in East Williamsburg. - Fox 5
Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 01, 2023 05:04 PM (krqg6)
Let me guess... were all the street light and gas station and other nearby cameras out? did he still have his wallet?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 01, 2023 05:10 PM (llON8)
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The Left went to their butt cabinets and ass drawers to get those indictments.
Posted by: polynikes at August 01, 2023 05:10 PM (MNhXM)
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So one of the charges is Interfering in a Government proceeding... Wasn't Trump the "Government" still on Jan. 6th ?
Posted by: It's me donna
*prepares best judge dredd voice*
'"I am the government"
Posted by: It's me donna
*prepares best judge dredd voice*
'"I am the government"
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 01, 2023 05:10 PM (MGB5H)
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Moonlighting:
David (hearing music on the piano): "I've always wanted to be able to do that."
Maddie: "Oh, pianist envy!"
David (hearing music on the piano): "I've always wanted to be able to do that."
Maddie: "Oh, pianist envy!"
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 01, 2023 05:10 PM (J2vNu)
Posted by: Harley D at August 01, 2023 05:11 PM (ufFY8)
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Today, Jaws is one of my favorite all-time movies. Go figure.
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That's because of Quint. He made the movie.
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That's because of Quint. He made the movie.
Posted by: Puddinhead at August 01, 2023 05:11 PM (0chEi)
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>>> 229 Well
@PelosiTracker_
Breaking🚨
The US Government has officially opened up an investigation into BlackRock
They're being accused of investing in Chinese companies that benefit their military
Interestingly enough, Politicians have been actively selling the asset manager this year
8 sells
0 buys
Posted by: JackStraw at August 01, 2023 05:04 PM (ZLI7S)
Uh oh, somebody forgot to make a payment...
@PelosiTracker_
Breaking🚨
The US Government has officially opened up an investigation into BlackRock
They're being accused of investing in Chinese companies that benefit their military
Interestingly enough, Politicians have been actively selling the asset manager this year
8 sells
0 buys
Posted by: JackStraw at August 01, 2023 05:04 PM (ZLI7S)
Uh oh, somebody forgot to make a payment...
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 01, 2023 05:11 PM (llON8)
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BREAKING: Trump just indicted again.
Posted by: ShainS at August 01, 2023 04:56 PM (wx9X4)
So...day that ends in Y?
Posted by: ShainS at August 01, 2023 04:56 PM (wx9X4)
So...day that ends in Y?
Posted by: Robert at August 01, 2023 05:12 PM (1Yy3c)
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these are true believers and they knew that their industry can greatly evangelize the masses.
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The guy who first realized the political indoctrination potential of movies? Vladimir Lenin.
Many of the Russian peasants were illiterate, so Lenin used movies to evangelize them.
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The guy who first realized the political indoctrination potential of movies? Vladimir Lenin.
Many of the Russian peasants were illiterate, so Lenin used movies to evangelize them.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 01, 2023 05:12 PM (YqDXo)
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Presidential Immunity FTW!
Posted by: ShainS at August 01, 2023 05:08 PM (wx9X4)
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In view of Mr. Trump's massive, massive criminality, the court rejects Mr. Trump's claim of Presidential Immunity.
Posted by: ShainS at August 01, 2023 05:08 PM (wx9X4)
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In view of Mr. Trump's massive, massive criminality, the court rejects Mr. Trump's claim of Presidential Immunity.
Posted by: Judge Hungadunga at August 01, 2023 05:12 PM (krQz2)
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DOYLE nailed it at #20, I got nothing to add.
Posted by: Regular joe at August 01, 2023 05:12 PM (nnp+f)
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214 Nick: "How many saloons would you say I've been thrown out of, Mrs. Charles?"
Nora: "That would be all of them, Mr. Charles."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 01, 2023 04:59 PM (J2v
I think this is where Moonlighting got its inspiration. The banter not the drinking.
Posted by: polynikes at August 01, 2023 05:02 PM (MNhXM)
Hart to Hart was a pale attempt at this idea.
Nora: "That would be all of them, Mr. Charles."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 01, 2023 04:59 PM (J2v
I think this is where Moonlighting got its inspiration. The banter not the drinking.
Posted by: polynikes at August 01, 2023 05:02 PM (MNhXM)
Hart to Hart was a pale attempt at this idea.
Posted by: rd at August 01, 2023 05:12 PM (sMl7G)
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Why do TV stations show "It's A Wonderful Life" all the time at Christmas?
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Cuz they don't have rights to The Christmas Story.
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Cuz they don't have rights to The Christmas Story.
Posted by: Puddinhead at August 01, 2023 05:12 PM (0chEi)
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Deep State isn't going to do squat about Black Rock
Posted by: Skip at August 01, 2023 05:12 PM (xhxe8)
Posted by: Robert at August 01, 2023 05:13 PM (1Yy3c)
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UPDATE: A body found floating in a New York City creek has been identified as missing Goldman Sachs staffer John Castic — Castic, 27, was last seen Saturday at about 2:30 a.m. leaving a "Zeds Dead" concert at The Brooklyn Mirage in East Williamsburg. - Fox 5
Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 01, 2023 05:04 PM (krqg6)
Let me guess... were all the street light and gas station and other nearby cameras out? did he still have his wallet?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 01, 2023 05:10 PM (llON
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And what did he have on the Clintons? Or the Bidens?
Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 01, 2023 05:04 PM (krqg6)
Let me guess... were all the street light and gas station and other nearby cameras out? did he still have his wallet?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 01, 2023 05:10 PM (llON
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And what did he have on the Clintons? Or the Bidens?
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 01, 2023 05:13 PM (YqDXo)
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Today, Jaws is one of my favorite all-time movies. Go figure.
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That's because of Quint. He made the movie.
Posted by: Puddinhead at August 01, 2023 05:11 PM (0chEi)
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Robert Shaw.
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That's because of Quint. He made the movie.
Posted by: Puddinhead at August 01, 2023 05:11 PM (0chEi)
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Robert Shaw.
Posted by: Axeman at August 01, 2023 05:13 PM (krQz2)
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265 Deep State isn't going to do squat about Black Rock
Posted by: Skip at August 01, 2023 05:12 PM (xhxe
But it looks like they are doing "something."... wink wink
Posted by: Skip at August 01, 2023 05:12 PM (xhxe
But it looks like they are doing "something."... wink wink
Posted by: It's me donna at August 01, 2023 05:13 PM (bs+z0)
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Celebration, FL kinda is that Disney city.
Posted by: Montec at August 01, 2023 05:13 PM (t16Wm)
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Why do TV stations show "It's A Wonderful Life" all the time at Christmas?
Because the movie wasn't popular at first, and so the studio didn't bother to copyright it. Consequently, TV stations can show it without paying royalties.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 01, 2023 05:09 PM (YqDXo)
They were able to get some sort of exhibition protection on it at some point, I don't know all the details, because yes it did used to be played ad nauseum, it is now played just once on Christmas Eve on nbc.
Because the movie wasn't popular at first, and so the studio didn't bother to copyright it. Consequently, TV stations can show it without paying royalties.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 01, 2023 05:09 PM (YqDXo)
They were able to get some sort of exhibition protection on it at some point, I don't know all the details, because yes it did used to be played ad nauseum, it is now played just once on Christmas Eve on nbc.
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 01, 2023 05:13 PM (MGB5H)
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Maybe another strong arm to payoff the Mob, I mean Deep State
Posted by: Skip at August 01, 2023 05:13 PM (xhxe8)
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265 Deep State isn't going to do squat about Black Rock
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Well they work for Blackrock so this is no surprise.
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Well they work for Blackrock so this is no surprise.
Posted by: Puddinhead at August 01, 2023 05:13 PM (0chEi)
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The FBI guy Tim Ballard has 6 kids!!! What kind of example do you think that sets for our kids! His carbon footprint is enormous!
Posted by: Iris
That's not the only thing
Posted by: Iris
That's not the only thing
Posted by: Mrs. Tim Ballard at August 01, 2023 05:14 PM (wuwH7)
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Hart to Hart was a pale attempt at this idea.
Posted by: rd at August 01, 2023 05:12 PM (sMl7G)
Yes I forgot about Hart to Hart.
Posted by: rd at August 01, 2023 05:12 PM (sMl7G)
Yes I forgot about Hart to Hart.
Posted by: polynikes at August 01, 2023 05:14 PM (MNhXM)
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260 The guy who first realized the political indoctrination potential of movies? Vladimir Lenin.
Many of the Russian peasants were illiterate, so Lenin used movies to evangelize them.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 01, 2023 05:12 PM (YqDXo)
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And, because the Soviet Union was so poor, they had to be extremely judicious with how they used expensive film stock, which led to the extreme use of montage in early Soviet films by people like Eisenstein in films like Strike and Battleship Potemkin. It was cheaper to use quick shots and then stitch them together than to use long shots that you may have to reshoot.
Many of the Russian peasants were illiterate, so Lenin used movies to evangelize them.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 01, 2023 05:12 PM (YqDXo)
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And, because the Soviet Union was so poor, they had to be extremely judicious with how they used expensive film stock, which led to the extreme use of montage in early Soviet films by people like Eisenstein in films like Strike and Battleship Potemkin. It was cheaper to use quick shots and then stitch them together than to use long shots that you may have to reshoot.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir at August 01, 2023 05:14 PM (LvTSG)
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Some of those Mosfilm movies are pretty damn good too.
I recommend Ivan the Terrible. Eisenstein.
I recommend Ivan the Terrible. Eisenstein.
Posted by: eleven at August 01, 2023 05:14 PM (nf6V8)
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Thin Man series has some amazing zingers for sure.
Nick Charles: I'm a hero. I was shot twice in the Tribune.
Nora Charles: I read where you were shot 5 times in the tabloids.
Nick Charles: It's not true. He didn't come anywhere near my tabloids.
Nora Charles: You know, that sounds like an interesting case. Why don't you take it?
Nick Charles: I haven't the time. I'm much too busy seeing that you don't lose any of the money I married you for.
Nora Charles: Oh, we had a lovely trip. Nick was sober in Kansas City.
Nick Charles: I'm a hero. I was shot twice in the Tribune.
Nora Charles: I read where you were shot 5 times in the tabloids.
Nick Charles: It's not true. He didn't come anywhere near my tabloids.
Nora Charles: You know, that sounds like an interesting case. Why don't you take it?
Nick Charles: I haven't the time. I'm much too busy seeing that you don't lose any of the money I married you for.
Nora Charles: Oh, we had a lovely trip. Nick was sober in Kansas City.
Posted by: LizLem at August 01, 2023 05:14 PM (Hzx5Z)
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265 Deep State isn't going to do squat about Black Rock
Posted by: Skip
Don't count on that. That is what corporations do not understand, you get involved in politics--you become the government's bitch.
Posted by: Skip
Don't count on that. That is what corporations do not understand, you get involved in politics--you become the government's bitch.
Posted by: whig at August 01, 2023 05:14 PM (bk5GW)
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271 They were able to get some sort of exhibition protection on it at some point, I don't know all the details, because yes it did used to be played ad nauseum, it is now played just once on Christmas Eve on nbc.
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 01, 2023 05:13 PM (MGB5H)
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But home video releases abound still.
I got the Paramount 4K. Very nice. It includes the colorized version on a Blu-ray for some reason.
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 01, 2023 05:13 PM (MGB5H)
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But home video releases abound still.
I got the Paramount 4K. Very nice. It includes the colorized version on a Blu-ray for some reason.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir at August 01, 2023 05:15 PM (LvTSG)
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Speaking of the FIB. And this is NOT a Bee headline believe it or not.
FBI Ordered to Find Out Which Agency Disobeyed White House in Secret Deal, Finds Out It Was Itself
Top men. SMDH.
Posted by: Minnfidel
Classic...
Wait. Are we the real bad guys?
- FBI
FBI Ordered to Find Out Which Agency Disobeyed White House in Secret Deal, Finds Out It Was Itself
Top men. SMDH.
Posted by: Minnfidel
Classic...
Wait. Are we the real bad guys?
- FBI
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 01, 2023 05:15 PM (ga8qR)
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Celebration, FL kinda is that Disney city.
Posted by: Montec at August 01, 2023 05:13 PM
Yea, it's fckn weird driving through there. It's like a weird inactive movie set. You never see anyone in their yards or walking etc. Just tourists.
Posted by: Montec at August 01, 2023 05:13 PM
Yea, it's fckn weird driving through there. It's like a weird inactive movie set. You never see anyone in their yards or walking etc. Just tourists.
Posted by: Minnfidel at August 01, 2023 05:15 PM (eqKLj)
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>>Uh oh, somebody forgot to make a payment...
BlackRock owns about 6.5% of Disney. They recently increased their position.
Die mouse
BlackRock owns about 6.5% of Disney. They recently increased their position.
Die mouse
Posted by: JackStraw at August 01, 2023 05:15 PM (ZLI7S)
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*prepares best judge dredd voice*
'"I am the government"
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 01, 2023 05:10 PM (MGB5H)
________________
L'état, c'est moi.
Things Barky would have said, had he been sufficiently educated to have heard of this.
'"I am the government"
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 01, 2023 05:10 PM (MGB5H)
________________
L'état, c'est moi.
Things Barky would have said, had he been sufficiently educated to have heard of this.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 01, 2023 05:15 PM (YqDXo)
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Disney, for years, had a reputation as being about family. Not just appealing to, but being affordable for, families. When Disney started losing money, they started jacking prices.
Galaxy's edge didn't fail due to woke shit, it failed because the prices were in the "you gotta be fucking kidding me" bracket. $200 for a light saber ($15 on Amazon). $40 for a kids T-shirt ($20 on Amazon). Porg staffed animal - $45 ($15 on Amazon). How about a $50 cocktail? ($15 at my local bar).
Disney decided it wanted to appeal to rich white wine Aunts. That was not, and never will be, an profitable audience for the company.
Galaxy's edge didn't fail due to woke shit, it failed because the prices were in the "you gotta be fucking kidding me" bracket. $200 for a light saber ($15 on Amazon). $40 for a kids T-shirt ($20 on Amazon). Porg staffed animal - $45 ($15 on Amazon). How about a $50 cocktail? ($15 at my local bar).
Disney decided it wanted to appeal to rich white wine Aunts. That was not, and never will be, an profitable audience for the company.
Posted by: Comrade Roboto at August 01, 2023 05:15 PM (nJ1bF)
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275 Hart to Hart was a pale attempt at this idea.
Posted by: rd
That series came from romance writer Sidney Sheldon I think. Big in the 70's.
Posted by: rd
That series came from romance writer Sidney Sheldon I think. Big in the 70's.
Posted by: whig at August 01, 2023 05:16 PM (bk5GW)
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277 Some of those Mosfilm movies are pretty damn good too.
I recommend Ivan the Terrible. Eisenstein.
Posted by: eleven at August 01, 2023 05:14 PM (nf6V
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He was in the middle of filming the third part of Ivan the Terrible when Stalin shut down production because he saw it as a thin critique of his rule.
I recommend Ivan the Terrible. Eisenstein.
Posted by: eleven at August 01, 2023 05:14 PM (nf6V
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He was in the middle of filming the third part of Ivan the Terrible when Stalin shut down production because he saw it as a thin critique of his rule.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, contemplating utopia with Peter Weir at August 01, 2023 05:16 PM (LvTSG)
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The first movie I can remember seeing was The Shaggy Dog from Disney, w/ Fred MacMurray. It's not so much that I remember the plot or anythng, but I do remember the entire film impressed my six-year-old mind.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 01, 2023 05:16 PM (J2vNu)
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BREAKING: Trump just indicted again.
Posted by: ShainS at August 01, 2023 04:56 PM (wx9X4)
That does it...can't support him anymore!
Posted by: Trump supporters in the delusional fever dreams of Leftists and Never Trumpers at August 01, 2023
:: Gets out check book and sends Trump and his lawyers another pile of money ::
BREAKING: Trump just indicted again.
Posted by: ShainS at August 01, 2023 04:56 PM (wx9X4)
That does it...can't support him anymore!
Posted by: Trump supporters in the delusional fever dreams of Leftists and Never Trumpers at August 01, 2023
:: Gets out check book and sends Trump and his lawyers another pile of money ::
Posted by: Divide by Zero at August 01, 2023 05:16 PM (enJYY)
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How to restore Disney to profitability? Hmm, how to restore an entertainment company built of family products with a vault chock full of quality programming they don’t show any more, with three or four TV channels dedicated to their brand and access to movie theaters nationwide.
Yep, it’s a mystery alright.
Yep, it’s a mystery alright.
Posted by: Advo at August 01, 2023 05:16 PM (VHN21)
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BlackRock owns about 6.5% of Disney. They recently increased their position.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 01, 2023 05:15 PM (ZLI7S)
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Excellent. We can hope for a twofer next week.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 01, 2023 05:15 PM (ZLI7S)
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Excellent. We can hope for a twofer next week.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 01, 2023 05:16 PM (YqDXo)
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We have a BATF, we need a BAPI.
Posted by: SFGoth at August 01, 2023 05:17 PM (KAi1n)
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And another young guy that went to the same concert was missing and showed up dead in the river as well. Hmmm.
Posted by: Minnfidel at August 01, 2023 05:09 PM (eqKLj)
Nope...that happened more than a month ago, and the guy wasn't allowed in because he was drunk.
Posted by: Minnfidel at August 01, 2023 05:09 PM (eqKLj)
Nope...that happened more than a month ago, and the guy wasn't allowed in because he was drunk.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 01, 2023 05:17 PM (PHmov)
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That does it...can't support him anymore!
Posted by: Trump supporters in the delusional fever dreams of Leftists and Never Trumpers at August 01, 2023
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It taints the entire Republican party!
Posted by: Trump supporters in the delusional fever dreams of Leftists and Never Trumpers at August 01, 2023
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It taints the entire Republican party!
Posted by: Anonymous Life-long Republican Voter at August 01, 2023 05:17 PM (krQz2)
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Disney decided it wanted to appeal to rich white wine Aunts. That was not, and never will be, an profitable audience for the company.
Posted by: Comrade Roboto at August 01, 2023 05:15 PM
So they switched to trannies! Brilliant move Bob!
Posted by: Comrade Roboto at August 01, 2023 05:15 PM
So they switched to trannies! Brilliant move Bob!
Posted by: Minnfidel at August 01, 2023 05:17 PM (eqKLj)
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Why do TV stations show "It's A Wonderful Life" all the time at Christmas?
Because the movie wasn't popular at first, and so the studio didn't bother to copyright it. Consequently, TV stations can show it without paying royalties.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 01, 2023
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I first saw IaWL at an SF and fantasy convention here in Da Swamp, in the summertime. The fantasy sequence was the big draw, and it still is for me.
Because the movie wasn't popular at first, and so the studio didn't bother to copyright it. Consequently, TV stations can show it without paying royalties.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 01, 2023
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I first saw IaWL at an SF and fantasy convention here in Da Swamp, in the summertime. The fantasy sequence was the big draw, and it still is for me.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 01, 2023 05:18 PM (J2vNu)
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The first movie I can remember seeing was The Shaggy Dog from Disney, w/ Fred MacMurray. It's not so much that I remember the plot or anythng, but I do remember the entire film impressed my six-year-old mind.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 01, 2023 05:16 PM (J2vNu)
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I remember the Davy Crockett movie, the Alamo, several Revolutionary War movies, etc. Great stuff, great fun, and patriotic.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 01, 2023 05:16 PM (J2vNu)
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I remember the Davy Crockett movie, the Alamo, several Revolutionary War movies, etc. Great stuff, great fun, and patriotic.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 01, 2023 05:18 PM (YqDXo)
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Hart to Hart was a pale attempt at this idea.
Posted by: rd at August 01, 2023 05:12 PM (sMl7G)
Yes I forgot about Hart to Hart.
Posted by: polynikes
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Probably also McMillan & Wife, that thing with Susan St. James and Rock Hudson, although I couldn't say since I never watched it.
Lots of pale imitations out there. Remington Steele? I never saw that, either.
Hart to Hart was a pale attempt at this idea.
Posted by: rd at August 01, 2023 05:12 PM (sMl7G)
Yes I forgot about Hart to Hart.
Posted by: polynikes
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Probably also McMillan & Wife, that thing with Susan St. James and Rock Hudson, although I couldn't say since I never watched it.
Lots of pale imitations out there. Remington Steele? I never saw that, either.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 01, 2023 05:18 PM (lCaJd)
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Nope...that happened more than a month ago, and the guy wasn't allowed in because he was drunk.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 01, 2023 05:17 PM
Thanks for the correction, but it still seems like a coinkidink. Or just NY.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 01, 2023 05:17 PM
Thanks for the correction, but it still seems like a coinkidink. Or just NY.
Posted by: Minnfidel at August 01, 2023 05:18 PM (eqKLj)
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At the end of the day, if you're willing to kiss off your customers, you don't care about the shareholder.
If you look at millions of customers walking away because of your policies, but you feel those policies are more important than profits, then disregard for the rights of shareholders is baked into that cake... I'd argue that, at this late date, Disney's C-suite is guilty of breaching their fiduciary duties. You're doing it on purpose at this point.
Of course - this is America, and laws don't apply to Party men like Bob Iger or Sam Bank-Fraud.
Shareholder dyspepsia may lead to Iger departing Disney for some new lucrative gig, or even to retire and wallow in his $690M cash heap.
But nothing will change Disney's course... If you're still investing in them, you're a dumb fuck, and you deserve the haircut you take.
At the end of the day, if you're willing to kiss off your customers, you don't care about the shareholder.
If you look at millions of customers walking away because of your policies, but you feel those policies are more important than profits, then disregard for the rights of shareholders is baked into that cake... I'd argue that, at this late date, Disney's C-suite is guilty of breaching their fiduciary duties. You're doing it on purpose at this point.
Of course - this is America, and laws don't apply to Party men like Bob Iger or Sam Bank-Fraud.
Shareholder dyspepsia may lead to Iger departing Disney for some new lucrative gig, or even to retire and wallow in his $690M cash heap.
But nothing will change Disney's course... If you're still investing in them, you're a dumb fuck, and you deserve the haircut you take.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 01, 2023 05:19 PM (0FoWg)
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I remember the Davy Crockett movie, the Alamo, several Revolutionary War movies, etc. Great stuff, great fun, and patriotic.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 01, 2023 05:18 PM (YqDXo)
Also the Flubber movies and That Darned Cat.
I remember the Davy Crockett movie, the Alamo, several Revolutionary War movies, etc. Great stuff, great fun, and patriotic.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 01, 2023 05:18 PM (YqDXo)
Also the Flubber movies and That Darned Cat.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at August 01, 2023 05:19 PM (N3zMI)
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Call me a pussy, but those damn flying monkeys in "The Wizard of Oz" still freak me out more than any horror movie I've watched.
Call me a pussy, but those damn flying monkeys in "The Wizard of Oz" still freak me out more than any horror movie I've watched.
Posted by: Auspex at August 01, 2023 05:19 PM (j4U/Z)
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community like he controlled his employees. In a planned city, there would be alcoholism, prostitution
Tom Sawyer's Island with whores!
Swiss Family Robinson's Hooters!
Also see: Fordlandia
Tom Sawyer's Island with whores!
Swiss Family Robinson's Hooters!
Also see: Fordlandia
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko stuff at August 01, 2023 05:20 PM (XEI9S)
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The first 3 in the series are all good, screenwritten by the same husband and wife team. After that, other writers got involved, and the others in the series aren't bad but don't have the same crackle that the first 3 do.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 01, 2023 04:42 PM (i9ffA)
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For a long time I assumed William Powell and Myrna Loy were married in real life because their chemistry and repartee were so natural.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 01, 2023 04:42 PM (i9ffA)
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For a long time I assumed William Powell and Myrna Loy were married in real life because their chemistry and repartee were so natural.
Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at August 01, 2023 05:20 PM (wzAuc)
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BREAKING: Trump just indicted again.
Posted by: ShainS at August 01, 2023 04:56 PM (wx9X4)
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What for?
Anyways...
BREAKING: Trump just indicted again.
Posted by: ShainS at August 01, 2023 04:56 PM (wx9X4)
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What for?
Anyways...
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 01, 2023 05:20 PM (lCaJd)
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aos Moron horde added to my enjoyment of Its a Wonderful Life.
Every time I watch the scene where they show the newspaper headline about Harry Bailey I laugh because it shows two things that the horde used to go crazy about.
Harry Bailey Wins Congressional Medal Of Honor
Every time I watch the scene where they show the newspaper headline about Harry Bailey I laugh because it shows two things that the horde used to go crazy about.
Harry Bailey Wins Congressional Medal Of Honor
Posted by: polynikes at August 01, 2023 05:21 PM (MNhXM)
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What for?
Anyways...
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 01, 2023 05:20 PM
Snoring in his sleep. Bastard.
Anyways...
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 01, 2023 05:20 PM
Snoring in his sleep. Bastard.
Posted by: Minnfidel at August 01, 2023 05:21 PM (eqKLj)
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community like he controlled his employees. In a planned city, there would be alcoholism, prostitution
Tom Sawyer's Island with whores!
Swiss Family Robinson's Hooters!
Also see: Fordlandia
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty
And that's when the whores come in. Shaking their behinds.
-old lady on the Callahan auto board.
Tom Sawyer's Island with whores!
Swiss Family Robinson's Hooters!
Also see: Fordlandia
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty
And that's when the whores come in. Shaking their behinds.
-old lady on the Callahan auto board.
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 01, 2023 05:21 PM (MGB5H)
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280 271 They were able to get some sort of exhibition protection on it at some point, I don't know all the details, because yes it did used to be played ad nauseum, it is now played just once on Christmas Eve on nbc.
Posted by: BruceWayne
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Prime had it as well. If I recall right, a corporation owning Republic Films ip claimed that it still had the rights to the story the movie was based on and it had rights to a later play as well. It is they who claimed they would only allow it to be shown if licensed from them relying on Stewart v. Abend (1990) decision from Scotus over the 1909 Copyright Act. That case was over Rear Window.
Posted by: BruceWayne
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Prime had it as well. If I recall right, a corporation owning Republic Films ip claimed that it still had the rights to the story the movie was based on and it had rights to a later play as well. It is they who claimed they would only allow it to be shown if licensed from them relying on Stewart v. Abend (1990) decision from Scotus over the 1909 Copyright Act. That case was over Rear Window.
Posted by: whig at August 01, 2023 05:22 PM (bk5GW)
Posted by: whig at August 01, 2023 05:22 PM (bk5GW)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 01, 2023 05:22 PM (PHmov)
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Every time a Biden gets bad information out, DJT gets a indictment
Posted by: Skip at August 01, 2023 05:23 PM (xhxe8)
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310 What for?
Anyways...
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
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Loitering.
Posted by: whig at August 01, 2023 05:22 PM (bk5GW)
Running for President while republican
Anyways...
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
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Loitering.
Posted by: whig at August 01, 2023 05:22 PM (bk5GW)
Running for President while republican
Posted by: It's me donna at August 01, 2023 05:23 PM (bs+z0)
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Trump just granted immunity in some trial in PA where he was being blamed for some poll worker's heart attack. Judge said that basically he could say anything he wanted to while President. That it is part of his job. How can he be indicted for Jan 6th for what he said?
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 01, 2023 05:23 PM (t/2Uw)
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Call me a pussy, but those damn flying monkeys in "The Wizard of Oz" still freak me out more than any horror movie I've watched.
Posted by: Auspex at August 01, 2023 05:19 PM (j4U/Z)
Pussy.
Aaahhhh, I'm just messin' with ya, you're alright.
Posted by: Auspex at August 01, 2023 05:19 PM (j4U/Z)
Pussy.
Aaahhhh, I'm just messin' with ya, you're alright.
Posted by: Robert at August 01, 2023 05:23 PM (1Yy3c)
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Reedy Creek has a zero death rate as every time a child is torn apart by an aliigator or prostitute is found gutted they make sure there is no doctor on site to call the time of death and have an ambulance transport the victim out to Orlando. It about doubles Orlando crime rate.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 01, 2023 05:23 PM (ga8qR)
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They were able to get some sort of exhibition protection on it at some point, I don't know all the details, because yes it did used to be played ad nauseum, it is now played just once on Christmas Eve on nbc.
Posted by: BruceWayne
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Prime had it as well. If I recall right, a corporation owning Republic Films ip claimed that it still had the rights to the story the movie was based on and it had rights to a later play as well. It is they who claimed they would only allow it to be shown if licensed from them relying on Stewart v. Abend (1990) decision from Scotus over the 1909 Copyright Act. That case was over Rear Window.
Posted by: whig
Ya, what he said.
Posted by: BruceWayne
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Prime had it as well. If I recall right, a corporation owning Republic Films ip claimed that it still had the rights to the story the movie was based on and it had rights to a later play as well. It is they who claimed they would only allow it to be shown if licensed from them relying on Stewart v. Abend (1990) decision from Scotus over the 1909 Copyright Act. That case was over Rear Window.
Posted by: whig
Ya, what he said.
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 01, 2023 05:23 PM (MGB5H)
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>>> Disney decided it wanted to appeal to rich white wine Aunts. That was not, and never will be, and profitable audience for the company.
The big Utah families that I know of with the 4+ kids and 8+ grandkids that went to Disney parks every year, it was usually the grandparents footing the bill who want to create family memories for everyone. Middle class greatest generation or boomers, with retirement money to burn on their family.
For some reason Disney has decided to 1) no longer make family friendly films appealing to this customer, and 2) focus instead on DINKS (double income no kids) who just don't consistently spend the same amount per capita as this customer, and 3) make the parks so expensive no middle class customer can afford to do such trips anymore for the whole family.
It's schadenfreudelicious to see Disney shoot themselves in the foot on every imaginable level.
The big Utah families that I know of with the 4+ kids and 8+ grandkids that went to Disney parks every year, it was usually the grandparents footing the bill who want to create family memories for everyone. Middle class greatest generation or boomers, with retirement money to burn on their family.
For some reason Disney has decided to 1) no longer make family friendly films appealing to this customer, and 2) focus instead on DINKS (double income no kids) who just don't consistently spend the same amount per capita as this customer, and 3) make the parks so expensive no middle class customer can afford to do such trips anymore for the whole family.
It's schadenfreudelicious to see Disney shoot themselves in the foot on every imaginable level.
Posted by: LizLem at August 01, 2023 05:23 PM (Hzx5Z)
319
Every time a Biden gets bad information out, DJT gets a indictment
Posted by: Skip at August 01, 2023 05:23 PM (xhxe8
I hope that was a Wonderful Life snark.
Posted by: Skip at August 01, 2023 05:23 PM (xhxe8
I hope that was a Wonderful Life snark.
Posted by: polynikes at August 01, 2023 05:24 PM (MNhXM)
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Copyrights are lasting way too long. Start pushing more out of copyright and that forces studios to, get this, think of new shit.
New shit. imagine that. Thinking of something new for a change.
New shit. imagine that. Thinking of something new for a change.
Posted by: Comrade Roboto at August 01, 2023 05:25 PM (nJ1bF)
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Just stop getting people to release bad things about a Biden , and DJT won't get more indictments.
Posted by: Skip at August 01, 2023 05:25 PM (xhxe8)
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They were able to get some sort of exhibition protection on it at some point, I don't know all the details, because yes it did used to be played ad nauseum, it is now played just once on Christmas Eve on nbc.
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 01, 2023 05:13 PM (MGB5H)
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I think TBS found a way to renew the copyright on Its a wonderful life.
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 01, 2023 05:13 PM (MGB5H)
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I think TBS found a way to renew the copyright on Its a wonderful life.
Posted by: rd at August 01, 2023 05:25 PM (0rf5k)
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321 Just stop getting people to release bad things about a Biden , and DJT won't get more indictments.
Posted by: Skip at August 01, 2023 05:25 PM (xhxe
Media's not covering the Biden stuff but they keep indicting anyway
Posted by: Skip at August 01, 2023 05:25 PM (xhxe
Media's not covering the Biden stuff but they keep indicting anyway
Posted by: It's me donna at August 01, 2023 05:25 PM (bs+z0)
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polynikes at least a movie tie in
Posted by: Skip at August 01, 2023 05:25 PM (xhxe8)
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"How to restore Disney to profitability? Hmm, how to restore an entertainment company built of family products with a vault chock full of quality programming they don’t show any more, with three or four TV channels dedicated to their brand and access to movie theaters nationwide.
Yep, it’s a mystery alright."
Disney reminds me of the teen star with the wholesome image that just goes full twerk slattern.
She don't want to be Disney no mo.
Yep, it’s a mystery alright."
Disney reminds me of the teen star with the wholesome image that just goes full twerk slattern.
She don't want to be Disney no mo.
Posted by: eleven at August 01, 2023 05:25 PM (nf6V8)
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Call me a pussy, but those damn flying monkeys in "The Wizard of Oz" still freak me out more than any horror movie I've watched.
Posted by: Auspex at August 01, 2023 05:19 PM (j4U/Z
Yes scared me as a kid. Still creepy today. Costume designer should have won an Oscar. Maybe they did.
Posted by: Auspex at August 01, 2023 05:19 PM (j4U/Z
Yes scared me as a kid. Still creepy today. Costume designer should have won an Oscar. Maybe they did.
Posted by: polynikes at August 01, 2023 05:26 PM (MNhXM)
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Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper 7m
BREAKING: Grand jury returned an indictment against a defendant who was not identified publicly even by initials or grand jury number. Was put under seal. A prosecutor who handles Jan. 6 matters, Molly Gaston, submitted what is believed to be Trump indictment - Politico reporter
Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper 9m
BREAKING: Special prosecutor Jack Smith to make a statement soon - C-SPAN
BREAKING: Grand jury returned an indictment against a defendant who was not identified publicly even by initials or grand jury number. Was put under seal. A prosecutor who handles Jan. 6 matters, Molly Gaston, submitted what is believed to be Trump indictment - Politico reporter
Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper 9m
BREAKING: Special prosecutor Jack Smith to make a statement soon - C-SPAN
Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 01, 2023 05:26 PM (krqg6)
328
Didn't see it mentioned here, post or comments but Pee-Wee Herman is room temperature
Posted by: Skip at August 01, 2023 05:26 PM (xhxe8)
329
polynikes at least a movie tie in
Posted by: Skip at August 01, 2023 05:25 PM (xhxe
I thought it was great and wish I would have thought of it first.
Posted by: Skip at August 01, 2023 05:25 PM (xhxe
I thought it was great and wish I would have thought of it first.
Posted by: polynikes at August 01, 2023 05:27 PM (MNhXM)
330
At the end of the day, if you're willing to kiss off your customers, you don't care about the shareholder.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
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At the end of the day, if this is what you're doing, you're a captive of ideology. And those people don't let go.
At the end of the day, if you're willing to kiss off your customers, you don't care about the shareholder.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
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At the end of the day, if this is what you're doing, you're a captive of ideology. And those people don't let go.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 01, 2023 05:27 PM (lCaJd)
331
Every time a Biden gets bad information out, DJT gets a indictment
Posted by: Skip at August 01, 2023 05:23 PM
Almost tit for tat. So berry, berry strange.
Every time a Biden gets bad information out, DJT gets a indictment
Posted by: Skip at August 01, 2023 05:23 PM
Almost tit for tat. So berry, berry strange.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at August 01, 2023 05:27 PM (enJYY)
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So happy that SOF is doing so well.
A new $2B theme park is planned for NE Oklahoma called The American Heartland Theme Park and resort. They will have 6 lands to visit - Great Plains, Bayou Bay, Big Timber Falls, Stony Point Harbor, Liberty Village and Electropolis. They hired a lot of prior Disney Imagineers to design the lands.
Some good things are happening!
A new $2B theme park is planned for NE Oklahoma called The American Heartland Theme Park and resort. They will have 6 lands to visit - Great Plains, Bayou Bay, Big Timber Falls, Stony Point Harbor, Liberty Village and Electropolis. They hired a lot of prior Disney Imagineers to design the lands.
Some good things are happening!
Posted by: Cheri at August 01, 2023 05:27 PM (oiNtH)
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Some good things are happening!
Posted by: Cheri at August 01, 2023 05:27 PM (oiNtH)
Sounds good
Posted by: Cheri at August 01, 2023 05:27 PM (oiNtH)
Sounds good
Posted by: It's me donna at August 01, 2023 05:27 PM (bs+z0)
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His whistleblower tells him that "one of Disney's biggest ad partners" has exited its agreement with Disney. They feel that Disney overstated the "impact" that advertising on Disney would have
Interviewer: "I was just wondering, does this mean the popularity of Disney is waning?"
Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no...no, no, not at all. I, I, I just think that the.. uh.. their appeal is becoming more selective.
Interviewer: "I was just wondering, does this mean the popularity of Disney is waning?"
Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no...no, no, not at all. I, I, I just think that the.. uh.. their appeal is becoming more selective.
Posted by: Chuck C at August 01, 2023 05:28 PM (xttsV)
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I think TBS found a way to renew the copyright on Its a wonderful life.
Posted by: rd
See above. Came from a corporation still owning rights to the original story but not the film any longer. In the Abends case, Scotus held that it was not fair use of the original story and play to do a public exhibition. That is different than home exhibition dvd/vhs so it is in a gray area of the law.
Posted by: rd
See above. Came from a corporation still owning rights to the original story but not the film any longer. In the Abends case, Scotus held that it was not fair use of the original story and play to do a public exhibition. That is different than home exhibition dvd/vhs so it is in a gray area of the law.
Posted by: whig at August 01, 2023 05:28 PM (bk5GW)
336
Copyrights are lasting way too long. Start pushing more out of copyright and that forces studios to, get this, think of new shit.
New shit. imagine that. Thinking of something new for a change.
Posted by: Comrade Roboto at August 01, 2023 05:25 PM
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Every popular story has been done before. If not by Shakespeare, then by Homer or another greek.
New shit. imagine that. Thinking of something new for a change.
Posted by: Comrade Roboto at August 01, 2023 05:25 PM
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Every popular story has been done before. If not by Shakespeare, then by Homer or another greek.
Posted by: rd at August 01, 2023 05:28 PM (AvMV4)
337
My favorite faith-based films are ones about the Rapture where the people go POOF! and all that is left is a neatly-folded pile of laundry.
Posted by: One Hour Martinizing at August 01, 2023 04:41 PM (tO+U3)
God can't make fabrics go to heaven?
Posted by: One Hour Martinizing at August 01, 2023 04:41 PM (tO+U3)
God can't make fabrics go to heaven?
Posted by: Oldcat at August 01, 2023 05:28 PM (eoQWY)
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Call me a pussy, but those damn flying monkeys in "The Wizard of Oz" still freak me out more than any horror movie I've watched.
Posted by: Auspex
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Menacing as hell.
Call me a pussy, but those damn flying monkeys in "The Wizard of Oz" still freak me out more than any horror movie I've watched.
Posted by: Auspex
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Menacing as hell.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 01, 2023 05:28 PM (lCaJd)
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Erik Wasson
@elwasson
BOOM: *UNITED STATES RATINGS CUT TO AA+ FROM AAA BY FITCH
The repeated debt-limit political standoffs and last-minute resolutions have eroded confidence in fiscal management." says FITCH
@elwasson
BOOM: *UNITED STATES RATINGS CUT TO AA+ FROM AAA BY FITCH
The repeated debt-limit political standoffs and last-minute resolutions have eroded confidence in fiscal management." says FITCH
Posted by: redridinghood at August 01, 2023 05:28 PM (NpAcC)
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A new $2B theme park is planned for NE Oklahoma called The American Heartland Theme Park and resort. They will have 6 lands to visit - Great Plains, Bayou Bay, Big Timber Falls, Stony Point Harbor, Liberty Village and Electropolis. They hired a lot of prior Disney Imagineers to design the lands.
Some good things are happening!
Posted by: Cheri at
There are a lot of people round these parts that I would classify as pretty knowledgeable about such things who say this isn't going to happen.
Some good things are happening!
Posted by: Cheri at
There are a lot of people round these parts that I would classify as pretty knowledgeable about such things who say this isn't going to happen.
Posted by: BruceWayne at August 01, 2023 05:28 PM (MGB5H)
341
Also breaking:
Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper 38s
JUST IN 🚨 FITCH DOWNGRADES UNITED STATES RATINGS TO AA+ FROM AAA
There go your interest payments up!
Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper 38s
JUST IN 🚨 FITCH DOWNGRADES UNITED STATES RATINGS TO AA+ FROM AAA
There go your interest payments up!
Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 01, 2023 05:29 PM (krqg6)
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A new $2B theme park is planned for NE Oklahoma called The American Heartland Theme Park and resort. They will have 6 lands to visit - Great Plains, Bayou Bay, Big Timber Falls, Stony Point Harbor, Liberty Village and Electropolis. They hired a lot of prior Disney Imagineers to design the lands.
Some good things are happening!
Posted by: Cheri
Yep.
A new $2B theme park is planned for NE Oklahoma called The American Heartland Theme Park and resort. They will have 6 lands to visit - Great Plains, Bayou Bay, Big Timber Falls, Stony Point Harbor, Liberty Village and Electropolis. They hired a lot of prior Disney Imagineers to design the lands.
Some good things are happening!
Posted by: Cheri
Yep.
Posted by: whig at August 01, 2023 05:29 PM (bk5GW)
343
What for?
Anyways...
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 01, 2023 05:20 PM
Snoring in his sleep. Bastard.
Posted by: Minnfidel at August 01, 2023 05:21 PM (eqKLj)
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Tearing the tag off a mattress. Have you at last no decency?
Anyways...
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 01, 2023 05:20 PM
Snoring in his sleep. Bastard.
Posted by: Minnfidel at August 01, 2023 05:21 PM (eqKLj)
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Tearing the tag off a mattress. Have you at last no decency?
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 01, 2023 05:29 PM (YqDXo)
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Call me a pussy, but those damn flying monkeys in "The Wizard of Oz" still freak me out more than any horror movie I've watched.
Posted by: Auspex at August 01, 2023 05:19 PM (j4U/Z)
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My kids were absolutely terrified out of their minds of The Wheelers in the sequel.
But yeah, flying monkeys. Horrifying!
Call me a pussy, but those damn flying monkeys in "The Wizard of Oz" still freak me out more than any horror movie I've watched.
Posted by: Auspex at August 01, 2023 05:19 PM (j4U/Z)
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My kids were absolutely terrified out of their minds of The Wheelers in the sequel.
But yeah, flying monkeys. Horrifying!
Posted by: Hillary at August 01, 2023 05:29 PM (RLLZj)
345
So lemmi get this straight:
Yankees do nothing but stink
Trump is indicted again
Do I have it right?
Fucked up world
Yankees do nothing but stink
Trump is indicted again
Do I have it right?
Fucked up world
Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 01, 2023 05:29 PM (EVR4i)
346
Funny - Sound of Freedom would have failed if Disney had kept it.
Because Angel Studios busted their butts to get it seen and heard. Disney would have dumped it on Hulu and forgotten about it.
Because Angel Studios busted their butts to get it seen and heard. Disney would have dumped it on Hulu and forgotten about it.
Posted by: Comrade Roboto at August 01, 2023 05:29 PM (nJ1bF)
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332 So happy that SOF is doing so well.
A new $2B theme park is planned for NE Oklahoma called The American Heartland Theme Park and resort. They will have 6 lands to visit - Great Plains, Bayou Bay, Big Timber Falls, Stony Point Harbor, Liberty Village and Electropolis. They hired a lot of prior Disney Imagineers to design the lands.
Some good things are happening!
Posted by: Cheri at August 01, 2023 05:27 PM (oiNtH)
That IS good news!
A new $2B theme park is planned for NE Oklahoma called The American Heartland Theme Park and resort. They will have 6 lands to visit - Great Plains, Bayou Bay, Big Timber Falls, Stony Point Harbor, Liberty Village and Electropolis. They hired a lot of prior Disney Imagineers to design the lands.
Some good things are happening!
Posted by: Cheri at August 01, 2023 05:27 PM (oiNtH)
That IS good news!
Posted by: m at August 01, 2023 05:29 PM (SpRPx)
348
I remember the Davy Crockett movie, the Alamo, several Revolutionary War movies, etc. Great stuff, great fun, and patriotic.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara
Also the Flubber movies and That Darned Cat.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher
Follow Me, Boys!
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060420
I remember the Davy Crockett movie, the Alamo, several Revolutionary War movies, etc. Great stuff, great fun, and patriotic.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara
Also the Flubber movies and That Darned Cat.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher
Follow Me, Boys!
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060420
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 01, 2023 05:29 PM (63Dwl)
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Erik Wasson
@elwasson
BOOM: *UNITED STATES RATINGS CUT TO AA+ FROM AAA BY FITCH
The repeated debt-limit political standoffs and last-minute resolutions have eroded confidence in fiscal management." says FITCH
Posted by: redridinghood at August 01, 2023 05:28 PM (NpAcC)
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Must be all that improvin' Biden is doing.
@elwasson
BOOM: *UNITED STATES RATINGS CUT TO AA+ FROM AAA BY FITCH
The repeated debt-limit political standoffs and last-minute resolutions have eroded confidence in fiscal management." says FITCH
Posted by: redridinghood at August 01, 2023 05:28 PM (NpAcC)
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Must be all that improvin' Biden is doing.
Posted by: Axeman at August 01, 2023 05:30 PM (krQz2)
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The repeated debt-limit political standoffs and last-minute resolutions have eroded confidence in fiscal management." says FITCH
Posted by: redridinghood at August 01, 2023 05:28 PM (NpAcC)
What took them so long? I lost confidence in their fiscal management years ago!
Posted by: redridinghood at August 01, 2023 05:28 PM (NpAcC)
What took them so long? I lost confidence in their fiscal management years ago!
Posted by: Minnfidel at August 01, 2023 05:30 PM (eqKLj)
351
They make Wisard of Oz Flying Ape miniatures
Posted by: Skip at August 01, 2023 05:30 PM (xhxe8)
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God can't make fabrics go to heaven?
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Not, according to the Renaissance painters CBD links!
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Not, according to the Renaissance painters CBD links!
Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at August 01, 2023 05:30 PM (krqg6)
353
“ 5 of 6 of the movies were on HBO Max, then my wife and I got through 2 of them and they were removed”
Read the original book by Hammet. It’s actually really good. Same guy that wrote the Maltese Falcon (also a good read).
Read the original book by Hammet. It’s actually really good. Same guy that wrote the Maltese Falcon (also a good read).
Posted by: Gman at August 01, 2023 05:30 PM (NvorH)
354
Every popular story has been done before. If not by Shakespeare, then by Homer or another greek.
Posted by: rd
I remember a good public library or college library usually had in reference an entire multi volume series on plot lines etc. for writers to reference.
Can't remember the name of it but Wolfus might know due to his dayjob and avocation.
Posted by: rd
I remember a good public library or college library usually had in reference an entire multi volume series on plot lines etc. for writers to reference.
Can't remember the name of it but Wolfus might know due to his dayjob and avocation.
Posted by: whig at August 01, 2023 05:30 PM (bk5GW)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 01, 2023 05:31 PM (JvZF+)
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A new $2B theme park is planned for NE Oklahoma called The American Heartland Theme Park and resort. They will have 6 lands to visit - Great Plains, Bayou Bay, Big Timber Falls, Stony Point Harbor, Liberty Village and Electropolis. They hired a lot of prior Disney Imagineers to design the lands.
Some good things are happening!
Posted by: Cheri at August 01, 2023 05:27 PM
I heard about that! Cool!
Some good things are happening!
Posted by: Cheri at August 01, 2023 05:27 PM
I heard about that! Cool!
Posted by: Minnfidel at August 01, 2023 05:31 PM (eqKLj)
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354 Every popular story has been done before. If not by Shakespeare, then by Homer or another greek.
Posted by: rd
I remember a good public library or college library usually had in reference an entire multi volume series on plot lines etc. for writers to reference.
Can't remember the name of it but Wolfus might know due to his dayjob and avocation.
Posted by: whig at August 01, 2023 05:30 PM (bk5GW)
Cool.
Posted by: rd
I remember a good public library or college library usually had in reference an entire multi volume series on plot lines etc. for writers to reference.
Can't remember the name of it but Wolfus might know due to his dayjob and avocation.
Posted by: whig at August 01, 2023 05:30 PM (bk5GW)
Cool.
Posted by: m at August 01, 2023 05:32 PM (SpRPx)
358
Follow Me, Boys!
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060420
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
Last movie completed before Walt died. DVD has an interesting interview with some of the child actors in the film and their memories.
Also has a young Kurt Russell in it.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060420
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
Last movie completed before Walt died. DVD has an interesting interview with some of the child actors in the film and their memories.
Also has a young Kurt Russell in it.
Posted by: whig at August 01, 2023 05:32 PM (bk5GW)
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>>> Disney reminds me of the teen star with the wholesome image that just goes full twerk slattern. She don't want to be Disney no mo. Posted by: eleven at August 01, 2023 05:25 PM (nf6V
Basically that's all of them. I think Keri Russell is the only Disney Channel starlet that turned out normal. Maybe Ryan Gosling too on a good day.
Basically that's all of them. I think Keri Russell is the only Disney Channel starlet that turned out normal. Maybe Ryan Gosling too on a good day.
Posted by: LizLem at August 01, 2023 05:32 PM (Hzx5Z)
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Funny - Sound of Freedom would have failed if Disney had kept it.
Posted by: Comrade Roboto at August 01, 2023 05:29 PM (nJ1bF)
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The Inverse Midas touch.
Posted by: Comrade Roboto at August 01, 2023 05:29 PM (nJ1bF)
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The Inverse Midas touch.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 01, 2023 05:33 PM (YqDXo)
361
There's no such thing as a free buttplug.
Posted by: Paul Reubens at August 01, 2023 05:33 PM (sWM8x)
362
"At the end of the day, if this is what you're doing, you're a captive of ideology. And those people don't let go.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia"
I have this image of Bob Iger as Slim Pickens at the end of Strangelove.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia"
I have this image of Bob Iger as Slim Pickens at the end of Strangelove.
Posted by: eleven at August 01, 2023 05:34 PM (nf6V8)
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I think TBS found a way to renew the copyright on Its a wonderful life.
The film itself is in the public domain. If you had a print of it, you could run it in your theatre 24/7/365 and never pay a cent of royalties to anyone.
The short story it was based on and the music in it are still under copyright. These were never licensed for anything other than film (i.e. not licensed for TV/DVD/streaming/etc). This is how they stopped the free TV showings. One entity holds the short story and music rights. This is who licenses it for its one network showing per year.
The film itself is in the public domain. If you had a print of it, you could run it in your theatre 24/7/365 and never pay a cent of royalties to anyone.
The short story it was based on and the music in it are still under copyright. These were never licensed for anything other than film (i.e. not licensed for TV/DVD/streaming/etc). This is how they stopped the free TV showings. One entity holds the short story and music rights. This is who licenses it for its one network showing per year.
Posted by: Chuck C at August 01, 2023 05:36 PM (xttsV)
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Every popular story has been done before. If not by Shakespeare, then by Homer or another greek.
Posted by: rd
Them Greek faggots stole them from Africa!
Posted by: rd
Them Greek faggots stole them from Africa!
Posted by: Al Sharpton at August 01, 2023 05:36 PM (ga8qR)
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I think that the first movie my mom took me to in a theater was Gentle Ben in the mid-60s.
First movie I can remember seeing was The African Queen during the drive in movie phase of its theatrical release. Probably late 1952.
First movie I can remember seeing was The African Queen during the drive in movie phase of its theatrical release. Probably late 1952.
Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at August 01, 2023 05:36 PM (CecP5)
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Yes scared me as a kid. Still creepy today. Costume designer should have won an Oscar. Maybe they did.
Posted by: polynikes at August 01, 2023 05:26 PM (MNhXM)
The great Adrian- one of the Top Ten, imho.
Posted by: polynikes at August 01, 2023 05:26 PM (MNhXM)
The great Adrian- one of the Top Ten, imho.
Posted by: sal: tolle adversarium et afflige inimicum at August 01, 2023 05:37 PM (hAfUZ)
367
Copyright has gone from the Victorian era where basically there was none, and the creators starved to death penniless, to mega corps with copyrights lasting over a century to line the pockets of fat cats or entitled nepo grandkids. Can there not be a balance in between somewhere that actually makes sense?
Posted by: LizLem at August 01, 2023 05:38 PM (Hzx5Z)
368
Nood flying monkey
Posted by: LizLem at August 01, 2023 05:39 PM (Hzx5Z)
Posted by: anachronda at August 01, 2023 05:40 PM (v3pYe)
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Lots of pale imitations out there. Remington Steele? I never saw that, either.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 01, 2023 05:18 PM (lCaJd)
Remington Steele was a very good show, great writing and acting. It was more about celebrating old films than banter.
Detective Laura Holt invents a fake boss Remington Steele to keep her detective agency going. A mysterious international thief finds out, assumes the identity and she has to go along with it. Steele is a big movie fan and is always trying to relate the current case to old movie plots.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 01, 2023 05:18 PM (lCaJd)
Remington Steele was a very good show, great writing and acting. It was more about celebrating old films than banter.
Detective Laura Holt invents a fake boss Remington Steele to keep her detective agency going. A mysterious international thief finds out, assumes the identity and she has to go along with it. Steele is a big movie fan and is always trying to relate the current case to old movie plots.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 01, 2023 05:44 PM (eoQWY)
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The first movie I can remember seeing was The Shaggy Dog from Disney, w/ Fred MacMurray. It's not so much that I remember the plot or anythng, but I do remember the entire film impressed my six-year-old mind.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 01, 2023 05:16 PM (J2vNu)
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I remember the Davy Crockett movie, the Alamo, several Revolutionary War movies, etc. Great stuff, great fun, and patriotic.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 01, 2023 05:18 PM (YqDXo)
Annette Funicello. Stirred my young loins, she did.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 01, 2023 05:16 PM (J2vNu)
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I remember the Davy Crockett movie, the Alamo, several Revolutionary War movies, etc. Great stuff, great fun, and patriotic.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 01, 2023 05:18 PM (YqDXo)
Annette Funicello. Stirred my young loins, she did.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 01, 2023 05:44 PM (BdMk6)
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Sound of Freedom is not faith-based. They mention God a couple times. They do not claim divine intervention or power of prayer or anything.
It’s not really a thriller either. Just a powerful story with excellent performances by all, especially the kids.
It’s not really a thriller either. Just a powerful story with excellent performances by all, especially the kids.
Posted by: Jiggle Tits McGee at August 01, 2023 05:44 PM (vN+oL)
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337 My favorite faith-based films are ones about the Rapture where the people go POOF! and all that is left is a neatly-folded pile of laundry.
Posted by: One Hour Martinizing at August 01, 2023 04:41 PM (tO+U3)
God can't make fabrics go to heaven?
Posted by: Oldcat at August 01, 2023 05:28 PM (eoQWY)
So silly. God cares about people, not fabric.
Posted by: One Hour Martinizing at August 01, 2023 04:41 PM (tO+U3)
God can't make fabrics go to heaven?
Posted by: Oldcat at August 01, 2023 05:28 PM (eoQWY)
So silly. God cares about people, not fabric.
Posted by: Iron Mike Golf A2E6, Easy 6 Titanium Enhanced at August 01, 2023 05:46 PM (8C7+r)
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Every popular story has been done before. If not by Shakespeare, then by Homer or another greek.
Posted by: rd
The comic plot "identical twin of person arrives in town by accident and hijinx ensue" goes back to Roman times of 250 BC or so and was likely old then.
Posted by: rd
The comic plot "identical twin of person arrives in town by accident and hijinx ensue" goes back to Roman times of 250 BC or so and was likely old then.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 01, 2023 05:47 PM (eoQWY)
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So silly. God cares about people, not fabric.
Posted by: Iron Mike Golf A2E6, Easy 6 Titanium Enhanced at August 01, 2023 05:46 PM (8C7+r)
He cares about the soul, he could leave the body behind too.
Posted by: Iron Mike Golf A2E6, Easy 6 Titanium Enhanced at August 01, 2023 05:46 PM (8C7+r)
He cares about the soul, he could leave the body behind too.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 01, 2023 05:47 PM (eoQWY)
376
I have this image of Bob Iger as Slim Pickens at the end of Strangelove.
Posted by: eleven at August 01, 2023 05:34 PM (nf6V
Or Hitler in the clip of Downfall that went viral with comedy subtitles having a tantrum as the Soviets closed in.
Posted by: eleven at August 01, 2023 05:34 PM (nf6V
Or Hitler in the clip of Downfall that went viral with comedy subtitles having a tantrum as the Soviets closed in.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 01, 2023 05:49 PM (eoQWY)
377
Desantis actually gets stuff done. Unlike Trump, he punches back against woke biz. Which is why he should be our nominee.
Also, he has a good chance of actually winning. Unlike Donald "46%" Trump
Also, he has a good chance of actually winning. Unlike Donald "46%" Trump
Posted by: Trump can't win at August 01, 2023 06:07 PM (eFaq8)
378
Totally disagree. We should have the right to establish our own cities. No one can say what the establishment has done is better.
Posted by: Close The Fed at August 01, 2023 06:33 PM (LeNk3)
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Disney and Henry Ford had something in common: an idealistic paternalism. Ford paid his workers more than the other car manufacturers, built nice housing for them, with gardens, but also wanted them to behave nicely.
Good old Human Nature won, of course. Or original sin, if you will.
Walt Disney was a very patriotic Republican. He would throw up all over Bob Iger & co.
Good old Human Nature won, of course. Or original sin, if you will.
Walt Disney was a very patriotic Republican. He would throw up all over Bob Iger & co.
Posted by: Beverly at August 01, 2023 06:36 PM (Epeb0)
380
Walt didn't buy enough land in Anaheim and didn't want to make the same mistake in Florida.
Posted by: The Gipper Lives at August 01, 2023 09:46 PM (Ndje9)
381
Baby Doc Bush signed the first lightbulb ban.
Posted by: Montec at August 01, 2023 09:59 PM (jC7hV)
382
Walt Disney died before Disney World opened. His dying probably gave Disney the opening to cancel the city and switch to Magic Kingdom.
Whatever happened to the city Celebration that I heard Disney announce in the 90s?
Whatever happened to the city Celebration that I heard Disney announce in the 90s?
Posted by: MikeN at August 01, 2023 10:39 PM (XygMV)
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No doubt the hacks from the Washington Post, Rolling Stone and the Guardian are furious that Sound of Freedom is a hit. Their stupid suggestive theories that the movie was tied to Qanon did not work. I have seen movie three times and will probably see it again. Highly recommended
Posted by: Victoria at August 02, 2023 06:15 AM (B6OJk)
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There's a small portion of the movie at the beginning where there are subtitles but most of the movie is in English
Posted by: Victoria at August 02, 2023 06:16 AM (B6OJk)
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Liberal Economists Rue a "New Decade of Greed"
Artificial Insouciance: Maureen Dowd's Word Processor Revolts Against Her Numbing Imbecility
Intelligence Officials Eye Blogs for Tips
They Done Found Us Out, Cletus: Intrepid Internet Detective Figures Out Our Master Plan
Shock: Josh Marshall Almost Mentions Sarin Discovery in Iraq
Leather-Clad Biker Freaks Terrorize Australian Town
When Clinton Was President, Torture Was Cool
What Wonkette Means When She Explains What Tina Brown Means
Wonkette's Stand-Up Act
Wankette HQ Gay-Rumors Du Jour
Here's What's Bugging Me: Goose and Slider
My Own Micah Wright Style Confession of Dishonesty
Outraged "Conservatives" React to the FMA
An On-Line Impression of Dennis Miller Having Sex with a Kodiak Bear
The Story the Rightwing Media Refuses to Report!
Our Lunch with David "Glengarry Glen Ross" Mamet
The House of Love: Paul Krugman
A Michael Moore Mystery (TM)
The Dowd-O-Matic!
Liberal Consistency and Other Myths
Kepler's Laws of Liberal Media Bias
John Kerry-- The Splunge! Candidate
"Divisive" Politics & "Attacks on Patriotism" (very long)
The Donkey ("The Raven" parody)
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