Disney's <i>The Marvels</i> Projected to Make Less Money Than Any Marvel Movie Ever

Disney's The Marvels Projected to Make Less Money Than Any Marvel Movie Ever

It's been reported that the movie has a budget of $270 million, not including marketing. That means it would have to make $700-800 million just to break even.

That's not going to happen. Not even close.

This is going to be a huge disaster. I think advanced ticket sales for The Marvels are down something like 47% from the sales of Quantumania, and that was itself a huge disaster.

Deadline reports that box office analytics firm Quorum projected two weeks ago that the movie would bring in around $90 million in its opening weekend.
However, the outlet reports the "four-week lead tracking" for the film is coming in at $75 million to $80 million. That's a decline of 11% on the low end and 16% on the high end.
For comparison, 2019's Captain Marvel had an opening weekend of $153.4 million and went on to gross $426.8 million at the domestic box office. The film grossed $1.1 billion globally.
If these projections pan out, that means The Marvels' opening weekend box office will decline by over 50% compared to Captain Marvel at the low end of $75 million. It's a 47% decline on the high end at $80 million.

And if you think that's bad -- another projection puts the numbers down at Cocaine Bear levels.

This report also comes in the wake of Box Office Pro's long-range predictions that claimed the film would have a domestic opening weekend between $50 million and $75 million.

Okay, that's not as low as Cocaine Bear. But then, Cocaine Bear only cost a hundred and forty three dollars to make.

The total gross? Grotesque!

They also predicted the film would only gross between $121 million and $189 million in its entire box office run.

In a huge sign of how weak the film is, Marvel has embargoed all reviews until the day the film starts opening around the world.

This is an old trick, of course: If your movie is bad, and you know critics will be unkind, you have two options: You can cancel all critics previews. But this tells everyone that the film is terrible. Not screening a movie for critics becomes a negative story in itself.

The other option is to technically have critics screenings, but embargo them (forbid them from being published) until very shortly before the film opens, so that no one sees them before buying tickets. Disney has embargoed reviews until next Wednesday morning; the film starts opening in foreign markets on Wednesday, and then has the traditional Thursday opening, which the entertainment industry pretends is a "preview" for a Friday opening.

So Disney is telling us they have no faith at all in the M-She-U. We tried to tell them that six years ago but they wouldn't listen.

Note that they already announced they were resorting the other old trick to limit the financial damage of a flop: They cut the runtime of this movie down to a mere one hour forty five minutes, making it the shortest Marvel movie ever. That allows them to pack in screenings in the first weekend, before word of mouth gets out.

In other Disney Disaster News:

Annoying twat Rachel Zegler has had a moment to reflect about her abrasive comments about Snow White, and after due reconsideration, she has realized she was right all along and anyone who criticizes her is a racist or whatever.

Zegler then shared some advice to those seeking to become actors in Hollywood, "To young Latino performers coming up in the industry, I would tell them to know their worth, and to make sure they're loud about having seats at the tables they deserve to be at,"
Finally, she addressed the backlash she received while positioning herself as a victim, "I have learned the hard way that we have to be fearless and loud in order to be heard, and to prepare for the backlash that occasionally comes with that outspokenness."

You probably heard that The Daily Wire is making their own Snow White film to compete directly with Disney's. The Daily Wire film, it is advertised, will be based on the source material of the Grimm fairy tale.

Hm, I wonder why they would mention that?

They're spending tens of millions of dollars to troll Disney, and I approve.

Brett Copper, the actress in the upcoming Snow White and the Evil Queen film from Bentkey, a subsidiary of The Daily Wire, shared that the film will focus on the "timeless values" of the original fairy tale and will not be a "MAGA conservative movie."
In a recent video upload to YouTube, Cooper reacted to a TikTok video of YouTuber Ryan Kinel noting that people "don't want propaganda on the other side. They just want propaganda free entertainment."
In response, Cooper stated, "And that really is the main point. We're not trying to turn Snow White into something it's not. We're not trying to turn Snow White into a MAGA conservative movie. We're just trying to represent the values that Snow White is based in. The timeless values that we all loved growing up that are sadly being forgotten in this new [Disney] adaptation."

What the left claims is that their are politics in everything, and that the absence of politics is itself political, as it permits the Colonization and the Status Quo to continue without challenge. So they'd say a Snow White which isn't aggressively leftwing is, in fact, a "MAGA conservative move."

But I really think they might have finally self-detonated themselves by supporting Hamas and informing the normies about what "decolonization" means -- and what they're planning for the rest of us -- so maybe we will not have to talk about "what the left thinks" for too much longer.

The actor that Disney Marvel has made the centerpiece of their next big Avengers team-up will go to trial for assault and sexual harassment.

New York Judge Michael Gaffey rejected a motion to dismiss the misdemeanor assault and harassment charges facing Marvel actor Jonathan Majors on Wednesday, clearing the way for a Nov. 29 trial.
The defense additionally filed a motion under seal requesting that certain evidentiary matters continue to be under seal, or outside of public view. The defense argued that this evidence contains "sensitive information" that could jeopardize Majors' right to a fair trial. The state did not take a position on the motion, and Gaffey told press in the courtroom that they could submit papers in opposition by Nov. 6.
Majors appeared in court virtually, as the judge mentioned he is currently out of state.
Majors faces four misdemeanor charges of harassment and assault after being arrested following an alleged domestic violence incident March 25. Police responded to a 911 call where a 30-year-old woman, who has since been identified as Grace Jabbari, reported being assaulted by Majors, with police noting that she had sustained minor injuries. Majors was released from police custody later that day.

That should make for great press.

As I've mentioned, Nelson Peltz is making another bid to get seats on Disney's board of directors. Last time he wanted just one seat; now he wants three. He has upped his stake in Disney, so he figures he should have a bigger say.

Analysts note that the first time he launched a proxy fight, he reassured stockholders that he just wanted a seat on the board and that he did not want to terminate Bob Iger as CEO.

But now he is making no such reassurances about keeping Bob Iger. Which people take to mean he intends to boot Bob Iger out. And I think Peltz feels that stockholders want hm to do this.

Couple bits of additional entertainment news: The last Poirot movie, A Haunting in Venice, will play on Hulu starting on Halloween, so there's something.

And the South Park "Panderverse" special, which lampoons Disney's and Kaffeine Kennedy's endless gender- and race-swaps, debuts today on Paramount+. And they actually do skewer Kaffeine Kennedy.

Any recommendations for Halloween? I have two. One I've recommended before, so I'll just repost this:

Garth Merenghi's Darkplace. All six episodes (it's British) are on YouTube.

I recommend this with a caveat: It's not for everyone. You have to think a certain kind of meta humor is funny to enjoy it.

The show is about a trashy and incompetent but extremely narcissistic British horror author named Garth Merenghi. During the eighties, he tried to get a horror series produced on British TV, but he was refused by every company. So he put a small amount of his own money into it and self-financed his show.

Being a narcissist, he of course cast himself as the hero, Dr. Rick Dagless M.D., who everyone on the show is always complimenting for being so strong, so good-hearted, so giving, and so sexually virile. It's obviously a self-insert and wish fulfillment fantasy.

To save money, he cast his publisher, who cannot act at all, as the head of the hospital.

The show is about a hospital in which portals to hell have been opened. So, during their daily rounds of treating patients, they also have to confront demons and ghosts.

I think because it was the eighties, and cop shows ere popular, Garth Merenghi couldn't choose between a Hospital show and a Cop show so he chose both. All the male characters inexplicably carry guns and whip them out at the drop of a hat. There is no in-show explanation for this. They're never said to have a military background or anything.

That's just the Miami Vice vibe Garth Merenghi was feeling at the time.

The last part of the premise is that these episodes have only recently been rediscovered, and they're being aired with commentary from Merenghi and the other actors, talking about how great this terrible, terrible show is.

The first time I watched it I thought it was okay, but I was a little underwhelmed. But it's the kind of show that gets better on rewatches. Because it is aggressively weird. It takes some time to get on the same mental page as this very weird show.

The other movie I'd recommend is currently on HBO (Max). It's called Trick R Treat.

It's an anthology movie made up of four (I think) separate stories. But it has a cute twist: the four stories are all taking place at the same time and in the same place -- Halloween night in a town that is crazy for Halloween and has its own Halloween traditions. Characters from one story cross paths with characters from other stories.

That's the structure of Pulp Fiction. This movie also takes from Pulp Fiction the trick of playing some parts of the story out-of-order.

Here's why I would recommend this to normies: It's not extreme horror. It's not torture porn. It's not the kind of art-house horror that's become popular, like J-horror, where the movie really wants to make you unsettled and wants the creepiness to stick with you.

Most of that stuff I can't get through any more. It's too intense. I'm not looking for real horror, I guess. I just want stuff that looks like horror but isn't meant to be taken all that seriously.

Trick R Treat is that kind of a movie. Yes, there is graphic violence -- kind of a requirement for a Halloween movie -- but it's played for simple shock value, and even for a little comedy, not to make you question the horror that lurks within all human hearts. Know what I mean? It's not serious about any of this stuff. It's not dark.

It's just gross-out stuff which you will forget about two seconds later. You won't feel much about it. You won't have nightmares.

The film is a light-comedy tribute to -- not parody of, tribute to -- horror movies of the eighties. It's a good movie for normies who want some light jump scares and nostalgia. It's not great, it's just fun and light and good for group viewing.

Warning: does feature children in danger, which I know is a no-go for some viewers.

But, you know: It's not really serious about it.

Another fun horror movie for normies: Ready or Not. If you like the trailer, you will like the movie -- the movie is a fun, sometimes LOL funny execution of the premise.

Note this is the Red Band (unrated) trailer so there's a lot of gore and f-bombs in this. I couldn't find a tamer trailer.

And one last fun one: the You're Next, which is a home-invasion slasher horror movie like The Strangers, but with a fun twist.

I never tell people what the twist is, because that's part of the fun. But then people don't know a key selling point for the movie. So I'm going to use white font to tell you the twist. Scroll over to read it. Only read the twist if you're not going to see the movie, or if you are on the fence and need to be sold on it.

The trouble is that my revealing the twist may get you to want to watch the movie, but now the twist is spoiled for you. So, choose wisely.

The twist (white font):

A group of serial killers descend upon a family's home and begin killing the members. But one of the family's guests, unbeknownst to them, grew up in a survivalist compound and is in fact better at killing than the serial killers are. The serial killers are now the victims in a different slasher scenario than the one they expected.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 02:04 PM

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1 1 again

Posted by: Skip at October 27, 2023 02:05 PM (fwDg9)

2 Dutifully called as always

Posted by: Skip at October 27, 2023 02:06 PM (fwDg9)

3 I certainly ain't helping them

Posted by: Skip at October 27, 2023 02:06 PM (fwDg9)

4 I wouldn't know anything about Disney or Marvel if it wasn't for this place.

Posted by: nckate at October 27, 2023 02:07 PM (SnxUt)

5 more good news

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo at October 27, 2023 02:07 PM (xcxpd)

6 Remember when $50 to $75 million was a lot of money?

Milton Friedman remembers...

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at October 27, 2023 02:08 PM (zZu0s)

7 Speaking of bombs...lotta noise coming from Gaza right now.

Lots of bombs and a ton of machine gun fire.

Posted by: MJ at October 27, 2023 02:08 PM (zwDuR)

8 This report also comes in the wake of Box Office Pro's long-range predictions that claimed the film would have a domestic opening weekend between $50 million and $75 million.
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Box Office Pro has a decent track record. No matter where in the range "The Marvels" falls, it's a failure unless it legs out dramatically because it's actually good and people tell their friends.

Recent Marvel installments have *not* legged out to any great degree. The opening weekend is make-or-break. This is particularly true for "The Marvels" because it gets real competition the next week (or the week after, I don't remember) from another movie in the same target market: the new "Hunger Games" movie. It will also probably not do great, but it shares an audience with "The Marvels" and will make a leg-out very unlikely.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 27, 2023 02:09 PM (ELpxa)

9 5 more good news
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo at October 27, 2023 02:07 PM (xcxpd)

Eh, I cannot even summon up any feeling on this one. It is a shit movie that even at 50/40/30 mil would be an insane amount of money for this drek.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at October 27, 2023 02:09 PM (zZu0s)

10 You know, I've seen photos of Brie Larson a lot more recently where she's dressing more feminine, showing off her (ample) cleavage, and smiling. She must REALLY be desperate.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at October 27, 2023 02:10 PM (JCZqz)

11 Critical Drinker has a great vid out about the Disaster that is The Marvels.
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It looks like a teenage Mary Sue parody of a superhero movie. But it's not funny, it's just boring and stupid.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 27, 2023 02:10 PM (i9ffA)

12 IDF: Ground forces expanding operations tonight.

Posted by: redridinghood at October 27, 2023 02:10 PM (NpAcC)

13 It's the movies with 100 pound human girls beating the snot out dozens of large men that make me laugh. At least Captain Marvel is an alien like Superman. LOL

Posted by: leber at October 27, 2023 02:10 PM (Bz66X)

14 And props for the Garth Merenghi endorsement.

I love it. It makes me laugh. Of course, I'm not Scottish...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo at October 27, 2023 02:10 PM (xcxpd)

15 100 million here another there and soon your talking really money lost

Posted by: Skip at October 27, 2023 02:10 PM (fwDg9)

16 With hollywood accounting, it's kind of hard to know if they're actually losing money, or just losing money on paper.

Either way, if Hollywood wants to make a lot of money, it's pretty simple -- come up with original ideas, and stop being so fucking political about everything.

No super heroes, no remakes / sequels, and no woke stuff.

Easy.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at October 27, 2023 02:11 PM (mj0Qp)

17 The other option is to technically have critics screenings, but embargo them (forbid them from being published) until very shortly before the film opens, so that no one sees them before buying tickets. Disney has embargoed reviews until next Wednesday morning; the film starts opening in foreign markets on Wednesday, and then has the traditional Thursday opening, which the entertainment industry pretends is a "preview" for a Friday opening.
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They learned a painful lesson with Indiana Jones and the Geriatric Wandering. They thought it was good, sent it to Cannes and lifted the embargo and took the critic equivalent of artillery fire for more than a month, crushing what as already going to be a disappointment.

I think Disney doesn't know what's good. They probably think "The Marvels" is good. They have no idea and can't figure it out and so, even if they think a movie is good, they're likely to be stingy with embargo windows anyway. The last time they thought they had a gem, they were beaten up over it. They're not going to do that twice.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 27, 2023 02:11 PM (ELpxa)

18 Victor makes an excellent mouse trap that can actually snap that damn mouse's head right off if baited correctly.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at October 27, 2023 02:11 PM (l10hq)

19 But I suspect Hollywood isn't REALLY about maximizing shareholder value.

I'd say propagandizing the population is a big part of their goal, even if they lose (or "lose") some money doing it.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at October 27, 2023 02:11 PM (mj0Qp)

20 Disney has nothing to worry about. I'm going to be a monster hit!

Posted by: The Inevitable Disney Christmas Movie, "The Bride and the Burro" at October 27, 2023 02:11 PM (z+89e)

21 I mean, it's not surprising. People who know all about
Iron Man, or Thor, or the Hulk, barely know who Captain Marvel is, and they know even less about the other two, much less care.

Posted by: Dr. T at October 27, 2023 02:11 PM (TEC4P)

22 Zegler then shared some advice to those seeking to become actors in Hollywood, "To young Latino performers coming up in the industry, I would tell them to know their worth, and to make sure they're loud about having seats at the tables they deserve to be at,"
Finally, she addressed the backlash she received while positioning herself as a victim, "I have learned the hard way that we have to be fearless and loud in order to be heard, and to prepare for the backlash that occasionally comes with that outspokenness."
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Double down, baby! Hit me!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 27, 2023 02:12 PM (ELpxa)

23 Is this another ChatGPT column on Disney? Not because it is poorly written ... I'm just amazed how one man can write so much about Disney. Maybe Ace works for Peltz.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at October 27, 2023 02:12 PM (sX1BW)

24 Brie needs to stay away from today's bathing suits

Posted by: Skip at October 27, 2023 02:12 PM (fwDg9)

25 Is white font limited to Platinum membership or can us commoners have it?

Posted by: Mallamutt, RINO President for Life at October 27, 2023 02:12 PM (7u5gb)

26 Cocaine Bear had potential to be a self-aware B-grade gore-filled so-bad-it's-good schlockfest but squandered the opportunity.

Posted by: Opportunity lost like fake blood in the rain at October 27, 2023 02:12 PM (B9RjC)

27 No super heroes, no remakes / sequels, and no woke stuff.

Easy.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at October 27, 2023 02:11 PM (mj0Qp)

They have an entire generation of writers who only have original ideas if they can glom them onto something already established. May be harder than you think.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at October 27, 2023 02:12 PM (zZu0s)

28 If you want scary, I think you can't go wrong with an Exorcist + Exorcist III double feature.

If you want non-scary movies...well, I can't think of anything in theaters worth seeing, so grab a good flick from the 70's or 80's. John Carpenter films come to mind.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo at October 27, 2023 02:12 PM (xcxpd)

29 They're spending tens of millions of dollars to troll Disney, and I approve.
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Except with a reasonable budget, it might make some money. It probably won't be hugely profitable, but "don't spend a quarter billion dollars on it before marketing and distribution" is a pretty good first step.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 27, 2023 02:12 PM (ELpxa)

30 IF you like Garth Merenghi's Darkplace I suggest you watch Comrade Detective, it has the same type of humor, A Communist Detective is investigating a murder his Partner as they were trying to shut down a Blue Jeans smuggling ring. Does a good job of Making fun of Communism

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at October 27, 2023 02:12 PM (cxG4V)

31 Brett Cooper? Seriously?
Will Ben Shapiro play Prince Charming?

Posted by: Suca Tawdry at October 27, 2023 02:13 PM (COsUX)

32 Another fun horror movie for normies: Ready or Not. If you like the trailer, you will like the movie -- the movie is a fun, sometimes LOL funny execution of the premise.

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I really liked this one. So did Dolley.

It's fun.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at October 27, 2023 02:13 PM (czkiD)

33 Not too many packs of serial killers, Hamas notwithstanding.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at October 27, 2023 02:13 PM (zZu0s)

34 What the left claims is that their are politics in everything, and that the absence of politics is itself political, as it permits the Colonization and the Status Quo to continue without challenge. So they'd say a Snow White which isn't aggressively leftwing is, in fact, a "MAGA conservative move."
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And they're right, by that standard. According to the tenets of the Left Pole, this is completely correct.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 27, 2023 02:13 PM (ELpxa)

35 I can't wait till we get to Marvel Phase 8 where the centerpiece is a gender swapped non binary version of some 4th rate comic book character no one has heard of.

Posted by: Mallamutt, RINO President for Life at October 27, 2023 02:14 PM (7u5gb)

36 They have an entire generation of writers who only have original ideas if they can glom them onto something already established. May be harder than you think.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at October 27, 2023 02:12 PM (zZu0s)

I mean, I don't know. Could be. I don't know anything about writing scripts.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at October 27, 2023 02:14 PM (mj0Qp)

37 31 Brett Cooper? Seriously?
Will Ben Shapiro play Prince Charming?
Posted by: Suca Tawdry at October 27, 2023 02:13 PM (COsUX)

Remember the heady days of Bradley Cooper fandom?

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at October 27, 2023 02:14 PM (zZu0s)

38
OUT: Total Gross
IN: Totally gross

Posted by: Tex Lovera at October 27, 2023 02:14 PM (wtvvX)

39 Remember when $50 to $75 million was a lot of money?

Milton Friedman remembers...
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at October 27, 2023 02:08 PM (zZu0s)

Milton Freidman is to blame. "Oh, no, printing money below the estimated growth rate is totes cool"

Posted by: Kindltot at October 27, 2023 02:14 PM (xhaym)

40 16 With hollywood accounting, it's kind of hard to know if they're actually losing money, or just losing money on paper.

Either way, if Hollywood wants to make a lot of money, it's pretty simple -- come up with original ideas, and stop being so fucking political about everything.

No super heroes, no remakes / sequels, and no woke stuff.

Easy.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes
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Like the rest of the corporate world, Hollywood looks for 'partners' to get the losses and the accounting system is rigged to steer any revenues to the favored ones.

Privatize the gains to the insiders and attribute the losses to the private investor groups which use the tax shelter/money laundering opportunity.

That is what socialism is today and why Hollywood likes that model so much.

Posted by: whig at October 27, 2023 02:14 PM (ykdXj)

41 Cocaine Bear had potential to be a self-aware B-grade gore-filled so-bad-it's-good schlockfest but squandered the opportunity.
Posted by: Opportunity lost like fake blood in the rain at October 27, 2023 02:12 PM

A guy I know took his son and raved about it. I reminded everyone of this when he said the Barbie Movie was good.

Posted by: Catherine at October 27, 2023 02:14 PM (ZSsrh)

42 I mean, I don't know. Could be. I don't know anything about writing scripts.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at October 27, 2023 02:14 PM (mj0Qp)

Neither do they, that's my point. They are all fanfic writers- which is not really a writer, by and large.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at October 27, 2023 02:14 PM (zZu0s)

43
Eh, I cannot even summon up any feeling on this one. It is a shit movie that even at 50/40/30 mil would be an insane amount of money for this drek.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at October 27, 2023 02:09 PM (zZu0s)

I kinda enjoy hating it. I was a big Carol Danvers fan back in the 90's and early 2000's. She was hot and powerful. I hate what Marvel and the MCU did to the character. So I want it all to fail and burn while I point and laugh.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo at October 27, 2023 02:14 PM (xcxpd)

44 7000 more layoffs incoming.

Posted by: Montec at October 27, 2023 02:15 PM (P5BwU)

45 But now he is making no such reassurances about keeping Bob Iger. Which people take to mean he intends to boot Bob Iger out. And I think Peltz feels that stockholders want hm to do this.
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I think they do, too. I know a couple of Disney stockholders. One is a conservative dude and the other is pretty apolitical - he's just in it for the money, and bought in recently since it's low and there's a lot of action.

Both of them have told me, in essence, "I can't wait until the I get a proxy solicitation from Trian."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 27, 2023 02:15 PM (ELpxa)

46 Is Prince Charming a sodomite?

Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd at October 27, 2023 02:15 PM (8jtwY)

47 Just watched Mission Impossible Dead Reckoning part 1
It's fun
But I've heard it's not yet broken even

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at October 27, 2023 02:16 PM (vHIgi)

48 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 27, 2023 02:16 PM (Zz0t1)

49 Die, mouse, die.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 27, 2023 02:16 PM (Zz0t1)

50 *opening with CD player*

*looks back up to title*

Oh... 2013. That makes sense.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at October 27, 2023 02:16 PM (zZu0s)

51 And one last fun one: the You're Next, which is a home-invasion slasher horror movie like The Strangers, but with a fun twist.
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I've never been a Halloween movie guy (just that I don't think of it as a movie kind of event), but I might check this one out.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 27, 2023 02:16 PM (ELpxa)

52 It is possible to make the least amount of money, lose the greatest amount of money, and have the largest negative profit all at the same time.

Posted by: Woke Disney's Cryogenically Preserved Spleen at October 27, 2023 02:17 PM (LaNzR)

53 I asked CHatGPT to write an AoS HQ blog post about Joe Biden. It's terrible. There's no replacing Ace.

Title: "Joe's Odyssey: Navigating the Bumpy Road of the Biden Presidency"

Hey there, Morons and Moronettes, it's your humble host Ace, coming to you from the wild and wacky world of politics. Today, we're diving headfirst into the Joe Biden experience – a presidency that's been anything but a smooth ride. Fasten your seatbelts and brace yourselves; we're in for a bumpy one.

Now, I don't want to say that Joe Biden's presidency has been a comedy of errors, but, well, it kinda has. From day one, it's been a rollercoaster of gaffes, blunders, and questionable decisions. Remember when he famously said, "We choose truth over facts"? Classic Joe. I mean, who needs facts when you can have your own version of the truth, right?

And let's not forget the infamous border crisis. It's like Joe invited everyone to a massive game of "Red Rover, Red Rover, Send Migrants Right Over." Chaos at the border, kids in cages, and a hefty dose of "Don't come over, but also, you can come over." It's a masterclass in mixed messaging...

Posted by: MJ at October 27, 2023 02:17 PM (zwDuR)

54 45 Both of them have told me, in essence, "I can't wait until the I get a proxy solicitation from Trian."
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 27, 2023 02:15 PM (ELpxa)

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"We don't have to wait."
-BlackRock and Vanguard

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at October 27, 2023 02:17 PM (czkiD)

55 During the last world cup, Washington Post had a headline that said something like Why Aren't There More Black Players in Argentina? And someone on the Twatters replied Because we're a country not a Disney movie.

It was.... CHEF'S KISS!

Posted by: Montec at October 27, 2023 02:17 PM (P5BwU)

56 You're Next is a good flick. And Trick R Treat is better than it deserves to be if that makes sense. Haven't seen Ready or Not, though other good movies with Samara Weaving in them are The Babysitter 1 and 2, Guns Akimbo, and Mayhem. All quite fun IMHO.

Posted by: Hush is a good horror/suspense flick too at October 27, 2023 02:17 PM (B9RjC)

57 I kinda enjoy hating it. I was a big Carol Danvers fan back in the 90's and early 2000's. She was hot and powerful. I hate what Marvel and the MCU did to the character. So I want it all to fail and burn while I point and laugh.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo at October 27, 2023 02:14 PM (xcxpd)

I think the Fem Captain Marvel lacked the self awareness of She Hulk or Power Girl from the same era.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at October 27, 2023 02:17 PM (zZu0s)

58 >>49 Die, mouse, die.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden

This is my feeling exactly. Anything that delivers death blows to the mouse is okay by me.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at October 27, 2023 02:18 PM (l10hq)

59 I'm always interested in fairy tale retellings that respect source material
Hope I can watch the Daily Wire movie

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at October 27, 2023 02:18 PM (vHIgi)

60 I asked CHatGPT to write an AoS HQ blog post about Joe Biden. It's terrible. There's no replacing Ace.

Title: "Joe's Odyssey: Navigating the Bumpy Road of the Biden Presidency"

Hey there, Morons and Moronettes, it's your humble host Ace, coming to you from the wild and wacky world of politics. Today, we're diving headfirst into the Joe Biden experience – a presidency that's been anything but a smooth ride. Fasten your seatbelts and brace yourselves; we're in for a bumpy one. ...
Posted by: MJ at October 27, 2023 02:17 PM (zwDuR)
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Is this really an AI generated thing? Oy. It isn't even close.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 27, 2023 02:18 PM (ELpxa)

61 Cocaine Bear only cost a hundred and forty three dollars to make.

They made a movie about Lisa Murkowski?

Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 27, 2023 02:18 PM (lTGtQ)

62 Posted by: MJ at October 27, 2023 02:17 PM (zwDuR)

Maybe by GPT 5.0, we can replace ace.

For now, I think we're stuck with him.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at October 27, 2023 02:18 PM (mj0Qp)

63 That budget number seems liw considering all the reshoots

Posted by: steevy at October 27, 2023 02:19 PM (FQmDC)

64 My favorite of the Dark Place episodes is the Carrie spoof.

Trick 'r Treat has become the capstone on the Halloween horror movie fest at the piano mover's house.

Posted by: The guy that moves pianos for a living at October 27, 2023 02:19 PM (1q86X)

65 I'll bet GPT 5.0 remembers to close his tags every time, though!

And will never "accidentally" post busty lesbian porn, either!

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at October 27, 2023 02:19 PM (mj0Qp)

66 Trick r Treat is on AMC quite a bit around Halloween the past few years. Actually, it seems to be one of their go-to specials, along with Ghost Ship, Thirteen Ghosts and literally EVERY Michael Myers movie ever made.

Posted by: Dr. T at October 27, 2023 02:19 PM (TEC4P)

67 I think Disney doesn't know what's good. They probably think "The Marvels" is good. They have no idea and can't figure it out and so, even if they think a movie is good, they're likely to be stingy with embargo windows anyway. The last time they thought they had a gem, they were beaten up over it. They're not going to do that twice.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 27, 2023 02:11 PM (ELpxa)

I think they all know it is bad, but in the culture nobody has the courage to state the obvious. This is the kind of culture that made WWI offensives so bad. They are more afraid to call it off then let it go out.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 27, 2023 02:19 PM (eoQWY)

68 37 31 Brett Cooper? Seriously?
Will Ben Shapiro play Prince Charming?
Posted by: Suca Tawdry at October 27, 2023 02:13 PM

He's WAY too short. I didn't know who Brett Cooper was, by name, and thought she looked kinda "meh" as Snow White. I then saw a YouTube video of her talking about filming, and finally understood who she was, and why she pissed off all the right people.

She's cuter in her regular YouTube form, too, which I find a little weird.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at October 27, 2023 02:20 PM (JCZqz)

69
Speaking of pop culture..

90's mystery lyrics:

"Well now pride's gone out the window
Cross the rooftops..."

Posted by: Soothsayer at October 27, 2023 02:20 PM (8L9jd)

70 I like the Conjuring/Nun movies. They are really well-done, and not gory, which I have never liked.

I like The Ring too. But I've seen it enough that the luster has worn off.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Lookin' for me wooden leg at October 27, 2023 02:20 PM (xPJvm)

71 With South Park's new, diverse cast and minority or woman-centered story, is it now eligible for Emmy awards?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 27, 2023 02:20 PM (ELpxa)

72 I think Disney doesn't know what's good. They probably think "The Marvels" is good. They have no idea and can't figure it out and so, even if they think a movie is good, they're likely to be stingy with embargo windows anyway. The last time they thought they had a gem, they were beaten up over it. They're not going to do that twice.
Posted by: Joe Mannix
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I don't think Disney is actually being run as an entertainment company but instead its managers want to push propaganda to their favored audiences of woke adults over profits. They simply care about appearances of working for profit but not the reality of actually changing to achieve them.

It's a choice by Disney management; not stupidity.

Posted by: whig at October 27, 2023 02:20 PM (ykdXj)

73 Is that new Poirot movie worth it? Normally Brannaugh is good about staying close to the source material, but I don't know if he was also directing/producing.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 27, 2023 02:20 PM (lTGtQ)

74 Instead of a movie go watch the series Sleepy Hollow if you haven't yet. I thought that was really good.

Posted by: Lisa at October 27, 2023 02:20 PM (oakz+)

75 I think they all know it is bad, but in the culture nobody has the courage to state the obvious. This is the kind of culture that made WWI offensives so bad. They are more afraid to call it off then let it go out.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 27, 2023 02:19 PM (eoQWY)
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Possible.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 27, 2023 02:21 PM (ELpxa)

76 That budget number seems liw considering all the reshoots
Posted by: steevy at October 27, 2023 02:19 PM (FQmDC)

That seems to be the initial lie position for all recent Disney movies. Later on they will hint it cost more, but never actually reveal the real cost.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 27, 2023 02:21 PM (eoQWY)

77 Last year Halloween night watched original Nosferatu, see a remake is coming next year

Posted by: Skip at October 27, 2023 02:21 PM (fwDg9)

78 The Five Nights At Freddie's movie is opening this week, and Pooky is so excited he's going by himself (I don't do horror movies). So there's you Halloween movie endorsement!

Posted by: pookysgirl abhors horror at October 27, 2023 02:21 PM (dtlDP)

79 IF you like Garth Merenghi's Darkplace I suggest you watch Comrade Detective, it has the same type of humor, A Communist Detective is investigating a murder his Partner as they were trying to shut down a Blue Jeans smuggling ring. Does a good job of Making fun of Communism

Citizen X is really good. It's a true crime movie about a serial killer in Russia in the 1980s. The man investigating the killings has to navigate politics because according to their Politically Correct claims, the USSR doesn't have serial killers. That's a capitalist running dog problem.

So he has limited resources, limited training, politicians breathing down his neck, and the pressure of wanting to stop a serial killer from hurting any more people.

Good stuff.

Posted by: bonhomme at October 27, 2023 02:21 PM (0N1h0)

80 Ace, I think you were missing an Admiral Akbar or something for that Garth Merenghi dogshit. It's the Hamas of Dylan Mulvaneys. I watched maybe 5 minutes and it's beyond bad. Middle school theater productions have better acting, scripts, and probably production values. Yikes.

Posted by: Elric Blade at October 27, 2023 02:21 PM (iFTx/)

81 Basically, any tent pole film that does not make north of 100 million on opening weekend is a disaster, in this day and age of inflated budgets and poorly conceived films, with no discernible target audience.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 27, 2023 02:21 PM (9hfHA)

82 65 I'll bet GPT 5.0 remembers to close his tags every time, though!

And will never "accidentally" post busty lesbian porn, either!
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at October 27, 2023 02:19 PM (mj0Qp)

I am already against the idea, you don't have to sell me on it.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at October 27, 2023 02:21 PM (zZu0s)

83 I don't think Disney is actually being run as an entertainment company but instead its managers want to push propaganda to their favored audiences of woke adults over profits. They simply care about appearances of working for profit but not the reality of actually changing to achieve them.

It's a choice by Disney management; not stupidity.
Posted by: whig at October 27, 2023 02:20 PM (ykdXj)
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I think it's a bit of both, actually. Yeah, they're in the propaganda business. That's their thing.

But I think a lot of people in the company actually do think they're making good stuff, it's just that troglodytes keep being mean about their brave vision.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 27, 2023 02:22 PM (ELpxa)

84 Latino performers coming up in the industry, I would tell them to know their worth, and to make sure they're loud about having seats at the tables they deserve to be at,"

Bussing dishes.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko stuff in solidarity with the struggle to maintain Moron standards at October 27, 2023 02:22 PM (ccm2n)

85 I suspect Disney is so overwhelmed in Wokeness they are blind what the public wants

Posted by: Skip at October 27, 2023 02:22 PM (fwDg9)

86 >>But I really think they might have finally self-detonated themselves by supporting Hamas and informing the normies about what "decolonization" means -- and what they're planning for the rest of us ...

Expect a pull back as the Left muddies up their connection to what Hamas did. They will use double speak. Clown face on/off, or motte/bailey.

Posted by: Pinheads United at October 27, 2023 02:23 PM (gFobD)

87 I asked CHatGPT to write an AoS HQ blog post about Joe Biden. It's terrible. There's no replacing Ace.

Title: "Joe's Odyssey: Navigating the Bumpy Road of the Biden Presidency"

[ . . . ]
Posted by: MJ at October 27, 2023 02:17 PM (zwDuR)

that reads like Andy Rooney on Adderall

Posted by: Kindltot at October 27, 2023 02:23 PM (xhaym)

88 Bussing dishes.
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko stuff in solidarity with the struggle to maintain Moron standards at October 27, 2023 02:22 PM (ccm2n)
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I don't want to eat a restaurant where the staff kisses the dishes.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 27, 2023 02:23 PM (ELpxa)

89

btw, Ace should link the short amateur-made film KUNG FURY for the cafe. It's perfect.

https://youtu.be/bS5P_LAqiVg?si=S6CSKC9FdJZhWK3y

Posted by: Soothsayer at October 27, 2023 02:23 PM (8L9jd)

90 72 I don't think Disney is actually being run as an entertainment company but instead its managers want to push propaganda to their favored audiences of woke adults over profits. They simply care about appearances of working for profit but not the reality of actually changing to achieve them.

It's a choice by Disney management; not stupidity.
Posted by: whig at October 27, 2023 02:20 PM (ykdXj)

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They're being run like MGM a decade after Thalberg died and Mayer was allowed to fill management positions well beyond reasonable, making it extremely top heavy.

MGM's movies through the 40s and 50s were consistently the highest earners at the box office, but they rarely made profits because the costs were just simply too high, and the extravagant sets and costumes of their musicals was only part of the equation.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at October 27, 2023 02:23 PM (czkiD)

91 I feel so bad for Disney .... Hahahahahahahaha

Posted by: It's me donna at October 27, 2023 02:23 PM (bs+z0)

92
Both of them have told me, in essence, "I can't wait until the I get a proxy solicitation from Trian."
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 27, 2023 02:15 PM (ELpxa)

Aww, that's cute

Posted by: Larry Fink at October 27, 2023 02:23 PM (z+89e)

93 He's WAY too short. I didn't know who Brett Cooper was, by name, and thought she looked kinda "meh" as Snow White. I then saw a YouTube video of her talking about filming, and finally understood who she was, and why she pissed off all the right people.

She's cuter in her regular YouTube form, too, which I find a little weird.
Posted by: Moron Analyst at October 27, 2023 02:20 PM (JCZqz)

I saw a clip of Candace Owens joking that for some reason they thought Brett made a better Snow White than she did.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 27, 2023 02:24 PM (eoQWY)

94 btw, Ace should link the short amateur-made film KUNG FURY for the cafe. It's perfect.

https://youtu.be/bS5P_LAqiVg?si=S6CSKC9FdJZhWK3y
Posted by: Soothsayer at October 27, 2023 02:23 PM (8L9jd)

I think he did back in the day.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at October 27, 2023 02:24 PM (zZu0s)

95 re: 'To save money, he cast his publisher, who cannot act at all, as the head of the hospital.'

we've all seen 'plan nine' right? ed wood jr cast an elderly bela lugosi to show up eventually as dracula, but lugosi died before he finished the role, so wood jr cast his dentist to finish the part. even holding the cape over his face, the guy looked nothing like lugosi. widely considered to be the worst movie ever made it is sometimes quite funny for all the wrong reasons.

Posted by: gnats local 678 at October 27, 2023 02:24 PM (B1FKF)

96 10 You know, I've seen photos of Brie Larson a lot more recently where she's dressing more feminine, showing off her (ample) cleavage, and smiling. She must REALLY be desperate.
Posted by: Moron Analyst at October 27, 2023 02:10 PM

More pictures like this, and fewer in body-flattening suits with RBF would do wonders for her image, even after all her recent shenanigans.
https://tinyurl.com/4jtzacth
https://tinyurl.com/2dhrj2ku

Posted by: Moron Analyst at October 27, 2023 02:24 PM (JCZqz)

97 , "I have learned the hard way that we have to be fearless and loud in order to be heard, and to prepare for the backlash that occasionally comes with that outspokenness."

Oh go jump off a building, you useless scrunt.

Posted by: nurse ratched, otter 841 superfan at October 27, 2023 02:24 PM (MciYk)

98 Aww, that's cute
Posted by: Larry Fink at October 27, 2023 02:23 PM (z+89e)
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You're not all that strong on this one. You and your buddies own less than Peltz and his proxies. If he starts a proxy fight, he'll get his seats.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 27, 2023 02:24 PM (ELpxa)

99 But I really think they might have finally self-detonated themselves by supporting Hamas and informing the normies about what "decolonization" means -- and what they're planning for the rest of us -- so maybe we will not have to talk about "what the left thinks" for too much longer.

"This is what decolonization looks like" is one of the more important things to come out this horror, imo. Tell a misguided leftist this and they will say "no it's not the same thing" (as all the other leftist talk of decolonization). This is an opening to explain that well yes it is. Ask them what the difference is, and you have an opening to educate them. You're mileage may vary of course, but in my limited experience it's proven to be a gap in the armor. I don't know if it's an inflection point (if one even exists anymore) but it's a point of cognitive dissonance that involves such a colossally extreme point of view that it may provide an opening.

Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I AM The Science at October 27, 2023 02:25 PM (lg881)

100 I LOUDLY RECOMMEND THAT LOUD LATINAS EVERYWHERE LOUDLY PULL THEIR LOUD CHAIRS LOUDLY UP TO THE LOUD TABLE AND LOUDLY PROJECT LOUDLY WITH LOUD VOICES HOW LOUD WE CAN BE!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: LOUD ENTITLED LATINA RACHEL ZEGLER at October 27, 2023 02:25 PM (LaNzR)

101 @69

>>"Well now pride's gone out the window
Cross the rooftops..."

Ordinary World, Duran Duran.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 27, 2023 02:25 PM (9hfHA)

102 I asked CHatGPT to write an AoS HQ blog post about Joe Biden. It's terrible. There's no replacing Ace.

Title: "Joe's Odyssey: Navigating the Bumpy Road of the Biden Presidency"

[ . . . ]
Posted by: MJ at October 27, 2023 02:17 PM (zwDuR)

that reads like Andy Rooney on Adderall
Posted by: Kindltot at October 27, 2023 02:23 PM (xhaym)

you need to turn the cruelty setting way up to near max

Posted by: Oldcat at October 27, 2023 02:25 PM (eoQWY)

103
He did? Yeah, he probably did.

Still good enough to post twice. Plus Ace probably doesn't even remember it.

Posted by: Soothsayer at October 27, 2023 02:25 PM (8L9jd)

104 More pictures like this, and fewer in body-flattening suits with RBF would do wonders for her image, even after all her recent shenanigans.
https://tinyurl.com/4jtzacth
https://tinyurl.com/2dhrj2ku
Posted by: Moron Analyst at October 27, 2023 02:24 PM (JCZqz)
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It's Brie Larsen's insides that are ugly. Her shell isn't awful, but what it contains *is.*

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 27, 2023 02:25 PM (ELpxa)

105 Latino performers coming up in the industry, I would tell them to know their worth, and to make sure they're loud about having seats at the tables they deserve to be at,"

Bussing dishes.
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko stuff in solidarity with the struggle to maintain Moron standards at October 27, 2023 02:22 PM (ccm2n)

Be nice, Eric Estrada made a good career working in Mexican film, post-CHiPs

Posted by: Kindltot at October 27, 2023 02:26 PM (xhaym)

106 I think they all know it is bad, but in the culture nobody has the courage to state the obvious.

Oh, they know it's bad. That's why Marvels has been stuck in redo purgatory for so long. Also, Disney recently just cancelled (as in will not see the light of day) a show with half a season in the can. It joins numerous other shows (Willow, Runaways,...) that management saw and concluded were utter crap.

Whether they'll change course is a different question.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 27, 2023 02:26 PM (I/Qkd)

107 Disney's The Marvels Projected to Make Less Money Than Any Marvel Movie Ever

—Disinformation Expert Ace
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Grrrrrrl Power has no audience.

Posted by: Axeman at October 27, 2023 02:27 PM (krQz2)

108 I think Disney doesn't know what's good.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 27, 2023 02:11 PM (ELpxa)

So you are saying that a 100 year old company that should have this knowledge in its corporate DNA is so out of touch that it simply can't do its primary job?

That is amazing.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 27, 2023 02:27 PM (3Gtis)

109 Ordinary World, Duran Duran.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 27, 2023 02:25 PM (9hfHA)

Was never a Duran Duran fan, but I love that song.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Lookin' for me wooden leg at October 27, 2023 02:27 PM (xPJvm)

110 There is a Saw X.

Who knew?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 27, 2023 02:27 PM (Zz0t1)

111 Will this lead to firing of Kathleen Kennedy??

Posted by: runner at October 27, 2023 02:27 PM (+i903)

112 You're not all that strong on this one. You and your buddies own less than Peltz and his proxies. If he starts a proxy fight, he'll get his seats.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 27, 2023 02:24 PM (ELpxa)

Some autist on wallstreetbets put together a really good infographic a year or so bad showing who owns which companies.

Basically -- it's a big circle with Blackrock, Vanguard, and State Street in the middle.

Who all own each other as well.

It's hard to say if there's an actual person in the middle of the circle pulling the strings, but it is shocking to realize that a small group of people can exert control over pretty much every corporation in america. Because even if Blackrock only directly owns 10% of a company, through the other companies they control, it might be 25%. And that's a big chunk of a company -- definitely have leverage over who is CEO or chairman of the board, for example.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at October 27, 2023 02:27 PM (mj0Qp)

113 I think it's a bit of both, actually. Yeah, they're in the propaganda business. That's their thing.

But I think a lot of people in the company actually do think they're making good stuff, it's just that troglodytes keep being mean about their brave vision.
Posted by: Joe Mannix
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Underlings maybe but top management people like Kathleen Kennedy purposefully are pushing woke crap that destroyed the Star Wars and Indiana Jones franchise simply to get revenge on those she views as unenlightened. I doubt she cares about profitability. The MCU crew, might be clueless, I dunno, but they have also pretty much strip mined the comics leaving only radioactive and poisonous tailings for future stories in that universe.

Posted by: whig at October 27, 2023 02:27 PM (ykdXj)

114 I suspect Disney is so overwhelmed in Wokeness they are blind what the public wants

Posted by: Skip

Their entire marketing team is made up of 20 something Ivy grads, who don't understand the real world.

Which reminds me of a discussion on Tim Pool's show, about how there is no culture since the turn of the century. All of the good movies, good music, even good clothing styles are all from years that start with 19.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 27, 2023 02:28 PM (lTGtQ)

115 ---
Grrrrrrl Power has no audience.
Posted by: Axeman at October 27, 2023 02:27 PM (krQz2)

It just needs more mangirls.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 27, 2023 02:28 PM (Zz0t1)

116 I think Disney doesn't know what's good.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 27, 2023 02:11 PM (ELpxa)

***

So Disney is GM?

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at October 27, 2023 02:29 PM (ZV+pB)

117 Posted by: LOUD ENTITLED LATINA RACHEL ZEGLER at October 27, 2023 02:25 PM (LaNzR)
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Half Latina, if that. Her Polish dad "colonized" her Colombian-descended mom.

Rachel Zegler is an annoying white chick from New Jersey pretending to be entitled to identity points because her maternal ancestor came El Norte from Colombia.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 27, 2023 02:29 PM (ELpxa)

118 Brie needs to stay away from today's bathing suits
Posted by: Skip

So she would need to tape a thong into place as she has no ass cheeks to hold it in place it for her?

Posted by: BifBewalski's Phone at October 27, 2023 02:29 PM (lysOp)

119 I was at NYC Comic Con a few weeks ago. Even though all the usual suspects were there with big presences -- Marvel, Disney, DC, etc -- it's like night and day compared to what these same sources promote and put on screen.

There was ZERO wokeness at CC. Just the opposite, in fact. Everywhere you looked, it was masculine heroes and hot babes with big boobs. That's not to say all the babes were damsels in distress. Some were heroes themselves, but that was always the case with anime, fantasy, and comics.

Oh and if you think it's all comic nerds there, you'd be wrong. It's every race, creed, color, ethnicity, sex, age, economic bracket, and I'm sure politics. And everyone was so nice. It's always packed so you're constantly stepping on toes, bumping into people, etc. Everyone was like "oh sorry," and nobody ever got in your face.

It was kinda shocking given how woke and entitled these genres have become.

Posted by: Elric Blade at October 27, 2023 02:29 PM (iFTx/)

120 So you are saying that a 100 year old company that should have this knowledge in its corporate DNA is so out of touch that it simply can't do its primary job?

That is amazing.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 27, 2023 02:27 PM (3Gtis)

I'm trying to remember how Sears went bankrupt.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 27, 2023 02:29 PM (i9ffA)

121 "I have learned the hard way that we have to be fearless and loud in order to be heard, and to prepare for the backlash that occasionally comes with that outspokenness."
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Somehow, I don't think being paid as the lead in a mainstream movie is "the hard way".

Posted by: Axeman at October 27, 2023 02:29 PM (krQz2)

122 My go-to Halloween movie is Night of the Living Dead.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 27, 2023 02:29 PM (JrojV)

123 Which reminds me of a discussion on Tim Pool's show, about how there is no culture since the turn of the century. All of the good movies, good music, even good clothing styles are all from years that start with 19.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 27, 2023 02:28 PM (lTGtQ)

The world ended in the year 2000, and we just didn't notice.

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at October 27, 2023 02:30 PM (vHIgi)

124 So you are saying that a 100 year old company that should have this knowledge in its corporate DNA is so out of touch that it simply can't do its primary job?

That is amazing.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 27, 2023 02:27 PM (3Gtis)
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I think it's entirely possible, yes.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 27, 2023 02:30 PM (ELpxa)

125 Fast and Furious Avogadro's Number is going to be AWESOME!

Posted by: The NPC what likes Vin Diesel at October 27, 2023 02:30 PM (PiwSw)

126 Afternoon.

MSN: Colorado Man Planning ‘White Private Community’ Pleads Guilty to Weapons Charge

https://tinyurl.com/4zdds367

"According to court records, Keith possessed and fired weapons including a Fusil Automatique Leger (FAL) — a .308 caliber semi-automatic rifle that can fire 650 to 700 rounds in a minute. Keith reportedly traded an AR15 rifle to possess the FAL."

Can you spot the problem?

Posted by: Robert at October 27, 2023 02:30 PM (1Yy3c)

127 we've all seen 'plan nine' right? ed wood jr cast an elderly bela lugosi to show up eventually as dracula, but lugosi died before he finished the role, so wood jr cast his dentist to finish the part. even holding the cape over his face, the guy looked nothing like lugosi. widely considered to be the worst movie ever made it is sometimes quite funny for all the wrong reasons.
Posted by: gnats local 678 at October 27, 2023 02:24 PM (B1FKF)

Lugosi's clips were for another movie in work that never was made, but Wood 'cleverly' tied them into his SF plot.

The Acme of Wood's use of Lugosi was in this transvestite self biopic "Glenn or Glenda" where besides his normal narrator he has Lugosi as a second narrator ranting some crazed poetry.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 27, 2023 02:30 PM (eoQWY)

128 If I didn't believe they would complete f**k everything up, I would say they should mine LucasArts for movies, The Secret of Monkey Island , Sam and Max, Zac McCracken and Day of The Tenralce would be ripe for film treatments.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 27, 2023 02:30 PM (9hfHA)

129 Disney's The Marvels Projected to Make Less Money Than Any Marvel Movie Ever

Have they been hyping this PoC* for over a year now or does it just seem like it?

* not Person of Color

Posted by: Oddbob at October 27, 2023 02:30 PM (DQnx+)

130 This isn't get woke, go broke.

This is take a child friendly entire enterprise and back gays & pedophiles. Disney has effectively destroyed itself.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 27, 2023 02:30 PM (Y2tls)

131 108 So you are saying that a 100 year old company that should have this knowledge in its corporate DNA is so out of touch that it simply can't do its primary job?

That is amazing.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 27, 2023 02:27 PM (3Gtis)

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Disney has mostly made forgettable and disposable non-entertainments for that 100 years. It's only in fits and spurts that it makes good stuff to be remembered.

Corporations aren't great places for creative thinkers.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at October 27, 2023 02:30 PM (czkiD)

132 Ned Buntline's dime novels finally ended up in the outhouse used as buttwipe.

Posted by: Eromero at October 27, 2023 02:31 PM (KiuiP)

133 Huh, "Hamas calls on the world to “act immediately” to stop Israel’s bombardment of Gaza, as intense strikes pound the Palestinian territory.

“We call on the Arab and Muslim countries and the international community to take responsibility and act immediately to stop the crimes and series of massacres against our people,” Hamas says in a statement."

Release the hostages, and ....well that's about it.

Posted by: runner at October 27, 2023 02:31 PM (+i903)

134 I'm trying to remember how Sears went bankrupt.

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Trying to sell Kodak cameras?

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at October 27, 2023 02:31 PM (sX1BW)

135 I'm trying to remember how Sears went bankrupt.
Posted by: Tom Servo at October 27, 2023 02:29 PM (i9ffA)

***

"Online" retailing? The fuck is that...

Posted by: Sears Corporate Suite at October 27, 2023 02:31 PM (ZV+pB)

136 I stopped at Big Lots yesterday and peeked at their Blu-ray selection. Saw a copy of Captain Marvel in 4K/Blu-ray combo pack for ten bucks.

Still too much.

Posted by: Robert at October 27, 2023 02:31 PM (1Yy3c)

137 "Zegler then shared some advice to those seeking to become actors in Hollywood, 'To young Latino performers coming up in the industry, I would tell them to know their worth, and to make sure they're loud about having seats at the tables they deserve to be at'."

If no one is watching your movie you don't have a seat at the table!

Also is "outspokenness" a word? Sounds like something from the vocabulary of a ditz.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at October 27, 2023 02:31 PM (pIx7m)

138 My go-to Halloween movie is Night of the Living Dead.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 27, 2023 02:29 PM (JrojV)

via Rifftrax

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Lookin' for me wooden leg at October 27, 2023 02:31 PM (xPJvm)

139 They're being run like MGM a decade after Thalberg died and Mayer was allowed to fill management positions well beyond reasonable, making it extremely top heavy.

MGM's movies through the 40s and 50s were consistently the highest earners at the box office, but they rarely made profits because the costs were just simply too high, and the extravagant sets and costumes of their musicals was only part of the equation.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Administrative bloat is a thing.

Posted by: whig at October 27, 2023 02:31 PM (ykdXj)

140 Which reminds me of a discussion on Tim Pool's show, about how there is no culture since the turn of the century. All of the good movies, good music, even good clothing styles are all from years that start with 19.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 27, 2023 02:28 PM (lTGtQ)

The world ended in the year 2000, and we just didn't notice.
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at October 27, 2023 02:30 PM (vHIgi)

I used to be kind of amazed that Roman cultural output dropped to near 0 around 200 AD but I have since seen it in practice.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 27, 2023 02:32 PM (eoQWY)

141 I pray I live to see Disney World and Disney Land repurposed into something useful...like gun ranges.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at October 27, 2023 02:32 PM (hTMd7)

142 I'm trying to remember how Sears went bankrupt.
Posted by: Tom Servo at October 27, 2023 02:29 PM (i9ffA)

***

Our Catalogue sales are robust and can only go up from here!

Posted by: Sears Corporate Suite at October 27, 2023 02:32 PM (ZV+pB)

143 It's Brie Larsen's insides that are ugly. Her shell isn't awful, but what it contains *is.*
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 27, 2023 02:25 PM (ELpxa)
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And that ugliness will always shine through, no matter how pleasing the exterior (or posterior) may be...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 27, 2023 02:32 PM (YIVH2)

144 Imagine being so self-important that you have strong public opinions about Snow White. It's Snow White, sugartits. No one cares what Zegler thinks about it or anything else.

Posted by: The Force is Female. But with a Penis. at October 27, 2023 02:33 PM (CjGGv)

145 Arrow Films is releasing Conan in 4k both films looks good.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at October 27, 2023 02:33 PM (cxG4V)

146 I pray I live to see Disney World and Disney Land repurposed into something useful...like gun ranges.
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at October 27, 2023 02:32 PM (hTMd7)

A ton of great sniper nests.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Lookin' for me wooden leg at October 27, 2023 02:33 PM (xPJvm)

147 I LOUDLY RECOMMEND THAT LOUD LATINAS EVERYWHERE LOUDLY PULL THEIR LOUD CHAIRS LOUDLY UP TO THE LOUD TABLE AND LOUDLY PROJECT LOUDLY WITH LOUD VOICES HOW LOUD WE CAN BE!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: LOUD ENTITLED LATINA RACHEL ZEGLER at October 27, 2023 02:25 PM (LaNzR)

Loud Latinas are more like Charo on the Ed Sullivan Show
(She is fun and has vastly more talent as well)

https://tinyurl.com/54u7evxh

Posted by: Kindltot at October 27, 2023 02:33 PM (xhaym)

148 >"According to court records, Keith possessed and fired weapons including a Fusil Automatique Leger (FAL) — a .308 caliber semi-automatic rifle that can fire 650 to 700 rounds in a minute. Keith reportedly traded an AR15 rifle to possess the FAL."

Can you spot the problem?

Posted by: Robert at October 27, 2023 02:30 PM (1Yy3c)

Fastest finger in the West...

Posted by: Heavy Meta at October 27, 2023 02:33 PM (Ys9p5)

149 "Online" retailing? The fuck is that...
Posted by: Sears Corporate Suite at October 27, 2023 02:31 PM (ZV+pB)
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Sears had literally everything needed except vision. It had a good network of stores, an extremely robust distribution network, a strong catalog business, it sold computers *and* it was a major investor in internet services (Prodigy).

The idea of moving computers with a light subsidy (say, a $50 discount on low-end machines, along with a free modem) in exchange for a Prodigy subscription for a year or two - with a custom version of the client software that dumped you into a Sears "online catalog" - apparently never occurred to them.

It could have been Amazon before Amazon was even a gleam in Bezos' eye. It just never connected the dots.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 27, 2023 02:33 PM (ELpxa)

150 141 I pray I live to see Disney World and Disney Land repurposed into something useful...like gun ranges.
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at October 27, 2023 02:32 PM (hTMd7)

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The world's largest laser tag arena! Also, Safari Adventure with bag limits!

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at October 27, 2023 02:33 PM (pIx7m)

151 117 Posted by: LOUD ENTITLED LATINA RACHEL ZEGLER at October 27, 2023 02:25 PM (LaNzR)
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Half Latina, if that. Her Polish dad "colonized" her Colombian-descended mom.

Rachel Zegler is an annoying white chick from New Jersey pretending to be entitled to identity points because her maternal ancestor came El Norte from Colombia.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 27, 2023 02:29 PM (ELpxa)
_____________________

You'd think she'd at least have used her mom's last name, eh? After all, she is totally co-opting her mom's ethnicity. But hah. She's too lazy and disrespectful even for that. I think almost all these younger actresses are annoying twits, but this Zegler is a truly toxic cunt who I hope ends up a cracked-up whore sucking off hobos in the subway. I mean that from the bottom of my heart.

Posted by: Elric Blade at October 27, 2023 02:34 PM (iFTx/)

152
"According to court records, Keith possessed and fired weapons including a Fusil Automatique Leger (FAL) — a .308 caliber semi-automatic rifle that can fire 650 to 700 rounds in a minute. Keith reportedly traded an AR15 rifle to possess the FAL."

Can you spot the problem?
Posted by: Robert at October 27, 2023 02:30 PM (1Yy3c)

The prior FAL owner is an idiot?

Posted by: Never trade down at October 27, 2023 02:34 PM (B9RjC)

153 80 Ace, I think you were missing an Admiral Akbar or something for that Garth Merenghi dogshit. It's the Hamas of Dylan Mulvaneys. I watched maybe 5 minutes and it's beyond bad. Middle school theater productions have better acting, scripts, and probably production values. Yikes.
Posted by: Elric Blade at October 27, 2023 02:21 PM (iFTx/)

Dude ... that's the joke.

Also, it's "Marenghi," with an A, which is worth pointing out because "Garth Marenghi" is an anagram of "Argh Nightmare!"

Posted by: ThePopeofFremontStreet at October 27, 2023 02:34 PM (LS6i5)

154 So Disney is GM?
Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at October 27, 2023 02:29 PM (ZV+pB)
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From the prospective of the DIE virus: just another host? Yeah.

Posted by: Axeman at October 27, 2023 02:34 PM (krQz2)

155 MSN: Colorado Man Planning ‘White Private Community’ Pleads Guilty to Weapons Charge

https://tinyurl.com/4zdds367

"According to court records, Keith possessed and fired weapons including a Fusil Automatique Leger (FAL) — a .308 caliber semi-automatic rifle that can fire 650 to 700 rounds in a minute. Keith reportedly traded an AR15 rifle to possess the FAL."

Can you spot the problem?
Posted by: Robert

YeH. They don't understand the FAL is a completely legal rifle. Or they are intentionally trying to conflate the legal rifle with an automatic weapon.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 27, 2023 02:34 PM (Y2tls)

156 Rachel Zegler is an annoying white chick from New Jersey pretending to be entitled to identity points because her maternal ancestor came El Norte from Colombia.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 27, 2023 02:29 PM (ELpxa)

Does she have a nice rack or backside?

That's all that matters. They are perfect little objects without any individuality.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 27, 2023 02:34 PM (3Gtis)

157 I've pointed out that Rachel Zegler is only like a quarter Argentinian and she's mostly a dumbfuck loudmouth Pollack.

Posted by: Robert at October 27, 2023 02:35 PM (1Yy3c)

158 I recommend this with a caveat: It's not for everyone. You have to think a certain kind of meta humor is funny to enjoy it.

Is it exclusively for those who enjoy the musical stylings of Wet Leg?

Posted by: Garth Merenghi's Even Darker Place at October 27, 2023 02:35 PM (CjGGv)

159 "Lycan Colony" is now out on blue-ray.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at October 27, 2023 02:35 PM (H9sxy)

160 My anti-Ace contribution.

Halloween anime short.

Mike Inel. free on youtube. 10 min. slow but don't speed up as the slow pace sets the mood. good art and worth it at the end.

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

Posted by: Pinheads United at October 27, 2023 02:35 PM (gFobD)

161 This weekend will be my annual listening to Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds. Original version, natch, though I've not heard the later one so it's more a matter of familiarity than having an issue.

And after 45 years it's way better than the garbage put out these days.

Posted by: Brother Tim sez Max Headroom for President! at October 27, 2023 02:35 PM (OUMaO)

162 145 Arrow Films is releasing Conan in 4k both films looks good.
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at October 27, 2023 02:33 PM (cxG4V)

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Expensive, too.

Still, I'll definitely get the first.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at October 27, 2023 02:35 PM (czkiD)

163 It could have been Amazon before Amazon was even a gleam in Bezos' eye. It just never connected the dots.

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Perhaps, but probably not. Now Walmart has been able to make both sides work.

Posted by: SH (no more socks) at October 27, 2023 02:35 PM (sX1BW)

164 Does she have a nice rack or backside?

That's all that matters. They are perfect little objects without any individuality.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 27, 2023 02:34 PM (3Gtis)
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From what I've seen, not particularly. She is cute, though, and she looks like she's about 15 and so that probably helped her along, too.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 27, 2023 02:36 PM (ELpxa)

165 >>>
"According to court records, Keith possessed and fired weapons including a Fusil Automatique Leger (FAL) — a .308 caliber semi-automatic rifle that can fire 650 to 700 rounds in a minute. Keith reportedly traded an AR15 rifle to possess the FAL."

Can you spot the problem?

Posted by: Robert
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Gimme that thing I'll show you how many rounds a second it will fire.

Posted by: Jimmy Michulak at October 27, 2023 02:36 PM (1WyJ3)

166 A few years ago, I went shopping at Sears as their clothes were always well made. I bought a shirt and some pants and went to check out. And walked around, and walked around and walked around and could not find anyone to check out with at all the check out stands they had here and there in the store.

That's when I knew that Sears was going tits up.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at October 27, 2023 02:36 PM (R/m4+)

167 ++++
From what I've seen, not particularly. She is cute, though, and she looks like she's about 15 and so that probably helped her along, too.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 27, 2023 02:36 PM (ELpxa)

Past her prime.

Posted by: Joe Biden at October 27, 2023 02:36 PM (Zz0t1)

168 "To young Latino performers coming up in the industry, I would tell them to know their worth, and to make sure they're loud about having seats at the tables they deserve to be at,"
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Too bad no one told Raquel and Salma.

Posted by: Eeyore at October 27, 2023 02:36 PM (brAQZ)

169 I used to be kind of amazed that Roman cultural output dropped to near 0 around 200 AD but I have since seen it in practice.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 27, 2023 02:32 PM (eoQWY)

As a culture dies, its creative energy goes to zero. Russia had a very rich musical and artistic output before 1917 - in the 70 years after the revolution, the only output was government forced, and that eventually dwindled to nothing, which is where it still is now. The Muslim world hasn't produced anything of cultural relevance in 700 years now.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 27, 2023 02:36 PM (i9ffA)

170 148 >"According to court records, Keith possessed and fired weapons including a Fusil Automatique Leger (FAL) — a .308 caliber semi-automatic rifle that can fire 650 to 700 rounds in a minute. Keith reportedly traded an AR15 rifle to possess the FAL."

Can you spot the problem?

Posted by: Robert at October 27, 2023 02:30 PM (1Yy3c)

Fastest finger in the West...
Posted by: Heavy Meta at October 27, 2023 02:33 PM (Ys9p5)

I am assuming this is a wikipedia fail. They were told it was the semi-auto version, but when they looked it up, they got the stats for the fully auto version and went rhee when they saw the fire rate.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at October 27, 2023 02:37 PM (zZu0s)

171 Perhaps, but probably not. Now Walmart has been able to make both sides work.
Posted by: SH (no more socks) at October 27, 2023 02:35 PM (sX1BW)
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Yup. No way to test it. But Sears had everything it needed - even the computer retailing and online service infrastructure - to do it. It also had the power of its name and a trustworthy reputation. It just never even tried.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 27, 2023 02:37 PM (ELpxa)

172 A ton of great sniper nests.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Lookin' for me wooden leg at October 27, 2023 02:33 PM (xPJvm)

LOL. Hey Pug, could set up some great move and shoot tactical areas too. Using the characters at shields .

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at October 27, 2023 02:37 PM (hTMd7)

173 At the top of everyone's Halloween movie list should be Arsenic and Old Lace.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 27, 2023 02:37 PM (lTGtQ)

174 Sears could have strangled Amazon in the crib. It did not do so and is now, essentially, out of business

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at October 27, 2023 02:37 PM (ZV+pB)

175 Fastest finger in the West...

Posted by: Heavy Meta at October 27, 2023 02:33 PM (Ys9p5)

He was very popular in high school.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 27, 2023 02:37 PM (3Gtis)

176 Huh, according to Wikipedia, Rachel Zegler is named that because of the character "Rachel" on the TV show Friends.

So very, very Latin.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 27, 2023 02:38 PM (ELpxa)

177 Roman culture was not philosophy or plays or poems.

Their culture was Roads, Trade, Blood and Mud.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at October 27, 2023 02:38 PM (zZu0s)

178
He was very popular in high school.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 27, 2023 02:37 PM (3Gtis)

they didn't call him 'diddle me tenders' for nothing.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 27, 2023 02:38 PM (Zz0t1)

179 The world ended in the year 2000, and we just didn't notice.

When did they switch on the Large Hardon Collider?

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko stuff in solidarity with the struggle to maintain Moron standards at October 27, 2023 02:38 PM (ccm2n)

180 Inexplicably, all three of Ace's horror movie recs are very, very solid. I

Posted by: The boss isn't always crazy. at October 27, 2023 02:38 PM (CjGGv)

181 173 At the top of everyone's Halloween movie list should be Arsenic and Old Lace.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 27, 2023 02:37 PM (lTGtQ)

I like the original Legend of Sleepy Hollow with Bing Crosby narrating it... It is Disney but when Walt was alive so I'll give it a pass

Posted by: It's me donna at October 27, 2023 02:39 PM (bs+z0)

182 It could have been Amazon before Amazon was even a gleam in Bezos' eye. It just never connected the dots.

--------------

Perhaps, but probably not. Now Walmart has been able to make both sides work.
Posted by: SH

And IBM could have been Microsoft and Apple before Microsoft and Apple.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 27, 2023 02:39 PM (Y2tls)

183 Posted by: Jimmy Michulak

That's supposed to be some sort of a joke, right?
I'd be praying Jerry Miculek never sees it.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at October 27, 2023 02:39 PM (4PZHB)

184 YeH. They don't understand the FAL is a completely legal rifle. Or they are intentionally trying to conflate the legal rifle with an automatic weapon.
Posted by: rickb223 at October 27, 2023 02:34 PM (Y2tls)

Poor DS Arms in Illinois. I own one of their cold war FALs and they are good folks.

This may jump start their sells and they are a small company so poor DS Arms, may be hard to keep up with demand soon.

Thanks left wing media!

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at October 27, 2023 02:39 PM (R/m4+)

185 This blonde in a one-piece isn't planning to go see "The Marvels" because she has better things to do:
https://is.gd/JJ3gnU

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 27, 2023 02:39 PM (ELpxa)

186 Well, I'm running down the road tryin' to loosen my load
I've got three wars and a bad economy on my mind
Two that wanna own me in Ukraine and Israel and,
Hamas and Hezbolla says they are a friend of mine

Take It easy, take it easy
Don't let the sound of your own Farts drive you crazy
Lighten up jockey shorts while you still can
Don't even try to understand my mumbling
Just find a place to make your G;obal Warming stand and start mumbling and shitting in your pants

Well, I'm a standing on a corner in Tel Aviv, Israel
And such a fine sight to see
It's a girl wearing a Burhka, my Lord, in a flatbed HUMVEE with a AK-47 Slowin' down to take a look at me

Come on, baby, don't say maybe
I gotta know if your sweet little Jihad is gonna save me
USA may lose, and Hamas may win
Though we will never be here again after Iran drops a Nuke
So open up and Frag some Infidels,
I'm climbin' in So take it easy

Posted by: Joe Biden at October 27, 2023 02:40 PM (R+nZe)

187 175 Fastest finger in the West...

Posted by: Heavy Meta at October 27, 2023 02:33 PM (Ys9p5)

He was very popular in high school.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 27, 2023 02:37 PM (3Gtis)

He RUINED Sandra Fluke for any other man.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at October 27, 2023 02:40 PM (zZu0s)

188 174 Sears could have strangled Amazon in the crib. It did not do so and is now, essentially, out of business
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Sears was out of business long before Amazon was selling books online.

Posted by: Pudinhead at October 27, 2023 02:40 PM (naiw2)

189 Sears had big org inertia.

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at October 27, 2023 02:40 PM (vHIgi)

190 "Rachel Zegler is an annoying white chick from New Jersey..."

Isn't this redundant? Except for Fen...;-)

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at October 27, 2023 02:40 PM (hTMd7)

191 177 Roman culture was not philosophy or plays or poems.

Their culture was Roads, Trade, Blood and Mud.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at October 27, 2023 02:38 PM (zZu0s)

It took Europe over 1000 years to get back to the artistic and engineering levels they achieved.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 27, 2023 02:40 PM (i9ffA)

192 179 The world ended in the year 2000, and we just didn't notice.

When did they switch on the Large Hardon Collider?
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko stuff in solidarity with the struggle to maintain Moron standards at October 27, 2023 02:38 PM (ccm2n)
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😮
That's deep man... I'm not even sure if here is "here" now.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at October 27, 2023 02:40 PM (pIx7m)

193 could set up some great move and shoot tactical areas too. Using the characters at shields .
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at October 27, 2023 02:37 PM (hTMd7)

Nice!

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Lookin' for me wooden leg at October 27, 2023 02:41 PM (xPJvm)

194 with a custom version of the client software that dumped you into a Sears "online catalog" - apparently never occurred to them.

It could have been Amazon before Amazon was even a gleam in Bezos' eye. It just never connected the dots.

Posted by: Joe Mannix

There is a great documentary out there on the tubes about Xerox and their Palo Alto research center, where they showed everybody their new thing called software, and something they called a graphical user interface. Steve Jobs and Bill Gates took the ideas for free.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 27, 2023 02:41 PM (lTGtQ)

195 Jack Posobiec has moved on from his endless shilling for Trump and MyPillow, and is now explaining that:

Gaza are become the Dresden of the Levant.

A slight exaggeration, perhaps?

Also apparently the fact that phone and internet services in Gaza have reportedly gone down completely is an indication that all the residents of Gaza are about to be slaughtered.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at October 27, 2023 02:41 PM (2tUFv)

196 Something Wicked this Way Comes

When Disney was still Disney, good Morale Story Ray Bradbury wrote it. It scared me as a Kid, Good actors Mr. Dark did a good job of being Mysterious and Evil

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at October 27, 2023 02:41 PM (wje8c)

197 CBS: "Over 2 million fruit flies to be released in Los Angeles to fight infestation"

Pity the flies.

Posted by: Throw gp That Whammy at October 27, 2023 02:41 PM (MvF+J)

198 Also, the original Lon Cheney Phantom of the Opera and The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 27, 2023 02:41 PM (JrojV)

199 Roman cultural output dropped to near 0 around 200 AD

There was a plague. We act as if it never happened. Why?

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at October 27, 2023 02:41 PM (4PZHB)

200 Last month, we saw The Marvels trailer at the movies. Numerous trailers played before the movie (The Expendables), but that one was embarrassing. Even my husband, who usually ignores this trivia, was shocked that no character (except for Fury) was male, including the villain.

Posted by: EveR at October 27, 2023 02:42 PM (LdQWo)

201 173 At the top of everyone's Halloween movie list should be Arsenic and Old Lace.
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They will remake it so everyone's gay.

Posted by: Pudinhead at October 27, 2023 02:42 PM (naiw2)

202 Sears Toughskin jeans remain my favorite pant of all time. The knee patches on them were damn near indestructable

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at October 27, 2023 02:43 PM (ZV+pB)

203 186 Well, I'm running down the road tryin' to loosen my load
I've got three wars and a bad economy on my mind
Two that wanna own me in Ukraine and Israel and,
Hamas and Hezbolla says they are a friend of mine

Take It easy, take it easy
Don't let the sound of your own Farts drive you crazy
Lighten up jockey shorts while you still can
Don't even try to understand my mumbling
Just find a place to make your G;obal Warming stand and start mumbling and shitting in your pants

Well, I'm a standing on a corner in Tel Aviv, Israel
And such a fine sight to see
It's a girl wearing a Burhka, my Lord, in a flatbed HUMVEE with a AK-47 Slowin' down to take a look at me

Come on, baby, don't say maybe
I gotta know if your sweet little Jihad is gonna save me
USA may lose, and Hamas may win
Though we will never be here again after Iran drops a Nuke
So open up and Frag some Infidels,
I'm climbin' in So take it easy
Posted by: Joe Biden at October 27, 2023 02:40 PM (R+nZe)
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Nice work! It has a Muldoon, je ne sais quoi.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at October 27, 2023 02:43 PM (pIx7m)

204 Reading the synopsis for You're Next, I think I saw this one. I remember thinking the ending was nihilistic, downer shit.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at October 27, 2023 02:43 PM (zZu0s)

205 174 Sears could have strangled Amazon in the crib. It did not do so and is now, essentially, out of business
Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at October 27, 2023 02:37 PM (ZV+pB)
______________

"Those idiots!"

-- Blockbuster

Posted by: Elric Blade at October 27, 2023 02:43 PM (iFTx/)

206 There is a great documentary out there on the tubes about Xerox and their Palo Alto research center, where they showed everybody their new thing called software, and something they called a graphical user interface. Steve Jobs and Bill Gates took the ideas for free.

Yeah, Xerox PARC invented the personal computer, the laser printer, the mouse, Ethernet cabling, networked computers, the graphical interface, and much else, and failed to commercialize any of it.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at October 27, 2023 02:43 PM (2tUFv)

207 I haven't cared about movie releases in a few years. Expensive and practically have to buy tickets and reserve seats online anymore and I'm not going to fight some dickhead that took reserved seats.

Posted by: SSR at October 27, 2023 02:43 PM (7NmRg)

208 199 Roman cultural output dropped to near 0 around 200 AD

There was a plague. We act as if it never happened. Why?
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at October 27, 2023 02:41 PM (4PZHB)

*shifty eyes*

Posted by: Antonius Faucius at October 27, 2023 02:44 PM (PiwSw)

209 184 YeH. They don't understand the FAL is a completely legal rifle. Or they are intentionally trying to conflate the legal rifle with an automatic weapon.
Posted by: rickb223 at October 27, 2023 02:34 PM (Y2tls)
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Completely ignorant.
Intentionally may things sound as bad as possible.
Lie.

Posted by: Braenyard at October 27, 2023 02:44 PM (1WyJ3)

210 I don't know, I don't think anyone is interested in another Marvel movie staring resting bitch face.

Posted by: deadrody at October 27, 2023 02:44 PM (eYvph)

211 197 CBS: "Over 2 million fruit flies to be released in Los Angeles to fight infestation"

Pity the flies.
Posted by: Throw gp That Whammy at October 27, 2023 02:41 PM (MvF+J)

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Bars every where will soon have a lot of extra protein in their cocktail mixers.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at October 27, 2023 02:44 PM (pIx7m)

212 Matthew Holness, the creator and portrayer of Garth, has a new Garth Marenghi book out: "Garth Marenghi’s Terrortome". The audiobook is a hoot, with Garth narrating it in all his glory. I actually liked the kindle version better because imagining Garth's narration was funnier than hearing it.

Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at October 27, 2023 02:44 PM (lqvOK)

213 196 Something Wicked this Way Comes

When Disney was still Disney, good Morale Story Ray Bradbury wrote it. It scared me as a Kid, Good actors Mr. Dark did a good job of being Mysterious and Evil
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I've never read it. I burned out on Bradbury after the Illustrated Man. But I would like to read SWTWCs.

Posted by: Pudinhead at October 27, 2023 02:45 PM (naiw2)

214 Disney needs to do an action re-make of The Incredible Mr. Limpett

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at October 27, 2023 02:45 PM (ZV+pB)

215 There is a great documentary out there on the tubes about Xerox and their Palo Alto research center, where they showed everybody their new thing called software, and something they called a graphical user interface. Steve Jobs and Bill Gates took the ideas for free.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 27, 2023 02:41 PM (lTGtQ)
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It's a bit more complicated than that, but not too much.

Xerox's problem is particularly interesting. They *knew* they were all a bunch of copier-heads and couldn't think of anything else. So the set up PARC to go be an innovation factory because they knew the normal corporate R&D process wasn't able to break out of its box. It was an unusually forward-looking action, and an unusual acknowledgement of blind spots.

But when PARC sent stuff home to Rochester, they couldn't figure it out because it wasn't a copier. They failed to bring most of the PARC innovations to market. They did use the laser printing technology developed there, though. They could figure that out. They also figured out - sort of - the graphical computer. They embedded those as graphical layout controllers for the giant laser printers used for book publishing and whatnot.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 27, 2023 02:45 PM (ELpxa)

216 >""Well now pride's gone out the window

Went away, left me with the vaccuum of my heart

Duran Duran, Ordinary World

Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain at October 27, 2023 02:46 PM (gHSfI)

217 I just watched two of the Best Halloween Movies ever made -
"Blacula!" and it's sequel, "Scream, Blacula Scream!"

2nd one has Pam Grier in it, which I'd forgotten. And both are actually pretty damn good horror movies. One of my favorite scenes is in the 2nd movie, where Blacula comes out into an alley and turns into a bat, to fly away. There's this drunk black dude standing there watching it, and as bat Blacula flies away he just stares and then says "sheeeee-it!!"

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 27, 2023 02:46 PM (i9ffA)

218 It always is their point to confuse afull auto and semi wanting their audience to think full auto when it's not

Posted by: Skip at October 27, 2023 02:46 PM (fwDg9)

219 >202 Sears Toughskin jeans remain my favorite pant of all time. The knee patches on them were damn near indestructable

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at October 27, 2023 02:43 PM (ZV+pB)

I'm certain the 'fabric' of Toughskins™ was discovered as a result of some sort of industrial waste spill. They had a sheen to them as I recall.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at October 27, 2023 02:46 PM (Ys9p5)

220 > At the top of everyone's Halloween movie list should be Arsenic and Old Lace.

I'll never understand the fascination with this movie. It's an interesting premise, and generally well acted, but the "jokes" are unfunny and repeated ad nauseum. It's not terrible, but it's on par with some of the lamer old Disney movies like That Darn Cat or The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes.

Posted by: bonhomme at October 27, 2023 02:46 PM (0N1h0)

221 Leave it to Hollywood to build a movie franchise around a guy that looks and behaves like Sonny Liston.

Posted by: mr tmz at October 27, 2023 02:46 PM (rJ48h)

222 After careful thoughts and killings I have decided to throw my hat in the Ring for US Senator from New Jersey. The Democrat party and Senate majority Leader Schumer and House Minority Leader Jefferies along with Big Mike, Hillary, and Hooker harris will aid me in my campaign.

Disgraced U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ) appears to be more unpopular than North Korea’s communist dictator, Kim Jong-Un. In 2018, Ipsos polled Americans regarding the favorability of a number of celebrities and foreign leaders. North Korea’s Kim registered a 12 percent approval rating. Disgraced U.S. Senator Bob Menendez, according to a new Stockton University survey, has just an eight percent approval rating among New Jersey residents.

Posted by: Kim Jong-Un at October 27, 2023 02:47 PM (EP8ZQ)

223 206 There is a great documentary out there on the tubes about Xerox and their Palo Alto research center, where they showed everybody their new thing called software, and something they called a graphical user interface. Steve Jobs and Bill Gates took the ideas for free.

Yeah, Xerox PARC invented the personal computer, the laser printer, the mouse, Ethernet cabling, networked computers, the graphical interface, and much else, and failed to commercialize any of it.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at October 27, 2023 02:43 PM (2tUFv)
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"Cut Xerox some slack! Who knew about the potential for shit like that? Or for moveable type, gunpowder . . . ."

-- The Chinese

Posted by: Elric Blade at October 27, 2023 02:47 PM (iFTx/)

224 Yeah, Xerox PARC invented the personal computer, the laser printer, the mouse, Ethernet cabling, networked computers, the graphical interface, and much else, and failed to commercialize any of it.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at October 27, 2023 02:43 PM (2tUFv)
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PARC invented a mouse (and a good one), but not the first one. Dough Englebert at SRI was earlier, but his was really primitive (two wheels - one vertical roller, one horizontal roller - stuffed in a wooden box).

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 27, 2023 02:47 PM (ELpxa)

225
Papers in the roadside tell of suffering and greed
Fear today forgot tomorrow
Here beside the news of holy war and holy need
Ours is just a little sorrow talk

Damnit

Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain at October 27, 2023 02:48 PM (gHSfI)

226 What the left claims is that their are politics in everything, and that the absence of politics is itself political, as it permits the Colonization and the Status Quo to continue without challenge. So they'd say a Snow White which isn't aggressively leftwing is, in fact, a "MAGA conservative move."
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I have a different read. I think they are pre-apologizing to the libs that they might be trying to court a bit more of the conservative audience.

And of course, you have to promise that it's not going to cater to their views. You know, be like all those MAGA movies out there.

Posted by: Axeman at October 27, 2023 02:48 PM (krQz2)

227 You know, I still like watching "Clue" and also the Cary Grant Arsenic and Old Lace.

Still better than most of what is out today and you can watch it with the kids.

Posted by: GanGanowicz at October 27, 2023 02:49 PM (AxRGS)

228 I think Sears screwed the pooch when they spent ridiculous money to build fancy HQs, the first being the Sears Tower. Then a decade or two later, they decided they'd rather have their HQ in a huge new compound in the suburbs. The company I was working for at that time also got Shiny-New-HQ-itis; they crumbled about a decade later.

Posted by: Throw gp That Whammy at October 27, 2023 02:49 PM (MvF+J)

229 PARC invented a mouse (and a good one), but not the first one. Dough Englebert at SRI was earlier, but his was really primitive (two wheels - one vertical roller, one horizontal roller - stuffed in a wooden box).

I think I used one of those on a DECstation. Shaped like a hockey puck, had three buttons.

Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain at October 27, 2023 02:50 PM (gHSfI)

230 I'll never understand the fascination with this movie. It's an interesting premise, and generally well acted, but the "jokes" are unfunny and repeated ad nauseum. It's not terrible, but it's on par with some of the lamer old Disney movies like That Darn Cat or The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes.
Posted by: bonhomme at October 27, 2023 02:46 PM (0N1h0)

I agree, wife likes that one a lot more than I do. One of the running jokes in it is that the Evil Brother looks like Boris Karloff, which makes him mad every time someone says it. The joke is that when it was a stage play, Boris Karloff had played that part.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 27, 2023 02:50 PM (i9ffA)

231 The knee patches on them were damn near indestructable

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at October 27, 2023 02:43 PM (ZV+pB)

Uh...phrasing?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 27, 2023 02:50 PM (3Gtis)

232 I have only seen a handful of movies in the past ten years, and half of those were to take kids. There just isn't anything worth the hassle out there. You can wait four to six months and get any movie on DVD or streaming, watch at home in a comfortable chair, pause it when you want, eat what you want, and not have to put up with people who won't spring for a babysitter, or who can't put down their cell phone for two hours.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 27, 2023 02:50 PM (lTGtQ)

233 Xerox was destined to die. Every company headquartered in NY dies. It just does.

Posted by: Pudinhead at October 27, 2023 02:50 PM (naiw2)

234 226 I have a different read. I think they are pre-apologizing to the libs that they might be trying to court a bit more of the conservative audience.

And of course, you have to promise that it's not going to cater to their views. You know, be like all those MAGA movies out there.
Posted by: Axeman at October 27, 2023 02:48 PM (krQz2)

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Nah, it's been a pretty standard line of the left for a very long time. I think it's part of the Frankfurt School's modus operandi.

If you show a film about cowboys and Indians where the cowboys are the good guys and the Indians aren't really characters, then you're advancing political ideas that cowboys are good and Indians are bad, and it's propaganda for a Western-based outlook.

I don't entirely disagree, but I just find the effort to argue the points on everything individually to be exhausting and miserable. You know, a perfect activity for a leftist.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at October 27, 2023 02:51 PM (czkiD)

235 We watched-

"It Follows" (2014) again last night.

It's a very well made slow burn horror movie with minimal gore for those who are squeamish.

The story concerns a young woman who has sex with her newish boyfriend, and "catches" a monster from him that will track her relentlessly until it kills her unless she has sex with someone else and passes it on.

This movie is very intelligently made. Great acting. And nice upping the creepy factor as things go along. Soon you will be spotting the creature even if the characters in the movie haven't yet. The ending is a bit weak, but only because the movie is so good that you want it to be great.

Check it out.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 27, 2023 02:51 PM (QzZeQ)

236 I generally watch Young Frankenstein on Halloween.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at October 27, 2023 02:51 PM (N3zMI)

237 >231 The knee patches on them were damn near indestructable

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at October 27, 2023 02:43 PM (ZV+pB)

Uh...phrasing?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 27, 2023 02:50 PM (3Gtis)

You ain't whistlin' Dixie bub.

Posted by: Monica L at October 27, 2023 02:52 PM (Ys9p5)

238 I like the movie Cobwed, perfect for Halloween.

Posted by: Dr Spank at October 27, 2023 02:52 PM (8Mxns)

239 Police in Maine planned to trawl the waters of the Androscoggin River with divers and sonar on Friday in their search for U.S. army reservist Robert R. Card, who they suspect is the mass shooter who killed 18 people at a bar and bowling alley
...
Officials ordered tens of thousands of area residents to shelter in place for their safety and indicated that the manhunt could continue

Posted by: Braenyard at October 27, 2023 02:52 PM (1WyJ3)

240 230 I agree, wife likes that one a lot more than I do. One of the running jokes in it is that the Evil Brother looks like Boris Karloff, which makes him mad every time someone says it. The joke is that when it was a stage play, Boris Karloff had played that part.
Posted by: Tom Servo at October 27, 2023 02:50 PM (i9ffA)

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In His Girl Friday, Cary Grant ad libbed the line that a character looked like Robert Bellamy, and the actor playing him was Robert Bellamy.

It's funny, but I didn't get it until I read about it, not really making the connection that this character actor in this relatively minor role was Bellamy.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at October 27, 2023 02:52 PM (czkiD)

241 232 Concur.

Posted by: Throw gp That Whammy at October 27, 2023 02:52 PM (MvF+J)

242 “Roman, remember by your strength to rule Earth’s peoples – for your arts are to be these: To pacify, to impose the rule of law, To spare the conquered, battle down the proud.”
― Virgil, The Aeneid

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at October 27, 2023 02:53 PM (zZu0s)

243 I once played Teddy Brewster in AAOL. What a fun part!

I suppose today they’d have that character think he was Obama, burying all the people who died from lack of healthcare insurance.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 27, 2023 02:53 PM (JrojV)

244 Looking ahead in the schedule, I will probably be watching The Hole by Joe Dante on Halloween.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at October 27, 2023 02:53 PM (czkiD)

245 239 Police in Maine planned to trawl the waters of the Androscoggin River with divers and sonar on Friday in their search for U.S. army reservist Robert R. Card, who they suspect is the mass shooter who killed 18 people at a bar and bowling alley
...
Officials ordered tens of thousands of area residents to shelter in place for their safety and indicated that the manhunt could continue
Posted by: Braenyard at October 27, 2023 02:52 PM

I think he killed himself

Posted by: It's me donna at October 27, 2023 02:53 PM (bs+z0)

246 That's supposed to be some sort of a joke, right?
I'd be praying Jerry Miculek never sees it.

I was thinking maybe Jimmy was Jerry's kid since his (Jerry's) father in law is Jim Clark.

Posted by: Oddbob at October 27, 2023 02:53 PM (WUX8n)

247 @220 A movie that I saw on the plane a few years ago turned out to be an unexpected pleasant surprise, "Ready Or Not." The star is an Australian actress Samara Weaving (daughter of Hugo Weaving). Full disclosure I chose the movie because I thought the woman in the post was Margot Robbie -- Samara Weaving looks like she could be her sister. Anyway, the twist near the end is very Halloweenish and I think the movie would be great to add to any list for a Halloween movie night.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at October 27, 2023 02:53 PM (pIx7m)

248 Disney needs to do an action re-make of The Incredible Mr. Limpett
Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at October 27, 2023 02:45 PM (ZV+pB)

If they do a remake of The Ghost and Mr Chicken, I'm gonna cut somebody.

Posted by: Beartooth at October 27, 2023 02:54 PM (TDQgG)

249 Can you spot the problem?

Yes, if someone says "I'll give you this FAL if you give me your common-as-dirt AR," then you should know it's a set-up.

Posted by: PabloD at October 27, 2023 02:54 PM (R+CC9)

250 231 The knee patches on them were damn near indestructable

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at October 27, 2023 02:43 PM (ZV+pB)

Uh...phrasing?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 27, 2023 02:50 PM (3Gtis)

*makes mental note*

Posted by: Kamala Harris at October 27, 2023 02:54 PM (zZu0s)

251 If you show a film about cowboys and Indians where the cowboys are the good guys and the Indians aren't really characters, then you're advancing political ideas that cowboys are good and Indians are bad, and it's propaganda for a Western-based outlook.

I don't entirely disagree, but I just find the effort to argue the points on everything individually to be exhausting and miserable. You know, a perfect activity for a leftist.
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Just watched Hostiles last night. The first rule of western movie making is to have all the actors mumble. Oddly, in the 19th Century people took pride in speaking well. Who knew?

Posted by: Pudinhead at October 27, 2023 02:54 PM (naiw2)

252 248 Disney needs to do an action re-make of The Incredible Mr. Limpett
Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at October 27, 2023 02:45 PM (ZV+pB)

If they do a remake of The Ghost and Mr Chicken, I'm gonna cut somebody.
Posted by: Beartooth at October 27, 2023 02:54 PM (TDQgG)

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Disney's going to get so desperate that they will actually make The Shoo-Up Shopping Cart, the pseudo Disney film seen in Matinee.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at October 27, 2023 02:55 PM (czkiD)

253 "I think Sears screwed the pooch when they spent ridiculous money to build fancy HQs, the first being the Sears Tower"

They should have made it look like a giant penis!

Posted by: Salesforce at October 27, 2023 02:55 PM (MeG8a)

254 251 Just watched Hostiles last night. The first rule of western movie making is to have all the actors mumble. Oddly, in the 19th Century people took pride in speaking well. Who knew?
Posted by: Pudinhead at October 27, 2023 02:54 PM (naiw2)

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Scott Cooper is the most overrated director working today.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at October 27, 2023 02:56 PM (czkiD)

255 Cuomo had some media blitz to give tax incentives to companies to locate in NY in 2018-19.

Who would trust that corrupt, neanderthal fuck?

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at October 27, 2023 02:56 PM (R4t5M)

256 I would like to reinforce the recommendations for Trick R Treat and You're Next. There is a second twist in You're Next that ace didn't mention, which goes to the killers' motivation, but the movie would not be much different without it. Both movies are about a decade old, but still hold up.

I didn't see Ready or Not, so can't say anything about its quality

Posted by: tankdemon at October 27, 2023 02:56 PM (vhwKy)

257 "Just watched Hostiles last night. The first rule of western movie making is to have all the actors mumble."

I have subtitles on for everything I watch.

Posted by: Throw gp That Whammy at October 27, 2023 02:56 PM (MvF+J)

258 ========

Disney's going to get so desperate that they will actually make The Shoo-Up Shopping Cart, the pseudo Disney film seen in Matinee.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at October 27, 2023 02:55 PM (czkiD)

They're going to remake The New Shmoo?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 27, 2023 02:56 PM (Zz0t1)

259 Officials ordered tens of thousands of area residents to shelter in place for their safety and indicated that the manhunt could continue
Posted by: Braenyard at October 27, 2023 02:52 PM (1WyJ3)

The Boston Marathon bomber was found when some guy decided to ignore the #BostonStrong Cower in Place order, went out into his backyard for a smoke, and found the limpdick terrorist fuckstain in his boat.

Posted by: spindrift at October 27, 2023 02:56 PM (wwfd9)

260 S. Craig Zahler is everything Scott Cooper wishes he was, and more.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at October 27, 2023 02:56 PM (czkiD)

261 236 I generally watch Young Frankenstein on Halloween.
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I watched it recently and found it less than I remembered it. The chicks were hot, though.

Posted by: Pudinhead at October 27, 2023 02:57 PM (naiw2)

262 The rest of my favorite Halloween movies all have Vincent Price in them. I love "Theatre of Blood", "The Abominable Dr. Phibes", and "Dr. Phibes Rises Again."

"Theatre of Blood" is one of the best black comedies ever made. I'm sure Vincent Price loved making that movie more than anything else he did - it's about a great actor, unfairly maligned by his critics, who then murders them in a series of horribly gruesome but hilarious ways, and all based on gruesome Shakespearian deaths. And Diana Rigg has a marvelous part.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 27, 2023 02:57 PM (i9ffA)

263 257 "Just watched Hostiles last night. The first rule of western movie making is to have all the actors mumble."

I have subtitles on for everything I watch.
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That's what I did to follow the story. Its annoying.

Posted by: Pudinhead at October 27, 2023 02:58 PM (naiw2)

264 They should have made it look like a empty giant penis!
Posted by: Salesforce at October 27, 2023 02:55 PM (MeG8a)
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FIFY

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 27, 2023 02:58 PM (RIvkX)

265 They should have made it look like a empty giant penis!
Posted by: Salesforce at October 27, 2023 02:55 PM (MeG8a)
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Then fly that bitch to SPACE!

Posted by: Jeff Bezos at October 27, 2023 02:59 PM (Zz0t1)

266 A movie that I saw on the plane a few years ago turned out to be an unexpected pleasant surprise, "Ready Or Not."

This is the kind of movie Ace should be telling us about.

Posted by: spindrift at October 27, 2023 02:59 PM (wwfd9)

267 Last weekend movie thread, I recommended:

1) "Shrunken Heads" -

the greatest "teen boys are murdered by the mafia and are resurrected as shrunken heads with super powers by a friendly voodoo priest" ever made!

Not a great movie but tremendous fun. Little to no gore. Danny Elfman does the soundtrack cuz his brother directs the movie. Streaming on Prime.

2) "The Revenant" (200

-

Not the Leonardo DiCaprio/Grizzly Bear Rom-com but a very well made horror-comedy concerning an American soldier who encounters something in Iraq, is killed, and resurrects as something between a vampire and a zombie. He then decides to use his revenant powers to fight crime.

A lot of fun. Some great gore. Good comedy. Strong horror.

Check these out.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 27, 2023 02:59 PM (QzZeQ)

268
I have subtitles on for everything I watch.
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That's what I did to follow the story. Its annoying.
Posted by: Pudinhead at October 27, 2023 02:58 PM (naiw2)

Any British film I ever see I wish there were subtitles... Damn Brits can't speak English

Posted by: It's me donna at October 27, 2023 02:59 PM (bs+z0)

269 266 A movie that I saw on the plane a few years ago turned out to be an unexpected pleasant surprise, "Ready Or Not."

This is the kind of movie Ace should be telling us about.
Posted by: spindrift at October 27, 2023 02:59 PM (wwfd9)

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I don't get it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at October 27, 2023 02:59 PM (czkiD)

270 268 Any British film I ever see I wish there were subtitles... Damn Brits can't speak English
Posted by: It's me donna at October 27, 2023 02:59 PM (bs+z0)

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*nods sagaciously*
-Henry Higgins

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at October 27, 2023 02:59 PM (czkiD)

271 Orion's Belt is a big waist of space.

Terrible joke. Only 3 stars.

Posted by: Ciampino - starry starry night at October 27, 2023 03:00 PM (qfLjt)

272 I've never been a fan of horror movies. I also think that since Ironman died, they made Captain America black to make him "look like America", and Captain Marvel female, ditto, subsequent movies just aren't going to be very interesting.

Just my opinion.

Posted by: RebeccaH at October 27, 2023 03:00 PM (Nvors)

273 262 Vincent Price was a ham like no other. But he obviously enjoyed it and was fun to watch.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 27, 2023 03:00 PM (JrojV)

274 ========

I don't get it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at October 27, 2023 02:59 PM (czkiD)

ME NEITHER.

Posted by: BEN ROTHLISBERGER at October 27, 2023 03:00 PM (Zz0t1)

275 Vincent Price was a ham like no other. But he obviously enjoyed it and was fun to watch.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 27, 2023 03:00 PM (JrojV)

And had a great voice.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 27, 2023 03:00 PM (Zz0t1)

276 George W. Bush, ... will throw out the ceremonial first pitch before Texas plays the Arizona Diamondbacks ...This will be Bush’s ... first before an opener. Bush, 77. headed the group that bought the Rangers from Eddie Chiles

Eddie Chiles said, " I want the government to do three things; Defend the shores, deliver the mail on time and get the hell out of the way".

Posted by: Braenyard at October 27, 2023 03:01 PM (1WyJ3)

277 And had a great voice.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 27, 2023 03:00 PM (Zz0t1)

Yes.... Does great narrating Michael Jackson's Thriller...

Posted by: It's me donna at October 27, 2023 03:01 PM (bs+z0)

278 273 262 Vincent Price was a ham like no other. But he obviously enjoyed it and was fun to watch.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 27, 2023 03:00 PM (JrojV)

House on Haunted Hill is pretty good, Rifftrax or no.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at October 27, 2023 03:01 PM (zZu0s)

279
Eddie Chiles said, " I want the government to do three things; Defend the shores, deliver the mail on time and get the hell out of the way".
Posted by: Braenyard at October 27, 2023 03:01 PM (1WyJ3)

He's correct.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 27, 2023 03:01 PM (Zz0t1)

280 "Its annoying."

I'm fully conditioned to it. There's no perceptible distraction anymore. Been doing it so long. I count it as one of the many advantages of the home movie experience over the theater experience.

Posted by: Throw gp That Whammy at October 27, 2023 03:02 PM (MvF+J)

281 "HE WAS A CONSOL OF ROME!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPfxyv5J2cw

How we should feel about the statue being melted.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at October 27, 2023 03:02 PM (44ww/)

282 273 262 Vincent Price was a ham like no other. But he obviously enjoyed it and was fun to watch.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 27, 2023 03:00 PM (JrojV)

That's one of the things that makes Theatre of Blood so funny - all of the critics keep telling Price's character he's a horrible ham, and so he murders them for not appreciating his hamminess.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 27, 2023 03:03 PM (i9ffA)

283 267 Last weekend movie thread, I recommended:

1) "Shrunken Heads" -

the greatest "teen boys are murdered by the mafia and are resurrected as shrunken heads with super powers by a friendly voodoo priest" ever made!

Not a great movie but tremendous fun. Little to no gore. Danny Elfman does the soundtrack cuz his brother directs the movie. Streaming on Prime.

2) "The Revenant" (200-

Not the Leonardo DiCaprio/Grizzly Bear Rom-com but a very well made horror-comedy concerning an American soldier who encounters something in Iraq, is killed, and resurrects as something between a vampire and a zombie. He then decides to use his revenant powers to fight crime.

A lot of fun. Some great gore. Good comedy. Strong horror.

Check these out.
Posted by: naturalfake at October 27, 2023 02:59 PM (QzZeQ)

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That's what I understood a "revenant" to be, thanks to my experience with Advanced Dungeons and Dragons campaigns.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at October 27, 2023 03:03 PM (pIx7m)

284 Vincent Price was a ham like no other. But he obviously enjoyed it and was fun to watch.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 27, 2023 03:00 PM (JrojV)
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Tim Burton animated short (mostly stop-motion) "Vincent" is perfect for the Halloween season:
https://youtu.be/E7F9Z1G3Smw

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 27, 2023 03:03 PM (ELpxa)

285 254 251 Just watched Hostiles last night. The first rule of western movie making is to have all the actors mumble. Oddly, in the 19th Century people took pride in speaking well. Who knew?
Posted by: Pudinhead at October 27, 2023 02:54 PM (naiw2)

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Scott Cooper is the most overrated director working today.
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You would know. The Cinematographer was obviously mainlining John Ford with good results. The story was for shit. Or should I say the stories? Really underwhelming overall.

Posted by: Pudinhead at October 27, 2023 03:03 PM (naiw2)

286 If you want some good Halloween indie horror stuff, check out Kane Pixels stuff. He has a whole series on The Backrooms, and his new series, The Oldest View, is unsettling in all the right ways. Good Found Footage stuff.

Posted by: Snaproll at October 27, 2023 03:03 PM (14i9S)

287 HQ radio morons - today is the "zombie shuffle" QRP CW "contest." It runs in your own time zone from 1500 - midnight. More details online. It's for fun, and slow code is welcome.

Posted by: PabloD at October 27, 2023 03:03 PM (R+CC9)

288 284 Tim Burton animated short (mostly stop-motion) "Vincent" is perfect for the Halloween season:
https://youtu.be/E7F9Z1G3Smw
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 27, 2023 03:03 PM (ELpxa)

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Frankenweenie (the animated feature, not the live action short, though it's not bad), is fun Halloween inspired entertainment for the family.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at October 27, 2023 03:04 PM (czkiD)

289 House on Haunted Hill is pretty good, Rifftrax or no.
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The original one, rite? Fucking scared the shit out of me as a kid.

Posted by: Pudinhead at October 27, 2023 03:04 PM (naiw2)

290 Frankenweenie (the animated feature, not the live action short, though it's not bad), is fun Halloween inspired entertainment for the family.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at October 27, 2023 03:04 PM (czkiD)

I like Coraline and the Corpse Bride... Neither are actual Halloween but are eerie

Posted by: It's me donna at October 27, 2023 03:05 PM (bs+z0)

291 285 Scott Cooper is the most overrated director working today.
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You would know. The Cinematographer was obviously mainlining John Ford with good results. The story was for shit. Or should I say the stories? Really underwhelming overall.
Posted by: Pudinhead at October 27, 2023 03:03 PM (naiw2)

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It was the film Out of the Furnace, which got its fair share of critical notices, where I just sat there saying, "This is completely miserable with no redeeming values, not even interesting characters doing all of this misery."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at October 27, 2023 03:05 PM (czkiD)

292 Isn’t The Revenant the one where someone has an unfortunate, intimate encounter with a bear?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 27, 2023 03:05 PM (JrojV)

293 290 I like Coraline and the Corpse Bride... Neither are actual Halloween but are eerie
Posted by: It's me donna at October 27, 2023 03:05 PM (bs+z0)

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Coraline scared the shit out of Junior.

He asked about it randomly a couple of days ago. I think he's ready for another showing.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at October 27, 2023 03:05 PM (czkiD)

294 The original Outer Limits series is so scary, I can't rewatch it.

Posted by: Throw gp That Whammy at October 27, 2023 03:06 PM (MvF+J)

295 "Palestinians in Gaza reported late on Friday that the ground offensive has begun and IDF tanks were moving into the Gaza Strip. They said heavy exchanges of fire were taking place. "

Posted by: runner at October 27, 2023 03:06 PM (+i903)

296 I don't get it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at October 27, 2023 02:59 PM (czkiD)

ME NEITHER.
Posted by: BEN ROTHLISBERGER at October 27, 2023 03:00 PM (Zz0t1)
.......

We are lost.

Posted by: wth at October 27, 2023 03:06 PM (v0R5T)

297 "Prince of Darkness" is still probably my favorite horror movie.

"Army of Darkness" is my favorite horror comedy. We may show that to the kiddo this weekend.

Posted by: PabloD at October 27, 2023 03:06 PM (R+CC9)

298 Annoying twat Rachel Zegler

Racial Zeegler?

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at October 27, 2023 03:07 PM (/HDaX)

299 292 Isn’t The Revenant the one where someone has an unfortunate, intimate encounter with a bear?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 27, 2023 03:05 PM (JrojV)

"2) "The Revenant" (200-

Not the Leonardo DiCaprio/Grizzly Bear Rom-com..."

Come on man, you are reaching for the shit post.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at October 27, 2023 03:07 PM (zZu0s)

300 297 "Prince of Darkness" is still probably my favorite horror movie.

"Army of Darkness" is my favorite horror comedy. We may show that to the kiddo this weekend.
Posted by: PabloD at October 27, 2023 03:06 PM (R+CC9)

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Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives is the best horror/comedy.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at October 27, 2023 03:07 PM (czkiD)

301 296 I don't get it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at October 27, 2023 02:59 PM (czkiD)

ME NEITHER.
Posted by: BEN ROTHLISBERGER at October 27, 2023 03:00 PM (Zz0t1)
.......

We are lost.

Posted by: wth
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Who knows?

Posted by: Braenyard at October 27, 2023 03:07 PM (1WyJ3)

302 Any British film I ever see I wish there were subtitles... Damn Brits can't speak English
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Samed deal. That's what I did with Slaughterhouse Rulez. Funny movie. A good horror romp.

Posted by: Pudinhead at October 27, 2023 03:07 PM (naiw2)

303 295 "Palestinians in Gaza reported late on Friday that the ground offensive has begun and IDF tanks were moving into the Gaza Strip. They said heavy exchanges of fire were taking place. "
Posted by: runner at October 27, 2023 03:06 PM (+i903

Lot of indications that the Jig is Up in Gaza. (Apologies to Gregory Hines and Mel Brooks)

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 27, 2023 03:08 PM (i9ffA)

304 Sleepy Hollow with Johnny Depp is nice and gory and not bad...

Posted by: It's me donna at October 27, 2023 03:08 PM (bs+z0)

305 299 Sorry. Did not read the comment very closely. I denounce myself.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 27, 2023 03:08 PM (JrojV)

306 This is not THE offensive, this is just the ramp up.

Posted by: runner at October 27, 2023 03:09 PM (+i903)

307 Greg Palkot is reporting intensifying tank fire on the border

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 27, 2023 03:09 PM (RIvkX)

308 It was the film Out of the Furnace, which got its fair share of critical notices, where I just sat there saying, "This is completely miserable with no redeeming values, not even interesting characters doing all of this misery."
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Haven't seen that one but your summary fits Hostiles as well.

Posted by: Pudinhead at October 27, 2023 03:09 PM (naiw2)

309 "Palestinians in Gaza reported late on Friday that the ground offensive has begun and IDF tanks were moving into the Gaza Strip. They said heavy exchanges of fire were taking place. "
Posted by: runner at October 27, 2023 03:06 PM (+i903)
.......

Have a nice weekend Palis!

Posted by: wth at October 27, 2023 03:10 PM (v0R5T)

310 This is completely miserable with no redeeming values, not even interesting characters doing all of this misery."
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That's what I think about The Hateful 8 from Tarantino...

Posted by: It's me donna at October 27, 2023 03:10 PM (bs+z0)

311 "Jordan’s Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi claims Israel has “launched a ground war on Gaza.”

Israel has made no such declaration. The IDF did say that it was ramping up its airstrikes and that ground force activity would expand overnight."

Posted by: runner at October 27, 2023 03:11 PM (+i903)

312 If you like Coraline, there is also "9", a movie with similar creepy puppety things. Also Tim Burton, I think?

Posted by: GanGanowicz at October 27, 2023 03:11 PM (AxRGS)

313 312 If you like Coraline, there is also "9", a movie with similar creepy puppety things. Also Tim Burton, I think?
Posted by: GanGanowicz at October 27, 2023 03:11 PM (AxRGS)

"9" is good too

Posted by: It's me donna at October 27, 2023 03:12 PM (bs+z0)

314 Israel has made no such declaration. The IDF did say that it was ramping up its airstrikes and that ground force activity would expand overnight."

Posted by: runner

It's 10:12 in Tel Aviv.

Posted by: rickb223 at October 27, 2023 03:12 PM (Y2tls)

315 Our Halloween tradition is to watch Something Wicked This Way Comes.

Posted by: G'rump928( c) at October 27, 2023 03:12 PM (8677A)

316 The insty story at near the top of the page about AI being retarded is pretty funny.

Heh. Kenya.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at October 27, 2023 03:12 PM (zZu0s)

317 Greg Palkot is reporting intensifying tank fire on the border
Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 27, 2023 03:09 PM (RIvkX)
.......

I like the guy Trey with the helmet that doesn't fit and the bugeyes. He looks scared shitless.

Posted by: wth at October 27, 2023 03:12 PM (v0R5T)

318 This is completely miserable with no redeeming values, not even interesting characters doing all of this misery."

"Crash" (2004).

Posted by: Throw gp That Whammy at October 27, 2023 03:12 PM (MvF+J)

319 312 If you like Coraline, there is also "9", a movie with similar creepy puppety things. Also Tim Burton, I think?
Posted by: GanGanowicz at October 27, 2023 03:11 PM (AxRGS)

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Neither are Burton.

Coraline is the first feature of Laika Studios, directed by Henry Selick who was the actual director on The Nightmare Before Christmas.

9 Burton produced, but it's really just his name on it. It was directed by Shane Acker, borderline just from his home computers (the original short was done that way).

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at October 27, 2023 03:13 PM (czkiD)

320 Garth Marenghi's Darkplace. All six episodes (it's British) are on YouTube.

Still embargoed in Peru.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at October 27, 2023 03:13 PM (/HDaX)

321 I think the scariest movie I’ve ever seen is The Blair Witch Project.

It also made me nauseous from the jumpy camera.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 27, 2023 03:13 PM (JrojV)

322 321 I think the scariest movie I’ve ever seen is The Blair Witch Project.

It also made me nauseous from the jumpy camera.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 27, 2023 03:13 PM (JrojV)

That's a joke, right ? I never laughed so hard

Posted by: It's me donna at October 27, 2023 03:14 PM (bs+z0)

323
"Talk to Me"-

is the best horror movie that I've seen recently.

Scary, shocking gore when gory, creepy. Everything you want from a horror movie.

The plot concerns a group of teens playing around with a "hand of glory", a dead person's hand that if you hold and say "talk to you" will cause a spirit to possess you for a limited time, a s long as you stop the process before ten seconds have passed.

Of course, someone goes too long. Hijinks ensue.

"Smile"

is a very good horror movie with a plot a bit like "It Follows" if you look at the person possessed by the "Smile" as they kill themselves, you will be possessed by the "Smile" and it will kill you within a certain amount of time. Kind of a mash-up of "It Follows", "The Ring", and "Fallen".

"The Empty Man (2022)

Streaming on HULU.

Excellent horror movie. Concerning a detective trying to find a teen who's disappearing leaving only a message scrawled on the walls in her blood about the "Empty Man".
Well-made slow burn with nice twists that just wants to creep you out.

Check them out.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 27, 2023 03:14 PM (QzZeQ)

324 "This is completely miserable with no redeeming values, not even interesting characters doing all of this misery."

"Short Cuts" (1993).

Posted by: Throw gp That Whammy at October 27, 2023 03:14 PM (MvF+J)

325 Israel in the UK 🇮🇱🤝🇬🇧 @IsraelinUK 2h

Around the world, including at Tower Bridge in London, 229 biodegradable balloons ascended to the skies, each symbolising a man, woman, or child taken hostage by Hamas.

This is the first international effort to raise awareness of the hostages.

We will not be silenced until our loved ones are safely returned.

Every balloon is a cry for humanity, every tethered string a plea for freedom. 🎈 🇮🇱

#BringThemHomeNow

Posted by: Braenyard at October 27, 2023 03:14 PM (1WyJ3)

326 I AM SO SCARED RIGHT NOW!

Posted by: The leaky-nosed dame from the Blair Witch Project at October 27, 2023 03:14 PM (ELpxa)

327 214 Disney needs to do an action re-make of The Incredible Mr. Limpett
Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at October 27, 2023 02:45 PM (ZV+pB)

Gritty remake. A man falls in the ocean, becomes a merman, and goes on a killing spree of human traffickers.

That could be a really good movie.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at October 27, 2023 03:14 PM (zZu0s)

328 Disney's going to get so desperate that they will actually make The Shoo-Up Shopping Cart, the pseudo Disney film seen in Matinee.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at October 27, 2023 02:55 PM (czkiD)

They're going to remake The New Shmoo?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 27, 2023 02:56 PM (Zz0t1)

I wouldn't mind if they made "Mant!", but knowing them, it would be rebranded as "Womant!"

Posted by: liptock at October 27, 2023 03:15 PM (mxEar)

329 Vincent Price was a ham like no other. But he obviously enjoyed it and was fun to watch.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 27, 2023 03:00 PM (JrojV)

That's one of the things that makes Theatre of Blood so funny - all of the critics keep telling Price's character he's a horrible ham, and so he murders them for not appreciating his hamminess.
Posted by: Tom Servo

I know two different people that actually met Vincent Price in person, years apart and their reaction to him was about the same. A real prince of a man, very nice, very down to earth, a real gentleman. What some movie stars used to be like, but few are now.

Posted by: A face in the crowd..... at October 27, 2023 03:15 PM (vcOmj)

330 Eddie Chiles said, " I want the government to do three things; Defend the shores, deliver the mail on time and get the hell out of the way".
Posted by: Braenyard at October 27, 2023 03:01 PM (1WyJ3)

I remember his radio ads in the 70's.

"What're you mad about today, Eddie?"

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at October 27, 2023 03:15 PM (N3zMI)

331 Oh , here s our shiny new speaker " We can’t allow Putin to prevail in Ukraine because I don’t believe it would stop there. And it would probably encourage and empower China to perhaps make a move on Taiwan…We’re not going to abandon them”"

Um, wut? Who is this guy?!

Posted by: runner at October 27, 2023 03:16 PM (+i903)

332 The original Outer Limits series is so scary, I can't rewatch it.
Posted by: Throw gp That Whammy

It is. I was not disappointed with the revival.

Posted by: SFGoth at October 27, 2023 03:16 PM (KAi1n)

333 Posted by: naturalfake at October 27, 2023 03:14 PM (QzZeQ)

"Fallen" is a solid movie. Some flaws, but worth the time.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 27, 2023 03:17 PM (3Gtis)

334 I remember getting creeped out completely by the Daniel Radcliffe starring Woman in Black. I saw it on an airplane, and haven't seen it since.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at October 27, 2023 03:17 PM (czkiD)

335 I AM SO SCARED RIGHT NOW!
Posted by: The leaky-nosed dame from the Blair Witch Project at October 27, 2023 03:14 PM (ELpxa)

That's all I remember about that movie.

Also, there was a spoof with big fake tittied women called The Bare Wench Project.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 27, 2023 03:17 PM (Zz0t1)

336 The first 30 seconds of Army of Darkness has this epic soaring score that belongs in Ben Hur or The Ten Commandments. I knew it was going to be a favorite by the time the title screen came up.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at October 27, 2023 03:17 PM (44ww/)

337 332 Just the musical score alone is shit-pants scary.

Posted by: Throw gp That Whammy at October 27, 2023 03:17 PM (MvF+J)

338 Fastest finger in the West...
Posted by: Heavy Meta at October 27, 2023 02:33 PM (Ys9p5)

*Removes glove and throws it down*

Posted by: The Paolo at October 27, 2023 03:18 PM (lg881)

339 Isn’t The Revenant the one where someone has an unfortunate, intimate encounter with a bear?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 27, 2023 03:05 PM (JrojV)

No.

as I say right at the beginning, "it's NOT the Leo DiCaprio-Grizzly Bear Rom-Com"

it's a horror-comedy involving a guy killed in Iraq by something that causes him to resurrect when buried stateside.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 27, 2023 03:18 PM (QzZeQ)

340 Um, wut? Who is this guy?!
Posted by: runner at October 27, 2023 03:16 PM (+i903)

Most of the dumb F**K Republican Congressweenies want to fund Ukraine... Have no idea why... I believe the new guy wants to at least separate the Ukraine payoff from the Israeli money

Posted by: It's me donna at October 27, 2023 03:18 PM (bs+z0)

341 If you haven't seen Nefarious yet then it would make a good Halloween watch.

It is one of those films that could have been great with just a few tweaks. But it still ends up being entertaining even if the denouement is weak.

We also watched Talk to Me last weekend and it was enjoyable enough but could have really benefited from a rewrite.

Posted by: Thatch at October 27, 2023 03:18 PM (pyTDu)

342 "Army of Darkness" is my favorite horror comedy. We may show that to the kiddo this weekend.
Posted by: PabloD

We are watching horror movies this month. My wife saw "Army of Darkness" for the first time a couple of weeks ago. We laughed pretty hard.
Interesting point: Bruce Campbell plays "Ash" in the movie.
Bruce Campbell was also in the TV series "Burn Notice", and his name was.....Sam Ash.

A really funny/scary movie we just saw (on Amazon) is called "Nope". The main characters are a black man and his sister, who inherited a horse ranch (trained horses for movie parts) from their father.
Written and produced by Jordan Peele, of Key and Peele fame.

Posted by: A face in the crowd..... at October 27, 2023 03:19 PM (vcOmj)

343 Disney needs to do an action re-make of The Incredible Mr. Limpett
Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at October 27, 2023 02:45 PM (ZV+pB)

Gritty remake. A man falls in the ocean, becomes a merman, and goes on a killing spree of human traffickers.

That could be a really good movie.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at October 27, 2023 03:14 PM (zZu0s)

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All while singing Ethel Merman show tunes.

Posted by: ShainS -- Overimaginative Scamp and AGAAVE Plant at October 27, 2023 03:19 PM (KS6+g)

344 nood

Posted by: Throw gp That Whammy at October 27, 2023 03:20 PM (MvF+J)

345 -----------

All while singing Ethel Merman show tunes.
Posted by: ShainS -- Overimaginative Scamp and AGAAVE Plant at October 27, 2023 03:19 PM (KS6+g)

"That guy over there thinks he's Ethel Merman."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 27, 2023 03:20 PM (Zz0t1)

346 Time is on my side...

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at October 27, 2023 03:20 PM (/HDaX)

347 322 It did have some funny lines, but I do think it was legitimately frightening.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 27, 2023 03:21 PM (JrojV)

348 Oh , here s our shiny new speaker " We can’t allow Putin to prevail in Ukraine because I don’t believe it would stop there.
.......

Then Europe better step the fuck up.

Posted by: wth at October 27, 2023 03:22 PM (v0R5T)

349 340 Um, wut? Who is this guy?!
Posted by: runner at October 27, 2023 03:16 PM (+i903)

Most of the dumb F**K Republican Congressweenies want to fund Ukraine... Have no idea why... I believe the new guy wants to at least separate the Ukraine payoff from the Israeli money

Posted by: It's me donna
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No way he's going to X Ukraine money so make a good compromise.

Posted by: Braenyard at October 27, 2023 03:22 PM (1WyJ3)

350 I don't get paying to see horror movies. If I want to feel fear and horror I will just drive on MLK Drive in North Chicago on a Friday or Saturday night after about 10:00 pm.

Posted by: StewBurner at October 27, 2023 03:22 PM (Guh8+)

351 "That guy over there thinks he's Ethel Merman."
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 27, 2023 03:20 PM (Zz0t1)

"War is Hell."

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at October 27, 2023 03:22 PM (zZu0s)

352 "Theater of Blood" is one of my faves.

I watch it roughly once a year.

Posted by: naturalfake at October 27, 2023 03:22 PM (QzZeQ)

353 The incredible Mr. Limpett turns into a Piranha, and when his Cheatin' Wife and her Boyfriend come to see him, he rips their throats out.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 27, 2023 03:23 PM (i9ffA)

354 I can't wait till we get to Marvel Phase 8 where the centerpiece is a gender swapped non binary version of some 4th rate comic book character no one has heard of.
Posted by: Mallamutt, RINO President for Life at October 27, 2023 02:14 PM (7u5gb)

already happened.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 27, 2023 03:23 PM (eoQWY)

355 "Horrors of the Black Museum" with the binoculars that contained spring-loaded spikes in the eyepieces.

"Let me just adjust the focus..."

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at October 27, 2023 03:25 PM (/HDaX)

356 >If you want some good Halloween indie horror stuff, check out Kane Pixels stuff. He has a whole series on The Backrooms, and his new series, The Oldest View, is unsettling in all the right ways. Good Found Footage stuff.
Posted by: Snaproll at October 27, 2023 03:03 PM (14i9S)

Indeed.

I think the kid who makes these inked a deal to make a Backrooms movie, which is why he pivoted to a different, but similar IP on YouTube.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen at October 27, 2023 03:26 PM (zfRGI)

357
Die, mouse, die.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at October 27, 2023 02:16 PM (Zz0t1)

What's the corporate equivalent to "Oops, I left my loaded pistol unlocked in the same box as the drain cleaner next to the swimming pool!"

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 27, 2023 03:27 PM (n+4am)

358 So you are saying that a 100 year old company that should have this knowledge in its corporate DNA is so out of touch that it simply can't do its primary job?

That is amazing.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at October 27, 2023 02:27 PM (3Gtis)

There's an old adage "Shirtsleeves to Shirtsleeves in three generations" -- grandpa builds a company becomes a suit, father sustains, and son/daughter runs it into the ground and is back in shirtsleeves.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 27, 2023 03:28 PM (eoQWY)

359 Does it have a plot?

(denounces self for wasting bandwidth)

Posted by: Gref at October 27, 2023 03:29 PM (5fDan)

360 Went to a theater to see one of the Paranormal Activity movies. Was the late show.

During one scene, ghost rises up. Black dude gets up and walks out yelling, "Oh, hell no."

Then as I'm leaving, I notice my phone fell out of my pocket. Nothing like walking to the far end of an empty theater that is mostly unlit after seeing Paranormal Activity.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at October 27, 2023 03:29 PM (KbCG3)

361 If I didn't believe they would complete f**k everything up, I would say they should mine LucasArts for movies, The Secret of Monkey Island , Sam and Max, Zac McCracken and Day of The Tenralce would be ripe for film treatments.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 27, 2023 02:30 PM (9hfHA)

Those usually fail because of - you guessed it - insufficient adhering to the source material in search of a new message.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 27, 2023 03:30 PM (eoQWY)

362 Vincent Price was a ham like no other. But he obviously enjoyed it and was fun to watch.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at October 27, 2023 03:00 PM (JrojV)

Fearless Vampire Killers is a fun movie also. Vincent Price and Natalie Wood.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at October 27, 2023 03:31 PM (BdMk6)

363 It took Europe over 1000 years to get back to the artistic and engineering levels they achieved.
Posted by: Tom Servo at October 27, 2023 02:40 PM (i9ffA)

England in the 1800s didn't have the sanitation the Romans in England did.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 27, 2023 03:33 PM (eoQWY)

364 The incredible Mr. Limpett turns into a Piranha, and when his Cheatin' Wife and her Boyfriend come to see him, he rips their throats out.

Posted by: Tom Servo

OK, I would pay to see that in a theater.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at October 27, 2023 03:33 PM (lTGtQ)

365 I've pointed out that Rachel Zegler is only like a quarter Argentinian and she's mostly a dumbfuck loudmouth Pollack.
Posted by: Robert at October 27, 2023 02:35 PM (1Yy3c)

yeah she's not annoying in an authentic Latina way. Skinsuit again.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 27, 2023 03:35 PM (eoQWY)

366 Fast and Furious Avogadro's Number is going to be AWESOME!
Posted by: The NPC what likes Vin Diesel
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You mean, dimensionless?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at October 27, 2023 03:36 PM (XeU6L)

367 Roman cultural output dropped to near 0 around 200 AD

There was a plague. We act as if it never happened. Why?
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at October 27, 2023 02:41 PM (4PZHB)

Plagues don't keep you from writing books. Ask Pepys and his diaries or the Greeks and the Peloponnesian war.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 27, 2023 03:38 PM (eoQWY)

368 But when PARC sent stuff home to Rochester, they couldn't figure it out because it wasn't a copier. They failed to bring most of the PARC innovations to market. They did use the laser printing technology developed there, though. They could figure that out. They also figured out - sort of - the graphical computer. They embedded those as graphical layout controllers for the giant laser printers used for book publishing and whatnot.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 27, 2023 02:45 PM (ELpxa)

Yes, like IBM they were completely wedded to the machine they could lease out to a company for hundreds or thousands a month and didn't ever see going to a purchase model and cheaper, semi disposable systems. They didn't see that computers would outpower and because commodity items.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 27, 2023 03:42 PM (eoQWY)

369 157 I've pointed out that Rachel Zegler is only like a quarter Argentinian and she's mostly a dumbfuck loudmouth Pollack.
Posted by: Robert at October 27, 2023 02:35 PM (1Yy3c)

Say what you will about the Woke, but there's no such thing as Micks, Dagos, Pollocks, Brits, Frogs, Krauts, Kikes, Wops or whatever anymore.

Welcome to Whiteyworld.

Posted by: Auspex at October 27, 2023 03:43 PM (j4U/Z)

370 Oh , here s our shiny new speaker " We can’t allow Putin to prevail in Ukraine because I don’t believe it would stop there.
.......

Then Europe better step the fuck up.
Posted by: wth at October 27, 2023 03:22 PM (v0R5T)

With what? Europe disbanded their armies years ago. What surprised me is that our vaunted MIC has disarmed our supply chain so we ourselves can't fight a real war, even by proxy anymore.

Posted by: Oldcat at October 27, 2023 03:44 PM (eoQWY)

371 Recommendations for Halloween:

The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra; and its sequel The Lost Skeleton Returns Again

Clearly B-grade at best, delightful spoofs of 1950s horror movies, and with insanely funny memorable characters. Kid-friendly, too. The humor might not be everyone's cup of tea, but it's not raunchy, there's no gore, and the movies have the look that convinces me that the folks working on the project were having a great time.

Posted by: MarkW at October 27, 2023 04:06 PM (/IaHq)

372 >>>"It Follows" (2014) again last night.
It's a very well made slow burn horror movie with minimal gore for those who are squeamish.

i was going to recommend that one too.

Posted by: ace at October 27, 2023 04:12 PM (KRtlO)

373 The Daily Wire is emphasizing that their story is based on the original fairy tale in order to manage expectations. Disney tinkered a lot with the story when making his animated version. In particular, the characters of the seven dwarfs - Sleepy, Grumpy, Doc, Dopey, Bashful, etc. - are Disney creations. If people go to the Daily Wire film expecting to see a live-action version of the story told by the Disney animation, they will be disappointed.

Posted by: Nemo at October 27, 2023 04:18 PM (S6ArX)

374 I also came to recommend “It Follows”

IMO one of the best horror films in the last decade.

Don’t skip it, it’s a slow burn but builds the tension to a crescendo and a satisfying end.

Posted by: Cashin at October 27, 2023 04:19 PM (/g+Sg)

375 "Our Halloween tradition is to watch Something Wicked This Way Comes."

I've never seen a film that's come halfway close to matching any of Ray Bradbury's books.

BTW, this Sunday afternoon, I'll be taking my daughter to hear the Milwaukee Symphony perform the music for a screening of "The Nightmare Before Christmas". That is our favorite all-time Halloween movie, and hearing the MSO play Danny Elfman's music live should be amazing.

Posted by: Nemo at October 27, 2023 04:23 PM (S6ArX)

376 Well SHAZAM Sgt Carter Disney produces another bomb like Strange World and Elementals

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at October 27, 2023 05:45 PM (wGqjj)

377 >I'm not looking for real horror, I guess. I just want stuff that looks like horror but isn't meant to be taken all that seriously.

My favourite movie in that vein is the 2006 _Monster House_. It's a Dan Harmon production, but stick with it anyway. What it looks like is an animated kids film about a sentient haunted house. What it _is_ is a surprisingly nuanced depiction of living with a spouse with BPD/CPTSD. In a kids' film.

Posted by: Daniel Ream at October 27, 2023 10:56 PM (/0tPK)

378 I find that to be marvelous

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