Daily Disney Disaster: The Reason for the Long Delay of the <i>Blade</i> Movie...? Disney Wanted to Make It About Women and "Life Lessons"

Daily Disney Disaster: The Reason for the Long Delay of the Blade Movie...? Disney Wanted to Make It About Women and "Life Lessons"

In the recent South Park episode, "Kathleen Kennedy" kept demanding, regarding everything from a Bambi remake to a plate of linguine, to "Put a chick in it! Make her gay! Make it laaaame!"

The Blade movie has been repeatedly delayed. The would-be lead keeps rejecting the scripts as not what he signed up for.

Now we find out his objection to all the scripts: He signed up to star as the lead in a male-oriented action fantasy, but all of Marvel's scripts make the main characters, get this, Stronk Diverse Women.

As public criticism mounts, Feige is pulling the plug on scripts and projects that aren't working. Case in point: the "Blade" reboot. With Mahershala Ali signed on for the eponymous role of a vampire, things looked promising for a 2023 release date. But the project has gone through at least five writers, two directors and one shutdown six weeks before production. One person familiar with the script permutations says the story at one point morphed into a narrative led by women and filled with life lessons. Blade was relegated to the fourth lead, a bizarre idea considering that the studio had two-time Oscar winner Ali on board.

That's what everyone wants to see in an action/horror vampire-hunter movie, three female leads and lots of life lessons.

Put a chick in it! Make her gay! Make it laaaaaame!

Amid reports that Ali was ready to exit over script issues, Feige went back to the drawing board and hired Michael Green, the Oscar-nominated writer of "Logan," to start anew. Speculation around town is that the studio is looking to make the film, now slated for 2025, on a budget of less than $100 million -- a deviation from Marvel's big-spending strategy.

A friend says:

Hire an Oscar-winning actor to lead a move with the character's name in the title, and then back-bench him in a "woman's voice" story. Just incredible.

The South Park episode claimed, falsely, that this is a Kaffeine Kennedy problem. No. It may have started with her, but the cancer has infected all of Disney, including Marvel.

It's a Bob Iger problem. It's a Kevin Feige problem.

Disney is now desperate -- and there's more bad news coming.

With Iger publicly acknowledging the downside of a Marvel TV glut that "diluted focus and attention," the keepers of the comic book empire are considering some dramatic moves. Sources say there have been talks to bring back the original gang for an "Avengers" movie. This would include reviving Robert Downey Jr.'s Iron Man and Scarlett Johansson's Black Widow, both of whom were killed off in "Endgame." (That shouldn't be a stumbling block -- in comic books, beloved characters are often killed off, only to be resurrected thanks to the power of things like the multiverse.) But the studio hasn't yet committed to the idea -- if it were able to bring those actors back, it wouldn't come cheap. Sources say Downey Jr.'s upfront salary for "Iron Man 3" was around $25 million.
Will that solve Marvel's Majors problem? When the "Quantumania" actor was arrested in March, Disney executives insisted that they could afford to play a wait-and-see game, given that "Avengers: The Kang Dynasty" wasn't expected to begin shooting until early 2024. But then Majors was dropped in quick succession by his publicists and managers. (He remains a client at WME -- the agency where he landed after CAA parted ways with him, pre-arrest, for his "brutal conduct" toward staff, says one source. CAA declined to comment.) In April, other alleged domestic violence victims of Majors began cooperating with the Manhattan District Attorney's Office. Then, ahead of a key hearing in October, media outlets including Variety obtained a court filing that referenced a police incident in London involving Majors that led his ex-girlfriend to seek medical attention. Making matters even stickier, the ex-girlfriend also worked on "Quantumania" as a movement coach, and the London incident took place while Majors was shooting Season 2 of "Loki." On Oct. 25, a New York judge denied Majors' motion to dismiss the case, which ensures that the actor will stand trial in late November. His legal team is attempting to keep some material in the case sealed.

The Marvels, of course, is expected to be a disaster. A new projection puts its opening at $45 to $50 million. That would be an earthquake in Burbank. I heard of another guy reducing his projections to about $45 million, and saying that he actually thinks it will be on the low side of that, but he wants to hedge his bets because the original did, somehow, make a billion dollars. (Only because Disney lied and claimed it was necessary viewing to understand Avengers: Endgame.)

Its director -- a barely-qualified person who'd never directed an action movie or even a middle-budget movie before -- has 's already confessed she felt overwhelmed on the set and didn't understand what the hell was even supposed to be happening.

DaCosta said she approached some of the other directors who have worked for Marvel recently to ask about Kevin Feige. It does seem like he would be more than a little intimidating for a new Marvel director.
"Are they going to kill me and destroy my soul? Is Kevin Feige a bad man?" she asked. "And they were like, 'No, he's just a good guy who was a nerd.'"
She also spoke about talking to Destin Daniel Cretton, the director of Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, especially about the challenges that come along with some of the visual FX in Marvel movies, texting him things like...

'I'm overwhelmed 'I'm so stressed.' Sometimes you'd be in a scene and you'd be like, 'What the hell does any of this s-- mean?' Or an actor's looking at some crazy thing happening in space, and they're looking at a blue X. There were obviously hard days, and days where you're like, 'This just isn't working.'
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According to this new article, she actually Soft Quit the job and began working on another movie while she was supposed to be directing the post-production on The Marvels:

[I]nstead of seamlessly building on the success of "Captain Marvel," this move resulted in four weeks of reshoots to bring coherence to a tangled storyline.
Then eyebrows were raised again when DaCosta began working on another film while "The Marvels" was still in postproduction -- the filmmaker moved to London earlier this year to begin prepping for her Tessa Thompson drama "Hedda." (A representative for DaCosta declined to comment.)
"If you're directing a $250 million movie, it's kind of weird for the director to leave with a few months to go," says a source familiar with the production.

In fairness, many of these "directors" are just fronts, anyway. Marvel movie special effects scenes are really directed by the visual effect supervisors. And these movies are mostly special effects scenes. Directors have quit when they were told "don't worry about the action scenes, we'll do them all for you." It could be that this unqualified woman realized she was just a front and wasn't really the director at all and so just fucked off to do her own movie.

Disney is so desperate that its new advertisements Say the Quiet Part Out Loud and are micro-targeting the true anticipated audience for The Marvels:

I mentioned the other day that the movie features Sam Jackson telling a black woman she can do anything she wants, without any training or experience, just by utilizing "black girl magic." Apparently Disney is so proud of that line that they're actually putting it in trailers. This new clip has the "Black girl magic!" line at the end.

For this next story, a little backstory about Ike Perlmutter.

Perlmutter was, IIRC, a toy company magnate. His company was making Marvel action figures when Marvel went bankrupt, so he bough Marvel.

The left hates him because he's a friend and supporter of Trump, and because he dared to offer his expert opinion, as a toy company/action figure magnate, that boys will not buy action figures of girls, so companies should make few girl action figures.

He's absolutely 100% right about this, but the left insists on pretending the world is as it is not, so we now see toy aisles full of unbought girl action figures, rotting on the shelves forever.

He also said that he didn't want to make Marvel movies about female heroes, because they wouldn't make money. He was mostly right; see Black Widow and the upcoming The Marvels disaster for evidence.

Yes, a huge character like Wonder Woman can make some money, but that's a rare bird. The Perlmutter Rule is 94% correct, which is pretty good for any rule.

Perlmutter retained a place on Disney's board even after Disney bought Marvel. But Iger and Feige schemed to fire him, which they did last year.

Here's the fun part: Perlmutter is also a close friend of Nelson Peltz, who lives down the street from him.

Peltz is now preparing the battlespace for a proxy war against Bob Iger.

And guess who just pledged all of his Disney shares to Peltz to help him depose Iger from power?

Former Marvel boss Isaac "Ike" Perlmutter has given fellow billionaire Nelson Peltz control over his voting shares of The Walt Disney Company -- setting the stage for a renewed proxy war with Mouse House boss Bob Iger.
Perlmutter, the billionaire investor who was unceremoniously fired by Disney earlier this year as head of the comic books division, threw his support behind Peltz as the company's stock remains mired near nine-year lows.
"While I was a Disney employee, I was not comfortable publicly stating my views on the company and its performance," Perlmutter, who sold Marvel to Disney for $4 billion in 2009 and remains one of the company's largest independent shareholders, told the Wall Street Journal on Sunday.
"As someone with a large economic interest in Disney's success, I can no longer watch the business underachieve its great potential."
Perlmutter told The Journal he will use his influence within Disney to push for board seats for Peltz and perhaps other nominees from Trian.
Armed with Perlmutter's shares, Trian boosted its stake in Disney to 33 million shares worth around $2.5 billion, according to the outlet.
Perlmutter's approximately 30 million shares make up a majority of Trian's stake in the company.
With the ex-Marvel boss' backing, Peltz, who now has four times the amount of shares that he did during his initial proxy fight less than a year ago, will be in a stronger position to push for more seats on Disney's board of directors when the nominating window opens in December.
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"I have no doubt that my termination was based on fundamental differences in business between my thinking and Disney leadership, because I care about return on investment," Perlmutter told The Wall Street Journal this past spring.

In other words, Iger wants to make "social change," and I want to make money.

You choose, Disney shareholders.

Gina Carano is ripping Disney again, specifically its off-putting, anti-charisma "star" Rachel Zegler. Even though there's supposedly a "strike" on, Carano notes that Film Actors Guild will give major studios waivers permitting actors to work on films there, while denying those waivers to everyone else.

One waiver was granted to Rachel Zegler so she could go on social media to promote her upcoming Hunger Games prequel. (If it's a prequel, you know it's gonna be great!)

The Film Actors Guild has banned people from promoting any studio project -- they're not allowed on talk shows; they're not even allowed to wear Halloween costumes of movie characters -- but they gave Zegler a hall pass to promote this movie.

Gina Carano both seizes and pounces:

Gina Carano
@ginacarano
What an odd strike this is... small non studio productions are having trouble getting waivers but studios get the interim agreements left and right..
Celebrities go from the picket line to their promotional tours and red carpets. What happened to that "I better get paid for every hour I stand in this dress" talk.

Apparently this is a direct reference to Snow White "star" Rachel Zegler. One of the entertainment YouTubers mentioned that "I better get paid..." is a quote from Zegler. Celebrities want to be paid by studios to go on press junkets and talk shows and to attend premieres.

Meanwhile the people who are actually suffering are the crews and actors not apart of studio projects or the "in group" to get their waivers granted. The ones whose money will run out quicker, the ones who are having to pick up a second line of work. The ones who will be controlled a whole lot easier once the strike ends based off of desperation to work.
Think that was by accident?
Maybe they should've granted waivers for ALL the non studio productions, keep people working and halt ALL studio productions if they really wanted to make a difference and reach a faster agreement...
Who is this strike really intended to hurt again? Better make a deal quick, people are starting to notice. I'm sure it'll be in favor of all the "right" people and all the "right" people will pat themselves on the back on an excellent deal and months of suffering well worth the wait.
At least while you are at it, you could throw into the agreement that it will never again be permitted to allow any production to force inject poison, I mean experimental jabs, into peoples bodies in the name of science ever again.
Ya know, cause that in itself wasn't something big enough to have had a huge strike over.
The hypocrisy is palpable.
The system is rigged and littered with posers.
Art is free, creativity is your rebellion. You don't need permission to do that.

She links pictures to make it clear she is in fact talking about Rachel Zegler:

What an odd strike this is� small non studio productions are having trouble getting waivers but studios get the interim agreements left and right..

Celebrities go from the picket line to their promotional tours and red carpets. What happened to that �I better get paid for� pic.twitter.com/0Kd4EEQM5A
— Gina Carano 🕯 (@ginacarano) November 1, 2023

By the way, this image from the Hunger Games prequel features a Dude in a Dress, so yay:

Gina Carano no doubt suspects that Disney was actually controlling bots who savaged her on Twitter.

And it turns out, a former HBO/Max employee now says that HBO/Max did in fact pay for a bot army to attack their critics.

And, get this -- the bot army used identity politics smears as their weapon in making these attacks.

A new report details that HBO and Max executives Casey Bloys and Kathleen McCaffrey created an army of trolls to target critics of their movies and television shows.
This new report comes from Cheyenne Roundtree at Rolling Stone who claims that Bloys and McCaffrey discussed "what they called a 'secret army' to fire back at several TV critics on Twitter (now known as X) as well as anonymous commenters on articles about HBO programming, according to text exchanges reviewed by Rolling Stone."
Roundtree details that the executives trolled "television critics with snarky responses from a fake Twitter account -- and dropping pro-HBO comments on trade publication stories" such as Deadline.

According to the Rolling Stone report, the documents they reviewed which included text exchanges between Bloys and McCaffrey are part of a lawsuit by former HBO staffer Sully Temori that accuses HBO of harassing and retaliating against him after he disclosed a mental health diagnosis.
In the lawsuit Temori alleges he created "fake online accounts to respond to critics."
Allegedly McCaffrey came to Temori and informed him, "[Bloys] always texts me asking me to find friends to reply ... is there a way to create a dummy account that can't be traced to us to do his bidding."

Temori's lawyer, Michael Martinez, informed the outlet, "First and foremost, I think [this lawsuit] is about HBO's culture and how it fosters a dynamic of ongoing harassment and discrimination in the workplace."
He added, "They joke about people outside of HBO, they joke about people within HBO.... You suffer through some bullying until you can't suffer anymore."
Interestingly, one of the troll accounts created by Temori used identity politics to lampoon critics.
In response to a criticism of Joss Whedon's The Nevers by The New York Times' James Poniewozik, the troll account created by Temori posted, "how shocking that two middle aged white men (you & Hale) are s****ing on a show about women......."

Ready for the non-denial?

An HBO spokesman informed Rolling Stone it would not "comment on select exchanges between programmers and errant tweets."

Now, did Disney also create a bot army and pay shills to attack its critics, smearing them as misogynists, transphobes, and racists? There's no way of knowing but absolutely 100% they did. We've previously seen people at the Star Wars Story Group prominently linking nobodies on Twitter and YouTube making attacks on critics of Star Wars. Almost as if there were some secret communication going on besides the scenes.

And how's this for a segue, there are rumors that someone's about to drop a "nuclear bomb" of emails exposing Disney/the Lucasfilm story group's involvement in cowardly corporate stealth smears of its critics.

In the wake of Gina Carano putting Kathleen Kennedy and Lucasfilm on blast, a new rumor details that a "nuclear bomb" of emails and notes about Kathleen Kennedy and Lucasfilm story group members revealing their bad behavior will be made public in the near future.
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In the wake of these two posts, YouTuber Drunk3PO noted on Culture Casino's Late Night Culture this "nuclear bomb" would soon be made public.
Drunk3PO asserted, "The day is coming. The day is coming and I know the day is coming where there is a lot of emails, there is a lot of notes that someone has collected. And when you see this it will blow your face off as to how disgusting this woman is, Kathleen Kennedy and the people that running Lucasfilm especially over there at the storyboard group."
"So you guys just got a little taste of what's to come," he added.
A little bit later during the stream, he added, "Again, there's something, there's a nuclear bomb that's coming and just be ready. All of our YouTube channels will benefit once this stuff hits."

I don't know much about Drunk3PO but some of the entertainment bloggers say he's friends with Carano so when he announces "rumors" like this, he's actually just reporting what Carano is telling him.

The video where he discuses that can be found at the link to BoundingIntoComics.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 04:40 PM

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1 I've got a grey feeling about anything disney related these days...

Posted by: SturmToddler at November 01, 2023 04:42 PM (nXhwP)

2 corgis called

Posted by: SturmToddler at November 01, 2023 04:42 PM (nXhwP)

3 Blade reboot? Hard pass.

Posted by: Turn 2 at November 01, 2023 04:43 PM (JfxgE)

4 Grey out here

Posted by: BifBewalski at November 01, 2023 04:43 PM (3CCua)

5 Marvel that every day's a Disney day.

Posted by: Braenyard at November 01, 2023 04:43 PM (Qe6c2)

6 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 01, 2023 04:43 PM (Zz0t1)

7 Awful "box" office strikes again.

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at November 01, 2023 04:43 PM (krqg6)

8 We're grays, man. We're greys.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 01, 2023 04:43 PM (Zz0t1)

9 Every Disney movie's title should end with -The Power of Vag'

The Marvels - The Power of Vag
Snow White - The Power of Vag
Blade - The Power of Vag

Posted by: Stateless at November 01, 2023 04:44 PM (jvJvP)

10 I think the best "black girl magic" was in Peacemaker.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 01, 2023 04:45 PM (xhaym)

11 A friend says:

Wait....Ace has friends?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 01, 2023 04:45 PM (Zz0t1)

12 Drunk3PO. Mos Eisley must have fag bars.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at November 01, 2023 04:45 PM (R4t5M)

13 Blade was relegated to the fourth lead, a bizarre idea considering that the studio had two-time Oscar winner Ali on board.

IMDB feels like it's important to point out that he is the first Muslim male lead in a MCU movie.

https://is.gd/AGk7AH

Posted by: Jordan61 at November 01, 2023 04:45 PM (DRSnL)

14 Marvels will probably truly open under $50M...and make somewhere between The Flash and Indy 5 DOM and WW. Since it cost more than $250M before P&A, it will give the MCU its 1st epic bomb...DC had a few this year, so it's had some time to readjust...by firing everyone and starting over with James Gunn in 2 years...

Posted by: Nova Local at November 01, 2023 04:46 PM (exHjb)

15 PS - Keep up the Disney theatrical boycott. It has started to really, really hurt them...

Posted by: Nova Local at November 01, 2023 04:46 PM (exHjb)

16 One person familiar with the script permutations says the story at one point morphed into a narrative led by women and filled with life lessons. Blade was relegated to the fourth lead, a bizarre idea considering that the studio had two-time Oscar winner Ali on board.
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LOL. "Fourth lead?"

If you have four "leads," something is wrong.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 01, 2023 04:46 PM (ELpxa)

17 Disney is so desperate that its new advertisements Say the Quiet Part Out Loud and are micro-targeting the true anticipated audience for The Marvels:

Pussies?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 01, 2023 04:46 PM (Zz0t1)

18 Alas......no longer gray.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 01, 2023 04:47 PM (Zz0t1)

19 Does Disney provide menstruation products in the Men's rooms?

Posted by: torabora at November 01, 2023 04:47 PM (jzWQT)

20 10 I think the best "black girl magic" was in Peacemaker.
Posted by: Kindltot at November 01, 2023 04:45 PM (xhaym)

Good show that could have been great if Gunn had an editor for his wilder impulses.

Vigilante was my favorite character...

Posted by: Nova Local at November 01, 2023 04:47 PM (exHjb)

21 Alas......no longer gray.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 01, 2023 04:47 PM (Zz0t1)

=====

It was fun while it lasted.

Posted by: Jordan61 at November 01, 2023 04:47 PM (DRSnL)

22 Peltz is now preparing the battlespace for a proxy war against Bob Iger.
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The Iger Sanction.

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at November 01, 2023 04:47 PM (krqg6)

23 Disney stockholders: put a tampon in that!

Posted by: torabora at November 01, 2023 04:48 PM (jzWQT)

24 Problem with Hollywood:

Too many actors, no movie stars.

Posted by: Archer at November 01, 2023 04:49 PM (gmo/4)

25 "Put a chick in it!

Put a chick with a dick in it!

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko stuff in solidarity with the struggle to maintain Moron standards at November 01, 2023 04:49 PM (44s5o)

26 The only life lesson I've ever taken from vampire movies is try to not get bit.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 01, 2023 04:49 PM (ZLI7S)

27 According to the internet, "black girl magic" is when a Moorish Nation Slobberin' Citizen magically transforms a minor traffic ticket into felonies and injuries.

Posted by: Abdul's Discount Sexy Goat Lingerie Outlet at November 01, 2023 04:50 PM (DZrNt)

28 Hey, that Cat Marvel movie is something I'd go see.

It's better than women talking.

Posted by: Seems Legit at November 01, 2023 04:50 PM (JeYYB)

29 One person familiar with the script permutations says the story at one point morphed into a narrative led by women and filled with life lessons. Blade was relegated to the fourth lead, a bizarre idea considering that the studio had two-time Oscar winner Ali on board.

Pity. Mahershala Ali is a good actor and would be convincing, now that Wesley Snipes is old enough to use a Rascal.

Posted by: Archimedes at November 01, 2023 04:50 PM (I/Qkd)

30 Idk, I might see a Marvels movie that had a bunch of cats on the poster out of curiosity alone. Like wtf is this? Where are there cats?

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at November 01, 2023 04:50 PM (eYoxG)

31 Black Girl Magic… Dude in a Dress… Holy Shit… no wonder they are dying..

Posted by: tubal at November 01, 2023 04:50 PM (PCK5/)

32 This is a girthy post; almost ONT-worthy.

A little short for a JJS MoRe special, however.

I like it.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at November 01, 2023 04:50 PM (4j9JZ)

33 The Marvels, of course, is expected to be a disaster. A new projection puts its opening at $45 to $50 million. That would be an earthquake in Burbank.
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If a Marvel movie - *any* Marvel movie - fails to outperform "Five Nights and Freddy's," that's an unmitigated disaster (FNAF pulled in about $80 million in its opening weekend - an opening weekend where it wasn't exclusively in theaters and was also on streaming).

For some perspective on the scale of the disaster this will be if it pans out, The Flash from earlier this year - a total disaster - opened to about $55 million. Marvel's own "Quantumania" - a serious underperformer - opened to $106 million.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 01, 2023 04:52 PM (ELpxa)

34 Now, did Disney also create a bot army and pay shills to attack its critics, smearing them as misogynists, transphobes, and racists? There's no way of knowing but absolutely 100% they did. We've previously seen people at the Star Wars Story Group prominently linking nobodies on Twitter and YouTube making attacks on critics of Star Wars. Almost as if there were some secret communication going on besides the scenes.

Such it is with Rotten Tomatoes, no?

It's all an op. Everything is an op.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 01, 2023 04:52 PM (Zz0t1)

35 'I'm overwhelmed 'I'm so stressed.' Sometimes you'd be in a scene and you'd be like, 'What the hell does any of this s-- mean?' Or an actor's looking at some crazy thing happening in space, and they're looking at a blue X. There were obviously hard days, and days where you're like, 'This just isn't working.'
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Great sign.

Hey, remember "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?" Talented people - directors, set managers, actors, etc. - can make this work.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 01, 2023 04:52 PM (ELpxa)

36 I saw Five Nights at Freddy's yesterday.

From what I understand it had a completely different approach from a Disney movie.

They wrote the movie first and THEN shot the scenes.

Posted by: Minuteman at November 01, 2023 04:53 PM (LaNzR)

37 "If you're directing a $250 million movie, it's kind of weird for the director to leave with a few months to go," says a source familiar with the production.

There's a price to be paid when you put an unqualified hack token in as the director. What does she care? She knows this thing is gonna crash and burn harder than the Hindenburg.

Posted by: Archimedes at November 01, 2023 04:53 PM (I/Qkd)

38 That trailer pic. They both look like utter shit.

Yep. I don't regret my never going to the theater again (unless there's something I'm REALLY interested in, but even then......).

I slightly regret not seeing Top Gun in theaters. I still haven't seen it. Wife did. Loved it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 01, 2023 04:54 PM (Zz0t1)

39 Can someone in the entertainment business please subvert expectations and ACTUALLY DO SOMETHING NEW, CREATIVE AND ENTERTAINING????

I keep hearing that they are dusting off all this old stuff and redoing it because it is a proven money maker. Ummmm...no, it's not. Disney's bottom line proves that. I've read scores of great books over the last decade. Some of them scream to be converted to the screen. None of them have been. Instead, it's the same old crap with nuanced angles of inclusiveness.

Posted by: Orson at November 01, 2023 04:54 PM (dIske)

40 This is beyond stupid. The actor is a big fan of Blade abd he said he wanted to do it right. FFS get rid of Kennedy already!

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at November 01, 2023 04:54 PM (PoFvK)

41 If I want "life lessons," I'll read the Bible or talk to a counselor (or consult the Horde - an unimpeachable source of life lessons, medical advice, legal counsel, and especially dating advice!)

When I go to a movie I want escape and enjoyment. And hot guys.

Posted by: screaming in digital at November 01, 2023 04:54 PM (aBJcM)

42 LOL. "Fourth lead?"

If you have four "leads," something is wrong.

Did you ever consider that Blade is being reshot as Friends? No, I didn't think so.

Posted by: Archimedes at November 01, 2023 04:54 PM (I/Qkd)

43 Turn it into a Propaganda piece

Posted by: Skip at November 01, 2023 04:55 PM (fwDg9)

44 Keep Kennedy. This whole disaster goes kerflush faster.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at November 01, 2023 04:55 PM (R4t5M)

45 The left hates him because he's a friend and supporter of Trump, and because he dared to offer his expert opinion, as a toy company/action figure magnate, that boys will not buy action figures of girls, so companies should make few girl action figures.
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His real sin has nothing to do with Trump and much more to do with his stance on female-led superhero movies. He was against them because they don't work well. And the action figures, of course - it's a part of the whole.

Then DC caught lightning in a bottle with the first "Wonder Woman" movie and it pissed off a lot of people at Disney/Marvel because they had tried - and Perlmutter apparently shot down - to make a Black Widow movie. Then "Captain Marvel" did very well - thanks entirely to its release window between the ending chapters of the Thanos story and the marketing that said yo just *had* to see it if you were to understand Endgame - and the conventional wisdom immediately became "female-led superhero movies are awesome and can't fail."

And since Captain Marvel, every one of them has failed, each worse than the last.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 01, 2023 04:56 PM (ELpxa)

46 I watched The Nightmare Before Christmas on Halloween.

The message of the movie? Just because you suddenly feel different doesn't mean you should try and change who you are to something else.

LITERAL TRANS-GENOCIDE

Posted by: 18-1 at November 01, 2023 04:56 PM (XqcwY)

47 Die Mouse Die!

Posted by: Skip at November 01, 2023 04:56 PM (fwDg9)

48 I hardly watch any new movies. I haven't even seen Guardians 3

Is it any good ?

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at November 01, 2023 04:57 PM (NtVYv)

49 In other words, Iger wants to make "social change," and I want to make money.

You choose, Disney shareholders.
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There's another person out there with a big 'ole chunk of DIS stock he got through an acquisition of his company and it will be high-fucking-larious if he gives Peltz a proxy, too...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 01, 2023 04:57 PM (ELpxa)

50 36 I saw Five Nights at Freddy's yesterday.

From what I understand it had a completely different approach from a Disney movie.

They wrote the movie first and THEN shot the scenes.
Posted by: Minuteman at November 01, 2023 04:53 PM (LaNzR)

I never heard of FNAF (or even the acronym FNAF) until I spoke.with some of my son's friends who were looking forward to watching it. It's huge with the middle school set.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at November 01, 2023 04:57 PM (4j9JZ)

51 This lass may be in the Halloween spirit with her Blade cosplay costume, but she's not bothered by woke Hollywood's delay of her beloved franchise.

https://tinyurl.com/bde7h8km

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at November 01, 2023 04:57 PM (JCZqz)

52 "As someone with a large economic interest in Disney's success, I can no longer watch the business underachieve its great potential."

And that's the thing. Let's fight over Disney, right ? It's a brand worth saving ?

I say, no. Yes, certain folks - and I'm related to at least one of them - will cry like rats eating onions because they don't have that "thing" anymore.

Yet, there are "things" that should simply be allowed to die. Like Vauxhall. Lucas. GM. Rum, sodomy, and the lash. And Disney.

Don't even get me started about Market-Garden.

Posted by: Context at November 01, 2023 04:58 PM (4OSga)

53 47 Die Mouse Die!
Posted by: Skip at November 01, 2023 04:56 PM (fwDg9)

Hey, don't blame me I think it's crap too

Posted by: Mickey Mouse at November 01, 2023 04:58 PM (bs+z0)

54 I know some might think the continued discussion of Disney is unimportant and just entertainment but as we’ve learned it’s much more important than that. He who controls the culture controls the Country. The Left /commies made that their main focus for the last 100 years to take us down.. We ignored it and have been suffering the consequences. It’s only recently that right thinking people have been fighting back.

Posted by: Drive by at November 01, 2023 04:58 PM (MNhXM)

55 When I go to a movie I want escape and enjoyment. And hot guys.
Posted by: screaming in digital at November 01, 2023 04:54 PM (aBJcM)

=====

*fist bump*

Posted by: Jordan61 at November 01, 2023 04:58 PM (DRSnL)

56 It’s not a dress, it’s a kilt!

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at November 01, 2023 04:58 PM (JTwsP)

57 And it turns out, a former HBO/Max employee now says that HBO/Max did in fact pay for a bot army to attack their critics.

And, get this -- the bot army used identity politics smears as their weapon in making these attacks.
++++
LOL! Oh man. I didn't know that. I'm laughing my ass off.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 01, 2023 04:58 PM (ELpxa)

58 I saw Five Nights at Freddy's yesterday.

The guy behind the game was cancelled for a while because the internet found out he was Christian.

Note...not that he was doing anything political just that he is a Christian.

But he made perhaps the most successful indie video game of all time which was...apparently enough to save him.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 01, 2023 04:58 PM (XqcwY)

59 When I go to a movie I want escape and enjoyment. And hot guys.

Word. Err...I mean manly men engaged in manly exploits. Hopefully shirtless.

Posted by: Barack Obama at November 01, 2023 04:59 PM (XqcwY)

60 Such it is with Rotten Tomatoes, no?

It's all an op. Everything is an op.
Posted by: Sponge -
-------
Both entertainment and intel industries are largely ignorant of economics. The magic words are diminishing marginal utility.

Double down harder simply does not work because of those magic words. Like a losing gambler, blue industries and the clowns in them simply ignore economics and always double down.

Posted by: whig at November 01, 2023 04:59 PM (A8ibi)

61 The leftists always eliminate competition to succeed instead of creating success.

Instead of creating movies people want to see, they eliminate the criticism of their crappy products.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 01, 2023 04:59 PM (TzW+Y)

62 I don't understand this site's focus on Disney

probably my advanced age >29x2

Posted by: DB - at November 01, 2023 04:59 PM (geLO8)

63 I don't know much about Drunk3PO but some of the entertainment bloggers say he's friends with Carano so when he announces "rumors" like this, he's actually just reporting what Carano is telling him.
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I hope it happens, but I'm not holding my breath. Most of the time, this crap is just that.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 01, 2023 04:59 PM (ELpxa)

64 I just bought a DVD copy of Fantasia, the original work. It was very hard to come by… if you want the real thing, you will have to work for it, it is rapidly disappearing.

Posted by: tubal at November 01, 2023 05:00 PM (PCK5/)

65 Bonk bonk on the head

Posted by: Dr. Varno at November 01, 2023 05:00 PM (EqQMb)

66 55 When I go to a movie I want escape and enjoyment. And hot guys.
Posted by: screaming in digital at November 01, 2023 04:54 PM (aBJcM)

=====

*fist bump*
Posted by: Jordan61 at November 01, 2023 04:58 PM (DRSnL)

*fist bump*

Posted by: Don LeMon at November 01, 2023 05:00 PM (4j9JZ)

67 I look forward to the day when Rachel Ziegler is shitcanned from the bottom of the porn industry.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at November 01, 2023 05:00 PM (JTwsP)

68 I know some might think the continued discussion of Disney is unimportant and just entertainment but as we’ve learned it’s much more important than that. He who controls the culture controls the Country.

He who will quit running out there trying to save everything can just step back and watch it all burn.

Seriously, what do you - personally - think you are going to do to save the culture ? I'll wait. I gotta' hear this.

Posted by: Context at November 01, 2023 05:01 PM (4OSga)

69
Mystery Forgotten 80's lyrics:

Like a lemon to a lime, a lime to a lemon
I sip the def ale with all the fly women

Posted by: Soothsayer, the HQ's Most Respected Commenter at November 01, 2023 05:01 PM (fWppX)

70 Blade Magnolias.

Posted by: Bill Shatner's Starfleet Girdle at November 01, 2023 05:01 PM (DZrNt)

71 62 I don't understand this site's focus on Disney

probably my advanced age >29x2
Posted by: DB - at November 01, 2023 04:59 PM (geLO

They did a great deal of good work… emphasis on “ did”…

Posted by: tubal at November 01, 2023 05:01 PM (PCK5/)

72
*fist bump*
Posted by: Don LeMon at November 01, 2023 05:00 PM (4j9JZ)

She said FISTBUMP, not fisting you sick pervert.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 01, 2023 05:01 PM (Zz0t1)

73 Because Imma rocking this party 8 days a week.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at November 01, 2023 05:01 PM (R4t5M)

74 Disney...Disney...Disney. Ummmm.

Oh! I remember now. They had that cute mouse guy and all his friends and they used to make wholesome, family entertainment. Used to be real fun stuff!

Haven't seen them around here in years. Years.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at November 01, 2023 05:02 PM (R/m4+)

75 69
Mystery Forgotten 80's lyrics:

Like a lemon to a lime, a lime to a lemon
I sip the def ale with all the fly women
Posted by: Soothsayer, the HQ's Most Respected Commenter at November 01, 2023 05:01 PM (fWppX)

“Addicted to Love”…

Posted by: tubal at November 01, 2023 05:02 PM (PCK5/)

76 Posted by: Context at November 01, 2023 05:01 PM (4OSga)

First, Not be a miserable surrender monkey like you.

Posted by: Drive by at November 01, 2023 05:02 PM (MNhXM)

77 I slightly regret not seeing Top Gun in theaters. I still haven't seen it. Wife did. Loved it.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 01, 2023 04:54 PM (Zz0t1)

I did not see it in the theeyater, but I have a really big TV and a good sound system. Not to mention a pause button for trips to the beer fridge.

I liked it. Way more than the original (I actually loathe the original). It's just good solid entertainment.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Digging up Old Memes at November 01, 2023 05:02 PM (T/Lqj)

78 "That would be an earthquake in Burbank."

A fart in Los Feliz. Bong smoke in the canyons.

Posted by: At No Time Was John Weaver In The Physical Presence Of gp at November 01, 2023 05:02 PM (MvF+J)

79 I remember the feminist left complained endlessly about Karen Gillan in the Jumanji movie being too sexy. Unfortunately for her, absent looking like Nebula she can't help it...

Posted by: 18-1 at November 01, 2023 05:02 PM (XqcwY)

80
Because Imma rocking this party 8 days a week.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory

Indeed.

Can you believe that song is almost 40 years old?

Posted by: Soothsayer, the HQ's Most Respected Commenter at November 01, 2023 05:03 PM (fWppX)

81 I've been watching a lot of foreign films and series lately. There are some woke stinkers but I was surprised that many of the non-woke productions are quite good.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at November 01, 2023 05:03 PM (BdMk6)

82
biden turns 81 in 19 days

Posted by: Soothsayer, the HQ's Most Respected Commenter at November 01, 2023 05:03 PM (fWppX)

83 >>>https://tinyurl.com/bde7h8km
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at November 01, 2023 04:57 PM (JCZqz)

====

Why? What did I ever do to you?

Oh. It's a trap?

Posted by: Turn 2 at November 01, 2023 05:04 PM (JfxgE)

84 Did you ever consider that Blade is being reshot as Friends? No, I didn't think so.
Posted by: Archimedes at November 01, 2023 04:54 PM (I/Qkd)

and this time, Blade is Joey.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 01, 2023 05:04 PM (i9ffA)

85 Because Imma rocking this party 8 days a week.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory

Indeed.

Can you believe that song is almost 40 years old?
Posted by: Soothsayer, the HQ's Most Respected Commenter at November 01, 2023 05:03 PM (fWppX)

Sigh

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at November 01, 2023 05:04 PM (R4t5M)

86 I look forward to the day when Rachel Ziegler is shitcanned from the bottom of the porn industry.

She was a secondary character in the second Shazam movie and honestly she was...ok. Though I am still amused they had three sisters...supposedly with the same two parents and one was Caucasian, one Asian, and one Hispanic.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 01, 2023 05:04 PM (XqcwY)

87 I can tell you how excited I am to see "The Marvels" now that I've seen that poster. *squee!*

Posted by: David French at November 01, 2023 05:04 PM (pIx7m)

88 biden turns 81 in 19 days
Posted by: Soothsayer, the HQ's Most Respected Commenter at November 01, 2023 05:03 PM (fWppX)

Maybe

Posted by: The Grim Reaper at November 01, 2023 05:04 PM (bs+z0)

89 Oh! I remember now. They had that cute mouse guy and all his friends and they used to make wholesome, family entertainment. Used to be real fun stuff!

Its a proxy argument for the NFL. And a ton of other stuff. Folks watching it all burn, talking about how great it used to be before the unfortunate burning part.

It's not like anybody set Disney on fire. They did it themselves. As did GM and all the rest. Including all the free TV sports.

Posted by: Context at November 01, 2023 05:04 PM (4OSga)

90 Disney is like a hobo skin here

Posted by: Skip at November 01, 2023 05:04 PM (fwDg9)

91 There's lots of movies that could be improved by 'inserting' a ghey in the lead.
Coal Miner's Daughter
Spirit Of St. Louis
Wizard of Oz
Sgt York
Northwest Passage

Posted by: Eromero at November 01, 2023 05:04 PM (NxC5+)

92 TMZ
@TMZ
'Succession' Star Alan Ruck Crashes Truck Into L.A. Pizza Shop

Posted by: Mister Ghost at November 01, 2023 05:04 PM (TGPs7)

93 Cat movie poster is cute, but because I own cats, I can't afford the movie ticket. Sorry.

Posted by: At No Time Was John Weaver In The Physical Presence Of gp at November 01, 2023 05:05 PM (MvF+J)

94 Wizard of Oz

It's totally gay

Posted by: It's me donna at November 01, 2023 05:05 PM (bs+z0)

95 58 I saw Five Nights at Freddy's yesterday.

The guy behind the game was cancelled for a while because the internet found out he was Christian.

Note...not that he was doing anything political just that he is a Christian.

But he made perhaps the most successful indie video game of all time which was...apparently enough to save him.
Posted by: 18-1 at November 01, 2023 04:58 PM (XqcwY)

My kids loved it. It's not scary...and it's not great. But, for a "horror" movie, it's pretty damn wholesome, and only the bad guys bite it - which is the best kind of horror movie...

Posted by: Nova Local at November 01, 2023 05:05 PM (exHjb)

96 The Blade guy is gonna be 50 soon… interesting bio.. belong to some weird Muslim cult… son of a preacher woman..

Posted by: tubal at November 01, 2023 05:05 PM (PCK5/)

97 You know the FCC already has rules in place that would fine the owners of these bot accounts for failing to disclose they have a financial interest.

Can you imagine the multimillion dollar fines the Democrats are dodging with their bot armies?

Of course, Elon hasn't yet delivered on his promises to eliminate bot accounts either.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 01, 2023 05:05 PM (TzW+Y)

98 81 Yes indeed.

Posted by: At No Time Was John Weaver In The Physical Presence Of gp at November 01, 2023 05:06 PM (MvF+J)

99 56 It’s not a dress, it’s a kilt!
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at November 01, 2023 04:58 PM (JTwsP)

Nope. It's ambiguity. That's exciting, isn't it, citizen?

Posted by: Auspex at November 01, 2023 05:06 PM (j4U/Z)

100 Daily Mail US
@DailyMail
·
3h
Alec Baldwin is pitching a reality TV show with his family https://trib.al/fhz1O9m

Posted by: Mister Ghost at November 01, 2023 05:06 PM (TGPs7)

101 Drunk3p0 helps Carano when she does comic-cons. He's with Geeks and Gamers and runs their Park Hoppin' channel which covers the them parks not just limited to Disneyworld. He's got more sources than just Carano apparently too because he had inside scoops on the Galactic Starcruiser, and also Mandalorian before ever connecting with Carano.

Posted by: buzzion at November 01, 2023 05:06 PM (aRLgQ)

102 83 >>>https://tinyurl.com/bde7h8km
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at November 01, 2023 04:57 PM (JCZqz)
====
Why? What did I ever do to you?
Oh. It's a trap?
Posted by: Turn 2 at November 01, 2023 05:04 PM

I get one every time, you thirsty sons of bitches! Think with your big head first...suspect everyone!

Honestly, though, this woman isn't the super-hideous land whale in bikini I usually post...just a mostly hideous cow in a cheap Blade knock-off costume lol

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at November 01, 2023 05:06 PM (JCZqz)

103
99 56 It’s not a dress, it’s a kilt!
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at November 01, 2023 04:58 PM (JTwsP)

Nope. It's ambiguity. That's exciting, isn't it, citizen?
Posted by: Auspex at November 01, 2023 05:06 PM (j4U/Z)

A pleated red skirt..

Posted by: tubal at November 01, 2023 05:07 PM (PCK5/)

104 Ain't none of my cats gonna watch The Marvels.

They have better taste in movies than that.

If I catch them watching it, they get to sleep out in the cold sun room this winter.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 01, 2023 05:07 PM (YIVH2)

105 Though I am still amused they had three sisters...supposedly with the same two parents and one was Caucasian, one Asian, and one Hispanic.

Tell me mommy is a tramp without telling me.

Posted by: Mom's Womb is the new UN headquarters. So wholesome! at November 01, 2023 05:07 PM (CjGGv)

106 Wizard of Oz

It's totally gay
Posted by: It's me donna at November 01, 2023 05:05 PM (bs+z0)

Except the flying monkeys.

Posted by: Drive by at November 01, 2023 05:07 PM (MNhXM)

107 92 TMZ
@TMZ
'Succession' Star Alan Ruck Crashes Truck Into L.A. Pizza Shop
Posted by: Mister Ghost at November 01, 2023 05:04 PM (TGPs7)

"You're not dying, you just can't think of anything better to do."

Posted by: Ferris Bueller at November 01, 2023 05:07 PM (T/Lqj)

108 105 Though I am still amused they had three sisters...supposedly with the same two parents and one was Caucasian, one Asian, and one Hispanic.

Tell me mommy is a tramp without telling me.
Posted by: Mom's Womb is the new UN headquarters. So wholesome! at November 01, 2023 05:07 PM (CjGGv)

Or… every TV ad…

Posted by: tubal at November 01, 2023 05:08 PM (PCK5/)

109 Both entertainment and intel industries are largely ignorant of economics. The magic words are diminishing marginal utility.

Double down harder simply does not work because of those magic words. Like a losing gambler, blue industries and the clowns in them simply ignore economics and always double down.
Posted by: whig at November 01, 2023 04:59 PM (A8ibi)

I always had problems with some of the more exact market capitalist terms, Marginal Utility is one of them/ Never can remember it when I need it.

Now, one writer is using the term "Marginal Benefit" and that one seems to have some resonance. "The Diminishing Marginal Benefit" has real world meaning. I wonder if the Austrian school's problem is that it was founded by a bunch of erudite intellectual Austrians

Posted by: Kindltot at November 01, 2023 05:08 PM (xhaym)

110 101 Drunk3p0 helps Carano when she does comic-cons. He's with Geeks and Gamers and runs their Park Hoppin' channel which covers the them parks not just limited to Disneyworld. He's got more sources than just Carano apparently too because he had inside scoops on the Galactic Starcruiser, and also Mandalorian before ever connecting with Carano.
Posted by: buzzion at November 01, 2023 05:06 PM (aRLgQ)
-----
He's also friends with fellow youtuber "That Star Wars Girl".

Posted by: David French at November 01, 2023 05:08 PM (pIx7m)

111 Alec Baldwin is pitching a reality TV show with his family https://trib.al/fhz1O9m
Posted by: Mister Ghost at November 01, 2023 05:06 PM (TGPs7)

Think someone will give him a shot??

Posted by: runner at November 01, 2023 05:08 PM (Aoizk)

112 Disney is like a hobo skin here.

Nah. Disney is like Andy Worhol taking a brush to a Norman Rockwell.

The Rockwell wasn't real either. We're at 2023 here. Regardless of how loud some how, nobody here slogged through WW II. But they love to tell you how great the 40s and 50s were all the same.

Disney is a proxy fight. Mostly over how most wish to remember it, against a group that wants to change it. A fight over a brand. Nothing more.

Posted by: Context at November 01, 2023 05:09 PM (4OSga)

113 Dang it... /sock off

Posted by: Chairman LMAO, AI Expert at November 01, 2023 05:09 PM (pIx7m)

114 Alec Baldwin is pitching a reality TV show with his family https://trib.al/fhz1O9m

If he doesn't shoot someone in the very first episode, I'm not tuning in.

Posted by: How you say cucumber? at November 01, 2023 05:09 PM (CjGGv)

115 Alec Baldwin is pitching a reality TV show with his family https://trib.al/fhz1O9m
Posted by: Mister Ghost at November 01, 2023 05:06 PM

I can't wait for the "very special" episode where they go to a local range, and Alec shows them all the neat gun handling skills he's learned in Hollywood.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at November 01, 2023 05:09 PM (JCZqz)

116 And BTW, I can't believe Alan Ruck is 10 years older than I. that makes him around 29 when that movie was filmed.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Digging up Old Memes at November 01, 2023 05:09 PM (T/Lqj)

117 1. A Walk to Blade

2. Dirty Blading

3. Blade Actually

4. Pretty Blade

5. The Bladebook

6. While You Were Blading

7. Notting Blade

8. Bladanic

9. Blade Intentions

10. About a Blade

Posted by: Archer at November 01, 2023 05:09 PM (gmo/4)

118 The thing about the new movies where Captain Marvel is a woman, Little Mermaid is African American, Snow White is Latino and all women are super Mary Sues is that there is nothing creative .It takes previous good to brilliant stories and films and simply race and gender swaps. The writing ability required for that is zero and the writing that goes along with it sucks, producing crap products

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 01, 2023 05:10 PM (+51ka)

119
Dead for 41 years (1982) :

John Belushi
Marty Feldman
Hymen Roth
Paul Lynde
Uncle Tonoose
Victor Buono
Thelonius Monk
Randy Rhoads
Warren Oats
"Justice" Abe Fortas
Ward Cleaver
Vic Morrow
Oddjob
Jimmy Hoffa
Henry Fonda
Ingrid Bergman

Posted by: Soothsayer, the HQ's Most Respected Commenter at November 01, 2023 05:10 PM (fWppX)

120 94 Wizard of Oz

It's totally gay
Posted by: It's me donna at November 01, 2023 05:05 PM (bs+z0)

The midgets fucked everyone, so it was sorta bisexual.

Posted by: Roy at November 01, 2023 05:10 PM (z+ik4)

121 Disney is to Family Entertainment as the Border is Secure.

Posted by: Bill Shatner's Starfleet Girdle at November 01, 2023 05:10 PM (DZrNt)

122 Disney is now desperate -- and there's more bad news coming.

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

Good. When it's worth $50 Angel Films can buy it and make good movies again.

Posted by: President Select Decaf at November 01, 2023 05:10 PM (3JfbU)

123 A Blade Runs Through It

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at November 01, 2023 05:11 PM (R4t5M)

124 Paul Lynde.... Hollywood Squares was never the same after he departed. Or so my parents have told me.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO, AI Expert at November 01, 2023 05:11 PM (pIx7m)

125 Alec Baldwin is pitching a reality TV show with his family https://trib.al/fhz1O9m
Posted by: Mister Ghost at November 01, 2023 05:06 PM (TGPs7)

The Munster's has been done already...

Posted by: Boswell at November 01, 2023 05:12 PM (K+UlC)

126 124 Paul Lynde.... Hollywood Squares was never the same after he departed. Or so my parents have told me.
Posted by: Chairman LMAO, AI Expert at November 01, 2023 05:11 PM (pIx7m)

Rumor has it he was “ gay”… not a thing back then, they say..

Posted by: tubal at November 01, 2023 05:12 PM (PCK5/)

127 Posted by: Soothsayer, the HQ's Most Respected Commenter at November 01, 2023 05:10 PM (fWppX)

Randy Rhoads. That one bothered me. He was such a talent.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Digging up Old Memes at November 01, 2023 05:12 PM (T/Lqj)

128 I don't understand why Rachel Zegler was cast as "Snow White" anyway, aside from the fact that she was in the update of "West Side Story" and she's part Latino. IMO, she's not ill attractive for the part of Snow White.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 01, 2023 05:13 PM (RSbhh)

129 Daniel Baldwin as Eddie.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO, AI Expert at November 01, 2023 05:13 PM (pIx7m)

130 O/T -- Have heard that the fuckwit asshats who recently melted down that Robert E Lee statue posted a video of it trying to humiliate the rest of us -- and an image from it is now going viral (I think this is it) and being embraced & used in memes a la Trump's mugshot as a rallying cry:

https://is.gd/69VhMp

Posted by: ShainS -- Overimaginative Scamp and AGAAVE Plant at November 01, 2023 05:13 PM (t3hlM)

131 94 Wizard of Oz

It's totally gay
Posted by: It's me donna at November 01, 2023 05:05 PM (bs+z0)

Come on!!! The story of Three Women and an effeminate man fighting over a pair of shoes?

What's gay about THAT?

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 01, 2023 05:13 PM (QPmu4)

132 Jessica Biel put an arrow through a camera in one of the Blade sequels. Anyway, she certainly pulled off the stronk empowered woman just fine without being the lead.

Posted by: Blake - semi lurker at large at November 01, 2023 05:13 PM (z5vMw)

133 >>>I get one every time, you thirsty sons of bitches! Think with your big head first...suspect everyone!

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at November 01, 2023 05:06 PM (JCZqz)

=====

I blame my ADD for not remembering your links. That's on me.

Posted by: Turn 2 at November 01, 2023 05:13 PM (JfxgE)

134 How about rerelease a remastered version of the Wesley Snipes Blade?

It was decent.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 01, 2023 05:13 PM (di6C2)

135 Alec Baldwin is pitching a reality TV show with his family https://trib.al/fhz1O9m
Posted by: Mister Ghost at November 01, 2023 05:06 PM (TGPs7)

He has his own children? I thought he was always shooting blanks.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at November 01, 2023 05:13 PM (H2qjM)

136 I always had problems with some of the more exact market capitalist terms, Marginal Utility is one of them/ Never can remember it when I need it.

Now, one writer is using the term "Marginal Benefit" and that one seems to have some resonance. "The Diminishing Marginal Benefit" has real world meaning. I wonder if the Austrian school's problem is that it was founded by a bunch of erudite intellectual Austrians
Posted by: Kindltot at November 01, 2023 05:08 PM (xhaym)

Have you ever tried to read Mises? It is pretty unapproachable.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at November 01, 2023 05:13 PM (eYoxG)

137 Alec Baldwin is pitching a reality TV show with his family https://trib.al/fhz1O9m
Posted by: Mister Ghost at November 01, 2023 05:06 PM (TGPs7)

Will it include footage that one of his kids filmed while Arec is trying to eat a hamburger blackout drunk in just his underwear? I would subscribe just for that.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 01, 2023 05:13 PM (xhaym)

138 The Blade movies were great!

Yes..I love vampire movies...even the crappy ones, but the character was perfect, and Jessica Biel is a total smokeshow in one of them.

So what a surprise...Disney is going to f*ck up another solid franchise.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 01, 2023 05:14 PM (3Gtis)

139 A Walk to Blade

2. Dirty Blading

3. Blade Actually

4. Pretty Blade

5. The Bladebook

6. While You Were Blading

7. Notting Blade

8. Bladanic

9. Blade Intentions

10. About a Blade

Posted by: Archer at November 01, 2023 05:09 PM (gmo/4)

The Gay Blade

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at November 01, 2023 05:14 PM (NtVYv)

140 Gina Carano is both pouncing and seizing? I think I love her even if her thighs could crack my skull like a walnut.

Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd at November 01, 2023 05:14 PM (padVH)

141 Of course there were gays in Hollywood since the beginning of Hollywood, the only difference is that there was some modicum of discretion and being a homosexual wasn't THE MOST IMPORTANT THING EVER! like it is today.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at November 01, 2023 05:14 PM (MeG8a)

142
Yeah, Randy Rhoads was only 25.

Jim Morrison has been mort for...

52 years!!

Posted by: Soothsayer, the HQ's Most Respected Commenter at November 01, 2023 05:15 PM (fWppX)

143 "Mahershala Ali" imdb sez he was in at least four movies/shows I liked. How could I have forgotten Remy Danton?

Posted by: At No Time Was John Weaver In The Physical Presence Of gp at November 01, 2023 05:15 PM (MvF+J)

144
Disney is the pimple on the desiccated skin of
whoreywood radicalism, screaming to be popped.

More coverage Ace. Enjoy the cruelty.

Posted by: Auspex at November 01, 2023 05:15 PM (j4U/Z)

145 "Regarded as a sociological category ownership appears as the power to use economic goods. An owner is he who disposes of an economic good.

Thus the sociological and juristic concepts of ownership are different. This, of course, is natural, and one can only be surprised that the fact is still sometimes overlooked. From the sociological and economic point of view, ownership is the having of the goods which the economic aims of men require. This having may be called the natural or original ownership, as it is purely a physical relationship of man to the goods, independent of social relations between men or of a legal order. The significance of the legal concept of property lies just in this — that it differentiates between the physical has and the legal should have."

First couple paragraphs of von Mises's Socialism.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at November 01, 2023 05:15 PM (eYoxG)

146 Jessica Biel put an arrow through a camera in one of the Blade sequels. Anyway, she certainly pulled off the stronk empowered woman just fine without being the lead.
Posted by: Blake - semi lurker at large at November 01, 2023 05:13 PM (z5vMw)
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Ah, Blade Trinity, where Wesley Snipes was high most of the movie and refused to talk to the director. (They used post-it notes or something to communicate.)

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 01, 2023 05:15 PM (YIVH2)

147 Blade vs Bladderman.

Posted by: At No Time Was John Weaver In The Physical Presence Of gp at November 01, 2023 05:15 PM (MvF+J)

148 Alec Baldwin is pitching a reality TV show with his family

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Extremely Loud and Incredibly Stupid.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at November 01, 2023 05:15 PM (FVME7)

149 140 Gina Carano is both pouncing and seizing? I think I love her even if her thighs could crack my skull like a walnut.
Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd at November 01, 2023 05:14 PM (padVH)

Lithe and willowy she is not..

Posted by: tubal at November 01, 2023 05:15 PM (PCK5/)

150 Posted by: Context at November 01, 2023 05:01 PM (4OSga)

Somebody else things this poster is Yankee Fifth recently known as "N". I think he sounds like Scogg. What's the vote on who the "new" nick is.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 01, 2023 05:16 PM (RSbhh)

151 The last thing I read about the Blade movie stalling out was that star Mahershala Ali was upset that there were only 2 rather weak action scenes in the script.

Now reading that he was 4th Banana in a film titled after the character we was set to play.... oy!

Posted by: Darth Randall at November 01, 2023 05:16 PM (f1kZG)

152 Disney is a proxy fight. Mostly over how most wish to remember it, against a group that wants to change it. A fight over a brand. Nothing more.
Posted by: Context at November 01, 2023 05:09 PM (4OSga)

I suppose we are all stupid losers for having hope. You have done your job here, we know we are failures.
Go continue your useful work on other blogs. Zerohedge needs people like you!

Posted by: Kindltot at November 01, 2023 05:16 PM (xhaym)

153 Wb setting up bot accounts is sort of funny when you realize their individual stock share cost less that a months HBO subscription. But yeah, internet trolls are the problem.

Posted by: Bete at November 01, 2023 05:16 PM (KuG1T)

154 The original Blade was pretty solid, particularly for a comic book movie. The next two were trash, particularly the third one with Ryan Reynolds and Jessica Biel, who are history's greatest monsters and almost singlehandedly make everything they are associated with the worst film since the last film they were in. (I've heard that both throw rocks at children for fun. But poorly. Because they both throw like girls.)

Posted by: I've also heard that sometimes people make stuff up on the Internet. at November 01, 2023 05:16 PM (CjGGv)

155 Smell The Glove @ 118-
My point exactly. No -talent evil freaks.

Posted by: Eromero at November 01, 2023 05:17 PM (NxC5+)

156 One person familiar with the script permutations says the story at one point morphed into a narrative led by women and filled with life lessons.

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"There's only one enduring & sacred life lesson to learn, h8rs:

ALL MASCULINITY IS TOXIC
... AND ...
MEN MAKE THE BEST TRANNY WOMEN!"

Posted by: ShainS -- Overimaginative Scamp and AGAAVE Plant at November 01, 2023 05:17 PM (t3hlM)

157 120 94 Wizard of Oz

It's totally gay
Posted by: It's me donna at November 01, 2023 05:05 PM (bs+z0)

The midgets fucked everyone, so it was sorta bisexual.
Posted by: Roy at November 01, 2023 05:10 PM

How primitive. In our more enlightened time, it's expected that you'll fuck anything....man, woman, or toaster.

Posted by: Pando Calrissian at November 01, 2023 05:17 PM (QjaU4)

158 I don't understand this site's focus on Disney

probably my advanced age >29x2
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Because the left uses the social capital of "Disney = family" to corrupt.
Sure, we're all hip here to the insidious perversion that Disney is marketing, but do you have any idea of the millions of parents who don't pay attention and have a Disney+ subscription because they still think it's "good, wholesome entertainment?"

Like how David French and Jonah Goldberg get billing as "conservatives" in the media.

That's why this is important.
We're almost literally the only ones pointing these out.
Con, Inc. sure as hell isn't.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 01, 2023 05:18 PM (TzW+Y)

159 How's that hair lip Napoleon movie doing?

Posted by: Archer at November 01, 2023 05:18 PM (gmo/4)

160 All trolls with changing nics are average joe and suck cock by choice.

Posted by: runner at November 01, 2023 05:19 PM (Aoizk)

161 159 How's that hair lip Napoleon movie doing?

Posted by: Archer at November 01, 2023 05:18 PM (gmo/4)

Eh?

Posted by: tubal at November 01, 2023 05:19 PM (PCK5/)

162 What's the vote on who the "new" nick is.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 01, 2023 05:16 PM (RSbhh)

We have cobloggers and moderators to worry about stuff like that. If you don't like him, don't interact.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 01, 2023 05:19 PM (3Gtis)

163 Have you ever tried to read Mises? It is pretty unapproachable.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at November 01, 2023 05:13 PM (eYoxG)

I tried reading Hayek. In all, I preferred "Frida"

Posted by: Kindltot at November 01, 2023 05:19 PM (xhaym)

164 Hollywood can't even launder money properly these days. When a movie is supposed to "lose" $100 million, and actually loses $300 million, somebody will get to sleep with the fishes.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at November 01, 2023 05:19 PM (H2qjM)

165 They already re-did the Wizard of Oz with a strong lesbian subtext between Mila Kunis and Rachel Weisz but I guess per the FNM that's the bad "lipstick lesbian" subtext.

Posted by: Obligatory at November 01, 2023 05:19 PM (XqcwY)

166 hiya

Posted by: JT at November 01, 2023 05:20 PM (T4tVD)

167 Paul Lynde.... Hollywood Squares was never the same after he departed. Or so my parents have told me.
Posted by: Chairman LMAO, AI Expert at November 01, 2023 05:11 PM (pIx7m)

He was best in Bye Bye Birdie. Ann Margaret changing clothes while singing was burned into my 12 year old brain. I saw it again a year or so ago. That scene holds up well.

Posted by: Drive by at November 01, 2023 05:20 PM (MNhXM)

168 Somebody else things this poster is Yankee Fifth recently known as "N". I think he sounds like Scogg. What's the vote on who the "new" nick is.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 01, 2023 05:16 PM (RSbhh)

Scogg.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Digging up Old Memes at November 01, 2023 05:20 PM (T/Lqj)

169 151 The last thing I read about the Blade movie stalling out was that star Mahershala Ali was upset that there were only 2 rather weak action scenes in the script.

Now reading that he was 4th Banana in a film titled after the character we was set to play.... oy!
Posted by: Darth Randall at November 01, 2023 05:16 PM (f1kZG)

Next up? Reboot Highlander but with no sword fights!

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 01, 2023 05:20 PM (QPmu4)

170 https://is.gd/69VhMp

This is the applicable line: "What's your major malfunction, Numbnuts? Didn't your mother give you enough love when you were born?"

Posted by: Boswell at November 01, 2023 05:20 PM (K+UlC)

171 Ah, Blade Trinity, where Wesley Snipes was high most of the movie and refused to talk to the director. (They used post-it notes or something to communicate.)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 01, 2023 05:15 PM (YIVH2)

=====

Shirtless Ryan Reynolds...mmmm....

Posted by: Jordan61 at November 01, 2023 05:21 PM (DRSnL)

172 I suppose we are all stupid losers for having hope. You have done your job here, we know we are failures.

Well, that's the thing. Do you keep doubling down and hoping on the thing that's corrupt bottom to top ? Or do you stop, even though it was free and fun back in the day, and just let it die ?

It applies to Disney. And the NFL. And GM and Ford and Dodge. And the Boy Scouts. And, well, every other entity that's corrupt top to bottom that you can't save and are better off just letting go.

It's hard. I get it, even though I never was part of it.

Posted by: Context at November 01, 2023 05:21 PM (4OSga)

173
Next up? Reboot Highlander but with no sword fights!

Here my out here...no swords but a bunch of bottomless jousting?

Posted by: David French at November 01, 2023 05:21 PM (XqcwY)

174 re: Napoleon with Joachim Pheonix

Hey now. Whatshername looks hot as fuck as a redhead/brunette.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 01, 2023 05:21 PM (di6C2)

175 I've never even heard of the original Blade movie. Why the fuck would I want to see a remake of it, whatever it was?

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at November 01, 2023 05:22 PM (XMwZJ)

176 Ah, Blade Trinity, where Wesley Snipes was high most of the movie and refused to talk to the director. (They used post-it notes or something to communicate.)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
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I have worked with library staff who communicate like this, except with convoluted forms instead of post-it notes.

They aren't high, just high strung.

Posted by: screaming in digital at November 01, 2023 05:22 PM (aBJcM)

177 159 How's that hair lip Napoleon movie doing?

Posted by: Archer at November 01, 2023 05:18 PM (gmo/4)
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Was supposed fo have a release date for this month, could be delayed until 2024.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO, AI Expert at November 01, 2023 05:22 PM (pIx7m)

178 What good studios are there anymore???

Posted by: tubal at November 01, 2023 05:22 PM (PCK5/)

179 Posted by: Context at November 01, 2023 05:21 PM (4OSga

And what were you part of, oh, enlightened one?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 01, 2023 05:22 PM (RSbhh)

180 Next up? Reboot Highlander but with no sword fights!
Posted by: Romeo13 at November 01, 2023 05:20 PM (QPmu4)
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I believe they did do a female-led spin-off of the television show, but it only lasted a season or two before being cancelled.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 01, 2023 05:22 PM (YIVH2)

181 Lithe and willowy she is not..
Posted by: tubal at November 01, 2023 05:15 PM (PCK5/)

Thick and spicy
Sweet and meaty

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at November 01, 2023 05:22 PM (NtVYv)

182 First couple paragraphs of von Mises's Socialism.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at November 01, 2023 05:15 PM (eYoxG)

Per Bylund, Saifedean Amous and Murray Rothbard are easier to read. In many ways, even Lysander Spooner and his 19th Century legalese is easier to read!

Posted by: Kindltot at November 01, 2023 05:22 PM (xhaym)

183 I have worked with library staff who communicate like this, except with convoluted forms instead of post-it notes.

They aren't high, just high strung.
Posted by: screaming in digital at November 01, 2023 05:22 PM (aBJcM)
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Any of them use interpretive dance exclusively?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 01, 2023 05:23 PM (YIVH2)

184 If Disney made actual cat movies it might still be doing well and had parents on board.

Posted by: President Select Decaf at November 01, 2023 05:23 PM (3JfbU)

185 173
Next up? Reboot Highlander but with no sword fights!

Here my out here...no swords but a bunch of bottomless jousting?
Posted by: David French at November 01, 2023 05:21 PM (XqcwY)
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Swap the swords with umbrellas. The umbrella fight in Iron Monkey was pretty cool.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO, AI Expert at November 01, 2023 05:23 PM (pIx7m)

186 Angel studios seem to be pretty good, but even they get the occasional stone thrown at them for being owned by Mormons.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at November 01, 2023 05:23 PM (MeG8a)

187 I'll bet a YouTube video, "Women Making a Sandwich for her Man" will get more "thumbs up" than any trailer for The Marvels.

Only because I'm sure Disney disabled all feedback on their trailer.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 01, 2023 05:23 PM (TzW+Y)

188
Will someone finally dispatch the Evil Mouse for good and all?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at November 01, 2023 05:24 PM (xG4kz)

189 I believe they did do a female-led spin-off of the television show, but it only lasted a season or two before being cancelled.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 01, 2023 05:22 PM (YIVH2)

And actually was not too bad. Sword fights every episode, where she had to use trickery and skill, vice overpowering her opponent.

Plus... Amanda was just plain smokin HAWT.

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 01, 2023 05:24 PM (QPmu4)

190 186 Angel studios seem to be pretty good, but even they get the occasional stone thrown at them for being owned by Mormons.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at November 01, 2023 05:23 PM (MeG8a)

Did not know that… had no idea..

Posted by: tubal at November 01, 2023 05:24 PM (PCK5/)

191 Swap the swords with umbrellas. The umbrella fight in Iron Monkey was pretty cool.
Posted by: Chairman LMAO, AI Expert at November 01, 2023 05:23 PM (pIx7m)
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So was the umbrella fight in the Kingsman movie...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 01, 2023 05:24 PM (YIVH2)

192 I think the reason this site focuses on Disney is that Ace has a particular interest in and knowledge of the industry. Reason enough, definitely.

Posted by: At No Time Was John Weaver In The Physical Presence Of gp at November 01, 2023 05:24 PM (MvF+J)

193 Lithe and willowy she is not..
Posted by: tubal at November 01, 2023 05:15 PM (PCK5/)

If she plays her cards right, I have a six-pack of Cobra Malt Liquor with her name on it.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at November 01, 2023 05:25 PM (H2qjM)

194 Disney again?

Posted by: Ciampino - How did the hackers escape? No idea. Must have ransomware at November 01, 2023 05:25 PM (qfLjt)

195 How are average people working able to live during the strike ?

Posted by: runner at November 01, 2023 05:25 PM (Aoizk)

196 Two hundred posts and this thing is still on Disney, amazing.

Posted by: Braenyard at November 01, 2023 05:25 PM (Qe6c2)

197 Is the HQ’s interest in the Disney Debacle a problem or something???

Posted by: tubal at November 01, 2023 05:25 PM (PCK5/)

198 Yeah, Randy Rhoads was only 25.
Jim Morrison has been mort for...
52 years!!
Posted by: Soothsayer, the HQ's Most Respected Commenter at November 01, 2023 05:15 PM (fWppX)

Dusty Rhodes > Randy Rhoads

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at November 01, 2023 05:26 PM (R/m4+)

199 *working in Hollywood

Posted by: runner at November 01, 2023 05:26 PM (Aoizk)

200 "Have you ever tried to read Mises? It is pretty unapproachable."

Bastiat writes with exemplary clarity.

Posted by: At No Time Was John Weaver In The Physical Presence Of gp at November 01, 2023 05:26 PM (MvF+J)

201 How much talking with the director could you need to do in a movie where you are a sword-wielding galf-vampire vampire hunter? "Wesley, it's like you don't even understand your motivation! More Blue Steel!! More!!!" This was a movie in which they had Biel remove her earbuds in slow motion as she slides into combat to show you what a badass superninjawarrior she was. So effin' dumb.

Posted by: I've also heard that sometimes people make stuff up on the Internet. at November 01, 2023 05:26 PM (CjGGv)

202 Any of them use interpretive dance exclusively?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
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No, but gestures may be involved.

Posted by: screaming in digital at November 01, 2023 05:26 PM (aBJcM)

203 Disney is like the Titanic, unsinkable yet going down.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at November 01, 2023 05:26 PM (FVME7)

204 Posted by: tubal at November 01, 2023 05:22 PM (PCK5/)

Angel Studios. Did Sound of Freedom", The Chosen and has a movie coming out on Sta Francis Cabrini. I think they also have a musical called "Journey to Bethlehem" which sounds like I wouldn't like, only because I'm not a big fan of musicals about Jesus.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 01, 2023 05:26 PM (RSbhh)

205 Say what you will about Disney's movie storytelling, this real life "Slow Death of Disney" movie they are starring in is pretty entertaining.

Posted by: GanGanowicz at November 01, 2023 05:26 PM (AxRGS)

206 Posted by: Context at November 01, 2023 05:01 PM (4OSga)

Somebody else things this poster is Yankee Fifth recently known as "N". I think he sounds like Scogg. What's the vote on who the "new" nick is.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Scogg

Posted by: BifBewalski at November 01, 2023 05:27 PM (3CCua)

207 Next up? Reboot Highlander but with no sword fights!

Here my out here...no swords but a bunch of bottomless jousting?
Posted by: David French
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I think you already have that one.
Hidden in your "Vacation" folder.
And there's lots and lots of "sword" fighting IYKWIM

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 01, 2023 05:27 PM (TzW+Y)

208 @193 I thought you were going to have her "meet the whole gang", if you catch my drift..

Posted by: Chairman LMAO, AI Expert at November 01, 2023 05:27 PM (pIx7m)

209 196 Two hundred posts and this thing is still on Disney, amazing.
Posted by: Braenyard at November 01, 2023 05:25 PM (Qe6c2)

Pardon me, I am on hot redheads.

https://tinyurl.com/27cvww5w

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 01, 2023 05:28 PM (di6C2)

210 Disney is like the Titanic, unsinkable yet going down.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at November 01, 2023 05:26 PM (FVME7)

*scratches head*

not sure what to do with all these deck chairs.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Digging up Old Memes at November 01, 2023 05:28 PM (T/Lqj)

211 Okay, I will bite… what is this “ Scogg” thing all about anyway???

Posted by: tubal at November 01, 2023 05:28 PM (PCK5/)

212 Disney, like Bud Lite, is a problem we can actually do something about.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at November 01, 2023 05:28 PM (H2qjM)

213 203 Disney is like the Titanic, unsinkable yet going down.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at November 01, 2023 05:26 PM (FVME7)

So like Lena Dunham then.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 01, 2023 05:28 PM (di6C2)

214 Is the HQ’s interest in the Disney Debacle a problem or something???

Yeah. And there were roughly ten posts in a row specific in the message of "why are we all watching the implosion of Disney".

Well, if it doesn't matter, you shouldn't care that we watch.

But you care, and you're not alone, that we watch.

Posted by: Context at November 01, 2023 05:29 PM (4OSga)

215 Pardon me, I am on hot redheads.

Probably not, technically speaking, unless you have a laptop balanced on her abs.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 01, 2023 05:29 PM (RSbhh)

216 There is only one actor with the unsurpassed ego and over the top style to be Napoleon.

Rod Steiger

Posted by: Archer at November 01, 2023 05:29 PM (gmo/4)

217 Snipes is Blade. The end. Unless they can find a drop in replacement for him, his style, and I'm not discounting that with some honest effort they couldn't find a good guy, then just stop. But I guarantee you that there will be no honest effort during a billionaire funded cultural revolution.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 01, 2023 05:29 PM (Y6IkP)

218 I do get aggravated at the inconsistency of our fight against the woke .

We have been successful in hurting AB by destroying Bud Light because they put a tranny on a promotional beer can.

But the fact that the NFL has now approved tranny cheerleaders has largely been ignored.

Posted by: Drive by at November 01, 2023 05:29 PM (MNhXM)

219 Did not know that… had no idea..
Posted by: tubal at November 01, 2023 05:24 PM (PCK5/)

Daily Wire is spinning off a studio called Bentkey. Jeremy Boreing is working on their own version of Snow White that now seems to be slated to theaters about the same time the Disney one is.
Daily Wire gets flack too, and Bentkey has been called "Hallmark Level" but then again, Hallmark channel had a lot of audience over the years.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 01, 2023 05:29 PM (xhaym)

220 Are any of the Disney Stock Holders suing the everloving shit out of them?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at November 01, 2023 05:30 PM (PQ4m2)

221
I forgot to include "Princess" Grace Kelly to that dead for 41 years list.

Posted by: Soothsayer, the HQ's Most Respected Commenter at November 01, 2023 05:30 PM (fWppX)

222 200 "Have you ever tried to read Mises? It is pretty unapproachable."

Bastiat writes with exemplary clarity.
Posted by: At No Time Was John Weaver In The Physical Presence Of gp at November 01, 2023 05:26 PM (MvF+J)

Bastiat is very approachable and uses analogies that can easily be understood by most people. Henry Hazlitt is also very good at explaining things in simple terms.

Adam Smith, who I'd put at sort of the middle of the road, can be understood by most people with some effort.

Mises is very circuitous when he says things, often going too far into the weeds of defining things in order to make straightforward statements.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at November 01, 2023 05:30 PM (eYoxG)

223 R A W S A L E R T S @rawsalerts 10m
🚨#WATCH: As a naked man fights Las Vegas police officer, before stealing his patrol vehicle and leading officers on a high-speed chase

📌#LasVegas | #Nevada

Crazy video captured by a driver, showing a naked man getting into a fight with a Las Vegas police officer. The man then stole the officer’s patrol vehicle and led officers on a high-speed chase, causing a serious crash. The incident unfolded on Tuesday around 11:15 p.m. in Las Vegas, Nevada, when police received a call about a naked individual. The 29-year-old man, Cabulisan, managed to get into the Metro Ford F-150 patrol vehicle and drive away before crashing. He is now facing four charges with Two people are in critical condition

https://tinyurl.com/78h93e2s
11 second video

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at November 01, 2023 05:30 PM (krqg6)

224 But the fact that the NFL has now approved tranny cheerleaders has largely been ignored.

Posted by: Drive by at November 01, 2023 05:29 PM (MNhXM)

Do they actually have any yet?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at November 01, 2023 05:31 PM (PQ4m2)

225 Okay, I will bite… what is this “ Scogg” thing all about anyway???

Scogg is an irascible contrarian.

And he is Fen's white whale.

If she were 40 years younger, they'd have a baby out of wedlock and there'd be a sitcom, with a name like Hot Under The Collar.

Posted by: So much unresolved tension! at November 01, 2023 05:31 PM (CjGGv)

226 Posted by: tubal at November 01, 2023 05:28 PM (PCK5/)

Scogg Dog is the poster who constantly changes his handles but not for comic affect like Miklos.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 01, 2023 05:31 PM (RSbhh)

227 Any of them use interpretive dance exclusively?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
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No, but gestures may be involved.
Posted by: screaming in digital

We talking about the current crop of ASL signers in news cast & breaking news releases?

Posted by: BifBewalski at November 01, 2023 05:31 PM (3CCua)

228 How about a remake of The Graduate. But, this time Anne Bancroft's part is played a non-binary, bald, Jack Black, and Dustin Hoffman's part is played by a six year old.

It could happen.

Posted by: Orson at November 01, 2023 05:31 PM (dIske)

229 Bring back Wesley Snipes, and tart him up like he was in "Wong Foo".

"Blade III: I Will Cut A Bitch!"

Posted by: All Hail Eris at November 01, 2023 05:32 PM (4KAXk)

230 Blade was ignored as a successful black super hero movie so that the race hustlers could claim we had to wait until Black Panther before the man allowed a black super hero. I would have been pissed if I was Wesley Snipes.

Posted by: Drive by at November 01, 2023 05:32 PM (MNhXM)

231

"Put a chick in it! Make her gay! Make it laaaaaame!"

The motto of MGM in its heyday was: "Do it big. Do it right. Give it class!"

I'd like to reanimate Louis B. Mayer long enough for him to punch Kathleen Kennedy's lights out.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 01, 2023 05:32 PM (x0n13)

232 Highlander without sword fights?

Only if you replace all the males with hot busty scantly clad lesbians and the sword fights with pillow fights.

Posted by: Archer at November 01, 2023 05:32 PM (gmo/4)

233 I had to look up irascible. Meh, no.

Posted by: Context at November 01, 2023 05:33 PM (4OSga)

234
To be fair to Wesley Snipes, the IRS had all his co-stars wired during filming.

Posted by: Auspex at November 01, 2023 05:33 PM (j4U/Z)

235 Disney, like Bud Lite, is a problem we can actually do something about.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy

Bud Light Suffers Major New Sales Blow

Anheuser-Busch InBev, the parent company of Bud Light, said on Oct. 31 that the company's U.S. revenue for the third quarter fell 13.5 percent in a sign that Bud Light's promotion with a transgender influencer continues to weigh on sales.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at November 01, 2023 05:33 PM (FVME7)

236 Posted by: So much unresolved tension! at November 01, 2023 05:31 PM (CjGGv)

Uhh, no; I wouldn't have a baby with someone who is an Atheist or Agnostic. I just think it's cowardly to change handles all the time.

As for contrarians I'm assured it's "N" who is a contrarian

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 01, 2023 05:33 PM (RSbhh)

237 228 How about a remake of The Graduate. But, this time Anne Bancroft's part is played a non-binary, bald, Jack Black, and Dustin Hoffman's part is played by a six year old.

It could happen.
Posted by: Orson at November 01, 2023 05:31 PM (dIske)

"I have one word for you: ISLAM!"

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 01, 2023 05:34 PM (x0n13)

238
also...
Marty Robbins
Brezhnyez
astronaut Jack Swigert

Posted by: Soothsayer, the HQ's Most Respected Commenter at November 01, 2023 05:34 PM (fWppX)

239 "Report: Biden thinks Netanyahu may not last politically". i read it , it's in the Politico. Trying to undermine Israel in a time of war. Asshoe. Biden already brought Israel to the precipice of annihilation - Iran, and support for assorted terrorist s throughout the years. Now this walking corpse is trying to kneecap the leadership.

Posted by: runner at November 01, 2023 05:34 PM (Aoizk)

240 Rod Steiger

Posted by: Archer at November 01, 2023 05:29 PM (gmo/4)

Marlon Brando.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 01, 2023 05:34 PM (3Gtis)

241 As is obvious by my comments, I am kinda out of touch with the popular culture… hell, even the HQ goings- on… need to stop reading and get plugged in, looks like…

Posted by: tubal at November 01, 2023 05:34 PM (PCK5/)

242 Why did they pick a fifty-year-old to play Blade?

Posted by: Eddie Baby at November 01, 2023 05:34 PM (KwZYR)

243 Paul Lind sure acted Ghey

Posted by: Skip at November 01, 2023 05:34 PM (fwDg9)

244 To be fair to Wesley Snipes, the IRS had all his co-stars wired during filming.
Posted by: Auspex

Speak directly into my codpiece.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at November 01, 2023 05:34 PM (FVME7)

245 Marlon Brando.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 01, 2023 05:34 PM (3Gtis)

He would squish the horse.

Posted by: Archer at November 01, 2023 05:35 PM (gmo/4)

246 How about a remake of The Graduate. But, this time Anne Bancroft's part is played a non-binary, bald, Jack Black, and Dustin Hoffman's part is played by a six year old.
It could happen.
Posted by: Orson at November 01, 2023 05:31 PM (dIske)

Directed by Roman Polanski in his triumphant return to Hollywood.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at November 01, 2023 05:35 PM (H2qjM)

247 Bibi, screw the noise, do what you must. You know who is on your side..

Posted by: runner at November 01, 2023 05:35 PM (Aoizk)

248 @223 Global warming, definitely global warming.

Posted by: Rain Man at November 01, 2023 05:35 PM (pIx7m)

249 218 I do get aggravated at the inconsistency of our fight against the woke .

We have been successful in hurting AB by destroying Bud Light because they put a tranny on a promotional beer can.

But the fact that the NFL has now approved tranny cheerleaders has largely been ignored.

Posted by: Drive by at November 01, 2023 05:29 PM (MNhXM)

Only so much can be focused on at once. It's also easier when there are easily available substitutes, that is low switching costs.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at November 01, 2023 05:35 PM (eYoxG)

250 The only way to save Disney is to fire every woman exec, every fag exec, and every DIE & CRT enthusiast. Even that may not do it but it is a start.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at November 01, 2023 05:35 PM (17s+e)

251 Posted by: Nevergiveup at November 01, 2023 05:31 PM (PQ4m2)

I think two. I’ll have to googlefu to see what team.

Posted by: Drive by at November 01, 2023 05:36 PM (MNhXM)

252 Alec Baldwin is pitching a reality TV show with his family

Does he have a gun ?

Posted by: JT at November 01, 2023 05:36 PM (T4tVD)

253 243 Paul Lind sure acted Ghey
Posted by: Skip at November 01, 2023 05:34 PM (fwDg9)

Paul Lynde is the equivalent of Clark Gable and John Wayne compared to whatever passes for male lead these days.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 01, 2023 05:36 PM (x0n13)

254 Wonder Woman succeeded because it had so many things going for it.

1. It had Gal Gadot, who exudes true Old Hollywood star power, seems to be a genuinely nice person, and is one of the hottest women on the planet.

2. Wonder Woman is the biggest female superhero. She's like Superman with a vag. And this was her first live action film.

3. It was actually a good movie.

Captain Marvel only succeeded because of its time slot. It was released after Black Panther and before Endgame. This is like a TV show in the 90s being sandwiched between Seinfeld and Friends. Of course it made money.

Posted by: Lamont Cranston at November 01, 2023 05:36 PM (NVVQz)

255 Justine Lindsay, the NFL's first transgender cheerleader, is determined to create opportunities for future generations. Aged 31, she is currently in her second season as an NFL cheerleader with the Carolina Panthers, having joined the organization in the previous year.

Posted by: Drive by at November 01, 2023 05:37 PM (MNhXM)

256 249 Fuck sportsball.

Posted by: At No Time Was John Weaver In The Physical Presence Of gp at November 01, 2023 05:37 PM (MvF+J)

257 As for contrarians I'm assured it's "N" who is a contrarian

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 01, 2023 05:33 PM (RSbhh)

And I will repeat:

We have cobloggers and moderators to worry about stuff like that. If you don't like him, don't interact.

What you are doing is threadjacking. Maybe the mote in your eye needs tending...

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 01, 2023 05:37 PM (3Gtis)

258 Mises is very circuitous when he says things, often going too far into the weeds of defining things in order to make straightforward statements.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at November 01, 2023 05:30 PM (eYoxG)

Spooner talks about most of the same things, though he was also an abolitionist in approach, pre-civil war, and did not have Menger's insight as to causes. I suspect he could be considered a consequentialist, where Mises was more of an absolutist the way that, say, Newton was an absolutist about gravity.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 01, 2023 05:37 PM (xhaym)

259 Marvel movies as a genre are well past their sell-by date. How about some action movies with relatable characters? I know, that's crazy talk.

Posted by: Ricky Bobby at November 01, 2023 05:38 PM (l7udz)

260 We talking about the current crop of ASL signers in news cast & breaking news releases?
Posted by: BifBewalski
---
Coworkers who refuse to speak to each other and only communicate via forms. Entire workflows get built around 2 people who won't talk to each other, and often persist long after they're gone.

Posted by: screaming in digital at November 01, 2023 05:38 PM (aBJcM)

261 I'm actually surprised Anheuser-Busch InBev hasn't come up with a new, less ghey advertising campaign for their struggling Budweiser brands.

The guys from the series "Mad Men" would have pulled A-B out of the sewer.

But they were anything but teh ghey.

*sips Maker's Mark 46 and shrugs*

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 01, 2023 05:38 PM (Q4IgG)

262 I'm watching a podcast about the Dyatlov Pass incident. I think it would make a good subject for a movie using a handheld camera. It has lots of potential for spookiness.

Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd at November 01, 2023 05:38 PM (padVH)

263 I want an open thread where we suggest ways to destroy a franchise or a classic.

Thin Man Series...starring Rosie O'Donnell.

Posted by: Orson at November 01, 2023 05:38 PM (dIske)

264 @223 Cabulisan, just one name.
IF you take out "Caliban," all you have left is U.L.

Not a performer on the Strip, by any chance?

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at November 01, 2023 05:38 PM (4PZHB)

265 *lights a candle for Marty Robbins*

https://tinyurl.com/4hxmfz6k

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 01, 2023 05:38 PM (di6C2)

266 Two words: Schooner Tuna.

Posted by: Archer at November 01, 2023 05:39 PM (gmo/4)

267 Only so much can be focused on at once. It's also easier when there are easily available substitutes, that is low switching costs.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at November 01, 2023 05:35 PM (eYoxG)

As I said, that explanation / position is aggravating.

Posted by: Drive by at November 01, 2023 05:39 PM (MNhXM)

268 "But they were anything but teh ghey."

At least one of em was unmistakably gay.

Posted by: At No Time Was John Weaver In The Physical Presence Of gp at November 01, 2023 05:39 PM (MvF+J)

269 Justine Lindsay, the NFL's first transgender cheerleader,

I googled it.

And ...it looks like a dude in a cheerleading outfit.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 01, 2023 05:39 PM (XqcwY)

270 I don't even think it was conservatives that did in AB. Sure, they're vocal about it. But the folks Ive historically most often seen drinking Bud Light in Texas are working class Mexicans. They're not so big on The Beer of Maricons.

Posted by: You can't sell gay to blue collar guys. at November 01, 2023 05:39 PM (CjGGv)

271 243 Paul Lind sure acted Ghey
Posted by: Skip at November 01, 2023 05:34 PM (fwDg9)

He was no more gay than Jim J Bullock.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 01, 2023 05:39 PM (di6C2)

272 258 Mises is very circuitous when he says things, often going too far into the weeds of defining things in order to make straightforward statements.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at November 01, 2023 05:30 PM (eYoxG)

Spooner talks about most of the same things, though he was also an abolitionist in approach, pre-civil war, and did not have Menger's insight as to causes. I suspect he could be considered a consequentialist, where Mises was more of an absolutist the way that, say, Newton was an absolutist about gravity.
Posted by: Kindltot at November 01, 2023 05:37 PM (xhaym)

I tried reading Mises.. gave it a real go… I found him opaque, is the best way to put it..

Posted by: tubal at November 01, 2023 05:39 PM (PCK5/)

273 Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 01, 2023 05:37 PM (3Gtis)

Somebody asked me a question about who Scogg Dog is. I answered it. And No, I do not change handles.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 01, 2023 05:39 PM (RSbhh)

274 But, this time Anne Bancroft's part is played a non-binary, bald, Jack Black, and Dustin Hoffman's part is played by a six year old.

The first time I saw Anne Bancroft was in The Graduate, in high school, in the late eighties. Holy Shit was my response to that initial scene. Wow. Didn't watch the entire movie - but I couldn't blame Dustin Hoffman for whatever happened after that.

Posted by: Context at November 01, 2023 05:39 PM (4OSga)

275 If you want generally wholesome content, I suggest giving BYUtv a look. Lots of it is cheesy but they are trying to pump out good clean content in a variety of genres.

Posted by: GanGanowicz at November 01, 2023 05:40 PM (AxRGS)

276 255 Justine Lindsay, the NFL's first transgender cheerleader, is determined to create opportunities for future generations. Aged 31, she is currently in her second season as an NFL cheerleader with the Carolina Panthers, having joined the organization in the previous year.
Posted by: Drive by at November 01, 2023 05:37 PM (MNhXM)

----
First cheerleader who never loses the "what's wrong with this picture" quiz.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO, AI Expert at November 01, 2023 05:40 PM (pIx7m)

277 263 I want an open thread where we suggest ways to destroy a franchise or a classic.

Thin Man Series...starring Rosie O'Donnell.
Posted by: Orson at November 01, 2023 05:38 PM (dIske)

I watched a couple of those… Myna Loy was fetching…

Posted by: tubal at November 01, 2023 05:40 PM (PCK5/)

278 250 The only way to save Disney is to fire every woman exec, every fag exec, and every DIE & CRT enthusiast. Even that may not do it but it is a start.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger

= =

A nice start. Now do me.

Posted by: America at November 01, 2023 05:41 PM (AD14M)

279 Wholesome TV content? MeTV

Posted by: Archer at November 01, 2023 05:41 PM (gmo/4)

280 Because everyone always stays on the topic thread for the entire thread in every post. LOL

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 01, 2023 05:41 PM (RSbhh)

281 I watched a couple of those… Myna Loy was fetching…

Posted by: tubal at November 01, 2023 05:40 PM (PCK5/)

I guess...if you are into birds.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 01, 2023 05:42 PM (3Gtis)

282 I want an open thread where we suggest ways to destroy a franchise or a classic.

-
Showgirls starring the View crew.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at November 01, 2023 05:42 PM (FVME7)

283
I'm still shocked at how Disney totally flushed its image as the child and family friendly studio.

Where instead of watching a movie with your kids relaxing and having fun with them at the antics on screen,

you're seized by growing horror that you may actually be damaging your child by letting them watching this gay, gender confused, evil propaganda spewing out of the screen.

I think the rumor that Disney is in the process of turning Chip and Dale into the new Leopold and Loeb of the animated world, who after strangling Huey, Dewey, and Louie serve them up to Uncle Scrooge and Unka Donald for Christmas Dinner is false, but hey! could be.*

Both Iger and Kennedy are malicious idiots.

*Relax. It's a joke.

Posted by: naturalfake at November 01, 2023 05:42 PM (QzZeQ)

284 I watched a couple of those… Myna Loy was fetching…
Posted by: tubal at November 01, 2023 05:40 PM (PCK5/)

Indeed.

https://tinyurl.com/8ntvb24c

Smokey eyes.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 01, 2023 05:43 PM (di6C2)

285 Fun Fact: The Anne Bancroft part was offered to Doris Day, as a chance to restart her Hollywood career by breaking her typecasting as a "nice" woman.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at November 01, 2023 05:43 PM (H2qjM)

286 Showgirls starring the View crew.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at November 01, 2023 05:42 PM (FVME7)

The Searchers starring Chris Tucker.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 01, 2023 05:43 PM (di6C2)

287 I came to BYUtv for the Harry Reid hagiography, but I stayed for the Mitt Romney bio! Tremendous!

Posted by: Pierre Delecto at November 01, 2023 05:43 PM (hqVaF)

288 281 I watched a couple of those… Myna Loy was fetching…

Posted by: tubal at November 01, 2023 05:40 PM (PCK5/)

I guess...if you are into birds.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 01, 2023 05:42 PM (3Gtis)

Her eyes were sultry, CBD, very sultry…

Posted by: tubal at November 01, 2023 05:44 PM (PCK5/)

289 Coworkers who refuse to speak to each other and only communicate via forms. Entire workflows get built around 2 people who won't talk to each other, and often persist long after they're gone.
Posted by: screaming in digital

Ouch. That's real tough to eradicate. When on active duty, i would put those two, or three, troops on guard duty in the same bunker for the 10pm -to- 2am shift. Then tell the sergeant of the guard not to look to closely or hear the professional development getting applied.

Sometimes it is a full team of gold bricking asshoes now in civilian life. I make them document meaningless minutia into a 30 page engineering notebook over the weekend. Then i hold them publicly and professionally responsible for shit work and kick them off my contract.

Posted by: BifBewalski at November 01, 2023 05:44 PM (3CCua)

290 Because everyone always stays on the topic thread for the entire thread in every post. LOL

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 01, 2023 05:41 PM (RSbhh)

Stop talking about the fucking trolls. The more you do, the more trolls we get.

This isn't rocket science. We have mechanisms in place to deal with trolls that most of the commenters understand. But you seem to have a bug up your ass about Scogg, or whoever seems to you to be him. And you accuse people of being him and you nag about him all the time.

So just stop.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 01, 2023 05:44 PM (3Gtis)

291 Levent Kemal retweeted Asaad Sam Hanna @AsaadHannaa 7h
The Iranian news agency @Tasnimnews_Fa has posted this video as its an Israeli attack on a hospital in Gaza.
This video is from Aleppo seven years ago, and this hospital was bombed by Russia and the Syrian government.

https://tinyurl.com/433r22rz
29 seconds

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at November 01, 2023 05:44 PM (krqg6)

292 want an open thread where we suggest ways to destroy a franchise or a classic.

-
Showgirls starring the View crew.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at November 01, 2023 05:42 PM (FVME7)

I thought every action movie destroyed itself by progressively have more explosions and car chases and less script writers.

Posted by: Drive by at November 01, 2023 05:44 PM (MNhXM)

293 Who the F. Cares?

Posted by: Gonzotx at November 01, 2023 05:44 PM (MwHgU)

294 Que Sera, Sera...

Posted by: runner at November 01, 2023 05:45 PM (Aoizk)

295 Zegler is a special diversity candidate for "Snow White"....
This time Snow White is just fugly.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at November 01, 2023 05:45 PM (cOq4q)

296 as though all the elites have no character and they hide their objectives.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at November 01, 2023 05:45 PM (J8LnB)

297 I tried reading Mises.. gave it a real go… I found him opaque, is the best way to put it..
Posted by: tubal at November 01, 2023 05:39 PM (PCK5/)

I found Hayek much the same. I do suggest Per Bylund or Saifedean Amous. They are both much more approachable and easier to read, they are also ESL for some reason.
If you are interested in history, I do suggest Murray Rothbard. He is tarred for being part of the LP in the 70's, but that makes him no less of a true academic.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 01, 2023 05:45 PM (xhaym)

298 Yes, a huge character like Wonder Woman can make some money, but that's a rare bird. The Perlmutter Rule is 94% correct, which is pretty good for any rule.

***

I was on Twitter the first time around a few years ago when the first Wonder Woman movie came out.

I said then it was hilarious watching a very sizable demographic engage in the brain fever that one of the reasons that Wonder Woman, which debuted in 1941, was still a viable comic commodity was because of all the young girls buying her comics over the decades.

Posted by: Azathoth at November 01, 2023 05:45 PM (wb1YC)

299 Although Vanessa Kirby more has insane eyes... which is also attractive to me.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 01, 2023 05:45 PM (di6C2)

300 *music stops

Posted by: runner at November 01, 2023 05:46 PM (Aoizk)

301 Smokey eyes.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 01, 2023 05:43 PM (di6C2)

Like being at a Tool concert?

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Digging up Old Memes at November 01, 2023 05:46 PM (T/Lqj)

302 Anne Bancroft was married to-

Posted by: DB - at November 01, 2023 05:46 PM (geLO8)

303 Maybe Charles Conaway and Eddie Lampert can help turn Disney around. *snicker*

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 01, 2023 05:46 PM (qPw5n)

304 229 Bring back Wesley Snipes, and tart him up like he was in "Wong Foo".

"Blade III: I Will Cut A Bitch!"

pretty sure there was already a blade iii.

Posted by: anachronda at November 01, 2023 05:46 PM (oY6Yp)

305 Like being at a Tool concert?
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Digging up Old Memes at November 01, 2023 05:46 PM (T/Lqj)

More like touching a hot stove.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 01, 2023 05:46 PM (di6C2)

306 267 Only so much can be focused on at once. It's also easier when there are easily available substitutes, that is low switching costs.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at November 01, 2023 05:35 PM (eYoxG)

As I said, that explanation / position is aggravating.
Posted by: Drive by at November 01, 2023 05:39 PM (MNhXM)

I tend to think that Alinsky is right about how to approach things, picking issues and polarizing them, particularly ones where the adversary is weak. In practice I think this means going through and "testing" things, if something really strikes a chord with the population, you run with it. Not saying we don't go on offense, indeed we want to go broadly to look for opportunities, just saying that we can't actually pull off a Bud Lite easily and consistently.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at November 01, 2023 05:47 PM (eYoxG)

307 >Although Vanessa Kirby more has insane eyes... which is also attractive to me

first saw her in The Crown
very grrr

Posted by: DB - at November 01, 2023 05:47 PM (geLO8)

308 I'm still shocked at how Disney totally flushed its image as the child and family friendly studio.

Honestly - and we'll never get the real story now. But how did a guy that got the initial flush of cash by making WWII cartoons parley that into an empire of really nice, really bland yet just interesting enough fun family entertainment ?

Because I'd like to know that story. From the horses mouth. That has to be a good story. Any man that started all that couldn't be all bad.

Posted by: Context at November 01, 2023 05:48 PM (4OSga)

309 Anne Bancroft was married to-
Posted by: DB - at November 01, 2023 05:46 PM (geLO

*raises hand Horschak style*
Oooh!! I know!! I know!!

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Digging up Old Memes at November 01, 2023 05:48 PM (T/Lqj)

310 Strategy 1: Searching for Purest Content to amuse the kids for hours everyday.
Strategy 2: Finding ways to amuse the kids with parental participation and less media time.
Not mutually exclusive.

The tens of thousands of hours of cartoons and kid shows I watched as a kid in the 50s and 60s was of no benefit to me whatsover. I doubt the current crap is any better. There are better ways for a family to spend time than seeking and consuming New Content.

Posted by: At No Time Was John Weaver In The Physical Presence Of gp at November 01, 2023 05:48 PM (MvF+J)

311 first saw her in The Crown
very grrr
Posted by: DB - at November 01, 2023 05:47 PM (geLO

You ain't just whistlin' Dixie:

https://tinyurl.com/5f8vmjkm

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 01, 2023 05:49 PM (di6C2)

312 Anne Bancroft was married to-
Posted by: DB - at November 01, 2023 05:46 PM (geLO

Her husband !

Posted by: JT at November 01, 2023 05:49 PM (T4tVD)

313 "Report: Biden thinks Netanyahu may not last politically". i read it , it's in the Politico. Trying to undermine Israel in a time of war. Asshoe. Biden already brought Israel to the precipice of annihilation - Iran, and support for assorted terrorist s throughout the years. Now this walking corpse is trying to kneecap the leadership.
Posted by: runner at November 01, 2023 05:34 PM (Aoizk)

He might not, BUT that will be determined AFTER hamas is wiped out and gaza is leveled.

And Biden, Fuck you

Posted by: Nevergiveup at November 01, 2023 05:49 PM (PQ4m2)

314 287 I came to BYUtv for the Harry Reid hagiography, but I stayed for the Mitt Romney bio! Tremendous!

i saw the ent jug band open for tree mendous at the forest service office back in the noughties.

Posted by: anachronda at November 01, 2023 05:49 PM (oY6Yp)

315 297 I tried reading Mises.. gave it a real go… I found him opaque, is the best way to put it..
Posted by: tubal at November 01, 2023 05:39 PM (PCK5/)

I found Hayek much the same. I do suggest Per Bylund or Saifedean Amous. They are both much more approachable and easier to read, they are also ESL for some reason.
If you are interested in history, I do suggest Murray Rothbard. He is tarred for being part of the LP in the 70's, but that makes him no less of a true academic.
Posted by: Kindltot at November 01, 2023 05:45 PM (xhaym)

I'll note that the economists of the 20th and late 19th century seem less grounded than their predecessors. There is frequently a lack of awareness of how economics ties together with conflict, verging on the conceit that capitalist economics would avoid conflict entirely. Smith by comparison approaches economic systems in the real world of great power conflict.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at November 01, 2023 05:49 PM (eYoxG)

316 Bring back Wesley Snipes, and tart him up like he was in "Wong Foo".

"Blade III: I Will Cut A Bitch!"

pretty sure there was already a blade iii.
Posted by: anachronda at November 01, 2023 05:46 PM (oY6Yp)

There was. III wasn't great. In part, because Hollywood still didn't know what to do with Ryan Reynolds yet.

Also, script and directing sucked.

Posted by: naturalfake at November 01, 2023 05:50 PM (QzZeQ)

317 How is California unlike the Titanic?

The Titanic had its lights on when it sank.

Posted by: Ciampino - How did the hackers escape? No idea. Must have ransomware! at November 01, 2023 05:51 PM (qfLjt)

318 Disney is the Kids into Trannies company

Posted by: Skip at November 01, 2023 05:51 PM (fwDg9)

319 I had a friend who was a male cheerleader in college back in the 70's. Lifted up the 'ettes all the time.

Ever notice where they got to put their hands?

Posted by: Auspex at November 01, 2023 05:52 PM (j4U/Z)

320 Blade 3 had a weird, extended scene devoted to selling the iPod. Even by Hollywood product placement standards, it was over the top.

Posted by: Wally at November 01, 2023 05:52 PM (hqVaF)

321 I saw a guy in a kilt at the store yesterday. He looked like he could do that thing where they heave logs into the air. A bit odd for rural KS

Posted by: Notsothoreau at November 01, 2023 05:52 PM (cLWyk)

322 I went to college in the early 1980's and majored in theater. I used to argue back then that we should use the theater performance season as a pedagogical opportunity. I meant to teach students a kind of overview of the history of Drama: Nine plays during the academic year.
I thought that since we were an American university, the focus should be more heavily on American and Engish Drama, and a special focus on the greatest English Playwright:

1. Shakespeare
2. Modern Drama (the beginning) / Not American: Ibsen, Strindberg, Chekhov, Shaw
3. Classic American Drama: O'Neill, Williams, Albee, et al.
4. Classical Drama from Antiquity/Middle Ages: Greek, Roman etc.
5. Contemporary/Modernist Non-English: Brecht, Ionesco, et al.
6. Rennaissance up to Modern Drama: Jonson, Webster, Marlowe, Goldoni, Racine, et al.
7. Nobel Prize Winners
8. Contemporary/Modernist English Language: British, American, Irish, etc: Becket, Pinter, Stoppard,
9. Musical

Anyhow, what has happened instead: Instead of teaching students about the history of drama, they are inculcating students with leftist, progressive, woke, crap. Most plays performed on campus are uber contemporary s**t.

Posted by: Someone Else at November 01, 2023 05:52 PM (YPgjG)

323 Posted by: runner at November 01, 2023 05:34 PM (Aoizk)

You know who else did that to Netanyahu when the war first started?

Posted by: Drive by at November 01, 2023 05:53 PM (MNhXM)

324 Rachel Ziegler would be perfect to play AOC in a biopic.

Posted by: Joe, living dangerously at November 01, 2023 05:53 PM (fKIdX)

325 some of the entertainment bloggers say he's friends with Carano

So…what kind of friend?

Posted by: Kratwurst at November 01, 2023 05:53 PM (VRzI3)

326 "Most plays performed on campus are uber contemporary s**t."

The drama dept is competing with the plastic arts dept. Hard to catch up with them!

Posted by: At No Time Was John Weaver In The Physical Presence Of gp at November 01, 2023 05:54 PM (MvF+J)

327 'Succession' Star Alan Ruck Crashes Truck Into L.A. Pizza Shop
Posted by: Mister Ghost at November 01, 2023 05:04 PM (TGPs7)

"You're not dying, you just can't think of anything better to do."
Posted by: Ferris Bueller at November 01, 2023 05:07 PM

Also the dentist in the first season of Justified.

Posted by: Chuck C at November 01, 2023 05:54 PM (xttsV)

328 324 Rachel Ziegler would be perfect to play AOC in a biopic.
Posted by: Joe, living dangerously at November 01, 2023 05:53 PM (fKIdX)

As much as I care, I think Zeigler is like this years Brie Larson- someone who thinks their brand is to be as annoyingly femidouchey as possible. They may or may not actually believe it at the moment, but that brand does not have a ton of shelf life.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 01, 2023 05:55 PM (di6C2)

329 Context, IIRC Glenn Beck talked about this a lot when he was starting The Blaze. Disney had his studio pulled out from under him, at least in his mind, by the unionization of his artists. This was in part done by FedGov involvement. He decided to find a new way to do things and decided to get involved with the theme park, seeing there was a market for it with the new roads and new money and lots of kids and families for audiences

In a way the Disney studios became an outlet for the ideas of the theme parks, that he could control, instead of being pushed into things by the union that could hold veto over his original studio.
wonderful world of Disney was something we would watch as kids. It was silly stuff, but it was fun for kids. I suspect it was something of a loss to advertise the parks.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 01, 2023 05:55 PM (xhaym)

330 315 297 I tried reading Mises.. gave it a real go… I found him opaque, is the best way to put it..
Posted by: tubal at November 01, 2023 05:39 PM (PCK5/)

I found Hayek much the same. I do suggest Per Bylund or Saifedean Amous. They are both much more approachable and easier to read, they are also ESL for some reason.
If you are interested in history, I do suggest Murray Rothbard. He is tarred for being part of the LP in the 70's, but that makes him no less of a true academic.
Posted by: Kindltot at November 01, 2023 05:45 PM (xhaym)

I'll note that the economists of the 20th and late 19th century seem less grounded than their predecessors.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy
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Depends, micro economics as a field advanced, macro more or less did not because people disagree about whether macro should be proscriptive or descriptive.

We arguably have a better handle on the economic behavior of individuals or a specific market and the firms in it but not on the goals of an economic system.

Rothbard is probably the giant in economic history of this century and a guy named RJ Rummel was someone in IR that combined economics and conflict. RJ is gone now but webpage is still up.

Posted by: whig at November 01, 2023 05:55 PM (A8ibi)

331 Anne Bancroft was married to-
Posted by: DB - at November 01, 2023 05:46 PM

Mr. Mel Brooks. I'd love to have them to a dinner party.

Posted by: hobbitopoly at November 01, 2023 05:55 PM (6xRrr)

332 My family introduced me to classical music as a child. Bugs Bunny cartoons reinforced those lessons.

Posted by: Archer at November 01, 2023 05:55 PM (gmo/4)

333 I'm going to go out on a limb here and believe the director, inexperienced she may be, when she says, "it just isn't working" then walks away to another project.

My really wild idea is: she was hired because Disney is having trouble finding competent directors. I suspect directors may have decided Disney is the opposite of a resume enhancer.

Posted by: Blake - semi lurker at large at November 01, 2023 05:55 PM (z5vMw)

334 Honestly - and we'll never get the real story now. But how did a guy that got the initial flush of cash by making WWII cartoons parley that into an empire of really nice, really bland yet just interesting enough fun family entertainment ?
Posted by: Context at November 01, 2023 05:48 PM (4OSga)

It surely helped to have the demographics of the Baby Boom for a consumer base. Lots and lots of families to sell stuff to.

Contrast that to Hollywood desperately chasing after an increasingly splintered market. I'm not likely to go see the biopic of some Rapper I've never heard of.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at November 01, 2023 05:56 PM (H2qjM)

335 He might not, BUT that will be determined AFTER hamas is wiped out and gaza is leveled.

And Biden, Fuck you
Posted by: Nevergiveup at November 01, 2023 05:49 PM (PQ4m2)

Too much resistance to the "helpful suggestion s " coming from this dickhead administration we have.

Posted by: runner at November 01, 2023 05:56 PM (Aoizk)

336
Disney got dirty When they made Annette Funicello a Mouseketeer.

Posted by: Auspex at November 01, 2023 05:56 PM (j4U/Z)

337 297 I tried reading Mises.. gave it a real go… I found him opaque, is the best way to put it..
Posted by: tubal at November 01, 2023 05:39 PM (PCK5/)

I found Hayek much the same. I do suggest Per Bylund or Saifedean Amous. They are both much more approachable and easier to read, they are also ESL for some reason.
If you are interested in history, I do suggest Murray Rothbard. He is tarred for being part of the LP in the 70's, but that makes him no less of a true academic.
Posted by: Kindltot at November 01, 2023 05:45 PM (xhaym)

Thank you, kindltot.. I will look into them..

Posted by: tubal at November 01, 2023 05:57 PM (PCK5/)

338 Rachel Ziegler would be perfect to play AOC in a biopic.
Posted by: Joe, living dangerously at November 01, 2023 05:53 PM (fKIdX)

Don't see it. Rachael Ziegler's got that wall-eyed, fish-eye face not AOC's bug-eyes. Also, RZ got no tits.

Disney'd do better for an AOC biopic hiring Dr Moreau to vivisect a female donkey into human form with big ole fake boobs as AOC's doppelgänger.

Posted by: naturalfake at November 01, 2023 05:57 PM (QzZeQ)

339 332 My family introduced me to classical music as a child. Bugs Bunny cartoons reinforced those lessons.

Posted by: Archer at November 01, 2023 05:55 PM (gmo/4)

8 tracks of Bach. There is still a version of I believe a Harpsichord concerto that has been stuck in my head for about 40 years and I cannot find it on ewetub.

It vexes me. Every few months I listen to a ton of Bach trying to find it.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 01, 2023 05:57 PM (di6C2)

340 I went to one ballet in college. The girl I wanted to bang was a dance major. Limber little minx.

Posted by: Archer at November 01, 2023 05:58 PM (gmo/4)

341 The drama concerning Disney's forever impending demise is far more entertaining and riveting than anything that they have actually put in theatres.

Posted by: Defenestratus at November 01, 2023 05:58 PM (LQ35Q)

342 It's a Kevin Feige problem.
__________________

"Feige" (the adjective) in German means "cowardly."

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 01, 2023 05:58 PM (ULISU)

343 Thomas Sowell and Milton Friedman are pretty accessible when it comes to economics.

Also loved Hayek's 'The Road To Serfdom."

Posted by: ShainS -- Overimaginative Scamp and AGAAVE Plant at November 01, 2023 05:59 PM (t3hlM)

344 Anyhow, what has happened instead: Instead of teaching students about the history of drama, they are inculcating students with leftist, progressive, woke, crap. Most plays performed on campus are uber contemporary s**t.

You can see it now in cinema. Or at least, I can. Back in the day - things used to be "complex". Even twenty years ago - films like "Rush" and "Heat". Sure, I'm sure many here did not like those. But damn, I did.

Sam Elliott as the manager pretty much telling Jennifer Jason Lee to lie about doing drugs while she tried to make the arrests. Hell - I was cheering for DiNiro to just get on the plane, take the money, and leave.

That's what's happened to modern entertainment. You can't have a MacBeth moment anymore, where it's just damned if you do and damned if you don't.

Posted by: Context at November 01, 2023 06:00 PM (4OSga)

345 Red Turban Someguy, Most 20th century economists are either Marxists or Keynesian, both of which see economics as a tool to manipulate the economy, not understand it. The ones who were not from those schools were shouted down.

Mises is remembered almost by mistake, no one knows who Schumpeter was, and Spooner, who was lauded by Frederick Douglass as the greatest abolitionist, is now considered a crank

Posted by: Kindltot at November 01, 2023 06:00 PM (xhaym)

346 Rothbard is probably the giant in economic history of this century...

Posted by: whig at November 01, 2023 05:55 PM (A8ibi)

I wonder what he would have thought of Trump?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 01, 2023 06:00 PM (3Gtis)

347 201 How much talking with the director could you need to do in a movie where you are a sword-wielding galf-vampire vampire hunter?

smells like gelfling!

Posted by: chamberlain at November 01, 2023 06:00 PM (oY6Yp)

348 My really wild idea is: she was hired because Disney is having trouble finding competent directors. I suspect directors may have decided Disney is the opposite of a resume enhancer.
Posted by: Blake
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That was also in Disney's past--Disney the live action movies after roughly 67-68 more or less were awful saccharine messes. So Disney bought other studios to make the pictures that Disney did not want to 'taint' their family friendly brand. The animated part kept chugging on but it too hit the shoals until a last gasp revival in the 90's. Pixar and its acquisition put paid to that.

Posted by: whig at November 01, 2023 06:00 PM (A8ibi)

349 Rachel Ziegler would be perfect to play AOC in a biopic.

LOL. Great idea!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 01, 2023 06:01 PM (VWoAW)

350 Bob’s Burgers and King of the Hill would be the two animated shows I wouldn’t mind my kids watching.

Even though on King of the Hill

Hank bought crack multiple times
Hank was a pimp
Hank smoked weed and drinks beer in the alley
Bobby cooked meth
Peggy smuggled coke into prison.

Posted by: Drive by at November 01, 2023 06:01 PM (MNhXM)

351 The drama concerning Disney's forever impending demise is far more entertaining and riveting than anything that they have actually put in theatres.

Posted by: Defenestratus at November 01, 2023 05:58 PM (LQ35Q)

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Heh. Truth.

Posted by: ShainS -- Overimaginative Scamp and AGAAVE Plant at November 01, 2023 06:01 PM (t3hlM)

352 Fegelein! Fegelein! Fegeline!

Adolf Hamas, In a Bunker, Gaza

Posted by: Archer at November 01, 2023 06:01 PM (gmo/4)

353 I saw a guy in a kilt at the store yesterday. He looked like he could do that thing where they heave logs into the air. A bit odd for rural KS
Posted by: Notsothoreau at November 01, 2023 05:52 PM (cLWyk)

I had a girlfriend who wanted me to wear a kilt, she thought "utilitkilt" would be just the thing. They have pockets, you know.
Anyhow, she spent time in Scotland.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 01, 2023 06:01 PM (xhaym)

354 Rachel Ziegler would be perfect to play AOC in a biopic.
Posted by: Joe, living dangerously

Well, Sleeping Beauty is right out!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at November 01, 2023 06:01 PM (FVME7)

355 "If you're directing a $250 million movie, it's kind of weird for the director to leave with a few months to go," says a source familiar with the production.

There's a price to be paid when you put an unqualified hack token in as the director. What does she care? She knows this thing is gonna crash and burn harder than the Hindenburg.
Posted by: Archimedes at November 01, 2023 04:53 PM (I/Qkd)

Absolutely. Plus, if Disney needed this director present to finish the movie they would have frog marched her back to Mouse House and kept her there. The fact that she could take a powder while the movie is finished shows she isn't the director at all.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 01, 2023 06:02 PM (eoQWY)

356 It vexes me. Every few months I listen to a ton of Bach trying to find it.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 01, 2023 05:57 PM (di6C2)

*waves hand vaguely*

Aaaahh, Bach!

Posted by: CPL Walter O'Reilly from Otumwah Iowa at November 01, 2023 06:02 PM (T/Lqj)

357 Trying to care...

Posted by: Nope, don't care at November 01, 2023 06:03 PM (p0FYq)

358 345 Red Turban Someguy, Most 20th century economists are either Marxists or Keynesian, both of which see economics as a tool to manipulate the economy, not understand it. The ones who were not from those schools were shouted down.

Mises is remembered almost by mistake, no one knows who Schumpeter was, and Spooner, who was lauded by Frederick Douglass as the greatest abolitionist, is now considered a crank
Posted by: Kindltot at November 01, 2023 06:00 PM (xhaym)

I'm speaking of the capitalist economists as well. Too often common ends are assumed. Economic structures, both domestically and internationally, are negotiated by conflict or conflict-based mechanisms that serve differing interests. Ignoring these is like ignoring friction.

These considerations have nearly entirely departed the field as it strives to pretend it's a field of mathematics.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at November 01, 2023 06:03 PM (eYoxG)

359 I had a girlfriend who wanted me to wear a kilt, she thought "utilitkilt" would be just the thing. They have pockets, you know.
Anyhow, she spent time in Scotland.
Posted by: Kindltot at November 01, 2023 06:01 PM (xhaym)

Hike up your skirt a little more
And show the world to me
Hike up your skirt a little more
And show your world to me

Posted by: Dave Matthews at November 01, 2023 06:04 PM (NtVYv)

360 I mentioned upthread that I was able to purchase a DVD of the original Fantasia… the music is classical and excellent… it is a great connection to my childhood..

Posted by: tubal at November 01, 2023 06:04 PM (PCK5/)

361 Evening.

Wait...Joss Whedon wrote a new show?

I looked it up. It seems it was canceled when only half of it aired but is now available in its entirety free on Tubi.

Posted by: Robert at November 01, 2023 06:04 PM (eYxmc)

362 I wonder what he would have thought of Trump?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo
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Dislike of his economic policies, liking his foreign policy. Rothbard was better at being an economic historian. You might call him the anti-Marx.

One of the biggest problems in macro economics is what are the normative values to be expressed. That is where a libertarian, Marxist, Austrian or Chicago School etc. will all differ. Chicago School was somewhat more pragmatic and less doctrinal than the Austrian School bu the same can be said for the Frankfurt School versus traditional Marxism.

Posted by: whig at November 01, 2023 06:05 PM (A8ibi)

363 I'm speaking of the capitalist economists as well. Too often common ends are assumed. Economic structures, both domestically and internationally, are negotiated by conflict or conflict-based mechanisms that serve differing interests. Ignoring these is like ignoring friction.

The only economist I ever read and believed was Milton Friedman. Because he didn't promise a damn thing. Everyone's labor was either stolen or freely traded. Pure and simple.

Posted by: Context at November 01, 2023 06:05 PM (4OSga)

364 As for movie producers using bots to attack their critics...do I believe it? You bet!

I believe every single one of those people is just that shitty.

Imagine if the great studio heads of yore had access to such technology. They'd be running rampant over their critics.

Posted by: Robert at November 01, 2023 06:06 PM (eYxmc)

365 Just a quick request for a little prayer... heading off to the ER with my husband.. he's been having troubles and now thinks he might have a twisted bowel..

Posted by: It's me donna at November 01, 2023 06:06 PM (bs+z0)

366 I don't know who Ali is, but it seems like something with someone named Ali has already adequately checked off the boxes for diversity.

Also I don't get the point of Marvels. They're essentially near gods that are Undefeatable, especially the women, right? What a boring movie. It would be like watching a group of 3rd graders squish ants, except more boring.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - don't ask me to accept what you are when you refused to accept what you are at November 01, 2023 06:06 PM (lNBGv)

367 I had a girlfriend who wanted me to wear a kilt, she thought "utilitkilt" would be just the thing. They have pockets, you know.
Anyhow, she spent time in Scotland.
Posted by: Kindltot at November 01, 2023 06:01 PM (xhaym)

I want a kilt, but it would have to be legit, with my clan's tartan. them ain't cheap. And I would probably cheat and wear skivvies underneath. I am modest that way.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Keith's Son at November 01, 2023 06:07 PM (T/Lqj)

368 8 tracks of Bach. There is still a version of I believe a Harpsichord concerto that has been stuck in my head for about 40 years and I cannot find it on ewetub.

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That damn Bach was just too damn prolific! And he had 20 children. I don't know when he slept.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at November 01, 2023 06:07 PM (FVME7)

369 Done, Donna.

Posted by: Blake - semi lurker at large at November 01, 2023 06:07 PM (z5vMw)

370 365 Just a quick request for a little prayer... heading off to the ER with my husband.. he's been having troubles and now thinks he might have a twisted bowel..
Posted by: It's me donna at November 01, 2023 06:06 PM (bs+z0)

Good luck Donna.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 01, 2023 06:07 PM (di6C2)

371 It vexes me. Every few months I listen to a ton of Bach trying to find it.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 01, 2023 05:57 PM (di6C2)

That's not Bach, it's Beethoven.

-- Capt. Nixon, Co. E, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division

Posted by: Archer at November 01, 2023 06:07 PM (gmo/4)

372 I wonder what he would have thought of Trump?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 01, 2023 06:00 PM (3Gtis)

I expect he would have hated him for most things. Rothbard was not actually an anarchist, but his views on government were essentially anarchistic.
On the other hand, Rothbard did point out that if you abolished the state tomorrow, by the end of the week there would be a stronger, more oppressive one building itself.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 01, 2023 06:07 PM (xhaym)

373 Chicago School was somewhat more pragmatic and less doctrinal than the Austrian School bu the same can be said for the Frankfurt School versus traditional Marxism.

Almost every one of those "schools" you mention use the idea of coinage as a way to move the masses. As if there is no wealth at all.

Which is exactly how the latest round of Ivy League mandarins view it. Like coinage is the easiest way to manipulate the rubes.

Maybe it is.

Posted by: Context at November 01, 2023 06:08 PM (4OSga)

374 The only economist I ever read and believed was Milton Friedman. Because he didn't promise a damn thing. Everyone's labor was either stolen or freely traded. Pure and simple.
Posted by: Context
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Monetarism is actually a subset of Keynesiasm. It simply treats money as another good (somewhat of a simplification but good enough for gubmint work) and was an outgrowth of the Chicago School pragmatic approach to Austrian economics.

Posted by: whig at November 01, 2023 06:08 PM (A8ibi)

375 Posted by: It's me donna at November 01, 2023 06:06 PM (bs+z0)

Yikes.

Sending prayers.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Keith's Son at November 01, 2023 06:08 PM (T/Lqj)

376 Dislike of his economic policies, liking his foreign policy. Rothbard was better at being an economic historian. You might call him the anti-Marx.

-

Some moron linked a really good discussion that I regret not bookmarking. Some highly regarded leftist iirc, maybe a billionaire, who was saying "you know, it turns out Trump was a fantastic president and we destroyed ourselves because we didn't like the messenger"

Posted by: Moron Robbie - don't ask me to accept what you are when you refused to accept what you are at November 01, 2023 06:08 PM (lNBGv)

377 Posted by: It's me donna at November 01, 2023 06:06 PM
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Prayers up, Donna.

Posted by: olddog in mo at November 01, 2023 06:09 PM (ju2Fy)

378 Hulu deal dropped. Comcast exercises for $8.6B.

Posted by: H mitchell at November 01, 2023 06:09 PM (EuCrk)

379 62 'I don't understand this site's focus on Disney'

Me either. As a major leftist propaganda source, Disney can't die fast enough. The details aren't important to me.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at November 01, 2023 06:09 PM (roH4R)

380
Prayers up, Donna.
Posted by: olddog in mo at November 01, 2023 06:09 PM (ju2Fy)

Thanks all... Will keep you posted

Posted by: It's me donna at November 01, 2023 06:09 PM (bs+z0)

381 What the fuck... we're still on Disney?

Jesus Christ Ace... let it fucking go. Nobody, not even the shareholders care.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 01, 2023 06:10 PM (Q4IgG)

382 Prayers, Donna

Posted by: Archer at November 01, 2023 06:10 PM (gmo/4)

383 nood

Invasion

Posted by: banana Dream at November 01, 2023 06:10 PM (Y6IkP)

384 Wait a moment. Does Disney know what a woman is? Can Disney supply a definition that will stand USSC scrutiny? Democrats.

Posted by: Ciampino - My drug dealer cracks me up at November 01, 2023 06:10 PM (qfLjt)

385 Is their anything remotely like antitrust law anymore??

Posted by: tubal at November 01, 2023 06:10 PM (PCK5/)

386 I do get aggravated at the inconsistency of our fight against the woke .

We have been successful in hurting AB by destroying Bud Light because they put a tranny on a promotional beer can.

But the fact that the NFL has now approved tranny cheerleaders has largely been ignored.

Posted by: Drive by at November 01, 2023 05:29 PM

It's not that hard to understand.

People like sports. They like picking a team and rooting for it. This has been a human trait forever. The Roman Colosseum sat 65,000. If you want to make small talk with somebody you talk about "the game (last night)". If you give up the NFL you lose that.

Bud Light is a (not very good) beer. It is mostly indistinguishable from the other light beers. It's success was directly proportional to it's marketing. Dylan Mulvaney killed that marketing. Unlike the NFL, you can switch to a different brand and have the fun of razzing your still-drinking Bud Light friend.

Posted by: Chuck C at November 01, 2023 06:10 PM (xttsV)

387 374 The only economist I ever read and believed was Milton Friedman. Because he didn't promise a damn thing. Everyone's labor was either stolen or freely traded. Pure and simple.
Posted by: Context
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Monetarism is actually a subset of Keynesiasm. It simply treats money as another good (somewhat of a simplification but good enough for gubmint work) and was an outgrowth of the Chicago School pragmatic approach to Austrian economics.
Posted by: whig at November 01, 2023 06:08 PM (A8ibi)

It focuses on investment spending rather than consumption spending. That part is reasonable, but the idea that it could be easily manipulated to control business cycles I think has been shown to be false by this point.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at November 01, 2023 06:10 PM (eYoxG)

388 These considerations have nearly entirely departed the field as it strives to pretend it's a field of mathematics.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at November 01, 2023 06:03 PM (eYoxG)

econometrics as espoused by the centrally controlled economy: If Only We Had Enough Information. Hayek stated it was impossible, but the principal text in macroeconomics, Nordhouse and Samuelson supposedly supports it.
I know Krugman lent his name to a simplification of the text, since an ex-GF took econ 101 using his textbook and she had her prof pissed off at her since I was helping her with her essays.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 01, 2023 06:11 PM (xhaym)

389 Not an actual nude invasion. Because that could actually be nice. Well, depending on the invaders. Viking girls? Sure. Gorlocks? no thanks

Posted by: banana Dream at November 01, 2023 06:13 PM (Y6IkP)

390 Some moron linked a really good discussion that I regret not bookmarking. Some highly regarded leftist iirc, maybe a billionaire, who was saying "you know, it turns out Trump was a fantastic president and we destroyed ourselves because we didn't like the messenger"
Posted by: Moron Robbie
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Remember part of the discussion but unfortunately as has been true throughout the centuries, people who got to the top of their field mistake their own wallet size, iq, or heredity for actual wisdom in governance. That is probably one of the reasons that many of the Greek philosophers disdained commerce in favor of disciplined thought.

Posted by: whig at November 01, 2023 06:13 PM (A8ibi)

391 334 Honestly - and we'll never get the real story now. But how did a guy that got the initial flush of cash by making WWII cartoons parley that into an empire of really nice, really bland yet just interesting enough fun family entertainment ?
Posted by: Context at November 01, 2023 05:48 PM (4OSga)

It surely helped to have the demographics of the Baby Boom for a consumer base. Lots and lots of families to sell stuff to.

Contrast that to Hollywood desperately chasing after an increasingly splintered market. I'm not likely to go see the biopic of some Rapper I've never heard of.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at November 01, 2023 05:56 PM (H2qjM)

Walt was a visionsary - first big outside the movie thing he did was build Disneyland, at the exact perfect time and perfect place, as LA exploded in the 1950's boom. Then people today don't know how big Disney's Sunday evening TV show was - EVERY kid in the country watched it, every week. Most all of it was in house original programming today. This build demand for the park and for any new movies at the same time. And then came Disneyworld, the crowning achievment.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 01, 2023 06:13 PM (i9ffA)

392 Just a quick request for a little prayer... heading off to the ER with my husband.. he's been having troubles and now thinks he might have a twisted bowel..
Posted by: It's me donna at November 01, 2023 06:06 PM (bs+z0)

Yike!

Here's hoping they get that bowel untwisted lickety split.

Posted by: Robert at November 01, 2023 06:13 PM (XRqjN)

393 Posted by: It's me donna at November 01, 2023 06:06 PM (bs+z0

Will pray for your husband and you, Donna.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 01, 2023 06:13 PM (DI4N/)

394 That's not Bach, it's Beethoven.

-- Capt. Nixon, Co. E, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division
Posted by: Archer at November 01, 2023 06:07 PM (gmo/4)

You jest, but I am sure it was Bach.

Classical is weird. It took me forever to find one particular version of Stabat Mater (Pergolesi) that I heard on a cd about 25 years ago (Tears from Heaven.) ALL of the other version sounded ... wrong. Discordant. Like the Bach piece I'd search every few months and come up empty. For years. Then a few months ago, I found the bastard. Perfect.

https://tinyurl.com/ycyezv2k

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 01, 2023 06:14 PM (di6C2)

395 Anne Bancroft was married to-

The genius behind the funniest movie ever made

Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at November 01, 2023 06:15 PM (Rbu5d)

396 Have you ever tried to read Mises? It is pretty unapproachable.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at November 01, 2023 05:13 PM (eYoxG)

WHAT? His textbook on economics is pretty thick, but so is any economics book putting a lot of gilding on obvious concepts.

His book Socialism was pretty funny in a German way. He was quoting some early Socialist 'thinker' who when asked who would do the road work in the utopia decided that kids and teens should do it at night. I can just imagine the chain gangs of toddlers and teens breaking concrete and laying tar.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 01, 2023 06:17 PM (eoQWY)

397 Almost every one of those "schools" you mention use the idea of coinage as a way to move the masses. As if there is no wealth at all.

Which is exactly how the latest round of Ivy League mandarins view it. Like coinage is the easiest way to manipulate the rubes.

Maybe it is.
Posted by: Context at November 01, 2023 06:08 PM (4OSga)

this is the one issue I have with Friedman and the Chicago School. Austrians have a differing look on money that is more grounded on Rothbard's scholarship and Mises' definition.
Rothbard did write a really big book on The History of Money and Banking in the United States, The Colonial Era to World War II, and it is very large and green
The Austrians also review free banking post Jackson until the federal reserve, and are generally favorable on the period.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 01, 2023 06:19 PM (xhaym)

398 Donna praying can be fixed quick

Posted by: Skip at November 01, 2023 06:19 PM (fwDg9)

399 re 51: i hate you

Posted by: gnats local 678 at November 01, 2023 06:21 PM (B1FKF)

400 That is probably one of the reasons that many of the Greek philosophers disdained commerce in favor of disciplined thought.
Posted by: whig at November 01, 2023 06:13 PM (A8ibi)

Aristocrats always claim to hate and forbit commerce because it opens up the political playing field to just anyone. And then they trade just like anyone who doesn't have the stamp of high birth.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 01, 2023 06:21 PM (eoQWY)

401 Posted by: Chuck C at November 01, 2023 06:10 PM (xttsV)

It’s not about understanding. I understand and that’s what aggravates me. If you only give up something that doesn’t effect you , you’re not giving anything up.

Posted by: Drive by at November 01, 2023 06:22 PM (MNhXM)

402 econometrics as espoused by the centrally controlled economy: If Only We Had Enough Information. Hayek stated it was impossible, but the principal text in macroeconomics, Nordhouse and Samuelson supposedly supports it.
I know Krugman lent his name to a simplification of the text, since an ex-GF took econ 101 using his textbook and she had her prof pissed off at her since I was helping her with her essays.
Posted by: Kindltot at November 01, 2023 06:11 PM (xhaym)

Mises was the one who 'proved' the theory that Economic Calculation in a Socilalist society can't be done. They were a small club and probably floated the ideas around.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 01, 2023 06:25 PM (eoQWY)

403 re 394: pergolesi's 'stabat mater' might be one of the two best known settings of that work of catholic church music, the other being the version by rossini. i can't even name aother version and i've been listening to classical music for decades. Pergolesi wrote it very late in life (he died at 26)

Posted by: gnats local 678 at November 01, 2023 06:28 PM (B1FKF)

404 But the fact that the NFL has now approved tranny cheerleaders has largely been ignored.

Posted by: Drive by at November 01, 2023 05:29 PM

It's not that hard to understand.

People like sports. They like picking a team and rooting for it. This has been a human trait forever. The Roman Colosseum sat 65,000. If you want to make small talk with somebody you talk about "the game (last night)". If you give up the NFL you lose that.

Posted by: Chuck C at November 01, 2023 06:10 PM (xttsV)

Even in the heyday of Cheerleaderism in the NFL they got one or to shots waving pompoms on a broadcast so what they do doesn't impact the NFL fan much. And of course the Panthers just scratched out one win so far last week so what they do is even less consequential.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 01, 2023 06:29 PM (eoQWY)

405
Old Hollywood westerns, film and tv, could be annoyingly preachy dealing with racism, capitalism, feminism and a variety of white male oppressive behavior.

Posted by: Auspex at November 01, 2023 06:38 PM (j4U/Z)

406 I went to see the 30th anniversary rerelease of The Nightmare Before Christmas yesterday and they had a “Marvels” trailer before it.

Somehow, Jack Skellington has only a skull for a head and yet his face is far more expressive that Brie Larson’s. I’m

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Arik at November 01, 2023 07:46 PM (Y2NGV)

407 does anyone actually get a hard on from Zegler? i mean really?

Posted by: avi at November 01, 2023 07:52 PM (cBCwV)

408 Drunk 3PO "dated" Gina a few years ago after the Cara Dune axing. They are just friends as I understand, but they are not just internet friends, they are friends friends, and Drunk has numerous video's of him and her getting drunk while he "woo's" her with her signing off of the Gina Carano/Cara Dune swag. It's really very cute.

I put "dating" in quotes because she's basically been with the same dude since like 2001, but her connection with Drunk3po is obvious. they are like convention friends, with goofy affinities that they share.

Posted by: Wickedpinto at November 01, 2023 10:51 PM (e9nOI)

409 I always ᥙsed to study post in news papers but now as I am a user of web therefore from now I am using net for content,
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