Is This Something?

Ages ago, Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez did a "double feature" movie called Grindhouse, which imitated violent "grindhouse" movies of the 1970s.

In between the two "features," they played fake trailers for other grindhouse movies.

One of the trailers was for "Machete." (Content warning.) They actually went on to make a real movie called Machete Kills. (Content warning, again.)

Another fake trailer was for "Hobo with a Shotgun." But then they really made Hobo with a Shotgun.

The sickest fake trailer was Eli Roth's Thanksgiving. Serious NC-17 content warning. It's pretty repellent.

Even knowing it's a joke -- it's still got all four food groups for a hard-R rating plus a really nasty feeling to it.

Well, now they've made that joke holiday-themed slasher movie into a real holiday-themed slasher movie.

Is it something? I don't think so. I think the two minutes of the fake trailer is all I really need to see of this concept.

The remaining movies yet to be made are "Werewolf Women of the SS" starring Nicholas Cage as Fu Manchu, and the funniest trailer, I think, for "Don't."

Recognize the narrator for the "Don't" trailer? It's Will Arnett.

So, three out of five fake movies are now real movies. Can "Don't" and "Werewolf Women of the SS" be far behind?

Unfortunately, I don't think any studio will greenlight a movie with Nick Cage playing "yellowface" as Fu Manchu.

BTW, if you haven't seen Grindhouse, or the two component movies it was split into, Death Proof and Planet Terror, I wouldn't bother. They're pretty lame and the joke gets old fast.

The best part of that movie was the trailers, and you can just watch them on YouTube. It's basically a joke that can sustain itself for about ten minutes... which is about the length of the fake trailers.

Also:

Jack Reacher season 2 is coming out.

The owners of the James Bond franchise decided they did not like sitting around between movies not making any money and so they've made a... reality series. It's a stupid idea but they do show off some great scenery.

And here's the "Is This Something?" Lock of the Week (TM):

Tony Shaloub says that the pandemic inspired the movie, because people wondered, "What would Monk, of all people, be like during a pandemic?"

Hopefully they spoof the hypochondiacs and don't push the message that Monk was right all along.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 04:49 PM

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1 Is it something? I don't think so. I think the two minutes of the fake trailer is all I really need to see of this concept.

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No.

I don't hate Eli Roth, but...no.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going up some wonky stairs with Paul Leni at November 10, 2023 04:50 PM (GBKbO)

2 Maybe

Posted by: Skip at November 10, 2023 04:51 PM (fwDg9)

3 Funny little thing about Eli Roth.

His last movie before Thanksgiving was the adaptation of the video game Borderlands.

What? You haven't seen Borderlands yet and they're already releasing trailers for Roth's next movie? How can that be?

Because Roth's first cut was so horrible that they went back for reshoots, and then his second cut was so horrible that they fired him and hired Tim Miller to fix the film.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going up some wonky stairs with Paul Leni at November 10, 2023 04:51 PM (GBKbO)

4 close to the top!

Posted by: DanMan at November 10, 2023 04:51 PM (8uzBS)

5 It's Hollywood.

It's less then nothing

Posted by: rd at November 10, 2023 04:51 PM (NBqz3)

6 The remaining movies yet to be made are "Werewolf Women of the SS" starring Nicholas Cage as Fu Manchu, and the funniest trailer, I think, for "Don't."

Recognize the narrator for the "Don't" trailer? It's Will Arnett.

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Don't was the best because of Edgar Wright, and he understood exactly what he was lampooning: foreign horror films cut for American audiences that are so inexplicable that they feel random while no one speaks because Americans didn't want to see movies with English accents in the 70s.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going up some wonky stairs with Paul Leni at November 10, 2023 04:52 PM (GBKbO)

7 'Hopefully they spoof the hypochondiacs and don't push the message that Monk was right all along.'

SPOILER: This will be exactly the message.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at November 10, 2023 04:52 PM (roH4R)

8 Don't think ever saw any of these

Posted by: Skip at November 10, 2023 04:53 PM (fwDg9)

9 Werewolf Women of the SS

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But enough about Rashida Tlaib.

Posted by: Cave Johnson at November 10, 2023 04:54 PM (jleHU)

10 I think Thanksgiving has a chance to be good for certain values of horror movie good but then again I am an Eli Roth fangirl.

Posted by: kderien at November 10, 2023 04:54 PM (7uj2f)

11 Monk wasn't really as good as people pretended it was for some inexplicable reason. I mean, it was ok, but sh*t the critics would go on and on about the at show.

Same goes for Barry and that stupid Hick Southern Ref Somehow becomes the coach of a British Soccer Club show.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 10, 2023 04:54 PM (XV/Pl)

12 oh Edgar Wright did Don't? I didn't know that.

Re: Eli Roth, he did the fake trailer, but I don't know if he's done the "real" movie. I would guess he didn't tho he might be a producer or something.

Posted by: ace at November 10, 2023 04:54 PM (KRtlO)

13 12 oh Edgar Wright did Don't? I didn't know that.

Re: Eli Roth, he did the fake trailer, but I don't know if he's done the "real" movie. I would guess he didn't tho he might be a producer or something.
Posted by: ace at November 10, 2023 04:54 PM (KRtlO)

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Yeah, Roth is directing Thanksgiving. That was the excuse for him leaving the Borderlands movie, that he was off to make his passion project leaving his last project to be completely retooled by someone else because he just couldn't wait.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going up some wonky stairs with Paul Leni at November 10, 2023 04:55 PM (GBKbO)

14 Werewolf Women of the SS

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But enough about Rashida Tlaib.
Posted by: Cave Johnson at November 10, 2023 04:54 PM (jleHU)

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Can someone please forward this comment to the Babylon Bee?

Posted by: rd at November 10, 2023 04:55 PM (NBqz3)

15 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 10, 2023 04:55 PM (Zz0t1)

16 Really loved Monk but there was a fine line of displaying his ocd. Most of the time they did an excellent job in finding the balance. Only a few episodes made the show worse.

I’m afraid that a movie taking place during COVID lockdowns will tip the scale of ocd to make it unwatchable for me.

Posted by: Drive by at November 10, 2023 04:55 PM (MNhXM)

17 Oh, so it's a movie thread?

Posted by: Just catching on at November 10, 2023 04:56 PM (8I1xD)

18 i watched one of the James Bond reality tv show episodes. It was... not bad. The scenery was the green-gray misty moody Scottish highlands. Nice to look at. There was some game material in between the wide shots.

Posted by: ace at November 10, 2023 04:56 PM (KRtlO)

19 >>> Thanksgiving. That was the excuse for him leaving the Borderlands movie, that he was off to make his passion project leaving his last project to be completely retooled by someone else because he just couldn't wait.

oh, seems like it should be beneath him tbh

Posted by: ace at November 10, 2023 04:57 PM (KRtlO)

20 18 i watched one of the James Bond reality tv show episodes. It was... not bad. The scenery was the green-gray misty moody Scottish highlands. Nice to look at. There was some game material in between the wide shots.
Posted by: ace at November 10, 2023 04:56 PM (KRtlO)

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Reality tv game shows are a formula, and it would shock me if EON didn't get veterans of stuff like Survivor to work on it at some of the highest levels of production.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going up some wonky stairs with Paul Leni at November 10, 2023 04:57 PM (GBKbO)

21 Meh, fake movies.

I am still holding out for "Rochelle Rochelle" and "Prognosis Negative."

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at November 10, 2023 04:57 PM (sFQIY)

22 21 Meh, fake movies.

I am still holding out for "Rochelle Rochelle" and "Prognosis Negative."
Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at November 10, 2023 04:57 PM (sFQIY)

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*wishes The English Patient was one of those fake movies*

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going up some wonky stairs with Paul Leni at November 10, 2023 04:57 PM (GBKbO)

23 Werewolf Women of the SS

Only if they look like that Chippy Alison Doody who played the Nazi dame in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.

Posted by: Archer at November 10, 2023 04:57 PM (gmo/4)

24 Even by the desultory standards of slasher movies, Thanksgiving looks like trash left in the sun.

Posted by: I think they've now hit all the major holidays in horror films now though. at November 10, 2023 04:58 PM (KFhLj)

25 I really liked the first few Reacher books, then they went to shit. Tom Cruise is too tiny to be Reacher, so the movie was wrong. This guy looks like he could be Reacher and I have Prime, so I might take a look at season 1 just to see.

Posted by: huerfano at November 10, 2023 04:58 PM (Q4KYm)

26 >>>I am still holding out for "Rochelle Rochelle" and "Prognosis Negative."

dude I have about two thirds of a treatment for "Chunnel" in my head. It's a Python style casting thing -- each of the leads from the show plays multiple characters. Seinfeld plays a civil engineer trying to get to the chunnel train caught in the collapse. Jason Alexander plays "Le Falcone," the French bomber who blew up the Chunnel.

It's the greatest movie I ever made in my mind.

Posted by: ace at November 10, 2023 04:59 PM (KRtlO)

27 I’d like to see a Psych movie.

I luv me some Maggie Lawson.

Posted by: Drive by at November 10, 2023 04:59 PM (MNhXM)

28 Watched Monk more in reruns, was fairly good

Posted by: Skip at November 10, 2023 04:59 PM (fwDg9)

29 Zombeavers!

Posted by: nurse ratched, otter 841 has a BABY! at November 10, 2023 04:59 PM (xT61F)

30 >>>Hopefully they spoof the hypochondiacs and don't push the message that Monk was right all along.

A funny way to handle it would be how I (a slight germophobe) handled covid -- in the beginning, I was like "oh, this is great. They're finally cleaning shopping cart handles and wiping down touch screen machines" then within a few weeks, with the masks, and lysol wipes on the mail and everything else, was like "OKAY! Too far, you guys are all now officially nuts."

Never thought I'D be the voice of reason when it comes to germs.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at November 10, 2023 04:59 PM (mj0Qp)

31 I for one am happy to see someone trying to correct the dearth of Thanksgiving movies, bloody or otherwise.

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at November 10, 2023 04:59 PM (BUT0H)

32 I’m amazed anyone would give Eli Roth a penny after his last movies were completely terrible and bombed. He was always a talentless hack, but for some reason they tried and tried to make him happen. But like fetch, he wasn’t gonna happen.

Posted by: Elric Blade at November 10, 2023 04:59 PM (8NViw)

33 I haven't watched a movie since "The Longest Day", just a couple of hours ago.

Posted by: fd 49 at November 10, 2023 05:00 PM (vFG9F)

34 BTW, if you haven't seen Grindhouse, or the two component movies it was split into, Death Proof and Planet Terror, I wouldn't bother. They're pretty lame and the joke gets old fast.
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Actually, I thought Death Proof was pretty good cinema until about the second act.

The part leading up to when Kurt Russell makes his first kill, is well-paced intriguing filmmaking.

My opinion of Russell's acting has been upgraded and upgraded through the years. First there was Best of Times, where I got an inkling he could act (counter to Escape from New York), and then there was Soldier, a movie where very little of it was words, and Russell pulled it off, with excellence in my mind.

But I think the Death Proof turn is one of the finest examples of Russell's talent. He's good in Hateful-8 as well

Posted by: Axeman at November 10, 2023 05:00 PM (krQz2)

35 That's Hollywood, baby!

Posted by: Rachel Zegler at November 10, 2023 05:00 PM (guGkK)

36 mmm...Reacher....

Posted by: lin-duh at November 10, 2023 05:00 PM (a5Jsm)

37 I for one am happy to see someone trying to correct the dearth of Thanksgiving movies, bloody or otherwise.

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at November 10, 2023 04:59 PM (BUT0H)
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-- Hallmark Movies has entered the chat --

Posted by: Axeman at November 10, 2023 05:01 PM (krQz2)

38 Ace, I just heard on the radio that Biden is pushing to have SC be first in line over Iowa for the primaries because black people and fraud, but mostly fraud.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - don't ask me to accept what you are when you refused to accept what you are at November 10, 2023 05:01 PM (8FF+5)

39 During COVID I called male Karens , Monks.

Posted by: Drive by at November 10, 2023 05:01 PM (MNhXM)

40 Monk wasn't really as good as people pretended it was for some inexplicable reason. I mean, it was ok, but sh*t the critics would go on and on about the at show.

Same goes for Barry and that stupid Hick Southern Ref Somehow becomes the coach of a British Soccer Club show.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 10, 2023 04:54 PM (XV/Pl)

I haven't seen the other ones, but I liked Monk as an on-in-the-background show that was pretty formulaic and easy watching.

Kind of like The Office. Good show to have on while I'm doing housework or whatever and only half paying attention to the TV.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at November 10, 2023 05:01 PM (mj0Qp)

41 Fake Bands > Fake Movies

Imagine Iron Maiden, if Neil Diamond had replaced Paul Di'Anno.

Posted by: garrett at November 10, 2023 05:01 PM (tsCI7)

42 Monk would be having a good time during the lockdowns. Everyone staying away from him, no one trying to shake his hand. He might have to deal with some misaligned-sneeze guards, though. But he'd enjoy not shouldering the load all on his own.

Posted by: JSchuler at November 10, 2023 05:01 PM (l6eKM)

43 Yeah, Monk wasn't my kinda show, so since there's no John Wayne in it, I'll pass.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 10, 2023 05:01 PM (Zz0t1)

44 "I for one am happy to see someone trying to correct the dearth of Thanksgiving movies, bloody or otherwise.

Posted by: She Hobbit "

I'd like to see Godzilla fight a giant space turkey.

Posted by: fd 49 at November 10, 2023 05:01 PM (vFG9F)

45 Love and Appreciate Ace, Cobs, and Horde!
Crazy!
💀

Posted by: Eagle Lips at November 10, 2023 05:02 PM (1ljRD)

46 It's a long way from Milan to Minsk...

Posted by: Kramer at November 10, 2023 05:02 PM (8I1xD)

47 I do find it funny that the Fox 4 Weather guy in DFW looks a LOT like Tony Shaloub.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 10, 2023 05:02 PM (Zz0t1)

48 I for one am happy to see someone trying to correct the dearth of Thanksgiving movies, bloody or otherwise.

Planes, Trains and Automobiles

The best Thanksgiving movie of all time.

Posted by: Archer at November 10, 2023 05:02 PM (gmo/4)

49 So, we meet again, Monsieur Peanut.

Posted by: Le Falcone at November 10, 2023 05:02 PM (krqg6)

50 I've lately come to the conclusion that the late 2000s-early 2010s were a deeply underrated period for network TV. Psych, Monk, Burn Notice, Royal Pains: they weren't home runs but they were fun and could appeal to a lot of people. They didn't feel the need to be edgy or topical.

Posted by: Dr. T at November 10, 2023 05:03 PM (m9hmt)

51 I just watched the Reacher trailer for the 4th time just to catch that shirtless shot near the end.
Mmmm. can't wait.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at November 10, 2023 05:03 PM (t/2Uw)

52 "BTW, if you haven't seen Grindhouse, or the two component movies it was split into, Death Proof and Planet Terror, I wouldn't bother."

CARL: Hey, you ever seen Krull?
CHRIS GRIFFIN: No.
CARL: Yeah, you don't to see Krull.

Posted by: bearski at November 10, 2023 05:04 PM (Bhsk7)

53 Zombeavers!
Posted by: nurse ratched, otter 841 has a BABY! at November 10, 2023 04:59 PM (xT61F)

Isn't that what you call a woman who's a dead lay?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 10, 2023 05:04 PM (Zz0t1)

54 The best Thanksgiving movie of all time.

Posted by: Archer

Agreed. And somehow most people I run across think it was Christmas. SMH

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at November 10, 2023 05:04 PM (BUT0H)

55 Eli Roth is the torture porn guy. I hate that crap.

Posted by: hobbitopoly at November 10, 2023 05:04 PM (6xRrr)

56 Please.

The Running Man is the best Thanksgiving movie.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going up some wonky stairs with Paul Leni at November 10, 2023 05:04 PM (GBKbO)

57 The best Thanksgiving movie of all time.

Posted by: Archer

Isn't it the only Thanksgiving movie of all time?

Posted by: Dr. T at November 10, 2023 05:05 PM (m9hmt)

58 I've lately come to the conclusion that the late 2000s-early 2010s were a deeply underrated period for network TV. Psych, Monk, Burn Notice, Royal Pains: they weren't home runs but they were fun and could appeal to a lot of people. They didn't feel the need to be edgy or topical.

Posted by: Dr. T at November 10, 2023 05:03 PM (m9hmt)
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As sure as yogurt in Michael Westen's fridge, Burn Notice was non-miss watching for me.

Posted by: Axeman at November 10, 2023 05:05 PM (krQz2)

59 57 Isn't it the only Thanksgiving movie of all time?
Posted by: Dr. T at November 10, 2023 05:05 PM (m9hmt)

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There is also The Addams Family Values.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going up some wonky stairs with Paul Leni at November 10, 2023 05:05 PM (GBKbO)

60 The best Thanksgiving movie of all time.

Posted by: Archer

Isn't it the only Thanksgiving movie of all time?

Posted by: Dr. T at November 10, 2023 05:05 PM (m9hmt)

Probably why it is the best.

Posted by: Archer at November 10, 2023 05:06 PM (gmo/4)

61 I recently watched a tutorial on gun handling. John Wick 1-4

Posted by: Ben Had at November 10, 2023 05:06 PM (MRnni)

62 If we’re using Die Hard as a Christmas movie criteria then there are a hundred Thanksgiving movies.

Posted by: Drive by at November 10, 2023 05:06 PM (MNhXM)

63 I am totally watching Thanksgiving

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at November 10, 2023 05:06 PM (QGxJv)

64 There was some game material in between the wide shots.
Posted by: ace at November 10, 2023 04:56 PM (KRtlO)

Like turkey, deer or pheasant?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 10, 2023 05:06 PM (Zz0t1)

65 There is also The Addams Family Values.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going up some wonky stairs with Paul Leni

But does that count? It was a Thanskgiving play, but presented at summer camp.

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at November 10, 2023 05:07 PM (BUT0H)

66 There is also The Addams Family Values.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going up some wonky stairs with Paul Leni at November 10, 2023 05:05 PM (GBKbO)

Doesn't happen during Thanksgiving.

Posted by: Dr. T at November 10, 2023 05:07 PM (m9hmt)

67
The Running Man is the best Thanksgiving movie.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going up some wonky stairs with Paul Leni at November 10, 2023 05:04 PM (GBKbO)

Who loves you, and WHO DO YOU LOVE!!???

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 10, 2023 05:07 PM (Zz0t1)

68 So was it just my computer or was there a DNS attack or similar wiping out HQ access late in the SNL thread??

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at November 10, 2023 05:07 PM (krqg6)

69 44 "I for one am happy to see someone trying to correct the dearth of Thanksgiving movies, bloody or otherwise.

Posted by: She Hobbit "

I'd like to see Godzilla fight a giant space turkey.
Posted by: fd 49 at November 10, 2023 05:01 PM
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Godzilla did. It was called Mogera and was in Godzilla vs Space Godzilla. Mogera looks like a mechanical chicken.

Posted by: Elric Blade at November 10, 2023 05:08 PM (8NViw)

70 Texas Chainsaw Thanksgiving Massacre

Posted by: Archer at November 10, 2023 05:08 PM (gmo/4)

71 If we’re using Die Hard as a Christmas movie criteria then there are a hundred Thanksgiving movies.
Posted by: Drive by at November 10, 2023 05:06 PM (MNhXM)

Die Hard IS a Christmas movie!!!!

HE HAS A STUFFED BEAR ferchryssakes......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 10, 2023 05:08 PM (Zz0t1)

72 The Walton's Prequel, "The Homecoming" is about the only "Thanksgiving movie" that comes to mind....

But maybe that's Christmas....

Posted by: Axeman at November 10, 2023 05:08 PM (krQz2)

73 Scent of a Women is the best Thanksgiving movie.

Posted by: Drive by at November 10, 2023 05:08 PM (MNhXM)

74 If we’re using Die Hard as a Christmas movie criteria then there are a hundred Thanksgiving movies.

Alice’s Restaurant

Posted by: Buzz Adrenaline at November 10, 2023 05:09 PM (wu87C)

75 I liked Burn Notice. Never seen any of those others.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at November 10, 2023 05:09 PM (t/2Uw)

76 >>Die Hard IS a Christmas movie!!!!

>HE HAS A STUFFED BEAR ferchryssakes..

We usually just have Prime Rib.

Posted by: garrett at November 10, 2023 05:09 PM (tsCI7)

77 Seinfeld plays a civil engineer trying to get to the chunnel train caught in the collapse.
Posted by: ace at November 10,

"That's a shame."

Posted by: Jerome Seinfeld PE at November 10, 2023 05:09 PM (sFQIY)

78 The Shining is a Christmas movie.

Posted by: nurse ratched, otter 841 has a BABY! at November 10, 2023 05:10 PM (HmAPM)

79 Sorry about this

But if we are listing Thanksgiving movies,..

Accidental Tourist.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at November 10, 2023 05:10 PM (sFQIY)

80 Gremlins is still the best Christmas Movie.

Posted by: garrett at November 10, 2023 05:10 PM (tsCI7)

81 I need a nap.
That's something.

Posted by: Diogenes at November 10, 2023 05:11 PM (uSHSS)

82 Nobody watches movies on Thanksgiving. you are either watching Football or comatose from trytophan.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at November 10, 2023 05:11 PM (t/2Uw)

83 Planes Trains and Automobiles is a Thanksgiving Movie, right?

Posted by: garrett at November 10, 2023 05:11 PM (tsCI7)

84 Marky Mark’s very underrated movie , Instant Family is a Thanksgiving movie.

Posted by: Drive by at November 10, 2023 05:11 PM (MNhXM)

85 O Brother Where Art Thou? You were supposed to be here an hour ago with the sweet potato pie. Great Thanksgiving movie.

Posted by: Archer at November 10, 2023 05:11 PM (gmo/4)

86 @40

>>Kind of like The Office. Good show to have on while I'm doing housework or whatever and only half paying attention to the TV.

It's just becoming increasingly difficult, nigh impossible to find something I find worth watching.

And having 50 million streaming options and a million cable channels doesn't really make it easy.

I really do pine for the days of the big three networks and it's take it or leave it aesthetic, because there were no other options.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 10, 2023 05:11 PM (XV/Pl)

87 >>>Well, now they've made that joke holiday-themed slasher movie into a real holiday-themed slasher movie.
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Taking these movies and the others Tarantino made one may conclude that he is one sick individual.

Posted by: Braenyard at November 10, 2023 05:12 PM (gfCY0)

88 Jack Reacher season 2 is coming out.
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Can't wait.

Never read the books, but somebody who did told me that Ritchson is much more the body type for Reacher than Cruise.

Posted by: Axeman at November 10, 2023 05:12 PM (krQz2)

89 The Ref is the best Christmas movie.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 10, 2023 05:12 PM (MRnni)

90 Afternoon.

Grindhouse was pretty bad ass.

Posted by: Robert at November 10, 2023 05:13 PM (1Yy3c)

91 It's really quite amazing how many movies there are out there that I'm not ashamed to say I haven't seen.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 10, 2023 05:13 PM (Zz0t1)

92 "Godzilla did. It was called Mogera and was in Godzilla vs Space Godzilla. Mogera looks like a mechanical chicken.
Posted by: Elric Blade "

It's crying out for a sequel.

Posted by: fd 49 at November 10, 2023 05:13 PM (vFG9F)

93 Mrs. Martini Farmer likes Jack Reacher. We'll be watching...

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 10, 2023 05:13 PM (Q4IgG)

94 68 So was it just my computer or was there a DNS attack or similar wiping out HQ access late in the SNL thread??
Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at November 10, 2023 05:07 PM (krqg6)

Didn't happen for me, andycanuck.

Posted by: m at November 10, 2023 05:13 PM (ASp1y)

95 @55

>>Eli Roth is the torture porn guy. I hate that crap.

Yes, and he's not very good at it.

Rob Zombie at least tries to bring something new and interesting to the table.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 10, 2023 05:13 PM (XV/Pl)

96 The Office does have one of my top five sitcom scenes ever.

The opening scene when Dwight sets a fake fire .

I think it may be my #2.

Posted by: Drive by at November 10, 2023 05:14 PM (MNhXM)

97 It's the greatest movie I ever made in my mind.
Posted by: ace at November 10, 2023 04:59 PM (KRtlO)

Dude. that sounds more fun than anything that has been shat out in recent years.

I would pay good money to see that.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Baby Steps to the Abyss at November 10, 2023 05:14 PM (T/Lqj)

98 40 Monk wasn't really as good as people pretended it was for some inexplicable reason. I mean, it was ok, but sh*t the critics would go on and on about the at show.

My wife and her sister absolutely loved Monk. When he would walk down the street having to touch every parking meter, her sister would say "Oh my God, I do that!"

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 10, 2023 05:14 PM (i9ffA)

99 Although, I did see Hobo With a Shotgun. It was pretty bad, but mildly entertaining in concept alone, so I watched the whole thing.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 10, 2023 05:14 PM (Zz0t1)

100 Fucking Walmart. They started their Black Friday sales and not a single Blu-ray display to be found.

I am disappoint.

Posted by: Robert at November 10, 2023 05:14 PM (1Yy3c)

101 Never read the books, but somebody who did told me that Ritchson is much more the body type for Reacher than Cruise.

Posted by: Axeman

Oh yes. Yes, yes, yes.

Cruise was a ridiculous choice.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at November 10, 2023 05:14 PM (t/2Uw)

102 >>It's the greatest movie I ever made in my mind.

Better than the Saffron Trilogy?

Posted by: garrett at November 10, 2023 05:14 PM (tsCI7)

103 38
'Biden is pushing to have SC be first in line over Iowa for the primaries '

Good, let the democrats manipulate the process so much that even their asshole voters have to acknowledge that it is all pretend.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at November 10, 2023 05:15 PM (roH4R)

104 50 I've lately come to the conclusion that the late 2000s-early 2010s were a deeply underrated period for network TV. Psych, Monk, Burn Notice, Royal Pains: they weren't home runs but they were fun and could appeal to a lot of people. They didn't feel the need to be edgy or topical.
Posted by: Dr. T
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All those were on USA Network.

Posted by: whig at November 10, 2023 05:15 PM (gpYgq)

105 The Office does have one of my top five sitcom scenes ever.

The opening scene when Dwight sets a fake fire .

Posted by: Drive by at November 10, 2023 05:14 PM (MNhXM)
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Kevin's Chili pot is so, so tragic.

Posted by: Axeman at November 10, 2023 05:15 PM (krQz2)

106 Thanks, m.

I could access other sites alright so I was wondering.

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at November 10, 2023 05:15 PM (krqg6)

107 I imagine in about 10 years, someone could use CGI and AI and Deep fakes, and make that Ace Chunnel movie from home with a cast of whomever he wants.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at November 10, 2023 05:15 PM (sFQIY)

108 Reacher has a plot???

Posted by: lin-duh at November 10, 2023 05:16 PM (9Q7Y5)

109 The Ref is the best Christmas movie.
Posted by: Ben Had at November 10, 2023 05:12 PM (MRnni)

I agree. I lost my copy of it on DVD.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Baby Steps to the Abyss at November 10, 2023 05:16 PM (T/Lqj)

110 Been watching Tora Tora Tora, almost over, not exactly as it went down, got lots right as I know

Posted by: Skip at November 10, 2023 05:16 PM (fwDg9)

111 Monk always had a sidekick who always sported eye popping cleavage, right?

I think I've only ever seen the same three episodes over and over.

Posted by: Robert at November 10, 2023 05:17 PM (1Yy3c)

112 All those were on USA Network.

Posted by: whig at November 10, 2023 05:15 PM (gpYgq)
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Yup. ABC gave Monk only 6 episodes and told USA it was all theirs.

Right now--I hate to say it because I'm an Apple-phobe--but Apple+ has the best consistently good content.

Posted by: Axeman at November 10, 2023 05:17 PM (krQz2)

113 98 40 Monk wasn't really as good as people pretended it was for some inexplicable reason. I mean, it was ok, but sh*t the critics would go on and on about the at show.

My wife and her sister absolutely loved Monk. When he would walk down the street having to touch every parking meter, her sister would say "Oh my God, I do that!"
Posted by: Tom Servo
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It was the Tony Shaloub show where he happened to be a detective instead of a regular crime show.

Reversal of the Sherlock Holmes formula which works for some and doesn't for others.

Posted by: whig at November 10, 2023 05:17 PM (gpYgq)

114 Fucking Walmart. They started their Black Friday sales and not a single Blu-ray display to be found.

I am disappoint.
Posted by: Robert at November 10, 2023 05:14 PM (1Yy3c)

I've got 5, if you count the PS3's and 4's.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 10, 2023 05:17 PM (Zz0t1)

115 Nic Cage in Dream Scenario.

It might be something.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4CJOQpI01M

Posted by: moviegique (buy my book!) at November 10, 2023 05:17 PM (asXVI)

116 9
Werewolf Women of the SS

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But enough about Rashida Tlaib.

She does have the rack for it but her face is boner-kill.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at November 10, 2023 05:17 PM (roH4R)

117 The opening scene when Dwight sets a fake fire .

I think it may be my #2.
Posted by: Drive by at November 10, 2023 05:14 PM (MNhXM)

I remember my friend and I came back from watching the Super Bowl to see it (it had a special post-game debut for that episode). I was initially thinking it would be a sub-par episode just capitalizing on all the millions of football viewers, but oh Lord, was I wrong.

Posted by: Dr. T at November 10, 2023 05:18 PM (m9hmt)

118 BRB. Psychosocial just came up on my playlist.

*headbangs, albeit gingerly*
*debbil hornz*

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Baby Steps to the Abyss at November 10, 2023 05:18 PM (T/Lqj)

119 Monk always had a sidekick who always sported eye popping cleavage, right?

I think I've only ever seen the same three episodes over and over.
Posted by: Robert at November 10, 2023 05:17 PM (1Yy3c)

Natalie >> Sharona

Posted by: Drive by at November 10, 2023 05:18 PM (MNhXM)

120 Sponge are you watching Nationals at all?

Posted by: lin-duh at November 10, 2023 05:18 PM (9Q7Y5)

121 111 Monk always had a sidekick who always sported eye popping cleavage, right?

I think I've only ever seen the same three episodes over and over.
Posted by: Robert
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That would be Sharona for the first two seasons. His later sidekick Julie wasn't.

Posted by: whig at November 10, 2023 05:19 PM (gpYgq)

122 111 Monk always had a sidekick who always sported eye popping cleavage, right?

I think I've only ever seen the same three episodes over and over.
Posted by: Robert

He had two sidekicks. The first one asked for more money, so they shitcanned her and brought in a new girl. I think the first one had the big bazookas.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at November 10, 2023 05:19 PM (sFQIY)

123 The best Reacher books involve a mystery or a crime to be solved where Reacher uses the skills honed as an MP investigator to figure out what is going on and make sure all the bad guys get what's coming to them. Kind of like a hobo Batman. Hobo but he takes showers.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at November 10, 2023 05:19 PM (t/2Uw)

124 Rob Zombie at least tries to bring something new and interesting to the table.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 10, 2023 05:13 PM (XV/Pl)

Yish, I can't stand those either, but you are right. Love his music, though.

Posted by: hobbitopoly at November 10, 2023 05:19 PM (6xRrr)

125 I remember my friend and I came back from watching the Super Bowl to see it (it had a special post-game debut for that episode). I was initially thinking it would be a sub-par episode just capitalizing on all the millions of football viewers, but oh Lord, was I wrong.
Posted by: Dr. T at November 10, 2023 05:18 PM (m9hm

THE FIRE IS SHOOTING AT US !!

Posted by: Drive by at November 10, 2023 05:20 PM (MNhXM)

126
"Is this something?" is the thought that goes through my mind whenever our dog pauses and hunches her back in preparation for a poop on our walks.

I asl because I am the one who has to pick it up.

The poop, not the dog.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at November 10, 2023 05:20 PM (xG4kz)

127 All those were on USA Network.
Posted by: whig at November 10, 2023 05:15 PM (gpYgq)

I knew there was some common denominator there.

What does USA have now? Anything besides that stupid Chrisley reality show?

Posted by: Dr. T at November 10, 2023 05:20 PM (m9hmt)

128 Sponge are you watching Nationals at all?
Posted by: lin-duh at November 10, 2023 05:18 PM (9Q7Y5)

No, but do have the Box5 membership for the month, if Wife can remember the password.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 10, 2023 05:21 PM (Zz0t1)

129 127 "Is this something?" is the thought that goes through my mind whenever our dog pauses and hunches her back in preparation for a poop on our walks.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at November 10, 2023 05:20 PM (xG4kz)

LOL

Posted by: m at November 10, 2023 05:21 PM (ASp1y)

130 31 I for one am happy to see someone trying to correct the dearth of Thanksgiving movies, bloody or otherwise.

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at November 10, 2023 04:59 PM (BUT0H)
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The change from horror movies to bloody movies is a demarcation line in our culture.

Posted by: Braenyard at November 10, 2023 05:21 PM (gfCY0)

131 Read this thing on X this morning. The Arabs had no love for the Jews, but apparently, Hitler targeted propaganda toward the Islamicists to really ramp up their hatred of the Jews.

I know lefties will not believe it, because there is NO WAY Hitler was socialist, but the Nazis were trying to make the Semites more Marxist.

(With an understanding that there is no way that could be true, though documented, because these do not obey the lefties' classifications--that you must be trying to say something nice about the Nazis.)

Posted by: Axeman at November 10, 2023 05:21 PM (krQz2)

132
Saw a classroom of 'covid kids' today (conceived during the lockdowns) of about three years of age. Pretty normal, but looked like the aides trying to shepherd them around were at wits end. Good sign, I hope.

I've been informed by a crack smoking addict once married to Bobby Brown that children are our future.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at November 10, 2023 05:21 PM (enJYY)

133 118 Fun Fact - and on topic. Death Wish was considered Snuff Porn when it came out. Bronson was supposed to be the bad guy.

Posted by: Nic

Considered by who?

No one saw him as the bad guy. Paul Kersey was a conscientious objector in the film. He was the hero who was driven to violence by the rising tide of evil. Like Josey Wales.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at November 10, 2023 05:22 PM (sFQIY)

134 THE FIRE IS SHOOTING AT US !!
Posted by: Drive by at November 10, 2023 05:20 PM (MNhXM)

"Stanley, Barack is President! You are black, Stanley!!!"

Posted by: Dr. T at November 10, 2023 05:22 PM (m9hmt)

135 What does USA have now?

Posted by: Dr. T at November 10, 2023 05:20 PM (m9hmt)
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Nope. USA ran out their pipeline.

Posted by: Axeman at November 10, 2023 05:22 PM (krQz2)

136 That would be Sharona for the first two seasons. His later sidekick Julie wasn't.
Posted by: whig at November 10, 2023 05:19 PM (gpYgq)

Both Natalie and Julie weren’t gifted but Julie was her kid so understandable 😀

Posted by: Drive by at November 10, 2023 05:23 PM (MNhXM)

137 So, the James Bond thing is for One Million pounds?

Pfft! Hahahahahahaha.
"Sir, we make more than that just shipping bogus Chinese goods to people who didn't order anything. In a week."
"OK, make it One BILLION pounds."
[pinkie finger to corner of mouth]

That's the only way it's worth watching.

Posted by: GWB at November 10, 2023 05:23 PM (JgU20)

138 Hey you guys I've got an idea.

Can someone write a bot, or an app, or a thing, that regularly checks on any social media account that has gone private following a revelation embarrassing to the account owner, to alert the user of the app when the account owner makes their account public again.

Seems like that would be very useful and incentivize a more judicious use of social media in the first place.

Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at November 10, 2023 05:23 PM (dQfJF)

139 Early in the plandemic I saw memes on FB about hand washing (before CDC and FNM went with wear a crappy mask, after we told you 2 weeks ago not to mess with good for dust but not viruses masks) What should have been a meme, maybe even a PSA was "be like Monk" Never saw him wearing a mask, he probably would have recited factoids about how they don't work but alway his helper had to have wipes.

Posted by: PaleRider at November 10, 2023 05:23 PM (3cGpq)

140 Posted by: Nic Of The Day at November 10, 2023 05:21 PM (2PkBC)

I for one loved Psych and Burn Notice.

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at November 10, 2023 05:23 PM (RuhwH)

141 >>Eli Roth is the torture porn guy. I hate that crap.

Yes, and he's not very good at it.

Green Inferno is probably the highest quality jungle/cannibal horror film made. That's admittedly a pretty niche (and unappealing in my book) genre. It has some significant flaws, but they're in the writing, and Roth doesn't get the blame for those, as he only directed.

Posted by: may be the only one of its kind made after the 70s and 80s, not that I'm an expert at November 10, 2023 05:23 PM (KFhLj)

142 The original British The Office show had a much shorter run but Ricky Gervais is the acidic boss that people loved to hate instead of the US Carey who was a more lovable loser. The US show was aiming at 100+ episodes for syndication so US shows usually have a more sympathetic cast.

On the other hand, given the short runs of most British series, often they don't have the crappy filler episode issues as much and much less care about likable characters.

Posted by: whig at November 10, 2023 05:23 PM (gpYgq)

143 How do they handle announcing for semi's? Do the drum majors have to be there like regular competitions?

Posted by: lin-duh at November 10, 2023 05:23 PM (9Q7Y5)

144 I like fake bands like No Vacancy

Posted by: x at November 10, 2023 05:23 PM (frATP)

145 Another good USA show: In Plain Sight.

The more I watched that show, the better I it got.

Posted by: Axeman at November 10, 2023 05:24 PM (krQz2)

146
He had two sidekicks. The first one asked for more money, so they shitcanned her and brought in a new girl. I think the first one had the big bazookas.
~~~~~

Sharona.

Posted by: IrishEi on phone at November 10, 2023 05:24 PM (sjnKS)

147 I absolutely love "Planes, Trains and Automobiles." John Candy and Steve Martin were so friggin' good. And yes, I get a little misty at the end.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Baby Steps to the Abyss at November 10, 2023 05:25 PM (T/Lqj)

148 This guy looks like he could be Reacher and I have Prime, so I might take a look at season 1 just to see.

Posted by: huerfano at November 10, 2023 04:58 PM (Q4KYm)

I watched it...it's not bad at all. Certainly worth it if you are already paying for Prime.

Reacher is cast perfectly, and the chick cop is adorable.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 10, 2023 05:25 PM (3Gtis)

149 I for one loved Psych and Burn Notice.

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at November 10, 2023 05:23 PM (RuhwH)
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Psych was my #1 favorite show on TV for quite a few years.

I know where James Roday went, but where have you gone, James Roday (Romirez)?

Posted by: Axeman at November 10, 2023 05:25 PM (krQz2)

150 Will Arnett was great in Lego Batman.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at November 10, 2023 05:25 PM (44ww/)

151 How do they handle announcing for semi's? Do the drum majors have to be there like regular competitions?
Posted by: lin-duh at November 10, 2023 05:23 PM (9Q7Y5)

Oooh.....I don't think they do it for making Semi's since there's sooooo many schools there, but they did just the drum majors for the finals announcement.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 10, 2023 05:26 PM (Zz0t1)

152 Now I think the only series USA has is Chucky.

Posted by: Drive by at November 10, 2023 05:26 PM (MNhXM)

153 Speaking of good low budget movies...

There was a movie that came out a few years ago that got great critic review and very good viewer reviews titled:

"I Am Not a Serial Killer".

I'd never seen it but it's streaming on Shudder right now so I'd give it a whirl, and -

Actually, it's very good. Excellent acting, good script, good directing. Well, worth a watch.

It concerns a high school kid who has all of the markers for a serial killer. He's fascinated by murders and serial killers but he's trying not to become one. He sees a therapist but is scared of his own tendencies and tries to control situations where they might show up. However, a series of violent serial killings start happening in his little town and he tries to figure out what's going on cuz he's fascinated without getting involved.

A low key thriller with some nice twists and a supernatural detour that results an interesting revelation for the main character.

If this sounds like you might like it, you will.

Posted by: naturalfake at November 10, 2023 05:26 PM (QzZeQ)

154 Columbia U. Suspends ‘Students for Justice in Palestine’ and ‘Jewish Voice for Peace’
It’s probably too little too late. Donors have closed their checkbooks. Columbia has a reputation of hating Israel and Jews.

Posted by: SMOD at November 10, 2023 05:26 PM (Wl26H)

155 109 The Ref is the best Christmas movie.
Posted by: Ben Had at November 10, 2023 05:12 PM (MRnni)

I agree. I lost my copy of it on DVD."

I love that movie , watch it every year!

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 10, 2023 05:27 PM (i9ffA)

156 Will Arnett was great in Lego Batman.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at November 10, 2023 05:25 PM (44ww/)

I watched one of the Lego Batman movies on an airplane once. It was woke crap, so I never watched anymore.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 10, 2023 05:27 PM (Zz0t1)

157
He had two sidekicks. The first one asked for more money, so they shitcanned her and brought in a new girl. I think the first one had the big bazookas.
Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest

Bitty Schram was his first sidekick. She had the boobs and was reputed to have had a skanky past -- exotic dancer or some such.

Schram was the "There's no crying in baseball!" target of Tom Hanks' wrath in "A League of Their Own".

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at November 10, 2023 05:27 PM (xG4kz)

158 Uli Roth > Eli Roth

Posted by: SFGoth at November 10, 2023 05:27 PM (KAi1n)

159 Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 10, 2023 05:25 PM (3Gtis)

My wife watched it. From the parts I saw it looked good and yes that guy was massive like Reacher was supposed to be.

I will say I did enjoy the Tom Cruise movie.

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at November 10, 2023 05:27 PM (RuhwH)

160 Now I think the only series USA has is Chucky.
Posted by: Drive by at November 10, 2023 05:26 PM (MNhXM)

Oh, right. And half the cast is gay or something.

Posted by: Dr. T at November 10, 2023 05:27 PM (m9hmt)

161 I absolutely love "Planes, Trains and Automobiles." John Candy and Steve Martin were so friggin' good. And yes, I get a little misty at the end.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Baby Steps to the Abyss at November 10, 2023 05:25 PM (T/Lqj)
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I have been known to shed a manly tear now and then--but that was blubbering!

Posted by: Cliff Claven at November 10, 2023 05:27 PM (krQz2)

162 Will Arnett was great in Lego Batman.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at November 10, 2023 05:25 PM (44ww/)

I love that one. So funny.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Baby Steps to the Abyss at November 10, 2023 05:27 PM (T/Lqj)

163 Hobo With a Shotgun > Bum's Make Their Own Gravy

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at November 10, 2023 05:27 PM (R/m4+)

164 Mmmmmmm........

Posted by: The Barrel at November 10, 2023 05:28 PM (Zz0t1)

165 Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 10, 2023 05:27 PM (Zz0t1)

First one was solid. Not great but it’s was decent.

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at November 10, 2023 05:28 PM (RuhwH)

166 There may be an embarrelling afoot.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Baby Steps to the Abyss at November 10, 2023 05:28 PM (T/Lqj)

167 I love that on the last episode of Psych they cast the kid who was on the Cosby Show to be Gus’s boss.

Posted by: Drive by at November 10, 2023 05:28 PM (MNhXM)

168 Will Arnett was great in Lego Batman.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at November 10, 2023 05:25 PM (44ww/)

I love that one. So funny.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Baby Steps to the Abyss at November 10, 2023 05:27 PM (T/Lqj)
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It was pretty dark.

Posted by: Axeman at November 10, 2023 05:29 PM (krQz2)

169 Nic gets to spend a day in the barrel.

Posted by: fd 49 at November 10, 2023 05:29 PM (vFG9F)

170
East German judges are giving 'Nic Of The Day' a 9.9

Posted by: Divide by Zero at November 10, 2023 05:29 PM (enJYY)

171
First one was solid. Not great but it’s was decent.
Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at November 10, 2023 05:28 PM (RuhwH)

The one I saw had Robin in it, and some chick....I just remember thinking "Wow, that was horseshit" when it ended and never had any desire to watch any of the other ones. And Batman was a real asshole the entire movie. That was incredibly offputting.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 10, 2023 05:30 PM (Zz0t1)

172 160
Roth IRAs > Uli Roth > Eli Roth

Posted by: Dr. Claw at November 10, 2023 05:30 PM (roH4R)

173 When I get in the Barrel, the Barrel also gets a face full of me.
Posted by: Nic Of The Day at November 10, 2023 05:30 PM (2PkBC)

Ain't skeered.....

Posted by: The Barrel at November 10, 2023 05:31 PM (Zz0t1)

174 “When I hear these people talking about the environment and, over a 300-year period, ‘the oceans will rise by one one hundredth of an inch, and this is such a threat.’ It’s not a threat,” Trump said. “The threat is not global warming, it’s nuclear warming. It’s the single biggest threat to your country, to our county, to every country:”

Posted by: SMOD at November 10, 2023 05:31 PM (Wl26H)

175 So is Ace not here now because his Muse has him working on the Le Falcone Chunnel screenplay??

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at November 10, 2023 05:32 PM (krqg6)

176 I like the first Reacher movie but that is almost a given because it had Bobby Duvall in it.

Posted by: Drive by at November 10, 2023 05:32 PM (MNhXM)

177 Psych would cause me a loss of breath with some scenes.

My family would get laughing so hard that we *had* to watch it on recording. When Gus and Shawn eat the Indian food was one where we knew we had to rewind to hear the dialog.

The murder of Gus' boss where Gus totally taints the crime-scene and Shawn comes in and does the same--I could. not. breathe.

Posted by: Axeman at November 10, 2023 05:33 PM (krQz2)

178 Will Arnett was great in Lego Batman.

Loved him on Gunsmoke!

Posted by: Buzz Adrenaline at November 10, 2023 05:34 PM (wu87C)

179 Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 10, 2023 05:30 PM (Zz0t1)

If you saw The Lego Movie then it tracks.

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at November 10, 2023 05:34 PM (RuhwH)

180 Moody's has dropped its credit-rating outlook on the United States to negative from stable, citing heavier downside risks to the country's fiscal strength.

Posted by: It's Happening at November 10, 2023 05:35 PM (yUu6q)

181 Posted by: Dr. Claw at November 10, 2023 05:30 PM (roH4R)

Uli Roth, as in Scorpions Uli?

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Baby Steps to the Abyss at November 10, 2023 05:36 PM (T/Lqj)

182 Posted by: Axeman at November 10, 2023 05:33 PM (krQz2)

My mom and I used to watch that and Burn Notice back to back. Miss those days.

To your point, though, there are some many hilarious scenes from that show. The writers were money and the cast was money.

You’re so money and you don’t even know it.

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at November 10, 2023 05:36 PM (RuhwH)

183 Moody's has dropped its credit-rating outlook on the United States to negative from stable, citing heavier downside risks to the country's fiscal strength.
Posted by: It's Happening at November 10, 2023 05:35 PM (yUu6q)

This economy is STRONG, Jack!

Posted by: Joe Biden at November 10, 2023 05:37 PM (Zz0t1)

184 I thought the theme song for the first Lego movie was as big as slam as you could make against socialism in a combo kid /adult movie.

Posted by: Drive by at November 10, 2023 05:37 PM (MNhXM)

185 Posted by: Nic Of The Day at November 10, 2023 05:35 PM (2PkBC)

I wouldn't be taunting the barrel if I were you.

Posted by: Dr. T at November 10, 2023 05:37 PM (m9hmt)

186 Posted by: Drive by at November 10, 2023 05:37 PM (MNhXM)

The whole theme of the movie too.

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at November 10, 2023 05:38 PM (RuhwH)

187 Moody's has dropped its credit-rating outlook on the United States to negative from stable, citing heavier downside risks to the country's fiscal strength.

Posted by: It's Happening at November 10, 2023 05:35 PM (yUu6q)
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It's negative now, but it will perk back up?

Posted by: Axeman at November 10, 2023 05:39 PM (krQz2)

188
Moody's has dropped its credit-rating outlook on the United States to negative from stable, citing heavier downside risks to the country's fiscal strength.

Posted by: It's Happening at November 10, 2023 05:35 PM

Nothing of concern.

Posted by: Gradually getting ready to punch Suddenly in the Ball Sak at November 10, 2023 05:39 PM (enJYY)

189 And yes, as a wee lad, I listened to all the old Baptists moaning about the erosion of society due to films like Death Wish. It was a real thing.
Posted by: Nic Of The Day

OK, I can see that.

I think it was made as an action film without much of a message other than that things are falling apart and good people are being hurt and fighting back.

And I think most of the audience saw Kersey as a hero. In fact, the later sequels had him as some kind of Kwai Chang Caine wandering the country and hunting down bad guys.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at November 10, 2023 05:39 PM (sFQIY)

190 I think I’d rather watch the Seinfeld movies:

Prognosis Negative

Rochelle, Rochelle

And that one where Harrison Ford jumps out the plane and turns around and starts shooting.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at November 10, 2023 05:39 PM (/o+/S)

191 We all like VDH, but James Woods on X LOVES VDH: "I marvel at the majestic eloquence of this man’s brilliant mind. If every word he has ever written were required reading, our Titanic universities would be rescued from the iceberg of liberal madness and America’s heart would be beating once more."

That's laying it on a little thick.

Posted by: Throw gp That Whammy at November 10, 2023 05:39 PM (MvF+J)

192
Nothing of concern.

Posted by: Gradually getting ready to punch Suddenly in the Ball Sak at November 10, 2023 05:39 PM (enJYY)

I'm not worried about it till Jim Kramer chimes in.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 10, 2023 05:40 PM (Zz0t1)

193 149 I absolutely love "Planes, Trains and Automobiles." John Candy and Steve Martin were so friggin' good. And yes, I get a little misty at the end.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Baby Steps to the Abyss at November 10, 2023 05:25 PM (T/Lqj)

I love that movie.

Posted by: CaliGirl at November 10, 2023 05:40 PM (UYUKJ)

194 "Heard about Pluto--that's messed up" - Burton Guster.

Posted by: Axeman at November 10, 2023 05:40 PM (krQz2)

195 "Planet Terror" is OK.

Posted by: Throw gp That Whammy at November 10, 2023 05:40 PM (MvF+J)

196 Love Monk

I am off to see the WWE with my son who doesn't know we are going

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at November 10, 2023 05:40 PM (dKiJG)

197 Love Monk

I am off to see the WWE with my son who doesn't know we are going
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at November 10, 2023 05:40 PM (dKiJG)
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It's a jungle out there.

Posted by: Axeman at November 10, 2023 05:41 PM (krQz2)

198 I like the Monk line, during Covid, she (Natalie?) says "everybody is you" (of people overzealous in protecting themselves from germs). Monk says "they're gonna hate it".

Posted by: illiniwek at November 10, 2023 05:42 PM (Cus5s)

199 And yes, as a wee lad, I listened to all the old Baptists moaning about the erosion of society due to films like Death Wish. It was a real thing.
Posted by: Nic Of The Day

I was baptized in and attended a Southern Baptist church when I was preteen and teen and I don’t recall that but doesn’t mean it didn’t happen where you were.

Posted by: Drive by at November 10, 2023 05:42 PM (MNhXM)

200 We all like VDH, but James Woods on X LOVES VDH: "I marvel at the majestic eloquence of this man’s brilliant mind. If every word he has ever written were required reading, our Titanic universities would be rescued from the iceberg of liberal madness and America’s heart would be beating once more."

That's laying it on a little thick.
Posted by: Throw gp That Whammy

That's needless cruelty.

Posted by: VDH Fan Club at November 10, 2023 05:43 PM (lZVy/)

201
Love Monk

Isn't that the mock movie that Robert Downey, Jr. and Tobey Maguire star in at the beginning of "Tropic Thunder"?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at November 10, 2023 05:43 PM (xG4kz)

202 #Team Stuntman Mike

Posted by: Count de Monet at November 10, 2023 05:44 PM (4I/2K)

203 Moody's has dropped its credit-rating outlook on the United States to negative from stable, citing heavier downside risks to the country's fiscal strength.

Can't say it's all FJB's fault since we've been heading towards the cliff for decades but he sure has done everything he could to kick it into overdrive.

Posted by: Oddbob at November 10, 2023 05:44 PM (nfrXX)

204 And yes, as a wee lad, I listened to all the old Baptists moaning about the erosion of society due to films like Death Wish. It was a real thing.
Posted by: Nic Of The Day
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Realizing how right they were and how far I had strayed was one of the things that started getting me back to Christianity.

I had remained a frog in the kettle too long for my tastes.

Posted by: Axeman at November 10, 2023 05:45 PM (krQz2)

205
That's laying it on a little thick.

Posted by: Throw gp That Whammy at November 10, 2023 05:39 PM

He has some super high IQ. People like that can be little over the top at times when they meet a fellow traveler.

There aren't that many of us them.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at November 10, 2023 05:46 PM (enJYY)

206 Yeah we’re not in the best shape but I think Moody’s has a nefarious agenda of teaming with others that want to bring America down.

Posted by: Drive by at November 10, 2023 05:47 PM (MNhXM)

207 I know where James Roday went, but where have you gone, James Roday (Romirez)?
Posted by: Axeman
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Two Psych movies have been released so far and are on Peacock streaming I think now. Believe the plan was for a couple more.

Basically the residuals alone from Psych means James won't ever have to work again and I guess he hasn't. I read that one other USA network star (maybe the guy playing Michael in Burn Notice) planned to exit showbiz forever after his gig ended.

Posted by: whig at November 10, 2023 05:47 PM (gpYgq)

208 I have seen exactly none of the things you are talking about. I may be culturally stunted

Posted by: Ben Had at November 10, 2023 05:48 PM (MRnni)

209 The Ref is the best Christmas movie.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 10, 2023 05:12 PM (MRnni)

Dennis Leary at his most irritating...and funniest!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 10, 2023 05:48 PM (3Gtis)

210 I have seen exactly none of the things you are talking about. I may be culturally stunted
Posted by: Ben Had at November 10, 2023 05:48 PM (MRnni)

*fistbump*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 10, 2023 05:48 PM (Zz0t1)

211 Marsha Blackburn wants to get re-upped.

She's filed for a subpoena for Jeffrey Epstein's flight logs. She also wants to subpoena the DOJ's records on why they tried to tamp down counter-spy measures against spies from China.

Posted by: Axeman at November 10, 2023 05:48 PM (krQz2)

212
Well, I plumbed the depths of stupid and assuredly so today. I had a person at a security for hire firm try to tell me that the time change from DST to ST (or ST to DST) occurs on early Saturday morning rather than early Sunday morning. She had sent an invoice demanding that we pay for the extra hour that their guard racked up "over the time change" on Saturday morning.

I said, "Nope, ain't paying because that's not right." She was not gracious about my "stubbornness". Tough noogies, toots!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at November 10, 2023 05:48 PM (xG4kz)

213 It's negative now, but it will perk back up?
Posted by: Axeman

I think I'll go for a walk.

Posted by: Ailing US Economy Trying to Avoid the Cart at November 10, 2023 05:48 PM (ftFVW)

214 "Grindhouse" was a slog. Which is interesting for a variety of reasons.

First, "Planet Terror" was just boring. And whatever his flaws or excesses, Rodriguez had never made a =boring= film before.

Second, "Death Proof" has a genuinely great car chase dominating the back half of the film, but to get there you have to listen to 20-something chicks talk about "Vanishing Point" for, like, 40 minutes.

There's some irony in having the budget to make good on a grindhouse concept only to produce films that are less interesting than the grindhouse films themselves would've been.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my book!) at November 10, 2023 05:48 PM (asXVI)

215 Didn’t Moodys also drop the credit rating 10 years ago? I remember when Obama was called ObamAA or something since the rating went from AAA to AA. And nobody gave a fuck. And here we are 10 years later and nobody still gives a fuck.

Posted by: Montec at November 10, 2023 05:49 PM (bWsRe)

216
Can't say it's all FJB's fault since we've been heading towards the cliff for decades but he sure has done everything he could to kick it into overdrive.
Posted by: Oddbob at November 10, 2023 05:44 PM (nfrXX)

___________

Our Gadarene Swine response to COVID may be the most catastrophic economic mistake since the Fed response to the Wall Street Crash.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 10, 2023 05:50 PM (MoZTd)

217 I absolutely love "Planes, Trains and Automobiles." John Candy and Steve Martin were so friggin' good. And yes, I get a little misty at the end.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Baby Steps to the Abyss at November 10, 2023 05:25 PM (T/Lqj)

John Candy had the ability to make you laugh, or make you cry. He was a very good actor when given the right material. He and Martin were the perfect pair in that movie. And, yes, the ending still chokes me up all these years later. A nice film.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy now with twice the crazy at November 10, 2023 05:50 PM (h4nev)

218 No backlash happened over Death Wish and the backlash over Death Wish is why I went back to Church is the kind of shit that happens here all yeh time.

Talk amongst yourselves. Seriously. Instead of agreeing not to.
Posted by: Nic Of The Day at November 10, 2023 05:48 PM (2PkBC)
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Actually, I'm not talking about Death Wish, but more the Catholic thing about abortion cheapening the value of life over time.

And, I once thought of that as stodgy as anything else I was raised with.

Posted by: Axeman at November 10, 2023 05:50 PM (krQz2)

219 193 Moody's has dropped its credit-rating outlook on the United States to negative from stable, citing heavier downside risks to the country's fiscal strength.

Posted by: It's Happening at November 10, 2023 05:35 PM (yUu6q)
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It's negative now, but it will perk back up?
Posted by: Axeman at November 10, 2023 05:39 PM (krQz2

We had a 30 year treasury bond sale and no one wanted any. We're borrowing like 1.5 trillion every few months.

The fuckery continues unabated. World currency won't be far behind this downfall.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 10, 2023 05:50 PM (5xURv)

220 Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at November 10, 2023 05:48 PM (xG4kz)

So they don’t work on Sunday?

Posted by: Drive by at November 10, 2023 05:51 PM (MNhXM)

221 Well, since it's a movie thread, I watched the Sylvester Stallone documentary on Netflix.

Apparently the only movies Stallone ever did were Rocky, Rambo, Expendables and somewhere in there a brief digression with Stop, Or My Mom Will Shoot.

You can give it a pass.

Posted by: Robert at November 10, 2023 05:51 PM (1Yy3c)

222 37 minutes left to shoot your big buck tonight boys and girls ... a couple hunters out there on my place, their crew got one at another place earlier today. Passed on a not impressive enough 8-point here today, waiting for that nice 13 point.

Carry on.

Posted by: illiniwek at November 10, 2023 05:51 PM (Cus5s)

223 I'll stan a bit for Eli Roth. He's trying to push boundaries, and for more than just gore.

And I like his "Death Wish" better than the original. Bruce Willis was more convincing as a liberal weenie than Bronson, and it was less about the visceral pleasure of revenge.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my book!) at November 10, 2023 05:52 PM (asXVI)

224 Posted by: whig at November 10, 2023 05:47 PM (gpYgq)

Jeffrey Donovan is still working.

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at November 10, 2023 05:52 PM (RuhwH)

225 Moody's has dropped its credit-rating outlook on the United States

They do have a role to play in order to drive the Great Reset.

Posted by: t-bird at November 10, 2023 05:52 PM (HjfVN)

226 Aaand there it is...

"There is insufficient evidence at this moment to initiate impeachment proceedings against President Biden"

Speaker of the House Johnson

Posted by: gourmand du jour at November 10, 2023 05:52 PM (MeG8a)

227 When I get in the Barrel, the Barrel also gets a face full of me.
Posted by: Nic Of The Day
Ain't skeered.....
Posted by: The Barrel

Actual Barrel comment: I ain't in no way skeered, Hillary is already here so the 'Nic' will have company.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at November 10, 2023 05:52 PM (sgk8Z)

228 Posted by: moviegique (buy my book!) at November 10, 2023 05:52 PM (asXVI)

Didn’t know he did the DW remake. Wife and I liked it.

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at November 10, 2023 05:53 PM (RuhwH)

229 One shouldn't rate and expect to be taken seriously when you're just Moody.

Posted by: Axeman at November 10, 2023 05:53 PM (krQz2)

230 zerohedge @zerohedge 14 seconds
BIDEN OFFICIALS REJECT MOODY'S SHIFT TO 'NEGATIVE' OUTLOOK, POINT TO REPUBLICAN 'DYSFUNCTION'

it's all the dysfunctional republicans' fault.

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at November 10, 2023 05:53 PM (krqg6)

231 "What would Monk, of all people, be like during a pandemic?"

Actual creatives could get seasons out of that premise, but for the sacred cows.

Posted by: t-bird at November 10, 2023 05:53 PM (HjfVN)

232 230 zerohedge @zerohedge 14 seconds
BIDEN OFFICIALS REJECT MOODY'S SHIFT TO 'NEGATIVE' OUTLOOK, POINT TO REPUBLICAN 'DYSFUNCTION'

it's all the dysfunctional republicans' fault.
Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at November 10, 2023 05:53 PM (krqg6

Yeah, that'll make em change their mind.

Give em the mean tweet, Ricky!

Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 10, 2023 05:54 PM (5xURv)

233 I feel the same about Moody Bible studies.

Posted by: Axeman at November 10, 2023 05:54 PM (krQz2)

234 No backlash happened over Death Wish and the backlash over Death Wish is why I went back to Church is the kind of shit that happens here all yeh time.

Talk amongst yourselves. Seriously. Instead of agreeing not to.
Posted by: Nic Of The Day at November 10, 2023 05:48 PM (2PkB

I think he misunderstood that you were saying the church was saying Charles Bronson’s vigilante character was what they objected too.

Posted by: Drive by at November 10, 2023 05:54 PM (MNhXM)

235 So the FBI seized Eric Adams phone and I-pad earlier this week? In an investigation into corruption into his political campaign?

Huh. Because he bitched about illegals? Or has this been going on for awhile?

Posted by: Tony Big Tuna at November 10, 2023 05:54 PM (DZwT/)

236 Knowing about Tarantino's foot fetish makes Death Proof a real awkward viewing experience. It's so obvious and weird in retrospect that I don't know how I missed it originally

Posted by: Wally at November 10, 2023 05:54 PM (hqVaF)

237 Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at November 10, 2023 05:53 PM (krqg6)

Well when you only know one note you play the shit out of it.

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at November 10, 2023 05:54 PM (RuhwH)

238 >>>And nobody gave a fuck. And here we are 10 years later and nobody still gives a fuck.

Posted by: Montec
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Couple of months after Trump is elected it will be AAA.

Posted by: Braenyard at November 10, 2023 05:54 PM (gfCY0)

239 Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at November 10, 2023 05:53 PM (krqg6)

Well when you only know one note you play the shit out of it.
Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at November 10, 2023 05:54 PM (RuhwH)
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-- Robert Fripp has entered the chat --

Posted by: Axeman at November 10, 2023 05:55 PM (krQz2)

240 Beanie Weenie, bullets and beer.

Posted by: wth at November 10, 2023 05:55 PM (v0R5T)

241 50 I've lately come to the conclusion that the late 2000s-early 2010s were a deeply underrated period for network TV. Psych, Monk, Burn Notice, Royal Pains: they weren't home runs but they were fun and could appeal to a lot of people. They didn't feel the need to be edgy or topical.
Posted by: Dr. T at November 10, 2023 05:03 PM (m9hmt)

USA Network in the mid 2000s pretty much reinvented what a second-tier network could be, quietly laying the groundwork for the later edgy blockbusters like Breaking Bad that took all the credit.

Posted by: CppThis at November 10, 2023 05:55 PM (PZvjL)

242
Basically the residuals alone from Psych means James won't ever have to work again and I guess he hasn't. I read that one other USA network star (maybe the guy playing Michael in Burn Notice) planned to exit showbiz forever after his gig ended.
Posted by: whig

Jeffrey Donovan. Except that he was in "Sicario" and its sequel, "Sicario: Day of the Soldado".

He also played an astronaut who murdered his girlfriend while in space for one of the "Monk" episodes ("Mister Monk and the Astronaut", imagine that). There's a funny scene in there where Donovan has given a classroom of elementary school kids red laser pointers and they torture Monk to the point of distraction by pointing them at him as he tries to tell the class about being a detective.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at November 10, 2023 05:56 PM (xG4kz)

243 Jeffrey Donovan is still working.
Posted by: thathalfrican
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Must have been some other USA network star of that era or Donovan came back to acting after a break. Know he had some drunk driving problems toward teh end of the show.

Posted by: whig at November 10, 2023 05:56 PM (gpYgq)

244 Didn’t know he did the DW remake. Wife and I liked it.||

He put some soul in what should've been a soulless remake.

He also did "The House With A Clock In Its Walls" but I can't speak to that.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my book!) at November 10, 2023 05:56 PM (asXVI)

245 Posted by: CppThis at November 10, 2023 05:55 PM (PZvjL)

Silk Stalkings. Highlander. Hercules. Xena. Peak WWF Attitude Era?

USA might be the greatest network ever.

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at November 10, 2023 05:57 PM (RuhwH)

246 Cruise was a ridiculous choice.
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at November 10, 2023 05:14 PM (t/2Uw)

If you read the books..I suppose. As a stand alone movie or 2..fine

Posted by: A dude in MI at November 10, 2023 05:57 PM (/6GbT)

247 aand there it is...
"There is insufficient evidence at this moment to initiate impeachment proceedings against President Biden"

Speaker of the House Johnson
Posted by: gourmand du jour at November 10, 2023 05:52 PM (MeG8a)

And just like that, Speaker of the House Johnson became Speaker of the House Beaver, as many suspected.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at November 10, 2023 05:57 PM (FCbAQ)

248 Tarantino's fetish was obviously from early on. I figured it out around the time he sucked on Salma Hayek's toes in Dusk till Dawn.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 10, 2023 05:57 PM (5xURv)

249 I do know that Trump campaigned internally with the Fed not to raise interest rates and also signed the 6 trillion dollars of COVID relief bills.

We aren’t blameless.

Posted by: Drive by at November 10, 2023 05:57 PM (MNhXM)

250 Aaand there it is...

"There is insufficient evidence at this moment to initiate impeachment proceedings against President Biden"

Speaker of the House Johnson
Posted by: gourmand du jour at November 10, 2023 05:52 PM (MeG8a)

I guess there's also the "no reasonable prosecutor" dodge.

Posted by: Count de Monet at November 10, 2023 05:58 PM (4I/2K)

251 Aaand there it is...
"There is insufficient evidence at this moment to initiate impeachment proceedings against President Biden"
Speaker of the House Johnson
Posted by: gourmand du jour at November 10, 2023 05:52 PM (MeG8a)
~~~~~

I'm torn on this. On the one hand I want all the Bidens in jail, but on the other hand, Joe's the best guy for republicans to run against.

Posted by: IrishEi on phone at November 10, 2023 05:58 PM (sjnKS)

252 "Couple of months after Trump is elected it will be AAA."
Posted by: Braenyard

Maybe, but he did approve of the $5T (?) in fake money to prop up the stock market furing Covid, after keeping Fauci/Birx DeepState goons in charge of the horrendous Covid response. ...

But certainly there is a better chance with Trump than Biden or any other goofball Democrat.

Posted by: illiniwek at November 10, 2023 05:58 PM (Cus5s)

253 @219

>>The fuckery continues unabated. World currency won't be far behind this downfall.

In the end, all we'll have is a country teaming with foreigners, abortion on demand and weed.

YAAAYYYYYY America!

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 10, 2023 05:58 PM (XV/Pl)

254 Posted by: Drive by at November 10, 2023 05:57 PM (MNhXM)

I’ll only speak to the covid cash bills.

When the government denies you a right to make a living they absolutely should pay you not to.

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at November 10, 2023 05:58 PM (RuhwH)

255
Aaand there it is...

"There is insufficient evidence at this moment to initiate impeachment proceedings against President Biden"

Speaker of the House Johnson

Posted by: gourmand du jour at November 10, 2023 05:52 PM

Would you rather such a rat bastid endure a slow tedious process or rapid? My vote is every single day until November another kick in his balls, until they look like an 'indoor' pickleball.

Don't make me 'splain the difference between an indoor and outdoor pickleball. Pixy doesn't allow a big enough character count in comments.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at November 10, 2023 05:59 PM (enJYY)

256
Just say YES to Monk. One of the greatest television series of all time.

But Columbo (original, first run) is still my fav detective series of all time - by a mile.

Posted by: Bach in Black at November 10, 2023 05:59 PM (dBoDT)

257 >>It's so obvious and weird in retrospect that I don't know how I missed it originally

It was the first QT movie I'd ever seen and watching it I said, "Wow, this guy has a serious foot fetish."

So I don't know how you missed it, either.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my book!) at November 10, 2023 05:59 PM (asXVI)

258 > "There is insufficient evidence at this moment to initiate impeachment proceedings against President Biden"

Speaker of the House Johnson
_____________

What was the payout?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 10, 2023 05:59 PM (Q4IgG)

259 Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 10, 2023 05:58 PM (XV/Pl)

With weed off the table will LOLBERTARIANS get a grip and or a clue?

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at November 10, 2023 05:59 PM (RuhwH)

260 249 I do know that Trump campaigned internally with the Fed not to raise interest rates and also signed the 6 trillion dollars of COVID relief bills.

We aren’t blameless.
Posted by: Drive by at November 10, 2023 05:57 PM (MNhXM

Everyone has been putting their fingers in the dyke for years.

But the cracks grow incredibly large now. Soon there won't be anything anyone can do. By design.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 10, 2023 06:00 PM (5xURv)

261 And yes, as a wee lad, I listened to all the old Baptists moaning about the erosion of society due to films like Death Wish. It was a real thing.
Posted by: Nic Of The Day

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K16fG1sDagU

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy now with twice the crazy at November 10, 2023 06:00 PM (h4nev)

262 No more midget Jack Reachers?

Posted by: Jim at November 10, 2023 06:00 PM (zhWvq)

263 aand there it is...
"There is insufficient evidence at this moment to initiate impeachment proceedings against President Biden"

Speaker of the House Johnson
Posted by: gourmand du jour at November 10, 2023 05:52 PM (MeG8a)

And just like that, Speaker of the House Johnson became Speaker of the House Beaver, as many suspected.
Posted by: OneEyedJack at November 10, 2023 05:57 PM (FCbAQ)

Maybe he is following the same strategy many here have stated. I’m still on the fence whether pursuing impeachment at this time is wise.

Posted by: Drive by at November 10, 2023 06:00 PM (MNhXM)

264 Posted by: gourmand du jour at November 10, 2023 05:52 PM (MeG8a)
There was enough evidence back when this lifeless husk was “running” for president.

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at November 10, 2023 06:01 PM (RuhwH)

265 >>>"There is insufficient evidence at this moment to initiate impeachment proceedings against President Biden"
Speaker of the House Johnson

Posted by: gourmand du jo
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I can't find it.

Posted by: Braenyard at November 10, 2023 06:02 PM (gfCY0)

266
So they don’t work on Sunday?
Posted by: Drive

No, they do work on Sunday and we had inserted the extra hour into the payment schedule for that day (and paid it, too).

Ms. "Don't Try to Tell Me How Time Changes Work, Buster" could not grasp that despite my having taken pains to describe it and insisted that Saturday was the day the changeover occurred.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at November 10, 2023 06:02 PM (xG4kz)

267 C'mon, Kurt Russell, - the darling of Disney, - as Stuntman Mike was reasonably entertaining. Throw in a bunch of hot, disturbed young women and you have a memorable, popcorn grindhouse horror production.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at November 10, 2023 06:02 PM (PbTeh)

268 fuck spam test

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at November 10, 2023 06:02 PM (krqg6)

269 Yeah, if you didn't read the Reacher books and know that he's a hulk of a man, then Cruise fits the role well.

I think Cruise did a decent job in the role.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 10, 2023 06:02 PM (5xURv)

270 FBI agents stopped NYC Mayor Eric Adams' in the middle of the street and seized his cellphones and iPad days after raid on his chief fundraiser's home over bribes
Germania Rodriguez Poleo Daily Mail 2h

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at November 10, 2023 06:02 PM (krqg6)

271 I guess there's also the "no reasonable prosecutor" dodge.
Posted by: Count de Monet at November 10, 2023 05:58 PM (4I/2K)
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Meanwhile Trump is going to be the first person prosecuted in the State of New York for fraud where the queue of people waiting to claim damages is empty.

Any prosecutor would prosecute what has never been prosecuted before.

Basically, as a auditor friend explained, because loans are caveat emptor for banks. If you cheat the bank, and they didn't do their due diligence that's on them. The banks are the major party, and the controlling party.

Somebody else also told me that Trump tended to pay his loans back early and full. So, regardless of the valuation of his collateral, his record was solid.

Posted by: Axeman at November 10, 2023 06:02 PM (krQz2)

272 Impeachment. Meh. I'd rather have a criminal charge

Posted by: Ben Had at November 10, 2023 06:03 PM (MRnni)

273 Maybe, but he did approve of the $5T (?) in fake money to prop up the stock market furing Covid, after keeping Fauci/Birx DeepState goons in charge of the horrendous Covid response. ...

Posted by: illiniwek

Many "no one but Trump" seem to forget this and that he lived his life as a Dem Lib and only knows business (art of the deal).
He *isn't* a conservative and never has been; but, he does a great job due to his business acumen.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at November 10, 2023 06:03 PM (sgk8Z)

274 FBI seized Eric Adams' electronic devices on Monday evening

Agents approached the Democrat , a former cop, on the street

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at November 10, 2023 06:03 PM (krqg6)

275 Maybe he is following the same strategy many here have stated. I’m still on the fence whether pursuing impeachment at this time is wise.
Posted by: Drive by at November 10, 2023 06:00 P

Strategy. Yeah, that's what it is. 5 dimension chess.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at November 10, 2023 06:03 PM (FCbAQ)

276 Jack Reacher, S2.

Cannot wait for Dec 15.

If you're listening, Amazon, this is TV done right.

Posted by: Dan at November 10, 2023 06:04 PM (+NG5U)

277 It's on X being reported by Simon Ateba, White House Chief correspondent.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at November 10, 2023 06:04 PM (MeG8a)

278 Indicted does sound much better.

Posted by: Braenyard at November 10, 2023 06:04 PM (gfCY0)

279 In the end, all we'll have is a country teaming with foreigners, abortion on demand and weed.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 10, 2023 05:58 PM (XV/Pl)
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DC stands for "Don't Care"/"Dollars Count".

Posted by: Axeman at November 10, 2023 06:04 PM (krQz2)

280 Wait, there has to be "evidence" to impeach a President?!

What the everlovin fuck!?

Posted by: Orange Man at November 10, 2023 06:04 PM (DZwT/)

281 fuck spam bot shit

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at November 10, 2023 06:05 PM (krqg6)

282 280 Wait, there has to be "evidence" to impeach a President?!

What the everlovin fuck!?
Posted by: Orange Man at November 10, 2023 06:04 PM (DZwT

Heh. There it is.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 10, 2023 06:05 PM (5xURv)

283 aand there it is...
"There is insufficient evidence at this moment to initiate impeachment proceedings against President Biden"

Speaker of the House Johnson

It doesn't look good??? It don't ever look any better than this. Take the shot, Mav!

Posted by: Sundown, frustrated RIO at November 10, 2023 06:06 PM (4I/2K)

284 Impeachment. Meh. I'd rather have a criminal charge
Posted by: Ben Had

This!
And please include the entire jail-bait family when the charges are brought.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at November 10, 2023 06:06 PM (sgk8Z)

285 @259

>>With weed off the table will LOLBERTARIANS get a grip and or a clue?

Libertarians are fundamentally unserious people whose political system, much like communism, attracts impressionable youth.

The only upside is there isn't an inherent malevolence in their system.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 10, 2023 06:06 PM (XV/Pl)

286
It no longer is "E Pluribus Unum" for this country's motto.

It is "Killin' Babies and Gettin' High"

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at November 10, 2023 06:06 PM (xG4kz)

287 Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at November 10, 2023 06:03 PM (sgk8Z)

No. We know. We just don’t care.

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at November 10, 2023 06:07 PM (RuhwH)

288
FBI seized Eric Adams' electronic devices on Monday evening

The greatest device ever devised for being spied upon and self incrimination ever invented. Future societies will look back and laugh as they patiently cut 'ransom note' messages out of books.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at November 10, 2023 06:07 PM (enJYY)

289 250 Aaand there it is...

"There is insufficient evidence at this moment to initiate impeachment proceedings against President Biden"

Speaker of the House Johnson
Posted by: gourmand du jour
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Not enough GOP members willing to vote for impeachment inquiry is my guess. At last count, somewhere upwards of 20-30 are reluctant to vote to launch a formal impeachment inquiry and all the Dems oppose.

A new Speaker is wise to avoid a losing floor vote on a high profile situation.

Simply put, McCarthy and other squishes got in leadership because the GOP House caucus has about 30-70 potential uniparty defectors at any one time. The worst were the ones that McCarthy was stirring up to get back in during the recent Speaker fight.

Posted by: whig at November 10, 2023 06:07 PM (gpYgq)

290 Somebody else also told me that Trump tended to pay his loans back early and full. So, regardless of the valuation of his collateral, his record was solid.
Posted by: Axeman at November 10, 2023 06:02 PM (krQz2)

Back when he wasn’t doing so good he did the opposite. The old saying ‘ when you owe the bank 100,000 the bank owns you. When you owe the banks millions you own the bank.

Trump used that leverage to renegotiate his loan terms.

Posted by: Drive by at November 10, 2023 06:07 PM (MNhXM)

291 Why not?

The movie Being There got turned into a dark dystopian all encompassing story about a coterie of amoral grifters using Joey 'Chauncey' Bidet for their own enrichment.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 10, 2023 06:08 PM (ldrcx)

292
Libertarians are fundamentally unserious people whose political system, much like communism, attracts impressionable youth.

The only upside is there isn't an inherent malevolence in their system.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 10, 2023 06:06 PM (XV/Pl

Some might argue sitting idly by while an enemy destroys your country to be quite malevolent.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at November 10, 2023 06:08 PM (5xURv)

293 Maybe he is following the same strategy many here have stated. I’m still on the fence whether pursuing impeachment at this time is wise.
Posted by: Drive by at November 10, 2023 06:00 P
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So am I. Because the Pubs aren't going to have the same success in the media trying convince the thoroughly corrupt Democrat party that it is their duty to make their guy the first removed President, as the Dems tried with the Pubs.

All bullshit from a Pub gets called out publicly. Very rarely does any bullshit from a Dem. Nobody wants to see Bill Clinton behind bars for breaking the law against perjury, because as we were told "everybody lies about sex".

However, because Trump tried to cover up something that might have been about sex--and the Dems certainly are convinced it was--they want him locked up for fraud, because he "broke the law" (like both Clintons).

Because, its only about that that's the way they can get him. You're mean if you want Bill Clinton locked up because he broke the law(because everybody perjures themselves "about sex"), but you are unreasonable if you can't see that Trump BROKE THE LAW! And that's that!

Posted by: Axeman at November 10, 2023 06:10 PM (krQz2)

294 Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) has been one of those people.
...the Pennsylvania Democrat has plastered his office walls with the missing persons posters of those the terror group kidnapped during their vicious October 7 attacks that left 1,400 Israelis dead.

It's caused some heartburn among progressive Democrats,

Posted by: Braenyard at November 10, 2023 06:10 PM (gfCY0)

295 It no longer is "E Pluribus Unum" for this country's motto.

It is "Killin' Babies and Gettin' High"
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at November 10, 2023 06:06 PM (xG4kz)

Haulin Ass and Gettin Paid

https://tinyurl.com/2npsj4dt

Posted by: OneEyedJack at November 10, 2023 06:11 PM (FCbAQ)

296 Just read a long BBC article detailing how restrained Israel is being to go out of their way to avoid civilian deaths.

Delaying attacks while they speak via phone to random Palestinians, even calling a person standing next to him when his battery is low, to warn and coordinate evacuation, not bombing until he confirmed everyone was out.

The Arabs should be scared shirtless-- they have the tech to know the number of act cell phone and who the owner is.
Not even a burner will save you, because they'll link your burner to you probably way quicker than they think.

It's no wonder they are so precisely and surgically slicing, dicing, and isolating then killing Hamas.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 10, 2023 06:11 PM (TzW+Y)

297 Claiming that all libertarians are unserious stoners is like claiming that all conservatives are Admiral Billy, just sayin'

Posted by: CppThis at November 10, 2023 06:11 PM (PZvjL)

298 Death Wish is a detective procedural about Frank Ochoa (Vincent Gardenia), who catches cold just as a murder spree erupts. The whole story follows him and his deductive reasoning process, and he's there in the penultimate scene with the key line. The hero of the story, in novelistic terms, the only character who develops and changes through the course of the action. Obviously we have been misunderstanding this film for decades. Bronson? Pfft.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at November 10, 2023 06:12 PM (4PZHB)

299 Nood dicks?

Posted by: Trigglypuff at November 10, 2023 06:12 PM (RilAR)

300 Libertarians are fundamentally unserious people whose political system, much like communism, attracts impressionable youth.

The only upside is there isn't an inherent malevolence in their system.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 10, 2023 06:06 PM (XV/Pl
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Emo Phillips line about Libertarians is still one of the best:

Libertarians believe that whatever an adult decides to do in private is their own business--except if they are in a voting booth.

Then, they are really irate that you used your vote to back a "collectivist" idea.

Posted by: Axeman at November 10, 2023 06:13 PM (krQz2)

301 Georgia as two high-powered criminal defense attorneys, Criminal Defense Attorneys Donald F. Samuel and Amanda R. Clark Palmer, have suddenly filed a motion to withdraw from the 2020 election case, Favorito v. Wan.

Rasmussen speculated that the lawyers reportedly motioning to withdraw may have something to do with 150,000 “missing” mail ballots

Posted by: Braenyard at November 10, 2023 06:14 PM (gfCY0)

302 Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) has been one of those people.
...the Pennsylvania Democrat has plastered his office walls with the missing persons posters of those the terror group kidnapped during their vicious October 7 attacks that left 1,400 Israelis dead.

It's caused some heartburn among progressive Democrats,

Posted by: Braenyard at November 10, 2023 06:10 PM (gfCY0)
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It sure impressed me.

Posted by: Axeman at November 10, 2023 06:14 PM (krQz2)

303 So you assholes going to get on the nood thread or not?

Posted by: Robert at November 10, 2023 06:14 PM (1Yy3c)

304
Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) has been one of those people.
...the Pennsylvania Democrat has plastered his office walls with the missing persons posters of those the terror group kidnapped during their vicious October 7 attacks that left 1,400 Israelis dead.

It's caused some heartburn among progressive Democrats,

Posted by: Braenyard at November 10, 2023 06:10 PM

Interesting what the hoard digs up. Where does that action sit on the Obama/Clinton battle for power? Somewhere very new is my guess.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at November 10, 2023 06:14 PM (enJYY)

305 FBI seized Eric Adams' electronic devices on Monday evening

Agents approached the Democrat , a former cop, on the street
Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at November 10, 2023 06:03 PM (krqg6)

I dislike the guy, but I would have loved to see the NY cops grab the FBI and cuff them, placing them under arrest. There is NO love of the feds among NYC cops. Witness the scenes in The French Connection. The hate goes way back.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy now with twice the crazy at November 10, 2023 06:16 PM (h4nev)

306 Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson 4h
Trump flips script on lib reporter: "The biggest threat is nuclear weapons and we have a man that doesn't even know what a nuclear weapon is as our chief negotiator... The threat is not global warming it’s nuclear warming."

https://tinyurl.com/mr3vhyc4
1:57 minutes to a Univision TV interviewer also saying how a Biden nuke war would screw Mexico badly too as well as the ocean's rise scam stuff -- La ENTREVISTA!

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at November 10, 2023 06:18 PM (krqg6)

307 ALX 🇺🇸
@alx
BREAKING: FBI agents have seized New York Mayor Eric Adams’ phones and an iPad in their federal corruption investigation

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I'm sure it's just a mistake.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at November 10, 2023 06:18 PM (FVME7)

308 NOODlum.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at November 10, 2023 06:19 PM (Zz0t1)

309 To really put the libertarians in their place, you have to start from a point where "Thomas Bender" is someone you take seriously.

I think the lolbertarians are pretty safe.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at November 10, 2023 06:20 PM (4PZHB)

310 Libertarians are fundamentally unserious people whose political system, much like communism, attracts impressionable youth.

The only upside is there isn't an inherent malevolence in their system.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 10, 2023 06:06 PM (XV/Pl)

Oddly they appear to be the greatest threat to the conservatives. I wonder why a party that regularly garners 3% of the vote at best is considered such a danger? I would think the CPUSA would be more important.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 10, 2023 06:22 PM (xhaym)

311 This all I can find:
Speaker Mike Johnson Pumps The Brakes On Biden Impeachment
BY TYLER DURDEN FRIDAY, NOV 10, 2023 - 05:20 PM
While the Democrats impeached Donald Trump twice for optics - once because he asked Ukraine for evidence of the Biden family's obvious corruption, and a second time for 'incitement of insurrection' related to January 6th, newly minted House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is a no-go on a Biden impeachment despite ample evidence that the Bidens received and distributed large sums of money from foreign sources - which raises obvious questions over foreign influence and pay-for-play.

"We’ll just go where the evidence goes and we’re not there yet," Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE) said, paraphrasing Johnson's comments on the inquiry from the Republican Governance Group's weekly lunch on Tuesday. "Most of us are saying, look, we can’t even get a single Democratic vote on this right now. I think the voters will reject what they are seeing when it comes to Biden [policies] — but high crimes and misdemeanors? I don’t think we’ve seen that or enough data to really make a good case and I feel like [Johnson] really agreed with us on that," the Washington Post reports.

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at November 10, 2023 06:27 PM (krqg6)

312 @312

>>To really put the libertarians in their place, you have to start from a point where "Thomas Bender" is someone you take seriously. I think the lolbertarians are pretty safe.

The first thing a person learns is that nothing in reality is Laissez-faire.

You are a profoundly silly person, may G-d have mercy on your soul.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 10, 2023 06:31 PM (XV/Pl)

313 And this from ZH but no other news sources I use, even very pro-Trump ones:

Cernovich @Cernovich 2:14 PM
Speaker Mike Johnson: “There is insufficient evidence at the moment to initiate formal impeachment proceedings.”

Congratulations everyone!
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And no direct link given.

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at November 10, 2023 06:31 PM (krqg6)

314 "Machete" was the original movie, starring Robert DeNiro. It stunk. "Machete Kills" was the sequel, which I didn't bother to see.

Posted by: Angel at November 10, 2023 06:47 PM (maJzr)

315 Hey vеry nice blog!

Posted by: previewed at November 11, 2023 03:13 AM (jtXHl)

316 Looking forward to another season of Reacher !

Posted by: Noah Bawdy at November 11, 2023 08:56 AM (LmmIE)

317 I never much cared for horror movies, and I absolutely avoid slasher movies and torture porn. But I do like to see Jack Reacher give justice to bad guys.

Posted by: RebeccaH at November 11, 2023 12:05 PM (Nvors)

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