Ugh: Film Actors Guild Ends 118 Day Strike

I was hoping this would go into the new year.

The studios had given the Film Actors Guild an ultimatum: Either settle now, or we'll just stop holding all talks until next year. They figured there was no point even bothering negotiating during the Thanksgiving/Christmas/New Years season.

So the Film Actors Guilders finally came to terms.

After a grueling 118 days on strike, SAG-AFTRA has officially reached a tentative agreement on a new three-year contract with studios, a move that is heralding the end of the 2023 actors strike.
The SAG-AFTRA TV/Theatrical Committee approved the agreement in a unanimous vote Wednesday, SAG-AFTRA announced. The strike will end at 12:01 a.m. Thursday. On Friday, the deal will go to the union's national board for approval.
The performers union announced the provisional agreement Wednesday, after about two weeks of renewed negotiations. The development came not long before a deadline of 5 p.m. that the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers had set for the union to give their answer on whether they had a deal.

The union is so far providing some details of the agreement, more of which will likely emerge in the next few days prior to the union's ratification vote. In a message to members Wednesday night, the union said the pact is valued at over $1 billion and includes pay increases higher than what other unions received this year, a "streaming participation bonus" and regulations on AI. The tentative deal also includes higher caps on health and pension funds, compensation bumps for background performers and "critical contract provisions protecting diverse communities." If the deal is ratified, the contract could soon go into effect, and if not, members would essentially send their labor negotiators back to the bargaining table with the AMPTP.

Just wanted to clarify something I said earlier this week: I have no problem with people saying "the last movie I watched was with John Wayne." The last TV show I watched was... the 1960s/1970s Mission: Impossible TV show on Pluto. It's pretty much the only TV show I watch. Well, that an Just Shoot Me from the 90s.

I have no problem with rejecting Hollywood and in fact loudly champion doing so. Even if someone wants to watch a movie or TV show, there are decades worth of stuff to watch already. No one has to watch modern "entertainment."

Years ago, Kurt Schlichter, who I almost always agree with, wrote something I thought was completely wrong: He said that conservatives needed to engage in the culture, and that included watching crap like Lena Dunham's Girls.

Absolutely not. Absolutely not. There are only so many hours in the day and the idea of wasting time watching crap you don't like just to be part of the "cultural conversation," to slightly, maybe, increase conservatives' vote share seems to me the worst possible tradeoff imaginable. If winning elections means I have to watch Lena Dunham's fat ass, then put me down for not winning elections.

But I would like to cover the fall of modern "entertainment" as a business/culture story.

That's not the same as gabbing about who is the Hottest Chris in Superhero Movies, you know. (It's Chris Hemsworth, obviously.)

I don't like being shamed about covering the fall of a woke media giant like Disney with the "I don't watch new movies" stuff, where that's used as a not-so-subtle insult to anyone who's talking about current day media. As if I'm some kind of Disney fanboy tittybaby.

And do note, I'm only talking about Disney fare, not watching it. I haven't watched anything Marvel since... Well I did see the Doctor Strange movie. And that's it over the past few years.

So do continue boycotting Hollywood. I'm boycotting it myself, pretty much.

Just let me cover Disney without not-so-covertly calling me a Silly Child for doing so.

And if you let me do that, you can say "I haven't watched a movie since John Wayne" all you like.

I just watched the Claude Raines Invisible Man. I think that's actually the last movie I watched.

So, actually, I haven't watched a movie since Claude Raines.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 12:12 PM

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1 Sad

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at November 09, 2023 12:12 PM (N1DT3)

2 Hollywood deserves more pain.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at November 09, 2023 12:12 PM (N1DT3)

3 ace strikes me as a David Spade fan.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 09, 2023 12:13 PM (di6C2)

4 Hi Ace.

Here ontime for a change

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at November 09, 2023 12:13 PM (t/2Uw)

5 SPONGE!!!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 09, 2023 12:13 PM (aQy7p)

6 What ever happened to
Stick it to the Man?

Posted by: Skip at November 09, 2023 12:13 PM (fwDg9)

7 They had to settle on something, as literally nobody cared about them being on strike.

Posted by: garrett at November 09, 2023 12:13 PM (Atkwd)

8 And do note, I'm only talking about Disney fare, not watching it. I haven't watched anything Marvel since... Well I did see the Doctor Strange movie. And that's it.

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I got that one from the library.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going up some wonky stairs with Paul Leni at November 09, 2023 12:14 PM (GBKbO)

9 UGG! See, if I read the content first, I might have known I was supposed to shame Ace for covering topic relevant to the moral and political downfall of our nation!

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at November 09, 2023 12:14 PM (N1DT3)

10 Ace, it's your blog, you write about whatever you want. We're the guests and we should respect the host since its your house.

Posted by: Moki at November 09, 2023 12:14 PM (N43JC)

11 Covering the fall of Disney is totally valid. We have to take what few victories we get. CARRY ON, PLEASE

Posted by: Fat Jonah of Krypton at November 09, 2023 12:14 PM (PwP1X)

12 Considering that most of their product is puerile woke garbage, I to hoped the strike would go on forever…

Posted by: tubal at November 09, 2023 12:14 PM (PCK5/)

13 Ace,

A deal is probably a good thing. It will undoubtedly raise costs for the studios and accelerate the slide into financial ruin that many of them seem to be on.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 09, 2023 12:14 PM (3Gtis)

14 What ever happened to
Stick it to the Man?
Posted by: Skip at November 09, 2023 12:13 PM

*Provincetown has entered the chat*

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at November 09, 2023 12:14 PM (aQy7p)

15 6 What ever happened to
Stick it to the Man?
Posted by: Skip at November 09, 2023 12:13 PM (f

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They became the man. Now, about the machine and how we should rage against it...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going up some wonky stairs with Paul Leni at November 09, 2023 12:14 PM (GBKbO)

16 What ever happened to
Stick it to the Man?

Thanks to globo-homo it's now "Stick it in the man."

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at November 09, 2023 12:14 PM (Bd6X8)

17 >>Ace, it's your blog, you write about whatever you want. We're the guests and we should respect the host since its your house.

Posted by: Moki at November 09, 2023 12:14 PM

Yes, exactly.

Posted by: huerfano at November 09, 2023 12:15 PM (Q4KYm)

18 I watch very little of the new stuff, but I do enjoy reading stories about the people trying to woke-ify children's entertainment getting screwed.

Posted by: Dr. T at November 09, 2023 12:15 PM (bhRsz)

19 well, it was fun while it lasted, but i suppose this means there WILL be spring shows.

i was hoping for a full year cancellation.

Posted by: SturmToddler at November 09, 2023 12:15 PM (nXhwP)

20 ace strikes me as a David Spade fan.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 09, 2023 12:13 PM (di6C2)

Just Shoot Me was a funny show, from my recollection.

David Spade is whiny. Somehow still funny though. Emperor's New Groove is surprisingly funny, in fact.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at November 09, 2023 12:15 PM (N1DT3)

21 13 Ace,

A deal is probably a good thing. It will undoubtedly raise costs for the studios and accelerate the slide into financial ruin that many of them seem to be on.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 09, 2023 12:14 PM (3Gtis)

==========

Plus, visual effects houses and animation houses have been unionizing recently.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going up some wonky stairs with Paul Leni at November 09, 2023 12:15 PM (GBKbO)

22 A deal is probably a good thing. It will undoubtedly raise costs for the studios and accelerate the slide into financial ruin that many of them seem to be on.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 09, 2023 12:14 PM (3Gtis)

From your keyboard to G*d's ear!

Posted by: Moki at November 09, 2023 12:15 PM (N43JC)

23 >>We're the guests and we should respect the host since its your house.

Sure. We should...

but, how is that fun?

Posted by: garrett at November 09, 2023 12:16 PM (Atkwd)

24 Hi Ace.

Here ontime for a change.

Was referring to myself, not you.
Have been totally absorbed with Israeli news.
Happy to report that they seem to be getting the job done.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at November 09, 2023 12:16 PM (t/2Uw)

25 Ace is entitled to do as he pleases??? Heresy!!!

Posted by: tubal at November 09, 2023 12:16 PM (PCK5/)

26 In GOPe cuck news, Jeff B has the sadz that Vivek called Zelensky "a Nazi dictator in khakis" and hasn't apologized yet.

Posted by: Ian S. at November 09, 2023 12:16 PM (NqGS/)

27 Great!! Now the "stars" can go out on promotion tours and make sure to put Disney corp into the crapper.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at November 09, 2023 12:16 PM (17s+e)

28 Will Jimmy Kimmel still not be funny?

Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd at November 09, 2023 12:16 PM (HfNu5)

29 David Spade is whiny. Somehow still funny though. Emperor's New Groove is surprisingly funny, in fact.

I think he knows he's whiny, and uses it for comedic effect.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at November 09, 2023 12:16 PM (Bd6X8)

30 >>>Just let me cover Disney without not-so-covertly calling me a Silly Child for doing so.

Not unless you add a chick and make her gay!!

Posted by: Kathleen Kennedy at November 09, 2023 12:16 PM (bhRsz)

31 "Emperor's New Groove is surprisingly funny, in fact."

It was better than I expected.

Posted by: Pour Your Misery Down On gp at November 09, 2023 12:16 PM (MvF+J)

32 I like when you go into detail about how Disney (and Woke entertainment in general) is losing money hand-over-fist. Gives me a warm, fuzzy feeling.

Posted by: Biergood at November 09, 2023 12:17 PM (PwgSL)

33 ========

They became the man. Now, about the machine and how we should rage against it...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going up some wonky stairs with Paul Leni at November 09, 2023 12:14 PM (GBKbO)

Well, at least we don't have to waste all that valuable time questioning Authority anymore.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at November 09, 2023 12:17 PM (N3zMI)

34 Problem is Disney won't die fast enough for me...

Posted by: It's me donna at November 09, 2023 12:17 PM (bs+z0)

35 The last movie I saw was produced by Thomas Edison.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 09, 2023 12:17 PM (63Dwl)

36 Strike's over. That's fine. Good luck making much money in 2024 as so many films destined to be released then needed to be made his year...but were canceled or pushed back for the strike.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at November 09, 2023 12:17 PM (8sMut)

37 Just Shoot Me. Mmmmm…Laura San Giacomo’s epic boobs…mmmmmm…

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at November 09, 2023 12:17 PM (JrojV)

38 How grueling is it to hang out at the coffee bar and bitch and moan about having no employment while eyeing the young boys?

Posted by: Puddinhead at November 09, 2023 12:17 PM (n14bF)

39 Ace just can't quit us!

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at November 09, 2023 12:17 PM (krqg6)

40 David Spade is whiny. Somehow still funny though. Emperor's New Groove is surprisingly funny, in fact.

I think he knows he's whiny, and uses it for comedic effect.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at November 09, 2023 12:16 PM (Bd6X

Yeah, but Gilbert Gottfried is too, but he's annoying while only sometimes funny.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at November 09, 2023 12:17 PM (N1DT3)

41 It's kind of a big deal. It's probably the only way to get to a new culture--have the old stuff collapse under its own weight. (The Egyptians took a few centuries to collapse.)

Saw "Ghost in the Shell" last night. (The Satoshi Kon original.) And two trailers.

One for "The Marvels", which doesn't look good but I felt like the trailer cutter did yeoman's work in trying to make it look like you might not hate it.

One for an A24 movie about an ordinary man who starts appearing in everyone's dreams. He's not aware of this, there's no reason why, and he doesn't do anything specific in the dreams. (Sometimes nothing, sometimes all kinds of things.) It seems be about viral fame.

The man is played by Nic Cage, who looks perfect in it. Normie Nic Cage.

So that might be something. Good trailer, anyway, which is rare!

Posted by: moviegique at November 09, 2023 12:18 PM (asXVI)

42 29 David Spade is whiny. Somehow still funny though. Emperor's New Groove is surprisingly funny, in fact.

I think he knows he's whiny, and uses it for comedic effect.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at November 09, 2023 12:16 PM (Bd6X

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Woody Allen did it first.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going up some wonky stairs with Paul Leni at November 09, 2023 12:18 PM (GBKbO)

43 Sure. We should...

but, how is that fun?
Posted by: garrett at November 09, 2023 12:16 PM (Atkwd)

Everyone knows you're special, garrett, and that you and your crocs can get away with stuff the rest of us can't!

Posted by: Moki at November 09, 2023 12:18 PM (N43JC)

44 Welcome back, FAGS!

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at November 09, 2023 12:18 PM (/HDaX)

45 Hollywood makes very little I can sit and watch...haven't for years.

Posted by: BignJames at November 09, 2023 12:18 PM (AwYPR)

46 After a grueling 118 days on strike

= =

LOL GF

Posted by: Darth Chipmunk at November 09, 2023 12:18 PM (ZC8hN)

47 39 Ace just can't quit us!
Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at November 09, 2023 12:17 PM (krqg6)

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Our clicks feed him.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going up some wonky stairs with Paul Leni at November 09, 2023 12:18 PM (GBKbO)

48 Georgia Secretary of State said that there have been new threats to election workers.

Letters containing fentanyl intercepted.

Posted by: redridinghood at November 09, 2023 12:18 PM (NpAcC)

49 Plus, visual effects houses and animation houses have been unionizing recently.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going up some wonky stairs with Paul Leni at November 09, 2023 12:15 PM (GBKbO)

Marvelous (no pun intended).

So movies will go the way of professional sports...tickets beyond the reach of many Americans, with seat licenses at theaters sold to corporations who dole out the seats to their favored employees and customers.

And streaming services that are $100/month!

It's a great business plan!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 09, 2023 12:19 PM (3Gtis)

50 I am glad you are fighting the culture war, ace
It's less depressing than politics

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at November 09, 2023 12:19 PM (EGSGm)

51 So, the strike ended. What really matters is who won, not that it's over. Because, in the end, the real losers is us.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 09, 2023 12:19 PM (Angsy)

52 I saw the Disney Fanboy Tittybabies open for Thunderpussy at the Ray's Fried Food and Bait Shop back in '97.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at November 09, 2023 12:19 PM (mj0Qp)

53

Did they stop raping young boys too?

Posted by: Dr.Rev. Senator Your Highness E Buzz Miller, Esq PhD MA MS at November 09, 2023 12:19 PM (UCNv1)

54 Problem is Disney won't die fast enough for me...
Posted by: It's me donna at November 09, 2023 12:17 PM (bs+z0)

Just like there's a lot of ruin in a nation (a fact we are determined to test to failure), there's a lot of ruin in a large company.

Ruin comes, just the same, though.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at November 09, 2023 12:19 PM (N1DT3)

55 And I thought Ace's first post of the day would be about how Tim Scott finally introduced us to his "girlfriend," who looks like a specialty escort who, by the way, was the starting quarterback for "her" high school football team.

Posted by: South Gayrolina at November 09, 2023 12:19 PM (qUkBO)

56 Isn’t David Spade rumored to be a conservative?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at November 09, 2023 12:19 PM (JrojV)

57 A deal is probably a good thing. It will undoubtedly raise costs for the studios and accelerate the slide into financial ruin that many of them seem to be on.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 09, 2023 12:14 PM (3Gtis)

Considering they seem hell bent on making product that is explicitly repellent to the people with money would want to pay for, I am not sure it makes a difference if costs are raised or not.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 09, 2023 12:19 PM (di6C2)

58 Wow, I was so hoping their resolve was unfailing.

Posted by: Gmac - WTF did you think was going to happen? at November 09, 2023 12:20 PM (qZdIZ)

59 I was reflecting last night on just how little modern entertainment I watch these days--practically none.

I have a vast library of content and seldom even watch that.

Mostly I read books.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 09, 2023 12:20 PM (YIVH2)

60 Woody Allen did it first.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going up some wonky stairs with Paul Leni at November 09, 2023 12:18 PM (GBKbO)

Yeah, but he's just annoying.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at November 09, 2023 12:20 PM (N1DT3)

61 >>>3 ace strikes me as a David Spade fan.

definitely. Him and Wendy Malick. and Laura San Giocomo's enormous boobs.

Hi sharon!

Posted by: ace at November 09, 2023 12:20 PM (KRtlO)

62 After a grueling 118 days on strike, SAG-AFTRA has officially reached a tentative agreement on a new three-year contract with studios, a move that is heralding the end of the 2023 actors strike.

THANK YOU!! Now I can fucking buy groceries to feed my now homeless family, you rich, pampered, fucking fucks.

Posted by: Grips, Best Boys, Carpenters and Electricians

Posted by: rickb223 at November 09, 2023 12:20 PM (iOTJP)

63 "After a grueling 118 days on strike,..."

"Grueling"? Those 118 days were more entertaining than any of the slop they normally foist on the public.

Posted by: hobbitopoly at November 09, 2023 12:20 PM (6xRrr)

64 >> Laura San Giocomo's enormous boobs.

Her face, tho.

Posted by: garrett at November 09, 2023 12:21 PM (Atkwd)

65 “ I don't like being shamed about covering the fall of a woke media giant like Disney…”

So what do you like being shamed for? Or should we just ask Garrett?

Posted by: Kratwurst at November 09, 2023 12:21 PM (nIRE6)

66 59 I was reflecting last night on just how little modern entertainment I watch these days--practically none.

I have a vast library of content and seldom even watch that.

Mostly I read books.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 09, 2023 12:20 PM (YIVH2)

Same. I watch a lot of older stuff because it's alllll new to me.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at November 09, 2023 12:21 PM (KbCG3)

67 The last new movie I watched was probably the Top Gun remake/sequel/whatever.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 09, 2023 12:21 PM (di6C2)

68 Disney announced earnings after the closing bell yesterday. The street is very happy with them.

Up %7.6

I wonder what sort of accounting sleight-of-hand they are pulling?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 09, 2023 12:21 PM (3Gtis)

69 "Ha! It's so great that Anthony Russo trolled Martin Scorsese because Russo's movies make money and Scorsese's movies don't! Fuck Scorsese! That old windbag! Marvel makes money, and it's great!"

"Hey, we can't judge the quality of a movie based on its opening weekend. The Marvels is a quality entertainment that made me cry because of its greatness, and that has nothing to do with box office."
-Disney shills, like, a month later

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going up some wonky stairs with Paul Leni at November 09, 2023 12:21 PM (GBKbO)

70 Off topic, but I was talking about the Afghanistan withdrawal with a coworker and thought I remembered that in addition to all the equipment we left millions in cold, hard cash. I can't find any mention of it now. Does anyone remember things this way, or am I conflating it with Iran's pallets of cash?

Posted by: 496 at November 09, 2023 12:21 PM (Fkq0A)

71 Ace just can't quit us!

... unless this was in the bin last night and it was just auto-posted now??

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at November 09, 2023 12:21 PM (krqg6)

72 Marvelous (no pun intended).

So movies will go the way of professional sports...tickets beyond the reach of many Americans, with seat licenses at theaters sold to corporations who dole out the seats to their favored employees and customers.

And streaming services that are $100/month!

It's a great business plan!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 09, 2023 12:19 PM (3Gtis)
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Entertainment will become the exclusive privilege of the elite. The rest of us will work in the mines.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 09, 2023 12:21 PM (YIVH2)

73 58 Wow, I was so hoping their resolve was unfailing.
Posted by: Gmac - WTF did you think was going to happen? at November 09, 2023 12:20 PM (qZdIZ)

Always bet on Fail with these people.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 09, 2023 12:22 PM (di6C2)

74 Isn’t David Spade rumored to be a conservative?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at November 09, 2023 12:19 PM (JrojV)

A surprising number of the 90's SNL cast is conservative or conservative-ish.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at November 09, 2023 12:22 PM (N1DT3)

75 In good news, Biden will no longer have to send a bailout to Hollywood unions this Christmas.

Posted by: Nova Local at November 09, 2023 12:22 PM (exHjb)

76 Laura San Giocomo's enormous boobs.

Her face, tho.
Posted by: garrett

Face down, butt up.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 09, 2023 12:22 PM (iOTJP)

77 60 Woody Allen did it first.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going up some wonky stairs with Paul Leni at November 09, 2023 12:18 PM (GBKbO)

Yeah, but he's just annoying.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at November 09, 2023 12:20 PM (N1DT3)

And genrally disturbing and skeevy…

Posted by: tubal at November 09, 2023 12:22 PM (PCK5/)

78 On Demand has 6000 free movies . I won’t be watching a new movie any time in the foreseeable future unless it includes an outspoken conservative message . That said I understand movies are a big part of others entertainment so I’m not calling for others to follow my lead, I used to have the same position on the NFL but the tranny cheerleaders has changed me to a pro active boycotter.

Posted by: Drive by at November 09, 2023 12:22 PM (MNhXM)

79 I like going to the movies. Gets me out of the house.

Not going to see 3.5hour Scorsese pic.

Posted by: DOYLE at November 09, 2023 12:22 PM (Z8Yh2)

80 Isn’t David Spade rumored to be a conservative?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

I've listened to some recent podcasts Spade and Dana Carvey do. I think they're both conservative leaning. Jim Breuer (goat boy) and Rob Schneider (the copy machine guy) from that same SNL time are definitely conservative.

Posted by: Biergood at November 09, 2023 12:22 PM (PwgSL)

81 "Grueling" = lounging by the pool working on that screenplay.

Posted by: LOLGF at November 09, 2023 12:23 PM (qUkBO)

82 Her face, tho.

Posted by: garrett at November 09, 2023 12:21 PM (Atkwd)

She was adorable when young, but hasn't aged well.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 09, 2023 12:23 PM (3Gtis)

83 We watched Fool's Gold last night by accident again. It's a Matthew McConaughey and Kate Hudson vehicle that we watched when it got released on mail NetFlix. At the time I thought it was pretty bad. Now compared to the absolute shit that has been released in the last 15 years, I deem it to be one of the better movies. It had laughs, few plot holes, good character development, and most importantly we enjoyed it. All things that I have not seen in a major release in the decade since hollywood went female and fag. And I'm sure it made money. My how fare hollywood has fallen.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at November 09, 2023 12:23 PM (17s+e)

84 68 Disney announced earnings after the closing bell yesterday. The street is very happy with them.

Up %7.6

I wonder what sort of accounting sleight-of-hand they are pulling?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 09, 2023 12:21 PM (3Gtis)

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I suspect that they did lower a lot of costs through the strikes that brought their PnL stuff in a positive light. They're essentially writing off certain projects while delaying work on others, meaning that the Q4 numbers will probably be pretty heavy as they try and restart everything.

Plus, Iger did mandate a general cost-cut across streaming content last year that was pretty substantial.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going up some wonky stairs with Paul Leni at November 09, 2023 12:23 PM (GBKbO)

85 “ I don't like being shamed about covering the fall of a woke media giant like Disney…”

So what do you like being shamed for? Or should we just ask Garrett?
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Well, the time he spends covering Disney *could* also be spent on busty lesbian pron.

Unless that's gone woke, too.

Posted by: Methos at November 09, 2023 12:23 PM (Dnobf)

86 Disney announced earnings after the closing bell yesterday. The street is very happy with them.

Up %7.6

I wonder what sort of accounting sleight-of-hand they are pulling?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

Every trick they can think of.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 09, 2023 12:23 PM (iOTJP)

87 Entertainment will become the exclusive privilege of the elite. The rest of us will work in the mines.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 09, 2023 12:21 PM (YIVH2)

Nah, we'll just entertain each other as we always have.

I mean, kids nowadays follow more free entertainment than paid stuff, and it's not b/c their parents aren't paying...

Posted by: Nova Local at November 09, 2023 12:23 PM (exHjb)

88 >>Isn’t David Spade rumored to be a conservative?

He grew up in a lower middle class household in Tucson. Spent his youth in the desert plinking, to hear him tell the stories.
He is at least Conservative Curious, if nothing else.

Posted by: garrett at November 09, 2023 12:23 PM (Atkwd)

89 I think Laura SG’s face is just fine.

She’s like a bustier Karen Valentine.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at November 09, 2023 12:24 PM (JrojV)

90 Did someone say BOOKS?

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CJWY334L

I think I'm legally required to shill my book everywhere until the next one comes out.

But the funny thing to me is that if I'm gonna daydream, as authors sometimes do, about my books being made into movies? These days, I'd hope some anime studio or Asian company approached me.

I'm not saying I'd turn down a Hollywood deal, 'cause that gets into "her elbows are pointy" territory. But my thoughts drift toward, "Man, those guys who do 'My Hero, Academia' could do a good job with this."

Culture wars are funny things.

Posted by: moviegique at November 09, 2023 12:24 PM (asXVI)

91 Ace, I implore you...

Please continue chainsawing Disney, mercilessly.

When you're done, chainsaw the pieces.

Posted by: CZ = FNG, Free Republic of Florida at November 09, 2023 12:24 PM (MkuC5)

92 I wonder what sort of accounting sleight-of-hand they are pulling?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

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They sure didn't sell off underperforming unts like Marvel

Posted by: 496 at November 09, 2023 12:24 PM (Fkq0A)

93 After a grueling 118 days on strike,

WTF was grueling about it? Did Disney thugs beat them on the strike line? GFY Hollywood.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * No quarter, no mercy at November 09, 2023 12:24 PM (9Y5Av)

94 90 But the funny thing to me is that if I'm gonna daydream, as authors sometimes do, about my books being made into movies? These days, I'd hope some anime studio or Asian company approached me.

I'm not saying I'd turn down a Hollywood deal, 'cause that gets into "her elbows are pointy" territory. But my thoughts drift toward, "Man, those guys who do 'My Hero, Academia' could do a good job with this."

Culture wars are funny things.
Posted by: moviegique at November 09, 2023 12:24 PM (asXVI)

========

I'd love David Lowery to adapt Crystal Embers.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going up some wonky stairs with Paul Leni at November 09, 2023 12:24 PM (GBKbO)

95 Isn’t David Spade rumored to be a conservative?

Pretty much all of the SNL people who were there with Dana Carvey and Dennis Miller are at least libertarian.

Posted by: Ian S. at November 09, 2023 12:24 PM (2ocoG)

96 Am I to understand this is not to be a Disney Thread? Is this what I am to understand?

Posted by: Weasel at November 09, 2023 12:25 PM (JwHpX)

97 Kim Dotcom
@KimDotcom
Nov 4
Bye bye Hollywood 🤖
Max
Nov 4, 2023 · 4:26 PM UTC

https://tinyurl.com/2zspy24y

(Nitter)

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 09, 2023 12:25 PM (bAJ1Y)

98 Thanks, Ace.

Posted by: uniparty, Raping and Mutilating the Children They Do Not Kill at November 09, 2023 12:25 PM (gxokI)

99 It basically will go on until the new year for production. They can't start anything between now and probably Jan 3rd or 4th, and who wants to pay everyone a full week for just 3 days, so let's just start the 8th.

And that's also depending on how the fight for actors, crews, and studio space goes. Who gets first dibs, shows that we're shut down or new ones?

The sooner they start, the sooner they get over with killing the industry, and ther sooner maybe smart people who don't think Brie Larson is the strongest human to ever walk the earth can take over and make better movies.

Posted by: Rbastid at November 09, 2023 12:25 PM (oQKD+)

100 Ace - so you watched the Invisible Man... but you never SAW the Invisible Man? :-) LOL

Agree w/ you totally. The last movie I saw in a theater was Sound of Freedom. Before that it was Top Gun Maverick. 99% of Hollywood is mediocre / terrible shite, and they won't get any of my money nor attention. Keep harping Disney, those posts make me happy.

Posted by: exliberal at November 09, 2023 12:25 PM (KtT/B)

101 I'm waiting for a remake of "Topper". Great movie but could use some updating (like color).

Posted by: SFGoth at November 09, 2023 12:25 PM (KAi1n)

102 Maybe we get one moar Indiana Jones movie?

Posted by: Puddinhead at November 09, 2023 12:25 PM (n14bF)

103 David Spade should be respected for his poon list alone. Guy is a poonmaster.

Better than Scott Baio maybe.

Posted by: DOYLE at November 09, 2023 12:25 PM (Z8Yh2)

104 The culture war is actually the only place where we can make a difference because money talks. If you don't go to the movies, don;t buy the woke promoted product, don't attend the woke sporting events, at some point they die.
EVs, Bud Light, Target, even the military is starting to face reality. Politics can still be manipulated by billionaires but maybe the proletariat is starting to fight back.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at November 09, 2023 12:25 PM (t/2Uw)

105 THANK YOU!! Now I can fucking buy groceries to feed my now homeless family, you rich, pampered, fucking fucks.

Posted by: Grips, Best Boys, Carpenters and Electricians

Posted by: rickb223 at November 09, 2023 12:20 PM (iOTJP)

Boom Operators...left out boom operators.

Posted by: BignJames at November 09, 2023 12:26 PM (AwYPR)

106 I just bought some comic books to support a guy for bucking the system.
...
I don't even like comic books.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 09, 2023 12:26 PM (0473J)

107 Did anyone even notice that these useless, worthless, crybaby, panty-mouthed little shits were on strike?

Posted by: Elric Blade at November 09, 2023 12:26 PM (iFTx/)

108 Speaking of this weekend's Disney movie, The Marvels, skip it.

It's a Morbius edit - thus the story makes little sense and the script is awful. It's sole saving grace is the "fun" and chemistry between the leads...which you can get on any Nick tween show.

Keep making Disney hurt until they say "uncle" and stop their war on us...

Posted by: Nova Local at November 09, 2023 12:26 PM (exHjb)

109 ff topic, but I was talking about the Afghanistan withdrawal with a coworker and thought I remembered that in addition to all the equipment we left millions in cold, hard cash. I can't find any mention of it now. Does anyone remember things this way, or am I conflating it with Iran's pallets of cash?
Posted by: 496 at November 09, 2023 12:21 PM (Fkq0A)

We are actually making cash payments to Afghanistan right now. I think something like 80 million a month IIRC.

Posted by: Drive by at November 09, 2023 12:26 PM (MNhXM)

110 Oooh, I luv classic movies! Anything with Brad Pitt is da bomb!

Posted by: Generation Zero at November 09, 2023 12:26 PM (qUkBO)

111 I feel like the problem here is not so much that Hollywood makes crap, as it is that the public has a big appetite for crap. Always New Crap. Easy, Quick To Find Crap. Crap that takes no imagination to seek out. Convenience Crap.

Posted by: Pour Your Misery Down On gp at November 09, 2023 12:26 PM (MvF+J)

112 I think Laura SG’s face is just fine.

She’s like a bustier Karen Valentine.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at November 09, 2023

***
She was great in Quigley Down Under -- funny, sexy, and pathetic by turns.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 09, 2023 12:27 PM (J2vNu)

113 "Hey, we can't judge the quality of a movie based on its opening weekend. The Marvels is a quality entertainment that made me cry because of its greatness, and that has nothing to do with box office."
-Disney shills, like, a month later
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going up some wonky stairs with Paul Leni at November 09, 2023 12:21 PM (GBKbO)

Have you heard about its Humanity and Sincerity?

Posted by: Dr. T at November 09, 2023 12:27 PM (bhRsz)

114 >> I feel like the problem here is not so much that Hollywood makes crap, as it is that the public has a big appetite for crap

Now you have hurt my feelings.

Posted by: Fast and Furious Franchise at November 09, 2023 12:27 PM (Atkwd)

115 110 Oooh, I luv classic movies! Anything with Brad Pitt is da bomb!
Posted by: Generation Zero at November 09, 2023 12:26 PM (qUkBO)

=========

"You guys remember that old movie, The Empire Strikes Back, right?"
-Spider-Man in Avengers Infinity War

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going up some wonky stairs with Paul Leni at November 09, 2023 12:27 PM (GBKbO)

116 I was kind of a secret (didn’t talk about it with friends) fan of Just Shoot Me in the 90s even though I’ve always found David Spade quite annoying. But the show was clever and had quite a few attractive women…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 09, 2023 12:27 PM (u4bMz)

117 Ace, I implore you...

Please continue chainsawing Disney, mercilessly.

When you're done, chainsaw the pieces.
Posted by: CZ

Then stack the pieces and do it again.

Sorry. I grew up on Disney. Sunday night after dinner. Then it was bedtime. My parents wouldn't have thought twice to leave me in front of the tv and do something else in the house.

Since the have become pedo central, I won't allow my grandchildren anywhere near it.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 09, 2023 12:28 PM (iOTJP)

118 . I think something like 80 million a month IIRC.
Posted by: Drive by at November 09, 2023 12:26 PM (MNhXM)

80 million to the treasury is like that monthly bottom tier Crunchyroll subscription you forgot you had because you never actually look at your statements.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 09, 2023 12:28 PM (0473J)

119 James, have you seen the 4 hour movie yet?

Posted by: Puddinhead at November 09, 2023 12:28 PM (n14bF)

120 Oh, and Laura San Giacomo also embodied an important character in the TV miniseries of King's The Stand, which had a lot of great casting.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 09, 2023 12:28 PM (J2vNu)

121 Another strike that ends right after election day.

I wonder what those fine civic-minded actors and writers were doing with themselves when they weren't at work?

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at November 09, 2023 12:28 PM (lf83v)

122 Just remember if you really want to screw big hollywood, be your own streaming service. There are a number of paid and free services, like PLEX, EMBY, and Jellyfin, that allow you to create your own server, and host your own videos. You can convert your DVD/BLuRays to a streaming format with programs like Handbrake (free) and AnyDVD (paid), host them on your server. Then you can use the PLEX or Jellyfin app on your ROKU, FIRE or SmartTV to access your content on your server. With a little effort you can even have your server set up for remote web access, as opposed to in house network access. My webfu isn't good enough to do that, but if you want to share your collection with remote family and friends, you could.

Posted by: Iblis at November 09, 2023 12:28 PM (9221z)

123 I always thought "I don't watch movies" was meant to imply "I don't watch movies because I don't have time to watch movies. I'm too busy putting 72 hours a week in at the job, fixing things around the house or cars, or at the range keeping myself combat-ready".

Posted by: XTC at November 09, 2023 12:28 PM (7VV1E)

124 >>She was great in Quigley Down Under

Wasn't Paulina porizkova in that?

Posted by: garrett at November 09, 2023 12:28 PM (Atkwd)

125 Instant crap on demand, straight from the spigot. Something to distract the kids for a couple hours.

Posted by: Pour Your Misery Down On gp at November 09, 2023 12:28 PM (MvF+J)

126 THANK YOU!! Now I can fucking buy groceries to feed my now homeless family, you rich, pampered, fucking fucks.

Posted by: Grips, Best Boys, Carpenters and Electricians

Posted by: rickb223 at November 09, 2023 12:20 PM (iOTJP)

Boom Operators...left out boom operators.
Posted by: BignJames

Yeah. I left out too many to list.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 09, 2023 12:29 PM (iOTJP)

127 Invisible Man was a great movie.

The last movie I watched was The Wolfman (1941). So I'm quite the modernist compared to DE Ace.

Posted by: Not Enough Lampposts at November 09, 2023 12:29 PM (GHUAB)

128 119 James, have you seen the 4 hour movie yet?
Posted by: Puddinhead at November 09, 2023 12:28 PM (n14bF)

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Nope. Not yet. I'm probably going to have to wait until AppleTV+.

If I hadn't had a movie thread go up that weekend, I would have gone, but oh well.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going up some wonky stairs with Paul Leni at November 09, 2023 12:29 PM (GBKbO)

129 My high school just went on lockdown. Rumors about a gun. All I know. My students and I are locked in my classroom right now.

Posted by: Jmel at November 09, 2023 12:29 PM (RWHIh)

130
The last movie I watched in the theater was Independence Day. Never gone since.

Posted by: Speller at November 09, 2023 12:29 PM (pSotA)

131 121 Another strike that ends right after election day.

I wonder what those fine civic-minded actors and writers were doing with themselves when they weren't at work?
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at November 09, 2023 12:28 PM (lf83v)

Nah, the big decision was giving FBI HQ to MD over VA the day after the election...that was held politically.

Good luck to the Fibbies who get to go to Greenbelt...

Posted by: Nova Local at November 09, 2023 12:29 PM (exHjb)

132 Chico and the Man>Stick it to the Man.

Posted by: nurse ratched, otter 841 has a BABY! at November 09, 2023 12:29 PM (UzHLG)

133
True story:

The beach house scene in "The Road to Perdition" was filmed next to my uncle's cottage on Lake Michigan and the makers needed his road for access.

My brother the lawyer handled the easement negotiations and a producer held out the chance to meet a couple stars as payment.

His response was "The last movie my uncle watched was Dr. Zhivago and he didn't like it."

The access fees still pay for the property taxes there.

Posted by: Auspex at November 09, 2023 12:30 PM (j4U/Z)

134 127 Invisible Man was a great movie.

The last movie I watched was The Wolfman (1941). So I'm quite the modernist compared to DE Ace.
Posted by: Not Enough Lampposts at November 09, 2023 12:29 PM (GHUAB)

========

The movie I reviewed today was from 1921. It's pretty good.

What do I win?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going up some wonky stairs with Paul Leni at November 09, 2023 12:30 PM (GBKbO)

135 I've been watching a few YouTube videos on the subject and it appears that writers and actors are now in the same boat . They are getting increases in pay and residuals from streaming, but unfortunately that is going to lead to fewer productions. TV shows coul reduce from 22 episodes per year to 16. These guys just wasted over a half year of their productive lives

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 09, 2023 12:30 PM (9z+cX)

136 124 >>She was great in Quigley Down Under

Wasn't Paulina porizkova in that?
Posted by: garrett at November 09, 2023 12:28 PM (Atkwd)

Nope. Was LSG.

Posted by: Not Enough Lampposts at November 09, 2023 12:30 PM (GHUAB)

137 FAGs. Whatcha gonna do.

Posted by: Probably from Kansas City at November 09, 2023 12:30 PM (HBnmy)

138 I really like Just Shoot Me but

Rules of Engagement >> Just Shoot Me

It should be the official sitcom of aos.

Posted by: Drive by at November 09, 2023 12:30 PM (MNhXM)

139 If a Film Actors Guild strikes in the forest and no one is around to care, does it make a sound?

Honestly, this has less impact on me than if the Associated Brotherhood of Dildo Manufacturers Union demanded retroactive wage increases for Y2K compliance.

Posted by: red speck at November 09, 2023 12:30 PM (0Id0S)

140 I hear Hamas is looking to hire boom operators.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at November 09, 2023 12:31 PM (JrojV)

141 Have any of the horde watched 'After Death' from Angel Studios? They also did Sound of Freedom. Might go see it this weekend.

Posted by: Cheri at November 09, 2023 12:31 PM (oiNtH)

142 "Wasn't Paulina porizkova in that?"

Her best movie is a little ditty called "Thursday". Small part but memorable.

Thomas Jayne is the lead.

Posted by: DOYLE at November 09, 2023 12:31 PM (Z8Yh2)

143 "My high school just went on lockdown. Rumors about a gun. All I know. My students and I are locked in my classroom right now."

I totally believe a teacher is reading and posting on Ace of Spades while teaching while in lockdown. Totally.

Posted by: Born Last Night at November 09, 2023 12:31 PM (qUkBO)

144 Wasn't Paulina porizkova in that?
Posted by: garrett at November 09, 2023 12:28 PM (Atkwd)

You're thinking Her Alibi- another underrated Selleck movie. A lot of fun.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 09, 2023 12:31 PM (di6C2)

145 >>Nope. Was LSG.

Must have been a different movie with Magnum in it?

Paulina was the hottest chick going for a while.

Posted by: garrett at November 09, 2023 12:31 PM (Atkwd)

146 80 Isn’t David Spade rumored to be a conservative?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

I've listened to some recent podcasts Spade and Dana Carvey do. I think they're both conservative leaning. Jim Breuer (goat boy) and Rob Schneider (the copy machine guy) from that same SNL time are definitely conservative.
Posted by: Biergood at November 09, 2023 12:22 PM (PwgSL)

Schneider just came out as Catholic. That's about the most hated thing to be in Hollyweird. I don't know if Sandler will ever work with him again (i keed).

Posted by: Iblis at November 09, 2023 12:31 PM (9221z)

147 Good luck to the Fibbies who get to go to Greenbelt...

It's in Greenbelt? Big oof.

Posted by: Ian S. at November 09, 2023 12:31 PM (2ocoG)

148 Oh, and Laura San Giacomo also embodied an important character in the TV miniseries of King's The Stand, which had a lot of great casting.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 09, 2023 12:28 PM (J2vNu)

Great miniseries. IMO The Stand was Stephen King’s best book. The miniseries adapted the book pretty well

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 09, 2023 12:31 PM (u4bMz)

149
I wonder what sort of accounting sleight-of-hand they are pulling?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

US government accounting practices.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 09, 2023 12:32 PM (63Dwl)

150 130
The last movie I watched in the theater was Independence Day. Never gone since.
Posted by: Speller at November 09, 2023 12:29 PM (pSotA)

Don't blame you. That bit of stupidity would put anyone off of movie watching...

Posted by: Not Enough Lampposts at November 09, 2023 12:32 PM (GHUAB)

151 Last movie I saw in a theater was Keanu.

Posted by: Drive by at November 09, 2023 12:32 PM (MNhXM)

152 108 Speaking of this weekend's Disney movie, The Marvels, skip it.
Posted by: Nova Local at November 09, 2023 12:26 PM (exHjb)

Not skipping it was never even considered as an option.

Posted by: CZ = FNG, Free Republic of Florida at November 09, 2023 12:32 PM (MkuC5)

153 The last movie I watched was of some horse galloping across a field.

Not much character development, but I found the VFX engaging and good enough for the era all in all.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 09, 2023 12:32 PM (GZ+sX)

154
Even if someone wants to watch a movie or TV show, there are decades worth of stuff to watch already.

I like to watch the old comedies to laugh. Contemporary stuff is just not funny. Eventually I *might* run out of stuff from the 70's, 80's, and 90's. Every time I run through an entire almost decades long run of a good comedy I find another.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at November 09, 2023 12:32 PM (enJYY)

155 Just Shoot Me was an underrated show. Good premise, good casting and acting, good writing, and funnier than most of the more popular, money-making sitcoms. I think it shat on shows like Friends. Like all shows, it eventually ran out of steam and fell back to the old trope of the characters dating each other, but before that it was very good.

Posted by: Elric Blade at November 09, 2023 12:32 PM (iFTx/)

156 My high school just went on lockdown. Rumors about a gun. All I know. My students and I are locked in my classroom right now.
Posted by: Jmel

Prayers.
Field expedient weapon - dry chemical fire extinguisher. If they can't see/breathe, they can't fight.
Crush their skull with the canister.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 09, 2023 12:32 PM (iOTJP)

157 Reaher teaser: I read the this series book a long time ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tC-rRhQcnlI

I will enjoy... a couple of times.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at November 09, 2023 12:32 PM (17s+e)

158 TJM,

Huh. You must see something in Lowery I do not. (I've only seen "Ain't Them Bodies Saints".)

But the sentiment is the same, basically: There are a few visionaries here in the West that are appealing, but for general handling of story? I look to the East.

Posted by: moviegique at November 09, 2023 12:32 PM (asXVI)

159 The last blog I read was Balloon Juice.

Posted by: blaster at November 09, 2023 12:32 PM (oMNxm)

160 >>> I feel like the problem here is not so much that Hollywood makes crap, as it is that the public has a big appetite for crap

They're in a spiral. They only make movies for 14 year olds and so no one but 14 year olds shows up for the movies, so they make more movies for 14 year olds.

Posted by: ace at November 09, 2023 12:32 PM (KRtlO)

161 135 I've been watching a few YouTube videos on the subject and it appears that writers and actors are now in the same boat . They are getting increases in pay and residuals from streaming, but unfortunately that is going to lead to fewer productions. TV shows coul reduce from 22 episodes per year to 16. These guys just wasted over a half year of their productive lives
Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 09, 2023 12:30 PM (9z+cX)

=============

The streaming golden age should be over by now. It was always propped up by investor money rather than actual profits, so this sort of increase in cost is just going to accelerate the contraction of the streaming model.

Do you know how many movies, just movies not TV shows, that Netflix released in 2022? 80.

Do you know how many Warner Bros. released in 1999 (just to take a random, large studio example)? 30.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going up some wonky stairs with Paul Leni at November 09, 2023 12:33 PM (GBKbO)

162 Nah, the big decision was giving FBI HQ to MD over VA the day after the election...that was held politically.

Good luck to the Fibbies who get to go to Greenbelt...
------------------
Said "Maryland is the place you ought to be"
So they loaded up the truck and they moved to Baltimore.

This would be an act of Justice.

As a Virginian, having less IC fucktards is a winner.

Posted by: Puddinhead at November 09, 2023 12:33 PM (n14bF)

163 The last film I watched was filmed in the Stanford horse barn in 1877. Didn't have much of an ending.

Posted by: t-bird at November 09, 2023 12:33 PM (HjfVN)

164 Great miniseries. IMO The Stand was Stephen King’s best book. The miniseries adapted the book pretty well
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 09, 2023 12:31 PM

Bomb-de-bomb-de-bomb!

Posted by: MY LIFE FOR YOU!!! at November 09, 2023 12:33 PM (HBnmy)

165 There was an episode of Clone Wars (a show I never watched) where Anikan dooms a man to the consequences of his own crooked dealings, just by locking the car door. Exactly like Notorious with Cary Grant and Claude Rains.

@LindseyGrahamSC
I will not vote for one dime for any country, including Israel, until we secure our own border.

Lindsey was visited by three spirits in the night.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at November 09, 2023 12:33 PM (44ww/)

166 In the theater? Hell, I don't know.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 09, 2023 12:33 PM (di6C2)

167 Damn it JACK REACHER

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tC-rRhQcnlI

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at November 09, 2023 12:33 PM (17s+e)

168 I totally believe a teacher is reading and posting on Ace of Spades while teaching while in lockdown. Totally.

Given the Horde, I believe it.

Posted by: Ian S. at November 09, 2023 12:33 PM (2ocoG)

169 I wonder what sort of accounting sleight-of-hand they are pulling?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

US government accounting practices.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 09, 2023 12:32 PM (63Dwl)
---
I think the U.S. government learned their accounting practices from Hollywood...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 09, 2023 12:33 PM (YIVH2)

170 When Claude Rains went to Spain, he traveled mainly on a plane.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 09, 2023 12:33 PM (i9ffA)

171 I watch more recent films sometimes. Just finished part one of Ponniyin Selvan.

Posted by: Glenn John at November 09, 2023 12:33 PM (RilAR)

172 Sticking icepick in ear >> Anything Hollywood does

Posted by: Maj. Healey at November 09, 2023 12:33 PM (l10hq)

173 hiya

Posted by: JT at November 09, 2023 12:34 PM (T4tVD)

174 Greenbelt is a shite hole. Enjoy your long commutes, KGB Pukes.

Posted by: Anacostia North at November 09, 2023 12:34 PM (qUkBO)

175 Me and my aged mom liked Wendie Malick and the others in Just Shoot Me! too; and her in Hot in Cleveland, especially when we'd watch an episode of it and then see her playing Marty's girlfriend in Frasier repeats later that night.

And then we saw her in a Lifetime-parody "wife defending against murderous ex-husband" movie where we were sure she was acting as 'Victoria Chase' would have! [I can't seem to find its title in her IMDB page, unfortunately.]

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at November 09, 2023 12:34 PM (krqg6)

176 That bit of stupidity would put anyone off of movie watching...
Posted by: Not Enough Lampposts at November 09, 2023 12:32 PM (GHUAB)

I guess you weren't there when the whole theater erupted in thunderous shouts and applause when they took out the White House.

It was beeeeeeeeeutiful.

Posted by: CZ = FNG, Free Republic of Florida at November 09, 2023 12:34 PM (MkuC5)

177 "Film Actors Guild"

*snort*

I sense the hovering presence of Gary from Nerdrotic in there.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 09, 2023 12:34 PM (guGkK)

178 Now everyone can go back to raping ficus trees.

Posted by: Roy at November 09, 2023 12:34 PM (z+ik4)

179 147 Good luck to the Fibbies who get to go to Greenbelt...

It's in Greenbelt? Big oof.
Posted by: Ian S. at November 09, 2023 12:31 PM (2ocoG)

Yep - supposed to help "equity" - they changed the decision rules midway through the process when VA was certain to win, and then held the decision til the day after VA elections so Dems didn't blame Biden for the decision.

Posted by: Nova Local at November 09, 2023 12:34 PM (exHjb)

180 156 My high school just went on lockdown. Rumors about a gun. All I know. My students and I are locked in my classroom right now.
Posted by: Jmel
---------------
Can you escape via windows?

Posted by: Puddinhead at November 09, 2023 12:34 PM (n14bF)

181 The first half of the Stand was quite good for apocalyptica. Then the second half got weird.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 09, 2023 12:34 PM (di6C2)

182 158 TJM,

Huh. You must see something in Lowery I do not. (I've only seen "Ain't Them Bodies Saints".)

But the sentiment is the same, basically: There are a few visionaries here in the West that are appealing, but for general handling of story? I look to the East.
Posted by: moviegique at November 09, 2023 12:32 PM (asXVI)

=======

Well, you should see some more, namely The Green Knight and A Ghost Story. I wasn't the biggest fan of Pete's Dragon, and I haven't seen Saints or Old Man with a Gun or Wendy and Peter, but he's a serious minded filmmaker who is trying to find ways to make personal films in the modern version of the studio system.

I like him.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going up some wonky stairs with Paul Leni at November 09, 2023 12:34 PM (GBKbO)

183 "My high school just went on lockdown. Rumors about a gun. All I know. My students and I are locked in my classroom right now."

I totally believe a teacher is reading and posting on Ace of Spades while teaching while in lockdown. Totally.
Posted by: Born Last Night

Jmel is a regular. Benefit of the doubt.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 09, 2023 12:35 PM (iOTJP)

184 68 Disney announced earnings after the closing bell yesterday. The street is very happy with them.

Up %7.6

I wonder what sort of accounting sleight-of-hand they are pulling?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 09, 2023 12:21 PM (3Gtis)

Last year's shiddy comps. The real fun begins soon enough. Disney needs several billion in cash for the Hulu deal they signed years ago. That's why they're shopping ESPN and last I heard, they were floating the idea of selling their India operation. It will bring the needed cash, but then they won't be able to juice the subscriber numbers without the 99 cent India cricket subs.

I hate to say the walls are closing in, but eventually people will stop giving you money to piss away.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at November 09, 2023 12:35 PM (z+89e)

185 ... unless this was in the bin last night and it was just auto-posted now??
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Wrong guess on my part as Ace seems live in this thread.

Or is it "Ace", an AI, replying??

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at November 09, 2023 12:35 PM (krqg6)

186 Isn’t David Spade rumored to be a conservative?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

I've listened to some recent podcasts Spade and Dana Carvey do. I think they're both conservative leaning. Jim Breuer (goat boy) and Rob Schneider (the copy machine guy) from that same SNL time are definitely conservative.
Posted by: Biergood at November 09, 2023 12:22 PM (PwgSL)

Lovitz was pretty conservative back in the mid 80s.

Posted by: LASue at November 09, 2023 12:35 PM (A2DKz)

187 Who knows

Alec Baldwin might shoot the negotiators.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 09, 2023 12:35 PM (CW5Z7)

188 I know I'm 29 when all my favorite actors/actresses are dead or too old to strut about the stage.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at November 09, 2023 12:35 PM (BdMk6)

189 I watched the Hitman's Bodyguard last night with Ryan Reynolds and Samuel Jackson. It was fun especially the chase scenes in Amsterdam.
Night before I watched Transporter: Refueled. The transporter was not Statham but a new guy I found to be very Hot.
Guess I like guns and car chases.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at November 09, 2023 12:35 PM (t/2Uw)

190 Said "Maryland is the place you ought to be"
So they loaded up the truck and they moved to Baltimore.

This would be an act of Justice.

As a Virginian, having less IC fucktards is a winner.
Posted by: Puddinhead at November 09, 2023 12:33 PM (n14bF)

I agree - I'm glad we "lost", but I know feds aren't...

Posted by: Nova Local at November 09, 2023 12:35 PM (exHjb)

191 She was great in Quigley Down Under
*
Wasn't Paulina porizkova in that?
Posted by: garrett at November 09, 2023

***
I don't think so. Laura played the only major female character.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 09, 2023 12:35 PM (J2vNu)

192 >>Lovitz was pretty conservative back in the mid 80s.

I attribute that, mainly, to his wife. Morgan Fairchild.

Posted by: garrett at November 09, 2023 12:36 PM (Atkwd)

193 Hi Ace.

Here ontime for a change
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at November 09, 2023 12:13 PM (t/2Uw)

You got a hiya from Ace and you didn't even tell him what you were wearing .

Posted by: JT at November 09, 2023 12:36 PM (T4tVD)

194 172 Sticking icepick in ear >> Anything Hollywood does
Posted by: Maj. Healey at November 09, 2023 12:33 PM (l10hq)

Those bolshie fuckers wanted me to watch TLJ. I said nah, bruh.

Posted by: Trotsky at November 09, 2023 12:36 PM (GZ+sX)

195 "Lindsey was visited by three spirits in the night."

No, just Tim Scott's "girlfriend" ($350 hr).

Posted by: South Gayrolina at November 09, 2023 12:36 PM (qUkBO)

196 I totally believe a teacher is reading and posting on Ace of Spades while teaching while in lockdown. Totally.
Posted by: Born Last Night at November 09, 2023 12:31 PM (qUkBO)

Heh. I think we had a guy who posted when his truck broke down, alone in the middle of the desert.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 09, 2023 12:36 PM (di6C2)

197 Fibbies have to go to PG County. Cause Dems wanted to stick it to Youngkin.

It's jkind of glorious.

Posted by: blaster at November 09, 2023 12:36 PM (oMNxm)

198 I'm waiting for a remake of "Topper". Great movie but could use some updating (like color).

Posted by: SFGoth at November 09, 2023 12:25 PM (KAi1n)

Why? If they did, it would be called "Bottomer" and be about two dead gay guys helping a poor, black, tranny trying to live his authentic self.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at November 09, 2023 12:36 PM (Angsy)

199 Ace, if you're an original Mission fan: Who do you prefer as the leader, Steven Hill's Dan Briggs or the more famous Peter Graves as Jim Phelps?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 09, 2023 12:36 PM (J2vNu)

200 Lovitz was pretty conservative back in the mid 80s.

I attribute that, mainly, to his wife. Morgan Fairchild.
Posted by: garrett at November 09, 2023 12:36 PM (Atkwd)

Yeah that’s the ticket..

Posted by: Drive by at November 09, 2023 12:36 PM (MNhXM)

201
"So, actually, I haven't watched a movie since Claude Raines."

"I'm shocked, SHOCKED!!!"

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 09, 2023 12:36 PM (x0n13)

202 My wife and I enjoy old BBC detective shows, sometimes even understand what they say without subtitles.
Plute, MeTV, and DVD's will probably be all we need for the rest of our lives.
They don't make them like they used to.

Posted by: Jimmy McNulty at November 09, 2023 12:36 PM (m7IZx)

203 Unless a movie is on TCM or Svengoolie, I probably will never see it.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at November 09, 2023 12:36 PM (JrojV)

204 I've seen maybe 3 movies in the theater in the last 25 years. Rambo (great), the first Avatar (dogshit), and the Downton Abbey movie (good). That last one wasn't my choice, but the girl was a hottie and hotties get to choose the movies.

I find going to the movies tedious, annoying, too expensive for what you get, and I always wanna slap the shit outta some annoying fucknuggets who won't shut up. I'd much rather watch movies on my totally bachelor, kick-ass home theater.

Posted by: Elric Blade at November 09, 2023 12:37 PM (iFTx/)

205 I really like Just Shoot Me but

Rules of Engagement >> Just Shoot Me

It should be the official sitcom of aos.

Posted by: Drive
==

100% agree.

Rules of Engagement is so much like the banter in my real life with friends and wife.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at November 09, 2023 12:37 PM (17s+e)

206 Paulina was the hottest chick going for a while.

Posted by: garrett at November 09, 2023 12:31 PM (Atkwd)

Watch her in "Thursday."

[somebody already mentioned it]

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 09, 2023 12:37 PM (3Gtis)

207 >>> There are a number of paid and free services, like PLEX, EMBY, and Jellyfin, that allow you to create your own server, and host your own videos.

a friend lets me access his plex so I can see some movies on the boycott list (like Doctor Strange) without paying for them.

Posted by: ace at November 09, 2023 12:37 PM (KRtlO)

208 "Lindsey was visited by three spirits in the night."

Vodka, gin & tequila?

Posted by: rickb223 at November 09, 2023 12:37 PM (iOTJP)

209 Re "Quigley Down Under" and even more, "My Alibi".

I've been genuinely surprised at how good even the trash was in the '80s.

Like "Chopping Mall". We watched it, had a few laughs, never really thought about it much afterwards. Come to watch it again and it's like, "Hey, competent camerawork. Beautiful women. Not boring or stupid bombastic. This is fun."

Or "Maniac Cop 2": I didn't even bother at the time and now I'm like "That's a hell of a car chase. Wow, that guy just destroyed a police station."

There's something about a movie that isn't 80% created in a computer.

Posted by: moviegique at November 09, 2023 12:37 PM (asXVI)

210
Jmel is a regular. Benefit of the doubt.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 09, 2023 12:35 PM

Seconded, the nic is familiar.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at November 09, 2023 12:37 PM (enJYY)

211 >>It should be the official sitcom of aos.

I thought ace liked Friends the most?

Posted by: garrett at November 09, 2023 12:37 PM (Atkwd)

212 There are top secret websites that show new movies as soon as they hit digital release

Recently watched Equalizer 3 and MI: Dead Reckoning online, in HD, free

waiting for Oppenheimer

Posted by: DB - no, really at November 09, 2023 12:37 PM (geLO8)

213 TV shows coul reduce from 22 episodes per year to 16.

22? TV shows have mostly done 13-16 episodes a year for the last decade.

Posted by: Ian S. at November 09, 2023 12:38 PM (2ocoG)

214 Boom Operators...left out boom operators.

Two boom operators and an electrician walk off a set and you get "Boom, boom, out go the lights!"

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at November 09, 2023 12:38 PM (Bd6X8)

215 Her Alibi trailer:

https://tinyurl.com/399drpuh

Damn. She was hot.

Also, the announcer voice is just hilarious. Simpler times.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 09, 2023 12:38 PM (di6C2)

216 My wife and I enjoy old BBC detective shows, sometimes even understand what they say without subtitles.
===

Usually only get that on PornHub.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at November 09, 2023 12:38 PM (17s+e)

217 For future movies, Angel Studios has a documentary out now, the previously mentioned "after Death" and another film, a sci-fi thriller, The Shift, out Dec 1.

If you love going to the movies, you have options now and in the near future to give money to folks who at least don't work to destroy you...

Posted by: Nova Local at November 09, 2023 12:38 PM (exHjb)

218 Conservatives too often get disgusted and walk away from the battlefield

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at November 09, 2023 12:38 PM (QGxJv)

219 207 >>> There are a number of paid and free services, like PLEX, EMBY, and Jellyfin, that allow you to create your own server, and host your own videos.

a friend lets me access his plex so I can see some movies on the boycott list (like Doctor Strange) without paying for them.
Posted by: ace at November 09, 2023 12:37 PM (KRtlO)

========

Most library systems have movies as well. Charleston's was rather robust, and I used it frequently. This little corner just outside of Charlotte is less so, and I think we're going to end up paying the fee to have a library card in the Charlotte system proper to make up for it.

But, it's free borrowing, and the selections trend towards releases in the past few years, so you're never that far behind.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going up some wonky stairs with Paul Leni at November 09, 2023 12:38 PM (GBKbO)

220 Ace I like your coverage of the fall of modern entertainment- they sure don’t seem to learn from their failures. We are watching the original Perry Masons which were in reruns when I was a kid but I never liked them but it’s a solid show and I love the manners and the fashion of the day plus the plots are clever. Honestly the only current show I watch is Price is Right bc it’s a happy show.

Posted by: Amy at November 09, 2023 12:38 PM (K4FOQ)

221 >>>Ace, if you're an original Mission fan: Who do you prefer as the leader, Steven Hill's Dan Briggs or the more famous Peter Graves as Jim Phelps?

I think Phelps. He was the first one I saw. They didn't play the Steven Hill ones in repeats much. Also he's a little too impassive and expressionless.

Posted by: ace at November 09, 2023 12:38 PM (KRtlO)

222 Can the Disney fanboy tittybaby tell me what it was Fag wanted in the first place?

Posted by: eleven at November 09, 2023 12:38 PM (iziT8)

223 Jon Lovitz was married to Morgan Fairchild?????

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at November 09, 2023 12:38 PM (JrojV)

224 I watched some of Survivor last night. Man, has that shit gone downhill. Wasn't far to go, but they went there.

Posted by: wth at November 09, 2023 12:38 PM (v0R5T)

225 >>Lovitz was pretty conservative back in the mid 80s.

He does a voice-over for a mandatory cybersecurity cartoon training (I kid you not) at my office. Tia Carrera is also in it.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at November 09, 2023 12:39 PM (N3zMI)

226
I watch "Frasier." My favorite show of all time.

I saw two episodes of the new reboot and they're god awful.

None of the old cast. I think they backed out because Kelsey Grammar is conservative.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 09, 2023 12:39 PM (x0n13)

227 197 Fibbies have to go to PG County. Cause Dems wanted to stick it to Youngkin.

It's jkind of glorious.
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With the Feds there PG County might lighten up.

Posted by: Puddinhead at November 09, 2023 12:39 PM (n14bF)

228 David Spade knocked up a playboy centerfold .

Posted by: Drive by at November 09, 2023 12:39 PM (MNhXM)

229 >>Damn. She was hot.

Incongruently Hot.

Posted by: garrett at November 09, 2023 12:39 PM (Atkwd)

230 117 Ace, I implore you...

Please continue chainsawing Disney, mercilessly.

When you're done, chainsaw the pieces.
Posted by: CZ

Then stack the pieces and do it again.

Sorry. I grew up on Disney. Sunday night after dinner. Then it was bedtime. My parents wouldn't have thought twice to leave me in front of the tv and do something else in the house.

Since the have become pedo central, I won't allow my grandchildren anywhere near it.
Posted by: rickb223 at November 09, 2023 12:28 PM (iOTJP)

Growing up I loved Disney. And I have no problems letting my daughter watch those original classics. We even watch Bluey, which is an awesome show. Because Disney doesn't make it, just licenses it. Seasons 1&2 are available to purchase DVD only, and are even available at your local library (if it has an A/V collection).
Everything else Disney has put out in the last 10 years is either been crap, or pedo crap. Hopefully Peltz, Perlmutter and Lucas can change that soon.

Posted by: Iblis at November 09, 2023 12:39 PM (9221z)

231 Vodka, gin & tequila?
Posted by: rickb223 at November 09, 2023 12:37 PM (iOTJP)

Coconut rum, more coconut rum, and the ghost of Liberace.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 09, 2023 12:39 PM (GZ+sX)

232 "Can you escape via windows?"

Try ctrl-alt-delete.

Posted by: Sim Nation at November 09, 2023 12:39 PM (qUkBO)

233 So FAGs decided to settle and get what they could? Disney? Since I sold my shares, don't really pay too close attention, other than Mr. Spades updates. I like the Disney updates, use to like their products. Now?

Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators, LTD. at November 09, 2023 12:39 PM (S06Z5)

234 167 Damn it JACK REACHER

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tC-rRhQcnlI
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at November 09, 2023 12:33 PM (17s+e)

Oh. Yeah.

Posted by: Let's hope they don't screw it up at November 09, 2023 12:39 PM (HBnmy)

235 Boom Operators...left out boom operators.

Two boom operators and an electrician walk off a set and you get "Boom, boom, out go the lights!"
Posted by: Blanco Basura

😳😳😳
Golf clap.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 09, 2023 12:39 PM (iOTJP)

236 Jmel is a regular. Benefit of the doubt.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 09, 2023 12:35 PM (iOTJP)

Agreed.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 09, 2023 12:39 PM (3Gtis)

237 Unless a movie is on TCM or Svengoolie, I probably will never see it.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at November 09, 2023 12:36 PM (JrojV)

That explains the Caddyshack "incident" with repossessed man card.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at November 09, 2023 12:39 PM (/HDaX)

238 I’m stuck in the 90s watching Seinfeld re-runs over and over and over again. I still laugh… it’s genius as far as I’m concerned. I haven’t got tired of it yet…

Two and a Half Men (only the Charlie Sheen seasons) is a guilty pleasure. It’s very funny. Unwatchable with the new guy who replaced Sheen though…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 09, 2023 12:40 PM (u4bMz)

239 226 None of the old cast. I think they backed out because Kelsey Grammar is conservative.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 09, 2023 12:39 PM (x0n13)

=========

It was his performance as Darius Emanuel Grouch III, aka "The Rumble".

He was just too real, man.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going up some wonky stairs with Paul Leni at November 09, 2023 12:40 PM (GBKbO)

240 David Spade knocked up a playboy centerfold .
Posted by: Drive by at November 09, 2023 12:39 PM (MNhXM)
.......

Did she have a midget?

Posted by: wth at November 09, 2023 12:40 PM (v0R5T)

241 223 Jon Lovitz was married to Morgan Fairchild?????
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at November 09, 2023 12:38 PM (JrojV)

Shared an elevator with here and a few others in the MGM building in NYC on my way up to my agent's office. She had the foulest mouth I ever heard on a broad.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 09, 2023 12:40 PM (x0n13)

242 David Spade should be respected for his poon list alone. Guy is a poonmaster.

Posted by: DOYLE at November 09, 2023 12:25 PM (Z8Yh2)

I'm sure everyone's seen this, but here's Norm MacDonald getting a shot in on David Spade when they're both on the Dennis Miller show.

https://youtu.be/R0d6oH5Lumc

Posted by: spindrift at November 09, 2023 12:40 PM (UWJud)

243 Why? If they did, it would be called "Bottomer" and be about two dead gay guys helping a poor, black, tranny trying to live his authentic self.

Somewhat related: I recently saw an actual TV commercial from the UK where a white guy was all smiles that he was going to be cremated, because his wife was going to marry a black guy afterwards. It sounds like a Babylon Bee headline, but it's real.

Posted by: Ian S. at November 09, 2023 12:40 PM (2ocoG)

244 232 "Can you escape via windows?"

Try ctrl-alt-delete.
Posted by: Sim Nation at November 09, 2023 12:39 PM (qUkBO)

*golfclap*

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 09, 2023 12:40 PM (di6C2)

245 Holy shit I just realized I literally haven't watched a movie since Wings.

On youtube. No lie!

Posted by: eleven at November 09, 2023 12:41 PM (iziT8)

246 238 I’m stuck in the 90s watching Seinfeld re-runs over and over and over again. I still laugh… it’s genius as far as I’m concerned. I haven’t got tired of it yet…

Two and a Half Men (only the Charlie Sheen seasons) is a guilty pleasure. It’s very funny. Unwatchable with the new guy who replaced Sheen though…
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 09, 2023 12:40 PM (u4bMz)

=========

I watched the Seinfeld episode about The English Patient last night. It helped clear the palate from watching The English Patient.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going up some wonky stairs with Paul Leni at November 09, 2023 12:41 PM (GBKbO)

247 Speaking of old shows and movies, I just started watching Gunsmoke season 7. Really enjoying it. It's the first season with the 1-hour format. Black and white. Chester era. Some really nicely dark stories. Almost Noir-esque. Not a lot of happy endings on that show, at least in season 7.

I watched it as a kid with my dad (it was his favorite show) during the Festus era, and remember getting a kick out of Festus because he was so goofy.

Posted by: Biergood at November 09, 2023 12:41 PM (PwgSL)

248 Great miniseries. IMO The Stand was Stephen King’s best book. The miniseries adapted the book pretty well
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 09, 2023
*
Bomb-de-bomb-de-bomb!

Posted by: MY LIFE FOR YOU!!! at November 09, 2023

***
Matt (Max Headroom) Frewer was the perfect Trashcan Man.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 09, 2023 12:41 PM (J2vNu)

249 188 I know I'm 29 when all my favorite actors/actresses are dead or too old to strut about the stage.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at November 09, 2023 12:35 PM (BdMk6)

True story: I saw Pat Benetar as an opening act quite a while back (IIRC opening for Deep Purple and ELP and Kenny Wayne Shepard?). Their normal bass player was out with a broken hip, and someone (guitar player?) took time during the show to discuss the benefits of fiber in your diet.

That's when I knew the party was over for me.

Posted by: Not Enough Lampposts at November 09, 2023 12:41 PM (GHUAB)

250 He does a voice-over for a mandatory cybersecurity cartoon training (I kid you not) at my office. Tia Carrera is also in it.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at November 09, 2023 12:39 PM (N3zMI)

I just watched that!

Posted by: blaster at November 09, 2023 12:41 PM (oMNxm)

251 I watched Knives Out last night . Well at least 2/3 of it before I got bored. 91% rotten tomatoes. Once again I’m in the minority of what really good and what’s meh.

Posted by: Drive by at November 09, 2023 12:41 PM (MNhXM)

252 Jmel, keep your eyes open, head on a swivel. Hopefully this is just a false alarm or a drill.

Posted by: School lockdowns suck at November 09, 2023 12:41 PM (HBnmy)

253 a friend lets me access his plex so I can see some movies on the boycott list (like Doctor Strange) without paying for them.

Posted by: ace at November 09, 2023 12:37 PM (KRtlO)

We have enough tech-savvy people around here that I'll bet we can do a very informative post on how to do that.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 09, 2023 12:42 PM (3Gtis)

254 Waiting for the new Godzilla movie to hit the cinemas.

And that's it.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 09, 2023 12:42 PM (CW5Z7)

255 Jmel is a regular. Benefit of the doubt.

Posted by: rickb223 at November 09, 2023 12:35 PM

Seconded, the nic is familiar.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at November 09, 2023 12:37 PM (enJYY)

Nah, dude, if you're locked into a room and can't leave and have nothing to do but wait until the bullshit is over because some kid nibbled a pringle into the rough outline of a glock, the very last thing you're gonna do is pull out your phone and kill a couple minutes.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 09, 2023 12:42 PM (GZ+sX)

256 Their normal bass player was out with a broken hip, and someone (guitar player?) took time during the show to discuss the benefits of fiber in your diet.

That's when I knew the party was over for me.
Posted by: Not Enough Lampposts at November 09, 2023 12:41 PM (GHUAB)

You're 29 man.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 09, 2023 12:42 PM (di6C2)

257 Claude Rains in the cast is a pretty good indicator that the movie is of quality. I can't think of a bad movie with Claude Rains in it.

Posted by: pikkumatti at November 09, 2023 12:42 PM (LNiNn)

258 "Fanboy Titbaby". nice one ace.

Posted by: Louie Lambada at November 09, 2023 12:42 PM (9214m)

259 Fibbies have to go to PG County. Cause Dems wanted to stick it to Youngkin.

I mean, if I'm Youngkin, not having the FIB blighting my state is a win.

Posted by: Ian S. at November 09, 2023 12:42 PM (2ocoG)

260 I met Greg Morris in 1971. I didn't know it was him until he peeled off the mask. We had a big laff about it.

Posted by: Pour Your Misery Down On gp at November 09, 2023 12:42 PM (MvF+J)

261 257 Claude Rains in the cast is a pretty good indicator that the movie is of quality. I can't think of a bad movie with Claude Rains in it.

Posted by: pikkumatti at November 09, 2023 12:42 PM (LNiNn)

"Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" pilot.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 09, 2023 12:43 PM (x0n13)

262 254 Waiting for the new Godzilla movie to hit the cinemas.

And that's it.
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 09, 2023 12:42 PM (CW5Z7)

King of the Monsters worth it?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 09, 2023 12:43 PM (di6C2)

263 48 Georgia Secretary of State said that there have been new threats to election workers.

Letters containing fentanyl intercepted.

Posted by: redridinghood at November 09, 2023 12:18 PM (NpAcC)
----
..... and immediately sold on the street.

Posted by: Ciampino - fentanyl for the high or death at November 09, 2023 12:43 PM (qfLjt)

264 261 257 Claude Rains in the cast is a pretty good indicator that the movie is of quality. I can't think of a bad movie with Claude Rains in it.

Posted by: pikkumatti at November 09, 2023 12:42 PM (LNiNn)

"Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" pilot.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 09, 2023 12:43 PM (x0n13)

Or was that Peter Lorre?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 09, 2023 12:43 PM (x0n13)

265 "Jon Lovitz was married to Morgan Fairchild?????
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus"

That's nothing. He's also the Dark Prince.

Posted by: fd at November 09, 2023 12:43 PM (vFG9F)

266 I watched some of Survivor last night. Man, has that shit gone downhill. Wasn't far to go, but they went there.
Posted by: wth at November 09, 2023 12:38 PM

Wife watches it and I watch it from time to time, usually while doing other things. Every show now HAS to have at leasrt 3 or 4 ghey people. A couple trannies, a vegan etc. Most are coddled millennials and are annoying AF. No more good looking women. Just a bunch of freak shows.

Posted by: Minnfidel at November 09, 2023 12:43 PM (CZDbK)

267 One of the few modern TV shows I currently watch is "Shoresy," which (unfortunately) is a Hulu exclusive in the US. It's a spinoff of "Letterkenney," but far less reliant on wordplay to pad the runtime of a given episode than the parent show, and focusses on a very minor/rec-level hockey team in northern Ontario. If you've got Hulu you should check it out. Two 6-episode seasons so far with a third due next year, so not much commitment involved.

Posted by: Octochicken at November 09, 2023 12:43 PM (oCS0o)

268
Rules of Engagement >> Just Shoot Me

It should be the official sitcom of aos.

Posted by: Drive by at November 09, 2023 12:30 PM

I think Oliver Hudson*/Adam was the last time you could poke fun at a character for being gay-ish. Some of the funniest moments.

* Goldi Hawn's son

Posted by: Divide by Zero at November 09, 2023 12:44 PM (enJYY)

269 I have watched the Reacher trailer several times. Will probably watch it again. You all probably know why.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at November 09, 2023 12:44 PM (t/2Uw)

270 Waiting for the new Godzilla movie to hit the cinemas.

And that's it.
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 09, 2023 12:42 PM (CW5Z7)
.......

Was he on strike?

Posted by: wth at November 09, 2023 12:44 PM (v0R5T)

271 I watched Knives Out last night . Well at least 2/3 of it before I got bored. 91% rotten tomatoes. Once again I’m in the minority of what really good and what’s meh.
Posted by: Drive by at November 09, 2023 12:41 PM (MNhXM)

I liked Knives Out better than I thought I would. "Glass Onion," which they tell me is totally not a sequel, is okay.

Posted by: Dr. T at November 09, 2023 12:44 PM (bhRsz)

272 Is Afterlife streaming yet?

Posted by: Louie Lambada at November 09, 2023 12:44 PM (9214m)

273 It helped clear the palate from watching The English Patient.
----------------
I took my mom to see The English Patient. She had heard a lot chatter about it and was eager. Needless to say, it was uncomfortable for both of us.

Posted by: Puddinhead at November 09, 2023 12:44 PM (n14bF)

274 250 He does a voice-over for a mandatory cybersecurity cartoon training (I kid you not) at my office. Tia Carrera is also in it.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at November 09, 2023 12:39 PM (N3zMI)

I just watched that!
Posted by: blaster at November 09, 2023 12:41 PM (oMNxm)

Ha! This year was my second time around. Somebody else over the hill is in it, too. Tom Selleck, maybe?

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at November 09, 2023 12:44 PM (N3zMI)

275 64
‘Her face, tho.’
You just confirmed the rumor about you

Posted by: Dr. Claw at November 09, 2023 12:44 PM (Khy59)

276 CNN Suspends Ties With Journalist Who Went Along With Hamas As They Slaughtered Jews

https://tinyurl.com/bdmkvz3x

Posted by: Elric Blade at November 09, 2023 12:44 PM (iFTx/)

277 219 207 >>> There are a number of paid and free services, like PLEX, EMBY, and Jellyfin, that allow you to create your own server, and host your own videos.

a friend lets me access his plex so I can see some movies on the boycott list (like Doctor Strange) without paying for them.
Posted by: ace at November 09, 2023 12:37 PM (KRtlO)

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Most library systems have movies as well. Charleston's was rather robust, and I used it frequently. This little corner just outside of Charlotte is less so, and I think we're going to end up paying the fee to have a library card in the Charlotte system proper to make up for it.

But, it's free borrowing, and the selections trend towards releases in the past few years, so you're never that far behind.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going up some wonky stairs with Paul Leni at November 09, 2023 12:38 PM (GBKbO)

They make you pay for a library card? Bastards. Our system doesn't and now has no late fees on books. Part of the decriminalization of NY.
And with the magic of ILL, you can access a tremendous range of fairly recent movies, and never pay Hollywood a dime. (Yeah taxes may pay for some, but many are donated for tax purposes).

Posted by: Iblis at November 09, 2023 12:45 PM (9221z)

278 273 It helped clear the palate from watching The English Patient.
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I took my mom to see The English Patient. She had heard a lot chatter about it and was eager. Needless to say, it was uncomfortable for both of us.
Posted by: Puddinhead at November 09, 2023 12:44 PM (n14bF)

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My mom took me to see Shakespeare in Love in theaters. I was thirteen.

She put a sweater over my head for certain parts.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going up some wonky stairs with Paul Leni at November 09, 2023 12:45 PM (GBKbO)

279 247 Festus was great. Especially in his back-and-forths with Doc.

Not quite Spock and McCoy level as far as the mutual giving of crap is concerned, but right up there.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at November 09, 2023 12:45 PM (JrojV)

280 261 257 Claude Rains in the cast is a pretty good indicator that the movie is of quality. I can't think of a bad movie with Claude Rains in it.

"Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" pilot.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 09, 2023 12:43 PM (x0n13)
________________________

I stand corrected....

Posted by: pikkumatti at November 09, 2023 12:45 PM (LNiNn)

281 >>>I watched some of Survivor last night. Man, has that shit gone downhill.

I hate to admit I used to waste time watching that. Or half-watching, mostly. It's one of those shows that you can't really watch because it's so boring.

but I did waste time watching that until one season I just thought "What the hell am I doing" and stopped.

Cutting the cord also helps get rid of those Zombie Watch TV show, the shows you don't really enjoy but just watch them because it's a bad habit now.

Posted by: ace at November 09, 2023 12:45 PM (KRtlO)

282 Just let me cover Disney without not-so-covertly calling me a Silly Child for doing so.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 12:12 PM

Truth be told, I appreciate you doing so I don't have to.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at November 09, 2023 12:45 PM (OX9vb)

283 277 They make you pay for a library card? Bastards. Our system doesn't and now has no late fees on books. Part of the decriminalization of NY.
And with the magic of ILL, you can access a tremendous range of fairly recent movies, and never pay Hollywood a dime. (Yeah taxes may pay for some, but many are donated for tax purposes).
Posted by: Iblis at November 09, 2023 12:45 PM (9221z)

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We live in Union County. Charlotte is Mecklenburg County. We're not residents, so we would have to pay.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going up some wonky stairs with Paul Leni at November 09, 2023 12:46 PM (GBKbO)

284 Wife and I went out on a streaming limb and purchased Acorn on Amazon prime and started watching an Australian drama set in the 1950s. It was okay even interesting at first, but now the show has devolved into all-gay-all-the-time. Apparently every other person in 1950s Australia was gay and in constant danger of persecution for their noble gayness. Sheesh….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 09, 2023 12:47 PM (u4bMz)

285 "The Invisible Man is a 2020 science fiction horror film "

Had all the usual Hollywood crap but did have some good gotchas and quality gas-lighting vs. how to prove your being gaslit.

Posted by: DaveA at November 09, 2023 12:47 PM (FhXTo)

286 262 254 Waiting for the new Godzilla movie to hit the cinemas.

And that's it.
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 09, 2023 12:42 PM (CW5Z7)

King of the Monsters worth it?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 09, 2023 12:43 PM (di6C2)

Minus 1?
Monarch?
or Godzilla x Kong New Empire?

Posted by: Iblis at November 09, 2023 12:47 PM (9221z)

287 My students and I are locked in my classroom right now.
Posted by: Jmel

Prayers for safety.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * No quarter, no mercy at November 09, 2023 12:47 PM (9Y5Av)

288 think Oliver Hudson*/Adam was the last time you could poke fun at a character for being gay-ish. Some of the funniest moments.

* Goldi Hawn's son
Posted by: Divide by Zero at November 09, 2023 12:44 PM (enJYY)

The scene with him eating vindoo in the Indian restaurant is the hardest I’ve ever laughed at a sitcom .

Posted by: Drive by at November 09, 2023 12:47 PM (MNhXM)

289 Ace, if you're an original Mission fan: Who do you prefer as the leader, Steven Hill's Dan Briggs or the more famous Peter Graves as Jim Phelps?
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I think Phelps. He was the first one I saw. They didn't play the Steven Hill ones in repeats much. Also he's a little too impassive and expressionless.
Posted by: ace at November 09, 2023

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That was sort of what I liked, that Briggs was the "chess master" spy. My impression was always that the outline of the current plan was his, that he would call upon Rollin and Cinnamon and the others, and they would help him modify the plan; but he was the one who came up with the essential idea. I never got the same impression from Graves's Phelps, good as he was.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 09, 2023 12:47 PM (J2vNu)

290 Just Shoot Me. Mmmmm…Laura San Giacomo’s epic boobs…mmmmmm…

Best episode ever was Elliot's brother (special needs, could not do it today) was discovered by Maya as faking it. No body believes her. Desperate she starts rubbing up against him, cooing she "Needs him". He hold character and screams "my pants are getting tight!" I blew snot I laughed so hard.

Posted by: Paladin at November 09, 2023 12:47 PM (quX0S)

291 My mom took me to see Shakespeare in Love in theaters. I was thirteen.

She put a sweater over my head for certain parts.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going up some wonky stairs with Paul Leni at November 09, 2023 12:45 PM (GBKbO)

Would it have been better for her to do commentary on Paltrow's boobs?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 09, 2023 12:48 PM (di6C2)

292 The best movie ever made is from 1949, The Third Man.

Posted by: Editor at November 09, 2023 12:48 PM (8wYTr)

293 285 "The Invisible Man is a 2020 science fiction horror film "

Had all the usual Hollywood crap but did have some good gotchas and quality gas-lighting vs. how to prove your being gaslit.
Posted by: DaveA at November 09, 2023 12:47 PM (FhXTo)

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It was taut. And the main character takes a character twist that would make a basis for an interesting sequel. There was talk of doing The Invisible Woman for a year or so, but it went away.

Universal doesn't know what it wants to do with its monster movies anymore except make a billion dollars on every movie.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going up some wonky stairs with Paul Leni at November 09, 2023 12:48 PM (GBKbO)

294 My problem isn't with Disney, it is with Netflix tamping down on subscription sharing. It means I can no longer use my wife's daughter's login.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Hi9E7CDpLs

Posted by: Kindltot at November 09, 2023 12:48 PM (xhaym)

295 The Reacher trailer looks good. The Bass Reeves thing also looks good.

Ya think Bass Reeves experienced racism? What an American bad ass.

Posted by: DOYLE at November 09, 2023 12:48 PM (Z8Yh2)

296 We live in Union County. Charlotte is Mecklenburg County. We're not residents, so we would have to pay.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going up some wonky stairs with Paul Leni at November 09, 2023 12:46 PM (GBKbO)

No Interlibrary Loan?

Posted by: Iblis at November 09, 2023 12:48 PM (9221z)

297 278 273 It helped clear the palate from watching The English Patient.
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I took my mom to see The English Patient. She had heard a lot chatter about it and was eager. Needless to say, it was uncomfortable for both of us.
Posted by: Puddinhead at November 09, 2023 12:44 PM (n14bF)

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My mom took me to see Shakespeare in Love in theaters. I was thirteen.

She put a sweater over my head for certain parts.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going up some wonky stairs with Paul Leni at November 09, 2023 12:45 PM (GBKbO)
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Snort. The movie my mother took me too as a six year old was Breakfast at Tiffany's. I figured out much later why she brought me.

Then there was On Golden Pond, much later.

Posted by: Puddinhead at November 09, 2023 12:48 PM (n14bF)

298 Between work picking up, housework, GF travelling so I have to do everything, helping out my parents with things, getting the garden tidied up for winter... I pretty much have zero hours for entertainment of any kind good or bad.

That's not some kind of brag, either. It's a cry for help.

Seriously.

Someone come over and walk my dog.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 09, 2023 12:48 PM (GZ+sX)

299 Not only do you get rid of zombie-watch-shows, you keep yourself from falling into new zombie-watches.

I mean, I guess you could flip through Pluto or one of those channels and do the same kind of time-wasting thing, but it's not the default.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my book!) at November 09, 2023 12:48 PM (asXVI)

300 My dad said he'd only watch Survivor if the season was "Survivor: Komodo" and the premise was the annoying dipshit competitors had to fight off hungry Komodo Dragons that had a taste for human flesh.

He wasn't wrong . . . .

Posted by: Elric Blade at November 09, 2023 12:49 PM (iFTx/)

301 292 The best movie ever made is from 1949, The Third Man.
Posted by: Editor at November 09, 2023 12:48 PM (8wYTr)

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It's no Gremlins 2: The New Batch.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going up some wonky stairs with Paul Leni at November 09, 2023 12:49 PM (GBKbO)

302 282 Just let me cover Disney without not-so-covertly calling me a Silly Child for doing so.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 12:12 PM

You saw the headline from the Irish News yesterday about The Marvels, right? One of the All Time Classic Headlines Ever.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 09, 2023 12:49 PM (i9ffA)

303 I watch reruns

Hitchcock, season 1, episode 30, "Never again"

Posted by: boot55555 at November 09, 2023 12:49 PM (BBPQE)

304 Use your public library, by all means. They're guaranteed to have all the Kino, Criterion, and the other highbrow stuff, as well as all the PBS dross. A lot of it on streaming. You paid for it, might as well use it.

Posted by: Pour Your Misery Down On gp at November 09, 2023 12:49 PM (MvF+J)

305 "The Invisible Man is a 2020 science fiction horror film "

Had all the usual Hollywood crap but did have some good gotchas and quality gas-lighting vs. how to prove your being gaslit.
Posted by: DaveA at November 09, 2023 12:47 PM (FhXTo)

It was a decent watch, but Elisabeth Moss has anti-charisma.

Posted by: Dr. T at November 09, 2023 12:49 PM (bhRsz)

306 Disney won't die fast enough

Dead mice, gotta remember to put fresh PB in the garage traps.

Posted by: DaveA at November 09, 2023 12:49 PM (FhXTo)

307 One bright shinning star in the tarnished tiara of Disney+ is coming out.

John Travolta has adapted for the screen the novella The Shepherd written by Frederick Forsyth.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 09, 2023 12:49 PM (CW5Z7)

308 Ya think Bass Reeves experienced racism? What an American bad ass.
Posted by: DOYLE at November 09, 2023 12:48 PM (Z8Yh2)

Sherriphobia has a long and tawdry history in America.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 09, 2023 12:49 PM (GZ+sX)

309 Godzilla Zero looks damn good, shows Godzilla destroying and Killing the People of Tokyo of the 1950's, it looks more like a Disaster movie than a Godzilla movie and focus on the People trying to survive.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at November 09, 2023 12:50 PM (cxG4V)

310 The English Patient came out just as my wife and I started dating. My sister recommended it to me as a good date movie.

I asked my future wife about it, and she said that she'd rather see Beavis and Butthead's Big Adventure, which came out around the same time. I admitted that I'd rather see that, too. So we did. And thoroughly enjoyed it.

And we've still never seen The English Patient.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at November 09, 2023 12:50 PM (JrojV)

311 296 We live in Union County. Charlotte is Mecklenburg County. We're not residents, so we would have to pay.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going up some wonky stairs with Paul Leni at November 09, 2023 12:46 PM (GBKbO)

No Interlibrary Loan?
Posted by: Iblis at November 09, 2023 12:48 PM (9221z)

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Probably is, but since we have kids, we would like to go to the nicer libraries in the nicer parts of Charlotte to let them wander around and pick out books.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going up some wonky stairs with Paul Leni at November 09, 2023 12:50 PM (GBKbO)

312 Is Afterlife streaming yet?

IMDB says it's on Starz.

The first trailer for the sequel came out yesterday and looked good.

Posted by: Ian S. at November 09, 2023 12:50 PM (2ocoG)

313 Posted by: Paladin at November 09, 2023 12:47 PM (quX0S)

I used to use ‘ chicken pot , chicken pot , chicken pot pieeeeee’ on my friends when they start rambling on too long.

Posted by: Drive by at November 09, 2023 12:50 PM (MNhXM)

314 We should have a Moron Survivor season. But with beer and surfboards.

Posted by: wth at November 09, 2023 12:50 PM (v0R5T)

315 294 My problem isn't with Disney, it is with Netflix tamping down on subscription sharing. It means I can no longer use my wife's daughter's login.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Hi9E7CDpLs
Posted by: Kindltot at November 09, 2023 12:48 PM (xhaym)

They were already limiting simultaneous streams depending on your tier.

Posted by: Iblis at November 09, 2023 12:50 PM (9221z)

316 301 292 The best movie ever made is from 1949, The Third Man.
Posted by: Editor at November 09, 2023 12:48 PM (8wYTr)

I've seen it several times; one of the best things about it, seldom noted, is that it is one of the very few films that show accurately how most European cities looked immediately after WW2. Ruins and burned out buildings everywhere.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 09, 2023 12:51 PM (i9ffA)

317 >>I asked my future wife about it, and she said that she'd rather see Beavis and Butthead's Big Adventure, which came out around the same time. I admitted that I'd rather see that, too. So we did. And thoroughly enjoyed it.

'Fly, Lesbian Seagull'

Posted by: garrett at November 09, 2023 12:51 PM (Atkwd)

318 The Oscars have never been more arrogant than to give best picture to The English Patient. They owe an apology to every person who ever saw it.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at November 09, 2023 12:51 PM (44ww/)

319 Gojira Minus One hai

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 09, 2023 12:51 PM (CW5Z7)

320 304 Use your public library, by all means. They're guaranteed to have all the Kino, Criterion, and the other highbrow stuff, as well as all the PBS dross. A lot of it on streaming. You paid for it, might as well use it.
Posted by: Pour Your Misery Down On gp at November 09, 2023 12:49 PM (MvF+J)

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There's a Kino employee who posts on some message boards in official capacity and answers questions.

Libraries are pretty much the main reason the DVD format won't die. They buy a shit ton of them.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going up some wonky stairs with Paul Leni at November 09, 2023 12:51 PM (GBKbO)

321 We have enough tech-savvy people around here that I'll bet we can do a very informative post on how to do that.

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Um... are you sure u wanna do that?

Posted by: runner at November 09, 2023 12:51 PM (NucQL)

322 Probably is, but since we have kids, we would like to go to the nicer libraries in the nicer parts of Charlotte to let them wander around and pick out books.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going up some wonky stairs with Paul Leni at November 09, 2023 12:50 PM (GBKbO)

Yeah, my kid likes to do that too.

Posted by: Iblis at November 09, 2023 12:51 PM (9221z)

323 Claude Rains in the cast is a pretty good indicator that the movie is of quality. I can't think of a bad movie with Claude Rains in it.
*
"Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" pilot.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at November 09, 2023

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Rains was in the 1961 movie? I thought it was Walter Pidgeon as Adm. Nelson.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 09, 2023 12:51 PM (J2vNu)

324 I love going out to the movies. Used to go a couple of times a month, up until about 2012 or so. Wish there was something worth seeing.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at November 09, 2023 12:51 PM (OX9vb)

325 King of the Monsters worth it?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 09, 2023 12:43 PM (di6C2)

No. Watched it a few days ago out of sheer boredom. It sucked woolly mammoth balls.

Posted by: An insult to kaiju everywhere at November 09, 2023 12:51 PM (HBnmy)

326 Jmel, prayer support from me as well.

If I may snark, don't they know that a school is a gun-free zone? How did a gun get on campus?

(I really hate the policy of leaving classrooms defenseless against bad people.)

Posted by: Emmie at November 09, 2023 12:52 PM (Sf2cq)

327 some happy news, seen at althouse:

"Today is yet another really rough day in media; dozens of my Vice colleagues are being laid off globally and we just got news..."

"... that Jezebel, where I worked for years, is being shut down.

Posted by: gnats local 678 at November 09, 2023 12:52 PM (B1FKF)

328 ========

It's no Gremlins 2: The New Batch.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going up some wonky stairs with Paul Leni at November 09, 2023 12:49 PM (GBKbO)

Hey, Tony Randall wuz robbed of an Oscar there!

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at November 09, 2023 12:52 PM (N3zMI)

329 awwwww

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo at November 09, 2023 12:52 PM (xcxpd)

330 I don't think Kurt was right, that we need to watch when they put shit on tv and in theaters, but I think Andrew Breitbart was right when he talked about how conservatives need to start engaging in entertainment, as that's how you get messages across today. By just ceding Hollywood to leftist commies, you've basically given up on connecting to ther people you need to vote for you.

Culture dictates politics today, instead of how it was opposite

Posted by: Rbastid at November 09, 2023 12:52 PM (oQKD+)

331 "The Oscars have never been more arrogant than to give best picture to The English Patient. They owe an apology to every person who ever saw it."

"Crash" (2004).

Posted by: Pour Your Misery Down On gp at November 09, 2023 12:52 PM (MvF+J)

332 312 Is Afterlife streaming yet?

IMDB says it's on Starz.

The first trailer for the sequel came out yesterday and looked good.
Posted by: Ian S. at November 09, 2023 12:50 PM (2ocoG)

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I like Gil Keanan, so I have hope. I liked Afterlife, but its ending was nostalgic schlock (that I didn't hate).

Now that that's out of the way, hopefully it turns out pretty good. The trailer was generic, though.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going up some wonky stairs with Paul Leni at November 09, 2023 12:52 PM (GBKbO)

333 Festus was great. Especially in his back-and-forths with Doc.

Not quite Spock and McCoy level as far as the mutual giving of crap is concerned, but right up there.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

Speaking of Spock, a very young Leonard Nimoy is in an episode. He plays a gang member and has maybe 3 or 4 lines. I think the episode was on in 62, so still a few years before Star Trek. Actually, you see a lot of very young actors who went on to be famous. It's fun spotting them.

Posted by: Biergood at November 09, 2023 12:52 PM (PwgSL)

334 Season 7, episode 7 of Midsommer Murders just showed up on YOUTUBE. I'm surprised there's anyone left alive.

Posted by: That Northernlurker what lurkd at November 09, 2023 12:53 PM (HfNu5)

335 Film Actors Guild? "FAG"?
Just to be clear. I am also a fan of "Just Shoot Me".

Posted by: Joe Bar at November 09, 2023 12:53 PM (v1v1y)

336 My dad said he'd only watch Survivor if the season was "Survivor: Komodo" and the premise was the annoying dipshit competitors had to fight off hungry Komodo Dragons that had a taste for human flesh.

He wasn't wrong . . . .
Posted by: Elric Blade at November 09, 2023 12:49 PM (iFTx/)

About ten years ago, NBC ran a show called "Siberia," which was shot like a Survivor-style reality show in the Russian backwoods, but then unexplained stuff starts killing the contestants, and they're abandoned and have to seek help.

I don't know if I'd say it was good, but it was different enough to be interesting, and I was disappointed it only lasted one season.

Posted by: Dr. T at November 09, 2023 12:53 PM (bhRsz)

337 I'm boycotting Hollywood because I pirate literally everything I watch.

Posted by: Ahoy Matey! at November 09, 2023 12:53 PM (F4R+f)

338 318 The Oscars have never been more arrogant than to give best picture to The English Patient. They owe an apology to every person who ever saw it.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at November 09, 2023 12:51 PM (44ww/)

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Harvey Weinstein, whom Meryl Streep called God, was at the height of his power from there through Shakespeare in Love.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going up some wonky stairs with Paul Leni at November 09, 2023 12:53 PM (GBKbO)

339 The last blog I read was Balloon Juice.
Posted by: blaster
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Is there a link to that one in Ace's sidebar by any chance??

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at November 09, 2023 12:53 PM (krqg6)

340 >> I love going out to the movies. Used to go a couple of times a month, up until about 2012 or so. Wish there was something worth seeing.

Most college towns have a dumpy independent theater that will run classics on the regular. If you are missing the Movie experience.

Ours ran the big lebowski a few mnoths back and it was nice to see it on a screen.

Posted by: garrett at November 09, 2023 12:53 PM (Atkwd)

341 I just need to make this a bot when the topic comes up, but learn to pirate if you want to watch any of this and you don't want to bankroll left-wing Hollywood.

BitTorrent + VPN = free everything.

Really easy to figure out, easier than it was getting your VCR to record a show.

Posted by: Blago at November 09, 2023 12:54 PM (6hx0K)

342 In regards to: "Years ago, Kurt Schlichter, who I almost always agree with, wrote something I thought was completely wrong..."

One of the worst pieces of advice given to my mom was from David Horowitz. He came to talk at my school and was run out by loudmouth football players screaming about why they need reparations (to pay for more gold chains around their necks). We were in attendance and were disappointed in Mr. Horowitz for slinking off after half-heartedly responding to the brats. My mom sent him an email asking where I could go to get a good education not filled with leftists like my commie professor who spent his whole class pushing communist ideals and downgrading anyone who argued against such ideals. Mr. Horowitz's response? Stay in the liberal school and get a rotten education, because we have to learn to deal with liberals anyway. So, I stayed at that school and all I learned was to shut up to get along. Anyone not lock-step with the liberal viewpoint gets squashed, so just pretend that you have no viewpoint and it gets easier. Well, as long as you don't piss off your professor with a benign view that somehow insults his ego, that is.

Posted by: soulpile at November 09, 2023 12:54 PM (hiX0r)

343
Claude Rains stole every movie he was ever in, even when reciting garbage dialogue.

Fred McMurray and Maureen O'Hara starred in "Father was a Fullback" with child actress Natalie Wood, who highjacked the whole thing and basically made them supporting actors.

Posted by: Auspex at November 09, 2023 12:54 PM (j4U/Z)

344 "Libraries are pretty much the main reason the DVD format won't die. They buy a shit ton of them."

About half the library disks have peanut butter and jelly on them, but some of them still play.

Posted by: Pour Your Misery Down On gp at November 09, 2023 12:54 PM (MvF+J)

345 Jon Lovitz was married to Morgan Fairchild?????
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at November 09, 2023 12:38 PM (JrojV)

If you can make women laugh, looks don't matter all that much.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at November 09, 2023 12:54 PM (BdMk6)

346 The Oscars have never been more arrogant than to give best picture to The English Patient. They owe an apology to every person who ever saw it."

"Crash" (2004).
Posted by: Pour Your Misery Down On gp at November 09, 2023 12:52 PM (MvF+J

There Will Be Blood

Posted by: Drive by at November 09, 2023 12:54 PM (MNhXM)

347 The best movie ever made is from 1949, The Third Man.

No. The zither music absolutely disqualifies it from ever being on any best movies list, ever.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at November 09, 2023 12:54 PM (JrojV)

348 My high school just went on lockdown. Rumors about a gun. All I know. My students and I are locked in my classroom right now.
Posted by: Jmel at November 09, 2023 12:29 PM (RWHIh)
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Lamar HS?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 09, 2023 12:54 PM (bAJ1Y)

349 The transfer of The Odd Couple from movie to TV was remarkably well done. I credit Krugman and Randal for making that happen. Just really well done.

Posted by: Puddinhead at November 09, 2023 12:54 PM (n14bF)

350 346 There Will Be Blood
Posted by: Drive by at November 09, 2023 12:54 PM (MNhXM)

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Which lost to No Country for Old Men.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going up some wonky stairs with Paul Leni at November 09, 2023 12:55 PM (GBKbO)

351 I believe I mentioned this before on this blog, but you can watch all episodes of The Dick Van Dyke Show for free on YouTube. But instead of watching it with commercials for cigarettes, they have ads for electronic vehicles.

Posted by: Pete in Texas at November 09, 2023 12:55 PM (BHrzb)

352 105 THANK YOU!! Now I can fucking buy groceries to feed my now homeless family, you rich, pampered, fucking fucks.

Posted by: Grips, Best Boys, Carpenters and Electricians

Posted by: rickb223 at November 09, 2023 12:20 PM (iOTJP)

Boom Operators...left out boom operators.

Posted by: BignJames at November 09, 2023 12:26 PM (AwYPR)
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The clapper loaders, what are they called?

Posted by: The Janitors - everyone always forgets us until the toilet is filthy at November 09, 2023 12:55 PM (qfLjt)

353 Some early holiday cheer.

Target stock has dropped over 2 percent today. Lowest its been in a year.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at November 09, 2023 12:55 PM (l10hq)

354 I've been watching FreeVee a lot. The commercials are not long and I can mute them and raid the refrigerator and they are free so if I don't like it, I just pick something else.
I'm kind of peeved that Prime now charges for a lot of stuff but I just wait til it's under $4.00 so again if I hate it, can just walk away.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at November 09, 2023 12:55 PM (t/2Uw)

355 There Will Be Blood
Posted by: Drive by at November 09, 2023 12:54 PM (MNhXM)

DRAAAAAAINNNNNNAGE!!!!

Posted by: I drink your milkshake. at November 09, 2023 12:55 PM (HBnmy)

356 No. The zither music absolutely disqualifies it from ever being on any best movies list, ever.
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The zither music was part a parcel of the movie Charade. A really good movie.

Posted by: Puddinhead at November 09, 2023 12:56 PM (n14bF)

357 That's not the same as gabbing about who is the Hottest Chris in Superhero Movies, you know. (It's Chris Hemsworth, obviously.)

You're wrong, it's Chris Pratt. He's genuinely goofy and loves America. Chris Evans is always trying to do The Right Thing, but he's got bad advice on what The Right Thing is. Chris Pine seems to revel in his smarmy characters, but I wouldn't mind having a drink with him. And Chris Hemsworth seems confined to certain roles because of his acting range.

Posted by: pookysgirl with a Certified Ette Opinion at November 09, 2023 12:56 PM (dtlDP)

358 276 CNN Suspends Ties With Journalist Who Went Along With Hamas As They Slaughtered Jews

https://tinyurl.com/bdmkvz3x
Posted by: Elric Blade at November 09, 2023 12:44 PM (iFTx/)

Best part of the announcement was when CNN said that they still believed that his reporting was "authentic." Which means that when he filmed Jewish civilians being murdered, they were really being murdered.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 09, 2023 12:56 PM (i9ffA)

359 354 I've been watching FreeVee a lot. The commercials are not long and I can mute them and raid the refrigerator and they are free so if I don't like it, I just pick something else.
I'm kind of peeved that Prime now charges for a lot of stuff but I just wait til it's under $4.00 so again if I hate it, can just walk away.
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at November 09, 2023 12:55 PM (t/2Uw)

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The ad supported options are surprisingly decent. I use them a fair bit. Not ideal, but the selections are pretty good.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going up some wonky stairs with Paul Leni at November 09, 2023 12:56 PM (GBKbO)

360 318 The Oscars have never been more arrogant than to give best picture to The English Patient. They owe an apology to every person who ever saw it.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at November 09, 2023 12:51 PM (44ww/)

I thought it had beat out a clear better picture but that was the year for Fargo and Jerry Maguire. Still, either one would have been a better choice.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 09, 2023 12:56 PM (di6C2)

361 Just wanted to second or third the comments above about how I do enjoy hearing about the downfall and demise of the woke entertainment industry even if I am not otherwise familiar with their product.

The last movies I've seen in theatres are the Tom Cruise movies and Sound of Freedom. Trying to selectively support things.

Posted by: Iris at November 09, 2023 12:56 PM (NaH5I)

362 IMDB says it's on Starz.

The first trailer for the sequel came out yesterday and looked good.

Posted by: Ian S. at November 09, 2023 12:50 PM (2ocoG)

thanks Ian.

Posted by: Louie Lambada at November 09, 2023 12:56 PM (9214m)

363 I finally saw Infinity Pool the other day. Liked it.

Anyone seen The Creator? Heard anything about it?

Posted by: I'm still watching some new stuff. at November 09, 2023 12:56 PM (CjGGv)

364 I'd be impressed if "Survivor" did Antarctica or Somalia

where survival is anything but certain

Posted by: DB - no, really at November 09, 2023 12:57 PM (geLO8)

365 Kandahar is good, I enjoy Gerard Butler's movie's. I do enjoy the fact that they make reporters the bad guys and it involves Iran who is the bad guy but they do make the Guys that work for them Evil and professional without comment they are just doing a job. It has the Guy from Vikings in it as well.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at November 09, 2023 12:57 PM (dKiJG)

366 360 318 The Oscars have never been more arrogant than to give best picture to The English Patient. They owe an apology to every person who ever saw it.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at November 09, 2023 12:51 PM (44ww/)

I thought it had beat out a clear better picture but that was the year for Fargo and Jerry Maguire. Still, either one would have been a better choice.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 09, 2023 12:56 PM (di6C2)

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Secrets & Lies is supposed to be really good, too. It was a surprisingly strong year for nominees, and the fucking English Patient won.

I didn't think anything would top Cimarron as the worst Best Picture winner, but The English Patient came REALLY close.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going up some wonky stairs with Paul Leni at November 09, 2023 12:57 PM (GBKbO)

367 gees. The English Patient. Ugh. 'Beaches' with a lot of walking in the desert.

Posted by: Louie Lambada at November 09, 2023 12:58 PM (9214m)

368 No. Watched it a few days ago out of sheer boredom. It sucked woolly mammoth balls.
Posted by: An insult to kaiju everywhere at November 09, 2023 12:51 PM (HBnmy)

Yeah, that's what I heard, so I did not see it.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 09, 2023 12:58 PM (di6C2)

369 Me and my aged mom liked Wendie Malick and the others in Just Shoot Me! too; and her in Hot in Cleveland, especially when we'd watch an episode of it and then see her playing Marty's girlfriend in Frasier repeats later that night. . . .

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at November 09, 2023

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Hot in Cleveland had some wonderful gags. Betty White's character watches as her housemates and their boyfriends, playing Charades, devolve into a shouting match. Betty turns away and says, as if to herself, "This sort of thing never happened on Password!"

And the studio audience (and everybody else old enough to get the in-joke) roared.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 09, 2023 12:58 PM (J2vNu)

370 Claude Rains in the cast is a pretty good indicator that the movie is of quality. I can't think of a bad movie with Claude Rains in it.

Rains was in a musical version of the Pied Piper of Hamelin with Van Johnson and Jim Backus, in the late 50s, I think. He actually sings and dances (briefly) in that one. Not one of his better performances, but I give him props for trying.

If you ask me, his best performance was in Notorious.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at November 09, 2023 12:58 PM (JrojV)

371 325 King of the Monsters worth it?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 09, 2023 12:43 PM (di6C2)
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The 2019 version? Yea it's good. Much better than the the Godzilla from a few years earlier. Some great action and a few good dramatic scenes, but the plot and script are dumber than whale shit. Ditto Godzilla vs Kong.

If you're interested, there's a Godzilla boxed set on blu-ray with all the Japanese films from the original up to Final Wars. I bought it. The Heisei era films are very good, as are the later Millennium era films.

Posted by: Elric Blade at November 09, 2023 12:58 PM (iFTx/)

372 Jerry Maguire also had the impressive Kelly Preston's boobs.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 09, 2023 12:59 PM (di6C2)

373 Anyone seen The Creator? Heard anything about it?
Posted by: I'm still watching some new stuff. at November 09, 2023 12:56 PM (CjGGv)

I've heard it's like Avatar, but with robots instead of Smurfs.

Posted by: Dr. T at November 09, 2023 12:59 PM (bhRsz)

374 Movies! Luxury! We had to watch shadows on the cave wall.

Posted by: Playdo at November 09, 2023 01:00 PM (vFG9F)

375 Best Picture should be renamed "Most Self-Indulgently Virtuous Picture"

Posted by: DB - no, really at November 09, 2023 01:00 PM (geLO8)

376 Ace, it's your blog, you write about whatever you want. We're the guests and we should respect the host since its your house.
Posted by: Moki at November 09, 2023 12:14 PM (N43JC)

Concur !

Posted by: JT at November 09, 2023 01:00 PM (T4tVD)

377 I'm sorry, it was Beavis and Butthead Do America that we saw in lieu of The English Patient.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at November 09, 2023 01:00 PM (JrojV)

378 Gojira Minus One occurs I think two years after Japan surrenders. It seems some IJN ships like a Takao class cruiser are being reported by the eagled viewers of the trailers.

Be really funny to see the Unryu class carrier Kasaragi pop up. She survived the war and was used to transport Japanese soldiers home.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 09, 2023 01:00 PM (CW5Z7)

379 Can't remember how I stumbled on it but Ford v Ferrari was fantastic. What one needs to wade through to find a gem like that though... sickening.

Posted by: cthoms at November 09, 2023 01:00 PM (XRNH/)

380 So who "won" the strike, the unions?

I'm sort of shocked management keeps caving, like the Big 3 did to the UAW.

My guess is they could have broken the unions had they held out a few more months. The economy is obviously getting deeper into the shitter. Consumer spending is really pulling back.

Posted by: Blago at November 09, 2023 01:00 PM (6hx0K)

381 Just wanted to second or third the comments above about how I do enjoy hearing about the downfall and demise of the woke entertainment industry even if I am not otherwise familiar with their product.

The last movies I've seen in theatres are the Tom Cruise movies and Sound of Freedom. Trying to selectively support things.
Posted by: Iris at November 09, 2023

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I'm trying to remember the last in-theatre movie I watched. Jurassic World, maybe, or the follow-up to it?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 09, 2023 01:00 PM (J2vNu)

382 349 The transfer of The Odd Couple from movie to TV was remarkably well done. I credit Krugman and Randal for making that happen. Just really well done.
Posted by: Puddinhead at November 09, 2023 12:54 PM (n14bF)

yeah, it's basically a Buddy show, and it was a miracle that they could come up with the perfect pairing twice. And that's the flaw in the remake of "The In-Laws" ; Peter Falk and Alan Arkin are one of the funniest duos in film; Michael Douglas and Albert Brooks are ok, but just ok.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 09, 2023 01:00 PM (i9ffA)

383 375 Best Picture should be renamed "Most Self-Indulgently Virtuous Picture"
Posted by: DB - no, really at November 09, 2023 01:00 PM (geLO

Fair. I am trying to think of the last one that was actually good and not some message film. Unforgiven, maybe?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 09, 2023 01:00 PM (di6C2)

384 "Target stock has dropped over 2 percent today. Lowest its been in a year."

TGT down to the Aug 2019 price. Sickly chart. But hey: 4% yield.

Posted by: Pour Your Misery Down On gp at November 09, 2023 01:00 PM (MvF+J)

385 After a grueling 118 days on strike...

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Let me call a waaahambulance.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 09, 2023 01:01 PM (RIvkX)

386 >.Movies! Luxury! We had to watch shadows on the cave wall.

Posted by: Playdo

O we used to dream of living in a cave...
would've been a palace to us..

Posted by: DB - no, really at November 09, 2023 01:01 PM (geLO8)

387 I watch "Frasier." My favorite show of all time.

I saw two episodes of the new reboot and they're god awful.

None of the old cast. I think they backed out because Kelsey Grammar is conservative.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton

There are quite a few series that should have called it quits for good. They tried to do spinoffs of MASH and they were horrible and cancelled pretty swiftly. I think that the MASH series went on too long - it went on much longer than the actual Korean war. Honeycutt became unwatchable and I hated his character and Hawkeye's jokes were no longer funny and were just bitter and sarcastic.

Posted by: Cheri at November 09, 2023 01:01 PM (oiNtH)

388 Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 09, 2023 01:01 PM (RIvkX)

389 I'm sure everyone's seen this, but here's Norm MacDonald getting a shot in on David Spade when they're both on the Dennis Miller show.
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I haven't, spendthrift.

ROTFLMAO!

Thank you.

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at November 09, 2023 01:02 PM (krqg6)

390 There Will Be Blood
Posted by: Drive by at November 09, 2023 12:54 PM (MNhXM)

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Which lost to No Country for Old Men.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going up some wonky stairs with Paul Leni at November 09, 2023 12:55 PM (GBKbO)

Yes , equally as bad IMO ( again minority) . I just knew TWBB was nominated and that DDL got Best Actor. Forgot that it didn’t win Best Picture.

Posted by: Drive by at November 09, 2023 01:02 PM (MNhXM)

391 lol
Pictures of Judge Arthur Engoron over at BB

Posted by: wth at November 09, 2023 01:02 PM (v0R5T)

392 >>I've been watching FreeVee a lot. The commercials are not long and I can mute them and raid the refrigerator and they are free so if I don't like it, I just pick something else.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice)

We've been watching the Perry Mason series for the third time.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at November 09, 2023 01:02 PM (l10hq)

393 Have we heard from Fen today ?

Posted by: JT at November 09, 2023 01:02 PM (T4tVD)

394 There are quite a few series that should have called it quits for good. They tried to do spinoffs of MASH and they were horrible and cancelled pretty swiftly. I think that the MASH series went on too long - it went on much longer than the actual Korean war. Honeycutt became unwatchable and I hated his character and Hawkeye's jokes were no longer funny and were just bitter and sarcastic.
Posted by: Cheri

And then he suffocated a child in the finale.

Posted by: BruceWayne at November 09, 2023 01:02 PM (CIS44)

395 Both Chris Hemsworth and Chris Pratt are hot. I think Hemsworth is sexier though in a please take your shirt off kind of way.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at November 09, 2023 01:02 PM (t/2Uw)

396 Can watch all the Godzilla movies for free on Pluto. Dubbed, subbed, or chopped. Even Rodan and Mothra movies.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 09, 2023 01:02 PM (CW5Z7)

397 Claude Rains in the cast is a pretty good indicator that the movie is of quality. I can't think of a bad movie with Claude Rains in it.
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Rains was in a musical version of the Pied Piper of Hamelin with Van Johnson and Jim Backus, in the late 50s, I think. He actually sings and dances (briefly) in that one. Not one of his better performances, but I give him props for trying.

If you ask me, his best performance was in Notorious.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at November 09, 2023

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Claude Rains and Edward G. Robinson: Old Hollywood at its best, when character actors could also be stars.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 09, 2023 01:03 PM (J2vNu)

398 382 349 The transfer of The Odd Couple from movie to TV was remarkably well done. I credit Krugman and Randal for making that happen. Just really well done.
Posted by: Puddinhead at November 09, 2023 12:54 PM (n14bF)

yeah, it's basically a Buddy show, and it was a miracle that they could come up with the perfect pairing twice. And that's the flaw in the remake of "The In-Laws" ; Peter Falk and Alan Arkin are one of the funniest duos in film; Michael Douglas and Albert Brooks are ok, but just ok.
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As I recall the Pigeon Sisters were in both the Movie and TV series. Just their presence on stage makes you laugh.

Posted by: Puddinhead at November 09, 2023 01:03 PM (n14bF)

399 Just let me cover Disney without not-so-covertly calling me a Silly Child for doing so.

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Asking for the impossible.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 09, 2023 01:03 PM (RIvkX)

400 Chuck > Just Shoot Me

Posted by: ShainS -- Too Male, Too Pale, Too Stale at November 09, 2023 01:03 PM (sBJWn)

401 #389 Addendum: All three of them, hilarious.

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at November 09, 2023 01:03 PM (krqg6)

402 396 Can watch all the Godzilla movies for free on Pluto. Dubbed, subbed, or chopped. Even Rodan and Mothra movies.
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 09, 2023 01:02 PM (CW5Z7)

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The Criterion Channel has most of 'em, too. Without commercials.

I'm going to be doing an Ishiro Honda run soon, and I looked.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going up some wonky stairs with Paul Leni at November 09, 2023 01:03 PM (GBKbO)

403 I am only looking forward to new Napoleon movie

Posted by: Skip at November 09, 2023 01:03 PM (fwDg9)

404 There are quite a few series that should have called it quits for good. They tried to do spinoffs of MASH and they were horrible and cancelled pretty swiftly. I think that the MASH series went on too long - it went on much longer than the actual Korean war. Honeycutt became unwatchable and I hated his character and Hawkeye's jokes were no longer funny and were just bitter and sarcastic.
Posted by: Cheri at November 09, 2023 01:01 PM (oiNtH)

The first season after the switch to BJ and Potter was fun. Frank Burns to Winchester where were things really went to hell.

'After MASH' was an abomination. I only saw a... Thanksgiving episode they did because my parents recorded it on VHS. They recorded everything.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 09, 2023 01:04 PM (di6C2)

405 300 My dad said he'd only watch Survivor if the season was "Survivor: Komodo" and the premise was the annoying dipshit competitors had to fight off hungry Komodo Dragons that had a taste for human flesh.

He wasn't wrong . . . .
Posted by: Elric Blade at November 09, 2023 12:49 PM (iFTx/)

Sigh. Morons. I am watching Survivor this season and really enjoying all the twists and turns and new rules. Survivor is about game play and alliances while having reasonable physical challenges. Not being hunted!

Posted by: Iris at November 09, 2023 01:04 PM (NaH5I)

406 The idea of Godzilla always trumps the film depiction of Godzilla. Always.

Posted by: Puddinhead at November 09, 2023 01:04 PM (n14bF)

407 I think Hemsworth is sexier though in a please take your shirt off kind of way.
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at November 09, 2023 01:02 PM (t/2Uw)
.......

I liked him as Fat Thor.

Posted by: wth at November 09, 2023 01:04 PM (v0R5T)

408 Chris Pratt would have been a good rebooted Indiana Jones. But does Hollywood listen to me? NOOoooo...

Posted by: DB - no, really at November 09, 2023 01:04 PM (geLO8)

409
Has Ace ever had a post on the most over-hyped movies?

For me Avatar is near the top.

Posted by: girldog at November 09, 2023 01:04 PM (eJIlB)

410 Best part of the announcement was when CNN said that they still believed that his reporting was "authentic." Which means that when he filmed Jewish civilians being murdered, they were really being murdered.
Posted by: Tom Servo

They used to call those snuff films.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at November 09, 2023 01:05 PM (FVME7)

411 JT pretty sure Fen was on this morning

Posted by: Skip at November 09, 2023 01:05 PM (fwDg9)

412 403 I am only looking forward to new Napoleon movie
Posted by: Skip at November 09, 2023 01:03 PM (fwDg9)

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Another AppleTV+ production. Apple is throwing a shit ton of money at movies to make itself a real movie studio overnight. They're going for prestige first.

They were the first streaming service to win Best Picture, too, with CODA.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going up some wonky stairs with Paul Leni at November 09, 2023 01:05 PM (GBKbO)

413 And then he suffocated a child in the finale.
Posted by: BruceWayne at November 09, 2023 01:02 PM (CIS44)

Well, he more told a woman to shut the baby up and she killed the kid. Pussy.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 09, 2023 01:05 PM (di6C2)

414 I know I watched Just Shoot Me back in the day but I don't remember a single thing about it.

Is News Radio available for streaming anywhere?

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at November 09, 2023 01:05 PM (N3zMI)

415 O we used to dream of living in a cave...
would've been a palace to us..

We use to live in a rolled up newspaper in the bottom of an old septic tank, all 23 of us...

Posted by: Drew in MO at November 09, 2023 01:06 PM (0Lpvj)

416 My guess is they could have broken the unions had they held out a few more months. The economy is obviously getting deeper into the shitter. Consumer spending is really pulling back.
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Nice businesses you have there. Be a shame if something happened to them while the strike is still ongoing.

Posted by: Biden's puppet masters at November 09, 2023 01:06 PM (fs1hN)

417 406 The idea of Godzilla always trumps the film depiction of Godzilla. Always.
Posted by: Puddinhead at November 09, 2023 01:04 PM (n14bF)

The 90s Godzilla.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 09, 2023 01:06 PM (di6C2)

418 402 396 Can watch all the Godzilla movies for free on Pluto. Dubbed, subbed, or chopped. Even Rodan and Mothra movies.
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 09, 2023 01:02 PM (CW5Z7)

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The Criterion Channel has most of 'em, too. Without commercials.

I'm going to be doing an Ishiro Honda run soon, and I looked.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going up some wonky stairs with Paul Leni at November 09, 2023 01:03 PM (GBKbO)
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The Gamera trilogy from the 90s was also very good. There's a 4th one from that era that's more aimed at kids and isn't as good, but it ain't bad. There's a Gamera boxed set including all the films going back to the 1960s. Some are good, others are terrible, but for a conservative culture even in the 1960s they liked to have hot ladies in 60s era short-skirts all over the place.

Posted by: Elric Blade at November 09, 2023 01:06 PM (iFTx/)

419 Oh hey we just bombed something in Syria...

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 09, 2023 01:06 PM (CW5Z7)

420 Mathew Broderick and that gal they were trying to make a thing.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 09, 2023 01:06 PM (di6C2)

421 The transfer of The Odd Couple from movie to TV was remarkably well done. I credit Krugman and Randal for making that happen. Just really well done.
Posted by: Puddinhead at November 09, 2023 12:54 PM (n14bF)
*
yeah, it's basically a Buddy show, and it was a miracle that they could come up with the perfect pairing twice. . . .
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 09, 2023

***
When Decades was running Odd Couple on a binge weekend, I found myself laughing out loud every single time Felix spears Oscar's cast-off cigar and holds it up to him. I'm not the only one. Years later when Klugman and Randall were in a stage version of The Sunshine Boys, Randall did the exact same bit of business, and the audience recognized it and laughed their heads off.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 09, 2023 01:06 PM (J2vNu)

422 Rains was in a musical version of the Pied Piper of Hamelin with Van Johnson and Jim Backus, in the late 50s, I think. He actually sings and dances (briefly) in that one. Not one of his better performances, but I give him props for trying.

If you ask me, his best performance was in Notorious.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at November 09, 2023 12:58 PM (JrojV)

One of my favorites is "Deception" (1946) with Bette Davis. Rains plays an over the top, personally manipulative composer with Krazy Komposer Hair through the entire film. The dinner scene, where he verbally torments Paul Henreid over the menu is hilarious.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 09, 2023 01:06 PM (i9ffA)

423 Just let me cover Disney without not-so-covertly calling me a Silly Child for doing so.[\i]

The proper interpretation of this response should be "lamentation of the women", it should make you proud !

Posted by: Next2Nothing at November 09, 2023 01:06 PM (tA1/w)

424 Was it Chris Pratt that was in the Terminal List? I definitely enjoyed that.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at November 09, 2023 01:07 PM (BdMk6)

425 Discount Anne Heche.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 09, 2023 01:07 PM (di6C2)

426 >We use to live in a rolled up newspaper in the bottom of an old septic tank, all 23 of us...

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Septic tank? You were lucky.

Posted by: DB - no, really at November 09, 2023 01:07 PM (geLO8)

427 424 Was it Chris Pratt that was in the Terminal List? I definitely enjoyed that.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at November 09, 2023 01:07 PM (BdMk6)

Yeah, that was him. Not a bad show, but I disliked the twist.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 09, 2023 01:07 PM (di6C2)

428 Oh hey we just bombed something in Syria...
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 09, 2023 01:06 PM (CW5Z7)
......

How can they tell?

Posted by: wth at November 09, 2023 01:07 PM (v0R5T)

429 Chris Pratt would have been a good rebooted Indiana Jones. But does Hollywood listen to me? NOOoooo...
Posted by: DB - no, really at November 09, 2023

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Perfect casting.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 09, 2023 01:07 PM (J2vNu)

430 know I watched Just Shoot Me back in the day but I don't remember a single thing about it.

Is News Radio available for streaming anywhere?
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at November 09, 2023 01:05 PM (N3zMI)

I have all 5 seasons on DVD. Great show. Even the Lovitz season .

Posted by: Drive by at November 09, 2023 01:07 PM (MNhXM)

431 370 Claude Rains in the cast is a pretty good indicator that the movie is of quality. I can't think of a bad movie with Claude Rains in it.

He was the father in the "Four Daughters" series, and was great in a serviceable Low-A movie cast. That was an early role for John Garfield, whose star quality was unmistakable.

Posted by: sal: tolle adversarium et afflige inimicum at November 09, 2023 01:08 PM (KB0Aa)

432 Ace - Not that my opinion matters, but keep covering the struggles or poor, poor Disney. It's not that I care about Disney, or hollywood in general. I don't. But, along with social media & education, entertainment is the most powerful opinion-shaping tool when it comes to young people and culture. I remember seeing the content of their contemporary programming when my daughter was young. All I could think was "why does every one of these shows sound like it's written in dialogue that only bitchy gay men find funny" That was the point when I realized I'd rather my kid curse like a sailor than to speak with the tone and attitude of characters on Disney TV.

I enjoy the taste of Disney's tears. Keep reminding me to fill my cup.

Posted by: SMFH at November 09, 2023 01:08 PM (vGZLX)

433 I know I watched Just Shoot Me back in the day but I don't remember a single thing about it.

Is News Radio available for streaming anywhere?
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at November 09, 2023 01:05 PM (N3zMI)

You dont remember chicken pot chicken pot chicken pot pie?!?!??

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzJw0_UzM-s

Posted by: BruceWayne at November 09, 2023 01:08 PM (CIS44)

434 I pulled out Elysium to watch it all the way through, since I got verification that, yes, it was a terribly stupid movie with overacting.

Dayum but it had some lovely visuals, the approach shots to the orbital was worth buying the DVD out of the one dollar bin. One day they will make a movie that looks good and makes sense and has a decent action sequence that is something meaningful.

but not today, not this year.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 09, 2023 01:08 PM (xhaym)

435 Regarding Ace's post on what media we consume, my take is that we as conservatives have some sort of scoreboard that if "media company I don't like" has bad earnings, we're "winning" the culture war.

And I do take satisfaction in seeing them earn less money, but at the end of the day, I dont think youre going to see any change in direction and there is still massive consumption of the mainstream. Politics is downstream of our culture and they are still calling the shots.

Like Elon Musk will probably lose his ass on buying Twitter, but I'm fine with that because it was still a huge win for our side to have an open platform. The financial part is secondary. I view Hollywood and the whole media complex the same way. They probably all are having to share a smaller part of the financial pie, but they are still driving the narrative.

Posted by: Blago at November 09, 2023 01:09 PM (6hx0K)

436 One of my favorites is "Deception" (1946) with Bette Davis. Rains plays an over the top, personally manipulative composer with Krazy Komposer Hair through the entire film. The dinner scene, where he verbally torments Paul Henreid over the menu is hilarious.
Posted by: Tom Servo

Yes, Eddie Mueller had that on Noir Alley several weeks ago. We liked it.

Rains is one of those few actors who can ham the hell out of a role and still make it work.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at November 09, 2023 01:09 PM (JrojV)

437 Dayum but it had some lovely visuals, the approach shots to the orbital was worth buying the DVD out of the one dollar bin. One day they will make a movie that looks good and makes sense and has a decent action sequence that is something meaningful.

but not today, not this year.
Posted by: Kindltot at November 09, 2023 01:08 PM (xhaym)

Rewatch Aliens.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 09, 2023 01:09 PM (di6C2)

438 I just realized Chris Pratt was in the movie Wanted when I came across it last week channel surfing.

I don’t know why my gun range won’t let me try to curve a bullet.

Posted by: Drive by at November 09, 2023 01:09 PM (MNhXM)

439 The Gamera trilogy from the 90s was also very good. There's a 4th one from that era that's more aimed at kids and isn't as good, but it ain't bad. There's a Gamera boxed set including all the films going back to the 1960s. Some are good, others are terrible, but for a conservative culture even in the 1960s they liked to have hot ladies in 60s era short-skirts all over the place.
Posted by: Elric Blade at November 09, 2023 01:06 PM (iFTx/)

MST3K did a lot of Gamera movies. They're a hoot.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at November 09, 2023 01:10 PM (BdMk6)

440 Frankie Hollywood strikes again!

WOKE POPE: Vatican says transgender people can be baptized and serve as godparents. Does baptism mean anything to Catholics anymore or nah?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at November 09, 2023 01:10 PM (FVME7)

441 Michael J Fox had a show where he was a spin doctor for a girl mayor or something...

Posted by: DB - no, really at November 09, 2023 01:10 PM (geLO8)

442 Gamera Guardian of the Galaxy finally made the flying turtle a bonafide original kaiju.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 09, 2023 01:10 PM (CW5Z7)

443 403 I am only looking forward to new Napoleon movie
Posted by: Skip at November 09, 2023 01:03 PM (fwDg9)

suggested mashup - Napoleon, played by Napoleon Dynamite.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 09, 2023 01:10 PM (i9ffA)

444 Films are a luxury, I have not been in years and nothing seems worth going to. I watch youtube live streams, Jack Show, anything from the guys at Comics Gate, Razorfist, and FNT.

Posted by: Drew in MO at November 09, 2023 01:10 PM (0Lpvj)

445 382 349 The transfer of The Odd Couple from movie to TV was remarkably well done. I credit Krugman and Randal for making that happen. Just really well done.
Posted by: Puddinhead at November 09, 2023 12:54 PM (n14bF)

yeah, it's basically a Buddy show, and it was a miracle that they could come up with the perfect pairing twice. And that's the flaw in the remake of "The In-Laws" ; Peter Falk and Alan Arkin are one of the funniest duos in film; Michael Douglas and Albert Brooks are ok, but just ok.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 09, 2023 01:00 PM (i9ffA)

IMO good casting is underrated. Everyone talks about directors, but sometimes I watch a movie or tv show and think, "who cast this thing?"

Posted by: girldog at November 09, 2023 01:10 PM (eJIlB)

446 Both Chris Hemsworth and Chris Pratt are hot. I think Hemsworth is sexier though in a please take your shirt off kind of way.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at November 09, 2023 01:02 PM (t/2Uw)

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Looking forward to the second season of The Terminal List with Pratt

Posted by: ShainS -- Too Male, Too Pale, Too Stale at November 09, 2023 01:10 PM (nGWC6)

447 439 The Gamera trilogy from the 90s was also very good. There's a 4th one from that era that's more aimed at kids and isn't as good, but it ain't bad. There's a Gamera boxed set including all the films going back to the 1960s. Some are good, others are terrible, but for a conservative culture even in the 1960s they liked to have hot ladies in 60s era short-skirts all over the place.
Posted by: Elric Blade at November 09, 2023 01:06 PM (iFTx/)

MST3K did a lot of Gamera movies. They're a hoot.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at November 09, 2023 01:10 PM (BdMk6)

+1

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo at November 09, 2023 01:10 PM (xcxpd)

448 I haven't watched a good movie since Claude Bawls.

Posted by: Roy Horn at November 09, 2023 01:11 PM (DZrNt)

449 One of my favorites is "Deception" (1946) with Bette Davis. Rains plays an over the top, personally manipulative composer with Krazy Komposer Hair through the entire film. The dinner scene, where he verbally torments Paul Henreid over the menu is hilarious.
Posted by: Tom Servo at November 09, 2023 01:06 PM (i9ffA)

Bette Davis adored Raines- they made three movies together. "Deception" is mean Raines and "Now, Voyager" is kind Raines. Such a good actor.

Posted by: sal: tolle adversarium et afflige inimicum at November 09, 2023 01:11 PM (KB0Aa)

450 I don't mind any of the Disney coverage. That said, I think too much risks becoming Doomcock-like. Always portents of disaster but no disaster.

Posted by: Maybe the economy will finally catch up with these dum-dums but it hasn't yet. at November 09, 2023 01:11 PM (CjGGv)

451 Michael J Fox had a show where he was a spin doctor for a girl mayor or something...
Posted by: DB - no, really at November 09, 2023

***
Spin City or something like that?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 09, 2023 01:11 PM (J2vNu)

452 They did a press release.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 09, 2023 01:11 PM (CW5Z7)

453 Posted by: Kindltot at November 09, 2023 01:08 PM (xhaym)

Watched Ad Astra a few weeks ago. I think that’s very underrated.

Posted by: Drive by at November 09, 2023 01:11 PM (MNhXM)

454 After a grueling 118 days on strike, ..."

"Grueling."

Posted by: Question authority bumper sticker at November 09, 2023 01:11 PM (Rbu5d)

455 You snooze, you lose.

https://tinyurl.com/mnkt3vy6

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at November 09, 2023 01:11 PM (FVME7)

456 444 Films are a luxury, I have not been in years and nothing seems worth going to. I watch youtube live streams, Jack Show, anything from the guys at Comics Gate, Razorfist, and FNT.
Posted by: Drew in MO at November 09, 2023 01:10 PM (0Lpvj)

Razor just did Alice Cooper's discography. 2 1/2 hours long.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo at November 09, 2023 01:11 PM (xcxpd)

457 453 Posted by: Kindltot at November 09, 2023 01:08 PM (xhaym)

Watched Ad Astra a few weeks ago. I think that’s very underrated.
Posted by: Drive by at November 09, 2023 01:11 PM (MNhXM)

========

Daddy issues...IN SPACE!!!!

I like it, too.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going up some wonky stairs with Paul Leni at November 09, 2023 01:12 PM (GBKbO)

458 >WOKE POPE: Vatican says transgender people can be baptized and serve as godparents. Does baptism mean anything to Catholics anymore or nah?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

you know, when one of the world's oldest churches keeps fiddling with the rules like this, it can't help but sow doubt about the Whole Story

IMO FWIW

Posted by: DB - no, really at November 09, 2023 01:12 PM (geLO8)

459 Chuck > Just Shoot Me

Chuck was a fun show until they made him a magical super ninja and lost the whole premise.

Posted by: Oddbob at November 09, 2023 01:12 PM (nfrXX)

460 Oh hey we just bombed something in Syria...
Posted by: Anna Puma

One of the woke movies opened there?

Posted by: Tonypete at November 09, 2023 01:12 PM (SAX5G)

461 Michael J Fox had a show where he was a spin doctor for a girl mayor or something...
Posted by: DB - no, really at November 09, 2023 01:10 PM (geLO

Charlie Sheen took over for him and frankly made it a better show imo.

Posted by: Drive by at November 09, 2023 01:12 PM (MNhXM)

462 After a grueling 118 days on strike, ..."

"Grueling."

Tell me about it.

Posted by: Oliver Twist at November 09, 2023 01:12 PM (JrojV)

463 I'm trying to negotiate with the wife to watch Buckaroo Banzai with her. She's never seen it.

I love the movie but suspect she won't.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo at November 09, 2023 01:13 PM (xcxpd)

464 Looking forward to the second season of The Terminal List with Pratt
Posted by: ShainS -- Too Male, Too Pale, Too Stale at November 09, 2023 01:10 PM (nGWC6)

Hope they magic a way to bring back... dude from John Carter. He was good in that.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 09, 2023 01:13 PM (di6C2)

465 White House Aides "Simply Cannot Stomach" Biden's Israel Policy, Dissent Memos Leak, Revolt At State Dept

.. in the age of Twitter, I guess nobody resigns any more over any sort of point of disagreement. Instead the leak their dissatisfaction on Twitter. COWARDS !!

Posted by: The at November 09, 2023 01:13 PM (RHGPo)

466 >Spin City or something like that?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

that sounds right

Posted by: DB - no, really at November 09, 2023 01:13 PM (geLO8)

467 So do continue boycotting Hollywood. I'm boycotting it myself, pretty much.

Just let me cover Disney without not-so-covertly calling me a Silly Child for doing so.

And if you let me do that, you can say "I haven't watched a movie since John Wayne" all you like.
++++
"I haven't watched a movie since 'X'" can be solidarity, which I hope it is. If nobody watches - and this year, nobody has watched* and the consequences have been disastrous - that's what is commonly called a "boycott" and so much the better.

* Except the "Barbenheimer" phenomenon and the Mario movie. Unalloyed successes, all three.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 09, 2023 01:13 PM (d04cU)

468 463 I'm trying to negotiate with the wife to watch Buckaroo Banzai with her. She's never seen it.

I love the movie but suspect she won't.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo at November 09, 2023 01:13 PM (xcxpd)

========

It's no Six String Samurai.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going up some wonky stairs with Paul Leni at November 09, 2023 01:13 PM (GBKbO)

469 The transfer of The Odd Couple from movie to TV was remarkably well done.
Posted by: Puddinhead at November 09, 2023 12:54 PM (n14bF)
-

There's a scene in the movie where Jack Lemmon is making a call from a street corner phone booth. I had gotten off the bus from school and watched the scene being filmed.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 09, 2023 01:13 PM (bAJ1Y)

470 MST3K did a lot of Gamera movies. They're a hoot.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at November 09, 2023 01:10 PM (BdMk6)

in a similar line, MST3K did Yongary, Monster from the Deep, in which a little boy makes friends with the Kaiju Yongary because he is lonely, and then he cries as Yongary is killed, because Yongary is misunderstood and really just wants to be friends.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 09, 2023 01:14 PM (i9ffA)

471 459 Chuck > Just Shoot Me

Chuck was a fun show until they made him a magical super ninja and lost the whole premise.
Posted by: Oddbob at November 09, 2023 01:12 PM (nfrXX)

First... two three seasons. Great show. Peak Yvonne Strahovinsky.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 09, 2023 01:14 PM (di6C2)

472 Ishtar finally opened in Damascus.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 09, 2023 01:14 PM (CW5Z7)

473 457 453 Posted by: Kindltot at November 09, 2023 01:08 PM (xhaym)

Watched Ad Astra a few weeks ago. I think that’s very underrated.
Posted by: Drive by at November 09, 2023 01:11 PM (MNhXM)

========

Daddy issues...IN SPACE!!!!

I like it, too.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going up some wonky stairs with Paul Leni at November 09, 2023 01:12 PM (GBKbO)

Now we can start holding our meetings in the small conference room.

Posted by: I think it's us 3 against the world on this film. BurtTC might have liked it too. at November 09, 2023 01:14 PM (CjGGv)

474 Spidey Sense is working

BOSS HAZ A NOOD

Posted by: Skip at November 09, 2023 01:14 PM (fwDg9)

475 Years ago, Kurt Schlichter, who I almost always agree with, wrote something I thought was completely wrong: He said that conservatives needed to engage in the culture, and that included watching crap like Lena Dunham's Girls.
_______

Not to knock Kurt, but I always put that down to the his "stealthily" pushing his own books. Andrew Klavan does the same.

The whole idea is insane. But I do like reading or listening when people talk about Disney/Bud Lite/Dicks, etc, and their woes. Total Schadenboners all around.

Posted by: Eeyore at November 09, 2023 01:14 PM (brAQZ)

476 I'm trying to negotiate with the wife to watch Buckaroo Banzai with her. She's never seen it.

I love the movie but suspect she won't.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo at November 09, 2023 01:13 PM (xcxpd)

========

It's no Six String Samurai.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going up some wonky stairs with Paul Leni at November 09, 2023 01:13 PM (GBKbO)

It's better than Six String (I have that on VHS).

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo at November 09, 2023 01:14 PM (xcxpd)

477 Some newer series that I've really enjoyed was the Narco series and The Expanse. There are some foreign series that I've watched that aren't too bad either.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at November 09, 2023 01:14 PM (BdMk6)

478 Nood.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at November 09, 2023 01:14 PM (di6C2)

479 467 * Except the "Barbenheimer" phenomenon and the Mario movie. Unalloyed successes, all three.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 09, 2023 01:13 PM (d04cU)

========

The movies can still be cultural touchstones, but decades of "blockbusters" every weekend has had its toll.

The biggest movie at the box office of 1988 was Rain Man.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going up some wonky stairs with Paul Leni at November 09, 2023 01:15 PM (GBKbO)

480 That's not the same as gabbing about who is the Hottest Chris in Superhero Movies, you know. (It's Chris Hemsworth, obviously.)
_______

Is there something you're not telling us, Ace?

Posted by: Eeyore at November 09, 2023 01:15 PM (brAQZ)

481 WOKE POPE: Vatican says transgender people can be baptized and serve as godparents. Does baptism mean anything to Catholics anymore or nah?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

I am no Church doctrinal expert but iirc, Bishops and Priests can ignore this edict. The Pope is only considered infallible concerning doctrinal matters - and this ain't one of them.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 09, 2023 01:15 PM (SAX5G)

482 Ted Dansen in Becker. Fun series.

Posted by: Cheri at November 09, 2023 01:16 PM (oiNtH)

483 476 It's better than Six String (I have that on VHS).
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo at November 09, 2023 01:14 PM (xcxpd)

=======

I prefer Six String, and I have the 4K UHD from Vinegar Syndrome.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, going up some wonky stairs with Paul Leni at November 09, 2023 01:16 PM (GBKbO)

484 What are these "movies" you assholes keep talking about?

I WIN!

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at November 09, 2023 01:16 PM (5AVMW)

485 nood hamas journolisters

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at November 09, 2023 01:16 PM (krqg6)

486 I find the best (only?) way to watch Disney / Marvel / Star Wars is through watching Critical Drinker and Nerdrotic / Friday Night Tights.

Posted by: Little Larry Sellers at November 09, 2023 01:17 PM (zdYK9)

487 465 White House Aides "Simply Cannot Stomach" Biden's Israel Policy, Dissent Memos Leak, Revolt At State Dept

.. in the age of Twitter, I guess nobody resigns any more over any sort of point of disagreement. Instead the leak their dissatisfaction on Twitter. COWARDS !!
Posted by: The at November 09, 2023 01:13 PM (RHGPo)

So, they actually want everyone to know how antisemitic and out-of-touch they are with the American people?

Posted by: girldog at November 09, 2023 01:18 PM (eJIlB)

488 I'm trying to negotiate with the wife to watch Buckaroo Banzai with her. She's never seen it.

I love the movie but suspect she won't.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards

___

Even though I was a kid in the 80's and saw almost everything, I didnt find that film until like 10 years ago.

It's just so nuts, almost like a 15 year old got to make a movie.

It works though because it doesnt take itself seriously.

Posted by: Blago at November 09, 2023 01:18 PM (6hx0K)

489 318 The Oscars have never been more arrogant than to give best picture to The English Patient. They owe an apology to every person who ever saw it.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at November 09, 2023 12:51 PM (44ww/)
----
I have two, TWO, other and older nominees for contention:
Death In Venice
The Leopard

Don't watch them if you can.

(loathed TEP with a vengeance. There was a cellphone going off in the background if one paid attention).
(How does a proper Englishman know if his wife died?
Well the sex is the same but the dishes start to pile up.)

Posted by: Ciampino - Nominated - anything can get a nomination, but winning? at November 09, 2023 01:19 PM (qfLjt)

490 The Terminal List starring Chris Pratt is good. Not sure about a second season. Seems like anything I watch only gets one season or it takes them forever to make a new one, or it goes to some other streaming service. I think they do that on purpose. (Like Yellowstone)

Posted by: Minnfidel at November 09, 2023 01:19 PM (CZDbK)

491 Claude Rains was a good sniveling Prince John in 1938's Adventures of Robin Hood

Posted by: Archer at November 09, 2023 01:20 PM (gmo/4)

492 Israel Agrees To 4-hour Daily Humanitarian Pauses In Gaza: White House

Comes as IDF tanks have reportedly reached Gaza City's center...

Posted by: The at November 09, 2023 01:20 PM (RHGPo)

493 481 WOKE POPE: Vatican says transgender people can be baptized and serve as godparents. Does baptism mean anything to Catholics anymore or nah?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

I am no Church doctrinal expert but iirc, Bishops and Priests can ignore this edict. The Pope is only considered infallible concerning doctrinal matters - and this ain't one of them.
Posted by: Tonypete at November 09, 2023 01:15 PM (SAX5G)

It wasn't an edict but a response to questions, and while he essentially tells the priests to use their own judgement and that repentance is required for baptism, yes the administration and affairs of a parish belong to the priests and bishop.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at November 09, 2023 01:20 PM (eYoxG)

494 "High Crimes And Misdemeanors": MTG Slaps Mayorkas With Impeachment Resolution Over Border Crisis

"Mayorkas has engaged in a pattern of conduct that is incompatible with the laws of the United States..."

Posted by: The at November 09, 2023 01:20 PM (RHGPo)

495 Are people going to sit here and tell me they don't watch seasons of "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia?" Because they should. Seasons 1 through something like 15 are among the funniest ever put on television.

Posted by: James Varney at November 09, 2023 01:22 PM (BFhXu)

496 Apple Co-Founder Wozniak Hospitalized In Mexico City

Woz told his wife he was "feeling strange" at the conference.

Steve Wozniak has been hospitalized in Mexico City after giving a speech at the World Business Forum.
The 73-year-old may have suffered from a stroke, local newspaper Reforma reported.
Wozniak is currently in a stable condition, the newspaper said.

Posted by: The at November 09, 2023 01:22 PM (RHGPo)

497 Shania Twain’s crew members hospitalized after tour bus involved in multi-vehicle crash

That don't impress me much

Posted by: SMOD at November 09, 2023 01:24 PM (RHGPo)

498
Like Elon Musk will probably lose his ass on buying Twitter

Posted by: Blago at November 09, 2023 01:09 PM

You ever see a football team change owners? You hear the incredible price it sells for and you think the new owner nuts. Twenty years later it sells again and once again you think the new owner nuts. Elon is young. He'll get a good return on it someday.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at November 09, 2023 01:27 PM (enJYY)

499 Mrs. Bupkis and I are actually enjoying Frazier on Paramount+.

Last movie I saw in theater was Sound of Freedom, which I hated.

Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at November 09, 2023 01:29 PM (GD2xa)

500 Pre-code Barbara Stanwyck is my current favorite thing.

Posted by: SarahW at November 09, 2023 01:35 PM (g1vnC)

501 *shocked face*

Posted by: Claude Raines at November 09, 2023 01:41 PM (pIx7m)

502 I watch almost no American shows anymore. I now watch mostly Korean dramas. They also include obvious messaging, but it is either for things that are completely out of the scope of American culture ("why should you give automatic deference to your "senior" just because they are a year or two older?", for example), or the same type of more or less non-political things we used to have back in the 80's (like, "don't drink and drive").
On the other hand, when Netflix money started coming in, they suddenly had a bunch of gay bromance shows, but those have more or less fallen by the wayside.

Posted by: Jim T at November 09, 2023 01:45 PM (O8ftN)

503 Say the name Wozniak 3 times fast and you'd feel like you had a stroke too.

Posted by: look whats not at November 09, 2023 02:20 PM (nakGR)

504 >>>But I would like to cover the fall of modern "entertainment" as a business/culture story.

I think the reality is between you and Kurt. No we shouldn't be watching vomit inducing Lena Dunham nudity just to have a conversation. In fact we should assiduously be NOT watching it to have whatever effect we can have on it's ratings and other revenue related metrics which we influence with our viewing choices.

We should be watching stuff that allies with our values and in a dearth the stuff that best allies with our values to create the opposite financial incentives.

Moreover we should ***care*** about the entertainment industry because its successes and failures are still bellwethers of culture and successes still influence culture (who doesn't think that Barbie didn't predict or influence what happened in Ohio?)

So ignore the status of entertainment as a cultural touchstone and rudder at your own political peril. You not watching it is nearly irrelevant to its political influence.

And not caring about it shows that you really don't want any sort of long term victory. Because the whole of society won't settle for watching John Wayne forever.

Posted by: mikethemoose at November 09, 2023 02:27 PM (BdA/Y)

505 The Last Movie I watched (i.e., paid $$ at a theater, was either Wedding Crashers or Dodgeball. I like both whenever they're on. Along with Roadhouse and the Big Lebowski

Posted by: Tonyp at November 09, 2023 02:29 PM (BV53n)

506 Ace- Fuck whoever says they dont like the hollywood posts. They are fucking idiots. Andrew Breitbart repeatedly talked about the the importance of pop culture and our political/societal rot.

Your posts are insightful and important on this topic.

thank you and keep them coming.

Posted by: Luigi'sIndexFinger at November 09, 2023 02:35 PM (plZfy)

507
Just let me cover Disney without not-so-covertly calling me a Silly Child for doing so.

And if you let me do that, you can say "I haven't watched a movie since John Wayne" all you like.

Silly child, I haven't watched a movie since John Barrymore.

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Posted by: maths at November 09, 2023 08:39 PM (AG+I/)

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Mira Sorvino and Chow Yun-Fat in The Replacement Killers (199

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