Is This Something?

Godzilla Minus One, set shortly after World War II and offering a new "first appearance" of Gojira, is getting very good reviews. Alachai Queen raves and Film Threat calls it the best Godzilla movie ever made. They all seem to agree that the human story in the movie is very good.

Another movie coming out soon is the Angel Studios production The Shift. It's confirmed that "The Benefactor" is the devil. The story is a sci-fi retelling of the Book of Job. Greg Owens gave it a good review but added this caution: The movie doesn't signal well enough that the beginning is supposed to be confusing not just for the main character but for the audience. If you don't realize the movie intends you to be confused, you'll feel like you've missed something. But you haven't; the movie just didn't signal its intention well enough. He advises to just accept that you're going to be confused in the early-going and everything will make sense sometime in the second act.

Tom Collins at Midnight's Edge was a little frustrated because the movie wears it Christianity on its sleeve, and he thinks that if had just trusted more in subtext than explicit reference, the film could have been a breakout hit with mainstream viewers not even realizing they were watching a the Book of Job in sci-fi trappings.

By the way, the actor playing "The Benefactor" in that movie was cancelled for a few years by Hollywood for refusing to do a sex scene.

He also did that funny Cadillac commercial in 2014.

Opening today on the Daily Wire: Lady Ballers, a comedy about men playing women in basketball by pretending to be "trans." Which is itself mostly pretend, anyway.

Rita Pahini notes that the left is (as usual) having conniptions about the movie, but points out that Dylan Mulvaney mocks women in his own gender LARPing. A scene from the movie showing a man pretending to be a woman is taken directly from Dylan Mulvaney's "365 Days of Girlhood."

So here's a movie I'd definitely like to see. It's pretty much a Cafe in movie form.

Here's one that will spark some dissent. On one hand, Hollywood's attacking the Man-O-Verse, and so you know going in this is going to be stupid.

On the other hand, many, many thrillers make hay out of a Current Thing, hyperbolizing it, exaggerating it to the breaking point, and then sticking a murder plot into it, and it sometimes works.

(Remember when George Bush was president and Low-Information Voters heard for the first time that Skull and Bones is an organization that exists in the world and within a couple of years we had like three different teen thrillers based on Skull and Bones?)

Didn't they just make a movie about the toxic parts of highly-masculine warrior culture called The Art of Self-Defense? And didn't that movie also star Jesse Eisenberg as a humiliated, emasculated nerd looking to gain strength and self-respect, but who gets taken in by an intense but charismatic psychopath building an empire on the dead bodies of his followers?

Yeah they just did make that movie. (It was pretty decent.)

All thrillers have the exact same plot. They just differ according to what Current Thing is causing psychological sress to a certain critical mass of the population (say, around 10% of all moviegoers) and can be profitably exploited by adding a couple of murders to it. And I like a lot of them.

Daisy Ridley got pretty screwed by agreeing to be in Kaffeine Kennedy's trashfire Star Wars movies. She's barely in anything now. Hopefully she's good in this and can escape the stench of Lucasfilm.

Not sure about this family-of-pro-wrestlers movie The Iron Claw. The trailer only hints at the dark nature of the story -- five of the six brothers died young, and most of them died by their own hands.

I predict this movie about the GameStop Stonk play will piss me off. Seth Rogen's in it, for starters.

This looks kind of funny. But it's on Peacock, so it might as well be playing on Neptune.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 04:30 PM

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1 >>> What ideas? Well what about Captain Marvel with her super-lesbian haircut?

A mullet?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 01, 2023 04:33 PM (cOq4q)

2 not sponge

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, celebrating anarchy and 50s B-movies with Joe Dante at December 01, 2023 04:34 PM (GBKbO)

3 After Film Threat posted its review of the movie, Chris Gore said he got lots of emails from employees at Disney's animated film studio, complaining that the talent of the studio had been greatly degraded by the hiring of unqualified diversity hires whose idea of storytelling is basically Twitter-level political activism.

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Then they should quit.

There are hundreds of animation studios out there. Sure, none has the prestige of Disney, but do you want Disney prestige anymore?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, celebrating anarchy and 50s B-movies with Joe Dante at December 01, 2023 04:35 PM (GBKbO)

4 Daisy Ridley got pretty screwed by agreeing to be in Kaffeine Kennedy's trashfire Star Wars movies. She's barely in anything now. Hopefully she's good in this and can escape the stench of Lucasfilm.

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One of the many definitely to be made Star Wars movies is one that's supposed to star Daisy Ridley as Rey again.

But, again, Star Wars is a Disney+ property now, so probably not happening.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, celebrating anarchy and 50s B-movies with Joe Dante at December 01, 2023 04:37 PM (GBKbO)

5 Tessa Fowler >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Tessa Thompson

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 01, 2023 04:37 PM (JrojV)

6 but do you want Disney prestige anymore?

the other studios probably don't pay disney money and bennies tho'

Posted by: kallisto at December 01, 2023 04:37 PM (dCxaZ)

7 Odd feeling of deja vu reading the first part of this post. It sounded like a repeat...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 01, 2023 04:38 PM (7fElN)

8 6 but do you want Disney prestige anymore?

the other studios probably don't pay disney money and bennies tho'
Posted by: kallisto at December 01, 2023 04:37 PM (dCxaZ)

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Considering the rash of stories about computer effect people unionizing and such, I doubt animators are treated that much better.

The one guy who shows up on Corridor Crew's channel for Animator's React does still work for Disney, but he seems to be some kind of contractor or just works part of the time for them because he has, like, three other jobs, including his own independent studio.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, celebrating anarchy and 50s B-movies with Joe Dante at December 01, 2023 04:39 PM (GBKbO)

9 Saw an advertisement for a movie called 'The Oath'...

Looked confusing... kind of like Medieval warriors (not Vikings) in the New World... but.. something I could watch with enough beers in the fridge.

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 01, 2023 04:39 PM (xaFKb)

10 women who flick their beans

Has anyone actually seen, much less encountered, this "bean"? Is it something other than myth?

Posted by: Men everywhere at December 01, 2023 04:39 PM (a3Q+t)

11 For some reason, Disney thinks this tiny audience of twenty or thirty thousand people (at most!) needs to be at the very center of their marketing plans.

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And they were going to make the Starcruiser Resort the hotel of the millennium.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, celebrating anarchy and 50s B-movies with Joe Dante at December 01, 2023 04:39 PM (GBKbO)

12 Didn't we already have this post?

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 01, 2023 04:40 PM (JMAcK)

13 The actor in Shift that was previously fired for not doing a sex scene is Neil McDonough.

Posted by: grammie winger - I don't belong here at December 01, 2023 04:40 PM (45fpk)

14 10 women who flick their beans

Has anyone actually seen, much less encountered, this "bean"? Is it something other than myth?
Posted by: Men everywhere at December 01, 2023 04:39 PM (a3Q+t)

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Quoth Jane from Coupling:

"What's so difficult about front and center?"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, celebrating anarchy and 50s B-movies with Joe Dante at December 01, 2023 04:40 PM (GBKbO)

15 Also... Furiosa? Mad Max movie without Mad Max.... stronk Female lead!

Yeah... OK...

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 01, 2023 04:41 PM (xaFKb)

16 By the way, the actor playing "The Benefactor" in that movie was cancelled for a few years by Hollywood for refusing to do a sex scene.

the film industry is sick, depraved and degraded

that actor found a home at Angel studios

I predict that the demand for family friendly content will increase and these actors will work mainly for alt-media until Hollyweird figures out that's where the money is and all of a sudden try to offer product based on actual virtues and stuff

Posted by: kallisto at December 01, 2023 04:41 PM (dCxaZ)

17
... sad women who flick their beans to Star Wars tv shows ...

The bean flickers have had the bean counters at Disney on the run for many years, now.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 01, 2023 04:41 PM (xG4kz)

18 the other studios probably don't pay disney money and bennies tho'
Posted by: kallisto at December 01, 2023 04:37 PM (dCxaZ)
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If Disney doesn't right their ship, they will not be able to afford to pay Disney money and bennies for much longer.

Some unknown animation studio might be able to slip in under the radar with a sleeper hit and claim the throne.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 01, 2023 04:42 PM (7fElN)

19 Mark Wahlberg is so lame! That dog needs a tennis ball. I should have been hired as the dog consultant for that film. Why wasn't I? I have a beard and everything.

Posted by: Jonah Goldberg, Ace Plagiarist at December 01, 2023 04:42 PM (Whbv0)

20 Now Tessa Fowler can be legitimately described as "busty."

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 01, 2023 04:42 PM (JrojV)

21 >>>Odd feeling of deja vu reading the first part of this post. It sounded like a repeat...

Did I already publish all that? If I did, I can remove it.

Posted by: ace at December 01, 2023 04:42 PM (KRtlO)

22 Actors in "Lady Ballers" will probably get death threats.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 01, 2023 04:42 PM (RSbhh)

23 18 If Disney doesn't right their ship, they will not be able to afford to pay Disney money and bennies for much longer.

Some unknown animation studio might be able to slip in under the radar with a sleeper hit and claim the throne.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 01, 2023 04:42 PM (7fElN)

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"This is all you people's fault for not seeing Titan AE in theaters!"
-The Old Fox Animation division, that lasted 2 movies

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, celebrating anarchy and 50s B-movies with Joe Dante at December 01, 2023 04:42 PM (GBKbO)

24 Nelson Peltz's investment group has resumed the attempt to secure seats on Disney's Board of Directors due to Disney not taking care of investors per their required fiduciary duty.

They approached Disney in a meeting, asked for seats on the board, were denied, and then said they'd go direct to the shareholders.

This is Disney's reaction: https://archive.is/rjYYe
(archive of article at Variety)

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 01, 2023 04:43 PM (qPw5n)

25 that actor found a home at Angel studios

He's a very good actor, instantly recognizable.

Posted by: grammie winger - I don't belong here at December 01, 2023 04:43 PM (45fpk)

26 Considering the rash of stories about computer effect people unionizing and such, I doubt animators are treated that much better.

The one guy who shows up on Corridor Crew's channel for Animator's React does still work for Disney, but he seems to be some kind of contractor or just works part of the time for them because he has, like, three other jobs, including his own independent studio.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, celebrating anarchy and 50s B-movies with Joe Dante at December 01, 2023 04:39 PM (GBKbO)

I'm sure in the normal past animators put in a lot of effort on movies and worked hella hours. But these days with movies rewritten and resculped down to the last second there's lots of frantic 24 hour panic demands on them to try and patch up the disaster that they made by not planning in the first place.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 01, 2023 04:43 PM (eoQWY)

27 women who flick their beans

Has anyone actually seen, much less encountered, this "bean"? Is it something other than myth?

Yeah, what the heck is this in reference to?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 01, 2023 04:43 PM (JrojV)

28 yes, I did publish that earlier, I guess. I've deleted it.

Sorry!

Posted by: ace at December 01, 2023 04:43 PM (KRtlO)

29 0 bean, 0 bean, 0 bean, . . . 0 beans! Ah! Ah! Ah!

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 01, 2023 04:43 PM (4I/2K)

30 Odd feeling of deja vu reading the first part of this post. It sounded like a repeat...

Did I already publish all that? If I did, I can remove it.
Posted by: ace at December 01, 2023 04:42 PM (KRtlO)
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I think so, but it's fine. No need to tweak it on my account.

The part at the bottom is new...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 01, 2023 04:44 PM (7fElN)

31 you can refresh your browser to get rid of all that repeated stuff.

Posted by: ace at December 01, 2023 04:44 PM (KRtlO)

32 That peacock movie looks really, really dumb. Which is better than anything made by Disney in the last five years!

By the way, I borrow a bunch of streaming services and Paacock's interface is pretty good, and the connection is robust.

Paramount+ is f*cking awful...it rarely connects on the first try.

And Apple's interface is pathetic...embarrassing.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 01, 2023 04:44 PM (3Gtis)

33 Has anyone actually seen, much less encountered, this "bean"? Is it something other than myth?
Posted by: Men everywhere at December 01, 2023 04:39 PM (a3Q+t)

there's a woman on instagram and unfortunately I cannot recall her name. But she was so pissed off and outraged when they cut off her clit during labiaplasty that she is now an advocate for the clitoris and actually wrote chapters for these dopey plastic surgeons who don't know how to locate it.

She even demonstrates a plastic model of it and I have to say, it's umm...impressive.

Posted by: kallisto knows it's real. And it's spectacular! at December 01, 2023 04:44 PM (dCxaZ)

34 I'm with Elon. Disney can F all the way off.

Posted by: setnaffa at December 01, 2023 04:44 PM (PAmVZ)

35 Please Don't Destroy movie looks like it was written for the dudes from Workaholics.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at December 01, 2023 04:44 PM (KbCG3)

36 24 Nelson Peltz's investment group has resumed the attempt to secure seats on Disney's Board of Directors due to Disney not taking care of investors per their required fiduciary duty.

They approached Disney in a meeting, asked for seats on the board, were denied, and then said they'd go direct to the shareholders.

This is Disney's reaction: https://archive.is/rjYYe
(archive of article at Variety)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 01, 2023 04:43 PM (qPw5n)

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Disney admitted in their 10K that they're sacrificing financial well being for messaging.

That should honestly open them up to lawsuits, but it was put in there to prevent lawsuits.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, celebrating anarchy and 50s B-movies with Joe Dante at December 01, 2023 04:44 PM (GBKbO)

37 Nothing looks like it grabs me to go see

Posted by: Skip at December 01, 2023 04:44 PM (fwDg9)

38 He's a very good actor, instantly recognizable.
Posted by: grammie winger - I don't belong here at December 01, 2023 04:43 PM (45fpk)
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Yep. He's a "Hey, it's that guy again!" actor. Always does a solid performance, even if he's not an A-lister.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 01, 2023 04:45 PM (7fElN)

39 Wahlburg is pretty prolific

Posted by: Zeera , becoming ungovernable by choice at December 01, 2023 04:45 PM (zC17c)

40 >>>Yep. He's a "Hey, it's that guy again!" actor. Always does a solid performance, even if he's not an A-lister.

he did those commercials where he made fun of the french for not being americans

Posted by: ace at December 01, 2023 04:46 PM (KRtlO)

41 The Shift got a good review in 'The Cinema Snob' and he's more left than right. Looks like it has a great cast too, with characters you care about.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo at December 01, 2023 04:46 PM (xcxpd)

42 Here's the IG of that woman I mentioned upthread.

https://tinyurl.com/2k2pr597

Posted by: kallisto at December 01, 2023 04:46 PM (dCxaZ)

43 I predict that the demand for family friendly content will increase and these actors will work mainly for alt-media until Hollyweird figures out that's where the money is and all of a sudden try to offer product based on actual virtues and stuff
Posted by: kallisto at December 01, 2023 04:41 PM (dCxaZ)

The Zealots are in charge now. The Christians ducked their head in the 70 AD Jewish war and survived, the Zealots ended up killing themselves on top of Masada or dying in the sack of Jerusalem. They aren't going to change for the customer, they hate the customer now.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 01, 2023 04:46 PM (eoQWY)

44 I'd like to see a remake of Bambi vs Godzilla.

Posted by: fd at December 01, 2023 04:46 PM (vFG9F)

45 Some good news for a change
https://tinyurl.com/3aj25xx7

Posted by: rd at December 01, 2023 04:46 PM (5O1er)

46 How do you know if a movie is supposedto be confusing, or just is confusing because it’s not well done?

Posted by: Elric Blade at December 01, 2023 04:46 PM (d/S6j)

47 Looks like it has a great cast too, with characters you care about.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo at December 01, 2023 04:46 PM (xcxpd)

I think one of the lead actresses plays Mary Magdalene in The Chosen.

Posted by: grammie winger - I don't belong here at December 01, 2023 04:47 PM (45fpk)

48 Lady Ballers 😂

Posted by: Montec at December 01, 2023 04:47 PM (YofvK)

49 gotta run, my hoagie awaits

hot and sweet on the side

Posted by: kallisto at December 01, 2023 04:47 PM (dCxaZ)

50 I'd like to see a remake of Bambi vs Godzilla.
Posted by: fd at December 01, 2023 04:46 PM (vFG9F)
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Disney would have to make Bambi a trans-deer of color in order to make it believable he'd have a chance against Godzilla.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 01, 2023 04:48 PM (7fElN)

51 46 How do you know if a movie is supposedto be confusing, or just is confusing because it’s not well done?
Posted by: Elric Blade at December 01, 2023 04:46 PM (d/S6j)

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Donnie Darko exists right on that line.

I lean towards simply nonsensical because I've seen Southland Tales.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, celebrating anarchy and 50s B-movies with Joe Dante at December 01, 2023 04:48 PM (GBKbO)

52 Wanting to see the new Mad Max

Posted by: rickb223 at December 01, 2023 04:48 PM (p8cAR)

53 The Zealots are in charge now. The Christians ducked their head in the 70 AD Jewish war and survived, the Zealots ended up killing themselves on top of Masada or dying in the sack of Jerusalem. They aren't going to change for the customer, they hate the customer now.
Posted by: Oldcat

??????????????????

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 01, 2023 04:48 PM (JrojV)

54 "I predict this movie about the GameStop Stonk play will piss me off. "

idk details of that, but there is a lot of "passive investing" (which has different definitions) where people just poor a percent of the paycheck in every week or two. The players count on the flow and manage to front run, or other wise game those funds.

My guess is that is the reason the markets keep going up in the face of all the real problems. There is also the "climb a wall of worry" theory, which doesn't make sense to me but kinda works.

But a company that was cash/asset rich could not just sit and make a profit, it had to put those assets "to work", or it became a takeover target (like Sears, I think, taken over by bankrupt K-Mart). Weird games by the elite hedge fund manipulators, and the bankers. GameStop Movie maybe reveals that, idk.

Posted by: illiniwek at December 01, 2023 04:48 PM (Cus5s)

55 here's the commercial with neil mcdonough

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNzXze5Yza8

Posted by: ace at December 01, 2023 04:48 PM (KRtlO)

56 "Godzilla Minus One".

Is this the back story of how Godzilla lost his genitals?

I mean, he's pretty big but all the other movies, nothing, nada.

"King Kong Minus Two" comes to mind.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at December 01, 2023 04:49 PM (R/m4+)

57 Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024)

Posted by: rickb223 at December 01, 2023 04:49 PM (p8cAR)

58 I'm sorry, but what does *any* of this have to do with John Wayne?

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at December 01, 2023 04:49 PM (DTX3h)

59 Daisy Ridley is playing maternal characters now?

She's fucked. Zero chance of her having a real acting career now.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo at December 01, 2023 04:49 PM (xcxpd)

60 58 I'm sorry, but what does *any* of this have to do with John Wayne?
Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at December 01, 2023 04:49 PM (DTX3h)

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Who's this John Wayne? Some kind of George O'Brien wannabe?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, celebrating anarchy and 50s B-movies with Joe Dante at December 01, 2023 04:49 PM (GBKbO)

61 >>> Has anyone actually seen, much less encountered, this "bean"? Is it something other than myth?
Posted by: Men everywhere

Japan has a large number of in depth anatomy movies that get into the topic.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 01, 2023 04:49 PM (cOq4q)

62 Oy- a bit with a dog
I'll watch that when it goes digital

Posted by: Don Black at December 01, 2023 04:49 PM (geLO8)

63 The Zealots are in charge now. The Christians ducked their head in the 70 AD Jewish war and survived, the Zealots ended up killing themselves on top of Masada or dying in the sack of Jerusalem. They aren't going to change for the customer, they hate the customer now.
Posted by: Oldcat

??????????????????
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 01, 2023 04:48 PM (JrojV)

Woke is a religion, Disney is a Woke insurgency not a business anymore. Historical parallels are instructive.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 01, 2023 04:49 PM (eoQWY)

64 >>>6 How do you know if a movie is supposedto be confusing, or just is confusing because it’s not well done?

the most obvious way to indicate the audience to know they're supposed to be confused is to have the main character say that HE's confused and doesn't understand what's going on.

Posted by: ace at December 01, 2023 04:49 PM (KRtlO)

65 I always recognize Neil McDonough from band of brothers. Played a great character.

Posted by: Blutarski at December 01, 2023 04:50 PM (Fwuhb)

66 "I think first of all as king, as new king, she needs to find her queen. That'll be her first order of business. She has some ideas. Keep you posted."

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Dylan Mulvaney FTW!

Posted by: ShainS -- CISA Cognitive Security Agent at December 01, 2023 04:50 PM (CSEwa)

67 59 Daisy Ridley is playing maternal characters now?

She's fucked. Zero chance of her having a real acting career now.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo at December 01, 2023 04:49 PM (xcxpd)

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Maybe she can follow the Kiera Knightly path and just do small movies in and around Southern England for the rest of her life.

Probably better than working in LA.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, celebrating anarchy and 50s B-movies with Joe Dante at December 01, 2023 04:50 PM (GBKbO)

68 "Lady Ballers" looks actually funny, in a Dodgeball / Baseketball kind of way.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 01, 2023 04:50 PM (2ocoG)

69 here's the commercial with neil mcdonough

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNzXze5Yza8

Posted by: ace at December 01, 2023 04:48 PM (KRtlO)

Makes me want to buy a Cadillac and I don't even drive.

Posted by: grammie winger - I don't belong here at December 01, 2023 04:50 PM (45fpk)

70 Woke is a religion, Disney is a Woke insurgency not a business anymore. Historical parallels are instructive.
Posted by: Oldcat

Still don't get the analogy.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 01, 2023 04:51 PM (JrojV)

71 wahlberg and damon are interchangeable

Posted by: Don Black at December 01, 2023 04:51 PM (geLO8)

72 here's the commercial with neil mcdonough

I like him. But I have hated every character he has ever played.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 01, 2023 04:51 PM (p8cAR)

73 , here's my idea for a screenplay, "The Transaction."

Strap in. This'll take a few posts to lay out...

Jason Momoa is a regular family guy but he drives a Lambo and he's secretly gay on the side and he's whoring out on Grindr.

He hooks up with some "hot young dude" but it turns out he's getting catfished by Liam Neeson. He's all "no way, old man, leave me alone," but Liam gets obsessed with him, and goes all Fatal Attraction on him, and he drives a Porsche 911 GTS and he's also a retired CIA agent.

Jason gets tired of Liam threatening his suburban white-picket-fence charade of a lifestyle, so he runs his Porsche off the Brooklyn Bridge in an adrenaline-pumping Michael Bay style chase scene. He thinks Liam's dead now but he's totally not.

Liam uses his spycraft to fully transition to a comely hussy, both to disguise himself as he hunts Momoa, and to seduce the sexually confused husband and father. These motives become hopelessly entwined in a really artistic way.

They fall in love and kill the wife together in a tranq-fuelled hammer attack, and live out their shared dream of robbing banks to raise funds for BLM (you can also donate to BLM too with a QR code in the credits)...

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 01, 2023 04:51 PM (0FoWg)

74 How do you know if a movie is supposedto be confusing, or just is confusing because it’s not well done?

the most obvious way to indicate the audience to know they're supposed to be confused is to have the main character say that HE's confused and doesn't understand what's going on.
Posted by: ace at December 01, 2023 04:49 PM (KRtlO)
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A running gag in "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" is to have a secondary character ask, "What's happening?"

Sometimes it's the main characters who are confused.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 01, 2023 04:51 PM (7fElN)

75 Donnie Darko exists right on that line.

I lean towards simply nonsensical because I've seen Southland Tales.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, celebrating anarchy and 50s B-movies with Joe Dante at December 01, 2023 04:48 PM (GBKbO)

The gossip is that Donnie Darko was NOT written by Richard Kelley. He got the manuscript from a guy who died in a car accident early in their attempted collaboration. He passed himself off as the original author.

I'm inclined to believe it.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo at December 01, 2023 04:52 PM (xcxpd)

76 71 wahlberg and damon are interchangeable
Posted by: Don Black at December 01, 2023 04:51 PM (geLO

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Get departed outta here with that opinion, you Southie reject.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, celebrating anarchy and 50s B-movies with Joe Dante at December 01, 2023 04:52 PM (GBKbO)

77 ...The estranged wife's lover will be played by Justin Timberlake, and will die trying to save her when Momoa and Neeson carry out their murder plot.

The hard bitten NYPD homicide detective who links the conscience-shocking double murder to the string of BLM-related heists will be played by Ben Stiller.

He's a renegade cop who plays by his own rules, and isn't afraid to break them. When the FBI agent (Denzel Washington) assigned to the bank jobs tries to claim jurisdiction over Stiller's murder, he just goes rogue.

His unsanctioned investigation uncovers Denzel as the conspiratorial link between BLM and the non-cishet duo of thrill-killers...

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 01, 2023 04:52 PM (0FoWg)

78 WTF? The post changed after my comment ...

Posted by: ShainS -- CISA Cognitive Security Agent at December 01, 2023 04:52 PM (CSEwa)

79 ...n the climax, Stiller intercepts Momoa and Neeson in a parking garage where they meet Washington to hand off the heist money for BLM. All three of them die, but Denzel escapes with the Lamborghini full of cash. In the denouement, he stands at the spot where Momoa originally ran Neeson off the bridge.

He peers through a pair of binoculars at a gay party cruise boat gliding down the river under a BLM flag, and he knows all the sacrifice was worth it. As he walks into the sunset, the Brooklyn Bridge explodes in the background.

Fin.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 01, 2023 04:52 PM (0FoWg)

80 >>>78 WTF? The post changed after my comment ...

people told me I had posted the beginning of the post last week.

Posted by: ace at December 01, 2023 04:53 PM (KRtlO)

81 Venezuela on the brink of invading Guyana to take over its oil fields.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 01, 2023 04:53 PM (kmK04)

82 75 The gossip is that Donnie Darko was NOT written by Richard Kelley. He got the manuscript from a guy who died in a car accident early in their attempted collaboration. He passed himself off as the original author.

I'm inclined to believe it.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo at December 01, 2023 04:52 PM (xcxpd)

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I can believe it, too.

I need to revisit movies from that era that I gravitated to. I was never the biggest fan of Donnie Darko, but the one that I think of from that time is Garden State. Haven't seen it in forever.

I wonder if I'll still like it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, celebrating anarchy and 50s B-movies with Joe Dante at December 01, 2023 04:53 PM (GBKbO)

83 Matt Damon always plays Matt Damon.

Posted by: Montec at December 01, 2023 04:53 PM (YofvK)

84 Damon and Wahlberg kind of interchangeable, I like them both, Mark a bit more

Posted by: Skip at December 01, 2023 04:53 PM (fwDg9)

85 Good for Neal McDonough. That's integrity.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 01, 2023 04:53 PM (qPw5n)

86 67 59 Daisy Ridley is playing maternal characters now?

She's fucked. Zero chance of her having a real acting career now.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo at December 01, 2023 04:49 PM (xcxpd)

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Maybe she can follow the Kiera Knightly path and just do small movies in and around Southern England for the rest of her life.

Probably better than working in LA.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, celebrating anarchy and 50s B-movies with Joe Dante at December 01, 2023 04:50 PM (GBKbO)

If she's wired into the London theater community, maybe. Kiera was lucky enough to be locally famous from 'Bend it like Beckham' so she had somewhere to go back to, once it was clear she couldn't carry a movie.

And that her tits were never going to grow.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo at December 01, 2023 04:54 PM (xcxpd)

87 McDonough was good in The Tin Man, IMO.
Glad to see he's working.

Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at December 01, 2023 04:54 PM (Rbu5d)

88 That could be a game show
"Mark Or Matt?"

Posted by: Don Black at December 01, 2023 04:54 PM (geLO8)

89 I need to revisit movies from that era that I gravitated to. I was never the biggest fan of Donnie Darko, but the one that I think of from that time is Garden State. Haven't seen it in forever.

I wonder if I'll still like it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, celebrating anarchy and 50s B-movies with Joe Dante at December 01, 2023 04:53 PM (GBKbO)

Garden State is an archetypical Manic Pixie Dream Girl movie. If you are ok with that, it's a good enough movie.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo at December 01, 2023 04:55 PM (xcxpd)

90 In other news, I have discovered that Godzilla Minus One is playing nearby.

I may have to take my Godzilla-obsessed son and daughter to that one.

(And disappoint the younger two who I'm not sure should be seeing people get bitten in half yet.)

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 01, 2023 04:55 PM (JMAcK)

91 86 If she's wired into the London theater community, maybe. Kiera was lucky enough to be locally famous from 'Bend it like Beckham' so she had somewhere to go back to, once it was clear she couldn't carry a movie.

And that her tits were never going to grow.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo at December 01, 2023 04:54 PM (xcxpd)

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Mia Wasikowska did something similar. Led the two Alice in Wonderland films. Did some supporting work, then she moved back to Australia and just does indie movies now.

I somehow came across an interview with her within the past year, and she's much happier doing that in Australia that dealing with LA.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, celebrating anarchy and 50s B-movies with Joe Dante at December 01, 2023 04:55 PM (GBKbO)

92 Kiera has a curiously large lower mandible

Posted by: Don Black at December 01, 2023 04:55 PM (geLO8)

93 Matt Damon always plays Matt Damon.
Posted by: Montec

The same can be said of most movie stars -- Gable, Bogie, Jimmy Stewart, even Grace Kelly.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 01, 2023 04:56 PM (JrojV)

94 I always remember Neal McDonough for getting his arm chopped off in Justified.

Posted by: Mark1971 at December 01, 2023 04:56 PM (xPl2J)

95 I might see Godzilla. They claim you should see it someplace with premium sound. Apparently the sound is really great.

Posted by: ace at December 01, 2023 04:56 PM (KRtlO)

96 I like Neal McDonough, but I didn't like seeing his naked ass in Justified. Any woman's ass was at least in a thong, but I had to see Neal's big cheeks jiggling around in a trailer?

Posted by: McLurkerson at December 01, 2023 04:56 PM (wNDOJ)

97 I'd like to see a remake of Bambi vs Godzilla.
Posted by: fd at December 01, 2023 04:46 PM

They *could* put some Doc Martens on Godzilla.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 01, 2023 04:56 PM (aQy7p)

98 Mia Wasikowska did something similar. Led the two Alice in Wonderland films. Did some supporting work, then she moved back to Australia and just does indie movies now.

I somehow came across an interview with her within the past year, and she's much happier doing that in Australia that dealing with LA.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, celebrating anarchy and 50s B-movies with Joe Dante at December 01, 2023 04:55 PM (GBKbO)

Well LA is toxic. If you can have a career outside of Hollywood, go for it. There are demons in the city of angels.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo at December 01, 2023 04:56 PM (xcxpd)

99 Too bad The Shift didn't properly adapt Heinlein's The Book of Job. That would have been good.

Posted by: redchief at December 01, 2023 04:57 PM (87ojg)

100 89 Garden State is an archetypical Manic Pixie Dream Girl movie. If you are ok with that, it's a good enough movie.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo at December 01, 2023 04:55 PM (xcxpd)

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I was watching some nominated Best Picture movies, and I came across The Accidental Tourist from 1988, written and directed by Lawrence Kasdan.

Geena Davis is totally the manic pixie dreamgirl there. I thought it was the earliest pronounced version of that kind of female character specifically I'd seen. Of course, available and attractive women have been ready to fall in love with the male main character have been a thing in movies forever, but the whole, "I'm crazy and not normal and in love with you" vibe like Natalie Portman in Garden State is so...specific.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, celebrating anarchy and 50s B-movies with Joe Dante at December 01, 2023 04:57 PM (GBKbO)

101 you can refresh your browser to get rid of all that repeated stuff.
Posted by: ace at December 01, 2023 04:44 PM (KRtlO)

Thanks for dropping this into the comments. Now my previous comment doesn't look like I'm crazy.

Well, in this thread, at least.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 01, 2023 04:58 PM (JMAcK)

102 I like Neal McDonaugh. He was excellent as Buck Compton in Band of Brothers.

But it's a sign of the times that he is scolded for *not* doing a sex scene. We live in the Upside Down.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Aspiring Codger at December 01, 2023 04:59 PM (T/Lqj)

103 93 Matt Damon always plays Matt Damon.
Posted by: Montec

The same can be said of most movie stars -- Gable, Bogie, Jimmy Stewart, even Grace Kelly.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 01, 2023 04:56 PM (JrojV)

The ones who mentioned sure. But there have been many great actors that can play different types of characters well. Off the top of my head Michael Caine is one of the better ones. Leo Decaprio I think is a great actor, lots of really different characters played well.

Posted by: Montec at December 01, 2023 04:59 PM (YofvK)

104 Actors are cattle.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, celebrating anarchy and 50s B-movies with Joe Dante at December 01, 2023 05:00 PM (GBKbO)

105 The same can be said of most movie stars -- Gable, Bogie, Jimmy Stewart, even Grace Kelly.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 01, 2023 04:56 PM (JrojV)

HEY! I've seen Jimmy play a soft-talking, kinda stuttering, loveable father and a soft-talking, kinda stuttering gunslinger, and a soft-talking, kinda stuttering crazy guy and ANOTHER soft-talking, kinda stuttering crazy guy, and ANOTHER soft-talking, kinda stuttering crazy gay and...

Uhh.. where was I going with this?

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 01, 2023 05:00 PM (JMAcK)

106 And Apple's interface is pathetic...embarrassing.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 01, 2023 04:44 PM (3Gtis)
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Apple just sent me notice of a massive price increase, so in a fit of pique cancelled it. Something like 30 or 40 percent.

Right after that I see "Slow Horses" is back now, so I may have to crawl back.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 01, 2023 05:00 PM (n2tmY)

107 Some beans are small
Some beans grow tall
And some beans
are hardly there at all.

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 01, 2023 05:00 PM (4I/2K)

108
Based on the Statie's patrol car, the Daisy Ridley film is set in Michigan. Lotta marshes and a lot of deer, there so that fits.

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

109 I was watching some nominated Best Picture movies, and I came across The Accidental Tourist from 1988, written and directed by Lawrence Kasdan.

Geena Davis is totally the manic pixie dreamgirl there. I thought it was the earliest pronounced version of that kind of female character specifically I'd seen. Of course, available and attractive women have been ready to fall in love with the male main character have been a thing in movies forever, but the whole, "I'm crazy and not normal and in love with you" vibe like Natalie Portman in Garden State is so...specific.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, celebrating anarchy and 50s B-movies with Joe Dante at December 01, 2023 04:57 PM (GBKbO)

Yeah, it's been around a while. Back to the screwball comedy era. Bringing up Baby makes Kate Hepburn into a manic (insane) dream girl. Who's rich and not at all a lesbian.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo at December 01, 2023 05:01 PM (xcxpd)

110 McDonough did a sick perv sex thing in Justified didn’t he?

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

111 Leo Decaprio I think is a great actor, lots of really different characters played well.
Posted by: Montec at December 01, 2023 04:59 PM (YofvK)

Sam Rockwell also has huge range, and becomes the character very well.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Aspiring Codger at December 01, 2023 05:02 PM (T/Lqj)

112 109 Yeah, it's been around a while. Back to the screwball comedy era. Bringing up Baby makes Kate Hepburn into a manic (insane) dream girl. Who's rich and not at all a lesbian.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo at December 01, 2023 05:01 PM (xcxpd)

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It was just kind of weird to suddenly see it in this movie with William Hurt (your favorite actor) moping around a small town.

1988 sucked for Best Picture nominees.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, celebrating anarchy and 50s B-movies with Joe Dante at December 01, 2023 05:02 PM (GBKbO)

113 They claim you should see it someplace with premium sound. Apparently the sound is really great.

-

It seems like there was a sweet spot back in the 90s to early 2000s where theaters really tried to do a great job with their sound.

Now everything is just loud.

Posted by: Nikki Haley at December 01, 2023 05:02 PM (jcIlm)

114 The same can be said of most movie stars -- Gable, Bogie, Jimmy Stewart, even Grace Kelly.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 01, 2023 04:56 PM (JrojV)
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I'm fine watching Grace Kelly play Grace Kelly; she looks voracious, and she sort of glows in the movie lighting.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 01, 2023 05:02 PM (n2tmY)

115 Bob Newhart has always played Bob Newhart….

Posted by: tubal at December 01, 2023 05:03 PM (PCK5/)

116 Leo Decaprio I think is a great actor, lots of really different characters played well.
Posted by: Montec at December 01, 2023 04:59 PM (YofvK)

Sam Rockwell also has huge range, and becomes the character very well.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Aspiring Codger at December 01, 2023 05:02 PM (T/Lqj)

By Grabthar's Hammer!

Posted by: Alexander Dane at December 01, 2023 05:03 PM (4I/2K)

117
Makes me want to buy a Cadillac and I don't even drive.
Posted by: grammie winger - I don't belong here

Up until the point I realized it was an EV.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 01, 2023 05:03 PM (63Dwl)

118 I'm perfectly fine blaming Transformers for the "now it's just loud" problem

Posted by: Nikki Haley at December 01, 2023 05:03 PM (jcIlm)

119 Watching Equalizer 3 this evening.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 01, 2023 05:03 PM (Z1h0m)

120 McDonough did a sick perv sex thing in Justified didn’t he?
Posted by: tubal at December 01, 2023 05:01 PM (PCK5/)

Implied, not shown on screen. I think that is a valid distinction. It illustrates that you can have a creepy bad guy but not show the horrific details.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Aspiring Codger at December 01, 2023 05:04 PM (T/Lqj)

121 Neal McDonough was in a great movie no one saw call Ravenous. Sort of a frontier horror

Highly recommended

Posted by: Equate at December 01, 2023 05:04 PM (NF5Gd)

122 Didn't they just make a movie about the toxic parts of highly-masculine warrior culture called The Art of Self-Defense? And didn't that movie also star Jesse Eisenberg as a humiliated, emasculated nerd looking to gain strength and self-respect, but who gets taken in by an intense but charismatic psychopath building an empire on the dead bodies of his followers?

Isn't that basically the plot of "Fight Club", without the twist?

Posted by: BillyD at December 01, 2023 05:04 PM (F6Xpw)

123 110 McDonough did a sick perv sex thing in Justified didn’t he?
Posted by: tubal at December 01, 2023 05:01 PM (PCK5/)

It was about not kissing or having fake sex with any other woman on camera b/c he's married to his wife. It's why he got typecast as villain, apparently, b/c they tend to kiss or make out with other folks on camera.

Posted by: Nova Local at December 01, 2023 05:04 PM (exHjb)

124 " she sort of glows in the movie lighting." - The epitome of the FFG.

Posted by: SFGoth at December 01, 2023 05:04 PM (KAi1n)

125 >I'm fine watching Grace Kelly play Grace Kelly; she looks voracious

never heard her described like that

Posted by: Don Black at December 01, 2023 05:05 PM (geLO8)

126 {113} ...
Now everything is just loud.

Posted by: Nikki Haley at December 01, 2023 05:02 PM (jcIlm)

Probably the same problem that infected music studios; the desire to remix and compress everything so the loudness is cranked up on all parts. Listen for a while and you just give up because your ears get tired.

There are supposed to be lulls and quiet periods so the loud parts grab your attention.

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

127 I get some Half - Life vibes from "The Shift."

BYW... it's celebrating it's 25th anniversary.

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

128 typo = tend to NOT kiss or make out...sigh, my typing...

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

129 FWIW I think McDonough is great…

Posted by: tubal at December 01, 2023 05:06 PM (PCK5/)

130 Poor Leo. It's disturbing as heck to realize what that little boy probably had to go through to become the Hollywood star he is.

Posted by: Nikki Haley at December 01, 2023 05:06 PM (jcIlm)

131 Doesn't he also play a baddie in Yellowstone?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at December 01, 2023 05:06 PM (rJ7Hd)

132 This is AWESOME! And I'm not really a fan of the Cybertruck... (Tesla twitter) Most Morons will approve.

https://tinyurl.com/2p843x7x

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at December 01, 2023 05:06 PM (zB/T/)

133 Godzilla doesn't interest me but the rest do. Lady Ballers looks hilarious and Arthur the King, The Shift, and Do Not Destroy I'll definitely watch.

Posted by: Cheri at December 01, 2023 05:07 PM (oiNtH)

134 Leo is also unfortunately dumb. Iirc he was convinced the only place with snow was the antarctic.

Posted by: Nikki Haley at December 01, 2023 05:07 PM (jcIlm)

135 He was an outstanding villain in the Justified series. Good actor.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 01, 2023 05:08 PM (BdMk6)

136
Finally a movie thread and it turns into a little-man-in-the-boat moron existential inquiry?

After 5. I think it's going to be Tequila Friday.

Posted by: Auspex at December 01, 2023 05:08 PM (j4U/Z)

137
I want there to be a movie made whose title is simply "Trailer", and for it to be a breakout hit.

Then my feeds would be jammed with "Trailer" Trailers.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 01, 2023 05:08 PM (xG4kz)

138 I'll wait for them all to hit PPV.

Just can't stand to slog to the theatre and pay 15 bucks for a bag of corn.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at December 01, 2023 05:08 PM (rJ7Hd)

139 It was just kind of weird to suddenly see it in this movie with William Hurt (your favorite actor) moping around a small town.

1988 sucked for Best Picture nominees.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, celebrating anarchy and 50s B-movies with Joe Dante at December 01, 2023 05:02 PM (GBKbO)

William Hurt is made of wood. So is Kevin Costner, so seeing them both in Mr. Brooks was...oddly satisfying.

Are you saying bad things about Broadcast News AND Hope and Glory? Hell, even Moonstruck is not without its charms but...not Best Picture material IMO

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo at December 01, 2023 05:08 PM (xcxpd)

140 This is AWESOME! And I'm not really a fan of the Cybertruck... (Tesla twitter) Most Morons will approve.

https://tinyurl.com/2p843x7x
Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at December 01, 2023 05:06 PM (zB/T/)

LOL

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 01, 2023 05:09 PM (4I/2K)

141 Yeah, Neal McDonaugh was great in Band of Brothers. He's been a 'that guy' in a few things. Was the bad guy in The Rock's version of Walking Tall... Seems like his faith would put him more on the outs than (as a guy) not doing a sex scene (as opposed to a girl not doing a sex scene, which in and of itself might put them on the outs...)

Posted by: bearski at December 01, 2023 05:09 PM (Bhsk7)

142 The Untouchables got robbed in 1988. Though Sean Connery well deserved his award.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo at December 01, 2023 05:09 PM (xcxpd)

143 110 McDonough did a sick perv sex thing in Justified didn’t he?

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

_________

Pretty good scene where he basically explains how he got that way. Acted it very well. You think it's a moment of catharsis, but he only uses it to manipulate his way out of being killed, then he turns the young man who was about to kill him into his next sexual torture victim.

Real nasty villain.

Posted by: McLurkerson at December 01, 2023 05:09 PM (wNDOJ)

144 Godzilla doesn't interest me but the rest do. Lady Ballers looks hilarious and Arthur the King, The Shift, and Do Not Destroy I'll definitely watch.
Posted by: Cheri at December 01, 2023 05:07 PM (oiNtH)

The doggeh story is probably going to have a really sad ending.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 01, 2023 05:09 PM (BdMk6)

145 Reminds me I need to start Band Of Brothers again. Been a few years since Curahee.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at December 01, 2023 05:10 PM (rJ7Hd)

146 Must see Godzilla movie

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at December 01, 2023 05:10 PM (ybJHI)

147 130 Poor Leo. It's disturbing as heck to realize what that little boy probably had to go through to become the Hollywood star he is.
Posted by: Nikki Haley at December 01, 2023 05:06 PM (jcIlm)

"poor" Leo...
The guy's living a dream life.

Stupidly maybe but its still a dream.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo at December 01, 2023 05:11 PM (xcxpd)

148 >The doggeh story is probably going to have a really sad ending.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons

watch the trailer again- it pretty much tells you the whole movie

Posted by: Don Black at December 01, 2023 05:12 PM (geLO8)

149 William Hurt was great in a lot of things. History of Violence by far. But he was good in Syriana and The Good Shepherd. Arguably the same role but he was good in it. And in Michael and Broadcast News...

Posted by: bearski at December 01, 2023 05:12 PM (Bhsk7)

150 33
She even demonstrates a plastic model of it and I have to say, it's umm...impressive.

Posted by: kallisto knows it's real. And it's spectacular! at December 01, 2023 04:44 PM (dCxaZ)
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Don't tell me, now you know where to find it?

Posted by: Ciampino - He found the G spot. Now for the EE at December 01, 2023 05:12 PM (qfLjt)

151 Godzilla vs Cloverfield Monster

who wins

Posted by: Don Black at December 01, 2023 05:12 PM (geLO8)

152 Matt Damon always plays Matt Damon.
Posted by: Montec

The same can be said of most movie stars -- Gable, Bogie, Jimmy Stewart, even Grace Kelly.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 01, 2023 04:56 PM (JrojV)

Not John Wayne !

Posted by: JT at December 01, 2023 05:13 PM (T4tVD)

153 Bob Newhart has always played Bob Newhart….
Posted by: tubal at December 01, 2023 05:03 PM

Robert Denero, AL Pacino, and Samuel L. Jackson have entered the chat.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 01, 2023 05:13 PM (aQy7p)

154 Reminds me I need to start Band Of Brothers again. Been a few years since Curahee.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at December 01, 2023 05:10 PM (rJ7Hd)
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I just binged it a few weeks back. Still good. Damien Lewis might always have been destined to b a star, but that series guaranteed it.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 01, 2023 05:13 PM (n2tmY)

155 Matt Damon always plays Matt Damon.
Posted by: Montec

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

Especially in Team America!

Posted by: bearski at December 01, 2023 05:14 PM (Bhsk7)

156 "This is AWESOME! And I'm not really a fan of the Cybertruck... (Tesla twitter) Most Morons will approve."

Today I learned that Tesla has made humanoid robots which it has programmed to use firearms.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 01, 2023 05:14 PM (ou9hh)

157 {138} ... Just can't stand to slog to the theatre and pay 15 bucks for a bag of corn.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at December 01, 2023 05:08 PM (rJ7Hd)

No kiddin'. The final straw for me was all the light pollution from people being unable to stay off their smartphones during the movie. Brightness always cranked to 11. Add in all the other annoyances that come with the theater experience, and I was just done.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 01, 2023 05:15 PM (qPw5n)

158 I really like Ravenous. Also stars Guy Pearce. And Ferris Buellers principal. Jeffrey something I think.

Posted by: Blutarski at December 01, 2023 05:15 PM (Fwuhb)

159 A unique, lovely and subtly Christian movie is "Henry Poole is Here" from 2007. Starring Luke Wilson. It is full of paradox and challenge.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 01, 2023 05:15 PM (9ZAvr)

160 poor" Leo...
The guy's living a dream life.
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Sure.

I can't imagine the cost.

Posted by: Nikki Haley at December 01, 2023 05:15 PM (jcIlm)

161 Been a few years since Curahee.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at December 01, 2023 05:10 PM (rJ7Hd)

What a thoroughly enjoyable series that was. Everything about it was excellent!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 01, 2023 05:15 PM (3Gtis)

162 Seems like his faith would put him more on the outs than (as a guy) not doing a sex scene (as opposed to a girl not doing a sex scene, which in and of itself might put them on the outs...)
Posted by: bearski at December 01, 2023 05:09 PM (Bhsk7)

Maybe the sex scene was with a fat ugly chick. Who'd would, you know, want to do that?

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 01, 2023 05:15 PM (BdMk6)

163 When BoB is on tv it never fails I get sucked in. Saw a lot Veterans day.

Posted by: Skip at December 01, 2023 05:17 PM (fwDg9)

164 Is this a movie thread yet?

Posted by: Montec at December 01, 2023 05:17 PM (YofvK)

165 Iirc Matt Damon was another one that defended Weinsten and that bunch.

Posted by: Nikki Haley at December 01, 2023 05:17 PM (jcIlm)

166 Maybe the sex scene was with a fat ugly chick. Who'd would, you know, want to do that?

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 01, 2023 05:15 PM (BdMk6)

The 18-year-old me.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 01, 2023 05:18 PM (3Gtis)

167 I was amazed "Man On Fire" didn't garner a nomination for Denzel. Tough year, I guess.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 01, 2023 05:18 PM (n2tmY)

168 {161} What a thoroughly enjoyable series that was. Everything about it was excellent!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 01, 2023 05:15 PM (3Gtis)

That look on the guys' faces when Sobel reappeared.

I think I'm gonna dig out my DVD box set and rewatch these.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at December 01, 2023 05:19 PM (qPw5n)

169 Denzel can act too. He’s not always playing Denzel Denzel.

Posted by: Montec at December 01, 2023 05:19 PM (YofvK)

170 Band of Brothers is currently streaming on Netflix

Posted by: Blutarski at December 01, 2023 05:20 PM (Fwuhb)

171 Godzilla doesn't interest me but the rest do. Lady Ballers looks hilarious and Arthur the King, The Shift, and Do Not Destroy I'll definitely watch.
Posted by: Cheri at December 01, 2023 05:07 PM (oiNtH)

The doggeh story is probably going to have a really sad ending.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 01, 2023 05:09 PM (BdMk6)

What do you mean, Old Yeller is still living on that farm like my momma said!

Posted by: Oldcat at December 01, 2023 05:20 PM (eoQWY)

172 Speaking of, I saw a good sign the other day around Thanksgiving.

"Be ever thankful, because your life is a fairy tale for someone else."

Posted by: Nikki Haley at December 01, 2023 05:20 PM (jcIlm)

173
They fall in love and kill the wife together in a tranq-fuelled hammer attack,

Do you recall that jack of all trades, master of none hammer / "hatchet" / nail puller from the Harrison Ford flick "Presumed Innocent" that his wife Bonnie Bedalia used to kill the ADA with whom Ford had a affair? I have one -- got it as part of a box of tools from an auction.

It needs work, which it to say that its handle is in a state of disrepair.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 01, 2023 05:21 PM (xG4kz)

174 Speaking of, I saw a good sign the other day around Thanksgiving.

"Be ever thankful, because your life is a fairy tale for someone else."
Posted by: Nikki Haley at December 01, 2023 05:20 PM (jcIlm)

Hopefully not the one with Grendel and his Ma

Posted by: Oldcat at December 01, 2023 05:22 PM (eoQWY)

175 They fall in love and kill the wife together in a tranq-fuelled hammer attack

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YD, we worry about you.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 01, 2023 05:24 PM (RIvkX)

176 Man on Fire was a great movie, both times it was made.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 01, 2023 05:24 PM (0FoWg)

177 Uhh.. where was I going with this?
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 01, 2023 05:00 PM (JMAcK)
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Stewart as a hard-assed pilot who's actually kind of an asshole in "Flight of the Phoenix."

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at December 01, 2023 05:25 PM (ScR16)

178 Geena Davis is totally the manic pixie dreamgirl there. I thought it was the earliest pronounced version of that kind of female character specifically I'd seen.

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I don't find Geena Davis attractive at all. Fishmouth.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 01, 2023 05:26 PM (BdMk6)

179 YD, we worry about you.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 01, 2023 05:24 PM (RIvkX)

Don't.

I'm an auteur, just waiting on this deal to land, so I can get my 24 Oscars in '24 or '25.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 01, 2023 05:26 PM (0FoWg)

180
131 Doesn't he also play a baddie in Yellowstone?
Posted by: AlaBAMA

Yes, one of the two cowboy versions of the Koch brothers. I think that he was the one who was gunned down while sitting on the toilet.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 01, 2023 05:27 PM (xG4kz)

181 Caroline Glick names and shames the primary players who were the architects of the massive intelligence failure on October 7.

bottom line: the intelligence gatherers did their job, they compiled information even down to the manual the hamassholes used that day...and the IC chief and the General whose command included Gaza dismissed them and humiliated them.

https://tinyurl.com/2bvh82b4

Posted by: kallisto at December 01, 2023 05:27 PM (aXyeT)

182 I wanna thank everyone for mentioning Black '47 the other day.

It's available for free on the ROKU channel, and TUBI.

So guess what Imagonna watch tonight.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at December 01, 2023 05:27 PM (hH3Px)

183 From YouTube have found out a few things BoB got dead wrong but still its a great series

Posted by: Skip at December 01, 2023 05:28 PM (fwDg9)

184 ...the IC chief and the General whose command included Gaza dismissed them and humiliated them.

https://tinyurl.com/2bvh82b4
Posted by: kallisto at December 01, 2023 05:27 PM (aXyeT)
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And continued humiliation this week when IDF troops were ordered to whitewash graffiti they had written on walls in Gaza City

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 01, 2023 05:29 PM (RIvkX)

185
Man on Fire was a great movie, both times it was made.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

What about the Bing Crosby version?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 01, 2023 05:30 PM (63Dwl)

186 Oh:

Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson
BREAKING: The inmate who attacked Derek Chauvin in prison stabbed him 22 times and did it on Black Friday to symbolize the Black Lives Matter movement

Posted by: Citizen Cake at December 01, 2023 05:31 PM (CwhoI)

187 Glickman article is horrifying read

Posted by: Skip at December 01, 2023 05:31 PM (fwDg9)

188 And continued humiliation this week when IDF troops were ordered to whitewash graffiti they had written on walls in Gaza City
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 01, 2023 05:29 PM (RIvkX)
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She talks about that idiocy

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 01, 2023 05:31 PM (aWUfj)

189 [i[Don't tell me, now you know where to find it?

Posted by: Ciampino - He found the G spot. Now for the EE at December 01, 2023 05:12 PM (qfLjt)

I viewed her videos diligently, took notes, recorded them, really absorbed the information presented on her flowcharts. And then...just like she promised: Eureka! Success!

I just wish I would have learned a couple decades earlier, but it's ok, not too late to make up for lost time!

Posted by: kallisto chuckling at how sometimes I kill myself at December 01, 2023 05:31 PM (aXyeT)

190 kallisto, the same thing happened in '73 when Zeira didn't turn on the listening system. 50 years apart on Yom Kippur two disastrous intelligence failures

Posted by: Ben Had at December 01, 2023 05:32 PM (Z1h0m)

191 Fin.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 01, 2023 04:52 PM (0FoWg)

I was today years old when I found out you were a screen writer for Hollywood.

Posted by: Just Lily at December 01, 2023 05:32 PM (RLLZj)

192 What's with all these movies that are all filmed in the dark?

Posted by: wth at December 01, 2023 05:32 PM (v0R5T)

193 It's hard to make a movie or a series that exactly follows history or even a book series.

You have to keep people interested, you can't fit everything in the series and it has to make us care about the characters.

They got enough right in BoB to make it great. It's not a documentary for certain. I really loved the actual Airborne guys opening each episode.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at December 01, 2023 05:32 PM (rJ7Hd)

194 Venezuela on the brink of invading Guyana to take over its oil fields.

OMG OMG OMG

A remake of "Sorcerer!"

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at December 01, 2023 05:33 PM (zdLoL)

195 What about the Bing Crosby version?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 01, 2023 05:30 PM (63Dwl)

Lol.

I guess that title's been used more than a Disney child actor.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 01, 2023 05:33 PM (0FoWg)

196 Afternoon.

I seem to be stuck at home so I saw Godzilla Minus One last night. It was very good. I wrote a brief review. Hold on, let me find it.

Posted by: Robert at December 01, 2023 05:34 PM (1Yy3c)

197 [i[Posted by: Skip at December 01, 2023 05:31 PM (fwDg9)

the part about the pallies who'd been hired to work on the kibbutzim provided important intel about the communities and laughed as they watched their Israeli employers get butchered

Posted by: kallisto chuckling at how sometimes I kill myself at December 01, 2023 05:34 PM (aXyeT)

198 The acme of film was achieved with, "Dude, Where's My Car?"

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

199 Godzilla Minus One

Very good. I liked it. Definitely a recommend. It's not actually a remake of the original but has elements of the original.

It's about a kamikaze pilot who pusses out and while he's on a small atoll used by the Japanese to repair planes, a small Godzilla about the size of a T-Rex attacks and kill everyone but him and one other guy. He eventually gets home at war's end. His family is dead, his neighbor's family is dead and he meets a girl whose entire family is dead but is carrying a child that's not hers...cuz her family is dead.

Small Godzilla is eventually irradiated at Bikini Atoll and turns into big Godzilla. Big Godzilla eventually goes on the rampage.

It's very good. There's a fair amount of decent character drama involving the pilot and the girl he meets. He's struggling with inner turmoil about not fulfilling his duty to waste his life. The destruction is pretty cool. Ginza gets torn to shit. Godzilla lumbers around fairly slowly but his atomic fire breath is really cool the way his spikes pop out while he's "charging."

I'd have to watch it again but I feel that this is overall one of the better Godzilla movies in the series.

Posted by: Robert at December 01, 2023 05:35 PM (1Yy3c)

200 > And continued humiliation this week when IDF troops were ordered to whitewash graffiti they had written on walls in Gaza City
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Stupid. Graffiti is a proven psychological tactic in asymmetrical warfare.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 01, 2023 05:35 PM (Q4IgG)

201 >>>Venezuela on the brink of invading Guyana to take over its oil fields.

Brazil is threatening to intervene. A South American threesome. You usually pay double for that kind of action, Cotton.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at December 01, 2023 05:35 PM (CwhoI)

202 Now Tessa Fowler can be legitimately described as "busty."
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

Is this a movie thread yet?
Posted by: Montec
.......

Boobs > movies with boobs > movies

Posted by: wth at December 01, 2023 05:35 PM (v0R5T)

203 Caroline Glick names and shames the primary players who were the architects of the massive intelligence failure on October 7.

bottom line: the intelligence gatherers did their job, they compiled information even down to the manual the hamassholes used that day...and the IC chief and the General whose command included Gaza dismissed them and humiliated them.

https://tinyurl.com/2bvh82b4
Posted by: kallisto at December 01, 2023 05:27 PM (aXyeT)

Shoulda leaked it to the press then.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 01, 2023 05:36 PM (eoQWY)

204
Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson
BREAKING: The inmate who attacked Derek Chauvin in prison stabbed him 22 times and did it on Black Friday to symbolize the Black Lives Matter movement

Posted by: Citizen Cake at December 01, 2023 05:31 PM

I wanna wake up tomorrow to discover that the people who deserve to be stabbed 22 times got stabbed 22 times. Like the coroner, the Mayor, the state DA, and the Governor.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at December 01, 2023 05:36 PM (enJYY)

205 The acme of film was achieved with, "Dude, Where's My Car?"

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

Nah. It was "The Lives of Others." Or "Hard Target." Not sure which.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 01, 2023 05:36 PM (0FoWg)

206 The Iron Claw. Don't even have to look. The Von Erich's.

(peeks)

Yup.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at December 01, 2023 05:37 PM (Angsy)

207 the actual military threats that are ignored: Pearl Harbor, WTC attacks on the one hand

and manufactured bullshit designed to get us into war on the other hand (Gulf of Tonkin)

what the fuck are the military elites good for anyway

Posted by: kallisto at December 01, 2023 05:37 PM (aXyeT)

208
"The Art of Self-Defense" was a pretty good black comedy.

"Manodrome" looks like a drama titled:

"Steroids: The Final Warning"

or maybe

"Testosterone: The Hormone That Kills Your Soul"

Still might be okay.

Posted by: naturalfake at December 01, 2023 05:37 PM (QzZeQ)

209 Brazil is threatening to intervene. A South American threesome. You usually pay double for that kind of action, Cotton.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at December 01, 2023 05:35 PM (CwhoI)

Her name is Rio and she dances on the sand?

Posted by: Archer at December 01, 2023 05:37 PM (gmo/4)

210 Gonna be fun seeing leftists defend Venezuela invading a neighbor after 2 years of screeching about Poootin doing the same thing.

Posted by: Montec at December 01, 2023 05:37 PM (YofvK)

211 I have feared the worse for hostages and the females the most

Posted by: Skip at December 01, 2023 05:38 PM (fwDg9)

212 Maybe the sex scene was with a fat ugly chick. Who'd would, you know, want to do that?

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons

Not me. Nosireee.

Posted by: Chub E. Chaser at December 01, 2023 05:38 PM (v0R5T)

213 Boobs > movies with boobs > movies
Posted by: wth at December 01, 2023 05:35 PM (v0R5T)

+1

Posted by: Joe Bob Briggs at December 01, 2023 05:38 PM (4I/2K)

214
No problem with Venezuela. At least that's what the 200,000 young Venezuelan men who climbed into our country this year say.

Posted by: Auspex at December 01, 2023 05:38 PM (j4U/Z)

215 And continued humiliation this week when IDF troops were ordered to whitewash graffiti they had written on walls in Gaza City

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 01, 2023 05:29 PM (RIvkX)

yes wtf is wrong with finkelman

Posted by: kallisto at December 01, 2023 05:39 PM (aXyeT)

216 the actual military threats that are ignored: Pearl Harbor, WTC attacks on the one hand

and manufactured bullshit designed to get us into war on the other hand (Gulf of Tonkin)

what the fuck are the military elites good for anyway
Posted by: kallisto at December 01, 2023 05:37 PM (aXyeT)

That's why in the old days they would have to stand close enough to the front to take a bullet from one side or the other.

Posted by: Oldcat at December 01, 2023 05:39 PM (eoQWY)

217 Whatever character Neil MacDonough is playing, I immediately hate. He plays the asshole well.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 01, 2023 05:40 PM (2ovLw)

218 I really like Marc Walhburg, i saw his work out schedule and he makes time to Pray and say the Rosary and he said that he wouldn’t make Boogie Nights and feels ashamed of the movie.

I noticed a lot of his movies now have some type of Positive or Christian message.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at December 01, 2023 05:41 PM (dKiJG)

219 Main page is blank. Did ace kill it and leave for the weekend?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 01, 2023 05:42 PM (2ovLw)

220 Whatever character Neil MacDonough is playing, I immediately hate. He plays the asshole well.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 01, 2023 05:40 PM (2ovLw)

Even Buck Compton???

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Aspiring Codger at December 01, 2023 05:42 PM (T/Lqj)

221 Maybe the sex scene was with a fat ugly chick. Who'd would, you know, want to do that?

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons
.......

a blind mountain climber?

Posted by: wth at December 01, 2023 05:42 PM (v0R5T)

222
"The Iron Claw"

or running around the neighborhood after watching Saturday Noon Time Wrestling when a wee lad-

"THE Iiiiiiiiiirn Claaaaaaaaaaaw!"

We wasted a lot of time trying to perfect the application of the IRON CLAAAAAAW!!!! on friends and family.

For some reason, it never worked like it did on TV.

Suspiciously like Spock's Vulcan Nerve Pinch(!)

Soooooo, I don't think I'll waste anymore time on the Von Erich's foolishness.

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

223 Nood Libs Of TikTok.

Posted by: Robert at December 01, 2023 05:43 PM (1Yy3c)

224 Stewart as a hard-assed pilot who's actually kind of an asshole in "Flight of the Phoenix."
Posted by: Captain Obvious

Redeems himself at the end of the movie though...

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 01, 2023 05:43 PM (N4G/m)

225 >>Venezuela on the brink of invading Guyana to take over its oil fields.

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The Kalorama brain trust is probably gaming how to get U.S. tangled up in this in some way

Posted by: Don Black at December 01, 2023 05:44 PM (geLO8)

226 Liked the Godzilla movie, but didn't love it. Japanese movie makers seem to think meetings are a source of great drama. Minus 1 isn't as bad about this as Shin Godzilla was, but still too much talking.
And, without spoiling it, the end was a little too unrealistically sweet.

Posted by: Wally at December 01, 2023 05:44 PM (hqVaF)

227 Gonna be fun seeing leftists defend Venezuela invading a neighbor after 2 years of screeching about Poootin doing the same thing.

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Nah, that's an easy one, that narrative has barely set in yet. Silicon Valley can flash that NPC firmware in a jiffy.

These are the people I heard shrieking for twenty straight years that War Is Not The Answer and that vaccines are a plot of Big Pharma. It took less than three for those same people to say "check out my sick Pfizer tattoo, and also a limited nuclear exchange is an acceptable cost for Ukrainian martial glory."

They just say what their phones tell them to say. It stopped being funny and got tedious a minute ago.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 01, 2023 05:44 PM (0FoWg)

228 167 I was amazed "Man On Fire" didn't garner a nomination for Denzel. Tough year, I guess.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 01, 2023 05:18 PM (n2tmY )
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Thoroughly enjoyed it. He's a great actor and to me he's always the character he plays and I never see him as a Black actor.

Posted by: Ciampino - Bean There, Pun That at December 01, 2023 05:46 PM (qfLjt)

229 I really like Marc Walhburg, i saw his work out schedule and he makes time to Pray and say the Rosary and he said that he wouldn’t make Boogie Nights and feels ashamed of the movie.

I noticed a lot of his movies now have some type of Positive or Christian message.
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at December 01, 2023 05:41 PM (dKiJG)

Meh, on Walhberg.

He purposely blinded an old Asian guy in a racist attack when younger.

But, he's sorry about that now,

but Asian guy still can't see.

Fuck that guy.

Posted by: naturalfake at December 01, 2023 05:46 PM (QzZeQ)

230 Fin.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 01, 2023 04:52 PM (0FoWg)

Shut up and take our money!

Posted by: Hollywood at December 01, 2023 05:49 PM (M1WkG)

231 With Prices increasing you can use STREAMFAB and download shows from most Streaming Services minus commercials and then cancel the subscription

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at December 01, 2023 05:50 PM (dKiJG)

232 How can The Shift wear its Christianity on its sleeve if Job is from the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh)?

Posted by: Cassandra at December 01, 2023 05:50 PM (6aOc1)

233 yes, I did publish that earlier, I guess. I've deleted it.

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*Never* apologize.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 01, 2023 05:50 PM (XeU6L)

234 I’ve only know of one inmate that was sentenced to death for killing another inmate. He was just executed in Texas.

If I were king it would be automatic execution within a week of the killing. That’s how you handle prison violence.

Posted by: Drive by at December 01, 2023 05:52 PM (MNhXM)

235 Arthur the King is almost too uncomfortable to watch for me. I’m going to have to know the ending before I watch it.

Posted by: Drive by at December 01, 2023 05:53 PM (MNhXM)

236 Why is this being self stomped so soon?

Posted by: Drive by at December 01, 2023 05:56 PM (MNhXM)

237 A woman draped in a Palestinian flag just set herself on fire in front of the Israeli Consulate in Atlanta Georgia

https://is.gd/EOUCuo

My comment? More! More!

Posted by: Ciampino - Spilt hot coffee? You now have grounds to sue at December 01, 2023 05:59 PM (qfLjt)

238 226 Liked the Godzilla movie, but didn't love it. Japanese movie makers seem to think meetings are a source of great drama. Minus 1 isn't as bad about this as Shin Godzilla was, but still too much talking.
And, without spoiling it, the end was a little too unrealistically sweet.
Posted by: Wally at December 01, 2023 05:44 PM (hqVaF)

Shin Godzilla was being satirical. It was making fun of the fact that in a real emergency bureaucrats think moving from meeting to meeting is the same as accomplishing something.

Yeah, the ending was a bit too happy and predictable but I still think it was fine.

Posted by: Robert at December 01, 2023 05:59 PM (1Yy3c)

239 I'd have to watch it again but I feel that this is overall one of the better Godzilla movies in the series.
Posted by: Robert at December 01, 2023 05:35 PM (1Yy3c)

Shin Godzilla is underrated if you understand that it’s a movie on How Government would really handle a Godzilla event.

Godzilla Minus Zero seems like it’s about surviving Godzilla and he’s a side character. I can’t wait to see it.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at December 01, 2023 06:00 PM (dKiJG)

240 Neal McDonough is one of my favorite actors. No matter how cheesy the film he's in, he knows how to command a scene. Glad to hear he's not a typical hollywood pedo and actually on the side of good.

Posted by: NJRob at December 01, 2023 07:12 PM (Ce7wD)

241 When you look at Wahlberg he's one of the most underrated actors today. He does everything well, but never gets the credit of similar actors that actually suck at everything they do (like Ben Affleck) Sure he's probably not going to play Marlon Brando or Carey Grant type roles, but id take him in almost any Hollywood type movie over the crap out actors out there today.

Like Neal McDonough, he's held back because he's not afraid of being extremely pro-Christian, which means he basically had to produce and get private funding for everything he does.

McDonough is another great actor, I've heard from people who have worked with him that he's also a genuinely nice guy.

Posted by: Rbastid at December 01, 2023 07:29 PM (aoq4X)

242 >>>So here's a movie I'd definitely like to see. It's pretty much a Cafe in movie form.

I want to see this!

Posted by: m at December 02, 2023 05:32 AM (Dz9Qm)

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