Disney Disaster Watch: Rey Movie "Suspended Indefinitely;" <i>She-Hulk</i> Cancelled for Being <i>Too</i> Stunning and Brave

Disney Disaster Watch: Rey Movie "Suspended Indefinitely;" She-Hulk Cancelled for Being Too Stunning and Brave

via TheJamesMadison, a scooper says that Disney's Rey Palpatine movie, to be directed by a hardcore feminist activist and neophyte diversity hire director, has been "suspended indefinitely," which happens to most of Kaffeine Kennedy's announced projects.

Now, LucasFilm is denying this, and claiming the film is still "upcoming."

The problem with that is that we know LucasFilm has indefinitely suspended -- shelved forever -- a ton of projects which they never admit have been shelved.

Kaffeine Kennedy is constantly spamming out "upcoming movies" that are never actually made. She has claimed that:

* Spherical-headed cretin and giggling expectations-subverter Rion Johnson will be directing a Star Wars trilogy

* Architect of Marvel's downfall Kevin Feige will be directing a Star Wars movie or even a trilogy

* The duo responsible for the catastrophic conclusion of Game of Thrones will be directing a new Star Wars trilogy

* Wonder Woman flop queen Patty Jenkins will be directing at least one stand-alone Star Wars movie

* Indiana Jones destroyer James Mangold will be directing a Star Wars trilogy

* A random autistic bluehair nosering lesbian plucked off the street will be directing a Star Wars trilogy, whether she is willing or unwilling -- either way, she will be forced to direct a Star Wars trilogy

That last one is unconfirmed, but the rest were announced by Kaffy.

Kaffy looks around for whoever is hot at this very second and then signs them up for one or three star wars movies. Then their hotness fades quickly -- the Game of Thrones guys were so eager to finish Game of Thrones that they didn't bother to actually finish it; men positioned Patty Jenkins for success for the first Wonder Woman movie, but then she got too big for her britches and decided she'd write the second movie herself (There were no survivors) -- and their movies are never discussed again.

It's almost as if Kaffeine Kennedy has the Reverse Midas Touch, instantly turning every hot prospect into a box office failure.

Kaffeine Kennedy spams out these Fake Movie Announcements whenever she feels her position is shaky and that she might be fired, which is always. She makes Fake Movie Announcements the way other women get their hair done -- she makes up a Fake Movie Announcement whenever she wants to feel pretty.

The truth is that Kaffeine Kennedy had her power to greenlight movies taken away from her after Rise of Skywalker. The franchise has been put on permanent hold since then.

All of the movies listed above are not happening. They are cancelled. But LucasFilm does not admit they're cancelled. They still claim that Rion Johnson's trilogy is still "in development," and is only delayed because Rion Johnson is so very, very busy making one "Glass Onion" sequel every three or four years.

So when LucasFilm claims that the Rey Palpatine movie is "still in development," I wonder: You mean, like Kevin Feige's movie? Like Patty Jenkins' movie? Like the Game of Thrones idiots' trilogy?

There is further evidence the movie has been shelved -- after the feminist activist went on her own rogue, freelance publicity tour for a movie not slated to premiere until 2025 at earliest, Disney rushed out a quickie press release claiming that the only man that fans have some amount of trust in, Jon Favreau, would be directing a movie based on the only part of the Star Wars universe fans have any lingering interest in, the Mandoverse.

The strong -- nay, overpowering -- suspicion is that Disney was panicked by the blowback against the "I enjoy making men feel uncomfortable" movie and rushed out a bullshit pitch for a different movie to distract from the Rey movie debacle.

Like spraying a room with Fabreeze Tropical to cover up a pungent Egg McMuffin fart. One of those farts that is especially unsettling because it smells almost the same coming out as it tasted going in, which causes you to realize, in disgust: All the food we eat is just farts in solid form.

Adding to this suspicion is that this Mandoverse movie is, reportedly, 1, taking over the Pinewood Studios space that Disney had rented out to make the Rey movie, and 2, is just the last two episodes of the fourth season of the Mandolorian, which strongly -- nigh undeniably -- suggests that the last two episodes of that series were just ordered to be made into a movie so that Bob Iger would have something to put into theaters while denying, again, that another Fake Star Wars Movie was in fact cancelled.

Bob Iger hasn't changed his woke imperatives -- but he does have a shareholder proxy fight on his hands. He can't continue making these woke bombs, but he also can't offend the Woke Revolutionaries by admitting they're cancelled.

So Disney won't admit that She-Hulk has been cancelled and won't be back for a second season. The show's woke "star," however, let it slip that Disney said "No thanks!" to a season 2.

Tatiana Maslany, the actor who played Jennifer Walters, aka She-Hulk, in She-Hulk: Attorney At Law, has dashed any hopes of a second season of Marvel's divisive Disney Plus show.
Appearing on streamer NerdIncorrect's Twitch gameshow Codenames Live, Maslany was asked by the host, "Should we hope for a season 2?"
"I don't think so," Maslany replied. "I think we blew our budget, and Disney was like, 'no thanks!'"

Yeah, it was just the budget. Disney routinely spends $300 million+ on bomb movies, but She-Hulk was cancelled only because you spent too much.

(The show had a budget of $225 million, reportedly, and featured the picture-perfect CGI and gold-plated production values for which Disney+ TV shows are justifiably famous. Sure it cost $225 million, but you could see at least $40-50 million right there on the screen.)

Maslany's statement isn't official, of course, but it sounds quite final.

Yes and it's the last we'll hear of it. As already emphasized, Disney and LucasFilm simply refuse to admit that their crap projects are cancelled. They just go "into development" forever.

A second season of the show was never discussed by Marvel, although head writer Jessica Gao has said she had ideas for further seasons, and the final episode left the possibility open.

LOL. Shyeah right, Jessica Gao, I can't wait to see the new genius ideas you have for a season 2.

If you want to watch a brutal come-down, watch Midnight's Edge comparison of how She-Hulk's putative "star" was talking when she thought she was on top of the world, with the much more humble tone she has assumed now that she is out-of-work.

I mean, she's appearing on a Twitch game show, and admits she's looking for "leads" for her next job.

Meanwhile, Disney has settled, with secret terms of course, a lawsuit by film financier TSG, which claimed that Disney was using fraudulent "Hollywood accounting" to avoid paying out profits on its few profitable movies.

Disney and 20th Century Studios have settled a breach of contract lawsuit from film financier TSG Entertainment, which accused them of withholding profits and self-dealing to boost subscriber numbers for their streaming platforms.
Lawyers for both sides notified the court on Jan. 5 of a deal to resolve the dueling suits. Terms of the agreement weren't disclosed.
The case centered on an independent audit of three films TSG invested in, including best picture winner The Shape of Water, that revealed it's owed at least $40 million. This shortfall, the company alleged, caused it to take a worse position in its investment of Avatar: The Way of Water and deprived it of the cash necessary to exercise options to invest in other movies.

Lastly, a story not about Disney but about another entertainment company which went woke.

Remember when the Hallmark Movie Channel suddenly had gay characters in all of their Christmas romance movies?

Not sure that's working out too well for them, because their CEO, "Wonya Lucas," "abruptly" announced her retirement in August, and now four of her handpicked executives have been fired.

Despite rising to the top of the ratings as the most-watched entertainment network on cable TV last year, per a recent Hallmark press release, the company laid off four key executives on January 10, 2024, according to Deadline. The changes come five months after former Hallmark Media CEO Wonya Lucas announced she would soon be stepping down from her role by the end of 2023.
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All four women were hired during Lucas' tenure as CEO and reported to her. When Lucas announced her impending departure in August, the company said Mike Perry, CEO of parent company Hallmark Cards Inc., would work closely with the the executive team to manage the transition and future planning.

They worked closely with them as they escorted them out of the building carrying boxes of their personal items.

Via Clownfish TV, WDW Pro, Valliant Renegade, and Adam Friend.

Here's some good media news. Apparently Baldur's Gate 3 is the game of the year and one of the best computer games ever created, and it's only going to get better now that players can unlock and download a new major-league NPC for the game.

I hear that Mac will be a downloadable character for Mortal Kombat.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 04:25 PM

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1 "She Hulk" isn't going to be renewed?

OH NO

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 17, 2024 04:25 PM (z8vUP)

2 F**king Trump could screw-up a wet dream!!!!!!!!!!

Iranian airstrikes in Pakistan on Tuesday raised the threat of violence spreading in a Middle East unsettled by Israel's war with Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Iran also staged airstrikes late Monday in Iraq and Syria over an Islamic State-claimed suicide bombing that killed over 90 people earlier this month.

Posted by: Franklin Stein at January 17, 2024 04:27 PM (hbjSA)

3 I love news that makes me happy.
Disney disaster news is the best news for happiness.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at January 17, 2024 04:27 PM (tWPoY)

4 Praise Allah for President Biden !!!!!!!

Posted by: Leaders of Hama, Hezbollah, Iran, Houti and the BloFish in Yemen at January 17, 2024 04:29 PM (hbjSA)

5 the Game of Thrones guys were so eager to finish Game of Thrones that they didn't bother to actually finish it

In fairness, they made more effort to finish it than George R.R. Martin has.

Posted by: If you wish there was more rape in The Hobbit, you'll love George RR Martin at January 17, 2024 04:29 PM (L81HX)

6 Kaffy looks around for whoever is hot at this very second and then signs them up for one or three star wars movies. Then their hotness fades quickly -- the Game of Thrones guys were so eager to finish Game of Thrones that they didn't bother to actually finish it; men positioned Patty Jenkins for success for the first Wonder Woman movie, but then she got too big for her britches and decided she'd write the second movie herself (There were no survivors) -- and their movies are never discussed again.
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In part. The other part, though, is picking a decidedly unhot no-name with the right politics. She also seems fond of activist auteurs to run big projects. So does Marvel's Feige.

It's easy, fun and wholly justified to make fun of Kennedy, but she doesn't exist in a vacuum. This is a Disney problem, not a Lucasfilm problem.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 17, 2024 04:29 PM (z8vUP)

7 Bob Iger hasn't changed his woke imperatives -- but he does have a shareholder proxy fight on his hands. He can't continue making these woke bombs, but he also can't offend the Woke Revolutionaries by admitting they're cancelled.
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Nothing ever dies, it just goes to Limbo.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 17, 2024 04:30 PM (z8vUP)

8 KayKay should pay Quinten Tarantino whatever he wants to make a Mace Windu/Rey led Star Wars film.

Star Wars as some sort of alt-history slasher fantasy will be amazeballs, and Tarantino's penchant for beating the sh*t out of his female leads will at least offer the fan base a little bit of catharsis.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 17, 2024 04:30 PM (XV/Pl)

9 OT
'Survivor' star and Kentucky Republican Nick Wilson inadvertently almost legalizes first-cousin INCEST while trying to pass law to close sexual abuse loophole - lawmaker admits mistake, asks for continued support -- storm in a teacup?

https://mol.im/a/12974921

Posted by: Ciampino - It's never Skip's fault. at January 17, 2024 04:31 PM (qfLjt)

10 "I don't think so," Maslany replied. "I think we blew our budget, and Disney was like, 'no thanks!'"
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What a nice, clean, PR-friendly, inoffensive statement that keeps the actors, writers, directors, story team, etc. out of the shadow of blame.

It was just too expensive. Nobody can complain about canceling something because it cost too much. It has nothing to do with the bad story or writing or acting or CGI or whatever. Just blame the bean-counters for falling down on the job.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 17, 2024 04:32 PM (z8vUP)

11 I have a good feeling about this.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at January 17, 2024 04:33 PM (+oXTu)

12 LOL. Shyeah right, Jessica Gao, I can't wait to see the new genius ideas you have for a season 2.
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Gao is not an "ideas" kind of person. She thought she was and she was told she was, but that does not make it so.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 17, 2024 04:34 PM (z8vUP)

13 DEI MOUSE DIE

Posted by: Skip at January 17, 2024 04:34 PM (fwDg9)

14 $250 Million to slather her in green paint.

Nice work, if you can get it.

Posted by: XTC at January 17, 2024 04:34 PM (sm6Pk)

15 A random autistic bluehair nosering lesbian

How can we be sure it's not a tranny without a blood test ? Not like you can rely on the shade of blue anymore.

Posted by: DaveA at January 17, 2024 04:35 PM (FhXTo)

16 Disney and 20th Century Studios have settled a breach of contract lawsuit from film financier TSG Entertainment, which accused them of withholding profits and self-dealing to boost subscriber numbers for their streaming platforms.
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I wonder if we'll find out how big a check Disney had to cut to TSG for this. I hope it shows up on a financial statement.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 17, 2024 04:35 PM (z8vUP)

17 The right way to grow Star Wars: Build out the 80s/90s Expanded Universe stuff, which everyone interested in the franchise agrees is better than at least four of the six Lucas era films.

The wrong way: Throw out the EU and substitute a bunch of bland, badly written crap. Arrogantly tell the fans that their world is no longer theirs and fuck you very much for listening.

The Disney way: The wrong way, but with more audience-hating woke nonsense.

Posted by: CppThis at January 17, 2024 04:35 PM (PZvjL)

18 "Like spraying a room with Fabreeze Tropical to cover up a pungent Egg McMuffin fart. One of those farts that is especially unsettling because it smells almost the same coming out as it tasted going in, which causes you to realize, in disgust: All the food we eat is just farts in solid form."

We didn't deserve that visual. At least most of us didn't.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at January 17, 2024 04:35 PM (eYoxG)

19 >>Remember when the Hallmark Movie Channel suddenly had gay characters in all of their Christmas romance movies?

Devastated my sister who watched it all the time.
She's thinking about becoming a nun now.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 17, 2024 04:35 PM (eYF7X)

20 I noticed Hallmark had a good number of "God" oriented movies this Christmas......

Posted by: It's me donna at January 17, 2024 04:35 PM (n2vyf)

21 I've noticed online a lot of hate towards Reacher lately. People calling Jack Reacher a Mary Sue (or technically "Gary Stu" since he's a guy) and saying his show sucks. because he's too good at everything.

Now, I haven't actually watched Reacher myself, but I can't help but notice how nobody involved in the making of Reacher has come out and asked "why is nobody watching our show?" Because it's a super popular show and doing quite well, and even if Reacher is a Mary Sue, nobody watching it cares because it's the kind of show that is giving its intended audience what they want to see on screen. Which is apparently an alien concept to most of the "entertainers" in Hollywood.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at January 17, 2024 04:36 PM (fKIdX)

22 Like spraying a room with Fabreeze Tropical to cover up a pungent Egg McMuffin fart. One of those farts that is especially unsettling because it smells almost the same coming out as it tasted going in, which causes you to realize, in disgust: All the food we eat is just farts in solid form.

30 seconds of actual laughing.
Read it again.
30 more seconds.
Thanks Ace!

Posted by: OneEyedJack at January 17, 2024 04:36 PM (FCbAQ)

23
"Like spraying a room with Fabreeze Tropical to cover up a pungent Egg McMuffin fart. One of those farts that is especially unsettling because it smells almost the same coming out as it tasted going in, which causes you to realize, in disgust: All the food we eat is just farts in solid form."

If you have to fart, fart! You will feel much better for it.

Posted by: Mao at January 17, 2024 04:36 PM (8sMut)

24 Also : Baldur's Gate III : The game that's gonna force you to have sex whether you want it or not.

If not with the mincing queer vampire, or the green chick whose nose has rotted off, then with some random bear.

Posted by: XTC at January 17, 2024 04:36 PM (sm6Pk)

25 Despite rising to the top of the ratings as the most-watched entertainment network on cable TV last year, per a recent Hallmark press release, the company laid off four key executives on January 10, 2024, according to Deadline. The changes come five months after former Hallmark Media CEO Wonya Lucas announced she would soon be stepping down from her role by the end of 2023.
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I don't know much about Hallmark, but I will assume that this crew were the former CEO's ideologically pure but extremely destructive clique and now that the CEO is out, so are they.

Was the former CEO fired? Yeah, yeah, she resigned - they always resign - but was she actually fired?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 17, 2024 04:36 PM (z8vUP)

26 Hallmark Channel is the Sha Na Na of Christian TV.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at January 17, 2024 04:37 PM (+oXTu)

27 There is nothing to do in Moscow but EAT, SLEEP and SHIT.

Posted by: Mao at January 17, 2024 04:37 PM (8sMut)

28 Architect of Marvel's downfall Kevin Feige will be directing a Star Wars movie or even a trilogy

* The duo responsible for the catastrophic conclusion of Game of Thrones will be directing a new Star Wars trilogy

* Wonder Woman flop queen Patty Jenkins will be directing at least one stand-alone Star Wars movie

* Indiana Jones destroyer James Mangold will be directing a Star Wars trilogy

* A random autistic bluehair nosering lesbian plucked off the street will be directing a Star Wars trilogy, whether she is willing or unwilling -- either way, she will be forced to direct a Star Wars trilogy

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...and how can we forget the Taika Waititi's SW Feature Film ?? - (circa 2020) "Taika Waititi to Direct and Co-Write new Star Wars Feature Film for Theatrical Release "....

Posted by: runner at January 17, 2024 04:37 PM (V13WU)

29 Apparently Baldur's Gate 3 is the game of the year and one of the best computer games ever created,

The companion characters are annoying as hell and ghAAAAAYYYYYY~~!

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 17, 2024 04:37 PM (IG4Id)

30 Disney should do a remake of the 1962 classic "Sodom And Gomorrah" where the sodomites end up marrying each other and raising their kids in the fashion they think best and raping all of Lot's folks and adopting his children and living happily ever after in San Francisco.

They can bypass all the icky God stuff and get right to the sodomy.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at January 17, 2024 04:37 PM (515bZ)

31 >>21 I've noticed online a lot of hate towards Reacher lately. People calling Jack Reacher a Mary Sue (or technically "Gary Stu" since he's a guy) and saying his show sucks. because he's too good at everything.

I watch it because of Serinda Swan.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 17, 2024 04:37 PM (eYF7X)

32 All the food we eat is just farts in solid form.

You need to check the polarity on your bathroom fan wiring. It might be the drill backwards thing again.

Posted by: DaveA at January 17, 2024 04:37 PM (FhXTo)

33 There is further evidence the movie has been shelved ...
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And around the HQ we all know what that means.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at January 17, 2024 04:37 PM (2yu8s)

34 15 A random autistic bluehair nosering lesbian

How can we be sure it's not a tranny without a blood test ? Not like you can rely on the shade of blue anymore.
Posted by: DaveA at January 17, 2024 04:35 PM (FhXTo)

If they're wearing either a cat-ear headband, or pointed elf-shaped ear caps, they're a troon.

Otherwise they're probably a legit lesbian.

Posted by: XTC at January 17, 2024 04:38 PM (sm6Pk)

35 Wonder Woman flop queen Patty Jenkins will be directing at least one stand-alone Star Wars movie

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This one was officially canceled because Patty Jenkins is an embarrassment, and it was hilarious.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 17, 2024 04:38 PM (GBKbO)

36 >Not sure that's working out too well for them, because their CEO, "Wonya Lucas," "abruptly" announced her retirement in August, and now four of her handpicked executives have been fired.

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*types wonya lucas...searches the google*

Yep, exactly what I expected.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at January 17, 2024 04:38 PM (NgqoH)

37 KK is not human but rather is an entity.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at January 17, 2024 04:38 PM (8sMut)

38 Like spraying a room with Fabreeze Tropical to cover up a pungent Egg McMuffin fart. One of those farts that is especially unsettling because it smells almost the same coming out as it tasted going in, which causes you to realize, in disgust: All the food we eat is just farts in solid form.

Observational humor ftw.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 17, 2024 04:38 PM (aD39U)

39 Leslye Headland is murdering The Acolyte too I bet.

Posted by: runner at January 17, 2024 04:39 PM (V13WU)

40 There is further evidence the movie has been shelved -- after the feminist activist went on her own rogue, freelance publicity tour for a movie not slated to premiere until 2025 at earliest, Disney rushed out a quickie press release claiming that the only man that fans have some amount of trust in, Jon Favreau, would be directing a movie based on the only part of the Star Wars universe fans have any lingering interest in, the Mandoverse.

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I don't trust him very much. Not because I imagine him to hate me and my beliefs, but because he directed Cowboys and Aliens.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 17, 2024 04:39 PM (GBKbO)

41 which causes you to realize, in disgust: All the food we eat is just farts in solid form.

All we are is Farts in Solid Form.

Posted by: Kansas at January 17, 2024 04:39 PM (4I/2K)

42 29 The companion characters are annoying as hell and ghAAAAAYYYYYY~~!
Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 17, 2024 04:37 PM (IG4Id)

And the game apparently makes it almost impossible to get through without having to let one of them f*** you.

Posted by: XTC at January 17, 2024 04:39 PM (sm6Pk)

43 Leslye Headland is murdering The Acolyte too I bet.
Posted by: runner at January 17, 2024 04:39 PM (V13WU)
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LOL.

Like there was literally *any* other possibility.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 17, 2024 04:39 PM (z8vUP)

44 Why isn't Chris Pine more successful?

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 17, 2024 04:39 PM (aD39U)

45 Reacher reminded me too much of Puddy from Seinfeld and not in a good way. I couldn't make it past two episodes.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at January 17, 2024 04:39 PM (+oXTu)

46 @40

>>but because he directed Cowboys and Aliens.

Cowboys and Aliens is technically Prometheus adjacent.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 17, 2024 04:40 PM (XV/Pl)

47 These stories remind me of the old cartoons that show a slow witted character digging a hole to China.

Disney is pretty close to the Earth's core about now.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 17, 2024 04:40 PM (Q4IgG)

48 Why isn't Chris Pine more successful?
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 17, 2024 04:39 PM (aD39U)
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Because Chris Pratt is.

There's only so much market appetite for hot Chrises.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 17, 2024 04:40 PM (z8vUP)

49 >All we are in Farts in Solid Form.

Posted by: Kansas at January 17, 2024 04:39 PM (4I/2K)

I saw Farts in Solid Form open for Ween at the Keswick in '98.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at January 17, 2024 04:40 PM (NgqoH)

50 49 I saw Farts in Solid Form open for Ween at the Keswick in '98.
Posted by: Heavy Meta at January 17, 2024 04:40 PM (NgqoH)

Philadelphia is a fart in city form.

Posted by: XTC at January 17, 2024 04:41 PM (sm6Pk)

51 @44

>>Why isn't Chris Pine more successful?

For the same reason Michael Biehn or Nick Stall wasn't more successful... stardom is a fickle beast.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 17, 2024 04:41 PM (XV/Pl)

52 I bet Jon Favreau found out that he is making a feature film based on Mando and Grogu from the internets / ..just like the rest of us....

Posted by: runner at January 17, 2024 04:41 PM (V13WU)

53 28 ...and how can we forget the Taika Waititi's SW Feature Film ?? - (circa 2020) "Taika Waititi to Direct and Co-Write new Star Wars Feature Film for Theatrical Release "....
Posted by: runner at January 17, 2024 04:37 PM (V13WU)

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It's just so hard to keep track of them all.

Waititi also has a bevy of projects that he's never able to get off the ground all the time too, most notably the live action adaptation of Akira.

His most recent movie, Next Goal Wins, was shelved for 2-3 years before eventually getting released quietly.

Remember when he was nominated for Best Picture? Man...things change fast.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 17, 2024 04:41 PM (GBKbO)

54 The companion characters are annoying as hell ...

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 17, 2024 04:37 PM (IG4Id)

Another settlement needs your help...

Posted by: Preston Garvey at January 17, 2024 04:41 PM (qPw5n)

55 "Spherical-headed cretin"

I'll go with melon-head.

Posted by: For gp, The Action IS The Juice at January 17, 2024 04:42 PM (MvF+J)

56 Apparently Baldur's Gate 3 is the game of the year and one of the best computer games ever created,
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Planescape: Torment has entered the chat.

The Nameless One would like a word with BG3...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 17, 2024 04:42 PM (7fElN)

57 We'll need Busby Berkeley movies for the next depression.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 17, 2024 04:42 PM (63Dwl)

58 8 Star Wars as some sort of alt-history slasher fantasy will be amazeballs, and Tarantino's penchant for beating the sh*t out of his female leads will at least offer the fan base a little bit of catharsis.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 17, 2024 04:30 PM (XV/Pl)

That would be glorious. Also glorious would be to make a movie that's back-to-back tellings of the same story with the same characters and plot points, except one from the Star Trek perspective (heroic spacemen crusading for goodness and science) and the other one from the Star Wars perspective (rebels oppressed by an evil empire in a corrupt galaxy). Both IPs started out low budget so some film students could probably do a de-branded version. It'd be so damn subversive.

Posted by: CppThis at January 17, 2024 04:42 PM (PZvjL)

59 39 Leslye "I'M GAY" Headland is murdering The Acolyte too I bet.
Posted by: runner at January 17, 2024 04:39 PM (V13WU)

But she loves all The Star Wars! She's gay. And her most traumatic life experience? Moving from MD to MA as a kid. She's gay.

I, as a military brat, read that in an interview and laughed hysterically.

Did you know she's gay?

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at January 17, 2024 04:42 PM (8sMut)

60 46 @40

>>but because he directed Cowboys and Aliens.

Cowboys and Aliens is technically Prometheus adjacent.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 17, 2024 04:40 PM (XV/Pl)

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Well, fuck you buddy.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 17, 2024 04:42 PM (GBKbO)

61 ...and how can we forget the Taika Waititi's SW Feature Film ?? - (circa 2020) "Taika Waititi to Direct and Co-Write new Star Wars Feature Film for Theatrical Release "....
Posted by: runner at January 17, 2024 04:37 PM (V13WU)

Never will forgive that guy for ruining Thor.

Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at January 17, 2024 04:42 PM (Rbu5d)

62 21 I've noticed online a lot of hate towards Reacher lately. People calling Jack Reacher a Mary Sue (or technically "Gary Stu" since he's a guy) and saying his show sucks. because he's too good at everything.

Now, I haven't actually watched Reacher myself, but I can't help but notice how nobody involved in the making of Reacher has come out and asked "why is nobody watching our show?" Because it's a super popular show and doing quite well, and even if Reacher is a Mary Sue, nobody watching it cares because it's the kind of show that is giving its intended audience what they want to see on screen. Which is apparently an alien concept to most of the "entertainers" in Hollywood.
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at January 17, 2024 04:36 PM (fKIdX)

I'm not really a fan (the genre generally bores me). But I've seen it because the missus is a fan. The writing has some fun moments, more so in this season than the last. And it's based on successful books, so if well-executed (and it seems to be), it has a built-in fanbase. It's also not chock-a-block with woke nonsense.

Posted by: Things do seem to come easy to Reacher, but he's smart and a hulk at January 17, 2024 04:42 PM (L81HX)

63 Push th' little daisies and make 'em come up
Push th' little daisies and make 'em come up
Push th' little daisies and make 'em come up
Push th' little daisies and make 'em come up

Posted by: Ween at January 17, 2024 04:42 PM (z8vUP)

64 It looks like you're trying to break wind.

Would you like an Egg McMuffin to help with that?

Posted by: Clippy Mao at January 17, 2024 04:43 PM (2yu8s)

65 56 Planescape: Torment has entered the chat.

The Nameless One would like a word with BG3...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 17, 2024 04:42 PM (7fElN)

I will never stop confusing that with Arcanum : Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura.

Posted by: XTC at January 17, 2024 04:43 PM (sm6Pk)

66 Steve Cortes, a former Trump advisor who campaigned for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis before stepping down from the Never Back Down super PAC, had a change of heart, penning an op-ed titled “Only Trump Can Save America.”

I don't believe you could get more slimy than this guy.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 17, 2024 04:43 PM (eYF7X)

67 a ton of projects which they never admit have been shelved.

See? Boobs, Hitler and shelves!

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in solidarity with the struggle to maintain Moron standards at January 17, 2024 04:43 PM (G8YqU)

68 Oh goodie, a Star Wars flop coming, I can wait

Posted by: Skip at January 17, 2024 04:43 PM (fwDg9)

69 Unexpectedly!

Posted by: That Guy that always emboldens Unexpectedly!. . . at January 17, 2024 04:44 PM (4Winp)

70 Hallmark is "the most-watched entertainment network on cable TV last year"? I had no clue.

Posted by: For gp, The Action IS The Juice at January 17, 2024 04:44 PM (MvF+J)

71 Is Kaffeine Kennedy related to Barack Obama? I heard he could fuck up a blowjob in a men's bathhouse.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at January 17, 2024 04:44 PM (J3ryZ)

72 But she loves all The Star Wars! She's gay. And her most traumatic life experience? Moving from MD to MA as a kid. She's gay.

I, as a military brat, read that in an interview and laughed hysterically.

Did you know she's gay?
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at January 17, 2024 04:42 PM (8sMut)
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No, I didn't.

But I did know that she was Harvey Weinstein's secretary.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 17, 2024 04:44 PM (z8vUP)

73 62 Now, I haven't actually watched Reacher myself, but I can't help but notice how nobody involved in the making of Reacher has come out and asked "why is nobody watching our show?" Because it's a super popular show and doing quite well, and even if Reacher is a Mary Sue, nobody watching it cares because it's the kind of show that is giving its intended audience what they want to see on screen. Which is apparently an alien concept to most of the "entertainers" in Hollywood.
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at January 17, 2024 04:36 PM (fKIdX)

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It was my understanding that the appeal of the Jack Reacher character was that he was super competent at everything.

The problem with the Mary Sue is that they don't have reason for being great at everything. Ensign Mary Sue just shows up and saves the day because she's great.

I thought Reacher got around that to a degree because he was highly trained.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 17, 2024 04:44 PM (GBKbO)

74 I'm in recovery from having watched the last two episodes as well as the rest of mando season 3.

It was astounding how the quality, which started way below the previous seasons, just found a way to get worse with each episode.

Posted by: TexasDan at January 17, 2024 04:44 PM (z/ifB)

75 49 >All we are in Farts in Solid Form.

Posted by: Kansas at January 17, 2024 04:39 PM (4I/2K)

I saw Farts in Solid Form open for Ween at the Keswick in '98.
Posted by: Heavy Meta at January 17, 2024 04:40 PM (NgqoH)

So you've met the Fart Sandwich Posse?

Posted by: Primus at January 17, 2024 04:44 PM (8sMut)

76 Jon Favreau was pretty good in The Replacements and in Couples Retreat.

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 17, 2024 04:45 PM (4I/2K)

77 Hallmark is "the most-watched entertainment network on cable TV last year"? I had no clue.
Posted by: For gp

A lot depends on what is defined as an 'entertainment network'

Posted by: Tonypete at January 17, 2024 04:45 PM (SAX5G)

78 I will never stop confusing that with Arcanum : Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura.
Posted by: XTC at January 17, 2024 04:43 PM (sm6Pk)
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That had a pretty neat concept behind it. A lot of cool Victorian steampunk vibes.

Storywise, it was no Planescape: Torment.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 17, 2024 04:45 PM (7fElN)

79 74 I'm in recovery from having watched the last two episodes as well as the rest of mando season 3.

It was astounding how the quality, which started way below the previous seasons, just found a way to get worse with each episode.
Posted by: TexasDan at January 17, 2024 04:44 PM (z/ifB)

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The Mandalorian was never more than Star Wars fan comfort food: easy and safe delivery of Star Wars tropes done reasonably well.

That it got effusive love and praise upon its first release did not surprise me because I have paid attention to media and fan responses for the past couple of decades, but the show definitely didn't feel the same way to me as it did to the Nerd Crew.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 17, 2024 04:46 PM (GBKbO)

80 Shirley there is a director with fuck you money, who can spout the feminist shit right back at them. A la "I enjoy making woman uncomfortable".

Posted by: DOYLE at January 17, 2024 04:46 PM (Z8Yh2)

81 speaking of disney, an odd thing has happened recently.

mrs. chronda signed us up for the disney movie club ages ago; every month they send us a movie.

within the last six months two things have happened: a) the e-mail they send us each month no longer tells us which movie they're going to send, instead telling us to log into our account to find out and b) they've started sending us season one of the various star wars/marvel series they've been failing to flog on their streaming platform.

Posted by: anachronda at January 17, 2024 04:46 PM (v3pYe)

82 I thought Reacher got around that to a degree because he was highly trained.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 17, 2024 04:44 PM (GBKbO)

...

Also the actual actor is a 325 pound grotesquerie of muscle. It's silly that all the bad guys want to grapple with him whenever he runs out of rounds. But him winning fights is not a stretch.

Posted by: TexasDan at January 17, 2024 04:46 PM (z/ifB)

83 >>>
...and how can we forget the Taika Waititi's SW Feature Film ?? - (circa 2020) "Taika Waititi to Direct and Co-Write new Star Wars Feature Film for Theatrical Release "....

oh right! Geeze. Anyone can get a star wars deal.

Posted by: ace at January 17, 2024 04:47 PM (KRtlO)

84 Leading Report @LeadingReport 1h
BREAKING: New Mexico Republican Representatives have filed Articles of Impeachment against Democrat Governor Michelle Grisham for issuing an unconstitutional executive order to suspend the 2nd Amendment.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at January 17, 2024 04:47 PM (2yu8s)

85 Now, I haven't actually watched Reacher myself, but I can't help but notice how nobody involved in the making of Reacher has come out and asked "why is nobody watching our show?" Because it's a super popular show and doing quite well, and even if Reacher is a Mary Sue, nobody watching it cares because it's the kind of show that is giving its intended audience what they want to see on screen. Which is apparently an alien concept to most of the "entertainers" in Hollywood.
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at January 17, 2024 04:36 PM (fKIdX)

Is he a Mary Sue though? The cops don't give him a warm greeting at the beginning of Season 1. He has to earn their confidence, no?

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at January 17, 2024 04:47 PM (8sMut)

86 82 Also the actual actor is a 325 pound grotesquerie of muscle. It's silly that all the bad guys want to grapple with him whenever he runs out of rounds. But him winning fights is not a stretch.
Posted by: TexasDan at January 17, 2024 04:46 PM (z/ifB)

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I imagine the fights are far more believable and don't nearly stretch the levels of believability as Jessica Chastain pwning 5 stuntguys twice her size at the same time.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 17, 2024 04:47 PM (GBKbO)

87 The Mandalorian was never more than Star Wars fan comfort food: easy and safe delivery of Star Wars tropes done reasonably well.

That it got effusive love and praise upon its first release did not surprise me because I have paid attention to media and fan responses for the past couple of decades, but the show definitely didn't feel the same way to me as it did to the Nerd Crew.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 17, 2024 04:46 PM (GBKbO)
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Look at what it followed.

"Easy and safe delivery of Star Wars tropes done reasonably well" was apparently so much better than what preceded it (except, from what I hear, Rogue One) that it looked sensational by comparison.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 17, 2024 04:47 PM (z8vUP)

88 Nothing ever dies, it just goes to Limbo.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 17, 2024 04:30 PM (z8vUP)

LIMBO! *steel drums begin playing*

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at January 17, 2024 04:47 PM (BdMk6)

89 Star Wars could be easily fixed.

1. Elon Musk buys Lucas Film for pocket change.
3. Fires everybody. Replaces production teams with fans who genuinely love Star Wars.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at January 17, 2024 04:47 PM (9yUzE)

90 It was my understanding that the appeal of the Jack Reacher character was that he was super competent at everything.

The problem with the Mary Sue is that they don't have reason for being great at everything. Ensign Mary Sue just shows up and saves the day because she's great.

I thought Reacher got around that to a degree because he was highly trained.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 17, 2024 04:44 PM (GBKbO)
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That's correct. The original Mary Sue was a 15-year-old ensign aboard the starship Enterprise (female Wesley Crusher). No real life experience or training.

Jack Reacher had a couple of decades of military training and discipline under his belt in a variety of fields. He starts out uber-competent but he has the necessary backstory to support it.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 17, 2024 04:48 PM (7fElN)

91 I posted #9 as it had bazoombas but no reaction so I guess nobody went there .....

Posted by: Ciampino - ding dongs at January 17, 2024 04:48 PM (qfLjt)

92 84 Leading Report @LeadingReport 1h
BREAKING: New Mexico Republican Representatives have filed Articles of Impeachment against Democrat Governor Michelle Grisham for issuing an unconstitutional executive order to suspend the 2nd Amendment.
Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at January 17, 2024 04:47 PM (2yu8s)

How long before they are arrested?

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at January 17, 2024 04:48 PM (8sMut)

93 That it got effusive love and praise upon its first release did not surprise me because I have paid attention to media and fan responses for the past couple of decades, but the show definitely didn't feel the same way to me as it did to the Nerd Crew.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 17, 2024 04:46 PM (GBKbO)

It was amusing and had moments, and the quality remained consistent a ways into the second season.

the third season was so, so bad. My kids actually complained.

Posted by: TexasDan at January 17, 2024 04:48 PM (z/ifB)

94 87 Look at what it followed.

"Easy and safe delivery of Star Wars tropes done reasonably well" was apparently so much better than what preceded it (except, from what I hear, Rogue One) that it looked sensational by comparison.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 17, 2024 04:47 PM (z8vUP)

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I still defend The Last Jedi. Well, most of it. Vice-Admiral Holdo is probably the worst written character in modern science fiction.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 17, 2024 04:49 PM (GBKbO)

95 I've never watched a Hallmark movie. I did watch Monk and Psych they used to rerun.

Posted by: Titanium White at January 17, 2024 04:49 PM (/2Hy+)

96 >>>I've noticed online a lot of hate towards Reacher lately. People calling Jack Reacher a Mary Sue (or technically "Gary Stu" since he's a guy) and saying his show sucks. because he's too good at everything.

I did kinda notice that. In the books, he's this ultimate badass giant. I asked John Sexton, who had read more of the books, do they ever explain how he's such a mountain of muscle? Does he work out? What?

Sexton said the books explain he does no exercise, he's just naturally, genetically a superman.

Posted by: ace at January 17, 2024 04:49 PM (KRtlO)

97 "in development" means someone in the company thought about it, you know like the janitor.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 17, 2024 04:49 PM (/Mbcg)

98 I just watched Wonder Woman 1984. I liked it a lot more than I thought I would. The premise was original, (in todays way). Both WW and other lady each made a “deal with the devil” for their most desired “thing” that they later have to renounce in order to get the world back to proper order. As a Christian, I thought the premise and solution had merit and were an interesting way to look at it.

Posted by: Sassy at January 17, 2024 04:49 PM (xSICi)

99 I posted #9 as it had bazoombas but no reaction so I guess nobody went there .....
Posted by: Ciampino - ding dongs at January 17, 2024 04:48 PM (qfLjt)
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Except to find out who was first, nobody reads the first 15 comments because they are usually variations on "FIRST!"

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 17, 2024 04:49 PM (z8vUP)

100 "NBC faces backlash as Texans' CJ Stroud's Jesus mention cut from social media clip

Stroud thanked Jesus Christ immediately after the game

The offending words?

"First and foremost, I just want to give all glory to my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ," he said"

http://tinyurl.com/pw999s55

Posted by: Marcus T at January 17, 2024 04:49 PM (NReIw)

101 Despite rising to the top of the ratings as the most-watched entertainment network on cable TV last year

-

BOOMING ECONOMY JACK

Posted by: Nikki Haley - Trump losing one massively (D) county by one vote proves that he can't beat Biden at January 17, 2024 04:49 PM (+RC1q)

102 >> farts in solid form.

I haven't been called that since my honeymoon.

Posted by: Al (Not sure anyone will know this line, but give it a shot.) at January 17, 2024 04:50 PM (iCfpR)

103 Nixon is hot. I'm going to be pissed if she gets killed. That would not be out of character for the books. The ladies love Reacher then die.

Posted by: DOYLE at January 17, 2024 04:50 PM (Z8Yh2)

104 I still defend The Last Jedi. Well, most of it. Vice-Admiral Holdo is probably the worst written character in modern science fiction.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 17, 2024 04:49 PM (GBKbO)
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"It's a great building except for that big 'ole foundation stone that's actually made out of dust."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 17, 2024 04:50 PM (z8vUP)

105 Studios are like pharma companies. There’s a lot of failure. But then they hit the one thing and it makes up for all the failures.

Posted by: Montec at January 17, 2024 04:50 PM (lX8S5)

106 I liked Orphan Black, at least the first season.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) blurts at January 17, 2024 04:50 PM (aD39U)

107 86 I imagine the fights are far more believable and don't nearly stretch the levels of believability as Jessica Chastain pwning 5 stuntguys twice her size at the same time.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 17, 2024 04:47 PM (GBKbO)

If people are that desperate for a woman that looks like she could kick the average normie's ass, there's always Brock Lesnar's daughter.

Who literally just looks like Brock Lesnar in a wig.

Posted by: XTC at January 17, 2024 04:50 PM (sm6Pk)

108 104 "It's a great building except for that big 'ole foundation stone that's actually made out of dust."
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 17, 2024 04:50 PM (z8vUP)

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I see Holdo as more of an added wing designed by a retarded monkey on shrooms, but kinda.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 17, 2024 04:50 PM (GBKbO)

109 It sounds silly, but how hard is it to make money from movies? Not very.

Look at the Fast and Furious, it was a cop movie with cool cars, that became a 10 film empire racking up billions. And it did it by just being a dumb action movie with cars, hell towards the end i dont think it had any cars.

Making money from movies is simple. But they would rather lose billions, and spread their agenda, than make money.

I see it on so many of the TV shows I work. For a 10 episode season they'll bring in 6 or 7 men who get the episodes done in 10 hour days, despite having complex shots and stunts, and the crew goes home happy. Then they need to offer a few episodes to the diversity hires (mostly women, as most black/hispanic/asian men i've worked with are solid directors) and those days run 14 hours, the set is a cluster fuck, the director doesn't know what she's doing and flusters everyone, but they'll waste those hundreds and hundreds of thousands of dollars (and crew sentiment) all to push this shit. Then they'll make sure the women who did the worst jobs, get nominated.

Get these worthless feminist and ideologues out of the film industry, and it'll be a $20 bil industry.

Posted by: Rbastid at January 17, 2024 04:50 PM (yRwlf)

110 >>Texas AG Ken Paxton Rejects Biden Admin’s Demands To Give Up Control Of Border Area

The guy George P Bush wanted to get rid of.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 17, 2024 04:50 PM (eYF7X)

111 I imagine the fights are far more believable and don't nearly stretch the levels of believability as Jessica Chastain pwning 5 stuntguys twice her size at the same time.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 17, 2024 04:47 PM (GBKbO)

...

I imagine he has to actually be careful not to hurt people when filming the action.

You know what is not terrible, as far as family entertainment goes, is the Percy Jackson series on Amazon. I wanted to hate it but it's fairly decent.

Posted by: TexasDan at January 17, 2024 04:51 PM (z/ifB)

112 >>>76 Jon Favreau was pretty good in The Replacements and in Couples Retreat.

in couples retreat, he's hilarious with the masseuse.

Do you want a male or female masseur?

"Well I don't know, which one do you think would bring a nuturing, motherly, tender, feminine energy?"

Posted by: ace at January 17, 2024 04:51 PM (KRtlO)

113 Maryland is a fart in State form

Posted by: Yo! Ultra MAGA at January 17, 2024 04:51 PM (8WUQq)

114 @89

>> Fires everybody. Replaces production teams with fans who genuinely love Star Wars.

That fan made film, Troopers, that's in a COPS docu-style, is better than the last three Star Wars films, Solo, The Asoka Series and Andor and it was made for probably 1 billionth of what those other properties were made for.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 17, 2024 04:51 PM (XV/Pl)

115 A while back I watched some of each of the Star Wars Triology as I came across it on TV.

I may be in the minority but I didn't think they held up very well at all. Kind of silly.

Posted by: Titanium White at January 17, 2024 04:51 PM (/2Hy+)

116 Favreau is also hellafunny as the bartender/friend in The Break-Up.

Posted by: ace at January 17, 2024 04:51 PM (KRtlO)

117 The Mandalorian was never more than Star Wars fan comfort food: easy and safe delivery of Star Wars tropes done reasonably well.

==

That sounds a lot like a"professional" review of The Empire Strikes Back from the 80s.

Posted by: runner at January 17, 2024 04:51 PM (V13WU)

118 If people are that desperate for a woman that looks like she could kick the average normie's ass, there's always Brock Lesnar's daughter.

Who literally just looks like Brock Lesnar in a wig.
Posted by: XTC at January 17, 2024 04:50 PM (sm6Pk)

That is both horrifying and hilarious.

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 17, 2024 04:51 PM (4I/2K)

119 During my flu stint I watched all the Jesse Stone mysteries. Not quite John Wick numbers but decent body count. Plus I like Tom Selleck.

Posted by: DOYLE at January 17, 2024 04:52 PM (Z8Yh2)

120 Studios are like pharma companies. There’s a lot of failure. But then they hit the one thing and it makes up for all the failures.
Posted by: Montec at January 17, 2024 04:50 PM (lX8S5)
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True, but in Disney's case, the success almost-certainly cannot be big enough.

They lost a billion dollars at the box office last year alone. The post-box-office revenue streams are bone dry (no home video (Disney+), no merchandising, etc.).

They probably lost $1.5 billion on Disney+

Even mega-hits aren't enough to offset that in a meaningful way.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 17, 2024 04:52 PM (z8vUP)

121 113 Maryland is a fart in State form
Posted by: Yo! Ultra MAGA at January 17, 2024 04:51 PM (8WUQq)

Baltimore bypasses "fart" and goes straight to "rotting pile of shit".

Posted by: XTC at January 17, 2024 04:52 PM (sm6Pk)

122
"First and foremost, I just want to give all glory to my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ," he said"

-

I didn't watch his whole last season in college but IIRC he played in the playoffs and faced Alabama in the championship. Seemed like a good kid and definitely a fighter (if I'm thinking right he broke a couple of ribs against Clemson). I'm glad to see he's a Christian and publicly stands up for his beliefs.

If he'd wanted to thank his gay boyfriend for always supporting him then the networks would've allowed 7 additional minutes and a two hour special later in the week.

Posted by: Nikki Haley - Trump losing one massively (D) county by one vote proves that he can't beat Biden at January 17, 2024 04:52 PM (+RC1q)

123
The original Mary Sue was a 15-year-old ensign aboard the starship Enterprise (female Wesley Crusher). No real life experience or training.

Was that in one of the movies?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 17, 2024 04:52 PM (63Dwl)

124 I still defend The Last Jedi. Well, most of it. Vice-Admiral Holdo is probably the worst written character in modern science fiction.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 17, 2024 04:49 PM (GBKbO)
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Sorry, but the entire plot of that movie from start to finish is just dumb, dumb, dumb. None of it makes a lick of sense.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 17, 2024 04:52 PM (7fElN)

125 Aw, a happy thread!

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo and keep your rifle by your side at January 17, 2024 04:53 PM (xcxpd)

126 Also the actual actor is a 325 pound grotesquerie of muscle. It's silly that all the bad guys want to grapple with him whenever he runs out of rounds. But him winning fights is not a stretch.
Posted by: TexasDan at January 17, 2024 04:46 PM (z/ifB)

As an addendum to your comment, many of the people do comment about the giant walking around their town.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at January 17, 2024 04:53 PM (BdMk6)

127 114 @89

>> Fires everybody. Replaces production teams with fans who genuinely love Star Wars.

That fan made film, Troopers, that's in a COPS docu-style, is better than the last three Star Wars films, Solo, The Asoka Series and Andor and it was made for probably 1 billionth of what those other properties were made for.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 17, 2024 04:51 PM (XV/Pl)

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Kennedy is simply a bad producer.

There are two major kinds of producers: the money men and the creative producers.

All producers want to be the creatives, they want to be Thalberg or Selznick. Most of them should just be money men, or else they'd actually write and direct.

Kennedy simply has bad creative choices and she can't even seem to manage a production effectively. Two of her Star Wars films had massive reshoots (Rogue One and Solo) out of five total. That's probably not an accident.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 17, 2024 04:53 PM (GBKbO)

128 Who literally just looks like Brock Lesnar in a wig.
Posted by: XTC at January 17, 2024 04:50 PM (sm6Pk

Poor girl. Like Bruce Willis's daughters.

Posted by: Titanium White at January 17, 2024 04:53 PM (/2Hy+)

129 >>103 Nixon is hot.

*fist bump*

Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 17, 2024 04:54 PM (eYF7X)

130 farts in solid form.

...

My SIL likes to talk about the poop particles that accompany the fart cloud, and which you just inhaled.

Posted by: TexasDan at January 17, 2024 04:54 PM (z/ifB)

131 "If he'd wanted to thank his gay boyfriend for always supporting him then the networks would've allowed 7 additional minutes and a two hour special later in the week."

That's what a lot of the comments stated. He's a great guy and a real inspiration , a true servant of our Lord. He has continually mentioned him throughout his playing career.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 17, 2024 04:54 PM (NReIw)

132 98 I just watched Wonder Woman 1984. I liked it a lot more than I thought I would. The premise was original, (in todays way).

hmm. oddly enough, that's one movie the disney movie club *hasn't* sent us. i don't think they've sent us the marvels, either, although they have sent us quantumania.

Posted by: anachronda at January 17, 2024 04:54 PM (v3pYe)

133 124 I still defend The Last Jedi. Well, most of it. Vice-Admiral Holdo is probably the worst written character in modern science fiction.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 17, 2024 04:49 PM (GBKbO)
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Sorry, but the entire plot of that movie from start to finish is just dumb, dumb, dumb. None of it makes a lick of sense.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 17, 2024 04:52 PM (7fElN)

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I love the slow chase stuff.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 17, 2024 04:54 PM (GBKbO)

134 118 That is both horrifying and hilarious.
Posted by: Count de Monet at January 17, 2024 04:51 PM (4I/2K)

She does shot put for Colorado State University.

And is a giant with the exact same face as her father.

It's uncanny, and yes, horrifying.

Posted by: XTC at January 17, 2024 04:54 PM (sm6Pk)

135 Was that in one of the movies?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 17, 2024 04:52 PM (63Dwl)
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Star Trek fan fiction. The authoress made Mary Sue her self-insert character.

Young, inexperienced but perfect, sassy, well-liked and immediately respected by all, etc.

The "Mary Sue" character description is named for it. She was the first "Mary Sue."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 17, 2024 04:54 PM (z8vUP)

136 And the game apparently makes it almost impossible to get through without having to let one of them f*** you.
Posted by: XTC

I had a serious case of the '1000 yard stare' first time I read about gamers complaining about not being able to fuck NPCs in games.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 17, 2024 04:54 PM (IG4Id)

137 132 98 I just watched Wonder Woman 1984. I liked it a lot more than I thought I would. The premise was original, (in todays way).

hmm. oddly enough, that's one movie the disney movie club *hasn't* sent us. i don't think they've sent us the marvels, either, although they have sent us quantumania.
Posted by: anachronda at January 17, 2024 04:54 PM (v3pYe)

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Well, WW was a Warner Bros. film, so...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 17, 2024 04:54 PM (GBKbO)

138 IMHO., Iger has to pay Hulu and defeat the proxy battle before he knows how much money has to spend. The NFL buying in thru ESPN is part of this strategy. I would expect sometime in 25 these project spool up.

Posted by: Jamaica at January 17, 2024 04:55 PM (Eeb9P)

139 I'm still looking forward to the release of Snow Not-So-White (but empowered) and the 7 Freaks

Posted by: Ripley at January 17, 2024 04:55 PM (JojsZ)

140 Many started their SW journey with the prequel. I'll be honest with you, I did not like the prequel trilogy when it first came out, but upon viewing it now, I don't considered it that bad.

Posted by: runner at January 17, 2024 04:55 PM (V13WU)

141 Rise of Palpatine had massive reshoots as well and allegedly had six entire "storybooks" worth of plot filmed, with each permutation test screened. Allegedly they were still shooting and editing up to the moment the film was "locked" for distribution to theaters.

Posted by: ace at January 17, 2024 04:55 PM (KRtlO)

142 Last two Reachers were meh. He's needs to fuck the pussy and then kick it to the curb. Why is big boy suddenly nurturing relationships?

Posted by: Dr. Bone at January 17, 2024 04:55 PM (J3ryZ)

143 I'm still looking forward to the release of Snow Not-So-White (but empowered) and the 7 Freaks
Posted by: Ripley at January 17, 2024 04:55 PM (JojsZ)
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"Faux White and the Seven Creatures"

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 17, 2024 04:56 PM (z8vUP)

144 "It's almost as if Kaffeine Kennedy has the Reverse Midas Touch."

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"Shit Midas" is taken.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at January 17, 2024 04:56 PM (wzAuc)

145 111 You know what is not terrible, as far as family entertainment goes, is the Percy Jackson series on Amazon. I wanted to hate it but it's fairly decent.

maybe i'll have to check it out. i liked the movies. haven't read the books.

Posted by: anachronda at January 17, 2024 04:56 PM (v3pYe)

146 >>>I've noticed online a lot of hate towards Reacher lately. People calling Jack Reacher a Mary Sue (or technically "Gary Stu" since he's a guy) and saying his show sucks. because he's too good at everything.

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I liked season 1, except for the final episode. Shootout seems unrealistic.

I watched first four episodes of season 2. I would agree with the Mary Sue analogy. Even Tom Cruise got beat up pretty good in the bathroom fight in the first movie.

Posted by: Turn 2 at January 17, 2024 04:56 PM (JfxgE)

147 92 Thd Eff Bee Eye will be breaking into their residence at 4am for insurrection

Posted by: Skip at January 17, 2024 04:56 PM (fwDg9)

148 "Like spraying a room with Fabreeze Tropical to cover up a pungent Egg McMuffin fart. One of those farts that is especially unsettling because it smells almost the same coming out as it tasted going in, which causes you to realize, in disgust: All the food we eat is just farts in solid form."

Ace doing something interesting here....

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo and keep your rifle by your side at January 17, 2024 04:56 PM (xcxpd)

149 I keep hoping to see a thread by Ace that starts off with the words "Disney to sell off..." or "Disney files for Bankruptcy Protection."

Maybe someday.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at January 17, 2024 04:56 PM (qPw5n)

150 R A W S A L E R T S @rawsalerts 13m
🚨#BREAKING: The FBI has Arrested Transgender Woman Plotting Violence Against Jews, Black People, and Allegedly Targeting Transphobic Co-workers with Nazi Imagery and Stockpile of Guns and Ammunition
📌#CottageGrove | #Oregon
The FBI has arrested a 56-year-old transgender woman named Elizabeth Ballesteros West, who lives in Cottage Grove, Oregon. West was found with a cache of guns and has been diagnosed with bipolar disorder. According to federal agents and court records West is being held at the Lane County Jail and the investigation is on going alleging West made threats online to harm to kill Jews and Black people and reposted content about a mass shooting while displaying a her own Nazi flag and multiple guns. She also threatened her "transphobic" co-workers she was found with 16 rifles, 11 handguns, tens of thousands of ammunition rounds, gun accessories, 48 drawings, a composition notebook called black shadow journal

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at January 17, 2024 04:56 PM (2yu8s)

151 R A W S A L E R T S @rawsalerts 6m
🚨#UPDATE: A source told ABC reporters that West (who changed her name to Elizabeth Ballesteros West in October), was arrested in 1993 for allegedly placing a shotgun in her father's mouth, and pulling the trigger. The gun did not fire. The memes and videos published on West's social media include violence against multiple races, promoting white supremacy, and threats to widespread violence in the community and the workforce. Prevalent references to Hitler and other Nazi propaganda throughout.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at January 17, 2024 04:56 PM (2yu8s)

152 What is it with liberal white women and their obsession with all things gay? They virtue signal about everything, but they’re slobbering virtue signaling about gay men is particularly embarrassing

Posted by: UGAdawg at January 17, 2024 04:56 PM (tRd71)

153 42 29 The companion characters are annoying as hell and ghAAAAAYYYYYY~~!
Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 17, 2024 04:37 PM (IG4Id)

And the game apparently makes it almost impossible to get through without having to let one of them f*** you.
Posted by: XTC at January 17, 2024 04:39 PM (sm6Pk)

Let me guess: Baldur's Gate 3?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 17, 2024 04:56 PM (di6C2)

154 141 Rise of Palpatine had massive reshoots as well and allegedly had six entire "storybooks" worth of plot filmed, with each permutation test screened. Allegedly they were still shooting and editing up to the moment the film was "locked" for distribution to theaters.
Posted by: ace at January 17, 2024 04:55 PM (KRtlO)

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I'd forgotten that bit, but I remember hearing about it as well.

That's 3 of 5. That's a majority.

I think The Last Jedi is the only one with a relatively (moving making is hectic) straight forward production. I imagine Johnson got the script where Kennedy would approve it ironed out first.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 17, 2024 04:56 PM (GBKbO)

155 R A W S A L E R T S @rawsalerts 6m
🚨#UPDATE: The affidavit states West, the self-proclaimed "Nazi Dominatrix from Hell, who is tired of the blackening of America and Europe and ready to stand up to the Black Orcs and the Jewish wizards," was first visited by the FBI in September, when they received a tip about one of her Facebook posts in which she appeared to threaten her co-workers. From the affidavit: One picture was titled "Veil Mistress, the Man Slayer-Queen of the Under World." The composition notebook she called "the Black Shadow Journal" had a first page with the sentence "Blood, death, self-torture, self-hatred, wicked thoughts of mass murder at the gloved hands of the veil mistress" In which she drew a black child appearing to die in a car accident.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at January 17, 2024 04:57 PM (2yu8s)

156 @127

>>Kennedy is simply a bad producer.

It's more than that, it's simply affirmative, wanton, intentional destruction.

Everything is a failure and they are tripling down on the failure to spite their base of fans,

Kathleen Kennedy is indistinguishable from The GOP Establishment.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 17, 2024 04:57 PM (XV/Pl)

157 Lucas used to do exceptional "world - building" , even though he adopted the cloning bit from Zahn.

Posted by: runner at January 17, 2024 04:57 PM (V13WU)

158 Ace doing something interesting here....
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo and keep your rifle by your side at January 17, 2024 04:56 PM (xcxpd)
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Misspelling "Febreze?"

/me runs away

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at January 17, 2024 04:57 PM (z8vUP)

159 137 hmm. oddly enough, that's one movie the disney movie club *hasn't* sent us. i don't think they've sent us the marvels, either, although they have sent us quantumania.
Posted by: anachronda at January 17, 2024 04:54 PM (v3pYe)

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Well, WW was a Warner Bros. film, so...

that might explain it.

Posted by: anachronda at January 17, 2024 04:57 PM (v3pYe)

160 124 I still defend The Last Jedi. Well, most of it. Vice-Admiral Holdo is probably the worst written character in modern science fiction.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 17, 2024 04:49 PM (GBKbO)
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Sorry, but the entire plot of that movie from start to finish is just dumb, dumb, dumb. None of it makes a lick of sense.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 17, 2024 04:52 PM (7fElN)

I can't believe I saw that shit in a theater. I left quite pissed off. Luke Skywalker throws his light saber contemptuously behind him? It lost me right there.

As for Adm. Purple Hair, I remember thinking "The movie wants me to really like her but she's a blithering idiot!"

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at January 17, 2024 04:57 PM (8sMut)

161 If you moon someone and then fart are you blowing them a kiss?

Posted by: Titanium White at January 17, 2024 04:57 PM (/2Hy+)

162 _I love the slow chase stuff_

It was an interesting idea and on its own could have made compelling movie. Imagine a move just on the chase, with ever I creasing tension. And none of the silly side quests.

Also, a spaceship that ran out of fuel would keep going at the velocity it had when it's fuel ran out. It would not slow down or stop. That bugged me so much.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at January 17, 2024 04:58 PM (9yUzE)

163 Even Tom Cruise got beat up pretty good in the bathroom fight in the first movie.

Well, he should. He's 4'7" in lifts.

Posted by: Cruise is to Reacher as Scientology is to Religion at January 17, 2024 04:58 PM (L81HX)

164 156 It's more than that, it's simply affirmative, wanton, intentional destruction.

Everything is a failure and they are tripling down on the failure to spite their base of fans,

Kathleen Kennedy is indistinguishable from The GOP Establishment.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 17, 2024 04:57 PM (XV/Pl)

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I think I've said this, but my next movie post (this Saturday! Show up!) is about how WB intentionally tanked The LEGO franchise with The LEGO Movie Part 2.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 17, 2024 04:58 PM (GBKbO)

165 I imagine the fights are far more believable and don't nearly stretch the levels of believability as Jessica Chastain pwning 5 stuntguys twice her size at the same time.

_

I saw an advertisement for Echo.

Setting aside that they apparently changed her storyline and gave her Magic Indian Powers passed down from her mother just so they could fight the patriarchy, there is a brief scene where she's scrambling through a police station or the like and three cops or security guards come in so she can kick their butts with GRRL PWRRRR and also did we mention that she's an indian, possibly mexican-adjacent, and got her power from ancient mitochloridians passed down through the females of her indian tribe?

Regardless, watch closely. The men are CGI. They're not even bothering to have the women do anything beyond dance these days.

Posted by: Nikki Haley - Trump losing one massively (D) county by one vote proves that he can't beat Biden at January 17, 2024 04:58 PM (+RC1q)

166 Finished binging Killing Eve. It was gay gay gay 24/7 with a little spy stuff sprinkled on top. Started True Detective season 4. When did Jodie Foster forget how to act? And the writing is worse.

Posted by: nckate at January 17, 2024 04:59 PM (EPm6B)

167 >>152 What is it with liberal white women and their obsession with all things gay? They virtue signal about everything, but they’re slobbering virtue signaling about gay men is particularly embarrassing
Posted by: UGAdawg

It justifies in their empty heads why a man never looks at them that way?

Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 17, 2024 04:59 PM (eYF7X)

168 157 Lucas used to do exceptional "world - building" , even though he adopted the cloning bit from Zahn.
Posted by: runner at January 17, 2024 04:57 PM (V13WU)

The Clone Wars were referenced in the first Star Wars movie.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at January 17, 2024 04:59 PM (eYoxG)

169 The She Hulk bitch also got her ass kicked off the Deadpool 3 movie when she pissed off Ryan Reynolds (and everyone else).

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo and keep your rifle by your side at January 17, 2024 04:59 PM (xcxpd)

170 I think in one of the version, Rey was supposed to be Rey Kenobi.

Posted by: runner at January 17, 2024 04:59 PM (V13WU)

171 I love the slow chase stuff.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 17, 2024 04:54 PM (GBKbO)
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Tactically, it made 0 sense. The First Order could easily have had ships jump in front of the fleeing fleet and pound it to dust. Once the fleet made to that one planet for shelter, all the First Order had to do was pound the planet into smithereens from outer space. A single Imperial Star Destroyer II can do that and the first order had several larger and more powerful ships.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 17, 2024 05:00 PM (7fElN)

172 @164

>>I think I've said this, but my next movie post (this Saturday! Show up!) is about how WB intentionally tanked The LEGO franchise with The LEGO Movie Part 2.

LEGO Batman is probably the best film comedy of the last decade.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 17, 2024 05:00 PM (XV/Pl)

173 Where's my money, Mouse?

Posted by: Comcast at January 17, 2024 05:00 PM (aD39U)

174 "First and foremost, I just want to give all glory to my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ"

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Notice how quickly the woke white media people need to censor the black man once he starts saying things like this.

Posted by: Jay in PA at January 17, 2024 05:00 PM (i7Q7S)

175 169 The She Hulk bitch also got her ass kicked off the Deadpool 3 movie when she pissed off Ryan Reynolds (and everyone else).
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo and keep your rifle by your side at January 17, 2024 04:59 PM (xcxpd)

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Reynolds seems like a good guy.

He probably eats babies, or something, but he puts on good airs.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 17, 2024 05:00 PM (GBKbO)

176 They should drag whoever did that to the Reacher series through a pile of dog shit on wet grass. For a week.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 17, 2024 05:00 PM (NReIw)

177 _What is it with liberal white women and their obsession with all things gay?_

I think the AWFLs love the trans because an ugly dude in a dress makes them look so much better in comparison.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at January 17, 2024 05:01 PM (9yUzE)

178 he's just naturally, genetically a superman.

He also walks everywhere.

Posted by: DaveA at January 17, 2024 05:01 PM (FhXTo)

179 maybe i'll have to check it out. i liked the movies. haven't read the books.
Posted by: anachronda at January 17, 2024 04:56 PM (v3pYe)

The books, the original first series, are a lot of fun; they are what teen fiction should be. YA, whatever.

The movies I didn't love so if you liked them I think you'll enjoy the series. It works way better as the way to tell the story, and Riordan is credited as a writer.

It's true that the race-swapping stuff is in full effect, but the actors do a decent job (Annabel is meh) so I can pretend I'm in a world where they just hired competent people to do the job.

Posted by: TexasDan at January 17, 2024 05:01 PM (z/ifB)

180 "Notice how quickly the woke white media people need to censor the black man once he starts saying things like this."

Of course they do.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 17, 2024 05:01 PM (NReIw)

181 172 LEGO Batman is probably the best film comedy of the last decade.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 17, 2024 05:00 PM (XV/Pl)

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I love its first 20 minutes, but it just loses energy after that and its family is important plot just feels heavy-handed. It's definitely not fun.

Essentially, I wanted it to retain silliness for 85 minutes instead of trying for pathos, which I don't think it achieved.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 17, 2024 05:01 PM (GBKbO)

182 LEGO Batman is probably the best film comedy of the last decade.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 17, 2024 05:00 PM (XV/Pl)

I got dragged to the theatre to see that by one of my kids and found the whole thing so frantically kinetic I thought I was going to have a seizure.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at January 17, 2024 05:02 PM (N3zMI)

183 She Hulk bitch also got her ass kicked off the Deadpool 3 movie when she pissed off Ryan Reynolds (and everyone else).
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo and keep your rifle by your side at January 17, 2024 04:59 PM (xcxpd)

I've heard it's hard to piss off Ryan Reynolds who is supposedly laid back. Maybe that description is just from his publicist.

Posted by: Titanium White at January 17, 2024 05:02 PM (/2Hy+)

184 One thing I missed in Season one, is there an actual Venezuelan head bad guy and what happened to him?

Posted by: DaveA at January 17, 2024 05:02 PM (FhXTo)

185 If you moon someone and then fart are you blowing them a kiss?
Posted by: Titanium White at January 17, 2024 04:57 PM (/2Hy+)
.......

Not if you light it.

Posted by: wth at January 17, 2024 05:02 PM (v0R5T)

186 The Clone Wars were referenced in the first Star Wars movie.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at January 17, 2024 04:59 PM (eYoxG)

You are correct, but weren't the Kaminoans in Zahn's trilogy ?

Posted by: runner at January 17, 2024 05:02 PM (V13WU)

187 I always thought it was cool that they were trying hard to revive a dying Star Wars brand and something that was extremely close to "palpitation" was one of if not the main name in the films.

Posted by: Nikki Haley - Trump losing one massively (D) county by one vote proves that he can't beat Biden at January 17, 2024 05:02 PM (+RC1q)

188 Again, this is why I watch Reacher.

http://tinyurl.com/4u7k7yf8

Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 17, 2024 05:02 PM (eYF7X)

189 So a tranny white supremacist. Is there anything that trannies can't do?

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 17, 2024 05:03 PM (/Mbcg)

190 She Hulk. Just fucking retarded.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 17, 2024 05:03 PM (WVAwc)

191 The problem with the Mary Sue is that they don't have reason for being great at everything. Ensign Mary Sue just shows up and saves the day because she's great.

I thought Reacher got around that to a degree because he was highly trained.

He's highly trained, and he's not doing stuff far outside of that training. He's not manufacturing chemicals or learning to code, he's punching and shooting things.

Also, a lot of Mary Sues (and pretty much all modern ones) give obvious author insert speeches, usually on woke causes. Reacher doesn't do that.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 17, 2024 05:03 PM (2ocoG)

192 "Like spraying a room with Fabreeze Tropical to cover up a pungent Egg McMuffin fart. One of those farts that is especially unsettling because it smells almost the same coming out as it tasted going in, which causes you to realize, in disgust: All the food we eat is just farts in solid form."

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You ever heard of Yeats? Shelley? Auden? ... morons.

Posted by: The Guy Who Plays Ace in That Movie at January 17, 2024 05:03 PM (wzAuc)

193 he's just naturally, genetically a superman.

He also walks everywhere.
Posted by: DaveA at January 17, 2024 05:01 PM (FhXTo)

Probably can't fit in most cars.

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 17, 2024 05:03 PM (4I/2K)

194 >>> LEGO Batman is probably the best film comedy of the last decade.
Posted by: Thomas Bender

also one of the best batman movies. I didn't love the changes made to batgirl but otherwise, really a decent batman movie with a good robin.

Posted by: ace at January 17, 2024 05:03 PM (KRtlO)

195 153 42 29 The companion characters are annoying as hell and ghAAAAAYYYYYY~~!
Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 17, 2024 04:37 PM (IG4Id)

And the game apparently makes it almost impossible to get through without having to let one of them f*** you.
Posted by: XTC at January 17, 2024 04:39 PM (sm6Pk)

Let me guess: Baldur's Gate 3?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 17, 2024 04:56 PM (di6C2)

Yes.
Game has many, many flaws beyond just the writing. Can't reccomend.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo and keep your rifle by your side at January 17, 2024 05:03 PM (xcxpd)

196
I watched first four episodes of season 2. I would agree with the Mary Sue analogy. Even Tom Cruise got beat up pretty good in the bathroom fight in the first movie.

Posted by: Turn 2 at January 17, 2024 04:56 PM (JfxgE)

I think it's kind of tongue in cheek though, how he can't get beat up by anyone. They know it's sort of ridiculous and funny.

It reminds me of an old AceHQ favorite, person of interest, how they just started writing in the joke that Jim Cavezel's character would shoot everyone in the knee, and they had a doctor or paramedic one time say "we've been seeing so many knee injuries lately"

Posted by: Rbastid at January 17, 2024 05:04 PM (yRwlf)

197 Disney cannot destroy itself fast enough.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at January 17, 2024 05:04 PM (wtvvX)

198 157 Lucas used to do exceptional "world - building" , even though he adopted the cloning bit from Zahn.
Posted by: runner at January 17, 2024 04:57 PM (V13WU)

The Clone Wars were referenced in the first Star Wars movie.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at January 17, 2024 04:59 PM (eYoxG)
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I think the Clone Wars was only mentioned once in the first movie (A New Hope). Zahn used it as an important plot device in his Thrawn trilogy. I guess Lucas liked it enough to bring into the Old Republic setting for the prequel trilogy and gave a plausible reason for its usage (hijacked by the Sith to create an army loyal to them alone).

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 17, 2024 05:04 PM (7fElN)

199 The sequel trilogy should have been this:

1) The Rebellion wins the day but as in so many cases, now that they have defeated the government, they ARE the government. Then the problems begin. Reestablishing the Republic becomes a challenge.
2) Luke gets to work reestablishing the Jedi Order though of course it is not easy.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at January 17, 2024 05:04 PM (8sMut)

200 194 >>> LEGO Batman is probably the best film comedy of the last decade.
Posted by: Thomas Bender

also one of the best batman movies. I didn't love the changes made to batgirl but otherwise, really a decent batman movie with a good robin.
Posted by: ace at January 17, 2024 05:03 PM (KRtlO)

It's kinda gay tho.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo and keep your rifle by your side at January 17, 2024 05:04 PM (xcxpd)

201 "also one of the best batman movies. I didn't love the changes made to batgirl but otherwise, really a decent batman movie with a good robin.
Posted by: ace at January 17, 2024 05:03 PM (KRtlO)"

At least she didn't have a dick, or pretend to have one.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 17, 2024 05:04 PM (NReIw)

202 I love the slow chase stuff.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison,

Didn't see it because it's a crap film, but there would have been a way to pull it off; Ri-Anne f'd it up completely. They could have used some 'slow-time space continuum' macguffin. But, no, Ri-Anne, is too much of an affected moron to write that. Subverting your expectations requires a spiteful and idiotic attitude which never makes for good writing.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 17, 2024 05:05 PM (IG4Id)

203 Too bad about Tatiana Maslany. She did an outstanding job playing multiple clones in the "Orphan Black" series. I think she played six very different characters, and did it so well you could totally miss that they were all the same actress.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at January 17, 2024 05:05 PM (3UsVM)

204
OUT: She-Hulk
IN: She-Fired

Posted by: Tex Lovera at January 17, 2024 05:05 PM (wtvvX)

205 Agree with post #188 - she's really pretty.

Posted by: Jay in PA at January 17, 2024 05:05 PM (i7Q7S)

206 Reynolds seems like a good guy.

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I don't know much about him but I've like him ever since some moron linked an interview where he said, roughly, "I know I've got an expiration date and I'm going to do whatever I can in this career for all I can before then."

Also he purposely takes bad photos of himself and his wife and posts them to their social media accounts so that people can see that beautiful people aren't.

Posted by: Nikki Haley - Trump losing one massively (D) county by one vote proves that he can't beat Biden at January 17, 2024 05:05 PM (+RC1q)

207 175 Reynolds seems like a good guy.

He probably eats babies, or something, but he puts on good airs.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 17, 2024 05:00 PM (GBKbO)

He strikes me as a little bit woke, or at least woke adjacent, but unlike Orthodox Woke he's willing to have some fun with it (and everything else too) so I'll give him some slack.

OTOH it's probably impossible to make a movie in the 2020s without bending knee to the woke overlords, so it's at least as likely that he's just an uninvolved guy try'na get the job done. Which I can also respect, especially in light of how hard it purportedly was for him to get them to agree to Deadpool in the first place.

Posted by: CppThis at January 17, 2024 05:05 PM (PZvjL)

208 The sequel trilogy should have been this:

1) The Rebellion wins the day but as in so many cases, now that they have defeated the government, they ARE the government. Then the problems begin. Reestablishing the Republic becomes a challenge.
2) Luke gets to work reestablishing the Jedi Order though of course it is not easy.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at January 17, 2024 05:04 PM (8sMut)
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By a strange convergence in the Force, this is exactly what happens in the original Expanded Universe timeline.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 17, 2024 05:05 PM (7fElN)

209 Will never get why House of Mouse is so hungry for angry, homely, untalented rug munchers. Freaks need to go bankrupt, then glans head can scoop em up cheap and add them to his stunning Wash Post portfolio.

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at January 17, 2024 05:05 PM (zuhL4)

210 Omg, ace.

Fart jokes are never not funny.

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 17, 2024 05:05 PM (1wZKM)

211 @194

>>also one of the best batman movies. I didn't love the changes made to batgirl but otherwise, really a decent batman movie with a good robin.

Not going to lie, it's on heavy Plex rotation in my house.

Tell me you don't sing the end credits song while you're hanging shelves?

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 17, 2024 05:05 PM (XV/Pl)

212 I wonder if they ruined the second part of Dune with some wokeness and girl power . Any pre release reviews of it yet?

Posted by: Titanium White at January 17, 2024 05:06 PM (/2Hy+)

213 Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at January 17, 2024 04:56 PM (2yu8s)

This write-up has a very basic fallacy. I'm waiting to see if anyone notices it.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at January 17, 2024 05:06 PM (BdMk6)

214 66 Steve Cortes, a former Trump advisor who campaigned for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis before stepping down from the Never Back Down super PAC

I read that as "stepping down from the Never Step Down super PAC"

Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at January 17, 2024 05:06 PM (IGKzA)

215 170 I think in one of the version, Rey was supposed to be Rey Kenobi.

perhaps they mated her mother with a palpatine to heal the breach and save both bloodlines.

Posted by: anachronda crosses the streams at January 17, 2024 05:06 PM (v3pYe)

216 Did we ever see the head bad guy Venezuelan on camera? I only remember seeing his henchmen.

Posted by: Sassy at January 17, 2024 05:07 PM (xSICi)

217 I like Fat Batman.

Posted by: Dick Morris at January 17, 2024 05:07 PM (v0R5T)

218 I would argue that Reynolds isn't woke given the fact that he has 4 kids.

The true believers think children are locusts on mother Gaia.

Posted by: Jay in PA at January 17, 2024 05:07 PM (i7Q7S)

219 The Clone Wars were referenced in the first Star Wars movie.

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Such a good opportunity to tie the obvious OB-1 Kenobi to the topic, but I guess it would've involved writing and storytelling.

Posted by: Nikki Haley - Trump losing one massively (D) county by one vote proves that he can't beat Biden at January 17, 2024 05:07 PM (+RC1q)

220 Finished binging Killing Eve. It was gay gay gay 24/7 with a little spy stuff sprinkled on top. Started True Detective season 4. When did Jodie Foster forget how to act? And the writing is worse.

Posted by: nckate at January 17, 2024 04:59 PM (EPm6B)

Everything about the new True Detective looks bad.

I got the free 3 months of Apple TV, so I've been watching that stuff. Slow Horses Season 1 was good, so was Defending Jacob and Black Bird. Crowded Room was kinda crap.

The one on India with Charlie Hundman (sp?) Is okay, it's not super original, but it's something different.

Posted by: Rbastid at January 17, 2024 05:08 PM (yRwlf)

221 Yeah, but Cruise put is own edgy take on Reacher. He was low key, yet confident with a never quit attitude. It wasn't just a bunch of mindless tough guy stuff. He was also able to portray Reacher as someone that was smart, clever, plotting and thorough- to a degree that people underestimated him, and it was believable. That's nowhere near what followed.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 17, 2024 05:08 PM (NReIw)

222 Posted by: CppThis at January 17, 2024 05:05 PM (PZvjL)

Yes he is good friends with the douche creator of Always Sunny so likely woke.

Posted by: Titanium White at January 17, 2024 05:08 PM (/2Hy+)

223 As a 90 yo, I'd laugh at farts.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 17, 2024 05:08 PM (WVAwc)

224 It reminds me of an old AceHQ favorite, person of interest, how they just started writing in the joke that Jim Cavezel's character would shoot everyone in the knee, and they had a doctor or paramedic one time say "we've been seeing so many knee injuries lately"
Posted by: Rbastid at January 17, 2024 05:04 PM (yRwlf)

Speaking of Person of Interest, if y'all are ok with the FreeVee paradigm (limited commercials), the entire series is currently available on Amazon Prime.

Woohoo, I finally get to see the first couple of seasons that I missed.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at January 17, 2024 05:08 PM (/HDaX)

225 I think the Clone Wars was only mentioned once in the first movie (A New Hope). Zahn used it as an important plot device in his Thrawn trilogy. I guess Lucas liked it enough to bring into the Old Republic setting for the prequel trilogy and gave a plausible reason for its usage (hijacked by the Sith to create an army loyal to them alone).
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 17, 2024 05:04 PM (7fElN)

what he said!

Posted by: runner at January 17, 2024 05:08 PM (V13WU)

226 The She Hulk bitch also got her ass kicked off the Deadpool 3 movie when she pissed off Ryan Reynolds (and everyone else).
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo and keep your rifle by your side at January 17, 2024 04:59 PM (xcxpd)

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Reynolds seems like a good guy.

He probably eats babies, or something, but he puts on good airs.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, walking with hope in America with Frank Capra at January 17, 2024 05:00 PM (GBKbO)

He's a weird mix of arrogance and self-deprecation. I'm a fan....mostly.
He strongly protects Deadpool after moving heaven and earth to get it made in the first place. She Hulk Bitch (because that's her name now) apparently was demanding more screen time and more money.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo and keep your rifle by your side at January 17, 2024 05:08 PM (xcxpd)

227 Reacher is an American meathead except sherlock holmes.

He experiences setbacks and losses and a substantial part of his success is due to the team he assembles.

I'm not saying it's not pretty forgettable entertainment, but I think the criticism is because the show feels like American Values from about 1982.

Posted by: TexasDan at January 17, 2024 05:09 PM (z/ifB)

228 Posted by: Marcus T at January 17, 2024 05:08 PM (NReIw

I never read the Reacher books so I liked the Cruise Reacher.

Posted by: Titanium White at January 17, 2024 05:09 PM (/2Hy+)

229 She Hulk. Just fucking retarded.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner
.......

That's some nasty she-nards.

Posted by: Dick Morris at January 17, 2024 05:09 PM (v0R5T)

230 It reminds me of an old AceHQ favorite, person of interest, how they just started writing in the joke that Jim Cavezel's character would shoot everyone in the knee, and they had a doctor or paramedic one time say "we've been seeing so many knee injuries lately"
Posted by: Rbastid

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Ripped off directly from Spongebob Squarepants.

youtube.com/watch?v=0cv0cKftmjY

Posted by: Nikki Haley - Trump losing one massively (D) county by one vote proves that he can't beat Biden at January 17, 2024 05:09 PM (+RC1q)

231 186 The Clone Wars were referenced in the first Star Wars movie.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at January 17, 2024 04:59 PM (eYoxG)

You are correct, but weren't the Kaminoans in Zahn's trilogy ?
Posted by: runner at January 17, 2024 05:02 PM (V13WU)

Been a while since I read the books so can't be sure, but C'baoth's page makes no mention of Kamino and the Kamino page doesn't list is as being even mentioned there.

At any rate, the themes explored in the Thrawn trilogy regarding cloning (identity crisis and replacement) and how the Clone Wars is described as going down(some sort of clone rebellion or the like) is quite different from what Lucas actually ends up going with.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at January 17, 2024 05:09 PM (eYoxG)

232 That was a bad sock.

Posted by: wth at January 17, 2024 05:10 PM (v0R5T)

233 Yes.
Game has many, many flaws beyond just the writing. Can't reccomend.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo and keep your rifle by your side at January 17, 2024 05:03 PM (xcxpd)

Hmmm. There is quite a bit I liked, but it was all front loaded. The first act showed how much stuff and how long they had been working on it. The second act has a killer premise and setting... and then things went off the rails. Third act showed a lot more slop and just felt really hurried and unfocused.

1) Constant passes of the gay characters was annoying AF. If I make a pass at this hot brunette gal, just go ahead and fucking spare me.

2) They get rid of the best voice actor (JK Simmons) right away.

3) Not to belabor the gay love theme, but when the tentacle monster guy is making a pass at me, I start(?) to wonder where all of the care, attention and focus went.

4) I find the rule set to be TOO unrestricted. I get the idea that everyone want to do everything, but choose a class and stick to it.

5) I liked the dog. He was a good boy.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 17, 2024 05:10 PM (di6C2)

234 This write-up has a very basic fallacy. I'm waiting to see if anyone notices it.
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I think you can still get banned [but on request??] if you use "he" etc. for tranny 'women' thus the "she" etc. lie if that's what you mean.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at January 17, 2024 05:10 PM (2yu8s)

235 And you know the odd thing about modern games is I suspected it was just me- that I had changed and gotten too jaded for story telling. Knew too many tropes so I could not enjoy plot twists and so forth. So I went back and got the ME: Legendary Edition. At least for that series, still loved it.

I think modern writing is just often absolute shit- no matter what it is.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 17, 2024 05:11 PM (di6C2)

236 There is a compilation of the cut scenes from "The old Republic" star wars game that is awesome to behold. Why they cant do it for 90 minutes pisses me off.

Posted by: DOYLE at January 17, 2024 05:11 PM (Z8Yh2)

237 How much of an audience is there for watching two dudes kiss?

Posted by: Northernlurker at January 17, 2024 05:11 PM (kSHhA)

238 Too bad about the Rey Palpatine movie. The love scene with Chew would have been lit.

Posted by: Beartooth at January 17, 2024 05:12 PM (5FnZt)

239 *insert sound of Sharkman laughing so hard that he passes out*

Posted by: Sharkman at January 17, 2024 05:13 PM (nOr6i)

240 I never read the Reacher books so I liked the Cruise Reacher.
Posted by: Titanium White at January 17, 2024 05:09 PM (/2Hy+)

Oh, and the lady in the first one... Rosamund Pike? Very bunkworthy. Sexy.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 17, 2024 05:13 PM (di6C2)

241 Game has many, many flaws beyond just the writing. Can't reccomend.

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I've started playing Red Dead Redemption 2. So far it's pretty great, although I've just started and am still in the story mode. Apparently once you get into the open world you can be a hero or villain, and I've heard (maybe here) that it's such a free and open world that you can even drag the womens suffrage protestors to either a horse trough or nearby pond to humiliate them if that's your thing.

Posted by: Nikki Haley - Trump losing one massively (D) county by one vote proves that he can't beat Biden at January 17, 2024 05:13 PM (+RC1q)

242 Been a while since I read the books so can't be sure, but C'baoth's page makes no mention of Kamino and the Kamino page doesn't list is as being even mentioned there.

At any rate, the themes explored in the Thrawn trilogy regarding cloning (identity crisis and replacement) and how the Clone Wars is described as going down(some sort of clone rebellion or the like) is quite different from what Lucas actually ends up going with.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at January 17, 2024 05:09 PM (eYoxG)
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That is correct. Though there were strong hints in Zahn's trilogy that Emperor Palpatine had used the cloning technology in some way before the rise of the Empire (or during the Empire--it's never made clear.) In both Zahn's trilogy and Lucas' prequels, the Emperor is behind all of the cloning. The Kaminoan tech may have just been one type of cloning used by the Emperor. Spaarti cylinders is another.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 17, 2024 05:13 PM (7fElN)

243 I just did a little bit of research, that fan made Star Wars film, Troopers, came out in 1997, two years before the prequels.

Amazing how time flies.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 17, 2024 05:13 PM (XV/Pl)

244 How much of an audience is there for watching two dudes kiss?
Posted by: Northernlurker at January 17, 2024 05:11 PM (kSHhA)

ace went to see Brokeback Mountain so at least one. 😀

Posted by: Titanium White at January 17, 2024 05:13 PM (/2Hy+)

245 236 There is a compilation of the cut scenes from "The old Republic" star wars game that is awesome to behold. Why they cant do it for 90 minutes pisses me off.
Posted by: DOYLE at January 17, 2024 05:11 PM (Z8Yh2)

KoTOR is another example. I remember playing that for the first time and just being blown away at how good it was, both for just a story and for Star Wars.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 17, 2024 05:14 PM (di6C2)

246 219 The Clone Wars were referenced in the first Star Wars movie.

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Such a good opportunity to tie the obvious OB-1 Kenobi to the topic, but I guess it would've involved writing and storytelling.
Posted by: Nikki Haley - Trump losing one massively (D) county by one vote proves that he can't beat Biden at January 17, 2024 05:07 PM (+RC1q)

Lucas doesn't end up doing anything interesting with the clones themselves(which is a fairly common theme to explore in sci fi). They're basically equivalent to droid soldiers as he used them.

Part of why I think it unlikely he copied his ultimate implementation from anyone, he just did the bare minimum to explain the Clone Wars, that clones were used in the war.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at January 17, 2024 05:14 PM (eYoxG)

247 I am going to laugh and laugh when Disney sells LucasFilm back to Lucas for $500M.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 17, 2024 05:14 PM (aD39U)

248 Plus when Cruise played Reacher, the script established that Reacher was a force to be reckoned with. Egregious scenes of violence weren't necessary to establish that. I thought that was a clever way to achieve that trait. That made any scenes with violence that followed contextual and not overly unnecessary or gratuitous.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 17, 2024 05:14 PM (NReIw)

249 How much of an audience is there for watching two dudes kiss?
Posted by: Northernlurker at January 17, 2024 05:11 PM (kSHhA)

ace went to see Brokeback Mountain so at least one. 😀
Posted by: Titanium White at January 17, 2024 05:13 PM (/2Hy+)
.......

I bet that movie theater was disgusting.

Posted by: wth at January 17, 2024 05:14 PM (v0R5T)

250 Not Disney I guess, but last night watched Fast X The Final Ride.
Should of called it: One Ride Too Many.
Gawd...horrible.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 17, 2024 05:14 PM (W/lyH)

251 How much of an audience is there for watching two dudes kiss?

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None.

0.0%

If there were any at all there'd be one of those Bachelor shows.

Posted by: Nikki Haley - Trump losing one massively (D) county by one vote proves that he can't beat Biden at January 17, 2024 05:14 PM (+RC1q)

252 LOL Ace. I almost laughed-coughed myself to death with the McMuffin fart bit. I survived but it was hilariously perilous for a while.

Posted by: banana Dream at January 17, 2024 05:14 PM (Y6IkP)

253 I've started playing Red Dead Redemption 2. So far it's pretty great, although I've just started and am still in the story mode. Apparently once you get into the open world you can be a hero or villain, and I've heard (maybe here) that it's such a free and open world that you can even drag the womens suffrage protestors to either a horse trough or nearby pond to humiliate them if that's your thing.
Posted by: Nikki Haley - Trump losing one massively (D) county by one vote proves that he can't beat Biden at January 17, 2024 05:13 PM (+RC1q)

RDR is great

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo and keep your rifle by your side at January 17, 2024 05:14 PM (xcxpd)

254 Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 17, 2024 05:13 PM (di6C2)

Yes. That's how I knew Cruises's Reacher was gay. 😀

Posted by: Titanium White at January 17, 2024 05:14 PM (/2Hy+)

255 >>> She Hulk. Just fucking retarded.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner

>Wouldn't it follow that there would be some "transition" that would take the trajectory of the show into new and interesting directions? Whatever. Muscular chicks with phat clits. It could work on the right network.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at January 17, 2024 05:14 PM (J3ryZ)

256
"Ridley Scott’s ‘Gladiator 2’ FINALLY Wraps Production"
wtf?

Posted by: Potato Of The United States at January 17, 2024 05:14 PM (t6XCL)

257
A cold winter night has been made happy with the knowledge that the woke are burning money.

Posted by: Auspex at January 17, 2024 05:15 PM (j4U/Z)

258 @237

>>How much of an audience is there for watching two dudes kiss?

Zero for mainstream movies.

Even gay people don't want to see gay sh*t at the movies based on the box office of Bros and other films that have been released recently.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 17, 2024 05:15 PM (XV/Pl)

259 By a strange convergence in the Force, this is exactly what happens in the original Expanded Universe timeline.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 17, 2024 05:05 PM (7fElN)

And I never even read the EU books. I just applied history to the end of Episode VI.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at January 17, 2024 05:15 PM (8sMut)

260 I think you can still get banned [but on request??] if you use "he" etc. for tranny 'women' thus the "she" etc. lie if that's what you mean.
Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at January 17, 2024 05:10 PM (2yu8s)

Yup.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at January 17, 2024 05:16 PM (BdMk6)

261 Plus when Cruise played Reacher, the script established that Reacher was a force to be reckoned with. Egregious scenes of violence weren't necessary to establish that. I thought that was a clever way to achieve that trait. That made any scenes with violence that followed contextual and not overly unnecessary or gratuitous.
Posted by: Marcus T

I take it you haven't seen the 1st season of the Reacher Amazon show, exec produced by the writer of the books?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 17, 2024 05:16 PM (IG4Id)

262 >>>Tactically, it made 0 sense. The First Order could easily have had ships jump in front of the fleeing fleet and pound it to dust.

they could have made it make sense with one line: The empire is slow-rolling their deaths to get them to call all other Rebel starships to aid them. Then the empire will wipe out the rebel starships that come. So like Princess Leia would say, "no, don't call for assistance -- that's exactly what they want. We're the bait."

But the movie is gay and dumb and also stupid and gay so who cares about this or that mistake. None of it is worth rescuing, none of it.

Posted by: ace at January 17, 2024 05:16 PM (KRtlO)

263 Ace must be getting enough sleep and feeling particularly cruel. He has been on fire all day long.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at January 17, 2024 05:17 PM (17s+e)

264
Hmmm. There is quite a bit I liked, but it was all front loaded. The first act showed how much stuff and how long they had been working on it. The second act has a killer premise and setting... and then things went off the rails. Third act showed a lot more slop and just felt really hurried and unfocused.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 17, 2024 05:10 PM (di6C2)

I've noticed this tends to be the case for these sorts of games. Owlcat Games has a similar reputation of frontloading content and polish.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at January 17, 2024 05:17 PM (eYoxG)

265 How much of an audience is there for watching two dudes kiss?

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they ambush you. was watching the last season of good omens. you would not believe what happened between Dr. Who and that other guy (David Tennant & Michael Sheen) !

Posted by: runner at January 17, 2024 05:17 PM (V13WU)

266 That is correct. Though there were strong hints in Zahn's trilogy that Emperor Palpatine had used the cloning technology

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Full disclosure- I haven't watched anything past the first 14 minutes of Rogue One, and I turned it off when it just so happened that a space Chinese guy knew space kung fu, and what are the odds?

But I watched a review of the last movie. And the question comes up:

Why would he need to use technology when he could just manifest them and any crew/robots using force magic?

Posted by: Nikki Haley - Trump losing one massively (D) county by one vote proves that he can't beat Biden at January 17, 2024 05:17 PM (+RC1q)

267 Hmmm. There is quite a bit I liked, but it was all front loaded. The first act showed how much stuff and how long they had been working on it. The second act has a killer premise and setting... and then things went off the rails. Third act showed a lot more slop and just felt really hurried and unfocused.

1) Constant passes of the gay characters was annoying AF. If I make a pass at this hot brunette gal, just go ahead and fucking spare me.

2) They get rid of the best voice actor (JK Simmons) right away.

3) Not to belabor the gay love theme, but when the tentacle monster guy is making a pass at me, I start(?) to wonder where all of the care, attention and focus went.

4) I find the rule set to be TOO unrestricted. I get the idea that everyone want to do everything, but choose a class and stick to it.

5) I liked the dog. He was a good boy.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 17, 2024 05:10 PM (di6C2)

The dog is great, dogs are great.
Being able to kill off your companions is also welcome.

But the game isn't even about your character. The companions get all the limelights. It's not even 'your' game.
So much hate...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo and keep your rifle by your side at January 17, 2024 05:18 PM (xcxpd)

268 By a strange convergence in the Force, this is exactly what happens in the original Expanded Universe timeline.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 17, 2024 05:05 PM (7fElN)

And I never even read the EU books. I just applied history to the end of Episode VI.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at January 17, 2024 05:15 PM (8sMut)
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It's almost like the writers of those books understood logical consequences in storytelling...(not all of them--some of the books are pretty awful, but that's because the writers didn't understand the characters).

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 17, 2024 05:18 PM (7fElN)

269 263 Ace must be getting enough sleep and feeling particularly cruel. He has been on fire all day long.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at January 17, 2024 05:17 PM (17s+e)

He just had a massive hate fuck yesterday. He's relaxed and loose.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 17, 2024 05:18 PM (di6C2)

270 259 By a strange convergence in the Force, this is exactly what happens in the original Expanded Universe timeline.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 17, 2024 05:05 PM (7fElN)

And I never even read the EU books. I just applied history to the end of Episode VI.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at January 17, 2024 05:15 PM (8sMut)

There were a lot of good books covering that period. Has to explore different themes from the movies though, since it's no longer a family soap opera but a bunch of war stories.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at January 17, 2024 05:18 PM (eYoxG)

271 they ambush you. was watching the last season of good omens. you would not believe what happened between Dr. Who and that other guy (David Tennant & Michael Sheen) !
Posted by: runner at January 17, 2024 05:17 PM (V13WU)

ambush? So uncalled for.

Posted by: Crying Game at January 17, 2024 05:18 PM (z/ifB)

272 >>216 Did we ever see the head bad guy Venezuelan on camera? I only remember seeing his henchmen.
Posted by: Sassy

They play loose with the scripts. It's all about the killin' and Nixon.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 17, 2024 05:19 PM (eYF7X)

273 I swear the only people in cottage grove without a personal cache of guns are obeying their terms of parole or are released felons.

*sigh*

Poor lady. Miserable and mental.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 17, 2024 05:19 PM (D7oie)

274 Zero for mainstream movies.

Even gay people don't want to see gay sh*t at the movies based on the box office of Bros and other films that have been released recently.
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it's almost like normal people don't want to be reminded that they as a group have to be asked by the CDC not to drink each others diarrhea during routine hookups.

Posted by: Nikki Haley - Trump losing one massively (D) county by one vote proves that he can't beat Biden at January 17, 2024 05:19 PM (+RC1q)

275 Yup.
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BINGO!

And I would have thought Musk would have ended that but I guess not.

BTW, a commenter on one of the three threads whined it was old news from 2 days ago and not breaking and linked a MSM Oregon source about it that didn't mention the tranny part at all. So, clearly a mainstream Christian MAGA housewife making the threats.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at January 17, 2024 05:19 PM (2yu8s)

276 Woo-Hoo! The new tires for my bandsaw came yesterday, and I just finished installing them now. Was not difficult, although it took some brute force to stretch the tough urethane bands over the wheels, as indeed the instructions warned.

Put the cover back on, stood as far from the exposed blade as I could, and plugged it in. It started smoothly and ran quiet. I passed a hunk of scrap 2X4 through the blade, twice, and made two nice arc-shaped cuts in mere seconds, no drama at all.

I am delighted!

And if Disney makes this movie, I will be replaced by a hemophiliac tranny.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 17, 2024 05:19 PM (tkR6S)

277 The dog thing is a gripe I have with the Jesse Stone stuff. Guy loses like three dogs. Humans getting murdered is one thing, putting a dog to sleep/dying is quite another. Says something about me I'm sure.

Posted by: DOYLE at January 17, 2024 05:20 PM (Z8Yh2)

278 Isn't reverse Midas touch referred to as the Obama touch?

Posted by: InZona at January 17, 2024 05:20 PM (/D9Dj)

279 Favreau / Filoni side of LucasFilm is actively absorbing some of the Expanded Universe.

Posted by: runner at January 17, 2024 05:20 PM (V13WU)

280 Like any series it gets a little repetitive. And the author Lee Child? is British so it makes no American sense sometimes. The deductive stuff is good.

In one of the later books 2+? gangs destroy themselves via slapstick gun fight interceptions. e.g runs into room , trips, shoots guy in next room, his buddy shoots back.

Posted by: DaveA at January 17, 2024 05:20 PM (FhXTo)

281 Speaking of Ryan Reynolds and gaming , his movie Free Guy was pretty good.

Posted by: Titanium White at January 17, 2024 05:20 PM (/2Hy+)

282 232 That was a bad sock.

It was the voR5T sock. The voR5T ever.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at January 17, 2024 05:21 PM (CHHv1)

283 >>>281 Speaking of Ryan Reynolds and gaming , his movie Free Guy was pretty good.

yeah that's a very good movie. it had a tricky obstacle in the romance angle, given that she was real and he is just a computer character, but they solved that problem cleverly.

Posted by: ace at January 17, 2024 05:22 PM (KRtlO)

284 277 The dog thing is a gripe I have with the Jesse Stone stuff. Guy loses like three dogs. Humans getting murdered is one thing, putting a dog to sleep/dying is quite another. Says something about me I'm sure.
Posted by: DOYLE at January 17, 2024 05:20 PM (Z8Yh2)

That is one of the major reasons John Wick is so satisfying.

Plot:

1) These assholes killed the puppy(!!!!) that his dying wife sent him to get through things AFTER she died.

2) These fuckers have to die.

3) Fuckers die.

The End

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 17, 2024 05:23 PM (di6C2)

285 281 Speaking of Ryan Reynolds and gaming , his movie Free Guy was pretty good.
Posted by: Titanium White at January 17, 2024 05:20 PM (/2Hy+)

Yeah, it was. It's sufficiently steeped in gaming tropes that I'm not sure if non gamers would really get what's going on, but it does get a recommendation from me.

Posted by: CppThis at January 17, 2024 05:23 PM (PZvjL)

286 Posted by: DOYLE at January 17, 2024 05:20 PM (Z8Yh2)

Seems to be the internal depression / sadness of Stone arc of the series .

Posted by: Titanium White at January 17, 2024 05:23 PM (/2Hy+)

287 I saw the Cruise Reacher movie and at the time felt like he was still playing Ethan Hunt, just in another franchise.

Posted by: TexasDan at January 17, 2024 05:23 PM (z/ifB)

288 That is one of the major reasons John Wick is so satisfying.

Plot:

1) These assholes killed the puppy(!!!!) that his dying wife sent him to get through things AFTER she died.

2) These fuckers have to die.

3) Fuckers die.

The End

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Yep. Maybe the most perfect setup for a revenge movie I've ever seen.

Good thing I know about the coins now, though. And that there's a woman John Wick that's even better than John Wick and can keep her dogs alive.

Posted by: Nikki Haley - Trump losing one massively (D) county by one vote proves that he can't beat Biden at January 17, 2024 05:24 PM (+RC1q)

289 there was a Reese Witherspoon movie where she played a ghost and had a romcom romance with a dude living in her apartment (Mark Rufallo, unfortunately), and that movie also had a neat, clever way out of the obstacle of her being dead and all. I think it was called Just Like Heaven. I won't spoil the way out of the trap.

Posted by: ace at January 17, 2024 05:24 PM (KRtlO)

290
Ace is cool. Yesterday was just about Johnson, and the damn war.

Posted by: Auspex at January 17, 2024 05:24 PM (j4U/Z)

291 And another thing, quit calling the ex wife. Fuck that bitch.

Posted by: DOYLE at January 17, 2024 05:24 PM (Z8Yh2)

292 That fabreeze paragraph is disturbingly vivid.

Posted by: Kratwurst at January 17, 2024 05:24 PM (nIRE6)

293 * slaps Ace in the face with his right glove *

You have offended my honor, sir! Pistols at dawn -- just before the breakfast rush!

Posted by: egg mcmuffin at January 17, 2024 05:25 PM (JcnCJ)

294 Posted by: CppThis at January 17, 2024 05:23 PM (PZvjL)

I'm not a gamer and was still good to me so if it had other things gamers would get it , it would probably be even better if I knew of them.

Posted by: Titanium White at January 17, 2024 05:25 PM (/2Hy+)

295 Disclose.tv @disclosetv 6h
NEW - [Ex-] Space Force commander: "I'm here to testify about the ongoing Marxist-inspired efforts to subvert and weaken our military and broader American society."

http://tinyurl.com/2cjc4aeb
3:31 minutes

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at January 17, 2024 05:25 PM (2yu8s)

296 Yep. Maybe the most perfect setup for a revenge movie I've ever seen.

Posted by: Nikki Haley - Trump losing one massively (D) county by one vote proves that he can't beat Biden at January 17, 2024 05:24 PM (+RC1q)

Yep. Too bad they never made any more movies. They did such a good job at hinting at the mythos. Ah well, probably better to leave it up to the imagination of the viewer.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 17, 2024 05:25 PM (di6C2)

297 290 there was a Reese Witherspoon movie where she played a ghost and had a romcom romance with a dude living in her apartment (Mark Rufallo, unfortunately), and that movie also had a neat, clever way out of the obstacle of her being dead and all. I think it was called Just Like Heaven. I won't spoil the way out of the trap.
Posted by: ace at January 17, 2024 05:24 PM (KRtlO)

Was it the same solution as in 'Ghosts Can't Do It?' with Bo and John Derek?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo and keep your rifle by your side at January 17, 2024 05:25 PM (xcxpd)

298 297 Yep. Maybe the most perfect setup for a revenge movie I've ever seen.

Posted by: Nikki Haley - Trump losing one massively (D) county by one vote proves that he can't beat Biden at January 17, 2024 05:24 PM (+RC1q)

Yep. Too bad they never made any more movies. They did such a good job at hinting at the mythos. Ah well, probably better to leave it up to the imagination of the viewer.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 17, 2024 05:25 PM (di6C2)

Just like The Matrix...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo and keep your rifle by your side at January 17, 2024 05:26 PM (xcxpd)

299 289 Good thing I know about the coins now, though. And that there's a woman John Wick that's even better than John Wick and can keep her dogs alive.
Posted by: Nikki Haley - Trump losing one massively (D) county by one vote proves that he can't beat Biden at January 17, 2024 05:24 PM (+RC1q)

Bullion dealers sell 'em now, though the gold ones obviously aren't cheap what with the price of gold being what it is.

Posted by: CppThis at January 17, 2024 05:26 PM (PZvjL)

300 I'm not really a huge fan of Ritchson and a lot of the writing was predictable and somewhat formulaic. I would contrast it to something like The Terminal List, where Carr put his own touch and professional experience to work. But that's just me, I sometimes get lost in the details and too much comparison to the real world.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 17, 2024 05:26 PM (ZSrej)

301 [takes dollar, looks around furtively]

Word on the street is, just like garlic, if you eat a bunch of leeks all your bioproducts ( liquid, solid, and gaseous ) as well as your breath... will smell just like all that leeks soup you just et.

Posted by: Johnny The Shoeshine Guy at January 17, 2024 05:27 PM (Zz86T)

302 I got a link to some dumb Star Wars game in my youtube suggested list and watched it.

And it was bad...some androgynous Jedi soy-thing fighting Darth Vader. The art was bad, the script was bad, and the fighting method was...1980s level - Darth walks to you and you hit him repeatedly with your light saber because he...can't dodge.

Anyway, this gave me links to all the Star Wars shows they've made which I had not been aware of and...they were worse then the game.

I remember in one clip Obi Wan sneaks into some imperial base and has a black sith woman following him (aren't there only supposed to be two sith?). Anyway the Storm Troopers are all useless...but the stunning and brave sith girl manages to kill some of the rebels with...a gas can.

It was dumb dumb dumb...

Posted by: 18-1 at January 17, 2024 05:27 PM (ibTVg)

303 and that movie also had a neat, clever way out of the obstacle of her being dead and all

Mummification.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 17, 2024 05:27 PM (aD39U)

304 Just like The Matrix...

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(goes to watch that cool rave scene that was crucial to the story)

Posted by: Nikki Haley - Trump losing one massively (D) county by one vote proves that he can't beat Biden at January 17, 2024 05:27 PM (+RC1q)

305 >>296 Disclose.tv @disclosetv 6h
NEW - [Ex-] Space Force commander: "I'm here to testify about the ongoing Marxist-inspired efforts to subvert and weaken our military and broader American society."

http://tinyurl.com/2cjc4aeb
3:31 minutes
Posted by: andycanuck

He should be Trump's Chairman of the Joint Chiefs.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 17, 2024 05:28 PM (eYF7X)

306 NEW - [Ex-] Space Force commander: "I'm here to testify about the ongoing Marxist-inspired efforts to subvert and weaken our military and broader American society."

If we do get a President Trump he needs to cashier every flag officer on day one. And probably all the colonels as well

Posted by: 18-1 at January 17, 2024 05:28 PM (ibTVg)

307
It's almost as if Kaffeine Kennedy has the Reverse Midas Touch ...

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Kennedy is the Hillary of Obsmas.

Posted by: ShainS at January 17, 2024 05:28 PM (n2XPU)

308
It's almost as if Kaffeine Kennedy has the Reverse Midas Touch ...

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Kennedy is the Hillary of Obamas.

Posted by: ShainS at January 17, 2024 05:28 PM (n2XPU)

309 >>>Mummification.

no you're thinking of nancy pelosi. this is a movie.

Posted by: ace at January 17, 2024 05:28 PM (KRtlO)

310 Didn't Ace and Allahpundit have a movie date night once? I don't want to be banned, but I'm fairly certain Allahpundit took a beating on that one like Reacher's compadre.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at January 17, 2024 05:28 PM (J3ryZ)

311 Still can't get my head around the fact that John Derek played Joshua in the Ten Commandments.

Posted by: runner at January 17, 2024 05:28 PM (V13WU)

312 and that movie also had a neat, clever way out of the obstacle of her being dead and all

The Metaverse?

Posted by: The Zuck 9000 at January 17, 2024 05:28 PM (ibTVg)

313 Spoiler Alert - If I have six inches and seventy five pounds on you ? I don't care how much you train. And that covers both Ronda and Tom.
Posted by: Really at January 17, 2024 05:22 PM (yX1Ak

You need to pull up the video of Suge Knight getting his ass beat. But yeah it's mostly an exception.

Posted by: Titanium White at January 17, 2024 05:29 PM (/2Hy+)

314 >>>Was it the same solution as in 'Ghosts Can't Do It?' with Bo and John Derek?

I don't know, I never heard of that movie. It might be. There are only so many ways out of this trap.

Posted by: ace at January 17, 2024 05:29 PM (KRtlO)

315 263 Ace must be getting enough sleep and feeling particularly cruel. He has been on fire all day long.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at January 17, 2024 05:17 PM (17s+e)

He just had a massive hate fuck yesterday. He's relaxed and loose.

Posted by: Aetius451AD
==

That will do it too.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at January 17, 2024 05:29 PM (17s+e)

316

I will be directing and starring in a Star wars trilogy featuring me and various cantina bathhouses...

Posted by: A. Fauci, Malignome at January 17, 2024 05:30 PM (HRQvT)

317 DanMa'am is able to find really old movies to watch. Last night was 'The Lucky Texan', 1934 John Wayne move.

The main character after JW's character turned out to be a cross dresser that saved the ranch from being stolen out from under him and his grand daughter.

That lady jumped out of the peanut gallery at the trial, ripped off his costume and all hell broke loose. No shit. 1934.

Posted by: DanMan at January 17, 2024 05:30 PM (8uzBS)

318 He just had a massive hate fuck yesterday. He's relaxed and loose.

So...Nikki Haley?

Posted by: 18-1 at January 17, 2024 05:30 PM (ibTVg)

319 I remember seeing a movie with Bo Derek and Anthony Quinn? Where she is married to him, he dies. He possesses some young dude and seduces her.

Lots of nudity. About all I can remember.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 17, 2024 05:30 PM (di6C2)

320 232 That was a bad sock.

It was the voR5T sock. The voR5T ever.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at January 17, 2024 05:21 PM (CHHv1)
.......

Hey thanks for pointing that out. Now I'm kinda digging on my hash. VoR5t hash ever. Really bad. Tastes like poo.

Posted by: wth at January 17, 2024 05:31 PM (v0R5T)

321 Never bet on someone's size and girth in a fight.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 17, 2024 05:31 PM (ZSrej)

322 .

There's a NOOD

Army Witnesses: The J6 Tale Spun By Army Leaders Are "Irreconcilable" With the Facts

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at January 17, 2024 05:31 PM (qPw5n)

323 Oh wait, didn't Ghost have a dead/living make out session in Swayze, Whoopi, Demi Moore sammich?

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at January 17, 2024 05:31 PM (aD39U)

324 Ace, since you might be interested, Newsweek two days ago:

"Americans Can No Longer Afford Their Cars"

"According to an October report by Market Watch, Americans needed an annual income of at least $100,000 to afford a car, at least if they're following standard budgeting advice, which says you shouldn't spend more than 10 percent of your monthly income on car-related expenses.

That means that more than 60 percent of American households currently cannot afford to buy a new car, based on Census data. For individuals, the numbers are even worse, with 82 percent of people below the $100,000 line."

http://tinyurl.com/yr2h7j63

Posted by: Trump lost 1 county by 1 vote in the county that went 70% Obama and that proves he can't beat Biden at January 17, 2024 05:31 PM (g6ohO)

325 321 I remember seeing a movie with Bo Derek and Anthony Quinn? Where she is married to him, he dies. He possesses some young dude and seduces her.

Lots of nudity. About all I can remember.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 17, 2024 05:30 PM (di6C2)

That's the one. Terrible movie. Great nudity.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo and keep your rifle by your side at January 17, 2024 05:31 PM (xcxpd)

326 227 Reacher is an American meathead except sherlock holmes.

He experiences setbacks and losses and a substantial part of his success is due to the team he assembles.

I'm not saying it's not pretty forgettable entertainment, but I think the criticism is because the show feels like American Values from about 1982.
,
Posted by: TexasDan at January 17, 2024 05:09 PM (z/ifB)
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From the books, Reacher is mostly a loner who uses his old Army contacts and know-how or the involved people around him to solve the problem. Memorable books are Book #1 "Killing Floor" and #15 "Worth Dying For". Others too except last few co-authored by Lee Child's younger brother are not up to par.

Posted by: Ciampino - Like the books of his Army days at January 17, 2024 05:32 PM (qfLjt)

327 "It's almost as if Kaffeine Kennedy has the Reverse Midas Touch, instantly turning every hot prospect into a box office failure."

I refer to that as The Mierdas Touch -- everything turns to shit.

Or as our Brazilian friend once quipped (in his inimitable, ESL way) about my wife and her clumsiness, "She has sexual hands." When we asked what that meant, he replied, "She fucks up everything she touches."

Posted by: red speck at January 17, 2024 05:33 PM (0Id0S)

328 NEW - [Ex-] Space Force commander: "I'm here to testify about the ongoing Marxist-inspired efforts to subvert and weaken our military and broader American society."

Damn.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 17, 2024 05:33 PM (R4t5M)

329 Meh.

They should just do a remake of the original Star Wars trilogy, starring the chick from the new Snow "White" as Luke, Ruby Rose as Han, and Dylan Mulvaney as Leia.

Posted by: Cave Johnson at January 17, 2024 05:34 PM (fSisT)

330 Posted by: ace at January 17, 2024 05:24 PM (KRtlO)

Reminded me of the sick movie about a necrophiliac woman and the guy who was in love with her . Spoiler , he killed himself so she would finally have sex with him.

Kissed is the name of the movie.

Posted by: Titanium White at January 17, 2024 05:34 PM (/2Hy+)

331 Poor Bo Derek got groomed by that creepy old John Derek -- promising her an acting career after "10" came out, and then whoring her out in a string of films (Bolero, Tarzan, Ghosts Can't Do It...) where he just indulged his kink by directing his wife as she got banged by one Hollywood hunk after another. It's remarkable she didn't end up OD'd in some miserable SoCal motel bathroom somewhere.

Posted by: red speck at January 17, 2024 05:39 PM (0Id0S)

332 "Kaffy looks around for whoever is hot at this very second and then signs them up for one or three Star Wars movies."

And therein lies the secret - why do these Disney movies cost so fucking much? because they sign expensive "deals; with "creatives" like Gao, and Waller-Bridge, who produce shit when they bother producing anything.

How much you want to guess that 50% of the budget for She-hulk was sucked up in this unproductive bullshit? They likely paid Gao $10 million per season with a five-season guarantee. That $50 million is sunk costs. But Disney doesn't want to report that though shareholders, because it will make them look like complete idiots. So, charge it to whatever is produced, and toss it into the GCI effects budget.

The first season of the Mandalorian cost $15 million per episode. She-hulk, with MUCH less costuming and special effects, cost $25 million per episode. Where'd that extra $10 million per episode go, exactly? The special effects look like they spent LESS money thatn the Mandolorian.

Posted by: Garbled memo at January 17, 2024 05:55 PM (8E/8X)

333 You actually left out from that already embarrassingly long list of allegedly greenlit Star Wars projects that end up getting quietly cancelled, the Taika Waititi Star Wars film (he's the kiwi director that made one fairly amusing MCU film, Thor Rangarok, only to follow it up with the disastrously unfunny, woke Thor Love & Thunder, then, as is the case with a lot of these Phantom Star Wars Project Menace directors, made several fan-baiting, shoe-in-mouth comments to media about how he couldn't wait to piss off the Star Wars community with his bold new spin on the material)

Posted by: harrison bergeron at January 17, 2024 05:56 PM (JuaQi)

334 Seriously, the Corridor crew could produce better she hulk effects in a fucking day, for free, than what we got.

Or they could have, you know, just got a big muscley lady to play she hulk. Paint her green. Now it might be a tiny bit cheesy, but saving millions of $ per episode, maybe it'd be worth it? They actually had a stand in actress who they animated over who would have been perfect.

Posted by: Garbled memo at January 17, 2024 06:02 PM (8E/8X)

335 Expect the Acolyte to get canceled soon. And there will be another $50 million down the drain spent on creatives who can't create.

Posted by: Garbled memo at January 17, 2024 06:04 PM (8E/8X)

336 I mentioned She Hulk to a random someone. The real reason it was cancelled, "I liked that show".

Posted by: Nightfall at January 18, 2024 09:31 AM (xd3qE)

337 Oh, someone will say "this is impossible". Prove it. Prove the ulterior motive of the speaker. Prove the ulterior motive of anyone. Prove that you can mind read.

The two truths of the universe and all beyond:
There is a God.
Your not it.

Posted by: Nightfall at January 18, 2024 09:36 AM (xd3qE)

338 >and one of the best computer games ever created

It also allows you to f*ck any and every NPC in the game, including a bear. So don't get your hopes up. It's a faithful recreation of D&D - as it is _now_, with all the woke pandering and horny bard tropes and the juvenile effeminate tumblr jokes.

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