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Disney Marvel Tells Its Shill Media Simps That It's "Recalibrating," Not-Quite-Admitting It Is Currently a Disaster On Par With Fani Willis' Dating Life
Just over a year ago, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania was set to take Marvel Studios to the next level. A new villain was going to be introduced, setting the stage for several years' worth of storytelling. And the movie itself was a giant-sizing of a franchise that was previously modest in scope. Instead, the Peyton Reed-directed movie heralded a year's worth of missteps, box office blunders and PR nightmares. It was all uncharted territory for Marvel, which had steadily been generating box office gold for 15 years.This is a Modified Limited Hangout. That's CIA-speak for the situation where an agent is captured by the enemy, and his cover story is disbelieved, so he offers a story that is slightly closer to the truth while still being a huge lie. For example, an agent may have to back off his cover story that he's just an oil executive, so he'll say he's really an oil executive, but a friend in the FBI did ask him to talk to someone in the enemy country. He still refuses to admit he's a CIA agent whose position at the oil company was arranged by the government. Disney is offering the Modified Limited Hangout that these problems started with Ant-Man: Quantumania, the first film of "Phase 5." No, all of Phase 4 was a disaster, every movie and almost every TV show. They're also trying to pretend this is just about an actor they hired without doing enough due diligence into his character.
What? Everything they put out is a failure. Did you see Echo, dumped in January?
But the Disney division is in the midst of a pretty darn good February, all things considered, despite the general gloom that surrounds the superhero genre as of late.
The Super Bowl trailer for Deadpool & Wolverine became the most watched trailer of all time, with 365 million views in 24 hours. Yes, Disney's math includes the 123 million people who tuned in for the game, which included just 30 seconds of the trailer, but Super Bowl fudging or not, the clip's reach was an encouraging number for a studio whose last movie, The Marvels, became the lowest-grossing in the MCU's 33-film run, hitting just $206 million globally.Oh, the great news is about possible good news in the future. Which is just like Disney Marvel -- for a long time, they've gotten by on mediocre movies with interesting post-credit trailers. They kept on teasing viewers. "Okay, this movie was kinda crappy, but in the next movie, we're going to introduce Starfox and Pip! Aren't you crazy excited to see Starfox and Pip??!" Why, no. No I am not.
Oh, more possible good news in the future. Disney's shills in the shill media are now praising them for just casting a movie. And oh wow, Pedro Pascal. How'd you get him? He's barely in any movies or tv shows. He's almost a fresh-faced ingenue.
Next came the Valentine's Day unveiling of the cast of Fantastic Four -- Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Ebon Moss-Bachrach and Joseph Quinn, coupled with retro art teasing a 1960s setting for the movie...
Oh another future project. Starring (checks notes) a trans actor.
A day later, Marvel launched the trailer for X-Men '97, a revival of the 1990s cartoon that debuts in March. The trailer set an internal Disney record as the biggest launch for an animated series on Disney+, ahead of other Marvel shows such as What If ...? and any animated Star Wars series.
Just a teensy-tiny recalibration.
These public-facing moves come as studio boss Kevin Feige recalibrates the creative direction behind the scenes.
Wow -- sources inside Disney and at the production itself say the show has "sunny prospects." Is it too early in the year to award the Pulitzer to this reporter?
Early in February, the company completed reshoots for Agatha: Darkhold Diaries, the WandaVision spinoff starring Kathryn Hahn that is expected to hit Disney+ this fall. The company usually budgets five days of reshoots into the schedule, but the studio completed the work in just one, fueling a sunny outlook around the show internally, according to sources associated with the series.
Wow, he got Black Widow over the finish line, huh? What a credit.
The studio also quietly hired Eric Pearson to polish the script for Fantastic Four, which will shoot this summer in London. Pearson is a company stalwart who worked on Thor: Ragnarok and Black Widow and has a reputation for taking projects over the finish line.
... Marvel also hired Joanna Calo, the showrunner of acclaimed FX series The Bear, to work on the script for Thunderbolts, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.Oh great another female writer who knows nothing about comic books or action movies.
The film will begin shooting in March in Atlanta. Her hiring adds a flair of prestige to the project...That's what Disney Marvel is lacking -- more insider-Hollywood DEI "prestige." It's been working like gangbusters through Phases 4 and 5. When a government agency fails, they never affix blame to any actual people or to the ideology that caused the failure. They always scramble to blame the failure on process-type stuff. Here, Disney Marvel says the problem with their TV shows isn't the writing or the neverending DEI messaging -- it's just that they didn't have Show Czars (aka showrunners) overseeing the productions
LOL.
On the TV side, Marvel has been reorganizing its operations to allow for greater control from showrunners, a move made after the critical failure of the expensive Samuel L. Jackson spy series Secret Invasion, which sidelined executive producer Kyle Bradstreet after a year, with various creative factions vying for influence in his wake. The show had about 2.5 billion minutes of viewing over its six-week run, per Nielsen, in the bottom third of Marvel's live-action Disney+ offerings so far. "The focus is internal this year," says one insider of all the tinkering going on behind the scenes. Execs are not calling it a reboot, not even a soft one, but more of a creative retooling.
Meanwhile, in the Sony branch of the M-She-U, Madame Web bombed so disastrously that Amazon, which commissioned another female-centric Spider-Man-adjacent disaster, reportedly has fired its entire writing room and given the order to shift the focus for a superhero show to, get this, be male-skewing instead of female-skewing.
"Some of our studios lost a little focus. So the first step that we've taken is that we've reduced volume," Iger said on a Feb. 7 earnings call. "We've reduced output, particularly at Marvel," in order to ensure "the films you're making can be even better."
Firing the female writers, but keeping the female showrunner, huh?
Amazon has reportedly fired the entire writer's room for Silk: Spider Society and nearly everyone else involved in the project other than the showrunner, Angela Kang, and one executive producer just a day after the disastrous opening of Madame Web.
Silk: Spider Society is going to be the first show from Sony set within their Spider-Man Universe and was put on hold during the writer's strike last year. Originally, the writers for Silk were supposed to reconvene in January, but as of Friday, they've all been removed. With the statement that the show is seeking to target a mostly male audience, the reasons could not be any clearer. Reacher and Terminal List are both Amazon original shows that were heavily geared toward men and saw massive success. It appears that Amazon is realizing that comic book shows and movies' primary audience is, and always has been, men.Why does Amazon produce DEI Pageants and Girlboss Exhibitions like Rings of Power and Wheel of Time while also producing male-skewing, quality shows like Reacher and The Terminal List? The answer is -- according to an unconfirmed claim by someone claiming to be an insider -- that Amazon does not demand that every show be Full DEI, just that their average score for all shows be acceptably DEI. So that means that so long as We Had Rangz is super-DEI, then Amazon can afford make Reacher for men and hire non-DEI incompetents to write and crew it:
As a result of Amazon choosing to "average out" their DEI accounting across all of their shows over the course of the year, they are able to greenlight a number of lower-budget projects that technically fail to meet the required DEI grade but still contribute to their overall content slate.Why has Hollwood been churning out one incompetently written bomb after another? Who knows, who can say. It's a stone-cold mystery. But one thing we can definitely say is not to blame is Diversity, and hiring "diverse" people over skilled people. Because Diversity is Our Strength.
Think of it in terms of a typical high-school class: as long as most of the students pass, the overall average grade can absorb a couple of delinquents who fail out. Ironically, it's these lower-profile "DEI-failures" that manage to attract a substantial audience due to their broader appeal. To sum it up, Amazon has been straddling both sides of the fence when it comes to DEI: on the one hand loudly showing-off its virtue by producing expensive bombs while on the other hand quietly slipping through enough "problematic" content to offset their losses. While DEI policies can be successful, it seems that Amazon has not yet found the winning formula to do so, and must keep choosing between either having DEI initiatives or commercial success, but not both.
Large demographic shift in American TV series staff.
— Inquisitive Bird (@Scientific_Bird) February 19, 2024
According to Writers Guild of America West data, between 2011 and 2020, staff writers moved from 35% to 63% women, and 72% to 44% white. pic.twitter.com/FU2HuB00CW
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: wth at February 26, 2024 04:26 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at February 26, 2024 04:26 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at February 26, 2024 04:26 PM (N1tpc)
Posted by: Kratwurst at February 26, 2024 04:27 PM (nIRE6)
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Guardians 3 was good, but that's really its own thing. I'm not even sure they should be considered part of the phases at this point.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at February 26, 2024 04:27 PM (GBKbO)
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He won the SAG TV lead award last night.
The establishment in Hollywood loves that guy and are pushing him as hard as they can.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at February 26, 2024 04:28 PM (GBKbO)
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I was mad when Phase V happened, because I wouldn't refer to it as "Marvel Phase Bore" anymore.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 26, 2024 04:28 PM (HnUIn)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 26, 2024 04:28 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at February 26, 2024 04:27 PM (GBKbO)
I thought it was weird
Posted by: It's me donna at February 26, 2024 04:29 PM (Akjoo)
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Yeah. Except it's more like "desperate hope that a movie doesn't flop for once."
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 26, 2024 04:29 PM (HnUIn)
I liked "Marvel Stage IV."
Posted by: ace at February 26, 2024 04:29 PM (KRtlO)
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That feels...wrong.
The showrunners were given free-reign to do what they wanted with Feige going, "Sounds great!" to practically everything.
It's not that there weren't show runners. It's that the show runners were bad without anyone telling them no, ever.
Also, this helped lead to the now-typical massive reshoots that made 6 hours of television cost as much as a 2 hour big budget spectacle while never looking as good.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at February 26, 2024 04:30 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 26, 2024 04:30 PM (di6C2)
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"Fixing it didn't cost nearly as much as we feared, so total losses will be significantly smaller" isn't as big a winning statement as it appears to be at first blush.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 26, 2024 04:30 PM (HnUIn)
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LOL
"Black Widow" isn't something *I* would boast about, but hey, you do you.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 26, 2024 04:30 PM (HnUIn)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 26, 2024 04:28 PM (HnUIn)
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I guess you could refer to it as Marvel Phase DIE...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 26, 2024 04:31 PM (7fElN)
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We'll do more training to make sure employees are aware of and behave in a manner consistent with our established protocols and processes!
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 26, 2024 04:31 PM (HnUIn)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo and keep your rifle by your side at February 26, 2024 04:32 PM (xcxpd)
*Spoiler: large boobs.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 26, 2024 04:32 PM (di6C2)
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Don't call it a bender! I've been drunk for years!
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 26, 2024 04:32 PM (HnUIn)
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 26, 2024 04:32 PM (2fIO4)
Disney's problem is they are not making their products dumb enough for the dumb masses to absorb.
It's a conundrum.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at February 26, 2024 04:32 PM (2ijlT)
Posted by: UGAdawg at February 26, 2024 04:33 PM (tRd71)
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at February 26, 2024 04:33 PM (N1tpc)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 26, 2024 04:33 PM (Zz0t1)
Wait, seriously, "Angela Kang"? It's kind of disappointing she's not black with that name.
Posted by: Ian S. at February 26, 2024 04:33 PM (2ocoG)
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at February 26, 2024 04:33 PM (N1tpc)
(Citation needed)
Formatting fail.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at February 26, 2024 04:33 PM (N1tpc)
Also, this helped lead to the now-typical massive reshoots that made 6 hours of television cost as much as a 2 hour big budget spectacle while never looking as good.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at February 26, 2024 04:30 PM (GBKbO)
Odd, Joss Whedon, Stanley Kubrick and James Cameron might all be massive pricks, but they never seemed to have these issues...
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 26, 2024 04:33 PM (di6C2)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)'
Same here! I won't be... wait... what were we talking about again? Anyway back in MY day...
Posted by: LenNeal at February 26, 2024 04:33 PM (9yXr+)
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So Amazon treats it like CAFE standards for cars for cars, so it pumps out a lot of (hopefully cheap) DEI shit to offset the profitable less-DEI-infested profitable stuff?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 26, 2024 04:33 PM (HnUIn)
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 26, 2024 04:32 PM (2fIO4)
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The strength of storytelling has ALWAYS been in the writing (well, mostly, as oral storytellers have their strengths as well).
Most people don't care about the background of the writer as long as they are given an entertaining, worthwhile story.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 26, 2024 04:33 PM (7fElN)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo and keep your rifle by your side at February 26, 2024 04:34 PM (xcxpd)
I thought Georgia was banned because of their voting laws. Didn't the MLB move their all-star game because of it?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 26, 2024 04:34 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 26, 2024 04:32 PM (2fIO4)
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When it's part of a machine, it's about the desires of the machine.
Working at MGM in the 30s, you wrote the way Irving Thalberg wanted, or you got fired. In Disney in the 2020s, you write like Kevin Feige or Kathleen Kennedy want, or you get fired.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at February 26, 2024 04:34 PM (GBKbO)
There are tons of non-white writers that do great work. But *Hollywood* non-white writers don't have a great track record.
Posted by: Ian S. at February 26, 2024 04:34 PM (2ocoG)
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Required? Required by whom? And why are the people imposing these requirements occupying executive positions in what's supposed to be a business?
I jest, of course.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 26, 2024 04:34 PM (HnUIn)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo and keep your rifle by your side at February 26, 2024 04:34 PM (xcxpd)
I will take your word on that as I have no f*cking clue who that guy is.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 26, 2024 04:34 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 26, 2024 04:33 PM (di6C2)
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In all fairness, James Cameron makes crap now and has for a while.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at February 26, 2024 04:35 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: LenNeal at February 26, 2024 04:35 PM (9yXr+)
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That doesn't sound like an equitable reflection of the country.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 26, 2024 04:35 PM (HnUIn)
Posted by: UGAdawg at February 26, 2024 04:33 PM (tRd71)
I hesitate for one reason: It's Disney and can they get actually edgy with a hard R movie (like the first Deadpool?)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 26, 2024 04:35 PM (di6C2)
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So Amazon treats it like CAFE standards for cars for cars, so it pumps out a lot of (hopefully cheap) DEI shit to offset the profitable less-DEI-infested profitable stuff?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 26, 2024 04:33 PM (HnUIn)
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Remember, for companies like Amazon and Apple their streaming video services are really just vanity projects. They make their *real* money elsewhere...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 26, 2024 04:35 PM (7fElN)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 26, 2024 04:35 PM (di6C2)
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They apparently have.
Sounds like a solid Redbox rental in 9 months (with a code).
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at February 26, 2024 04:35 PM (GBKbO)
Amazon has reportedly fired the entire writer's room for Silk: Spider Society and nearly everyone else involved in the project other than the showrunner, Angela Kang, and one executive producer just a day after the disastrous opening of Madame Web.
Apparently they "was not all Kangs"!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 26, 2024 04:35 PM (xG4kz)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 26, 2024 04:33 PM (Zz0t1)
Is "Who broke the main page?" the new "nood"?
Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at February 26, 2024 04:36 PM (DTX3h)
that's the New Improved Metric then ?
LOL
*spit*
Posted by: sock_rat_eez - these lying bastardi e stronzi have been lying to us for decades at February 26, 2024 04:36 PM (QwWES)
... they're re-doing that one again? They've already given it modern graphics and rewrote the story and...
Talk about scraping the bottom of a dry well.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at February 26, 2024 04:36 PM (ou9hh)
You know, I always thought that women were generally better than men at words. (Writing and speaking).
Clearly the upper end of the bell curve must be dominated by men, even in women's strongest area, because the quality of writing dropped precipitously in that time.
At this point, I'm getting called a sexist for breathing. I might as well call it like I see it.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at February 26, 2024 04:36 PM (N1tpc)
Did they make their money back on that before they buttf*cked it into oblivion?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 26, 2024 04:36 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Marcus T at February 26, 2024 04:36 PM (54XhK)
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 26, 2024 04:36 PM (aD39U)
Posted by: Aetius451AD'
Yes! Yes! We can do that!
Posted by: Silver Screen Partners at February 26, 2024 04:36 PM (9yXr+)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at February 26, 2024 04:35 PM (GBKbO)
Granted, but I was speaking of earlier Cameron, who seemed obsessed with all of his movies.
Last Good Cameron movie?
...
True Lies?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 26, 2024 04:37 PM (di6C2)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 26, 2024 04:34 PM (Zz0t1)
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He was in Narcos. That's all I got.
Posted by: Jordan61 at February 26, 2024 04:37 PM (DRSnL)
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at February 26, 2024 04:37 PM (N1tpc)
Posted by: LenNeal at February 26, 2024 04:35 PM (9yXr+)
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"Logan" was a fitting conclusion for the character and was very well done. Apparently Hugh Jackman lobbied hard for the "Old Man Logan" storyline for his final outing, and insisted on quality for his swan song playing "Wolverine."
Disney must have cut him a stupendous check to get him to do "Wolverine" again.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 26, 2024 04:37 PM (HnUIn)
Posted by: Marcus T at February 26, 2024 04:36 PM (54XhK)
Good... I read the whole series of his books
Posted by: It's me donna at February 26, 2024 04:37 PM (Akjoo)
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True Lies?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 26, 2024 04:37 PM (di6C2)
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I'll be honest, I love Titanic, but that was about 25 years ago.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at February 26, 2024 04:37 PM (GBKbO)
The re-master was split into two halves that are separate releases. I think the new trailer is for the second half.
Posted by: Ian S. at February 26, 2024 04:37 PM (2ocoG)
It did, and the blowback was pretty righteous. All Star game is supposed to be here in 2025. MLB listened to the gravy flavored lies of Stacy Abrams and caved without actually knowing what was in the bill.
Marvel studios has all it’s infrastructure in Atlanta, so it would be far to expensive not to film there.
Posted by: UGAdawg at February 26, 2024 04:38 PM (tRd71)
Disney must have cut him a stupendous check to get him to do "Wolverine" again.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 26, 2024 04:37 PM (HnUIn)
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I have never seen a movie more desperate to be taken seriously than I have in Logan.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at February 26, 2024 04:38 PM (GBKbO)
Yes, we met for drinks at the hotel bar where your friend saw us, but he is a work colleague and we were discussing business!
Posted by: Why you gonna believe at February 26, 2024 04:38 PM (Ma4CJ)
Posted by: UGAdawg at February 26, 2024 04:33 PM (tRd71)
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Unless it's a bait-and-switch, which most Marvel programs are.
In that case, it will have a spectacular opening weekend and then collapse like a dying star.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 26, 2024 04:38 PM (HnUIn)
I was a fairly hard comic nerd back in the day and I have nfc who she/it is.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 26, 2024 04:38 PM (di6C2)
He was in Narcos. That's all I got.
Posted by: Jordan61 at February 26, 2024 04:37 PM (DRSnL)
Ah......yeah, still got nuthin since I don't know what THAT is either.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 26, 2024 04:39 PM (Zz0t1)
I will take your word on that as I have no f*cking clue who that guy is.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden"
He specializes in roles where his character escorts orphan plot-moppets across dangerous territory.
So not doing that will be a creative stretch for him.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at February 26, 2024 04:39 PM (ou9hh)
You know, I always thought that women were generally better than men at words. (Writing and speaking).
Clearly the upper end of the bell curve must be dominated by men, even in women's strongest area, because the quality of writing dropped precipitously in that time.
At this point, I'm getting called a sexist for breathing. I might as well call it like I see it.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at February 26, 2024 04:36 PM (N1tpc)
Women, like men, mostly suck at writing the other gender. Damn few writers can get into the shoes of the opposite sex and pull it off believably. It's hard and most writers don't work hard. So women are very good writers but they write about women. And topics of interest for women. Can it cross over? Yeah, but rarely. I love Jane Austen, but Mark Twain didn't.
So it's best to play to your strengths. You want to appeal to men? Hire men. You want to appeal to women, hire women. Just be aware that crossovers usually only go one way.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo and keep your rifle by your side at February 26, 2024 04:39 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at February 26, 2024 04:37 PM (GBKbO)
Ok, excise the love story (aside from the tits) and I think it is fine- even very well done.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 26, 2024 04:39 PM (di6C2)
Posted by: Dr. Varno at February 26, 2024 04:39 PM (8KaZM)
$4.05 billion. George Lucas insisted on the bonus "0.05 billion" because Disney paid $4 billion for Marvel Studios and Lucas wanted to be "bigger."
As for how much they got back from that -- I have no idea but when you buy something you're buying it for its 20-year value and I'm pretty sure the $4.05 billion valuations assumed that Star Wars would NOT become a second-rate cheesy property after just four years.
Posted by: ace at February 26, 2024 04:39 PM (KRtlO)
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True Lies?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 26, 2024 04:37 PM (di6C2)
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I'll be honest, I love Titanic, but that was about 25 years ago.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at February 26, 2024 04:37 PM (GBKbO)
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I don't know if Strange Days counts, because he wasn't the director, but I liked Strange Days.
Posted by: Jordan61 at February 26, 2024 04:39 PM (DRSnL)
Honestly, Scarlett Johansson's tits carried the movie.
Just like Lucy.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 26, 2024 04:39 PM (aD39U)
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Dirty little secret?
There's only one very, very specific thing women do better than men.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Do you remember when our sun used to be yellow? at February 26, 2024 04:39 PM (hQeb1)
that's the New Improved Metric then ?
LOL
*spit*
Posted by: sock_rat_eez - these lying bastardi e stronzi have been lying to us for decades at February 26, 2024 04:36 PM (QwWES)
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So that’s 6 to7 million viewers for a, what, billion dollar series?
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 26, 2024 04:39 PM (2fIO4)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 26, 2024 04:35 PM (7fElN)
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Yes, of course.
But while "prestige" vanity divisions don't need to be profitable, they also can't be persistent cash furnaces with insatiable appetites for money, either.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 26, 2024 04:39 PM (HnUIn)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 26, 2024 04:39 PM (Zz0t1)
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He's the Mandalorian (well, the voice). He was in one season of Game of Thrones. He was the lead in The Last of Us.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at February 26, 2024 04:39 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Robert at February 26, 2024 04:40 PM (oZZlP)
she is yet ANOTHER female spiderman clone. She was bitten by the same radioctive spider that bit peter parker. It big him, then crawled away, then bit her.
it's so gay and stupid.
Posted by: ace at February 26, 2024 04:40 PM (KRtlO)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 26, 2024 04:34 PM (Zz0t1)
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He was in Narcos. That's all I got.
Posted by: Jordan61 at February 26, 2024 04:37 PM (DRSnL)
The Mandalorian (which sort of revived SW) and The last of us (whatever that is , I just know it is based on a video game and was BIG).
Posted by: runner at February 26, 2024 04:40 PM (V13WU)
Disney must have cut him a stupendous check to get him to do "Wolverine" again.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 26, 2024 04:37 PM (HnUIn)
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I have never seen a movie more desperate to be taken seriously than I have in Logan.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at February 26, 2024 04:38 PM (GBKbO)
I've never seen one plagiarize 'Blood Father' harder.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo and keep your rifle by your side at February 26, 2024 04:40 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: It's me donna at February 26, 2024 04:40 PM (Akjoo)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at February 26, 2024 04:38 PM (GBKbO)
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I would say it was, at worst, a tad bit self-conscious. It didn't come across as all that "try hard" to me.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 26, 2024 04:41 PM (HnUIn)
Did they make their money back on that before they buttf*cked it into oblivion?
They probably did, but that's offset by the shit tons of unsold Star Wars and Marvel toys being dumped at liquidators. An Ollie's opened near me and I went in and there was just aisles and aisles of the crap.
Posted by: Ian S. at February 26, 2024 04:41 PM (2ocoG)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 26, 2024 04:37 PM (HnUIn)
IIRC, his complaint was 'staying in shape for the role' (Psst, the amount of steroids.)
Maybe a few years off the anabolic train was enough. Or his lack of other roles.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 26, 2024 04:41 PM (di6C2)
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 26, 2024 04:41 PM (aD39U)
Hell... "acclaimed FX series "The Bear?"
Sure...it was sort of fun, but I am a food geek. And it had a total of two quality performances out of about eight supporting actors. The rest were weird and awkward. And the writing sucked.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 26, 2024 04:41 PM (gSZYf)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at February 26, 2024 04:37 PM (GBKbO)
Ok, excise the love story (aside from the tits) and I think it is fine- even very well done.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 26, 2024 04:39 PM (di6C2)
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I think the love story works. The rich asshole doesn't and is a cartoon character. The dialogue is too modern especially considering the intricate historical recreation. The efforts to see as much of the Titanic through two characters creates some weird bits of plot in the second half.
But, the spectacle. It's great spectacle.
Still, A Night to Remember is better.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at February 26, 2024 04:41 PM (GBKbO)
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Dirty little secret?
There's only one very, very specific thing women do better than men.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Do you remember when our sun used to be yellow? at February 26, 2024 04:39 PM (hQeb1)
multiple orgasms?
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo and keep your rifle by your side at February 26, 2024 04:41 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: ace at February 26, 2024 04:40 PM (KRtlO)
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It's PERFECT!
Too bad those bastards at Amazon got it. That has *my* name written all over it!
Posted by: Disney at February 26, 2024 04:41 PM (HnUIn)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini'
I missed it in the theaters and caught it much later. So in a rare moment of magnanimous effort, I will agree to disagree.
Posted by: LenNeal also hates Taxi Driver and thinks it is stupid at February 26, 2024 04:42 PM (9yXr+)
Posted by: Ian S"
Astonishing. It's been a couple-three years since the first half was released, hasn't it?
Posted by: FeatherBlade at February 26, 2024 04:42 PM (ou9hh)
http://tinyurl.com/ffz9une7
Strom links to and NYT article which he highly recommends. It might be behind a paywall but you might be able to read it at Archive.
Posted by: Robert at February 26, 2024 04:42 PM (oZZlP)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at February 26, 2024 04:38 PM (GBKbO)
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I would say it was, at worst, a tad bit self-conscious. It didn't come across as all that "try hard" to me.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 26, 2024 04:41 PM (HnUIn)
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"We're not like THOSE comic book movies! We're like Shane! Remember Shane?!"
"Yes, I remember Shane, and I wish I was watching Shane right now."
I don't hate it, but...I don't think it quite works.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at February 26, 2024 04:42 PM (GBKbO)
http://tinyurl.com/267vednz
Spoiler alert: it ends exactly like you think it would. Iirc the direct quote was "imma blow it all"
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Do you remember when our sun used to be yellow? at February 26, 2024 04:42 PM (hQeb1)
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He's the Mandalorian (well, the voice). He was in one season of Game of Thrones. He was the lead in The Last of Us.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at February 26, 2024 04:39 PM (GBKbO)
Huh.
I guess it's starting to show that I don't watch any modern movies very often at all.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 26, 2024 04:42 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Jordan61 at February 26, 2024 04:39 PM (DRSnL)
Holy Hell. That is a blast from the dimly remembered past. All I could think of was Ralph Fienes. 1995 when I look it up.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 26, 2024 04:42 PM (di6C2)
There was an extended writers strike.
Seems like that ALONE would cause a drop in volume considering there is a lag between writing/filming/edits and viewing.
Posted by: Inogame at February 26, 2024 04:43 PM (53oGX)
My family whined about this No Disney rule for awhile.
I'd like to thank that giant creepy rat for reducing the quality of the work product so far that I no longer have to hear that whining, because even dumb kids can see how much their fag thing sucks ass, now.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 26, 2024 04:43 PM (0FoWg)
Posted by: Open Channel D at February 26, 2024 04:43 PM (VYM+i)
it's so gay and stupid.
The best part of Sony trying to make a Spiderman Universe is the Pitch Meeting for Madame Web.
Posted by: Ian S. at February 26, 2024 04:43 PM (2ocoG)
He's the Mandalorian (well, the voice). He was in one season of Game of Thrones. He was the lead in The Last of Us.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at February 26, 2024 04:39 PM (GBKbO)
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He was ground into hamburger in the second Kingsman movie.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at February 26, 2024 04:43 PM (0gvpA)
Spoiler alert: it ends exactly like you think it would. Iirc the direct quote was "imma blow it all"
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Do you remember when our sun used to be yellow? at February 26, 2024 04:42 PM (hQeb1)
Sometimes, you benefit!
Wait.....they're talking about money, aren't they.....
Posted by: Kumswala Harris at February 26, 2024 04:43 PM (Zz0t1)
I met a girl I really liked and took her to that for our first date.
The rape scenes were somewhat uncomfortable.
Posted by: ace at February 26, 2024 04:43 PM (KRtlO)
On purpose ?
Posted by: It's me donna at February 26, 2024 04:40 PM (Akjoo)
It's 52 degrees here, so it's not like it was a trial for him.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at February 26, 2024 04:43 PM (N1tpc)
Posted by: runner at February 26, 2024 04:44 PM (V13WU)
Posted by: Jordan61 at February 26, 2024 04:39 PM (DRSnL)
I liked "Strange Days" a lot more the *first* time I saw it...
...when it was called, "Brainstorm."
Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik channeling David Spade at February 26, 2024 04:44 PM (DTX3h)
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Do you remember when our sun used to be yellow? at February 26, 2024 04:42 PM (hQeb1)
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Did this deal - an $11k lump-sum payment - come with the caveat that there will be no more social assistance or welfare from the District, ever?
If so, I could actually get behind this.
But I doubt it. And if it there was such a condition, I doubt it will be enforced.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 26, 2024 04:44 PM (HnUIn)
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at February 26, 2024 04:43 PM (0gvpA)
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Can't believe I forgot that.
I love those movies.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at February 26, 2024 04:44 PM (GBKbO)
I'm betting this ultimately is pro-Asia, but 100% non-woke once it actually comes out.
Posted by: Nova Local at February 26, 2024 04:44 PM (exHjb)
Still, A Night to Remember is better.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at February 26, 2024 04:41 PM (GBKbO)
It IS good spectacle, but they needed a human plot that was as good or at least not as offensively bad. Her mom raising the standard of 'Women'? Come the fuck on.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 26, 2024 04:44 PM (di6C2)
Maybe a few years off the anabolic train was enough. Or his lack of other roles.
Posted by: Aetius451AD
Y'mean like the one in "Swordfish" where he resurrected super badass malware that he had ditched in the only PDP-11 that still was hooked into the internet more than thirty years after it ought to have expired?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 26, 2024 04:44 PM (xG4kz)
The rape scenes were somewhat uncomfortable.
Posted by: ace at February 26, 2024 04:43 PM (KRtlO)
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Travis Bickle taking Cybill Shepherd to a Swedish art film bad?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at February 26, 2024 04:45 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 26, 2024 04:37 PM (di6C2)
"Ferris Bueller's Day Off."
That was an excellent Cameron.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 26, 2024 04:45 PM (gSZYf)
As some have pointed out, there's really no reason to object to the actual wokeness in most woke work product because it's also just objectively terrible and that's sufficient.
Posted by: Ian S. at February 26, 2024 04:45 PM (2ocoG)
Posted by: Blake - semi lurker at large at February 26, 2024 04:45 PM (tT6L1)
https://shorturl.at/tuAP4
(apparently the Main Character is Tom Cruise from both Top Gun and Mission Impossible)
(and there is *too* a dance sequence!)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 26, 2024 04:45 PM (llON8)
Maybe a few years off the anabolic train was enough. Or his lack of other roles.
Posted by: Aetius451AD
Y'mean like the one in "Swordfish" where he resurrected super badass malware that he had ditched in the only PDP-11 that still was hooked into the internet more than thirty years after it ought to have expired?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 26, 2024 04:44 PM (xG4kz)
Swordfish still has the best job interview scene ever.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo and keep your rifle by your side at February 26, 2024 04:46 PM (xcxpd)
it's so gay and stupid.
Posted by: ace at February 26, 2024 04:40 PM (KRtlO)
These spiders are just biting everyone now. WTH?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 26, 2024 04:46 PM (di6C2)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 26, 2024 04:44 PM (di6C2)
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His writing strength before Titanic most likely came from his ex-wife Gale Ann Hurd. The writing in Titanic isn't great, but I just buy into the central romance between an unhappy rich girl and a suave poor kid on a boat.
It wouldn't have lasted had Rose moved over on that door once they got to New York, but it was nice while it lasted.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at February 26, 2024 04:46 PM (GBKbO)
As for how much they got back from that -- I have no idea but when you buy something you're buying it for its 20-year value and I'm pretty sure the $4.05 billion valuations assumed that Star Wars would NOT become a second-rate cheesy property after just four years.
Posted by: ace at February 26, 2024 04:39 PM (KRtlO)
Ok, so they spent $4.05 for the franchise, spent another $.5 bn to $1 bn making movie after movie after TV show after cartoon.......that no one watches and those that do, hate it?
GENIUS!!!
Posted by: Kumswala Harris at February 26, 2024 04:46 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at February 26, 2024 04:46 PM (PiwSw)
Chevy can make a gas guzzling suburban that everyone wants to buy, but it has to be offset by some crappy golf cart Geo Bolt that no one wants and the dealer has to lay cash on the car hood.
Posted by: Benchmark at February 26, 2024 04:46 PM (3KbnS)
Posted by: Orson at February 26, 2024 04:47 PM (dIske)
This isn't just a flavor-of-the-month biz fad. It's a fully deployed DIE-star that won't be removed without complete destruction of H-Wood.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 26, 2024 04:47 PM (IG4Id)
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Oh goodness no.
And with six kids I'm betting she gets $1K or so per month free and clear for food before her normal food budget.
She spent the money on a trip to Florida. Took the boyfriend. Holla!
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Do you remember when our sun used to be yellow? at February 26, 2024 04:47 PM (hQeb1)
Posted by: Robert at February 26, 2024 04:40 PM (oZZlP)
Great! Only 15 more to go!
Posted by: Barry Obongo, Constitutional Skolar at February 26, 2024 04:47 PM (2ijlT)
Posted by: Aetius451AD'
An under-recognized Cyberpunk bit. I went to see it in a multiplex with the sound dialed up to 11, and the scenes of Juliette Lewis performing the PJ Harvey songs was like being hit by a truck.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KX3CmKvzyw0
Angela Bassett has NEVER been hotter than in that movie.
Posted by: LenNeal at February 26, 2024 04:47 PM (9yXr+)
Posted by: Orson at February 26, 2024 04:47 PM (dIske)
Starring Charles Dera as Lance Clamhammer.
You will believe a man can fuck.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo and keep your rifle by your side at February 26, 2024 04:47 PM (xcxpd)
Young Woman and the Sea
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
Inside Out 2
Deadpool & Wolverine
Alien: Romulus
The Amateur
Moana 2
Mufasa
More movies may get dated this year, but this is a good starting list.
Posted by: Nova Local at February 26, 2024 04:48 PM (exHjb)
I laughed at that Picard series when I saw it had something like six "executive producers."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 26, 2024 04:48 PM (J2vNu)
Cooking food.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 26, 2024 04:48 PM (VmBBt)
He specializes in roles where his character escorts orphan plot-moppets across dangerous territory.
So not doing that will be a creative stretch for him.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at February 26, 2024 04:39 PM (ou9hh).
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Don't forget the part where he never takes off his full face helmet.
That was a very important part of the success of the character.
But since he left Gina Carano out to dry, I have no use for him.
Posted by: Just Lily at February 26, 2024 04:48 PM (vivhj)
Posted by: Open Channel D at February 26, 2024 04:43 PM (VYM+i)
I hope Japanese studios kick the crap out of American ones.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at February 26, 2024 04:48 PM (N1tpc)
Posted by: LenNeal at February 26, 2024 04:47 PM (9yXr+)
No lie, she was pretty damn hot back in the day.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 26, 2024 04:49 PM (di6C2)
So if anyone is making bank off this wokeness, it's YouTube...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 26, 2024 04:49 PM (7fElN)
I laughed at that Picard series when I saw it had something like six "executive producers."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 26, 2024 04:48 PM (J2vNu)
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Yeah, showrunners are generally the one executive producer who's been given direct creative control. It's not an official title, as far as I know.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at February 26, 2024 04:49 PM (GBKbO)
I will take your word on that as I have no f*cking clue who that guy is."
He was also the lead bad guy in "The Equalizer 2"
Posted by: Tuna at February 26, 2024 04:49 PM (oaGWv)
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
I liked the first three movies.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 26, 2024 04:49 PM (aD39U)
The rape scenes were somewhat uncomfortable.
Posted by: ace at February 26, 2024 04:43 PM (KRtlO)
Good job.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at February 26, 2024 04:49 PM (R4t5M)
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I read that as "genital gloom."
Posted by: ShainS -- Boycott New York & other Blue Shithole Cities #TruckersForTrump at February 26, 2024 04:50 PM (CnqNO)
I will take your word on that as I have no f*cking clue who that guy is."
He was also the lead bad guy in "The Equalizer 2"
Posted by: Tuna at February 26, 2024 04:49 PM (oaGWv)
Also in Wonder Woman 1984.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 26, 2024 04:50 PM (di6C2)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at February 26, 2024 04:49 PM (GBKbO)
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"Executive Producer" bloat led to the term, I suspect.
When there are a half-dozen "Executive Producers" on a project, the *actual* EP has to call himself something else so people actually know who's in charge.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 26, 2024 04:50 PM (HnUIn)
Posted by: mpfs, Hey, where's my Sweetdick?! at February 26, 2024 04:50 PM (7OHwG)
He specializes in roles where his character escorts orphan plot-moppets across dangerous territory
I read that as "flop-moppets" and wondered just when did teen soccer movies become a thing?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 26, 2024 04:50 PM (xG4kz)
The rape scenes were somewhat uncomfortable.
Posted by: ace at February 26, 2024 04:43 PM (KRtlO)
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My best friend in HS went out on a date with the most straight-laced guy in school. They saw About Last Night. They didn't date again after that.
Posted by: Jordan61 at February 26, 2024 04:50 PM (DRSnL)
Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at February 26, 2024 04:49 PM (wGqjj)
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Elemental eventually broke even, barely, based on solid international legs.
But things like Wish and The Marvels are...nowhere close.
The Disney production pipeline seems to be outright broken, and that's not even taking into account the waste of sending PIXAR movies direct to Disney+.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at February 26, 2024 04:50 PM (GBKbO)
The rape scenes were somewhat uncomfortable.
Posted by: ace at February 26, 2024 04:43 PM (KRtlO)
Travis Bickle taking Cybill Shepherd to a Swedish art film bad?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini'
My First Ex had a chick stay with us, a radical feminist from Boston, a university professor still grasping onto her Punk Roots, and my ex set her up on a date with a very nice Punk boy, who took her, on a First Date, to see 'In The Company Of Men' because, he said later, he'd heard it was a 'feminist movie' and it might get him into her pants.
This did not happen. True story.
Posted by: LenNeal at February 26, 2024 04:51 PM (9yXr+)
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
I liked the first three movies.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 26, 2024 04:49 PM (aD39U)
4th is a time jump...and likely woke b/c it's fully under Disney's umbrella now (like Deadpool) vs the 1st 3.
Posted by: Nova Local at February 26, 2024 04:51 PM (exHjb)
Also, this helped lead to the now-typical massive reshoots that made 6 hours of television cost as much as a 2 hour big budget spectacle while never looking as good.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at February 26, 2024
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Gene Coon was quoted as saying, "Ninety percent of your show problems can be fixed, faster and cheaper, in the typewriter." I guess he didn't foresee the disastrous quagmire that H'wood would become. . . .
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 26, 2024 04:51 PM (J2vNu)
Young Woman and the Sea
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
Inside Out 2
Deadpool & Wolverine
Alien: Romulus
The Amateur
Moana 2
Mufasa
More movies may get dated this year, but this is a good starting list.
Posted by: Nova Local at February 26, 2024 04:48 PM (exHjb)
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I notice almost all of those (maybe all of them) are sequels to existing IPs and not wholly original stories with new characters.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 26, 2024 04:51 PM (7fElN)
The rape scenes were somewhat uncomfortable.
Posted by: ace at February 26, 2024 04:43 PM (KRtlO)
Why? You didn't ask her to stick her hand into the popcorn bucket on your lap, did you?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 26, 2024 04:52 PM (di6C2)
This did not happen. True story.
Posted by: LenNeal at February 26, 2024 04:51 PM (9yXr+)
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Meh.
Still a better love story than "Twilight."
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 26, 2024 04:52 PM (HnUIn)
I liked the first three movies.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 26, 2024 04:49 PM (aD39U)
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Apparently there was a screening a few months back, and the results were mediocre at best.
Weird what happens when you replace the guy who made Dawn of the Planet of the Apes with the guy who made The Maze Runner movies.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at February 26, 2024 04:52 PM (GBKbO)
The rape scenes were somewhat uncomfortable.
Posted by: ace at February 26, 2024 04:43 PM (KRtlO)
You made out during Schindler's List, didn't you?
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 26, 2024 04:52 PM (aD39U)
She explained and of course I could not stop laughing.
This did not go over well and she got all upset and I told her get fucked.
The boy meant well.
Posted by: LenNeal at February 26, 2024 04:52 PM (9yXr+)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 26, 2024 04:51 PM (J2vNu)
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"Gene Who? Fuck that guy. I MADE STAR TREK!!!!"
-Gene Roddenberry
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at February 26, 2024 04:52 PM (GBKbO)
I like being in the don't know sometimes.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 26, 2024 04:53 PM (Zz0t1)
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Every male feminist ever.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Do you remember when our sun used to be yellow? at February 26, 2024 04:53 PM (hQeb1)
I like being in the don't know sometimes.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 26, 2024 04:53 PM (Zz0t1)
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Well, the movie star is a myth and media has fractured to very small slices.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at February 26, 2024 04:54 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 26, 2024 04:54 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at February 26, 2024 04:52 PM (GBKbO)
Great, The Maze Runner of Divergents.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 26, 2024 04:54 PM (aD39U)
Young Woman and the Sea
Posted by: Nova Local at February 26, 2024 04:48 PM (exHjb)
..... so did they gender and age-swap The Old Man and the Sea?
You don't have to answer, I don't actually care.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at February 26, 2024 04:54 PM (N1tpc)
Posted by: G'rump928(c)'
The First Ex's dad fell asleep during Schindler's List and snored. He was one of those guys who if you put him in a chair and it gets dark he just falls asleep.
His wife was furious.
"Bob! Bob! Wake up, goddamit!"
Posted by: LenNeal at February 26, 2024 04:54 PM (9yXr+)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 26, 2024 04:54 PM (Zz0t1)
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I took Dolley to see Drive.
She still has not forgiven me for that.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at February 26, 2024 04:54 PM (GBKbO)
I like being in the don't know sometimes.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 26, 2024 04:53 PM (Zz0t1)
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About 10 or 15 years ago, I was at the supermarket checkout and read over the tabloid covers and most were, as usual, celebrity gossip rags. I realized about halfway through reading the covers, "I have no idea who any of these people are."
I mark down that down as the moment I stopped being young.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 26, 2024 04:55 PM (HnUIn)
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Do you remember when our sun used to be yellow? at February 26, 2024 04:55 PM (hQeb1)
Posted by: Montec at February 26, 2024 04:55 PM (YofvK)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo and keep your rifle by your side at February 26, 2024 04:55 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 26, 2024 04:55 PM (IG4Id)
I like being in the don't know sometimes.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 26, 2024 04:53 PM (Zz0t1)
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There's so much content being produced, it's impossible to know everything that's out there. Oversaturation of the market, which means people will become much more discriminating in what they choose to watch and will reject everything else.
It also means we are unlikely to see cultural touchstones like Star Wars or Harry Potter anytime in the future.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 26, 2024 04:55 PM (7fElN)
Posted by: Montec at February 26, 2024 04:55 PM (YofvK)
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I'm going to the movies on Thursday!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at February 26, 2024 04:55 PM (GBKbO)
Every male (...) ever.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Do you remember when our sun used to be yellow?'
Fixed it.
Posted by: LenNeal at February 26, 2024 04:55 PM (9yXr+)
I thought there was a requirement for items of flair in that joint?
Posted by: Kindltot at February 26, 2024 04:56 PM (D7oie)
Morpho the shapeshifter is now 'non-binary' and everyone's favorite Southern Belle Rogue who took down Carol Danvers, yes THAT Carol Danvers, is now portrayed flat as a board.
Oh yeah the 'womyn' in charge is a flaming Lefty who wants no white writers. Though she is white.
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 26, 2024 04:56 PM (v0S0I)
-Gene Roddenberry
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at February 26, 2024 04:52 PM (GBKbO)
uhagh ahanar Stahhhhh.... BRAAIIINS...
-Zombie Gene Roddenberry
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at February 26, 2024 04:56 PM (N1tpc)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at February 26, 2024 04:56 PM (R4t5M)
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 26, 2024 04:56 PM (aD39U)
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 26, 2024 04:53 PM (Zz0t1)
Try popular music...it might be even worse!
I doubt I have ever heard of at least five of the top 10 acts in American music.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 26, 2024 04:56 PM (gSZYf)
I mark down that down as the moment I stopped being young.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 26, 2024 04:55 PM (HnUIn)
Even when I was young I had no clue who most of those people dress same with pop singers.
Posted by: Montec at February 26, 2024 04:57 PM (YofvK)
Posted by: Montec at February 26, 2024 04:55 PM (YofvK)
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Star Wars was great and all, but it wasn't THAT good...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 26, 2024 04:57 PM (7fElN)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 26, 2024 04:56 PM (gSZYf)
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Trick question:
All ten are Taylor Swift!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at February 26, 2024 04:57 PM (GBKbO)
Also Vanessa Williams, of course. Wish we had had more of her.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 26, 2024 04:57 PM (di6C2)
Posted by: Montec at February 26, 2024 04:55 PM (YofvK)
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Star Wars was great and all, but it wasn't THAT good...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 26, 2024 04:57 PM (7fElN)
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Better than Annie Hall.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at February 26, 2024 04:57 PM (GBKbO)
I doubt I have ever heard of at least five of the top 10 acts in American music.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 26, 2024 04:56 PM (gSZYf)
Tay Tay is number 1-10.
Posted by: Montec at February 26, 2024 04:57 PM (YofvK)
I mark down that down as the moment I stopped being young.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)'
I work at a supermarket. I was at breakfast with my daughter and asked her what she thought of the Harry and Meghan thing, and she put on The Face and asked me, "Who are you talking about?"
At that point I realized I got way too much of my news from supermarket magazine displays and came here for edification.
Posted by: LenNeal at February 26, 2024 04:57 PM (9yXr+)
Back to killing monsters instead of "sweet mysteries of the night" playing house.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 26, 2024 04:57 PM (VmBBt)
Posted by: Bete at February 26, 2024 04:58 PM (tNNrR)
Missus Krebs gave me grief for making her sit through practically the entire run of "The Warriors" just so she could see the "Warriors, come out and play-ay!" scene.
I don't blame her. How was I supposed to have remembered that the scene did not occur until damn close to the end of the movie?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 26, 2024 04:58 PM (xG4kz)
Posted by: Rbastid at February 26, 2024 04:58 PM (WrUdH)
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You're not wrong, but male feminists are the worst. It's one thing when it's a normal guy just playing along with their delusions, but the ones that base their lives around it to be creeps and hope their groveling and being available will win the day? (shudder)
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Do you remember when our sun used to be yellow? at February 26, 2024 04:58 PM (hQeb1)
Maybe star Atomic Dogboy as the new King after a fabulous duel.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 26, 2024 04:59 PM (cOq4q)
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 26, 2024 04:59 PM (v0S0I)
Back to killing monsters instead of "sweet mysteries of the night" playing house.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 26, 2024 04:57 PM (VmBBt)
During Pride Eve Eve Eve Eve Month?!
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 26, 2024 04:59 PM (llON8)
Posted by: ShainS -- Boycott New York & other Blue Shithole Cities #TruckersForTrump at February 26, 2024 04:59 PM (1yJzw)
Posted by: G'rump928(c)'
That's a classic. We can't be friends. I hope you are not disappointed.
Posted by: LenNeal at February 26, 2024 04:59 PM (9yXr+)
Posted by: Rbastid at February 26, 2024 04:58 PM (WrUdH)
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The Fantastic Four being a big property feels like a remnant of the 80s.
I don't think it's going to save Marvel's cinematic ambitions.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at February 26, 2024 04:59 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 26, 2024 04:56 PM (aD39U)
Mine was a Rick Springfield flick, Hard to Hold. It was buck night and I asked for our $2 back.
Posted by: Beartooth at February 26, 2024 04:59 PM (LjgPm)
Never saw one minute of Harry Potter, nor read a book.
Last movie I saw in the theater, not including the recent screening of Python's Holy Grail: American Sniper
I guess the most 'recent' thing I've seen is all 4 of the John Wick quadrilogy.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 26, 2024 04:59 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 26, 2024 05:00 PM (di6C2)
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You're not wrong, but male feminists are the worst. It's one thing when it's a normal guy just playing along with their delusions, but the ones that base their lives around it to be creeps and hope their groveling and being available will win the day? (shudder)
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Do you remember when our sun used to be yellow? at February 26, 2024 04:58 PM (hQeb1)
Is this about me?
Posted by: Joss Whedon at February 26, 2024 05:00 PM (llON8)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 26, 2024 05:00 PM (di6C2)
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The director was hittin' that.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at February 26, 2024 05:00 PM (GBKbO)
Plus being an idiot who thinks everyone else is a Nazi?
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 26, 2024 05:00 PM (v0S0I)
She still has not forgiven me for that.
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My favorite is a buddy who took his wife to see Event Horizon by telling her it was a love story.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 26, 2024 05:01 PM (VmBBt)
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 26, 2024
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I came close with Jacob's Ladder w/ Tim Robbins. He wasn't the problem, or at least not the only one. I realized I didn't like or understand any of the characters or care about whatever crises they were having.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 26, 2024 05:01 PM (J2vNu)
Posted by: Joe Mannix
How about Phase Sink-o?
Posted by: Stu Podaso at February 26, 2024 05:01 PM (f746Z)
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It's Always Sunny in Pedophilia.
Posted by: ShainS -- Boycott New York & other Blue Shithole Cities #TruckersForTrump at February 26, 2024 05:01 PM (1yJzw)
Posted by: Lost in Space at February 26, 2024 05:01 PM (ytCBg)
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 26, 2024 05:01 PM (VmBBt)
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He weren't wrong!
Let nothing come between a man and his love for a Hellmouth in space.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at February 26, 2024 05:01 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at February 26, 2024 05:00 PM (GBKbO)
+ for being Geena Davis.
- for Mathew Modine.
+++ for Frank Langela, who seemed to realize it was a piece of shit and he was going to tear the ass out of that role having fun. He looked like the only one.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 26, 2024 05:01 PM (di6C2)
I watched Paul Atreides's Wonka. Do not.
You have been warned.
On the other hand, Land of the Bad was tolerable. An updated Bat21.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 26, 2024 05:02 PM (aD39U)
Try popular music...it might be even worse!
I doubt I have ever heard of at least five of the top 10 acts in American music.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 26, 2024 04:56 PM (gSZYf)
When it comes to music, I rely on my brother who frequents several music blogs and finds the dark alley, hole in the wall shit no one's ever heard of and it's usually always a thousand times better than the shit I hear coming across the radio when the wife is driving us somewhere.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 26, 2024 05:02 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 26, 2024 05:01 PM (di6C2)
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Character actors > movie stars.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at February 26, 2024 05:02 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 26, 2024 05:01 PM (VmBBt)
Damn.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 26, 2024 05:02 PM (di6C2)
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 26, 2024 05:01 PM (VmBBt)
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I suppose in a twisted sort of way it was...
The story of a man who loved his space ship so much he took it on a trip to Hell and back...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 26, 2024 05:02 PM (7fElN)
I remain ambivalent, I do not regard it as a 'good movie' as it isn't. But it's certainly something, I'm not sure what. But I didn't walk out.
Posted by: LenNeal at February 26, 2024 05:02 PM (9yXr+)
Posted by: Lithiated gp For Healthful Glow at February 26, 2024 05:02 PM (MvF+J)
She still has not forgiven me for that
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My wife also not a fan.
Chicks man.
Posted by: Montec at February 26, 2024 05:02 PM (YofvK)
Posted by: LenNeal at February 26, 2024 04:47 PM (9yXr+)
I saw it once in the theater and I thought it was good--right up until the ham-fisted, barely disguised allegory for Rodney King's ass-beating toward the end of the film. I walked out of the theater at that point.
And, seriously: if you like this movie, check out "Brainstorm." Though it gets a tad silly, the central plot mechanic of recording and reproducing conscious experiences was explored there more than a decade earlier.
Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at February 26, 2024 05:02 PM (DTX3h)
This country is not allowed to unite over *anything*, including simple entertainment.
I recognized this operation a dozen years ago with the way every news story was being covered, and they are following it to the micron.
Posted by: ... at February 26, 2024 05:03 PM (lX8VI)
Chicks man.
Posted by: Montec at February 26, 2024 05:02 PM (YofvK)
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Christina Hendricks getting her head blown up with a shotgun was apparently too far.
For some reason.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at February 26, 2024 05:03 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 26, 2024 05:01 PM (J2vNu)
I still have not figured that movie out. I decided that the entire movie was the delusions of a dying mind trying to come to grips with it's death.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 26, 2024 05:03 PM (aD39U)
Skippy the movie starred Jackie Cooper who was 9 at the time. He was nominated for an Oscar and still holds the record for youngest Oscar nom. Co-starred Robert Coogan, Uncle Festers younger brother.
Posted by: Olden Times Were Better at February 26, 2024 05:03 PM (V5BDR)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at February 26, 2024 05:02 PM (GBKbO)
Frank Langela was pretty damn good in everything I ever saw. Mom was a huge fan. He was good in Dave.
Dracula is a weird one.
There was another she recorded, one with the opening of King Tut's Tomb?
And a stage turn as Sherlock Holmes.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 26, 2024 05:03 PM (di6C2)
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 26, 2024 05:01 PM (VmBBt)
Well it is...for Satan!
Posted by: The Church Lady at February 26, 2024 05:03 PM (PiwSw)
Posted by: Bete at February 26, 2024 05:04 PM (tNNrR)
Posted by: Dr. Bone at February 26, 2024 05:04 PM (q2/In)
Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at February 26, 2024 05:04 PM (MeWNy)
Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at February 26, 2024 05:04 PM (MeWNy)
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Ceiling.
You?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at February 26, 2024 05:04 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Do you remember when our sun used to be yellow? at February 26, 2024 05:05 PM (hQeb1)
Male or female, doesn't matter.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Do you remember when our sun used to be yellow? at February 26, 2024 05:05 PM (hQeb1)
The exact same thing popped into my head.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 26, 2024 05:05 PM (Zz0t1)
I still want to see Howard the Duck! Come on, drag Tim Robbins while you are it.
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 26, 2024 05:05 PM (v0S0I)
For some reason.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at February 26, 2024 05:03 PM (GBKbO)
Redheads.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 26, 2024 05:05 PM (di6C2)
I don't think it's going to save Marvel's cinematic ambitions.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at February 26, 2024 04:59 PM (GBKbO)
It did wonders for Roger Corman's career.
Posted by: Kindltot at February 26, 2024 05:05 PM (D7oie)
And, seriously: if you like this movie, check out "Brainstorm." Though it gets a tad silly, the central plot mechanic of recording and reproducing conscious experiences was explored there more than a decade earlier.
Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik'
Yeah I was expecting an actual Cyberpunk thing and it went all Social Justice, it lost its shit halfway through. But the initial setup is astonishing. And the clothes, who but Ralph Fiennes at that specific moment in Time could make that retro-Teddy Boy look cool. And again, Agenla Bassett was so hot she exploded off the screen in a movie that didn't do her justice.
Posted by: LenNeal at February 26, 2024 05:05 PM (9yXr+)
Posted by: Montec at February 26, 2024 05:05 PM (YofvK)
Posted by: Jamaica at February 26, 2024 05:05 PM (IG7T0)
Posted by: Tex Lovera at February 26, 2024 05:06 PM (wtvvX)
I was snapping my fingers after some announcement somewhere and this chick started giving me shit like I was trying to be hip or something.
I told her that when you clap your hands you kill "LITTERLY MILLIONS" of blood cells in your hands.
With a very concerned look on my face.
Then I laughed.
Posted by: pawn at February 26, 2024 05:06 PM (QB+5g)
Re Event Horizon, I like how folks say it's basically a Warhammer 40k prequel movie.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 26, 2024 05:06 PM (VmBBt)
Posted by: It's me donna at February 26, 2024 05:06 PM (Akjoo)
I still want to see Howard the Duck! Come on, drag Tim Robbins while you are it.
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 26, 2024 05:05 PM (v0S0I)
If by 'drag' you mean 'launch him to the sun,' I'm good with that.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 26, 2024 05:06 PM (Zz0t1)
You have been warned.
On the other hand, Land of the Bad was tolerable. An updated Bat21.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 26, 2024 05:02 PM (aD39U)
You have to be gooned on spice for it to make sense, i guess.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 26, 2024 05:06 PM (tkR6S)
Posted by: Lost in Space at February 26, 2024 05:06 PM (ytCBg)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 26, 2024 05:07 PM (J2vNu)
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 26, 2024 05:07 PM (v0S0I)
Posted by: LenNeal at February 26, 2024 05:07 PM (9yXr+)
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 26, 2024 05:01 PM (VmBBt)
technically, Enemy at the Gates is a love story
Posted by: Kindltot at February 26, 2024 05:07 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 26, 2024 05:03 PM (aD39U)
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That's what I always figured.
Posted by: Jordan61 at February 26, 2024 05:07 PM (DRSnL)
Posted by: Cory Booker at February 26, 2024 05:08 PM (woPEM)
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 26, 2024 05:05 PM (v0S0I)
If we ever needed proof...
OH! Something came up in another thread: Extremely narrow british WWII bomber. Was that the Lancaster or am I getting senile?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 26, 2024 05:08 PM (di6C2)
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 26, 2024 05:08 PM (aD39U)
Posted by: gnats local 678 at February 26, 2024 05:08 PM (B1FKF)
Posted by: Lost in Space at February 26, 2024 05:06 PM (ytCBg)
The world is clamoring for another 'swapped' movie where the kids and their parents exchange bodies. I'm sure of it.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 26, 2024 05:08 PM (Zz0t1)
Sucks that they released it at peak superhero movie exhaustion.
The whole series of monster movies rumored to follow would have been cool.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 26, 2024 05:08 PM (VmBBt)
Posted by: Jamaica at February 26, 2024 05:09 PM (IG7T0)
Posted by: Montec at February 26, 2024
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Is that the one with Paul Giacometti (sp)? It was fascinating in the first couple of episodes, then when the Rev. War was over it got kinda dull.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 26, 2024 05:09 PM (J2vNu)
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 26, 2024 05:09 PM (aD39U)
Plus being an idiot who thinks everyone else is a Nazi?
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 26, 2024 05:00 PM (v0S0I)
He's the bitch who routinely calls everyone a nazi, but then cried to Disney to get Gina Carano fired because she said or government was trying to pit each other against each other, like the nazis.
So to him calling citizens nazis is okay, but don't you dare criticize the government.
Posted by: Rbastid at February 26, 2024 05:09 PM (WrUdH)
Morgan Freeman: I remember thinking it take them 20 years to launch Tim Robbins into the sun. It barely took a year and a half.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at February 26, 2024 05:09 PM (cf/0E)
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 26, 2024 05:09 PM (aD39U)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at February 26, 2024 05:03 PM (GBKbO)
Redheads.
Posted by: Aetius451AD'
That 'Drive' movie?
I've met some weirdos like that in real life.
They don't look like much but they are dangerous.
Posted by: LenNeal at February 26, 2024 05:09 PM (9yXr+)
Well, a slightly less skeezy version of Hunter Biden
Posted by: 18-1 at February 26, 2024 05:09 PM (ibTVg)
Posted by: Kindltot at February 26, 2024 05:07 PM (D7oie)
And until the last little bit, I think is a pretty good movie.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 26, 2024 05:09 PM (di6C2)
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 26, 2024 05:09 PM (v0S0I)
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice
3 steps over the line, and one step back. Vidya games have seen this time and time again. No quarter.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 26, 2024 05:09 PM (IG4Id)
Posted by: Lost in Space at February 26, 2024 05:06 PM
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I'd watch that.
Posted by: Mayor Butt, in charge of transportation and stuff at February 26, 2024 05:09 PM (Uhisz)
Posted by: Montec at February 26, 2024 05:10 PM (YofvK)
Well, a slightly less skeezy version of Hunter Biden
Posted by: 18-1 at February 26, 2024 05:09 PM (ibTVg)
OMG, you're right.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 26, 2024 05:10 PM (aD39U)
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Disney? 2024 Disney?
No no no no no
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Do you remember when our sun used to be yellow? at February 26, 2024 05:10 PM (hQeb1)
Plus being an idiot who thinks everyone else is a Nazi?
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 26, 2024 05:00 PM (v0S0I)
Granted he also had the most satisfying scene in TV, where he got his head crushed to bits in Game of Thrones.
Posted by: Rbastid at February 26, 2024 05:10 PM (WrUdH)
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle to maintain Moron standards at February 26, 2024 05:10 PM (qW9k0)
LOL.
"Desperate salvage operation" had too many syllables?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 26, 2024 05:10 PM (vDyah)
Posted by: Lost in Space at February 26, 2024
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Or the Swamp Fox, or the Scarecrow, or Elfego Baca the legendary NM lawman, or Zorro!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 26, 2024 05:10 PM (J2vNu)
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 26, 2024 05:03 PM (aD39U)
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That's what I always figured.
Posted by: Jordan61 at February 26, 2024 05:07 PM (DRSnL)
Inspired by the short story "Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge," by Ambrose Bierce.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at February 26, 2024 05:10 PM (PiwSw)
Posted by: Somebody Gotta Pay For This! at February 26, 2024 05:10 PM (V5BDR)
that ugly Irish chick he used to have in all his series decided he was too friendly - Lassiter-ish with the touching of arms and suchlike - and got him fired
...AFTER FILMING! the series was done and she went psycho
so they had to reshoot all his scenes with some other dude. the Irish chick sucks so much she's awful and with the reshoots and paying her off that probably killed Flanagan's chances at any more series with Netflix
Posted by: BlackOrchid at February 26, 2024 05:10 PM (AcWfM)
Posted by: Diogenes at February 26, 2024 05:10 PM (W/lyH)
And yet Syrange Days is not licensed for home video release anywhere in the States.
Posted by: Bete at February 26, 2024 05:11 PM (tNNrR)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 26, 2024 05:09 PM (J2vNu)
Yep that’s the one. Im at the part where they just declared independence.
Posted by: Montec at February 26, 2024 05:11 PM (YofvK)
WTF
Posted by: LenNeal at February 26, 2024 05:11 PM (9yXr+)
Also swap genders.
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle to maintain Moron standards at February 26, 2024 05:12 PM (qW9k0)
Posted by: It's me donna at February 26, 2024 05:12 PM (Akjoo)
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there is proof of this ? that he got Gina fired ?
Posted by: runner at February 26, 2024 05:12 PM (V13WU)
that was the only scene with Pedro I've ever liked
if we're talking movies Night Flight had Bad Timing so rewatched. still kind of a bad movie. Theresa Russell is good in it. the rest is really sub par. early Nicholas Roeg!
Posted by: BlackOrchid at February 26, 2024 05:12 PM (AcWfM)
The existing tools were the wrong tools! So we hired new tools!
Posted by: Execs at February 26, 2024 05:12 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 26, 2024 05:09 PM (v0S0I)
Ah ha!
The slim and compact fuselage of the aircraft was quite cramped, being wide enough only for a single person. The navigator sat behind the pilot and access in the cockpit required folding down the seats. Once in place, the crew had almost no room to move and were typically uncomfortable during long missions.[14] Aircrews referred to the Hampden by various nicknames due to this, such as Flying Suitcase, Panhandle, and Flying Tadpole.[4]
anna, you are a treasure.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 26, 2024 05:12 PM (di6C2)
Posted by: bonhomme at February 26, 2024 05:12 PM (6OrcJ)
Ha!
Posted by: Diogenes at February 26, 2024 05:10 PM (W/lyH)
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Knott's Berry Farm rules.
Posted by: Jordan61 at February 26, 2024 05:12 PM (DRSnL)
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 26, 2024 05:13 PM (v0S0I)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 26, 2024
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I still have not figured that movie out. I decided that the entire movie was the delusions of a dying mind trying to come to grips with it's death.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 26, 2024
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It might not have been so bad except I saw the same surprise concept in "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" on The Twilight Zone years before.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 26, 2024 05:13 PM (J2vNu)
Posted by: BlackOrchid at February 26, 2024 05:13 PM (AcWfM)
Posted by: Montec at February 26, 2024 05:11 PM (YofvK)
Dude! Spoilers!
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 26, 2024 05:13 PM (di6C2)
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 26, 2024 05:08 PM (aD39U)
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At least 3.
Posted by: Jordan61 at February 26, 2024 05:14 PM (DRSnL)
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 26, 2024 05:13 PM (v0S0I)
I think Enemy Mine.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 26, 2024 05:14 PM (di6C2)
Everything that doesn’t need to be.
Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at February 26, 2024 05:14 PM (MeWNy)
How many ways can you reboot the same tired shite?
Posted by: Dr. Bone at February 26, 2024 05:14 PM (q2/In)
Posted by: Cory Booker at February 26, 2024 05:08 PM (woPEM)
He got famous in his Game of Thrones fight against The Mountain. Booker likes movies about gladiators.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at February 26, 2024 05:14 PM (cf/0E)
Posted by: washrivergal at February 26, 2024 05:15 PM (7YG60)
Posted by: look whats not at February 26, 2024 05:15 PM (nakGR)
Dr. Rheinhart in Hell anyone?
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 26, 2024 05:15 PM (v0S0I)
She still has not forgiven me for that.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, raging against the bourgeois with Pasolini at February 26, 2024 04:54 PM (GBKbO)
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You doubled down with "Promethius" didn't you?
Posted by: Blake - semi lurker at large at February 26, 2024 05:15 PM (tT6L1)
Posted by: Auspex at February 26, 2024 05:15 PM (j4U/Z)
Posted by: BourbonChicken at February 26, 2024 05:14 PM (cf/0E)
Hey, who doesn't?
Posted by: Peter Graves at February 26, 2024 05:15 PM (PiwSw)
Enemy Mine or that ST:NG episode of Picard and Darmoth?
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 26, 2024
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I know the novelette of "Enemy Mine" appeared in Asimov's in the mid-'80s. Not sure about the movie. But the emphasis is very different in the two movies -- one about actual war enemies coming together, the other about two species just making first contact and trying to communicate. "Darmok" was one of the most intellectually exciting ST:TNG episodes of all.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 26, 2024 05:15 PM (J2vNu)
Posted by: Bete at February 26, 2024 05:16 PM (tNNrR)
Enemy Mine or that ST:NG episode of Picard and Darmoth?
Posted by: Anna Puma'
I'm inclined to say Enemy Mine, but lately I've been watching (for the first time) all the 'Dirty Pair' episodes and OVAs so what do I know.
Posted by: LenNeal at February 26, 2024 05:16 PM (9yXr+)
WTF
Posted by: LenNeal at February 26, 2024 05:11 PM (9yXr+)
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Event Horizon could almost be a remake of The Black Hole. That early Disney film has a lot of horror elements that are out of character for Disney. Of course, they also produced Something Wicked This Way Comes based on a book by Ray Bradbury. Another great Disney horror flick.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 26, 2024 05:16 PM (7fElN)
Is that the one with Paul Giacometti (sp)? It was fascinating in the first couple of episodes, then when the Rev. War was over it got kinda dull.
Yup. Two plus episodes out of six geld my interest and then the express train to Snoresville pulled into the station.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 26, 2024 05:16 PM (xG4kz)
How many ways can you reboot the same tired shite?
Posted by: Dr. Bone at February 26, 2024 05:14 PM (q2/In)
The thing is, they keep trying to shoehorn in NEW tired shit. Iron Man was a B lister before the movies (I was a fan in the late 80s, but he was.) Captain America was ahead of that, but not by a lot. Incredible HULK was probably the most popular comic book that they made into the initial movies- and it was the one that kept flopping.
Now they are trying to short circuit new 'HERoes' that no one knows about and that were never even d listers.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 26, 2024 05:16 PM (di6C2)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 26, 2024 05:16 PM (xG4kz)
Posted by: J. Random Dude (not) Esq at February 26, 2024 05:17 PM (eExiA)
Posted by: Jordan61 at February 26, 2024 05:14 PM (DRSnL)
I recently rewatched Thor and Chris Hemsworth is fucking ripped in that. I will bet that took a bit of work at close to 30 years old.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 26, 2024 05:17 PM (aD39U)
Posted by: Luftwaffe Lore at February 26, 2024 05:17 PM (V5BDR)
Dr. Rheinhart in Hell anyone?
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 26, 2024 05:15 PM (v0S0I)
But that ship. Dear Lord, that ship was beautiful. It ignited my love of a ghost ship kind of scenario. Have loved em ever since.
*lights a candle for the USS Cygnus*
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 26, 2024 05:17 PM (di6C2)
Plus I think that episode set the record for Easter eggs including a Ninja Turtle.
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 26, 2024 05:18 PM (v0S0I)
Posted by: Lost in Space at February 26, 2024 05:18 PM (ytCBg)
Posted by: Jordan61 at February 26, 2024 05:18 PM (DRSnL)
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 26, 2024 05:13 PM (v0S0I)
Enemy Mine was based on a story by Barry Longyear, and was fairly fidel to the story - as far as it went.
Posted by: Kindltot at February 26, 2024 05:18 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: Jordan61 at February 26, 2024 05:14 PM (DRSnL)
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Bonus question: how many Baldwins in Hollywood?
Posted by: Blake - semi lurker at large at February 26, 2024 05:18 PM (tT6L1)
He ate clen and trens hard.
Aka doing quite a bit of steroids.
Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at February 26, 2024 05:19 PM (MeWNy)
Posted by: Dirty Frank at February 26, 2024 05:19 PM (HRQvT)
Posted by: Blake - semi lurker at large at February 26, 2024 05:18 PM (tT6L1)
Three, isn't it? Alec, the other unsuccessful one, and Stephen.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 26, 2024 05:19 PM (aD39U)
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 26, 2024 05:17 PM (aD39U)
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Think of how hard it is for Hugh Jackman at 55!
Posted by: Jordan61 at February 26, 2024 05:19 PM (DRSnL)
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 26, 2024 05:20 PM (v0S0I)
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at February 26, 2024 05:20 PM (17s+e)
Posted by: Blake - semi lurker at large at February 26, 2024 05:18 PM (tT6L1)
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Four. Alec, William, Stephen, Daniel. Five, if you count unrelated Adam.
Posted by: Jordan61 at February 26, 2024 05:20 PM (DRSnL)
Posted by: Blake - semi lurker at large at February 26, 2024 05:18 PM (tT6L1)
Three, isn't it? Alec, the other unsuccessful one, and Stephen.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 26, 2024 05:19 PM (aD39U)
Christopher?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 26, 2024 05:20 PM (di6C2)
Hugh and all these dudes train extremely hard but are juiced to the max.
Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at February 26, 2024 05:20 PM (MeWNy)
Posted by: Northernlurker at February 26, 2024 05:21 PM (xcrUy)
Posted by: Blake - semi lurker at large at February 26, 2024 05:18 PM (tT6L1)
Too many
Posted by: It's me donna at February 26, 2024 05:21 PM (Akjoo)
Plus I think that episode set the record for Easter eggs including a Ninja Turtle'
Dirty Pair has piles of Easter eggs in every appearance. I'm watching the Japanese subtitled, I run subtitles even on English-language movies. Those shows are hilarious, they're absurdly anarchic, salacious, and gleefully silly. I'm enjoying them immensely. And Mughi is funny.
Posted by: LenNeal at February 26, 2024 05:21 PM (9yXr+)
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 26, 2024 05:22 PM (v0S0I)
Posted by: Northernlurker at February 26, 2024 05:21 PM (xcrUy)
No... Dennis Quaid and Louis Gossett Jr (as the alien.)
It is interesting.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 26, 2024 05:22 PM (di6C2)
Mrs. Speck is more of a Prime addict than I. And she's the one watching Reacher, even though it's a "dude show" according to Amazon. Almost as if there is a female audience for shows with traditional male/female roles too -- not just bros drinking beers and high-fiving the gratuitous violence and testosterone.
Posted by: red speck at February 26, 2024 05:22 PM (0Id0S)
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 26, 2024 05:22 PM (aD39U)
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 26, 2024 05:23 PM (v0S0I)
What does it mean? Who cares? But there you are.
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at February 26, 2024 05:23 PM (os8zY)
It’s like the dude playing Reacher claiming he was natty. No way. Show me blood work, and that can be manipulated, and then we can talk.
Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at February 26, 2024 05:24 PM (MeWNy)
Posted by: Skip at February 26, 2024 05:24 PM (fwDg9)
Posted by: leoncaruthers at February 26, 2024 05:24 PM (UfRqq)
Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at February 26, 2024 05:24 PM (MeWNy)
Him I could believe is juicing. He's bulky.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 26, 2024 05:24 PM (aD39U)
Posted by: BourbonChicken at February 26, 2024 05:24 PM (cf/0E)
Posted by: Luftwaffe Lore at February 26, 2024 05:17 PM (V5BDR)
***
Ja.
Undst dis pilots ver flying Spitfires!
Posted by: Diogenes at February 26, 2024 05:24 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: look whats not
Just like Aaron Bushnell. Set yourself on fire, have some other people try to save you, die anyway.
Posted by: too soon? at February 26, 2024 05:24 PM (DgGvY)
I've been a radical self-reliance individualist ever since ...
Posted by: ShainS -- Boycott New York & other Blue Shithole Cities #TruckersForTrump at February 26, 2024 05:25 PM (4f8+h)
Dirty Pair Flash does NOT exist.
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 26, 2024 05:25 PM (v0S0I)
Posted by: leoncaruthers at February 26, 2024 05:25 PM (UfRqq)
What a terrific, eccentric movie. Hoke Mosely trying to retrieve his teeth. Borrowing a single-action revolver off the owner of his weekly motel.
Thing is utterly bizarre and Alec Baldwin is great in it.
Other than that, eh.
Posted by: LenNeal at February 26, 2024 05:25 PM (9yXr+)
Posted by: Jordan61 at February 26, 2024 05:20 PM (DRSnL
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Well, if I didn't already know you're an ette, I'd know it now.
Posted by: Blake - semi lurker at large at February 26, 2024 05:25 PM (tT6L1)
Posted by: Anna Puma'
I was unaware of that until you mentioned it.
I'll check it out.
Posted by: LenNeal at February 26, 2024 05:26 PM (9yXr+)
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 26, 2024 05:26 PM (aD39U)
Posted by: Blake - semi lurker at large at February 26, 2024 05:25 PM (tT6L1)
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Posted by: Jordan61 at February 26, 2024 05:26 PM (DRSnL)
Enemy Mine or that ST:NG episode of Picard and Darmoth?
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 26, 2024 05:13 PM (v0S0I)
Hell in the Pacific
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo and keep your rifle by your side at February 26, 2024 05:27 PM (xcxpd)
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Do you remember when our sun used to be yellow? at February 26, 2024 05:27 PM (hQeb1)
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 26, 2024 05:27 PM (v0S0I)
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 26, 2024 05:13 PM (v0S0I)
Hell in the Pacific
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo and keep your rifle by your side at February 26, 2024 05:27 PM (xcxpd)
ISWYDT. Nice and obscure.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 26, 2024 05:28 PM (aD39U)
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 26, 2024 05:28 PM (aD39U)
Posted by: Aetius451AD"
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Don't remember that movie at all, but it is a who's-who of 90's staples. Tom Sizemore!
Also, a young Fienes looks like Bradley Cooper's twin brother.
Posted by: Jay in PA at February 26, 2024 05:28 PM (i7Q7S)
Reacher is DEI cloaked in the residue of the first season.
Black chick fought more than he did. Hilariously.
Posted by: Dr Huge Largemeat at February 26, 2024 05:29 PM (et1vG)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 26, 2024 05:29 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Anna Puma'
Oh yeah, it totally does. It looks awful.
Posted by: LenNeal at February 26, 2024 05:30 PM (9yXr+)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 26, 2024 05:30 PM (eYF7X)
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 26, 2024 05:30 PM (aD39U)
But Disney embraced perversion before the DEI crap so I'm rooting for them to implode spectacularly.
Posted by: PaleRider at February 26, 2024 05:30 PM (3cGpq)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 26, 2024 05:30 PM (di6C2)
And if you are a fan of Ryo Saeba in City Hunter do NOT ever look up the follow on series called Angel Heart.
Your heart will be broken.
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 26, 2024 05:32 PM (v0S0I)
Posted by: Dr. Bone at February 26, 2024 05:32 PM (q2/In)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo and keep your rifle by your side at February 26, 2024 05:27 PM (xcxpd)
ISWYDT. Nice and obscure.
Posted by: G'rump928(c)'
Weeeelll, now, I believe y'all are discussing 'The Challenge', with Darren McGavin and Mako.
Posted by: LenNeal at February 26, 2024 05:34 PM (9yXr+)
Posted by: LenNeal at February 26, 2024 05:34 PM (9yXr+)
I think I have seen that one too. Wasn't there something with razor blades stuck in a tree?
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 26, 2024 05:40 PM (aD39U)
stars brett cooper and gina carano.....saw the trailer...production values look very high....
Posted by: uncouth jay marks at February 26, 2024 05:45 PM (8iAeH)
Posted by: junior at February 26, 2024 06:01 PM (0C1vY)
Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at February 26, 2024 06:33 PM (2yu8s)
Posted by: LenNeal at February 26, 2024 06:49 PM (9yXr+)
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at February 26, 2024 07:52 PM (8sMut)
The only people Marvel Studios should hire to save that movie are Kurt Busiek and Mark Bagley. I don't care if Kurt has movie experience or not, or if Mark (a penciller) has any writing experience whatsoever, either of them could produce a better product than the other Phase 4/5 movies.....Hell, the inker for issue #5 could produce a better movie than most Phase 4/5 drek!
Posted by: Castle Guy at February 26, 2024 09:47 PM (Lhaco)
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