Is This Something?

Naaaaaah.

If you don't remember the controversy: The Disney remake of Snow White was already in bad odor because the annoying AF actress Rachel Ziegler couldn't stop talking about how awful the original was, being about a girl who loved a boy and everything, and how all modern women only care about "coming into their own power."

Weird, weird!

Then that idiot dwarf actor Peter Dinklage attacked any studio still employing dwarfs to play fairy-tale/Tolkeinesque dwarves. For some reason he is determined to be the only working dwarf actor in Hollywood. Or he wants dwarfs cast to play full-sized people. It's unclear. He's offended, whatever you're doing with dwarfs.

So obviously Woke Disney could not hire dwarfs to play, um, dwarves. (Note the -ves plural ending is one Tolkein popularized. Standard English is just "dwarfs.")

Disney hired a bunch of gangly, tall Diverse SJW actors to play the ~~dwarves~~ "Woodland Spirits." A picture from the shoot leaked:

When that leaked -- and everyone ridiculed Woke Disney -- Disney claimed, cagily, that some of the people in the photo were stand-ins, not the actual actors.

Some? Not all? They might just mean the person wearing the red hood, who is not, I believe, the actress playing Snow White.

Why so cagey?

Now it's not impossible that they sent out stand-ins and photographed them with the intention of replacing them with CGI later. Sometimes people will take maquettes, or puppets/sculptures, of CGI characters out into the physical environment to get a good "map" of how the sunlight should look on the CGI character they'll be adding in later.

But... eh, I dunno. Seems if they wanted to do that kind of test they'd have sculptures of the short dwarves, not tall human actors. They'd want to see, for example, how the tall grass looks in relation to a dwarf.

Anyway, some months later, Disney released a very bad looking CGI photo showing the "woodland spirits of short stature" and implied that this had been the plan all along.

If everything's going to be this obviously fake-looking, why would they even bother doing photography in a real physical environment? Everything on this picture is obviously CGI cartoon bullshit.

Check out Dem CGI ~~Dwarves~~ Woodland Spirits at 21 seconds.

Disney's stock price has now fallen into the $85 range. It had been over $90 a few weeks ago.

In 2022, it was at $192+.

A little scuttlebutt from Disney's annual "D23" convention, where they show off their upcoming duds to idiot adultchildren who pay $1000 to attend. While all other Disney executives came out to plug their offerings in each division, Kathleen Kennedy did not take the stage to announce LucasFilm's upcoming box office bombs. She was entire absent from the production, except to join other LucasFilm people on the stage when John Williams was given some kind of lifetime Disney award.

Why was she absent? Why was she hidin' ?

WDW_Pro and his panelists were speculating about the possibilities. Maybe she knows that the upcoming movies and shows will be, as usual, hot August garbage baking in the smelly sun, and wants to keep herself away from the sink.

Or maybe she feared that, even among a friendly crowd, she might be booed for destroying two major multibillion dollar IPs (plus, Willow).

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 04:30 PM

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1 Burn mouse, burn

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 12, 2024 04:31 PM (N1DT3)

2 YouTube has not given me a link to that trailer yet in my recommendations.

Which is weird.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, riding the anarchy train with John Landis at August 12, 2024 04:31 PM (GBKbO)

3 Billy Barty is spinning in his tiny, tiny grave.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at August 12, 2024 04:32 PM (rF6Os)

4
That movie is so stale, it's already covered in green mold.

Posted by: LASue at August 12, 2024 04:32 PM (bLe0J)

5 Or maybe she feared that, even among a friendly crowd, she might be booed for destroying two major multibillion dollar IPs (plus, Willow).

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Willow can go right back to being that fun little fantasy movie that George Lucas produced, Opie directed, and Val Kilmer decided to use his star power on for some reason.

As was it's place all along.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, riding the anarchy train with John Landis at August 12, 2024 04:33 PM (GBKbO)

6 All of my homies at the methadone clinic

Posted by: Redenzo at August 12, 2024 04:33 PM (V/pbu)

7 Then that idiot dwarf actor Peter Dinklage attacked any studio still employing dwarfs to play fairy-tale/Tolkeinesque dwarves. For some reason he is determined to be the only working dwarf actor in Hollywood. Or he wants dwarfs cast to play full-sized people. It's unclear. He's offended, whatever you're doing with dwarfs.

***

He's an angry elf.

Posted by: LASue at August 12, 2024 04:33 PM (bLe0J)

8 Dinklage knows his greatest value is as a victim.

Therefore, he has to play that card AT ALL TIMES or he'll be knocked out by the BIPOC or LGBQWERTY mobs.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 12, 2024 04:34 PM (N1DT3)

9 I see the Moana teaser. I see Doomcock's video about it (not gonna watch it). I see an old Critical Drink video about the movie (7 months old).

But not the actual trailer.

I'd have to actually look it up.

That's just weird.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, riding the anarchy train with John Landis at August 12, 2024 04:35 PM (GBKbO)

10 Going to be funny watching her flair around burning money trying to get "one more win" before retiring.

May be she can do a Star Wars - Snow white crossover.
.

Posted by: brak at August 12, 2024 04:35 PM (lI/nO)

11 Burn mouse burn

Posted by: Jamaica at August 12, 2024 04:35 PM (EDCMj)

12 Dinklage knows his greatest value is as a victim.

...

He is an angry elf, after all.

Posted by: TexasDan at August 12, 2024 04:36 PM (rAsBA)

13 I'm sorry, Ace, but this post makes you a weird middle-aged white dude with an unhealthy obsession for children's entertainment and a young actress that said a few things years ago.

Posted by: Ya Boi Zack at August 12, 2024 04:36 PM (JCZqz)

14 10 Going to be funny watching her flair around burning money trying to get "one more win" before retiring.

May be she can do a Star Wars - Snow white crossover.
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Posted by: brak at August 12, 2024 04:35 PM (lI/nO)

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"Jon? Could you please come into my office?"
"What's up Kathy?"
"Jon, I need a win. I'm desperate for a win. If I give you carte blanche, can you make a good Star Wars movie and give me credit for all of it?"
*pause*
"You can call me Mr. Favreau."
"Yes, Mr. Favreau."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, riding the anarchy train with John Landis at August 12, 2024 04:36 PM (GBKbO)

15 I have been watching an older film with the family and it has a lot of CGI, but it is very well done and the film is excellent: "The Life of Pi". Spouse and son saw it in the movies when it first came out, but I hadn't. What is the trick to doing CGI well?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 12, 2024 04:36 PM (dTTBf)

16 10 Going to be funny watching her flair around burning money trying to get "one more win" before retiring.

May be she can do a Star Wars - Snow white crossover.
.
Posted by: brak at August 12, 2024 04:35 PM (lI/nO)

Lets play crossovers we'd REALLY like to see...

Warehouse 13 and the Librarian, both going after the same artifact.

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 12, 2024 04:37 PM (xaFKb)

17 Wait wut? I thought Ron Howard destroyed Willow??!

Posted by: Confusion at August 12, 2024 04:37 PM (4z8TV)

18 13 I'm sorry, Ace, but this post makes you a weird middle-aged white dude with an unhealthy obsession for children's entertainment and a young actress that said a few things years ago.
Posted by: Ya Boi Zack at August 12, 2024 04:36 PM (JCZqz)

Isn't this Disney's target audience though?

Posted by: Dr. Varno at August 12, 2024 04:37 PM (V+1v1)

19 This is difficult to care about. Actually I’ve reexamined and it’s easy to not give a bit of a damn about this.

Posted by: Pete Bog at August 12, 2024 04:38 PM (/OXVg)

20 17 Wait wut? I thought Ron Howard destroyed Willow??!
Posted by: Confusion at August 12, 2024 04:37 PM (4z8TV)

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By making the first one?

It's an argument to be had, for sure.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, riding the anarchy train with John Landis at August 12, 2024 04:38 PM (GBKbO)

21 The original Snow White launched Disney. It’s be appropriate if this one sinks it.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at August 12, 2024 04:38 PM (u73oe)

22 "Jon? Could you please come into my office?"
"What's up Kathy?"
"Jon, I need a win. I'm desperate for a win. If I give you carte blanche, can you make a good Star Wars movie and give me credit for all of it?"
*pause*
"You can call me Mr. Favreau."
"Yes, Mr. Favreau."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, riding the anarchy train with John Landis at August 12, 2024 04:36 PM (GBKbO)

But first, you will blow me....

Posted by: Mel Gibson at August 12, 2024 04:38 PM (xaFKb)

23 Dinklage

that's a funny name

Posted by: Don Black at August 12, 2024 04:38 PM (/7KEl)

24 Hey new guy: Who ever said Ace is a middle-aged white dude?

Posted by: LASue at August 12, 2024 04:38 PM (bLe0J)

25 Wait wut? I thought Ron Howard destroyed Willow??!
Posted by: Confusion at August 12, 2024 04:37 PM (4z8TV)
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I believe it came pre-destroyed.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at August 12, 2024 04:38 PM (VdhcA)

26 A little scuttlebutt from Disney's annual "D23" convention, where they show off their upcoming duds to idiot adultchildren who pay $1000 to attend.

Wut?

You gotta be joking me.

Posted by: $1,000 to Attend a Convention at August 12, 2024 04:39 PM (ue2TO)

27 Dinklage pulled up the tiny ladder once he was up on the table of fame, didn't he

Posted by: BlackOrchid at August 12, 2024 04:39 PM (s3qiR)

28 Kathleen has been such a money burning maestro of box office failure she deigned not hobnob with those who can barely set fire to a couple million.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at August 12, 2024 04:39 PM (tT6L1)

29 Homousexual.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at August 12, 2024 04:39 PM (uOLkU)

30 26 A little scuttlebutt from Disney's annual "D23" convention, where they show off their upcoming duds to idiot adultchildren who pay $1000 to attend.

Wut?

You gotta be joking me.
Posted by: $1,000 to Attend a Convention at August 12, 2024 04:39 PM (ue2TO)

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It's a thing.

And everything leaks online within hours.

You're paying $1000 for a few hours headstart while sitting with a bunch of other sweaty dudes.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, riding the anarchy train with John Landis at August 12, 2024 04:39 PM (GBKbO)

31 Forget the diverse midget thing for a minute. The real outrageous thing is with Gal Gadot as the Evil Queen, we're supposed to somehow believe a mirror would tell Gadot that this Ziegler, a JiffyLube 7 at best, is more fair than Gadot.
GTFO.

Posted by: Wally at August 12, 2024 04:39 PM (hqVaF)

32 Then that idiot dwarf actor Peter Dinklage attacked any studio still employing dwarfs to play fairy-tale/Tolkeinesque dwarves.

Dinklage can do this because he is America's official King of the Dwarfs.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 12, 2024 04:40 PM (nOjd9)

33 The craziest part is that Dinklage is faking it. Dude is 6'4" tall.

Posted by: Shameful at August 12, 2024 04:40 PM (ue2TO)

34 And everything leaks online within hours.

yeah there were interesting things just not from Disney tho

Posted by: BlackOrchid at August 12, 2024 04:40 PM (s3qiR)

35 Disney should just call the new Snow White “Snow Wars” and put a fork in their brand. They are done.

Posted by: Czech Chick at August 12, 2024 04:40 PM (fpVC1)

36 Say what you will about Peter Dinklage, he is always at the optimum height for the dick punch. So beware.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at August 12, 2024 04:40 PM (VdhcA)

37 Peter Dinklage is a tiny dick. We'd kick the shit out of him.

Posted by: the Lollipop Gang at August 12, 2024 04:40 PM (VGOMa)

38 You're paying $1000 for a few hours headstart while sitting with a bunch of other sweaty dudes.

you could've been the first to clap like a seal for RDJ wearing a stupid mask for more Marvel capeshit

Posted by: brak at August 12, 2024 04:41 PM (NGHTx)

39 who is the fairest one of all ...not that ugly Snow White for sure !

Posted by: runner at August 12, 2024 04:41 PM (V13WU)

40 38 You're paying $1000 for a few hours headstart while sitting with a bunch of other sweaty dudes.

you could've been the first to clap like a seal for RDJ wearing a stupid mask for more Marvel capeshit
Posted by: brak at August 12, 2024 04:41 PM (NGHTx)

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Well...shit.

My life will forever be incomplete.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, riding the anarchy train with John Landis at August 12, 2024 04:41 PM (GBKbO)

41 Rachel Ziegler could be USA team captain of the new Hawk Tuah competition in the 2028 Olympics.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at August 12, 2024 04:41 PM (woPEM)

42 btw finally saw longlegs

it was aaiiiight

not great ending-wise, but cool looking

Posted by: BlackOrchid at August 12, 2024 04:41 PM (s3qiR)

43 Facebook gives me constant Disney videos from people who are supposedly just going and loving it though...they look bored.

I don't look for disney or anything in the browser I use for facebook - I know why I get funny cat videos and history videos because I DO look those up - so disney must be paying them to play these astroturf videos.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 12, 2024 04:41 PM (oZhjI)

44 24 Hey new guy: Who ever said Ace is a middle-aged white dude?
Posted by: LASue

1- I'm not a new guy, I've posted for years here

2- My post is more a reflection on YouTuber (formerly known as) Ya Boi Zach who has gone off the deep end a bit attacking people who go after Disney, games and comics for being too "woke"

3- Technically, I didn't say Ace started as a middle-aged white guy, but in Ya Boi Zack's world, this kind of critique of Disney makes him one.

Posted by: Ya Boi Zack at August 12, 2024 04:42 PM (JCZqz)

45 Critical Drinker has a new post out about Kathleen Kennedy's fruitless quest for a legacy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RC7Sxqeu_Fg

Posted by: Archimedes at August 12, 2024 04:42 PM (xCA6C)

46 The CGI dwarf image is well-named.

Posted by: spindrift at August 12, 2024 04:42 PM (OguvZ)

47 So RDJ can play a gypsy even though he isn't one? Time to get that asshole cancelled.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 12, 2024 04:42 PM (oZhjI)

48 >>24 Hey new guy: Who ever said Ace is a middle-aged white dude?

Don't worry, he's parodying a formerly based youtuber who is now on a crusade to attack anyone critical of woke "entertainment."

"Ya Boi Zach" used to criticize this stuff, now he attacks people who criticize it.

Posted by: ace at August 12, 2024 04:42 PM (KRtlO)

49 wants to keep herself away from the sink.

Definitely never a good idea to poop in the sink.

Posted by: gKWVE at August 12, 2024 04:42 PM (gKWVE)

50 Hope Renee takes the Mouse with her to the dustbin of history.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 12, 2024 04:42 PM (Z4Wwh)

51 Well, a POSITIVE legacy anyway.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 12, 2024 04:42 PM (xCA6C)

52 All this shade against Willow (the movie, not the recent series) gives me the sadz. Loved the movie as a kid and still enjoy it now. It's fair to say I was just the right age to like it when it came out, but it definitely occupies the same space in my little girl heart as Labyrinth, Dark Crystal, and the animated Hobbit.

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at August 12, 2024 04:42 PM (VAkkq)

53 Snow White is not prettier than the evil queen...what the heck?

Posted by: IC - #FJB at August 12, 2024 04:42 PM (YiKO5)

54 MOAR Disney posts!

Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at August 12, 2024 04:43 PM (GD2xa)

55 Willow can go right back to being that fun little fantasy movie that George Lucas produced, Opie directed, and Val Kilmer decided to use his star power on for some reason.

As was it's place all along.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, riding

Fun fact... The guy that played the character Aeryk in Willow also played Chuck Cunningham in Happy Days.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at August 12, 2024 04:43 PM (4XwPj)

56 52 All this shade against Willow (the movie, not the recent series) gives me the sadz. Loved the movie as a kid and still enjoy it now. It's fair to say I was just the right age to like it when it came out, but it definitely occupies the same space in my little girl heart as Labyrinth, Dark Crystal, and the animated Hobbit.
Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at August 12, 2024 04:42 PM (VAkkq)

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I have a soft spot for it.

It's fine.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, riding the anarchy train with John Landis at August 12, 2024 04:43 PM (GBKbO)

57 >>The craziest part is that Dinklage is faking it. Dude is 6'4" tall.

Posted by: Shameful at August 12, 2024 04:40 PM

That's his ego.

Posted by: huerfano at August 12, 2024 04:43 PM (VGOMa)

58 24 Hey new guy: Who ever said Ace is a middle-aged white dude?

Don't worry, he's parodying a formerly based youtuber who is now on a crusade to attack anyone critical of woke "entertainment."

"Ya Boi Zach" used to criticize this stuff, now he attacks people who criticize it.
Posted by: ace at August 12, 2024 04:42 PM (KRtlO)

*bows head in shame*

Posted by: LASue at August 12, 2024 04:43 PM (bLe0J)

59 I saw Dinklage and the Dickpunchers open for Blind Lemon at the Odeon in 2000. Had good seats, still couldn't see anything.

Posted by: Confusion at August 12, 2024 04:43 PM (4z8TV)

60 Will there be still more re-shoots as they try to work Australian breakdancing into the movie?

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 12, 2024 04:44 PM (2Cywf)

61 And Kathleen Kennedy is hoping a good movie will ride in to rescue her reputation.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 12, 2024 04:44 PM (Z4Wwh)

62 "Ya Boi Zach" used to criticize this stuff, now he attacks people who criticize it.
Posted by: ace at August 12, 2024 04:42 PM (KRtlO)

Why would someone go from one to the other?

Oh, someone found the pix.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 12, 2024 04:44 PM (0eaVi)

63 All this shade against Willow (the movie, not the recent series) gives me the sadz. Loved the movie as a kid and still enjoy it now.

same here, and I though the character of Sorsha was a very pretty lady despite being a kid at the time

Posted by: brak at August 12, 2024 04:44 PM (NGHTx)

64 All this shade against Willow (the movie, not the recent series) gives me the sadz. Loved the movie as a kid and still enjoy it now. It's fair to say I was just the right age to like it when it came out, but it definitely occupies the same space in my little girl heart as Labyrinth, Dark Crystal, and the animated Hobbit.
Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at August 12, 2024 04:42 PM (VAkkq)
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It has the lovely Joanne Whalley. Still a good-looking lady.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at August 12, 2024 04:44 PM (VdhcA)

65 41 Rachel Ziegler could be USA team captain of the new Hawk Tuah competition in the 2028 Olympics.
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis

I've seen Hawk Tuah girl in a lot of recent interviews...she's fun and lighthearted. And pretty hot. From the interviews I've seen with Rachel Ziegler, she wouldn't even make it to tryouts for team Hawk Tuah.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at August 12, 2024 04:45 PM (JCZqz)

66 Don't let your dinklage drop below 70%

Posted by: Don Black at August 12, 2024 04:45 PM (/7KEl)

67 Count me as an (original) willow fan as well. A fun little romp into the sword and sorcery genre.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 12, 2024 04:45 PM (F/xk0)

68 I have a grandchild and one more on the way, I wouldn't show them anything Disney produced in this century.

Maybe if they produced a non-CGI movie of KK dying in a fire screaming I'd buy a ticket.

Posted by: Gmac - WTF did you think was going to happen? at August 12, 2024 04:45 PM (qZdIZ)

69 61 And Kathleen Kennedy is hoping a good movie will ride in to rescue her reputation.
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 12, 2024 04:44 PM (Z4Wwh)

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"Mr. Spielberg, I have a Miss Kennedy on the line. She says it's urgent. She says that she's desperate to reclaim the magic of Indiana Jones when she was working for you. She was wondering if you'd be open to making a new one where she can yell at you for being a dirty Jewish white man keeping her down?"

"Tell her to lose my number."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, riding the anarchy train with John Landis at August 12, 2024 04:45 PM (GBKbO)

70 And yes I am rooting for the evil beautiful queen to win.

Thanks Disney.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 12, 2024 04:45 PM (Z4Wwh)

71 btw finally saw longlegs

it was aaiiiight

not great ending-wise, but cool looking
Posted by: BlackOrchid at August 12, 2024 04:41 PM (s3qiR)

btw finally saw Trap

it was aaiiiight

not great, 4-fucking-seperate endings-wise, but ~~cool looking~~ the first half was cool.

ISBOF*

*I stole Black Orchid's format.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 12, 2024 04:46 PM (eDfFs)

72 15 I have been watching an older film with the family and it has a lot of CGI, but it is very well done and the film is excellent: "The Life of Pi". Spouse and son saw it in the movies when it first came out, but I hadn't. What is the trick to doing CGI well?

I don't know but that was THE WORST of the American Pie sequels. They really missed Eugene Levy in the cast and the writing was a real disappointment. Most of the teen gross-out jokes just fell flat.

Posted by: Marcus Gravey at August 12, 2024 04:46 PM (TIizU)

73 The best part of Willow was Kilmer. The second best was the ebersisk...

Posted by: Confusion at August 12, 2024 04:46 PM (4z8TV)

74 willow is cute!

I liked Legend a lot too and people really (at the time) hated that thing

but just beautiful looking

I like that in a film, kind of more into the look/cinematography than I guess a coherent plot ... (ahem, Prometheus is also nice to look at)

Posted by: BlackOrchid at August 12, 2024 04:46 PM (s3qiR)

75 When that leaked -- and everyone ridiculed Woke Disney -- Disney claimed, cagily, that some of the people in the photo were stand-ins, not the actual actors.

Valliant Renegade says the only stand-ins in the shot were Snow White (in red) and the Prince (in blue). But Disney couldn't stand the howls of derision it got when the pics surfaced so in a panic, it suggested, "c'mon guys, none of those scruffy but diverse meth addicts are really in the movie. They're just there to, you know, get the lighting right or something! It's a movie-making thing, yo!"

It says it all that Disney later got rid of the Salvation Army crew entirely, switching them out for CGI cartoon dwarfs (which apparently, Dinklage will allow).

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 12, 2024 04:46 PM (nOjd9)

76
"Ya Boi Zach" used to criticize this stuff, now he attacks people who criticize it.
Posted by: ace at August 12, 2024 04:42 PM (KRtlO)

_________

"Every whore has her price."

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 12, 2024 04:46 PM (HGgGu)

77 I love Willow.

It's the kind of thing the dreadful D&D movies should have been.

Posted by: Magic Stick at August 12, 2024 04:46 PM (ue2TO)

78 Dinkleage got himself fired from a decade+ voice gig on Destiny.

Was the voice of the helper bot in the release; Dinklebot.

Gone. And his voice swapped out.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 12, 2024 04:46 PM (l3206)

79 >>>Oh, someone found the pix.

That's actually kinda true! A couple of years ago someone spotted him in some low-budget porn cucking video. He was one of the people cheering as some dude's wife got boned.

he didn't flip then but he sure has been acting strange since then.

Posted by: ace at August 12, 2024 04:46 PM (KRtlO)

80 70 And yes I am rooting for the evil beautiful queen to win.

Thanks Disney.
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 12, 2024 04:45 PM (Z4Wwh)

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We already had a live action Snow White movie in living memory with a big star as the evil queen.

Snow White and the Huntsman.

In a land of not uniqueness that is Disney regurgitating its own animated legacy for decreasingly relevant hits at the box office, this Snow White thing isn't even that unique.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, riding the anarchy train with John Landis at August 12, 2024 04:47 PM (GBKbO)

81 Moana was good- fun story, made for the Polynesian setting and not swiped from another source, family that loved her (even when they didn't see eye-to-eye), male and female protagonists who both developed through the story and were characters you could root for. Not sure, though, why there needs to be a 2.

Rachel Ziegler was fine as the sketchy Lucy Grey Baird in Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. Definitely not the choice for 'the fairest of them all'.

Posted by: barkingmad59, weird and wandering lurkette at August 12, 2024 04:47 PM (R3yzU)

82 AF actress Rachel Ziegler couldn't stop talking about how awful the original was, being about a girl who loved a boy and everything, and how all modern women only care about "coming into their own power."

Which is kind of the motivation of the evil queen. Yes she goes after Snow White because she is prettier but their is a hinted back story that she's a power mad tyrant. Sorry, a woman that came into her own power

Posted by: 18-1 at August 12, 2024 04:47 PM (oZhjI)

83 Die 🐁 🔪 Die

Posted by: Skip at August 12, 2024 04:47 PM (fwDg9)

84 >>>It's the kind of thing the dreadful D&D movies should have been.

the 2023 one is so good you guys

Posted by: ace at August 12, 2024 04:47 PM (KRtlO)

85 *I stole Black Orchid's format.

very good.

by local ordinance I must watch Trap as it is Shamalamadingdong-adjacent

Posted by: BlackOrchid at August 12, 2024 04:47 PM (s3qiR)

86 Peter Dinklage is a tiny dick. We'd kick the shit out of him.
Posted by: the Lollipop Gang at August 12, 2024 04:40 PM (VGOMa)

Now THAT I might pay to see.

Posted by: Lady Who Always Has a Burning Question at August 12, 2024 04:47 PM (JCLJi)

87 Ziegler, less than a year ago, says she'll make you a sandwich, but because she hates you so much, she's going to wrap two slices of maggot-infested bread around her own personal steaming feces after a night out at a chili dog and corn buffet.

Then she comes back to you months later, saying nothing new, with what looks like a basic fast food hamburger in-hand, and plops it in front of you. What are the chances you'll sink your teeth into it?

Posted by: red speck at August 12, 2024 04:47 PM (0Id0S)

88 That can't be right, Ace. The top priority for fake CGI special effects these days is Kamala's rallies.

Posted by: callsign claymore at August 12, 2024 04:47 PM (JcnCJ)

89 74 I liked Legend a lot too and people really (at the time) hated that thing

but just beautiful looking

I like that in a film, kind of more into the look/cinematography than I guess a coherent plot ... (ahem, Prometheus is also nice to look at)
Posted by: BlackOrchid at August 12, 2024 04:46 PM (s3qiR)

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I've never seen the theatrical cut of Legend, but I've always liked the Director's Cut which people who have seen both versions say fixes a lot of the problems with the theatrical cut.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, riding the anarchy train with John Landis at August 12, 2024 04:47 PM (GBKbO)

90 If you don’t stop this I’m gonna cry!

Posted by: Kevin Smith at August 12, 2024 04:47 PM (u73oe)

91 OT I am listening to this podcast The Exorcist Files - and after season 1 they have interviews with exorcists and just heard this-
that multiple exorcists agree that after the pandemic it became harder to expel demons. Where Pre pandemic one exorcism would be enough, post pandemic more often multiple sessions were required.

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at August 12, 2024 04:48 PM (EGSGm)

92 THANKS FOR THE NOOD, EVERYONE!

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 12, 2024 04:48 PM (v6JzV)

93 Why did they pick an ugly girl with big eyebrows as snow white? Who's the fairest of them all? Not her. Ugh.

Posted by: dagny, first of her name at August 12, 2024 04:48 PM (U8kCF)

94 84 >>>It's the kind of thing the dreadful D&D movies should have been.

the 2023 one is so good you guys
Posted by: ace at August 12, 2024 04:47 PM (KRtlO)

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It's fun.

Ace and I are in agreement.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, riding the anarchy train with John Landis at August 12, 2024 04:48 PM (GBKbO)

95 >>> I liked Legend a lot too and people really (at the time) hated that thing

I never saw it, but I sometimes think "I should watch that"

Posted by: ace at August 12, 2024 04:48 PM (KRtlO)

96 8 13 I'm sorry, Ace, but this post makes you a weird middle-aged white dude with an unhealthy obsession for children's entertainment and a young actress that said a few things years ago.
Posted by: Ya Boi Zack at August 12, 2024 04:36 PM (JCZqz

Up to a few years ago, Disney and Nick kids shows were some of the only comedy shows I could watch without gay characters or blacks bitching about racism. Unless you watched asian content.

But I'm into horror and slasher flicks now. More matches my mood.

Posted by: Stateless at August 12, 2024 04:48 PM (jvJvP)

97 Where Pre pandemic one exorcism would be enough, post pandemic more often multiple sessions were required.

you need an exorcism booster

Posted by: brak at August 12, 2024 04:48 PM (NGHTx)

98 Or maybe she feared that, even among a friendly crowd, she might be booed for destroying two major multibillion dollar IPs (plus, Willow).

or maybe it was time for wapner

Posted by: anachronda at August 12, 2024 04:48 PM (oY6Yp)

99 smelly sun

Hmmm, not sure what the sun would smell like. I mean if you could get close enough. Farts?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 12, 2024 04:48 PM (IG4Id)

100 Critical Drinker has a new post out about Kathleen Kennedy's fruitless quest for a legacy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RC7Sxqeu_Fg
Posted by: Archimedes at August 12, 2024 04:42 PM (xCA6C)

Oh, she's left quite a legacy.

Destroying a license to print money is a pretty impressive legacy.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 12, 2024 04:49 PM (N1DT3)

101 90 If you don’t stop this I’m gonna cry!
Posted by: Kevin Smith at August 12, 2024 04:47 PM (u73oe)

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Hey! Behind you! It's a long lost prop from the unmade Tim Burton Superman movie! It's Nick Cage's cod piece!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, riding the anarchy train with John Landis at August 12, 2024 04:49 PM (GBKbO)

102 i never really saw "Labyrinth" either, except for a minute here or there. A lot of people talking about "The baby."

Posted by: ace at August 12, 2024 04:49 PM (KRtlO)

103 Note the Evil Queen is more beautiful than the heroine, Snow White...

Posted by: Baldy at August 12, 2024 04:49 PM (2G5up)

104 the 2023 one is so good you guys

it was awesome!

Posted by: BlackOrchid at August 12, 2024 04:49 PM (s3qiR)

105 95I never saw it, but I sometimes think "I should watch that"
Posted by: ace at August 12, 2024 04:48 PM (KRtlO)

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Go Director's Cut.

(Am I out of requests for that login?)

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, riding the anarchy train with John Landis at August 12, 2024 04:49 PM (GBKbO)

106
And soon: the madcap mashup movie of "Pig" and "Willow" -- (wait for it) --

"Wallow"!

You WILL truly see a pig happier to be in its own shit than anywhere else is could be!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 12, 2024 04:49 PM (xG4kz)

107
Scene:

Kathleen Kennedy wanders a graveyard in the dead of night.

A owl hoots.

Kathleen Kennedy stands before a moss-covered gravestone.

She clasps her hands together in fervent prayer;

"Help me, Ed Wood! You're my only hope!"

Posted by: naturalfake at August 12, 2024 04:49 PM (eDfFs)

108 TJM, I really enjoyed that anecdote about Ethan Allen that you posted on an earlier thread today.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 12, 2024 04:50 PM (v6JzV)

109 Burnt hydrogen probably smells like nothing.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 12, 2024 04:50 PM (IG4Id)

110 That's actually kinda true! A couple of years ago someone spotted him in some low-budget porn cucking video. He was one of the people cheering as some dude's wife got boned.

lol

So he's not a cuck in his own right, just sort of a hype man for cucking?!?

Posted by: Betamax Tape at August 12, 2024 04:50 PM (ue2TO)

111 That's actually kinda true! A couple of years ago someone spotted him in some low-budget porn cucking video. He was one of the people cheering as some dude's wife got boned.

he didn't flip then but he sure has been acting strange since then.
Posted by: ace at August 12, 2024 04:46 PM (KRtlO)

Always seems to happen to people who might seem to be tune with us. Or, they die.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 12, 2024 04:50 PM (0eaVi)

112 107
Scene:

Kathleen Kennedy wanders a graveyard in the dead of night.

A owl hoots.

Kathleen Kennedy stands before a moss-covered gravestone.

She clasps her hands together in fervent prayer;

"Help me, Ed Wood! You're my only hope!"
Posted by: naturalfake at August 12, 2024 04:49 PM (eDfFs)

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Klaatu Barada N... necktie... nectar... nickel... noodle. It's an "N" word, it's definitely an "N" word! Klaatu... Barada... N...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, riding the anarchy train with John Landis at August 12, 2024 04:50 PM (GBKbO)

113 I never saw it, but I sometimes think "I should watch that"

Ferris Bueller's girlfriend looks good in it

Posted by: brak at August 12, 2024 04:50 PM (NGHTx)

114 I haven't watched any of the live action things, BUT 'Lilo and Stitch' is tempting.

Stitch is the best....

Posted by: Stateless at August 12, 2024 04:50 PM (jvJvP)

115 108 TJM, I really enjoyed that anecdote about Ethan Allen that you posted on an earlier thread today.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 12, 2024 04:50 PM (v6JzV)

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Stole it from the movie Lincoln.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, riding the anarchy train with John Landis at August 12, 2024 04:50 PM (GBKbO)

116 *bows head in shame*
Posted by: LASue

No worries. People mimicking lesser known personalities, being attacked as trolls, followed by unnecessary embarrassment, are important hallmarks of AoS HQ.

The Ritual of the Horde.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at August 12, 2024 04:50 PM (JCZqz)

117 Tim Walz looks to me like a gay junior high school principal who wears shoes that squeek when he tries to sneak up on students.

Posted by: Northernlurker , wondering where his phone is at August 12, 2024 04:51 PM (FfSAJ)

118
i never really saw "Labyrinth" either, except for a minute here or there. A lot of people talking about "The baby."
Posted by: ace

Oh, WE talk about the baby ALL THE TIME! Tasty little morsel it was!

-- Australian dingos

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 12, 2024 04:51 PM (xG4kz)

119 108 TJM, I really enjoyed that anecdote about Ethan Allen that you posted on an earlier thread today.

oh! I did too!

Posted by: BlackOrchid at August 12, 2024 04:51 PM (s3qiR)

120 the 2023 one is so good you guys
Posted by: ace

*high five*

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at August 12, 2024 04:51 PM (VAkkq)

121 I'm with Ace on the D & D movie, but a lot of people seem to hate Chris Pine. I don't get it.

Posted by: Wally at August 12, 2024 04:51 PM (hqVaF)

122 Another good takedown but Ace, David French had an opinion piece this weekend in the NYT on why he's a Kamalaman. We've been waiting for your take...down.

Posted by: Dantes at August 12, 2024 04:51 PM (fVKtH)

123 Tim Walz looks to me like a gay junior high school principal who wears shoes that squeek when he tries to sneak up on students.

the one that got arrested for masturbating in an Arby's drive-through, that guy

Posted by: brak at August 12, 2024 04:52 PM (NGHTx)

124 121 I'm with Ace on the D & D movie, but a lot of people seem to hate Chris Pine. I don't get it.
Posted by: Wally at August 12, 2024 04:51 PM (hqVaF)

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With all the Chrises, I think it's usually Chris Evans people tend to not like.

He's kind of a giant asshole in real life. His character in Knives Out required no acting.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, riding the anarchy train with John Landis at August 12, 2024 04:52 PM (GBKbO)

125 So, what's the theme of the New! and Improved! version of this turd? I watched the trailer and still can't figure out why anyone would want to see it. Clearly, it's not a love story -- as the original was. Ziegler's still a hard-five on the scale of beauty, though she's supposed to surpass the queen. The prince shows up for about a nanosecond. This is not just bad storytelling; it's absolute shit marketing.

Posted by: red speck at August 12, 2024 04:52 PM (0Id0S)

126 79 That's actually kinda true! A couple of years ago someone spotted him in some low-budget porn cucking video. He was one of the people cheering as some dude's wife got boned.

game of thrones?

Posted by: anachronda at August 12, 2024 04:52 PM (oY6Yp)

127 Walz looks like the priest who always hosts sleepovers at the rectory for special young men

Posted by: BlackOrchid at August 12, 2024 04:52 PM (s3qiR)

128 I saw Hot August Garbage open for the September Girls at the Button Factory in 2012.

Posted by: ShainS -- Cat Ladies for Trump & Vance! at August 12, 2024 04:53 PM (D4kcr)

129 I never saw it, but I sometimes think "I should watch that"
Posted by: ace

Legend is tedious for much of it. Something you'd watch 'in the background.'

Labyrinth is fun, if you're 8 years old. The song stuff is cringy, as the kids say.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 12, 2024 04:53 PM (IG4Id)

130 Pine wasn't great in Star Trek (probably not his fault though) but he IS good in the D&D movies

Posted by: 18-1 at August 12, 2024 04:53 PM (oZhjI)

131 I've enjoyed Dinklage in exactly two films, The Station Agent and Death At A Funeral.

He's become derivative and essentially the only working dwarf in Hollywood, apparently.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 12, 2024 04:53 PM (XV/Pl)

132
With all the Chrises, I think it's usually Chris Evans people tend to not like.

He peaked in "Not Another Teen Movie"

Posted by: brak at August 12, 2024 04:53 PM (NGHTx)

133
THANKS FOR THE NOOD, EVERYONE!
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 12, 2024 04:48 PM (v6JzV)

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The In Crowd doesn't need a Nood.

*dons designer sunglasses*
*lights cigarette*

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 12, 2024 04:53 PM (HGgGu)

134 Cosmicbook dot news has high hopes about the new Alien movie. He hasn't reviewed it yet but posted the good reviews.

Posted by: Stateless at August 12, 2024 04:53 PM (jvJvP)

135
Klaatu Barada N... necktie... nectar... nickel... noodle. It's an "N" word, it's definitely an "N" word! Klaatu... Barada... N...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, riding the anarchy train with John Landis

nictitating membrane

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 12, 2024 04:53 PM (xG4kz)

136 Tim Walz looks to me like a gay junior high school principal who wears shoes that squeek when he tries to sneak up on students
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Odds he has a secret Grindr profile?

Highly likely.

Posted by: Magic 8 ball.says at August 12, 2024 04:53 PM (4z8TV)

137 If you want Snow White to be fairer than the Evil Queen, don't hire Gal Gadot to be the queen. Rachel looks like a muppet beside her.

Posted by: huerfano at August 12, 2024 04:53 PM (VGOMa)

138 Labyrinth is fun, if you're 8 years old. The song stuff is cringy, as the kids say.

HOW DARE YOU!

Posted by: DavidBowie at August 12, 2024 04:54 PM (s3qiR)

139 Didn’t Labyrinth have some hawt actress in it?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 12, 2024 04:54 PM (v6JzV)

140 134 Cosmicbook dot news has high hopes about the new Alien movie. He hasn't reviewed it yet but posted the good reviews.
Posted by: Stateless at August 12, 2024 04:53 PM (jvJvP)

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That's what I've heard.

Dolley refuses to go with me, so I'm gonna have to go alone.

I'm actually kind of excited.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, riding the anarchy train with John Landis at August 12, 2024 04:54 PM (GBKbO)

141 That's actually kinda true! A couple of years ago someone spotted him in some low-budget porn cucking video. He was one of the people cheering as some dude's wife got boned./i]

I am amused at all the lefty love for GoT...its the cautionary tale of how you should never let a woman hold political power...oh and hot straight white people boning.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 12, 2024 04:54 PM (oZhjI)

142 134 Cosmicbook dot news has high hopes about the new Alien movie. He hasn't reviewed it yet but posted the good reviews.

it's only days away! I am hopeful too

Posted by: BlackOrchid at August 12, 2024 04:54 PM (s3qiR)

143 Walz looks like the priest who always hosts sleepovers at the rectory for special young men

Posted by: BlackOrchid at August 12, 2024 04:52 PM (s3qiR)

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With an S&M Dungeon.

Posted by: ShainS -- Cat Ladies for Trump & Vance! at August 12, 2024 04:54 PM (D4kcr)

144

Posted by: 18-1 at August 12, 2024 04:54 PM (oZhjI)

145 Then she comes back to you months later, saying nothing new, with what looks like a basic fast food hamburger in-hand, and plops it in front of you. What are the chances you'll sink your teeth into it?
Posted by: red speck

120%? I can't lose! Either tasty sandwich, or humiliation. By a woman, no less! And still...free sandwich!

Posted by: Jonah Goldberg at August 12, 2024 04:54 PM (JCZqz)

146 Cosmicbook dot news has high hopes about the new Alien movie. He hasn't reviewed it yet but posted the good reviews
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It won't be Prometheus.

Posted by: Thank goodness at August 12, 2024 04:55 PM (4z8TV)

147 What we need is that Tarantino Star Trek film Tarantino has been hinting at, I bet he has a script and everything.

Be a hell of a 10th film.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 12, 2024 04:55 PM (XV/Pl)

148 139 Didn’t Labyrinth have some hawt actress in it?

yep but she was jailbait at the time - Jennifer Connelly

Posted by: BlackOrchid at August 12, 2024 04:55 PM (s3qiR)

149 141 I am amused at all the lefty love for GoT...its the cautionary tale of how you should never let a woman hold political power...oh and hot straight white people boning.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 12, 2024 04:54 PM (oZhjI)

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Dani started season 2 of GoT threatening to burn a city to the ground.

And people were all, "Hey! Dani burning a city to the ground in Season 8 was totally out of nowhere!"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, riding the anarchy train with John Landis at August 12, 2024 04:55 PM (GBKbO)

150 Kathleen Kennedy is probably looking into lichdom.

Posted by: Axeman at August 12, 2024 04:55 PM (krQz2)

151 Did they CGI Snow White into the fairest.or just leave her as a Popeye's 5?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 12, 2024 04:55 PM (cOq4q)

152 Legend is tedious for much of it. Something you'd watch 'in the background.'

Labyrinth is fun, if you're 8 years old. The song stuff is cringy, as the kids say.

--

Legend, Labyrinth, Time Bandits, Neverending Story, Dark Crystal, Krull, and there's one more that I can't quite put my finger on but will come to me in a moment.

All of those sort of go together in my mind as a weird but fun time in movies when practical effects and imagination were coming to an end. Sort of like the Muppets discussion were were having the other night and how talented and creative those folks were. Poof. Gone. Here's some CGI, shut up.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Women pursuing older men must desire incestous father fantasies at August 12, 2024 04:56 PM (cTK4u)

153 *dons designer sunglasses*
*lights Gaulouis cigarette*
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 12, 2024 04:53 PM (HGgGu)
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Friendly amendment

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 12, 2024 04:56 PM (JvZF+)

154 92 THANKS FOR THE NOOD, EVERYONE!
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

You're supposed to mash F5 like a crack monkey, moose at door should have told you.

Posted by: Gmac - WTF did you think was going to happen? at August 12, 2024 04:56 PM (qZdIZ)

155 One of the best things about Willow was Lucas naming the main villain after Pauline Kael.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at August 12, 2024 04:56 PM (PiwSw)

156 Everything is just shoddy cobbled together crap now… truly not worth any price at all..

Posted by: tubal at August 12, 2024 04:56 PM (PCK5/)

157 To the English police:
1. We threw you clowns out of our country in the 1700's.
2. We had to bail your sorry asses out in WW1.
3. We had to bail your sorry asses out in WW2.
4. 18 USC 241 makes it a felony for you to conspire with anyone else to oppress any of my Constitutional rights.
5. In TX any citizen may use deadly force to prevent the commission of a felony.
6. In TX it is perfectly legal to own both an AR-15 and 77 grain MK-262 sniper ammo for it. I own both.
7. If you set one foot on my property while trying to oppress my rights, I will make sure that is the last mistake your gay English ass ever makes.
8. The only thing the local authorities will say to me is: "Nice Shot".
9. If you find my posts offensive YOU ARE FREE TO BLOCK THEM AT YOUR BORDER. You are not free to silence me in my country.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at August 12, 2024 04:56 PM (Da7Vv)

158 What we need is that Tarantino Star Trek film Tarantino has been hinting at, I bet he has a script and everything.

Be a hell of a 10th film.

Someone get these mutherf*ckin Tribbles off this mutherf*ckin Enterprise

/Phaser sounds

ASK ME AGAIN!

/Wilhelm scream

Posted by: Samuel L Jackson is KIRK in Quentin Taratino's Star Trek at August 12, 2024 04:56 PM (oZhjI)

159 152 Legend, Labyrinth, Time Bandits, Neverending Story, Dark Crystal, Krull, and there's one more that I can't quite put my finger on but will come to me in a moment.

All of those sort of go together in my mind as a weird but fun time in movies when practical effects and imagination were coming to an end. Sort of like the Muppets discussion were were having the other night and how talented and creative those folks were. Poof. Gone. Here's some CGI, shut up.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Women pursuing older men must desire incestous father fantasies at August 12, 2024 04:56 PM (cTK4u)

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Ladyhawke? Dragonslayer? Conan?

The 80s were a good time for fantasy.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, riding the anarchy train with John Landis at August 12, 2024 04:56 PM (GBKbO)

160 after longlegs I made the kids watch Face-Off as a "palate cleanser" re: Nic Cage

it holds up ok. omg the last battle Royale is so over the top they were dying I guess it was like something on Family Guy - I assume Family Guy was parodying it

John Woo! fun

Posted by: BlackOrchid at August 12, 2024 04:57 PM (s3qiR)

161 Following up on Ace's earlier comment, are there HIGH BUDGET porn cuck movies?

Posted by: Wally at August 12, 2024 04:57 PM (hqVaF)

162 Legend is tedious for much of it. Something you'd watch 'in the background.'

Labyrinth is fun, if you're 8 years old. The song stuff is cringy, as the kids say.

This is how I know you're not a fellow kid. They would say cringe.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 12, 2024 04:57 PM (xCA6C)

163 155 One of the best things about Willow was Lucas naming the main villain after Pauline Kael.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at August 12, 2024 04:56 PM (PiwSw)

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Welles' final film, The Other Side of the Wind (that Netflix finished 30+ years after he died) has a character who's a thinly veiled Kael.

Total bitch.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, riding the anarchy train with John Landis at August 12, 2024 04:57 PM (GBKbO)

164 I like Dark Crystal when I saw it in the theaters. So what do I know. ( I'm still 29 tho.... )

Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 12, 2024 04:57 PM (IG4Id)

165 Legend, Labyrinth, Time Bandits, Neverending Story, Dark Crystal, Krull, and there's one more that I can't quite put my finger on but will come to me in a moment
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Baron Von Munchausen. You're welcome.

Posted by: Thank goodness at August 12, 2024 04:57 PM (4z8TV)

166 you guys liked Enchanted, dincha

Princess Diaries[ maybe

alright then

I kid of course

Posted by: Don Black at August 12, 2024 04:57 PM (/7KEl)

167 Why is everything a remake? Are there no original thoughts left out there?

Posted by: nurse ratched, certified weirdo at August 12, 2024 04:58 PM (k05yp)

168 Burnt hydrogen probably smells like nothing.
Posted by: weft cut-loop
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Because it burns from atomic weight 1 down to zero.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 12, 2024 04:58 PM (Dm8we)

169 Klaatu Barada N... necktie... nectar... nickel... noodle. It's an "N" word, it's definitely an "N" word! Klaatu... Barada... N...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, riding the anarchy train with John Landis at August 12, 2024 04:50 PM (GBKbO)

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Now I have this image in my head of Samuel L Jackson delivering that line.

Posted by: No One Of Consequence at August 12, 2024 04:58 PM (F4bAW)

170 The U.S. and European allies called on Iran to "stand down" Monday, as fears mounted of an imminent attack on Israel that could spark all-out war in the Mideast. Tensions are soaring in the region, with the U.S. rushing a missile sub and an aircraft carrier group in support of Israel.

Also VP Harris will be sent to word salad you and Cackle you until your terrorist ears bleed blood red !!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: CNN Breaking News at August 12, 2024 04:58 PM (15lwl)

171 165 Baron Von Munchausen. You're welcome.
Posted by: Thank goodness at August 12, 2024 04:57 PM (4z8TV)

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Obviously, you mean the Czech one from Karel Zeman.

It's quite delightful.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, riding the anarchy train with John Landis at August 12, 2024 04:58 PM (GBKbO)

172 Peter Dinklage? Pffft.

Everyone knows Warwick Davis is king of the little actors.

Posted by: She Hobbit (out and about in Middle Earth) at August 12, 2024 04:58 PM (VAkkq)

173 134 Cosmicbook dot news has high hopes about the new Alien movie. He hasn't reviewed it yet but posted the good reviews.
Posted by: Stateless at August 12, 2024 04:53 PM (jvJvP)

I'm told it's done by the guy did the newest Evil Dead movie, which I really liked.

But the preview is mediocre. It looks like a mash-up of things already done in the prior movies. Except this time with a cast of beige metrosexuals who left their jobs as baristas to fare the stars.

The original Alien: it looked and felt like a blue-collar space crew, on a vessel that looked lived in and used. The new preview lacks all of that authenticity.

Posted by: I need to return some videotapes at August 12, 2024 04:58 PM (ue2TO)

174 Tim Walz looks to me like a gay junior high school principal who wears shoes that squeek when he tries to sneak up on students.

the one that got arrested for masturbating in an Arby's drive-through, that guy
Posted by: brak at August 12, 2024 04:52 PM (NGHTx

That's the one

Posted by: Northernlurker , wondering where his phone is at August 12, 2024 04:58 PM (FfSAJ)

175 I measure all fantasy against Jackson’s work, and secondarily against the Harry Potter series…

Posted by: tubal at August 12, 2024 04:58 PM (PCK5/)

176 Beckster, if you’re still here, I misread your nic as “heckster” in the previous thread. My apologies.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 12, 2024 04:58 PM (v6JzV)

177 175 I measure all fantasy against Jackson’s work, and secondarily against the Harry Potter series…
Posted by: tubal at August 12, 2024 04:58 PM (PCK5/)

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*nods sagaciously*

Bad Taste.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, riding the anarchy train with John Landis at August 12, 2024 04:59 PM (GBKbO)

178 Why is everything a remake? Are there no original thoughts left out there?
Posted by: nurse ratched, certified weirdo at August 12, 2024 04:58 PM (k05yp)

Not at the Hallmark Channel.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 12, 2024 04:59 PM (nOjd9)

179 This is not a movie made for children. It is a movie for childless cat ladies.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 12, 2024 04:59 PM (t/2Uw)

180 Dammit, missed the Aussie break dancing thread.

If I am not mistaken, Raygun is sort of hot. But, because we cannot have (or do) nice things, she is batshit crazy. And ya can't stick yer dick in that!

In other news, is there a rumor that Gal Godot of the Great Thighs might be in this Snow Beige thing? She is a hawt Israeli, so that might be problematic for the Nazi Mouse.

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at August 12, 2024 04:59 PM (ufFY8)

181 Time Magazine cover this week. Historic!
https://tinyurl.com/mprvmbpe

The soundtrack suggested a Beyoncé concert. The light-up bracelets evoked the Eras Tour. And the exuberant crowd—more than 14,000 strong, lining up in the rain—resembled the early days of Barack Obama. Inside a Philadelphia arena on Aug. 6, Vice President Kamala Harris was greeted with a kind of reception a Democratic presidential candidate hasn’t gotten in years. Fans packed into overflow spaces, waving homemade signs made of glitter and glue as drumlines roared. When Harris introduced her new running mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, the cheering lasted more than a minute.

Suddenly, she seems matched to the moment: a former prosecutor running against a convicted felon, a defender of abortion rights running against the man who helped overturn Roe v. Wade, a next-generation Democrat running against a 78-year-old Republican.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 12, 2024 04:59 PM (JCZqz)

182 ... multiple exorcists agree that after the pandemic it became harder to expel demons. Where Pre pandemic one exorcism would be enough, post pandemic more often multiple sessions were required.

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at August 12, 2024 04:48 PM (EGSGm)

Yet another adverse side effect of the Vax!

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 12, 2024 04:59 PM (2Cywf)

183 Baron Von Munchausen. You're welcome.

The *only* good part of that movie was Uma Thurman as Venus. And I normally don't like her...

Posted by: 18-1 at August 12, 2024 04:59 PM (oZhjI)

184 177 175 I measure all fantasy against Jackson’s work, and secondarily against the Harry Potter series…
Posted by: tubal at August 12, 2024 04:58 PM (PCK5/)

=========

*nods sagaciously*

Bad Taste.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, riding the anarchy train with John Landis at August 12, 2024 04:59 PM (GBKbO)

Heretic!!! Philistine!!!

Posted by: tubal at August 12, 2024 05:00 PM (PCK5/)

185 I'd like to skip ahead to the day when this retarded racist revisionist woke bullshit dies.

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at August 12, 2024 05:00 PM (bNZKV)

186 Ayo just dropping in from time traveling on the road today, but did Musk really tell the EU commish to fuck his own face?

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Esteemed Trump-Ho and Searcher of Wagshambas at August 12, 2024 05:00 PM (DBZuM)

187 In other news, is there a rumor that Gal Godot of the Great Thighs might be in this Snow Beige thing? She is a hawt Israeli, so that might be problematic for the Nazi Mouse.

She's the evil witch.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 12, 2024 05:00 PM (xCA6C)

188 161 Following up on Ace's earlier comment, are there HIGH BUDGET porn cuck movies?

Posted by: Wally at August 12, 2024 04:57 PM (hqVaF)

I don't think it's a cuck movie, but I just researched 'Snow White and the 7 Dwarfs.' I clicked through, nice costumes. Sets. The prince on a horse.

Actual dwarfs in the film. That was how I knew it wasn't a Disney leak....

Posted by: Stateless at August 12, 2024 05:00 PM (jvJvP)

189 The *only* good part of that movie was Uma Thurman as Venus. And I normally don't like her...

oh no the giant trolls in the boat tho! Katherine ... um ... that redheaded lady? so funny!

robin williams' head was also fun

Posted by: BlackOrchid at August 12, 2024 05:00 PM (s3qiR)

190 Baron Von Munchausen. You're welcome.
Posted by: Thank goodness

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THAT WAS IT! Thank you.

But yes, Ladyhawke, Dragonslayer, Conan,. and others like Willow were great, too. But those above just sort of all blend together in my mind.

Also Princess Bride but it sort of stands alone.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Women pursuing older men must desire incestous father fantasies at August 12, 2024 05:01 PM (cTK4u)

191 >>Klaatu Barada N... necktie... nectar... nickel... noodle. It's an "N" word, it's definitely an "N" word! Klaatu... Barada... N...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, riding the anarchy train with John Landis at August 12, 2024 04:50 PM

Shop smart. Shop S-Mart.

Posted by: huerfano at August 12, 2024 05:01 PM (VGOMa)

192 the one that got arrested for masturbating in an Arby's drive-through, that guy
Posted by: brak at August 12, 2024 04:52 PM (NGHTx

That's the one
Posted by: Northernlurker

No, guys...this is just Arby's Horsey Sauce! Here, have your kids taste it!

Posted by: Tim Walz at August 12, 2024 05:01 PM (JCZqz)

193 nods sagaciously*

Bad Taste.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison,
=
*Prometheus raises eyebrow *

Posted by: He looks hungry at August 12, 2024 05:01 PM (4z8TV)

194
*lights Gaulouis cigarette*

__________

Then I'd have to sit, scowling, at some greasy café table and bitch about the meaninglessness of existence, while little underpowered cars putter past and a riot rages down the street.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 12, 2024 05:01 PM (HGgGu)

195 @159

>>The 80s were a good time for fantasy.

It was just a good time for films.

There are dozens of films in each of those years that can be regarded as either good or classic.

All of these films just get swept up in the wake of the overall sea of good to great films.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 12, 2024 05:02 PM (XV/Pl)

196 Why is everything a remake? Are there no original thoughts left out there?

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Worse. The rights to the story and toys are already owned, so there's no need or motivation to be creative.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Women pursuing older men must desire incestous father fantasies at August 12, 2024 05:02 PM (cTK4u)

197 In other news, is there a rumor that Gal Godot of the Great Thighs might be in this Snow Beige thing? She is a hawt Israeli, so that might be problematic for the Nazi Mouse.

Rumors are swirling that in the final cut, the dwarfs are actually tiny terrorists from Hamas.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 12, 2024 05:02 PM (nOjd9)

198 Meh, just watch the old cartoon. And *read* Tolkien etc etc etc

Posted by: teejuss at August 12, 2024 05:02 PM (NpOuX)

199 next-generation Democrat running against a 78-year-old Republican.

*************

I missed the memo where a shriveled up 60 year old swallower of many a ding ding represents next gen

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Esteemed Trump-Ho and Searcher of Wagshambas at August 12, 2024 05:02 PM (DBZuM)

200 180 In other news, is there a rumor that Gal Godot of the Great Thighs might be in this Snow Beige thing?

yeah. she's the evil queen who's concerned that she's not as hawt as rachel zeigler.

Posted by: anachronda at August 12, 2024 05:02 PM (oY6Yp)

201 Is not taxing tips a good idea? It depends.

https://tinyurl.com/2268kt3e

Posted by: Archimedes at August 12, 2024 05:03 PM (xCA6C)

202 Fantasia…

Posted by: tubal at August 12, 2024 05:03 PM (PCK5/)

203 I have been watching an older film with the family and it has a lot of CGI, but it is very well done and the film is excellent: "The Life of Pi". Spouse and son saw it in the movies when it first came out, but I hadn't. What is the trick to doing CGI well?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 12, 2024 04:36 PM (dTTBf)

About the same as doing anything well - know what you want to do and how to achieve it.

Rumors say that in a lot of these recent movies a major issue is that the filmmakers just expect CGI to do all the work and be redone when scripts are revised endlessly. So what you see is the result of dozens of redos on tight deadlines, even within days of release.

When Jackson was making LOTRO he used any technique that would work - doubles, perspective tables and carts to make actors look small in proportion, models paired with limited CGI. And what they did do they took their time on .. the Gollum effects had more than a year to get worked out.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2024 05:03 PM (n7h9X)

204
Hey, Trump just posted something on his X account.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office at August 12, 2024 05:03 PM (I87yH)

205 To the English police:

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at August 12, 2024 04:56 PM (Da7Vv)
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But look at it this way: the government has shown for quite a while that they are willing to outsource their tyranny.

So the UK is a blessing brought to their front door. There is likely to be a strong overlap between people who don't need the prompting of the mass media to get concerned about something so are concerned about the tyranny of the UK and the people in America they really hate.

So, it's conceivable that the DC politburo will enthusiastically hand us over to UK extradition.

But, Trump's going to single-handedly end Democracy.

Posted by: Axeman at August 12, 2024 05:03 PM (krQz2)

206 Magic Mirror on the wall
Who's the Wokest of them all?

You, Snowflake Mulatto.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at August 12, 2024 05:04 PM (MDua2)

207 next-generation Democrat running against a 78-year-old Republican.

Cover of Time. The only thing missing is the halo and the wings.

https://tinyurl.com/3c7prmbr

Posted by: Archimedes at August 12, 2024 05:04 PM (xCA6C)

208 This ties into the last thread. Its entertainment - and no matter how shitty - some folks simply can't stand not to be entertained.

We are surrounded by Modern Puritans. New Age Southern Baptists run amok.

Until you're willing to fight them in the parking lot - and you're not - the only logical response is to let them shit on whatever they want to shit on ... as long as it isn't your personal property or self ... and resign to doing without what they shit on until enough Normies get tired of those things getting shit on.

For a plus - at this point ? Shout down the folks that insist you clean up the shit. Hold the rope. Those people truly are your biggest problem right now. You have to beat them before you can beat the Modern Puritans.

I'd be delighted to name names.

Posted by: The Way It Is at August 12, 2024 05:05 PM (Fu9MX)

209 Why is everything a remake? Are there no original thoughts left out there?
Posted by: nurse ratched

No. At this point, it's all retards all the way down. And anything classic or normal that has not been overwritten by a remake is a thoughtcrime to be eradicated. I fucking hate these people.

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at August 12, 2024 05:05 PM (bNZKV)

210 Does that 'big headed dwarf' promo shot look like a promo for a gang bang movie the way they are all standing around Snow White looking at her that way.... or does it seem like it because that it what the idea was lifted from.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 12, 2024 05:05 PM (cOq4q)

211
Why is everything a remake? Are there no original thoughts left out there?
Posted by: nurse ratched, certified weirdo at August 12, 2024 04:58 PM (k05yp)

___________

Would you want to see a story you love in the hands of today's Hollywood?

Me? I think Balzac's The Wild Ass's Skin would make a great film. But they'd ruin it.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 12, 2024 05:05 PM (HGgGu)

212 You know, you can wrap a dwarf around you waist and wear him as a human fanny pack.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at August 12, 2024 05:05 PM (YIxO9)

213 >>>Ferris Bueller's girlfriend looks good in it

oh right, that's usually why I think "I should watch that"

Posted by: ace at August 12, 2024 05:05 PM (KRtlO)

214 next-generation Democrat running against a 78-year-old Republican.

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Yeah, right, dude. And four weeks ago, you were all in on the 81-year-old basket case.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at August 12, 2024 05:05 PM (VdhcA)

215 172 Peter Dinklage? Pffft.

Everyone knows Warwick Davis is king of the little actors.

well, sure, now that i've left the field

Posted by: miguelito loveless at August 12, 2024 05:06 PM (oY6Yp)

216 Will there be breakdancing in this one?

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at August 12, 2024 05:06 PM (YIxO9)

217 Rumors say that in a lot of these recent movies a major issue is that the filmmakers just expect CGI to do all the work and be redone when scripts are revised endlessly. So what you see is the result of dozens of redos on tight deadlines, even within days of release.

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That's apparently a big problem with the new Borderlands movie. Other than not following the source film or anyone involved ever playing the video game or even knowing what a game controller looks like, I mean.

All the reviews are saying things like "I didn't know CGI in 2024 could look this bad."

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Women pursuing older men must desire incestous father fantasies at August 12, 2024 05:06 PM (cTK4u)

218 Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2024 05:03 PM (n7h9X)

That is interesting. Thanks.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 12, 2024 05:06 PM (dTTBf)

219 Source material, not source film. But you knew that.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Women pursuing older men must desire incestous father fantasies at August 12, 2024 05:06 PM (cTK4u)

220 Highlander.

Posted by: Reforger at August 12, 2024 05:06 PM (xcIvR)

221 They built a hagiography around Biden they are doing it with Harris now.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 12, 2024 05:07 PM (JvZF+)

222 I thought the D&D movie was just meh and I like Chris Pine. But if we are rating Chris's, Chris
Pratt or Chris Hemsworth would be higher on my list.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 12, 2024 05:08 PM (t/2Uw)

223 The *only* good part of that movie was Uma Thurman as Venus. And I normally don't like her...

oh no the giant trolls in the boat tho! Katherine ... um ... that redheaded lady? so funny!

robin williams' head was also fun
Posted by: BlackOrchid at August 12, 2024 05:00 PM (s3qiR)
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Robin Williams completely removed me from that movie.

It was so obviously Robin Williams, in a way that the Genie in Alladin had the wit of Williams, but not the same effect.

Posted by: Axeman at August 12, 2024 05:08 PM (krQz2)

224 Posted by: The Way It Is at August 12, 2024 05:05 PM (Fu9MX)

Thanks for your daily chastisement. "sort of new" handle.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 12, 2024 05:08 PM (dTTBf)

225 Hey new guy: Who ever said Ace is a middle-aged white dude?
Posted by: LASue at August 12, 2024 04:38 PM (bLe0J)

Lemme see. If you assume you live to an actuarial optimistic 84 then your first 1/3 of life extends to 28 yrs. old.
Your middle age extends to 56 years. Anything after that is elderly.

Good thing ace is only 29. Oh wait, that makes him middle aged.
Whatever.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at August 12, 2024 05:08 PM (FCbAQ)

226 It seems that David French is now a "Conservative Columnist".

https://tinyurl.com/mr22mn69

Posted by: Archimedes at August 12, 2024 05:09 PM (xCA6C)

227 211 Balzac???? I am apppppalled.

Posted by: Eulalie Mackechnie Shinn at August 12, 2024 05:09 PM (v6JzV)

228 Me? I think Balzac's The Wild Ass's Skin would make a great film. But they'd ruin it.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 12, 2024 05:05 PM (HGgGu)
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Honor de Balsac!

Posted by: Axeman at August 12, 2024 05:09 PM (krQz2)

229 just dropping in from time traveling on the road today, but did Musk really tell the EU commish to fuck his own face?
Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Esteemed Trump-Ho and Searcher of Wagshambas at August 12, 2024 05:00 PM
Yep

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 12, 2024 05:09 PM (t/2Uw)

230 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 12, 2024 05:08 PM (dTTBf)

When you can't kill the message ... kill the messenger.

Posted by: The Way It Is at August 12, 2024 05:09 PM (Fu9MX)

231 Dammit, missed the Aussie break dancing thread.

If I am not mistaken, Raygun is sort of hot. But, because we cannot have (or do) nice things, she is batshit crazy. And ya can't stick yer dick in that!

She's alright: https://tinyurl.com/mrvn4sd8

And Ace has said recently, his posts are all open threads, so feel free to talk about the crazy/hot matrix in relation to poorly dancing Aussies as much as you like!

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at August 12, 2024 05:09 PM (JCZqz)

232 Baron Von Munchausen. You're welcome.

The *only* good part of that movie was Uma Thurman as Venus. And I normally don't like her...
Posted by: 18-1 at August 12, 2024 04:59 PM (oZhjI)

the transition from space with stars to water to sand as the boat arrives on the moon is absolute magic.

Posted by: TexasDan at August 12, 2024 05:09 PM (rAsBA)

233 a next-generation Democrat running against a 78-year-old Republican.
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 12, 2024 04:59 PM (JCZqz)

LOL

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at August 12, 2024 05:10 PM (ufFY8)

234 @vmom etc. -- just started to listen to the Exorcist Files podcast based on your recommendation.

Literally as soon as I started it, my dogs went ballistic.

Of course, it could have been the beagle walking past the house.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at August 12, 2024 05:11 PM (YIxO9)

235 It seems that David French is now a "Conservative Columnist".
Posted by: Archimedes

So "cleaning up" after his wife's bull counts as "conserving"?

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at August 12, 2024 05:11 PM (bNZKV)

236 Why is everything a remake? Are there no original thoughts left out there?
Posted by: nurse ratched, certified weirdo at August 12, 2024 04:58 PM (k05yp)

....

Now that Gaslight has become everyone's favorite term you know that's on the list to remake, too.

Posted by: TexasDan at August 12, 2024 05:11 PM (rAsBA)

237 180 In other news, is there a rumor that Gal Godot of the Great Thighs might be in this Snow Beige thing?

yeah. she's the evil queen who's concerned that she's not as hawt as rachel zeigler.
Posted by: anachronda at August 12, 2024 05:02 PM (oY6Yp)

*pauses, frowns *
*raises hand, lowers hand*

Um. UMM!!! Dumbest thing I've heard in a long time.

Guess I'll ski this one as well.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Icky Weirdo at August 12, 2024 05:11 PM (Ad8y9)

238 Sorry for the plethora of links, but this is just to good not to put up.

The Political Demise of Tim Walz Continues, New Document Reveals He Thought Bagram Was in Iraq

https://tinyurl.com/mpuakjc3

And this is a very nice graphic of how the two tickets have spent their lives.

https://tinyurl.com/yckhz5n9

Posted by: Archimedes at August 12, 2024 05:11 PM (xCA6C)

239 Mickey Abbott is the best dwarf.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at August 12, 2024 05:11 PM (/U5Yz)

240 Another good takedown but Ace, David French had an opinion piece this weekend in the NYT on why he's a Kamalaman. We've been waiting for your take...down.
Posted by: Dantes at August 12, 2024 04:51 PM (fVKtH)

Frenchy has just become Ace's punch line if he produces an article on "The conservative case for Kamala Harris". Ace doesn't even need to pants him, though he might want to.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2024 05:12 PM (n7h9X)

241 If Gal Gadot is the Evil Queen, sign me up to be in her crew.

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at August 12, 2024 05:12 PM (ufFY8)

242 ...But the preview is mediocre. It looks like a mash-up of things already done in the prior movies. Except this time with a cast of beige metrosexuals who left their jobs as baristas to fare the stars...

Posted by: I need to return some videotapes at August 12, 2024 04:58 PM (ue2TO)

There's some supposedly cool surprises that they're trying to keep secret.

I saw a hint of one of them on the Japanese trailer and it does indeed look very very cool.

I suggest you don't look and let it catch you by surprise. In all honesty, I'm sorry I saw it. But, is a great extension of the original ALIEN.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 12, 2024 05:12 PM (eDfFs)

243
This guy says Disney is too wedded to midwestern conservative values.

https://t.ly/0urtY

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 12, 2024 05:12 PM (63Dwl)

244 Posted by: The Way It Is at August 12, 2024 05:09 PM (Fu9MX)

LOL. Yes; I'm sure you're expiring in agony on your computer.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 12, 2024 05:13 PM (dTTBf)

245 The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare was pretty entertaining. I know it had woke Reacher in it but the movie was good enough to forget that. It did seem original and not a remake of so,ething else.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 12, 2024 05:13 PM (t/2Uw)

246 Sorry for the plethora of links, but this is just to good not to put up.

The Political Demise of Tim Walz Continues, New Document Reveals He Thought Bagram Was in Iraq

https://tinyurl.com/mpuakjc3

Posted by: Archimedes at August 12, 2024 05:11 PM (xCA6C)

Not sure seeing the tactical advantage of being seen as an idiot instead of a liar.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2024 05:13 PM (n7h9X)

247 Bar Rafaeli > Gal Gadot

Posted by: Eulalie Mackechnie Shinn at August 12, 2024 05:13 PM (v6JzV)

248 Now that Gaslight has become everyone's favorite term you know that's on the list to remake, too.
Posted by: TexasDan at August 12, 2024 05:11 PM (rAsBA)

So, a Covid documentary?

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at August 12, 2024 05:13 PM (ufFY8)

249 The first 20 seconds of music sounds like a horror movie trailer.

Posted by: Chuck C at August 12, 2024 05:13 PM (yOPBE)

250 This guy says Disney is too wedded to midwestern conservative values.

https://t.ly/0urtY
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 12, 2024 05:12 PM (63Dwl)
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All those transing farmers of my youth. Definitely.

Posted by: Axeman at August 12, 2024 05:13 PM (krQz2)

251 And Disney ordered four more new cruise ships. Shipyard gonna be stuck with a half finished albatross when Disney goes bankrupt.

Posted by: These fish sticks...on my mobile at Coronado Camp at August 12, 2024 05:14 PM (vfWKI)

252 Suddenly, she seems matched to the moment: a former prosecutor running against a convicted felon, a defender of abortion rights running against the man who helped overturn Roe v. Wade, a next-generation Democrat running against a 78-year-old Republican.
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 12, 2024 04:59 PM (JCZqz)
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I remember writing breathless prose like that. Of course, I was 19 at the time and taking a creative writing course......

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at August 12, 2024 05:14 PM (tT6L1)

253 CGI + AI = Profit !

Posted by: runner at August 12, 2024 05:14 PM (V13WU)

254 Oh, and speaking of " I need to return some videotapes"-

I saw "American Psycho" last night.

Is everyone of the opinion that none of the murders happened and it was all in his head?

Cuz that was my takeaway. Pretty good flick though.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 12, 2024 05:14 PM (eDfFs)

255 The Political Demise of Tim Walz Continues, New Document Reveals He Thought Bagram Was in Iraq

https://tinyurl.com/mpuakjc3

Posted by: Archimedes at August 12, 2024 05:11 PM (xCA6C)

Not sure seeing the tactical advantage of being seen as an idiot instead of a liar.

One does not preclude the other. Embrace, and etc.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 12, 2024 05:14 PM (xCA6C)

256 I remember kind of liking Legend. I see there is a directors cut now too.

Posted by: steevy at August 12, 2024 05:14 PM (HJ9BW)

257 This guy says Disney is too wedded to midwestern conservative values.

https://t.ly/0urtY
Posted by: Bertram Cabot

Austin, Minneapadishu, and Chicago don't represent "Midwestern conservative values."

Posted by: Moron Analyst at August 12, 2024 05:15 PM (JCZqz)

258 You know, you can wrap a dwarf around you waist and wear him as a human fanny pack.
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie

*******

Sure. As long as he keeps his nose out of yur business...

Posted by: Muldoon at August 12, 2024 05:15 PM (uCfKO)

259 Who's out there to lead a second Disney Renaissance? Eventually Disney's going to run out of IP to turn into a live-action remake (or, God help us, an animated version of a live-action remake of a previous animated movie) and churning out DTS/DTV-level sequels isn't going to pay the bills.

Posted by: Octochicken at August 12, 2024 05:15 PM (oCS0o)

260 Not sure seeing the tactical advantage of being seen as an idiot instead of a liar.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2024 05:13 PM (n7h9X)
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Worked for Biden.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at August 12, 2024 05:15 PM (VdhcA)

261 Why is everything a remake? Are there no original thoughts left out there?

They used to - and the education of my kids used to revolve around not only the movie - but the contemporary reaction. Sometimes via contemporary articles found. Sometimes by my personal memory augmented by the memory of older family.

Death Wish was interesting. Waited on that one until they were both in their teens. The idea of going vigilante ? That was met with shock by both Establishment Liberals and Conservatives of the Era. The proles, of course, loved it. Because they'd had enough.

Posted by: The Way It Is at August 12, 2024 05:15 PM (Fu9MX)

262 Time Magazine cover this week. Historic!
https://tinyurl.com/mprvmbpe

The soundtrack suggested a Beyoncé concert. The light-up bracelets evoked the Eras Tour. And the exuberant crowd—more than 14,000 strong, lining up in the rain—resembled the early days of Barack Obama. Inside a Philadelphia arena on Aug. 6, Vice President Kamala Harris was greeted with a kind of reception a Democratic presidential candidate hasn’t gotten in years. Fans packed into overflow spaces, waving homemade signs made of glitter and glue as drumlines roared. When Harris introduced her new running mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, the cheering lasted more than a minute.

Suddenly, she seems matched to the moment: a former prosecutor running against a convicted felon, a defender of abortion rights running against the man who helped overturn Roe v. Wade, a next-generation Democrat running against a 78-year-old Republican.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at August 12, 2024 04:59 PM (JCZqz)
_________________

Thank you for reminding me why I cancelled Time magazine 25 years ago. For the next couple years they humped my leg to resubscribe. No dice.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 12, 2024 05:15 PM (lfS+4)

263
Not sure seeing the tactical advantage of being seen as an idiot instead of a liar.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2024 05:13 PM (n7h9X)

Is it a lie, if you believe it?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 12, 2024 05:15 PM (y31cs)

264 256 I remember kind of liking Legend. I see there is a directors cut now too.
Posted by: steevy at August 12, 2024 05:14 PM (HJ9BW)

Meg was good in it…

Posted by: tubal at August 12, 2024 05:15 PM (PCK5/)

265 That’s an odd trailer for Frozen and the Various CGI Whateves

Posted by: Elric Blade at August 12, 2024 05:15 PM (MRyHq)

266 She reminds me of a young Christina Ricci. Creepy. If I were the dwarves I'd hide the cutlery.

Posted by: Deadmentellnotales at August 12, 2024 05:16 PM (RnoAn)

267 245 It s (I understand pretty loosely) based on real events

Posted by: steevy at August 12, 2024 05:16 PM (HJ9BW)

268 Thank you for reminding me why I cancelled Time magazine 25 years ago. For the next couple years they humped my leg to resubscribe. No dice.

I did the same with WaPo after the first Obama election.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 12, 2024 05:16 PM (xCA6C)

269 Of course, it could have been the beagle walking past the house.
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie

My dog reacts the sane way to beagles lol

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at August 12, 2024 05:16 PM (EGSGm)

270 241 If Gal Gadot is the Evil Queen, sign me up to be in her crew.

The new dwarves' song is "Whistle While You Jerk".

Posted by: Dr. Varno at August 12, 2024 05:16 PM (pqOZS)

271 Peter Dinklage is a tiny dick. We'd kick the shit out of him.
Posted by: the Lollipop Gang at August 12, 2024 04:40 PM (VGOMa)

Everyone knows Warwick Davis is king of the little actors.

Mickey Abbott is the best dwarf.

well, sure, now that i've left the field
Posted by: miguelito loveless at August 12, 2024 05:06 PM (oY6Yp)

If viewers will sit through an episode of The Bachelor why can't we have Best American Dward Smackdown as a five-part series? Robert Reich could host.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 12, 2024 05:16 PM (nOjd9)

272 241 If Gal Gadot is the Evil Queen, sign me up to be in her crew.
Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop

But she'll dress in tight black leather, and discipline you with her riding crop!

Posted by: David French at August 12, 2024 05:16 PM (JCZqz)

273 Christina Ricci… as she aged, she developed an aversion to clothes…

Posted by: tubal at August 12, 2024 05:17 PM (PCK5/)

274 245 The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare was pretty entertaining. I know it had woke Reacher in it but the movie was good enough to forget that. It did seem original and not a remake of so,ething else.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 12, 2024 05:13 PM (t/2Uw)

I just watched this this weekend. I didn't hate it, but I didn't really like it either.

It's a Guy Ritchie film, but without much in the way of his cleverness.

By being excessively jocular/jokey, it sort of diminishes the accomplishments of the actual men, even though it was obviously intended as something like a love letter. They never really seemed as if they were in harm's way. It was just all so easy. Kind of superhero-like.

Posted by: I need to return some videotapes at August 12, 2024 05:17 PM (ue2TO)

275 Thank you for reminding me why I cancelled Time magazine 25 years ago. For the next couple years they humped my leg to resubscribe. No dice.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 12, 2024 05:15 PM (lfS+4)
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MAD Magazine did a great parody about the lengths to which a magazine would go to retain subscribers.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at August 12, 2024 05:17 PM (tT6L1)

276 Not sure seeing the tactical advantage of being seen as an idiot instead of a liar.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2024 05:13 PM (n7h9X)
_______________

Precludes prosecution. See Hur v. Biden.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 12, 2024 05:17 PM (lfS+4)

277 256 I remember kind of liking Legend. I see there is a directors cut now too.
Posted by: steevy at August 12, 2024 05:14 PM (HJ9BW)

It's one of those where it is a beautiful film with beautiful imagery.

I am not sure what else there is to recommend it... that gal's cleavage? (Had to look it up: Mia Sara.)

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 12, 2024 05:17 PM (y31cs)

278 Gal Gadot is so clearly and obviously better looking than Rachel Zeigler that the mirror must be fucking with her...

Posted by: steevy at August 12, 2024 05:17 PM (HJ9BW)

279 Remakes are cash cow for failed Hollywood. It's not about selling tickets; it's about selling investors. Studios make their money from investors and remakes of established hits are an easy sell to distributors.

Disney's real problem is no one is going their parks because no one likes the movies the parks now represent and merchandise.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at August 12, 2024 05:17 PM (wBaIH)

280 What is the difference between a dwarf and a midget? Please educate.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at August 12, 2024 05:18 PM (/U5Yz)

281 Who's out there to lead a second Disney Renaissance?

Nelson Peltz.
Iger, the board, and top three levels of management need to go first.

They could make so much fucking money if they maintain Orlando, control their budget, and tell good, woke-less stories.

Such idiots.
It has been a slow motion train wreck.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at August 12, 2024 05:18 PM (ufFY8)

282
Suddenly, she seems matched to the moment: a former prosecutor running against a convicted felon, a defender of abortion rights running against the man who helped overturn Roe v. Wade, a next-generation Democrat running against a 78-year-old Republican.

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Nose get tight in there?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 12, 2024 05:18 PM (HGgGu)

283 262 Same here, DJV.

Posted by: Eulalie Mackechnie Shinn at August 12, 2024 05:18 PM (v6JzV)

284 Mia Dara I think first role(?) before she was in Ferris Bueller

Posted by: steevy at August 12, 2024 05:18 PM (HJ9BW)

285 277 256 I remember kind of liking Legend. I see there is a directors cut now too.
Posted by: steevy at August 12, 2024 05:14 PM (HJ9BW)

It's one of those where it is a beautiful film with beautiful imagery.

I am not sure what else there is to recommend it... that gal's cleavage? (Had to look it up: Mia Sara.)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 12, 2024 05:17 PM (y31cs)

She did not have much of an acting career, yes??

Posted by: tubal at August 12, 2024 05:19 PM (PCK5/)

286 Mia Sara

Posted by: steevy at August 12, 2024 05:19 PM (HJ9BW)

287 What is the difference between a dwarf and a midget? Please educate.
Posted by: Maj. Healey

Dwarfs are in movies. Midgets are for tossing.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 12, 2024 05:19 PM (MGB5H)

288 And Disney ordered four more new cruise ships. Shipyard gonna be stuck with a half finished albatross when Disney goes bankrupt.
Posted by: These fish sticks...on my mobile at Coronado Camp at August 12, 2024 05:14 PM (vfWKI)

The cruise line is making money. Carnival can buy it cheap when the rest of Disney slips beneath the surface.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 12, 2024 05:19 PM (nOjd9)

289 MAD Magazine did a great parody about the lengths to which a magazine would go to retain subscribers.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at August 12, 2024 05:17 PM (tT6L1)
__________________

It was beyond a joke. Lower and lower subscription prices, until eventually they were just going to send the damned free (presumably so they could claim a subscriber for advertising purposes). I wrote on the last offer "drop the commie crap and then I'll think about it." I never heard from them again.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 12, 2024 05:19 PM (lfS+4)

290 278 Gal Gadot is so clearly and obviously better looking than Rachel Zeigler that the mirror must be fucking with her...
Posted by: steevy at August 12, 2024 05:17 PM (HJ9BW)

Maybe they mean more beautiful on the in... LOL, I can't even finish that.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 12, 2024 05:19 PM (y31cs)

291 Gal Gadot is so clearly and obviously better looking than Rachel Zeigler that the mirror must be fucking with her...
Posted by: steevy at August 12, 2024 05:17 PM (HJ9BW)
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Executioner: *whips out hand mirror. smashes it.*

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at August 12, 2024 05:19 PM (VdhcA)

292 Way way way out of Ferris Bueller's league by the way. Laughably so.

Posted by: steevy at August 12, 2024 05:19 PM (HJ9BW)

293 Mia Sara
Posted by: steevy at August 12, 2024 05:19 PM (HJ9BW)
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Mama mia!

Posted by: Axeman at August 12, 2024 05:19 PM (krQz2)

294 Dwarfs are in movies. Midgets are for tossing.

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 12, 2024 05:19 PM (MGB5H)
________________

So we can toss Robert Reich?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 12, 2024 05:20 PM (lfS+4)

295 Disney's real problem is no one is going their parks because no one likes the movies the parks now represent and merchandise.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at August 12, 2024 05:17 PM (wBaIH)

I took one for the team three years ago. The big problem is, their "immersion" totally sucks now.

You don't have the random Stormtrooper in the Star Wars streets - and you can see where they built the sets and stuff to have platforms and shit constantly doing a show - but they were empty.

Was like that through the entire park.

Posted by: The Way It Is at August 12, 2024 05:20 PM (Fu9MX)

296 Also watched a couple of Australian series that feel original. Because the actors are unfamiliar, it is easier to just get into the story. The Tourist is the first one I found. Starts out, a guy is in a car accident and when he wakes up, has no memory of why he was where he was when the accident took place. No ID. Is he a good guy or a bad guy. Lots of twists.
The one I watched recently is Troppo. Thomas Jane is in it playing a former police officer arrested for a crime he didn't commit and gets off but everyone thinks he did it anyways. The acting is fantastic especially Nicole Chamoun.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 12, 2024 05:20 PM (t/2Uw)

297 Midgets are proportioned normally just small while dwarfs are not

Posted by: steevy at August 12, 2024 05:20 PM (HJ9BW)

298 287 What is the difference between a dwarf and a midget? Please educate.
Posted by: Maj. Healey

Dwarfs are in movies. Midgets are for tossing.
Posted by: BruceWayne

I knew someone here would have an answer.
*hat tip

Posted by: Maj. Healey at August 12, 2024 05:20 PM (/U5Yz)

299 Time Magazine cover this week. Historic!

https://tinyurl.com/mprvmbpe

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DogEater in a dress.

Posted by: ShainS -- Cat Ladies for Trump & Vance! at August 12, 2024 05:20 PM (sIj1G)

300 She did not have much of an acting career, yes??
Posted by: tubal at August 12, 2024 05:19 PM (PCK5/)

Looking at her IMDB... not really. Although she made 'movies' up til 2013.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 12, 2024 05:20 PM (y31cs)

301 Mia Sara had nothing on Fruma-Sarah.

Posted by: Eulalie Mackechnie Shinn at August 12, 2024 05:20 PM (v6JzV)

302 I think Dinklage means dwarf penis in Austrian

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at August 12, 2024 05:21 PM (NtVYv)

303 Christina Ricci… as she aged, she developed an aversion to clothes…
Posted by: tubal at August 12, 2024 05:17 PM (PCK5/)
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I did not expect the full frontal in the mini series about F Scott Fitzgerald.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at August 12, 2024 05:21 PM (tT6L1)

304 Way way way out of Ferris Bueller's league by the way. Laughably so.
Posted by: steevy at August 12, 2024 05:19 PM (HJ9BW)
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That Ferris!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 12, 2024 05:22 PM (JvZF+)

305 Way way way out of Ferris Bueller's league by the way. Laughably so.

Posted by: steevy at August 12, 2024 05:19 PM (HJ9BW)
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Women find confidence attractive.

It's a leadership trait.

I dislike that movie probably more than anybody I have met, but you can't doubt the traits that guy shows.

But he's definitely a rules-are-not-for-me type of guy.

Posted by: Axeman at August 12, 2024 05:22 PM (krQz2)

306
Peter Dinklage? Pffft.

Everyone knows Warwick Davis is king of the little actors.

well, sure, now that i've left the field
Posted by: miguelito loveless

Billy Barty as Liberace

https://t.ly/fGH8O

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 12, 2024 05:22 PM (63Dwl)

307 300 She did not have much of an acting career, yes??
Posted by: tubal at August 12, 2024 05:19 PM (PCK5/)

Looking at her IMDB... not really. Although she made 'movies' up til 2013.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 12, 2024 05:20 PM (y31cs)

Much like Fairuza Balk then..

Posted by: tubal at August 12, 2024 05:22 PM (PCK5/)

308 May be she can do a Star Wars - Snow white crossover.
.
Posted by: brak

Star White,
Star White
First star I see tonight
I wish I may
I wish I might
Make a box office hit
For dumbshit Kathleen Kennedy

I was watching the end of "Seabiscuit" the other day on Pluto, and Kathleen Kennedy was, of course, one of the producers of the movie. Very good movie, very successful at the Box Office (As I remember).
She has limited talent, when closely supervised. As most Hollywood personalities, they are a lot dumber on close inspection than they think they are.
In retrospect, most movies are pretty dumb. For some reason, my wife was watching "Staying Alive" last night, the sequel to "Saturday Night Fever". Both now look like exceedingly dumb movies, but "Staying Alive" was really bad.
Kathleen Kennedy gets away with this at Disney because, frankly, nobody now knows good from bad, or Shit from Shinola. Does it check the right boxes? Is it politically correct? Does it reflect "DEI"?
If so, advance to "Go!" and collect $10 million. Or something like that.

Posted by: A face in the crowd..... at August 12, 2024 05:22 PM (vcOmj)

309 260 Not sure seeing the tactical advantage of being seen as an idiot instead of a liar.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2024 05:13 PM (n7h9X)
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Worked for Biden.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at August 12, 2024 05:15 PM (VdhcA)

Kept him from being prosecuted for keeping classified docs.

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 12, 2024 05:22 PM (xaFKb)

310 I thought that it was Phoebe Cates who played Ferris’ girlfriend?

Posted by: Eulalie Mackechnie Shinn at August 12, 2024 05:23 PM (v6JzV)

311 My dog reacts the sane way to beagles

Beagles are midgets?

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at August 12, 2024 05:23 PM (mGmwd)

312 Remakes are cash cow for failed Hollywood. It's not about selling tickets; it's about selling investors. Studios make their money from investors and remakes of established hits are an easy sell to distributors.

Disney's real problem is no one is going their parks because no one likes the movies the parks now represent and merchandise.
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at August 12, 2024 05:17 PM (wBaIH)

Well they used to be. They could be made cheaply, they didn't unpleasantly shock the audience, thus generating profits.

Now they change the plots to offend the customers, the bloat is so bad they cost a quarter billion before a single ticket is sold and they take years to turn out. And instead of getting repeat sales of cheap disks they have to maintain an albatross of a streaming service.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2024 05:23 PM (n7h9X)

313 Much like Fairuza Balk then..
Posted by: tubal at August 12, 2024 05:22 PM (PCK5/)
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She crashed and burned.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at August 12, 2024 05:23 PM (VdhcA)

314 Tolkien dwarves are big, powerful men with short legs.

Posted by: Northernlurker , wondering where his phone is at August 12, 2024 05:24 PM (FfSAJ)

315

Anyone remember Peggy Noonan and the bullshit she'd write for Republicans?

She could make that idiot George Bush seem like George Washington crossing the Delaware River.

Posted by: Soothsayer said it First at August 12, 2024 05:24 PM (fp7Ad)

316 Oh, fer cryin’ out loud! Off, Wife of River City’s Mayor Sock!

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 12, 2024 05:24 PM (v6JzV)

317 Kept him from being prosecuted for keeping classified docs.
Posted by: Romeo13 at August 12, 2024 05:22 PM (xaFKb)

That was the judge, not the law or sense.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2024 05:24 PM (n7h9X)

318 313 Much like Fairuza Balk then..
Posted by: tubal at August 12, 2024 05:22 PM (PCK5/)
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She crashed and burned.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at August 12, 2024 05:23 PM (VdhcA)

Ah… she was great in The Waterboy…

Posted by: tubal at August 12, 2024 05:24 PM (PCK5/)

319 Much like Fairuza Balk then..
Posted by: tubal at August 12, 2024 05:22 PM (PCK5/)
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My favorite role for her is Vickie Vaillancourt.

Posted by: Axeman at August 12, 2024 05:25 PM (krQz2)

320 Gal Godot now has the stink of Disney on her and is aging into too old for Hollywood. Her career is over unless she starts to do soft core porn.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at August 12, 2024 05:25 PM (wBaIH)

321 309 260 Not sure seeing the tactical advantage of being seen as an idiot instead of a liar.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2024 05:13 PM (n7h9X)
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Worked for Biden.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at August 12, 2024 05:15 PM (VdhcA)

Kept him from being prosecuted for keeping classified docs.

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 12, 2024 05:22 PM (xaFKb)
_________________

Hur: "C'mon, he's whacked out!"

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 12, 2024 05:25 PM (lfS+4)

322 Ah… she was great in The Waterboy…
Posted by: tubal

Boobage in American History X

Posted by: BruceWayne at August 12, 2024 05:25 PM (MGB5H)

323 Saw the Wee People open for Flogging Molly and the Dropkick Murhpy's in Dublin back in '84

Posted by: Maj. Healey at August 12, 2024 05:26 PM (/U5Yz)

324 I haven't forgotten that she backed Rachel Zeigler during her diatribe against the original Snow White but now Gal is being attacked simply because she is Israeli

Posted by: steevy at August 12, 2024 05:26 PM (HJ9BW)

325
Peggy would "wax poetic," as they say, about Ronald Reagan.

Sure, President Reagan was swell. But she was practically fellating him with text like he was Julius Caesar.

Just because some dumb cunt at Time failed-magazine has an opinion on the fake "popularity" of cumface whoreus, it doesn't make it true.

Posted by: Soothsayer said it First at August 12, 2024 05:27 PM (fp7Ad)

326 Time Magazine cover this week. Historic!

https://tinyurl.com/mprvmbpe

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DogEater in a dress.
Posted by: ShainS -- Cat Ladies for Trump & Vance! at August 12, 2024 05:20 PM (sIj1G)

They made her look white. Oops.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2024 05:27 PM (n7h9X)

327 Tolkien dwarves are big, powerful men with short legs.

Bing !!! In the Peter Jackson treatment - I could envision camping and fighting with every one of them in the original group. And reading the book - the conflicts even amongst the allies were intriguing at some points and obvious in the others.

It was a stew. Hollywood can't do that anymore - because they're so fucking worried somebody will be offended at the fallen king that they can't write a story about it.

In all fairness - folks here still hate my viewing of Man Who Shot Liberty Valence - because I absolutely detested everything about Jimmy Stewart's character.

Posted by: The Way It Is at August 12, 2024 05:27 PM (Fu9MX)

328 they are gonna dig up Rivers of America and bulldoze Tom Sawyer Island, Parts of Disney World Walt Personally designed and replace it with Cars 2 Frontier land,

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at August 12, 2024 05:27 PM (FCrpy)

329 Julius Caesar kind of fellated himself...

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 12, 2024 05:28 PM (y31cs)

330 Beagles are midgets?

Dachshund's are midgets, there legs are only 2 inches tall.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at August 12, 2024 05:28 PM (/U5Yz)

331 Veruca Salt did other movies after Willie Wonka?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 12, 2024 05:28 PM (v6JzV)

332 Anyone remember Peggy Noonan and the bullshit she'd write for Republicans?

It's a schtick. A few posters here still use it. The boozy, thou shalt not question my viewing of modern America in the haze I choose to remember.

Sadly - I think the booze for one is optional.

Posted by: The Way It Is at August 12, 2024 05:28 PM (Fu9MX)

333 Comparing Fairuza Balk to Mia Sara? I will never understand men.

Posted by: Mooch at August 12, 2024 05:29 PM (DRSnL)

334
fake injun warren was their vaunted "savior" 6 years

Remember when lie-awatha warren so "popular" she was a shoo-in for president someday?

"Some day" being never, of course, because she's old and hated.

Posted by: Soothsayer said it First at August 12, 2024 05:29 PM (fp7Ad)

335 Gal Godot now has the stink of Disney on her and is aging into too old for Hollywood. Her career is over unless she starts to do soft core porn.
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at August 12, 2024 05:25 PM (wBaIH)
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On a completely unrelated topic, what subscription service offers Cinemax?
Asking for a friend.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at August 12, 2024 05:29 PM (FCbAQ)

336 328 they are gonna dig up Rivers of America and bulldoze Tom Sawyer Island, Parts of Disney World Walt Personally designed and replace it with Cars 2 Frontier land,
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at August 12, 2024 05:27 PM (FCrpy)

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At Disneyland? They already have Cars Frontierland over at California Adventure.

Posted by: Cave Johnson at August 12, 2024 05:30 PM (bRtPo)

337 Understand Men… I assure you, we are Easy to understand…

Posted by: tubal at August 12, 2024 05:30 PM (PCK5/)

338 their
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British MPs belonging to the ruling Labour Party are leaving the X platform in protest of freedom of speech.

Musk: But first, you must ...

Posted by: Maj. Healey at August 12, 2024 05:31 PM (/U5Yz)

339 333 Comparing Fairuza Balk to Mia Sara? I will never understand men.
Posted by: Mooch at August 12, 2024 05:29 PM (DRSnL)

Mia Sara is beautiful. Fairuza Balk is sexy.

I prefer the latter (by a country mile).

Posted by: I need to return some videotapes at August 12, 2024 05:31 PM (ue2TO)

340
But you have to admire the balls on these gaslighters for saying Trump is "old."

8 weeks ago they told us joe biden was "young" and "energetic."

It's. All. Bullshit.

Posted by: Soothsayer said it First at August 12, 2024 05:31 PM (fp7Ad)

341 How many "Snow White" adaptations are there already? I assume many.

Posted by: The Insignificance Of The Passage Of gp at August 12, 2024 05:31 PM (K+rHH)

342 they are gonna dig up Rivers of America and bulldoze Tom Sawyer Island, Parts of Disney World Walt Personally designed and replace it with ~~Cars 2 Frontier land,~~ DDR-land, complete with cast members portraying Stasi officers who will rough you up for the full socialist experience.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 12, 2024 05:32 PM (lfS+4)

343 Mia Sara is beautiful. Fairuza Balk is sexy.

I prefer the latter (by a country mile).
Posted by: I need to return some videotapes at August 12, 2024 05:31 PM (ue2TO)
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Don't look up recent pictures of Fairuza Balk.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at August 12, 2024 05:32 PM (VdhcA)

344 The Taliban wishes they were so though in destroying past civilizations

Posted by: Skip at August 12, 2024 05:32 PM (fwDg9)

345 Since they were to come in the days of the power of Melkor, Aule made the Dwarves strong to endure.Therefore they are stone hard,stubborn,fast in friendship and in enmity,and they suffer toil and hunger and hurt of body more hardily than all other speaking peoples;and they live long, far beyond the span of Men, yet not forever.
Tolkien The Silmarillion

Posted by: steevy at August 12, 2024 05:33 PM (HJ9BW)

346 343

Don't look up recent pictures of Fairuza Balk.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at August 12, 2024 05:32 PM (VdhcA)

Of course not… rookie mistake.

Posted by: tubal at August 12, 2024 05:33 PM (PCK5/)

347 British MPs belonging to the ruling Labour Party are leaving the X platform in protest of freedom of speech.
________________

I'm sure Musk is crying himself to sleep.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 12, 2024 05:33 PM (lfS+4)

348 British MPs belonging to the ruling Labour Party are leaving the X platform in protest of freedom of speech.

Musk: But first, you must ...
Posted by: Maj. Healey at August 12, 2024 05:31 PM (/U5Yz)

That won't last long, those people need that more than oxygen.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2024 05:33 PM (n7h9X)

349 Turns out you need a decent amount of technology to erase the past when everyone has the potential for the sum total of human knowledge in the palm of their hand.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Women pursuing older men must desire incestous father fantasies at August 12, 2024 05:34 PM (cTK4u)

350 British MPs belonging to the ruling Labour Party are leaving the X platform in protest of freedom of speech.
_________________

They'd better be careful, or Musk will buy the whole goddamned country and kick out all the people he doesn't like.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 12, 2024 05:34 PM (lfS+4)

351 328 they are gonna dig up Rivers of America and bulldoze Tom Sawyer Island, Parts of Disney World Walt Personally designed and replace it with Cars 2 Frontier land,
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at August 12, 2024 05:27 PM (FCrpy)

And when my Twins were 8? The BEST part of Disneyland was Tom Sawyers Island. Why? because they could run around and be kids, instead of just standing in line for a short ride.

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 12, 2024 05:34 PM (xaFKb)

352
nood

Posted by: Soothsayer said it First at August 12, 2024 05:34 PM (fp7Ad)

353 349 Turns out you need a decent amount of technology to erase the past when everyone has the potential for the sum total of human knowledge in the palm of their hand.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Women pursuing older men must desire incestous father fantasies at August 12, 2024 05:34 PM (cTK4u)

We're working on that...

Posted by: Google Search Engine at August 12, 2024 05:35 PM (xaFKb)

354 Watched “Father Goose” on TCM last night.

What’s the ‘Rons take on Leslie Caron? I would’ve done you-know-what with her in a New York minute.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 12, 2024 05:35 PM (v6JzV)

355 By the way I'll be rooting for the evil queen in the Snow Brownish remake.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at August 12, 2024 05:35 PM (Da7Vv)

356 Fairuza Balk has really big gums

it's off-putting

Posted by: Don Black at August 12, 2024 05:35 PM (/7KEl)

357 Mia Sara is beautiful. Fairuza Balk is sexy.

I prefer the latter (by a country mile).
Posted by: I need to return some videotapes at August 12, 2024 05:31 PM (ue2TO)
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Don't look up recent pictures of Fairuza Balk.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at August 12, 2024 05:32 PM (VdhcA)
________________

Mr. Ed is hoping Wilbur can set him up with her. Those choppers!

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 12, 2024 05:36 PM (lfS+4)

358 But you have to admire the balls on these gaslighters for saying Trump is "old."

8 weeks ago they told us joe biden was "young" and "energetic."

It's. All. Bullshit.
Posted by: Soothsayer

You can tell what they say are lies because literally everything they say are lies.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 12, 2024 05:38 PM (cOq4q)

359 Since they were to come in the days of the power of Melkor, Aule made the Dwarves strong to endure.Therefore they are stone hard,stubborn,fast in friendship and in enmity,and they suffer toil and hunger and hurt of body more hardily than all other speaking peoples;and they live long, far beyond the span of Men, yet not forever.
Tolkien The Silmarillion
Posted by: steevy at August 12, 2024 05:33 PM (HJ9BW)

I've always liked the chaos of the origin and destination of races. Elves were created across the earth from the Valar and knocked about for some time. Nobody knows what happens to Men when they die. And Dwarves were a bootleg project that Illuvatar let survive.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 12, 2024 05:39 PM (n7h9X)

360 Walt Personally designed and replace it with
Little Gaza!

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at August 12, 2024 05:39 PM (mGmwd)

361 Veruca Salt did other movies after Willie Wonka?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 12, 2024 05:28 PM (v6JzV)

Veruca was too squirrely to get much more work in movies, she had too much garbage that stuck to her due to how she got burned.

Violet on the other hand got work in blue movies, and BBW modelling. Sad, really

Posted by: Kindltot at August 12, 2024 05:40 PM (D7oie)

362 262. The soundtrack suggested a Beyoncé concert. The light-up bracelets evoked the Eras Tour. And the exuberant crowd—more than 14,000 strong, lining up in the rain—resembled the early days of Barack Obama. Inside a Philadelphia arena on Aug. 6, Vice President Kamala Harris was greeted with a kind of reception a Democratic presidential candidate hasn’t gotten in years.
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Temple University's Liacouras Center. Old O tactics but nowhere as big.

The smidgen of Collar County angry White broads (always mad about Trump) were interviewed. They DO NOT like Harris for herself but either because she's a woman (and/or a POC) or they're jump plain driven by Trump phobia. (Teachers, pet sitters, etc.)

Posted by: L - If they'll do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at August 12, 2024 05:40 PM (NFX2v)

363 (Note the -ves plural ending is one Tolkein popularized. Standard English is just "dwarfs.")
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knife - knives
wife - wives
dwarf - dwarves

Works for me.

Posted by: olddog in mo at August 12, 2024 05:41 PM (5LrV6)

364 Disney needs to die. Now.

Posted by: Jane at August 13, 2024 11:58 AM (bXvrr)

365 Isn't Snow White supposed to be fairer than the Evil Queen?????

Posted by: Jack Tallent at August 13, 2024 12:32 PM (86SSv)

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