Paramount Studios Begins Long, Painful, Hilarious Process of Laying Off 15% of Its Employees

Paramount Global was to begin laying off 15% of its workforce in the U.S. starting Tuesday as part of its planned job cuts, the media giant said in an internal memo.
Paramount, which owns networks like CBS, MTV, and Comedy Central, aims to reduce annual costs by $500 million and return to profitable growth before its merger with David Ellison's Skydance Media.
In an internal memo, Paramount's co-CEOs said the company is at an "inflection point" where changes are necessary to strengthen the business.
The layoffs, which were announced during a post-earnings call last week, are expected to affect about 2,000 people....
The restructuring comes as the New York-based company navigates a challenging linear TV market, having recently written down the value of its cable networks by nearly $6 billion.

They also own Pluto and Paramount+. Supposedly they hit profitability on their streaming operations for the first time. I assume most of that was for Pluto. I don't hear people talking about Paramount+ much, though they have... Yellowstone? Is that right?

Anyway, they've continually ruined their most valuable IP, Star Trek, and made it Star-Wars-level, and I don't mean that in a good way.

The latest girlboss video game movie bombed. Borderlands has not one but two Girls Who Are the Key to Everything.

Plus Jack Black being " " " funny. " " "

Speaking of Busty Woke Frankenstein Jamie Lee Curtis:

Jamie Lee Curtis revealed on Kevin Hart's SiriusXM podcast "Gold Minds" (via Entertainment Weekly) that she asks film crews to wear name tags so that everyone remains equal on her film and television sets. The Oscar winner and current Emmy nominee for "The Bear" said that her aim is to dispel the "hierarchy" that inherently exists on sets between actors and the crew since everyone already knows the actors' names in most cases.
"There's something really uneven about our position on a set, on a movie, in this arena," Curtis told Hart. "You guys know our names, we don't know yours. There's something inequitable to me about that...On a movie set, if we were all working together, we would all be wearing name tags so that tomorrow when we came in, I would be able to then say 'good morning [Sabine]' without even [...] thought because I've learned her name."

Oh shut up you batwanger ding-dong.

You've just created a new inequality: You're making professionals, who aren't actors, wear name-tags like they work at Target.

I'm sure the actors and rich people ain't wearing name-tags.

Stuff your "equity," you moron.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 04:37 PM

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1 Top ten?

Posted by: Boswell at August 13, 2024 04:37 PM (K+UlC)

2 Okay...meant to say "SPONGE!"

Posted by: Boswell at August 13, 2024 04:38 PM (K+UlC)

3 Not Sponge!

Posted by: Heirloominati at August 13, 2024 04:38 PM (CtJ/Z)

4 Gotta move fast around here...

Posted by: Brother Tim learned to stop quibbling and love the Protestant Reformation at August 13, 2024 04:38 PM (OUMaO)

5 Oh no!

Anyway....

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at August 13, 2024 04:38 PM (B9Prs)

6 Warp speed

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 13, 2024 04:38 PM (J2vNu)

7 As a coder, I don't want these ninnies to learn to code. Let them go work at Starbucks.

Posted by: Tinfoil Dispenser at August 13, 2024 04:39 PM (Ij2uN)

8 Wake me up when Hollywood start making movies for people who liked the source material again.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at August 13, 2024 04:39 PM (B9Prs)

9 He's dead, Jim

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at August 13, 2024 04:39 PM (B9Prs)

10 That vid of Borderlands: Is that Jamie Lee Curtis and Cate Blanchett?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 13, 2024 04:40 PM (J2vNu)

11 Only 15%?

Posted by: Peaches at August 13, 2024 04:40 PM (14URa)

12 Learn to code or learn to build cardboard homes.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at August 13, 2024 04:41 PM (/U5Yz)

13 Wow - that review of Borderland should have come with a blind fold and a cigarette...

Posted by: Boswell at August 13, 2024 04:41 PM (K+UlC)

14 What have they put up new lately?

Posted by: Skip at August 13, 2024 04:41 PM (fwDg9)

15 eh, 15 percent is a start ...

Posted by: BlackOrchid at August 13, 2024 04:41 PM (s3qiR)

16 ES SPONJA!

Posted by: DoublySymmetric at August 13, 2024 04:41 PM (9mfKN)

17 >>>10 That vid of Borderlands: Is that Jamie Lee Curtis and Cate Blanchett?

yes. it's weird casting and people say no, the stunt casting does not work, they're just not right for this kind of movie.

Young girlbosses are already silly, but it gets sillier with 55-year-old and 70-year-old girlbosses.

Posted by: ace at August 13, 2024 04:41 PM (KRtlO)

18 They also have Evil.

Which is pretty good, outside of the expected leftie jabs from the lapsed-Catholic and the Muslim atheist.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 13, 2024 04:41 PM (uPilC)

19 10 That vid of Borderlands: Is that Jamie Lee Curtis and Cate Blanchett?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 13, 2024 04:40 PM (J2vNu)

Yes. 10 pts to Wolfus.

Posted by: DoublySymmetric at August 13, 2024 04:42 PM (9mfKN)

20 Imagine what I could deo for this company!

Posted by: Kathleen Kennedy at August 13, 2024 04:42 PM (RefTO)

21 One reviewer did like Borderlands:

Grace Randolf.

Sooooooo....

Posted by: ace at August 13, 2024 04:42 PM (KRtlO)

22 Starbucks CEO Laxman Narasimhan steps down, effective immediately, as Chipotle’s Brian Niccol set to take reins in September.

So from bums stuck in the toilets to customers stuck in the toilets.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 13, 2024 04:42 PM (aD39U)

23 As a coder, I don't want these ninnies to learn to code. Let them go work at Starbucks.

Posted by: Tinfoil Dispenser

Most coding's been offshored by now anyway. Can't wait until the Starbucks all get automated...

Posted by: Brother Tim learned to stop quibbling and love the Protestant Reformation at August 13, 2024 04:42 PM (OUMaO)

24 17 yes. it's weird casting and people say no, the stunt casting does not work, they're just not right for this kind of movie.

Young girlbosses are already silly, but it gets sillier with 55-year-old and 70-year-old girlbosses.
Posted by: ace at August 13, 2024 04:41 PM (KRtlO)

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I've been wondering why it has engendered such...hatred.

Most of the time these things are just kind of boring, but hatred always feels a bit overdone.

I'm curious.

Not curious enough to, you know, try and see it, though.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, riding the anarchy train with John Landis at August 13, 2024 04:42 PM (GBKbO)

25 Muslim atheist.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 13, 2024 04:41 PM (uPilC)

Pretty sure you aren’t Muslim at that point. Just sayin.

Posted by: DoublySymmetric at August 13, 2024 04:42 PM (9mfKN)

26 Jamie Lee now looks like an old dude with a bad haircut.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at August 13, 2024 04:43 PM (/U5Yz)

27 Looks like Borderlands is worthy of an ace live blog.

Posted by: TexasDan at August 13, 2024 04:43 PM (rAsBA)

28 26 Jamie Lee now looks like an old dude with a bad haircut.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at August 13, 2024 04:43 PM (/U5Yz)

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She looks so much more like her dad than her mom, which is deeply unfortunate.

But, she did get her mom's rack. So there's that.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, riding the anarchy train with John Landis at August 13, 2024 04:43 PM (GBKbO)

29 >>>Plus Jack Black being """ funny. """

Triple scare quotes. Cruel.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 13, 2024 04:43 PM (i24o9)

30 I don't hear people talking about Paramount+ much, though they have... Yellowstone? Is that right?

I watched Evil on Paramount+ recently. It's...decent, I guess.

Posted by: Jordan61 at August 13, 2024 04:43 PM (DRSnL)

31 >>> 7 As a coder, I don't want these ninnies to learn to code. Let them go work at Starbucks.
Posted by: Tinfoil Dispenser at August 13, 2024 04:39 PM (Ij2uN)

In sunny downtown Mogadishu.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 13, 2024 04:43 PM (FnneF)

32 One reviewer did like Borderlands:

Grace Randolf.

Sooooooo....
Posted by: ace at August 13, 2024 04:42 PM (KRtlO)

So? You're that saying permission granted to dunk her head in a deep fat fryer? Done...

Posted by: Boswell at August 13, 2024 04:44 PM (K+UlC)

33 30 I watched Evil on Paramount+ recently. It's...decent, I guess.
Posted by: Jordan61 at August 13, 2024 04:43 PM (DRSnL)

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This is a review of all streaming ever, it seems.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, riding the anarchy train with John Landis at August 13, 2024 04:44 PM (GBKbO)

34 >>>I've been wondering why it has engendered such...hatred.

I think it's mostly elicited sighs. I don't know if people hate it so much as they're all shrugging and saying, "Why?"

We are at the tail end of this cycle of Flopbuster and geek IP exploitation. This is like the period of The Swarm at the end of the disaster movie cycle.

Posted by: ace at August 13, 2024 04:44 PM (KRtlO)

35 So only 1/3 of their Pedos ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Cat Ladies for Trump & Vance! at August 13, 2024 04:44 PM (pK3iw)

36 Too bad they didn't get Kamala to voice Claptrap

Rotten Tomatoes might have scored a -10%

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 13, 2024 04:44 PM (en9Xr)

37 >>>Plus Jack Black being """ funny. """

Triple scare quotes. Cruel.

The funniest thing Jack Black could do is jump into a live volcano.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 13, 2024 04:44 PM (xCA6C)

38 all the scripts that should have been made were already made and all the IPs that should have been exploited already were exploited. We're down to rags.

Posted by: ace at August 13, 2024 04:44 PM (KRtlO)

39 I have to confess that I have never heard of Borderlands.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 13, 2024 04:44 PM (aD39U)

40 Paramount Studios Begins Long, Painful, Hilarious Process of Laying Off 15% of Its Employees

Instead of more low effort headlines celebrating the death of an American industry (I thought that would be considered unpatriotic 🤔 ?) because of movies made for kids on a forgotten IP, maybe you should be cresting your own, new IPs to save the industry if you really "care" so much.

No? So, just more whiney middle-aged white dudes anger-grifting? So banal. (Okay....Zach wouldn't say, or probably even understand, the word banal)

Posted by: Ya Boi Zach, now new and improved with 200% more woke at August 13, 2024 04:44 PM (ycI94)

41 I've heard that the cgi in borderlands is incredibly bad, too. Like "how can cgi be this bad" bad.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - What is the one way speed of light? at August 13, 2024 04:45 PM (4mc1x)

42 But, she did get her mom's rack. So there's that.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, riding the anarchy train with John Landis

I wonder if she's uses an extreme lift bra now?

Posted by: Maj. Healey at August 13, 2024 04:45 PM (/U5Yz)

43 34 I think it's mostly elicited sighs. I don't know if people hate it so much as they're all shrugging and saying, "Why?"

We are at the tail end of this cycle of Flopbuster and geek IP exploitation. This is like the period of The Swarm at the end of the disaster movie cycle.
Posted by: ace at August 13, 2024 04:44 PM (KRtlO)

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I guess I'm gauging a different tone from the reviews. It really feels kind of nasty.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, riding the anarchy train with John Landis at August 13, 2024 04:45 PM (GBKbO)

44 Boeing is in need of coders.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 13, 2024 04:45 PM (en9Xr)

45 They also have Evil.

Which is pretty good, outside of the expected leftie jabs from the lapsed-Catholic and the Muslim atheist.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 13, 2024 04:41 PM (uPilC)

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Did you know that Catholics are racist? And misogynistic? And pedos? Because I'm not sure if they mentioned it enough.

Posted by: Jordan61 at August 13, 2024 04:45 PM (DRSnL)

46 This is a review of all streaming ever, it seems.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, riding the anarchy train with John Landis at August 13, 2024 04:44 PM (GBKbO)

It was… FINE.

Posted by: DoublySymmetric at August 13, 2024 04:45 PM (9mfKN)

47 18 They also have Evil.

Which is pretty good, outside of the expected leftie jabs from the lapsed-Catholic and the Muslim atheist.

and Kristin's mom ...who looks bizarrely good for her age (Christine Lahti) - they shoulda put her in Borderlands!

Posted by: BlackOrchid at August 13, 2024 04:45 PM (s3qiR)

48 I saw the Borderlands preview before seeing another terrible movie (Trap). But Bordlerlands looked especially bad. Cate Blanchet has become something of a marker for terrible things.

Posted by: It Looked Like Animated Diarrhea at August 13, 2024 04:45 PM (JghT2)

49 I love Pluto. Lots of good old stuff to watch, and I don't mind ad breaks when it's free. Oh, and lots of movies, uncensored.

Posted by: Taro Tsujimoto at August 13, 2024 04:45 PM (5YmYl)

50 >>> 40
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(Okay....Zach wouldn't say, or probably even understand, the word banal)
Posted by: Ya Boi Zach, now new and improved with 200% more woke at August 13, 2024 04:44 PM (ycI94)

You can't critique a sock when you are the sock!!!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 13, 2024 04:46 PM (FnneF)

51 When I last played video games, Borderland 2 was it.

That was really fun.

I didn't like Roland, he was dumb despite being the "leader." Didn't care when Handsome Jack killed him.
Plus, Handsome Jack was a likable.
I mean, one of his first lines is "these pretzels are making me thirsty."

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 13, 2024 04:46 PM (uPilC)

52 The funniest thing Jack Black could do is jump into a live volcano.

And take his bandmate with him.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 13, 2024 04:46 PM (en9Xr)

53 18 They also have Evil.

Which is pretty good, outside of the expected leftie jabs from the lapsed-Catholic and the Muslim atheist.

oh and Vizzini is in it, as a gay homosexual priest

Posted by: BlackOrchid at August 13, 2024 04:46 PM (s3qiR)

54 We're down to rags.

Read that as down to fags.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at August 13, 2024 04:46 PM (roSd3)

55 Jamie Lee Curtis killed Michael Myers, right? At least once.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 13, 2024 04:46 PM (aD39U)

56 44 Boeing is in need of coders.
Posted by: Anna Puma

Over qualified.

Posted by: Boeing at August 13, 2024 04:46 PM (/U5Yz)

57 >>>27 Looks like Borderlands is worthy of an ace live blog.

nah... I watched Red Letter Media talking about it, and while they're kind of off the reservation now, the sense I got was that this wasn't outrageously, cringe-makingly bad, just unengaging, uninspired and unneeded. Not the kind of Terrible movie that would be fun. Just a snoozy cashgrab.

Posted by: ace at August 13, 2024 04:47 PM (KRtlO)

58 55 Jamie Lee Curtis killed Michael Myers, right? At least once.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 13, 2024 04:46 PM (aD39U)

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I know what I'm watching on the lead up to this year's Halloween...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, riding the anarchy train with John Landis at August 13, 2024 04:47 PM (GBKbO)

59 That's a shame, since Kate Blanchett is a fine actress and has been in some good films.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 13, 2024 04:47 PM (dTTBf)

60 I think it's mostly elicited sighs. I don't know if people hate it so much as they're all shrugging and saying, "Why?"

We are at the tail end of this cycle of Flopbuster and geek IP exploitation. This is like the period of The Swarm at the end of the disaster movie cycle.

The real question is "what's next"? I don't know, but I think AI and VR may be involved in order to make movies more customizable to individual tastes. That may be some years away, though.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 13, 2024 04:47 PM (xCA6C)

61 You can't critique a sock when you are the sock!!!
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 13, 2024 04:46 PM (FnneF)

Whoa.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 13, 2024 04:47 PM (aD39U)

62 Jamie Lee Curtis killed Michael Myers, right? At least once.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 13, 2024 04:46 PM

Must have been a weird night on the set of SNL.

Posted by: Minnfidel at August 13, 2024 04:47 PM (ewjUl)

63 39 I have to confess that I have never heard of Borderlands.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 13, 2024 04:44 PM (aD39U)

Video game where shoot enemies and the they drop weapons, hopefully better than the weapon you have. Then, you shoot more enemies.

Posted by: DoublySymmetric at August 13, 2024 04:47 PM (9mfKN)

64 Don't believe everything you hear about Borderlands. It's a good movie.

Posted by: Randy Ptchford at August 13, 2024 04:47 PM (hCzfy)

65 >>> 44 Boeing is in need of coders.
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 13, 2024 04:45 PM (en9Xr)

I was thinking *fewer* coders, and more *engineers*.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 13, 2024 04:48 PM (FnneF)

66 Plus Jack Black being " " " funny. " " "

Jack Black can be funny - he was good in the Mario movie and in Jumanji but I think he fails if he is the lead.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 13, 2024 04:48 PM (oZhjI)

67 I saw the Borderlands preview before seeing another terrible movie (Trap).

Posted by: It Looked Like Animated Diarrhea at August 13, 2024 04:45 PM (JghT2)

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Trap WAS terrible. And I had such high hopes.

Posted by: Jordan61 at August 13, 2024 04:48 PM (DRSnL)

68 The future is AI anyway

https://ytube.io/3zjn

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 13, 2024 04:48 PM (aD39U)

69 31 >>> 7 As a coder, I don't want these ninnies to learn to code. Let them go work at Starbucks.
Posted by: Tinfoil Dispenser at August 13, 2024 04:39 PM (Ij2uN)

In sunny downtown Mogadishu.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket

Normally, I'd quote The Kentucky Fried Movie and say "take them to Detroit", but it's too close a battleground state to risk with a bunch of braindead 'Blue no matter who' voters, so Minnedishu is an acceptable alternative.

Posted by: Movie Moron at August 13, 2024 04:48 PM (ycI94)

70 We are at the tail end of this cycle of Flopbuster and geek IP exploitation. This is like the period of The Swarm at the end of the disaster movie cycle.
Posted by: ace at August 13, 2024 04:44 PM (KRtlO)

So, what's next? A Tranny musical remake of 'Guys and Dolls' called 'Guys and Guys'?

Because production companies are completely out of ideas and good scrips at this point...

Posted by: Boswell at August 13, 2024 04:48 PM (K+UlC)

71 Jamie Lee Curtis killed Michael Myers, right? At least once.

Did she get tired of him calling her donkey in a scottish accent?

Posted by: 18-1 at August 13, 2024 04:48 PM (oZhjI)

72 But, she did get her mom's rack.
Dude -- 65 y.o. rackage. You're motorboating a GarWood.

Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at August 13, 2024 04:49 PM (zdLoL)

73 Jamie Lee Curtis.

Ugh

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 13, 2024 04:49 PM (guGkK)

74 But Bordlerlands looked especially bad. Cate Blanchet has become something of a marker for terrible things.
Posted by: It Looked Like Animated Diarrhea at August 13, 2024 04:45 PM (JghT2)

Is she deeply in debt like Nic Cage and doing any and every movie she can?

Posted by: DoublySymmetric at August 13, 2024 04:49 PM (9mfKN)

75 Jack Black can be funny - he was good in the Mario movie and in Jumanji

and that one where he was the mortician.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 13, 2024 04:49 PM (aD39U)

76 Posted by: Ya Boi Zach, now new and improved with 200% more woke at August 13, 2024 04:44 PM (ycI94)

Wow, somebody's got a vagina full of sand today.

Posted by: Peaches at August 13, 2024 04:49 PM (14URa)

77 I can't believe that anyone with the impressive line up of CBS, MTV and Comedy Central can't simply make bank. They were all powerhouses in the 1980s.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at August 13, 2024 04:49 PM (wBaIH)

78 I have to confess that I have never heard of Borderlands.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 13, 2024 04:44 PM (aD39U)

Video game where shoot enemies and the they drop weapons, hopefully better than the weapon you have. Then, you shoot more enemies.

Hold on, Poindexter. I can only follow such complexity so long before I'm lost.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 13, 2024 04:49 PM (xCA6C)

79 >>> 76 Posted by: Ya Boi Zach, now new and improved with 200% more woke at August 13, 2024 04:44 PM (ycI94)

Wow, somebody's got a vagina full of sand today.
Posted by: Peaches at August 13, 2024 04:49 PM (14URa)

Pssst..... see my #50.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 13, 2024 04:50 PM (FnneF)

80 Jack Black plays a great Jack Black. It's when he tries doing anything else, he falls short.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 13, 2024 04:50 PM (C/Lf1)

81 Wasn't Borderlands a pen&paper RPG? Was it popular enough to warrant a movie?

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at August 13, 2024 04:50 PM (sAmhv)

82 Speaking of Boeing, I read their Space Edsel(lol) may destroy the space port its currently connected to when it is jettisoned as space junk. The ISS only has two ports.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at August 13, 2024 04:50 PM (/U5Yz)

83 17 Young girlbosses are already silly, but it gets sillier with 55-year-old and 70-year-old girlbosses.
Posted by: ace at August 13, 2024 04:41 PM (KRtlO)

Grannybosses.

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at August 13, 2024 04:51 PM (FWZkC)

84 i added something about jamie lee curtis

Posted by: ace at August 13, 2024 04:51 PM (KRtlO)

85 Lincoln Logs: The Movie

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 13, 2024 04:51 PM (aD39U)

86 Hold on, Poindexter. I can only follow such complexity so long before I'm lost.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 13, 2024 04:49 PM (xCA6C)

Just play it a few hours, I promise you’ll get it. ;-)

Posted by: DoublySymmetric at August 13, 2024 04:51 PM (9mfKN)

87 Maybe Jamie Lee Curtis and Jack Black can use their take from the movie to have dinner at Burger King and talk about what an awesome slay queen Kamala is.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 13, 2024 04:51 PM (guGkK)

88 61 You can't critique a sock when you are the sock!!!
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 13, 2024 04:46 PM (FnneF)

Whoa.
Posted by: G'rump928(c)

Bob Dole may be a tough hombre, but even he needs a helping hand now and again. Cialis...for when the moment is right.

Posted by: Deadpool, impersonating Bob Dole at August 13, 2024 04:51 PM (ycI94)

89 72 But, she did get her mom's rack.
Dude -- 65 y.o. rackage. You're motorboating a GarWood.
Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at August 13, 2024 04:49 PM (zdLoL)

When I was a kid everyone in my school woild have sworn that she was a hermaphrodite and had a penis.

Not sure how that rumor got started. Maybe Richard Gere to rake some heat off his gerbiling.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at August 13, 2024 04:51 PM (uBBbP)

90 MTV has not had a music video on in like two decades.

Comedy Central has been rehashing the same anti-American jokes for two decades.

Communist Broadcasting Systems?

Yeah all powerhouses there.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 13, 2024 04:51 PM (en9Xr)

91 81 Wasn't Borderlands a pen&paper RPG? Was it popular enough to warrant a movie?

as far as I know, it was a PS4 game, my kids played them

now it's all Elden Ring all the damn time

Borderlands seemed more lighthearted. there was a lot less cursing.

Posted by: BlackOrchid at August 13, 2024 04:51 PM (s3qiR)

92 Also people are pointing out how meta it is that a corporation made a low effort and grossly commercial movie about a franchise that was based on making fun of corporations and grossly commercial products.

To the point where some people are wondering if it's intentional.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - What is the one way speed of light? at August 13, 2024 04:51 PM (4mc1x)

93 Remember when Tweeting "Learn to code" to Chris Cuomo was a threat of violence and a banable offense or Twitter? Pepperidge Farm remembers.

Posted by: Pepperidge Farm at August 13, 2024 04:51 PM (Ybyk2)

94 "There's something really uneven about our position on a set, on a movie, in this arena," Curtis told Hart. "You guys know our names, we don't know yours. There's something inequitable to me about that...On a movie set, if we were all working together, we would all be wearing name tags so that tomorrow when we came in, I would be able to then say 'good morning [Sabine]' without even [...] thought because I've learned her name."

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She could learn their names by talking to them.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, riding the anarchy train with John Landis at August 13, 2024 04:51 PM (GBKbO)

95 Jack Black can be funny - he was good in the Mario movie and in Jumanji but I think he fails if he is the lead.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 13, 2024 04:48 PM (oZhjI)

I thought he was good in the King Kong remake.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at August 13, 2024 04:52 PM (PiwSw)

96 72 But, she did get her mom's rack.
Dude -- 65 y.o. rackage. You're motorboating a GarWood.
Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at August 13, 2024 04:49 PM (zdLoL)

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I recently revisited Trading Places.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, riding the anarchy train with John Landis at August 13, 2024 04:52 PM (GBKbO)

97 "There's something really uneven about our position on a set, on a movie, in this arena," Curtis told Hart. "You guys know our names, we don't know yours. There's something inequitable to me about that

Bless her little heart.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 13, 2024 04:52 PM (guGkK)

98 Jamie Lee Curtis revealed on Kevin Hart's SiriusXM podcast "Gold Minds" (via Entertainment Weekly) that she asks film crews to wear name tags so that everyone remains equal on her film and television sets. The Oscar winner and current Emmy nominee for "The Bear" said that her aim is to dispel the "hierarchy" that inherently exists on sets between actors and the crew since everyone already knows the actors' names in most cases.

"There's something really uneven about our position on a set, on a movie, in this arena," Curtis told Hart. "You guys know our names, we don't know yours. There's something inequitable to me about that...On a movie set, if we were all working together, we would all be wearing name tags so that tomorrow when we came in, I would be able to then say 'good morning [Sabine]' without even [...] thought because I've learned her name."

Get back to me when you get the same salary as the lowest-paid person on the movie lot, you poser.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 13, 2024 04:52 PM (xCA6C)

99 73 Jamie Lee Curtis.

Ugh
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)

1994 Jamie Lee was hot.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at August 13, 2024 04:52 PM (/U5Yz)

100 84 i added something about jamie lee curtis
Posted by: ace at August 13, 2024 04:51 PM (KRtlO)

Why not just ask their name?

Posted by: DoublySymmetric at August 13, 2024 04:52 PM (9mfKN)

101 Jamie Lee now looks like an old dude with a bad haircut.

Well if the rumors about her, uh, genetic make up are true "she" kind of is...

Also bonus points in Hollywood to Curtis for having a picture of someone else's naked kid on the wall in her living room. https://tinyurl.com/2hsfbm5t (link goes to NY Post article)

Posted by: 18-1 at August 13, 2024 04:53 PM (oZhjI)

102 83 17 Young girlbosses are already silly, but it gets sillier with 55-year-old and 70-year-old girlbosses.
Posted by: ace at August 13, 2024 04:41 PM (KRtlO)

Were there any hot flash power surge jokes, cause those are the Best!

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at August 13, 2024 04:53 PM (uBBbP)

103 ugh now she's on The Bear too

is that the only show now

btw I hate it

Ted Lasso but growlier

Posted by: BlackOrchid at August 13, 2024 04:53 PM (s3qiR)

104 I thought Borderlands was on Prime and Walter Goggins was in it, but apparently that's a different video game-based TV show.

Posted by: Jordan61 at August 13, 2024 04:53 PM (DRSnL)

105 Paramount+ doesn't even have South Park even though it's on Comedy Central. Max has it.

Posted by: Mark1971 at August 13, 2024 04:53 PM (xPl2J)

106 >>But, she did get her mom's rack.

And her dad's schlong, if legend is true.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at August 13, 2024 04:53 PM (bNf8H)

107 I thought he was good in the King Kong remake.

But Naomi Watts was the protagonist and he was the side kick right?

Posted by: 18-1 at August 13, 2024 04:53 PM (oZhjI)

108 Were there any hot flash power surge jokes, cause those are the Best!
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at August 13, 2024 04:53 PM (uBBbP)

CAN I GET IN ON THIS???

Posted by: Rosie O'Donnell at August 13, 2024 04:53 PM (guGkK)

109 I thought the crews just went by their job titles, like Gafter-san, Photo-sama etc.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 13, 2024 04:54 PM (aD39U)

110 she's making professionals, who are not famous actors like herself, wear name-tags like they work in Lighting at Bed Bath & Beyond. I'm sure they love that.

Posted by: ace at August 13, 2024 04:54 PM (KRtlO)

111 ugh now she's on The Bear too

is that the only show now

btw I hate it

Ted Lasso but growlier

Posted by: BlackOrchid at August 13, 2024 04:53 PM (s3qiR)

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I like it a lot. She's only in two episodes.

Posted by: Jordan61 at August 13, 2024 04:54 PM (DRSnL)

112 Thierry Breton is now more fetching than Jamie Lee Curtis. And with far better hair. Prove me wrong.

Posted by: Peaches at August 13, 2024 04:54 PM (14URa)

113 Grannybosses.
Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik

This shouldn't come as a surprise, after all the Lefty fawning over Hillary, Pelosi, RBG, Maxie Waters, Dianne Feinstein, etc

Posted by: Moron Analyst at August 13, 2024 04:54 PM (ycI94)

114 Did you know that Catholics are racist? And misogynistic? And pedos? Because I'm not sure if they mentioned it enough.

Shucks, you have one bad millennium, and some people hold it against you forever. Abiuramus te, ut ignoscas et obliviscar

Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at August 13, 2024 04:54 PM (zdLoL)

115 Is it true that Jamie Lee was a hermaphrodite?

Posted by: Lady Who Always Has a Burning Question at August 13, 2024 04:54 PM (JCLJi)

116 1994 Jamie Lee was hot.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at August 13, 2024 04:52 PM (/U5Yz)

Was that the year of True Lies? Or did that come later?

Posted by: DoublySymmetric at August 13, 2024 04:54 PM (9mfKN)

117 103 ugh now she's on The Bear too

is that the only show now

btw I hate it

Ted Lasso but growlier

Posted by: BlackOrchid at August 13, 2024 04:53 PM (s3qiR)

It's a half hour of yelling. Every episode.

Posted by: It Looked Like Animated Diarrhea at August 13, 2024 04:54 PM (JghT2)

118 Or Jamie, you actually spend a few minutes and talk to each person on the set and learn their name?

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 13, 2024 04:54 PM (en9Xr)

119 IN A VIOLENT NATURE a movie that from the perspective of the Slasher, very different

Kill the movie Ace recommended was good, lots of blood lots of dead bad guys.

Despicable Me 4 good family movie, a Super Villian vows revenge on Gru's Family and they have to go into Hiding. I love that Gru would do anything for his family and he's a good Dad you WILL not really see that in any Disney Movie anymore. also F Disney.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at August 13, 2024 04:55 PM (Dx3vM)

120 >I recently revisited Trading Places.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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which part

Posted by: Don Black at August 13, 2024 04:55 PM (/7KEl)

121 >>>115 Is it true that Jamie Lee was a hermaphrodite?

i dunno, I know that's something people say.

I mean she has kids right? Or did she adopt? I know she has a (get this) transgender child. (Now an adult, obviously.)

Posted by: ace at August 13, 2024 04:55 PM (KRtlO)

122 I used to watch Ariana Greenblatt on Disney Channel. Great young actress but I haven't seen any of her movies much.

She's in 'Borderlands' and was also in '65' which was also a dumpster fire according to cosmicbook.

But she was also in 'Barbie' and played Young Gamora in 'Avengers: Infinity Wars.' Billion dollar movies.

So hit and miss....

Posted by: Stateless at August 13, 2024 04:55 PM (jvJvP)

123 >>> 115 Is it true that Jamie Lee was a hermaphrodite?
Posted by: Lady Who Always Has a Burning Question at August 13, 2024 04:54 PM (JCLJi)

I don't think it's something you quit until you're dead.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 13, 2024 04:55 PM (FnneF)

124 she's making professionals, who are not famous actors like herself, wear name-tags like they work in Lighting at Bed Bath & Beyond. I'm sure they love that.

Maybe it would be easier if they all wore a common type of clothing, like, oh, I don't know, khakis with a polo shirt with their names embroidered on them. Not the talent, obviously, but, you know, the working class.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 13, 2024 04:56 PM (xCA6C)

125 >>>Plus Jack Black being """ funny. """

Triple scare quotes. Cruel.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 13, 2024 04:43 PM (i24o9)

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Irony Cubed.

Which could be Jack Black's pro wrestling name.

Posted by: ShainS -- Cat Ladies for Trump & Vance! at August 13, 2024 04:56 PM (pK3iw)

126
Plus Jack Black being " " " funny. " " "

Are we talking about Bruce Willis' "Jackal" slicing him to ribbons with the large caliber machine gun?

Because that is the funniest Jack Black scene, ever.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 13, 2024 04:56 PM (xG4kz)

127 Jamie Lee now looks like an old dude with a bad haircut.

She rocked a worthy pair of yabbos in Trading Places.

Posted by: Dan Ackroyd at August 13, 2024 04:56 PM (guGkK)

128 104 I thought Borderlands was on Prime and Walter Goggins was in it, but apparently that's a different video game-based TV show.
Posted by: Jordan6
....................................
That's Fallout. Different video game.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at August 13, 2024 04:56 PM (sAmhv)

129 121 i dunno, I know that's something people say.

I mean she has kids right? Or did she adopt? I know she has a (get this) transgender child. (Now an adult, obviously.)
Posted by: ace at August 13, 2024 04:55 PM (KRtlO)

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My girlfriend in Italy (American by birth, we just met there), went to school with one of her kids at Kenyon College.

Told Jamie where to find the bathroom once.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, riding the anarchy train with John Landis at August 13, 2024 04:56 PM (GBKbO)

130 120 >I recently revisited Trading Places.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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which part
Posted by: Don Black at August 13, 2024 04:55 PM (/7KEl)

Dan akryod eating salmon out of the Santa beard is pretty good.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at August 13, 2024 04:56 PM (uBBbP)

131 I mean she has kids right? Or did she adopt? I know she has a (get this) transgender child. (Now an adult, obviously.)
Posted by: ace at August 13, 2024 04:55 PM (KRtlO)

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They're adopted. And therefore cannot inherit their dad's title.

Posted by: Jordan61 at August 13, 2024 04:56 PM (DRSnL)

132 101 Jamie Lee now looks like an old dude with a bad haircut.

Well if the rumors about her, uh, genetic make up are true "she" kind of is...
Posted by: 18-1

Would she, perhaps, be interested in boxing in the 2028 Olympics?

Posted by: Algeria at August 13, 2024 04:56 PM (ycI94)

133 Paramount. I swear, it seems like this studio "folds" at least once a decade.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 13, 2024 04:56 PM (0FoWg)

134 I saw Jamie Lee Curtis' Legs open for...

Shit, everyone in Hollyweird

Posted by: Reforger at August 13, 2024 04:56 PM (xcIvR)

135 I've been watching "Batman: The Animated Series" which is (I think) over 30 years old now. It's still excellent.

Don't need anything new, thanks.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 13, 2024 04:56 PM (CHHv1)

136
Posted by: Archimedes at August 13, 2024 04:52 PM (xCA6C)

Since you mentioned The Bear and I have nothing else to contribute to this thread, here's my unpopular The Bear opinion:

Season 1 was a show about a plucky group of misfits struggling to stay afloat at a sandwich shop.

Season 2 was that same group of plucky misfits somehow trying to make a successful fine dining restaurant.

Season 3 was them trying to get a Michelin Star.

The Bear is a Shonen anime.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at August 13, 2024 04:56 PM (B9Prs)

137 not to worry I realize a lot of people love The Bear (and Ted Lasso) they just make me want to murder someone

too .. on the nose or something

I also am hating DarK now but feel like I have to finish the stupid thing. maybe the last ep saves it or something lol hopefully everyone blows up

Posted by: BlackOrchid at August 13, 2024 04:57 PM (s3qiR)

138 Please to hold my rucksack.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 13, 2024 04:57 PM (aD39U)

139 Wait, those are chicks!?

Posted by: Cannibal Bob, now with more hate. at August 13, 2024 04:57 PM (0JyMa)

140 >>>IN A VIOLENT NATURE a movie that from the perspective of the Slasher, very different
Kill the movie Ace recommended was good, lots of blood lots of dead bad guys.

i heard in a violent nature was good.

I didn't recommend Kill. I saw it recommended in comments. I think I responded to a commenter who recommended it.

i hear "The Coffee Table" (La Mesita) is good.

Posted by: ace at August 13, 2024 04:57 PM (KRtlO)

141 > That vid of Borderlands: Is that Jamie Lee Curtis and Cate Blanchett?

Jamie Lee Curtis: 65
Cate Blanchett: 55
Gina Gershon: 62

It's an "action" movie full of old women.

Hilariously, the original writer on the movie had his name taken off of it. Eli Roth took over and enshittified it.

Posted by: bonhomme at August 13, 2024 04:57 PM (Odg76)

142 134 I saw Jamie Lee Curtis' Legs open for...

Shit, everyone in Hollyweird
Posted by: Reforger at August 13, 2024 04:56 PM (xcIvR)

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Eh. She's a nepo baby. Probably had to do it a lot less than many other starlets.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, riding the anarchy train with John Landis at August 13, 2024 04:57 PM (GBKbO)

143 135 I've been watching "Batman: The Animated Series" which is (I think) over 30 years old now. It's still excellent.

holy fuck Im old

but YES! great idea

Posted by: BlackOrchid at August 13, 2024 04:57 PM (s3qiR)

144 "Inflection point" -- nauseating C-suitese. I stopped reading after that, so I don't know if he went on to use "spend" as a noun. Hate that shit as well.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at August 13, 2024 04:58 PM (wzAuc)

145 Posted by: Archimedes at August 13, 2024 04:52 PM (xCA6C)

Since you mentioned The Bear and I have nothing else to contribute to this thread, here's my unpopular The Bear opinion:

Not me. I haven't seen it.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 13, 2024 04:58 PM (xCA6C)

146 I saw Jamie Lee Curtis' Legs open for...

Shit, everyone in Hollyweird
Posted by: Reforger at August 13, 2024 04:56 PM (xcIvR)

They'd have to open like the London Tower Bridge for Harvey Weinstein.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 13, 2024 04:58 PM (guGkK)

147 56 44 Boeing is in need of coders.
Posted by: Anna Puma

Maybe start with competent door/plug bolt-tighteners?

Posted by: First Things First at August 13, 2024 04:58 PM (CV8a5)

148
Paramount can finish Yellowstone, and then close down.

Posted by: Frank Barone at August 13, 2024 04:58 PM (+oR7L)

149
I mean she has kids right? Or did she adopt? I know she has a (get this) transgender child. (Now an adult, obviously.)

Adopted. "Curtis and Guest became parents through adoption after experiencing infertility"

Hermaphrodites can be fertile though they are much more likely to suffer from infertility then non-Hermaphrodites

Posted by: 18-1 at August 13, 2024 04:59 PM (oZhjI)

150 Gina Gershon: 62

she had terrible plastic surgery ages ago that face cannot be hanging in very well

it's probably a mask at this point

Posted by: BlackOrchid at August 13, 2024 04:59 PM (s3qiR)

151 I clicked on the last link. Megan Rapinoe has really aged since quitting soccer.

Posted by: huerfano at August 13, 2024 04:59 PM (VGOMa)

152
Not me. I haven't seen it.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 13, 2024 04:58 PM (xCA6C)

It was mentioned in the Jamie Lee Curtis quote you commented.

Still counts.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at August 13, 2024 04:59 PM (B9Prs)

153 150 Gina Gershon: 62

she had terrible plastic surgery ages ago that face cannot be hanging in very well

it's probably a mask at this point
Posted by: BlackOrchid at August 13, 2024 04:59 PM (s3qiR)

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She does a good chicken wing in Killer Joe.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, riding the anarchy train with John Landis at August 13, 2024 04:59 PM (GBKbO)

154 I also am hating DarK now but feel like I have to finish the stupid thing. maybe the last ep saves it or something lol hopefully everyone blows up
Posted by: BlackOrchid at August 13, 2024 04:57 PM (s3qiR)

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The German show? I watched the first two seasons and never finished it.

Posted by: Jordan61 at August 13, 2024 04:59 PM (DRSnL)

155 Disney is making a sequel to Freaky Friday with Jamie Lee and Lindsy Lowhan, Which one will be the gay lesbian or Trans in that movie

Disney is also Ripping out Rivers of America and Tom Sawyer and getting rid of the Mark Twain, because they HATE AMERICA and put in CARS 2 ride which totally fits into Frontierland

Rumor is they want to rename Main Street USA to Mickey Way because they HATE AMERICA, the only place to see what Disney use to like you will have to go to Japan

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at August 13, 2024 04:59 PM (Dx3vM)

156 I thought he was good in the King Kong remake.

But Naomi Watts was the protagonist and he was the side kick right?
Posted by: 18-1 at August 13, 2024

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She, and the giant ape of course, were the focus. Jack Black played the promoter guy who spearheaded the expedition to find Kong and bring him back for exhibition in New York. The same character as in the 1933 original.

I liked that they made this one a 1930s period piece.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 13, 2024 05:00 PM (J2vNu)

157 147 56 44 Boeing is in need of coders.
Posted by: Anna Puma

Maybe start with competent door/plug bolt-tighteners?
Posted by: First Things First at August 13, 2024 04:58 PM (CV8a5)

Do we really know what happened to Milton after Initech burned down?

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at August 13, 2024 05:00 PM (PiwSw)

158
Jaime Lee Curtis is True Lies was masterful.

Posted by: Frank Barone at August 13, 2024 05:00 PM (+oR7L)

159 The German show? I watched the first two seasons and never finished it.

yes Jordan

yes that was very very wise of you

Posted by: BlackOrchid at August 13, 2024 05:00 PM (s3qiR)

160 115 Is it true that Jamie Lee was a hermaphrodite?
Posted by: Lady Who Always Has a Burning Question

I shant believe this.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at August 13, 2024 05:00 PM (/U5Yz)

161 Paramount can finish Yellowstone, and then close down.

Posted by: Frank Barone at August 13, 2024 04:58 PM (+oR7L)

I tried to watch that - people whose opinions I respect were enthralled with it. The first scene I saw was some horse being put down (or something equally icky) and I flipped it off and never went back. I'm not sorry.

Posted by: Peaches at August 13, 2024 05:00 PM (14URa)

162 Rumor is they want to rename Main Street USA to Mickey Way because they HATE AMERICA, the only place to see what Disney use to like you will have to go to Japan
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at August 13, 2024 04:59 PM (Dx3vM)

Maybe the trouble is, the USA never nuked Burbank.

It worked for Japan.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 13, 2024 05:01 PM (guGkK)

163 King Kong is probably the most normal movie I've seen Naomi Watts in. I think her best know movie though was Mulholland Drive.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 13, 2024 05:01 PM (oZhjI)

164 Is it true that Jamie Lee was a hermaphrodite?
Posted by: Lady Who Always Has a Burning Question

The use of the past tense in this question unsettles me greatly.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at August 13, 2024 05:01 PM (B9Prs)

165 116 1994 Jamie Lee was hot.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at August 13, 2024 04:52 PM (/U5Yz)

Was that the year of True Lies? Or did that come later?
Posted by: DoublySymmetric

Yes. 1994.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at August 13, 2024 05:01 PM (/U5Yz)

166 Paramount can finish Yellowstone, and then close down.

Posted by: Frank Barone

Wait!!! I have so many more terrible Star Trek projects to create!!

Posted by: Alex Kurtzman at August 13, 2024 05:01 PM (ycI94)

167 Disney is also Ripping out Rivers of America and Tom Sawyer and getting rid of the Mark Twain, because they HATE AMERICA and put in CARS 2 ride which totally fits into Frontierland

oh that's so sad

I loved Tom Sawyer's Island when we went with the kids. a nice quiet low intensity spot for really little ones. always a good break from the frenetic rest of WDW

so so sad to take it away.

Posted by: BlackOrchid at August 13, 2024 05:01 PM (s3qiR)

168 The ISS only has two ports. Several factual opinions on this.

Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at August 13, 2024 05:02 PM (zdLoL)

169 80 Jack Black plays a great Jack Black. It's when he tries doing anything else, he falls short.
Posted by: NR Pa

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I mean, that's the problem. He is tolerable when his is not Jack Black, but that is what he keeps doing. He is like the obnoxious drunk at a party who just won't give it a rest.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is failed presidency manifest at August 13, 2024 05:02 PM (Oq1ps)

170 Is it true that Jamie Lee was a hermaphrodite?
Posted by: Lady Who Always Has a Burning Question

The use of the past tense in this question unsettles me greatly.

She got better!

Posted by: Archimedes at August 13, 2024 05:02 PM (xCA6C)

171 The ISS only has two ports. Several factual opinions on this.

So it has a bonus hole?

Posted by: Some Modern biologist at August 13, 2024 05:02 PM (oZhjI)

172 I tried to watch that - people whose opinions I respect were enthralled with it. The first scene I saw was some horse being put down (or something equally icky) and I flipped it off and never went back. I'm not sorry.
Posted by: Peaches at August 13, 2024 05:00 PM (14URa)

1883 is better. 1923 also. I actually prefer to see the continuation of 1923 over Yellowstone.

Posted by: runner at August 13, 2024 05:02 PM (V13WU)

173 I tried to watch that - people whose opinions I respect were enthralled with it. The first scene I saw was some horse being put down (or something equally icky) and I flipped it off and never went back. I'm not sorry.

Posted by: Peaches at August 13, 2024 05:00 PM

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It tough on animals, thats for sure.
I equate it to The Sopranos on a ranch. I've enjoyed it, although the daughter can be a bit much some times.

Posted by: Frank Barone at August 13, 2024 05:02 PM (+oR7L)

174 Because that is the funniest Jack Black scene, ever.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August

I also liked his turn as a human barbecue in the X-Files.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 13, 2024 05:03 PM (0FoWg)

175 My childhood memories of Tom Sawyer's Island at Disneyland are of the cave always smelling like urine.

Posted by: Mark1971 at August 13, 2024 05:03 PM (xPl2J)

176 157 147 56 44 Boeing is in need of coders.
Posted by: Anna Puma

Maybe start with competent door/plug bolt-tighteners?
Posted by: First Things First at August 13, 2024 04:58 PM (CV8a5)

They could also, oh, I don't know, design a modern new airframe instead of squeezing monster turbofans onto a model that first took off back in 1966.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 13, 2024 05:03 PM (guGkK)

177 Some of the side-quests in Borderlands 2 were:
- Shoot Me in the Face; you shoot a kid in the face 'cause he asked you to.
- Kill Yourself - you jump off a diving board into lava. Or not. Jack dares you to.
- there's another where you crush a guy inside a car in a car crusher.
- another where you get medicine to a town of folks who can't live without it.
-then you later launch artillery at one of the jerks in that town and kill him.
--and another where you deliver body parts for a doctor.

It was never movie material.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 13, 2024 05:03 PM (uPilC)

178 > Jaime Lee Curtis is True Lies was masterful.

Was she though?
I remember her "hot scene" being very awkward. Yes, it was intentional and tongue in cheek, but it was still awkward.

Posted by: bonhomme at August 13, 2024 05:03 PM (Odg76)

179 yes Jordan

yes that was very very wise of you
Posted by: BlackOrchid at August 13, 2024 05:00 PM (s3qiR)

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Outer Range on Prime has a similar feel. But it just got canceled.

Posted by: Jordan61 at August 13, 2024 05:03 PM (DRSnL)

180 I tried to watch that - people whose opinions I respect were enthralled with it.

just a drawn out version of the "The Godfather" with western wear

Posted by: brak at August 13, 2024 05:03 PM (NGHTx)

181 >Jaime Lee Curtis is True Lies was masterful.

---

she did that helicopter stunt herself
that scream was real terror

Posted by: Don Black at August 13, 2024 05:04 PM (/7KEl)

182 Jack Black was great in "Mars Attacks." Especially his last scene. He should reenact that more often.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 13, 2024 05:04 PM (CHHv1)

183 Adopted. "Curtis and Guest became parents through adoption after experiencing infertility"
Posted by: 18-1

"And Guest"? Is that the new "partner" or "plus one"?

Posted by: Confused Moron at August 13, 2024 05:04 PM (ycI94)

184 Oh no!
....anyway

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Vote but also buy ammo at August 13, 2024 05:04 PM (xcxpd)

185 Is it true that Jamie Lee was a hermaphrodite?
Posted by: Lady Who Always Has a Burning Question

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I'd still fuck the female half.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is failed presidency manifest at August 13, 2024 05:04 PM (Oq1ps)

186 Jumanji was an interesting movie.

The Rock plays The Rock
Kevin Hart plays Kevin Hart
Jack Black plays Jack Black
Karen Gilligan plays drop dead gorgeous

and it all just works.

Posted by: Some Modern biologist at August 13, 2024 05:04 PM (oZhjI)

187 The funniest thing Jack Black could do is jump into a live volcano.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 13, 2024 04:44 PM

I dunno...he could reenact that scene from The Jackal in real life...

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 13, 2024 05:05 PM (7H2sw)

188 > Some of the side-quests in Borderlands 2 were:

Borderlands 2 had much more of a plot than 1. The movie is based off of Borderlands 1.

Posted by: bonhomme at August 13, 2024 05:05 PM (Odg76)

189 I'd still fuck the female half.
Posted by: Gentlemen, this is failed presidency manifest at August 13, 2024 05:04 PM (Oq1ps)

After me, Clyde.

Posted by: The Male Half at August 13, 2024 05:05 PM (guGkK)

190 Gina Gershon looks remarkable well-preserved for 62

Posted by: Don Black at August 13, 2024 05:05 PM (/7KEl)

191 Maybe start with competent door/plug bolt-tighteners?
Posted by: First Things First at August 13, 2024 04:58 PM (CV8a5)

No way Jose. We're already overworked!

Posted by: Machinists Union at August 13, 2024 05:05 PM (/U5Yz)

192 "And Guest"? Is that the new "partner" or "plus one"?
Posted by: Confused Moron at August 13, 2024 05:04 PM (ycI94)

Sod off, you.

Posted by: Nigel Tufnel at August 13, 2024 05:05 PM (PiwSw)

193 Was she though?
I remember her "hot scene" being very awkward. Yes, it was intentional and tongue in cheek, but it was still awkward.
Posted by: bonhomme at August 13, 2024 05:03 PM (Odg76)

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Also...there is a reason they used a rain effect on the window for that scene.

Posted by: Jordan61 at August 13, 2024 05:05 PM (DRSnL)

194 That vid of Borderlands: Is that Jamie Lee Curtis and Cate Blanchett?

Jamie Lee Curtis: 65
Cate Blanchett: 55
Gina Gershon: 62

It's an "action" movie full of old women.

Hilariously, the original writer on the movie had his name taken off of it. Eli Roth took over and enshittified it.
Posted by: bonhomme at August 13, 2024

***
Janet Leigh guested on an episode of The Man From U.N.C.L.E. in '67. In an interview some years later, she said her kids -- including Jamie Lee -- were big big U.N.C.L.E. fans and were thrilled that their mom was going to be on it. So JLC must have been about seven or eight then.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 13, 2024 05:06 PM (J2vNu)

195 180 I tried to watch that - people whose opinions I respect were enthralled with it.

just a drawn out version of the "The Godfather" with western wear
Posted by: brak at August 13, 2024 05:03 PM (NGHTx)

That actually...makes it sound good...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Vote but also buy ammo at August 13, 2024 05:06 PM (xcxpd)

196 171 The ISS only has two ports. Several factual opinions on this.

So it has a bonus hole?
Posted by: Some Modern biologist

Has she ever had them both docked at the same time? It's amazing!

Posted by: Sandra Fluke at August 13, 2024 05:06 PM (ycI94)

197 I'd still fuck the female half.
Posted by: Gentlemen, this is failed presidency manifest at August 13, 2024

Nothing like a nice plump pair of lady balls under a tight skirt AMIRIGHT?

Posted by: David French at August 13, 2024 05:06 PM (oZhjI)

198 > Karen Gilligan plays drop dead gorgeous

I'm not your little buddy.

Posted by: Karen Gillan at August 13, 2024 05:06 PM (Odg76)

199 Jackson's 3 hour King Kong would have made an excellent 90 minute movie. The fx were shit, except for Kong.

Why the interminable bugs and dinosaurs chase scenes? What is wrong with Peter Jackson.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Icky Weirdo at August 13, 2024 05:06 PM (Ad8y9)

200 It tough on animals, thats for sure.
I equate it to The Sopranos on a ranch. I've enjoyed it, although the daughter can be a bit much some times.

Posted by: Frank Barone at August 13, 2024 05:02 PM (+oR7L)

I'm fine with people being put down, just can't handle it with animals. Mostly binge-watch old stuff on Prime, stuff I never saw because I was busy having an actual life. It's a blessing.

Posted by: Peaches at August 13, 2024 05:06 PM (14URa)

201 Was she though?
I remember her "hot scene" being very awkward. Yes, it was intentional and tongue in cheek, but it was still awkward.

Posted by: bonhomme at August 13, 2024 05:03 PM

It was funny because she was such a cold fish secretary house wife and then that dance scene. Arnold dropping the tape recorder was funny.

And I was a young teen in 1994, so seeing an older women being sexy was....a life altering idea. =)

Posted by: Frank Barone at August 13, 2024 05:07 PM (+oR7L)

202 Some Boeing engineers are unionized. Don't call yourself a 'professional' if you are a union member.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at August 13, 2024 05:07 PM (/U5Yz)

203 While they were busy destroying Star Trek, they did manage to make a show really worth watching for me, which is Lower Decks. Yes, the lead character is another girlboss, but there's more than enough other stuff in it to make up for the wokeness.

So of course, Paramount cancelled it.

Posted by: Gran at August 13, 2024 05:07 PM (kycfo)

204 I just caught a few minutes of "True Lies" today on the TeeVee. Jamie Lee Curtis is nuclear meltdown hot. Smokeshow. She can be forgiven for A LOT of things for that alone.

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at August 13, 2024 05:07 PM (1FWWQ)

205 Why the interminable bugs and dinosaurs chase scenes? What is wrong with Peter Jackson.

He mostly stuck to the book in LoTR and it was great.

He add at least one movie's worth of content to The Hobbit and it sucked.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 13, 2024 05:08 PM (oZhjI)

206 Pluto has zNation on Demand now. I was so happy to see that .

That was the first zombie show I ever watched. It was done by the Asylum and it was pretty messed up at points.

Fun show. Five seasons, the first 2 or 3 were great. Only 13 episodes a season.

Posted by: Stateless at August 13, 2024 05:08 PM (jvJvP)

207 she's making professionals, who are not famous actors like herself, wear name-tags like they work in Lighting at Bed Bath & Beyond. I'm sure they love that.

Posted by: ace at August 13, 2024 04:54 PM (KRtlO)

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And pronouns?

/only half-joking

Posted by: ShainS -- Cat Ladies for Trump & Vance! at August 13, 2024 05:08 PM (pK3iw)

208 ira's Dice at August 13, 2024 05:03 PM (0FoWg)

175 My childhood memories of Tom Sawyer's Island at Disneyland are of the cave always smelling like urine.
Posted by: Mark1971

All caves smell like urine. It's in the bylaws.

Posted by: La Cava at August 13, 2024 05:08 PM (CV8a5)

209 Jamie Lee Curtis: 65
Cate Blanchett: 55
Gina Gershon: 62
Posted by: bonhomme at August 13, 2024

We'll need to restrict the tampon-dispensers to the boys' room.

Posted by: Tim Walz at August 13, 2024 05:08 PM (gKWVE)

210 she's making professionals, who are not famous actors like herself, wear name-tags like they work in Lighting at Bed Bath & Beyond. I'm sure they love that.

Posted by: ace at August 13, 2024 04:54 PM (KRtlO)

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

And their pronouns?

/only half-joking

Posted by: ShainS -- Cat Ladies for Trump & Vance! at August 13, 2024 05:08 PM (pK3iw)

211 Jack Black made School Rock work. he was perfect for that role. other than that, he's a tool.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Icky Weirdo at August 13, 2024 05:08 PM (Ad8y9)

212 Paramount includes CBS & CBS News, just sayin'.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 13, 2024 05:08 PM (IG4Id)

213 >>> 161 Paramount can finish Yellowstone, and then close down.

Posted by: Frank Barone at August 13, 2024 04:58 PM (+oR7L)

I tried to watch that - people whose opinions I respect were enthralled with it. The first scene I saw was some horse being put down (or something equally icky) and I flipped it off and never went back. I'm not sorry.
Posted by: Peaches at August 13, 2024 05:00 PM (14URa)

iirc the horse was put down because it was in a trailer being towed by John Dutton, and some asshoe (who I think turned out to be connected to the asshoe developer guy) ran him off the road, causing the horse to have its leg broken. I didn't hate that except duh poor horse, but then they got Hollyweird late in that same episode, so I don't think you've missed much.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 13, 2024 05:09 PM (FnneF)

214
That's why I never understood why people liked "Red" so much. It was okay; not good enough to warrant a sequel.

Helen Mirren has a lousy screen presence, in my opinion. She's such a...what's the word? Cunt?

Posted by: Soothsayer at August 13, 2024 05:09 PM (t8X1i)

215 memories of Tom Sawyer's Island at Disneyland are of the cave always smelling like urine.

Authentic!

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at August 13, 2024 05:09 PM (roSd3)

216 Was Jamie Lee Curtis at one time a hermaphrodite or was that always just urban legend?

Posted by: Lacra at August 13, 2024 05:09 PM (4pwAx)

217 So why can't you put a cast on a horse's broken leg?

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 13, 2024 05:09 PM (aD39U)

218 Pluto has zNation on Demand now. I was so happy to see that .

Posted by: Stateless at August 13, 2024 05:08 PM (jvJvP)

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I did NOT know that! It was filmed here in Spokane. I've met lots of people who were extras. I'll have to give it a rewatch.

Posted by: Jordan61 at August 13, 2024 05:10 PM (DRSnL)

219 Speaking of slogs. I finally suffered through Dune, Parts 1 and 2, at the spousal unit's insistence. It confirmed for me that the book is unfilmable as a movie. It's simultaneously better made than the non-Lynch version but without any of the endearing oddness. Nerds, dorks, and other assorted misfits will never be quoting the new ones.

Posted by: It Looked Like Animated Diarrhea at August 13, 2024 05:10 PM (JghT2)

220
Helen Mirren in Caligula was a 6. A 6 in her prime!

She's old! And she's no great actress.

Posted by: Soothsayer at August 13, 2024 05:10 PM (t8X1i)

221 That's why I never understood why people liked "Red" so much. It was okay; not good enough to warrant a sequel.

De gustibus non est disputandum

One of my favorite movies. I know every line by heart.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 13, 2024 05:10 PM (xCA6C)

222 That actually...makes it sound good...

it insists upon itself

Posted by: brak at August 13, 2024 05:10 PM (NGHTx)

223 He add at least one movie's worth of content to The Hobbit and it sucked.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 13, 2024 05:08 PM

The Hobbit sucked so hard I didn't see another movie in a theater for over 10 years.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 13, 2024 05:10 PM (7H2sw)

224 Worst Jack Black movie? Orange County - he plays opposite two incompetent nepo babies and he cannot carry a movie himself.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 13, 2024 05:10 PM (oZhjI)

225
So why can't you put a cast on a horse's broken leg?
Posted by: G'rump928

I give up. Why?

Posted by: Soothsayer at August 13, 2024 05:11 PM (t8X1i)

226 So why can't you put a cast on a horse's broken leg?
Posted by: G'rump928

Because none of their horse friends can sign it because, you know, hooves.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 13, 2024 05:11 PM (xCA6C)

227 "if we were all working together, we would all be wearing name tags so that tomorrow when we came in, I would be able to then say 'good morning '"

Wasn't that a Seinfeld plot?

Posted by: Bacon Jeff at August 13, 2024 05:11 PM (VGRuw)

228
The Bear is like Drama for Retards.

Every single minute of the show is occupied by some character telling you their exact thoughts and feels and wishes and dreams and what they want to do. Which they repeat several times in case you're3 too retarded to get it the first time.

Even the guys. No! Make that especially the guys. They all sound like weepy, overdramatic 13 year old girls when they're not sounding like angry, overdramatic 13 year old girls.

Just the worst. It's the kind of show that probably makes Borderlands look like Shakespeare.

No human male ever behaved in this way. Wedgies and swirlies for all the characters. Stat!

Posted by: naturalfake at August 13, 2024 05:11 PM (eDfFs)

229 Speaking of slogs. I finally suffered through Dune, Parts 1 and 2, at the spousal unit's insistence. It confirmed for me that the book is unfilmable as a movie. It's simultaneously better made than the non-Lynch version but without any of the endearing oddness. Nerds, dorks, and other assorted misfits will never be quoting the new ones.
Posted by: It Looked Like Animated Diarrhea at August 13, 2024 05:10 PM (JghT2)

Austin Butler is no Sting.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 13, 2024 05:11 PM (aD39U)

230 > Some Boeing engineers are unionized. Don't call yourself a 'professional' if you are a union member.

I've had the misfortune of working with some programmers after they spent several years at Boeing. Every single one of them had terrible coding practice and refused to adopt good practices. Every single one had tons of experience in obsolete languages and libraries. Every single one of them thought they were top tier professionals everyone should aspire to be like.

Posted by: bonhomme at August 13, 2024 05:11 PM (Odg76)

231 224 Worst Jack Black movie? Orange County - he plays opposite two incompetent nepo babies and he cannot carry a movie himself.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 13, 2024 05:10 PM (oZhjI)

Wasn't his fault that neither of the co-stars could act.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at August 13, 2024 05:12 PM (KbCG3)

232 I liked the new Dune movies. Zendaya as the female lead was a clear miss and while Chalamet can act he just doesn't look like a touch as nails leader but other then that everything just works.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 13, 2024 05:12 PM (oZhjI)

233 > So why can't you put a cast on a horse's broken leg?
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because evolution put a very large animal on spindly legs

in the wild, that injury is fatal

Posted by: Don Black at August 13, 2024 05:13 PM (/7KEl)

234 Doing the math, to make up the $500m by losing 2,000 employees, they’d have to be making on avg $400K/yr each. They’d also be saving “benefits” if they’re paying that so whatever that number is (I don’t know entertainment industry practices). I’m sure they’re gonna have to cut back elsewhere, perhaps production costs. Who knows? I guessing very few execs making upwards of $400K will be leaving there any time soon. But, I guess you gotta start somewhere so people know you’re serious.

Posted by: Patrick at August 13, 2024 05:13 PM (rJuuW)

235 They also own Pluto and Paramount+.

this explains why i'm seeing so many paramount+ ads when i'm innocently trying to watch uzaki-chan wants to hang out on pluto, isn't it?

Posted by: anachronda at August 13, 2024 05:13 PM (oY6Yp)

236 the horse was put down

Tried watching "dead man's walk" on GRIT TV bcuz a character had a yellow head amazon parrot. Then he ate him.
Fuuuuck.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at August 13, 2024 05:13 PM (roSd3)

237 229 Speaking of slogs. I finally suffered through Dune, Parts 1 and 2, at the spousal unit's insistence. It confirmed for me that the book is unfilmable as a movie. It's simultaneously better made than the non-Lynch version but without any of the endearing oddness. Nerds, dorks, and other assorted misfits will never be quoting the new ones.
Posted by: It Looked Like Animated Diarrhea at August 13, 2024 05:10 PM (JghT2)

Austin Butler is no Sting.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 13, 2024 05:11 PM (aD39U)

No kidding. There was some good casting, but Zendaya especially just about ruined the whole movie.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Vote but also buy ammo at August 13, 2024 05:14 PM (xcxpd)

238 Unless I'm Wrong©

Posted by: Don Black at August 13, 2024 05:14 PM (/7KEl)

239 There's a 1973 Helen Mirren movie i really want to see but i can't find it anywhere. (Bellamira)

Posted by: SFGoth at August 13, 2024 05:14 PM (KAi1n)

240 The Bear is like Drama for Retards.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 13, 2024 05:11 PM (eDfFs)

=====

Well, I love you too, naturalfake!

Posted by: Jordan61 at August 13, 2024 05:14 PM (DRSnL)

241 Helen Mirrin - Excalibur and 2010: The Year We Make Contact.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 13, 2024 05:14 PM (en9Xr)

242 It's going to be interesting as the much-predicted shakeout in streaming services, and the movies they carry, becomes fact. There are a number of movies in the last 5-10 years that I haven't seen, and would never pay to see in a theater, but would watch on Netflix, Prime, Max, etc.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 13, 2024 05:14 PM (xCA6C)

243
Don't get me started on Yellowstone.

What a stupidfucking show. Cowboy faggots and their faggot rodeos and faggot cowboy hats. The ridiculous Murder-An-Episode, the wild shootouts on the streets.

Yellowstone is The Sopranos Meets Lonesome Dove, but written by a women.

Posted by: Soothsayer at August 13, 2024 05:14 PM (t8X1i)

244 233 > So why can't you put a cast on a horse's broken leg?
---

because evolution put a very large animal on spindly legs

in the wild, that injury is fatal
Posted by: Don Black at August 13, 2024 05:13 PM (/7KEl)

There's a scene in one of the later Malcom In the Middle episodes where the oldest brother is working on some ranch with a German or Austrian farmer. Anyway, the farmer is nutty with a thick accent but he loves horses and then says something like, "Oh, with their big bodies and tiny little legs," and he's giggling while he says it.

I rarely watched that show but will always love that stupid scene. Every time I see a horse I hear that guy.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at August 13, 2024 05:14 PM (KbCG3)

245 name field test

Posted by: Moron Robbie - I am combative, have green hair, gross tattoos, and a nose ring, so treat me like a at August 13, 2024 05:14 PM (mIykB)

246 a very large animal on spindly legs

Used to date her.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at August 13, 2024 05:15 PM (roSd3)

247
"Yondah lies da castle of my faddah."

Give Jamie a break. Her father was a jerk.

Posted by: Auspex at August 13, 2024 05:15 PM (j4U/Z)

248 She's old! And she's no great actress.

Posted by: Soothsayer at August 13, 2024 05:10 PM (t8X1i)

She's no Maggie Smith, that's for sure.

Posted by: Peaches at August 13, 2024 05:15 PM (14URa)

249 Aw, it won't work. Oh well.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Men don't care about women's accomplishments, only looks and not nagging at August 13, 2024 05:15 PM (mIykB)

250 So why can't you put a cast on a horse's broken leg?
Posted by: G'rump928

I thought that this was the start of the horse version of fish puns.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 13, 2024 05:15 PM (dTTBf)

251 Yellowstone is The Sopranos Meets Lonesome Dove, but written by a women.

that's an insult to Lonesome Dove

Posted by: brak at August 13, 2024 05:16 PM (NGHTx)

252
A much better movie titled "Red" was a good revenge movie starring Brian Cox.

Posted by: Soothsayer at August 13, 2024 05:16 PM (t8X1i)

253 Eewww....

*scribbles note - Voluptuous and Amazon do not work together on Tensor*

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 13, 2024 05:16 PM (en9Xr)

254 I've had the misfortune of working with some programmers after they spent several years at Boeing. Every single one of them had terrible coding practice and refused to adopt good practices. Every single one had tons of experience in obsolete languages and libraries. Every single one of them thought they were top tier professionals everyone should aspire to be like.
Posted by: bonhomme

Yup. Most of their employees are prima donna dbags.
Seven out of ten of our neighbors are employed by Boeing. Five are in senior management. We hate all of them.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at August 13, 2024 05:16 PM (/U5Yz)

255 It's like making a commercial about how good you are with the least amount of effort.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at August 13, 2024 05:17 PM (+3JTp)

256 I been through the desert on a horse with broke leg...

Eh, no worse than the actual lyrics. Man, I hate that song.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Icky Weirdo at August 13, 2024 05:17 PM (Ad8y9)

257 I did NOT know that! It was filmed here in Spokane. I've met lots of people who were extras. I'll have to give it a rewatch.

Posted by: Jordan61 at August 13, 202

That's cool to know. Thanks.

Yeah, they needed tons of extras.....

Posted by: Stateless at August 13, 2024 05:17 PM (jvJvP)

258 176 They could also, oh, I don't know, design a modern new airframe instead of squeezing monster turbofans onto a model that first took off back in 1966.

this is about me, isn't it?

Posted by: starliner at August 13, 2024 05:18 PM (oY6Yp)

259 Hey, horses got knees?

Posted by: Adolph at August 13, 2024 05:18 PM (aD39U)

260 The Bear is like Drama for Retards.

Every single minute of the show is occupied by some character telling you their exact thoughts and feels and wishes and dreams and what they want to do. Which they repeat several times in case you're3 too retarded to get it the first time.

Even the guys. No! Make that especially the guys. They all sound like weepy, overdramatic 13 year old girls when they're not sounding like angry, overdramatic 13 year old girls.

Just the worst. It's the kind of show that probably makes Borderlands look like Shakespeare.

No human male ever behaved in this way. Wedgies and swirlies for all the characters. Stat!
Posted by: naturalfake at August 13, 2024 05:11 PM (eDfFs)

You've just described what I think of the "Lost" series.

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at August 13, 2024 05:18 PM (g8Ew8)

261 243
Don't get me started on Yellowstone.

What a stupidfucking show. Cowboy faggots and their faggot rodeos and faggot cowboy hats. The ridiculous Murder-An-Episode, the wild shootouts on the streets.

Yellowstone is The Sopranos Meets Lonesome Dove, but written by a women.
Posted by: Soothsayer

They've ruined the entire area surrounding Hamilton, MT where they film most of their shit. Shame really.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at August 13, 2024 05:18 PM (/U5Yz)

262 Don't get me started on Yellowstone.

What a stupidfucking show. Cowboy faggots and their faggot rodeos and faggot cowboy hats. The ridiculous Murder-An-Episode, the wild shootouts on the streets.

Yellowstone is The Sopranos Meets Lonesome Dove, but written by a women.
Posted by: Soothsayer

This critique...feels genuine. And terrifying. You keep on keeping on.

Posted by: Ya Boi Zach, now new and improved with 200% more woke at August 13, 2024 05:18 PM (ycI94)

263 Posted by: Pug Mahon, Icky Weirdo at August 13, 2024 05:17 PM (Ad8y9)

I don't think it's on the endless loop at the supermarket. Gosh, I hate those songs.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 13, 2024 05:18 PM (dTTBf)

264 I don't hear people talking about Paramount+ much, though they have... Yellowstone? Is that right?

Doesn't Yellowstone stream on Peacock? Some idiot at Paramount sold that to Peacock/NBC before it become a monster hit. Oops.

Posted by: Evi L. Bloggerlady at August 13, 2024 05:18 PM (8yM+6)

265 Voluptuous and Amazon do not work together on Tensor*
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 13, 2024 05:16 PM (en9Xr)

They don't go together at all, which is why in the legend the Amazons lopped off the tit that gets in the way of archery.
It's a joke on Futurama because... it's a joke.

Posted by: gKWVE at August 13, 2024 05:19 PM (gKWVE)

266 >>> 254
==
Yup. Most of their employees are prima donna dbags.
Seven out of ten of our neighbors are employed by Boeing. Five are in senior management. We hate all of them.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at August 13, 2024 05:16 PM (/U5Yz)

Are you planning to move?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 13, 2024 05:19 PM (FnneF)

267 a very large animal on spindly legs

Used to date her.

Every once in a while I'll see some old person with Sy Snootles' body type. It's hilarious every time.

http://tiny.cc/ziegzz

Posted by: bonhomme at August 13, 2024 05:19 PM (Odg76)

268 Eh, no worse than the actual lyrics. Man, I hate that song.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Icky Weirdo at August 13, 2024 05:17 PM (Ad8y9)

Oh, hell, yeah!

Posted by: Peaches at August 13, 2024 05:19 PM (14URa)

269 252
A much better movie titled "Red" was a good revenge movie starring Brian Cox.
Posted by: Soothsayer at August 13, 2024 05:16 PM

--

Even better was "Red," the finale of the Three Colors trilogy. Yummy young Juliette Binoche.

So Red>Red>Red

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at August 13, 2024 05:19 PM (wzAuc)

270 batwanger

Are you referring to the bone inside a bat wang, known as the baculum?

In many mammals, the baculum is important in competing for a mate and prolonging copulation. It's interesting that Terran hominids don't have one, while Klingons do.

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at August 13, 2024 05:20 PM (avPVA)

271 >>> 269 252
A much better movie titled "Red" was a good revenge movie starring Brian Cox.
Posted by: Soothsayer at August 13, 2024 05:16 PM

--

Even better was "Red," the finale of the Three Colors trilogy. Yummy young Juliette Binoche.

So Red>Red>Red
Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at August 13, 2024 05:19 PM (wzAuc)

Yeah she was.

Posted by: Harvey Weinstein at August 13, 2024 05:20 PM (FnneF)

272 Shut up Wesley

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 13, 2024 05:21 PM (en9Xr)

273 does she divy up her check to make everyone equal ?

If not she is just virtue signaling

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at August 13, 2024 05:21 PM (NtVYv)

274 Gonna come a storm. Best set up camp across the river.

Yeah, it's dark outside my window now. Might get a drenching.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Icky Weirdo at August 13, 2024 05:21 PM (Ad8y9)

275 Are you planning to move?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket

Yes. We are listing in about a month and will move to our ranch in N. Arizona. Our nearest neighbor will be a mile away.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at August 13, 2024 05:21 PM (/U5Yz)

276 We regret to inform you that because our business decisions are really hurting our finances, you're fired.

Posted by: Paramount at August 13, 2024 05:21 PM (AGNk7)

277 I have Paramount plus. It’s worth the 6.99 a month. I get to see Seal Team and any CBS show I like to watch over and over like Blue Bloods. The movies aren’t bad either. I guess much of what I like is or was purchased by paramount at some point.

Posted by: Jaimo at August 13, 2024 05:22 PM (sOA7y)

278 But Brian Cox is in "Red"! He's the zany Russian agent.
You mean to say they can't make a RED movie without Cox?

He was one of two actors with the role of a lifetime in Rob Roy.
Maybe three.

Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at August 13, 2024 05:22 PM (zdLoL)

279 Joe Biden Throws Kamala Harris Under the Bus, Says She is Also Responsible for Current Dumpster Fire Economy as She Desperately Tries to Distance Herself From His Polices!

I love this.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at August 13, 2024 05:23 PM (/U5Yz)

280 >>> 275
==
Yes. We are listing in about a month and will move to our ranch in N. Arizona. Our nearest neighbor will be a mile away.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at August 13, 2024 05:21 PM (/U5Yz)

Nice! The CO Plateau especially where the elevation is enough for pine trees is pretty cool.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 13, 2024 05:23 PM (FnneF)

281 Translated:
“I’m too lazy and self-absorbed to learn your name…wear a name tag for me.”

Posted by: Uncle Jefe at August 13, 2024 05:23 PM (VTItS)

282 Off topic:

Anyone know a good way to ward off suicidal possums? I ask because they keep wandering into my suburban backyard, where my otherwise docile dogs transform into The Hounds of Hell and kill them, which I find depressing. And messy.

Posted by: It Looked Like Animated Diarrhea at August 13, 2024 05:23 PM (JghT2)

283
But Brian Cox is in "Red"! He's the zany Russian agent.

Posted by: Way,Way Downriver

How did I forget that!?

Posted by: Soothsayer at August 13, 2024 05:24 PM (t8X1i)

284 >>> 282 Off topic:

Anyone know a good way to ward off suicidal possums? I ask because they keep wandering into my suburban backyard, where my otherwise docile dogs transform into The Hounds of Hell and kill them, which I find depressing. And messy.
Posted by: It Looked Like Animated Diarrhea at August 13, 2024 05:23 PM (JghT2)

So your nic describes what's left of the possums after your Hounds are done?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 13, 2024 05:25 PM (FnneF)

285 Charlie don't get Playboy.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at August 13, 2024 05:25 PM (+3JTp)

286 Helen Mirren in Caligula was a 6. A 6 in her prime!

She's old! And she's no great actress.

________

Huge cans though, you can see them on the intertubes

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at August 13, 2024 05:25 PM (NtVYv)

287 Nerds, dorks, and other assorted misfits will never be quoting the new ones.
Posted by: It Looked Like Animated Diarrhea at August 13, 2024 05:10 PM

ARe you saying only nerds, dorks, and other assorted misfits quote movies around here?

Posted by: RADM Josh Painter at August 13, 2024 05:25 PM (avPVA)

288 251 Yellowstone is The Sopranos Meets Lonesome Dove, but written by a women.

that's an insult to Lonesome Dove

True, but the redhead in Yellowstone has nice rackage.

Posted by: NZFrank with an M2 at August 13, 2024 05:25 PM (bgJ0E)

289 Nice! The CO Plateau especially where the elevation is enough for pine trees is pretty cool.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket a

We will be in the foothills of the White Mountains. We love it there. We have pinon pines and some Ponderosa pine groves.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at August 13, 2024 05:26 PM (/U5Yz)

290 lopped off the tit that gets in the way of archery.

Why the crossbow was invented.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at August 13, 2024 05:26 PM (roSd3)

291 Anyone know a good way to ward off suicidal possums? I ask because they keep wandering into my suburban backyard, where my otherwise docile dogs transform into The Hounds of Hell and kill them, which I find depressing. And messy.

Posted by: It Looked Like Animated Diarrhea at August 13, 2024 05:23 PM (JghT2)

Sign with a picture of a possum with that red circle X on it?

Posted by: Cannibal Bob, now with more hate. at August 13, 2024 05:26 PM (0JyMa)

292 270 Are you referring to the bone inside a bat wang, known as the baculum?

batman keeps his in his utility belt, next to the shark repellent.

Posted by: anachronda at August 13, 2024 05:26 PM (oY6Yp)

293 The best thing about Paramount + is you get access to all the best legacy tv shows. By now we have binge watched all the Bob Newhart shows, the Frasier Crane shows and have moved on to Everybody Loves Raymond.
We enjoy having a few laughs together.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at August 13, 2024 05:26 PM (MeG8a)

294 Aw...that's really tough for them.

Posted by: insurgens ad opus at August 13, 2024 05:27 PM (YYhi/)

295 59 That's a shame, since Kate Blanchett is a fine actress and has been in some good films.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 13, 2024 04:47 PM (dTTBf)

She might be in the "I don't care I need the money" part of her career, like Connery in Zardoz.

Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at August 13, 2024 05:27 PM (Rbu5d)

296 And she's no great actress.

Really?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 13, 2024 05:27 PM (dTTBf)

297 Anyone know a good way to ward off suicidal possums?

GAS THEM

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at August 13, 2024 05:28 PM (roSd3)

298 Posted by: It Looked Like Animated Diarrhea at August 13, 2024 05:23 PM (JghT2)

Wow, that's a visual nic. Anna Purna, can you run that through Tensor?

Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I AM The Science at August 13, 2024 05:29 PM (lg881)

299 Granny Clampett makes a mean possum pie.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 13, 2024 05:29 PM (avPVA)

300 Anna Purna
Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I AM The Science at August 13, 2024 05:29 PM (lg881)

Haha, Anna Puma, sorry. I've lived near Berkeley for too long I guess.

Posted by: Dr. Fausti - I AM The Science at August 13, 2024 05:29 PM (lg881)

301 Annapurna is a mountain

I am a bio-mechnical neko-grrl

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 13, 2024 05:30 PM (en9Xr)

302 Age of Consent

Posted by: Braenyard at August 13, 2024 05:31 PM (QDStS)

303 94...She could learn their names by talking to them.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, riding the anarchy train with John Landis at August 13, 2024 04:51 PM (GBKbO)

that's what I thought, too.
Ms High and Mighty didn't think of that.

Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at August 13, 2024 05:31 PM (Rbu5d)

304 Charlie don't get Playboy.
Posted by: Humphreyrobot at August 13, 2024 05:25 PM

Don't surf, either!

Posted by: LTC Kilgore at August 13, 2024 05:32 PM (7H2sw)

305 Anyone know a good way to ward off suicidal possums?
Posted by: It Looked Like Animated Diarrhea at August 13, 2024 05:23 PM (JghT2)

Given them weapons. Armed and suicidal? That's a problem that will take care of itself!

Posted by: Bacon Jeff at August 13, 2024 05:32 PM (VGRuw)

306
We were all tricked into believing Meryl Streep is a great actress. Have we learned nothing from that?

Posted by: Soothsayer at August 13, 2024 05:32 PM (t8X1i)

307 Cate Blanchet has become something of a marker for terrible things.
Posted by: It Looked Like Animated Diarrhea

I thought Kingdom of the Crystal Skull was pretty good!

Posted by: No One Ever at August 13, 2024 05:32 PM (ycI94)

308 There's something inequitable to me about that...

Hey, Jaime, you know what else is "inequitable" on the set? Your paycheck. why don't you share with Sabine, eh?

Hack.

Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at August 13, 2024 05:33 PM (Rbu5d)

309 >> Might get a drenching.

We got a surprise drenching this morning at about 8AM. Completely unexpected. None of the weather guys, including my cousin were expecting it.

I got 1.5" with a peak rate of 4.9" hour. Cuz, about a mile north of me, got 2.5".

As he pointed out, these surprise summer events, usually at night to early morning can behave that way, and really dump rain, very localized.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 13, 2024 05:33 PM (w6EFb)

310 295 She might be in the "I don't care I need the money" part of her career, like Connery in Zardoz.

it's a shame that line didn't make into that st:tng episode about shaka when the walls fell.

Posted by: anachronda at August 13, 2024 05:34 PM (oY6Yp)

311 306
We were all tricked into believing Meryl Streep is a great actress. Have we learned nothing from that?
Posted by: Soothsayer
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She's always been a warthog.

Posted by: Braenyard at August 13, 2024 05:34 PM (QDStS)

312 299 Granny Clampett makes a mean possum pie.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 13, 2024 05:29 PM (avPVA)

Granny was not a Clampett. She was Jed's mother in law, family name Moses.

Posted by: Auspex at August 13, 2024 05:37 PM (j4U/Z)

313 310 295 She might be in the "I don't care I need the money" part of her career, like Connery in Zardoz.

it's a shame that line didn't make into that st:tng episode about shaka when the walls fell.
Posted by: anachronda at August 13, 2024 05:34 PM (oY6Yp)

Darmok and Zardoz, their mankinis full.

Posted by: It Looked Like Animated Diarrhea at August 13, 2024 05:37 PM (JghT2)

314 I know what I'm watching on the lead up to this year's Halloween...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, riding the anarchy train with John Landis at August 13, 2024 04:47 PM (GBKbO)

Prometheus?

Posted by: ... at August 13, 2024 05:37 PM (lX8VI)

315 Darmok and Zardoz, their mankinis full.
Posted by: It Looked Like Animated Diarrhea at August 13, 2024 05:37 PM (JghT2)

ZARDOZ!

Posted by: DoublySymmetric at August 13, 2024 05:38 PM (9mfKN)

316 Batwang was that scientist in Metropolis.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 13, 2024 05:39 PM (63Dwl)

317 Trevor Jones Dark City soundtrack, You Have the Power

https://youtu.be/-u0gfgUDXHY?si=jOoIMxIAx1peQHue

Posted by: BourbonChicken at August 13, 2024 05:39 PM (cf/0E)

318 Streep did a mean Wintour in Devil Wears Prada.

Posted by: no i'm not gay at August 13, 2024 05:39 PM (gKWVE)

319 Rotwang created Hel

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 13, 2024 05:39 PM (en9Xr)

320 Charlotte Rampling was hot as hell in Zardoz

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at August 13, 2024 05:40 PM (NtVYv)

321
You can't critique a sock when you are the sock!!!
Posted by: Helena Handbasket

+++++++++++

You can if you do it in parentheses.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office at August 13, 2024 05:40 PM (T3es0)

322
I downloaded the spinoffs, 1923 & 1873.

Lost interest in watching either because I know it's going to be typical anti-American pro-injun bullshit.

Posted by: Soothsayer at August 13, 2024 05:40 PM (t8X1i)

323 >>>Also bonus points in Hollywood to Curtis for having a picture of someone else's naked kid on the wall in her living room.
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That's beyond gross, it looks like a dead body stuffed into a box.

Posted by: Braenyard at August 13, 2024 05:41 PM (QDStS)

324 Charlie didn't get much USO. He was moving too fast or dug in too deep. His idea of great R and R was cold rice and a little rat meat

Posted by: Ted Torgerson Trump/Vance 2024 at August 13, 2024 05:42 PM (wGerL)

325
Rich people motivate their kids at Harvard by telling them "If you don't make good grades you'll end up going through life wearing your name on your shirt"

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 13, 2024 05:43 PM (y9nCu)

326 As the years go by, that gold medal in breakdancing is going to be more and more valuable.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at August 13, 2024 05:43 PM (cf/0E)

327 Jack Black can be funny - he was good in the Mario movie and in Jumanji but I think he fails if he is the lead.
Posted by: 18-1

You know, if they re-created "The Three Stooges", and Jack was one of them, I could see how he could be idiot-savant funny.
He is not without...some talent. But usually, I find almost all actors and actresses are really over-rated.
Except Gary Oldman.
The late Burgess Meredith was one of the best, most versatile actors ever, and he was also a very thoughtful and intelligent guy. He could do about anything.

Posted by: A face in the crowd..... at August 13, 2024 05:43 PM (vcOmj)

328 Metropolis is full of anime tropes.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at August 13, 2024 05:44 PM (cf/0E)

329 Ah, Jamie.

Got where she did on the value of her tits and her tits alone.

Now wants to be serious, guyzz!

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 13, 2024 05:45 PM (mzM2O)

330 We were all tricked into believing Meryl Streep is a great actress. Have we learned nothing from that?
Posted by: Soothsayer

She either had a good agent that got her great parts, or somebody in the "business" liked to give her good parts, and the movie reviewers always "loved" her acting. "Ahem, Harvey Weinstein...ahem"
I always found her tepid and boring.

OVER-RATED.

Posted by: A face in the crowd..... at August 13, 2024 05:46 PM (vcOmj)

331 Hilariously, the RLM boys were saying there's a "joke" in Borderlands about Kevin Hart being short, but the scenes are all films from the chest up, so you can't actually SEE that Kevin Hart is short (you know he is, if you know who he is).

They say everyone is miscast. Kevin Hart doesn't have anything funny to do, Blanchett is a 50 something year old woman, trying to do action stunts, and Jamie Lee Curtis is... well, she's not selling poop yogurt.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 13, 2024 05:46 PM (dGCAG)

332 Annapurna is a mountain

A dangerous mountain.

Posted by: Northernlurker , wondering where his phone is at August 13, 2024 05:46 PM (FfSAJ)

333 Charlotte Rampling was hot as hell in Zardoz
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at August 13, 2024 05:40 PM (NtVYv)

Charlotte Rampling was not as hot in Swimming Pool, but Ludivine Sagnier was smoking. And insane.

She was OK, but I liked the movie Zardoz better.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 13, 2024 05:47 PM (D7oie)

334 Young Candace Bergen in The Sand Pebbles.

Posted by: ShainS -- Cat Ladies for Trump & Vance! at August 13, 2024 05:47 PM (mwl91)

335 301 Annapurna is a mountain

I am a bio-mechnical neko-grrl
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 13, 2024 05:30 PM (en9Xr

I always assumed you were half anime, half AI robot from some evil Japanese corporation.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 13, 2024 05:47 PM (mzM2O)

336
If I remember, Jamie Curtis was in an episode of Buck Rogers.

Posted by: Soothsayer at August 13, 2024 05:48 PM (t8X1i)

337 More Schadefreude.

Breaking911
@Breaking911
FAUCI: “I got infected about 2 weeks ago. It was my third infection, and I had been vaccinated and boosted a total of six times!”

-
Dude, you should've gotten a dozen boosts!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I got 99 problems but Vance ain't one at August 13, 2024 05:48 PM (L/fGl)

338 Granny: "Wut ya larn in skuul toduya?"
Jethro: "Pi R Square. Granny!"
Granny: "Why thar idjuts! Evree one know pie are round!"

Posted by: Boswell at August 13, 2024 05:48 PM (K+UlC)

339 Nood.

Posted by: Nigel Tufnel at August 13, 2024 05:48 PM (PiwSw)

340 Anyone know a good way to ward off suicidal possums?

Find a smell your dogs can tolerate and the possum cain't.
Peppermint is often suggested. "Bear" in mind, opossums eat a yard-load of ticks, so their presence is contributing to your dogs' health, if you can just negotiate a cease-fire. I quit killing them years ago.

Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at August 13, 2024 05:48 PM (zdLoL)

341 Nood Romanian!

Posted by: Old Blue at August 13, 2024 05:49 PM (Pxa/w)

342
Pretty sure I wouldn't have wanted to bang Jamie Lee Curtis half a century ago.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at August 13, 2024 05:50 PM (RKVpM)

343 That headline is so Ace.

I shared it with my wife.

Posted by: Axeman at August 13, 2024 05:50 PM (krQz2)

344 334 Young Candace Bergen in The Sand Pebbles.
Posted by: ShainS
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Bet Steve McQueen gave her a headache.

Posted by: Braenyard at August 13, 2024 05:51 PM (QDStS)

345 I am sad coz Paramount+ axed the show I like

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at August 13, 2024 05:51 PM (Ka3bZ)

346 334 Young Candace Bergen in The Sand Pebbles.
Posted by: ShainS
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oh yeah, she was something, wow

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at August 13, 2024 05:52 PM (NtVYv)

347 Rotwang created Hel

My DIL is a dead ringer for that robot chick. I don't even want to think about it. Extra fun, actress's real name was Brigitte Schittenhelm. They Schortened it.

Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at August 13, 2024 05:54 PM (zdLoL)

348 As the years go by, that gold medal in breakdancing is going to be more and more valuable.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at August 13, 2024 05:43 PM (cf/0E)

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Like the Obelisk in "2001: A Space Odyssey."

Posted by: ShainS -- Cat Ladies for Trump & Vance! at August 13, 2024 05:54 PM (mwl91)

349 Like the Obelisk in "2001: A Space Odyssey."

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[Channeling TJM:] I don't get it.

Posted by: ShainS -- Cat Ladies for Trump & Vance! at August 13, 2024 05:55 PM (mwl91)

350 Paramount Studios Begins Long, Painful, Hilarious Process of Laying Off 15% of Its Employees
......

But it's OK because they are all mayonnaise sandwich on Wonder bread whiteys, right?

Posted by: wth at August 13, 2024 05:57 PM (v0R5T)

351 349 Like the Obelisk in "2001: A Space Odyssey."

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

[Channeling TJM:] I don't get it.

neither do i

Posted by: asterix at August 13, 2024 06:10 PM (oY6Yp)

352 Got things to do, should get up and get them done

Posted by: Skip at August 13, 2024 06:13 PM (fwDg9)

353 The only reason Pluto is profitable is because every availability is filled with political ads from Harris & other PACs promoting her.
In November, Pluto will go back to SFDR (short form direct response) which pay only when someone calls the 800# and buys the product.

Posted by: Mrs Whatsit at August 13, 2024 06:35 PM (RHDfl)

354 Paramount+ has "Tulsa King" which, if you can get past Sly Stallone's freaky plastic surgery face, is pretty good.

Lots of violence, technically they call it a comedy, but it is just a drama that has some funny moments.

Posted by: Farkin Clownshoes at August 13, 2024 06:36 PM (Odzw0)

355 Walmart membership gives free Paramount+.
I do like Strange New Worlds, and try to ignore the silly stuff from Kurtzman.

Posted by: KungPow at August 13, 2024 06:43 PM (Rw2Dy)

356 Speaking of slogs. I finally suffered through Dune, Parts 1 and 2, at the spousal unit's insistence. It confirmed for me that the book is unfilmable as a movie. It's simultaneously better made than the non-Lynch version but without any of the endearing oddness. Nerds, dorks, and other assorted misfits will never be quoting the new ones.
Posted by: It Looked Like Animated Diarrhea at August 13, 2024 05:10 PM (JghT2)

I never even slogged through the book Dune, and I have read reference books from cover to cover.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 13, 2024 08:37 PM (n7h9X)

357 Paramount plus doesn't cost a lot and we can watch Blue Bloods reruns on it. Every now and then there is something good; Joe Pickett and Lioness. Seal Team was OK but girl bosses changed it's focus and it's ending anyway. After the final season of Blue Bloods and especially if the price goes up we're probably dropping it.

Posted by: John the River at August 14, 2024 10:40 AM (/3goP)

358 Seasons 1-4 stream on Peacock. I believe that Paramount sold streaming rights to NBCUniversal before it had its own streaming service. Paramount decided too late that with the massive popularity of Yellowstone they could actually whip up enough content to feed a streaming service and launched Paramount+, which streams the two spin-off series and Season 5.

Posted by: Simon Jester at August 14, 2024 02:47 PM (BSu3l)

359 Although I do not agree with Jamie Lee Curtis's politics, I must agree with her perspective on the set. She has a lot going on with her in-character performance and direction that requires her to be successful in appeasing the targeted audience. She is limited by the Hollywood bureaucracy's ignorance by politicizing their audience. Hollywood's bureaucracy is not appeasing the public's interest, but polarizing BS.

Posted by: john at August 14, 2024 03:09 PM (nEWxZ)

360 And the ORANGE hair, with unmoving stupid swoop (Wig? Likely) is just The Last Bad Idea That Makes This Movie Unwatchable!
I think they got the idea of orange from Milla Jovovich in The 5th Element.
I suspect that the reason Blanchett's face doesn't move is that she bought the Save My Dying Career level of Botox.
Hint, Cate - it didn't work.

Posted by: Linda S Fox at August 15, 2024 08:14 AM (7Rs+y)

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