Hollywood Bust: Technicians, Craftsmen, and Below-the-Line Workers Being Laid Off in Droves

Before getting to that, Strong and Diverse Plank of Zero-Charisma Wood Amandla (Amandla, lol) Stenberg has some Thoughts about why her piece-of-shit garbage-fire show failed so badly:

The Acolyte star Amandla Stenberg revealed that she is "not surprised" that the Disney+ series set in the Star Wars universe was canceled after one season following the "vitriol, prejudice, hatred and fateful language" that the cast received from internet trolls since the series was announced and through its cancelation earlier this month.
Stenberg had dual roles in The Acolyte, as twins Osha and Mae, who fall on opposite sides of The Force. The actress spoke out on her Instagram Stories on Wednesday night about her experience with fans, whose relentless vitriol made her feel compelled to respond to, as she says, "honor my value system."

"I'm going to be really transparent and say that it's not a huge shock for me," Stenberg told her fans of the show's cancellation after one season. "Of course, I live in the bubble of my own reality, but for those who aren't aware, there has been a rampage of vitriol that we have faced since the show was even announced -- when it was still just a concept. No one had even seen it. That's when we started experiencing a rampage of, I would say, hyper-conservative bigotry and vitriol, prejudice, hatred and hateful language toward us."

One of the most important skills needed to improve and succeed is the ability to take criticism, evaluate it as either valid or invalid, and then adjust one's performance and improve oneself as needed to improve.

DEI mandates that no criticism of any Privileged Minority is ever valid, and thus they never feel the need to improve.

It's one thing for a talentless actress like Amandla Stenberg to sleepwalk through yet another crap piece of Disney Star Wars "content." The real problem is with DEI "doctors" who think it's racist that you expected them to know that this medicine could cause potentially-fatal allergic reaction, or this DEI engineer who thinks it's sexist to expect her to accurate calculate the maximum load of a bridge's supports.

On to the layoffs.

Much of the slump in Hollywood has nothing to do with politics. Studios and streaming services overpaid and overproduced "content" to fill their streaming start-ups with. It was never sustainable for these companies to spend literally billions on streaming "content." It was all a loss-leader -- they all overspent to attempt to be one of the two or three companies that survived the Streaming Wars. All that had to end eventually.

Hollywood also bet big on the idea that if it produced expensive IP exploitation films crammed with CGI, they would spend $200 million to make a movie, but be virtually guaranteed to make $500 million to a billion plus.

This bet has turned very sour over the past few years. People are no longer impressed by CGI and are sick of the simplistic, shallow, machine-like stories that are told by almost all CGI-driven movies. So that was also a crash that was bound to arrive sooner than later.

That said, the fact that half the country loathes Hollywood and wishes to boycott them doesn't help.

LA Times: It's a Summer of Layoffs in Hollywood.

Last year, Hollywood braved the summer of strikes. This year, a cruel mirror image has appeared: a brutal season of layoffs.
The entertainment industry is reeling from cuts at Paramount Global, which last week began a deep cost-cutting effort that is expected to eliminate 2,000 jobs, or 15% of staff, by year's end ahead of a long-in-the-works ownership change.
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The workforce reduction is just another example of the full-on reset the film and TV business is enduring in the aftermath of the streaming wars. Debt-saddled Warner Bros. Discovery recently targeted nearly 1,000 cuts in its latest round of downsizing. Walt Disney Co.'s TV division last month shed 140 workers, the latest in a round of layoffs at the Burbank company.
Studios used the writers' and actors' strikes as cover to reduce their spending after losing billions of dollars trying to catch up with Netflix. All the while, the cable TV business continued to disintegrate, like a slowly melting glacier that suddenly broke into pieces.

I'm very happy I cut the cord. I recommend it to everyone. Cutting the cord is like shedding thirty pounds overnight.

Paramount's and Warner Bros. Discovery's decisions to write down the value of their cable networks felt like an admission that the TV business had reached a point of no return, and that once formidable brands including TNT, HGTV, MTV and Comedy Central had lost relevance.
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For the workers in the entertainment industry who've been struggling to find jobs since the "hot labor summer" and fall concluded, there's been little relief so far. Only recently have glimmers of hope started to emerge, and optimism has been blunted by the sense that the business is smaller than it was a few years ago, when companies simply couldn't get enough content.
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[G]reen light activity was still down 9.9% compared with the first half of 2023, according to Ampere data. Even more dire are comparisons with the first half of "peak TV" year 2022, when the companies commissioned 1,515 programs in the U.S. and Canada. Taking a more global view, the data also show that a large portion of the newly commissioned shows and streaming movies are being produced abroad and for less money.
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There's a reason "Survive till '25" has for months been the mantra of below-the-line workers, writers, actors and others looking to get on with the business of making shows and movies. The phrase echoes the refrain of fans of beleaguered sports teams and people waiting for an $11-billion annual box office: "We'll get 'em next year."
Hollywood is slowly getting back to work, but the days of peak TV aren't coming back. Some entertainment companies are commissioning more shows again, but the comeback remains incredibly slow. When will Hollywood workers struggling to find work get some relief?

Unfortunately, it's the more blue collar workers -- who are not nearly as left-looney as the higher-paid actors and soulless producers -- who are bearing the brunt of the recession.

Production designer Dave Blass wrapped his last big project, filming the Paramount+ series "Star Trek: Picard" in Toronto in 2022 before the Writers Guild and SAG-AFTRA walkouts hit last year. Even now, almost a year after those strikes ended, the two-time Emmy nominee for "Justified" says Hollywood's production designers, set decorators and their crews still have little work.
"I'm just trying to stay positive and get through this," says Blass, 55, adding that others are far worse off. "Most people have been hanging on by their fingernails, and they're running out of fingernails. I know Emmy Award winners who are driving around delivering auto parts."
To pay bills, Blass has taken short-term graphic design gigs and sold autographs at "Star Trek" conventions. He is taking lessons to become a FAA-licensed drone photographer for real estate listings. "It's like you're starting from scratch," he says.
As a member of what is broadly known as the art department -- production designers, set decorators, art directors, graphic artists, illustrators, model makers, scenic painters, construction crews and more -- Blass belongs to the vast pool of below-the-line talent who do not earn profit participation or residuals. Nevertheless, during the 2023 strikes, these artisans picketed in solidarity with the writers and actors who continue to make money after the final frames are shot.
The hourly workers (with rates that start around $40 an hour) and flat-fee weekly contract players of the art department are responsible for transforming the blank canvases of soundstages and back lots into the suburban cul-de-sacs and intergalactic space stations you see on-screen. Yet despite the recent ratification of their own union contracts, with a 7% pay bump in hourly rates for the first year, many art department workers are still looking at plummeting bank balances and blank work schedules as Hollywood's TV and film businesses contract and the flight of production overseas contributes to a painful industry slowdown.
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After 18 years, Jennifer Fulmer, a set decorator on four seasons of ABC's "black-ish" spinoff "Grown-ish," says the slowdown has made her feel like she's stepped back in time to the early years of her career. She hasn't worked since March, and her income has dropped by half.
"I know a lot of people who have moved. One set dresser I know is working as a lifeguard this summer," she says. Fulmer earns money from an Airbnb in Big Bear that she owns and decorated, and she has been considering a side hustle helping people decorate their Airbnbs or doing event planning.

I'm not happy about innocent people losing their jobs, but there's no other way to teach the higher-ups a lesson.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 04:00 PM

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1 1st

Posted by: GF at August 30, 2024 04:00 PM (6oen/)

2 Oh

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 30, 2024 04:01 PM (JMAcK)

3 Burn ~~mouse~~ Hollywood, BURN

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 30, 2024 04:01 PM (JMAcK)

4 Gray boxes, for the eyes.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 30, 2024 04:02 PM (GBKbO)

5 When I saw "Hollywood bust" I got so hopeful.

Then, disappointment.

Posted by: We Were This Close To A Boobs Thread at August 30, 2024 04:02 PM (guCHD)

6 Once upon a time in Hollywood

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at August 30, 2024 04:02 PM (NtVYv)

7 Boxy.....

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 30, 2024 04:03 PM (QNSds)

8 Good friend of mine that's worked at Paramount for about 20 years got laid off, fairly high up.

She's moderately liberal, but would openly complain that DEI had made her a target. Would be passed over for promotions, etc.

Posted by: Blago at August 30, 2024 04:05 PM (RL7is)

9 No pictures of Hollywood busts?

On the women, and cute ones.... nowadays we have to make sure we specify!

On that note.... are there any plans to put up college cheerleader elbows this year? The NFL is gone woke, of course, but still some lovely lasses in the college ranks....

Posted by: SimoHayha at August 30, 2024 04:05 PM (GFeTJ)

10 After 18 years, Jennifer Fulmer, a set decorator on four seasons of ABC's "black-ish" spinoff "Grown-ish," says the slowdown has made her feel like she's stepped back in time to the early years of her career. She hasn't worked since March, and her income has dropped by half.

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A set decorator on a contemporary, suburban set show has a really tough job, huh?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 30, 2024 04:05 PM (GBKbO)

11 I figured this song would have been shared around here before, but if not, here goes:

https://tinyurl.com/wmnrsh2x

Why Does Dad Get So Mad? (About Star Wars)

Posted by: InZona at August 30, 2024 04:05 PM (K4ahj)

12 Amandla's explanation makes no sense.

Assume hateful haters like me boycotted her show on account of our hatefulness. Why didn't liberals and progressives and other lovers of light and right tune in?

Posted by: zombie robert stack at August 30, 2024 04:06 PM (guCHD)

13 Post fixed; homepage view still grey-boxed.

Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at August 30, 2024 04:06 PM (CEzQx)

14 I nooded.

Posted by: SimoHayha at August 30, 2024 04:06 PM (GFeTJ)

15 hollywood was doomed the minute that independent streaming video was invented. It has been over for years but they are just now realizing it.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 30, 2024 04:07 PM (QNSds)

16 Hooooray for Hollywood… eh??

Posted by: tubal at August 30, 2024 04:07 PM (PCK5/)

17 It's never just because something isn't entertaining or interesting or is obnoxious. It's always the HATERZ fault.

Posted by: huerfano at August 30, 2024 04:07 PM (VGOMa)

18 Oh no. anyway...

Learn to forage.

Posted by: fd at August 30, 2024 04:08 PM (vFG9F)

19 If you haven't lost a job or two over the course of a career, you're not doing it right. Such things build character. Nothing focuses you like not being able to pay rhe rent or buy groceries.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 30, 2024 04:08 PM (W/lyH)

20 Wish only good luck to the Hollywood prop house I used to themp at.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at August 30, 2024 04:10 PM (WE5Gl)

21 It's too bad Musk isn't interested in obliterating Hollywood.

Plenty of non-woke artists, writers, actors and such that could easily replace the crap that currently infests our mainstream entertainment.

If he decided to build up a red state Hollywood, he'd make the rest of the industry obsolete within a decade.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at August 30, 2024 04:10 PM (KbCG3)

22 The market for all entertainment is so oversaturated with content, there's simply no way for anyone to process it all or for any one IP to gain the fan followings of the past.

Hollywood has been coasting for a long time on the established IPs like Harry Potter, Star Wars, and the MCU.

Now people are going elsewhere for entertainment because they realize Sturgeon's Law is a real thing: 90% of everything is crap.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 30, 2024 04:10 PM (7fElN)

23 Saw this vid saying that comic circulation and purchases have plummeted.

Posted by: Axeman at August 30, 2024 04:11 PM (krQz2)

24 Yuck, just saw a Tester for Senate billboard.

Posted by: Jordan61 at August 30, 2024 04:11 PM (TOIF3)

25 Fulmer earns money from an Airbnb in Big Bear that she owns and decorated, and she has been considering a side hustle helping people decorate their Airbnbs or doing event planning.

I'm thinking Farewell Parties might be a big niche for event planners, what it being California and all.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 30, 2024 04:11 PM (W/lyH)

26 Movies, like music, have deteriorated greatly in quality over the last 15 years… cultural rot sign..

Posted by: tubal at August 30, 2024 04:11 PM (PCK5/)

27 What's with unionizing occurring as industries start dying(news companies too)? Makes much more sense to try to get extra benefits when an industry is ascendant than on the way down.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at August 30, 2024 04:12 PM (eYoxG)

28 I know there are some saying that local small venue stuff is where it's at these days. Small movie houses as well. People want to feel the in person experience again. See Honest-Broker on substack.

Personally, I don't buy it.

Posted by: InZona at August 30, 2024 04:12 PM (K4ahj)

29 They're all chasing market share with streaming but eventually you cant lose money forever and sell to investors that "someday" you'll make lots of money.

They had a better model with cable where every consumer basically had to buy their shit.

Posted by: Blago at August 30, 2024 04:12 PM (RL7is)

30

I heard from someone Amanda has a nice rack.

Can confirm.

Posted by: Dr.Rev. Senator Your Highness E Buzz Miller, Esq PhD MA MS at August 30, 2024 04:12 PM (et1vG)

31 It was never sustainable for these companies to spend literally billions on streaming "content." It was all a loss-leader -- they all overspent to attempt to be one of the two or three companies that survived the Streaming Wars. All that had to end eventually.
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Hold my nuggets.

Posted by: Chick-Fil-A at August 30, 2024 04:13 PM (OaZlZ)

32 I could use some range time with an 'uncooperative target.' When will some of these useless fucktards be available?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 30, 2024 04:13 PM (Q4IgG)

33 Must be why all those has-been actors are doing TV commercials.

Posted by: The Paolo at August 30, 2024 04:13 PM (v0R5T)

34 Home page fixed... unlike Hollywood.

Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at August 30, 2024 04:14 PM (CEzQx)

35 Am I 'DOONed' if I'm late to the blog?

Posted by: Ciampino - No Ispettore, l'uragano e raro #32 at August 30, 2024 04:14 PM (qfLjt)

36 Misread the prepage advisory, thought it said Hollywood Breasts.

Posted by: Braenyard at August 30, 2024 04:14 PM (SXHAp)

37 What do you suppose the "skim" is in a 150 million dollar movie budget?

Are you trying to tell me crooks/politicians never could figure a way to make some sweet Hollywood money? Is that what you really want me to believe?

Posted by: Tech Sgt. Chen at August 30, 2024 04:14 PM (Z8Yh2)

38 Learn to code.
/obligatory

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 30, 2024 04:15 PM (RIvkX)

39 Oh Boo Fucking Hoo to all these Hollywood Propaganda pukes. Every last one of them were working to destroy our country and come after our kids as a job. Piss up a rope.

Posted by: Junius at August 30, 2024 04:15 PM (ZAerh)

40 24 Yuck, just saw a Tester for Senate billboard.
Posted by: Jordan61
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Trump is campaigning very hard for his opponent.

Posted by: Braenyard at August 30, 2024 04:15 PM (SXHAp)

41 It is taking too long for Hollywood to be gone forever.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 30, 2024 04:16 PM (lTGtQ)

42 What do you suppose the "skim" is in a 150 million dollar movie budget?

Are you trying to tell me crooks/politicians never could figure a way to make some sweet Hollywood money? Is that what you really want me to believe?
Posted by: Tech Sgt. Chen at August 30, 2024 04:14 PM (Z8Yh2)
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Hollywood Accounting practices are legendary for the way movies can rake in massive amounts of cash, but somehow never turn a profit...Yet the people in charge get quite rich.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 30, 2024 04:16 PM (7fElN)

43 They should just go on strike!

Oh, wait ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Kommie-la 2024: The Fundamental Transtarvation of America! at August 30, 2024 04:16 PM (cbtwc)

44
*runs in excitedly*
*looks around*

Well! This is a disappointment!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 30, 2024 04:16 PM (1Nxff)

45 Die Hollywood die

Posted by: It's me donna at August 30, 2024 04:16 PM (IyPmt)

46 45 Die Hollywood die
Posted by: It's me donna at August 30, 2024 04:16 PM (IyPmt)

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Well, no one who speaks German can be all evil

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 30, 2024 04:17 PM (GBKbO)

47 "I'm going to be really transparent and say that it's not a huge shock for me," Stenberg told her fans of the show's cancellation after one season. "Of course, I live in the bubble of my own reality, but for those who aren't aware, there has been a rampage of vitriol...

I'm gonna guess Amanda was.second runner up to the class leader at the Hollywood branch of the Kamala Harris Skool of Public Speaking. Does she even know what she said? Or is she too focused on her own bubble?

Posted by: Diogenes at August 30, 2024 04:17 PM (W/lyH)

48 Does anyone know how many Gays and Transgender people were layed off ? This is horrible this is why be we needs Kamlla Harrass for Presdent !!!!

Posted by: Mary Clogginstein from Brattleboro,Vt at August 30, 2024 04:17 PM (aj3Iu)

49 Looks like gays and wierdos don’t put asses in seats.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 30, 2024 04:17 PM (cnVbw)

50 Saw this vid saying that comic circulation and purchases have plummeted.

Posted by: Axeman

Food and fuel are stable, because people need that to live. Everything else is on the decline, even luxury goods.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 30, 2024 04:17 PM (lTGtQ)

51 "I'm not happy about innocent people losing their jobs, but there's no other way to teach the higher-ups a lesson."

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https://tinyurl.com/3zya5mud

Posted by: bearski at August 30, 2024 04:18 PM (Bhsk7)

52 I say a list recently of 60 films released in 1988. (Don't know why they chose 198

.

I didn't like all of them, but I knew most of them.

Highlights: Die Hard, Crocodile Dundeee 2, Rambo III, one of the Dirty Harrys, that Bette Midler Movie, Gorillas in the Mist, Land Before Time, Scrooged, The Naked Gun, Big, Coming to America, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Rain Man...

I'm only stopping because I could go on. Not all of these movies are good, but I remember all of them.

Now do 2023. I bet you will remember maybe 3 and when I looked over the list, there were about 10 that I remembered. (And many of those because they were remakes of ones I actually remembered.)

The movies today are objectively worse.* There aren't fun movies anymore. There aren't thrilling movies anymore. There aren't serious movies anymore.

It's all crap and MUCH of it pushes "THE MESSAGE".

*With exceptions. Some fun/thrilling/serious movies get through. But they're the exception, not the rule.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 30, 2024 04:18 PM (JMAcK)

53 Star Wars just sucks now because of the shitty scripts. You can probably get away with the DEI stuff in your shows but not when it comes to hiring writers and directors.

I watched an interview with Emily Blunt where she said as soon as she sees strong woman in the description of a script, she turns it down.

Posted by: ryukyu at August 30, 2024 04:18 PM (lmKVt)

54
If you haven't lost a job or two over the course of a career, you're not doing it right. Such things build character.

________

I think I've had all the character building I can stand.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 30, 2024 04:18 PM (1Nxff)

55 Well! This is a disappointment!
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 30, 2024 04:16 PM (1Nxff)

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You thought it was going to be Christina Hendricks, didn't you? Bummer.

Posted by: Jordan61 at August 30, 2024 04:18 PM (TOIF3)

56 Amandla is high-breasted and pointy. Give her a few years and she'll really have something to whine about.

Posted by: wth at August 30, 2024 04:18 PM (v0R5T)

57 47 I'm gonna guess Amanda was.second runner up to the class leader at the Hollywood branch of the Kamala Harris Skool of Public Speaking. Does she even know what she said? Or is she too focused on her own bubble?
Posted by: Diogenes at August 30, 2024 04:17 PM (W/lyH)

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She definitely remembers making a video where she sang about how the point of Star Wars now was to make white men cry.

White men didn't cry.

They just didn't watch her show.

They did what she wanted: They stayed away. She should be made at the vast population of gay, black people that the show was made for. They didn't show up. They didn't ally. They didn't make The Acolyte a success. She should be pissed at them, not the ones who stayed away when told.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 30, 2024 04:19 PM (GBKbO)

58 Cutting the Cord is a great way to improve your outlook on life.

Posted by: garrett at August 30, 2024 04:19 PM (Wm1ah)

59 To pay bills, Blass has taken short-term graphic design gigs and sold autographs at "Star Trek" conventions.

Galaxy Quest as a documentary.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 30, 2024 04:19 PM (lTGtQ)

60 Genuine BREAKING NEWS!!1!!

Disclose.tv @disclosetv 14m
JUST IN - Brazil's Supreme Court orders X to be banned nationwide.

Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at August 30, 2024 04:20 PM (CEzQx)

61 Funny way to spell “ Amanda”… birth certificate typo??

Posted by: tubal at August 30, 2024 04:20 PM (PCK5/)

62 "...hyper-conservative bigotry and vitriol, prejudice, hatred and hateful language toward us."

Being translated:" The show sucks and the actress can't act. Oh, the writing sucks, too, and the show has nothing to do with Star Wars."

Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at August 30, 2024 04:20 PM (Rbu5d)

63
Production designer Dave Blass wrapped his last big project, filming the Paramount+ series "Star Trek: Picard"

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That's part of it right there. Star Trek, in 2024? The original series ended in 1969. Hollywood's running out of ideas, I'm running out of interest.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 30, 2024 04:20 PM (Pbh/o)

64 AI FTW

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at August 30, 2024 04:20 PM (bGKz1)

65 If you haven't lost a job or two over the course of a career, you're not doing it right. Such things build character. Nothing focuses you like not being able to pay rhe rent or buy groceries.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 30, 2024 04:08 PM (W/lyH)

Truth

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at August 30, 2024 04:21 PM (g8Ew8)

66 White men didn't cry.

They just didn't watch her show.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 30, 2024 04:19 PM (GBKbO)
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You must remember the wishcasting.

They are prrrrful grrrrls and make men cry.

They don't know a thing about men. They don't know that the biggest defense a man has is to simply stop caring.

Posted by: Chick-Fil-A at August 30, 2024 04:21 PM (OaZlZ)

67 60 Genuine BREAKING NEWS!!1!!

Disclose.tv @disclosetv 14m
JUST IN - Brazil's Supreme Court orders X to be banned nationwide.
Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at August 30, 2024 04:20 PM (CEzQx)

They've been trying to get Musk to act as part of their surveillance state, he said no.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at August 30, 2024 04:21 PM (eYoxG)

68 Amandla is high-breasted and pointy. Give her a few years and she'll really have something to whine about.
Posted by: wth at August 30, 2024 04:18 PM

Nose cones rule!

Posted by: 1950's Morons at August 30, 2024 04:21 PM (a3Q+t)

69 "Brazil's Supreme Court orders X to be banned nationwide.
Posted by: andycanuck"

We should ban their nuts. And Brazilians.

Posted by: fd at August 30, 2024 04:22 PM (vFG9F)

70 62 "...hyper-conservative bigotry and vitriol, prejudice, hatred and hateful language toward us."

Being translated:" The show sucks and the actress can't act. Oh, the writing sucks, too, and the show has nothing to do with Star Wars."
Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at August 30, 2024 04:20 PM (Rbu5d)

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And Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, the sequel to the movie made almost 40 years ago, is tracking to make $100 million next weekend.

They keep doing it because people keep showing up.

There was a time when Hollywood knew that sequels meant diminishing returns, not instant huge opening weekends.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 30, 2024 04:22 PM (GBKbO)

71 Why is Elon continuing to provide Starlink services to Brazil?

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 30, 2024 04:22 PM (agvh/)

72
Star Wars just sucks now because of the shitty scripts.

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They should have stopped after the first one. Operation Valkyrie on the pitch meeting for The Empire Strikes Back.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 30, 2024 04:22 PM (1Nxff)

73 I'm very happy I cut the cord. I recommend it to everyone. Cutting the cord is like shedding thirty pounds overnight.

Yes. And gaining 25 hours of your life back per week, during week days .

Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at August 30, 2024 04:22 PM (Rbu5d)

74 Fake armorers hardest hit.

Posted by: Hannah Gutierrez-Reed at August 30, 2024 04:23 PM (paSBy)

75 The movies today are objectively worse.* There aren't fun movies anymore. There aren't thrilling movies anymore. There aren't serious movies anymore.

It's all crap and MUCH of it pushes "THE MESSAGE".

*With exceptions. Some fun/thrilling/serious movies get through. But they're the exception, not the rule.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 30, 2024 04:18 PM (JMAcK)

Every other night I scan Amazon Prime and pick any pre-1980s movie that sounds slightly appealing. They're all new to me.

Recently saw a few that are considered classics that I don't quite get the appeal of, but nonetheless didn't find them looking to insult me as a viewer. They were at least dedicated to telling a story, not spreading an opinion.

Also, I have discovered that Gene Hackman was great in everything he ever did. Same for Burt Lancaster.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at August 30, 2024 04:23 PM (KbCG3)

76 Yuck, just saw a Tester for Senate billboard.
Posted by: Jordan61

It's weird that red states are fooled by pretend moderate Democrats, but blue states never abuy it for Republicans.

But Id be shocked if Tester wins, they finally found a good candidate.

Posted by: Blago at August 30, 2024 04:23 PM (RL7is)

77 Disclose.tv @disclosetv 14m
JUST IN - Brazil's Supreme Court orders X to be banned nationwide.
Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at August 30, 2024 04:20 PM (CEzQx)
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Mike Benz says this is to start a wave.

There are people in the EU that want to kick X out of the EU.

"The Blob" (as he called it) thought they could work with Elon, being the prog that he was, but he's proving to be too much of an individual, perhaps.

Posted by: Axeman at August 30, 2024 04:23 PM (OaZlZ)

78 Genuine BREAKING NEWS!!1!!

Disclose.tv @disclosetv 14m
JUST IN - Brazil's Supreme Court orders X to be banned nationwide.
Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at August 30, 2024 04:20 PM (CEzQx)

Let the server black market begin!

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at August 30, 2024 04:23 PM (g8Ew8)

79 >> Yuck, just saw a Tester for Senate billboard.

You in tha hood?

Posted by: garrett at August 30, 2024 04:24 PM (Wm1ah)

80 #60 addendum:

R A W S A L E R T S @rawsalerts 19m
🚨#BREAKING: Brazil's Supreme Court has officially orders the immediate suspension and ban of Twitter/X in the country until it complies with the court's order.

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🚨#BREAKING: Brazil's Supreme Court says anyone using VPN to access Twitter/X is subject to fines up to $8,874 a day.

Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at August 30, 2024 04:24 PM (CEzQx)

81 Nicole Shanahan is RFK Jr's running mate. She's smart, rich, and extremely liberal. A sponsor of liberal foundations and causes.
This is an ad she posted August 29.
You do not want to skip this.

https://tinyurl.com/4aa493yd

Posted by: Braenyard at August 30, 2024 04:24 PM (SXHAp)

82 And Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, the sequel to the movie made almost 40 years ago, is tracking to make $100 million next weekend.

They keep doing it because people keep showing up.

There was a time when Hollywood knew that sequels meant diminishing returns, not instant huge opening weekends.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 30, 2024 04:22 PM (GBKbO)

Time + tragedy = comedy

Time + a sea of competing mediocrity = successful sequels

Nostalgia works.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at August 30, 2024 04:24 PM (KbCG3)

83 That's part of it right there. Star Trek, in 2024? The original series ended in 1969. Hollywood's running out of ideas, I'm running out of interest.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 30, 2024 04:20 PM (Pbh/o)
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*taps the Acme Giv-o-Shit meter*

Nothing.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 30, 2024 04:24 PM (W/lyH)

84 That's part of it right there. Star Trek, in 2024? The original series ended in 1969. Hollywood's running out of ideas, I'm running out of interest.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 30, 2024 04:20 PM (Pbh/o)

Same thing with Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, Alien. They've been producing mediocre content in these franchises for decades now. But I blame the fans. Just how long are they gonna go on fucking these corpses?

Posted by: it's necrophilia at this point at August 30, 2024 04:24 PM (guCHD)

85
Hollywood's running out of ideas, I'm running out of interest.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 30, 2024 04:20 PM (Pbh/o)

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Really, would you want to see a book you love turned into a movie? I cringe when I think how they'd massacre "The Sparrow".

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 30, 2024 04:24 PM (1Nxff)

86 What is the current definition of cutting the cord? Does it still mean just cable? Or are we talking about all paid streaming services too?

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 30, 2024 04:24 PM (Dm8we)

87 JUST IN - Brazil's Supreme Court orders X to be banned nationwide.
Posted by: andycanuck

If I was Musk, I would shut down their Starlink.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 30, 2024 04:25 PM (lTGtQ)

88 Well, I guess no EVs for Brazil then!

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 30, 2024 04:25 PM (cnVbw)

89 >>It's weird that red states are fooled by pretend moderate Democrats, but blue states never abuy it for Republicans.

Giulianni did ok for himself as America's Mayor.

Posted by: garrett at August 30, 2024 04:25 PM (Wm1ah)

90 I'm very happy I cut the cord. I recommend it to everyone. Cutting the cord is like shedding thirty pounds overnight.

Yes. And gaining 25 hours of your life back per week, during week days .
Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker
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Same. Have not even turned on the TV since moving into this house around Christmas. Not even to watch DVDs.

Moar time to shitpost on AOSHQ!

Posted by: screaming in digital at August 30, 2024 04:25 PM (iZbyp)

91 87 JUST IN - Brazil's Supreme Court orders X to be banned nationwide.
Posted by: andycanuck

If I was Musk, I would shut down their Starlink.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 30, 2024 04:25 PM (lTGtQ)

Yes... Supposedly the Army uses it

Posted by: It's me donna at August 30, 2024 04:25 PM (IyPmt)

92 82 Time + tragedy = comedy

Time + a sea of competing mediocrity = successful sequels

Nostalgia works.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at August 30, 2024 04:24 PM (KbCG3)

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Imagine the 80s where we got the legacy sequel to Notorious with an 80 year old Cary Grant and a 70 year old (or whatever) Ingrid Bergman, all helmed by the original man himself, Alfred Hitchcock (who was dead at the time, but whatever, hypothetical), and that was supposed to be the biggest movie of 1981, or something.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 30, 2024 04:26 PM (GBKbO)

93 I care a lot more about the Red Lobster and Big Lot and Dollar General employees being laid off as their employers shut down. Economic despoliation is picking up. The picture a year from now if democrats win is bleak beyond most imagining.

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 30, 2024 04:26 PM (UseAb)

94 You in tha hood?
Posted by: garrett at August 30, 2024 04:24 PM (Wm1ah)

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We crossed over from Wyoming about an hour ago.

Posted by: Jordan61 at August 30, 2024 04:26 PM (fiboQ)

95
If I was Musk, I would shut down their Starlink.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 30, 2024 04:25 PM (lTGtQ)

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How will those primitive Amazon tribes get their porn?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 30, 2024 04:26 PM (1Nxff)

96 If I was Musk, I would shut down their Starlink.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 30, 2024 04:25 PM (lTGtQ)
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Whoopsie!

Posted by: X Employee Johnnie at August 30, 2024 04:27 PM (OaZlZ)

97 >>Posted by: Jordan61 at August 30, 2024 04:26 PM (fiboQ)

On 90 or down around Alzada?

Posted by: garrett at August 30, 2024 04:27 PM (Wm1ah)

98 Please don't outlaw Brazilians. Current women's swimsuit styles cannot tolerate that.

Posted by: wth at August 30, 2024 04:27 PM (v0R5T)

99 How will those primitive Amazon tribes get their porn?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
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heh.

Posted by: scampydog at August 30, 2024 04:27 PM (2bFN5)

100 If Kamala can get in and start her James-Bond-Villain-level plan of taxing unrealized "gains"

everybody's fucked.

Posted by: Axeman at August 30, 2024 04:28 PM (OaZlZ)

101 On 90 or down around Alzada?
Posted by: garrett at August 30, 2024 04:27 PM (Wm1ah)

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Yes!

Posted by: Jordan61 at August 30, 2024 04:28 PM (fiboQ)

102 They will get their porn th old fashioned way. Watching monkeys.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 30, 2024 04:28 PM (cnVbw)

103 Hollywierd is supposed to be for artists, so artists are supposed to suffer for their art. Who cares what they make? Besides they make crap. They deserve to strave that's why reruns of Hazel are on.

Posted by: Jane at August 30, 2024 04:28 PM (bXvrr)

104 "..... a rampage of vitriol"

Origin of vitriol
Vitriol = ferrous sulfate
Oil of Vitriol = sulfuric acid (originally made by heating vitriol).

Posted by: Ciampino - No Ispettore, l'uragano e raro #34 at August 30, 2024 04:28 PM (qfLjt)

105 What is the current definition of cutting the cord? Does it still mean just cable? Or are we talking about all paid streaming services too?

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba

There are some you might want, like Daily Wire. Nothing lefty.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 30, 2024 04:29 PM (lTGtQ)

106 >>How will those primitive Amazon tribes get their porn?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

They are going to have to go back to watching the Lemurs Fuck.

Posted by: garrett at August 30, 2024 04:29 PM (Wm1ah)

107 R A W S A L E R T S @rawsalerts 17h
🚨#BREAKING: A False Active Shooter Scare at Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World Causes Mass panic and Stampedes After Fight broke out as Multiple Balloons began popping
📌#Orlando | #Florida
Earlier this evening at Walt Disney World’s Magic Kingdom in Orlando, Florida, numerous people ran for their lives and took shelter, causing a stampede and chaos after rumors spread of a shooting or active shooter situation. According to the Orange County Sheriff’s Office, the panic started with a fight, followed by a ‘popping’ noise possibly a balloon exploding—which led to mass panic and people running. It is unclear where the reported fight occurred, whether anyone was hurt in that fight, or if anyone was injured during the ensuing chaos. This is how the active shooter rumor began. Authorities have confirmed there is no active shooter and there’s no threat to the public.
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Walz claims he carried a balloon in anger in Italy during his service.

Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at August 30, 2024 04:29 PM (CEzQx)

108 I would like to note: If you’re going to make a movie that requires me to subscribe to your streaming service and watch a crappy ass show as a prerequisite to make any sense of the movie…I’m going to skip both and just watch porn.

Posted by: Misanthropic Misanthrope at August 30, 2024 04:29 PM (Y2NGV)

109

Hollywood is a retarded bubble. Blame them.

I just want out of the house on weekends.

Posted by: Tech Sgt. Chen at August 30, 2024 04:29 PM (Z8Yh2)

110 "I'm going to be really transparent and say that it's not a huge shock for me," Stenberg told her fans of the show's cancellation after one season. "

Guess what's not a huge shock for all of us. That's right, that you'd blame your failure on racism, and the audience's lack of appreciation for your magnificence.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 30, 2024 04:29 PM (xCA6C)

111 Imagine the 80s where we got the legacy sequel to Notorious with an 80 year old Cary Grant and a 70 year old (or whatever) Ingrid Bergman, all helmed by the original man himself, Alfred Hitchcock (who was dead at the time, but whatever, hypothetical), and that was supposed to be the biggest movie of 1981, or something.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 30, 2024 04:26 PM (GBKbO)

I don't think nostalgia plays as well with serious movies. If the Top Guns didn't have the air of 80s cheese, I doubt the sequel does what it did.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at August 30, 2024 04:30 PM (KbCG3)

112 >>Yes!

Hahaha -

Difference is 3.5 hours extra if you are coming up through Miles City before heading West.

... if you are heading home.

Posted by: garrett at August 30, 2024 04:30 PM (Wm1ah)

113
she has been considering a side hustle helping people decorate their Airbnbs or doing event planning.

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And good luck with an event planning career if this economy keeps going the way it is.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 30, 2024 04:30 PM (Pbh/o)

114 102 They will get their porn th old fashioned way. Watching monkeys.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 30, 2024 04:28 PM (cnVbw)

Watching?

Posted by: guy who ain't 'fraid of a little minkeypox at August 30, 2024 04:30 PM (guCHD)

115 Osha and Mae…would that be Fannie Mae? Who comes up with these names?

Posted by: Thirdtwin at August 30, 2024 04:30 PM (iRnZh)

116 Please don't outlaw Brazilians. Current women's swimsuit styles cannot tolerate that.
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Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at August 30, 2024 04:31 PM (CEzQx)

117 What race does Stenberg claim for herself?? Or has she made a “ reveal” pronouncement yet??

Posted by: tubal at August 30, 2024 04:31 PM (PCK5/)

118 I suffer for my art.

Posted by: Hannah Gutierrez-Reed at August 30, 2024 04:31 PM (paSBy)

119 Amanda Seyfried > Amandla Stenberg

Posted by: Diogenes at August 30, 2024 04:32 PM (W/lyH)

120 What is "fateful" language?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 30, 2024 04:32 PM (63Dwl)

121 I would like to note: If you’re going to make a movie that requires me to subscribe to your streaming service and watch a crappy ass show as a prerequisite to make any sense of the movie…I’m going to skip both and just watch porn.
Posted by: Misanthropic Misanthrope at August 30, 2024 04:29 PM (Y2NGV)

Porn never compromises on the main plot.

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at August 30, 2024 04:32 PM (g8Ew8)

122 The best part of Hollywood's implosion is the YouTuber's that just eviscerate the movies and TV shows.

Posted by: Beartooth at August 30, 2024 04:32 PM (Ntn2J)

123 Don’t take directions from a guy that thinks lemurs live in South America.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 30, 2024 04:32 PM (cnVbw)

124 When you've been given preferential treatment your whole life, being treated fairly feels oppressive.

--Thomas Sowell

Posted by: logprof at August 30, 2024 04:32 PM (DzLCr)

125 Yeah, I wouldn't be banking on AirBnB revenue, or even a reservation more than three weeks out.

They are going down hard.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 30, 2024 04:32 PM (lTGtQ)

126 Difference is 3.5 hours extra if you are coming up through Miles City before heading West.

... if you are heading home.
Posted by: garrett at August 30, 2024 04:30 PM (Wm1ah)

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We are indeed heading home. We took some side highway on the way out and husband didn't like that. So this time were sticking to the 90.

Posted by: Jordan61 at August 30, 2024 04:32 PM (fiboQ)

127 Capitalism works.

People don't want most of what Hollywood is selling, and with the poor state of the economy, it's a lot easier to say no to things like that.

Posted by: Shenanigans at August 30, 2024 04:33 PM (pZ0Mr)

128 119 Amanda Seyfried > Amandla Stenberg
Posted by: Diogenes at August 30, 2024 04:32 PM (W/lyH)

Her breasts have ESPN.

Posted by: they are a veritable sportscenter at August 30, 2024 04:33 PM (guCHD)

129 What Hollywood needs is a good, old-fashioned Western.

Posted by: Alec Baldwin at August 30, 2024 04:33 PM (paSBy)

130 127 Capitalism works.

People don't want most of what Hollywood is selling, and with the poor state of the economy, it's a lot easier to say no to things like that.
Posted by: Shenanigans at August 30, 2024 04:33 PM (pZ0Mr)

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False.

The Acolyte failing is obviously a sign of late stage capitalism and it's inability to change with a modifying culture. The only solution is government mandates on what types of entertainment get produced.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 30, 2024 04:33 PM (GBKbO)

131 Amanda Hugnkiss > Amanda Seyfried > Amandla Stenberg

Posted by: wth at August 30, 2024 04:34 PM (v0R5T)

132 "Please don't outlaw Brazilians. Current women's swimsuit styles cannot tolerate that.
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Posted by: andycanuck"

It looked like she had a couple of Tribbles in there!

Posted by: Guy who relates everything to Star Trek at August 30, 2024 04:34 PM (vFG9F)

133 Charisma Carpenter>Charisma Wood

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at August 30, 2024 04:34 PM (NtVYv)

134 Posted by: Braenyard at August 30, 2024 04:24 PM (SXHAp)

I don't know if Shanahan herself come up with that ad, but it's very clever.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 30, 2024 04:34 PM (dTTBf)

135 >>What Hollywood needs is a good, old-fashioned Western.

Hard Water-Stain Johnson starring Alec Baldwin

Posted by: garrett at August 30, 2024 04:34 PM (Wm1ah)

136 Movies, like music, have deteriorated greatly in quality over the last 15 years… cultural rot sign..

While this is certainly true, it's not the whole story. Movies are simply becoming obsolete. There are too many other entertainment options.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 30, 2024 04:34 PM (xCA6C)

137 Same. Have not even turned on the TV since moving into this house around Christmas. Not even to watch DVDs.

Moar time to shitpost on AOSHQ!
Posted by: screaming in digital at August 30, 2024 04:25 PM (iZbyp)
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I have hundreds of movies and television shows on DVD/ Blu-Ray

Yet I don't ever want to watch them anymore. I'd much rather read a book.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 30, 2024 04:35 PM (7fElN)

138 In somewhat related news, Brazilian judge de Moraes has "suspended" X in Brazil after X "failed" to name a legal representative. The previous X legal representative was threatened with imprisonment and had her bank accounts frozen.

Posted by: mrp at August 30, 2024 04:35 PM (rj6Yv)

139 They are going down hard.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 30, 2024 04:32 PM (lTGtQ)

But enough about me...

Posted by: Kammie... at August 30, 2024 04:35 PM (Rbu5d)

140 >>Yet I don't ever want to watch them anymore. I'd much rather read a book.

That's Weird.

Posted by: DNC at August 30, 2024 04:35 PM (Wm1ah)

141 119 Amanda Seyfried > Amandla Stenberg

Posted by: Diogenes at August 30, 2024 04:32 PM (W/lyH)

My wife worked at a waxing spa Seyfried visited once while shooting a movie in Boston.

So, in a way, ya know...high five!

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at August 30, 2024 04:35 PM (KbCG3)

142 Ach, of Tinseltown, what can Werner say? A brief period immersed in its despair inevitably reveals that history shows again and again how nature points out the folly of men. Wait, this the Blue Oyster Cult. Werner likes their judicious use of the cow's bell, but we must be honest, they are not The Beastie Boys. Werner shall not sleep until Brooklyn in solidarity with MCA of blessed memory.

But it was of Hollywood I wished to speak, or, more specifically, of George Lucas. Werner had been summoned to perform an intervention when it became apparent he intended to include the Jonas Brothers in the second of the prequel films. It was arduous, made doubly so when it became clear they wanted Wim Wenders. Obviously, it did not succeed, nor did my earnest plea that he cut back (heh) on the severed limbs motif in the cinematic galaxy fair, fair away. George, said Werner, you know of Tarantino and his proclivities, think what people may conclude by your continuing carnage of limbs. This is not a good look, mein Herr.

Gott, this requires a second post.

Posted by: Werner Herzog Has Opinions at August 30, 2024 04:35 PM (tmPIh)

143
PBS announces they stand ready to provide the entertainment capitalist sources can't or won't.

Posted by: Auspex at August 30, 2024 04:36 PM (j4U/Z)

144 Her breasts have ESPN.
Posted by: they are a veritable sportscenter at August 30, 2024 04:33 PM (guCHD)

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And they can tell when it's gonna rain.

Posted by: Jordan61 at August 30, 2024 04:36 PM (fiboQ)

145 Moar time to shitpost on AOSHQ!
Posted by: screaming in digital
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Shitposting at AoSHQ infinitely more entertaining and informative than 99.99% of everything that crosses a TV screen.

Posted by: Braenyard at August 30, 2024 04:36 PM (SXHAp)

146 Imagine a remake of Dirty Harry now but without any woke BS. It would make millions.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 30, 2024 04:36 PM (W/lyH)

147 the higher ups will just go work for another media company and keep getting paid for shitty ideas and bad leadership skills because they're part of "the club"

this isn't limited to hollywood, its every industry.

its always the worker bees that get fucked

Posted by: Kamala's Throat at August 30, 2024 04:36 PM (W+TLY)

148 Sorry, my sad trombone is broken.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 30, 2024 04:36 PM (gsFWU)

149 Yuck, just saw a Tester for Senate billboard.
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When I was in Missoula last spring, the Testes campaign were running ad after ad against Tim Sheehy. Who could beat the fat load.

My problem is that Sheehy sends a strong Popeye Crenshaw vibe. Maybe it's because he's also a former Navy SEAL. I dunno. Just struck me as a dude who loves to sniff his own farts. maybe I'm mistaken. But we've been shit on by too many politicians to jump on the bandwagon.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Flightless Icky Weirdo at August 30, 2024 04:36 PM (Ad8y9)

150 143
PBS announces they stand ready to provide the entertainment capitalist sources can't or won't.
Posted by: Auspex
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PBS can fold and give me my money back.

Posted by: Braenyard at August 30, 2024 04:37 PM (SXHAp)

151 >>Imagine a remake of Dirty Harry now but without any woke BS. It would make millions.

I could be a Billionaire.

Posted by: The Ghost of Charles Bronson at August 30, 2024 04:37 PM (Wm1ah)

152

Tester
Tester
Testicles

uh huh hu huh

Posted by: Butthead for Congress at August 30, 2024 04:38 PM (NtVYv)

153 Porn never compromises on the main plot.
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Maybe there's some other way I can pay for it?? [tee-hee]

Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at August 30, 2024 04:38 PM (CEzQx)

154 Pearl Jam just did a big event / concert for Tester in Missoula last week.

Posted by: garrett at August 30, 2024 04:38 PM (Wm1ah)

155 91 87 JUST IN - Brazil's Supreme Court orders X to be banned nationwide.
Posted by: andycanuck
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If I was Musk, I would shut down their Starlink.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 30, 2024 04:25 PM (lTGtQ)
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Yes... Supposedly the Army uses it
Posted by: It's me donna
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Then don't shut it down tinker with it.

Posted by: Braenyard at August 30, 2024 04:38 PM (SXHAp)

156 80 year old Cary Grant and a 70 year old (or whatever) Ingrid Bergman

Knocking walkers?

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at August 30, 2024 04:39 PM (WE5Gl)

157 Shitposting at AoSHQ infinitely more entertaining and informative than 99.99% of everything that crosses a TV screen.
Posted by: Braenyard at August 30, 2024 04:36 PM (SXHAp)

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Truth.

Posted by: Jordan61 at August 30, 2024 04:39 PM (fiboQ)

158 I have hundreds of movies and television shows on DVD/ Blu-Ray

Yet I don't ever want to watch them anymore. I'd much rather read a book.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 30, 2024 04.

I only have a few dozen DVDs and the only one I have even partially watch in years was the original Johnny Quest cartoon while setting up the TV & DVD player a couple of months ago.

Posted by: Beartooth at August 30, 2024 04:39 PM (Ntn2J)

159 >>Porn never compromises on the main plot.

Don't be fatuous, Jeffrey.

Posted by: Maude Lebowski watching Log Jammers at August 30, 2024 04:39 PM (Wm1ah)

160 153 Maybe there's some other way I can pay for it?? [tee-hee]
Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at August 30, 2024 04:38 PM (CEzQx)

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xYu2WrygtQ

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 30, 2024 04:39 PM (GBKbO)

161 PBS announces they stand ready to provide the entertainment capitalist sources can't or won't.

Fruity brits talking with plummy accents? Oh, be still my heart.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 30, 2024 04:40 PM (xCA6C)

162 I have hundreds of movies and television shows on DVD/ Blu-Ray

Yet I don't ever want to watch them anymore. I'd much rather read a book.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
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There are some things I'd watch again. Favorite movies like Casablanca or shows like the Twilight Zone. Just don't have the time and attention span in this season of my life.

I wish I could still enjoy baseball, college football, and racing. Just can't anymore.

Can't imagine anything that would bring me back to a movie theater.

Posted by: screaming in digital at August 30, 2024 04:40 PM (iZbyp)

163 And Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, the sequel to the movie made almost 40 years ago, is tracking to make $100 million next weekend. They keep doing it because people keep showing up. There was a time when Hollywood knew that sequels meant diminishing returns, not instant huge opening weekends.

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Is Beetlejuice Beetlejuice a bad thing? Is it not apolitical and entertaining? There are plenty of sequels that are fun or even downright good. Given how you can count on the fingers of one hand the number of movies made each year that are both entertaining and not woke, I'm all for one that fits the bill, even if it's not completely original... Politics & culture are way more important than originality now... But maybe it is deceptively woke...?

I saw American Fiction on a flight a couple weeks ago. Good fun. They had to throw in some kowtows to the woke alter but I wonder if that was in true belief or it's own satire to get the movie made. It was still fun and skewering white guilt / the moral superiority of liberals...

Posted by: bearski at August 30, 2024 04:40 PM (Bhsk7)

164 Porn never compromises on the main plot.
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Maybe there's some other way I can pay for it?? [tee-hee]
Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx)
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Plus they are very inclusive.

Posted by: wth at August 30, 2024 04:40 PM (v0R5T)

165 24 Yuck, just saw a Tester for Senate billboard.
Posted by: Jordan61 at August 30, 2024 04:11 PM (TOIF3)

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The Tester campaign found some moron from Eastern Montana who is splitting his vote between Trump and Tester (Eastern Montana will go 85-15 for Trump and Sheehy should see similar numbers for the Senate race). Apparently, this simpleton hasn't figured out that Tester raised his gas/diesel prices by over a dollar per gallon and that Tester votes in lock-step with Biden

Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at August 30, 2024 04:41 PM (azp8w)

166 Porn never compromises on the main plot.

Don't be fatuous, Jeffrey.

Yes, there are some people who are into overweight bodies.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 30, 2024 04:41 PM (xCA6C)

167 If I was Musk, I would shut down their Starlink.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 30, 2024 04:25 PM (lTGtQ)
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Yes... Supposedly the Army uses it
Posted by: It's me donna
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Then don't shut it down tinker with it.
Posted by: Braenyard at August 30, 2024 04:38 PM (SXHAp)

Musk announced yesterday that Starlink would stay up at no charge to users, because schools in Brazil depend on it as a media resource. Until de Moraes shuts it down, that is.

Posted by: mrp at August 30, 2024 04:41 PM (rj6Yv)

168 Musk made Starlink free to current Brazilian subscribers.

Posted by: Ciampino - No Ispettore, l'uragano e raro #35 at August 30, 2024 04:42 PM (qfLjt)

169 Oh god. Amandla Stenberg looks exactly like what you'd expect a dim bulb DEI twit to look like.

How about you succeed the old fashioned way, huh?

By sucking a dick.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 30, 2024 04:42 PM (i24o9)

170 ALX @alx 40m
BREAKING: Brazil Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes orders the complete and immediate ban of 𝕏 in the country.

Mike Benz @MikeBenzCyber 42m
HEY @USAmbBR — WE NEED YOUR PUBLIC STATEMENT CONDEMNING THIS IMMEDIATELY.

Benjamin Weingarten @bhweingarten 7m
Ask yourself why the U.S. government won’t defend American social media platforms that foster Americans’ speech

Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at August 30, 2024 04:42 PM (CEzQx)

171 123 Don’t take directions from a guy that thinks lemurs live in South America.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 30, 2024 04:32 PM (cnVbw)

I would have thought they do live in South America but I checked and it's Madagascar. Weird.

Posted by: CaliGirl at August 30, 2024 04:43 PM (CmlIW)

172 I could be a Billionaire.
Posted by: The Ghost of Charles Bronson at August 30, 2024 04:37 PM (Wm1ah

No kidding! Loved Bronson!

Posted by: Diogenes at August 30, 2024 04:43 PM (W/lyH)

173 Pearl Jam just did a big event / concert for Tester in Missoula last week.

Posted by: garrett at August 30, 2024 04:38 PM (Wm1ah)

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Like I didn't hate Pearl Jam enough already.

Posted by: Jordan61 at August 30, 2024 04:43 PM (fiboQ)

174 Lies schmies pumpkin pies.

Kamala's campaign picked Maryland's governor to defend Tim Walz's military record on TV. Turns out he lied about receiving a Bronze Star.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at August 30, 2024 04:43 PM (L/fGl)

175 PBS announces they stand ready to provide the entertainment capitalist sources can't or won't.
Posted by: Auspex at August 30, 2024 04:36 PM (j4U/Z)

--Note that PBS's logo looks like an NPC.

Posted by: logprof at August 30, 2024 04:43 PM (DzLCr)

176 I wish I could still enjoy baseball, college football, and racing. Just can't anymore.

Can't imagine anything that would bring me back to a movie theater.
Posted by: screaming in digital
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Same. I watch a bit of golf but no longer baseball, football, etc. Have ewetube tv, but it gets fired up maybe once a week. Went to Top Gun Mav at the theater and have not been since. Scroll through 95% of the Prime movie choices.

Posted by: scampydog at August 30, 2024 04:43 PM (2bFN5)

177 "Ask yourself why the U.S. government won’t defend American social media platforms that foster Americans’ speech
Posted by: andycanuck"

Somebody alert the President!

Posted by: fd at August 30, 2024 04:44 PM (vFG9F)

178 The Public: We hate all the CGI, it's boring, over-used.
Hollywood: Let's lay off the non-CGI employees.

Well, I see lot's of success in their future.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 30, 2024 04:44 PM (k7oKo)

179 >>Like I didn't hate Pearl Jam enough already.

They are like the Media.
It would defy the Laws of Physics to hate them sufficiently.

Posted by: garrett at August 30, 2024 04:44 PM (Wm1ah)

180 The thing about Tester is, he's NEVER even been a "maverick". I cant think of one time he bucked his party on anything.

I dislike Manchin, but he at least has some fig leaf of credibility.

But boy howdy, do our Republican "mavericks" have a long track record of fucking things up and rushing to the cameras to brag about it.

Posted by: Blago at August 30, 2024 04:45 PM (RL7is)

181 #170 plus...

Mike Benz @MikeBenzCyber 38m
The f****ing X account for @USAmbBR in Brazil is now banned in Brazil and they STILL have not condemned Brazil banning X.

WHAT. DOES. THAT. TELL. YOU.

Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at August 30, 2024 04:45 PM (CEzQx)

182 Rap battle of the princesses: Gladriel v. Leia.

https://is.gd/HyhJwD

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at August 30, 2024 04:46 PM (L/fGl)

183 Sometimes wife and I will watch some TV on streaming.

My hobby right now is watching my movies on DVD & Blu-Ray, following an actor from one to the next. My rules are: no rewatching the same one twice (accidentally messed up on that one a couple of times), and do not use the same actor in two consecutive films. I am currently at 179 out of about 450. Kinda fun, really. Might get more difficult the further in I go.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Flightless Icky Weirdo at August 30, 2024 04:46 PM (Ad8y9)

184 >>The thing about Tester is, he's NEVER even been a "maverick".

He still works his family homestead farm in Big Sandy...just like you ignorant pig fucking hayseeds.

Except, he's a multi-millionaire now.

Posted by: garrett at August 30, 2024 04:46 PM (Wm1ah)

185 I wonder what fractional percentage of revenue Musk gets from X in Brazil? Apparently it's not worth his time and effort to tweak his tormentors there... so I think it's small.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 30, 2024 04:46 PM (Q4IgG)

186 Actors should have to build their own sets and make their own costumes. I would be interested in funding a movie made about this in this matter.

Posted by: fd at August 30, 2024 04:46 PM (vFG9F)

187 154 Pearl Jam just did a big event / concert for Tester in Missoula last week.

Posted by: garrett at August 30, 2024 04:38 PM (Wm1ah)

I remember a time long ago when rock stars hated the man, now they are in lock step with the man.

Posted by: CaliGirl at August 30, 2024 04:47 PM (CmlIW)

188 180 The thing about Tester is, he's NEVER even been a "maverick". I cant think of one time he bucked his party on anything.

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

The only chance Tester has in bucking his party is if the Dems ban red meat. Then, and only then, would we see Tester break with his party.

Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at August 30, 2024 04:47 PM (azp8w)

189 I finally cut the cord at the end of April. When dad was still alive it was just easier to pay ATT (directTV) so he could watch his INSP shows. And to be fair those old westerns were decent viewing. And the hoops I had to jump through to get it canceled. Dad had just kept mom's account after she died in 2012. So I had to dig up her death certificate and schlepp to a main ATT store, where the employe had to call someone way up the chain to actually cancel.

I have not even set up any streaming services. I'm not reading great literature or getting a bunch accomplished intead of wathing, I just found new time wasters but at least I'm not funding the enemy.

Posted by: PaleRider at August 30, 2024 04:48 PM (UKUm3)

190
He still works his family homestead farm in Big Sandy...just like you ignorant pig fucking hayseeds.

Except, he's a multi-millionaire now.
Posted by: garrett at August 30, 2024 04:46 PM (Wm1ah)

He's a gentleman farmer, I'm sure.

Posted by: CaliGirl at August 30, 2024 04:48 PM (CmlIW)

191 Pearl Jam just did a big event / concert for Tester in Missoula last week.

Posted by: garrett
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That should tell you all you need to know about how "moderate" Tester is that those left-wing douchebags are all in for him.

AZ has the same problem Montana does, overrun with CA expats.

Posted by: Blago at August 30, 2024 04:48 PM (RL7is)

192 I wonder what fractional percentage of revenue Musk gets from X in Brazil? Apparently it's not worth his time and effort to tweak his tormentors there... so I think it's small.

Brazil will miss X a whole lot more than X will miss Brazil.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 30, 2024 04:48 PM (xCA6C)

193 manner, not matter. No matter. No director would be nuts enough to take it on.

Posted by: fd at August 30, 2024 04:48 PM (vFG9F)

194 I feel a little bad for the layoffs.

And then I think - white conservative Christians/Catholics were unemployable in Hollywood, so this doesn't really effect me.

If religious media/movie makers were having layoffs, I'd care more...

As of now, this seems like a total "these folks got what they had coming" - they made stuff for liberals and cut out 1/2 of America, thus losing 1/2 their revenue, and now face huge cuts b/c of that (and b/c our side always paid more than 1/2, b/c we tended to steal less and have more money)...

Posted by: Nova Local at August 30, 2024 04:49 PM (exHjb)

195 This calls for another strike. Perhaps the director's guild this time.

Posted by: Darth Randall at August 30, 2024 04:49 PM (f1kZG)

196 Brazil will miss X a whole lot more than X will miss Brazil.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 30, 2024 04:48 PM (xCA6C)

Word.

Posted by: mrp at August 30, 2024 04:49 PM (rj6Yv)

197 I wonder how the Darth Vader judge plays in Brazil? is a hero or villain?

Posted by: Blago at August 30, 2024 04:50 PM (RL7is)

198 2 years ago the Brazilian government presented Musk with the highest civilian honor that can be bestowed on a foreigner. Mike Benz explains that is why they are going after him now. They have to tear him down to tear X down.

This shit is amazingly frightening.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at August 30, 2024 04:50 PM (bNf8H)

199
Learn to code about eating de bugz.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 30, 2024 04:50 PM (y9nCu)

200 ALX @alx 40m
BREAKING: Brazil Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes orders the complete and immediate ban of 𝕏 in the country.

Mike Benz @MikeBenzCyber 42m
HEY @USAmbBR — WE NEED YOUR PUBLIC STATEMENT CONDEMNING THIS IMMEDIATELY.

Benjamin Weingarten @bhweingarten 7m
Ask yourself why the U.S. government won’t defend American social media platforms that foster Americans’ speech
Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at August 30, 2024 04:42 PM (CEzQx)

I imagine that if Musk cuts off Brazil from X that will hurt Brazilians more than him. These people breathe Twitter.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 30, 2024 04:50 PM (n7h9X)

201 Mrs D is big into British cop shows.
Gawd I've come to hate them.
Woke across the board, the Superintendent is always a political baffoon, and they have to call for the "armed" cops when the scene has bad guys with guns.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 30, 2024 04:50 PM (W/lyH)

202 Their Propaganda drivel isn't worth seeing

Posted by: Skip at August 30, 2024 04:51 PM (fwDg9)

203
>>Imagine a remake of Dirty Harry now but without any woke BS. It would make millions.

Dirty Harriet

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 30, 2024 04:51 PM (63Dwl)

204 Amazing how much ire Musk attracted just making a more open platform.

How does Brazil ban X but allow the internet? Can you not "google" things because someone might come across "misinformation"

Posted by: Blago at August 30, 2024 04:51 PM (RL7is)

205 Only clicked because the post was titled Hollywood Bust. Very disappointed.

Posted by: Uncle Pervy at August 30, 2024 04:51 PM (CV8a5)

206 I dunno, these two examples of “blue collar” workers don’t seem blue collar to me. They seem one step removed from the cocksuckers. I think — or at least hope — that the true blue collar guys can get work elsewhere. The guys building sets and production design are carpenters, painters, plumbers, etc. They can get work elsewhere, hopefully.

Posted by: Elric Blade at August 30, 2024 04:52 PM (1+FNX)

207 Thing I’ve noticed recently in online discourse is that defenders of this shit have started to subtly switch their tactics.

The line they sometimes take is “well of course as a piece of media, it’s got its flaws, but it’s just such a shame that we can’t actually talk about the artistic issues because of all the hate.”

Which is convenient because the “hate” is just what they labeled the legitimate criticism we were making 5 minutes ago, and they’re trying to gaslight us into the belief that they were actually the ones making the legitimate criticism and not us.

Existing in America really feels like being in an abusive relationship lately.

Posted by: Joe, living dangerously at August 30, 2024 04:52 PM (B9Prs)

208 he definitely remembers making a video where she sang about how the point of Star Wars now was to make white men cry.

White men didn't cry.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reminiscing about lost times with Orson Welles at August 30, 2024 04:19 PM (GBKbO)
_________________

Sure they did, if they were shareholders.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 30, 2024 04:53 PM (YqDXo)

209 I just watched Critical Drinker's review of the first few episodes of Amazon's Rings of Power Season 2.

He savages that show as only he can. Brutal.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 30, 2024 04:53 PM (7fElN)

210 68 Amandla is high-breasted and pointy. Give her a few years and she'll really have something to whine about.
Posted by: wth at August 30, 2024 04:18 PM

Nose cones rule!
Posted by: 1950's Morons at August 30, 2024 04:21 PM (a3Q+t)

Out: High-Yellow
In: High-Breasted

Posted by: Wannabees vs. Jigaboos at August 30, 2024 04:53 PM (0CU3H)

211 I saw a rumor in the form of a headline headline that Snow Beige (Rachel Zegler) had been fired. I've seen no follow up so Believe It Or Don't! Regardless, she in the running for dumbest actress ever.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at August 30, 2024 04:54 PM (L/fGl)

212 >>I imagine that if Musk cuts off Brazil from X that will hurt Brazilians more than him. These people breathe Twitter.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 30, 2024 04:50 PM (n7h9X)
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It would be ironic if the Brazilian people got so pissed off over losing X that they decided to overthrow their fascist government.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at August 30, 2024 04:54 PM (bNf8H)

213 123 Don’t take directions from a guy that thinks lemurs live in South America.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 30, 2024 04:32 PM (cnVbw)

I would have thought they do live in South America but I checked and it's Madagascar. Weird.
Posted by: CaliGirl at August 30, 2024 04:43 PM (CmlIW)

It was one of the keystones for Continental Drift that Lemur and relatives live in Madagascar, India, and Africa only with oceans between them. How could they cross those oceans without traversing the land between?

Posted by: Oldcat at August 30, 2024 04:54 PM (n7h9X)

214 Let's not discount that AI will make Hollywood irrelevant in 5 years.
I've seen some AI stuff now that is already too good of quality.
The hyper-capitalists (and they are the most ruthless of capitalist there in the hills of L.A.) that run Hollywood know this and were trying to lock up image and likeness rights in perpetuity.

But, that was never going to save them.
Why pay for a movie to star a likeness of a real-world "beautiful person" when AI can give you any number of beautiful people for free?
And big name stars don't have near the draw they used to. Look at all the turds in the last year that have starred big names.
Story > star > set.
Hollywood reversed that order in the last 20 years.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 30, 2024 04:54 PM (k7oKo)

215 115 Osha and Mae…would that be Fannie Mae? Who comes up with these names?

Posted by: Thirdtwin at August 30, 2024 04:30 PM (iRnZh)
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British English: fanny = female's hoohah.
US English: fanny = buttockial area (Jay Leno).

Posted by: Ciampino - No Ispettore, l'uragano e raro #36 at August 30, 2024 04:54 PM (qfLjt)

216 >>Imagine a remake of Dirty Harry now but without any woke BS. It would make millions.

Dirty Harriet
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 30, 2024 04:51 PM (63Dwl)

This would work. Or Joan Wick.
Send either one after the Venezuelan gang and reap big profits!!!

Posted by: Diogenes at August 30, 2024 04:54 PM (W/lyH)

217 Mrs D is big into British cop shows.
Gawd I've come to hate them.
Woke across the board, the Superintendent is always a political baffoon, and they have to call for the "armed" cops when the scene has bad guys with guns.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 30, 2024 04:50 PM (W/lyH)
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And all the senior police officers are lesbians.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 30, 2024 04:55 PM (YqDXo)

218 I would have thought they do live in South America but I checked and it's Madagascar. Weird.
Posted by: CaliGirl at August 30, 2024 04:43 PM (CmlIW)

It was one of the keystones for Continental Drift that Lemur and relatives live in Madagascar, India, and Africa only with oceans between them. How could they cross those oceans without traversing the land between?

Posted by: Oldcat at August 30, 2024 04:54 PM

It's pretty simple actually, they were carried by African swallows.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 30, 2024 04:55 PM (QNSds)

219 Ja, here we go. George, impervious to all attempts to salvage his integrity as an artist, told me Vern (they are stuck on this, I cannot dissuade them in their pronunciation) my work has increased in its value thanks to my colleague here. He indicated a woman to our left. Her name is Kathleen Kennedy. The coffee chick, George, seriously, I inquired. At this Frau Kathleen said, I'm George's ideas person. Perhaps, I suggested, you might develop ideas over this weak-ass Folgers dreck you are serving.

No, really Vern, George insisted. She holds the Holy Grail of what Star Wars can be. At this, the two exchanged glances, and Kathleen the Coffee Slayer opened the door, revealing two women in odd garb. And this is Hollywood, remember. Werner has seen things. I present to you, Frau Kathleen intoned, that which the fans most desire - lesbian space witches. They shall conceive a child.

Aghast, I prevailed upon George to join me on tour with hip-hop collective Wu Tang Clan, that he might be cleansed and develop rizz. Alas, no. Ghost-Faced Killah later told me we had dodged a bullet, and I agreed. Werner tried, but a man must desire his salvation. Ach.

Posted by: Werner Herzog Has Opinions at August 30, 2024 04:55 PM (tmPIh)

220 212 >>I imagine that if Musk cuts off Brazil from X that will hurt Brazilians more than him. These people breathe Twitter.
Posted by: Oldcat at August 30, 2024 04:50 PM (n7h9X)
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It would be ironic if the Brazilian people got so pissed off over losing X that they decided to overthrow their fascist government.
Posted by: Frasier Crane at August 30, 2024 04:54 PM (bNf8H)

It seems there's only one court person they'd need to convince...

Posted by: Nova Local at August 30, 2024 04:55 PM (exHjb)

221 >>Imagine a remake of Dirty Harry now but without any woke BS. It would make millions.

Dirty Harriet
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 30, 2024 04:51 PM (63Dwl)

The whole point of Dirty Harry was his fight against that age's version of Woke.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 30, 2024 04:56 PM (n7h9X)

222 They call me Dirty Hairy at the pool.

Posted by: Guy who needs a Brazilian at August 30, 2024 04:56 PM (vFG9F)

223 I'm very happy I cut the cord. I recommend it to everyone. Cutting the cord is like shedding thirty pounds overnight.

Beyond cutting the cord, I get most DVDs I buy from a used DVD store.

Posted by: Chuck C at August 30, 2024 04:57 PM (yOPBE)

224 “well of course as a piece of media, it’s got its flaws, but it’s just such a shame that we can’t actually talk about the artistic issues because of all the hate.”

-
Purple haired freak has some self awareness.

https://is.gd/iONhwe

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at August 30, 2024 04:57 PM (L/fGl)

225 Another company mind craft attempt, sloppily carpet bombing normal sex standards.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at August 30, 2024 04:57 PM (hXIua)

226
Reagan movie is out. It will be first time I set foot in a theater in almost 10 years.

Posted by: Frank Barone at August 30, 2024 04:57 PM (+oR7L)

227
PBS announces they stand ready to provide the entertainment capitalist sources can't or won't.
Posted by: Auspex at August 30, 2024 04:36 PM (j4U/Z)

Can you imagine The Masked Singer hosted by someone who talks like an Ivy League professor ODing on Thorazine? Because that's what you'd end up with.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 30, 2024 04:57 PM (y9nCu)

228 It's pretty simple actually, they were carried by African swallows.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 30, 2024 04:55 PM (QNSds)

African swallows are not migratory.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 30, 2024 04:57 PM (n7h9X)

229 We Haz Rangz, Season 2, is so bad that I'm not even enjoying hate-watching the show this year.

I'll bet Morfydd Clark, who plays "Faux Galadriel" and Benjamin Walker, who plays "Gil-Galad," are thinking that instead of this show being their ticket to the big time, in reality their careers peaked with Clark's role in "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies," and Walker's very hilarious lead role in "Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter."

Posted by: Sharkman at August 30, 2024 04:57 PM (/RHNq)

230 I finally cut the cord at the end of April. When dad was still alive it was just easier to pay ATT (directTV) so he could watch his INSP shows. And to be fair those old westerns were decent viewing. And the hoops I had to jump through to get it canceled. Dad had just kept mom's account after she died in 2012. So I had to dig up her death certificate and schlepp to a main ATT store, where the employe had to call someone way up the chain to actually cancel.

Posted by: PaleRider
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I had a similar experience with Dish network when my father died. Four phone calls of 20+ minutes each, finally I went full Karen (I am a really mousy librarian most of the time) and asked for a supervisor. Then fax the death certificate. 15 years later I'm still irritated about it.

Anybody else I dealt with said "I'm sorry for your loss" and helped us out right away.

Posted by: screaming in digital at August 30, 2024 04:58 PM (iZbyp)

231 >>Imagine a remake of Dirty Harry now but without any woke BS. It would make millions.
________________

Dirty Donald.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 30, 2024 04:58 PM (YqDXo)

232 Is it true that "Sound of Freedom" has the highest return compared to cost in recent cinema history?

Posted by: Richard Aubrey at August 30, 2024 04:58 PM (dkH95)

233 How could they cross those oceans without traversing the land between?
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Awiens!

Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at August 30, 2024 04:59 PM (CEzQx)

234 80 #60 addendum:

R A W S A L E R T S @rawsalerts 19m
🚨#BREAKING: Brazil's Supreme Court has officially orders the immediate suspension and ban of Twitter/X in the country until it complies with the court's order.

R A W S A L E R T S @rawsalerts 8m
🚨#BREAKING: Brazil's Supreme Court says anyone using VPN to access Twitter/X is subject to fines up to $8,874 a day.
Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at August 30, 2024 04:24 PM (CEzQx)

How would they be able to track who's using a VPN?

Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 30, 2024 04:59 PM (0CU3H)

235 Sad. The Middle first, again.

Investopedia: The COVID-19 recession was the shortest on record, while the Great Recession of 2007-2009 was the deepest since the downturn in 1937-1938.

Posted by: L - If they'll do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at August 30, 2024 04:59 PM (NFX2v)

236 I'll bet Morfydd Clark, who plays "Faux Galadriel" and Benjamin Walker, who plays "Gil-Galad," are thinking that instead of this show being their ticket to the big time, in reality their careers peaked with Clark's role in "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies," and Walker's very hilarious lead role in "Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter."
Posted by: Sharkman at August 30, 2024 04:57 PM (/RHNq)

All I can see is who the hell did the ear job on him for the show. The others seem decent but is look like he'd been a boxer and taken a few thousand blows too many.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 30, 2024 04:59 PM (n7h9X)

237
A remake of The Star Chamber is due. But they'd screw it up.

Posted by: Frank Barone at August 30, 2024 04:59 PM (+oR7L)

238 Stenberg is an admitted mentally-ill dyke with known self-destructive tendencies. She has no “name” or draw to speak of. Why the fuck would anyone hire her to be the lead in a major IP production?? The mind boggles. There are probably only 500 million other black girls out there with more talent, better looks, and don’t have all the baggage and toxic anti-semetic cockroachery that this cunt has.

Posted by: Elric Blade at August 30, 2024 05:00 PM (1+FNX)

239 I finally cut the cord at the end of April. When dad was still alive it was just easier to pay ATT (directTV) so he could watch his INSP shows. And to be fair those old westerns were decent viewing. And the hoops I had to jump through to get it canceled. Dad had just kept mom's account after she died in 2012. So I had to dig up her death certificate and schlepp to a main ATT store, where the employee had to call someone way up the chain to actually cancel.
_______________

Easier solution: just close the account from which ATT is being paid. What are they going to do, hurt your dad's credit rating?

I did that with Paytrust, which was pulling the "AOL Dipsy-doodle" on me re my mom's account there.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 30, 2024 05:00 PM (YqDXo)

240 Werner, what do you think about my idea for a movie about actors that have to build their own sets and make their own costumes, in which they make a movie about actors that have to build their own sets and make their own costumes?

I'm thinking they should have to make there own sound effects too. Or would that be asking too much?

Posted by: fd at August 30, 2024 05:00 PM (vFG9F)

241 Reminds me. Did the Nazi culture in Germany have a Mafia?

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at August 30, 2024 05:01 PM (hXIua)

242 Imagine a remake of Dirty Harry now but without any woke BS. It would make millions.
________________

Dirty Donald.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 30, 2024 04:58 PM (YqDXo)
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Dirty Diana

Posted by: Michael Jackon's Moldering Corpse at August 30, 2024 05:01 PM (Ad8y9)

243 The only thing I can get on my TV is DVD and CD reception, so fortunately I miss a lot of dreck. Tonight our (Non dreck) movie will be the Marx Brothers "Animal Crackers".

I think I would like to see Reagan in the movie theatre though because I think it deals with-in part-his religious faith, which I knew nothing about.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 30, 2024 05:01 PM (dTTBf)

244 Is it true that "Sound of Freedom" has the highest return compared to cost in recent cinema history?
Posted by: Richard Aubrey at August 30, 2024 04:58 PM (dkH95)

Be hard to beat that Godzilla movie Japan made. It is now being used as a yardstick for movies.... "Each Acolyte Episode costs 15 Godizlla Minus Ones"

Posted by: Oldcat at August 30, 2024 05:01 PM (n7h9X)

245 Somebody alert the President!
Posted by: fd at August 30, 2024 04:44 PM (vFG9F)
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Who ever he is today.

Posted by: Axeman at August 30, 2024 05:02 PM (krQz2)

246 They write these girl-boss characters who are plain antisocial if not outright evil, and then they wonder why you don't identify with these characters. Lie cheat steal murder or even be rude to the wait staff; these things are positive virtues if a girl-boss does them!

That really is how they think. Strong female characters can only prove their strength by being disagreeable, abusive, manipulative, callous, self-important, vindictive, and always sure of themselves.

Posted by: Tom Perry at August 30, 2024 05:02 PM (MX0bI)

247 Stenberg told her fans of the show's cancellation after one season

There were fans?
As in there were people who thought "The power of one / The power of two / The power of many" was great writing?

Posted by: Chuck C at August 30, 2024 05:02 PM (yOPBE)

248 Stenberg is an admitted mentally-ill dyke with known self-destructive tendencies. ... Why the fuck would anyone hire her to be the lead in a major IP production??

Does that help?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 30, 2024 05:02 PM (YqDXo)

249 New thread

Posted by: Dad of Six at August 30, 2024 05:03 PM (VpZau)

250 A remake of The Star Chamber is due. But they'd screw it up.
Posted by: Frank Barone at August 30, 2024 04:59 PM (+oR7L)
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It would be people in red hats that say "Make America White!"

Posted by: Axeman at August 30, 2024 05:03 PM (krQz2)

251 Stenberg told her fans of the show's cancellation after one season

There were fans?
As in there were people who thought "The power of one / The power of two
______________

They were counting their fans.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 30, 2024 05:04 PM (YqDXo)

252 Stenberg told her fans of the show's cancellation after one season

There were fans?
As in there were people who thought "The power of one / The power of two / The power of many" was great writing?
Posted by: Chuck C at August 30, 2024 05:02 PM (yOPBE)

Well, the hate watchers liked it. Its now a meme.

Posted by: Oldcat at August 30, 2024 05:04 PM (n7h9X)

253 One of the good things about being banned is you can edit the errors in your comment and then re-post the corrected one.

Posted by: fd at August 30, 2024 05:04 PM (vFG9F)

254 Imagine a remake of Dirty Harry now but without any woke BS. It would make millions.
________________

Dirty Donald.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 30, 2024 04:58 PM (YqDXo)
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Dirty Diana
Posted by: Michael Jackon's Moldering Corpse

Dirty Hardwood.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at August 30, 2024 05:04 PM (L/fGl)

255 It seems there's only one court person they'd need to convince...
Posted by: Nova Local at August 30, 2024 04:55 PM (exHjb)

You misspelled 'hang'.

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at August 30, 2024 05:04 PM (g8Ew8)

256 239. I actually used that with ATT via phone. "Well we cant cancel because you don't have the passcode". Me "well dad is dead and his account will be closed soon, I am just trying to do the right thing instead of waiting until you cancel for non-payment". Pause, "OH, sorry, you'll have to take the death cert to an ATT store to cancel". And I got it dragged out of them that the account was still listed as under my mom's name.

Posted by: PaleRider at August 30, 2024 05:05 PM (UKUm3)

257 Can't imagine anything that would bring me back to a movie theater.
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Yup.
We're in the last days of the movie theater.
It's really sad to me.
I worked a few years in a theater, from the door guy up to projectionist.
Nothing at home can compare the the quality of film or the experience.
It's all digital now.
But watching a movie film, a big bucket of popcorn, giant soda, candy and a hot dog will always be a favorite memory.
The best movie you could have ever seen was wide-screen format on film at the drive-in. That was the closest you could get to full life-quality recreation of what was filmed.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 30, 2024 05:06 PM (k7oKo)

258 Wife and I also enjoy watching Looney Tunes. We have the entire collection on DVD. It's fun as hell. Some of the older ones are just weird, but you have all the classics, like the one with the big mean dog and the teeny kitten. Doggie thinks kitten was thrown in the oven in a pie at one point.

Magnificent animation. the doggie is heartbroken, and it's heart-wrenching. Good news, kitteh is fine. Whew!

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Telling War Stories at August 30, 2024 05:06 PM (Ad8y9)

259 nood Shanahan ad

Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at August 30, 2024 05:06 PM (CEzQx)

260 Musk announced yesterday that Starlink would stay up at no charge to users, because schools in Brazil depend on it as a media resource. Until de Moraes shuts it down, that is.
Posted by: mrp at August 30, 2024 04:41 PM (rj6Yv)

They all have individual MAC addresses. He could keep the schools online and block the rest.

Posted by: ryukyu at August 30, 2024 05:07 PM (lmKVt)

261
How would they be able to track who's using a VPN?
Posted by: Darrell Harris

Because they aren't as secretly as they claim.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 30, 2024 05:08 PM (63Dwl)

262
It would be people in red hats that say "Make America White!"
Posted by: Axeman at August 30, 2024 05:03 PM (krQz2)

So, Climate Taliban trying to artificially induce snow...

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 30, 2024 05:09 PM (y9nCu)

263 erner, what do you think about my idea for a movie about actors that have to build their own sets and make their own costumes, in which they make a movie about actors that have to build their own sets and make their own costumes?

I'm thinking they should have to make there own sound effects too. Or would that be asking too much?
Posted by: fd

Ach, one can never ask too much of the cinematic Muse. Certainly she does not hesitate on her part. Your idea has its appeal - we might call it Infinite Recursion, and the critics would love it. Also, the actors would be significantly confused, which is quite entertaining to observe. Once, on the set of Nosferatu, I insisted that Klaus Kinski must lose any reflection in a mirror (Vamps, ja?) and told him to keep checking if it was working. This was merriment. We got a lot of mileage out of that, as we did when we required Klaus to operate a hula hoop while filming Aguirre. Ja, that was the best.

Posted by: Werner Herzog Has Opinions at August 30, 2024 05:10 PM (tmPIh)

264 Can't imagine anything that would bring me back to a movie theater.
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Yup.
We're in the last days of the movie theater.
It's really sad to me.
I worked a few years in a theater, from the door guy up to projectionist.
Nothing at home can compare the the quality of film or the experience.
It's all digital now.
But watching a movie film, a big bucket of popcorn, giant soda, candy and a hot dog will always be a favorite memory.
The best movie you could have ever seen was wide-screen format on film at the drive-in. That was the closest you could get to full life-quality recreation of what was filmed.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 30, 2024 05:06 PM (k7oKo)
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Same. I spent a lot of time and money building a home theater. It looks and sounds better than anything in the theater. Plus: no hassle, can watch when I want, the girls are impressed, etc. The experience is so far superior to going to a theater it’s like jerking off vs real sex.

Posted by: Elric Blade at August 30, 2024 05:12 PM (1+FNX)

265 RFKJr's Running Mate Nicole Shanahan Releases an Ad So #Based That I Grew Balls on My Knuckles

Articulating Testicles.

I think I saw them open for Split Enz in '82 at Ozfest.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 30, 2024 05:28 PM (eDfFs)

266 "... That's when we started experiencing a rampage of, I would say, hyper-conservative bigotry and vitriol, prejudice, hatred and hateful language toward us."

Brought to you by the Jussie Smollett School of Accuracy.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 30, 2024 05:28 PM (O7YUW)

267 Wife and I also enjoy watching Looney Tunes. We have the entire collection on DVD. It's fun as hell. Some of the older ones are just weird, but you have all the classics, like the one with the big mean dog and the teeny kitten. Doggie thinks kitten was thrown in the oven in a pie at one point.

Magnificent animation. the doggie is heartbroken, and it's heart-wrenching. Good news, kitteh is fine. Whew!
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Telling War Stories at August 30, 2024 05:06 PM (Ad8y9)

"Feed the Kitty" by Chuck Jones

Posted by: Oldcat at August 30, 2024 05:47 PM (n7h9X)

268 I don't feel a bit sorry for these people. Stupidity needs to be painful.

I walked by their houses in Burbank, Pasadena, South Pasadena, Highland Park, etc etc with all the causes of the day on display... "We Support BLM", "We Support The Science", on and on and on.

They were on the periphery of Hollywood but felt they were in the stratospheric orbit by association. The stars don't give a shit about them. They are basically the truck drivers of Hollywood are are now tossed to the side like so much trash.

Their political purpose has been spent.

Posted by: ChaChing at August 30, 2024 11:58 PM (K95Xy)

269 Who votes for Adam "Pencil Neck" Schiff? Performers, Writers, directors, producers, sure. But set building guy making $40k/year? Busted knuckles, splinters, clothes with paint stains, what's Schiff done for him? More like TO him, really. The nuts and bolts guys that make Hollywood look like Old West, Victorian England, or Outer Freaking Space have to out number those other guys, right? Dry cleaners? Food truck operator? Set Guy probably waits for his CA ballot to come in the mail because he can't find time on election day to vote in person. Ballot never shows up, and Schiff goes on to another term.

Posted by: hurricane567 at August 31, 2024 12:06 AM (D6T7L)

270 This is worth noting: Paramount could have sold their library at WILDLY inflated prices in an environment where everyone was overpaying for content.

Instead, they decided to try to be one of the streamers.

Idiots. I rank their management team right up there with Sears, and Montgomery Ward.

Posted by: Steve O at September 01, 2024 12:49 AM (iY2C2)

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