Is This Something?

Probably not, but let's try anyway.

Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part 1 was a damp squib at the box office, so the final part of the story, and the Tom Cruise era of the franchise, has been renamed "The Final Reckoning."

Haley Atwell and the girls are back. Maybe Vanessa Kirby is too. There's a blonde woman in the mix.

I didn't hear anything about this -- The Return, about Odysseus' return to Greece after his ten year odyssey. A group of suitors is pressuring his wife to declare him dead and marry one of them, making them king.

He comes back to kill them all. I don't buy Ralph Fiennes as a bad ass warrior but I guess they're showing him as emaciated to suggest he was starving at sea for a while.

Is that something? I dunno. I just watched Troy. I dug Sean Bean as Odysseus.

Against all reason, the ".... Has Fallen" franchise is still going.

I wouldn't link anything by that deranged hack Steven King, but there aren't many trailer (apart from Marvel and Star Wars trash) so...

The promotional campaign for Wicked is going GREAT:

Mattel may be safe from the Wicked Witch of the West, but it has had to issue a mea culpa to avoid the wrath of angry parents.
The toy company said the web address for a pornography company was mistakenly printed on the packaging for dolls tied to the new film "Wicked" instead of the official website for the coming Universal Pictures release.
Social-media users pointed out the mistake, noting that the URL directs to an adult-content website. The film's website is wickedmovie.com. The URL on the box omits the word "movie."

Wicked.com is a porn site, I gather. I wouldn't know.

"We deeply regret this unfortunate error and are taking immediate action to remedy this," Mattel said, adding that the misprint affected dolls primarily sold in the U.S. "Parents are advised that the misprinted, incorrect website is not appropriate for children."
The company didn't disclose how many toys were affected or if it was recalling any products. Mattel said customers who purchased the toys should discard the packaging or obscure the web address.
As of Sunday, the dolls were being sold by Amazon, Target and other retailers. On Monday morning, a Target link to the dolls said, "We're sorry, but the item you're looking for is not available at Target." A similar link on Amazon said the product was "currently unavailable."

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 04:45 PM

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1 Something

Posted by: Bacon Jeff at November 12, 2024 04:45 PM (VGRuw)

2 Can't wait to follow this post!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at November 12, 2024 04:46 PM (9eHkC)

3 I wouldn't link anything by that deranged hack Steven King, but there aren't many trailer (apart from Marvel and Star Wars trash) so...

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From the guy who made Longlegs that everyone was gaga over early this year for a hot minute.

Osgood Perkins, Anthony Perkins' son and star of Quigley with Gary Busey.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 12, 2024 04:46 PM (GBKbO)

4 OK, I missed the last - Melania - thread, but fuck it, I am into my first Kentucky Mule (Old Forester 1920). Melania and I share a birthday. Is it too much to pre-pay to have that printed on my Headstone?

Posted by: goatexchange at November 12, 2024 04:47 PM (hyS0X)

5 Hello!

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at November 12, 2024 04:47 PM (QGaXH)

6 I watched Dead Reckoning on Prime. Haley Atwell. MMmmmmm.

The thing is, it seemed fairly standard for MI so I do not get what people did not like about it. Maybe a bit goofier.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work laptop at November 12, 2024 04:47 PM (QoyXi)

7 Was just listening to Megyn Kelly on the billion dollar campaign. And it hit me. I think she was using the Bialystock and Blum strategy. No one cares how a flop loses money.

Posted by: Eeyore at November 12, 2024 04:47 PM (1bNHn)

8 People gonna save a mint shedding the faggots

Posted by: See? Nobody cares at November 12, 2024 04:47 PM (QSrLX)

9 I know that the Wicked Witch is supposed to be unattractive but that's mainly because she's old and corrupted by evil magic. Why did they pick one of the most amazingly unattractive women alive to play her in the movie??

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 12, 2024 04:48 PM (Hh1ER)

10 Willowed:

Melania for Empress!!
Posted by: LinusVanPelt

Melania vs. Alex the Chick?

Could be interesting.
Posted by: Bulg

Posted by: Bulg at November 12, 2024 04:48 PM (v6JzV)

11 A toy company promoting a porn site is so 2024… I laughed I must be a bad person

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 12, 2024 04:48 PM (ANuwa)

12 Wicked can’t stop shooting itself in the foot.
My word, heads should roll!

Posted by: Lizzy at November 12, 2024 04:48 PM (Hkcdp)

13 I like Tom Cruise

He's one of the few who just wants to entertain instead of spending his life bloviating on Twitter like a flaming lefty worthless jackass

for that alone Ill see the movie

Posted by: The Unmasked and Unvaxed Ranger - Certified Trump Justice Warrior and Wagshambas Expert at November 12, 2024 04:48 PM (M7vhK)

14 Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part 1 was a damp squib at the box office, so the final part of the story, and the Tom Cruise era of the franchise, has been renamed "The Final Reckoning."

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Gotta love it when a movie that makes almost $600 million can justifiably be called a damp squib.

It was like when Batman v Superman "only" made $875 million.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 12, 2024 04:48 PM (GBKbO)

15 yeah, "oops" on the matel thing.

most likely, "oops, sorry we got caught..."

Posted by: Sturmtoddler at November 12, 2024 04:48 PM (nXhwP)

16 Social-media users pointed out the mistake, noting that the URL directs to an adult-content website. The film's website is wickedmovie.com. The URL on the box omits the word "movie."

Should I have not done that? Was that wrong?

Posted by: Some DEI hire adding zer favorite website to the toys at November 12, 2024 04:48 PM (oZhjI)

17 Wait, Ace doesn't know what wicked.com is?

Somehow I find that less believable than Kamala claiming she doesn't have her own set of kneepads.

Posted by: SimoHayha at November 12, 2024 04:49 PM (KfVMM)

18 "Wicked.com is a porn site, I gather. I wouldn't know."

Ahem. Statements such as this should be accompanied with *shifty eyes*.

Please make a note of it.

Posted by: AOSHQ Style Majordomo at November 12, 2024 04:49 PM (QoyXi)

19 I was thinking that site didn't look anything like the previews for that movie, Wicked...

Posted by: Blanco at November 12, 2024 04:49 PM (savWN)

20 There is a new Captain Falcon America trailer out too which was very meh

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 12, 2024 04:49 PM (Hh1ER)

21 I have a pic of a headstone comment,
“I told you I was sick.”

Posted by: See? Nobody cares at November 12, 2024 04:49 PM (QSrLX)

22 6 I watched Dead Reckoning on Prime. Haley Atwell. MMmmmmm.

The thing is, it seemed fairly standard for MI so I do not get what people did not like about it. Maybe a bit goofier.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work laptop at November 12, 2024 04:47 PM (QoyXi)

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I think there's a tonal shift from the previous entries.

It's a bit more self-serious than Fallout or Rogue Nation or Ghost Protocol.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 12, 2024 04:49 PM (GBKbO)

23 "Here Lies Goatexchange. He did fuck all, but he is honored, throughout Eternity, to have shared a Birth Date with Her Highness, Melania Trump."

Posted by: goatexchange at November 12, 2024 04:49 PM (hyS0X)

24 They should have made a Fallen II, it's still not too late.

Posted by: Dr Spank at November 12, 2024 04:49 PM (vQCgN)

25 I will never understand why people a Movie that isn't 'The Three Amigos'?

Posted by: garrett at November 12, 2024 04:49 PM (z/jjr)

26 I think I'll skip "The Return". I liked the older take with Armand Assante.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at November 12, 2024 04:49 PM (VNX3d)

27 Eh, there’s been enough Mission Impossible movies. Close it up.
They killed off Rebecca Ferguson’s character in the last one - womp womp.

Posted by: Lizzy at November 12, 2024 04:50 PM (Hkcdp)

28 9 I know that the Wicked Witch is supposed to be unattractive but that's mainly because she's old and corrupted by evil magic. Why did they pick one of the most amazingly unattractive women alive to play her in the movie??
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 12, 2024 04:48 PM (Hh1ER)

Stronk empowered woman of color, alexy...

Posted by: Aetius451AD work laptop at November 12, 2024 04:50 PM (QoyXi)

29 10 Willowed:

Melania for Empress!!
Posted by: LinusVanPelt

Melania vs. Alex the Chick?

Could be interesting.
Posted by: Bulg
Posted by: Bulg at November 12, 2024 04:48 PM (v6JzV)

And just to be clear I meant no disrespect whatsoever to AtC…. Just love how Melania told Dr Jill to talk to the hand

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 12, 2024 04:50 PM (ANuwa)

30 Odysseus isn't emaciated. He's wiry.

Posted by: huerfano at November 12, 2024 04:50 PM (DKIGo)

31 The Wicked thing is even better than that. The website listed takes you to a pron company that makes spoofs of hollywood movies.

Black WidowXXX being one example I saw.

Posted by: Nigel West Dickens at November 12, 2024 04:50 PM (Y8lzz)

32 I didn't hear anything about this -- The Return, about Odysseus' return to Greece after his ten year odyssey. A group of suitors is pressuring his wife to declare him dead and marry one of them, making them king.
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And his doggeh recognizes him!

Good, boy! Goooood, boy!

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 12, 2024 04:50 PM (hovnC)

33
It was like when Batman v Superman "only" made $875 million.

Needed more school girls with kitanas apparently.

Posted by: Some Movie Reviewer at November 12, 2024 04:50 PM (oZhjI)

34 James Wan is a good director but I don't see anything above that I'm going to pay good money for.

I did watch 'Find Me Guilty' with Vin Diesel (Sidney Lumet directed) and enjoyed that. Vin can act, he just doesn't get to very often.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Vote but also buy ammo at November 12, 2024 04:51 PM (xcxpd)

35 Gotta love it when a movie that makes almost $600 million can justifiably be called a damp squib.

Mission: Impossible to make its money back

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 12, 2024 04:51 PM (Hh1ER)

36 I'm surprised Target did the right thing, you'd think they would just continue trying to harm children based on their past actions.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at November 12, 2024 04:51 PM (9eHkC)

37 That monkey could have run for president.

Posted by: ... at November 12, 2024 04:51 PM (lX8VI)

38 So, Comcast selling stations...CNN firing talent.

Has anyone brought up the main reason? That with Trump in charge and Elon looking to cut, all the laundered taxpayer dollars on "media campaigns" to liberal networks are now zeroed out and the gravy train is ending. No more Covid vax campaigns. No more healthcare.gov campaigns. Heck, possibly no more Military sign up campaigns (at least not with that media). And the list goes on and on.

When the money stops, the disinfo stops, b/c there's no money in the graft anymore...it has to go elsewhere. Too bad, so sad, MSM...

Posted by: Nova Local at November 12, 2024 04:51 PM (exHjb)

39 I think there's a tonal shift from the previous entries.

It's a bit more self-serious than Fallout or Rogue Nation or Ghost Protocol.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 12, 2024 04:49 PM (GBKbO)

Odd. I thought the comedy bits were more overt.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work laptop at November 12, 2024 04:51 PM (QoyXi)

40 I'll take that back: I might watch The Return. I do like Finnes.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Vote but also buy ammo at November 12, 2024 04:51 PM (xcxpd)

41 nooded.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at November 12, 2024 04:51 PM (9eHkC)

42 You know what's something? The video game reboot, Elite Dangerous. It us a reboot of a game I played on Commodore 64.

It has a hold of me in the same way that it did back in the day.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 12, 2024 04:52 PM (s//v4)

43 || most likely, "oops, sorry we got caught..."

I'm not sure of the logic here. "Haha! We'll put a porn website on our doll box and...profit?"

"Heretic" is quite good.

"Juror #2" and "Prime of Jean Brodie" are up this week.

"Saturday Night", which my kid wanted to see, was quite entertaining. It's hyper-condensed: Real stories compressed into a real-time 110 minute movie.

"Nosferatu" should be good. Maybe the only time in history a movie has been made three times and was a classic all three times?

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at November 12, 2024 04:52 PM (asXVI)

44 When Odysseus returned from his wanderings he disguised himself as an old bum to get the scope on the old suitors. He then arranged a contest that the one that could string Odysseus' bow could marry the wife Penelope (she put them off by weaving her wedding garb first, then unwove it all at night).

The climax was after a few suitors had failed, the old beggar came in to try, the suitors laughingly let the old guy try, and he did, and used the arrows to shoot the whole set.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 12, 2024 04:52 PM (n7h9X)

45 Haley Atwell

Mmmmmm

Posted by: Diogenes at November 12, 2024 04:52 PM (W/lyH)

46 Damp Squib sounds like a movie I would love to see.

Posted by: Ed Norton at November 12, 2024 04:52 PM (nS6qG)

47 >>The Wicked thing is even better than that. The website listed takes you to a pron company that makes spoofs of hollywood movies.

LIZZO stars in: Missionary Impossible

Posted by: garrett at November 12, 2024 04:52 PM (z/jjr)

48 We have "Dead Reckoning" on our movie server. We're waiting to watch it until part II comes out.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at November 12, 2024 04:52 PM (tT6L1)

49 42 You know what's something? The video game reboot, Elite Dangerous. It us a reboot of a game I played on Commodore 64.

It has a hold of me in the same way that it did back in the day.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 12, 2024 04:52 PM (s//v4)

The space combat one?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work laptop at November 12, 2024 04:52 PM (QoyXi)

50 I liked London Has Fallen.
Gerard Butler had no qualms about knifing jihadis, which I thought was now considered racist…

Posted by: Lizzy at November 12, 2024 04:52 PM (Hkcdp)

51 Black WidowXXX being one example I saw.
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Forrest Hump

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 12, 2024 04:53 PM (hovnC)

52 Probably will be good but Tom Cruise is pushing 60 fast

Posted by: Skip at November 12, 2024 04:53 PM (fwDg9)

53 Some of M's undies still had FART residue which I am love that smell. (Personal Reasons)

"Smells Like Victory".....

Posted by: Joe Biden at November 12, 2024 04:53 PM (AYYhy)

54 There's a Odysseus movie with Kurt Douglas that includes his return.

Posted by: Dr Spank at November 12, 2024 04:53 PM (vQCgN)

55 45 Haley Atwell

Mmmmmm
Posted by: Diogenes at November 12, 2024 04:52 PM (W/lyH)

*fistbump*

I like them busty british redheads.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work laptop at November 12, 2024 04:53 PM (QoyXi)

56 So the people that tell us "what some man said 2000 years ago means nothing" are giving us a movie that some man said from 3000 years ago because it has a timeless message?

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

57 Willowed: Come to think of it, the "Kirk/Spock" slash pairing is older than 40. I recall reading about such stories being written for fanzines in the period between the end of the TV show and the appearance of the first movie, and the 'zines were given even more circulation at ST conventions. So, closer to 50 years of this stuff.

I'd never heard of Solo/Illya stuff until about 10 years ago -- but I'll bet it's been going on quite a while too.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 12, 2024 04:53 PM (J2vNu)

58 He comes back to kill them all. I don't buy Ralph Fiennes as a bad ass warrior but I guess they're showing him as emaciated to suggest he was starving at sea for a while.

Hobo with a bronze spear.

Posted by: Flyguy at November 12, 2024 04:53 PM (HA1lM)

59 Hayley Atwell's girls are pretty impressive.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at November 12, 2024 04:53 PM (kTd/k)

60 39 I think there's a tonal shift from the previous entries.

It's a bit more self-serious than Fallout or Rogue Nation or Ghost Protocol.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 12, 2024 04:49 PM (GBKbO)

Odd. I thought the comedy bits were more overt.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work laptop at November 12, 2024 04:51 PM (QoyXi)

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Think of the early scenes explaining the situation. Essentially, any scene involving the Entity.

There's a dourness to the explanations that doesn't mesh well with the amount of exposition.

Instead of explaining things in a spring with a smirk, it's explaining things with a frown while seated. It's not the whole movie, but chunks of it.

And the treatment of world-ending events feels heavier than in Fallout where treatment of world-ending events could be handled with little jokes about which wire to cut at the end. It's a fairly subtle tonal thing, but I think it prevents the movie from being as fun as its predecessors and might be a reason why it wasn't as fully embraced as Fallout.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 12, 2024 04:53 PM (GBKbO)

61 The climax was after a few suitors had failed, the old beggar came in to try, the suitors laughingly let the old guy try, and he did, and used the arrows to shoot the whole set.

The Armand Assante miniseries of that was really well done

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 12, 2024 04:53 PM (Hh1ER)

62 Wicked.com is a porn site, I gather. I wouldn't know.

I presume Wicked (the porn site) paid Wicked (the movie) to make this "mistake." It must be the best advertising they've ever had.

Posted by: mikeski at November 12, 2024 04:53 PM (DgGvY)

63 LIZZO stars in: Missionary Impossible

Posted by: garrett at November 12, 2024 04:52 PM (z/jjr)

Mission Unpassable

Posted by: ... at November 12, 2024 04:53 PM (lX8VI)

64 PS - If you need to watch a movie in theaters out now, go take yourself or your family to The Best Christmas Pageant Ever - you won't regret it. Best movie I've watched in theaters (okay, I haven't watched many, but have you

all year.

Next week, I'll be watching Bonhoeffer, so that may take the lead...

Posted by: Nova Local at November 12, 2024 04:54 PM (exHjb)

65 52 Probably will be good but Tom Cruise is pushing 60 fast

Er, Tom Cruise pushed past 60 two years ago.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at November 12, 2024 04:54 PM (asXVI)

66 Does wicked dot com have a movie about clown boners?
If I'm working in that... industry, I'm demanding a parody script on my desk yesterday. Doing my finest Les Grossman impression.

Posted by: gKWVE at November 12, 2024 04:54 PM (gKWVE)

67 one of the most amazingly unattractive women alive to play her in the movie??
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

Who is the actress?

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at November 12, 2024 04:54 PM (4XwPj)

68 43 "Nosferatu" should be good. Maybe the only time in history a movie has been made three times and was a classic all three times?
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at November 12, 2024 04:52 PM (asXVI)

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A Star is Born!!!

But, seriously, the early word on Nosferatu is great. Supposedly.

But, I was disappointed with The Northman, so I dunno.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 12, 2024 04:54 PM (GBKbO)

69 58 He comes back to kill them all. I don't buy Ralph Fiennes as a bad ass warrior but I guess they're showing him as emaciated to suggest he was starving at sea for a while.

Hobo with a bronze spear.
Posted by: Flyguy at November 12, 2024 04:53 PM (HA1lM)

Ah, Hour of the Wolf already mentioned the older TV movie with Armand Assante.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work laptop at November 12, 2024 04:54 PM (QoyXi)

70 Terms of Enrearment.

Didn't ace post about something like that late last week??

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 12, 2024 04:54 PM (hovnC)

71 Well, if they are going to recall butter for not mentioning milk....

Posted by: From about That Time at November 12, 2024 04:54 PM (4780s)

72 ...fitting that we're talking about Cruise, because Les Grossman was his best role.

Posted by: gKWVE at November 12, 2024 04:54 PM (gKWVE)

73 Wicked is a woke chick flick, therefore I would have my scrotum sawed off with a plastic knife before I would watch that dreg.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at November 12, 2024 04:54 PM (pohLc)

74 The toy company said the web address for a pornography company was mistakenly printed on the packaging for dolls tied to the new film "Wicked" instead of the official website for the coming Universal Pictures release.

Wicked.com is a porn site, I gather. I wouldn't know.
--

Well that was a boner, wasn't it?

Posted by: Tonypete at November 12, 2024 04:55 PM (WXNFJ)

75 But, I was disappointed with The Northman, so I dunno.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 12, 2024 04:54 PM (GBKbO)

As with Rape, the whole child murder thing is not something I want to see. Call me prudish.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work laptop at November 12, 2024 04:55 PM (QoyXi)

76 *fistbump*

I like them busty british redheads.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work laptop at November 12, 2024 04:53 PM (QoyXi)

*heads to store to buy some Guinness *

Posted by: Diogenes at November 12, 2024 04:55 PM (W/lyH)

77 Does wicked dot com have a movie about clown boners?

Out: Terrifier

In: Tittytwister

Posted by: 18-1 at November 12, 2024 04:55 PM (oZhjI)

78 I can only think of two Tom Cruise movies I didn’t like: Born on the 4th of July (too depressing) and Days of Thunder (I’m just not interested in car racing)….. generally he make fun to watch movies

Oh… I couldn’t bring myself to watch either Eyes Wide Shut or Interview with the Vampire but I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t have like either one

Even Vanilla Sky I enjoyed

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at November 12, 2024 04:55 PM (ANuwa)

79 Romancing the Bone

Posted by: garrett at November 12, 2024 04:55 PM (z/jjr)

80 Haley Atwell

Mmmmmm

Posted by: Diogenes at November 12, 2024 04:52 PM (W/lyH)

There is a pic out there of her in a black seethroughish top.

Yum.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at November 12, 2024 04:55 PM (s//v4)

81 73 Wicked is a woke chick flick, therefore I would have my scrotum sawed off with a plastic knife before I would watch that dreg.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at November 12, 2024 04:54 PM (pohLc)

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Early pre-ticket sales indicate it's going to make a lot of money. A lot.

We'll see, but there does seem to be a sizable audience for it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 12, 2024 04:55 PM (GBKbO)

82 67 one of the most amazingly unattractive women alive to play her in the movie??
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

Who is the actress?
Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at November 12, 2024 04:54 PM (4XwPj)

Cynthia Erivo. She is ugly inside and out

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Vote but also buy ammo at November 12, 2024 04:55 PM (xcxpd)

83 "I like them busty british redheads. "

Tell me about it. I married one.

Posted by: goatexchange at November 12, 2024 04:55 PM (hyS0X)

84 People seem to like Osgood Perkins and James Wan, so maybe "The Monkey" could be good. The story dates from1980, before King soiled his brain.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at November 12, 2024 04:55 PM (CHHv1)

85
That monkey could have run for president.
Posted by: ...

Is that one of those escaped monkeys?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 12, 2024 04:55 PM (63Dwl)

86 || okay, I haven't watched many, but have you

Yes. Yes, I have. I'm finally back to pre-pandemic viewing levels of 2-3+ a week. (The plus being, e.g., the Drive-In Academy awards, where we watched 11 on Friday and Saturday nights, and the upcoming Israeli Film Festival, where we'll probably hit 6-7 in a few days, if we can get tix.)

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at November 12, 2024 04:56 PM (asXVI)

87 >> No more Covid vax campaigns. No more healthcare.gov campaigns. Heck, possibly no more Military sign up campaigns (at least not with that media). And the list goes on and on.

Something that should be totally achievable (notwithstanding politicians bought off by Big Pharma) is getting drug commercials off tv. That was a great part of the Rogan-Vance interview when Rogan makes the point that it's not to really sell the drug for some random disease like WetAMD that will give you a deadly bacterial infection on your taint ... it's to bribe the media into never investigating why a company is selling a drug that will give you a deadly bacterial infection on your taint.

Posted by: the dandy at November 12, 2024 04:56 PM (L+5ng)

88 I remember seeing this one on TV as a kid...

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047630/

When he strings the bow it was epic.

Posted by: davidt at November 12, 2024 04:56 PM (i0F8b)

89 Ace-
I mentioned this in the Cafe last night, but in case you missed it, I finally watched Thor: Love and Thunder. You warned me that it was awful. You were correct.

At the end, it says Thor will return. I'm guessing it won't.

Posted by: Archimedes at November 12, 2024 04:56 PM (xCA6C)

90 But, I was disappointed with The Northman, so I dunno.

Honestly I think it gave a good feel for the world of the Vikings. Yes it seems brutal and hollow. Because it was.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 12, 2024 04:56 PM (oZhjI)

91 86 || okay, I haven't watched many, but have you

Yes. Yes, I have. I'm finally back to pre-pandemic viewing levels of 2-3+ a week. (The plus being, e.g., the Drive-In Academy awards, where we watched 11 on Friday and Saturday nights, and the upcoming Israeli Film Festival, where we'll probably hit 6-7 in a few days, if we can get tix.)
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at November 12, 2024 04:56 PM (asXVI)

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Yeah, but I bet not one of those will be The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp.

For shame.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 12, 2024 04:56 PM (GBKbO)

92 Dial M for Monkey. The motion picture.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 12, 2024 04:56 PM (63Dwl)

93 81 73 Wicked is a woke chick flick, therefore I would have my scrotum sawed off with a plastic knife before I would watch that dreg.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at November 12, 2024 04:54 PM (pohLc)

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Early pre-ticket sales indicate it's going to make a lot of money. A lot.

We'll see, but there does seem to be a sizable audience for it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 12, 2024 04:55 PM (GBKbO)

Early ticket sales said the same thing for The Color Purple. So, I'll fully believe a $100M opener when I see it...

Posted by: Nova Local at November 12, 2024 04:56 PM (exHjb)

94 90 But, I was disappointed with The Northman, so I dunno.

Honestly I think it gave a good feel for the world of the Vikings. Yes it seems brutal and hollow. Because it was.
Posted by: 18-1 at November 12, 2024 04:56 PM (oZhjI)

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I found it kinda dull, to be honest.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 12, 2024 04:57 PM (GBKbO)

95 Trump as Odysseus killing those who dared mess with Melania?

Usually, I'm not much for movie metaphors but this time, I'll take it.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at November 12, 2024 04:57 PM (tT6L1)

96 >>The Wicked thing is even better than that. The website listed takes you to a pron company that makes spoofs of hollywood movies.

LIZZO stars in: Missionary Impossible
Posted by: garrett

I see what you did there, but I really wish I didn't.

Posted by: mikeski at November 12, 2024 04:57 PM (DgGvY)

97 Uh, no Gerard Butler in “Paris has Fallen “ - no thanks.

I do recommend his movie “Khandahar.”

Posted by: Lizzy at November 12, 2024 04:57 PM (Hkcdp)

98 Atwell is not afraid to use all her assets to her advantage unlike some idiot actors.

Posted by: Dr Spank at November 12, 2024 04:57 PM (vQCgN)

99 It wasn't really a damp squib. It made less than Fallout, but the main problem wasn't the gross, it's that they went INSANE with the budget because 'muh covid' idiocy.

Fallout had a budget of ~$175 million, and it made $791 million worldwide, a respectable return.

Dead Reckoning made less, at $570 worldwide, but the problem is they spent ~300 million making it, nearly TWICE what Fallout cost.

That's the issue. If they'd stuck at ~$175 million budget, Dead Reckoning would have still made money.

That's the problem Disney has as well, where they seem incapable of making anything for less than $300 million.

When you spend that much on a movie, you HAVE to make a billion for it to be successful.

Hollywood has to re-learn to control their budgets to the expectations of the movie and the franchise.

Posted by: DudeAbiding at November 12, 2024 04:57 PM (lCHt6)

100 54 There's a Odysseus movie with Kurt Douglas that includes his return.
Posted by: Dr Spank at November 12, 2024 04:53 PM (vQCgN)
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Posted by: Chairman LMAO at November 12, 2024 04:57 PM (LPS7w)

101 Today in history:

It's the 54th anniversary of the day a dead whale was blown up in Florence, OR.

https://tinyurl.com/yc2e8h7s

Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at November 12, 2024 04:57 PM (Qj8ua)

102 || A Star is Born!!!

Well, 3 outta 4 ain't bad, I guess.

I mean, I haven't seen any of them. I do want to watch the Janet Gaynor one. That lady was a class act.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at November 12, 2024 04:57 PM (asXVI)

103 No, I can see Ralph Fiennes as Odysseus. The Greek warrior heroes were not body-builders; their muscles would have been lean, from doing actual work, wielding a sword, rowing, etc. And as for him not being young, like Kirk Douglas in the Italian flick of decades ago: Remember, O. was gone to the Trojan War for ten years, and then it took him ten years more to get back home to Ithaca. And he was no boy when he left for Troy. He'd be at least forty-five, maybe fifty years old.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 12, 2024 04:57 PM (J2vNu)

104 At the end, it says Thor will return.

Posted by: Archimedes at November 12, 2024 04:56 PM (xCA6C)

You know who else will return?

Posted by: ... at November 12, 2024 04:57 PM (lX8VI)

105 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 12, 2024 04:53 PM (GBKbO)

Valid. I found the entire idea of the antagonist being 'The Entity' as being weak tea regardless. You can make an AI antagonist that is terrifying (see Skynet) and a true AI WOULD be horrifying. The thing is the movie gave me the distinct impression they were being hunted by ChatGPT.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work laptop at November 12, 2024 04:57 PM (QoyXi)

106 86 || okay, I haven't watched many, but have you

Yes. Yes, I have. I'm finally back to pre-pandemic viewing levels of 2-3+ a week. (The plus being, e.g., the Drive-In Academy awards, where we watched 11 on Friday and Saturday nights, and the upcoming Israeli Film Festival, where we'll probably hit 6-7 in a few days, if we can get tix.)
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at November 12, 2024 04:56 PM (asXVI)

So, you've put The Best Christmas Pageant Ever on the list, right?

Posted by: Nova Local at November 12, 2024 04:58 PM (exHjb)

107 I think the last MI movie I saw was Ghost Protocol. How long ago was that?

Posted by: dantesed at November 12, 2024 04:58 PM (+arps)

108 And his doggeh recognizes him!

Good, boy! Goooood, boy!

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 12, 2024 04:50 PM (hovnC)

Argos!

That was our first and best dog's name!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 12, 2024 04:58 PM (d9fT1)

109 Willowed for Wolfus:
>>> Yes; the concept of "slash" fiction...I doubt anybody in 1960 would have *ever* dreamed of a slash pairing of Chris and Vin, Brynner's and McQueen's characters.
(And now that I've mentioned it, probably some goofball will...)

Wolfus, you'll hate to hear this, but in actual film classes, they teach that there is gay subtext in westerns. Two guys talking about handing their guns is just subtext for Brokeback stuff. There WAS gay subtext in Ben Hur, but that's because screenwriter Gore Vidal was gay and put it in to spite Heston, who didn't know.

Anyone who wants to read gay subtext into LoTR can, it's a free country, but that was nonexistent Tolkien's mind. Frodo and Sam replicated his relationship of a military officer and batman in WW1. It was a crucial, sacred role. But modern kids are insulated from this and can only let their minds see it one way.

I WILL say this, though. If you genderswapped the Trek movies 2-4, and made Spock female, it would be the greatest sci-fi love story of all time. If.

Posted by: LizLem at November 12, 2024 04:58 PM (wcIbG)

110 102 || A Star is Born!!!

Well, 3 outta 4 ain't bad, I guess.

I mean, I haven't seen any of them. I do want to watch the Janet Gaynor one. That lady was a class act.
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at November 12, 2024 04:57 PM (asXVI)

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I've seen the first two.

The Judy Garland one is one of those movies that was restored in part with stills composing certain scenes because the audio exists but the film was lost.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 12, 2024 04:58 PM (GBKbO)

111 || I found it kinda dull, to be honest.

Did you see it on TV?

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at November 12, 2024 04:58 PM (asXVI)

112 >>It's the 54th anniversary of the day a dead whale was blown up in Florence, OR.

I think it was horrible that those Sea Otters pushed that poor whale onto the shore just to watch it suffocate.

Posted by: garrett at November 12, 2024 04:59 PM (z/jjr)

113 Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at November 12, 2024 04:56 PM (asXVI)

I'm waiting for a Vampire Movie Festival.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 12, 2024 04:59 PM (d9fT1)

114 The first few seasons of the “Vikings” show gives you a good idea of the brutality, and it’s really good.

Posted by: Lizzy at November 12, 2024 04:59 PM (Hkcdp)

115 I thought Longlegs sucked.

Posted by: Dr Spank at November 12, 2024 04:59 PM (vQCgN)

116 The BBC made a movie recently about the Fall of Troy and I think they did a good job in presenting Odysseus as not wanting to be involved but in the end being critical to its success but...

the rest of that series was a depressing train wreck

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

117 19 I was thinking that site didn't look anything like the previews for that movie, Wicked...
Posted by: Blanco

You can find a parody of 'Wicked' on that site and it will be better than the movie. Probably. I have no idea.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 12, 2024 04:59 PM (sAmhv)

118 No more Covid vax campaigns. No more healthcare.gov campaigns.

No more Health Equity campaigns in sha llah.

Posted by: gKWVE at November 12, 2024 04:59 PM (gKWVE)

119 105 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 12, 2024 04:53 PM (GBKbO)

Valid. I found the entire idea of the antagonist being 'The Entity' as being weak tea regardless. You can make an AI antagonist that is terrifying (see Skynet) and a true AI WOULD be horrifying. The thing is the movie gave me the distinct impression they were being hunted by ChatGPT.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work laptop at November 12, 2024 04:57 PM (QoyXi)

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The enemy can be silly in concept. I have no problem with that.

It's the tone I have issue with. Just the super-serious delivery of dialogue for minutes at a time. In a MI movie.

Even the first one wasn't like that.

Still, very fun overall, but just hindered by almost every scene where they sat down to talk about the situation.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 12, 2024 05:00 PM (GBKbO)

120 My problem with The Return is the same as with so many movies now: The cinematography is too dim and misty in too many scenes; you can't tell what's happening.

H'wood has forgotten how to use, what was it called again? Oh. Yes. Technicolor.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 12, 2024 05:00 PM (J2vNu)

121 Came across a new YouTuber you guys might like, SnarkyJay. She does all the Marvel/Disney movie crap and she is pretty easy on the eyes.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at November 12, 2024 05:00 PM (qlXXX)

122 That's racists.

Posted by: Plainoldtoast at November 12, 2024 05:00 PM (ytSiK)

123 The first half of MI has been on one of my channels but I haven't watched it because I hate part one without part 2 made....I guess I can watch it now

Posted by: It's me donna at November 12, 2024 05:00 PM (IyPmt)

124 111 || I found it kinda dull, to be honest.

Did you see it on TV?
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at November 12, 2024 04:58 PM (asXVI)

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I went to the theaters. I was excited about it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, finding suspense, madness, and humanity with Michael Powell at November 12, 2024 05:00 PM (GBKbO)

125 Hard to beat Kirk Douglas as Odysseus. The bloodbath scene was awesome, even accounting for the film restrictions of the day.

Posted by: mrp at November 12, 2024 05:00 PM (rj6Yv)

126 No, I can see Ralph Fiennes as Odysseus. The Greek warrior heroes were not body-builders; their muscles would have been lean, from doing actual work, wielding a sword, rowing, etc. And as for him not being young, like Kirk Douglas in the Italian flick of decades ago: Remember, O. was gone to the Trojan War for ten years, and then it took him ten years more to get back home to Ithaca. And he was no boy when he left for Troy. He'd be at least forty-five, maybe fifty years old.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 12, 2024 04:57 PM (J2vNu)

I don't work for Wicked.com, but if I did, I still wouldn't change The 300. ~ Zack "I'm totally not gay" Snyder (probably)

Posted by: Flyguy at November 12, 2024 05:00 PM (HA1lM)

127 So, you've put The Best Christmas Pageant Ever on the list, right?
Posted by: Nova Local at November 12, 2024 04:58 PM (exHjb)

Dallas Jenkins has earned enough goodwill from me that I might actually pay cash money to see that.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Vote but also buy ammo at November 12, 2024 05:00 PM (xcxpd)

128 I got to meet Haley Atwell at a comic-con once! She was petite and so nice.

I liked the MI movie, but I think its box office was hurt by it clearly being a cliffhanger for a second part. Hopefully people turn out for this chapter, as it set up really good things and had a great cast.

Posted by: LizLem at November 12, 2024 05:01 PM (wcIbG)

129 It's the 54th anniversary of the day a dead whale was blown up in Florence, OR.

The Brian Denehey seafood appetiser.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at November 12, 2024 05:01 PM (ShfwY)

130 || Yeah, but I bet not one of those will be The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp.

It will be, if that ever shows up. Even here, though, the actual classic revivals (from the Golden Age) are relatively rare.

|| The Judy Garland one is one of those movies that was restored in part with stills composing certain scenes because the audio exists but the film was lost.

It's never appealed to me as a story, tbh.

|| So, you've put The Best Christmas Pageant Ever on the list, right?

Based entirely on your recommendation, yes.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at November 12, 2024 05:01 PM (asXVI)

131 So your plan to take over everything, infest every nook and cranny of modern life, censor anything you don't like out of polite and impolite society, surveil everything else and make people afraid to go against your indoctrination, riot and get violent when necessary, jail and kill your political opponents, lie, control and fake every possible thing anybody experiences about "the news", has failed miserably.

What do you do next?

Posted by: ... at November 12, 2024 05:01 PM (lX8VI)

132 "Wicked.com is a porn site, I gather. I wouldn't know.
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Well that was a boner, wasn't it?
Posted by: Tonypete"

The competition will be still to beat the puns we come up with for this one.

Posted by: fd at November 12, 2024 05:01 PM (cuqfS)

133 Mission Impossible 7 may have underperformed, but I'm still going to make the effort to see #8 in the theaters. I have an admitted weakness for Cruise's action movies; I even like the set pieces in Knight & Day.

Posted by: Octochicken at November 12, 2024 05:01 PM (oCS0o)

134 I do want to watch the Janet Gaynor one. That lady was a class act.
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at November 12, 2024

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It is neat, and there is some unexpected humor here and there. From what I recall, Dorothy Parker and her husband Alan Campbell worked on the script. I'm not sure if they were credited.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 12, 2024 05:01 PM (J2vNu)

135 @102 The Janet Gaynor one is very good. Kino Lorber has a blue-ray with a really bad transfer. It looks slightly better than VHS.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at November 12, 2024 05:02 PM (CHHv1)

136 The Mission Impossibles have all been well crafted movies even if they weren't necessarily great movies. Pretty rare thing these last ten years.

The Return looks cool. A good reason to come back to these stories is they rely on the archetypes and don't subvert what it means to be human.

Posted by: wodun at November 12, 2024 05:02 PM (kmNtT)

137 Wicked.com is a porn site, I gather. I wouldn't know.
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Yup. Porn.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at November 12, 2024 05:02 PM (wzAuc)

138
Tom Cruise did a short speech at the start of 'Maverick" thanking the audience for attending. Class act. Anti-Hollywoody.

Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part 1 was so relentlessly over-the-top one stunt piled on the next that even a kid in the audience said 'aw, come on" to the amusement of the rest of us.

Posted by: Auspex at November 12, 2024 05:02 PM (j4U/Z)

139 71 Well, if they are going to recall butter for not mentioning milk....
Posted by: From about That Time

I can make butter without using milk.

Posted by: The Man From Calcutta at November 12, 2024 05:03 PM (nS6qG)

140 Snyder gets asked a lot by the entertainment media if he's conservative because his movies always seem to have conservative friendly themes in them.

I think he's just good (some times) at telling an entertaining story and entertaining stories tend to conservative themes.

Look at Whedon with Serenity for example. They guy is a leftist beta cuck sneaky fucker and yet he wrote a great TV series with balanced characters and an evil out of control government too high on itself causing harm and misery in its wake.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 12, 2024 05:03 PM (oZhjI)

141 Hard to beat Kirk Douglas as Odysseus. The bloodbath scene was awesome, even accounting for the film restrictions of the day.
Posted by: mrp at November 12, 2024

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Kirk does give the look of a man proud of his own cleverness and of his reputation as a clever dude, that's for sure!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 12, 2024 05:03 PM (J2vNu)

142 I liked the MI movie, but I think its box office was hurt by it clearly being a cliffhanger for a second part. Hopefully people turn out for this chapter, as it set up really good things and had a great cast.

It just seemed completely formulaic and by-the-numbers to me. I was bored throughout.

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

143 || I went to the theaters. I was excited about it.

I found like all his films: Captivating. But also with the awareness that if it doesn't captivate you, you will be bored to tears.

Hence my review: "I loved it, but I wouldn't have spent 90M of my OWN dollars on it, because I gotta believe the market for 'closet Odin-worshippers' is pretty narrow."

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at November 12, 2024 05:03 PM (asXVI)

144 The Mission Impossibles have all been well crafted movies even if they weren't necessarily great movies. Pretty rare thing these last ten years.

The Return looks cool. A good reason to come back to these stories is they rely on the archetypes and don't subvert what it means to be human.
Posted by: wodun at November 12, 2024 05:02 PM (kmNtT)
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Part of the appeal of the MI movies is, "What insane stunt is Tom Cruise going to do this time?"

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 12, 2024 05:03 PM (7fElN)

145 8 mission impossibles? Idk, seems like those missions were all doable to me if they did 8 of them.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at November 12, 2024 05:03 PM (qlXXX)

146 But I WANT to see Paris blown up, so the premise of your movie is broken.

Posted by: bensdad00 at November 12, 2024 05:04 PM (F/35S)

147 Wicked.com is a porn site, I gather. I wouldn't know.

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johnwicked.com would be a good website for a mash-up of all the John Wick franchise kills.

Posted by: ShainS -- The Evil Child-Murdering, -Raping, and -Mutilating Left Elected Trump #47 at November 12, 2024 05:04 PM (F48m6)

148 It's the 54th anniversary of the day a dead whale was blown up in Florence, OR.

IIRC, some other whale being trucked through a downtown just exploded from decomposition gasses, spreading festive souvenirs.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at November 12, 2024 05:04 PM (ShfwY)

149 7 Eeyore, correct.
It was money laundering. Just like book advances, F1, etc.

Posted by: cccp3o at November 12, 2024 05:04 PM (d+otF)

150 Mission Impossible: The Finaler Reckoning

Ethan Hunt fights against all odds to get Mission Impossible top billing at a local theater, instead of a puppet show.

Posted by: callsign claymore at November 12, 2024 05:04 PM (0oIgz)

151 I saw the first one when it came out and then I recently tried to watch Rogue Faction or whatever it was and I Madisoned.

I didn't get it.

Posted by: ... at November 12, 2024 05:05 PM (lX8VI)

152 Part of the appeal of the MI movies is, "What insane stunt is Tom Cruise going to do this time?"
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 12, 2024 05:03 PM (7fElN)
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Probably made a fortune off the youtube of the motorcycle jump. That was something else.

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

153 I got to meet Haley Atwell at a comic-con once! She was petite and so nice.

She's 5'7", and, errrr...robust. I would not use the word petite to describe her.

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

154 146 But I WANT to see Paris blown up, so the premise of your movie is broken.
Posted by: bensdad00 at November 12, 2024 05:04 PM (F/35S)

The Frogs seem to be doing better at toilet training their cultural-enrichers than, say, the Dutch.

Posted by: gKWVE at November 12, 2024 05:05 PM (gKWVE)

155 "The Return" is loosely based on "O, Brother, Where Art Thou?"

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at November 12, 2024 05:06 PM (wzAuc)

156 || So, you've put The Best Christmas Pageant Ever on the list, right?

Based entirely on your recommendation, yes.
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at November 12, 2024 05:01 PM (asXVI)

You won't regret it - it feels like an 80s throwback Christmas movie...and in feels, a cross of the Charlie Brown Christmas special and the Christmas Story...

Posted by: Nova Local at November 12, 2024 05:06 PM (exHjb)

157 >>She's 5'7"

And they put her in a Movie with Tom Cruise?

He's like 5'3".

Posted by: garrett at November 12, 2024 05:06 PM (z/jjr)

158 She's 5'7", and, errrr...robust. I would not use the word petite to describe her.
Posted by: Archimedes at November 12, 2024 05:05 PM (xCA6C)
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"Statuesque stunner?"

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 12, 2024 05:06 PM (7fElN)

159 Kirk does give the look of a man proud of his own cleverness and of his reputation as a clever dude, that's for sure!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 12, 2024 05:03 PM (J2vNu)

Yes, plus the added sense of malevolence with a based intent to commit mass murder. The Greek sense of a reckoning, I guess.

Posted by: mrp at November 12, 2024 05:06 PM (rj6Yv)

160 I WILL say this, though. If you genderswapped the Trek movies 2-4, and made Spock female, it would be the greatest sci-fi love story of all time. If.
Posted by: LizLem at November 12, 2024 04:58 PM (wcIbG)

I remember a 'mainstream' Trek story planet where Kirk was turned female and Spock got the equivalent of XYY for Vulcans.

And of course the classic final Trek episode in the Old Series where crazy Janice Lester brain swaps with Kirk. I love the acting in that one, the girl does a great Shatner impression and Shatner has no problem doing a psychotic woman.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 12, 2024 05:06 PM (n7h9X)

161 Ariana Grande got her start servicing Nickelodeon directors how did Eryo?

Posted by: 18-1 at November 12, 2024 05:06 PM (oZhjI)

162 Movie lovers, go watch Clint Eastwood's Juror #9 any which way you can!

Posted by: Pete in Texas at November 12, 2024 05:07 PM (MHrMj)

163 Interview with the Vampire but I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t have like either one

Even Vanilla Sky I enjoyed
Posted by: LinusVanPelt

I was actually surprised by how good he was in Interview with the Vampire.
Others were..... Not as good.
Antonio Banderas as Armand was just terrible casting.

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at November 12, 2024 05:07 PM (4XwPj)

164 You lose Rebecca Ferguson you lose me.

Posted by: Dr Spank at November 12, 2024 05:07 PM (vQCgN)

165 I've seen the first two.

The Judy Garland one is one of those movies that was restored in part with stills composing certain scenes because the audio exists but the film was lost.

One of my fave movies. I like the way they adapted the story to make it current, and also use Judy’s epic voice.
The Barbra Streisand version was dreadful. No chemistry between her and KK.
Same for the latest one with Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper.

Posted by: kallisto at November 12, 2024 05:07 PM (2P7dc)

166 Only Ulesses was strong enough to bend his bow...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkWthM8pf-M

Posted by: davidt at November 12, 2024 05:08 PM (i0F8b)

167 And they put her in a Movie with Tom Cruise?

Posted by: garrett at November 12, 2024 05:06 PM (z/jjr)

That lovely rack of hers completely wasted.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 12, 2024 05:08 PM (d9fT1)

168 >>Only Ulesses was strong enough to bend over his hoe...

Posted by: Coming Soon from Wicked Pictures at November 12, 2024 05:08 PM (z/jjr)

169 Wicked is trying REALLY hard to be the next Barbie movie as far as box office. They've had a few hiccups (Ariana stealing a costar from his wife and newborn baby, Cynthia accusing fans of racism, the whole porn site on a toy box debacle.)

I think it will still do well, despite the hiccups. Never underestimate the power of a now grown female fanbase that adores this music and has pretended to sing it on broadway for over 20 years! And expect if you see it in theaters, to have grown women singing along to the music. I don't like the musical, I could never get over the clear anti-Bush strain in it, and I thought the book was superior. So I feel like I'm in this weird position as a musical theater lover where every woman my age is OBSESSED with it and I'm so meh.

I still think they should have found a way to film this where they got Idina and Kristen to be the leads. Despite the age gap. Ariana and Cynthia are the Wish version of Idina and Kristen. That's not cruel, it's just fact.

Posted by: LizLem at November 12, 2024 05:09 PM (wcIbG)

170 152 Part of the appeal of the MI movies is, "What insane stunt is Tom Cruise going to do this time?"
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 12, 2024 05:03 PM

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Also, that boy's a runnin' fool.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at November 12, 2024 05:09 PM (wzAuc)

171 I had an Epson Eco-tank printer that takes bottled ink rather than cartridges. It quit printing color pictures then it quit doing black and white. I bought a newer model and reading the instructions carefully I found out why the first one quit. If the ink bottles have been partially used - you can't keep them to finish them off. Exposure to air causes the ink in the bottles to go bad and it clogs the printer up. Lesson learned.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at November 12, 2024 05:09 PM (Da7Vv)

172 || 162 Movie lovers, go watch Clint Eastwood's Juror #9 any which way you can!

Juror #2. On the menu for tonight before it goes away.

Unrelated: Are we agreeing that 5'7" can be "statuesque"? Asking for a friend. FEMALE friend.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at November 12, 2024 05:10 PM (asXVI)

173 Yes, plus the added sense of malevolence with a based intent to commit mass murder. The Greek sense of a reckoning, I guess.
Posted by: mrp at November 12, 2024 05:06 PM (rj6Yv)

An interesting thing about the Homeric story is the stories about how most of the heroes try to dodge the call to the Trojan war. Odysseus himself pretended to be crazy and was plowing salt into his fields until one of the dudes testing him put his infant son Telemachus in the path of the plow and he had to turn aside and stop and the jig was up. He then tricked Achilles out of his disguise as a girl by putting a sword in among the clothes he was showing them and Achilles grabbed it and waved it about.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 12, 2024 05:10 PM (n7h9X)

174 It looks like Dershowitz voted for Trump. I think he'd be a great addition to the DOJ.

You can skip to 8:26
https://tinyurl.com/msnew4mw

Posted by: ryukyu at November 12, 2024 05:10 PM (z/gEl)

175 I hate musicals. Only crazy people break out in song during everyday life. Makes the entire movie seem like a cartoon.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at November 12, 2024 05:11 PM (qlXXX)

176 I enjoyed the stage version of wicked. That said the wicked witch in it wasn't homely, just green. And not pure evil. Much different then what was portrayed in the Wizard of Oz.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at November 12, 2024 05:12 PM (2NHgQ)

177 Wolfus, you'll hate to hear this, but in actual film classes, they teach that there is gay subtext in westerns. Two guys talking about handing their guns is just subtext for Brokeback stuff. There WAS gay subtext in Ben Hur, but that's because screenwriter Gore Vidal was gay and put it in to spite Heston, who didn't know. . . .

I WILL say this, though. If you genderswapped the Trek movies 2-4, and made Spock female, it would be the greatest sci-fi love story of all time. If.
Posted by: LizLem at November 12, 2024 0

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Good point. But the "subtext" was probably only something academics started discussing in the late Sixties, when it became possible to do so without being shamed or driven from polite society. There's a long novel from '64, Boys and Girls Together by William Goldman of Marathon Man fame, which contains a gay subplot; but it is not painted as some happy-go-lucky relationship, but as shameful and requiring secrecy.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 12, 2024 05:12 PM (J2vNu)

178 169 Wicked is trying REALLY hard to be the next Barbie movie as far as box office. They've had a few hiccups (Ariana stealing a costar from his wife and newborn baby, Cynthia accusing fans of racism, the whole porn site on a toy box debacle.)

I think it will still do well, despite the hiccups. Never underestimate the power of a now grown female fanbase that adores this music and has pretended to sing it on broadway for over 20 years! And expect if you see it in theaters, to have grown women singing along to the music. I don't like the musical, I could never get over the clear anti-Bush strain in it, and I thought the book was superior. So I feel like I'm in this weird position as a musical theater lover where every woman my age is OBSESSED with it and I'm so meh.

Posted by: LizLem at November 12, 2024 05:09 PM (wcIbG)

Barbie has more appeal, and was a compact, short, non-musical comedy for all ages. Wicked is a 3 hour musical for part 1...as we saw with MI, no one likes to just see just part 1. I expect millennial white women to show in droves...and gay men. And who else?

Posted by: Nova Local at November 12, 2024 05:12 PM (exHjb)

179 118 No more Covid vax campaigns. No more healthcare.gov campaigns.

No more Health Equity campaigns in sha llah.
Posted by: gKWVE at November 12, 2024 04:59 PM (gKWVE)

Stopping the programs will not ensure they do not pull the same shit in the future... people need to be made whole, and those who lied must be held to account.

Its not revenge. Its not even Justice. It's a Reckoning.

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 12, 2024 05:13 PM (QAkQ3)

180 145 8 mission impossibles? Idk, seems like those missions were all doable to me if they did 8 of them.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at November 12, 2024 05:03 PM (qlXXX)

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

Posted by: Bacon Jeff at November 12, 2024 05:13 PM (VGRuw)

181 I always had a problem with the silent "lph". Ray from Ralph is trying to rub my nose in it.

Posted by: Tech Sgt. Chen at November 12, 2024 05:13 PM (Z8Yh2)

182 175 I hate musicals. Only crazy people break out in song during everyday life. Makes the entire movie seem like a cartoon.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at November

You should not hang out with me. 😂

Posted by: Piper at November 12, 2024 05:13 PM (PRqXW)

183 173 Yes, plus the added sense of malevolence with a based intent to commit mass murder. The Greek sense of a reckoning, I guess.
Posted by: mrp at November 12, 2024 05:06 PM (rj6Yv)

An interesting thing about the Homeric story is the stories about how most of the heroes try to dodge the call to the Trojan war. Odysseus himself pretended to be crazy and was plowing salt into his fields until one of the dudes testing him put his infant son Telemachus in the path of the plow and he had to turn aside and stop and the jig was up. He then tricked Achilles out of his disguise as a girl by putting a sword in among the clothes he was showing them and Achilles grabbed it and waved it about.
Posted by: Oldcat at November 12, 2024 05:10 PM (n7h9X)

His hubris caused him much misery. If he hadn't told his real name to the Cyclops he blinded, Poseiden might not have entered the picture.

Posted by: jim (in hospital in Kalifornia) at November 12, 2024 05:14 PM (SSBCb)

184
I had to reject a large photo of a Bauhaus structure being used in an ad because it was obviously not an American building. As soon as I pointed out it was central European, everybody noticed it.

We have more people than ever seeing more of the world than ever before on a computer screen, while rarely sallying forth beyond their block.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 12, 2024 05:14 PM (7oYYI)

185 https://www.express.co.uk/
news/world/1078252/
sperm-whale-exploded-in-street-taiwan

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at November 12, 2024 05:14 PM (ShfwY)

186 The toy company said the web address for a pornography company was mistakenly printed on the packaging for dolls tied to the new film "Wicked" instead of the official website for the coming Universal Pictures release.

Social-media users pointed out the mistake, noting that the URL directs to an adult-content website. The film's website is wickedmovie.com. The URL on the box omits the word "movie."

One of my favorite stories to share about my 4+ decade career in Print Advertising has to do with how a simple typo managed to insult an entire island. CompUSA had just expanded into Puerto Rico, and when our Christmas insert was delivered to the stores just ahead of the newspapers, the Manager of the San Juan location opened the box, got to the back page of the insert, and exploded. He called the CEO to basically demand that the entire Art department be fired. All because someone had typed "semama" instead of "semana" in the large corner bug. No one got fired, but we immediately hired a bilingual copy editor.

In this case, someone absolutely screwed the pooch, since everyplace I've worked at has a procedure in place to test all URLs or QR codes before Final Proof.

Posted by: goozer at November 12, 2024 05:14 PM (aWAkn)

187 One of the excellent benefits of our incoming Trump presidency is we’ll have our lovely First Lady back, with her excellent fashion sense and good taste.

Posted by: kallisto at November 12, 2024 05:14 PM (2P7dc)

188 >>> Look at Whedon with Serenity for example. They guy is a leftist beta cuck sneaky fucker and yet he wrote a great TV series with balanced characters and an evil out of control government too high on itself causing harm and misery in its wake.

Tim Minear had a lot to do with how well it turned out. But yeah, what modern director would be inspired by the civil war, but make the confederates the good guys? It was a different time.

Lefty creators always get mad when their attempts at subversive messages get turned into conservative messages, like Watchmen.

Posted by: LizLem at November 12, 2024 05:14 PM (wcIbG)

189 176 I enjoyed the stage version of wicked. That said the wicked witch in it wasn't homely, just green. And not pure evil. Much different then what was portrayed in the Wizard of Oz.
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at November 12, 2024 05:12 PM (2NHgQ)

I always hated Billie Burke's Glinda. But then I recently saw her in a goofball film called Merrily We Live and really liked her.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at November 12, 2024 05:14 PM (LxER7)

190 175 I hate musicals. Only crazy people break out in song during everyday life. Makes the entire movie seem like a cartoon.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at November 12, 2024 05:11 PM (qlXXX)

Any exception for Mr. Hanky, the Christmas Poo?
Southpark should have won best musical Oscar the year their movie came out.

Posted by: jim (in hospital in Kalifornia) at November 12, 2024 05:16 PM (SSBCb)

191 I think Disney movies cost so much to make to ensure the company and its "talent" are paid in advance by investors, while the theaters and audiences get shortchanged.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at November 12, 2024 05:16 PM (wBaIH)

192 The super cute girl who works at my front desk in the afternoon is making instagram reels right now and it’s so hysterical because there is no noise, that gets added in later.its just funny to watch.

Posted by: Piper at November 12, 2024 05:16 PM (PRqXW)

193 If I'm forced to bump into a Star Wars movie every time I turn around, I want this:

A Jedi who just gives no shits. Foul mouthed realist who makes fun of lazy aliens, cracks jokes about hygiene, flies a speeder like an absolute lunatic, and talks back to the High Counsel. I want a Joe Blow normal guy who doesn't buy into the superiority condescension that oozes from just about every Jedi. I want a Jedi screwing around with his blaster to make it full auto. I want him to wear a t-shirt that says "I'm a metal head" with a picture of Darth Vader's head.

Posted by: Orson at November 12, 2024 05:16 PM (dIske)

194 175 I hate musicals. Only crazy people break out in song during everyday life. Makes the entire movie seem like a cartoon.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at November 12, 2024 05:11 PM (qlXXX)

Then stay away from Bollywood movies.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at November 12, 2024 05:17 PM (kTd/k)

195 Okay, after ten years of fighting in Troy and another ten years of ridiculous detours on the way home, Odysseus would be rather old by the time he returns, so a seasoned actor like Feinnes would be appropriate, but are you really going to make a movie solely upon his return home? Most of the drama is irrelevant high school made up crap of Oddyseus. For so.e reason, deciding not to reveal himself upon his return, but, I guess arriving home and saying, "Hey, y'all, I'm back and taking my seat on the throne again," misses out a lot of subterfuge and mean girl snippyness.

Posted by: tankdemon at November 12, 2024 05:17 PM (K2HbW)

196 The toy company said the web address for a pornography company was mistakenly printed on the packaging for dolls tied to the new film "Wicked"
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Accidentally linking to porn is TIGHT

Posted by: ... at November 12, 2024 05:18 PM (lX8VI)

197 Haley Atwell? Yes, please.

Anyone else notice how weird it is to see famous actors looking older as time goes on. I remember that famous movie from 30 years ago, so why do they look older now? I haven't aged (ha!).

Posted by: haffhowershower at November 12, 2024 05:18 PM (NMT5x)

198 Exclusive — Speaker Johnson Orders Entire Biden Administration to Preserve and Retain All Records and Documents

Posted by: SMOD at November 12, 2024 05:19 PM (vbZ4Z)

199 We used to read. “The Best Christmas Pageant Ever” every year. I was so relieved to see in the trailer that they didn’t adjust the Herdman family “for a modern audience “ IYKWIM.

Looking forward to seeing it! Highly tether book if you have young kids.

Posted by: Lizzy at November 12, 2024 05:19 PM (Hkcdp)

200 Wicked.com is a porn site, I gather. I wouldn't know.

I presume Wicked (the porn site) paid Wicked (the movie) to make this "mistake." It must be the best advertising they've ever had.
Posted by: mikeski at November 12, 2024 04:53 PM

I doubt it. They modified their landing page to remove anything close to objectional images, and put up a "checking for ddos attack" before you get to their page. They may be getting more landing page clicks but I'm sure the trouble isn't worth it.

Posted by: Chuck C at November 12, 2024 05:19 PM (yOPBE)

201 In other news, I just found out that I'm a crazy person. Thanks for thst information, sniffybigtoe.

Posted by: tankdemon at November 12, 2024 05:19 PM (K2HbW)

202 But I WANT to see Paris blown up, so the premise of your movie is broken.

Watch Team America: World Police the expressions on the French character's faces are perfect.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at November 12, 2024 05:20 PM (Da7Vv)

203 This year I’m going to binge on old timey b/w Christmas movies, I just want to soak in an era when woketards didn’t exist and most people observed Christmas as a Christian holiday.

Posted by: kallisto at November 12, 2024 05:20 PM (2P7dc)

204 182 175 I hate musicals. Only crazy people break out in song during everyday life. Makes the entire movie seem like a cartoon.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at November

You should not hang out with me. 😂
Posted by: Piper at November 12, 2024 05:13 PM (PRqXW)

My mother loved "7 Brides for 7 Brothers." It was only in the last 6 years I found out three of her grandmother's sisters married three brothers, two couples on the same day. I guess that makes for very close cousins?

Posted by: jim (in hospital in Kalifornia) at November 12, 2024 05:20 PM (SSBCb)

205 Haley's PROPORTIONS aren't petite, she has an amazing hourglass! I meant her height, but realize I'm much taller than her 5'7". Petite is relative. I probably could have picked her up and swung her around.

Posted by: LizLem at November 12, 2024 05:20 PM (wcIbG)

206 Posted by: Orson at November 12, 2024 05:16 PM (dIske)

Obi For Fairlane?

Yo, Yoda... Roses are Red, Violets are blue... the Force made you short... so Fuck you...

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 12, 2024 05:20 PM (QAkQ3)

207 "He comes back to kill them all."

A sufficient plot, used in several enjoyable flix.

Posted by: gp Voted His Way Into This at November 12, 2024 05:21 PM (Q8V7a)

208 It's the 54th anniversary of the day a dead whale was blown up in Florence, OR.

IIRC, some other whale being trucked through a downtown just exploded from decomposition gasses, spreading festive souvenirs.
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at November 12, 2024 05:04 PM (ShfwY)

A great memory! Whale guts spewed everywhere.

Posted by: LASue at November 12, 2024 05:21 PM (VPuca)

209 Out of biopsy procedure, Mediport installed. My liver area hurts, 'cuz they pushed on the ribs a lot. But everything is fine for now. Will be getting biopsy results later in the week. Thank you for all of the prayers 😊♥️🦎

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - Ace of Spades Ladies' Brigade plucky comic relief at November 12, 2024 05:21 PM (fV+di)

210 Obi For Fairlane?

Yo, Yoda... Roses are Red, Violets are blue... the Force made you short... so Fuck you...
Posted by: Romeo13 at November 12, 2024 05:20 PM (QAkQ3)

Grrr... FORD Fairlane...

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 12, 2024 05:21 PM (QAkQ3)

211 "The Return" looks like it had promise.

And then, throughout the trailer, I'm wondering to myself things like...

"Were African men, so high-born in Bronze Age Greece that they could give matrimonial advice to Queens?"

"I wonder if this Bronze Age Middle Eastern fella is a Muslim?"

"Is that a white Grecian man leading a gang of Africans and Latinos?"

"Where are the Asians in this one? Were they not good enough to participate in this Queen Auction?

There's artistic liberty, and then there's expensively produced hallucinations made for Cosmopolitan Globalist Socialists.

They just can't help themselves, and the Oscars having Diversity Quotas only insures that any movie that has the potential to be good will be ruined by jarring, "take you out of the illusion," casting choices.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at November 12, 2024 05:21 PM (6ydKt)

212 206 Posted by: Orson at November 12, 2024 05:16 PM (dIske)

Obi For Fairlane?

Yo, Yoda... Roses are Red, Violets are blue... the Force made you short... so Fuck you...
Posted by: Romeo13 at November 12, 2024 05:20 PM (QAkQ3)

_________________________________

Do you want to buy some deathsticks? Yes...and not that weak ass shit.

Posted by: Orson at November 12, 2024 05:22 PM (dIske)

213 More prayers Teresa! You won't be without this week.

Posted by: LizLem at November 12, 2024 05:22 PM (wcIbG)

214 That monkey could have run for president.
Posted by: ...

Is that one of those escaped monkeys?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at November 12, 2024 04: and 55 PM (63Dwl)

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I, for one, look forward to the return of the "Gorilla TV" headlines.

Posted by: ShainS -- The Evil Child-Murdering, -Raping, and -Mutilating Left Elected Trump #47 at November 12, 2024 05:22 PM (BFuJF)

215 I liked the last MI and will definitely go see this one. I hardly ever go to the movie theater anymore but seeing this on the big screen necessary.
Deadpool and Wolverine finally dropping in price on Prime so might watch that.
Watched Twisters recently and thought that was pretty good. I like to wait til price is $5.99 so I can turn it off if it sucks and not feel quilty.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at November 12, 2024 05:22 PM (t/2Uw)

216 213 More prayers Teresa! You won't be without this week.
Posted by: LizLem at November 12, 2024 05:22 PM (wcIbG)

This, 100%!

Posted by: Nova Local at November 12, 2024 05:22 PM (exHjb)

217 209 Glad to hear you're fine! Bless you.

Posted by: gp Voted His Way Into This at November 12, 2024 05:23 PM (Q8V7a)

218 Kids movie - This hamster is struggling with his gender. Xe transitions and finds xerself.
We'll make a line of toys. We'll call the movie X-Hamster and put the movie name on the toy boxes. We'll make a killing.

Posted by: Hollywood writer at November 12, 2024 05:23 PM (NXYp1)

219 It's the 54th anniversary of the day a dead whale was blown up in Florence, OR.

That might be a candidate for tonight's cafe.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at November 12, 2024 05:23 PM (VNX3d)

220 Alina Habba - for Press Secretary ?

Posted by: runner at November 12, 2024 05:24 PM (V13WU)

221 If I'm forced to bump into a Star Wars movie every time I turn around, I want this:

A Jedi who just gives no shits. Foul mouthed realist who makes fun of lazy aliens, cracks jokes about hygiene, flies a speeder like an absolute lunatic, and talks back to the High Counsel. I want a Joe Blow normal guy who doesn't buy into the superiority condescension that oozes from just about every Jedi. I want a Jedi screwing around with his blaster to make it full auto. I want him to wear a t-shirt that says "I'm a metal head" with a picture of Darth Vader's head.
Posted by: Orson at November 12, 2024 05:16 PM (dIske)

Mike Hammer the Jedi?

Posted by: Oldcat at November 12, 2024 05:24 PM (n7h9X)

222 Glad the port install was successful!
You'll remain in our prayers.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at November 12, 2024 05:24 PM (9eHkC)

223 So, wait a second. Tom Cruise being so short would put his face closer to Atwell's charms...

Clever bastard.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work laptop at November 12, 2024 05:24 PM (QoyXi)

224 I enjoyed Troy for what it was. The Achilles/Hector fight was good.

Posted by: davidt at November 12, 2024 05:25 PM (i0F8b)

225 I find it hard to believe that the disney p0rn-link thing was a mistake.

their corporate mission is sexualization of children, getting them an early start on p0rn advances that goal.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at November 12, 2024 05:25 PM (gY0JQ)

226 I'd see The Return. Fiennes is always an asset to any movie.

Posted by: runner at November 12, 2024 05:25 PM (V13WU)

227 Wicked will do well for the same reason Barbie did.

Posted by: steevy at November 12, 2024 05:25 PM (YbbtK)

228 Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - Ace of Spades Ladies' Brigade plucky comic relief at November 12, 2024 05:21 PM (fV+di

Spouse and I prayed for you this morning. Thanks for the update, Teresa. Prayers will continue.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 12, 2024 05:25 PM (2Zoty)

229 I just finished The Iliad and the Odyssey in audio book form. It lasts about 40 hours.
Great stuff, for a genuine antiquity.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at November 12, 2024 05:25 PM (MeG8a)

230 Alina Habba - for Press Secretary ?
Posted by: runner

AI Don Rickles.
"Nice to see ya, Frank. Make yourself at home. Hit somebody."

Posted by: SFGoth at November 12, 2024 05:26 PM (KAi1n)

231 A Jedi who just gives no shits. Foul mouthed realist who makes fun of lazy aliens, cracks jokes about hygiene, flies a speeder like an absolute lunatic, and talks back to the High Counsel. I want a Joe Blow normal guy who doesn't buy into the superiority condescension that oozes from just about every Jedi. I want a Jedi screwing around with his blaster to make it full auto. I want him to wear a t-shirt that says "I'm a metal head" with a picture of Darth Vader's head.
Posted by: Orson at November 12, 2024 05:16 PM

The Big Yod-bowski.

Posted by: Flyguy at November 12, 2024 05:26 PM (HA1lM)

232 I just finished The Iliad and the Odyssey in audio book form. It lasts about 40 hours.
Great stuff, for a genuine antiquity.
Posted by: gourmand du jour

Did you listen to it in the original Klingon?

Posted by: SFGoth at November 12, 2024 05:26 PM (KAi1n)

233 I just watched Troy. I dug Sean Bean as Odysseus.
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He had some good lines and an amusing persona in that movie.

Posted by: scampydog at November 12, 2024 05:27 PM (2bFN5)

234 >>They just can't help themselves, and the Oscars having Diversity Quotas only insures that any movie that has the potential to be good will be ruined by jarring, "take you out of the illusion," casting choices.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at November 12, 2024 05:21 PM

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First few times I saw this, I was a good sport. Hey, David Copperfield is an Asian boy! OK, I'll give them some artistic license. Oh, maybe Charlotte Bronte did have a few black friends. Flash forward 8 years: swipe left.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at November 12, 2024 05:27 PM (wzAuc)

235 This year I’m going to binge on old timey b/w Christmas movies, I just want to soak in an era when woketards didn’t exist and most people observed Christmas as a Christian holiday.
Posted by: kallisto at November 12, 2024 05:20 PM (2P7dc)

So Die Hard?

Posted by: Oldcat at November 12, 2024 05:27 PM (n7h9X)

236 We'll make a line of toys. We'll call the movie X-Hamster and put the movie name on the toy boxes. We'll make a killing.

I've got it. A kids movie about a talking school bus that's all getting beat up but overcoming the odds through perseverance on its wacky adventures.

We'll call it "Bang Bus"

Posted by: Hollywood! at November 12, 2024 05:27 PM (NGHTx)

237 A Jedi who just gives no shits. Foul mouthed realist who makes fun of lazy aliens, cracks jokes about hygiene, flies a speeder like an absolute lunatic, and talks back to the High Counsel. I want a Joe Blow normal guy who doesn't buy into the superiority condescension that oozes from just about every Jedi. I want a Jedi screwing around with his blaster to make it full auto. I want him to wear a t-shirt that says "I'm a metal head" with a picture of Darth Vader's head.
Posted by: Orson at November 12, 2024 05:16 PM

Obi Wan Dice Man.

Posted by: davidt at November 12, 2024 05:28 PM (i0F8b)

238 Great stuff, for a genuine antiquity.
Posted by: gourmand du jour

I keep hoping someone will dig up the Iliupersis.

Posted by: gKWVE at November 12, 2024 05:28 PM (gKWVE)

239 AI Don Rickles.
"Nice to see ya, Frank. Make yourself at home. Hit somebody."
Posted by: SFGoth at November 12, 2024 05:26 PM (KAi1n)

Watch Don Rickles roast Kirk Douglas. It's hilarious - as are most of the times he appears on the Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at November 12, 2024 05:28 PM (VNX3d)

240 Jedi's gotta do a key bump.

Posted by: SFGoth at November 12, 2024 05:28 PM (KAi1n)

241 Posted by: Orson at November 12, 2024 05:16 PM

That's essentially an idea I had. Outlaw Josie Wales as a former Sith. So, bad guy decides to go straight. Has a wife and kids on some planet. Old associates come looking for him and kill his family. He kills them all and sets out for revenge.

Make it dark, real and gritty feeling.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work laptop at November 12, 2024 05:28 PM (QoyXi)

242 222 Glad the port install was successful!
You'll remain in our prayers.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at November 12, 2024 05:24 PM (9eHkC)

Ports are wonderful things. I convinced the Mrs. to get one (as she was getting poked for chemo every couple of weeks). Lasted till she passed away, about 7 or 8 years.

Posted by: jim (in hospital in Kalifornia) at November 12, 2024 05:28 PM (SSBCb)

243 Billie Burke was forced by circumstances to go back into acting. She was married to Flo Ziegfeld and retired. They lost a lot of $$ in 1929, Vaudeville/stage was dying, and Flo died in 1932. Billie had to become a character actress to survive. Merrily We Live is a fun romp, and she is very good in it.

Posted by: Constance Bennett at November 12, 2024 05:28 PM (nS6qG)

244 I just watched Troy. I dug Sean Bean as Odysseus.
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He had some good lines and an amusing persona in that movie.
Posted by: scampydog at November 12, 2024 05:27 PM (2bFN5)

but Odysseus didn't die. Not peak Beane.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 12, 2024 05:28 PM (n7h9X)

245 By the way an interesting thing with the Iliad - there is a tablet preserved between the Mycenaean Greek ruler and a Hittite ruler mentioned the conflict.

The Hittite ruler identifies King Priam as a Greek adventurer.

If Priam was Greek his abduction of a Greek princess with a claim on the city of Sparta does seem to make a lot more sense then some random barbarian (as the Greeks though of them) doing it...

Posted by: 18-1 at November 12, 2024 05:29 PM (oZhjI)

246 I like Sean Bean but would have trouble seeing him in some ancient role

Posted by: Skip at November 12, 2024 05:30 PM (fwDg9)

247 229 I just finished The Iliad and the Odyssey in audio book form. It lasts about 40 hours.
Great stuff, for a genuine antiquity.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at November 12, 2024 05:25 PM (MeG8a)

My favorite part is whenAgamemnon offered Achiles his best Lesbians to entice him to fight.

Posted by: jim (in hospital in Kalifornia) at November 12, 2024 05:30 PM (SSBCb)

248 That's essentially an idea I had. Outlaw Josie Wales as a former Sith. So, bad guy decides to go straight. Has a wife and kids on some planet. Old associates come looking for him and kill his family. He kills them all and sets out for revenge.

Make it dark, real and gritty feeling.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work laptop at November 12, 2024 05:28 PM (QoyXi)

Then add a cute robot for the merch.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 12, 2024 05:30 PM (n7h9X)

249 70 Terms of Enrearment.

Two Tools In Sister Sarah

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 12, 2024 05:30 PM (guGkK)

250 So, wait a second. Tom Cruise being so short would put his face closer to Atwell's charms...

Remember Tom was married to Nicole Kidman who is 5'11", maybe, like me, he likes tall women.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at November 12, 2024 05:30 PM (Da7Vv)

251 Nope; I don't want to see Jehovah's Witness missionary girls terrorized by some nutcase in "Heretic" although
High Grant was quite entertaining as the actor /villain in "Paddington 2. Villains in kids movies are about all I can take right now

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 12, 2024 05:31 PM (2Zoty)

252 My gift to the horde I present Trump's new press secretary
https://tinyurl.com/rxuj9jtz

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at November 12, 2024 05:31 PM (t/2Uw)

253 "Lefty creators always get mad when their attempts at subversive messages get turned into conservative messages, like Watchmen.
Posted by: LizLem at November 12, 2024 05:14 PM (wcIbG)"

leftists are stupid to the core, so they just don't get that they have become The Man, and that we are the bright, funny, sexy rebels these days.

*Nelson Muntz laugh*

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at November 12, 2024 05:31 PM (gY0JQ)

254 252 My gift to the horde I present Trump's new press secretary
https://tinyurl.com/rxuj9jtz
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at November 12, 2024 05:31 PM (t/2Uw)

Wow, Habba-Habba!

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at November 12, 2024 05:33 PM (LxER7)

255 My gift to the horde I present Trump's new press secretary
https://tinyurl.com/rxuj9jtz

Woof.

I mean, she's no Mopsie Jean-Pierre.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 12, 2024 05:33 PM (guGkK)

256 My gift to the horde I present Trump's new press secretary
https://tinyurl.com/rxuj9jtz
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at November 12, 2024 05:31 PM

There's a women's studies major out there who will write a manifesto decrying the "Before and After" memes alone.

Posted by: Flyguy at November 12, 2024 05:34 PM (HA1lM)

257 I can't even tell if this is real or a parody account. But here you go. About supposed increases in suicides among gay and trans people since Trump was elected:

@Howlingmutant0
Such an unprecedented loss of lgbtq lives. They’re calling it queeroshima…

https://x.com/Howlingmutant0/status/1855281016572653696

Posted by: LizLem at November 12, 2024 05:34 PM (wcIbG)

258 252 My gift to the horde I present Trump's new press secretary
https://tinyurl.com/rxuj9jtz
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at November 12, 2024 05:31 PM (t/2Uw)

Habba, Habba!

Posted by: jim (in hospital in Kalifornia) at November 12, 2024 05:34 PM (SSBCb)

259 252 My gift to the horde I present Trump's new press secretary
https://tinyurl.com/rxuj9jtz
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at November 12, 2024 05:31 PM (t/2Uw)

Thank you! That was mighty kind of you!

Posted by: haffhowershower at November 12, 2024 05:35 PM (NMT5x)

260 @Howlingmutant0
Such an unprecedented loss of lgbtq lives. They’re calling it queeroshima…

https://x.com/Howlingmutant0/status/1855281016572653696
Posted by: LizLem at November 12, 2024 05:34 PM (wcIbG)

That HAS to be parody... right?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work laptop at November 12, 2024 05:35 PM (QoyXi)

261 She’s cute, but I want her meaner than a snake…

Posted by: tubal at November 12, 2024 05:35 PM (PCK5/)

262 > Why did they pick one of the most amazingly unattractive women alive to play her in the movie??
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

Same reason they picked David Bowie for Labyrinth back in the day. Lots of savings in the makeup department.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 12, 2024 05:36 PM (W5ArC)

263 252 My gift to the horde I present Trump's new press secretary
https://tinyurl.com/rxuj9jtz
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice)
-----------
I simultaneously find myself disinterested in politics and influenced by other things.

Posted by: scampydog at November 12, 2024 05:36 PM (2bFN5)

264 218 Kids movie - This hamster is struggling with his gender. Xe transitions and finds xerself.
We'll make a line of toys. We'll call the movie X-Hamster and put the movie name on the toy boxes. We'll make a killing.
Posted by: Hollywood writer at November 12, 2024 05:23 PM (NXYp1)

A friend of mine recognizes that reference.

Posted by: *shifty eyes* at November 12, 2024 05:36 PM (NMT5x)

265 261 She’s cute, but I want her meaner than a snake…
Posted by: tubal at November 12, 2024 05:35 PM (PCK5/)Habra!

Wasn't she Trump's lawyer in NY?

Posted by: jim (in hospital in Kalifornia) at November 12, 2024 05:36 PM (SSBCb)

266 > My gift to the horde I present Trump's new press secretary
https://tinyurl.com/rxuj9jtz
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at November 12, 2024 05:31 PM (t/2Uw)

Well... she's no Kareen Abdul-Jabber.

Thank God.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 12, 2024 05:37 PM (W5ArC)

267 Hey remember when there were so many good to great movies being released on a monthly schedule that it was nearly impossible to see them all first run?

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 12, 2024 05:37 PM (UWHd5)

268 207 "He comes back to kill them all."

A sufficient plot, used in several enjoyable flix.
Posted by: gp Voted His Way Into This at November 12, 2024 05:21 PM (Q8V7a)

That's pretty much the plot of the entire John Wick franchise.

Posted by: Bacon Jeff at November 12, 2024 05:37 PM (VGRuw)

269 Please, Trump.

Do NOT make Little Marco SecState.

Please.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 12, 2024 05:37 PM (W5ArC)

270 My favorite part is whenAgamemnon offered Achiles his best Lesbians to entice him to fight.
Posted by: jim (in hospital in Kalifornia) at November 12, 2024 05:30 PM (SSBCb)

I think it was just the one Lesbian poet writing steamy love poetry that tagged the entire Island. Catullus named his girlfriend Lesbia in his steamy poetry, but she wasn't a lesbian. Quite the contrary.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 12, 2024 05:38 PM (n7h9X)

271 Ports are wonderful things. I convinced the Mrs. to get one (as she was getting poked for chemo every couple of weeks). Lasted till she passed away, about 7 or 8 years.

Posted by: jim (in hospital in Kalifornia) at November 12, 2024 05:28 PM (SSBCb)

----------

God Almighty.

She received chemotherapy treatments over 7 - 8 years?

I assume it was periodic and not constant?

[Don't know anything about it, but assume they take breaks -- especially if the cancer is in remission.]

Posted by: ShainS -- The Evil Child-Murdering, -Raping, and -Mutilating Left Elected Trump #47 at November 12, 2024 05:38 PM (Ca1WK)

272 265 261 She’s cute, but I want her meaner than a snake…
Posted by: tubal at November 12, 2024 05:35 PM (PCK5/)Habra!

Wasn't she Trump's lawyer in NY?
Posted by: jim (in hospital in Kalifornia) at November 12, 2024 05:36 PM (SSBCb)

Yeah, maybe… I want her vicious.

Posted by: tubal at November 12, 2024 05:38 PM (PCK5/)

273 246 I like Sean Bean but would have trouble seeing him in some ancient role
Posted by: Skip at November 12, 2024 05:30 PM (fwDg9)

There is a Rutger Hauer flick called Flesh and Blood set in medieval times. The casting of Bruno Kirby as one of Hauer's associates makes my disbelief unsuspended.

Posted by: tankdemon at November 12, 2024 05:38 PM (K2HbW)

274 Alina Habba would be a good choice as Press Sec.

She's brilliant and quick on her feet.
She'll disarm those hyper-aggressive man-child lefty men with beauty & charm and cold-shoulder the shrieking fearmonger lefty women by showing them what a real Girlboss looks like.

I might actually watch a press conference for the first time since Kayleigh McEnany

Posted by: SpeakingOf at November 12, 2024 05:39 PM (6ydKt)

275 270 My favorite part is whenAgamemnon offered Achiles his best Lesbians to entice him to fight.
Posted by: jim (in hospital in Kalifornia) at November 12, 2024 05:30 PM (SSBCb)

I think it was just the one Lesbian poet writing steamy love poetry that tagged the entire Island. Catullus named his girlfriend Lesbia in his steamy poetry, but she wasn't a lesbian. Quite the contrary.
Posted by: Oldcat at November 12, 2024 05:38 PM (n7h9X)

Sapho.

Posted by: jim (in hospital in Kalifornia) at November 12, 2024 05:39 PM (SSBCb)

276 Aetius, I can't tell!

It's like the theater mask showing both comedy and tragedy. If it's tragedy, that's horrible, and shame on the left for creating such false turmoil. If it's comedy, dang that's good satire for how the left creates false turmoil!

Posted by: LizLem at November 12, 2024 05:39 PM (wcIbG)

277 The Odysseus movie looks interesting. The sinewy and craggy looking Fiennes seems well cast. If it does justice to the myth, it will be very violent indeed.

Posted by: Ordinary American at November 12, 2024 05:40 PM (ZlOcj)

278 Wicked.com is a porn site, I gather. I wouldn't know.
------

Not to be confused with your own porn site, Wicket.com.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Agent of Chaos at November 12, 2024 05:41 PM (kpS4V)

279 Sapho.

Posted by: jim (in hospital in Kalifornia) at November 12, 2024 05:39 PM (SSBCb)

One of your nurses?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 12, 2024 05:41 PM (d9fT1)

280 Obi Wan Dice Man.
Posted by: davidt at November 12, 2024 05:28 PM (i0F8b)
___________________________

Name has to be as generic as possible. "Bob the Jedi".

"You and your Kessel Run infatuation. Ever hide a porg in a Wookie's food bag? Getting my rather important posterior out of that situation would make your Kessel Run look like you're standing still. Those hair bags are mental."

Posted by: Orson at November 12, 2024 05:41 PM (dIske)

281 Wicked is one online home of one Stormy Daniels.

Posted by: scottst at November 12, 2024 05:41 PM (7Sj3z)

282 Sharon that would be too awesome, I would start watching every press gathering

Posted by: Skip at November 12, 2024 05:41 PM (fwDg9)

283
Lezbe friends...homo you don't!

Posted by: haffhowershower at November 12, 2024 05:42 PM (NMT5x)

284 271 Ports are wonderful things. I convinced the Mrs. to get one (as she was getting poked for chemo every couple of weeks). Lasted till she passed away, about 7 or 8 years.

Posted by: jim (in hospital in Kalifornia) at November 12, 2024 05:28 PM (SSBCb)

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God Almighty.

She received chemotherapy treatments over 7 - 8 years?

I assume it was periodic and not constant?

[Don't know anything about it, but assume they take breaks -- especially if the cancer is in remission.]
Posted by: ShainS -- The Evil Child-Murdering, -Raping, and -Mutilating Left Elected Trump #47 at November 12, 2024 05:38 PM

Varied from once every three weeks to, near the end, once a week w one week off. She did chemo for metastatic cancer for almost 12 years.

Posted by: jim (in hospital in Kalifornia) at November 12, 2024 05:42 PM (SSBCb)

285 @Howlingmutant0
Such an unprecedented loss of lgbtq lives. They’re calling it queeroshima…

Queeroshima?

That means Homosaki can't be far behind, right?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 12, 2024 05:42 PM (guGkK)

286 I checked. Wicked is, indeed a porn site.. one of the pay sites.

Posted by: tubal at November 12, 2024 05:42 PM (PCK5/)

287 I saw "Best Christmas Pageant Ever" last weekend and recommend it.
It does not mess with the plot and as someone above pointed out, they do not make the Herdmans conform to DEI.
Just a wholesome film that can be enjoyed by the entire family. It is sweet without being sappy and conveys its message without being preachy.
Jenkins knows how to tell a story.

Posted by: sal at November 12, 2024 05:42 PM (f+FmA)

288 The Odysseus movie looks interesting. The sinewy and craggy looking Fiennes seems well cast. If it does justice to the myth, it will be very violent indeed.
Posted by: Ordinary American at November 12, 2024 05:40 PM (ZlOcj)

I remember someone describing the Odyssey as half stories you told your wife when you got home (Cyclops and monsters and half you told your buddies (Circe)

Posted by: Oldcat at November 12, 2024 05:42 PM (n7h9X)

289 278 Wicked.com is a porn site, I gather. I wouldn't know.
------
Not to be confused with your own porn site, Wicket.com.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Agent of Chaos at November 12, 2024 05:41 PM (kpS4V)

But Wicked.com is stickier than Wicket.com

Posted by: scottst at November 12, 2024 05:43 PM (7Sj3z)

290 273 246 I like Sean Bean but would have trouble seeing him in some ancient role
Posted by: Skip at November 12, 2024 05:30 PM (fwDg9)

There is a Rutger Hauer flick called Flesh and Blood set in medieval times. The casting of Bruno Kirby as one of Hauer's associates makes my disbelief unsuspended.
Posted by: tankdemon at November 12, 2024 05:38 PM (K2HbW)

Ladyhawk

Posted by: jim (in hospital in Kalifornia) at November 12, 2024 05:43 PM (SSBCb)

291 Please, Trump.

Do NOT make Little Marco SecState.

Please.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 12, 2024 05:37 PM (W5ArC)

I really don't get it, what has that little ninny ever done that would qualify him.

In fact, I really don't understand why so many of the picks are coming out of Congress. Do you want to give Democrats an opportunity to steal some of these seats?

I don't get it.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 12, 2024 05:43 PM (lH8E4)

292 YD

I sometimes take virtual tours of great museums I haven't visited-- such as The British Museum & The Hermitage.

I prefer the ones with no narrator, in which the only sound is footsteps and tourists chirruping softly.

Posted by: mnw at November 12, 2024 05:43 PM (NLIak)

293 About Alina Habba:

Notice how much better looking Conservative women are? Its the crazy hate in lefties that leaks through and makes them as ugly outside as in.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at November 12, 2024 05:43 PM (Da7Vv)

294 Wasn't Sapho the Marx Brothers younger sister?

Posted by: Ben Had at November 12, 2024 05:44 PM (t8vHj)

295 290 273 246 I like Sean Bean but would have trouble seeing him in some ancient role
Posted by: Skip at November 12, 2024 05:30 PM (fwDg9)

There is a Rutger Hauer flick called Flesh and Blood set in medieval times. The casting of Bruno Kirby as one of Hauer's associates makes my disbelief unsuspended.
Posted by: tankdemon at November 12, 2024 05:38 PM (K2HbW)

Ladyhawk
Posted by: jim (in hospital in Kalifornia) at November 12, 2024 05:43 PM (SSBCb)

Rutger Hauer was in both. Good diversion movies.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at November 12, 2024 05:44 PM (VNX3d)

296 279 Sapho.

Posted by: jim (in hospital in Kalifornia) at November 12, 2024 05:39 PM (SSBCb)

One of your nurses?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 12, 2024 05:41 PM (d9fT1)

Victoria, Eileen, Paula, Leila, Meagan,...
No, no Sapho.

Posted by: jim (in hospital in Kalifornia) at November 12, 2024 05:45 PM (SSBCb)

297 50 I liked London Has Fallen.
Gerard Butler had no qualms about knifing jihadis, which I thought was now considered racist…
Posted by: Lizzy at November 12, 2024 04:52 PM (Hkcdp)

I don't how or why they are making a 4th FALLEN movie, I do like Gerard Butler and his last movie escaping Iran or Iraq was really good.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at November 12, 2024 05:45 PM (FCrpy)

298 I just busted a gut watching this short AI vid mocking the Dems:
https://tinyurl.com/yc6m88nu

Posted by: gp Voted His Way Into This at November 12, 2024 05:45 PM (Q8V7a)

299 Just got the internet hooked up, finally.

Was hotspotting off my phone... I think I have unlimited data.

I hope so.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 12, 2024 05:45 PM (bNJTc)

300 nood

Posted by: gp Voted His Way Into This at November 12, 2024 05:46 PM (Q8V7a)

301 Director of CIA: John Ratcliffe.

Posted by: lizabth at November 12, 2024 05:46 PM (Jfw7U)

302 Is this something?

"Red One" trailer starring Dwayne Johnson and Chris Evans.

https://youtu.be/xBCGAt2AbS0

It's another Christmas action-comedy movie.
Is this a thing now?

Posted by: SpeakingOf at November 12, 2024 05:47 PM (6ydKt)

303 .
NOOD

DOJ Lawyers "Terrified" of Trump's Return; Key Trump Lawyer Says Either Get on Board, or GTFO

NOOD

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 12, 2024 05:47 PM (O7YUW)

304 Yeah, maybe… I want her vicious.\

Try asking her out. I suspect your wish would be granted in spades.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at November 12, 2024 05:47 PM (Da7Vv)

305
God Almighty.

She received chemotherapy treatments over 7 - 8 years?

I assume it was periodic and not constant?

[Don't know anything about it, but assume they take breaks -- especially if the cancer is in remission.]
Posted by: ShainS -- The Evil Child-Murdering, -Raping, and -Mutilating Left Elected Trump #47 at November 12, 2024 05:38 PM

Varied from once every three weeks to, near the end, once a week w one week off. She did chemo for metastatic cancer for almost 12 years.
Posted by: jim (in hospital in Kalifornia) at November 12, 2024 05:42 PM (SSBCb)

Many cancers don't have breaks. My genetic type and cancer doesn't once you start treatment (which I did). It's why you prioritize treatment that extends your quality of life first, since it's not like you have to worry about a cure that's not arriving...

It's why I see my cancer as AIDS vs cancer (which so many see as solid tumor) - same every day treatment, same immune compromise, etc...

Posted by: Nova Local at November 12, 2024 05:47 PM (exHjb)

306 Rubio as SoS gets him out of the Senate, into a position he can be fired from at the whim of Trump, and lets DeSantis appoint a MAGA Senator.

Posted by: davidt at November 12, 2024 05:47 PM (i0F8b)

307
I don't how or why they are making a 4th FALLEN movie, I do like Gerard Butler and his last movie escaping Iran or Iraq was really good.
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at November 12, 2024 05:45 PM (FCrpy)

I take that back with all the attempts on Trump a new Fallen movie might be realistic especially if IRAN is going after the President

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at November 12, 2024 05:48 PM (FCrpy)

308 King Harv has trouble! A polar bear armed with TWO chainsaws is after him! Even though the ad does not have any bikini maidens in it I better buy some coffee and quick.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 12, 2024 05:48 PM (IYA3L)

309 " A damp squib"
Thats what I call a wet fart.

Posted by: Roger Eberts Corpse at November 12, 2024 05:49 PM (xLPIb)

310 Ladyhawk
Posted by: jim (in hospital in Kalifornia) at November 12, 2024 05:43 PM (SSBCb)

Ferris Bueller didn't pull me out of Ladyhawke anywhere near as much ad Kirby did Flesh and Blood. He couldn't seem to lose thst New York accent, and a midget marauder didn't seem very likely.

Posted by: tankdemon at November 12, 2024 05:49 PM (K2HbW)

311 There is a Rutger Hauer flick called Flesh and Blood set in medieval times. The casting of Bruno Kirby as one of Hauer's associates makes my disbelief unsuspended.
Posted by: tankdemon at November 12, 2024 05:38 PM (K2HbW)

Maybe Bruno was related to the casting director?

I just saw him in a Columbo episode; he looked like a kid in it. So I just looked him up and learned: a) he died in 2006, I did not know this. And b) I recognize his dad but never knew his name.

Posted by: haffhowershower at November 12, 2024 05:49 PM (NMT5x)

312 267 Hey remember when there were so many good to great movies being released on a monthly schedule that it was nearly impossible to see them all first run?

Two movies or more, on average, get released every day. It's impossible to see the good ones. The problem with the great ones is just being able to ID which ones they are.

|| I don't want to see Jehovah's Witness missionary girls terrorized by some nutcase in "Heretic" although

Latter Day Saints.

And the terrorism is emotional. I expected much worse, or even just predictable averageness. It's a very good movie.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my book!) at November 12, 2024 05:50 PM (asXVI)

313 Remember Connie Nielsen in Gladiator ? Hubba Hubba

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at November 12, 2024 05:50 PM (NtVYv)

314 >>> 287 I saw "Best Christmas Pageant Ever" last weekend and recommend it. It does not mess with the plot and as someone above pointed out, they do not make the Herdmans conform to DEI. Just a wholesome film that can be enjoyed by the entire family. It is sweet without being sappy and conveys its message without being preachy. Jenkins knows how to tell a story. Posted by: sal at November 12, 2024 05:42 PM (f+FmA)

Nice.

Because it's the season, there is a play called "The Thanksgiving Play" that was written by a Native American woman. It's a satire about some woke, well meaning college kids trying to put together a culturally sensitive Thanksgiving play, and it goes off the rails as they double down on being sensitive. The playwright clearly is poking fun at the well meaning but silly white students. The theater where I saw it might be secretly based, because in the list of trigger warnings for the play, they put "woke." It was pretty funny, though didn't really cover new ground.

Posted by: LizLem at November 12, 2024 05:52 PM (wcIbG)

315 "London has Fallen" is one of my favorite action thrillers.

Great action from start to finish. The great Gerard Butler giving jihadis what for from beginning to end.

Highest recommendation!

Posted by: naturalfake at November 12, 2024 05:57 PM (eDfFs)

316 Mattel said customers who purchased the toys should discard the packaging or obscure the web address.
Which means they will start showing up on eBay soon....

Posted by: GWB at November 12, 2024 06:16 PM (E8qwH)

317 In my headcanon, Wicked Entertainment and Mattel are both owned by the same shadowy parent company and so when the marketing people looked up who owned wicked.com they said "oh, we already own that, no worries"

Posted by: Daniel Ream at November 12, 2024 06:52 PM (FMBjj)

318
That's the same monkey from the George Romero Monkey Shines movie poster...

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at November 12, 2024 07:09 PM (y9nCu)

319 Well, to be fair to parents, Wicked is about as high class as a porn company gets.

Posted by: deadrody at November 12, 2024 09:47 PM (vgB0v)

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