Industry Analyst: Hollywood's Long String of Bombs Is Creating Negative Feedback Loop Which Will Further Depress Theater Attendance

In other words, they're pumping out so much bad product that theaters will go bankrupt, and then Hollywood will have fewer "stores" to sell their future terrible products at.

Hollywood is at risk of entering a "negative feedback loop" with fewer wide movie releases and a shrinking theater footprint combining to squeeze box office revenue, a veteran media analyst says.
In his annual assessment of the theatrical sector, billed as a "memo to Hollywood," TD Cowen analyst Doug Creutz notes that he has taken a "bearish stance" on the theatrical window for some time. Results from 2024, with total grosses slipping 4% from 2023 to $8.57 billion, the number of wide releases down 6% from pre-Covid levels, and other factors have only reinforced his view.
"We have said for several years now that the outlook for a sustained recovery looks questionable, and that we don't think the existing global theatrical footprint can be supported solely by a handful of blockbusters," Creutz wrote in the 20-page report.
The number of screens in the U.S. has declined to about 35,000 from 41,000 before Covid struck in 2020, with exhibition also facing big challenges in 2023 and 2024 due to the strikes. That smaller footprint might help theater owners in the near term, but it could end up hastening the decline of the overall business, Creutz believes. Downsizing "risks having more films skipping theatrical and going direct to streaming services...and now you have all the ingredients for a negative feedback loop."

One of Hollywood's biggest mistakes, many believe, was embracing the streaming model of exhibition. Previously, Hollywood sold its movies multiple times. First, it would sell tickets to shows in theaters. Then, three months later, it would sell DVDs or Blu-Rays, and also make the movies available on Play on Demand video. Then, three months after that, they'd sell the movies again to pay TV services like HBO.

Finally, after a year or year and a half, they would sell the movies to over-the-air broadcast TV networks or cable networks like TBS.

Now they only show movies in theaters and then on streaming. But they've shortened the window so much that fewer and fewer people bother going to movies. In some cases, movies turn up on streaming just thirty days after being shown in movies.

In other cases, it's even worse -- movies that do particularly poorly in the theaters are yanked out quickly, and then offered for streaming in just seventeen days.

The old system encouraged people to see movies in theaters because otherwise you'd have to wait a long, long time to see them. But anyone can wait 17 days or 30 days.

Add to that the minor fact that Hollywood is putting out just terrible movies lately, and you have the possibility of a mass die-off of theaters, followed by a wrenching contraction in Hollywood.

Theater owners have been demanding for some time that Hollywood lengthen the window between theatrical exhibition and streaming, but Hollywood is refusing.

Creutz emphasizes that he is "not calling for a complete collapse of the theatrical window, but we think box office is more likely to decline than rise over the next few years, particularly as major studios continue to cut back on the number of films they make in favor of concentrating their box office efforts in fewer, bigger, established IP films."
Movie theater boosters, who are slated to gather next week in Las Vegas for CinemaCon, have characterized the pandemic as a major setback but insist they are on a path to a full rebound. Creutz disagrees.
"We believe that theatrical demand likely permanently declined 20% as a result of changed consumer behavior during the pandemic, in addition to what had already been a secular decline in attendance," he wrote. One worrying sign coming out of 2024, he notes, is that "attendance remains concentrated in relatively fewer films than market norms pre-2015."

Right. So people are skipping out seeing movies in theaters except for a few buzzworthy blockbuster spectacles. So those are the only movies worth making. But at the same time, people are sick to death of the endless would-be blockbusters.

I used to like blockbusters a lot, but this form of storytelling is very repetitive. And we keep seeing nothing but the same type of stories -- Chosen One Heroes, for example -- and are getting tired of them.

Plus, Hollywood is making very poor copies of old blockbusters, with the only "fresh" features being woke messaging plus gender- and race-swapping.

So people are tired of would-be blockbusters -- now mostly flopbusters, a new term coined because of the huge number of expensive mega-flops -- at at the same time, would-be blockbusters are also the only movies people will bother showing up at the theaters for.

That is an evil pair of trends that bodes ill for Hollywood, and for the poor mom-and-pop theater owners who will be the first to go bankrupt.

In very related news, Kathleen Kennedy Junior has been fired from Amazon.

I'm talking about Jennifer Salke, who ran the studio into the ground changing almost every male-skewing property to be a girlboss power fantasy.

Note that Barbara Brocolli, despite overseeing an increasingly woke James Bond series, has always insisted that James Bond is male. But as soon as Amazon bought the property, out came news that they were developing a "Moneypenny" series.

Yes, Moneypenny, M's secretary, would be turned into a double-o agent and girlboss badass. (Note that the movies already did this under Barbara Broccoli, but she had the good sense to have Moneypenny retire from being a Girlboss Badass to be a secretary once again.)

Salke will not be missed, except for a couple dozen Twitter bot accounts.

Hollywood was perhaps shaken, but not stirred, by this week's news that Salke has exited after seven years at Amazon -- and how James Bond was perhaps among the issues that led to her departure. Talk of Salke's departure amid a power struggle with Mike Hopkins, the head of Prime Video & Amazon MGM Studios, had been swirling for a while -- and last month's deal putting the Bond IP into the creative hands of Amazon was a further signal that Hopkins was about to make a change.
Salke and Barbara Broccoli, the longtime steward of the Bond IP, had not seen eye-to-eye on the fate of the franchise from the moment that Amazon acquired MGM -- including that valuable property -- for $8.5 billion in 2022. It was Hopkins, a non-creative exec who has been Salke's boss since joining Amazon in 2020, who instead had been developing rapprochement with the Broccolis.
As Variety recently noted, Broccoli is believed to have told others that she did not feel inspired by working with Salke.

Broccoli called Amazon executives "idiots." That's a bit more than "not feeling inspired" by Salke.

Things came to a head when the WSJ published an article in December about the Bond standstill. That caused a high alert within the studio that Salke's relationship on the film side was lacking and that she didn't have the creative chops to land the plane on one of the biggest franchises in Hollywood history. (It also helped to accelerate to Amazon's deal to buy out the Broccolis, after negotiations began in early 2024.)
Sources said Salke wanted to make Bond into a broader, less dangerous character who could star in TV shows and carry video games. But her desire to make 007 into a cuddly hero for Middle America made Broccoli wince, according to multiple sources. Insiders snarked that Salke's vision of Bond suggested him as a rebellious cookie-cutter spy out of an NBC drama, not serious IP that only a handful of the most esteemed directors could tackle.

Salke is infamous for her hatred of man-skewing entertainment.

Salke cancelled a Conan the Barbarian series, which was being developed by the guys who would later have great success with House of the Dragon for HBO. She cancelled the show for having too much, get this, "toxic masculinity." Instead she greenlit Wheel of Time, changing it from featuring a male hero to female heroes, and Rings of Power, turning it into another girlboss fantasy property.

Amazon Studios founder Roy Price, kicked out of the company over #MeToo style claims, is now laughing at Jennifer Salke and calling for a full reboot/retcon of her prized girlboss show, Rangz of Power. He thinks the only way to save the billion-dollar investment in the show is to pretend the first two wretched seasons never happened.

In a recent post to his Substack, Price shared his advice on what Amazon should do in order to stop losing when it comes to TV. As part of his advice, he called for a purging of the company's TV department explaining that it has become too big and is relying on "consensus decision making"
Not only did he call for Amazon MGM Studios' TV department to be cut down to size, but indicated it needs a new attitude as well. It needs leaders that will "get out their knives, put them in their teeth, and learn how to be nonconformists again."
READ: John Boyega Implies 'Star Wars' Fans Are Racist And Describes Franchise As "The Most Whitest, Elite Space"
Speaking specifically to the shows on the docket and already in development, Price made it abundantly clear that the type of thinking that created The Rings of Power must be done away with.
He suggested, "One thing I would tell this team to do is to completely retcon everything Rings of Power so far. That was an experiment. It is now non-canonical and we are starting over from scratch. It basically never happened and we are literally throwing it away."
Price even suggests that a single episode of Patrick McKay and J.D. Payne's The Rings of Power may be created "where everyone is slaughtered in an orgy of blood that would make John Woo blush and they are finally eaten by Tom Bombadil who then larks through the forest covered with gore singing 'Hey dol! merry dol! ring a dong dillo! Ring a dong! hop along! Fal lal the willow! Tom Bom, jolly Tom, Tom Bombadillo!'"
To be clear, it's not just The Rings of Power he wants to retcon, he wants to retcon any scripts or pre-production done for potential James Bond spin-offs such as 008 and Moneypenny as well as Henry Cavill's Warhammer series and the Red Dead Redemption. "All these shows are being developed (or redeveloped) from scratch," he declared.
He specifically notes that these male-skewing shows should not be turned into "big female draws" and claims this thinking is ridiculous by asking, "Why on Earth would you do that? Has it literally ever worked?"

Hire this guy back.

Update: From Sharon, shut up and sing.

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"These actors destroy everything by speaking.

No one wants their opinions�they're not saving Gaza, they're Snow White.

If you can't shut up during a promotional rollout, you belong in� https://t.co/PPAx0hKtII pic.twitter.com/FCXOXPA8QN
— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) March 30, 2025

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1
Sitting in a movie theater ranks up there with going to the DMV or Doing you Taxes.

Posted by: Frank Barone at April 01, 2025 04:42 PM (IifOV)

2
lulz, this is South Park humor when SP used to be funny:

Elon & Trump Get Swatted

https://is.gd/uryqJX

Posted by: Soothsayer at April 01, 2025 04:43 PM (89upD)

3 One of Hollywood's biggest mistakes, many believe, was embracing the streaming model of exhibition. Previously, Hollywood sold its movies multiple times. First, it would sell tickets to shows in theaters. Then, three months later, it would sell DVDs or Blu-Rays, and also make the movies available on Play on Demand video. Then, three months after that, they'd sell the movies again to pay TV services like HBO.

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Well, this sounds familiar...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at April 01, 2025 04:43 PM (GBKbO)

4 When I want to watch a steaming woke pile of shit movie, I insist on Hollywood.

Only the bestest worst crap for me.

Posted by: Stateless...79% - mental state clawing up from 10% at April 01, 2025 04:43 PM (jvJvP)

5 Sources said Salke wanted to make Bond into a broader, less dangerous character who could star in TV shows and carry video games.

Meet the new 007: Rachel Zegler! With Stacy Abrams as M

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 01, 2025 04:44 PM (VNX3d)

6 Amazon Studios founder Roy Price, kicked out of the company over #MeToo style claims, is now laughing at Jennifer Salke and calling for a full reboot/retcon of her prized girlboss show, Rangz of Power. He thinks the only way to save the billion-dollar investment in the show is to pretend the first two wretched seasons never happened.

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Well, the writers' room is open.

And Amazon has a history of firing entire writing teams to start from scratch.

It's happened both with Tomb Raider and God of War (Ronald D. Moore got put in charge of the latter, and I'm excited.)

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at April 01, 2025 04:44 PM (GBKbO)

7 Simpler. I've got an 80 inch really good TV, running through a top of the line surround sound system (Dennon)... with 3.5 foot floor speakers (Klipsch) that shake the whole F'n neighborhood.

And can sit on my couch, within 12 feet of my refrigerator full of beer.... or 12 feet from Popcorn that I don't have to pay $8 for.

And not have to put up with people talking, or getting a bad seat.

So... why theatre?

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 01, 2025 04:45 PM (QAkQ3)

8 Until Hollywood can get back to being able to release an Amadeus, The Natural, Against All Odd, Beverly Hills Cop, Ghostbusters, The Karate Kid, Footloose, Splash, Romancing The Stone, This Is Spinal Tap, etc, in a single year as they were able to do in 1984 and all through out the 90's and very early aughts, they are going to remain a hot mess. Basically, everything went to crap around 2008 and has only accelerated since then.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 01, 2025 04:45 PM (XV/Pl)

9 Hollywood movies have left such a bad taste in my mouth.

I used to enjoy going to the theater.

Now, I'm going to go to Season 5 opening of The Chosen, and I don't think I've been to a theater since the Season 4 finale.

Posted by: Axeman at April 01, 2025 04:45 PM (krQz2)

10 I will help by not going to any movies

Posted by: Skip at April 01, 2025 04:46 PM (ypFCm)

11 >>>Industry Analyst: Hollywood's Long String of Bombs Is Creating Negative Feedback Loop Which Will Further Depress Theater Attendance

Thumb on the pulse of the industry there.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 01, 2025 04:46 PM (s0Mmk)

12 They could fix the Snow White movie with the addition of some giant fighting robots.

Posted by: fd at April 01, 2025 04:46 PM (PLXMa)

13 What kind of an idiot still goes to the movie theater in 2025?

Posted by: Estelle Costanza at April 01, 2025 04:46 PM (R/m4+)

14 To be honest, this makes me sad. I always loved going to the movies.

Posted by: Moonbeam at April 01, 2025 04:47 PM (rbKZ6)

15 I have to wonder if Hollywood isn't suffering from the same issues the rest of American Industry is...namely a less educated high school/college graduate who is incapable of independent thinking? Graduates who cannot read or write sufficiently well enough to understand a story, create a screen play, or even act? How many people on set in Hollywood are walking around with their damn phones in their hands?

Posted by: Diogenes at April 01, 2025 04:47 PM (W/lyH)

16
In case you can't figure out who's who in the cartoon I linked above: Dan Bongino, Derek Chauvin, Kyle Rittenhouse, Mike Hawk, Kim Jong Il, Elon Musk, and President Trump

Posted by: Soothsayer at April 01, 2025 04:47 PM (89upD)

17 I haven't seen a movie in a theater since before COVID.

What has Hollywood produced since then that would make me want to go?

Posted by: 18-1 at April 01, 2025 04:47 PM (t0Rmr)

18 The people I feel sorry for: All of the secondary workers and industries.

Hollywood, through their stupidity, are putting thousands, maybe tens of thousands, out of work.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at April 01, 2025 04:47 PM (tT6L1)

19 One of Hollywood's biggest mistakes, many believe, was embracing the streaming model of exhibition.

IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE IT IS CLEARLY OBVIOUS THAT MY LOCAL THEATER STREAMS THE MOVIES FROM A SERVER SOMEWHERE.

(i once got a free ticket to compensate for a showing in which the streaming was having a rough night)

Posted by: anachronda at April 01, 2025 04:47 PM (oY6Yp)

20 They're floating the idea of having pickleball, cocktail bars and weed at theatres to draw people back.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at April 01, 2025 04:48 PM (rWTXa)

21 The other thing about streaming is that it's a money loser.

The only company that seems to do it decently is Netflix.

Everyone else is just throwing hundreds of millions of dollars a month at content to see anemic growth, if any growth at all.

Disney+ finally got to record a profit last year, but it had more to do with the acquisition of HULU and some accounting shuffling that put the streaming brand in the black for a quarter.

Apple is losing a billion a year on its streaming service (the company makes a billion a day, so they don't really care).

Probably the best bets for original programing are the ones that focus on reality TV since reality TV is so dirt cheap to produce.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at April 01, 2025 04:48 PM (GBKbO)

22 I think another reason they are going from theater to streaming so quickly is to try to combat piracy.

Also, they are just fucking stupid.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 01, 2025 04:48 PM (bss/y)

23 >>> To be honest, this makes me sad. I always loved going to the movies.
Posted by: Moonbeam at April 01, 2025 04:47 PM (rbKZ6)

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True. Now, my wife and I drive to the local theatre, walk in and a buy a popcorn and milk duds (they allow this), then go home and watch something on tv.

Posted by: Turn 2 at April 01, 2025 04:49 PM (6TlG5)

24 24 I think another reason they are going from theater to streaming so quickly is to try to combat piracy.

Also, they are just fucking stupid.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 01, 2025 04:48 PM (bss/y)

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Black Bag isn't going from theater to streaming in 17 days because of piracy.

It's going to streaming so fast to try and make anything on the film at all by trying to up streaming numbers for a month.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at April 01, 2025 04:49 PM (GBKbO)

25 I think another reason they are going from theater to streaming so quickly is to try to combat piracy.

I do think a non-trivial amount of piracy is that it is easier to just find some site with the movie then find a legal way to do so

Posted by: 18-1 at April 01, 2025 04:50 PM (t0Rmr)

26

Started to watch Dune Prophecy the other day...

Yep, female protagonists.

For a teen-male fantasy show.

Ok.

Did have a 9 year old boy marry an older hottie, so there's that I guess.

But a turgid stupid soap opera mess of a bullshit show. Looks like everyone who produced that used tampon is a woman.

Where the hell is our John Milius.

Posted by: Dr.Rev. Senator Your Highness E Buzz Miller, Esq PhD MA MS at April 01, 2025 04:50 PM (et1vG)

27 I dont want to give Hollywood good business advice, but this is exactly what happened to me.

The window has been shortened so much for home release, that even if it's something I want to see, I wait like 4 weeks and I can watch it at home.

Plus, I find myself hating Hollywood so much that I like having a soft boycott, even if the actual movie isn't woke.

Posted by: Leupold at April 01, 2025 04:50 PM (4pwAx)

28 Stop with the negative waves Moriarty.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 01, 2025 04:50 PM (e5NfL)

29 13 They could fix the Snow White movie with the addition of some giant fighting robots.

Posted by: fd at April 01, 2025 04:46 PM (PLXMa)

And breasts.

A 15 minute shower scene with Rachel.

Hollywood gold.

Posted by: Stateless...79% - mental state clawing up from 10% at April 01, 2025 04:50 PM (jvJvP)

30 Willowed, but,

Has this been mentioned today?

https://www.foxnews.com/us/ truck-strikes-pedestrians-downtown-boston-police-say

(delete space after us/)
Posted by: Oddbob at April 01, 2025 04:42 PM

O_O That's about 2 blocks from my office! I drive right past that spot on my way in. Water cooler talk tomorrow should be interesting.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 01, 2025 04:51 PM (Wnv9h)

31 Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 01, 2025 04:45 PM (XV/Pl)

Just saw a trailer for Karate Kids Legends...

Jackie Chan AND Ralph Macchio, training a new Kid... didn't look woke...

But... go to a theatre to see? Nah.... I'll wait for it to stream.

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 01, 2025 04:51 PM (QAkQ3)

32
I hate Summer. But now that it is inevitably soon, is Seals & Crofts yacht rock?

Anyone else hearing that song that goes Summer breeze?

And that song that goes diamond girl?

Posted by: Soothsayer at April 01, 2025 04:51 PM (89upD)

33 I actually like going to a movie theatre occasionally . I have a small TV so I enjoy the bigger screen and it's sort of exciting to have the lights go down in a movie theatre. Family watched " The 39 Steps at home" and we will be watching "A Night to remember" tonight but I imagine they were more impressive in a movie theatre and I think the Caviziel (sp) about child trafficking would probably work much better on a large screen because of jungle type locations.

A movie theatre about 30 minutes away from me shows classic movies from about the 50's on on They do a good business, probably more so than most modern films.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 01, 2025 04:52 PM (VewCT)

34 By the way, there's a content creation studio on youtube, "Dust" I think it is. They've done some nifty sci fi shorts.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at April 01, 2025 04:52 PM (tT6L1)

35 27 I do think a non-trivial amount of piracy is that it is easier to just find some site with the movie then find a legal way to do so
Posted by: 18-1 at April 01, 2025 04:50 PM (t0Rmr)

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I suspect the ease of use of things like Amazon, VUDU (or, Fandango at Home), and other pay for rental/ownership digital footlockers have effectively closed off piracy as an option to the normie.

Pirating is jumping through hoops. It requires special software, doesn't work directly on most TVs without heavy jiggering, and ISPs can always send out angry letters about it.

Opening up Amazon and paying $20 for a new movie is not.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at April 01, 2025 04:52 PM (GBKbO)

36 23 The other thing about streaming is that it's a money loser.

The only company that seems to do it decently is Netflix.

And their best stuff is either anime or from Korea.

Posted by: Weird amount of Hindi flicks though too at April 01, 2025 04:52 PM (mYVyx)

37 28 Started to watch Dune Prophecy the other day...

Yep, female protagonists.

For a teen-male fantasy show.

Ok.

Did have a 9 year old boy marry an older hottie, so there's that I guess.

But a turgid stupid soap opera mess of a bullshit show. Looks like everyone who produced that used tampon is a woman.

Where the hell is our John Milius.

Posted by: Dr.Rev. Senator Your Highness E Buzz Miller, Esq PhD MA MS at April 01, 2025 04:50 PM (et1vG)

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People complaining that a Dune spinoff is about chicks has little to no familiarity with the Dune books.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at April 01, 2025 04:53 PM (GBKbO)

38 They're floating the idea of having pickleball, cocktail bars and weed at theatres to draw people back.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at April 01, 2025 04:48 PM (rWTXa)

Million dollar idea:

Boobs.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 01, 2025 04:53 PM (s0Mmk)

39 Black Bag isn't going from theater to streaming in 17 days because of piracy.

It's going to streaming so fast to try and make anything on the film at all by trying to up streaming numbers for a month.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at April 01, 2025 04:49 PM (GBKbO)

What IS the appeal of Kate Blanchett? On her own, I have never quite gotten it.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 01, 2025 04:53 PM (bss/y)

40 is Seals & Crofts yacht rock?

Posted by: Soothsayer at April 01, 2025 04:51 PM (89upD)
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I think so.

Even though I like mostly hard or complex rock music, I have a special place in my heart for well done "smooth sounds".

Posted by: Axeman at April 01, 2025 04:53 PM (krQz2)

41 How much of theater revenue is driven by selling advertising?

Last time I went to the movies (summer 2024), there was a full *45 minutes* of advertising before the movie started.

If I hadn't been there with other people (who paid for my ticket), I would have walked out a demanded a refund. That's ridiculous.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 01, 2025 04:53 PM (7fElN)

42 Posted by: Dr.Rev. Senator Your Highness E Buzz Miller, Esq PhD MA MS at April 01, 2025 04:50 PM (et1vG)

started to watch the reboot TV show of Walker, Texas Ranger... 5 minutes into the show, this supposed Karate super dude stands by while a little 120 lbs chick gets in a fight, to allow her to kick ass.

Yeah... turned it right the F off.

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 01, 2025 04:54 PM (QAkQ3)

43 I thought it was great in the new reacher series that the mid dea agent just banged reacher cause he was hot and gave him the lets just be friends speech. And neagly saves the day with a grenade while reacher stands there with a dumb look on his face.

Really girlbossed that show.

Still liked it, but reacher was pretty second fiddle in it.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at April 01, 2025 04:54 PM (OA79/)

44 38 And their best stuff is either anime or from Korea.
Posted by: Weird amount of Hindi flicks though too at April 01, 2025 04:52 PM (mYVyx)

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They went big on comedy specials early. Apparently that's a big financial cornerstone of the service.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at April 01, 2025 04:54 PM (GBKbO)

45 Just saw a trailer for Karate Kids Legends...

Jackie Chan AND Ralph Macchio, training a new Kid... didn't look woke...

But... go to a theatre to see? Nah.... I'll wait for it to stream.
Posted by: Romeo13 at April 01, 2025 04:51 PM (QAkQ3)

Oh God, please tell me Jaden Smith isn't in it.

Posted by: Lie if you must at April 01, 2025 04:54 PM (mYVyx)

46 Million dollar idea:

Boobs.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 01, 2025 04:53 PM (s0Mmk)

Russ Meyer, a lonely nation turns it's eyes to you.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 01, 2025 04:54 PM (bss/y)

47 I suspect that there are a number of people that "hatewatched" some of these terrible movies because talking about how bad they were was something interesting to do, but that's not fun any more. There's only so many ways you can say "it sucked" before you get bored of repeating yourself.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at April 01, 2025 04:54 PM (B9Prs)

48 What's happening is the rot is running deep, and all of the 'creativity' being taught is, 'well what if you take this story and CHANGE THIS'.

That's it.

They aren't teaching story structure, character development, struggle, emotional connection.

All of their 'creative writing' classes are teaching them that the only thing 'creative' is making a Diverse and Inclusive character.

Posted by: DudeAbiding at April 01, 2025 04:54 PM (lCHt6)

49 In other words, they're pumping out so much bad product that theaters will go bankrupt
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It's even worse than that: they've burned their audiences so badly, so many times, that it will take a heroic effort over a sustained period to scrub the stink of any movie coming out of Hollywood. Everyone will just assume that their latest movie will be the same kind of dreck they've been inflicting on the public now for years.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 01, 2025 04:54 PM (YqDXo)

50 I don't understand how Hollywood math works. You see what a few people make on the production, and you would think it would be impossible to turn a profit.

I heard Chris Nolan made over $100 million on Oppenheimer. One movie.

Posted by: Leupold at April 01, 2025 04:55 PM (4pwAx)

51 Hollywood's biggest problem is that they're tightwads. They should be spending a billion dollars per blockbuster and then they can charge us $1500 a ticket to see it.

Posted by: t-bird at April 01, 2025 04:55 PM (KtPtl)

52 And that song that goes diamond girl?
Posted by: Soothsayer
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You mean the rayciss Elton John song Island Girl?

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at April 01, 2025 04:55 PM (rWTXa)

53 https://www.foxnews.com/us/ truck-strikes-pedestrians-downtown-boston-police-say

(delete space after us/)

Posted by: Oddbob at April 01, 2025 04:42 PM
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Were they getting out of a Tesla?

Posted by: Axeman at April 01, 2025 04:55 PM (krQz2)

54 What IS the appeal of Kate Blanchett? On her own, I have never quite gotten it. /i]

She was quite good in Nightmare Alley though that movie was depressing as hell

Posted by: 18-1 at April 01, 2025 04:55 PM (t0Rmr)

55 It strikes me that the widespread adoption of large flatscreens in the home ultimately dooms the ordinary cinema. IMAX might still fill a niche.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at April 01, 2025 04:55 PM (jc0TO)

56 I used to check the Red Box everytime I went by them.

In the last four+ years I do not even glance at them as I walk by.
Being served up steaming piles of shit everytime you go tho that restaurant discourages one from going back.

As bad a rep that Netflix has, they do have a lot of Korean stuff that is better thann 98% of what Hollywood has released in years.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 01, 2025 04:55 PM (/lPRQ)

57 56 What IS the appeal of Kate Blanchett? On her own, I have never quite gotten it. /i]

She was quite good in Nightmare Alley though that movie was depressing as hell
Posted by: 18-1 at April 01, 2025 04:55 PM (t0Rmr)

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The original adaptation from the 50s gave it a happy ending.

Nightmare Alley should not have a happy ending.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at April 01, 2025 04:56 PM (GBKbO)

58 I heard Chris Nolan made over $100 million on Oppenheimer. One movie.

In fairness to Nolan, he's one of the few good younger directors.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 01, 2025 04:56 PM (t0Rmr)

59 Where the hell is our John Milius.

Posted by: Dr.Rev. Senator Your Highness E Buzz Miller, Esq PhD MA MS at April 01, 2025 04:50 PM (et1vG)

That guy knew how to print money, and it's not rocket science.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 01, 2025 04:56 PM (s0Mmk)

60 58 I used to check the Red Box everytime I went by them.

In the last four+ years I do not even glance at them as I walk by.
Being served up steaming piles of shit everytime you go tho that restaurant discourages one from going back.

As bad a rep that Netflix has, they do have a lot of Korean stuff that is better thann 98% of what Hollywood has released in years.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 01, 2025 04:55 PM (/lPRQ)

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Well, Redbox went out of business. So, you couldn't rent anything from them if you wanted to.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at April 01, 2025 04:56 PM (GBKbO)

61 7 Simpler. I've got an 80 inch really good TV, running through a top of the line surround sound system (Dennon)... with 3.5 foot floor speakers (Klipsch) that shake the whole F'n neighborhood.

And can sit on my couch, within 12 feet of my refrigerator full of beer.... or 12 feet from Popcorn that I don't have to pay $8 for.

And not have to put up with people talking, or getting a bad seat.

So... why theatre?

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 01, 2025 04:45 PM (QAkQ3)

++++

Sounds great except for your sound system. That would be jarring and it is the main reason I do not enjoy going to movies anymore; the loudness. That and the endless ads and previews, the chewing-gum smackers, the cell phone usage and talking.

Posted by: washrivergal at April 01, 2025 04:56 PM (C53IZ)

62
Nightmare Alley should not have a happy ending.

The protagonist is a horrible person so he kind of deserves it but...still incredibly depressing

Posted by: 18-1 at April 01, 2025 04:57 PM (t0Rmr)

63 I heard Chris Nolan made over $100 million on Oppenheimer. One movie.

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He had a profit sharing arrangement.

He didn't just get a $100 million paycheck.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at April 01, 2025 04:57 PM (GBKbO)

64 64 The protagonist is a horrible person so he kind of deserves it but...still incredibly depressing
Posted by: 18-1 at April 01, 2025 04:57 PM (t0Rmr)

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Guy who wrote it...

Married to the woman who eventually married CS Lewis.

She divorced to marry Lewis. Alcoholic who was constantly searching for meaning. Fucked up in the head as far as I can tell.

Didn't write much, but Nightmare Alley is a real doozy of a winner.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at April 01, 2025 04:58 PM (GBKbO)

65 Where the hell is our John Milius.

Gibson and Eastwood regularly make good movies. But...I suspect Eastwood just made his last.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 01, 2025 04:58 PM (t0Rmr)

66 He had a profit sharing arrangement.

He didn't just get a $100 million paycheck.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

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I understand, but it's still money out the door. Usually points are on gross revenue.

Posted by: Leupold at April 01, 2025 04:58 PM (4pwAx)

67 Plus, Oppenheimer cracked a billion, didn't it?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 01, 2025 04:58 PM (bss/y)

68 The original adaptation from the 50s gave it a happy ending.

Nightmare Alley should not have a happy ending.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at April 01, 2025 04:56 PM (GBKbO)

Yeah, Damnation Alley over Nightmare Alley...

And thinking on it, THAT would be a good movie for a modern remake (which is something I very seldom say).

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 01, 2025 04:58 PM (QAkQ3)

69 Hollywood's biggest problem is that they're tightwads. They should be spending a billion dollars per blockbuster and then they can charge us $1500 a ticket to see it.

Okay, but you'll have to throw in a small popcorn or it's no deal.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 01, 2025 04:58 PM (xCA6C)

70 Afternoon all.
Just saw this on GP. Comedian Tom Dillon talking about why Rachel Zegler and all actors should shut up and act.
https://tinyurl.com/5n6w685d

Page down to video.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at April 01, 2025 04:58 PM (t/2Uw)

71 They're floating the idea of having pickleball, cocktail bars and weed at theatres to draw people back.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at April 01, 2025 04:48 PM (rWTXa)

Million dollar idea:

Boobs.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 01, 2025 04:53 PM (s0Mmk)
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And they could have a raised stage, with a couple of poles in it, with topless girls dancing and trying to get guys to buy over-priced drinks ...

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 01, 2025 04:59 PM (YqDXo)

72 67 Gibson and Eastwood regularly make good movies. But...I suspect Eastwood just made his last.
Posted by: 18-1 at April 01, 2025 04:58 PM (t0Rmr)

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Eastwood is talking about making another.

I thought Cry Macho would be his last, and he proved me wrong on that.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at April 01, 2025 04:59 PM (GBKbO)

73 Gibson and Eastwood regularly make good movies. But...I suspect Eastwood just made his last.
Posted by: 18-1 at April 01, 2025 04:58 PM (t0Rmr)

Last one I saw was Gran Torino.

For Gibson, Fatman.

I liked both.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 01, 2025 04:59 PM (bss/y)

74 Still liked it, but reacher was pretty second fiddle in it.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at April 01, 2025 04:54 PM (OA79/)
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C'mon. Nobody else could have fought Paulie.

He took out the Strong Lieutenant and he finally took out the Big Bad.

I'm still high on Reacher, for now.

Posted by: Axeman at April 01, 2025 04:59 PM (krQz2)

75 68 I understand, but it's still money out the door. Usually points are on gross revenue.
Posted by: Leupold at April 01, 2025 04:58 PM (4pwAx)

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It was on gross revenue.

Oppenheimer wasn't that expensive to make, and it made a lot of money.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at April 01, 2025 04:59 PM (GBKbO)

76 Saw Fox News video on trental truck crash, just looks more purpose than accident. We will see

Posted by: Skip at April 01, 2025 04:59 PM (ypFCm)

77 moviegigue (buy my books)'s simple plan to save theaters:

Cap copyright at 40 years again.

Watch as movie theaters, now able to show any film made up to 1985, flourish and prosper, with lower ticket prices, packed houses, and better concessions*.

* I'm just assuming that not having to fark around with the Hollywood strong-arm distributors will the give exhibitors the chance to really focus on what matters in life: snacks.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at April 01, 2025 04:59 PM (asXVI)

78 Wheel of Time is only going to get better with more dead women and more lesbians!

Posted by: Draki at April 01, 2025 05:00 PM (KAuUW)

79 They're floating the idea of having pickleball, cocktail bars and weed at theatres to draw people back.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at April 01, 2025 04:48 PM (rWTXa)

Million dollar idea:

Boobs.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 01, 2025 04:53 PM (s0Mmk)
_______________

And they could have a raised stage, with a couple of poles in it, with topless girls dancing and trying to get guys to buy over-priced drinks ...

Come to think of it, why don't they just get rid of the movie altogether and have all that other stuff.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 01, 2025 05:00 PM (xCA6C)

80 Sounds great except for your sound system. That would be jarring and it is the main reason I do not enjoy going to movies anymore; the loudness. That and the endless ads and previews, the chewing-gum smackers, the cell phone usage and talking.
Posted by: washrivergal at April 01, 2025 04:56 PM (C53IZ)

Yeah, but volume control... like lighting control... are a Feature...

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 01, 2025 05:00 PM (QAkQ3)

81 Juror #2 is classic Eastwood. It starts from a premise there's no good way out of and, yeah, doesn't get out of it. But it comes to an uneasy rest with something akin to justice.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at April 01, 2025 05:01 PM (asXVI)

82 80 Wheel of Time is only going to get better with more dead women and more lesbians!
Posted by: Draki at April 01, 2025 05:00 PM (KAuUW)

Even back in college, I thought WoT would only really work as an anime/cartoon.

Back then, me and my best friend thought the guy who did samurai jack's animation would work really well and fit the tone of the series.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 01, 2025 05:01 PM (bss/y)

83 83 Juror #2 is classic Eastwood. It starts from a premise there's no good way out of and, yeah, doesn't get out of it. But it comes to an uneasy rest with something akin to justice.
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at April 01, 2025 05:01 PM (asXVI)

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Probably his most hopeful movie about the justice system since...

Play Misty for Me.

And Play Misty for Me wasn't hopeful about the justice system.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at April 01, 2025 05:02 PM (GBKbO)

84 Wheel of Time is only going to get better with more dead women and more lesbians!

Well are we talking hot starlettes making out here or Janet Renos talking about the patriarchy?

Posted by: Some Movie Goer Which Has Ideas at April 01, 2025 05:02 PM (t0Rmr)

85 Also big screen TVs. Close captioning so you can actually hear what the actors are saying. Ability to take bathroom breaks. Comfy couches. Free snacks.🍿🥤

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at April 01, 2025 05:02 PM (t/2Uw)

86 Yeah, but volume control... like lighting control... are a Feature...
Posted by: Romeo13 at April 01, 2025 05:00 PM (QAkQ3)

Yeah, when it is too loud at the theater, you can't escape it.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 01, 2025 05:02 PM (bss/y)

87 Is violence against women the best part of Wheel of Time or watching women watch in horror as a man saves them from being stupid?

Posted by: Draki at April 01, 2025 05:02 PM (KAuUW)

88 Back then, me and my best friend thought the guy who did samurai jack's animation would work really well and fit the tone of the series.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 01, 2025 05:01 PM (bss/y)
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Gendy Tartakovsky. Yes.

Posted by: Axeman at April 01, 2025 05:02 PM (krQz2)

89 And they could have a raised stage, with a couple of poles in it, with topless girls dancing and trying to get guys to buy over-priced drinks ...

Come to think of it, why don't they just get rid of the movie altogether and have all that other stuff.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 01, 2025 05:00 PM (xCA6C)
___________

Yeah! A new business concept!

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 01, 2025 05:02 PM (YqDXo)

90
The Chosen.

Posted by: Come and See at April 01, 2025 05:02 PM (dg+HA)

91 I was surprised recently when I learned that they are actually producing a new season of Witcher. They talked about it when Cavill announced his departure, but I kind of figured they'd decided not to do it. Needless to say, I won't watch it.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 01, 2025 05:03 PM (xCA6C)

92 Well are we talking hot starlettes making out here or Janet Renos talking about the patriarchy?
Posted by: Some Movie Goer Which Has Ideas at April 01, 2025 05:02 PM (t0Rmr)

I have not see it but Rosamund Pike is about the hottest gal in it from what I have seen.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 01, 2025 05:03 PM (bss/y)

93 I'm interested to see if Henry Cavill ever gets his Warhammer movie. Done right that would get me to a movie theater.

Done wrong it would be like the hobbit movies or worse yet Rangz of Power or

Posted by: 18-1 at April 01, 2025 05:03 PM (t0Rmr)

94 To be a female actress in WoT, you have to be at least as hot as Rosamund Pike. So it’s like Trek and we have high standards.

Posted by: Draki at April 01, 2025 05:04 PM (KAuUW)

95 I think another reason they are going from theater to streaming so quickly is to try to combat piracy.

I do think a non-trivial amount of piracy is that it is easier to just find some site with the movie then find a legal way to do so
Posted by: 18-1 at April 01, 2025 04:50 PM (t0Rmr)

Outside of Asia, piracy is mostly people who would not have bought the DVD anyway.

I think the real issue is just there's only so much money the median household has for entertainment once TV and internet are accounted for. This gets divided up among all sources. Stream Services split up so you have to buy three or four service means each must cost about what a DVD does now. You aren't gonna make enough to run a studio on that share.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 01, 2025 05:04 PM (n7h9X)

96 Also big screen TVs. Close captioning so you can actually hear what the actors are saying. Ability to take bathroom breaks. Comfy couches. Free snacks.🍿🥤

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at April 01, 2025 05:02 PM (t/2Uw)
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Yeah! But you'll miss the sticky floors, people farting around with their cell phones and talking loudly, the ridiculously over-priced snacks, not to mention the length advertisements.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 01, 2025 05:05 PM (YqDXo)

97 I want another Starship Troopers ripoff.

But from the Skinnies perspective as the Troopers run amok over their cities nuking every other block. Because you don't spank a baby with an axe...
See how they handle 'peace' negotiations from their perspective.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 01, 2025 05:05 PM (/lPRQ)

98 When I see Hollywood collapsing all I hear is Mr Burns saying "Excellent".

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 01, 2025 05:05 PM (2ZThz)

99 I have not see it but Rosamund Pike is about the hottest gal in it from what I have seen.

She was incandescent in an ice queen sort of way in the Bond movie Die Another Day. She's looking a bit long in the tooth now.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 01, 2025 05:05 PM (xCA6C)

100 Million dollar idea:
Boobs.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder,

Gender-swapping the classics, such as Animal House! You're a natural at this, ma'am... (Forget it, I'm on a roll)

Posted by: Hollywood Execs at April 01, 2025 05:05 PM (hnMW+)

101 I hate Summer. But now that it is inevitably soon, is Seals & Crofts yacht rock?

Anyone else hearing that song that goes Summer breeze?

And that song that goes diamond girl?

Posted by: Soothsayer at April 01, 2025 04:51 PM (89upD)

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"Hummingbird don't fly away, fly away ... do do do do"

TBF, my first college roommate had the album and played it frequently ...

Posted by: ShainS -- The Dissolution of The Autopen Empire at April 01, 2025 05:06 PM (bHRDR)

102 I hate Summer. But now that it is inevitably soon, is Seals & Crofts yacht rock?

Anyone else hearing that song that goes Summer breeze?

And that song that goes diamond girl?

Posted by: Soothsayer at April 01, 2025 04:51 PM (89upD)

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

"Hummingbird don't fly away, fly away ... do do do do"

TBF, my first college roommate had the album and played it frequently ...

Posted by: ShainS -- The Dissolution of The Autopen Empire at April 01, 2025 05:06 PM (bHRDR)

103
I think the real issue is just there's only so much money the median household has for entertainment once TV and internet are accounted for. This gets divided up among all sources. Stream Services split up so you have to buy three or four service means each must cost about what a DVD does now. You aren't gonna make enough to run a studio on that share./i]

Back in the day you could get pretty much EVERY new release from Netflixon DVD, you just had to wait 2-3 days for them to mail it to you.

I don't get how that business model failed over "get 4 streaming services and one of them might get the new movie you want to see...maybe...and has nothing older that is worth watching"

Posted by: 18-1 at April 01, 2025 05:06 PM (t0Rmr)

104 99 I want another Starship Troopers ripoff.

But from the Skinnies perspective as the Troopers run amok over their cities nuking every other block. Because you don't spank a baby with an axe...
See how they handle 'peace' negotiations from their perspective.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 01, 2025 05:05 PM (/lPRQ)

Actually word is out that there is another Starship Trooper movie in the works... but more back to the source material...

Because how can you be a Starship Trooper, with Combat Battle Armor?

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 01, 2025 05:06 PM (QAkQ3)

105 Ah, the good old traveling cell phone double post ...

Posted by: ShainS -- The Dissolution of The Autopen Empire at April 01, 2025 05:07 PM (bHRDR)

106 96 To be a female actress in WoT, you have to be at least as hot as Rosamund Pike. So it’s like Trek and we have high standards.
Posted by: Draki at April 01, 2025 05:04 PM (KAuUW)

I am trying to think of who was described as anything but beautiful in the series. The body Graendel got swapped to? Hell, even Elaida was described as hot.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 01, 2025 05:07 PM (bss/y)

107 Possibly an unpopular opinion, but I think Kate Blanchett is not very good at acting. Her "moose and squirrel" routine in Indiana Jones 4 and the Disappointed Audience is par for the course.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at April 01, 2025 05:07 PM (2wadn)

108 Or another property just waiting for a movie That Hideous Strength.

Extra points if they cast an actor as the head of NICE that looks like Tony Fauci

Posted by: 18-1 at April 01, 2025 05:07 PM (t0Rmr)

109 16 I have to wonder if Hollywood isn't suffering from the same issues the rest of American Industry is...namely a less educated high school/college graduate who is incapable of independent thinking? Graduates who cannot read or write sufficiently well enough to understand a story, create a screen play, or even act? How many people on set in Hollywood are walking around with their damn phones in their hands?

Posted by: Diogenes at April 01, 2025 04:47 PM (W/lyH)
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The model, as mentioned, is broken. But the product has been taken over by commies, who make everything a victim play. They aren't making movies anyone wants to see - not just the brain addled youngins. Essentially firing every creative type hired in the last decade or two would be a good place to start.

Posted by: Black JEM at April 01, 2025 05:07 PM (GZYu7)

110 Posted by: 18-1 at April 01, 2025 05:06 PM (t0Rmr)

And then you have folks like me... who will wait until there are 4 or 5 things on Net F that I want to see... pay for it for ONE month... binge watch... then leave.

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 01, 2025 05:07 PM (QAkQ3)

111 Sounds great except for your sound system. That would be jarring and it is the main reason I do not enjoy going to movies anymore; the loudness. That and the endless ads and previews, the chewing-gum smackers, the cell phone usage and talking.
Posted by: washrivergal at April 01, 2025 04:56 PM (C53IZ)

My friend and I went to see the second Avatar.

Both of my late parents were hard of hearing so I'm very protective of mine. I hadn't been to the movies in a decade but a part of me was thinking I should take foam earplugs.

Smart move. Incredibly insane how loud the movie is. The theatres should be sued for that. I had earplugs in and still made out 98% of the dialogue.

Insane!

Posted by: Stateless...79% - mental state clawing up from 10% at April 01, 2025 05:07 PM (jvJvP)

112 The only company that seems to do it decently is Netflix.

And their best stuff is either anime or from Korea.

I wouldn't mind that if they'd bothered to keep the ones I liked available.

And then they went pedo.

That $40 a month is much better spent on a subscription to a drive-thru car-wash.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at April 01, 2025 05:08 PM (hB7mE)

113 The Critical Drinker takes a few whacks at Jennifer Salke, to good effect:

https://youtu.be/763X3PvLKoM

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at April 01, 2025 05:08 PM (/HDaX)

114 Sounds great except for your sound system. That would be jarring and it is the main reason I do not enjoy going to movies anymore; the loudness.

Nah, that's the best part. Just because you can play it loud doesn't mean you have to. You can even jack it up and down to suit yourself in the middle of the show.

Posted by: Oddbob at April 01, 2025 05:08 PM (/y8xj)

115 I'm pretty much done, not just with Hollywood, but any Fantasy or Sci-Fi novel written since 2007.

Feminism ruins everything it touches.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at April 01, 2025 05:08 PM (xcxpd)

116 “ So people are tired of would-be blockbusters -- now mostly flopbusters, a new term coined because of the huge number of expensive mega-flops”

‘Blockbuster” is the correct term for a flop, although it somehow came to mean the opposite. What’s a box office “bomb”? A movie that does shit box office. What’s a “blockbuster” in normal speech? A big bomb.

Posted by: Elric Blade at April 01, 2025 05:08 PM (bCoTJ)

117 This was one I liked someone did for Min.

https://tinyurl.com/37anm7a8

Yep. 'Boyishly Handsome'. Right.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 01, 2025 05:08 PM (bss/y)

118 I won a Major Award for Directing!

Posted by: Zombie Ed Wood at April 01, 2025 05:08 PM (Aqu9a)

119 I'm interested to see if Henry Cavill ever gets his Warhammer movie. Done right that would get me to a movie theater.

He should talk to the guy who made Astartes, get someone to finance it, and then release it himself.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 01, 2025 05:09 PM (ExV1e)

120 Exactly, TJMP.

Eastwood is kind of fascinating because he doesn't do complex stories, but he also doesn't do moral simplicity.

>As bad a rep that Netflix has, they do have a lot of Korean
>stuff that is better thann 98% of what Hollywood has
>released in years.

Well, I been banging THAT gong for eight years now. And it's not hard to figure out why: There is a very clear, very distinct Korean narrative about how being Korean is great, and how great Korea is, and even when it's bad, it's all bad because of bad government bureaucracy, and it only takes on honest, brave man to save everyone.

Makes for great narratives.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at April 01, 2025 05:09 PM (asXVI)

121 Mobile Infantry without suits ... yeah no.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 01, 2025 05:09 PM (Yvslr)

122 I was surprised recently when I learned that they are actually producing a new season of Witcher. They talked about it when Cavill announced his departure, but I kind of figured they'd decided not to do it. Needless to say, I won't watch it.
Posted by: Archimedes

Witcher augered in faster than I thought possible with such a strong strart. So bad it makes the first season not worth watching again.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 01, 2025 05:09 PM (/lPRQ)

123 I don't watch movies in the theater OR streaming.

The whole industry can die a sudden death and it won't change my life one bit.

Posted by: Bea Arthur's Dick at April 01, 2025 05:09 PM (eYAt4)

124 As bad a rep that Netflix has, they do have a lot of Korean stuff that is better thann 98% of what Hollywood has released in years.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 01, 2025 04:55 PM (/lPRQ)

This is so True, lots of good shows and they mostly are not woke,

Signal
The Fiery Priest
The Tunnel
The Guest
Kairos

Amazon renewed Takeshi's Castle, the Crazy Japanese obstacle course show from the 90s

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at April 01, 2025 05:09 PM (XaKPU)

125 I'm pretty much done, not just with Hollywood, but any Fantasy or Sci-Fi novel written since 2007.

When I'm flying I hit the local library and pick up one of those SF anthologies full of stories from the 50-70s. They are mostly engrossing in a way modern fiction generally isn't.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 01, 2025 05:09 PM (t0Rmr)

126 The writers and actors have got to be saying to themselves , "did we win those strikes?". Less productions, more CGI and crappier material , adds up to lower profits. Now that's winning

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 01, 2025 05:09 PM (2ZThz)

127 The Chosen.
Posted by: Come and See at April 01, 2025 05:02 PM (dg+HA)
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We go see that at a theater. Watched all of Season 4 at a cinema.

Posted by: Axeman at April 01, 2025 05:09 PM (krQz2)

128
Here's the problem: Judge Dredd is a damn good movie, and they don't make movie like Judge Dredd, anymore.

Posted by: Soothsayer at April 01, 2025 05:09 PM (89upD)

129 When I visited my sister a couple of years ago, she took me to see an artsy movie at a place that served food in the theatre. You ordered when you got there and they then delivered it to your seat . The seats were designed for maximum comfort so padded and sort of tilted but that didn't work with trying to eat in the dark. Aside from the fact that the movie absolutely sucked, the food sucked and who wants to pay attention to a meal when you are trying to watch a movie. Overall opinion: sucked.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at April 01, 2025 05:10 PM (t/2Uw)

130 108 96 To be a female actress in WoT, you have to be at least as hot as Rosamund Pike. So it’s like Trek and we have high standards.
Posted by: Draki at April 01, 2025 05:04 PM (KAuUW)

I am trying to think of who was described as anything but beautiful in the series. The body Graendel got swapped to? Hell, even Elaida was described as hot.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 01, 2025 05:07 PM (bss/y)

Some of the Brown and Red Aes Sedei could be frumpy or dumpy....albeit with those ageless faces.

Faile was ugly on the inside, of course.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at April 01, 2025 05:10 PM (xcxpd)

131 You can even jack it up and down to suit yourself in the middle of the show.
Posted by: Oddbob at April 01, 2025 05:08 PM (/y8xj)

Are we still doing phrasing?

Posted by: BruceWayne at April 01, 2025 05:10 PM (MGB5H)

132 In all fairness, a dude wrote it. A dude now dead - and a dude who's estate collects much checks.

Its not the worse bullshit on TV. That still belongs to The Handmaid's Tale.
Posted by: Taking Notes at April 01, 2025 05:08 PM (GvwA4)
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Wheel of Time broke the lore of the source material within ONE MINUTE of the opening narration of the first episode. I timed it because it was an impressive feat.

The show only went downhill from there.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 01, 2025 05:11 PM (7fElN)

133 Hollywood is run by leftards. They are incapable of independent thought, much less creative thought. Their thinking is stale as well as delusional, and so is their product.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at April 01, 2025 05:11 PM (pohLc)

134 Here's the problem: Judge Dredd is a damn good movie, and they don't make movie like Judge Dredd, anymore.

Karl Urban was perfectly cast, and played the part as well as a man could.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 01, 2025 05:11 PM (t0Rmr)

135 108 96 To be a female actress in WoT, you have to be at least as hot as Rosamund Pike. So it’s like Trek and we have high standards.
Posted by: Draki at April 01, 2025 05:04 PM (KAuUW)

I am trying to think of who was described as anything but beautiful in the series. The body Graendel got swapped to? Hell, even Elaida was described as hot.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 01, 2025 05:07 PM (bss/y)

Yeah, it's like how the cast Witcher.... one character, Yennefer, is supposed to have sold herself to become beautiful... so gorgeous she would turn men's heads...

and the Woman they cast? I've dated far better looking women.

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 01, 2025 05:11 PM (QAkQ3)

136
Can someone tell me why we're supposed to hate Kevin Spacey? I know he's a fruit, but what exactly did he to do that was so bad, and why should we care?

Posted by: Soothsayer at April 01, 2025 05:11 PM (89upD)

137 "Overchoice", "Demassification", Alvin Toffler - Future Shock (1970)

Posted by: Skunky Chool at April 01, 2025 05:12 PM (+paP0)

138
Linda Fiorentino -- a face for radio, or a rare beauty?

Posted by: Soothsayer at April 01, 2025 05:12 PM (89upD)

139 The model, as mentioned, is broken. But the product has been taken over by commies, who make everything a victim play. They aren't making movies anyone wants to see - not just the brain addled youngins. Essentially firing every creative type hired in the last decade or two would be a good place to start.

Posted by: Black JEM at April 01, 2025 05:07 PM (GZYu7)
_________________

The first guy to use movies really effectively as propaganda: Lenin. He sent trains around through the Russian countryside showing propaganda movies to illiterate peasants to convince them to become communists.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 01, 2025 05:12 PM (YqDXo)

140 Outside of Asia, piracy is mostly people who would not have bought the DVD anyway.

I recall watching a video where someone was talking about piracy. He pointed out that with the real disc it was five minutes from start to "play movie" and with the pirated version it was 5 seconds.

He said that all of the anti-piracy stuff they did stopped nothing but it pushed more people to accepting the pirated copy because they were tired of the bullshit.

He may have also mentioned region codes.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 01, 2025 05:12 PM (ExV1e)

141 Can someone tell me why we're supposed to hate Kevin Spacey? I know he's a fruit, but what exactly did he to do that was so bad, and why should we care?

Three underaged boys came forward to accuse him of molesting them.

All three shortly thereafter "committed suicide" allowing Spacey to skate.

And he was an Epstein client

Posted by: 18-1 at April 01, 2025 05:12 PM (t0Rmr)

142 128 I'm pretty much done, not just with Hollywood, but any Fantasy or Sci-Fi novel written since 2007.

When I'm flying I hit the local library and pick up one of those SF anthologies full of stories from the 50-70s. They are mostly engrossing in a way modern fiction generally isn't.
Posted by: 18-1 at April 01, 2025 05:09 PM (t0Rmr)

That's a good idea.
I fill up my Kindle with classic stuff that has aged well. Poul Anderson, Andre Norton, Robert Silverberg, etc

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at April 01, 2025 05:12 PM (xcxpd)

143 Can someone tell me why we're supposed to hate Kevin Spacey? I know he's a fruit, but what exactly did he to do that was so bad, and why should we care?

---

Thought he was caught doing stuff vaguely Weinstein-esque.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at April 01, 2025 05:12 PM (B9Prs)

144 Some of the Brown and Red Aes Sedei could be frumpy or dumpy....albeit with those ageless faces.

Faile was ugly on the inside, of course.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at April 01, 2025 05:10 PM (xcxpd)

Yeah. Verin.

Faile... poor Perrin. He married a complete and utter self absorbed twat socket.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 01, 2025 05:12 PM (bss/y)

145
btw, it appears Linda Fiorentino stopped her acting career about 22 years ago. And nobody noticed.

Posted by: Soothsayer at April 01, 2025 05:12 PM (89upD)

146 The only movies worth seeing in theaters are sci- GI. That doesn’t include Marvel.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 01, 2025 05:12 PM (Hkcdp)

147 I'm pretty much done, not just with Hollywood, but any Fantasy or Sci-Fi novel written since 2007.

Feminism ruins everything it touches.
----------------------

Now, my book? White-hatin' Coon? Ain't got none of that shit.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at April 01, 2025 05:13 PM (asXVI)

148 Can someone tell me why we're supposed to hate Kevin Spacey? I know he's a fruit, but what exactly did he to do that was so bad, and why should we care?
Posted by: Soothsayer at April 01, 2025 05:11 PM (89upD)
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He pursued young male co-workers and got found out during #MeToo.

So it was kinda like "the same thing".

Posted by: Axeman at April 01, 2025 05:13 PM (krQz2)

149 They need to have an episode in Rings of Power where Gandalf tells Bilbo over breakfast about his nightmare where Galadriel was a rat-faced shrieky brat and orcs were just misunderstood.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at April 01, 2025 05:13 PM (CwhoI)

150 Union Genshin Impact VAs are loosing their minds and have gone full bully mode because Hoyoverse refuses to unionize.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 01, 2025 05:13 PM (Yvslr)

151 >>> I have not see it but Rosamund Pike is about the hottest gal in it from what I have seen.

Not bad for a chick that has the face of a halibut.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 01, 2025 05:13 PM (s0Mmk)

152 142
Linda Fiorentino -- a face for radio, or a rare beauty?
Posted by: Soothsayer at April 01, 2025 05:12 PM (89upD)

She was a hot One back in the day

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at April 01, 2025 05:13 PM (xcxpd)

153 Jaws played at my neighborhood theater for 13 months.

Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at April 01, 2025 05:13 PM (GD2xa)

154 Women backstabbing other women to be the top girl for the man who saves the world makes excellent TV in WoT.

Posted by: Draki at April 01, 2025 05:13 PM (KAuUW)

155
Thought he was caught doing stuff vaguely Weinstein-esque.
Posted by: joe, living dangerously

And what laws did Harvey break, again?

Posted by: Soothsayer at April 01, 2025 05:13 PM (89upD)

156 137 Here's the problem: Judge Dredd is a damn good movie, and they don't make movie like Judge Dredd, anymore.

Karl Urban was perfectly cast, and played the part as well as a man could.
Posted by: 18-1 at April 01, 2025 05:11 PM (t0Rmr)

And Anderson was pretty hot as well.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 01, 2025 05:13 PM (bss/y)

157 Red Dead Redemption.

they're going to make an entire series out of that one mission where you have to drive the suffragettes around in a wagon while they sing, aren't' they?

Posted by: brak at April 01, 2025 05:13 PM (jGJov)

158 I own some pirated blu-rays. Two basic reasons: (1) they won't make some for Region A; and (b) the price can be a third or less, for the same quality.

I don't much care about the IP rights of people who hate me either. Sorry, not sorry.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at April 01, 2025 05:14 PM (2wadn)

159 I saw Flopbusters open for Biggie Smalls at Summer Slam '95.

Posted by: ShainS -- The Dissolution of The Autopen Empire at April 01, 2025 05:14 PM (bHRDR)

160 Kevin Spacey has been accused by several men of molesting them when they were underage.
Two accusers have died. Weird.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 01, 2025 05:14 PM (Hkcdp)

161 @142 I always thought Fiorentino was pretty. Unfortunately it appears she's a complete pain to deal with. Hasn't acted in years

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 01, 2025 05:14 PM (2ZThz)

162 151 I'm pretty much done, not just with Hollywood, but any Fantasy or Sci-Fi novel written since 2007.

Feminism ruins everything it touches.
----------------------

Now, my book? White-hatin' Coon? Ain't got none of that shit.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at April 01, 2025 05:13 PM (asXVI)

Wait. What?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 01, 2025 05:14 PM (bss/y)

163 I want Hollywood to die and never comeback. They've ALWAYS been commies. They've ALWAYS hated us. I want every smug condescending leftist celebrity to end up living out of garbage cans. Forever.

Posted by: weew at April 01, 2025 05:14 PM (/uwTS)

164 he plays a good sociopath, but he seems to have innocent in this case, what happened with bryan singer,

Posted by: miguel cervantes at April 01, 2025 05:14 PM (bXbFr)

165 || btw, it appears Linda Fiorentino stopped her acting career about 22 years ago. And nobody noticed.||

I think she was quite a good actress but every time I heard about her, it was how difficult it was she was to work with. Like, Kevin Smith talked about how he should've used Janeane Garofalo instead for Dogma. And not because Fiorentino didn't do a good job.

Then you notice, she's never in the sequel. "The Last Seduction", "Men in Black"...

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at April 01, 2025 05:14 PM (asXVI)

166 14 What kind of an idiot still goes to the movie theater in 2025?
Posted by: Estelle Costanza at April 01, 2025 04:46 PM (R/m4+)

I'll almost certainly make the effort to see the next/last Mission Impossible movie, but with the gap between theatrical release and streaming become nonexistent in most cases I doubt I'll see anything else. Anything less than "holy crap, that looks awesome!" and I'll wait for streaming release.

Posted by: Octochicken at April 01, 2025 05:14 PM (oCS0o)

167 The best plan to revive theater attendance is to create new drive-ins featuring adult material, mostly lifted from P0rnHub and OilyFans. Girlies in short skirts serving adult beverages direct to one's vehicle. Special "date nights" will feature classic films like Deep Throat, Behind the Green Door, and Debbie Does Dallas, as well as big-budget productions like Flesh Gordon and Seven Into Snowy. Hollywood will still die, but theaters will thrive.
😱

Posted by: mindful webworker - media genius at April 01, 2025 05:14 PM (MsUjn)

168 Considering I quit WoT about Book Six never bothered with the TV version.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 01, 2025 05:15 PM (Yvslr)

169 Hollywood is failing worst than the Big three auto industry. Woke is EV. It killed an industry otherwise dying of unnatural causes.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at April 01, 2025 05:15 PM (wBaIH)

170 In the next turning, women will chain themselves to me.

Posted by: Lews Therin at April 01, 2025 05:15 PM (KAuUW)

171
Speaking of a sudden parade of fake accusers...

anyone see Lisa Bloom, lately?

She looks exactly like her mother.
//shudders///

Posted by: Soothsayer at April 01, 2025 05:15 PM (89upD)

172 172 Considering I quit WoT about Book Six never bothered with the TV version.
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 01, 2025 05:15 PM (Yvslr)

Yeah, there was a dry spell in there.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 01, 2025 05:16 PM (bss/y)

173 122 I'm interested to see if Henry Cavill ever gets his Warhammer movie. Done right that would get me to a movie theater.

He should talk to the guy who made Astartes, get someone to finance it, and then release it himself.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 01, 2025 05:09 PM (ExV1e)

#Wisdom

Syama Pederson is better than 90% of the filmmakers working today. In any genre.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at April 01, 2025 05:16 PM (xcxpd)

174 Ever been t downtown Berkeley recently? Basically every single movie theater has closed. Fur major theaters closed in the last few years, with a total of about 12 or 14 screens. Disaster.

In the Glory Days, the theaters were one of the main draws rto even go downtown. Now --zilch. Wipeout.

On the upside, the homeless bums now have more vacant lobby entrances to sleep in. So, there's always a silver lining.

Posted by: zombie at April 01, 2025 05:16 PM (pMi6S)

175 142
Linda Fiorentino -- a face for radio, or a rare beauty?
Posted by: Soothsayer at April 01, 2025 05:12 PM (89upD)

I'd put her somewhere in the middle, but something about her voice gave her a boost.

Posted by: Octochicken at April 01, 2025 05:16 PM (oCS0o)

176 174 In the next turning, women will chain themselves to me.
Posted by: Lews Therin at April 01, 2025 05:15 PM (KAuUW)

Well... they kind of did THIS turning...

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 01, 2025 05:16 PM (bss/y)

177 ......and the movies that hit the streaming services suck ass too. Twenty dollars to rent? Bullshit. I'll wait until the POS is six dollars to rent and that's if I don't forget about it or say aw F it in the meantime.
Not only do the "blockbusters" suck nowadays they don't even have stars that draw people in. I just got done watching a string of old Charles Bronson movies on Amazon. His 80's stuff was cheesy and predictable but it was entertaing. I mean grabbing that big dude by the schwantz in The Evil That Men Do, you can't beat that shit. I remember as a kid, yep, a Charles Bronson movie my parents were definitely going to see that because Chuck always kicked ass and got laid.
Now all there is is Taylor Sheridan series that you have to slog through to even be remotely entertained. I hope the second season of Landman isn't as monotonous as the second season of 1923 is. I appreciate some authenticity and yeah them days were rough and life wasn't easy but seriously how much shit can Spencer and his little blondie f'ing go through? These MF'ers are never going to get to the Yellowstone before the season ends. Maybe they'll make it halfway through the third season.?rant

Posted by: JROD at April 01, 2025 05:16 PM (IlL6s)

178 How marijuana could blaze a new path for movie theaters
https://t.co/wTh9GuqQda
Let’s be blunt: movie joints need to find a new way to pipe in the patrons.
A recent article from Variety’s William Earl pondered the question on every film executive’s mind: how do theaters lure back moviegoers? One suggestion: make them marijuana-friendly.
Taking a few puffs or consuming a gummy before walking into a theater is undoubtedly a tradition for many. But what if you could partake inside the theater? That could be coming sooner than you think.
Earl spoke to Taylor Randi Lee, press secretary for the New York State Office of Cannabis Management, who said that the state could soon allow movie theaters to apply for either events permits or consumption lounge licenses, which would let them sell marijuana inside.

Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe at April 01, 2025 05:16 PM (9aVck)

179 145 Can someone tell me why we're supposed to hate Kevin Spacey? I know he's a fruit, but what exactly did he to do that was so bad, and why should we care?

Three underaged boys came forward to accuse him of molesting them.

All three shortly thereafter "committed suicide" allowing Spacey to skate.

And he was an Epstein client

Posted by: 18-1 at April 01, 2025 05:12 PM (t0Rmr)

+++

I can't even stand seeing a picture of him. He is a predator and and a sick man.

Posted by: washrivergal at April 01, 2025 05:17 PM (C53IZ)

180 I'm talking about Jennifer Salke
.....

The lady with no lips.

Posted by: wth at April 01, 2025 05:17 PM (v0R5T)

181 @142
She was a rare beauty in 1985 "Vision Quest"

MICHELLE FORBES ftw

Posted by: Skunky Chool at April 01, 2025 05:17 PM (+paP0)

182 >>>Kevin Spacey has been accused by several men of molesting them when they were underage.

He then 'came out' as gay and used his homosexuality as a shield. A real bottom-feeder, and in more ways than one.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at April 01, 2025 05:17 PM (CwhoI)

183 As for Bond. Need another Connery or Brosnan.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 01, 2025 05:17 PM (Yvslr)

184 Hollywood is failing worst than the Big three auto industry. Woke is EV. It killed an industry otherwise dying of unnatural causes.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at April 01, 2025 05:15 PM (wBaIH)
_______________

Suicide, in both cases.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 01, 2025 05:17 PM (YqDXo)

185 172 Considering I quit WoT about Book Six never bothered with the TV version.
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 01, 2025 05:15 PM (Yvslr)

IF you were going to stop, that's the right place.

The first half of book 7 is good.

But the series peak is 'Ashaman: Kill'

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at April 01, 2025 05:17 PM (xcxpd)

186 Iirc, Fiorentino was last in a Miramar movie, the Matt Damon and Ben Affleck fallen angel one.
Would not be surprised if she was part of the Weinstein outcast actress group (e.g. Mira Sorvino).

Posted by: Lizzy at April 01, 2025 05:17 PM (Hkcdp)

187 When I visited my sister a couple of years ago, she took me to see an artsy movie at a place that served food in the theatre. [ ... ] Aside from the fact that the movie absolutely sucked, the food sucked and who wants to pay attention to a meal when you are trying to watch a movie.

I think I spotted your problem. I really like Alamo Drafthouse but for fun movies, not artsy ones. Any popcorn flick can be upgraded (at not insubstantial $$, to be sure) into a nachos and beer flick.

Posted by: Oddbob at April 01, 2025 05:17 PM (/y8xj)

188 This is the movie industry version of eating the seed corn.

Posted by: mustng66 at April 01, 2025 05:17 PM (w9tg2)

189 169 || btw, it appears Linda Fiorentino stopped her acting career about 22 years ago. And nobody noticed.||

I think she was quite a good actress but every time I heard about her, it was how difficult it was she was to work with. Like, Kevin Smith talked about how he should've used Janeane Garofalo instead for Dogma. And not because Fiorentino didn't do a good job.

Then you notice, she's never in the sequel. "The Last Seduction", "Men in Black"...
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at April 01, 2025 05:14 PM (asXVI)

Wait, didn't Garofalo have a small role as Fiorentino's roommate in Dogma?

Posted by: Octochicken at April 01, 2025 05:18 PM (oCS0o)

190
Whoa, who, wo...

I said Judge Dredd, not Dredd.

JD > D

Posted by: Soothsayer at April 01, 2025 05:18 PM (89upD)

191 is Dredd's source material supposed to be that grim

karl urban does seem to have a better grip, his marvel entry, was a little too mugging

Posted by: miguel cervantes at April 01, 2025 05:18 PM (bXbFr)

192 But the series peak is 'Ashaman: Kill'
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at April 01, 2025 05:17 PM (xcxpd)

It takes a while to pick back up. Started really liking it again about Knife of Dreams.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 01, 2025 05:18 PM (bss/y)

193 Now, my book? White-hatin' Coon? Ain't got none of that shit.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at April 01, 2025 05:13 PM (asXVI)

Wait. What?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 01, 2025 05:14 PM (bss/y)
--------

It's from "Chasing Amy". In a fascinating bit of prescience (or perhaps just history repeating itself), Kevin Smith has people listening to a lecture by a very aggressive, radical black comic book artist (who is actually flaming).

The rest of the movie doesn't live up to this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3XTHVC1Nf0

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at April 01, 2025 05:18 PM (asXVI)

194 191 is Dredd's source material supposed to be that grim

Posted by: miguel cervantes at April 01, 2025 05:18 PM (bXbFr)

Uh. Yeah.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 01, 2025 05:18 PM (bss/y)

195 We can restart Hollywood with balefire and act like those woke folks never existed.

Posted by: Lews Therin at April 01, 2025 05:19 PM (KAuUW)

196 She divorced to marry Lewis. Alcoholic who was constantly searching for meaning. Fucked up in the head as far as I can tell.

Didn't write much, but Nightmare Alley is a real doozy of a winner.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman

The movie, "Shadowlands", about that C.S.Lewis marriage is very moving. Anthony Hopkins as Lewis and Debra Winger as Joy Gresham are great.

Posted by: Tuna at April 01, 2025 05:19 PM (lJ0H4)

197 Million dollar idea:

Boobs.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 01, 2025 04:53 PM

Million Dollar Booby?

Damn...Eastwood was soooo close.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 01, 2025 05:19 PM (Wnv9h)

198 I know we shit on Salke and Kennedy a lot, but they are just employees. They aren’t single-handedly the entire Disney studio. These shitty girlboss vulva-strokefests got made not because any one employee “greenlit” them, but because Disney wanted to make them.

Posted by: Elric Blade at April 01, 2025 05:19 PM (bCoTJ)

199 And that sticking a gay black amputee dwarf satanist in any part, or any time period was such genius.

Posted by: Eromero at April 01, 2025 05:19 PM (p4vtc)

200 The rest of the movie doesn't live up to this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3XTHVC1Nf0
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at April 01, 2025 05:18 PM (asXVI)

I hated Chasing Amy with a violent passion. Actually I still do. Huh.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 01, 2025 05:19 PM (bss/y)

201 After adult comedy died after 9-11, I moved to the older kids shows. I just wahted to be able to freaking laugh fir 22 minutes.

We dump on Disney, but they and Nick actually did have some cute fun shows.

But you should see some of the crap coming out now. Not Disney or Nick. There's a show called 'Popularity Papers' on YTV here.

Holy crap! I was happy to see Mia Bella working again but what a wokefest. Middle school show. Asian girl with her inter-racial Dads. One is a drag queen....not every episode, just one.

But they actually had an episode where it was Pride Week at school, her drag queen father was there AND they actually took one young guy and out him in drag.

It was pretty horrifying. In a sane world, people should have gone to jail.

Posted by: Stateless...79% - mental state clawing up from 10% at April 01, 2025 05:20 PM (jvJvP)

202 168 he plays a good sociopath, but he seems to have innocent in this case, what happened with bryan singer,
Posted by: miguel cervantes at April 01, 2025 05:14 PM (bXbFr)

Also a gay pedo. He is being protected by David Geffen and works under assumed names.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at April 01, 2025 05:20 PM (xcxpd)

203 The Tingler (1959) was primo.

Posted by: Count de Monet at April 01, 2025 05:20 PM (Aqu9a)

204 Price even suggests that a single episode of Patrick McKay and J.D. Payne's The Rings of Power may be created "where everyone is slaughtered in an orgy of blood that would make John Woo blush and they are finally eaten by Tom Bombadil who then larks through the forest covered with gore singing 'Hey dol! merry dol! ring a dong dillo! Ring a dong! hop along! Fal lal the willow! Tom Bom, jolly Tom, Tom Bombadillo!'"

I would subscribe just for this episode.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at April 01, 2025 05:20 PM (sSaYo)

205
Taking a few puffs or consuming a gummy before walking into a theater is undoubtedly a tradition for many. But what if you could partake inside the theater? That could be coming sooner than you think.
Earl spoke to Taylor Randi Lee, press secretary for the New York State Office of Cannabis Management, who said that the state could soon allow movie theaters to apply for either events permits or consumption lounge licenses, which would let them sell marijuana inside.
Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe at April 01, 2025 05:16 PM (9aVck)

——-

At any point in time I can take a THC gummy into a theater and eat it. Nobody want would ever know. There are a couple of problems with gummies. 1) it takes 45 minutes to an hour to kick in so you pretty much have to take it before going to the theater. 2) The effect lasts anywhere from 4 to 8 hours depending on the dose, so you better have a designated driver.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at April 01, 2025 05:20 PM (xyt0z)

206 Whoa, who, wo...

I said Judge Dredd, not Dredd.

JD > D

Posted by: Soothsayer at April 01, 2025 05:18 PM (89upD)
---
No way.

Dredd is way above the wilderness adventure that Stallone's movie was.

I really don't want to see another movie about Dredd until they can figure out how to set the movie in the daily life of the Megopolis with Dreddd riding around his Lawmaster, investigating crimes.

Posted by: Axeman at April 01, 2025 05:21 PM (krQz2)

207 Lot of typos...

Sorry

Posted by: Stateless...79% - mental state clawing up from 10% at April 01, 2025 05:21 PM (jvJvP)

208
As I was saying weeks ago: Some things should never be modernized.

For instance, James Bond.

Also: Superman, and all superheroes.

Posted by: Soothsayer at April 01, 2025 05:21 PM (89upD)

209 186 Iirc, Fiorentino was last in a Miramar movie, the Matt Damon and Ben Affleck fallen angel one.
Would not be surprised if she was part of the Weinstein outcast actress group (e.g. Mira Sorvino).
Posted by: Lizzy at April 01, 2025 05:17 PM (Hkcdp)

IIRC, she's only publicly claimed that she got to the age where she (and most other actresses) stopped getting interesting roles. Not to say she wasn't shading the truth back when Weinstein still had leverage in Hollywood.

Posted by: Octochicken at April 01, 2025 05:21 PM (oCS0o)

210 Home screens getting ever larger and streaming getting larger pipes isn't helping either.

Posted by: DaveA at April 01, 2025 05:21 PM (FhXTo)

211 You can even jack it up and down to suit yourself in the middle of the show.
Posted by: Oddbob at April 01, 2025 05:08 PM (/y8xj)

Are we still doing phrasing?

I don't get it.

Posted by: P. Herman at April 01, 2025 05:21 PM (/y8xj)

212 211 You can even jack it up and down to suit yourself in the middle of the show.
Posted by: Oddbob at April 01, 2025 05:08 PM (/y8xj)

Are we still doing phrasing?

I don't get it.
Posted by: P. Herman at April 01, 2025 05:21 PM (/y8xj)

*golfclap*

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 01, 2025 05:22 PM (bss/y)

213 Elric Blade, embrace the power of ‘and’!!

They really are responsible for destroying belov, ridiculously profitable franchises AND so are their bosses for not stopping them.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 01, 2025 05:22 PM (Hkcdp)

214
I hate HATE cersei lannister. I hate her face, I hate her acting. Lena Fuckwitswhatever sucks.

Posted by: Soothsayer at April 01, 2025 05:22 PM (89upD)

215 There are a couple of problems with gummies. 1) it takes 45 minutes to an hour to kick in so you pretty much have to take it before going to the theater.

Or when the previews start.

Posted by: Oddbob at April 01, 2025 05:23 PM (/y8xj)

216 I was in London recently, as every escalator in every tube station was lined with advertising posters for something called "Alto Knights," with a picture of a walking corpse that vaguely resembled Robert DeNiro's grandfather.

I kept looking at it and wondering, "What the hell is 'Alto Knights'?"

Much later i discovered that it was a movie with DeNiro trying to wring the very last drop from the "aging mafioso" genre, and it was universally panned as a cringe-worthy, inert unoriginal rehash of every mob movie he'd ever been in.

And THATnis why Hllywood is going broke.

Posted by: zombie at April 01, 2025 05:23 PM (pMi6S)

217 Dredd is way above the wilderness adventure that Stallone's movie was.

I really don't want to see another movie about Dredd until they can figure out how to set the movie in the daily life of the Megopolis with Dreddd riding around his Lawmaster, investigating crimes.
Posted by: Axeman at April 01, 2025 05:21 PM (krQz2)

Maybe some sort of series of connected stories within the movie? Not necessarily non-linear like Pulp Fiction, but something close?

Posted by: Octochicken at April 01, 2025 05:23 PM (oCS0o)

218
Just saw a trailer for Karate Kids Legends...

Jackie Chan AND Ralph Macchio, training a new Kid... didn't look woke...

But... go to a theatre to see? Nah.... I'll wait for it to stream.
Posted by: Romeo13

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Didn't look woke, but did look like derivative bullshit.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 01, 2025 05:24 PM (lCaJd)

219
The UAW killed American automotive, decades ago.

Movie theaters will prosper from astro-turfed protesting violent morons destroying anti-woke movie premieres, sure.

I thought "The Mollie Maguires" that came out in 1970 was one of the best movies ever made; but totally tanked and lost a bundle. Go figure.

Posted by: Auspex at April 01, 2025 05:24 PM (j4U/Z)

220 As for Bond. Need another Connery or Brosnan.
Posted by: Anna Puma
......

From Zardoz With Love

Posted by: wth at April 01, 2025 05:24 PM (v0R5T)

221 I think TJM has the right idea. Hollywood needs to go back to making solid B movies. Movies which didn't make a ton of money but paid the bills and kept the studios open.

At least, I think that's what TJM was saying.

I mean, heck, "The Beekeeper" is a solidly entertaining movie. And I'm sure "Working Man" will be more of the same. "Working Man" shouldn't be a blockbuster but will probably do great business simply because there is no competition to speak of.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at April 01, 2025 05:24 PM (tT6L1)

222 Movie theaters are dying. Time marches on. Have you been to a vaudeville show recently?

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at April 01, 2025 05:24 PM (ForbO)

223 Gummies

3) I can also take a THC gummy at home and watch the movie there. I have to admit it does improve my viewing experience quite a bit.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at April 01, 2025 05:24 PM (xyt0z)

224 I keep waiting for the first joint to give you a "private-public space". Like a box. Or a private table.
Posted by: Taking Notes at April 01, 2025 04:48 PM (GvwA4)

They're doing that in nyc with the ipic theaters. You get beds that are semi-enclosed and waiter service with booze and food. I wouldn't go for a bazillion quatloos, which is probably how much it costs.

Posted by: front toward enemy at April 01, 2025 05:24 PM (TIizU)

225 211 You can even jack it up and down to suit yourself in the middle of the show.
Posted by: Oddbob at April 01, 2025 05:08 PM (/y8xj)

Are we still doing phrasing?

I don't get it.
Posted by: P. Herman at April 01, 2025 05:21 PM

Neither do I.

Posted by: J. Toobin at April 01, 2025 05:24 PM (dg+HA)

226 I hated Chasing Amy with a violent passion. Actually I still do. Huh.
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Understandable.

Though I feel like this whole thread is turning a little sour.

Eh, I guess it started kinda sour.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at April 01, 2025 05:25 PM (asXVI)

227 Wait, didn't Garofalo have a small role as Fiorentino's roommate in Dogma?
Posted by: Octochicken at April 01, 2025 05:18 PM (oCS0o)

She did as "Liz".

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at April 01, 2025 05:25 PM (/HDaX)

228
Yeah, but volume control... like lighting control... are a Feature...
Posted by: Romeo13

Yeah, when it is too loud at the theater, you can't escape it.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

And you can't put it on pause to go pee.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 01, 2025 05:25 PM (63Dwl)

229
lulz: kanye west arrives for an interview dressed in black kkk garb, including the dunce hood

Posted by: Soothsayer at April 01, 2025 05:25 PM (89upD)

230 Meh, the market is saturated. You can find entertainment all over the place. For example, if I want to be entertained, I just pop on YouTube and use the Keyword search: Leftist, falls, broken nose.

Boom...I'm entertained. Back to work.

Posted by: Orson at April 01, 2025 05:25 PM (dIske)

231 Well ... if Cersei shows up on the deserted island ? I call dibs.

Posted by: Taking Notes at April 01, 2025 05:25 PM (ZFf0s)

232 I mean, heck, "The Beekeeper" is a solidly entertaining movie. And I'm sure "Working Man" will be more of the same. "Working Man" shouldn't be a blockbuster but will probably do great business simply because there is no competition to speak of.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at April 01, 2025 05:24 PM (tT6L1)

These and the very cheap to make rom coms that have been left over for Netflix and others because they aren't blockbusters. Most of those movies made big returns.

Posted by: BruceWayne at April 01, 2025 05:26 PM (MGB5H)

233 Posted by: Tuna at April 01, 2025 05:19 PM (lJ0H4

I haven't seen that one. I'll have to look for it. I did see several years ago in the movie theatre/,The Most Reluctant Convert/ which was made into a movie from a one man stage show about C.S. Lewis. It was excellent.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 01, 2025 05:26 PM (oKwJA)

234 198 I know we shit on Salke and Kennedy a lot, but they are just employees. They aren’t single-handedly the entire Disney studio. These shitty girlboss vulva-strokefests got made not because any one employee “greenlit” them, but because Disney wanted to make them.
Posted by: Elric Blade at April 01, 2025 05:19 PM (bCoTJ)

No, but as an Admiral once told me... Staff is Policy. They will dictate what information you see, and formulate the plans you will choose from...

Now, who choses STAFF, or in this case... employees? oh, the Boss... and their attitudes over time get to lower and lower levels of the organization (due to those they hired, hiring the same types for lower levels)... until the entire organization is a shit hole.

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 01, 2025 05:26 PM (QAkQ3)

235 READ: John Boyega Implies 'Star Wars' Fans Are Racist And Describes Franchise As "The Most Whitest, Elite Space"

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Right, all the people who complained endlessly about his potentially interesting character being turned into a joke by Rian Johnson in the second movie are racist.

Fuck this guy.

Posted by: Cave Johnson at April 01, 2025 05:26 PM (W3s+e)

236 Wait, didn't Garofalo have a small role as Fiorentino's roommate in Dogma?
Posted by: Octochicken at April 01, 2025 05:18 PM (oCS0o)

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Garofalo is all over one of my favorite re-watches: Minute Men.

She does a good job in this, though.

Posted by: Axeman at April 01, 2025 05:27 PM (krQz2)

237 READ: John Boyega Implies 'Star Wars' Fans Are Racist And Describes Franchise As "The Most Whitest, Elite Space"

Agreed. You know why the StormTroopers wear White Armor ?

Posted by: Taking Notes at April 01, 2025 05:28 PM (ZFf0s)

238 Gummies

3) I can also take a THC gummy at home and watch the movie there. I have to admit it does improve my viewing experience quite a bit.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at April 01, 2025 05:24 PM (xyt0z)

Most intense movie I ever watched was Fatal Attraction, while baked.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 01, 2025 05:28 PM (s0Mmk)

239 Yeah, on the director's commentary, Smith says (in the scene where Fiorentino and Garofalo are chatting in the abortion clinic) that Garofalo was super cool to work with.

Smith's in the category of directors that generally just works with friends, like Hal Needham or (more appropriately) Don Coscarelli.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at April 01, 2025 05:28 PM (asXVI)

240
The Tingler (1959) was primo.
Posted by: Count de Monet

Especially if you got one of the vibrating seats.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 01, 2025 05:28 PM (63Dwl)

241 Speaking of corporate media. Whore Leslie Stahl asks survivor of Hamas captivity who was starved and beaten if maybe he was starved because they didn't have any food?

Gee I dunno Leslie, would you ask a Holocaust survivor if they used gas because they were out of bullets or rope?

I have removed the governor on my carburetor of hate for the media. Daily I find new reasons to loathe them more every day.

Posted by: Minnfidel at April 01, 2025 05:28 PM (ewjUl)

242 The RiverRun Film Festival, a multiple day screening of independent movies, begins April 11th and ends the 19th. Excellent venue for well-told stories, like in the old days but without the Hollyweird Glamor Drama.

https://riverrunfilm.com/

Posted by: Dan Patterson at April 01, 2025 05:29 PM (JjYer)

243 Ace really, really hates Disney, doesn't he.

Posted by: davidt at April 01, 2025 05:29 PM (i0F8b)

244 230 Meh, the market is saturated. You can find entertainment all over the place. For example, if I want to be entertained, I just pop on YouTube and use the Keyword search: Leftist, falls, broken nose.

Boom...I'm entertained. Back to work.
Posted by: Orson

I've taken to just watching all movies on YouTube. With clever enough searching, both within YouTUbe and on outside platforms, you can find nearly every movie ever made in there. Even recent/copyrighted mvoies pop up frequently, ioften mislabeled intentionally so they can stay online for as ling as possible until the corporate lawyers finally discover them and issue a Copyright Tkedown order. But by then thousands of people (including me) have already watched it.

There are secret places on the Internet where people reveal the URL of copyrighted stuff they've uploaded tom YouTube from throwaway accounts.

Posted by: zombie at April 01, 2025 05:30 PM (pMi6S)

245 I mean, heck, "The Beekeeper" is a solidly entertaining movie. And I'm sure "Working Man" will be more of the same. "Working Man" shouldn't be a blockbuster but will probably do great business simply because there is no competition to speak of.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at April 01, 2025 05:24 PM

Jason Statham plays himself in every movie. It's like he picked up the falling torch from Bruce Willis.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at April 01, 2025 05:30 PM (sSaYo)

246 Gee I dunno Leslie, would you ask a Holocaust survivor if they used gas because they were out of bullets or rope?

I have removed the governor on my carburetor of hate for the media. Daily I find new reasons to loathe them more every day.
Posted by: Minnfidel at April 01, 2025 05:28 PM (ewjUl)
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Yup, that sounds like a good reason to up my disdain.

Posted by: Axeman at April 01, 2025 05:30 PM (krQz2)

247 You know that famous scene in Public Enemy where James Cagney shoves half a grapefruit in the face of that dame while they were eating breakfast?

Yeah, we need more of that kind of stuff in movies today.

Girl boss gets more than a little pissy with the male subordinate? Bam, grapefruit mashed into her face.

I'd start going to movie theaters again.

Posted by: one hour sober at April 01, 2025 05:30 PM (Y1sOo)

248 237 READ: John Boyega Implies 'Star Wars' Fans Are Racist And Describes Franchise As "The Most Whitest, Elite Space"
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Love Smith or hate him, that scene from "Chasing Amy" nailed this whole thing.

Check this sh*t. You got cracker farm boy Luke Skywalker, Nazi poster boy, blond hair, blue eyes. And then you got Darth Vader, the blackest brother in the galaxy, Nubian god!

What's a "Nubian"?

Shut the f*** up!

Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at April 01, 2025 05:30 PM (asXVI)

249 @221 blake- I forgot about Jason Statham. The movies he's in have that same quality as Charles Bronson movies did. Plus you never hear him spouting off on politics/culture. Thought his performance in that movie Spy with the fat comedy actress was hilarious too.

Posted by: JROD at April 01, 2025 05:31 PM (IlL6s)

250 I haven't seen that one. I'll have to look for it. I did see several years ago in the movie theatre/,The Most Reluctant Convert/ which was made into a movie from a one man stage show about C.S. Lewis. It was excellent.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

I'm sure you'd like "Shadowlands" Fen.

Posted by: Tuna at April 01, 2025 05:32 PM (lJ0H4)

251 Love Smith or hate him, that scene from "Chasing Amy" nailed this whole thing.

Check this sh*t. You got cracker farm boy Luke Skywalker, Nazi poster boy, blond hair, blue eyes. And then you got Darth Vader, the blackest brother in the galaxy, Nubian god!

What's a "Nubian"?

Shut the f*** up!
Posted by: moviegique (buy my books) at April 01, 2025 05:30 PM (asXVI)

but is Lukes Father, which means, by current rules, although Luke looks like an Aryan, he is actually Black.

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 01, 2025 05:32 PM (QAkQ3)

252 I hate HATE cersei lannister. I hate her face, I hate her acting. Lena Fuckwitswhatever sucks.
Posted by: Soothsayer at April 01, 2025 05:22 PM (89upD)

You're supposed to hate cersei lannister. She's vile. If she weren't cersei lannister she'd have been murdered by the time she was 7.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 01, 2025 05:32 PM (ExV1e)

253 The problem with romcoms is that given the tinder/hookup culture that’s replaced dating, the story really struggles to keep the two aprt.

You end up with “Anyone But You,” where they have sex almost immediately and then are total assh@les to each other for the rest of the movie to get the classic’will they or won’t they’ tension. Ugh.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 01, 2025 05:33 PM (Hkcdp)

254
By the way, there's a content creation studio on youtube, "Dust" I think it is. They've done some nifty sci fi shorts.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at April 01, 2025 04:52 PM (tT6L1)

I've seen several of their shorts and you're right, they're pretty cool. And usually quite intelligent compared to the crap coming out of Hollywood.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 01, 2025 05:33 PM (y9nCu)

255 WoT always had female protagonists who took up more of the story than the male protagonists. Rand and his boys are pretty hapless in the early going, and his GFs [plural] are at least a bit more competent [and legit powerful, developing magical skills more readily] until he comes into his own. Perrin and Mat are both robbed a bit by the Amazon version, as their stories are so simplified, but that really applies to everyone, as every one of the books would be a long movie if it was faithful to Jordan's storytelling style.

Posted by: Gundo at April 01, 2025 05:33 PM (41SvP)

256 249 @221 blake- I forgot about Jason Statham. The movies he's in have that same quality as Charles Bronson movies did. Plus you never hear him spouting off on politics/culture. Thought his performance in that movie Spy with the fat comedy actress was hilarious too.
Posted by: JROD at April 01, 2025 05:31 PM (IlL6s)

Loved the first couple Taken Movies... but then was lectured by Liam Neeson about us Evil Americans and our Guns...

Have not watched one of his flicks since...

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 01, 2025 05:33 PM (QAkQ3)

257 NIGHTWATCH Russian fantasy movie where the good guys For the light watch the Dark beings and arrest them for breaking the treaty DayWatch is the dark beings watching the Light beings. A cool and original concept, and pro life

Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at April 01, 2025 05:33 PM (FCrpy)

258 They already gave us Fag Spock, but where is my Black Spock? I'm still waiting.

Posted by: zombie at April 01, 2025 05:34 PM (pMi6S)

259 @221 blake- I forgot about Jason Statham. The movies he's in have that same quality as Charles Bronson movies did. Plus you never hear him spouting off on politics/culture. Thought his performance in that movie Spy with the fat comedy actress was hilarious too.
Posted by: JROD at April 01, 2025 05:31 PM (IlL6s)
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I was actually surprised to see Statham in his first action film. Ritchie tapped him for Snatch, and his character in that preferred living by his wits to fighting.

Also, he was a total wimp in Ghosts of Mars (but that is a really bad Carpenter film, and best forgotten.)

Posted by: Axeman at April 01, 2025 05:34 PM (krQz2)

260 They will dictate what information you see, and formulate the plans you will choose from...

Now, who choses STAFF, or in this case... employees? oh, the Boss... and their attitudes over time get to lower and lower levels of the organization (due to those they hired, hiring the same types for lower levels)... until the entire organization is a shit hole.
Posted by: Romeo13 at April 01, 2025 05:26 PM (QAkQ3)
Rated:
(X) True
( ). False

Posted by: Eromero at April 01, 2025 05:34 PM (p4vtc)

261 258 They already gave us Fag Spock, but where is my Black Spock? I'm still waiting.
Posted by: zombie at April 01, 2025 05:34 PM (pMi6S)

Quinto was pretty gay...

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 01, 2025 05:35 PM (bss/y)

262 Why is Boyega blaming fans?
They are the ones who have been complaining about casting for years. Blame the people who made the movies, buddy.

Note: Boyega’s “Attack the Block” movie is great - ET meets UK housing project.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 01, 2025 05:36 PM (Hkcdp)

263
I like Ghost of Mars!

Posted by: Soothsayer at April 01, 2025 05:36 PM (89upD)

264 You end up with “Anyone But You,” where they have sex almost immediately and then are total assh@les to each other for the rest of the movie to get the classic’will they or won’t they’ tension. Ugh.
Posted by: Lizzy at April 01, 2025 05:33 PM (Hkcdp)

I laugh at the sudden population explosion of Hereditary Nobility (Princes) that suddenly inhabit European Countries I've never heard of...

I mean... HUNDREDS of them everywhere apparently.

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 01, 2025 05:36 PM (QAkQ3)

265 You know why the StormTroopers wear White Armor ?
Posted by: Taking Notes at April 01, 2025 05:28 PM (ZFf0s)

Palpatine was Jewish and he could get the white armor wholesale?

They'd never think of that answer even though it plays into Joo stereotypes.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 01, 2025 05:36 PM (ExV1e)

266 How about if we just let the customers smoke phat bowls of da kronic in the theatre?

Posted by: Colorado! at April 01, 2025 05:36 PM (2Ib1v)

267 257 NIGHTWATCH Russian fantasy movie where the good guys For the light watch the Dark beings and arrest them for breaking the treaty DayWatch is the dark beings watching the Light beings. A cool and original concept, and pro life

hmmmm..... *scribbles note* "the gorge", but the guardians are monsters trying to keep hordes of wal-mart people out of their world...

Posted by: anachronda at April 01, 2025 05:36 PM (oY6Yp)

268 I'm sure you'd like "Shadowlands" Fen.
Posted by: Tuna at April 01, 2025 05:32 PM (lJ0H4)

Thanks; I will look for that. I have read a lot of C.S. Lewis although I didn't read all of the "Science fiction trilogy and I did read either by him or by someone about him about the death from cancer of his wife and the concept of suffering.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 01, 2025 05:37 PM (42Vb+)

269
Jason Statham is in "13."

He is not at all Jason Statham-y in it.

Posted by: Soothsayer at April 01, 2025 05:37 PM (89upD)

270 I'm watching garrett's favorite movie right now The Godfather.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 01, 2025 05:37 PM (VofaG)

271 Garafalo was good on the Larry Sanders show. Everybody was good on that, but especially Rip Torn.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at April 01, 2025 05:38 PM (Dm8we)

272 Ace really, really hates Disney, doesn't he.
Posted by: davidt at April 01, 2025 05:29 PM (i0F8b)

When Disney bought the Star Wars franchise they fired all his relatives.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 01, 2025 05:38 PM (ExV1e)

273 They'd never think of that answer even though it plays into Joo stereotypes.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 01, 2025 05:36 PM (ExV1e)

Huh. Just an odd thought. If Jews were everything 'they' say, Israel would be like Wakanda.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 01, 2025 05:38 PM (bss/y)

274 used to like going to movie theaters until a box of popcorn cost $8

for the small box

Posted by: The Unmasked and Unvaxed Ranger - Uplifting The Wagshambas of Freedom at April 01, 2025 05:38 PM (HYKHz)

275
Back in the early 80's I went to a Gahetto theater to catch a movie that wasn't playing anywhere else. There was a group of bruthas up front riffing, joking, and inserting inappropriate dialog.

It was annoying at first, but the movie sucked and they were funny.

Wish I had pitched that idea before "Mystery Science Theater 3000" came along.

Posted by: Auspex at April 01, 2025 05:38 PM (j4U/Z)

276 Statham is the Bruce Willis of Jackie Chans.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at April 01, 2025 05:39 PM (sSaYo)

277 When Disney bought the Star Wars franchise they fired all his relatives.

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

its funny cuz its true!

Posted by: The Unmasked and Unvaxed Ranger - Uplifting The Wagshambas of Freedom at April 01, 2025 05:39 PM (HYKHz)

278 I like Ghost of Mars!
Posted by: Soothsayer at April 01, 2025 05:36 PM (89upD)
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Then I've got nothing against YOU enjoying it.

But I remember plenty of other movies from John Carpenter that I'd rather watch again. The Thing, Prince of Darkness, Big Trouble, They Live being chief among them.

Posted by: Axeman at April 01, 2025 05:39 PM (krQz2)

279 247 You know that famous scene in Public Enemy where James Cagney shoves half a grapefruit in the face of that dame while they were eating breakfast?

Yeah, we need more of that kind of stuff in movies today.

Girl boss gets more than a little pissy with the male subordinate? Bam, grapefruit mashed into her face.

I'd start going to movie theaters again.
Posted by: one hour sober at April 01, 2025 05:30 PM (Y1sOo)

He was not supposed to do that which is why she was so shocked

Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at April 01, 2025 05:39 PM (FCrpy)

280 You know, I kinda' get it.

Hollywood is dying. Not my point. Can you imagine, as a Russian - back during the Cold War - looking at all that money, and all that corruption, from your enemy ? Just to make movies ?

I get it - why Russians were amazed at a grocery store. And also why old Soviets were appalled at shit like Hollywood. Or queers adopting orphans.

Posted by: Taking Notes at April 01, 2025 05:39 PM (ZFf0s)

281
where is my Black Spock? I'm still waiting.
Posted by: zombie

Tuvok

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Tuvok

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 01, 2025 05:40 PM (63Dwl)

282
To be honest, this makes me sad. I always loved going to the movies.
Posted by: Moonbeam

==============

Same. It was such a treat to get out of the house and laugh or cry or scream along with a ton of people. Now I feel like an idiot going to a movie, with the theater 95% empty.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 01, 2025 05:40 PM (lCaJd)

283 This has nothing to do with film but I see as of today Our local sales tax has gone up to 10%.... Dumb f**ks voted the increase in.... Gotta love CA.

Posted by: It's me donna at April 01, 2025 05:40 PM (VE6XX)

284 They'd never think of that answer even though it plays into Joo stereotypes.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 01, 2025 05:36 PM

May the Schwartz be with you!

Posted by: Minnfidel at April 01, 2025 05:40 PM (ewjUl)

285 Statham is the Bruce Willis of Jackie Chans.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at April 01, 2025 05:39 PM (sSaYo)

. . . who is the Tom Cruise of Robert Deniros.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 01, 2025 05:40 PM (s0Mmk)

286 255 WoT always had female protagonists who took up more of the story than the male protagonists. Rand and his boys are pretty hapless in the early going, and his GFs [plural] are at least a bit more competent [and legit powerful, developing magical skills more readily] until he comes into his own. Perrin and Mat are both robbed a bit by the Amazon version, as their stories are so simplified, but that really applies to everyone, as every one of the books would be a long movie if it was faithful to Jordan's storytelling style.
Posted by: Gundo at April 01, 2025 05:33 PM (41SvP)

I didn't mind some of the casting - Lan was perfect, I thought, but Rosamund pike as Moiraine? A short white-skinned, black haired beauty? Please. All the men were robbed of their character and skill, and the two seasons were wretched. The stories and their fans deserved better. Did that wretch Sanderson have anything to do with the script and the character disgracefulness? Because he finished the series for Jordan's widow, and frankly, butchered it.

Posted by: Moki at April 01, 2025 05:41 PM (wLjpr)

287 >>>He was not supposed to do that which is why she was so shocked

Yeah, it was a practical joke that Cagney and Mae Clarke played on the film crew. The director decided to leave it in.

Posted by: one hour sober at April 01, 2025 05:41 PM (Y1sOo)

288 I would guess stormtroopers are white because it made Darth Vader stand out even more - the contrast of him striding into the occupied ship as he’s first seen, you just know he’s the ultimate bad guy.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 01, 2025 05:41 PM (Hkcdp)

289 265 You know why the StormTroopers wear White Armor ?
Posted by: Taking Notes at April 01, 2025 05:28 PM (ZFf0s)

Palpatine was Jewish and he could get the white armor wholesale?

They'd never think of that answer even though it plays into Joo stereotypes.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 01, 2025 05:36 PM (ExV1e)
You’re really Mel Brooks, aren’t you?

Posted by: Eromero at April 01, 2025 05:41 PM (p4vtc)

290 261 258 They already gave us Fag Spock, but where is my Black Spock? I'm still waiting.
Posted by: zombie at April 01, 2025 05:34 PM (pMi6S)

Quinto was pretty gay...

Posted by: Aetius451AD

How did they reconcile the fact that according to "canon," Spock only sex like once every decade during "ponn farr," but in the new movies he's supposed to be balling Untalented Uhura? What did theydoo--just cuddle? Understanadble, cosidering he's gay.

Posted by: zombie at April 01, 2025 05:42 PM (pMi6S)

291 Statham's greatest role was in Spy.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 01, 2025 05:42 PM (VofaG)

292 Statham is the Bruce Willis of Jackie Chans.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at April 01, 2025 05:39 PM (sSaYo)

. . . who is the Tom Cruise of Robert Deniros.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at April 01, 2025 05:40 PM (s0Mmk)
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Are we leaving out Jeff Speakman intentionally?

Posted by: Axeman at April 01, 2025 05:42 PM (krQz2)

293 Nobody has mentioned the gorilla in the room.
AI-CGI will wipe out the live-action movie, as anybody will be able to make a Marvel-style "blockbuster" film in their basement.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at April 01, 2025 05:42 PM (ForbO)

294 I watched all the Sniper movies. I liked those a lot. Statham is good as long as he sticks to fights. He is not a romantic lead. I like the Mission Impossible movies and Marvel as long as it had Iron Man. Action, Adventure, Sci Fi. Suspend disbelief and enjoy. But I pretty much do that at home and haven't watched anything costing more than $5.99.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at April 01, 2025 05:42 PM (t/2Uw)

295 Meet the new 007: Rachel Zegler! With Stacy Abrams as M
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 01, 2025 04:44 PM (VNX3d)

Is that the Roman numeral for 500…pounds?

Posted by: haffhowershower at April 01, 2025 05:42 PM (Sg8Xa)

296 I'm no longer fond of movie theaters. Mainly due to wondering just hygienic the seats are these days.

Plus, Yuuge TV screen and really nice sound system says we're able to get the theater experience at home.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at April 01, 2025 05:42 PM (tT6L1)

297 Anyway I see that was a NY story not CO. My oopsie.
As for Carpenter, Mouth of Madness was an underrated head trip.

Posted by: gKWVE with the house power out at April 01, 2025 05:43 PM (2Ib1v)

298 Considering I quit WoT about Book Six never bothered with the TV version.
Posted by: Anna Puma at April 01, 2025 05:15 PM (Yvslr)

Yeah, there was a dry spell in there.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 01, 2025 05:16 PM (bss/y)

Think I nicknamed the last one I read as "Rand Al Thor's Breakfast"

Posted by: Oldcat at April 01, 2025 05:43 PM (n7h9X)

299 Huh. Just an odd thought. If Jews were everything 'they' say, Israel would be like Wakanda.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 01, 2025 05:38 PM (bss/y)

How do you know it isn't?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 01, 2025 05:43 PM (ExV1e)

300 Last movie I saw in the theater: American Sniper. I wonder how many there are like me.

Posted by: Bud Norton at April 01, 2025 05:43 PM (/8Jbh)

301 How did they reconcile the fact that according to "canon," Spock only sex like once every decade during "ponn farr," but in the new movies he's supposed to be balling Untalented Uhura? What did theydoo--just cuddle? Understanadble, cosidering he's gay.

Posted by: zombie at April 01, 2025 05:42 PM (pMi6S)
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It was a different universe. ¯\_(:/)_/¯

Posted by: Axeman at April 01, 2025 05:43 PM (krQz2)

302 Stratham and Willis are great because they know how to make a fun action flick with no fuss.
You know you’ll be entwined and are happy to suspend disbelief. No sucker punches at the aid.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 01, 2025 05:43 PM (Hkcdp)

303 How did they reconcile the fact that according to "canon," Spock only sex like once every decade during "ponn farr," but in the new movies he's supposed to be balling Untalented Uhura? What did theydoo--just cuddle? Understanadble, cosidering he's gay.
Posted by: zombie at April 01, 2025 05:42 PM (pMi6S)

It's hand waved away, I think- just like everything else.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 01, 2025 05:43 PM (bss/y)

304 281
where is my Black Spock? I'm still waiting.
Posted by: zombie

Tuvok

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Tuvok
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 01, 2025 05:40 PM (63Dwl)

Close, but that's just a black Vulcan. I want an actual Spock

Posted by: zombie at April 01, 2025 05:43 PM (pMi6S)

305 Meet the new 007: Rachel Zegler! With Stacy Abrams as M
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 01, 2025 04:44 PM (VNX3d)

Is that the Roman numeral for 500…pounds?
Posted by: haffhowershower at April 01, 2025 05:42 PM (Sg8Xa)

M is thousand.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 01, 2025 05:43 PM (n7h9X)

306 Movies are too long and most movies are boring.
OH an Adam Sandler movie. Now that is entertainment.

Posted by: Kat Timpf at April 01, 2025 05:44 PM (UtMNn)

307 Jackie Chan's best film: "The Foreigner."

In fact, it's a good film all the way around. Surprisingly.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at April 01, 2025 05:44 PM (tT6L1)

308 I laugh at the sudden population explosion of Hereditary Nobility (Princes) that suddenly inhabit European Countries I've never heard of...

I mean... HUNDREDS of them everywhere apparently.

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 01, 2025 05:36 PM (QAkQ3)
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We're having a population explosion of gophers here in SoCal. It's incredible (20 or so per yard; no exaggeration, everyone's talking about it here). But still preferable to a population explosion of hereditary nobility.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 01, 2025 05:44 PM (YqDXo)

309 293 Nobody has mentioned the gorilla in the room.

king kong?

Posted by: anachronda at April 01, 2025 05:44 PM (oY6Yp)

310 Last movie I saw in a theater was Keanu. Key and Peele are hilarious. Surprised they haven't made another movie since.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 01, 2025 05:44 PM (VofaG)

311
Quinto was pretty gay...

Posted by: Aetius451AD

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Quinto WAS gay, but the canonical Star Trek character who was retconned as gay was, of course, Sulu.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 01, 2025 05:44 PM (lCaJd)

312 Frankly, I could do with another just good movie like Inside Llewyn Davis.

But the Coens are done making movies together for a while, it seems.

Posted by: Axeman at April 01, 2025 05:45 PM (krQz2)

313 How do you know it isn't?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 01, 2025 05:43 PM (ExV1e)

Hmmm, Iron dome?

Ok, wait. Racially homogeneous ethnostate? Who's leaders are decided by trials by combat?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 01, 2025 05:45 PM (bss/y)

314 304 281
where is my Black Spock? I'm still waiting.
Posted by: zombie

Tuvok

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Tuvok
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 01, 2025 05:40 PM (63Dwl)

Close, but that's just a black Vulcan. I want an actual Spock
Posted by: zombie

tanned, rested, and ready

Posted by: lizzo at April 01, 2025 05:45 PM (oY6Yp)

315 Movies are less and less attractive for many reasons. Mostly and bigly it's woke stale crap. And also, there's so many things to entertain us now and so many ways to do it, there's not enough time. And it's expensive AF now. Last movie I saw on the big screen was Top Gun 2. Two tickets and some sodas and popcorn was like 70 bucks. Pass.

Posted by: Minnfidel at April 01, 2025 05:45 PM (ewjUl)

316 Nobody has mentioned the gorilla in the room.
AI-CGI will wipe out the live-action movie, as anybody will be able to make a Marvel-style "blockbuster" film in their basement.

I'll call bullshit. The live-action movie is already dead.

AI ain't making the next Death Wish. Or Outlaw Josie Wales. Or Glengary Glen Ross. Or Heat. I could go on and on and on.

And I'm tired of hearing about AI. Its an excuse.

Posted by: Taking Notes at April 01, 2025 05:45 PM (ZFf0s)

317 Going to a packed theater to see a great movie used to be a community event, to be enjoyed together, a shared experience of sorts.

Covid killed community. And the general lack of manners and awareness of movie goers is astounding.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 01, 2025 05:46 PM (BZLGW)

318 Almost as if JJ Binks is an untalented hack, social-climbing his way into a field he had no competence in

Posted by: gKWVE with the house power out at April 01, 2025 05:46 PM (2Ib1v)

319 Last movie I saw in a theater was Keanu. Key and Peele are hilarious. Surprised they haven't made another movie since.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 01, 2025 05:44 PM (VofaG)
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That was a great movie. But I've seen The Gentlemen in theaters since that and that's still like a high-point of recent years.

Posted by: Axeman at April 01, 2025 05:47 PM (krQz2)

320 I would guess stormtroopers are white because it made Darth Vader stand out even more - the contrast of him striding into the occupied ship as he’s first seen, you just know he’s the ultimate bad guy.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 01, 2025 05:41 PM (Hkcdp)
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It's like the white hat/black hat trope in Westerns.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 01, 2025 05:47 PM (YqDXo)

321 I would guess stormtroopers are white because it made Darth Vader stand out even more - the contrast of him striding into the occupied ship as he’s first seen, you just know he’s the ultimate bad guy.
Posted by: Lizzy
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Robot Chicken version of that scene:

https://tinyurl.com/yck4x85s

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at April 01, 2025 05:47 PM (Dm8we)

322 You’re really Mel Brooks, aren’t you?
Posted by: Eromero at April 01, 2025 05:41 PM (p4vtc)

On the one hand, I'd be pretty rich... on the other, I'd be pretty old. Nah, I'll stay me.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 01, 2025 05:47 PM (ExV1e)

323 Nood

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at April 01, 2025 05:47 PM (S4K2e)

324
Covid killed community. And the general lack of manners and awareness of movie goers is astounding.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 01, 2025 05:46 PM (BZLGW)
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Fair observation.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at April 01, 2025 05:47 PM (tT6L1)

325 Hardboiled THE KILLER love the old Hong Kong action movies, the remade THE KILLER into a lesbian love story. I hate HOLLYWOOD

Posted by: Patrick from Ohio at April 01, 2025 05:47 PM (FCrpy)

326 Doesn't Rachel Ziegler have an agent, a publicist? Are they telling her to shut it? You would think she would listen to them when they talk money.

One other thing, Jennifer Lawrence became mouthy and where is she now? Rachel, learn from other people.

Posted by: Decaf at April 01, 2025 05:47 PM (unUNN)

327 I could go for a pure slapstick movie like the Naked Gun movies. Yeah I'm shallow like that.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at April 01, 2025 05:47 PM (kTd/k)

328 The Tingler gave me nightmares for years ( not an exaggeration)and I still will not watch horror movies.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at April 01, 2025 05:48 PM (t/2Uw)

329 Almost as if JJ Binks is an untalented hack, social-climbing his way into a field he had no competence in
Posted by: gKWVE with the house power out at April 01, 2025 05:46 PM (2Ib1v)
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To this day, I still don't know what people saw in Super 8.

Posted by: Axeman at April 01, 2025 05:48 PM (krQz2)

330 The biggest problem with writing is that we are now suffering the effects of removing the works of "old, dead white men" from the formerly broad spectrum of liberal arts education. The dimwits thought they were "de-colonizing" literature and sticking it to the man! But what they did by removing Shakespeare and Homer Chaucer and biblical literacy from curricula was to severely limit millennia of observations on human nature in order to placate an ignorant mob.

They literally have no greater depth to plumb for the Great Truths of Life besides Harry Potter, Marvel movies, and the latest Netflix spin on historical themes.

It's why the official NATO Twitter handler felt completely justified blaring his/her embarrassingly shallow understanding of the world by comparing Ukraine to the "great battles" of Harry, Han Solo, and Avatar.

Posted by: red speck at April 01, 2025 05:48 PM (oylnX)

331 Star Trek Discovery just threw everything out the window and squeezed every last piece of woke shit they could get in there.

Hey, for that heavier broad, just to be spiteful I limit repkicator rations to 1200 calories a day.

You're in freaking Starfleet. Shape up.

Posted by: Stateless...79% - mental state clawing up from 10% at April 01, 2025 05:48 PM (jvJvP)

332 I could go for a pure slapstick movie like the Naked Gun movies. Yeah I'm shallow like that.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at April 01, 2025 05:47 PM (kTd/k)
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I could go for a dramatization of Vonnegut's Slapstick.

Posted by: Axeman at April 01, 2025 05:49 PM (krQz2)

333
AI-CGI will wipe out the live-action movie, as anybody will be able to make a Marvel-style "blockbuster" film in their basement.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy

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That's right. Everyone will be able to make a movie for $100 in a few years' time. And there will be no gate-keeping, no filtering except... what? You just stick your movie up on Amazon or YouTube, promote it in one way or another, and hope it catches on?

I think audiences, like readers, are going to drift back towards gatekeepers in some way. When absolutely everyone can and does make movies, there's going to be a hellacious amount of garbage. MUCH worse than now.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 01, 2025 05:49 PM (lCaJd)

334
Besides her prickly nature, Fiorentino also got caught up in all the shit from the wiretapping scandal surrounding John McTiernan. She was dating Anthony Pellicano and an FBI agent who was investigating Pellicano. The agent was pulling info off of FBI computers and passing it on to Pellicano, using her as the courier/conduit.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 01, 2025 05:50 PM (y9nCu)

335

noood

Posted by: Soothsayer at April 01, 2025 05:50 PM (89upD)

336 Posted by: Axeman at April 01, 2025 05:47 PM (krQz2)

The Gentleman is fantastic . I've been searching for it on a free streaming channel but no luck.

I've just realized that Matthew McCaunahey has made a lot of movies I really like.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 01, 2025 05:51 PM (VofaG)

337 IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE A "NEGATIVE FEEDBACK LOOP" STABILIZES, WHILE A POSITIVE FEEDBACK LOOP CAUSES FURTHER CHANGES IN THE SAME DIRECTION, REINFORCING THE CHANGE.

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at April 01, 2025 05:51 PM (D0HYP)

338 Last theatre movies for me: "Repo Man" and "Stop Making Sense," both in 1984. Somewhere in Seattle.

Posted by: Great Plains Drifter at April 01, 2025 06:03 PM (AQ9kW)

339 SpaceX - Falcon 9 - Starlink 11-13
SLC-4E - Vandenberg SFB - Space Affairs Live
Launch Date: April 1, 2025 (PDT)
Launch Time: 4:39 p.m. PDT, 2339 UTC - April 2, 01:39 CEDT

https://www.youtube.com/live/PsWR797oOsc

from California so note time.

Posted by: Ciampino - time zones at April 01, 2025 06:09 PM (sPQoU)

340 Basically, everything went to crap around 2008 and has only accelerated since then.
Posted by: Thomas Bender

I'm sure it's no coincidence that Gaylord and his merry band of faggy marxists came into power then...

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at April 01, 2025 06:11 PM (ZfFvK)

341 I’m going to trick women into funding more shows about violence against women.

Posted by: Lews Therin at April 01, 2025 06:21 PM (KAuUW)

342 I have no idea how theaters stay in business. They are mostly empty when I rarely go.

Posted by: Evi L. Bloggerlady at April 01, 2025 06:22 PM (8yM+6)

343 they're going to make an entire series out of that one mission where you have to drive the suffragettes around in a wagon while they sing, aren't' they?

Do you think they'll include the part where you lasso one of them and drag them behind your horse into the swamp until the alligators show up? Not that I ever did that in the game...i uh...watched youtube shorts of that terribly hilar..aberrant behavior.

Posted by: Nelly at April 01, 2025 06:30 PM (pSknm)

344 I honestly think the days of the studios themselves are numbered, not just theatres. I've seen YouTube shorts that were 100% AI generated, which looked frelling amazing, and the only way I could really tell they were AI is it has trouble with consistency in the character's faces and body shape from frame to frame.

In 5 years or so I can see the technology getting to the point where anyone with a high-end computer set-up could generate a feature length movie in the home office, using their own original (or copied and modified, why not?) ideas and maybe a few friends to split the work. Studios become irrelevant, and more importantly the ACTORS become irrelevant.

Posted by: harbqll at April 01, 2025 06:31 PM (ZXBHj)

345
On a scale from 0-Nothing, what did cory booker's stunt accomplish?

btw, notice how he spoke for 20 hours* and said absolutely nothing worthy of repeating.

*not really

Posted by: Soothsayer at April 02, 2025 12:20 AM (cnUr3)

346 >He specifically notes that these male-skewing shows should not be turned into "big female draws"

The problem with this is that TV skews female everywhere because that's who watches it. That's the demographics. Women watch TV, men watch sports and action movies. TV shows by, for and about men are never going to be profitable for the same reason romance novels by, for and about (straight) men are never going to be profitable.

The best you're going to get is a show that appeals to women by presenting strong, confident male leads that protect and provide for the female supporting cast. That works, but that isn't Conan, Bond, or even Lord of the Rings.

Posted by: Daniel Ream at April 02, 2025 11:27 AM (LgYtf)

347 If I may make a suggestion?
Angel Studios puts out EXCELLENT movies. https://www.angel.com/home
You can see them in theaters, or stream them.

Posted by: Linda S Fox at April 02, 2025 07:30 PM (7Rs+y)

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