Is This Something?

Most of this will not be something.

I know what some of you are thinking: Hollywood may be so devoid of ideas that they're remaking every movie from the 80s and nineties, but there's no way they're now remaking "classics" from the early 2000s, and even if they are, they certainly won't be remaking I Know What You Did Last Summer, for the love of everything holy.

Well, guess what? You're wrong again. You're a black belt in Being Wrong About Everything.

Fox is determined to milk the Alien franchise, which started the same year as the Iranian revolution, forever. They now have a TV show about aliens coming to earth.

I don't get this. Yes, I liked Alien and I loved Aliens. But seriously, it's a limited concept. You can't just keep making movies and tv-shows and prequels about the same limited concept.

Or I guess you can. But I don't get it. I have no further questions about the Terminator, Alien, or Predator universes. Or the Robocop universe. I have enjoyed their early entries. I've loved many of them. But we need to move on. There is no more juice in these well-squeezed fruits.

Oh, and it turns out there is another Predator movie coming.

Great, Mr. Fabulous, the self-described "fifty-year-old Bougie Bitch" Pedro Pascal, is in yet another movie. It's about a brave and noble sheriff fighting disinformation and disobedience as he attempts to enforce covid lockdowns. There's a moment of someone watching a podcast on the internet, so you know that's about Dangerous and Divisive Medical Misinformation. The end of the clip shows someone firing a heavy machine gun so that's gotta be Radicalized Far-Right Extremists Incited Into Violence.

Now, I'm making a lot of assumptions. It could be that the movie is a more thoughtful look at the covid wars.

But I doubt it.

Nerdrotic says he has a Marvel source who says the new "Ironheart" Disney TV show is the worst thing that Marvel has ever done, and that includes their disastrous "Echo" show and "Secret Invasion" and "She-Hulk."

It's being dropped with three episodes on one night so that the show is finished and forgotten as soon as possible. They did something similar with Echo, though in that case they dropped all five episodes in one night. Like one of those poops where everything goes in one smooth uninterrupted motion and you can't even believe how efficient and accomplished you are at pooping.

The Superman movie continues to look over-stuffed with characters and plots but it also looks like it might be light and fun, like a comic book for kids.

Which is A-OK with me.

Let me get this off my chest:

I'm sick and tired of NERDS!!! demanding that superhero movies or any other juvenile fare be "dark" and "grim and gritty" and "realistic" and hyperviolent and filled with cursing.

This type of entertainment is -- or used to be, and should be -- kid-friendly.

I think a lot of NERDS!!! are a little embarrassed that they like entertainment which is made for kids or made to at least be kid-friendly because that would suggest they're immature. So they want these entertainments to be made more "adult," but by "adult," of course they don't mean thoughtful, contemplative, and nuanced. No, they mean they want to see Superman rip people's heads from their bodies and use his laser vision to shoot holes through people's chests.

And that he should say "f*ck" a lot.

I have to admit that when I was younger -- like, teens and early twenties -- I had the same kind of idea. That this kind of movie would be Even Betterer if it were "hardcore."

But as I've gotten older, and have approached, with increasing slowness, age 29, I've come to understand that I don't have to run away from my kid-self, or my teenaged self. My kid-self was right about a lot of things, and my teenaged self was too.

I don't need these kind of kid-friendly entertainments to be "aged up" just to validate me, so I don't feel like a stupid baby for going to see a Batman movie. It's perfectly fine for an adult to enjoy an entertainment whose primary audience is younger people and kids. Every adult, even one approaching age 29, still has his 5-year old self inside him, and his 13-year-old self, and his 18-year-old self.

Plus, a lot of children's entertainment can be pretty good. Disney cartoons from a bygone age often portrayed death in powerful and even traumatic way. Certainly Bambi portrays death much more realistically -- in that it has consequences -- than popcorn movies for "adults" that feature hundreds of people being killed with no one ever wondering if the dead enemies' wives and children will be looked after.

Kid-friendly entertainment doesn't have to be childish, either. The original Superman was kid-friendly, but it was very well done. The original Star Wars films as well. (Bit of trivia: They filmed the severed arm in the cantina sequence for the sole purpose of getting a PG rating rather than the G rating they would have gotten without it -- they felt that teenagers would not see a G-rated film because teenagers are always afraid to be mistaken for kids or little babies.)

The Indian Jones films are all basically kid-friendly, except for that one part in every Indiana Jones movie where someone gets his head chopped up by a propeller or something. Okay, maybe not for kids exactly, but a dad can watch that with his 12-year-old.

"Kid-friendly" doesn't mean "childish." You can avoid all the things that flag a movie as R-rated while also avoiding the stuff that makes a movie seem childish -- cornball kid humor, simple-minded plots, cartoony "bouncy" background music, unrealistic characters, etc. You can make a movie that avoids the tropes of actual child fare and presents semi-plausible characters with semi-realistic adult psychologies.

What Hollywood is doing is making very, very dumb movies with child-levels of nuance but throwing in R-rated violence to age it up.

I don't know if Superman will be any good. I kind of doubt it. I don't think I'll wind up seeing it.

But I do like the idea of making superhero movies and fantasy action movies with a younger audience in mind. I have fond memories of watching James Bond movies with my dad. Fathers need movies they can share with their kids. It can't all be about reassuring 25-year-old NERDS!!! that they're totally not babies because look, Superman just snapped this guy's neck. So hardcore!

(I think James Bond books are basically boy's adventure fiction too, except the boy in question "borrowed" his dad's credit card to subscribe to Playboy.)

I just don't get the idea that these Male Power Fantasy movies have to be "dark" and "mature." Having a Space Alien Cop snap the neck of a Space Alien Bad Guy isn't "mature." It's still children's entertainment with a veneer of graphic violence to seem mature.

And don't get me wrong-- I like graphic violence, too. But I don't think Batman movies should look like the last twenty minutes of Rambo. That kind of movie should be reserved for 17 year olds, or 15 year olds who borrow their older brother's ID.

Eh. I don't love Seth McFarlane but the director is Akiva Shaeffer or whoever The Other Guy from Lonely Island is.

Mel Brooks announces "Spaceballs 2" coming in 2027.

The teaser mocks Hollywood's sequel, prequel, reboot and side-quel mania.

First teaser for ‘SPACEBALLS 2’

In theaters in 2027. pic.twitter.com/GEnLzey2BQ
— DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm) June 12, 2025

DiscussingFilm
@DiscussingFilm
Rick Moranis will be coming out of retirement to reprise his role as Dark Helmet in
'SPACEBALLS 2'
Bill Pullman will also return...

Thanks to @rdbrewer4.

Posted by: Ace at 05:00 PM

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HIya

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 17, 2025 05:00 PM (wbZPZ)

2 New

Posted by: Embarrassing Stain at June 17, 2025 05:01 PM (cw38v)

3 First?

Posted by: actually inside the beltway at June 17, 2025 05:01 PM (naiw2)

4 (I think James Bond books are basically boy's adventure fiction too, except the boy in question "borrowed" his dad's credit card to subscribe to Playboy.)

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So much of genre fiction is just power fantasy.

And I have no problem with that.

"I wish I could fly and shoot lasers from my eyes and defeat the alien army." or "I wish I was a secret agent who was great with guns and could bed any woman."

It's fine. It has its place. It is kind of childish, but most people go to the movies for escapism, not a look at the human condition. The two can marry, but ultimately...people like escapism.

It just changes form over the decades.

MGM musicals were huge for a very long time.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 17, 2025 05:02 PM (GBKbO)

5 . It's about a brave and noble sheriff fighting disinformation and disobedience as he attempts to enforce covid lockdowns.
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It's about a certain narrative that must not be forgotten.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 17, 2025 05:03 PM (Q4IgG)

6 >>>I know what some of you are thinking: Hollywood may be so devoid of ideas that they're remaking every movie from the 80s and nineties, but there's no way they're now remaking "classics" from the early 2000s, and even if they are, they certainly won't be remaking I Know What You Did Last Summer, for the love of everything holy.

They already remade Fantastic Four, even before the upcoming Pedro Pascal remake-remake. I for one was not thinking that at all.

Posted by: Dr. T at June 17, 2025 05:03 PM (jGGMD)

7 Alien: Romulus was basically the same movie as Alien, with some implausible circumstances bolted on to it.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 17, 2025 05:03 PM (Dv3i1)

8 Former CNN host Jim Acosta claimed on Tuesday that farmers are being “led astray” and voting for “far-right” candidates in U.S. elections.

Acosta stated during a Center For American Progress discussion that the “far-right” has figured out how to “infiltrate the heartland” and get farmers to side with the political right. While name dropping the late conservative host Rush Limbaugh, Acosta argued that many Americans are not getting their information from reliable news.

Posted by: SMOD at June 17, 2025 05:04 PM (RHGPo)

9 Eh. I don't love Seth McFarlane but the director is Akiva Shaeffer or whoever The Other Guy from Lonely Island is.

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"Revenge is awesome."

I'm kind of looking forward to it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 17, 2025 05:04 PM (GBKbO)

10 First!

Posted by: runner at June 17, 2025 05:04 PM (nQcpu)

11 I have to disagree. I cared a lot about Murphy and would like to know what his ultimate fate was. Did he reconcile with his family, as best he could? Did he live longer than his children, being bound to carry out his duty until.... the stars burned out?

Posted by: DFCtomm at June 17, 2025 05:04 PM (H0Gk5)

12
I want Ace to incorporate the phrase Free-Ballin' more in his posts.

For instance: Trump is Free-Ballin' policy based on past promises, Irking both Democrats & Republicans

Posted by: Soothsayer at June 17, 2025 05:04 PM (h0F3f)

13 >>>"Revenge is awesome."

I was trying to remember the one bit I found funny. that was it.

Posted by: ace at June 17, 2025 05:05 PM (KRtlO)

14 Couldn't you do a nice alien--she joins a Mom's group and drinks wine?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at June 17, 2025 05:05 PM (kTd/k)

15
Balls Deep
&
Free Balling

Posted by: Soothsayer at June 17, 2025 05:05 PM (h0F3f)

16 >>>I have to disagree. I cared a lot about Murphy and would like to know what his ultimate fate was. Did he reconcile with his family, as best he could? Did he live longer than his children, being bound to carry out his duty until.... the stars burned out?

okay but that would be a genre-shift into a sci-fi drama. Which might be interesting. But it wouldn't be the same Robocop movie all over again.

Posted by: ace at June 17, 2025 05:05 PM (KRtlO)

17 I don't like dark. I like happy endings !

Posted by: runner at June 17, 2025 05:06 PM (nQcpu)

18 .people like escapism."

"Hey, call the bard over here and sing more of Uhtred"

It's not new.

Posted by: man at June 17, 2025 05:07 PM (tubbA)

19 It's being dropped with three episodes on one night so that the show is finished and forgotten as soon as possible. They did something similar with Echo, though in that case they dropped all five episodes in one night. Like one of those poops where everything goes in one smooth uninterrupted motion and you can't even believe how efficient and accomplished you are at pooping.

Damn, I'm giving up and taking up farming. I can't match that.

Posted by: William Shakespeare at June 17, 2025 05:07 PM (s8j++)

20 Ace I like your effort here to define what makes a movie good.. and that’s the word that counts for all of us.. Good.. the concept of Good in movies has been lost by the makers.. why is that the case??

Posted by: tubal at June 17, 2025 05:07 PM (PCK5/)

21 the one thing I liked in Robocop 2 was his... light stalking of his wife and child.

And the wife complained and told the cops to tell him to stop driving down their street.

Tough stuff, but realistic. So sad for Murphy.

Posted by: ace at June 17, 2025 05:07 PM (KRtlO)

22 I have sometimes wondered about the fate of mooks who get slaughtered by the dozens (or hundreds) in some of these movies.

Don't they have friends? Family? People who care about them and might depend on them for support?

Won't someone think of the mooks?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 17, 2025 05:07 PM (7fElN)

23 I'm sick and tired of NERDS!!!

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Uh oh.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at June 17, 2025 05:07 PM (9JXSH)

24 Ace I like your effort here to define what makes a movie good.. and that’s the word that counts for all of us.. Good.. the concept of Good in movies has been lost by the makers.. why is that the case??
Posted by: tubal at June 17, 2025 05:07 PM (PCK5/)
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Because ***THE MESSAGE*** is far more important than a good story.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 17, 2025 05:08 PM (7fElN)

25 I can't wait for Fast & Furious 27: This time, we're done.

Posted by: toby928 at June 17, 2025 05:08 PM (jc0TO)

26
Alien Earth appears to have nothing new in it, down to a closeup of someone opening their eyes as another "species" or in another reality (cf. Twilight and Vanilla Sky at a minimum). The same blue-shifted palette and pasty principals are here from The Matrix, The Batman, a couple of movies about medieval times, OH and someone is going to "transition" to a synthetic human. ffs where HAVEN'T I seen that in sci-fi? I could go on.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 17, 2025 05:09 PM (wbZPZ)

27 I think a Hallmark Robocop would be good.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at June 17, 2025 05:09 PM (kTd/k)

28 I'm sick and tired of NERDS!!!

-
Uh oh.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at June 17, 2025 05:07 PM (9JXSH)
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So ace was in the Alpha Beta fraternity in college?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 17, 2025 05:09 PM (7fElN)

29 Tough stuff, but realistic. So sad for Murphy.
Posted by: ace at June 17, 2025 05:07 PM

You would think a guy with a robo-cock could get all the action he wanted.

Posted by: toby928 at June 17, 2025 05:09 PM (jc0TO)

30 I guess Liam was serious about doing improvisational comedy.

- Ricky Gervais

Posted by: WisRich at June 17, 2025 05:10 PM (G0vdT)

31 Parents did not know how far their educationdollar went 12 cents at a time.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at June 17, 2025 05:10 PM (QSrLX)

32 You can see the desire for silly things to be taken seriously really clearly in a few franchises, and a great example is Godzilla.

Went really silly through the 60s. Came back in the 80s and suddenly, super dark a super serious?

I suspect the people who brought it back just really wanted that original hit of seriousness from the first one. It gave their love of silly movies about a man in a rubber suit stomping on miniatures an aura of importance.

Posted by: TJM's phone at June 17, 2025 05:10 PM (GBKbO)

33 I can't wait for Fast & Furious 27: This time, we're done.
Posted by: toby928 at June 17, 2025 05:08 PM (jc0TO)
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Cruising around The Villages in Florida in souped-up golf carts.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 17, 2025 05:11 PM (7fElN)

34 I can't wait for Fast & Furious 27: This time, we're done.

I'm waiting for Fast and Furious 28: I've lost the tennis balls on my walker.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 17, 2025 05:11 PM (s8j++)

35 Damn, I'm giving up and taking up farming. I can't match that."

Sorry dude, but Clarkson's already got that gig.

Posted by: man at June 17, 2025 05:11 PM (tubbA)

36 Hollywood is doing stupid things and will continue to suffer pain and humiliation at the box office?

Uh... good?

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at June 17, 2025 05:11 PM (O7YUW)

37 I liked Godzilla zero or whatever it was. I hope there is a .5.

Posted by: toby928 at June 17, 2025 05:11 PM (jc0TO)

38 25 I can't wait for Fast & Furious 27: This time, we're done.
Posted by: toby928 at June 17, 2025 05:08 PM (jc0TO)

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The end credits for 22 Jump Street.

One of the best pieces of Hollywood satire out there.

Posted by: TJM's phone at June 17, 2025 05:11 PM (GBKbO)

39 >>>20 Ace I like your effort here to define what makes a movie good.. and that’s the word that counts for all of us.. Good.. the concept of Good in movies has been lost by the makers.. why is that the case??

That's a good topic. I saw Red Letter Media review The Suicide Squad, the second one, the good one. That fat guy pointed out that it felt more like a superhero movie than Justice League, because the characters, although villains, were actually acting heroically.

They also got along with each other, mostly. One thing I HATE in movies is contrived, pointless bickering between characters. I don't like this in real life, why would I want to see a movie featuring a lot of this?

Justice League had the characters bickering pointlessly just because page 4 of every screenwriter's book says "movies must have conflict."

Well, yes, they must have conflict *that actually matters.* In a Few Good Men, the conflict between Demi Moore and Tom Cruise over whether to take the plea deal or bring a losing case to court just to HOPE for a good outcome mattered. There was stakes there.

Bruce Wayne baiting Wonder Woman about having hidden herself away was just unwelcomed padding.

Posted by: ace at June 17, 2025 05:11 PM (KRtlO)

40 Wife and I watched "The Last Rodeo " a couple of weeks ago. A very nice family movie about a former rodeo champion having to come out of retirement to pay for his grandson's surgery.

Posted by: Embarrassing Stain at June 17, 2025 05:11 PM (cw38v)

41 I just don't get the idea that these Male Power Fantasy movies have to be "dark" and "mature." Having a Space Alien Cop snap the neck of a Space Alien Bad Guy isn't "mature."

For the record this sort of thing was perfected in 1990's I Come in Peace.

Space Alien Bad Guy: I come in peace
Human working with Space Alien Cop Dolph Lundgren: You go in pieces

Link: https://tinyurl.com/4zweak3b

Posted by: 18-1 at June 17, 2025 05:12 PM (t0Rmr)

42 I liked Godzilla zero or whatever it was. I hope there is a .5.

I really enjoyed the glimpse into postwar Tokyo. The scenes of Godzilla smashing things up have been done a zillion times.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 17, 2025 05:12 PM (s8j++)

43 In the theatrical release of Aliens that I saw, Ripley learned after her 57-year hibernation that the daughter she'd left behind had aged and died. I've never seen this vital bit of character motivation in any subsequent version I've seen. That's mostly the worst chop I've ever seen. Mostly.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at June 17, 2025 05:12 PM (wzAuc)

44 >>>33 I can't wait for Fast & Furious 27: This time, we're done.

It's about Family.

Posted by: Dom Terreto at June 17, 2025 05:12 PM (KRtlO)

45 21 the one thing I liked in Robocop 2 was his... light stalking of his wife and child.

And the wife complained and told the cops to tell him to stop driving down their street.

Tough stuff, but realistic. So sad for Murphy.
Posted by: ace at June 17, 2025 05:07 PM (KRtlO)

___________

The monologue where he lies to his wife and tells her he isn't Murphy but just an empty shell that was a tribute to her dead husband. Yeah, I liked the first two Robocop movies.

Posted by: DFCtomm at June 17, 2025 05:13 PM (H0Gk5)

46 I saw the trailer for F1 when I took the grandson to How to Train Your Dragon. It looks exciting and all but I have a hard time believing that there's an F1 driver as old as Brad Pitt. Racing fans probably could verify that for me.

Posted by: Tuna at June 17, 2025 05:13 PM (lJ0H4)

47 DiscussingFilm
@DiscussingFilm
Rick Moranis will be coming out of retirement to reprise his role as Dark Helmet in
'SPACEBALLS 2'

Hollywood must be tasked with laundering fantastic sums of money.

Posted by: t-bird at June 17, 2025 05:13 PM (emDE2)

48 Acosta stated during a Center For American Progress discussion that the “far-right” has figured out how to “infiltrate the heartland” and get farmers to side with the political right. While name dropping the late conservative host Rush Limbaugh, Acosta argued that many Americans are not getting their information from reliable news.
Posted by: SMOD at June 17, 2025 05:04 PM (RHGPo)

Acosta wouldn't know a reliable source if it bit him on his ass. Which it wouldn't, because it doesn't want to contract ptomaine.

Posted by: tcn in AK at June 17, 2025 05:13 PM (a4NoL)

49 14 Couldn't you do a nice alien--she joins a Mom's group and drinks wine?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at June 17, 2025 05:05 PM (kTd/k)

You weren't talking about this by any chance?

https://youtu.be/VmTCzJXLUCg

Posted by: biteme at June 17, 2025 05:14 PM (xWS9V)

50 > they certainly won't be remaking I Know What You Did Last Summer

In memory of that silly, but occasionally fun movie, here's Jennifer Love Hewitt's big dramatic moment:
youtube.com/watch?v=TNPR9U5MGwg&t=145s

Posted by: bonhomme at June 17, 2025 05:14 PM (lIio7)

51 22 I have sometimes wondered about the fate of mooks who get slaughtered by the dozens (or hundreds) in some of these movies.

Don't they have friends? Family? People who care about them and might depend on them for support?

Won't someone think of the mooks?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 17, 2025 05:07 PM (7fElN)

Yep. Watching buildings get run through and collapsed like they are empty
Except for that one that had the king of wakanda in it. Then it mattered that the building was destroyed. Anyone else in the building? Don't know. They weren't important.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at June 17, 2025 05:14 PM (OA79/)

52 --Every adult, even one approaching age 29, still has his 5-year old self inside him, and his 13-year-old self, and his 18-year-old self.--

Coming soon to a bookstore near you, The Man Inside Me, by AoSHQ.

Posted by: A Concerned Citizen at June 17, 2025 05:14 PM (OAxw3)

53 46 I saw the trailer for F1 when I took the grandson to How to Train Your Dragon. It looks exciting and all but I have a hard time believing that there's an F1 driver as old as Brad Pitt. Racing fans probably could verify that for me.
Posted by: Tuna at June 17, 2025 05:13 PM

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Do you believe there are 60 year old fighter pilots?

Did it hamper your enjoyment of Top Gun Maverick?

Posted by: TJM's phone at June 17, 2025 05:15 PM (GBKbO)

54 A Hallmark romance movie but filmed with a handheld camera, spooky lighting and jump scares but the same old plot.
And that reminds me of Count Floyd.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at June 17, 2025 05:15 PM (kTd/k)

55
Whoever's task it was to compile that list for Spaceballs II had a fun job. I didn't laugh that much at the original, Brooks doesn't do that much for me, but mebbe I'll go see it for the principle of the thing.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 17, 2025 05:15 PM (wbZPZ)

56 Space Balls 2 More Balls will be bigger and more full of Space Balls than the original Balls movie.

I hope they lampoon everything.

Shut up and take my money!

Posted by: AlaBAMA at June 17, 2025 05:15 PM (A5bjg)

57 >>>Thanks to @rdbrewer4.

Need to put that guy back to work. The sidebar is kinda slow at times.

Posted by: No Name Today at June 17, 2025 05:15 PM (vlXMQ)

58 >>>In the theatrical release of Aliens that I saw, Ripley learned after her 57-year hibernation that the daughter she'd left behind had aged and died. I've never seen this vital bit of character motivation in any subsequent version I've seen. That's mostly the worst chop I've ever seen. Mostly.

that was a good bit but I think the reasoning was: That existed mostly to provide a background for Ripley's extreme determination to save Newt. But they realized they don't really need to explain why Ripley wants to save an innocent little girl, so why include it?

They also cut the Hadley's Hope stuff in the beginning, because that was there to humanize Newt and to show how terrible it was that she lost her family. They reasoned, people will like Newt with or without backstory and also we don't need a 10-minute section of film to prove to the audience that a slaughter of people by aliens is bad.

They cut the automatic sentry guns because Cameron realized: It's robots versus insect aliens, who cares, what are the stakes? Whether the guns can preserve their ammo or not?

Posted by: ace at June 17, 2025 05:15 PM (KRtlO)

59 They also got along with each other, mostly. One thing I HATE in movies is contrived, pointless bickering between characters. I don't like this in real life, why would I want to see a movie featuring a lot of this?

Posted by: ace at June 17, 2025 05:11 PM

If you are teamed up with Ryan Reynolds, you are going to bicker. I am pretty sure I would murder him in his sleep if we were on a mission together.

and don't give me that Oh, he'll regenerate crap. This is how you handle that:

https://youtu.be/mrndSo8Uelo

Posted by: toby928 at June 17, 2025 05:16 PM (jc0TO)

60 I never heard of Echo or Ironheart and have no idea or interest. Probably fake and gay.

Btw, the aliens coming to earth is the one alien movie that people really wanted to see, but they never made it. They kept making the same movie in space, on a spaceship, over and over.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at June 17, 2025 05:16 PM (GCyOY)

61 Fo you believe there are 60 year old fighter pilots?

Did it hamper your enjoyment of Top Gun Maverick?
Posted by: TJM's phone

That's a good point.

Posted by: Tuna at June 17, 2025 05:16 PM (lJ0H4)

62 Now we need a sequel to Ice Pirates.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at June 17, 2025 05:16 PM (A5bjg)

63
Fo you believe there are 60 year old fighter pilots?

Did it hamper your enjoyment of Top Gun Maverick?
Posted by: TJM's phone

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tbf, the whole idea was that he was called out of something like retirement.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 17, 2025 05:16 PM (wbZPZ)

64 I don't get this. Yes, I liked Alien and I loved Aliens. But seriously, it's a limited concept. You can't just keep making movies and tv-shows and prequels about the same limited concept.
++++
We can and we will. The only limiting factor is shareholder credulity and our access to credit lines.

Posted by: Hollywood Studios at June 17, 2025 05:16 PM (6bTRc)

65 "Kid friendly" movies on 8mm?

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at June 17, 2025 05:16 PM (Jhc5W)

66 You weren't talking about this by any chance?

https://youtu.be/VmTCzJXLUCg
Posted by: biteme at June 17, 2025 05:14 PM (xWS9V)

By George that's it.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at June 17, 2025 05:16 PM (kTd/k)

67 *Sighs* That 'Naked Gun' remake looks awful and is giving me Steve Martin as Inspector Clouseau vibes.

Oh and "Rock Out With Your Glock Out" was the tagline from 2010's 'Cop Out'.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at June 17, 2025 05:16 PM (NHiEn)

68 I just don't get the idea that these Male Power Fantasy movies have to be "dark" and "mature." Having a Space Alien Cop snap the neck of a Space Alien Bad Guy isn't "mature."

MIB was a light, humorous bit of fun, but I always disliked the scene where a guy gets stuffed under a counter with a broken neck. It was gratuitous, and IMHO made the movie unsuitable for younger kids who might otherwise have enjoyed it.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 17, 2025 05:16 PM (s8j++)

69 >>> I didn't laugh that much at the original, Brooks doesn't do that much for me, but mebbe I'll go see it for the principle of the thing.

yup, me too, never got Spaceballs at all, and most of Mel Brooks' stuff is just dumb. I know that's not a popular opinion, and I know there are two big exceptions.

Posted by: ace at June 17, 2025 05:17 PM (KRtlO)

70 I liked Godzilla zero or whatever it was. I hope there is a .5.

I really enjoyed the glimpse into postwar Tokyo. The scenes of Godzilla smashing things up have been done a zillion times.
Posted by: Archimedes at June 17, 2025 05:12 PM (s8j++)

Having the IJN heavy cruiser Takao take on Godzilla was fun. She did survive the war so it was believable

Posted by: Embarrassing Stain at June 17, 2025 05:17 PM (cw38v)

71 Great, Mr. Fabulous, the self-described "fifty-year-old Bougie Bitch" Pedro Pascal, is in yet another movie. It's about a brave and noble sheriff fighting disinformation and disobedience as he attempts to enforce covid lockdowns.
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Gag.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 17, 2025 05:17 PM (6bTRc)

72 or three exceptions

Posted by: ace at June 17, 2025 05:17 PM (KRtlO)

73 "After 28 years, we asked the public what it wanted, but we made this movie anyway."

There's no stopping the schwarz.

Posted by: tcn in AK at June 17, 2025 05:17 PM (a4NoL)

74
Btw, the aliens coming to earth is the one alien movie that people really wanted to see, but they never made it. They kept making the same movie in space, on a spaceship, over and over.
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade

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tbf, it was all about being in space, where No One Can Hear You Scream.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 17, 2025 05:17 PM (wbZPZ)

75 I think Slapshot could be redone.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at June 17, 2025 05:17 PM (kTd/k)

76 yup, me too, never got Spaceballs at all, and most of Mel Brooks' stuff is just dumb. I know that's not a popular opinion, and I know there are two big exceptions.
Posted by: ace at June 17, 2025 05:17 PM (KRtlO

If you say Blazing Saddles is dumb, I'm leaving and never coming back until tomorrow.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at June 17, 2025 05:18 PM (A5bjg)

77 50 > they certainly won't be remaking I Know What You Did Last Summer

In memory of that silly, but occasionally fun movie, here's Jennifer Love Hewitt's big dramatic moment:
youtube.com/watch?v=TNPR9U5MGwg&t=145s
Posted by: bonhomme at June 17, 2025 05:14 PM (lIio7)

Jennifer Love Hewitt… one of the cutest girls that God ever made..l

Posted by: tubal at June 17, 2025 05:18 PM (PCK5/)

78 Thanks, ace. Great post. Long overdue for a movie post but a-hole moviemakers aren't giving much to work with. (Wife asked me last week how come we haven't done a movie date night in over a year and I said cuz there's nothing but sh*t out. And 10 years-ish ago we did them almost monthly...

And having little kids who I show the classics to ('our' classics, e.g. Christopher Reeve Superman, Rudy, Goonies, Disney movies that were good, etc.; they like the Rocky movies more than me...), it really is sad that they don't have more stuff made for their generation that isn't just grooming propaganda. They love Top Gun: Maverick. We've got our hopes up for Superman. And they love Spaceballs (basic cable; still funny but kid friendly); I'm worried that trailer will be better than the movie, but hopefully that one comes out great... Anyway, I never liked Zack Snyder. 300 was artwork, but the dude ain't mainstream and his DC stuff was lame (though did like Ben Affleck as Batman). Superman more than any superhero should be family friendly (and pro-American). Hope it comes out that way

Posted by: bearski at June 17, 2025 05:18 PM (Bhsk7)

79 We need more kid friendly entertainment like the "Twilight" franchise. Because nothing says kiddie entertainment like a minor teenager hooking up with a 100 year old vampire.

Posted by: Orson at June 17, 2025 05:18 PM (dIske)

80 young Frankenstein is *chefs kiss*

Posted by: AlaBAMA at June 17, 2025 05:18 PM (A5bjg)

81 NERDS!

Posted by: Ogre at June 17, 2025 05:18 PM (OA79/)

82 As a matter of fact, I AM pretty efficient and accomplished at pooping!

Posted by: Amber Heard at June 17, 2025 05:18 PM (y/iut)

83 yup, me too, never got Spaceballs at all, and most of Mel Brooks' stuff is just dumb. I know that's not a popular opinion, and I know there are two big exceptions.
Posted by: ace at June 17, 2025 05:17 PM

I might be the only person who really liked High Anxiety but it made me laugh out loud.

Posted by: toby928 at June 17, 2025 05:18 PM (jc0TO)

84 yup, me too, never got Spaceballs at all, and most of Mel Brooks' stuff is just dumb. I know that's not a popular opinion, and I know there are two big exceptions.
Posted by: ace at June 17, 2025 05:17 PM (KRtlO)

Most of it is just off-color dad jokes, but it beats most of what Hollywood has done for the past 28 years. Plus, it is good-natured, which is not the case for all of the "edgy" crap. Can't we just be entertained?

Posted by: tcn in AK at June 17, 2025 05:18 PM (a4NoL)

85 Now we need a sequel to Ice Pirates.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at June 17, 2025 05:16 PM (A5bjg)

I would accept a sequel to Krull at this point over all of the dreck that Hollywood puts out now.

Posted by: A Concerned Citizen at June 17, 2025 05:18 PM (OAxw3)

86 I'm sick and tired of NERDS!!! demanding that superhero movies or any other juvenile fare be "dark" and "grim and gritty" and "realistic" and hyperviolent and filled with cursing.

This type of entertainment is -- or used to be, and should be -- kid-friendly.
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Usually. There are *some* characters and stories (like the "Watchmen") that were always "gritty" and not really for kids. There are also some characters and stories (like Wolverine) where you *can* credibly make them gritty and adult.

But there are many, many characters and stories - and "Superman" is at or near the top of the list - that *can't* credibly be made "gritty." It anathema to the core concept. It's necessarily destructive.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 17, 2025 05:19 PM (6bTRc)

87 Hollywood needs to die, they are creatively bankrupt.

Yet another Jurassic Park movie coming out?

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 17, 2025 05:19 PM (BNLtx)

88 think Slapshot could be redone.
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at June 17, 2025 05:17 PM (kTd/k)

Basically Goon

Posted by: BruceWayne at June 17, 2025 05:19 PM (MGB5H)

89 So ... it's a movie thread now?

wait ...

Posted by: toby928 at June 17, 2025 05:19 PM (jc0TO)

90 want to contract ptomaine."

Lepetomane.

Posted by: man at June 17, 2025 05:19 PM (tubbA)

91 If you want a "Justice League" you can actually enjoy, go watch the animated series, plus "Justice League Unlimited" that came out in the early 2000's. Some pretty enjoyable stories in there, and it still feels like a kid's comic just in TV format. Smart enough to be enjoyable by adults who just want to spend some time with the kids, too.

My eldest daughter (now an adult) endorses this message. She was a kid at the time this came out and she still enjoys these two series.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at June 17, 2025 05:19 PM (O7YUW)

92 Jennifer Love Hewitt… one of the cutest girls that God ever made..l
Posted by: tubal at June 17, 2025 05:18 PM (PCK5/)

Those eyes on her. And I actually mean eyes.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at June 17, 2025 05:19 PM (OA79/)

93 I'm thinking about re-reading the Stainless Steel Rat series and reliving my teen years. That's how much I GAF.

Posted by: Tinfoil Dispenser at June 17, 2025 05:19 PM (ERYKL)

94 >>>If you are teamed up with Ryan Reynolds, you are going to bicker. I am pretty sure I would murder him in his sleep if we were on a mission together.

funny bickering is good. I don't like the fake bullshit "dramatic" bickering. Where people who are supposed to be mature adults, and even heroes, start slinging around petty insults like they're 13-year-olds with Oppositional Defiance Disorder.

Posted by: ace at June 17, 2025 05:20 PM (KRtlO)

95 Basically Goon
Posted by: BruceWayne at June 17, 2025 05:19 PM (

Yeah I guess.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at June 17, 2025 05:20 PM (kTd/k)

96 Space Balls 2 More Balls will be bigger and more full of Space Balls than the original Balls movie.

I hope they lampoon everything.

Shut up and take my money!

Posted by: AlaBAMA at June 17, 2025 05:15 PM (A5bjg)

Three questions:

Will the Spaceballs ship still be crewed solely by the extended Asshole family?
Is Daphne Zuniga returning?
Did Lone Star change the Druidia shield combination from 12345?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at June 17, 2025 05:20 PM (S/Y4j)

97 Yech. Another pulp-culture thread.

I don't give a damn about any current media offerings. My viewing habits these days are limited to TCM and MeTV, especially Svengoolie.

Not a criticism of you, Ace, it's your blog and you can do with you want with it. But I know basically nothing of popular culture after the second season of "House."

So I'll bow out until the Quick Hits or Cafe thread.

In the meantime, you can all get off my lawn. Ace excepted. He gets a special dispensation.

Posted by: Bulg at June 17, 2025 05:20 PM (77rzZ)

98 Roger Corman's Fantastic Four will remain the best movie adaptation.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 17, 2025 05:20 PM (BNLtx)

99 It's a shame Candy and Rivers are morte.

Who is gonna play barf?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at June 17, 2025 05:20 PM (A5bjg)

100 Plus, a lot of children's entertainment can be pretty good. Disney cartoons from a bygone age often portrayed death in powerful and even traumatic way. Certainly Bambi portrays death much more realistically -- in that it has consequences -- than popcorn movies for "adults" that feature hundreds of people being killed with no one ever wondering if the dead enemies' wives and children will be looked after.

Kid-friendly entertainment doesn't have to be childish, either. The original Superman was kid-friendly, but it was very well done. The original Star Wars films as well. (Bit of trivia: They filmed the severed arm in the cantina sequence for the sole purpose of getting a PG rating rather than the G rating they would have gotten without it -- they felt that teenagers would not see a G-rated film because teenagers are always afraid to be mistaken for kids or little babies.))
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One of the most contemptible thing modern media - from movies to TV to books to music - has done is assert that "it's for kids" or "it's for families" means "it can be shit and it doesn't matter because kids are stupid anyway."

Children's content needs to be fairly *simple* - not stupid and bad.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 17, 2025 05:20 PM (6bTRc)

101 Can't we just be entertained?

Is that not why we are here?

Posted by: Archimedes at June 17, 2025 05:20 PM (s8j++)

102 wait ..."

For what, Prometh....

whoops. Sorry.

Posted by: man at June 17, 2025 05:20 PM (tubbA)

103 Hollywood is too lazy to come up with anything new.

Indy films are going to take more and more viewers away from the big filmmakers.

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 17, 2025 05:20 PM (W2Pud)

104 Btw, the aliens coming to earth is the one alien movie that people really wanted to see, but they never made it. They kept making the same movie in space, on a spaceship, over and over.
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade

Err, Aliens vs. Predators was set on earth and it sucked. Except for a few sequences. And Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem also, but was a insane disaster of a clusterf. Feh.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 17, 2025 05:20 PM (mlg/3)

105 They cut the automatic sentry guns because Cameron realized: It's robots versus insect aliens, who cares, what are the stakes? Whether the guns can preserve their ammo or not?
Posted by: ace at June 17, 2025 05:15 PM (KRtlO)
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I liked that scene and thought it should have been included. I thought it showed how determined the aliens were, how helpless the soldiers where when even auto mini-guns can’t stop them, and it was some nice effects shots for the time, I would have re-edited it, tho, so it’s less humans staring blankly at screens showing bullet countdowns.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at June 17, 2025 05:21 PM (GCyOY)

106 Oh, and it turns out there is another Predator movie coming.

Prey was surprisingly good.
So I will indulge them here.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at June 17, 2025 05:21 PM (UGyV5)

107 It's a shame Candy and Rivers are morte.

Who is gonna play barf?
Posted by: AlaBAMA at June 17, 2025 05:20 PM

How about that fat kid from Seinfeld?

Posted by: toby928 at June 17, 2025 05:21 PM (jc0TO)

108 >>Most of it is just off-color dad jokes, but it beats most of what Hollywood has done for the past 28 years. Plus, it is good-natured, which is not the case for all of the "edgy" crap. Can't we just be entertained?

I mean yeah, you can totally like him. I just have never found him funny.

With the obvious exceptions. Although the only Brooks movie I really love is Young Frankenstein, and that was more Gene Wilder's baby that Brooks'

Posted by: ace at June 17, 2025 05:21 PM (KRtlO)

109 yup, me too, never got Spaceballs at all, and most of Mel Brooks' stuff is just dumb. I know that's not a popular opinion, and I know there are two big exceptions.
Posted by: ace

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Which two? Spaceballs was awesome, Men in Tights was eh, History of the World was great but I'd put Spaceballs ahead, and I can never get to into Blazing Saddles... If you ever liked Star Wars, and think anything Mel Brooks is good, Spaceballs is worth it.

And not to ruin it, but an Alien fan would like the ending too...

Posted by: bearski at June 17, 2025 05:21 PM (Bhsk7)

110
Is This Something?

This Charlie's Angels spoof is an AI generated short. It's half-realistic and half-creepy-as-fuck:

https://is.gd/7LbmrD

Posted by: Soothsayer at June 17, 2025 05:21 PM (h0F3f)

111 Superman is not dark and gritty.

I fucking hate James Gunn for doing Brightburn. Hate. Fuck James Gunn.

The tone for superman should be like the tone of The Rocketeer and the First Captain America. Both by Joe Johnston, btw. That guy got it.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 17, 2025 05:22 PM (zZu0s)

112 Mel Brooks announces "Spaceballs 2" coming in 2027.

The teaser mocks Hollywood's sequel, prequel, reboot and side-quel mania.
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Hard pass.

I like Mel Brooks, but I have long thought "Space Balls" was his weakest work. I have no desire for a decades-later sequel.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 17, 2025 05:22 PM (6bTRc)

113 I am okay with Superman for kids, but having him constantly being beat to a pulp and losing his temper and acting like a dork in the trailers does not inspire confidence in me. I think its going to be Gunn playing with this action figures for hundreds of millions of dollars.

"OK I got Superman, and Dorky Social Media Luthor, and Guy Gardner, and Hawkgirl, and Mr Terrific and..."

The Alien Earth show has a super powered girlboss android main character. Not really expecting much out of it.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 17, 2025 05:22 PM (e7kz6)

114 Fo you believe there are 60 year old fighter pilots?

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They specialize in keeping kids of their lawn.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at June 17, 2025 05:22 PM (9JXSH)

115 Ah love you, Jen-A!

Posted by: Gump. Forrest Gump. at June 17, 2025 05:22 PM (y/iut)

116
Couldn't you do a nice alien--she joins a Mom's group and drinks wine?
Posted by: Northernlurker

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There's an original Twilight Zone episode something like that, where aliens come down to save stupid humans from their own asses sort of like guardian angels. I don't know if I've ever seen it redone. There was a dumb movie about guardian angels starring Meg Ryan and Nic Cage, but it was more high-concept silliness.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 17, 2025 05:22 PM (wbZPZ)

117 I am watching Resident Alien. Is there anything good streaming?

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 17, 2025 05:22 PM (P9gC0)

118 The autocannons scene in Aliens was classic. Even technology is fallible against the Xenomorphs who come in waves.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 17, 2025 05:22 PM (BNLtx)

119 I liked that scene and thought it should have been included. I thought it showed how determined the aliens were, how helpless the soldiers where when even auto mini-guns can’t stop them, and it was some nice effects shots for the time, I would have re-edited it, tho, so it’s less humans staring blankly at screens showing bullet countdowns.
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at June 17, 2025 05:21 PM

It also explains why the group wasn't just overrun by 200 drones.

Posted by: toby928 at June 17, 2025 05:22 PM (jc0TO)

120 Btw, the aliens coming to earth is the one alien movie that people really wanted to see, but they never made it. They kept making the same movie in space, on a spaceship, over and over.
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade

Err, Aliens vs. Predators was set on earth and it sucked. Except for a few sequences. And Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem also, but was a insane disaster of a clusterf. Feh.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 17, 2025 05:20 PM (mlg/3)
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Aliens on earth as in a population center. Not an ancient temple which was basically a spaceship. Without predators.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at June 17, 2025 05:22 PM (GCyOY)

121 108 >>Most of it is just off-color dad jokes, but it beats most of what Hollywood has done for the past 28 years. Plus, it is good-natured, which is not the case for all of the "edgy" crap. Can't we just be entertained?

I mean yeah, you can totally like him. I just have never found him funny.

With the obvious exceptions. Although the only Brooks movie I really love is Young Frankenstein, and that was more Gene Wilder's baby that Brooks'
Posted by: ace at June 17, 2025 05:21 PM (KRtlO)

Black and white masterpiece… the casting was inspired…

Posted by: tubal at June 17, 2025 05:22 PM (PCK5/)

122 Brooks seems pretty spry for a guy of 98. Spaceballs had some funny stuff , Moranis as Dark Helmet, but overall just meh

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 17, 2025 05:22 PM (akw+7)

123 Back in the day there was at least one interesting movie being released a week. Now? Good look finding one interesting movie a season...

Posted by: 18-1 at June 17, 2025 05:22 PM (t0Rmr)

124
Mostly.
Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer

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iswydt

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 17, 2025 05:23 PM (wbZPZ)

125 >>Prey was surprisingly good.
So I will indulge them here.

even so, why continue with the same monster in pretty much the exact same situation?

Don't get me wrong, I love Predator, liked Predator 2, and acknowledge the monster design and his lore (intergalactic safari hunters) is great.

But... I mean, wouldn't it be great to have a DIFFERENT monster with different lore?

Posted by: ace at June 17, 2025 05:23 PM (KRtlO)

126 Aliens will be a commentary on aliens. You watch.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at June 17, 2025 05:23 PM (A5bjg)

127 88 think Slapshot could be redone.
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at June 17, 2025 05:17 PM (kTd/k)

Basically Goon
Posted by: BruceWayne at June 17, 2025 05:19 PM (MGB5H)

You cannot replace the Hansen brothers. Not possible.

When the boy was young we took him to Fairbanks for a hockey tournament. Someone had done a lovely ice sculpture of the Hansen brothers outside the arena, right down to the glasses.

Some things are just timeless.

Posted by: tcn in AK at June 17, 2025 05:23 PM (a4NoL)

128
It's a Charlie's Angels spoof on obama's dead chefs mystery, starring Pam Blondi, Kristi, and Tulsi as the "Angels."

It's wacky & wild to watch.

https://is.gd/7LbmrD

Posted by: Soothsayer at June 17, 2025 05:23 PM (h0F3f)

129 I wonder if Letterkenny would work on the big screen. I see it as My Dinner with Andre but with hicks and vulgarity.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at June 17, 2025 05:23 PM (kTd/k)

130 yup, me too, never got Spaceballs at all
Posted by: ace

*single tear rolls down face*

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 17, 2025 05:23 PM (zZu0s)

131 "You're a black belt in Being Wrong About Everything."

Ouch, Ace. You nailed the story of my year.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at June 17, 2025 05:24 PM (SJrOE)

132 Also that Shane Black AvP that looked like Shane Black decided to write a sequel out of spite of H-wood and everyone on the planet.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 17, 2025 05:24 PM (mlg/3)

133 is it Lindsay Graham?

Laura Loomer
@LauraLoomer
The Iranian regime just released this video of someone stroking a nuclear bomb.

https://tinyurl.com/58n7nkr6

Posted by: Mister Ghost at June 17, 2025 05:24 PM (TGPs7)

134 I just had a six hour flight home. I tried to find a movie.

This is what I avoid: lesbian/homo sex movies; really stupid movies of simple gore; cornball Hallmark movies of love that would nauseate me and deplete however many brain cells I have left; Korean movies...why?; movies in Spanish that I click on and then get mad as there was no warning; movies with these actors and probably others: Kidman, Streep, Gerbil Gere, Jane Fonda, or any liberal who has moved to Europe due to Trump. I am sure there are more.

Some actors may only have the sin of a facial mole or are ugly and I will not watch them. Therefore I watched a rerun, and another one of a fictional chef.

I remain irritated that there is no original thought nor writing since, oh, the third writer's strike or covid or whatever.

Sequels don't do it for me much at all, altho I will endure them on long flights. As much as I detest Ben Affleck I watched Accountant 1 and 2 because I felt a bit violent recently. His acting is rather wooden like his basic demeanor to the public. I could "act" like this as well and just show up. Oh, I also don't watch movies with Lopez as she irritates me.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 17, 2025 05:24 PM (6PCLE)

135 But of course they won't make another Dredd movie.

I only saw the spoof of I Know What You Did Last Summer which was called Scary Movie IIRC.

I watched two movies yesterday that were better than average All Niter with JK Simmons and Changeland written by and starring Seth Green. It's a pretty cool look at Thailand within the story.

Posted by: polynikes at June 17, 2025 05:24 PM (VofaG)

136 15
Balls Deep
&
Free Balling

Posted by: Soothsayer at June 17, 2025 05:05 PM (h0F3f)
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I saw Balls Deep and Freeballing open for Stone Temple Pilots at Summer Fest '96.

Posted by: Pennsyltucky at June 17, 2025 05:24 PM (QdGJh)

137 104 Btw, the aliens coming to earth is the one alien movie that people really wanted to see, but they never made it. They kept making the same movie in space, on a spaceship, over and over.
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade
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For unmined sequel potential, Prometheus for the win.

Posted by: WisRich at June 17, 2025 05:25 PM (G0vdT)

138 If Slapshot was remade the Hansen brothers would be triplets trannies

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 17, 2025 05:25 PM (akw+7)

139 Why can't we in the West have something like Cutey Honey?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uSgIp4yXVk

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 17, 2025 05:25 PM (BNLtx)

140 *single tear rolls down face*

What, you Italian or something?

Posted by: man at June 17, 2025 05:25 PM (tubbA)

141 Like one of those poops where everything goes in one smooth uninterrupted motion and you can't even believe how efficient and accomplished you are at pooping.

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Pics ... or it didn't happen.

Posted by: ShainS -- Busy Organizing 'Make Trump King' Protests at June 17, 2025 05:25 PM (uG83j)

142 I do agree that the fixation with grim and dark and "realistic" superhero stuff is not just really tired at this point but never welcome to begin with. Superheroes don't have to be for little kids, but there are certain topics and aspects of life that they should largely avoid or only touch on very briefly and carefully.

For example, the entire Civil War storyline dealt with aspects of superheroes that should be left entirely untouched. You just don't GO there, because they ruin the entire genre, they undermine every concept of superheroes and the rules of their setting by worrying about government regulation and registration and innocents dying in superhero fights, etc.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 17, 2025 05:25 PM (e7kz6)

143 Was it like a fat man style bomb?

Or a Little Boy?

Cause I have heard the Iranians like stroking little boys.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 17, 2025 05:25 PM (zZu0s)

144 > If you say Blazing Saddles is dumb, I'm leaving and never coming back until tomorrow.

Blazing Saddles has many great moments, but there's a good amount of crap in it too. The beans scene? Awful. Boris the hangman? Awful.

Posted by: bonhomme at June 17, 2025 05:25 PM (lIio7)

145 Like one of those poops where everything goes in one smooth uninterrupted motion and you can't even believe how efficient and accomplished you are at pooping.

Yes, I am familiar with those.

Posted by: Amber Heard at June 17, 2025 05:26 PM (0sNs1)

146 The best Alien, after Alien and Aliens, is Alien: Isolation, a video game.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 17, 2025 05:26 PM (Dv3i1)

147 >>Jennifer Love Hewitt… one of the cutest girls that God ever made..l

yup.

and I like the first I Know What You Did Last Summer. I mean, it's not great, but it's good enough.

But... it doesn't seem like the kind of classic that needs a remake.

Posted by: ace at June 17, 2025 05:26 PM (KRtlO)

148 yup, me too, never got Spaceballs at all
Posted by: ace

It did not age well at all.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 17, 2025 05:26 PM (mlg/3)

149 125 >>Prey was surprisingly good.
So I will indulge them here.

even so, why continue with the same monster in pretty much the exact same situation?

Sure. I'd rather see altogether new stuff.

But I'll also see retreads if the quality is high. I'm not gonna make the perfect the enemy of the good when there is so little good these days.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at June 17, 2025 05:26 PM (UGyV5)

150 Never invest in your own play.

Posted by: Dreamingrobot at June 17, 2025 05:27 PM (DLl29)

151 Dredd was fantastic. Rough as hell, but it is what you sign up for.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 17, 2025 05:27 PM (zZu0s)

152 128
It's a Charlie's Angels spoof on obama's dead chefs mystery, starring Pam Blondi, Kristi, and Tulsi as the "Angels."

It's wacky & wild to watch.

https://is.gd/7LbmrD
Posted by: Soothsayer at June 17, 2025 05:23 PM (h0F3f)

That’s fun… thanks, Sooth…

Posted by: tubal at June 17, 2025 05:27 PM (PCK5/)

153 That is a very small bomb.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 17, 2025 05:27 PM (P9gC0)

154 Prey was surprisingly good.
So I will indulge them here.

It's no Leprechaun 4: In Space.

Posted by: toby928 at June 17, 2025 05:27 PM (jc0TO)

155 Japan's version of Charlie's Angels

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1P2Vgv5rdOg

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 17, 2025 05:27 PM (BNLtx)

156 yup, me too, never got Spaceballs at all

Its not Brooks' best work, but its his last good one. Its pretty fun, if not hilarious. Better than Men in Tights. A sequel could be painfully funny, but not written by someone in modern Hollywood.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 17, 2025 05:27 PM (e7kz6)

157 even so, why continue with the same monster in pretty much the exact same situation?

Don't get me wrong, I love Predator, liked Predator 2, and acknowledge the monster design and his lore (intergalactic safari hunters) is great.

But... I mean, wouldn't it be great to have a DIFFERENT monster with different lore?

Maybe this time the monster is gay or tranny.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 17, 2025 05:28 PM (s8j++)

158 I've always liked dark and grim. The problem is that it's now overdone. It can't all be antiheroes.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at June 17, 2025 05:28 PM (UGyV5)

159 17 I don't like dark. I like happy endings !
Posted by: runner

I'm you're girl! And I'm not all that busy!

Posted by: Mrs. Emhoff at June 17, 2025 05:28 PM (G5+As)

160
I can't wait for Fast & Furious 27: This time, we're done.
Posted by: toby928

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Which movie was it a couple of years ago that did a hot lick on this at the end? They "teased" the next 20 sequels and they were increasingly ridiculous. Dang, wish I could remember.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 17, 2025 05:28 PM (wbZPZ)

161 Takes 2 years to make Spaceballs 2 or are they allowing a year for promotion?

Posted by: polynikes at June 17, 2025 05:28 PM (VofaG)

162 93 I'm thinking about re-reading the Stainless Steel Rat series and reliving my teen years. That's how much I GAF.
Posted by: Tinfoil Dispenser at June 17, 2025 05:19 PM (ERYKL)

Why didn't they take those stories to the screen? Marvelous storytelling.

Posted by: tcn in AK at June 17, 2025 05:28 PM (a4NoL)

163 Movie Review ace is Best ace!!

Posted by: Count de Monet at June 17, 2025 05:28 PM (wVcYX)

164 Spaceballs was better than the sequels.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 17, 2025 05:28 PM (P9gC0)

165 134 I just had a six hour flight home. I tried to find a movie...
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat

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I watched 'Saturday Night' on a flight the week before last. About the first Saturday Night Live episode. I thought it was great. Great casting, good script, best Jason Reitman movie after Thank You for Smoking. Between the crummy offerings and how much I liked it, I watched it again on the return flight...

Posted by: bearski at June 17, 2025 05:28 PM (Bhsk7)

166 As a matter of fact, I AM pretty efficient and accomplished at pooping!

Posted by: Amber Heard

I see there's a new book out detailing the Depp/Heard affair if you just can't get enough.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at June 17, 2025 05:28 PM (9JXSH)

167 I can't wait for Fast & Furious 27: This time, we're done.
Posted by: toby928

F&F 28 The Rise of the EVs.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 17, 2025 05:28 PM (PfGa7)

168 Btw, the aliens coming to earth is the one alien movie that people really wanted to see, but they never made it. They kept making the same movie in space, on a spaceship, over and over.
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade

________________

I think Alien should have been a trilogy.

The first encounter
The government cluster fuck
The invasion of Earth

Posted by: DFCtomm at June 17, 2025 05:28 PM (H0Gk5)

169 i've barely seen any Jon Stewart but I did see him commenting on the I Know What You Did Last Summer trailer, which featured Michelle Gellar's boobs and a lot of Jennifer Love Hewitt's boobs.

He called it something like I Know What You Boobed Last Hooters.

Posted by: ace at June 17, 2025 05:28 PM (KRtlO)

170 ... Korean movies...why? ...
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 17, 2025 05:24 PM (6PCLE)
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Korean movies are often decent. They generally still understand characters and story telling. Plenty of garbage, of course, but I've found a lot like. Especially if you like revenge stories. Koreans seem to grok vengeance, its causes and its consequences.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 17, 2025 05:28 PM (6bTRc)

171 Pics ... or it didn't happen.
Posted by: ShainS -- Busy Organizing 'Make Trump King' Protests at June 17, 2025 05:25 PM

There several sites on the Internet where you can submit a photo for a rating, or (presumably) just browse other's submissions.

Apparently there's now one that uses AI to do the rating.

Posted by: Amber Heard at June 17, 2025 05:29 PM (0sNs1)

172 Blazing Saddles has many great moments, but there's a good amount of crap in it too. The beans scene? Awful. Boris the hangman? Awful.

Not every joke always lands but... you have no soul.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 17, 2025 05:29 PM (e7kz6)

173 I personally do not care for movies where the evil wins and there is literally nothing to be done about it.

Posted by: toby928 at June 17, 2025 05:29 PM (jc0TO)

174 I think Batman should be dark, but I agree other Superhero films should lighten up.

Posted by: Max Power at June 17, 2025 05:29 PM (q177U)

175 Why can't we in the West have something like Cutey Honey?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uSgIp4yXVk
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 17, 2025 05:25 PM (BNLtx)

On the other hand anime also has pretty dark stuff like Noir. Or even Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040

Posted by: Oldcat at June 17, 2025 05:29 PM (8avO+)

176 I am watching Resident Alien. Is there anything good streaming?
Posted by: Boss Moss

The Tourist: Irish guy wakes up in an Australian hospital with no memory. Get's kind of kooky and dark at the end. 2nd season jumps to Ireland for reasons. Has a weird yet subtle sense of humor about it.

Mobland: ultra-violent mob story in the UK starring Tom Hardy and bunch of other Brit actors. It's called Shakesperean because all of the characters are unlikeable PoS.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 17, 2025 05:29 PM (mlg/3)

177 140 No, he is an authentic indigenous-Italian American.

Posted by: Bulg at June 17, 2025 05:30 PM (77rzZ)

178 It can't all be antiheroes.

Yeah if the entire superhero team is Wolverine or Batman... nobody stands out and has contrast. Its just mopey and annoying.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 17, 2025 05:30 PM (e7kz6)

179 "*Sighs* That 'Naked Gun' remake looks awful and is giving me Steve Martin as Inspector Clouseau vibes.
"

Yeah. It's real bad. Like bad.

Posted by: eleven at June 17, 2025 05:30 PM (fV+MH)

180 Not even going to watch the Naked Gun trailer. There were three NG movies and each a gem; but that was when comedy was funny, that age is long past.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at June 17, 2025 05:30 PM (wBaIH)

181 Young Frankenstein is Brooks’ best work.

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 17, 2025 05:30 PM (W2Pud)

182
Disney pioneered "family entertainment." Everyone in the family could enjoy his products. It wasn't like you had to sacrifice a Saturday afternoon to sit through a kiddie movie.

Old Yeller, my God, that's one tough story. I haven't seen it since I was a kid so it might look a lot weaker now, but I definitely perceived the difference between that and Saturday morning cartoons, young as I was.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 17, 2025 05:30 PM (wbZPZ)

183 The Hound of the Baskervilles because Ace is never going to read the book.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at June 17, 2025 05:30 PM (kTd/k)

184 Ace, if you want a fun show, 'Stargirl' on Amazon was really fun.

Posted by: Stateless.. 32% - mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at June 17, 2025 05:31 PM (jvJvP)

185 Hard to beat 1975 and 1977.
1975
Jaws
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Shampooing
Dog Day Afternoon
The Return of the Pink Panther
Three Days of the Condor
Funny Lady
The Other Side of the Mountain
Tommy

1977

Star Wars
Smokey and the Bandit
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Saturday Night Fever
The Goodbye Girl
A Bridge Too Far
The Deep
The Spy Who Loved Me
Oh, God!
Annie Hall

Posted by: AlaBAMA at June 17, 2025 05:31 PM (A5bjg)

186 Like Bubblegum Crash, Bubblegum Crisis 2040 does not exist.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 17, 2025 05:31 PM (BNLtx)

187 movies make me glad that I like to read

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 17, 2025 05:31 PM (/Ghsb)

188 Unfortunately Spaceballs 2 is being written by Josh Gaad. The unfunny shit that is the voice of Olaf in Frozen and was the bad guy sidekick in live action Beauty and the Beast. So he is a woke shit. Do not expect Spaceballs 2 to take the shots at current movies that it should to actually be funny.

Posted by: buzzion at June 17, 2025 05:31 PM (aRLgQ)

189 177 140 No, he is an authentic indigenous-Italian American.
Posted by: Bulg at June 17, 2025 05:30 PM (77rzZ)

True!

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at June 17, 2025 05:31 PM (zZu0s)

190 I've said before that ludicrous speed is the only quote I took away from Space Balls. I know there are more people like but that's the only one that stuck with me.

Posted by: polynikes at June 17, 2025 05:31 PM (VofaG)

191 Like one of those poops where everything goes in one smooth uninterrupted motion and you can't even believe how efficient and accomplished you are at pooping.
_______

Give me the juice
The metamuce
Soft and loose

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 17, 2025 05:32 PM (ITkJX)

192 Posted by: Bulg

Posted by: Huh? at June 17, 2025 05:32 PM (OG98j)

193 > Not every joke always lands but... you have no soul.

Heh.

Posted by: bonhomme at June 17, 2025 05:32 PM (lIio7)

194 In C. S. Lewis' day, they said "adult" instead of "dark and gritty," but he nailed the mindset Ace is talking about pretty accurately:

"Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.”

Posted by: Wiese at June 17, 2025 05:32 PM (W2RQ1)

195 Blazing Saddles has many great moments, but there's a good amount of crap in it too. The beans scene? Awful. Boris the hangman? Awful.
Posted by: bonhomme at June 17, 2025 05:25 PM

But then there's the scene where we get mentioned.

Posted by: Male-attracted Terpsichoreans of Kansas City at June 17, 2025 05:32 PM (0sNs1)

196 Disney pioneered "family entertainment." Everyone in the family could enjoy his products. It wasn't like you had to sacrifice a Saturday afternoon to sit through a kiddie movie. ...
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 17, 2025 05:30 PM (wbZPZ)
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And as Disney lost it, it had a lifeline in the form of Pixar. John Lasseter *really* understood family entertainment. Disney lost its last ability at family fare when it iced him.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 17, 2025 05:32 PM (6bTRc)

197 Hard to beat 1975 and 1977.

The thing is, you can do that for nearly every year from 1939 to around 2000. We used to have it so good, young people do not understand why older generations are so disgruntled with modern cinema. It used to be we would go to the movies and be really surprised if a movie sucked. Now we expect it to be terrible and watch Pitch Meeting videos instead.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 17, 2025 05:32 PM (e7kz6)

198 I do love stepping into a bar or party and exclaim 'Where all da white women at"

Posted by: polynikes at June 17, 2025 05:33 PM (VofaG)

199 170 ... Korean movies...why? ...
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 17, 2025 05:24 PM (6PCLE)
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Korean movies are often decent. They generally still understand characters and story telling. Plenty of garbage, of course, but I've found a lot like. Especially if you like revenge stories. Koreans seem to grok vengeance, its causes and its consequences.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 17, 2025 05:28 PM (6bTRc)

I've also seen at least one great Korean horror movie (Exhuma). It seems like adults are still in charge of their movie industry, and they don't seem to have our preoccupation with DEI in casting.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at June 17, 2025 05:33 PM (UGyV5)

200 166 As a matter of fact, I AM pretty efficient and accomplished at pooping!

Posted by: Amber Heard

Look, fat! I'm still the champ, especially now that I can't trust a fart!

Posted by: The President Emeritus at June 17, 2025 05:33 PM (G5+As)

201 I’ve not seen a mind boggling, amazing, holy shit that was GREAT, movie in decades.

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 17, 2025 05:33 PM (OG98j)

202 >>to be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence.

yup. People who have just passed out of childhood don't want to be confused with children. Older people don't care and might even like being confused for children.

Posted by: ace at June 17, 2025 05:33 PM (KRtlO)

203
Is there anything good streaming?
Posted by: Boss Moss

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What do you like? What services do you have? The Netflix documentary on the Titan disaster is pretty cool. I'm also rewatching a series I thought was awesome when I first saw it, but it might be too cynical for some. I'll reveal the name if you beg me.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 17, 2025 05:33 PM (wbZPZ)

204 I think Alien should have been a trilogy.

The first encounter
The government cluster fuck
The invasion of Earth
Posted by: DFCtomm at June 17, 2025 05:28 PM (H0Gk5)

Back in the days of the Aliens movie there was an SF book series which had a legally distinct Alien plot. In one the Aliens take over a colony world but it is biologically wired to grow a superior "queen bee" and the idiot queen starts interfering with the war and eventually the humans are prepping to nuke the planets while the general is rearranging the pillows for the queen.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 17, 2025 05:33 PM (8avO+)

205
So are there YA stories that teach adult themes? By which I mean, themes that distinguish adults from youths. Stuff like - oh, I don't know - responsibility, foregoing pleasure for duty, charity. Things taken for granted not all that many years ago but now derided as bourgeois repression.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 17, 2025 05:34 PM (Q+BiN)

206 The FBI and IRS announced they’ve teamed up to track down and ARREST those who are funding the Los Angeles riots

http://tiny.cc/xm7n001

Posted by: bonhomme at June 17, 2025 05:34 PM (lIio7)

207 Do not expect Spaceballs 2 to take the shots at current movies that it should to actually be funny.

Exactly. They could savage modern trek and star wars and Disney, just mock and rip them apart and it could be hilarious. But that manling will not even consider the possibility.

I thought the Naked Gun 2 trailer was kinda funny, personally.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 17, 2025 05:34 PM (e7kz6)

208 > I have no further questions about the Terminator

Oh, but what about a Tajikistani handicapped transgendered Terminator? Huh? Huh?

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 17, 2025 05:34 PM (qpyNK)

209 Now we expect it to be terrible and watch Pitch Meeting videos instead.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 17, 2025 05:32 PM (e7kz6

Yup. Agreed.

I was lamenting to my woman that the only sequel that ever crushed it was GodFather II.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at June 17, 2025 05:34 PM (A5bjg)

210 I've also seen at least one great Korean horror movie (Exhuma). It seems like adults are still in charge of their movie industry, and they don't seem to have our preoccupation with DEI in casting.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at June 17, 2025 05:33 PM (UGyV5)

Not a lot of diversity on the Peninsula. They just had to draw a line across to fight each other over.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 17, 2025 05:35 PM (8avO+)

211 Disney pioneered "family entertainment." Everyone in the family could enjoy his products. It wasn't like you had to sacrifice a Saturday afternoon to sit through a kiddie movie.

Sunday evenings after dinner.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 17, 2025 05:35 PM (PfGa7)

212 Is it wrong that I liked Predators more than Predator ?

Though Predator gave us "I aint got time to bleed"

Posted by: polynikes at June 17, 2025 05:35 PM (VofaG)

213 BREAKING: Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem was transported to a hospital in the Washington, DC, area by ambulance on Tuesday.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at June 17, 2025 05:36 PM (/U5Yz)

214 190 I've said before that ludicrous speed is the only quote I took away from Space Balls. I know there are more people like but that's the only one that stuck with me.
Posted by: polynikes

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"When will now be then?" "Soon!"

Also, with a current 140lb 9 year old and his 70lb 7 year old brother, for years after carrying the older one around and swapping him out for his brother, I would say "This is great! I can carry 2 or 3 of these!" At one point I had them watch Spaceballs on basic cable and they got the joke...

Posted by: bearski at June 17, 2025 05:36 PM (Bhsk7)

215 > yup. People who have just passed out of childhood don't want to be confused with children. Older people don't care and might even like being confused for children.

I dated a woman whose grandfather, who was as sharp as a tack, loved to pretend he was a bit addled. It gave him freedom in public to banter with children and do other frowned upon things.

Posted by: bonhomme at June 17, 2025 05:36 PM (lIio7)

216 So are there YA stories that teach adult themes? By which I mean, themes that distinguish adults from youths. Stuff like - oh, I don't know - responsibility, foregoing pleasure for duty, charity. Things taken for granted not all that many years ago but now derided as bourgeois repression.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 17, 2025 05:34 PM (Q+BiN)

Probably have to go back to the 60s for that.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 17, 2025 05:36 PM (8avO+)

217 "The thing is, you can do that for nearly every year from 1939 to around 2000. We used to have it so good, young people do not understand why older generations are so disgruntled with modern cinema. It used to be we would go to the movies and be really surprised if a movie sucked. Now we expect it to be terrible and watch Pitch Meeting videos instead.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor "

Exactly.

Posted by: eleven at June 17, 2025 05:36 PM (fV+MH)

218 213 BREAKING: Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem was transported to a hospital in the Washington, DC, area by ambulance on Tuesday.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at June 17, 2025 05:36 PM (/U5Yz

Oh boy

Posted by: AlaBAMA at June 17, 2025 05:37 PM (A5bjg)

219
https://is.gd/7LbmrD
Posted by: Soothsayer

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That is hilarious, especially the way they kept having different gowns and hairdos in the same scene.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 17, 2025 05:37 PM (wbZPZ)

220 I'll try Titan. Thanks. I have a free service that streams everything.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 17, 2025 05:37 PM (P9gC0)

221 If you like Korean movies, try Alienoid and The Witch. Some great action and interesting plots, although they have some Korean-y goofiness which is par for the course.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at June 17, 2025 05:37 PM (GCyOY)

222 Xwitter reporting Kristin Noem taken to hospital in ambulance.

I'm ready to donate my fluids to keep her going.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at June 17, 2025 05:37 PM (73voq)

223 Titanic made hundreds of millions, many Oscars, yet no sequel, why?

Posted by: One Mile Down at June 17, 2025 05:37 PM (G5+As)

224 What everybody seems to be missing is that all these remakes are NOT due to lack of imagination. The originals are part of our culture, and what they are doing is trying to re-write our culture.

Just look at Snow White, where everything that was loved about the original was stripped (and demonized), and a bunch of Woke BS was added.

Or "Wicked", which is apparently popular due some great songs. In that, all the good guys from the Wizard of Oz are literally turned into bad guys, and vice versa.

The bad guys have long understood the importance of culture, and took over Hollywood a long time ago. They're stepping up their reprogramming efforts, in an attempt to destroy our civilization, so they can remake it to their own ends.

Posted by: MrExcitement at June 17, 2025 05:38 PM (hOOi9)

225
Still no Joe Vs the Vocano II ?

Posted by: Frank Barone at June 17, 2025 05:38 PM (IifOV)

226 >>The Hound of the Baskervilles because Ace is never going to read the book.

Ace still thinks The Butler did it.

Posted by: garrett at June 17, 2025 05:38 PM (uZ2FS)

227 What was the Korean movie where they basically do a home invasion on some family?

Pretty good if I recall.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at June 17, 2025 05:38 PM (A5bjg)

228 It's not Korean horror unless there is a gumiho in it eating out someone's liver.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 17, 2025 05:38 PM (BNLtx)

229 > I've said before that ludicrous speed is the only quote I took away from Space Balls.

Sometimes in my head, when I'm happy with something I did, I'll repeat the cheery line, "I'm my own best friend!"

Posted by: bonhomme at June 17, 2025 05:38 PM (lIio7)

230 Back in the days of the Aliens movie there was an SF book series which had a legally distinct Alien plot. In one the Aliens take over a colony world but it is biologically wired to grow a superior "queen bee" and the idiot queen starts interfering with the war and eventually the humans are prepping to nuke the planets while the general is rearranging the pillows for the queen.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 17, 2025 05:33 PM (8avO+)

___________

That's one of the Dark Horse comic series, they were pretty good at times and that's one of the better ones. I think they introduced the concept of the Sith into Star Wars, it was them or one of the novels.

Posted by: DFCtomm at June 17, 2025 05:38 PM (H0Gk5)

231 What was the Korean movie where they basically do a home invasion on some family?

Pretty good if I recall.
Posted by: AlaBAMA

Parasite?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 17, 2025 05:38 PM (mlg/3)

232 223 Titanic made hundreds of millions, many Oscars, yet no sequel, why?
Posted by: One Mile Down at June 17, 2025 05:37 PM (G5+As

They did one. Reservation Road.

Jack and Rose get divorced.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at June 17, 2025 05:39 PM (A5bjg)

233 Nurse, I went to a Warped Tour event about 20 years ago. They had an OD tent for parents, where they showed Young Frankenstein over and over. It was packed wIth others my age

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at June 17, 2025 05:39 PM (wBaIH)

234 The tone for superman should be like the tone of The Rocketeer and the First Captain America.

There have been only two modern writers I’m aware of who have really gotten Superman. Grant Morrison (All-Star Superman) and Elliot S! Maggin (the “novelizations” Last Son of Krypton and Miracle Monday). Everybody else wants to make him “realistic” and by “realistic” they mean make him as petty and egocentric as they would be if they had that level of power.

It felt like a miracle, though none could say why.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at June 17, 2025 05:39 PM (EXyHK)

235 I cannot believe girlboss tween POC Iron Man wasn't a smash hit.

....yeah, I saw the trailer and knew it was going to be bad.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 17, 2025 05:39 PM (tT6L1)

236 >>3 BREAKING: Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem was transported to a hospital in the Washington, DC, area by ambulance on Tuesday.

I hope for her sake that she didn't get into the neighbors chickens, again.

Posted by: garrett at June 17, 2025 05:39 PM (uZ2FS)

237
𝗡𝗶𝗼𝗵 𝗕𝗲𝗿𝗴 ♛ ✡︎
@NiohBerg
The regime has cut off the entire internet across Iran.

Last time they did this in 2019, they proceeded to massacre over 7000 people in just one weekend.

Pray.

Posted by: Mister Ghost at June 17, 2025 05:39 PM (TGPs7)

238 Titanic made hundreds of millions, many Oscars, yet no sequel, why?

Because Britannic hitting a mine and sinking is not as exciting.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 17, 2025 05:39 PM (BNLtx)

239 Pretty good if I recall.
Posted by: AlaBAMA

Parasite?
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 17, 2025 05:38 PM (mlg/3

Yup. That's it! Thx!

Posted by: AlaBAMA at June 17, 2025 05:39 PM (A5bjg)

240 "When will now be then?" "Soon!"

Posted by: bearski
________

"We aint found shit!"

Another scene he could never do today, even with woke being rolled back a little.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 17, 2025 05:39 PM (ITkJX)

241
That old creepy pervert and shitty "actor" Arnold Shwarzenegger went on The View, and they kept baiting him to trash ICE, but Arnold wasn't having it.

lol, the audience and panel were silent and miffed because they wanted Red Meat.

Posted by: Soothsayer at June 17, 2025 05:40 PM (h0F3f)

242 207 I thought the Naked Gun 2 trailer was kinda funny, personally.

i'm right here, you know

Posted by: naked gun 33 1/3 at June 17, 2025 05:40 PM (sGtp+)

243 Like Bubblegum Crash, Bubblegum Crisis 2040 does not exist.
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 17, 2025 05:31 PM (BNLtx)

I liked it, and the robot returning to see its wife show was very gloomy. Never saw the first one, wasn't available in my short anime phase.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 17, 2025 05:40 PM (8avO+)

244
Driving Miss Daisy II. Revenge of the Uber

Posted by: Frank Barone at June 17, 2025 05:41 PM (IifOV)

245
Another truth that it wouldn't hurt the young to learn early: you get a raw deal in life but you have to get along with thing instead of sitting in your own midden whining about it.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 17, 2025 05:41 PM (Q+BiN)

246 Xwitter: Iran issue GLOBAL THREAT, "tonight, a great surprise will occur, one that the world will remember for centuries."

Wait, is Lindsay Lohan turning 18 again?

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at June 17, 2025 05:41 PM (73voq)

247 What's the consensus on Ivan Reitman movies?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at June 17, 2025 05:41 PM (A5bjg)

248 Is there anything good streaming?

My Hero Academia
Reruns of Bob's Burgers

That's pretty much it for me.

Rewatched Tropic Thunder last weekend. Better than I remembered it being.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at June 17, 2025 05:41 PM (2DqMj)

249 Titanic made hundreds of millions, many Oscars, yet no sequel, why?
Posted by: One Mile Down

Fake News.

https://tinyurl.com/v5n58zub

Posted by: Stu Podaso at June 17, 2025 05:41 PM (MXu2l)

250
I was lamenting to my woman that the only sequel that ever crushed it was GodFather II.
Posted by: AlaBAMA

==============

Aliens
Toy Story 2

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 17, 2025 05:41 PM (wbZPZ)

251 129 I wonder if Letterkenny would work on the big screen. I see it as My Dinner with Andre but with hicks and vulgarity.

yes!

I mean sure why not

my dinner with andre with wordplay and pummeling

Posted by: Black Orchid at June 17, 2025 05:41 PM (Pv3Rg)

252 I can't believe someone decided to remake Iron Man except with a black ghetto girl as the star.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 17, 2025 05:42 PM (uWKK8)

253 I finally saw 'Her'

thought it was better than I expected

sweet

Posted by: Black Orchid at June 17, 2025 05:42 PM (Pv3Rg)

254 223 Titanic made hundreds of millions, many Oscars, yet no sequel, why?
Posted by: One Mile Down at June 17, 2025 05:37 PM (G5+As

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081400/

Posted by: Gref at June 17, 2025 05:42 PM (aBgBM)

255 202 >>to be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence.

yup. People who have just passed out of childhood don't want to be confused with children. Older people don't care and might even like being confused for children.

This is why I'm so appalled that the Dems think gratuitous F bombs make them sound tough and serious. They sound like 13 year old boys.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 17, 2025 05:42 PM (s8j++)

256 173 I personally do not care for movies where the evil wins and there is literally nothing to be done about it.
Posted by: toby928 at June 17, 2025 05:29 PM (jc0TO)

Nihilism. Started in the 60’s in entertainment… watch Midnight Cowboy sometime… that’s a real wristcutter..

Posted by: tubal at June 17, 2025 05:42 PM (PCK5/)

257 BREAKING: Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem was transported to a hospital in the Washington, DC, area by ambulance on Tuesday.

I hope for her sake that she didn't get into the neighbors chickens, again.
Posted by: garrett at June 17, 2025 05:39 PM (uZ2FS)

She's still trainable iykwim

Posted by: polynikes at June 17, 2025 05:42 PM (VofaG)

258 Iran is teasing a surprise the world will remember for centuries.

I hope it's a Jennifer Love Hewitt sex tape.

Posted by: bonhomme at June 17, 2025 05:42 PM (lIio7)

259 248 Is there anything good streaming?

did we talk about Dark Matter? I liked Dark Matter

right now I'm still wading thru letterkenny

Posted by: Black Orchid at June 17, 2025 05:42 PM (Pv3Rg)

260 That's one of the Dark Horse comic series, they were pretty good at times and that's one of the better ones. I think they introduced the concept of the Sith into Star Wars, it was them or one of the novels.
Posted by: DFCtomm at June 17, 2025 05:38 PM (H0Gk5)

no, it was a paperback book, no pictures. The aliens were called the Vang. Christopher Rowley.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 17, 2025 05:42 PM (8avO+)

261 Noem reportedly conscious in the hospital, talking to her security team.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 17, 2025 05:42 PM (qpyNK)

262 Thanks. Rocket Time.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 17, 2025 05:43 PM (P9gC0)

263 228 It's not Korean horror unless there is a gumiho in it eating out someone's liver.

gummi bear > gumiho

Posted by: anachronda at June 17, 2025 05:43 PM (sGtp+)

264 I cannot believe girlboss tween POC Iron Man wasn't a smash hit.

....yeah, I saw the trailer and knew it was going to be bad.
Posted by: blake

Marvel put out a comic series for IronFart and it failed in 6 issues. No one wanted it.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 17, 2025 05:43 PM (mlg/3)

265 Supposedly, Tom Cruise is interested in doing a Les Grossman movie. Maybe looking for a script, not sure.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 17, 2025 05:43 PM (tT6L1)

266
"tonight, a great surprise will occur, one that the world will remember for centuries."

______

They're converting to Catholicism?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 17, 2025 05:43 PM (Q+BiN)

267 213 BREAKING: Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem was transported to a hospital in the Washington, DC, area by ambulance on Tuesday.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at June 17, 2025 05:36 PM (/U5Yz)

Seems odd that there are no details. Like where she was when her emergency hit, and what she was doing. Like whether she doubled over in pain, or fainted, or was shot.

Posted by: MrExcitement at June 17, 2025 05:43 PM (hOOi9)

268 What everybody seems to be missing is that all these remakes are NOT due to lack of imagination. The originals are part of our culture, and what they are doing is trying to re-write our culture.

Exactimundo. The remakes are partly copyright retention, partly global market reach, and a big part "we will manipulate what you once knew for young people."

Its like the BBC's overpowering fixation on injecting black and what they call "asian" into the past, its not about representation, its about manipulating young people to know even know what the past was like and to destroy their heritage.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 17, 2025 05:43 PM (e7kz6)

269 >>>What's the consensus on Ivan Reitman movies?

I think he directed My Super Ex-Girlfriend which I liked a lot more than I probably should.

Posted by: ace at June 17, 2025 05:43 PM (KRtlO)

270 That old creepy pervert and shitty "actor" Arnold Shwarzenegger went on The View, and they kept baiting him to trash ICE, but Arnold wasn't having it.

lol, the audience and panel were silent and miffed because they wanted Red Meat.
Posted by: Soothsayer at June 17, 2025 05:40 PM

I was reliably informed by The View mensch Sunny Hostin that it's not illegal to be undocumented.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 17, 2025 05:43 PM (0sNs1)

271 248 Is there anything good streaming?

My Hero Academia
Reruns of Bob's Burgers

That's pretty much it for me.

Rewatched Tropic Thunder last weekend. Better than I remembered it being.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at June 17, 2025 05:41 PM (2DqMj)

They are streaming The Accountant, 1&2… they are not awful, maybe even okay for today..

Posted by: tubal at June 17, 2025 05:44 PM (PCK5/)

272 "Battleship 2" anyone? Best remedy for insomnia.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at June 17, 2025 05:44 PM (QVzW0)

273 Last time they did this in 2019, they proceeded to massacre over 7000 people in just one weekend.

Pray.
Posted by: Mister Ghost at June 17, 2025 05:39 PM (TGPs7)

The rebels might have air support now.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 17, 2025 05:44 PM (8avO+)

274 I mean sure why not

my dinner with andre with wordplay and pummeling
Posted by: Black Orchid at June 17, 2025 05:41 PM (Pv3Rg)

A donnybrook eh boys!

Posted by: Fuck off, Riley! at June 17, 2025 05:44 PM (TbWk/)

275 Xwitter: Iran issue GLOBAL THREAT, "tonight, a great surprise will occur, one that the world will remember for centuries."

Whatever you say, Ayatollah Geraldo...

Posted by: t-bird at June 17, 2025 05:44 PM (6+qrj)

276 261 Noem reportedly conscious in the hospital, talking to her security team.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 17, 2025 05:42 PM (qpyNK)

That's nice, but also strange. Why are THEY the ones she's talking to? THAT kind of makes it sound like she was attacked, and is acting as a witness to it.

Posted by: MrExcitement at June 17, 2025 05:44 PM (hOOi9)

277 Maybe this time the monster is gay or tranny.

I vant to...cut off your penis. Muhahahaha

Posted by: A Trannypire at June 17, 2025 05:45 PM (t0Rmr)

278 225 Still no Joe Vs the Vocano II ?

ain't nobody got enough orange soda for that!

Posted by: anachronda at June 17, 2025 05:45 PM (sGtp+)

279 The Indian Jones films are all basically kid-friendly, except for that one part in every Indiana Jones movie where someone gets his head chopped up by a propeller or something. Okay, maybe not for kids exactly, but a dad can watch that with his 12-year-old.
---
Temple of Doom created PG-13. Lucas was going through a divorce and insisted on the heart being ripped out of his chest being included.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 17, 2025 05:45 PM (ZOv7s)

280 Biggest plot issue for 2040 was Sylia going Replicant.

Character design, Sylia was indistinguishable from Ifurita. The other character designs were not much better.

And the music was complete elevator grade muzak. The rare alignment of getting actual singers for roles like Priss had ended.

Original Bubblegum Crisis was only 8 OVAs compared to a whole TV season for 2040.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 17, 2025 05:45 PM (BNLtx)

281
Noem reportedly conscious in the hospital, talking to her security team.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

================

My bet: kidney stone

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 17, 2025 05:45 PM (wbZPZ)

282 250
I was lamenting to my woman that the only sequel that ever crushed it was GodFather II.
Posted by: AlaBAMA

==============

Aliens
Toy Story 2
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

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

Captain America: Winter Soldier

There's a sequel out there that was way better than the original. Tip of my tongue but not coming to mind...

Posted by: bearski at June 17, 2025 05:45 PM (Bhsk7)

283 Sadly, Ironheart has not come out yet but word FROM INSIDE DISNEY is that its horrible and they couldn't get rid of it so they are just going to barf it out and hope people forget.

to be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence.

Indeed, GK Chesterton, JRR Tolkien, and CS Lewis all wrote extensively on this topic and why fantasy (they called it 'fairy stories') matter so much.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 17, 2025 05:45 PM (e7kz6)

284 They are streaming The Accountant, 1&2… they are not awful, maybe even okay for today..
Posted by: tubal at June 17, 2025 05:44 PM (PCK5/)

I like 1. 2 feels like it was written during a writer's strike.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at June 17, 2025 05:45 PM (UGyV5)

285 @libsoftiktok
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58s
BREAKING: I’m told Secretary Kristi Noem had an allergic reaction. She was transported to the hospital out of an abundance of caution. She is alert and conscious.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 17, 2025 05:45 PM (mlg/3)

286 Speaking of kid's movies...
I really loved The Princess Bride.

Posted by: Gunslinger at June 17, 2025 05:45 PM (R2gO3)

287 The modern BBC and Agatha Christie.

With the exception of "Why Didn't They Ask Evans?", horrible. All of it.

Posted by: sal at June 17, 2025 05:46 PM (f+FmA)

288 No, they mean they want to see Superman rip people's heads from their bodies and use his laser vision to shoot holes through people's chests.

And that he should say "f*ck" a lot.

So, The Boys...

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 17, 2025 05:46 PM (y9nCu)

289
That's nice, but also strange. Why are THEY the ones she's talking to? THAT kind of makes it sound like she was attacked, and is acting as a witness to it.
Posted by: MrExcitement at June 17, 2025 05:44 PM (hOOi9)

_________

The dog. It got its revenge.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 17, 2025 05:46 PM (Q+BiN)

290 276 261 Noem reportedly conscious in the hospital, talking to her security team.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 17, 2025 05:42 PM (qpyNK)

That's nice, but also strange. Why are THEY the ones she's talking to? THAT kind of makes it sound like she was attacked, and is acting as a witness to it.
Posted by: MrExcitement at June 17, 2025 05:44 PM (hOOi9)

If she'd been attacked, there's no way that could have been kept quiet. But maybe Padilla went back for seconds.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 17, 2025 05:46 PM (uWKK8)

291 > 246 Xwitter: Iran issue GLOBAL THREAT, "tonight, a great surprise will occur, one that the world will remember for centuries."

They're going to make up for lost time by announcing Pride Year, or possibly Pride Decade. Khamenei will be coming out as trans. Pezeshkian will declare himself to be a male lesbian.

You heard it here first.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 17, 2025 05:46 PM (qpyNK)

292 What's the consensus on Ivan Reitman movies?

Generally positive.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 17, 2025 05:46 PM (e7kz6)

293 289
That's nice, but also strange. Why are THEY the ones she's talking to? THAT kind of makes it sound like she was attacked, and is acting as a witness to it.
Posted by: MrExcitement at June 17, 2025 05:44 PM (hOOi9)

_________

The dog. It got its revenge.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 17, 2025 05:46 PM (Q+BiN)

Delayed onset mange…

Posted by: tubal at June 17, 2025 05:46 PM (PCK5/)

294 Reruns of Bob's Burgers

That's pretty much it for me.

Rewatched Tropic Thunder last weekend. Better than I remembered it being.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at June 17, 2025 05:41 PM (2DqMj)

only thing I miss about not have network TV. Need to get an antenna. I miss Bob's Burgers.

you should binge watch Rules of Engagement on Tubi .

Posted by: polynikes at June 17, 2025 05:46 PM (VofaG)

295 >What's the consensus on Ivan Reitman movies?

Evolution had its moments.

Posted by: bonhomme at June 17, 2025 05:46 PM (lIio7)

296 "Battleship 2" anyone? Best remedy for insomnia.

It doesn’t deserve a sequel, but I enjoyed Battleship. Real feel-good movie, especially when they found a crew for the USS Missouri. Complete bullshit, but I loved it.

The connection with the board game, while it made vague sense (much like the Missouri…) didn’t do much either.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at June 17, 2025 05:47 PM (EXyHK)

297 265 Supposedly, Tom Cruise is interested in doing a Les Grossman movie. Maybe looking for a script, not sure.

les nessman > les grossman

Posted by: anachronda at June 17, 2025 05:47 PM (sGtp+)

298 BREAKING: I’m told Secretary Kristi Noem had an allergic reaction. She was transported to the hospital out of an abundance of caution. She is alert and conscious.

yikes

Posted by: Black Orchid at June 17, 2025 05:47 PM (Pv3Rg)

299 That old creepy pervert and shitty "actor" Arnold Shwarzenegger went on The View, and they kept baiting him to trash ICE, but Arnold wasn't having it.

lol, the audience and panel were silent and miffed because they wanted Red Meat.
Posted by: Soothsaye

I fuck 'em. I don't deport them.
Posted by:Ahnold

Posted by: rickb223 at June 17, 2025 05:47 PM (PfGa7)

300 Another truth that it wouldn't hurt the young to learn early: you get a raw deal in life but you have to get along with thing instead of sitting in your own midden whining about it.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 17, 2025 05:41 PM (Q+BiN)

Not my usual sort of movie but "Where the Lilies Bloom" is a show where a hill family hides the death of the mother to keep the family together on their homestead.

it would be a good YA movie.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 17, 2025 05:47 PM (8avO+)

301 BREAKING: I’m told Secretary Kristi Noem had an allergic reaction. She was transported to the hospital out of an abundance of caution. She is alert and conscious.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 17, 2025 05:45 PM (mlg/3)

when asked for comment, Kristi only said "The Bees! The Bees!!!"

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 17, 2025 05:47 PM (uWKK8)

302
That's nice, but also strange. Why are THEY the ones she's talking to? THAT kind of makes it sound like she was attacked, and is acting as a witness to it.
Posted by: MrExcitement

============

She was in the middle of something when she had an asthma attack or kidney stone and she's picking up where she left off.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 17, 2025 05:48 PM (wbZPZ)

303 This is why I'm so appalled that the Dems think gratuitous F bombs make them sound tough and serious. They sound like 13 year old boys.
Posted by: Archimedes at June 17, 2025 05:42 PM (s8j++)
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The most tedious thing about freshmen at HS band camp was their need to swear even when it wasn't necessary. All the time. Yes, your parents aren't around, but get over it.

It was funny to see the sophomores act as the 'curse cops' because they were sick of this shit, having just done it.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 17, 2025 05:48 PM (ZOv7s)

304 "Xwitter: Iran issue GLOBAL THREAT, "tonight, a great surprise will occur, one that the world will remember for centuries.""

oh, no, someone found the kiloton grenade?

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 17, 2025 05:48 PM (/Ghsb)

305 Rockets done. They made it to camera range and got intercepted. 20.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 17, 2025 05:48 PM (P9gC0)

306 201 I’ve not seen a mind boggling, amazing, holy shit that was GREAT, movie in decades.
Posted by: nurse ratched at June 17, 2025 05:33 PM (OG98j)

While not the above reactions, the best movie on Amazon, at a recent time I needed peace, was "Surprised by Oxford."

I ordered the book of the same title for the trip two weeks ago, by Carolyn Weber. She was an agnostic who won a scholarship to Oxford and life changed. Great writer, great interweaving of C.S. Lewis and the Romantics of English literature. I simply loved reading it every night before bed to the symphony of my husband's snores.

Seriously, I loved both the movie and book. The book is possibly one of the best I have read in a long time...and I always have a book on me since our son's soccer practice.

For wicked recent book laughs I liked Jojo Moyes "One Plus One" in the last month. Snort laughs trying not to wake my husband at times. She wrote others and one that became a movie, "Me Before You" that was good on Amazon. I liked the actor in it and saw some of his movies (name escapes me).

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 17, 2025 05:48 PM (6PCLE)

307 You cannot do a Les Grossman movie of just him BUT you could do a movie of them trying to make a sequel to Tropic Thunder and him trying to make it work. He can't be the star, but he can be a major side character.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 17, 2025 05:48 PM (e7kz6)

308 They could remake (and finish) The Tripods.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 17, 2025 05:48 PM (63Dwl)

309 I have never not gotten laid after watching the Princess Bride.

Cary Elwes must get the old motor running.

Or Andre the Giant.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at June 17, 2025 05:48 PM (73voq)

310 290 276 261 Noem reportedly conscious in the hospital, talking to her security team.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 17, 2025 05:42 PM (qpyNK)

Did deranged Democrat senator get spit on her?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at June 17, 2025 05:49 PM (kTd/k)

311 Another truth that it wouldn't hurt the young to learn early: you get a raw deal in life but you have to get along with thing instead of sitting in your own midden whining about it.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Bonus points for using "midden".

Posted by: Archimedes at June 17, 2025 05:49 PM (s8j++)

312 281 Noem reportedly conscious in the hospital, talking to her security team.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

================

My bet: kidney stone

kidney stone > oliver stone

Posted by: anachronda at June 17, 2025 05:49 PM (sGtp+)

313 That old creepy pervert and shitty "actor" Arnold Shwarzenegger went on The View, and they kept baiting him to trash ICE, but Arnold wasn't having it.

Somehow he managed to not say "fuck your freedoms" the whole time.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 17, 2025 05:49 PM (e7kz6)

314 285 @libsoftiktok
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58s
BREAKING: I’m told Secretary Kristi Noem had an allergic reaction. She was transported to the hospital out of an abundance of caution. She is alert and conscious.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 17, 2025 05:45 PM (mlg/3)

Well that's good. But why is that NEWS, and why wasn't that included in the first announcement. WTF.

Posted by: MrExcitement at June 17, 2025 05:49 PM (hOOi9)

315 > I really loved The Princess Bride.

Same. It annoys me Rob Reiner directed it, but he did a good job.

Posted by: bonhomme at June 17, 2025 05:49 PM (lIio7)

316
Another truth that it wouldn't hurt the young to learn early: you get a raw deal in life but you have to get along with thing instead of sitting in your own midden whining about it.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

================

That's why Disney movies like Bambi and Old Yeller are family entertainment. Those movies have very difficult lessons for kids.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 17, 2025 05:49 PM (wbZPZ)

317 It doesn’t deserve a sequel, but I enjoyed Battleship. Real feel-good movie, especially when they found a crew for the USS Missouri. Complete bullshit, but I loved it.

The connection with the board game, while it made vague sense (much like the Missouri…

didn’t do much either.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at June 17, 2025 05:47 PM (EXyHK)
——-

I also liked it. No woke bullshit, very pro military. Some really good action too.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at June 17, 2025 05:49 PM (GCyOY)

318 Malcolm in the Midden… good show..

Posted by: tubal at June 17, 2025 05:49 PM (PCK5/)

319 Naked gun might work since LN1 was a serious dramatic actor turned straight man for comedy like LN2.

Posted by: banana Dream at June 17, 2025 05:49 PM (cduTK)

320 only really dark movie I liked was The Human Stain with Anthony Hopkins and Nicole Kidman.

Posted by: polynikes at June 17, 2025 05:49 PM (VofaG)

321 Brightburn is a good evil Superman tale.

Posted by: toby928 at June 17, 2025 05:49 PM (jc0TO)

322 "Battleship 2" anyone? Best remedy for insomnia.

It doesn’t deserve a sequel, but I enjoyed Battleship. Real feel-good movie, especially when they found a crew for the USS Missouri. Complete bullshit, but I loved it.

The connection with the board game, while it made vague sense (much like the Missouri…

didn’t do much either.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at June 17, 2025 05:47 PM (EXyHK)

Another oddball series is the Ayes of Texas where some crippled vets are hired by a billionaire to refit the old Texas battleship to defeat the Russian fleet in Houston Harbor. They even secede from the Union.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 17, 2025 05:50 PM (8avO+)

323 Rumor is that its an allergic reaction that sent Noem to the hospital.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 17, 2025 05:50 PM (e7kz6)

324 Look, I watch a trailer for a comedy, and I need to laugh a couple of times, hard.

And I did.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at June 17, 2025 05:50 PM (gDhA9)

325 Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan has entered Chat

"From Hell's heart I spit at thee."

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 17, 2025 05:50 PM (BNLtx)

326 Iran issue GLOBAL THREAT, "tonight, a great surprise will occur, one that the world will remember for centuries."

The mullahs are going to put out a Bollywood musical?

Posted by: gKWVE at June 17, 2025 05:50 PM (gKWVE)

327 So it's a movie thread?

Posted by: Just got here at June 17, 2025 05:50 PM (y/iut)

328 301 BREAKING: I’m told Secretary Kristi Noem had an allergic reaction. She was transported to the hospital out of an abundance of caution. She is alert and conscious.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 17, 2025 05:45 PM (mlg/3)

when asked for comment, Kristi only said "The Bees! The Bees!!!"
Posted by: Tom Servo at June 17, 2025 05:47 PM (uWKK

Poor lady. I am allergic to air. I read last week in the UK DM of a friend of Prince William's dying due to swallowing a bee during polo. I say that Brit Like, eh? Unsure if he was on a horse or one got into his champagne on the sidelines, but a a horrible way to go.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 17, 2025 05:50 PM (6PCLE)

329 Well that's good. But why is that NEWS, and why wasn't that included in the first announcement. WTF.
Posted by: MrExcitement at June 17, 2025 05:49 PM (hOOi9)

Because they didn't know. Not the press and likely not her team either.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 17, 2025 05:51 PM (8avO+)

330 Yeah, Brightburn was good. I didn't want to see it, because the Gunn brothers annoy me, but I talked myself into it and ended up enjoying it.

Posted by: gKWVE at June 17, 2025 05:51 PM (gKWVE)

331 Wrath of Khan was obviously way better than The Motion Picture.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 17, 2025 05:51 PM (ITkJX)

332 Yes, cartoons and entertain aimed at kids can be very good. The first ten minutes of the Pixar film "Up" is as moving as anything I've seen on the big screen. (The rest of the movie, not so much.)

Posted by: Nemo at June 17, 2025 05:51 PM (4RPgu)

333 327 So it's a movie thread?
Posted by: Just got here at June 17, 2025 05:50 PM (y/iut)

They tried geopolitics for a minute, but got thrown out…

Posted by: tubal at June 17, 2025 05:51 PM (PCK5/)

334 Where's the rest of it?

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 17, 2025 05:51 PM (P9gC0)

335 Have they done SpiderWoman yet, where Spiderwoman forces Spiderman to impregnate her, then she kills him?

That would be so awesome, and empowering (for oppressed women).

Posted by: illiniwek at June 17, 2025 05:51 PM (vbXSk)

336 >>>, here's Jennifer Love Hewitt's big dramatic moment:

Posted by: bonhomme at June 17, 2025 05:14 PM (lIio7)

She certainly has grown, as an actress.

Posted by: haffhowershower at June 17, 2025 05:51 PM (144I4)

337 It doesn’t deserve a sequel, but I enjoyed Battleship. Real feel-good movie, especially when they found a crew for the USS Missouri. Complete bullshit, but I loved it.

The connection with the board game, while it made vague sense (much like the Missouri… didn’t do much either.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at June 17, 2025 05:47 PM (EXyHK)
——-

I also liked it. No woke bullshit, very pro military. Some really good action too.
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at June 17, 2025 05:49 PM (GCyOY)
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Well deserved bad reviews but still entertaining.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 17, 2025 05:52 PM (tT6L1)

338 323 Rumor is that its an allergic reaction that sent Noem to the hospital.

I volunteer to suck the poison out. (Bananas)

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at June 17, 2025 05:52 PM (73voq)

339 It annoys me Rob Reiner directed it, but he did a good job.

Reiner is a gigantic idiot but he was able to do some amazingly great stuff like Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid, Stand By Me, Sure Thing, This Is Spinal Tap, and of course Princess Bride.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 17, 2025 05:52 PM (e7kz6)

340 237
𝗡𝗶𝗼𝗵 𝗕𝗲𝗿𝗴 ♛ ✡︎
@NiohBerg
The regime has cut off the entire internet across Iran.

Last time they did this in 2019, they proceeded to massacre over 7000 people in just one weekend.

Pray.
Posted by: Mister Ghost at June 17, 2025 05:39 PM (TGPs7)

Musk has already turned on StarLink...

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 17, 2025 05:52 PM (mP0Kj)

341 Rumor is that its an allergic reaction that sent Noem to the hospital.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 17, 2025 05:50 PM (e7kz6)
——-

She caught Padilla’s skanky fag cooties

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at June 17, 2025 05:52 PM (GCyOY)

342 Movie that surprised me how much I liked it was JoJo Rabbit.

I should have known I would have liked it because it had Sam Rockwell in it. I think he's in my top five actors now.

Posted by: polynikes at June 17, 2025 05:52 PM (VofaG)

343
Ace said he enjoyed entries from well-juiced fruits.

Noted.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 17, 2025 05:52 PM (BI5O2)

344 Well they did that alternate universe Spiderman animated movie with Spider Gwen in it. But Miles was still the web-slinger.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 17, 2025 05:52 PM (BNLtx)

345 Being reported: Secy Noem has an allergic reaction to Tom Homans feet.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at June 17, 2025 05:52 PM (/U5Yz)

346 The aliens in Battleship would have won if their ROE wasn't written by the US State Department.

Posted by: toby928 at June 17, 2025 05:52 PM (jc0TO)

347 313, kind of amazing, really.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 17, 2025 05:53 PM (/Ghsb)

348
I think a lot of NERDS!!! are a little embarrassed that they like entertainment which is made for kids or made to at least be kid-friendly because that would suggest they're immature.

Not quite. They're embarrassed that they grew up liking their comic book male superheros in tight, ass-hugging spandex, and they're afraid that they might be ghey.

Which is why I liked horror comics, war comics (like Sgt Rock) and Jonah Hex.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 17, 2025 05:53 PM (y9nCu)

349 342 Movie that surprised me how much I liked it was JoJo Rabbit.

I should have known I would have liked it because it had Sam Rockwell in it. I think he's in my top five actors now.
Posted by: polynikes at June 17, 2025 05:52 PM (VofaG)

Everything he acts is good… his part in Galaxy Quest was awesome…

Posted by: tubal at June 17, 2025 05:53 PM (PCK5/)

350 The first ten minutes of the Pixar film "Up" is as moving as anything I've seen on the big screen. (The rest of the movie, not so much.)

Yeah that should have just been an animated short, its a terrific intro and just meandering meh for the rest of the movie. The dog's first scene is great then there's no reason for it.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 17, 2025 05:53 PM (e7kz6)

351 Princess Bride isn't really a kid's movie.

It's for all ages.

Posted by: eleven at June 17, 2025 05:53 PM (fV+MH)

352 324 Look, I watch a trailer for a comedy, and I need to laugh a couple of times, hard.

And I did.
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at June 17, 2025 05:50 PM (gDhA9)

Find the Seinfeld where George, due to a sinus infection, seeks out a Kramer recommended hololistic healer vs surgery. I came close to expiring laughing the first two times (pre taping the show). Did not hear the actual dialogue of the part that did me in til I saw it the third time. Then I was stifling a laugh snort.

Now we make up our own dialogues to make me laugh watching series on tv.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 17, 2025 05:53 PM (6PCLE)

353 I personally do not care for movies where the evil wins and there is literally nothing to be done about it.
Posted by: toby928 at June 17, 2025 05:29 PM (jc0TO)

If I wanted that I'd just watch the news.

Posted by: It's supposed to be respite from real life at June 17, 2025 05:53 PM (TbWk/)

354 Iran's Shah, Jr. (or whatever the Shah equivalent of crown prince is) is dropping not-so-subtle hints on X that he's tanned, ready, and rested, and is looking forward to sitting down on the Peacock Throne.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at June 17, 2025 05:53 PM (qpyNK)

355 Iranian State TV is making some bold threats.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 17, 2025 05:53 PM (P9gC0)

356 > 246 Xwitter: Iran issue GLOBAL THREAT, "tonight, a great surprise will occur, one that the world will remember for centuries."

Twelfth Imam finally shows up?

Posted by: Gref at June 17, 2025 05:54 PM (aBgBM)

357 Speaking of Rockwell, I just watch another of his movies I never heard of before.

Mr. Right

excellent. Ill be watching it again in a few months

Posted by: polynikes at June 17, 2025 05:54 PM (VofaG)

358 >>

that was a good bit but I think the reasoning was: That existed mostly to provide a background for Ripley's extreme determination to save Newt. But they realized they don't really need to explain why Ripley wants to save an innocent little girl, so why include it?

They also cut the Hadley's Hope stuff in the beginning, because that was there to humanize Newt and to show how terrible it was that she lost her family. They reasoned, people will like Newt with or without backstory and also we don't need a 10-minute section of film to prove to the audience that a slaughter of people by aliens is bad.

They cut the automatic sentry guns because Cameron realized: It's robots versus insect aliens, who cares, what are the stakes? Whether the guns can preserve their ammo or not?
Posted by: ace at June 17, 2025 05:15 PM (KRtlO

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I hadnt thought about those other two cuts. The Hadleys Hope bit was good too. I never thought the movie lacked pace by including those, but of course there werent commercials in the theatre. Still, the daughter angle reverberates throughout the narrative if its included. Otherwise you dont even know she's a mom.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at June 17, 2025 05:54 PM (wzAuc)

359 351 Princess Bride isn't really a kid's movie.

It's for all ages.
Posted by: eleven at June 17, 2025 05:53 PM (fV+MH)

LOVE that movie!!!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 17, 2025 05:54 PM (6PCLE)

360 350 The first ten minutes of the Pixar film "Up" is as moving as anything I've seen on the big screen. (The rest of the movie, not so much.)

Yeah that should have just been an animated short, its a terrific intro and just meandering meh for the rest of the movie. The dog's first scene is great then there's no reason for it.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 17, 2025 05:53 PM (e7kz6)

Outstanding movie…

Posted by: tubal at June 17, 2025 05:54 PM (PCK5/)

361 "I do not like the Cone Of Shame."

Posted by: gKWVE at June 17, 2025 05:54 PM (gKWVE)

362 351 Princess Bride isn't really a kid's movie.

It's for all ages.
Posted by: eleven

I liked Princess Bride.

Posted by: Maj. Healey Who Is NOT Gay at June 17, 2025 05:54 PM (/U5Yz)

363 It's good to be King.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 17, 2025 05:54 PM (P9gC0)

364 315 > I really loved The Princess Bride.

Same. It annoys me Rob Reiner directed it, but he did a good job.
Posted by: bonhomme at June 17, 2025 05:49 PM (lIio7)

reading between the lines of cast interviews... he pretty much just got the hell out of the way.

Like the Miricle Max stuff was almost all ad lib...

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 17, 2025 05:54 PM (mP0Kj)

365 Everything he acts is good… his part in Galaxy Quest was awesome…

Sam Rockwell is great in everything. He was even good in Charlie's Angels 2. Those are kind of guilty pleasures for me. I know that objectively they are terrible but ... I still like them.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 17, 2025 05:55 PM (e7kz6)

366 Musk has already turned on StarLink...
Posted by: Romeo13

I just wonder how many have dishes.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 17, 2025 05:55 PM (PfGa7)

367 355 Iranian State TV is making some bold threats.
Posted by: Boss Moss at June 17, 2025 05:53 PM (P9gC0)

I hope it ends live like the woman who fled when the ashes surrounded her martyr self.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at June 17, 2025 05:55 PM (6PCLE)

368 Twelfth Imam finally shows up?

Israel should hijack the airwaves in Tehran to have a RuPaul version of the 12th Iman climb out of a well and shake the booty.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 17, 2025 05:55 PM (BNLtx)

369 Speaking of fiction...

@SCOTUSblog 3h
New on SCOTUSblog: Justices’ financial disclosures reveal Justice Jackson earned over $2 million in book advances

Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 17, 2025 05:55 PM (mlg/3)

370 Well that's good. But why is that NEWS, and why wasn't that included in the first announcement. WTF.

We're journalists, not askers-of-questions!

Posted by: The MFM at June 17, 2025 05:55 PM (STfYR)

371 I just want more of those 1980s dark fantasy movies like "Neverending Story", "Return to Oz", and "Labyrinth"
A lost art since then

Posted by: gKWVE at June 17, 2025 05:55 PM (gKWVE)

372 I also liked it. No woke bullshit, very pro military. Some really good action too.
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at June 17, 2025 05:49 PM (GCyOY)

Well deserved bad reviews but still entertaining.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 17, 2025 05:52 PM (tT6L1)

Yup. I can understand the bad reviews, but it’s fun and satisfying. I’ve watched it twice so far, once on my own and once with my dad. And I expect to watch it at least one more time.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at June 17, 2025 05:55 PM (EXyHK)

373 318 Malcolm in the Midden… good show..

Posted by: tubal at June 17, 2025 05:49 PM

Funny show. My favorite was when Hal and Lois accidentally found a second bathroom in their house they never knew they had because when they moved in it got filled with boxes 15 years previously.

Posted by: Frank Barone at June 17, 2025 05:55 PM (IifOV)

374 Old Yeller are family entertainment. Those movies have very difficult lessons for kids.

We told the kids we had to take gramps to the farm upstate where we took old shep.

Still remember him in the rear view mirror trying to run after us.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at June 17, 2025 05:56 PM (5cMXi)

375 365 Everything he acts is good… his part in Galaxy Quest was awesome…

Sam Rockwell is great in everything. He was even good in Charlie's Angels 2. Those are kind of guilty pleasures for me. I know that objectively they are terrible but ... I still like them.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 17, 2025 05:55 PM (e7kz6)

It is legitimate to be merely entertained, in my world…

Posted by: tubal at June 17, 2025 05:56 PM (PCK5/)

376 Anne Burrell, known for hosting, "The Worst Cooks in America" has reportedly died at 55. That's way too young.

http://tiny.cc/eo7n001

Posted by: bonhomme at June 17, 2025 05:56 PM (lIio7)

377 5 missiles got through apparently.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 17, 2025 05:56 PM (P9gC0)

378 Wrath of Khan was obviously way better than The Motion Picture.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 17, 2025 05:51 PM (ITkJX)

In a way I don't consider it a sequel, but starting the movies over with a new, action based story.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 17, 2025 05:56 PM (8avO+)

379 329 Well that's good. But why is that NEWS, and why wasn't that included in the first announcement. WTF.
Posted by: MrExcitement at June 17, 2025 05:49 PM (hOOi9)

Because they didn't know. Not the press and likely not her team either.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 17, 2025 05:51 PM (8avO+)

Fair enough.

Posted by: MrExcitement at June 17, 2025 05:56 PM (hOOi9)

380 Big Talking Persian: "Ooh, baby, I'm gonna make love to you all night, baby, it's just not gonna stop baby, we're gonna come together when the sun rises baby..."

30 seconds later: Comes on goat's leg, rolls over and immediately falls asleep.

Posted by: Big Talking Persians at June 17, 2025 05:56 PM (qUkBO)

381 It is legitimate to be merely entertained, in my world…
Posted by: tubal at June 17, 2025 05:56 PM

This.

Posted by: toby928 at June 17, 2025 05:56 PM (jc0TO)

382 > Cary Elwes must get the old motor running.

Or Andre the Giant.
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at June 17, 2025 05:48 PM (73voq)

Hey, what about me?

Posted by: Vizzini at June 17, 2025 05:57 PM (qpyNK)

383 Global threat?? They don't even have control over their own skies.

Posted by: runner at June 17, 2025 05:57 PM (nQcpu)

384 366 Musk has already turned on StarLink...
Posted by: Romeo13

I just wonder how many have dishes.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 17, 2025 05:55 PM (PfGa7)

If'n our CIA is smart (doubtful) they are smuggling links in.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 17, 2025 05:57 PM (mP0Kj)

385 367, that would be awesome!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 17, 2025 05:57 PM (/Ghsb)

386 Wrath of Khan was obviously way better than The Motion Picture.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 17, 2025 05:51 PM (ITkJX)

I believe TMP was rushed since Star Wars had just come out and the new network idea the owners had for their ST sequel series wasn't going anywhere. So they took all the production costs from ST Phase II, took an old idea that Roddenberry had which was stupid, and ran it though to cash in on the Soft ScFi Bux.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 17, 2025 05:57 PM (xTinh)

387 In a way I don't consider it a sequel, but starting the movies over with a new, action based story.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 17, 2025 05:56 PM (8avO+)

Like how they implicitly timetraveled Chekov into the first season?

Posted by: gKWVE at June 17, 2025 05:57 PM (gKWVE)

388 Ironheart - it debuted in Marvel comics in 2016. It was the 45th best selling comic book in November 2018.

So...how did this shit get a movie?

"In a 2019 storyline, Riri is startled to learn that her android teammate Viv Vision has developed a crush on her, which initially revolts her due to internalized homophobia. However, when Riri is about to destroy Viv, it is the latter's honest apology for not considering her feelings finally makes her acknowledge Viv's affection."

Seriously. I'd rather watch ROM Space knight the move that this garbage.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at June 17, 2025 05:57 PM (gDhA9)

389 I like The Princess Bride. I do. But the kid from The Wonder Years is a snotty little prick. I'd like to see the Cenobites show up and read him the book of Revelation.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at June 17, 2025 05:57 PM (UGyV5)

390 383 Global threat?? They don't even have control over their own skies.
Posted by: runner at June 17, 2025 05:57 PM (nQcpu)

They gonna release Covid 25?

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 17, 2025 05:57 PM (mP0Kj)

391 In case anyone ever doubted that Iranian mullahs are nuking futs.

Posted by: runner at June 17, 2025 05:58 PM (nQcpu)

392 354 Iran's Shah, Jr. (or whatever the Shah equivalent of crown prince is) is dropping not-so-subtle hints on X that he's tanned, ready, and rested, and is looking forward to sitting down on the Peacock Throne.

If he's smart, he'll do like Juan Carlos did in Spain, after Franco was finally dead for the last time. Basically, he should say "I'm just here to manage the transition to a democracy / republic." Ain't nobody really wants a permanent king in this day and age.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 17, 2025 05:58 PM (s8j++)

393 Return to Oz was a depressing movie, if I am remembering the right one that starred Balk as Dorothy.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 17, 2025 05:58 PM (BNLtx)

394 >>I personally do not care for movies where the evil wins and there is literally nothing to be done about it.
Posted by: toby928 at June 17, 2025 05:29 PM (jc0TO)

IIRC, the film industry's self-imposed production code or morals code, prohibited movies with the bad guys winning and getting away, then roll the credits. Obviously began being ignored or was removed from the code in the Sixties.

Posted by: Gref at June 17, 2025 05:58 PM (aBgBM)

395 What this country needs is a remake of It's a Mad mad mad mad world!

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 17, 2025 05:58 PM (nLeCA)

396 Well, I hope so, it sounds uncomfortable for two men

@visegrad24 5m
BREAKING:

Trump and Netanyahu just got off the phone

Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 17, 2025 05:58 PM (mlg/3)

397 Yup. I can understand the bad reviews, but it’s fun and satisfying. I’ve watched it twice so far, once on my own and once with my dad. And I expect to watch it at least one more time.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at June 17, 2025 05:55 PM (EXyHK)

The long form reviews usually described as movie trashers gave it more or less your review. Brought up some issues with the plot and such, but mostly called it decent.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 17, 2025 05:59 PM (8avO+)

398 Wrath of Khan was obviously way better than The Motion Picture.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 17, 2025 05:51 PM (ITkJX)

In a way I don't consider it a sequel, but starting the movies over with a new, action based story.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 17, 2025 05:56 PM (8avO+)

Roddenberry was famous for wanting more "cerebral" stories for ST when the audience really just wanted Kirk to blow things up then fuck the alien chick.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 17, 2025 05:59 PM (xTinh)

399 378 Wrath of Khan was obviously way better than The Motion Picture.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 17, 2025 05:51 PM (ITkJX)

In a way I don't consider it a sequel, but starting the movies over with a new, action based story.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 17, 2025 05:56 PM (8avO+)

Yeah, in the first one they spent half the movie assembling the old crew, and twenty minutes gawking at the Enterprise.

Posted by: MrExcitement at June 17, 2025 05:59 PM (hOOi9)

400 I liked UP also. That first part was good.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 17, 2025 05:59 PM (P9gC0)

401 "In a 2019 storyline, Riri is startled to learn that her android teammate Viv Vision has developed a crush on her, which initially revolts her due to internalized homophobia. However, when Riri is about to destroy Viv, it is the latter's honest apology for not considering her feelings finally makes her acknowledge Viv's affection."

Seriously. I'd rather watch ROM Space knight the move that this garbage.
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at June 17, 2025 05:57 PM (gDhA9)

Dumb too... as an Android just swap some body parts out and... Hetero!

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 17, 2025 05:59 PM (mP0Kj)

402 393 Return to Oz was a depressing movie, if I am remembering the right one that starred Balk as Dorothy.
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 17, 2025 05:58 PM (BNLtx)

Yeah, and Balk didn't sing. But otherwise she was a spot-on Judy Garland.

Posted by: gKWVE at June 17, 2025 05:59 PM (gKWVE)

403 The Winning Season is another Rockwell movie I never heard of that I recently watched. Him coaching a rag tag HS girls basketball team.

I also though excellent.

Posted by: polynikes at June 17, 2025 05:59 PM (VofaG)

404 One day, Superman, while flying over Gotham City, he spots Wonder Woman below on a building rooftop, stark naked and lying with her arms and legs spread apart. He circles a couple of times and then unable to control himself, he fly's down like a speeding bullet and he lands and hammers her hard and fast, and in the blink of an eye he flies away and back on patrol again. Meanwhile, back on the rooftop, Wonder Woman sits up and says, "What the hell was that?" And the Invisible Man says, "Not sure, but it really hurt!"

Posted by: Statman at June 17, 2025 05:59 PM (Kj6RJ)

405 Or even more simple explanation, Sulu and others welcomed Chekov aboard by telling him stories of his new Captain to scare Pavel.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 17, 2025 06:00 PM (BNLtx)

406 I like The Cat From Outer Space.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at June 17, 2025 06:00 PM (/U5Yz)

407 The Iranian regime just released this video of someone stroking a nuclear bomb.

Posted by: Mister Ghost

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

That's a typo. The goat's name is Anu Clairb Ahmb

Posted by: haffhowershower at June 17, 2025 06:00 PM (144I4)

408 395 What this country needs is a remake of It's a Mad mad mad mad world!
Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 17, 2025 05:58 PM (nLeCA)

Not enough big Hollywood Comedy Stars to recreate that...

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 17, 2025 06:00 PM (mP0Kj)

409 Roddenberry was famous for wanting more "cerebral" stories for ST when the audience really just wanted Kirk to blow things up then fuck the alien chick.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 17, 2025 05:59 PM (xTinh)

Ironic, considering he was banging the female members of the cast.

Posted by: MrExcitement at June 17, 2025 06:00 PM (hOOi9)

410 What this country needs is a remake of It's a Mad mad mad mad world!
Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 17, 2025 05:58 PM (nLeCA)

Don't think they could pull off a crazy chase movie, the administration in the studios are too pervasive and controlling.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 17, 2025 06:00 PM (8avO+)

411 There is only one Frank Drebin.
There is only one James Bond.
There is only one Sarah Conner.
There is only one Ripley.
There is only one Chris (Magnificent Seven).
There is only on Joe Friday.
There is only one Inspector Clouseau.
There is only one Mad Max.
There is only one Dirty Harry.
There is only one John Shaft.
That's an OK start.

Posted by: goatexchange at June 17, 2025 06:01 PM (hyS0X)

412 Yeah, in the first one they spent half the movie assembling the old crew, and twenty minutes gawking at the Enterprise.
Posted by: MrExcitement at June 17, 2025 05:59 PM (hOOi9)

yeah but I was a 70's fanboy and I had waited for 10 years to gawk at the Enterprise for 20 minutes. I loved it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 17, 2025 06:01 PM (uWKK8)

413
These days even the heady Oscar-bait dramas and biopics and arthouse stuff is infantile pablum for retards.

You can't really throw stones at anything and say it's childish and lowbrow. Everything is.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 17, 2025 06:02 PM (BI5O2)

414 I liked Cars 2 better than Cars.

Finn McMissile: "I never properly introduced myself. Finn McMissile, British Intelligence."

Mater: "Tow Mater, Average Intelligence."

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at June 17, 2025 06:02 PM (PiwSw)

415 I never liked Chekov partly because of his stupid speech impediment that made him unable to say his own name (??) but after seeing him as Bester in Babylon 5 playing the sinister psi agent... damn he's good.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 17, 2025 06:02 PM (e7kz6)

416 Twelfth Imam finally shows up?

Uh… How are we for time?

Posted by: Zarquon at June 17, 2025 06:02 PM (EXyHK)

417 For Wrath they managed to keep Roddenberry from writing the story.

TMP was too much a recycle of Nomad plus a story for the aborted Phase II series.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 17, 2025 06:03 PM (BNLtx)

418 Being called a nerd bothers me so little, I wrote a 2000 word essay on it.

Posted by: TLDR at June 17, 2025 06:03 PM (S1GR4)

419 I just did a quick painting of Dorothy's house when she returns from Oz and laying in the bed with everyone surrounding her. Its a painting of the outside of the house in black and white with the flying monkey in color on top of the roof.

I titled it 'It Wasn't a Dream'

not my best but it took me about an hour to complete.

Posted by: polynikes at June 17, 2025 06:03 PM (VofaG)

420 That's an OK start.

There's only one Blade. There's only ever going to be one Blade.

yeah but I was a 70's fanboy and I had waited for 10 years to gawk at the Enterprise for 20 minutes. I loved it.

Yeah that was just straight fan service and believe me in the theater as a teenage boy it was everything I always ever wanted.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 17, 2025 06:03 PM (e7kz6)

421 In a way I don't consider it a sequel, but starting the movies over with a new, action based story.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 17, 2025 05:56 PM (8avO+)

Like how they implicitly timetraveled Chekov into the first season?
Posted by: gKWVE at June 17, 2025 05:57 PM (gKWVE)

I heard that handwaved away as him being on another shift / in a lesser duty station on the ship.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 17, 2025 06:03 PM (8avO+)

422 I never liked Chekov partly because of his stupid speech impediment that made him unable to say his own name (??) but after seeing him as Bester in Babylon 5 playing the sinister psi agent... damn he's good.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 17, 2025 06:02 PM (e7kz6)

Koenig is great. Really.

Chekov exists because Roddenberry wanted a character in the cast to draw in younger viewers, so he cast a kid who looked like one of the Monkees. For real.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 17, 2025 06:04 PM (xTinh)

423 As pure entertainment goes, I hold "The Fifth Element" as great example.

Posted by: Halfhand at June 17, 2025 06:04 PM (xk/GE)

424 Yeah that was just straight fan service and believe me in the theater as a teenage boy it was everything I always ever wanted.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 17, 2025 06:03 PM (e7kz6)

Me too, but I knew at the time this wouldn't help it with the normies.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 17, 2025 06:05 PM (8avO+)

425 Walter had to wear a Monkees style wig for the start of his time until his hair grew out.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 17, 2025 06:05 PM (BNLtx)

426 The Amateur was a really good movie.
Not a remake, that I'm aware of...

Posted by: Elrond Hubbard at June 17, 2025 06:05 PM (7NkZG)

427 That's an OK start.

And they walk into a bar...

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at June 17, 2025 06:05 PM (xzb+D)

428 There is only one Man With No Name. (Even though he had a name in the credits for "For a Few Dollars More." Trivia!)

Posted by: Gref at June 17, 2025 06:05 PM (aBgBM)

429 72 years since the East Berlin uprising.

Posted by: Cow Demon at June 17, 2025 06:05 PM (vm8sq)

430 "What this country needs is a remake of It's a Mad mad mad mad world!
Posted by: OrangeEnt
"

You really want these incompetent mooks ruining that masterpiece?

Posted by: eleven at June 17, 2025 06:05 PM (fV+MH)

431 405 Or even more simple explanation, Sulu and others welcomed Chekov aboard by telling him stories of his new Captain to scare Pavel.

'cept that doesn't explain khan's "but you... i never forget a face" line.

Posted by: anachronda at June 17, 2025 06:05 PM (sGtp+)

432 I got distracted and was regretfully unable to respond to quips+

>>>>This kind of thing has happened before, to great Western excitement about the fall of the Mullahs. Then the Mullahs regroup, put down the nascent rebellion, slaughter the enemies and move right along.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

This happens only if they continue to live. (hint, hint)

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 17, 2025 06:06 PM (Ffc+8)

433 389 I like The Princess Bride. I do. But the kid from The Wonder Years is a snotty little prick. I'd like to see the Cenobites show up and read him the book of Revelation.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at June 17, 2025 05:57 PM (UGyV5)

Everybody does. It's so light-hearted and clever, with a bit of romance, of course.

So it's funny if you think about it. Our hero Wesley is literally a pirate, who makes his living robbing other ships, possibly killing people in the process. Just goes to show how one shouldn't really think such things through.

Posted by: MrExcitement at June 17, 2025 06:06 PM (hOOi9)

434 428 There is only one Man With No Name. (Even though he had a name in the credits for "For a Few Dollars More." Trivia!)

let me guess: "irving, the 142nd fastest gun in the west"

Posted by: anachronda at June 17, 2025 06:06 PM (sGtp+)

435 I never liked Chekov partly because of his stupid speech impediment that made him unable to say his own name (??) but after seeing him as Bester in Babylon 5 playing the sinister psi agent... damn he's good.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 17, 2025 06:02 PM (e7kz6)

I liked the dig at the Russians his 'thing' was. Pretty funny in the cold war.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 17, 2025 06:06 PM (8avO+)

436 I personally do not care for movies where the evil wins and there is literally nothing to be done about it.
Posted by: toby928
_________

No Country for Old Men?

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 17, 2025 06:07 PM (ITkJX)

437 I got distracted and was regretfully unable to respond to quips+

>>>>This kind of thing has happened before, to great Western excitement about the fall of the Mullahs. Then the Mullahs regroup, put down the nascent rebellion, slaughter the enemies and move right along.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

This happens only if they continue to live. (hint, hint)

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 17, 2025 06:06 PM

It always boils down to who controls the Army.

Posted by: toby928 at June 17, 2025 06:07 PM (jc0TO)

438 "I'm sick and tired of NERDS!!! demanding that superhero movies or any other juvenile fare be "dark" and "grim and gritty" and "realistic" and hyperviolent and filled with cursing."

So. Back in the '90s, DC did a series that overall was called The Breaking of the Bat. Bane, a new supervillian, found Batman's lair, ambushed him, and then snapped his spine. Over the next, I dunno, year or so, they did a grim'n'gritty series about Bruce Wayne finding someone to be the new Batman while he went off to figure out how to restore his spine, etc. The new Batman was dark, gradually went insane, and wound up doing a bunch of stuff Batman Would Never Do. In the end, Bruce fought him in the batcave to take back the mantle.

After the saga and its aftermath was over, they printed a bunch of letters complaining about how dark and grim the storyline was, and wrote a simple response: "you said you wanted a darker Batman, and we gave you one."

Posted by: Rick C at June 17, 2025 06:07 PM (1zWbY)

439 hopefully, someone didn't know her allergies....very odd

Posted by: zigggggy at June 17, 2025 06:07 PM (K5Rdg)

440 I want to speak up for serious violence and consequences in superhero movies.

Stuff like Invincible (which I have my issues with) shows the awesome power of superheros and how much damage they can do. Which makes self control and virtue into real important qualities, worthy of emulation.

When the guy who can punch through an M1 Abrams tank keeps getting into punching matches with mafia types on the dock...it goes from fantasy land into silliness.

For me.

Give me awesome power and show me the consequences of awesome power.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at June 17, 2025 06:08 PM (xcxpd)

441 Anachronda

They gave Khan access to Enterprise's library, crew roster would be there. It was there for Spock doing research on why Gary Mitchell was turning into a mini-god.

And yeah I am reaching I know it.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 17, 2025 06:08 PM (BNLtx)

442
Musk has already turned on StarLink...
Posted by: Romeo13

I just wonder how many have dishes.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 17, 2025 05:55 PM (PfGa7)

The evil Joos should be dumping pallets full of StarLink dishes over Tehran, Isfahan and Qom by little parachutes. Bonus points if the box also contains Liberator pistols.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 17, 2025 06:08 PM (y9nCu)

443 Bester in B5 is a great villian. He's complicated.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at June 17, 2025 06:08 PM (AcTAo)

444 413, bingo, YD!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 17, 2025 06:08 PM (/Ghsb)

445 Can't comment on the "I didn't vote for your fucking queerbait RoN pAuL!!!-cum-Medea-Benjamin gaywad peacenik foreign policy" thread, so I'll just comment here.

BYE.

Posted by: PITA Expat at June 17, 2025 06:08 PM (CK4Ox)

446 No Country for Old Men?
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 17, 2025 06:07 PM

Life
Skeleton Key
Fallen
etc

Posted by: toby928 at June 17, 2025 06:08 PM (jc0TO)

447 Television started sliding downhill after David Janssen died. Last movie I caught in the theater was Doctor Sleep, and that was 5 or 6 years ago; could probably count the number of movies I've seen in a theater in the last 20 years on my fingers and I'd have fingers left over.

When I was a kid, I could count on finding something enjoyable at the theater every week or two. Them days is long gone.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at June 17, 2025 06:09 PM (q3u5l)

448 So it's funny if you think about it. Our hero Wesley is literally a pirate, who makes his living robbing other ships, possibly killing people in the process. Just goes to show how one shouldn't really think such things through.
Posted by: MrExcitement at June 17, 2025 06:06 PM (hOOi9)

See also: Rose in Titanic is the worst romantic heroine ever, if you think about it.

Posted by: sal at June 17, 2025 06:09 PM (f+FmA)

449 Bester was Earth's Tallyrand.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 17, 2025 06:09 PM (BNLtx)

450 I personally do not care for movies where the evil wins and there is literally nothing to be done about it.
Posted by: toby928

That's pretty much the entirety of French cinema. Man, woman, complain about the world while smoking Gauloises, make cynical love, then end.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 17, 2025 06:09 PM (xTinh)

451 428 There is only one Man With No Name. (Even though he had a name in the credits for "For a Few Dollars More." Trivia!)
Posted by: Gref at June 17, 2025 06:05 PM (aBgBM)

And only one Nobody... at least until they made a modern non Western Nobody... crap...

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 17, 2025 06:10 PM (mP0Kj)

452 After the saga and its aftermath was over, they printed a bunch of letters complaining about how dark and grim the storyline was, and wrote a simple response: "you said you wanted a darker Batman, and we gave you one."

Yeah Knightfall, terrific series. They gave the bat-mantle to Azrael a really talented, gifted fighter who was koo koo bannanas, deliberately. Cutting out Robin, making him kill crazy and brutal. On purpose, because they wanted to show fans how they didn't really want Batman to be like that, and let them experience why.

Fans hated it so much that they had to cancel the story run early because the books sold so badly.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 17, 2025 06:10 PM (e7kz6)

453 See also: Rose in Titanic is the worst romantic heroine ever, if you think about it.
Posted by: sal at June 17, 2025 06:09 PM (f+FmA)

She's the most evil villain in all of cinematic history.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 17, 2025 06:10 PM (xTinh)

454 Can't comment on the "I didn't vote for your fucking queerbait RoN pAuL!!!-cum-Medea-Benjamin gaywad peacenik foreign policy" thread, so I'll just comment here.

BYE.
Posted by: PITA Expat at June 17, 2025 06:08 PM (CK4Ox)

*holds up soggy gravy toast*

Wait! Your forgot your shingle!

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Macho Business Donkey Wrestler at June 17, 2025 06:10 PM (0aYVJ)

455 I liked the dig at the Russians his 'thing' was. Pretty funny in the cold war.

I ran a game with the original Star Trek characters at the North Texas RPG Con a few weeks ago. The drawback for Chekov was:

Russians Invented It: When faced with unfamiliar machines or technology, Chekov is hampered in understanding it because it is obviously what his ancestors created.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at June 17, 2025 06:10 PM (EXyHK)

456 Star Link makes dishes? I need some new dishes.

Posted by: Boss Moss at June 17, 2025 06:10 PM (P9gC0)

457
It always boils down to who controls the Army.
Posted by: toby928
---------------------------------

Call them targets of opportunity.
We should drop thousands of Liberator-.45s over populated areas advising them to kill the oppressors and the Red Guard starting with the officers.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 17, 2025 06:10 PM (Ffc+8)

458 Rose tossing the jewel overboard at the end, WTF?

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 17, 2025 06:10 PM (BNLtx)

459 Stupid phone hard to use with shakey hand.

Can't remake mad world because nobody in Hollywood can do "fun" anymore.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 17, 2025 06:11 PM (nLeCA)

460 The Star Trek remake where they killed Pike instead of turning him into a vegetable really pissed me off more than it should have. It's like whatshisname was intentionally poking the original Star Trek fans in the eye.

Posted by: polynikes at June 17, 2025 06:11 PM (VofaG)

461 Anachronda

They gave Khan access to Enterprise's library, crew roster would be there. It was there for Spock doing research on why Gary Mitchell was turning into a mini-god.

And yeah I am reaching I know it.
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 17, 2025 06:08 PM (BNLtx)

Again. If Chekov was on the ship in a different shift or in a different duty station he might well have encountered Khan in person in any number of places and times. The one hour show there is lots of extra time between the scenes in 'reality'

Posted by: Oldcat at June 17, 2025 06:11 PM (8avO+)

462 456 Star Link makes dishes? I need some new dishes.
Posted by: Boss Moss
------------------

Buy 5 dishes and receive two sets of matching silverware.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 17, 2025 06:11 PM (Ffc+8)

463 Maybe Liam Neeson can pull off the "dramatic actor in a surprise comedic role" like Leslie Nielsen did, but holy cow have people got to stop pretending Neeson can still do physical stunts. He looks terrible in that new trailer.

Posted by: Octochicken at June 17, 2025 06:12 PM (oCS0o)

464 The casting in Babylon Five was so inspired. Are you serious, you're casting the dude from Scarecrow and Mrs King to be the new captain????!?!?

...um, damn he's good.

All those eastern european actors they cast for the aliens, so good.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 17, 2025 06:12 PM (e7kz6)

465 453 See also: Rose in Titanic is the worst romantic heroine ever, if you think about it.
Posted by: sal at June 17, 2025 06:09 PM (f+FmA)

She's the most evil villain in all of cinematic history.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 17, 2025 06:10 PM (xTinh)

Yeah.... Rose... Jenny from Gump... lots of evil Women in movies when ya think on it a bit.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 17, 2025 06:12 PM (mP0Kj)

466 Rose...

We start off with her whining about the ship even though her fiancee has spent a lot of money getting them the best accommodations, then when everyone is trying to kick back and enjoy the cruise she does a faux suicide attempt so she can get attention, then lies about why she did it.

She has lunch where her mother asks her nicely to stop smoking then blows smoke in her face, then turns around and insults the fucking CHAIRMAN OF THE COMPANY THAT OWNS THE BOAT.

Decides to cheat on her fiancee with this bum, doesn’t do anything to help keep him from being embarrassed at a fancy dinner, poses nude for some crappy sketch, then starts running around the ship and disrupting operations.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 17, 2025 06:12 PM (Qw3Dr)

467 Goes up and distracts the lookouts so they don’t notice the iceberg until it’s too late, then doesn’t speak up when the guy who cuckolded her fiancee is framed and handcuffed in the basement of the sinking ship.

Then when she gets a seat on a lifeboat, she jumps off which means someone else couldn’t use it. She follows this hobo around then when they’re in the water he finds a door that they can both fit on but she won’t scoot over for him, and won’t help him find another door he can use so he freezes to death and she shoves his corpse into the ocean. She then lets her mother and fiancee think she’s dead so she can go on and live some bohemian lifestyle.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 17, 2025 06:12 PM (Qw3Dr)

468 Cool

Bjo Trimble is still alive.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 17, 2025 06:13 PM (BNLtx)

469 Rose tossing the jewel overboard at the end, WTF?
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 17, 2025 06:10 PM (BNLtx)

Her one night stand with ol Jack meant more than her life, her kids and grand kids. Bet they could have used that money at some point in the depression or WWII but she had to keep her loot.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 17, 2025 06:13 PM (8avO+)

470 464 The casting in Babylon Five was so inspired. Are you serious, you're casting the dude from Scarecrow and Mrs King to be the new captain????!?!?

...um, damn he's good.

All those eastern european actors they cast for the aliens, so good.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 17, 2025 06:12 PM (e7kz6)

Billy Mummy... outstanding Casting.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 17, 2025 06:13 PM (mP0Kj)

471 Then she hears about this guy who spent many years and a lot of money researching and exploring the wreck for a diamond, calls him and asks him if he found it EVEN THOUGH SHE DAMN WELL KNOWS IT’S NOT DOWN THERE, gets him to fly her and five hundred pounds of luggage to his boat where she spends two days telling this boring-ass story, doesn’t tell him she’s had the diamond all along AND NEVER TOLD ANYONE, even bringing it onto the guy’s boat. She finishes her stupid story, goes and throws this diamond into the water, then dies on this guy’s boat which then gives him a headache about what to do with the body.

Then she goes to heaven and decides that instead of her husband and the father of her children, she would rather spend eternity with some homeless street rat she had a one night stand with 80 years ago.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 17, 2025 06:13 PM (oLdT5)

472 Russians Invented It:

I like how they did a twist on that in Undiscovered Country with the Klingon quoting Shakespeare, then saying he's better in the original Klingon.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 17, 2025 06:13 PM (e7kz6)

473 All those eastern european actors they cast for the aliens, so good.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 17, 2025 06:12 PM (e7kz6)

I think Bill Mumy only agreed to do his role because he thought it only be a one-time thing.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at June 17, 2025 06:13 PM (PiwSw)

474 Billy Mummy... outstanding Casting.

Yeah, you cast FLOUNDER?? But... he was so great.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 17, 2025 06:14 PM (e7kz6)

475 Yeah, I have an opinion about Rose.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 17, 2025 06:14 PM (oLdT5)

476 Can't comment on the "I didn't vote for your fucking queerbait RoN pAuL!!!-cum-Medea-Benjamin gaywad peacenik foreign policy" thread, so I'll just comment here.

BYE.
Posted by: PITA Expat at June 17, 2025 06:08 PM (CK4Ox)

why did you have to post? just leave. Makes you look like a pussy retard wanting to flounce.

Posted by: polynikes at June 17, 2025 06:14 PM (VofaG)

477 LahavHarkov
1h
Israeli national security advisor: Iran operation will not end without strike on Fordow nuclear facility.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 17, 2025 06:14 PM (Ffc+8)

478 @410

>> Don't think they could pull off a crazy chase movie, the administration in the studios are too pervasive and controlling.

More importantly, the comedic horsepower to pull of a movie of that type simply doesn’t exist.

You could try to go the opposite route and make it an actioner staring Denzel Washington and Daniel Day Lewis.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 17, 2025 06:15 PM (DQZed)

479 Nood

Posted by: Thanatopsis at June 17, 2025 06:15 PM (GYt5+)

480 "The Star Trek remake where they killed Pike instead of turning him into a vegetable really pissed me off more than it should have. It's like whatshisname was intentionally poking the original Star Trek fans in the eye.
Posted by: polynikes"

I think JJ is just that stupid that he didn't know.

Posted by: eleven at June 17, 2025 06:15 PM (fV+MH)

481 NOOD aliens

Posted by: Max Power at June 17, 2025 06:15 PM (q177U)

482 Nood.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at June 17, 2025 06:15 PM (PiwSw)

483 Then she hears about this guy who spent many years and a lot of money researching and exploring the wreck for a diamond, calls him and asks him if he found it EVEN THOUGH SHE DAMN WELL KNOWS IT’S NOT DOWN THERE, gets him to fly her and five hundred pounds of luggage to his boat where she spends two days telling this boring-ass story, doesn’t tell him she’s had the diamond all along AND NEVER TOLD ANYONE, even bringing it onto the guy’s boat. She finishes her stupid story, goes and throws this diamond into the water, then dies on this guy’s boat which then gives him a headache about what to do with the body.

Then she goes to heaven and decides that instead of her husband and the father of her children, she would rather spend eternity with some homeless street rat she had a one night stand with 80 years ago.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 17, 2025 06:13 PM

Well, when you put it that way..

Posted by: toby928 at June 17, 2025 06:15 PM (jc0TO)

484 72 years since the East Berlin uprising.
Posted by: Cow Demon

The radio reminded me today that Toys in the Attic came out 50 years ago. Damn.

Posted by: haffhowershower at June 17, 2025 06:15 PM (144I4)

485 Decides to cheat on her fiancee with this bum, doesn’t do anything to help keep him from being embarrassed at a fancy dinner, poses nude for some crappy sketch, then starts running around the ship and disrupting operations.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at June 17, 2025 06:12 PM (Qw3Dr)

My mom's 10 word or so analysis : an unmarried girl in those days wearing that make up would show her as a total slut.

Posted by: Oldcat at June 17, 2025 06:15 PM (8avO+)

486 Update on Iran's nuclear sites, per @rafaelmgrossi:

Natanz: Above-ground enrichment facility is "completely destroyed," electrical installations "taken out," underground centrifuges damaged

Isfahan: 3-4 buildings damaged, underground facilities appear unaffected

Fordow: no major damage other than "perimetral impacts"

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 17, 2025 06:16 PM (Ffc+8)

487 Yeah, Evil Womenz in Movies...

Dorothy, the Wiz of Oz... multiple murders over a pair of shoes...

Never could figure out why the Munchkins were scared of the Witch though.... THEY HAD MUSKETS!!! Shoot the shit out of her.

Posted by: Romeo13 at June 17, 2025 06:16 PM (mP0Kj)

488
I personally do not care for movies where the evil wins and there is literally nothing to be done about it.
Posted by: toby928
_________

No Country for Old Men?
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 17, 2025 06:07 PM (ITkJX)

Forrest Gump

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 17, 2025 06:16 PM (y9nCu)

489 447 Television started sliding downhill after David Janssen died. Last movie I caught in the theater was Doctor Sleep, and that was 5 or 6 years ago; could probably count the number of movies I've seen in a theater in the last 20 years on my fingers and I'd have fingers left over.

When I was a kid, I could count on finding something enjoyable at the theater every week or two. Them days is long gone.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at June 17, 2025 06:09 PM (q3u5l)

Harry-O was cancelled, even though the ratings were decent for....Charlies Angels....

Same here, I have seen 5 new movies in the theatres in the last 20 years....A reboot of Naked Gun? that might break the drought.

Posted by: zigggggy at June 17, 2025 06:17 PM (K5Rdg)

490
No Country for Old Men?
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba

============

No. It's just a movie about "there's evil and there's nothing you can do about it." That's ALL it is. It's not a great story with that extra fact in it. It was fake profundity to me, like lots of Cohen movies.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 17, 2025 06:17 PM (wbZPZ)

491 I like how they did a twist on that in Undiscovered Country with the Klingon quoting Shakespeare, then saying he's better in the original Klingon.

Undiscovered Country was one of the better original series movies, to my tastes. Also, Christopher Plummer as a Klingon was a treat.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at June 17, 2025 06:18 PM (EXyHK)

492 It's not just Hollywood. This is the left's take on all "fine arts." "Artists" get credit for _performing_, not for creating anything of value.

True creativity means intellectual property, and the left cannot -- must not -- recognize intellectual property.

Posted by: cpurick at June 17, 2025 06:18 PM (lNjg1)

493 My kid-self was right about a lot of things, and my teenaged self was too.

Wait -- so that means Phoebe Cates is still Queens of Boners?

Posted by: zombie at June 17, 2025 06:19 PM (pMi6S)

494
"The Star Trek remake where they killed Pike instead of turning him into a vegetable really pissed me off more than it should have. It's like whatshisname was intentionally poking the original Star Trek fans in the eye.
Posted by: polynikes"

Poking all of Western Civilization in the eye. That piece of shit movie is actually an Al Qaeda origin story.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 17, 2025 06:19 PM (y9nCu)

495 I am waiting for Armageddon II

Posted by: Kindltot at June 17, 2025 06:21 PM (D7oie)

496 488
I personally do not care for movies where the evil wins and there is literally nothing to be done about it.
Posted by: toby928

I understood it, but ruined Chinatown for me...
Also don't like it when 10 minutes in, you know the couple is doomed....bleh

Posted by: zigggggy at June 17, 2025 06:21 PM (K5Rdg)

497 395 What this country needs is a remake of It's a Mad mad mad mad world!
Posted by: OrangeEnt at June 17, 2025 05:58
PM (nLeCA)
Jonathan Winters is irreplaceable.

Posted by: Eromero at June 17, 2025 06:24 PM (LHPAg)

498 "I don't know if Superman will be any good. I kind of doubt it. I don't think I'll wind up seeing it."

Rants about the direction of superhero movies have taken but won't even bother going to see a film attempting something different. Say what you will about the nerds but give them superman cussing and ripping heads of and they'll actually go see it. Like if you aren't going to put your money down, why should your opinion matter more than the people who actually want to be entertained.

Personally I don't think super heroes, or comics are just for adults or kids. They are simply storied and should be dialed down to match the intended audience. I don't think Blade would have been a better movie if it aimed for a more child friendly tone and I don't think LOTR would be better if it had GOT gore and nudity. Knowing your audience and playing to their expectations is a whole lot more productive than this old man yells at clouds routine.

Posted by: Jack Krevin at June 17, 2025 06:25 PM (7dwIB)

499 >The original Superman was kid-friendly, but it was very well done.

The 1978 Superman was two movies smashed into one: a Superman version of the 1966 Batman TV show, and Mario Puzo going balls-to-the-wall with a Superman-as-Christ allegory. Top it all off with some award-winning special effects.

The seams between the two movies are rough and obvious, but neither one would have succeeded on its own.

Posted by: Daniel Ream at June 17, 2025 06:30 PM (xBngO)

500 let me guess: "irving, the 142nd fastest gun in the west"
Posted by: anachronda at June 17, 2025 06:06 PM (sGtp+)

He didn't have to be fast, he just had to be bullet proof

Posted by: Kindltot at June 17, 2025 06:34 PM (D7oie)

501 Another oddball series is the Ayes of Texas where some crippled vets are hired by a billionaire to refit the old Texas battleship to defeat the Russian fleet in Houston Harbor. They even secede from the Union.
Posted by: Oldcat at June 17, 2025 05:50 PM (8avO+)

Eons ago I knew a friend of mine who read the series and it was bonkers. You are the second person I ever heard of who has heard of it/read it.

Posted by: Cow Demon at June 17, 2025 06:37 PM (vm8sq)

502 They gave Khan access to Enterprise's library, crew roster would be there. It was there for Spock doing research on why Gary Mitchell was turning into a mini-god.

And yeah I am reaching I know it.
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 17, 2025 06:08 PM (BNLtx)

I think Robert Meyer Burnett would agree.

Posted by: Cow Demon at June 17, 2025 06:41 PM (vm8sq)

503 Wait -- so that means Phoebe Cates is still Queens of Boners?

Is this even in question?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 17, 2025 06:59 PM (e7kz6)

504 Me, I am done with Rocky sequels with Creeds, don't need another Rambo or Terminator. If I saw the first one in high school over 40 years ago, I can move on. Hollywood, you need to as well.

Posted by: jimmymcnulty at June 17, 2025 08:19 PM (iE/QL)

505 I have to agree with "I had the same kind of idea. That this kind of movie would be Even Betterer if it were "hardcore."

Imagine how much better The Wild Bunch would have been if William Holden had Deliveranced Ernest Borgnine just before their famous walk to the Bloody Porch

Posted by: sharps45 at June 17, 2025 09:11 PM (jiPFw)

506 77 50 > they certainly won't be remaking I Know What You Did Last Summer

In memory of that silly, but occasionally fun movie, here's Jennifer Love Hewitt's big dramatic moment:
youtube.com/watch?v=TNPR9U5MGwg&t=145s
Posted by: bonhomme at June 17, 2025 05:14 PM (lIio7)

Jennifer Love Hewitt… one of the cutest girls that God ever made..l

My best friend calls her Jennifer loves to do it

Posted by: sharps45 at June 17, 2025 09:23 PM (jiPFw)

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