Jerry Dunleavy/JustTheNews: Disgraced, Jailed FBI Agent Who Leaked Critical Information to... CEFC, the ChiCom Front Company That Was Paying Off Hunter Biden and "The Big Guy"

Convicted FBI agent tipped off Hunter Biden-linked Chinese company about criminal investigation

A disgraced FBI official tipped off a Chinese company about a criminal investigation while Hunter Biden was pursuing lucrative deals with the CCP-linked business.
By Jerry Dunleavy

The since-convicted FBI official who led counterintelligence efforts in New York leaked information to an affiliate of a Chinese company which was linked to Hunter Biden's business efforts, according to a DOJ watchdog who concluded the leak tipped the Chinese conglomerate off about the bureau's criminal investigation.
Charles McGonigal, the former special-agent-in-charge of the FBI Counterintelligence Division in New York, leaked information to "Person B" -- an unnamed businessman who worked for the Chinese energy conglomerate CEFC -- even as the FBI was secretly investigating the Chinese company, according to the new report by Acting DOJ Inspector General William M. Blier.
McGonigal, who was sentenced in December 2023 for money laundering related to a Russian oligarch and in February 2024 for receiving hundreds of thousands of dollars from an Albanian government official, met with prosecutors in November 2023 and "acknowledged during the proffer interview that he shared information with Person B about the CEFC investigation and anticipated arrests arising from it."

Another straight-shooting ham-and-egger.

The DOJ watchdog said that "Person B was a consultant to foreign governments and businesses on international investments, and, in addition to his work for CEFC China, Person B was a non-governmental advisor to the Prime Minister of Albania."

In short, he warned "Person B," who was a consultant to CEFC, about the FBI investigation into them, which permitted them to take steps to cover up their crimes.

And CEFC was at this time shoveling money to Hunter Biden with 10% reserved for "The Big Guy."

The watchdog report assessed that "although the full extent of the harm from McGonigal's leaks of sensitive investigative information to foreign subjects and targets will likely never be fully known, we determined that the impact of McGonigal's conduct on the CEFC investigation, a significant FBI criminal investigation, was substantial."
President Joe Biden's son held a lucrative position on the board of Ukrainian energy giant Burisma when his father was vice president. He also pursued business deals in China and elsewhere during and after his father's tenure and received millions from Chinese government-linked entities. He raked in millions thanks to these associations from 2013 to 2018.
CEFC was a multibillion-dollar Chinese conglomerate founded by Ye Jianming, a Chinese Communist Party-linked business tycoon who subsequently disappeared in China but with whom Hunter Biden had attempted to work out numerous deals. Chinese state-run media named Ye in an alleged corruption case in 2018, and China allowed CEFC to go bankrupt.
Hunter Biden and his associated businesses are also believed to have received $5 million or more in payments from CEFC in 2017 and 2018, and Ye Jianming's deputy, Patrick Ho, also agreed to pay Hunter Biden a $1 million legal retainer after Ho was eventually arrested. Ho agreed to the $1 million retainer with Hunter Biden for "counsel to matters related to U.S. law and advice pertaining to the hiring and legal analysis of any U.S. law firm or lawyer," according to an "attorney engagement letter" located on Hunter Biden's laptop hard drive.
The first call Ho reportedly made after his arrest in late 2017 was to Joe Biden's brother, James, who has said he thought the call was meant for Hunter. Ho had tried reaching out for help because Hunter Biden agreed to represent him as part of his efforts to work out a liquefied natural gas deal worth tens of millions of dollars.
Hunter referred to Ho as "the fucking spy chief of China" in a May 11, 2018, voice recording.
Ho was sentenced to three years in prison in March 2019 for violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. He was deported to Hong Kong in June 2021 after serving his sentence. It was later revealed that the Justice Department had likely obtained Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrant against Ho. Republicans accused now-former Attorney General Merrick Garland of not being forthcoming about the apparent FISA against Ho.
The DOJ watchdog said "McGonigal eventually admitted he disclosed to Person B that the FBI planned to arrest individuals associated with CEFC."

The article goes on to note that Joe Biden gave his son a complete pardon for all crimes he committed during a specific 11-year period.

How are you? I'm feeling energetic. Fasting is really good for your sleep.

Any plans for the weekend?

BTW, did anyone see Jaws in the theaters last weekend? It was the #2 movie in America, I think. I wanted to see it but also wanted to be lazy so instead of doing something I did nothing, as usual.

Posted by: Ace at 12:26 PM

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1 We don't hang people for treason anymore...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 05, 2025 12:27 PM (GBKbO)

2 uno

Posted by: runner at September 05, 2025 12:27 PM (g47mK)

3 SPONGE!

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at September 05, 2025 12:27 PM (xcxpd)

4 hey! not fair!!

Posted by: runner at September 05, 2025 12:28 PM (g47mK)

5 We may never find out who The Big Guy was.

Posted by: ... at September 05, 2025 12:28 PM (XZrbt)

6 Jaws is overrated. I did see the THOT Whisperer ... I mean the Shark Whisperer, which mentions Jaws. So same thing. Plus, I swam with sharks.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 05, 2025 12:28 PM (iFTx/)

7 And yeah, watched Jaws...but at home. I just didn't feel like going out to see it. Great movie, still holds up.

Also did a lot of John Hughes movie watching, thanks to TJM. I was surprised to discover he didn't direct Pretty in Pink or Some Kind of Wonderful, he just wrote them.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at September 05, 2025 12:29 PM (xcxpd)

8 Great post ace.

Posted by: ... at September 05, 2025 12:29 PM (XZrbt)

9 8 Great post ace.
Posted by: ... at September 05, 2025 12:29 PM (XZrbt)

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I don't get it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 05, 2025 12:29 PM (GBKbO)

10 1 We don't hang people for treason anymore...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 05, 2025 12:27 PM (GBKbO)

The sons are not the fathers, sadly.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at September 05, 2025 12:29 PM (xcxpd)

11
Did it happen? Who knows?

Would I be surprised if it happened? No.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 05, 2025 12:30 PM (2mxw7)

12 BTW, did anyone see Jaws in the theaters last weekend? It was the #2 movie in America, I think.

Which says more about the current state of Hollywood than anything else.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 05, 2025 12:30 PM (Riz8t)

13 Now do the rest of the Democrat Party who are receiving laundered money from various Chinese and foreign aligned entities with the objective of undermining the US.

Posted by: Vengeance at September 05, 2025 12:30 PM (2iF2h)

14 5 We may never find out who The Big Guy was.
Posted by: ... at September 05, 2025 12:28 PM (XZrbt)

Rocco Siffredi?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at September 05, 2025 12:30 PM (xcxpd)

15 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 05, 2025 12:31 PM (Zz0t1)

16 Put him in the cell next to Robert Hansen.
Oh wait, Hansen died in 2023.
OK...in the cemetery next to Hansen.

Posted by: Diogenes at September 05, 2025 12:31 PM (2WIwB)

17 Phew......Was starting to think your fast got the best of you, Ace.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 05, 2025 12:31 PM (Zz0t1)

18 12 BTW, did anyone see Jaws in the theaters last weekend? It was the #2 movie in America, I think.

Which says more about the current state of Hollywood than anything else.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 05, 2025 12:30 PM (Riz8t)

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Well, end of summer.

But yes, BO was...unhealthy. Tail end of superhero glut as everyone figures out what to replace it with while the studios keep cannibalizing theatrical takes for streaming.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 05, 2025 12:32 PM (GBKbO)

19 We may never find out who The Big Guy was.
Posted by: ... at September 05, 2025 12:28 PM (XZrbt)

Rocco Siffredi?
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at September 05, 2025 12:30 PM (xcxpd)

HA!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 05, 2025 12:32 PM (Zz0t1)

20 BTW, did anyone see Jaws in the theaters last weekend? It was the #2 movie in America, I think.

Which says more about the current state of Hollywood than anything else.

If they decide to remake Jaws, the shark will be a black lesbian.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 05, 2025 12:32 PM (Riz8t)

21 20
If they decide to remake Jaws, the shark will be a black lesbian.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 05, 2025 12:32 PM (Riz8t)

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It will be a TV miniseries reboot based on the book that's 10 episodes long, gender and race swapped all over the place, and boringly terrible.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 05, 2025 12:33 PM (GBKbO)

22 Not a smidgen of corruption.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 05, 2025 12:33 PM (0U5gm)

23 We don't hang people for treason anymore...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 05, 2025 12:27 PM (GBKbO)

So far.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider at September 05, 2025 12:33 PM (oSeBJ)

24 So who is B? Hunter? Seems like the it’d be easy to determine if he was “advising” Albania too.

Posted by: Farmer Bob at September 05, 2025 12:34 PM (Sc+yd)

25 I'm sure everyone knows that Hughes chickened out when the Pretty In Pink screenings went wrong, so changed its ending at the last minute.
I've read that Some Kind Of Wonderful was the movie Hughes intended to write.

Posted by: gKWVE at September 05, 2025 12:34 PM (gKWVE)

26 JackStraw has been all over this. He said there was much more to the McGonigal affair, and he was right. Again.

He's such a smarty-pants.

Posted by: IrishEi at September 05, 2025 12:34 PM (3ImbR)

27 Speaking of movies, I'm intrigued about "The Adventures of Cliff Booth," which I hear is currently in production.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at September 05, 2025 12:34 PM (bNf8H)

28 I'M the fucking spy chief.

Posted by: James Bond at September 05, 2025 12:34 PM (vFG9F)

29 >> How are you? I'm feeling energetic. Fasting is really good for your sleep.

I suppose I am lucky to not have any sleep issues, and fasting just speeds up my metabolism where I want to keep going- so the opposite effect.

Posted by: Marcus T at September 05, 2025 12:34 PM (H3qiK)

30 Any plans for the weekend?
.......

I hesitate to comment until Drink Like Vikings weighs in.

Posted by: wth at September 05, 2025 12:34 PM (v0R5T)

31 >> BTW, did anyone see Jaws in the theaters last weekend? It was the #2 movie in America, I think. I wanted to see it but also wanted to be lazy so instead of doing something I did nothing, as usual.

I didn’t know Jaws was in theaters! The 70s original? If so, that’s indicative that Hollywood has completely run out of original ideas

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 05, 2025 12:34 PM (WdMlw)

32 If they decide to remake Jaws, the shark will be a black lesbian.

A strong, independent woman that don't need no man. But it will chomp on them.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 05, 2025 12:34 PM (QZThv)

33 If they decide to remake Jaws, the shark will be a black lesbian.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 05, 2025 12:32 PM (Riz8t)

It will feature Jaws as a shark pushing back on behalf of Gaia because of humanity's destruction of the planet or something.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at September 05, 2025 12:34 PM (vakLI)

34 The article goes on to note that Joe Biden gave his son a complete pardon for all crimes he committed during a specific 11-year period.

You can't logically pardon someone for "whatever" in an 11 year period.

You can only pardon them for specific incidents or crimes.

Biden did not do that. Now, one could stretch things and argue he meant the crimes Hunter was currently being investigated for - which were the gun stuff and drugs, IIRC.

But bribes from China? and Ukraine? and I'm sure Europe?

The DoJ should be going full steam ahead/

Posted by: 18-1 at September 05, 2025 12:34 PM (sKqQm)

35 JackStraw has been all over this. He said there was much more to the McGonigal affair, and he was right. Again.

He's such a smarty-pants.
Posted by: IrishEi at September 05, 2025 12:34 PM (3ImbR)

2nd look at smoking large amounts of weed?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 05, 2025 12:34 PM (Zz0t1)

36 25 I'm sure everyone knows that Hughes chickened out when the Pretty In Pink screenings went wrong, so changed its ending at the last minute.
I've read that Some Kind Of Wonderful was the movie Hughes intended to write.
Posted by: gKWVE at September 05, 2025 12:34 PM (gKWVE)

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Yeah, except it was studio pressure to change the ending in alignment with test screening wishes.

He gender swapped the roles in Some Kind of Wonderful to help him get past those objections again.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 05, 2025 12:35 PM (GBKbO)

37 Tail end of superhero glut as everyone figures out what to replace it with while the studios keep cannibalizing theatrical takes for streaming.

CD has a review of what may be the last of the movies (we can hope) in which HWood simply REFUSES to read the room.

The Savant - The Ultimate Karen Power Fantasy?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hklsd1XY1To

Posted by: Archimedes at September 05, 2025 12:35 PM (Riz8t)

38 *we did at least get "If You Leave" out of the bullshit ending, arguably OMD's best song.

Posted by: gKWVE at September 05, 2025 12:35 PM (gKWVE)

39 27 Speaking of movies, I'm intrigued about "The Adventures of Cliff Booth," which I hear is currently in production.
Posted by: Frasier Crane at September 05, 2025 12:34 PM (bNf8H)

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Fincher directing a Tarantino script?

You are correct to be intrigued.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 05, 2025 12:35 PM (GBKbO)

40 Hughes was right to chicken out- Ducky never gets the girl.

Posted by: Farmer Bob at September 05, 2025 12:35 PM (Sc+yd)

41 Weekend plans:

Loading up multiple trucks and trailers moving all the stuff out of my dad's shop and making the 6 hour round trip on Saturday, then returning and moving a bunch of the stuff out of the house to storage.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 05, 2025 12:36 PM (Zz0t1)

42 40 Hughes was right to chicken out- Ducky never gets the girl.
Posted by: Farmer Bob at September 05, 2025 12:35 PM (Sc+yd)

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Except the movie was building towards Duckie getting the girl, and then he suddenly just gives up and gets some random chick.

It's a weird ending.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 05, 2025 12:36 PM (GBKbO)

43 >>>Charles McGonigal, the former special-agent-in-charge of the FBI Counterintelligence Division in New York

I love all these little peons who thought that they were going to hit the big time by being f'ing stooges for two bit dictators like Biden and Clinton falling flat on their faces. It gives me great joy.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 05, 2025 12:36 PM (i24o9)

44 >>>2nd look at smoking large amounts of weed?
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Hmmm.

Posted by: IrishEi at September 05, 2025 12:37 PM (3ImbR)

45 Saw in a documentary that Molly Ringwald turned down the role in Some Kind of Wonderful because she already played that character. Created bad blood between her and Hughes that never resolved.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at September 05, 2025 12:37 PM (vakLI)

46 25 I'm sure everyone knows that Hughes chickened out when the Pretty In Pink screenings went wrong, so changed its ending at the last minute.
I've read that Some Kind Of Wonderful was the movie Hughes intended to write.
Posted by: gKWVE at September 05, 2025 12:34 PM (gKWVE)

Jah. Lots of controversy over the ending of Pretty in Pink changing. Some Kind of Wonderful was his apology of sorts. Also Mary Stewart Masterson was an adorable tomboy.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at September 05, 2025 12:37 PM (xcxpd)

47 >>Jaws is overrated.

Jaws is the greatest film of all-time and is the greatest film in at least 3 different Genres.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 05, 2025 12:37 PM (/7ojh)

48 Last day at the beach. Driving back to Ohio tomorrow.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at September 05, 2025 12:37 PM (h8SDH)

49 45 Saw in a documentary that Molly Ringwald turned down the role in Some Kind of Wonderful because she already played that character. Created bad blood between her and Hughes that never resolved.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at September 05, 2025 12:37 PM (vakLI)

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Hughes seems to have been a fragile man regarding relationships, especially with girls 20 years his junior.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 05, 2025 12:37 PM (GBKbO)

50 Saw in a documentary that Molly Ringwald turned down the role in Some Kind of Wonderful because she already played that character. Created bad blood between her and Hughes that never resolved.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at September 05, 2025 12:37 PM (vakLI)

"That and she drug her teeth."

- - - - - - - - Hollywood Producers

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 05, 2025 12:37 PM (Zz0t1)

51 Were I a studio bigwig I'd be moving on to video games movies as there have been several recent successes.

And like with comic books you get a basic plot and a built in audience. If you can manage it try to get a movie out within a year of a big game hit like Warhammer 40k or Expeditions 33

But under no circumstances would I hire Uwe Boll

Posted by: 18-1 at September 05, 2025 12:38 PM (sKqQm)

52 I'M the fucking spy chief.
Posted by: James Bond at September 05, 2025 12:34 PM (vFG9F)

Easy there, OO7. Perhaps you need a few more days after that last mission.

Posted by: M at September 05, 2025 12:38 PM (wVcYX)

53 42- right, sorry, edit- Ducky never gets a girl (although a desperate girl may eventually get him to his everlasting dismay)

Posted by: Farmer Bob at September 05, 2025 12:38 PM (Sc+yd)

54 I love all these little peons who thought that they were going to hit the big time by being f'ing stooges for two bit dictators like Biden and Clinton falling flat on their faces. It gives me great joy.

A bunch of Renfields, they are.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 05, 2025 12:38 PM (Riz8t)

55 Ace- doesn't your stomach hurt after not eating for so long? That's the one thing that stops me from trying it...

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at September 05, 2025 12:38 PM (i49OE)

56 45 Saw in a documentary that Molly Ringwald turned down the role in Some Kind of Wonderful because she already played that character. Created bad blood between her and Hughes that never resolved.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at September 05, 2025 12:37 PM (vakLI)

John Hughes was never the same after Ringwald walked away from him. Then John Candy died and he basically gave up directing and wrote terrible children's movies instead.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at September 05, 2025 12:38 PM (xcxpd)

57 47 Jaws is the greatest film of all-time and is the greatest film in at least 3 different Genres.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 05, 2025 12:37 PM (/7ojh)

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Romantic comedy between Quint and Hooper, for sure.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 05, 2025 12:38 PM (GBKbO)

58 The since-convicted FBI official who led counterintelligence efforts in New York leaked information to an affiliate of a Chinese company which was linked to Hunter Biden's business efforts, according to a DOJ watchdog who concluded the leak tipped the Chinese conglomerate off about the bureau's criminal investigation.

Just highlighting an unimportant part of the story.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 05, 2025 12:38 PM (0U5gm)

59 Jaws at the time it was released was 100%. These days, yeah, it's dated.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at September 05, 2025 12:38 PM (vakLI)

60 speaking of foreign influence (I saw it yesterday, but now it's hitting the news cycle) " Mamdani’s mother collected millions in Qatari cash, raising foreign influence concerns - (NYP)...Qatari cultural groups funded films by Mira Nair, mother of NYC mayoral front-runner Zohran Mamdani, raising questions about foreign influence and transparency...Qatari state-funded cultural institutions have financed multiple stage and screen projects by Mira Nair, the Indian filmmaker and mother of Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, who is projected to win New York’s mayoral election in November, the New York Post reported this week.

Sheikha Al-Mayassa bint Hamad Al-Thani, sister of Qatar’s ruling emir, reportedly directed significant funding through organizations she oversees to support Nair’s work. "

Qatar...of course!

Posted by: runner at September 05, 2025 12:39 PM (g47mK)

61 It's Serial Treason all the way down ... and more importantly, all the way up to The AutoPen Emperor Heads.

Posted by: ShainS -- The 5th Great Awakening: MAGA is Winning the Culture Wars at September 05, 2025 12:39 PM (Jq918)

62 >>>but also wanted to be lazy so instead of doing something I did nothing, as usual.

I endorse and validate this sentiment.

Posted by: No Name Today at September 05, 2025 12:39 PM (vlXMQ)

63 >>>I didn’t know Jaws was in theaters! The 70s original? If so, that’s indicative that Hollywood has completely run out of original ideas

yes they re-released it for the weekend. I know it was at Alamo Drafthouse.

Posted by: ace has a little list at September 05, 2025 12:39 PM (KRtlO)

64 CD has a review of what may be the last of the movies (we can hope) in which HWood simply REFUSES to read the room.

It's a TV series, not a movie. But clearly intended for the post-Kamala-won world.

Posted by: Ian S. at September 05, 2025 12:39 PM (QZThv)

65 51 Were I a studio bigwig I'd be moving on to video games movies as there have been several recent successes.

And like with comic books you get a basic plot and a built in audience. If you can manage it try to get a movie out within a year of a big game hit like Warhammer 40k or Expeditions 33

But under no circumstances would I hire Uwe Boll
Posted by: 18-1 at September 05, 2025 12:38 PM (sKqQm)

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The Mario Bros success has driven studios in that direction.

A24 is staging it's largest production in its history with The Elden Ring (written and directed by Alex Garland who wrote, on spec, a script and presented it to FromSoftware's management before he got the job because he really wanted the job).

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 05, 2025 12:39 PM (GBKbO)

66 In before the "Nothing Will Happen" crowd ...

Posted by: ShainS -- The 5th Great Awakening: MAGA is Winning the Culture Wars at September 05, 2025 12:40 PM (Jq918)

67 a few months ago they re-released Monty Pyton and the Holy Grail into the theaters, but I didn't even hear about it until the weekend was over and its short run was done.

Posted by: ace has a little list at September 05, 2025 12:40 PM (KRtlO)

68 I love all these little peons who thought that they were going to hit the big time by being f'ing stooges for two bit dictators like Biden and Clinton falling flat on their faces. It gives me great joy.

Ace isn't the only one who has a list, you know.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 05, 2025 12:40 PM (Riz8t)

69 63 >>>I didn’t know Jaws was in theaters! The 70s original? If so, that’s indicative that Hollywood has completely run out of original ideas

yes they re-released it for the weekend. I know it was at Alamo Drafthouse.
Posted by: ace has a little list at September 05, 2025 12:39 PM (KRtlO)

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Digital projection has allowed for very easy re-releases.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 05, 2025 12:40 PM (GBKbO)

70 If they decide to remake Jaws, the shark will be a black lesbian.
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Jaws II: The Munchening

Posted by: ... at September 05, 2025 12:40 PM (XZrbt)

71 28 I'M the fucking spy chief.
Posted by: James Bond at September 05, 2025 12:34 PM (vFG9F)

Really?

Posted by: M at September 05, 2025 12:40 PM (sL3J7)

72 Well, damn.

CD has a review of what may be the last of the movies (we can hope) in which HWood simply REFUSES to read the room.

It's a TV series, not a movie. But clearly intended for the post-Kamala-won world.

Ace isn't the only one who has a list, you know.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 05, 2025 12:40 PM (Riz8t)

73 >>>59 Jaws at the time it was released was 100%. These days, yeah, it's dated.

i saw it a couple of years back and I didn't think it was dated. What are you referring to, specifically?

Posted by: ace has a little list at September 05, 2025 12:41 PM (KRtlO)

74 I'm in the "I don't give a small smelly poop what Molly Ringwald thinks" Club:
In a 2018 essay for The New Yorker, she reflected on the misogyny present in films like The Breakfast Club and Sixteen Candles, acknowledging that scenes involving her character were inappropriate, including instances of sexual harassment and non-consensual situations.

Club meets at breakfast with lots of fiber.

Posted by: gKWVE at September 05, 2025 12:41 PM (gKWVE)

75 Qatar has ambitions to rule NYC. It already owns a ton of Real Estate there, and now they are not satisfied with merely buying politicians, they want one of their own in charge. Like in London.

Posted by: runner at September 05, 2025 12:41 PM (g47mK)

76 Any plans for the weekend?

Endure this heat wave.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at September 05, 2025 12:41 PM (+4hLU)

77 Industriousness usually pays off in due time.

Laziness pays off right now.

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 05, 2025 12:41 PM (wVcYX)

78 73 >>>59 Jaws at the time it was released was 100%. These days, yeah, it's dated.

i saw it a couple of years back and I didn't think it was dated. What are you referring to, specifically?
Posted by: ace has a little list at September 05, 2025 12:41 PM (KRtlO)

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What's there for modern audiences?

No The Message at all.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 05, 2025 12:41 PM (GBKbO)

79 You can't logically pardon someone for "whatever" in an 11 year period.

You can only pardon them for specific incidents or crimes.

Biden did not do that. Now, one could stretch things and argue he meant the crimes Hunter was currently being investigated for - which were the gun stuff and drugs, IIRC.

But bribes from China? and Ukraine? and I'm sure Europe?

The DoJ should be going full steam ahead/
Posted by: 18-1

It would be eye-opening to charge Hunter on taking bribes from China, have it challenged due to pardon power, and conclude that Joe Biden knew about the bribes but covered it up.

Even more eye-opening would be to charge Hunter with having sex with underage girls (relatives?) based on the laptop evidence ...

Posted by: Chuck Martel at September 05, 2025 12:41 PM (Dv3i1)

80 It will be a TV miniseries reboot based on the book that's 10 episodes long, gender and race swapped all over the place, and boringly terrible.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Spielberg is famous for a tight-handed control over all of his material. Jurassic Park aside, he and Zemeckis have stomped on all attempts to reboot Back to the Future, for example. Anything's possible if he croaks, of course, but I hope he learned his lesson from Indy IV.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 05, 2025 12:41 PM (mlg/3)

81 We don't hang people for treason anymore...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 05, 2025 12:27 PM (GBKbO)

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We need to rectumfy that.

Posted by: ShainS -- The 5th Great Awakening: MAGA is Winning the Culture Wars at September 05, 2025 12:42 PM (Jq918)

82 Created bad blood between her and Hughes that never resolved.

Lots of people in Hollywood write parts with specific actors they've previously worked with in mind, but usually the actor doesn't turn down work. That was kind of Joss Whedon's entire career (Nathan Fillion was on Buffy, which got him the Mal Reynolds role in Firefly, which got him Captain Hammer in Dr. Horrible).

Posted by: Ian S. at September 05, 2025 12:42 PM (QZThv)

83 Considering what happened to Anthony Michael Hall and Molly Ringwalds careers, I think John Hughes or karma got some serious payback.

Hall is still working though, pretty unrecognizable. He got tall and bulky.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at September 05, 2025 12:42 PM (xcxpd)

84 I have become self aware.

Posted by: Laptop at September 05, 2025 12:42 PM (HNXEw)

85 80 Spielberg is famous for a tight-handed control over all of his material. Jurassic Park aside, he and Zemeckis have stomped on all attempts to reboot Back to the Future, for example. Anything's possible if he croaks, of course, but I hope he learned his lesson from Indy IV.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 05, 2025 12:41 PM (mlg/3)

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The ET ride at Universal has to be up and operating as much as possible in accordance with Spielberg's contract with the studio.

I think he makes as much on every Universal ticket as does JK Rowling.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 05, 2025 12:42 PM (GBKbO)

86 45 Saw in a documentary that Molly Ringwald turned down the role in Some Kind of Wonderful because she already played that character. Created bad blood between her and Hughes that never resolved.

lord I dislike Molly Ringwald

sorry he was so mysteriously attached to her - she sucks

Posted by: Black Orchid at September 05, 2025 12:42 PM (Pv3Rg)

87 I heard a cool bit about Jaws. If you remember, there's a shot of Hooper in the anti-shark cage with a big shark knocking into it. It's a really good shot that shows the shark, a real shark, no mechanical puppet.

How they did that was: A small person in a small cage with a regular-sized shark. "Hooper" was in full wetsuit and mask so you couldn't tell it wasn't him.

Posted by: ace has a little list at September 05, 2025 12:43 PM (KRtlO)

88 @59

>>Jaws at the time it was released was 100%. These days, yeah, it's dated.

Actually, Jaws is remarkably undated for a movie made in the 70's

The only thing that would date it is a wired telephone, typewriter, and the occasional shot of car and possibly Larry's Leisure suit.

Contrast that with say, The French Connection, that film wildly dates itself.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 05, 2025 12:43 PM (/7ojh)

89 "I'M the fucking spy chief.
Posted by: James Bond at September 05, 2025 12:34 PM (vFG9F)

Really?
Posted by: M"

Well, when it comes to fucking spies.

Posted by: James Bond at September 05, 2025 12:43 PM (vFG9F)

90 83 Hall is still working though, pretty unrecognizable. He got tall and bulky.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at September 05, 2025 12:42 PM (xcxpd)

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EVIL DIES TONIGHT!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 05, 2025 12:43 PM (GBKbO)

91 Jaws at the time it was released was 100%. These days, yeah, it's dated.

Posted by: WitchDoktor

It's no 'Killer Klowns from Outer Space', that's for sure.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 05, 2025 12:43 PM (0U5gm)

92 I'm no Spielberg fanboy, but he's right that Back To The Future is fine the way it is especially the middle movie.

Posted by: gKWVE at September 05, 2025 12:43 PM (gKWVE)

93 The ET ride at Universal has to be up and operating as much as possible in accordance with Spielberg's contract with the studio.

and THANK GOD because that is the weirdest, most fun little ride!!!

you know it's painful for Universal to keep it going lol

but it's the BEST

Posted by: Black Orchid at September 05, 2025 12:43 PM (Pv3Rg)

94 >>>lord I dislike Molly Ringwald
sorry he was so mysteriously attached to her - she sucks

ENDORSE

did not get the appeal at all. Just a bland but bitchy presence. Kind of stone-faced and dead-eyed, too.

Posted by: ace has a little list at September 05, 2025 12:44 PM (KRtlO)

95
It would be eye-opening to charge Hunter on taking bribes from China, have it challenged due to pardon power, and conclude that Joe Biden knew about the bribes but covered it up.

That would be an interesting aspect to this as well- the DoJ arguing Joe didn't pardon Hunter on these bribes because he never even knew about them and then Hunter's lawyers bringing in Joe to say he knew all about them when he issued the pardon...

Honestly, that would be way more useful even then sending Hunter to jail...

Posted by: 18-1 at September 05, 2025 12:44 PM (sKqQm)

96 Jaws is the greatest film of all-time and is the greatest film in at least 3 different Genres.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 05, 2025 12:37 PM (/7ojh)

I disagree. Not in a world where Ben-Hur (Willie Wyler’s version) and Breakfast at Tiffany’s exist

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 05, 2025 12:44 PM (WdMlw)

97 EVIL DIES TONIGHT!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 05, 2025 12:43 PM (GBKbO)

That does sound like them.

Posted by: ... at September 05, 2025 12:44 PM (XZrbt)

98 92 I'm no Spielberg fanboy, but he's right that Back To The Future is fine the way it is especially the middle movie.
Posted by: gKWVE at September 05, 2025 12:43 PM (gKWVE)

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I've always heard that it's Zemeckis and Bob Gale who are the bulwarks against any cinematic continuations or remakes (there was a video game and animated television series that continued the story in different ways).

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 05, 2025 12:44 PM (GBKbO)

99 >>>BTW, did anyone see Jaws in the theaters last weekend? It was the #2 movie in America, I think.

Is this the original release, no fuckery added?

If so, I might have to take the littles.

The youngest already has an unhealthy aversion to swimming even in freshwater due to sharkaphobia, so I should take this opportunity to add a little lifetime scarring.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 05, 2025 12:44 PM (i24o9)

100 Kids saw it and the usual effect happened. They are afraid to even get in the bath tub!

Posted by: sTevo at September 05, 2025 12:44 PM (HNXEw)

101 BTW, did anyone see Jaws in the theaters last weekend? It was the #2 movie in America, I think.

Which says more about the current state of Hollywood than anything else.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 05, 2025 12:30 PM (Riz8t)

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Well, end of summer.

But yes, BO was...unhealthy. Tail end of superhero glut as everyone figures out what to replace it with while the studios keep cannibalizing theatrical takes for streaming.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 05, 2025 12:32 PM (GBKbO)
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It doesn't help that the 4K discs are coming out ever-sooner after the theater release.

Jane Wick and whatever they called that last Dino Homo movie are already out. Superman and the last MI come out later this month. They were all in theaters only weeks ago.

Every other spring and summer movie was already released on 4K.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 05, 2025 12:44 PM (iFTx/)

102 59 Jaws at the time it was released was 100%. These days, yeah, it's dated.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at September 05, 2025 12:38 PM (vakLI)

Wut?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at September 05, 2025 12:44 PM (xcxpd)

103 Spielberg is famous for a tight-handed control over all of his material. Jurassic Park aside, he and Zemeckis have stomped on all attempts to reboot Back to the Future, for example.

Yeah, there's nothing possibly good that could come of rebooting that movie. (I'm sufficiently militant about the first movie being perfect that I haven't seen the alleged sequels some claim exist).

Posted by: Ian S. at September 05, 2025 12:45 PM (QZThv)

104 86 45 Saw in a documentary that Molly Ringwald turned down the role in Some Kind of Wonderful because she already played that character. Created bad blood between her and Hughes that never resolved.

lord I dislike Molly Ringwald

sorry he was so mysteriously attached to her - she sucks
Posted by: Black Orchid
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Interesting. Some artists need their Muse to function and their works suffers when the Muse is no longer around. For whatever reason, for awhile, Roxanne Arquette was such a figure for some musicians.

Posted by: whig at September 05, 2025 12:45 PM (WDjG6)

105 i saw it a couple of years back and I didn't think it was dated. What are you referring to, specifically?
Posted by: ace has a little list at September 05, 2025 12:41 PM (KRtlO)

I'm thinking the overall look, cinematography, etc. The story itself holds up. Alas, after taking the Universal Studios tour I can't look at the shark in the same way I did when the flick was first released.

Nits really. CGI would ruin it though.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at September 05, 2025 12:45 PM (sk9i0)

106 "did not get the appeal at all. Just a bland but bitchy presence. Kind of stone-faced and dead-eyed, too.
"

I bet she squeaks.

Posted by: James Bond at September 05, 2025 12:45 PM (vFG9F)

107 a few months ago they re-released Monty Pyton and the Holy Grail into the theaters, but I didn't even hear about it until the weekend was over and its short run was done.
Posted by: ace has a little list at September 05, 2025 12:40 PM (KRtlO)

I went with some friends to see it.

Good times.....

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 05, 2025 12:45 PM (Zz0t1)

108 Did Hunter actually receive all that money? Where did it go?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 05, 2025 12:45 PM (63Dwl)

109 99 Is this the original release, no fuckery added?

If so, I might have to take the littles.

The youngest already has an unhealthy aversion to swimming even in freshwater due to sharkaphobia, so I should take this opportunity to add a little lifetime scarring.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 05, 2025 12:44 PM (i24o9)

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Spielberg went down the Lucas updating route only once with ET.

He regrets it so much, the studio just stopped including it on home video releases after a certain point. It's just the original version (agents with shotguns and all) now.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 05, 2025 12:45 PM (GBKbO)

110 I have to run to Ace Hardware to see about getting a new door handle for my storm door, If I have to get the same model that was on the door its pricey hardware and I might be better off to just replace the door. I hate having to make these decisions. But its not so much money that it will break the budget so in this case I will just start with buying a new handle. HD or Lowes might have more selection but the Ace staff are helpful.

Posted by: PaleRider at September 05, 2025 12:45 PM (kdHU2)

111 >>>If so, I might have to take the littles.

I'm pretty sure it was a one-weekend release.

But Hollywood is starting to re-release movies now, because there new ones are bad and also they don't have many of them for the rest of the year.

Posted by: ace has a little list at September 05, 2025 12:46 PM (KRtlO)

112 Industriousness usually pays off in due time.

Laziness pays off right now.

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 05, 2025 12:41 PM (wVcYX)

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I'll gladly pay you Tuesday for some laziness today.

Posted by: ShainS -- The 5th Great Awakening: MAGA is Winning the Culture Wars at September 05, 2025 12:46 PM (Jq918)

113 48 Last day at the beach. Driving back to Ohio tomorrow.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo

You'll be surprised when you get back to Ohio.
- The Pretenders

Posted by: Chuck Martel at September 05, 2025 12:46 PM (Dv3i1)

114 American culture is pervasive around the world. You find it in the weirdest places. Once during a CQB OP a call when out to some jackass on the second floor to put down his weapon and surrender. The terp got called up to repeat the request in Arabic. Before the terp can repeat it the jackass yells back “f -you, boss in English”. Stunned silence. All of a sudden you hear over comms “did he just call you boss?” Laughter ensued.

Posted by: Marcus T at September 05, 2025 12:46 PM (H3qiK)

115 Anthony Michael Hall did good in Pirates of Silicon Valley, so he didn't have to stay chained to Hughes' orbit. Hall should have found plenty of good work.
Hollywood is a jerky place full of jerks.

Posted by: gKWVE at September 05, 2025 12:46 PM (gKWVE)

116 101 It doesn't help that the 4K discs are coming out ever-sooner after the theater release.

Jane Wick and whatever they called that last Dino Homo movie are already out. Superman and the last MI come out later this month. They were all in theaters only weeks ago.

Every other spring and summer movie was already released on 4K.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 05, 2025 12:44 PM (iFTx/)

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The MI release window is actually in line with older, pre-COVID release strategies. It opened early summer, and is only finally coming out on home video in October.

That's not WB pushing Weapons onto streaming 4 weeks after release (which they're doing).

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 05, 2025 12:47 PM (GBKbO)

117 Molly Ringwald was never very attractive even in her prime. Now… Mary Stuart Masterson… wow

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 05, 2025 12:47 PM (WdMlw)

118 Most trusted news in America!

Thomas Hern@ThomasMHern
CNN's Rana Foroohar says businesses and their refusal to speak out against President Trump and his administration is reminiscent of Nazi Germany in the 1930s and 1940s.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Dinosaur Wrangler at September 05, 2025 12:47 PM (NH+fd)

119 All you need to know is Molly Ringwald did not make any good movies after Hughs, Hughs made great films after and Without Molly Ringwald.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 05, 2025 12:47 PM (/7ojh)

120 I like Jaws but the only reason I would go to a theater to see it is to compare the picture with mine at home. The last non Tarantino movie I saw in theaters - Edge of Tomorrow - compared extremely well and I remember getting home and thinking why would I ever bother going to the movies again. And that was before 4k.

Posted by: ... at September 05, 2025 12:48 PM (XZrbt)

121 119 All you need to know is Molly Ringwald did not make any good movies after Hughs, Hughs made great films after and Without Molly Ringwald.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 05, 2025 12:47 PM (/7ojh)

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He did...briefly.

He lost his way with She's Having a Baby badly. There was a partial fix with Uncle Buck, but then Curly Sue tanked everything.

And his written work after that largely sucks.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 05, 2025 12:48 PM (GBKbO)

122 In the book version, Jaws had a sex scene between Hooper and Brody's wife (I think?) that was not germane to the story in any way. Just gratuitous sex added to sell more copies. Was surprised and glad to see that it was not included in the movie version.

Posted by: IrishEi at September 05, 2025 12:48 PM (3ImbR)

123 115 Anthony Michael Hall did good in Pirates of Silicon Valley, so he didn't have to stay chained to Hughes' orbit. Hall should have found plenty of good work.
Hollywood is a jerky place full of jerks.
Posted by: gKWVE at September 05, 2025 12:46 PM (gKWVE)

Rewatching the Hughes films, he's better than I remember. The amount of swagger he has in 16 Candles is insane. I can't help but wonder where the character got all the confidence.

His post-Hughes stuff is worth exploring, not a bad actor at all. He's no Eddie Deezen.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at September 05, 2025 12:48 PM (xcxpd)

124 I wonder if TJM knows why Fincher and Pitt have made so many movies together.

Booth is one of my favorite characters in recent film. Looking forward to what Fincher does with him.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at September 05, 2025 12:48 PM (bNf8H)

125 People need to swing.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at September 05, 2025 12:49 PM (9enUd)

126 >>>If so, I might have to take the littles.

I'm pretty sure it was a one-weekend release.

But Hollywood is starting to re-release movies now, because there new ones are bad and also they don't have many of them for the rest of the year.

Posted by: ace has a little list at September 05, 2025 12:46 PM (KRtlO)

I just checked, and it is playing in 3 local-ish theaters, and I can get tickets tonight. Thus, my question. I don't want to spend the money on something where Han doesn't shoot first.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 05, 2025 12:49 PM (i24o9)

127 Ferris Bueller was John Hughes’ finest work by far

And I love planes trains and automobiles

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 05, 2025 12:49 PM (WdMlw)

128 The youngest already has an unhealthy aversion to swimming even in freshwater due to sharkaphobia, so I should take this opportunity to add a little lifetime scarring.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder

Very caring. Next on the list should be shooting fireballs from Roman Candles in one's hands. Funny short segment in Jean Shepard's In God We Trust All Others Pay Cash book. Also a short anecdotal story in this book germinated A Christmas Story and its direct sequel movie.

Several other semi fictional stories about NW Indiana living in the 30s written in a breezy passing the shit reminiscing story style with a childhood friend who now runs a bar in the old hometown.

Posted by: whig at September 05, 2025 12:49 PM (WDjG6)

129

F-35s Deploying to Caribbean Amid Growing Tensions With Venezuela

https://t.ly/OYBwq

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 05, 2025 12:49 PM (63Dwl)

130 is this a movie thread? I got dead air when I said I double-featured The Boogeyman and The Monkey last weekend - which ended up being interesting they had a strange amount of things in common despite being made like 20 years apart (maybe, boogeyman looks Early Weird CGI - aged)

both were really good!

Posted by: Black Orchid at September 05, 2025 12:49 PM (Pv3Rg)

131 Molly Ringwald did not make any good movies after Hughes

Which is why when Ringwald complains about those Hughes movies, she shows her ass. She'd be serving eggs at the Waffle House if it weren't for Hughes.

Posted by: gKWVE at September 05, 2025 12:50 PM (gKWVE)

132 Thomas Hern@ThomasMHern
CNN's Rana Foroohar says businesses and their refusal to speak out against President Trump and his administration is reminiscent of Nazi Germany in the 1930s and 1940s.
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What does this woman want businesses to speak out about? Objecting to increase wages, paying lower taxes?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at September 05, 2025 12:50 PM (Dv3i1)

133 His post-Hughes stuff is worth exploring, not a bad actor at all. He's no Eddie Deezen.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at September 05, 2025 12:48 PM (xcxpd)

He killed in Psych.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 05, 2025 12:50 PM (i24o9)

134 My problem with Molly Ringwald is that she is a ginger.

I can't be alone in that... can I?

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at September 05, 2025 12:50 PM (i49OE)

135 >>>Did Hunter actually receive all that money? Where did it go?
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Hookers & blow, Bert. Hookers & blow.

Posted by: IrishEi at September 05, 2025 12:50 PM (3ImbR)

136 First saw Jaws at the drive in movie. Mom had read the book and wanted to see the movie. She and dad in the front seat. Three kids in the back seat. She warned us before something icky happened. I was 8 yrs old when that movie came out. Thing One was ten, Thing Two was six. IIRC, Thing Two was asleep for most of that movie. Thing One was cheering for the shark.

Didn't see it last week in the theater because... I have the DVD on the shelf to my right. Why deal with people if I can stay home and be comfortable.

I did notice an interesting thing on the theater marquee.... We time warped back to the seventies! The three movies listed were Freaky Friday, Jaws, and The Toxic Avenger!

What the fuck is wrong with Hollyweird?

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at September 05, 2025 12:50 PM (2J/Lj)

137 >>> For whatever reason, for awhile, Roxanne Arquette was such a figure for some musicians.

if you mean Toto, they completely deny that and say that Rosanna Arquette just made up the story that "Rosanna" was about her. It wasn't, it was about the songwriter's girlfriend. The Rosanna Arquette connection is just that the actual girl's name didn't work with the meter of the song, but they knew Rosanna Arquette, and just used her name.

For some reason they're kinda pissed at her for free-riding on them. I don't know why, seems like a misunderstanding or at worse a harmless lie.

Posted by: ace has a little list at September 05, 2025 12:50 PM (KRtlO)

138 124 I wonder if TJM knows why Fincher and Pitt have made so many movies together.

Booth is one of my favorite characters in recent film. Looking forward to what Fincher does with him.
Posted by: Frasier Crane at September 05, 2025 12:48 PM (bNf8H)

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Probably a communication thing mixed with Pitt's status as a star.

Directors develop relationships with actors, and they can just end up liking to work together while studios will fund it.

And sometimes they hate each other like John Hughes and Jim Belushi.

And sometimes, they love/hate each other like Herzog and Klaus Kinski.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 05, 2025 12:50 PM (GBKbO)

139 I saw Jaws in the theatre.

It was great.

Never saw it in the theatre before this.

All the previews showed a LOT of old classic movies being re-released for the big screen.

Posted by: EFG at September 05, 2025 12:50 PM (as22/)

140 Agreed. Hall was good as Farmer Ted.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at September 05, 2025 12:50 PM (9enUd)

141 F-35s Deploying to Caribbean Amid Growing Tensions With Venezuela

I hope we make a difference here, get Maduro out, get Venezuela on a good path.

used to go to Venezuela when we went to Aruba but now not only can you not do that, but I worry about little Aruba

Posted by: Black Orchid at September 05, 2025 12:50 PM (Pv3Rg)

142 Jaws at the time it was released was 100%. These days, yeah, it's dated.
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Yeah, what with all that character building and acting.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at September 05, 2025 12:50 PM (h8SDH)

143 Ringwald totally killed it in Townies.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at September 05, 2025 12:51 PM (sk9i0)

144 The ham & eggers pretty much treated the FIB as their own little graft and extortion machine.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at September 05, 2025 12:51 PM (17s+e)

145
JackStraw has been all over this. He said there was much more to the McGonigal affair, and he was right. Again.

He's such a smarty-pants.
Posted by: IrishEi

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Still, the Nothing Will Happen chorus will prevail.

And good morning.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 05, 2025 12:51 PM (lCaJd)

146 127 Ferris Bueller was John Hughes’ finest work by far

And I love planes trains and automobiles
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 05, 2025 12:49 PM (WdMlw)

These are both valid opinions

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at September 05, 2025 12:51 PM (xcxpd)

147 The Chosen.

Posted by: Come And See at September 05, 2025 12:51 PM (nTWdD)

148 We don't hang people for treason anymore...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 05, 2025 12:27 PM

*shakes head sadly*

Old ways are best ways.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 05, 2025 12:51 PM (kgE5c)

149 Yeah, what with all that character building and acting.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at September 05, 2025 12:50 PM (h8SDH)

I saw it in 1975.

Can't look at it in the same way now.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at September 05, 2025 12:51 PM (sk9i0)

150 I mean, I saw Quint do his "Indianapolis" speech on Youtube, but to watch the Jaws movie in its entirety? On the big screen?

Whole 'nuther story.

Posted by: EFG at September 05, 2025 12:51 PM (as22/)

151 Very caring. Next on the list should be shooting fireballs from Roman Candles in one's hands.

Posted by: whig at September 05, 2025 12:49 PM (WDjG6)

They already do that (with safety glasses, however). I have not progressed to letting them have all out bottle rocket wars. Yet.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 05, 2025 12:51 PM (i24o9)

152 >>>n the book version, Jaws had a sex scene between Hooper and Brody's wife (I think?) that was not germane to the story in any way. Just gratuitous sex added to sell more copies. Was surprised and glad to see that it was not included in the movie version.

I think that he was supposed to die in the movie like he did in the book but they changed it at the last second and had him escape the anti-shark cage and hide out until the after the climax. I forget why.

Posted by: ace has a little list at September 05, 2025 12:52 PM (KRtlO)

153 Interesting. Some artists need their Muse to function and their works suffers when the Muse is no longer around. For whatever reason, for awhile, Roxanne Arquette was such a figure for some musicians.

Posted by: whig at September 05, 2025 12:45 PM (WDjG6)

Rosanna Arquette? I know she was with the guy from Toto for a time. Who else?

Posted by: No Name Today at September 05, 2025 12:52 PM (vlXMQ)

154 152 I think that he was supposed to die in the movie like he did in the book but they changed it at the last second and had him escape the anti-shark cage and hide out until the after the climax. I forget why.
Posted by: ace has a little list at September 05, 2025 12:52 PM (KRtlO)

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"Can you deny Richard Dreyfus' sex appeal?"
-Spielberg

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 05, 2025 12:52 PM (GBKbO)

155 Speaking of "Jaws" and the great USS Indianapolis monologue delivered by Robert Shaw's character, Quint:

I highly recommend a great recent book (2019) entitled "Indianapolis: The True Story of the Worst Sea Disaster in U.S. Naval History and the Fifty-Year Fight to Exonerate an Innocent Man" by Lynn Vincent and Sara Vladic.

Posted by: ShainS -- The 5th Great Awakening: MAGA is Winning the Culture Wars at September 05, 2025 12:52 PM (Jq918)

156 He did...briefly.

He lost his way with She's Having a Baby badly. There was a partial fix with Uncle Buck, but then Curly Sue tanked everything.

And his written work after that largely sucks.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

I think he had a narrow range dating back to his semi biographical Nat Lamp days as a writer and once that was mined out, he was tapped out. But for a shining time in the 80's and early 90's, he did well because his movies connected with kids, young adults, and even older ones. Old formula for success in movies abandoned nowadays.

Posted by: whig at September 05, 2025 12:52 PM (WDjG6)

157 You can't logically pardon someone for "whatever" in an 11 year period.

You can only pardon them for specific incidents or crimes.
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That is so pre Biden.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at September 05, 2025 12:53 PM (17s+e)

158 > Most trusted news in America!

Thomas Hern@ThomasMHern
CNN's Rana Foroohar says businesses and their refusal to speak out against President Trump and his administration is reminiscent of Nazi Germany in the 1930s and 1940s.
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I find it difficult to take anything someone named "Rana Foroohar" says with anything other than contempt.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 05, 2025 12:54 PM (Q4IgG)

159 F-35s Deploying to Caribbean Amid Growing Tensions With Venezuela

Yeah, I'm gonna guess that the F-35s are remarkably untense.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 05, 2025 12:54 PM (Riz8t)

160 I saw Jaws.

Fun times!

And the movie holds up well.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at September 05, 2025 12:54 PM (9K9qt)

161 @150

>>Whole 'nuther story.

What's even better is watching it on the big screen with the music preformed by an orchestra.

Did that a couple of years ago.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 05, 2025 12:54 PM (/7ojh)

162 >> The youngest already has an unhealthy aversion to swimming even in freshwater due to sharkaphobia, so I should take this opportunity to add a little lifetime scarring.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder

Get them into a water confidence program. I almost drowned at one point. It turned me around to the point I was lifeguard certified, did lake swims, later did drownproofing, etc.

Posted by: Marcus T at September 05, 2025 12:54 PM (H3qiK)

163 Patty Harrison, wife of George Harrison and lover of Eric Clapton and others, has a big number of major songs written about her, including Something and Layla.

Posted by: ace has a little list at September 05, 2025 12:54 PM (KRtlO)

164 I just checked, and it is playing in 3 local-ish theaters, and I can get tickets tonight. Thus, my question. I don't want to spend the money on something where Han doesn't shoot first.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 05, 2025 12:49 PM (i24o9)

It's not updated AFAIK, just the OG Jaws movie on the big screen.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at September 05, 2025 12:54 PM (xcxpd)

165 149 Yeah, what with all that character building and acting.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at September 05, 2025 12:50 PM (h8SDH)

I saw it in 1975.

Can't look at it in the same way now.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at September 05, 2025 12:51 PM (sk9i0)

*****

What do you mean? You mean you liked it better in '75?

Huh. I mean, I never saw it before this 2025 re-release, and I just saw it like a time capsule.

No cell phones, no apps, just old fashioned news papers and radios and a giant shark.

It rocked.

Posted by: EFG at September 05, 2025 12:54 PM (as22/)

166 I didn't see it at the theater but did watch on HBO or Showtime. It holds up quite well. The ending was always farfetched but...

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at September 05, 2025 12:54 PM (17s+e)

167 164 I just checked, and it is playing in 3 local-ish theaters, and I can get tickets tonight. Thus, my question. I don't want to spend the money on something where Han doesn't shoot first.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 05, 2025 12:49 PM (i24o9)

It's not updated AFAIK, just the OG Jaws movie on the big screen.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at September 05, 2025 12:54 PM (xcxpd)

=======

The sound is probably updated ATMOS instead of mono/stereo, but most people don't care about that.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 05, 2025 12:55 PM (GBKbO)

168 Rana Fubar can eat shit.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at September 05, 2025 12:55 PM (9enUd)

169 Re Roxanne Arquette---

Link goes to Tumblr but she has her own page as a famous rock/music groupie

https://tinyurl.com/4wte3s2f

Posted by: whig at September 05, 2025 12:55 PM (WDjG6)

170 Hall was good in Johnny Be Good and Weird Science.

Ringwald was good in The Stand

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 05, 2025 12:55 PM (wVcYX)

171 @160

>>And the movie holds up well.

Quinten Tarantino was asked in an interview what where some films he thought were perfect and said Jaws and BTTF were perfect films.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 05, 2025 12:55 PM (/7ojh)

172 >>Patty Harrison, wife of George Harrison and lover of Eric Clapton and others, has a big number of major songs written about her, including Something and Layla.
__
No shit? I did not know that about Layla.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at September 05, 2025 12:55 PM (bNf8H)

173 I've seen way more Troma films than I'd like to admit, but it is still strange to me that they've put Toxie back in the theaters?!!?

really?!?

Posted by: Black Orchid at September 05, 2025 12:56 PM (Pv3Rg)

174 173 I've seen way more Troma films than I'd like to admit, but it is still strange to me that they've put Toxie back in the theaters?!!?

really?!?
Posted by: Black Orchid at September 05, 2025 12:56 PM (Pv3Rg)

======

New remake starring Peter Dinklage.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 05, 2025 12:56 PM (GBKbO)

175 Fine.

Opinions noted.

Sigh.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at September 05, 2025 12:56 PM (sk9i0)

176 Ringwald was good in The Stand

dear lord no she wasn't!

[shakes head]

and Hall has been in tons of things, I loved The Dead Zone show, he's always great

Posted by: Black Orchid at September 05, 2025 12:56 PM (Pv3Rg)

177 175 Fine.

Opinions noted.

Sigh.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at September 05, 2025 12:56 PM (sk9i0)

=====

I know who to blame!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 05, 2025 12:57 PM (GBKbO)

178 What movie is BTTF?

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at September 05, 2025 12:57 PM (17s+e)

179 178 What movie is BTTF?
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at September 05, 2025 12:57 PM (17s+e)

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Back to the Future.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 05, 2025 12:57 PM (GBKbO)

180 Fun times!

And the movie holds up well.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at September 05, 2025 12:54 PM (9K9qt)

*****

Heck yeah! 50 years old or not, that shark suddenly showing up and scaring that Chief of Police into wanting a bigger boat is awesome!

Posted by: EFG at September 05, 2025 12:57 PM (as22/)

181 New remake starring Peter Dinklage.

wait

really!!!!

omg that's terrible if true

Posted by: Black Orchid at September 05, 2025 12:57 PM (Pv3Rg)

182 177 175 Fine.

Opinions noted.

Sigh.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at September 05, 2025 12:56 PM (sk9i0)

=====

I know who to blame!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 05, 2025 12:57 PM (GBKbO)

Todd...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at September 05, 2025 12:57 PM (xcxpd)

183 181 New remake starring Peter Dinklage.

wait

really!!!!

omg that's terrible if true
Posted by: Black Orchid at September 05, 2025 12:57 PM (Pv3Rg)

=====

I don't joke.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 05, 2025 12:57 PM (GBKbO)

184 I think leisure suits are going to make a comeback. Also 8 tracks.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 05, 2025 12:57 PM (0U5gm)

185 holy shit it's true.

ok definitely going this weekend

Dinklage as Toxie!

wtf what a world what a world

Posted by: Black Orchid at September 05, 2025 12:58 PM (Pv3Rg)

186 oh right Anthony Michael Hall was in psych, in the last season. He played "Captain Trout."

I thought the poster got confused. I know Hall was in The Dead Zone, and USA did some ads featuring both Sean Spencer and the Dead Zone character. But no, you're right, he was in Psych for like a four episode run.

Posted by: ace has a little list at September 05, 2025 12:58 PM (KRtlO)

187 Rana Foroohar is considered a delicacy in many parts of subsaharan Africa.
Got you have to get the blend of Tumeric and Cardamom just right.

Posted by: Food nerd at September 05, 2025 12:58 PM (nTWdD)

188 119 All you need to know is Molly Ringwald did not make any good movies after Hughs, Hughs made great films after and Without Molly Ringwald.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 05, 2025 12:47 PM (/7ojh)

I liked Betsy's Wedding, though Ally Sheedy had the more interesting role.

Posted by: No Name Today at September 05, 2025 12:58 PM (vlXMQ)

189 Back to the Future.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 05, 2025 12:57 PM (GBKbO)

thx

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at September 05, 2025 12:58 PM (17s+e)

190 I disagree. Not in a world where Ben-Hur (Willie Wyler’s version) and Breakfast at Tiffany’s exist
----------------
Yeah, Micky Rooney carried that Breakfast at Tiffany's? Who but Mickey could have played a Jap?

Posted by: pudinhead at September 05, 2025 12:58 PM (c711F)

191 CNN's Rana Foroohar says businesses and their refusal to speak out against President Trump and his administration is reminiscent of Nazi Germany in the 1930s and 1940s.

I remember when people said similiar things about the Biden's Junta COVID mandates.

At the time the FNM argued people comparing forced use of the clot shot to the National Socialists was full on NAZI apology work.

Now, if comparing the NAZIs to the government poisoning people is out of bounds, what does that say about comparing making foreigners go home to the NAZIs?

Posted by: 18-1 at September 05, 2025 12:58 PM (sKqQm)

192 152 I think that he was supposed to die in the movie like he did in the book but they changed it at the last second and had him escape the anti-shark cage and hide out until the after the climax. I forget why.
Posted by: ace has a little list at September 05, 2025 12:52 PM (KRtlO)

======

"Can you deny Richard Dreyfus' sex appeal?"
-Spielberg
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 05, 2025 12:52 PM (GBKbO)

The Close Encounter aliens needed him.

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 05, 2025 12:58 PM (wVcYX)

193 The story itself holds up.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at September 05, 2025 12:45 PM (sk9i0)

Posted by: WitchDoktor at September 05, 2025 12:58 PM (sk9i0)

194 192 "Can you deny Richard Dreyfus' sex appeal?"
-Spielberg
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 05, 2025 12:52 PM (GBKbO)

The Close Encounter aliens needed him.
Posted by: Count de Monet at September 05, 2025 12:58 PM (wVcYX)

=======

"Splooge."
-the grey with the really long arms

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 05, 2025 12:59 PM (GBKbO)

195 This is another one of those situations that will baffle a jury so nothing will ever come of it.

The prosecution will not be able to explain it in terms that make sense to the jury and the defense will spend their time confusing the jury (with a compliant judge, no doubt).

*sigh*

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 05, 2025 12:59 PM (7fElN)

196
Jaws is the greatest film of all-time and is the greatest film in at least 3 different Genres.

Posted by: Thomas Bender

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

It is a triumph of craft, not creativity. Spielberg is not an artist. Moreover, many of his attempts to manipulate fail because of their predictability and triteness.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 05, 2025 12:59 PM (lCaJd)

197 Close Encounters is worth a re-watch, too. I saw that a couple of years ago, too.

Posted by: ace has a little list at September 05, 2025 12:59 PM (KRtlO)

198 Rewatching the Hughes films, he's better than I remember. The amount of swagger he has in 16 Candles is insane. I can't help but wonder where the character got all the confidence.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at September 05, 2025 12:48 PM

Useless, and probably well-known, Breakfast Club trivia...Anthony Michael Hall's on-screen mother and little sister were actually his mother and little sister.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 05, 2025 12:59 PM (kgE5c)

199 197 Close Encounters is worth a re-watch, too. I saw that a couple of years ago, too.
Posted by: ace has a little list at September 05, 2025 12:59 PM (KRtlO)

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Which version!

Spielberg has like 3 cuts.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 05, 2025 12:59 PM (GBKbO)

200 Get them into a water confidence program. I almost drowned at one point. It turned me around to the point I was lifeguard certified, did lake swims, later did drownproofing, etc.

Posted by: Marcus T at September 05, 2025 12:54 PM (H3qiK)

Perhaps I misused "unhealthy." He swims confidently, but always asks, even in freshwater, "are there sharks?"

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 05, 2025 12:59 PM (i24o9)

201 End Wokeness
@EndWokeness
BREAKING: Shabana Mahmood named as UK Home Secretary, in charge of borders, police, immigration

https://tinyurl.com/4556c7n5

Posted by: redridinghood at September 05, 2025 12:59 PM (NpAcC)

202 198 Rewatching the Hughes films, he's better than I remember. The amount of swagger he has in 16 Candles is insane. I can't help but wonder where the character got all the confidence.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at September 05, 2025 12:48 PM

Useless, and probably well-known, Breakfast Club trivia...Anthony Michael Hall's on-screen mother and little sister were actually his mother and little sister.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 05, 2025 12:59 PM (kgE5c)

*Johnny Carson Voice*
I did not know that.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at September 05, 2025 01:00 PM (xcxpd)

203 Peter Dinklage as Jaws the Killer Goldfish?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Dinosaur Wrangler at September 05, 2025 01:00 PM (NH+fd)

204 163 Patty Harrison, wife of George Harrison and lover of Eric Clapton and others, has a big number of major songs written about her, including Something and Layla.
Posted by: ace has a little list

More like a femme fatale for Eric, George was nonplussed but did not sink like Eric did into heroin addiction. Whatever you think of Pete Townshend, it is pretty undeniable that Pete got Eric off the smack and back making music via his Rainbow Concert and ordering a very reluctant Glyn Johns to let Eric work with Ronnie Layne and Pete on Rough Mix. That led to Glyn Johns later working with Eric to fully restore his comeback in music.

Rough Mix has a great cast of musicians, songs, and performances on that album and one of Glyn John's favorite albums that he has worked on. Done after Ronnie Layne was diagnosed with MS which was destroying his ability to be a musician and which he later died from. Ronnie was broke and this album helped ease his final years.

Posted by: whig at September 05, 2025 01:00 PM (WDjG6)

205 181 New remake starring Peter Dinklage.

wait

really!!!!

omg that's terrible if true
Posted by: Black Orchid at September 05, 2025 12:57 PM (Pv3Rg)

=====

I don't joke.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 05, 2025 12:57 PM (GBKbO)

Toxie, the fun-sixed toxic avenger?

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 05, 2025 01:00 PM (wVcYX)

206 It's not updated AFAIK, just the OG Jaws movie on the big screen.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at September 05, 2025 12:54 PM (xcxpd)

Thank you. We have a local drive in. If it were playing there, you could not keep me away. But no go.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 05, 2025 01:00 PM (i24o9)

207 202 *Johnny Carson Voice*
I did not know that.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at September 05, 2025 01:00 PM (xcxpd)

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I did!

It's on the IMDB trivia page.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 05, 2025 01:00 PM (GBKbO)

208 136 What the fuck is wrong with Hollyweird?

Posted by: Madamemayhem

The Our Democracy movement have heroically stopped the Jewish money men cabal from cashing in on popular forms of entertainment and sending the funds to Israeli aggressors committing atrocities against Palestine.

I mean, come on, it's all right out there people.

Posted by: Auspex at September 05, 2025 01:01 PM (Y8DZL)

209 End Wokeness
@EndWokeness
BREAKING: Shabana Mahmood named as UK Home Secretary, in charge of borders, police, immigration

https://tinyurl.com/4556c7n5

Posted by: redridinghood
===

You have to be fucking kidding me!

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at September 05, 2025 01:01 PM (17s+e)

210 RSDB > IMDB

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 05, 2025 01:01 PM (Zz0t1)

211 I know who to blame!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 05, 2025 12:57 PM (GBKbO)

Todd...
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at September 05, 2025 12:57 PM

Obligatory:

Fuckin' Todd...

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 05, 2025 01:02 PM (kgE5c)

212 BTW, did anyone see Jaws in the theaters last weekend? It was the #2 movie in America, I think. I wanted to see it but also wanted to be lazy so instead of doing something I did nothing, as usual.

Posted by: Ace at 12:26 PM
You could come to ETEX for a gun show tomorrow.

Posted by: Eromero at September 05, 2025 01:02 PM (jgmnb)

213 @EndWokeness
BREAKING: Shabana Mahmood named as UK Home Secretary, in charge of borders, police, immigration

https://tinyurl.com/4556c7n5

Posted by: redridinghood
===

You have to be fucking kidding me!
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at September 05, 2025 01:01 PM (17s+e)

The UK does not fear its own citizens.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at September 05, 2025 01:02 PM (xcxpd)

214 I'm in the "I don't give a small smelly poop what Molly Ringwald thinks" Club:
In a 2018 essay for The New Yorker, she reflected on the misogyny present in films like The Breakfast Club and Sixteen Candles, acknowledging that scenes involving her character were inappropriate, including instances of sexual harassment and non-consensual situations.

Eh, she was a thing and then she wasn't and spent a fair amount of time trying to come back.

But, she lost her cutes early on, and didn't age into a beauty...just kinda upper normal range.

She did show her boobs in some thriller...so there's that.

Posted by: naturalfake at September 05, 2025 01:02 PM (iJfKG)

215 Molly Ringwald had that hip, all-American girl, thing going on. Like a teenage girl Everyman kinda vibe.
She was a decent actress for the roles she had.

But I much preferred Mia Sara as Sloane in Ferris Bueller.

She was the sexy, exotic, looking type.

It’s too bad she’s only really appeared in a few films and TV series over her career. Her acting wasn’t the greatest so maybe that’s the reason.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 05, 2025 01:02 PM (6ydKt)

216 RSDB > IMDB
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 05, 2025 01:01 PM

*fistbump*

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 05, 2025 01:03 PM (kgE5c)

217 End Wokeness
@EndWokeness
BREAKING: Shabana Mahmood named as UK Home Secretary, in charge of borders, police, immigration

https://tinyurl.com/4556c7n5

Posted by: redridinghood
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You have to be fucking kidding me!

If the British left was trying to ensure their own electoral oblivion, what would they do differently?

Posted by: Archimedes at September 05, 2025 01:03 PM (Riz8t)

218 210 RSDB > IMDB
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 05, 2025 01:01 PM (Zz0t1)

I hear Sean Connery is a big fan

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at September 05, 2025 01:03 PM (xcxpd)

219 >>New remake starring Peter Dinklage.

In Jaws?

What does he play, an Amuse Bouche?

Posted by: garrett at September 05, 2025 01:03 PM (Tuo+M)

220 217 If the British left was trying to ensure their own electoral oblivion, what would they do differently?
Posted by: Archimedes at September 05, 2025 01:03 PM (Riz8t)

========

Labour getting wiped out in 3.5 years is pretty much a fait accompli at this point.

Might as well YOLO.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 05, 2025 01:03 PM (GBKbO)

221 >>>Jaws is the greatest film of all-time and is the greatest film in at least 3 different Genres.

Sorry, that honor goes to The Guns of Navarone.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 05, 2025 01:04 PM (i24o9)

222 The funny thing about Jaws is that Spielberg had intended to use the shark much more, but it kept malfunctioning, so he had to imply the shark much more often. As Hitchcock knew, the imagination is much better at frightening you than actual images.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 05, 2025 01:04 PM (0U5gm)

223 Ally Sheedy was so much cuter than Molly Ringwald in The Breakfast Club.

Posted by: Bulg at September 05, 2025 01:04 PM (77rzZ)

224 I never understood how Molly Ringwald was anything. I suspect family connections because it sure wasn't talent or looks.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at September 05, 2025 01:04 PM (17s+e)

225 I'm still waiting, so far in vain, for a reboot of the Henry Aldrich franchise, though I fear it won't happen because Jackie Cooper has passed on. Likewise Jimmy Lydon died in 2022, aged 98.

Posted by: Hedda-less Hopper at September 05, 2025 01:04 PM (oftw2)

226 >>>I think that he was supposed to die in the movie like he did in the book ...
by: ace
~~~~~

I forgot that! But now that you mention it, I think I was glad he died. LOL

Maybe they decided not to kill him off in the movie because he didn't screw around with Brody's wife and was therefore a more likeable character.

Posted by: IrishEi at September 05, 2025 01:04 PM (3ImbR)

227 221 >>>Jaws is the greatest film of all-time and is the greatest film in at least 3 different Genres.

Sorry, that honor goes to The Guns of Navarone.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 05, 2025 01:04 PM (i24o9)

=====

"Poseurs."
-The Passion of Joan of Arc

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 05, 2025 01:04 PM (GBKbO)

228
Just saw Jaws at a Drive-in theater last weekend. Now they're playing Goonies. Brought back a lot of memories of watching it as a kid from the back of our parents Ford Country Squire that was backed in.

Posted by: Frank Barone at September 05, 2025 01:04 PM (IifOV)

229 New remake starring Peter Dinklage.

In Jaws?

What does he play, an Amuse Bouche?

Heh.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 05, 2025 01:04 PM (Riz8t)

230 "Can you deny Richard Dreyfus' sex appeal?"
-Spielberg
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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He should have had the John Travolta role in Saturday Night Fevah!!! He coulda been a contendah!!!

Posted by: whig at September 05, 2025 01:04 PM (WDjG6)

231 Shabana Mahmood is a very popular entree over at the all you can eat Indian food buffet at that place over on Jenkins Avenue.

Posted by: Food nerd at September 05, 2025 01:04 PM (nTWdD)

232 229 New remake starring Peter Dinklage.

In Jaws?

What does he play, an Amuse Bouche?

Heh.
Posted by: Archimedes
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Bait.

Posted by: whig at September 05, 2025 01:05 PM (WDjG6)

233 Breakfast Club trivia...Anthony Michael Hall's on-screen mother and little sister were actually his mother and little sister.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 05, 2025 12:59 PM (kgE5c)

Makes that scene even funnier.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 05, 2025 01:05 PM (i24o9)

234 Labour getting wiped out in 3.5 years is pretty much a fait accompli at this point.

Might as well YOLO.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 05, 2025 01:03 PM (GBKbO)
===

Assuming there is an election in 3.5 years, which to me looks doubtful.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at September 05, 2025 01:05 PM (17s+e)

235 Jaws is the greatest film of all-time and is the greatest film in at least 3 different Genres.

Ahem....

Posted by: Joe vs the Volcano at September 05, 2025 01:05 PM (IifOV)

236 Useless, and probably well-known, Breakfast Club trivia...Anthony Michael Hall's on-screen mother and little sister were actually his mother and little sister.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 05, 2025 12:59 PM (kgE5c)

Hughes made a cameo in Breakfast Club as Hall's on-screen father.

Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators, Ltd. at September 05, 2025 01:05 PM (AdHga)

237 >>New remake starring Peter Dinklage.

In Jaws?

What does he play, an Amuse Bouche?
Posted by: garrett at September 05, 2025 01:03 PM (Tuo+M)

Bait?

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 05, 2025 01:05 PM (wVcYX)

238 29 New remake starring Peter Dinklage.

In Jaws?

What does he play, an Amuse Bouche?
==

That there is teh funny.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at September 05, 2025 01:06 PM (17s+e)

239 Happy to hear Ace is feeling energetic. I thought fasting would keep you awake all night like in the Tom T Hall song:

Thursday morning I was nearly panicked on the job
I heard my stomach growlin' and my head began to throb
I contemplated murder of the folks that brought their lunch
The sudden smell of food would make me jump
Thursday night they run all food commercials on TV
I slept till nine or ten and then I walked the floor to three
Friday morning I looked for some ketchup on my shirts

Posted by: Oglebay at September 05, 2025 01:06 PM (MMp6W)

240 End Wokeness
@EndWokeness
BREAKING: Shabana Mahmood named as UK Home Secretary, in charge of borders, police, immigration

https://tinyurl.com/4556c7n5

Posted by: redridinghood
===

You have to be fucking kidding me!
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at September 05, 2025 01:01 PM

What part of "Fuck the subjects!" don't you understand, old boy?

Posted by: The British Ruling Class at September 05, 2025 01:06 PM (kgE5c)

241 yum yum shit
yummy shit pebbles
in my mouth

Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at September 05, 2025 01:06 PM (slHqP)

242 Jaws is the greatest film of all-time and is the greatest film in at least 3 different Genres.

Ahem....

Posted by: Joe vs the Volcano

I have no response to that.

Posted by: Archimedes at September 05, 2025 01:06 PM (Riz8t)

243 @227

>>-The Passion of Joan of Arc

Face acting so good Meryl Streep can only dream of.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 05, 2025 01:06 PM (/7ojh)

244 221 >>>Jaws is the greatest film of all-time and is the greatest film in at least 3 different Genres.

Sorry, that honor goes to The Guns of Navarone.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 05, 2025 01:04 PM (i24o9)

You misspelled Where Eagles Dare.

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 05, 2025 01:06 PM (wVcYX)

245 Hang the fucker.

I'm feeling great. Just started carnivore, and am only going to be consuming calories from 6 am to 12 noon, so an 18 hour fast every single day. We'll see if I can keep the discipline up for this. Been thinking about doing it for ages.

Posted by: Sharkman at September 05, 2025 01:06 PM (/RHNq)

246 243 @227

>>-The Passion of Joan of Arc

Face acting so good Meryl Streep can only dream of.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 05, 2025 01:06 PM (/7ojh)

========

It hits me in the feels!!!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 05, 2025 01:07 PM (GBKbO)

247 >>New remake starring Peter Dinklage.

In Jaws?

What does he play, an Amuse Bouche?
Posted by: garrett at September 05, 2025 01:03 PM (Tuo+M)

Bait?
Posted by: Count de Monet at September 05, 2025 01:05 PM

He's in the credits as "Chum".

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 05, 2025 01:07 PM (kgE5c)

248 Afternoon Ace. Just keep dumping stuff like this and sooner or later one or more of the underlings will crack. With some good informants the big guys will crack too

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 05, 2025 01:07 PM (Ah2Jt)

249 Not a fan of Film...

but Quint is the single best character in American Film, in my opinion.

Posted by: garrett at September 05, 2025 01:07 PM (Tuo+M)

250 Labour getting wiped out in 3.5 years is pretty much a fait accompli at this point.

Might as well YOLO.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 05, 2025 01:03 PM (GBKbO)

Given the collapsing economic conditions in England, I don't think the government can last for 3.5 more years.

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 05, 2025 01:07 PM (uWKK8)

251 Just saw Jaws at a Drive-in theater last weekend. Now they're playing Goonies. Brought back a lot of memories of watching it as a kid from the back of our parents Ford Country Squire that was backed in.
Posted by: Frank Barone

Had to show off your White Privilege! Ranch Wagon was all we could afford!

Posted by: Very Fixed Income at September 05, 2025 01:07 PM (oftw2)

252 It doesn't help that the 4K discs are coming out ever-sooner after the theater release.

Jane Wick and whatever they called that last Dino Homo movie are already out. Superman and the last MI come out later this month. They were all in theaters only weeks ago.

Every other spring and summer movie was already released on 4K.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 05, 2025 12:44 PM (iFTx/)

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The MI release window is actually in line with older, pre-COVID release strategies. It opened early summer, and is only finally coming out on home video in October.

That's not WB pushing Weapons onto streaming 4 weeks after release (which they're doing).
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 05, 2025 12:47 PM (GBKbO)
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Yea, but MI was released on streaming only 3 months after release.

Superman was supposedly the biggest movie of the summer, and its on 4K disc only 2 months after release in theater.

There are obviously people wanting to see movies in the theater. Why is beyond me. Going to the theater is only slightly more appealing to me than a weekend alone on Epstein Island with Gay Spartacus.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 05, 2025 01:07 PM (iFTx/)

253 I'm feeling great. Just started carnivore, and am only going to be consuming calories from 6 am to 12 noon, so an 18 hour fast every single day. We'll see if I can keep the discipline up for this. Been thinking about doing it for ages.
Posted by: Sharkman at September 05, 2025 01:06 PM (/RHNq)

Luck to you!

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at September 05, 2025 01:07 PM (xcxpd)

254 Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at September 05, 2025 01:06 PM (slHqP)

You DICK!!!!

Posted by: Jeff Spicoli at September 05, 2025 01:07 PM (Zz0t1)

255 221 >>>Jaws is the greatest film of all-time and is the greatest film in at least 3 different Genres.

Sorry, that honor goes to The Guns of Navarone.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 05, 2025 01:04 PM (i24o9)

You misspelled Where Eagles Dare.

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 05, 2025 01:06 PM (wVcYX)
===

Say what?!?!?

Posted by: Patton at September 05, 2025 01:07 PM (17s+e)

256
BREAKING: Shabana Mahmood named as UK Home Secretary, in charge of borders, police, immigration

_________

Of the Clan Mahmood?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 05, 2025 01:07 PM (2mxw7)

257 224 I never understood how Molly Ringwald was anything. I suspect family connections because it sure wasn't talent or looks.

ding ding ding! yes she got the job because of her parents, I think her dad was some bigshot producer

Posted by: Black Orchid at September 05, 2025 01:07 PM (Pv3Rg)

258 250 Given the collapsing economic conditions in England, I don't think the government can last for 3.5 more years.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 05, 2025 01:07 PM (uWKK

=======

Labour won't give up power, and the king hates the plebes.

Extralegal means are the only way this shit show ends early.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 05, 2025 01:08 PM (GBKbO)

259 I have no response to that.

Posted by: Archimedes

For a really stupid movie, that is one of the best lines ever.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at September 05, 2025 01:08 PM (0U5gm)

260 BREAKING: Shabana Mahmood named as UK Home Secretary, in charge of borders, police, immigration
https://tinyurl.com/4556c7n5
Posted by: redridinghood
~~~~~

On a happier note, Conor McGregor is favored to win Ireland's presidential race with 60%.

And lots of demonstrations/protests going on all around Europe, with a biggie scheduled for 9/13 in Britain. So, maybe there's hope. Fingers crossed.

Posted by: IrishEi at September 05, 2025 01:08 PM (3ImbR)

261
Better off dead was I think a great 80's movie, with the exception of the 10 minutes of claymation crap.

Posted by: Frank Barone at September 05, 2025 01:08 PM (IifOV)

262 @Ace Yeas, me and my wife went to see JAWS in 3D last weekend. It was great. The 3D effects weren't overly noticeable in most scenes, but the clarity of the picture made it seem almost like seeing the movie for the first time. I even bought the overpriced commemorative cup of soda.

Posted by: Lincolntf at September 05, 2025 01:08 PM (vV6n9)

263 228
Just saw Jaws at a Drive-in theater last weekend. Now they're playing Goonies. Brought back a lot of memories of watching it as a kid from the back of our parents Ford Country Squire that was backed in.
Posted by: Frank Barone
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Want a funny song about drive-ins. Look up the Statler Brothers "Whatever Happened to Randolph Scott".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3Qd-3tJ4h0

Posted by: whig at September 05, 2025 01:09 PM (WDjG6)

264 Better off dead was I think a great 80's movie, with the exception of the 10 minutes of claymation crap.

Well that's just your opinion, man!

Posted by: David Lee Roth at September 05, 2025 01:09 PM (Pv3Rg)

265 Not a fan of Film...

but Quint is the single best character in American Film, in my opinion.

Posted by: garrett

WHICH IS FUNNY, BECAUSE THE ACTOR IS BRITISH

Posted by: Ben Rothisberger at September 05, 2025 01:09 PM (0U5gm)

266 This'll make that airport better, fo sho

@KTLA 4h
The famous LAX sign that has welcomed visitors to one of the nation's busiest airports for decades is being taken down, with the removal of the letter "X" beginning Thursday night.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 05, 2025 01:09 PM (mlg/3)

267 Better off dead was I think a great 80's movie, with the exception of the 10 minutes of claymation crap.
Posted by: Frank Barone at September 05, 2025 01:08 PM

One of my favorite 80's movies.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 05, 2025 01:10 PM (kgE5c)

268 I do not care for The Godfather. It insists upon itself.

Posted by: Peter Griffin at September 05, 2025 01:10 PM (KRtlO)

269 Any plans for the weekend?

More cigar research.
And whiskey.
Probably beer too.

Posted by: Diogenes at September 05, 2025 01:10 PM (2WIwB)

270 Say what?!?!?
Posted by: Patton at September 05, 2025 01:07 PM (17s+e)

Did you see our boobs?

Posted by: Mary Ure and Ingrid Pitt at September 05, 2025 01:10 PM (wVcYX)

271 She's Having a Baby was fun as a coming of age for young parents. Maybe dated because of that. Baldwin plays the perfect scumbag. Type casting his entire life.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at September 05, 2025 01:10 PM (wBaIH)

272 The next Dinklage movie I want to watch is the one where he's tied, gagged, and hoisted upside down as a pinhata. And then they let in other Hollywood dwarves who can't get work.

Posted by: gKWVE at September 05, 2025 01:10 PM (gKWVE)

273 Best 80s Movie - Valley Girl

just for Nic Cage's triangular chest hair expression

Posted by: Black Orchid at September 05, 2025 01:11 PM (Pv3Rg)

274 The two best 80s movies were Back to the Future and Beverly Hills Cop.

Posted by: Bulg at September 05, 2025 01:11 PM (77rzZ)

275 >222 The funny thing about Jaws is that Spielberg had intended to use the shark much more, but it kept malfunctioning, so he had to imply the shark much more often. As Hitchcock knew, the imagination is much better at frightening you than actual images.

The whole idea of harpooning it with barrels to exhaust it was created during filming to get around the problem of not having a working shark to film.

Posted by: ace at September 05, 2025 01:11 PM (KRtlO)

276 Jaws is the greatest film of all-time and is the greatest film in at least 3 different Genres.

Ahem....

Posted by: Joe vs the Volcano

I'M NOT ARGUING THAT WITH YOU!

Posted by: bonhomme at September 05, 2025 01:11 PM (lIio7)

277 Given the collapsing economic conditions in England, I don't think the government can last for 3.5 more years.
Posted by: Tom Servo
========
Back to the past--1970's Labour had to get IMF loans to stay afloat.

Posted by: whig at September 05, 2025 01:11 PM (WDjG6)

278 Peter Dinklage as Jaws the Killer Goldfish?

He was good as the giant in that one Thor flick. The second best bit of casting in Hollywood history after Marcel Marceau having the only speaking part in "Silent Movie."

Posted by: Oddbob at September 05, 2025 01:11 PM (3nLb4)

279 275 >222 The funny thing about Jaws is that Spielberg had intended to use the shark much more, but it kept malfunctioning, so he had to imply the shark much more often. As Hitchcock knew, the imagination is much better at frightening you than actual images.

The whole idea of harpooning it with barrels to exhaust it was created during filming to get around the problem of not having a working shark to film.
Posted by: ace at September 05, 2025 01:11 PM (KRtlO)

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This is actually apparently an urban myth.

Patrick H. Willems did research into shooting schedules and scripts, and he concluded that they filmed everything they had planned on.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 05, 2025 01:11 PM (GBKbO)

280 Had to show off your White Privilege! Ranch Wagon was all we could afford!

Posted by: Very Fixed Income at September 05, 2025 01:07 PM

Try being forced by your dad to to wipe the fake wood down with lemon pledge every other weekend. I'd gladly take the Ranch wagon our Country Sedan.

Posted by: Frank Barone at September 05, 2025 01:11 PM (IifOV)

281 Face acting so good Meryl Streep can only dream of.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 05, 2025 01:06 PM (/7ojh)
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Meryl Streep is the single most over-rated actress in history.

Posted by: IrishEi at September 05, 2025 01:12 PM (3ImbR)

282 >>Patrick H. Willems did research into shooting schedules and scripts, and he concluded that they filmed everything they had planned on.

ah

i'm pushing Fake News because I'm a Russian Agent.

Posted by: ace at September 05, 2025 01:12 PM (KRtlO)

283 Well, at least Keir Starmer has chosen someone who represents traditional Brits as his #2, and eventual replacement.

https://is.gd/ArhxoY

Posted by: Archimedes at September 05, 2025 01:13 PM (Riz8t)

284 Posted by: Aliassmithsmith

Crack is a hell of a drug.

Posted by: Auspex at September 05, 2025 01:13 PM (Y8DZL)

285 250 Labour getting wiped out in 3.5 years is pretty much a fait accompli at this point.
___

They are now allowing 16/17 year olds to vote. How many "migrants" will be voting, legal or not?

Posted by: United Kakistocracy at September 05, 2025 01:14 PM (qUkBO)

286 You only had to pledge your family station wagon? You was lucky.

My dad made me take our station wagon out of the crate.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at September 05, 2025 01:14 PM (17s+e)

287
Didn't Universal Studios get the shark from jaws for their ride or some form of it?

Posted by: Frank Barone at September 05, 2025 01:14 PM (IifOV)

288 Sometimes doing nothing is the best thing to do.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at September 05, 2025 01:14 PM (ZmEVT)

289 ah

i'm pushing Fake News because I'm a Russian Agent.
Posted by: ace at September 05, 2025 01:12 PM (KRtlO)

BanHammer Time!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 05, 2025 01:14 PM (Zz0t1)

290 Didn't Universal Studios get the shark from jaws for their ride or some form of it?
Posted by: Frank Barone at September 05, 2025 01:14 PM (IifOV)

It's on the tour they offer.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at September 05, 2025 01:14 PM (PzXaK)

291
Meryl Streep is the single most over-rated actress in history.
Posted by: IrishEi at September 05, 2025 01:12 PM (3ImbR)

She apparently was a good lay.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 05, 2025 01:15 PM (Zz0t1)

292 i'm pushing Fake News because I'm a Russian Agent.
Posted by: ace

You're no Anna Chapman.

Posted by: Bulg at September 05, 2025 01:15 PM (77rzZ)

293 Ahem....
Posted by: Joe vs the Volcano at September 05, 2025 01:05 PM (IifOV)

Actually my favorite Tom Hanks film.

It’s so weird and fun.

And Meg Ryan playing three completely different characters is very amusing.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 05, 2025 01:15 PM (6ydKt)

294 More like a femme fatale for Eric, George was nonplussed but did not sink like Eric did into heroin addiction. Whatever you think of Pete Townshend, it is pretty undeniable that Pete got Eric off the smack and back making music via his Rainbow Concert and ordering a very reluctant Glyn Johns to let Eric work with Ronnie Layne and Pete on Rough Mix. That led to Glyn Johns later working with Eric to fully restore his comeback in music.

Rough Mix has a great cast of musicians, songs, and performances on that album and one of Glyn John's favorite albums that he has worked on. Done after Ronnie Layne was diagnosed with MS which was destroying his ability to be a musician and which he later died from. Ronnie was broke and this album helped ease his final years.

Posted by: whig at September 05, 2025 01:00 PM (WDjG6)

Rick Beatto interviewed Glyn the other day, and Glyn talked about this quite candidly ... hated drug / druggies, but ended up quite fond of Clapton.

Posted by: browndog head cocked to the side at September 05, 2025 01:15 PM (W9XfT)

295 Meryl Streep is the single most over-rated actress in history.
Posted by: IrishEi at September 05, 2025 01:12 PM (3ImbR)

She apparently was a good lay.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 05, 2025 01:15 PM (Zz0t1)

With the lights off.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at September 05, 2025 01:15 PM (PzXaK)

296 The funny thing about Jaws is that Spielberg had intended to use the shark much more, but it kept malfunctioning, so he had to imply the shark much more often. As Hitchcock knew, the imagination is much better at frightening you than actual images.

The whole idea of harpooning it with barrels to exhaust it was created during filming to get around the problem of not having a working shark to film.
Posted by: ace at September 05, 2025 01:11 PM (KRtlO)
_______

True, but once that got out, there was an effort underway to minimize or refute that. One of the major kudos given to the film was that they held off revealing the shark for a long time. It wasn't flattering to learn that was only because they couldn't get a functioning shark for the earlier scenes they wanted to show the shark.

On a related note, the mechanical shark used for the film really was a piece of shit. Comically bad. Jaws was a big-budget, major release. Roger Corman could have gotten a better shark for a movie with 1/10th the budget.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 05, 2025 01:15 PM (iFTx/)

297 Meryl Streep is the single most over-rated actress in history.

Posted by: IrishEi at September 05, 2025 01:12 PM (3ImbR)
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^^^^^ THIS SO MUCH THIS ^^^^^

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at September 05, 2025 01:15 PM (17s+e)

298 >>>Didn't Universal Studios get the shark from jaws for their ride or some form of it?

yeah, and as a poster said above, once you see how fake the shark is it hurts your re-watch of the movie. I know someone else who said the same thing.

Posted by: ace at September 05, 2025 01:15 PM (KRtlO)

299

LONDON (AP) — U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer shook up his Cabinet Friday after his top deputy stepped down over a tax error on a home purchase, leaving a big hole in the center-left Labour government.

Starmer carried out a major reshuffle, a forced government reboot after a rocky 14 months in office that have seen his popularity plunge. Foreign Secretary David Lammy was moved to replace Angela Rayner as deputy prime minister, and also took the justice portfolio. Yvette Cooper moved from the Home Office to become foreign secretary while the justice secretary, Shabana Mahmood, became home secretary.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 05, 2025 01:15 PM (63Dwl)

300 272 The next Dinklage movie I want to watch is the one where he's tied, gagged, and hoisted upside down as a pinhata. And then they let in other Hollywood dwarves who can't get work.
Posted by: gKWVE at September 05, 2025 01:10 PM (gKWVE)
_____________________________

I'd pay to see that, but only if initially they tied him too high up and no one could reach him. So, instead, they use a can of hairspray and a lighter.

Posted by: Orson at September 05, 2025 01:15 PM (dIske)

301 "Meryl Streep is the single most over-rated actress in history."

You sure about that?

Posted by: Katherine Hepburn at September 05, 2025 01:16 PM (ZmEVT)

302 297 Meryl Streep is the single most over-rated actress in history.

Posted by: IrishEi at September 05, 2025 01:12 PM

A dingo ate her baby.

Posted by: Frank Barone at September 05, 2025 01:16 PM (IifOV)

303 Meryl Streep is the single most over-rated actress in history.
Posted by: IrishEi
======
She and Oprah were also Harvey's Winggirls to persuade budding actresses that ole Harvey was just fine to deal with as a path to stardom.

Nasty to do that to yutes.

Posted by: whig at September 05, 2025 01:16 PM (WDjG6)

304 She apparently was a good lay.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 05, 2025 01:15 PM (Zz0t1)
~~~~~

This is the only thing that makes sense.

Posted by: IrishEi at September 05, 2025 01:16 PM (3ImbR)

305 OH!

It just occurred to me -- the fake shark has dead eyes.

I think Quint talks about the shark having "dead eyes, like a doll's eyes" just to prepare the audience to see the fake shark's dead eyes and think, "Oh right because sharks have dead eyes, like a doll's eyes. Very accurate!"

Posted by: ace at September 05, 2025 01:16 PM (KRtlO)

306 > Given the collapsing economic conditions in England, I don't think the government can last for 3.5 more years.

Is it collapsing?

GDP growth is stagnant at 1.5% or so. Inflation is at 4%. Unemployment is at 4.8%. Interest rates are going down from 4.75%. Imports are higher than exports. The FTSE-100 is doing well.

I'd call this a middling economy, maybe slumping. I wouldn't say collapsing.

What am I missing?

Posted by: bonhomme at September 05, 2025 01:16 PM (lIio7)

307 Posted by: Auspex at September 05, 2025 01:13 PM (Y8DZL)

Actually, I thought it was hilarious as if someone was parodying AliasSmithSmith. Poor, poor beleaguered Bidens. LOL

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 05, 2025 01:16 PM (2GCMq)

308 306 Is it collapsing?

GDP growth is stagnant at 1.5% or so. Inflation is at 4%. Unemployment is at 4.8%. Interest rates are going down from 4.75%. Imports are higher than exports. The FTSE-100 is doing well.

I'd call this a middling economy, maybe slumping. I wouldn't say collapsing.

What am I missing?
Posted by: bonhomme at September 05, 2025 01:16 PM (lIio7)

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A cultural collapse seems to be happening.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 05, 2025 01:17 PM (GBKbO)

309 I thought the man with one red shoe was a good tom hanks movie.

Posted by: Oglebay at September 05, 2025 01:17 PM (MMp6W)

310 >>>^^^^^ THIS SO MUCH THIS ^^^^^

i'm so there on Meryl Streep. I just do not get it. She was on Only Murders in the Building and people keep claiming she's so good and I don't see it. She's like a tv commercial actress.

Posted by: ace at September 05, 2025 01:17 PM (KRtlO)

311 Joe Vs. the Volcano was peak Meg Ryan. Yum.

Posted by: Bulg at September 05, 2025 01:17 PM (77rzZ)

312 My favorite Jaws factoid is that Shaw refused to do Quint's big Indianapolis speech unless he was HAMMERED drunk. He's absolutely three sheets to the wind that whole scene in real life.

Posted by: American Hawkman at September 05, 2025 01:17 PM (9VDxG)

313 Dad left the stolen secret documents in the garage and Hunter sold pictures of them for crack.

Posted by: torabora at September 05, 2025 01:18 PM (v1oP/)

314 All this money the Bidens supposedly grifted over the years

where is it

Posted by: Don Black. Message: Yes, it's true at September 05, 2025 01:18 PM (AOsQT)

315 244 221 >>>Jaws is the greatest film of all-time and is the greatest film in at least 3 different Genres.

Sorry, that honor goes to The Guns of Navarone.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 05, 2025 01:04 PM (i24o9)

You misspelled Where Eagles Dare.
Posted by: Count de Monet at September 05, 2025 01:06 PM (wVcYX
The Outlaw Josey Wales.

Posted by: Eromero at September 05, 2025 01:18 PM (jgmnb)

316 I know someone else who said the same thing.

Posted by: ace at September 05, 2025 01:15 PM (KRtlO)

It wasn't me this time.

Posted by: Jonah Goldberg at September 05, 2025 01:18 PM (Zz0t1)

317 >>>312 My favorite Jaws factoid is that Shaw refused to do Quint's big Indianapolis speech unless he was HAMMERED drunk. He's absolutely three sheets to the wind that whole scene in real life.

i think he did the whole movie that way, tbh

I don't think it was an artistic choice so much as a degenerate alcoholic justifying being drunk every day.

Posted by: ace at September 05, 2025 01:18 PM (KRtlO)

318 You sure about that?
Posted by: Katherine Hepburn at September 05, 2025 01:16 PM (ZmEVT)
~~~~~

100%

Posted by: Spencer Tracy at September 05, 2025 01:18 PM (3ImbR)

319 Starmer carried out a major reshuffle, a forced government reboot after a rocky 14 months in office that have seen his popularity plunge. Foreign Secretary David Lammy was moved to replace Angela Rayner as deputy prime minister, and also took the justice portfolio. Yvette Cooper moved from the Home Office to become foreign secretary while the justice secretary, Shabana Mahmood, became home secretary.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
======
Due to Keir plunging popularity, he ordered the political hit on Raymer because she was a plausible substitute PM. That is the British tradition of scumbaggery, treachery, and blind ambition hidden in the Cabinet form of government.

One reason that they can't seem to ever get it together is because you are viewed as a sap if you are a loyalist to the PM. They, themselves, along with the Whips, etc. have no such loyalty.

Posted by: whig at September 05, 2025 01:19 PM (WDjG6)

320 I can't believe nobody's brought up "Very exciting...as a LUGGAGE problem".

Posted by: Archimedes at September 05, 2025 01:19 PM (Riz8t)

321 but Quint is the single best character in American Film, in my opinion.
Posted by: garrett at September 05, 2025 01:07 PM (Tuo+M)

Yes!

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at September 05, 2025 01:20 PM (2J/Lj)

322 I don't think it was an artistic choice so much as a degenerate alcoholic justifying being drunk every day.

How dare you, sir!

Posted by: Oliver Reed at September 05, 2025 01:20 PM (Pv3Rg)

323 314 All this money the Bidens supposedly grifted over the years

where is it
Posted by: Don Black

+++
Ahem.

Posted by: Hair implants and dental veneers at September 05, 2025 01:20 PM (nTWdD)

324
Meryl Streep = George Clooney

Most overrated screen actors.

Posted by: Frank Barone at September 05, 2025 01:21 PM (IifOV)

325 322 I don't think it was an artistic choice so much as a degenerate alcoholic justifying being drunk every day.

How dare you, sir!
Posted by: Oliver Reed at September 05, 2025 01:20 PM (Pv3Rg)

=======

"Hold back, friend. We'll get him together."
-Richard Harris

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 05, 2025 01:21 PM (GBKbO)

326 > A cultural collapse seems to be happening.

I can't argue with that. And it's fair to say a cultural collapse will take the economy with it. But I don't see traditional economic indicators of a collapsing economy. The comment I was responding to said the economy is collapsing. I'm interested to know if there are traditional economic signals I've missed.

Posted by: bonhomme at September 05, 2025 01:21 PM (lIio7)

327 Any plans for the weekend?

I'm going to troll the gardening thread by posting about how Yams are animals, not vegetables.

Thanks for asking.

Posted by: Yam and Egger at September 05, 2025 01:21 PM (nVDlP)

328 >>>How dare you, sir!
Posted by: Oliver Reed

great british actors tend to be incredible drunks. Like Peter O'Toole and Richard Harris.

Posted by: ace at September 05, 2025 01:21 PM (KRtlO)

329 LONDON (AP) — U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer shook up his Cabinet Friday after his top deputy stepped down over a tax error on a home purchase, leaving a big hole in the center-left Labour government.

Starmer carried out a major reshuffle, a forced government reboot after a rocky 14 months in office that have seen his popularity plunge. Foreign Secretary David Lammy was moved to replace Angela Rayner as deputy prime minister, and also took the justice portfolio. Yvette Cooper moved from the Home Office to become foreign secretary while the justice secretary, Shabana Mahmood, became home secretary.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 05, 2025 01:15 PM (63Dwl)

[speaking to Danny's crowned head in a gunny sack]
Danny, we made the right choice to set out for Kafiristan and set ourselves up as Kings, a land where no white man has set foot Alexander the Great.

Posted by: Peachy Carnehan at September 05, 2025 01:21 PM (wVcYX)

330 What am I missing?
Posted by: bonhomme
========
Ballooning deficits which means BoE is going to raise interest rates again which further hurts any exports, etc. So you will get another mini budget soon to raise taxes again, etc.

And most of the econ stats are fake and gay until they cannot hide the decline anymore. Euroland now resembles the later Soviet Union in reliability of its stats. So did we actually during the Biden era.

Posted by: whig at September 05, 2025 01:21 PM (WDjG6)

331 the Biden's have a big family of degens to keep in the manner to which they have become accustomed

by which I mean, a lotta blow

Posted by: Black Orchid at September 05, 2025 01:21 PM (Pv3Rg)

332 You misspelled Where Eagles Dare.
Posted by: Count de Monet at September 05, 2025 01:06 PM
****
The way you become 'one of the few' is by becoming fewer.

Posted by: torabora at September 05, 2025 01:22 PM (v1oP/)

333 I loved Meryl Streep in Mama Mia.

And I HATE musicals. But she was so happy and beautiful in that movie. So fun.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 05, 2025 01:22 PM (pCcc4)

334 @317

>>i think he did the whole movie that way, tbh

Spielberg said Shaw was drunk during the first attempt at The Indianapolis Scene, he couldn't get through it, they redid the take the next day with a fully sober Shaw.

All of the big time British actors of the day were wildly degenerate drunks.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 05, 2025 01:22 PM (/7ojh)

335 I'm going to troll the gardening thread by posting about how Yams are animals, not vegetables.

Thanks for asking.
Posted by: Yam and Egger at September 05, 2025 01:21 PM (nVDlP)

I once went to Safeway and had a coupon for one free fruit pie, so I grabbed a pumpkin pie.

Get to the checkout and the checker said the coupon wasn't valid because pumpkin is a vegetable.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at September 05, 2025 01:22 PM (PzXaK)

336 So many heroes. So. Goddamn. Many.

Posted by: BUT THEY TOOK AN OATH! at September 05, 2025 01:22 PM (TbWk/)

337 Great. Our favorite copromaniac is back

Posted by: Cow Demon at September 05, 2025 01:22 PM (F3WRl)

338 Hookers and blow.

Posted by: Just the punchline at September 05, 2025 01:22 PM (nTWdD)

339 great british actors tend to be incredible drunks. Like Peter O'Toole and Richard Harris.

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Michael Caine was O'Toole's drinking buddy!

Posted by: runner at September 05, 2025 01:23 PM (g47mK)

340 Only role Meryl Streep is suited for is Headmistress at an abusive boarding school for girls. She's got that permanent sniveling face going on.

Posted by: IrishEi at September 05, 2025 01:23 PM (3ImbR)

341 326 > A cultural collapse seems to be happening.

I can't argue with that. And it's fair to say a cultural collapse will take the economy with it. But I don't see traditional economic indicators of a collapsing economy. The comment I was responding to said the economy is collapsing. I'm interested to know if there are traditional economic signals I've missed.
Posted by: bonhomme at September 05, 2025 01:21 PM (lIio7)

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It's a weak economy that's become consumed with large scale protests against an immigrant community.

Probably not a good combination that won't play out well in the coming months.

Maybe if they import more of Syria and Pakistan to get more shitty restaurants.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 05, 2025 01:23 PM (GBKbO)

342 315 244 221 >>>Jaws is the greatest film of all-time and is the greatest film in at least 3 different Genres.

Sorry, that honor goes to The Guns of Navarone.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 05, 2025 01:04 PM (i24o9)

You misspelled Where Eagles Dare.
Posted by: Count de Monet at September 05, 2025 01:06 PM (wVcYX
The Outlaw Josey Wales.
Posted by: Eromero at September 05, 2025 01:18 PM (jgmnb)

Aw c'mon, no love for Time Bandits?

Posted by: Polka will never die at September 05, 2025 01:23 PM (VaF9h)

343 It just occurred to me -- the fake shark has dead eyes.

I think Quint talks about the shark having "dead eyes, like a doll's eyes" just to prepare the audience to see the fake shark's dead eyes and think, "Oh right because sharks have dead eyes, like a doll's eyes. Very accurate!"

Posted by: ace at September 05, 2025 01:16 PM (KRtlO)
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Great Whites have dead eyes. It's the one thing I learned from Shark Whisperer -- and only because they had video of the sharks. Interestingly enough, the tiger sharks have eyelids that are constantly opening and closing (from the bottom), but look so mechanical if you saw a movie that showed it realistically you'd swear it was bad effects.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 05, 2025 01:23 PM (iFTx/)

344 323 314 All this money the Bidens supposedly grifted over the years

where is it
Posted by: Don Black
_______________________________

Seriously, I'm guessing a significant amount of it is offshore, and Biden is lamenting the race against time right now. On one hand, he has to wait to avoid scrutiny. On the other hand, his day are numbered. It might be why certain factions of the Administration keep pointing a finger at him (just like this story). The heat never dies down.

Posted by: Orson at September 05, 2025 01:23 PM (dIske)

345
Watched a clip of Burgess Meredith scene from Rocky where he's lecturing Stallone in the church. He's a great actor.

Posted by: Frank Barone at September 05, 2025 01:23 PM (IifOV)

346 a degenerate alcoholic justifying being drunk every day.

George Peppard?

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at September 05, 2025 01:23 PM (mUzIM)

347 Only role Meryl Streep is suited for is Headmistress at an abusive boarding school for girls. She's got that permanent sniveling face going on.
Posted by: IrishEi at September 05, 2025 01:23 PM (3ImbR)

She was also very good in The Godfather as the horse's head.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at September 05, 2025 01:23 PM (PzXaK)

348 339 great british actors tend to be incredible drunks. Like Peter O'Toole and Richard Harris.

==

Michael Caine was O'Toole's drinking buddy!
Posted by: runner at September 05, 2025 01:23 PM (g47mK)

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Richard Harris and Oliver Reed took Russell Crowe to get plastered on the set of Gladiator because Crowe was so nervous.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 05, 2025 01:24 PM (GBKbO)

349 great british actors tend to be incredible drunks. Like Peter O'Toole and Richard Harris.
Posted by: ace
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Michael Caine explained the whole London acting scene in an interview I saw. Drinking in between theater showings was a perfectly good way to get sloshed all day.

You also see a lot of drinking by Brit musicians at the time and Keith Moon, a former drinking buddy of Oliver, could actually drink Oliver under the table and did.

Posted by: whig at September 05, 2025 01:24 PM (WDjG6)

350 BTW, did anyone see Jaws in the theaters last weekend? It was the #2 movie in America, I think.

Heresy incoming: Though I loved Jaws as a kid, I've seen it a lot of times, and it occupies the same basic space as Led Zeppelin songs: I just can't enjoy them anymore.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at September 05, 2025 01:24 PM (UGyV5)

351 You misspelled Where Eagles Dare.
Posted by: Count de Monet at September 05, 2025 01:06 PM (wVcYX
The Outlaw Josey Wales.
Posted by: Eromero

The Three Stooges Go Around The World in A Daze.

Posted by: Moe Howard, World Champeen Pie Thrower at September 05, 2025 01:24 PM (oftw2)

352 I did see Jaws last weekend. I first saw it in the theater when I was 6 (so you know I'm not really 29, lol). At the Jersey shore, with my dad and grandfather. The old man was a tough, crusty WWII vet, and he wouldn't even dip his toes in the ocean after he saw it.....

The experience was cool, even though I have seen it 200 times since then.

There are more re-releases on the way. Back to the Future and Apollo 13, notably.

Posted by: Kareem of Wheat at September 05, 2025 01:24 PM (ZlKnD)

353 great british actors tend to be incredible drunks. Like Peter O'Toole and Richard Harris.

==

Michael Caine was O'Toole's drinking buddy!
Posted by: runner at September 05, 2025 01:23 PM (g47mK)
_____

"Ahem!"

-- Richard Burton

Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 05, 2025 01:24 PM (iFTx/)

354 Meryl Streep . . . and Oprah were also Harvey's Winggirls to persuade budding actresses that ole Harvey was just fine to deal with as a path to stardom.

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Doing the dirty with Big Harv v. starving to death in a back Alley. Decisions, decisions.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Dinosaur Wrangler at September 05, 2025 01:25 PM (tyaxV)

355 I'm sorry. You don't know these people. This means nothing to you.

Posted by: enon_flabbergaster_47 at September 05, 2025 01:25 PM (2GCMq)

356 The big movie rights holders would do well to examine a system where they act like "BlockBuster", and the theaters (or chains) are the renters.

It might revive theaters again, and there is a LOT of movies in the back catalog that weren't all huge earners, but are now cult classics.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at September 05, 2025 01:25 PM (O7YUW)

357 > All this money the Bidens supposedly grifted over the years

where is it
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I bet the IRS would like to know as well. If there's one thing that might stick to that crime family it's tax fraud.

They've been engaged in it for decades.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 05, 2025 01:25 PM (Q4IgG)

358 Watched a clip of Burgess Meredith scene from Rocky where he's lecturing Stallone in the church. He's a great actor.
Posted by: Frank Barone

He stole the movie in his role as Jack Lemmon's pop in the Grumpy Old Men series. Even the outtakes of his vivid descriptions of intercourse are hilariously deranged.

Posted by: whig at September 05, 2025 01:25 PM (WDjG6)

359 When did we stop calling everyone actors instead of actors/actresses.

I refuse to conform!

Posted by: IrishEi at September 05, 2025 01:25 PM (3ImbR)

360 I don't think anything will happen to the Bidens over any of this. Can't see how they could have made it this far unless Hunter was actually doing the bidding of the intelligence agencies. But what do I know? Nothing.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at September 05, 2025 01:26 PM (vd6bO)

361 Richard Harris and Oliver Reed took Russell Crowe to get plastered on the set of Gladiator because Crowe was so nervous.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 05, 2025 01:24 PM (GBKbO)

Oliver Reed was in Oliver! the movie..funny, no ? Did a good job.

Posted by: runner at September 05, 2025 01:26 PM (g47mK)

362 He stole the movie in his role as Jack Lemmon's pop in the Grumpy Old Men series. Even the outtakes of his vivid descriptions of intercourse are hilariously deranged.

omg whig thanks for the reminder!

he was SO funny

Posted by: Black Orchid at September 05, 2025 01:26 PM (Pv3Rg)

363 361 Oliver Reed was in Oliver! the movie..funny, no ? Did a good job.
Posted by: runner at September 05, 2025 01:26 PM (g47mK)

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His uncle, Carol Reed, directed it.

Oliver still had to audition.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 05, 2025 01:26 PM (GBKbO)

364 harris was in juggernaut with david hemmings, perhaps the most louche combo, wait a sec, oliver reed was in gladiator as well,

Posted by: miguel cervantes at September 05, 2025 01:26 PM (bXbFr)

365 I guess even the urbane Claude Rains was an alchie.

Posted by: Bulg at September 05, 2025 01:26 PM (77rzZ)

366 Meryl Streep is the single most over-rated actress in history.
Posted by: IrishEi at September 05, 2025 01:12 PM (3ImbR)

True! I didn't think I had ever deliberately watched one of her movies so I decided to watch Postcards from the Edge. The movie itself was almost pointless and forgettable. Streep was..... Streep. But there is magic in Shirley McClain. And I got to see Gene Hack man threaten to kill Meryl Streep. So not a complete waste of time.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at September 05, 2025 01:27 PM (2J/Lj)

367
I'd throw Jane Fonda into the mix of overrated actresses, but no one ever rated her so much to start with.

Posted by: Auspex at September 05, 2025 01:27 PM (Y8DZL)

368 Mama Mia, what's not to like. The backside of Stellan Skarsgard, Amanda Seyfried, Colin Firth and Pierce Brosnan. etc. Oh, oh, oh, and the music! Over and over and over again.

Posted by: Katherine Hepburn at September 05, 2025 01:27 PM (ZmEVT)

369 346 a degenerate alcoholic justifying being drunk every day.

George Peppard?
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at September 05, 2025 01:23 PM (mUzIM)

_______________________________

I think you have to concede the win to Lee Marvin. There are stories about Charles Bronson having to search him down and fish him out of bars so they could do scenes.

Posted by: Orson at September 05, 2025 01:27 PM (dIske)

370 I guess this is why acting schools in the UK have their classes in the local pub.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at September 05, 2025 01:27 PM (PzXaK)

371 368 Mama Mia, what's not to like. The backside of Stellan Skarsgard, Amanda Seyfried, Colin Firth and Pierce Brosnan. etc. Oh, oh, oh, and the music! Over and over and over again.

ok I don't much care for Kate, but I doubt even she would say such a thing

Posted by: Black Orchid at September 05, 2025 01:28 PM (Pv3Rg)

372 I watched "What's The Matador?" just the other day on youtube

Curly, turning his backside to actual bull:

"Charge me! C'mon! Charge me!"

cracks me up

Posted by: Don Black. Message: Yes, it's true at September 05, 2025 01:28 PM (AOsQT)

373 Reed made a perfect Bill Sykes. Nothing but surliness.

Posted by: Bulg at September 05, 2025 01:28 PM (77rzZ)

374 Doing the dirty with Big Harv v. starving to death in a back Alley. Decisions, decisions.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
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Kind of left out where he destroyed the careers of those that said no. Mira Sorvino is one and I think Marissa Tomei and others had similar career dives because of rejecting ole Big Harvey's diseased deformed wang.

He deserved prison.

Posted by: whig at September 05, 2025 01:28 PM (WDjG6)

375 And I got to see Gene Hackman threaten to kill Meryl Streep.

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When's his next movie coming out? I'm getting impatient.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at September 05, 2025 01:28 PM (PzXaK)

376 Off mid-Atlantic accent sock.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at September 05, 2025 01:28 PM (ZmEVT)

377 His uncle, Carol Reed, directed it.

Oliver still had to audition.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 05, 2025 01:26 PM (GBKbO)

you know, if memory serves, he was the only major character in that film who did not sing !

Posted by: runner at September 05, 2025 01:28 PM (g47mK)

378 370 I guess this is why acting schools in the UK have their classes in the local pub.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at September 05, 2025 01:27 PM (PzXaK)

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Deep Cover is a recent Prime movie about improv actors who become undercover assets for the London police.

Starring Orlando Bloom, Nick Muhammad, Bryce Dallas Howard, and Sean Bean.

I thought it was good.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 05, 2025 01:28 PM (GBKbO)

379 I did see Jaws last weekend. I first saw it in the theater when I was 6 (so you know I'm not really 29, lol). At the Jersey shore, with my dad and grandfather. The old man was a tough, crusty WWII vet, and he wouldn't even dip his toes in the ocean after he saw it.....

The experience was cool, even though I have seen it 200 times since then.

There are more re-releases on the way. Back to the Future and Apollo 13, notably.

Posted by: Kareem of Wheat at September 05, 2025 01:24 PM (ZlKnD)

I practically grew up at the jersey shore. After seeing jaws I didn't even eat tuna fish anymore, never mind going into the water.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 05, 2025 01:28 PM (snZF9)

380 > Ballooning deficits which means BoE is going to raise interest rates again which further hurts any exports, etc. So you will get another mini budget soon to raise taxes again, etc.

They've cut the rates four times since the end of 2024. It was 5.25% in August 2023, and now it's 4%. They have wiggle room to raise rates, I think.

You're right that exports are lower than imports, and that's bad.

Posted by: bonhomme at September 05, 2025 01:28 PM (lIio7)

381 Makes sense, I guess.

Posted by: runner at September 05, 2025 01:28 PM (g47mK)

382 Oh, sorry. Movie thread.
https://tinyurl.com/344hv9nt

Posted by: Don in SoCo at September 05, 2025 01:29 PM (vd6bO)

383 I think Peter Drinklage can forget about starring in a Walking Tall reboot.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Dinosaur Wrangler at September 05, 2025 01:29 PM (tyaxV)

384 Did Sean Bean die yet TJM?

Posted by: Black Orchid at September 05, 2025 01:29 PM (Pv3Rg)

385 Can't wait for the culturally sensitive, DEI enriched, gender bending remake of Taming of the Shrew.

Posted by: Count de Monet at September 05, 2025 01:30 PM (wVcYX)

386 and I got to see Gene Hack man threaten to kill Meryl Streep. So not a complete waste of time.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at September 05, 2025 01:27 PM (2J/Lj)
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Hah! Putting that on my to-see list now.

Posted by: IrishEi at September 05, 2025 01:30 PM (3ImbR)

387 I think Peter Drinklage can forget about starring in a Walking Tall reboot.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Dinosaur Wrangler at September 05, 2025 01:29 PM (tyaxV)

He can be the stick.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 05, 2025 01:30 PM (snZF9)

388 Seems like I have to update my observation on how the profit/gain motive is always corruption in a Marxist system, but has a natural outlet in a free economy.

However, a government can still be corrupted by those who seek to gain through the wielding of power.

Thus government corruption plays similar roles in both systems.

Posted by: Axeman at September 05, 2025 01:30 PM (9eaV3)

389 384 Did Sean Bean die yet TJM?
Posted by: Black Orchid at September 05, 2025 01:29 PM (Pv3Rg)

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He always dies.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 05, 2025 01:30 PM (GBKbO)

390 nood

Staffers

Posted by: banana Dread Pirate Summer Long Balls Dream at September 05, 2025 01:31 PM (Ftlfm)

391
She and Oprah were also Harvey's Winggirls to persuade budding actresses that ole Harvey was just fine to deal with as a path to stardom.

Nasty to do that to yutes.
Posted by: whig at September 05, 2025 01:16 PM (WDjG6)

And crazy Courtney Love was warning people in 2005, if Harvey invites you to a meeting at the four seasons, don't go.

Posted by: CaliGirl at September 05, 2025 01:31 PM (gpah0)

392 @383

>>I think Peter Drinklage can forget about starring in a Walking Tall reboot.

In some alternate timeline, Robert Downey Jr. would be playing the dude, playing a dude, playing a midget.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 05, 2025 01:31 PM (/7ojh)

393 Nood Biden pardons.

Posted by: bonhomme at September 05, 2025 01:31 PM (lIio7)

394 385 Can't wait for the culturally sensitive, DEI enriched, gender bending remake of Taming of the Shrew.
Posted by: Count de Monet at September 05, 2025 01:30 PM (wVcYX)
________________________________

Wait until you see what they do with The Transformers.

Posted by: Orson at September 05, 2025 01:31 PM (dIske)

395 Everyone, please. What makes you think that current cinema is culturally impoverished if we have auteurs like Tarantino, PTA, Wes Anderson, and more?

Posted by: exonfixer_94 at September 05, 2025 01:31 PM (2GCMq)

396 Interesting story at Twitchy which shows Comey's notes concerning Russian meddling before Russiagate was made up. Treasonous son of a bitch

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 05, 2025 01:31 PM (Ah2Jt)

397 You misspelled Where Eagles Dare.
Posted by: Count de Monet at September 05, 2025 01:06 PM (wVcYX
The Outlaw Josey Wales.
Posted by: Eromero

The Three Stooges Go Around The World in A Daze.

Posted by: Moe Howard, World Champeen Pie Thrower at September 05, 2025 01:24 PM (oftw2)

Reminds me. The Great Race and Around the World in 80 Days (original) are also great films.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 05, 2025 01:31 PM (i24o9)

398 you know, if memory serves, he was the only major character in that film who did not sing!
Posted by: runner

Yeah, they cut Sikes' number "My Name" from the film.

Posted by: Bulg at September 05, 2025 01:31 PM (77rzZ)

399 I remember when WWII was over and all the folks that bought war bonds had to accept pitiful returns while inflation is raging.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at September 05, 2025 01:31 PM (ZmEVT)

400 I think Peter Drinklage can forget about starring in a Walking Tall reboot.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Dinosaur Wrangler at September 05, 2025 01:29 PM (tyaxV)

They're now trying to say that Sheriff Pusser actually staged the shooting to murder his wife.

Never mind the 14 surgeries he endured after the fact. The whole thing was an elaborate ruse to kill his wife.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at September 05, 2025 01:32 PM (Zz0t1)

401 Jane Fonda was one of the first to be cute-hot when the industry standard was to be one or the other.

Others did it much better though.

That's the nicest thing i can think of to say.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 05, 2025 01:32 PM (e7Z8F)

402 Nood Ottopen.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 05, 2025 01:32 PM (i24o9)

403 I practically grew up at the jersey shore. After seeing jaws I didn't even eat tuna fish anymore, never mind going into the water.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 05, 2025 01:28 PM (snZF9)
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Jaws was all the way up in Long Island. You're safe at the Jersey Shore.

Posted by: IrishEi at September 05, 2025 01:32 PM (3ImbR)

404 great british actors tend to be incredible drunks. Like Peter O'Toole and Richard Harris.
Posted by: ace at September 05, 2025 01:21 PM (KRtlO)

Yeah, tscentirely possible Peter O’Toole was drunk for the entire filming of My Favorite Year.

His character was a drunk so how would you tell the difference?

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 05, 2025 01:33 PM (6ydKt)

405 Never buy war bonds. Especially Confederate War bonds

Posted by: Gerald O'Hara at September 05, 2025 01:33 PM (ZmEVT)

406 Did Sean Bean die yet TJM?
Posted by: Black Orchid at September 05, 2025 01:29 PM (Pv3Rg)

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He always dies.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 05, 2025 01:30 PM (GBKbO)
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He's perfect to play Beau.

Posted by: Axeman at September 05, 2025 01:34 PM (9eaV3)

407 Reminds me. The Great Race and Around the World in 80 Days (original) are also great films.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 05, 2025 01:31 PM (i24o9
_________________________

The cast in The Great Race was stellar. One of my favorite pure entertainment films. "Push the button, Max."

Posted by: Orson at September 05, 2025 01:34 PM (dIske)

408 383 I think Peter Drinklage can forget about starring in a Walking Tall reboot.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

Dunno; they revealed lately that Buford Pusser probably murdered his wife and got away with it, and Dinklage does evil characters well.

Posted by: Auspex at September 05, 2025 01:36 PM (Y8DZL)

409 They've cut the rates four times since the end of 2024. It was 5.25% in August 2023, and now it's 4%. They have wiggle room to raise rates, I think.

You're right that exports are lower than imports, and that's bad.
Posted by: bonhomme
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There is a trigger in BoE policy that ended up sinking the Liz Truss PM ship in record time. Their target on inflation is 2 percent and thus the BoE is unwinding its quantitative easing done in years of Covid. Money is tighter even when the top of the line interest rate (need to float the public deficit) is kept lower. That makes achieving the inflation target impossible leading to capital outflows to other places.

Posted by: whig at September 05, 2025 01:36 PM (WDjG6)

410 408 383 I think Peter Drinklage can forget about starring in a Walking Tall reboot.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

Dunno; they revealed lately that Buford Pusser probably murdered his wife and got away with it, and Dinklage does evil characters well.
Posted by: Auspex
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New title: Walking Small.

Posted by: whig at September 05, 2025 01:37 PM (WDjG6)

411 He always dies.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September

No he doesn't.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at September 05, 2025 01:38 PM (2J/Lj)

412 Yeah, tscentirely possible Peter O’Toole was drunk for the entire filming of My Favorite Year.

His character was a drunk so how would you tell the difference?
Posted by: SpeakingOf
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Perfect casting. The whole movie was based on Mel Brooks' experiences working as a writer on Your Show of Shows with Sid Caesar. Peter O' Toole was playing Errol Flynn thinly disguised.

Posted by: whig at September 05, 2025 01:39 PM (WDjG6)

413
I didn’t know Jaws was in theaters! The 70s original? If so, that’s indicative that Hollywood has completely run out of original ideas
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 05, 2025 12:34 PM (WdMlw)

Uh, not really. Many have never seen it on the big screen the way it was meant to be seen. I ran it back in 1975 when I worked part time as a projectionist in a General Cinema first run theater. It really thrilled the audience and still does in a theater on the 60 foot screen. Many classic movies are brought back to theaters for a limited engagement for film fans to enjoy. Hell, in 1976 ot so, my wife and two other couples went to Radio City to see a special showing of Singing In The Rain. The place was nearly sold out, and the audience applauded after every number! I had seen it many times before on TV, but, as a film fan, I wanted to see it the way it was meant to be seen. I was not disappointed. And it was shown in it's original 1:37:1 aspect ratio, as Radio City is set up to do.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at September 05, 2025 01:52 PM (5xuJ/)

414 we are in business with people so self-delusory in saner times they would have been put on psychiatric hold... the left takes great pride in knowing what is not real.

Posted by: sven at September 05, 2025 01:53 PM (XFYYr)

415 Nothing is a good thing to do on holiday weekends, Ace. You don't need to sound apologetic.

Posted by: Ralph at September 05, 2025 02:45 PM (8WZD4)

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