Saturday Evening Movie Thread

Saturday Evening Movie Thread - 3/28/2026

John Wick

Ooo...edge-lord alert!

Why do the John Wick movies...leave me cold?

Why are they overlong slogs of poorly thought out worldbuilding, self-seriousness, and and self-indulgent senses of coolness that just bore me to tears?

Why do these movies make so much money? Granted, removing Keanu Reeves from a starring role in the spin-off (he has an extended, mostly pointless cameo sprinkled throughout), Ballerina: From the World of John Wick seemed to hurt the last entry's ability to make money at the box office (it pretty obviously lost money considering its reported $90 million budget and $137 million haul at the worldwide box office), but my main focus is the four main entries themselves. I've seen Ballerina, and it does have some of the same problems as the first four, but it fixes one of my main complaints while creating others.

Could these movies have been written...better? Could they have covered the same ground but just been compelling in the interminable two hours of each film that wasn't dedicated to action?

The Movies As They Are

Okay, I actually like the first entry. John Wick is a simple story of revenge that lasts for a grand 100 minutes (including credits) that is a thin reed on which to hang action sequences. The clear emotionality is just enough to support the action, make it all make sense, and make it compelling enough to watch in between the action beats. It's not great drama, but it's functional and clear. There are clear moments where it's obvious the creative team is inventing reasons for the movie to keep going, inventing reasons for Wick to not take revenge on the Russian gangster punk who killed his dog just so the movie can keep going. It's the ravages of making a supernaturally gifted assassin one's main character.

However, it does come other things as well. It implies relationships with Wick talking to figures from his past in cryptic terms about who he is, what he's capable of, and how he got out of the assassin game. It works well enough in the first entry because it's about building a mythos around this central figure on a killing spree, but the writers and director took the exact wrong lesson from it.

Because every movie after that takes that approach to character as gospel. John meets someone, like the main antagonist of the second film, Santino, who forces John to re-enter the game by invoking a marker that John had to swear to in order to leave. (I assume this works with the first movie where it was that movie's bad guy who gave him the task, but whatever.)

So, the film spends more than thirty minutes getting John from his house to the target he's supposed to kill (Santino's sister) so that Santino can take her seat at The Table, the governing body of the assassin underworld, or whatever. And when he meets Gianna, Santino's sister, they imply some kind of deep history, talk in serious tones for a long stretch, and action finally breaks out.

The space between the action is...interminable. And there's a lot of space between the action. The action itself is quite good. Not perfect. There are moments where it's obvious people are just waiting for the next hit, but with so much action, not every beat of every fight is gonna slap. Really, the quality of the action is very, very high. It's just, there's so much of it, and the stuff in between is so boring that the action beats are extended demo reels for the stunt team and little else. They don't really mean much because John Wick ceases to be much of a character, the character interactions he has are mostly implied relationships of characters who appear only briefly before he's off to another locale to fight more faceless goons.

However, watching all of the films in a row made it obvious that there was an attempt at a larger story. It's just it's told really badly. The overall story is Wick being forced back into the life, him making the choice to either become a tool of the High Table or be free, and then his quest to destroy the High Table, effectively, to overturn the system. It's just that the movies are more concerned with looking cool than actually telling the story.

I'm deeply, deeply frustrated by the bloated, 2.5-3 hour sequels to the focused, 100-minute long original. And I thought that the problems wouldn't be that hard to fix from a screenwriting point of view. So, I sat down and wondered...if the director of the movies, Chad Stahelski, came to me before the filming of Chapter 2,handed me the three scripts for the second, third, and fourth entries and asked for a rewrite. I couldn't scrap them completely because they were already building sets, had cast everyone, and had practiced every fight for months. I needed to keep the major elements, but I could change dialogue, rearrange scenes, expand and contract roles. That sort of thing.

So, what would I do?

Rewrites

I've had Dante's Inferno on the brain for a bit, and my first direction would be to take the ending of the first movie as a death. He's following his wife, Helen, into a metaphorical death. Each of the three following movies would be concerned with three circles of Hell each.

John Wick: Chapter 2, Limbo, Lust, and Gluttony

Wick makes his way home, and he's confronted by the fact that he's alone. He has no one anymore. He reflects on Helen, his passed wife, and then he starts to think of the people he had before he left the life. He focuses on Gianna, the last woman he loved before he met Helen. Lost and without purpose, he tries to contact her, but the five years away from the life has made it difficult. He wanders the haunts he had with her, but he's seen by Killa Harkan (a character from Chapter 4). Grotesquely overweight, he dangles the promise of meeting Gianna. John must kill someone for him, and he will let him know where Gianna is.

So, John takes the job, and he goes to Rome to kill the target, a woman. After fighting through a host of goons, it turns out that the target is Gianna herself. She asks him why he's doing this. He doesn't know. He doesn't ask. That's not the job. But, now that he has what was promised him, he feels the need to break the contract. However, she gets hit by a second assassin (Cassian, played by Common) sent by Harkan to make sure the job is done.

It becomes a chase to get to Harkan. John versus Cassian as John wants further vengeance, and we enter into Gluttony with Harkan being a king of excess, and when John ultimately gets Harkan, Harkan tells him that he was just following orders from Gianna's brother, Santino, because he can take her place at the High Table upon her death. That ends the first sequel.

John Wick: Chapter 3, Greed, Anger, and Heresy

We start in media res with John fights his way towards Santino in his mansion in Paris. Upon reaching something like a throne room, John is stopped by the presence of the Adjudicator. The Adjudicator confronts John, offering him whatever he wants in order to stop. He's killed too many of the High Table's agents, and they are willing to pay any price to get him to stop. However, the conversation cuts to the core of why John is doing what he's doing. She knows why he left in the first place. It wasn't love. It was because he knew that the work he did was evil, and he needed to get out. He's on a rampage because of his wife? His dog? Gianna, a woman he hadn't even thought of for five years? John can have Santino as long as John is done after that, but what does he actually want?

John sets out to find Santino, and he's in Arabia. John goes and meets with Sofia (Halle Berry) who helps him get into Santino's fortress where he fights through hordes of people to get to Santino, eventually killing him. The Adjudicator arrives, and offers him everything he wants, but he has to say what it is. What he actually wants is...blood. He only lives for violence. So, she offers him Santino's spot on the High Table.

On the High Table, John becomes ruthless, ordering the execution of his enemies, becoming the evil, embracing the heresy, that he had tried to escape.

John Wick: Chapter 4, Violence, Fraud, and Treason

John has become a tyrant of the High Table, and a rebellion is brewing against him. But not only is he a tyrant, he's a general who leads his men into battle. In Arabia, he strikes out against the palace of the fellow High Table member the Marquis. John leads a dozen men on an assault on the palace, killing everyone in his path in order to get to his target, an impediment to his power. He confronts the Marquis who has a trump card. He has dug up Helen's coffin and uses it as a bargaining chip. Defended by the blind assassin Caine (Donnie Yen), the Marquis makes a deal. He will bend to Wick's vision of the table, not desecrate Helen's dead body, and nominate John to be the High Commander of the Table if John does something for him. John must go to Japan and prove that the owner of the Osaka Continental, Koji, has defrauded the High Table.

John agrees, and he goes to Osaka. There, he confronts Koji, an old friend, and learns that yes, Koji has been defrauding the High Table for years. However, it's because of the corruption of the High Table that he did it. This conversation reveals to John the depths into which he's sunk. Thinking he was in control, he realizes that he's only been the tool of corruption, a last gasp effort by the High Table to recruit him rather than have him dismantle them. So, he decides that he must turn traitor to the High Table but also deal with the fact that he had become a traitor to Helen in re-embracing the life he'd promised to leave.

John heads to New York and the Continental run by Winston, recruits the help of the Bowery King (Laurence Fishburne), and becomes the one man killing machine against the High Table once more. He fights through his goons to find the High Table together, and he must execute them all. The fight leaves him fatally wounded, and he succumbs to his wounds, dying.

We fade to black, and we hear Helen's voice calling out for John.

No More than a Thought Exercise

The main problem I have with the overall feel of the actual sequels is that despite there being something like an overall story from one entry to the next, it's approached with such lack of care that it might as well not be there. John ends up just being a killing machine moving from one action sequence and thin interaction with a character with an unexplained backstory to the next. I want some kind of structure imposed on it, some kind of real progression of his character.

I really don't think there is one, that the John at the start of Chapter 2 is still the same at the end of Chapter 4, that he's nothing more than a cipher caught in someone else's plot for the vast majority of things, and that he has little agency. From the moment Santino shows up the marker and forces him back into the game, instead of John choosing to go back, the sequels are off the rails, forcing John into situations rather than having him guide himself. He does kind of gain his own direction in the fourth film, but it's very little very late, and we have so much obsession with other characters, lore, and world-building around rules of the organization that Wick ends up something of a side character in his own franchise.

Imposing a stronger structure from the beginning, borrowing from something like Inferno and having an eye towards John's journey first and foremost would have tremendously helped the sequels.

To No Avail

Chad Stahelski did not some to me before production and ask for my help. I am just a nobody off in the hinterlands wondering if I could have found a better way to give the people who love the 1/3 of these films that are no-holds barred action a bit more to grasp onto in between those action sequences.

The movies got really long, really obsessed with self-important world-building, and lost sight of its central, eponymous character really quickly. And I do not understand the money they made and their relative popularity.

Do people really remain gripped in between the action scenes? Or do they wander off, look at their phones, and do other things as they wait for the sound of gunshots and pumping music to reappear? I imagine that there are some, but I am not one of them. All of the praise I hear of the films is the action itself. The stuff in between could use some punching up, right?

Movies of Today

Opening in Theaters:

They Will Kill You

Forbidden Fruits

Movies I Saw This Fortnight:

The Rossiter Case (Rating 3/4) Full Review "It's not the most involving thing, but it's a good melodrama that understands what it needs to do and how to do it." [Library]

To Have and to Hold (Rating 2/4) Full Review "I mean, the films' not bad, but it kind of makes no real sense and doesn't connect. It's very bland and a bit frustrating." [YouTube]

A Case for PC 49 (Rating 1/4) Full Review "The whole "based on a BBC radio serial" was mostly a mark of warning in this era, it seems." [YouTube]

Cloudburst (Rating 3.5/4) Full Review "Pure noir with a solid emotional foundation and good performances, very well filmed by Searle, but with an ending that just doesn't quite hit the way it should." [YouTube]

Death of an Angel (Rating 2/4) Full Review "So, it's handsome but rather inert." [YouTube]

The Last Page (or, Man Bait) (Rating 3/4) Full Review "And the end result is a tense, knowing thriller that works solidly well. Welcome to the Hammer club, Mr. Fisher. I think you'll be a welcome addition." [YouTube]

Wings of Danger (Rating 2/4) Full Review "It's not good, but it's a mild entertainment that looks good while it plays things out." [YouTube]

Never Look Back (Rating 2/4) Full Review "It functions, and no more. It's unexciting and largely unmemorable, but it works. Kind of." [Library]

Do check out my other recent videos:
A Tour of My Movie Collection
Thoughts on Megamind
My celebration of a Bogus Journey
My complaints about the Oscars
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Comments

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1 HOW DOES THIS ILLITERATE ASSHOLE WRITE SO GOOD ABOUT MOVIES?

I DON'T GET IT.

Posted by: BEN ROTHLESSBERGERER at March 28, 2026 07:54 PM (ULPxl)

2 The first John Wick didn't need any sequels.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at March 28, 2026 07:56 PM (h7ZuX)

3 BEN beat Elric? The Horrors! Probably aided by the killer bats in Lou Diamond Phillips' Bats movie.

Posted by: BifBewalski at March 28, 2026 07:58 PM (Kdl/a)

4 Watched the review, not sure ever saw a John Wick movie in whole

Posted by: Skip at March 28, 2026 07:58 PM (Ia/+0)

5 The first John Wick didn't need any sequels.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at March 28, 2026 07:56 PM (h7ZuX)
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Agreed. The first one was an OK self-contained film. Simple plot, generally well-executed.

We didn't need three sequels of world-building mystique.

The sequels would have been far better served with more actual plot and character development than showing increasingly ludicrous action sequences.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 28, 2026 07:59 PM (ESVrU)

6 Did read at The Federalist that Steven Co-bert is writing a new Tolkien story and no doubt will try and destroy Tolkien

Posted by: Skip at March 28, 2026 07:59 PM (Ia/+0)

7 I think there are like 7 sequels

Posted by: Skip at March 28, 2026 08:00 PM (Ia/+0)

8 Thought experiment: which movies NEEDED a sequel?

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes. at March 28, 2026 08:00 PM (kpS4V)

9 After the first one I didn't have any disbelief left to suspend.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at March 28, 2026 08:01 PM (cWLG3)

10 The John Wick movies, as entertaining as I find them to sometimes be, never seem to note or even mention that murdering people for money is a very bad thing.

Posted by: troyriser at March 28, 2026 08:02 PM (DPeYO)

11 Thought experiment: which movies NEEDED a sequel?
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes. at March 28, 2026 08:00 PM (kpS4V)
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*** Highlander has entered the chat...***

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 28, 2026 08:02 PM (ESVrU)

12 The John Wick movies, as entertaining as I find them to sometimes be, never seem to note or even mention that murdering people for money is a very bad thing.
Posted by: troyriser at March 28, 2026 08:02 PM (DPeYO)
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Law enforcement doesn't seem to take particular notice of the dead bodies dropping by the dozen in various public locations.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 28, 2026 08:03 PM (ESVrU)

13 It also doubles as a Mozambique Drill training video.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at March 28, 2026 08:03 PM (cWLG3)

14 I got a kick out of the first John Wick movie. The second one was meh. Haven't seen the 3rd or 4th.

Posted by: Tuna at March 28, 2026 08:04 PM (lJ0H4)

15 I am watching the greatest movie of all time

Posted by: Desinex at March 28, 2026 08:04 PM (jrgJz)

16 15 I am watching the greatest movie of all time
Posted by: Desinex at March 28, 2026 08:04 PM (jrgJz

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*nods sagaciously*

Freddy Got Fingered.

Posted by: TJM's phone at March 28, 2026 08:05 PM (JmKZX)

17 "Thought experiment: which movies NEEDED a sequel?
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes"

Thelma and Louise, so we can see them drive off a cliff again.

Posted by: fd at March 28, 2026 08:07 PM (vFG9F)

18 @16 Cats squint sagaciously when they are pleased.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at March 28, 2026 08:07 PM (cWLG3)

19 17 "Thought experiment: which movies NEEDED a sequel?
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes"

Thelma and Louise, so we can see them drive off a cliff again.
Posted by: fd at March 28, 2026 08:07 PM (vFG9F)
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The sequel has them crash-land in Hell.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at March 28, 2026 08:09 PM (cWLG3)

20 Well the world building is a little laborious , but they try to show the global nature of the continental hes a white russian gypsy but there is no indication of his roots why latin tattoos

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at March 28, 2026 08:09 PM (bXbFr)

21 Few places have the kind of menagerie of mobs perhaps marbella in the south of france

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at March 28, 2026 08:11 PM (bXbFr)

22 I am watching the greatest movie of all time
Posted by: Desinex 08:04 PM
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*nods sagaciously*
Freddy Got Fingered.
Posted by: TJM's phone
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Drop Dead Fred?

Posted by: BifBewalski at March 28, 2026 08:11 PM (Kdl/a)

23 I liked the first Matrix and thought the others sucked other than the action sequences. Same with Wick

Posted by: Kratwurst at March 28, 2026 08:11 PM (fcDpY)

24 South of spain, part of a deep dive i have done for the 3rd quarter of my novel

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at March 28, 2026 08:12 PM (bXbFr)

25 I cannot lie, I have not seen any of the John Wick films in their entirety, I’ve watched 3/4s of the first one, 1/3 of the second one, and none of the others. Of what I have seen I’ve liked, and I will probably try to find the time to finish at least the 1st two.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 28, 2026 08:12 PM (XV/Pl)

26 >>> The sequels would have been far better served with more actual plot and character development than showing increasingly ludicrous action sequences.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 28, 2026 07:59 PM (ESVrU)

Keanu's curse is that he makes unique one-off movies very memorable and gets people to talk about them. He obviously likes leading roles in these sort of movies. But that buzz engenders a desire in the studio to make sequels to capitalize on it and the sequels are not as good. Like The Matrix. Hopefully is does well financially off of it. I'm sure he does. Good for him.

Posted by: banana Dream at March 28, 2026 08:12 PM (3uBP9)

27 Obviously people know hr didnt kill gianna

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at March 28, 2026 08:12 PM (bXbFr)

28 Wouldnt killing members of the high table be verboten

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at March 28, 2026 08:13 PM (bXbFr)

29 "Death Sentence" (2007) No sir. I don't like it.
youtube.com/watch?v=cDGlN6mluGA

Posted by: Mister Horse at March 28, 2026 08:14 PM (N8ZBc)

30 I saw matrix reloafed and then i wondered why

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at March 28, 2026 08:14 PM (bXbFr)

31 I watched the full 'A Serbian Film' and it wasn't as bad as I imagined. One scene was so over the top, you knew they were just trying to tick people off which made the film 'easier.'

The film-makers actually were protesting EU censorship, film funding, etc I guess so they did set out to make it as horrible as possible.

'Human Centipede First Sequence' was good. It was plausible which made it nice and creepy. The second one had so many plot holes and was almost a comedy. I'm not a person that usually cares about plotholes. The third one I finished about an hour ago. Not scary at all. Completely stupid.

There's 2 Japanese horror movies on YT. 'Death Tube 1' and two. I was drinking a bit when I first saw them but they were great and very enjoyable.

I'm watching horror movies for my anxiety. They have been helping me learn that my anxiety creates things worse than they actually are.

Except, I also had MS Now on when I wasn't watching the movies and saw Springsteen, Debbie Whatsername Shultz and Al Sharpton. There's your horror.

Good night.

Posted by: Stateless - Day 9 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at March 28, 2026 08:15 PM (Sco7b)

32 I dont know if its a typo

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at March 28, 2026 08:17 PM (bXbFr)

33 @15

>> I am watching the greatest movie of all time

Is it up to the Indianapolis Scene yet?

Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 28, 2026 08:18 PM (XV/Pl)

34 Odd. You are harder than you should be on the first entry. Too bad there were never any sequels- which to be fair, it never needed. Just like:

- no sequel to the Matrix
-no Indiana Jones after Last Crusade

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 28, 2026 08:18 PM (zZu0s)

35 32 I dont know if its a typo
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at March 28, 2026 08:17 PM (bXbFr)

Heh!

I only saw the first Matrix, so I couldn't say if the typo is appropriate or not.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at March 28, 2026 08:18 PM (h7ZuX)

36 >> I am watching the greatest movie of all time

Is it up to the Indianapolis Scene yet?
Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 28, 2026 08:18 PM (XV/Pl)

Jaws is not the greatest movie of all time.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 28, 2026 08:19 PM (zZu0s)

37 John Wick 2-4 are just the same to me. I can't identify them, they kinda run together. But he's coming back from the grave for JW 5.

I finally saw Nobody 2. I liked it but it couldn't catch the lightening of the first.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at March 28, 2026 08:19 PM (cxFcK)

38 It had some interesting moments but the merovingian a nod to the priory du sion was too much exposition

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at March 28, 2026 08:20 PM (bXbFr)

39 Hopefully is does well financially off of it. I'm sure he does. Good for him.
Posted by: banana Dream at March 28, 2026 08:12 PM (3uBP9)

From everything I have heard he is just a decent human being and swell guy too.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 28, 2026 08:21 PM (zZu0s)

40 Jaws is not the greatest movie of all time.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone

Watch Jaws backwards. It becomes the heart warming tale of generous shark that dispenses arms and legs to people in need.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at March 28, 2026 08:21 PM (cxFcK)

41 Yes part of the draw of the original was his anorphous back atory plus the russian is a more engaging protagonist

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at March 28, 2026 08:22 PM (bXbFr)

42 Watch Jaws backwards. It becomes the heart warming tale of generous shark that dispenses arms and legs to people in need.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at March 28, 2026 08:21 PM (cxFcK)

Hey! He rebuilds Quint's boat!

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 28, 2026 08:22 PM (zZu0s)

43 @36

>> Jaws is not the greatest movie of all time.

Jaws is a perfect movie and is endlessly rewatch able.

I’ve seen it at least 100 times, in either full or part and I could probably watch it 100 times more.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 28, 2026 08:23 PM (XV/Pl)

44 IMO, perhaps unpopular...

If John Wick were left alone as a stand alone movie - remember those? - you'd like it more. It would be treated as a classic. Then...Hollywood started cranking out sequels, which were never part of the equation, but John Wick took off, and instead of making different movies with different characters in the same vein, or, heavens! - reviving the action genre, they just decide to crank out a bunch of sequels to cash in.

Posted by: Cow Demon at March 28, 2026 08:23 PM (hJH5n)

45 Amorphous an every man who suddenly recovers his skillset

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at March 28, 2026 08:24 PM (bXbFr)

46 Thought experiment: which movies NEEDED a sequel?
Posted by: All Hail Eris

The NeverEnding Story.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 28, 2026 08:24 PM (cYBz/)

47 I’ve seen it at least 100 times, in either full or part and I could probably watch it 100 times more.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 28, 2026 08:23 PM (XV/Pl)

You may like Jaws sexually, but that doesn't make it the greatest movie of all time.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 28, 2026 08:24 PM (zZu0s)

48 I saw a video about a John Wick moment. When he approaches the doorman at the Russian nightclub, the doorman tells him he lost 60kg. That was a code that there are 60 henchmen to be dealt with.

Take the night off. Thank you, Mr Wick.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at March 28, 2026 08:24 PM (cxFcK)

49 22 I am watching the greatest movie of all time
Posted by: Desinex 08:04 PM
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*nods sagaciously*
Freddy Got Fingered.
Posted by: TJM's phone
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Drop Dead Fred?
Posted by: BifBewalski at March 28, 2026 08:11 PM (Kdl/a)
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Goke, Body Snatcher from Hell

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes. at March 28, 2026 08:24 PM (kpS4V)

50 Thought experiment: which movies NEEDED a sequel?
Posted by: All Hail Eris

Judge Dredd. The good one, I mean.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at March 28, 2026 08:25 PM (cxFcK)

51 43 @36

>> Jaws is not the greatest movie of all time.

Jaws is a perfect movie and is endlessly rewatch able.

I’ve seen it at least 100 times, in either full or part and I could probably watch it 100 times more.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 28, 2026 08:23 PM (XV/Pl)

I respect that.

For me, that movie is The Hunt For Red October.

Posted by: Cow Demon at March 28, 2026 08:26 PM (hJH5n)

52 John Wick movies are exactly what I crave when I choose to watch them.
I have stressful job, with long hours, a long commute back-and-forth to get to it, so I need some brainless escape. All the cerebral analysis aside, it works for me.
But I also feel the same way about Down Periscope and The Beekeeper. Seen both many, many times, and will probably do them both again.
Therapy, of sorts, for me. Just escape and brainless entertainment.

Posted by: Gunslinger at March 28, 2026 08:26 PM (HZfH/)

53 @47

>> You may like Jaws sexually, but that doesn't make it the greatest movie of all time.

Ok, how about Amadeus?

Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 28, 2026 08:27 PM (XV/Pl)

54 The NeverEnding Story.
Posted by: Tonypete at March 28, 2026 08:24 PM (cYBz/)

I must be the only person who was a kid when it came out who didn't like it and no, it does not need a sequel.

Posted by: Cow Demon at March 28, 2026 08:27 PM (hJH5n)

55 Just don't tell me he is watching Prometheus

Posted by: Skip at March 28, 2026 08:27 PM (Ia/+0)

56 All Hail Eris

Judge Dredd. The good one, I mean.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at March 28, 2026 08:25 PM (cxFcK)

This.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 28, 2026 08:27 PM (zZu0s)

57 I must be the only person who was a kid when it came out who didn't like it and no, it does not need a sequel.
Posted by: Cow Demon

Why would it need a sequel? It's Never-ending.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at March 28, 2026 08:28 PM (cxFcK)

58 Greatest movie of all time...Casablanca?

Posted by: Tuna at March 28, 2026 08:28 PM (lJ0H4)

59 I must be the only person who was a kid when it came out who didn't like it and no, it does not need a sequel.
Posted by: Cow Demon at March 28, 2026 08:27 PM (hJH5n)

I never thought it was anything special. Hell, I found Krull more captivating at 8 or 9.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 28, 2026 08:28 PM (zZu0s)

60 I am watching the greatest movie of all time
Posted by: Desinex

*nods sagaciously*
Freddy Got Fingered.
Posted by: TJM's phone

Drop Dead Fred?
Posted by: BifBewalski

Goke, Body Snatcher from Hell
Posted by: All Hail Eris

Who are you people? It's obviously PrometSKE.3HSad3Z$ NO CARRIER

Posted by: mikeski at March 28, 2026 08:29 PM (VHUov)

61 Ok, how about Amadeus?
Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 28, 2026 08:27 PM (XV/Pl)

Good music, but a bit hammy. Overdone.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 28, 2026 08:29 PM (zZu0s)

62 I am watching the greatest movie of all time
Posted by: Desinex 08:04 PM
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*nods sagaciously*
Freddy Got Fingered.
Posted by: TJM's phone
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Drop Dead Fred?
Posted by: BifBewalski at March 28, 2026 08:11 PM (Kdl/a)
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Goke, Body Snatcher from Hell
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes. at March 28, 2026 08:24 PM (kpS4V)

What was that one with Demi Moore and... Dan Akroyd? Better Off Dead?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 28, 2026 08:30 PM (zZu0s)

63 Good music, but a bit hammy. Overdone.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone

It introduced us to F. Murray Abraham. His voice alone could carry some the bad scripts he's had to work with. I could listen to that guy read a phone book. Hulce was kinda miscast.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at March 28, 2026 08:32 PM (cxFcK)

64 Oh, Cutthroat Idland.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 28, 2026 08:34 PM (zZu0s)

65 Frank Langella is having a fucking blast and the only good actor in the movie.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 28, 2026 08:34 PM (zZu0s)

66 Using a H&K P30L makes up for a *lot* of sins.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 28, 2026 08:35 PM (0sNs1)

67 What was that one with Demi Moore and... Dan Akroyd? Better Off Dead?
Better off dead was John Cusak. I liked it.
I think the one you’re thinking, is with Chevy Chase too.
Big Trouble, maybe? Silly, but entertaining like most ‘80s movies…

Posted by: Gunslinger at March 28, 2026 08:35 PM (HZfH/)

68 THANK YOU!! The franchise has seemed so popular that I never wanted to say that I liked the first one, made myself watch the 2nd, and then quit on the franchise because it just felt like an endless recycling of blah-blah-blah followed by BANG-BANG-BANG!!!
And after too many bang-bang-bangs, the blah-blah-blah wasn’t worth sitting through.

Your rewrite is intriguing. Messing around with Helen’s coffin is a bit too grisly and weird, though, unless this is going to be a Hammer Film.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 28, 2026 08:35 PM (ZPDpH)

69 There are some movies that should never have sequels.

Second Hand Lions. Princess Bride. ORIGINAL Wiz of Oz.

I put the first Wick movie in that category. It was good, and a complete story arc, and the sequels just detract.

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 28, 2026 08:37 PM (mP0Kj)

70 For me the greatest film is a film that is emenantly rewatchable, if I don’t want to watch it again, it can’t be a great film.

There are some so-called great films that I will never watch again.

Saw Dog Day Afternoon, once, never have to see it again.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 28, 2026 08:37 PM (XV/Pl)

71 68 Your rewrite is intriguing. Messing around with Helen’s coffin is a bit too grisly and weird, though, unless this is going to be a Hammer Film.
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 28, 2026 08:35 PM (ZPDpH

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Gotta bring Helen back to the forefront somehow!

Posted by: TJM's phone at March 28, 2026 08:37 PM (JmKZX)

72 Oh langella knows how to lean into a role from dracula to ds9

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at March 28, 2026 08:38 PM (bXbFr)

73 Which would be a better sequel to Cocaine Bear?

Cocaine Otter, Cocaine Penguin, Cocaine Bat, or Cocaine Yak?

Posted by: davidt at March 28, 2026 08:39 PM (Q+gd/)

74 To Have and to Hold

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I saw a thing about the death of Elizabeth Montgomery. Among her last words was to elicit a promise from her husband, actor Robert Foxworth, to marry again.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 28, 2026 08:39 PM (ndZc7)

75 It did sink the studio but needs must

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at March 28, 2026 08:39 PM (bXbFr)

76 Cocaine octoshark

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at March 28, 2026 08:40 PM (bXbFr)

77 I'd say "Aliens" needed a decent sequel. Maybe at this point an edgy animated one.

I will add that if one is willing to appreciate "Alien 3" for the movie it is, and not the movie one wished it to be, it has it's good points.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes. at March 28, 2026 08:40 PM (kpS4V)

78 76 Cocaine octoshark
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at March 28, 2026 08:40 PM (bXbFr

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Cocaine Octomom.

Posted by: TJM's phone at March 28, 2026 08:40 PM (JmKZX)

79 Santino did need killing, i know the rules but its like choam rules

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at March 28, 2026 08:41 PM (bXbFr)

80 Santino did need killing, i know the rules but its like choam rules

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at March 28, 2026 08:41 PM (bXbFr)

81 Cocaine octoshark

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at March 28, 2026 08:40 PM (bXbFr)

See it in 3D on IMAX Feel-a-Round!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes. at March 28, 2026 08:41 PM (kpS4V)

82 I will add that if one is willing to appreciate "Alien 3" for the movie it is, and not the movie one wished it to be, it has it's good points.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes. at March 28, 2026 08:40 PM (kpS4V)

Hmmm. Even on its own merits. I think it is too dour and nihilistic.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 28, 2026 08:42 PM (zZu0s)

83 Ive learned to appreciate aliens 3,, for what it was

But it waa a great letdown from the lsst

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at March 28, 2026 08:42 PM (bXbFr)

84 82 I will add that if one is willing to appreciate "Alien 3" for the movie it is, and not the movie one wished it to be, it has it's good points.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes. at March 28, 2026 08:40 PM (kpS4V)

Hmmm. Even on its own merits. I think it is too dour and nihilistic.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 28, 2026 08:42 PM (zZu0s

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It's a mess, but it's an interesting mess.

I wish it had kept the original setting of the wooden world populated by monks, though.

Posted by: TJM's phone at March 28, 2026 08:43 PM (JmKZX)

85 A *BIG* problem with Jaws is the lack of diversity, specifically people of color, and the lack of non-cis orientations in its cast.

Posted by: Mary Cloggenstein of Brattleboro, VT at March 28, 2026 08:43 PM (/BWUD)

86 And it looks like high art compared to alien earth

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at March 28, 2026 08:44 PM (bXbFr)

87 85 A *BIG* problem with Jaws is the lack of diversity, specifically people of color, and the lack of non-cis orientations in its cast.
Posted by: Mary Cloggenstein of Brattleboro, VT at March 28, 2026 08:43 PM (/BWUD

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When she's right, she's right!

Posted by: TJM's phone at March 28, 2026 08:44 PM (JmKZX)

88 85 A *BIG* problem with Jaws is the lack of diversity, specifically people of color, and the lack of non-cis orientations in its cast.

Posted by: Mary Cloggenstein of Brattleboro

Maybe sharks, especially Great Whites, don't like dark meat.

/self-denounced

Posted by: davidt at March 28, 2026 08:45 PM (Q+gd/)

89 Saw the first two JW flicks and enjoyed them. Action scenes were nice, mostly, and kinda liked the background that was being filled in even though it was implausible as hell. Third one I believe I saw as a rental -- overlong, didn't do much of anything else for the world-building I thought, and even the action scenes seemed to drag. Didn't bother with the 4th.

Yes, they needed a rewrite, and the sequels needed to be shorter. A lot shorter. All three should have been trimmed. With a pencil. With a freakin' pencil.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at March 28, 2026 08:45 PM (q3u5l)

90 I wouldn’t even call Aliens a sequel to Alien, it’s a completely different film.

Sure there’s a xenomoroh in both of them but one is a horror film, perhaps the best ever, the other is an action adventure.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 28, 2026 08:46 PM (XV/Pl)

91 I still think Alien was the best

Posted by: Skip at March 28, 2026 08:46 PM (Ia/+0)

92
Thought experiment: which movies NEEDED a sequel?
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes

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Gone with the Wind

Did she ever get him back?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 28, 2026 08:46 PM (XJ22o)

93 I wish it had kept the original setting of the wooden world populated by monks, though.
Posted by: TJM's phone at March 28, 2026 08:43 PM (JmKZX)

Sounds interesting at least. More than what we got. Even then though, you know how the monks would be portrayed:

1) all would be hypocrites.
2) two sexual predators. Ripley would be menace more than the prison of rapists and murderers.
3) one noble guy, disillusioned with the church- which he would have a long, heartfelt story.
4) one wise older monk who we think is good, but who betrays the young hero at the last minute.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 28, 2026 08:47 PM (zZu0s)

94 The NeverEnding Story.
Posted by: Tonypete at March 28, 2026 08:24 PM (cYBz/)

I must be the only person who was a kid when it came out who didn't like it and no, it does not need a sequel.
Posted by: Cow Demon

Well, for one thing, it never ends.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 28, 2026 08:47 PM (ndZc7)

95 I saw the 1st John Wick movie when it was shown on TV. I liked it okay. I liked the ending with Wick taking the pitbull from the pound after breaking in to use the veterinary supplies to doctor his wounds. For me its not as good as The Fugitive, or Die Hard, but its decent, better than a lot of newish high action flicks.

And I don't want a movie or movie series that tries to be high literature when I watch an action movie. Give me a semi-plausible plot start; don't go to Speed levels of defying plausible physics with the action, and I'll suspend a fair amount of disbelief and just enjoy the movie.

Posted by: PaleRider at March 28, 2026 08:47 PM (+89TD)

96 93
Sounds interesting at least. More than what we got. Even then though, you know how the monks would be portrayed:

1) all would be hypocrites.
2) two sexual predators. Ripley would be menace more than the prison of rapists and murderers.
3) one noble guy, disillusioned with the church- which he would have a long, heartfelt story.
4) one wise older monk who we think is good, but who betrays the young hero at the last minute.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 28, 2026 08:47 PM (zZu0s

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The script by Vincent Ward is findable. I’ve never gotten around to actually trying to read it, though.

Posted by: TJM's phone at March 28, 2026 08:48 PM (JmKZX)

97 "Did she ever get him back?"

Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.

Come on, somebody had to do it.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at March 28, 2026 08:49 PM (q3u5l)

98 92
Thought experiment: which movies NEEDED a sequel?
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes

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Gone with the Wind

Did she ever get him back?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 28, 2026 08:46 PM (XJ22o)
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There was a sequel done as a TV series with Joanne Whalley and Armande Asante.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at March 28, 2026 08:49 PM (cWLG3)

99 @15

>> I am watching the greatest movie of all time

I remember ace really hating a Conan movie. If I recall correctly years back, he thought it was gratuitous violence.

And I remember him hating 'Freddy Got Fingered.' With Canadian 'comedian' Tom Green. And free on Tubi. All 87 minutes in all it's glory.

Screw it. I've been watching the most messed up stuff I could find. 'Freddy Got Fingered' can't be worse than the third Human Centipede movie. Or MS Now. It just can't.

Through the looking glass people.

The greatest movie ever made....
Freddy Got Fingered...

Posted by: Stateless - Day 9 of 14 or so - extreme dog care at March 28, 2026 08:50 PM (Sco7b)

100 Old Yeller needs a sequel. Zombie dog with rabies settles scores.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 28, 2026 08:50 PM (ndZc7)

101 I liked the first 'John Wick'. I never saw the sequals. No reason, just didn't see them. (shrugs). No movies watched this week. I'll get around to watching that 'F1' movie. I like racing movies. I'm not following F1 closely anymore due to there move to Apple+ streaming. I already watch and stream WAY TOO MUCH sports as it is. Not even the popular sports. Golf and Racing, the two sports that put most people to sleep and I can watch hours of it. (shrugs again)

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at March 28, 2026 08:51 PM (gcUgZ)

102 Old Yeller needs a sequel. Zombie dog with rabies settles scores.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 28, 2026 08:50 PM (ndZc7)
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Isn't that just a mashup of Pet Semetary and Cujo?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 28, 2026 08:51 PM (ESVrU)

103 73 Which would be a better sequel to Cocaine Bear?

Cocaine Otter, Cocaine Penguin, Cocaine Bat, or Cocaine Yak?
Posted by: davidt at March 28, 2026 08:39 PM (Q+gd/)

Rapey Dolphin.

On second thought, no one wants to see that shit. Except maybe Kurt Eichenwald.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 28, 2026 08:52 PM (ZPDpH)

104 There was a sequel done as a TV series with Joanne Whalley and Armande Asante.
Posted by: Chairman LMAO

I believe it was Timothy Dalton not Assante.

Posted by: Tuna at March 28, 2026 08:52 PM (lJ0H4)

105 >Thought experiment: which movies NEEDED a sequel?

I'm going to go against the grain and say no sequel to Dredd 2012.

It's too good as a stand alone movie.

Posted by: davidt at March 28, 2026 08:53 PM (Q+gd/)

106 15 I am watching the greatest movie of all time
Posted by: Desinex

(nods)
Harley Davidson and The Marlboro Man.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at March 28, 2026 08:54 PM (gcUgZ)

107 @104 Yeah he was Odysseus, wrong guy.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at March 28, 2026 08:54 PM (cWLG3)

108 Speaking of Conan.

Arnold is training again.

He's going to make King Conan. Directed by Chris McQuarie (the last few Mission Impossible movies).

Arnold is hoping to get in the same shape as he was in his Conan films from the 80s. I suspect he's going to die of a heart attack while training.

Posted by: TJM's phone at March 28, 2026 08:54 PM (JmKZX)

109 Golf and Racing, the two sports that put most people to sleep and I can watch hours of it. (shrugs again)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at March 28, 2026 08:51 PM (gcUgZ)

If tv has to be on, I like golf. It's calming.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at March 28, 2026 08:54 PM (h7ZuX)

110 @108 Does TJM know his phone is sentient?

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at March 28, 2026 08:55 PM (cWLG3)

111 John Wick is a force of nature. Suspend disbelief; go with the flow. You don't wanna not like movies featuring the son of the Goddess of Nature.

Chuck Norris, though...he is not A force of nature, he is the embodiment of ALL all forces of nature on Earth. Immovable objects rapidly got out of the way of the irresistible force we mortals knew as Chuck Norris.

Posted by: Gref at March 28, 2026 08:56 PM (5rh/l)

112 @108

>> I suspect he's going to die of a heart attack while training.

He’s been on TRT most of his life, just has to turn the dial up a bit and he will be in Barbarian shape in no time.

King Conan needs an in shape Russel Crowe to make it epic.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 28, 2026 08:57 PM (XV/Pl)

113 Mr. Dmlw! is reliving his glory days with Marine Corps boot camp videos on youtube.

I mean, one is fine, but we're on about the third now, and I get to hear about his personal memories again with each one. I am trying to be a good wife. LOL

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at March 28, 2026 08:57 PM (h7ZuX)

114 112
King Conan needs an in shape Russel Crowe to make it epic.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 28, 2026 08:57 PM (XV/Pl

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So it cannot be epic.

Jk

Arnold got a pacemaker a few years ago. I don't know what's in his head.

Posted by: TJM's phone at March 28, 2026 08:58 PM (JmKZX)

115 There is only one John Wick and only one Matrix.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 28, 2026 08:59 PM (V4IXI)

116 Chuck Norris, though...he is not A force of nature, he is the embodiment of ALL all forces of nature on Earth. Immovable objects rapidly got out of the way of the irresistible force we mortals knew as Chuck Norris.
Posted by: Gref at March 28, 2026 08:56 PM

The fact of the *true* story that he once told an upset woman to calm down, and she did, is indisputable proof of this.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 28, 2026 08:59 PM (0sNs1)

117 @114

>> Arnold got a pacemaker a few years ago. I don't know what's in his head.

One last hurrah before he journeys to The Undiscovered Country I would imagine.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 28, 2026 09:00 PM (XV/Pl)

118 Chuck Norris

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Norris' film debut as a thug in the Dean Martin Matt Helm flick, The Wrecking Crew. 3:40

https://is.gd/6e5rYI

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 28, 2026 09:01 PM (ndZc7)

119 TJM if you haven't seen movie 1944 its pretty interesting war movie from Estonia

Posted by: Skip at March 28, 2026 09:02 PM (Ia/+0)

120 I have never seen Jaws in its entirety. Saw the third act in a hotel room once.

As for movies I love completely, a very short list. Galaxy Quest is one of them. I love it, and it makes me happy.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trumpy can do magic at March 28, 2026 09:02 PM (0aYVJ)

121 Good night everyone

Posted by: Skip at March 28, 2026 09:02 PM (Ia/+0)

122 The first Conan is a movie I have watched dozens of times, and will gladly watch again. And that’s because of the musical score - I’ll make the case that overall that is the best symphonic musical score of any film made starting in the 70’s til now.
(All time best I only put Magnificent 7, the Big Country, and Ben Hur above it)

For me, what determines whether I want to watch a movie more than once is almost always the music.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 28, 2026 09:03 PM (ZPDpH)

123 6 Did read at The Federalist that Steven Co-bert is writing a new Tolkien story and no doubt will try and destroy Tolkien
Posted by: Skip at March 28, 2026 07:59 PM (Ia/+0)

That's okay, according to Jack Posobiec it's all pagan anyway

Posted by: gKWVE at March 28, 2026 09:03 PM (gKWVE)

124 Mr. Dmlw! is reliving his glory days with Marine Corps boot camp videos on youtube.

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How a marching cadence should be done.

https://is.gd/t0s0JU

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 28, 2026 09:04 PM (ndZc7)

125 Keanu Reeves and Matthew McConnaughey have the highest percentage of watchable movies imo.

Coincidence both have the dude persona?

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 28, 2026 09:04 PM (V4IXI)

126 Tim Walz shouting to the MN No Kings rally, before introducing Bruce Springsteen:

"We need no damn kings! But we do need a boss!”

Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 28, 2026 09:04 PM (0sNs1)

127 I liked the first one. By the fourth, John Wick is so tough Superman refuses to confront him because Superman knows he can't take him.

The so-called Kevlar suits he wears might stop a bullet but he still feels the impact. In 4, he gets hit by multiple cars without, apparently, any broken bones, bruises or concussions. I don't mind superheros in superhero movies but not when they are supposed to be mortals like the rest of us.

If he makes a fifth, will he take on Thanos, Galactus or the Living Tribunal?

Posted by: JB1000 at March 28, 2026 09:05 PM (VWqVs)

128 davidt, the thing with Dredd is that there is a LOT of world that was built around the Megacities, the Judges, and the Cursed Earth. Dredd doesn't need a "sequel" but there are a lot of Dredd stories that can be told - have been told, in the 2001 AD comics.

Posted by: gKWVE at March 28, 2026 09:05 PM (gKWVE)

129 Did read at The Federalist that Steven Co-bert is writing a new Tolkien story and no doubt will try and destroy Tolkien
Posted by: Skip

Just be thankful Jimmy Kimmel is not writing a fifth Gospel.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 28, 2026 09:05 PM (ndZc7)

130 Gonna watch "In the Line of Fire" now. Next will be "Hamburger Hill," because Dylan McDermot.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trumpy can do magic at March 28, 2026 09:05 PM (0aYVJ)

131 Sure fire box office smash:
Barbie Wick

Posted by: wth at March 28, 2026 09:06 PM (BT3km)

132 Did read at The Federalist that Steven Co-bert is writing a new Tolkien story and no doubt will try and destroy Tolkien
Posted by: Skip

If I remember right, he had an extremely brief cameo in one the LOTR films. I don't remember which one, but not the first.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at March 28, 2026 09:06 PM (cxFcK)

133 I liked the destroyer (thats the one i saw firsr)

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at March 28, 2026 09:06 PM (bXbFr)

134 Movies I have watched more than a dozen times each

Jeremiah Johnson
Outlaw Josey Wales
The Natural
Uncle Buck
Casablanca

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 28, 2026 09:06 PM (V4IXI)

135 That's okay, according to Jack Posobiec it's all pagan anyway
Posted by: gKWVE at March 28, 2026 09:03 PM (gKWVE)

Before that I had been thinking that Prosobiec was kind of an idiot.
Now I have no doubts.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 28, 2026 09:07 PM (ZPDpH)

136 132
If I remember right, he had an extremely brief cameo in one the LOTR films. I don't remember which one, but not the first.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at March 28, 2026 09:06 PM (cxFcK

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Second Hobbit film.

He has a close up where he flips an eyepatch down as the dwarves and Bilbo enter Laketown.

Posted by: TJM's phone at March 28, 2026 09:08 PM (JmKZX)

137 Amusingly, I just finished watching The Matrix again. Someone threw out the idea that the world of John Wick is actually a separate world in The Matrix.

Posted by: NR Pax at March 28, 2026 09:08 PM (+NIRm)

138 I'm going to go against the grain and say no sequel to Dredd 2012.

It's too good as a stand alone movie.
Posted by: davidt

I'mma go against your knotty pine and say it deserves a hardcore TV show. Bad guy of the week and everything with a kickass synth soundtrack.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 28, 2026 09:08 PM (diia5)

139 Tim Walz shouting to the MN No Kings rally, before introducing Bruce Springsteen:

"We need no damn kings! But we do need a boss!”
Posted by: Duncanthrax

I must be slipping into the Twilight Zone because I agree with Crazy Maizie Hirono.

Senator Mazie Hirono
@maziehirono
Donald Trump is not, never will be, and has never been a king. #NoKings

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 28, 2026 09:09 PM (ndZc7)

140 137 Amusingly, I just finished watching The Matrix again. Someone threw out the idea that the world of John Wick is actually a separate world in The Matrix.
Posted by: NR Pax at March 28, 2026 09:08 PM (+NIRm

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First 30 min is perfect.

The second act is good.

The third act contracts rather than expands. That bugs me.

Posted by: TJM's phone at March 28, 2026 09:09 PM (JmKZX)

141 Arnold is hoping to get in the same shape as he was in his Conan films from the 80s. I suspect he's going to die of a heart attack while training.
Posted by: TJM's phone at March 28, 2026 08:54 PM (JmKZX)

What is the best in life?

Toilet paper, indoor plumbing, shoup.

Posted by: Kindltot at March 28, 2026 09:09 PM (rbvCR)

142 Keanu Reeves and Matthew McConnaughey have the highest percentage of watchable movies imo.
.......

Makes me want to buy another gun and a Lincoln.

Posted by: wth at March 28, 2026 09:11 PM (BT3km)

143 Arnold is hoping to get in the same shape as he was in his Conan films from the 80s. I suspect he's going to die of a heart attack while training.
Posted by: TJM's phone at March 28, 2026 08:54 PM (JmKZX)
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Sly got into ridiculously good shape for "Rocky Balboa", so I guess it can be done. I for one will see this "Old Conan" movie. Too bad Milius isn't around to help write it.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes. at March 28, 2026 09:11 PM (kpS4V)

144 @141 At his age.what is best in life should include regular bowel movements and serviceable knees.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at March 28, 2026 09:12 PM (cWLG3)

145 I have all 4of the Wick movies and the 3 Equalizers. I watch them often. Great mindless entertainment

Posted by: Ben Had at March 28, 2026 09:12 PM (+nEug)

146 needs a sequel:

The Day After

Posted by: Don Black at March 28, 2026 09:13 PM (ZxPkt)

147 Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 28, 2026 09:09 PM (ndZc7

Of course she intended the opposite of what she wrote. She believes Trump wants to be King and she thought this statement was an insult to that desire. She's as dumb as a rock.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 28, 2026 09:13 PM (V4IXI)

148 Hes older than odin was in thor

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at March 28, 2026 09:13 PM (bXbFr)

149 143
Too bad Milius isn't around to help write it.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes. at March 28, 2026 09:11 PM (kpS4V

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He's actually still alive.

He's just in awful health. I'm honestly surprised the 4K of the first film ever got released. New remasters require approval of the directors if still alive, and I have heard for a while that he's almost non communicative. He had a big stroke in 2010 and is suffering from cancer.

Posted by: TJM's phone at March 28, 2026 09:13 PM (JmKZX)

150 The fact of the *true* story that he once told an upset woman to calm down, and she did, is indisputable proof of this.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 28, 2026 08:59 PM (0sNs1)

I was talking with my niece the other day. Her dad, my BIL. is having some very serious health problems and my sister is not taking it well. Sis rolled into the hospital and started trying to do everything and order the staff around, and my niece said that she told her mom to "calm down" which did not work.

I laughed at my niece.

Posted by: Kindltot at March 28, 2026 09:14 PM (rbvCR)

151 120 I have never seen Jaws in its entirety. Saw the third act in a hotel room once.

As for movies I love completely, a very short list. Galaxy Quest is one of them. I love it, and it makes me happy.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trumpy can do magic at March 28, 2026 09:02 PM (0aYVJ)

It is just about as close to perfect as a movie can get. So is "The Freshman" with Matthew Broderick and Marlon Brando.

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at March 28, 2026 09:15 PM (SRRAx)

152 146 needs a sequel:

The Day After
Posted by: Don Black at March 28, 2026 09:13 PM (ZxPkt)
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The Day After 2: The Day Before The Day After Tomorrow

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at March 28, 2026 09:15 PM (cWLG3)

153 "Movies that need sequels" is a difficult question.
Most movies are selfcontained or they're failures. If they are written for the purpose of inviting sequels ("Dune", the novel; less so the original "Dune World") then it's difficult to get them onto the screen in the first place. Because audiences don't like that they are unfinished.
One reason all the "Dune" adaptations have tended to be controversial. It doesn't really work without "Dune Messiah" to explain to the (dense) reader that Paul's jihad is going to be a disaster.
"Neverending Story" succeeded BECAUSE it omitted the whole back half of the book, which was a long deconstruction of the fantasy audience.

Posted by: gKWVE at March 28, 2026 09:15 PM (gKWVE)

154 Denzel has gotten too long in the tooth for the last one

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at March 28, 2026 09:15 PM (bXbFr)

155 The sequel I'd have liked to see was the follow-up to Death Wish -- not the one that was filmed with Bronson as Death Wish 2, but Death Sentence. Not the Death Sentence with Kevin Bacon, but something that used the story like of Brian Garfield's novel Death Sentence. Garfield took Paul Kersey and put him in the spot of having to find and stop a copycat vigilante who wasn't nearly as careful as Kersey about making sure he only did bad guys who had it coming. That would have been fun.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at March 28, 2026 09:16 PM (q3u5l)

156 I still haven't seen a John Wick movie. I'm looking forward to watching #1.

I saw Nobody 2 this week. What a piece of crap. Nobody (#1) was awful writing but it was a lot of fun. #2 is just a bad mistake

Posted by: 496 at March 28, 2026 09:16 PM (HKank)

157 There was another No Kings rally in my town today. 75/25 split betwixt graybeards and students.
It was one of those all-Lefty-hands-on-deck protests: NO KINGS, Free Palestine, LGBTQ, No War, etc. I flipped many birds.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes. at March 28, 2026 09:17 PM (kpS4V)

158 The Day After has plenty of sequels.
The Book of Eli, Fallout, A Boy And His Dog . . .

Posted by: gKWVE at March 28, 2026 09:17 PM (gKWVE)

159 155 The sequel I'd have liked to see was the follow-up to Death Wish -- not the one that was filmed with Bronson as Death Wish 2, but Death Sentence. Not the Death Sentence with Kevin Bacon, but something that used the story like of Brian Garfield's novel Death Sentence. Garfield took Paul Kersey and put him in the spot of having to find and stop a copycat vigilante who wasn't nearly as careful as Kersey about making sure he only did bad guys who had it coming. That would have been fun.
Posted by: Just Some Guy at March 28, 2026 09:16 PM (q3u5l)

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That sounds like the story of the monster at the end of the first movie having to rediscovering his humanity.

Probably would have been good stuff.

Posted by: TJM's phone at March 28, 2026 09:17 PM (JmKZX)

160 @141 At his age.what is best in life should include regular bowel movements and serviceable knees.
Posted by: Chairman LMAO
......

He's not climbing the Alps barefoot anytime soon.

Posted by: wth at March 28, 2026 09:17 PM (BT3km)

161 At his age.what is best in life should include regular bowel movements and serviceable knees.
Posted by: Chairman LMAO

To crush a pickleball.
To see without cataracts.
And not hear the lamentations of your skeletal system.

Posted by: mikeski the cimmerian at March 28, 2026 09:17 PM (VHUov)

162 Can't believe no one has mentioned any Scorcsese as a favorite.
GoodFellas and Casino are always worth a rewatch.

Posted by: proudvastrightwingguy at March 28, 2026 09:17 PM (MNCvZ)

163 Mr. TiFW has already told me not to gift him a puppy to keep him company after I am gone 😂😂😂

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at March 28, 2026 09:18 PM (SRRAx)

164 A fun "guy movie " is The Intouchables.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 28, 2026 09:18 PM (+nEug)

165 At 155. Story line, not story like. Not sure whether I can blame auto-cucumber or my fingers or, worse, my failing brain.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at March 28, 2026 09:19 PM (q3u5l)

166 162 Can't believe no one has mentioned any Scorcsese as a favorite.
GoodFellas and Casino are always worth a rewatch.
Posted by: proudvastrightwingguy at March 28, 2026 09:17 PM (MNCvZ)

The Departed is, too.

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, AoSHQ's Plucky Wee One - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at March 28, 2026 09:19 PM (SRRAx)

167 Uh, yeah...
https://tinyurl.com/RandolphScottt

Posted by: Don in SoCo at March 28, 2026 09:19 PM (UajcV)

168 It is just about as close to perfect as a movie can get. So is "The Freshman" with Matthew Broderick and Marlon Brando.
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It really is. I love the scene in the Italian restaurant where Matthew Broderick's character spots a picture of Il Duce on the wall. "Is that....?"

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes. at March 28, 2026 09:19 PM (kpS4V)

169 I just finished reading Bruce Stirling's Heavy Weather, which would have been a far better script for Twisters that what actually wound up on the screen.

Posted by: Kindltot at March 28, 2026 09:19 PM (rbvCR)

170 The Denver No Kings crowd tried to block I-25. A heavily-trafficked interstate highway. They got tear-gassed by the fuzz for their trouble.

Posted by: Don Black at March 28, 2026 09:19 PM (ZxPkt)

171 Halle Berry is still an nice piece of ass for the over 50 crowd, but we need some fresh meat. Too many comics, too many remakes, too many movies about making movies. Hollywood sucks balls.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 28, 2026 09:21 PM (Fbc0I)

172 145 I have all 4of the Wick movies and the 3 Equalizers. I watch them often. Great mindless entertainment
Posted by: Ben Had at March 28, 2026 09:12 PM (+nEug)

I can watch the first Equalizer multiple times. And Man on Fire.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at March 28, 2026 09:21 PM (h7ZuX)

173 No caaino isnt worth a rewatch

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at March 28, 2026 09:21 PM (bXbFr)

174 There should be a sequel of atomic blonde

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at March 28, 2026 09:22 PM (bXbFr)

175 Too many comics, too many remakes, too many movies about making movies. Hollywood sucks balls.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 28, 2026 09:21 PM (Fbc0I)

Risk aversion, probably caused by funders influencing the committees that make the films nowadays.

Posted by: Kindltot at March 28, 2026 09:22 PM (rbvCR)

176 The "No Bowel Movements" crew like to parade outside the library on the weekends when I'm there.

Posted by: gKWVE at March 28, 2026 09:22 PM (gKWVE)

177 Dash, Man on Fire is a regular rewatch .

Posted by: Ben Had at March 28, 2026 09:22 PM (+nEug)

178 The Denver No Kings crowd tried to block I-25.
_-_
Yet another reason not to go to town. Even tiny little Walsenburg has people protesting that their guy's not in office and they are pissed about it.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at March 28, 2026 09:23 PM (UajcV)

179 John Wick?

Pet thread, redux?

Posted by: mindful webworker wonders aloud at March 28, 2026 09:23 PM (jrd4M)

180 Is blocking an interstate a Federal offense?

Posted by: gKWVE at March 28, 2026 09:23 PM (gKWVE)

181 >>> 8 Thought experiment: which movies NEEDED a sequel?

sicario !
the *lead character was trash

sequel was, sicario day of the soldado
ten times better because they ditched the *chick

Posted by: cherries in season at March 28, 2026 09:23 PM (43wzR)

182 174 There should be a sequel of atomic blonde
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at March 28, 2026 09:22 PM (bXbFr)
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Terrific soundtrack.

Same time period?

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes. at March 28, 2026 09:24 PM (kpS4V)

183 Is blocking an interstate a Federal offense?
Posted by: gKWVE at March 28, 2026 09:23 PM (gKWVE)

I was hoping to hear of the planned protests at airports to protest ICE, and the subsequent federal terrorism arrests.

Posted by: Kindltot at March 28, 2026 09:24 PM (rbvCR)

184 169 I just finished reading Bruce Stirling's Heavy Weather, which would have been a far better script for Twisters that what actually wound up on the screen.
Posted by: Kindltot at March 28, 2026 09:19 PM (rbvCR)
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The thinking was, "you liked Twister? Well how about more? Twisters!"

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at March 28, 2026 09:24 PM (cWLG3)

185 Sicario Barbie

Posted by: wth at March 28, 2026 09:24 PM (BT3km)

186 185 Sicario Barbie
Posted by: wth at March 28, 2026 09:24 PM (BT3km)
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Emily Blunt does clean up nice.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at March 28, 2026 09:26 PM (cWLG3)

187 The popularity of "Project Hail Mary" is heartening. Not a sequel, no agenda, just a dude and a mineral arthropoid trying to save their planets.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes. at March 28, 2026 09:27 PM (kpS4V)

188 Gadzooks, Halle Barry is on the cusp of 60.

My how time flies.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 28, 2026 09:27 PM (XV/Pl)

189 Thought experiment: which movies NEEDED a sequel?

Posted by: All Hail Eris

The NeverEnding Story.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 28, 2026 08:24 PM

Like the sequel in 1990 with Jonathan Brandis? (Who later committed suicide in 2003)

https://imdb.to/4lXMHi1

He was also in "Sidekicks" with Chuck Norris.

Posted by: Calvin Coolidge at March 28, 2026 09:27 PM (P5BPp)

190 Apocalypse Now needed a sequel.
Did he stay and marry the girl with the AK?
Go back to Saigon?
Get a job at the refinery?
Read Moby Dick?
Lots of plot holes a sequel could answer.

Posted by: Accomak at March 28, 2026 09:27 PM (wkU1F)

191 @187

>> The popularity of "Project Hail Mary" is heartening.

It thinks it’d owed to great trailers and very little CG.

Plus, Ryan Gosling was due for a win.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 28, 2026 09:28 PM (XV/Pl)

192 The first Wick is not perfect, but close enough. It does the world building largely by "show me don't tell me", which is how you should do that. The sequels all spend far, far too much time telling and not enough time killing people.

I spent this afternoon watching the latest Jason Statham flick, Shelter. I appreciate that they actually have him do some acting in addition to killing most of MI6. Tying into the topic, it has some really obvious lifts from the original John Wick. Most blatantly, MI6 shows up at his place fairly early on and his dog must go. At least that's not actually the hook the rest of the movie hangs on. And later on there's a nightclub with red neon decorations where lots of shooting occurs followed by a mad stampede out the doors.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 28, 2026 09:29 PM (QZThv)

193 190
Did Charlie ever learn to surf?

Posted by: wth at March 28, 2026 09:29 PM (BT3km)

194 @191 Was he sciencing the sh** out of stuff?

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at March 28, 2026 09:30 PM (cWLG3)

195 Someone threw out the idea that the world of John Wick is actually a separate world in The Matrix."

"What do you need?

Guns. Lots of guns. "

Also, the trailers for JW4 played that link...

Posted by: man at March 28, 2026 09:30 PM (XuXeR)

196 Apocalypse Now kind of got a sequel in Platoon.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 28, 2026 09:30 PM (XV/Pl)

197 Apocalypse Now and Again?

Posted by: Don in SoCo at March 28, 2026 09:31 PM (UajcV)

198 Apocalypse Now sorta had a sequel, but not a movie. Gustav Hasford wrote a sequel to his novel The Short-Timers, the basis for Kubrick's movie; the sequel was called The Phantom Blooper; got a PDF kicking around somewhere on the machine but haven't read it yet. For a while Hasford had the texts of both books on a web site, but I don't think it's still out there; not sure the Wayback Machine would even have it. It's been quite a while.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at March 28, 2026 09:32 PM (q3u5l)

199 Apocalypse Now needed a sequel.
[ . . . ]
Posted by: Accomak at March 28, 2026 09:27 PM (wkU1F)

Ran away to Cambodia to try to make a new start and make a difference.

'Cause Apocalypse now was just not grim enough.

Posted by: Kindltot at March 28, 2026 09:32 PM (rbvCR)

200 Apocalypse Now needed a sequel."

Tropic Thunder. Duh.

Posted by: man at March 28, 2026 09:33 PM (XuXeR)

201
Arnold got a pacemaker a few years ago. I don't know what's in his head.
Posted by: TJM's phone

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Bro-brain. He wants to finish on a high note instead of failing out as lousy governor of California followed by the guy who knocked up the Mexican help.

But holy lord, I saw a video of him recently, hunched and shuffling and laboring down the street with body guards around him and climbing stiffly into an SUV. He needs to work out just to get ambulatory.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 28, 2026 09:33 PM (XJ22o)

202 196 Apocalypse Now kind of got a sequel in Platoon.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 28, 2026 09:30 PM (XV/Pl

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The Vietnam Cinematic Universe was never quite as holistically compelling as the Space Mission cinematic universe that started with The Right Stuff.

Posted by: TJM's phone at March 28, 2026 09:33 PM (JmKZX)

203 You hate John Wick due to your latent hatred of puppies.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 28, 2026 09:33 PM (RIvkX)

204 And from a certain point of view, Tropic Thunder is a sequel to Apocalypse Now. Maybe a sidequel.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 28, 2026 09:35 PM (XV/Pl)

205 Taking 10-22 to the creek bottom and shooting dirt clods would be more thrilling.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 28, 2026 09:35 PM (IictL)

206 Apocalypse Now is one of those movies I don't understand the accolades.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 28, 2026 09:35 PM (V4IXI)

207 203 You hate John Wick due to your latent hatred of puppies.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 28, 2026 09:33 PM (RIvkX

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Really, its the lack of puppies in the sequels.

Posted by: TJM's phone at March 28, 2026 09:35 PM (JmKZX)

208 Also, the JW flix have guns. Beautiful, amazingly well made and $$$$ guns.

Would very much like to have a "ballerina" model Taran Tactical, but $4.5k for a modded Glock?

Yikes

Posted by: man at March 28, 2026 09:36 PM (XuXeR)

209 >Is blocking an interstate a Federal offense?

Posted by: gKWVE
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not in a state where the governor is a queer socialist

Posted by: Don Black at March 28, 2026 09:36 PM (ZxPkt)

210 >>>Gadzooks, Halle Barry is on the cusp of 60.

My how time flies.

Posted by: Thomas Bender

>The problem with the next generation of women is the duck face, fat lip, brazillion butt lift. Women are some much more attractive with their natural, sensual lips. When did they lose their minds for the cartoon look?

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 28, 2026 09:37 PM (Fbc0I)

211 205 Taking 10-22 to the creek bottom and shooting dirt clods would be more thrilling.
_-_
Speaking of which, the stores here stopped carrying tannerite. I think those guys in Denver should protest that.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at March 28, 2026 09:37 PM (UajcV)

212 Watching the Star Trek episode The Way to Eden.

Hilarious and confirms dirty hippies will still be hated 500 years from now.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 28, 2026 09:37 PM (V4IXI)

213 hey now, Polis isn't a socialist. He's all for capitalism... for himself and his cronies.
Same as it ever was. Capitalism for them, socialism for their voters, fascism for us.

Posted by: gKWVE at March 28, 2026 09:38 PM (gKWVE)

214 When did they lose their minds for the cartoon look?"

Hey, check out my new phone! It's called the iPhone...

Posted by: man at March 28, 2026 09:38 PM (XuXeR)

215 John Wick, The Matrix, Jaws, Gone with the Wind, Casino, and on andonandonandon...

Face it, the perfect movie by every possible standard of cinematic art is The Crawling Eye. That's my story and I'm stickin' to it. For a few minutes, anyway...

Posted by: Just Some Guy at March 28, 2026 09:38 PM (q3u5l)

216 I'm still waiting for " History of the World part 2"

Posted by: Ben Had at March 28, 2026 09:38 PM (+nEug)

217 I think the whole point of the John Wick sequels (if there is one beyond the obvious) is that he does not have a choice. He is swimming against the incoming tide, and no matter how hard he swims, no matter who or how many he kills, he can't escape his destiny. Might be a bit nihilistic, but that is the world of John Wick, after all.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at March 28, 2026 09:39 PM (QaH55)

218 216 I'm still waiting for " History of the World part 2"
Posted by: Ben Had at March 28, 2026 09:38 PM (+nEug)

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HULU series a year or so ago.

Apparently terrible.

Posted by: TJM's phone at March 28, 2026 09:39 PM (JmKZX)

219
Tim Walz shouting to the MN No Kings rally, before introducing Bruce Springsteen:

"We need no damn kings! But we do need a boss!”

Same as the old old old old boss.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 28, 2026 09:41 PM (Cqx++)

220 158 The Day After has plenty of sequels.
The Book of Eli, Fallout, A Boy And His Dog . . .
Posted by: gKWVE at March 28, 2026 09:17 PM (gKWVE)

Word on the street is that Threads is being remade…

Posted by: Cow Demon at March 28, 2026 09:41 PM (hJH5n)

221 I'm still waiting for " History of the World part 2"

Spaceballs 2, The Search For More Money...

Posted by: man at March 28, 2026 09:41 PM (XuXeR)

222 211 205 Taking 10-22 to the creek bottom and shooting dirt clods would be more thrilling.
_-_
Speaking of which, the stores here stopped carrying tannerite. I think those guys in Denver should protest that.
Posted by: Don in SoCo at March 28, 2026 09:37 PM (UajcV)
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Since the right to blow stuff up isn't addressed in the US Constitution it probably is deferredl to the states.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at March 28, 2026 09:41 PM (cWLG3)

223 Watching the Star Trek episode The Way to Eden.

Hilarious and confirms dirty hippies will still be hated 500 years from now.
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 28, 2026 09:37 PM (V4IXI)
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Yea, Brother. We reach

It was interesting in that not everyone was down with the Federation .

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes. at March 28, 2026 09:41 PM (kpS4V)

224 One nice thing about John Wick -- he had to reload. A lot.

There's a nice line in the Paul Newman flick Twilight. "I saw another movie where your husband shot twelve guys with a six-shot revolver." That doesn't happen in John Wick, at least not so I noticed.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at March 28, 2026 09:41 PM (q3u5l)

225 221 Spaceballs 2, The Search For More Money...
Posted by: man at March 28, 2026 09:41 PM (XuXeR

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Greenlit and written. Shooting soon, I think.

Posted by: TJM's phone at March 28, 2026 09:42 PM (JmKZX)

226 >>>never quite as holistically compelling as the Space Mission cinematic universe that started with The Right Stuff.
Posted by: TJM's phone
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If only NASA had watched that movie before starting the Shuttle program.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 28, 2026 09:42 PM (IictL)

227 @218 Year One was so bad it was good.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at March 28, 2026 09:43 PM (cWLG3)

228 I understand I'm in a small minority but I'm not a big fan of Mel Brook movies. They all have quotable lines though.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 28, 2026 09:43 PM (V4IXI)

229 problem with the next generation of women

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Interesting short YT about a woman who lived as a man for a year and what she discovered about how men are treated. Some rings true, other not so much. Maybe 2 or 3 minutes.

https://is.gd/cauMiz

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Damn It Feels Good to Be a Trumpster! at March 28, 2026 09:43 PM (ndZc7)

230 Since the right to blow stuff up isn't addressed in the US Constitution it probably is deferredl to the states.
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at March 28, 2026 09:41 PM (cWLG3)
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God-given natural rights don't have to be delineated in some old document.

*shoots blunderbuss at pumpkin stuffed with tannerite *

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes. at March 28, 2026 09:43 PM (kpS4V)

231 Since the right to blow stuff up isn't addressed in the US Constitution it probably is deferredl to the states.
_-_
Aye, this the need for a protest.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at March 28, 2026 09:44 PM (UajcV)

232 228 I understand I'm in a small minority but I'm not a big fan of Mel Brook movies. They all have quotable lines though.
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 28, 2026 09:43 PM (V4IXI

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Gene Wilder helped...a lot.

When Wilder didn't cowrite, the movies just weren't as good.

Posted by: TJM's phone at March 28, 2026 09:44 PM (JmKZX)

233 Charlie came to Santa Monica and opened a surf shop.
AN is a two hour meme.
Moby Dick is the same. You just have to imagine every scene with the cat and the two screaming Karens.

Posted by: Accomak at March 28, 2026 09:44 PM (wkU1F)

234 That doesn't happen in John Wick, at least not so I noticed."

True, but some of those reloads are a bit... well, faster than reality.

And yes, saw the bit for spaceballs 2. I'm preparing to be disappointed.

Posted by: man at March 28, 2026 09:44 PM (XuXeR)

235 John Wick is the Terminator, with more muddled motivations and less character development.

Posted by: toby928(c) at March 28, 2026 09:45 PM (4NO2D)

236 "Hundreds of thousands of protestors" and "across the nation" the MSM breathlessly reports.

That would be about two full-sized crowds in Michigan stadium.

Pathetic, but about what one would expect after the decapping of the left-wing funding machine.

Posted by: mrp at March 28, 2026 09:45 PM (rj6Yv)

237 Posted by: Just Some Guy at March 28, 2026 09:41 PM (q3u

You reminded me of Where Eagles Dare and the infinite magazine.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 28, 2026 09:46 PM (V4IXI)

238 228 I understand I'm in a small minority but I'm not a big fan of Mel Brook movies. They all have quotable lines though.
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 28, 2026 09:43 PM (V4IXI)

They suffer the same problem as the Monty Python movies. They get to the more or less end, and they don't know how to close the deal, and then do a lot of silly stuff and call it good.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at March 28, 2026 09:46 PM (QaH55)

239 Year One was so bad it was good.
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at March 28, 2026 09:43 PM

Thank you. I was considering watching it.

Posted by: toby928(c) at March 28, 2026 09:47 PM (4NO2D)

240 Mel Gibson is making the sequel to Passion Of The Christ

Posted by: Don Black at March 28, 2026 09:47 PM (ZxPkt)

241 Some of Brooks movies are good but he is so fucking crude, obnoxious, and vulgar not to mention juvenile, if it were not for Gene Wilder and some others who reined him in he would not have made it.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 28, 2026 09:47 PM (IictL)

242 I have a John Wick in the bathroom for when somebody drops a real stinker.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at March 28, 2026 09:47 PM (UajcV)

243 135 That's okay, according to Jack Posobiec it's all pagan anyway
Posted by: gKWVE at March 28, 2026 09:03 PM (gKWVE)

Before that I had been thinking that Prosobiec was kind of an idiot.
Now I have no doubts.
Posted by: Tom Servo

hE'z a iNFLuenCEr!! He's a whore for clicks and attention.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at March 28, 2026 09:48 PM (gcUgZ)

244 High Anxiety was a fun movie IIRC.

Posted by: toby928(c) at March 28, 2026 09:48 PM (4NO2D)

245 Sequels.....

Why didn't "Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins" have a sequel?

Why didn't "Leonard Part 6" not have any prequels?

Posted by: mikeski at March 28, 2026 09:48 PM (VHUov)

246 240 Mel Gibson is making the sequel to Passion Of The Christ

Posted by: Don Black at March 28, 2026 09:47 PM (ZxPkt

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Two sequels!

Made concurrently.

Like Back to the Future

Posted by: TJM's phone at March 28, 2026 09:48 PM (JmKZX)

247 but he is so fucking crude, obnoxious, and vulgar not to mention juvenile"

Well, we're gonna work up a number 6 later on...

Posted by: man at March 28, 2026 09:48 PM (XuXeR)

248 (Pardon my double negative.)

Posted by: mikeski at March 28, 2026 09:48 PM (VHUov)

249 What is Tropic Thunder? The Cruise NASCAR movie?

Posted by: Accomak at March 28, 2026 09:49 PM (wkU1F)

250 Jesus 3: The Return

No more Mister Niceguy...

Posted by: toby928(c) at March 28, 2026 09:49 PM (4NO2D)

251 What is Tropic Thunder? The Cruise NASCAR movie?"

Yeah, sure...

Posted by: man at March 28, 2026 09:49 PM (XuXeR)

252 What is Tropic Thunder? The Cruise NASCAR movie?
Posted by: Accomak at March 28, 2026 09:49 PM

You're thinking of Thunder Road.

Posted by: toby928(c) at March 28, 2026 09:50 PM (4NO2D)

253 246 240 Mel Gibson is making the sequel to Passion Of The Christ

Posted by: Don Black at March 28, 2026 09:47 PM (ZxPkt

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Two sequels!

Made concurrently.

Like Back to the Future
Posted by: TJM's phone at March 28, 2026 09:48 PM (JmKZX)
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Christ Returns Part 1. The second part we can't know the date.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at March 28, 2026 09:50 PM (cWLG3)

254
No more Mister Niceguy...

Just ask Alice...

Posted by: Don in SoCo at March 28, 2026 09:50 PM (UajcV)

255 I am bummed that season 6 of "The Chosen" isn't out until 2027.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 28, 2026 09:50 PM (+nEug)

256 "Why do the John Wick movies...leave me cold?"

Because you are a toad.

Lots of guns, lots of killing, lots of tough guys.

I guess that isn't your bailiwick.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 28, 2026 09:51 PM (n9ltV)

257 I didn't like "Jaws". I was pulling for the shark.

Posted by: Case at March 28, 2026 09:51 PM (pvf3X)

258 256
Lots of guns, lots of killing, lots of tough guys.

I guess that isn't your bailiwick.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 28, 2026 09:51 PM (n9ltV

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What about th3 stuff in between?

Posted by: TJM's phone at March 28, 2026 09:51 PM (JmKZX)

259 Sequels of great movies that nobody watched

Caddy Shack 2

Lost Boys 2

( I forgot Lost Boys as one I've watched a dozen times)

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 28, 2026 09:51 PM (V4IXI)

260 I was pulling for the shark.

Posted by: Case at March 28, 2026 09:51 PM (pvf3X)

The other characters are even less appealing in the book!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 28, 2026 09:51 PM (n9ltV)

261 Always thought Brooks' best were The Producers and Young Frankenstein. Blazing Saddles a runner-up. None of his other movies really did it for me at all.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at March 28, 2026 09:51 PM (q3u5l)

262 You're thinking of Thunder Road."

That's Mitchum IIRC..

Cruise was in Days of Thunder

Posted by: man at March 28, 2026 09:52 PM (XuXeR)

263 I just finished watching Hercules in the Haunted World. Beefcake, cheesecake, the undead, and Christopher Lee. It’s the perfect movie.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at March 28, 2026 09:52 PM (EXyHK)

264 I just realized that there is a great movie that I need to add to my collection.

Ladyhawke.

Rutger Hauer being awesome, Michell Pfieffer being hot, and Matthew Broderick being comedic without being obnoxious.

Posted by: NR Pax at March 28, 2026 09:52 PM (+NIRm)

265 The nihilistic, self-annihilation genre gets tedious no matter if it's Peckinpah or Tarentino, or some other one-note Charlie.

Posted by: mrp at March 28, 2026 09:52 PM (rj6Yv)

266 The number 6 is a natural number that follows 5 and precedes 7. It is a composite number and the smallest perfect number, meaning it is the sum of its proper divisors

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 28, 2026 09:52 PM (IictL)

267 What about th3 stuff in between?"

Fast forward...

Posted by: man at March 28, 2026 09:53 PM (XuXeR)

268 Tim Walz shouting to the MN No Kings rally, before introducing Bruce Springsteen:

"We need no damn kings! But we do need a boss!”

Walz posted "No Kings!" on Twitter. The RNC replied with a GIF of Walz gayly flouncing around a stage and the text "No Queens!". Which is remarkably funny, and probably will be a hate crime momentarily.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 28, 2026 09:53 PM (oyazo)

269 I'll look it up on Wiki

Posted by: Accomak at March 28, 2026 09:53 PM (wkU1F)

270 Cruise was in Days of Thunder
Posted by: man at March 28, 2026 09:52 PM

You're thinking of Brian Dennehy.

Posted by: toby928(c) at March 28, 2026 09:53 PM (4NO2D)

271 263 I just finished watching Hercules in the Haunted World. Beefcake, cheesecake, the undead, and Christopher Lee. It’s the perfect movie.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at March 28, 2026 09:52 PM (EXyHK

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Early Mario Bava!

Posted by: TJM's phone at March 28, 2026 09:53 PM (JmKZX)

272 Les Grossman

Posted by: Kindltot at March 28, 2026 09:54 PM (rbvCR)

273 The number 6 is a natural number that follows 5 and precedes 7. It is a composite number and the smallest perfect number, meaning it is the sum of its proper divisors"

There's a Number Six Dance later on...

Posted by: man at March 28, 2026 09:54 PM (XuXeR)

274 266 The number 6 is a natural number that follows 5 and precedes 7. It is a composite number and the smallest perfect number, meaning it is the sum of its proper divisors
_-_
Is this gonna be on the test?

Posted by: Don in SoCo at March 28, 2026 09:54 PM (UajcV)

275 You're thinking of Brian Dennehy."

Which racetrack did he play again?

Posted by: man at March 28, 2026 09:55 PM (XuXeR)

276 264 I just realized that there is a great movie that I need to add to my collection.

Ladyhawke.

Rutger Hauer being awesome, Michell Pfieffer being hot, and Matthew Broderick being comedic without being obnoxious.
Posted by: NR Pax at March 28, 2026 09:52 PM (+NIRm)
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I heard there was an alternate soundtrack for that movie. The 1980s synth score just doesn't hold up IMHO. It's, how you say, not lore faithful.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at March 28, 2026 09:55 PM (cWLG3)

277 …and Matthew Broderick being comedic without being obnoxious.

I’d like to think there’s some higher meaning to all this.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at March 28, 2026 09:55 PM (EXyHK)

278 Agreed, LadyHawke was definitely worth watching.

Posted by: proudvastrightwingguy at March 28, 2026 09:55 PM (MNCvZ)

279
I didn't like "Jaws". I was pulling for the shark.
Posted by: Case

Have a pulled shark sandwich.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 28, 2026 09:55 PM (Cqx++)

280 Les Grossman"

Greatest producer ever...

Posted by: man at March 28, 2026 09:56 PM (XuXeR)

281 Early Mario Bava!

Yes, and I’m pretty sure some actors were speaking English and others had originally been speaking Italian.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at March 28, 2026 09:56 PM (EXyHK)

282 Matthew Broderick could pass for a teenager until he was 45.

I don't know how this was even possible.

Posted by: toby928(c) at March 28, 2026 09:57 PM (4NO2D)

283 Apocalypse Now is one of those movies I don't understand the accolades.
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg

You obviously had not seen the extended director's extended dance mix cut of Apocalypse Now. If you did you would become a believer.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 28, 2026 09:57 PM (/lPRQ)

284 Number Six doesn't plan to hang around very long.

And on that happy note, outta here for the evening. Thanks for the thread, TJM.

Have a good one, gang.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at March 28, 2026 09:58 PM (q3u5l)

285 Spock is a dirty hippie lover.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 28, 2026 09:58 PM (V4IXI)

286 Les Grossman won the Silver Sow newsman award.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 28, 2026 09:58 PM (Cqx++)

287 281
Yes, and I’m pretty sure some actors were speaking English and others had originally been speaking Italian.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at March 28, 2026 09:56 PM (EXyHK

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They didn't record sound live in Italy at the time. Too expensive.

So they shot silent, and it didn't matter what the international cast spoke during filming because it was all going to be dubbed anyway.

Posted by: TJM's phone at March 28, 2026 09:58 PM (JmKZX)

288 You obviously had not seen the extended director's extended dance mix cut of Apocalypse Now. If you did you would become a believer.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 28, 2026 09:57 PM

But that comes at the cost of enduring the plantation scenes.

Posted by: toby928(c) at March 28, 2026 09:58 PM (4NO2D)

289 LadyHawke was definitely worth watching."

Heck, I'd pay $$$ to watch Michell Pfieffer read the phone book...

Posted by: man at March 28, 2026 09:58 PM (XuXeR)

290 You obviously had not seen the extended director's extended dance mix cut of Apocalypse Now"

The "Staying Alive" bit is awesome.

Posted by: man at March 28, 2026 09:59 PM (XuXeR)

291 Walz posted "No Kings!" on Twitter. The RNC replied with a GIF of Walz gayly flouncing around a stage and the text "No Queens!". Which is remarkably funny, and probably will be a hate crime momentarily.
Posted by: Ian S.
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Thank you. I have suggested that we forgo the whimsical, confusing, post-modern terms and simply use the traditional and direct terms Queen and Dyke.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 28, 2026 10:00 PM (IictL)

292 283 Apocalypse Now is one of those movies I don't understand the accolades.
Posted by: Harry Vandenburg
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It takes years.of study of the art of filmmaking to understand.

Posted by: Sophisticated Connoisseur of Film at March 28, 2026 10:00 PM (cWLG3)

293 265 The nihilistic, self-annihilation genre gets tedious no matter if it's Peckinpah or Tarentino, or some other one-note Charlie.
Posted by: mrp

But enough about 'Driving Miss Daisy'.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at March 28, 2026 10:02 PM (gcUgZ)

294 I hate these a lot less than TJM. I think they are increasingly bad however.

I like the first one quite a bit. The second was interesting and I like worldbuilding even if it isn't perfect in this series. But it got increasingly...silly. Like the assassins everywhere, it just broke free from reality and I couldn't take it seriously.

Great stunts, great fights, wonderful gunplay. Worth seeing for that.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at March 28, 2026 10:06 PM (xcxpd)

295

Ladyhawke.

Rutger Hauer being awesome, Michell Pfieffer being hot, and Matthew Broderick being comedic without being obnoxious.

And Leo McKern.

Did you ever notice that the guy who played the Bishop played against Broderick in Wargames two years before as Professor Falken?

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at March 28, 2026 10:08 PM (XndHb)

296 You need to approach Apocalypse Now the way you would a Jackson Pollack painting: "wait.what.how much?"
Art suffers from the inability to separate the perfect entasis of columns in ancient Greece from Obama's Dildo.

Posted by: Accomak at March 28, 2026 10:09 PM (wkU1F)

297 They didn't record sound live in Italy at the time. Too expensive.

I learned this when I had the brilliant idea that watching classic Italian movies would help in learning Italian. I don’t remember which one this was obvious in but I was seriously considering the possibility that Criterion had somehow made a defective sync for that particular DVD before I learned the truth.

Great movies, but the lack of correlation between lip movement and dialogue makes them far less useful for my original purpose.

Ballando Ballando turned out to have an entirely different problem with respect to learning Italian.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at March 28, 2026 10:11 PM (EXyHK)

298 As the boys up the river would say, our motto is: Apocalypse Now. The 20-something-year-old punker that I used to be that that was just about right.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at March 28, 2026 10:16 PM (QaH55)

299 The fascination for John Wick movies for me is the gun-fu. It was absolutely unique in the way it merged the great American shootout with chopsticks action.
Since then, hungry is becoming more common, but John Wick was a trailbreaker.

Posted by: buddhaha at March 28, 2026 10:38 PM (rJ+qD)

300 Keanu trained hard and for real to be able to do the gun stuff correctly, and well. And he got goooooood. The movies are silly, but I enjoy watching an actual skilled gun user doing actually real gun manipulations and tactics, better than me when I do 3-gun matches.

Otherwise, it's just another comic-book movie. But Keanu took the shooting seriously, and does it very, very well. Real trained shooters know.

Posted by: Frank Nobody at March 28, 2026 10:44 PM (75cud)

301 For my mental and spiritual health, I am careful about what I see. You cannot unsee evil. I prefer films about love and heroism.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at March 28, 2026 10:53 PM (qFwJc)

302 152 146 needs a sequel:

The Day After
Posted by: Don Black at March 28, 2026 09:13 PM (ZxPkt)
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The Day After 2: The Day Before The Day After Tomorrow
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at March 28, 2026 09:15 PM (cWLG3)

Not Nuclear Boogaloo?

Posted by: Cow Demon at March 29, 2026 01:17 AM (muXU/)

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