March 01, 2014
Movie Warning And Open Thread
— DrewM If you're thinking of seeing the movie Non-Stop, you may want to read this first. It's all spoilers but if it's right, and it appears to be, you'll want to avoid it like the plague.
— DrewM If you're thinking of seeing the movie Non-Stop, you may want to read this first. It's all spoilers but if it's right, and it appears to be, you'll want to avoid it like the plague.
You think Hollywood can't sink any lower and then you realize how stupid you are for thinking that.
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What? Its being featured on the front page of PJ Media! They never steered me wrong!
Posted by: Bigby's Waving Hands at March 01, 2014 10:51 AM (KgN8K)
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Sounds great to me, when I was in single digits back in the 1950s all the boys played mild muslim medics conquering wing nut terrorists hijacking jet liners by calmly reading from the holy book of the religion of peace..
Posted by: Angel with a sword at March 01, 2014 10:53 AM (hpgw1)
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I probably would not have watched that movie anyway because no rental place anymore where I can get blue-rays. But after reading the first two paragraphs I said trash,
Posted by: Vic[/i] at March 01, 2014 10:53 AM (T2V/1)
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I really liked Liam Neason in the Taken movies and saw him as a viable action star. But I'm sorry, I hope this dog turd sets new standards for a movie bomb. From my lips to the public's ears.
Posted by: Heinlein's lost son at March 01, 2014 10:53 AM (oAAdN)
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That's boob, boob, not book. Damn Victorian spell checker.
Posted by: WalrusRex at March 01, 2014 10:54 AM (E+uky)
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Liam Neeson walks into a bar
The bartender says "Hey what ya havin? We've got a Biden beer - its like a regular beer but the head's on the bottom. Ha! geddit?"
Liam shoots the bartender
Posted by: Bigby's Waving Hands at March 01, 2014 10:54 AM (KgN8K)
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I wasn't going to see it just because I buy Arnold Schwarzenegger as a US Marshall before I buy Liam Neeson's American accent.
Posted by: AmishDude at March 01, 2014 10:54 AM (xSegX)
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Spoil. That's the best way to cost them money. Spoil far and wide and shame them.
Posted by: Lauren at March 01, 2014 10:55 AM (hFL/3)
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It could get worse. Is the terrorist-a survivor of a victim of 9/11-also a Tea Partier?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 01, 2014 10:55 AM (XyM/Y)
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From the sidebar, thank God no one used any guns in that Islamic terrorist attack in China.
Posted by: WalrusRex at March 01, 2014 10:56 AM (E+uky)
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We wouldn't be in this cultural mess if the Koch brothers would quit bankrolling Putin and gangs of Chinese knifers.
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at March 01, 2014 10:56 AM (ltdV/)
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What is worse, didn't Jodie Foster think she lost her child on a non-stop flight?
Didn't believe that premise so when I saw the trailer for this, didn't believe it again.
Didn't believe that premise so when I saw the trailer for this, didn't believe it again.
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 01, 2014 10:56 AM (MOXtS)
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That's disappointing, thought Neeson had his head screwed on at least a little bit right.
Posted by: [/i][/b]KG at March 01, 2014 10:56 AM (IPz9m)
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Liam Neeson converted to Islam IIRC...
http://tinyurl.com/oyo4yrb
He recanted after he figured out he'd lose his career...
but Liam is a fucking moonbat and makes me less not more likely to see a film post 9/11
http://tinyurl.com/oyo4yrb
He recanted after he figured out he'd lose his career...
but Liam is a fucking moonbat and makes me less not more likely to see a film post 9/11
Posted by: Sven 10077 at March 01, 2014 10:57 AM (TE35l)
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In many ways, this is the story of Obama
In many ways, Babylon 5 is the story of Ukraine. . . the United States. . . . the future as a metaphor, semaphore. . something. . . it's like a clue, ya know? A warning or an instruction manual .
or it could be just Hollywood trying to sell movie tickets to rubes.
In many ways, Babylon 5 is the story of Ukraine. . . the United States. . . . the future as a metaphor, semaphore. . something. . . it's like a clue, ya know? A warning or an instruction manual .
or it could be just Hollywood trying to sell movie tickets to rubes.
Posted by: First Name Last at March 01, 2014 10:58 AM (JIbLI)
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It is time we as a nation had a flank discussion about knife control.
Posted by: Wi Tu Low at March 01, 2014 10:58 AM (6bMeY)
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but I guess Taken 2 should've disabused me of that notion.
Posted by: [/i][/b]KG at March 01, 2014 10:58 AM (IPz9m)
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Spread the word to everyone you know and on every blog or social media you frequent. Including the spoilers.
The only language Hollywood understands is cash. Make 'em lose enough money on these outrageous productions, and they will stop making them.
The only language Hollywood understands is cash. Make 'em lose enough money on these outrageous productions, and they will stop making them.
Posted by: Adjoran at March 01, 2014 10:58 AM (QIQ6j)
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Didn't Neeson say that he was toying with converting to Islam after hearing the "beautiful" call to prayer while filming Taken 2?
Something like that.
I mean, on one hand I give him a bit of a pass because his wife died suddenly not too long ago so I'm sure he's searching for meaning in life, but no. Just no.
Posted by: Lauren at March 01, 2014 10:58 AM (hFL/3)
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Afternoon Rons/Ettes!
Yep, Beck saw it and reviewed it on Friday. Said the NYC audience he saw it with was all "Oh come on, give me a break!" when the villain was revealed. Like he said, if you've lost jaded lefty New Yorkers than you've really lost it. Says it is horribly offensive.
Of course, I say that, when I have plans to go see the new Miyazaki film "The Wind Rises" tonight with friends. It's also garnered controversy. Is an animated bio about a plane designer, whose planes were used by Japan in WW2. Supposedly is pro WW2 Japan. It's Miyazaki's last film as director so I'm gonna go see it, but I hate going into a film expecting to be uncomfortable, sigh. Can give ppl a review tomorrow if you want it.
Yep, Beck saw it and reviewed it on Friday. Said the NYC audience he saw it with was all "Oh come on, give me a break!" when the villain was revealed. Like he said, if you've lost jaded lefty New Yorkers than you've really lost it. Says it is horribly offensive.
Of course, I say that, when I have plans to go see the new Miyazaki film "The Wind Rises" tonight with friends. It's also garnered controversy. Is an animated bio about a plane designer, whose planes were used by Japan in WW2. Supposedly is pro WW2 Japan. It's Miyazaki's last film as director so I'm gonna go see it, but I hate going into a film expecting to be uncomfortable, sigh. Can give ppl a review tomorrow if you want it.
Posted by: LizLem at March 01, 2014 10:58 AM (ijXVY)
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13 FenelonSpoke at March 01, 2014 02:55 PM (XyM/Y)
I think he is either tea party agnostic or thinks the Tea Party is not going far enough but yeah...
I hate Horrywood pretty hard...shit like this is why.
I think he is either tea party agnostic or thinks the Tea Party is not going far enough but yeah...
I hate Horrywood pretty hard...shit like this is why.
Posted by: Sven 10077 at March 01, 2014 10:59 AM (TE35l)
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On my morning commute, Glenn Beck said he was in a NYC movie theater and even that audience was groaning "Really?" "Really???"
Posted by: AE at March 01, 2014 10:59 AM (+ft6G)
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19 Liam Neeson converted to Islam IIRC...
http://tinyurl.com/oyo4yrb
He recanted after he figured out he'd lose his career...
Or, he just ran out of hashish.
Buddhism is so 90s, you know.
Posted by: AmishDude at March 01, 2014 11:00 AM (xSegX)
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I'm porting my comment from the previous thread. This Propaganda as entertainment shit is one of the reasons the culture is so badly fucked up.
Posted by: D-Lamp at March 01, 2014 11:00 AM (bb5+k)
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One more time with feeling...Fuck Hollywood.
Posted by: naturalfake at March 01, 2014 02:49 PM (KBvAm)
I read the synopsis. What many of us don't appear to understand is that the left moves the nation's opinion with propaganda like this.
Many of the low information voters are simply too ignorant and unintelligent to recognize a lot of entertainment as the propaganda that it is.
The movie "One Flew over the Cuckoo's nest" is said to have been the cause for destroying the use of involuntary commitment to put crazy people in asylums.
It also ended up triggering cuts to the funding for involuntary commitment facilities around the nation.
This is how we ended up with so many crazies on the street during the Reagan years, and regarding which the media talked incessantly at the time.
Their argument? It was Reagan's budget cuts which caused this, not Congress' refusal to fund those mental health programs due to blowback from a movie.
The movie "I Want to Live" supposedly spurred the movement to abolish the death penalty.
This shit has been going on a long time, and something needs to be done about it.
Posted by: D-Lamp at March 01, 2014 11:01 AM (bb5+k)
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Liam Neason gets added to the no-watch list, which is quite long already. Bollywood somehow manages to make entertaining films without disgusting me, don't know how they do it.
Posted by: SpongeBobSaget at March 01, 2014 11:01 AM (kxSZr)
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30 D-Lamp,
I am slowly getting a LOT calmer...
Horrywood wants us to get weak and nuked and America is eating it up...
Go long on CopperTone futures.
I am slowly getting a LOT calmer...
Horrywood wants us to get weak and nuked and America is eating it up...
Go long on CopperTone futures.
Posted by: Sven 10077 at March 01, 2014 11:02 AM (TE35l)
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Pardon my language, ladies, but
FUCK YOU, Hollywood.
Posted by: shredded chi at March 01, 2014 11:02 AM (E70Gb)
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12 Spoil. That's the best way to cost them money. Spoil far and wide and shame them.
Posted by: Lauren at March 01, 2014 02:55 PM (hFL/3)
If you ever want to know the main plot points of a film, aka to see how sucker-punchery it's going to be, The Movie Spoiler is one of my go-to sites. Already has a summary up for Non-Stop.
http://themoviespoiler.com/
If you ever want to know the main plot points of a film, aka to see how sucker-punchery it's going to be, The Movie Spoiler is one of my go-to sites. Already has a summary up for Non-Stop.
http://themoviespoiler.com/
Posted by: LizLem at March 01, 2014 11:02 AM (ijXVY)
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Speaking of plot holes, so why was Liam's character targeted?
Sounds like the bad guy had a hard-on for Liam's character. If that motivation is never explained, well gee you really do have a horrible script.
Sounds like the bad guy had a hard-on for Liam's character. If that motivation is never explained, well gee you really do have a horrible script.
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 01, 2014 11:02 AM (MOXtS)
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Sounds fantastic! I can't wait to see it!
Posted by: Patty "al Qaeda daycare centers" Murray at March 01, 2014 11:02 AM (dAyFr)
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Sure, Liam Neason makes a great fake action hero, but can he do the splits like Van Damme?
Posted by: Alter Ego, First among many. at March 01, 2014 11:03 AM (JIbLI)
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Posted by: D-Lamp at March 01, 2014 03:01 PM (bb5+k)
A lot of lawyers point to "To Kill a Mockingbird" as their inspiration for the profession.
A fictional man in a made-up story. Sounds about right.
Posted by: AmishDude at March 01, 2014 11:03 AM (xSegX)
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In many ways, Babylon 5 is the story of Ukraine. . . the United States. .
. . the future as a metaphor, semaphore. . something. . . it's like a
clue, ya know? A warning or an instruction manual .
The Babylon Project was our last, best hope for peace.
It failed.
The Babylon Project was our last, best hope for peace.
It failed.
Posted by: The Goddess Ivanova, season 3 at March 01, 2014 11:03 AM (hO9ad)
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Oh, and after toying with conversion to Islam, one might assume that Liam was cool with the choice of bad guys.
Posted by: AE at March 01, 2014 11:03 AM (+ft6G)
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Jesus.
They are batshit insane.
Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 01, 2014 11:04 AM (DmNpO)
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38 Alter Ego, First among many. at March 01, 2014 03:03 PM (JIbLI)
No, but he punches fuckers in the throat...
I saw this film when Liam was Black and played by Wesley Snipes I think....
"Always bet on JIHAD!"
//Passenger Sixty-Nine
No, but he punches fuckers in the throat...
I saw this film when Liam was Black and played by Wesley Snipes I think....
"Always bet on JIHAD!"
//Passenger Sixty-Nine
Posted by: Sven 10077 at March 01, 2014 11:04 AM (TE35l)
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I liked him in Next of Kin, but his "southern accent" was off. But for a mountains of TN it may have been right, I have never been there other than drive through on the freeway.
Posted by: Vic[/i] at March 01, 2014 11:05 AM (T2V/1)
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A fictional man in a made-up story about a lawyer who lost the case and got his client killed. Sounds about right.
Posted by: AmishDude at March 01, 2014 03:03 PM (xSegX)
FIFY
Posted by: AmishDude at March 01, 2014 03:03 PM (xSegX)
FIFY
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 01, 2014 11:05 AM (QFxY5)
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@31 This shit has been going on a long time, and something needs to be done about it.
Posted by: D-Lamp at March 01, 2014 03:01 PM
The creme de la creme... The China Syndrome... all complete hack bullcrap and the nuclear industry in the US was still-born.
Posted by: D-Lamp at March 01, 2014 03:01 PM
The creme de la creme... The China Syndrome... all complete hack bullcrap and the nuclear industry in the US was still-born.
Posted by: Yip at March 01, 2014 11:05 AM (/jHWN)
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but Liam is a fucking moonbat and makes me less not more likely to see a film post 9/11
Posted by: Sven 10077 at March 01, 2014 02:57 PM (TE35l)
Being a fucking moonbat is pretty much a requirement for actors nowadays.
I personally think that people who want to go into this profession (Pretend and make believe for a living) have always been low class scum with twisted morals and thinking, but first film and then television gave them a far wider audience (and wealth) than actors had previously been able to garner before.
Throughout most of human history the norm was small audiences, and not all that much money. They were a lot more harmless when they didn't have the opportunity to brainwash millions with their kooky beliefs.
Posted by: D-Lamp at March 01, 2014 11:05 AM (bb5+k)
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Posted by: Vic at March 01, 2014 03:05 PM (T2V/1)
Neeson wasn't bad in "The Grey," which was sort of fun. Worth a $1 rental.
Neeson wasn't bad in "The Grey," which was sort of fun. Worth a $1 rental.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 01, 2014 11:06 AM (QFxY5)
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LizLem planning to go with friends to see The Wind Rises next week. Its the story of the designer of the A6M Zero-sen. Yeah not Miyazaki's usual fare if you omit Porco Rosso which mixes air pirates and phrases like "Better to be a pig than a Fascist."
And this movie is merely Miyazaki's retirement from being a director. He still plans to have his hand in things at Studio Ghibli. It was a shame his looniness prevented him from visiting the US while Bush was President, but I can forgive him because his movies are pretty darn good.
And this movie is merely Miyazaki's retirement from being a director. He still plans to have his hand in things at Studio Ghibli. It was a shame his looniness prevented him from visiting the US while Bush was President, but I can forgive him because his movies are pretty darn good.
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 01, 2014 11:06 AM (MOXtS)
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I'd rewrite script for Non Stop 2. Shoot me up some muzzies. Yippe ki Yay MF!!
Posted by: Bruce Willis at March 01, 2014 11:07 AM (l0lja)
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1 I say, spoil 'em. Spoil the hell out of 'em.
If Hollywood wants to send a message, I say we just send it via Western Union.
Posted by: AmishDude
Drew, I fully agree with this.
Why are we protecting Hollywood's financial interests by not broadcasting spoilers of their propaganda films?
You headline, and you post, need to blare out the spoiler so that it can't be missed. Because, yes, we want to SPOIL the film for the audience and foe the filmmakers.
Proper headline:
New "Non-Stop" Film Slanders 9/11 Victims as Terrorists
Possible sub-headline will include the word "boycott."
Posted by: zombie at March 01, 2014 11:08 AM (mizYg)
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From that spoiler site.
Spoiler, obviously.
The hijackers motivation:
"Bill is disarmed by Bowen, who then stabs his knife into a nearby seat. With two guns now pointed at him, Bill tries to apologize for whatever he did to Bowen, trying to stop him from hurting everyone else. Bowen says Bill has nothing to apologize for; in fact he is Bowen’s hero. Bill will be, once he is blamed for the hijacking and the destruction of the plane. Bowen then outlays his entire scheme; the entire hijacking was a classic “false flag” operation:
Bowen relates how the entire country was asleep during 9/11 and it cost him his father. He joined the military to make those responsible pay only to spend years in a war that didnÂ’t make sense to him. The country continues to be unsafe and no one will wake up to the fact. However, if someone like an U.S. Air Marshall were to hijack a plane and cause the deaths of hundreds, America would wake up to the problems it faces. It is only through blood that the country agrees to act, Bowen notes."
Posted by: Lauren at March 01, 2014 11:09 AM (hFL/3)
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Reagan had nothing to do with it. It was a state issue. By the 60s, new antipsychotic drugs had been developed and the plan was to have small treatment centers in the community, allowing patients to live at home or in shared housing. It didn't work for a number of reasons. And involuntary commitment still exists.
Barbara Graham was guilty and had no problem pisstol whipping an elderly woman to death.
But yes, the left is constantly rewriting history. That's why I get such a chuckle reading the FBI and Venona files on the Rosenbergs and other commie spies. Ivy Meeropol whined how no one in their family went to the Rosenbergs funeral. Well, yeah. It wasn't really a funeral but a commie rally -- like most lefty funerals. And most in her family knew the Ethel and Julius were guilty.
Posted by: Judge Pug at March 01, 2014 11:09 AM (6Nj7A)
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I'm not going to read the spoilers since I fully intend to torrent the movie as soon as it's available in Europe.
Posted by: toby928© at March 01, 2014 11:10 AM (QupBk)
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52 zombie at March 01, 2014 03:08 PM (mizYg)
I've worked hard not to "steal my entertainment" over the years...but it is oh so tempting....
fucking Horrywood...
I've worked hard not to "steal my entertainment" over the years...but it is oh so tempting....
fucking Horrywood...
Posted by: Sven 10077 at March 01, 2014 11:10 AM (TE35l)
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I personally think that people who want to go into this profession (Pretend and make believe for a living) have always been low class scum with twisted morals and thinking
Uh, I resemble that remark! ;^) No, that's a huge generalization. I was a practicing Christian when I was in the profession and while not a perfect person my morals were fine and I came from the solid middle class. :^)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 01, 2014 11:10 AM (XyM/Y)
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I cannot *WAIT* not to see this movie.
I think I'm going to not see it twice!
Posted by: AmishDude at March 01, 2014 11:10 AM (xSegX)
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The most expensive Bollywood film evah, and it's a must see, some of the footage is stunning:
http://tinyurl.com/3xy6q5y
http://tinyurl.com/3xy6q5y
Posted by: SpongeBobSaget at March 01, 2014 11:10 AM (kxSZr)
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Liam Neeson was married to a Redgrave so yeah, he had to have lefty leanings.
Posted by: Judge Pug at March 01, 2014 11:11 AM (6Nj7A)
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I will never again watch a movie that takes place on a plane.
Flying is miserable enough without the twisted fucks in Hollywood taking a dump on the whole experience. And the Middle Class.
Flying is miserable enough without the twisted fucks in Hollywood taking a dump on the whole experience. And the Middle Class.
Posted by: Fritz at March 01, 2014 11:11 AM (PnMCP)
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At least Hollywood has given up trying to make 'sexy' Jesus movie.
Posted by: Foghorn Leghorn at March 01, 2014 11:11 AM (l0lja)
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i live in the middle of the whole "Hollyweird" beast, and i refuse to give them a dime of my money. they make crap, the stars are arrogant shits, for the most part, and much of the background people are just as arrogant union shits.
fuck them all and 3 cheers for the industry moving out of Failifornia. couldn't happen to a more deserving collection of useless scumbags.
last thing we bothered to go see was Gran Torino.
fuck them all and 3 cheers for the industry moving out of Failifornia. couldn't happen to a more deserving collection of useless scumbags.
last thing we bothered to go see was Gran Torino.
Posted by: Tonto at March 01, 2014 11:11 AM (q+fqH)
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I personally think that people who want to go into this profession (Pretend and make believe for a living) have always been low class scum with twisted morals and thinking
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There is an organized effort going on right now to recruit Christian believers for the acting profession and the film industry. A kind of mission field commitment, so to speak.
Posted by: grammie winger at March 01, 2014 11:12 AM (oMKp3)
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I'm not seeing much Oscar buzz at the moment. Sort of odd -- not that I care. I think all the movies suck and I can't stand that red carpet and 99% of the actors.
Posted by: Judge Pug at March 01, 2014 11:12 AM (6Nj7A)
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Lauren, that seriously makes no sense. If the schlub thinks America is still sleeping after 9/11. Using an Air Marshall to carry it out? How does that make sense since by destroying this Air Marshall ...
My brain hurts. How many lines of coke were snorted to sell this?
My brain hurts. How many lines of coke were snorted to sell this?
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 01, 2014 11:12 AM (MOXtS)
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Posted by: D-Lamp at March 01, 2014 03:05 PM (bb5+k)
Hollywood types don't start out that way. A girl I went to school with wound up out there making movies. I think what it boils down to is the ones who do make it get surrounded by ass kissing sycophants and the become insulated from the real world. Plus while actually making a movie they do work like a dog for months and then get a long time off between movies.
That is a recipe for drinking and raising hell. Which it takes a strong will to avoid or stop. But I'll be damned if I can figure out how whorywood got filled with communists in the first place. The only ting I can think of is that back during the 30s that was a big thing among the elite and a LOT of Hollywood was communist just as Heston said. Even Lucille Ball was a member of the Communist Party.
Once a barrel of apples turn rotten it is damn hard to put good ones in there.
Hollywood types don't start out that way. A girl I went to school with wound up out there making movies. I think what it boils down to is the ones who do make it get surrounded by ass kissing sycophants and the become insulated from the real world. Plus while actually making a movie they do work like a dog for months and then get a long time off between movies.
That is a recipe for drinking and raising hell. Which it takes a strong will to avoid or stop. But I'll be damned if I can figure out how whorywood got filled with communists in the first place. The only ting I can think of is that back during the 30s that was a big thing among the elite and a LOT of Hollywood was communist just as Heston said. Even Lucille Ball was a member of the Communist Party.
Once a barrel of apples turn rotten it is damn hard to put good ones in there.
Posted by: Vic[/i] at March 01, 2014 11:13 AM (T2V/1)
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All is going as planned. Not only have I reversed the domestic policies of Reagan, but soon the Soviets will win the cold war.
♫ Stand up, damned of the Earth
Stand up, prisoners of starvation
Reason thunders in its volcano
This is the eruption of the end.
Of the past let us make a clean slate
Enslaved masses, stand up, stand up.
The world is about to change its foundation
We are nothing, let us be all.
|: This is the final struggle
Let us group together, and tomorrow
The Internationale
Will be the human race.
♫ Stand up, damned of the Earth
Stand up, prisoners of starvation
Reason thunders in its volcano
This is the eruption of the end.
Of the past let us make a clean slate
Enslaved masses, stand up, stand up.
The world is about to change its foundation
We are nothing, let us be all.
|: This is the final struggle
Let us group together, and tomorrow
The Internationale
Will be the human race.
Posted by: Barack O'Stalin at March 01, 2014 11:14 AM (Q6pxP)
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I liked him in Next of Kin, but his "southern accent" was off. But for a mountains of TN it may have been right, I have never been there other than drive through on the freeway.
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Did you guys ever see Squidbillies on Adult Swim on Cartoon Network. It is really stupid and unkind to our friends from the South but funny. It's about some hillbilly mud squid in the mountains of Georgia. They are an endangered species so they do whatever they damn well please.
Posted by: WalrusRex at March 01, 2014 11:14 AM (E+uky)
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@26 Yep, Beck saw it and reviewed it on Friday. Said the NYC audience he saw it with was all "Oh come on, give me a break!" when the villain was revealed. Like he said, if you've lost jaded lefty New Yorkers than you've really lost it. Says it is horribly offensive.
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I suspect the geography of where he saw it didn't help, either. I suspect that showing it in NYC is somewhat akin to showing a pro-nuclear weapons film in Hiroshima in 1950...
Posted by: junior at March 01, 2014 11:14 AM (fsOaN)
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And here's a interview with two professional actors who are involved with a wonderful Christian drama group called Saint Luke productions:
http://tinyurl.com/nl97n45
The last show I directed featured a former professional actor who had entered the pastorate.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 01, 2014 11:14 AM (XyM/Y)
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A lot of lawyers point to "To Kill a Mockingbird" as their inspiration for the profession.
A fictional man in a made-up story. Sounds about right.
Posted by: AmishDude at March 01, 2014 03:03 PM (xSegX)
I have several more examples of this sort of thing happening, and not all of them were movies.
The Fucking Hearts newspapers got us into the war with Spain by lying their fucking asses off about what was actually happening there.
"The Jungle" (Communist Upton Sinclair) singlehandedly created the US Governmental agency to regulate the meatpacking industry, and likewise empowered the notion that it's the Feds jobs to do this stuff.
Abraham Lincoln himself suggested that Harriet Beecher Stowe's book "Uncle Tom's Cabin" singlehandedly caused the civil war.
The problem is that people often don't have the facilities for critical thinking when they are presented with emotional driven outrages about which they feel "something must be done!"
We get screwed up as a nation because the liberals present their arguments as "Feelings" while we try to use reason.
It has been my observation that when it comes to motivating people to go one direction or the other, the Heart generally wins over the brain.
Liberals always argue to the heart, and we always argue to the brain. The heart wins almost every time.
Posted by: D-Lamp at March 01, 2014 11:15 AM (bb5+k)
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Well, I do think it's possible I might have caught this one if it came on cable at some point in the future. So now I've been saved the 90 minutes or whatever that I would have devoted to it.
Thanks for that. My closets and sock drawers will probably be cleaner in the future for it.
Thanks for that. My closets and sock drawers will probably be cleaner in the future for it.
Posted by: BurtTC at March 01, 2014 11:15 AM (BeSEI)
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I'm surprised that they didn't have a fictitious POTUS who happened to be black battle the bad guy midair like Harrison Ford in "Air Force One"
I wonder if Hollywood thinks we won't notice that when a Dem is in the WH that the President is an ass kicking action hero, when a Rethuglikkkan is in the WH he's a craven sniveling tool of evil CEO's or a Darth Vader level supervillain
Funny coincidence, that ..
Posted by: kbdabear at March 01, 2014 11:16 AM (aTXUx)
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Hollywood sucks, but this movie will successfully reinforce the perception that the 'true enemy' is the guy who acts patriotic and has a 'don't tread on me' flag.
Next year the villain will be a Christian baker and a guy who makes duck calls.
Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at March 01, 2014 11:16 AM (iO3BG)
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Speaking of roofing nails... got this idiot racing his rice racer right in front of my house...
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 01, 2014 11:16 AM (MOXtS)
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etend and make believe for a living) have always been low class scum with twisted morals and thinking
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And a heaping helping of narcissism.
Posted by: WalrusRex at March 01, 2014 11:16 AM (E+uky)
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31 Posted by: D-Lamp at March 01, 2014 03:01 PM (bb5+k)
We wound up with the crazies on the street because of the ACLU and the courts. The robes decided it, not even politicians,.
We wound up with the crazies on the street because of the ACLU and the courts. The robes decided it, not even politicians,.
Posted by: Vic[/i] at March 01, 2014 11:16 AM (T2V/1)
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Liam Neeson married into a bunch of wack-job commies. Its no wonder he's so fucked.
Also in other news 27 "Knife Wielding Assailants" killed 27 and injured over 100 in China. Any guesses on who the unidentified (by the AP) attackers are?
http://tinyurl.com/p96g2fj
Posted by: Iblis at March 01, 2014 11:17 AM (NVFTu)
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Uighars. Its in the side-bar. Kumming China.
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 01, 2014 11:17 AM (MOXtS)
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Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 01, 2014 03:06 PM (MOXtS)
Yeah, Miyazaki is obsessed with planes; I always love the flying contraptions in his films, always richly detailed. His Bush hatred was unfortunate, it almost ruined Howl; luckily that film, post Bush era, comes across as more anitwar than antiBush, holding up well. I know he'll still be involved with other Ghibli films, but I have wistful "end-of-an-era" feels anyway.
One of the friends I am going with tonight has never seen a Ghibli film! And she claims to be a film buff; total heretic. 
Hopefully she enjoys it. It gives me an excellent excuse to to a Miyazaki marathon with her, yay, still trying to decide which ones to start her with. Decisions decisions...
Posted by: LizLem at March 01, 2014 11:18 AM (ijXVY)
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This is just Liam Neeson's penance for having done a movie with a bad guy Arab in it ("Taken"). He has to pay his dues to get his Hollywood cred back.
"I wonder if Hollywood thinks we won't notice that when a Dem is in the WH that the President is an ass kicking action hero, when a Rethuglikkkan is in the WH he's a craven sniveling tool of evil CEO's or a Darth Vader level supervillain."
Actually during the Clinton administration, there was a string of movies about evil, corrupt, and power-abusing presidents, raping and killing people then covering it up. I was actually stunned to see it, such a total reversal of their usual pattern.
"I wonder if Hollywood thinks we won't notice that when a Dem is in the WH that the President is an ass kicking action hero, when a Rethuglikkkan is in the WH he's a craven sniveling tool of evil CEO's or a Darth Vader level supervillain."
Actually during the Clinton administration, there was a string of movies about evil, corrupt, and power-abusing presidents, raping and killing people then covering it up. I was actually stunned to see it, such a total reversal of their usual pattern.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at March 01, 2014 11:18 AM (zfY+H)
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79 Iblis at March 01, 2014 03:17 PM (NVFTu)
The white teaparty member Chinese?
The beat goes on...and er uh if ever a chill wind uh ah blows against Islam I know which side Imma be on!
//Bronk O'Bama America's Gold Pro and Ginsu Knife Salesman
The white teaparty member Chinese?
The beat goes on...and er uh if ever a chill wind uh ah blows against Islam I know which side Imma be on!
//Bronk O'Bama America's Gold Pro and Ginsu Knife Salesman
Posted by: Sven 10077 at March 01, 2014 11:18 AM (TE35l)
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What I wouldn't give to see "Day After Tomorrow 2," where the President of Mexico and the mocha President of the US go on a tour of frozen N. America, and figure out the secret to restoring the climate is choom. Lots and lots of smoked choom.
What I wouldn't give to see "Day After Tomorrow 2," where the President of Mexico and the mocha President of the US go on a tour of frozen N. America, and figure out the secret to restoring the climate is choom. Lots and lots of smoked choom.
Posted by: BurtTC at March 01, 2014 11:18 AM (BeSEI)
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The one passenger on the plane who is forever helpful, kind, reasonable,
noble, and never under suspicion is a Muslim doctor dressed in
traditional Muslim garb including a full beard.
The writers missed Leftard perfection by a smidge. The muslim doctor should have been an abortionist.
The writers missed Leftard perfection by a smidge. The muslim doctor should have been an abortionist.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 01, 2014 11:18 AM (8ZskC)
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Cheech Marin, of course, plays the President of Mexico.
Posted by: BurtTC at March 01, 2014 11:19 AM (BeSEI)
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The creme de la creme... The China Syndrome... all complete hack bullcrap and the nuclear industry in the US was still-born.
Posted by: Yip at March 01, 2014 03:05 PM (/jHWN)
Liberals swing a mighty hammer with their entertainment lies.
And you know what? That's exactly what "acting" is. It's LYING for a living.
Everything presented by an actor is a lie, but those with skill make it seem believable.
And we wonder how liberals get away with all their lying. Many of them do it for a living. They are professional liars.
Posted by: D-Lamp at March 01, 2014 11:19 AM (bb5+k)
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The guy who started St Luke productions which is entirely to do with the life of Jesus and the lives of various Saints has as the mission statement "Transforming the culture through theatre and the media" or something very close to that. This is a quote from the actress playing St. Faustina:
"Every night I perform I have the opportunity to experience God's mercy through the characters I portray. Each time it feels as though Jesus is speaking right to my heart," says Maria Vargo, who plays both Faustina and the modern woman.
I think that's great!
Preparing for the role deepened her spiritual life
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 01, 2014 11:19 AM (XyM/Y)
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Maybe they should put the creators of this YouTube video Non-Stop in jail because obviously this movie is meant to inflame people and could cause "spontaneous riots"???
Posted by: Hate Miser at March 01, 2014 11:19 AM (UIxS+)
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How come I have a bad feeling that Liam's next movie will be about a film-short causing an uprising in Benghazi?
Posted by: Ambassador Stevens at March 01, 2014 11:19 AM (Q6pxP)
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Ronald Reagan was an actor. Just sayin.
Posted by: grammie winger at March 01, 2014 11:19 AM (oMKp3)
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LizLem - Porco Rosso and Rupin III: Castle of Caglestoro.
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 01, 2014 11:19 AM (MOXtS)
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Except with the internet and dvds, anti american crap the americans won't see is a big hit in other countries. I'm sure it will be a big hit in Yemen.
Posted by: Judge Pug at March 01, 2014 11:20 AM (6Nj7A)
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Movies ruined the profession's perception. Before movies, acting was a shameful profession, something foul and low, one step up from prostitute (which is probably because more than a few actresses supplemented their income in this manner, if historians are to be believed). Now they're icons and considered better than us?
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at March 01, 2014 11:20 AM (zfY+H)
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Why are we protecting Hollywood's financial interests by not broadcasting spoilers of their propaganda films?
You headline, and you post, need to blare out the spoiler so that it can't be missed. Because, yes, we want to SPOIL the film for the audience and foe the filmmakers.
Posted by: zombie at March 01, 2014 03:08 PM (mizYg)
I suspect this is exactly what the Breitbart reviewer intended. And yes, it is exactly what we ought to do.
We ought to do it with all their deliberately left wing movies.
Posted by: D-Lamp at March 01, 2014 11:21 AM (bb5+k)
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I love how Mark Steyn says " Uighars".
It sounds almost dirty in an English/Canadian accent.
Posted by: Iblis at March 01, 2014 11:21 AM (NVFTu)
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I will make a film to counteract this disgrace, but first you will blow me
Posted by: Mel Gibson at March 01, 2014 11:21 AM (Q6pxP)
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They are determined to portray up as down, and darkness as light. Even if it costs them money. Now that's commitment .
Posted by: grammie winger at March 01, 2014 11:22 AM (oMKp3)
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I have to say that, in addition to Rob Roy and the Taken franchise, I enjoyed Liam Neeson in Unknown, from 2011. http://is.gd/TyEmP7
Posted by: toby928© at March 01, 2014 11:22 AM (QupBk)
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"Except with the internet and dvds, anti american crap the americans won't see is a big hit in other countries."
Not as much as you'd think. That string of "Iraq war is evil, Bush is a monster" films from 2004-2006 were duds worldwide. Some of them made less than a million dollars from the entire planet, and none of them made more money than they cost.
Not as much as you'd think. That string of "Iraq war is evil, Bush is a monster" films from 2004-2006 were duds worldwide. Some of them made less than a million dollars from the entire planet, and none of them made more money than they cost.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at March 01, 2014 11:22 AM (zfY+H)
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Save Whisper of the Heart[/i[ and the song "Concrete Load" for later at night after a few drinks.
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 01, 2014 11:22 AM (MOXtS)
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It doesn't take a spoiler to know that Hollyleftwood will not make any more muzzies the bad guys, and usually the perfectly peaceful ones.
It doesn't take a spoiler to know that Hollyleftwood will not make any more muzzies the bad guys, and usually the perfectly peaceful ones.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 01, 2014 11:23 AM (gorVZ)
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I dropped my mighty hammer and I can't lift it back up.
Posted by: MATT DAMON!!! at March 01, 2014 11:23 AM (8ZskC)
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69: Squidbillies is amusing. I can't tell if its making fun of southerners or making fun of people who make fun of southerners.......or both.
Posted by: puddleglum at March 01, 2014 11:24 AM (ce3ya)
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The entertainment industry is an arm of the Ministry of Information as far as I am concerned. They are never to be trusted. Mass communication is an arm of the government. We know this slow brainwashing has been going on for many decades, in education, communications, any place where the power interests can insert themselves.
Posted by: tubal at March 01, 2014 11:24 AM (YEQ2h)
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I only pay for kid's movies since Sum of All Fears. This pushes that forward for the rest of my life.
Posted by: Beagle at March 01, 2014 11:24 AM (dAyFr)
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100 They are determined to portray up as down, and darkness as light. Even if it costs them money. Now that's commitment .
Posted by: grammie winger at March 01, 2014 03:22 PM (oMKp3)
Look how they swung the pendulum on homosexuals. You can't even say "faggot" anymore, even if you're talking about a cigarette. So many perfectly good, expressive words lost forever.
Posted by: Iblis at March 01, 2014 11:24 AM (NVFTu)
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Also in other news 27 "Knife Wielding Assailants" killed 27 and injured over 100 in China. Any guesses on who the unidentified (by the AP) attackers are?
http://tinyurl.com/p96g2fj
Posted by: Iblis at March 01, 2014 03:17 PM (NVFTu)
They'll never get away. The Chinese will go door to door and anyone who sees anything suspicious will call the cops. Then when they are arrested and tortured, they will be executed.
Posted by: Judge Pug at March 01, 2014 11:24 AM (6Nj7A)
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Eh, he's a ham. Always has been, going back to Darkman.
Next you'll be dissing The Shat, Lord of Ham.
Posted by: toby928© at March 01, 2014 11:25 AM (QupBk)
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Liam played a mincing pouncy whiny pathetic Zeus in the Clash of the Titans mangling.
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 01, 2014 11:25 AM (MOXtS)
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It didn't work for a number of reasons. And involuntary commitment still exists.
Posted by: Judge Pug at March 01, 2014 03:09 PM (6Nj7A)
The rules were changed such that it is damn near impossible to get an involuntary commitment after the 1970s.
And yes, the woman who's execution was portrayed by that movie "I want to live!" was made out to be an innocent victim of evil cops and prosecutors rather than an actual murderer who deserved what she got.
The problem is, simple minds are motivated by crap such as this, and that is the obvious reason they make it. They want to "Change the world" with their movies. They want to exert policy influence through the back door of feeding the emotions of the more foolish of our citizenry.
Posted by: D-Lamp at March 01, 2014 11:25 AM (bb5+k)
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My theory is that you can't spoil a movie today, because only about 20 million people go to the theaters more than once a year.
It's the same people going every week, and for a box office to go over about $100 million, the buzz has to be great, and it has to be entertaining enough for the entire core 20 million to go see it, with a large percentage going multiple times
It's the same people going every week, and for a box office to go over about $100 million, the buzz has to be great, and it has to be entertaining enough for the entire core 20 million to go see it, with a large percentage going multiple times
Posted by: phreshone at March 01, 2014 11:25 AM (Q6pxP)
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Look, there are only 2 types of bad guys in Hollyweird, Christians, and Nazis played by guys with british accents. But all of them are white.
Posted by: Iblis at March 01, 2014 11:26 AM (NVFTu)
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The China Syndrome had nothing to do with slowing down Nuclear Power in the US. The major factor was cost. The costs were driven up by the Democrat Party passing "sue me" laws when they had control ad the Republicans not reversing them when they got control.
By "sue me" laws I mean laws that allowed the eco-Nazis to stop construction with chain suits over frivolous shit. Once one suit was put to bed a second would pop up etc etc. When you are dealing with Billion dollar construction on borrowed money delays are not your friend.
The next biggest impediment was the regulator folks, all ten billion of them with competing regulations. And you guessed it, it was worse when Dems were in power and manning those commissions.
The eco-Nazis were a sub-set of the Dem Party and they did everything to keep them there. AND they are still doing it. Look at the EPA now.
By "sue me" laws I mean laws that allowed the eco-Nazis to stop construction with chain suits over frivolous shit. Once one suit was put to bed a second would pop up etc etc. When you are dealing with Billion dollar construction on borrowed money delays are not your friend.
The next biggest impediment was the regulator folks, all ten billion of them with competing regulations. And you guessed it, it was worse when Dems were in power and manning those commissions.
The eco-Nazis were a sub-set of the Dem Party and they did everything to keep them there. AND they are still doing it. Look at the EPA now.
Posted by: Vic[/i] at March 01, 2014 11:26 AM (T2V/1)
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I like actors that will take pretty much any work they can get. Good role, bad role, they don't care as long as it pays. That's Acting.
Posted by: toby928© at March 01, 2014 11:26 AM (QupBk)
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This shit is why I paid to see 'Team America, World Police' twice, and the last time a paid to see a move was the 300
Posted by: phreshone at March 01, 2014 11:26 AM (Q6pxP)
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"97 "New "Non-Stop" Film Slanders 9/11 Victims as Terrorists""
I'm putting on IMBd boards right now."
Perfect.
Posted by: Lauren at March 01, 2014 11:27 AM (hFL/3)
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They'll never get away. The Chinese will go door to door and anyone who sees anything suspicious will call the cops. Then when they are arrested and tortured, they will be executed.
Posted by: Judge Pug at March 01, 2014 03:24 PM (6Nj7A)
And their families will be billed for the bullet.
Posted by: Iblis at March 01, 2014 11:27 AM (NVFTu)
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I wasn't planning on seeing this flick anyway. I couldn't get past the commercials for it. Looked stupid.
Posted by: puddleglum at March 01, 2014 11:27 AM (ce3ya)
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I agree toby, its a more British approach to acting, where its a job rather than a calling. You take what pays, do your best, get the check, and look for the next job.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at March 01, 2014 11:27 AM (zfY+H)
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I would have said gay military guys, but yeah, the gay military guys are always Christian nazis.
I would have said gay military guys, but yeah, the gay military guys are always Christian nazis.
Posted by: BurtTC at March 01, 2014 11:28 AM (BeSEI)
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I've worked hard not to "steal my entertainment" over the years...but it is oh so tempting....
fucking Horrywood...
Posted by: Sven 10077 at March 01, 2014 03:10 PM (TE35l)
I encourage everyone to steal any product of communist minded people in Hollywood. As far as i'm concerned, there is no moral reason to refrain from trying to screw them.
If I could steal their money out of their bank accounts without getting caught, I would likewise feel no moral compulsion to refrain. As a matter of fact, I would regard it as my duty.
We have to start treating our mortal enemies as if they were "enemies."
Posted by: D-Lamp at March 01, 2014 11:28 AM (bb5+k)
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Who cares about you reichwingers, China is the key to the box office.
Posted by: Liam at March 01, 2014 11:28 AM (Q6pxP)
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On the plus side, Son of God is apparently doing gangbusters, for a film with no major stars and no large Hollywood budget for filming/promoting. Will probably be the #2 film this weekend. Not too shabby!
And Anna, I love Lupin! I enjoyed the original anime series, but Miyazaki adds such beauty and depth to the Lupin premise. That goes on the short list for sure.
And Anna, I love Lupin! I enjoyed the original anime series, but Miyazaki adds such beauty and depth to the Lupin premise. That goes on the short list for sure.
Posted by: LizLem at March 01, 2014 11:28 AM (ijXVY)
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I like actors that will take pretty much any work they can get. Good
role, bad role, they don't care as long as it pays. That's Acting.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Posted by: Michael Caine at March 01, 2014 11:29 AM (8ZskC)
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Thank you.
Posted by: Michael Caine
heh. Perfect example. I remember when he said that his ambition was to be in every movie made in a calendar year.
Posted by: toby928© at March 01, 2014 11:30 AM (QupBk)
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Ace was discussing the other day in the comments how theatrical movies themselves were obsolete and heading the way of the 8 track player
Home theaters, lack of creativity in writing, constant remakes and sequels, movies made for teens with room temperature IQs
The future of high quality entertainment and the bulk of the audience lies in cable series that are written for more mature and intelligent audiences. A-List actors, writers, and directors are gravitating to the limited run series
Has Hollywood turned out anything comparable to Breaking Bad lately?
Posted by: kbdabear at March 01, 2014 11:30 AM (aTXUx)
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I like actors that will take pretty much any work they can get. Good
role, bad role, they don't care as long as it pays. That's Acting.
______________
Thank you sirrrrrr
Posted by: Nick Cage at March 01, 2014 11:30 AM (jucos)
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Its partly why I like Nicholas Cage, for all his scene chewing lunacy. He'll take whatever is put in front of him and go at it with all he's got every time. He never walks through a movie, he always puts himself into it. And sometimes, it works really well.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at March 01, 2014 11:30 AM (zfY+H)
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I'm interested in Ace's take on this, honestly, after his (on the point) essay about trying to separate politics from our every day lives and not being "on" 100% of the time.
That's all well and good, and I know for a fact that I drive my wife crazy sometimes, but there's the occasional hanging curveball of BS like this movie that you just HAVE to call out for what it is. In this instance it doesn't even make for a good story, because the disconnect of logic is so great to make the twist happen that it borders on the absurd. It's one thing to change the villains from Muslims to Nazis in "A Sum of all Fears"; the story change generally made sense within the framework presented by the movie. This doesn't. It's stupid and insulting.
Posted by: Emile Antoon Khadaji at March 01, 2014 11:31 AM (BVTtz)
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There is an organized effort going on right now to recruit Christian believers for the acting profession and the film industry. A kind of mission field commitment, so to speak.
Posted by: grammie winger at March 01, 2014 03:12 PM (oMKp3)
Their efforts will be more useful to humanity than any missionary work done in the third world.
We are at a point in history were fallacy is ruling over us and dire consequences will be the payment required.
We must fight fallacy with truth, but for the simpleminded and ignorant, it has to be spoon fed to them as entertainment.
They will not absorb it any other way.
Posted by: D-Lamp at March 01, 2014 11:31 AM (bb5+k)
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133 Thank you sirrrrrr
Posted by: Nick Cage at March 01, 2014 03:30 PM (jucos)
LOL beat me too it. Why does everyone here hate him. Sure he has had a few stinkers like Wicker Man, but he has some really outstanding ones like National Treasure.
Posted by: Vic[/i] at March 01, 2014 11:32 AM (T2V/1)
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And sometimes with Nicholas Cage you get Ghost Rider.
LizLem its a great rollicking movie. Lupin being the hero? What is the world coming to? And Fujiko is awesome.
LizLem its a great rollicking movie. Lupin being the hero? What is the world coming to? And Fujiko is awesome.
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 01, 2014 11:32 AM (MOXtS)
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The rules were changed such that it is damn near impossible to get an involuntary commitment after the 1970s.
Posted by: D-Lamp at March 01, 2014 03:25 PM (bb5+k)
I disagree. It was changed to whether you are a danger to yourself or others. But when they bring people in for evaluations, even if not dangerous but obviously ill, they are very good at talking them into staying committing themselves and taking medication.
Posted by: Judge Pug at March 01, 2014 11:32 AM (6Nj7A)
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"I like actors that will take pretty much any work they can get. Good
role, bad role, they don't care as long as it pays. That's Acting."
*waves*
Posted by: Brenden Fraser at March 01, 2014 11:32 AM (hFL/3)
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Been posting the spoilers on all the vids I find of Non Stop.
Posted by: RWC at March 01, 2014 11:32 AM (MtC8f)
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I kind of have to take any role I can get. I invested all of my money in English castles. Then 2008......... Yeah.
Posted by: Nicholas Cage at March 01, 2014 11:32 AM (Aif/5)
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"Every night I perform I have the opportunity to experience God's mercy through the characters I portray. Each time it feels as though Jesus is speaking right to my heart," says Maria Vargo, who plays both Faustina and the modern woman.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 01, 2014 03:19 PM (XyM/Y)
*looks up images of actress and sees her in nun habit*
*confused boner*
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at March 01, 2014 11:33 AM (oFCZn)
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Just remember VLC, Handbrake, AnyDVD, & CloneDVD are your solutions for backing up and converting and playing any of your motion pictures. VLC can play just about anything, including Blu Rays, and is free. Handbrake is free and can convert DVDs to play on mobile platforms like Ipads and Androids. AnyDVD and CloneDVD are paid products, but combined can backup anything, DVDs, Blu Rays, even PAL and foreign region DVDs.
Posted by: Iblis at March 01, 2014 11:33 AM (NVFTu)
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Zombie, I was reading the abortion comments in the previous thread.
If you're still canvassing opinions, mine is that the Left is a swarm of death cultists. All of their policies are about power over the individual, and nowhere is that power more total than in abortion.
Posted by: votermom at March 01, 2014 11:33 AM (dlzMf)
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I loved Ghost Rider. The only thing was I hated that metal version of the song at the end. But damn, it even had Sam Eliot in it for the ladies.
Posted by: Vic[/i] at March 01, 2014 11:33 AM (T2V/1)
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Thanks for posting this Drew. I almost went to see this last night. I won't be now.
It's too bad. He was really good in Les Miserables and managed somehow to pull off a convincing Hannibal in the A-Team remake.
Posted by: L, elle at March 01, 2014 11:34 AM (0xqKe)
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Go look at Richard Burton Filmography some time. That guy was a worker. Some good, some bad and some Classics.
Posted by: toby928© at March 01, 2014 11:34 AM (QupBk)
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Unfortunately, with the demise of the Humanities Core at the modern liberal arts college, the new 'creative class' don't have the foundation and purpose of The Classics to build upon.
"Hey Hey, Ho Ho, Western Civ has go to go"
You know, because of dead white guys.
"Hey Hey, Ho Ho, Western Civ has go to go"
You know, because of dead white guys.
Posted by: phreshone at March 01, 2014 11:35 AM (Q6pxP)
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Maybe, it's because Ace has such a man crush on Nick Cage that people chuckle about him?
Posted by: Judge Pug at March 01, 2014 11:35 AM (6Nj7A)
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Night of the Iguana, Taming of the Shrew, and Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf? - all Burton.
Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 01, 2014 11:35 AM (MOXtS)
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I would say me too, but to tell you the truth, I forget which one I am: Bill Pullman or Bill Paxton.
Posted by: Bill Paxton at March 01, 2014 11:35 AM (BeSEI)
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136 Emile Antoon Khadaji at March 01, 2014 03:31 PM (BVTtz)
Ace *wants* to be able to do this. Hollywood and the left refuse to meet on any kind of neutral ground or our ground ever.
Same with the NFL and Rogering Goody...
There is no way to parse "you fucking 9/11 worshipping Military Wingnutz want another terrorist attack" from the political realm into pure entertainment.
Ace *wants* to be able to do this. Hollywood and the left refuse to meet on any kind of neutral ground or our ground ever.
Same with the NFL and Rogering Goody...
There is no way to parse "you fucking 9/11 worshipping Military Wingnutz want another terrorist attack" from the political realm into pure entertainment.
Posted by: Sven 10077 at March 01, 2014 11:35 AM (TE35l)
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Maybe, it's because Ace has such a man crush on Nick Cage that people chuckle about him?
Posted by: Judge Pug at March 01, 2014 03:35 PM (6Nj7A)
Is than snarc? I thought Ace hated Cage.
Posted by: Vic[/i] at March 01, 2014 11:36 AM (T2V/1)
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150 Has Hollywood turned out anything comparable to Breaking Bad lately?
Posted by: kbdabear at March 01, 2014 03:30 PM (aTXUx)
It's a totally different thing, but-
"Hannibal" may be the best show on TV right now.
The 2nd season premier last night was outstanding.
The 1st season is available in many different forms if you haven't seen it yet.
Posted by: naturalfake at March 01, 2014 03:34 PM (KBvAm)
I just got into the BBC's Sherlock. Very good. Especially how they work the original books into it. (Which are available for free on Kindle).
Posted by: Iblis at March 01, 2014 11:37 AM (NVFTu)
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Posted by: Vic at March 01, 2014 03:13 PM (T2V/1)
That story was debunked by Lucy herself and McCarthy himself accepted her explanation
Lucy said yes, she did register to vote as a communist at one time to get her crazy radical grandpa off her back.
Desi laughed off the revelation with "the only thing RED about Lucy is her hair, and even that isn't really red"
Lucy was a lifelong friend of Hollywood conservatives such as Crosby, Hope, Reagan, Stewart, so I think if she was a commie behind the scenes it would have strained things
Posted by: kbdabear at March 01, 2014 11:37 AM (aTXUx)
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No, it is not true that I've been playing the same character since 'Raising Arizona'
Posted by: Nick Cage at March 01, 2014 11:37 AM (Q6pxP)
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'I thought Ace hated Cage. "
Didn't he post a glowing review of Wicker Man?
Posted by: Brenden Fraser at March 01, 2014 11:38 AM (hFL/3)
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"You think Hollywood can't sink any lower and then you realize how stupid you are for thinking that."
Glenn Reynolds linked a Roger L. Simon piece which argued that "if conservatives give up Hollywood, they give up the country. Game over."
Of course, there is an alternative hypothesis upon which Simon wastes no column inches. To wit, that this culturally senescent, enormously corrupted, financially bankrupt country with its arrogant Leviathan government and its Balkanized subject peoples who hate each other is already too far down the road to catastrophic failure and collapse to be rescued.
In which case, expending effort to try to eke out a few measly conservative gains in Hollyweird, against enormous opposition, is merely a waste of effort and resources. Effort and resources which are better directed towards survival (economic and otherwise), cultural continuity, and rebuilding new countries out of the inevitable smoking wreckage.
Glenn Reynolds linked a Roger L. Simon piece which argued that "if conservatives give up Hollywood, they give up the country. Game over."
Of course, there is an alternative hypothesis upon which Simon wastes no column inches. To wit, that this culturally senescent, enormously corrupted, financially bankrupt country with its arrogant Leviathan government and its Balkanized subject peoples who hate each other is already too far down the road to catastrophic failure and collapse to be rescued.
In which case, expending effort to try to eke out a few measly conservative gains in Hollyweird, against enormous opposition, is merely a waste of effort and resources. Effort and resources which are better directed towards survival (economic and otherwise), cultural continuity, and rebuilding new countries out of the inevitable smoking wreckage.
Posted by: torquewrench at March 01, 2014 11:38 AM (gqT4g)
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And by "generally made sense" you mean turning the story from typical Clancy prescience to worthless stereotypical Hollywood dreck.
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I liked the National Treasure series. It was like Goonies with adults.
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Posted by: kbdabear at March 01, 2014 03:30 PM (aTXUx)
The limit to a movie is the same as the limit to a play. You have to sit down to watch it in a place with strangers.
Now, you can watch it at home on a 50+" screen or...and here's the key...you can watch it by yourself at your computer or on a tablet.
You don't have to watch it with the spouse or the kids. And if you want to talk about it, the Internet can give you a community of people who think just like you to discuss it with -- not friends or relatives who might not be into your obsession.
I wonder if this is a part of the reason why movies are so much more political. The serious Oscar-bait movies just don't get seen. Nobody wants to go to a theater to watch them and nobody wants to sit down (3-6 months later) at home and watch them when there's a good serial to watch.
People want 'splodey, if they're going to plonk down ~$20/person to watch a movie. At least with 'splodey, you're guaranteed 'splosions. And those never disappoint.
Posted by: AmishDude at March 01, 2014 11:40 AM (xSegX)
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Right after Redford came out and said that anyone who disagreed with Obama was a racist, I refuse to watch anything he's made, acted in or associated with. That includes the Sundance channel on cable. The list of actors I'll watch anymore is growing increasingly small.
Posted by: LFW - Honorary Pointy Eared Vulcan at March 01, 2014 11:40 AM (vVSOO)
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We wound up with the crazies on the street because of the ACLU and the courts. The robes decided it, not even politicians,.
Posted by: Vic at March 01, 2014 03:16 PM (T2V/1)
I'm aware of the ACLU's role in promulgating bad ideas and bad law, but quite awhile back I read a very good account of how "One Flew over the Cuckoo's nest" not only affected public opinion, it affected the whole system.
Here's a quote from Wiki regarding Deinstitutionalisation.
A 1975 award-winning film, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, sent a message regarding the rights of those committed involuntarily. That same year, the U.S. Supreme Court restricted the rights of states to incarcerate someone who was not violent. This was followed up with a 1978 ruling further restricting states from confining anyone involuntarily for mental illness.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deinstitutionalisation
Posted by: D-Lamp at March 01, 2014 11:41 AM (bb5+k)
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Vic, I agree with you on the Eco-warriors successfully raising the cost to build Nuke plants insanely high was/is a big factor. BUT surely you must remember that prior to 3 Mile Island and the total over-reaction of the media on that coupled shortly thereafter with The China Syndrome, what was the future of stable and cheap electricity was effectively cut off at the knees.
My point about the movie was/is, it was total propaganda and it worked. The public's appetite for anything nuclear dried up drastically and it became prohibitive to propose new reactors with high costs AND a general public that was told the evil bastard electric companies would lie and cheat and skip inspections and do a shitty job just to save money and children be damned.
Man, and I remember back then thinking the 70's sure sucked ass... I had no idea how it would come back around.. heh
Vic, I agree with you on the Eco-warriors successfully raising the cost to build Nuke plants insanely high was/is a big factor. BUT surely you must remember that prior to 3 Mile Island and the total over-reaction of the media on that coupled shortly thereafter with The China Syndrome, what was the future of stable and cheap electricity was effectively cut off at the knees.
My point about the movie was/is, it was total propaganda and it worked. The public's appetite for anything nuclear dried up drastically and it became prohibitive to propose new reactors with high costs AND a general public that was told the evil bastard electric companies would lie and cheat and skip inspections and do a shitty job just to save money and children be damned.
Man, and I remember back then thinking the 70's sure sucked ass... I had no idea how it would come back around.. heh
Posted by: Yip at March 01, 2014 11:41 AM (/jHWN)
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166 LFW - Honorary Pointy Eared Vulcan at March 01, 2014 03:40 PM (vVSOO)
The same and the loss of Horrywood largely from my life has brought nothing but happiness.
Fuck them, and fuck the people enthralled by them.
The same and the loss of Horrywood largely from my life has brought nothing but happiness.
Fuck them, and fuck the people enthralled by them.
Posted by: Sven 10077 at March 01, 2014 11:41 AM (TE35l)
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OT, or not really: on Monday, "The Military Channel" becomes "American Heroes Channel." Heroes from all walks of life. Teachers, I spose, and organizers mostly.
They have been slipping in a lot of "cop" shows. Thought something was up. This is the channel that used to be "Discovery Wings," but they needed a place to park the old WWII documentaries (which I love, and often yell back at) after Big H History went all-aliens.
When all else is horrifying on the pay channels, I can usually get to sleep by switching to one of the Mil's and dozing off to a background of Midlands accents and artillery. I also nod off during 500 mile stock car races.
If I lose both Mil channels, I may be joining some of you in TV Abstinence Land.
They have been slipping in a lot of "cop" shows. Thought something was up. This is the channel that used to be "Discovery Wings," but they needed a place to park the old WWII documentaries (which I love, and often yell back at) after Big H History went all-aliens.
When all else is horrifying on the pay channels, I can usually get to sleep by switching to one of the Mil's and dozing off to a background of Midlands accents and artillery. I also nod off during 500 mile stock car races.
If I lose both Mil channels, I may be joining some of you in TV Abstinence Land.
Posted by: Stringer Davis at March 01, 2014 11:42 AM (xq1UY)
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166 Right after Redford came out and said that anyone who disagreed with Obama was a racist, I refuse to watch anything he's made, acted in or associated with. That includes the Sundance channel on cable. The list of actors I'll watch anymore is growing increasingly small.
Posted by: LFW - Honorary Pointy Eared Vulcan at March 01, 2014 03:40 PM (vVSOO)
That's why I'm so pissed he's in Captain America:Winter Soldier. I love the mindless comicbook crap, and he's gonna be in there libbing it up.
Posted by: Iblis at March 01, 2014 11:42 AM (NVFTu)
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92 Ronald Reagan was an actor. Just sayin.
Posted by: grammie winger at March 01, 2014 03:19 PM (oMKp3)
He was an exception, and from a time when people were taught better morally. There were quite a few actors from the golden era of movies who were decent people and knew right from wrong.
I would argue that these were the "conservative" actors.
Bob Hope, Ronald Reagan, Charleton Heston, John Wayne, etc.
Posted by: D-Lamp at March 01, 2014 11:44 AM (bb5+k)
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I wouldn't be so sure Winter Soldier will be apolitical. I am not looking forward to that one, it looks all wrong for Cap. In fact, the comic as good as it was, was pretty wrong for Cap.
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158 Posted by: kbdabear at March 01, 2014 03:37 PM (aTXUx)
I was reading an article about communists in Hollywood back in the 30s and it said she had registered with the ACP. That's all I know.
I was reading an article about communists in Hollywood back in the 30s and it said she had registered with the ACP. That's all I know.
Posted by: Vic[/i] at March 01, 2014 11:44 AM (T2V/1)
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Zombie, I was reading the abortion comments in the previous thread.
If you're still canvassing opinions, mine is that the Left is a swarm of death cultists. All of their policies are about power over the individual, and nowhere is that power more total than in abortion. Posted by: votermom at March 01, 2014 03:33 PM (dlzMf)
Speaking of films influencing thought...my sister is pretty staunchly pro-choice, even when I present her the stark facts about abortion. When I ask why it always boils down to the botched abortion plotline in Dirty Dancing, and how that influenced her emotionally to always believe a women needs a safe out from a pregnancy, just in case. It is hard to break away from mindsets formed when you are an emotionally driven, impressionable youth, even when reason and logic later on catches up with you.
If you're still canvassing opinions, mine is that the Left is a swarm of death cultists. All of their policies are about power over the individual, and nowhere is that power more total than in abortion. Posted by: votermom at March 01, 2014 03:33 PM (dlzMf)
Speaking of films influencing thought...my sister is pretty staunchly pro-choice, even when I present her the stark facts about abortion. When I ask why it always boils down to the botched abortion plotline in Dirty Dancing, and how that influenced her emotionally to always believe a women needs a safe out from a pregnancy, just in case. It is hard to break away from mindsets formed when you are an emotionally driven, impressionable youth, even when reason and logic later on catches up with you.
Posted by: LizLem at March 01, 2014 11:45 AM (ijXVY)
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LOL beat me too it. Why does everyone here hate him. Sure he has had a few stinkers like Wicker Man, but he has some really outstanding ones like National Treasure.
Posted by: Vic at March 01, 2014 03:32 PM (T2V/1)
You want to figure out Nick Cage?
It's simple. You start talking very low as if youareasimmeringcauldrenofrageandthen EXPLODE IN THE LOUDEST ANGRY VOICE YOU CAN POSSIBLY MANAGE!
He does it every time.
Posted by: AmishDude at March 01, 2014 11:46 AM (xSegX)
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88 --- This is a quote from the actress playing St. Faustina:
"Every night I perform I have the opportunity to experience God's mercy through the characters I portray. Each time it feels as though Jesus is speaking right to my heart," says Maria Vargo, who plays both Faustina and the modern woman.
I think that's great!
Preparing for the role deepened her spiritual life
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 01, 2014 03:19 PM (XyM/Y)
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My little sister was an actress. Actually made a good living at it too --- and might well have made A LOT.
Then she played the role of St. Bernadette in a major Spanish production and it changed her life.
She became a Benedictine nun.
You never know how role-playing may affect you --- for better or for worse.
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at March 01, 2014 11:47 AM (dfYL9)
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Look how they swung the pendulum on homosexuals. You can't even say "faggot" anymore, even if you're talking about a cigarette. So many perfectly good, expressive words lost forever.
Posted by: Iblis at March 01, 2014 03:24 PM (NVFTu)
The movie "Silence of the Lambs" created a backlash among the homosexual community, and they thereafter solicited and received veto power from the Hollywood Movie/TV makers as to how homosexuals would be portrayed in future movies and tv shows.
The show "Glee" is a blatant homosexual normalization propaganda effort.
Posted by: D-Lamp at March 01, 2014 11:48 AM (bb5+k)
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LizLem, and that plot line was 100% intentional as well.
Posted by: Brenden Fraser at March 01, 2014 11:48 AM (hFL/3)
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OT-can someone explain this to me. Spouse works in a Supermarket. Today it was apparently absolutely-three times as many people as normal. We're supposed have 12 inches of snow or more Sunday into Monday. Unless you had NO food and not enough non perishables to last a day why would you have to hurry off to the market? It's not like you can't get out in a day and the markets if closed on Monday will open up Tuesday. I'm convinced this is some atavistic throwback. It's irrational.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 01, 2014 11:48 AM (XyM/Y)
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173 I wouldn't be so sure Winter Soldier will be apolitical. I am not looking forward to that one, it looks all wrong for Cap. In fact, the comic as good as it was, was pretty wrong for Cap.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at March 01, 2014 03:44 PM (zfY+H)
"Political" or "Apolitical" or "As Political"?
I never followed the Cap comics (more of a Punisher, Gijoe,& What If fan) but the few I read, especially later, seemed to have a lefty kinda bent.
Posted by: Iblis at March 01, 2014 11:50 AM (NVFTu)
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That's w wonderful story, Margarita. I've always had a soft spot for the Bendictines.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 01, 2014 11:50 AM (XyM/Y)
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134 Its partly why I like Nicholas Cage, for all his scene chewing lunacy. He'll take whatever is put in front of him and go at it with all he's got every time. He never walks through a movie, he always puts himself into it. And sometimes, it works really well.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at March 01, 2014 03:30 PM (zfY+H)
I am a fan of Nicholas Cage. He makes a lot of "meh" movies, but he also makes some that I like very much.
Posted by: D-Lamp at March 01, 2014 11:51 AM (bb5+k)
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I've said it before and I'm sure I'll say it again. Despite what they said in public, in their hearts Democrats cheered on 9-11-2001. At last, what they wanted for decades happened--America got a bloody nose. And now they're rewarding the Moslems for their good deed.
Posted by: Null at March 01, 2014 11:51 AM (0OrFt)
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I third or fourth Hannibal as an excellent show; great acting and gorgeous visuals that are incredibly mindtrippy. And murder stags! How can you not like murder stags.
Ok, off to get ready for movie night. Watch good things Morons and have a good Sat!
Ok, off to get ready for movie night. Watch good things Morons and have a good Sat!
Posted by: LizLem at March 01, 2014 11:52 AM (ijXVY)
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The *only* reason any libs were upset by 9/11 was because it hit NYC. If it had been an attack on Dallas they'd be dancing in the streets with the Muslims.
Posted by: Lauren at March 01, 2014 11:53 AM (hFL/3)
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Stavridis is retired now, but was the Supreme Allied Commander of NATO until last year.
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2014/03/01/nato_needs_to_move_now_on_crimea
NATO Needs to Move Now on Crimea
Action may provoke -- but so does doing nothing.
NATO should call an immediate emergency session and weigh its options in the political, diplomatic, economic, and military dimensions.
In the military sphere, these include ordering the Supreme Headquarters, Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE), led by U.S. General Phil Breedlove, to conduct prudent planning and present options in response to the situation. While such planning should be left to the current commanders and military experts, some ideas to consider would include:
Increasing all intelligence-gathering functions through satellite, Predator unmanned vehicles, and especially cyber.
Using the NATO-Ukrainian Council and existing military partnerships with the Ukrainian military to share information, intelligence, and situational awareness with authorities in Kiev.
Providing advice to Ukrainian armed forces to prepare and position themselves in the event of further conflict.
Developing NATO contingency plans to react to full-scale invasion of Ukraine and to a partial invasion likely of Crimea. NATO contingency planning can be cumbersome, but in Libya it moved quickly.
Assigning one of the NATO Joint Force Commands (either Naples, Italy, or Brunsum, Netherlands) into direct overwatch of the situation.
Standing up NATO crisis centers to full manning, especially at SHAPE and the relevant Joint Force Command.
Ensuring that the Land and Maritime Component Commands (Northwood in the United Kingdom and Izmir, Turkey, respectively) are conducting prudent planning in their areas of expertise and feeding their analysis to the Joint Force Command.
Bringing the NATO Response Force, a 25,000 man sea, air, land, special forces capability to a higher state of alert.
Convening allies with cyber-capabilities (this is not a NATO specialty) to consider options -- at a minimum to defend Ukraine if it is attacked in this domain (as Georgia was).
Sailing NATO maritime forces into the Black Sea and setting up contingency plans for their use.
Many will consider any level of NATO involvement provocative and potentially inflammatory. Unfortunately, the stakes are high and the Russians are moving. Sitting idle, without at least looking at options, is a mistake for NATO and would itself constitute a signal to Putin -- one that he would welcome.
Posted by: Flatbush Joe at March 01, 2014 11:53 AM (ZPrif)
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The deinstitutionalist movement for insane people started in the 60s, and moved through the courts slowly, I think it was pretty much coincidence that the Supreme Court made the final national decision soon after One Flew came out as a film. It was already on the way - California had already passed their law, for example.
The problem with the old system was that people were tossed in the loony bin for being odd or off the wall, rather than genuinely dangerous. Now as we all know that slightly weird guy can turn murderous suddenly without warning (guns blazing) but you can't take away someone's free expression of liberty based on fears they might be bad some day.
Plus, it was a powerful tool for the courts to remove troublesome people from the streets that laws didn't really cover. Yes, it would be nice to get that freak that keeps protesting comtrails downtown off the streets, but its wrong to just put him in an insane asylum against his will.
And in the end, that's where the big surge in homeless came from. Not Reagan policies, not even Carter misery index, but forcing insane asylums to let borderline and minor loonies out on the streets where they couldn't care for themselves.
The problem with the old system was that people were tossed in the loony bin for being odd or off the wall, rather than genuinely dangerous. Now as we all know that slightly weird guy can turn murderous suddenly without warning (guns blazing) but you can't take away someone's free expression of liberty based on fears they might be bad some day.
Plus, it was a powerful tool for the courts to remove troublesome people from the streets that laws didn't really cover. Yes, it would be nice to get that freak that keeps protesting comtrails downtown off the streets, but its wrong to just put him in an insane asylum against his will.
And in the end, that's where the big surge in homeless came from. Not Reagan policies, not even Carter misery index, but forcing insane asylums to let borderline and minor loonies out on the streets where they couldn't care for themselves.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at March 01, 2014 11:53 AM (zfY+H)
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"Ronald Reagan was an actor. Just sayin."
Yet, but: at the time Reagan came to Hollyweird, his politics were essentially then-mainstream New Deal doctrinaire Democratic.
He was a perceptive enough person to start to spot the dangers and contradictions of those politics as they applied to show business.
Specifically, he:
-- Realized the enormous economic effect which a punitive "progressive" tax structure has, as he saw highly paid actors slam up against the yearly salary ceiling, and shrug, and go off to loaf by a pool for the rest of the year.
-- Observed the slow steady push of Communist apologists into the entertainment business, as well as organized crime trying to grab hold of the Screen Actors Guild and its cash coffers, and then saw how the "mainstream New Deal types" were suspiciously relaxed about these pernicious things.
Note also that Reagan was a product of the era long before the Sixties new-left campus radicals went to film school and started fundamentally changing the industry to conform to their ideology.
There are still no doubt a few proto-Reagans bubbling up through the system here and there, but they will never be allowed to rise above a certain level if they're open about their rightist politics, and they'll certainly never be in a place to run an organization like SAG.
Yet, but: at the time Reagan came to Hollyweird, his politics were essentially then-mainstream New Deal doctrinaire Democratic.
He was a perceptive enough person to start to spot the dangers and contradictions of those politics as they applied to show business.
Specifically, he:
-- Realized the enormous economic effect which a punitive "progressive" tax structure has, as he saw highly paid actors slam up against the yearly salary ceiling, and shrug, and go off to loaf by a pool for the rest of the year.
-- Observed the slow steady push of Communist apologists into the entertainment business, as well as organized crime trying to grab hold of the Screen Actors Guild and its cash coffers, and then saw how the "mainstream New Deal types" were suspiciously relaxed about these pernicious things.
Note also that Reagan was a product of the era long before the Sixties new-left campus radicals went to film school and started fundamentally changing the industry to conform to their ideology.
There are still no doubt a few proto-Reagans bubbling up through the system here and there, but they will never be allowed to rise above a certain level if they're open about their rightist politics, and they'll certainly never be in a place to run an organization like SAG.
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Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 01, 2014 03:48 PM (XyM/Y)
This happened in front of the Ice Storm we had in Dallas this past December. Bread shelves wiped-out, like people were going to eat PBJ's for a week. Yes DFW's streets closed down for about 4-5 days, but except for old neighborhoods, power lines are buried, and only about 5% of homes lost power.
Posted by: phreshone at March 01, 2014 11:54 AM (Q6pxP)
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LOL beat me too it. Why does everyone here hate him. Sure he has had a few stinkers like Wicker Man, but he has some really outstanding ones like National Treasure.
Posted by: Vic at March 01, 2014 03:32 PM (T2V/1)
Wicker Man was not a bad movie, it just left a bad taste.
National Treasure? Are you kidding? Not one of my favorite Nick Cage movies.
I liked "Next" and "The Rock" among others.
Posted by: D-Lamp at March 01, 2014 11:55 AM (bb5+k)
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Actually during the Clinton administration, there was a string of movies about evil, corrupt, and power-abusing presidents, raping and killing people then covering it up. I was actually stunned to see it, such a total reversal of their usual pattern.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at March 01, 2014 03:18 PM
They also made "Executive Decision", about Muslims hijacking a plane, during the Clinton Administration. But that was probably to propagate the (what turned out to be true) threat of Muslims to cover for Clinton's actions in the Middle East.
Of course, after the Muslim terrorist attacks on 9/11/2001, Hollywood did a complete 180, and painted Muslims as complete innocents when Bush was in office.
Then we had 8 years of how government was awful and the military was awful and war was awful.
Then, Obama is in office and... BOOM!... complete 180 by Hollywood again. Then we have pro-military movies again, Hollywood suddenly supports the military with their "Got Your 6" program and government is utopia again.
Sick and despicable how Hollywood works...
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at March 01, 2014 11:55 AM (7A4qQ)
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180 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 01, 2014 03:48 PM (XyM/Y)
And they stripped the bread shelf right?
Fact of life, especially down here.
And they stripped the bread shelf right?
Fact of life, especially down here.
Posted by: Vic[/i] at March 01, 2014 11:56 AM (T2V/1)
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"I'm convinced this is some atavistic throwback. It's irrational."
Most people don't just buy groceries once a week. Out of milk, I'll stop and pick up milk. Out of TP, I'll stop and pick up some TP. Etc., Etc. So now when people know the store might not be open, they prepare. Nothing irrational about it.
Most people don't just buy groceries once a week. Out of milk, I'll stop and pick up milk. Out of TP, I'll stop and pick up some TP. Etc., Etc. So now when people know the store might not be open, they prepare. Nothing irrational about it.
Posted by: lowandslow at March 01, 2014 11:57 AM (IV4od)
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193 Spoiler: The Titanic sinks at the end.
Posted by: Dr. Varno at March 01, 2014 03:55 PM (V4CBV)
Too bad DeCaprio didn't stay dead.
Posted by: Iblis at March 01, 2014 11:57 AM (NVFTu)
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"I never followed the Cap comics (more of a Punisher, Gijoe,& What If fan) but the few I read, especially later, seemed to have a lefty kinda bent. "
It depends on the writers. Some have Captain America strongly moral, old fashioned, and patriotic, as he's supposed to be and the original concept was. Some make him their puppet for their complaints about America and anger at a country that just won't be as leftist as they wish. For a while during the Nixon years, Cap became "Nomad" because he felt he wasn't part of America any more, for example. Another example is when he fought a bunch of evil VERY thinly disguised Tea Partiers recently. Just awful stuff
But at his best he's a really good boy scout type who loves America and what it stands for, wears a flag on his chest, and fights for liberty and justice for all. That's the Captain America we sort of got in the first film, watered down to "I don't like bullies" instead of a strong statement of liberty and patriotism. This next one, his costume is almost black with virtually no flag motifs at all, and it looks very dark. And yeah, Red Redford.
It depends on the writers. Some have Captain America strongly moral, old fashioned, and patriotic, as he's supposed to be and the original concept was. Some make him their puppet for their complaints about America and anger at a country that just won't be as leftist as they wish. For a while during the Nixon years, Cap became "Nomad" because he felt he wasn't part of America any more, for example. Another example is when he fought a bunch of evil VERY thinly disguised Tea Partiers recently. Just awful stuff
But at his best he's a really good boy scout type who loves America and what it stands for, wears a flag on his chest, and fights for liberty and justice for all. That's the Captain America we sort of got in the first film, watered down to "I don't like bullies" instead of a strong statement of liberty and patriotism. This next one, his costume is almost black with virtually no flag motifs at all, and it looks very dark. And yeah, Red Redford.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at March 01, 2014 11:57 AM (zfY+H)
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167 Posted by: D-Lamp at March 01, 2014 03:41 PM (bb5+k)
Surely you now better than to quote wiki on a political question.
Surely you now better than to quote wiki on a political question.
Posted by: Vic[/i] at March 01, 2014 11:57 AM (T2V/1)
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And just because I love St Luke Productions and yet have absolutely NO financial interest in or connection with the company, if anyone knows anyone who is RC or other Christian who is interested in theatre/ marketing and lives in Washington State they are looking for a full time marketing director. See more here:
http://tinyurl.com/l35m3lh
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 01, 2014 11:58 AM (XyM/Y)
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"Next" is one of Cage's best films, and actually a very, very good sci fi flick. It handles precognative abilities in a wonderful way, but you have to be somewhat smart to follow what and how he does what he does.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at March 01, 2014 11:59 AM (zfY+H)
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Posted by: lowandslow at March 01, 2014 03:57 PM (IV4od)
if they had prepared for weeks in advance why would they need to go out to get TP or toothpaste if the store is shut for one day?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 01, 2014 11:59 AM (XyM/Y)
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OT-can someone explain this to me. Spouse works in a Supermarket. Today it was apparently absolutely-three times as many people as normal. We're supposed have 12 inches of snow or more Sunday into Monday. Unless you had NO food and not enough non perishables to last a day why would you have to hurry off to the market?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 01, 2014 03:48 PM (XyM/Y)
My bet is that it is part regular Saturday shoppers, part people who want to get just a bit more before the storm to feel better, and part people who freak out because they believe that they need to have everything they can think of on hand even if they're only stranded for a day or two.
Personally, even though I keep a good stash of stuff around I get the urge to go to the grocery store when bad weather is incoming. Then I think of the crowds and the fact that I can survive very well with what I have on hand and decide against it.
Posted by: Vendette at March 01, 2014 11:59 AM (jZbjJ)
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In which case, expending effort to try to eke out a few measly conservative gains in Hollyweird, against enormous opposition, is merely a waste of effort and resources. Effort and resources which are better directed towards survival (economic and otherwise), cultural continuity, and rebuilding new countries out of the inevitable smoking wreckage.
Posted by: torquewrench at March 01, 2014 03:38 PM (gqT4g)
I applaud your reasoning. I would say it doesn't quite go far enough though. I think alternative conservative media can be made to work if it produces a good product, and I think Simon is one of those attempting to bolster this effort.
If we can produce good products, we can cut the wind from Leftest sails in Hollywood, but by all means, if we are to ever fix what is wrong, we have to at least match their propaganda with truth, but presented in an entertaining fashion.
Posted by: D-Lamp at March 01, 2014 12:00 PM (bb5+k)
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Most people don't just buy groceries once a week.
You know, that meal anxiety thing lefties are always yammering about
You know, that meal anxiety thing lefties are always yammering about
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@187
Arming the hell out of Poland is what makes sense now. "Ukraine" appears to be done.
Posted by: Beagle at March 01, 2014 12:00 PM (sOtz/)
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How about: go to the effing theaters and spoil it for people as they step up to the ticket window?
Hit Whorrywood in the pocketbook.
[go post the spoiler on your various social media outlets, too]
:wq!
Hit Whorrywood in the pocketbook.
[go post the spoiler on your various social media outlets, too]
:wq!
Posted by: Insert Clever Name Here at March 01, 2014 12:02 PM (SS8WM)
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I honestly believe the future of entertainment is small local production companies putting out lower budget thoughtful internet and netflix-carried content. With the way 3d Printing is bringing down prop costs, the green screen and special effects software getting so good (and cheap), and the quality of video online going up... I think movie theaters are going the way of the printed book.
Which is not to say they're disappearing, only that they are going to become less common and more considered expensive luxuries. You go see a film once in a while for 20 bucks at ticket or more, like a play rather than several times a month or more like it used to be.
Which is not to say they're disappearing, only that they are going to become less common and more considered expensive luxuries. You go see a film once in a while for 20 bucks at ticket or more, like a play rather than several times a month or more like it used to be.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at March 01, 2014 12:03 PM (zfY+H)
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When I ask why it always boils down to the botched abortion plotline in Dirty Dancing, and how that influenced her emotionally to always believe a women needs a safe out from a pregnancy, just in case. It is hard to break away from mindsets formed when you are an emotionally driven, impressionable youth, even when reason and logic later on catches up with you.
Posted by: LizLem at March 01, 2014 03:45 PM (ijXVY)
This is what i'm saying people. That fucking propaganda disguised as entertainment MOVES VOTES.
Posted by: D-Lamp at March 01, 2014 12:03 PM (bb5+k)
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168 Posted by: Yip at March 01, 2014 03:41 PM (/jHWN)
Nope don't agree. Everyone with half a brain knew CS was shit. It was the double whammy of regulators and legal uncertainty and delays running up the cost. One plant I am personally familiar with was budgeted for $2B. It wound up costing $5B in the end. There were several other plants scheduled to be built at the same site. They were all cancelled.
And the biggest regulatory impact was the regulators changing their mind AFTER everything was approved. Then coming back and requiring modifications to work already completed.
And to show you what it is like NOW, in one case I know of they are currently requiring $100M worth of mods for the Fukashima flooding event for plants nowhere near the ocean. (and I mean a LONG way away) And look which Party is in power and who was nominated to be head of the commission. A member of Hairy The Pederast's staff.
Nope don't agree. Everyone with half a brain knew CS was shit. It was the double whammy of regulators and legal uncertainty and delays running up the cost. One plant I am personally familiar with was budgeted for $2B. It wound up costing $5B in the end. There were several other plants scheduled to be built at the same site. They were all cancelled.
And the biggest regulatory impact was the regulators changing their mind AFTER everything was approved. Then coming back and requiring modifications to work already completed.
And to show you what it is like NOW, in one case I know of they are currently requiring $100M worth of mods for the Fukashima flooding event for plants nowhere near the ocean. (and I mean a LONG way away) And look which Party is in power and who was nominated to be head of the commission. A member of Hairy The Pederast's staff.
Posted by: Vic[/i] at March 01, 2014 12:04 PM (T2V/1)
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if they had prepared for weeks in advance why would they need to go out to get TP or toothpaste if the store is shut for one day?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 01, 2014 03:59 PM (XyM/Y)
That's too logical.
I will add that when I've been snowed in for a day or two the fruit and veggies don't seem to be appealing. It's the junk food that fuels the shoveling.
Posted by: Vendette at March 01, 2014 12:05 PM (jZbjJ)
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Luke, Ben, and C3PO take a break.
http://tinyurl.com/l7acpuj
Posted by: WalrusRex at March 01, 2014 12:05 PM (E+uky)
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Link to Roger L. Simon article
http://pjmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2014/02/28/take-back-hollywood/
which I didn't find any more convincing (or comforting) than torquewrench did.
You can't make me pay money to watch people mock me.
Hell, I can get that here for free. BTW, I'm way smarter than weft-cut. He said so.
http://pjmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2014/02/28/take-back-hollywood/
which I didn't find any more convincing (or comforting) than torquewrench did.
You can't make me pay money to watch people mock me.
Hell, I can get that here for free. BTW, I'm way smarter than weft-cut. He said so.
Posted by: Stringer Davis at March 01, 2014 12:05 PM (xq1UY)
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Posted by: Vendette at March 01, 2014 03:59 PM (jZbjJ)
Thanks. That was a good explanation I'm not blaming people The irrational people are the ones who freak out. Spouse has had several times when people are almost coming to blows because of not getting the last of an item out at the moment. Oranges? W're not talking about A hurricane or tornado coming. it's 12 or so inches of snow and it's a suburban area In 1996 we had about 30 inches of snow. The store was open the within a day and a half.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 01, 2014 12:06 PM (XyM/Y)
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It's the junk food that fuels the shoveling.
LOL. Good thought.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 01, 2014 12:06 PM (XyM/Y)
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DRUDGE REPORT @DRUDGE_REPORT
Obama Skips National Security Team Meeting... http://drudge.tw/MEzw46
Posted by: Flatbush Joe at March 01, 2014 12:06 PM (ZPrif)
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In response to the downtrodden Uighurs being forced to knife train passengers we have decided to import 40,000 of them to rural areas in the United States.
Posted by: Your Political Elites Behind Layered Security at March 01, 2014 12:07 PM (sOtz/)
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Knowing was also a good Cage flick and I even bought a used copy of it. But I found after you knew the ending it wasn't as good to watch, so no spoilers.
Posted by: Vic[/i] at March 01, 2014 12:08 PM (T2V/1)
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Obama Skips National Security Team Meeting
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Maybe he's hanging with Luke and Ben. See 212.
Posted by: WalrusRex at March 01, 2014 12:10 PM (E+uky)
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Have to go folks. I already feel bad about using up so much time I ought to have been working on my various projects.
Later.
Posted by: D-Lamp at March 01, 2014 12:10 PM (bb5+k)
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@180 Fenelon, look to your calendar. It will explain a great deal.
Posted by: Stringer Davis at March 01, 2014 12:10 PM (xq1UY)
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Is than snarc? I thought Ace hated Cage.
Posted by: Vic at March 01, 2014 03:36 PM (T2V/1)
No, he's a big fan of Cage.
Posted by: Judge Pug at March 01, 2014 12:11 PM (6Nj7A)
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Well I like a lot of his movies, but not all. The last one I watched (newest) of his was Soccer's Apprentice. It was OK but kind of meh.
Posted by: Vic[/i] at March 01, 2014 12:14 PM (T2V/1)
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John Schindler @20committee
Probably not a great idea for POTUS to skip NatSec principals meeting on #Ukraine today. Just putting that out there.
Posted by: Flatbush Joe at March 01, 2014 12:15 PM (ZPrif)
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CNNI just reported about him skipping the meeting. Administration officials said its "not unusual".
Top. Fucking. Men.
Posted by: Adam at March 01, 2014 12:17 PM (Aif/5)
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216
DRUDGE REPORT @DRUDGE_REPORT
Obama Skips National Security Team Meeting... http://drudge.tw/MEzw46
That headline makes the false premise that Barky routinely attends National Security Meetings
Obama Skips National Security Team Meeting... http://drudge.tw/MEzw46
Posted by: Flatbush Joe at March 01, 2014 04:06 PM (ZPrif)
That headline makes the false premise that Barky routinely attends National Security Meetings
Posted by: phreshone at March 01, 2014 12:17 PM (Q6pxP)
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Fenelon, look to your calendar. It will explain a great deal.
Transfiguration Sunday. The last Sunday before Ash Wednesday? ;^)
It's not a beginning of the month thing-that people got their EBT cards filled. It's a very affluent area. It's more related to the storm, I think.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 01, 2014 12:19 PM (XyM/Y)
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225 Adam at March 01, 2014 04:17 PM (Aif/5)
Fuck you plebians I got it on my blackberry....what the fuck do you want from me I had a hole to fill....?
//Bronk O'bama America's Golf Pro and Man Jam Dispenser
Fuck you plebians I got it on my blackberry....what the fuck do you want from me I had a hole to fill....?
//Bronk O'bama America's Golf Pro and Man Jam Dispenser
Posted by: Sven 10077 at March 01, 2014 12:20 PM (TE35l)
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223 Well I like a lot of his movies, but not all. The last one I watched (newest) of his was Soccer's Apprentice. It was OK but kind of meh.
Posted by: Vic at March 01, 2014 04:14 PM (T2V/1)
Well, don't like him too much, cuz Ace will scratch your eyes out.
Posted by: Judge Pug at March 01, 2014 12:20 PM (6Nj7A)
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CNNI just reported about him skipping the meeting. Administration officials said its "not unusual".
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He has to skip them. Otherwise he'd lack credibility when he says he didn't know what was going on until he read it in the paper.
Posted by: WalrusRex at March 01, 2014 12:22 PM (E+uky)
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146 Zombie, I was reading the abortion comments in the previous thread.
If you're still canvassing opinions, mine is that the Left is a swarm of death cultists. All of their policies are about power over the individual, and nowhere is that power more total than in abortion.
Posted by: votermom
Got it! Noted, added to the list. Thx.
Posted by: zombie at March 01, 2014 12:22 PM (mizYg)
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I would guess that 90%of households have enough food to survive a couple of days of being stuck at home. Canned food, stuff in the freezer, pasta etc. The run on the grocery store is merely a psychological coping mechanism due to fear driven by the apocalyptic treatment every storm is given in modern news. The thing they should do is have a plan for power outage. All the food in the world wont keep them warm.
Posted by: The Hickster at March 01, 2014 12:24 PM (TI3xG)
Posted by: Kristophr at March 01, 2014 12:26 PM (c6N69)
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223
Well I like a lot of his movies, but not all. The last one I watched (newest) of his was Soccer's Apprentice. It was OK but kind of meh. Posted by: Vic at March 01, 2014 04:14 PM (T2V/1)
A movie about someone who hangs around a ball kicker?
A movie about someone who hangs around a ball kicker?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at March 01, 2014 12:28 PM (YgTB4)
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232 Posted by: The Hickster at March 01, 2014 04:24 PM (TI3xG)
Actually it is a hold-over from the days when you had any severe weather you would lose power. Sometimes days at a time. Hence buying up all the bread so you could feed the family on sandwiches. In the winter you can store cold cuts out in the snow, or even on the porch if cold enough. (I used to store beer on the window ledge in the barracks in Chicago).
So you see a lot of bread go and sometimes hot dogs for people who had fireplaces.
Actually it is a hold-over from the days when you had any severe weather you would lose power. Sometimes days at a time. Hence buying up all the bread so you could feed the family on sandwiches. In the winter you can store cold cuts out in the snow, or even on the porch if cold enough. (I used to store beer on the window ledge in the barracks in Chicago).
So you see a lot of bread go and sometimes hot dogs for people who had fireplaces.
Posted by: Vic[/i] at March 01, 2014 12:30 PM (T2V/1)
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234 A movie about someone who hangs around a ball kicker?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at March 01, 2014 04:28 PM (YgTB4)
LOL, took me a while to figure that one out. I hate the spell check on this thing.
Posted by: Vic[/i] at March 01, 2014 12:32 PM (T2V/1)
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Headline: President Obama Did Something Today
Posted by: eman at March 01, 2014 12:32 PM (AO9UG)
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The run on the grocery store is merely a psychological coping mechanism due to fear driven by the apocalyptic treatment every storm is given in modern news.
Well put; Thanks.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 01, 2014 12:32 PM (XyM/Y)
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I think it is a hold over from those days too, but unless it's a bad, bad storm you usually get power within a day or two. Like people in the NE have never seen 12 inches of snow?!!
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 01, 2014 12:37 PM (XyM/Y)
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202 Fenelon
Stores are busy because it's the first of the month.
EBT etc, received.
Posted by: seamrog at March 01, 2014 12:37 PM (VvwIJ)
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145
Just remember VLC, Handbrake, AnyDVD, & CloneDVD are your solutions
for backing up and converting and playing any of your motion pictures.
VLC can play just about anything, including Blu Rays, and is free.
Handbrake is free and can convert DVDs to play on mobile platforms like
Ipads and Androids. AnyDVD and CloneDVD are paid products, but combined
can backup anything, DVDs, Blu Rays, even PAL and foreign region DVDs.
Posted by: Iblis at March 01, 2014 03:33 PM (NVFTu)
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DVDshrink is free (and is what I use to back up my DVDs) and makes fine copies for backup purposes.. I don't know if it works with blu-ray.
:wq!
Posted by: Insert Clever Name Here at March 01, 2014 12:38 PM (SS8WM)
240
Hahahahaha,what a piece of shit.I like Liam Neeson though,what were you thinking bro?
Posted by: steevy at March 01, 2014 12:38 PM (zqvg6)
241
In Florida your storms would be an apocalypse. We had ice on the roads in 1990 and life just stopped for three days. I saw a BMW doing 360s the wrong way down University Avenue by The Swamp in G'ville.
Posted by: Beagle at March 01, 2014 12:39 PM (sOtz/)
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The Interpreter @Interpreter_Mag
Ukraine Liveblog: Russian amb. to UN says Kiev trying to overthrow Crimea gov't, Russia troops there to restore order http://bit.ly/1pLHmJ1
Posted by: Flatbush Joe at March 01, 2014 12:42 PM (ZPrif)
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I'll give"Knowing" credit for having the courage of its convictions, and it was really well made, but it was too much of a downer for much repeat play. On the plus side, it could be seen as a prequel to one of the director's earlier films.
Posted by: Null at March 01, 2014 12:42 PM (0OrFt)
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239 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 01, 2014 04:37 PM (XyM/Y)
We had people here w/o power for over a week after the big snowmagedden. Mostly because of the followup sleet storm.
What happens is the ice builds up on the trees, they or their limbs fall across the lines and down they go.
They used to regularly trim the trees near lines but the eco-whiners made so much noise and it was expense in labor costs so they just quit doing it.
We had people here w/o power for over a week after the big snowmagedden. Mostly because of the followup sleet storm.
What happens is the ice builds up on the trees, they or their limbs fall across the lines and down they go.
They used to regularly trim the trees near lines but the eco-whiners made so much noise and it was expense in labor costs so they just quit doing it.
Posted by: Vic[/i] at March 01, 2014 12:43 PM (T2V/1)
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245
I'll give"Knowing" credit for having the courage of its convictions, and
it was really well made, but it was too much of a downer for much
repeat play. On the plus side, it could be seen as a prequel to one of
the director's earlier films.
Posted by: Null at March 01, 2014 04:42 PM (0OrFt)
Had some awesome FX too.
Posted by: Vic[/i] at March 01, 2014 12:45 PM (T2V/1)
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Hey, maybe we can trick Putin into opening the Ark of the Covenant! It worked in the 1930s!
Posted by: Joe Biden at March 01, 2014 12:48 PM (Kqtqx)
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Yes, ice storms are bad but I think even with ice storms in the NE we usually get power within a few days. After hurricane Sandy we go it back in day and a half. I hope I'm right because we don't have a generator and we'd be toasting wieners over the fire if the power goes out for too long. :^)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 01, 2014 12:49 PM (XyM/Y)
249
2012 had the most awesome FX of any other recent film have seen.
Posted by: Vic[/i] at March 01, 2014 12:49 PM (T2V/1)
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250 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 01, 2014 04:49 PM (XyM/Y)
When Hurricane Hugo came through here I lost power for a week. Some people lost it for over a month. That was what they call a 100 year hurricane. It destroyed almost the entire grid in the State from Charleston inland almost to Columbia before veering North and Killing Charlotte.
When Hurricane Hugo came through here I lost power for a week. Some people lost it for over a month. That was what they call a 100 year hurricane. It destroyed almost the entire grid in the State from Charleston inland almost to Columbia before veering North and Killing Charlotte.
Posted by: Vic[/i] at March 01, 2014 12:52 PM (T2V/1)
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For fuck's sake:
Michael Steele: Bravo Spike Lee. LetÂ’s Keep White People Out Of Black Neighborhoods
tinyurl.com/n58q29j
Michael Steele: Bravo Spike Lee. LetÂ’s Keep White People Out Of Black Neighborhoods
tinyurl.com/n58q29j
Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i][/b] at March 01, 2014 12:54 PM (uctT+)
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I don't like Cage bec he always seems like Cage rather than the character.
But I really loathe Colin Farrell for ruining Alexander.
Posted by: votermom at March 01, 2014 12:54 PM (GSIDW)
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"New "Non-Stop" Film Slanders 9/11 Victims as Terrorists"
Thank you for that idea zombie. For what little it's worth, that's exactly how I put it on my blog and Twitter feed.
Posted by: BornLib at March 01, 2014 12:56 PM (zpNwC)
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Stores are busy because it's the first of the month.
FSA day. It makes a big difference. Missus and I plan our grocery shopping around it.
Posted by: Eric in Boise at March 01, 2014 12:57 PM (kgBIQ)
255
FWIW, my favorite Nic Cage movie is Raising Arizona.
Posted by: Chilling the most at March 01, 2014 12:57 PM (gxtMZ)
256
Yes, I certainly people stocking up on things in the event of a huge destructive storm, but unless it shapes up differently with this it's a regular occurrence in the winter up here and not likely to be snowmaggedan
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 01, 2014 12:58 PM (XyM/Y)
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No this is two-three times as many people as the beginning of the month.
I have now decided to face the inevitable that I will be on the "most wanted posters" list for Ace of Spades this week. ;^) so I offer at some point to buy dinner for anymore near me on the list who lives nearbye. We can both discuss starting an AA group Ace Anonymous addiction group. ;^)
And now I'm not going to be on here until after the list is posted. Have a good evening
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 01, 2014 01:03 PM (XyM/Y)
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What you have is the "perfect storm". The convergence of an impending storm and FSA day.
Posted by: Vic[/i] at March 01, 2014 01:05 PM (T2V/1)
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that liam guy cannot act and he annoys the heck out of me i would shoot him in real life
Posted by: Brad at March 01, 2014 01:26 PM (OpJLB)
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Yeah, 2012 had incredible effects. But it was so look formulaic. Like the character who drowned at the end--perfectly nice, decent guy, but Hollywood ending.
Posted by: Null at March 01, 2014 01:30 PM (0OrFt)
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DVDshrink is free (and is what I use to back up my DVDs) and makes fine copies for backup purposes.. I don't know if it works with blu-ray.
:wq!
Posted by: Insert Clever Name Here at March 01, 2014 04:38 PM (SS8WM)
I'll have to try DVDshrink. I like the Slysoft products, like AnyDvd because it strips protection and region codes from the disc. So if you like foreign films, or travel overseas, it makes it easier to watch movies.
Posted by: Iblis at March 01, 2014 02:06 PM (NVFTu)
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262
Yeah, 2012 had incredible effects. But it was so look formulaic. Like
the character who drowned at the end--perfectly nice, decent guy, but
Hollywood ending.
Posted by: Null at March 01, 2014 05:30 PM (0OrFt)
Some trivia on that movie that verifies one of the things that we have been saying about the liberals and why they will never to anything anti-muzzie while they shit on Christians all the time: They originally planned to destroy the kaaba in those sequences but pulled it for fear of a fatwa.
Posted by: Vic[/i] at March 01, 2014 02:07 PM (T2V/1)
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And speaking of long time heart throbs Shorpy has a picture of Annette Funicello on a bile ion 1959 when she was 16.
http://www.shorpy.com/node/17078?size=_original#caption
Sadly her MS finally took her last year.
http://www.shorpy.com/node/17078?size=_original#caption
Sadly her MS finally took her last year.
Posted by: Vic[/i] at March 01, 2014 02:24 PM (T2V/1)
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Anyway, she was back in the day when Disney was still around and the kids were looked after and didn't become raging druggies.
One other that had a sad ending was Janet Munro from Darby O'Gill. She died early from heart problems of some kind.
One other that had a sad ending was Janet Munro from Darby O'Gill. She died early from heart problems of some kind.
Posted by: Vic[/i] at March 01, 2014 02:27 PM (T2V/1)
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