I am a huge fan of movies and so I pay attention to what is coming out in theaters and read the reviews of current films on a regular basis. As we draw 2018 to a close, many websites are putting out their Best of 2018 listicles. And boy, are most of them just filled with shit.
Not one thing I have even the faintest interest in seeing.
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Buzzfeed‘s 11 Best Movies of 2018
They manage, by dent of having 11 movies, to get a good one in: Hereditary. It’s a legitimately good horror movie. Creepy atmosphere, unsettling, sort of a throwback to the post-Rosemary’s Baby devil film boom of the 70s. Toni Collette plays the same mom she’s been playing since The Sixth Sense, but that’s OK.
And Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse might be good, but all every review seems to dwell on is BLACK SPIDER-MAN! THERE’S A BLACK-SPIDER-MAN! Yes, his name is Miles and he’s been in the comics for a number of years now, movie critics. Now go change your underwear.
BONUS “NOTHING IS EVER GOOD ENOUGH!” ROUND: I’m Still Waiting for the First Black Spider-Man to Get His Own Movie
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AV Club is doing the slow reveal, like a burlesque show that you pray will be over soon. Rather than give us the Best of 2018, they’ve dithered and delayed with:
The best film trailers of 2018
The best films of 2018 that we didn’t review
I doubt there will be any surprises on there best of, but I still wanna holler “JUST TAKE YOUR DAMN PANTIES OFF SO I CAN GO HOME!”
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I tried to find Salon‘s Best Movies of 2018, but it was just Fahrenheit 11/9 listed ten times and a .gif of Michael Moore pissing in a cup and then drinking it.
Goodyear Shuts Down Venezuela Factory and Gives Workers 10 Tires Each as Part of Their Severance
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. has decided to stop making tires in Venezuela, according to multiple reports, the latest in a line of companies to pull out of the crisis-stricken South American country. As part of its severance package, employees will reportedly receive 10 tires each.
Employees showed up this week to the company’s plant in the City of Valencia and discovered a letter posted to the door that, according to Bloomberg, said “Goodyear Venezuela has been forced to cease operations.”
Damn you, State Capitalism! [shakes fist]
I dare you to find a more useless article about a non-controversy:
Meghan Markle’s baby bump cradling sparks Twitter backlash
Meghan Markle sparked a global debate about baby bump cradling after her surprise appearance at the British Fashion Awards this week.
The Duchess of Sussex, 37, posed in a way at the style-centered event that some interpreted as hammy and others as maternal, as she presented an award to her wedding dress designer, Givenchy artistic director Clare Waight Keller.
Treacle
@CallMeTreacle
Cupping the bump? WHOB DOES THIS? #MeghanMarkle who the hell does she think she is #Madonna and child? Something VERY creepy going on in this woman’s head“#MeghanMarkle holding on to that bump like someone’s about to snatch it,” another quipped.
“Seriously, no pregnant woman poses for photo like this. Ever. She’s such an actress. #MeghanMarkle #duchessofsussex #BritishFashionAwards #actingup,” another wrote, adding, “Especially when you’re a royalty [sic] … She should learn from Kate on how to pose regally when pregnant. Both hands discretely [sic] under the bump. Not cradling like Demi Moore. #Crasspregnancy #MeghanMarkle.”
It’s the perfect storm of stupid hot takes on Twitter combined with an article that didn’t need to be written because humans should be better than this.
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310 responses to “Thursday Afternoon Links – Worst of the Best of edition”
“Not one thing I have even the faintest interest in seeing.”
I want to see a Star Is Born, but that’s the only one listed.
I don’t know I think Into the Spiderverse looks good
But that wasn’t on the Slate list.
A Star is Born has been remade at least 3 times, but it is a decent story. Sometimes it was called something different.
What Price Hollywood? from 1932.
Watch the Fredric March version.
OK, but not because you said so.
Watch the Fredric March version.
Well, now I’m definitely not watching it.
Against all odds, I really liked A Star is Born.
Well, take a look at you.
Which one?
The one with Carl Sagan as narrator.
I thought that was Morgan Freeman.
The newest one. I was prepared to hate Lady Gaga, but she was excellent.
Also Andrew Dice Clay.
Lady Gaga is a great singer. It’s her songs that are awful.
She’s also the Seinfeld character that looks hot or ugly depending on lighting/location.
The Streisand version is terrible.
I admit she can sing, but I always found her annoying as an actress.
I loved her work in this classic.
Papa can you hear me?
If you are old enough to have grown up with Mr Rogers Neighborhood, then Won’t You Be My Neighbor is excellent. Probably excellent even if you are too young for that.
He’s the real deal, and the documentary does a good job telling the story of someone who did his best to make the world better in a small way. The story about his jab at segregation was really powerful.
Seconded.
I heard it was PG-13? What makes it so?
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7681902/parentalguide
It’s incredibly mild, but they pull those ratings out of their asses anyway.
Interesting. Sonny Bunch was talking about it initially, but now that he’s seen “Vox Lux” he’s raving about it as the best “star is born” flick this year. Not sure it’s even playing locally, but might be worth checking out if you like that kinda flick.
I don’t care what you do or don’t want to watch. All I care is that you aren’t some asshat who has to see the newest movie so bad that you make a stink about getting tickets. Whether it is staying out all night or badgering people to get a ticket.
Trust me in a week you can have your pick of times/places. The movie will be exactly the same.
/ex-video rental store employee who got fucking sick to death of drama queens demanding to get the latest movie to hit the New Release wall.
I got my Pa that movie for Xmas (of course it won’t be released til January).
A Star is Born is pretty good. I don’t care much for Lady Gaga’s music, but she is a talented singer.
Visually Roma looks great and I would see it.
The Rider looks like a good movie based on the trailer. I don’t want to pay the $15 that Amazon is charging, but it looks like it’s free on Starz, so I’ll watch it when my wife signs up for that so she can watch Outlander.
Support the Girls might have boobs, so that’s a plus.
I would see more recently released movies if it wasn’t for movie theaters.
^THIS^
That and UCS constantly shushing me. I’m too spoiled to sit through a movie now. I can’t pause it? Or rewind? Pass.
Or smoke or eat what I want or drink what I want….
OMG yes. This.
Our local sixtyplex closed in August.
Considering how a home theater need not cost a fortune these days, I can’t justify going to a theater except to see very specific films, and even those are becoming few and far between.
My home theater won’t be winning any awards from any audiophiles, or screen snobs…it is but a few steps above entry level after all.
Still, I get 100 glorious inches (wife vetoed making it any bigger…wives are killjoys sometimes 🙁 ) of high definition in home projection, surround sound, all the stove top popped popcorn I can eat, no mystery substances on the seats, and no interruptions except from my own kids.
“a .gif of Michael Moore pissing in a cup and then drinking it”
How could you confuse Micheal Moore with Sasha Grey?
Y’all are strange.
Uffda
I have it on good authority that it’s supposed to be “All y’all…”. :-/
Not if he was just talking to Count…
Wait. That’s bad now?
Everything’s bad when the social media ladder climbers are lying in wait.
I don’t give a shit about Markle and don’t want to hear about the royals anymore.
Didn’t we fight and win a war so we wouldn’t have to give a shit about the silly anachronism of a royal family?
Dude, we fought that war so we could get more slaves.
No we fought a war so we didn’t have to PAY for the anachronism of a royal familly, we’ve been regretting not having one and therefore jealously eying the royal families who do exist ever since.
How else do you explain the Kennedy worship
Excludes women who were not born with uteruses, who are tragically barred by the patriarchy from having children.
Oh. Of course. I’ll report for my meds and re-education field trip.
Shitlord Sensitivity Training
“WHOB DOES THIS?”
Whob is so stupid as to give a shit? And isn’t that a fairly common “baby announcement” pose?
Yes, because pregnant women tend to wear flowy dresses for comfort in more formal settings (like a photo shoot) , and that pose highlights the baby bump for the photo so it doesn’t look like they’re just wearing a dress that’s 2 sizes too big.
I haven’t seen a pregnant woman wearing anything other than spandex in a couple decades. Is that a comfort thing?
I assume so. I’m guessing the rapid change of dimensions in the waist makes for a difficulty in wearing pants with a defined waist measurement. Of course, girl pants are usually stretchy anyway, which was a shock when I found it out. I didn’t realize that jeans came in anything but stiff cotton.
I’ve never even heard of most of those.
Game Night, which was on Slate’s honorable mentions, was pretty funny. It’s Jason Bateman playing the usual Jason Bateman character, but still amusing.
Did you see him in Bad Words? I liked that movie.
Won’t You Be My Neighbor? was a solid doc.
Man arrested for assaulting Miami Beach cop’s fist with his face.
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/miami-beach/article222990065.html
Guess the cop wasn’t a fan of In the Heat of the Night
“appeared as if he wanted to challenge” the authority of one cop,
Who was much obliged, to provide him the opportunity instead of walking on by.
Cue Cartman.
And, damn, this only comes out because another cop blew the whistle.
Officer safety!
But if you ever fear for your saftey when one of those peace officers get in your face…
“appears”? to contradict the police account.
I know the paper has to CYA but still there’s no appears. It does contradict the police account.
I watched You Were Never Really Here the other night and it was surprisingly good.
I wondered about that one.
Most of the movie seems to take place in Joaquin Phoenix’s head, and yet there’s very little dialog. His acting and the directing are good enough that they convey everything without saying much. It’s worth renting.
Is that a doc about Cake?
I need your arms around me, I need to feel your touch
I always let the phone hang for a few seconds before punching in the number…
I think it was about a guy who did a “pump and dump”
The weapon of choice was cool.
All the Republicans are political stooges, how can you not see this?
I think it’s high time the democrats in the house pass a bill outlawing the Republican Party. They should be able to get Jeff Flake to vote for it.
I’ve read the article and I’m yet to identify anything she did that should be illegal.
Based on the “crimes”, any foreigner who wants to attempts with an American to express an opinion is committing a crime.
Obama’s involvement with the Israeli elections?
Nothing to see here, move along. /CNN
Forgettabout it man… This is Mueller-Town.
But seriously it’s strange when people plead to things they didn’t do, but understandable. But when people plead to things that aren’t even crimes? Someone should hang.
It’s time to send Russians to internment camps.
“But we just got back!”
I’ve heard the gulags are like vacation spas.
attempting to infiltrate Republican political circles and influence US relations with Russia before and after the 2016 presidential election…..where exactly is that in the criminal code?
Say, where is Dianne Feinstein’s driver these days?
Playing Fortnite with Imran Awan?
influence US relations with Russia before and after the 2016 presidential election
Just think about that for a second. What are the implications of that being a crime?
Does this mean they are going to prosecute all the Mexican nationals?
There’s one guy in the Russian establishment that wants to loosen a little bit the extreme Russian anti-gun laws. Naturally, the Americans threw his associate into prison.
Well that must have been inconvenient for Putin, having to start out on the ground floor like that. Why can’t the GOP be more accommodating like the Dems? All Putin had to do to influence their policies was send a big check to the Clinton Foundation.
Look at that lovable face!
Eek!
When I lived in Slovakia I met the president and some cabinet ministers. I also attended a fundraiser for a political party that a buddy of mine was throwing. I suspect I would have been guilty if these kinds of laws were applied there.
As part of its severance package, employees will reportedly receive 10 tires each.
Cold, didn’t even get 3 full sets.
Two sets and spares!
Maybe they all have trikes, so they gave them three sets and a spare. (trikes are for commies)
5 sets of moped tires!
One dually and one car!
Sets? Pshaw!
Nobody said anything about any of those tires matching!
Nor would they need to match.
Like everything else in Venezuela, they’re probably worth a shit-ton of money on the black market.
If they can figure out a way to carry 10 tires home.
Now that Michael Bloomberg is a Democrat he’s returning the party to it’s roots – no guns for minorities.
You could argue it’s evergreen.
‘“Mayor Bloomberg’s statement that black males should not be allowed to have guns echos similar sentiments made by southern white supremacists in the 19th century,” Tom King, the association’s president, said in a statement. “So called ‘Black Codes’ were enacted by various southern states to discriminate against black Americans and maintain the system of white supremacy that made slavery possible. These included restrictions on firearms possession.
“If a politician said this about anything other than guns, the mainstream media would be all over them,” Mr. King argued. “Michael Bloomberg isn’t just any politician, he is the leading voice for gun control in America. He should be held accountable for this slander.””
It wasn’t just Southern states.
Wasn’t the Gun Control Act of 1968 largely in response to minority groups such as the Black Panthers?
southern white supremacists in the 19th century…
aka Democrats?
I’m convinced Bloomberg has a rat’s tail.
Wait a second. Do you mean a righteous rat tail? Or that he has an actual tail and is a rat?
*Some of us rely on our rat tails to prove that we aren’t a corporate stooge sellout.
The latter. He’s a rat with money.
Well, at least he’s being honest. Those superpredators mustn’t be allowed guns, don’t you know.
And he said that marijuana legalization was stupid, because God forbid people do something he doesn’t like.
TWELF!
A music choice I know! And like!
*falls out of chair*
I knew eventually one of us would find a way into your stone heart.
I was going to point out they have a couple dozen better tracks, but I thought that would be churlish.
I just enjoyed this comment:
And yet you didn’t vote for that fucker and he lost the election.
I even got my brat kids to like this one.
Google CEO Exposes Shocking “Full Extent” Of Russian Meddling In 2016
(It’s less than the FBI paid for a fake dossier on the GOP nominee)
ARGLE BLARGLE ROOOOOSSIANS ATE MY BABBY!
Someone needs to post that .gif of the Michigan fan with his mouth dropping open.
If $4700 can sway an election, then I’m sure we can scrape together twice that amount, then get one of us to run in 2020 and have our Libertarian Moment!
Sorry but the Russians have access to Pavlov’s secret research which make that amount the equivalent of 42 billion dollars of normal advertising.
Why do you think the media is so pissed? If $4700 can sway the elections, why spend billions on ads in the MSM?
“Google CEO Sundar Pichai revealed that the “full extent” of so-called Russian meddling activity that took place on the platform during all of 2016 was $4,700 spent on some digital advertisements.
Google employees and executives contributed $1.6 million to 2016 Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, according to data compiled by the Center for Responsive Politics.”
Were all of them U.S. citizens?
Are you implying that Google acted as a money launderer?
Lawful permanent residents (green card holders) are allowed to donate to political campaigns as well.
Don’t you realize how much influence that buys now?
Personally, I think that $20 would buy a lot more of the journalo-hos in Washington, DC than this experiment shows, but I’m spending my own money.
I think it is also telling that two Senators think that targeting DC journalos is more important to winning than getting that message in front of the voters back home.
Doesn’t that mean that journalos are too important and should be regulated?
Cupping the bump? WHOB DOES THIS?
Better question: Why do you care?
There is a helicopter hovering over my house. Dudes start fast-roping out, I’m headed for the bunker.
If things don’t work out: SF, you can have my collection of early Venetian erotica.
Serpentine! Serpentine!
Genius.
Another fantastic move I’m sure my wife has never seen.
*adds it to the list, along with The Godfather and Breaking Away*
It’s fantastic. My grandfather took me to see it in 1979. I must have been about 13 and absolutely loved it.
Overlooked gem.
Woo!
Whatever you do, don’t do an image search for spintria. (potentially NSFW)
Hut hut hut hut
There must be a positive side to it: planes taking off from Logan are not flying over my house today.
I had that happen a few months ago and started to freak out a bit. At the same time I saw a road block at one end of my street and a rolling line of Black Tahoes going up my street blocking the other side.
I had a “why did I post that stuff on Glibs” black helicopter conspiracy CIA/FBI/DEA moment. Started to arm myself as I though a fugitive was on the loose in my neighborhood. Decided to leave unarmed after locking up the house and setting the alarms (electronic and Pit bull). I stopped at the roadblock to leave my neighborhood and saw a large motorcade go by. Turns out the VP Pence was speaking at a nearby location.
Is that erotica where the photos are striped with shadows?
It’ll make you go blind.
Stop yanking my chain
Look what you’ve gondola now. Another bad pun sub-thread.
“I tried to find Salon‘s Best Movies of 2018, but it was just Fahrenheit 11/9 listed ten times and a .gif of Michael Moore pissing in a cup and then drinking it.”
Add Rosie O’Donnell and it could be a SF version of “two girls 1 cup”.
More of a “two girls 1 cup/ Lemon Party” mash-up.
“Butina sought to establish unofficial lines of communication with Americans having power and influence over US politics,” prosecutors said.
OH
MY
GOD!!!!!
*Michael J Caboose voice*
Speaking of helicopter-type conveyances…
The First Lady of the United States went for a joyride in a goddam Osprey, the other day. She is, as Grant King would say, “braver than Dick Tracy.”
You’d never get me up in one of those.
Failure modes of planes, helicopters and some brand new ones all mixed together
I love the idea of those but the accident record isn’t so hot.
I don’t recall hearing the MSM going apeshit over such a thing. Are you sure it actually happened?
I saw pence fly out in one at the Ag expo this year, plus 2 more for I assume Secret Service.
That’s just proof that Trump wants him dead.
They were doing tactical touch-and-go ops at our airfield recently with Ospreys.
Holy fuck are they loud!
Der Drumpfenfuhrer strikes again.
President Trump has canceled the White House holiday party for the media, making the decades-old tradition a victim of his increasingly contentious relationship with major news organizations.
The annual Christmas-season gathering was a significant perk for those covering the White House, as well as other Washington reporters, anchors and commentators, and New York media executives would regularly fly in for the occasion. At its peak, the invitation-only soirees grew so large that there were two back-to-back events, one for broadcast outlets and one for print organizations…
The decision is hardly shocking, given Trump’s constant attacks on “fake news” and the overwhelmingly negative coverage of him and his administration. In recent weeks, the White House pulled the credentials of CNN’s Jim Acosta after he refused to give up the microphone at a news conference and restored his pass only after the network filed a lawsuit.
Trump has also twice refused to attend the White House Correspondents Dinner, a tony media awards dinner attended by every president since Richard Nixon.
I await the court order to reinstate the party.
Crony media assholes leeching off the White House’s largess. I’ll drink to it never coming back.
*raises glass*
Why would the journalists want to go to a party with actual Hitler.
At least Jackson provide the liquor for the masses.
https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/the-story-of-the-wildest-party-in-white-house-history/
Good.
Lousy mooches.
Damn that Trump – he keeps doing things that make me like him.
Trump is about as good of a president as we can expect short of an actual libertarian moment happening.
Sure, his policies are a mixed bag. However, he has done more to denigrate the office of the president and has stuck his finger in more eyes that really needed a sticking than the last 4 presidents combined.
What a bunch of noobs. They attack him whenever they get an opportunity to and sometimes even exaggerate or outright lie, but yet get pissy that he won’t invite them to the White House for this bullshit ass event.
That’s some fucking balls.
It really makes them look ridiculous:
– Hitler is surely the greatest monster in history!
– He didn’t invite us to his party? How dare he!
I wonder if the non-Fox MSM is as tone-deaf as I think they are and are running with this story.
Who’s bitching about it? I don’t see any whinging mentioned in the linked article, it makes some of the points you guys are.
Pshaw – you think I actually clicked through?
If forced to have the party, he should only invite journalists from World Net Daily and Infowars.
Keep the party, but have Subway do the catering with a few of those six foot long subs, and provide some generic chips from Aldi and warm Shasta to drink.
And give Acosta first crack at the karaoke machine.
That’s worse that what the Saudis did to Khashoggi. When will the attacks on press freedom cease?
They’re just pissed cuz now hey can’t snub him.
Harold Baines is in the Hall.
More proof Western civilization is falling.
Where my standards gone?!
There are worse people in the HoF, but I agree he is not worthy.
I still have no idea what Butina did that was illegal. I suspect she is pleading guilty so that the DOJ will cut her investigation short and deport her back to Russia. They’re using the process as a cudgel to get politically damaging pleas that have no chance in hell of holding up in a court.
It’s fucking disgraceful.
Yeah, and the reporting is complicit (obviously). They will mention that Cohen, Flynn all pleaded guilty, and then mention the accusations of colllusion with the Russians, but bury what they plead guilty to.
Between this and Cohen, by now it should be apparent to anyone with two neurons to rub together that this entire circus has the sole purpose of politically damaging Trump.
Federal prison vs back to the motherland is an easy choice. From what I’ve read they were treating her pretty poorly.
Exactly, except she wasn’t going to be convicted in the near term, if at all. The point of the entire exercise seems to have been “Give us a guilty plea for our political masters and we’ll send you home.”
Maria Butina’s family didn’t have financial resources to pay for US lawyers. She was assigned a public defender.
It’s kind of surprising the Russian govt didn’t spring for one given what the charges were.
It just says to me that the Russian government is happy to let the case play out for maximum disruption to our politics.
Russian troops could capture Kiev tomorrow and our media would report on her sentencing instead.
I hear Just Sayn’ is super excited for the Russians to take Kiev…
:Ducks:
Yup. The FBI report that was rushed out shortly before Trump’s inauguration said that the Russians want to sow discord and often play both sides. I can believe this, and the Dems are playing right along with it.
They needed plausible deniability.
Yes, it’s a shame.
OTOH, play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
She voluntarily interacted with politicians and lobbyists.
One of the secrets of a good life is to have no interactions with those scumbags. The moment you talk to them or interact with them, the moment they become aware of your existence, you enter a dangerous world.
I went to work for a guy who was campaigning for an Illinois State Rep seat in the Chicago Area (he was running as a Republican) and I think I did it for one day. First off, I would probably bang all of last year’s Victoria Secret models before any Republican wins an election in Chicago but also, the whole politics thing turned me off. It’s you over promising and whoring yourself out to the general populace to gain some political power.
And anyone who I knew ran for a political position or wanted to work in politics were some of the biggest pieces of shit I know.
Hard for me to avoid when my sister and her husband are both lobbyists.
I had a friend who worked on the McCain campaign and worked for him on Capitol Hill and got to know each other well enough for him to be invited to the funeral. It took all my strength to not call him a war mongering asshole in front of him.
Ok, since nobody else did it…..
Here’s why the Slate list is a Slate list…
“Support the Girls”
Andrew Bujalski’s day-in-the-life portrait of a frazzled Houston “breastaurant” manager (played to perfection by Regina Hall) flew so far under the radar on its release I nearly missed out on seeing it before the year wound down. Don’t make that mistake. This keen-eyed comedy boasts a terrific ensemble cast, including the rapper Shayna McHale aka Junglepussy as a dry-humored waitress at the self-declared “family establishment” Double Whammies and Haley Lu Richardson as her inexhaustibly peppy co-worker. In a year when jokes about workplace sexism and racism have a difficult line to toe—especially coming from a male writer-director—Support the Girls wears its feminism, and its social and economic critique, lightly. Above all, Support the Girls stands out as a rare nearly all-female workplace comedy that explores a relationship few movies have bothered to document: the bond between a good small-business manager and her (mostly) loyal staff
“It’s like ‘Waiting’ but without the men and humor!”
And now I’m thinking about Emmanuelle Chriqui.
I’ll be in my bunk.
I checked out after the Ethan Hawke “it’s really about climate change!” blurb. Yeah, whatever.
Mmm, Regina Hall…
Crisis, I say!
Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch, in his farewell address on Wednesday, warned his colleagues that the upper chamber of Congress where he has served for four decades “is in crisis.”
“All the evidence points to an unsettling truth: The Senate, as an institution, is in crisis or at least may be in crisis. The committee process lies in shambles,” Hatch said in remarks delivered on the Senate floor. “Regular order is a relic of the past. And compromise — once the guiding credo of this great institution — is now synonymous with surrender.”
Hatch, 84, is retiring this month after serving in the Senate since 1977.
Maybe if the Senate wasn’t infested with senile buffoons who have been there for decades….
Oh, who am I kidding?
And compromise — once the guiding credo of this great institution — is now synonymous with surrender.
It always was. You just didn’t notice.
Pretend to oppose the left while agreeing with them in principle but delivering a little less than they want.
When Hatch was first elected, he ran on a platform that the previous occupant had been in too long (3 terms).
I’m 42 fuckin’ years old, and that guy has been in the Senate since before I could walk or eat solid food.
And on the worst of list….
Bruce Willis’ version of Death Wish.
Now, it wasn’t great. But it wasn’t terrible either. Just kinda “meh”.
But that isn’t why it was on the “worst of” list. No, indeed. It made the list because of the terrible message it sends about guns…. no, really:
“More than a decade removed from his Hostel heyday, and excepting a recent foray into Amblin nostalgia, Eli Roth has found his true calling in trolling: Where once he wanted to make everyone barf, he’ll settle now for making them mad. And in a year with nearly as many mass shootings as days, what could be edgier and more provocative than a revival of Charles Bronson’s 1974 gun-nut revenge thriller? Transporting the vigilante action from a grimy New York to a reactionary’s vision of Chicago as hellish war zone, this glib, unexciting remake cheerfully promotes the NRA talking point of a good guy with a gun stopping bad guys with guns, all while learning to man-up and defend his own. The timing was atrocious, but Death Wish would look plenty irresponsible even if it weren’t released as millions were marching for their lives. At least Roth found a perfect muse in Bruce Willis, whose trusty smirk communicates the director’s you-mad-bro? sensibilities better than words ever could. [A.A. Dowd]”
C’mon, are you surprised by that review? The movie was guaranteed to cause panties to bunch, unless it’s a reboot where he learned the error of resisting and just lay back and thought of
EnglandNew York CityChicago.Everything is about politics. Everything.
As payback they need to remake Death Wish 2. Jesus was that a politically incorrect movie, even for the time.
“marching for their lives”…..uh huh
The best movie I saw this year is The Gangster (1947).
What happened to Gilmore?
Did he get eaten?
He posts over at TOS, some.
Even there haven’t seen him.
He usually lets Soave have it but….not lately.
When I asked two weeks ago someone suggested he had a new job: long hours or not Glibcompatible.
He needs to make friends with his network administrator then.
Prepare. The End is nigh.
Melania Trump’s favorable rating has fallen by double-digits, according to a new CNN poll. The first lady, whose favorability stood at 54% in October, has slipped to 43% in just two months.
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These new numbers reflect Trump maintains her strongest support from older, white, male Republicans and conservatives, while her biggest detractors are women, mainly younger and those who are college-educated.
While the drop occurs across the board, it is bigger among the President’s detractors. She is down 6 points among those who approve of the job her husband is doing as President, yet she’s down 11 percentage points among those who disapprove. She has lost five points among Republicans and Republican-leaning independents, but 13 points among Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents.
The biggest decrease for Melania Trump is among liberals and white college-graduates — down 17 percentage points each.
You’ve got them on the run, CNN. Any day, now.
Why would anyone care what the FLOTUS’ favorably rating is?
For their future Presidential Run of course.
(Looking at you HRC and Michelle)
Her last name is Trump. At least she’s related to the POTUS unlike that schoolboy with the same last name.
The same people who worshiped Michelle O.
That’s some top-quality sleuthing right there.
So I joined this Facederp group for a clothing design company I like. I was expecting people to post pics of themselves wearing the clothes, discussing the clothes, etc.
LITERALLY EVERY POST was “Tee hee! I had to hide the package from my husband again!” or “My husband just said ‘are you on that clothing site again’? Tee hee!” or “I hope my husband doesn’t see the credit card statement this month! Tee hee!” or “I had to clear my browser history so my husband wouldn’t see that I was on the site again! Teehee!”
Motherfuck. I hate people.
Same women are appalled when they catch their husbands watching porn?
Undoubtedly
Teehee
You say Teehee when you watch porn?
You misheard. It was “Tease Me.”
All these women are married to Ricky Ricardo?!
They have some splaining to do.
I know that group. Top designers hate it, and they tell you how to look great using this one weird trick.
I was a group for a designer!
*It
* groupie
My wife has a job, so she can buy whatever she wants. Tee Hee.
Nothing like telling the world you routinely lie to your romantic partner. But I bet many of them own pussy hats and yammer about grrl power. All while embracing the gross idea that they need permission to buy clothes.
Glad I’m single.
I dunno. Around here I’ve seen “So my wife doesn’t know about this new gun I bought.”
I kinda see it as hyperbole.
My wife knows about everything I buy.
It’s . . . kinda unnerving, actually.
Serious question: How do you keep her gifts secret?
Serious answer: you’re just screwing with me now, aren’t you?
*sigh* No. I was genuinely curious, but no big.
“No more secrets.”
The movie Sneakers ain’t got nuthin’ on my spousal unit.
I.
Am.
Not.
Kidding.
I show off every new gun i bring home.
I don’t question my wife’s wardrobe spending as she doesn’t go crazy with it.
I can’t fathom either of us spending a few hundred bucks on anything without if not seeking consensus, at least providing a heads up.
Helps us both ensure we focus on long term goals.
At the opposite extreme:
Wife’s dad bought a Harley and a somewhat new used truck in the same weekend while her mom was away.
My wife had her credit cards stolen, but I didn’t report it, because the guy who stole them spent less money than she did.
LOL
Champions League and Europa need VAR. Bad. Like now.
It would be nice if an English-language station picked them up in the US again. It’s all Spanish-only now here, except TNT shows a couple Champions League matches on Tue. and Wed. and of course only teams I hate.
PS. There is English but you have to stream it for extra $$
How dare you not love the EPL?
I am a Liverpool fan, FWIW. But it’s not like being top of the ladder or anything would convince them to show a Liverpool match when there is an opportunity to get Messi in front of a camera.
If you hate Real Madrid then I hope you watched their match against CSKA on TNT yesterday.
I do, and I did – but I wasn’t paying close enough attention to enjoy that as much as I should have.
I never used to care about football (y’know, what us ignorant North Americans call “soccer”) until I went to Barcelona six weeks ago and got a little more first-hand knowledge of what’s going on in Spain.
So, fuck Real Madrid, and everything else about Madrid. Hard, with a rusty, white-hot chainsaw blade. In Hell.
Yeah, I always* hated RM because I hated most of their players but then I learned about the politics behind RM vs Barça. I have fond memories of a long stay in the Tarragona region so you can imagine how that went over with me.
*In the 8 years I’ve been paying attention
What happened?
Just more phoney calls.
Olympiakos v. Milan in particular.
DR. ELON & MR. MUSK: LIFE INSIDE TESLA’S PRODUCTION HELL
TL;DR: Elon runs a cult.
He only comes out when I drink my gin?
Cult.
THULSA DOOM!!!
Wait! You’re going to solve the world’s problems by increasing emissions while producing less capable products at greater price?
Jesus wept.
Elon Musk is a narcissist who is running a ponzi scheme. It’s pretty obvious. And just like the good Mr Ponzi, it’s going to end, very, very badly for him.
+1 Dr. Jimmy
Say what you want about the tax exempt status of cults but at least they stick to fleecing their own members.
I think I’ve read this exact same story a couple times, only it was before he changed his name from Steve Jobs.
Also a cult leader.
At least he turned a profit without government support.
A cult whose cars run into stationary objects while on auto pilot.
Car update.
It’s staying overnight on campus. The bolt goes through groove and then into the right side of the alternator. It snapped off right at the front of the alternator. Had to pull the alternator out to try to get the broken bolt out. Had to get a ride to the hardware store and home. Should be an easy fix tomorrow. And it’ll be above freezing!
No shit? Easy fix, but weird break, huh?
Glad it wasn’t more expensive!
The bolt goes through groove…
The start of a good euphemism.
There’s lube?
I bet it was more of a slot than a groove
1.29!
Maybe you should step up for a better grade of bolt… 😉
Speaking of the danger of flying of flying in an Osprey. Khrushchev was jealous of the US president’s private helicopter and demanded his generals provide him with one. They talked him out of it saying Soviet helicopters were far too dangerous.
Capitalist running pig-dog lies!
“Khrushchev was jealous of the US president’s private helicopter”
Not of Pinochet’s Helicopter?
Those machines killed commies too.
*applause*
The best films of 2018 that we didn’t review
So if you didn’t review them, how do you know they were good? /snark
My wife drug me to A Star is Born (or did she drug me to get me to go there?). Anyway, it was very well done for that type of movie, and I enjoyed it — not exactly a guilty pleasure, but not my normal fare.
I agree that Hereditary was excellent.
“Your Ex Sucks, but Capitalism Sucks More
Another reader asks about her trash-talking 10-year-old son.
Dear Liza,
I talk a lot about toxic masculinity with my 10-year-old. But I’m having trouble figuring out how to respond to the way he and his friends act when they get together, especially the masculine habit of “ball busting.” Around video games in particular, there’s a lot of trash talk. Sometimes it’s skill-specific (“You got me killed, you noob!”), but at other times they degrade each other’s manliness, which can veer into sexist or homophobic taunting. (One boy was teased about wanting to get into bed with a friend at a sleepover.) I hate this. My son says it’s normal and that all boys do it. I’m not a guy, but I think it’s as unhealthy as “mean girl” talk. Any suggestions?
—Bewildered Mom”
https://www.thenation.com/article/your-ex-sucks-but-capitalism-sucks-more/
https://twitter.com/thenation/status/1073022971952930817
“ball busting”
Generally this is friendly teasing… so no it’s not unhealthy.
No. I won’t click on that. No way.
I’ve got a suggestion. Don’t try to neuter your son.
My son says it’s normal and that all boys do it. I’m not a guy, but I think it’s as unhealthy as “mean girl” talk. Any suggestions?
—Bewildered Mom”
Yes, show your tits.
And Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse might be good,
I went and read the original BIG MARVEL EVENT because I learned Spider-Girl was in it.
It sucked, because when everyone is Spider-Man no one is. And the plot was a boring, broken, confused mess of half-dozen separate groups of Spider-people running around.
And, for good measure, writer decided to break Spider-Girl’s setting for shits and giggles, and then let her sit in the base watching a toddler. The original creator basically said ‘yeah, this is some alt-universe shit far as I’m concerned’.
“Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez should run for president and dare the Supreme Court to stop her, argues @mattyglesias.”
https://twitter.com/voxdotcom/status/1072993255816683523
“How about… no.
Sometimes political media is too fixated on personalities instead of policies.
The whole country JUST went through an exhausting midterm election. We need a break.
Can we instead talk about healthcare, a living wage, legalizing cannabis, GND, & other issues?”
https://twitter.com/Ocasio2018/status/1073030060171509761
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
Breaking: Matty Yglesias claims AOC is actually a charlatan and fake socialist.
“Vox was founded by the Ralph Wiggum of political commentary, Matt Yglesias. It remains true to its founding principles.”
https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1073327730865856512
Matt Yglesias is the Nick Gillespie of Ralph Wiggum’s
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DuRLSA5UUAA5OyH.jpg:large
I think I just ruptured my spleen.
He’s just trying to get in her pants.
and dare the Supreme Court to stop her
They don’t have to. She does not meet one of the two explicit qualifications. She is not old enough. The end.
“JUST IN: Former @ApprenticeNBC staffer, @CaslerNoel, says Donald Trump is a “speed freak” who crushes up Adderall and snorts it”
https://twitter.com/Evan_Rosenfeld/status/1073265155088105472
The comments make Pizza Gate seem perfectly sane.
That’s why he fired Sessions.
You know who else ran a country and liked methamphetamine ?
Last I checked, meth users didn’t have asses like Donny.
Is that a side effect of the drug or due to most tweakers being poor and choosing meth over food?
Yes
STrasbourg is safe again!
More than 700 officers were involved in the manhunt following Tuesday’s attack and terror investigation has also been opened.
In the wake of the attack, the French government has increased its terror alert level nationwide and deployed 1,800 additional soldiers across the country to help patrol streets and secure crowded events.
Strasbourg, one dude just shut your city down for two days. Just spitballin’ here but why don’t you just fucking arm your citizens and things would have been back to normal about an hour after the dude was clipped by a bystander.
That would require people who would want to be armed, and at this point I think most Europeans have been socialized against that.
Fixed that for them.
“Vox reports that @PewDiePie associates with the alt-right. You don’t get to take away who I am by lying about how I’m “alt-right,” whom I oppose, @ajaromano. Romano calls @daverubin @notsargon, @jordanbpeterson, @benshapiro, @PrisonPlanet, @gogreen18 @lauren_southern alt-right.”
https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1073323132113453056
“It’s ironic that you talk about “not caring” given the sloppiness of your piece.
Your article is so bad that people are paying attention to it BECAUSE of that, and that doesn’t ring any alarm bells in your head? C’mon AJ.”
https://twitter.com/nickmon1112/status/1073349719911489537
“This is how bad it has gotten. Where even Laci Green of all people gets called alt-right.”
https://twitter.com/CountDankulaTV/status/1073336075932844032
She is dating Raygun still, no? And while he’s not full alt-right, he was on Rubin who, while not alt-right, interviewed JP, who, while not alt-right, talked to Gad Saad, who….
They do like to go chasing rabbits, don’t they?
Chris Raygun is Hispanic, and not right-wing.
WHO?!
Did y’all discuss the mega drug bust in TX last week? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ik1D_jpbBME
There’s way too many gems on that thread to repeat em all
I 1st saw that as MAGA drug busts, then remembered Sessions was shown the door.
Those cops have their hands over their crotches because of the nut punches in the comments. Well done, internet.
I checked out the original Facebook post – something like 85 THOUSAND comments! That little news station is, like, “WTF?”
Posting into the wind – I don’t get it.
I swore off new movies for the most part because they typically suck. The Mule looks promising though.
I saw the prequel for that once in Juarez
That one looks too heartbreaking for me.
Yeah, that looks like a two hour version of Johnny Cash sing “hurt”. Pass.
Ah, f__k. Just heard Pete Shelley passed away.
Who?
Fondly-remembered to geezers like us punk/post-punk musical artist.
Buzzcocks frontman.
Classic rock magazine is your friend.