How could I not show this movie?
It’s time to dig in the trash like a cinematic raccoon! Look what I found! We laughed about all the chatter around Cocaine Bear a few weeks ago, thinking there would be a Fentanyl Squirrel, or a Heroin Blue Jay. I didn’t see such a blatant parody as Cocaine Shark coming. And certainly not this quickly. Surely this is a sign of quality! If not, trade snark among yourselves. I am on the road and will enjoy your comments later.
Some clear winning points for this movie:
- It’s in English, without dubbing. Surely this is a relief for some of our regular attendees.
- I got nothing. I am hoping this isn’t total excrement. The trailer looked good and a scan through seemed pretty promising.
Come play in the trash with me! I am posting this blind, because sometimes you have to take risks for a big payoff. I will watch this on the road with you if I can. So watch! Or don’t! Everything is voluntary! If you don’t like it, talk about gardening immediately. There are no rules on Thursdays. Next week, a double feature of Italian sci fi: Star Pilot and Star Odyssey.
One more thing: Not Adahn commented this in the waning moments of last weeks’ move post: “Now that Indiana Jones and the Death of a Franchise is out, Harrison Ford can notch another kill up there with Star Wars and Blade Runner. Are there any other actors that can say they were there at the end as many times?” Discuss. To make it more challenging, how many actors were there from the beginning to the end of multiple franchises?
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Do you know how long I had to hold that First in? Do you know how painful that is after hours of prep time and what it does to one’s kdineys?
I COULD GET AN INFECTION
Okay, this was funny enough that I absolutely owe you an apology for dissing your Firsting a week or so ago.
Carry on.
My sincere apologies to my good friend R.J. for completely dropping the ball and not scheduling this. Swiss, normally the Keeper of the Kalends, is on vacay this week and I am an obviously inadequate substitute.
I still blaming Swiss.
This is madness! Tens of people all over the world were rocking in their chairs, bereft of movies.
My chair doesn’t even rock.
UCS’ Theme Song
We’re getting this shit to 100 comments, RJ, even if it takes 100 Firsts to do it. I have the raw power.
Go! This can be done!
Terrifier & Terrifier 2 double feature after the sci fi double feature.
This is great. It was easier than I thought to find articles about distressed movie viewers.
https://www.joe.ie/movies-tv/new-horror-film-scary-people-reportedly-fainting-vomiting-cinema-756468
Wussies.
Really it is just great marketing. Mark of the Devil did a similar thing.
Trump charged under Espionage Act.
I had a conversation with someone earlier, firmly team blue. Mindlessly so. It’s really not hard to get them to admit that they know Trump is only being charged because of who he is and not what he actually did. They just don’t care or see anything wrong with it.
Here’s CNN gloating/mocking those stupid Republicans as hypocrites for supposedly supporting law and order while their guy is charged with all these crimes!
Not watching.
Are Joe’s Corvette documents going to come up at all, or is that totally old news now for reasons?
I think the angle they’re going with is Trump is different because now there’s a tape of him talking about the documents. We don’t know what he actually says and have to go on anonymous sources (who aren’t legally allowed to leak such things in the first place…in fact, it’s actually illegal for them to do so). But it totally proves his evil intent unlike Biden who simply had boxes of classified material by accident. Or Hillary who set up her own personal email server that was completely unsecure and with which she sent classified material around that, if memory serves me correctly, even ended up in the hands of Anthony Weiner and his malware infested laptop.
But I’m sure The Hypercunt will be along tonight to reiterate how it’s no big deal because Trump broke the law and this is about Trump.
I’m completely fine with Trump getting the law applied to him, but with Hillary and Joe (and many other less “household name” assholes) getting a pass, this is pure Banana Republic territory.
At this point I am not at all confident that a law is being fairly applied against that person.
No explainer I have seen explains the law adequately, nor why said law did not apply to the actions of any previous president.
This is why I can’t take it seriously. I actually do think mishandling classified material is a big deal. But the law has to be enforced even handedly. It is either important for everyone or no one.
Exactly. Get back to me after the trial of HRC for her violations of security laws.
It is banana republicesque, but compared to the other shit that has been done over the past decades, and especially last few years it is par for the course. They are utterly and totally obsessed with the man, and can’t let him go. They want to damage him as much as possible and make him the Repub nominee. They don’t care how many norms they have to break to do so.
It seems to me that Trump committed the ultimate crime of class treason. We saw with the bump stock ban and Covid that Trump is not a man of strong convictions. Would have been a lot easier to convince him to piss off his base so he would lose. Instead about half the country thinks the government is illegitimate.
That should have been obvious from the get-go
You think half the country believes Trump’s “big steal” schtick?
I think just about half the country could find out that Trump really was cheated out of a second term, and be fine with it. I think about 30% believes Trump had the election stolen. Which isn’t nothing.
How are those millions of people going to respond when they see lawfare being used to deny him even a chance at running again?
Someone at WSJ -I think Peggy Noonan- posited that the recording makes this so much more super serious. On par with Watergate.
We will see.
Oh, so a criminal matter being manipulated by senior FBI officials for personal reasons? Like that Watergate?
They are deathly afraid of another Trump presidency and they want to eradicate his entire political movement.
Noonan is a twat. She’s obsessed with the idea of respectable government, even if it kills its citizens.
So I guess America is really over now. I mean some would say America was over in 1787, 1865, 1933, 1963 or 2001 but is there any doubt now?
A former president is running for office against the current president. He is being prosecuted for crimes that the current president (and dozens of other former and current officials) got a pass on. “End of America as you claim “some” would say? No. But to quote the current president, “this is a big fucking deal”.
⬆️⬆️⬆️ This
How much worse will it have to get?
Pass
Real “China in 1949” energy.
They are playing a very dangerous game. This isn’t going to discredit Trump to his base, but enrage them and it will put Trump in a position where he feels he has to win the presidency. They’ve upped the stakes here exponentially, and I can’t help but feel they want something big to happen to justify the crackdown. They wanted to do it after January 6th, but it fizzled out.
We’re getting into Sulla territory here.
That’s the problem. The Trumpers can either resist which will be used to justify a crackdown or they can let him rot in jail and hope the Deep State will leave their future new hero (however it may be) alone which won’t happen.
And by Sulla territory do you mean that Trump will decide the only way to save himself is to overthrow the government or that the Democrats will create a police state to throw all of the Trumpers in jail?
And of course Sulla’s attempt to restore the Republic failed after a few decades by showing how The Republic was completely at the mercy of the army.
I don’t know which way this goes. We don’t have anyone even remotely on the level of Sulla to take the reigns, but I think we are going to see sparks here. Trump doesn’t have the power to overthrow anything, but they are backing him into a corner where you might really see an authoritarian side come out of him.
I think the more likely scenario is the Dems using this to justify a large crackdown.
My comparison is more about how Sulla was a complete break from what came before. He established a new norm, and left it so the Republic limped along for a period before the precedent he set led to its end.
Blade Runner sequel was a good movie.
I do agree that Blade Runner was good. That aside, who else beside Harrison Ford meets this criteria? Ian Ziering of Sharknado?
Adrian!!!
It’s not over! It’s never over!!!
You know, that’s right. Sylvester Stallone was there for Rambo and Rocky. Boom!
I wish I had thought of that.
There’s probably no other actor who was in two franchises of such popularity that were milked into the ground like that. Hollywood has always had remakes, but never an age like the one we live in now where any IP can and will be ruined to the point where you can barely even enjoy the original stuff that made it profitable in the first place.
I could only come up with single franchise wreckers. I did put some effort into it.
Sylvester Stallone. He ran Rocky and Rambo into the ground.
Yeah. So I’m slow tonight.
Rocky rebounded. I didn’t see the latest Creed movie, but it seems to have been solid. I’d say the same about the first two.
Rambo finished with a whimper, but the Cambodian one aint all bad.
Rambo and Rocky didn’t get the complete deconstruction for nothing that we are going to see in this upcoming piece of shit, and certainly nothing compares to the godawful sequel trilogy that basically ruined two thirds of the original trio (of course, it was the female whose character remained intact).
The new Blade Runner was beautifully shot, but I couldn’t really follow it well. Although maybe that was due to smoking a spliff before entering and having several cocktails before and during the movie. Alamo Drafthouse know how to run a theatre.
Didn’t a lot of people say that about the original when it came out?
The first time I watched the original I was a bit confused by it, but I was pretty young when it came out. As a late teen watching, it seemed pretty straightforward.
Yup Mike, movie theaters with bars are the best type of theaters. At Alamo you don’t even have to leave your seat which is nice.
That sounds like my kind of cinema
Alamo Drafthouse is the tits.
Agreed. I really liked the sequel, and thought it was a successor to the original. Like trainspotting 2,
And really, calling Blade Runner a franchise was stretching it, but I needed three examples to make a trend.
🤨
There is some obscure syfy flick I saw <10 years ago that I can’t even begin to identify but must see again. It was vaguely Euro and featured a bunch of bitchy characters trapped on some sort of space station. That’s alls I remember. Maybe one of these is it.
THAT is a very broad selection. did it have a monster that killed everyone?
Is anyone even playing Cocaine Shark?
No. It’s almost bedtime.
Nighty night.
I’m starting it…now.
The actors aren’t just bad. They seem almost autistic.
Is this one of those intentionally ironic so bad it’s good movies?
No, it’s just horrible. I had an hour to pick something and write it up before I finished packing and hit the road.
Sorry, brother, couldn’t do it. Cocaine Shark, yikes.
I’ll watch if it has Richard Grieco.
No. Run! Go watch sports! This was a mission failure.
OMG are you saying it has Richard Grieco?!
Haha. No.
THICC Thursday after dark.
https://thumb-p6.xhcdn.com/a/ShUmUZnlT8yGS1dogaukPQ/000/229/960/476_1000.jpg
NSFW.
http://thumb-p6.xhcdn.com/a/8E2_3Bn2GFOo7_6bgiliGw/000/394/932/056_1000.jpg
NSFW.
https://archive.is/wVnMA/cde01d80cc7761c9b9f1a3a5fc3aecc06ec77eba.jpg
NSFW.
https://archive.is/1L1fp/ff156d9e985dc3ab7aa4a98a7fe58418452a356b.jpg
NSFW.
That’s fantastic.
Yikes
That’s an oldie. Real camera and a tube tv in the backgound.
I may be evil but I was half expecting a schlong to fall out of the panties.
*pulls out a seat for Count Potato*
Oh he looked for it earlier. He saw the trailer and ran.
But I got him a cigar and scotch.
I’ll hang onto that for him.
Where’s mine?
*Passes over Count Potato’s cigar and scotch
🥰
https://www.nme.com/news/film/the-french-connection-censored-fans-furious-3452641
Damn it, it was only supposed to apply to the Cinfederate Battle Flag!
Yes. And now, the real face of digital movies comes out. If you don’t own the original version on physical media, you will never see it unedited again online.
Dead tree books and DVD’s for the W.
Wait til the next version of HDCP requires online validation and real-time updates of licensed content.
14 years ago today this masterpiece was released.
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVM9mVIrgw0KLe_GoKaFtJ6AbSf24WQHD
Sadly, I didn’t learn about it for another 10 years.
I can’t believe it’s been 14 years. Wow.
+1 Hey, Michael Starr you motherfucker!
🤘🤘 I love you, man.
🤘🏻🥰🤘🏻
Do you know what happens when two seconders fall in love?
Don’t be jealous. I love you too.
https://youtu.be/jtcqhhO0Gjw
*snortlaff*
They have an inbred little thirder like you?
The only thing third about me is my great Third Eye from which I have seen you touch yourself on many an occasion while thinking of your envy of me.
That wasn’t my envy of you I was thinking about. Perv.
Florida pulls its head out of its own ass and wins a game. Please win…I cannot tolerate Vegas getting the Cup
Florida and Vegas are playing for Lord Stanely’s cup? Fuck.
I tapped out several rounds ago.
Hockey should not even exist in Florida or Nevada.
Gotta to get that juicey TV contract.
…or California, or Texas, or North Carolina, or Tennessee.
The Hurricanes won the SC once so even if they go they are in the history books.
Hockey should be where ever it can sustain.
Good finish. Bob was amazing. I don’t think the Panthers have a chance.
Never count the Panthers out.
https://youtu.be/ZnZM1CzQF8Y
🤘
I confess I’m skipping this and watching Commando on MGM+
15 year old Slumbrew thought this movie was the greatest thing ever. I saw it in the theater, of course.
It is gloriously stupid.
If you’re like me, Alyssa Milano had a lot to do with it earning a place among the best movies ever.
Awwww
She was 13 at the time so…
Rae Dawn Chong on the other hand…
Fair enough. I was also 13, so yeah.
https://youtu.be/khhmqstAcYs
I either never heard that, or blocked it from my memory. I’m thinking never heard it since I would have been jamming to Metallica and GnR and Cinderella at that time.
Probably not. Also because she was on a Japanese record label.
Fair.
Enjoy. I should have played Return to Blood Fart Lake over this.
I like how he stole a bunch of guns from the illegal gun dealer and the have a good shot of him grabbing about 4 shotgun shells instead of the whole box.
The important thing is he had a shoulder held missile launcher.
Also, what happened to the guy who played the villain? He was in a bunch of stuff then disappeared.
Vernon Wells.
ISTR the shot of him flying through the air in The Road Warrior was a stunt gone wrong and really fucked up his back & that cut his career short.
Poor bastard. Wait. That doesn’t make sense. The Road Warrior came out first.
He’s noticeably portly and moving awkwardly in Commando vs his jacked self in Road Warrior.
Let me search…
Ohhhhh. OK. Now I’m with you.
My mistake; his stunt double got jacked up:
https://www.slashfilm.com/884809/mad-max-2-the-road-warriors-stunts-were-more-dangerous-than-you-think/
He really is portly in Commando, so I dunno – just DNGAF at that point, I guess.
Things this movie taught me:
If your friend is in a
paddy wagon (racist!)prisoner transport, you can free him by shooting it with a rocket launcher.He’ll be fine.
If you’re strong, you can throw a circular saw blade like a frisbee and it will take off the top of someone’s head.
Duh. We all learned that in Goldfinger.
I was gonna say it also teaches you that you can hide from IR with mud, but that was Predator, wasn’t it?
Commando is fun if you play the Kill game and count how many people die in that movie. My dad and I had a fun debate about which ones ‘counted’ I remember.
Your dad sounds like an fun dude.
Commando is ridiculous with a huge body-count.
Predator is a legit good movie; starts like a basic shoot ‘em up and pivots to a creepy monster movie.
Planting some claymores outside of a building will cause the entire building to explode from the inside when the claymores detonate.
Yup. It’s science.
Well, sure, claymores. But jet fuel can’t melt steel beams.
I really want to beat the shit out of whatever moron originated that rot. You don’t need to melt the metal to cause a failure, it just needs to get hot enough to no longer be able to sustain the current load, and buildings are engineered under ‘just good enough’ tolerances. Once there is a failure, you have a million pound slegehammer crashing down on each floor below with a force greater than the shock load it is capable of handling.
But sure, burning temp of jet fuel < melting point of steel is as far as their thinking skills manage to go.
Do you doubt it, Rosie?
“You remember when I said I’d kill you last Sully? I lied.”
That movie is indeed gloriously stupid and awesome. Loved it at 13 and still do.
I worked with a guy whose last name was Sullivan. We all called him Sully.
So many times that poor bastard had to endure the jokes: “Remember when I said I’d kill you last?”
Sometimes we’d just pass in the hallway and say in our best Austrian “I lied”
You’re a funny ma’am.
I saw it in the theater and was so unhappy. It was a huge step down from The Terminator. Every time I watched it afterward I had a great time. It’s big, dumb and the body count is enormous. I just sat back and enjoyed the ride.
I really need to hold a 80’s action movie one-liner festival.
Arnold, Sly, Kurt Russel, and so many more.
He’ll be back to klll you last, but don’t forget it’s all in the reflexes.
I had some good ranting, subpar ramblings, and responses to previous discussions. But after finally getting done with the day, my will to type is mostly gone. Somehow I misplaced my mini of Baileys so it’s now Old Forester or Chambord. Or? No, both.
The next generation of laptop cameras will have paper/tape penetrating mode.
Porn Hub users so hardest hit.
Que?
By the way, good early morning/late evening glibs.
Calls with China suck…that is all.
Yes, yes they do
At one time, I had to work with Finland and China while I was in California. I did not enjoy that.
Good morning Glibs.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CTAud5O7Qqk
😋🌄🎶
Morning, Sean.
I hate fridays.
*waves*
Yo dogs.
It’s 3:20 on the Pacific coast so I’m hoping to get a little nap in before work.
Just got back to my apartment from the hotel where I was shagging my bestie so I’m a bit spent. “A good time was had by all.”
Had a good Thursday at work when i was suddenly pressed into service giving an impromptu tour of a pulsed power capacitor bank to several visiting investors. Went well; I kept it short and sweet, happened to look lovely in my dress, answered all of their questions, and delivered a couple of quips that resulted in laughs.
My boss later messaged me his thorough approval, so all is well in my world.
That’s always a good day.
Good morning, Sean, U, hayek, Stinky, and Ssccrruuffyy.
Hey, hey GT!
Hope you and Mr Traitor are having a fine summer.
Well, for the last couple of weeks we’ve been dealing with a poor sick cat who’s had to be treated for an ear infection, at least one abscessed tooth (he wound up getting three extracted,) and then an abscess on his butt. FINALLY the poor guy is obviously feeling better, but I’m sure doesn’t understand why he’s confined to one room with a donut around his neck and we keep squirting icky stuff down his throat.
Sounds as if your summer is going a bit better.
“Sounds as if your summer is going a bit better.”
Yeah, you could put it that way. 😊
Morning.
Leviathan goes on order tomorrow. Should I even bother?
???
The 10th Edition Warhammer 40k launch box, “Leviathan” is available to order as of tomorrow at 1pm Eastern. I expect it to be sold out by 2pm. It has an anticipated sticker price of $250. Should I even bother to try to get an order in?
Its something you should definitely try. Important to you?
Here’s my conundrum – They still haven’t released some of the individual models from earlier boxes which were all I had any interest in for those.
I am fairly ‘meh’ about most of the contents, primarily interested in the Gravis Apothecary and the Terminator Librarian. The confirmation that they were all push-fit monopose sorta deflated my interest in the regular termies, they’re in the ‘yeah, maybe’ category now. the cruft of the box really makes me go ‘is it worth the effort’?
If it’s worth it to you, you should absolutely try.
(At first, in my barely-caffeinated state, I read that as “lunch box.”)
I wouldn’t put it past them to sell a lunch box, but it’d probably be $60 rather than $250.
I bet if you had the lunch box, it would make in-office days seem a little better.
Re Harrison Ford destroying movie franchises: Those weren’t murders, those were mercy killings (excepting Blade Runner II *whatever the year was* wasn’t really bad, it just wasn’t great).
Mike Pence showing you who he really is.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/pences-inaugural-foreign-policy-campaign-f-16s-ukraine-now
Pence was Trump’s succor to the neocon Bushies so this is no surprise. He’s basically Romney minus the Mormonism.
The word for the day is kakistocracy.
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/kakistocracy
With norms being thrown to the winds by a corrupt and senile President (who was a dumbass before he lost his mind) and his collection of sleazebag cronies were officially in it. It’s really a bit unnerving how fast we’re going downhill and even more so that so many are cheering.
That truth is simply painful.
Joe has always been arrogant, stupid, climbing, and corrupt. Now we can add senile and a victim of elder abuse, but damn, I have no sympathy for that mother scratcher.
When they started attacking meritocracy, it want to elevate the poor, it was to protect themselves.
^^^^ This.
“Those who can’t…”
So many parasites out there. And they are unscrupulous enough to climb to the top. Remember that something like 4-6% of the population are sociopaths.
But enough about politicians and wannabees. Toss in the 2nd tier bureaucrats and now we’re talking some big ass numbers
Oh, dude. That new avatar. Please just…don’t. 🤮
This is my first use of the phrase “I can’t even”. I believe it is justified.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12176407/Washington-womens-spa-compulsory-nudity-ordered-judge-start-admitting-trans-women.html
What’s next? “Trans-women” with penises and beards get to go to battered women’s shelters?
Some places have already had that.
Its all so confusing.
Feminism is screwed.
“Feminism is screwed.”
So true. Look at what they are doing to JK Rowling.
“TERF”- what a stupid insult.
At least JK has “FU” money.
What i sincerely don’t understand is why those people who love “reddit two x chromosomes” group who despise men with a passion embrace the idea that its ok to have women leered at by people calling themselves “transwomen” its a troll level i would never approach.
They get to go to women’s prisons and rape their fellow inmates so why not.
Get your popcorn, folks.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12175915/The-Asian-American-teen-end-affirmative-action-Supreme-Court-case.html
Fingers crossed. End all affirmative action?
We can but hope.
The “new” fad of historically respectable American universities dispensing with test scores altogether in order to achieve the proper amount of DEI (not unlike Dyson vacuum commercials’ “proper amount of suction”) makes me never want to drive over a bridge or go to a doctor again.
Can we please bring back meritocracy?? My former epileptologist (a subset of neurologists) was a dude from Africa (not sure where; maybe Tanzania?) who got all his degrees at Mayo Clinic. He is an outstanding doctor and happens to be dark-skinned as a native African. My concern with all this artificial DEI crap is that people like him (and me, as a chick) will be assumed to be diversity hires when in reality we are indeed experts at what we do.
I wonder when the ruling is due.
The left is going to go absolutely apeshit if that kid wins.
Asians should have been allowed to play for the Globetrotters if they have identified as a POC. Skills shouldn’t be required.
“And YOU get a trophy! And YOU get a trophy!”
I weep for the future if we ever get into a war on American territory.
My old buds and I have discussed this, with the dumbing down of education and the lack of skills usually associated with kids. Yesterday a friend and I were talking about the “Old Days”. I mentioned that my son had trucks and earth moving toys, my daughter had baby dolls, as toys when they were young. Admittedly they may have shared toys when they were young when they had no peers to play with but they learned their societal roles at a young age.
There was no question of gender identification.
suh’ fam
yo whats goody
Whats got 2 thumbs and get a new (much better compensation) job?
THIS GUY! TALL CANS!
Congrats!
Is your schedule going to change?
Yes- for better or worse. Stack testing can be a lot of hours, but we typically operate in the boundaries of you normal people.
I wont be a part of the demimonde any longer.
ERMAGERD!!! That’s the best news in ages! I declare today an Official Frabjous Day!!! 😃🥳💃🏼🎉🎈
Happy Friday to all you American subjects out there. The sky is bluer today. Canadian exports must be down.