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At least the trailer for The Lone Ranger featured a literal train wreck, so you couldn't fault them for misleading advertising.

On 3/19/2022 at 5:31 PM, death tribble said:

The list Bazza linked to was worst films that particular actors had done not especially the worst films. The comedy films list on the other hand has ones that almost everyone would put on their worst lists

I question any metric that results in there being more than 80 comedies worse than The Love Guru.

I'm guessing the people who picked Virtuosity as Denzel Washington's worst movie were unaware of The Book of Eli.

I don't anticipate ever being hungry enough to eat chitlins, since I live in the South and know that kudzu is edible. Between that and love of sushi having trained me to eat raw fish, I think I'm good on the food front for the Zombie Apocalypse.

Billy Budd was the book that my entire senior English class fell asleep reading the night before we started covering it. I've read tax code documents more captivating.

I recall loathing The Caine Mutiny by the time I finished it for a History class; it was a horrible slog to get through.

Generally as an adult I quit reading fairly early if a book doesn't win me over. Asimov's Foundation novels were like that for me, I just couldn't get into them. Though I've liked some of his short stories.

On 3/8/2022 at 6:46 AM, archer said:

A senior Defense official says the US has corroborated reports that the Russians are trying to recruit Syrians to fight in Ukraine. Earlier it had been alleged the Russians were offering Syrians the equivalent of a $300 bonus to come fight in Ukraine. (I would suppose that's a lot of money to a Syrian?)

It won't be soon if they're offering it in rubles.

Is it fair to name a movie if I walked out during the opening credits? Just a few minutes of Out Cold were enough to convince me that practically anything would be a better use of my time. That's one of very few movies I recall cutting my box office losses on due to lack of enjoyment rather than illness or being traumatized (thanks, Twilight Zone: The Movie!)

Of the movies I watched until the end, Stigmata is the one I remember being most disappointed in. I slept through most of The Cider House Rules to the amusement of my ex, but what I recall being awake for seemed good, if slow.

Yeah, the trailers are one reason I was hoping a friend would forget my promise to see the movie at the theater with him (which he did this weekend). Also, Batman has never been one of my favorite characters, and after 9 films focused on him and multiple related TV projects I'm definitely feeling bat-fatigue. Glad that it's turned out to be something enjoyable to fans, though.

Hertz customer service was enough to make me really glad to use Enterprise. Hopefully I've managed to deprive the former of thousands of dollars in business by describing my crappy experience with them to anyone who'll listen.

I rented Ghostbusters: Afterlife last night and quite enjoyed watching. Jason Reitman's care in respecting his father's masterpiece was apparent and I found Phoebe's story compelling. There were maybe a few too many scenes that were clearly product placement or marketing for toy merchandise, but I can forgive that.

On 2/27/2022 at 3:16 PM, Pariah said:

Let me simply say that if Dazzler makes her way into the MCU, I think she should be portrayed by Taylor Swift.

I do not. I saw her "acting" in Valentine's Day and she made Taylor Lautner, Jessica Alba, and George Lopez look like Oscar-worthy talents in comparison.

Maybe it would be all right if they throw in an Easter egg of a Dazzler cardboard cutout advertising a concert.

This is purely anecdotal, but a friend who works in healthcare pointed out that all the omicron cases among vaccinated people she knows have involved nose/sinus and throat symptoms but not the lungs. If that bears out more widely, it seems this variant would be much less likely to take a turn for the lethal in a given patient.

2 hours ago, unclevlad said:

I think I could break down a squid;  octopus would be weird.  I'll eat squid, from time to time, but it's not something I look for.  Relatively bland.  I don't recall ever having had octopus.

I quite like squid salad and ika nigiri, and calamari is pretty decent if it's not overcooked into rubber. But two of the worst things I've ever put in my mouth were tako nigiri and a whole baby octopus. Twice is enough for this lifetime.

I saw the trailer to the animated series on Prime and it left me with no urge whatsoever to see the actual show.

I've got a frozen pizza ready to go for Sunday night. But instead of football I'll probably be watching Olympics coverage or the Puppy Bowl.

Lo, a 2009 indie horror/comedy that's filmed like a stage play with mostly a single location and minimal stylized backgrounds representing flashbacks. The two principal actors do a good job though, and the makeup/prosthetics are good. Interesting story and resolution.

On 2/5/2022 at 5:54 PM, Starlord said:

I'm honestly confused how you give up on any movie after 4 minutes.  I mean, I've seen some bad movies, even walked out of a theater twice, but unless you're already just channel flipping at home, how do you give up after 4 minutes?

I did that once, for the "comedy" Out Cold. The opening scenes were already eating away at my belief that humanity has any value as a species, and when the opening credits popped up I realized life is too short to waste precious hours of mine watching such dreck. I walked out to catch a repeat viewing of Not Another Teen Movie instead and have never regretted the decision.

Maybe it's because I'm a Chicago dawg kind of guy, but why would you put mustard on something derived from a chili dog? Wouldn't it fight against the chili flavor?

The Office gets my vote, as I never watched it.

Au Contraire, People On Internet Message Boards Got There Long Before He Did. 🥲

4, but I think I'd be okay with 2 or 6 as well.

On 1/14/2022 at 10:42 AM, Logan.1179 said:

The humble koala.

 

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When it gets wet.

 

 

Actual koalas have teeth more like a rabbit's or Guinea pig's, as one would expect of something that lives mostly on leaves. Though I'm told their claws are pretty dangerous.

Ugh, when I was in college a local steakhouse had a 4 lb. chicken fried steak and a friend of mine ordered it one evening. He made a valiant effort, but it was like the Ol' '96er from The Great Outdoors with a lot of gristle and fat buried under the breading and he couldn't finish it.

On 1/9/2022 at 9:19 AM, Hugh Neilson said:

Wong as a sorcerer is not true to the comics.

It is, but he's only been depicted as such for the last decade-and-a-half or so, and not as a true master sorcerer until Jason Aaron's run around when the Dr. Strange movie was in production.

What gets me is that in the midst of all that surrealism, Chevy Chase's face is still recognizable!

NONE of the year's MCU movies have been abject failures critically or at the box office, no matter how much certain people would like to impose that narrative. The previous three did quite well given that they were released during a global pandemic. But it's no surprise that they're being outdone by a movie featuring Marvel's most popular and well-known character, which is also the third in a series of well-received films about that character. I think the last two Avengers movies were the only safer bets in the entire franchise.