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- Comment on Amazon paid more than $1bn to take creative control of James Bond 7 hours ago:
Dr. Evil: “One billion dollars!”
Everyone else: “Haha, nobody’s going to pay that much for… Oh wait…”
- Comment on Best version of Pandemic boardgame on Android? 1 day ago:
As a follow up, possible Iranian malware be damned, this turned out to be the smoothest running version of the game that I tried.
BitDefender didn’t find anything, but of course that doesn’t mean anything after you have the app installed.
Others that I tried had Chinese stuff on bootup, and stuttered when running.
- Comment on What movies have you watched this week? 3 weeks ago:
The most recent James Bond movie No Time To Die (2021).
The plot was like a Bond fanfic. Okay, great you got to do all the stuff to Bond that wouldn’t fly in previous runs:
spoiler
Bond finally spawns a kid after all that sex, actually loves some gal instead of using her, makes a mistake in judgement, and he maybe even dies, although no body is offered as proof.
Now what? That pretty much ends the franchise, and there’s pretty much nowhere to go without a reboot.
- Comment on What movies have you watched this week? 3 weeks ago:
Re: Nosferatu
I also liked the Transylvania bits, the crumbling castle especially.
I enjoyed the physicality of Lily-Rose Depp’s performance as not-Mina, although her overacting got on my nerves a bit.
- Comment on What’s gone wrong with James Bond? No star, no script, no plan 3 weeks ago:
Basically none of the parties with any power: Bezos, the Broccoli family, are desperate to make another Bond movie
- Hundreds gather at (Bob's Big Boy in Burbank, CA) to honor legendary filmmaker David Lynchwww.sfgate.com ↗Submitted 4 weeks ago to movies@lemm.ee | 0 comments
- Comment on Leonardo DiCaprio To Star In 'Devil In White City' For Martin Scorsese 4 weeks ago:
Does anyone else think that DiCaprio, and De Niro for that matter, were the worst things in Killers Of The Flower Moon?
- Comment on Best version of Pandemic boardgame on Android? 4 weeks ago:
I did find an APK, and installed it, but it had something something about Iran, so I probably now have Iranian malware on my phone. 😓
- Comment on Best version of Pandemic boardgame on Android? 4 weeks ago:
Plague Inc. comes in at the top of a search in the Play Store for “pandemic” but I understand that it’s kind of a reverse concept of the Pandemic boardgame: You try to wipe out those pesky humans by developing an incurable virus.
I might be inclined to give it a try if I can’t find a decent implementation of Pandemic.
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to gaming@beehaw.org | 8 comments
- Comment on The $125 million Roy mansion from Succession, once the priciest home in Pacific Palisades, reduced to ashes in devastating wildfires. - Luxurylaunches 5 weeks ago:
That was generally happening in the fire area.
I’m sure there are/were a lot of ridiculous homes.
- The $125 million Roy mansion from Succession, once the priciest home in Pacific Palisades, reduced to ashes in devastating wildfires. - Luxurylaunchesluxurylaunches.com ↗Submitted 5 weeks ago to movies@lemm.ee | 2 comments
- Comment on LeVar Burton was awarded the National Humanities Medal for his impact as an actor and literacy advocate. 3 months ago:
What Jeri announcement?
- Comment on LeVar Burton was awarded the National Humanities Medal for his impact as an actor and literacy advocate. 3 months ago:
But don’t take LeVar’s word for it!
- LeVar Burton was awarded the National Humanities Medal for his impact as an actor and literacy advocate.popculture.com ↗Submitted 3 months ago to startrek@startrek.website | 6 comments
- Comment on What is the food eaten in Close Encounters during the infamous mashed potato scene? 4 months ago:
It looks like there are 2 kinds of brown things.
One type that is a lighter brown looks spheroid, possibly potatoes or dinner rolls.
Another type is a darker brown, looks like fat cylinders, possibly deep fried breaded fish/salmon/crab cakes, as others have said.
The lighter brown ones could also be fish/salmon/crab cakes, but from a different manufacturer, or just shaped differently.
- Comment on Agatha All Along, the only marvel show I'll probably give a try this year 4 months ago:
- Comment on Hellboy: The Crooked Man gets a digital release in October (8th) 4 months ago:
I guess they can’t use the disparaging phrase “straight to video” anymore.
- Submitted 5 months ago to startrek@startrek.website | 2 comments
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- Comment on Rotten Tomatoes Introduces a New Audience Rating for People Who Actually Bought a Ticket 5 months ago:
Waitaminit, wouldn’t this rating be subject to effort bias, i.e. One thinks more highly of things that one has paid money for?
- Comment on Weekend Box Office: Deadpool & Wolverine hangs on to the top spot; Borderland a disaster 6 months ago:
The first Mortal Kombat movie was a classic!
- Comment on [Discussion thread] Deadpool and Wolverine 6 months ago:
You’re right. Got them confused with Spiderman. It’s hard to keep track…
- Comment on [Discussion thread] Deadpool and Wolverine 6 months ago:
Just saw it.
Not bad. Deadpool/Ryan Reynolds comic timing, or at least the editing, is spot on. The fangasm trip through the Sony X-Men movies, and significant cameos of characters, props, and objects from Marvel movies past, not necessarily MCU movies.
That one fight was good even if it didn’t really have an ending.
A good time, overall
- Comment on Daily discussion - what are your "unconventional" comfort films? 6 months ago:
Galaxy Quest - The best Star Trek movie ever… The squiddies are such great sidekicks, so relatable, and you hate to let them down, the catchphrases are actually good: “Never give up, never surrender!” “By Grabthar’s Hammer, you shall be avenged…”
- Comment on Nubeo Watches Announces Star Trek Franchise Collaboration 6 months ago:
Is anyone else not enjoying pretty much naked advertising for… junk?
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- Comment on To Fix CrowdStrike Blue Screen of Death Simply Reboot 15 Straight Times, Microsoft Says 7 months ago:
Azure is MS’s cloud computing. As long as you weren’t using MS OneDrive, or 365 Office, or something else that relied on MS cloud, you’re good.
- Comment on Box Office Grosses May Surpass Pre-COVID Levels in 2026. That’s the Good News… 7 months ago:
The bad news is we may be forced to buy movie tickets just for the theaters’ AC in order to survive the heat. The movie would be a pleasant side effect.
- Comment on Forget the tired franchises, a new wave of horror movies will make us jump out of our seats 7 months ago:
What about the horror movie where a cabal of Christian conservative billionaires conspire to remake society following their conservative ideology, making life a hellhole for regular people, but nobody seems to notice?