Jimmy Smits probably knew he could be replaced, technically he was Bail Organa #2 as the first fellow ended up on the TPM cutting room floor.
Really? I did not know that. Interesting.
They actually called him Bail Antilles instead of Organa when they mention him. Come on George! Can’t you do anything right?
I saw Dunkirk in 70mm IMAX (which is equivalent to something like 11-15K I think) in Rhode Island. What does that mean?
It means a 20 dollar ticket and another 20 dollars on concessions.
$14 ticket, $0 concessions. A bargain honestly.
I really don’t see how 14 dollars for a movie ticket is a bargain. I know that the times have passed me by, but the movie theatre being a 50 dollar outing for a small family is a reality that I just can’t accept.
What are your least favorite things about the Mormon religion?
I misplaced my soul last year and never found it. I think I accidentally threw it away while I was cleaning my house.
I saw Dunkirk in 70mm IMAX (which is equivalent to something like 11-15K I think) in Rhode Island. What does that mean?
It means a 20 dollar ticket and another 20 dollars on concessions.
This isn’t related to emotion but I want to post this in a serious thread. I’ve been having an extremely difficult time remaining standing or even upright for longer than about 2 or 3 hours at a time for a while. I’m young, thin, and pretty well exercised and that’s not to say that I’m the portrait of good health, but that’s to say that there’s no easy explanation for this issue. It’s affecting my ability to do my job, which (obviously) concerns me.
I didn’t know Conjuring was so well thought of. I liked it though.
Pretty much this. I thought it was fine, not great, but certainly better than shitty trash horror movies like NOES, Friday the 13th, and the like. It was an actual movie with actors, story, and so on.
I know they ran it into the ground with the sequels, but the original NOES is pretty damn terrifying.
Not to mention it had a strong female protagonist and was conceived by a filmmaker who had a vision and a story to tell, a far cry from Halloween-knockoff dross like Friday the 13th which is only about tits and blood.
Wes Craven did that again with Scream in the 90s.
I didn’t know Conjuring was so well thought of. I liked it though.
Pretty much this. I thought it was fine, not great, but certainly better than shitty trash horror movies like NOES, Friday the 13th, and the like. It was an actual movie with actors, story, and so on.
Definitely, although Nightmare on Elm Street 1 is great, but after that they’re pretty much comedies.
I think it’s when your religion tells you to give alcohol to your baby.
I guess you’d probably do some soul searching if social services took your baby away because you fed him or her communion wine stolen from a church. I’m sure that’s nothing compared to deciding whether or not to watch a single episode of an upcoming television series reboot though.
I didn’t know Conjuring was so well thought of. I liked it though.
Holy hell, that’s nuts.
Why? Isn’t soul searching what you do when you give up alcohol or decide to have a baby or change religions or something?
*sigh*
After some soul searching and thinking about it . . . I have decided to get Jodie Whittaker a chance. I will watch her first episode and then we will see.
That took soul searching?
1995 is so yesterday. I recommend you check out 1985. That was before the Milleniums ruined everything.
Millennials were just little kids in '95.
https://twitter.com/iSmashFizzle/status/892557827675480064
Do you know how many white people truly and genuinely believe that black people get to go to college for free?
Nope, I do not know the answer to that.
It was a rhetorical question.
Anyone that believes that black people get to go to college for free is so stupid I’m shocked they can dress themselves in the morning.
I so wanted a Captain Nog series.
I love that episode. I’d recognize footage from “The Visitor” anywhere.
I didn’t think I could love Shatner any more, but I think it just happened 😃
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-07-31/sjws-stand-inequality-and-misandry-shatner-claims-fiery-twitter-rantGotta love some good “twitter drama”
I hate twitter drama, but one of the people he was responding to is a total asshole. Implying that Shatner is mad that a “more diverse” cast is getting the limelight instead of him is absurd.
What Shatner is saying is absurd.
And this is your failure of logic. SJWs stand for inequality, where they are superior to any one else hence my use of Misandry and Snowflake
Can’t both be true? Shatner is almost always absurd.
Of course it matters—popular culture is a reflection of the “real world” and vice versa. I just happen to think the controversy in this case is overblown and premature, but things like this can matter in other cases.
People shouldn’t take vague “real world” implications of media into account when acting on a creative vision.
Personally I think the outrage is pretty premature. But the best I can tell there is at least one legitimate criticism of the concept (rather than the nonexistent execution). Essentially, the idea being that showing an alternate history where things are worse to some extent absolves the problems of the present (as opposed to a future story where things are worse, which would be a cautionary tale). Basically it’s a thing where you can point to it and say “look how much worse race relations could be, so don’t complain!”
I have no idea if there is any intent whatsoever by the series creators to try to absolve the problems of the present or to say that people shouldn’t complain now. I have no idea as to what political positions the creators of the show hold.
I don’t think the Nazi takes place in an alternative future.
I am not sure understand what you are saying here
I think he’s trying to say that this show will belittle the problems of now by showing how much worse it could have been. It might read as trying to shut up people who have problems with race relations now.
Also, I’m not sure what the writers/directors intend matters here. It’s how it reads off to the viewer.
None of it matters. It’s a show so watch it or don’t.
Does being Q zapped into an adult mean you can skip Starfleet Academy?
No. The Academy is basically school for officers. Skipping the Academy means enlisting and becoming an ordinary crewman (like Chief Petty Officer Miles O’Brien did). It was unclear how old the Benzite and the Vulcan were in “Coming of Age”, the episode where Wesley tried to apply for the Academy but failed. Also, I’m not sure how old Nog was when he went to the Academy–he just said he was an adult at that age by Ferengi tradition. So I don’t think age has much to do with it.
Nog was probably about Jake’s age. I know Aron Eisenberg was at least 25, but since Nog and Jake were basically in the same grade level in school in season 1 it’s safe to say they’re the same age.
I didn’t think I could love Shatner any more, but I think it just happened 😃
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-07-31/sjws-stand-inequality-and-misandry-shatner-claims-fiery-twitter-rantGotta love some good “twitter drama”
I hate twitter drama, but one of the people he was responding to is a total asshole. Implying that Shatner is mad that a “more diverse” cast is getting the limelight instead of him is absurd.
When I saw the final Harry Potter movie in 35mm, the screen randomly went dark for several seconds while the sound kept going. This happened a couple times during the movie and they were within only a couple minutes of each other, roughly halfway through. I don’t want to mention specifics on the off-chance I’d be spoiling it for someone, but the first flub happened right in the middle of a pretty significant moment and I seem recall saying out loud “you’ve got to be kidding me.”
When it happened again only a minute or so later the lighting in the scene was, uhhh, much brighter, so the screen going dark again for a few seconds was even more noticeable.
I don’t know what the hell caused it, maybe the shutter in the projector got stuck or something. There was a trio of folks complaining to the management afterwards as we were leaving the theater, and I was tempted to do the same, but I could see the person on duty wasn’t giving in and so I figured it wasn’t worth the trouble.
When I saw Rise of the Planet of the Apes at a Thursday midnight screening with my cousin a week or so later, it was at the same theater and we had a choice between digital and film. I chose digital, thinking that would prevent any screwups like what happened with harry potter.
We go inside and I notice the real-d filter is still over the projector. I ask a theater employee to remove it and she does. Eventually the trailers start, and then the movie.
About halfway through, the same exact thing that happened during Harry Potter happens again … only the picture doesn’t come back this time.
We all start making our way out of the auditorium with very little light to guide us, booing the whole time. As we’re finally getting to the hallway, the theater staff emphatically tells us it’s okay and that someone’s coming to fix it. We all take our seats again and someone comes in with a remote (yup, tv in the cinema indeed, Tarantino) and asks us to let her know when we’ve gotten to the right scene as she fast-forwards through the movie.
Goes without saying they were waiting outside to give us all free passes once the movie ended.
tl;dr, digital cinema can be just as bad if not worse than film projection.
Six years later it’s almost worse in certain ways. I’ve complained about them not removing the 3D filter on at least two trips to the movies in the last year. With Rogue One I mentioned it to them afterward and they said “it turns on and off automatically,” completely ignoring my point that it shouldn’t be on there at all. With Wonder Woman I tried letting someone know during the trailers, but the theater was so understaffed that the guy in charge understandably told me there was nothing he could do about it.
The best solution is just to not go to the movies. Everything comes out on home media three months later anyway.
Very good news!
Booker Introduces Landmark Bill to End the Federal Prohibition on Marijuana
It won’t pass, but it’s good news. It’ll make the Republican congress look even worse.
I wonder what reception this cover got from stodgy old parents from the Bible Belt back in the day.
It got recalled.
I’ve actually seen one of the original butcher albums before. A friend owns one that he found cheap a while back.
