There it is: Ratner, with sexual assaults allegations, directed a $40 million documentary about Melania. So Trump wants him to be able to make Rush Hour 4.
Again, the rapist is helping out his own kind.
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Trump strong-arms studio into making cop movie sequel: 'Dumbest possible state-control'
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Straight corruption.
New community idea: "Is it Onion?" Where you post an article title and the community has to guess if it's an Onion article or not.
Everyday that I look at the feed I am reminded of the old /r/theonion + /r/nottheonion feed I used to love back in the day. The guessing game got less fun when it took over all the news.
Have to just post the text or headline without an actual link to the article, since that would give it away.
Could always put the link under a spoiler though, right?
Isn't that just the modern American news media landscape?
That's just a reflection of modern america.
White House backing another sexual predator. I so sick of this timeline.
I'm actually looking forward to this absolutely bombing, the likes of which would make Tron Ares, Morbius (both releases), and that Spider-Man Movie without Spider-Man, seem like blockbusters.
that Spider-Man Movie without Spider-Man
Which one?
I know you mean Madam Web, and you already said Morbius, but Kraven the Hunter would also fit. Also technically the three Venom films, but those didn't bomb (but the third did poorly).
Yeah Madam Web. I kept getting stuck on Black Widow but I knew it wasn't that lol.
There was a Kraven movie?
Yes, there was a Kraven movie. I made it through about 25 minutes of it. Ten minutes longer than Borderlands. I actually watched all of Madam Web. I am still not sure how that happened.
Honestly I thought the Kraven film was the best after Venom and Venom 2. If it had come out right after Venom the whole Spider-Man minus Spider-Man films would have been on better ground. Morbius was terrible and then Madam Web killed any good faith anyone might have had left. By the time Kraven was out everyone had, rightly, given up.
(If you've never watched any of these films, this is not an endorsement.)
I tried to think really hard about if I saw the Kraven movie, and the only thing I got was the plot for Spider-Man 2, and I know that wasn't it cause that was a decent plot-line.
I'm gonna have to pirate this out of morbid curiosity. Like that time I watched the 2 girls 1 cup video, which I still would recommend over Madame Web and Morbius.
Do you mean the newest Spider-Man game? It's a decent storyline, probably better than the movie. He's a little annoying with his death wish, and also how beating him 3 goddamn times in a boss battle doesn't even put a scratch on him.
I "watched" Morbious in the background and could tell you a rough outline but Kraven I could not even do that. Had to turn it off.
Probably Sydney Sweeney is how you managed Madame Webb.
Black Widow did decent for a COVID movie.
Technically Peter Parker is in Madame Web, but he's a newborn baby
Isn't it a baby named Peter P(balloon pop)?
Who's a sexual predator in the rush hour series?
The director
Rush Hour 4
A real billionaire would have bought the rights and produced it themselves. See also The Expanse.
Sigh. Adding Warner Bros. Discovery to my ever growing boycott list.
Just now?
Rush Hour 4
Didn’t he just tear down the White House movie theater? Fuck does he care about movies?
Holy shit, raw story is unusable without some sort of ad block. I really need to figure out a travel pihole or something.
Firefox on Android atleast supports uBlock Origin.
I use piHole over Wireguard VPN for mobile
Orion, Kagis browser, has extension support for chrome and Firefox on iOS
I just do not like Chris Tucker. Like, at all. I just don't get the appeal.
I hated his character in Fifth Element. Just the worst. Ruined the movie for me.
I remember watching the Rifftrax version of Fifth Element and laughing at how they groaned at his parts, LOL. I could not agree more. I don't know if it's possible to make a cut that excludes him, but I'd sure like to see that...
Anyway, I didn't even know they made three Rush Hours already. Clearly, I'm not the target demo for this franchise. If the world has a fourth, I guess I'll care about it as much as I cared about the first three, LOL.
He is completely fucking annoying, and I have refused to watch him in anything else, but somehow Ruby Rhod just works for me. With all the ridiculous stuff in that movie, he feels right at home.
It's a scenario where Tucker's main schtick makes sense in context. Ruby Rhod is basically Space Tucker with a gossip podcast, and his hyper-annoying behavior serves to illustrate how different he, the other passengers, and celebrity obsessed people in that universe are from Corbin's grounded and sane everyman character.
Pulgasari.
Can he lift his fist higher? I feel like I need to honk my horn every time I see that gestured pose.
How Jackie is 71 don't see him doing to many stunts.
He’s not strong arming anybody and this isn’t state controlled media
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