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Movies You Are Looking Forward To In Cinema 2025

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Sunday, December 8, 2024 9:03 PM

JEWELSTAITEFAN


Gerard Butler has an actioner coming out. Might be some mind games involved, too. Den of Thieves 2: Pantera.
Mission Impossible: Final Reckoning is scheduled.





Mickey 17 7 March
Mission Impossible: Final Reckoning 23 May
How to Train Your Dragon 13 June

Superman 11 July

Nobody 2 15 August

The Fantastic Four: First Steps 25 July

Thundeerbolts
The Way
Love Hurts
Flight Risk

28 Years Later

Green and Gold
Novocaine
Unbroken

Jurassic World: Rebirth 2 July





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Sunday, December 8, 2024 9:59 PM

ANONYMOUS1


Mickey 17 (3-7-2025) - IMDb


Mission: Impossible Final Reckoning (may 23 2025)


How to Train Your Dragon (June 13, 2025) live actors and I guess computer generated dragons.





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Monday, December 9, 2024 4:28 PM

JAYNEZTOWN


the Korean guy doing Mickey 17 with The Lighthouse, The Batman, Twilight Vampire actor?


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Mickey 17






Having Korean guy Bong Joon-ho do the Mickey 17 Novel just goes to show what little faith Hollywood has in its own people now

they will also remake Asian properties 'Bugonia'

if Thunderbolts trailers hold up then maybe...it will be interesting to see how many screens Mel Gibson gets or is he still banned? Marky Mark was linked to the "Black List" of the most-liked unproduced screenplays and Hollyweird have they forgiven Will Smith?
not sure I trust them Not to screw up 'The Naked Gun' remake
maybe 28 Years Later looks ok, maybe M3GAN 2.0
it would nice nice if they do Tron Ares good but I'm not getting any hopes up
probably going to avoid a lot of big budget block buster attempts with expensive actors and expensive CGI

Even previously bankable names Ridely Scott, Joaquin Phoenix, George Lucas, Disney, Harrsion Ford, Marvel, DC, Kevin Feige, Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Jason Momoa, Ron Howard are risks of flops...and Barbenheimer might have been a freak bump event against the long term trends, its all going downard.


Will they ask Gérard Depardieu, Mel Gibson, Angle Lee to comeback? maybe they can dig up the corpse of Kurosawa and ask him to direct something

staying with indie or foreign film for now, mainstream Hollyweird seems dead...but Mickey 17 should be ok. I feel amost Everything else might be a waste of your time.

I would pick a random Japan, Spain, Finland, Bollywood, South Korea film over Hollyweird now, or a random indie US horror.

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Tuesday, December 10, 2024 2:18 AM

ANONYMOUS1


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Mickey 17 (4-18-2025) - IMDb


Mission: Impossible Final Reckoning (may 23 2025)


How to Train Your Dragon (June 13, 2025) live actors and I guess computer generated dragons.







Added to my list

Superman (July 11, 2025) Nathan Fillion is in it as Guy Gardner a Green Lantern. And yeah!, according to photos on IMDb page, Krypto is in it.

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Monday, December 23, 2024 6:39 AM

JEWELSTAITEFAN


Nobody 2 is scheduled for 15 August.

Connie Neilsen seems to have a bigger part this time.

Unfortunately, Sharon Stone is in the cast. After she promised that she would leave America if only we would elect Trump again, sounds like she has renegged.

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Thursday, December 26, 2024 6:47 AM

ANONYMOUS1



Mickey 17 (4-18-2025)

Mission: Impossible Final Reckoning (may 23 2025)

How to Train Your Dragon (June 13, 2025) live actors and I guess computer generated dragons.

Superman (July 11, 2025) Nathan Fillion is in it as Guy Gardner a Green Lantern. And yeah!, according to photos on IMDb page, Krypto is in it.

The Fantastic Four: First Steps (7/25/2025)


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Thursday, December 26, 2024 4:48 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Wake me up when they announce Alita 2 or the Edge of Tomorrow sequel.

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Friday, December 27, 2024 2:24 AM

ANONYMOUS1


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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Wake me up when they announce Alita 2 or the Edge of Tomorrow sequel.



Don’t wake up yet…

https://thedirect.com/article/edge-of-tomorrow-2-release-cast Posted June 10, 2024

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Given Tom Cruise's current commitments to Mission: Impossible 8—which has experienced production delays—his upcoming space movie with Doug Liman, and Top Gun 3, it is likely that Edge of Tomorrow 2 will not be released for several years.


IMDb setup a rumor page for Live Die Repeat and Repeat. Says in development.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5617712/

I would love to go see edge of tomorrow sequel in a theater.


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Saturday, December 28, 2024 12:28 AM

JEWELSTAITEFAN


Thunderbolts seems quirky.

I should check out The Way from Angel.

Love Hurts, maybe. Really getting hyped.

Flight Risk is maybe.

Didn't know about Top Gun 3. Guess that happens when you spend a whole summer raking in cash.

I think I'm annoyed at Emily Blunt for choosing umpteenth Mary Poppins over Edge of Tomorrow 2.

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Saturday, December 28, 2024 2:23 AM

JEWELSTAITEFAN


I'm surprised these are scheduled:
Black Captain America in Feb
Snow Brown in March

I thought they were both doing reshoots for another year.

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Saturday, December 28, 2024 2:40 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
I'm surprised these are scheduled:
Black Captain America in Feb
Snow Brown in March

I thought they were both doing reshoots for another year.



Pretty sure "another year" was 2024.

This one kinda went by quick, didn't it?

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Saturday, December 28, 2024 2:48 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Just looked it up...

Now it's coming out on Valentine's Day.

Yeah. I know 16 year old me would have been rushing to get my girlfriend out to see Black Not Captain America. Good luck. You'll need it.



Mierda de Perro en la Nieve Marrón was supposed to be released on March 22nd 2024, and is now being released on March 21st, 2025.

It took one day less than a full year to scrub the live action Seven Multi-Racial Magical People of Standard Height and Undetermined Sex and Sexuality and replace them with nightmare fueled CGI versions of the puppets from the Garbage Pail Kids movie.






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Saturday, December 28, 2024 2:50 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Wake me up when they announce Alita 2 or the Edge of Tomorrow sequel.



Don’t wake up yet…

https://thedirect.com/article/edge-of-tomorrow-2-release-cast Posted June 10, 2024

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Quote:

Given Tom Cruise's current commitments to Mission: Impossible 8—which has experienced production delays—his upcoming space movie with Doug Liman, and Top Gun 3, it is likely that Edge of Tomorrow 2 will not be released for several years.


IMDb setup a rumor page for Live Die Repeat and Repeat. Says in development.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5617712/

I would love to go see edge of tomorrow sequel in a theater.




Good lookin out buddy.

Bummer.

Keep the faith.

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Sunday, December 29, 2024 3:08 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


I was going to mention that I'd forgot that I saw something about 28 Years later being made, but I didn't know a release date. Looks like Jaynez already mentioned that way back in the beginning of the thread though.

If that comes out this year I'll watch it.

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Monday, December 30, 2024 2:05 AM

JEWELSTAITEFAN


Yes, the trailer for 28 Years Later looked interesting. But not a lot of detail.

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Wednesday, January 8, 2025 11:06 PM

JEWELSTAITEFAN


Green and Gold had a screening as part of the Packers-Bears game doings last weekend. And Craig T Nelson sang the National Anthem.

Novocaine seems interesting.

Same for Unbroken.


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Monday, March 3, 2025 5:12 AM

ANONYMOUS1



Adding Jurassic (7-2-2025) World: Rebirth To my list. Didn’t have much interest since I do not think Chris Pratt or any of the other actors from the movies are in it.

Then I watched the official trailer on https://www.imdb.com/title/tt31036941/ Looks good from trailer.



Mickey 17 (3-7-2025)

Mission: Impossible Final Reckoning (may 23 2025)

How to Train Your Dragon (June 13, 2025) live actors and I guess computer generated dragons.

Jurassic (7-2-2025) World: Rebirth

Superman (July 11, 2025) Nathan Fillion is in it as Guy Gardner a Green Lantern. And yeah!, according to photos on IMDb page, Krypto is in it.

The Fantastic Four: First Steps (7/25/2025)


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Saturday, March 8, 2025 2:40 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


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Mickey 17 (4-18-2025)



I was just coming here to mention this one. I'd never heard of it until 2 minutes ago while looking at The-Numbers.

A sci-fi black comedy directed by Bong Joon-ho that's in English?

Yeah... I'm sure I'll be watching this one eventually.



Pretty sure you got the date wrong on that one though. According to The-Numbers it came out this weekend.

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Sunday, March 9, 2025 5:34 AM

ANONYMOUS1


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Mickey 17 (4-18-2025)




Pretty sure you got the date wrong on that one though. According to The-Numbers it came out this weekend.

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You are right. Thank you. Either they changed it or I got it wrong. Just checked the others on my list.

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Sunday, March 9, 2025 1:51 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Glad you came back and saw it in case you want to see it in theaters.


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Sunday, March 9, 2025 9:22 PM

SECOND

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two


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Mickey 17 (4-18-2025)



I was just coming here to mention this one. I'd never heard of it until 2 minutes ago while looking at The-Numbers.

A sci-fi black comedy directed by Bong Joon-ho that's in English?

Yeah... I'm sure I'll be watching this one eventually.

At this very moment, you could be watching an excellent copy!

Don’t pay to watch Mickey 17 at the movie theater when you can watch it at home for FREE.

Mickey 17
Science Fiction Fantasy Comedy

Mickey Barnes has found himself in the extraordinary circumstance of working for an employer who demands the ultimate commitment to the job... to die, for a living.

Bittorrent Link: AE7140F3DB97BC3FDEBAC6193301F68F76E8AEE4

https://x1337x.cc/torrent/6357378/Mickey-17-2025-1080p-TELESYNC-x264-C
OLLECTiVE
/ <-- the / at the end is very important. Without the / there is a "404 Not Found" error.

Complete name : Mickey.17.2025.1080p.TELESYNC.x264.COLLECTiVE.mkv
Format : Matroska
Format version : Version 4
File size : 7.69 GiB
Duration : 2 h 10 min

Domestic Releases:
March 7th, 2025 (Wide) by Warner Bros.
March 7th, 2025 (IMAX) by Warner Bros.
International Releases:
February 28th, 2025 (Wide), released as Mickey 17 (South Korea)
https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Mickey-17-(2025)#tab=summary

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Sunday, March 9, 2025 9:38 PM

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Mickey 17 (4-18-2025)



I was just coming here to mention this one. I'd never heard of it until 2 minutes ago while looking at The-Numbers.

A sci-fi black comedy directed by Bong Joon-ho that's in English?

Yeah... I'm sure I'll be watching this one eventually.

At this very moment, you could be watching an excellent copy!

Don’t pay to watch Mickey 17 at the movie theater when you can watch it at home for FREE.



I would never even consider downloading a copy of a movie that was currently in theaters, for the very same reason I never use the self-checkout lanes.

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Monday, March 10, 2025 7:57 AM

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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two


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I would never even consider downloading a copy of a movie that was currently in theaters, for the very same reason I never use the self-checkout lanes.

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It is certainly not because you have a fully functional moral compass sensing right and wrong. Trumptards either lose or are born without the ability to imagine alternative actions they could take at any moment. A lack explaining why Trumptards appear to be robots, unsuccessful ones. There is only one path for them -- downward.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Monday, March 10, 2025 7:57 AM

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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two


These scenes are from the recent movies “Gladiator II,” “Megalopolis,” and “The Apprentice.”

The New Literalism Plaguing Today’s Biggest Movies

Buzzy films from “Anora” to “The Substance” are undone by a relentless signposting of meaning and intent.

By Namwali Serpell | March 8, 2025

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/critics-notebook/the-new-literalism-
plaguing-todays-biggest-movies


A warrior is in a prison cell. His guard approaches and shows him the wooden sword that he will receive once he has earned his freedom. The warrior grabs it, uses his unlocked cell door to knock the guard down, and places the sword’s tip on the guard’s throat. He drives it in as one might hammer a post, a coarse and grisly death. Then, for some reason, swaying back and forth, the warrior yells down at the corpse, “Wood or steel, a point is still a point!”

An ailing magnate lies in an opulent bedroom. His young, gold-digging wife enters with her lover, with whom she chats cynically about the old man’s condition. “What do you think of this boner I got?” the invalid drools defiantly, gesturing at a pointy peaky in his lap. He pulls aside his clothes to reveal a golden bow and arrow, with which he shoots his wife. Then, for some reason, as the phallic arrow pierces her in the chest, he says, “You Wall Street slut, this is your closing bell.”

A blond, blue-eyed real-estate mogul goes to the mayor’s office to propose a new project. He plunks a model down on the desk: a little black tower with all-caps gold letters at its base reading “TRUMP TOWER.” He gives his spiel, with a stilted swagger. His lawyer offers a few words to soften the deal. Then, for some reason, the mayor asks, “And what are you gonna call it?” The mogul leans back and tells us what we already know: “Trump Tower.”

These scenes, from the recent movies “Gladiator II,” “Megalopolis,” and “The Apprentice,” respectively, are examples among many—so many!—of what I’ve started calling the New Literalism. This isn’t a new genre but a new style. Each of these films belongs to its own genre—action/adventure, sci-fi/drama, and drama/history, respectively—and none of them seems interested in the filmic tradition of documentary realism, not even the bio-pic.

When I say literalism, I don’t mean realistic or plainly literal. I mean literalist, as when we say something is on the nose or heavy-handed, that it hammers away at us or beats a dead horse. As these phrases imply, to re-state the screamingly obvious does a kind of violence to art. “A point is still a point!”

There is a meme going around from a “Family Guy” episode in which Peter, the animated comedy’s paterfamilias, confesses to his family that he never cared for “The Godfather.” Why not? “It insists upon itself,” he says with a shrug. A lot of recent productions deserve this scorn—literally. It’s gotten so bad that, lately, the highest compliment I can muster for even the best of them is: “Well, at least it’s a movie.”

The pervasiveness of this trend was evident in the films nominated for Best Picture at the Academy Awards this year. Several of them reflect phenomena we’ve been bemoaning for some time. We got a science-fiction sequel, “Dune: Part Two,” and a fan-fiction prequel, “Wicked,” both of which use C.G.I. more to operatic ends than to imaginative ones. And we got yet another bio-pic, “A Complete Unknown,” starring Timothée Chalamet as Bob Dylan, the latest entry for the social-media rolls of comparing old celebrities with the new celebrities that play them in the movies.

Even the originals of the season, if we can call them that, felt thunkingly literalist. Sean Baker’s “Anora,” the Best Picture winner, is a self-described “Cinderella story” about a sex worker who falls for the oldest trick in the book: the rich trick who wants to marry her. After their hasty Vegas nuptials, the heroine says that she wants a Disneyland princess suite for the honeymoon, to which her bestie helpfully cries, “Cinderella!”

Coralie Fargeat’s “The Substance,” less an homage to than a recapitulation of body-horror classics, dramatizes older celebrities’ fear of being displaced by casting Demi Moore as a fifty-year-old star who births a genetically generated younger self—literally, through her back.

Jacques Audiard’s “Emilia Pérez” features a collection of ad-libbed scenarios (what if a Mexican cartel leader had gender-reassignment surgery? What if she reunited with her kids in a “Mrs. Doubtfire” kind of way?) and droning musical numbers that recite events as they occur: “I’d like to know about sex-change operation.” “I see, I see, I see. Man to woman, or woman to man?” “Man to woman.” “From penis to vagina.”

The artsiest entries fell prey to this telling showiness, too. RaMell Ross’s “Nickel Boys” is based on Colson Whitehead’s unflinching novel about the horrific, sometimes fatal, abuse of Black boys in reform school. Ross splices the action with historical footage, clips from the nineteen-fifties race film “The Defiant Ones,” and the skewed sunlight of sentimentality, smothering the story with a clutter of pointing arrows. His experiments with first-person-P.O.V. camera feel like a strained effort to literalize a plot twist that Whitehead manages with far more subtlety and poignance—and in the third person, by the way.

The theme of Brady Corbet’s “The Brutalist,” artistic ambition, looms over the movie, as if given concrete form by the buildings designed by the title character. Other portentous allegories ensue. We get an upside-down shot of the Statue of Liberty to inform us that immigration turns your life topsy-turvy. In fact, if you’re an artist and an immigrant, the American Dream will literally fuck you in the ass. (Who’s the brutalist now?)

Corbet has come under fire for using A.I. to enhance his actors’ Hungarian accents. His other production techniques reveal an even deeper commitment to the New Literalism. For most of the film, he uses VistaVision, a widescreen format from the fifties, which I’ll admit makes for a wondrous shot of an Italian marble quarry, but which otherwise feels gratuitous. The epilogue, set at a Venice Biennale in the eighties, then switches to a touristy video format that drives home a point about the kitschy co-optation of art.

The Best International Feature winner, Walter Salles’s “I’m Still Here,” incorporates that faddish filmic grammar of nostalgia—Super-8 footage—in an analogous way. The film, which is based on the memoir of the novelist and screenwriter Marcelo Rubens Paiva, follows a Brazilian middle-class family as its members grapple with the aftermath of the military dictatorship that disappeared the father in the seventies. As Salles put it, “The idea to integrate the Super 8 was to bring back the immediacy and the vividness of that family and the imperfections, as well, of the medium.” In other words, it isn’t enough for your movie to show how life was back then. It has to look like the movies looked, too.

The French theorist Roland Barthes coined the term studium for photographs that seemed to him to represent “a classical body of information”: human-interest stories, “political testimony or . . . good historical scenes” that produce in us “a kind of general, enthusiastic commitment.” This is useful, in its way, but it’s not art. Why do these recent movies insist on rehashing this studium, these familiar source materials, this aura of pastness? Are they trying to compete with the new popularity of documentary forms by absorbing them?

I think something else is going on. The point is not to be lifelike or fact-based but familiar and formulaic—in a word, predictable. Artists and audiences sometimes defend this legibility as democratic, a way to reach everyone. It is, in fact, condescending. Forget the degradation of art into content. Content has been demoted to concept. And concept has become a banner ad.

Saying the quiet part out loud has given way to a general loudness. This is as true in our cultural life as it is in our political life, which feels like a badly written finale, so in your face are the Ponzi schemes, Nazi salutes, and tech-bro cant of our latest overlords. That sense of unmistakable catastrophe may be why we keep returning to predigested cultural comfort food.

The critic Anna Kornbluh, author of the 2024 book “Immediacy: Or, The Style of Too Late Capitalism,” suggests that our era of “experiential intensity and crisis” has led to an aesthetics of “realness without representation,” which excises “anything that would require time to interpret instead of rapid uptake . . . any confusion or ambiguity.” Kornbluh’s examples from art and pop culture, such as the film “Uncut Gems” and auto-fictional novels, all betray this removal of mediation.

But the artifacts of the New Literalism seem to embrace mediation, even to double down on it with their supplementary signposts, historical snapshots, and expository tics. Many works insist precisely on the value of ambiguity—that liberal shibboleth “It’s complicated”—just in a ham-fisted, didactic way. And while Kornbluh finds immediacy narcissistic, I’m inclined to diagnose us instead with what Freud called repetition compulsion, a phenomenon that he linked to the death drive.

Rather than allowing us to reëxamine history, this obsessive reënactment in fact severs us from it. As Freud writes, we “repeat the repressed material as a contemporary experience instead of . . . remembering it as something belonging to the past.” This will to copy and paste the images of history in effect occludes its alien beauty and force—the simulacrum devours its source.

Repetition is the basis for all art, and, when pushed to the extreme, for some of the very best art. But there’s repetition and there’s repetition. Freud’s notion of remembering, the inexact reiteration of what came before, is where creativity emerges—that slight drift from the original that lets something unlikely slip in. It is the warped note in a Nina Simone song, the uncanny stutter of Samuel Beckett’s prose, the trippy trail of Andy Warhol’s prints, the eerie flatness of David Lynch’s films, that we love.

The dullard cousin of the repetition family is redundancy, that almost onomatopoeic term for needless recapitulation. This is the averaging out, the displacement of the human being in time and at work, that A.I. tools impose. Perhaps because, as they keep telling us, the age of A.I. is here (get used to it!), its derivative ethos seems to have permeated all forms of media. Everything must be easy to follow and to understand, simple enough to recognize and categorize.

Rather than aiming for the unique, which might pierce our haze of distraction, art has succumbed to marketable generalities: stock music on Spotify, soporific streams of Netflix content. Fashion capitalizes on a long tail of generic looks: we all wear Doc Martens but no one is actually goth. Image generators churn out ersatz versions of da Vinci and van Gogh. And, in every case, banal commentary is slowly occluding the art, seeping into it in boldface titles or explainers that speak over the sound or cover the image.

It’s hard to say which came first: our so-called media illiteracy or the dumbing down of the media. Complaints about our inability to read, interpret, or discern irony, subtlety, and nuance are as old as art. What feels new is the expectation, on the part of both makers and audiences, that there is such a thing as knowing definitively what a work of art means or stands for, aesthetically and politically. This strikes me as a blatant redefinition of art itself.

I worry, but I don’t despair. We can still enjoy the good old art, perhaps even more so. And there’s great new art, too. Although my recent favorites—“La Chimera,” “Challengers,” “Furiosa”—were entirely overlooked by the Academy, at least this year’s award for Best Adapted Screenplay went to the right film. Edward Berger’s “Conclave,” scripted by Peter Straughan and based on Robert Harris’s 2016 novel about the selection of a new Pope, stars Ralph Fiennes, Isabella Rossellini, John Lithgow, and Stanley Tucci in performances perfectly pitched on the edge of irony.

The movie is deliciously fun, riotously unpredictable, and, to make earnest use of one of Donald Trump’s favorite catchphrases, unlike anything I’ve ever seen. It is a wholly new genre: papal melodrama. The New Literalism nibbles the edges of it. There’s a lot of lavish attention paid to rituals and protocols, and the lush and antique details of the set and costumes. But the papacy is shrouded in the kind of secrecy that obviates appraisals of accuracy. The film relies on the drama of the plausible but unexpected.

In the film’s last shot, the shuttered conclave over, a priest cracks a window and looks out at a courtyard. Three nuns enter and walk across it, chatting mildly, laughing lightly. We do not hear what they say. We do not know what he believes. Yet it is revelatory. Not in the sense of a big reveal, the ding-ding-ding we’ve come to expect, but in the sense of a delicate, partial unveiling, an invitation to look and think, echoed by the frame of an open window. The scene lasts just long enough for us to linger, but not so long that we dwell. As I watched the picture cut to black, I realized that, of all the movies I saw this past year, “Conclave” was the only one that seemed to trust us.

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Monday, March 10, 2025 1:51 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


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Originally posted by second:
When I say literalism, I don’t mean realistic or plainly literal. I mean literalist, as when we say something is on the nose or heavy-handed, that it hammers away at us or beats a dead horse. As these phrases imply, to re-state the screamingly obvious does a kind of violence to art. “A point is still a point!”



Yes. That's all your DEI hires are capable of. Pure heavy-handed, on-the-nose literalism.

... and chronic self-inserts.

Quote:

It’s hard to say which came first: our so-called media illiteracy or the dumbing down of the media.



Don't know.

The one thing I DO know is that the Department of Education predates both of those things.

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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon

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Tuesday, March 11, 2025 9:13 AM

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Quote:

Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Quote:

Originally posted by second:
When I say literalism, I don’t mean realistic or plainly literal. I mean literalist, as when we say something is on the nose or heavy-handed, that it hammers away at us or beats a dead horse. As these phrases imply, to re-state the screamingly obvious does a kind of violence to art. “A point is still a point!”



Yes. That's all your DEI hires are capable of. Pure heavy-handed, on-the-nose literalism.

... and chronic self-inserts.

Quote:

It’s hard to say which came first: our so-called media illiteracy or the dumbing down of the media.



Don't know.

The one thing I DO know is that the Department of Education predates both of those things.

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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon

I watched Mickey 17 last night. The book is Mickey7, that is a seven, while the movie is seventeen. After the movie, I downloaded the book for free. Comparing the book and movie makes it obvious how Hollywoodization of novels creates bad movies from good books. Make it 17 rather than 7 is what Hollywood does to everything it touches, unaware that seven is beauty while 17 is just a number. The novel, which cost only thousands of dollars to write, is entertainment while the movie, which cost $118 million, is anti-art. If I had seen it at the theater I'd feel cheated out of my time and money, but at home, where it can be paused, or speed-up, or jumped to the end like a novel, the movie is transformed back into entertainment rather than a slog moving at the pace chosen by the director.

Download the free book
https://annas-archive.org/search?q=Edward+Ashton

On Friday, I mentioned that the model’s prediction for Mickey 17 depended on the film’s Thursday audience not being dominated by Robert Pattinson and Bong Joon-ho fans, or it at least finding a way to reach beyond that core audience over the weekend. Its final result suggests that it hasn’t really done that. It does have good reviews (although generally not spectacular ones), and positive word of mouth will help it, but probably not enough to come close to justifying its budget.
https://www.the-numbers.com/news/258870830-Weekend-projections-Mickey-
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Tuesday, March 11, 2025 6:27 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Quote:

Originally posted by second:
Quote:

Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Quote:

Originally posted by second:
When I say literalism, I don’t mean realistic or plainly literal. I mean literalist, as when we say something is on the nose or heavy-handed, that it hammers away at us or beats a dead horse. As these phrases imply, to re-state the screamingly obvious does a kind of violence to art. “A point is still a point!”



Yes. That's all your DEI hires are capable of. Pure heavy-handed, on-the-nose literalism.

... and chronic self-inserts.

Quote:

It’s hard to say which came first: our so-called media illiteracy or the dumbing down of the media.



Don't know.

The one thing I DO know is that the Department of Education predates both of those things.

--------------------------------------------------

"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon

I watched Mickey 17 last night. The book is Mickey7, that is a seven, while the movie is seventeen.



Have you already forgotten that out of the two of us I'm the only one who understands how Math works?

Yes. Those are called numbers. It's what we use to count things.

Here's an easy one for you... It's even got your number 7 in it which you typed out two times and we're just so proud of you!!!


If you have one bucket that contains 2 gallons of water and another bucket that contains 7 gallons of water, how many buckets do you have?

(HINT: It's not seven like the book, nor is it seventeen like the movie. )

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Wednesday, March 12, 2025 6:25 AM

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Quote:

Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Quote:

Originally posted by second:
Quote:

Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Quote:

Originally posted by second:
When I say literalism, I don’t mean realistic or plainly literal. I mean literalist, as when we say something is on the nose or heavy-handed, that it hammers away at us or beats a dead horse. As these phrases imply, to re-state the screamingly obvious does a kind of violence to art. “A point is still a point!”



Yes. That's all your DEI hires are capable of. Pure heavy-handed, on-the-nose literalism.

... and chronic self-inserts.

Quote:

It’s hard to say which came first: our so-called media illiteracy or the dumbing down of the media.



Don't know.

The one thing I DO know is that the Department of Education predates both of those things.

--------------------------------------------------

"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon

I watched Mickey 17 last night. The book is Mickey7, that is a seven, while the movie is seventeen.



Have you already forgotten that out of the two of us I'm the only one who understands how Math works?

Yes. Those are called numbers. It's what we use to count things.

Here's an easy one for you... It's even got your number 7 in it which you typed out two times and we're just so proud of you!!!


If you have one bucket that contains 2 gallons of water and another bucket that contains 7 gallons of water, how many buckets do you have?

(HINT: It's not seven like the book, nor is it seventeen like the movie. )

--------------------------------------------------

"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon

I didn't make the point about Hollywood clear enough. In the excellent novel, Mickey is killed only 6 times. Hollywood can't be satisfied with only 6. That is not nearly enough! Why not make the movie dumber than the book? (Hollywood believes smart people read novels while nitwits go to movies.) Why not kill Mickey 16 times? Each death will be played for laughs, stupider and more pointless than the previous one. That will bring in the nitwit audience. (No. It won't.) Hollywood has reverse Midas Touch, turning gold into turds. Mickey 17 is a $115 million turd. Mickey7 was gold until Hollywood got hands on it.

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6IXSTRINGJACK


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Originally posted by second:
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
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Originally posted by second:
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Quote:

Originally posted by second:
When I say literalism, I don’t mean realistic or plainly literal. I mean literalist, as when we say something is on the nose or heavy-handed, that it hammers away at us or beats a dead horse. As these phrases imply, to re-state the screamingly obvious does a kind of violence to art. “A point is still a point!”



Yes. That's all your DEI hires are capable of. Pure heavy-handed, on-the-nose literalism.

... and chronic self-inserts.

Quote:

It’s hard to say which came first: our so-called media illiteracy or the dumbing down of the media.



Don't know.

The one thing I DO know is that the Department of Education predates both of those things.

--------------------------------------------------

"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon

I watched Mickey 17 last night. The book is Mickey7, that is a seven, while the movie is seventeen.



Have you already forgotten that out of the two of us I'm the only one who understands how Math works?

Yes. Those are called numbers. It's what we use to count things.

Here's an easy one for you... It's even got your number 7 in it which you typed out two times and we're just so proud of you!!!


If you have one bucket that contains 2 gallons of water and another bucket that contains 7 gallons of water, how many buckets do you have?

(HINT: It's not seven like the book, nor is it seventeen like the movie. )

--------------------------------------------------

"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon

I didn't make the point about Hollywood clear enough.



Oh don't worry dude. You never make any point, period.

I didn't read it anyway, nor did I read this reply.



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Oh don't worry dude. You never make any point, period.

I didn't read it anyway, nor did I read this reply.

An early test screening of Mickey 17 went “badly, sources say, but writer/director Bong dismissed the results, saying his Oscar winner Parasite didn’t test well, either.” Parasite only had a budget of around $11 million, but Mickey’s budget was around $118 million, not including prints and advertising.

“Meanwhile, a knowledgeable source told me that Warners had come up with an alternative cut of Mickey 17 that tested 10 points higher,” Puck’s article further reads. “But the director had final cut and got his way.” A source estimates that the movie will fall $100 million short of breakeven at the box office.

https://www.comingsoon.net/movies/news/1936896-mickey-17-warner-bros-c
ut-tested-robert-pattinson-lose-money


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Wednesday, March 12, 2025 4:26 PM

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Nobody cares.

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Nobody cares.

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James Cameron’s Wife ‘Bawled For Four Hours’ After Watching Avatar: Fire And Ash

https://www.empireonline.com/movies/news/avatar-3-james-cameron-wife-b
awled-four-hours
/

Is Hollywood signaling that the movie will be Great Art? Or should Mrs. Cameron have her tear ducts plugged? Find out in December, but without buying a ticket.

Watch Avatar 3 on TV, where it was meant to be seen for FREE. Don't let Hollywood steal your time, money and leave you weeping.

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Thursday, March 13, 2025 9:38 AM

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The most mind-blowing movie twists of all time explained

Jacob Stolworthy walks through some of most shocking moments in cinema history

Wednesday 12 March 2025 07:52 GMT

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/movie-
twists-best-explained-b2713489.html


The Independent has run through 35 of the greatest twists ever, from Planet of the Apes and Spider-Man: Homecoming to Oldboy.

There are some filmmakers who have attempted to make the twist their trademark (M Night Shyamalan), then there are others who have impressively shaped a film around its rug-pulling denouement (Christopher Nolan’s magician drama The Prestige was essentially one giant magic trick).

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Thursday, March 13, 2025 1:40 PM

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Originally posted by second:
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Nobody cares.

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James Cameron’s Wife ‘Bawled For Four Hours’ After Watching Avatar: Fire And Ash

https://www.empireonline.com/movies/news/avatar-3-james-cameron-wife-b
awled-four-hours
/

Is Hollywood signaling that the movie will be Great Art? Or should Mrs. Cameron have her tear ducts plugged? Find out in December, but without buying a ticket.

Watch Avatar 3 on TV, where it was meant to be seen for FREE. Don't let Hollywood steal your time, money and leave you weeping.

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Nobody cares.

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Thursday, March 13, 2025 7:58 PM

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Originally posted:
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Quote:

Originally posted:
When I say literalism, I don’t mean realistic or plainly literal. I mean literalist, as when we say something is on the nose or heavy-handed, that it hammers away at us or beats a dead horse. As these phrases imply, to re-state the screamingly obvious does a kind of violence to art. “A point is still a point!”

Yes. That's all your DEI hires are capable of. Pure heavy-handed, on-the-nose literalism.

... and chronic self-inserts.
Quote:

It’s hard to say which came first: our so-called media illiteracy or the dumbing down of the media.

Don't know.

The one thing I DO know is that the Department of Education predates both of those things.

--------------------------------------------------

"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon

I watched Mickey 17 last night. The book is Mickey7, that is a seven, while the movie is seventeen.



Have you already forgotten that out of the two of us I'm the only one who understands how Math works?

Yes. Those are called numbers. It's what we use to count things.

Here's an easy one for you... It's even got your number 7 in it which you typed out two times and we're just so proud of you!!!


If you have one bucket that contains 2 gallons of water and another bucket that contains 7 gallons of water, how many buckets do you have?

(HINT: It's not seven like the book, nor is it seventeen like the movie. )

--------------------------------------------------

"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon

I had planned to post that I'd wager he was incapable of answering this question.
But I did not get here in time to make that post.

In the days since, he has managed to prove me right, he is just too old, feeble-minded, libtarded to be able to answer a simple question.
And he wasn't able tofind another libtard to plagiarize who could answer for him.

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Thursday, March 13, 2025 8:21 PM

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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
Quote:

Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
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Originally posted:
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Quote:

Originally posted:
When I say literalism, I don’t mean realistic or plainly literal. I mean literalist, as when we say something is on the nose or heavy-handed, that it hammers away at us or beats a dead horse. As these phrases imply, to re-state the screamingly obvious does a kind of violence to art. “A point is still a point!”

Yes. That's all your DEI hires are capable of. Pure heavy-handed, on-the-nose literalism.

... and chronic self-inserts.
Quote:

It’s hard to say which came first: our so-called media illiteracy or the dumbing down of the media.

Don't know.

The one thing I DO know is that the Department of Education predates both of those things.

--------------------------------------------------

"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon

I watched Mickey 17 last night. The book is Mickey7, that is a seven, while the movie is seventeen.



Have you already forgotten that out of the two of us I'm the only one who understands how Math works?

Yes. Those are called numbers. It's what we use to count things.

Here's an easy one for you... It's even got your number 7 in it which you typed out two times and we're just so proud of you!!!


If you have one bucket that contains 2 gallons of water and another bucket that contains 7 gallons of water, how many buckets do you have?

(HINT: It's not seven like the book, nor is it seventeen like the movie. )

--------------------------------------------------

"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon

I had planned to post that I'd wager he was incapable of answering this question.
But I did not get here in time to make that post.

In the days since, he has managed to prove me right, he is just too old, feeble-minded, libtarded to be able to answer a simple question.
And he wasn't able tofind another libtard to plagiarize who could answer for him.




This is true. I posted this question for Second 4 days after Kevin Drum died of Cancer.

March 7th was a terrible day for Second. I feel sorry for the boy having to find out that Kevin Drum was a no good Trumptard like that. Yanno... since Democrats never die and only Trump voters get cancer.

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This is true. I posted this question for Second 4 days after Kevin Drum died of Cancer.

March 7th was a terrible day for Second. I feel sorry for the boy having to find out that Kevin Drum was a no good Trumptard like that. Yanno... since Democrats never die and only Trump voters get cancer.

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6ixStringJack, how many times do you have to announce that you are a goddamn idiot, without realizing what you have done?

Here is the setup for the novel's ending, which was far superior to the movie's dumb ass ending, but Hollywood always has to fiddle around, in this case transforming Mickey Barnes into an embarrassingly stupid lump, much like Trumptards, not realizing what they have done to ruin a book when translating into a movie.
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She crouches down beside me, reaches out, and runs a hand across the top of the pack. “How?”

“How what? How did I manage to get this atrocity back from the creepers after they’d murdered Eight?”

Nasha turns to look at me. I can tell from her eyes that she’s not smiling under the rebreather. “Yeah, Mickey.”

I shrug. “I asked for it.”

She shakes her head, then turns her attention back to the bomb. “Is it loaded?”

“Well, there’s enough antimatter in here to sterilize a medium-sized city, if that’s what you mean.”

She pulls her hand back.

“Don’t worry,” I say. “As long as the bubbles are intact, the antimatter is basically in a different universe. It can’t touch us.”

“And what if some of them aren’t intact?”

I laugh. “Trust me. You’d know.”

“Why, Mickey?”

“Why, what? Why did I leave a doomsday weapon buried out here like pirate’s treasure?”

“Yeah,” she says. “That.”

I rock back on my heels and turn to look at her. “Well, here’s the thing. If I’d actually left it with the creepers like I told Marshall, they might have eventually gotten it into their heads to use it. I honestly couldn’t have given a shit about most of the people in that dome at that point, but…”

She grins. “But what, Mickey?”

“You know,” I say. “I’d rather let Marshall shove me down the corpse hole than risk having anything happen to you.”

“Okay,” she says. “I get that. So why didn’t you bring it back?”

“Oh, that’s easy. If I’d turned both bombs back over to Marshall, he definitely would have killed me on the spot, and then he would have sent Nine down into the tunnels to finish his genocide. The only reason I’m still alive, and the only reason the creepers are still here, is that he thinks I’m the only thing keeping the creepers from popping this thing off underneath the dome.”

“I guess you’re probably right about that,” she says. “The part I don’t get, though, is why the creepers let you walk out with both bombs. Weren’t they worried about deterrence or whatever?”

I laugh again, a little harder. “Seriously? You think I actually told them what we were carrying? You think I told them we came into their home with the intent of committing genocide? Holy crow, Nasha. I’m no genius, but I’m not that dumb.”

She seems taken aback by that. Apparently she thought I actually was that dumb.

Chapter 27, Mickey7 by Edward Ashton

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Friday, March 14, 2025 4:32 AM

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You are demented.

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You are demented.

Hollywood took an intelligent novel, Mickey7, and remade it into something stupid for the nitwits who still go to movie theaters, buying high-priced tickets and snacks, for what is free on TV.

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Hollywood changed Mickey Barnes into a Trumptard. Trumptards misunderstand how an advanced human society functions and, predictably, would completely misunderstand an alien society. But the novel version of Mickey is a philosopher who understands both societies and his place in the scheme of things:
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HERE’S A THOUGHT experiment for you: Imagine you found out that when you go to sleep at night, you don’t just go to sleep. You die. You die, and someone else wakes up in your place the next morning. He’s got all your memories. He’s got all your hopes and dreams and fears and wishes. He thinks he’s you, and all your friends and loved ones do too. He’s not you, though, and you’re not the guy who went to sleep the night before. You’ve only existed since this morning, and you will cease to exist when you close your eyes tonight. Ask yourself—would it make any practical difference in your life? Is there any way that you could even tell?

Replace “go to sleep” with “get crushed, or vaporized, or set on fire” and you’ve pretty much got my life. Trouble in the reactor core? I’m on it. Need to test a sketchy new vaccine? I’m your guy. Need to know if the bathtub absinthe you cooked up is poisonous? I’ll get a glass, you bastards. If I die, you can always make another me.

The upside of all that dying is that I really am a shitty kind of immortal. I don’t just remember what Mickey1 did. I remember being him. Well, all but the last few minutes of being him, anyway. He—I—died after a hull breach during transit. Mickey2 woke up a few hours later, sure as shit that he was thirty-one years old and had been born back on Midgard. And who knows? Maybe he was. Maybe that was the original Mickey Barnes looking out through his eyes. How could you tell? And maybe if I lie down on the floor of this cavern, close my eyes, and pop my seals, I’ll wake up tomorrow morning as Mickey8.

Somehow, though, I doubt it.

Nasha and Berto might not be able to tell the difference, but deep down on some level below reason, I’m pretty sure I’d know I was dead.

from Chapter 1, Mickey7 by Edward Ashton. Mickey Barnes in the novel is as smart as Edward Ashton. The movie version of Mickey dies 10 more times than the novel version because he is stupid.

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Another Hollywood money-loser:

Netflix’s Most Expensive Movie Ever Reveals the Whole Problem With Its Strategy

The Electric State is from the directors of Avengers: Endgame and costs about as much. You may wish you could snap it out of existence.

By Sam Adams | March 14, 2025 5:45 AM

https://slate.com/culture/2025/03/electric-state-netflix-movie-millie-
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When he got his first glimpse of a movie studio, Orson Welles excitedly proclaimed it “the biggest electric train set any boy ever had.” But with a reported budget of more than $300 million, Joe and Anthony Russo’s The Electric State makes Welles’ train set look like a busted caboose. The most expensive movie in Netflix’s history, it’s also among the costliest of all time, joining a list that includes the brothers’ own Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame. If the Russos are the most profligate creators in history—their Amazon series Citadel is also one of the most expensive TV shows ever made—they’re among the most successful too. Endgame and Infinity War grossed nearly $5 billion in movie theaters alone. And yet for all the money they’re making, and all that they’re allowed to spend, they don’t seem to be enjoying themselves very much.

(The movie is based on a book of paintings, not a novel. Simon Stålenhag - The Electric State. Hollywood added a story, a very stupid one, to go with the art.

Download the free art from https://annas-archive.org/search?q=The+Electric+State )

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Friday, March 14, 2025 9:24 AM

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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two


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Friday, March 14, 2025 3:23 PM

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You are demented.

Hollywood took an intelligent novel, Mickey7, and remade it into something stupid for the nitwits who still go to movie theaters, buying high-priced tickets and snacks, for what is free on TV.



They turned it into something that people who gagged on Kevin Drum's cock every morning before he died of brain cancer would love.

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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon

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Friday, March 14, 2025 5:38 PM

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Is yet another illiterate confused abut netflix being shown In Cinema in the current year?

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Friday, March 14, 2025 9:02 PM

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The Story – The Electric State (2018)

The Electric State (2018) : A teen girl and her robot embark on a cross-country mission in this illustrated science fiction story, perfect for fans of Ready Player One and Black Mirror. In late 1997, a runaway teenager and her small yellow toy robot travel west through a strange American landscape where the ruins of gigantic battle drones litter the countryside, along with the discarded trash of a high-tech consumerist society addicted to a virtual-reality system. As they approach the edge of the continent, the world outside the car window seems to unravel at an ever faster pace, as if somewhere beyond the horizon, the hollow core of civilization has finally caved in.

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Saturday, March 15, 2025 3:41 AM

ANONYMOUS1


Adding The Penguin Lessons (3-28-2025) to my list. Saw an ad on the internet.


Mickey 17 (3-7-2025)

The Penguin Lessons (3-28-2025)

Mission: Impossible Final Reckoning (may 23 2025)

How to Train Your Dragon (June 13, 2025) live actors and I guess computer generated dragons.

Jurassic (7-2-2025) World: Rebirth

Superman (July 11, 2025) Nathan Fillion is in it as Guy Gardner a Green Lantern. And yeah!, according to photos on IMDb page, Krypto is in it.

The Fantastic Four: First Steps (7/25/2025)


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Saturday, March 15, 2025 3:41 AM

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Double posted somehow.

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Saturday, March 15, 2025 8:56 AM

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Adding The Penguin Lessons (3-28-2025) to my list. Saw an ad on the internet.



Download the book by Tom Michell, The Penguin Lessons: What I Learned from a Remarkable Bird
for free from https://annas-archive.org/search?q=Tom+Michell

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Saturday, March 15, 2025 3:18 PM

JEWELSTAITEFAN


Working Man with Jason Statham, out 28 March.
Beekeeper 2
Untitled Jason Statham thriller, with Bill Nighy and setting starts in Scotland - no release date listed. Seems Jason has been doin up to 5 films per year.

Surfer with Nic Cage - maybe


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Saturday, March 15, 2025 3:22 PM

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When I say literalism, I don’t mean realistic or plainly literal. I mean literalist, as when we say something is on the nose or heavy-handed, that it hammers away at us or beats a dead horse. As these phrases imply, to re-state the screamingly obvious does a kind of violence to art. “A point is still a point!”

Yes. That's all your DEI hires are capable of. Pure heavy-handed, on-the-nose literalism.

... and chronic self-inserts.
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It’s hard to say which came first: our so-called media illiteracy or the dumbing down of the media.

Don't know.

The one thing I DO know is that the Department of Education predates both of those things.

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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon

I watched Mickey 17 last night. The book is Mickey7, that is a seven, while the movie is seventeen.



Have you already forgotten that out of the two of us I'm the only one who understands how Math works?

Yes. Those are called numbers. It's what we use to count things.

Here's an easy one for you... It's even got your number 7 in it which you typed out two times and we're just so proud of you!!!


If you have one bucket that contains 2 gallons of water and another bucket that contains 7 gallons of water, how many buckets do you have?

(HINT: It's not seven like the book, nor is it seventeen like the movie. )

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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon

I had planned to post that I'd wager he was incapable of answering this question.
But I did not get here in time to make that post.

In the days since, he has managed to prove me right, he is just too old, feeble-minded, libtarded to be able to answer a simple question.
And he wasn't able tofind another libtard to plagiarize who could answer for him.

This is true. I posted this question for Second 4 days after Kevin Drum died of Cancer.

March 7th was a terrible day for Second. I feel sorry for the boy having to find out that Kevin Drum was a no good Trumptard like that. Yanno... since Democrats never die and only Trump voters get cancer.

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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon

Still too libtard-addled and feeble, I see.

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