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

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Mickey 17 (4-18-2025)

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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.

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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!”

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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.

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

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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 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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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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For an audience fatigued by meta franchise fatigue, Ne Zha 2’s earnestness feels like something rarer: myth made vivid

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17 A Working Man $37,111,403

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A man returns to the idyllic beach of his childhood to surf with his son. But his desire to hit the waves is thwarted by a group of locals whose mantra is “don’t live here, don’t surf here.” Humiliated and angry, the man is drawn into a conflict that keeps rising in concert with the punishing heat of the summer and pushes him to his breaking point.

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Nobody else in the country besides James Cameron and the billionaire's club get to sit in their own movie theater when they watch a movie. Nobody cares what Cronenberg thinks on this issue anymore than they cared what Ellen Degeneres thought when she told everybody lock downs were cool while shooting a video from her glass-walled exercise room twice the size of most people's apartments.

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Nobody else in the country besides James Cameron and the billionaire's club get to sit in their own movie theater when they watch a movie. Nobody cares what Cronenberg thinks on this issue anymore than they cared what Ellen Degeneres thought when she told everybody lock downs were cool while shooting a video from her glass-walled exercise room twice the size of most people's apartments.

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Have you not heard of this technology that is destroying the business model of Cinemas?
It is called Television.

You should buy a TV, but NOT an obsolete TV. Suggestion:

The 6 Best TVs for Next-Level Home Entertainment

We thoroughly scrutinized and reviewed the most impressive TVs available today—and several of our picks are surprisingly affordable.

By Stefan Vazharov Updated: Mar 13, 2025 9:36 AM EDT

https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/gadgets/g61111352/best-tv/

The Top Pick can be purchased at Walmart, but it is hundreds of dollars cheaper at Amazon.

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

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Nobody gives a shit about your TV or your soundbar.

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People Generally Prefer Watching Movies At Home Than in the Theater

Indeed, 77% of respondents to the survey either strongly (38%) or somewhat (39%) agreed with the statement “In general, I prefer watching movies at home over watching in the theater.” Just 6% strongly disagreed.

Despite Trumptards convincing themselves that ticket sales are dropping because Hollywood is too woke for Trumptards, it is TV manufacturers who are at fault for making home viewing better and cheaper than viewing the same flicks at the cinema.

https://www.marketingcharts.com/industries/media-and-entertainment-228
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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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About the Data: The results are based on a survey of 1,050 US adults (18+).

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I thought I posted The Amateur, and Accountant 2.

Accountant is tonight. I really don't care for Baffleck, but the ads for this don't look like him at his most annoying.

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it would nice nice if they do Tron Ares good but I'm not getting any hopes up.

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All the clubs have been closed down
This place (town) is coming like a ghost town
Bands won't play no more
Too much fighting on the dance floor

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AMC works really hard to make going to the movies terrible

By Colette Bennett | July 1, 2025

https://www.thestreet.com/entertainment/amc-works-really-hard-to-make-
going-to-the-movies-terrible

As streaming media has exploded in popularity over the past few decades, fewer and fewer people have seen the point of getting into the car and going to the movie theater.

Despite being a beloved activity that people have adored for well over a hundred years, going to the movies really isn't what it used to be.

Add up the price of a ticket or two, overpriced concessions, the cost of driving to and from the theater — not to mention the high possibility of loud groups of kids who don't mind talking over the entire movie — and it's just not appealing.

The pandemic hit movie theaters hard, and although America has recovered, the movie theater industry hasn't.

Typically it made between 10 and 11 billion a year before 2020, but since then, it hasn't exceeded more than 8 billion, per data from Box Office Mojo.

One way theaters coped with getting people back in theater seats was to entice them with limited-edition merchandise like themed popcorn buckets, which actually did wonders for their bottom line. AMC alone raked in $65 million from sales of this merchandise.

Now AMC has a new idea to change the theater experience. But unlike its innovative collectible popcorn buckets, this will actually add yet another reason to justify staying home on the couch with Netflix.

Your movie date just got longer

We all go to the movies expecting to see trailers before the show starts, and some people even like it that way, knowing if they're running a bit late, they won't miss the main event.

AMC has decided this is a good thing, and as of July 1, will now show more pre-movie ads than ever, including "as much as" a whopping five minutes of commercials, as well as a new ad called a "Platinum Spot" that will play before the last few movie trailers you see.

Trailers and other promotions can mean the movie doesn't start for 25-30 minutes, according to the AMC website.

The advertising decision comes as the result of an agreement AMC made with the National CineMedia ad network, which is the largest of its kind in the U.S.

Back in 2019, AMC declined using these ads, despite the fact other chains such as Regal adopted them, saying it believed that moviegoers would react "quite negatively" to them.

But it has since pivoted, saying in a June Bloomberg interview, “While AMC was initially reluctant to bring this to our theaters, our competitors have fully participated for more than five years without any direct impact to their attendance."

Why AMC is making this move

AMC has had its share of struggles over the past few years. While it's been slowly recovering since the pandemic, 2024 didn't pan out so well, with AMC reporting a decline in revenue in 2024's Q3 and an attendance decline.

AMC also announced on July 1 that it had entered into a new agreement with its creditors, which will provide $223 million of new money financing that will be used to refinance its debt.

The agreement will also allow AMC to equitize at least $143 million of its current debt, and has the potential to allow the company to equitize as much at $337 million.

Commenters on social media did not take well to the news of the new ads.

"I would like to warn AMC to expect 25-30 years of me never coming back to their theaters," said X user TexasPharmD.

"Just another reason to avoid the movies," X user Laz252 said.

"Stop. I like how they want more people to watch movies, but they're also still making the experience worse," X user 360 No One said.

By Colette Bennett

Colette Bennett is a multi-faceted writer that covers retail, tech, entertainment, and more. Before joining TheStreet, Colette was a Senior Producer for Yahoo! Finance, and prior to that, a reporter for CNN. Also a novelist, her debut "Enter the Meta" is now available via Simon & Schuster.

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

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