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Movies: Poor Things, Barbie and Oppenheimer are stuck in La La Land

For lack of a better thread, I just lost a lot of respect for all the comedians that performed at the Riyadh Comedy Festival. Really disappointed. Shane Gillis was on of the bigger acts to turn them down even after they upped their original offer.
There’s a few on the list that aren’t particularly surprising (Gabriel Iglesias and Russell Peters have already done shows there, Kevin Hart, Louis CK, Hannibal Burress, Dave Chapelle are known money whores).

Some like Wayne Brady or Whitney Cummings are disappointing but unsurprising.

Some are genuinely disappointing like Bill Burr.

Pete Davidson is just baffling. Like, I’m sure it’s a lot of money but you’re taking it from the same people who funded the attack that killed your dad. Wonder what his family thinks?

Have gained a lot of respect for Shane Gillis though.
 
David Cross continues to be awesome as well.

To be clear, he wasn’t invited. But his evisceration of those that did it is great.

Edit: I knew I had seen it somewhere close! Handy posted it in one of the Dump threads.
 
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Criterion goes big into Nunsploitation.

I watched the first third of Haxan last night for about the fifth time. It's fun but it wears. I'm going to actually get through it this time though.
 
I finally saw Todd Phillips' Folie a Deux. I would be interested in everybody's thoughts.

I liked the idea. I loved the song selection. Phoenix and Gaga were good.

Not without problems, the worst for my money is purely technical: how can the sound mixing for a musical be so muddy?

I loved the idea of a trial movie -- a trial, if not the justice system itself -- is pure performance. The movie makes this and other observations by suggestion, not explicit dialog, and I liked that as well.

Overall it was a noble effort to do something new and it is one of the few comic movies I would watch again. Joker is easily the most compelling character in the DC universe, if not the entire comic universe, and linking this to the first Phoenix Joker added a good, messy layer to the character.

Lots of complaints but they don't matter, I approve of the attempt.

Phillips did a documentary on G. G. Allin that I would like to see now.
 
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The Tron commercial reminds me of this,

 
TIL the guy who plays young Moonlight Graham in Field of Dreams is Brett from Pulp Fiction.

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LOL. I thought the remake a few years ago was meh.

The original is a terrible movie, and was one even at the time (do not let people tell you those were "cutting edge special effects, for the time," no, we all laughed in the theater), but it is beloved now and I'm fine with that.

I assume this was an attempt to turn it into an IP Cash Cow from the usual risk averse zero imagination crowd?
 
He also banged Jennifer Connelly in Career Opportunities and he killed Hoffa!

Oh and every Tron film bombs but Di$ney gaslights people into pretending its genius and beloved.
 
I’ve not seen more than 15 minutes of the first Tron movie. I’ve not seen any of the sequels.
 
The original Tron was fine, the one from a dozen years ago was horrible and I had a smidgen of hope the new one would not suck.
 
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