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From memory: Bryant Gumbell, Gene Shalit, Willard Scott, Jane Pauley, and I blank on the last guy.

Willard was an interesting guy. He was supposedly the first Ronald McDonald and turned down payment in stock for the gig. He was also famously disliked by Gumbel for celebrating centenarians on his weather forecasts.

Gene Shalit would have probably enjoyed the birthday wishes from Willard.

I just saw it. It's okay but outclassed by some of Spielberg's earlier stuff like Close Encounters and ET. The movie was a little too long at close to 2.5 hours. I don't want to give spoilers (if that's possible after the trailers) but I felt like there were characters and pursuit events that were respectively unnecessary or poorly executed.

There's also a bit in there about empathy being the highest value that no nerd, theologian, or ethicists will find satisfying.


Hell with it. Some Spoilers below.

Should have eliminated the boyfriend character for Emily Blunt and the girlfriend character for the male lead. There are plenty of other characters to serve for EB's skeptical foils and instead of involving religion with the peripheral character (Woodley) they could easily have the nun or other religious characters interact directly with the male lead.

Colin Firth gets a lot of screen time but isn't really a great character or villain and this definitely holds the movie back from being a great movie.

Anyway, it was entertaining enough but not great. There are plenty of plot holes you would probably take for granted it this intended to be a mindless Independence Day or action movie instead of something deeper about human meaning.

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Star Wars bombs: Omg this is the end of Disney and Star Wars is dead.
He-Man bombs: You know we are really just looking at this through the wrong lense

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So why does the board fight tooth and nail to make sure everyone on here knows what a complete utter failure Mandalorian and Grogu is

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Probably because there's never been a financially viable He-man movie (in three independent attempts) and Star Wars was arguably the most powerful movie intellectual property in the last fifty years.

Star Wars is the "has been" and He-man is the "never was" movie property.

Grudge is probably wrong. Unless not being her daughter counts as a grudge.

Step-parents commonly frick the biological children of the second marriage. There's an expectation of receiving all of the assets from the deceased in many cases. The deceased person is typically mislead by their partner about whether their intentions will be honored.

OP has a very common story

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Do black folks get annoyed that Pride Month was chosen on the same month as Juneteenth?

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Probably they do, on the down low.

I think the hatred is mostly about the mundane marriage behaviors more than the vast number of lies and criminal activities both she and WW were responsible for.

Cheating, nagging, an unenthusiastic hand job (lack of interest in sex with her spouse)? Those are familiar and hateable tropes because so many people are guilty of the same or similar things.

If people were making rational and moral judgements about WW and SW the real reason to hate both characters would be the number of lives they destroyed with meth.

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11AM - Soap Operas start up. Switch to Nickelodeon the rest of the day and for Nick in the Afternoon.


Look at you fancy people with cable as a kid. The day sucked for me starting at 11

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Where I grew up one of the shitty television channels (think more budget than WB) would have some old reruns of stuff like F Troop or I Dream of Jeanie after the end of the Price is Right.

I didn't understand why I liked Barbara Eden but I really liked Barbara Eden

They often make the same noises right before a recession and then end up reversing themselves. The bigger danger with a supply shock driven rise in fuel prices is more about recession than inflation.

I'm not familiar with this character but I think this guy neatly summarized the present behaviors of Disney and the different groups of Star Wars fans.

It does seem explanatory for the last ten years under Disney

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Amazon is weird...

You see an absolute frick-ton of woke, liberal takes.
And then every once in a while, you get a Reacher, or even a Terminal List.

I'm not sure how Terminal List happened, other than Chris Pratt was a big name and they decided money was better than message. I'm glad they did.

But the Tom Clancy Amazon stuff is awful. Most of it has been from the exact opposite political viewpoint that a Tom Clancy book fan (not the movies) would likely have.

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Does Amazon have long lasting and popular series that don't go down the wrong rabbit hole eventually? I can't think of any recent examples.

I have a certain amount of resigned skepticism about the corporate owned stuff. At the start it's often good but eventually you end up with the last season of The Boys. Iconic properties like Star Trek, Star Wars, Indiana Jones, JRR Tolkien become terrible garbage that can't be very entertaining even to the people who don't see the moral issues.

Even newer properties like The Witcher, The Wheel of Time, or Harry Potter have been dragged into this stuff and the changes have not been helpful for the fans that liked the source material.

Neither have any of the nonsensical claims about expanding the modern audience worked out. The best you can do to maximize an audience is to nail the preferences of one part of the population. That might be Barbie or it might be The Infinity War. But it is not Barbie with nudity and violence or The Infinity War with intersectionality centered.