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His hand being right above a firing, shortened shotgun is an interesting choice.

See also: Honey trapping

Honey trapping is a practice involving the use of romantic or sexual relationships for interpersonal, political (including state espionage), or monetary purpose.

ya’ll are brainless morons merely voting down that which you understand.

Say again?

Scratch is a visual programming language that is intended to be easy to learn for younger people.

You can read more about the language on Wikipedia here and you can play around with the language here.

I remember the created NC 17 for tv when became adult.

NC-17 predates the TV ratings system by six years: NC-17 for movies was introduced in September 1990, and the TV parental guidelines introduced in December 1996. The equivalent rating for television to NC-17 is TV-MA.

But for me you say X then you are saying a porno.

This is actually why NC-17 was created by the Motion Picture Association of America in 1990. For decades X was “no children allowed,” but X wasn’t copyrighted by the MPAA and it was eventually co-opted by the pornography industry, as you mentioned. The MPAA still needed something for wider-audience films that weren’t pornographic.

There were a lot of X-rated films in the 60s, 70s, and 80s that were rated X but weren’t pornographic. Midnight Cowboy, The Evil Dead, and A Clockwork Orange, for example, were all rated X on release. None are pornographic but probably shouldn’t be seen by children.

The Wikipedia page on the X rating and the MPAA rating system in general has more info.

I thought that was Jason Bateman for a hot second

The Wrap says:

Billy Joel spoke out against an in-the-works biopic from director John Ottman on Tuesday, saying that the life and music rights needed for the film have been denied for years and to move forward with it would be “both legally and professionally misguided.”

“Since 2021, the parties involved have been officially notified that they do not possess Billy Joel’s life rights and will not be able to secure the music rights required for this project,” a spokesperson for Joel said in a statement to TheWrap.

It actually looks like nearly-universal praise, from this article at least.

One guy calls it a “mess,” but the vast majority of the posts say that it’s a lot of fun and a “Saturday morning cartoon come to life” with a lot of respect for the original material. It also embraces the quirky and campy, but has some tired, replayed tropes and some heavy-handed morality.

This is probably my favorite one, from Griffin Schiller on X:

Pains me to say it, but Jared Leto is genuinely unrecognizable and very, VERY good in MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE.

A few older ones come to mind.

Jaws is maybe an obvious one, unless deep ocean is the main priority.

The Abyss is another one, from 1989, directed by James Cameron.

I saw both of them when I was a kid and they were really memorable. I haven’t watched either in several years but I would watch them again. Especially The Abyss.

Less “great” and more “mediocre 1980s slasher with an inaccurate title,” Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan is mostly set on a small cruise ship on the way to Manhattan. I actually hated it when I was younger because of the misleading title, but I watched it again last year and I liked it more. I just had to adjust my expectations that it was actually Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Murders The Kids On A Boat. Obviously, the killer is Jason and not an animal, but I thought it was slightly better than it gets credit for.

I didn’t realize this was literally from the episode! You can see a border. Thanks for pointing that out!

As a fun(?) aside, according to the fandom wiki one of the writers has a fear of department store perfume sections, hence that part of the episode.

The movie was bankrolled by Saudi Arabia to set up infrastructure for the entire filmmaking industry there. That’s why it was so expensive.

Also, a large chunk of the $150 million budget was literally putting infrastructure in place to manage a production of this size. “On-set insiders say Saudi production hub Neom Media was effectively laying the infrastructure for an entire industry on the budget of ‘Desert Warrior,’” the report noted.

https://www.slashfilm.com/2160537/anthony-mackie-desert-warrior-one-of-biggest-box-office-flops-ever/

This is the perfume area of a department store, which were often located near one of the major entrances.

Walking through it is usually a bombardment of different smells, and it can be a lot.

The joke is that you have to go through the horrible perfume tunnel to get to where you want to go inside the store (or the mall, if connected). It can be especially bad around the winter holidays and when it’s cold out, which is why everyone has long sleeves in the photo.

A lot of places you could go around, it was just a longer walk.

I thought this was interesting, at the end

Also, a large chunk of the $150 million budget was literally putting infrastructure in place to manage a production of this size. “On-set insiders say Saudi production hub Neom Media was effectively laying the infrastructure for an entire industry on the budget of ‘Desert Warrior,’” the report noted.

Even the documentary guy uses circumstantial evidence.

According to Reed, the film fundamentally fails to tackle Jackson’s predatory relationship with children. “They’re saying that the reason Jackson liked children is because he’s an angel and just wanted to be nice to children, not that he wanted to have sex with them … Why are they dancing around this? It’s well-known that Jackson spent a long time with small-boy companions, including taking them into his bed at night and locking the door, which is undisputed – and that alone, if someone made a claim, is probably enough to convict him in a court of child sexual abuse – but with Jackson, none of this stuff seems to matter.”

“And locking the door, which is undisputed”

Wait, you’re saying the most famous musical artist in the world would lock his bedroom door when he went to sleep?! Even when he was with kids who he acted like were his?? Get out, you’re kidding.

Even this guy relies on the assumption that Michael Jackson is guilty to start.

It’s fascinating.

You’re right! I forgot who I was talking about.

My favorite Batman Spiderman villain in his rogues gallery has always been The Abnormal Drug Trafficker

What’s funny is, the phrase “Molyneux’s failed legacy” is accurate without this specific game being named “Legacy.”

Thank you! I was wondering about the context

I really liked Rocko’s Modern Life!

The real reason they cite is also quite interesting. Twice as many leased electric vehicles are coming to market.

Analysts attribute the surge to a glut of hundreds of thousands of cheap pre-owned EVs that were purchased on leases in the early 2020s and which are now returning to market as those leases expire. According to credit bureau Experian, EVs will account for 15 percent of all off-lease vehicles at the end of this year, up from 7.7 percent in the first quarter.