I have to admit everything he lays out makes perfect sense. It does mean that 100% of the movie is a delusion with Jack / The Narrator (who's real name is Tyler Durden) living out his multiple personalities mostly in a hotel room outside of going to some cancer therapy groups.

Tl;dw

• Jack is diagnosed with testicular cancer and his psyche cracks at the prospect of losing his balls

• Hes not at the doctor to get sleeping pills, the doctor instead refer him to cancer support groups to cope with his ball cancer

• Jack invents three new personalities Tyler (masculine), Marla (feminine) and Big Tit Bob (what he fears he may become after his balls are removed)

• Jack's real name is Tyler Durden as evident on the plane tickets he gets from his work

• There is no Paper Street house (why would a phone company install a working telephone in an abandoned house?)

• There is no fight club and no project mayhem. It's all imagined.

Anticlimactic but all the pieces fit. Unless I mis remembered something.

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This is a remake of La Femme Nikita except in English. I must be really clever because I just turned the channel to it not having any idea what it was and I figured it out pretty fast. And I kept thinking it's remarkable how well they emulated everything about Luc Besson and didn't realize it was actually made by him until the credits.

It's in an uncanny valley where a lot of stuff is a realistic depiction of how spies would operate in the 1980s. But then there's the silliness of the KGB & CIA running around killing massive numbers of people in Europe like it's a John Woo movie, which neither side did back then. And there's weird visual stuff like using 2010s computers. I guess that was because zoomers won't understand what's happening if they saw a DOS program. So the whole thing gives off a really odd vibe where it's halfway between James Bond and The Assets. I can accept this kind of weirdness but only if it's in French.

The action scenes are good. Clearly FPS inspired. It's like watching someone who's got talent and 10,000 hours in it playing Battlefield. Pacing is good. The actress is really cute and does a good job at what her role is.

But what her role is...

She's a Luc Besson movie protagonist. So she seems to be an empowered woman on the surface. Omg she's so badass! She can shoot guys! But internally she's a weak hollow person who is basically a sociopath. She has no soul.

Why does he write female characters like this? It's because he's a sicko. Why is 13 year old Nathalie Portman in Leon constantly demanding to have s*x with the guy? It's because Luc Besson fricks 13 year old girls. He's a vile child molester who really hates women and it seeps through into his writing. He sees them basically as animals and sexuality as a way of using other people or being used.

But he's really good at making movies, I can't deny that. For a good one, I recommend The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec. It's based on a preexisting character so he can't impose his sick fetishes. And she rides a pterodactyl through fin de siecle Paris.

https://old.reddit.com/r/television/comments/18h4dmw/andre_braugher_dies_star_of_homicide_life_on_the

https://old.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/18h4sq8/andre_braugher_brooklyn_ninenine_and_homicide

https://old.reddit.com/r/popculturechat/comments/18h4qr6/andre_braugher_dies_star_of_homicide_life_on_the

https://old.reddit.com/r/entertainment/comments/18h4g4y/andre_braugher_dies_star_of_homicide_life_on_the

https://old.reddit.com/r/Fauxmoi/comments/18h4n8u/andre_braugher_dies_star_of_homicide_life_on_the

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Boss Loses Rest On Keno 34:02-51

Truly a based and funny show. Points out hard truths about millionaire leftoid altruism shit without being on the nose, rather it just shows the failure of activist green nonsense and worshiping of minorities and how blinded by influence, hateful of normal people and narcissistic delusional weathly millenials are. It's like a disastrous cynical take instead of parody. Def worth a watch. Soundtrack is also bizarre tangerine dream like weirdness

I'm not going to nitpick and be like "The book took place in Edinburgh Glasgow not London ," but it's hard to judge the movie without comparing it to the source. While I don't think the novel's theme were very profound or new the film paint-by-numbers and the story very rushed. This is despite a 2¼ hour running time that felt flabby in the middle. And despite the film being about Bella's growth as a person it omits the book's epilogue. This is the only part from Bella's perspective and it changes how you view the entire story

This is also probably the least funny Yorgos Lanthimos film I've seen. I did get one good laugh and involved a character calling someone r-slurred.

Saw "Wonka" in IMAX. This was the second time I saw this movie after the premier screening. In this dark age of pandemics, wars, and abnormal weather, this film offers the sweet hope of a "dream". Although it is a classic musical, it is directed by Paul King of "Paddington" fame.… pic.twitter.com/7hiCg1D0gU

— HIDEO_KOJIMA (@HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN) December 10, 2023

I don't remember this in the Dune series

From the Walt Disney Motion Picture (1947)

My favorite Christmas movie

It's also on Amazon Prime and pretty easy to torrent. Do yourself a favor and watch it this Christmas

What have you plebs been watching? How was it? Tell us!

NO ANIME

For me:

Ya boi's been on a tear this week. We'll run through the movies then finish up with /tv/

True Lies (1994) - My previous knowledge of this movie was only the I M A G I N E meme from /tv/. Genuinely thought this was some tryhard psychosexual drama. NOPE. Turns out its an action comedy movie with one the most kino villain deaths in cinema history. Had a great time with this one, and Jamie Lee Curtis had an amazing torso, shame about the rest of her.

The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) - Technically I had seen this movie before, but it was during a /soc/ meetup with a 4chan whore like 7 years older and me who still lived with her mom I was tryna pipe so I remembered nothing. Actually everything in her room was themed after this move, like Skellington socks, witch curtains, etc. Red flag galore, but I was like 19 and didn't know better (still would repeat tbh). Anyways, sat down and watched it properly for the first time. I can see why so many mentally stunted wh*te kids built their whole identity around it. Story was ok, songs were meh, but the aesthetic and stop motion technique are superb and worth the watch.

May December (2023) - This is a very recent Netflix movie starring (((Natalie Portman))) and some old white b-word (Julianne Moore?). Movie follows Portman, a young actress, who goes down to Savanna, Georgia, to study the subject for a new biopic/reality slop piece she's working on. The movie description just says she's gone to do so on-sight shadowing of a couple involved in a "tabloid affair", but you soon learn the affair was actually a 36 year old woman raping a 7th grade boy and bearing his child in prison and the all the aftermath that followed. It's a weirdly intense movie, would class it as a psycho-drama dark comedy. There are are lot of layers to this one, and the visual tricks and language the director uses are a whole other experience you can dissect for hours. Give it a watch, maybe not with family, unless you're wh*te and you're into that idk. Also apparently this movie is based on the real life story of this foid https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Kay_Letourneau

Manodrome (2023) - L M A O. Bros this fricking movie was KINO. So it's about this disaffected down-on-his-luck 8 mile-esque slim shady white boy (played by Jesse Eisenberg, funny to see where he ended up compared to Portman as he had the starring role in The Social Network (2010)). Anyways, this guy is not really shy, just not really talkative, call him taciturn. He was fired from his factory job and attends some basement gym (the inside of the gym lockers has a guide on how to take muscle selfies lmao). He has a pregnant blue haired girlfriend and he's frustrated with his station in life and constantly feels emasculated by the huge black guys in his gym and disrespected by his woman. He ends up joining this like Andrew Tate/Huberman manosphere cult out in some wealthy suburb, called Manodrome where he meets "Dad Dan" (played by Adrien Brody lmao) and shit begins to go down. This might legit be one of my favorite movies of the whole year, maybe decade. This is what normies think an incel is lmao. I'll post spoilers for this one in the comments, but the ending was fricking great. I was fricking howling and stood up clapping. In a way, it's Midsommar (2019) for white guys lmao

As for tv:

Rick & Morty just had it's worst episode of all time

Slow Horses somehow has this restrained hype that only a great spy thriller can execute. There's a scene at the end of the most recent episode where the rich slimy prep kid with greased hair and a Gordan Gecko suit just chews up the scene with his anglo jaw and smugness for like 5 minutes. Straight gigachad shit only bong actors can do. Legit bongistan makes the best actors, and it's not even close.

The Curse great Emma Stone episode this week. She's obviously pretty, but this week I was convinced of her beauty. I think it's because this show's setting is some ghetto suburb outside of Santa Fe, where everyone else is just normal looking, and she's this fricking angelic apparition carousing through their domain. Still my must-watch recommendation of the season

Fargo slaps like always. Actually this latest episode has a home invasion where everyone was wearing masks from The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)...which I had finished watching right before booting up this episode

Pantheon about halfway through the second and final season. Give it a watch if you're one of those people who watches everything animated, it's not quite /co/ but not quite /tv/ either.

How is this getting 90% on rotten tomatoes, sure visuals are cool but this ain't an art show you need to have a fricking plot

What the absolute frick is anyone's motivation

why are there a bunch of plot holes

the frick is up with 90% of the shit that was shown but had literally zero meaning

oh and why the frick is everyone so god darn fricking ugly

spoilers:

these black shadow people are buying the fish, also we're going to not sell them the fish and instead feed it to the warawara's who need it to escape this shit world and become people but also everyone comes from a space rock and who cares how the warawara's get here in the first place

a HERON?? OBVIOUSLY that means the boy's gonna be kidnapped disappear even though the heron is the servant of the granduncle which means that we're basing this off the mom disappearing for a year which we know involves a heron n=1 maybe???? even though everyone (n=1 remember) forgets about the world after they come back???? but also the step mom has magic archer powers in real life????

why is the arrow heat seeking? the protagonist is so neurodivergent he doesnt care he auto shooting bow just landed in an arrow in the wall? why the frick does the stepmom want to stay in shit magic land, why is she trying to give birth in the delivery room?? Why doesnt the parakeet king (only based character btw) try a little harder to arrange the blocks??? Why do the parakeets not murder pregnant women??? What the frick was the message his mom left him??

Why is the mom a fire mage?? How does she know she's gonna be his mom?? Why is the delivery room taboo????

What the absolute frick did Mizyazaki trick me into watching?? Is this a joke where in 6 months he's just gonna meme on everyone who said this movie is good by revealing he intended it to suck as a criticism of movie critics?

p.s. my movie theater didn't play any previews, instead played the same reel of ads twice in a row jesus christ the movie theater industry is fricking dead

It's really good. Definitely deserving of the word of mouth its gotten

If you're looking for the ultimate cynical Netflix movie -- made entirely to suit the whims of an algorithm that no single person on Earth has any control over, or even understands -- forget "Bird Box" or "How My Sister's Boyfriend Fingered Me, Part 3" or whatever, because now they have this.

I don't really understand what happened here. Nothing in the movie makes any sense, and not in a deliberate or stylistic manner. The movie opens with Julia Robert's uncanny valley face speaking a stream of bullshit to her husband Ethan Hawke about how she's booked a last-minute weekend getaway for them and the kids, starting right that moment. She explains to her spouse in detail her motivation for doing this, including saying the words "I've been stressed with my job" (as if her husband of thirty years needs to be informed of her character backstory), a monologue that culminate in her bizarrely looking out the window while the camera 70s-zooms into her inexpressive face saying "I hate people". What seems to be the sort of thing you'd dream when you have cholera is also apparently an appropriate jumping off point for the plot.

Nobody involved in any stage of making this movie has directly met a human being, and has only had them vaguely described to them. What results is a fascinating approximation of human life, like an alien's best attempt at a domestic tableau. Dialogue sounds like it's been Google translated from English to French to Mandarin and then back to English. Julia Roberts's character - an advertising executive in New York in 2023 with a progressive professor husband -- is supposedly so racist that she cannot fathom that a black man owns real estate or nice clothes (because if you're going to have black characters in any capacity, the movie has to become a race commentary lest a Vulture writer denounces it).

The movie's about a vague apocalypse in which electronics and mechanical things stop working properly. In one scene, the supposedly human family is laying on the beach. In the distance, they notice a huge tanker ship is facing towards the beach head-on. The scene goes on. Character comment on the fact that the ship is getting closer, but laugh it off. Sometimes we cut back to the ship - it's getting closer, but slowly. Then we cut again to some time later, family still on the beach. Suddenly, the MASSIVE ship is mere metres from the beach and not stopping. It is only then that anyone decides to move out of the way, with seconds to spare, because that's literally the only way to make a huge slow-moving ship on the water have any real threat to people on land.

In the book it's based (I assume this was adapted via having someone mumble the book aloud to someone half-asleep, then asking that person to write a script) a point is made to highlight how the characters don't respond appropriately to end-of-the-world events. Someone mysteriously falls ill and their teeth fall out? Better bake a cake to keep everyone calm. That incongruity is deliberate, in the book, to point out how there's no way to appropriately respond to the end times. Here, the same sort of thing happens, but because the character have never said or done anything that remotely resembles realistic human thought processes you're forced to assume this is more of the same.

The director struggles to decide how to shoot each scene, and as a result he uses every possible camera movement (pans, oners, zooms, quick cuts, tracking) during and between sequences, mimicking a child with access to After Effects just using every default transition and wipe that comes free with the software. This is an established director who apparently has fans.

Overall, there is something uncomfortably 'off' about the whole movie. Frame by frame, it looks and seems like a real movie. But it's not. it's a movie held up to a mirror, the creepy doppleganger of a movie (the kind kept locked in the basement like a goblin while the real twin gets to be in the world). I recommend it for that alone.

Made me an unironic Japanese nationalist, wrong side won.

So... In the Pale Moonlight is probably the best episode of DS9. There may be others which are technically better TV but Moonlight is the best DS9 episode because it encapsulates everything which made DS9 special and different in Star Trek: The moral grayness, the sensation of people in over their heads, the high stakes and Garak.

Garak is the best thing that ever happened in Star Trek and Andy 'he did feel lucky punk' Robinson was remarkable in the role. Bravo that man- Bravo.

In the Pale Moonlight is set during the first year of the Dominion War (or season 6). It took DS9 five years to finally give us the massive space war (the antagonists weren't even introduced until the end of season 2). Part of this is because DS9, unlike Babylon 5, wasn't planned out. Another part tho, is that DS9 earned it's big space war.

The war is going badly for the Federation- heck the very first encounter with the Dominion cost Starfleet the USS Oydessy...

That's a Galaxy Class cruiser getting kamakazied there and the captain and crew did nothing wrong. The implication is that if it had been the Enterprise, things would have gone the same way.

The Federation and Klingons are losing the war and only an Alpha Quadrant Big 3 Alliance will tip the scales. That means bringing the isolationist Romulans aboard.

The Romulans are an militarist offshoot race of the Vulcans who were intended to be the OG Star Trek's main villians because someone figured they could just re-use the Spock ears. Unfortunately, those ears needed to be modelled to the actor's ears before the day of shooting and SAG rules stated that the make-up call counted as a full day's work. Therefore the Klingons were invented because Fu-Manchu mustaches and brown face paint ("Mexican Bandit No. 2") was all it took to make an OG Klingon (this comes from Stephen Whitfield's "The Making of Star Trek").

Sisko realises he can't rely on the neighbourly feelings of the Romans-in-Space so he asks Garak to find evidence that the Dominion are planning an invasion of the Romulan Star Empire.

Garak, however , doubts such evidence exists. Instead he has another suggestion...

Garak knows a guy who can help but the guy just stabbed Quark in his bar, meaning Sisko must continue his descent into darkness...

(That's not really Bashir btw- you may recall this from an earlier installment of Best of Starshit:

https://rdrama.net/h/kino/post/226890/the-best-of-starshit-garak-talks

So that's a changeling who apparently just lets all this shit happen- massive plot hole but... meh)

So the evidence is faked and all that's required is to make sure that Mr. Stabby-Stabby gets paid off...

So now it's time to say hi to the Romulans. The Roms have a history of cool rides but Senator Vreenak's stealth ship takes the cake. This thing is a fricking cool whip...

Obviously we all know what happens next: Vreenak spots the forgery and a meme is born...

https://youtube.com/watch?v=-bLtVVfaQd0&list=PLxidGOcLnJh21CFCPcZ-iKDcAuAcuXeg8

Paramount have blocked this video in HK but maybe you'll have more luck.

Vreenak heads back to Romulus to tell all the other Pointy-Ears about the Federation's duplicity (and probably be quietly impressed tbh) but... remember Garak saying he was going to get a closer look at the Romulan ship?

Which just leaves Sisko to wrestle with his conscious...

The general consensus is that Picard would have never have gotten involved in any of this. Picard, however would probably have gone screaming after Q to send the nasty Dominion away. Sisko didn't have that option...

The one time they put Q in DS9 there was a resounding feeling that it was a mistake and that he didn't fit. That or he couldn't cope with an empowered gentleman of color. Fricking Extra-Dimensional-Supremacist.

Check out my other Starshit Effortposts:

https://rdrama.net/h/kino/post/226933/best-of-starshit-there-are-four

https://rdrama.net/h/kino/post/227166/best-of-starshit-the-measure-of

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0038969

#Synopsis

Uncle Remus, reprimands Joe and Jake and warns them to keep away from Johnny and Ginny. Johnny runs off to comfort Ginny. He explains that he does not want to go to the party either, especially since his father will not be there. Uncle Remus discovers both dejected children and cheers them up by telling the story of Br'er Rabbit and his "Laughing Place". When the three return to the plantation, Sally becomes angry at Johnny for missing his party, and tells Uncle Remus to stay away from him. Saddened by the misunderstanding of his good intentions, Uncle Remus packs his bags and begins to leave for Atlanta. Johnny rushes to intercept him, but is attacked by a bull and seriously injured after taking a shortcut through a pasture. While Johnny hovers between life and death, his father returns. Johnny calls for Uncle Remus, and his grandmother escorts him in. Uncle Remus begins telling a Br'er Rabbit tale, and the boy miraculously survives.

Later, a fully recovered Johnny sings with Ginny and Toby while Johnny's returned puppy runs alongside them. Nearby, Uncle Remus is shocked when Br'er Rabbit and several of the other characters from his stories appear in front of them and interact with the children. Uncle Remus rushes to join the group, and, together, they all walk into the sunset.