Califan007 The Constipated

I think I've come to appreciate that aspect more now, than when I was actually watching it lol...it's memorable as hell for a bunch of different reasons, not all of them good.

This part seriously bothered me: "This month, NBC reported that, for seven months, Meta had hosted ads for a deepnude app. The app boasted about its ability to “undress” people, using a picture of Jenna Ortega from when she was 16 years old." I get that with the insane speed of AI development and every single platform trying to one-up each other to avoid getting left behind in a crowded marketplace, it's gonna take awhile for laws to catch up, but there should already be a way for social media outlets to monitor the ads they allow on their platforms. I saw that the two teens who did the deep fakes of their classmates was the first case of its kind to lead to arrests. I'm curious as to what laws were used to bring charges and what the teens did to get them on the radar of law enforcement...were the arrests made under a new law, or under existing laws that are now being used for **** like this (I'm not curious enough to go look, though lol). I'm all for the arrests, but I've also been all for the arrest of people who hack and leak nude photos of celebrities (or of anyone, actually). Child (p-word) definitely includes fakes, thankfully, but I think only if the fake can reasonably pass for a real image. I used to go to this store where people could sell their handmade items--the stuff in this store tended to be far more avant-garde than things like handmade pot holders lol...anyway, one time I looked at some books at that store, and one had a bunch of hand-drawn images in them (very well done), black and white pen illustrations of bondage and other sexual stuff. And in a few books some of the illustrations featured kids--nude--in sexual situations with adults. My assumption at the time was since it's hand-drawn I guess it's legal.

You have a Word document with MAGA talking points that you just copy and paste into your posts, don't you...

In case you guys forgot about the GoFundMe effort...

Road House remake was...good enough. Fight scenes were a million times better, but most still lacked something, not sure what. Logic was more sound (not saying much there lol). The love story--what there was of it--was more believable. Gyllenhaal's Dalton was good, I enjoyed it...I definitely got the impression why he should be feared. There were enough scenes from the original that were mirrored in the remake that I felt the lineage and connection between the two movies well enough. But it still lacked that certain engagement and charm that full-blown cheese can bring lol...and there were pretty much zero memorable lines in the movie. Nobody's gonna be quoting the remake in 30 years like people quote the original now. As someone said earlier, having McGregor say the "I ****ed guys like you in prison" would have fit his character perfectly, but I assume that in today's age jokes about rape are avoided at all costs. And there was no cool best friend like Sam Elliot's character, though to be fair nobody can duplicate anything Elliot ever does in any movie, ever lol. I didn't like one over the other, but thought the first one was more engaging and the remake was far better made.

I'm watching it now...so far they have removed all the cheese, which for all its faults is what gave the original whatever charm it had. So far, it's technically a better movie but not as engaging as the original...and like you said, no ridiculous-but-memorable lines lol...that was one of the things I liked about the original.

I thought it did?..."No one ever wins a fight" was in the original and also in the trailer for the remake (although everything in trailers doesn't always make it into the movie).

Huh? What are you commenting on? If you were commenting on Cohen's video, he basically said the same thing you did lol... You: "You voted for the extremists whether you wanted a moderate GOPer or something else. Just don't vote for the GOP because they let the extremists run things." Cohen: "When you cast your ballots in November, remember there's the Democrats, and then there's Marjorie Taylor Greene...and there's nothing in between."

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Oh, ****...this one just came out 3 days ago lol:

Some extra commentary on the announced retirement...

OK, I gotta watch the remake now lol 👍...

I will give you both of those lol...

How long did her previous trials last?... And how much is "enough" for someone who was sexually assaulted and then publicly smeared for years by the man who assaulted her, and continues to do so? I can't even slightly imagine what that would feel like. She went from winning $5 million to winning $83 million in mere months. Plus, whatever money she gets will most likely go to her family as well, especially when she's no longer with us...that just adds another motivation.

Dalton pushed a stuffed polar bear on a guy...then another guy threw a spear at Dalton right after that...nowhere in my mind would I have expected anyone, anywhere, to think a fight scene using spears and stuffed polar bears as weapons during the climactic fight scene(!!) would be seen as anything other than laughable lol...

Translation: "****, he's right." lol...

This apparently was uploaded to YouTube yesterday...it covers a lot of the same stuff I mentioned, plus a ton of other stuff lol...

Ooooh, good point lol...could net E. Jean Carroll another $50 Mil as well.

It speaks volumes to where we used to be...a peaceful transfer of power portrayed in a genuinely wholesome image (like you said). I may have to use that photo on Twitter lol...

"This is going to annoy Trump so expect another Truth Social rant." I may be in the minority, but causing Trump to post another Truth Social rant isn't much of a motivator for me to do something lol...

Are those Obama's daughters with the Bush daughters?

Hate to be that guy, but the part in bold is not true. What little video footage they had of any of the cheerleaders naked was a normal part of "behind the scenes" videotaping, and of course nudity never gets included in the behind-the-scenes clips in videos that go out to the public...and the cheerleaders usually know ahead of time that this videotaping will be occurring. What Snyder allegedly did, was request an edited compilation of the video that from all reports consisted a lot of close-ups of boobs and the groin area that were still clothed, not nude. And the close-ups were done in editing, not during the videotaping. I do think that whatever nude footage that happened to get filmed was also added to that compilation, and the cheerleaders had no idea a compilation video was being made...that's the part without their knowledge, not the videotaping itself. Nothing in their contract stated the footage of them would be used in that way (obviously lol). I'm a stickler on this because I have a ton of experience in this arena, except it's with photos during photo shoots and not video during videotaping.

Did Comer just say the "Merrick Garland impeachment"? lol...Did he already forget who they impeached?

Ok, final verdict: the original Road House was an incredibly stupid movie lol... Maybe if I first watched it when I was 15 I'd have loved it. But as an adult, it's dumb as ****. It went downhill from my last edit...holy hell, did it ever. I think I broke a record for the number of times I said "ffs." Nobody should care if there's a remake of this movie. What I liked: - Swayze's Dalton was pretty enjoyable to watch for the first 30 minutes. - A number of lesser characters did a good job acting (Red, the dude who rented the room to Dalton, a few others) - There were a number of memorable and quotable lines throughout the movie. - Sam Elliot's always clutch, no matter what movie he's in. What made it suck: - There was a fist fight about every 9 minutes lol...and NONE of them were riveting, exciting, or exhilarating. None were choreographed especially well. After like the fourth fight, it was almost boring to see yet another fight about to break out. They actually had one of the bad guys do a ****ing back flip onto the stage during one fight!! lol...I busted out laughing at that one, and not in a good way. And I didn't see anything about Dalton during these fights that was especially brutal or bad-ass or...well, anything. He didn't really do anything that set him apart as the best of the best or anything like that. Well, except for the throat thing lol...which was pretty dumb imo. And on that thought... - The movie had Dalton literally rip a guy's throat out lol!!...I busted out laughing and said out loud "He did NOT just rip that guy's throat out...no way" and the watched it again. I mean, I'm all for suspending disbelief, but it's pretty much impossible to rip someone's throat out...that comes across as a teenage boy's fantasy about fights, and much of this movie is firmly anchored in teenage boy fantasies. - The movie could have removed the doctor character completely and it would have improved the movie tremendously...she added zero to the storyline. Nothing, nada...just a contrived love story because conventional movie wisdom says the good looking protagonist must have a love interest. Would have preferred they replaced her scenes with more scenes of Sam Elliot's character. - Logic just got flushed down the toilet early, and it never came back lol...biggest example: after the main villain dude calls Dalton and tells him to pick which person dies, the doc or Dalton's friend, shortly after he hangs up on Dalton his friend comes into the bar bloody and beaten. So what does the movie have Dalton do? He says "I have to find the doc"...um, hello? Call her, you stupid ****!! lol...wouldn't it make far more sense to quickly call where she works and tell her about the threat to her life instead of trying to "find" her? But, oh, it gets worse lol...once he does find her, does he tell her that the villain dude threatened to kill her? Noooooo.....instead he says "Pack your things, we're out of here." Then--THEN--instead of maybe now telling her that her life is in danger and that's why they need to leave, Dalton just grabs her and starts forcing her to leave lol. THEN, instead of (again) telling her that someone threatened to kill her, he only says "The man is crazy." That's it. I mean, just ****ing tell her the villain dude said he's gonna kill her!! I dunno, maybe she'd leave with you, then? lol...Jeebus. - Speaking of which, why did Wade (I think that was his name) go to the bar after being beat up? Did they drop him off at the bar after beating him up? Plus, I thought Wade left town already. As well as, the villain dude just threatened to kill Wade...and Dalton, instead of keeping him close by and safe, tells Wade to stay at the empty bar...alone...and have a beer lol. Dude had been ****ed up badly by your enemies who said they may kill him...might be a good idea to take him with you when you're going to the hospital to find the doctor you're dating. Wade even wanted to go with him!! But no..."stay here and have a beer." A convenient way to move the plot along. I'm sorry, that's just lazy writing. - Seemed pretty much like the only reason any females were in the movie was to be eye candy. Yes, there was the waitress who more or less disappeared completely 30 minutes into the movie, and of course the doctor...but the overwhelming majority of the women in the movie didn't even have lines. After awhile, it felt as if this was just the director casting whatever woman he found attractive and shot scenes where they had to take off their tops. If I were 15 I probably wouldn't have cared lol...yay, boobies. But as a grown-ass adult it just came across as if these women really wanted to be in a movie and the director took advantage of that. It took me out of the movie. - I'm sorry, but Jeff Healey didn't need to be featured so much...or at all. - Everyone had a knife, nobody had a gun. Well, almost nobody...throatless dude had a gun that--for some reason--he decided not to use immediately after taking it out of his ankle holster. But during those first 97 fight scenes I kept thinking "You mean to tell me NONE of these guys carries a gun? Is this town in Vermont or something?" - Speaking of which (again lol), why the **** didn't they just kill Dalton? Could have picked him off easily at any time during the movie. Instead the villain dude blows up a business, blows up a house, destroys another business, then threatens to kill either Dalton's friend or Dalton's girlfriend--then follows through and kills his friend. They won't kill Dalton, but they'll kill his friend? WT actual F? I felt like Scott from Austin Powers telling Dr. Evil "I have a gun, in my room, you give me five seconds, I'll get it, I'll come back down here, BOOM, I'll blow Dalton's brains out!" lol...or maybe more like Saul Goodman in Breaking Bad: "Excuse me, fellas, but if a mosquito is buzzing around you, you don't go gunning for the mosquito's friend." I'm halfway tempted to watch the remake, but something tells me it won't be any better. I will say again, the first 30 minutes almost had me sold on it turning out to be a better than expected film. Didn't work out that way, though.