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  1. Big No Muslim Mosques at Ground Zero energy in those racist tweets. If there's another 9/11 in NYC, that's Trump's fault since counter terrorism mostly falls on the federal level. The mayor of NYC can't control if a plane flies into a building. 

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  2. We'll see it when they have the Moana live action in 2026. A movie that's one of the most popular streams on Disney+ and barely 10 years old. 

    It's wild to me that these live action remakes are destroying the box office of their animated predecessors. Lilo & Stitch was only a modest hit for Disney back in 2002. 

  3. 27 minutes ago, Chuckie Finster said:


    Elemental would be considered a masterpiece if it came out during the early Pixar era. It’s a phenomenal movie that for some reason got absolutely zero publicity.

    I don’t necessarily think Pixar’s quality has dropped, but its marketing surely has.

    Elemental also suffered from bullshit culture wars over a character that was fractionally in the movie for maybe 30 seconds. When part of your audience is scared off by something that's a total non-factor, it can have an effect. But as we saw, it had legs. I don't think Elio does. They put it in the dumbest time after two live-action nostalgia fests. If it came out in a time with none of them and a decent marketing campaign, maybe it would've done better. But if it's a choice between a live-action remake of something that your family already likes vs. something that you don't know how it will be since it's an original story, that latter is bound to lose out when movie going is so expensive for a family and you can just wait for Disney+. 

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  4. 14 minutes ago, tokamak said:

    Maybe this movie sucks, I dunno, but unfortunately the lesson Disney will learn is that they need to greenlight Toy Story 6, 7, and 8 pronto.

    Elemental ended up making 496M worldwide and was a good story. If you look at the top grossing Pixar movies, the top 5 are all sequels.  Elio had 84% on Rotten Tomatoes and an A score on Cinemascore. 

  5. 26 minutes ago, Hellraiser97 said:

    She knows a lot of stuff outside of the Death Star plans.  It's a prison and prisons always have corruption.  Part of the manifesto is about how hard it is for the Empire to control everything.  It's a pointless risk to let her live, much less be around anyone else.

     

    Cassian had just said he was going to walk away when she left.  He had a right to know about the baby.

     

    Said it above, but it's just a pointless risk.  She knows a lot of stuff that isn't about the Death Star too.  As for her motivation, she's been burned by the Empire.  She feels she did nothing wrong.  That's all the more reason to snitch.

    Don't you think that if Dedra let on that she used to be ISB to anyone in that place that she would get thrown onto the red floor at some point? Don't you think if she spoke out of turn a loyalist guard might do the same to her? I feel like you're trying a little too hard to be annoyed at something. It was a choice Gilroy made because he wanted it to be her ending to the story. 

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  6. Does anything happen if a student breaks one of the commandments? Say he or she takes the Lord's name in vain or bears false witness or covets their classmate's wife? If I was a smart ass teen assigned to Saturday school for absences I would complain that doing so would violate the 3rd commandment of keeping the Sabbath day holy. 

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