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  1. 36 minutes ago, Fastbreak said:

    I think Micheal Dell expected a bit more love for giving 6.2 billion dollars for Trump bucks.

    When I saw this photo

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    This is all I could think of.

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  2. 6 hours ago, Duane Moore said:

    I first read IT in an original hard copy when it came out in the 80’s, have read it cover to cover three times, loved the Tim Curry TV version, the 2017 movie, and even enjoyed the second chapter which wasn’t as good. I even read 1963 because I heard there was a Derry scene in it with a couple of the kids from the Loser’s Club. On vacation in Maine I made sure we hit Bangor and went to the Standpipe, Paul Bunyan, the Public Library, all the landmarks from the book. 
     

    I say all that to say that to establish my bona fides when I say that this show sucks.


     

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    The first episode broke canon with IT being a car full of people driving on the highway and it seems like this is taking place during the Kennedy Administration, which would be several years after the book’s cycle from the late 50’s took place. Then we have the revolting pickle man scene in the grocery store, and the girl with her eyes bugging out staggering all over the school like a scene from Evil Dead 2 that veers into comedy.  
     

    The Army looking to make IT a weapon is a tired trope and the “Aliens” ripoff episode where they send a squad into the house on Niebolt Street was ridiculous.  The Native American characters and storylines seem like they are stereotypes taken from a Billy Jack movie in the 1970’s.  I’m waiting for Chief Dan George or Iron Eyes Cody to show up.  The kids in this show are terrible actors with none of the likeability of the kids from previous screen representations. I keep telling myself I’m done with it, but I may keep watching just to see how bad it can get  

     

     

    Totally agree, with one note - I think they are using a timeline based on the later It movies, not the book. I was confused by this, too, and that's the only thing that makes sense. In the recent movies, they're kids are in the 1980s, not the 50s, so the series taking place in the 60s lines up.

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  3. I'll finish out the season because I'm a glutton for punishment, and I want to see how the fire at the nightclub goes down, but this show is so dumb. Spoilers below for this show and for the original novel.

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    OF FUCKING COURSE Matty was a projection of It, and of course Phil was dead.

    Looks like I was wrong about Madeleine Stowe being a figure of Lilly's imagination - I guess now they're making her a younger version of the Mrs. Kersh that Bev visits as an adult, who turns out to be a projection of It. So I guess It was basing her on an actual person.

    The whole military storyline and the Native backstory both don't make sense. If you could bury some items around a perimeter and create a "cage" of sorts to contain It, why would you make the boundary so huge? Maybe you don't want to risk getting close to It, but over the hundreds of years since the boundary was created, you couldn't creep them in closer and closer? Especially since It apparently can't get within a few feet of the shards? And anyway, how exactly does the military think they can use It as a weapon, even if it can get to all the shards?


    Y'all know I love horror and I can suspend a lot of disbelief, but this show isn't working for me. 

  4. On 11/7/2025 at 4:46 AM, UpperWestside said:

    For those wondering, yes Jennifer Lawrence is naked several times in the movie. This is a heavy movie emotionally and it deals with mental illness. I just went to see it tonight and it is complex in how it portrays Lawrence's character and her illness. Watching somebody you love slowly detach from reality is hard.

    Is it worth it to see it in theaters? I'd like to, but there are limited showtimes here so I may wait for streaming.

  5. Really darkly satirical, fun movie that shows off the two leads - I hope Olivia Colman and Benedict Cumberbatch do more things together. The screenplay is razor sharp. I'd like to see it get an Oscar nomination. It's the writer who did the screenplay for both The Favourite and Poor Things.

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  6. I hope they move the plot forward more this week, at least around the motivations of the hive and what their end goals and real power are. They say they won't kill anything, and she can kill 11 million in one pop just by getting mad? And they'll give her anything she wants at any time? If that's me and all my family and friends are gone, just move me to my own island, keep the fridge and pantry stocked, let me order all the books and movies I want and I'm set. They can do all the world domination they want and I wouldn't get in the way. I'm just confused as to what the end game could be.

  7. On 8/2/2022 at 8:34 AM, BehoId, The Underminer! said:

    A tweet I think about regularly from I believe Drew Magary the day he died. “Is there a way to put flags at one and a half mast?”

     

    On 10/15/2025 at 1:28 PM, futureman said:

    should I know who Lee Pace is?

     

    On 10/15/2025 at 3:11 PM, utee94 said:

    Thranduil the Elven King in The Hobbit movies

    Ronan The Accuser in Marvel's Avengers movies

    Joe MacMillan, an OG 80s Tech Bro, on AMC's Halt and Catch Fire

    Brother Day of Empire, in Apple's adaptation of Isaac Asimov's Foundation

    The Hobbit: Let's talk about Lee Pace's Battle-Moose – Metro US

     

    On 10/16/2025 at 4:20 PM, Captain Ron said:

    Should you? yes.

    Do you? Probably not because he likes to fly under the radar

     

    Everything @utee94 said, plus I was thinking Pushing Daisies and The Fall.

     

    I knew him from Pushing Daisies, which was one of the most underrated tv shows ever, as well as Bodies Bodies Bodies, which was a great indie horror movie.

    Saw this today and it was fine; it's just hard for me to see Glenn Powell as "the angriest man ever". Plus,

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    the ending was nuts and a big deviation from the book, for better or worse.

    I will watch Colman Domingo in anything, though, and Edgar Wright makes a great action movie, even if the content isn't perfect. I'd recommend it for streaming if you're on the fence about seeing in it the theater.

  8. 4 hours ago, futureman said:

    you’ll wanna read the book first.  it’s basically a short story though so you can knock that out quick.  then I’d do the tv miniseries, then the movies, then the current show. 

     

    4 hours ago, Cousin Strawberry said:

    Isn't it like 1500 pages?

    Lol it's his second-longest book at around 1200 pages. And it's only second to the uncut version of The Stand, not the original version. 

    On 10/31/2025 at 9:25 PM, Cousin Strawberry said:

    I am not a devoted King book fan but the calumet baking powder was an obvious nod to The Shining.  Are IT and the darkness that controlled the Overlook Hotel related in some way? I know that King has a universe and it's all related but is there confirmable relation?  Both forces seem to be able to alter reality to their advantage; Pennywise to create fear in his victims and Overlook to drive them mad and murderous.

    IIRC, Dick is mentioned briefly in the book when they discuss the Black Spot (the nightclub that burns down).

    I'm still not a huge fan of this show but I'll give it another episode or so.

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    The military storyline is getting dumber and dumber. Are they actually leading up to the military thinking they can trap IT and harness it? And also, they think Hanlon is immune to fear, and they decide to test for that by seeing if he can beat up three guys they send in to attack him? And why the fuck would Masters confess to it if he didn't do it? The whole thing is so weird.

     

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  9. On 10/25/2025 at 2:37 PM, wutang75 said:


    This is a favorite after multiple viewings through the years.

    Always a fun family discussion around the witches broom as a phallic symbol and it representing Thomasin’s sexual liberation at the end of the movie.

    Also - Black Phillip is creepy af.

    Black Philip is indeed creepy af. But honestly, all goats are creepy af with their rectangular pupils.

    On 10/26/2025 at 1:56 PM, BurgleBro said:

    Watched Clown In a Cornfield on TLDI Friday night.  Was pretty good. 

     

    My 13-yo and I saw this in the theater and liked it a lot. A horror masterpiece it is not, but it's fun for what it is. Sometimes you just want dumb fun movies. We both couldn't stop laughing at the scene with the rotary phone.

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  10. 7 hours ago, Rip76 said:

    WOW!

    700'.  F That.

     

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    IDK how these motherfuckers just fly into hurricanes. I have to pop a Xanax for a short flight on a sunny day.

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  11. 15 minutes ago, Buzzrock said:
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    Are they all dead or did they get taken down to the sewers? I mean I know one is missing most of an arm…

    I’ve been watching a lot of horror this month and that was right up there with what I’ve seen. 

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    The Vulture review mentioned that the showrunners weren't allowed to release the main cast list, so I think they're actually gone. They'll probably pop up in the sewer or through someone's bathroom drain at some point, as one does.

     

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  12. Didn't love it, but it's a pilot so I'll definitely give it a few more episodes, especially because of

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    The bait-and-switch at the end. I was kind of rolling my eyes at how they kept hitting the exact same notes as the book and movies, but then I realized why.

    I'm not super interested in the military storyline, but ok. Let's see what happens. I'm much more interested in the Hanlon family story and I hope they go into what happens at the nightclub. I'll spoiler this next thing just in case, but it's something interesting I noticed in IMDB.

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    Dick Halloran is listed as a character - I think he was driving the Jeep when Hanlon and his friend first show up, but I don't think he has any lines in the first episode.

     

  13. 2 hours ago, field said:

    We stayed at the Grand Minerva and it was nice.  Not Four Seasons nice but nice enough.   Good location to walk to everything.  Rooftop bar has cool views of the Duomo and the city.  Second 4 Leoni rec.  We also liked 13 Gobbi, a cool little trattoria.  To be honest, though, not sure Firenze is a get away from touristy stuff if that's your goal?  Of course I've never been there in December, so maybe I'm off on that.   

    Really, the goal is to get away from everyone else for a bit. If y'all have recs for other places to visit close to Rome, I'm all ears!

  14. We'll be in Rome in December with our kids, my in-laws, and @HornOnTheBayou's sisters. We'd like to get away one night on our own, maybe to Firenze. Is there a good quick overnight trip for us to take by train, where we can chill and drink good wine and food without the kids or the rest of the family. And take a break from the full-on touristy stuff the rest of the family wants to do. I speak about an intermediate level of Italian so regions where very little English is spoken would be ok.

    Any recs for places to stay and places to eat/things to see?

  15. On 10/19/2025 at 3:55 PM, billfromlaketravis said:

    They should retire the Domingo sketch, but they probably won’t because of the YouTube views. I think the episode was mostly fine. Sabrina Carpenter dancing around in her panties didn’t hurt. 

    Snacks Homiez was really funny. Even Wickline was good. 

     

    22 hours ago, A-Tex Devil said:

    This. If you have kids that age it was a dead on impression of how 12 yo boys talk to each other outside the (likely intentional) exclusion of “six-seveennn”. 

    All this. I loled when they called that kid unc.

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  16. On 10/18/2025 at 11:13 AM, Slacks said:

    Is there an afternoon dove hunt? 

    The day of the wedding, I actually had a conversation with someone about the dove hunt they'd gone on the day before. 😂

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