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  1. I would love weird asides like that about the other analysts. Something like "Hey, can you work on your lifestyle blog when this crisis has passed."
  2. Warner Bros and HBO agreed to let them go for money until 2025. https://www.techjunkie.com/best-place-watch-harry-potter/ https://deadline.com/2016/08/comcast-nbcuniversal-deal-warner-bros-jk-rowling-wizarding-world-1201800057/
  3. I wonder what the writing for Hawkeye would have been if they'd been able to get Jensen Ackles for the role. Unfortunately, Ackles, like almost every other young-ish white male actor auditioned for Captain America. Like Sebastian Stan, Ackles didn't get the part. They offered Stan the role of Bucky and Ackles the role of Hawkeye. Ackles refused because he wasn't willing to blow up Supernatural for less than Captain America. I suspect that Hawkeye might have been wildly different if Ackles had said yes. The writing is so bad in Iron Man 2 that it's hard to say that the performance is good or bad. It's also in that period where the antagonists were almost always evil mirror reflections of the hero. MCU Justin Hammer was MCU Tony Stark, but not a smart and fewer morals. I'm sure that Favreau and Theroux leaned into that characterization because Sam Rockwell was on the short list to play Tony Stark.
  4. I don't recall that episode, but Trinny and Susannah of the original "What Not to Wear" said that women often get stuck in the style and look of when they felt sexiest and most empowered. I've often found that to be true even with wealthy and/or somewhat famous people. This is definitely true in the case of a number of the Real Housewives. Tinsley Mortimer can't shake the ruffles, bows, and big blonde curls from when she was the socialite princess of Manhattan of the early aughts. Lisa Vanderpump is wedded to her satin pussy bow blouses no matter how dated they look. And Lisa Rinna loves her classic Rinna haircut.
  5. Running it? Because yes, this tiger would have done a vastly better job running that zoo than Joe did.
  6. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/krystieyandoli/ellen-degeneres-today-show-comments#comments My celebrity guests were enjoying themselves so I had no clue it was a toxic workplace. That's the biggest most tone deaf let them eat cake response I've seen in a long time.
  7. It has a very strange layout, which leaves it with shockingly few bedrooms, fairly small closets, bathrooms that take up half the floors, and an unfinished basement. It had 5 bedrooms, but one is the office/library across from the dining room. There's Quincy's floor (a bedroom with an ensuite bathroom and a separate bathroom that takes up half the floor) and Sonja's floor. The top floor has two bedrooms, a bathroom, kitchenette, and washer dryer. Sonja has frequently rented out the top floor. It also makes an ideal nanny or mother-in-law suite, but also leaves the house with 3 bedrooms only 2 of which are actually useable as bedrooms. The basement has full height ceilings, a fireplace, and the elevator goes all the way down, but the basement isn't finished and needs a bunch of work. The layout of house is kind of awful and the whole space needs to be rethought. Most of the real estate professionals who have commented on the place have said it isn't worth more than $7 million and honestly not worth much more than $6 million. She took out a $3 million mortgage on it to deal with the movie lawsuit. Selling doesn't leave her with much left over. Old Man Morgan owes her $3 million from the divorce. However, Sonja neglected to mention that she owes him $3.5 million from the divorce. If she sells that house, he'll absolutely come after his missing $500K. After taxes and fees from the sale, it's doubtful that she'll be left with the kind of money she needs to buy a nice apartment where she wants to buy. She'd need about $1.5 million to buy a decent size 2 bedroom apartment in her current neighborhood.
  8. Thomas has decided to metaphorically burn Patricia's house to the ground this weekend. He's been posting pictures of her many many many Blackamoor decor items and her Confederate flag themed Christmas tree.
  9. Lord knows Randall's toothbrush sure was. It's an insult to assholes to call Lala an asshole. Assholes are useful. Assholes are necessary. Lala is a hemorrhoid. Useless, unnecessary, painful, and sometimes expensive. That's what I found too. I think it's got to be a pseudonym for Hayes because she and Hayes were off and on for years. Hayes was PISSED when his name came up on the show. I think they just used a pseudonym rather than having to deal with Hayes sending a "Cyst and Decease," sue for defamation, and deal with any injunction from him trying to stop the release of the book.
  10. It's Bethenny so there was a lot of screaming and insults. She called Fredrik a liar and a snake who was trying to bleed her dry. It was an unnecessarily nasty way to deal with the conflicts they were having over budget issues.
  11. Trust and believe ALL of this foolishness will make its way into an upcoming season of American Horror Story or one of Ryan Murphy's other upcoming projects. This show is like Mommy Dearest crossed with The Devil Wears Prada crossed with Saw. Like I'm sincerely shocked at how many shots in the show look like they were ripped from a horror movie--the window shots especially. And if Bethenny thinks Ryan Murphy wouldn't do that because they're kind of friendly, she doesn't know him well enough to know that Murphy is happy to lampoon things he cares a lot about and savage things he despises. Who was looking at these dailies and saying "This is great stuff." This shit is fucking terrible and I keep hoping that oustered contestant who worked on diversity and workplace issues just storms the set and gets everyone, including Bethenny's actual staff, to quit and the remainder of the show is Bethenny trying to film a reality TV show by herself with no staff, no contestants, and Bethenny playing all the parts while muttering "Who needs them. Who needs anyone." to herself.
  12. I've been watching both shows less than legally for years. From the best of my recollection from reading something online around the time it aired, the couple renting the chateau were renting with the option to buy and the renovations were mostly confined to things that qualified for a French rebate or tax deduction program that covered nearly all of the cost of the renovation. I also feel think I recall them saying that the owner did cover some of the other renovation costs. My memory is a little hazy on this. I can't buy anything from Dick and Angela knowing what went down with Angela and Michael Petherick from ETTC: DIY. Michael and Angela had become friendly. He's also a very talented graphic designer. Angela went to Michael for help coming up with some prints in the narrow boat, camper, and some miscellaneous ones around the chateau. Michael designed many of those prints. A lot of the prints in that line started as projects in and around the chateau. At some point when Angela and Dick figured out that there was a market for those prints, she went to Michael and asked him to relinquish all monetary rights to the prints, but that she would acknowledge that he designed them. I think she said there was some issue with film rights to them; I don't believe she said she was selling products that used the prints. Michael relinquished his rights to the prints. Meanwhile, Michael and had family had been filming their 3rd season (I think) of ETTC: DIY. Once they finished filming and Michael signed over his rights, producers told them that their footage was being scrapped, they were being fired from the show, producers stopped talking to them, Angela and Dick stopped talking to them, and Angela and Dick started selling products with the prints Michael designed. Michael Petherick shouldn't have been so naive, but Angela and Dick did them dirty. I was pretty done with Dick and Angela after this went down. Michael and his family started YouTubing after being encouraged to do so by Stephanie Jarvis, also from ETTC: DIY. Stephanie has her own YouTube channel. I think the Pethericks are friendly with Jonathan and Michael also from ETTC: DIY too.
  13. Let me translate this out of Sonja bullshit into actual English--the factories in China that make the clothes that she buys shut down for an extended period because of covid quarantine measures. The closures cost a ton of money. Sonja is such a delusional fabulist. She's so deeply ashamed of coming across as less than a blue blood that she makes super strange decisions and says such weird shit.
  14. Why is Lala such garbage? Toothbrush in her ass. Gross. Also who is this Carter Hoffman dude? I've googled and I can't find him. I thought she was with Hayes Pullard. https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/pictures/lala-kent-book-biggest-bombshells-about-pump-rules-randall-emmett/the-breaking-point/
  15. Bethenny treated Fredrik pretty terribly during Bethenny & Fredrik. She insulted him and impugned his character. He said he'd never work with her in that capacity again. I think they took a prolonged break as friends, but seem to be friendly again. I suspect he might be hesitant to represent her in a real estate transaction.
  16. Her affect was strange. Her mannerisms and behavior were off. I'm not saying she did anything to the child, but there was enough off about her that I could understand why her mother-in-law might jump to that conclusion. I wouldn't be shocked to learn that she was on the spectrum, but not diagnosed and had absolutely no clue that she was presenting strangely to others.
  17. Bethenny dropping names like they're singles at a strip club. Chris Rock, Betty White, Donald Trump, Tamron Hall, Madonna, Lady Gaga, Dana White, Mark Cuban, Ryan Murphy, Jamie Siminoff.
  18. When this show was announced, I said it seemed like The Apprentice, but more narcissistic and less professional. I can't believe that turned out to be true.
  19. Gotti will always hold a special place in my heart for two reasons: 1. The Honest Trailer and Honest Trailer Commentary is hysterical 2. Gotti is actually a hilarious plot point on the reality show Vanderpump Rules on Bravo. One of the women on Vanderpump Rules was dating one of the producers of Gotti; she's now married to him and they have a kid. She and he went to Cannes for the Gotti premiere. After the film is laughed out of the film festival, she comes back to LA. She tries to explain why Gotti was received so poorly. What she comes up with is ridiculously stupid--Gotti got terrible reviews because movie critics don't like or understand movies about the mafia. A couple of the Vanderpump Rules cast clown that stupidity in their talking heads.
  20. I actually wanted his female team member to be his mother who had finally been released from prison. Then when he'd shoot her, it would be abundantly clear that he was a full on nihilist with no real larger plans for the betterment of others.
  21. Selling her Sonja by Sonja Morgan by AliExpress "collection" on walmart.com is akin to selling those clothes on the Amazon Marketplace or Ebay. Sonja would probably brag about selling Sonja by Sonja Morgan if she was selling her rags at an exclusive New York boutique even if she was only selling from a sidewalk in Chinatown on Canal Street.
  22. This episode is another in a long line of ridiculously hypocritical and cynical efforts to pathologize the same shameless famewhoring that Phil and his family are guilty of. This silly girl wants to be a famous singer. She's willing to perpetrate this Etta James nonsense if it will get her the fame and success she desires. For goodness sake, Lady Gaga was told she was too ugly to have a successful pop career. It's why she constantly slathered herself in weird shit just to get people to notice her. She doesn't cover herself in too much weird shit now. Lizzy Grant had to remake herself as Lana Del Rey. Britney Spears had to rock her sweet sexy virgin schtick for far too long. If anyone is dumb enough to think you might not need a gimmick to get people to pay attention to you in the music industry and Hollywood, then they aren't paying attention to literally everything they've seen from both industries for the past 100 years. This wasn't a real problem or topic.
  23. I don't want to take this too far afield, but that's not actually what happened. This is the incident with Lopez: https://www.12news.com/article/news/local/valley/friend-says-woman-targeted-by-george-lopez-was-not-a-heckler/75-405248056 There's a very long tradition of comedians dealing harshly with hecklers or perceived hecklers. The woman stood up in the middle of set and gave him a double middle finger. She was a heckler even if she doesn't consider herself to be one. So no, his reaction probably wasn't out of hand. Should he have been telling the joke? Maybe. Maybe not. One of the "rules" in comedy is that you can joke about taboo subjects as long as the punchline is NEVER the victim. In the Lopez joke, the punchline is actually about his racist grandmother. It's not Black people. It's the racist. That's wildly different from Piers Morgan. The reason Maher's joke doesn't work is because the punchline is the field slave and not the screwed up hierarchical systems in slavery. Maher has a long history of saying unfunny screwed up bigoted things under the guise of comedy. He also thinks he can get away with it because he's a "comedian" who has dated a couple of Black women. Back to Sharon, Sharon was an ignorant abusive ass. She has a history of being just fucking awful and CBS was complicit is enabling her abuse. The thing that caused her ouster is that she was the same old awful she's always been at exactly the wrong fucking moment. I don't feel bad for her. Additionally, Sharon was too dumb to figure out that CBS was actually giving her a moment longer than 140 characters to give a nuanced explanation of why she supports Pierce, but isn't a bigot. She whiffed it big time because she's an entitled bullying quarter wit. As to the rest of the people on the show, Amanda is a big old nothing. She adds little. Carrie Ann's health issues just make think she's being pressured to come in when she not up to it. I LOVE the idea of Brooke as a cohost. Ashleigh Banfield would be another great option, but she just got her own show and wants to be on the east coast. The ratings for her new show are abysmal so there's always the possibility that she might be free very soon. I actually don't mind keeping Carrie, Sheryl, and Elaine as the "anchors" and the 4th and 5th chairs for correspondents on any number of topics. ____________________ I know that Jared Padalecki is supposed to be on the show this week. I'd love it someone grilled him on how he managed to get so drunk and belligerent at HIS OWN BAR that the staff threw him out and called the cops on him.
  24. What little documentation exists for this $20 million transfer of funds seems to unequivocally state that it was a loan, despite the clear defects in those "loan" documents--like the absence of any terms, conditions, or repayment provisions.
  25. Whedon is an insufferable asshole and abusive bully, but Terrio has written one good movie and Snyder is the ultimate style over substance director. THIS! The 2017 movie would have always been a disaster even if Snyder had never left because WB wanted something that was under 2 hours, funny, and a lot less self-important. That was pretty much going to be impossible for Snyder to deliver. I don't think he's capable of that. It would have been a mess. Maybe not the strange and strained shambolic mess that the 2017 Snyder/Whedon Frankenstein was, but still a mess. I can figure out what Whedon was attempting to do. It's clear he thought it was important to see superheroes actually heroing. That's what the "just save one" and the Russian family were all about. These were all attempts to make the audience more invested in the characters and their mission. I don't think it worked, but I definitely miss some of the things he added and removed (ridiculously long Icelandic singing). While I know what Whedon was trying to do; I can't figure out Terrio and Snyder were trying to do. Snyder seemingly couldn't say no to any of his darling scenes so he left them all in and didn't bother to trim any of them down. It was indulgent and doesn't make for a compelling argument for why Snyder's and Terrio's should be the definitive version going forward. These two made two movies in a row where gods and archetypes battle over the fate of the planet and both times regular humans seem like an afterthought. The first and only unaffiliated humans (not police, soldiers, scientists, or future love interests) that we see anyone save in 2021 Justice League are the school kids Diana saves. Oops, Cyborg does some randoming heroing that I barely remember. None of the "heroes" feel like fully realized beings with real emotions, desires, and fears. Scratch that, I do know what Terrio and Snyder are doing; I just don't like it. I also have every confidence that if Snyder had turned in a 2 hour cut based on his footage, it would have been as ridiculous and cold as Batman v Superman.
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