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SeanC

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  1. SeanC

    Priscilla

    No, the difference is that in the 1980s the Presley family (i.e., Priscilla) still controlled Elvis Presley Enterprises, whereas now they have only a small minority stake, so this is a bunch of businessmen with no personal connection to Elvis issuing these statements.
  2. https://barrie.ctvnews.ca/figure-skating-olympian-from-barrie-ont-identified-as-new-mom-killed-in-melancthon-crash-1.6534881 Rest in peace, Alexandra Paul. Fortunately her son survived the impact.
  3. How is it her fault they’re both interested in her?
  4. I do not understand why some people think Belly should immediately know which of them she prefers, especially since the circumstances are constantly fluctuating as well. It's not her fault that both of them are interested in her and she likes both of them. Huh? He said he'd see them then because he's focusing on the move out to California (which seems like it's happening pretty rapidly, incidentally, but whatever).
  5. She's not "playing with people's feelings". She has feelings for both of them, and they change depending on the circumstances, obviously including how they act toward her. She did actively choose Conrad, then that ended, and now they're both very obviously broadcasting their interest in her again. I have never understood why so many people act like she is the only one who has agency in this. Huh? Steven has never dated Taylor previously.
  6. Julia, from what we’ve seen, doesn’t like Cousins Beach. She seems to associate it primarily with unhappy family times, given that they’re estranged.
  7. That's two episodes in a row that deploy a fairly modest hangout premise to fill out the hour. I like that whole vibe. I like getting Jeremiah's POV (also, heh, the clips from last season highlight how much some of the actors have changed in a fairly short time).
  8. Waller will be plotting dire revenge for being addressed as "Mandy".
  9. I quite liked the group dynamics in this, a lot of streaming-era productions don't have room for this sort of loose hangout vibe.
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    Barbie (2023)

    Why is that a surprise? By basically all accounts there is a massive difference in artistry and quality between the two, and Gerwig is one of the most acclaimed young(ish) auteurs of the past decade.
  11. SeanC

    Barbie (2023)

    It is in the modern parlance, since there are no classic double features anymore.
  12. Not being familiar with the source material, I'm surprised that Susannah died already.
  13. With the reference to them being half-siblings, based on their relative ages, I'd say that their father ditched Julia's mother for Susannah's, hence them not being close at all. Not if it was held in joint tenancy (presumably left to them as such by the aforementioned father). In that case, whichever of the sisters outlived the other would inherit the whole thing. That seems rather unfair to me, particularly given that she is the youngest person involved in this triangle and has the least relationship experience. She's not playing with anyone, she has feelings for both of them and circumstances (including the boys' own actions) have made it a messy situation.
  14. Two episodes, two Olivia Rodrigo needle drops.
  15. SeanC

    Napoleon (2023)

    Napoleon was not actually short, he was of average height for the period. The notion that he was tiny was a caricature created by British cartoonists during the Napoleonic Wars that has stuck around ever since.
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    Barbie (2023)

    I don't see any similarities between this and the marketing for The Flash; the latter never generated much actual excitement anywhere.
  17. As Ethan said, he wanted to investigate what Kittridge and the rest of the intelligence bosses were talking about with respect to the key, as at that point he knew very little about what was going on. Also explained (speculated, but it's logical enough) by Luther: the Entity wants to make sure that if Ethan defeats Gabriel, he will kill him, which will prevent Gabriel from potentially disclosing any of the secrets that he knows.
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    Napoleon (2023)

    That is a famous, if oft-contested, anecdote from the Battle of Austerlitz (also called the Battle of the Three Emperors), where Napoleon defeated the larger combined armies of the Russian Tsar and the Emperor of Austria. Typically considered his masterpiece battle.
  19. SeanC

    Napoleon (2023)

    Sir Ridley Scott is somehow still able to get studios to give him enormous sums to fund historical epics despite audiences having mostly (sadly) deserted that genre in the past decade or so. We should all be thankful for his salesmanship.
  20. I was eager to see this, though also approached with some trepidation, since this has probably been the most lauded film of the first half of 2023, so it'd be disappointing if I didn't like it. Not a problem, as it turned out. I thought this was some beautiful filmmaking. And I appreciate that Song, unlike a lot of Canadian directors who head south for their careers, keeps some of the CanCon in her work.
  21. Disney and Lucasfilm were apparently under the impression that they had a Mad Max: Fury Road-style critical smash blockbuster on their hands, which was a major misjudgment based on the response at Cannes; but that is not to say that Dial of Destiny is bad. I enjoyed it, and you could make the case for it against at least one prior entry. Fans of the series will probably find a lot to enjoy here as well. Notably, Phoebe Waller-Bridge's Helena is the best foil Dr. Jones has had since Karen Allen in the original Raiders of the Lost Ark. The story is overall well-paced, makes good use of its 1969 setting, and, unusually for the sort of legacy sequel that has become very familiar over the past ten years or so it is not suffocated in callbacks to previous films. At the same time, the obvious must be stated: James Mangold is not Steven Spielberg, and this is noticeable, in particular, any time the action starts to rev up. Mangold is a very good director in his own right, a better director than (say) any of the people who have been tasked with keeping the Terminator franchise running after James Cameron, and he has made at least a few films that I would rate higher than at least half of Spielberg's Indiana Jones films. But you still miss Spielberg's camera, and the digital look that already started in Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is obviously even more pronounced here. All that said, when assessing this series as a whole: Raiders of the Lost Ark was cinematic lightning in a bottle, a true classic. Every subsequent entry, setting aside nostalgia goggles, has not approached that level. Dial of Destiny is not a great film, but I think it sits comfortably enough in the canon and serves as an amiable ending for Indy. Say a 3.5 out of 5, probably a shade generous, but good fun.
  22. I was surprised to discover there wasn't already a thread about this. I'd have assumed I had created one back when the trailer came out. The midcentury Americana setting (plus some prominent teen characters) reminds me a bit of Moonrise Kingdom, which isn't a bad thing at all since that's one of the best films of the 2010s. In this case, the theme seems to be a lot of emphasis on the search for meaning/answers in life, so we're getting a bit existential here, as well as Anderson's using framing devices to create layers of storytelling (as he's done before, most notably in The Grand Budapest Hotel). Among returning members of Wes' company of players, Jason Schwartzman gets his first true lead role from Anderson since Rushmore launched his career, albeit with a very different sort of character. Jeffrey Wright also has a lot of fun with a more purely silly supporting role in comparison to The French Dispatch. Newcomers to Wes World include a very charming Maya Hawke and America's dad, Tom Hanks, who fits in really well in a very slightly atypical sort of casting for him.
  23. This is a clip of Corenswet (from the Ryan Murphy alternate history series Hollywood from a couple of years ago) that people have been circulating since the casting rumours started:
  24. I hope this means we're getting a His Girl Friday-style Lois Lane, based on that casting.
  25. No, it only applies in the MCU main timeline.
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