Urdnot Fire posted:

That’s actually why RFK Jr. found out about his brain worm.

Redezga posted:

Half the time people talked about the Fall Guy my eyes would just quickly scan whatever was being written and I thought people were talking about The Nice Guys which also starred Ryan Gosling. Now I know what it feels like to be one of those people that didn't buy a WiiU for the same reason.

Some Guy TT posted:

If you catch yourself laughing at something Bill Maher has said lately on HBO's "Real Time," his Friday night perch for the past 21 years, just be careful: next time, the joke could be on you. No one is spared Maher's humor, or as he sees it, truth-telling – not the right ("If you're gonna turn over your party to a foreign power, at least pick the right one. Russia? Are you kidding? It's like the Republicans looked over all the companies they could merge with and picked Sears!"), nor the left ("You call yourself the resistance? Then fight behind enemy lines. That's what a 'resistance' does. That's the difference between blowing up a tank and tweeting about it. Get out of your echo chamber and infiltrate theirs!").

Asked if you can make an audience laugh and think at the same time, Maher replied, "Totally, of course. The great thing about laughter is that it's involuntary, so if you laugh at something, something in you tells you that's true. It must be true; I laughed at it! Maybe I wasn't supposed to."

He said the throughline for everything he writes and says is, "Keep it real. Don't be tribal. Don't say something just because that's going to make the audience of one side applaud, or boo. Practical solutions as opposed to ideological. And don't pull a punch."

The 68-year-old Maher has been swinging at targets high and low his entire career, taking his own share of knocks along the way. But he still gladly courts controversy, as when he told the "Real Time" audience, "The right response to speech you don't like is more speech, not the lazy, cowardly response of 'canceling' people."

That attitude explains the title of his new book, "What This Comedian Said Will Shock You" (to be published May 21 by Simon & Schuster). It's compiled from years of Maher's commentaries on "Real Time."

"I wanted to see if the world had changed or I had changed more," he said. "I was excavating, reading over all these editorials from years and years and years, and I wanted to find that answer. I speak for the normies. You know, I speak from that, I think, vast middle that is tired of the partisanship. I don't want to hate half the country, and I don't hate half the country."

Costa said, "You write a lot throughout this book that the left irritates you, frustrates you at times, but the right often alarms you?"

"Yes, they're very alarming!" Maher replied. "They're extremely alarming. More alarming."

But if he finds the right more alarming than the left, why not shine the spotlight on them only? "The truth isn't one-sided like that," Maher said. "The Democrats constantly are running against Trump with the idea, You people out there couldn't possibly vote for this guy. And people are saying, Watch me. Hold my beer. Watch me to vote for him again. Instead of just saying, Oh, he's lied. Like, we know he's a liar. He's Donald Trump! He can't help himself. He's crazy. I mean, I think literally crazy. I think there's a kind of a level of malignant narcissism, which is not just a personality quirk, it's diagnosable, and he suffers from it."

Costa asked, "If you had him on 'Real Time,' what would you ask him?"

"Would you please go away?" Maher laughed.

He said that Trump has been invited to be on the show: "Of course, we've asked everybody, I mean, of that stature. He knows he has an open invitation to come on, but I don't think he really hates me, because the amount of times that he goes after me."

"He watches the show," said Costa.

"Accidentally! It's always accidentally," Maher said. "He watches it 'accidentally' every week. It's amazing!"

In fact, conservatives don't shy away from "Real Time." Trump's Attorney General William Barr was a guest last year. Maher said the reaction from liberal circles "was exactly what I hate about this country: How dare you? How dare you platform somebody?

"So, you're going to have to talk to people, and maybe you'll find out that they're not the monsters you think they are. I mean, do I apologize for Bill Barr's (I thought) horrible behavior when the Mueller Report came out and he basically lied about it? I don't. But look, this is what I call a good-as-it-gets Republican. He came out and said Trump lost the election. That's the main thing in the Republican Party right now: Do you believe elections count only if you win?

"As good as it gets" could well be Maher's motto for politics, and for life – not wishing for what could be, but recognizing what he sees is real (and taking you on if you're not).

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But look, this is what I call a good-as-it-gets Republican.

the milk machine posted:

i watched this series called Action where they follow stunt people and show them planning and doing stunts for Fall Guy. apparently it's based on an 80s tv show starring lee majors? they also showed people doing fight stunt stuff for Violent Night, a movie where david harbor plays santa clause and he has to hand to hand fight some henchmen or something

anyway the Action series was ok, it's neat seeing how they plan fights and stunts and stuff but there's too much "wow being a stunt person is really hard, i have to be away from my family" for like 15 minutes per ep.

it didn't really make me want to watch Violent Night or Fall Guy but maybe i will. quandaries

Fighting Elegy posted:

I don't know whats up with remakes. I watched Presumed Innocent last night and its a stinker and then right after finishing I saw there was a prestige TV adaptation with Jake Gyllenhall.

I just can't imagine what its like to be an executive, watch some 90s movie that is mediocre or worse and being like "I got an idea".

Justin Tyme posted:

Lol that the article questions if Gosling has the star power to headline a movie and not if the movie just has a stupid premise no one cares about

For a hit Gosling has to be a himbo, robot, weird guy, pick two

Pepe Silvia Browne posted:

i was reading the wiki article for it after checking out Unfrosted and I like how the company had ordered and tested a Spicy Cheeto mix before the guy ever worked for the company

indigi posted:

remaking misses makes a lot more sense than hits to me. remake Conan, bad, stupid, can't replicate any of the magic on any level. remake Red Sonja? ok there's a decent kernel of an idea there and there's no bar to clear

Redezga posted:

I felt really positively about The Emoji Movie when I watched it, but I was also reading a lot of Sherry Turkle books at the time so I was all on board with the idea of personifying computer stuff.

AnimeIsTrash posted:

Pakistan also has several for the different ethnicities that make up the country.

Nichael posted:

https://x.com/Variety/status/1789008434035359866

Some Guy TT posted:

netflix has been scooping up a lot of random shows lately i strongly suspect somebody over there finally crunched the numbers and realized they make way more money off of licensing stuff other people already made than they do on production

insane clown pussy posted:

a remake of the literal charlie sheen vehicle the wraith but this time he turns into a cybertruck that terrorizes horny teenagers by just operating normally

Nichael posted:

Nichael posted:

indigi posted:

remaking misses makes a lot more sense than hits to me. remake Conan, bad, stupid, can't replicate any of the magic on any level. remake Red Sonja? ok there's a decent kernel of an idea there and there's no bar to clear

tristeham posted:

the fail guy

Some Guy TT posted: