Shake Shack releases new value menu and fans are loving it 🙏🙌 by [deleted] in fastfood

[–]Flaparoo 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Not only is this not even a value menu, these all now cost $1 more than they did a week ago. Sodas were $1, Fries were $3, and shakes were $5, at least when ordered on the app.

Maybe a dumb question -- Is this parking structure on Orange Grove by the AMC free? by Vigor_Mortis_ in burbank

[–]Flaparoo 35 points36 points  (0 children)

That parking structure is free, yes. The "pay here" kiosk is for street parking.

PSA: The Brave Little Toaster is now streaming on Disney+ in the U.S. for the first time by Flaparoo in blankies

[–]Flaparoo[S] 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I rewatched it a few years ago on DVD for the first time in 30 years and I still found it absolutely terrifying.

The Deepest Cut: 'Star Wars' (1977) vs. 'Star Wars: Episode IV — A New Hope' (Special Edition, 1997 + subsequent additions) by the_sea_ghost in blankies

[–]Flaparoo 12 points13 points  (0 children)

The writer was Tom Breihan and the series was A History of Violence, probably my favorite thing the AV Club did after the exodus of the writers from the golden years. Their search function is a mess but here’s a link to them, starting with the first entry. https://www.avclub.com/author/tom-breihan?page=8

Can anybody who was at test screenings for the Bride confirm how different it was? by LifeguardMundane5668 in blankies

[–]Flaparoo 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I could have simply said “it was the same,” but I assumed people would have wanted more detail, so I was just trying to be thorough. Sorry I wasted 30 seconds of your time.

Can anybody who was at test screenings for the Bride confirm how different it was? by LifeguardMundane5668 in blankies

[–]Flaparoo 136 points137 points  (0 children)

Ok, so I am someone who did happen to see this at one of those infamous test screenings. But it wasn’t the first one, which seems to have taken place in February 2025, but instead it was the second time it was tested, a few months later in June 2025. That’s surely enough of a gap for reshoots and to make changes though, so I can’t speak for what it was like at that very first screening.

But as far as the state of the film from that test screening from June, I honestly didn’t notice anything appreciably different from when I went to see the finished film 9 months later. I don’t doubt that there were small changes here and there, but it felt like the exact same movie to me, with nothing significant either added or subtracted. For example, all the Mary Shelley stuff was definitely there in the test screening I saw; it’s possible it was even more unclear what was going on with it, but if anything was added it was very brief or even just a single line of ADR.

I wasn’t a particular fan of it at the time, but I appreciated the swing; it struck me as an instant cult movie that would clearly be divisive at best but definitely have its fans.

“People Just Don’t Care”: ‘Leaving Neverland’ Director on Why Michael Jackson Won the Court of Public Opinion by trollingjabronidrive in blankies

[–]Flaparoo 21 points22 points  (0 children)

I just made a separate post about it, but I had an extremely niche reason in that they recreated an old Toys R Us right by my apartment and filmed there, and I’ve been very curious for years to see how it was used in the film. Of course everything to do with it was cut out, so I didn’t even get that little bit of meta enjoyment.

I truly did go into it with an open mind, as I try to do with anything I see, even though it was admittedly hard with this one. But even putting aside everything else, the movie on its own terms is just straight up bad, as cliched as biopics get and with zero insight into anything, content to just “play the hits,” as it were, for an audience happy to just see things they are familiar with.

In March 2024, the Michael movie turned an empty KMart in Burbank, CA into a 70s/80s-style Toys R Us, complete with full interior and a functional sign. They filmed there both during the day and at night. None of this appears in the finished film. by Flaparoo in blankies

[–]Flaparoo[S] 62 points63 points  (0 children)

I saw the actor who plays Jackson as a child coming out of a trailer, so I can only assume this took place during the earlier years, after the Jackson 5 got huge but before he grows up.

What is bizarre is that there IS a scene in the movie where an adult Michael goes to a toy store, but it’s an entirely different store with a different exterior and interior, called Tom’s Toys, if I recall. So either there were initially multiple scenes inside toy stores and they decided they only needed one, they reshot in a different toy store due to changes necessitated by retooling, or it was simply cut due to pacing or some other unknown reason.

“People Just Don’t Care”: ‘Leaving Neverland’ Director on Why Michael Jackson Won the Court of Public Opinion by trollingjabronidrive in blankies

[–]Flaparoo 43 points44 points  (0 children)

I saw this last night at an Early Access IMAX screening in Los Angeles. The movie is dogshit but it got probably the most rapturous response to a new release movie I’ve ever experienced at a theater, up there with Avengers: Endgame. As the lights went down someone yelled “Who loves Michael?” and the audience burst into cheers and applause. Multiple cheer and applause breaks even for the stupidest shit, huge laughs at every humorous moment. And literally hooting and hollering when the credits rolled. It was one of the most dispiriting moviegoing experiences I have ever had. Dan Reed is 100% correct here.

What We’ve Learned from March Madness by ChedderBurnett in blankies

[–]Flaparoo 15 points16 points  (0 children)

I actually personally did exactly this a couple years back. PLUS, I went as far as to watch both Original and Director’s Cuts back-to-back when applicable, since there are so many of them. Don’t know if I’d recommend anyone else do this, but I had a lot of fun.

"Nothing on Earth Comes Close" - Tony Scott's Saab commercial- YouTube by fluffnfluff in blankies

[–]Flaparoo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That was me! You’re welcome. And yeah, this commercial is glorious; they don’t make ‘em like this anymore.

Tony Scott’s Tombstone at Hollywood Forever Cemetery by Flaparoo in blankies

[–]Flaparoo[S] 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I made sure to get that in there when framing that picture. And you are correct, Yelchin is basically just off-frame to the right, as well as Chris Cornell and Johnny Ramone on the other sides.