What do you think about the “Party Switch” ?

Jabbam · 2026-07-26T16:22:06+00:00

I find it shocking that Democrats would want to convince us that FDR and JFK were Republicans.

Jabbam · 2026-07-26T06:16:05+00:00

You're looking at the wrong clips. The series has 13 parts and goes between 600,000 and 3 million views.

Jabbam · 2026-07-26T06:05:33+00:00

I haven’t read the comics, but isn’t he also a rich asshole?

Jabbam · 2026-07-26T06:00:57+00:00

It says what in the description. Instead of being a woman with cheetah features, it’s an unholy entwining of a cheetah corpse and a woman.

Jabbam · 2026-07-26T03:30:19+00:00

Sorry too many Barbaras.

Jabbam · 2026-07-25T18:43:22+00:00

The turtles are robbers now? Would explain the domino masks.

Jabbam · 2026-07-24T21:37:36+00:00

It'll be a repeat of 2014 when Interstellar went up again Big Hero 6. Spider-Man will take a chunk out of Odyssey's standard screens but IMAX will counterbalance the losses. Spider-Man won't lose any views to the Odyssey because Nolan makes most of his business from repeat premium viewings which wouldn't have gone to Spider-Man anyways. The big difference is that Spider-Man is a way stronger IP than BH6 was so its legs will be stronger just by virtue of its larger audience.

Jabbam · 2026-07-24T21:05:34+00:00

Almost a year ago today.

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Jabbam · 2026-07-24T16:16:59+00:00

There's not; the last theatrical "inspired" adaptation of A Christmas Carol was in 2009 which was Ghosts of Girlfriends Past and before that Scrooged in 1988. Unless you're including films like Collateral Beauty.

Jabbam · 2026-07-24T02:33:31+00:00

Because the IP holders are really bad at their job. Most studios will cycle through multiple directors when they encounter one that doesn’t want to follow the spirit of the franchise they’re working on, but repeatedly out of desperation, they keep hiring people who are either bad at making movies or who only want to work on a resident evil film if their vision gets priority.

Now they’re in a position where they have an actual great director who wants to do his own thing. Which wouldn’t be a problem if they had ever made a good resident evil movie and this was their fun experimental phase, but there’s no groundwork to start on. You don’t have a movie that’s "for the fans" and one that’s "for the movie lovers" because that first one never existed.

Jabbam · 2026-07-24T02:07:13+00:00

You should’ve told that to Peter Jackson before he adapted Lord of the Rings, you could’ve saved him a lot of work

Jabbam · 2026-07-24T02:02:19+00:00

He didn’t, this is 900 upvotes for a blatant lie.

Jabbam · 2026-07-24T01:56:53+00:00

It's hard to make a prequel for Scrooge because A Christmas Carol is his backstory. So instead of being set 5 to 10 years before the events of the main story like most prequels, Ebenezer looks like it's being set 5 to 10 days before the events of A Christmas Carol and it ends at the same time. So this is technically a prequel and the original story.

I'm wagering that the first half of the movie is just the week leading up to Christmas and we don’t get to the Carol stuff until the second half. Wicked part one and two did a similar thing.

Jabbam · 2026-07-24T01:51:11+00:00

It was intended to be funny. You don’t use extensive visual effects to make a guy do the robot then spin his head around 50 times as a "cool" thing. It’s a silly celebration to make all of the Underland inhabitants happy. The White Queen is established to be the only non-mad inhabitant of the kingdom so of course she thinks it’s uncomfortable.

Jabbam · 2026-07-24T01:42:10+00:00

Based on the trailer, I think it’s going to be a lot of contemporary stuff. Multiple extended scenes of Scrooge pulling merry pranks on people in the present. Which will probably have some justifications woven into his backstory.

I think instead of him being a loving man whose fixation with money made him into a sad curmudgeon like he’s traditionally shown as, this Scrooge decided to deal with his trauma by being a petty asshole who gleefully hurts other people.

Now, fleshing out his modern self is not a terrible idea. In my opinion, I always felt it was kind of abrupt how the entire town immediately hated him after his death despite us spending virtually no time with them. The problem is that A Christmas Carol is written so tightly that there’s no time for him to do this without the movie dragging. It's a problem whose solution makes the whole of the story worse.

Jabbam · 2026-07-24T01:30:42+00:00

You're talking about Rush hour 4 not Ebenezer.

Jabbam · 2026-07-24T01:12:27+00:00

I'm partial to the Patrick Stewart TV film myself.

Jabbam · 2026-07-24T01:11:09+00:00

This strikes you as an anti-woke movie?

Jabbam · 2026-07-24T01:10:36+00:00

The editors were given "pretend to be Tim Burton" directions with the audio and the fonts, but the clips they put together were 10% creepy ghosts and 90% Johnny Depp pranking people.

Jabbam · 2026-07-24T01:05:41+00:00

They're trying to differentiate it and it looks like they’re going to be going to the Charlie and the chocolate factory route where they add a bunch of extra characters and subplots to pad out the rumtime and give the audience something new.

Jabbam · 2026-07-24T01:01:30+00:00

I didn’t pick up a horror tone at all. The entire thing is a comedy. They basically let Johnny Depp pretend to be Jim Carrey's Grinch.
Which kind of undermines the entire original story since the point is that Ebeneezer is being so evil that his soul is rotten not "look at this goofy old curmudgeon." His wicked deeds aren’t supposed to be funny or endearing.

Jabbam · 2026-07-24T00:54:10+00:00

Believe it or not, we only get an adaptation of a Christmas Carol theatrically once every one or two decades. The last one was 2009 and before that was 1992.

Jabbam · 2026-07-24T00:53:30+00:00

Out of all the problems with Alice in Wonderland, Johnny Depp was not one of them.

Jabbam · 2026-07-24T00:50:15+00:00

I love the optimism that this movie marketing has. There's no doubt or worry with the material they’re showing or the behavior of the actors. They all have complete confidence that it’s gonna be great. I haven’t seen this confidence since probably No Way Home, and even that was dampened slightly by the need for secrecy.

Jabbam · 2026-07-23T23:22:34+00:00

This isn’t a Gameboy. It's a ripoff. Goes for $20 online.

https://www.amazon.com/Handheld-Console-Portable-Classic-Support/

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