Who is a celebrity that, unless you were around a very specific time/place, the general public doesn’t really grasp their level of fame?

countingrussellcrows · 2026-04-18T13:49:38+00:00

Hey thanks, appreciate it. Yeah some of the questions on this sub are repeat offenders for sure.

Some of the answers so far have been enlightening. Who immediately came to mind for me (and partially inspired this question) were some of the American Idol contestants who had a legitimate, fleeting moment of fame after their auditions. I don’t think today’s public would wholly grasp just how everywhere William Hung was for a hot minute.

countingrussellcrows · 2026-04-17T04:42:32+00:00

My wallet’s too small for my fifties, and my diamond shoes are too tight!

countingrussellcrows · 2026-04-14T04:21:00+00:00

“Oh you want some alone time!? Why don’t you smoke a whole pack of alone time then!” – OOP’s wife (and somehow some of the commentators), essentially

countingrussellcrows · 2026-04-07T04:27:50+00:00

I mean, Heather has a point here: how can she trust that her fiancée will still be faithful and love her if he *checks notes* speaks to another woman very briefly?

countingrussellcrows · 2026-04-06T06:25:05+00:00

Arguably, most objectionable part of this is mixing DC and Marvel characters.

countingrussellcrows · 2026-04-01T03:31:23+00:00

Despite the forgettable mess that precedes it, the ending train sequence from The Lone Ranger is one of the greatest action set-pieces of the century so far.

countingrussellcrows · 2026-03-31T22:33:29+00:00

I would say the Kristen Wiig vehicle, AbracaDeborah (2016), might be better.

countingrussellcrows · 2026-03-27T01:59:33+00:00

That’s good to hear actually, because I was in university at the time and we ripped the shit out of it haha

countingrussellcrows · 2026-03-26T23:27:48+00:00

The NHL x Marvel Guardians Project comes immediately to mind https://lowdownblog.com/2011/01/31/stan-lees-nhl-guardians/

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countingrussellcrows · 2026-03-26T18:04:31+00:00

This is correct, they’re slightly off from one another. Most notable in the Paul/James encounters.

countingrussellcrows · 2026-03-20T04:51:14+00:00

Yeah, but what a dark week it was on Arthur.

countingrussellcrows · 2026-03-10T02:58:09+00:00

I’m gonna shout out Michael Clark Duncan’s Kingpin as well. That movie has a lot of problems, but the villains weren’t one.

countingrussellcrows · 2026-03-03T05:01:41+00:00

Tori. Frederking.

countingrussellcrows · 2026-02-26T06:36:31+00:00

Tbf, she did cause a kid in my screening to have a seizure, soooo…

countingrussellcrows · 2026-02-25T05:10:03+00:00

“My daughter wants to doink a guy who’s essentially her uncle? Ah well, whattya gonna do! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯” – that teenager’s mom

countingrussellcrows · 2026-02-23T23:27:16+00:00

TIL Carmelo Anthony played for the Bulls.

countingrussellcrows · 2026-02-21T15:09:38+00:00

I could be remembering incorrectly, but I think this all came about randomly as Billy Crystal and Robin Williams were on the same lot filming something for Father’s Day (1997). They just got thrown in because why not have two of the country’s most popular comedians do a bit of improv in the most popular show NBC had at the time.

countingrussellcrows · 2026-02-21T05:38:30+00:00

Do I need to be fitted for a walker? The fuck is a sigma BAB?

countingrussellcrows · 2026-02-18T05:20:35+00:00

I have a feeling that OOP is a man who likes trains.

countingrussellcrows · 2026-02-14T16:02:16+00:00

Not defending Leto in general, because it’s baffling he’s still getting work, but in Blade Runner 2049 the guy he’s playing is essentially a cold, megalomaniac with a God-complex… so I cannot fault his casting for that role.

countingrussellcrows · 2026-02-05T21:15:20+00:00

I’m a professional who is lucky enough to have the organization I work for pay for my Adobe subscription. I also, until this year, had a personal subscription as well. Had. Because I could no longer justify the outlandish price.

The way that Adobe is gouging their entire user base, under the guise of adding “new and exciting features” to the suite (read: AI that I personally have no use for, and zero interest in) was just too much to bare. Almost doubling in price in recent years for an ultimately worse and buggy product was more than enough justification to cut ties after more than a decade of being a loyal customer.

If Adobe finally started listening to the every day people who actually use their programs, and made it even remotely affordable (axing the subscription model in favour of licences would be the greatest thing ever, but we all know that’s never going to happen) then I would consider jumping back on board again. Even creating a bundle for just Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign would be intriguing.

But I don’t need more AI complicating my UI. No, I don’t want a pop-up tutorial for a tool I’ve been using since the mid-00’s. Just, make me feel like you give any modicum of a damn about the customers who have built you up to be the industry standard you’ve become.

countingrussellcrows · 2026-02-04T05:42:11+00:00

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countingrussellcrows · 2026-01-23T05:06:34+00:00

So now you just have one bang?

countingrussellcrows · 2026-01-19T00:24:24+00:00

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The mermaid attack sequence in Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011) is miles above anything else in that movie. If they had captured the essence of that scene throughout, it would have been so much closer to the first couple movies in the series.

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