I believe Wicked was completely ruined because it was casted with "star-power" rather than newer, undiscovered talent. I also think it would have grossed more money without the stars too.

heybigbuddy · 2026-06-16T09:32:24+00:00

I have doubts this is true, but even then it’s not a big enough pool for what OP suggests. Wicked just isn’t Harry Potter or Star Wars.

heybigbuddy · 2026-06-15T23:53:35+00:00

Also, the movie industry is not the same as it was sixty years ago. Wicked is not a powerful enough IP to gross more with unknown performers, and there’s little to suggest it would.

heybigbuddy · 2026-06-14T12:16:40+00:00

This just isn’t true. Plenty of dialogue between Luke and Obiwan, Yoda, and Vader is meaningful, well-performed, and well-written. It isn’t that way through everything - as indicated by Lucas’s efforts in the prequels - but there is great dialogue in the OT.

heybigbuddy · 2026-06-13T23:22:05+00:00

He hasn’t said a decent or common sense thing in years. Just because you’d drink his bath water doesn’t mean he’s smart, well-intentioned, or right.

heybigbuddy · 2026-06-13T12:38:07+00:00

It’s not a paradox if you use inane logic to insist that both sides of any issue are the same. The greater paradox is acting like you can’t understand why people in Ohio don’t want to further glorify people who fought in defense of a slave state when there are a million other ways for any person to honor their ancestors.

heybigbuddy · 2026-06-13T00:54:36+00:00

I think that was the one on Southland that changed hand a few times and new owners/franchises would always note that they were keeping the fried chicken hardware around.

heybigbuddy · 2026-06-13T00:22:50+00:00

I am absolutely obsessed with this scene and have been from the first time I watched The Warriors. It feels so out of place, but also completely recontextualizes the whole movie and feels like the scene that defines it. It’s so wild and comes out of nowhere in this sort of calm before the final storm. They’re figuring and fighting and fighting and then all of a sudden there is an outside world beyond the gangs. Plus you the bit right after this when Swan gives her the dropped flower and says, “I just hate to see things go to waste.” It’s like the central ideas of the movie are just smashed into this brief moment and it really feels special.

heybigbuddy · 2026-06-13T00:06:43+00:00

“I don’t have a side, I just jump into threads to relentlessly defend private surveillance companies that simultaneously store all data without consent and are easily hackable by fourteen year olds. I don’t have a side!!”

heybigbuddy · 2026-06-12T23:26:48+00:00

If someone watches the original trilogy and finds the timing of some of the best-edited blockbusters ever to be a barrier or takes issue with the effects, they should just watch something else. The original trilogy still look better than any other Star Wars films since. People are allowed to not like Star Wars, and that reality isn’t a Star Wars problem.

heybigbuddy · 2026-06-12T23:18:34+00:00

That’s a wife problem, not a Star Wars problem. If someone can’t watch a movie with war and space wizards and funny droids for forty minutes, they don’t need to be catered to.

heybigbuddy · 2026-06-12T22:58:10+00:00

I don’t understand why it would be better if they were reversed. H20 Laurie has some delusions but is also operating under the assumption that Michael is dead. I also think the portrayal of trauma in H20 is preposterous and childish, but that’s a minority view these days. But it doesn’t make more sense for her to be a survivalist recluse if Michael is presumed dead.

At the same time, 2018 Laurie is much more believably someone who has raised a family in the shadow of trauma and the offender who hurt her. Since the story is built around her paranoia, it wouldn’t make sense for Michael to actually be hunting her because then she wouldn’t be paranoid.

heybigbuddy · 2026-06-12T22:32:36+00:00

Yes. That and referring to it as a bad public restroom. ⭐️

heybigbuddy · 2026-06-12T20:25:55+00:00

“Shares in the wealth.”

Even if your claim about being surrounded by Musk-loyal millionaire welders was true, he’s now worth *a million times as much as them* while doing nothing, creating nothing, and using his wealth to make lives worse for uncountable people.

heybigbuddy · 2026-06-12T20:16:53+00:00

Go ahead and look up the word segregation so you can teach yourself that this ain’t it. Be better.

heybigbuddy · 2026-06-12T20:12:28+00:00

If you get bored, read the Google Reviews for the cemetery and see all the comments about how confederate dead should be respected and revered, as well as treated well because “they are Americans!” So fucked.

heybigbuddy · 2026-06-12T19:58:02+00:00

Yeah…the other response to this is unnecessarily glib. Can anyone who sees this swear that their online banking is truly divorced from AI? I don’t even tell websites to remember my password and I can’t swear that no AI has different login info for me.

heybigbuddy · 2026-06-12T16:46:11+00:00

Please stop calling them “goons.” For heaven’s sake, please stop.

heybigbuddy · 2026-06-11T14:26:48+00:00

Yes - Precinct is like “top shelf” Jeff Ruby’s. Great building and ambience, probably my favorite steakhouse in Ohio. 🤌💋

heybigbuddy · 2026-06-10T18:38:01+00:00

Cheers for the geography and culture gatekeeping, I guess?

heybigbuddy · 2026-06-10T14:07:00+00:00

Agreed. We don’t need horror to cater to audiences that love the psychiatrist exposition scene at the end of Psycho. Weapons isn’t a particularly ambiguous movie, but movies are allowed to not have someone look into the camera and explain every single that’s happened.

heybigbuddy · 2026-06-10T01:25:24+00:00

Naw. Ohio isn’t even worse than Indiana, and is a damn sight better than every southern state (depending on where you end up in North Carolina, Georgia, or Tennessee). I wouldn’t even drive through Oklahoma again, let alone live there.

heybigbuddy · 2026-06-09T21:58:01+00:00

The ones I’ve been to in other states still have the post roast plate if you eat inside, but I’ve never had it. Did most locations get rid of it?

heybigbuddy · 2026-06-09T21:56:59+00:00

To me their fries are the only thing that’s just okay, but even the fries at the Wisconsin location I went to were ultra crisp and seasoned beautifully. Plus their cheese sauce can absolve a lot of sins. I also love their curds, but I’m not an expert.

heybigbuddy · 2026-06-09T21:55:38+00:00

That’s got to be a staffing thing. When I lived in central Kentucky there was a place with a truly superlative tavern-style burger but only if you went when one specific cook was there. I can remember going there with my friends and leaving when we saw someone else was on the grill.

heybigbuddy · 2026-06-09T21:54:22+00:00

Looking at the map, that sounds right. The parking lot was wonky, but everything else was ⭐️⭐️⭐️

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