Sunday saw Kat's "Kat's Korner: MR Leslie Odom Jr." and Isaiah's THE WORLD TODAY JUST NUTS "Pro-rape Deval" go up at THE COMMON ILLS.
And here's this weekend's box office results (or this past weekend, I should say) via THE NUMBERS.COM:
| 1 | N | Ford v. Ferrari | 20th Cent… | $31,474,958 | 3,528 | $8,921 | $31,474,958 | 1 | ||
| 2 | (1) | Midway | Lionsgate | $8,505,531 | -52% | 3,242 | n/c | $2,624 | $34,896,304 | 2 |
| 3 | N | Charlie’s Angels | Sony Pict… | $8,351,109 | 3,452 | $2,419 | $8,351,109 | 1 | ||
| 4 | (3) | Playing with Fire | Paramount… | $8,332,607 | -35% | 3,125 | n/c | $2,666 | $25,280,431 | 2 |
| 5 | (4) | Last Christmas | Universal | $6,493,930 | -43% | 3,454 | +6 | $1,880 | $22,369,695 | 2 |
| 6 | (2) | Doctor Sleep | Warner Bros. | $6,006,949 | -57% | 3,855 | n/c | $1,558 | $24,865,108 | 2 |
| 7 | N | The Good Liar | Warner Bros. | $5,605,051 | 2,439 | $2,298 | $5,605,051 | 1 | ||
| 8 | (6) | Joker | Warner Bros. | $5,338,389 | -42% | 2,337 | -469 | $2,284 | $322,302,982 | 7 |
| 9 | (7) | Maleficent: Mistress … | Walt Disney | $4,900,000 | -42% | 2,549 | -652 | $1,922 | $105,693,384 | 5 |
| 10 | (8) | Harriet | Focus Fea… | $4,590,540 | -38% | 2,011 | -175 | $2,283 | $31,693,530 | 3 |
CHARLIE'S ANGELS crashed and burned. I like Elizabeth Banks so I'm sorry. But I also think she has to take the blame as the writer and director. It didn't look good in the previews. At the last minute, we decided to see Christian Bale's movie ("FORD V FERRARI") because my girlfriend wasn't feeling it for CA. I ended up going Sunday to see it and, as she expected, it was not worth seeing.
CHARLIE'S ANGELS is supposed to be fun and exciting. This wasn't even as exciting as an episode from the 70s TV show.
I wasn't impressed with the acting nor did I feel any sisterhood between the three leads. With Farrah, Jacly and Kate, you felt they were friends and cared about each other. With Drew, Cameron and Lucy, you felt the same.
This was like three actresses who hadn't met. Kristen Stewart was probably the best as an individual but, again, none of them knew hot to blend.
Add in stale stunts and what was the point? Did no one realize this is an action franchise?
It really was a disappointment.
I think the mistake was made when Elizabeth Banks was hired. This isn't a comedy. STARSKY AND HUTCH forgot it was an action film and it bombed, remember? It tried to be comedy but no one wanted to watch that. And you can't blame them.
Instead of taking her lumps. Elizabeth Banks is whining in such a way that no one's going to have sympathy for her:
Prior to the movie’s disastrous opening weekend, Banks gave an interview to the Herald Sun that is now proving to be somewhat controversial. The filmmaker, who also wrote and produced “Charlie’s Angels” and stars in the movie as Bosley, called out a potential box office bomb as being sexist. “Look, people have to buy tickets to this movie, too. This movie has to make money,” she said. “If this movie doesn’t make money it reinforces a stereotype in Hollywood that men don’t go see women do action movies.”
[. . .]
“They’ll go and see a comic book movie with Wonder Woman and Captain Marvel because that’s a male genre,” Banks told the Sun. “So even though those are movies about women, they put them in the context of feeding the larger comic book world, so it’s all about, yes, you’re watching a Wonder Woman movie but we’re setting up three other characters or we’re setting up ‘Justice League.’”
She made a dull movie. That's on her. She needs to own it and not whine 'sexism.' I am a male, I paid to see her film because I love CHARLIE'S ANGELS. I love Jill, Kelly and Sabrina. I love Dylan, Natalie and Alex. I didn't really care for her three. Nor did I care for how they sort of pop in and out of teams. There are -- in her film -- trio teams all over the world. It's just too much.
She had a large vision but just in her head. She didn't try to make a large vision on the screen. And think about the opening of CHARLIE'S ANGLES the first film. You've got them on a plane with joke about movies made about TV shows and then a man gets pulled to the back, the door gets popped open, they are out the plane and they land on the boat where Natalie and Alex are and the man who pulled the guy out of the plane pulls off his rubber mask and it's Drew Barrymore's Dylan.
It's a fast moving, real action scene. And it's just the opening of the film. In the entire film, Elizabeth Banks offers nothing like that. She made a movie that plays like a dull TV movie and that's got nothing to do with men or women, it's got to do with her making a boring movie and putting in a lot of actors that we really don't care about. Patrick Stewart? Isn't he really just a TV actor? He never carried a film -- not even those X-MEN films. Where's the big star in her film?
Cameron Diaz and Drew Barrymore were huge film stars before CHARLIE'S ANGELS and Bill Murray played Bosley and he was also a huge star. For the sequel, you had them back with Lisa again and you had Demi Moore and Bernie Mac.
There was no sizzle and no excitement.
Now Jaclyn Smith's in this film. It's a small moment but she's good and maybe if they'd put that out it might have built some excitement. (I didn't know she was in it until she showed up on screen.)
Going out with C.I.'s "Iraq snapshot:"
Monday, November 18, 2019. Pro-rape Deval Patrick and Reefer Madness
Joe Biden continue to give the wrong impression while protests continue
in Iraq.
In the US the race for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination continues. On Sunday, Deval Patrick set down for MEET AND HEAVY PET WITH THE PRESS. During the interview, Chuck Todd refused to raise the issue of rape -- even though it's the most pertinent detail about Deval.
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In the US the race for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination continues. On Sunday, Deval Patrick set down for MEET AND HEAVY PET WITH THE PRESS. During the interview, Chuck Todd refused to raise the issue of rape -- even though it's the most pertinent detail about Deval.
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The case of Deval Patrick's former brother-in-law, twice convicted of rape allegations against Patrick's sister, is likely to raise uncomfortable questions for the former Massachusetts governor as his 2020 Democratic presidential campaign progresses.
Raise uncomfortable questions for Deval? Not from Chuckie's in love Todd.
The facts that Chuck chose to ignore others aren't so willing to overlook.
In 2014 Deval Patrick fired leaders of his state's Sex Offender Registry for trying to force his brother in law to register due to being convicted of rape in California in 1993.
In 2019, that same rapist was sentenced to 6 years for another rape. 1/
boston.cbslocal.com/2019/06/25/ber…
The victim in the most recent rape said that she came home and found Patrick's brother in law hiding in the closet. He stalking, kidnapped, and raped her. She said that she hoped for a long sentence because she would spend her life in fear if he was out.
Deval Patrick declared that his ex brother-in-law did not need to register as a sex offender in MA because he was convicted (in CA) of “spousal rape” instead of “rape.” And he fired two women who intervened in the state system who tried to change it. bostonglobe.com/metro/2019/11/…
Toxic Sludge Retweeted
Wait so we have PROOF that George W Bush used RADIOACTIVE weapons to poison innocent civilians and yet all the media repeats is the unproven assertion that Assad gassed his own people? Who exactly is the brutal dictator? It seems America needs to look inwards..
In 2014, Deval Patrick fired Massachusetts Sex Offender Registry staff for directing his brother in law to register for a California rape conviction. He said the assault of a ex-spouse wasn't that bad. @mldauber at #cadem2019 yesterday told him
@politico @latimes @BostonGlobe
@politico @latimes @BostonGlobe
Not insults. Know the facts before you support. Have him explain these stats pictured below. Ask him what he did to his own SISTER concerning her rape. How he abused his office that sought justice for her. We don’t like his kind. We don’t need his kind. Seek FACTS FIRST. #NOdeval
@DevalPatrick Excuse me... Spousal rape instead of rape?? RAPE IS RAPE SIR! If you don't know that then you're NO BETTER than that orange clown who cheated his way into OUR Whitehouse. U want to run now? WE don't need U. So stay out of it please!
The one benefiting the most from pro-rape Deval entering the race? War Hawk Joe Biden. Were it not for Deval, everyone would be focusing on Joe's latest nonsense.
Poor Joe. He's so out of touch. Remember, REEFER MADNESS was made a long time ago, 1936 -- but only six years before Joe was born.
A Story of How Joe Biden Lost My Vote Forever:
Do not allow Joe Biden's Reefer Madness to retake America. Joe Biden is too old to be President as evidenced by his outdated thoughts on marijuana.
So NO to #ReeferMadnessJoe
Here's another factoid to consider:
When Joe Biden was born cannabis had only been illegal for 5 years.
Joe's stance is right on . . . for 1972. He could have been deputized by Richard Nixon back then. But we all know better today -- all except Joe Biden who walks around repeatedly asking, "What year is it? What year is it?"
Joe Biden, ready to run strong in the 1988 presidential race.
There are thousands of studies available on #marijuana / #cannabis at @NCBI
There's no reason to take any politician's (Joe Biden 
) word on the topic. (ie: gateway drug)
Just use their search to drill down to real truth & demand they do the same
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=M…
) word on the topic. (ie: gateway drug)
Just use their search to drill down to real truth & demand they do the same
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=M…
Joe Biden is still questioning if marijuana is a gateway drug, even though research doesn't support the idea fedium.com/news/joe-biden…
Legalize marijuana instead because Joe Biden is the gateway to mass incarceration.
#CrimeBill
Joe Biden is a gateway assh*le to Donald Trump.
Joe Biden must not know that most marijuana users don’t upgrade to crack cocaine like his son did.
.@JoeBiden says he opposes legalizing cannabis because he thinks it could be a "gateway drug."
@PeteButtigieg muses about sending the American military to Mexico to fight the drug war.
What, and I cannot stress this enough, THE F**K?
JOE BIDEN: “Okay, team. What policies do we want? We need to swing big here”
“Uh, people to be nicer to republicans and hope that helps?”
“Great! Done! No more. Now what do we NOT want?”
“Uh...Healthcare?”
“Yes!”
“Marijuana?”
“Of course!”
“Dogs on skateboards?”
“Love it!”
Marijuana isn’t a gateway drug but Joe Biden is a gateway conservative.
Each day, in every way, Joe Biden is turning himself into a bigger joke.
As the polls demonstrate, he is moving -- but it's downward, not up.
In Iraq, the protests continue.
A student got hit in the street by members of the Iraqi army and got arrested In Almansour #Iraq.Girls students got the same disgusting treatment today as well for joining the peaceful protests
#IraqProtests #Iraq
#العراق__ينتفض
#نريد_وطن
@UNICEF @UN @hrw @amnesty
Iraq protesters block roads to main Gulf port, southern oilfields: Protests began last month over lack of jobs and public services but have grown into calls for political system overhaul. dlvr.it/RJWsT4
Of all the protests ongoing in Iraq, one of the most economically disruptive is relatively small. As of Monday, demonstrators have resumed blockading the entrance to Um Qasr port.
At the start of the month, Deborah Haynes (SKY NEWS -- Deborah reported on Iraq, from Iraq, for THE TIMES OF LONDON in the '00s) noted:
Instead of sectarian divisions,
the public has united in anger against the current government of Prime
Minister Adel Abdel Mehdi.
A wave of protest was unleashed across Baghdad and other cities around the country.
Security forces responded at first with live rounds, killing scores of unarmed protesters and drawing widespread condemnation.
[. . .]They are fed up with widespread unemployment, dire public services and a political elite regarded as corrupt and under the influence of Iran and the US.
Maya Gebeily (AFP) offers:
Now, protesters across Baghdad and the Shiite-majority south are demanding an overhaul of the U.S.-crafted system, but the U.S. has remained comparatively restrained.
It has issued a half-dozen statements condemning violence but stopped short of using its diplomatic muscle to resolve the crisis.
In the past, Washington would have been “much more overt,” said the top Iraqi official.
“The U.S. back in 2003 shaped this current Iraqi government structure, which delivered this political class,” he said.
“Do they want to be engaged in rectifying it? I think the jury is still out.”
“The bottom line is that the U.S. state-building project in Iraq has failed,” said Kirk Sowell, an analyst who writes the Inside Iraqi Politics newsletter.
I'll offer that because I am an American citizen and it's my job to call out my own country. I'm not a whore like over at THE INTERCEPT where they're scissor banging with THE NEW YORK TIMES over Iran. Leaked cables!!!!! Oh my. Those they're interested in? Not interested when it's leaked cables for the US. I don't trust Jeremy Scahill at all and I'm not going to believe what he says or how he says he got it. THE INTERCEPT has burned one whistle-blower after another.
I think it's laughable that Jeremy and THE NEW YORK TIMES have a take away that Iran has won the Iraq War. Wow. That's so new, right?
So new and so novel!!!!
It's not like we didn't already know that, it's not like the US Army didn't say that back in January, right?
Oh, wait, they did. 10 months ago, the US Army already declared what Jerry Scahill tries to pass off as a scoop.
And they did it without trying to demonize Iran, did you notice that. Jerry Scahill, he has to demonize. He dances very well for his corporate masters -- grind that ass into their laps, Jeremy, grind that ass like the whore you are.
I'm not in the mood.
Kat's "Kat's Korner: MR Leslie Odom Jr." and Isaiah's THE WORLD TODAY JUST NUTS "Pro-rape Deval" and Isaiah's "No Deal Nancy" went up Sunday. New content at THIRD:
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