Gal Gadot's casting in Disney's next live-action offering, Snow White, could be a bad sign after her recent Netflix failure, Heart of Stone.
Audience and critic enthusiasm for Disney remakes has been flagging in
some quarters as the movie giant continues to release mostly uninspired
remakes of its classic animated films.
Her failure?
Let's see, Friday it started streaming on NETFLIX and was their number one streamed movie. That was true Saturday. And Sunday. And Monday. And I pull up NETFLIX and, goodness, the number one streaming film for Tuesday is still HEART OF STONE.
I'm getting tired of their bulls**t.
They attacked THE LITTLE MERMAID non-stop, repeatedly, week after week, insisting it was a bomb. Even when it made more than the original, they didn't note that (though I did here). They just kept attacking it and attacking it.
Now we have an action film with Gal Gadot.
An action film.
And it's a hit.
They're concerned that the new SNOW QUEEN, with Gal, might bomb at the box office.
And Gal "failed' in HEART OF STONE. No, she didn't. She succeeded. Audiences love the film that's why it's remained at number one. It had 33 million views in the first two days alone. That is a hit.
Read their weasel words and you'll see that they try to say she flopped in terms of acting. She's a movie star. She draws audiences to a project. That is her role as a movie star.
You may not like her acting but she draws an audience and she drawing one for HEART OF STONE.
But it's time to again trash women.
Where's the thing about Tom Cruise? Where's the thing about his latest MISSION IMPOSSIBLE bombing? Because it has bombed.
And they're probably surprised. But go back and read my coverage last year when TOP GUN MAVERICK kept pulling in ticket buyers. Last summer, I predicted this. As I noted, it was too much of Tom, it was reminding people of why they don't like him and/or consider him strange and that the next film would do poorly because it was also reminding them of how old he was -- too old for action movies.
I loved HEART OF STONE ("Stream HEART OF STONE and don't go to GO WEST"). It's an action movie that zips along. I thought Gal did a great job. I want NETFLIX to turn it into a franchise.
But them, I'm reviewing what I see. I'm not trying to grind an axe for some grudge I have or some prejudice.
SCREEN RANT can't say the same thing. People need to watch how SCREEN RANT writes about women. I can remember being in college and 'critics' attacking Goldie Hawn. While fawning over Clint Eastwood's acting. Goldie, they insisted had just made the same movie over and over -- PRIVATE BENJAMIN, PROTOCOL, WILDCATS, OVERBOARD . . . First off, they're not the same films. The characters aren't the same characters. Second off, all Clint has ever done as an actor is deliver the same performance. But they weren't going after Clint, they were going after Goldie. As they would later go after Meg Ryan as they had, in the 80s, gone after Jane Fonda.
These 'critics' work overtime to call women out, to devalue them, to LIE about them. While ignoring the very serious problems with certain male actors. It happens over and over.
It's time for a little less bitchy attacks on women and a little more work being put in.
And don't e-mail me, "A woman wrote the SCREEN RANT piece!" Yeah. And women were part of the critics attacking Meg Ryan and Goldie Hawn as they tried to be part of the 'pack' with their male critics.
Make a point to check out Trina's "kd lang's Hymns of the 49th Parallel
." I've got to make a point to listen to the album now.
Going out with C.I.'s "Iraq snapshot:"
Tuesday, August 15, 2023. The deceivers are all around -- the prime minister in Iraq, the failed 'feminist' Naomi Wolf, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Ron DeSantis . . .
Starting with Iraq, ASHARQ AL-ASWAT reports:
Iraq no longer required the presence of "foreign combat forces" on its territories to combat ISIS, announced Prime Minister and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces Mohammed Shia al-Sudani on Monday.
Sudani was speaking during a meeting with commanders of the Armed Forces and Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF), members of the Ministries of Interior and Defense, and the military forces that took part in the war against the ISIS terrorist organization.
PRESS TV quotes him saying:
"Today, Iraq does not need foreign combat forces, and we are conducting advanced dialogues in order to determine the form of future relationship and cooperation with the international coalition," he said.
“The Iraqis have become, after the liberation battles, more united than ever before… All Iraqis fought in one trench from all nationalities, religions, sects and components."
What a load of garbage. His remarks, the prime minister himself.
Do they need foreign troops? No, they don't. But he's not calling for them to leave. And it was just last week that Iraq's Minister of Defense Thabit Muhammad al-Abassi was in DC meeting with US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin to discuss the new agreement as the DoD press release noted:
This meeting looks beyond the defeat of the Islamic State and is an outgrowth of a visit Austin made to Baghdad in March. "We are interested in an enduring defense relationship within a strategic partnership," said Dana Stroul, deputy assistant secretary of defense for the Middle East, during an interview last week.
Many officials are calling this an agreement on establishing a "360-degree relationship" -- meaning it would be a whole-of-government strategic partnership for years.
For years.
Years.
Foreign troops not needed but US troops to continue "for years."
Iraq's prime minister was lying to the Iraqi people.
And, as an aside, he did slip in that the Iraqi troops need training. Ah, 'training.' That's been an excuse forever and a day to keep US troops on the ground in Iraq, hasn't it? They've been trained and re-trained and re-trained again.
He made a big speech and it was meaningless.
According to ABC 13 Eyewitness News in Houston, things started when school trustee Melissa Dungan declared that she had spoken to parents who were upset about "displays of personal ideologies in classrooms." When pressed for an example, according to the news report, "Dungan referred to a first grade student whose parent claimed they were so upset by a poster showing hands of people of different races, that they transferred classrooms."
It is outrageous that a poster of children of different races holding hands is seen as something to ban.
For the color of your skin
Prejudice for a woman
Prejudice for an animal
Like the elephant of the plain
Because of their tight link to the book-banning efforts, the relatively new but suspiciously wealthy group Moms for Liberty has received massive media attention in the past couple of years. Even so, the group's radical ideology has not really been covered in most mainstream news coverage, which tends to portray the Moms as a bunch of overzealous church ladies. As Flux editor Matthew Sheffield, Media Matters vice president Julie Millican and researcher Olivia Little explained in a recent "Theory of Change" podcast, however, underneath the facade of "Christian moms" is some startling far-right radicalism.
For instance, while it was widely reported that a Moms for Liberty pamphlet from one branch was caught quoting Adolf Hitler, the group was able to spin that as a misunderstanding and a mistake. But at their summit a few days later, speaker Tiffany Justice yelled, "I stand with that mom" — the one who quoted Hitler — while the audience whooped its approval.
Also supporting Moms For Bigotry? Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Junior just can't tell the truth about anything, can he?
During an exchange with an NBC News reporter at the Iowa State Fair on Sunday, Kennedy said, “I believe a decision to abort a child should be up to the women during the first three months of life," but added: "Once a child is viable, outside the womb, I think then the state has an interest in protecting the child." He then went on to say that he would support a national ban on abortion at 15-weeks or possibly 21-weeks, only for his campaign to later clarify that he does not, in fact, support any type of federal restrictions on the procedure.
“Today, Mr. Kennedy misunderstood a question posed to him by a NBC reporter in a crowded, noisy exhibit hall at the Iowa State Fair," his campaign said. "Mr. Kennedy's position on abortion is that it is always the woman's right to choose. He does not support legislation banning abortion."
For what it’s worth, he has expressed support for abortion previously. During a town hall in New Hampshire earlier this summer he said he was “pro-choice,” adding: " I'm not going be in a position, put myself in a position, where I am going to tell a woman to bring a child to term.”
But, as Republicans have learned, expressing any type of support for federal restrictions on the procedure could be deeply damaging to any 2024 candidate, as such restrictions at a state level, even in red states, has proven to be highly unpopular among Democratic, Independent and even Republican voters.
Please grasp that he decided to weigh in on the issue of women's reproductive health but didn't feel the need to do any studying before he weighed in -- I believe that is the text book example of "mansplaining." Cheryl, take your moron home with you, it's time to get off the campaign trail. USA TODAY notes that he's trying to walk back the comments. Too late. Too damn late.
And let's not what a liar he is. The campaign's insisting he misunderstood the question.
You misunderstand the question then you say "yes" when you mean "no," or you don't hear the topic they were asking about so you're commenting on the automobile industry instead of abortion. Misunderstanding the question does not result in the response Nicole noted:
During an exchange with an NBC News reporter at the Iowa State Fair on Sunday, Kennedy said, “I believe a decision to abort a child should be up to the women during the first three months of life," but added: "Once a child is viable, outside the womb, I think then the state has an interest in protecting the child." He then went on to say that he would support a national ban on abortion at 15-weeks or possibly 21-weeks, only for his campaign to later clarify that he does not, in fact, support any type of federal restrictions on the procedure.
He's such a damn liar.
Did someone say Ron DeSantis?
I don't know who's more stupid: Ronald or CNBC. They had an interview with Ronald where he lied non-stop -- that's not a surprise. But what was a surprise was the the reporter was so stupid he tries to move Ronald along when Ronald's making DISNEY's case for them (for DISNEY). Can he end the feud, he's asked? No, he responds back because of DISNEY content. That's really not the role of a governor. And that really strengthens DISNEY's case. But when you work for CNBC, you aren't paid for having brains.
In more bad news for Ronald, James Bickerton (NEWSWEEK) reports:
Ron DeSantis has slipped into third place in the race to be the 2024 Republican presidential nominee, behind Donald Trump and businessman Vivek Ramaswamy, according to a new poll.
The survey, by polling company Cygnal, found 10 percent of likely Republican primary voters have DeSantis as their preferred GOP candidate, against 53 percent for Trump and 11 percent for Ramaswamy. A spokesperson for the Ramaswamy campaign told Newsweek "he's just getting warmed up."
Don't worry, Ronald, for you, it gets worse. Julia Manchester (THE HILL) reports:
Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) has surpassed Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) in the critical early presidential primary state of New Hampshire, according to a new Emerson College survey released on Tuesday.
Christie leapfrogged DeSantis’s second place in the Granite State, garnering nine percent support. DeSantis’s support, on the other hand fell to eight percent from 17 percent in March. Christie’s one-point lead over DeSantis falls within the poll’s plus or minus 3.4 percent margin of error.
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