Printed 110 years ago today in the Seattle Star: https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/wa/batch_wa_lacamas_ver01/data/sn87093407/0020029063A/1914091801/0360.pdf
Yeah, Condo was doing like 5 comics a week in this period, he's bound to have misses, we just usually don't pick them.
Like here's one in which he tells his employee to do something, the employee doesn't get it, so Everett just slugs him in the face: https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/mimtptc/batch_mimtptc_ingalls_ver01/data/sn83016689/00279552039/1914091701/0925.pdf
A fun film, if you keep your expectations low. Has cameos by Iggy Pop, Carl McCoy from Fields of Nephilim, and Lemmy from Motorhead; soundtrack includes songs by Ministry and PiL.
Printed 110 years ago today in the Seattle Star: https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/wa/batch_wa_lacamas_ver01/data/sn87093407/0020029063A/1914091701/0352.pdf
All the True that I know of: https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/search/pages/results/?date1=1777&rows=50&searchType=basic&state=&date2=1963&proxtext=Outbursts+of+Everett+True&y=13&x=19&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1&sort=date
Chicken? That's basically health food.
You're right, my comment was pretty condescending, I apologize. Your points are well-taken, thanks for giving me something to think about.
No, it doesn't sound petty to spend your money carefully. I hope things get better with D&D.
Pupusas may be simple-looking, but they are amazing if made well and very filling. Plus they are easy to carry and store and they heat up well.
I heard from a relative that Pat ain't there any more, he retired.
From reading the reviews and social media comments, it annoyed anyone with an interest in history.
If I were paid to promote this film, I'd say something like: you can tell from the previews and the theatrical release that there's good cinematography, set design, costumes, etc. Well in the extended version there's MORE of it. And then tacitly suggest that people play it in the background with the sound off while listening to classical music.
Scott spent over $100 million to piss off the French, which any Englishmen would love to do if given half a chance.
Got it. This movie is only really interesting if you're from England.
It's a great movie, the best movie yet to come out under the Dungeons and Dragons name. However:
The film made $93 million domestically, which is not good compared to the $150 million budget. Luckily, its worldwide total was $208.2 million, but with marketing costs, it is likely the film did not break even.
https://movieweb.com/dungeons-and-dragons-sequel-unlikely/
It's often difficult to identify why a film didn't perform well, but fan anger over the licensing changes likely contributed, e.g. see: https://screenrant.com/dungeons-dragons-honor-among-thieves-box-office-bomb-reason/
The movie could have been a huge hit instead of just maybe breaking even. Trying to rip off the core fans right before it came out was a dumb idea.
These are the same geniuses who tanked their big Hollywood movie by changing their game license just before the movie came out, right?
See it in high-def here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ft3b1-Cm-0M
Appeared in the Seattle Star on Sept 10, 1914, 110 years ago today.
I thought they had morphine back then, maybe they didn't give him enough.
tbh this is an "okay" but not really great film. The film's about the conflict between a corrupt Carribean governor and a ship of pirates. It's mostly interesting because James Earl Jones (RIP) is in it.
He must have been around 44 when this was filmed. He'd been winning awards on Broadway and had been getting movie roles here and there. He would have been doing the voice of Darth Vader around the time this came out and then in the 80s and 90s his career really took off.
In this movie he plays a supporting role, but gets a decent amount of screen time. Anyway, the movie bombed so it's usually forgotten. I just thought of it because of his passing -- he seems to be having a good time in the movie, or maybe he was just acting.
(another James Earl Jones role posted previously is in: Conan the Barbarian: https://lemm.ee/post/36207082)
From the Seattle Star September 9, 1914 -- 110 years ago today.
On this day 110 years ago, the Imperial German forces began their general retreat from their major offensive into France which had led to the First Battle of the Marne. The Schlieffen Plan had failed. It's hard to get a sense of the amount of death that WWI brought, but here's a thought. The First Battle of the Marne had killed or seriously wounded well over half a million people. And in the US in 1910, only 5 cities had significantly more than half a million people. Just this one battle at the start of WWI was roughly equivalent to Cleveland, Baltimore, or Pittsburgh in that era being wiped out by a modern nuclear device.
Meanwhile in the US, Everett True was getting annoyed by a man jingling his change. Get some perspective, E!
A couple of lovable, degenerate Juggalos must sojourn through America's hellish underbelly to The Gathering of the Juggalos, the one place on earth they feel accepted.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12245606/
It's an independent movie, but fairly well-shot, -written, and -acted, and surprisingly heartwarming. More cult than The Crow, more irreverent than Wolverine and Deadpool. The main characters are shifty lowlifes, but they have their own code and their own standards, and the film laughs with them not at them. Hey you said you were sick of franchises, right?
It's the 80s in England and there's this kid who's getting picked on at at school, and he's walking home and he makes some friends. Nice guys, but they all shave their heads. It's cool though, they listen to Toots & the Maytals and other first-generation Jamaican ska and are pretty down-to-earth people. Pretty soon the kid's hanging out in good-times montages.
Everything's going great, but then their old pal gets out of prison. Next thing you know, things are getting kind of tense, and people are making political speeches and going on racist rants and having to pick sides. In fact, this is a coming-of-age film for the kid, and there's also a theme on the Falklands War, which comes to an end just as the film reaches its conclusion.
BONUS FILM
Made in Britain (1982)
A UK made-for-TV film, Tim Roth's first role, and he nails it, playing a crazed racist skinhead in the 80s. It's amazing what a modest budget will get you if you have quality actors and a strong script. Definitely one you want to watch without advertisements.
Printed 110 years ago today in The Day Book of Chicago Illinois: https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/iune/batch_iune_golf_ver01/data/sn83045487/00280761291/1914090701/0164.pdf
Besides the two posted so far, the Library of Congress has another two E. True cartoons printed September 7, 1914:
This was printed 110 years ago today, in the Tacoma Times: https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ndnp/wa/batch_wa_fir_ver01/data/sn88085187/00211108381/1914090701/0687.pdf
It was a Monday, Labor Day for that year. Elsewhere on that page is a cartoon referencing the war in Europe that had just started:
That war would eventually be called World War I. People killed or wounded: around 40 million.
Via !fullmoviesonyoutube@lemm.ee, from the movie Road House:
Intro by Rolando: I recently compared Jim Woodring to @pmjv@lemmy.sdf.org's work on !unix_surrealism@lemmy.sdf.org, and @JohnnyEnzyme@lemm.ee suggested I post something here about it, since pmjv's European. So here is a cross-post of one of pmjv's more accessible pieces. For more info about what's going on, see: https://analognowhere.com/log/2022-04-30/
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/21198712
They should make it a tourism thing. I unironically want to go Garf-phone picking at Le Mer du Chat in France.