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WyldeMan wrote:So your family sees a snake and your first instincts are all "kill it before it multiplies!!"?

City folk.....

UltimateMarvel wrote:

WyldeMan wrote:So your family sees a snake and your first instincts are all "kill it before it multiplies!!"?

City folk.....

Fuck snakes! Kill it and then KILL IT WITH FIRE!!! I'd rather deal with rodents.

Abe's family all gathered round for another demon snake cleansing.

WyldeMan wrote:

Abe's family all gathered round for another demon snake cleansing.

Arnold Schwarzenegger Recovering After Second Heart Surgery

If there’s one thing we’ve learned about Arnold Schwazenegger, it’s that he’ll be back. The former governor, action hero, and reality TV host just had another heart operation, but he is doing well and already walking about.

The surprise revelation of a new surgery came after the 73-year-old Schwarzenegger posted a series of photos to Twitter. He said he now has a “new aortic valve to go along with my new pulmonary valve from my last surgery.” The other surgery occurred two years ago.

This time, Schwarzenegger went to the Cleveland Clinic. He didn’t reveal the timing on the operation, but said he is feeling “fantastic” and thanked everyone at the hospital. He also revealed he’s been “walking the streets of Cleveland.”

UltimateMarvel wrote:Animaniacs brings back memories. Glad the new generation will get introduced to it. Animation is a lot cleaner now, that's for sure.

Spoiler alert for Season 2 of HBO’s The Vow: Keith Raniere is going to prison for a very long time.

The NXIVM leader was sentenced on Tuesday in a Brooklyn federal court to 120 years in prison for sex trafficking and other crimes committed in connection with his “self-improvement” cult.

More than a dozen of Raniere’s victims —including India Oxenberg, daughter of Dynasty actress and Vow star Catherine Oxenberg — gave testimony during the trial. “You are a sexual predator, and you raped me,” India Oxenberg told Raniere in court. “When you touched me, I recoiled.”

In June 2019, Raniere was convicted of crimes including racketeering, sex trafficking, forced labor conspiracy, identity theft, and production and possession of child pornography. Smallville alum Allison Mack, one of the cult’s most notable recruiters (who was featured heavily in Season 1), has pleaded guilty to various charges and is awaiting sentencing.

It was earlier this month that HBO ordered a second season of its NXIVM-themed docuseries The Vow. The new episodes — which will premiere in 2021 — will offer an “exclusive view” into Raniere’s “innermost circle” while delving “into the stories of NXIVM’s top leadership in the US and Mexico, and into powerful, intimate stories of DOS members,” per the premium cabler. The follow-up will also continue to track “the legal and emotional journeys of the group’s founders, supporters and defectors as new evidence and stunning revelations come to light while federal prosecutors and defense attorneys battle for opposing views of justice in a case caught in the national spotlight.”

Halloween is just around the corner and Warner Bros. is celebrating with a supercut of some of the greatest horror villains in history. The studio has released a new supercut video titled The Greatest Horror Villains of All Time. It unites genre legends such as Freddy Kreuger, Pennywise, Leatherface and more under the same roof to help get fans in the spirit of the season.

The video stitches together some of the best scenes and iconic moments from horror and genre movies that have been released by Warner Bros. over the years. A Nightmare on Elm Street, The Lost Boys, Beetlejuice, IT, Annabelle, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Shining and The Exorcist are including, among many others. The focus is not so much on the individual movies themselves, but the horror villains contained within the franchises. So we get a glimpse of Freddy, Regan, La Llorona, Pennywise and Spike doing what they do best. It works like a little mixtape of some of horror's finest moments from a wide variety of subgenres and icons.

More than anything the video serves as a reminder that Warner Bros. is an absolute powerhouse when it comes to horror. A Nightmare on Elm Street, The Exorcist, IT, Poltergeist, Gremlins, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and The Conjuring universe all live under the same roof. As far as mainstream horror icons and beloved franchises go, it would be tough for another studio to top that lineup. Not to mention that, depending on how things shake out with the ongoing lawsuit, Warner Bros. could end up controlling Jason Voorhees and the Friday the 13th franchise again in the future.

As for the status of some of these franchises and icons, Wes Craven's estate has been taking pitches for a new Nightmare on Elm Street movie. Freddy has been away from the big screen for a decade at this point. Jason, as mentioned, is locked up in a messy rights lawsuit and we won't be seeing him in a new movie until that gets worked out. We got word earlier this year that a new movie within The Exorcist franchise is coming our way, though few details have been made available as of yet. Legendary, meanwhile, recently revealed the first poster for the new Texas Chainsaw Massacre movie, which will be tied directly to Tobe Hooper's seminal 1974 horror classic.

Gremlins 3 remains on the backburner but an animated series is currently in the works. As far as The Conjuring universe goes, Warner Bros. and New Line aren't letting that cash cow dry up any time soon. The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It, which recently released a first-look featurette, is set to arrive in theaters next summer. Further spin-offs, such as The Nun 2 and The Crooked Man are also in the works. IT Chapter Two seemingly concluded Bill Skarsgard's run as Pennywise. But given how much money the movies made, never say never. Be sure to check out The Greatest Horror Villains of All Time video from the Warner Bros. Entertainment YouTube channel.

joey con carne wrote:Allison Mack must be sweating bullets now knowing Keith Raniere got 120 years. As his right-hand-woman, she will probably get a decently long sentence even taking into consideration her guilty plea.

I saw this video on my feed which is an "interview" between Mack and Raniere and it is crazy to see Mack so enamored with the bullshit Raniere has to say. It's not even anything really intelligent. It's just stuff a normal person who was brought up right by good parents would say. The video is over an hour and a half but if you skip around and listen, it's just garbage. I'm no psychiatrist but I feel like I can see how people who are vulnerable and impressionable can be drawn in by such "wisdom".

joey con carne wrote:I have only watched Archer because of H Jon Benjamin. I can listen to that guy read a dictionary. I recognize his voice anywhere and every time I hear him I think of Coach McGuirk.

Tyger wrote:Have you not seen Californication?

Rusty wrote:Archer is great. I think I've seen the first 7 seasons.

joey con carne wrote:Allison Mack must be sweating bullets now knowing Keith Raniere got 120 years. As his right-hand-woman, she will probably get a decently long sentence even taking into consideration her guilty plea.

I saw this video on my feed which is an "interview" between Mack and Raniere and it is crazy to see Mack so enamored with the bullshit Raniere has to say. It's not even anything really intelligent. It's just stuff a normal person who was brought up right by good parents would say. The video is over an hour and a half but if you skip around and listen, it's just garbage. I'm no psychiatrist but I feel like I can see how people who are vulnerable and impressionable can be drawn in by such "wisdom".

Rusty wrote:I just noticed that when I come to this forum and have to log in, there's no TV Shows sub-forum shown. It only shows up after I log in.

joey con carne wrote:I believe that is a setting Wylde enabled as an administrator. He should be able to hide all forums unless you login but I guess he decided to only hide TV Shows. I noticed it, too, but I figured there was a method to the madness.

WyldeMan wrote:

RIP Sean Connery. Crazy timing too, just yesterday I watched The Untouchables.

UltimateMarvel wrote:

WyldeMan wrote:

RIP Sean Connery. Crazy timing too, just yesterday I watched The Untouchables.

WHAT?! I'm just now finding out about this. He was a legend. RIP Sean Connery! What was the cause of death?

Amazon is arguing in court that their users don't actually "own" the digital content purchased on Amazon Prime Video. When one buys a movie or TV series to watch on the streaming service, what they're actually paying for is a "limited license" to view the video content. This means that while purchasers can watch the content indefinitely, Amazon has the right to remove them at any time "due to provider license restrictions or other reasons." Although largely unnoticed by most who sign up, this information is tucked into the Prime Video Terms of Use.

One person who did notice the fine print is Amanda Caudel, a woman who filed a lawsuit against Amazon in April for unfair competition and false advertising. According to the suit, Caudel claims that the company "secretly reserves the right" to remove access to content purchased by Amazon Prime Video users. The putative class-action lawsuit was filed on behalf of herself along with any other California residents who had purchased video content from Amazon between April 25, 2016, to now.

This week, Amazon responded by filing a motion for the court to dismiss Caudel's lawsuit. Along with noting that Caudel has purchased 13 titles on Prime since filing her complaint, attorney David Biderman argues that the lawsuit lacks merit as Amazon hasn't removed any of Caudel's purchased content, making the complaint purely hypothetical.

"Plaintiff claims that Defendant Amazon's Prime Video service, which allows consumers to purchase video content for streaming or download, misleads consumers because sometimes that video content might later become unavailable if a third-party rights' holder revokes or modifies Amazon's license," David Biderman writes in the motion. "The Complaint points vaguely to online commentary about this alleged potential harm but does not identify any Prime Video purchase unavailable to Plaintiff herself. In fact, all of the Prime Video content that Plaintiff has ever purchased remains available."

Biderman also stresses that people don't need to read the fine print in order to be legally bound by it. The terms of the agreement are right there for anyone to read before signing up or purchasing content, and the argument here is that it's up to the consumers to read it before agreeing to anything. "A merchant term of service agreement in an online consumer transaction is valid and enforceable when the consumer had reasonable notice of the terms of service," Biderman says.

What happens next will be up for the legal system to determine. Ultimately, Amazon might come out ahead in court, but the attention on the case will most likely cause many to realize they don't necessarily "own" the movies and TV shows they buy on Amazon Prime Video. Although purchasing content digitally can oftentimes be a lot more convenient, buying physical media appears to be the best way to ensure you'll always be able it. We'll see if this leads to more Blu-ray and DVD sales from Prime users as opposed to buying more digital content. This news comes to us from The Hollywood Reporter.

joey con carne wrote:It’s the same thing with video game services like Steam. You buy licenses which grant you access to the games. Valve (the owners of Steam) state in their terms of service, which you must agree to in order to use the service, that they can terminate your account whenever they want.

This is nothing new and that lady clearly has no idea what she is doing.

joey con carne wrote:Johnny Depp lost his libel lawsuit this morning.

Johnny Depp destroys what’s left of his reputation

Johnny Depp is a wife beater.

Such is the finding of a British court, ruling against Depp’s claims of libel by The Sun newspaper. If nothing else proves how deeply Depp is divorced from reality, it’s that he ever brought this suit.

A former globally famous and beloved movie star, whose singular talent and looks made him a Gen X icon of cool and a one-man Disney franchise — who else could have straddled that line, let alone have invented it? — has lost everything. This is the biggest celebrity self-destruction since Lena Dunham showed photos of her removed uterus to a New York magazine profiler and wondered, without irony, why people find her an off-putting over-sharer.

Now, Depp will forever be known as not just a wife beater, but — due to the sheer volume of detail elicited at trial — a hopeless addict and alcoholic who used a tampon applicator to snort coke, who once sliced off part of his finger and used the bloody stump to scrawl hateful messages to then-wife Amber Heard, who pissed all over the floor in an attempt to write even more hateful words, a 50-something man unsure how he came to lose his entire $650 million fortune.

Oh, and the poop found in the Heard-Depp marital bed, ruled the judge, most likely came not from a vengeful Heard but one of the couple’s dogs.

A high court reduced to ruling on defecation.

Justice Andrew Nichol’s 129-page finding leaves no doubt that Depp is guilty. Here are Depp’s doctor’s notes, damning text exchanges in which Depp repeatedly apologizes to Heard for unspeakable acts, Depp’s admission of “the Monster” within, pathetic instances of childlike temper tantrums, humiliating blackouts on private planes and in luxury mansions.

“I simply do not accept,” Nichol wrote, “that [Depp] simply chose to sleep in the toilet.”

During a text exchange with actor Paul Bettany, Depp writes, “Let’s burn Amber!!! . . . Let’s drown her before we burn her!!! I will f—k her burnt corpse afterwards to make sure she’s dead.”

Has Depp not heard of the #MeToo movement? Is he unaware of what happened to Harvey Weinstein, Bill Cosby, Charlie Rose, Matt Lauer, Les Moonves — men who had nothing near his accrued goodwill? How could Depp not see he’d be left more uninsurable than Robert Downey Jr. at his lowest, banished for life from the Magic Kingdom?

Ah, here’s how: After Depp’s first consult with Dr. David Kipper in May 2014, Kipper wrote, “Mr. Depp is a 50-year-old male who has had a lifelong history of self-medicating behaviors involving multiple substances of abuse,” so dangerously addicted that “I would not recommend withdrawal until he completes his current work.”

Kipper’s later assessments: Depp “actually romanticizes the entire drug culture and has no accountability for his behavior . . . he has no patience for not getting his needs met.”

Kipper also recommended a medically supervised 24-hour detox.

It didn’t take. Nor, found the judge, did Depp’s multiple promises to never hurt Heard again.

It’s shocking to read Johnny Depp, who for decades presented himself as the most evolved and gentle rebel, a doting daddy who once loved nothing more than playing Barbies with his little girl, writing a text message calling Heard “this . . . mushy, pointless dangling overused flappy fish market.”

Johnny Depp talks about women the way Trump does. Who would have ever thought it?

This trial hasn’t just ended Johnny Depp. It ends any pretense that the public-facing image of any Hollywood star, no matter how beloved, should be taken to resemble the private one. It’s another terrible outcome of a terrible year, another loss, confronting Depp as he is, a late-stage Elvis surrounded by yes-men deputized to keep the boss drugged up and in denial.

It’s all such a drag — unless you’re Johnny Depp, transmitting from another planet. Moments after the ruling, his lawyers told the press “it would be ridiculous” for Depp not to appeal.

joey con carne wrote:The judge is wrong. Johnny Depp is a gentleman. The world is full of haters.

UltimateMarvel wrote:Are you shitting me?!!! After all the shit that came out on Amber Heard's recordings and her story not adding up?