Sorry, can’t use “upon reflection” in this joke. Try again.

You misspelled “comment”

Fair point. Still though, unless this guy is publicly espousing fascist points of view (and if he is that’s a far bigger deal than whether or not he made this gesture), the worst case scenario is that he did something in very poor taste. Not great, but at this point I think the amount of public ridicule he’s gotten…

I mean, most “professional gamblers” are usually broke. Maybe not him, I dunno, but the people who get rich in vegas are, by and large, not the gamblers...

It’s possible he’s doing the “mimicking a Hitler mustache” thing, but it’s also entirely plausible he’s just kind of in mid wave and shout just like he said. I’m going to err on the side of not assuming he’s making a Nazi gesture.

Christ. Was anyone *buying* them? Seriously, I’ve waited 45 years for this movie (ok fine, I didn’t know I was waiting for it that whole time). I can wait another week or two.

I mean, I like to think your 8 year old wasn’t laughing his ass off when someone was literally getting their head bitten off and a man in a wheelchair (who was, granted, an asshole) was being devoured, but yeah, once you get past that it definitely turns up the funny.

Depends on the kid too I expect, but the part where the scientist lady gets turned to dust was pretty scary for him, as was the the part where the baddie takes the 7 deadly sins. He left before the boardroom scene, but I’m sure that would have scared him too. After that, I’m pretty sure he would have been fine (and in…

Yeah I’m not saying I shouldn’t have known better. Well, if that’s the worst thing I do to him, that’s probably a win. :/

Maybe I’m just a sucker - the trailers had me pretty excited for it.

Eh, I think it mostly just had the bad timing of being a bad movie (based on the reviews anyway). Like if this had been positively reviewed (and was, in fact, a good movie), I think it could have had success with this release date.

Yeah, I had seen a review calling Shazam a kids movie, so I was expecting something akin to, say, Spiderman: Homecoming in terms of required maturity level. My wife and I took my 6 year old. After about 15 minutes and him being pretty scared by it, she took him home and I watched the rest. I enjoyed the movie, but boy…

Yeah, it felt like Jon should have learned about his parentage with more of an audience who was learning about it at the same time (e.g. with Dany there, or his sisters, or the assembled war council, or something) so you’d get to see a more dynamic set of reactions and their reactions to each other.

Wait, I’ve seen this movie. Did he arrange to have his wife kidnapped to extort money from his wealthy father in law?

Do yourself a favor and listen to the episode of The Dollop about John McCain. He was a crass, scheming, incompetent, entitled rage-monster. Of course it was awful the he was a POW for years, and I wouldn’t wish that on anybody, but none of it meant he deserves the standing he has in the GOP mythos.

Did Dogma mention Jesus being married? I don’t recall. I didn’t really care for that movie - it was just too tonally all over the place. I was like: there are some decent ideas for about 3 different movies here. Pick one (and generally I like Kevin Smith movies).

I’m...not sure the lack of a piece of paper making Allan “officially” her father actually fundamentally changes anything here. Maybe it changes some technical legal things, but morally he was in the role of a parent and he got involved romantically. Like if 45-year-old me started dating my long-time girlfriend’s 15…

Unfortunately the answer is probably “because celebrities are involved”. If Laughlin, Olivia Jade, and Felicity Huffman weren’t involved in this scandal there probably would have been one story, it would have fallen out of the news cycle, and it would have been taken care of with the kind of slap on the wrist rich…

“On the children who were complicit with/actively participated in the crime.”