This sounds like the nefarious doings of . . . The Unknown!

It definitely needs a terrifying boat scene. I hope we can all agree on that.

I suspect the people who made this were fans of that guy with the hydraulic press on YouTube and thought they could somehow shoehorn that into an iPad commercial.

I can’t answer the second question, but I can answer the first one: William H. Macy.

It’s almost impressive that what I’m sure is a massive marketing team all watched that ad and thought, “Yep, no sinister undertones there.”

It’s just so weird. I understand that the ad is supposed to mean “look, we compressed all these things into an iPad” but that’s just not what it actually says at all. It solely reads as: “look, we’re violently destroying at least one thing you have a strong emotional connection to; now give us a thousand dollars.”…

You’d be surprised!

Something I didn’t know until earlier today!  

And sang by the star of the show.

That’s a hell of a waste considering it was a classic example of the theme song written specifically for the show.

Imo, DS9 got progressively better with each season, peaked in sixth, and then took a bit of a dive in seventh (which has some excellent episodes - I personally love the last run up to the series finale - but also includes some bonkers decisions like Sisko is half-Prophet and a few too many boring Ezri fillers).

Tangential, but I saw Godzilla x Kong last weekend, and there was one moment where the shot cuts to a front-quarter view of some car (I don’t even remember what make) that was so obviously a product placement shot that I actually burst out laughing. If you’ve seen it, it’s the end of the scene where Irene is talking…

Next year, Crowe stars in The Exorcist’s Exorcism, wherein he plays an actor who plays an actor who plays an exorcist. The year after that...

that’s what we need is a SMJ film like the Murphy as the Klumps...

I don’t think there’s a version of marketing for this that can make the first 45-minutes better— they are weak with or without the twist or reveal or whatever you want to call it. The cast just isn’t that interesting until shit goes off the rails. If they were written even a bit better then it could have been marketed…

Damn I’d have to see the movie to speak to it fully, but it almost seems like the “twist” isn’t intended to be a twist so much as a plot development.

Mynd you, møøse bites Kan be pretti nasti...

Those responsible for canceling the cancellation special have been canceled.

Seriously, I saw this last night and it was fine. Dan Simmons was doing a half-baked Steve Buscemi impression, Giancarlo Esposito was in it for about three minutes, everybody else was okay. The second “twist” was not super hard to guess at.

Disney seems to have almost completely forgotten they ever made this show. Although Gummi Bears did a bit of a shout-out in the 2017 Ducktales reboot, so there’s that. There’s an episode where Scrooge McDuck has to track down a spy who has stolen a mysterious secret formula. Turns out it’s the recipe for Gummi Berry…