I absolutely love this “Here’s What We Know” article.

Two things: 1) Theaters do not get “half” the money. The reason they charge you $20 for a small popcorn and soda is that theaters earn between 5 and 10% of ticket revenues. 2) The movie has been out for 6 days so far and has made close to half the $500M number you’re talking about, and has considerable buzz around it.…

They were probably offering him next to nothing to make a cameo and he didn’t want to do it because it’s a pain in the ass to get in the suit for a joke and they’d offer less than next to nothing for the rights to use his face in perpetuity so it’s a no brainer to say no to that, too, when the gist of his scene was…

I say this with the deepest respect to you, Yellowfoot, but if you do that with the Hamster Dance I’m paying Vinnie Jones to hunt you down and squirrel grip you.

But isn’t Jones’ Juggernaut just about the only thing people liked about X-Men 3?

Is this really not a solvable problem? I can’t imagine he was to have a huge role. Can’t you just put someone else in the suit like The Mandalorian does?

Reread what they wrote again. (The article has one of AVC’s famous flubs.)

Hmm I wonder if they will make a sequel to a movie that ends on a cliffhanger and earned its budget back in under a week of theatrical release.

I was sad when he abandoned the Chani.

Although, it strikes me as more self-aware than the mainstream Joker.

You do realize that’s intentional, right? Vera Drew is a frequent collaborator with masters of comically bad green screen effects, Tim & Eric.

Looks better than what I was expecting from a crowdfunded indy film.

You’re not allowed to think this looks bad.

Great movie! Saw it unnamed at a “secret screening" last January. Loved it! Probably seeing it again. Tix are already on sale here for screenings in April and May. Glad they got the legal nonsense sorted so it can have a proper release.

This is the thing that many Americans, especially on the right, are in denial of. Our rigorous enforcement of the Monroe Doctrine and everything in between as far as backing the wrong side in civil wars, dictators, on top of our own coups, cartel/drug/gang wars, military invasions, and occupations, and overall…

(cough cough) RAY-GUN (cough cough)

The easiest way for the US to solve the immigration issue would be to not destabilize the fuck out of regional neighbors for economic gain and proxy nation state building. The US effectively douses its neighboring houses in gas in service of economic leverage, finds the sketchiest people to hand the matches to, and…

I have friends in management who still can’t find unskilled labor to hire, but when I suggest this...”CRIME CRIME CRIME.”

There’s a little hint of that. I figure the joke was more that Dr. Phil comes across as slightly sexually fixated while discussing a supposed threat to America, mixed with being a bit dull-sounding. It does sort of have “is this homophobic pastor secretly gay” energy, doesn’t it?

I still don’t understand why you folks don’t just...recap The Daily Show. You do theoretically still do recaps--nothing I’m remotely interested in these days, but I’ve read the headlines. Framing this as “news”--in that it's news that an episode of TV aired, I guess?--and publishing it to the newswire is just an odd…