@MooseMcG I’ve read that the original script of Tron had a teenage hacker instead.
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@bhowejr @TheStingisBack Rocky III is maybe the only exception.
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@TheStingisBack I find that, more often than not, when a movie intended to be stand alone (not a planned "trilogy", etc.), reaches a franchise level where there is a "3" in the title, things don't go well.
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RoboCop flying in RoboCop 3 (1993) is bad on almost every level, yet the movie plays it like a triumphant moment.
Still can’t believe they took the ultra-violent ’87 classic and turned it into a PG-13 toy commercial. And why does the window shatter before he even hits it?
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@ok_post_guy Supermarkets got rid of the vending machines out front about 15 years ago. The electrical plugs are still there! I guess they realized people would actually pay $2 inside instead of 50 cents inside.
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You could get a cold President's Choice soda from a vending machine outside Harris Teeter for $0.25 until like 2010. You could do the same with Walmart and a "Sam's cola" until like 2015. Now I think they're $0.50
Free Northerner@FreeNortherner
Yes. Soda was a luxury until the mid-2000s. It was something you'd have for family movie night on Fridays and birthdays. Prior to the ~90s, it was even more rare. Drinking soda with every meal wasn't normal until fairly recently. It is a small luxury but a luxury.
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@711elderemo @infinitethird I got so many cheap games when Game Crazy went under. I saw their boxes in Goodwills and resale shops for years.
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@infinitethird Hollywood video also had game crazy and they would order games for you if you wanted it. I remember needing mvc 2 for Dreamcast in the ps3 years and they ordered it. Took months but they got it and was only 20 bucks.
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who remembers Hollywood Video? better selection and a dirtier vibe (complimentary)
Poirot@Argenpoirot
Blockbuster fue el paraíso. No tenias la pelicula a un click, tenias que ir, recorrer pasillos, buscas y buscar, ver si estaba disponible el VHS. Y te vendían hasta los caramelos y todo tipo cosas para la experiencia cine en casa. Que hermosos recuerdos.
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@infinitethird Hollywood Video or Blockbuster always had a Papa John’s connected to them in my area. There are so many Papa John’s still around with random or empty stores next to them now.
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@ThunderKidOG @alphafox It lasted until 2007. It was pretty popular in the ‘80s and ‘90s.
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@5iveroundsrapid @alphafox But unlike Pepsi, it looks like this competitor to mad didn't last very long (if I've never heard of it until now, that should be the case)
They probably could make a comeback now that mad magazine caught Trump derangement syndrome
They'd make millions
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@ThunderKidOG @alphafox It was like the Pepsi to Mad’s Coke.
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@n0ex8 @b1ondeath Most of the 80’s country pop was directly influenced by him. Ronnie Milsap played keyboards for him.
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@b1ondeath Realistically it would've been like 80s country pop tbh.
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@LostInCa45 @thedigitaldash_ Even auto parts stores are doing that to deliver to mechanic shops now.
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@thedigitaldash_ Cheaper to out source to door dash. This way you are not paying employees when there are zero deliveries.
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@bigsullyt @samwakinsvv It looks like they glued it to the wall. No dirt around it at all.
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@samwakinsvv 99% of shows like this are fake I’d take this with a grain of salt
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He didn’t overreact at all cuz how humid does the freezer have to be to be able to grow MUSHROOMS in there LMFAOO
Redd@ReddCinema
If you think Gordon Ramsay is hard on mfs watch Bar Rescue to see the real demon
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@arcticinstincts Homo Erectus did a lot of clubbing, too…
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British women getting ready for a night out clubbing
🇨🇭🏔 Hagaz 🏔🇨🇭 - Emperor of the Alps@HagazagaH
Homo Erectus reconstruction: In winter / In summer
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@TravisCookMO @DrunkRepub It still isn’t exactly Thousand Island dressing. It has a couple different ingredients.
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@DrunkRepub My father swears that back in the 70's, the McDonald's Big Mac actually had a secret sauce, and while Thousand Island might have been part of that sauce, it wasn't the secret sauce outright.
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There was a time in the 80s and 90s when fast food places slapped Thousand Island on everything and referred to it as “secret sauce” and thought they were smooth but we knew. Everybody knew.
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@DrPopCultureUSA Mary started out as a model, and did a TV commercial for Hotpoint ranges.
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@5iveroundsrapid @joeridesagain @PorterFrazier12 My grandpa, who went by the nickname “Boots,” was born and raised in Hazelhurst. He was part of the Greatest Generation. He died in 2009 at the age of 91. I missed him dearly.
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I’ve noticed the overwhelming majority of people upset about the term “cotton-picking hands” are not from the South.
Do they not know white indentured servants existed in the South? I have ancestors who were indentured to wealthy plantation owners for several years upon arriving in the American colonies. Several of my ancestors picked cotton, harvested tobacco, and worked as blacksmiths alongside slaves for the colonial elite until their debt was paid. They weren’t treated much differently than slaves. While legally distinct, indentured servants were still considered property. They could be sold to other plantation owners and physically punished, just like slaves.
Are they unaware that middle- and lower-class white Southern landowners who were not indentured servants picked cotton on their own farms with their own hands? Roughly 75% of Southerners, give or take a few percentage points, never had slaves. They suffered through the same back-breaking work as slaves and indentured servants.
In short, the majority of white Southerners picked cotton by hand just like their black counterparts for several generations until the cotton gin became readily available.
The only Southerners who never had “cotton-picking hands” were the extremely wealthy plantation owners who never had to do manual labor before or after the Civil War.
What should be deemed controversial is just how many Northerners and coastal elites have watched “Gone With The Wind” once and just assume that’s how everyone down here lived during the 1800s.
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@joeridesagain @SouthernMB82 @PorterFrazier12 Chicken is definitely a huge industry there. The oil rigs are there, they’re just very small and in rural areas.
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@5iveroundsrapid @SouthernMB82 @PorterFrazier12 I never saw an oil company, but chicken houses had a boom in the 90’s and have been going strong ever since.
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I can't stand Bea Arthur; never could.
RetroNewsNow@RetroNewsNow
🎉Bea Arthur was born on May 13, 1922
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@SouthernMB82 @joeridesagain @PorterFrazier12 I grew up down there. Definitely no TVA. There was not much commerce but dairy and lumber until the oil companies came in the 1950’s.
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@joeridesagain @PorterFrazier12 I was just being silly.
He grew up in southern Mississippi far away from the TVA.
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@4nt1p4tt3rn I was afraid he’d peak with Oppenheimer, but wow…
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Nolan had a good run.
He's cooked.
There goes whatever little creativity still remained in Hollywood.
Pop Base@PopBase
Christopher Nolan explains his choice to cast Travis Scott in ‘The Odyssey.’ “I cast him because I wanted to nod towards the idea that this story has been handed down as oral poetry, which is analogous to rap” (time.com/article/2026/0…)
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Can you honestly see little girls begging their parents for this?
What are we even doing anymore?
Sad Patron@SeeingMount
Live action Maui doll by Mattel found by mmdisney200
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@bicharrac0 @UncleWalt1971 Walt bought the rights to all the sequel books.
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@UncleWalt1971 Disney could have bought the rights from Baum when he tried to sell Oz but Disney told him it would all be public domain soon.MGM got the rights and made the highly successful "The Wizard of Oz"
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1985’s "Return to Oz" was the very first movie to open with the now-classic Walt Disney Pictures logo (the blue castle with the rainbow arch) which debuted in a short silent version here before getting full sound treatment in "The Black Cauldron,” which premiered later that year.
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