Deadlines? What Deadlines?

pwned.

They should put this on the billboard.

No problem at all; just not 20 times a year.

Well, if you squint really hard that could be an acronym I guess. Nevertheless, the point stands: once the Gretas are aligned against you, kiss your ass goodbye. In my brain, Romanian law enforcement is seaching his home and pocketing all the good booze. They're seizing Tate's car collection as I write this.

Doing a bit or research on this, it appears the "no cultural impact" discourse was started a while back by non other than Scott Mendelson at Forbes. Ugh. More recently there was this article , which I think has been sited in a few places. I won't go through the whole thing but I have some comments: A lack of memes? Give me a break. And all the "meme-able" quotes he sites are literally 40 years old. Avatar was released into a context where SW already exists. Where a lot of sci-fi & fantasy storytelling exists. In fact, there probably wouldn't be an Avatar without Star Wars. OTOH, there was no SW before SW. There was really nothing competing with it either. Not really a fair comparison. Star Wars is probably the most culturally significant nugget of pop culture to come out of the last 50 years. Stacking anything against it is unfair I think. Comparing Avatar to Star Wars, even on the incredibly narrow set of parameters this guy lays out, doesn't mean Avatar had little or no cultural impact; only that it didn't have as much as Star Wars. Well, Duh. And that probably wasn't always the case. In the early-mid '90's, before the OT re-release and prequels were announced, SW probably wasn't on anyones mind aside from some hardcore nerds. It also occurs to me that this type of commentary, primarily from American authors, tends to focus narrowly on America. for example, none of the SW films ever topped Avatar's box office in China and Avatar 2 looks likely to do better still. China is over 1 billion people. This is not trivial. In fact, In countries where the OT never played back in the 70's and 80's, and where you didn't have a generation of people getting SW toys for Christmas, interest in SW is somewhat weaker. There's a lot of nostalgia at play. In Canada we have a network called APTN, which is features programming geared toward First Nations audiences. For example, you can watch talk shows or news broadcasts or Hockey Night in Canada in Cree. My awareness of it is thin, because I gave up terrestrial cable years ago, but I learned recently that they play Avatar almost as often as Bravo plays Gladiator (seriously Bravo, get help). Clearly there's an impact that isn't as obvious as, "how much merch is on the shelves?"

Pele might be the first sports figure I ever had any real awareness of as a child; and I don't even follow soccer.

Just days after an hour-long softball interview by Piers Morgan. He must be thinking, "Well, at least no one's talking about Jeremy Clarkson anymore." After spending 11.5 months collectively chambered into the shit tornado that is 2022, I'm more than happy to see the back of this year. But seriously the last two weeks have been amazing*. I haven't had this much fun as a twitter voyeur since the Queen died. It would be interesting to see what the discourse on Parler and other similar sites is like regarding the Tate arrest. *I refuse to process Pele's death right now.

p.p.s. would Julia Hartley-Brewer still want Andrew Tate's life over Gretas "Every Single Time"?

Holy shit that's today. You're right. I don't believe it. No fucking way. Never. EVAH. Mess with Greta Thunberg. She clearly has powerful gods on her side. p.s. Is that a smoking jacket or a bath robe? Who the fuck owns a smoking jacket in 2022?

That's going to leave a mark.

I fucking hope so. Tate is a colossal douchbag. Speaking of Elon, I wonder how this will work for him (Tesla). The fact that he personally reinstated the account of this clown who got banned for advocating violence against women is now trolling a climate activist by bragging about how big his carbon footprint is. As of right now #smalldickenergy is trending on twitter BTW.

Yeah, "no memes" too. The "zero cultural footprint" critique comes from a lot of self important so-and-so's who couldn't find their ass with both hands. Regarding the domestic box office, It looks like it'll overtake a bunch of films in the $350-$400 million range in the next week. It'll probably knock Dr. Strange 2 out 3rd place by Sunday night. It's too soon to tell what kind of legs this movie has, but after 12 days in theaters, its domestic box office is tracking somewhat higher than the first film. However, if you compare the inflation adjusted box office, they're almost line-on-line. Three. Point. One. Billion. $.

I actually have very little awareness of this guy aside from what I've heard on various podcasts, but I remember seeing something recently about how his massive social media presence is proof positive that he's the manliest man who ever Manly'd. Sadly, the ratio will put a hole in him that no supercar collection could ever fill. Also, For those on the more progressive end of the main stream social media spectrum; no, this is not body shaming, even if Tate does in fact have a tiny penis. What Ms. Thunberg is talking about is the metaphorical tiny penis. A tiny penis-of-the-mind, if you will.

If he thinks the burn is bad, wait 'till he sees the ratio.

Tesla Semi launched 3 years late. And it's not clear to me that those are production vehicles or beta testers for Pepsi co. The 2nd Generation Tesla roadster is 2 years late and counting. Who the hell knows when Cyber Truck will launch, but since they've shown it, F-150 Lightning, Silverado electric and Hummer EV have all hit the market. You can go into a dealership and buy those vehicles right now. No one runs a car company like this. Not a successful one anyway.

https://youtu.be/8UN-kQTP9dw

Is it some kind of protest? Is it a tribute? We demand answers.

I loved the kids. Weaver is great as the 14 year old Kiri and Tuk is just so lovable. Worthington and Salanda definitely earn their money here. Everyone was great. My only complaint was that Edie Falco could have been utilized more. That's the thing about this film that made it a bit weird to watch for me. The first act is great and more or less what you'd expect following from the first film. But the second act becomes a kind of coming of age story that almost exclusively focuses on the children. Jake and Neytiri are pushed to the background really for most of the film. Like I'm waiting for the movie to be about Jake and Neytiri and it never seems to happen. Once I wrapped my head around that it was really enjoyable. I think I'm going to see it again at some point over the holidays. I know my niece wants to see it again.

They released two trailers. That's not the one that played when I saw Avatar 2.

Well, that didn't take long https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/henry-cavill-warhammer-40000-amazon-1235283251/

I could be wrong but now it looks like two Oppenheimer trailers were released yesterday.