I just had to get on for this..  such a facepalm i couldn't stay away.   

They just revealed who will play the 007 role in the next movie....  Yep, a woke female.. 

Sad part is they dont need to destroy characters and still target the woke audience.

it was not a branch of ONE agent..  there were females..  just change the show to 009 or something and move on a new direction..   Same with Dr Who..  there were female time lords.. just pick one then " hey, doctor is taking a vacation" "or the doctor is lost in time.. we are going to look for him" .. new show, new audience and you don't disenfranchise the thing.

And i hear X files is being rebooted, and again, destroying the original characters in the process..  just pick 2 new agents and move on to your new target market.

"My pronouns are They/Them..." 

When it bombs, they'll say it is because we're all racist, sexist, homophobic manbabies. 

Because no one the movie is marketed to wants spy movies, and no one who wants spy movies is interested in being lectured for 2 hours for $20. 

Tue Apr 07 2026 01:47:41 UTC from IGnatius T Foobar

They just revealed who will play the 007 role in the next
movie....  Yep, a woke female.. 

"The name is Bond. Shaniqua Bond."

Yesterday we went out to see the new Mario Brothers movie.  It's the first time I've been in a movie theater since ... the last Mario Brothers movie.

It was good.  It was basically a 90 minute speed run.  And it had Yoshi.

$690 million gross so far, it's doing really well, and Hollywood hates it.  That's a win/win.

Can't remember the last time I saw a movie in the theater. It was post Covid... oh... I bet it was F1. That was a Hollywood spectacle. Brad Pitt's Top Gun moment. 

Avatar was just Pocahontas in space, wasn't it?

I've seen "scene by scene" breakdowns that make a very compelling argument that is almost literally Pocahontas in Space with the most superficial of additions to hide that fact. 

But I guess it is like music - the themes tend to repeat where you could probably find something and make a great argument that it is just "Lord of the Rings" underwater with a Megalodon instead of Sauron and a team of undersea biologists instead of the Fellowship of the Ring - if you tried hard enough. 

Anyhow, lately I got a craving to re-read the Conan novels from the 80s. So I found a modern compendium at B&N... and after reading it - I felt it was a little... cleansed. It didn't read quite like I remember. So I went out searching and found the original 12 novels (not the ORIGINAL 12 novels, but the 12 novels that peaked in the 70s and 80s and were almost literal transcriptions for the original 50s pulp magazines they were often published in. Classic Golden Age of Novel SciFi/Fantasy editions). 

I find myself wishing someone would give the care to the Conan universe that Peter Jackson brought to Tolkien's Middle Earth. The themes seem outwardly problematic in terms of sexist and racist tropes and stereotypes - but Conan ends up fighting side by side with powerful woman who tolerate no bullshit and spill guts and brains just as effectively as Conan - he ends up the sex-slave of a black Amazonian queen for a period of time, he leads marauding crews of black pirates plundering the coasts who elevate him to a Chieftan/Warlord of their tribes and he regards them generally as "equals" in their right to freedom and agency - even while acknowledging that their society and tribal ways are less civilized than Wester nations. The books are generally pretty progressive about ethnicity and gender. There isn't any gay representation - and if you ask me, disincluding that is just fine. Not EVERY story has to have representation of EVERY possible human activity in it. 


And if they covered it with as much respect for the source material as Jackson gave Lord of the Rings - you could skip some of the most modernly problematic themes (they're not that important to the overall story, anyhow... mostly, Conan would never let a white man or woman fall victim to savages of the black nations... and this is almost always an incidental, throw away observation)...  I think with modern CGI and a huge budget you could make a Conan much, much better than the Arnold or the Jason versions. 

But Hollywood is always going to get in its own way with Conan - and to be honest - Conan is virtually a Dick Tracy or Mighty Mouse at this time - his cultural relevancy has been eroded so badly he is archaic at this point. 

Wed May 13 2026 09:06:14 EDT from darknetuser Subject: Re: Mario 2

That is a bit of an oversimplification.

Truth to be told, the main hook for that movie was the visual and artistic presentation, which was awesome.

The whole meat of the movie is the main character being sent to infiltrate and become one of the natives in order to gain intelligence for humans. So not very pocahontey I think.

The ways they are justifying it are insane. 
Oh, Snape... "Sallow skinned, greasy, stringy haired," Snape - which sounds like Marylin Manson - is now BLACK, too. 

And the guy who played the black stormtrooper won't watch Lord of the Rings because it isn't "inclusive" enough. 

Here are my thoughts.  JRR Tolkien wrote a book from the perspective of an older English gentleman based on his cultural heritage primarily for young anglo-European boys in a way that they would be able to instantly culturally relate to. It is anglo-centric fiction written by a textbook anglo author. Really, just like Harry Potter. 

The same people upset about the lack of inclusion would be the first to condemn JRR or Rowling for "not being able to accurately write a person of color because of their inability to understand a character of color based on their race." 

So, they're "excluded" because a white person wrote it, but they exclude a white person from writing it inclusively. Seriously - so their answer is a committee of people of color REWRITING it from an inclusive perspective. You know - APPROPIRATION. 

You can't make it up. There is only one solution they'll approve of - taking a white author's work, and letting people of color rewrite it to be inclusive - which by the way, always fails because now the STORY takes back seat to being inclusive. 

It is absolute bullshit. DEI must die. 

Mon May 18 2026 07:19:29 EDT from darknetuser Subject: The Odyssey

In case you don't know The Odyssey is yet another one of those films designed to retwrite a loved, culturally impactful story, and make it woke as fuck.


Now featuring a black Helen of Troy.

Avoid at any cost.