The Screening Room

Uff!

Nog Shine

10:51 AM

@AJ what happened?

nothing

shouldn't have told someone something

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

Uff!

Nog Shine

@AJ ohhh

checking how long can @M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ keep his patience until someone asks him "what happened"

Q: Why does Mola Ram only use the village kids for slave labor?

11:10 AM

2

In "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom", why does Mola Ram only use the village kids for slave labor and not the adults too? Using the adults as well would benefit them much more. Does he just think that children make better workers than adults twice their size and strength?

M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ

@MovieReel Eeeeevel </palpatine>

@AJ long enough apparently. Blows razzies

Life of Brian - pontius pilate

@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ what happened? ;P

Ankit Sharma

12:00 PM

O.o

Anne Daunted

12:36 PM

If Lashana becomes the new 007, I wonder if there'll also be male equivalents of the "Bond Girl" and how they'd be named. What could match classics like "Honey Ryder" or "Pussy Galore"?

Tinkeringbell

1:19 PM

@AnneDaunted Richard Dickens? :P

Anne Daunted

1:39 PM

@Tinkeringbell :) Or maybe they get some inspiration from The Life of Brian

►

Mithrandir

This is exactly what I was thinking of.

Tinkeringbell

Sneaking in some watching now ;)

Ahhh. Yeah, sort of like that :P

Q: How much do licenses to failed/canceled shows typically go for?

0

It came up in conversation and now I can't stop wondering: Canceled shows like Stargate SG1 etc., Buffy, The 4400, and dozens others seem worth little to studios, just gathering dust. But how much do licenses to this kind of 'TV abandonware' typically sell for, when someone actually does come alo...

cancellation

Q: Where was The West Wing shot?

2:09 PM

0

Where was the series 'The West Wing' shot ? Was it a replica set of the White House made elsewhere? And episodes where they show the presidential motorcade traveling through Times Square in NYC and in Washington, DC, how were those set up?

film-location the-west-wing

2:23 PM

HELLO MY INTERNET FRIENDS!!!!

@NapoleonWilson Our worst nightmare has come true. They did it. They made 007 a female ;-(

Oh, God. I forgot how to post links. LOL

@steelersquirrel Yeah, I heard something like that.

Hopefully it's just a strange rumour.

@NapoleonWilson It's not a rumor. It's official.

Blurgh!

She's not even hot! ;)

The most recent Moneypenny is way hotter than this girl.

You don't have to subvert every friggin' dude character just to show you can. Women are important, we got it! Now leave James Bond alone, thank you!

3

2:31 PM

I had to come in here and rant because You're the only one who would feel my pain :P

@NapoleonWilson RIGHT?!?!?!

AND...I'M A GIRL!!!

We promise we won't cast Bradley Cooper as Ripley in the Alien remake either.

you know you've done something wrong when girls don't like the idea that Bond is a woman and we're going to get Bond Boys

personally i would rather there be Bond Girls with a female Bond.....but that aint happening in any meaningful way

if it did happen it would be just the fan service

@Memor-X I just want my Bond left alone. He's a male. He was created as a male. He's supposed to be traveling the world, kicking ass, banging hot girls and being awesome. If they want a female to do that, fine...just create a new female character, don't make her Bond.

@steelersquirrel well i sorta like the idea they're making Bond as a code name here which can be taken up by anyone like with Q and M

That's the point. There's no need to reappropriate James Bond for a great female spy character.

@Memor-X And this is to me personally one of the most useless theories to ever exist around the nonsense task of forcing a continuity into the James Bond films.

2:38 PM

@NapoleonWilson well part of me was hoping for the theory so we could get Samuel L Jackson as Bond

But without that theory you could have everyone else as Bond, too anyway. It's not precluding anyone. (Well, other than women, but...even as codename "James" makes zero motherfriggin' sense for a woman either. If you want to be all feminist bullshittery, then be forward and give her a woman's name.)

is it James Bond that's being used as a code name? or 007? the articles i keep seeing keep using James Bond but 007 would make more sense to me

Of course. That is his code afterall.

But...if you want to press a woman into the role and don't want to make yourself look like a complete and utter moron, you...gotta find some way to give her that iconic male name. Hence...code name, problem "solved".

@Memor-X It's 007.

But...007 is James Bond. It always has been. I don't know why they need to fix something that's not broken.

yeh, maybe the articles i keep seeing are using the wrong name and should really be saying "Lashana Lynch is the new 007", not "Lashana Lynch is the new James Bond"

2:46 PM

I don't even know who this chick is.

Last time Napoleon and I had this discussion, people got mad at us ;)

2

@steelersquirrel the same can be said for all the new live action remakes of classic Disney films. with the exception to Maleficent

@steelersquirrel maybe not a good thing for the two of you to agree on something lol

@steelersquirrel yeh the only name i recognise from the articles is Idris Elba because people wanted him as Bond next

@steelersquirrel And they might this time, too. But I don't really give a fuck. There's nothing to hide by standing to the fact that James Bond is, was, and will always be a genuinely male character to the point of it being a significant part of his very character.

Shocking to some people as it may be, but...men and women are different, yo!

And there's about 5 million things women can't do, like play James Bond. Same as there's equally many things men can't do, like play Ellen Ripley.

ok, Lashana Lynch was Maria Rambeau in Captain Marvel

beyond that have not seen anything she is in

@Memor-X I know! I was sooooo excited for him to be the next Bond!

> Bond has left active service and is enjoying a tranquil life in Jamaica. His peace is short-lived when his old friend Felix Leiter from the CIA turns up asking for help. The mission to rescue a kidnapped scientist turns out to be far more treacherous than expected, leading Bond onto the trail of a mysterious villain armed with dangerous new technology.

2:54 PM

@NapoleonWilson I didn't mean to get you so worked up. I seem to be good at that :P

there's a part of me that thinks that this decision was not the original plan

@steelersquirrel Well, it's okay. I had a long monologue with myself about it yesterday already when I read about these news at work. ;-)

Yeah. I don't know what they were thinking. Pretty sure that the whole #MeToo thing had something to do with it. I don't know.

@NapoleonWilson I would have loved to see that! Hehehehe!

@steelersquirrel oh yeh, given that's removed one of the outtakes for Toy Story 2 i'm surprised most of the Bond films havn't been like removed from existence

But maybe it'll all be eaten less hot than it's cooked. It might just be some overblown rumour and she won't actually take over the entire role.

3:02 PM

It's not a rumor. Have you read any of the articles?

@Memor-X Oh, really? What outtake did they remove from Toy Story 2?

@steelersquirrel the one where Pete is talking to the Barbies

@Memor-X Seriously? OMG. People need to relax and stop taking things so seriously. Men are always going to ogle women. Removing scenes from movies isn't going to change anything ;)

@NapoleonWilson you might be right about that actually

Bond 25

Bond 25 is an upcoming spy film and the 25th installment in the James Bond series to be produced by Eon Productions for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Universal Pictures. The film features Daniel Craig in his fifth performance as fictional MI6 agent James Bond. It is directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga, who co-wrote the screenplay with Scott Z. Burns and Phoebe Waller-Bridge, based on an early draft by Neal Purvis and Robert Wade. The film is scheduled for theatrical release in the United Kingdom on 3 April 2020. == Premise == James Bond has left active service when his friend Felix Leiter enlists his help...

> Daniel Craig as James Bond,[2] agent 007.
Rami Malek as the film's primary antagonist.[3]
Ralph Fiennes as M,[3] the head of MI6 and Bond's superior officer.
Naomie Harris as Eve Moneypenny,[3] M's assistant.
Rory Kinnear as Bill Tanner,[4] the MI6 chief of staff.
Léa Seydoux as Dr. Madeleine Swann,[3] a psychiatrist and Bond's love interest who assisted him on a previous mission.
Ben Whishaw as Q,[3] the MI6 Quartermaster who outfits Bond with equipment for use in the field.
Jeffrey Wright as Felix Leiter,[4] Bond's friend and a CIA field officer.

and the citation was from the end of last month

@steelersquirrel Well, the one I glanced over only said that she'd be in some kind of role trying to get him back into business. I'm not sure it was already clear she'll be playing 007 in the following films. But maybe you've read other articles.

I didn't dive too much further into it since I wasn't really in the mood for such utter bullshit. ;-)

Hehehe!

3:25 PM

I gotta get out of here. See you sillies later :)

Have funsies!