Is it a cult classic? Deservedly so (I personally love it). Is it a ground breaking technological and artistic cinematic endeavour? Absolutely. No doubt it'll stand the test of time and worth to have books written about it, but to call it "still looks like a billion bucks"... let's be real, that's a no. And I don't even care about 90% of movies that cost half of a billion bucks.

Putting a dollar amount to TRON's visual expression is just misguided. It has not been imitated/replicated (imo, for good reasons) since, which I'm glad about so its visual uniqueness is not diluted by lessor films.

Another fun fact: all teslas can “sense” when a part is going bad and order new parts directly to the dealership in your name, only notifying you when your parts are ready for installation. No way Elon would abuse that system to fleece his customers, is there?

Also fun fact: driving a cyber truck in the grass voids the warranty, as do rough roads, potholes, mud, and puddles. Not the case for the Ford that costs 1/2 as much for a real truck that can truck.

Yes, the umbilical brothers are really good. I'd never heard of them.

The 'reaction' part adds nothing, though, and only takes away by saying wow (and taking views off the original poster). It's like someone finally made a way of making laugh tracks much much worse while costing the show far far more.

Rant over. Checking out more Umbilical Brothers to relax.

Holy crap! Just to drive home the unbelievable incompetence of this administration, our eggs are up to $15 a dozen and rising (3 times their pre-felon cost), in Mexico, a dozen eggs is well under $2!
Expect all food to be similarly overpriced. Just because the tariffs were dropped (except from China) doesn’t mean the trade war is over…Mexico, Canada, and China have all curtailed their orders from the US severely without tariffs. Canada pulled all US alcohol off the shelves, and aren’t keen on putting it back.
Also, thousands were murdered because he suspended funding for experimental medical trials, meaning thousands are in the middle of treatments for deadly diseases which drives medical advancements, many with devices implanted, all of which were just abandoned to die.
And, eggs are so expensive that they are now being hijacked by the truckload, and RFK jr 1) skipped the transition meeting so has no clue what’s happening and 2) doesn’t believe in pandemics so has no plan to address bird flu or any other emerging disease or food shortage.
And we now know why Elon shut down USAID…not because they were wasteful or leftists, Ivanka used millions in USAID herself, they were investigating his Starlink contracts in Ukraine (like overcharging and how he shut them down at critical times to help Russia in the war), so had to close.
Also, he and his subordinate the felon rehired the active proud racist Nazi that quit when he was outed, because they both are Nazis themselves. Time for instigating that Indian hate he advocates against race traitor Vance and his brown family.

By decree, he has also claimed to have ended FEMA, saying states should take care of themselves, not each other. The south is doomed….California will just withhold federal taxes and pay for itself, and save tens of billions of dollars per year that way, Louisiana alone will be $10 billion per year in the hole or more. All southern states are “takers” from the fed… Enjoy.

Eggs are $9 already and skyrocketing and he completely abandoned the promise to lower grocery prices, now says it’s impossible.

When told his policies are already crashing the economy on live TV by Hannity he answered “I don’t care”.

We will be in a depression this summer, and a real military invasion by Xmas (unless he hands Alaska to Russia and Hawaii to China).

His first plan to stop the Ukraine war….tell Putin he is planning tariffs and sanctions on anything Russia sells the U.S. (clearly not knowing they’ve been in effect for years already, and that Russia hasn’t sold anything to the US in years).

Pardoned more terrorists including those who pleaded guilty to treason/sedition and violence against police.
Some were re-arrested for more violent felonies they committed under a day after release. He invited these convicted anti American criminal thugs to the Whitehouse.
This is exactly what he did in 2020 in Afghanistan before handing the country to the criminal terrorist Taliban (yes, he even invited Taliban leaders to Camp David and the Whitehouse)…a group he seems to look up to. Thank goodness some judges refuse to dismiss with prejudice so they can be retried if law and order ever return to America….unlikely.

Once again, he already dismantled our pandemic response team right as bird flu is emerging in America, and decreed our health agencies cannot make any statements or recommendations but must keep silent and useless. Buy PPE!

His plans to deport every undocumented alien are estimated to cost multiple trillions per year directly just to try and cost the economy up to another $10 trillion per year in lost production…absolutely devastating and turning us into a third world nation overnight.

Is there peace in Ukraine yet? His new stated plan is to ask President Xi of China who is supplying Russia with military equipment and ammo to solve it for him. Russia is publicly mocking him and Smelania (by broadcasting her soft core porn constantly), laughing at his “threats” and giddy at their luck that Biden is gone and their cucked boy is back.

Shocker, these decrees are all directly from project 2025, written by the project 2025 committees, and many Trump doesn’t know what he’s signing since he wasn’t involved in drafting the orders….exactly as we knew would happen.

UPDATE: Decree #1, ending birthright citizenship, shut down by a Republican judge with a hilarious rebuke.

Also fun, 75% of farm workers didn’t show up to work this week. Harvests are essentially cancelled. Prepare for double digit inflation at the grocery store in short order. $9 eggs is just a start.

….And the Trump shit coin has dropped another 35% in one day, taking tens of billions more out of his supporters pockets and transferring it to himself (he owns 90% with no cash investment, and is the only winner).
$melania (yes, her shit coin is Smelania) also dropped over 60% since it’s inception days ago.

The crypto market as a whole is tanking largely because of this. The idiots believed Trump planned to regulate and solidify the cryptocurrency market but now see it was another grift only meant to trick them into investing in his garbage, and are suddenly realizing it’s all a huge scam controlled by billionaires to make themselves more money. Thousands of Trumptards have lost everything already just days in, right after voting to get rid of social safety nets and medical cost savings. Whodathunkit?!

I just had a realization….there are now 5000 households from Palisades alone that are “homeless” (except those with second houses) and sounds like another 5000 around LA.
It’s a good bet these are mostly the same people who consistently voted against low income housing in LA, definitely NIMBY. They now find themselves competing for the few available rental properties.
In the short term that’s karmic. In the long term, I wonder what it means for their homeless population and wonder if we can expect an exodus since services and opportunities are about to dry up.
Good time to be in demolition/construction in LA.

On a side note, thousands of animals are now homeless, lost, hurt, or in need of supplies in LA. If you can donate directly to a local rescue, do it. Don’t donate to national charities that spend 98% on advertising and administration costs, donate directly to rescue organizations that spend donations on animals.

One of two “super scoopers” on loan from Canada is out of commission after hitting a civilian drone this morning, further hampering efforts. Fortunately the plane managed to land safely with a hole in its wing and not crash into residential LA.
It is a crime to fly a drone in an active disaster area, with a $75k fine and up to 12 months in prison.
Firefighters lost water pressure when PG&E shut off electricity to the pumps that maintain water pressure to keep the lines from sparking new fires, again hampering fire fighting efforts. They are working on getting generators attached to the pumping stations to restore pressure.
At least one new fire started in LA today, suspected of being arson.
This already looks to be the most costly natural disaster in American history, and it is still unfolding.

I hope Biden manages to deliver the aid he has promised before he leaves office. The felon will clearly try to block any aid to a blue state out of personal spite and will leave us to fend for ourselves. (If only we could do the same)

These "hyper-realistic CGI" rehashes of classics cost a pretty penny yet have ZERO magic in them. I'm really not against CGI, but if you want to redo these old classics, do what Spiderverse, TMNT, Wild Robots, etc. did. They had tons more style & character to them then anything Disney/Pixar produced creativity in terms of CGI for the last decade.

*doublepromote a *quality and pertinent bit of information I wish more people learned in school.
Tariffs don’t stimulate economies, they stifle them and start trade wars that are always losers for consumers, they add a national sales tax to any tariffed imports, and the countries targeted always reciprocate making it hard or impossible to compete on the international markets and hurting American companies.
Our last Trump tariff/trade war with China was a horrific failure costing hundreds of billions of dollars, hurting American farmers (had to bail them out for $50 billion more and thousands closed shop), manufacturing, supply lines, and consumers…all for absolutely nothing gained.
Get ready for round 2 to feel like Glass Joe was replaced with Tyson…up to 200% tariffs across the board are going to absolutely destroy the economy in extremely short order.

Also Ben Stein’s birthday

You are partly correct, when he gets into office, the numbers will have already plummeted….
…plummeted because businesses are reeling from the implications of his stated plans (like up to 200% tariffs, and killing the ACA and putting all healthcare costs back on employers and the resulting loss of work) and have started cutting workforces drastically, stopped hiring, and are halting bonuses and promotions so they can afford to buy all of next years stock before Jan 21 when it will cost significantly more. Others are preparing to close because they work in multiple countries, shipping back and forth during production, and tariffs of any size are going to kill their businesses, so better to get out before they’re forced out and broke.

The major economic downturn started Nov 5th. and is accelerating.

1st….what does 100$ million mean?
2nd…if that means $100 million, can you cite any source for that number? Who told you that stupidity, and how gullible must you be to repeat it without the slightest thought to verifying it?
Everything I found and recall says the investigation cost about $32 million all tolled and just Manafort alone forfeited $42 million in cash and assets, a net gain of $10 million for taxpayers and a highly successful indictment and prosecution of the administration with 34 high level cabinet members indicted along with 3 Russian companies they colluded with, still a success despite the ring leader being protected from the crimes it found by his AG.
Keep dreaming. Reality is your nightmare.

Bonus- uh-oh! Jack Smith has the felon’s burner phone records, a phone he used Jan 6 to route calls through Egypt to his coconspirators. The felon’s lawyers did not dispute them, they stipulated they are real. Those calls could not be official presidential business. Those calls were about fake electors, the fraudulent attempt to throw the decisions back to states with Republicans in charge but that went to Biden, the violent coup, and a multitude of other criminal anti-democratic things he’s looking for immunity from. How do you think Chutkan will rule? 😂

The cheating is all from maga, just like it was proven to be in every one of the last 6 elections.
Remember the 4 election fraud investigations the felon’s White House performed? Remember the results, booby? Sure you do…they all found no Democratic fraud and all found maga fraud (that’s why they went away without making a big deal about their findings), but not enough to sway any elections (or so they claimed) with a few exceptions like Mark Harris who was caught orchestrating a ballot harvesting fraud in N Carolina (your boy) in 2018 but he was caught and you had to hold a new special election at a cost of millions…

https://www.lawyerscommittee.org/north-carolina-voter-fraud/

Hide and watch. I’ll bet my hair that it’s a maggot who did this again.

“The system is working”….not if 3 fake votes were counted, dipshits.

So….it’s come out the felon complained his generals weren’t like Hitler’s generals….and shocker I agree…Hitler’s generals tried 3 times to assassinate Hitler, and with today’s technology it would only take once.
He also apparently doesn’t know Hitler’s generals lost WW2.
Hilariously the best, indeed only defense offered by his sycophants is “maybe he doesn’t know Hitler’s generals were Nazis”, pretending we don’t know Hitler is his hero and he’s read his biography and Mien Kampf repeatedly (or pretended to), and pretending he might not know Nazi leadership was made of Nazis…as if that itself isn’t disqualifying.
This on the same day his top general, John Kelly, warned against electing him because he is a real serious fascist.

He still hasn’t paid for the funeral of an American soldier killed by another soldier that he had promised publicly to pay for, and whined it doesn’t cost $60k to bury a Mexican (she was a natural born American citizen and military service member) disrespecting both the military and anyone of Mexican heritage.

Shocker, it’s come out that the felon promised unqualified to be a traffic court judge Cannon a cabinet position as Attorney General (or maybe Supreme Court appointment) for her help with his stolen classified document problem, and she accepted. This is verified by the campaign’s filed transition documents that list her on the short list of candidates to vet.

Here’s a photo of the over 50 year old married felon “dancing” (looks more like groping her ass and pressing into her belly with his mushroom tip) with a 13 year old girl on Epstein’s private island … before or after the nude “massage” with happy ending?
https://yt3.ggpht.com/iC4DtNKzVAMBhE6MNPPe6iSCX5JX8HN69yiEhCNJo_5xAeJ5hntY9kpL3tViPRECkX2ff6_kbWHBhQ=s1002-nd-v1

Even delusional maggots like you can no longer pretend.

Either you follow the felon or you support democracy, the two are 100% mutually exclusive.

The evidence of his actions presented yesterday is incontrovertible, in the sworn testimony and physical and digital evidence directly from the White House staff that was involved (his best people).

As sane people already knew, He knew from the start that he lost, and knew that everything he tried was illegal and dishonest, he intended the violence, he incited the violence, he watched and enjoyed the violence, he refused to lift a finger to stop the violence until after it was clear it had failed, and he absolutely intended to end democracy in America even if it cost Pence his life.
The last thing he angrily screamed at Pence…”You’re too honest” because he wouldn’t lie and help steal the election…”YOU’RE TOO HONEST.”. During the call he told Pence “hundreds of thousands will be angry with you if you don’t help me win.” and immediately afterwards reminded his hundreds of thousands of followers to come to Washington on Jan 6, “it’s going to be wild”.

So which is it? Trump, or democracy? Pretty sure I know.