We have 8 and 10 and we have just been thinking that maybe the 10 year old could handle it. Sadly the 8 year old is really sensitive so no time soon.

The Mummy with Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz

Even with it overdubbed, you can clearly read her lips so it’s possible our brains just filled in the blank.

Regarding stickiness, perhaps it’s because the internet is ubiquitous now. Fifteen years ago, those of us on Fark and Digg and Reddit came to the internet for a lot of things. Notably, we kept in touch with friends that way (MySpace and Facebook) and in particular, we got our news that way. My parents were incredulous forever and still kinda are that I “don’t watch the evening news.” Now everyone uses it for everything. The big difference is that the early adopters are naturally more open to change because they adopted something that was a change. The rest of the population was slowly pushed into it. Now they don’t want to leave the sites that they’re used to (e.g. Reddit and Facebook) because they aren’t that open to change in the first place.

It might have done well but it’s not a great follow-up if we’re honest. The songs are bangers but the production was a mess if the Disney+ documentary is anything to go by (seriously, I’m surprised they released the doc!) and the story is definitely sloppy compared to the first one.

Hopefully the Democrats. No seriously, I hope the Dems become our more conservative party and we get a more progressive party. But… I’m not holding my breath, honestly. Feels like wishful thinking.

If your normal breathing is really that audible, it might be worth checking with a doctor. You could have something going on, even as simple as a deviated septum or something like that.

My husband and I both love it but he’s a bit obsessed so we’ve watched it several times now. Was on HBO max or whatever it’s called now for a while? Watch it four times to make sure the metrics are good. Got added to friend’s plex server? Watch it again. Muck with the speakers a bit? Gotta test them, what better to test them with? Oops, watched the whole thing. That said, my reaction upon seeing this trailer was “Man I gotta read the book again before March.”

Ah sorry!

Music nerd here so bear with me.

I liked Third Eye Blind when I first heard them, probably as a teen? (I’m an older millennial.) But then every song they released afterward sounded the same and I couldn’t stand them anymore. I took enough music theory (read: too much, I have degrees) so I was able to figure out why. They lean hard on singing on the third scale degree over a IV chord, which I suppose you could claim is a IV7, but their melody is always on the third. So yeah. I think they’re hacks without any ideas except that one. I get why people think they’re catchy though.

Marie Antoinette was way more of a sympathetic character than this asshole. At least in her case you could explain it away with her being young and sheltered.

In California we use wood because it flexes during earthquakes. There may be damage during a big one but at least the house is less likely to collapse on you.

Several reasons:

Easier to animate, yes, but also easier to streamline when everything was done by hand;

In black and white, some of the earliest animations showed black characters (like Mickey and Pete) without gloves and the hands blended in with the bodies during movement, so the white gloves helped break it up visually;

In Mickey’s case, they didn’t want to animate mouse hands (lol);

A direct connection to vaudeville, where performers traditionally wore gloves — apparently many early animators were also vaudeville performers.

I spent a minute thinking about what it’d be like without the dubbing, which is so obvious that it is, itself, pretty funny… but I agree with you. I think the f bomb would be better, especially as it must have been delivered by the wonderful Ms. Weaver.

You can clearly see Sigourney Weaver say the word, like so clearly that your brain just went with it despite what your ears heard. That’s my theory at least.