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So... Just watch Reacher season 2. Quite enjoyable but nothing too special. But one thing caught my ear.

At the end of the episode Reacher buys himself a Trailways bus pass for 1 year of traveling anywhere in the US.

"That's $1,980 of freedom"

Now as someone whose planning a US road trip I actually thought that would be something I'd be interested in. I actually got a little excited. I searched high and low on the internet and couldn't find such a pass. I went as far as to contact customer services for Trailways and they informed me they don't sell anything like that.

So my question is why would Prime make up such a specific fictious product from a real company?

Also Im not the only person I've seen asking this so why don't Trailways sell it? There's a market for it. It could be the European rail pass equivalent in the US. I find it a little bit frustrating but also just confusing.

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Guess what!!!

I wish they did an Audible wrapped. That would be immense.

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Zack Snyder "accept that you're a cinematographer and stop trying to be a writer/director as well" Challenge

Rebel Moon clearly needed to be a TV series with each of the episodes introducing a new character/scenario, so that there was time to do all the necessary worldbuilding and characterisation properly. The fact that Netflix didn't care about that is concerning.

Like, you want to do 'Seven Samurai' in space? Fine. But there's a way to do that without it being just an underdeveloped hotchpotch of unrelated action scenes featuring cool-looking characters we know nothing about. Then just hurriedly shoehorning in some exposition and moving on as if having the characters actually interact with each other isn't integral to caring about them.

Honestly, it depresses me so much how normalised it's become for the movie industry to just churn out bigger and bigger blockbusters which are so CGI heavy you can taste it at the expense of everything else that makes a movie, you know, good. And this mindset that, so long as it looks stunning and the fight scenes are 'epic', then it doesn't matter if the story is derivative, predictable and/or poorly-paced and has stilted boring dialogue, is really damaging the craft. The acting and costumes and sets all typically do their best to keep everything afloat, but if the script is convoluted or just a series of badly-hidden tropes, then that's what comes through.

My biggest fear is that we as an audience are gradually forgetting what a well-crafted movie actually looks like, and just settling for mind-numbing spectacle, because that's all we're being given.

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Batman was about 8 when his parents were shot coming out of the cinema after seeing Zorro

Robert Patterson was born in 1986

The newer Zorro film, The mask of Zorro, came out in 1998

Meaning Patterson is conceivably young enough to playing a Bruce Wayne that watched his parents getting killed moments after watching Antonio Banderas and Catherine Zeta Jones absolutely slay in one of the most underrated action/adventure movies of that decade.

That is all

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From Two poems by Mahmoud Darwish

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I stand with the civilians.

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Where is the International protection the Palestinian people is entitled to when the occupying power violates international law and harms those it is obliged to protect. Aren't Palestinians lives worth saving?

-Riyad Mansour (Palestinian representative to the UN)

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Ray Stevenson RIP

Top Roles (imo)

7. Roger Wesley, The Other Guys

Funny film but Ray is under utilized in this one

6. Isaak Sirko, Dexter

Ray is great, cool as ice in this one, just wish he got to do more

5. Volstagg, Thor franchise

A favorite character of mine from the comics. Ray looked great for the big screen adaptation but again Ray didn't get to do much after the first film

4. Frank Castle, The punisher: Warzone

Love this character. Not my favorite Punisher iteration but at least this time Marvel had him flex his acting muscles a bit more

3. Titus Pullo, Rome

A fantastic series and Ray provides a lot of the levity but still a cool character when he needs to be. This is where I first became a fan.

2. Baylan Skoll, Ashoka

The main reason I wanted to watch the show tbh and can I say... HE KILLED IT. Ice cold. The fans will miss him but it makes an amazing final piece to his filmography and legacy.

1. Edward Teach/Blackbeard, Black Sails

Holy crap. This is Ray at his best, no question. A phenomenal show with all round great performances but Ray stands out for me. He fills the larger than life role of Blackbeard and then some, giving the real life legend humanity and relatability. Truly a massive talent and he will be missed.

RIP Ray Stevenson 1964-2023

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I wish they did an Audible wrapped. That would be immense.

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Directed by Sam Raimi: THE EVIL DEAD | EVIL DEAD II | ARMY OF DARKNESS (1981-1992) DOCTOR STRANGE IN THE MULTIVERSE OF MADNESS (2022)

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How am I only finding this out now!

Scooby Doo (2002) dir. Raja Gosnell

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Anyone who says they don't like the rings of power because the black and POC cast members don't conform to Tolkiens lore does not understand Tolkien's work. Tolkien was a student of mythology who understood that myths change with each generation of storytellers. He wasn't making holy canon never to be changed. Anyway, the central themes of the books are about finding the beauty of the world and the love in one another. Don't you think focusing the ethnicities of the actors flies in the face of Tolkien's point? He was a veteran and had seen the outcomes of letting our differences and fears divide us to the most extreme extent. Can you put aside your racial prejudices a second and appreciate how beautifully made the program is? We should be greatful that we have such a vivid depiction of Tolkien's work. We can accept that it will never be perfect or replace the original source material but when are films and TV shows better than the books? Just appreciate it for what it is.

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Looking for a writing partner. Need the C. S. Lewis to my aspiring Tolkien

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#get yourself a man who will grin at you covered in blood, won’t snitch on you, will dance with you, beat up anyone who gets between you, and will carry you like a sack of potatoes to safety

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THE MCU THOUGHT WE WOULDN'T NOTICE THEM REUSING ACTORS BUT WE DID:

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I'm way more excited for namor than I am the replacement black panther. I think maybe they should retire the costume and have namor fight one of the other superheroes

Tenoch Huerta as Namor Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022) dir. Ryan Coogler