This isn’t a damn football game
Try telling that to millions of Americans; That's literally how they see politics.
This isn’t a damn football game
Try telling that to millions of Americans; That's literally how they see politics.
All this bluster about "wasting" millions of dollars attacking Biden is telling, because that's literally the GOP platform in a nutshell. God forbid they actually put forth policies that improve the lives of American citizens, or, I don't know, spend their time arguing their case for why their candidate should be president in the first place.
Its success is interesting as it doesn't appear to have suffered as a result of prequel fatigue, unlike, say, Furiosa, depsite being noticeably weaker than the first two movies.
That, plus like everything else in America, an entire business has sprung up around running federal elections. Longer campaigns require more staffers, strategists, pollsters, advertisers, etc. It's a billion dollar industry unto itself.
Yes, but the point is we are now in 2024. All those other presidents are either dead or retired.
Both are older than the state of Israel, FFS.
Defecting to the party whose own canvassers openly drop the word 'Paki' when think no one is listening is certainly... a choice.
The odds of a face-eating leopard moment are pretty good all round.
Like it or not, Twitter is still the de-facto place for breaking news stories. You just have to sift through the dross.
As much as Mastodon is a far nicer and healthier social platform, it has a long way to go before it gets anywhere close in this particular regard.
Oh, don't get me wrong - Budweiser/Coors/Michelob etc. are all awful. However, most US states have good local breweries and craft beers. Lagers are generally not as popular as IPAs, but you can still get good ones. Admittedly, this varies quite a bit depending on where you are in the US.
Apparently social services forcibly removed the children from the family, which their father says was done unjustly and based on false claims of parental abuse. That's according to Twitter, so the details are still somewhat up in the air.
It's not the job of the local police to patrol private neighborhoods on request -- that's what private security is for.
The outrageous thing here is that public money is being used to fund it. They have the proceeds from selling off lucrative real estate on stolen land - why don't they pay for it themselves?
I'm not sure that lack of jeopardy was the issue with Furiosa -- after all, that's always the case with prequels.
I also don't think that Day One introduced enough new developments to keep things interesting. The concept of the monsters is so simple that the main characters figure out the "rules" (don't make noise) within minutes of the first attack. And that's pretty much it - we, the audience, are none the wiser about what they are, where they come from, or what they're about by the end of Day One than we were by the end of the second movie. Personally, I didn't find the character development as interesting as Furiosa, either.
Either way, i agree that the quality of the story matters and I think Furiosa succeed here, personally.
If I had to hazard a guess, I'd say the differences in the box office outcomes come down to the facts that the Mad Max franchise has more of a niche appeal than A Quiet Place, is more violent, and the movie was quite a bit longer in duration.