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From: Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net>
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Subject: Re: What Did You Watch? 2024-04-05 (Friday)
Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2024 13:56:49 -0400
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atropos@mac.com wrote:
> On Apr 7, 2024 at 5:12:19 PM PDT, "Ubiquitous" <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:
>> atropos@mac.com wrote:
>>>  "Ian J. Ball" <ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:
>>>>  On 4/6/24 1:30 AM, Ubiquitous wrote:

>>>>  > What did you watch?
>>>>  
>>>>  Yesterday, I got through a soap, and a Tubi movie!
>>> 
>>> I saw GHOSTBUSTERS in the theater. It was okay. I think I'd have liked 
>>> it more without the kids. Why does Hollywood feel it's necessary to 
>>> insert either kids or a love story into every movie?
>> 
>> I got the impression from the reviews I saw that they were trying to 
>> check off all the boxes.
>
>Well, one of the kids was a they/them, maybe-it's-a-boy-maybe-it's-a-girl,
>which is legally-required for any Hollywood production these days.

I wasn't neccesarily thinking of woke crap, but "fans of the original movie", 
"people who never saw it before", "the kids", etc.

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Let's go Brandon!