Month: December 2025

Somehow, the original version returned

A long time ago on a blog post far far away, I sniped a bit at Jon Favreau for his claim that the Kids These Days wouldn’t be that interested in the original trilogy’s original theatrical versions coming back out. Well, it appears we’re going to find out which of us was right, cos the original Star Wars (no, I will NOT call it “A New Hope”, fuck you George Lucas), possibly restored from the original Technicolor print shown at the BFI a few months ago, is coming back to cinemas in early 2027 for the film’s 50th anniversary… which is fascinating, given that Lucas has spent decades insisting he would never let the original version be reissued; however, that BFI screening was attended by Kathleen Kennedy from Lucasfilm which did pretty much legitimise it, and if Lucas objected that much I’m sure he could’ve stopped it. I feel a fair amount of money has changed hands to change his mind…

Anyway, I still have questions, mostly about just how “restored” this re-release will be, cos we know uncle George has always insisted on tinkering with the film—even in 1977 there were differences in dialogue and sound effects between the mono, stereo and six-track 70mm prints—and I find it unlikely that he won’t have fiddled with it yet again by the time it comes out again. And will this reissue go as far as home  video? What about the other two original trilogy films? As I said way back when, if Lucas would just let the unfucked-with original versions of the first three films out on disc, they would fly off the shelves. But if all else fails, I suspect cinemas are going to be packed in February ’27 when this one comes out, and I’m sure a lot of the crowd will be made up of the young people Jon Favreau presumably still thinks don’t care about it…

Why not

Anyone who’s paid the least bit of attention already knew FIFA is one of the world’s most corrupt organisations, and for anyone who still didn’t know this, they just made it transparent:

Players often face fines and bans from FIFA for displaying political messages, as the football governing body has long proclaimed a policy of political neutrality.
But on Friday, the association’s chief Gianni Infantino handed United States President Donald Trump the inaugural FIFA Peace Prize, further cementing his embrace of the Republican leader.
Critics pointed out that the award came less than 24 hours after the Trump administration carried out another deadly air strike in the Caribbean.
Craig Mokhiber, a former United Nations official who has campaigned to suspend Israel from world football over its genocidal war in Gaza, called the award to Trump a “truly shameful development”.
Infantino has refused to take action against Israel, arguing that football “cannot solve geopolitical” issues. […]
Infantino has previously warned against using football to stoke division. “There’s no more powerful tool than sport to unite the people,” he said in 2023. “Now we have to protect the autonomy of sport: the political neutrality of sport and to protect the values of sport.”
Two years later, critics point out that Infantino has created a prize to celebrate peace and unity, and then handed it to a president who called people from Somalia “garbage” just days prior.
“Giving Donald Trump a prize for peace is like giving Luis Suarez a prize for not biting people’s ears off,” football journalist Zach Lowy wrote on social media, referring to the Uruguayan forward who has been caught up in at least three biting incidents on the pitch throughout his career.

Yeah, this is how this infernally stupid year ends, evidently. I mean, I know there’s a few weeks to go so things could get stupider, but this feels like a peak. I hope it’s a peak and that’s not just wishful thinking on my part… but as it stands, yeah. Why NOT give that tiny-penised traitor a “peace” prize, nothing else makes any fucking sense any more, it’s as logical as anything else that happens in the modern world. Remarkably unattractive trophy at that:

 

Talking of Tucker…

…I forgot to add this to that post I made about him the other day:

That’s a screenshot I took from Youtube of the most recent shorts posted to Fucker Carlson’s YT channel… one of Milo Hanrahan apparently explaining that the real reason you’re gay is that you actually aren’t (?), and four rather… Biblical clips that I gather come from another interview with someone called John Rich. Look at the titles:

The Antichrist’s Biggest Lie Exposed
Is the Mark of the Beast Real?
Diddy’s Demonic Ties Exposed
The Worst Sin According to the Bible?

John Rich is a country musician, by the way; he is not a theologian, he’s just hopped up on God in the way Kyle Kulinski speculates Carlson is hopped up on nicotine in that video. Also he’s got an understandable hate-on for pedophilia and child trafficking (hence the presence of that Puffy fellow) which… I don’t know, it’s the sort of thing I know I shouldn’t be cynical about because it is obviously awful, but… why do I not entirely trust him somehow? Is it just the number of times we’ve seen right-wingers being really vocal about things they hate, like, I don’t know, gay sex, trans people, etc, but then they turn out to actually be kind of into those things? Quite often they’re loudly professing Christians too. Not that I actually think John Rich is secretly into kiddie fiddling cos I’ve no evidence that he is, but I’ve just seen too many vocal hypocrites of the kind I described…

What indeed…

Godfuckingdamn. Everyone’s been going off at Fucker lately for interviewing the Nazi Fuentes, but I think he deserves more of a beating for reminding us all of THIS cunt (and didn’t he “stop” being gay at some point?) and making him “relevant” again…

…I presume, too, this is why he had gayness on the brain in this peculiar conversation. I’ve said before that Piers Morgan is a thoroughly odd figure, in that he usually gets things wrong but occasionally he gets outfuckwitted by someone else to the point where he gets it right instead… and oh my, this is one of those instances and then some; he is clearly out of his depth against Carlson’s obsession. I don’t know if I agree with Kyle Kulinski’s theory that the latter is hopped up on nicotine of all things, but then again I’ve never ingested as much of that stuff as Carlson apparently has so I don’t really know if it can do this sort of thing to you. He’s hopped up on something at any rate…

The Middle East’s only democracy at work

Entering election year, Netanyahu’s government targets Israel’s free press

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has not granted an interview to Israel’s three main broadcasters in over four years. He’s accused them of “brainwashing,” claimed they assist Israel’s enemies and personally gone after journalists who criticize him.
Now, that longstanding tension is evolving into something more aggressive.: On Monday, Netanyahu’s coalition will establish a special parliamentary committee to advance legislation that would replace Israel’s independent media regulators with political appointees. The change will give the government sweeping authority to fine and sanction news outlets – a move critics warn could permanently reshape the country’s media environment.
The bill, sponsored by Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi, a Netanyahu loyalist, passed its first reading last month after it was introduced in May. The government says its goal is to open the market, promote competition, remove outdated regulatory barriers and modernize Israel’s media laws for the digital era.
Israeli networks, however, have warned the proposed reform will expand political influence and erode editorial independence. In an unprecedented move, the rival networks created a joint emergency forum in August 2023 to oppose the government’s plans, which they dub a “hostile takeover” of the media market.
An official in the forum told CNN, “What we’re seeing is an attempted power grab on the eve on an election. The clear objective is to subdue the free press and silence criticism before Israelis go to the polls.” […]
As Netanyahu’s government pushes to constrain and boycott critical reporting, it has simultaneously promoted pro-Netanyahu Channel 14 – often called Israel’s Fox News – with regulatory benefits, including reduced distribution fees, and various reliefs allowing it to operate with fewer restrictions than other commercial channels.

And now just watch Mushroom Cock try to do the same thing. And then, if he gets away with this, watch Bibi give himself the pardon he was asking for the other day…