Monday, December 15, 2025

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Tis the season the mall parking because survival of who can drive at a crawl in hopes of catching someone leaving so you can take their spot.  What bothers me the most is how cars take up the whole drive through way when it clearly has room so they can be on one side so other cars behind them can go around.  But, like most people they are inconsiderate and want you to suffer as much as they are.  If I get lucky and see someone going to leave, I try to make sure I am as far to he right as possible (or I guess left depending on which side they are coming out of).  But, I try to go to one side as far as I can so other cars can continue the hunt for their spot and I'm not impeding them. I went to the mall on Sunday (BIG mistake) to get some Red Robin and at one point this truck was stopped in the middle of the aisle slanted... why?  Eventually it did move but why in that position in the first place? You usually don't hear horns anymore in a mall parking lot because we are all in the same situation but I actually heard some on Sunday too and for what reason?  None what so ever.

Weekly Update:
Die Hard is a Christmas movie! Ok, why do people think it is not a holiday movie?  Because it's an action film? There are lots of action type films that are holiday films so why is there even a debate with people about this?  Police Detective John McClane is coming home for the holidays to visit his estranged wife but arrives when her company is having their HOLIDAY party at the office with a Christmas tree and everything.  They place Christmas songs throughout the film and Argyle the limo driver that picked up John at the airport is hanging out with a big teddy bear, a holiday gift.  When he kills one of the henchmen and writes Ho Ho Ho on his shirt and he's wearing a Santa hat!  The office is decorated in holiday decor too.  In fact, Die Hard 2 is also a Christmas movie but it's the opposite as Holly is flying to DC for the holiday seeing John.  So both the first two Die Hard movies are Christmas or to be more vague, holiday films.

At the movies:
Regaining the the #1 spot is Zootopia 2 with a nice 26.3 million more and now just over 250 mil cume. Has potential to hit 300 if it maintains this trajectory but the holiday season is just warming up!  Drop down to #2 is Five Nights at Freddy's 2 with 19.5 mil suffering a huge 70% drop but should hit 100 mil by tomorrow.  Holding on to #3 is Wicked: For Good with 8.6 mil as it passes the 300 mil mark but will not get anywhere near 400.  Showing up at #4 is Dhurandhar with 3.5 mil but only on about 400 screens. Screen average is fair but overall not bad.  Rounding off the top 5 and holding is Now You See Me: Now You Don't with 2.4 mil as it struggles along, waiting to be bumped off.

New movies that did not make the top 5:
Really only 1 new release at #7 is Ella McCay earning 2.1 mil and less than 1k per screen so this will be losing screen count fast.  In at #8 is the 25th Anniversary of Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas with 1.9 mil.  Though that is a low number but its almost all profit being a re-release.

Quote of the week:
"There are no secrets that time does not reveal." - Jean Racine

Facts & Tips:
The first sailing boats were built by Egypt.

"Goin' on a year now I ain't had nothin' twixt my nethers weren't run on batteries!" - Jewel Staite as Kaylee Frye in Serenity.

posted by McDuck @ 00:00

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