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Back when movies didn't suck people were way more into movies
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Date: April 10th, 2025 4:28 PM Author: Cordovan public bath jap Now if you're into movies today you're like a Disney Adult or some epic loser. If someone starts talking about a Film made in the last 10 years, I just walk away. If you told someone in the 90s this would be the case no one would believe you. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5708749&forum_id=2#48835313) |
Date: April 10th, 2025 4:29 PM Author: wild chapel coldplay fan (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5708749&forum_id=2#48835317) |
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Date: April 10th, 2025 4:35 PM Author: Soul-stirring crusty casino selfie Nostalgia filter plus only revisiting the movies considered the greatest of all time. They made a lot of shit movies back then too. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5708749&forum_id=2#48835327) |
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Date: April 10th, 2025 5:15 PM Author: Cordovan public bath jap They made just as many shit movies but they made way more great ones and it was a lot cooler to be a film nerd and know which ones were great.
Today no one makes any great movies, they're all bad, and being into film is a really lame hobby. |
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Date: April 10th, 2025 5:21 PM Author: Soul-stirring crusty casino selfie You poast on a dead law chatblog, you don't get to rate other hobbies as lame hth (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5708749&forum_id=2#48835452) |
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Date: April 10th, 2025 5:26 PM Author: Balding appetizing university Robert Eggers, Ford v Ferrari, TG Maverick there's some good ones, perhaps not Great (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5708749&forum_id=2#48835463) |
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Date: April 10th, 2025 5:36 PM Author: Cordovan public bath jap The Northman was one of the worst movies I have ever seen. It was totally incoherent and poorly written and developed. Everything about it I would give an F across the board.
Ford v Ferrari played it completely safe, just corporate schlock. Maverick was a one-off curveball that everyone admitted could never even have been made 1 year later than it was due to the rise of woke nonsense in Hollywood.
Now think back that a film like Ocean's 11 which was a B+/A- crowd pleaser from a quarter century ago if it came out today would be considered the greatest movie of the last 15 years and it wouldn't even be close. |
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Date: April 10th, 2025 5:45 PM Author: bronze bawdyhouse maverick also had enough woke shit to make in passable. like the chick fighter pilot ljl. same reason white lotus has to smuggle in non-woke themes through subtext with an opulent soap opera backdrop. and even then the only 100% good and flawless character was the working class nigger belinda until she got rich as was then acceptable to critique. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5708749&forum_id=2#48835496) |
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Date: April 10th, 2025 5:50 PM Author: Cordovan public bath jap lmao cr
At the end of the day the only characters I really cared about were Tanya McQuoid and the Italian hookers. |
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Date: April 10th, 2025 6:01 PM Author: bronze bawdyhouse id like to see what happened with the nice guy, his hooker gf, and the shitlib art hoe. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5708749&forum_id=2#48835523) |
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Date: April 10th, 2025 6:25 PM Author: Cordovan public bath jap Me too friend (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5708749&forum_id=2#48835587) |
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Date: April 10th, 2025 6:43 PM Author: Balding appetizing university possibly the most retarded poast I've read on the bort (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5708749&forum_id=2#48835671) |
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Date: April 10th, 2025 5:28 PM Author: Thriller Erotic Regret Field (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5708749&forum_id=2#48835469) |
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Date: April 10th, 2025 5:22 PM Author: cheese-eating factory reset button boltzmann i miss the days of movies being Good (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5708749&forum_id=2#48835455) |
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Date: April 10th, 2025 5:32 PM Author: Cordovan public bath jap (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5708749&forum_id=2#48835476) |
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Date: April 10th, 2025 5:33 PM Author: Thriller Erotic Regret Field Everyone does (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5708749&forum_id=2#48835477) |
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Date: April 10th, 2025 6:17 PM Author: Flickering internet-worthy cuck (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5708749&forum_id=2#48835564) |
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Date: April 10th, 2025 6:26 PM Author: Cordovan public bath jap (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5708749&forum_id=2#48835590) |
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Date: April 10th, 2025 5:38 PM Author: bronze bawdyhouse market decline due to competition other forms of entertainment being more accessible + increasing corportization of media. same reason you see fewer original plays and musicals too.
good stuff is still getting made, it just doesn't get a wide release. im a member of my local art house cinema. but because only a small niche arty crowd consumes and makes this shit it tends to play to their tastes (re: shitlib). so yeah, shit sucks relatively. |
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Date: April 10th, 2025 5:43 PM Author: Cordovan public bath jap Flame even art films were better 25 years ago. Remember "Igby Goes Down?" That was a good one. Remember "Lost and Delirious" probably the best English-language movie about Lesbians ever? I used to watch this Franco-Dutch film all the time called Spoorlos on IFC about a serial killer who abducts a lady from a gas station in the 80s.
Art films suck now too. The Lighthouse? WTF is this crap? Peanut Butter Falcon was alright and the best one was Uncut Gems. But even these films are like 100x suckier than they were before. |
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Date: April 10th, 2025 5:46 PM Author: bronze bawdyhouse wtf my last sentence is agreeing that shit sucks relatively. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5708749&forum_id=2#48835498) |
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Date: April 10th, 2025 5:49 PM Author: Cordovan public bath jap We should storyboard ZOZO: The Movie
I often think of scenes that would make it into the trailer. We could probably write, direct, and cut a trailer for a Zozo film for like 10-15k.
I think the main plot of the film should be about a poaster who thinks it's a good idea to summon Arkan to return and blow up everyone's identity with his magic script. I dunno just spitballing here. |
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Date: April 10th, 2025 5:58 PM Author: bronze bawdyhouse spaceporn is fertile soil for a dark comedy thriller with a message (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5708749&forum_id=2#48835519) |
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Date: April 10th, 2025 6:14 PM Author: Cordovan public bath jap "Bar Spaghetti"
who would star in it |
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Date: April 11th, 2025 12:20 AM Author: Talking Racy Range Jon Lovitz. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5708749&forum_id=2#48836653) |
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Date: April 11th, 2025 12:23 AM Author: Cordovan public bath jap I was thinking Will Ferrell (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5708749&forum_id=2#48836657) |
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Date: April 10th, 2025 5:39 PM Author: irate stag film Covid/streaming has conditioned people to not give a shit anymore. No one watches adult dramas or random comedies anymore. Only event theater movies reach cultural awareness and those are getting less and less frequent. It’s basically avengers, avatar, spider man, pixar sequels, anything Christopher Nolan makes and occasional random breakouts like Barbie or top gun 2. Nothing else will ever be seen until it hits a streamer and is quickly forgotten (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5708749&forum_id=2#48835486) |
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Date: April 10th, 2025 5:42 PM Author: bronze bawdyhouse cr. the only viable wide release films are slop spectacles with broad appeal. and their days are numbered too. ive seen slop at my local IMAX on release day prime time and the place is still empty. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5708749&forum_id=2#48835490) |
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Date: April 10th, 2025 5:48 PM Author: Cordovan public bath jap Wow. Grim yeah. It's kind of like how Napster killed the CD, streaming killed the theatre-goer.
It also doesn't help that movie tickets are 1000k now and popcorn is 50,000k and theatres only exist in the dindu thunderdome where you could get your car stolen.
Kooky how live sports are the only events that get consumers to leave the house anymore lol |
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Date: April 10th, 2025 5:48 PM Author: gay effete crackhouse chicken jockey! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5708749&forum_id=2#48835501) |
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Date: April 10th, 2025 6:15 PM Author: galvanic hunting ground You know nothing of Film. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5708749&forum_id=2#48835556) |
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Date: April 10th, 2025 6:28 PM Author: Fuchsia mind-boggling sound barrier trust fund (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5708749&forum_id=2#48835601) |
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Date: April 10th, 2025 6:34 PM Author: Idiotic philosopher-king I was a teen in the 90s which were an awesome time for movies. Then around 2000 following the box office success of the Toby McGuire Spiderman film every studio switched to comic book movies and we had this awful 5-year run where no one was doing original or creative screenplays which lasted until The Prestige in 2006, then things got better. Now everything is awful again because studios won’t put up the money since no one goes to the theater anymore. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5708749&forum_id=2#48835635) |
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Date: April 10th, 2025 6:48 PM Author: Contagious Meetinghouse Legal Warrant Copy pasting my comment from white lotus season 3 thread:
agree. It had a few good moments but was ultimately hallow, just like everything else in modern tv. The reason for that is obvious. Modern shows are great at identifying a major underlying problem with society but have no solution for it (because actual morality is obsolete). So then they just abruptly end and you feel empty. This is why older shows still have meaning because they still had something resembling morality. |
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Date: April 10th, 2025 6:54 PM Author: Cordovan public bath jap You can just say make Archie Bunker great again (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5708749&forum_id=2#48835702) |
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Date: April 10th, 2025 6:56 PM Author: Contagious Meetinghouse Legal Warrant 1800000 show. Also cheers, wings, taxi, growing pains. Makes me sad and angry for what US has become (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5708749&forum_id=2#48835708) |
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Date: April 10th, 2025 6:59 PM Author: Cordovan public bath jap if only there was some kind of large scale political movement about a nostalgic return to post-war America before globalism destroyed the working and middle classes (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5708749&forum_id=2#48835716) |
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Date: April 10th, 2025 7:00 PM Author: bronze bawdyhouse too bad trump is in charge rn. it's just like we talked about with jocks and nerds. maybe the next guy will have the stones to follow through. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5708749&forum_id=2#48835731) |
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Date: April 10th, 2025 7:02 PM Author: Cordovan public bath jap it's Over. I'm becoming a Democrat and putting all my money into equities. Fuck cons, I guess. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5708749&forum_id=2#48835745) |
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Date: April 10th, 2025 7:02 PM Author: Contagious Meetinghouse Legal Warrant Trump? Lol he is post morality. That is some dark shit. You think Sam Malone would have been a Trump voter? You’re out to lunch man. Archie Bunker would have racistly been for him in an episode and then toward the end soft heartedly kind of been like fuck hmm. That’s morality. The cruelty that Trump and his post truth idiots exhibit are nothing like the 80s. Don’t pollute it. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5708749&forum_id=2#48835741) |
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Date: April 10th, 2025 7:19 PM Author: Thriller Erotic Regret Field Post truth? Shut up fag (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5708749&forum_id=2#48835785) |
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Date: April 10th, 2025 7:54 PM Author: Contagious Meetinghouse Legal Warrant Get fucked (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5708749&forum_id=2#48835883) |
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Date: April 10th, 2025 8:19 PM Author: Thriller Erotic Regret Field Stfu queer I'm sure you thought libs were telling the truth too (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5708749&forum_id=2#48835955) |
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Date: April 10th, 2025 6:58 PM Author: bronze bawdyhouse yeah but that just makes it honest. the hollowness is reflective of society and if there was some moral happy ending it would be fake and gay. s3 has the monk flatly lay out what the problems are.
it does have some glimmers of hope. saxon might become less of a soulless person. loch sees god. the show is saying that the root of modern problems is that without something beyond our own self like community or God things will be soulless. the ratliff boys show that regaining that is the solution. but belinda and piper show that that solution is unlikely. which rings true to me.
the hollowness is on purpose and the show is saying that it's unlikely for society or human nature to change so you gotta do it for yourself. God is dead and society isn't going to force people to be moral and unselfish. |
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Date: April 10th, 2025 7:02 PM Author: Cordovan public bath jap after the last week of ups and downs with the tariffs I think I'm ready to throw in the towel on the great working class renaissance and reshoring factories. We had a once in a generational shot to do a wealth redistribution from the rich to the poor and we blew it. Trump gave up because bond yields were skyrocketing and Japan and the EU were pleading on their hands and knees to kiss the ring and make a deal.
Pretty sure we're all Godless now. |
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Date: April 10th, 2025 7:07 PM Author: bronze bawdyhouse that's why my answer has always been build a moat + rage against the dying light.
succumbing to hopelessness and conforming to modern soullessness is easy. doing the right thing when most people aren't isn't. and while systemic change is always unlikely, you can still make the world better in your own sphere of influence. |
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Date: April 10th, 2025 7:15 PM Author: Cordovan public bath jap I don't think people can be saved there's too much stupidity. Wealth provides a massive shield from the problems created by other people. That's why wealthmos retreat. It's a hidden world. They don't want you or I in the club. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5708749&forum_id=2#48835776) |
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Date: April 10th, 2025 7:26 PM Author: bronze bawdyhouse this lack of backbone is even worse than the people screaming about their 401ks because you're giving up without even suffering a personal loss. things always need to get really bad before change happens. maybe we're not there yet. ive always felt that change is unlikely in my lifetime, but im gonna keep at it because it's the right thing to do and still his an impact those i can impact directly. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5708749&forum_id=2#48835817) |
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Date: April 10th, 2025 8:03 PM Author: Cordovan public bath jap I did exactly everything I could have done. I pilled 4-5 people IRL over several years. We all pulled the lever for R. No one is "giving up". It just seems like every time we try, we fail.
Rahm Emanuel admitted the other day that Trump is "right in his diagnosis" even if he's "wrong in his solutions." Since the left doesn't have any solutions (or hasn't offered any) I can only assume that Trump is the only person doing anything about the diagnosis right now. And he also happens to be the President. Most of this is entirely out of my hands. |
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Date: April 10th, 2025 8:13 PM Author: bronze bawdyhouse cool.
but remember how i was cautioning being realistic about what trump would do? big changes are unlikely to happen at any given moment but are certain to happen over a long enough period. they're black swan events.
all im saying is don't succumb to despair. in 2016 lots thought we won. in 2021 lots thought it was all over. in 2025 lots thought we won.
it's possible to be hopeful while accepting it's a long shot. if you place all your hope that the next thing is gonna be the big thing you're gonna wind up disappointed 99% of the time. this wasn't a generational opportunity. the sun will come up tomorrow. |
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Date: April 10th, 2025 8:18 PM Author: Cordovan public bath jap It's just too big a let down. It's like if after Josef Goebbels "Total War" speech the next day he was like, "ok just kidding we all surrendered and we're not doing the whole thousand year reich thing any more in fact it's all going to be troons, mudraces, and interdependence. About that speech yesterday it was just uh to get the other side to come to the table. Anyways, gotta go!" (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5708749&forum_id=2#48835950) |
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Date: April 10th, 2025 8:27 PM Author: bronze bawdyhouse it's understandable you're disappointed and i don't really think you're about to take the blackpill and subscribe to consuelas substack. im just giving a pep talk and encouraging you to accept that every attempt at something big is a long shot so it's likely the next try and the next and the next will fail but eventually it won't.
on top of that things are trending the right way. there's more reason than ever to be hopeful. 10 years ago we were looking down the barrel of globalist versus globalist forever which is why tbf thought the solution was a redneck revolution.
something's gotta give. it always does. might not happen in your life though. hence build a moat + rage against the dying light. |
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Date: April 10th, 2025 8:30 PM Author: Cordovan public bath jap I'm just glad we're not one of those faggy countries like England, France, or Germany. Something is completely wrong with those folks. They're a mirror image right now of what would happen if Kamala had won. I mean, the world wouldn't have literally ended, right? But it would have gotten a lot shittier. Europe is like our cousin with substantially worse Phenotype. Glad I'm not over there. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5708749&forum_id=2#48835993) |
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Date: April 10th, 2025 8:28 PM Author: Walnut foreskin (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5708749&forum_id=2#48835987) |
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Date: April 10th, 2025 10:14 PM Author: Diverse Antidepressant Drug I recently watched Anora - it won best picture because it has a lot of really fun parts.
But its also incredibly raw and graphic - similar to all movies now.
Scripts in the 90s were just way more polished. They had multiple character arcs, plot twists, and conflicts that were wrapped up in a bow.
Hollywood for some raeson decided that shit was too contrived, so they starated making things with less coherent plots and more true to life. But movie goers don't really want true to life. They want beautiful people, saying clever things, doing things that will never happen in real life.
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Date: April 10th, 2025 10:33 PM Author: Cordovan public bath jap Last paragraph is 100% cr. The mantra of screenwriters in the classic era of film was something akin to "try and be a genius. Do genius things." I mean you watch any classic film and it's just WOW HOLY SHIT compared to now. Story, characters, plot, immersion, sense of magic all throughout.
I'm sure Anora is good. I will watch it eventually. I'm not dropping everything to go see it. I think there's something really wrong with Zoomer culture too where it's like EVERYTHING IS JUST PORN. Porn got into every aspect of society to where now every chick is a sex worker and so serious dramatic films are now about sex workers because that's what chicks think real people do.
Imagine watching "Hook" and telling people in 1991 "Some day nothing remotely like this will exist and most films will basically be porn."
Idiocracy was a documentary. |
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Date: April 11th, 2025 1:39 AM Author: Razzmatazz halford main people Vladimir Putain (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5708749&forum_id=2#48836783) |
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Date: April 11th, 2025 2:04 AM Author: Cordovan public bath jap His daughter lives in Paris and is a nightclub DJ.
I've actually met a ton of Russian people who fled to France. Some of them speak English so bad that I can understand their French better. Paris is like Moscow Jr now. |
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Date: April 11th, 2025 2:40 PM Author: Abusive big-titted death wish A large number of those Russians are actually Ukrainians. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5708749&forum_id=2#48838454) |
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Date: April 11th, 2025 2:44 PM Author: Cordovan public bath jap Who can tell the difference? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5708749&forum_id=2#48838481) |
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Date: April 11th, 2025 11:30 AM Author: Talented crawly national Outside of Maverick, I haven't been to a movie theater in 20 years. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5708749&forum_id=2#48837779) |