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I need to point out here to those who aren't from or well acquainted with the Chicagoland area that being named "Joey Giardiniera" in Lombard is like someone in, like, idk Bucks County being named "Wally Whiz Wit." It's a little on the nose and also not quite in the city they're claiming to represent.

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Incredible “Jukt Micronics” energy here.

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I've seen some gifs of Alan Ritchson in The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare and the thought of a guy bigger than that is mildly terrifying.

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Okay but if the yacht-sinking orcas are juvenile delinquents it gets pretty dark because those European pods were among the worst hit by capture operations to stock aquatic parks as recently as 2010. So those teen orcas grew up on stories of their older siblings/aunts/uncles/cousins who were violently kidnapped by BOATS. It's killer whale generational trauma!

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this is a revenge movie

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"I admire their ambition, I guess, but it gets a lot less fun when you think about grifters doing stuff like this to people who can’t get lawyers on the phone with one call."

Then let me not point you toward David Dayen's book "Chain of Title." The whole thing was basically this! No one knew who really owned any mortgages! (But we just let whoever foreclose anyway. Yay, America!)

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I gotta say, serious lack of imagination by the Ringer writer not to throw in a change of pace...like the slow motion car chase in The Way of the Gun.

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The pedant in me has to point out that The Commercial Appeal is the daily newspaper in Memphis. It's up there with the Sacramento Bee and the Cleveland Plain Dealer at the top of the "No you CAN'T just call it the Times come up with something else!" school of newspaper nomenclature.

Now that that is out of the way...if you were making a movie about a group trying to steal a celebrity's estate out from under them, who would that celebrity be, and what would be the name of the main character?

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hmmm i think the celebrity would be jimmy buffett and the main character would be a man named randy lancelot who is played by charlie day from always sunny

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