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31 Rules That Backfired in Hilarious Ways
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This issue is about one-liner jokes, brutal ‘Rebel Moon’ reviews, the funniest tweets of the year, good deeds gone wrong, and much more.
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The key to a good joke is to get in and get out, then move on to the next one. Like Jerry Seinfeld told George Costanza, “When you hit that high note, you say goodnight and walk off.” Some comedians have that down to a science. Here are 15 one-liners that packed a whole bunch of comedy into a small handful of words…
Rebel Moon: Part One - A Child of Fire director Zach Snyder has never been a particularly popular figure among the professional film criticism community, but his recently released Netflix sci-fi epic gives the amateurs the opportunity to trash him, too.
Rebel Moon is a project that’s been 11 years in the making, first pitched by Snyder to Lucasfilm shortly after their acquisition by Disney as a Star Wars movie. When Disney passed on the project, Snyder then brought it to Warner Bros., suggesting that it could be either a big-budget movie or an expansive sci-fi video game. Since Warner Bros. didn’t bite either, Snyder took Rebel Moon to the place where uninspiring scripts and barrel-bottom pitches are rewarded with reckless budgets that would make other studios swoon – Netflix.