Matt the Bruins

On 5/8/2021 at 1:44 AM, csyphrett said:

The gay Green Lantern is Alan Scott who after a hundred years on the job, four romances/marriages, two grown kids that he didn't know were his, has suddenly come out of the closet.

Late-in-life coming outs after living a heteronormative life for decades is actually a very common story among LGBTQ people. It stands to reason at least a couple of comic book characters would follow suit, and it looks like Alan Scott got tapped for the job (and before him Bobby Drake, though he's probably been in his early 30s since the older version came out). At least choosing Alan doesn't invalidate any really strong or happy marriages/relationships like it would have with, say, Jay Garrick or Wesley Dodds.

6 hours ago, Christopher R Taylor said:

Yeah he kind of has this humble, kindly, grateful public persona

Say what? I've been a fan of the man's work for decades, but he's always been egotistical, and whiny/sulky whenever anyone criticizes his work or disagrees with him. It's just the blatantly misogynistic stuff that's been news in the last few years. Ask Donald Sutherland or Halle Berry how humble and grateful he is...

I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House. Glacially paced, highly atmospheric Gothic ghost story.

On 5/3/2021 at 7:02 AM, Starlord said:

Zillow and online real estate addiction has become a thing

 

https://www.glamour.com/story/scrolling-through-zillow-every-day-youre-not-alone

 

https://www.housebeautiful.com/lifestyle/a36098750/zillow-use-statistics-survey/

Barb and Star Go to Vista del Mar from the creators of Bridesmaids. It was absolutely insane, and the most fun I've had watching a movie in ages. Imagine if a chick flick like Beaches were crashed together with an Austin Powers movie and a Bollywood musical.

My sympathies go to his loved ones. Collins had a run far better than most, and now he gets to explore the ultimate mystery, so I don't feel sadness for the man himself.

9 hours ago, Starlord said:

 

I took it as incentive for more people to go get vaccinated...I've heard from more than one pundit that more people would get vaccinated with extra incentives thrown in.  Should you need that?  I don't think so, but that's just me.

I'm boggled that "If you get it, you won't die horribly in an ICU with your only company the ventilator inflating and deflating your comatose body like a set of bagpipes!" isn't enough of an incentive.

All too often guns seem to be the first resort rather than the last.

Really, they could have just put up pictures of Aidy Bryant as Cruz just back from Cancun with his hair in cornrows.

Monday, my first excursion to the cinema since last October. Sebastian Stan and Denise Gough play a couple who meet, have lots and LOTS of sex, and embark on a train wreck of a relationship.

Presumably Whole Foods would still accept cash, debit cards, credit cards, etc. like they do now, right? Do they really want experimental scanners aiming laser beams at their retinas to get around the whole not-having-any-hands-to-fingerprint issue?

10 hours ago, Old Man said:

As I understand it, the way sentencing works in that state, you only get sentenced for the worst of the overlapping convictions. So he effectively just gets murder in the second. 
 

I am neither a lawyer nor a midwesterner, though, so this may not be completely accurate.

From what lawyer friends have said to me, he's sentenced for all three, but concurrently so the most serious determines the length of time he'll serve. Multiple convictions make it increasingly unlikely he'll be able to get all the verdicts overturned, though. And according to one such friend, a successful appeal would have to find a direct link with a juror hearing Waters' comments, bringing them into the jury room, and allowing it to affect their decision. Just speculating that it *might* have influenced them isn't enough to win an appeal, no matter what the sitting judge said.

Most of the CW superhero shows have abominable writing. The material can sometimes be elevated by the actors' performances, but there wasn't a chance in hell of that happening in Ruby Rose's case.

5 hours ago, Pariah said:

This is where we are: George W. Bush as the voice of reason.

 

Bush tells Congress to cool it on 'harsh' immigration rhetoric, hopes to set 'more respectful' tone

To be fair, most everything he's said on his own since Cheney removed the hand up his backside has sounded pretty reasonable to me.

In which... his character died?

I think mine was the ideal response - just enough of a sore arm to indicate something unusual going on and the vaccine working, but no side effects that hampered me in any way.

It probably depends on the specific setting's approach to magic, but I'd imagine at least Mental Illusions and some sort of Mind Control would be fair game for magic if it exists at all.

Damn, that would bring their covid mortality rate a good bit above that in the USA, wouldn't it? We have well over twice Russia's population.

As much of a bastard as Whedon was to the actors, I think he got better performances out of Ray Fisher than Snyder did. Cyborg's story came through loud and clear for me in the theatrical release despite having half or less the screentime, and I think his interactions with Silas, Wonder Woman, and Flash were deeper and more nuanced. I'd just have cut that slow motion opening montage for time and kept his scenes with Elinore instead to round out his story.

I think the idea is to scare the Boogeyman away so he doesn't bother you.

Snyder has been sufficiently dismissive of any criticism about his work that I don't think he can necessarily tell the difference between what he'd like to see onscreen and what will be successful.

I'm actually willing to take even a single example of a dead child protégé on one's watch as evidence that one is not good at teaching young heroes.

That's what you get when the Easter Bunny can't make it and you decide to substitute Frank from Donny Darko instead...

It has so many series I'm interested in that I seem to be losing ground against its new additions.

It's playing on the big screen in my local cinema, but I'm not ready to go to indoor movies yet where there's likely to be a large audience. (New Mutants and Synchronic were much safer bets in that respect earlier in the pandemic.) I'll probably watch it at home on HBO Max this weekend, then maybe see the big screen version if it's still showing after 4/22.

Aw, all 16 of the Dead Sea Scrolls fragments owned by the Museum of the Bible are forgeries. Couldn't have happened to a nicer family of Bible-thumping rich loonies with callous disregard for public safety and their employees' wellbeing!