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I have finally been catching up on shows. Not sure why, but still feel like Black Lightning is best of the CW shows. Although it is supposedly now on the same world, more then any other it doesn't feel like it. Part of the problem is, with the other supers around, How does a country like Markovia invade the equivalent of Atlanta and no one else reacts? There is some disbelief needed, I realize, but a foreign country invading doesn't seem to be one. But this is a storyline preceding crisis and carrying forward.

I could live with it for a year, depending how many teams make playoffs. I would think a 4 divisions would make more sense to enable playoff equality (if doing division winner plus 3 next highest per division, but who knows). I am one who actually likes the 1 game wildcard playoff system, gives a true advantage to the division winner, but in this system, you would have to designate a division winner and someone else for that to work.

Apparently it is Viv Alvertine of the Slits, googling the other names to get the picture.

I'd rather see Eva as a Morgan Le Fey. I think she would be spectacular.

23 hours ago, Spence said:

 

Oh well, I guess I didn't miss much.  With rare exception time travel is the "filler" of TV shows.  Signs that the writing team was out of ideas.....

 

Except this was kind of a non time travel show. As Mattingly said, they did more of a take on its a wonderful life showing Kara that not changing things was probably best. It was pretty well done.

On 4/18/2020 at 7:39 PM, Dr. MID-Nite said:

While we're on the subject of Carpenter, I have to mention the criminally underrated Prince of Darkness from 1987. I love the premise. A college professor and his students investigate a "mystical" artifact in the basement of an old church. Like a lot of Carpenter's work, this film builds tension beautifully and has some really effective moments. Pleasance has a great moment near the end of the film where it just looks as if he has lost all of his faith. The possessed student typing the words of the "Anti Christ" on the computer was also creepy. Dennis Dun's character freaking our as he's trapped in a room with demonic forces is also a standout...as his character was the classic "uses humor to overcome his insecurity" type. The shared dream....the downbeat score....the clash of science/faith....there's just a lot to love here. if suffers from a few horror movie troupes, but in general Carpenter gets good use out of his cast of mostly regulars(like BTILC vets Wong and Dun).

Only Carpenter movie I was annoyed with was Ghosts of Mars, mostly because up to a certain point it was really a good movie then that moment happens and every person I know who watched it went "WHAT!!!?", then the movie turned stupid. We told a friend of ours to watch it up to a point and then turn it off assuming the movie ended. He watched it, wondered what we meant so kept watching and had same reaction. If you have seen it, you know exactly what I am talking about, if you haven't,, stop when they first get on the train after fighting their way there.

So, continuing finally to catch up on Supergirl. Loved Mxy showing up, thought was an interesting episode. Still hate Lena's I hate Supergirl/Kara going on. Actually like Cryer's Lex (of course, since the other Lex we saw recently was Essenberg utterly not being Lex, that may be why I am liking him), he is doing a good job of being subtly evil.

I thought that Mordo was a, if not friend, student rival of Strange and it was that the Ancient One chose Strange that turned Mordo to evil. I like the movie version of Mordo and I think his motivation, though a skewed absolute (which is sort of the Ancient One's point) at least makes sense for a fanatic.

3 hours ago, mattingly said:

 

I may or may not have watch Big Trouble in Little China every month for the past 30 years...

 

I remember my friends and I all telling another friend how great this movie was and how he needed to see it. So he did and didn't understand why we all thought it was great. Turned out, he thought it was supposed to be a serious action movie and Russel's character was supposed to be the typical badass hero you normally see. We told him that he was exactly wrong, that Jack Burton just thought he was that hero, but that it really was a hong kong action/magic movie with a typical american thinks he is a hero thrown in.

When I am home, I tend to watch the encore western triumvirate of Tales of Death Valley, Maverick and Cheyenne. One thing that strikes me, Clint Walker was a VERY big man.

Loved everything I have ever seen with him. He was great in the 2 FX movies.

Been finally watching season 1 of Spy Wars with Damian Lewis. Using real life accounts and police/unlocked documents to talk about various major events in spydom. Excellent so far and really interesting. I was amazed at how many of the actual participants they have been able to get interviews with.

Ok, only because it might fit into this thread due to how good its been, but would Supernatural have to qualify as the greatest surprisingly successful show ever on tv. And if it hadn't been on WB, probably would not have survived 1 season. 15 seasons and now a new Anime series. Makes me mad I never watched it. Maybe only thing close would have been Stargate.

13 hours ago, Michael Hopcroft said:

There are a lot of evil-supers things going around these days. Like Brightburn, the origin story of an evil Superman.

 

Watchmen was its creators' intent to thoroughly debunk the superhero myth and show that superheroes are just like us -- and we are untrustworthy a-holes who, if given great power, will become greatly corrupted. I had little patience ofr the first film, but the parts of the graphic novel I've read are brilliant.

Part of what made Watchmen so great was that he did a good job of showing that yes, they are just like us, which means there are also those who just wanted to do good, like Owlman.

Takes me back to first season of Heroes and one of the breakout people was Jiro because people LOVED that he just wanted to be a superhero - shades of The Turtle from the Wildcard books.

PKD's works are maybe the only stories I have liked that I also liked most of the film adaptations, despite only resembling the original in ideas. Minority Report, We Can Remember it for you Wholesale (the original Total Recall, not a fan of the remake), Do Androids Dream (Blade Runner), Screamers, Paycheck, The Golden Man (movie Next), Adjustment Bureau. Not sure why they work, but to me they mostly do. Possibly because they are mostly short stories and not trying to bring an entire book to film.

13 hours ago, Old Man said:

It probably says something about me or the way modern marvel is that I thought when the red was going in they were doing Deadpool.

3 hours ago, Starlord said:

 

Everyone knows the Crow movie, so I'll throw props to Rapid Fire, an excellent but relatively unknown martial arts action movie.  One great movie like the Crow can be an outlier for an actor's potential, but Rapid Fire sealed the deal for me that Brandon could've been a massive superstar.

Will third Rapid Fire. I mean this as a compliment, but you can see that Brandon inherited his father's charisma and humor, and I think with more movies he would have stepped out of the ginormous shadow his father left. I would love to have seen him be able to do more. I think he could have carried a franchise and then watching him do stuff with Jackie or Jet Li later in life would have been fun.

Now how do we get them to make movies with that cast of all the books...sorry.

Just finished latest Mercy Thompson book - Smoke Bitten. First time in the series I never actually felt any real peril, though to be honest, the real underlying tension wasn't external. This book felt a lot like a setup for what comes next. Still one of the better modern fantasy series (I would put it behind Dresden, Jane Yellowrock (though I think that series needs to end sooner rather then later before it gets stale), Kitty Norville series, Kelley Armstrong's Women of the Otherworld (really enjoyed the world building of meeting the various supers), almost anything by Seanan Maguire (October Daye being the biggest and best) and Kim Harrison's Hollows series.

1 hour ago, Old Man said:

So, a parasitic relationship.

I am still disappointed in Doctor Detroit: The Wrath of Mom never being made.

You don't consider Lesnar losing as a surprise. I will say I don't really follow WWE anymore, but saw the royal rumble where Lesnar removed first 13 then got eliminated by Galloway, so knew that would be a big match, but thought they would have Lesnar keep belt.

1 hour ago, Cygnia said:

paraphrasing King Louis the XVI: "Everythings so REEED!!!"

and then have an ending everyone will hate once made into a series for tv.

Is that Neil Peart? very cool picture.

4 hours ago, Spence said:

The 13th Warrior - Antonio Banderas.  A fantastic adventure film.  A band of chosen warriors take on an ancient evil.  Great stuff and well made.

You forgot perhaps the greatest player character death in any movie.