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Hmm, I forgot to turn on [sarcasm] before my statement, apparently, hehe.

It is one of the reasons that I have commented that the worst marvel movie is better then 50% of the stuff put out there (maybe higher, but I tend to have a low bar for movies as I just want to have a day out of movie and pizza for myself).

At least it didn't turn out that the girlfriend was the villain in disguise as every other tv show would have done.

18 hours ago, Bazza said:

 

Wait, so a studio going under the "if it aint broke..." style of movie making? That doesn't make sense. Where is the corporate guys who have been in business their whole lives who KNOW they can make movies better and therefore need to tweek things?

On 10/26/2019 at 12:25 PM, rjcurrie said:

 

While the attempt to consolidate DC history into one timeline did not work out, I seem to recall the the original Crisis did reinvigorate a lot of DC's creative teams and I think the work turned out in the first few years following Crisis was much more interesting than the work that had preceded it.  

 

And we don't know for sure if Jesse and Harrison Wells of Earth 2 were killed or not. I believe the last we heard of Jesse was that she was filling in Jay on Earth 3. 

 

Isn't the best case scenario that we get entertaining TV out of the crossover?  After all, that's all any of this is. Entertainment. 

Biggest problem that DC has with their reboots, especially since that first one which was pretty good, is that they can't seem to go all out in it. Writers come in, and rather then rein them in, the writers want to have their cake and eat it too, wanting a reboot BUT wanting to use big events in the DC history (like Killing Joke or Death of Superman). If they are going to reboot at somepoint, then you have to sell out and say" "none of that has happened in this universe, don't reference it".

Killjoys is one of the series that I hope they can do a movie 5 years down the line to see where everyone is and where the system has evolved too.

Zombieland 2: pretty much more of the same as the first movie. Some really fun cameos in it. If you liked the first one, go see this one.

I really like the Remo movie, especially after reading the books. I wish they had a chance to continue it. Wouldn't mind seeing it done as a series, although finding someone like Joel Gray, who embodied Chun, will be tough. And I am a fan of Wilford Brimley in everything. He has, IMHO, one of the best movie stealing scenes in a film he appears for a total of about 20 minutes in Absence of Malice.

Well, they have said that GoT is very realistic in its killings, so maybe they really did cut his head off.

I am also impressed that he apparently went backwards from 1994 to 1991 to fill in the gaps.

3 hours ago, death tribble said:

I saw the film before I saw the series although I was aware of it. It might have been a better idea for Will Smith and Kevin Kline to play the other actor's role.

Better would have been the writers to have ever watched an episode of the series. I actually liked the casting of the 2 leads at the time. Will had the confidence/arrogance of West and Kline was a chameleon in his roles, so how about a role that allows him to play and actor excellent at adapting to roles.

wish they hadn't allowed Branagh to S#!t over a role made famous and given, in a lot of ways, gravitas by Michael Dunn. Not to mention the thoroughly disgusting General as the hench villain.

1 hour ago, Michael Hopcroft said:

If rebooting a good movie counts, there's a lot that can be done with Roger Corman's fantasy comedy The Raven. The original, of course, is sublime. But there's a lot that can be done with the core concepts if you're willing to do the work.

 

But given the dismal state of Hollywood comedy right now, it might be a stretch.

Only if they can get the wizard duel right. To me, that might still be one of the best magic duels ever shown in film or tv. The total back and forth, spell and counter were excellent and well thought out. I fear with today would just be blast and dodge behind rubble type stuff.

1 hour ago, Pariah said:

Not that I thought Star Trek: Voyager was ever a great show, but it went downhill quickly after Robert Beltran decided he didn't like the show and rather than quit, decided to keep collecting paychecks while phoning it in every week. And while the addition of Seven of Nine was an improvement over Kes (not a high bar to clear, mind you), it was clearly driven by sex appeal and felt like a shark-jumping move at the time. Probably saved the series (to whatever extent possible), though.

Well, in fairness to Beltran, his character was basically delegated to 2nd class citizen due to the increasingly "Girl Power" modus operandi of the show. He started as 2nd in command, badass leader of a rebel ship and ended up being the person whose ideas are forgotten. It was a role reversal, which was the intent I believe, but I think he thought they would do more to celebrate his being American Indian. Heck, he even became a secondary character to a hologram doctor.

23 hours ago, drunkonduty said:

Battlestar Galactica (new series)

It jumped hard and far when Starbuck came back. Although it started lagging from... Whenever it was the Cylons showed up on and took over the new colony. Start of season 3?

Then crashed and burned when it turned out EVERY MAJOR CHARACTER NOT NAMED ADAMA WAS ONE OF THE ORIGINAL 9, or so it seemed.

I think if they do Flamebird, we haven't really met her yet. I am betting on the girl from the preview she gives the bracelet too, so basically a Jason Todd origin, where she steals from Kate and Kate decides to take her under her wing.

I had to do a double take on the security/tech guy we saw, thinking is that Echo Kellum (Mister Terrific in Arrow). Now realize it is Camrus Johnson playing Luke Fox (also known as Batwing). Wonder if he will purely be the tech guy or will done the Batwing armor.

1 hour ago, mattingly said:

 

Sometimes my friends run in a mini-marathon.

 

I tell them I'm training for a micro-marathon. 

At 1/1000th of a marathon, it's about 45 yards.

 

 

How many times do you have to stop to rest? pretty sure I would have to stop a couple times at this point.

Normally they are a top down, which is why this makes even less sense, but Roberts decided to leave Kershaw in despite the fact everyone knows he isn't the same pitcher he was (one article went do far to say if the name on the back of the jersey wasn't Kershaw, he would have pulled him, so sentimentality and loyalty drove the decision) instead of bringing in a right-hander to face Rondon and then the lefty whose whole job the entire series was to get Soto out to face Soto and then leaving Joe Kelly to pitch a second inning when he hadn't thrown a 2nd inning in 6 weeks instead of going to Jansen were both choices made by Roberts in the spur of the moment, and he has said so. So, not only did he show bad judgement in that, but went against what management had basically setup. Don't get me wrong, if Kershaw gets Rondon and Soto (or only gives up singles to them) maybe we aren't having this conversation, but Rondon is an MVP candidate who destroys left handed pitchers.

So, has anyone seen Joker? Opinions? Trying to decide if I want to see it. Already figured would go in thinking its not really the Joker, but again more a variant of Michael Douglas in Falling Down, but would like to hear others thoughts.

Ok, would anyone eat that and not worry about something coming back out of their chest?

And Dave Roberts attempts to get himself fired by making repeatedly dumb choices in last 3 innings of their final playoff game of the season. And, sadly, Kershaw continues to promote the "he can't pitch in playoffs like he does in the regular season" theories.

hmm, recorded it to see if would like it, thanks for the review, will delete it and stop future episodes from recording.

in contrast, I thought Batwoman has potential and will continue giving it a chance, but then, I still like all the CW shows, though I agree there is a certain amount of stupid in them.

I would point out in most of those that are the regular universe, it was when he was infected with the zombie virus. In Ultimate universe, he was intentionally doing so. Like I said, he reminded me a lot of Hyde from the comic version of League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, which was probably intentional.

14 hours ago, Bazza said:

Edward Norton: https://apple.news/A2iUJj6_WRcOp3KXZm2RHcQ

 

 

I liked Incredible Hulk. I can't really picture them doing what he wanted, and fear we would have ended up with ultimate Hulk, who eats people and is much closer to League of Ordinary Gentleman's comic Hyde.

7 hours ago, Cancer said:

I collected half a dozen years or so of Strat-o-Matic seasons back in the 80's, and figured out how that worked; when the Rockies started out I wondered how they would wedge in the altitude effects.  Have they added in park effects into the game?

Yes, there are now stats that take into effect parks.

5 hours ago, Lord Liaden said:

Like my dad used to say, "Opinions are like a**holes. Everybody's got one."

 

Personally I don't care what Scorsese thinks of the MCU. It's not like we need him to direct a Marvel movie. (That might be cool, though.)

Only if he did a Punisher or a Moon Knight movie.

2 hours ago, zslane said:

Harley in the comics (and the animated series) is less self-aware and a little more clueless about things. She succeeds almost by accident much of the time, and is never in as much control of matters as she thinks she is. This movie version seems kinda the opposite of that.

Been a couple years since I read her comics, but the Harley they were writing at that point (and I would say when SS came out) is much more self aware and a lot more Dr. Quinzel in there then used to be. As a matter of fact, she takes a job as Dr. Quinzel counseling old folks to help pay bills. It is a different Harley then from the animated series. A much more independent one.

Went to see Rambo: Last Blood. Has all the Ramboness you would expect. I never saw any past the first 2, so some of the history alluded to I don't know. And I know that part of the staples of these movies are a political statement. Having said that, this movie is plain depressing after the first 30 or so minutes. Will spoil for those who still plan to see why:

56 minutes ago, Ranxerox said:

 

As a long time, comic book reading fan of Harley Quinn,  I totally recognize the character in the trailer.  The "J-man" is a drug that she occasionally relapses into, but in most of her comics, she is her own sociopathic gal.  Also, in the comics, she is no stranger to female empowerment storylines.  They were a big part of Gotham Sirens and certainly have been common in the Jimmy Palmiotti/Amanda Connor run.

Was going to say the same thing. The Harley they are portraying is almost straight out of her solo run in a lot of ways. As I said above, my problem is that I detest the version of the Joker she was with. I really would have liked to see her play this Harley off of Ledger's Joker, which I believe would have worked well. They both have that rational casual crazy that works, her a little more hyper, which fits. When I watch her, I could totally see the Ledger scene with the pencil and her in the background laughing after.