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Was thinking about the Eternals, and wonder if they won't show up due to the messing with the timeline resulting from this movie. As was said, Thanos never came and wiped out half the universe apparently now, which is what Tony did to undo everything by destroying him.

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 I think this might be the best movie Marvel has done.

the character stuff was amazing. Wasn't thrilled with Thor but I know Hemsworth wanted more like this. Loved that it was Pepper that knew what Tony needed to hear at end. 

The scene where Cap stood up bloody with half a shield ready to face Thanos and his army alone if needed and the portals started opening had tears rolling down my cheeks.

this movie was a great payoff for the other 20+.

ok, now will go and read why I didn't like it.

Almost done with the Iron War books, not as enjoyable as the Coilhunter to me.

I am also currently listening too the Hidden Magic Chronicles by  Justin Sloan and Michael Anderle. Set in the shared Kurtherian Universe. Enjoyable so far, as I am only in book 2.

More on the Kurtherian Universe here: https://kurtherian-universe.fandom.com/wiki/Kurtherian_Universe_Wiki

Yep, Imax worthy. Just Take My Money. 17 Kaiju, Basically Destroy All Monsters redone.

Apparently, if the Kaiju play musical instruments and sing, they are DaiKaiju:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daikaiju_(band)

Saw it this week. Was ok, not as good as the Perlman ones, much more gory and violent I think. One thing bugged me a lot, will spoiler:

10 hours ago, L. Marcus said:

That's probably a sign of the Apocalypse.

Or at least the Alpocalypse.

20 hours ago, Spence said:

 

 

Don't get me wrong.  I don't really consider them horrible movies.  Just movies that were made before they really had the movie tech to make a convincing supers movie.  Kind of like scifi movies from the 50/60's.  I like a lot of them, but they really didn't have the technology to do what they wanted.  But shows like the Teen Titans are actually worse in my opinion, it is like the people making the calls on casting and costuming had never seen any of the comics.  Just bad.  

 

But as to additional streaming services, DC, Disney, CBS and on, have a long way to go before I subscribe.  I really enjoy Game of Thrones, but no matter how much I like the show, I just can't subscribe to HBO for one, maybe two shows a year.  And that is all HBO usually has.  At least that is all they have that interests me, so paying for so little is not an option.

 

The same thing applies to most of the new streaming services. Like Old Man, I get Amazon Prime Video only because it came with Prime.  And I get Netflix, Hulu and CR because they carry shows from multiple sources.  If the streams and the pay cable networks offered true "ala carte", by which I mean the ability to purchase/rent specific titles/episodes, I'd probably watch their shows a lot more rather than waiting for a video release. 

 

The entertainment is littered with far more failures than successes, and this concept of 5000 separate streaming services is just another failure waiting to happen.  In my opinion of course

My problem at home is, I don't subscribe to any. I live in a remote area and am limited to Satellite, which means I am limited to 50Gb of data a month, limiting what I could watch even if I wanted too. It's one of the things I am annoyed with my satellite about, but it is what it is. Where I am, don't really have an option barring an unknown rich relative dieing and deciding to leave me money. Its kind of annoying, as I would love to follow some of these shows. I use my friends Netflix for the Marvel ones, basically stream recording them with the extra I get from 2am to 8am at a lower level of quality.

Actually, just looks like a reality show variation of Kick-Ass, if KA had been more about Big Daddy and Hit-Girl (ie competent heroes).

8 hours ago, Spence said:

 

Possibly because we are not talking specifically about Disney+.  But rather all of the suddenly sprouting streaming everything and they all lunge for the trough...  And in general, none of the trailers/pics for most of the new offerings that I have seen look even close.  Key note, "that I have seen". 

 

And the Teen Titan comment was because it is an epic example of horrific. It actually makes the Ben Affleck Daredevil and the Jennifer Garner Electra movies look like high art, except of course a movie and a TV Series are generally not in the same league.    

 

I just wonder how long all the isolated one product streaming services will last before revenue loss swings them back to a wider service model. 

 

Of course, there is plenty of time to prove me wrong

I liked the Affleck Daredevil, not so much Elektra. I liked it more with Director's cut. Is one reason I would have really liked to have seen him play an older Batman more.

Hey, compared to Fantas4ic or whatever it was called, Roger Cormin's FF was gold.

1 hour ago, Grailknight said:

I actually thought of a way they could salvage this  for me emotionally. It requires Rey becoming more of a Mary Sue but that ship  seems to have unlimited cargo capacity so here goes:

 

The Jedi have long preached denying their emotions and channeling the Force as  pure thought while the Sith use the Dark Side by harnessing their negative emotions to fuel their power. I'm sure this has been done somewhere in the EU but what if Rey discovers the ability to harness the Force through her positive emotions and then combine that with her controlled dark emotions. She could become a true force master and invent a new way with a balanced relationship with the Force and life. Incredibly cheesy but It is a movie for kids and sets the SW Universe on a hopeful course.

Realizing although Canon, most people haven't seen it, the Star Wars: Rebels series actually explored this and many ways the main protagonist - Ezra - in many ways became what you said. He was studying both light and dark side force.

maybe they should have done Wonkavision.

Saw it today, enjoyed it. Thought they would do to much teen/kid stuff, but did a good job. Like the Marvel Family and that they kept that really their powers are variants of the main heroes. Silvana was a good villain, but I always liked the actor. Levi does a good job, much like Hanks in Big. I fully expected to see him go back and have a "talk" with his mom's boyfriend, ala Clark in Superman 2 and the diner thug.

As a note, they got a really good match to play super Mary, I had figured were using same actress in the suit.

They forgot the part where they, along with women, are the root of all sin in western religion.  not sure if I would add or subtract a star for that though, some sins can be really fun.

3 hours ago, Christopher R Taylor said:

They kept pitching to Bonds as he stroked 72 home runs.  Pitchers are sure they are the one that can get him out (and they should have that attitude or shouldn't be up there) and managers hate to give up a free runner.

Well, it worked, because 5 of those time, once with bases loaded, there ended up no runners on base afterwards. He and their pitchers basically won all 3 of the last games. I think he accounted for 80% of the runs they scored after the first game.

Much like was mentioned with Bonds above, when he is hot, you should just walk him. discounting the lack of anyone on Angels, I would almost say that with all but 10-15 guys in MLB (there is a reason he is considered best player now and maybe challenge for best ever if stays healthy). You might pitch to him in situations if Betts, Harper, Bellinger or Seager from the Dodgers are hitting behind him. Those are the only guys off the top of my head I can think of.

oh, I thought he used crafts to create one. I was going to say very realistic, though the fruit looks very fake.

In a "why didn't the manager of the opposing team (rangers) not walk up at exchange of lineups and say Trout will be intentionally walked when ever he bats" wonderment. His Stats for the 4 games against the rangers (angels won 3):

In the four-game series, Trout batted .545 (6-for-11) with five homers, nine RBIs, six walks and a hit by pitch. He reached base safely in 13 of his 18 plate appearances.

As an Angel fan, please keep pitching to him, but as a baseball enthusiast, this is a quick way to show you shouldn't be managing, as most the time the guy batting behind Trout has less then 5 hits so far.

Problem is, they are so afraid of missing the run if ball is hit in hole somewhere and defender makes a play to stop it but really only play should be at 1st if runner was going. What is missing in baseball now are aggressive runners who understand you can go 1/4 of the way and force hesitation in defender, perhaps resulting in safe at first or take off home as soon as they throw to 1st.

I would argue, that with the exception of the Avengers movies, you really don't need any others, especially fringe ones, to enjoy these movies. To see the 2 Ant Men movies, you don't have needed to see any of the others, knowing the character of Tony Stark and his father would help, but not needed. Only the 3rd Captain America movie really required knowing any of the other movies, but truly only needed to know the characters and what had happened in Winter Soldier.

5 hours ago, Logan.1179 said:

And scooby snacks.

I was under the impression that Skull Island supposedly took place in the 70s or 80s, so technically, 30+ years, not 2.

Part of the problem, depending on what they do in KOTM is that they have portrayed both G and KK as being guardians. And now that they have used Ghidora, whom can you throw in that is really a threat to both. Course, is a classic Superhero team up, of course the heroes start off fighting, but then team up to finish the bad guy.

16 hours ago, zslane said:

The last option is to show Jim Gordon cleaning up the traditional criminal element, leaving a vacuum that draws in prototypes of Batman's rogues gallery, which is what I think the show tried to do at first. But like I said, they discovered that even this "half step" towards a "real Batman show" was not enough to keep people tuning in, and so they started throwing in all of Batman's villains, in one form or another, way before they normally would have appeared and tried to make it work with a young proto-Batman and a heavy dose of Weirdness Factor.

I think they did start with this, in a lot of ways showing the origins of the rogue's gallery. A young Ivy, a young Selena, a flunky Penguin etc. All learning from mentors.

"I'm not a baby, I'm a tumor".