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We keep saying DC, but there might be the real difference between Marvel and DC. With Marvel, they created their own studio and appear, although owned by Disney, to not be being meddled with much by their overlords (movies, not tv). With DC, I have always felt it was Warner Bros calling the shots and not a "separate" group, no matter who was in charge. So as you say, putting Snyder in charge of a series of deconstruction movies makes sense, but putting him in charge because he has made other movies make money seemed like a corporate decision, not a "create our own universe" method. In some ways, reminds me of the Monster Universe (DRacula, Mummy, Invisible Man etc) that was tried, where each one was going to be the beginning. I like that they now seem to be changing direction, but until WB stops interfering, I am not sure we will actually get the universe we want.
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There's just one more thing, sir!
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Just got back from seeing Christopher Robbin. Enjoyed it a lot, exactly the movie you probably think it is from the previews. I compare it to Hook (the Robin Williams Peter Pan) in that similar story idea, but I think this one is done much better. I highly recommend for anyone who grew up reading/watching Winnie the Pooh. The people doing the voices for the inhabitants of the hundred acre woods are excellent.
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18 hours ago, Ternaugh said:
A nitpick: The original Schumacher Batman was Batman Forever with Val Kilmer. Michael Keaton's Batman was directed by Tim Burton.
Your correct and I feel like an idiot for forgetting and not looking it up.
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One of the things I liked about the original Schumacher Batman with Michael Keaton was that Bruce had to figure out what the Joker's plan was, especially the mixing of the chemicals. As you said, many of Batman's rogues started as normals with elaborate plans. It's why he had to do detective work and became so good at it. Like I said, wouldn't mind seeing someone like Black Mask in this. Head of a mob gang and a plotter in his own right. Or maybe a serial killer like Professor Pyg or Zaszz. Something where Bruce had to figure out what is going on and why. Sounds funny, but I wonder if the Leto Joker wouldn't be a good villain for this, but I am tired of the Joker.
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Sadly, the 2 best known villains that this would have been great for have kind of been made a joke of in the movies - Riddler and Scarecrow. I don't want to see one about Rach. Maybe Calendar Man or Hush might be good. Even Black Mask might work, bringing a noir detective vs the gangs into it.
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Problem with Osuna on Houston is you have already had guys like Verlander (who is pretty important) saying he could never forgive someone that assaults their spouse. So, just in trading for him, immediate clubhouse problems. Course, Altuve and Correia out might hurt them a lot worse then that.
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I wonder if Houston, in trying to get better, may not have done something to tear apart a pretty tight clubhouse: http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/24237553/buster-olney-houston-astros-own-all-comes-acquiring-roberto-osuna
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1 hour ago, Bazza said:
Hopes Marvel does limited series on TV. Suggestions include Squadron Supreme, & Marvels.
If needed they can be multiple seasons to fully tell the story. What it is not is a potentially ongoing concern. It has a set beginning and and an end, planned from the start.
Squadron might be tough. Course, if they did a good series, would really be a slap at the DCEU.
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I find it curious their isnt a location we can click for King Kong (I would guess the one in the middle of the pacific ocean). Also, although you can track Godzilla, their isnt a briefing on him I can see. And I really want to know what the others are, dammit.
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I have a thought on the air bubble and more why she made it as opposed to how. Maybe they can easily speak underwater, or at least have a language, but sound carries in water and maybe in JL she needed to say something for just him, and the bubble makes it private. Also, as to the pressure, per recent comics, yes, Mera is that strong a water bender.
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Looking forward to it. Really enjoyed season 1. Hoping Sage is there, she was great the first season, actually all of them were. Does mean I have to setup a weird recording situation for it, especially if it remains on sundays after football, as no telling what time football will end (early or late). Have already lost to many show endings due to that.
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5 hours ago, Christopher R Taylor said:
There are a lot of good points here and you're probably right at present. As CGI gets better that might be less of an issue but honestly I think an all-animated version of at least some stories or characters would be best. I mean Fantastic Four seems really simple but three of the characters have tremendously effects-heavy abilities
And the fourth requires opposing actors to be really good mimes.
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Anybody else hoping first thing Godzilla does is eat Megaladon?
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2 hours ago, drunkonduty said:
As to why it's okay to have a shirtless Jason Momoa being King of the Ocean yet kinda gross to present Margot Robbie as mentally ill rape bait:
Don't worry, the article is much less confrontational than my opening sentence.
Side annoyance - clicking a link to a site that won't let me read article without disabling my adblocker. The above site did so. I realize, they need to pay bills, but I have enough computer problems.
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Went and saw Equalizer II today. I enjoyed the movie about 80+%. Everyone in it was good, they had some great Robert helping people stuff (the opening sequence was great as was the one that started with the girl getting sent home by her employers). Also, they showed about halfway through why the opening sequence happened, so that was great.
The thing that drops the % is that
the writers again think, hey I will put in the twist that the person the hero trusts is actually the villain. I really wish they hadn't done this, but had made the bad guys just a hit squad, no reason for it to personal to Robert
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Also the other night, rewatched, since it was in theater, Season of the Witch. Nicolas Cage and Ron Perlman. Not a great movie, but I enjoyed it mostly for the total non hollywood cliche stuff - the 2 friends trusted each other and NEVER betrayed each other, the priest keeping an eye on the woman for being a witch was not a pervert who was truly the villain of the piece, and in the end, it turned out the woman was possessed by the devil. When I and my friend saw this in the theater, we loved the fact that the twists were, their weren't any. Everything was exactly as presented.
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Do we even know if they are using the acronym names Shazam stands for?
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39 minutes ago, Starlord said:
That's not saying much.
Actually, the Godzilla trailer looked better than Aquaman (too CGI-ey) and Shazam (wasn't funny).
Hmm, I thought it did have its funny moments. I look forward to all 3.
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Other thing is, If Dick is at this point in his life (member of GCPD, though maybe it is Bludhaven PD), shouldn't he be Nightwing. But then you have name recognition again. Execs assuming no one knows who Nightwing is and why.
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To me, that comes down to the ability of the wrestlers to sell whats going on. The athleticism and pure WTF just happened are some of the best parts, but also is their ability to sell the pain, the drive to win etc. Again, see the Okada/Omega series of matches. In a match in 2017 that Meltzer said was the best he had seen, Okada beat Omega. Next time they fought, Kenny went in saying that Okada would not beat him with the Moneymaker (short arm clothesline) and the match ended in a 60 minute draw. Next time they met was not for the title, but in a tournament and Omega won. Okada then beat Hiroshi Tanahashi to break the latter's record for consecutive title defenses. He took to the mic and mentioned that he had that draw and wanted Omega again. They decided on a no-time limit, 2 of 3 falls match. It was an hour and a half of brilliant back and forth. scripted or not, the match held your interest for the sheer athleticism of the 2 and the ability to sell the exhaustion and will to keep going.
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Sadly, they want to do Greyson (who in the Bat Family is really the high flyer who keeps everyone else grounded with jokes and puns), but decided to combine him more with Jason Todd, probably the 2nd most violent Robin, behind Damian who was raised as an assassin and has to fight his inner self. I have really enjoyed the recent comic books where the 4 Robins were together and you could see both the differences and the love/hate in them.
But streaming service, so I won't get to see it. It looks like someone said in a meeting "whatever we are doing, we have to separate it from Teen Titans Go".
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4 hours ago, Christopher R Taylor said:
He finds it funny that for 5 years or so straight, the Dodgers have had a rookie come up, tear up the league (see Puig, Pederson, Seager, Bellinger and now Taylor) for half a season and then fall off a cliff.
Strangely that's been true back into the 90s. They had five years in a row with rookies of the year:
1993 Eric Karros
1993 Mike Piazza
1994 Raúl Mondesí
1995 Hideo Nomo
1996 Todd HollandsworthA bunch of those sort of disappeared the next year.
But its not like Seager and Bellinger are bad this year, I mean you can't condemn their stats on injuries
Well, I don't count Nomo, as he was basically that years version of Ohtani, Ichiro etc. Players who aren't really rookies, but were stars in the Japanese league. Karros was servicable as a first baseman for a very long career. Mondesi did kind of fade out. Hollandsworth shouldnt have been ROY. Piazza was a great hitter, but truth was, he was a deplorable catcher for most of his career and rumors of steroids followed him and still do. My brother pointed out, if Piazza (and I think Piazza is a very classy guy and has a historic moment in baseball, the 911 HR) had been a first baseman, at that time, he would have just been a upper half hitter (think about it - Frank Thomas, Mark Mcguire, Mo Vaugn, Kruk, Fielder).
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3 hours ago, Armory said:
Saw a headline on ESPN this morning about how getting Machado makes the Dodges the "NL team to beat". Last I looked LA had a lot more holes to fill than SS. Between other injuries and a few underperformers like Bellinger they need more help than Manny's going to bring them.
My brother, who hates the Dodgers, has a theory on them. He really thinks MLB needs to look at their minors and stuff. He finds it funny that for 5 years or so straight, the Dodgers have had a rookie come up, tear up the league (see Puig, Pederson, Seager, Bellinger and now Taylor) for half a season and then fall off a cliff. His conspiracy is that is when MLB starts random drug testing new players, so he wonders if something is going on with them.
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A few weeks back, on back to back nights, I was able to watch the no time limit 2 out of 3 falls Kenny Omega vs Kazuchika Okada match -Great one, would put up against almost any in history. I love the story being told by these guys through their matches. I think, when they give Okada back the belt, he will have to do a new finisher AND will have to kick out of the one winged angel. They have pointed out that Omega has kicked out of the moneymaker clothesline, and even the match where they drew, Kenny went in saying Okada couldn't beat him with it.
Then the next night was the live show from San Francisco. Really enjoyed this too. I especially liked that for the first time that I can remember in watching, in doing a show here, it was just this group and not wrestlers from 2-3 different organizations. I am not a fan of Cody Rhodes (some of the BS he pulled backstage in the WWE never sat right with me) but his and Omega's match was excellent. Not sure I fully understood what was going on with the G.O.D. and Bullet Club at the end, but it should play out.
2018 Baseball Thread (MLB and whatever)
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Agreed - maybe even go so far as giving VR glasses to umpires hooked into the pitch trax (even John Smoltz and some of the other MLB guys are coming around to robo umps). I would supplement this to add regardless of team (see Yankees and Red Sox), Batter or pitcher.
Disagree, but shorten it. Should not take as long as it does. I would also get rid of challenging the guy came off the base unless all such instances could be challenged (Angels back picked a guy other day who over slid 1st going back and ump claimed Marte pushed him off, when clearly he didn't.
Never. Other then a handful of pitchers, i hate seeing them bat. And don't try to argue strategy BS. When a pitcher bats, amazingly even most the decent hitting ones, and there is a man on and 1 or no outs, he will be told to bunt.
I am indifferent to this one. I like iNterleague sometimes.
In other words, it's a foul ball, not a missed swing.
Indifferent, although I have heard pitcher analysts say it helps the pitcher, because they don't have to get used to throwing non strikes and then get back into the zone.
Agreed.
Agreed.
Could be interesting.
Agreed wholeheartedly.
Agreed.
Agreed.
My brother and I think one other stat change. Bullpen guys who come into a tied game with a man on first and 2 outs who then walk next batter and give up game winning single should be given loss. Also, if you come into a close game, say trailing by 1 and give up 5 runs, then your team turns around and scores 3, the starter who left should not be the person who gets the loss.