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There are advantages to using D-listers.  Make a change to the icons, and watch the furore.  But we can make Shang-Chi a flying energy blaster and people are quite happy with it.  There's a greater ability to adapt the characters to the medium, and to anticipated audience reaction.  We want more female characters?  OK.  Makkarri, Sprite and Ikaris are female now.  Would that have worked with Flash and Cyborg?

I had similar feelings when Guardians of the Galaxy came out. I mean, these guys are a D-list title at best. Why give them a movie?
 
It turned out all right, and I expect this will too.

I would point out she was beautiful with nothing on, so they were obviously right🙄

I admit I don't understand why the Rams signed him; I would not have called wide receiver a spot where the Rams badly needed help.
 
The question becomes: can Stafford throw to his WRs well enough to make it worth it?

Marvel has made Eternal's supporting character, Karun Patel, his own emoji.  This is cool because I and apparently everyone else really liked the character.
 

That is a hard question.  The characters are asked to make some very tough moral choices and they are all affected by them. But there is the question of which ones are changed by the choices and which just have there true character revealed.
 
Sprite, Sersi, Thena, Ikaris, Druig, and Kingo all have have interesting arcs.  However, which are changed versus which are revealed I couldn't say.

There is a final fight, but I don't think any character development is lost because of it. The movie seems to imply that Phastos wanted to give them much more advanced tech, but was held back....so I don't think humanity got "everything" from the Eternals. How much that element of the film bothers you is really up to each individual.

From my Facebook review....
 
Movie Review: (That recently released Marvel movie that shall for the moment remain nameless due to FB algorithms.) I found this movie pleasantly surprising. It's certainly not deserving of the hate it's been getting. The movie is long and is in general less action packed than other recent Marvel films. That's to be expected as the film is packed with characters that need at least a minimal amount of fleshing out. This movie is beautifully shot and the sense of scale in scenes involving the Celestials is impressive. The film also benefits from a good cast and impressive FX work. There are a few plot holes, but they're all minor. My only major gripe is that I would have liked more investigation into what a 5000 year old person would be like and the film only hints at that on occasion. In that sense, this would have worked somewhat better as a series. There's two post credit sequences...one of which was expected and the other which came as somewhat of a surprise. The film also has a very good end fight....which potential directors of a Superman/Flash clash should take note of. As far as the criticisms of it being "woke" (a term I hate by the way), if seeing people on screen who aren't WASPs bothers you that much, I can't help you. This film will be divisive, but as a foundation to build upon future cosmic level MCU stories, this really is a must see.

It was part of what he said during the interview.
I assume it's true, actually.  This is something that we *don't* have a right to know.  That said, the J&J vaccine didn't have it.  Oh, but there were issues early on with it!!! But those issues were resolved well before the season started, and you still didn't go for it.
 
I'd also like to know if this allergy was sufficiently common that maybe they could substitute for it?  Maybe not, but I don't buy that the door was completely slammed on the 2-shot vaccines on that alone, without further evidence that this path was completely closed.
 
The utterly damning side tho, was that he knew the League did not consider him vaccinated.  He painted a picture that All Is Fine, disregarding the agreed-upon rules.  He even said "I didn't agree to these rules."  So ******* what?  You're accepting the check, you abide by the workplace rules.  My job, for some time, required a security clearance.  Condition of employment.  Yeah, well, that included random drug testing.  Not a huge deal...more annoying than anything.  But I had absolutely no right to object.  At one point, too, I got assigned to a field group.  That group took company vehicles to remote sites at times.  Ergo...a University operators' license was required.  Which means, of course, a state driver's license.  Which I didn't have.  Long story there.  Yes, well, as you can imagine...I got the license post haste.  Or I would have been fired, as the project I was on, was shutting down.  It was the listed job...or out the door.  
 
So he gets no break for this in my book.  it's all part of his attempt to make out that he's a victim, when he's as freaking guilty as Henry Ruggs in my book.  And MORE culpable, IMO.  Ruggs was buzzed and young and impulsive and stupid.  Rodgers was cold and calculating and continued the lie for months.

Speaking of Ruggs and the Raiders...there's this, seen on Twitter:

 
 
Another sterling addition to Jon Gruden's resume.

Ewoks reproducing out of control, and overflowing the ships' storage areas?

Not if they read the stat line.  Before then, OK it was completely putrid...but it was still awful.  19/39 for 232.  QBR under 25, rating under 75.
 
That said, yeah, stats lie regularly.  The raw cumulative numbers like total yards passing are particularly egregious.  24 for 50 for 320 yards is terrible...but it'll be listed and praised as a 300 yard passing performance.  Total yards is like points scored in basketball...oh great he had a 40 point night, but he shot 14 for 39 and had 9 turnovers and no assists.  Translation, he hogged the ball.  A lot of it is the media hype train;  every national broadcast and every national broadcaster/analyst is part of their league's PR department.  Everyone's brilliant, everyone's "one of the best we have in this league."  Criticism is VERY rare, and almost always nuanced...oh, Dak really had a poor game.  With the clear subtext of, this was an aberration.
 
Yeah, I hear ya man......

Looks like an out-take from Ready Player One

I'm ready for Xmas!
 

Aaron Rodgers is unvaccinated?? That is incredibly disappointing. 

I say randomly because we also have cats, and those episodically leave land mines in the principal traffic lanes.  Consequently, I am obliged to extemporize new routes reasonably often.  And my memory from when I was the one sowing the "streets" with legos most of 60 year ago, the blocks would show up inexplicably in places that had nothing to do with where anyone walked.  (I viewed this as a tendency for the parts I wanted to go a-wandering, rather than purposefully making road hazards.)

My wife is slowly turning one of the spare rooms into Lego Hogwarts....
 
 
Ugh.
 
 
If you're going to fall in love with a franchise, try to pick one with a badguy who can at least murder an infant and seize a high school.  Yeeesh.
 
 

Bride of Frankenstein
One of the definitive horror films. It starts with Mary Shelley starting the sequel to her husband and Lord Byron. Karloff is back as the monster who escapes a flooded windmill and goes back on a rampage until he comes across a blind hermit who shows him kindness and teaches him how to speak. It comes across Dr Pretorious who is trying to get Dr Frankenstein to help him. The two coerce Henry into building a mate. Predictably this goes wrong. Worth seeing.
 
Frankenstein meets the Wolfman
Lawrence Talbot is released from his grave by tomb robbers and wanting to end his life he seeks out the gypsy Maleva and then Dr Frankenstein. He comes across the Monster after transforming into a wolf and being chased by the locals. Contacting Frankenstein's descendants he tries to find a way to die. A doctor who has followed him from England agrees to help him and transfer his life into the monster. The locals however decide to put a stop to the monster by blowing up the dam. So as the moon rises and Werewolf and Flesh Golem fight it out they are swept away. You have to know or have seen previous films like The Wolfman and Frankenstein in order to appreciate this.
 
The Invisible Man
Claude Rains is the scientist who has made himself invisible and then goes mad. His reign of terror is brought to an end by snowfall and bullets. A short film but effective.
 
The Mummy's Hand
The mummy is now Kharis not Imhoptep and he is protecting Princess Annaka. The priests try subterfuge and violence to deter expeditions before bringing the mummy into it. Again this is short. It works.
 
Revenge of the Creature
This is the sequel to creature from the Black Lagoon. The same captain from the previous film takes a new group to the lagoon and they capture the beast using explosives. They take him to an aquarium and try to study and train him. He escapes and stalks one of the scientists before being gunned down by the police.
 
The Bat
An author rents a home for the Summer and is menaced by a killer called The Bat. The home belongs to the bank president who has stolen money from his bank and now intends to fake his death wioth the help of his friend the local doctor played by Vincent Price. This has some nice red herrings and throws the audience of the scent. Well worth a look.

or 2-5 at once (and yes, you have to roll one of them and add 1 to determine how many you have to step on, its in the rules).