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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).
 

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).
 

Loveless Stressmore = 70s Bond villain

And the first trailers didn't help because it paints the characters as just standing around and doing nothing. The trailers should have focused more on the secret war going on. 
CES 

I always liked Push
CES

His career was dead, because he was out of control and impossible to work with.  In the 80s you could tell he was brilliant as an actor but he was taking every drug that existed in fistfulls and was destroying himself.
 
Downey finally cleaned up his act but by then had such a toxic reputation as being utterly impossible to work with kept him from any real career.   Shane Black gave him a shot after he cleaned up his life with Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (brilliant, underrated film) and he started to get his career back but yeah.  Favreau giving him a shot with Iron Man was brilliant and turned RDJ into a superstar.
 
 
I loved Evans as Johnny Storm, he really captured the hothead youngster thing perfectly and was fun every scene.  He got it just right.  But that made me baffled when they chose him for Cap, a totally different character.  But he did a wonderful job.

Charlie Sheen could pull off some sides of Stark, but would've been WAY off on others.  RDJ pulls off the brilliant side...you can totally believe he could build those Iron Man suits.  RDJ pulls off the superior/disdainful/egotistical angles;  Sheen's always struck me as a crude and condescending.  Tony Stark has a god complex;  Sheen comes across as a frat boy.  I can't see Sheen-Stark doing the final finger snap.  It was perfectly in keeping with RDJ-Stark.
 
And my GOSH, RDJ *nails* the visuals.
 
But, yes, their casting was inspired.  Hemsworth.  Hiddleston.  Cumberbatch might match the RDJ casting;  we just haven't seen enough of Dr. Strange yet.  And Bozeman's Panther transcended the genre.
 
 
 
 

Ewoks are only cannibals if they eat other ewoks. Ewoks are man-eaters,

I enjoy that we now get actors who do not shun having played a superhero in a movie. Jackman was the first I remember saying that Wolverine, if not launched, then boosted his career to the stratosphere it became for awhile. I like that Downey recognizes that, at the time, casting him was a risk and that it revitalized a career that had, for lack of a better term, faded.

Really!   ‘Cause according to the internet, I’m NOT a creepy old guy stalking college girls online......Hi there!  I love your boots.

Dune Part 2 is in the works for October 2023 exclusive theatrical release: https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/movies/dune-part-two-works-warner-bros-confirms-n1282437

What Pariah said.

On the one hand, the Dodgers are out of it. That's always a good thing.
 
On the other hand, I'm left in the unfortunate circumstance of having to root for the Braves, because there's no way in any infernal realm that I'm rooting for the Asstros.

Credit to Sun Sherman for this
 
The difference between 'complete' and 'finished' can be explained as follows:
If you marry the right woman, you will be complete
If you marry the wrong woman, you will be finished
And if the right woman catches you with the wrong woman, you are completely finished

Dune (Villeneuve version, HBO Max)
 
Jesus Christ this movie is gorgeous.  Literally every frame is suitable for wall mounting.  Having seen Arrival and Blade Runner 2049, I expected the film to be visually appealing, but I did not stop being blown away until the credits were rolling.
 
Villeneuve sticks pretty closely to the Lynch script, to the point where the dialogue in certain scenes is identical.  It's a little weird but I was too busy being floored by the visuals to care.  Most of the plot tweaks are improvements, but not all.  You can tell that Villeneuve is struggling with total runtime.  Perhaps the biggest change is that this Paul is really uncomfortable with his role as messiah, which will pay off if they film the next book.
 
 
Anon (Clive Owen/Amanda Seyfried, Netflix)
 
If you like slow burn, high concept sf, this is the film for you.  In a reality where augmented reality and memory control are built directly into the brain, Clive Owen's police detective character pursues a hacker who can literally control what people see and remember.  And you thought Facebook was evil!  Understated and intimate, this film was a nice surprise.
 
 
Squid Game (Netflix)
 
I'm a big fan of this genre.  Despite the glaring plot holes, this series remains gripping as we watch some well realized characters work through some truly horrific scenarios.  Unlike the Hunger Games, which was a heavy handed allegory of our relationship with the media, Squid Game is a heavy handed allegory of late stage capitalism.
 
 
 
 
MCU dads are hit or miss.
 
Scott Lang: Awesome.
Clint Barton: Awesome, if less fun.
Hank Pym: Flawed.
Odin: Well...
Thanos: Okay wait
Ego: STAHP
 

Not aimed at anyone specifically!!! Just the best thread for it. 
 

Making short videos of yourself eating small mints in a rickshaw is a Tuk-Tuk Tic Tac TikTok tactic.

Galahad: Look, let me go back in there and face the peril.
Lancelot: No, it's far too perilous.
Galahad: Look, it's my duty as a knight to sample as much peril as I can.

Galahad: Look, let me go back in there and face the peril.
Lancelot: No, it's far too perilous.
Galahad: Look, it's my duty as a knight to sample as much peril as I can.