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Quote:I've switch to e-books/comics instead of paper books/comics these days myself. Less space.I'm not saying that folks like Marvel are going to instantly stop making comic books tomorrow. I'm just saying that they'll probably be making their primary money from movies (and by extension electronic forms of media) instead of paper-based comic books in the years ahead.
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Quote:Personally, I blame the EDD. They force you to take any job offered to you else they stop sending checks. A man's gotta eat.And unlike some actors *cough*Johnny Depp!*cough* he doesn't do 20 billion movies a second and over-stay his welcome. I don't think I'll write this movie off just yet.
Isn't Tom the CEO of United Artist now, since his partner stepped down in 2008? Edit: Oh, I see, MGM now owns UA. -
Quote:I kind of liked that they told Beast Boy's origin subtilty, but I see your point. Maybe they'll go into it more in future episodes.Wouldn't know. I follow Marvel more than I do DC. I also imagine like myself (only a casual fan of comics) not every viewer would know Beast boys real name. Yes, knowing beast boy and all the others is a given, but actually knowing back story/secret identity/etc not so much.
Yeah I caught that I typed "Garth" instead of "Gar" way after everyone was already responding. Since it was already quoted a few times, and no one spoke up, I left it alone.
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Quote:The kid's name was Garfield Logan, the real name of Beast Boy.Props to the writers on setting up beast boy the way they did. While I'm usually not a fan of writers force feeding the audience information I do wish it was a little more clear he was the kid Miss M saved.
Mixing of blood is all you need to be blood brother and sister, that's the ritual ain't it? -
In that episode called "Image", they also implied that his shape changing abilities may have been due to (or at least partially due to) the blood transfusion he got from Miss Martian.
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I don't think Beast Boy was forced since he was on the show before. I'm kinda wondering if they'll acknowlege the fact that M'gann and Gar are now blood brother and sister.
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I LMAO during the Supergirl Vs Superman short. Why hasn't anyone done what Supergirl did to Superman before?
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Actually their gripe was Bruce only trained at Grandmaster IP Man's school for 1 year before he was kicked out of the school due to pressure from the other students as Bruce wasn't full blooded Chinese. However, he continued training with IP Man's senior students William Cheung and Sihing Wong Shun Leung afterwards (mostly with William Cheung who grew up with Bruce Lee).
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Quote:Kato was winning that fight anywayI remember reading in several books about Bruce Lee scaring the crap out of Burt Ward, the guy who played Robin in the 1966 Batman TV series. He was guest starring as Kato alongside the Green Hornet for a crossover thing and decided to wind up Burt Ward, acting all serious about the fight scene they all had to do together, with Robin fighting Kato.
Ward must have been terrified
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Quote:I think we're safe. I have a copy of the book of the dead with translations. The spells in it mainly are supposed to work only in the afterlife, and I didn't see any raise zombie minions spells in there.
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For stricktly American Made mecha shows then definately, The Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot and Megas XLR. Titan Maximum was also pretty good. I don't really count robots as mecha, as mecha implies having human pilots.
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I have never wanted anything more badly than this chair.
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Quote:Whedon was also second unit director of this. It's more funny than scary, but yeah some bits did make me jump and push back into my seat.I was hoping to see this, and had my wife on board by saying that Mr. Whedon co-wrote and produced it but completely lost her when I said something about horror or thriller. Looks like I'll have to see this when it's available on-demand.
I hear it's quite the good time though. Bummer. -
To give away too much of the plot would take too much out of the film. So I'll say this, its as if Scream and Monster movies had dirty kinky sex and produced a love child. I don't know if its good to see in the theaters as it lacks a lot of the cinemetography that you want to see in the big screen, but it is hilariously entertaining. Plus as one critic said, who can resist a killer unicorn...ok one spoiler. It's also holding at 92% on Rotten Tomatoes, which is well deserved.
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Nah, I'm sure someone will welcome the new neighbors with a pie. It would be unneighborly not to do so.
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Hmmm...from what I've read about the Tomorrow series this movie is based on, the author never gives the nationality of the invading forces.
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Actually, I wasn't trying to make this political. I was mainly reacting to the posts on that video voicing their ourtrage that the trailer doesn't spell outright what nationality the invaders are. Like it would make a difference?
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Quote:I think any reason given would just distract from the plot, or that they could give any reason that would make us feel as the villains. I mean, if they made the Americans invading because we wanted something from the country like oil, it would make the movie feel slanted toward a political agenda, and we'd miss the point of it.Yes but if you're asking an American audience to consider this possibility and give it any serious thought, to see ourselves as potential villains, then there has to be a reason that we can swallow. Otherwise it's too shallow to make that point because how are we supposed to believe that the US is invading Australia or wherever this is "just because?"
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Okay, let's put it in this light. If the invaders were say the Chinese, would we still need a reason for the invasion? -
Quote:Might be just the trailer hiding the fact to reduce controversy until the release of the movie.It depends on the circumstances of the invasion, surely, but that's got nothing to do with my comment. I just mean from a story perspective, trying to make it a big mystery who the invading army is and then revealing it to be the US is just utterly predictable. If it's going to be about the US invading and seeing that from the other side, then I think the concept would be better served making that point up front, not by trying to make it some kind of big reveal.
In Red Dawn, we never got a reason for the Russian Invasion (it was just assumed), the point of the movie wasn't why they were invading but why the kids were fighting back. "Because we live here!" was the catchphrase for the original Red Dawn trailers...that and "WOLVERINES!" -
The troops kind of look like American forces. It would make an interesting point about perspective. In Red Dawn, it was American kids attacking Russian invaders, and we took the kids fighting back as Freedom Fighters. But if you did the same movie, but changed the invaders to be American Troops, would we look at these kids as terrorists instead? I mean, in our perspecitve, if the US were invading a foreign country there must be good reason for it...?
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It would be interesting if the invaders end up being the US.
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Quote:Yeah, I meant galaxy. Sorry multitasking error.Did you mean the center of the galaxy? 'Cause I'm not sure we even know where the center of the universe is now. Other than the vague description that Tatooine is the planet farthest from it.
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Quote:As the Chinese say, Tomorrow brings tommorow. They can always get into that in the sequal, and leaves the viewers (who haven't read the books) wondering how she is going to deal with this situation...and possibily Team Peeta and Team Gale memoriabilia.Not letting Peeta in on the manipulation changes a lot of things. He was into it, for obvious reasons. Actually, keeping Peeta in the dark causes a lot of problems later on too... he stays getting lied to!
Also, the book is told from Katniss' point of view, so we know everything about how she feels about Peeta and Gale. The movie is maybe a little too subtle on this point. -
Quote:See, now you're understanding!Well since they didn't have cable TV they had plenty of time to look up at night and track the stars. Sometimes having hundreds of years to look and think about things can overcome the general lack of basic technology we take for granted today. Ancient peoples didn't always need to rely on "extraterrestrials" to get some things right.
The Mayans tracked the stars and figured out when important astronical events will occur and they built their calendar around those events kind of how we track astronical events now on our calendars (the Earth revolving around the Sun and the cycles of the Moon), and they built legends around them. Though their way is arguably much more accurate and detailed.
BTW: The aliens thing was just a joke. It seemed appropriate and timely