Dan

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  1. On 3/31/2019 at 3:21 PM, The Master said:

    Sean Astin: The Goonies, Rudy, Toy Soldiers

    This, possibly swapping out Toy Soldiers for Encino Man.

    5 hours ago, slothian said:

    Not until I posted, sprog.

    Now get off my lawn and mind your sass.

    .....and excuse me whilst I drink my Toland-branded elixir and hide a portrait of me in my attic.

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  2. 23 minutes ago, Dread said:

    The smartest thing they could do is have reality shift slightly because of Endgame and return to a world where X-Men and fantastic Four are already a part of.

    Something about the idea of rebooting FF and X-Men from origin stories is so unappealing. 

    This. I've been thinking this was the way to go for a while now.

    Seriously, think about the insanity if out of nowhere there's a post-credits scene in Endgame that has an early 60s rocket crash and John Krasinski and three other people climb out in blue jumpsuits.

  3. Captain Marvel: Agreed with Mike that this belongs in the higher end of mid-tier. Brie Larson was terrific, Mendelsohn was much more engaging than I expected, and overall I had a great time. Some sequences absolutely felt lifted straight out of a mid-90s action blockbuster; they nailed the aesthetics.

    EDIT TO ADD: In the credits for the art team, one name I noticed was Eli Katz, which was Gil Kane's real name. Kane created Mar-Vell's classic red-and-blue costume. I wonder if that's a co-incidence or a cool nod, especially since Kane's name was notably missing from the list of creators in the "special thanks to" section.

  4. There's a small moment when Sam successfully curves the mug of beer around the bar, signifying that he has his juju back, where Ted Danson can visibly be seen taking a step back from the edge. It's a little thing, but it's a great visual moment of acting that ranks up there with THAT MOMENT in The Good Place season one in terms of reasons why Danson is a very, very good actor.

  5. Rocky III is, for me, the epitome of "you're flicking through the channels on Sunday afternoon and this comes on and you immediately put the remote down" movies. Rocky is a tremendous film, and Rocky IV is probably the greatest slice of 80s cheese you will ever be ridiculously entertained by, but Rocky III is a really solid movie that sucks you in almost entirely on the strength of Mr. T's performance.

  6. So it turns out that if you combine Star Wars and Lord of the Rings and Raiders of the Lost Ark and H.P. Lovecraft and Edgar Rice Burroughs and slather a huge coat of Marvel all over everything, you get Aquaman, the biggest, noisiest, gloriously dumbest movie I've seen in years, and it was an absolute blast.

  7. This might honestly have been the best movie I've seen all year. Yeah, it pushed the "I like Spidey" buttons, and the script was funny and clever, but as someone who pays way more attention to animation than most people, this was one of the most original pieces of animated work I've ever seen.

    And HOLY SHIT, the post-credits. I'm still in the middle of "Yes, finally, they bring HIM in" when he winds up... where he winds up.

  8. 1 hour ago, dc20willsave said:

    Tonight was good though it's also obvious that it was partially there to be a full-on backdoor pilot for a Batwoman pilot.

    I can't imagine that Arrow's going to be around too much longer; I assume the CW needs another "I can't believe its not Batman" show in the pipeline.

  9. 10 minutes ago, Donomark said:

    Yeah, this has been making the rounds for a week or so now. We have yet to hear anything from either Chibnall or Whittaker, and "professional TV producer wakes up one day to discover the Beeb can be hard to work with" is an interesting take, but neither does this sound totally out of left field.

    I'm not panicking yet.

  10. On 8/14/2018 at 3:12 PM, Donomark said:

    Good ep fellows. Regarding the NTT/X-Men comparisons, Wolfman actually fought back on the accusation that they were patterning their book after Claremont, and the character of Terra was more or less a reaction to that.

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