Koete
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It's just such a sloppy and lazy show: Professor Stein on the moral high ground about killing future Hitler when he drugged and kidnapped Jax; the guards dressed in black and wearing red arm bands to drive home the Hitler parallel, but they can't be bothered to put a symbol on the arm band; the season long swiping from Age of Ultron across all the shows continues with the Atom robots; the episode ending with Rory warning of the coming threat of...The Hunters.
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Rip: I'm sorry, I have to kill you.
A kid: You won't because you're garbage at your mission.
Rip: You're right.
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Can't blame her.
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If I do merit cretin status, you gotta mention it on a recording; it just doesn't ring without an accent.
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Because Livewire sucks.
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Between the cast and it not being part of the main series, I'm optimistic.
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Nerds (by which I'm not referring to the people on this forum) hate ambition and divergences from what they've built up the superheroes to be, even if the divergence is true to the characters. There isn't anything wrong with the core of what Fantastic Four and BvS wanted to do, the problem is that the execution fell short for both.
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In all my years on the internet, how did it take until actually watching Superman III to learn that Evil Superman pollutes an ocean in exchange for sex?
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Well, the two of them have steamrolled over everything else since day 1, no argument there.
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I didn't think it was as bad as the last couple, but a lot of the show's problems were still on display. "Ray and Kendra's relationship blossoms while stranded in the past for two years" and "Rick is molded into Chronos" could have been B-plots for entire episodes, but instead they're sped through and crammed into the same one. And the latter definitely needed more, because here's the thing: Chronos sucks, has always sucked. It doesn't do Rory any favors to retroactively be made into the guy that elicits a sigh whenever he shows up. There's a lot of this show's knack for the writers pulling whatever they need out of their asses, uninterested in the show having any kind of internal logic. Going up against the League of Assassins? Rip Hunter did his graduate thesis (what the fuck) on them. Snart loses a hand? We can just grow him a new one, nevermind the times the crew's needed something from the past to fix the damn time-travelling spaceship.
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I am baffled.
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The last scene of the season better be a reveal that this made Thawne come up with a contingency plan.
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Nah, they don't explain Rathaway, you're just supposed to go "ah, ~time travel~!"
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I've been glad to have Tom Cavanagh around as Wells-2, but holy shit, this episode drove home that he doesn't hold a candle to the original.
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Don't get me wrong, I'd rather re-watch it than Ghost Rider or X-Men Origins: Wolverine. But it's got too many fundamental storytelling problems to be more than a fascinating mess.
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I thought they were great all the way through. The villains and Raimi Spider-Man scene were goofy as hell though.
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Ha ha ha, what the fuck?
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I cannot believe they cut this scene out of the movie.
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Holy shit, is that verbatim? They gotta make him a supervillain, right?
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A friend of mine is a big Gene Tierney fan and hyped it up to me. It definitely lived up to it.
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That Uncertain Feeling - My least favorite Lubitsch film so far, lacking in the effortlessly perfect fusion of witty writing and filmmaking. Burgess Meredith is fantastic though.
Leave Her to Heaven - A film noir shot as a drama, in Technicolor. Gene Tierney delivers some all-time great facial expressions, and Vincent Price has a standout early role as a lawyer out for blood.
Crime Wave - Quick and to the point movie about a law-abiding ex-con blackmailed into a job, and the detective who considers him guilty until proven innocent. Highlights are the opening robbery, the stark black and white cinematography, and Sterling Hayden chewing toothpicks and yelling at people as the detective.
The Fury - Brian De Palma does Scanners better several years before it. Kirk Douglas is in it, and there's no "I'm not at the top anymore" phoning it in; he's great as always.
Cloverfield - Since it was at the beginning of found footage, it has more ambition and life in it than what's followed; T.J. Miller is the prototypical "guy holding the camera you can't wait to die horribly" though. Some surprisingly effective graphic moments.
Night Catches Us - Starring Anthony Mackie and Kerry Washington, set in 1976 Philadelphia, dealing with how former Black Panthers are living their lives. Well told drama of a subject that hasn't been allowed to have much of a light shone on it.
Knock Knock - The first half twists male fantasy into a nightmare, the second is so ridiculous that it burns through most of the goodwill earned.
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice - Thoughts in the thread.
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