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27 minutes ago, Spork3245 said:

 

Just make them smaller and great tasting  

If we're bringing back animals to eat, let's go with a dodo. It's just a 50lb chicken, but somehow dumber.

6 minutes ago, CitizenVectron said:

Let's just replace death sentences with 10 years in the iso-cube, Dredd style, or the Phantom Zone. Or even better, in the ice prison from Demolition Man.

Saying criminals should be teleported to the future doesn't quite have the same ring to it.

45 minutes ago, skillzdadirecta said:

 

I think the point of the list is that while most people already wrote the WB/DCEU off, it really isn't in as bad shape as the internet would have you believe. There is a slight element of DC fanboyism in the article, but outside of Justice League, has the WB had what would be considered an outright flop yet? Was Justice League technically a flop financially? If Shazam is a hit, then DC may be back in business. 

Are people really arguing that the DCEU movies are financial failures or that they're just bad movies? The MCU movies aren't exactly high art, but there's a considerable step up in quality from what DC has been pushing out the last decade. I love comic book movies, so I'd be all in for DC getting their act together. Their problem has been direction and DC doesn't really know what that means. Wonder Woman was a success so someone over there thought it means their movies shouldn't really be all that connected because that's what success looks like...maybe? 

Also, that list is ridiculous because of their number 1. Their number 1 is basically, after Snyder, they can't get any worse.

56 minutes ago, sexy_shapiro said:

“Origin story” is just shorthand for saying it’s the first full movie featuring a certain character. Let’s not be pedantic when it comes to comic book and superhero movies. I can’t think of anything less worthwhile to get pedantic about.

I think there's an argument for the distinction. The issue that all super hero origin movies have is that you have to spend a not insignificant amount of time with the character pre-superhero while also providing their post-superhero persona enough time to embrace those powers and overcome whatever obstacle they're facing.

Movies like Spider-Man and Black Panther never have to bother retreading that learning to be super phase. EvenThor, who starts the movie as a god, goes through his understanding power phase in his origin movie. It's a tried and true and often boring trope. Captain Marvel tried to get around this, but still wound up leaning into that same understanding their power trope.

When a movie does manage that step entirely around the origin, just leaving the audience to understand that they've been super for a while; you end up with something closer to a sequel without the baggage of explaining their powers.

All that said, I'm going with Black Panther as an origin since it still ends up leaning on that understanding power trope when he loses his strength and status. Spider-Man also tried really hard to skip that trope and ends up falling backwards into it by having Peter lose his cool Stark-made suit taking him down a notch.

Guardians is really the only MCU movie that really managed to just toss origins out the window with no abandon.

Does this extend to black people?

@Greatoneshere Going by your rankings, I'd put Captain Marvel right between Guardians 1 and Strange, but I also though Spider Man was better than Strange and just a hair below Guardians. Then again, I have a soft spot for Spider Man I have a hard time overlooking, so take that with whatever salt you want.I wouldn't put it bottom half, just merely right in the middle. At the very least, that still puts it ahead of nearly all MCU sequels since the only legitimately good part two in the Marvel Universe is Winter Soldier.

My only real concern with Captain Marvel is how/if they plan to take her down a notch in End Game. They powered down Maximoff quite a bit after someone thought she was too strong for the MCU. Now we have someone that's near Superman levels and I have no idea how that's going to play going forward. That's nothing of a spoiler since she's punching spaceships in the trailers...also, she's always been that ridiculously strong.

One other non-spoilery thing I want to mention. Watching the end of Captain Marvel and it dawned on me that Fury had no reason to reach out to Carol prior to Infinity Wars. The events of Avengers were resolved in what? A couple of in-movie hours? Age of Ultron was resolved in how long? A little bit longer? For a problem completely the fault of humans?

Compared to the other origin movies, I'd rank it above Ant-Man, Dr Strange, Hulk, and Thor, but below Iron Man, Guardians, Captain America...and if we do include Spider-Man and Black Panther, I'd rank it behind those as well. That leaves it very middle of the pack for me.

8 hours ago, Dragonseeker said:

Yeah, it is hard to write those films, and as long as people settled for "easy" films, there will be very little incentive for studios to make "hard" ones. Yes, Legion and Marvel shows on Netflix like Daredevil are great, but the freedom and the creativity on TV/Streaming do not crossover to films. I wish they do. As for Blade and Morbius, I am not convinced they are not just stylized Marvel films with darker skins like Venom was. I doubt those movies will actually reflect on society culturally/politically or touch on the nature of the human condition. Brightburn is interesting, but probably more horror than drama. 

Hollywood studios trying to make easy money and not go for the hard gambles? That's unheard of in this industry.

That said, I don't think it can be stressed that what Marvel has managed to pull off with the MCU is far from easy. They've pulled off a seemingly impossible feat that no other major studio has been able to replicate. That even their worst movies are still entertainingly mediocre is a miracle.

That said, I enjoyed Captain Marvel. It was a fun movie and I have no real complaints. It's in the better half of the Marvel origin movies. There really isn't anything in the movie I'd call iconic, but it had a great twist that I wasn't at all expecting. I can't get mad at a Marvel film managing to surprise me. When does this hit streaming? I'd love to catch this again before End Game lands.

He could have lied and claimed he said "Tim from Apple", but that wouldn't have been as ridiculous and if nothing else Trump is as ridiculous as he can be.

I have a couple of nephews in the Labo age-range. They'd be pretty into this.

Also, I love that Labo has been a thing for nearly a year and there are still gamer's butthurt over how they aren't good enough for serious gamers.

3 minutes ago, CastlevaniaNut18 said:

Capcom is still producing quality games.

 

I wish Konami would do the same.  

A new Suikoden sure would be nice.

1 hour ago, Jose said:

 

Reading that, I think I've tried the Puerto Rican mayochup. That shit is magical.

Goya has already been doing the Mayo Ketchup thing for a while now. I think I might have a bottle of the unholy connection in my fridge at home.

9 hours ago, Jason said:

 

If it makes you feel better, I messed up and had the phone shipped to my house instead of my office. Now, I get to see it delivered and then have to wait until I get home.

1 hour ago, RedSoxFan9 said:

 

fragile hogs

It's cool. They'll get a paid vacation and tax payers will cover any costs the city incurs.

4 minutes ago, CastlevaniaNut18 said:

Let's get this wrapped up.

 

Jon Snow is gonna sacrifice himself for real this time.

Dany is gonna become some version of her father.

Bran is the Night King in some weird time twist. 

Cersei is gonna die at the hands of Jaime or Tyrion.

It'll be Jamie who kills Cersei and then he'll kill himself in grief. Tyrion will find their bodies and very nearly drink himself to death.

7 minutes ago, Jason said:

 

That's still two days early. Right now all I have is a text from Verizon yesterday telling me to watch out for another text with a tracking number once my phone ships. 

T-Mobile says my S10 will be delivered tomorrow as well, so Sprint isn't the only one shipping phones early.

4 hours ago, BlueAngel said:

Yeah I've got the itch, my case comes today and phone supposedly tomorrow but we shall see.

Thanks for the reminder. I had pre-ordered the phone, but I completely forgot about buying a case for it.

Just go with the manga's title and call it All You Need is Kill.

26 minutes ago, TheBladeRoden said:

It looks like someone is just learning how to use the gradient tool

Now I'm just imagining this conversation between him and his graphic designer.

Inslee: That's perfect

Designer: It's not done yet

Inslee: No, it's perfect

Designer: I have nothing but text up. What are you even looking at?

Inslee: That. It's perfect

Designer: That's just Photoshop's color wheel

Inslee: Yeah, it's perfect

The only interesting story here would be a prequel with Blunt, but I doubt we'd get it.

45 minutes ago, Spawn_of_Apathy said:

There was a Kite live action movie? 

 

You know, I didn’t hate Ghost in the Shell. I thought it was ok. It made me want to watch the laughing man season of the show, but I thought it was an ok movie adaptation. 

There was, with Samuel L Jackson. Had anyone seen it? It didn't look good at all. I wasn't at all a fan of the anime movie, so I had no interest in watching this adaption that also looked awful.

20 minutes ago, skillzdadirecta said:

 

Yeah something about this doesn't sound right. I have female cop friends who have participated in prostitution stings... they don't perform the act THEN arrest the dude. Did police actually video Kraft and others getting... service THEN arrest him? That's kinda crazy if they allowed actual prostitution to continue while they were "investigating". Also if these women were being trafficked, why didn't they just bust them and shut down the operation as SOON as they saw sex acts were being forced on them? This story is all kinds of fucked up.

The police are claiming to have worked this case for months and have video evidence on multiple men having sex in this spa. So to answer your question, yes; they watched men have sex in this spa they suspected was holding women against their will and forced into prostitution for months on hidden cameras the women were not aware of.

42 minutes ago, sblfilms said:

I watched it this morning...it's unfortunately mostly just OK. I say that because I feel like we are in for a case of Ghostbusters 2016 where the movie is really average and the MRA side will call it terrible and the anti-MRA types will proclaim it as a really great film. It's absolutely neither. As far as Marvel flicks in 2018 and 2019, it's better than Antman 2, but worse than Panther and IW.

Better question is lasting appeal. Ant-Man 2 was completely forgettable. How was Captain Marvel in that regard? Am I just going to forget everything that happened the second I leave the theater like I did with Ant-Man 2, GotG2, Dark World... Well, every second Marvel movie minus Winter Soldier. Marvel really is bad at immediate sequels, aren't they?

3 hours ago, Xbob42 said:

I think that would go a long way towards making the battles more fun. Hell, that's what you do in Eevee/Pikachu, you just KO the legendary Pokemon and then can catch them after. It's much less convoluted.

 

I still think the overall battle system could be a lot more fun and fast, though. Hell, if they just made it as fast as, like, FFX, that'd be incredible. (With a slower option for people who don't get bothered by it/prefer it to stay the same, since it wouldn't functionally change how battles work.)

There's only so much Nintendo can tweak the core gameplay mechanics without messing with the competitive scene, but an easy change would be just that. Skip animations or just make everything run like 50% faster.

The problem with Gamefreak is that they know they can't mess with the battle engine, but they've convinced themselves that means they can't mess with anything. As more of the game gets revealed, I really hope they get creative with more of the game and take some risks.