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I think Spiderman handled this the best with Miles.

Have a new 00 movie with black lead... just don't have it be bond.  I don't see what the drawbacks to that are.  

1 minute ago, CastlevaniaNut18 said:

I've never seen Blade, so I don't have an opinion. But skillz, who is in the movie industry and is black, said nothing about Blade necessitates him being black, so I guess you got your answer?

I think the biggest question in this thread... what movies HAVE you seen?

Glad we got this settled.

So everyone is cool with a Blade remake staring James McAvoy  

My take does not fit this conversation much... but I would like to see Tom Hiddleston in the role.

42 minutes ago, Wild said:

 

There is a difference between jokes and belief statements. Are Gene Wilder and Mel Brooks racists for making Blazing Saddles?

 

Behavior after the fact matters as well. If someone owns up to and fully renounces their former beliefs, then backs it up with actions, I will support their growth. Their politics doesn't matter.

So honest question.  Did Gunn grow, or did he clean up his act because he started getting bigger gigs in the movie business?

How about tell new stories.  They don't need another reboot.  There are a million science fiction stories that aren't star wars or star trek.  Lets put some of those on the big screen.

19 hours ago, Dre801 said:

Asshole geek trolls have already pushed her off social media.  She's shut down her Twitter apparently.

The reason is awesome.  She got negative backlash because she wasn't enough of a lesbian enough to play this lesbian character... even tho she is a lesbian.  

People are terrible.  

4 hours ago, SFLUFAN said:

 Two former employees said they felt pressure to leave after making their concerns about gender discrimination known. One former male employee said that Riot’s “bro culture” is more pronounced behind closed doors, and hurts men too: One of Riot’s male senior leaders regularly grabbed his genitals, the source said, adding, “If he walked into a meeting with no women he’d just fart on someone’s face.”

 

A truly professional organization.

I'm surprised the farting on peoples face thing happened more than once.  I cant fathom a work environment where people have such low self esteem that they wouldn't stand up to someone doing that to them.

Sounds like a terrible culture.  

22 minutes ago, CitizenVectron said:

Well I'm sure I'll be getting the Disney service since my gf loves Disney movies. What's this about Disney having two services?

Well Disney is a part owner in Hulu... Is that what you mean?

Disney also recently announced that the streaming service won't have any Star Wars movies that were released prior to 2019... (so none of em).  Apparently they sold the streaming rights and don't get them back until 2024.

Eh.  I don't care a bunch.  I have never watched the show.  I just don't understand having two separate iterations of the same character going at the same time.

I would hope that if someday Marvel wanted Daredevil or the Punisher to show up in a movie they would not recast.  

14 hours ago, Brick said:

 

That would likely cause an even bigger uproar, and cause other stars to quit in protest if they fired Bautista for defending Gunn. Not a smart move.

 

If they don't rehire Gunn, which Disney should, what director is going to want to take over? Hell the stars could even half-ass their performances because Gunn was so integral to these movies, and it sounds like he was a joy to work with. When the stars' contracts are up, and it's time for renegotiations they could even decide to not renew and leave the MCU, whereas they might have stayed on if Gunn was rehired. 

There would be a line around the block of directors wanting to work for Disney.  The money is too great.

Also (smart) actors can't half-ass performances.  Everything that gets released is on film forever - and is also an audition for future roles.  These actors would not put out sub-par work on purpose.

Why change actors?

It does need to be launched from the ea hub. I had not been in there since I got the X last fall so I had to download it, then all was good. 

Madden feels weird... But I think that every year. I'll get used to it in a week of play or so. 

T1 is to T2 what Alien is to Aliens. 

This is insanity.  We are just supposed to talk about games here and bitch.  Not play them!

I'll be finishing up Shadow of War.  Maybe I'll go back and finish Hellblade too.

1 hour ago, skillzdadirecta said:

and you know that's what happened with this movie, how exactly? Oh and Mad Max says hellooooooooo!

Mad Max was a good looking movie, but honestly I don't love it. I do like Shape of water, and Alien. Two quick examples of female led movies I appreciate. 

I set one up about a year ago.  Retro Pi works well.  It is easy - just follow the instructions.  You don't have to be particularly skilled with computers.  If you run into any problems google it or ask on here and I'm sure someone can help.

SNES games are dead easy.  Same with Genesis, NES and other systems of that era.  If you try to go into MAME arcade emulation you will start to run into some issues where you will need to get a little more technical.

4 hours ago, Kal-El814 said:

There are women in the promo shot. There were women in Ghostbusters. That it literally all that it takes to trigger men.

Ha.  

I'm glad they are making movies for you these days.  Hope you are enjoying them.  No one else is.

I love good movies with women in predominant roles.  I hate moves that start off with we have to do X (in this case have an all women cast) and then try to shoehorn a story around whatever decision X is.  

I was really looking forward to this.  I even was defending it in a previous thread... but man.  That is a bad promo shot.  

They went full Ghostbusters.  Never go full Ghostbusters.

@TomCatis right in this thread.  We are working with moving goalposts.  Which is fine because its natural.  Most people are owners of the Sony platform so they will obviously want to rationalize their purchase.  People on the MS side are rationalizing like hell too.

the X1X is hands down the most powerful console right now.  (PC will always be king).  That should be the end of the thread.  There is no arguing the specs.  X1X is more powerful than the Pro and if you go to a third party like digital foundry they will give you several examples of games looking and playing better on the X1X.

That does not mean the better games are on the Xbox.  But this thread is about power... so there ya go.

I think I agree with several other of you.  

When I started this game I was blown away.  The graphics and the sound are good(sound work is excellent).  However after forcing my way through a few puzzles - and looking one up online (when I looked it up I figured out I was staring right at what I needed to do... just couldn't really see it) I realized I wasn't having much fun and I stopped playing.

The developer has a bright future.  Looking forward to what comes next, but this game for me was a miss.  I might continue playing at some point with a guide handy just to see the end.

1 hour ago, Hurdyb1 said:

Wow! That Biting Elbows was great.

 

Hardcover Henry is not a great movie but it's something that can be admired for trying something different. I would love to see an actual good thought out story with that first person perspective for a movie.

Maybe a great director could do something with it... but to me first person is usually terrible as a movie going experience.  

The only good uses I can think of that use it are from Terminator and Predator.  Both those movies only use first person for a few seconds to show the unique vision of the antagonist.  

8 minutes ago, johnny said:

I love a good binge but GoT is a damn cultural phenomenon. When it’s on the air I can talk to almost anybody about what happened that week and have a conversation about it. 

It will be interesting to see what takes its place when it is done.  The last couple of seasons of Breaking Bad were about that way in popularity.  

3 hours ago, ort said:

I've never seen a single second from any of these movies.

 

Apparently they're actually enjoyable... who knew...

 

Think I could go into this blind and enjoy it? How kid friendly are these movies?

I haven't seen this yet, but from a review I just read this is the first movie in the series that really is more of a sequel.  Most of the other movies were not as connected - so it may benefit you to watch Rouge Nation first.  

These movies have typical action movie violence.  Not much language.  No nudity that I can remember.  However this movie is 2 1/2 hours long.  That would give me pause taking my kids.  They might get bored... and depending on age may not understand the several plot twists that are always there in this series.