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Reputator

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  1. That little girl's precociousness is literally the one reason I went from "ah geez are they seriously doing a kid Leia?" to "Holy crap this kid Leia is perfect!"
  2. Don't you just love when people bait this old topic over and over again? That being said I think you summed it up well.
  3. I thought he looked familiar! Yeah I recognize him from BTTF part 2 & 3 haha
  4. This. Nothing will be done. Shrug and move on. Eventually the world will end.
  5. I'm having the exact same feeling. Other than those I'm pretty checked out at this point. Dr. Strange 2 convinced me I'm just not hyped for this anymore. Well, I'll watch the second season of Loki. Friggin loved that show.
  6. It was a pretty movie with a braindead story. I don't fault it *too* much for that, I mean I don't need every movie to have a Dickensian plot, and lord knows the story on Aliens and Terminator 1/2 weren't that complicated. But that does mean that you can watch Avatar one or two times and have your fill for life, basically. And tech demos rarely age well.
  7. No I didn't forget, I just interpreted the ending of the series as a whole as some sort of weak attempt at character redemption. I'm not a comic geek, so merely seeing her reading the Darkhold doesn't scream "evil" to me. If that's all that's needed, I guess Strange is evil now too?
  8. Just got back from seeing it. I'm not a fan of Raimi's, but this was definitely a good melding of director to material. He was in his element here, and this is one of the few contexts where his lunacy seems fitting. That being said, I do think I was left feeling like this movie sort of ruptures of fabric of the MCU in some pretty profound ways. I know the multi-verse was always a risk to bring in, and unfortunately I think this proves the naysayers right.... As you said, nothing really matters in the MCU at this point. The cameos don't matter, deaths don't matter, and maybe most problematic of all, the characterizations don't seem to matter. Wanda's turn was abrupt. They spent a lot of time explaining it and it STILL didn't land for me. There is NO watching this movie without having seen the entirety of WandaVision, but that still doesn't sell it. Anyone that thought that Wanda got away with too much in Westview aren't going to get their satisfaction here. She just leans MORE into it. Her "sorrow" over what she did at the end of the series doesn't seem genuine now. She's depicted as a woman with no self-control, guided by her emotions. Strange's character is in a weird place by the end of the movie. I'm not sure where they're going to take him but there's a good chance he won't stay very grounded either. When the characters themselves are chaotic, it's really hard to hold a story together, and that's without a multi-verse concept thrown in the mix. Kind of leaves you feeling unsettled. Edit: I meant to quote @GoldenTongue
  9. Plus, how many other people traveling don't have families? Does the Empire just give out 'Solo' to all of them? Is this the space Ellis Island version of Smith? That would mean there's thousands, or perhaps millions of 'Solos' out there.
  10. "What's your name stranger?" *looks off to the distance and sees force ghost of Qui-Gon Jinn* "Jinn. Jinn Kenobi." "Whaaat? Can't hear you! Did you say Ben Kenobi?" "Eh, close enough."
  11. Netflix shareholders sue over subscription slump disclosures WWW.REUTERS.COM Netflix Inc has been hit with a shareholder lawsuit in a U.S. court in California accusing the streaming entertainment company of misleading the market about its ability to keep adding subscribers in recent months.
  12. Um all the commercials show the milk being poured onto the cereal, so I assume that's how the manufacturer intends it. Doing otherwise may void the warranty.
  13. Those are reactions to their impending demise that will only hasten their impending demise. Rather amusing!
  14. I personally don't think the 2020 debates moved the needle, and quite frankly if this decision by the RNC ends televised debates for good, all the merrier.
  15. All the righties still pretending "woke" is a bad word and I'm just here thinking "ya, and?"
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