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Elba is 45. Moore was 46 in his first appearance, 57 in his last. Connery started in his 30s but finished at 53. Brosnan started at 43 and ended at 49. Dalton was 41-43. And Craig will end at 51.

I don't see any issue with Elba's age. And he would be a hell of a great choice for the role.

Well that's a big old ball of amazing.

Can they give Gunn a Green Lantern movie? Or the Justice League. Or hell, I would love to see what he does with the Riddler in a Batman one shot.

I will say I like the new Flash suit:

The top of the head is kinda weird, but eyebrows down is pretty sick and more like the comics. Better than the frumpy leather they've had.

15 minutes ago, Jason said:

 

Legends has Sara pursuing a lesbian romance and before that they were pushing her into Jack Harkness levels of seemingly being down to have sex with pretty much anything with a pulse.

Ah, Jack Harkness. The world's first Omnivorousexual.

3 hours ago, skillzdadirecta said:

A fun, entertaining superhero show that is better than Marvel's TV shows?

That's true of Legends, but only because it fully embraces its cheese. Wentworth Miller set the tone on that show.

We've known this for a while, right?

I'm adopting a floating subscription model for all of these services. I'll keep Netflix (and Prime for shipping), but the rest I'll sub to for a month, binge out what I want, then shut them off. And in the case of Disney, it's likely I'll have already seen everything in theaters anyway so it won't be a big deal.

Casting doesn't move the needle either way for me. It's a CW show, so it's going to be what it is.

23 minutes ago, skillzdadirecta said:

Sure comedians come in all forms... but they all have one thing in common. They're funny. But since Gunn isn't a comedian and hasn't tried to hide behind the comedy shield, I'm not sure why YOU are. He isn't defending his "jokes", he completely moved past them. 

He was certainly an edgy, comedic writer (look at the incest scenes in Tromeo & Juliet), and did call his tweets poor attempts at jokes. He also grew out of them, as you say, which is a normal part of the growth process. Not everyone matures at the same speed in all aspects of their lives.

Hell, almost everyone on this board has written hundreds of words professing their love or hate for the recent Star Wars movie, and we geek out over animated cartoons aimed at children. We're not exactly the bastion of "fully grown wo/men" who should be casting stones about what's an appropriate usage of social media.

Huh, I never knew that Costner was cut from The Big Chill. I wonder of those scenes are still out there somewhere.

That trailer feels like one of his old classics (intentionally, I am sure). Probably is a nice film to go out on. He's one of film's GOTAs, so sad to see him hang up his spurs, but at 81 he had hell of a run and has come out the other side beloved.

There really isn't any other actors like him.

41 minutes ago, EternallDarkness said:

 

he means from the TV series, much like many wanted the kid from the Flash tv show to be in the justice league movie

At this point I'm not sure who is better off for them not crossing mediums.

She's out of the hospital and headed to rehab:

https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/07/entertainment/demi-lovato-released-hospital-rehab/index.html

They should cast Marci Miller, who almost no one will have heard of but would be a good fit. She was in Deathrace 2040, which I know sounds like a dumb resume, but she stood out as charming with good timing and instincts in some cheesy material. I think she is also on a soap opera. Next to Gadot and Cavill she would fit the Universe they've built.

Looks the part:

The MCU feels different when role changes occur. I still get annoyed at "next time baby" never happening. And Marvel looks set to pass on the mantles of superheroes Doctor Who style rather than the James Bond approach. They also chose to just disappear Jane Foster when Portman bailed.

5 hours ago, TwinIon said:

If you enjoyed this film, I'd recommend listening to The Q&A with Jeff Goldsmith . It's a long interview with Christopher McQuarrie and it's completely insane how he makes these movies. I guess the same process applied to Rogue Nation as well, so if you listen to the commentary or interviews on that film you might be aware, but McQuarrie's process boggles the mind. He shoots these film with only a flimsy outline that he feels no need to adhere to. Often shooting defining sequences without having a script days or hours before. With Fallout, he wouldn't even write the script until he had photographs of where he was going to shoot it.

 

Almost everything about this film is reverse engineered from either a location that McQuarrie found visually interesting or from a suggestion from Tom Cruise. Tom wanted to do a helicopter stunt, so they figure out that New Zealand is the only country in the world that will let him do it. So they go to NZ. Then they want to push Cruise off a cliff, so they find a spot in Norway where the fall is precipitous enough, so they have to figure out where in the world kinda looks like both Norway and New Zealand where they can have some political intrigue. They built the town at the end of the film from scratch without knowing why the script would take them there or where it was even supposed to be, and they built it the way they did only to have good lighting for one shot of one character.

 

It's completely insane that these movies were finished, a miracle that they weren't dramatically over budget, and impossible that they make any sense at all, much less are any good.

 

McQuarrie also did a gigantic interview with Empire where he discusses all this, but I haven't gotten around to that yet.

Thing is, you can tell. The film is extremely formulaic. It just has great production values and is cribbing from great directors. It's a generic spy movie through and through, carried by the spectacle of it all. I don't mean this to sound negative, I enjoyed the hell out of it, but it's a lot like Michael Mann's Thief for me. Paper thin but oozing with style.

Yea, with the new trailer I am interested. The concept write-up hadn't convinced me, but I'll give this one a shot.

45 minutes ago, sblfilms said:

 

That’s not what people are calling him out for. Every contract at this level of business has severance terms, he is unwilling to pay them....and that’s fine, just don’t act like you HAVE to do it. He wants to get paid, he’s earned it, and he could still tell Disney he thinks did the wrong thing with Gunn.

It can cost other people their money and jobs as well. Agents, make-up artists, stunt doubles, personal assistants, and others on down the line. He made commitments and obligations. He probably feels like he has to follow his word, as that holds value to him.

Again, we can disagree with our bosses decisions and continue to do our work. Batista is fine speaking his mind on social media. As I stated before, some people take their contracts as legal obligations they will not break, and we don't know the terms of his contract or what penalties it will incur. It's a bit presumptuous on our part to say what he must do when we don't know all the details. He's voicing his displeasure. He should be allowed to do that without being told he has to sacrifice his livelihood in order to appease the social media masses.

The guy is speaking out from a megaphone. Why is "quit" always considered the only acceptable option in these situations? He doesn't have to break his contract to voice his displeasure and put pressure on Disney executives to correct their mistake. That's honestly a poor assertion to me. We're not talking about a crime, but a business disagreement. We've all done things our bosses asked us to we didn't fully agree with.

8 minutes ago, Greatoneshere said:

 

Was about to come to say the same thing. To be fair if he felt really strongly it should be worth breaking the terms of your contract with someone or something you highly morally disapprove of so there is that . . . 

True, but he presumable wants to keep working in Hollywood. And since Disney owns half of Hollywood...

35 minutes ago, sblfilms said:

He can opt out, but he would likely be subject to some monetary penalty for leaving early.  It’s fine to dislike what Disney did and still want to go earn your nice paycheck. Don’t blame your contract on not doing what you are saying you’d like to do. 

For some people a contract is a contract and they honor it.

8 hours ago, sblfilms said:

 

The only headphones I have are wireless and I just leave them in the charger when not in use. What sucks about that?

There are enough things my life I have to keep track of charging. Headphones are the sort of thing I stick in my bag/back pocket and pull out when I need/want them. It's cool if your lifestyle affords always being around chargers, but not all of us live that way. I have a pair in my go bag, my suitcase, and car console. It's convenient.

It should always be an option to go wireless with headphones, not a requirement. And their crappy adapter that takes up the charging cord slot isn't the answer, either. All that does is create more wires and junk to carry around.

4 minutes ago, sblfilms said:

Good riddance to wires. It’s 2018

for crying out loud.

I enjoy Apple products, but charging headphones sucks.

The film is at its best when it channels Michal Mann. Great stuff overall. Liked it more than I expected to. My only issue would be the Ebert's Clock for the ending, but it's Mission Impossible so it's kind of their thing to do apologetically. The fact that the action scenes are done as well as they are makes it forgivable.

I'd like to see a spin-off with Ferguson's character. She could carry a movie.