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I really liked Magneto's red outfit at the end of First Class.
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Shadoer posted:Right now I'd say it's unlikely and the case looks sketchy. It's a civil suit for reparations as opposed to an actual criminal case against him, it's coming up when his career is on the up, and it echo's old conspiracy that homosexuals have an innate desire to rape young boys. Also, I'd like to think that if there really were "gay rape parties" being held, the Police would have investigated it. I got a free pass after I went to watch "The Amazing Spider-Man 2" and the sound cut out at the last minute. Man oh man, I am so glad I used it on this movie and not to watch Spider-Man again. This movie was awesome and a better example of how to pull off the ensemble crossover than "The Avengers" in my opinion. Benny the Snake fucked around with this message at 07:24 on May 26, 2014 |
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May 26, 2014 07:16
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Benny the Snake posted:What also makes this case sketchy is hell is that the plaintiff's counsel is Jeff Herman, who was the same lawyer who represented the plaintiffs in the 2012 sexual abuse civil suit against Elmo puppeteer Kevin Clash. Both Singer and Clash were (relatively) high profile and openly gay members of show business, so it stands to reason that they were even bigger targets because of the insidious belief that "gays are rapists" that continues to this day. But because this is a civil suit and not a criminal case, outside of a full confession from Singer, there's no way we can tell beyond a shadow of a doubt if the allegations are true or not. There's a lot more backing the Singer accusations though. The whole "throw lavish parties and invite teenage boys" thing is kind of damning.
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May 26, 2014 07:23
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Rhyno posted:There's a lot more backing the Singer accusations though. The whole "throw lavish parties and invite teenage boys" thing is kind of damning. Benny the Snake fucked around with this message at 18:35 on May 26, 2014 |
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May 26, 2014 07:36
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Cacator posted:No, I definitely filed that one under "bad Nixon". Mainly due to the ridiculous prosthetic nose. That's one of the reasons why it's a good Nixon. It's a caricature of him and works perfectly in the context of the film.
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May 26, 2014 07:43
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Cacator posted:drat how did Halle Berry get away with that outfit??? I'm more shocked by Rebecca Romijn's purple-sheet-with-a-strap-keeping-it-tied-to-the-body 'shirt'. MisterBibs fucked around with this message at 07:52 on May 26, 2014 |
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May 26, 2014 07:44
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Atoramos posted:Thought the CGI on the trains was rather poor. Apparently Havok was in this? Was he in the school at the end or was I just blind? Overall a good outing, though the tension didn't really make sense (once Charles and Erik knew the stakes, they could just have Kitty Pryde send someone else back in time before her future self fails.... But comic book logic Xavier is alive hey everyone look thataway! This is from a few pages ago, but They had to succeed on the first try; if Wolverine had been woken up before completing his mission then they'd have no idea what future they'd wake up in. Kitty could already be dead in that future, they could all be already dead in that future.
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May 26, 2014 08:11
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Baron Bifford posted:Yeah, I understand he was getting nowhere with Congress and all that. It was still stupid. Also from a few pages back, but Given his character motivation, it would make plenty of sense that Trask very deliberately went to nations that were enemies of the US to peddle more sentinels. He wanted to make world peace through the collective hatred of mutants. To do so, he would need to do his spiel all across the first AND second world. He wanted to give both sides of the cold war an arsenal of weapons that could literally only shoot mutants.
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May 26, 2014 08:28
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Just saw it. Overall pretty good. It was nice to see Hugh Jackman's Wolverine acting more like a normal mature person and not the typical gruff angsty guy he usually is. Quicksilver was the best part of the movie. Then as soon as he does his thing to break magneto out, he just....vanishes. What the gently caress? I also want them to make a movie with no plot, but is just Fassbender Magneto walking around doing magneto things. Febreeze fucked around with this message at 09:00 on May 26, 2014 |
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May 26, 2014 08:48
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We need a stand-alone Fassbender Magneto movie. The character deserves it. At least, more than Wolverine does.
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May 26, 2014 08:52
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Rhyno posted:There's a lot more backing the Singer accusations though. The whole "throw lavish parties and invite teenage boys" thing is kind of damning. Years ago who I had a (gay) co-worker talked about "Brian singers wild gay parties with young dudes" around the time of X-men 2 being released. I thought he was full of poo poo. No way someone would be so blatant about that sort of stuff/lifestyle and be such a high profile person. Then I read the allegations and I think its going to harm him, especially running around with that registered sex offender dot-com bubble millionaire.
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May 26, 2014 09:20
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Is there an inverted relation to movie quality and people stabbed by Wolverine? Because I think outside of First Class, this was the least stabby of xmen movies, and one of the best as well
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May 26, 2014 10:11
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Winky posted:Also from a few pages back, but It would have made more sense for Trask to approach a NATO state like Canada or Britain - y'know, a country that America actually permits its arms dealers to do business with. Baron Bifford fucked around with this message at 11:40 on May 26, 2014 |
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May 26, 2014 11:29
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Baron Bifford posted:And did he accept that he would be arrested and convicted for treason as part of that plan? Because he's not allowed to sell weapons to America's enemies and there's no way the government wouldn't have found out. He didn't even sell a single Sentinel before he got arrested. Maybe Trask just isn't a very smart guy. His plan for peace is rubbish, his robots are almost effortlessly turned against him and he ends up winds up destroying civilisation. . Good at designing killer robots. Bad at everything else.
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May 26, 2014 11:56
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Maybe they will use Wolverine/Hugh Jackman as one of the 4 riders? They can always explain it with some random power apocalypse gets in the movie.
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May 26, 2014 11:57
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Mr. Flunchy posted:Maybe Trask just isn't a very smart guy. His plan for peace is rubbish, his robots are almost effortlessly turned against him and he ends up winds up destroying civilisation. .
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May 26, 2014 12:04
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I wonder if alternate Professor X ever told alternate Wolverine that at one point in the future his brain would be replaced by original Wolverine.
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May 26, 2014 12:49
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mrs. nicholas sarkozy posted:Alright so I'm confused about part of this movie's plot, but I might be missing something here and it's bugging me. So the whole idea was that Mystique killing Trask turned humanity against the mutants and started the Sentinel death robots program. But the government already thinks Magneto killed JFK?! Murdering a defense contractor merits building death robots but murdering the president doesn't? You're right, people were already scared of mutants then and even someone with all the brilliance of Professor X wouldn't be able to pick an ideal place in which to send back Wolverine to End All Mutant Discrimination Forever. Like, could YOU name a single specific historic point in which we could send someone back in time to prevent the American and European slave trade? Not really. Prejudice is prejudice. Xavier and the rest of the Future!Mutants had limited resources and very limited time, so they sent Wolverine back to prevent a very specific event from taking place. And it worked - the Sentinels, their creator, and their creator's research were disgraced beyond repair. The Past!Mutants didn't do anything to curb the population's fear of mutants but what action would? AnimeJune fucked around with this message at 14:12 on May 26, 2014 |
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May 26, 2014 14:10
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Cacator posted:drat how did Halle Berry get away with that outfit??? Look at her. That's how she got away with it.
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May 26, 2014 14:16
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mrs. nicholas sarkozy posted:Alright so I'm confused about part of this movie's plot, but I might be missing something here and it's bugging me. So the whole idea was that Mystique killing Trask turned humanity against the mutants and started the Sentinel death robots program. But the government already thinks Magneto killed JFK?! Murdering a defense contractor merits building death robots but murdering the president doesn't?
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May 26, 2014 14:17
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http://www.denofgeek.us/movies/x-men-days-of-future-past/235915/hugh-jackman-clarifies-his-wolverine-plans At least here the suggestion seems to be that Jackman's in for Apocalypse and Wolverine 2 rather than just one film, but it's hard to tell if that isn't just DoG's speculation based on his quote. He also jokes about Old Man Logan which would be 
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May 26, 2014 15:09
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Can anyone explain how Magneto managed to take control of the sentinels? I understand that with metal inside them he could physically move them and make sure they can't attack him and see other mutants, but I don't understand how he was able to activate them in the first place
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May 26, 2014 15:51
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Shakugan posted:Can anyone explain how Magneto managed to take control of the sentinels? I understand that with metal inside them he could physically move them and make sure they can't attack him and see other mutants, but I don't understand how he was able to activate them in the first place Magneto can do anything as long as its vaguely connected to magnetism.
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May 26, 2014 15:56
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Shakugan posted:Can anyone explain how Magneto managed to take control of the sentinels? I understand that with metal inside them he could physically move them and make sure they can't attack him and see other mutants, but I don't understand how he was able to activate them in the first place He persuaded them to join his side with his animal magnetism.
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May 26, 2014 16:08
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Because he put metal in the beepy thing that makes them turn on and work, duh.
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May 26, 2014 16:26
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Shakugan posted:Can anyone explain how Magneto managed to take control of the sentinels? I understand that with metal inside them he could physically move them and make sure they can't attack him and see other mutants, but I don't understand how he was able to activate them in the first place If you look more closely none of magneto's other uses of magnetism make any physics sense either!!! This is just one of those things you have to suspend your disbelief for. You know, like mutant powers in general.
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May 26, 2014 17:09
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messagemode1 posted:If you look more closely none of magneto's other uses of magnetism make any physics sense either!!! Internal consistency and suspension of disbelief are not mutually exclusive.
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May 26, 2014 17:27
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JFK related question: 1. Xavier says, "You killed JFK because the bullet's trajectory was curved". 2. Magneto is like "I didn't kill him, look at this face, would I lie to you?" 3. Later on he tries to kill Mystique by... curving a bullet's trajectory. That's an obvious clue that Magneto was lying, right? He hit her when she was outside the window and he couldn't even see her anymore. There is no way he couldn't have prevented the JFK assassination if that's what he wanted to do.
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May 26, 2014 17:36
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Shakugan posted:Can anyone explain how Magneto managed to take control of the sentinels? I understand that with metal inside them he could physically move them and make sure they can't attack him and see other mutants, but I don't understand how he was able to activate them in the first place He used the iron train tracks to rewire the Sentinels. You can see the tracks splinter into wires and inject themselves into the system. Remember, this is after he spends who knows how long studying their schematics. It's about as realistic as you can expect from these movies.
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May 26, 2014 17:37
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Shakugan posted:Internal consistency and suspension of disbelief are not mutually exclusive. Magneto's powers have always been way more versatile than they should be. In that regard they are internally consistent. When he was putting the metal in the sentinels you knew what he was doing, just not the degree to which he ended up doing it. The films have never shown us that he can't somehow control them, so technically there isn't an inconsistency. Inzombiac posted:He used the iron train tracks to rewire the Sentinels. You can see the tracks splinter into wires and inject themselves into the system. Remember, this is after he spends who knows how long studying their schematics. It's about as realistic as you can expect from these movies. Also this. Far-fetched? Sure. Inconsistent? Not at all.
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May 26, 2014 17:38
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DS at Night posted:JFK related question: Go to the movie promo site http://www.thebentbullet.com It looks like Mystique killed JFK and Magneto was trying to save him. Maybe Magneto was caught off guard or just became better with his powers.
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May 26, 2014 17:38
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That, and during First Class when Professor X uses Cerebro to scan for mutants he doesnt recognize JFK.
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May 26, 2014 17:39
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I could have sworn some of the promo materials painted the picture that Mystique was impersonating Eric in Dallas in some plot to get him arrested.
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May 26, 2014 17:39
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Inzombiac posted:He used the iron train tracks to rewire the Sentinels. You can see the tracks splinter into wires and inject themselves into the system. Remember, this is after he spends who knows how long studying their schematics. It's about as realistic as you can expect from these movies. Ok, I missed that he spent time studying their schematics. That makes more sense.
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May 26, 2014 17:45
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Shakugan posted:Ok, I missed that he spent time studying their schematics. That makes more sense. It was during the bit where he's shirtless so you might have been distracted.
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May 26, 2014 17:46
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JoeRules posted:I could have sworn some of the promo materials painted the picture that Mystique was impersonating Eric in Dallas in some plot to get him arrested. Yeah basically he curves the bullet to try and keep it from hitting JFK but is unsuccessful because he is attacked and captured during his attempt.
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May 26, 2014 17:50
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AnonSpore posted:It was during the bit where he's shirtless so you might have been distracted. He's also stitching up his head wound with his mind while also floating the projector pieces to view the film. Even when he's alone, he's a showoff.
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May 26, 2014 17:53
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https://uk.movies.yahoo.com/video/michael-fassbender-ian-mckellen-interview-175420801.html I could care less about the sophomoric questions but McKellen and Fassbender interviewing each other is wonderful.
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May 26, 2014 17:56
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This is the first X-Men movie I've watched. It was great -- I could watch Fassbender wreck poo poo all day long and never get tired. I'm kinda curious about how they listed the cast though. McKellen and Stewart goes right at the end despite their fairly significant role (especially Stewart). Is this just a case of two old guys saying "We don't care anymore, just throw us in somewhere at the end"?
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Vegetable posted:This is the first X-Men movie I've watched. It was great -- I could watch Fassbender wreck poo poo all day long and never get tired. The final "and-as" credit is usually reserved for a more esteemed cast member in a role that is not the top billed role in the film.
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