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Tunicate posted:If the general public are conflating SHIELD and the Avengers, then it's a little more understandable. And Hydra.
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Dr_Amazing posted:Ultron in general is Stark's fault (which everyone seems to have forgotten) but most people just seemed really mad that the Avengers didn't have a literal 100% success rate in saving people from world ending catastrophes. It's not even like there's a gently caress up that everyone is pointing at. It's just people popping up to say "Someone I knew died at that disaster, so gently caress you for some reason." I feel like in a world where a literal god and a giant green angry man are running around with a thawed-out supersoldier from the 40s people might expect a little more from them. They are called superheroes after all. Plus, this is Tony Stark we're talking about here. The man doesn't accept anything less that 100% success. His genius and his ego won't allow it. He built an infinite-power machine in a cave with a box of scraps. He won't accept that it can't be done perfectly, so instead he wants to trust a higher power to call the shots. Hence Ultron. He's right that the Avengers need oversight, but Cap is also right that the Sokovia Accords just shift the blame for when something goes wrong. Cap isn't about to trust any government organizations, not after Winter Soldier, but Tony is a man who wears his emotions on his sleeve. I could totally see him seeing the picture of that dead kid and trying to do anything to make it right. That's why he built the Iron Man suit to begin with, and its why he built Ultron too. I really like how they have set up the characters' motivations in the previous movies.
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Sorry if this has been mentioned to death already and I'm unaware, but I assumed Stark is siding with the government because he doesn't trust himself more than anything. Since the first Iron Man, it seems like he's perpetually trying to redeem himself, and each time it just makes things worse. And at the same time, anything the UN does sanction means Tony doesn't have to carry the guilt of whatever aftermath results.
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I just watched the episode of Daredevil where the ninjas show up, and my god, this show has just become so dumb so suddenly. He can't tell where they are because they've somehow made their hearts beat more quietly? And he also can't hear their footsteps for some reason, I guess? But he can hear their swords? What? And the courtroom scene was incredibly dumb. Matt's supposed to be questioning Frank, but instead he just starts what sounds like it should have been a closing argument, and rather than objecting the prosecutor just sits there looking angry. And this on top of Foggy's really unclear and dubious reasons for wanting Matt to do it in the first place, after Matt's been loving up and ignoring the case the whole time previous. I'm also not at all clear on why they need to win this so badly. They keep saying that if they lose this case they'll have to stop being lawyers, but why?
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Tiggum posted:I just watched the episode of Daredevil where the ninjas show up, and my god, this show has just become so dumb so suddenly. He can't tell where they are because they've somehow made their hearts beat more quietly? And he also can't hear their footsteps for some reason, I guess? But he can hear their swords? What? quote:I'm also not at all clear on why they need to win this so badly. They keep saying that if they lose this case they'll have to stop being lawyers, but why? It'd be like if the OJ case ended up in a guilty verdict, Johnny Cochran would look like a total rear end in a top hat.
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RagnarokAngel posted:Publicity. This case is one of the biggest ever in terms of media attention and if they bombed the case then not only would there be a media circus around the failure, they went to bat for a mass murdering psychopath, which doesn't make them look good at all. The DA was also looking for any possible excuse to bury them. 
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Tiggum posted:But Nelson and Murdoch's clients are all people who can barely afford a lawyer and don't really have much choice in the matter anyway. If you do public defender cases assigned by the courts, you get some money, although not much, and if it's specified in the civil lawsuit, the loser of a case can be on the hook for the winners' legal fees. While they're not getting rich off the public defender cases or reimbursed legal fees, they're probably keeping the lights on, barely. If the DA is against you, your assigned public defender cases are going to disappear, and you're going to have your civil cases continually bumped to the bottom of the docket.
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In Die Another Day Halle Berry stares at pierce brosnans dick for like 10 seconds and then says "that's a mouthful" and it's just really really bad. So bad.
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oldpainless posted:In Die Another Day Halle Berry stares at pierce brosnans dick for like 10 seconds and then says "that's a mouthful" and it's just really really bad.
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oldpainless posted:In Die Another Day Halle Berry just really really bad.  Pilchenstein posted:I watched that on tv while ill last week, it was like a loving fever dream. Especially the bit where Toby Stephens dresses up as Robocop and electrocutes everybody with jedi lightning. It's like they made a late-era Roger Moore film with an enormous modern day budget/special effects.... except that should have ruled and instead what we got was.... what we got..... 
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The fact that Brosnan was talking it up as being a real character piece for Bond makes it all even worse. Poor guy, he got the same number of good films as Dalton but he did twice as many.
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Tiggum posted:I just watched the episode of Daredevil where the ninjas show up, and my god, this show has just become so dumb so suddenly. He can't tell where they are because they've somehow made their hearts beat more quietly? And he also can't hear their footsteps for some reason, I guess? But he can hear their swords? What? These bullshit ninjas actually retroactively ruin everything, because now every time you see Daredevil effortlessly avoid crashing into walls and furniture, it's because those things are humming quietly to themselves. It was never echolocation! No, Daredevil just lives in the sleazy part of Wonderland! I'm glad some dumbfuck in pajamas appeared on the show and demanded we believe Daredevil locates doors by following the sound of Break On Through! I haven't seen this level of dedication to annoying the gently caress out of people since Andy Kaufman!
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Echolocation reliability drops with close, fast moving objects. Not that listening for heartbeats works better though.
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Yeah, that poo poo was wicked stupid. Find another way to challenge daredevil. "listening to people's heartbeats is child's play! Be a pro, and listen to people breathing! Which, for some reason, is more difficult to hear than a person's heartbeat, despite 'hearing people breathe' being a thing that ordinary people can do!"
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oldpainless posted:In Die Another Day Halle Berry stares at pierce brosnans dick for like 10 seconds and then says "that's a mouthful" and it's just really really bad. Still not as bad as Denise Richards playing a nuclear physicist named Christmas.
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Phanatic posted:Still not as bad as Denise Richards playing a nuclear physicist named Christmas. Yeah, but the "I thought Christmas came only once a year  " line almost made up for it.
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You disgust me. It's people like you and comments like that that keep models who can't act out of STEM jobs.
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oldpainless posted:In everything Halle Berry's just really really bad.
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Man, the mid-2000s, post Monster's Ball "put Halle Berry in everything" phase was the worst.
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What happens to an X-Men movie when Halle Berry gets cast in it?
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So my wife and I are plugging through Daredevil season 1 and we just watched the episode where Wesley dies. Assuming this isn't some elaborate ruse and he's actually dead then what the actual gently caress? Did the actor hate the role and wanted out immediately, because everything about the scene was incredibly out of character for him. First I don't know why he offered her a job in the first place, it's not like Fisk is hurting for personnel, and discovering Fisk's mother wasn't that difficult or impressive of a feat. Second, why did he leave a loaded gun lying within arms reach of her? Why wasn't she restrained? Why didn't he just shoot her in the face immediately after taking her to the murder-warehouse? And most of all, why the gently caress didn't he have one of those ballistics suits that the autistic guy makes for Fisk? Wesley was Fisk's right-hand man, confidant, and BFF. loving Leland got one, why not Wesley?
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I think that whole scene was trying to communicate that homeboy is not a hardened thug like the dudes he keeps company with and maybe Karen is a little rougher than we'd thought. It's supposed to seem out of character because it is. Wesley is over his head.
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Who What Now posted:So my wife and I are plugging through Daredevil season 1 I think I'm only just noticing in season two how poo poo this show is because season one distracted me with Vincent D'onofrio.
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Tiggum posted:I think I'm only just noticing in season two how poo poo this show is because season one distracted me with Vincent D'onofrio. Gosh, you're always on the bleeding edge of pop commentary. Counterpoint: I think the show is fine and look forward to finishing the second season because ninjas in my blind demon comic show is fine because all of it is goofy as hell.
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Ignite Memories posted:Yeah, that poo poo was wicked stupid. Find another way to challenge daredevil. are you guys ignoring that these guys are ninjas? and i mean ninjas in that super comic book magic way. like the fact that matt has to focus to hear their breathing at all and can much more easily hear the sound their weapon makes moving through air should give you a clue these arent normal people. I think the problem is that people seem to be expecting a more grounded show than they got
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Exactly. Matt Devilman has X-ray vision because some turtle goo was splashed in his eyes when he was fleeing his abusive father, a sentient punching bag with a gin addiction.
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Inzombiac posted:Exactly. You have made me infinitely sad for this series will never exist.
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I kinda figured that Matt couldn't hear the ninja's heartbeat cause they don't have a heartbeat, being undead mooks churned out through the super evil vase and all. I don't care if all that blood they harvested is required to rez just the guy he killed in the first season and Elektra, they're all undead mooks to me.
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Inzombiac posted:Gosh, you're always on the bleeding edge of pop commentary. Please get back to us in a week or so.
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If matt can listen to the room he's in and hear a motionless box of nails he can locate a loving ninja.
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Ignite Memories posted:If matt can listen to the room he's in and hear a motionless box of nails he can locate a loving ninja. I think he smelled those. Everyone knows that Matt Demonboy has an acute Rust Smelly Sense. It's helpful to diagnose problem areas on Android's big beefy body.
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Inzombiac posted:Gosh, you're always on the bleeding edge of pop commentary. Sorry you don't like my opinions about a TV show, I guess.
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Ignite Memories posted:What happens to an X-Men movie when Halle Berry gets cast in it? The same thing that happens to every other movie, but with shittier acting 
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Elfgames posted:are you guys ignoring that these guys are ninjas? and i mean ninjas in that super comic book magic way. like the fact that matt has to focus to hear their breathing at all and can much more easily hear the sound their weapon makes moving through air should give you a clue these arent normal people. Breathing is louder than heartbeats. It would kinda work if he ignored the heartbeats to listen to food digesting in their stomachs or something, but that;s dumb as hell too.
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I'm rewatching The Avengers, and goddamn, everyone is right. Captain America's costume is awful.
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oldpainless posted:In Die Another Day Halle Berry stares at pierce brosnans dick for like 10 seconds and then says "that's a mouthful" and it's just really really bad. Oh come on this did not happen. DrBouvenstein posted:Yeah, but the "I thought Christmas came only once a year Oh come on there's no way.
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Rolo posted:Oh come on there's no way. She tells him her name, then says something like "I've already heard all the jokes, so don't bother." Then you spend the rest of the film cringing, waiting for the awful one-liner. Right at the end, when you think you've successfully avoided it, he appears out of the shadows in the laundry room and shanks you with the rusty screwdriver that is "I thought Christmas only came once a year"
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Fil5000 posted:The fact that Brosnan was talking it up as being a real character piece for Bond makes it all even worse. Poor guy, he got the same number of good films as Dalton but he did twice as many. Brosnan hated the one liners and garbage scripts he was given.
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Here's something that kind of struck me watching the latest episode of Arrow. Okay, so last season Thea got Malcolm Merlyn's money because legally he was dead and she was his heir. So she buys a really nice apartment for her and Oliver to live in. Then this season Oliver and Felicity get engaged and move back to Star City and into the apartment, which Thea leaves. Then Oliver and Felicity break up and Oliver moves out. So it ends up with Felicity living in an apartment she did not buy.
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