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beanieson posted:It’s a brilliant notion and he doesn’t have to explain poo poo But it turns out MichiganCubbie is ok with explaining it, which I appreciate. I didn't really watch Seinfeld, but not because of any failing of the show, but because I was never into embarrassment humour.
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Memento posted:But it turns out MichiganCubbie is ok with explaining it, which I appreciate. Hell, same. I have an undying visceral hatred of that overblown fremdschamen type humor and I'm not even sure why. I blame Ben Stiller but Seinfeld and Friends had a hand in it
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Mar 15, 2020 22:50
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It’s good though 🤷🏻♂️
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Mar 15, 2020 22:51
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MichiganCubbie posted:There's a Seinfeld episode where George finds out that he's exactly Marissa Tomei's type, and he wants to explore dating her, but he's engaged. Not exactly her type. He’s thinking “fat bald middle-aged” she’s thinking Bruce Willis.
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Mar 15, 2020 22:54
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Promoted Pawn posted:The biggest retcon in the entire MCU imo is when Ultron revealed that Loki’s Scepter always contained the Mind Stone within it, which actually makes even more sense from a “how this world works” perspective but it makes 2012 Thanos look reeeeaaal dumb. Before they decided to do the Infinity War storyline, I was under the impression the Tesserect was originally going to be the Cosmic Cube, not one of the Infinity Stones/container for said stone.
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DrBouvenstein posted:Before they decided to do the Infinity War storyline, I was under the impression the Tesserect was originally going to be the Cosmic Cube, not one of the Infinity Stones/container for said stone. It could have been ,It's not exactly specific what it is other than power cube The formulaic nature of marvel films wouldn't surprise me if they have internal terms for things such as "interest point" or "tension string" for things like that so they don't get specific and can rename things
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Mar 15, 2020 23:21
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There's always a bypass key, a virus key, a who-cares key I can never remember so I just call it a goober.
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Jestery posted:It could have been ,It's not exactly specific what it is other than power cube I don’t think it really did anything space-stony in that one but to be honest it usually just was harnessed to power stuff so it at least stayed consistent.
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Ugly In The Morning posted:I don’t think it really did anything space-stony in that one but to be honest it usually just was harnessed to power stuff so it at least stayed consistent. In The First Avenger it sends Red Skull to outer space, and in Avengers it retrieves Loki from across the galaxy and then opens a stable wormhole in the climax.
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Mar 16, 2020 01:30
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Promoted Pawn posted:In The First Avenger it sends Red Skull to outer space, and in Avengers it retrieves Loki from across the galaxy and then opens a stable wormhole in the climax. Ohhh yeah, I didn’t think about it sending him to space because of the gap between that movie coming out and Infinity War. Though that wasn’t just spatial, there was some cosmic judgement going on there.
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Mar 16, 2020 01:32
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Thanos giving his agents an Infinity Stone to use doesn't seem too far fetched given he's pretty confident in his ability to retrieve them when necessary. (and demonstrates it, pretty casually busting into the Asgard vault among other things) It's finding them that's the hard part.
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Mar 16, 2020 04:16
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Ugly In The Morning posted:Same, that was a giant relief. It’s one of those things where you can just assume everyone knows Spider-Man’s deal. The '89 Batman movie handled it pretty well, they confine that scene to a flashback halfway though the movie that was less than two minutes long, and even then it was relevant to the current plot. The '66 Batman TV show handled it even better, he mentions once in the first episode that his parents were murdered by criminals and then it never comes up again. And he only mentions it because he's using his wealth to fund anti-crime centres around Gotham to prevent the same thing happening to others. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFEZDQI4G1Y&t=179s
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Mar 16, 2020 05:59
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I watched Contagion over the weekend and my favourite subtle moment is that Gwyneth Paltrow's character goes out exactly the way she would in real life.
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Mar 16, 2020 07:46
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I hope Galactus is the next big villain and they deal with him exactly how they did in the comics. By threatening him with a gun they stole from his house because a giant space bald guy told them where it was.
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Mar 16, 2020 07:54
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:The '89 Batman movie handled it pretty well, they confine that scene to a flashback halfway though the movie that was less than two minutes long, and even then it was relevant to the current plot. Batman Begins did it well, and it was relevant given it was the first time a movie had shown Bruce becoming Batman. It would be nice if Hollywood could accept that we all know that story now and don't need it rehashed ad infinitum.
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Sunswipe posted:It would be nice if Hollywood could accept that we all know that story now and don't need it rehashed ad infinitum. You just know it's because there's some idiot producer behind the scenes going "But why is he dressed like a bat? Why doesn't he just call the police? Audiences are going to be confused!!" There's stories about the producers on some of the failed Superman movie productions going "Does he need to wear a cape? Does he have to fly?" and having to be talked back from those changes.
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Push El Burrito posted:I hope Galactus is the next big villain and they deal with him exactly how they did in the comics. By threatening him with a gun they stole from his house because a giant space bald guy told them where it was. I liked evil Cloud Galactus in FF2
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:I watched Contagion over the weekend and my favourite subtle moment is that Gwyneth Paltrow's character goes out exactly the way she would in real life. Someone beats her to death with a candle that smells like her own hoo-haa?
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Pong Wick
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Flint_Paper posted:Pong Wick 
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:There's stories about the producers on some of the failed Superman movie productions going "Does he need to wear a cape? Does he have to fly?" and having to be talked back from those changes. Correction: there is one (main) story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wo2KB1dEDdk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53hMYw8LX60
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Mar 16, 2020 11:47
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"Can we have a gay R2-D2?" is still one of my favorite Hollywood stories.
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:I liked evil Cloud Galactus in FF2 It worked well for the movie and the era, but I think we've gotten to the point where the general public can accept a giant space man who wants to eat the planet. This begs the question: could Galactus eat Ego?
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MichiganCubbie posted:It worked well for the movie and the era, but I think we've gotten to the point where the general public can accept a giant space man who wants to eat the planet. I would argue cloud Galactus really didn’t work, even for its time (though Silver Surfer absolutely did). Now that the public has seen enough all powerful villains in the cosmic settings, just go full “man just wants to eat planets” angle.
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Cloud Galactus was hated from day one, I'm pretty sure. Nobody likes a big vague threat that isn't actually anything. Marvel realised that you just go full hog with weird space men and the audience is fine with it, the problem is producers that are total idiots and think anything they didn't grow up with must be too weird and strange even if it's a multimillion dollar franchise.
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Dormammu was kind of a gaseous being in Doctor Strange and nobody batted an eye. Ego the Living Planet was played by Kurt Russell. Galactus can be a giant dude with a weird hat that literally eats worlds. He can even have little a planet, as a treat.
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Android Apocalypse posted:Dormammu was kind of a gaseous being in Doctor Strange and nobody batted an eye. Dormammu had a face and a voice and even something of a personality, none of which Cloud Galactus had
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It makes more sense to me to have a world eater be an unliving force, but giant space chowdown with a dorky hat would be amusing if nothing else
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Yea after everything that's happened in the MCU up to this point, there's zero reason to focus group Galactus to death or do half-measures. Give people Galactus for real or just don't do it at all.
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Funny thing is the comics occasionally imply Galactus as a colossal dude with a big hat isn't necessarily his 'true' form, but it's what humanity can perceive, and he appears differently to nonhumanoid aliens. Someone who's more of a cosmic constant than a lifeform can be like that. That both Marvel and DC had Jack Kirby come up with their cosmic backstories is some magical stuff.
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Basebf555 posted:there's zero reason to focus group Galactus
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Funny thing is the comics occasionally imply Galactus as a colossal dude with a big hat isn't necessarily his 'true' form, but it's what humanity can perceive, and he appears differently to nonhumanoid aliens. Someone who's more of a cosmic constant than a lifeform can be like that. 
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There was talk of a Squirrel Girl tv show. Is that still a go? Squirrel Girl is great.
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Bold choice to make Galactus Pete Buttigieg.
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My Lovely Horse posted:not that it'll stop anyone Marvel released a god drat Guardians of the Galaxy movie when even comic book fans had mostly forgotten they existed, I think they’ll have the confidence to avoid messing with Galactus too much. Ghost Leviathan posted:Funny thing is the comics occasionally imply Galactus as a colossal dude with a big hat isn't necessarily his 'true' form, but it's what humanity can perceive, and he appears differently to nonhumanoid aliens. Someone who's more of a cosmic constant than a lifeform can be like that. Not even imply, there’s a really cool page out there that shows him as different species see him, I’ll have to try to dig it up. E: 
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Not gonna lie, regular human Galactus looks pretty dorky. Has he got a big rear end fivehead under that helmet? Also it's one thing drawing static images on a page, but depicting him well in film is a different matter. What's the dude gonna be standing on?
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Android Apocalypse posted:There was talk of a Squirrel Girl tv show. Is that still a go? The New Warriors TV show was cancelled.
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Android Apocalypse posted:There was talk of a Squirrel Girl tv show. Is that still a go? I don't know, there's only one person who could possibly do the character justice and Kristen Schaal is getting a little too old to play a teenager
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The best thing about Galactus is the little visor on his helmet to keep the sun out of his eyes while he eats a planet. The second best thing about Galactus is on his first appearance he had a giant G on his costume. 
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gently caress me his forehead is getting even bigger. He's just gonna be a giant floaty head with some tiny dangling legs by the time he gets to film.
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