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Krispy Wafer posted:It’s a little surprising that Harrison Ford only has 2 characters, but then again what other character are they going to use? A LEGO playset for the film Sabrina? I’d buy a LEGO Air Force One set in a loving heartbeat. Probably The Fugitive and Blade Runner too.
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muscles like this! posted:Also in The Old Guard Charlize Theron scoffs at the idea of religion when the whole immortality stuff is explicitly magic like how whenever there's a new immortal soldier they have dreams about each other until they meet. Just because magic is real it doesn’t mean that God is.
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Jul 21, 2020 05:49
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Krispy Wafer posted:I think John Rhys-Davies has minifigs for both Indiana Jones and LOTR. LEGO will make minifigs for anything. Him in suspenders and a straw hat dressed as an Amish guy in Witness
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muscles like this! posted:Watched the Netflix movie The Old Guard and the whole betrayal subplot doesn't make a whole lot of sense. If Booker betrayed them early on he did a bad job of it since they handily escape. Also he doesn't seem to actually get anything from the betrayal since he also gets captured and is going to be experimented on. I don't think it was a great film, but I think he explained that Booker was tired of their immortal lifestyle, and felt like he wanted to A) die and B) accomplish something he considered meaningful, which involved essentially donating their bodies to medical science. He wasn't interested in a personal reward for the betrayal beyond the benefits to society and potentially the end of his life. Further, I assume that the initial mission - where they're recorded - was intended to just demonstrate that they actually have the abilities he claims. The actual handover was supposed to be at the church safe house where the first two immortals are taken, but C Theron being out with the new person hosed up the plan.
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Darthemed posted:drat, now I want a Lego set for The Conversation. Reminded me of the "My Dinner With Andre" action figure set from one of Chris Guest's movies. Waiting for Guffman I think
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fartknocker posted:I’d buy a LEGO Air Force One set in a loving heartbeat. Probably The Fugitive and Blade Runner too. Blade runner would be cool - you could have a flying car or that airship with minifig Deckard and replicants.
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I have just finished the first season of Jessica Jones, and only in the very last episode did someone have the idea to use headphones and loud music to not listen to the guy who's power is telling you what to do. And the stupid explanation that it was caused by a virus when he later develops the power to do it remotely. This applies to every movie and tv show when they try to explain how a power works but it doesn't make any sense. Just leave it unexplained! Doug Sisk has a new favorite as of 13:45 on Jul 21, 2020 |
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Jul 21, 2020 13:42
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We really need more superheroes whose power source is 'Your guess is as good as mine.'
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Doug Sisk posted:I have just finished the first season of Jessica Jones, and only in the very last episode did someone have the idea to use headphones and loud music to not listen to the guy who's power is telling you what to do. The Preacher show kind of went off the rails after the 2nd season, but at least the bad guys knew enough to wear ear protection. Didn’t always help, but it made things marginally more difficult for the protagonist.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:We really need more superheroes whose power source is 'Your guess is as good as mine.' Hancock.
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Krispy Wafer posted:The Preacher show kind of went off the rails after the 2nd season, but at least the bad guys knew enough to wear ear protection. There was a scene in the comic where Jesse tried to use the Word on some attacking gunmen and it didn't work because none of them spoke English.
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The episode where he’s fighting the henchmen listening to Billy Joel’s Uptown Girl on headphones was  .I never got around to watching the last season, but they were good for at least one over-the-top fight scene each year.
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In Motherland: Fort Salem non magic people are so comfortable with witches that guns never really took off. Can't really buy that part of the alternate universe.
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Gaunab posted:In Motherland: Fort Salem non magic people are so comfortable with witches that guns never really took off. Can't really buy that part of the alternate universe. I don't remember that. They even talk about using conventional means to take care of something if the witches can't.
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Krispy Wafer posted:The Preacher show kind of went off the rails after the 2nd season, but at least the bad guys knew enough to wear ear protection.
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10 Beers posted:I don't remember that. They even talk about using conventional means to take care of something if the witches can't. I put it on as background noise yesterday while I was working so I probably missed that part. I just assumed there weren't any guns because a sloppily trained unit of witches doesn't seem like they would stand much of a chance against people with guns. The show has some interesting ideas but they weren't executed/communicated too well and part of that could have been because it was on freeform and aimed at teenagers.
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Generally the Marvel Netflix shows have one or two great things per season but they are all universally and without exception extremely dumb. They also all go on way too long and pad out what should be like a 6 episode season to something like 16.
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I don't like it when witchy fiction has cheeky references to the Salem witch trials because it suggests that all those innocent victims were actually witches and deserved to get murdered.
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Baron von Eevl posted:Generally the Marvel Netflix shows have one or two great things per season but they are all universally and without exception extremely dumb. They also all go on way too long and pad out what should be like a 6 episode season to something like 16. Daredevil Season 2 was amazing... for the first four episodes. When it went from the punisher stuff to the undead ninjas it lost me. Nobody likes Hand stuff.
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Iron Fist season 2 ended with an incredibly promising thing... then got canceled. Like, it could have went on to become one of the best of the Marvel shows from being the worst.
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Ugly In The Morning posted:Nobody likes Hand stuff. I feel sorry for your partner.
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Luke Cage was the only marvel Netflix series that somehow didn't just sort of poo poo itself mid season. I gave up on season 2 of Jessica Jones cause it just got so goddamn boring, and the 3rd season of Daredevil was basically just "Matt is a rampaging rear end in a top hat, listen to Fisk wheeze" so I bailed on it too. Even cage got kinda dumb. Was shot with those exploding bullet things, and they save his life by taking out just one of em and ignoring the other completely. No clue wtf happened there. The defenders was actually fun. Couldn't get into season 2 of iron fist though, god that lead guy sucked so much.
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It kind of bothered me that they didn't really go anywhere with studying the Immortals in the Old Guard . I'm fine with them keeping the immortality thing ambiguous, but it would've been satisfying to see the pharma tech guy realize the cells the immortals have are just normal human cells and they can't benefit from it.
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Push El Burrito posted:Iron Fist season 2 ended with an incredibly promising thing... then got canceled. Like, it could have went on to become one of the best of the Marvel shows from being the worst. Agreed, the first 1.9 seasons were poo poo, but the last 10 minutes of the last episode set up an interesting 3rd season. Does netflix always cancel shows after 2 or 3 seasons? It seems like it.
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Doug Sisk posted:Agreed, the first 1.9 seasons were poo poo, but the last 10 minutes of the last episode set up an interesting 3rd season. Season 3 is when a lot of contract stuff kicks in, so yep, they usually cancel there. RIP Santa Clarita Diet. That show was loving hilarious.
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Also Disney+ was about to launch so they started consolidating all their streaming content by letting existing contracts expire. I just realized because of COVID-19 the Marvel shows on Disney+ all got pushed back. I was looking forward to Wanda/Vision too.
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Ugly In The Morning posted:Season 3 is when a lot of contract stuff kicks in, so yep, they usually cancel there. Santa Clarita Diet was probably my favourite Netflix original show, and they cancel it after a massive cliffhanger
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Those fuckers cancelled Chilling Adventures of Sabrina too.
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Ugly In The Morning posted:RIP Santa Clarita Diet. That show was loving hilarious.
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Baron von Eevl posted:Those fuckers cancelled Chilling Adventures of Sabrina too. WHAT
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Baron von Eevl posted:Those fuckers cancelled Chilling Adventures of Sabrina too. Huh. Missed this news. Weird, I thought it was pretty well received?
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Doug Sisk posted:Santa Clarita Diet was probably my favourite Netflix original show, and they cancel it after a massive cliffhanger I busted up laughing at least once an episode during season 2 and 3. Quite possibly the funniest show I’ve seen in the past ten years.
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Yeah, but Netflix doesn't care about viewership or ratings, their methods are inscrutable but I think it mostly has to do with "can we keep doing this but much much cheaper now that people liked it?" and the answer is always no so they just cancel.
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In Law Abiding Citizen, if he was so good at killing people why bother with the elaborate putting yourself in to prison act? It's not like they were fooled into thinking it wasn't him (or his accomplices) all along, so why not just do all the murder and deny it? Putting yourself into prison and somehow getting the exact solitary cell you need seems a lot harder than just doing the mass murder/assassinations on easy mode by just getting away with it without all of that.
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yeah I eat rear end posted:In Law Abiding Citizen, if he was so good at killing people why bother with the elaborate putting yourself in to prison act? It's not like they were fooled into thinking it wasn't him (or his accomplices) all along, so why not just do all the murder and deny it? Putting yourself into prison and somehow getting the exact solitary cell you need seems a lot harder than just doing the mass murder/assassinations on easy mode by just getting away with it without all of that. in fairness, I think it showed that he dug holes to all the solitary confinement cells. but yeah, current events tell us he'd have been just fine putting on a smile and smugly denying everything lol
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The movie also has a bad message of the villain being proven right because he's only stopped when the hero stoops to his level by killing him and it is treated like a good thing. Also complained about this before but it bears repeating how weird the movie is with only the criminals aging between the opening and the 10 year time skip. Everyone else looks exactly the same.
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Ugly In The Morning posted:I busted up laughing at least once an episode during season 2 and 3. Quite possibly the funniest show I’ve seen in the past ten years. 
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Best thing to come out of that movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjGrHBpfqCo
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