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It has to be the weirdest stunt casting in a video game. I refuse to believe anyone bought mk11 because she was in it.
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JT Smiley posted:It has to be the weirdest stunt casting in a video game. I refuse to believe anyone bought mk11 because she was in it. I dunno. The ign reporter in mass effect 3 exists
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JT Smiley posted:It has to be the weirdest stunt casting in a video game. I refuse to believe anyone bought mk11 because she was in it. I don't blame Netherrealm Studios because it was almost certainly something they were forced to do but this was already a couple years after Rousey mania wore off so it was a transparently bad idea even at the time.
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bunnyofdoom posted:I dunno. The ign reporter in mass effect 3 exists That was bad, but at least she was a minor background character.
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JT Smiley posted:It has to be the weirdest stunt casting in a video game. I refuse to believe anyone bought mk11 because she was in it. You could argue Hulk Hogan in Saints Row The Third is close, although Rousey arguably had more relevance at the time. Hogan I think was genuinely "the devs want to take pictures with him" type casting. They're both really bad at it, though.
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Jan 13, 2023 21:54
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maybe don't cast voice actors who are amplifying Sandy Hook conspiracy videos, Boon bby what r u doin
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mycot posted:I don't blame Netherrealm Studios because it was almost certainly something they were forced to do but this was already a couple years after Rousey mania wore off so it was a transparently bad idea even at the time.
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Dawgstar posted:You could argue Hulk Hogan in Saints Row The Third is close, although Rousey arguably had more relevance at the time. Hogan I think was genuinely "the devs want to take pictures with him" type casting. Huh. I was replaying SR3 just a couple of weeks ago (it's aging like sour milk tbh) and did not recognise Hogan at all. He at least performed better than Sasha Grey as the identical twins.
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Dawgstar posted:You could argue Hulk Hogan in Saints Row The Third is close, although Rousey arguably had more relevance at the time. Hogan I think was genuinely "the devs want to take pictures with him" type casting. Ah, yes, the Kojima Method
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Rev. Bleech_ posted:maybe don't cast voice actors who are amplifying Sandy Hook conspiracy videos, Boon bby what r u doin JT Smiley posted:It has to be the weirdest stunt casting in a video game. I refuse to believe anyone bought mk11 because she was in it. I got bad news for y'all re: Ronda in video games. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2zUnUIUoas 
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glitchwraith posted:Black Widow's introduction was basically "hot gymnast spy who surprisingly speaks Russian". We learn nothing about her personality or backstory. Why should future iterations of a massive franchise impact whether I like a character in the movie I'm actually seeing? Movies should stand on their own. You also listed several things about America Chavez that make her more appealing than Riri, than say they are equally as inert. theironjef posted:I feel like while Riri probably had some story cut to fit in the hour long funeral, we got enough. She's at MIT on scholarships, she's making enough side money through selling papers and patents that she's got her own offsite garage full of tech, she has a strong connection to her father who was an auto mechanic, which instilled in her a drive to build and engineer, and she's smart enough that she built the vibranium detector as just a toss-off school assignment. I think the big thing missing was probably her idolizing Tony Stark, which if it had been included, would invariably have led to people complaining that we got enough of that in the Spider-Man movies. She's smart I get it. But why is that intriguing tho? There are plenty of smart characters in the MCU, the best ones tag that with something giving that nuance, like Tomy and his hubris.
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Parkingtigers posted:Huh. I was replaying SR3 just a couple of weeks ago (it's aging like sour milk tbh) and did not recognise Hogan at all. He at least performed better than Sasha Grey as the identical twins. And she was at least better than Tera Patrick in the SR2 DLC. (According to the devs the adult actresses were a THQ mandate.)
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It’s insane to me how there was a period of time where Ronda Rousey could’ve become the next Rock with the sex appeal of like, I dunno, Megan Fox or something. There was a brief period of time when Ronda was covered by the media for both her pure athletic talent and she was covered endlessly for her nontraditional sex appeal, and she very easily could’ve transitioned that into a very successful movie career, but she was just so loving legendarily bad at acting that she basically single-handedly torpedoed any opportunities she had. Like, it takes a lot to gently caress up an acting career as a woman solely due to (lack of) talent when you’re as famous and relevant as Ronda was at her height combined with having the sex symbol status she did at the time, but by god she did it. And it was completely earned; she has like one line in Fast 7 and it’s so loving legendarily bad she almost poisons the movie with how wooden and poorly delivered her line read was. Like it’s just crazy how she never just took a six month to year hiatus and hired an acting coach to train round the clock at acting, she had the world as her oyster. Like, she didn’t even have to be good at acting, she just had to not be the worst ever and she probably would’ve become one of the biggest action stars of all time and certainly the biggest one who was a woman. She was all set to be the main character in a Roadhouse reboot which got cancelled because she was just that loving terrible at acting.
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You still see people saying that Rousy should have been Captain Marvel. It's not super common but every time someone posts about The Marvels there's at least one comment about her.
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She got clocked so hard it gave her almost brain damage and there went the unstoppable woman's MMA juggernaut aura.
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FilthyImp posted:She got clocked so hard it gave her almost brain damage and there went the unstoppable woman's MMA juggernaut aura. Yeah. Her coach really should have taught her to duck. That's not me being flip, he was a really crappy coach in some ways.
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Like it’s just crazy. If I was Ronda, and I was being afforded the opportunities that Ronda was, and the runway was being cleared for me specifically to have this massive action movie career which she clearly was being set up to be I would’ve immediately dropped the belt to…Holm was the one who took it off her right? Just held onto the belt for as long as possible while firing my trainer and hiring an acting coach, committing full-time to acting, dropping the belt whenever Dana White finally pressured me to do it and in the meantime parading it around just to keep my name in the public consciousness, kept doing late night to build my brand, then pivot entirely to trying to make a decent go of being an actor. Look at Gal Gadot; she is not a good actor, she just is traditionally beautiful and is at least somewhat decent in action roles, and she has the same sort of physical oriented past with problematic worldviews and beliefs that Ronda does. Ronda very easily could’ve been the next GG if she just committed full-time to becoming an at least mediocre actor, a Gal Gadot-level actor (which any sufficiently expensive and talented coach could get you over that bar) and be set up for life, and not having to rely on getting punched in the face to collect a paycheck. It’s just bizarre, such wasted potential and opportunity.
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Her coach convinced her she was a top level boxer. She thought she was going to win standing up.
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NieR Occomata posted:Like it’s just crazy. If I was Ronda, and I was being afforded the opportunities that Ronda was, and the runway was being cleared for me specifically to have this massive action movie career which she clearly was being set up to be I would’ve immediately dropped the belt to…Holm was the one who took it off her right? Just held onto the belt for as long as possible while firing my trainer and hiring an acting coach, committing full-time to acting, dropping the belt whenever Dana White finally pressured me to do it and in the meantime parading it around just to keep my name in the public consciousness, kept doing late night to build my brand, then pivot entirely to trying to make a decent go of being an actor. Look at Gal Gadot; she is not a good actor, she just is traditionally beautiful and is at least somewhat decent in action roles, and she has the same sort of physical oriented past with problematic worldviews and beliefs that Ronda does. Ronda very easily could’ve been the next GG if she just committed full-time to becoming an at least mediocre actor, a Gal Gadot-level actor (which any sufficiently expensive and talented coach could get you over that bar) and be set up for life, and not having to rely on getting punched in the face to collect a paycheck. It’s just bizarre, such wasted potential and opportunity. I think Ronda's less mainstream opinions--such as her insistence that Sandy Hook was a false flag operation--would have eventually gotten her Gina Carano'd out of her acting career.
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Oof, tell me that was after the brain damage
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Soonmot posted:Oof, tell me that was after the brain damage It was 2013, a few years before Holm wound her clock.
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mycot posted:I don't blame Netherrealm Studios because it was almost certainly something they were forced to do but this was already a couple years after Rousey mania wore off so it was a transparently bad idea even at the time. She was on the upswing again with the WWE, and took some wrestlers to the MK premiere party or whatever it was. That was the only good thing to come out of her being in that game.
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This is the first real look we've had at Adam Warlock in GotG3 https://twitter.com/DiscussingFilm/status/1615024841001664514?s=20&t=_ob0QHxxHxRYJ-gzXD3vgg
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FlamingLiberal posted:This is the first real look we've had at Adam Warlock in GotG3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wvd3CUIXPeM
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FlamingLiberal posted:This is the first real look we've had at Adam Warlock in GotG3 Very Thorish costume. Though I'm kind of meh about him being a retread of Mantis that's a retread of Draxx being socially awkward. Pete will teach him how to poop
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I was going to say something snarky about Adam being another character reliant on fish-out-of-water humour but I suppose that is actually the point. Characters thrown together from all kinds of different cultures and different species' trying to mesh with one another. The characters should be weird. They're all fish-out-of-water in some way, particularly when they interact with Quill since he more or less represents our way of doing things.
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FlamingLiberal posted:This is the first real look we've had at Adam Warlock in GotG3 They Kumailed him
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I just wonder if they are going to have the whole Magus thing in this movie or if that will just be teased Because it seems like the main plot involves the High Evolutionary
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Shageletic posted:Why should future iterations of a massive franchise impact whether I like a character in the movie I'm actually seeing? Movies should stand on their own. I didn't say it "should" impact how a character is viewed, simply that it does. Your right, if your judging a movie solely on it's own merit and not it's place in a broader franchise, it doesn't matter as much. But if that's the case, what does it matter that a side character isn't as narratively appealing as the main protagonist and antagonist? Even good stand-alone movies have characters that are mainly there for plot reasons, and who don't get as much focus and fleshing out as a result. Shageletic posted:You also listed several things about America Chavez that make her more appealing than Riri, than say they are equally as inert. I did not say they were equally inert, only that they received similar amount of background, screen time, agency, and plot relevance. Your obviously allowed to find America Chavez more interesting because of her tragic backstory, but I was disappointed how little it mattered to the main plot, how it receives no follow up, and how little of her comics personality we got to see in the movie. That said, the movie is more about Strange and Wanda, so America's introduction being less than perfect doesn't really harm it. I feel similarly about Riri in Wakanda Forever. Shageletic posted:She's smart I get it. But why is that intriguing tho? There are plenty of smart characters in the MCU, the best ones tag that with something giving that nuance, like Tomy and his hubris. I'd say the fact that she wasn't born into wealth, like Tony and Shuri, yet is still a successful inventor is something we haven't seen as much in the MCU. The closest parallel we have to that is Spider-Man, but he focuses far less on inventions and, as MCU critics often point out, usually has access to Tony's resources when he does. Wakanda Forever doesn't focus on this, because it's not very relevant to the main plot, but I could see that being a hook for her series.
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FilthyImp posted:He was in the trailer for like 3 seconds and you could see his gem thing. But that was like face only. If there’s two things James Gunn clearly loves it’s socially awkward weirdos and grotesquely parasitic aliens.
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It’s his way of working through his past Troma.
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Open Marriage Night posted:It’s his way of working through his past Troma. Ok, I laughed
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FlamingLiberal posted:I just wonder if they are going to have the whole Magus thing in this movie or if that will just be teased The Adam Warlock costume and plot in GotG 3 is basically exactly copied from the (surprisingly very good) recent Guardians of the Galaxy game. The game costume is basically a translation of his comics costume and the movie costume is almost exactly the game costume (but, without giant shoulder pads).  Almost definitely a coincidence, because I doubt they were seeding GotG plot details to Ubisoft 4 years ago, but kind of interesting that it basically lines up 1:1 with the movie. Except that he doesn't have the soul stone. Leon Trotsky 2012 fucked around with this message at 03:22 on Jan 17, 2023 |
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Yeah I enjoyed the GotG game a lot. I believe it won Best Story/Narrative at the Game Awards a couple of years ago and I thought it deserved it.
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FlamingLiberal posted:I just wonder if they are going to have the whole Magus thing in this movie or if that will just be teased 70s Warlock's whole thing working with the High Evolutionary to save Counter-Earth was before Magus ever entered the picture. The Magus saga just wouldn't be the same without the presence of Thanos too. They could pull in another from the Multiverse but literally everyone in the MCU has too much baggage around Thanos for it to work imo. They have already introduced the concept of multiple branching possible futures though which gives Warlocks cosmic suicide a pretty easy set up.
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There's also a picture of William Jackson Harper as "Quaz," and definitely not Reed Richards no sir.
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EmptyVessel posted:70s Warlock's whole thing working with the High Evolutionary to save Counter-Earth was before Magus ever entered the picture. They work the Magus storyline into the recent GotG game adaption without Thanos, so it can be done. live with fruit posted:There's also a picture of William Jackson Harper as "Quaz," and definitely not Reed Richards no sir. Obviously, very possible for all of it to be fake, but in the clips they have shown at closed events, Quaz has telekinetic powers, has lived in the Quantum Realm city for a long time/possibly forever, and is part of some local political movements there. Possible that it is all a fakeout, but seems unlikely to be Reed Richards based on that. Also seems unlikely that they would shoot and screen fake footage to fake out a small amount of people attending the comic-con event.
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