Reverend Jax

Saw it last night. Not as good as the previous one, but certainly not a bad movie, certainly worthy of another film with the same crew, and certainly lots of fun.

Yeah, Hollywood isn't ready to put an explicit romance between two guys in a big budget tent-pole film, so they just have the romance, but inject one-dimensional female characters for one or both of the guys to kiss a few times to that the audience isn't threatened by being engaged in a love story between to guys they identify with. See X-Men First Class for another great example of a thinly veiled gay romance in a big budget summer tent-pole flick.

Robert Redford dropped a spoiler about his character.

Again, no one would have called Whedon a mainstream choice prior to Avengers. Wright's Ant-Man will make lots of money based on nothing other than it's be a Marvel Studios branded movie and it's coming out right after Avengers 2 and kicking off Phase 3, which if anyone at Marvel knows what they're doing, they will have hyped people up for considerably. I'm predicting it will make $500M worldwide, more than Thor 1 or Cap 1. Anyway, Iron Man 3 passed the billion dollar mark yesterday, and passed The Dark Knight's worldwide gross, and will pass TDKR soon too to be the 2nd highest grossing comic book movie yet.

Is there a live stream anywhere?

I got to give The Asylum credit, they are taking the money they make off their mockbusters and reinvesting it into higher production value. I would not be surprised to discover one year that they actually make a mockbuster that's better than the movie it's riping off. Some people think that training young human pilots to operator gigantic bipedal robots to fight hand-to-hand with equally gigantic monstrous aliens attacking urban centers is a story. Other people think it's a genre. So you look at it and see the similarities and think 'it's a big-budget, live-action, American-made Kaiju movie,' and other people see a rip-off.

Whedon dollars weren't exactly super-bankable before the Avengers, either. I mean, Buffy and Angel had successful runs on fledgling second-tier networks, but Firefly, Serenity, Dollhouse, the original Buffy movie, he was not what anyone in Hollywood would have considered a sure-fire bankable talent, and while fanboys and fangirls rejoiced at the announcement that he would direct The Avengers, that doesn't mean it wasn't a risky bet for Marvel/Disney (did Disney own Marvel when that decision was finalized?).

After the fiasco with the attempt at making an all-American version of Akira, I think that the blatant American rip-off is less insulting that the whitewashed, live-action adaptation.

Yeah, I mean, between The Avengers' $1.5B and Iron Man 3's $984M haul so far, RDJ is a position to negotiate with Marvel, and having made 250 times as much as his Avengers co-stars, using that position to negotiate for keeping the band together...I think he's actually saving Marvel from themselves, because replacing Norton was one thing, but I think Marvel was probably the right combination of cheap and stupid to actually replace Hemsworth and Evans and anyone else that wasn't willing to stay on at comically low pay (all things being relative, of course).

RDJ is negotiating to extend his contract with Marvel, but is asking for a raise...for his co-stars.

Is that agent's shirt made out of bath towels?

It is that the gremlins in a new Gremlins movie wouldn't be CG.

Recurring Developments: An interactive visual representation of every recurring/running jokes in Arrested Development with, showing all the episodes each joke appears in, and every joke that appear in each episode.

The show takes place in 1980 and 1981.

Yeah, it definitely has a network-TV vibe and look. I'm kind of afraid that placing this in the Marvel Cinematic Universe won't raise this show up, but bring the Marvel Cinematic Universe down.

It was an Atari 2600.

It doesn't. Mostly, the characters are just not as memorable and you don't care about them the way you do with all the kids in Freaks & Geeks. Again, not bad, but F&G is a classic that holds up today, after 14 years of television raising the bar (for context, it debuted the same year as The Sopranos), and Undeclared does not hold up the same way. But if you're hungry for more F&G after you finish it, it's a good show to watch.

I really hope Netflix has done the proper preparation for the demands on their bandwidth. Insert joke about being glad EA didn't buy the rights to make stream this.

Django Unchained is QT's highest grossing film to date, and before that it was Inglourious Basterds. I think this is a positive trend, and I hope he continues doing experimental films, be they more these crazy takes on history or something else.

I don't think there was anything in the movie that indicated that Skynet would have known Kyle was John Conner's father. And of course i makes no sense, because they could have killed Sarah Conner as a baby, which would have been easier.

Yup. I felt the same way. In the end, he was just too proud. So, last night's episode

No, there doesn't.

Luke Cage in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.?