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The cool thing from Facebook's perspective is that Nick wouldn't need to be an actual black guy for the 'black' ad to work on him. He'd go see the movie because the NWA/Compton-focused trailer would be the one that piqued his interest.

The aliens were legit for the genre. The whole issue of Crystal Skulls is about ancient aliens meddling in our civilization (Both noun and verb senses of the word). It would have been shocking if a movie about those skulls didn't have aliens. As long as Indy's digging about in ancient secrets and conspiracies, it's a great trope to explore. That said, the movie sucked. Acting, framing, dialogue and wit, pacing, effects... It was all well below par.

So, I assume that in this one Shia Lebeuf stabs Harrison Ford and throws him into a deep dark pit of snakes?

So this open world thing, does that mean like we can interact any way we want with the tentacles?

Working on my third novel now. It's Cthulhu mythos, but with Tsothoggua (and maybe the Deep Ones. I'm going for more of a yucky feeling than the horror feeling.) I do feel that CGI has reached the point of doing a passable mythos movie, but I keep coming up to the realization that the emotions in the mythos are really from giving the imagination time and space on the page to freak itself out. Not sure a movie can achieve that effect. Also, if you're not getting the Bigfoot movie, you can always satisfy yourself with the books: http://www.amazon.co...k/dp/B00CR2C1VK

Tapeworms. It's gonna be giant carnivorous tapeworms. But sexy.

Wouldn't they want to wait until the next SW trilogy is complete to write the script?

He shoulda worn night vision goggles instead of those specs. He'd have seen the Predator coming. And the goggles would have been smaller.

What Rey knew on Jakku is irrelevant. It may even be counterproductive. First, she must unlearn.

Laura Dern and Benicio Del Toro have joined the Episode 8 cast. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/film/star-wars-episode-8/cast-plot-rumours-spoilers/ So that solves the mystery of Luke's lightsaber. The Collector gave it to Maz Kanata.

Crix Madine, the Alliance General in RoTJ was a former Imperial officer. Or was it ESB? In any case he had just a bit part and his past was only revealed outside the movies, so I'm not sure how much it counts. But for sure defections were a big part of the alliance in the period of the first three movies.

Nemo, Bryan's big moment came at WM30 when he beat HHH, Orton and Batista in 2 different matches to become WWE champ. Huge face pop for it. It's remarkable because the whole thing wasn't according to the WWE plans after the Royal Rumble, but the fan support made it happen (Batista was originally slated to win so he could carry the belt as a facce through the opening of GotG but ended up playing heel.) Bryan also had an excellent comedy run with Kane as a tag team.

Taker's already dead. it's still real to me, dammit...

The picture of him breaking down after he went backstage is just heart-rending. As far as the farewell goes, it was remarkable when they played his 'greatest hits' during the show how much he packed into a few years at the WWE. He didn't mention it in his speech, but he later said he did an experimental test and found lesions on his brain. Think it was an ESPN interview. Scary shit. Between him, Edge, Stone Cold and Benoit I feel so guilty watching this stuff now. I still feel this is a helluva unique form of interactive entertainment and it should continue, but they gotta keep working at the safety issues. Hopefully they already hit the tipping point with all the concussion awareness and this is the tail end of effects that started before the new safety consciousness.

It's been 10 years of meh for me with DC at this point. Saw an interview with Phil Jimenez where he perfectly explained why these reboots lose many fans: Basically you're severing the connection between fan and character and then hoping it regrows just as strong. At some point, the fan just gets tired of being cut and moves on. Building off that, my own take is that the mental connection grows only when a fan puts in the mental investment/energy to feed that connection and after a while nobody wants to feed a thing that has a short or uncertain future. Also...DiDio is fulla crap.

BRB, going to join the navy...

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Might just be my imagination/projection, but they seem to have changed the eye-slits of the Iron Man mask to make them angle down a bit more at the middle for a more villainous expression and also just overall the new mask seems designed to be a little more sinister. (See 0:20 in the video) If anyone has a good side-by-side of the masks over time it might be interesting. Sidenote: Axels, remind me of the name of the comic your spiral avatar is taken from? I was telling a friend just today that it's the only book of any kind to ever scare me but I couldn't remember if the name was actually Spirals or something else.

If I'm gonna post in this thread, I need to test out how to do spoilers again... Like this?[/s} [spoilers] or like this?[/spoilers] Or maybe some new arcane magic...? New magic it is. Oh wait, lemme try

The incentive was for hurting people, so I'm not sure how you can say it wasn't a measure to go hurt people. I doubt other teams were doing this at the level that the Saints were, because there's no way to keep stuff like that secret once the scandal hit. Whistleblowers gonna blow, you know? I hear the defence coach who ran the program is out west now (KC?) but I'm not buying the Payton took the fall thing. Money was being paid and an NFL team doesn't have money moving without accountability. The team powers had to know. I suspect that if Payton had tried to fight using the 'I didn't know' card in a lawsuit or something it would have quickly come out that he did, so he just said he didn't know while he took the responsibility so he got a PR victory out of it. The more this moves into the past, the easier it is to not hold it against the team. Plus it's hard to hate a team when it's sucking and not a threat to get any accolades. And sometimes a good player can turn you around on a team. I was rooting against the Seahawks at the start of 2012 because a couple of their players got suspended for PEDs. But after a few games of watching the Legion of Boom, Lynch and Wilson in action, I really really liked them to the point that they were my favorite team by the end of the season. Plus Lynch interviews just make you like him even more.

Look man, you took your cheapshot already in this thread. You don't need to keep misrepresenting what I said. As for Ray Rice, when I actually read the trial reports etc it seemed the worst he did was try to keep a friend out of trouble for something that stemmed from a nebulous confrontation. Not a good thing, but not a big deal for me in terms of enjoying the guy's work on the field. Loyalty is one of those things I know can get a person twisted up out of honorable motivations so I'm more forgiving of it. I'm not sure how the Saints/bounty thing was bull. Care to explain?

Oh please, it's not a high horse. I said I feel icky not that I opposed his inclusion on principle or something. You forget I was the one that supported Vick getting his job back in the NFL. I don't have a high horse. I just can't cheer for someone who's despicable to me, at whatever level.

Clearly he's not at the same level of scumbag, but he's enough of a malevolent prick that he has the same effect of shutting down my support for his team. Same reason I can't ever support Payton and the Saints, even with liking Drew Brees. Bellichek and the Patriots are on the list too and that's just for regular ole fashioned cheating. I root for Nick Kyrgios to lose ever tennis game he plays and that's just for being an asshole. And I think you're underplaying what Suh does. He's not just dirty. He is literally trying to maim someone out there and pass it off as accidental.

I'm a big fan of Tannehill. He's good when he gets the right protection. I think he was the 'leader' at sacks taken last year. But I feel icky supporting a team with Suh on it. He's up there with people like Vick or Roethlisburger whose personality/history is too big an obstacle for me to enjoy the game on their side.

--Good movie Basically one long chase scene which got wearing at times, but that's repetitiveness is the only real fault. Everything happened for a reason. I've heard people complain that the special effects looked fakey, but they had a kind of dream like effect which worked for that movie. Felt anime-like at times, especially the early scenes with the green mountains. --J mentioned the vehicle design and yes, they really did stand out and seem cool. --The most legitimate 'feminist propaganda' gripe I've heard was that they're no female villains, and only men are shown being evil. But that's dismissed with a little bit of thought. Women in non-industrial societies aren't warriors. Furiosa is an abberration in the social order and she gets a pass because she's a glorified driver with access to firearms, not a foot soldier. I thought it was a very realistic portrayal to have the women subjugated as breeders. (Not just the 5 wives, but also the breastfeeders) --The scene where Furiosa takes the shot off Max's shoulder doesn't work for me because I don't buy that it made the gun any steadier. I'm no gun expert, but I've taken shots using rests that had just a little bit of give and they suck. The reloading/shooting cooperation scenes worked better. And the collecting all the guns scene was funny as hell. --Nicholas Hoult's warboy character was a lot more enjoyable and engaging than I expected from the trailer. --When I saw the guys swinging on tall poles and the giant guitar setup etc in the trailer's combat scenes, I thought, 'this movie is gonna be crap'. But the swinging poles actually made sense as a combat element. And the guitar was absurd, but the movie had a theme about the madness of the apocalypse that made that seem right. It fit in with the Valhalla religion and the silver suicide drug and people wanting to die historical etc.