#Media (General)

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lone canyon
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Nvm the f21 isn’t a bomber

cold sequoia
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Aegon's conquests aren't really one of them imo, it'd be a lot of retreading of stuff we've seen a lot of

lone canyon
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I forgot which modern jet was the bomber but you get my point

dusk hound
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||Why does the funny beard man author like incest so much||

cold sequoia
dusk hound
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I should really get into ASOIAF

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I’ve heard good things

lone canyon
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Do it

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It’s genuinely peak

buoyant scroll
cold sequoia
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stuff I'd prefer to see a movie made about: [asoiaf]
||- Robert's Rebellion

  • The Doom of Valyria
  • The Long Night (westeros perspective)
  • The Long Night (great empire of the dawn perspective)
  • Any new Dunk and Egg story||
lone canyon
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I’d like to see a redo of the main game of thrones show with a better ending 😭

cold sequoia
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in 20 years this will happen, I believe

lone canyon
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Honestly it will probs happen within 10 years

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I think once hotd and akotsk wrap up

muted solar
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I caved…

Still buying it on 4K blu ray as soon as I possibly can and streaming it multiple times when it drops on Paramount+.

It’s a genuine crime that Paramount pulled this movie from theaters…

Not only that but 0 marketing so far. No trailers. Nothing. Absolutely criminal how they’re treating this IP and all of the incredible work that was done

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I’m genuinely fuming

burnt shale
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It bc would be funnier if they did a movie on every person named aegon in the setting

muted solar
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It definitely is finished. Though an extended cut/director’s would certainly be welcome

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I hope people show so much support for this movie in October

dusky flint
cold sequoia
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where? HBO has dropped the original Thrones show like a tungsten rod
All their marketing is focused on the new thrones show

dusky flint
cold sequoia
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a new show would mean more merchandising

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like, Disney is perfectly happy to do live action moana despite the fact that I'm positive that they are making much more money from moana merch than hbo is making from game of thrones merch

molten jetty
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I think this would be a very boring movie

oak ivy
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I dont think we get a thrones remake until the series is finished or george dies

dusky flint
cold sequoia
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You seem to be overestimating how much it costs to make mobile game slop

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Afaik that games been around for at least a few years

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Its existence has no bearing on whether they make a new show in 10 or 20 years

dusky flint
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but also dont see it happening until after the books are finished so that gives us 50 years until they reboot it

topaz oyster
dusk hound
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What

cobalt onyx
# molten jetty I think this would be a very boring movie

Books background lore ||I think it could make a good movie, but not as a war/conquest movie. I think it could work well as a dramatic movie, told from the perspective of either the North or Dorne, who politic'd their way around the conquest instead of caving on the battlefield.||

molten jetty
cobalt onyx
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||Probably. I just think they should write the targs as a force of nature, rather than protagonist/antagonist, and make the story be about how Westeros adjusts to their influence.||

topaz oyster
cobalt onyx
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Wait until Winter, when we've failed to get the next book

sonic trench
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Reading the books is worth it regardless of if you have to wait for winds or not

cold sequoia
wet quest
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Sometimes you have to get through a whole series before learning that the author never wrapped it up, at least here you know in advance

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And you get a much better explanation than, "sometimes life doesn't wrap everything up"

minor isle
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Best thing is to not care about endings. So bad ending or incomplete series won't suck at all

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😎

dusk hound
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I’d rather a 1,000 incomplete endings than 1 really bad one

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Maybe a hot take

minor isle
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Common take

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Personally I don't see how an ending can remove the journey you had with a piece of story for a long time

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I think rather than GoT show having a bad ending, its having a considerably weaker second half

spring barn
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GOT all example ||Jaime saying he never cared about the people and then going back to Cersei||

red nacelle
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GOT S5E6 || Can this piece of crem Ramsay die already? 🤬||

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|| Why does Sansa have to get all the trauma? 😞||

minor isle
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it doesn't have to ruin the show

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I don't have issues with even dream endings if its for long series

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or any

tender gull
lucid haven
muted solar
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Y’all I’m not gonna lie I’m so excited to watch seven havens. I’m just so excited for more avatar content

turbid narwhal
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“Tom cruise playing Jerry jones” yeah that’s all I needed to hear

cold sequoia
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I literally had a dream last night that I met Tom Cruise and he knew my name but was coyly refusing to explain how

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This man is everywhere

turbid narwhal
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Should’ve done a stunt, he would’ve answered all your questions

cold sequoia
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True, he's similar to some sort of woodland spirit in that sense

lone canyon
turbid narwhal
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Asoiaf ||if they want something that will have dragons i feel like the Doom would be a much more interesting movie plot||

spring barn
crystal brook
verbal lintel
lucid haven
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dammit im at s2e9 of for all mankind and i jsut cant help but feel the hope

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its really helping me hope for a better future and the line of "we just have to choose not to kill today"

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is so important

turbid narwhal
crystal brook
placid river
# verbal lintel

Don’t have context here, did Godzilla also go to NYC in one of the bad movies or something?

verbal lintel
main dew
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Okay I'm not gonna stand for this

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American Godzilla is a perfectly fine monster movie

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Yeah sure it's not the best but it ain't so bad it's good, it's decent and fine and I watched it when I was like 10 and it was the first movie I saw in the cinema without my parents and so I will not stand by and let it be slandered like this

burnt shale
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It’s not a real Godzilla movie but it is an ok monster movie

keen flax
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American Godzilla was a fun time

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Oh wait im thinking of the wrong one

main dew
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Yeah not talking about Legendary Godzilla 😛

verbal lintel
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It’s so funny that immediately after it’s came out, Japan Toho immediately revoked American studios permission to use it until Monsterverse Godzilla

The next immediate Japan Godzilla movie that came out has our Big Radiation Boy Beating The Absolute Snot out of a big lizard that looks suspiciously similar to the one the American movie in the B plot of the film

cosmic dock
sacred slate
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They were going for a vibe, it wasn't a Godzilla vibe, and it was... fine. Also very much not understanding of Godzilla. But it was a fun blockbuster for a kid.

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verbal lintel
sacred slate
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Plus this great turn of the millenia advertising

cosmic dock
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Hugh Jackman???

cold sequoia
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Thats not hubert jackman

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Thats Matthew Broderick

naive mica
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That's Feris Bueler

cosmic dock
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lol

cold sequoia
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He does kind of looks like Hugh Jackman in that poster though

spring barn
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Imagine the casting process for Wolverine

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"Man what a unit of a character. How'll we even get someone to play him?"
"I know right? We'll need a huge jacked man."

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verbal lintel
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-# (Famously Hugh Jackman did not think wolverines were a real animal, and method acted Wolverine as a wolf for a few months until someone showed him one)

buoyant scroll
verbal lintel
buoyant scroll
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Im so curious how they are gonna translate that game into a movie narrative

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i feel like it demands to be surrealist arthouse

minor isle
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Never watched him so i don’t understand this

buoyant scroll
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it's a joke about Bloodborne

minor isle
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Hmmm

buoyant scroll
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there's dungeons you go into to grind stuff, and they have different internal ids

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that one is a meme

verbal lintel
# minor isle Reference to jacksepticeyes’s style of videos?

-# Context of joke ||There are like (4.8 quadrillion^google) randomized side dungeons in bloodborne. Each one can be entered by slapping random letters together.||
-# ||One code, cummmfpk, was discovered one day by a silly little dude. Suddenly upon entering the dungeon 300 enemies just fall off a cliff and die instantly, as if the ground they are supposed to be on just isn’t there, and all the bloodecho points went to the player like they killed them.||
-# ||The silly dude shared this with everyone on internet, and every bloodborne player uses it as a “optional cheat” if you don’t want to farm blood echos legitimately||

minor isle
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Ah

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That name sounds so

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Internet memey lmao

verbal lintel
cold sequoia
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Oh, apparently Sony isnt animating the movie

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They are just distributing it, this is the company behind the movie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyrical_Media

Lyrical Media

Lyrical Media is an American independent film production company. The company is best known for producing films Bruiser (2022), How to Blow Up a Pipeline (2022), and Mother, Couch (2023).

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Theyve never done an animated movie

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And are also currently working on a Death Stranding animated movie

topaz oyster
dusk hound
buoyant scroll
dusky flint
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im glad there self aware

dusk hound
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Missed opportunity to announce this on 4/20 btw

velvet oriole
crystal brook
velvet oriole
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Ooc?

crystal brook
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Started watching Jet Lag recently and despite it kind of being their flagship, I think Hide and Seek is the worst game they play of the ones ive watched LUL

crystal brook
velvet oriole
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I like hide and seek the most. LUL

crystal brook
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Haha fair

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For me it feels a bit repetitive, like the seekers kind of do mostly the same thing each round

velvet oriole
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I like a place being showcased and not a single challenge, you feel like you get to know it more.

crystal brook
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Ive watched the UK and Japan hide and seek games

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I think kind of a major issue is that it would be more interesting if they made more mistakes but theyre pretty good at the game 😅

velvet oriole
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It makes me feel involved and try to guess where they are...

crystal brook
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so they just sort of zero in on the hider each time

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using generally the same questions

velvet oriole
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They've messed up sometimes though.

crystal brook
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I did enjoy the Japan one much more than the UK too

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Japan I think had a lot more train lines

velvet oriole
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Hide and seek Switzerland was my favorite.

crystal brook
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Especially local train lines

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Which helped them to start making mistakes

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Whereas here in the UK we dont really have local trainlines

velvet oriole
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Better than the US, I feel jealous watching any public transportation videos. wwhw

tight dove
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i still think new zealand is the best season theyve ever done

velvet oriole
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No talk. 🙊

crystal brook
velvet oriole
crystal brook
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Now

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Does anyone ever actually check, i think thats up for debate LUL

velvet oriole
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So is it actually cheaper or something?

crystal brook
crystal brook
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If you were just taking a couple of train journeys probably not but definitely for going to several cities on a trip

velvet oriole
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You would think brits would get the cheaper fare. wtf

crystal brook
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Train tickets are so expensive

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Apparently citizens have a thing called the all line rover that ive never heard of before

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But individual tickets are so killer here

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Theres a young adults railcard that gets you 33% off any train but theyre still expensive

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That railpass costs you £30 a year but if you take trains even just a few times youll pay it off for sure

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According to trainline the britrail pass for foreigners is £258 for 8 days, and according to national rail, the all line rover for residents is £625 for 7 days LUL @velvet oriole

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I wonder if the government subsidizes the the britrail pass to attract tourists

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Because if not, thats a stupidly insane difference

velvet oriole
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That hurts.

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At least makes me want to go vacation there hoping onto trains. sylheart

cold sequoia
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yeah that's a good tourism ad for the uk thank you lloyd

crystal brook
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Haha

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Definitely come here over the spring and summer, as a people we can be pretty doom and gloom but it is absolutely beautiful here if you get out into the small towns and villages and the countryside beyond them

frank quail
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oh I didn't read further down

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still, that's a storming insane price

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I could go Gatwick to Edinburgh and back for "only" £200
the hell do you need to do to make that worth while

dusky flint
crystal brook
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Trains are usually good for me

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But the trains out of my town end up in London

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I dont generally have issues

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Like after watching jet lag, essentially every single time they step in a German train station, its a worse experience than ive ever had in the UK LUL

turbid narwhal
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I’ve been having a good streak recently with tfl so I’m not going to say anything to jinx that right now

dusk hound
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Ultimate plot twist: Adria Arjona is playing Lana Lang in Man of Tomorrow /s

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wet quest
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I Love Boosters def best movie ever

west escarp
dusky flint
buoyant scroll
heavy anchor
hushed moss
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I am glad he found Spaceballs: The Money

heavy anchor
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I like how it's just a pile of loose cash

west escarp
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I suppose that’s an acceptable title if they can’t go with The Search for More Money

west escarp
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My parents are now denying having seen and enjoyed Spaceballs. A film they got from blockbuster just to watch with the whole family

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????

cobalt onyx
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I think they just want to rewatch Spaceballs with you

lucid haven
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just finished s3e3 for all mankind || i honestly cant wait to see what happens with this race to mars, the series is just again like i said before giving me so much hope about everything in our future. I can see a future in my lifetime where we will have a moonbase and humans on mars. I also just am so excited to see how the race gets spicy ||

naive mica
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I know nothing about Street Fighter, but this looks (highly) silly and fun.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xt4X4FvXk2A

YouTube
Paramount Pictures
Street Fighter | Official Trailer (2026 Movie)

FIGHT! Watch the Official Trailer for #StreetFighterMovie, hitting theaters everywhere October 16.

Set in 1993, estranged Street Fighters Ryu (Andrew Koji) and Ken Masters (Noah Centineo) are thrown back into combat when the mysterious Chun-Li (Callina Liang) recruits them for the next World Warrior Tournament: a brutal clash of fists, fa...

▶ Play video
tawdry snow
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The Boys S5E3 ~14 minutes in: ||So this is Hughie's reckoning episode. Got it||

frank quail
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it was very silly (kind of lowly)

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agreed that the movie looks great though

spring barn
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Seated for

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minor isle
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Don't think you'd enjoy these type of movies

spring barn
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Why wouldn't I lol

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Also 9/10 absolutely floored

minor isle
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You seem to have widely different taste between books and movies

spring barn
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Has some insensitivities but otherwise near perfect action adventure

spring barn
minor isle
spring barn
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I'm much more open to things for movies

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Since it's a much lower time sink

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Books I have a very specific taste in

minor isle
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Fair

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Watched any IpMan movies yet?

spring barn
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But Before Sunrise is a top 10 for me

spring barn
minor isle
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That trilogy

cobalt onyx
# frank quail it was very silly (kind of lowly)

Yeah, from what I vaguely remember, the TGA bit felt like they were told they had <number> minutes of stage time, assumed that'd include trailer/reveal runtime when it didn't, and they may have been enjoying the festivities.

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This trailer looks like they know they're the spiritual successor to a cult classic "Bad Movie", so they're showing off the increased budget and doubling down on the campiness. They aren't trying to make the characters feel like real people, because they aren't

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I think unless they mess something up badly, it'll be a great background noise movie

red nacelle
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Toon Turf pilot || RIP Billy I was not expecting such a horrifying death 😭💔||

dusky flint
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I guess this will be our m etal gear solid movie bc this is just The pain from mgs3 smh

cosmic dock
spring barn
dusky flint
fair dirge
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Could there be a trailer?

wraith sand
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Is Project Hail Mary any good? I’m thinking of going to see it this weekend.

midnight compass
cold sequoia
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Its worth seeing in theaters

frail mulch
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biggest screen you can possibly get

dusky flint
fair dirge
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Is this to counteract the IMAX screens of Dune?

topaz oyster
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I doubt Dune has anything to do with it

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They aren't rolling out a whole new format just for Dune

spring barn
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Hell didn't they change the premier of Doomsday

gray orbit
cold sequoia
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Is this even making new tech?

gray orbit
crystal brook
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Its because imax has been super popular in the 2020s so they need their own imax related product based around that

topaz oyster
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I'm sure they're watching Dune, that isn't what I'm saying, I'm saying this is too bit to just be about Dune

gray orbit
cold sequoia
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Based on the tweet its just a list of theaters that meet certain specs

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How is this related to imax?

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I imagine some or most of the theaters on this list will have imax support

crystal brook
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The big idea will be to have Infinity Vision cinemas down the line

fair dirge
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Omg

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Trailer is coming and the descriptions are already coming out

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I don't know if this is accurate but the marketing for this movie I'm sure they're paying a total of a billion dollars or something close

fair dirge
naive mica
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Even if it's not a total flop, which I doubt it would be, that says they're basically banking on it making as much as Endgame.

fair dirge
cosmic dock
fair dirge
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It was several years of construction, now they are trying to replicate that by saying that it is the continuation of those years and a few more

distant birch
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I don't think the mcu is in the right place to achieve another endgame moment

cosmic dock
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I'm not trying to say it was luck, it was the capstone of different factors and years of trust that they don't have anymore

fair dirge
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They're really throwing everything away for this movie

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And reading the descriptions of the trailer and the statements they just gave

distant birch
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hasn't it been like multiple years since endgame

fair dirge
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What they're trying to do is convince people that they shouldn't see what happened after the endgame, or at least not all of it

distant birch
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(In world)

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Definitely seems like they're marketing this as a sequel to endgame (with a few little new things)

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Rather than a proper culmination of everything since endgame

placid river
fair dirge
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I guess they're trying to make something like the Cosmere? Like a WaT?

placid river
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Wild how this take stays around despite being completely wrong

distant birch
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They might be in the movie but aside from the chair live stream I don't think Marvel has really promoted them being in the movie or the movie being about them or that you should see the movie for them

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A lot of the promotion has been like... centered on the leads of endgame, about how it follows up endgame

fair dirge
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Uff, I want to see the trailer

placid river
fair dirge
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They have shown it and have not taken a photo despite it being allowed

distant birch
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If there had been a trailer for the [mcu] ||new avengers|| in the set of trailers I wouldn't be saying this

distant birch
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When/if we get it

placid river
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And there was a trailer dedicated to Shuri as BP, Namor, and the Fantastic Four

fair dirge
placid river
distant birch
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Eh. One of those characters was around pre-endgame and another came from their most standalone movie yet

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But i haven't seen the full proper official trailer so I might change my mind there

fair dirge
# placid river ????

Maybe they're running it like a Stormlight Archive, showing references, but certain things important to the plot are the original Avengers we already know

placid river
cosmic dock
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I do think that if post-endgame hadn't been such a flop, then they wouldn't rely on the old avengers so much for marketing this

fair dirge
placid river
fair dirge
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And it has worked for them because they have managed to get my family interested in the film

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And my family is over 50 LUL

spring barn
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The only post Endgame movie I like is the one with zero followup lol

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Hell that one's straight up fav MCU movie

fair dirge
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Yep, like I said, they're trying to convince us that it's a good movie, not just fan service

spring barn
topaz oyster
turbid narwhal
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The jacket is green for a reason

fair dirge
fair dirge
topaz oyster
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They seem extremely aware that a huge chunk of their audience has fallen off the wagon, though I'm not sure I think they've identified why correctly

fair dirge
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They're not going to release the trailer, are they?😭

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They've shown the trailer twice, it's impossible that someone didn't record it

muted solar
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The fact that doomsday has had multiple trailers already and meanwhile the adult Aang movie…

cosmic dock
turbid narwhal
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The most interesting thing I’ve learned from this event is that they’re still making Ice age movies

muted solar
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I just saw that paramount released a trailer for the live action street fighter

fair dirge
muted solar
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I have 0 doubt in my mind that the adult Aang movie if put in theaters would make more money than the live action street fighter movie

topaz oyster
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Hmmm

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Not sure I agree

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The ATLA movie is for like

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Some millennials

cobalt onyx
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As someone that loves animation, people consistently underestimate the Western stigma towards cartoons

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While the Street Fighter movie has punching, kicking, and swearing, so it's clearly mature and for adults

muted solar
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I feel like if demon slayer can make 130 million in the west, avatar could easily make far more than that

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Idk I feel like a street fighter movie is still more niche despite the LA vs animation aspect

crystal brook
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Atla is super popular within a niche adult audience, its not particularly huge outside of that

topaz oyster
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Street Figher looks awful and I think it will make a killing

cobalt onyx
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Street Fighter looks like an amazing crempost of a movie

topaz oyster
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Yeah it looks like the right kind of bad

spring barn
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Yeah ATLA has a ton of street cred for millennials but I really haven't seen it be anywhere near as big for gen Z

crystal brook
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Depends which end of gen z youre talking

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Its popular for VCR Gen Z

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Less known in ipad kid gen z circles

spring barn
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I'm 2005 and idk a single ATLA fan irl

topaz oyster
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Even for VCR gen Z they didn't watch it as children

spring barn
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Including myself

topaz oyster
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ATLA did poorly among children even when it was new. Its audience was primarily older teenagers

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Who were not buying toys

crystal brook
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I was 20 lol

muted solar
muted solar
topaz oyster
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Doing poorly with children is the root of all Avatar's problems

crystal brook
topaz oyster
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They couldn't sell toys and Nickelodeon never figured out an alternative monetization scheme that made sense and worked

cobalt onyx
spring barn
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I think my fav show growing up was Transformers Prime

cobalt onyx
topaz oyster
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That would probably have helped but even so nothing sells quite like kids' toys

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Which is what Nickelodeon's primary business really is

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Gotta get them started on microplastics early

cobalt onyx
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(It also doesn't help that the other times there have been Avatar movies or revivals, it doesn't seem to have worked out)

topaz oyster
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Or, at the risk of triggering a Cosmic Crashout, spiritual successors

keen flax
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glances at that 2010 movie 👀

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Wha- I was gonna behave! 😝

topaz oyster
cobalt onyx
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While for Street Fighter, Video Game movies are apparently working now, and SF games have been successful enough for long enough that they released a new mainline title a few years ago

muted solar
cobalt onyx
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To the businessman, it doesn't matter who's fault a property's failure is, just that it's consistent

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It's low-key remarkable that the new movie exists at all

muted solar
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I mean the show did fantastic on Netflix

topaz oyster
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Or the Netflix show, honestly

muted solar
topaz oyster
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I'm not nearly as down on the live action Netflix show as I think most are, but it wasn't great either

muted solar
cobalt onyx
topaz oyster
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(My TLDR on the Netflix live action is that most of its sins are just amplifications of the original show's sins, which are very plentiful in s1 which is nearly bad)

muted solar
keen flax
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I... dont really know how to feel about more ATLA stuff tbh. Like my inner child me is like "yipee gimmie gimme" but deep down I know they are NOT catching the lightning in the bottle again.... and lord have they tried 💀

naive mica
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I haven't watched the live action show (I probably will at some point), but from what I read of the synopsis on Wikipedia, it sounds like they missed several key points of the animated show.

keen flax
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So like im still hyped for the movie and seven Havens, but... mmm

muted solar
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I'm a simple man. If you slap Avatar on it, I'm going to enjoy myself

muted solar
crystal brook
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I mean its still 6 months away

muted solar
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The thing that's wild to me is that Paramount ordered 2 seasons of Seven Havens and supposedly they have internally greenlit another 2 seasons.

So you have that, yet they have this movie 6 years in the making. Meant to be a one-two punch between that and Seven Havens to kick off the start of establishing Avatar as a more relevant modern IP.

And then you pull said movie from theaters. A movie that would be incredible to see in IMAX - I say as someone who has watched a total of one IMAX movie and would have paid to see it in IMAX multiple times. Said movie that sees a few leaked clips generate something like 29 million views on twitter on one post in a matter of like 8 hours?

Like... you form Avatar Studios and write them a blank check. You give them the time to ramp up on a bunch of projects. And then you just pull the rug out from underneath it all? While simultaneously still greenlighting more?

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Their strategy really makes no sense

crystal brook
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Id expect a trailer soonish but its not surprising there isnt one yet

muted solar
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They had some merch leak on target a few weeks ago, which was the first actual look since the one still from cinemacon or comiccon or whatever a few years back - which wasn't supposed to be released to the press either, but was leaked

keen flax
muted solar
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I really hope Seven Havens is good. Clearly even if it's bad, I'm going to like it. But I hope it's good

keen flax
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Aha yall thought i was gonna bring up korra again huh 🥴

crystal brook
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Is it an imax film?

muted solar
# crystal brook Is it an imax film?

Actually I have 0 clue. I've historically ignored IMAX. I've only seen PHM in IMAX, and I wouldn't go pay IMAX prices for a movie save for like... Avatar and Spiderverse

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Don't some movies release in IMAX even if they weren't shot on IMAX cameras or made specifically for IMAX?

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Like I feel like people make a big deal out of it when movies are actually shot on IMAX cameras

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And obviously ik this is animated so it's different

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But point still stands @ non-imax media still airing in imax theaters

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Maybe I'm just super dumb but I just thought IMAX was basically like a higher quality image and then like if you did the IMAX cameras there's an aspect ratio factor

cobalt onyx
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It looks like IMAX cameras have specific technical specs?

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So aspect ratio is part of it, but there's more to it than that

muted solar
cobalt onyx
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There is a specific aspect ratio (or two?), and the projectors apparently just outright work differently?

muted solar
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I am very excited to watch it in 4K on my LG OLED

spring barn
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If letterboxd considers a film just in the Chinese language, does it mean Mandarin?

cobalt onyx
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Like the film moves horizontally instead of vertically, for non-digital formats

muted solar
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Gotcha, interesting

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Regardless, I would have paid and still would pay to see the movie at full price multiple times in theaters

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I imagine it'll be obvious why once they drop a trailer, should they ever decide to do so

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Also as I look at news coverage on the leak, it's wild how often I'm seeing it covered with the wrong name

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Which of course is understandable

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Who the hell thought Avatar Aang The Last Airbender was a good name

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Or that The Legend of Aang The Last Airbender (the old name) was a good name

verbal lintel
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Invincible S4E7
||>everybody who saw episode 6: Who the hell is this ‘Thragg’??? This weak sauce nobody can’t be Thragg. Thragg in the comics is THE GRIM [BLEEP]ING REAPER. Put this show ‘Thragg’ on Fraud Watch….||
||everybody after seeing This shot in episode 7: Ah good, Show Thragg passes the Fraud Watch. There’s THE GRIM [BLEEP]ING REAPER we all love❤️ ||

empty locust
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when I first watched lucifer I thought figures like amenadiel were real figures from the bible

keen flax
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||he just aura farmed for like the first 30 minutes ngl 🤣||

fair dirge
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question, this could happen?

feral flower
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That Pitt episode was intense
I would’ve made a stronger drink if I knew I was gonna see a damn ||caesarean section||.

west escarp
molten jetty
silver oyster
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I'm... honestly not a fan of the direction S2 of the Pitt took. Too much drama for my taste

agile drift
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I generally liked it, but I do feel some characters had more interesting stuff going on than others, and balancing them all wasn't optimal

gritty sierra
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just finished the pitt

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whewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

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veryyyyyyy a lot. i'm already like. gimme s3, i need to know where these people go from here 😭

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the pitt s2 final episode post credits is kind of what i needed lmao

frail mulch
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Re: earlier discourse- I'm so curious how MCU will incorporate the X-Men, especially with so many original actors (as much as I love Alan Cumming, I recognize he is not as spry as he was in 2003)

But also, I loved the fox-men movies even though they weren't good. Like bestie and I genuinely had a GREAT time during the apocalypse movie with Oscar Isaac as big blue

silver oyster
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the pitt s2 ||The season focused too much on Robby, and not enough focus on McKay and Samira, imo. A lot of the latter half of the season was the same conversation on repeat. Patient and medical stories fell behind because the season had to make room for "Robby wants to kill himself" story.||

frail mulch
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The comics have silliness to a degree so it was always going to be a fool's errand to make them Very Serious

muted solar
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Oh no

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The Pitt s2 is complete now?

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We’ll see if I can slot the season in this weekend.

dusky flint
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ITS OVER

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ITS SO OVERRR

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NO ||TAILS||

placid river
dusky flint
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like he was in the last 2 movies

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and this is going to be a horrible CD adaptation

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because adapting CD is an inherently stupid idea

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distant birch
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Oooh I think a movie I've been looking forward to is out now 👀

keen flax
ripe stag
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One for the Nootwatcher, I feel.
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turbid narwhal
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Should be a fun time

delicate sentinel
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Lucky, I would go if I was on that side of the Atlantic. Hopefully it shows some other places.

dusk hound
buoyant scroll
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I wonder if they'll update Static's cultural tone to be more Gen X or Alpha

west escarp
muted solar
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Static Shock movie!? 👀

west escarp
keen flax
verbal lintel
azure fern
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been a while since I watched that... about time to get hyped again

cobalt onyx
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I'm pretty sure that's a different perfect parry

azure fern
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oh, yeah, that's the one I was thinking about

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that video is so much hype

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I have a playlist of hype videos to watch at least once a year...haven't watched any this year yet

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well, technically I "watched" one LUL . It's the ride of the Rohirrim in RotK...which I watched the whole movie last night hehe

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uh... playlist started as hype videos, but I started adding some other stuff to it it seems xD
there's some uh ... videos I think are very funny in it as well lol

wet quest
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Jetlag S17 E5
||It's kinda crazy just how many challenges are being generated in the northern stations. Makes me wonder how the generation is determined||

burnt shale
lone canyon
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Korra fans stay losing I guess 😭 😭 😭

keen flax
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I am astonished and interested that they went this way

acoustic pewter
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As a Korra fan, I appreciate seeing that Korra's actions have consequences like that, because that kind of fits her character. TLoK general ||She's the type of Avatar to make significantly world-altering decisions that a lot of people won't like. She's already a publicly controversial figure in her own show.||

placid river
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ATLA General ||pretty much every Avatar has had to clean up the previous one’s mess, comes with the job||

burnt shale
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||While true the complete collapse of human civilization back to 7 cities is insane ||seven havens general

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Like their gonna need to do serious convincing on that one

muted solar
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I am pretty sure based on other leaks and rumors there’s a decent explanation

lucid haven
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im not going to judge seven havens at all untill i see it

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just so much negativity around it and we have seen almost literally nothing about it

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Korra all || Mabey its a vatu thing with his avatar and kora gets blamed or something ||

west escarp
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If James Gunn doesn’t include this, he’s a coward

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frank quail
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I thought seven havens was the movie that leaked?

crystal brook
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seven havens is the upcoming post korra series

buoyant scroll
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The movie that leaked is called something like, Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender

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Previously called The Legend of Aang

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All the work they have to do to tiptoe around the ways they can use the word Avatar in their titles now because of James Cameron is so stupid

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terse crystal
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I can see it for October

lucid haven
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its still called the legend of aang

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cobalt onyx
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It's not that they need to tiptoe around it (they existed in the media landscape first, if there's a legal problem with the name, it's James Cameron's problem, not theirs), but that it's a marketing exec's nightmare for someone to buy your not-a-knockoff product thinking it's something else.

frank quail
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I was literally warning someone about the leak the other day, and they said "oh I haven't seen the first or second sequel yet"

acoustic pewter
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The Avatar (movie) sequels being named after The Elements™ doesn't help things 😛

frank quail
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||I can't believe the fire nation attacked shacked up with the enemy|| (blue avatar 3)

buoyant scroll
buoyant scroll
cobalt onyx
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Specifically for the Live Action movie he might've because Live Action and Animated could be perceived as sufficiently different, but the comparable case that springs to mind is Apple Corps (the owner of the Beatles' record label) vs Apple Computer, which was repeatedly won by Apple Corps until Apple Computer ended up buying all of Apple Corps' trademarks

frank quail
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JC already had the trademark at least a year before ATLA (and 5 years before the release of Avatar 1)

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which is literally why it's "Avatar: The Last Airbender" and not "Avatar"

cobalt onyx
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Huh, turns out the gap between the start of developing Avatar and its release is longer than the gap between Avatar and Avatar 2

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(The first treatment was written in '94)

frank quail
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"at least a year" doing some heavy lifting LUL

dusk hound
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A fan met Kyle Chandler at a baseball game

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And one of things Kyle Chandler said was “keep the squirrel thing at the end of the trailer in mind”

west escarp
dusk hound
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Hal apparently wears a mask too

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cobalt onyx
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I mean, it's a pretty good reason. "Avatar" has a specific religious meaning.

verbal lintel
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There is mountains upon mountains of ancient concept art

lone canyon
cobalt onyx
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Seven Havens general ||TBF, the most unbelievable thing about there being seven safe haven cities is that this means a whole new city was created and rose to extreme prominence during Korra's life||

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Korra all, Seven Havens general ||Maybe two, I feel like I remember there being a general vibe that Republic City was on the verge of abandonment...||

dusk hound
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Don’t know if these were posted yet but

dusky flint
dusk hound
fair dirge
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😔

dusk hound
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Leaking and scoopers have really ruined a lot of the movie going experience

west escarp
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Ok that’s a little funny

cobalt onyx
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"Clips"

spring barn
cobalt onyx
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I feel like they're talking to the wrong leaker

lone canyon
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It’s genuinely pretty funny 😭 😭

oak ivy
burnt shale
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I could not disagree more

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||Simply from a logic prospective the era of peace should see the adoption of fire nation technologies || avatar all

lone canyon
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||the communist - anarchist - fascist theme was very 1920s||

burnt shale
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||I think if they had more time I think season 2 would have had more utopians fundamentalists that would have meshed well with s2 || Korra all

oak ivy
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||like there are more themes about technology and political instability in ATLA than korra lmao||

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||so at that point why advance the world in such a way then have to backtrack bc you dont want modern tech avatar||

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||they sort of mess with this with airbenders returning in s3 and tenzin’s arc but it doesnt really get off the ground||

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Korra all ||it just feels like the safest decision at every point. Also the social instability isnt really present until until the earth queen gets killed. Amon’s goals were so strange and orthogonal to tech progress or notions of class||

dusky flint
dusk hound
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Hes amazing you could say

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Spectacular even

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dusk hound
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I want Spider-Man to go back to having 4 ongoing titles like the 80s and 90s smh

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There’s like a .5% chance one of the titles could be good

topaz oyster
cobalt onyx
west escarp
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The muppets in 2009 really captured the feeling of 2020 zoom calls

dusky flint
muted solar
muted solar
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That said, most online stuff is still using the old Legend of Aang name, which I think speaks volumes. This movie has just been repeatedly sabatoged and mis-handled

topaz oyster
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||Even the non-boxing boxing arc (which is only like two episodes but feels like half the season because its so poorly paced and placed and punctuated by the horrendous romance arc) is there in no small part to position Korra as an ostensible natural ally of the lower class movement even though she feels obligated to side against them, because terrorism||

burnt shale
topaz oyster
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Korra ||I actually think the series somewhat recovers from this problem||

burnt shale
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Oh it does but it’s a dig at rwby and every other Korra knock off

topaz oyster
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||Season 2, the villain (whose name I can't even remember) is relatively up front about his intentions. Season 3 isn't really a social movement so much as a cult movement, and Zaheer goes hard in the paint on living up to his stated beliefs. Kuvira is a populist-turned-fascist, and she also just straight does what she says she's going to do||

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Oh I have bare minimum RWBY experience

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What little I saw of it I wouldn't even have called a Korra clone I guess lmao

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A bad attempt at anime, maybe

dusk hound
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RWBY is like

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Idk how to describe it

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It’s like if the creative writing project you made in 8th grade was turned into a full fledged production

topaz oyster
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Yeah that was the vibe I got lmao

burnt shale
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You wouldn’t immediately clock

topaz oyster
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I'll take your word for it

burnt shale
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||The scene where they show up at the evil guys rally is probably the most on the nose korra moment || rwby and korra

topaz oyster
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I'm not sure I even got that far

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I think I watched like a season and a half and I don't remember that anything actually happened

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Is that show still going somehow?

burnt shale
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Huh

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That should be in s1 but I didn’t watch the anime

placid river
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It’s been a while since I’ve seen RWBY but I don’t think it’s really a Korra clone. I think they both just have tropes that are fairly common in the genre

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anyway I watched PHM and it was great

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PHM ||really enjoyed watching Grace and Rocky bond. The early struggles they had communicating were really interesting (although I feel like they skimmed over some stuff to get to the point where they could just talk properly). Film had a somewhat optimistic take on human cooperation but you know what, maybe that's what we need right now||

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||now that both Earth and Erid are safe, the implications of the astrophage on both societies could be interesting to explore. Surely they'll send people to each other's planet soon enough||

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||actually now that I think about it there's a lot to explore with Erid's culture, which we don't actually know that much about even by the end. Do they have multiple societies, a geopolitical system, etc?||

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also Daniel Pemberton cooked on the soundtrack

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placid river
buoyant scroll
# topaz oyster Is that show still going somehow?

Vol 10 is in...pre-production? Not sure what the specific stage is. Viz bought it up and has been working to get it back on streaming services and has released the previous volumes on new blu-rays

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topaz oyster
# buoyant scroll -# You shouldn't.

I'll be honest, that was supposed to be a polite skepticisim "I'll take your word for it", not a "I will take this as fact and incorporate it into my understanding of RWBY henceforth"

buoyant scroll
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xD

topaz oyster
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I kind of am baffled by the idea of calling anything a "Korra clone" if for no other reason than Korra didn't do very well, and didn't do a ton that was fundamentally original to be a point you could trace things to

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You clone successful things, not Korra

buoyant scroll
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I'm curious what the other shows are supposed to be
Like, I guess maybe Voltron, but I wouldn't call that a clone so much as inherited style/inspiration

oak ivy
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I dont think korra proved to be that influential, in part bc kids animation just went in a different direction

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Also the aforementioned problem of it being unclear what you should take inspiration from

buoyant scroll
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RWBY ||to be clear there is a social movement/terrorist thing that i'll freely admit is not handled well...but it's very different from the Equalists and like, the main villain of that group is definitely not an Amon-like.
the aforementioned rally scene might be inspired, but that's like...where the similarities end||

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||also is the rally scene in korra that iconic?||

topaz oyster
buoyant scroll
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||Like it's fun but i've seen rally scenes in other places before Korra existed||

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merry heath
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The Pit S1 9am ||Really liking this show so far, characters have a lot of depth, really liking Dr Robb so far||

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||it also means Korra doesn’t have to grow or learn from Amon||

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# oak ivy ||also is the rally scene in korra that iconic?||

That was the moment that hooked me onto the show more than anything else. Korra S1 E3 ||Amon rising onto the stage to thunderous applause, giving us our first view of him while his sinister theme blares around you was aura. Especially the way his looking up was timed to the beat of the music. I thought it was iconic.||

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||its a good scene but idk if you say the rally scene to a random korra fan they would know immediately what you are referring to||

dusk hound
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On this day in 1938, Superman made his first ever appearance in Action Comics #1! Happy anniversary to the Man of Steel, the Man of Tomorrow, and the world’s greatest superhero!

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# merry heath Also ||Mel my belov||

|| Just an amazing person in general. My standouts from the first episodes were also her and Whitaker from the newbies. I don't remember who stuck out to me among the adults. (Can't say Robby, that feels like cheating)||

topaz oyster
dusk hound
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Wonder who he could be playing

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Either way, great actor and I’m glad he’s in it

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topaz oyster
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I've always wondered if Bart Edwards (Witcher TV show Emhyr) knew that Charles Dance had also played Emhyr in the video game

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Big shoes to fill even if Dance has like all of thirty lines in Witcher 3

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topaz oyster
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I know it got around Hollywood that Denise Gough had done the work for Yennifer, I remember seeing an interview where Ben Mendelsohn asked her about it unprompted

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It is a weird headspace to be in for Witcher 3 to be one of the best selling video games out there and also to simultaneously find myself surprised that Ben Mendelsohn knows anything about an at the time decade old video game that wasn't like Mario or Fortnite or what have you

agile drift
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He's a pretty big gamer i think, I remember him talking about enjoying soulslike games or something like that

wraith sand
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Project Hail Mary was absolutely fantastic.

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Some of the science seemed a bit... Rocky though. xD

cosmic dock
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An opportunity for a dad joke. lol.

burnt shale
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I heard multiple gasps during the ||centrifuge|| scene during my theatre experience

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Phm all

wraith sand
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People were crying in a few of the later scenes

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Also, can I just point out how absolutely S-tier the musical score in this movie was? I mean, holy crap!

agile drift
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Daniel pemberton is amazing

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Y'all are getting me all the more excited for seeing this on Tuesday. Nothing sells me on a piece of media more than knowing it's got an amazing soundtrack.

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Seriously, the main reason I even wanted to see Spirited Away in the first place was because I heard its soundtrack and fell in love with it (I never watch anime and I'd never seen Studio Ghibli before then).

keen flax
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Oh spirited away is perfect wwhw

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“Time to go Fishing” hits so hard.

wraith sand
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I can't get "Sign of the Times" out of my head

agile drift
# hushed moss “Time to go Fishing” hits so hard.

This has been on repeat for me. Also this cover of it
https://youtu.be/hRQedDY4y20

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dusk hound
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Powerscaling doctors is a new one

burnt shale
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I mean one of the latest series in jump is a shounen battle with doctors

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So uh not unheard of

dusk hound
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What

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I need to see this

burnt shale
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It’s pretty mid

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Under doctor

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I think it barely makes 20 chapters

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agile drift
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I'm not normally a see the same movie multiple times in theaters person but i'm really tempted to go see phm again

muted solar
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I think the only movie I saw twice in theaters was Alien Romulus

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Beyond the Spiderverse will be the next one for sure

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Unless Paramount decides to reverse its decision to pull the avatar Aang movie from theaters

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I’ll go 2 or 3 times for that one

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I think I saw Iron Man maybe 3 times. But had tickets to at least 4 showings. One of which we snuck into a rated R film instead.

frail mulch
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I saw CATS three times because I was taking different friend groups to go see it

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Watched the Mario galaxy movie. So many gosh darned references, I’m in shock.

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# merry heath I think i saw Dune 4 times

I saw Dune Part 2 four, maybe 5 times. On two occasions I had friends or family over to my house to watch Part 1 before going to see Part 2 since they hadn't seen either yet

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I fricken love Dune so much

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crystal brook
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Ooh theyre showing Akira in the cinema tonight

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Tempted to go

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Go go go go go

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muted solar
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I gotta give it to them, that will unfortunately very likely make a lot of money

west escarp
gray orbit
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Wait a minute

Is marvel just doing the Zach Snyder route of re-releases?

crimson kelp
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disney: the search for more money

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topaz oyster
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They're really betting the farm on this

runic pollen
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If there was movie drought then it would have obviously worked.

But people are already planning on using their time more carefully to watch other stuff in the time of that movie's release that other than some real die hard fans a double movie viewing would not make economic sense

cobalt onyx
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I'm not sure if Endgame has a long enough tail for this to make any sense. Like (at least in my mind) a big chunk of why Endgame worked as a movie was because it was an event.

minor isle
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ye

cobalt onyx
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And now that the event's come and gone, this just feels like a history lecture/more homework

minor isle
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MCU was on its high of building a interconnected movie universe leading to one singular event in real life and in the canon

muted solar
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Surely the money spent to add a few scenes will be a pittance compared to what it’ll make with all the people out there going out to theaters for the nostalgia

topaz oyster
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No the whole thing

muted solar
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Oh yeah doomsday is financially going to flop relative to what they want it to do

topaz oyster
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This is almost certainly getting budgeted as Doomsday marketing

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sacred slate
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Disney+ cannibalizes so much of their own market. It's notoriously hard to prove something actually increased revenue long term on a streaming service.

I haven't seen a Marvel film in theaters in years. Just wait for it to show up on D+.

I do have to wonder about the merchandising side where folks traditionally made much of their money. So hard to tell if that market is really anywhere close to where it once was.

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Goodness

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Talk about flashbacks to my childhood, this movie terrified me as a child

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But of course we are required to squeeze every ounce of nostalgia for as much money as possible

topaz oyster
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For what its worth, I think this might be the first winter where I didn't see some variation on the old "why is everyone saying 'during covid' like it isn't still happening" post

dusk hound
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distant birch
cold sequoia
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Very Brandon Sanderson of them

dusky flint
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Oh god

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making people watch endgame

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Some fates are far worse than deaht

distant birch
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Is endgame really that bad?

west escarp
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No

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It’s fine

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oak ivy
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Endgame is a great movie to have seen once

dire moss
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I saw endgame on opening weekend in a packed theatre and thats the optimal way to experience that movie

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An entire theatre losing their storming minds at ||Cap picking up the hammer|| and it made my nerd heart swell. No amount of future MCU troubles can take that away

oak ivy
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MCU sustained itself on being basically the only event entertainment left in the world

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issue is the writing fell out from underneath it which is what they needed to sustain a lower scale storytelling post endgame which would let them build up into doomsday

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but the scripts somehow got worse so now we are just doing the event thing again

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which may work honestly

merry heath
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I don't think ive been intrested in a marvel movie since the disappointment that was MoM

dusk hound
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Fantastic Four and Thunderbolts were great

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They’re definitely not back to prime form but it’s a step in the right direction

merry heath
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Oh I forgot about thunderbolt being marvel cause I liked it

dusk hound
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I think BND could be good but it does seem overstuffed to me

frail mulch
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Wonder Man was nice though it was more a meditation on art/acting

Also not a film as I realize that's what you're talking about mostly

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Like I enjoyed Deadpool & Wolverine but my friend who didn't keep up with any of the shows was entirely lost by the [D&W, Loki] ||TVA plot with variants||

west escarp
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Yeah that really dragged the film down. I had kept up with shows and it felt grafted on in a way that didn’t help the movie

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The same plot could’ve been accomplished with|| just a generic fear of what MCU retcons would do to his perfect life ||

keen flax
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Okay, I am back from PHM! An actual 10/10 book movie imo. (PHM movie + book) ||While the book does a lot more in depth explaining about the science, the movie does a way better job at bringing the emotion. I love the added in jokes and minor changes (Stratt with the karaoke, Rocky barging into the ship, and Carl were highlights. Along with Grace going onto Rocky's ship, it was utterly gorgeous). But this movie is the definition of changing/adding/deleting what is necessarry to expand on the expereience. In short, they understood the [redacted] out of the assignment. I do like the movie more, but that's only because I am character focused and I believe that that is done a lot better in the movie compared to the book. Don't even get me started on the cinemetography and the score!! Gooooodnesssss gracious the score is gonna be on blast for a minute, and that one shot where they capture the astrophage and everything is red because of the petrova lense? That shot made me feel sinners-level emotions. It actually took my breath away.||

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@lunar hinge for your reading pleasure 😂

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gritty sierra
keen flax
# lunar hinge Nice ||personally I enjoyed the book more i liked the more science aspects of it...

PHM book + Movie ||I can understand liking Stratt more in the books. There's a few flashbacks/characters she interacts with that are cut out for time (validly, the movie is already damn near 3 hrs long) that I do miss, but that one scene humanizing her with the karaoke does help her character imo. As for Rocky and Grace not feeling like scientists, that is also a result of just cutting a lot of those explinations out, which makes sense. But all of your points are valid for you to put the book over the movie. If you like one more than the other, I'd think your valid regardless~||

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phm both ||and even rereading the book right after the movie to get more of the science details straight again, i was surprised to find like. i didn't even care all that much? the movie got a LOT of science in, it just didn't do the thing where weir walks through EVERY detail with the vibe that he has to prove to the science bros in the audience that he did get the science right. but it's there in the movie! it's just what the audience actually needs to know||

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phm both ||and stratt was way crueler in the book, i forgot 😩 i enjoyed actually being able to see the weight of what she's doing, in the movie, and why she's the type who CAN bear what she's doing. that really shone through in the actor||

distant birch
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PHM movie/both? ||I've not read the book but tbh I think Stratt stands out to me as maybe more interesting than Grace?||

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||I wouldve liked to see more of her side of things but I think that might be something that just doesnt fit in the story that's being told||

gritty sierra
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phm both movie/book ||like being completely honest, in the book, a lot of the earth flashbacks have a lot of... weirdness?? that the movie smoothed out or ignored, and i'm relieved were cut. there are some neat scenes of how stratt was involved in decision making for not just the hail mary project but also a couple things on what they were doing to survive on earth, like, nuking antarctica to release OODLES of methane into the atmosphere to get about ten years of increased global warming, but i do understand why they weren't included, they were neat but not central to the hail mary project and grace's arc||

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phm both ||and the movie successfully made grace's role as second in command happen a lot more naturally, like with the fact that grace is only one of several hundred scientists that stratt is reaching out to and has a couple of wins by VERY unconventional thinking (hollywood Unconventional) that shows why stratt would be interested in keeping him around as her tertiary backup, instead of in the book where it's more than a little unbelievable that grace is the ONLY guy special enough for stratt to reach out to as her subject matter expert||

agile drift
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I'm only a little more than halfway through the book but I do like the movie more currently

low cliff
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hmm i wonder

cinder token
# low cliff

I put book as better but really they just do different things amazing. Book is for science and plot, movie is for emotions and characters/relationships. It's really apples to oranges imo

gritty sierra
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book watney and book grace are more just, unfortunately The Same Guy, which i'm fine with one my first go around? but moment to moment, the character voice is very very weak, and the science scenes in book are not a replacement

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they're interesting but i was surprised by how i didn't like phm the second time around

cinder token
silver oyster
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I'm a plot reader/viewer and media has to do a lot to make me feel lasting emotions for characters and character scenes. PHM the movie did next to nothing for me on the emotional front, where the book had a few heavy impacts
PHM book and movie all ||French climatologist person and the nuking of Antarctica hit me hard. Seeing a person unmake all they worked for with things they despise hit so hard. Grace and Rocky felt like one of the dozens human x creature friendships to me, in both the movie and the book||

gritty sierra
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phm book ||interesting, i didn't feel much of anything. i was more, "cool you're gonna be dead without this so..."||

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phm book + movie||I think part of the reason why I didn't care too strongly for leclerc's plight is that Grace didn't make me care. The scene literally ends with Leclerc crying and Grace just... watching him. No comfort, not even a response. There's so many moments and interactions he has with people in flashbacks that just don't have any emotional weight because Grace feels so detached from everyone save for Stratt. In the movie I think that is bridged a bit better (Such as adding photos to the other crew members sends offs and adding more scenes where they talk)||

minor isle
gritty sierra
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phm movie/book ||you landed on why i didn't care for book!grace on reread because like. he doesn't react to anything||

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||there are a couple things here and there but it's mostly, "here's the problem, but luckily, i thought of solution a"||

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on and on and on and on...

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PHM book/movie ||Which is exactly where I feel like the divide happens~ If you don't care for the emotions much and value the sciencey-textbooky parts, the book is for you! If you care more for connections and character, that's where the movie shines and that's why I like the movie more||

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phm book ||(and the odd things he reacts to in the earth flashbacks are so ... weird? out of pocket? sometimes he just comes off as a jerk)||

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phm movie v book ||whereas grace in the movie actually takes some of the stated (but not shown) characteristics of book grace and expanded on them. i believe ryland grace (as played by ryan gosling) is a huge awkward dork AND a very smart guy who has the chops to accomplish The Thing||

minor isle
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PHM book/movie || Having difficulty in the start compared to immediately getting to figuring stuff out already changes the character for.better ||

gritty sierra
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phm movie/book ||and no lie, the "reveal" in the book was meaningless to me. even on my first read, i didn't care whatsoever about the flashback that revealed grace is a big ol coward who had to be forced on board. i didn't understand why it was being played like a big deal, nor did i realize it was considered A Twist by many readers until later. the movie HAD this arc and even knowing it was coming, the flashback in the movie was pretty heart wrenching||

minor isle
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😭

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Err as in

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|| It was a twist? ||

distant birch
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PMH movie ||my experience with the twist was weird because I just had not considered any of that||

minor isle
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|| I don't think like any expectation of it being the opposite was set for it being a twist. It was a great reveal but not a twist at all ||

distant birch
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||Like, I hadn't thought about the fact that Grace probably thought he went voluntarily or the difference that would make. I assumed he went very reluctantly and so him being forced to was a reveal but didnt really change my understanding of the story (and I didnt realise it would change his so much)||

silver oyster
gritty sierra
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phm movie v book ||i didn't find him dumb at all||

minor isle
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It worked better

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|| not dumber but more human ||

distant birch
gritty sierra
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||but i'll take goof that elevates weir's attempts at snark over the weird detached book guy any day||

keen flax
silver oyster
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the range of human experience shrug

minor isle
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I don't like|| many smart guy portrayal or those type of character as protagonist || in general. Phm

gritty sierra
minor isle
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|| That vegan comment? ||

gritty sierra
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that one too

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phm movie v book ||the movie started off flashback grace in the classroom and like. wow. MUCH better move. and also the movie scene was way kinder about the kids than the book was. he was mean in his own head about his kids in the classroom sometimes and the vibe is like, "lol, kids are dumb, right?" and i was just like. and you expect me to believe this is a man soft for kids when he talks about missing them later???? WHIFFED characterization||

minor isle
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||The story needs him to be likeable for the latter stuff but the book tries to do otherwise ||

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PHM book + Movie ||I also appreciate that the movie cut the weirdly racist dude who was the head of the astrophage breeding across the sahara. I didn't like him at all and he felt like a weird talking piece I didn't agree with||

gritty sierra
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phm book/movie ||the movie dodged a LOT of weirdness like that. and idk how to feel about book dubois, if i'm overreacting or not||

keen flax
gritty sierra
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phm book/movie ||like i think the book tried too hard to make grace feel like The Normal Guy looking at the camera when surrounded by all these weird people picked up by the hail mary project, like the side characters in the book were just weir taking such a strong swing at making them all distinct by giving them One Gag. now that i've seen the movie for comparison, i don't think it works for the side characters in the book, and i don't think it works for grace||

gritty sierra
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but i was like, am i the only one? do other people think it's funny?

keen flax
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Phm both ||I also do not like that he dies. "The only black person dies in the end" is a trope I don't like even if it makes sense in this context||

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||Like yeah. We gotta get grace on the stupid space ship somehow but can we please find another way?||

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Okay my belated phm movie review is that ||I really liked it, I almost screamed when he said “scanning electron microscope”, and I thought that the overall plot and pacing was good but they had waaaaayyy too many random shots of space accompanied by dramatic music. Like it was so overdone and a bit silly||

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||I also feel like it could’ve been a bit more serious, I thought the twist with grace’s character was really good, but I feel like they could’ve gone harder on the grace - rocky competence porn? That said, them bumping into things in the lab was a mood||

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||also the scene where he opens something, realizes it might be air sensitive or dangerous and sticks it into the glovebox after opening it. Sadly relatable 😭 😭 😭 ||

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||overall really liked the science but they telegraphed the last minute plot twist with the bacteria eating the astrophage in the engines waaaay too hard||

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||rocky offering grace fuel followed by “astrophage eating bacteria” with 45 min to spare is waaaay too obvious pls||

dusky flint
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which was the main part cut out

dusky flint
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like i genuinely think its in bottom 5 movies of all time

frail mulch
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So my caveat is that I have a fondness for the FoX-Men movies in spite of (or maybe because of) how bad they are, so it did feel a little like a send off, especially the credits montage

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Absolutely incomprehensible on its own, admittedly

distant birch
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My gripe with all the Fox X-Men nostalgia/callbacks is that I started watching the MCU (and superhero movies generally) later, and so I not only have 0 nostalgia for all that, I have to go and watch a whole separate franchise to follow the current MCU as intended

dusky flint
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its an anti movie

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theres no movie

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just callback

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after callback

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over

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and over

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even less than your average MCU film

minor isle
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It's better to be unapologetically that than be like NWH and try to have a story which is undercut by the callback

dusky flint
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at least NWH has a story

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and isnt just corporate product

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for the sake of being a corporate product

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with even less substance

minor isle
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Deadpool and wolverine is like 100x more enjoyable than nwh for me

frail mulch
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Tbh I don't think I've watched any previous fantastic four and I still thought [DP &W] ||Chris Evans Human Torch was funny|| buuuuuut again that falls in "this movie is a stack of other IP cards"

dusky flint
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its better to have some then none at all

minor isle
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Better to have none than have some which doesnt work ans also undercut the callbacks

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In nwh, neither the story or callback works

dusky flint
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DPW is one of the few movies ive seen with no artistic value

frail mulch
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||"There's only ever gonna be one Blade" is also kinda funny but in a sad way||

minor isle
dusky flint
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the room is a better movie than dPW

minor isle
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I also was bombarded by emotions in the end credits

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The fox era bts clips

dusky flint
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Like the room says something which while definelty not being what tommy wiseau meant it definetly does say something about him

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what does DPW say

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or do

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with anything

placid river
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I also think the plot of DP&W is weak but by definition there is a story

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“It’s not a movie it’s an anti-movie” for a story you don’t like is an insane take imo

dusky flint
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anyway DPW top 3 worst movies of all time with one of the others also being a differnet ryan reynolds movie

frail mulch
# minor isle The fox era bts clips

Basically I watched all the X-Men films in theater with my high school bestie up until New Mutants (driving a couple hours to do so for apocalypse lol) so that montage + song choice had us both crying and texting each other

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I recognize that doesn't make DP+W good but I was the target emotional audience I suppose

placid river
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DP&W is weird for me because I don’t think the story is particularly good but it’s just so darned entertaining

dusky flint
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i think i fundamentally see movies and art in a different way than you people so im just going to leave

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because this is a conversation thats pointless

placid river
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I also feel like the level of enjoyment you get is not actually dependent on knowing every reference

frail mulch
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I think it has a silliness that sits better than say, the most recent Antman or Thor entries

placid river
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It’s hard to say for sure since this wasn’t my experience but I think it could be someone’s literal first Marvel movie and they’d still have a good time

frail mulch
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Quantumania suffered by leading to an aborted mega plotline and I think Love and Thunder just couldn't decide what it wanted to be tonally

dusky flint
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love and thunder at least had bales peformance

frail mulch
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He was SO GOOD and the rest of the movie didn't rise to meet it

minor isle
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it could be awe or amazements or the feeling of learning smth new or make me cry or happy or w/e

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Deadpool and Wolverine got strong emotional response from me

heavy anchor
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Love and thunder was such a mistake

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letting him do directing and writing was a mistake
Because it missed the balance that made ragnarok a great thor movie
Instead it took things that should have been genuinely serious and just, made fun of them. that rubbed me such the wrong way, and my entire family came out of the theaters deeply disappointed

west escarp
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I’m still mad at Ragnarok for wrecking the chances at a proper Planet Hulk movie

low cliff
# low cliff

huh nobody watched the movie first and liked the book more

muted solar
# minor isle || It was a twist? ||

PHM book and movie || I also didn’t really think of it as a big twist. To me the big twist was the reveal of Rocky. The being forced to go bit to me was kinda like “Damn, that sucks. But it was the right call and definitely makes sense given the context behind the situation.”

Iirc the movie kinda left out the fact that only a small subset of people were compatible with the solution for the trip? ||

muted solar
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muted solar
verbal lintel
west escarp
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“Til you’re 90” is probably the best joke in Deadpool 3 just because it’s accurate

molten jetty
wet quest
# low cliff

The movie and book are both good. If you want to read a book read the book, if you want to watch a movie watch the movie

gritty sierra
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I did think I was going to be in the first category until I reread the book RIGHT after the movie

keen flax
wet quest
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||I either skip or zone out during that scene in the book. It's so... creepy. It's one of those scenes where I'm always taken out of the story and I can't help but think, "I get you want this person to be a little odd but this is out of the realm of what a real human would do"||

muted solar
keen flax
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||and then that added layer of hypersexualizing the only black person in the whole story... I want to take DuBois and put him in another story where hes actually respected as a human 😒||

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||because conceptually he is so cool? You have this super intelligent and composed african american whos willing to sacrifice himself for humanity and you turn him into a joke :/||

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But thats Way more of a book issue

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PHM movie ||the movie made the correct choice in just removing lines because there was genuinely nothing to salvage||

merry heath
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The Pit S1 4pm ||Javadi acts like such a child, easily the worst dr in the pitt||

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||Ok well Santos might also be cause of how much she cant accept blame for her own actions||

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||Oh WHAT??!!!!||

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||SHE WAS RIGHT???!||

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||I now dont know who the worst Dr in the pit is||

runic pollen
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I chuckled at this random algo pull

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wait, the Autism one is also called "Lesbian Trauma RPG"? pack it up gang, I guess my algo has gone full Yuri on me

buoyant scroll
spring barn
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I read PHM before watching it and felt like I should've done it the other way around

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Gosling does make Grace a much nicer character but imo to the story's detriment

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Cause the book not only has ||darker plot beats by itself but Grace being a coward also added a lot more tension to decisions like would he save Rocky at the end or not||

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Meanwhile the movie is happy go lucky and borderline obnoxiously hopeful all the time

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It's a fun family watch ig but not much more to me

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Ig it would at least have been more memorable if I had seen it first but whenever I think of PHM I still default to the book

keen flax
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Yeah im surprised going in knowing what happened didnt kill the emotional bits for me, I was still a sobbing mess for half of it 😂

crystal brook
molten jetty
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Elden Ring’s lore is mmmmmm

winged mountain
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have they said anything about the premise of the movie? Are they trying to cover the present-day narrative of the game, or the backstory?

verbal lintel
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Either Jonathan Pryce is Gideon or DogPope, no other options possible

minor isle
dusk hound
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The logo 👀

dusk hound
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Better look

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wraith sand
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watches trailer for the new Mummy movie ... A few moments later "WTF did I just watch?!"

hushed moss
west escarp
midnight compass
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Brb sending this to GF

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Fwiw I'm no better, it will just be whatever my current flavor of brainrot is

west escarp
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There’s so much Star Trek and it’s so influential (and heavily ripped off), the thing probably is exactly like this one Star Trek episode

dusk hound
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From the official Clayface movie Instagram!

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buoyant scroll
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oh that gave me a fun idea for a movie

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series might work better

molten jetty
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Jason Isaacs feels very Zeon

keen flax
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hmm.

dusk hound
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And that’s honestly peak

molten jetty
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Do we think ||Sydney Sweeney or Noah Centineo will be Earthnoid / Spacenoid?||

dusk hound
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Having a love triangle would be a good way to get casual audiences on board

buoyant scroll
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loss of the focus on teens as the pilots is sads but 🤷‍♀️

dusk hound
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I feel like it’ll probably be a little about that too

molten jetty
dusk hound
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Who’s directing it?

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Ohhh wait

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Jim Mickle?

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That’s peak

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I loved Sweet Tooth

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Although Sweet Tooth did have the benefit of being based on an AMAZING comic

buoyant scroll
molten jetty
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Wonder if this will be UC or expanded universe

buoyant scroll
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I expect it's gonna be its own thing, but make reference to different popular stuff

molten jetty
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I’d imagine an alternate universe based heavily on UC would be the pick

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(Have Federation / Zeon whether by name or analogues)

oak ivy
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Cannot wrap my mind around sydney sweeney in a gundam movie

buoyant scroll
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Gonna be a goldmine for memes

molten jetty
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Noah Centineo tho…

buoyant scroll
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She's a good actress, just currently controversial

oak ivy
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Ive only seen her in white lotus

keen flax
oak ivy
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Sydney is one of the great characters of the modern age

cold sequoia
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I can't imagine it ends up as anything better than "Pacific Rim but worse"

west escarp
buoyant scroll
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god if she's a newtype the internet will not be able to shut up about it

oak ivy
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Odds of a topless scene in gundam just skyrocketed

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What a world we live in

buoyant scroll
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...

molten jetty
dusk hound
crystal brook
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Im surprised Netflix arent looking at this and looking at the current anime adaptation good will theyve built up, and let another service pick up the film

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Theyre not involved in producing it at all afaik but still, feels like if I were a netflix exec id be nervous about this

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Netflix will still get the blame if its horrible, despite them not being involved

crystal brook
topaz oyster
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Well, in good (and mostly unrelated) news, the lead writer of the Mass Effect show is saying he doesn't know where the non-gaming audiences quote came from and says the article caught him "off guard just as much as you"

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For what its worth, it did seem.... bizarre, that that was a thing that someone involved with the show would say. My guess is that some random producer/executive etc said it either to just gin up controversy/attention or to try and get some conversation back on some track and off one that producer/exec did not like

buoyant scroll
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that, is good, if honest

topaz oyster
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Rewrites have not been specifically denied but rewrites happen all the time and for all sorts of reasons, that alone is not necessarily a red flag. He cited NDAs as a reason for a lack of specificity

buoyant scroll
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-# Speaking of adaptations, was looking at clips of Love and Thunder and [Stormlight also] ||I really hope the Stormlight adaptation does Nightblood more justice than All-Black got, oof||

naive mica
buoyant scroll
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Hell sometimes it just happens cause they get a note back from the money or fx people that's like "uhhh, yeah that can't happen"

topaz oyster
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So what you're saying is the Destiny Ascension will be as big a nothingburger in the show as it is in the games

ivory night
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Game of thrones 3x6, but also… through season 6 || you know honestly Robb and Cat are both fools and Roose killing them and ending a losing war in good position is uh… fine. Enabling Ramsey on the other hand is uh less fine||

topaz oyster
ivory night
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Also thrones 3x6 and Hot D general || something that I think is missing a little is just putting great actors in a room together and letting them cook. ||

ivory night
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3x7 || oh yes Ygritte roads are bad… roads. You know the thing that is foundational for society||

verbal lintel
molten jetty
dusk hound
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https://fxtwitter.com/cosmic_marvel/status/2046279084439929257?s=20

Cosmic Marvel (@cosmic_marvel)

New reported details on the ‘X-MEN’ reboot film:
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︀︀• Will feature a coming-of-age story.
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︀︀• Wolverine will not be part of the lineup.
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︀︀• Will feature a younger cast that grows over time.
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︀︀• Lineup won’t be as big as the one in ‘X-Men ‘97’
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︀︀• The original 5 X-Men will be the main team, with 3 extra members.
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︀︀(via thecosmiccircus.com/alex-perez-april2026qa3-spider-man-visionquest-x-men/))

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So I’m imagining the original 5 plus Gambit, Rogue and Storm?

molten jetty
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Nice selection

dusk hound
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It’s already a W with no stinky Wolverine in it 🙏

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Which I think is a good thing

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Give Wolvie some solo projects first

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Although I don’t know how to feel about Angel possibly being included, I feel like you could easily replace him with Nightcrawler or something

molten jetty
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He’s always been there but never quite been given anything

minor isle
molten jetty
minor isle
molten jetty
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||can’t imagine not doing Storm tho||

minor isle
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It's nothing new for the franchise LUL

molten jetty
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Xmen ||maybe O5 + Storm, Nightcrawler, some other popular Xmen||

keen flax
molten jetty
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Would be insane 😔

buoyant scroll
molten jetty
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I’m curious how long it takes them to touch on the ||Magneto||-sized elephant in the room

buoyant scroll
molten jetty
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||Rogue absorbs Carol’s power pls||

buoyant scroll
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I'm just so damn curious what they decide to do with all of them in general

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Who was the original 5 again? ||Cyclops, Beast, Angel, Jean, Iceman?||

molten jetty
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Major difference is ||Beast was just a tanky guy originally||

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||not blue||

buoyant scroll
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||Jean originally being "Marvel Girl" is so funny||

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X-Men+BND ||If everyone's right that Jean is in this movie that's going to be...interesting...
...
What if Peter is one of the +3||

dusk hound
placid river
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To be clear, this is all rumor, not confirmed. I’m familiar with the source and they’re pretty reliable, but it’s not official and may not be 100% correct

molten jetty
buoyant scroll
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||I think he attempts to cure himself at one point and it backfires?||

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oh huh, the comic version is pretty different

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||In the comics he identifies the cause of mutations and makes a serum from it, and after overhearing people plotting to steal his research he drinks it to disguise himself, but doesn't take the antidote in time and stays stuck.
also...he was grey xD and a fight with...Quasimodo...turned him blue, and also lost his healing factor||

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||I wonder if the MCU will start him out as hairy given how iconic it is||

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||hm. wonder if Ms. Marvel will be part of the new X-Men||

verbal lintel
molten jetty
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Ugh Elden Ring is so good

lone canyon
lone canyon
oak ivy
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Timothee chalamet as lelouch

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And tom holland as susaku