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SHIELD: Definitely a good start. SpoilerI'm under no delusion that Mary Sue Poots destroyed the world, at least not intentionally, but it is nice considering she's basically always the low point of every season so now the extras have as much a reason to dislike her as I do. Enjoyed Mack spazzing over stereotypes. The whole splitting up scene had me giggling.

They brought the Framework back, so I'm betting Aida (or a reasonable facsimile/another LMD) shows up to tell the group what happened to Fitz and the world in two or three episodes, and then Ghost Rider to take vengeance for what happened to the world.

So I saw Justice League finally. I don't think I can really add more than what anyone else has said. SpoilerThe CG work on Cavill's face to hide his moustache made him look like Robbie Rotten from Lazytown during closeups, and there was like ... no civilians in the world. Outside the little Russian-ish girl and her family, a few people under Gotham Harbor and the Daily Planet, there wasn't really any people. I know one of the complaints about Man of Steel was the collateral damage, and I thought they addressed that nicely in BvS where Batman actively moved the fight someplace that could handle the damage, but then Justice League rolls around and they're alledgedly trying to evacuate a city during the energy tentacles attack, so Flash is Speedforcing the one family out of city limits, looks to the right and there's Superman stealing an entire empty apartment complex. I'm not sure if the rest of the audience was laughing for the same reason that I was at that point.

The "just one" pep speech Batman gave Flash at the beginning of the movie was pretty good though I don't think it should have been Batman giving it, and there's certainly no denying the scene where the League is fighting Robbie Superman and he stares down Flash in Speedforce time was above and beyond neat, but other than that the movie was overall average. Painfully so. Someone gathers the team, their first mission is questionably successful, there is a misunderstanding and the heroes fight, the misunderstanding is settled and they pool their strengths and become a team, defeating the big bad. It's literally the most common plot in comic books, and most team movies in general.

And really, that's what hurts the movie the most. It's the Justice League. DC's top characters, creating their premiere team, and it's just ... average? No, that's just wrong.

Deathstroke showing up during the end credit scene was neat, that was quickly wrecked by EisenLuthor showing up as well. Flash and Supes racing had to be a Whedon scene, and that was nice at least so I'll say the end credits pretty much canceled each other out.

Edited, Dec 4th 2017 9:28am by lolgaxe

Speaking of, did the second half of The Tick ever come out?

I finally got around to seeing Dr. Strange last night since he was bopping around the Infinity War trailer and I figured I may as well know who he is. It was... okay, I guess. I was generally entertained while watching it but don't feel as though I'd tell someone "You gotta see this". The story felt rushed and I wasn't super impressed with Cumberbatch. The humor felt flat and the chemistry between him and McAdams was close to non-existent (though not as bad at Portman in Thor). This all sounds like I hated it but I didn't; it was a Marvel movie with special effects and a decent enough story and people overcoming obstacles For Great Justice. Mostly, it just felt like "We need to get this out of the way so we can put Strange in our big movies".

Sheesh. I thought the second half was supposed to be late 2017. That does feel ridiculous, especially for five or six 30-min episodes.

I don't think I want to wait to declare tonight's episode of Legends of Tomorrow as the single greatest cape related live action production to ever be created ever.

Vikings worshiping a Tickle Me Elmo had me in tears laughing. Grodd as Genghis Kong, Jax as Jax on Mortal Kombat 2, even the MCU crossover with Darhke as Odin were icing on that delicious Beebo Day Cake. Agents of SHIELD has it's funny moments, but Legends just don't give a damn anymore and it's letting them take these great risks.

I think Flash's end would have been more powerful if Barry hadn't let an invalid blow up and drown a few scenes earlier. SpoilerStill bizarre that he didn't at least get rid of the evidence. He's a forensic scientist working for the police, he'd know how to clean up a crime scene. No blood, no murder weapon, room full of witnesses at Joe's Christmas party. He'd be out of holding in less than 24 hours.

The talks between Disney and Fox are still going on apparently, and Chris Evans spoke up about it. Specifically that he'd like to see a crossover with Captain America and the Human Torch. And let's face some facts here, tons of people would pay good money to see Chris Evans play with himself.

Edited, Dec 6th 2017 2:03pm by lolgaxe

Happy!

Ya? It was definitely something. It is weird seeing Elliot from SVU in the role. (That being the only other thing I believe I've seen the actor in).

Some good laughs, lots of blood, gore, sex, nudity (With "CENSORED!" in the style of the title over it).

SpoilerWhat kind of idiot attempts to smash a hooker's head in with a hammer, while his penis is inside her mouth? The kind of idiot that wears a cockroach lobster Prawn suit while being serviced...

Mob-Torture's "I'm going to cut your penis off". Slowly, one slice at a time, like salami. His response? That's going to take you a while, if you get what I mean.

And during the limited commercials, there was a teaser... for the trailer... for the next Jurassic World movie. Which according to the trailer's teaser will be coming tomorrow.

And then I read online that Ryan Reynolds is going to be in a Pokemon based movie as "Detective Pikachu". But reading about the "story" and it seemed to remind me more of a relationship between the Pink Panther Cartoon and Movies.

I've not been exposed to a lot of Shazam stuff, but the only thing I can think of now is the scene in Flashpoint Paradox where SpoilerFlashpoint Wonder Woman forces him to revert back to the kids with the lasso, then murders at least the main one (Billy?) and I assume the rest off screen before Barry fixes everything. It was probably one of my favorite scenes from that movie.

Dinosaur Refugees. Just because some of them want to devour us doesn't mean we shouldn't help the rest!

Gotham: SpoilerTotally not Joker is the Joker now? I guess since he died, was defaced, reborn, and refaced, he's a different person now so original "Not Joker" is actually correct?



As for Alita... Holy CGI-balls.

Well, Ernest Cline confirmed he's working on a sequel (SpoilerReady Player Two?), so if the first movie blows up and the second book becomes a movie he'll be more inclined to license out Jones and ET.

The Golden Globe nominations have been released into the wild, and as expected comic book movies didn't make the list. And amusingly, there's a ton of "outrage" over Wonder Woman getting "snubbed" in every category.

Black Panther international trailer. Some new footage, Spoilerif that's your thing. Personally, I only ever really watch the first trailer of any movie I'm interested in.
Blargh.

Edited, Dec 11th 2017 3:20pm by lolgaxe

Lucifer: SpoilerConfirmed that new guy is bad guy. Was pretty obvious the whole time, just didn't know who he'd turn out to be. Kane could be fun. I like that they didn't make Lucifer go into panic-mode when he didn't revive right away. Played more on Lucifer being very confident of his knowledge rather than just making a wild ass guess.

Only got to watch the first 45 minutes of Gifted mid season finale before having to leave for work. SpoilerIt was very obvious that the Fenris kids would bang up that Adamantite wall pretty bad. But I had suspected that they'd just telekinesis their powers onto the other side of the wall and blow **** up there instead. Also, "Hey, this stuff is indestructible... but we can machine and fabricate it into a wall coating and junk. Totally mutant power proof though." Guess I'll find out after work when I finish the last 15 minutes.

My Mom and Dad want to see Star Wars 8 with me and my brother, but with my grandmother out of kidney surgery she can't be left alone for any period of time (even though she's doing very well). My mom wants us to wait for 3 weeks... but I want to see it this weekend. I think I may just go this weekend by myself and keep quiet about it, then go see it with them when they get around to it for the family-thing.

Edited, Dec 12th 2017 9:27am by TirithRR

The negotiations should be about who has to take/keep F4. That whole cinema franchise feels like it's cursed to stink on ice. Speaking as a non-comics person, the characters are boring and the elastic man thing works in The Incredibles where it's animated but just looks silly when actualized as "reality". Barring them finding someone super charismatic who can pull-off making Reed interesting based solely on force of personality, I don't see it ever working.