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atomheartbevo

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  1. "She got the covid jab!" They’ve moved on to the measles and polio jabs as the likely culprits.
  2. One that doesn’t record everything and automatically post on the internet.
  3. Pretty sure 2025 movie's Jimmy Olsen would consider it, as long as it's not the whole weekend.
  4. Lois Lane found Superman?
  5. Yeah, they've had fuck you money for many years and basically could do what they wanted and wanted to continue doing this. This is about bolstering Paramount's streaming service. Surprised it didn't happen a long time ago.
  6. Yeah, the full text (actually multiple tweets) was classy and said all was forgiven and that he came back in I think the 1990s and learned about the Alamo, etc. I thought it was cool they posted that, because a lot of people do remember/associate him with the Alamo negatively and don't realize that he later apologized and toured the Alamo, etc.
  7. This. A whole lot of us, if you go back a few iterations of Surly, were on a side that differs from where we are at now. Ironically, the Iraq War was where I switch sides - I was never sold on it, but that's for another thread.
  8. Never mind, it's fucking Microsoft Edge that's the problem. Edit: Maxwell gonna commit suicide in the coming days.
  9. Hopefully he remembers banging Demi Moore.
  10. Have you ever seen Armybrat and your old man in the same room together?
  11. And yet the Switch 2 is the fastest selling console in the US in history. They do have the benefit of mostly backwards compatibility with the first one.
  12. Adam Corolla used to be co-owner of the Austin Ice Bats.
  13. The guy who played Willis on Different Strokes was once a famous actor and very few people remember that.
  14. No he won't, he's good through May on CBS, and then he'll land somewhere with a nice fat check and whatever format he wants. Same thing will probably happen with Stewart, and I'm actually serious about those two ending up together with a helluva an axe to grind, and they won't be dealing with Paramount bullshit over the merger. And if one or both are fired, they'll still have a nice fat check from Paramount and then whereever they land.
  15. I wonder if Amazon or Netflix would be willing to sponsor a daily or near-daily talk show with the two of them. Not something they normally do.
  16. Courtney Love did it.
  17. There's a Johnny Carson Youtube channel with 750 videos and it's pretty awesome.
  18. Because there's a half-decent chance that finances improve if everybody is tuning in to see Colbert "unrestrained". I'm slightly surprised as well, but maybe there are a lot of clauses if they cancel the show and the amount they would lose would be more than if they kept it running until next May.
  19. Snyder would have had Krypto killed off and would have shown the squirrel being crushed, and Superman would have been looking for revenge. The Snyder cut was a solid movie. Very, very epic in scope. Superman was more grounded and dealt with individuals as individuals (humans and metahumans).
  20. Kind of tying into that, I'm insanely curious where Maxwell Lord will come into play, since Morrison kind of ignored him (but then again some of the characters were pre-Morrison). I know it was Gunn's brother playing him, but at the same time it was made quite clear that Lord is important to the new Superman universe. As I said, I feel like I know what Snyder was trying to do - maybe a little less about telling major stories and more about exploring what made them tick, in particular, Batman, although Gunn actually showed us what made his Superman tick with a lot less screentime. I never got the feeling that Snyder really gave a shit about his villains - they were there to lay bare what made Batman, etc. who they are. Gunn gave us a villain that had more of an arc and more character development/explanation than all of Snyder's CGI mess combined. I can barely remember some of the villains in the Snyderverse. And I do not believe in a million years that Gunn would have allowed his Superman to let his dad die right in front of him during a fucking tornado, but Snyder had to have that because his Superman had to internally be a hot mess. Warner Brothers just wanted a DCEU money train, and maybe they thought they'd pull in those who didn't care for the MCU as being too light/kid-friendly. I saw an interview where he talked about how he knew exactly what tone he was going for, how he didn't want to start the movie (with an origin story) and where he wanted the movie to end (with it being clear that a Justice League was coming) and said it felt easier to write. He said something to the effect that the movie was the foundation for his universe and the one movie would take the place of the pre-Avengers solo movies, and he did it. Edit: Gunn said not having to dwell on how to introduce Superman and the JLA to audiences really made the writing easier, since he had it in his head already.
  21. Saw it this morning with my kid, who had only seen a couple of MCU movies in the theater and the animated Spiderverse movies. He absolutely loved it. I loved it. Glad Gunn didn’t dwell on origins at the start. My boomer dad bitched that he heard it was all political. Some things were on the nose, but the movie was written years ago and finished filming earlier last year, and all of the major themes were a staple of the comics, TV series, and movies. There was nothing new about Lex trying to drum up hatred at Superman for being an alien. That goes back four decades in the movies to the Reeves movies and arguably to the start of the comics and why the creators did what they did in the 30s/40s and it’s always been in the comics as a whole since then (it was a staple of Byrne). The invasion for land could stand in for quite a few events over the past several decades and Superman has stopped wars before. Poking fun at talking heads who one minute are praising somebody and then on a dime turn and start calling them traitors was spot on. Making fun of social media comments being created by mind-controlled monkeys was also hilarious and was the most timely (but true) event. But that was all less than 5 minutes of screen time. The genius was Gunn was shooting a finished script unlike Snyder, and everything was plotted out well and wrapped up well. As well done as the Guardian movies. Loved the Justice Gang. So glad he didn’t have Batman, Aquaman, Wonder Woman, Flash, etc. the cast was perfect. Guy Gardner, Hawk Girl, Mr. Terrific, and Metamorpho are a great way to start out things. Loved Olsen being a ladies man. Loved that Eve had been deliberately sending him scoops and he didn’t even realize it. Liked Guy Gardner, but Mr. Terrific was my favorite Justice character. Both felt like they walked out of the pages of the comics from my youth, and while their screen time was short, they fucking sold their characters and you knew instantly the kind of people they were just by their actions and comments. Supergirl was setup perfectly with just a few minutes of screen time. None of them felt like they were fumbling their way around trying to figure out the whole super hero thing, they were established already in events prior this movie and were comfortable with who they were. I know what Snyder was trying to do, but Gunn has a better grasp of how to quickly get things off the ground, and that he really didn’t have the ability to play a long game like the MCU or Snyder did, and that he really didn’t need to since everybody knows who Superman is. His runway was far shorter than Snyder’s, but he got the bird in the air and on its way in a much better fashion.
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