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Gritty posted...

bk99 was due to Floyd

they had to address it.

The episode moo-moo in season 4 addressed a similar subject rather well with the racist cop, much better in fact.

Tyranthraxus posted...

That scene where Peter is picking up his date for homecoming is like a top 5 superhero movie scene imo

He was more intimidating out of costume than in it... and it's weird that he's the one making the threats, when usually it's the protagonist's loved ones that are in that situation, not the antagonist. A weird role reversal that I don't think we've seen before

Tombstone's side mission is also pretty underwhelming, I hope they expand on it more. Or at least expand the concept of side missions being more than just a cutscene and 1500xp reward.

Ok something I've been thinking after rewatch. If Blonsky isn't a bad guy or the bad guy, why does the show end with him going back to jail as some kind of victory or triumph? For hosting the bad guys' event (be it knowingly or unknowingly)? For turning into hulk-abomination and ignoring his power restrainer, the exact same thing that Jen did?

AlveinFencer posted...

All I remember about her in 2 was apparently the director tried to get her to cry "prettier" or something like that. I dunno, it's been a while.

I actually do remember that, there's been a lot of jokes about how some actors can't cry so they just give them fake tears that streak down their eyes while they look solemnly at their costars. Even jennifer connoly was one

bfslick50 posted...

Agreed. Monica saying, "They'll never know what you sacrificed for them," pissed me off so much. The darkhold didn't make Wanda evil. Wanda's reactions imply she didn't consciously know she was mindraping the entire town. But when she finds out, she flies off and immediately starts looking for a different way to achieve the same goal. There's no indication she cares about making amends or facing justice. As long as that second path is less evil than mind-raping little kids, which I argue MoM is, then it's in line with her character growth.

The main difference is perspective bias. WandaVision is told from Wanda's perspective and MoM is told from her victim's perspective.

I rewatched the scene and it was so much dumber then I remembered. I don't remember Wanda flying away in her silly new wardrobe nor do I remember that line and it was so horrible. It's like rewarding hostage takers and telling them how amazing they are after capturing them except they didnt take Wanda in. And we're supposed to feel triumphant that they put that head agent guy in handcuffs? Really?

I just realized how this trend is starting to be common with all the disney mcu shows, Hawkeye's ending gave me a very similar feeling...

pauIie posted...

my only issue so far (i'm up to amsterdam) is the focus on keeley's company. keeley is cool, but i don't care about anybody in that company. i'd rather be seeing more of the team.

Yeah I don't either but oh check this out her CFO is actually that one actress from the Ghosts series, Mary! Took me a bit to place where I'd seen her before.

bigblu89 posted...

It became a bit of a problem of its own success once season 3 rolled around. So many of the secondary characters became popular that they felt they all needed their own storyline, when the focus shouldve always been about Ted and his relationships with everyone.

This I do agree with, it starting to get ridiculous...

First joke of the season:

Flight attendant: "I once held an entire plane hostage until I beat the final level of breath of the wild"

Me: I... what? Writers, it cost you literally nothing to not put that line in, and literally everything to actually write it and make an actor say it. Not even the big bang theory would have had a line like that...

That felt like a worrisome start to the season lol.

News articles and the like really oversold the dive in quality. When I heard that season 3 was going through re-writes I was nervous and thought it was gonna be bad like B99 season 8's level of bad, but I'm already halfway through the season and it doesn't seem bad... these are still the same characters we love to see.

TheSavageDragon posted...

He did in Spider-Man TAS back in the 90s. And subsequently did so in the comics for a little while.

https://youtu.be/uaQqj4gPxqE?t=75

What in the nightmare fuel.

So he was in 90s spiderman, boy I must have completely blocked that out and I even still remember madame web.

FortuneCookie posted...

Bird-themed villains in general are pretty lousy. Penguin is Batman's most boring mainstream foe conceptually.

Well that's just not right, not right at all. This is the only example of a slightly not good bird themed villain, and because of the old angle not so much the bird angle. Choosing Batman is a mistake to help your point because every Batman's bird themed villains are great. You've got the classic penguin, amazing, ranging from faux aristocratic wannabe mob boss to danny devito batman returns. They've even had an owl themed villain that was surprisingly alright.

Eating runny eggs with toast is a hassle, the best way to eat runny eggs is with this

https://media.alittihad.ae/assets/images/Articles/750x425/2019/5/2019525015446VS.jpg?v=7&width=600

Really helps you scoop up the yolk and egg whites

Yeah, maybe it's because I don't remember anything about him. Was he even in 90s spiderman? I just remember him from spectacular spiderman as a jilted osborne employee

DarkChozoGhost posted...

I dunno. I liked when he was tied up in the closet and keep rapidly shifting his age all over the place. And how he tricked the other guy and took his youth ultimately.

Also, Hammerhead?

Wait he has a youth stealing gimmick?

Also what's wrong with Hammerhead, he's a great B-villain, he was one of the bosses in the gba spiderman game and also he was tombstone's right hand man in spectacular.

It's crazy that I paid more for miles morales than I did spiderman 1 despite it being a shorter game, but the game doesn't seem to go on sale for less than 30, and I put off buying it long enough

The sequel for anyone invested in the storyline:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nToudeVmJ18

masterpug53 posted...

They probably felt pressured to spell things out in big capital letters because the majority of the audience was still dumbfounded at that point over the show going full meta ending. Couldn't say for sure though, I only watched it once and can't remember most of the specifics.

I definitely am going back to watch the individual funny moments, I think it's made up of small funny moments throughout the show but they haven't really formed a cohesive narrative.

Now I definitely agree with the other guy saying it should have been a more standard 30-40 minute show like Aly Mcbeal or BL so that they could really flesh out the court cases and make them entertaining. Also hire actual writers for them next time.

I now want to read her comics if it's true what everyone's saying that she's all about that meta 4th wall break stuff even in comic book stories. Are her comics what I'm looking for with regards to funny ally mcbeal type court cases? When it comes to comics I've been more of a DC/DCAU reader, haven't really liked or delved into Marvel too much besides MCU.

And another thing. Why are kids so good at knowing how to delete your save file? How do they know? And then they look at you wide eyed and innocuously like where do they get the gall.

masterpug53 posted...

It's a good show, but it lost steam for me as it went along. I loved the first episode, in fact it's the only episode of an MCU D+ show I watched a second time. I've got no real love for Daredevil, so while I thought he was great in his appearance, I wasn't really hyped for it either. The final episode was executed fine (and seems perfectly on-brand for the source material), but the problem is that meta humor - even finely-crafted meta humor - is just kinda played out at this point in time. So quick, subtle meta gags are a lot more palatable than long, elaborate bits (most of Jen's brief quips to camera were pretty funny).

I definitely agree with all that, the quick meta gags were way funnier for me throughout the show than something drawn out.

The comic book character maybe have done it first, but this ending reminded me a little of Deadpool 2's ending which had its fair share of meta to generate a happy ending (much to our enjoyment)

pegusus123456 posted...

Apparently Matt is the Marvel mattress. Just the biggest slut in the entire universe. So him having a one-nighter with Jen is comic accurate.

I was actually thinking that, dude has chemistry with everybody. Be it with their legal assistant Karen, be it with Rosario Dawson, hell even jessica jones

NoxObscuras posted...

Awesome. Futurama is one of my favorites, so I'm looking forward to this. I thought the last run was still hilarious. The eyephone episode, especially, was gold.

https://youtu.be/uASUHbFEhWY

Lol that was pretty dumb. Shut up and take my money wasnt from the original run?

Oh I definitely didn't like Wandavision either, I remember watching the finale and was like "that's it? She gets no comeuppance for what she's done? And the nonsense with Agatha is the writers' way of distracting us from the fact that Wanda caused this whole mess in the first place?"

I think what's annoying is that it seems like no Avenger really went to her cabin in the woods to reprimand her and/or check up on her, either one is fine. They were just like "oh Wanda caused a disturbance in that one town? Oh no anyway. Back to reading the paper"

SSJKirby posted...

I think he's possessed by the evil strange from that bummer dimension

Lol I love that phrasing.

So are they gonna bring back this universe's karl mordo and what he's been up to since the first movie's post credits scene? I'll admit that one was also pretty stupid just to have karl mordo be the bad guy like he is in the comics.

After Agents of Shield spent an entire season on the darkhold, it definitely felt like a disappointment nothing burger here where it was just "oh there was this book in agatha's basement and it just done turned wanda evil" and that's not getting into the rest of the movie's plot and writing criticisms. Then you add the technical stuff like the really weird camera angles and shots that are jarring, with reports of the many reshoots the movie went through, and it ultimately left me surprisingly dissatisfied by the end of the movie.

Yeah it was on my list to watch for a while, finally got around to it.

Saw that the audience was a lot lower than the critics score on RT, and I can kinda get it but the performances and characters really carry the movie, it's the kind of slow burn that still holds your attention

Really great movie too, but boy that one scene is enough to break you. Definitely well deserved win on Affleck's part. I knew he had potential as far back as Gone Baby Gone and Jesse James.

Just got done watching the movie, a really unsatisfying but realistic ending that makes sense within the context of the story

Looking it up, miles morales is only 8 hours huh? So it's more of an expansion pack at best than a full game?

NoxObscuras posted...

Mine is The Famous Jett Jackson. Old Disney show from the 90's that got cancelled after 3 seasons. Loved that show

As a kid I really loved that actor and enjoyed seeing him pop up in other stuff, like one time in Smallville, one time in Scrubs... it was super sad finding out that he struggled with bipolar and committed suicide.

Is anyone rooting for Fry and Leela? Rewatching the show and Fry frequently harassing Leela to go out on a date with him is... more annoying than memory serves.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEjnmgVnxKs

Rebecca outside of blue Mystique paint is... actually really hot? Wow who would have believed

Um just the opposite? They haven't been good since they switched from horse meat to... whatever they're using now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simone_(2002_film)

Premise is producer creates an AI actress and she becomes super popular but then he's accused of her murder even though she was never real in the first place. Seems more or less relevant now than it did in only 20 short years

Prestoff posted...

There was a disney movie that took me by surprise. It had a girl from South Africa coming to the states with the African American girl expecting a black girl only to turn out to be a white British girl. They even flat out said the N-word in it. It was a very mature movie... for a disney channel movie.

...

the color of friendship?

edit: freakin' ninjad @%$!

I assume that's Goku Black's original name in Chinese? Or is dbz super no longer based on the monkey king/journey to the west stories?

SSJKirby posted...

Rest in peace Filmore

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24p_YnpMTe8

So many disney shows I think were not just amazing but really great too.

SpawnShadow posted...

Man, that show was brilliant. Why the hell did they never put it up on Disney+?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d59J78yhwtg

EDIT:

Blasphemy. Absolute blasphemy.

One of my favorite kind of jokes. Had no idea this 2000s show was funny too I thought they stopped after the 90s.

ROBANN_88 posted...

Anyone else watched Galavant?

This show definitely deserves more views I don't know how to convince people to watch it, it's so damn hilarious. And as someone who grew up on early disney renaissance, the similarity of the songs to little mermaid/aladdin etc was definitely cool. Also some of the original songs are just legit entertaining and hilarious.

hyperskate65 posted...

Gonna play Miles before SM2? Miles is pretty good, new mechanics that make it feel lively, and it happens in the winter so you get that gorgeous snowy cityscape. When the blizzard hits it's a 10/10 vibe.

Yeah that was a neat coincidence, by the time I finally got to spiderman in my backlog the sequel is already close to releasing.

I'm gonna play this other game first before jumping right into Miles Morales spiderman. I actually wanted to wait to play it since it'll be my last spidey game for a while until I eventually decide on getting a ps5, but spidey 2 has definitely made me realize that it might be time to get the console and not wait around for a pro design or whatever.

Lloyd in Space. And I'd rather not remember it but there it is

Ruvan22 posted...

How was she depicted in Sin City? It's been a while since I've seen it but all I remember are her in black and white scenes...

Sin City was a different kind of funny where in a movie filled with blood and boobs, Jessica Alba plays a pg-13 stripper

TMOG posted...

That's not what they were doing there. The final episode was Jen retaking control of her show to tell the kind of story that she wanted it to be, not telling the viewer what they should want.

Yeah but her saying to Kevin (the obvious audience stand-in) "those are my stakes" is definitely a no duh situation, telling not showing. Like yeah we know that her stakes are balancing being Jen and she-hulk and learning to accept who she is, so needing to defend it and point blank say it just felt a little weak, like if a character goes "I am sad now" after a sad scene like no duh.

Oh right it actually is called the Dark Dimension. Ah so it's true it was that dimension we were looking into.

MCU got 2 powerhouses in Angelina Jolie and Charlize Theron, I wonder what an interaction between the 2 would be like.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kTYQgXBdD0

So what does Strange's 3rd eye mean, is he gonna be a bad guy like the evil dr strange? The other post credits scene showed him yelling and stuff while his 3rd eye was manifesting all creepy like.

More importantly I almost completely glossed over Charlize Theron being in the movie first time I saw this scene, was too weirded out by the movie overall what with the weird camerawork and plot points like scarlet witch being just straight up murderous bad guy up until the ending where she's like "oh ok I'll stop da killing now"

Did she open a portal to... dormamu's dimension from the first movie? She even has purple eye makeup like the dormamu guys.

Ivynn posted...

Jessica Alba was and is beautiful, what they did to her in FF2 was criminal.

Well all of FF2 was criminal but still

It's a garbage movie, but the fact that the director did this for what was ultimately a garbage movie is what makes the matter way worse. Completely unnecessary

lilORANG posted...

That movie was mostly doodoo but the scene where Johnny is chasing the surfer and then gets choked out in space is pretty cool. Does a good job showcasing how powerful the surfer is.

Incidentally that's where all the budget went, the surfer, since everyone remembers the meme of the infamous space cloud...

BB_mofo posted...

I remember John Byrne being banned from his own fan forum because he said latina women with blonde hair look like prostitutes when the PR images of Alba as Sue were published in a thread. (In truth, Byrne had said several other reprehensible things on his site before that, but the Alba remark was the last straw).

I don't know who any of that is but that reminds me of a funny story regarding Gloria on Modern Family, specifically Sofia Vergara. She's actually a natural blonde but when the show started out she had really dark hair because producers told her that's the more stereotypical hispanic look so she obliged.

https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2015/07/17/09/Modern-FamilySofi.jpg

But as the show went on and gained traction and she started to have more leeway she eventually had her hair look closer to how it actually is.

https://www.looper.com/img/gallery/modern-familys-sofia-vergara-doesnt-care-about-gloria-being-a-stereotype/l-intro-1677533910.jpg

It's funny how perception dictated so much even to this day.

Jagr_68 posted...

smfh did they actually put that much white tone on her or was it just a high exposure filter on screen?

Why even cast her if they wanted a generic blonde white woman in the first place...

It's a good example of studios wanting to have the cake and eat it too. Jessica Alba was pretty popular in the 2000s, but they also were more concerned with the actors looking like the characters instead of acting well.

It took too long, like until the 2010s and I like to think Hamilton, where diverse range casting became widely utilized and it was more important for the actor to actually play the character well in the context of the story instead of simply looking like the character. Jessica Alba wasn't really a great actor either but they were already using her for eye candy anyways. The director had both movies do scenes where "oops she doesn't have her clothes and is naked now" (which also probably fueled the strife between them in addition to the weird whitewashing thing)

Smashingpmkns posted...

Kinda funny how he got one of the hottest women to ever live in his movie then he does this lol

Makes me wonder why the studio decided to go with him for these movies in the first place.

Actually thinking on it those crummy very mid-2000s movies actually had a lot of the ingredients for what would later become MCU movies, like taking a director known for comedy and putting him in charge, having lots of (super lame) jokes, and embracing the costumes and look of comic book FF. At that time all superhero movies were so afraid/ashamed of having their comic book movies feel like or look like comic books that it basically amounted to everyone wearing black spandex.

It's just that they were completely cooked wrong.

Kitt posted...

Outside of the first Barbershop film, Tim Story is and has always been a hack director.

Yeah, I have to say I was shocked when I went to check the director's history. When I saw Barbershop on there that basically what inspired this whole topic. Also looking at his later movies made me realize why those 2 crappy f4 movies had such a campy yet unfunny tone. Suddenly it makes sense and fits perfectly.