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That episode is my fucking FAVORITE and I have yet to rent the movie from Amazon. I gotta see this shit for myself.

Laugh it up now, but you'll appreciate the first TMNT movie when the reboot comes out.

Besides the face and the body and hands and the hair and the feet? Nothing at all. I wouldn't put all of it at the hands of the MPAA, though they certainly deserve some of it. I think it also stems from there not being enough women directors in Hollywood. It's a boys club to be sure. And most of those boys are white. So, you have the content creators (white males) giving their films to the censorship board (white males) to review. It's a feedback loop; that's why you have the lingering male gaze in damn near all movies and negative stereotypes of minorities. I think there are less than a handful of women who can get their projects done. I can only think of Shonda Rimes and Katheryn Bigelow. There are thousands of capable black female and white female writers/directors, but they don't get the nod from the establishment.

His name is Miguel Nunez and he will always be Pretty Rick to me....cuz Pretty Rick is what they call him.

To be fair, there are 100,000+ more movies with gratuitous nudity of women than there are of men. I see this movie as a way of leveling the field so to say, but that means there are another 999,999 movies that need to be made that have dick slips and sheer jockstraps for there to be parity. Dumpy looking dudes like Jason Seagal don't count either; that'd be like paying good money to go see Illeana Douglas do a nude scene. No thank you.

Which makes you think that if McNulty had given up that booty, he'd be the King of Barsoom right now. Lesson to everyone: just put out.

I wish the official title was DGvP.

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These movies all run together for me. Is this the one with serial killer Topher Grace?

Stop being so damned butthurt.

Those critics are reading something that wasn't portrayed on the screen. We seem him time after time say that ALL fighting is worthless and he doesn't care one way or the other. He's battle fatigued. He takes so long to decide who to fight for is because most of that time he's trying to get back home.He has no dog in their fight, that is until the princess gives up that Martian goodness. Then he's all "For the future of Barsoom!"

Caller said he was racially ambiguous. The people asking him the question where are you from was there way of trying to fit him in box, so that could deal with him. There are a few times where this question is not racist, but if you make it the first thing you ask someone, then you are clearly trying to deny another person their humanity and fit them into one of your predefined boxes. The video clip above with the stand up comic is a perfect illustration of that.

I have, I HAVE to point out, that Charlie is a common nickname for people named Carlos. You could also throw in Carlito as well.

Loved this movie growing up. Little in the way of plot or characters, but plenty of upskirt action.

If you saw a version of Like Mike with bronzed and lubed up dudes, I'm turning you into the police.

Jason would love this movie.

The only thing good about this movie was that it gave Kal Penn another job after Harold and Kumar. And I'm pretty sure he used some of that money to donate to President Obama's first election campaign. So kudos.

Why is it that all of the bad guys have crazy real estate development plans? M. Bison from Street Fighter, the old dude from Roadhouse, and now Lex Luther. Tip to screenwriters: if your main villain's plan hinge on property values and tax adjustments, you need to get a better villain.

My counterpoint would be that Star Wars didn't lift as much from John Carter as it did from the writing of Joseph Campbell, who Lucas was really into when he started writing the script. Star Wars is more of a classic epic myth -- think Gilgamesh or Beowulf. The stuff about the Force was way more mystical and religious, than scientific, in the original movies. Plus, they didn't specify an exact place or time for the setting of the story, only that it was a long time ago and far, far away galaxy. That's perfect. Don't tell me that this took place in Jupiter around 1531, because I KNOW in 1531 that were no Death Stars roaming the solar system. If there were we would have found debris from that explosion an long time ago. I get what you're saying about the Illiad but they do refactor the story to bring it up to date. When you stick to the original source material, you have to do a lot of explaining about cultural practices, social mores, etc. That's why the Shakespearian comedies are not all that funny. I'm sure in the original setting -- Elizabethian England and in the Globe theatre -- that it was very bawdy and great fun. Now, many centuries later, I need a bunch of footnotes to understand where the jokes are and what makes them funny. About the slavery thing, that was a joke I made about the history of poor choices John Carter made to lead him to fight along side of the Confederacy. There is a point in the movie where the love interest finally asks him to join her side to fight for freedom and good. My joke basically centered on the fact that he, an ex-Confederate, would have problems with unlimited freedom for everyone; he would have to have some slavery to make him feel at him and put him at ease.

What exactly do YOU find racist about Jar-Jar? That's seems totally out of character for you.

You're seeing them everywhere because 4/20 is coming up. Cheech and Chong are the primo potheads of the nation.

I was thinking of Robert Howard, the guy that wrote the Conan books, when I typed Howard Carter. I just googled his name and apparently that's the guy that found King Tut's tomb. And while those other works lifted parts from John Carter, they also updated it to fit the time they were made. Disney didn't do this. They went straight to the source material and stuck with it, which is why the movie is so old timey. It's not hard sci-fi, but you do have to create a suspension of belief to make the story work, and telling me that there are aliens on Mars is not the way to do it. That's shit's old. It hearkens back to those cheesy 1950s alien invader movies that EVERYONE rips on today. Tell me that he's going to a planet in Alpha Centarui, or the Crab Nebula. Somewhere science hasn't already told me with 100% certainty that there wasn't a civilization thriving at some point in the past. Also, for most of the movie, the main character's dilemma is choosing sides in a fight. He doesn't want to do it, blah, blah, blah. Well, I don't feel sorry for this character because when the choice came to fight for freedom or slavery, he choose slavery. He has a horrible track record of choosing the correct side. It would be like them making a German version of this, and John Carter as a former Nazi, is waffling over choosing a side. I remember when I saw this, the love interest says something about freeing the people of Mars, and I joked to my friend that John Carter would be like, "Well, freedom for some...I do like slavery and if you want me to fight for me, you'll have to fuck me, and help me to enslave those giant green men who first found me." Not everything is timeless. Some things are just made for their time, and that's it. You can't take it out of that time period and enjoy it because the social factors that made it popular back then aren't present anymore. But you can always lift themes and character archetypes from stories, refactor them to your own time period, and make something good.

I think the bad guy from Roadhouse and M.Bison should get together and do a show about civic planning. Both of their fiendish plans hinged on property tax rates and easement guidelines.

I am sometimes guilty of this, especially when talking to people of Southeast Asian descent. The caller is right to assume that it is racist when people do this. They do this because they're trying to put you in a box, so that you're easier for them to deal with. I definitely have to break this habit.

Her question makes perfect sense because there was no "street fighting". The movie should have been called Operation Shadowloo or Real Estate Development with M. Bison.