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    ok, this is rough and it will only look the way its supposed to on a pc/laptop screen (no idea how to make it responsive) but if you're looking for a way to fill 2 minutes before the ep drops why not try the How Did This Get Made Memory Game:

     

    http://hdtgmiq.com/memorygame/

     

    (if ye have issues with it let me know and ill "try" to fix them)

    Best I've done so far is 58 clicks. I can beat this. Just one more time. Yes, just one more time...

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    I also have to admit, I have not seen the movie. So maybe it works. I am basing all of my opinions on MoS, the trailers, and the articles I've read. But, when even Kevin Smith (who likes EVERYTHING!) is like, "not so much..." it gives me pause. Without having seen the movie, I do know everything that happens in it. I even think that the Batman stuff could work, if they had done a solo Batman movie first that adapted (not just implied) The Killing Joke and Death in the Family. Then you could maybe understand why he was pushed to such extremes. I think the DCU was trying so desperately to catch up with Marvel, that they neglected to lay that ground work.

     

    As for Superman (again, not a huge fan by any stretch), but I don't see how a scowling face works for that character. He's supposed to be better than us (a "Superman" as it were). He should reflect what we want to be, not (cynically) how we may actually be. I think that's why Superman and Batman have worked well together in the past. They're perfect foils in the same way the Joker is an effective Batman villain (control vs. chaos; careful deliberation vs. insanity). By that definition, Batman should be the cynical, pragmatist and Superman should be the hopeful, optimist.

     

    To your second point, I think it all comes down to marketing. If you go into a department store right now, you're going to see a bunch of Superman and Batman toys; at the grocery store (bottom shelf to catch the eyes of a little one), you'll find sugary, Superman cereal with cheap little toys inside. Everything is saying, "Kids, go see this movie!" On the other hand, I'm not seeing too many Daredevil toys and zero Jessica Jones toys. I haven't seen very many Deadpool things either (least of all in the children's clothing section). It's not like people saw the Deadpool trailer and thought, "Well, it's a superhero movie, it should be alright for my 6-year old..." Which isn't to say the trailers for BvS made it seem kid friendly, but by having Superman in it, I think there should be some wholesomeness to it, not just angst ridden navel gazing.

     

    In regard to Winter Soldier, my son has seen it, and God knows Cap kills a lot of people, but it's not like he's branding people with an American flag. It's all pretty bloodless, like an Indiana Jones movie. It takes itself seriously enough that you're engaged with the movie, but not so seriously that you ever forget that it's a comic book movie.

     

    That's my two cents anyway. I will see BvS eventually and maybe I'll recant everything I've written, but this is my immediate reaction to it.

     

    P.S. To circle back to a conversation we had almost a year ago, and so people don't think that I'm some kind of raging Marvel fanboy, I tried to re-watch Age of Ultron again a couple of mornings ago. As you know, my opinion of that wasn't too high, but I figured it's been a year since I watched it, and I'd give it another go. I watched for a little under 9 minutes, right up to the moment when Black Widow says to Hulk something like, "Hey, big guy. The sun's getting mighty low" when I rolled my eyes and turned that shit off.

    While most of your points are right on, the reaction to Deadpool was EXACTLY what you thought it wasn't, which was people seeing the trailer and thinking "It's a Marvel movie, so I can totally take my kids". At my theater, there were very few problems with it, which is shocking, and this was even after telling a lot of people that came in with small kids that seemingly didn't know better "Hey, this totally isn't for kids". Some were like "Yeah, I know", while others had NO clue what it was, just that their four-year-old thought it was Spider-Man, so they figured "What the hell?". It's kind of ironic though that this adult character seems to be playing better across the board with a lighter tone than these all-ages icons that are playing it super dark, but that's what happens when you get the CHARACTERS right.

     

    Also, there's Deadpool merch allllllllllll over the place. Up until a couple months ago, he was certainly the most heavily-branded character that had never had a movie.

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    100% agree. Work is for suckers. My job seems to go out of it's way to make sure I can't watch what I want on company time and then go online and talk about it for hours. When do they expect me to do it? On my own time? Ain't nobody got time for that!

     

    Corporate America is run by a bunch of damn sadists.

    I have a job that has me working a lot of late Sunday nights. I pretty much have to go into social media blackout and then determine in what order I must watch the various things when I get home, which is often also affected by my MONDAY schedule. I work until 11 this Sunday, so I have both WrestleMania 32 and the Walking Dead season finale to worry about. Fortunately, I don't work Monday, so I'll probably be done with those by about 6 am...

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    I think Hackers is, in a puzzling way, more watchable and enjoyable now as a film that has aged terribly then as a "cool movie, you know, for the kids!" attempt to catch a series of trends in the 1990s. It's gone from a product meant to hit a target demographic to a cartoonish cult movie; like Death Race 2000, but with computers and neon cargo pants (and less good).

    That's kind of what I was getting at, as I couldn't be bothered to give a shit about this thing when I was supposed to be the target demo, but I knew some people that loved it for all the reasons I didn't. It's great to watch ironically, to look at all the stuff they got so, so wrong, and to see actors that had no understanding of the material fumble their way through it, but it's not something I'd show to anyone that wasn't in the same mindset.

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    Are there any films that have either been done on the show or other bad movies that you have seen that were bad when they first came out but have actually gotten better in context or what they portrayed over time as compared to the numerous lists that are online about films that have aged horribly since their release? For me there are a few that pop out to me include Demolition Man in that i has predicted quite a few social changes that have occurred over the last few year and Last Action Hero which has surprisingly aged well as a satire of action movies. Any others that you guys can think of?

    I think "Hackers" is maybe the inverse of this, as it seemed mayyyyyyybe less ridiculous to begin with, but retroactively misses the mark that much more with almost every day that goes by. I think it's more enjoyable now than it was when I was a teenager.

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    I think I like this season a bit more than the first as it wasn't bogged down with the flashbacks of how Murdock became Daredevil, though I feel that Wilson Fisk was a better villain than what was this season, though I can say I about cheered when

     

    the bitchy DA got the hell shot out of her, thankfully the last minute attempt to humanize her through her kid was not done to full effect.

    Also, I can honestly say that Stick might be the most pretentious person in the Marvel universe not named Tony Stark. I also wonder how long they are going to stick with the Miller/Bendis/Brubaker version of Daredevil timeline before getting to a Mark Waid-esque level of Daredevil.

    I think that before the lighter Waid stuff happens, Matt needs to get "Born Again".

     

    Jeez, I haven't been here all week. Stupid work...

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    Yeah I don't know why WB decided to put so much money into this with how the prior film did, all they did was set the bar unreasonably high. And with fanboys being the jerks that they are, if this doesn't break even every blogger and journalist will be writing that the DCU is dead, even though the next two films in are either near complete (Wonder Woman) or starting production within a couple months (Justice League).

     

    Damn fanboys

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    That reminds me, I saw an article a couple weeks back that was called "Henry Cavill has seen the Justice League script". Well, it starts filming in about two weeks, so I certainly HOPE he would have seen it by now.

     

    Does anyone else wonder where the IHOPs went?

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    I remember thinking that "Man of Steel" was a bigger international hit, but that really wasn't the case. It did around 300 million here and a little over that in the rest of the world, so it'll be interesting to see how much Batman helps the numbers of the new one. This reminds me, in addition to "Civil War" hype taking some wind out of BvS's sails, how crazy nutso is it that this movie has to follow the success of "Deadpool", which cost relatively little, was marketed extremely well, and has now out-grossed Superman's last movie? It's seen as a phenomenon, and it is, while MoS could make the same money and be considered a disappointment. Bonkers.

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    Just saw it and went in review-free. Here's what I posted on Facebook:

     

    "Superman V Batman" felt like two and a half hours of "Who gives a shit?". It felt completely hollow and unearned, which may be the fault of DC and Warner Brothers themselves putting the cart so ridiculously far before the horse on this one, letting us know what they'd LIKE to do over the next ten movies or so. Every big reveal, every dropped line that was supposed to mean something, and every hint of what's to come just falls really, really flat and empty. Affleck was really good, the Batman stuff was the best, and Luthor was fun, but it felt like every problem that they tried to address from "Man of Steel" was a gross over-correction and that it came off as really heavy-handed. I'll be happy to go into detail if anyone wants to discuss it here.

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    I don't see it making a great episode as it isn't really crazy, just rather dated. The story and development still holds up as pretty original, similar to Near Dark, in that it is a new play on vampire lore and the world that they live in. The only other real WTF moment in the movie is the end where the grandfather admits to his family that he has known about the vampire problem in the city and that others probably do as well, way to warn your family of the danger asshole.

    Speaking of the grandpa, was the Rob Lowe poster on the wall HIS, or did Corey put it up when he got there? That was a little odd. Anyway, Lowe had appeared in an earlier Joel Schumacher film, "St. Elmo's Fire", so that was a shoutout to him...I think?

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    Hahaha was just doing my rounds of the usual media pirating sites and noticed somebody just recently uploaded Elektra again with commentary tracks. Oooohhh boy.

    Oh jeez, the only thing more boring than watching "Elektra" is watching it while someone is talking about the making of "Elektra".

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    I think one of the other problems with this, though, is that the Fraction run is so similar to the first season of Daredevil. Mob guys trying to buy out a building and leave hundreds of people homeless...

     

    I really want this to actually happen but I'm so defensive of this character that my mind always goes towards the negative side of why it won't work.

     

    But I think with the way you described it it could be totally different and be it's own story.

    Bro, the Tracksuit Draculas just seriously need to be a thing. At any cost, bro.

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    Did you all hear that Jeremy Renner would be interested in doing a Hawkeye show for Netflix? Thoughts? My biggest problem lives in that goddamn farm Whedon just HAD to introduce in AoU. Thanks for fucking us out of a straight adaptation of Fraction's Hawkeye run, asshole!

    I think that with some tweaks, they could still adapt the Fraction run and have it fit within the Marvel movie universe. I mean, the guy needs somewhere to live while he's in New York on Avengers business, and maybe he just wants to get the hell out of the office once in a while, so why not have him be the everyman living in an apartment in a shitty building with wacky neighbors and low-level hoods running around? Maybe he takes on an apprentice in Kate Bishop and keeps having run-ins with people from his past, thus making it IMPOSSIBLE for him to just get a day off.

     

    Oh, and since I love the Dolph Punisher, here's a pretty fair article from last year that explains how that movie wasn't as bad as people think...

     

    http://www.denofgeek.us/movies/the-punisher/246961/the-punisher-the-bloody-legacy-of-marvels-first-superhero-movie

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    I haven't seen any of them. Does he at least attempt some kind of altering of his accent? I'm guessing no.

     

    I could go on for a while about the varieties of Southern accents, and really bad ones.

    Aside from the second one, which you can totally skip, he talks less and less as the series goes on, so it isn't as ridiculous.

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    I fucking love the Dolph Lundgren version. I grew up on that one, and even though it's not a great movie, it's just so much fun.

    I'm pretty sure that it was my first introduction to the character, and it hits all the bullet points (heh...) of the 80s Punisher comics. Still don't know why they couldn't at least do a skull t-shirt, but I think the more recent "Realistic" stories in the movies and TV shows have retroactively made that more forgivable, as it doesn't really matter anyway what they're wearing or if it doesn't look straight out of the comics if the characterization isn't right. The Dolph Punisher movie is also a good representation of the product of its time, a fine late-80s B-movie shoot-'em-up, and I'd put it right up there with stuff that got a better release.

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    Totally agree. Elektra has been the weakest part for me, which is unfortunate because I was really looking forward to her. I flew through the first four episodes because Frank Castle was sooooo good. I'm only up through episode 7 because I just don't care at all about the Elektra storyline. It's funny because I've been reading Caroline Siede's bingewatch reviews on AV Club as I go, and she has the exact opposite response (although from one of the review titles later in the season, it sounds like she's changed her mind). I don't know what it is, but Elektra hasn't really gelled with me, and I really need more Frank Castle in the show.

     

    Edit: also, her accent can fuck right off.

    I didn't care for the 2004 movie really, but Thomas Jane's performance wasn't bad, and I think Bernthal's take on it is most comparable to that version, as far as previous Punishers go, but still quite a bit better. He has no trouble fucking up your day, but isn't a hulking beast like Dolph or Stevenson, which makes him more sympathetic or relatable. I'll be damned if the Dolph Lundgren version isn't my all-around favorite Punisher movie though. War Zone plays better as an action comedy almost, while the 2004 one is a tone deaf mishmash of elements that don't all seem like they belong in the same movie.

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    Not just you! I was actually just talking about this with my coworkers plus how mad I was at Matt throughout the whole season for his shitty choices.

    They covered a lot more ground with the Punisher than I expected them too, as I think they'd already announced that they were considering a spin-off, so it was surprising to have him already meet up so soon with who I'm sure will be his main adversary eventually. Elektra really hasn't done a lot for me though. Again, I'm not too big on the ninja stuff.

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