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    While we're talking about representation of women in media: I saw the new Star Trek with friends last week and, afterwards, one of them remarked that Simon Pegg had written the script to ensure Scotty got the primary love interest for once. Thinking about it, I couldn't recall a single instance in which Jaylah was sexualized in the film, and they managed to avoid any of the usual gendered insults during her final one-on-one confrontation. (Even the vaguely cheeky captain's chair bit was apparently improvised by Sofia Boutella on set.)

     

    So, at least it's not all bad news.

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    I had considered watching Suicide Squad because of Margot Robbie. She really is a great actress. Even critics who gave the movie the thumbs down praised her performance. But looking at her costume, I suspected my enjoyment of her performance would be compromised.

    I saw a photo from a Suicide Squad porn parody today, and the clothes worn by Harley Quinn covered more skin than her wardrobe in the actual movie.

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    Am I late to an inside joke or has Sklarbro Country been misspelled as "Sklarbro County" so many times that that is the joke?

    Quoting myself from an old post:

     

    Sklarbro Country is the original sports-centric podcast, featuring a guest from the sports or comedy world. New episodes drop every Friday.

     

    Sklarbro County (the ".5" show) is a companion show introduced in 2012, featuring the Sklars and writer Dan Van Kirk, where they focus on weird stories in the news rather than sports. This show was originally guest-free (and therefore shorter and easier to schedule and produce) but guests are now common. New episodes drop every Tuesday.

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    not looking for a marvel v DC argument here cause i am just a casual fan of these characters. i only really see them when they are in movies. ive never read a comic book or watched any of the new tv shows so i have no knowledge of the likes of the flash, cyborg or aquaman. (note: i had no clue that guy in batmans dream was the flash until i watched the extras ... so in that sense i see what you're saying). more importantly i suppose that means i have no original material to compare it any of the movies to. it's all new to me...

     

    so from that point of view ....

     

    i only thought all that stuff took about 10 mins and i kinda enjoyed it. the videos in the files were little snippets of whats to come. DC are definitely playing catch up so from a financial/time stand-point i guess thats why they have rushed it and that would annoy me if i had some history with these characters, so i can see why the fans were annoyed.

    Oh, I'm not evaluating BvS from the perspective of a comics fan. Most of my exposure to Batman lore has been Rocksteady's Arkham games, and I've found every film incarnation of Superman profoundly boring. What seemed like the kernel of a great story/acclaimed graphic novel was laden with so much "Desert Batman fights flying monkeys" and "Kryptonian Jacuzzi God" and "Screaming Time Portal Boy" shit, none of it relevant to the movie at hand. If I have to read a series of Wikipedia articles to understand your movie, you have failed as a filmmaker.

     

    I agree with you 100% about Marvel's movies, though. I'm holding onto a sliver of hope that Black Panther and Captain Marvel will deliver something radically different and exciting but, barring that, I'm willing to concede that the zeitgeist* has passed me by.

     

    * Hi Taylor Anne!

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    I also just saw BvS and, while the Batman-versus-Superman portion was okay, the additional 90 minutes of transparent "we have to lay the groundwork for a Justice League movie" filler was baffling. Marvel spent eight years constructing a cinematic universe; DC's script writers were handed a checklist of all the references needed to "catch up" overnight, and their solution was to inject a bunch of unexplained visions/cameos/omega symbols/riveting file-browsing sequences.

     

    That said, Affleck's Batman is now the definitive portrayal in my mind. Go rewatch any portion of Nolan's trilogy and ask yourself "What the fuck is Christian Bale doing with his mouth, and why did we give this a pass?"

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    It's a blurry line, further blurred by the fact that Devin apparently invited people to create this poll on The Canon. The difference is that the Andrew Ti-Matt Besser beef was kicked off by Besser himself on I4H, and the majority of people complaining about Cameron Esposito on HDTGM were able to do so without straying into personal attacks. (For the record, I did delete several shitty "unfunny hag" comments from that thread.)

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    Lest anyone else make the mistake of assuming this forum is a venue for continuing arguments than began on Twitter, allow me to disabuse you of that notion. We don't tolerate attacks on hosts here, period.

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    The recent Iron Fist teaser and the mention of the new Doctor Strange movie reminds me how heavily those origin stories lean on the same sort of Orientalism and Shangri-La/Atlantis mystic hoodoo stuff that the '30s Shadow (and legions of other pulp guys) were founded on. Back in the day, everybody and his brother learned how to do Superhuman Thing X by studying with gurus in Tibet.

    Yeah, I didn't watch The Shadow, but the plot described in the episode sounds remarkably similar to Batman Begins.

     

    American millionaire (Lamont Cranston/Bruce Wayne) does some bad shit, is "redeemed" by traveling to (Tibet/Bhutan) to train in the Mystic Arts, returns to (New York/Gotham) after many years to battle organized crime using fear/darkness/brute force while maintaining his cover as a hapless playboy, is confronted by (Shiwan Khan/Ra's al Ghul), a fellow practitioner of the Mystic Arts who (killed/secretly was) their master and is now threatening to destroy a decadent society via (atom bomb/microwave emitter). In the course of defeating their nemesis, our hero inadvertently reveals their secret identity to love interest (Margo Lane/Rachel Dawes).

     

    Also, something about fear gas and a talking knife.

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    I think this is gonna have to be one of those "pee before you leave" times. Cause honestly who has time in the middle of bustin' ghosts to take a leak anyway?

    If it's really an emergency, just antagonize a ghost into sliming you and then let fly. It's like peeing in the ocean; no one will know the difference.

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