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Was wondering if he was called Bloodshot due to his eyes being red i.e. "bloodshot," but then looked around online and it's because of what you said, he had nanites shot into his bloodstream, receiving the titular blood shot.

Yeah Diesel's ego has become really something over the years since Fast 5 brought him back to movies that turn a serious profit, with Fast 8 and XXX 3 being just big long love fests for himself. I can't remember where I read the review but it was for this movie and it basically boiled down to the reviewer being amazed at Diesel's career now being one of two things, franchise films that succeed in spite of him being involved or solo vehicles that nine times out of ten flop because studios forget that people aren't lining up to see the F&F films for the acting chops of Vin Diesel but rather the whole group of characters who work and the awesome action set pieces, and unfortunately even Diesel doesn't realize it. I go back to the Fast 5 episode of the podcast and remember the clip of him talking about fighting the Rock on screen the first time and him saying people wanted it because it was "great for cinema," as if that fight was what was needed to take the art form to the next level. Then his recent interview with The National, Diesel said he talked to Steven Spielberg recently who told him it would "be a crime against cinema" if he never directed a film again, which even other new sites who picked up the story were openly expressing their suspicion of this actually happening. As for this movie, I have zero interest in watching it as I was never a huge fan of the comic and the movie honestly looked terrible, but hearing the discussion about the ending I looked up how it ended and was bummed it didn't end in a Repo Man-type twist. I mean when you're whole marketing campaign gives away the films twist within 30 seconds, why not have a bigger twist in the wings ready to blow viewers' minds? Just imagine how great it would have been if Diesel takes out Guy Pierce and walks away with KT and the hacker, only for it to pause and cut Pierce's control room where the whole movie was a simulation to see what possible errors could arise if they went through with bringing Diesel back and treating him how they do to get their end result, the whole movie ending with Pierce just saying something like "okay try simulation attempt 42," to really bring home how long they've been screwing with his consciousness. It could still lead to a sequel or crossover with other Valiant characters while also giving an unexpected end to what is a very cookie cutter film otherwise.

Slight correction: When Paul was talking about what Bloodshot looks like in the comic and what X-Men character he resembles, I believe he was thinking of Mr. Sinister who has chalk white skin and red diamonds on various spots of his body, who also has a similar power in that he's able to modify his body at a molecular level in order to help withstand damage he receives. As for the repeating of the prepping scenario the bad guys do, the only other film that I've seen it done to a more horrifying extent was 50 First Dates with Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore. The lengths that her family go through to have her relive the day of the accident where she got her brain injury, including buying hundreds of copies of the local newspaper that day, getting a VHS copy of the football game they were going to watch that night, buying numerous birthday cakes, and getting the local diner to go along with it as well since she went there for breakfast that morning, I'm amazed that they didn't kill themselves from the tedium of it all. Then when Sandler gets involved and ends up revealing to her what actually happened, the family has the local doctor Dan Akroyd on speed dial to come tranquilize her because she obviously and understandably has a nervous breakdown at the realization of what her life is at that point. The most telling moment is when Sandler asks the dad what's going to happen years down the road when she wakes up thinking she's in her mid-30s and looks into the mirror to see she's decades older, only for the dad to say something along the line of "I don't know and I hope neither me or her have to experience that," like he hopes God takes mercy on the family and kills one of them.

Yeah the assassination of his parents really lets the audience know what kind of movie they are getting and it's great. This should really be a double live show with Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter.

And it wasn't so much a heist as it was a very fortuitous snatch and grab, only for them to get notified via the in-car fax machine, that some version of lowjack had already contacted the cops. Then add to it the trucks carrying toxic waste that apparently blows up like thermite and you have pure mid-90s Stallone schlock. Even more amazing was the director originally wanted Nic Cage for the lead role but Universal thought Stallone was more commercially viable, which is pretty true considering this earned $160 million, and that Cage was a "character actor" despite him just winning an Oscar and The Rock would come out six months prior to this and earn twice as much at the box office and starting his peak run of blockbuster hits in the late 90s.

Looking back I realize that it works, but it is quite a bit similar to how he was in Mom and Dad with some of his rants to his kids so I feel it could have been a bit different, although asking Nic Cage to choose a tempo other than subdued or coke-addled manic might be asking too much.

I'm near the end of this and in my opinion is really good, especially given that Lovecraft adaptations are more miss than hit. Stanley was the perfect choice for director and it makes me really want to see him make his version of The Island of Dr. Moreau because he shows he is really able to create dread and terror in a film. The color work in this film was amazing as it should have been, which further amplified the tone of the movie and its subject matter. Cage's Cage-isms in the early to mid part of the film seemed out of place at times but otherwise it was a solid performance, very much in line with the previously stated Mom and Dad and Mandy.

What I still don't get is how Scott Speedman thought he was too big to return to this series.

Yeah but it fails at world building in such spectacular fashion while those have found the right formula to excel exceptionally well. That's only if she can take him "Higher." I never saw this film but have seen the others in the series and I realize that the prequel is easily the best of the series because it's Michael Sheen acting the fuck out of a horrible story and making it palatable. The first one is insane for how quickly they try to create a world filled with lore and backstory but try to focus on Kate Beckinsale being in a skin tight bodysuit. There are interesting ideas like getting memories from a person's blood, which was an idea introduced in the first one when the vampires are going to bring their next leader up to speed on current events after a hibernation period, but then they started using it every 10 minutes in the sequel and it was quick diminishing returns.

What will always stick with me about this movie is when I showed it to a bunch of friends for the first time, they were completely shocked by what it was and asked how I found out about it. I told them I was highly recommended the film by the then children's librarian that we all worked with and they could not fathom how he could have seen this in the first place and then liked it enough to adamantly recommend it to me and apparently others.

Wait 9/11 jokes are political? I must be doing them wrong.

I've noticed recently a couple users popping up with random tangents like this and I'm just assuming it's just the same dude. In all fairness I concern myself with politics/law as little as possible since it's part of my day job, but even when this is brought up in the show, it's not at an amount to really take away from the overall content of the show. And if this is an honest question from OP, simply use Google and just start going down the result list until you find something more in line with what you want.

So I will say I didn't watch this movie, but reading the Wiki for it makes this seem like the template for every rom-com where the characters have to have certain quirks to make sure the audience feels that they should not be together, They Came Together might as well be a parody of just this film. As a librarian I can say that there isro no real reason Baldwin should be a big muckity muck just from microfiche. By this point in the 90s that type of product was small, especially in comparison to the wider used format of microfilm which could contain months of information on a single roll, while microfiche were flat singular sheets. Even then, microfilm were bought in massive quantities as most libraries would only really get microfilm of their local paper for local history preservation and maybe one national paper if the budget allowed for it. Libraries in larger cities will usually get the local papers as well as a number of national papers, and university libraries will do the same depending on how big the college is. In essence, this film is really bullshit in making it seem this was a lucrative career option for anyone, not realizing or caring how niche the fiche really is. And no I don't regret writing that last bit.

I will say that I was intrigued by the idea that the premise could have worked well as a horror film, in a kind of Tales From the Crypt type of way, but boy did they find a way to fuck it all up to where it's basically just a horror version of Bedazzled in a way. A couple of the guests' storylines were interested and should have gotten more time, like Maggie Q's, but they focused on the weaker ones like the one involving revenge on a childhood bully and two brothers who wanted to "have it all." It's worse in that a big part of the main twist is given away in the trailer, where the overall trip and what happens is someone's fantasy, but the other half of the twist of whose fantasy it is is kinda telegraphed. Then add to that fuckery the fact that the twist reveal shouldn't work in connection to the island's rules that are explicitly laid out multiple times in the movie or the fact that by the end this movie is meant to act as a soft prequel to the damn TV show, and this should make for an amazing episode.

I was always under the assumption it was a rental near where the team played which is what the vast majority of athletes do while they have a permanent home somewhere else in the off season. I'm almost certain he has said that at least once or twice in the last couple decades, sort of like how he's claimed for years he was the initial choice for what became the George Foreman Grill, but he wasn't home when the pitch company made the initial call. I'm honestly surprised it didn't peak at number one, that was a total Mandela Effect moment for me. Now I wish there was an alternate ending where when the spaceship lands on the field and the ramp comes down, both the crumbled masses of Wayne Knight and Jordan's characters tumble down in a pile of mush, and the Tunes realize that due to them not being of their world the damage does take effect, but isn't realized while still in Tune atmosphere near the center of the Earth. That game might as well have been called Fuck Grammar: the Game as there was no logical reason for there to be that many colons in that title. As for the rest of the series, they basically saw what Final Fantasy was starting to do with title schemes and said hold my beer. Kingdom Hearts is trying to match their title ability with some of the batshit names that have been given to the various reboots and remasters that have been put out over the years.

Well that ad makes sense because that's a fucking sexy chocolate bar.

I know Sunflower was a really big hit, which definitely helped it sell fairly well, but it didn't have any other huge singles which is a shame. It kinda falls into the same category as the Dangerous Minds soundtrack which is basically bolstered by one mega hit while the rest is just kinda there.

You're right that is a good one. I just remember the soundtracks of the 90s as basically the way for Seal to release his next big single with each new Batman movie. Also am I alone in thinking that Barkley didn't ask the director for a follow up scene after he got his talent back where he goes back to that park court and utterly dominates that team of kids a la Billy Madison?

That soundtrack ruled, I completely ruined my cassette copy with how much I was playing it, though that was also of the times too because back in the 90s the soundtracks were as well, or at times, better received as the movies they were attached to. I mean can anyone here think of a recent soundtrack that got as much acclaim as the movie it was for, I think 8 Mile is the closest in the last 20 years. Karate: made to do it then my parents got divorced so that nixed the whole weekly lessons thing because it cut into visiting time Baseball: I was a good hitter but a shit fielder, played all the way up through coach-pitch Football: never got to play a game as I messed up my Achilles Tendon Basketball: tried out for the school team but didn't make the cut Wrestling: wrestled a couple matches and sucked out loud, then re-aggravated prior injuries So in regards to Jordan's rumored cheating/gambling issues, I found it odd that they made a decent-sized point about how he wouldn't take the easy route in his baseball game when the catcher is literally telling him what pitch is coming, which really stands out today with everything going on in the MLB and the Astros sign stealing scandal. I have to assume that was a Jordan note to make him look like the good guy and also fuck that catcher because if Jordan had slammed one out of the park due to the assistance he was being offered, it could only hurt the pitcher who is only trying to improve his ability and hopefully make it up to the big leagues. Also the Harvard College Sports Analysis Collective apparently had nothing better to do and went through every shot during the game to figure out the box scores for every player and overall stats. https://www.wired.com/2011/03/space-jam-box-scores/

I found out about this watching Wrestling With Wregret on Youtube and I felt in my heart of hearts that this should be covered by the show. Featuring former WWE wrestler Albert/Tensai and some German actress, this movie is insane, especially considering the director told Albert to not take any acting classes as he felt that his wrestling career was enough training or the fact that the dog narrates the movie at points. Also there is a pickle coffin burial.

I've been saying for years that they need to cover Ready to Rumble, if only for the butt slushee scene.

I saw this trailer today and once I saw Arnold in a wig as what looks like a British soldier, I knew this movie was perfect.

I'm okay with Han being back so long as it can be explained coherently, but it also can end up horrible as it was clear they were answering to the hashtag of "justice for Han" that came about in the last movie, as doing this is a mixed bag of success in terms of fan service, and hopefully they ask why the fuck he wasn't there helping out in the last couple films. With Morgan not being the writer this time around, I wonder if it's a case of "fuck where do I go from here," because at this point the only thing left for them to do in these films is go into space, time travel, or have their cars form a Megazord. I looked at his IMDB and he isn't bogged down with a bunch of screenplays, just the next Conan film and the announced Bride of Frankenstein movie, though with Universal's Dark Universe collapsing after The Mummy fizzled, that may be a while off.

Oh pinball machines definitely take cues from casino games and pachinko in drawing people in with poppy noises and bright flashing lights. The Metallica one has a multiball moment where the electric chair at the top of the machine lights up and shakes before launching about five balls in a frenzy and Ride the Lightning starts blaring from the speakers. At the Hall of Fame they have an early 90s WWF Royal Rumble machine and holy hell when I hit the proper ramp to get the "you eliminated them" flashing on the screen, I realize what it must feel like when someone wins a good chunk of money on a slot machine, because not even Macho Man Randy Savage could eliminate Yokozuna by himself, but I did it with relative ease.

I'm amazed at how pinball machines have not dropped in price over the last 25 years, because I remember being a kid and seeing in an old issue of Wizard Magazine a special anniversary edition of the Star Wars Trilogy machine being released for the remastered editions coming to theaters, and that thing was $7,600. I'm assuming that because of them being complex machines that have to be put together by workers rather than machines, along with shipping them safely makes them so much more costly. Also that Metallica machine is a great one, I've put tens of dollars into one at a local movie theater and it never gets old, though it can tilt quite a bit.