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  1. Posted

    1 minute ago, Cameron H. said:

    Do you think a bullet hole in the canvas would increase or decrease the value of the blood splatter?

    Depends on how you sell it to a potential buyer, it's all about the story of the piece and how it's told.

    Explanation:

    So if I'm going to guess why Rumble set them up in the first place in order to "hire" them for the Money Plane job was to see if they could pull it off in the first place.  All he really knows about the team is that Edge is up past his eyeballs in debt to various criminals which is why he's still doing these risky jobs, which continues to show his reckless nature which isn't good for a mega heist. So Rumble hires them to steal a painting that he already owns in order to see how they work on their toes when numerous wrenches are thrown into the plan, which is further noted by Edge saying that there are now numerous armed guards and new security systems from when they cased the joint a few days earlier. So once Rumble sees that they can handle themselves on the fly, he comes off looking like a semi-gracious benefactor there to get their butts out of the fire, and they are more willing to do this even riskier job for him. If they had been killed/arrested, then he's only out so much of what he paid to buy their debt, which is nothing compared to if he gets a team that can get him the billion in crypto on the Money Plane. He doesn't plan on them finding out he already owns the painting, mainly because he doesn't know about Tom Jane which is ultimately what screws him up.

    Also, for the two Russian guys who were drinking before one took an axe to the other. What I was able to gleam from watching it was the criminals were betting on how much it would take for one guy to use the axe on the other. That's why the female assistant to the bookkeeper was raising the amount of rubles higher and higher until it was something like 200k. Once the axe is used the guy looks up at the camera and takes another swig of vodka, so it's clear that they have a intercom or something in the room giving them the offer and they are giving themselves either liquid courage or trying to pass out so they don't use the axe on one another. The Asian crime boss then says something to the tech guy along the line of she used to cut peoples' arms off with an axe for free.

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  2. Posted

    Question:

    Did anyone else get the feeling that Andy Lawrence was going to betray the team out of anger for being relegated to tech support on the mission? They really linger on him being pissed about it and then have Edge make Tom Jane his backup plan "man on the ground." With how flippant the character was acting on the ground I was waiting for there to be some kind of turn where he's either taken the crypto or informed the House about what was going on in the flight.

    Another thing I remembered watching this was how unrecognizable upon first sight Joey Lawrence is without his trademark hairstyle from Blossom or even the more cropped look on Brotherly Love. I took me a solid 90 seconds to recognize it was him in this movie with whatever the hell that hairdo was that he had and in another movie he did, Rest Stop, he was completely bald and I didn't know he was in it until I saw his name in the credits.

  3. Posted

    9 hours ago, PilotHaz said:

    It was always 'The Rumble' not Grouch or Grumple....

    I love Jason's hated of 'The guy on the ground' who is Andrew Lawrence the actor, director and screenplay writer of this movie.  When I first saw him on the screen I was intrigued  - then seeing he added both his brothers in supporting roles was just classic.   

    Matt Lawrence being 'The Cowboy' was great and I actually didn't recognize him at the start.  I thought it was some Johnny Knoxville look alike.  

    In the 3rd act where they are jumping off the plane I don't understand why they didn't have a larger wind machine for breaking the seal/pressure of the plane.  Money doesn't flow out at an alarming speed which it would.  As they jump it just seems the are popping off onto a mat below.

    That there was no burst of air when they opened the door on the plane I was almost furious because that means they really weren't giving a shit by that point, or the plane was basically flying a hundred feet in the air over wherever they are.

    1 hour ago, PokemonCreationist said:

    A few things:bas

     

    3. Rumble Theory: Grouch was actually a wannabe gangster looking to move up the criminal food chain. He spent years doing small-time gigs and figured he was a big fish in a small pond. So, his motivation to take down the Money Plane was to prove that he could run with the Big Dawgs. This is why The Rumble kept saying his own nickname and checking in on ManBun (and also why he didn't have an entire gallery of brain-spattered Jackson Pollocks). If he were a competent Crime Boss, he wouldn't need to hedge his bets by double crossing or getting multiple progress reports from ManBun. Unfortunately for The Rumble, the Crime Boss Peter Principle involves your ass getting murdered.

     

    This was what I was thinking with how he was talking and having an underling named P-Roach, that or Grammer saw Vince Vaughn as a wannabe gangster in Be Cool and thought he could do it better, including listening to club rap/trap music whenever he calls someone. The only thing missing was him spraying Crystal on everyone he talked to.

    As I was watching this, it was clear Andy Lawrence basically pulled/stole ideas from the movies he enjoys watching because this was filled with so many tropes from the thief in heavy debt going for one last job, the previously thought impenetrable big money mark is hit by a crack team of specialists, to the inevitable double cross by the client, among other things. It is also clear that the Lawrence brothers learned not much from their decades of acting experience in regards to making a movie because this was all so cheap and old looking. Like when Edge was going over that basic as hell plan of how they were going to rip off the plane, I was assuming that nothing was going to be according to plan and they'd have to improvise to complete the heist, sort of like A is For Amateur from The ABCs of Death 2 where the imagining is nothing like the reality. Also what is more telling about how low budget this is, this was not released under the WWE Films banner, which is par for the course any time a contracted wrestler, which Edge was at the time of this filming. They could not even get a bit of promotion or funding from there and they have produced some truly shitty movies

    Lastly, in regards to a dude putting his bare feet up in a casino and Thomas Jane's kookyness, he apparently loves going barefoot at public events as watching a show on youtube, one of the hosts talked about going to a red carpet premier for one of the Walking Dead season premiers and Thomas Jane was near him, and he walked the red carpet barefoot and then proceeded to talk through the episode as if he'd never actually seen a TV show of any kind before let alone one about a zombie apocalypse. Also, whenever I hear of someone being barefoot in a casino this is the scene that instantly comes to mind because of how disgusting it just looks and what seems like the proper response to it.

     

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  4. Posted

    I also enjoyed Palm Springs and how it dealt with the time loop scenario, although I do feel that there could have been a bit more JK Simmons in it. Another I would recommend is You Should Have Left with Kevin Bacon and Amanda Seyfried. In my opinion a very well done take on a haunted house film while adding in a psychological element of guilt following a traumatic incident and how one copes with it. Blumhouse has been doing great with these type of films though I am starting to wonder if they are just using the inside of Jason Blum's own home for sets as this, Invisible Man, Upgrade have very similar interiors at a few points.

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  6. Posted

    Definitely looks like him and even after reading press releases they aren't announcing much in the way of the cast yet, though I am interested in how it is a dark take on the superhero genre with the lead character claiming to be a dimensionally displaced one but no one really believes him.

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  7. Posted

    14 hours ago, theworstbuddhist said:

    It has sort of worked for Marvel's Agents of SHIELD and Agent Carter series, where the shows pick up on changes to the MCU based on whatever movies get released during the hiatus. But it's also a largely one-way relationship; the movies dictate changes to the shows, not the other way around.

    Yeah they tried that as well in the Netflix shows, for at least the first season of each show, but it was only coming down from the films, there was never a mention in the movies of the massive ninja attack in New York, the fact a skyscraper collapsed around a hidden dragon tomb, or an ex-Marine going on a killing spree against criminals mentioned in any MCU film.

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  8. Posted

    23 minutes ago, theworstbuddhist said:

    As a fan of the original comic series and the recent Legion series on FX, I am looking forward to the release of The New Mutants. Will it finally come out next month? Who can say. https://bloody-disgusting.com/movie/3624655/watch-opening-scene-new-mutants-plus-wild-new-trailer/

    At this point I think they are just hoping to release it to try and make any kind of money off it. To me it's sort of like what Monster Trucks was a couple years ago where one studio started making a film and then it just got handed off to one owner after another who did reshoots and caused the budget to balloon to where it could no way make a profit. I'm interested in seeing it as well, but after the last mutant film, I'm not having high hopes for it.

  9. Posted

    3 hours ago, GammaDev said:

    Re: The Prequels.  Paul on how great Clone Wars and reflecting on the Prequel movies says "Lucas should have made a tv series".   That WAS the plan.  Around the time of Special Editions, Lucas did pitch a Star Wars series to HBO.  At the time, HBO would have been the only network that both had the money and would allow the series to be non-kiddie.  Lucas was envious of Babylon 5 having the luxury of doing a 5 year story arc to develop its characters.  For instance, the character of Mollari was generally hated by fans the first season because he was seen as a buffoon and a weak attempt at comic relief.  But over five years he went through an incredible arc where the character took an opportunity to grab power and set in motion the downfall of the galaxy.  He evolved into a tragic figure and a fan favorite.  But if B5 only had three movies to develop that character (while still dealing with the main plot and characters) the evolution just wouldn't have worked.  In retrospect, you can see Lucas had a similar story arc planned for Jar Jar Binks, but simply too little time to develop it into something meaningful (I mean, Jar Jar did basically enable Palpatine to seize power and after Revenge of the Sith probably put a blaster in his mouth).

    In that original pitch to HBO, after each season there would be a big theatrical movie for key moments in the Clone Wars- stuff that was too expensive to justify in a series like gigantic battles and climatic confrontations.   They would serve as sort of cliff hangers for the next season when a time jump could occur.  

    Anyway, the HBO execs at the time didn't think a sci-fantasy series revolving around politics, intrigue, shifting alliances, universe-building, and character development would have mass appeal (*cough* Game of Thrones) and passed.   Lucas went to plan B, started making the Prequel movies, but kept trying to get a "dark, gritty" live action Star Wars series off the ground at every break.  A lot of material developed for these different series was used in the animated Clone Wars.  

    I remember that being an original plan for Stephen King's The Dark Tower series, where it would run on TV for a season or two between three larger films. Maybe Hollywood should just stop thinking that this type of branching media crossover will actually work.

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  10. Posted

    Seen 50 of these but the list really needs to be weighted, as it's only qualifier is 20 reviews, so a movie could have 20 meh reviews and get a worse ranking thank a movie with three times as many bad reviews but had some good ones mixed in. Also noticed a lot of Stephen Dorff on that list, should there be another thing added to the list of "how to know if a movie will be terrible" list that's on this forum?

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  11. Posted

    Just watched this last weekend and it should be done if only for the insane amount of people in this cast. Add to that the batshit plot along with the fact that Geena Davis at one point gets so into her horny vampire role that her boobs are almost popping out of her outfit as she womanhandles Begley Jr. Then you have Michael Richards' puppet routine and the dad from Beetlejuice as a weirdo mayor, this movie is made for this podcast.

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    2 hours ago, theworstbuddhist said:

    Hey @RyanSz, was it you in another thread that was into John Layman's work (Outer Darkness, Chew)? I just saw an announcement that he has a new prequel to Chew called Chu, about the original detective's sister.

    Yeah it was me and I've seen that, and since it's the original team coming together to work on it again, I'm excited. The artist for that series Rob Guillory called Farmhand which is in the same humor vein as Chew and centers around a farm that grows replacement body parts and organs for people. Great mix of dark and light humor with Guillory showing he can write as well as he can draw.

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  13. Posted

    14 hours ago, theworstbuddhist said:

    I can’t believe I forgot this when I was writing out my list because it is not only one of my all time favourite books, it’s been one of the most influential to me as a cartoonist, and it certainly merits its own post, so:

    Love and Rockets: Gilbert Hernandez (W/A), Xaime Hernandez (W/A), sometimes Mario Hernandez (W/A). This title has been published since 1980, initially self published by Los Bros Hernandez and shortly picked up by Fantagraphics, who have published most of their material since. It started as a magazine format comic that ran for 50 issues, then went through some other formats, and is now back as the magazine. Most of the material is created by Gilbert (“Beto”) and Xaime, each of them telling stories about Latinx people in California and Central to South America. beto's stories originally centred around the fictional small village of Palomar and an extended cast of characters and their travails, but over the years he has shifted to focus on one particular character called Luba and her children and extended family. Xaime tends to write about a pair of young women called Maggie and Hopita (“Hopey”) who are best friends and occasional lovers, as well as their families and friends in a barrio called Hoppers in LA. 
    Beto also does a lot of standalone side graphic novels these days, whereas Xaime generally sticks to the main book for his comics and does some book illustration on the side.

    I don’t think it’s possible to overestimate the impact of L&R on American comics or world comics for that matter. There is also so much of it now after 40 years that it’s probably intimidating for a new reader, but I really can’t recommend it enough. Fortunately Fantagraphics has collected various storylines into manageable volumes, so for beginners I would recommend “Heartbreak Soup”, “Human Diastrophism”, “The Death of Speedy”, “The Love Bunglers”, and Beto’s autobiographical graphic novels like “Bumperhead”. Or just start from the beginning. It takes a volume or two to gel in terms of art style but once it does, their unique fusion of influences like Schulz and Bob Bolling and Dan DeCarlo really sings.

    I know that they put out a kind of omnibus a decade or so ago called Palomar and it was a good few hundred pages, and it's a helluva lot easier for a comic fan to get into a series these days as almost any series of note has any combination of fan wikia, Wikipedia page, online reviews, or Youtube breakdowns, so a potential reader can easily fill in the blanks on a given story. It's definitely helped me as I'm going through the Stray Bullets omnibus where basically every chapter is out of chronological order and there are numerous connections between characters than span years.

  14. Posted

    56 minutes ago, theworstbuddhist said:

    It's safe to say I also have a bit of Watchmen fatigue. It was what I wrote my MA thesis about, using an adapted form of one of Noam Chomsky's theories of linguistics. At the time it was still a relatively new book, not a cornerstone of DC's continuity and livelihood. I think the deal they made with Moore and Gibbons was shitty, even if Gibbons has been willing to roll with it and stay involved in some of the various projects since. I do eventually get around to reading most of the Watchmen stuff, I just try to minimize DC's revenue from it, so I borrow it from a library or whatever. I've heard good things about the TV series so I'll probably watch that eventually too.  The only thing I've read so far related to Doomsday Clock is the story "The Button", which mostly made me angry, because it seemed to be implying that DC's comics line had become ever-grimmer-and-grittier because of the success of books like Watchmen and The Dark Knight Returns (which, again, so many shitty sequels), and not their own feckless editorial decisions, endless publicity stunts and reboots and so on. The point of Watchmen was that it was self-contained. The last line of the book is literally to leave it in the hands of the reader, and DC keeps taking that away.

    Anyway. People get different stuff than I do out of any given comic series, and that's fine. There are a lot of Watchmen-adjacent books that I would rather read instead, like Fleming and Von Eeden's Thriller from the early 80s, or the late Denny O'Neil's Question series, etc. As far as Moore's work went I actually preferred V for Vendetta.

    Yeah the Watchmen series served as a good spiritual sequel to the book with some great performances from the leads and a few of the Before Watchmen stories were really good, like the ones on the Minutemen and Night Owl. In regards to Dark Knight Returns, the one cowritten by Brian Azzarello I thought was actually pretty solid, because it was later revealed Frank Miller was really only involved in name since he's become batshit insane, and adds an interesting twist where the jarred Kryptonian city of Kandor was probably jarred for the best rather than be a fully grown city. Though that also may be in part because I love Azzarello's work ever since 100 Bullets. Miller and Moore are a couple writers, along with Grant Morrison and Gail Simone, who I've come to realize really need a handler to keep the leash short because otherwise they go so insane with creative freedom it becomes an utter dumpster fire. With Miller you have things like Holy Terror, Morrison with his Animal Man run, Simone with Clean Room and Moore with the independently published sequels for League of Extraordinary Gentlemen where the main storyline is Harry Potter is the Anti-Christ and shoots lightning from his dick. Yes that actually happened.

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  15. Posted

    @theworstbuddhist Yeah Peter Cannon is on my reserve list on Amazon and I'll probably get it with my next paycheck. Doomsday Clock works fantastically because Geoff Johns really treats the original with reverence and keeps everything in character. As for Tom King I was lucky enough to meet him and Mitch Gerards at Comic Con last year and he might easily be one of the nicest comic creators that I've met, he was also amazed that prison inmates were reading his novel, A Once Crowded Sky, which if you haven't read I suggest you pick it up as it is a very interesting take on the fallout of the epic crossovers we as comic readers have become used to seeing every year or so. 

    Great list all around, loved Wicked + Divine, starting the second volume of Die and waiting for volume 2 of Exorsisters, and I can't wait to read the final volume of Sex Criminals.

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  16. Posted

    16 hours ago, theworstbuddhist said:

    There's certainly worse fates than to have Kirkman in your corner! He and Chris Samnee have a new series called FirePower which is essentially a mashup of Iron Fist and Avatar: The Last Airbender (only it's about firebending, not airbending, so far).

    Yeah it's in one of my Amazon lists I just haven't gotten around to ordering it. Kirkman has another series with Chris Burnham, who's art style I just love, called Die! Die! Die! which is kind of like a Manhattan Projects but set in the spy/secret society world.

  17. Posted

    So the idea of a topic like this was brought up in a recent discussion that took place in a mini-ep where we realized that many of us have a love of comics, but our recommendations get lost to time in the middle of other discussions. So I figured why not go with the idea and start the topic. Basically it's about sharing a love of the comic medium and giving others ideas for series we may not have heard about or on the fence on for reading.

    Couple things:

    If it's a specific run of a series, like with a superhero, try your best to list the writer to make it easier to find

    Just give a brief pitch of what the series is about or why you like it, otherwise be sure to use the spoiler covering

     

    Since I'm now back at work a bit more, albeit still under a modified lockdown, I've been reading into my backlog of paperbacks and have really been lucky with some good series.

    DC

    Doomsday Clock - a fantastic blending of the mainstream DC universe and Alan Moore's Watchmen universe

    Mister Miracle by Tom King - very interesting blend of psychological look at a hero riddled with trauma/PTSD and having to deal with the fallout of his upbringing as the adopted son of Darkseid

    Marvel

    Spider-Man: Life Story - a Spider-Man tale with now sliding timeline, so Peter Parker is aging realistically and is dealing with real world events like the Vietnam War and other societal landmarks

    Image/Dark Horse/Etc.

    Deadly Class - solid high school  story where the school specializes in creating the next generation of criminal and killers, where cliques are made of groups like the Yakuza and cartel rather than jocks and preps

    A Walk Through Hell - a dark psychological horror story involving two FBI agents who are forced to combat their sins and their ramifications while searching a new crime scene

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  18. Posted

    1 hour ago, Elektra Boogaloo said:

    The plot description of this from Wikipedia is: 

    Do we think someone edited this to be funny? Should we add Ron Silva?

    I saw this too but this was a change made over a month ago, so it couldn't have been anyone who heard the mini-ep and decided to do this. To be fair though from one look at the main character you can tell he's a dude who just drops ass as soon as he's in the middle of a crowd of people, and not silently but just rips it.

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  19. Posted

    2 hours ago, theworstbuddhist said:

    That was a good book - I think it was recently cancelled unfortunately. Cool idea though. We should start a pull list thread for comics recommendations perhaps, so they aren't buried in individual episode threads?

    Also for those who like reading digital comics, there is a massive archive of Image comics series currently up as a Humble Bundle. Great deal for a good cause, and available for 5 more days.

    Yeah I saw that but that's mainly because Layman published it under Skybound, which has the power to cancel a series, and not Image directly, which is more creator owned and basically only ends a series if the owner decides and that's usually when it is costing them more to print the comic than they are making on it. I get why Layman went to Skybound as a rumored part of the deal is access to Robert Kirkman's connections in TV and movies, and having talked to Layman at a convention he has been trying for years to get his work adapted. He was going to release an animated series or film based on his Chew series but it hit so many snags, like co-lead Robin Williams dying and funding dropout, that it eventually never happened, so the idea of getting a leg up on another attempt probably sounded ideal for him.

  20. Posted

    14 hours ago, theworstbuddhist said:

    Joe Hill (who is one of Stephen King’s sons btw, for the few ppl who might not know) has a whole comics empire going now with an imprint at DC called Hill House. So far I’ve read a miniseries called Basketful of Heads which is darkly funny and an ongoing series called Plunge, drawn by the great Stuart Immonen. It has a real The Terror/ The Thing vibe.

     https://www.dccomics.com/comics/hill-house-comics-sampler#.XxBIO54zdnE.link

    Yeah Hill has been doing great with comics, The Cape is another that is a very dark take on what if a deadbeat guy gained the ability of a magical cape and what he would do with it against those he felt has wronged him in his life, and then there is The Wraith which is kind of a side story to N0S4A2 and goes into the history of the villain while giving a very interesting story of a group of adults that get pulled into Christmasland.

    9 hours ago, GrahamS. said:

    Joe Hill is actually one of my favorite authors, period. Although I grew up on—and still love—Stephen King, Joe Hill has managed to put his own stamp on the horror/dark fantasy genre. His latest collection of short stories—Full Throttle—is great, NOS482 is great (and has another TV show that’s a mixed bag) and his short story “Pop Art” is one of my favorites of all time (and it’s not a horror story). Honestly, his only book that I had mixed feelings about was Strange Weather, but that still had some good stuff in it.

    As for Locke & Key, it’s a show that’s had a very troubled production history. Its most recent previous incarnation—which Joe Hill was also hands-on with—was co-created with Scott Derrickson (Sinister, Dr. Strange). They made a pilot for Hulu, Hulu changed management and didn’t pick it up. It was supposed to be good and had an awesome cast. Who knows what it would have been like, but since both creators have horror backgrounds, I like to think it would have been truer to the tone of the the graphic novels. The Netflix version was produced by Carlton Cuse (Lost and the Adventures of Brisco County Jr—where Bruce Campbell played a cowboy—are his most interesting.....Bates Hotel and his involvement in Rampage and San Andreas are less so).

    Locke & Key had a pilot filmed and shown for Fox years ago that was never picked up, I think the budget was claimed to have been too much for the network at that time. It had Nick Stahl, Sarah Bolger, and Jesse McCartney in it and Steven Spielberg was a producer, so there was a definite drive to make this work, especially after they showed it at Comic Con 2011. I'm wondering if they had waited a bit longer for the Hulu attempt if it would have gone through after Hulu has produced amazing series based on King's work with 11/22/63 and Castle Rock. I will say I'm very interested to see what Hill does with the new series he's working on for Locke & Key that is supposed to be a prequel and sequel to the original series and be almost 40 issues.

    Another series with dark tones and a bit of humor that I've been reading the hell out of is Outer Darkness by John Layman who wrote the equally fantastic Chew. Outer Darkness is essentially Star Trek with ghosts and exorcists, and where the ships are powered by death gods who require a soul sacrifice in order to emit their power to the ship. It's a dark and action filled series with a decent blend of humor that is Layman is great with.

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  21. Posted

    3 hours ago, GrahamS. said:

    Adding to the comics reccomendations a little late, but I liked Joe Hill’s Locke & Key graphic novels MUCH more than their WB-ish Netflix adaptation. If you’ve seen the show but not read the books, check them out! Just keep in mind that they’re not suitable for kids (my cousin has a 12-year old who loves the show and I had to warn him about the books).

    Yeah while I enjoyed the show, I'm bummed it became a watered down Stranger Things type show, especially given how amazing the book series is as a gothic fantasy horror series. It seems odd that those choices would be made, especially given Joe Hill's involvement in the show's development and that Netflix does have shows that go into what could be deemed R rated content.

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  22. Posted

    2 hours ago, grudlian. said:

    A comic I'd recommend is Marvels. It is the Marvel version of Jason's description of Astro City. It's the rise of Marvel superheroes in the golden age told from the perspective of a journalist. It really blew my mind as a kid (partly because I'd never seen Alex Ross' work before). It will never happen, but I'd like a movie set in the MCU loosely following it.

    Marvels was great, and if you want a kick to the pants read Warren Ellis' Ruins, which is an uber-dark retelling of that story with everything that could go wrong did. Basically the fantastical ways characters gained their powers in the mainstream Marvel universe is treated realistically in this one where characters have deformities or have died from such things as attempted super soldier serums, bites from radioactive animals, or nuclear testing. It's dark as hell but an interesting parody that I am sure inspired recent "real superhero" series like Kick-Ass and The Boys. Also if you ever go to Comic Con in San Diego, there is an art gallery down the street in the Gaslamp District that during that time features Ross' work as well as some other animated or comic work, if I recall the last time was Looney Tunes material. The best thing is not all of it has been featured in comics so they are original works based on comic characters or moments.

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    On 7/11/2020 at 7:07 AM, DrGuts1003 said:

    I would highly recommend people check out Pluto TV.  It is a free streaming service that has a bunch of channels running 24/7.  Some channels are devoted strictly to one show.  Like there is a Baywatch channel that shows nothing but episodes of Baywatch and an American Gladiators channel.

    But then some channels are devoted to certain existing cable channels.  Like one channel only shows MTV dating shows.  There are multiple Comedy Central channels on the service and I have seen Kroll Show, Detroiters, and @Midnight shown on there.

    The app is associated with Paramount/Viacom, which is why cable channels like MTV and Comedy Central are associated with it.  They are constantly adding new channels too.  I heard shows like Survivor and The Amazing Race are getting added next week.

    I am a huge game show fan and they have both Buzzr and Game Show Network on there.  I have pretty much only been watching Pluto TV this summer.  They also have an On Demand section if you are looking for something specific.

    I second this as Pluto has been a godsend for watching shows that don't show up on the big three streaming services for any number of reasons.

    Also in regards to the comic discussion Prez is actually a reboot of a series from the 70s that occurs when the minimum age for becoming president is lowered to 18. It is a very campy series and filled with of the times tropes  and hokeyisms. I will say DC's work with cartoon brands like Looney Tunes and Hannah Barbera is fantastic. If you haven't read the DC/Looney Tunes paperback you should as the majority of the stories within a great, especially the Batman/Elmer Fudd. Then you have the Hannah Barbera stuff which has things like a Wacky Racers set in a Mad Max universe, Ruff & Ready set in the dark underbelly of Hollywood and Network TV, and the aforementioned Flinstones, which are a suprising great read especially if you grew up with those cartoons.

    I will also recommend books like Crowded which features a world where people can crowd fund assassination contracts against people while those people can use a Uber-like company to hire bodyguards. The main character of this finds herself with one of the largest contracts in history and has to hire a low rated bodyguard who plays by the government regulations, like filing proper paperwork and having the right licenses rather than dropping bodies, to keep her alive while she finds who wants her dead and why.

    Another that I have been re-reading in anticipation of its final volume being released in a few weeks is East of West, which is an alternate reality where the US was split into seven kingdoms after the Civil War and members of each kingdom are involved with bringing about the apocalypse according to a doomsday tome known as The Message. In the course of this the Four Horsemen are broken up after Death finds a wife and is preparing to have a child with her, only for the other Horsemen to presumably kill them all in order to keep the doomsday plans on the right track. Obviously things don't work out and Death survives to go on a bloody revenge quest against those who took everything from him or so he thinks. It's a fantastic blend of western, sci-fi, and fantasy and it works in a kind of Game of Thrones way where every kingdom is given depth and time to shine so the reader knows the stakes for everyone as this world steamrolls towards the end of times.

  24. Posted

    16 hours ago, Elektra Boogaloo said:

    The fact that forum posters are confirming that, in Canada, this movie is shown to young children has me rethinking everything I know about Canada.

    ”Paul was actually kicked in the face and has a scar.”

    AND YOU ARE ONLY BRINGING THIS UP NOW. This is huge news. 

    I wonder what Marcus Lemonis would think of Signore’s business.

    Even bigger reveal is someone had gotten footage of Paul getting kicked, he even had a crop.

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    Glad I am not the only one who was disturbed by how the daughter and dad where interacting with one another. The opening minutes when she wakes him and he comes downstairs she is hanging off his shoulder like a put upon wife having to deal with her husband and an old drinking buddy of his who has overstayed his welcome, and there were other instances where it almost came off as the dad told her in a drunken stupor that she's the woman of the house and has to act like this, not in a sexual way but a familiar way so that he can remember his wife and keep the routine up at home.  Also after seeing the longer wigs on Michael, I have to assume the people behind Joe Dirt used this as a template for the wigs used in that movie.

    Did anyone else notice that Connie's family might be really well off? When the Signor is getting ready to tear up his drawing after ripping Michael's flaming dog, Connie makes a threat of never coming to the class again and how much his dad is paying this school, or at least the last part sounded like that. The Signor instantly stops what he's going to do and steps away in a huff. It made me think that the dad was donating a boatload to this school and Connie could cause this to stop if he told his dad about his art class experiences. Also before seeing the principal run down Signor's misdeeds as a fraud, it should have been obvious when he as an art teacher was telling his students he wanted no imagination in the classroom, which is the complete opposite of what art is.

    As for the homeless ghosts, I get that they were wanting to help Michael with getting his hair back since he gave the male ghost money the day before the fire, but wouldn't it make more sense that they would hold him responsible for their deaths? By him giving them the amount of money that he did, I'm am guessing they decided to hoot it up in an abandoned building with whatever they bought with the cash, and incidentally caused the fire that killed them. That way it makes more sense for the female goes to be kind of a dick to Michael on the second night by saying she could be nice or mean to him and that night she was feeling mean and wouldn't give him the recipe.

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