Cam Bert

My two favourite examples of "Wait, what?" racial casting are John Wayne as Genghis Khan in The Conqueror and Charlton Heston as Mexican in A Touch of Evil which manages to be good despite that.

You're right. I get simplifying Fitzwilliam down to Will, but Wickham makes no sense.

Hoteler I believe is the term. Speaking of which did they say what Balraj's job was? Were him and Darcy best friends from childhood or having rich families did they just know each other and became friends that way?

Casting all around is great. Even the parents are great. Kevin Weisman is some great comic relief. COMIC BOOK SPOILERS AHEAD!!!

You're probably right. It's probably originally written with him as British considering the writer/director is and then a certain gross producer made her change it to an American to sell easier to an American audience.

I just finished the first two episodes. I'll echo the thing about it being well cast, the show is really well cast and it's nice to see non-30 year old teens for a change. Which brings me to my only real problem so far, Molly is too old. The actress playing her is clearly the same age, maybe a year or so off, as the rest but she's suppose to be younger. They've written her younger, she's playing it younger, but she looks like she is the same age which just makes her character seem a little off. Otherwise I agree, it's similar but different enough to make me guess. In terms of the relationship quibble

I'm sorry Punisher bored me to sleep last night and I missed the majority of the talk. Suffice to say I agree with pretty much everything everyone has said (Darcy blah, first half better, last half rushed, etc.) but one thing about this film that really confused me is why did they go to London? I get that that's where Wickham and Balraj were but they were heading to L.A. They fly in the opposite direction to London, then fly to L.A. which is in on the opposite coast as England. It just seems like a really awkward and weird way of getting there. Which brings me to the one true complaint about the movie, why make Darcy American? Balraj Kiran, and Wickham are British, so why make Darcy American and not British? I understand them wanting to do the thing with Mr. Kohli and how Americanized he's become and turned his back on India and that, but again couldn't this be done with him moving to England? Or conversely why not make Wickham, Balraj and Kiran American? Was there any point to having some of the foreign characters being American and British?

Is it going all up at once or once a week? I'm almost finished Punisher. I would have last night but much like you I feel asleep on it..

I always thought The Punisher worked best when he was like Jaws. He's a constant threat and danger, but works better in small doses. Teased throughout and then bam comes on big at the end. I'm only just past half way through, but here are two main problems I am having. One, the story just feels like an extension of DD season 2. He's fighting a shadowy military conspiracy again. This is fine but I'm kind checked out because it feels a lot like been there done that but with the same formula of the other Marvel Netflix shows (nothing happens until the end of the first episode, around the middle the main character is gravely injured, things gear up at the point at which screeners for critics stopped and the story seems to shift. etc.) The other problem is that almost all the characters are the same. Everyone is head strong and stubborn and thinks they can do it on their own and it just is so blah. Just a lot of this gets boring to me and their doesn't seem to be any unique characters or points of view.

Plus a skull vest made out of plot armor.

I'm only three episodes in but I for one am hoping The Punisher ends with him being killed and coming back as either a angel of vengeance or a Frankenstein monster.

I think Nathan For You is one of the greatest comedies ever. It's one of those shows at first that's just kinda silly and dumb but the more you come to known the character of "Nathan" the richer the show gets. The other thing I think is great is that the kind of people that they get it is very easy to make fun of but in a Tim and Eric sort of way he finds these people and treats them well while at the same time knowing which people he encounters are okay to make fun of like parents willing to have a man expose himself to their children for money. I encourage people to check it out his show.

I think we're all in agreement. When it comes to Cameron H.

I think Daxus has so many cool ideas for buildings he just couldn't decide. He didn't know if they should build a giant crucifix or a giant bio hazard sign or a giant tall tower, etc. He loved them all so he made them all get built. Now he was left with the problem of justifying the building of so many buildings so he randomly assigned them things to do and in the ensuing confusion decided to put the cloning building far away from the bio lab building. He would have cared if his new buildings weren't so kick ass.

Sucker Punch is by far one of the worse movies I have ever seen. It is the literal wet dream of a horny teenage boy who has no friends and thinks they are smarter than everyone and super deep.

Here's my biggest problem with the opening scene. So they hire this courier to deliver their top secret super important child in a box. Why? They run all these test on the courier to be sure that they aren't a hemophage but at the end of the day they are the dictatorship in charge of the nation. They have numerous giant buildings full of hundreds if not thousands of staff members. They have a whole robot army in both black and white armor. You mean to tell me that they don't have one trusted already vetted employee who they know beyond a shadow of a doubt is uninfected and loyal that could act as a courier? Why are they hiring an outside party to handle such an important and delicate package? If it is a timing issue, did they forget they are the ones in charge? They can close train lines or roads. They can have an armored convoy on blocked streets. It shouldn't be so hard.

I'm all for any of the holiday movies. I would say maybe Deck the Halls because it's the one I fear the most.

Makes me wonder if she took her husband's name or if that is her maiden name.

You had me at the punny title. I eagerly await next week's Mr. Darcy off.

She was born into a normal-ish world. There is that whole made up Asian country, people and language. There is also the whole issue of technology. Who knows if inter-dimension swords, anti-gravity belts and paper phones were things before or after the outbreak. You could argue that even since IMDB trivia admits that nobody knows how the anti-gravity stuff works, they themselves live in a world that they too don't fully understand. The guy that discovered this ancient virus was not her husband but was Daxus. Her husband caught it some other way and passed it on to her. Speaking on Daxus getting it via slide, how? The blood sample is in the middle of the slide. He cut his finger on the corner of the slide, where did the cross contamination come from? The blood was nowhere near the corner and you'd think after cutting his finger he'd get that taken care of immediately or at least bandage it up before handling more samples. Also if the hemophege disease has been around for centuries and it is so contagious that you have to wear masks, nose filters, drink sealed water, etc. how was there never an major outbreak before? If it's that bad it should have been wiping out entire villages for centuries. If the shortened life span, super speed and strength and that were results of the "enhanced" disease what were the original symptoms? Fangs and that's it?

There are two more comic covers in the opening credits scene that are worth mentioning. First there is one that read "Violet taken down by the yakuza? Total bushido!!! Your triad is strong Arthur Wong Ngok Tai, H.K.S.C. but stack againt V and you're wong... dead wong" For starters those are two horrible puns. The first one just makes no sense and the later is just racist. Also the yakuza are Japanese and the triads are Chinese. They are two separate organized crime groups, so is she fighting them both at the same time and why is she fighting them they have nothing to do with Daxus and his system? The next is the one that has Japanese and reads "Transcendental robot army violet battle" and "Colonel's burning kingdom." Now all that sounds like gibberish and that's because that's what it is. However, what if they just screwed up their Japanese? What if all those guys in black that violet fights and that work for Daxus are actually robots. Or maybe they are trying to say that Violet is actually a robot. It would explain a lot like her changing hair, her perfect aim, her lighting fast reflexes, living past the lifespan of disease victims, and her hatred of humans.

You'll like this, they went super meta it's called "Biohazard 7: Resident Evil"

Waiting dance party!

A few years I remember going to USJ (Universal Studios Japan) for their Halloween celebrations. They always had a section of the park made into Raccoon city and had Resident Evil/Biohazard characters and monsters about. Then they started doing an attraction there called "Biohazard the Real" in which you were given a laser gun and walked about a haunted house shooting at people dressed as zombies. Unfortunately a lot of people just called it "real biohazard" which made for an awkward moment when I first heard of it and was asked "there is a real biohazard at USJ, do you want to go?"

I could be wrong on this but is the cemetery fight scene the only scene in the movie that has natural lighting, shot at an actual location, and no filters or CGI manipulation in it?