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I agree, that stuiff isn't right at all, and those saying it "Sets women back" is one of the most ridiculous justifications I've ever seen. And the bullshit "They ruined my childhood", I just want to slap the shit out of those guys. Which is where the whole "Getting tarred with the same brush" thing happens. Take James Rolfe for example, he came out gave his reasons that had nothing to do with the female cast, and he just got destroyed, and called a sexist and even had Patton Oswalt and Dane Cook piling on him. Like I've said before, I can only speak for myself personally, but I don't like the outright remake, I'd have preferred the four of them to just be this incarnation of The Ghostbusters, I'd have loved some closure on the original guys, like Kristin Wiig doing a voice over "Egon retired first, he passed away recently, Ray's still in the city, he drops by every now and then, Winston had sons who are in college, Peter moved to LA" sort of an epilogue for those guys, and then various changes to the roster, like have Seth Rogan quitting on the first day of the job, James Franco pissing himself at the sight of a ghost, Michael Cera freaking out and these guys getting scared and quitting in funny ways. Then as those guys left, have Wiig say "I then came into the team" and then introduce Kate McKinnon and Melissa McCarthy, and then it shows that it's a job interview with Leslie Jones. And they could even play that "What?! The Ghostbusters are women now?! What are they gonna do?!" and then by the end of the movie, they show up, and kick a whole load of ghost ass. Lastly, Anita Sarkeesian is an idiot, she's literally the worst representation of feminism imaginable, makes those who are attempting to make inroads into better female representation look like histrionic, overly sensitive children, one of those "Damned if you do, damned if you don't" kind who are never happy (unless you pay her of course).

I think it's a case of the vocal idiot minority. The Mad Max thing, that was one stupid website called "Return of Kings", who focus of MGTOW/Pick Up Artist bullshit, who said "This movie is feminist propaganda, not a true Mad Max movie", which then became "Men hate this new Mad Max movie!" couldn't be further from the truth, it was MGTOW "We hate women" morons. As for the Ghostbusters, it's a similar situation, there are people like me saying "What the fuck, why are they changing shit, continue it", and you have rags like Jezebel, The Mary Sue and places like that straight up saying "You don't like it because it's women", which just stoked the fires then. Which then set off the same MGTOW idiots from the Mad Max debacle, and those guys really are the sexists, and then that tars the rest of them with that brush. When you have Karate Kid, Total Recall, RoboCop, Vacation, or whatever, there wasn't this "Well, if you don't like the Karate Kid remake, you're a racist" whereas there was that with Ghostbusters, it got overblown on all sides and it was a farce from beginning to end. It's just fucking idiots on both sides that make it worse, you have the MGTOW idiots like at Return of Kings saying "I don't want these women fucking up my hobby, they ruin everything" and you have feminist idiots like Anita Sarkeesian who literally say "Everything is sexist, everything is racist and everything is homophobic and it needs to be pointed out", which then sets people against each other. I just want to watch moves and play videos game without being called a sexist, or a having "toxic masculinity" or whatever, I want people to create whatever their imagination can think up without being castigated, I want the fun back.

In fairness, I didn't like it when I first read about the remake, as I've never been a fan of outright remakes where they just change it just for the sake of it (Karate Kid for example, he doesn't even do Karate for fuck's sake). At the same time, I've really liked Paul Feig's movies (especially Spy and The Heat). So, all this time, I was thinking "They've just changed it to women, just to change it to women" until Paul Feig actually spoke at length about it on Opie with Jim Norton a couple of days ago, where he had about 30 minutes to really talk about why he did it the way he did it, why he chose who he chose and whatnot. I think a lot of that would have been smoothed over a long time ago if there was this open discourse instead of "You're an asshole!" "Fuck you! You're a sexist!" "Don't call me a sexist you fucking white knight!". Slightly embarrassing admission, there was a set-to when Paul Feig was said to have told a reporter in the New York Post (I think), where he said "Geek culture is full of assholes" or something to that effect, and he wrote a message on his twitter clarifying his position, so I sent one back saying "Not all of us have a problem that it's an all-female group, some of us just wished it was a continuation as opposed to the restart button being pressed and shouldn't be tarred with the "sexist" brush." and he actually liked the message, so I'm okay with Paul Feig.

Paul's on today's episode of "Talk is Jericho" with Chris Jericho. He talks about the incident from the "Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counsellor" episode where June smacked a motherfucker, SNL auditions, a little HDTGM, and going to watch movies on his own along with other things. http://cdn46.castfir...Talk-Is-Jericho

Doesn't matter, you're on the team

Billy Zane just looks so sad in this poster. I almost wish time travel was available so I can go back in time and tell him, "Hey, look, it does get better... you get to shag Kelly Brook! Granted, you do steal her off Jason Statham who was supposed to be your friend, but look!" That would cheer him up a little, I'd think.

Oh god, I hated Stryker in the games, Kabal on the other hand, he was a bad motherfucker, loved him. The part where Raiden says "Shao Khan is my brother!" it was the exact same reaction I had when they did the same thing in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves when they said Robin was Will Scarlett's brother, that being... "NO HE'S FUCKING NOT!!" Fuck yeah, and I love that you used the Predator gif, absolutely perfect.

Not only that, the sheer number of characters who are brought in, with ZERO reference to their names, which then makes people not familiar with Mortal Kombat, think "Well, who the fuck is that?!" Cyrax Smoke Mileena Ermac Baraka Reptile (again, having been killed in the previous one.. and somehow has clones) And then characters that are named, but don't appear Stryker Kabal This whole movie is just a hodge-podge of 2, 3 and 4. The story is based upon MK3 for the most part.

I saw the thumbnail, and was so disappointed that it wasn't this

Yeah, Monday for me has podcasts from Bill Burr, Jay Mohr, and Shaq (depending on the guests the latter two have). So HDTGM coming out on a Monday can leave me with four podcasts to listen to.

This is cause for celebration

To put the whole debate as to whether the living mannequin would have genitals, I have two words to put an end to it... Weird Science!

If they were to do a Male Centric Mannequin sequel, I put forward the title "The Dummy". A lonely department store worker, having to cover an early morning shift dressing mannequins in the menswear department, she'd say something along the lines of "Wish I could find a guy with abs like that", and the mannequin comes to life. Here's the problem, he's a complete moron (hence the title "The Dummy"), so while the now living mannequin is physically attractive, he has absolutely no common sense, he's getting into fights with mirrors because "That guy keeps copying me!", maybe have him fall down the stairs because he doesn't know he can bend his knees, even think he's broken his leg when he does bend at the knee, the girl has to teach him everything. And then you end the trailer for the movie where the girl (I'm thinking Rachael Leigh Cook, she's due a big comeback) takes "The Dummy" to a party as her date, he does something stupid, and her friend says "Your date's cute... but he's kind of a dummy" to which Rachael Leigh Cook says "You don't know the half of it".

That's what hooked me. I'm telling you, Warner Brothers could make an Marvel style cinematic universe out of Mortal Kombat. You'd have the main "Tournament" movies, but you could then spin off various stand alone movies. You could have Sonya and Jax in a "Special Forces" movie where they're fighting the Black Dragon and Red Dragon organisations. You can have a few Sub Zero movies. You build it up, and then you build it up, until you get the pay off The Justice League vs. The Earthrealm Defenders. So, you'd have Superman, Batman etc, fighting Liu Kang, Sub Zero etc, before a huge fight against the main villain, or group of villains, like Onaga: The Dragon King from MK: Deception https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jx3ldJtYC4

Fuck yeah it is. Near 25 year obsession.

Awesome! Paul's going to be on Chris Jericho's podcast on Tuesday. So, I'm sure they'll talk about some bad movies (Jericho was in Sharknado 3).

The funny thing is, they include the Sub Zero part, that is literally the only part of it that's true to the games Okay, here's a preview of the nerd out that will happen should they ever do the episode. The Sub Zero in MK:A is the Sub-Zero from Mortal Kombat 2 until now, his actual name is "Kuai Liang" and is a member of the Lin Kuei clan, he assumed the "Sub-Zero" moniker when his older brother "Bi-Han", the Sub-Zero from Mortal Kombat 1 was killed. In the Mortal Kombat lore, Kuai Liang is the 6th "Sub Zero". Before that, he went under the name "Tundra". However, in the games, Bi-Han was killed by Scorpion, who was a member of a rival clan (the Shirai Ryu) who was killed, along with the rest of the Shirai Ryu and his family, by who he thought was the Lin Kuei. Which is why Scorpion appeared in the second movie too, depsite dying in the first, he just respawns in the Netherrealm. Told you I would nerd the fuck out over this shit.

I took it, I'm apparently a New Yorker.

I just wanted to tell my emo and hipster stories.

Emo's are much different to Hipsters, although, a lot of Hipsters may be former emos, but they're very different. Emo's were the kids who were too big pussies to go all in on the whole "Goth" thing, they believe that nobody really gets them, and they're very quick to cry when they get slapped. They give off the impression that they don't like anything, and nobody really gets them. Hipsters on the other hand, everything is about the facade, and trying EVERYTHING in their power to be different, if something is worn or enjoyed by something else, get rid of it, because it's useless now. Everything has to be liked "ironically", you can't just like something, there has to be an angle to it. I'll tell a story about hipsters, I went into HMV, and a bunch of Hipsters came in, seemingly in competition with each other to see who could be the most pretentious, they'd pick up CDs by people like Tom Jones, and sarcastically say shit like "Oh, Tom Jones, I really need to get this in my collection" and after a few rounds of that, one of the female hipsters exclaimed "OH MY GOD! DO THESE PEOPLE NOT KNOW WHAT MUSIC IS?!" The girl hipsters made their way over to where I am, the War and Western DVD section, one of them picked up The Good, The Band and The Ugly and said "Oh my god, I'm gonna buy it!" and her friend said "No you're not!", she then said "Yeah, I am, can you imagine it, me, of all people, with the epitome of American Cinema, everyone would be like 'No way'". This old bloke walks up to them and said "Well, you best put that back then, because that's Italian", and I just wanted to celebrate in the aisles of HMV.

I think we have another candidate for an episode of the podcast, especially on the revalation that it was going ot be called "Ghost Bitch", in fact, that's what it's known as for me now. So, the shortlist is Mortal Kombat Annihilation Ready to Rumble Ghost Bitch

Holy shit, I think I must have an eidetic memory for films Over Her Dead Body, starring Eva Longoria (Parker), ice sculpture landed on her.

I think that was Eva Longoria, "Over Her Dead Body", an ice sculpture landed on her at her wedding.

You'd think that, just off the top of my head after feeling a bit creative when it just hit me, stream of conciousness whilst I'm bored as fuck with a back injury.

You know what, fuck it, I'm quoting it here too, I like it too much haha