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Lithium93_

It's just stupid reasoning full stop.

Pentecost

Finished GLOW season 2 tonight. Enjoyed it overall, it got better as it went along. Awesome Kong is great in a few episodes.

Lithium93_

Sicario 2, while not as good as the first, it's a decent action film.

Also Josh Brolin is having one hell of a 2018, Avengers Infinity War, Deadpool 2 and Sicario 2.

jaykhunter

Pentecost wrote: »

Finished GLOW season 2 tonight. Enjoyed it overall, it got better as it went along. Awesome Kong is great in a few episodes.

Better or worse than S1?

sky88

jaykhunter wrote: »

Better or worse than S1?

finished it myself definitely not as good for me as the 1st season. the 1st half of the season especially dragged at times but kong was fantastic when giving the spotlight

A Brad Maddox Guy

jaykhunter wrote: »

Better or worse than S1?

It's kinda different with most of the characters established already but I really enjoyed it. I would say it was better as a whole and has some excellent episodes. Alison Brie is one of the most versatile actors going imo, both emotionally convincing and very funny in pretty much everything I've seen her in.

Pentecost

A Brad Maddox Guy wrote: »

It's kinda different with most of the characters established already but I really enjoyed it. I would say it was better as a whole and has some excellent episodes. Alison Brie is one of the most versatile actors going imo, both emotionally convincing and very funny in pretty much everything I've seen her in.

Agree, it was very much a continuation of season 1 really. Probably slightly better overall.

Lord TSC

James Gunn has been sacked by Disney and removed from future GOTG projects after several dozen old offensive tweets resurfaced, wherein he joked bout rape and pedophillia.

Lithium93_

Lord TSC wrote: »

James Gunn has been sacked by Disney and removed from future GOTG projects after several dozen old offensive tweets resurfaced, wherein he joked bout rape and pedophillia.

I know they aren't subjects to be joked about, but clearly people have nothing better to do than dig up several year old tweets.

Lord TSC

Lithium93_ wrote: »

I know they aren't subjects to be joked about, but clearly people have nothing better to do than dig up several year old tweets.

Joys of being famous, I guess. More surprised they took this long to surface.

Lithium93_

Lord TSC wrote: »

Joys of being famous, I guess. More surprised they took this long to surface.

It's absolute bull**** that he's being raked over the coals because of those tweets, I mean he went on a 5 tweet thread explaining the whole thing, also wouldn't a word behind closed doors just do, instead of him being hung out to dry due to some sad, sad people having nothing better to do.

Agent Coulson

How long before celebrities all start quitting Twitter?

JP Liz V1

Lithium93_ wrote: »

I know they aren't subjects to be joked about, but clearly people have nothing better to do than dig up several year old tweets.

2018 is the year of #MeToo and trial by social media yet Trump is still POTUS

Gunn himself has been opininated of other celebs e.g. Jared Leto

I am guessing Taika Waititi will be taking over GOTG3 (or will it be Christopher Plummer :P)

connemara man

Sack Gunn keep hiring Johnny Depp...

Lord TSC

I think its part and parcel of working with Disney. I'd say they don't care about what you've done, but I'd say there's strict contract clauses that say "Bad PR that threatens our money making machines, and we will sack you."

They woudln't want anything risking the giant that is the MCU. That, and they'll probably replace him cheaply enough.

Bounty Hunter

On a more positive note, I'm actually looking forward to a M.Night Shamalamadingdong movie!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8_e1yPzjV0

Lord TSC

Bloody hell, Shazam looks amazing, considering it's a DCU film

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=go6GEIrcvFY

Speaking of amazing, GODZILLA!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVDtmouV9kM

Lithium93_

I love Comic Con time of year

CastorTroy

Shazam looks pretty cool. As does Godzilla. Though that trailer was missing one big thing.
Not watching the Glass trailer as would prefer to see it knowing as little as possible.


Dave isn't impressed with Gunn's firing

https://twitter.com/DaveBautista/status/1020502763430559744

JP Liz V1

Nicolas Cage must be king of straight to DVD films now

Agent Coulson

He seems to have one a month pop up on VOD these days.

sky88

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

Nicolas Cage is the king of films now and Forever

Fixed that for you Liz :pac:

Lord TSC

Mission Impossible Fallout is awesome. The bathroom fight scene is brilliant, and the chases are so well choreographed. The story is a little straight forward, but the action is so good, it more than covers for it. Really, really good.


I really want to go watch Teen Titans Go, but worry it will be me and a load of parents with little kids wondering why I'm there

JP Liz V1

CastorTroy wrote: »

Dave isn't impressed with Gunn's firing

https://twitter.com/DaveBautista/status/1020502763430559744

GOTG cast all supporting Gunn now

http://ew.com/movies/2018/07/30/james-gunn-guardians-of-the-galaxy-cast-call-reinstatement/

ShagNastii

I have seen a compilation of Gunn’s tweets and they are utterly stupid.

That said, I love seeing when there is a bit of pushback on these kind of things and everyone doesn’t instantly make it into a “more virtuous than thou” competition.

Bounty Hunter

The stupid thing is that his tweets were dealt with by Disney and iirc he apologized about them retroactively when he was originally hired for the first GOTG.

Disney have just lost their cohones in the new social justice political environment of today and when people who didn't like his (Gunn's) political views trawled through his old tweets and found them (that everyone admits were wrong and nobody defends) they bent to their demands and fired him. It's sad and only encourages more numpties to use faux outrage to make social media an even more toxic environment imo

I particularly like that big Dave was the first to speak out in his support

ShagNastii

Says a lot about his character, especially given where his career is at, that he has the balls to go against the grain and not sign up wholesale to how he’s supposed to approach these things now he’s a Hollywood star.

Lithium93_

Disney reportedly not rushing to replace James Gunn.

https://screenrant.com/disney-james-gunn-guardians-galaxy-3-director-replacement/?utm_content=buffer7f2cb&utm_medium=Social-Distribution&utm_source=SR-TW&utm_campaign=SR-TW

I don't think Vol. 3 will start production early next year..

sky88

Lithium93_ wrote: »

Disney reportedly not rushing to replace James Gunn.

https://screenrant.com/disney-james-gunn-guardians-galaxy-3-director-replacement/?utm_content=buffer7f2cb&utm_medium=Social-Distribution&utm_source=SR-TW&utm_campaign=SR-TW

I don't think Vol. 3 will start production early next year..

has kevin fegie said anything yet i havent seen his name mentioned much all seems to be his bosses at disney

Lithium93_

sky88 wrote: »

has kevin fegie said anything yet i havent seen his name mentioned much all seems to be his bosses at disney

Nope not a peep, I'd imagine his silence is due to bosses above him..

Lord TSC

Omg, its official. Patrick Stewart is doing a new series as Picard, showing what he's done after TNG.

https://twitter.com/SirPatStew/status/1025840545216823296

Lithium93_

Only stumbled upon this, but the Deadwood movie has the greenlight and shooting starts in October

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/deadwood-movie-is-finally-happening-at-hbo-1129743

gerrybbadd

Watched All Eyez On Me there last night, a movie about Tupac Shakur. I wouldn't say it was awful. But it was far from good. The guy playing Tupac was pretty good in his role, and looked a lot like him.

However, this movie had a budget greater than Straight Outta Compton, and when you consider this, what they achieved here is disgraceful. There's a lot of disjointed scenes, characters onscreen that, unless you know who they're meant to be, remain unintroduced. There's some scenes where, unless you're familiar with the Tupac story, you won't have a clue of the context.

They get some random guy in to play Snoop Dogg, who looks nothing like him, and then dub Snoops voice in.

What I did find interesting was, with there being a lot of these kind of movies / TV shows coming out lately, some of the same actors cross over. It's nearly like a Gangsta rap marvel universe or something.

The guy playing Suge Knight here also plays Suge in the (rather good) Unsolved show on Netflix.

The guy playing Biggie also starred in Notorious, a movie about Big himself.

And the guy playing Tupac in Unsolved also played him in Straight Outta Compton too.

Pentecost

I’m watching Unsolved at the minute. I’m finding it hard to invest in it since I know nothing happens as a result of the investigation and they keep reminding you of that fact at the end of every episode, for legal reasons presumably. There’s no suspense.

gerrybbadd

Pentecost wrote: »

I’m watching Unsolved at the minute. I’m finding it hard to invest in it since I know nothing happens as a result of the investigation and they keep reminding you of that fact at the end of every episode, for legal reasons presumably. There’s no suspense.

There's a very good documentary available called Murder Rap that's based on Greg Kading's book of the same name. I think Unsolved was also based on the book

Lithium93_

Well this is going to be a first day purchase , absolutely loved the 2016 DOOM..

Lord TSC

Funny you should say that. Was only just looking at Doom (2016) cause apparently it's on Game Pass.

CastorTroy

May give the 2016 one a go next time I come around to the PC on the cycle.

Agent Coulson

A Back to the Future reunion

Insect Overlord

Biff has aged well!

Agent Coulson

They all have to be fair Christopher Lloyd is 79 and looks very well for it.

Lea and Michael are 57 both look 10 years younger that in that picture.

PTH2009

Starting to watch Disenchantment on Netflix. New cartoon by Matt Groening. So far ok very futurama

CastorTroy

I know it's hard to believe but Sharknado 6 was really bad.

jaykhunter

PTH2009 wrote: »

Starting to watch Disenchantment on Netflix. New cartoon by Matt Groening. So far ok very futurama

Just watched the premiere last night. Noticeable drop from Futurama, despite half of the voice actors showing up - Fry, Bender, Mom (Tress MacNeille). Gonna stick out as long as I can take it, hope it gets better. Bob's Burgers had a rough start and it's now one of my fav shows. Disenchantment has got this "mildly risque" gimmick of being slightly raunchy which is a bit odd. Fingers crossed anyway that they iron out the kinks!

CastorTroy wrote: »

I know it's hard to believe but Sharknado 6 was really bad.

Ah come off it! Needed more Kurt Angle!

Lord TSC

Henry Cavill has reportedly signed on to star in The Witcher tv show Netflix are doing.

Bounty Hunter

Lord TSC wrote: »

Henry Cavill has reportedly signed on to star in The Witcher tv show Netflix are doing.

The big question is, has his mustache?

CastorTroy

They'll digitally remove the moustache to digitally add the beard. Then use Deluxe Paint V to alter the colour

CastorTroy

Just see Doctor Who returns October 7th, for anyone interested. Moving to a Sunday.

PTH2009

CastorTroy wrote: »

They'll digitally remove the moustache to digitally add the beard. Then use Deluxe Paint V to alter the colour

can he not just shave it off

JP Liz V1

Batista's new film Final Score is on Sky Movies (this is Big Dave's Die Hard set at a West Ham match)