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Uh, today I learned that Joel Silver is one of the co-inventors of Ultimate Frisbee.

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Ooh, I like that idea. Also: fun film, Sam Jackson in plaid, and you can also do the "what the heck happened to Renny Harlin?" thing.

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Come on.
Not one single goddamn person knew about Disney buying Star Wars, but now suddenly people's "inside sources" are reliable? Don't do that to yourself. Don't give these hit-whoring assholes any more page views. If there's news, we'll know from the right sources when appropriate.

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I like that idea.
The Corman one was obviously made on a tiny budget, but it doesn't feel as awful as it should. You get the sense that everyone involved was trying their hardest. And when it's bad, it's charmingly bad.
I'm pretty surprised at how much I tolerate the Corman and the modern Fantastic Four.

Though I can give no such pass to Rise of The Silver-Surfer. That should have learned from the mistakes of the first one, so they have no excuses.

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Fantastic Four would be an interesting one, in that regard. After all the years of people shitting on it, I was surprised by how much I didn't hate it. It does some things right (Chiklis and Evans, comedy, and most of the tone) but then it does some things very wrong (Alba, Doom, Welsh dude playing Reed, drama, the rest of the tone).

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Oh, you guys. Nice job on the video feed lol

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I've been reading Nova this week, and quite enjoying it. I do see your point, but I'm glad they ignored it. If there's one golden rule we learned from Iron Man 2, it should be: "You got good guys? You got bad guys? Then back the fuck away from the script. STAND DOWN."

(Besides, they can easily add Nova him/herself in a sequel, if appropriate and desirable. They could even have the comic-version of Cosmo 'cause that level of crazy shit is totes acceptable now!)

Speaking for the splatter: the other possibility is that for promotional material which is going to be widely accessible, they may have replaced the gorier elements with more PG-13ish effects, while the movie itself will have effects more like the original.

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Hi, and welcome!  smile

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Yeah. When I'm writing a paper, I make sure to add anti-American sentiments so that if my laptop crashes and I lose it, the NSA will have a handy backup.

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I loved this episode. I got a big kick out of your off-topic, free-form blues-jazz (wait, no, jazz-blues) odyssey.

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Oh my bob. You are all wonderful beautiful snowflakes.
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(Also, wow. This is the last place I expected to see a George & Mildred reference. Blimey.)

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This Winter: Chapters. Will. Define.

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Squiggly, your sufferance was not entirely in vain, as I got a few laughs out of your write-up, cheers.

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I had a similar experience!
They showed us Amadeus (well, an hour of it) in music class, when I was about, let's say, 13. I get that it's based around musicians, but ostensibly, it's a character study about jealousy. Wrong film at the wrong time. It'd be like watching Planet of The Apes in our Behavioural Ecology class.
Though, when we did Media Studies (15/16?), they showed us an hour of Rushmore, but even as an adult, Wes Anderson's films are hard to unpack.

Maybe my school just didn't have VHS tapes for GCSE students and they were just nicking tapes from the A-Level classes.