Spork wrote:

So. Agent Coulson. Robot or clone?

Extremis, calling it now.

Well, I guess I'll go back to waiting impatiently, then.

Teague wrote:

Probably next week.

You're killing me, Teague! You can't tease me like that and not deliver. wink

Sooo... When can I buy it?

I'm so excited. Everything sounds so good.

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Something that confused me that they spend most of the film ineffectively punching things and get dragged 50,000 feet into the air before Mako finally bothers to mention that they have a sword. In fact, they have two of them. That seems like something you should mention up front.
EDIT: Further realization:  Raleigh is literally inside her brain, he can see her memories, he should fucking know they have swords, and he's experienced enough to know they should be using them. Why punch things? They could have saved like half of Tokyo (or where ever that was) if they have been stabbing and cutting instead,

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Given your new branding, it's perfect for you guys. How can you watch that and not ask, "What the fuck are you doing, movie?"

It should be noted that pretty much every chick in this movie gets her tits out at some point, and you usually don't have to wait long.

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Hard Ticket to Hawaii. You know you want to.

I've said before that if you make an album, I'll buy it, and I intend to stand by my word. The only downside to this is that you can't rearrange time to make it come out now. So, in the mean time, I'll continue to wait. Impatiently.

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Teague wrote:

WHERE IS YOUR GOD NOW

Hmmm? Did somebody call?

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Doctor Submarine wrote:

Then, suddnly, totally out-of-the-blue and deus-ex-machina, he SUDDENLY had 1024 majikally autonomous suits, that he still could majikally jump into? Bollox.  [Not to mention the total inconsistency between the suits being driven by his ARC reactor when *he* wears them, but magically not when other people (or nothing) is wearing them]

It's not really a deus ex machina as it is repeatedly mentioned that the suit he's wearing in the mark 42 and that he spends all his time building suits, and we already know he keeps all his old suits, so what the hell happened to 8-41? Now you know. Also, the suits are not powered by his ARC reactor when he wears them, they have their own internal power supply, which is why he had to recharge it even when he was wearing it.

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TechNoir wrote:

Another quick example is The Dark Knight and the Joker. The Joker being able to setup incredibly fortuitous situations for himself so that he can break out of jail, etc etc, would be hard to swallow if the movie compelled you to look at it in even some detail. Instead they do the right thing and do not reveal anything about the inner workings of it. By keeping it a mystery they leave in atleast an ounce of plausibility and being able to rationalize it. If they actually detailed how the Joker was able to completely accurately predict events days in advance nothing they came up with would be a satisfying answer, because noone would be able to predict something with so many unknown factors without being able to time travel.

As a sort of side note, this is a large part of why the Dark Knight didn't work for me.

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I'm going to preface this by saying I rather enjoyed this movie, but I also think it has it's flaws. It was good, and it was fun, but it's not perfect.

Doctor Submarine wrote:

The Extremis henchmen can maybe be a little hard to buy, but I had no problem with them. That one woman wasn't killed by the microwave explosion. She was killed by landing on some power lines and getting electrocuted.

I left this movie really confused about what kills Extremis people and what they can regenerate from. She was either killed by electricity or the explosion. Explosions don't seem to work on the others, so it can't be that, but Tony mentions he can electrify his suit in the skydiving scene and he's smart enough to make that connection, but then he doesn't electrify any of them later, so I'm confused. Then the other guy doesn't die to the hand beams, but he does die to the Unibeam? And Guy doesn't die to the first explosion, but does to the second? I have no idea what's effective on these people.

Doctor Submarine wrote:

And so what if Guy can breathe fire? You're okay with him melting a metal suit with his bare hands, but fire-breathing is too unrealistic? Please.

I would like to point out that he was ok with neither of these things.

Doctor Submarine wrote:

And I loved Pepper saving Tony at the end. It calls back to her covering him during the attack on his mansion. It gives their relationship a dynamic that no superhero movie (save The Incredibles) has had before.

I was ok with (and totally expected) her having fire powers and super strength. I was confused as to why she suddenly had ninja skills. I was also surprised when Tony developed ninja skills when invading the mansion, but that was more easily to rationalize (but then he loses them later when they invade the dockyard, so I don't know).

Doctor Submarine wrote:

And I'd rather the suits be made of aluminum foil than indestructible, because when you've got that many suits already, you can very easily make things too easy for the hero. The kid breaking a finger off the suit was because the suit had been heavily damaged already.

The flimsiness of the suits was fucking ridiculous. They were ripping through them like paper, and I don't care how damaged it is, that kid shouldn't be able to break off a finger unless it has already been broken off. And them falling apart when they get bonked hard was fucking silly. Aluminum foil and indestructible are not your only choices here.

Doctor Submarine wrote:

As I mentioned before, the skydiving scene makes perfect sense as far as the arm-electrifying goes.

No it doesn't. Sure, you can electrify muscles to make them clench up, but Tony was electrifying the first three people in the chain so they wouldn't let go (without sending too much electricity through any of them) while the fourth guys is still free to flail around until he grabs somebody, then he's electrified too. Also Impossible maneuvers and G forces and all that. I was rolling my eyes, but it's a superhero flick, so it didn't really bother me. Oh, and it's a good thing they all could swim.

Doctor Submarine wrote:

Don't get why people have been complaining about this. The logo of that website was on screen for literally a half a second. It's not like the sequence was all about Tony being saved by SPEEDTEST.NET, which he loudly thanked for being such a helpful website. For the average audience member, it might as well have been one of Tony's gadgets. The connection is too slow. Take that half-second of a logo out, and you probably wouldn't be complaining about the scene. The entire sequence was for a few funny moments with Tony's biggest fan.

The speedtest didn't bother me, but I was wondering why the hell he needed more speed to log into a website and watch some video. And why Warmachine had excess to those files.

Doctor Submarine wrote:
Holden wrote:

Why the hell doesn't Mk42 run off of the near-endless power source built into his goddamn chest? The car battery thing drove me nuts.

Because it needs to fly to him at a moment's notice, so it has to run off its own power source. And the entire finale is about all the suits running of their own individual power supply.

Sure, they have their own power supply, but I was wondering why they don't hook into his chest when they're on him.

Also, I was so disappointed the Mandarin was a fake, I wanted to see him being a badass and slinging some magic.

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bullet3 wrote:

Ya, I'd feel more sad about Lucasarts closing if they'd done anything worth a damn in the last 10 years.

10 Years? Try 7, they were making great games right through '06. Your point still stands, but no need to exaggerate.

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Teague, I request, no, I demand that you take the Super Teague theme Alex came up with and flesh it out into a full on thing.

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Is it something you might give to a child?

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You know, I'm pretty sure everyone who's played Assassin's Creed 3 accidentally assassinated George Washington. All my friends did, and I was like "How the fuck do you accidentally kill George Washington?" Then, later, I was at a friends house and got the opportunity to play the game for a bit, and, in that short time frame, managed to accidentally kill George Washington. hmm

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Just because I wanna be that guy, I suggest you do Troll 2.

Yup, I'm going to have to make all my friends get this.

That's awesome, thanks for sharing!

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I know I've suggested Ocean's 11 (both 1960 and 2001) but they're not on the list. sad

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I love it when Teague makes more music, because then I get to listen to it.  smile Seriously Teague, I love your music. If you ever charged for an album, I would buy it.

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redxavier wrote:
ShadowDuelist wrote:

In Brave, the beginning is about a girl who is really good with a bow, the rest is about how she turned her mom into a bear.

Emphasis on the 'beginning', otherwise known as Act 1, which sets up her skill in archery as a demonstration of how different she is from her mother, leading to the conflict that makes her want to change her mother, that she then spends acts 2 and 3 trying to undo.

While I understand that, it didn't work for me in execution. I went into Brave completely cold, no idea what it was about. The beginning has this serious tone and emphasizes her skill with a bow and how strong headed she is, so I thought they were setting up a movie where she has to unite the clans against some outside threat, and they would have to follow her despite her rejection of their traditions.. Then she turns her mom into a bear and it gets kinda silly.

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I find this happens if the magic bean changes during a movie. In Looper, the first half is about time travel, the second half is about a kid with TK. In UP, the first half is about a guy who wants to go on an adventure, so he makes his house fly with balloons, the second half involves talking dogs and a rare bird. In Brave, the beginning is about a girl who is really good with a bow, the rest is about how she turned her mom into a bear.