That trailer is the first thing I've seen of TMNT.. should be said, I have precisely ZERO prior involvement with TMNT whatsoever... and I expected to hate it... and I ... didn't.

It's not great and I probably won't end up seeing it regardless, but the humour had some good moments, I was actually laughing at a couple jokes in there. The turtles look better in motion than they do in stills, although they still look really Cg whether that's just rushed work for the trailer or legit product who knows. Shredder does look pretty badass though. Megan Fox still can't act her way of a wet paper bag, one line out of her mouth and was already ready to check out, so there's that.

I have to agree. Even people I know who couldn't care less about Star Wars in general, KNOW about the Disney buyout, and have at least some awareness of the new movies and series.

The Disney buyout added a MASSIVE element of unknown to the entire equation, people with even a passing interest in Star Wars (Which is pretty much the majority of the entire population of planet earth let's be honest here) are curious to see what is going to happen to Star Wars, what it's going to look like.

Most of those people aren't going to give a shit about puppets, or JJ, or sets or prequels vs OT vs New trilogy or even the almighty tomatometer.... but it's Disney making Star Wars, they'll be curious, and they'll go see it.

No but seriously Avatar, tell us how much you actually hate JJ. No need to hold back here.

Eeerrrggaaah. I am so flippin tempted right now, but with shipping it's way out of what I can afford right now

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Depending on how much it would cost to print it/ship it this way I'd be interested rather soonish.

Clearly you've never actually bothered to watch the thing you're hating on as there is typically at least 2+ minutes of random funny dubbed clips from the movie after the actual Sins tally.

And seriously, why...no...how on earth could anyone actually think CinemaSins was trying to be some great bastion of Cinema critique? It's funny, it's exagerated, you laugh at it, and maybe there's one or two things along the way that have some legit merit and you hadn't thought of before.

That wasn't meant to be a put down. We all have our movies that are like that, except Dorkman, Dorkman knows no joy of childhood, I will love Space Jam and George of The Jungle til I day I die. But if you want to have this conversation, you may as well just call it what it is.

There isn't actually some deep rooted truth of the universe buried in any of these movies that you're the only one that can see, (Except Space Jam, Space Jam knows all things, Space Jam is life, Space Jam is love) they are movies that got put into our lives at just the right time by one circumstance or another, for them to be permanently coded into the joy parts of our brain and then hardwired. Nothing wrong with that, but that's still what it is.

Yeah, the compactness was basically what sold me on it. I can literally throw it in a backpack, and barely feel the weight. Once I figure out the couple of small stability niggles I mentioned it should be great.

I already figured out the tripod screw one. There's actually two 1/4" camera screw holes on either side of the 3/8" tripod screw, and I discovered my tripod actually came with an extra camera screw, so I've just got both of those in there, seems to be much more sturdy, I'll have to actually put the whole system together to be sure tho.

All in all, very pleased so far.

Yeeeaaah, a dull character isn't going to get a pass from me because he happens to notice something happening. If he did ANYTHING for the first 9 episodes of this season I might feel differently, but he was a dull character for 9 episodes and then did something in the last episode that either wasn't established or I managed to accidentally sleep through the setup for. And the few things he does "do". going to Braavos... um... I'm sure there are others, HE doesn't actually do anything, Davos does all the talking, Davos goes and finds the pirates, the Red Woman...looks sultry and... I'm sure she does other stuff too. The sum total of Stannis this season has been him looking stern in the background, saying a half a line, and then whinning like a child "Shuuuut uuuup, I totally am the real King of Westeros guuuys."

He's not interesting to watch and I have absolutely zero interest in anything happening in his plotline. Maybe there's a really great character that somehow got buried under all that, but whoever that guy is, he's not on screen.

Anyways... just so this post isn't completely negative.

The skeleton fight was flipping amazing, the Hound-Brienne fight was intense, Arya is going down a very very dark path and I love it (Since Maisie did her interview about how she really hopes people will see where she's going and realize it's not good, and not just continue to love her cause "Awe, it's Arya, we love Arya." I've been looking forward to seeing where she's going.", the small scene between John and the wildling captive (can't remember his name) about Ygritte was really really well done, Tyrion going Terminator mode was amazing, I was really hoping he'd go full terminator for a bit, take out half the family and then dissappear, but alas.

Like I said before, there's some really really great scenes, but taken as a whole it just felt lacking for a season finale.

Between virtually every book reader I know sniggering to themselves and telling me they knew exactly what shot was going end this season for the past 4 months, and it was going to blow everyone's mind, I was expecting more.

Don't get me wrong it was another solid episode, and some cool stuff happened, but not anything more than a typical episode really. Clearly there's some hype bias going on here (Thank you for that by the way all you smug motherfucking book readers out there in the world), but it just didn't do anything for me as a season finale, it really feels like there's one more episode where a bunch of these threads are going to get tied together in some epic way, but everyone is just kinda travelling (Hah, get it? Cause at the end of the episode basically everyone is literally just going somewhere else...)

Maybe it'll get better on a rewatch in the future... -shrug-. Looking forward to next season but mostly because it's still a good show not out of any "Holy shit what's gonna happen next??".

Hnng... sorry, one of few really bad ticks just kicked in.

It's called "I'll Make A Man Out Of You" not "Be A Man."

Carry on.