Talkie

Go 'way, Panda, before you get hurt.

I can't agree with you here. Wanda tried to save lives and in fact she saved dozens if not hundreds. She bore no responsibility for the deaths caused by the blast because she didn't set it off to begin with. As for Cap taking responsibility for allowing Crossbones to set off the explosion, that never happened. Stopping Ross from showing the photos of Sokovia and Lagos was not the same as explaining the real circumstances in which his inaction led to the disaster. (Wanda was responsible for the destruction of Sokovia and Hulk's deadly rampage in Johannesburg, however.) There is no excuse for Steve not making his involvement clear and no reason to assume he wouldn't be believed. He is Captain America, after all, a man whose honesty and moral probity are legendary (and mythical). He certainly should have tried to change the public's perception of Wanda as a dangerous weapon instead of leaving her vulnerable to being attacked out of fear. Cap only made Wanda's predicament infinitely worse by sending Clint to "free" her from the compound. She was clearly reluctant to leave, and ended up locked in a cell with a freaking shock collar around her neck like an animal for her efforts. Much good Steve Rogers' compassion did for her when all was said and done.

He very well could be. I read that the studio(s) offered him an insane, Downey-esque amount of money to do another film. It might be enough to talk him out of slitting his wrists.

Daniel Craig wishes he weren't Bond so Hiddles may yet get his chance.

WB's marketing is taking the same fun approach as the movie, which is perfect. The reviews will matter even less than they did for last year's poorly-received dc films. It's going to drop at a moment when parents will need an animated movie to jolt the kiddos out of their winter blues (and out of the damn house for a couple of hours).

Wanda was not responsible for the deaths in Lagos. Crossbones was. He was the one who set off the explosion. Wanda tried to prevent mass casualties on the ground, where there were hundreds of people as opposed to the eleven who died inside the building. Instead of being blamed for using her powers to contain and move the blast, Wanda should have been lauded for preventing even more death and destruction in what was essentially a no-win situation. Furthermore, Crossbones would never have had the chance to set off his bomb if Cap hadn't frozen the instant he heard Bucky's name. It was the fact that Steve stood there gaping at Crossbones like an idiot that gave the bastard time to use his weapon. But we never saw Steve step up and take the heat off Wanda when Ross and the rest of the world laid the blame at her feet and branded her a menace.

@Chewy should go back to Hector. I hardly recognize him now.

I imagine every person here looking like their avatars. That's good if they choose someone attractive (or cute and furry), not so much if the image is hideous. For instance, someone here had this guy as their avatar pic and I still imagine them looking like this: ...eeewww that's never going away.

It's impossible to do the Alien franchise justice without talking dirty.

People bother pirating mid-budget movies? I'm surprised by that. It isn't like those films were ever going to draw a mass audience, however, and doubtful that the people who pirated them were ever going to see them in theaters. The major studios can cut into piracy by providing easy-to-access, cost-effective streaming options to the audience. They have actively avoided doing so for over a decade instead of completely embracing the online marketplace. As a result, there aren't as many options to rent or buy the studios' massive back catalogs as there should be, which in turn drives people who want to see those films to pirate sites. Ideally, we should be able to access almost any movie we want through a variety of legal platforms. It's the lack of legal access that is the problem and the studios are leaving billions of dollars on the table by failing to provide it.

In Alien and its sequels, flying vagina-shaped face-huggers attack mostly male victims, ram huge phalluses down their throats and impregnate them with a spawn that births themselves by bursting forth like some ludicrous nightmare version of childbirth. It's every male's fears of female sexuality and reproduction combined with violent male-on-male rape and distilled into its crudest essence. Prometheus expanded the focus on sexual violence-based horror to the forced impregnation of a female directly through sex, with the added punch of a gory, improbable c-section (aided by a medical system which naturally had no understanding of the unnatural female anatomy). The movies are hardly subtle about all of this. The trailer for Covenant shows a penis-shaped alien slithering into a shower, presumably with penetration on its agenda. Even one of the toys for Prometheus blatantly featured a xenomorph creature with a detachable penis, perfect for shoving into the Engineer's open mouth. That was a Toys-R-Us exclusive, no less.

It did have that alien/hybrid creature, though. And the omnipresent penis cobra that was inexplicably called a "lovely lady" by one of those doomed assclowns. Not to mention another android (who somehow knew that it could implant an alien larva in a man who would instantaneously impregnate his lover with a pop-up hybrid baby), a woman who had a c-section, lost pints of blood and immediately jump out of the ship and outran a rolling (!) spaceship and an Engineer that got sexually assaulted by the hybrid at the end. Or something like that. Prometheus is another guilty pleasure for me. At one point it kept repeating on cable and I would skip the first hour or so and tune in to watch from the point where the idiotic geologist decided to play with a hissing dick. Between watching them buy it and Theron get rolled over because she ran in a straight line, there has never been a big budget sci-fi film so chock full of stupidity. It's enjoyable if I need a good laugh but someone in that production should have known better than to shoot that script as it was.

As soon as I saw the penis-alien attacking the couple screwing in the shower I knew that this had Scott's fingerprints all over it. Seriously, Scott's genital horror fixation and apparent revulsion with female sexuality will be the subject of doctoral theses some day, if not already.

BLADE is the true father of of modern superhero movies. If not for Blade's success, other studios might never have seen (and exploited) the potential of Marvel's properties. This has been stated by Kevin Feige and other executives who developed later Marvel films. (Never forget that Feige got his start with Lauren Shuler Donner on X-Men straight out of film school.)

Thanks! We should have a pool to see who can guess the median age of all respondents and the ages of the oldest and youngest members. Thankfully the poll is anonymous so the "senior" members won't be outed...unless we do it to ourselves.

Shit. What is wrong with those animals? Hollywood is notoriously hellish for women when it comes to harassment and assault, but Affleck and his asshole buddy are the lowest of the low.

I haven't seen LLL yet but it will have to perform miracles and cure cancer to live up to the ridiculous hype. The musicals of Hollywood's Golden Age are one of my passions and I've never seen a "modern" take on the genre that can match them. With the bar set in the stratosphere by those earlier stars, I doubt that LLL will be able to reach those heights. A film version of Hamilton probably will, however.

When will the full results be posted?

Sometimes I feel like the only person in the world who truly enjoyed Suicide Squad. Admittedly, I had a ball watching it because it was so gawdawful that it made me laugh so hard I was in tears by the end. When Waller went all stabby-stabby on Enchantress' heart I nearly passed out from lack of oxygen. Harley bonking people on the head with a mallet, Jai Courtney hugging a sparkly unicorn and sneaking swigs, Emo Joker, the wavy-armed villain -- if a movie is going to go balls-to-the-walls crazy just to make me laugh I will love it forever. ?

Lord & Miller used Al Jarreau's Girls Know How in Batman's tuxedo dress up scene. It's from the soundtrack to Night Shift, one of Michael Keaton's 80s comedies. A perfect song for a shoutout to another great Batman incarnation.

Come on, people! It's Shay! He's a legend in these parts. Let the man hate what he hates.

The only sequel to one of his own movies that I can recall Cameron doing thus far is Terminator 2, unless I missed Titanic 2.

The trailer for this is fantastic. It put me in mind of some real life horror stories about supposed health/convalescence retreats where healthy patients were slowly killed by the "cures". It looks like a horrifyingly good time.

Said mod was putting spoilers in thread titles and refusing to delete them when objections were raised. The Hurt as Ross announcement was one of those spoilers, not a major one but irritating nonetheless.

I think that Dunkirk will underperform given its release date and competition. The audience may be too busy watching apes go to war to give a human war much thought. The other DC movies have shown that there is a built-in audience for that universe. But Wonder Woman is likely to earn less than her peers due to competition. King Arthur will crash and burn. That's not an unpopular opinion, though. John Wick 2 looks set to over-perform. The original has gained fans since release and the trailer is awesome. Good marketing can launch it to breakout status.