Barnack Posted October 16, 2019 Share Posted October 16, 2019 (edited) 7 hours ago, mikee11 said: Don't follow the economy that closely but I had some small savings and a friend told me it's a good idea to buy gold because it's a safe haven in an unpredictable and weak economy, that was about a year ago and gold was $1200, now it's $1500. So for me it not only worked as a safe haven but made money of it too. And apparently it still has ways to go Gold track record in the last 50 year's as a source of investment for an individual (specially) if you are young has been really terrible: But being all time low could mean that it is not a bad time to buy if one would really want too, people that invested in it in the 70s to 1990 lost a fortune. 16 minutes ago, dudalb said: A solid blue chip stock in a company you know is not going anywere is better. I would say to simply go with low cost index fund / ETF Edited October 16, 2019 by Barnack Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barnack Posted October 16, 2019 Share Posted October 16, 2019 On 10/14/2019 at 6:38 PM, Jake Gittes said: But studios obviously are prejudiced, because they routinely lose money on IP-driven movies and still only keep doing more of them, but very rarely extend that courtesy to movies driven by individual voices. Not sure what you mean by that, the success right % is all that matter and it is still quite higher on IPs and sequels potential are more often there (Crazy Rich Asians is an IP-driven affair with the sequels already in place) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dudalb Posted October 16, 2019 Share Posted October 16, 2019 7 minutes ago, Barnack said: Gold track record in the last 50 year's as a source of investment for an individual (specially) if you are young has been really terrible: But being all time low could mean that it is not a bad time to buy if one would really want too. I would say to simply go with low cost index fund / ETF Point is there are better economic shelters then gold. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barnack Posted October 16, 2019 Share Posted October 16, 2019 On 10/15/2019 at 10:24 AM, The Futurist said: Except we never left the 2008 crash. So the millenial complain with the extra easy life when they went about 100% of their adult life was lived in an literal economic crash at the same time ? You need to keep the balance in the hot take's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dudalb Posted October 16, 2019 Share Posted October 16, 2019 Something just occurred to me: For a few months, nothing from Marvel/Disney at the fate of "The New Mutants". Just adds to my opinion the thing, if it gets any kind of a threatical release, is going to be dumped. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Napoleon Posted October 17, 2019 Share Posted October 17, 2019 "(Batman v Superman) may have been the most compelling superhero movie from a decade glutted with superhero movies." https://mashable.com/article/unpopular-entertainment-we-loved-this-decade/ We've been saying this for more than 3 years. Everyone will eventually come to their senses and appreciate how great that movie was and will regret not standing behind the cinematic universe Zack Snyder was shaping up. The article also mentions another Zack Snyder masterpiece, Sucker Punch. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LaughingEvans Posted October 17, 2019 Share Posted October 17, 2019 More news from Napoleon's ass at 11. 1 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
infamous5445 Posted October 17, 2019 Share Posted October 17, 2019 Ahh I remember the good ol days when BVS couldn't even break a billion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WittyUsername Posted October 17, 2019 Share Posted October 17, 2019 I’ll at least take BvS over TASM2 or that godawful animated adaptation of The Killing Joke. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Menor the Destroyer Posted October 17, 2019 Share Posted October 17, 2019 (edited) I feel like BvS had a ton of potential but the motivation for Batman and Superman fighting is ridiculously thin, the "Martha" moment is forced, and it devolves into a really bad final battle against a really boring Doomsday. I don't see how any reevaluation is going to change that. That said I thought Justice League was a big step below BvS even, so that does make it look better in hindsight. Edited October 17, 2019 by Menor 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dudalb Posted October 17, 2019 Share Posted October 17, 2019 4 hours ago, WittyUsername said: I’ll at least take BvS over TASM2 or that godawful animated adaptation of The Killing Joke. That's not a hard bar to cross since both TASMW and the horrid Animated Killing Joke really sucked. BvS just sucked slightly less then those 2. But anyway, Napoleon's relentless blind worship of Zack Snyder and his relentless blind hatred of anything that comes from Marvel Studios is what makes him pretty much of a joke around here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dudalb Posted October 17, 2019 Share Posted October 17, 2019 3 hours ago, Menor said: I feel like BvS had a ton of potential but the motivation for Batman and Superman fighting is ridiculously thin, the "Martha" moment is forced, and it devolves into a really bad final battle against a really boring Doomsday. I don't see how any reevaluation is going to change that. That said I thought Justice League was a big step below BvS even, so that does make it look better in hindsight. Lots of movies have huge potential which is thrown away by inept handling. And, yeah, the motivaton behind Batman's hatred of Superman is just ridiculous. Bruce Wayne blames Supes for the havoc in Metropolis instead of Zod and his followers? Makes him look like a total fool. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lorddemaxus Posted October 17, 2019 Share Posted October 17, 2019 I think BvS would have been a legitimately great movie if Snyder wasn't the one directing. He was trying to do things he didn't have the talent to handle. Honestly, even the first two thirds would have made a good movie. The last act ruins the movie for me. 3 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Napoleon Posted October 17, 2019 Share Posted October 17, 2019 1 minute ago, dudalb said: That's not a hard bar to cross since both TASMW and the horrid Animated Killing Joke really sucked. BvS just sucked slightly less then those 2. But anyway, Napoleon's relentless blind worship of Zack Snyder and his relentless blind hatred of anything that comes from Marvel Studios is what makes him pretty much of a joke around here. This is not the first time you make these false claims about me. I have said this many times: I loved Ant-Man and the Wasp, and I enjoyed Captain Marvel. You always ignore that and reappear later repeating this same kind of defamation. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Napoleon Posted October 17, 2019 Share Posted October 17, 2019 Batman's motivations for fearing Superman are perfectly reasonable, he didn't have the information that we the audience had not only from the previous film, Man Of Steel, but also from the whole history of the character, all of us have known Superman as the perfect good guy since we're kids so maybe people have a problem looking into that situation from Batman's point of view but Zack Snyder can't be blamed for audience's lack of empathy. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ororo Munroe Posted October 17, 2019 Share Posted October 17, 2019 11 minutes ago, lorddemaxus said: I think BvS would have been a legitimately great movie if Snyder wasn't the one directing. He was trying to do things he didn't have the talent to handle. Honestly, even the first two thirds would have made a good movie. The last act ruins the movie for me. I would say the exact opposite. The last act is the only enjoyable part of the movie. The rest is an incoherent, boring mess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YM! Posted October 17, 2019 Share Posted October 17, 2019 40 minutes ago, Napoleon said: Batman's motivations for fearing Superman are perfectly reasonable, he didn't have the information that we the audience had not only from the previous film, Man Of Steel, but also from the whole history of the character, all of us have known Superman as the perfect good guy since we're kids so maybe people have a problem looking into that situation from Batman's point of view but Zack Snyder can't be blamed for audience's lack of empathy. If the audience couldn’t connect to Superman as a character, wouldn’t that have meant Synder did a bad job. It’s not like they’re haven’t been darker takes. Injustice comes to mind, hell even the animated DCAU movies have done darker stuff with Supes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikee11 Posted October 17, 2019 Share Posted October 17, 2019 does anyone else Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TestPattern Posted October 17, 2019 Share Posted October 17, 2019 1 hour ago, mikee11 said: does anyone else No one does a Strawman like Dobson 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TestPattern Posted October 17, 2019 Share Posted October 17, 2019 Also, here's the thing, if they just have Battinson in the present day and they just ignore BvS and JL, the audiences won't care about the continuity as long as the movies are good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...