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atomheartbevo

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  1. The guy who played Willis on Different Strokes was once a famous actor and very few people remember that.
  2. No he won't, he's good through May on CBS, and then he'll land somewhere with a nice fat check and whatever format he wants. Same thing will probably happen with Stewart, and I'm actually serious about those two ending up together with a helluva an axe to grind, and they won't be dealing with Paramount bullshit over the merger. And if one or both are fired, they'll still have a nice fat check from Paramount and then whereever they land.
  3. I wonder if Amazon or Netflix would be willing to sponsor a daily or near-daily talk show with the two of them. Not something they normally do.
  4. Courtney Love did it.
  5. There's a Johnny Carson Youtube channel with 750 videos and it's pretty awesome.
  6. Because there's a half-decent chance that finances improve if everybody is tuning in to see Colbert "unrestrained". I'm slightly surprised as well, but maybe there are a lot of clauses if they cancel the show and the amount they would lose would be more than if they kept it running until next May.
  7. Snyder would have had Krypto killed off and would have shown the squirrel being crushed, and Superman would have been looking for revenge. The Snyder cut was a solid movie. Very, very epic in scope. Superman was more grounded and dealt with individuals as individuals (humans and metahumans).
  8. Kind of tying into that, I'm insanely curious where Maxwell Lord will come into play, since Morrison kind of ignored him (but then again some of the characters were pre-Morrison). I know it was Gunn's brother playing him, but at the same time it was made quite clear that Lord is important to the new Superman universe. As I said, I feel like I know what Snyder was trying to do - maybe a little less about telling major stories and more about exploring what made them tick, in particular, Batman, although Gunn actually showed us what made his Superman tick with a lot less screentime. I never got the feeling that Snyder really gave a shit about his villains - they were there to lay bare what made Batman, etc. who they are. Gunn gave us a villain that had more of an arc and more character development/explanation than all of Snyder's CGI mess combined. I can barely remember some of the villains in the Snyderverse. And I do not believe in a million years that Gunn would have allowed his Superman to let his dad die right in front of him during a fucking tornado, but Snyder had to have that because his Superman had to internally be a hot mess. Warner Brothers just wanted a DCEU money train, and maybe they thought they'd pull in those who didn't care for the MCU as being too light/kid-friendly. I saw an interview where he talked about how he knew exactly what tone he was going for, how he didn't want to start the movie (with an origin story) and where he wanted the movie to end (with it being clear that a Justice League was coming) and said it felt easier to write. He said something to the effect that the movie was the foundation for his universe and the one movie would take the place of the pre-Avengers solo movies, and he did it. Edit: Gunn said not having to dwell on how to introduce Superman and the JLA to audiences really made the writing easier, since he had it in his head already.
  9. Saw it this morning with my kid, who had only seen a couple of MCU movies in the theater and the animated Spiderverse movies. He absolutely loved it. I loved it. Glad Gunn didn’t dwell on origins at the start. My boomer dad bitched that he heard it was all political. Some things were on the nose, but the movie was written years ago and finished filming earlier last year, and all of the major themes were a staple of the comics, TV series, and movies. There was nothing new about Lex trying to drum up hatred at Superman for being an alien. That goes back four decades in the movies to the Reeves movies and arguably to the start of the comics and why the creators did what they did in the 30s/40s and it’s always been in the comics as a whole since then (it was a staple of Byrne). The invasion for land could stand in for quite a few events over the past several decades and Superman has stopped wars before. Poking fun at talking heads who one minute are praising somebody and then on a dime turn and start calling them traitors was spot on. Making fun of social media comments being created by mind-controlled monkeys was also hilarious and was the most timely (but true) event. But that was all less than 5 minutes of screen time. The genius was Gunn was shooting a finished script unlike Snyder, and everything was plotted out well and wrapped up well. As well done as the Guardian movies. Loved the Justice Gang. So glad he didn’t have Batman, Aquaman, Wonder Woman, Flash, etc. the cast was perfect. Guy Gardner, Hawk Girl, Mr. Terrific, and Metamorpho are a great way to start out things. Loved Olsen being a ladies man. Loved that Eve had been deliberately sending him scoops and he didn’t even realize it. Liked Guy Gardner, but Mr. Terrific was my favorite Justice character. Both felt like they walked out of the pages of the comics from my youth, and while their screen time was short, they fucking sold their characters and you knew instantly the kind of people they were just by their actions and comments. Supergirl was setup perfectly with just a few minutes of screen time. None of them felt like they were fumbling their way around trying to figure out the whole super hero thing, they were established already in events prior this movie and were comfortable with who they were. I know what Snyder was trying to do, but Gunn has a better grasp of how to quickly get things off the ground, and that he really didn’t have the ability to play a long game like the MCU or Snyder did, and that he really didn’t need to since everybody knows who Superman is. His runway was far shorter than Snyder’s, but he got the bird in the air and on its way in a much better fashion.
  10. Bit of Streisand Effect.
  11. I Remember those, but the Adam Walsh thing got a lot of parents who thought nothing of dropping their kid off at the mall.
  12. Whoever they confiscated the grenades from is going to be charged as a cop killer three times over.
  13. Plus, nobody you know is going to be there!
  14. No, it's totally relevant and kind of fascinating. A lot of the Qanon dipshits, a bunch of tradwife idiots, etc. bought into a lot of Russian propaganda about Western society, and about how women should stay home, about how decadent/depraved Western society is, how we need to isolate/home-school kids, how the West has lost its way religiously, etc. People in certain groups pushed this idea that Russia was saving Western Civilization and Christianity, and still push it (although the tradwife shit seems to be dying down once women realized how much bullshit is involved, and once some of the influencers were exposed as "posers" looking to make a buck). My dipshit Qanon sis-in-law tried to tell me and other family members a few years ago that Putin was a champion for not only "our way of life" but Christianity as a whole. She stopped it when I and my brother-in-law started sending her stuff every time a church, school, hospital, etc. got hit by the Russians, but she may still believe it. She firmly believed it at the time, and she doesn't come up with this shit on her own, so I have no doubt she was mainlining RT and Russian propaganda as a whole (albeit probably passed through American social media).
  15. First, you have to want to take somebody you're cheating with to an Oasis concert. And that's a problem.
  16. Their dad dying in this manner could be the best thing to happen to them - whatever bullshit illusion he was pushing on them has been shattered. I doubt he volunteered to go to the front, and I doubt Russia would risk an asset like him if he was in their good graces - I wouldn’t be surprised if he pissed somebody off. Would have been funny if it was Steven Segal.
  17. Disenchantment works better as a binge, so maybe that’s where Groenig is going with it.
  18. He maybe a little scared of Elmo and Twitter and Elmo funding anti-Trump candidates like Musk promised. If Congress flips next year Trump is going to be investigated. Murdoch never went that far. Trump also has leverage with the contracts and NHTSA as well. But maybe it’s that Trump looks up to the WSJ and it scares him that they are investigating him. He can’t quit NYC no matter how hard he tries.
  19. Puts them in the upper 2% in some parts of Russia. It’s a down payment on a Lada.
  20. Murdoch has an ego up there with Trump’s, and he’s got the cash to back it. Here’s hoping he stands up to him. Edit: and he knows people won’t quit watching Fox News.
  21. He's an asshole from Australia nearing the end of his life. I wouldn't be surprised if he fights it out of spite. Plus, as I said, discovery could be a real problem for Trump.
  22. Us included depending on who we go to war against next. The drones Ukraine was fielding early on were cheap as shit and pretty effective. At the very least, they will impact mobility on the battlefield.
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