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Post by mrtuesday on Jan 27, 2021 7:53:46 GMT -5
ESPN is owned by Disney. Disney and Universal don't work together. Universal having distribution rights to any Incredible Hulk movie is the main reason Disney won't make one. Disney and Universal having competing amusement parks. And I don't think that Universal having theme park rights to Marvel and The Simpsons is making Disney very happy. And now competing streaming services. WWE signing with Peacock screwed them out of their ESPN deal. But the money WWE is getting from the deal more than makes up for it. Disney didn't buy Fox Sports (as they already had ESPN), so I can see all the shows that would have aired on ESPN airing on either FS1 or more likely NBCSN. NBCSN is shutting down and moving its stuff to USA. FS1 it is, then.
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Post by mrtuesday on Jan 27, 2021 6:52:33 GMT -5
ESPN caught wind of WWE's deal with NBCU and told them, "f*** you, your content isn't on ESPN anymore." ESPN is owned by Disney. Disney and Universal don't work together. Universal having distribution rights to any Incredible Hulk movie is the main reason Disney won't make one. Disney and Universal having competing amusement parks. And I don't think that Universal having theme park rights to Marvel and The Simpsons is making Disney very happy. And now competing streaming services. WWE signing with Peacock screwed them out of their ESPN deal. But the money WWE is getting from the deal more than makes up for it. Disney didn't buy Fox Sports (as they already had ESPN), so I can see all the shows that would have aired on ESPN airing on either FS1 or more likely NBCSN.
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Post by mrtuesday on Jan 25, 2021 22:44:28 GMT -5
This is a good topic to ask since I don't think anyone's ever asked this. To the people who don't like the Bad Bunny, Offset, Wale and etc...who would yall actually wanna see perform? We've never heard any responses so I'm curious. Who works? No one. No musical performances. I watch wrestling to see wrestling, not a concert.
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Post by mrtuesday on Jan 25, 2021 22:38:13 GMT -5
So unless Shayna is just a master at selling, Charlotte really stiffed her with that knee strike. It now feels like this is a real problem that needs to be addressed. You know they won't address it. If they won't address Nia being incredibly unsafe, there is no chance they confront Charlotte. Nia Jax is The Rock's cousin. Charlotte is Ric Flair's daughter. Of course nothing will happen. Gotta keep those legends happy.
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Post by mrtuesday on Jan 25, 2021 16:07:11 GMT -5
101 Dalmatians is a first. The first animated movie using Disney's Xerox method.
After Sleeping Beauty bombed, Disney was at a crossroads. Walt was told by many of his peers, including his own brother, to shut down the animation studio. They were making plenty of money with their TV shows (Mickey Mouse Club, Zorro), the live-action movies, as well as Disneyland. They didn't need animation anymore.
Walt stood his ground. Animation was the company's roots, and he was going to find a way to keep it going.
Ub Iwerks, co-creator of Mickey Mouse and one of Walt's closest confidants, found the answer in a modified Xerox machine.
In the original days, the animators would draw each frame of animation on to a sheet of paper. These would them be traced into the animation cells before being colored in.
With the Xerox machine, the animation frames wold be printed directly into the animation cells. Saving hundreds of hours. Animators loved it, as it was their direct drawings being used in the movies, rather than someone's traced version of it.
This woild give the movies a bit of a dirty look that defined that era. This era would go from 1961's 101 Dalmatians through 1988's Oliver and Company.
Starting with 1989's The Little Mermaid, the studio would move to digital animation. Scanning each frame, cleaning it up, and animating it using computers.
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Post by mrtuesday on Jan 24, 2021 20:01:26 GMT -5
I'm pretty much of the opinion that the last two Godzilla movies were boring as hell outside of the 20 minutes of actual fighting and Bryan Cranston carrying the first third of the Gareth Edwards movie on his back. Not to mention Adam wingard's last two movies don't inspire confidence. But God damn if I didn't smile when they started fighting on that aircraft carrier. I agree apart from the monster mash the movies are boring when we have to shift focus on the who cares human subplot...instead of going to a monster movie for ya know the monsters. It is why Shin Godzilla bored me to f***ing tears because it was far less a Godzilla movie and instead a political movie that just happens to have Godzilla in it. Godzilla's entire existence was political. 1945. The United States drops two nuclear bombs on Japan. The Japanese people live in fear of what the outcome of the radiation of said bombs. Trying to live a life in the fallout of war. 1954. Godzilla is made with those bombings as a backdrop. Godzilla's very creation was the radiation of the bombs the US dropped on Japan. It was used as a metaphor for a post-war Japan. To ignore the political origins of the character is silly.
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Post by mrtuesday on Jan 24, 2021 19:15:44 GMT -5
I'm pretty much of the opinion that the last two Godzilla movies were boring as hell outside of the 20 minutes of actual fighting and Bryan Cranston carrying the first third of the Gareth Edwards movie on his back. Not to mention Adam wingard's last two movies don't inspire confidence. But God damn if I didn't smile when they started fighting on that aircraft carrier. That's EVERY Godzilla movie, though. Most of every Godzilla movie is about a bunch of boring human characters no one cares about, and 20 good minutes of monster fighting.
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Post by mrtuesday on Jan 24, 2021 7:16:23 GMT -5
I feel about Terminator the same way I feel about Star Wars. There's such a huge world of possibilities for the franchise that's hindered by focusing on the same small group of characters.
For Star Wars, it's the Skywalkers. For Terminator, it's the Connors.
Do a movie about what other people were doing during Judgement Day, and the following years. A small group of people who's never heard of John Connor trying to survive against an army of robots that want to kill them just because they're human. You can do so much with this franchise, but the reliance on John Connor holds it back.
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Post by mrtuesday on Jan 24, 2021 7:04:34 GMT -5
This is cool and everything, but can we have Hi-C Ecto Cooler back again please? Yes. Ecto Cooler or no buys.
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Post by mrtuesday on Jan 22, 2021 4:49:41 GMT -5
I dont mean this in anyway to be negative towards her, but shes basically an actor and thats her job. If your hired for a movie and it calls for a sex scene ( this wasnt even close to a sex scene) and you dont want to do it, i see nothing wrong with that. I work for a insurance company and take calls all day... if they ask me to do something and I dont want to do it, then I should be fired. They werent asking her to break any laws, or do anything insane. I dont see how this is Vince bullying anyone. There's a union for actors, though. If an actor feels uncomfortable doing a stunt or a sex scene, they can't be punished for it Wrestlers don't have a union. If they don't want to do a move or a storyline, they can, and often are, punished for it. They lose their position on the show, or even fired for it. Lita wasn't in a position to say no. It was either do what she was told, or risk being fired. In the end, she just quit, and was embarrassed all the way out the door.
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Post by mrtuesday on Jan 17, 2021 11:07:57 GMT -5
I do wonder how many of them influenced/swayed fan opinions about WCW. I definitely grew up on the WCW doc thinking WCW was pretty much all crap from what WWE said. Not everyone liked Vince's style of production. WCW (more specifically, The Crocketts) had the southern style of wrestling that the Turner audience liked. After that it was he stars of the 80's jumping ship. Names like Hulk Hogan brought new eyes to WCW that didn't give it a chance before. And then there were the Cruiserweights. High flyers that moved faster than anyone in their audience had seen. It was why WCW always used them to open the show, to get the crowd hot. When WCW closed, many of those fans just stopped watching wrestling all together. What Vince was offering wasn't their style. And they never came back.
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Post by mrtuesday on Jan 17, 2021 6:38:16 GMT -5
They ever going to come back to the Midwest? They haven’t been there since Wrestlemania 23. Short answer: no. Long answer: Weather's the only reason I can see them staying away from the central United States for so long. you never know when one of those March or April blizzards are gonna hit, and shut everything down. A few years ago during the NFL Draft there was a massive blizzard that shut freaking Colorado down. My guess is that Vince and WWE want to avoid anything like that for their biggest show.
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Post by mrtuesday on Jan 12, 2021 16:54:29 GMT -5
I wonder if they’ll insert a Wolfenstein shoutout somewhere, given Machinegames is working on this. Indiana Jones vs Mecha-Hitler!
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Post by mrtuesday on Jan 9, 2021 12:15:33 GMT -5
There's always a chance they could have them join the Legends.
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Post by mrtuesday on Jan 6, 2021 12:20:02 GMT -5
Laura is a bitch. Off topic, but painfully true. There were a few episodes here and there where she seemed to learn her lesson... but then promptly forgot it by the next episode. The rule of episodic television sitcoms, everything resets at the end of the episode.
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Post by mrtuesday on Jan 6, 2021 7:03:40 GMT -5
I feel sorry for Jodie. She's going to end up alongside Colin Baker as a dark note of Doctor Who history when, like Colin, it's no fault of her own. Big Finish's audio stories redeemed Six. So, we'll just have to wait for Big Finish's Thirteenth Doctor Adventures in...like...2030?
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Post by mrtuesday on Jan 5, 2021 12:45:04 GMT -5
The other thing with Star Wars is that stories have spanned over tens of thousands of years. There's a very thin timeframe that's obviously popular set around the timeframe of the nine main movies. But there's a lot of stories that take place in the distant past where time separates things enough where they can do their own thing without worrying about contradicting canon beyond the most basic elements of the Star Wars universe like space travel, alien species, planets, and The Force. They just announced a new book series called The High Republic, that takes place 200 years before the movies. So, yeah, freedom to tell any kind of story they want without restrictions. So, of course fans hate it because they hate anything new in Star Wars because Disney and Kathleen Kennedy stole their souls or some BS.
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Post by mrtuesday on Jan 5, 2021 12:09:28 GMT -5
The thing is, despite what fans want to believe, Star Wars didn't have a streamlined canon until Disney bought it and trimmed the fat. While many of what is now knows as "Legends" books and comics intersect, many more don't. Books that came out after the original trilogy contradict events that happen in the prequels and sequels. Books that came out after the prequels contradict events that happen in the sequels.
And, for a while, that was ok. Lucas has always said that only the movies were canon, and any books that didn't contradict the film's could be considered canon as well. But he never really saw any books, comics, or video games as part of the story.
It's only when Disney bought it, and said they were starting with a clean slate of new books and comics. So many got up in arms that their favorite books were no longer part of the story,even though they never really were.
Now some characters and story elements of some of the Legends novels have been brought back into canon, such as Thrawn and his backstory. And some haven't.
There are people who hate that it's Ben Solo and not Anikan, Jacen, and Jaina. That Palpatine had a clone son that later fathered Rey, rather than a three-eyed biological son named Triclops. And that Luke became a hermit rather than marry Mara Jade.
Star Wars DOES have a multiverse, and it's those storys in the Legends books.
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Post by mrtuesday on Jan 5, 2021 10:21:23 GMT -5
Most of those characters were included because they existed when the film was set. That’s one of the main reasons you don’t see any Hanna Barbera cartoons. This is the major thing everyone forgets about Roger Rabbit. The movie was a love letter to the Golden Age of animation. And only included characters that existed during that time. Roger Rabbit is also 50% owned by Amblin Entertainment, meaning that Steven Spielberg would have to sign off on any use of the characters. Which is why nothing's been done with them in so long Spielberg might still be salty over the similarities between Roger Rabbit and Bonkers. A remake would have to take place during a high point in animation. And only use characters from that era. Disney doesn't play well with others anymore. Especially with Warner Bros starting their own streaming service, and Universal having their own amusement park chain. So, sorry. Mickey and Bugs aren't going to hang out with Shrek and the Minions. Disney would likely only use characters they own. Which now expands to Marvel, Star Wars, Pixar, The Muppets, 20th Century Fox, and Blue Sky. The closest we'll ever get is Ralph Breaks the Internet. Stormtroopers, Groot, Eeyore, the Princesses, and a building shaped like Kermit the Frog.
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Post by mrtuesday on Dec 26, 2020 7:25:21 GMT -5
This was not as good as the first, but I did enjoy it. However... {Spoiler}{SPOILER: CLICK TO SHOW}Maxwell Lord was completely unnecessary. You could have done the exact same movie, and have it be about an hour shorter, without his subplot.
Just focus on the wishing stone. Diana makes the first wish, bringing Steve back to life, but slowly losing her godhood the longer he lives.
Barbara then holds the wishing stone for the rest of the film. Her first wish to be like Diana. She gives up her soul in return, "I'd sell my soul to be like her". Which better explain why she becomes more cruel as the film goes on.
I'd have Barbara find out Diana is Wonder Woman, and tries to be a hero, too. Putting on a costume of a cheetah and trying to be a hero. Unlike Diana, Barbara wants people to know of her, and embraces the spotlight. But, she goes too far and kills the criminals she faces. But she's reckless, and innocents are also harmed.
Like the actual film, Steve convinced Diana to take back her wish, and Steve dies again. But Diana has her godhood back to settle things with Barbara.
In the climax, Barbara makes another wish to be the apex predator, like in the actual film. Giving up her humanity to become The Cheetah in full.
The battle happens much like it did in the film, with Diana pleading with Barbara to take back her wishes, and Barbara refusing. Leading to Diana electrocuting Barbara.
Since the wishing stone is a symbol of lies, the only thing that can destroy it is a symbol of truth. Diana ties the stone in the lasso of truth just as Barbara regains consciousness to see the stone destroyed. Maybe a typical villian "NO! What have you done?" as Barbara reverts to bring human.
Wrap it up with Diana serving Barbara to the police where she's arrested , not only for the criminals she murdered, but for the innocents harmed due to her recklessness.
This film had a lot of potential. It just didn't live up to it.
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