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themetfairy wrote: From adoptee to All Star in just over two years - a meteoric rise! And by next weekend, is on his way to becoming THE Scooter in New York baseball!

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Frayed Knot wrote: I've found very little that's NOT available through NetFlix -- the 1989 British Politics & Sex movie SCANDAL, which I'd like to re-see, is one, but I can't think of many others where I've been shut down via them. What flicks, or type of flicks, are you not finding that prompts the "outrageously inadequate" comment? i'm talking about the stream only. I mean, almost any movie you'd want to see is unavailable, while lots of pure shit on a stick is at your fingertipts. the whole dvd by mail thing sorta kills the excitement of being able to walk into the place and find what I want, and I think it might cost more too. Try the local library? I'm sure there are tons of obscure and under appreciated stuff in the NYPL system.

Quick first reactions: -Pretty decent biopic, worth seeing from an educational standpoint. Nothing someone who knows the basic story of what Robinson went through would object to in a "they got that wrong" way or new information "discovered." -Complete period piece, the rap song was just in the trailer. 1940s era score and some pretty good tunes mixed in. -Larry Doby, and others whom came after Robinson for teams other than Brooklyn do get short changed...A LOT! The only reference to the movement that was coming was just in passing general comments (both with racial undertones and winds of change promises). As well as Campanella (who is referenced in a scene of Branch selecting Robinson) and Newcombe being noted as being with the Dodgers in 1948 in a "what happens after" captions. -They tell Ed Charles' story of being inspired by Robinson in Florida of 1946 which is a nice tie-in to future events, even if the Dobys, Monte Irvins, Hank Thompsons, Pumpsie Greens, Ellie Howards and Sam Jethroes get nary a mention. -A couple of groan worthy moments. One, they get the Reese-Robinson on the field moment that is in statue form outside Keyspan Park, but What. The. Fuck? Reese opines that maybe someday everyone will be wearing #42. *sigh* Second groan worthy moment, they do have a montage of various JR Day games of various MLBers decked out in #42s (including the present day Dodgers), well the first player shown in the montage, Derek Fucking Jeter!? Good grief...Neither ruins the movie, or takes points away from it by any means, but stuff that can be considered groan worthy material.

Jackie Robinson biopic that has been kicking around since about the 40th anniversary of Robinson's debut finally rolls out. Checking it out in a little bit.

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Weird that they did this. (They also added some bridges across the Hudson River from downtown [crossout]Manhattan[/crossout] Gotham.) That was actually Pittsburgh.

Anyone in the Jersey City, NJ area that likes to support the local indie film scene? My cousin, and his co-producer whom had a film in the aforementioned festival, along with several other local New Jersey film makers are doing a screening of a bunch of their short films, including the debut of my cousin's latest short, at the Brightside Tavern in Jersey City on Thursday evening. Should be a fun time.

metirish wrote: SteveJRogers wrote: Hoboken International Film Festival 2012 Yes I realize it's in Jersey City, despite it being called Hoboken. Last year it was in Teaneck, so I guess they figure "close enough." . well , at least they didn't put it in say NYC and claim it was a NJ festival. Or vice versa. I'm sure that has happened. Ah hell, the area Beatle Fest does that! http://www.thefest.com/fest/Current/NewYork/ny.php Okay MAYBE they can let it slide with "NY Metro" but still. At least next year's Wresltemania and the 2014 Super Bowl, both to be at Metlife Stadium do have the decency to refer to the host "city" as NY/NJ.

I guess, but they should lose the raccoon. (Is he an actual Marvel character, or is this the influence of Disney? He looks like the little guy who was friends with Pocahontas. Maybe they can get the hummingbird to join the Guardians as well.) Rocket Raccoon: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket_Raccoon

Vic Sage wrote: - a MR. FIXIT- version of THE HULK, with him as the smaller, nastier, greyer Vegas tough guy; And they'd better get Peter Allen David to write that bad boy! Or much smashing would occur...

BTW, just to add to my point about officially coming out with the slate. Dollars to donuts would be that all these movies were greenlit, in advance of The Avengers. Black Widow/Hawkeye, and the Ruffalo Hulk that I mentioned were really put on the table after the Avengers reaction a few months ago. Hard to officially put something on the table and suddenly give it a "concrete" deadline after two months of notice. Yes, Ant Man doesn't have a date yet, but that has been floating around as a rumored part of the Marvel Studios family since day one back when Iron Man was coming out.

Vic Sage wrote: It would also be a good place to reintroduce the Silver Surfer, who had much crossover with Thanos and Warlock. Isn't good old Norrin tied up over at FOX with the Fantastic Four characters though?

Ahhhhh...Marvel Studios is conceding Free Comic Book Day 2014 to Sony's sequel to Amazing Spider-Man http://boxofficemojo.com/schedule/?view=bydate&release=theatrical&yr=2014&p=.htm

Edgy DC wrote: No Hawkeye? No Black Widow. No Ghost Rider 3? Hawkeye/Black Widow are probably in early development, along with a Ruffalo Hulk. Considering it was a San Diego Comic Con panel probably not the place to say "yeah we are in the planning stages" when you have scores of fans that just want to know what is coming out for sure. Not sure if that was serious, but Ghost Rider is not under license to Marvel Studios. I'm intrigued by the April 4th release of Captain America in 2014. Traditionally Marvel has been putting out a movie the first weekend of May to coincide with National Free Comic Book Day, a festive Saturday for participating local comic book shops. Unless that is moved up to the first weekend of April in 2014, this is an interesting date to release.

MFS62 wrote: Which leads me to the question "Has there ever been a movie that was better than the tv show upon which it was based?" I can't recall one, but maybe it is fodder for its own thread. Anyhow, it was the reason I never saw this movie. I thought the tv show was terrible, so why bother? Later Many of the better Star Trek movies are fine answers to this question.

LeBlanc had made that baseball playing chimp movie prior to this, and of course shared screen time with a monkey during the first season of the show Friends (they also had a major character be a parent during that first season, my guess is that both were their way of getting a couple of JTS tropes out of the way early). So when I saw whatever that CGI simian was supposed to be on the screen I was thinking that the poor guy just can't get away from projects involving simians.

Hoboken International Film Festival 2012 Yes I realize it's in Jersey City, despite it being called Hoboken. Last year it was in Teaneck, so I guess they figure "close enough." A friend of mine has a hand in couple of short films in the fest. His co-producer wrote and directed two shorts in the Sunday evening programs. But check out the entire slate, should be...entertaining at least.

Vic Sage wrote: i've accepted Joss Whedon as my personal savior. Well, except for the fact that he HAD to pull one of HIS weary assed tropes of storytelling where it really didn't belong.

I agree with Vic. And no has nothing to do with what happened to my namesake as a fallout of it = Too many characters to introduce, and a major part if it is still very much under the control of another studio, I don't think you can do that with any other Marvel character except Peter Parker.

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Yeah, those guys jumped the shark 25 years ago. Franchise not the same since Henson died, Oz became a big shot director, and the whole kit plus kaboodle got sold to The Mouse of Evil. Either that, or we've just gotten older and the post Henson crap just doesn't appeal to adults as the Henson era stuff did. Even on the nostalgic level.

Edgy DC wrote: Didn't make much sense to me. I don't know what happens to me, but a lot of times in sci-fi/fantasy, we get to the climax, and I have no idea what's going on. I mean I know who the good guy and the bad guy are but I don't understand what they're doing and why. I'm gonig to make a great old man. -- Huh? Wha'? -- Quiet, grandpa! Sounds like that bit Seinfeld did on his show about people always asking questions while watching movies "(in a hushed tone) What? Why did they kill him, I thought he was with them? OH, he WAS'NT with them. Oh, so it's good that they killed him."

I took it that the bit at the end is foreshadowing July's Captain America as the object in question will be a major part of that film.

TONS of Spider-Man news since the last time this thread was updated. -The reboot looks like is officially going to be called Amazing Spider-Man Can we have that cut from the 1969 MLB WS film with everyone saying "Amazin'" including Casey repeating it over and over spliced into the film somehow? -Oh and the suit looks like either one of those Spider-Man-esque things winter Olympic athletes have been trotting out or a rather poor cos-play attempt

Either I'm way too big of a Beatle fan, or there was a Magical Mystery Tour vibe going on in this flick.

Valadius wrote: Won't be as good as Green Lantern. Captain America should make up for it though. I have strong reservations about Green Lantern. 1) The suit looks bad. Yes it is ring-energy based, but on Ryan Reynolds, it looks bad. 2) From everything I've seen in that trailer, everything is pointing towards this "Green Lantern" being Hal Jordan in name, setting and origin only. Personality wise, Reynolds seems very Kyle Rayner like. Not a bad thing, but if this is the Hal Jordan story, do Hal Jordan. Don't completely redo the character to make him fit the actor's talents.

Frayed Knot wrote: The dialogue in 'Sports Night' was frequently too cute by half but seeing as how both that one and 'Studio 60' were so short lived and that I never watched 'West Wing' I guess I'm still safe from OD'ing on Sorkin-itis. I should amend that a bit. Sorkin style dialogue isn't bad within the context of fiction, but tough to take when being used in context of even being loosely based on real events.