Edgy MD

We need more black superheroes without "Black" in their names.

Narrative-wise, it has a lot in common with a Bond film, mostly in the first half. [*:j5vag2bk]the "check out your new gadgets" scene, [/*:m:j5vag2bk] [*:j5vag2bk]the operation in a foreign capital surrounded by wealthy and beautiful swells dressed fabulously, [/*:m:j5vag2bk] [*:j5vag2bk]the casino, [/*:m:j5vag2bk] [*:j5vag2bk]the breakdown of the operation setting up the rest of the plot, [/*:m:j5vag2bk] [*:j5vag2bk]the super-professional female agent who is just so over the way you boys think you can charm and bullshit your way through everything, [/*:m:j5vag2bk] [*:j5vag2bk]the car chase with really high-end brand cars from manufacturers that paid to be in the movie, [/*:m:j5vag2bk] [*:j5vag2bk]the surprising tech unveiled during said car chase, [/*:m:j5vag2bk] [*:j5vag2bk]the grudging alliance-of-convenience with a foreign operative/rival that ultimately proves fruitful and puts a crack in the ice of international distrust,[/*:m:j5vag2bk] [*:j5vag2bk]the villain having a crude and sadistic heavy that's disfigured but has a signature way of killing people, [/*:m:j5vag2bk] [*:j5vag2bk]weaponry that works like a video game, [/*:m:j5vag2bk] [*:j5vag2bk]a last-act battle scene where everybody comes out of the woodwork in the name of patriotism, and [/*:m:j5vag2bk] [*:j5vag2bk]the world is saved at the last possible moment.[/*:m:j5vag2bk][/list:o:j5vag2bk] It just doesn't have the whole swing-dick thing or an intrigue-filled Shirley Bassey song.

Holy shit. Too many music films to choose from.

Vic Sage wrote: Edgy MD wrote: I'd totally get myself and my family killed with an ill-timed fart. what constitutes a WELL-timed fart? Oh, your life has only been half-lived.

I'd totally get myself and my family killed with an ill-timed fart.

That's some good foul ball shaming.

Yeah, it looks like I mis-phrased that. More like ... surviving stadium that hosted the earliest Mets World Series game, or some other more spectacular phrasing.

Oldest surviving stadium to host a Mets' World Series game.

Strange season. Some darn good work in Bingo, but has been absolutely pummelled in Vegas. Maybe some AAA action in Syracuse next year will help him break that barrier.

Oh, he's been visited in our FSL thread. If he was at AA with that start, he might have gotten cut loose. Guys don't seem to get released as frequently at St. Loo. Very encouraging turnaround that's come in the midst of a difficult second half for the FSL Mets.

I never watch these things. I think I saw one on TV once. The one with the Kuala Lumpur Tower. But we saw this in a drive-in last week, and I called all the plot turns. Bleh.

Good pick. A lot of talent emerging out of Kingsport this year.

This is great. What are the puppet heads on the wall in the photo up top?

Zanghi is having a heckuva zeazon, dgw. Get us some scuttlebuttery.

All that money invested in special effects, but the best part was Michael Peña's $40 wig.

That's so much better, it's stupid. Gotta allow the kids a little more initiative too. And an opportunity to be on to the plan before everybody else, but nobody listens to kids.

The previews were all for animated sequelz: Wreck-It Ralph II, How to Raise Your Dragon II, The Lego Movie II. Using a rehash to promote a pile of rehashes was gloomily foreboding. The standard Pixar animated short feature was ambitious and meaningful and ... disturbing as heck. I'm glad I didn't see it when I was under eight. The film had the outstanding design you're looking for, great music (possibly better than the first), but centerfield is dead on. My wife was playing with her phone through the middle, and you're a real dullard if the big villain reveal surprised you at all. No script, no movie. And it's pretty disappointing to have to say that about a Brad Bird-directed Pixar flick. They used to put years into story development before they started filming. Considering their recent output, John Lasseter's transfer to the parent company, and his subsequent downfall, there's little doubt (in my mind, anyhow) we've seen peak Pixar.

Cast into obscurity by laws that want them to keep their powers at bay and their existence under wraps, one of the Parrs gets an opportunity from a mysterious, wealthy benefactor who offers them a chance put their super-skillz back to use. The kids are kept in the dark, but is this mystery person on the up and up, or just a full-grown child with an axe to grind? Will the kids and parents and Uncle Frozone be able to join forces in time to save the day and redeem the status of superheroes in the eyes of the government and the mid-century modern society around them? Isn't this the plot to the original movie? [fimg=444:3txa6jau]https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/wA4AAOSwvzVa0oES/s-l1600.jpg[/fimg:3txa6jau]

The thing is, it's not like he didn't perform well before his injuries derailed him. He did and he was totally noticed. He even won a Cape Cod League batting title, which totally isn't nothing. What's new is the punch which he has never shown before. It's lack had previously downgraded him as a third-base prospect, and forced him to work more at second. But now, some future at third isn't out of the question. There could be some Daniel Murphy in there. More speed than Murphy, too, I think.

Yeah, it's hard to ask for in such an ensemble piece, but I wonder if the movie could have tried to focus on a single protagonistic point of view, sort of like the last Captain America (maybe the last two Captains America) were Avengers movies, but anchored in Steve's story. I guess the closest to a protagonist would have been Tony Stark, but it would have been terrific if it could have been built around Peter Parker, as a Skywalkerian fool stumbling into a Cosmic war beyond the wildest imagining of his young, provincial life, following the white hart into the woods, and trying to keep his head above water as he realizes he suddenly has a key role in a clash of gods.

Too many of those Nathan's Franks. Colby got released.

Wait ... you refill your popcorn from the restroom? GROSS!!

The mammoth master cut could take timeline jumps (flashbacks, credits scenes) within a movie and push them forward or back in the chronology.

My guess is that the intent was to eradicate half of the sentient life forms. It wouldn't serve his alleged aim of providing a merciful bounty to the survivors if he eradicated half the turnips and cocoa beans also.

And don't get Fman started about "The two-slot." And Ant-Man and the Wasp, I guess, will drop back to somewhere between 14 and 19.