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And Rotten Tomatoes is currently at 46 positive, 0 negative with an 8.6 average rating. Early reviews are universally more positive than later ones so both scores will go down, but still, I did NOT expect reviews anywhere near this good on this film. Can't wait to feast on the tearful denials from all the predictably-biased usuals on this one.

That didn't even need reporting. The X-Men has far too many characters for them all to appear in every film.

The early chatter after the initial screening is extremely positive. Review embargo lifts on Tuesday.

jsilverjanet has gone too far this time.

Like all the new Disney 4K discs, however, it's upscaled from 1080p and probably not worth paying the 4k premium for unless you're an HDR junkie. http://realorfake4k.com/my-product/thor-ragnarok/

Plus I'm pretty sure everything there was to like in Prometheus is attributable to Damon Lindelof and everything there was to hate is attributable to Ridley. He's a great visual storyteller, but his ability to realize when a screenplay sucks is weak. But he's your guy when the source material is stellar as was the case with the original Blade Runner, Alien, The Martian, and American Gangster.

I had Ra's ahead of Bane. I like to understand what my villains are actually saying. The whole Tom Hardy muffler was a fail as far as I am concerned. You're right...I messed up the order. I liked Ra's better too. I rank the first two films in the top three of ALL superhero films, but I don't rank Rises in the top 20. Or maybe somewhere towards the bottom of the top 20, haven't put much thought beyond the first ten.

Gyllenhaal is a solid but blah choice, but it doesn't matter much. The villains always matter more. The three Nolan films are ranked by the quality of performances of their villains, i.e. Joker, then Bane, then Ra's.

My fear is that all the merger will mean is that Viacom stops leasing all the Next Generation and later shows to Netflix and instead puts them behind the CBS pay wall.

Are they going to continue to keep this show buried behind a pay wall? Every time I say to myself I want to watch it I instead decide to just go watch another episode of the Enterprise series I never finished free on Netflix. Or at least it's free to me since there's a world more content on Netflix whereas the ONLY thing I'd watch behind the CBS pay wall is this show.

No episode this week?

That one hit hard, but it kept me puzzled from that episode onwards--was his sister killed by that serial killer or not? It undermined the concept of the show in a way that I took the entire rest of the series less seriously.

And quantity meaning not even just more comic book movies, just more movies across all genres. What a great message to send to fans, "we can't do any movie all that well because we're spread so thinly across all types of films." That might please me as a shareholder, but as a fan, it's just nauseating. I'm a Marvel zombie, but my #1 and #3 favorite superhero movies are Nolan Batman films, so I've really been wanting DC to get it together. So this is all bumming me out. Ah well, maybe Matt Reeves will end up being great.

I haven't seen either episode yet, but the series has always had hit-or-miss episodes. I've always preferred the standalone sci-fi episodes, but yea, they're not all stellar. The best episode ever was the one where they were investigating a guy who kept taking pictures of people moments before they died of causes completely unrelated to him. REALLY compelling concept. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tithonus_(The_X-Files)

If he really believes Disney's success with critics stems from the fact that they're less ambitious in the breadth of film diversity they pursue relative to Warner Brothers then he's either deluding himself or just trying to delude fans--hopefully it's only the latter. All I hear from that statement is that they're going to keep throwing some semi-random string of strikes and wild pitches out there, and I as a fan won't know if I'm going to be swinging at what they're throwing me or hastily scrambling to dodge it. I really can't believe Tsujihara chose to frame the difference between Disney and Warner as breadth of film offerings versus depth. The only conclusion you can draw from that is Warner's going to continue to slap a bunch of crepe out there while Disney continues to focus on higher quality for what goes into each film in a way that only a "less ambitious" studio like Disney can.

That's the only positive way to look at this, that he's intended to be Kevin Feige's Avi Arad. In the meantime, we can look forward to many Avi Arad-like "I have no idea what a great comic book movie is, but I sure hope this guy I just hired does!" gems in the future like Elektra, Ghost Rider, or Fantastic Four. Overall, I read this as "something's wrong, and we have no idea how to fix it, but we gotta shake SOMETHING up." I still doubt Geoff Johns will ever want to be Kevin Feige, and I find it likely that either a DC exec realized this or that Johns himself asked out of an executive position. Highly creative types usually don't want to be executives like Feige is.

The Hulk You see him as Bruce Banner though, so the age, appearance, and acting ability of Mark Ruffalo matters. Having said that, during the times that Galactus stripped away the Silver Surfer's powers we saw him as Norrin Radd, so I'm sure they'd like to pick a voice actor who could play the part in the flesh if that eventually becomes necessary.

I LOVE Clone Wars. I've still got a ton of episodes left, and after that Rebels.

There's a Boba Fett movie already in development, and I assume it also explores more about Jango Fett. I still don't get why so many people hate Attack of the Clones; Jango was one of the highlights of the entire series for me. Much better than anything Boba ever did from the later films. Hardcore fans like me like Boba Fett just because his costume looks cool and has the cool accessories like the jet pack, rope launcher, wrist laser, etc...he never did much of anything to deserve the admiration he gets. I can envision an entire film centered around Jango and his decision to allow himself to be cloned that continues on and probably focuses upon Boba's life. Temuera Morrison is still only 57, so he should be able to still play both roles with a little makeup and/or CGI since Jango is older in Episode II and Boba should be approaching that age by Episodes V and VI.

Although it is the worst of the films, I still look back somewhat fondly at Episode I for a lot of reasons: The main one is Darth Maul, the coolest Star Wars villain EVER. Not the best, just the coolest. He could have become the best if Lucas hadn't killed him so fast. Darth Sidious is awesome. Ian McDiarmid is really likable in the role and great at sounding over-the-top evil. He's one of the worst in terms of physical performance with a saber, but his voice acting is among the finest of all the films. I can hear him coldly saying "Wipe them out...all of them" in my head anytime I think of that movie. Qui-Gonn is likable. Liam Neeson really hated working with George Lucas and has said so many times after the film, but I thought he did fine in that movie. I hated seeing him die. Ewan MacGregor did a really fine job as Obi-Wan, although that's true in all of the prequels. Most of all, it came into existence years after we all assumed there wouldn't be any more Star Wars films. It kept hope alive.

Probably to balance out the campy goofiness of the Gungans.

Is this it? Eek...I'd have to see that fully converted to a costume with makeup to be sure, but my first impression is I don't like it as much. Definitely much creepier though.

Never heard of that, does a picture of the original design exist?

He died from either Force lightning or a fall, I believe. It's at the end of the clip I just included a dozen or so posts back. Or with the freedom the Expanded Universe guys felt to resurrect characters, maybe he's still alive! I liked everything about this scene except one huge thing--Sidious whacks Kit Fisto with a single swipe that Fisto should easily have seen coming. That was just lame, lame, lame, and more lame. There's a lot of bad in Revenge of the Sith, but there's so much great stuff I still rank it really high among the films. I could pick half a dozen epic scenes from Episode III that eclipse EVERYTHING in Revenge Return of the Jedi.