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You'd have to think he also turned it down because of all the animated content to translate to live action Akira is by far one of the hardest and therefore riskiest. He'd be risking his future career if he screwed it up. I'm not even sure it's possible to do well.

What reason is there to think that Disney deliberately did this? The Pirates movies have been box office gold, so I'd expect any IMAX theater to willingly choose to show that instead of almost anything else, Wonder Woman included. Seems like a fail by WB to release it a week after Pirates; they should have released it before or several weeks after Pirates.

The reviews are pretty set with 112 positive and 34 negative on Rotten Tomatoes--apparently it's decent. I enjoyed Prometheus, but since so many people complained about the dumb stuff Ridley Scott added like the biologist who felt inanely compelled to touch that worm-monster and all of the good stuff Damon Lindelof added that people didn't piece together yet felt oddly compelled to incorrectly point out that the puzzle pieces didn't exist for them to ever figure it out, I'm guessing this movie is pretty much nothing like it. I'm guessing the film just wraps the Prometheus concept up semi-early in the film and moves on to Alien human-chasing somewhere around the midpoint.

So in summary we'll NEVER get a good FF movie. Good to know.

The most common complaint is exactly what I commented on from the trailer and what the Rotten Tomatoes tag line states--they moderned it up and took out the historical context. I have no patience for historical pieces which use modern stylizing. If you're going to use something old then put everything about it in its time; don't use some historical elements and mix them with modern ones.

Review embargo lifted and the critics are taking a steaming dump all over this film. Currently at 22% on Rotten Tomatoes with 8 positives and 29 negatives.

What is this picture? It appears to have nothing to do with that Patty Jenkins article, but obviously I like it because boobs.

I'm still wondering if David Mazouz will grow into Bruce Wayne's body. He was about 5' 4" at age 15 earlier last year, and I think he's around 5' 7" now at age 16. Been wondering if they looked at his immediate family before hiring him so young to estimate his likely size at adulthood to be at least somewhat sure he was at least somewhat close to Batman's stature. I looked around for pictures of his parents once but couldn't find any.

+1 This seems senseless. They need to hand it back to Marvel.

I love the Arthurian legend. Excalibur was my favorite medieval fantasy film for decades until Lord of the Rings came out. I generally enjoyed the 2004 King Arthur film, particularly Stellan Skarsgard as the villain, but it paled to Excalibur. The trailers for this one look worse than the 2004 film. Looks more "Knights Tale" to me. I need more period ambiance, so the rock soundtrack took me out of the mood.

No What's with the eye-roll? I barely use ebay, for all I know they let people sell Playboys. If that's true eBay will take care of it by removing the item after someone reports it.

That's not possible--those ads are coming straight from eBay. Do they allow stuff like this to be sold on their site?

Please...long hair, not short hair.

It's time for the Jedi to end.

You mean Superman might not be really dead? SHOCKED, AM I.

Check for yourself: https://www.youtube.com/results?sp=CAM%3D&q=thor+ragnarok+trailer I assume the articles he's reading are referring to views across all sites, not just Youtube.

I think I like Ray Stevenson's the best.

Maybe they will hire Jet Li or Chuck Norris to train Finn Jones between now and then.

Unfortunately, not. She still represents the interest of Sony with this arrangement. The concerns about Marvel Studio spending have been coming up more than once. I wouldn't be surprised if there is some Sony grumbling how those 'unappreciative partners' are spending excessively. Although they can always go back to check the spend vs. profits from ASM2, and come back down to reality. Her wording doesn't sound like the deal is anywhere close to over. She spent 98% of that statement hyping the relationship and 2% saying it may never happen again. As Sony's producer on the film that's just politics as usual. Is there any indication that the budget on this thing will exceed those of the previous films?

Film producers are in charge of making sure a movie gets made. So Sony is paying Marvel to make it.

Your comparison with Iron Man is apt but for the opposite reason you're describing. Marvel has it easy with him because when he's totally in the suit they can more easily make it pure CGI because there's no human parts that the human eye is trained to know inside and out for them to have to match any expectation with; they just have to make an unrealistic battle suit look vaguely realistic. But with Cyborg, the human parts stick out, so they don't have that same luxury. When you see Downey wearing a real suit, he isn't in action, he's just sitting or standing there. They can't only show Cyborg in motion fully suited up without CGI because his prosthetics don't cover his body.

Your linked stories say it all--it's not news, it's pure speculation from Amy Pascal who hasn't worked for Sony for several years now.

I thought +1 one had a different meaning, that it means "I feel the same way." I like lots of ideas that I don't feel the same way about myself.

I would personally like to thank you for being a super positive member here. I have enjoyed your many sales threads as well as your contributions to the general comics knowledge pool of these boards, your vast knowledge of the medium and thoughtful insights are always welcome and appreciated. It's great work you're doing and I think you deserve a round of applause Comments like this are WAY too much work...we need a "Like" feature for users so I'm never forced to gush all over someone like you just did.

Apologies, but I absolutely disagree. And see past my spoiler tags for the litany of other reasons of what made this show bad, and the cheap narrative devices it used. It's "all a dream" or "is it or isn't a dream" is a worn out, lazy style of story telling. It renders everything that happens either meaningless or potentially meaningless (which basically renders it meaningless). It is cheap. And it is a stereotyoe. Or it's highly imaginative in a way you and I can't follow because we lack that type of imagination. Which I don't blame either of us for at all, but I also don't blame Hawley for it, either, it's just not a style most people can follow which is why I'm also surprised this has already been renewed for a second season. When my niece last had me sit down for a tea party with an imaginary teapot pouring imaginary tea into imaginary cups she had distributed to us, I didn't think she was being cheap or lazy, I just thought she was using a highly imaginative mode of thinking that I lost at some point in my path to adulthood. I don't see how you can poop on Hawley's imaginary tea party in the form of David's mind games just because you're not into that type of thing anymore yourself. You might not be into it just like I'm not, but it's not lazy, and I also don't see that it's bad--everything he's doing is hugely creative. You and I just are unable to suspend our disbelief, but that's a requirement to get into any type of science fiction at all. It's just far more of a requirement with this one.