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Nothing's wrong with younging it up, it's just that was Sony's explicit goal with rebooting in ASM1, so to see it happen again screams Sony's fingerprints on the film. It makes me wonder how much they're actually involved, and that's disconcerting given how much they're responsible for everything that didn't work in all of the previous films. Tom Holland looks much younger than 20. The odds of finding a compelling actor who's actually 14 or 15 were long, so hiring a 19 or 20 year old isn't a surprise. Seems like a fine cast. The original Spidey Flash Thompson is an extreme version of the bully nature of the character given that the actor is 6' 5" and extraordinarily muscular. You can be a bully at any size with the right demeanor, but it's tougher to see Revolori in the role at his size. I'm sure he'll pull it off, he seemed to be fairly intense from his performance in Grand Budapest Hotel.

I've got a hundred times the issue with those Shakespeare modern remolds. Historical drama is far too fascinating to require casting modern setting, language, and themes upon them. We're familiar with the modern world, but rendering the specifics of Shakespeare's England--or whichever venue a particular play from prior to his time is set in--holds far more interest. One or two of those when you're young and can't see the value in Shakespeare is nice, but after I saw the second or third I was done. I got tricked into a performance of Julius Caesar projected into a World War 2 context a few years ago and was furious that the description never mentioned it.

Kevin Feige has to eventually have a big critical bomb of the same order that seemingly every DC movie is these days. If I were betting on which one it will be among the films on slate that we've got much info about, I'd bet this one. That's even assuming Marvel has the type of creative control over this film that we would assume they have over their own films. I haven't heard that they don't, but who knows, maybe there are Sony guys in the production meetings that are playing a major part in the process. Certainly this whole "screw the history, just young this thing up" smells like Sony to me. They tried to do a mini version of this in ASM and ASM2. And we haven't seen major character changes to the other Marvel properties of the order we're seeing here in Spidey.

If this weren't Marvel producing this, I'd assume that the huge change in characters coupled with the ultra-lame Vulture being the villain was headed for an even bigger trainwreck than the past two Spideys were, ending up as something between ASM2 and the way Fantastic Four turned out. Even with Marvel at the helm, I'm still skeptical. I can see changing a character or two, particularly peripheral ones, but Flash Thompson as the little Guatemalan lobby boy from Grand Budapest Hotel (pic below)? Aunt May as a comparatively youngish legendary hottie actress? Mary Jane as biracial and 2-3 inches taller than Peter? Sheesh. I'm not going to be surprised now if Uncle Ben is played by Kevin Hart in flashbacks.

Yes. This film will give fans the back story of how it all happened. I've been guessing that the chick from Rogue One is one of the Bothans than Mon Mothma was referring to at the end of Episode IV. Or maybe she's not a Bothan at all, whatever race the Bothans are that she was referring to.

Their Instagram post is hilarious. Particularly loved this bit: Dunno, if any of that is true about the interaction between Ayer and the band members, their visual design is strikingly similar.

If Marvel faces that during the production of "Avengers," I don't see it cancelling the film, I see it delaying it. So why wasn't Miller asked back along with his cast and screenplay and why was the movie delayed for a decade? I'm particularly sad about this with regards to his Wonder Woman casting who I like more than Gal Gadot. Ultimately, we don't know why they delayed the film or why Snyder was chosen over Miller, but there may have been a reason. Or maybe there wasn't and Miller declined.

George Miller! If Geoff Johns could get George Miller, that's my first indication that he may be a good counterpart to Kevin Feige. Feige's first gets for the in-house Marvel movies were Jon Favreau and Joss Whedon, and everyone loved those picks. With Miller riding high after Mad Max, it looks like a solid pick. On the other hand, he got fired from the previous Justice League movie. But was he fired for good reason? If he was, getting him again may be out of the question.

'Sausage Party' is at 92% on RT? Sausage Party. I know nothing about the film, but the cast is an All-Star assemblage of a lot of the world's best comic actors.

As Smith himself would probably say...was there every really a time when he COULD make a good movie, or even recognize one?

Keeping in mind they gave him Harley's prop bat for his daughter, so he kinda has to say nice things, right? http://www.ew.com/article/2016/01/31/suicide-squad-harley-quinn-bat-kevin-smith-daughter It would be easy to assume so. But as much as Kevin Smith is associated with DC, he came down hard on Batman v Superman from his initial viewing. So I would like to assume he will speak his mind if he doesn't care for the film. And then praised BvS after his second viewing. He did acknowledge that his praise was based upon the nostalgia of being a fanboy of the characters though.

While I love Kevin Smith, he went into this film with a huge bias in knowing Ayer personally and with his daughter being nuts for and named after Harley Quinn. I knew he'd love this film no matter what the actual quality was like.

If they can get young pre-pregnancy Jennifer Connelly in it, I'm all in.

I was surprised at that as well. That JL trailer, though pieced together rather quickly, told all it needed to about the main heroes and the tone of the film to make it that much more exciting. 2017 can't get here soon enough. Is everyone more or less excited than they were about Dawn of Justice?

Also for every 20 pounds of fat a woman puts on, she gets about half a pound to two pounds of boob depending upon how big she is to begin with. I knew a girl who was 5' 1" and 125 pounds who was a bit chunky for her size, but she didn't want to lose weight and go from a D-cup to a C-cup. Kelly Brook does the same thing, stays at the upper edge of her weight for her frame so that she's more curvy. Christina Hendricks goes even further than Brook by staying in her BMI overweight range so that her boobs are huge; she has a D or an E cup when she's thin but goes up to F or G while overweight. Gadot will fill out the costume better from multiple perspectives at the upper range of her weight.

Other way around. Before packing on 17 pounds of muscle on her 5'10" frame, she looked sickly thin. The second photo is her at the BvS launch party, and you can clearly tell she looks much healthier now and thicker around the arms. Maybe she should use the Mountain's bulking up method...he went from 240 pounds to 400 pounds now, so surely she can get up to 200! Then she could fit the Frank Cho bulky wonder woman image!

Gadot and Lucy Lawless are virtually identically sized at 5' 10" and 135 to 140 pounds, although when she first took the part Gadot was at modern waif model weight and under 125 pounds. Lucy Lawless has lost weight since her Xena days. And we must have a different understanding of the word "waif". I would not describe Gadot as a waif, even in BvS. When she first got the part, she was still waif-thin from her modeling days when she was 115 to 120 instead of 135 to 140. Here she is back when she modeled:

DC's Captain Marvel is the original Captain Marvel. Maybe it was a form of protest It's fine given that the two characters are so famously tied together after Marvel filed the trademark on the name after DC let it lapse after first suing Fawcett for Captain Marvel being so similar to Superman and then later acquiring Fawcett's characters. The only reason they ever named him Shazam is because DC forgot to re-file the trademark during the post-lawsuit period when they weren't using the character.

Gadot and Lucy Lawless are virtually identically sized at 5' 10" and 135 to 140 pounds, although when she first took the part Gadot was at modern waif model weight and under 125 pounds.

The number of reviews doubled this afternoon--it's 84 positive, 10 negative now for an overall 90%. I expect it'll settle in the mid to high 80s, which means it should be a great flick.

link doesn't work for me, but that's strange. I was under the impression the app only works at walking speed and doesn't work at driving speed. That link doesn't work on PCs. It just downloaded something on Chrome that I promptly deleted before my computer self-destructed.

would likely have passed if the reviews were mediocre, now it's probably a go. been a terrible summer for movie going. Same, was gonna skip, now I'm not.

Just as cheesy as the Godzilla of my childhood. And what's with the loud classical music blaring throughout the clip?

Early reviews are incredible--26 positive, 3 negative for 90% overall Rotten Tomatoes. Given that early reviews are usually unrepresentatively high you'd expect this to go down, but still, it shouldn't plummet. Looks like it's a solid flick.

When you find a pokemon there is a little slider up in the top right corner that says AR (if you turn it on your camera will appear and you can catch the buggers in your surroundings. Here is one of mine: That one looks like going after it is a risk of ending up having to register as a sexual offender.