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  1. fantastic_four
    Who would have guessed a casual browse into the Game of Thrones thread would have completely spoiled the end of Veep for me?
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    Wha?!? He makes a FINE lumberjack!
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    The biggest farce in the last few decades of Oscar Best Picture nominations and wins was Return of the King. Which is a film I love and revere...it just didn't deserve an Oscar nod, much less a win. Reviewers gave the award to Peter Jackson as some sort of a bizarre misplaced achievement award for the influence of Tolkien's work on Western culture more than Jackson's. In retrospect of how Jackson's treatment didn't translate as well to the Hobbit, has ANY Best Picture win ever held up more poorly than Return of the King? It was puzzling at the time, and it's no less so today, but there's undoubtedly a ton of voter's remorse over that film now. I love all those films, Hobbit trilogy included, but they're all pure entertainment unworthy of Oscar consideration. And Endgame is no Return of the King. It has no chance at the primo Oscar categories.
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    I will bet anyone $10K that Endgame will not be nominated for a Best Picture Oscar. It'd be the easiest money I ever made! There's no real artistic message in the film with significant social or individual importance. You could argue that the environmental aspect of Thanos wanting to reduce overpopulation was somewhat of a social message in Infinity War, but meh, it's a sci-fi one that fell apart if you looked at it for too long. The Academy doesn't nominate films unless they have some sort of a message, a moral or a theme that they're conveying. Black Panther had that, Avengers doesn't. The Dark Knight is the finest superhero film ever made, but that didn't deserve an Oscar nod, either. No real message, just top-notch entertainment.
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    The historical and strategic case for burning King's Landing to the ground:
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    She may not see it his way, but I don't see how he "failed her again." He released Jaime to try to get Cersei to leave peacefully to save all the people in the city and it simply didn't work. He didn't put Daenerys at any kind of further disadvantage that would constitute failure. One thing I didn't get was who rang the bells and why. At first I thought it was Jaime in an attempt to delay the invasion to he could save Cersei, but then we saw him elsewhere. Tyrion said that if the people saw imminent defeat they'd ring the bells to evacuate the city--so was it those Golden Company dudes who put down their swords who rang the bell? Weren't they hired hands? I couldn't tell who did it or exactly why.
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    Yea that's my guess as well, but it does seem predictable. I'm still trying to decide if I would have withdrawn from Daenerys like Jon did in this episode when she was coming onto him. On the one hand, I get it. On the other, with Emilia Clarke hanging on my business I'm thinking my sense of honor wouldn't stand a chance against my libido.
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    Anyone seen when the review embargo lifts? I just looked but couldn't find it.
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    Yes, because 90% of their audience got Picasso, Shakespeare, Michelangelo, or Mozart on the first go. Not that I'm saying D & D are in that league. Just pointing out that quality isn't always immediately self-evident.
  10. fantastic_four
    Guess who is gone now? Amy Pascal Exits Sony for Universal Deal (May 1, 2019) I'm going to go ahead and just hope that she already knows that Disney will soon be buying Sony Pictures so now's the perfect time to exit.
  11. fantastic_four
    There was a LITTLE more art to it than that. She wanted to be a queen, but died by holding onto it too long and having her castle collapse on top of her.
  12. fantastic_four
    What do you mean "all" goes to Sony? You don't license a property and get nothing from it. The amount of money that Sony and Fox have been licensing the Marvel characters for has never been disclosed, but they get a percentage of the revenue.
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    And because it's not at all clear that Feige's magic would work with what Ryan Reynolds has done with Deadpool. The quality and return of that film is truly surprising, and I'm not sure how Feige could improve upon it. Better for him to get out of the way and just let it be what it is, there's room for what was done there in his universe.
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    The Fox universe of Marvel characters is just over. It's so obvious we've been assuming it for years...is there some reason they'd keep it going? Having said that, there's no reason they couldn't just pick from it whatever they want and keep it going, I just don't see them doing it outside of transferring some of the actors with one exception--Deadpool. I'll be shocked if they don't keep that train going.
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    I don't see why keeping McAvoy and Fassbender isn't just a straight-out option without some sort of story justification. The Fox movies are clearly another universe, and they didn't hesitate to cast Chris Evans as Cap when he had already been Johnny Storm over at Fox.
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    Really good 2-hour interview podcast with Kevin Smith and Marc Bernardin talking to the main Marvel Universe screenwriters Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely. They wrote all of the Cap movies, Thor: the Dark World, Infinity War, and Endgame. https://www.smodcast.com/channel/smodcast?audio=414
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    I wondered that as well. But I think the ones we saw exploding into ice-dust were the White Walkers (generals). The mindless Walkers just fell down in place. I believe. Yea, only the walkers and the Night King shattered. They showed Viserion just slumping over and dying, body slammed to the ground and didn't disintegrate.
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    Besides Odin he was the one I was looking forward to the most because I agree, his sculpt and paint look magnificent, so I was very disappointed to see how awful his articulation is. Probably the worst of any Hasbro figure I've ever had...no ankle pivot, his arms barely move, the cape gets in the way and can't be removed, his head almost doesn't move at all in any direction. Eh, I mostly bought him just because I do like that suit he's wearing there, I'm hoping my main Thor will be the one that's coming out in a few months pictured below, it was modeled on the Alex Ross Thor and looks MAGNIFICENT. Based upon pictures I've seen it also seems like they fixed his scale, I think he's about an inch shorter than all of the other Hasbro comic Thors. He also looks like he'll articulate much better, haven't seen his range of motion but he does have double-jointed elbows unlike all of the other comic Thors, and it's clear just from this pic that he does have ankle pivot, which matters a LOT for dynamic posing.
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    So Cersei and Dany decimate each other's armies and then Littlefinger swoops in with the Knights of the Vale to take the throne.
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    Only two more episodes...if I don't see some helmet-off Clegane vs. Clegane fighting soon, I'm going to riot.
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    Jon Favreau looks great in it, cool to see him filling the same paternal role for Peter that Tony Stark did in the last ones.
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    Do we have an idea how many troops each side has in this battle? When Tyrion was pleading with Cersei and her hand to give up, I had NONE of the sense that Cersei was facing an overwhelming force because I have no idea how many troops there are between Dany's remaining forces and those committed by Jon Snow. ALL of the Doth'raki we saw last episode died and a lot of the Unsullied did, so how many are left?
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    By not making one. But I'm not at all the one to ask...of all the classic Golden Age heroes, Flash is the one-trick pony I've never understood the appeal of.
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    That and Wolf Warrior I want to give a try. They seem to rave over the two, which are also fairly recent. I see Wandering Earth is on Netflix. The trailer doesn't look horrible, but a little over the top. No worse than Armageddon or The Day After Tomorrow.
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    He's just plain wrong. More than that him referring to the complexity of the multiverse as a reason why a Flash solo film is delayed is just insanity. Yea, that's how DC will get back on track, by making their stories so complex that the screenwriters have to take twice as long getting it all straight!