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  1. #521
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    Quote Originally Posted by JasonEvans View Post
    Hang on... did you not see Monster with Charlize Theron? She wrote and directed that film which was a major award flick. After that, she created and directed the pilot for the TV show The Killing, which launched Joel Kinnaman's career and was another prestige project that won awards.

    She is a very highly regarded writer and director. Handing her the reigns of Wonder Woman was not unwarranted and she ended up making what is almost certainly the best film in the DCEU. Just because the second film was mediocre is no reason to think she does not have the chops to make major motion pictures.
    So, one great movie (Monster, which I haven't seen but I'll take your and the awards shows' word for it), one decent movie (first WW) and a TV pilot. I'm not saying she's chopped liver, but I'm not seeing much there.

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    "Just turn all of the Star Wars franchise over to Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni."

    -- SonPK, Christmas Day during our Mandalorian binge.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Acymetric View Post
    So, one great movie (Monster, which I haven't seen but I'll take your and the awards shows' word for it), one decent movie (first WW) and a TV pilot. I'm not saying she's chopped liver, but I'm not seeing much there.
    The Killing is a phenomenal show, btw.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Acymetric View Post
    So, one great movie (Monster, which I haven't seen but I'll take your and the awards shows' word for it), one decent movie (first WW) and a TV pilot. I'm not saying she's chopped liver, but I'm not seeing much there.
    Well before Wonder Woman, she was hired to direct Thor: The Dark World, but left the project because she did not like the script. Kevin Feigie has said that not trusting Patty Jenkins and letting her make her own version of that movie is one of his greatest mistakes running the MCU.
    Why are you wasting time here when you could be wasting it by listening to the latest episode of the DBR Podcast?

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    Quote Originally Posted by JasonEvans View Post
    Yup, I was sure that something would happen at the end to destroy the wish-granting stone/Max Lord and that everything that had been granted would just go away. In fact, I thought that would be how we got rid of Chris Pine. I figured he and Wonder Woman would face the question of restoring the world versus losing Steve Trevor forever and would have to sacrifice Steve to get the world back. It would perfectly fit his character who also chose to sacrifice himself at the end of the first movie to save the world.

    Instead, he sacrifices himself so Diana can get her powers back... lame! You just gave up true love so you can be super strong and flip a whip around. Awful!

    But, back on point, the entire movie is Wonder Woman out in the open, saving people and impacting society. It makes her appearance in BvS is utter nonsense. Zero reason for setting this in 1984... absurd.

    Meanwhile, everyone needs to read this great column that just destroys the Steve Trevor return as a wretched horror movie subplot: https://collider.com/wonder-woman-19...urn-explained/
    I grew up in DC in the 80s, so there was a lot to like from that perspective - old Georgetown re-creation, the Watergate, and even the Commander Salamander store. But other than that, this movie was a wreck IMO. My kids kept asking me "why did that just happen?" to which my frequent answer was "I have no idea - it doesn't make any sense".

    In addition to the points people made above:

    Spoiler!

  6. #526
    Warrior s1-2 coming to HBO. Just finished this thoroughly entertaining 20 episode action series on Cinemax. On Jan. 1, 2021 it comes to HBO. Warrior takes place in San Francisco 1878. The Chinese occupy Chinatown and the warriors are in tongs (families/gangs) and control the opium trade, brothels and casino (you don't want to owe money to a Chinese casino). The Chinese arch enemy are the Irish since the Chinese have displaced the Irish as the source for cheap labor. This series has terrific fight scenes. Kung Fu oriented hand to hand fight scenes is the primary feature of the series. Language is not much of an issue since the main character's grandfather was American and the other Chinese have lived in San Francisco long enough to understand English. There are plenty of strong women characters, One is even an outstanding with a sword. The plot and subplots are easy to follow. If you like hand to hand fighting in every format and gore and violence, give this series a watch. Warrior makes Cobra Kai look like a children's series. Female nudity is plentiful in ep. 1-3 but drops off sharply after that. S1 episode 5 when the two Chinese stars go to Nevada via stagecoach is the best Western episode I have ever seen.

  7. #527
    I honestly thought the first WW wasn’t all that great either. Captain Marvel gets much worse reviews and I think it is easily the better film. WW was one of those films that seemed great to me at first viewing but it gets worse every time I watch it.

  8. #528
    Wife and I are officially the last people on the planet to start Schitts Creek. Enjoying it.

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    Son and I watched Greyhound last night. Good, but not nearly as good as Das Boot.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mtn.Devil.91.92.01.10.15 View Post
    Wife and I are officially the last people on the planet to start Schitts Creek. Enjoying it.
    We were one of the rare few that watched when it premiered, and loved it instantly. The advantage of watching now is that it is totally binge worthy with short seasons, so you can watch all of the episodes in a short time frame.


    My current "catching up with the rest of the planet" adventure is watching all of the MCU movies on Disney+. I had only seen the original Iron Man in theaters, and beyond that the only others I've watched at all are the two Guardian movies and both Hulks. (I know the first Hulk isn't really in the mix, and I've got no urge to watch either again.)
    I'm basically watching one a night, with IM2 a couple nights ago, then Thor, and finished Captain America last night.
    Skinny Chris Evans was disturbing.
    Q "Why do you like Duke, you didn't even go there." A "Because my art school didn't have a basketball team."

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    Quote Originally Posted by CameronBornAndBred View Post
    finished Captain America last night.
    Skinny Chris Evans was disturbing.
    Welcome to 2011.
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    Quote Originally Posted by JasonEvans View Post
    Welcome to 2011.
    I'd happily stay here if I could!
    Q "Why do you like Duke, you didn't even go there." A "Because my art school didn't have a basketball team."

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    Death to 2020

    Charlie Brooker & Annabel Jones put together a show recapping 2020.

    cspan's one-word review:
    Onionesque.

    And you thought JE was efficient.

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    Late to the party but the wife and I just watched Tenet tonight. Oof, we thought it was bad. She couldn't finish it. I did but neither of us had any more than a general sense of what was happening both in the story arc and on a scene-by-scene basis. The dialogue was bland. The acting was blah.

    I seem to recall this film getting good reviews and it has a 7.6 on IMDB. I'm assuming some of that is a halo from Christopher Nolan's other films. Or maybe we just both completely missed the film's brilliance. It was a complicated trick he was trying to pull off with the palindromic-entropy-whatever-the-hell and it just didn't work for us. Really disappointed. Had been looking forward to seeing it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bundabergdevil View Post
    Late to the party but the wife and I just watched Tenet tonight.
    Underwritten by The Political Pollsters of America

    Really disappointed. Had been looking forward to seeing it.
    Well...
    Q "Why do you like Duke, you didn't even go there." A "Because my art school didn't have a basketball team."

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    Quote Originally Posted by CameronBornAndBred View Post
    Well...
    ...what? There's a joke there somewhere, but it went right over my head.

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    A never-before-seen scene from the Office... such a gem!!

    Why are you wasting time here when you could be wasting it by listening to the latest episode of the DBR Podcast?

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    Quote Originally Posted by CameronBornAndBred View Post
    Well...
    Quote Originally Posted by Acymetric View Post
    ...what? There's a joke there somewhere, but it went right over my head.

    I confess to having missed the joke, too.


    We watched The Grizzlies this evening. It was a very nice based-on-true-events movie about a white teacher in Nunavut who builds a lacrosse program at the local school. It's a pretty heartbreaking and uplifting story. Recommend.

  19. #539
    Quote Originally Posted by JasonEvans View Post
    A never-before-seen scene from the Office... such a gem!!

    Hilarious. Too bad The Office is now only on peacock with seasons 1-2 free. The fragmentation of the streaming market continues!

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    Quote Originally Posted by LasVegas View Post
    Hilarious. Too bad The Office is now only on peacock with seasons 1-2 free. The fragmentation of the streaming market continues!
    It’s currently on sale (digital) for $30.00 on iTunes and Vudu. So is Parks and Recs.

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