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Yeah, I don't know about specific kiwi stuff but I adore both of those.

And it's easy to see why. Not a lot of original material making box office splashes these days.

Yes to more movies like Annihilation, plz.

So masculinity is toxic?

Violence is masculinity? Jeeze, I'm doing it wrong.

That is not what I said and you know it. I'll watch that video when I can, but having played all of the Doom games except for that Bethesda one I'll be surprised if I come away changing my mind about Doom Guy's masculinity being a major part of his character or the game. For the rest of it, agree to disagree? I'm annoyed by the length of my post and the time it took me to write it, I really don't care enough to discuss it any further.

Since you asked, I'm going to devote some mental energy to this even though I think the entire discussion is a waste of both mine and yours. You got me wrong, first of all; I don't think Doom having a female protagonist is better by default. I also don't think it's worse. I have no other information about the film other than this change. Even in that vacuum, I find this change to be meaningless because Doom guy's gender is absolutely inconsequential to the narrative and spirit of the game. The only reason he even had a gender or face was for an interface gag. Outside of that vacuum, clearly this is not going to be a straight adaptation since a straight adaption will mean one dude, alone, no dialogue whatsoever, just killing demons over and over. In reality, doom guy's gender isn't being changed. By the very nature of film "Doom Guy" is straight up going to be removed and replaced with a group of people, the narrative lead of which in this case has been announced to be female. The argument that "doom guy is being changed into a woman" is, in its very core, an absolute lie. And here's the kicker, the same thing happened last time: Karl Urban in the previous attempt wasn't Doom Guy, he was "soldier dude who got superhuman serum after his team fell apart due to some virulent mutation". None of that is Doom Guy, despite him being male. If you want me to point out in which way this would be beneficial, I can't do that because once again, we've got no other information to go on and regardless beneficial is very subjective. Perhaps it's integral to whatever themes or message the current creative team has planned, or perhaps (and more likely) it's just meant to generate publicity at what I consider to be no meaningful cost. In which case it'll be transparant and manipulative, but nothing of value was lost. Arguments could be made for female representation or female exploitation - maybe the director just likes making films with hot women, which is beneficial as eye candy, or maybe the studio feels female leads are tracking well right now and it'll make more money, which'll be beneficial. But right now, I can't in any honest way make those arguments because I simply don't know what they're doing with the film. In response, I could ask what other reason do you have other than "canon" for Doom to have a male protagonist? Did it help the other Doom movie? Looking at it, if this movie has a female protagonist, but does actually deal with demonic invasion, it'll be by default a more loyal adaptation than the last one by a massive margin. Also, canon doesn't matter to adaptation by very definition. Adapation is by default a different version and different medium to the original product. It will, simply by virtue of its existence, generate it's own canon in the same way the books and the show of Game of Thrones follow their own seperate canon, and did so even back when it was as loyal as it could be by ommiting certain scenes and characters for time constraints. Watchmen is my go-to example for why you shouldn't be too loyal - that movie doesn't work at all despite using much of the source material as a literal storyboard. Film has different methods and needs for pacing, framing, storytelling, characterisation, atmosphere and time-management than a comic book or a video game. Even if it did, I still have no use for canon. I have no use for what is Doom canon specifically, since I don't care for Doom's canon little bit in the first place, but even in general "canon" is a word for nerds to beat other nerds over the heads with for being wrong about things that don't even exist. Most creator's rightfully ignore it, and mostly so do people. When the movie of Jurassic Park came out, nobody really cared that Ian Malcolm survived when he doesn't survive the book. Even the writer didn't, since he brought him back with a retcon in the second novel as the main character with a joke to how the same thing happened to Sherlock Holmes. Jurassic Park canon didn't even matter to the actual Jurassic Park canon written by the dude who created Jurassic Park canon. Canon is make believe. That's an extreme example, but even outside of adaptating something to a different medium stuff is retconned all the time. It missed this scene of characterisation, oh well. Those two character were combined, eh, I get it. Tony Stark acting as a mentor or father figure to Peter Parker in Spider-man: Homecoming isn't from original comic books, but it's generally seen as an interesting dynamic. That's fine. You know what people did lose their minds over in Spider-man: Homecoming? "MJ" isn't a white girl. That's sooo unfaithful. Why is it that it suddenly becomes a much bigger deal every time a character gender or race is changed? That may sound hypocritical after I made that comparison to Last Airbender as a joke, but in Last Airbender cartoon the different characters and their cultures represented or were thematic analogues to different historic ancient cultures and came during a time when systematic recasting of POC to white was still ongoing. It both changed the spirit and meaning of the film and was a poster boy for consistently racist studio behavior. For me, this very limited craze of swapping in some more women in movies where gender doesn't really matter, does not come close to being a problem. Changing Doom guy's gender? It's at most an aesthetic choice, at worst a bland publicity stunt. Either way, it's not a meaningful change to me. That's not even going into the fact that I don't even want a Doom movie. Doom is impossible to make a loyal adaptation of but it's also an extremely derivative product in any way that isn't gameplay - it would never really work simply because of the "John Carter of Mars" conundrum - it was new once, but we've really seen all of it before now and it no longer has anything to bring to the table. It doesn't need a movie, and as far as I care they can do anything they want with it and I wouldn't be bothered. The fact they are making it at all is more mind-boggling to me than that it will have a female protagonist. Add in the fact that video game movies have traditionally been terrible, I cannot even seriously consider the possiblity that another "Doom" movie will worth worrying about regardless of protagonist gender. EDIT: If you DO want a somewhat loyal adapation of Doom, the comic book is still available. Can you imagine an entire film of this, though? It'll wear thin. A short film, maybe. RIP & TEAR! https://www.doomworld.com/10years/doomcomic/

Doom guy is only a guy because they thought it was funny to have a bloody face for an HP-meter. I couldn't care less. Plus, Hollywood has to cut out random whites & males as penance for the goddamn Last Airbender. Deal with it, nancies.

Progress marches on.

Locked for length. Maintainance time!

Self-explanatory title. Did you know that...?

I'll give it a looksie sometime then. Refresh upcoming.

You guys know the drill. Have at it.

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Would it be interesting for me as a European, or is it US centric?

That sucks, Shady.

Oof! I want to get Jurassic World Evolution but 60 bucks for a relatively shallow looking management game with DLC on the way? I will resist until that price falls a bit.

First thing I got from that article was that her doctor is an idiot.

The red and white is a backwards Jurassic Park jeep wrangler (two Jurassic cars on this), not entirely certain on the motorcycle, I believe it might be the one from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade that he and his dad ride.

About half the size of PoE and less complicated.

Jesus ****, thanks for bringing that to my attention Az. When the hell did this show up?

Did you play Tyranny?

Yeah, it's a shame because I always like Holland. They're a great team to watch and they love to spice things up when drama hits the field too (see their many confrontations v. Portugal for example). :DUgh, don't remind me. The only year I got really into football I had a huge flamewar with someone here over that match where they were literally ninja-kicking each other. Was it with me? I can't remember. I think so, but I wasn't 100% sure so I didn't want to name names. I honestly don't know why it was such a big deal to me at the time, and tbh I'm pretty embarrassed about it looking back.

Yeah, it's a shame because I always like Holland. They're a great team to watch and they love to spice things up when drama hits the field too (see their many confrontations v. Portugal for example). :D Ugh, don't remind me. The only year I got really into football I had a huge flamewar with someone here over that match where they were literally ninja-kicking each other.