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Silver Surfer is at FOX so, not in the NETFLIX series. Namor's rights are complicated (but no longer at Universal) and he's not in it either. Neither is Doctor "I have a movie coming out in November" Strange. The line-up ends up being more HEROES FOR HIRE than DEFENDERS.

I'm not sure - regardless of the background circumstances involved - that killing an entire family could be accurately described as "acting out".

Quatermass and the Pit is a favorite (both the TV version and the movie version). Quatermass Conclusion is...depressing. Jonah Hex both wasn't a great film AND it was a terrible version of Jonah Hex.

It was supposed to be He-Man (as the daughter was supposed to be obsessed with He-Man and She-Ra, so she'd have been wearing a She-Ra tiara, I think) but director Chris Columbus didn't know who He-Man and She-Ra were.

I just can't stand people talking in circles around one another sometimes.

*Ahem*. For the edification of the readers, a summary of the existing confusion follows. To whit: "You have many highly trained ex-military people in the US, some of them will be suffering from forms of PTSD and some of them will respond like the last two shootings where these guys actually think the police are trying to kill African Americans" (KEYWORDS: "Police are trying to kill African-Americans") "I wonder where they got that idea. May be from the first African American president?" (IMPLICATION: "Obama has suggested Police are trying to kill African-Americans") "Come on, its grotesquely unfair to suggest Obama has suggested that police in the USA need to be killed" (SHIFT OF FOCUS: "Obama has suggested police need to be killed?") "That's not what you said in the post I responded to, you're moving the goalposts." (ATTEMPT TO REFOCUS: "Obama has suggested police need to be killed?" is not the same as "Obama has suggested that Police are trying to kill African-Americans") "My whole point is some ex-marines who have PTSD believe there is a orchestrated campaign to kill African Americans. You then said Obama has contributed towards this view...I said 'Obama has never suggested this' " (RE-CLARIFICATION OF POINT MISSING KEY FOCUS SHIFT IN PREVIOUS POST WITH REITERATION OF KEYWORDS: "ochestrated campaign to kill African Americans") "No, you said Obama never suggested that cops should be killed, but I never claimed that." (REBUTTLE: "Your characterization of my position is mistaken, I never suggested Obama said Police should be killed but that he has implied that police are out to kill African Americans") "Well thats exactly what it seemed you were suggesting from the post above but no matter, it was just a misunderstanding" (STILL MISSES FOCUS SHIFT) "That post inferred Obama gave them the idea Police were trying to kill blacks." (POINTS OUT SHIFT OF FOCUS...AGAIN) "Yes but thats my point, Obama did not give the idea Police were trying to kill African Americans....or am I really confused" (STILL MISSES FOCUS SHIFT) We sincerely hope this helps. Play nice. Yours Truly, Everyone else reading this conversation.

I can just see the drones deploying dogs with pepper spray cannons even now...

The homeless numbers are apparently increasing amid younger veterans, as I understand it, based on the way the economy has went.

So it turns out the guy was another war veteran.. like in the other shooting. I suppose, by the logic of many here- that this should put all veterans under scrutiny right? Don't you know, every person who joins the military is a Saint for Defending Our Country from the Evils of Non-America! They Can Do No Wrong and don't look at their homeless numbers please?!That's a concerning point, do many Veterans end up on the street? Unfortuantly so. National Coalition of Homeless Veterans cites 11% of the adult homeless population are veterans. Estimated to be ~48,000 people nationwide.

Yeah, just to be clear I wasn't trying to say you weren't entitled to your opinion or anything, just using a couple of comments you'd said to frame my own thoughts. EDIT: Particularly I thought it important to highlight how we see the original film so differently; it can't help but influence us on how we both viewed the current film.

No, what I mean is that the experts were predicting $30 million based on tracking data going into the weekend. The movie did better than it was tracking, so while it can't be what Sony hoped for I can see why they're putting a positive(ish) spin on the weekend.

You treat it like it rhymes, obviously.

I can see why Sony is happy - it was originally projected to come in at $30 million, so $46 is much better than their estimations.

Oh come on, you're going to go all that way and not say "...slip her the Oakemon"? Total waste. Well his name is Professor Oak and the -mon suffix was used in Digimon not Pokemon. Learn your 90's children's shows and get on my level. Oakemon rhymes with Pokemon, not Digimon.

Oh come on, you're going to go all that way and not say "...slip her the Oakemon"? Total waste.

I disagree, I think they got Ghostbusters just fine. The only cameo I thought didn't work was Ackroyd's cab driver - and it wasn't bad, it just felt stuck in within the context of where it fell in the film. Murray's debunker was a character the film had to have - given that Yates and Gilbert were both "believers", there needed to be a skeptical voice there because there would be ones if this was 'real world'. They also wisely don't try to force the character to be "the new movie's Peck", one of their many studious attempts to steer clear of just redoing the original film. The other three previous Ghostbuster cast member cameos are fine in their contexts. I felt the proton packs weren't overused; it felt natural to me that Holtzman would work on further developing the capturing ghost technology before moving to the issue of long-term containment. This is actually something the original movie glosses over entirely, since they go from having experimental packs on their first trial to having become experienced using the packs and a containment unit for holding multiple ghosts in the span of a series of newspaper headline edits and quick cut scenes of them running out of a building having caught a ghost. The villain is in the new film from nearly the beginning and his motivations are made fairly clear from his first line of dialogue. I'm not sure how much more "front and centre" he could become without the film becoming "The Adventures of Rowan North and His Attempts to Bring About the Fourth Apocalypse, plus The Ghostbusters (not the originals)". Can't say I get the working man theme you see in the original film. Sure I can buy that there is an element of the 1980s slob comedies in the film, but the idea that a con man (Venkman), an academic (Stantz) a mad scientist (Spengler) and a working class man (Zeddmore) is somehow more "working man" than two academics (Gilbert and Yates), a mad scientist (Holtzman) and a working class woman (Tolan) is somewhat lost on me. Perhaps its that idea that you'd "want to have a drink" with the original crew plays into it, but I never felt that way about the original crew given that Venkman arbitrarily antagonizes almost everyone around him. I can't imagine being well disposed to him in real life (don't get me wrong, he's a fine character for the film, but realistically he'd be a jerk if you met him in real life). To my mind the cast for the 2016 film is fine, IMO and they work well together. They are funny and charismatic and memorable in comparable ways to the original without just re-doing the original. No one is going to out "Bill Murray" Bill Murray and wisely they don't try. Wiig, McCarthy, McKinnon and Jones are fine as the leads; they work well together and I can buy their characters working together and developing as a group in the way the movie develops. And I like that ultimately Gilbert and Yates' friendship is the heart of the group and the movie; it makes a nice change of pace. I also thought the filmmakers did a good job of playing up some of the creepier aspects of the concept (some of the images are quite creepy, and the opening ghost haunting bit is like a miniature horror movie - compare to the original playing the first encounter entirely for laughs). And they come up with some fun moments that I wasn't expecting (days later I'm still laughing over the JAWS gag). So yeah, to me the new film is a fine addition to the Ghostbusters films. And they wisely only have the Falloutboy Ghostbuster's song in the movie sparingly, so that was also a plus in my eyes ears

I'd have thought the obvious movie reference would be Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Fallout Franchise goes to sleep after Fallout 2, wakes up as Fallout 3, an alien imposter that looks like, but isn't the same as, Fallout 2. Not that I dislike the Fallout games even with the changed direction/premise, but come on, Body Snatchers is the obvious film parallel.

Warner Bros settles FTC suit regarding not disclosing it paid for online positive videos from youtubers, et al for Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2016/07/warner-bros-settles-ftc-charges-it-failed-adequately-disclose-it

Diego Garcia - the interwebs tells me its an atoll under control of the British Indian Ocean Territory.

Was this post supposed to be in this thread...?

I'd be reluctant to ascribe a singular motive or feeling to large groups of people involving complex situations of which they may only be partially aware.

isn't their purpose to place all of earth under control of the restored caliphate? That would mean you could do nothing at all and still be their enemy if you didn't acquiesce to their religious views and authority.

Sadly, I'd argue the vitrol is on par with the modern echo-conversations of "social media" as people try to one-up each other by describing how something they've never seen and probably never will has ruined their life and/or represents all that is bad about western civilization.

She's also ignoring the report of the police chief who said they tried to negotiate him, only to have those negotiations not work with the shooter expressing sentiment of wanting to kill more people.

I've always wanted to see a movie staring Keith David and David Keith. Just think of it, you could do the billing like: KEITH DAVID DAVID KEITH And it works anyway to read it! ... *ahem* Anyhow the likelihood of that match-up happening dims every year, so I'll go for a Gal-Guy Film. Tarzan always goes back to England as part of his origin story. This story was about why he decides to go back to Africa (where almost all of the later books happened).