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  1. Gold coin proves 'fake' Roman emperor was real
  2. Would love to see it, but I don't believe that article as proof that its happening. I'll wait for Lionsgate to throw out a press release.
  3. Speed Racer - The Most Dangerous Race (Part 1) Speed finally meets Snake Oiler and the gang of stunt racers (of evil) before the deadliest race ever (think Ice Road Truckers, but with cars and jumping from mountaintop to mountain top and stuff). Racer X warns Speed about how to be careful, Spritle and Chim-Chim do reconnaissance, Speed angrily roughs up Sparky for no reason and Trixie has to deal with floozies throwing themselves at Speed. Spritle and Chim-Chim bring information about a mod that will help Speed compete with the trick racers, but Pops collapses before he can complete it, leaving Speed to complete it alone and rush to the starting line... Above, Speed obliviously signs autographs, while below Trixie reacts. Chim-Chim and Spritle, when scouting, disguise themselves and use a jalopy...for reasons...
  4. UNMASKING THE IDOL (1986) - what happens when you cross James Bond with 80s Ninja-mania and add in a ninja baboon. Ludicrous, but fun film if you like ludicrous 80s action ninja bond cheese with baboons. and some of my Halloween watching - HUMAN LANTERNS (Ren pi deng long - 1982) - Run Run Shaw's attempt to meld their martial arts film factory with the 80s slasher films from the US and Italy. There's a really striking sequence showing the killer using the martial arts abilities typical of the genre to infiltrate and kidnap a woman at night that is effectively creepy. ALONE IN THE DARK (1982) - Not the Uwe Boll adaption of the video game, but an odd 1982 entry into slasher films. Dwight Schultz plays a psychiatrist hired to help Donald Pleasance with his psychiatric hospital. Schultz just moves into his house with his wife and daughter in time for a black-out to allow the escape of the 4 most dangerous inmates (Jack Palance, Martin Landau, Erland Van Lidth, and Phillip Clark) from Pleasance's hospital. The big names all do well, but there's a basic plot problem RAWHEAD REX (1986) - a doofus unleashes an ancient creature / diety; a shifty priest goes full maniac to earn a golden shower and a historian fights to kill the monster / diety. There are some moments that shine, but the film has a basic problem of not really deciding if Rex is a mindless monster or a creature with a definitive goal and a cunning strategy. This leads to some contradictory elements in the film that never really reconcile.
  5. Hello, have you talked with support from Paradox Interactive? They are the official support for the game. This forum, outside of recently launched games, is primarily peer-to-peer assistance so it may be best to cast as wide as net as possible.
  6. I'm not sure why they started with introducing themselves, that was weird. But they should be playing characters (Field is 76 and Moreno is 90, FWIW).
  7. Old thread -
  8. Others from this episode - Trixie is shocked, Speed is angry. Or determined. Maybe both. Neither Speed nor Trixie like being buzzed by a plane. Derp.
  9. To be honest, I don't know if they're following a guide, or if Erica has explained to Dave the story so far and leapt in with it to get his impression. Or even if she was watching it and he just wandered through and offered the criticism without having seen anything else. No real context given really. I see people with opinions on Sailor Moon...I just got to know what you guys think of those opinions. As an aside, Erica Henderson is an Eisner winning comic artist and animator, so not a completely random Twitterererer. Even if it was a Tweetered Tweet on the Twittersphere of Twitterdom. For my part, I finally picked back up SPEED RACER and watched the final episode of THE RACE AGAINST THE MAMMOTH CAR. They only had one scene with the car broken up (when refueling), I really thought it was a more important thing from my childhood memories. So either my memory cheats, or I've mix-mastered multiple episodes in my memory. Some good Spritle and Chim-Chim action (maybe Hanna-Barbera should have looked at how they play against the heroes for Scrappy Doo ideas?).
  10. Nik Turner of Hawkwind
  11. Also in tge Carry On films, the Doctors comedies and radio's THE NAVY LARK. RIP.
  12. Never said that the non comic fan would know or care or wouldn't have their own reason to like/dislike. Assumed that it was obvious that I was talking about existing comic fans.
  13. Kevin O'Neill artist for LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMAN, MARSHAL LAW, NEMESIS THE WARLOCK amid his many credits.
  14. In some respects She-Hulk is a good example of how fandom for superhero characters fractures. Some people vastly prefer the original Savage She-Hulk (Lee/Buscema) where Jen is basically exactly like Hulk. John Byrne's revamp Sensational She-Hulk is where a lot of the 4th wall breaking came in, including a comics equivalent of the tv finale in a story. Dan Slot (w/John Bobillo and Shawn Mull amid others) brought She-Hulk back and played up the comedy lawyer aspect and downplayed (if not eliminated) 4th wall breaking (something Charles Soule (w/Javier Pulido and Ron Wimberly) and the current run by Rainbow Rowell (w/Rogê Antônio) seem to have kept). And there Mariko Tamaki's She-Hulk (w/Nico Leon) run (initially just called HULK) that's essentially a PTSD metaphor story and very particular to a set of events that an intro story would never really touch. Anyhow, my point being that fans of the Savage She-Hulk (and fans of comics continuity) wanted that character introduced, fans of Byrne wanted (and got aspects of) that character and Slott fans wanted (and got aspects of) that character. When Iron Man came out fans were so desperate for an accurate representation that they didn't mind that they'd melded multiple versions of the character into one because it felt like a successful iteration of the character they'd long known; but with success, I think, fans have gotten a lot more demanding (in a negative way) about what they want to see.
  15. It's a 'fan' trailer, afaik. In other trailer news...
  16. Long believed lost Betty Boop cartoon featuring one of only two appearances of Betty's neice Buzzy, found in Russia and now restored And the restored cartoon itself:
  17. And in related news...DC Shocker: James Gunn, Peter Safran to Lead Film, TV and Animation Division So probably the last Gunn Marvel film for the foreseeable future.
  18. Sinclair Broadcast Group, AFAIK. They do "Must Run Segments" on the stations they own where the news departments have no choice but to run it, verbatim, on their news broadcasts. They're the second largest television operator in the US. They also are so conservative they blur cleavage on women when they run old movies or bluring them because they don't have a bra on. 70s films are almost unwatchable on their digital network channels (Comet, Charge!)
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