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pipGofern last won the day on January 12 2014

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  1. Just saw the movie and let me preface this by saying I’ve been a Waititi fan since I went to a dinky sticky indy theater to see Shadows almost ten years ago. That said, he was the wrong director for this. This movie needed to be thoughtful with the occasional bits of humor to prevent it from being a DCU slog not a 50/50 split between serious stuff and ridiculous over the top cartoonishness. I totally understand why it’s getting the feedback it’s getting. Portman and Bale acted their asses off in really deep meaningful performances that constantly got undercut because quick! We have to move to the next wacky set piece or goofy joke! 20 minutes more of Bale being scary as hell and 20 minutes less of Thor’s love triangle with his weapons and it would’ve been a top 10 MCU entry. As it is, I’d put it somewhere in the middle because Jane and Gor were too great even if the rest was forgettable.
  2. Mercury Morris…POP THE CHAMPAGNE!
  3. Just got back from a midnight showing. I think I may be getting a tad burned out on MCU offerings. Not to turn this into a measuring contest but I’ve seen every movie in theaters dating back to IM including the lousy Norton Hulk and this was the first time I found myself echoing the whole “cookie cutter” criticism. So many things just struck me as rehashed ideas like Tone Loc or whatever the magical homeland filled skilled warriors was called being Wakanda/BP lite or Awkwafina being Darcy 2.0, except 100x more annoying and given a hilariously illogical set of skills that existed just to shoehorn her into the plot. I don’t mean to sound too negative because like all Marvel movies it was well made and entertaining. Whiles DCU movies often make me actively angry, the worst I can say about lesser MCU entries like this or IM2 or Thor 2 or Dr Strange is “eh, it was alright.” I guess it hit with the audience it was aimed at but except for the silly CGI whiz bang finale, I thought most of the movie would’ve been better served as a series where they could slow down and let the good ideas breathe. Oh and about the big IM3 tie in, I’m utterly amazed how slavish Feige is to his continuity. Never in a million years did I expect that forgotten throwaway DVD short with Trevor to be dredged up and used. His appearance led me to rewatch IM3 and, man, those Manadarin promos were so incredible I’ll be forever torn between wishing his Mandarin actually was that scary evil bastard and enjoying the ballsy swerve of it all being a con.
  4. I love how every commentator’s first thought is Mercury Morris popping the champagne
  5. Mercury Morris...pop the champagne!!!
  6. Seth and Becky are their two biggest stars. Kofi and Dolph are just guys. The match order made perfect sense, The problem with the main event was soon as Lacey came out you knew Becky was gonna too. They needed to do something like an injury angle or even just have heels lock her in the bathroom or something to explain the delay. It continually amazes me that a show with 75 producers/writers, they constantly mess up basic storytelling details. But good shows with bad main events happen. The two tag matches and Ricochet-Joe were excellent. The cage and Roman matches were pretty good, too. Now back in the day, would I have paid $49 for this ppv? No. But as a random bridge show between major shows to watch on a Sunday night, it was quite enjoyable.
  7. For a show that got an inordinate amount of hate from the IWC, I thought it was a perfectly enjoyable show. The main event was more angle than match but what are you gonna do with Corbin? I did really like that in the history of wrestling, men have always rescued women so inverting the trope and having Becky be the badass who has to save Seth was pretty cool.
  8. Stan Lee got his moment in the Memorium segment. Listed him as “comic book writer, executive producer” though. I would’ve gone with “cameo artist.”
  9. Can’t believe they got Pesci out of retirement.
  10. Georgia had so many chances to be aggressive...so they wait until tie game at midfield to be aggressive. Smh
  11. Mercury Morris....pop the champagne!
  12. Finally saw it last night. At the risk of reopening the prior argument, I have to confess to welling up a bit during Thanos's scene on the Soul Gem planet. Damn, when the fucking Mad Titan brings you near to tears that's a helluva deal. Marvel really has this whole "create an interesting villain" thing figured out. I imagine I'll be full out bawling when they finally get to Doom's backstory.
  13. Looks like we're getting our first ever 16 over 1. Virginia is in deep deep shit.
  14. These refs are making an NFL-like fiasco out of the last 40 seconds of this Marshall-Wichita St game with review after review.
  15. Sometimes teams do know things others don't. Beauty eye beholder and all that. One thing for sure, Cousins better get it done now. He's been handed keys to a Ferrari and all he has to do is not crash it.
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