EVA
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The real dudes who need to watch out are Zimmerman's lawyers. At least Zimmerman has managed ot keep his mouth shut throughout this thing and will slink off into the dark as soon as possible. These dudes are going to be taking victory laps and just generally being hateable in the public eye for a long time to come.
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I'm not going to get into a big thing about this, because heaven knows there's enough of that going on on the Internet right now, and I understand this line of thought, but in respect to the law, it is infinitely more complicated than that. Lots of little nooks and crannies for reasonable doubt to lurk.
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This was really nothing like the Casey Anthony trial. That case should have been a slam dunk for the prosecution, and they blew it. The particulars of the Zimmerman case were always going to make it difficult to get a jury past the point of reasonable doubt. The prosecution definitely could have done some things better here, but this was an uphill fight for them from the jump.
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Re: the interactive space mural I think it was probably the other way around. I'm guessing nobody realized it was going to be as cool and effective as it was, and by the time they did, they had already invested a ton of money on the Krypton stuff and couldn't cut it.
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I can accept INCEPTION as a point of contention, even though I liked it. Nobody fucks with THE DARK KNIGHT, though.
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THE DARK KNIGHT was after THE PRESTIGE, so I think your thesis is slightly flawed. And, man, I have no idea where you're getting that as the moral of TDKR. That movie doesn't even have a moral. That's one of the reasons it doesn't quite measure up to TDK. TDK knew exactly what it was about. TDKR invokes a lot of class issues but doesn't have a consistent ideology at all.
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There must be something wrong with my screen, because I'm not seeing this fabled list of 2 or 3 things you liked, bub.
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They're not ignoring that one, just undoing it so we don't have to deal with stupidity like Cyclops being dead or Professor X's body being gone but his mind in someone else's body or Magneto being depowered, etc. moving forward. -
It really sucks that we're about to get our 6th and 7th X films, and nobody has even touched Apocalypse or Mister Sinister. If DAYS OF FUTURE PAST is a hit, Apocalypse better be in the next damn movie.
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Oh, man, last weekend I watched a crazy romance double feature: RUBY SPARKS and UPSTREAM COLOR. RUBY SPARKS really surprised me. I could have done without the last scene, but I liked it, a lot. It was a pretty clever refutation of the manic pixie dream girl archetype and the men who write them. I...guess I liked UPSTREAM COLOR. Carruth clearly improved as a director between PRIMER and this film, but I think he maybe crawled a little too far up his butt on the writing end. PRIMER was difficult to follow because of the dense technical jargon and the complex time travel mechanic. But if you could get your head around that, the story flowed pretty clearly from there. In this thing, what's going on is FAR less complicated than time travel, but Carruth is about a hundred times more obtuse in telling the story.
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Getting my popcorn ready.
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Good, good. Now the new place is starting to feel like home.
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I just knew the new digs were missing something. That thread really tied the forum together. And here...we....go....
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Because that's the big emotional climax of what remains of the book, and episode 9 is where they make a habit of putting that. Most of the other stuff that's happening at the end, while big and important, is either piece-moving or expository. The only other thing that could carry that spot is Stannis saving the Wall, maybe do it as BLACKWATER PART 2, but there are a lot of political machinations inovlved in that storyline after the battle, and I don't know if you could really cram all that in to episode 10 while also doing the customary jumping around from character to character, ending storylines and setting up new ones, that they usually do in the last ep. And if they have to reach ahead a little to FEAST to pad out Tyrion's epilogue in episode 10, well, it wouldn't be the first time they've done that.
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Guys, we worked this out ages ago. Did you get amnesia from the board crash? Trial by combat is probably around episode 6. Killing Tywin is episode 9. Stannis showing up to save the day at the Wall could be in 9 as well, but could also be a touch sooner, and might need to be because you need to get to Jon being voted commander by the end. Episode 10 is Jon getting the vote, Jorah getting the boot, Tyrion setting sail, Littlefinger killing Lysa and the revelation of just how long a con he's been playing, and Zombie Cat, among other things.
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I finished this over the weekend. Loved it. The chapter where you spend a lot of time playing as Ellie had me on pins and needles. The "boss fight" in that chapter was one of my most intense gaming experiences.Ending was fantastic. The end of a videogame has never hit me like that. I hope they never do a sequel.
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I guess I think it's weird because if you asked most people who Ghost Rider was, if they knew at all, they'd say Johnny Blaze. And he's the guy Hollywood chose to build the movies around. Yet he wasn't the most popular version of the character in terms of moving comics.
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I guess I'll start us off by talking up THE BRIDGE on FX. I enjoyed it. Not as much as THE AMERICANS pilot, but I'll stick around to see where it's going. In fact, I think I'm a lot more interested in how they're already selling season 2 in interviews (THE WIRE: EL PASO) than the murder mystery this season is built around. Elsewhere, AMC is running a RECTIFY marathon this Sunday. I think that might be a better use of one's Sunday night than suffering through another hour of THE NEWSROOM.
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I've decided to class up the new board by adopting the New York Times house style. Can't wait until Sunday for the W.W.E. P.P.V.
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What's weird is that Ghost Rider was most popular when Dan Ketch was the guy, not Johnny Blaze - he was just a supporting character.
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Whatever good work Ms. Rampling is doing is totally lost on me because I'm so utterly annoyed by the character. It's clear she was invented and wedged into Dexter's origin because they've decided that they want Harry's Code to be the big bad, but they also don't want to make Harry a bad guy. Enter: Dr. Vogel. Now they can protect Harry by saying he just took bad professional advice from another psycho. Which sucks. It actually kinda reminds me of that season on BUFFY when they decided they wanted to have Buffy in conflict with the Watchers but didn't want to make Giles a bad guy, so they pulled Wesley out of their ass. Harry's Code being the ultimate evil in Dexter's life, though an obvious conclusion that most people have theorized at one point or another, was about the only thing that could have saved the show for me. A lot of the stupid flaws in this show are beyond saving, but having Harry end up as the ultimate, unwitting big bad in Dex's life would've been interesting and subversive and might have elevated the show a little bit, in the way that great endings can. Of course, I'm sure the writers might say that the problem with Harry as the big bad is that Harry's already dead and, thus, can't be strapped to Dexter's table and killed at the end to give the audience a satisfying conclusion. And I'd say that's always been the fucking problem with this show.
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As most of you might have guessed, one of my pet peeves is the ol' "That's not <insert superhero>!" criticism. There are just so many versions of these characters. When people say things like "That's not Batman in this movie," what they're really saying is "That's not the version of Batman that I prefer," or "This version of the character is not consistent with the current general consensus on who the character is." With that in mind, BATMAN & ROBIN is soooo not the version of Batman I prefer. That said, judging it strictly on it's own merits, as a fluorescent, flamboyant attempt to out-camp the 60's TV show, it's about as perfect a take on that version of Batman as you could have gotten in the late 90's. I could totally get behind Edgar Wright doing his take on that sort of Batman movie.
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Bah. Beat me to it. I really wanted to name it the "Game of Thrones Thread for People Who Don't Read Good."