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  1. The thing about those Horatio Alger type bios, they always leave out or diminish some important detail, like he married into money or had a billionaire aunt or some such. I’ll also point out that Ike Perlmutter similarly had a reputation for being a business genius, and before he was booted from the movie side of Marvel Studios, his bright idea was to do a Captain America: Civil War that didn’t have Iron Man in it; because RDJ was too expensive.
  2. "Black Panther movies"? You mean the movies that made a combined $2+ billion at the box office and probably shipped twice that number in merch and got massive critical acclaim and awards recognition? Say what you will about the films themselves (I thought the first one was overrated and I never saw the second one); but how the fuck is this guy rich?
  3. WHENTHEFUCKISSEASONTWOCOMINGOUTGAWD?!?!?!?!?!@#%@
  4. The article makes several mistakes; see the corrections and comments section. From what I've skimmed (It's a looong article) much of it boiled down to "faithful to the books". We know how I feel about that.
  5. The audiobook for WWZ in amazing. It's a full cast production with some seriously good voice talent.
  6. Ehr muh Gehrd. Yes. IMO, it's worth watching. I hope it gets renewed for a second season. Speaking of which, It opened as the number 1 show in Canada, then fell off for about a week because of 'Testament: Something Something Moses', and now that Christ is risen, 3BP is back to #1. Same for the USA I think.
  7. World War Z is a great movie. The only problem with it is they called it "World War Z". I'm all for adaptations that take liberties or that use that source material more as "inspiration" than "canon", but this thing was something else. I think the only thing they kept from the book was "North Korea is doing something weird". Troubled production. Didn't make any money. It's a shame we didn't get a sequel.
  8. Really? They figured that out did they? A blind man living under a rock in a cave on the moon knows she's attractive. And "all the promo material". Including Liam Cunningham's character poster? I dunno...
  9. It's a perfect example. Whether or not it's a great film is changing the subject. How about Matthew McConaughey as Rust Cole in True Detective? Not really plausible if you ask me. ';Not many cops that look like that. 'Not many men who look like that. The amount that character was drinking and he's still got that shredded bod? Puh-lease. And not a single doughnut in site. So unbelievable. Ruined the show if you ask me.
  10. I don't remember anyone losing their shit when Hemsworth played a scientist in Spiderhead.
  11. ...Scratch that. I still have them but now they're unlisted. And apparently the channel is unlisted. I can find them if I do a google search, but not if I search youtube. Weird.
  12. Huh. I purchased the series on youtube a while ago and now they're gone. As in, gone from youtube. Without so much as a, "by your leave". That's rude.
  13. Sure he is. The Manhattan project and the A-Bomb would be enough in itself. Throw in Cold-War paranoia, the red scare, HUAC, and the labor movement. Also years of government surveillance of not just him but the people around him (the reason his life is so well documented), and a bonafide conspiracy theory (Jean Tatlock's 'suicide'). ...And Barbie. - As far as a more rounded version of the bomb story, episode 3 of Oliver Stone's Secret History of the United States is pretty good.
  14. A movie that famously had almost no dialogue in it. Nice. - I think the life of J.R. Oppenheimer is one of those interesting historical "nodes". On top of being a world historical figure, he's someone who, in telling his story, you could drive the wedge in at multiple points and come up with a whole other movie or miniseries or documentary or something. This is a movie where Heisenberg, Feynman, and Einstein have walk-on roles for pete's sake.
  15. This is the thing that gets me about these kinds of discussions of this film; including multiple recent articles with titles like, "What 'Oppenheimer' left out", or, "What 'Oppenheimer' should have included": This is a biopic of J. Robert Oppenheimer. It is not a movie about the Manhattan project and it is not a movie about the bombing of Hiroshima. Both really interesting subjects that feature heavily in the film, but ultimately not the films central focus. Plus it's 3 hours long and barely pauses to breathe the whole way through. And is there anyone who comes out of that film thinking the bombing of Hiroshima was no big deal?
  16. That's "Sir Christopher" to you, pal. https://apnews.com/article/christopher-nolan-knighthood-emma-thomas-damehood-uk-6addb97d4363bbde315667e21641190d
  17. That might be possible if you were talking about *minimum* 10 episodes per season. 12 would be better. They've set up the main cast and the show will obviously focus in them, but you can't do that at the expense of humanity. Humanity has to get stuffed in there somewhere; and it can't just be clips of people rioting or staring up at the sky. I also worry about the way this story goes forward through time. and the stuff that happens in those time periods. You could do a season for each of the "era's" in this series; which would yield seven seasons in total.
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