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Dogfish

It's 40 years old and was of its time That is no excuse. That comment smacks of the arrogance and vanity of presentism. Though it is nice to build our ego by looking on the past and casting judgement while being prideful of our own wonderful morality, may we not suffer the same from the pretentious...

Dogfish

It's 40 years old and was of its time That is no excuse. Benny Hill is still highly regarded in Britain. Off camera he was supposedly an absolute gentleman and was very protective of the women on the show. If you read about a lot of what was going on in show biz in that same era, it was pretty toxi...

Dogfish

Looks like Warner and by extension DC and HBO Max are completely fucked. The whole enterprise is saddled with colossal debts now.

Dogfish

The second episode didn't really do much so I'm getting the feeling this one will be better watched all in one sitting. You can have fairly bland plot heavy episodes in a binge, but as a week to week it's not that interesting.

Dogfish

In awe of how weak that looks. Millennium Media are sub-garbage tier and this does not sound promising. Like not even a little bit.

Dogfish

Welp, saw the first episode. They had a lot to cram in there story-wise because they presumably didn't want to pay Mark Ruffalo to be around for too much of it. Was okay though. There's a bunch of very silly debates going around about the design of the character. Seems fine to me, but some people's ...

Dogfish

Just looks like some sort of Sabrina the Teenage Witch kind of deal. Might watch it at some point, but since the focus is on Wednesday not Morticia and Gomez I'm less interested. Also wizard schools can fuck off. Holy shit enough already. I think they did a good job casting Gomez though. There was s...

Dogfish

I never understood the fixation on Aliens as bioweapons, which is another recurring theme to the point they were retconned into being them. It's mentioned a lot in Aliens in particular and yet there is no rational explanation given for what it is about the Alien that gives it appeal in that directio...

Dogfish

My hunch is that it might be the first Predator on Earth. Is this a culture that sends a team or scientists, or a scrappy youngster with instructions to 'let us know if its worth going back there sometime'. It's a shame that the movie didn't get a cinema release right now, but I suspect it might ge...

Dogfish

Predator got killed by a native hunter gatherer, Terminator gets killed by a waitress. Neither of them that great tbh. Then again the xenomorph kept getting beaten by a space trucker.

Dogfish

Energy Vampire in Dr Who? Would explain a lot.

Dogfish

If people can't put aside their differences to laugh at Morbius what have we become?

Dogfish

My hunch is that it might be the first Predator on Earth. Is this a culture that sends a team or scientists, or a scrappy youngster with instructions to 'let us know if its worth going back there sometime'. It's a shame that the movie didn't get a cinema release right now, but I suspect it might get...

Dogfish

Yeah, it's classic Predator stuff. The Predators are big and bulky, they're not light on their feet or particularly agile. Dutch can't fight the alien man to man in the first movie, he gets slapped around, and he's too big himself to duck and weave. But these lads aren't. Dancing around it and taki...

Dogfish

Spoiler hat time... I know where the Mary Sue stuff came from, it's inevitable at this stage that the reactionary film critic industry would see a woman in a movie and chimp out about it. I agree though she's exactly what her character ought to be. It's a classic Predator movie, in that the protagon...

Dogfish

Just saw in the similar topics panel we had a thread from four years ago about this movie. Feels like it kind of illustrates the problem. Marvel would have made the movie. DC/WB dick around for half a decade, and then shitcan it at 90% done. Why even bother trying at this point? Grab everything usef...

Dogfish

Holy shit you guys somebody made another good Predator movie! It's been so long since that happened I didn't really know what to think, but they did it. I don't think it has the impact, or the moments, of the original movie. There whole obliteration of the jungle scene isn't going to be bettered on ...

Dogfish

This seems like it's a much larger scale ratfucking of DC and its related properties than we first thought. Especially as the Batgirl movie apparently wasn't as bad in test screenings as the rumour mill immediately wanted to claim. Have to think something like that is going to cause genuine damage t...

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The thing with Russell T Davies is that he's probably the best Dr Who showrunner of the modern era, but if you put him in charge of something it's going to be gay as fuck. This isn't a case of people not learning lessons, this is what you get with Davies. If anybody can make Dr Who a functioning, en...

Dogfish

Looks like HBO Max is also getting cut to the bone. The merger with Discovery+ seems apparently going to cause them to stop making scripted programming entirely. So likely no more Harley Quinn, possibly no more Peacemaker (although Gunn has said it's safe). There have been other movies getting canne...

Dogfish

Shades of Adrianne Palicki as Wonder Woman from a decade ago. https://www.empireonline.com/movies/news/adrianne-palicki-wonder-woman/ I managed to track that one down. It was Catwoman bad. But then it was a pilot, so it was always a gamble. With a movie even if it's bad you're not throwing anything...

Dogfish

Aaaaaaand it's gone. Apparently it was so bad WB were willing to write off its $70m budget and call it a day. Begs the question if they have any idea whatsoever what they are doing. Have to think that they'd have been able to get something out of it just for Keaton's return as Batman. From the artic...

Dogfish

People need to be annoyed by things, like, it's their job. So something is always going to make them angry based on a weekly deadline schedule. And nobody who matters needs to give a fuck because those people have no value.

Dogfish

I think there's something more fundamental at work here too. Look at movies like The Gray Man for example, that's a $200m action movie starring three of the biggest stars around and nobody gives a shit. Why? Because it's just a crapload of digital effects (because cheap, because non-union) and some ...

Dogfish

Marvel's characters are often D-list until they get into a movie. I mean this whole thing started with Iron Man. He just used to be the second strip in Transformers when I was a kid.

Dogfish

The problem with the Baron in the new one is he's doing an impression of Col. Kurtz from Apocalypse Now. I kind of liked the manic energy of the Lynch version.

Dogfish

Only one more thing: When the #BelieveStarlight protester throws the milkshake and yells "fascist", I'm really hoping that's a reference to the Andy Ngo milkshake assault in Portland.

It's a reference to Trump saying he could shoot a man on fifth avenue and not lose any votes.

Dogfish

Yeah it's something along those lines. And if Pike dodges his date with destiny, even if he saves all the cadets, it all goes horribly wrong for everybody.

Dogfish

I loved that they ended with a Trials And Tribble-ations style twist on a TOS episode, even down to the music and camera angles. They did a great job of it too, and it was cool to see Pike, who is by every measure a great captain, ending up being completely the wrong man for the job and paving a ro...

Dogfish

I feel like the Ryan character is a meta-commentary on how kids ruin everything.

Dogfish

The movie was produced by the Daily Wire, the same right wing kook operation that bankrolls Ben Shapiro, so it's likely she got the gig precisely because she's been cancelled. They expanded a couple of years back to essentially become a more general media production company, and since they get their...

Dogfish

Puts me to mind of that point a few years ago when the price of oil dropped below zero. It's an interesting time for superhero stuff, the MCU has peaked, it will never surpass Infinity War. DC are willing to do weird shit with their IPs now because the idea of a coherent DCEU was apparently cursed b...

Dogfish

Its much cheaper to make rom-coms and low budget gun action shows. These companies will just become the Hallmark channel at some point, cranking out the same plot with a low budget. It doesn't feel like it's prohibitively expensive to do space opera type scifi these days, and the proliferation of s...

Dogfish

I'm kind of wary of the Marvel shows now. After Wandavision was essentially overwritten by Dr Strange 2 I'm starting to suspect that they won't count as far as whatever goes on in the movies is concerned. Not that this renders a show completely pointless, but it does sever the connection to the MCU...

Dogfish

I'm kind of wary of the Marvel shows now. After Wandavision was essentially overwritten by Dr Strange 2 I'm starting to suspect that they won't count as far as whatever goes on in the movies is concerned. Not that this renders a show completely pointless, but it does sever the connection to the MCU ...

Dogfish

This week's episode was pretty great too. Notable for the fact that apparently the scary security officer is secretly really hot if you stick her in a big princess type dress.

Also for this little callback.

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Dogfish

Jesse James Keitel will be guest starring in episode 107 of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds as Dr. Aspen! Awesome!!!! Look her up...what a kinky freaky trans woman, my favorite pic of her is where she has a shirt on that says girls without a dick is like an angel without wings!!! Hopefully she will t...

Dogfish

Fuck it, it'll either be the worst thing ever or the best thing ever.

Dogfish

Aaaaaaand it's gone.

Hulu not picking it up for another season, Macfarlane and members of the cast already lining up their next gigs.

Dogfish

So is this a Shazam thing or a DCEU thing or is that all just done now?

It feels done after the recent Ezra Miller stuff.

I don't know if that's a bad thing though, DC has been producing better stuff now that it's unfettered by the need for an overall connection to everything else.

Dogfish

The thing I don't get is why the Doctor is supposed to be old. They get twelve regenerations, in theory, in practice they burn through them at mad pace.

Dogfish

I might have to check this out but I am genuinely exhausted with Multiverse stuff. It felt like it was running on creative fumes even by the Pickle Rick stage of Rick and Morty and that feels like a lifetime ago.

Dogfish

The thing is if you're a company with shareholders you have to say when you're releasing a game, and there comes a point where, because of the shareholders, that game has to arrive. Whether it's a CP2077 looking mess or not.

Dogfish

It's a Disney MCU series though right? Doesn't that mean it'll be a few episodes and done?

Dogfish

Given budget constraints I don't think we'll see a lot of the She Hulk persona. Probably 5 min in a show. Kind of like how Flash is though doing a blur is probably easier than an animated person interacting in an environment with other actors. Which is foolish. All they have to do is hire a differe...

Dogfish

Looks like most big game releases are hitting delays these days. Most of these projects have been in development for years and the disruption of the Covid pandemic has taken months of productivity off them.

Dogfish

It's Star Trek lads. Space communists doing social justice. It's not even subtext, it's literally what the show has always been about. Bunch of pronoun-respecting anti-racist luxury communists travelling the galaxy fixing conservative/fashy/religious aliens and the problems they cause, sometimes by...

Dogfish

It's Star Trek lads. Space communists doing social justice. It's not even subtext, it's literally what the show has always been about. Bunch of pronoun-respecting anti-racist luxury communists travelling the galaxy fixing conservative/fashy/religious aliens and the problems they cause, sometimes by...

Dogfish

It's Star Trek lads. Space communists doing social justice. It's not even subtext, it's literally what the show has always been about. Bunch of pronoun-respecting anti-racist luxury communists travelling the galaxy fixing conservative/fashy/religious aliens and the problems they cause, sometimes by ...

Dogfish

By 'eck.

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