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It was filmed in Alaska, Universal, and British Colombia.
No love for Eternals or Black Panther?
I just mention those because I feel like they stood out against the MCU cookie cutter compendium.
I agree so much, I feel like I could have written all of this myself. Some ppl were saying how the ending was forced, but if you watch the whole show with this in mind, it makes much more sense. Not just from the introduction as you mentioned, but from the character arcs themselves.
Not to mention, that it makes so much more sense for Barney to finally change with the birth of his daughter. It's also a nice bookend for him; he is now actively being the father that he always wanted himself.
Sometimes. But most of the regulars on this website are.
And I appreciated that his threads often had substance even though I don't usually disagree with them. He seemed to like talking about movies anyways.
That's a shame. Really liked his threads and input.
Yep. Original Vanity Fair text:
<blockquote>I press hard on the clay while he tells about how his production company, Free Association, is trying to pull together a remake of Ghost, with him potentially playing the Patrick Swayze role. “But we’re going to do something different,” he says, adding that the original, like many movies of its day, contained some problematic stereotypes. “I think it needs to change a little bit and have our…”</blockquote>
And then cuts off there.
I already gotta deal with stupid clickbait everywhere else on the net. It's annoying as all hell to see it on moviechat too.
I'm not really all about the shared universe across movies, television, and games, but we'll see how things go.
yeah i noticed that a few days ago. no idea what happened.
Yeah, I feel like that's a really essential scene, and it should have remained in the theatrical.
What is wrong with you?
Thanks!
It seems like OP had no other reference, and used your single suggestion to answer someone else lol
That said, I think he played a bigot in Premium Rush if I'm not mistaken. Fantastic villain. Really worked well within the story.
How'd you watch it?
So every so often, I go on a deep dive and read up on the historical Jesus.
Around a decade ago, if I recall correctly, the wikipedia article seemed to conclude that the academic community pretty much concluded that he did not.
A year ago or so, the wikipedia article seemed to conclude that it's fairly agreed-upon that Jesus did exist. And it used references that go back farther than a decade ago lol
Anyways...didn't really add to your discussion, but I found that quite amusing.
Hmm, I don't recall the mob boss one. But yeah, gray ghost, clay face, and the batman in my basement are some of the ones I love rewatching.
I probably should try buying all of these on disc at some point. And yeah, same here, wasn't a fan of superman TAS. Wasn't really into the character at all (and I personally didn't like World's Finest).
https://moviechat.org/tt12851524/Only-Murders-in-the-Building
""Jeopardy!" is not the problem; its centrality to American society is. There will never be a healthy quizzing culture in this country until we learn to stop pretending that "Jeopardy!" is important.
(And FWIW, everyone there treated me just fine. Don't try to make this about personal spite.)
The fact that actual quizzing continues to be a fringe subculture in the shadows is what allowed racists, misogynists, and outright sexual harassers to thrive in collegiate quizbowl for so long. It's the reason unapologetic bigots remain in positions of high power at major pub quiz companies.
And, as a social scientist, I am telling you that the #1 way to get diverse minorities on an equal footing in quizzing is to make it as meritocratic as possible. Have we learned nothing from Muhammad Ali, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Peter Norman, and all the other brave POC and allies who proved that ONLY open, meritocratic systems that distribute rewards in proportion to talent and effort permit truth-tellers to survive?
"Jeopardy!" is a fun TV show but putting it on a pedestal is an objectively bad thing. It's bad for the future of quizzing. It's bad for women and POC who want to be treated with the same levels of dignity as their White male counterparts. It is fundamentally incompatible with incentivizing the next generation of quizzers to excel, and it is fundamentally incompatible with true social justice."
"But imagine if you were a chess player who racked up a string of victories against GMs at high-level tournaments, but the _only_ thing you got recognized or highly remunerated for was beating some 1800-2200 level players at a non-standard bughouse version of chess, a derivative game designed to introduce high levels of variance that constantly threaten to swamp out differences in skill level, on a glorified reality show.
That would be weird, wouldn't it? I'm trying to think of an analogy with regard to Big 4 sports and nothing even makes sense.
This is also not an insult to "Jeopardy!", which is a TV show designed for entertainment, and a reasonably good one. (I mean, it's no _Recreational Thinking_, but....) It is entertaining to watch but it bears the same relationship to real quizzing that "Holey Moley" does to golf.
There never has been, and never will be, any justification for treating "Jeopardy!" as the Olympics of quizzing. Would the Olympics only allow Victoria Groce and Patrick Friel to compete one time, long before they were at their peak, or refuse to let myself or [REDACTED] compete until we had nearly aged out of our physical and mental prime no matter how much we proved ourselves? (Note: Don't twist this into an insult either; [REDACTED] slightly off-peak can easily outperform virtually the entire rest of the world, even if the rest of the world is allowed to work together.) Would the Olympics bar the likes of Andrew Ullsperger, Jonathan Hess, and Tim Polley simply because some casting director decided they weren't telegenic or whatever enough? Of course not."
"Please don't misunderstand what I'm about to say.
Over the past year or so, I made it to three Mimir's Well's finals in a row. I captained my COQL team to two silvers and one bronze across four seasons. I was the lead scorer at CO Trash _and_ my team won the tournament. I finished in the Top 10 of the 2022 LearnedLeague Rundle Championship (specifically 8th, which means a lot when Matt freaking Jackson and Victoria freaking Groce are tied for 9th). Oh, and I was 1/4th of the team that represented the US at the Quizzing World Cup and WON THE WORLD CUP against the best international competition out there.
Plus I established myself as belonging in the top tier of writers/editors/bloggers/podcasters in the quizzing community.
Yet today I'm receiving the most attention, praise, congratulations, and nasty trolling from strangers (!) of my life ... and for what? What did I do to get the biggest paycheck of my quizzing career?
I beat two guys.
DON'T YOU DARE twist my words into an attack on Connor and Andrew, both of whom have established beyond a doubt that they are highly knowledgeable quizzers and excellent "Jeopardy!" players. Nothing in this post is meant to slight them in any way."
holy crap, he's got some issues. here's his facebook post in its entirety:
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/kelseyweekman/jeopardy-facebook-posts-yogesh-raut
Actually I'll also paste the actual text from facebook in case he deletes it lol