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Links seem to be broken, in this case I don’t see that as a bad thing. :)
The WORST part is that both stories are being uncritically stolen by MSN and monetized by them:
Mojave:
Congo:
So you have an AI Slop site (“Animals Around The Globe”) producing bullshit articles, that then get linkjacked by MSN for their own AI bullshit site.
1·5 hours agoAvatar 2 came out in '22. Same basic plot, but the water effects are stunning.
3 is completed and will be out for Christmas. 4 and 5 are in the pipeline.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avatar:_Fire_and_Ash
(All the trailers on YouTube so far are AI Bullshit, be warned).
Avatar 4 and 5:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avatar_4
“it is scheduled for release on December 21, 2029.[8][9] A sequel, Avatar 5, is in development and is expected to be released on December 19, 2031.”
In Star Wars, Vader interrogates Leia, he talks about the plans being transmitted, not that he saw them personally be stolen.
He’s also ragged on by Motti for not having found the tapes when Rogue One puts him in the same hallway with them.
Speaking of… he force grabs every one and every thing in that hallway except the ONE THING he’s there for. Vader is not that STUPID.
The Death Star Plans have plot armor, they HAVE to get away, don’t put them in the same hallway as Vader and don’t make them a physical object that can be grabbed.
5·5 hours agoMy favorite “oops” story… Guy went camping and wanted to keep the food in the cooler REALLY cold so he used dry ice instead of ice.
Accidentally created carbonated grapes. People have duplicated the effect with home soda machines.
Google “Fizzy Grapes”.
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NGL… I’d send an AI note taker to summarize then 9/10 times delete the summary after skimming it for 3 seconds.
2 completed and released with 3 more in the pipeline.
I do somewhat agree with what you say about the opening. So much of the movie is about how Supes fucked things up in Boravia, but we don’t get to see ANY of that. Not even news footage. Everyone talks about what he did but we don’t get to see it.
I get not necessarily showing the first fight with the Boravian Hammer, because we do get the fights after that. I think the only thing that would be missing is seeing a fight without the cuts back to Lex directing the whole thing, so it would be kind of a surprise at how easily Supes gets manhandled there by a no-name entity.
A 6/10 is harsh, I don’t see any technical or performance failures that merits a “D” score. The acting is solid, the writing is solid, the visual effects are solid. Easy 8/10.
Saw it in XD, going to try Fake IMax this weekend.
A Rann/Thanagarian war would be an interesting place to go with the Lanterns as peace keepers, but they’d have to set that up well in advance like Babylon 5.
You don’t get to talk about killing ANYONE. Not here. Neither do they.
Rebel Moon is worth it just to see the Space Nazis get wrecked. LOL.
Caught it last night… Tonally, Gunn absolutely nails it. The main characters are perfectly done, the B-list characters like Mister Terriffic and Metamorpho are perfectly done.
There are issues with some of the C-list / background characters.
Hawkgirl didn’t really have much to do and I don’t think Gunn knew what to do with her, which is a shame. Giving her a hawk shriek instead of actual dialog was… a choice. She needed more speaking lines.
Similarly, the background characters at the Planet, Cat Grant, Steve Lombard, were just kind of “there”. Nobody, not even Perry White, has a “Hey, where’s Clark?” moment. I think Gunn was just working from a checklist of who to include.
Ma Kent… I don’t know where she’s from, but it aint Kansas… Loved the Kents interactions with Clark, but… OK, I’m biased, I married a woman from Kansas, I’ve been to both Oklahoma and Kansas… I don’t know what that accent is.
All of those are minor quibbles. It was a great way to do Superman.
Which is why you’ll never know Rogue One is trash. LOL.
Same. I got as far as “Yer a
wizardrebel now!” and was like “Nope!” Took 3 full tries before I finished it.The Rebel Moon movies are better than Rogue One and that’s saying something.
I dunno, I think the best of the Disney versions is still Force Awakens. The big complaint is “Well, it’s just Star Wars…” which is true… but it’s Star Wars without George Lucas. They had to prove they could do what Lucas did without Lucas and I think they succeeded in that.
Then Last Jedi shit the bed. Then Carrie Fisher died which painted them into a corner with Rise of Skywalker. Force Awakens was Han, Last Jedi was Luke, Rise of Skywalker was supposed to be Leia… 😢
Especially the Spielberg sequel… After the success of the first movie, Crighton wrote a Lost World novel as a sequel to the FILM, not the first book.
Spielberg jettisoned the book and did his own sequel instead. :(
I really wanted to see the chameleon dinosaurs on film.
Rogue One is a shitfest for a variety of reasons:
The original writer director didn’t start with a script, he started with a supercut of other sci fi films and used that to make a script.
Even when he had a script, he spent an hour a day shooting off script for things that looked cool, but served no purpose.
So when the first trailers came out, they were full of gibberish footage that was never actually used in the movie.
https://www.polygon.com/2017/1/6/14195898/rogue-one-star-wars-trailer-jyn-erson
Then he got fired and a new writer director was brought in, one who said his super power was he never liked Star Wars.
https://theplaylist.net/tony-gilroy-rogue-one-podcast-20180405/
“Because that was my superpower. A) I don’t like ‘Star Wars’—not that I don’t like it, but I’ve never been interested in ‘Star Wars’ ever, so I had no reverence for it whatsoever, I was unafraid about that and they were in such a swamp… they were in so much, terrible, terrible trouble that all you could do was improve their position.”
So you get conflicting scenes, one where Cassian has no trouble murdering an innocent informant, but not long after gets all sweaty and conflicted when it’s time to assassinate a legitimate military target.
https://youtu.be/LORtuZ0ISF4#t=48s
vs.
No character growth, no arc, just in one scene he has no trouble murdering an innocent guy WHO HELPED HIM BTW, but later refuses to take out a military target HE WAS SUPPOSED to kill.
To say nothing of crapping all over the iconic opening of Star Wars by having Vader watch the Death Star plans fly away, personally, with his own eyes.
The person may or may not have died, there are conflicting reports:
1 hour ago, hospital says he’s alive:
https://abcnews.go.com/US/california-farm-worker-dies-injuries-sustained-ice-raid/story?id=123690867
17 hours ago, United Farmworkers says he died:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/11/california-farm-immigration-raid