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    Stranger Things

    Seriously? The only difference between then and now is he wouldn't have to go to the trouble of finding some bored, sexually frustrated housewife. He wouldn't even have to leave school. One of his teachers would probably be giving him dips on the regular.
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    Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)

    Del Toro did pitch them a movie. It was more in line with what the Fett movie is rumored to be shaping into.
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    Thor: Ragnarok (2017)

    I wonder if that means Waititi intends to hang around the MCU for another Thor movie? A little less than $30 million shy of what the first Thor movie made ww during it's entire run.
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    Star Wars Rebels

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    Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)

    This is exactly how I see it (though I would say that in Colin Trevorrow's case they did jump the gun and pick bad director for the wrong reasons). But I would expand it to include what are a particular director's strengths in addition to their creative impulses. I've said several times that...
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    Stranger Things

    Speaking of fags did anyone else get the impression that Max's brother was hoping Steve would drop the soap in that shower scene?
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    Star Wars Novels (Keep your EU shit out of here!)

    I finished off the stack today with Battlefront II: Inferno Squad. It was a quick read. Going into it I knew it would not be an easy thing to take a setting like Star Wars and tell a story with the long established bad guys as compelling protagonists. Especially one without a central figure...
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    The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014)

    Not movie related but ... ‘Lord of the Rings’: Amazon, Warner Bros. in Talks for Series Adaptation (EXCLUSIVE) I don't know what a TV show could possibly cover that hasn't already been done outside of The Silmarillion. Unless they plan on putting the cost of taking out a hit on Christopher...
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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

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    Thor: Ragnarok (2017)

    I don't think they'll go full stop but IMAX did announce back during the summer that they plan on fewer 3D screenings going forward because the novelty has clearly passed for audiences in general and the demand for a return to normal screenings is on the rise. Of course that goes well beyond...
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    Black Panther (2018)

    Was his sister anyone special in the comics? They seem to be building her up as Wakanda's version of Stark, as far as expertise with technology goes, for the movie.
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    Justice League (2017)

    With 2 weeks to go they've started showing it to critics and even those very general, I liked it/didn't like it, social media responses aren't being permitted. Contrast that with Marvel allowing them a month ago for Ragnarok. WB really has no confidence in this thing.
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    Black Panther (2018)

    What does any of that have to do with people knowing, just from the movies, that Black Panther is part of the MCU? There's connective tissue outside of his own movie is my point.
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    Star Wars Novels (Keep your EU shit out of here!)

    Just ticked The Legends of Luke Skywalker off the list. Short and to the point opinion: this book is crap. I didn't finish it so much as put it down without any intention of ever picking it back up again. It's another collection of short stories though in this case all by the same author (Ken...
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    Black Panther (2018)

    You'd have to take Black Panther out of Civil War also. He had more than a drive-by role in that one.
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    The Animated GIF Thread

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    Thor: Ragnarok (2017)

    I expect them to use Captain Marvel to fill in a bit of the power void created by the absence of the Silver Surfer. And they'll likely utilize the other heroes in different ways from the comics to fill in the rest (Doctor Strange immediately comes to mind here). In the original Infinity...
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    Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)

    Something else that someone who dissects these trailer for little details far more than I do caught:
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    Stranger Things

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    Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)

    Well it's not without precedent where Star Wars is concerned. I think Lucasfilm got 100% of the ticket price for the initial weeks of the prequel releases as well as pretty high cuts (75% +) of the box office for the various special edition runs. The new wrinkle here is the requirement that...
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    Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)

    Does the mouse sympathize with the struggling theater industry? No ... no it doesn't. Theater Stocks Tumble After Report That Disney Will Take Big Slice of 'Last Jedi' Sales
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    Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)

    He's (Ric) Flairin'. Kevin Hart is a johnny-come-lately. Back to the new TV spot, there's some speculation that while the "Darkness rises ..." line is obviously Snoke's the rest of the quote is ...
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    Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)

    Ahh, I didn't catch that. Editorial hijinks to misdirect maybe. Also it doesn't look to be raining in the shot on Luke but it definitely is when Rey sparks up the saber. edit: The trailer sleuths are all over this already, pointing out her wristband is on the correct arm so the image hasn't...
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    Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)

    Luke lookin' good on board the Falcon. Kylo's words there about letting the past die gain extra meaning with him in the ship that was so much of part of his old friend's life. And the scene in the rain with Rey holding up the lightsaber looks to be from the same sequence of her and Luke in the...
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    Stranger Things

    Mike was defending Eleven's spot in the group. He tried every day to talk to her so naturally he would push back against anyone, particularly another girl, moving in and occupying what he had come to see as Eleven's place among them. Did he do it in a rather immature way? Sure. He's a kid...
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    Stranger Things

    They didn't kill the mind flayer ... it may find another means to opening the portal beyond piggybacking onto Will.
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    Star Wars Rebels

    Yeah really. One of the crew shoulda replied "We're rated TV-Y7 ... and Dave really loves us."
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    Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)

    Just a hair over six weeks to go.
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    Stranger Things

    Since it's a perverted reflection of this world I would assume that The Upside Down has always been there. And there could very well be multiple versions of it or multiple reflections each with their own distinctive divergences from this world.
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    Star Wars Rebels

    The Forces of Destiny shorts are full canon. So yes, Hera survives until at least immediately after RotJ. And The Ghost probably is better than The Falcon in some respects. "When it gets strange like this it's a good thing." I can't help but think that's Filoni making a Mortis reference...
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    Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)

    I have a hard time imaging Hamill giving an Oscar worthy performance. Best performance of his career? Sure ... maybe. But his acting ability isn't exactly that great. He tends to slip into cliche when he starts throwing himself into a role full tilt. All he needs to do it deliver a good old...
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    Star Wars Rebels

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    Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)

    I do expect her training to get cut short for some reason (it's not like they're going to be able to spend literally years on that island training as young jedi were meant to) and Luke being the impetus for that does seem likely given what we've seen in the trailers. That would contrast it to...
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    Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018)

    I Have A Bad Feeling About This would probably be more fitting.
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    Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018)

    Ron Howard Reshot Nearly All of Han Solo Movie While I doubt it fully doubled the budget reshooting 80% of a movie is going to ramp it up considerably. Not pushing the release date out means they're probably having to replace a lot of location shoots with CGI/greenscreen workarounds. The most...
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    Black Panther (2018)

    If I'm remembering correctly, there was some sort of mutation related to exposure to the meteor that deposited vibranium in Wakanda. Eating a mutated plant was how the Black Panther acquired his supernatural abilities. I think it could also cause mutations in people as well. So super edibles ...
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    Thor: Ragnarok (2017)

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    Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)

    Most of this is more of the same but ...
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    Justice League (2017)

    No no ... I'm saying that when they had 2 JL movies on the slate they could play around a bit with when Superman would return, the first or the second. Knocking it back to 1 movie pretty much forced them to bring him back in it. The clue was already out there at that point.
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    Justice League (2017)

    They scrapped the 2 JL movie plan. Yeah the hint was obviously there but the when would have still left it a small shred of mystery if they still had 2 movies to play around with it. Cutting it to one to assess how they would move forward from there pretty much forced them to bring him back in...