TheSqauredCircleMessiah

I liked it a lot. You're right that it takes way too long to get going. Given the plot points they hit they really only needed about 10 episodes max. Love me some Sheriff Coach Taylor though

I do believe the technical term is "knocked the fuck out." Roy Jones Jr. had a great line during Alvarez/Kirkland saying "Last week was a boxing match, this is a fight." Describes it perfectly. I really wish HBO would not interview fighters who have just been knocked out. Seeing Max Kellerman interview Kirkland was just uncomfortable.

They filmed the schwarma scene after the premiere and two weeks before the movie opened worldwide

I think the success of Guardians of the Galaxy should really kill this theory. The movie was based around one of the least-known Marvel properties and the biggest star in the movie was voicing a talking raccoon in a supporting role.

I am one of those people. I like the characters but I was not exactly excited when they did the big shot showing the new team As am I but to suggest that the people seeing these movies (who have the internet at their disposal) have done no research on the characters or kept up with the news is nonsense. This isn't 1994 where if you haven't read the physical comics you're out of luck. All you literally need to do is go to Google and type in "The Avengers" and you get sucked into a wormhole through Wikipedia. I know because that happened to me. I literally have not read a single Marvel comic in my life but I have learned about The Avengers and know where to go for movie news.

i just saw the original X-Men movie on one of the HBO's. That's a damn good movie, I'm not sure if I had ever watched it the whole way through.

What was wrong with it? It was fucking awesome, and had an air of dread of what is to come. This is the fucking big baddie they've been building up to, getting a shot of him and the gauntlet was a pretty amazing way to end what was already a great movie. A Spidey cameo is boring in comparison, and doesn't do any favors for his introduction (and isn't even close to the shawarma scene). Because how many times have we seen Thanos during or after the credits looking menacing? We didn't need him to say what he said...we've all known that he was the end game for 3 years and his run won't be done for another 4 years. It's fine for what it was but I would loved the Spidey cameo after everything was done just as a nod that he's finally a part of the MCU and there's more to come with him. The schwarma scene was awesome because it had nothing to do anything, just like that Spidey scene would have had nothing to do with the plot of anything. We've seen Thanos in one after-credits scene before this. In a movie from 3 years ago. Most casual moviegoers also don't have a clue what happened between Sony and Marvel, and them seeing Spidey at the end would just confuse them and have them (and tons of the mainstream media) to ask: "Why wasn't Spider-Man in the rest of the movie?!" If that had happened while my girlfriend was watching it would just confuse the fuck out of her, for example, and have her get the Sony Spidey timeline get confused with this one (she still wondered where Kirsten Dunst was in the Garfield ones). Thanos was also in the biggest movie of last summer and one of the best movies period of the MCU Also, I think the days of MCU fans being a niche audience are over. Age of Ultron was the second biggest opening ever and you expect me to believe the people seeing these movies are just casual fans who are seeing The Avengers because of Robert Downey Jr.? Thanos' first appearance was by some nobody and the role was eventually given to Josh Brolin. They don't necessarily need to have who Peter Parker is, just a stand-in under the hood.

What was wrong with it? It was fucking awesome, and had an air of dread of what is to come. This is the fucking big baddie they've been building up to, getting a shot of him and the gauntlet was a pretty amazing way to end what was already a great movie. A Spidey cameo is boring in comparison, and doesn't do any favors for his introduction (and isn't even close to the shawarma scene). Because how many times have we seen Thanos during or after the credits looking menacing? We didn't need him to say what he said...we've all known that he was the end game for 3 years and his run won't be done for another 4 years. It's fine for what it was but I would loved the Spidey cameo after everything was done just as a nod that he's finally a part of the MCU and there's more to come with him. The schwarma scene was awesome because it had nothing to do anything, just like that Spidey scene would have had nothing to do with the plot of anything. And I do get the whole "just so much happened" in AoU stuff. Like the whole part with the twins doing a complete 180 happens basically before the third act. They go from wanting to kill Tony Stark by any means necessary to enrolling in the Avengers in a very short time period. I felt that whole part was just glossed over so quickly. All that was missing was Bob Backlund showing up and saying "THEY'RE GOOD NOW!"

Apparently this was a fake end credits scene for Age of Ultron. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyQpYe_pH9w This would have been SO MUCH BETTER than another scene of Thanos looking angry and give exposition to nobody in particular around him

He would've gotten about $10 million guaranteed. The average NFL career is 3.3 years, nothing is guaranteed that he will ever get another contract.

Season 1 of True Detective may just prove to be the ultimate perfect storm in entertainment ever. Matthew McConaughey was at a point where he would do a TV show but it happened to premiere at the same time as his Oscar winning performance gained traction in theaters and he was able to convince Woody Harrelson to do it as well.

I just found out that David Hasselhoff played Nick Fury in a TV movie and I have no clue why but I love that

Seth Gilliam, who played Carver, was arrested early Sunday morning in Georgia (I assume he's working on The Walking Dead) for speeding (he was doing 107 MPH), drunk driving and for possession of marijuana.

Another thing...Widow and Hawkeye are literally the only two humans on a team full of beings with super powers and she routinely defeats aliens with "super powers" of being really good at fighting. But she falls in love or has a few moments of vulnerability and suddenly she's one step away from being a Stepford Wife.

Good lord is this "Joss Whedon is sexist" stuff is the biggest load of horseshit I have ever read. This tweet from Patton Oswalt sums it up perfectly

My issue is that she's making herself the story and journalists aren't supposed to do that.

I've been catching up on Entourage to get ready for the movie. Is it a stretch to say that Entourage has the worst cast top-to-bottom in terms of acting ability ever for a hit TV show?

It was good, not great. Avengers 1 and GotG were better both those are both great films that are hard to top. I don't read the comics so I don't care about them continuing the concept of "The Avengers" with a new lineup or anything like that. I know Disney likes the money printing machine they have in the MCU but if they start trying to stretch this out and start making new "Avengers" movies with a different team it will really devalue the special thing they created. To me, what has made this whole concept so special over the past decade or so are the actors, not the characters. Robert Downey Jr., ScarJo, Chris Hemsworth, Renner, Ruffalo...they all are great and Chris Evans has just enough of that wholesome American boy in him to make you forget what a douchebag he was as Johnny Storm. But if Marvel keeps trying to expand the universe and trying to keep on mass producing this with original players gone, it will just feel flat and a money grab to me. I liked this movie on it's own but nothing plot-wise felt super important that was necessary. How many times do we need an argument between Steve Rodgers and Tony Stark about what's the best way to protect the world? Given what happened in the first Avengers and in Captain America 2, that's enough to lay the groundwork for the Civil War storyline and Avengers 3. How many more of these movies are we going to be following MacGuffins around the galaxy and then get a sinister shot of Thanos at the end? Also, I'm sad we didn't see Coulson. Maybe that's the ultimate end game, they all officially retire and find out Coulson was alive all along.

Overall, I'm so happy I'm finally watching this. The characters are so well-defined already, and it helps that no one is exactly super good, or ridiculously evil. I'm just loving the combination of the acting and the writing. I can't stop watching. What made it so good to me is that the actors were complete unknowns so you can just accept who they were. I started watching after the show ended and only knew of Idris Elba from his arc on "The Office," Lance Reddick from "Lost" and Wood Harris from "Remember the Titans. So it was weird for me to see a middle manager at a paper company and Julius the football players as drug kingpins. Everybody else, had a clean slate. Now, no matter what he does Michael K. Williams is going to be playing some version of Omar. Heck, even most of the roles Wood Harris has had (Justified comes to mind), he's now playing a gangster. In hindsight, that's what I think was genius about Elba doing that run on "The Office" because that character has nothing in common with Stringer Bell.

Betances/Miller might be a better combo than Rivera/Wetteland in 96 Getting the game to the bullpen with a lead might be a problem with rotation

Store made famous by Omar has been destroyed in the Baltimore riots (MAJOR SPOILERS)!!!!!

If all of their "prospects" pan out they could be pretty good but the rest of the AL West has been a dumpster fire. I bet they're still kicking themselves for just cutting JD Martinez

Rant over.

After watching the trailer and reading up on Black Mass, I can't believe they're releasing the film in the middle of September. You would think they would wait until mid-October at the earliest for award season.

This is the second best single scene in "The Wire" history https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-N_UuImPL4E