Kel Varnsen

There is also the flip side of that too. As there seem to be a limited number of good behind the scenes people out there as well. So when you are making twice as many movies plus shows that in some way are movie quality, you are more likely to have story issues or bad special effects. Like the effects in Quantumania I thought weren't very good and parts of the story didn't make sense. I was just thinking from my point of view, if the movies were a bigger deal and didn't come out so frequently and then get moved over to D+ so quickly I probably would see them in theatres and maintain my subscription. Sure in some cases it might be the cheap theatres, but in some cases it would be the regular ones.

I was thinking about how before the pandemic a lot of times I would see a lot of Marvel movies in the cheap second run theatre in my town (the seats were kind of crappy but it was cheap and the screen was a decent size). I saw GOTG2 there and I think Ant-Man and the Wasp and Thor Ragnarok there. But now Marvel movies show up on D+ around the same time they show up at that go to that theatre. So why would I bother even going there when I already have a Disney plus subscription?

That seemed to mess things up a lot. Imagine how much better it would have been if The Marvel's came out shortly after Ms. Marvel and Wandavison came out. And I agree there is too much stuff. I mean I still watch pretty much everything but how important was say Moon Knight? I actually had to think for a minute to remember what that show was called. Or Werewolf by Night? The increased number of movies and the importance on Disney+ I think hurts them in a different way too. When there were two Marvel movies a year they were a big deal. The first Guardians movie went from being a movie that seemed like a huge risk to the biggest movie that year. So excitement could build up and then people, if they missed it in theaters has to wait awhile to watch it on home video/ on demand (so excitement builds up again). Now with 4 movies a year coming out there isn't as much time for excitement to build. Plus you know if you miss GOTG3 in the theatre it will be on D+in a few months.

The whole story behind that raises some questions for me about that though. I think you could do that without AI so it makes me think that they are using AI as a scary buzzword. Also I get that they don't want any kind of contract precedent kind of thing set, but background actors aren't usually covered by the same collective agreement that regular actors are, are they?

But what does that have to do with AI? Considering effects studios can pretty much make a fake human with CG effects now.

What is the threat for AI when it comes to actors? It is already illegal to use someone's likeness without paying them ever since back to the future 2. And if you are going to create an entire new character using computers there is already animation that can do that. I guess you could simulate someone speaking with AI but promoting an animated movie with no voice actors could be difficult.

I was thinking about the finale recently and it is kind of amazing that with all the deals that Saul tried to make with prosecutors, at no time did he end up having to give up the vacuum repair guy.

So I rewatched this episode and it made me wonder why not having the name of the witness blew the case? Confidential informants and anonymous tips are both things that cops use.

I think it could work. I mean Deadpool is a comedy and there is lots of jokes to mine about the Elektra movie. Plus Garner has a pretty good sense of humour about that sort of thing and even though the movie was pretty bad, it's not like it was her that made it bad.

I think that you could probably remake Rush Hour. As long as you dial back the stereotyping from the Chris Tucker character. Because it is not like Hollywood would shy away from a movie that could potentially play well in China. The hardest part would be finding a suitable replacement for Jackie Chan.

It's kind of weird. Generally the PM and the foreign secretary (called the Minister of Foreign Affairs here in Canada) are both members of parliament elected to represent their local riding. The PM is selected by his or her party to be the leader either before or after an election depending on the circumstances. And he becomes PM if his party wins the most seats. But the whole country doesn't vote for a PM the way they do a president and the FS isn't selected the way the secretary of state is. So they are kind of both elected and not elected the same way.

Even if the mom was too dumb or freaked out to call mall security, when Athena showed up she should have sent someone there, both to check out security cameras and to make sure they are aware of all the exits. Then again the 911 call centre being able to tap into the mall security camera feed seems like some super high level bullshit.

But if you use a bail bonds place it's 10% that you don't get back. If Matteo has no cash to the point where the only money he has for the bail is selling his Pokemon cards he probably can't afford to lose $2500. The dream sequence was dumb, especially since Matteo is what maybe 25? So his dream family sitcom should look more like maybe Malcolm in the Middle of Modern Family rather than something where a milkman is a character. As for Judd I really thought he was going to bring up that if he makes a call for his kid to get him into firefighter training, after the application cut off, the other recruits are going to hate him. And the fact that he wants his dad to call in a favour to get around the rules is a sign he isn't ready.

I think Ice is hotter in the current interviews than she was on the clips from the show. Although that frizzy 90's hair style did not help. Overall I think this might be my favourite of the Netflix sort of lighter pop culture documentary series I have seen. Although I think that when they talked about how the show ended it was just sort of a changing of the times thing and I don't think they could have really done much to stop the drop in popularity. I am kind of surprised that they didn't mention the 2008 revival and I kind of wonder if the current writer's strike keeps going if it will get brought back again. Also that arena tour sounded brutal. But the tour manager guy did seem kind of stupid. And lastly I did love how they showed the clip from the Simpsons of Milhouse's mom dating Pyro. But they should have shown the one where she was cheating on him with Gyro. Because whenever I think of American Gladiators, Pyro and Gyro is the first thing I think of.

Tony Stark figured out time travel in about 10 minutes in the evening after he put his kid to bed. If he was alive he should have been able to make a Skrull detector in about 2 minutes while in the IM suit fighting bad guys. He is gone though but on top of Shuri there is also Hank Pym, Bruce, Riri Williams, Dr. Cho from Age of Ultron, and maybe Vision. Putting one of those geniuses on it should be a priority.

Watched the first two episodes last night. I was maybe around 12 when I first remember watching the show, so I was probably the exact target viewer. So far the big shocking things were how crappy the pilot was. Like they had no idea what they were doing. And even the first half season was awful. I can't believe how crappy the games looked, how little the producers cared about safety (they didn't even have an on-site medical team) and how there was only 3 male and 3 female gladiators so they basically had to do everything. Also did I hear it right that due to the difficulties in setting up each event they would do like all the joust events for each episode all in one day. That would have to make it super boring for the studio audience.

But then the door fell outward rather than inward with no sign of the rod or the hooks holding it. Plus I just watched it and the inside part of the door frame had kind of a lip on it, so even without the hinges there was no way for it to fall inward.

That's why I mentioned that it made no sense to melt the latches off from the outside. It's a freezer, you lock it closed from the outside. You wouldn't make it so you can lock it from the inside since no one working at a butcher shop would ever need to lock themselves inside. And then when the door fell off, the rod actually locking it shut was gone.

There is some weird stuff about Nick Fury's fake death. A couple of other things to add. Peter Parker and Happy knew who he was in Far From Home and knew he was alive. He even had a reputation to them, what with the whole you don't ghost Nick Fury thing. Also just before he gets dusted he is travelling with Maria Hill and tells her to call control or something, so he obviously knows who to call.

They must have some kind of detection right? Otherwise how does Talos know when he is talking to his daughter? And why aren't other Skrulls pretending to be Talos all the time. Maybe, but it's not like she spends a lot of time hanging out on earth, so she could just as easy chase the Kree and others away from another planet. As for the clueless population, as long as all million Skrulls don't show up all at once any other planets would probably be just as clueless. Or find an empty planet and you don't have to worry about a clueless population. Also I did find it funny that Rhodey officially fired Fury from the US Government since up until that point I wasn't really sure he was working for the government in any official capacity. Like who exactly does he work for? Shield doesn't seem to exist in the movies and D+ shows I don't think.

I hope they give some more information about this. Because of all the planets they went to where they found violence and hate, earth was the best one?

That fight scene in the butcher shop was cool, although why did they need to burn the locks off the door to the cooler when it was latched from the outside? The only thing locking it from the inside was the bar that the spy lady put across that hook. That kind of bugged me that week. They have time travel, space travel, flying cars and magic and no one can make a Skrull detector?

This season seemed to start strong then had kind of a steady decline. I don't really mind them trying something different but the deal with the disco demon and the is it real or is she mentally ill ending which doesn't really matter was kind of annoying. I did like the setting and how it looked like something filmed in the 70's though. And the actress who played Nida. And I really liked how as she did more killing her look and the music moved from disco to harder stuff (the leather jacket and One Step Beyond). Overall though with season I am just happy we didn't have any brain downloaded into a computer episodes.

I think part of it was also that back in the 60's astronauts were legitimate celebrities. Like if I saw an astronaut today in a movie theatre they would just be another person. If the ship requires two people to work it, the smart move would be to have more than 2 people on it. Because even though you aren't going to catch some contagious illness, what is the contingency plan if one of the guys slips and hits his head, or has a heart attack or some other emergency health issue.

Not really though I don't think. Since David couldn't jump into either robot from his bed. As for the robots taking to long, they could have just built him some kind of basic prototype that wasn't a human replica, so that at least he could have some communication with someone back home. It seems like everyone is a dumbass back home. I mean they have super life like robots that run on some magic power source. Plus the ability to run space missions that are years long and they have the brain transfer thing. But everyone is driving the same crappy cars and watching the same crappy tvs as they were in our world at the time.