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♫ This girl is on fire! ♫

He died as he lived: irrelevantly.

Dragonfire can't melt evil beings.

Well that was pretty brutal, but by the end I think it was kind of consensual?

LOL.

The original Punisher movie starred Dolph Lundgren.

Yes it is. Good to see Raúl Castillo getting work, even if this doesn't terribly interest me.

No. Ratings aren't just about viscera, scenes get judged to be too intense for a given rating on tone alone. I'm saying the mass destruction scenes they insist on doing don't work in the style they're using. They try to amp up the action, but there are no consequences and no intensity. If they went for a different

Soon I hope. If they reproduced this number I would go a thousand times.

To be fair, I don't think it's purely a CGI problem. There's also a PG-13 problem. Giant action sequences don't feel authentic, because they can't feel authentic; if they did, the movies would get rated R. So we get bloodless CGI cartoons in which the people are frequently in danger, but nothing physical really

Mumsy.

Okay, you've won me back. I still don't want you as James Bond, but maybe we can find something else for you.

And they have been. And it felt more real than it does in the Marvel movies.

I thought we rejected them for other reasons entirely.

Well that changes everything.

Boyer gonna boy.

I don't doubt that he came away with this sentiment, but I have trouble believing this is the only reason he isn't making a Star Wars movie.

I'd watch.

I think Star Wars fans before the prequels were appalling, but were forced to mellow out little.