Not sure what you mean. Crushing as in dominating? He absolutely was. He was 37 - 0 before he was upset largely after his personal life and personality wrecked him. In the ring though? Yea, like Rousey he also had a tendancy to demolish people in the first 30 seconds to a minute. He was just too overpowering for his…

Is it really struggling though if networks have added them since the 90’s even and pop culture still references them heavily? I don’t watch them nor do any of my friends but other people certainly do.

It’s cultural and it’s adapted over the years. The UK has their panels and the U.S. has always had these callbacks to variety shows. It’s not really a talk show so much as it’s structured comedy. There is talking that’s usually discussed beforehand. There’s the stand up routine. There’s the musical guest. It’s a form…

In the end, I think more screentime may very well fix what was wrong with it, but I am honestly reminded at this point of the other film series that successfully juggled 8+ characacters at a time and LoTR was pretty unapologetic in its runtimes. I know I can come off as anti-Marvel at times, but really my huge problem…

It just seems silly to me. As someone who is not in the press who goes to those screenings, pays for tickets outside those screenings, and will frequent a bunch of theaters each of which go about their business differently, I don’t find your stance logical. You’re wrong because you’re conflating the monopolistic…

Why is advanced screening an issue when everything gets screened in advanced to select people? That’s not even atypical for the movie business. Usually it’s critics and people who know how to get those tickets. A movie released on Friday has people who’ve seen in on the Wednesday prior quite often. So him showing his…

That’s a very selective reading of Nedry and the lawyer.

Because IO9 self selects its audience and if you don’t like the general consensus here you either leave, hit your head against the wall socially, or just stay quiet. I happened to like JW while acknowledging its idiocy. I do that with most Marvel movies as well. But the bipolar reactions here and how that influences…

This is honestly probably one of the least cynical/drum beating, genuinely genius ideas I’ve seen here. I doubt Raimi would ever do it, but if any person’s sensibilities could make TMNT an awesome movie for a general audience, he would be a really good choice.

Considering part of the greatness of T2 is essentially emptying the tube of time traveling toothpaste with the message that the future can be changed and then wiping out Skynet (along with all it’s Sarah and John greatness), the Terminator series really couldn’t be salvaged. Any further movie is about desperately…

So... What if Squirrel Girl lost then?

Unless you’re writing Pixar movies, there’s probably a point where “defending your choices” is an ultimately self-defeating proposition. Do it too vociferously and you obviously don’t get it. Don’t be strong enough and you’re conceding the point. Do it perfectly and no one is convinced anyway so you’ve basically just…

My feelings on this are conflicted. I’ll just start with I’m going to see this when it comes out but I ALSO would have seen a mixed cast version and I would have also seen an all dude version. I would have been happy with all of them. So me wanting to see this doesn’t mean I didn’t want to see anything else because I…

Actually with the recent trend of spoiling entire movies because they need to put out 3 trailers, 30 second ads, and specials I’ve sort of adopted a very counter-culture 1 trailer and I’m done approach (unless the original trailer is just to vague). I’ve noticed it on a few movies now where I basically know the whole…

Honestly I never know why people take those idiots seriously (because they’ll always exist). I mean you have a series where Lando is a character that actually happened and has women who are Jedi in strictly movie canon. Giving them airplay is kind of like finding the people who have problems with Brienne killing the…

I’ll just stop you there: yes.

X 30 was a toy released in 86.

Wouldn’t have been a terrible idea. The whole point of Kermit and Ms. Piggy was very much tied to the way Oz and Henson saw them. They could have changed them if it suited them. With Disney making the call now i’m not sure what any of the puppeteers get to add to these characters. If they had their own, well that’s…

What can you do? I love Frank Oz but you can’t ask him to do that forever. Not sure if Brian Henson is still involved at all these days.

Not sure why he needed to confirm this. Derp. It wasn’t particularly unclear. People didn’t like the tone change *shrug*. I just didn’t like the writing. But it wasn’t as bad as people suggested either.