I see words like “ransom” but all I hear is “free publicity among the hard core fans.”

So many buildings in Pittsburgh that I thought were made of black or dark stone when I was young...

Counterpoint: Gal Godot Killed My Boner

The gimmick introduced at the time was that there were smaller transformers called Mini-Cons who were a neutral third party and were capable of unlocking powers and weapons that were built into Transformers but couldn’t be activated on their own.

It’s not really a win until we get some sort of gif-with-pasted heads/RKO outta nowhere.

It’s a reminder that second place is just the first loser.

I didn’t even grow up in a particularly Italian area in the States and this is a rude gesture there too. Not flip-the-bird rude, but maybe only a rung or two below it.

The odd twist the Oreo adds over usual pop rocks is unpredictability. I personally didn’t really notice the effect until I just let the filling dissolve in my mouth.

I picked these up at a Walmart yesterday, so I don’t think they’re store exclusive.

Intrigued, but a little put out by the references to an actual tragic event. Mentioning ‘rebirthing’ is fine, but actually mentioning ‘Newmaker’ seems a little too on-the-nose, on top of treading precariously close to any legal issues that shows like L&O try to avoid when they have the “this is not based on a real…

Not gonna lie, they look like granny panties.

I’m thinking I might have a way to distinguish the two... pretty sure Cindy’s dialog and animation works whether she’s in front of a car or a stripper pole.

As I indicated at the end of my post, mannerisms are a cultural product, thus a learned product of memory and not genetic.

Or watch Stand Alone Complex, which is the best version of Ghost in the Shell to watch.

They aren’t white, race isn’t merely a skin tone even when you are just a brain in a fake cybernetic body

Something to consider: because of the nature of the Major, the studio is absolutely not bound to having Scarlett return to the role and any sequel could still be 100% in continuity with the first movie.

I think her approach was accurate to the Major that was written for this movie. It was the script choices that were made to have a Major who is not confident or familiar with her cybernetic body.

I don’t think that the writer even realized there was any sort of debate on the issue. The movie was uniquely placed to actually have a some sort of discussion about it that almost no other film can and it simply didn’t. Huge missed opportunity.

My main complaint is that they should have taken it and run with it. It’s like there’s a 300 lb gorilla in the room, and the only thing we get is, “hey, does someone smell gorilla?” when they were uniquely situated to actually engage that gorilla in a unique way that almost no other setting can do right now.

The vast majority of it concerns the pacing, the lack of narrative and character development, over-reliance upon scenery, and a few other issue that have absolutely nothing to do with the casting controversy.