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Blade II

Yeah, I’m not all that fired up for this. It seems like they do this a lot...the threat that was so menacing in the first movie or two is now kind of boring so they “evolve” it to a bigger, badder threat. The “reaper” vampires in Blade II, the Indominus Rex in Jurassic World, etc. Predators aren’t that impressive

Honestly, that whole scene was so chaotic I completely missed the skull. I mostly enjoyed the movie, but didn’t love it.

Yay! I get to repost this joke. :)

Finally saw DP2 today. When we saw Cable in the future, it almost looked like the bleak future of Days of Future Past when they were on the run from the Sentinels. I was wondering if that’s what they were implying.

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I’m late to the party. I’m just getting around to watching season 4. The first act of the three really reminded me of the old 1983 movie Brainstorm, at least until it went dark. :)

When Commander Sisko shaved his head and grew his goatee on DS9 I was like “Hawk is back!!” :)

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And no love for Enos, spun off to the Big City, for a single 18-episode season? :D

Thanks for the link. I just made a general top-level comment about how Melrose Place wasn’t really a “spin-off” since it wasn’t really spinning off a popular character and how Jake’s appearance on 90210 wasn’t even really a “backdoor pilot” as such.

I thought Angel was a great spin-off for the first few seasons but when they went from “case of the week” format to the heavily serialized format I didn’t like it as much. Plus the behind-the-camera drama with Charisma Carpenter’s pregnancy didn’t help.

Re: Models, Inc. and Melrose Place, I always thought there should be a different term than “spin-off” to describe a stand-alone show that gets shoe-horned into a popular show for an episode or two just to justify a “connection” to lure audiences over. I mean, was Grant Snow a “breakout character” on Beverly Hills

Soooo excited to see this. I can’t wait. I think I’m more excited for this than Solo. Although the Solo trailer that I saw before Infinity War finally got me a little pumped for that, too.

I’m cautiously optimistic, but I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t worried. While the second movie went in a whole new and original direction, this sounds like it will be kind of a rehash of the first movie. And didn’t they already end the second movie where they played their great song and united the world?

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While “Joker as demented artist” makes so little sense and had almost nothing to do with the comics incarnation, I find myself very taken with the homicidal artist line and its follow up, “I make art until people die.”

Wasn’t there a whole plotline about the Joker contaminating personal hygiene products, or did I dream that?

I think the only time I bought multiple issues was when I bought both copies of the Spider-Man wedding issue. :)

I love Burton’s Batman but it also hasn’t aged well visually. A lot of the model work looks like model work and the animated (as in cartoon) spotlights and falling Joker??

I remember when I first heard that they cast Michael Keaton as Batman I thought he would have been a much better Joker. I loved him in Night Shift and Mr. Mom and I thought that he could have that same manic lunacy but with a darker edge that we did eventually see in Spiderman: Homecoming. But when it came out I did

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I loved when Nicholson’s Joker does a mocking impression of Jack Palance and then cracks himself up while talking to the guy he fried with the hand buzzer. “I’m glad you’re dead. Hahahahahaha...”

He also says to the symbiote that he can stay as long as he only hurts bad guys, so they seem to be going for a Dexter kinda thing.