In 20 years, I’ve never once thought of it that way, but you’re right actually. That’s a little embarrassing, to have never realized that before.

You realize the original was LITERALLY a remake of War of the Worlds, that the aliens were seemingly unbeatable and then overcome by a virus from Earth??

In the first film, they did a bangup perfect job of showing us an unbeatable extraterrestrial threat and then a really cheesy job of showing how we survived it. Even War of the Worlds had more logic and foreshadowing, re alien vulnerabilities, than ID did.

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You forgot, a macguffin he had the audacity to actually name ‘unobtanium’ and world building with all the nuance and subtlety of a Piers Anthony novel.

I’m worried about Negan’s dialogue. His creative use of a certain expletive really made his character, I don’t know how they could possibly recreate that.

Honestly, after “Phantom Menace”, my expectations are so guarded. I trust Abrams, but I just can’t allow myself to be that let down again. None of us had even considered that the Prequels might have sucked, which is probably why it was such a letdown. Never again.

He’s more than Training Day, Gattaca and Dead Poets Society. He’s a critically well received novelist and film director. Just because what he does isn’t always commercially successful doesn’t mean that his input lacks quality.

I love that Reagan was a Star Trek fan, I wonder what Roddenberry thought about that. Roddenberry, fought for so many causes in both on his set and in the script, trying to push against racial, sexual and social discrimination. By today’s standards Reagan would be considered a liberal, but he was the conservative…

My favorite Thanos image:

Cat version.

There are always men like you.

It’s Captain America, not Captain Lowest Common Denominator.

And his response should have been, “I punched Hitler in the face. Your argument is invalid.”

But she’s actually proving his point, by focusing on the trivialities of contemporary life. It’s especially ironic that most of her examples are irrelevant today, just a few years later.

Since the 1970s, it’s been very clear that Captain America is sworn to serve the nation’s ideals. Those ideals can’t be bartered away…

But Skrulls are locked up by Fox as part of the FF-verse, aren’t they? That’s why they didn’t invade NY in Avengers 1.

Luke said “Experiment” in re: to how he got his powers. I guess it could’ve been an IGH related experiment.

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