I missed a whole lot of grey response about my post, and while you did sneak in the implication that I might not be an adult for my point of view, I feel the need to respond and upvote your post because it draws attention to a worthwhile cause.

He also apparently pulled in stupid amounts of royalties for the movie.

They got net profit. Wow, that’s pretty rare. You have to have a lot of pull within the industry to get that, or just be really Lucky like Robert Downy Jr. RDJ was given off the top royalties because no one had much faith in him, but he managed to work it into his contract for the Iron Man Sequels and the Avengers…

To be fair, Hollywood is notorious for hiding profits to screw talent out of royalties and avoid taxes. It’s hard to ever know the true profit a Hollywood movie makes.

Plus, a 30% return is fucking spectacular as far as investments go.

You know, for a long time I really did think it was all just an act. I didn’t believe someone could believe their own bullshit as much as him. I figured this was all about promotion. He could just be another run of the mill rap star that doesn’t really stand out, or he could say outrageous things and get famous.

Over…

The transporter thing doesn’t bother me so much because the transporter MUST displace mass so it don’t mix with whatever is being transported.

But I wholeheartedly agree with you on Kirk and Khan flying through space. With the speed they were flying and the mass of the debris, they should have been torn to pieces.

Anyone…

Yeah, I think the trend is Alfred is/was some sort of special forces badass at some point. It makes sense.

What’s funny about this move is they have essentially given away who wins the fight between Superman and Batman. If you listen to certain details in the trailers, you can make a fairly educated guess as to who “wins”.

I won’t spoil it for whoever doesn’t know, but they really killed any suspense over who wins.

Scientific inaccuracy in fiction? It’s more likely than you think.

In all seriousness, I think Hollywood has a high concentration of writers who hove no understanding of how basic science works. Remember how the Enterprise falls from the orbit of the moon to the Earth in a few minutes? The Moon orbits 384 thousand…

Jeremy Irons is 67. Bruce Wayne is supposed to be 46-47 in this (Affleck is 43). That would have made him 20 when Bruce Wayne was born, and 28-30 when Bruce Wayne’s parents were killed.

That makes more sense than how he is sometimes portrayed. Sometimes it seems Alfred is old even when Batman is a young boy.

I’m REEEEAAAALLLYY looking forward to this, but I hope the plot revolves around more than just the question of whether or not to kill Bucky.

That seems like a problem that a group of reasonable people could hash out over a coffee break. It doesn’t really seem to warrant some of the strongest people on earth coming to…

That kinda depends on how powerful they make Scarlet Witch in this.

I have such a love hate relationship with this type of art style. On one hand, it looks magnificent. On the other, it’s very heavily photo referenced, with all the pros and cons that come with photo referencing.

Don’t get me wrong, I don’t think photo reference is BAD per say, but often using too much reference is kind…

At this point, they’ve done Miami Vice and Magnum PI. If the show doesn’t get cancelled, we are almost guaranteed to get a season based on the A-team or Knight Rider.

All sports have a drug problem, and they have had the problem for a long time. Let’s not pretend otherwise.

On the elite level in all sports, wins are measured by a very fine margins. People will cheat, because the difference between a winner and a loser in elite competition is the difference between how far both of…

The Companion cube approves.

I’m glad I’m not the only one. She needs to choke up on that thing.

As others have pointed out, even with a background in fighting, it’s still different to venture into MMA. It takes some time to acclimate to the sport and get rid of bad habits gained from other disciplines.

There’s a pretty solid amateur circuit here in Florida too. I think it’s the nature of the business and the relatively small number of fighters that works against it. Like you said, good prospects get pulled in quick once they show promise.

Sage Northcutt was wearing a diaper the first time I trained BJJ.

I’m not trying to shit on him, but there is an argument that MMA lacks a solid amateur environment to develop new talent. If you box, or play football, or basketball, or whatever, there is an established amateur environment where talented people can…