Hey, you invent an internet and you can have the urls end in whatever you want.
Wait... what's that? America is trying to destroy the internet again? Oh... maybe co.us wouldn't be so bad after all.
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Wait... what's that? America is trying to destroy the internet again? Oh... maybe co.us wouldn't be so bad after all.
Don't forget there's always the .sucks TLD as well.Hey, you invent an internet and you can have the urls end in whatever you want.
Wait... what's that? America is trying to destroy the internet again? Oh... maybe co.us wouldn't be so bad after all.
Hmm...I wonder if america.sucks is already taken?
--Patrick
I need to get my hands on a copy of The Mermaid. I love Stephen Chow's comedies and I'm looking forward to this, if only for the police interrogation scene!
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Me neither. Now its popularity makes a lot more sense.
Received an email from Fandango:
So Fandango now owns Rotten Tomatoes, but WB now owns Fandango ...
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Not to mention the pedophilia. Don't forget the pedophilia.
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Or of actual childbearing age.
Oh wait, somebody else just said that, didn't they? I'm still catching up here.
So that's why Batman vs Superman jumped from 29% rotten to 93% certified fresh.
Choose your pedophile joke:
Depends on if you measure in horse years. "I swear to god, officer, I thought she was 7." Though in Japan...
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Hey, those horse girls are really mature for their age, they've been through a lot...
Michael Caine
“I have never seen it, but by all accounts it is terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built, and it is terrific.” [Jaws: The Revenge]
I was kind of stunned to learn that so many of the films ruined by executive meddling turned out to have the same executive responsible: Tom Rothman, formerly of Fox and currently of Sony.
From Variety, here's a short list of his decision-making:
"...Rothman’s reputation for being cost-effective when he was running Fox’s film arm, where he oversaw both Titanic and Avatar—two of the highest-grossing movies in history, which Rothman reportedly opposed making. He famously, similarly opposed numerous elements of X-Men(such as it having too many X-Men), clashed repeatedly with its franchise’s directors and drove away Bryan Singer, demanded it cut the Sentinels because he doesn’t like giant robots, and, of course, hired Brett Ratner.
Variety credits all this to Rothman’s “hands-on management style,” something that’s also manifested in clashes with directors like I, Robot’s Alex Proyas (whom he’s rumored to have tried driving out of the business altogether), and pushing for PG-13 ratings on movies like X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Alien Vs. Predator, andA Good Day To Die Hard. It also admits Rothman has a reputation for having a “prickly personality and a temper,” in addition to his reputation for mercilessly slashing budgets, demanding family-friendly rewrites, passing on new ideas in favor of strip-mining old properties, and turning seemingly surefire Marvel properties like Daredevil and Fantastic Four into kiddie glop."
So basically, he's responsible for X-Men: The Last Stand, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, AVP, A Good Day to Die Hard, Daredevil, Fantastic Four (all 3 of them), and opposed Titanic and Avatar. And he's the reason it took more than 10 years to make Deadpool - he HATES the character, and ordered all the changes in X-Men Origins: Wolverine, including removing the mouth from The Merc With The Mouth. That is also why Deadpool says "Hi Tom!" during the leaked test footage.
Good job picking this guy up, Sony.
From Variety, here's a short list of his decision-making:
"...Rothman’s reputation for being cost-effective when he was running Fox’s film arm, where he oversaw both Titanic and Avatar—two of the highest-grossing movies in history, which Rothman reportedly opposed making. He famously, similarly opposed numerous elements of X-Men(such as it having too many X-Men), clashed repeatedly with its franchise’s directors and drove away Bryan Singer, demanded it cut the Sentinels because he doesn’t like giant robots, and, of course, hired Brett Ratner.
Variety credits all this to Rothman’s “hands-on management style,” something that’s also manifested in clashes with directors like I, Robot’s Alex Proyas (whom he’s rumored to have tried driving out of the business altogether), and pushing for PG-13 ratings on movies like X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Alien Vs. Predator, andA Good Day To Die Hard. It also admits Rothman has a reputation for having a “prickly personality and a temper,” in addition to his reputation for mercilessly slashing budgets, demanding family-friendly rewrites, passing on new ideas in favor of strip-mining old properties, and turning seemingly surefire Marvel properties like Daredevil and Fantastic Four into kiddie glop."
So basically, he's responsible for X-Men: The Last Stand, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, AVP, A Good Day to Die Hard, Daredevil, Fantastic Four (all 3 of them), and opposed Titanic and Avatar. And he's the reason it took more than 10 years to make Deadpool - he HATES the character, and ordered all the changes in X-Men Origins: Wolverine, including removing the mouth from The Merc With The Mouth. That is also why Deadpool says "Hi Tom!" during the leaked test footage.
Good job picking this guy up, Sony.
...That explains so much in regards to Ghostbusters.
Yes, it really does. He loves mining old properties, then violates the shit out of what made them good.
You've taken so many points of seemingly separate disdain and focused them all together against one person. I really appreciate that.
In related news, someone drop seven elephant asses on Tom Rothman's head.
Unfortunately, that guy's track record with presiding over companies as they make massive box office hits probably means he's not going anywhere any time soon.
He's a horrible drag on comic-book movies, and he sounds like a nightmare to work for, but he was also apparently a big booster of the indie and foreign film scene as a side of the industry that matters. I just wish he had been more hands-off with comic book movies once he realized he hated them for what they are.
He's a horrible drag on comic-book movies, and he sounds like a nightmare to work for, but he was also apparently a big booster of the indie and foreign film scene as a side of the industry that matters. I just wish he had been more hands-off with comic book movies once he realized he hated them for what they are.
Which is funny considering he opposed Titanic and Avatar...
I bet there is a narrative around Hollywood that he kept Titanic and Avatar production in line to keep costs down and more on time.
I mean, I really liked EoT, and thought Cruise and Blunt worked really well together, so this doesn't make me upset.
Which is nice and all, but since he was against them being made at all, maybe there should be a narrative about how he should just stick to the money and time part, and not the deciding what gets made part...
Apparently, that's his style. All or nothing, to our detriment.
Apparently, because of the success of Deadpool, director Tim Miller may finally be able to get his computer-animated adaptation of Goon (the Eric Powell comic book) off the ground.
http://www.avclub.com/article/deadpools-tim-miller-thinks-his-goon-movie-might-b-235045
http://www.avclub.com/article/deadpools-tim-miller-thinks-his-goon-movie-might-b-235045
...well...I have one response-
-unless they dick us Goon fans-AGAIN! Its bad enough I can barely find Goon books anywhere.
Heh, I had a beloved action figure of one of those guys as a kid but had NO idea where he was from.
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You know, as much as I love superheroes, I am totally okay with filmmakers muting or subduing costume colors. That stuff was for 4-color print processes and Ben-Day dots, and it looks frankly kind of stupid in real life. Even making it looser fitting is okay with me. The skin-tight was also a product of the art. You had to have some way to make a dude look beefy when all you had was ink.