BWAAHAA! Isn't that the truth!

Speaking of BvS, am I the only one who thinks that Henry Cavill looks like the buffed up older brother of Hayden Christensen??

God, what a beef cake.

He looks like a buffed up (insert whatever you want here!) That guy is an adonis.

Pics or it didn't happen!

No Henry Cavill pics, but I do have a Russian movie trailer. This looks completely insane. Yes, it is a wear-bear with a minigun. I hope it at least gets to the US on disc, it looks like a lot of fun.

oh, and Pics here, so it did happen!

This post has been edited by SubRosa: Aug 24 2016, 10:02 PM

So so, but I'm not big on the "widows peaks" look. I like him better in these pics:


http://healthyceleb.com/wp-content/uploads...enry-Cavill.jpg


http://static.tumblr.com/086a2ca9e90c16b8c...4gcsok00sc0.png






This post has been edited by mALX: Aug 24 2016, 10:28 PM

I don't believe the were-bear had a widow's peak..

That actually looked like it would be a good/interesting one too!

Oh that looks cool. The only Russian films I've ever watched are about WW2.

It's hard to find subtitles for most foreign films, and they rarely do foreign DVD releases.



I'm not a huge Henry Cavill fan. I mean he looks great in his Superman suit, but macho muscle men aren't quite my cup of tea. He seems really nice though, which is important.

Same here. I like a lot less olfl the "Arnoldy" bulges and a lot more hair on the head.

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This post has been edited by mALX: Aug 25 2016, 02:40 AM

I just watched Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.

This is another of my all-time favourite films, and holds the distinction of being the only musical that I like.

Gene Wilder was perfect as Willy Wonka.

I like that version so much better than the Johnny Depp one - and actually know every single word of dialogue; every single lyric to all the songs in the Gene Wilder one; that is how much I liked his version!

"We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams..."

Gene Wilder's death is unfortunate because his unique personality was a hallmark of many Mel Brooks films. I can't imagine the first Willy Wonka would have gotten the same respect/recognition with a different lead either.

I bought the first 4 Bourne movies on blu-ray a while ago. Now I am finally getting around to watching them. I did Bourne Identity yesterday, and Supremacy this afternoon. Tomorrow it will be Ultimatium's turn, and Legacy probably on Tuesday. I have not seen them for a while, so I am having a lot of fun. I especially like Moby's song Extreme Ways in the end credits of each film. He changes it a little for every movie though, so it is hard to keep track of which version is which.

I saw them a while ago, and own the set on DVD as well as via iTunes. Before I saw the first one, I thought Matt Damon was a strange choice for Jason Bourne. Now I can't picture anyone else as Jason Bourne - Matt Damon really owned the role.

I thought that the mention of a Robert Ludlum movie might flush you out haute! Where have you been? I have missed you.

I have also started watching the first season of Supergirl. I am not a fan of the whole distaff hero thing in general, but I am really liking this. The main character Kara does not come off as overly uber, which keeps her from becoming annoying. That goes for her social and work life as well as super life. The cast surrounding her is solid. Calista Flockheart really stands out as her self-centered, entitled boss.

Finally, between the coming of age story of a super girl finding her place in the world, painfully learning her limits, and pushing beyond those boundaries, there is a good overall story arc developing. It is nicely tied into her backstory as well. She was sent to Earth at the same time as Kal-El, but was late arriving because her spacecraft got caught in the Negative Zone. She doesn't know how she get out of there, but it turns out she was not the only one to do so. Her escape also coincided with the mass escape of the convicts from Krypton's max security prison. So now a bunch of Kryptonians and other aliens are roaming Earth. Their leader, none other than Kara's aunt, has grand plans for Earth's destiny, with her on top of the grandness of course.

So all in all, I am enjoying it a lot.

This post has been edited by SubRosa: Sep 5 2016, 04:55 PM

I didn't think anyone missed me here, so thanks for the sentiment!

Uh, yes, Robert Ludlum. One of my two favorite authors. Probably the single biggest influence on my writing . . .

Not watching much lately. Tried watching a K-Drama called Moorim School, but I'm having trouble getting into it. It's a weird mix of modern cloak-n-dagger mixed with metaphysics wrapped up in two coming-of-age stories tangled with a love triangle/rectangle (I haven't been able to figure that one out yet).

It feels like it's trying to be too many things at once. And it feels like there is a Deux Ex Machinima thing going on as well. Haven't gone back to it for a couple of weeks.

Not watching any of the new shows either. Don't have a TV subscription and honestly, I don't miss it at all.

I think Matt Damon is so versatile that he owns every role he ever takes on. I can't even rave about his acting because when he is in a role you kind of don't realize he is acting; it just comes across as "him" - naturally.

I finally got around to watching Captain America: Civil War. Or really Avengers: Civil War. Granted, most of the focus is on Cap, but just as much is on Tony, and everyone makes an appearance, even when they don't really serve the story.

I was pretty underwhelmed with the whole thing, disappointed really. There were too many times I was yelling at the screen. Like when General Ross is taking them to task over saving New York, or saving the world. Hello a-hole, you were the guys who launched a nuclear missile at New York. If not for the Avengers stopping you, the government would have killed millions. And of course everyone on the planet dying if they had not taken it on themselves to stop Ultron in Sokovia. I guess they should have just sat around doing nothing and let Ultron destroy the world. Apparently that would have been the right thing to do, according to William Hurt.

Now I will admit that Tony creating Ultron in the first place was incredibly bone-headed. So if they just wanted to put Stark in prison I would not be complaining. Seriously.

I don't mind that Ross tried to spin things that the Avengers are these reckless and out of control monsters who destroy everything in their path. Way back in the first Hulk movie they firmly established that he is an a-hole after all. I do mind that no one on the team called him on his b.s. though.

Then there is Tony Stark apparently being General Ross's butt-monkey for most of the movie. This is the same guy who literally told a Congressional sub-committee to go stick it where the sun does not shine in Iron Man 2? The same guy who hacked Shield to find out about their Hydra Weapons research, just because he doesn't trust the government? The guy who stopped making weapons because he won't be responsible for who they kill? The guy whose disrespect for authority is one of his defining character traits. Now he is suddenly willing to become the government's unquestioning thug? Sorry, that is just totally out of character.

And how come before the big super smackdown didn't Cap or someone else bother to tell the rest of the Avengers that they have proof Bucky is innocent, and that they were after the real culprit? It would have taken about 3 sentences. Maybe 10 seconds to say. But then there would have been no fight, and I guess that is more important than making any kind of sense. I guess there is no point wondering why no one else, like the CIA, bothered telling Tony the same thing. Or why Tony didn't just hack them himself to find out what the intelligence was on the bombing. I guess it just isn't as important as trying to figure out that Shield was trying to get 40 year old Hydra weapons to work.

And where was Vision in that first scene in Lagos? Was he watering the plants at Avengers HQ? I suppose he was absent because if he had been there he would have single-highhandedly taken out the entire Hydra team in about 5 seconds. But I guess we couldn't have that happen, because it would have ruined the big moment of the Scarlet Witch's diverted bomb blast killing less people than it originally would have. Yes, that too. Apparently she is a monster because she insured that less people died than would have if she had not intervened. Obviously no one is happy that people died, and it is a lot of guilt for her to doubtlessly carry around. But the blame is squarely on the person who blew himself up, not her. Just like the blame for the destruction in New York is on the aliens who attacked it (and the government who tried to nuke it), not the people who defended it.

Let's not forget the magical camera recording Mama and Papa Stark's death's too. How convenient it was for the plot to have that camera set up in the middle of nowhere so it could record their deaths, and who killed them. We know it wasn't something that Bucky set up to prove his mission success, because we see him shoot out the camera at the end of it. Also how convenient for the super rich Howard Stark who rubs shoulders with super spies to travel with absolutely no bodyguards or protection. Unlike RL executives who have drivers that are former Army Rangers (whom I have personally met and worked with IRL), and travel in multiple cars with security guards, because they are targets for kidnappings and espionage. And none of them have 5 Super-Soldier serums in the trunk!!!

Or how the bad guy's entire plan is just way too convoluted, to the point of literally requiring precognition to work - like knowing Bucky would be captured and not killed. Knowing who would be sent to interrogate the capture Bucky. There are plenty of sites that break it down into fine detail. Suffice to say, it is awfully convenient for the plot.

There are just too many of these glaring plot holes. I just kept wanting to throw things at the writers for the entire movie.

This post has been edited by SubRosa: Sep 8 2016, 05:18 PM