Huffy Flounce

So, seriously, the US could be without a very senior appointee because the oppos are throwing toys out of pram?

Dalty wrote:Negs is a trained killer and has been known to crush a still beating heart over the incorrect use of an apostrophe. She also has a cat army.

Fuck yeah, and we're deadly!

I can also control dogs with my fluting in a pinch:

Dalty wrote:So, seriously, the US could be without a very senior appointee because the oppos are throwing toys out of pram?

Correct.

This is a very good example of why I tell people I'm not really a loyal Democrat, I just vote for them because we've only got two choices and the other is fucking insane.

I saw that, I remember I enjoyed it, but I don't remember a damn thing else about it.

It's a decently entertaining flick that kind of epitomizes the "soft reboot."

I'm sure more knowledgeable minds than mine can answer this, but is the X-Men reboot intended to perhaps pave theh way for an eventual merger with the Marvel Cinematic Universe?

No. It was meant to de-Ratner-ize the Singerverse. It was the quickest and easiest way to bring back the Stewart version of Professor X and the Marsden version of Cyclops.

Fox and Disney aren't even close to reconciling. Not as far as I've heard, anyway.

There was talk of Deadpool into Marvel-verse? Or was that just fanboy wishes?

Fanboy wishes, mostly, though there is some dispute over whether he's a "mutant" or a "mutate." Some insist that determining him to be a "mutate" could give Disney some wiggle room.

Fucking lawyers. Sony are cunts, and if Sony can manage it.....

Dalty wrote:Fucking lawyers. Sony are cunts, and if Sony can manage it.....

Blood's really bad between the two. Fox has repeatedly denied Disney (cinematic) access to the characters. In retaliation, Disney has blocked Fox from selling X-Men movie tie-in toys. Disney has also been systematically cutting mutants and X-Men out of their comics and replacing them with Inhumans. Some say that Fox made the new FF movie intentionally shitty (by making big cuts to Trank's--according to him, at least--far superior original version) in response to Disney's retaliation. It's all pretty petty, and it's all pretty amusing.

I feel like I've written about all this before.

Yeah - and I have to deal with stuff like this shit all the time at work (just not about something as fun as movies) and it's amazing how often a consensus builder who isn't a total cock-womble can wade into the middle, smooth the path, and create a win-win situation out the back end. I genuinely think that 99.9% of people who work in Hollywood have issues.

Deadpool just made a ton of money, so any leverage Disney might have had following the Fantastic Four reboot is gone.

New X-Men soon as well. If that goes well there will be a Fox Comic Cinematic Universe with a "Hard R" Fantastic Four reboot!

Dalty wrote:New X-Men soon as well. If that goes well there will be a Fox Comic Cinematic Universe with a "Hard R" Fantastic Four reboot!

Oh hooray.

I think I'll watch Captain Phillips tonight.

Good movie!

Spectre tonight for me - and many wine!!

Spectre is on!

Sorry Negs, I really have a different opinion to you on this movie.

I think everybody knows what I'm watching this weekend, though I'm trying to pace myself by alternating that with Judd Apatow's Love on Netflix. Pretty good stuff, both of 'em.

I'm actually watching Phillips tonight, having passed out last night after "many wine."

I feel a sudden urge to watch True Lies.