A. A. Ron

They could bring Hawkeye out of retirement to save Christmas one last time.

Saying Endgame overstayed its welcome is wild.

I just saw the Sam Neill flick for the first time a couple weeks ago. Thought it was really fun! I enjoyed ol' Doc Strange too though. Like many recent-ish Disney productions, it felt like they greenlit an early screenplay draft and never bothered to polish it. I think it would have really benefitted if Wanda had been a "good" guy in the first act, only to snap or get outted as bad in a more dramatic way. Other than that, I just wanted to see a bunch more universes than we got. Solid 3/5 for me. I was entertained, but not enough that I've ever bothered to rewatch it.

Whatever political subtext they decide to put into the new X-Men movie won't be half as boring as these 5 comments. Perhaps you've lost your mojo.

That's not passion, it's madness. It should be the masthead for the whole board!

The 3CD Intrada is the only release of the film recording that contains the complete and unedited opening for "The Kitchen," but they buried that opening under a crossfade with the boring drum loop cue "Warpaint." This does match the film, but it's a terrible decision musically speaking. And if we're going to talk consistency, there are other cues that are crossfaded in the film, but aren't crossfaded on this album, so it's not like they were unwilling to take creative liberties. They also decided to include a completely tracked cue ("The Defilers"), but got the edit points wrong. Personally, I wouldn't bother including this cue, but if you're going to do it, you should at least assemble it correctly. Lastly, Barbarian is one of the greatest scores of all time. It deserves the best mastering from the best mastering engineer, not just competent work from a producer who likes to save a couple pennies by doing it himself.

By contrast, I had no idea the first expansion had ever gone out of print. Maybe there's hope for a fixed Conan the Barbarian after all.

I fail to see how that is "more" accurate in any meaningful way. At most it's equally accurate. The folks at Marvel clearly knew they wanted to do some sort of Civil War arc and dropped hints in Ultron accordingly.

I never considered Age of Ultron a lesser Marvel film and still have no idea why so many people do. It's a completely worthy follow up to the first Avengers movie, has some ballsy cues from Elfman, and teases Civil War nicely.

Well that didn't make much of an impression on me, but I'm open to a pleasant surprise. The only films I've seen from this fandom so far are Alien, Aliens, Predator, and Prey. Since it's a Fox production, I assumed the skull was from an Independence Day alien.

Well in that case, you just need to learn to speak in tongues like Lisa Gerrard and your training will be complete.

Oh no, that's a part of it too. I was taught that the Leviathan and the Behemoth from the Book of Job were both dinosaurs. The dragon slain by St. George? Dinosaur. The totally real monster that inspired Grendel in Beowulf? Dinosaur. The Native American thunderbird? Pterodactyl. Nessie? Plesiosaur. You get the idea.

I can understand that, but it doesn't invalidate anything I said nor does it justify rudeness.

There you go again. And for no good reason. That movie is actually an excellent example of what I'm talking about. It was rare for people to talk about living sauropods in the Congo before Baby came out. Since then, young earth creationist Christians and other cryptozoologists (more accurately described as quacks and pseudoscientists, really) have mounted several expeditions to the region in search of the surviving dinosaurs that they believe will prove their religion/disprove evolution. People always find ways to justify insane beliefs. I'm just saying that I appreciate the rare occasions when Hollywood isn't dumping fuel on the fire so to speak.

People who are knowledgeable and or passionate about a subject, that's who. You can call reasonable people "cultists" all you like, but I was raised by actual cultists. My parents literally believe there were dinosaurs on Noah's ark and that some species are probably still alive today in remote jungles in places like Africa and New Guinea. People base way too many of their conceptions on what they see in movies and it has a real world impact on what policies they'll support and what they can be lead to believe. It's rare for filmmakers to get any of the little details right and every one they do is a win in my book, especially when it comes to fields that are so completely and grossly misunderstood as paleontology is.