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    Image of Yellowphant Yellowphant
    12:17 PM

    In reply to Android On Android Love
    Why is Dracula making out with C-3PO? #starwars
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    Image of Belabras ate my dingo! Belabras ate my dingo!
    12:03 PM

    In reply to X2 Screenwriter Explains How He Would Have Written X3
    Unsurprisingly better than the movie we actually got. #xmen
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    Image of firstanointed firstanointed
    11:57 AM

    In reply to Did Avatar Really Cost $500 Million?
    Lets see, how many ways can this film fail:

    #1. It has a hefty cast of well known actors/actresses, one of whom is Sci Fi royalty.
    #2: It is possibly the most hyped film of it's type in recent decades.
    #3: It's James Cameron's latest film in a long while.
    #4: Regardless of whether or not people hate it or like it, people continue to babble about it whenever there is a new trailer/featurette or detailed blog post. 3 guesses how many of the "this film is gonna suck bigtime" crowd will hand over their $16 to sit in the theatre and see how horrible and sucky the film really is.

    There's about as great a chance of this film bombing at the box office as there is of another ship named Titanic being built in this decade and also happening to capsize at the hands of a glacier, but considering that it's got a worldwide release, will be monopolizing certain theatres overseas, so I've heard, and is doubtless the most boastful sci fi film to come out in recent times--at least in MY generation, I don't see how.

    Meanwhile, I'm very sorry to hear about this "Squeakuel". #avatar
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    Image of daveNYC daveNYC
    11:40 AM

    In reply to X2 Screenwriter Explains How He Would Have Written X3
    Why the heck should Rogue have to come to terms with who she is? Her mutant power is nothing but a curse. Zero physical contact with anyone, ever (unless it's for plot reasons). In the comics at least, she had absorbed some superpowers. In the movies, she's just a moody teen who has to wear long gloves. Saying she should accept who she is, is like telling Typhoid Mary that she should just get used to the island lifestyle.

    And X4 had better be Days of Future Past, or I'll be pissed. #xmen
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    Image of Dunny0 Dunny0
    12:06 PM

    @daveNYC: No, he's saying that it was wrong for her to give up her powers for a boy. Which is exactly what she did - she felt that Bobby was losing interest in her in favor of Shadow Cat, so she ditched her powers so he'd like her again. #xmen
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    Image of Byronotron Byronotron
    12:20 PM

    @Dunny0: Seriously, reason number 564 why that movie is just terrible all around. I did love Ellen Page as Kitty though. I wish we could have seen more X-Men with her. *My Wolverine and Kitty Pryde television mini series staring Hugh Jackman and Ellen Page in JAPAN! will, unfortunately only exist in my mind...* thank you chris claremont for the best and most realistic fanboy crush on a comic book character one can ever have. I was 12, inherited 8 long boxes of classic 70's and 80's comics and what do I find? Claremont's classic Wolverine And Kitty Pride mini, in 8.5 condition! (oh how part of me wishes I'd found the TRADE!) I laughed, I cryed, I fawned over a comic book that came out 2 years before I was born. Is it weird now that I compare all of my beaus to the beautiful, courageous Kitty? #xmen
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    Image of Jeremy Tapsell Jeremy Tapsell
    11:31 AM

    In reply to Aliens Come All The Way From Deep Space To Sink Your Battleship
    I thought they already did the Battleships movie? Wasn't that the one with Kelsy Grammer? #battleship
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    Image of scroggzilla raids again scroggzilla raids again
    11:30 AM

    In reply to Jurassic Park 3 Director Wants His Own Off-Island Dino Trilogy
    Couldn't we just detonate a nuclear weapon near Jurassic Park? Radiation + dinosaurs = box office win. Just ask Toho. #jurassicpark
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    Image of Jeremy Tapsell Jeremy Tapsell
    11:24 AM

    In reply to Android On Android Love
    Data is totally the Butch - 3PO is such a prissy twink, he should have been wearing a skirt from the day Anakin pulled him out of the trash.

    Actually, do andriods even count as having Gender? #starwars
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    Image of RoboBagins RoboBagins
    11:17 AM

    In reply to X2 Screenwriter Explains How He Would Have Written X3
    I think they should turn the Whedon run on Astonishing into a movie. Because the world needs to know that while Cyclops is a dick, Gunman is AWESOME. #xmen
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    Image of Paul_Is_Drunk Paul_Is_Drunk
    11:24 AM

    @RoboBagins: Did you not see X3? They directly lifted the mutant cure idea from Whedon's run on Astonishing. #xmen
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    Image of Jeremy Tapsell Jeremy Tapsell
    11:37 AM

    @Paul_Is_Drunk: The Cure has been around for a long time. Its a recurring main theme in X-men mythology - should mutants be cured or left as mutants. #xmen
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    Image of Purple Dave Purple Dave
    11:15 AM

    In reply to Did Avatar Really Cost $500 Million?
    The fact that Cameron has already been quoted laying blame on whose fault it will be _if_ this movie fails to perform at the box office is pretty much telling me that it's guaranteed to at least underperform at the box office. It might pull in impressive numbers at the box office, or it might not, but either way I don't expect it to turn a profit until it's had some time on the DVD shelf. #avatar
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    Image of Makidian Makidian
    11:29 AM

    @Purple Dave: While I am going to see it day one, I doubt this movie is going to take in Titanic numbers. They have waited to long to get into mainstream viewing and have been to stengy with trailers. But anything can happen, Transformers made a freakin' killing and it was one of the most poorly reviewed movies of the year. #avatar
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    Image of Jeremy Tapsell Jeremy Tapsell
    11:13 AM

    In reply to Jurassic Park 3 Director Wants His Own Off-Island Dino Trilogy
    awwww! I loved the end of Jurrasic Park 2! When the T rex is drinking from that pool!
    And just wandering around San Diego causing havoc!! That was awesome! #jurassicpark
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    Image of aubreyf aubreyf
    12:09 PM

    @Jeremy Tapsell: I liked the ending too. And the movie itself, but I'm a sucker for anything Spielberg and anything Goldblum. #jurassicpark
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    Image of Byronotron Byronotron
    11:00 AM

    In reply to Android On Android Love
    this is amazing. I wish star trek/star wars fans would just kiss and make up. #starwars
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    Image of Tomb: R.O.A.C.H. Tomb: R.O.A.C.H.
    10:53 AM

    In reply to Aliens Come All The Way From Deep Space To Sink Your Battleship
    Large alien ships that looks like giant pegs. #battleship
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    Image of Makidian Makidian
    11:21 AM

    @Tomb: R.O.A.C.H.: That attack ships by driving straight into them! #battleship
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    Image of GodofMonkeys GodofMonkeys
    10:40 AM

    In reply to X2 Screenwriter Explains How He Would Have Written X3
    X3 is one of those movies I refuse to acknowledge as actually existing. Kind like the latter two "Matrix" movies... every odd-numbered "Trek" movie... etc. I find my life less-painful that way. #xmen
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    Image of Dr.Quatermass Dr.Quatermass
    11:06 AM

    @GodofMonkeys: That's it? Those are the only movies you refuse to acknowledge? I don't believe you. Tell me more about these movies you don't talk about. :) #xmen
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    Image of ingenieur ingenieur
    11:37 AM

    @GodofMonkeys: Reloaded & Revolutions are great. Just a bunch more of The Matrix, plus a mech battle, orgasm cake, Monica Bellucci, & layer upon layer of philosophical subtext, which, while dense, is really rewarding. I'm convinced that anybody who hates the Matrix sequels didn't really delve into the subtext, which is the best part of the overall story. It's challenging, probably too challenging for the average moviegoer. #xmen
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    Image of GodofMonkeys GodofMonkeys
    12:13 PM

    @Dr.Quatermass: Well I suppose there's also... hey! Damn your Quartermass science-trickiness and logic powers! #xmen
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    Image of GodofMonkeys GodofMonkeys
    12:21 PM

    @ingenieur: Fair enough. I would still hate the sequels if I acknowledged them. #xmen
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    Image of SJ_Edwards SJ_Edwards
    10:35 AM

    In reply to Jurassic Park 3 Director Wants His Own Off-Island Dino Trilogy
    Zombie Humans eat Humans,
    Zombie Humans eat all Humans,
    Zombie Humans eat Dinosaurs,
    Zombie Dinosaurs eat Zombie Humans,
    Zombie Dinosaurs eat all Zombie Humans,
    Zombie Dinosaurs go off-island,
    Zombie Dinosaurs eat Zombie Jaws. #jurassicpark
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    Image of twophrasebark twophrasebark
    10:57 AM

    @SJ_Edwards:

    Zombie dinosaurs. That's genius.

    Let's do lunch. #jurassicpark
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    Image of SJ_Edwards SJ_Edwards
    11:22 AM

    @twophrasebark: Tag! You're it! #jurassicpark
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    Image of reddingofish reddingofish
    10:25 AM

    In reply to Aliens Come All The Way From Deep Space To Sink Your Battleship
    I have been trying and trying to think of some sort of plot that could be used with the mixture of Battleship and Aliens and I can't think of any scenario that would work without Sigourney Weaver. #battleship
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