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Reynolds Will Give You The Fourth-Wall-Breaking Deadpool You Deserve

92BuickLeSabre — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 10:14:53 PDT

@Don't Make Me Ang Lee: Okay, but when did you come upon that realization? It totally was Van Wilder wasn't it.

@crashedpc: And yet between Reynolds and our new Director of Public Communicating of the Government Awesome Yo, Kal Penn - it seems to have been some kind of crass humor plus magic.

92BuickLeSabre

New Torchwood Is Still Torchwood

dodongo_dislikes_smoke — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 10:14:43 PDT

@alphanumeric1971:
The space whale fulfilled the "we're the real monsters" plot quotient. Now the celluloid circus ghosts...

dodongo_dislikes_smoke

Reynolds Will Give You The Fourth-Wall-Breaking Deadpool You Deserve

redqueenmeg — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 10:14:01 PDT

@92BuickLeSabre: I feel kind of left out too, but that's OK. I think a sixpack is much more easily achievable than a good sense of humor or an interesting brain, so I'll focus on that in my leading guys. :)

redqueenmeg

Reynolds Will Give You The Fourth-Wall-Breaking Deadpool You Deserve

redqueenmeg — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 10:13:22 PDT

@Don't Make Me Ang Lee. You wouldn't like me when I'm Ang Le...: OK, I might watch that also.

redqueenmeg

Reynolds Will Give You The Fourth-Wall-Breaking Deadpool You Deserve

Save me — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 10:09:07 PDT

@jccalhoun: Its the sort of thing you see with the majority of people saying Beyonce is an amazing singer while the music elitist say mainstream music sucks.

It's all depending on the level of exposure on the material or the alternatives really.

Save me

Does Watchmen's Leak Matter?

darkmoonfirelyte — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 10:08:55 PDT

@Perhaps Not:

In all reality, no movie makes money off the box office (except for your rare Titanic or Dark Knight). I've seen more than a few articles that show the math behind the numbers, and in reality a studio is lucky to see a 1/4 of the "profit" it makes off a movie, after theaters, production, advertising, et all.

Studios want good numbers because good numbers mean guaranteed DVD sales. There's less of a guarantee with a movie that flops, but on the flip 180 mil in B.O. revenue means that more than a few people are likely to buy the flick.

It's not a failure. It's certainly not a great movie, but it's not a failure.

darkmoonfirelyte

Reynolds Will Give You The Fourth-Wall-Breaking Deadpool You Deserve

Corz — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 10:08:03 PDT

@jccalhoun: If you're a comic book nerd, you wouldn't have mentioned the "movie"

Corz

Eureka And Warehouse 13, Plus Another Meteor TV Movie

Fanboy185 — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 10:07:48 PDT

Now, why describe Warehouse 13 as G-rated? X-Files wasn't exactly an R with neither star ever showing much skin or getting laid. Which may have only just turned us all on all the more (See: Cole Porter). The new show is working with SyFy's avoidance of R-rated material while simultaneously aiming for the 12-17 year-old male hormone-drenched demographic. Prolly just result in an awful lot of fan porn-fic. Hope it isn't all horrible.

Fanboy185

Your Spike/Angel Slash Just Became Canon (Kinda)

acrobatic rabbit — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 10:07:40 PDT

@bonniegrrl: a zombie unicron with pink hooves who speaks Latin?!?? because that would be .. uh .. weird. ..

acrobatic rabbit

Reynolds Will Give You The Fourth-Wall-Breaking Deadpool You Deserve

Don't Make Me Ang Lee. You wouldn't like me when I'm Ang Lee. — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 10:07:31 PDT

@redqueenmeg: maybe just as weird as I am for giving Reynolds the same status that Kevin Smith gives Ben Affleck, i.e. If there was a remake of Jaws, I say put Reynolds in the shark suit, I'll watch it.

Don't Make Me Ang Lee. You wouldn't like me when I'm Ang Lee.

Reynolds Will Give You The Fourth-Wall-Breaking Deadpool You Deserve

Davio — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 10:06:35 PDT

@jccalhoun:

I believe you'll find thats one of the reasons people didn't like the movie...

Davio

There Is No Happily Ever After In Fallen Princesses

bobbydigital20g — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 10:05:05 PDT

@blatanville: Sonne. One of my fav Ram videos

bobbydigital20g

Reynolds Will Give You The Fourth-Wall-Breaking Deadpool You Deserve

crashedpc : ゴキブリ and 蟑螂 division — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 10:05:05 PDT

@jccalhoun: *backs away slowly* I don't intend to get any flame on me, thanks.

crashedpc : ゴキブリ and 蟑螂 division

Reynolds Will Give You The Fourth-Wall-Breaking Deadpool You Deserve

crashedpc : ゴキブリ and 蟑螂 division — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 10:04:37 PDT

@92BuickLeSabre: "FUCK YOU VAN WILDER!"

Ahh... crass humor.

crashedpc : ゴキブリ and 蟑螂 division

Your Spike/Angel Slash Just Became Canon (Kinda)

acrobatic rabbit — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 10:04:20 PDT

@templepriest: could have been a simultaneous Sproing.

acrobatic rabbit

Reynolds Will Give You The Fourth-Wall-Breaking Deadpool You Deserve

crashedpc : ゴキブリ and 蟑螂 division — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 10:04:11 PDT

@Dead Air ummm Dead Air: RAAAAAAAAAAWR!!!

crashedpc : ゴキブリ and 蟑螂 division

Reynolds Will Give You The Fourth-Wall-Breaking Deadpool You Deserve

92BuickLeSabre — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 10:03:34 PDT

@redqueenmeg: I don't get it at all.

One day he was just that remarkably unfunny guy on that remarkably unfunny show Two Guys, A Girl and a Pizza Place, similar to a thousand other C-list actors. The next day he was some A-list HottieMcHottie that everyone seemed to have collectively agreed was a movie star.

I feel like I missed some huge step in between, and I'm pretty sure it wasn't Van Wilder.

92BuickLeSabre

Your Spike/Angel Slash Just Became Canon (Kinda)

acrobatic rabbit — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 10:03:17 PDT

@Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.: haha, i'm totally digging the slouch and the sound effects.

and in all honestly, Spike and Angel is kinda hot. Even though in the show I thought Buffy and Spike was kind of hot in a really disturbing kind of way.

acrobatic rabbit

American Flagg's Retrofuture Still Ahead Of Its Time

jccalhoun — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 10:03:13 PDT

I wasn't all that crazy about the actual storyline of American Flagg. However, the art was awesome. Remember that all this was before photoshop so when he did "cut and paste" he really did cut and paste the art.

Sadly, Chaykin hasn't really done anything great in recent years.

jccalhoun

The Following Preview Has Been Rated D... For Disaster

palinode — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 10:01:58 PDT

In honour of this post I will now get up and walk around downtown screaming "WHOLE CITY DISASTER!" and making bongo noises.

palinode

Does Watchmen's Leak Matter?

zerofritz — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 10:01:02 PDT

@goldfarb: @Perhaps Not: Hmm. learn something every day. thanks!

zerofritz

Reynolds Will Give You The Fourth-Wall-Breaking Deadpool You Deserve

redqueenmeg — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 09:59:27 PDT

@Corz: I guess I'll have to see; I don't really get his appeal and so far all anyone's really been able to tell me is OMG SIXPACK which doesn't really do it for me.

redqueenmeg

Reynolds Will Give You The Fourth-Wall-Breaking Deadpool You Deserve

jccalhoun — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 09:59:11 PDT

Why do people care about this so much? I'm a comic book nerd but I have no interest in Deadpool at all. And in the movie he didn't do much. Blob had more character than Deadpool.

jccalhoun

American Flagg's Retrofuture Still Ahead Of Its Time

BullfightsOnAcid — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 09:58:33 PDT

As a young boy I only read superhero comics from the Big 2 but somebody recommended American Flagg from First Comics to me. It completely changed my world. I had never read anything so sexy and smart. It was so layered that I would reread an issue and see several things that I hadn't noticed before. At a comic convention once I asked Howard Chaykin if he would ever return to American Flagg. He made a face like he is asked that question all the time (which I'm sure he is) and he basically said no. I know it would be almost impossible to capture lightning in a bottle once again but I'd like to see him try again.

BullfightsOnAcid

Reynolds Will Give You The Fourth-Wall-Breaking Deadpool You Deserve

Ronan Patterson — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 09:56:28 PDT

@Palmerlime:
Maybe it's just a bad character?

Ronan Patterson