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Pika Pika , anyone ?

Never a fan of Pokémon, but after seeing Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse, and with Ryan Reynolds as Pika, I think I'm in.

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So, post viewing, and it was decent. A few jokes were a bit too on the nose, but it was still cleverly done.

Sorry, but some of Pika's lines were damn near Deadpool , minus the profanity. Could have been me though, as I've seen Deadpool and DP2 so many times.

The movie is obviously loaded w/ Pokémon references and gags, most of which went right over my head.

Reporter girl reminded me of a young Mary Elizabeth Winstead,

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I don't know from pokeman.

Was the reporter Lucy Stevens? She was in 3 Billboards.

I had heard about this, but now you got me interested. Might see it next week after John Wick.

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Pika Pika , anyone ?

Never a fan of Pokémon, but after seeing Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse, and with Ryan Reynolds as Pika, I think I'm in.

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So, post viewing, and it was decent. A few jokes were a bit too on the nose, but it was still cleverly done.

Sorry, but some of Pika's lines were damn near Deadpool , minus the profanity. Could have been me though, as I've seen Deadpool and DP2 so many times.

The movie is obviously loaded w/ Pokémon references and gags, most of which went right over my head.

Reporter girl reminded me of a young Mary Elizabeth Winstead,

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I don't know from pokeman.

Was the reporter Lucy Stevens? She was in 3 Billboards.

I had heard about this, but now you got me interested. Might see it next week after John Wick.

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Yeah, Lucy is the April O'Neil of Pokémon, I assume. ( April if the female reporter who is friends w/ the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.) TMNJ is another franchise which was after my time, and I couldn't care less about, but I find it funny the ' plucky female reporter ' type character appears in both. Any excuse to get a independent , hottish female in the mix for young boys , I guess.

John Wick sounds good, from all accounts, but I've yet to see it. Seems real similar to The Punisher, so I guess that's why I've not gotten around to watching any of those movies.

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I didn't know Laurence Fishburn, the former Mr. Gina Torres, was in John Wick.

Also, I'm guessing the ' Ninja ' in Europe was seen as 'racist' ? Weirdos.


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Also, I'm guessing the ' Ninja ' in Europe was seen as 'racist' ? Weirdos.

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Actually, no. This was the mid 90's though. I could see that happening today.

It was all about "muh violence" back then. It was mostly because of German laws. Video games back then were released in the PAL format instead of the NTSC format that was used in the US and Japan because of the differences in electric to the home in Europe. So the games actually had to have a bit of re-coding done anyhow to make it fit that format, so basically whatever the most oppressive censorship laws were was usually the only version of the game Europe saw. (Oddly enough, the games were rarely ever coded to match the actual speed of the game. Seems Nintendo couldn't be bothered with that since the NES was a very poor seller in Europe. So their games were quite a bit slower and easier than the US and Japan versions).

Don't know if you remember Contra? Nobody in Europe did. Thanks to Germany's law banning all "human" violence in video games, they got "Probotector" instead.



Same game. Same violence. But all the humanoid characters were replaced with robots.

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Pika Pika , anyone ?

Never a fan of Pokémon, but after seeing Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse, and with Ryan Reynolds as Pika, I think I'm in.

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So, post viewing, and it was decent. A few jokes were a bit too on the nose, but it was still cleverly done.

Sorry, but some of Pika's lines were damn near Deadpool , minus the profanity. Could have been me though, as I've seen Deadpool and DP2 so many times.

The movie is obviously loaded w/ Pokémon references and gags, most of which went right over my head.

Reporter girl reminded me of a young Mary Elizabeth Winstead,

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I don't know from pokeman.

Was the reporter Lucy Stevens? She was in 3 Billboards.

I had heard about this, but now you got me interested. Might see it next week after John Wick.

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Yeah, Lucy is the April O'Neil of Pokémon, I assume. ( April if the female reporter who is friends w/ the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.) TMNJ is another franchise which was after my time, and I couldn't care less about, but I find it funny the ' plucky female reporter ' type character appears in both. Any excuse to get a independent , hottish female in the mix for young boys , I guess.

John Wick sounds good, from all accounts, but I've yet to see it. Seems real similar to The Punisher, so I guess that's why I've not gotten around to watching any of those movies.

Next up for me - Godzilla:KOTM
** Tickets already purchased **

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If they truly wanted to make money, they'd go the other way, run counter to the current gestapo tactics, and toss in some Mel Brooks style humor. Remember that ? When Hollywood reveled in being bad and naughty, in the face of perceived Christian morality ? Now we've got a new authoritarian lynch mob, all dressed in Antifa black..

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It's not just Hollywood either. It's every single aspect of the entertainment industry as a whole.

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Who's pumped to see black Ariel?

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But seriously though... what could possibly be in Swift's "ally" song that Lilly Allen didn't already say in "Fuck You Very Much"?

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But seriously though... what could possibly be in Swift's "ally" song that Lilly Allen didn't already say in "Fuck You Very Much"?

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No idea what caused her to make this song, but this has to be well over 10 yrs old, right? Directed @ W ?

He didn't do anything the song claims. His own VP was FOR gay marriage , before Hillary, before Obama, yet we don't get songs attacking them now, do we ?

Man, wtf happened to Lily Allen ? I used to liker a good bit.

But then, this is the same chick who boasted about blowing guys in the bathroom back in HS... super classy.

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But seriously though... what could possibly be in Swift's "ally" song that Lilly Allen didn't already say in "Fuck You Very Much"?

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No idea what caused her to make this song, but this has to be well over 10 yrs old, right? Directed @ W ?

He didn't do anything the song claims. His own VP was FOR gay marriage , before Hillary, before Obama, yet we don't get songs attacking them now, do we ?

Man, wtf happened to Lily Allen ? I used to liker a good bit.

But then, this is the same chick who boasted about blowing guys in the bathroom back in HS... super classy.

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It's probably at least 10 years old. It never occurred to me that it was directed at GWB until you mentioned it. Are you sure about that?

I mean, it could have been, but I don't think the rabid leftists were full fledged SJW against GWB like they dog Trump every day of the week in 2019. There were plenty of legitimate gripes to have about GWB without needing to cry like an idiot baby about 1st world problems incubated on college campuses.

Without knowing anything about the song or about Lily Allen herself besides that song, I just always assumed she wrote it as a literal F You to anybody who did anything she sang about in the song.

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Despite its titular reference to the Caped Crusader, according to NME and Rolling Stone magazines the song is a George W. Bush protest.[4][5] At a concert of 2 April 2009 at the Wiltern Theatre in Los Angeles, Allen stated that the song was about Bush.[4] At a concert in São Paulo, Brazil, Allen stated, "It was originally written about this fucking arsehole who used to be the President of the United States of America. His name is George W. Bush."[6]

The Urban Review states that it was originally inspired by the far-right British National Party, adding Allen now "feels the track is relevant everywhere now so has removed a particular target."[7] At the 2009 Glastonbury Festival prior to performing the song, Allen made reference to the elections to the European parliament that had commenced three weeks earlier in which the British National Party gained their first ever representative seats, citing this as a reason to sing the song.[7]

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Although... I do seem to recall a certain promise he made to get re-elected that had to do with making a Constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage.

That's one that I was against. If for no other single reason that it would have been immediately overturned by the next president once he was out of office and it would have been another scar on the Constitution.

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Although... I do seem to recall a certain promise he made to get re-elected that had to do with making a Constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage.

That's one that I was against. If for no other single reason that it would have been immediately overturned by the next president once he was out of office and it would have been another scar on the Constitution.

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Well, he did get re-elected, and that amendment never got close to passing. Which is funny, because at that time Obama and Hillary were firmly AGAINST gay marriage, while Dick Cheney, W's own VP ? ) , was actually for it. Fast forward to right after Obama's re-election, and who was it that told the world the Obama admin was for gay marriage ? It was HIS VP, Joe Biden.

And the world ( and Lily Allen ) sees W as the bad guy here, while Obama and company are freaking saints. And they had nothing to do with gay marriage becoming legal, but hell yeah, they reap all the benefits from the gay mafia.

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A source close to the project states “Her team are elated and are open to discussions as they see major potential in her being tied to a movie like the Matrix. It’d be a win-win for all.”

I bet that's what they told everybody who was in the recent Men In Black movie.

I know it's what they told Kristianna Loken for her role in Terminator 3. Besides a few roles in some so bad they're good flicks by Uwe Boll, I couldn't tell you anything she's been in since then. Shame too, since she was one of the most beautiful women in Hollywood.

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A source close to the project states “Her team are elated and are open to discussions as they see major potential in her being tied to a movie like the Matrix. It’d be a win-win for all.”

I bet that's what they told everybody who was in the recent Men In Black movie.

I know it's what they told Kristianna Loken for her role in Terminator 3. Besides a few roles in some so bad they're good flicks by Uwe Boll, I couldn't tell you anything she's been in since then. Shame too, since she was one of the most beautiful women in Hollywood.

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Aww, geez. I just mentioned Rihanna as a random female black person for a franchise to pivot to. I was not seriously expecting her to be related to the project.

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A source close to the project states “Her team are elated and are open to discussions as they see major potential in her being tied to a movie like the Matrix. It’d be a win-win for all.”

I bet that's what they told everybody who was in the recent Men In Black movie.

I know it's what they told Kristianna Loken for her role in Terminator 3. Besides a few roles in some so bad they're good flicks by Uwe Boll, I couldn't tell you anything she's been in since then. Shame too, since she was one of the most beautiful women in Hollywood.

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Aww, geez. I just mentioned Rihanna as a random female black person for a franchise to pivot to. I was not seriously expecting her to be related to the project.

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HAHA!!! That... is... HILARIOUS!!!!!

Seriously man, when you said it I had to look it up. As you know, I don't follow much of any of the new stuff at all and barely even watch anything when it comes out anymore. So it was no surprise to me when I found that article after you said something about it.

But what an unexpected punchline for you to come right back and say that it was just an offhanded joke and not something that you already read about.


Predictable much in your cultural appropriation Hollywood?

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Did you really, or was that a joke?

I can't imagine you'd be working in the same culture as the good old days. My cousin works there, and god love her, but she's a bleedin' heart white apologist liberal. You'd be better off starting your own magazine, yanno, if you want to actually write funny stuff.

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Did you really, or was that a joke?

I can't imagine you'd be working in the same culture as the good old days. My cousin works there, and god love her, but she's a bleedin' heart white apologist liberal. You'd be better off starting your own magazine, yanno, if you want to actually write funny stuff.

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I assume you mean she works in Denver, or wherever they are now.

I was a contributor when it started, in Madison.

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