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Jesse Plemons scene
A bit of a dumbed-down mess compared to Part One
Dr. Dre's horrible performance
Pretentious hack
Buscemi needs to write/direct more
Scientology power fantasy
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Damn, dude was a true artist - time to do a bunch of rewatches. RIP
Plenty of bullshit narratives get pushed about Elon which I'll defend him against, but this is pretty cut and dry. Dude is blatantly getting juiced to the gills by one or multiple other people on the account, which would be fine if he didn't give the opposite impression.
No real defense to be had here - it's dishonest and lame. That said, the people waving their arms around about it like it's some gigantic deal are almost equally as lame.
Now if only they could remove his character from the film entirely.
The Batman is "widely considered" to be better than Batman Begins and The Dark Knight? From where are you extracting this information exactly? Your ass?
Correct - although there were definitely some low points, I enjoyed quite a few pre-Endgame Marvel films. With that said though, I don't find myself rewatching them.
There is only evidence of abiogenesis occurring once however, which means it might not be inevitable in similar circumstances. My personal opinion is that life itself is rare, multicellular/complex life is very rare, and intelligent technology-creating life is almost impossibly rare - which would explain the Fermi paradox and why we see no signs of it in the universe.
What justifies such a long wait for a sequel to a movie that was mostly a mediocrity? Are they spending the extra time to actually write a good script? Yeah, I doubt it.
Marvel is utterly pathetic.
The points I've made seem to be totally flying over your head, so I'm not even going to attempt to explain it in a different way.
So now only the intention matters for some reason? If someone intends to write a novel but ends up writing a screenplay of the idea instead, the fact that they intended to write a novel now means that the eventual movie is "unoriginal"? Again, you're not making any sense.
Also, while not entirely relevant to the point here, you're wrong about the details of the screenplay: "Jonathan got the idea for the story from his general psychology class at Georgetown University. He pitched the idea to his brother Christopher during a cross-country road trip from Chicago to Los Angeles. His brother responded to the idea, and encouraged him to write a first draft. After Jonathan returned to Washington, D.C., to finish college, he sent his brother a draft two months later, and Christopher set to work on a screenplay, while Jonathan began finishing the short story."
So, they were working on it simultaneously. This isn't to mention that the screenplay ended up being significantly different than the short story as well, which is similar to what happened with Interstellar - Jonathan wrote the original script, and Chris rewrote it with a multitude of changes. So basically you're implying that not a single thing can be considered "original" if there's even an inkling of inspiration from another source involved. Which is of course, ridiculous.
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