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22 hours ago, azrael said:

For you theater-goers.

AMC now warns moviegoers to expect ‘25-30 minutes’ of ads and trailers

Maybe it's a blessing-in-disguise that I have less time to go to theaters these days. 

Can confirm. At least twenty minutes of commercials BEFORE the trailers even start. UGH!!

I like Glen Powell - and also the Running Man, so I hope this turn out good.

If they are giving us another 'Martian,' but now with aliens - I'm in!!

On 3/18/2025 at 2:26 AM, ChristopherB said:

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Hey, that looks great!

1 hour ago, Big s said:

I still kinda like the Ghost in the Shell movie, although that’s a bit flawed as well, and the Battle Angel Allita movie might be the best I’ve seen. I wouldn’t pick either of those over their anime adaptations though, but those are probably the best examples, although I also don’t think they were super successful at the box office.

I haven't watch either anime originals of GitS or ABA, but I really liked both movies on their own merit. Still awaiting that sequel to Alita...

Oh dear Gawd, why?!?! His last few Transformers movies (ie all of them) were so full of infantile, over the top crap that it's a wonder anyone would give him another franchise to wreck. Or further wreck. Can you wreck a wreck..? Wreck on a wreck!? The only good one to come out of the franchise was Bumblebee and that wasn't even directed by him. I recall seeing that and thinking that, finally, it had turned away from his idiotic corner, but I guess whether someone has talent or not doesn't matter.

Unless it is 980° from anything else he has ever made, this is probably something I will not watch for free. In fact, I will pay myself not to watch it.

Never interested in the anime, but having it go back to the original publisher could be the best thing. I think it would do better in the smaller Japanese market where there would be far more of a fan-base. Bringing it over here just got it lost amid the Hollywood Shuffle. Plus, if it was made here, you'd probably have another Ghost in the Shell, with its divisive reception. 

Good looking work on the stand @pengbuzz.

I fully agree with that. Don't rush it and concentrate on getting it right.

It was a good popcorn flick to coast through a few lazy hours on. Not great, but good and enjoyable. Plus, I watched it at home where I had better popcorn and cold Coca Cola from the fridge rather than the Pepsi-crap at the theater. 

And Shira Haas... I'd be taken by that Widow!

Don't need a final trailer, already going to see it!

15 hours ago, jvmacross said:

If you have some time to kill....

https://www.starwars.com/star-wars-galaxy-map

Looking at that map, I can only hazard to say - that light speed is too slow...

And clearly they did a long and deep deep dive into all things Star Wars. Very cool!

Watched the live action How to Train Your Dragon, and I enjoyed it just as much as the animated. They kept right close to the original and managed to deepen a few scenes which, if you are going to do a remake, you should anyway, otherwise just make your own movie. It doesn't hurt that the writer/director is the same for both. Really hoped talks of the other two sequels getting the same treatment comes through. 

On 4/18/2025 at 12:51 PM, Tking22 said:

I still don't get how anything other then freshly turned infected can still be alive, unless they evolved to learn the concept of self-preservation these things all should've starved off in the first couple of months at most. The only ones running around should be freshly turned, to which, if older ones should've been long dead how are more people getting freshly infected to keep the population of relevant-threat infected up? These are infected people, not the undead, or zombies, they need to eat, sleep, drink, and they can catch diseases and die.

I'm sure it'll be a fun, tense film, but the idea this virus and outbreak lasted this long makes absolutely zero sense if you think about it at all. That one in the trailer that everyone thought was Cillian's character from the first movie is a solid example, how old can that frakker be? It's clearly not a threat, but I'd imagine the vast majority of these things should be in that condition, or once again, long died off. 

They showed that at the end of the first movie. The infected were dying because they weren't taking care of themselves, or at least that was how I took it. I do prefer the first movie as a one and done. Perfect as is.

Luisa Guerreiro plays Toxie in the full make-up. Like Lou Ferrigno played the alternate version of the Hulk. It's possible, due to his stature, Dinkalge could not do the full physical performance.(?)

Macross Qaurters in the background, so we better get a good scale Quarter!

I don't have that patience!Great looking job and well worth it.

4 hours ago, pengbuzz said:

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If anyone needs me, I'm going to go find a nice deep coal mine or something to crawl into and take the elevator down. And load 16 tons...

Glad you're not binning the model. Decals can be fixed/replaced. The frustration though...

Fantastic progress! I did something similar (paint/decals) with a 1/72 VF-25.

and P.S. welcome to the board!!

According to the press release, the film has been described by those who have not yet read the script as "A Non-Prequel Non-Reboot Sequel Part Two but with Reboot Elements Franchise Expansion Film".

Just figure/shape looks really good on all of those!

7 hours ago, pengbuzz said:

It looks like it will be so bad, that even if they show it on a plane as the in-flight movie, people will still walk out on it! O.o

@Papa Rat Shrink marks are just immature dents. 

8 minutes ago, SteveTheFish said:

I've seen several mentions of IPMS. I attended one meeting in the Chandler, AZ area in 2011, the year before I moved back to Japan. I found that the atmosphere there was not very friendly towards sci-fi modeling, as if it wasn't respected as a legitimate form of modeling. Do you guys get flack for being Macross modelers? I've heard that it's pretty hit-and-miss, depending on who's running the local chapter. Some are welcoming of SF modeling while others treat such subjects with disdain.

I'm not terribly social at model shows, but I've never heard a bad word about our beloved Sci Fi. 

5 hours ago, Big s said:

Don’t forget about the booty cheeks

I'm seeing too much man-booty cheeks!

For the AI-era, at least one hand needed to have six fingers.

I really hope this is as funny as I hope it is!