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  1. myk
    I was a teenager during the days that 21 JS was a t.v. series, and I always believed this show was important because it covered a lot of issues that teenagers had to face and that their parents refused to address; violence, death, rape, preganancy, narcotics, broken families, or D: ALL OF THE ABOVE. The fact that 21 JS was then converted into a completely unfunny movie with two leads who have the same amount of charisma and chemistry as two pet rocks just insults the great thing that 21 JS was back-in-the-day. I will say of this retro-resurrection the same thing that I decree for all others: if it came from the 80's, and possibly the 90's, it's better just to leave it there...
  2. myk
    With those numbers (for laptops and t.v.'s) it looks to me as if we've become accustomed to failure with electronic devices. It's not as if we have the capability to live "without" these devices, so we cry and complain but ultimately allow these products to shove their brand of pacifier in our mouths and move onward...
  3. myk
    Part of me misses those days, lack of intrawebz and all...
  4. myk
    There are all kinds of ways they could run with sidestories. Again I think it'd be a good way for the series to prevent becoming Walker-stale and even give us more of a Walking Dead universe to contemplate. Hell I would LOVE to see a sidestory based on Dr. Jenner from season 1...
  5. myk
    Good God you're right. I don't think the concept of the internet even qualified as a random thought with potential, back then..
  6. myk
    I hope he does. You know, maybe they can take another break from Rick and the prison gang and do a couple episodes covering Morgan and his experiences after he and Rick parted ways. That'd be a good way to keep the series from being as rotten as its walkers...
  7. myk
    Morgan? Yeah what a sad fate to befall someone. I don't know if I'd rather be dead or alive as the "last man alive" in a dead city...
  8. myk
    I picked up 'Rivals for my PS4 and..I don't think any other launch title has ever put me to sleep...
  9. myk
    I absolutely LOVE the break from 'ol Rick and the prison gang, and I LOVE the direction they're taking the Governor character into. "Bad guys" will always be more interesting than good guys, and a story that shows a relatively evil character going through his own motions is intriguing. I'm actually looking forward to watching the next episode again...
  10. myk
    Seriously? Well then they better not frak the ending up...
  11. myk
    Nothing news-worthy here, just typical launch-system blues. Curious, did the much simpler N64 have teething problems when it was launched back in the 90's?
  12. myk
    Looking forward to this; I can't wait to see what outfits that juicy Jennifer Lawrence is going to be squeezing herself into...
  13. myk
    If there's discussion about New York in the t.v. show you'll have to excuse me as I haven't seen it. Then again, it's just "talk," and talk is cheap. What about these "consequences" that everyone keeps harping about? I will grant you guys that Stark had to deal with PTSD in Ironman 3, but unless I'm misunderstanding everyone here there's still no instance of consequences in the form of public scrutiny brought directly upon the heads of the Avengers, Superman, etc. The PTSD is a "personal issue" as far as I'm concerned. Again, I really think the idea of "consequences" is a small point; VALID, for sure, but small IMO...
  14. myk
    So are you telling me that the Avengers answered for the destruction that they caused? Did Tony Stark "answer for it" in Iron Man 3? Did Thor "answer for it" in Thor 2? Those movies and others like them of course being nothing but filler between Avenger movies? Let's not forget there was also mass-destruction in those two movies as well but neither Stark or Thor faced any consequences for the destruction that they helped to cause YET AGAIN. Did YOU watch the clip? It doesn't MATTER what the politician or what anyone else says because NONE of the Avengers or any of the members of SHIELD were brought under scrutiny or trial for what happened! There was NO justice brought upon by anyone for the destruction of the city. I'm guessing that the point that you keep trying to make is that you wanted someone in MOS to at least "comment" on the destruction that happened in the movie? Because there certainly weren't any repercussions or punishment on the heroes in either the Avengers, Thor or Ironman. I'll agree there were some "comments" though. Clearly you and I see these movies VERY differently and we're just going to butt heads at this point...
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    All the stuff you listed is inferred from what "probably" happened; there's no proof or canon that shows any of the things that you listed outside of what we saw in the movie. Again, untold destruction in both movies and no one seemed to really give a frak-certainly not me...
  16. myk
    That touching montage at the end doesn't count; that news clip shows the "people" recovering; it doesn't show the Avengers being held accountable or holding themselves accountable for the destruction they've caused, or contemplating the meaning of the insane battle that just happened. The Avengers, like Kal, just wiped their hands clean and flew off into the credits. I'm not denying that MOS doesn't have faults, or didn't miss the things that you mentioned; I will agree with you on that point, I just don't see the idea of consequences in the movie as being all that....consequential...
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    That's ONE instance brother, and it was set up just to show how noble Steve Rogers is, because quite frankly he's worthless otherwise. I can think of two instances off of the top of my head in MOS where Superman actively saved humans that may have been affected by his "super" battle. Ultimately, a scorecard tallying human "saves" is irrelevant; I see NO difference between the Avenger's battle and Kal's. BOTH fought to stop a threat that would have killed that much more if it had gone unabated, and both the Avengers and Kal flew off into the sunset without nary a thought to the carnage that they both caused. Were there casualties? Yes. Could they have been avoided? No! How do you stop a battle between super-beings from taking bystander-casualties? When you consider that Kal and Zod are capable of flying at the speed of sound does anyone actually believe that it's possible to "take the fight away" from innocent bystanders? Question: would all of you have been satisfied if Kal sat down on the highest mountain in the world at the end of the movie and cried about all of the stuff he broke and the people that might have gotten hurt during his battle?
  18. myk
    Maybe I missed it, but how did the Avengers "address" the deaths of civilians in New York or anywhere else in the movie? You mean the part where Bruce Banner comically rides up on a motor cycle and says, "....so, this all looks.......HORRIBLE?" with a slight smile on his face? The Avengers rode off into the sunset, all smiles and sexy outfits, cool cars and digesting shwarma at the end of the movie. Someone even asked where the Avengers were after the battle in New York, but there was no soul-searching, consequences or coming to terms with the destruction that they were a part of making. Furthermore, I'm sorry if you see Kal's "moping" to be all about nothing in the movie; his internal conflict was very clear, and it is something that I'm sure most of us have had to wrestle with for much of our lives. If you don't care to acknowledge it and just write it off as moping about nothing then that's your choice. I appreciate what you outlined above as a preferred way to carry out the movie, but Superman and the Avengers aren't the only franchises to completely ignore the casualties they've caused, leaving that question unanswered. Personally, I can't readily think of one single movie or story that takes significant time to process the damage and casualties that have been caused, whether it was between Isamu and Guld's city battle back in the 90's or Man of Steel today. Quite frankly, the idea of civilian casualties is a non-issue IMO; they're not really essential to most stories, and certainly not the ones we're discussing now. Man of Steel really bothers you, doesn't it?
  19. myk
    And let's not forget that Zod was determined to extract the Codex from Kal-El's body; I honestly don't think that Kal would've allowed that to happen unless he was dead...
  20. myk
    I don't understand the criticism of Superman killing Zod. How else was that plot point supposed to resolve itself? Superman and Zod had fundamental, polar opposite views and plans for Earth; one of them had to die and could realistically be only killed by the other Kryptonian. I also contend that the unpopular decision to battle in the city makes no sense; where were Superman and Zod supposed to fight, if not in a city? Should they have signed up to be featured as an attraction in a UFC/MMA event to settle their fatal differences? Should they have fought in empty space? That doesn't sound particularly exciting or engaging, IMO. Also, comparing Avengers and Superman is akin to comparing Valkyries and Gundams, apples and oranges, as they are written as two completely different styles of storytelling; one is a tongue-in-cheek adventure/romp featuring a motley crew, the other is intended to be a soulful (albeit brooding and whiny) introduction of a highly conflicted, isolated and misunderstood superbeing. BOTH movies are solid examples of what they were supposed to be, IMO...
  21. myk
    I knew I should've picked up that damn camera and the stand (?) for it. Anyway you should talk to Mike Z about your 2nd PS4; I'm sure he'd take it off your hands. Just before the changing of the guard:
  22. myk
    There's a group of idiots who do that on the launch days of whatever "must-have" device is making a debut...
  23. myk
    Launches like the PS4's typically have problems but I think it's the lack of service and sympathy from Sony that's got everyone riled up. People everywhere, myself included, need to learn how to just ignore launch-day mania; there's nothing good to be had out of it, no games, no accessories, just potential teething issues like the ones that are surfacing. Come to think of it, I don't even know if MY PS4 works. Edit: Gotta love the geeks who are justifiably crying about their broken PS4's, but then stamping their feet and proclaiming they're going to run out and buy the Xbox instead. Right, because Xbox never had any teething issues with any of their consoles right? Funny how the public just loves to forget stuff...
  24. myk
    Getting it tonight, tomorrow morning at the latest. Edit: Alright, despite the Best Buy people calling me a "major downer" when I picked up my system (what did they expect-for me to jump up and down and roll on the ground, hugging my system while crying tears of utter joy?), I'm genuinely curious to see what this machine and NFS will do for me on my big screen and sound system. But first, back to some BattleStar Galactica...
  25. myk
    CoD:G's single player campaign can't be any different than the previous iterations; run, gun, watch ridiculously over-the-top cut scenes. I AM intrigued about the idea of playing as a dog, though...
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