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1  Other / Beginners & Help / One of the difficult things on: December 06, 2013, 12:49:21 PM
One of the difficult things

Watch The Conjuring Online Here’s a not even close to complete list of the questions people have obsessively been asking… Is she too short? Is she too thin? Is she the right version of ethnic? How will she look in the suit? Is her hair the right color? Is her hair too thin? Can she stare down Batman and Superman without looking ridiculous? How will she fill out the suit? Is she a good enough actress? Is she famous enough? Are her shoulders broad enough?

Watch 12 Years A Slave Online You may notice a lot of those questions have to do with Wonder Woman’s body. Other outlets certainly did, and as a result, the Internet is now being flooded with commentaries about why talking about people’s bodies is never acceptable in any form. Apparently, if you’re really nervous about Gadot only being 5’9" or you think she looks too slender to play the typically broad-shouldered Wonder Woman, you’re a part of the problem and you may well also be a sexist.

Watch Carrie Online Let’s all take a step back and have a common sense conversation here for a second. Is making someone feel bad about the way his or her body looks a low class move? Yes, it is. We should be actively encouraging people to be happy and confident in their own shapes, especially when they're not at risk for health problems because of it. But there is a gigantic difference between arguing over whether someone looks enough like a beloved character and making a snarky comment about someone’s eating habits.

Watch The Hunger Games 2 Online Damn near every single person on the Internet with eyes thinks Gal Gadot is hot. There are entire articles devoted to her hotness. No one is telling her to gain weight or lose weight or not be happy with herself for how she looks on a day-by-day basis. She's already got that down. Instead, hardcore comic book fans are wondering whether or not that very pleasant appearance is right for a character they’ve come to love. In fact, this same goddamn argument has been happening on repeat with slight variations since the Internet began, particularly when it comes to comic book characters.

Watch Thor 2 Online Remember Brandon Routh? For awhile the Internet was worried about, of all things, his dick being too big to play Superman. Remember Ben Affleck? People are still bitching about how he’s apparently too cuddly looking for the Caped Crusader. People care about comic books and superheroes in an obsessive way, and because they’re fans of different incarnations of the characters, it only makes sense they’d want to see a portrayal that matches the one in their mind. How could that be wrong?

Watch The Hunger Games Catching Fire Online And if it is, where do we draw the line? Is it okay to bitch if Bobby Moynihan is cast as Hercules? What about if Keira Knightley is cast as Mama Cass Elliott? What about if Freddie Highmore is cast as Shaft? Or is it our right as fans to judge the appearance, the acting ability and various intangible factors to make a personal decision as to whether we think someone is right for a particular role? I don't know about you, but I kind of like sharing my honest thoughts as a supporter of a franchise without being called names.

Watch Thor The Dark World Online What do you think of this news? Are you excited that the Age of Apocalypse storyline might be getting played out on the big screen? Answer our poll, tell us what you're thinking in the comments and check out the trailer for X-Men: Days of Future Past below.

Finally there’s the softer side of the story that sees Peter’s relationship with Gwen Stacy (Stone) develop. In the video the actress says that the character is graduating from high school and potentially looking at going to college in Oxford – which would, of course, take her far away from Peter and his duties in New York. Before that can happen, however, the director teases that her relationship with a superhero might have some serious consequences for her:
"One of the difficult things that Spider-Man and Peter Parker have to face is that the people he loves are often put into danger. And that’s one of the brutal, difficult ways that Spider-Man’s adversaries can attack Spider-Man, by attacking the ones he loves. So she may be in danger from time to time, we’ll see."


2  Other / Beginners & Help / Starbound is the grand adventure on: December 06, 2013, 12:42:03 PM
Starbound is the grand adventure

Watch Frozen Online Many gamers have hailed Starbound as Terraria 2.0 or Terraria In Space, and that's essentially what the game is. Being able to venture around, sharing experiences with friends and unknowns alike is a pretty awesome thing. The absolute scale and scope of the thing is what's so impressive... the fact that your journey can be contained to a small, singular planet or expand to the far reaches of space is just an awesome thing to even consider as a play experience.

Watch Thor The Dark World Online Here's hoping to the beta rolling out smoothly enough that the game will at least live up to the expectations in some way. The team is sending out Steam keys soon, and many of you who pre-ordered should have received your keys from the Humble Bundle by now. It's also available on Steam's Early Access page. No word yet on the PS Vit and PS4 version, but they could be arriving soon after the PC beta gets stabilized, hopefully.

Watch The Hunger Games 2 Online I get the feeling that Starbound could easily be one of the biggest sleeper hits this generation with a little tender, love and care from the developers. The only emergent indie game we need out on the market now is the DayZ standalone alpha, and then life will be complete for hipsters the world around.

Watch The Best Man Holiday Online In recent years we've seen double Truman Capote movies, double fuck buddy movies, double Snow White movies and double "Die Hard in the White House" movies, but now it's time to prepare for double Jungle Book movies. Following news from last month that Disney has hired director Jon Favreau to helm a new adaptation of Rudyard Kipling's famous book, Variety is now reporting that Warner Bros. is developing a version of their own. What's more, they're now in talks with Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu to direct.

Watch Out of the Furnace Online The feature would be the first tent pole project for Inarritu, who has spent most of his career making crushing, bleak dramas like 21 Grams, Biutiful, Babel and Amores Perros. The new feature will bring to life the most famous story from Kipling's collection and tell the tale of Mowgli the orphan jungle boy who must face off against the evil tiger Shere-Khan. There have been many adaptations before, but the two most recognized and popular today are probably the Disney animated version from 1967:

Watch Inside Llewyn Davis Online Scott Cooper didn’t mess around when it came to constructing the tone of his new film Out of the Furnace. From the very first scene – which features Woody Harrelson’s character verbally and physically abusing his girlfriend at a drive-in movie – the movie envelops the audience in an incredibly dark world and doesn’t let go until you’re well on your way home from the theater. And that was exactly what the director was going for.

Watch Last Vegas Online ChuckleFish has launched the beta for Starbound today and the team has let loose an amazing new beta trailer that details some of the space travel, the action, the adventure and some of the social aspects that could make just about any gamer fall in love with what Starbound has to offer. The game is a glorious, expansive side-scrolling RPG that takes gamers across the great expanse of a procedurally generated universe. You can relive Star Trek fantasies with friends, making up your own Kirk, Spock and McCoy. You can strap up your britches, grab your pulse rifles and go alien hunting like a James Cameron sequel that never was. You and your friends can settle on a planet, build farm houses on the far reaches of a star dust farm while you watch the many moons of an adjacent planet circle your abode. You can finally catch star beams glittering across the stratosphere of a planet that many would have thought was a moment trapped in a fading memory that would dissolve like tears in the rain.

Simply put: Starbound is the grand adventure game many role-playing fans have been waiting for. Players can customize their character, acquire unique armor and clothes, scavenge through ruins, dig deep tunnels across unknown worlds and develop, craft and scavenge procedurally generated weapons and gear.
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