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So That's What Idris Elba Looks Like In PACIFIC RIM...
The Kidd here...
Boom goes the dynamite...
Tell me that's not one seriously fuckin' bad-ass suit right there...
That's the first look at Elba we're getting from PACIFIC RIM, courtesy of Total Film (via Movie Hole).
Everything I've been hearing on the film has gone along these same lines - "It's gonna blow you away." So fingers crossed that holds up. But at least we're off to a good start.
-Billy Donnelly
"The Infamous Billy The Kidd"
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Away!
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Can't wait.
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Who cares if he was in Thor? Chris Evans was the Torch before he was Captain America.
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They should cast him. Besides it doesn't make any sense to have African (or Asian) Norse gods, no matter how cool he (they) looked.
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Damn right!
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June 8, 2012, 1:01 p.m. CST
Idris Elba is the coolest and arguably most talented actor working today. I could watch him in anything. But Chiwetel Ejiofor is the best pick for Black Panther.
by The Krypton Kid
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June 8, 2012, 1:02 p.m. CST
If this film delivers at all it should make some serious money.
by Hellstrom
Its essentially Godzilla vs. The Transformers, right? (I would've said "Shogun Warriors" but thats too dated, I think.) If it can deliver on that it should be a summer movie no-brainer.
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June 8, 2012, 1:02 p.m. CST
Neonfrisbee: Because everything else in Thor made perfect sense?
by heylookoverthere
just sayin
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Looks very similar to the suits in the video game series Crysis. I was sold on this movie from the synopsis alone, can't wait to see more now. Idris Elba definitely needs to blow up, he deserves it. Black Panther would be a great step towards that.
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WHERE THE FUCK IS WALLACE.
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I'm sold. Fuck it, he can even be Black Panther if he wants.
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Did they worship Norse Gods in Africa? In Asia? Nope. But, yeah, I getcha.
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My first reaction was that was what the Black Panther outfit would look like if Mark Steven Johnson directed.
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yo, string, where's wallace at?
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June 8, 2012, 1:47 p.m. CST
Now show me what Rinko Kikuchi is going to wear in this thing
by Terrence
And it better be tight.
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June 8, 2012, 1:47 p.m. CST
Note to Samuel L Jackson: Idris Elba is the new King of Cool and this picture rests my case
by marshallwtoneil
Mother humper!
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...he DOES look like a mecha pilot to me. I love the details on the suit and the helmet looks good as well. Ebla is a natural badass, so let's say that everything is cool with the picture.
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... 'Cause that's what it looks like. I hope movie theaters projection equipment will be upgraded enough to run it smoothly ...
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June 8, 2012, 1:49 p.m. CST
Have high hopes for this... my inner 12 year old is going loco. :)
by Farrokh
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Fool me once...
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June 8, 2012, 2:12 p.m. CST
Well they were aliens who at one point were worshiped as gods by the Norse people, right?
by heylookoverthere
Maybe they just never let the minorities visit earth. Maybe over time the humans who passed down the legends of them altered them to look more like themselves. I dunno.
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Thank you! I was afraid I was the only one who was seeing it.
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June 8, 2012, 2:17 p.m. CST
neonfrisbee - The Asgardians in the Marvel movie (and universe) are neither Nordic nor Gods...
by Kai_Mah'gra
They're an alien race (who could conceivably have as wide a variation in their races as humans do). This was pointed out repeatedly during the movie. What was so hard about that to understand? You and the 'Nick-Fury-should-be-white" crowd should get off whatever trip it is that you're on and get that stick out of your butts and enjoy the movie for what it is. Besides which, you're willing to suspend your belief enough to accept a man (or alien, if you may) with a hammer that can summon lightning and use to fly as well as which gives him general superpowers, but they have a black (or asian) alien and it all falls apart for you? Seriously?
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at least in the Marvel Universe. Odin, Thor and company are extra-dimensional beings weilding great energies. The Vikings etc mistook them for gods and built legends around them. Beings from other dimensions were similarly worhipped, so African, Hindu, etc can all exist, and do in the MU.
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June 8, 2012, 2:22 p.m. CST
tylerzero - it's definitely not fitting (the codpiece, that is)
by Kai_Mah'gra
I would imagine it's a rather tight fit with some CGI clean-up in post-production.
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a great, underapprecated show and characters. He's like a black, crime fighting DR. House. He would make a great Panther, but I'd like to see him as Black Goliath. No, really...
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June 8, 2012, 2:27 p.m. CST
Fuck Ridley Scott for preventing the greatness that could have been del Toro's At the Mountains of Madness
by atlatl
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June 8, 2012, 2:30 p.m. CST
More like 'Mass Effect' the movie - but with a Black Shepherd (which you can do in the game, race-PC police)
by Kai_Mah'gra
All he needs is an "N7' on his armpatch and a backdrop with the bridge of his ship.
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and his character name Stacker Pentecost only adds to the pornacity of it all.
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June 8, 2012, 2:34 p.m. CST
@projbalance: Looking back at the comments, apparently I was the SECOND to mention Crysis ...
by Vince Ricardo
... vanchimera beat me to it. So, yeah, you're not the only one.
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June 8, 2012, 2:45 p.m. CST
Did his character in Prometheus actually get to lay the pipe to Theron's vickers?
by Kai_Mah'gra
Or was that just merely implied after that back-and-forth they had in the bridge? Trust modern studios to still be chickenshit about showing a black man and white woman doing it, much less even making out on the big screen. And in 2012 no less. Oh and spoilers. Sorry.
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But where's Wallace?
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“When legions of monstrous creatures, known as Kaiju, started rising from the sea, a war began that would take millions of lives and consume humanity’s resources for years on end. To combat the giant Kaiju, a special type of weapon was devised: massive robots, called Jaegers, which are controlled simultaneously by two pilots whose minds are locked in a neural bridge. But even the Jaegers are proving nearly defenseless in the face of the relentless Kaiju. On the verge of defeat, the forces defending mankind have no choice but to turn to two unlikely heroes-a washed up former pilot (Charlie Hunnam) and an untested trainee (Rinko Kikuchi)-who are teamed to drive a legendary but seemingly obsolete Jaeger from the past. Together, they stand as mankind’s last hope against the mounting apocalypse.” I am kinda weary. I dont know if this is Del Toro realm or not.
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Seriously, though, I CANNOT wait to see what GDT has cooked up for us!
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So do they fire Jaeger Bombs?
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And diddly here. Walking Battleship anyone?
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I thought that about both the Daredevil and George Clooney Batman suits did too. How wrong about that was I?
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June 8, 2012, 3:19 p.m. CST
So, Del Toro gets his revenge on PROMETHEUS by ripping off EVANGELION?!
by Mr. Nice Gaius
Ooooookaaaaaay. Lame!
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which was losers... everything else ive seen him in, suuuucked he a cool dude, but he likes money moreso than making good movies
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That suit says it all. Kudos to the designer.
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I work for a company doing a lot of the marketing and design on this film, and I can safely say, based on the concept work and footage I've seen, this film will be absolutely incredible. The trailer will blow you away for sure.
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to play Marc Antony in this modernized version of a Shakespearean Tragic History play that I'm not supposed to talk about having scripted. But I think Idris Elba would be WAYYY more awesome in the role as its been written, assuming the damn thing ever gets funded.
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I remember seeing set shots from Toronto. Tying that together with the idea that this is about Huge sea monsters and the Men who operate the giant robots who fight them, I sure am stoked as this sounds like Guillermo's version of a romance. He is the man who said on Charlie Rose that he loves monsters for their 'beauty and fragile elegance'. SO STOKED!!
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June 8, 2012, 3:46 p.m. CST
kai_mah'gra, geez, RELAX. What are you, 12? Or, no, wait, an undergrad? (Same difference, ultimately.)
by NeonFrisbee
I didn't have a "problem" with there being Asian and African Norse gods, I thought Thor was really great. I just think it's pointless pandering, and doesn't make any sense in the context of them being, you know, Norse gods (hence Nordic). Of course, you're right in the sense of the Marvel Movie Universe; that they're actually aliens or transdimensional beings (who inexplicably look human and speak faux Shakespearean english for some reason). I suppose it does make sense as per the points made, but ultimately was nothing more than pandering (not to mention condescending and insulting). You're kidding yourself if you think it wasn't pandering. Now before you flip the fuck out and pretend to know what you're talking about, please consider that I come from a mixed race background and even my father (who is black) thought it was pointless pandering. That sound? It's your hollow self-righteous indignation being pwned.
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June 8, 2012, 3:53 p.m. CST
...thanks to neonfrisee I'll have a stupid tune stuck in my head.
by DementedCaver
Poe - Angry Johnny http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrygAv93Ick
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I was thinking the same thing, nano suit. This looks so awesome. I cant wait to see it!
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Because for a moment there I thought it was the breezy sound of the gust of air passing through that wind tunnel sitting between your ears and which acts as a counterweight to your feet. For someone who started out with such promise what with the "12" line and the "undergrad" crack (what school did you go to? Geeez), you ultimately petered out to such a limp weak finish? devastatingly disappointing. Want to try again? This time, try making an effort. Put your back into it,...or that wind tunnel to work, as it were.
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June 8, 2012, 4:15 p.m. CST
I hope they have giant weapons like swords and machine guns, and seriously rip off all the best shit from anime.
by the Green Gargantua
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June 8, 2012, 4:45 p.m. CST
Looks cool. But it reminded me of something from the Mass Effect universe.
by v3d
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It`s not a seriously badass. Suit. It looks like a cross between the retarded shattering-glass suits from Ultraviolet and the awful `stormtrooper`suits from Spaceballs.
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That's just his bathrobe. That's how badass Idris Elba is.
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...I work with a guy who seems fairly intelligent, has a decent taste in movies, and can be pretty damn funny at times. He's kind of a dick but so am I... thing is he really didnt like The Wire. It wasn't even that he didn't like it, but when I asked why, he just shrugged his shoulders and literally said,"meh..." That said, I dont talk to this guy much anymore nor is my opinion of him very high. Judge me all you want but that's how I role.
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June 8, 2012, 5:28 p.m. CST
He is so cool he gave Charlize Theron a pity fuck in Prometheus. If you can get BBC I player try to watch 'Luther' Idris as a bad ass cop....
by cameron
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Search your feelings...
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June 8, 2012, 6:02 p.m. CST
he was up for the Alex cross role and they gave it to Tyler fucking perry instead
by raptorman
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"you're willing to suspend your belief enough to accept a man (or alien, if you may) with a hammer that can summon lightning and use to fly as well as which gives him general superpowers, but they have a black (or asian) alien and it all falls apart for you? Seriously?" white heroes born naturally superior = comfortable/desirable to mainstream non-white gods = uncomfortable/undesirable to mainstream Don't see the latter too often around these here parts....it undermines tradition and more than 1 token non-white feels...unusual to many. The mentality is: "you people" invaded OUR golf...now you wanna invade OUR blonde nordic fantasies!!!...stop the pandering...I like my mythology PURE.
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June 8, 2012, 6:09 p.m. CST
Chiwetel Ejiofor should be the lead in a 'Firefly' sequel tv show
by Raptor Jesus
Would be awesome. Same universe, new characters. Cameos from the original cast.
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...be known as part of The Wire. I'm the first guy in the world who will admit opinions are subjective, and I hate when people have no tolerance for anything critical on something beloved (like say, The Dark Knight or Return of the King or Star Wars, to say you merely liked it makes you a "hater"). But as much as anything can be classified logically as "great art," The Wire counts. Someday people will look back, especially at Seasons 4 and 5, and say The Wire saw the future. Much like how Huckleberry Finn saw the future regarding race relations in America and the scars of slavery, The Wire shows the problems with our society; how we value certain personalities over others, how we value strength over compassion, how prejudice spreads and how people are defined not as individuals but as merely one peg in a bigger picture. And despite all that it's not a cynical show, and it's amazingly entertaining and rewatchable. Anyways, Pacific Rim - I loved Godzilla as a child, so when the screenwriter says "I realized no one had made my favorite film yet," I trust him. I'm looking forward to it, even if it'll be cheesy. I just hope it doesn't have terrible comic relief a la Transformers. Play it straight, fellas.
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I thought this thing was called Still Seas now?
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June 8, 2012, 7:48 p.m. CST
ROCKETO PUNCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Non mecha/ super robo and dai kaiju fans on this board right now, ARE FUCKING AIDS. I hate you :)
by the Green Gargantua
Seriously, scoop up thine own shit and shovel it into your stupid little mouth, chew and swallow.
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June 8, 2012, 8:14 p.m. CST
Luther is a great show - Series 2 was completely TWISTED. The Golden Globe he won is well-deserved...
by obijuanmartinez
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Here's my ass. Kiss it. How's it taste? Now run along to your KKKlan meeting. They're running one idiot short.
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I'm not really sure what point it is you're trying to make. So I can't really respond either way. A little more clarity might help next time.
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I'm still divided about that movie, by the way. -Namaste-
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when the 'Norse gods' are actually aliens from another planet, scandinavians may get upset ;)
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June 8, 2012, 11:10 p.m. CST
Actually Warren Ellis wrote a better giant mecha story called Tokyo Storm Warning.
by Autodidact
It's a one-shot prestige thing. I have it as the back side of a flip prestige book that has RED on the other side.
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June 9, 2012, midnight CST
The whole "Heimdall should be white" argument is still going? Wow. There's just no hope for some people.
by strosmer
What more needs to be said in defense of a black Heimdall that hasn't been said already? Tell me one good reason why Heimdall needs to be white. Just one. I have yet to hear it.
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June 9, 2012, 12:06 a.m. CST
Maybe this will kick Weta in the balls to get Evangelion done
by Johnno
Frankly I don't know who the heck is responsible for that thing. ADV? Gainax? Whatever... the new Rebuild movies are pretty awesome. THey should wait for those to release, for Sadamoto to finish his manga, and pick and choose all the things that work best and give us our Eva trilogy in 3-D.
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Asgardians had the tech/magic to alter their appearance, eg: Loki's true appearance was the bluish frost giant in the first Thor movie, plus he could magic up holographic armor at will in The Avengers. So maybe Heimball chose to appear as a badass black guy. And on top of that they had the asian samurai guy, so why couldn't they have africans.
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would have kicked those tentacles ***
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That is a horrible shot.
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June 9, 2012, 2:40 a.m. CST
TEXT ME WHEN YOU GUYS HAVE A PIC OF CHARLIE DAY IN COSTUME FOR PACIFIC RIM
by Meadowe
that's waaaaaaaaay more interesting to me than this...and that's not a slight on ie, I think he's a coo' actor, making even roles like the one he had in Ghost Rider sov cool. but seriously, Charlie Day is a very entertaining dude, and I just happened to be looking up to see what he's doing and he's also in Pacific Rim, so I look forward to seeing how he looks in this movie.
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"Did they worship Norse Gods in Africa? In Asia? Nope. But, yeah, I getcha. " No you fucking idiot, Norse people worshiped Gods, not Norse people who are Gods. So you think African people worship Africans who are Gods, and Italian people worship Italians who are Gods and Albanian people worship Albanians who are Gods, and Floridians worship Floridian people who are Gods? That's why religion is so fucking stupid. People can't see that it's just an EGOCENTRIC fantasy created by primitive thinking and that the notion of "Gods" is simply just a fantasy version of OURSELVES. You would be perfectly happy to think that whites, blacks, and every other variant skin pigmented person (who all originated from the same fucking place in East Africa 50,000 years ago and only vary in skin color because of evolutionary adaptation to the regions they migrated to) worship only one God and that God is white (and looks a lot like Santa Claus but in a different suit).
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June 9, 2012, 5:51 a.m. CST
Love Giant Monsters although I`ve never liked Giant Mech Robo whatevers, doubly for backward knee models.
by higgledyhiggles
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This guy is appearing in all kinds of sic-fi fantasy flics. What's the deal? Does he have the same agent as Sam Worthington?
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June 9, 2012, 10:23 a.m. CST
ricardo_montalbanned,.... aaaaaw what's wrong poochie? Did you get kicked out of the Idiot's support group also known as your local KKK chapter, again?
by Kai_Mah'gra
What did you do this time? Or perhaps I should be asking, how stupid do you have to be or did you have to be to get kicked out of a group where being stupid is the prime requisite for getting in? In your case, very very veeeeery stupid, I imagine. I don't really know about that whole "how many candidates could be my father" part, but based on what you're mom told me last night, I do know that the severely violent case of "stupid" you're currently suffering from is inherited straight from your father. Along with that small dick and the obvious 'big penis envy' you seem to have of black men.
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ricardo didn't mention penis at all but you sure did and outed yourself as the idiot who likes to pontificate on the myth of the black penis. sick, retarded fuck.
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There's enough of my ass left for you to kiss it. Dumbass. When we need to hear the opinion of a severely demented, 2-brain-cell moronic troglodyte of a Neanderthal with the operating mental capacity of a Special Needs Amoeba, rest assured we'll call for you. Until then, stick that useless dimwitted opinion up that equally useless and stupid fat hairy arsehole of yours, SHUT THE FUCK UP, and get back to blowing that pencil needle-dick of ricardo's that you can't seem to get enough of. Okay? The grown-ups are talking.
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Don't worry your pretty little head about that micro-penis that you're obviously suffering from. Women don't really care about it that much..... . . . . .....well that's not really true, but hey, it's the thought that counts, right?
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The kidd would be ripping it to shreds, but because it's from a director that every geek says you have to love he's not.
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tough guy, huh? i bet it took you at least 30 minutes to compose that sad little diatribe. too bad i GUARANTEE your anti-white ass would not have the guts to say some of your shite to my face. and you just cannot get over commenting on how small you think everyone's dick is...stop projecting. you're my bitch and i know you're definitely one off the internet message boards, too. if you have a girlfriend, i bet she slaps you in the face every morning when you wake up just because you're such a weak, little bitch.
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June 9, 2012, 8:52 p.m. CST
superman76 - What difference would it make saying it to your face, you dumbass?
by Kai_Mah'gra
It would still take you at least half an hour to process and understand anything I told you face-to-face with that pathetic excuse of a Cro-Magnon brain you have floating in that hollow space between your ears. And it doesn't take "guts" to pimp-slap the stupid out of an asinine Moron like you, whether it be face-to-face or online, so don't flatter yourself. And I'm your bitch? How does that work when you're clearly ricardo's bitch, running to his defense like his mom when you see him getting bitch-slapped? My only question for you though is, with both of you having laughable micro-Penises,.... clearly,... who sucks who's dick? Or is it more like an inhaling action, since they're so so soooo small? Also, how do you know when you have an actual hard-on? Is there a real observable difference? With the naked eye, I mean. I know at some point a microscope comes into play, but still.... So many questions. Maybe you should get your girlfriend ricardo to help you come up with answers since this is clearly a more than 2-brain-cell brain job and with the 2 of you combined you might just makeup between the 2 of you, like....maybe 3 brain cells, ......maybe.
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June 9, 2012, 10:27 p.m. CST
Just read the plot for this on IMDB.....Alien Invasion! GIANT MECHA ROBOTS DEPLOYED TO FIGHT BACK!!!??
by Bob
Are they fucking kidding? That's INSANE that anyone with half a mind would grrenlight such a COOL IDEA. I though it was all shitty reboots and remakes. Yeah, Del Toro will probably borrow HEAVILY from (Insert Giant Mecha Robot Anime Name Here) and I DON'T REALLY CARE, as long as it's fucking done as cool as can be. If it looks good, I'll be in a seat on opening day.
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The difference is, Elba has a little thing called SCREEN PRESENCE, and TALENT, and he lacks NOT-COMPLETELY-FORGETTABLE SYNDROME. If Worthington hadn't of been cast in Avatar he never would have had a career. He's such a dull, dull dull actor. Then again I thought Josh Brolin was dull circa Hollow Man, so people do surprise me. But he'll still be no Idris Elba.
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...away.
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June 10, 2012, 4:42 a.m. CST
Didn't Del Toro say in an interview about this that he was going to use miniatures?
by lv_426
Not for every visual effect, but come on, a giant monster/kaiju versus big ass war mechs needs to have some miniature effects in it. It is only proper.
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June 10, 2012, 5:05 a.m. CST
I love Elba and Ejiofor, but Djimon Honsou has two oscar nominations.
by Baked
Also, he's the fucking voice of the Black Panther. We're done here.
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June 10, 2012, 7:20 a.m. CST
I remember this as a kid. We called it Robotech...
by Obi Wanna Cannoli
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June 10, 2012, 8:04 a.m. CST
They said same about Ving Rhames until that gay rape scene in Pulp Fiction
by Obi Wanna Cannoli
No more "The Next Samuel Jackson" for Ving.
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Because, regardless of talent, they'll never let him be completely human. No love scenes for Elba (or any other non-white male) in a major film, without tanking the box office (keeping it below 100 million domestic). Lest we forget, there is a glass ceiling on cinematic humanity.
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June 10, 2012, 12:35 p.m. CST
Bring on Team Godzilla. They should drive Godzilla. Have a little apartment in his ear and throw his equilibrium off to steer him
by UltraTron
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You heard it here first!
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I didn't know what was up with this movie but it sounds awesome.
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Now, give us At the Mountains of Madness.
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Loved that film!
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One from the 80s : aliens attack earth, man builds giant fighting robot called Big Dai X. Not Welsh.
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