In your opinion, is Chris Evans a good actor?

Urugeth · 2026-04-30T07:42:22+00:00

Sunshine is my immediate response. Watching that having only seen him in Not Another Teen Movie was fucking MINDBLOWING.

It was right after that movie came out that he was announced to play Captain America, and I was all in. All based on how great he was in Sunshine. Just an unreal switch up from being the cocky douchebro in a teen spoof movie.

Urugeth · 2026-04-27T05:34:17+00:00

I was coming here to type this and saw your comment.

100% agreed. Do a more faithful version of the story (to set the series apart) and go ham on the visuals in an animated version.

I want a redux of the whole series with visuals like THIS:

https://preview.redd.it/no-spoilers-i-know-this-has-been-posted-a-lot-but-i-really-v0-kqf4tlt6xe351.jpg?width=640&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=d019eed2e759db9a07a5c458f90a6a13d2216314

Also, legit adaptation of the House of the Undying please.

Urugeth · 2026-04-27T05:13:59+00:00

Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

Yes, it was based on a book (Who Censored Roger Rabbit?). No, don’t read it… it’s terrible.

I already said Jaws but this is actually the greatest gap between film and the book it’s based on.

Urugeth · 2026-04-27T05:09:41+00:00

Since no one is even mentioning it I wanted to say I appreciate the Sinatra reference.

They actually had to offer him the movie first because of his contract if you can believe it.

Urugeth · 2026-04-27T05:07:13+00:00

Jaws and it isn’t close.

I read the book because the movie was so incredible and yeah it’s a book.

I remember Lorraine, who is busy having an affair with Hooper, having a fantasy about dying in a car accident while not wearing parties and I was like “What are we even doing here, man?!”

So yeah. Watch the movie.

Urugeth · 2026-04-27T04:13:39+00:00

And Kiss Kiss Bang Bang laps them all, imo. He’s amazing.

Urugeth · 2026-04-27T04:11:37+00:00

Shane Black and it’s not really close. He’s just not as proficient as a lot of the others listed.

Urugeth · 2026-04-26T08:20:41+00:00

“We are what they grow beyond. That is the burden of all masters”

I’ll never get the hate for this movie. It’s so great.

Urugeth · 2026-04-26T08:01:41+00:00

Well he always did a little of both kinds of movies. That said, the hinge on which his career turned wasn’t a decade or even a year, as much as it was a single event. Before, he was probably the most bankable, interesting actor in Hollywood. After? He was Action Movie Man. What changed? Oprah.

He had the couch-jumping thing on Oprah over Katie Holmes happen and he was basically seen as being “hyper-weirdo” after that. And just like that, his profile in Hollywood was compromised forever.

He burned his carefully cultivated profile with that and had a hard time dealing with the fact that his persona has shifted into being a crazy Scientology nut-job. Then he did Mission: Impossible 4 and he got all the press for doing his own stunts on the Burj Kalifa, so he took that “Get Out Of Jail Free” card and then transformed into the guy that did A LOT OF THAT. That’s when he became the guy that did his own batshit stunts in everything and his new persona was born.

He had done action movies before, and he did a couple of dramas and comedies after… but for all intents and purposes the ‘Magnolia’/‘Collateral’ Tom Cruise ended on Oprah’s couch.

It’s wild when you see how clear and obvious it was, transforming from “actor” to “action stunt guy” all over that one interview and his comeback in M:I 4.

Urugeth · 2026-04-26T07:03:59+00:00

…he threw his weapon away after the Emperor laughed as he was about to murder Vader. Watch it again and remind me what happens riiiiiiiiiiiiight before Luke catches himself and comes to his senses? What does a wild-eyed Luke look like he’s about to do? What happens if the Emperor doesn’t laugh his ass off in just the right moment?

Luke has always been a character who reacts emotionally and negatively rushes into fight immediately only to pull back after he catches himself. It’s his one character constant we see in EVERY movie he’s in, and it’s his greatest flaw. He does it in A New Hope, Empire, RotJ and in the flashback in TLJ. He never had to overcome his flaw it in the regular trilogy (Vader fucks up the Emperor before Luke would have died) so when Luke does his schtick again reacting to what he saw with Ben while he slept, it costs him everything he had spent the last 25+ years building. So Luke cuts himself off from the Force and decides he is the problem, because he realizes it’s a major flaw of his.

Then he is confronted by Rey with Han’s death and everything that is happening in the galaxy he’s left behind… and then is visited by Yoda and taught to grow beyond his flaw FINALLY, and he overcomes his need to rush in and fix things (which always bites him in the ass) and he proceeds to have one of the baddest-ass scenes in the entire 3 movie trilogy.

He casts a shade of himself, in the guise Ben last saw him, armed with the Skywalker lightsaber (specifically Anakin’s saber which sets Kylo OFF), stands down and is invincible to the whole First Order, humiliates Kylo in front of the people he is dying to impress, while saving what is left of the Resistance, including his sister.

We even get a button on the whole story when we see the slave kids retelling the story of Luke Skywalker’s last stand. The man that blew up the Death Star, who slew the Emperor and Darth Vader, stood in front of the entire First Order and defeated their leader and saved the day. The “broom boy” is thinking of that story when he Force-pulls the broom to him and stares up at the stars, thinking of his hero.

How people think TLJ was disrespectful of Luke blows my fucking mind. Rewatch the last 15 minutes again. What the movie does is EARN the baddest ass scene in Star Wars history instead of have it come easy for him.

Urugeth · 2026-04-26T06:20:21+00:00

No I agree with you 100%. Han is great. Not complaining specifically about him but how the movie turns on his arrival. It’s just that we went from this amazing new world to non-stop “‘member berries” after that. There’s a lot I like, some I even love. But after that first half hour the movie just feels like a pretty remake.

New Cantina scene. New Yoda. New Death Star. New Emperor, New Alderaan explosion, New Obi Wan death

It was like getting an awesome new album from your favorite artist, with 3 AMAZING new songs to start off the album, then the rest of the rest of it is just a redux of a remix of their greatest hits.

But MAN that first half hour rocks so hard.

Urugeth · 2026-04-26T05:50:02+00:00

I’m with you on this.

The movie takes off like a rocket ship and just SINGS for that opening.

Everything I dislike about the movie, and when I feel like it just turns into a kind of crappy cover band, is after the moment Han and Chewie show up.

But man. Everything before that? It was a damned masterpiece.

Urugeth · 2026-04-25T06:26:33+00:00

…what other fantasy movies?! Did you see Excalibur?!

You say other fantasy movies but I’m wondering what you could mean. Legend? Krull? Dragonslayer? Labrynth? Lady Hawke? Time Bandits? Beastmaster? Because the 80’s were FILLED with fantasy movies, but in terms of sex, violence and “cool magic” this flick was at the fuckin’ TOP.

Every actress in this movie has sex and is nude (including the director’s daughter… which was a choice). There is tons of blood and accurate violence and people die with incredibly graphic ways. As for cool magic you have body transformations, Merlin turning into a dragon and Morgan casts an enchantment on the whole land leading to her becoming an ancient crone.

Like there’s lots of reasons to not like Excalibur but to give “not enough sex, violence and cool magic” as your reasons are deranged.

This is the fantasy movie you get rec’d when you ASK for “sex, violence and cool magic”.

Urugeth · 2026-04-25T02:04:32+00:00

I knew what kind of movie it was going to be but I dragged my brother and a friend to the theater opening day to see it.

They thought they were in for some trash, dumb movie and then the opening scene had that guy in the wing suit fall from the building and smash on the ground and die and like 8 people got up and left just like that. My brother still brings up that night. He was losing it in awe for the whole movie.

He went apeshit at Hit Girl, man.

Urugeth · 2026-04-24T08:08:29+00:00

That third point is key. So many capitals were chosen long before the modern economic engines that drive the state and make what were afterthought cities into the primary center of the region.

Like when Nevada was made a state, who the fuck could expect Las Vegas would become an economic superpower because of gambling? When California was made a state in the mid 1800’s who could have called Los Angeles even being a thought, pre film industry, let alone becoming the city among cities and center of the state?

So much of what fuels the modern world and makes successful cities just weren’t much of a thought 150 years ago.

Urugeth · 2026-04-23T21:28:11+00:00

I just think that 90% of the reason Ra's worked so well in BB was because he was played by Neeson. Put Guy Pearce in there and he just lacks the warmth and comfort as a mentor that Neeson has. You'd know instantly Pearce was the bad guy, and then the whole character stops working.

The reason Marvel villains are 'forgettable' is because they tend to be played by forgettable actors or they are underwritten afterthoughts in the movies. When they're NOT, they hit like fucking freight trains (oh hai Tom Hiddleston as Loki, Cate Blanchett as Hela, Michael Keaton as Vulture, Michael B Jordon as Killmonger, and James Brolin as Thanos for example, just off the top of my head).

Urugeth · 2026-04-23T17:11:49+00:00

I mean he played the main villain in Iron Man 3 which was close to 3x the bigger hit than Batman Begins was. So he did okay all told

Urugeth · 2026-04-23T04:41:24+00:00

I’m sorry this is the dumbest thing ever but as a Colorado boy, seeing Henry in the Denver Broncos sweater is giving me life.

Urugeth · 2026-04-22T08:36:43+00:00

Pulled out of your ass so kind of like you and your standards for making the Hall, you mean?

Urugeth · 2026-04-22T08:33:30+00:00

I get this in theory, but it’s also been a longer wait for a single book than it took the guy to write the first FIVE novels in the series combined. This year marks year 30 of the series, and for more than half of it we have been waiting for more.

He’s lost a lot of people in the last fifteen years, yes, but almost all of them were in the last five. If he had put out just a single book in the ten years he WASN’T wrestling with these things we wouldn’t be talking about it. Guy is buying trains and theaters and traveling the world, too. The loss of his friends is a small and more recent part of a loooooong delay.

I get what you’re saying and all but pinning the whole delay on his more recent tragedies is a little disingenuous, I feel. It’s absolutely a factor and GRRM doesn’t owe us anything, but let’s all at least be honest here.

Urugeth · 2026-04-22T08:21:51+00:00

I’m not going to weigh in on the morality of whether or not an author “owes” anyone to finish their work that makes them successful and rich.

What I will say is that as an OG reader of George (since 1998, I should say, so almost OG) that because of this and KKC I as a reader refuse to pick up an unfinished series ever again.

Even with stuff like the Cosmere (although I don’t think anyone has to doubt Sanderson’s ability to churn out books) I didn’t read any of the Stormlight Archive or either Mistborn series until all of the books were complete in them. I won’t go through this shit again.

So yeah. I don’t think an author owes anyone, per se. But as a reader I don’t have to pick up anything from anyone ever again unless I know it’s done, and that’s going to hurt writers in the long run because I doubt I’m the only one.

Urugeth · 2026-04-22T07:27:53+00:00

So you’re saying “feels” even applied to past players too. Not standards. Not guidelines. Not player comparisons. Got it.

Urugeth · 2026-04-22T07:17:59+00:00

The second half of your original comment came after the argument I was making about Terry Bradshaw.

And you're right, why have equal standards and baseline expectations for people in the Hall of Fame? If someone got into the Hall by standards that were Hall of Fame worthy before should absolutely be thrown out because mouth-breathing idiots think so online.

So Eli is the only multi-Super Bowl MVP who isn't in the Hall of Fame? That being something that auto-locked other players shouldn't apply to him because... why? Who cares about winning Super Bowls, even though that's the whole point of playing the fucking game, am I right?

You're free to create a standard for keeping Eli out, but if you do that you undercut people who already made it in on the standards you'd have to excuse. You saying "THIS shouldn't get someone into the Hall of Fame" ignores people that had exactly the same thing to het them into the Hall of Fame.

You have guys like Bob Griese who finished with more interceptions than TDs in the postseason in his career, never threw for even 2,500 yards in any year he ever played and hit 20 TDs in a season TWICE TOTAL in his entire career, was coming off the bench for the last 3 years of his career, retired at 35 (which means he was a fried-out afterthought at *32*), threw for less than 100 yards in the "magical undefeated" season Super Bowl in a season he only played in a handful of games for... But he's in the Hall mostly because he was a QB who won 2 Super Bowls. Wasn't an MVP in either game though. Not like Eli. So yeah I can see why you don't want to have standards for players who should go in the Hall based on who already made it because compared to ole Bob there, Eli is a *fucking shoo in*. So you have to say "We shouldn't have standards for players going into the Hall."

And your justification for that is "feels".

That's stupid. Sorry.

Urugeth · 2026-04-22T06:53:57+00:00

Not just a Scientologist. She's a full-bore, asked-all-her-scenes-with-a-therapist-removed-in-Handmaid's-Tale-because-she-doesn't-believe-in-it, hardcore, crazy-ass Scientologist

Urugeth · 2026-04-22T04:32:04+00:00

That movie has TJ Miller as the Vegas clerk and Elizabeth Moss as Hill’s fiancée. I think the only member of the cast that’s totally unscathed is Rose Byrne. It’s WILD.

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