Anytime I watch a video of SNL from the last 5 years or so I weep a little bit. Who the hell is writing for them?... it's like fifty year olds who went around the internet and picked up some weak references to make some halfassed jokes the kids would like. I miss the nineties cast and the seventies cast...
If David Tennant ends up in Star Wars, but not ever even making a cameo in Doctor Who, I'm killing BBC.
I have learned to tune out the "this actor is interested in being in Star Wars" news. IT'S STAR WARS. Every actor, director, writer, prop guy, whatever wants to be involved in it. Joining the cast of Star Wars is an easy way to secure fan worship for the rest of your career. Carrie Fisher hasn't done anything major in her career forever and yet if she still walked into the room, most of us would take a knee like Vader before the Emperor. Hell, I'm certain people would line out the door at a convention for Ahmed fuckin Best and he was goddamn Jar Jar.
I think Renner could be good in a comedy, he just needs rehearsal. Haven't seen such a deer-in-the-headlights cue card addiction since the first time DeNiro hosted.
@lynchb85 Everyone on that show constantly stares at the cue cards. This has been my pet peeve about the show for a decade or more. I secretly rejoice every time an actor glances at another actor for, like, two seconds.
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I watched Jeremy Renner on SNL and I can tell you that he should probably just stick to action movies...although if you saw his opening monologue, that guy can sing so maybe give me a musical action movie.
Second, i'm sorry to hear all the animals dying on the set of The Hobbit. Maybe they didn't actually destroy the ring and this is Sauron's revenge.
Finally, my reaction to seeing actual news from good guy Chris Cummins...
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sad about the animals dieing on the hobbit. even if precautions were taken to make sure they were safe while doing their jobs as animal actors. and figured sooner or later even Peter would get on the band wagaon and say he wants to be chewbacca one last time. all that is left is kenny baker as r2 or anthony daniels wanting c3pe0 and the original trilogy cast is all together again wanting one last star wars go round. as for directors star wars is one property that is having directors running like hades. for no one wants to risk messing with it.
I'm bummed about the Hobbit story. Hopefully the investigation will clear some things up, but I'm not willing to spend money on films that don't insure the welfare of the animals that work on them (on or off the set). You'd think a production this high-profile, with this much money involved, would do better due-diligence on the ranching facilities.
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Ok, do I have to start all over again the diatribe on why the frak do people (aka companies) post content that is restricted outside their zone? Is this still the freaking 20th century?
@FabioRezende Tunlr is your friend, but yeah, I've always find it retarded. Copyright infringment Bite my shiny metal ass!
Yay, content from Chris!
Also, am I the only one who thinks that Hot Toys Coulson doesn't really look like him? I mean, the other HT toys are bang on but this one...
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Age of Ultron. You know you think, didn't they do that, and then discover they kinda didn't.
Come on Chris. You want this job. We want you. You want us. We see how you look at us when we are not looking. Come on.
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***Potential Game of Thrones Spoilers****
The teaser wan't bad, though I would have preffered the logo slowly fading in while the opening bars of "The Wedding March" played. I am so damn excited/scared/worried/excited to see how the RW is going to look on screen.
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I'm curious. Is SNL just trolling now? Jeremy Renner is a damn fine actor and even he was entirely out of fucks to give. For all the talent SNL usually rotates in (and quickly out) every couple of seasons, they pretty much all just seem to phone it in, at least in all the clips I've seen lately (by that I mean three or four clips in the last two or three years.) mostly by people going "Ya know... SNL BLOWS.. But watch this super funny clip!" and I always fall for it thinking "oh, they're bound to be funny at least by ACCIDENT sometimes" but no. Not even accidentally funny. Just a bunch of assholes (or oscar winning actors being made into assholes) staring at the camera. Nick Fury was funny, but did everyone else take the Jimmy Fallon taught acting course, majoring in "staring into the camera, giggling at your own shitty sketch"? Dammit SNL. You could be so much more. You used to be. What happened, bud?
@JesseDeath Ahh, it comes and goes just like it always has. Louis CK was good, and they had a skit the week before where Bruno Mars was rapidfiring imitations of like a dozen other singers that was a lot of fun.
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We finally get some actual nerd news here after a major drought, & the one that gets me excited the most was written by Rob on another site. Go figure.
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This helps. And I bought an iphone 5 today. SO lots of blinky nerd lights and apps and things to keep me from noticing their was only 1 post today.
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That clip was most certainly... HAWKWARD * wink wink -honk honk - poink poink - arooGAH!*
I had to turn off Ghostery to watch that watch that video, now my browser's probably icky.
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@Gallen_Dugall @GarethPrime I think it works a little too well. I was trying to answer your question earlier, but couldn't. I think that was an issue with VVM though. But, yes, it's everything gagagalvatron says. Easy as hell to use, I've completely taken it for granted. I don't tweet, FB or G+, so I don't need any of that shit polluting the sites I visit. I don't let it go gung-ho though, it can kill some discussion widgets, so I always choose to manually go through what to keep on a site or not.
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@Gallen_Dugall @GarethPrime I love it. It's pretty easy to use and it shuts down a whole mess of trackers, widgets, beacons, and crap I didn't even know were running. On some sites, it's just shocking how much is going on just out of view.
Occasionally, it breaks something like this video. In this case, I just get a black screen instead of the video. Which may be better, given the comments. If I really cared, I could simply pause Ghostery on this page only and watch it, then unpause it.
I highly recommend it. It's low maintenance, easy to disable if the need arises, and works well. It plays well with most reputable sites.
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@Timely-Tardis-Lego IMO he and Hiddleston are the only ones on that list that should be anywhere near the movie. Preferably as the villains.
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@Timely-Tardis-Lego @Gallen_Dugall @jonap I really hope that the sith aren't even involved - Lucas has said that RotJ is the end of the sith story, but then again he changes his mind about that stuff a lot so who knows what the story could be about.
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@Gallen_Dugall @jonap @Timely-Tardis-Lego I really it involves a lightsaber duel between the two of them.
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@jonap @Gallen_Dugall @Timely-Tardis-Lego I was thinking both of these actors could do a fine bit of Grand Moffing
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Heh, I can see Rob has continued the legacy of the typo...and that Coulson figure is gosh-durned purdy.
If only I had $200 on hand....
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@TheConjurerOfCheapTricks It´s not a typo, it´s Robspeak. All the coul kids are dong it.
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Being a dirty foreigner, I was overjoyed to finally find a way to watch Hulu today. Overwhelmed by the amount of free, semi-legal American content I now had access to, I panicked and selected the SNL Avengers parody. After maybe fifteen seconds, I thought to myself 'Wow, this is terrible', crossed off the tab and went back to my illegal streaming sites. So thank you, SNL, for making me realise Hulu is not all it's cracked up to be.
@Lady-Rainicorn You kinda jumped the gun there. It's SNL. For my whole life people have been complaining about how awful it is. Hulu is great, but there's no guarantee that everything on the site is awesome.
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@Lady-Rainicorn You stopped it before an advert came up? Because they are worse than that skit.
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@Nicnac @Lady-Rainicorn frankly I have no idea what they are trying to sell me half the time and the other half I can't afford their product
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Wow. I haven't watched SNL in years. I'd forgotten how far downhill its gone.
I still plan to go to see 'The Hobbit'. I'll be wearing my fur coat and eating a bucket of Kentucky Fried Chicken just to piss off any PETA protesters that show up.
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Chriiiiis....why haven't they let you take over yet, man. Seriously.
Also, that sketch may have been awkward, but I thought Jeremy Renner was excellent.
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@Lithroe I figured the Overlords sacrificed him to the Elder Gods, apparently not. I'm mostly relieved but partially puzzled. . . Why not get him to keep the beat while they find another candidate (or just get Chris, he's never done a bad job in my opinion, always a damn fine one actually) as opposed to sporadic posts here and there. Then again, maybe that's why I'm not a bigwig exec. Too much sense, not enough blow. Or is that only Hollywood execs? PROVE ME WRONG VOICE MEDIA!
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@JesseDeath I assume it's because having Chris holding the fort full-time until the indeterminate point in the future when they actually pick and appoint a new editor would mean paying Chris full-time wages until an indeterminate point in the future. It's far cheaper to just copy and paste content from other websites and pay fpr the occasional original post so we don't all disappear into the internet ether.
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@Someguy @Gallen_Dugall @Lady-Rainicorn
and you never see the two of them in the same place at the same time
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@Gallen_Dugall @Lady-Rainicorn "patrolling the rooftops after dark looking for ne'erdowells to rain justice upon"
You mean he's working as a cat?
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@Lady-Rainicorn it would also mean that Chris would be devoting full time work towards this site instead of his regular gig... which I am sworn to secrecy about but I'll say that it may involve a certain amount of patrolling the rooftops after dark looking for ne'erdowells to rain justice upon.
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