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by Visitor
1 year ago
Forum: General Movies & TV
Topic: The CW bought by Nexstar for 0 dollars, claims average viewer is 58
Replies: 8
Views: 710

Re: The CW bought by Nexstar for 0 dollars, claims average viewer is 58

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/loc ... 15040.html

It was never meant to be profitable and was used to get a certain demographic. Now they are going to fill it with spin offs of their better shows and cheap foreign shows.
by Visitor
1 year ago
Forum: Superhero Movies & TV
Topic: "Batgirl" movie canceled by WB (Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah directed)
Replies: 257
Views: 31202

Re: "Batgirl" movie canceled by WB (Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah directed)

https://www.yahoo.com/news/greg-berlanti-could-become-dceus-214531143.html Rumors of how WBD might fix their problem by making Berlanti their version of Feige. If this. happens lets see how long it takes them to regret it. He had some great ideas, but after a few years they go overboard in his socia...
by Visitor
1 year ago
Forum: Superhero Movies & TV
Topic: "Batgirl" movie canceled by WB (Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah directed)
Replies: 257
Views: 31202

Re: "Batgirl" movie canceled by WB (Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah directed)

WBD's announcement of a 10 year plan reminds me of all the former Soviet Union's 10 year plans. The idea sounded good until it failed and was replaced with a new one. After the failure to make a Marvel style integrated universe, they are now going with make sequels and spin offs of the more successf...
by Visitor
1 year ago
Forum: Superheroine Lounge
Topic: Exactly what you want or an on going series?
Replies: 2
Views: 241

Re: Exactly what you want or an on going series?

Considering how many reboots they do and just look at Batman, they can always start over no matter how the movie ends. Even Batgirl had so many comic book variations that fans had no idea which one this would be in the movie. Just do a decent movie and forget about sequels. The Batman movies with Mi...
by Visitor
1 year ago
Forum: Superheroine Lounge
Topic: CA sheriff orders raid on Indiana Batmobile garage, allegedly as favor for friend
Replies: 10
Views: 566

Re: CA sheriff orders raid on Indiana Batmobile garage, allegedly as favor for friend

Police have some leeway to pursue arrests if they had some jurisdiction, in this case one person involvement lived in the area. Police are trained not to question each other even when they know there is something illegal going on., They back eat other up and when it is the police chief where their j...
by Visitor
1 year ago
Forum: Superhero Movies & TV
Topic: "Batgirl" movie canceled by WB (Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah directed)
Replies: 257
Views: 31202

Re: "Batgirl" movie canceled by WB (Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah directed)

The new head took advantage of the tax write offs for change of ownership to cut some other stuff like the Wonder Twins movie. It allows them to quickly declare better earnings towards their goal fo $3 billion in cost savings. I wonder why they kept the Flash movie since their lead can't do publicit...
by Visitor
1 year ago
Forum: Superhero Movies & TV
Topic: "Batgirl" movie canceled by WB (Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah directed)
Replies: 257
Views: 31202

Re: "Batgirl" movie canceled by WB (Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah directed)

There's always direct to video if they want to make some money. It depends upon the terms of their insurance and tax write off for not releasing it, I'm sure someone will leak it on the Internet like the failed WW pilot. Edit - Variety reported that the movie was scrapped in order to take a tax writ...
by Visitor
1 year ago
Forum: Superhero Movies & TV
Topic: "Batgirl" movie canceled by WB (Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah directed)
Replies: 257
Views: 31202

Re: "Batgirl" movie in development (Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah to direct)

I read it reached $90 million with reshoots. No mention on why it was still unusable, but with a decent cast, directors, costumes, and special effects it seems WB didn't invest in a decent script again.
by Visitor
1 year ago
Forum: General Movies & TV
Topic: Hart to Hart (1979-1984)
Replies: 15
Views: 1106

Re: Hart to Hart (1979-1984)

Using a car made with gold parts goes back to the James Bond movie Goldfinger.

I read over 20 years ago man was smuggling money out of the country inside of scuba air tanks, Using sporting equipment to hide valuables is a reoccurring idea in movies and television show.
by Visitor
1 year ago
Forum: Superhero Movies & TV
Topic: She-Hulk (Disney +, 2021)
Replies: 181
Views: 19749

Re: She-Hulk (Disney +, 2021)

Really playing up the comedy aspect from Bruce waking her ups with an airhorn to not wanting to Hulk out because it will ruin her outfit that she likes. But at least she saved her shoes.
by Visitor
1 year ago
Forum: Misc Topics, Links and Pics
Topic: What makes me Batgirl1969
Replies: 64
Views: 9770

Re: What makes me Batgirl1969

Not a diss on Kitt, but with the size difference, I would have love to have seen bondage and fights between Newmar's Catwoman and Craig's Batgirl Back in the late 1970s, on a late night reunion show of the cast, Craig joked that she was glad Newmar wasn't Catwoman that season because she only came ...
by Visitor
1 year ago
Forum: Misc Topics, Links and Pics
Topic: Elon Musk notifies Twitter he is terminating deal
Replies: 13
Views: 976

Re: Elon Musk notifies Twitter he is terminating deal

The higher up employee all have stock or options that are losing value compared to the much higher price for the takeover. Besides most of them are ready to take the money and run.
by Visitor
1 year ago
Forum: Misc Topics, Links and Pics
Topic: Elon Musk notifies Twitter he is terminating deal
Replies: 13
Views: 976

Re: Elon Musk notifies Twitter he is terminating deal

Musk offered a high price and now that the market is falling he can renegotiate at a much lower one.

After all his excuse is based on statistical analysis of data and not exact numbers. Both sides can claim they are right without proof.
by Visitor
1 year ago
Forum: Superheroine Lounge
Topic: New Perils of Batgirl II Trailers
Replies: 212
Views: 36647

Re: New Perils of Batgirl - Episode 5 Released!

After Blaze betrayed False Face in sending a message that saved Batman and Robin, you have an interrogation scene and later her tied up in the trick van.

King Tut used the Thebean pebble torture on Batman and his queen for turning against him.
by Visitor
1 year ago
Forum: General Movies & TV
Topic: Hart to Hart (1979-1984)
Replies: 15
Views: 1106

Re: Hart to Hart (1979-1984)

I preferred Robert Wagner in his older series, It Takes a Thief, where he was a thief forced to use his skills for a government agency. Guest appearances by Fred Astaire as his father.
by Visitor
1 year ago
Forum: Misc Topics, Links and Pics
Topic: Veteran Actor James Caan, Star of ‘Godfather,' ‘Elf' Dies at 82
Replies: 6
Views: 923

Re: Veteran Actor James Caan, Star of ‘Godfather,' ‘Elf' Dies at 82

I liked when he appeared on Get Smart and didn't even us his name for the credit. He just wanted to act where he got to learn and do a sword fighting scene. He did a great job because he got to have some fun.
by Visitor
1 year ago
Forum: Superhero Movies & TV
Topic: Superman and Lois Season 2 (CW)
Replies: 45
Views: 3389

Re: Superman and Lois Season 2 (CW)

I thought back in the pilot episode they mentioned Supergirl. But the Arrowverse writers are generally lazy about continuity,
by Visitor
1 year ago
Forum: Superhero Movies & TV
Topic: CW sold for $0 and $100 mil of incurred debt.
Replies: 9
Views: 629

Re: CW sold for $0 and $100 mil of incurred debt.

ivandobsky wrote:
1 year ago
I wonder why things get sold for exactly zero. Tax reasons?
People stopped carrying around one dollar bills?

It makes is easier for the accountants?

They weren't wiling to pay them to take it?
by Visitor
1 year ago
Forum: Superheroine Lounge
Topic: Electra Woman sucks at being a super heroine
Replies: 22
Views: 1433

Re: Electra Woman sucks at being a super heroine

What's especially embarrassing for our "heroine" is that, Dyna Girl, herself, is usually a totally inept klutz. Dyna Girl was just following the dumb blonde's orders. Just kidding about the stereotype, but in the first episode they walk into the Sorcerer's trap with Electra Woman having D...
by Visitor
1 year ago
Forum: Superheroine Lounge
Topic: Did Formicida knock Wonder Woman out?
Replies: 15
Views: 1228

Re: Did Formicida knock Wonder Woman out?

Mr. X wrote:
1 year ago
Mattresses! Wonder Woman's only weakness!
The Sandman's gang used them to take out Batman, too. These things can really put you to sleep.
by Visitor
1 year ago
Forum: Superheroine Lounge
Topic: Electra Woman and Dyna Girl Hypnosis/Peril in "Glitterock"
Replies: 19
Views: 1799

Re: Electra Woman and Dyna Girl Hypnosis/Peril in "Glitterock"

They are cocky because, except for the Empress of Evil, they are all villains that they have faced and defeated before the series. Even in the Glitter Rock episode part 1, they escape his music by covering their ears as they follow him through his lair.
by Visitor
1 year ago
Forum: General Movies & TV
Topic: Ncuti Gatwa cast as the new Dr Who
Replies: 46
Views: 2568

Re: Ncuti Gatwa cast as the new Dr Who

I think he could still be someone who infinitely regenerates but he can only remember about 11 lives back. So the first doctor would fall out of memory at some point It's more that they ran into a regeneration limit from previous stories and needed a way to break it so they could cast new actors fo...
by Visitor
1 year ago
Forum: Superhero Movies & TV
Topic: Gotham Knights TV show [CW]
Replies: 44
Views: 11185

Re: Gotham Knights TV show [CW]

It's less the license fee and WB wants to save Batman for more profitable movies. After all Superman didn't appear as more than a back lit blurred figure in Supergirl TV show until after a few seasons. They could do it if they thought the money was there like Disney does with Marvel. Batman's next a...
by Visitor
1 year ago
Forum: Superhero Movies & TV
Topic: Amber Heard
Replies: 55
Views: 3004

Re: Amber Heard

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/06/01 ... rd-verdict

Split decision with Depp coming off the better winner. They both made defamatory statements.

The attorneys win with their legal fees.
by Visitor
1 year ago
Forum: Superhero Movies & TV
Topic: Gotham Knights TV show [CW]
Replies: 44
Views: 11185

Re: Gotham Knights TV show [CW]

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/got ... 23557.html

The show description is better than the promo video in at least we know who the characters are. Still not a great plot.
by Visitor
1 year ago
Forum: Superhero Movies & TV
Topic: The Flash Season 8 (CW, 2021-22)
Replies: 55
Views: 4135

Re: The Flash Season 8 (CW, 2021-22)

Science after Trump doesn't have to make sense. Not that writers were that great before then as witnesses by bad science on Star Trek series.
by Visitor
1 year ago
Forum: Superhero Movies & TV
Topic: Gotham Knights TV show [CW]
Replies: 44
Views: 11185

Re: Gotham Knights TV show [CW]

It's like they are hoping the Batman name will bring in viewers when you know he was killed in the first episode and these idiots are the fall guys. The smartest one called shotgun first before getting into a tiny car.

Another teen angst CW show with a superhero theme.
by Visitor
1 year ago
Forum: Superheroine Lounge
Topic: Axe falls on Amber Heard
Replies: 24
Views: 1615

Re: Axe falls on Amber Heard

For me it's like watching OJ in the Naked Gun movies. I can't help but love the Nordberg character. The optics on Amber are awful right now, but man she looks great in that Mera suit. That's my dilemma. Listen to the DVD commentary track to the Naked Gun movies and the creators mention giving OJ a ...
by Visitor
1 year ago
Forum: Superheroine Lounge
Topic: Axe falls on Amber Heard
Replies: 24
Views: 1615

Re: Axe falls on Amber Heard

While most of it is he said, she said. Whenever there is something that was documented like next day photos of an uninjured Amber heard or her using makeup concealer that hadn't been sold at the time, it is being presented as rebuttal evidence.
by Visitor
1 year ago
Forum: Superheroine Lounge
Topic: Axe falls on Amber Heard
Replies: 24
Views: 1615

Re: Axe falls on Amber Heard

These days the "No publicity is bad publicity" inso longer true. Especially when you don't have the box office power of Mel Gibson or others who have gotten away with doing worse.
by Visitor
1 year ago
Forum: Latest Superheroine Releases
Topic: Looking for title to a video
Replies: 2
Views: 701

Re: Looking for title to a video

It sounds like The Battle for Earth video Revenge with Blair Williams as Wonder Woman.

viewtopic.php?p=142814&hilit=Blair#p142814
by Visitor
1 year ago
Forum: Superheroine Lounge
Topic: A villain you wish they did more with…
Replies: 37
Views: 2322

Re: A villain you wish they did more with…

Victor Burno could do such an excellent over the top villain hamming it up. From King Tut to the head of Big O in Matt Helm's "The Silncers" to the only reoccurring villain inThe Man From Atlantis. There he kept plotting to take over the world, but after every set back he had to do it on a...
by Visitor
1 year ago
Forum: Superheroine Lounge
Topic: New Perils of Batgirl II Trailers
Replies: 212
Views: 36647

Re: New Perils of Batgirl - Episode 4 Released!

"Oh, how can they possibly escape?"

Escape? If they escape, then you have to hunt them down and recapture them. It wastes time that could be better spent tormenting Batgirl.
by Visitor
1 year ago
Forum: Superheroine Lounge
Topic: Is the Superhero/Superheroine Genre Losing Steam?
Replies: 29
Views: 1934

Re: Is the Superhero/Superheroine Genre Losing Steam?

Disney Maevel has only used from the older X-Men movies, Quicksilver in WandaVision and Patrick Stewart's Professor X. Whether this is due to them wanting to recast or not pay so much to have the more expensive actors replay their roles isn't mentioned. But I'm sure money is a factor while they figu...
by Visitor
1 year ago
Forum: Superhero Movies & TV
Topic: Batwoman - Season 3
Replies: 132
Views: 14049

Re: Batwoman - Season 3

It was a very weak plot point that Kathy Kane gave her voting rights to Ryan and made her the boss. It would have made more sense to give it to Luke Fox, whose father ran the company for Bruce Wayne, or Mary Hamilton her sister.
by Visitor
1 year ago
Forum: Superhero Movies & TV
Topic: An Extremely Sexy Wonder Woman Hanging Upside Down Opening Safe 1080P BD
Replies: 7
Views: 748

Re: An Extremely Sexy Wonder Woman Hanging Upside Down Opening Safe 1080P BD

Robley missed a fine opportunity to question WW while her lasso was around her. So many questions he could have asked and made her forget that she told him. Also if you go back to the pilot episode he could have made her do other things,
by Visitor
1 year ago
Forum: General Movies & TV
Topic: Star Trek Strange New Worlds
Replies: 34
Views: 2496

Re: Star Trek Strange New Worlds

The new uniforms episode where they "update" to Star Trek: TOS costumes.
by Visitor
2 years ago
Forum: Superhero Movies & TV
Topic: Amber Heard
Replies: 55
Views: 3004

Re: Amber Heard

So she got some of his clothes in the divorce settlement?
by Visitor
2 years ago
Forum: Superheroine Lounge
Topic: Is the Superhero/Superheroine Genre Losing Steam?
Replies: 29
Views: 1934

Re: Is the Superhero/Superheroine Genre Losing Steam?

As a fan of Westerns, I mourn the fact that so very few of them are made these days. In the 50s and 60s they were everywhere. I wonder if super films will go the same route. Genres go in cycles. When in the 80s they made "The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr." the western movie stuntmen we...
by Visitor
2 years ago
Forum: Superheroine Lounge
Topic: Favorite Knockout Scenes in Movies, TV and Comics
Replies: 52
Views: 11774

Re: Favorite Knockout Scenes in Movies, TV and Comics

Dick Van Dyke, when he was doing a variety sketch show back in the 1970a, had a sketch with him pitching his show to executives at the then big three networks. ABC and NBC. were shown as raunchy wild executives that panned the idea for lack of sexy women. CBS had a saintly haloed executive that was ...
by Visitor
2 years ago
Forum: Superheroine Lounge
Topic: Wonder Twins
Replies: 25
Views: 1714

Re: Wonder Twins

WB superhero shows will shift to cable and streaming where they don't need the ratings and don't expect to get them. Movies will be for tent pole characters or where they think they can get a blockbuster audience. Merchandise will be increased as the revenue stream like at Disney with the Marvel cha...
by Visitor
2 years ago
Forum: Superhero Movies & TV
Topic: Batwoman - Season 3
Replies: 132
Views: 14049

Re: Batwoman - Season 3

I sense another lengthy off-topic discussion incoming. Stay on topic guys.... and create a topic for discussing things like "is the superhero genre dying?" It's more like are the CW superhero shows killing off the genre by angering fans with bad writing and costumes. The last season of Ba...
by Visitor
2 years ago
Forum: Superhero Movies & TV
Topic: Batwoman - Season 3
Replies: 132
Views: 14049

Re: Batwoman - Season 3

There will be others, but I will miss Legends of Tomorrow as the only one that kept continuity, was funny, and had real surprising twists. Flash will end soon since there are too many actors with contract renewals. This isn;'t a show with Friends' ratings and ad revenue to make it worth the added co...
by Visitor
2 years ago
Forum: Superhero Movies & TV
Topic: Back to the future or back to Flash Season 1 Episode 7 where
Replies: 3
Views: 573

Re: Back to the future or back to Flash Season 1 Episode 7 where

For someone that was taken out of existence, Thawne keeps coming back.
by Visitor
2 years ago
Forum: Superheroine Lounge
Topic: A villain you wish they did more with…
Replies: 37
Views: 2322

Re: A villain you wish they did more with…

The British TV show The Avengers had Emma Peel (Diana Rigg) in a variety of catsuits and stylish dresses. A favorite was "The Girl fromAuntie" where with her in the skin tight white bird outfit in a gilded cage. The Man from U.M.C.L.E. had Yvonne Craig ,as a guest star, working on her tan ...
by Visitor
2 years ago
Forum: Superheroine Lounge
Topic: A villain you wish they did more with…
Replies: 37
Views: 2322

Re: A villain you wish they did more with…

Penguin, man about town and general lady's man, decides since he can't marry Barbara Gordon to get immunity from the police as the son-in-law of the commissioner sets his sights on Batgirl.
by Visitor
2 years ago
Forum: Superheroine Lounge
Topic: A villain you wish they did more with…
Replies: 37
Views: 2322

Re: A villain you wish they did more with…

The Gookworm was under used and the Atman 66 comic story ws a waste versus librarian Barbara Gordon/Batgirl. So many book plots he could use with Batgirl trying to figure out the references.
by Visitor
2 years ago
Forum: Latest Superheroine Releases
Topic: Supergirl featuring Lexi Belle from TBFE is live!
Replies: 21
Views: 10675

Re: Supergirl featuring Lexi Belle from TBFE is live!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9er6RvVBhTg

Behind the scenes showing Lexi Belle as Barbara Gordon and in her Batgirl costume. Talking about the role and interviewed with Robin.
by Visitor
2 years ago
Forum: Latest Superheroine Releases
Topic: Supergirl featuring Lexi Belle from TBFE is live!
Replies: 21
Views: 10675

Re: Supergirl featuring Lexi Belle from TBFE is live!

Batgirl doesn't appear until about the middle. She has the transformation into Batgirl in her apartment, meeting in the commissioner's office, Bat climb with Robin, spying on the Joker with Robin, captured in a blink and you miss it, brought in the villain's lair as a prisoner, and the only fight sc...
by Visitor
2 years ago
Forum: Superhero Movies & TV
Topic: The Flash Season 8 (CW, 2021-22)
Replies: 55
Views: 4135

Re: The Flash Season 8 (CW, 2021-22)

Harley Quinn: The Animated Series is going to air a season 3. I watch Legends of Tomorrow, but that's on the bubble for another season even after the reveal of the new character. But most of them require payments for being able to watch a few short run series. I suppose Disney+ gives the most other ...