Chris Kelly, one half of Kris Kross

EDOT: One more, the West African Black Rhino

What if Alison Brie had been cast as Captain America

Of course the real reason is the emotional journey and healing of the damaged lead characters who need to bring themselves to trust and open up to each other.

Journey schmourney. I'm watching this for the robot on kaiju action.

[3-foot tsunami]

3-foot tsunami

swallowing a small city

Uh, guys? 

City of Smurfs.

It's worth mentioning that NZ is a country where, when a tsunami warning is announced, there is a sizeable chunk of the population that heads down to the beach to watch the waves come in. They don't stand on the beach though, they're not completely crazy.

[3-foot tsunami]

"The paper said a series of 10 large offshore blasts were enough to potentially create a 3-foot tsunami that would be capable of swallowing a small city along a coastline."

Looks like someone had to trim the special effects budget.

Fast and fun, all around great movie.

Agreed. A much grittier film than the previous two, likely thanks to Shane Black's direction, but still a bloody enjoyable one. RDJ can entertain in AND out of the armour.

Oh, and Kingsley's Mandarin? Awwwww yeah! One of many strong performances.

Not that we'll get AoS (or Arrow, for that matter  ) over here in Kiwiland

I wouldn't be so certain about that. It may be on at an inconvenient time and a few weeks or months delayed, but we'll get it. There are quite a few Marvel fans at TVNZ and TV3.

[not]

Authorities were very big on not letting random members of the public get involved in search and rescue efforts. The phrases "leave it to the experts" and "too dangerous for the public" were bandied around a lot.

There were people who helped, but that was immediately after the event (like Awesome Maori Guy), but the help they could provide was limited and as soon as the trained professionals arrived they moved to a safe area.

Now the U.S may work quite differently, but I can't see why; in a natural disaster, it would be preferable from a law enforcement/emergency team perspective to have as little of the public involved as possible, IMO.

Sadly, there are segments of the American populace who will always be suspicious of law enforcement and the like, no matter how benign they may be. It really is a different country, and I'm not talking about them driving on the wrong side of the road

Remember Jack Chick and his religious tract Dark Dungeons? Well, a guy in Portland wants to turn it into a movie.

Sounds like fun.

In better news: KIFFLOM! (Shhhh... It's GTA5 related...)

Sounds legit.

(I don't see any mention of the war with Australia, though)

Thor 2: The Dark World

Warning: Contains Loki with his hair down.

Wait, is that tied in to the MMO-ish shooter title?

Yep, this is the tie-in series.

I finally got around to watching the first episode of Defiance and.... I liked it. The learning curve is fairly steep with the multiple alien races, but it's not too overwhelming. It also felt a little like a cross of Eureka and Terra Nova, with a main character inspired by Han Solo.

Haven't tried the game yet, but it does look interesting.

As mentioned elsewhere, it's like a remake of M.I.B. with undead instead of aliens. And I'm okay with that.

I'm smelling what they're selling, and it smells good.

Richard's passing has left me all choked up.

I'll get my hat.

There is another option...



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