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He just guested for A$AP Rocky's Coachella set, performed Father Stretch My Hands, Pt. 1.

Just now, Spirit said:

You never know if GN'R plan on releasing the show on Blu-ray maybe?

They wouldn't want the complete show in 1080p available on youtube already.

It could be a reason.

You have a point, but I doubt they'd be vying to sell footage of Axl in a cast at 1080p.

The idea that they're trying to be 'secretive' by not streaming all of the show through Coachella would make sense if we didn't live in this age of technology. Whether it's through the official channel, or Periscope or anything... that whole show is getting seen. May as well have it be professional shots for the fans.

More so 'I find gorgeous' than 'want to shag'

On 4/11/2016 at 5:45 AM, PsychoKiss344 said:

I just find it annoying, I don't think the album was ready to be released when it did...

I get that, I did find it annoying when I went to listen to it the other day, only to find out he'd taken it off Apple Music to make changes. I just hope that he doesn't use the same method for his next album, and that is released when it's truly finished. I like the idea of an album that he's constantly adding to, but I don't think he went big enough with the idea for it to work for multiple ones.

This is getting surprisingly decent reviews so far.

Just now, Amir said:

Rises is my favourite of the 3 Was honestly not expecting to even like a sequel to TDK since I thought it couldn't be topped, but that film just hits all the right emotional notes for me.

I'm not a Superman fan, but the first time I thought I "got" the character was seeing the teaser for Superman Returns:

That whole narration from Jor-El, the shot of him over the planet... I felt like I understood what Superman stood for. I still enjoyed the final film, but it couldn't live up to that trailer.

Man of Steel I found boring for the most part (apart from the score, which I love), and while I did enjoy BvS, Supes himself was shortchanged.

And compare what Kal-El's parents tell him in MoS and BvS to what Jor-El says in that trailer: they're constantly telling him NOT to bother saving people. WTF?!

I like the first two Donner films as well, you can tell he had a lot of love for the character.

I like Rises too, but general consensus is that it could've been better lol. I think Superman was a really great character for the time he was in his prime, but I feel as though people aren't drawn to the 'indestructible apart from this hard to find alien rock' type of idea anymore. It doesn't help that the current incarnation is played by the personality vacuum that is Henry Cavill, he's just rather boring and really doesn't bring any life to the character at all. I actually liked Brandon Routh as Superman, I felt bad that he got a lot of the blame for a bad script.

Man of Steel really messed it up by making him a murderer, it's hard to put into words, but they need to find the middle-ground where Superman isn't this pure hero, but isn't a straight-up killer either. The problem is that the writers they're hiring can't seem to do that, everything's an extreme with no nuance.

2 minutes ago, Amir said:

China is increasingly important, yes, but making studios still only net less than half of what they do there from the gross than they do in the US.

Deadpool will net Fox a lot more money than BvS will for WB, and that's with that film being banned in China. I wonder what lessons Hollywood will take from Deadpool... I liked that film and BvS about equally but it's clear the public much preferred Deadpool.

If BvS continues to struggle like this, you can bet the studio would've been hoping for way higher China numbers. It's not the case for every film, but BvS would've benefitted greatly from China's support. Transformers 4 barely earned more than simply it's cost domestically but it's guaranteed a sequel because of the foreign box-office, the majority coming from that one country. I'm not arguing that China's more important than domestic in terms of return, or necessary for success... but it certainly picks up the slack when domestic doesn't quite pan out.

I think the public preferred Deadpool because it really didn't come across as taking itself too seriously. Although it wasn't perfect, it delivered what it promised which was a funny, fourth-wall breaking 'non' comic-book movie. Serious comic book films are served best when they're not style over substance, which most agree BvS is. It's the same reason BB and TDK are respected, and Rises is sort of looked down-upon.

Plus, Superman is just honestly a rather boring hero.

1 hour ago, Amir said:

Deadline is saying $925 million for "minimum profit". And Chinese box office doesn't really mean much even when it's good as distributors only get about 20-25% of the gross from that country as opposed to 50-60% of the gross in countries like the US. I'm sure, though, home video sales will help it turn a profit, I think a lot of people (myself included) will be curious to check out the Ultimate Cut.

China is actually very important, they're closing up on being the #1 market worldwide for the box office. They're basically the ones keeping the Transformers franchise alive, any perceived loss for huge blockbusters in the US is made up for by them.

Also, if they barely make a profit, they'd have to hope for incredible home-sales/streaming because they've have to spend some more money for that too.

37 minutes ago, Georgy Zhukov said:

It has to make $800 million to break even, right? It will hit that next week. I think it will finish at over $900 million. Which Warner Brothers will see as a disappointment, especially after the bad year they had in 2015. They do see potential in Wonder Woman, heard they are moving up the release date.

Rough estimates put it at $410 million for production+marketing, so $800/820 million is what they need to break-even, yeah. But as you said, that's still a huge disappointment, they were expecting a rather easy $1 billion. The trouble now is that the hype is really dying down due to the critical failure and word-of-mouth, and China's not propping it up at all... it kinda flopped over there.

It looks like this movie is gonna struggle to break-even at this point (and might not even reach that), what a disaster.

I know a lot of people don't get it, or flat-out hate it. But I love this thing of constantly improving upon/changing the songs, it sort of feels like you're truly seeing his progression of thought with the album. It's nice to listen to a song so much, and then when he's changed it see how it's changed with the new version.

Like when remastered or lost scenes are added into films.

Like with any genre, it's available if you search for it. I mostly listen to people I find through Apple Music, Youtube, or recommendations from friends.

Rock has been stale as a core genre for many years, extremely. I can listen to a band that debuted a few years ago, and they'll have the exact same sound as a band from 20 years prior. Even if you don't listen to them yourself - rap, r&b, and pop are able to thrive in the modern era of music because the people that make that music are willing to adapt to the changing landscape of music. Younger people are willing to listen to pretty much anything, but asking them to accept the same music that their parents listened to at their age when there's multiple genres expanding and offering new sounds is just not realistic.

There's a very real idea in the rock community that change is unnecessary or bad, and that the dream is for the general public to somehow love a genre that hasn't changed a whole lot in a long time.

23 hours ago, Bono said:

You're an  idiot. I have nothng against gays lesbians, trans or bis and have nothing against them being in Star Wars IF it's for a purpose other than being poltically correct. Your studpidty though doesn't allow you to comprehend that without thinking it's a point of view expressing homophobia. Fucking loser. As for me not liking women in Star Wars again,  just a  fucking douchebag comment of yours with no real attempt to comprehend what's being said. I thought Rey was awesome but no I don't like women in Star Wars. I don't want gay characters forced into Star Wars just for the sake of appeasinga  demographic that doesn't even care about it. But no it's simply a matter of me not liking liking queers(you sound like an idiot using the word queer). 

Hunger Games, Divergent Series, new Ghostbusters, The 5th Wave, Sicario(awesome movie), Force Awakens etc etc and now Rogue One. Clearly there is an attempt in Hollywood the last few years to force the strong female lead onto the public. And if you read my entire post you moron, you'd see I said it looks awesome for sure. 

So the mere inclusion of women as lead characters, or just the general existence of gay people in film is pandering for political correctness? It seems as though your idea of film is one where the men are constantly the leads, with no representation of anyone else on screen. You say that you want some essence of realism in the portrayal of women, but in reality there are women in powerful positions and *gasp* gay people do exist. The inclusion of these groups of people is furthering the realism, as it begins to represent the people who are actually paying to see these films (and films in general). After years of the same boring lead-male trope being forced onto the movie-going public, I think you can handle some lead-women who don't seem to be fleshed out enough for you.

What demographic do you think is forcing themselves into Star Wars, that doesn't actually watch it?