PaulM1983

Gaga was as brilliant as I'd expected. She looked absolutely flawless serving CEO-realness during the judging too. If you haven't already you need to watch Untucked. She goes backstage with her big notebook and gives notes to every contestant. It's hugely charming and she's so sweet and encouraging, but honest.

If there's a sequel, and I think that's pretty much guaranteed now, that's surely what it would be for. Did you catch the mid-credit scene? I totally agree with you about the first 20 minutes. I loved the prologue so much. It was a much darker introduction than I expected and I'm glad they did that. They needed to tell a bit of backstory to explain the Rita/Zordon relationship and they did it really well. Now that they've done all the groundwork with the characters, a sequel would only really have 2 major players to introduce in Tommy and the new big bad (Lord Zedd perhaps?) so it can probably be more of the movie that some people wanted this one to be. Yeah it did just under $15M, including the Thursday night previews. The 1995 movie made around $38M in its first weekend when you adjust for inflation so it's looking at matching that, if not slightly exceeding it. The international numbers will be interesting, as that has to be where they're hoping to make much of their money. I can't see it having much staying power in the US, so it might struggle to get to $100M total there. EDIT: First weekend estimates are in and it's at just over $40M. Brilliant result. I hope it doesn't crash next week though. EDIT 2: I reviewed this for my friend's movie review and podcast site. It's spoiler free. Have a gander http://www.outpost31podcast.com/news-and-r...ler-free-review

Yeah I don't think they're similar either, in look or tone. There is humour in this, but it's not because funny stuff happens, it's the delivery of the lines. But there's a really serious undertone to this. Alexander makes me feel alarmingly uncomfortable when he's on screen. Actually proper on edge and worried for Nicole. He plays it so well, it's frightening.

No, no. That was Devious Maids. It was essentially the same show.

Oh :P It's far from a masterpiece, but there's plenty to enjoy too. Could they have cut a lot of the character development? Yes. It could have been edited quite a bit and we could have easily lost 20 minutes of it. But when they do suit up I thought it was a lot of fun. I would have liked another 10 minutes or so of the final battle, with more Megazord action and Goldar/Rita being an even bigger threat but I liked what we got. The blue ranger's acting was a bit cringey when we first meet him and the writing around him explaining he's on the spectrum was very clumsy, but I think all 5 of them end up doing a decent job. Zordon was handled well too I thought. I liked that he's not a straightforward mentor. There's a motive behind his impatience with them and he's a bit of an ass until the moment he makes that choice.

I really don't think you will be. They've changed quite a bit from the TV show and the general set up. There are definite nods to the original series but this is Power Rangers for a new generation.

Yeah it was definitely an unusual choice to not show the full assembling of the Megazord. I'd have liked to have seen it, but I did quite like the hints at certain parts clipping together and then have him rising up. This Megazord is very different though, in that he has a fairly organic looking metal mesh body, with only small sections that are obviously parts of the zords. I read somewhere that they went that way to be more in line with the alien nature of the zords. Although they're robots they can take on the features of powerful creatures, so the coming together of the Megazord is almost like the zords morphing, rather than a completely mechanical piece by piece attachment.

There are two characters in this at the very beginning in a scene with Jason that could well be them, but we don't hear their names. Their characteristics do fit though.

I really enjoyed it. I totally understand it won't be everyone's cup of tea, given that there's no big action until the last half hour, but I really enjoyed it. The first 5 minutes are a brilliant touch and a neat way to give a valuable bit of backstory. There is a lot of character development going on, but it was necessary I think. I like that these Rangers don't know how to fight, don't know how to control their zords at first and don't really accept what they're being told at first. I liked Rita. I thought she was particularly nasty in the first half of the movie. She's pretty vicious. Alpha 5 and Zordon were done well too, and I really liked the ship/training centre/zord lair. The zords themselves were fantastic too. I think some parts of this are potentially intense for younger viewers. Spoilers follow:

I hate it. It sucks the life out of the chorus for me. It just makes it feel so empty. The is the perfect example of a song I don't need a remix of, I just need an extended mix.

They're really working hard to make everyone a possible suspect this time around. Which is both clever and extremely frustrating. I absolutely do not want it to be I've also changed my mind about my first prime suspect from my previous post.

Changeling. Whoopi Goldberg.

Watched Autopsy of Jane Doe last night. It was brilliant and not at all what I expected.

I've never seen "...Jane Doe" but your description really intrigued me. I've downloaded it for later. I'm not going to watch any trailers though. I want to go in with no other ideas about it other than what you've written.

I'm 4 episodes in and this is incredible. The best roles many of this amazing cast have played in a very long time. Reese, Nicole and Laura are the standouts and Alexander is incredibly frightening. The child actors are absolutely superb too. The whole thing's really amazing.

The video's out on the 7th April. I'd imagine they'll use that to coincide with the first performances to push promo for the album release on the 21st.

Surely the prime suspect would have to be the

10. So that record is very safe.

Can see Steps ending around 35-40, given they've got absolutely no extra sales coming from streaming. Can't see them getting more than 15k for the week, which would have only just got them into the top 40 last week.

They definitely needed big playlist support. As it stands, they'll possibly be top 10 on sales all week, after spending a whole day at number 1, and still only barely scrape top 40.

Non-existent. They got just over 50k streams on the first day and entered at #141, but then left the top 200 the next day, meaning they got less than 37k.

Actually not that far off. They're both 600-700k but Born This Way sold more. However, Judas was the 2nd single in that campaign anyway. It managed just over 300k.

Haha that triggered me a bit... Legend for Tom. Charlize Theron.

Sigh <_< Fair enough.... Forrest Gump :D Morgan Freeman.

We've had Tom Hanks - pick again!