That is pretty cool. Did you know animals develop white patches on their head when they are domesticated?


I didn't know that. Did you know the Loch Ness monster is a protected species?


Yes my dog is right pawed haha.  Neat about Loch Ness


You have to wonder if the LochNess is the national mascot?


There is a lawyer who represents animals in court!


I've always wanted to visit there. Now I have a reason too! Well, nice chatting with you!


One of my favorite villains is the Joker, do you like him?


I do like him, and especially Harley Quinn!


Yeah Harley Quinn is a badass and also really hot. Did you watch the movie Suicide Squad?


I watched it once with my daughter. It was surprisingly funny!


I thought it was great, some of the special effects were too much for me but the cast was good I didnt like Jared Leto as the Joker though.


Who do you think should have played him? I think casting parts would be extremely difficult to make sure you appeal the masses and are successful with the movie.


I have no idea, its a hard role to play Heath Ledger was my favorite Joker, too bad he passed away, he would have been a great choice for the movie.


OH yes! He played that part perfectly!! Marvel Comics has a lot of good superhero movies. Have you seen the new Spiderman?


I have seen that movie, the latest ones or the old ones?


I just watch the latest one. It was surprisingly good! I'm a bigger Disney fan than Marvel Comics though.


Well Marvel is now owned by Disney so that kills to birds with one stone, Sony had the chance to buy all of Marvel superheroes once and at a really low price.


Wow! Sony must really be regretting that decision! I heard Disney bought Marvel but doesn't own the rights to feature the "big" marvel characters in theme parks east of the Mississippi. I wonder if they can in Disney Land in California.


Yeah I bet they are Disney also owns Star Wars, it seems like they are buying all mayor franchises.


I would if I were them too. If they take the major entertainment companies over, they basically secure their place in the entertainment world.


Yeah those are smart moves, do you also like the Star Wars franchise?


I love the Star Wars franchise! I have all the movies and watch them frequently with the kids. Did you know Al Pacino originally turned down the part of Han Solo?!


Really? good thing he didnt get the part, why did he turned down the role? I bet he regretted that later


I can't picture him as Han Solo. lol. He turned down the part because he couldn't understand the script! lol


That is funny and also a mayor mistake on his part, it is the most successful film merchandising franchise, he could be even more famous.


I know right! When it comes to movie roles, i bet there are a lot of regrets.


Yeah he could be Han Solo its been great chatting with you by the way.


Did you know that astronauts in space can't whistle?


No, I had no clue. I wonder if that has anything to do with the weightlessness. The apollo 13 cast could only do 25 second takes when filming in nasa's zero-gravity plane


I don't know but that is interesting to consider.  Astronauts are pretty lucky, not just for getting to go out into space but general motors used to give a free corvette to them when they got back to earth.


Yea that is lucky but their is some risk, moon dust can cut through spacesuit material and is bad for health


It can cut through spacesuit material?  Wow.  I personally wish everyone could travel in space.  There is so much to see and learn about.  I mean, there's a water vapor cloud in space that has 100 trillion times more water than all of the water on earth.


That's crazy! Japan was able to take a rock sample off an asteroid and return it back to earth


I wonder what they learned from the rock sample.  There is a lot to be learned here on earth too though.  Only 1.5 million of the estimated 7 million animal species are known and described.


Yea and over a million of them are insects, that's nuts


Who knows what's all out there.  We might even discover the actual loch ness monster.  It's been a protected species in Scotland since 1912.


Lol I wonder if he was represented by the lawyer in Switzerland whose clients are animals


i've heard about that lawyer lol!  I wonder what kind of cases he does.  You know though, things are getting weird as far as animals are concerned.  Germany has granted them rights afforded in their constitution.


Well animals from different geographically areas communicate with each other in different languages/dialects unique to that area


It does sound as if they are more advanced as species than originally thought doesn't it?  Perhaps we are more alike with them than we think.  We do hiccup and that is supposedly a hold over from back when some animals hand lungs and gills.


Well some animals are a lot different, their are some lobsters and jellyfish that are biologically immortal


That sounds interesting.  Science has given animals a kingdom called Animalia.


Yea animals are cool. Do you like the Thor movies? It was the fourth film in the MCU and one of my favorites


I do like Thor. I especially like the well known actors that were in it, such as Anthony Hopkins.


Yes Hopkins was good as Odin and Tom Hiddleston was an excellent casting choice for Loki


They both were perfect.  Did you know Hiddleston tried out for the role of Thor?


Yea I read that, glad Hiddleston ended up getting cast as Loki though


Me too.  I've heard that the cast improvised some of the ragnarok language.


I enjoyed the movie Thor, I can't believe Loki gained 50 pounds of muscle to only later be turned down for the role of Thor!


That is amazing. He is the perfect cast for Loki though. I can't imagine anyone else playing him.


Yes! He did a great job! The language they spoke "Taika Waiti" was actually improvised, I think I would bust out in laughter making gibberish sounds.


I can't believe we saw the infinity gauntlet way back then and no one picked up on it.


Yeah! I sure didn't. But what was the infinity gauntlet again?


It is the gauntlet thanos used to destroy half of all life in the universe. But it is the wrong hand in Thor so they think it might have not been the real one.


Oh! Thanks for clarifying! I was a little confused by that statement. Really surprised that there is an animal called the "loch ness monster"! I think the name sounds a little frightening.


I would love to know what it really is. There is theories that it a dinosaur.


Me too! But it sounds so grand and gigantic! I was watching Jurassic Park the other day and wonder if the existence of 20 quintillion animals is still accurate, given how dinosaurs grew extinct.


I think there are so many animals in the rain forest we don't even know about yet. I would love to study zoology.


That's very true, do you love animals? The intricate food webs and food chains is very interesting and at the same time alarming.


I do love animals. Growing up in the country you get to see the food chains first hand. Especially the roles some of those 1 million insects can play.


Oh wow!  I've recently started raising some chickens and I'm still amazed by eggs coming from an actual animal! You must've seen much more detailed events!


It is amazing to see. I'm not sure about the theory that domesticated animals develop patches on their head though because that is seen in while horses too.


Yeah, I rarely ever see that but an interesting fact to learn about. I've always been excited about space exploration. It's pretty funny to learn about the restrictions of astronauts due to gravity, like they can't whistle in a spacesuit.


That is a neat fact. I wonder if there is a way to harnass the water vapor that is in space to help eliminate drought on earth.


That'll be really neat, maybe scientists are studying it. I wish the same effect could be applied to thunder, if we could harness the electricity from one thunder strike, it would be enough to power the entire earth for at least five minutes!


The earth is an amazing creation. I wonder what the practical applications could be of the drop pods to deploy anywhere on earth. It could have humanitarian impacts.


Agreed. There should be courses around the concept of space offered in schools!


I think it would be awesome to offer a stem class in the mechanics of space engineering. There are so many intricate things that people don't even know.


Yeah, when I was in school, there was only computer science being offered, but I hope that there are more of STEM classes as well in middle school/high school rather than in college.


There does seem to be a push for STEM activites in younger people which is great. Practical applications always are necessary to learn.


Yeah, I think movies like Thor sparks creativity in children, I highly encourage teens to watch Marvel movies and read the comics.


Creativity gives us a new lens on the world. I think all scientists need more creativity in their life if we are going to think of out of the box solutions to the worlds problems.


Yes, I know I get completely absorbed in those movies and think about the universe and the life on other planets as well.


I think the creativity allows us to access the right/left brain connections that aren't always used in everyday life.


Yeah, even when trying to improvise a dialogue in thor, that seems stimulating as well haha


The way they tie these films together like with the gauntlet and the ravens is amazing. It shows high levels of a creative spirit.


Yes and it flows perfectly too, I wonder if they layout the foundation with how many phases to tell the story or what


They would almost have to. Otherwise the details would get muddled and the bloggers would have a field day picking the movies apart.


It's hard not to be. They have poured a lot of money into Marvel Studios. It shows in the quality of work though.


Disney's purchase of Marvel was a great fit, in my opinion.


It was definately a smart money move on their part.


Hello,  How are you?  Have you watched Thor? The infinity gauntlet is shown briefly during thor (the movie), but its authenticity is disputed because it's right-handed (it's left-handed in comics)


Thor is one of my favorite marvel movies. The casting of Chris Hemsworth as Thor was a great job.


Absolutely!  Perfect role for him. Tom hiddleston, who plays loki in the avengers, screen tested for the role of thor. he went on a strict diet and gained 50 pounds of muscle. they later decided he would be better for the role of loki.


I never knew he gained that much muscle. That's crazy but Hiddleston is a great loki


Yeah,  I know right!  Ant man made his marvel debut before spider-man, hulk, thor and iron-man.


Hmm I didn't know that. Did you know Hugin and munin appear in the Avenger's film?


No I didn't but since I didn't know them before this,  I wasn't looking for any birds. According to taika waititi, 80% of the dialogue in thor: ragnarok was improvised, in order to create a "very loose and collaborate mood" among the cast an attempt to replicate the tone and sensibility from his previous films.


Nice, they did a great job improvising the scenes


Yeah they did.  Did you know There are about 20 quintillion individual animals on planet earth.


That's crazy, there's only like 7 million species of animals on earth


only?  That sounds like a lot. Animals develop white patches on their foreheads when they are domesticated.


That's cool, did you know the loch ness monster is a protected species in Scotland?


I did,  thats freaking awesome! In 2002, germany became the first country in the world to universally give animals constitutionally-guaranteed legal rights.


Does that include the ones the size of  8.5 millionths of a metre?


I have no clue lol it didn't give me any more detail.


That's crazy, there's 1 million species of insects, I wonder if fly swatters are illegal in Germany


haha probably not. Hiccups are a holdover from early evolution when early land animals had both gills and lungs.


Wow, I never knew that. Did you know there is a water vapor cloud in space with 100 trillion times the amount of water on earth?


No,  thats amazing. General motors used to give the mercury and apollo series astronauts a free corvette when they returned from space.


Nice, the USMC are researching using drop pods from space


Hey, how are you doing? Are you a fan of Thor the movie?


No.  But I have heard about it.  My son is a fan.


Do you watch any superhero movies? Marvel Comics have had some great movies as of late, usually produced by Marvel Studios


What do you like about them the most compared to other characters?


I like them because they defeated evil beings.  I watched them when I was young.  How about you, who is your fav superhero?


I'm not really sure who my favorite super hero is, they all have flaws but they are all good overall. I think if more people acted like superheros, we'd realize the world would get on a lot better. That's just my opinion though. Are you a big fan of space?


What space (fiction or non fiction?)  I just read an article.  I felt sorry for Tom Hiddleston who prepared himself to be Thor.


Non-fiction, real life outer space, it's just amazing to think about and hurts my head to think that far into it to be honest.


I see.  Apparently, astronauts in a spacesuit cannot whistle.


I've heard that, did you see the USMC is trying to develop drop pods to deploy anywhere on earth from outerspace? That's nuts!


I heard about it.  I wonder who was funding the project.


Not sure, I'm sure NASA is a huge help though, but funding is constantly being cut from NASA so I'm not sure. I wonder how far space really goes.


It will be nice to continue space programs if we have funding.  By the way, GM used to give free corvettes to Apollo and mercury astronauts when they returned to earth.


That's pretty cool, I often think about how an astronaut feels, I wonder how life changing it is to see the earth from afar


Some of them wrote books about their experiences.  Apparently, if astronauts out on a space walk wants to talk in private, they will touch helmets.


Wow, neat! It's so nuts to think about the water vapor cloud in the space that is 100 trillion times the amount of water on earth, fascinating.


That is fascinating. Space related facts often fascinate me.


The concept of space is considered to be of fundamental importance for understanding the physical universe, it's just so crazy to think about. For example, do ants realize humans are around? If we're like ants in the bigger picture, do we notice that aliens are around us?


I am sure that they are other beings out there but perhaps they are far away. Disagreements continues between philosophers about our universe.


True, I guess we'll never know. It was great talking with you though, have a good one!


You as well, I hope you have a good rest of the evening, I'll try not to think about the depths of space that much !


I will read more about the space.  Have a nice evening.  Bye.


You as well, take care and enjoy the rest of the week!


i'm great! have you heard of the new movie gotti?


oh good lord yes I have, a whopping 0% on rotten tomatoes!


i know can you believe it! john travolta is usually great


its getting completely slammed by critics too. the marketing company claimed audiences loved it, but i find that hard to believe


well not just audiences, it mentions gotti's son gave it a 7 out of 10


that man is biased, no way he actually liked it


it eludes to the fact that there could be fake reviews on rotten tomatoes. do you think that's true?


I dont think so. there could defintiely be some people trolling, but the tomato score is just generated by aggregating reviews form top critics around the internet


yeah, and given the fact that it sits at 0, it must be painful. would you watch it?


I might just for morbid curiosity. its a trainwreck, so it could be funny


i hate to admit it, but sometimes i like terrible movies. AND i used to watch the gotti family reality show years ago on VH1. So, this might just be up my alley lol


if you like terrible movies,a ccoridng to rotton tomatoes most of Michael Bays stuff is pretty bad. hie films average a 38%


haha! I don't even know who he is! Also, what does a "fresh rating" on rotten tomatoes mean?


a fresh rating is something that has 70% or more I believe. Just means that its widely considered to be a good movie. which no video game movies have, the highest one in that category is only 44%


oh wow. and apparently ashton kutcher's movies aren't that great either!


it doesn't list his average, it just says he hasn't been in a single movie with a fresh rating


oh man, thats sad for him. I like his movies usually


i don't recall too many of his movies, i've seen a couple and they are alright. i did like him in that 70s show!


that show wasn't my cup of tea, but I enjoy him when hes on Shark Tank


Did you see the latest John Gotti Movie with John Travolta?


I haven't seen it yet, but I am excited for it despite it getting a 0% rating on rotten tomatoes.


I like Travolta but this has been done so many times already. The best version I've seen is with Armand Assante


True that it has been done so many times already, but I don't think that the harsh assessments of the critics were rather harsh


Yeah most times i ignore them as the audience usually right. It's owned by Warner brothers so there you go, ha ha


I mean some even said it was the worst mob movie of all time. Also you are right, the marketing team for Gotti did a good job turning the situation around to gather a greater following.


Netflix has about 150 movies with a score of 100% on RT.


I wonder how good those 150 movies are. I have to say though that most of the time, Rotten Tomatoes does a very good job of rating its movies, much better than imdb.


No they we're the original rotten tomatoes. they use to come on tv Sundays i think an actually review movies with clips it was pretty cool.


Oh! I have never heard of or used Siskel & Ebert before. I used rotten tomatoes ever since I saw spykids after seeing that it had a 93% fresh rating on rotten tomatoes


13 years before the sequel there was a video game called the incredibles raise of the underminer.


It is too bad that no film based on video games have gotten above 44%. Speaking of incredibles raise of the underminer, have you seen the incredibles?


I saw the first one, i enjoyed it...Funny!! It's set in the 60's a pretty good time period.


I also enjoyed incredibles 2 created by walt disney. Most sequels don't do very well, but disney did a good job.


I did not see the second one but im sure your right.  Apparently Disney thought about closing their animation studio because Sleeping Beauty did so bad.


Well its weird that Sleeping Beauty did so bad considering how iconic it is today. Although I'm sure their experience with treasure planet in the box office sure didn't help


Ha ha! You know it's all about the mighty dollar. I didn't realize that Tom Hanks is the highest movie earnings of all time. 8.5 million. is that from toy story you think?


I mean he is a star capable of carrying the whole movie by himself to an amazing degree. It is better to pay a good actor rather than flop like trojan wars The movie with a budge of 15million only earned 309 dollars in box office


That's one i never got to see either, doge a bullet you say, ha ha! Now Silence of the lamb on the other hand with Anthony Hopkins was a hit. 270 million.


I have to concur. In any case, this was a wonderful opportunity to chat about movies.


Hey! Have you heard about that "Gotti" movie? 0% on Rotten Tomatoes.


I never understood the Rotten Tomatoes rating. I guess having a higher rating is good. I didn't know it was ratings from critics.


Yes, it's the percent of critics who recommend the film. No critics have recommended it so far.


Surely, someone somewhere has to like it. Supposedly, the fan ratings are fake.


They say that it's being well received by audiences. What do you make of that? Marketing? Or are the critics wrong?


I think it could be a little of both. Sometimes, fans want to prove the critics wrong.


Yes, that's true. Did you know that Rotten Tomatoes is owned by Warner Brothers?


No, I didn't. I also have no idea what it means when something is "fresh" on rotten tomatoes. Do you know?


I think "fresh" means recommended - the percent of critics who support the film. But, with it being owned by a major studio, you have to wonder about bias.


I agree. Maybe the studio liked it, and other people didn't...or vice versa.


It would be interesting to study how WB films fare there versus their biggest competitors, and versus independent films.


Yes. The Toy Story movies have a 100% rating, though, and I don't believe they are Warner Bros movies.


Yes, and Spykids got 93%. If there is bias, it's probably subtle, but who knows.


Have you seen SpyKids? I haven't. I loved that movie about the superhero kids in high school. What was that called?


I haven't seen it. Did you know that Disney almost shut down their animation studios after Sleeping Beauty came out? It did very poorly at the box office.


No, I didn't know that. I don't think I have ever seen the movie, Sleeping Beauty, although I did have the paper dolls when I was a little girl.


Yeah, Disney's had some ups and downs. Treasure Planet was one of the most expensive box office failures of all time.


Is that the one that was a Muppet movie? Oh, no I think that was Treasure Island. I didn't see either one of those. Disney has had some box office home runs, though, like the whole Pirates of the Caribbean series.


Yes, they've had a lot of success! I find it comforting to think of them having failures too - we all have our ups and downs.


Yes. It makes it seem a little less like Disney is taking over the world. They even own the Star Wars movies now.


Yes! Well, it's been good talking to you. Have a good night!


You, too! Have a great night. Happy New Year!


I'm great, what do you think about Stephen Hawking and his beliefs about God


I think he is brilliant and his ideologies are definitely worth knowing. You?


I agree he was brilliant and came up with interesting theories and facts about the universe, I tend to agree with some of his ideas about God and church


I wonder if his atheism is related to science and the larger universe.


I think it is, the more you read and learn the more you will question yourself and your beliefs, too bad he died altough with his condition im suprised he made it to age 76


I agree. I was shocked he made it that long. I know I took a ton of science classes in college and started questioning everything. I really tried to read his books but they were so far over my head.


Yea ha they are hard to follow, did you ever read The Theory of Everything? its a great book but hard to understand


No, I tried to read a brief history of time. It was not brief and made me feel bad about myself.


It was pretty long indeed lol, but I guess the title says brief because of how big the universe actually is and it would take an enormous book to document only what we know up to date in a summarized way


Did you read it? I ever tried reading it upside down so it would force me to read it more carefully and concentrate. Only book I had trouble with. Well, that and organic chemistry.


I tried to read it and read some pages but never finished it, you know that there are scientists who believe that universes also evolve through natural selection


That's weird. Not something I would have thought of. Or it could be one giant superhologram.


One superhologram? I guess thats a valid theory as well, we know so little about space everything is possible.


Like there is only one electron in the universe? Where is it and who has it?


Too many questions and few answers, I guess its a good thing we have physics, at least we can answer some question by applying them.


Not if the physicist is Kim Jong-Un. You may just get shot...


I agree, I think he has a false degree on physics he sure lies a lot.


I agree. He may have a degree but it's definitely not legit. What are his professors going to do, fail him?


Thats true, not a lot of options there lol,  there is a theory that states that the universe could have come from nothing,


Who isn't. John did some incredible stuff


absolutely, especially with Geoff Emerick as a sound engineer


Yeah!  They were the first to do so many neat things that they redefined what it meant to do sound engineering.


yeah have you heard the work done on Revolver?


Sweet!  Amazing what they did as a band without even being able to read music!


And their genius stands the test of time. The Beatles have the best selling albums of the 2000's!


Yep and they use the word love 613 times!


My first words as a baby came straight from the lyrics of one of their songs on the album, Meet the Beatles. They were influential in my life, but are largely regarded as the most influential band in US history.


Which is especially impressive given they're not American. Paul even composes classical music.


Really? Cool!  I thought it was inspirational when I learned that Ringo was illiterate for much of his childhood due to years of missed schooling from illness. Amazingly, he later went on to be a Narrator on the Thomas the Tank Engine children's TV show!


Yeah that's pretty impressive that he was able to do that, I grew up watching that show


I remember how the Beatles became so popular that they had to stop touring because the screams from the fans were so loud.


Yeah they were so popular with Beatlemania


Right, I forgot about that! Well, mania is not uncommon with the latest fad music. Believe it or not, even classical music had loud, wild, moving audiences during performances back in the day.


Oh for sure, you ever see the movie Armadeus? It really was the popular music of the time


Yeah. Even today, some fans are so obsessed with the music it is amazing. Like, there is one dude, Arthur Lintgen, who can identify a piece of classical music by simply looking at the grooves on a vinyl record.


Classical music have also been used to decrease crime in cities all over the world, it's fascinating.


Yeah, and to curb teen loitering in shopping centers. Hey, nice chatting with you!


Good afternoon. Did you hear about John Lennon wanting to sound like the Dalai Lama?


Yeah, the Beatles went through a phase with that stuff.  Harrison is the only one that stuck with it.


I didn't realize the Beatles have been around since 1960.


Yeah, that must count their time in Europe (e.g., Hamburg).  I didn't know that none of them could read music.


Ringo star was illiterate for most of his childhood.


Hmm.  I guess he did OK for himself just having rhythm. Emerick used a "rotating Leslie speaker" -- never heard of such a thing.


Never heard of that either. I read they stopped touring bc current amplification technology couldn't keep up over the screaming.


Yeah, girls can be loud.  I was surprised to learn that Emerick worked with Elvis Costello... He's one of my favorites.


Do you use the internet a lot? The Russians built a computer that ran on water.


Yes.  As an engineer I appreciate his philosophy that "Everything is possible, nothing is impossible."


That's a good quote. Did you know smoking near an apple computer voids the warranty?


I heard that.  I didn't know that the Beatles song "Come Together" was for a Timothy Leary's CA governor's campaign.


O that's pretty cool. I wonder if he won.


I don't think so.  LSD wouldn't go over as a qualification.  Are you into computers?


Yes I am. I read the space shuttles general purpose computers runs on 1mb ram.


Yeah, there were 3 of them that used "voting" to get better results.  I bet they didn't smoke near them. :)


That's funny. Did you see the one built from mine craft building blocks?


Never saw a pic of that.  Do you like classical music?  Some don't like teenagers at a shopping center in Australia where it's used to keep them from loitering.


That's cool. Some cities are using the music to deter crime.


Cool. I can't believe that in 2011 a computer actually composed a piece of classical music.


That's cool. I heard audiences get loud, at classical concerts. Nice chatting with you


I'm a fan!  It's going to be 60 years next year since they were first formed in Liverpool in 1960.  I can't believe it's been that long.


Yeah, i feel old LOL They really evolved over the years. I was sad that they break up, but i understand why.


Yes.  Amazingly the Beatles have the best selling album of the 2000's!  Pretty amazing that they still have that kind of fan power still.


They wrote the classic songs that influenced so many musicians. I dont know what their first hit was though.


You know what?  I don't that.  I think it's because they have so many good songs.  The Beatles wrote "Come Together" for Timothy Leary's 1969 California governor campaign.


I never knew that. Timothy Leary, the LSD guy? Come Together? Ok, i guess he needed a song. it is a cool song too.


That surprised me.  That must have been when John was already heavy into politics.  Ringo was illiterate for most of his childhood because he missed 3 years of school due to tuberculosis and peritonitis.


That is amazing! I am surprised he didnt die. i wonder what he did with his time. did he listen to music?


I'm not sure.  The Beatles stopped touring because the amplification technology of the time couldn't keep up over the screaming!


The fans were fanatics. i would go to hear the music and just hear screaming. not worth it. i would just listen to the albums.


Yes...I don't think they really toured that much here in the states.  Here's an interesting fact:  none of the Beatles could read music.


Most of them learned to play by ear, which is typical of rock and pop musicians.


Yes!  I've heard that of a lot of musicians.  Do you know anything interesting about computers?


I know that the russians built a computer powered by water back in 1930s.


I wonder how that worked?  They must have used the water to generate a power source.  I didn't even know they had computers back then. lol


There were mechanical computers before that. computers are an old idea. someone built one in minecraft even!


I wonder how that worked? lol  The space shuttles general purpose computer ran on 1mb of ram.  Crazy.  It's been fun chatting!


The programmers used the RAM carefully. Yes, i have fun chatting!


I don't know about you, but one detail that I remember from my childhood is watching my brother play the Legend of Zelda on our Nintendo 64. Did you ever play that game?


I don't play that game but I love Nintendo and I like playing Mario, always a favorite!


I guess the company was first founded as a card playing company back in 1889, making it over a century old


That's crazy! I had no idea! I really like Pokemon Go, I like the handheld console that they made just for that game. My son plays too and always wears his favorite lucky Pokemon Go shirt lol.


That's fun that you have something you can enjoy together. Nintendo also owns the Mariners, meaning they do more than just video games. If you're at a Mariners game, you can use a 3DS app to order food to your seat


It is great fun to play the pokemon go with my son, so Nintendo owns the Mariners?? Wow, that's crazy and interesting! They also produced lego knock offs at one point!


I wonder how long that venture lasted. They also created the first racing game to run at 60 frames per second. It's crazy how much technology has evolved over the past few decades


I know, technology is amazing. I bet we see more and more pretty fast. I wonder if Nintendo has any games that you can play Tennis, that would be fun!


I know the Wii Sports has tennis on it. I think I remember there also being a Mario Tennis game for the 64 as well. Do you play tennis?


I love tennis, but don't get to play very often, but I do love tennis games and I do believe they have one for the Wii. I will have to check it out! It is funny to me all the businesses Nintendo tried prior to going to games in the 70's, they tried everything haha


Many businesses that are now successful have similar stories. They learn how to pivot until they find something that is profitable. Now they're one of the largest and best-known video game companies in the world


Very true! I wonder if Nintendo ever tried any clothing lines, like shirts and shorts, but I guess there are always clothes with brand names in graphics on them. They are huge, valued at over 85 billion dollars.


Since they own the Mariners, I wonder if they technically do have some clothing. Sometimes we know things by their brand rather than the parent company


Very true. I bet they have made clothes, it would be a huge market just to sell Tee shirts or even polo shirts like they wear in tennis.


What's funny is that polo shirts started with tennis players before it was later worn by polo players. The name is deceiving


I heard that, pretty interesting. I believe Rene ( the crocodile) Lacoste was the designer of polo shirts.


That's what I've heard. What I didn't know is that there's a difference between a button down and a button up, depending on whether the collar tips fasten to the shirt


Really? Haha, I did not know that, hmmm. That is as funny as in China gang fashion involved layering as many shirts as someone could put on and popping the collars, never knew that was a thing!


I think I've seen photos of that before. It's not any stranger than the aloha shirt being the official business attire in Hawaii


Right! That is pretty cool though, I am sure they love wearing shirts like that.


It's probably more comfortable. Billy May's funeral pallbearers wore khaki pants and blue shirts to his funeral


I'm good, thanks for asking.  Do you like Tennis?


I have never really sat down to watch it to be honest.


I watch a little, mainly the Open when it's playing.  Do you realize a black man has not won te US open tennis title since 1968?


Yeah, you would think with Serena and her sister Venus dominating on the women's side, a black man would represent, as well?


You would think that huh. Maybe they should grunt more. I guess it gives ou a leg up in tennis.


Apparently! lol I just learned recently that polp shirts were originally invented for tennis.


I didnt know that. I used to play table tennis. do you like table tennis.


Yes, I played as a kid.  Was pretty good actually, I picked it quick.


You dont get really good until ou learn to put that side english on the ball. Lol.


all the time when I was a kid. Love me some mario.


Me too, I didn't realize they started out as a
 playing card company way back in 1889.


A long time age they have came a long way huh. Did you know that NES had online gameplay capabilities


Yes, you know they are the 3rd most valuable company in Japan with a market value over $85 Billion?


Wow. that is really amazing. A lot of money.


Yes, it is.  Did you know Nintendo owns the Seattle Mariners?


Thats cool. Guess its really true how big of baseball fans the Japanese people are.


Yes, they are.  I've visited Japan many times , they are crazy about baseball and video games.  Well, it's been nice chatting with you this morning.  Have a good day, friend!


How's it going, have you've ever played Nintendo games? It was founded in 1889 way before video games were made


I like nintendo very much. Especially f-zero which is the first racing game to run at 60 fps


It's crazy how much stuff nintendo use to do before video games, like cab services and love hotels


They even made a lego knockoff before they produced videogames. They have a great many videogame franchises


Yea I love Mario, Pokemon, and Zelda, they are all great franchises


The newest mario game is supposed to be very good.


Yea it's pretty good. Did you know Nintendo owns the Seattle Mariners?


Yes, they even have a 3ds app for ordering food to your seat, crazy!


I wonder if Nintendo owns any other sports teams, they do have a market value of 85 billion


That value is probably why they were able to release a console specifically for pokemon


I wonder how much the original playing cards Nintendo made in 1889 are worth now


There are probably many other items that they made as well, I wonder if they ever made polo shirts


Nintendo did make mario tennis games. Tennis is a pretty crazy sport, the longest match was 11 hours


There have been many interesting tennis matches. The first black man won the 1st US open title in 1968


It's odd that a black man has never won the US open since then


Just one year after that victory they used a helicopter to dry the fields at the us open


It's crazy Polos were originally invented for Rene Lacoste


gangs in china used to layer polos and pop the collars


Interesting, did you know the pallbearers at Billy Mays' funeral wore blue shirts and khakis just like Mays use to?


That is interesting that they didn't wear buttoned shirts


Well I got to go, nice chatting with you


Have you seen any of the new spider man movies?


I have seen the one before this recent one. I will watch the latest as soon as I can.


Can you believe a teen injected himeslef with mercury at least three times in an attempt to convert his bones to metal after seeing x-men?


It really is! Can you believe Michael Jackson tried buying Marvel in the 90's?


No I did not know that. I did see that in the opening to 1990s spider man was performed by Joe Perry.


Wow that is awesome. I wonder if it was good? I'll have to listen to it sometime! Do you know where the word brainiac came from?


I remember a brainiac  character from the superman comics when I was a kid.


That's where it came from! I can't believe DC Comics only paid 130 dollars for the rights to superman!


Marvel does great things though, did you hear what they did about a kid with hearing aids?


Some kid was saying that superheroes don't wear hearing aids to his mother, so Marvel created a superhero that does. So cool!


It really was! Anyways nice chatting with you!


Oh yes very fun company! I am happy with how the Walt Disney company has handled things since acquiring them in 2009.


Yes it has been around for a while. But at that time they were called Timely Publications.


Very cool stat right there. They once created a superhero for a boy who was deaf.


Such a nice thing to do. Are you referring to blue ear? I love when companies do things like that.


Yep, that is Blue Ear. Such a good thing to do. Melts my heart hearing stories like that.


It really does! Do you like the Marvel character Spider-man? He is the only character who Sony has the rights to!


I love Spider Man. I did not know that Sony had rights to him.


Yes back in 1998 they bought the rights for $10 million!


Wow that's a lot of money. I saw the military is trying to make a spider-man like abilities for soldiers.


Hah that would be epic! There was 700 comic issues of the Amazing Spider Man.


That's a lot! Sad that Stan Lee passed away this year. He brought a lot of joy to the world.


I was sad to hear about his passing. He left a great legacy though. He received 10% of the net profits of anything based on his characters!


That's very cool he got that legacy. Do you read comic books ever?


I did in the past. I liked both Marvel and DC comics. DC stands for detective comics.


Me too. I didn't know that's what it stands for. Very cool to know.


If you ever want to see the largest publicly available comic book collection, just go to The Michigan State University Library!


That's hilarious. I'm not too far from Michigan so I'll have to drive up there and check it out one day.


Yeah that would be really cool to see. It is a huge market and it was valued at 1.09 billion dollars in 2016. Well it was lovely being able to talk with you today!


Hello, I am doing good this morning. Yeah I like Marvel. Me and my son are always watching superhero movies.


Nice, me too although I am not a huge Fantastic Four fan. I think the movie killed it for me...


Yeah, we havnt seen that one yet, and he isnt at the age to get into comic books yet.


That makes sense. Sony turned down most of marvel's characthers in 1998 and spent $10M on spiderman. That was not a great choice but siderman is making some money.


Im not big on spiderman. I know it probably makes them a lot of money but I personally think X-Men is a lot better show. It wouldnt have hurt Disneys wallet any to throw in another 15 million for X-Men. Im sure Marvel came out on that deal anyway.


Yeah! I too love X-Men. I own the DVDs of all the cartoons. I will throw them in every few month and get nostolgic about them. Really like them. Who's your favorite


Wolverine. I like the story behind him, and he just seems like a real dude as well.


Yeah. He's one of my favorites; I always felt bad for him. I like Night Crawler the most though. I like his powers.


If I could pick on power to have it would be professor Xaviors. To be able to read and control minds would be crazy.


Yeah, that would be nice. Did you know there is a characther that is owned by both Marvel and DC, named access?


He looks a little corny with blue costume and red piping but his job is to stop the two universes from becomming one.


Oh yeah. If they did what a world it would be, huh. SSo why do you think Spider Man has always been so popular. I just dont see it.


I really liked the first one but the new ones have been tough to watch. I do like Andrew Garfield though. I heard 3 companies own his rights so they all have a spin, which is why there are a lot of them and different versions.


3 companies huh. I think they need to stick to one storyline at a time, and really go deep into it. I want a story that makes me want to watch it to see what happens next and Spiderman just doesnt do that for me.


I agree. I heard the new Spiderman Universe cartoon movie was really good. I would like to see that one.


I hadnt heard of it till now. Its just crazy the amount of money they make from this kind of stuff though.


Yeah. I just saw the latest Avengers movie on Netflix and was surprissed to see him on there...


I think he is good in roles like that. Just one of the group. I dont think the story is interesting enough to make a series based just on Spider Man.


Hi, I'm good. How are you?  Do you read any marvel comics or watch the movies?


i like some of them.  I am hoping there are more movies now that Walt Disney has bought Marvel.  I imagine Marvel characters are at the theme parks too.


Probably. There will probably be a whole wing of the park for them and star wars, now that they own them too.


i am sure that you are right about that!  Did you know that Disney does not own the rights to the big marvel characters east of the mississippi?


I did not but now that I am thinking of it, I may have seen thor at Universal in Orlando.


You probably did.  Marvel signed a contract with Universal back in the 1990s so Disney can't show the characters at Disney World but they can at Disney Land.


I think Disney would be able to do more with them in terms of movies and rides. But Universal probably has plans...


i bet they do.  You know Sony had the chance to buy them but only bought Spiderman because they thought that was all people would care about.  They were so wrong!


Yeah! There is one charatcher that is owned by marvel and DC. have you heard about this person?


No I haven't.  What's the scoop on that?  I had no idea DC would own something with Marvel.


I guess his name is access and he makes sure the characters do not cross into the other universe.


Talk about taking stuff too seriously!  I mean, they are only comic book characters in a comic book universe.  Then again, Marvel was able to argue in court that mutants are not people in order to pay a lower rate for the action figures.  I can't imagine going to court to argue about x-men!


What if the financial difference was hundreds of millions. It's worth a shot, right?


i guess you are right about that.  I just don't know how i would keep a straight face as the lawyer or judge though.


I am sure there are a lot of cases that both people laugh at but if it pays off, it would be worth it. If Marvel or DC has in-house lawyers, they are salaried so make them earn their keep!


True, very true!  I bet it was fun working for Stan Lee too.  I heard he always ended every phone call with the word- excelsior!


I wish I had a cool line like that when I hung up the phone.  Do you have one?


No i don't but I wish I did too.  You've got to be a non conformist I think in order to be as creative as he was you know what i mean?  He was smart too.  His company published a generic comic book so they could trademark the names super-hero and super-villain.


The Venom movie is coming soon.  Are you going to see it?


I know. I wonder why they decided to use venom in this movie. I like some of the other villains


Venom is a catchy name.  Wonder if it will be true to the comic book, or go its own way.


I think it won't be true at all.They need to attract all sorts of audiences.


Deadpool stuck closely to the comic book and does very well as a franchise.


Of course, Ryan reynolds is great, and very funny.


Who ever thought that comic book villains could become subjects of movies?  Sort of an anti-hero.


Yea, people like that stuff. Also, all sorts of hero movies are in at this time. Did you know marvel published a generic comic book in order to trade mark the names super-hero and super-villain?


It doesn't surprise me.  Rumors are that Carnage, another Spider Man villain, will be Venom's antagonist.


Oh, yeah.  Carnage is even more lethal than Venom.


He has power similar to SpiderMan, but is an alien.


that's crazy had no idea. I wonder if he was human at some point too.


No.  Carnage is an extraterrestrial parasite, and is an enemy of Venom.  I think the long range goal is eventually tie everything together into a SpiderMan mega-movie.


Wow, amazing.Who is playing Peter Parker now a days?


No idea.  They have different Batmans all the time, why not Spider Mans.


Always felt George Clooney was the best.


Spider Man has been so successful.  Sony bought the rights for $10M in 1998.  What a bargain!


How's it going, do you swim? People are able to swim weeks after birth


I'm afraid to ask what Elmo testified to Congress about. Something about funding PBS, maybe?


Maybe, or maybe elmo cheated on his taxes


LOL. Sorry, I didn't see your initial comment. No, I don't swim. Do you? I remember the swimming baby on the cover of Nirvana's Nevermind.


Yea if there is a pool around, I'd really like to learn how to do the front crawl that Native Americans introduced to the British


Interesting. I don't live near a pool and the water outdoors is very cold here most of the year, but I do a lot of walking for cardio.


I like to watch swimming on the Olympics, The US almost as many gold medals in swimming than the rest of the world combined!


I wonder why the US is better at swimming. I never watch the Olympics much, but it's interesting how countries develop a division of labor on what they're good at.


I don't know, maybe it has to do with the swimsuits. The olympics did ban one swimsuit worn by 94% of the winners in the 2008 races


That's weird. I wonder what they thought was unfair about it -- I'd have thought choosing swimsuits for characteristics that aided speed would just be an accepted thing.


I guess not, maybe Congress found something unproper about the olympic swimsuits


I don't get why, if it was available for everyone to wear.


I guess everyone didn't have access to it. Did you know there is a type of swimming were people swim just like dolphins?


I noticed that. I've heard of some weird ideas for sports, but that's out there. On the subject of shoes, my old work boots have lasted me about 6 years but it's about time to get some new ones at the surplus store. Do you have many pairs of shoes?


I think I have 2 pairs of shoes. It's crazy there is 5000 year old shoes that perform better than modern shoes


I'm not surprised, considering how much stuff today is deliberately designed to fall apart so you have to buy more. Sounds like you've got about as many shoes as I do.


I wonder how reliable the $15 shoes Stephon Marbury promotes are


I should google them. But I really need heavy boots -- I usually get army surplus or steel-toed lineman's boots.


I think I need to buy some tea bags from my shoes to see if they really do absorb odor


I usually have a lot of used teabags, so I should try that too.


Well I got to go, nice chatting with you


I love swimming. Do not think that I am a professional, I am not a professional.


It's okay.  Most people swim for recreation and exercise.


I can only doggie paddle. Do you like to swim?


I do.  I enjoy swimming in summer with my grandchildren. I also enjoy watching swimming competition in the Olympics.


That is sweet. Who is your favorite swimmer athlete?


I saw him in the Ellen DeGeneres show. He was teaching Andy how to swim.


That was cool.  Do you know that native americans introduced the front crawl swimming to the west?


Just like it sounds.  It mostly uses hand strength.  The British people only used breaststroke before it was introduced by the native americans.


I think it is similar.  By the way, the US received as many as gold medals in the Olympics in swimming as the rest of the world combined.


Well, then maybe our practices increases way more stability.


For sure.  Did you hear that there was one type of swimsuit that was banned by the Olympics?


It has nothing to do with appearance.  It was because 94% of swimmers wearing the banned swimsuit won the races during 2008 Olympic.


That is weird. What a ridiculous situation.


It is.  Also, Cornell university students must pass a basic swimming test before they are allowed to graduate.  That is a ridiculous requirement.


That is ridiculous. I would definitely lose. Good thing my major is not in Cornell.


I've got to run.  Nice chatting with you.


I am not sure.  But I'd definitely see the recent Spider Man film.  I heard it was really good.  And it won some Oscars


I heard it was really good, hes not my favorite superhero, but Id definitely see it also.


No, never have read many of them.  I miss out on a lot of back story that way.


Yeah, I never got into comic books or manga.  But I do like graphic novels.


Cool.  Did you know Stan Lee used to end all of his phone conversations with "Excelsior!"


No I didn't.  I heard Stan Lee wanted Spider-Man to have a hyphen so people didn't confuse it with Superman.  Makes sense to me.


I agree.  There are so many superheroes, I can see why people can get them confused.


Yes definitely.  Did you know the rival of Cap'n crunch, called Sogmaster, exists in Marvel.  He has fought Spiderman. Ha ha


I didnt know Cap'n Crunch was a superhero.  Thats pretty cool.


I know, ha ha.  Have you seen the movie Black Panther?


I havent, I just saw that its on Netflix, so I have to check it out.


Oh I didn't realize it was on Netflix already.  I'll have to watch it.  Did you know that Marvel invented a superhero called Blue Ear just to make a 4 year old boy feel better about wearing hearing aids?


I heard about that.  That is the best.  I love things like that, it helps out kids realize that they are ok.


Definitely.  Everyone needs to feel like they have super powers, but especially kids having a hard time!


Plus, that way they feel that it is ok to be different.


Yes.  Did you know the largest comic book market is Japan, and that France is another large market?


I would believe that in Japan, but didnt realize that in France.


Yeah, French people really like comic books, manga, and graphic novels.  There is a long tradition of comic books in France.


Thats pretty cool.  Sony didnt take the rights to Marvel characters in 1998.  They only bought Spider-Man


Wow I think Disney owns part of Marvel too.


Just not the big character like the Xmen, and Avengers.  I am not sure who that leaves though.


Oh okay.  Well speaking of comic books, I'd like to someday visit the comic collection at Michigan State University.  It's the largest comic collection in the world.  And its open to the public.


That is pretty neat.  I bet it is pretty diverse.


Yeah.  They must have comics from all over the world


Probably a lot of older comics too.  That would be neat to see the development of comics.


Yeah.  I think Marvel started in the 1930s or so.


It would be cool if they even had stuff that predated Marvel, if that is even a thing.


I think there are comics way before that.


I think it is cool how they have different universes, even within the same franchise.


Yeah, but it is a smart business decision to do that.


I think it was even neat that Marvel published a generic comic book, just so they could trade mark superhero and supervillain.


That is why they are legendary.  Its been great chatting!


Since he was created in 1962, Spider-Man has really become popular.


It really has.  I have not followed it much but there are at least 1/2 dozen movies.    its amazing Sony rejected buying the rights from Marvel for 25 million.  They really missed an opportunity of a lifetime!


The 1960's really was the Silver Age of Comic books.


Being born in the early 1960's, I remember pestering mom when we went into town to let me get a comic book.  It seems to have had a resurgence of late.  Did you know that Marvel created a blue ear superhero for a 4-year old boy who was uncomfortable wearing his necessary hearing aid.  The boy told his mom superheroes don't wear hearing aids.  That was really an amazing gesture from Marvel Comics!


Spider-Man's alter ego Peter Parker lived an ordinary life as an orphan in the comic.


How Stan lee dreams up this stuff is amazing.  Peter Parker is an orphan who gets bit by a radioactive spider to get his spider abilities!  Did you know that Stan Lee hyphenated Spider-Man so that he would not be confused with Superman?


He can climb walls and shoot spider webs.  Sometimes I wish I could do that.


Those are interesting superpowers, but I rather the Iron Man suit.  Spider-man made a brief appearance in the third Avengers movie.


The Marvel characters have superpowers, but are written as human, too.  Peter Parker had to deal with issues of adolescence and finance.


it sees that is the case with most of them.  Human issues with a superpower alter ego.  Did you know there was a Spider-Man Broadway musical?  It happened to be the most expensive Broadway production (75 mill) and had numerous delays and injuries.  At one time it closed because its injury insurance was canceled!


The musical is probably worth more than the $25M that Sony could have paid for most of the Marvel franchise in 1998.


True.  What I find amazing is the collector's market for both Marvel and DC comic books.  Did you know Marvel once published a generic comic book to trademark the names "Super-Hero" and "Super-Villain"?


There is even a character shared by both Marvel and DC, whose purpose is to keep the comic universes separate.


I heard about that.  I guess that is why DC Comics "Superman" and "Wonderwoman" are never part of Marvel's Avengers.   Did you know that Michigan State University has the largest publicly available comic book collection in the world?  That must be Mecca for comic book readers and collectors!


I wonder how far back their collection goes.  Comics appear to have originated in Japan in the 18th century.


Supposedly comic books took off in the US and the UK in 1933 with the publishing of "Famous Funnies".  Famous Funnies was a reprint of a collection of newspaper comic strips with simple plots.  I am not quite sure when "real" comic books appeared with longer story lines of all genre and not restricted to humorous tones.


Marvel has a history almost that long.  It started in the 1930's as Timely Publications.  In 1961 it acquired the Marvel name.


They really have an impressive history.  But many of the founding creative geniuses have passed away.  Stan Lee died in November 2018.  Do you think they can keep the momentum going without the genius of Stan Lee?  Stan had an interesting eccentricity.  He ended each phone call not with good bye, but with "Excelsior!".


Disney owns Marvel now.  If anyone can maintain a franchise, it's Disney.


True.  Disney has kept George Lucas's creations, Star Wars and Indiana Jones, going strong for some time now.  Its interesting that Disney can't have big Marvel characters in their theme parks east of the Mississippi.  Apparently Marvel, prior to the Disney acquisition, gave those rights to Universal Studios.


I'll be like Stan Lee, and end this conversation... Excelsior!


trees are interesting, I didnt know they could change their gender


I was just reading about the acer pensylvanicum that can switch from male to female.  Had you ever heard of that before??


No, thats new for me, didnt know trees had a sex apparently this can be determined when they bloom


I know! This particular tree is a striped maple found in the US and Canada. I wonder if that affects if they produce maple syrup  or not.


I don't know but it sounds like it's a weird species, it can take a mere three weeks to bloom and can switch sexes, that must be a pretty unique capability


Right.  Apparently it's triggered to switch from male to female if there's been damage done. I wonder why that would be??


I think theres a lot to learn about this tree still, they arent sure why it can change sexes and I guess there a lot to learn about the tree, maybe info that will change how we view nature


Not only that, but apparently the worry is that climate change will cause more damage, and make more females, and less males, which could be the end of the species.  That's sad.


It is, specially if we dont know how to control that, maybe we will learn before its too late, not producing enough fruit can have consequences on the ecosystem as well


On a lighter note, did you know it's illegal to own a rabbit in Queensland (presumably Australia) unless you are a scientist or have a magician's license!!


I didnt, thats interesting the emperor of Japan is a scientist I guess he can own a rabbit in Australia if he ever decides to leave power and go to live there


LOL. I didn't know that. I do think rabbits are found in a lot of literature, especially fantasy literature, like Alice in Wonderland or Watership Down.


So you like fantasy literature?  George R. R Martin is one of my favorite authors


Trying to think if there are any rabbits in Game of Thrones LOL
 But seriously, who doesn't like fantasy lit?  I was surprised to find out it's a pretty modern genre, with most written since the 1960s.


I cant recall any lol, and yeah, I cant believe its a modern genre I wouldnt know what to do without fantasy in my life,


I read a lot of fairy tales when I was a kid.  Would they be classified as fantasy?


Yeah I think they are, speaking of GOT, you know that George R.R Martin was unsure about putting dragons into the mix, good thing he did,


No kidding. They make great TV.  But I would like to read his books, as well.  I imagine they're pretty good.  Have you read the books?


Yes, they are as good as the series, more details in the books fantasy novels are great


I read that one fantasy author named Peter Brett wrote his first book ON HIS PHONE while commuting. That's amazing!


That is amazing! I guess he took advantage of that unused time commuting


Not really. I find they have too much CGI. What about you?


I like some of them like Spider-man. DO you know why there is a hyphen in the name?


I have no idea why. Why not just one word? Other superheroes have names like that.


Because Stan Lee did not want it confused with superman


Ok, I see. I guess that makes sense. Stan the Man knew what he was doing.


For sure, he was a legend. Did you know Marvel offered the rights of characters to Sony but they only bought Spiderman?


I think they did not foresee the appeal of superheros to a public starved for entertainment. A mistake on their part.


Yeah for sure, they could have made much more now. Do you know who did the voice of Madame web in the spiderman series back in the day?


Yeah it was actually Stan Lee's wife, Joan B. Lee


I guess he chose her for the job. I never really watched the show.


I see. The Spider-man musical is the most expensive production on Broadway


A Broadway production of Spider-man? That's an odd choice. Not very typical.


Yeah, I know. It cost $75 million and the music and lyrics were done by Bono of U2


I guess there is a star factor there, but I would not want to risk my money on that investment. Too unusual. TV and movies are better for superheroes.


Yeah I guess. Have you heard of the superhero named Access?


It is the superhero that maintains the balance between the two and they both own it


That's great! I guess they are frenemies of a sort. Well, I enjoyed chatting! Have a good night!


I'm not a big comic fan and I've only seen the first Spider-man movie, but I'd like to see more of them.


The cereal? I liked the crunchberry kind when I was a little kid. Do you?


Nah, I usually eat a yogurt berry smoothie for breakfast. You?


Not really. I mostly listen to 90s grunge and punk. I respect his skill as a musical artist though. Are you a fan of his?


I think MJ was the greatest musician ever. Do you agree?


It's hard for me to rank artists in different genres, but in terms of technical skill and creativity he's definitely in the top rank. Re Spiderman comics, one reason he was so popular was that the older generation of comics only had teens as sidekicks to adults, and he was the first teen to be a superhero in his own right.


Yeah. I notice that in the old "Greatest Generation" era of comics the teen sidekicks were always about a head shorter than the adult superhero, kind of like Bud on Father Knows Best. Like they were trying to infantilize them.


Have you ever read the first spider man?


Nah, I've never been a much of a comics person, but I'd like to catch up on the movies. You?


Yeah, me either. Did you see the movie Glass?


I never heard of it to be honest. Was it good?


It wasn't that good. I didn't like the end. They killed Bruce Willis' character. Let's just say, he didn't "Die Hard?"


I've never seen that one either, LOL. I guess I should, since it's such a big part of pop culture.


Nice. Did you know DC comics paid $130 for the rights superman?


I only read that recently. That's amazing. I'm not a believer in copyright in the first place, but paying that little for a copyright that you can used to keep the creators from using their own ideas is especially awful.


Hilarious, did you know google purchased the domain gmail?


I thought they originally owned it because it was a Google application.


Yeah, that is crazy! Well nice chatting with you!


hi how are you? are you interested in fantasy?


Hello! I'm doing great! I am to a point haha how about you?


I know a little about the genre. I read fantasy lit when I was younger. Tolkien. You?


Same here! I'm interested in what this fantasy congress is though!


I guess for political junkies and policy wonks, it is a lot of fun. for me? no.


Me neither haha. I want to read that fantasy novel that was written in the 2nd century! It talked about the moon, aliens, and war between planets. My mind is blown!


Wow. that is quite imaginative. i wonder who wrote it. that is amazing!


I'm still in shock people thought of that back then. It does make me believe in aliens haha. I don't know if I have time to read the longest work of fiction ever though.


No but close! This one had 3 million words in it!


That is insane. I wonder how long it took to write that many words.


I don't even want to know I would be so bored haha. Are you into science at all?


I like science. i enjoyed it in high school. You?


Same here. There was only one scientist that has walked on the moon which is nuts!


I think the astronauts are selected from a pool of pilots. not a whole lot of pure scientists there. in the future that could change.


I hope so because I feel they put all the work in!


Yes the scientists and engineers dont get to enjoy the fruits of their labor! Maybe Elon can change things.


I hope so! That's cool that Japan's emperor is a scientist! We need minds like that in more in control of society!


There will be a new emperor in Japan this year. Yes, we need more scientists and people trained in science. Anyway, great chat!


Great chat to you as well, have a good night!


Did you happen to watch Deadpool 2? I thought it was so funny!!


I haven't seen it yet.  I hear it's funny, but not very family friendly.  Is that true?


Not at all family friendly, it has a lot of blood and material that its not appripiate for the family.


Are there a lot of big names in the movie other than Ryan Reynolds?


Not really, not that I know of but there some cool characters like Cable and Colossus.


I used to be a big comic book fan and Colossus was one of my favorites!  Is this the movie that introduces the team X-Force?


Yes its the team that introduces the X-Force, you know the video game actually had a higher cost to make than the movie.


That is really interesting and I hope the game was worth it!  Are you a fan of comic books at all?


I am a fan of comic books, its sad Stan Lee died.


At least he lived a long, productive, and successful life!  I am also a fan of comic books, but it is an expensive hobby and I stopped collecting a while ago.


He did, he ended every phone conversation with the phrase excelsior, and I can see why its expensive although it can also be considered as an investment.


I guess if I am able to drive to Michigan State University in East Lansing, I can read what I want without costing an arm and a leg.  Their library has the biggest comic book collection available to the public!


Thats a great idea I bet they have a lot of interesting comincs in there, do you also like DC comics?


I do.  I used to be all about Marvel when I was younger, but I got into DC later. What about you?


I do like them as well, DC comics is called Detective Comics, I didnt know that.


Ha!  So Detective Comics Comics!  :)  You mentioned Stan Lee earlier.  Although the creator of Marvel Comics, he actually wrote 15 DC comics!


Wow I didnt know that, I bet those comics are pretty good, I wonder if there are available at the Michigan State University.


They might be a good place to start!  I guess not all superheroes are in comics, because I heard the US is home to 300 registered superheroes.


So many superheroes! there is a superhero called normalman, I bet he is a lousy superhero lol.


I can't imagine he has a lot to offer, but it sounds sort of interesting.


He has a hard job though, he lives on a planet that's full of superheroes.


Hello!  Did you see the movie Deadpool 2?


Yep, I loved it! Apparently so did a lot of people because it's one of the few R-rated movies to be among the highest grossing of all time.


Nice!  I didn't know that.  The Deadpool video game cost more to make than the movie!


I never even knew there was a video game ha ha. Have you played it? Did Ryan Reynolds voice the mystery villain like he did in the film?


I never played it.  I'm not sure if he did.  Ironically in the 2001 comic book Deadpool described himself as "Ryan Reynolds crossed with a shar-pei".  That led Reynolds to believe he was destined to play the role.


He was destined to play the role since the Deadpool character was butchered in that X-Men movie. Destiny required they do the character justice this time.


lol  Do you read comic books?  I haven't read them since I was a kid.


I really only read manga and Alan Moore comics sometimes. Did you know they've been around in Japan since the 18th century??


My one son is a huge Manga fan.  I remember one of the first book series he was into when he was younger was One Piece.  I had no idea they've been around since then.  I know the first modern comic book in the US came out in 1933.


One Piece is great! You should look into it. It gets better after the first few chapters. And isn't that comic called Famous Funnies?


I have no idea! LOLOL  I had enough of a time trying to figure out buying One Piece books for him.  That was all so new to me.  Didn't understand the genre.  Was a big learning curve for me. lolol


Ha ha, I can understand that. If you were a superhero, you'd be normalman! Apparently he's an actual superhero ha ha.


haha.  Good stuff!  There are over 300 registered superheroes in the US.


We should go an register too. You ever heard of One Punch Man? You can be Genos and I'll be Saitama. We'll be the best out of those 300 for sure.


Nice!  My son would love that I'm sure.  haha I'll have to look up One Punch Man.  When I grew up we had Garfield comics. lol


Ah, the classic that is Garfield. He became a superhero once. He formed the pet force! Now, that would be a weird comic to read.


Yes.  I think that came along after my time as well. LOL  I just googled One punch man.  My son loves those japanese anime shows like that as well.


Your son sounds like a cool cat yo. But is he as cool as Stan Lee and say "excelsior" to end his phone calls??


LOL That's great!  I just learned that DC from DC comics stands for Detective Comics. I had no idea.


The more you know, I tell ya. Did you also know that Stan Lee wrote for DC as well? Now that is one heck of a shock to me.


I did not know that either! lol I'm way behind the times.  It's been a real pleasure chatting with you.  Thanks for giving me good thoughts about my son!


Same to you. Hope you and your son have a great day. Bye now.


Hello my friend, Excelsior! What do you think of the article?


I thought the article was amazing, i am a huge fan of Marvel and  comic books and was nice to read about them. how about you? what were your thoughts


I got into the marvel universe with the movies, so I cannot comment on the comic books. But saying that I loved Deadpool and the how Ryan Reynolds is carrying the role.


Did you happen to see Ryan Reynolds first appearance as Deadpool? i believe it was in wolverine origin movies. What i found most interesting was that the Video game cost more to make than the Movie (Deadpool)


Yes, but I hated how it ended with him being weapon X and sewing his mouth shut! The character is known for his snarky humor, they wasted a great characters in that movie for e.g. Gambit. I didn't know about the video game that's an interesting thing to know. Were there any other X-force members in comics apart from what they have shown in the movie?


There was a handful that was missing from X-Force but really the team is just comedic timing.


I just read in the article that there was comic with Garfield & his gang as Pet Force. That got a chuckle out of me imagining Odie as a super powered dog. Do you like Garfield comic strips?


i can only imagine Garfield eating his way through problems and Odie fixing everything


Haha, That's true and poor Jon would be pulling his hair out. Just a question, did Marvel do comic books series like DC's Elseworlds?


Marvel does so many comic and there was so many topics back in the 70s and 80s im sure that they would have anything. Just last week Marvel released a League of Legends themed comic with Riot Games


Wow, the more I get to know about this stuff the deeper it goes. It's interesting to note that Michigan state university library has the largest comic book collection publicly available in the world.


Yes, i found that extremely interested and i wished i would have known that sooner as i no longer live in the region i would have spent a good deal of time there. but what i did find funny was that DC mean detective comics.  but they go by DC comics


That would have been great, right? All the comic books you wanted to read. Yes, the DC & Comics again seems redundant, What did you think of Zazie beetz as Domino I think she got the role right with her attitude as happy go lucky survivor.


She did do the role very well. but i think what really got me was you had both Josh Brolin, played Thanos and Cable and if the MCU every does a crossover it be weird


Haha True that, I used to think what would happen if Fantastic Four(before the new rehash) did a cross over with Avengers who would Chris Evans play The Human Torch or Captain America? Ryan Reynolds as Green Lantern would probably never do a cross over with Deadpool universe but the end credits scene put a bullet in it literally.


well it would be captain America for sure, though i heard that Deadpool will no longer be making another sequel but maybe make one more movie as Xforce


Yeah, I am like waiting to see how End Game Pans out. But I thought the X-Force was dead with all of them in chunks literally. Though I would love to see a Wolverine & Deadpool team up if possible.


Wolverine and Deapool team up would be cool but really just want to see a Hulk VS film the animated short films are amazing and seeing a Hulk VS Deadpool would be fun with the merc with a mouth


It really is sad to see copyrights marring such great ideas of having Super-heroes or super-villains team up. I loved how they tried to include the Planet Hulk timeline in Thor:Ragnarok but I think a Standalone film would be better to connect  with the character.


yes agreed, but i would highly reccommend the animated series when watching some of the Marvel Universe as they are able to do so much more without the copyright restrictions as oppose to live action. but one thing for sure is i definite need to do more research on "Normalman" that would be a fun read


I would have to check that out too, and Normalman sounds fun I would also check that out.


Yep between Normalman and the female reimaginations of the Marvel universe would be good. but a live action film with a multiverse would be cool like the new animated spiderman would be next level and interesting.


Let's not get into the multiverse right now, it's too huge for my mind to comprehend right now! But I have been hearing great things about the new spiderman I didn't get to see it yet.


Yes the new spiderman is basically done my marvel with Sony's permission. RDJ is in there


Yes I like the first Deadpool a lot. The second one I didn't think was as good but I did like Josh Brolin as cable, what did you think


I did not watch the first deadpool but enjoyed the second. I have heard the first was better so maybe better that I watched the second one first so I don't get disappointed haha! Some people think Deadpool 2 was funnier though and I do like comedy.


Well you should see them both because they are both pretty good. I do like the first one a lot more. It's a lot more tongue and cheek. Also, I can't believe that they didn't bring the first director back, they should have definitely done that it may have been a better movie


Did you ever read the comics? Hardcore comic fans seemed to lament the inconsistencies between the comics and the films.


I'm not that into Comics so it doesn't bother me, but I guess it would bother some people, did you ever play the Deadpool video game by the way? I did it's really good


I am not too into video games. The video game cost more than to make the movie!


That's very impressive! And yes the video game was awesome like I mentioned, also the movie is the highest grossing R-rated film of all time, if you don't include movies directed by James Cameron or George Lucas


I thought it was a really unique film, quite different than the other superhero films because it was just for adults, and rated R, not PG 13.


Yes I agree. It was a breath of fresh air, you should also know that Ryan Reynolds does the voice of the mystery Villain at the end of Deadpool 2, I'm not ruining anything for you though haha


In a 2004 comic Deadpool described himself as Ryan Reynolds crossed with a shar-pei, so Reynolds thought he was destined for the role.


That is really funny! I'm glad they were able to get Ryan Reynolds in the movies then, do you read any other comic books by the way?


I don't really. I tried to get into them when I was in 3rd grade because it was trendy in my school. I just found out that the dc from dc comics makes it redundant!


That is crazy! and you're right, DC stands for Detective Comics so you're saying Detective Comics twice that's hilarious


Have you heard of Marvel's generic comic book? It was published in order to trademark super-hero and super-villain.


No I didn't hear about that. I'll have to check it out it sounds interesting. I also want to check out the library at Michigan State University, they have the worlds largest publicly available comic book collection


I wonder if they have any comics containing normalman.


I'll have to check it out! What do you think about Stan Lee by the way? He was such an icon and would end every phone call with the word Excelsior lol


I didn't know much about him but yes, he is certainly iconic. His legacy will live on for a long time!


Yes I agree.  what other superheroes do you like? speaking of hinm too, Stan Lee wrote about 15 DC Comics which I didn't know about


I like The Punisher, maybe because he's kind of "normal-ish"


Hi Turker, do you like superhero movies, if yes, do you have a favorite hero?


I like spider-man and I am interested in Deadpool but I haven't seen it.


My favorite superhero is the Incredible Hulk, I haven't seen Deadpool either, but wonder how good is the movie.


It is the highest grossing R-rated film of all time not directed by James Cameron or George Lucas.


Oh, I heard It is very funny. Have you seen Avengers: Infinity War?


No, I heard the movie was different then the comic though.


I saw X-Men, I like the entire movies, my favorite is Wolverine and Iron Man.


Back to deadpool, it took ryan reynolds 11 years to get his vision of deadpool made. That is a long time.


Yes it is, so that much mean that he was thinking about this movie for 11 years?


That is impressive. That makes a great actor.


Yes it does, are you a fan of comic books, if you are, how many books do you have?


I am not. But appears that their is a lot of money in the industry.


Yes, you are right, I have lots of comics books, I am not a reader, I like them for the drawing of the characters.


That is interesting. Dc comics paid $130 in 1938 for exclusive rights to superman.


Yes, Superman and Archie rich are two of the most valuable book I heard of according to my knowledge.


I think its funny that marvel comics spent 10 years convincing the US governement that x men are not humans.


That's true, I didn't know that Deadpool was made just to make people laugh, I am not used to seeing superhero comic movies.


I agree. I cannot believe that there are at least 30 superhero movies set to be released between 2016-2020.


Wow that's a lot, did you see Black Panther, If yes, did you like the movie?


Yes, I saw It twice, But I didn't like it, because the actor who played the black panther won so many awards, I think the other actor, I forgot his name, deserved those awards.


Hey, did you see the new Deadpool 2 movie? It came out this year.


No.  I was surprised to find out it was R rated and not only that the highest grossing r rated film not directed by james cameron or george lucas!


Yes, that surprised me too. Did you know the movie cost less to make than did the video game?


Nope.  Didn't know that!  To be honest I'm not into superhero stuff although I do like the fact there is a super hero NormalMan!


Wow, that is intriguing. There are over 300 superheroes which are registered in the US!


Yes.  I was deprived as a child, my mother wouldn't have comic books in the house.  As an adult I find the graphics mixed with the words jarring.  I don't read manga either.


Oh I see. Yeah, I was never as into comic books either. However I find them interesting. Do you know what the dc stands for in dc comics?


Yep, it stands for detective comics.  I think that aspect is what got my mother so opposed to them.


I see. Yeah, it's kind of interesting since dc comics is a bit redundant. Did you know Michigan State University contains the biggest publically available collection of different comic books?


I read that somewhere.  I wonder if they allow people to look at them or if they are microfished or digitalized?


I don't know. I'd want to find that out. What do you think of having Ryan Reynolds in the lead role in Deadpool? He seems like a good fit.


Not having seen the movie, or knowing the storyline beyond the bare basics, I can't say.  What did you think?


I think he is excellent. The screenwriters said he also voiced the mystery villain.


So pick a superhero name and a superhero power.  I'd be Reader Girl and my superpower would be knowing everything that had ever been written!


I would want to be like the Invisible Man, so that I could get some peace and quiet whenever I wanted. Be great to "disappear" during meetings at work, too.


Well, I can see some advantages to being invisible, but when you 'disappear a work they tend to fire you!


True. Maybe I can change to a different universe. The marvel cinematic universe takes place in the earth -1999999. That seems like a fun place.


Yes it does.  What would  your uniform/outfit be as a superhero?  I would wear glasses, have spiked hair, thigh high boots over leggings with a tunic.  I think maybe black with red accents.  My hair would be silver.


I like blue and black. I'd want to wear something like from Yu-Gi-Oh. I would want silver hair, too, though.


Well, you know what they regarding imitation. They had a garfield book spinoff called pet force, did you know about that?


I do enjoy them, especially the original trilogy


Me too, those are the best.  Do you have any of the memorabilia?


Yes, I still have my original lunch box with thermos from when I was a kid.  It's banged up some, but I'd never part with it!


That is awesome.  I still have some things from my childhood I cant part with too, like my glow worm.


Ahh!  that's so sweet!Merchandising has always been really big for Star Wars.  You know it holds a Guinness world record for most successful film merchandising franchise.  Pretty impressive!


It is.  Star Wars is legend.  It was spanned so many years!


That's a fact.  Did you realize that James Earl Jones only spent 2 1/2 hours recording his Darth Vader lines and only got paid $7500.00?


That is nuts!  That voice is so iconic.  Do you know Marcia Lucas is behind a lot of  the films main scenes?


I had heard that before and that she had actually won the Academy award for editing, while George did not for directing!  Wonder how he feels about his ex wife?


I dont know, some break ups are amicable, she did help out a lot with the movies from what it seems like.


Well, that's true! I still can't believe 20th Century Fox thought it was going to be a flop!


I know, didnt Harrison Ford not want to be credited initially because he though it would not do well.


They really did here we are almost 50 years later and it is still going strong!


That's my childhood!  It shocks me to see that the value of the Star Wars franchise is $65 billion!


And that makes it only the 5th highest grossing media franchise.  I wonder what beat it?


Yeah, it makes you wonder?  Well, it's been nice chatting with you this morning.  I've got to head into work.  Hope you enjoy the rest of your day.


Yea I like the original trilogy. Apparently The Force Awakens was selected to be locked in a vault on Shutterfly


Yea, I guess younger people don't find The Force Awakens that interesting and prefer Black Panther


Interesting. I haven't watched Black Panther or The Force Awakens. Have you watched both?


I've saw some of Black Panther, couldn't get into it. I heard Get Out was good


I havent watched that either. I guess the only one I have watched is Frozen. The song is quite catchy. Before Let it Go was written, Elsa was the villain in Frozen. Because the song was uplifting, they changed her character.


Yea, I'm surprised Frozen was the first female directed Disney animation, I figure there would be one sooner


It's interesting that they did not want to call it Snow Queen because feminine titles don't perform as well.


Yea I don't think the title "Snow Queen" would have stopped it from grossing a billion at the box office


The writer of Let it Go has won an emmy, grammy, oscar, and a tony. he knows his stuff!


Yea, Robert Lopez is pretty talented, he also co wrote a South Park episode


Interesting! I really should watch more movies for myself and quit watching them with my kids. I have been meaning to watch Black Panther.


Yea, apparently the Black Panther character is the richest superhero worth 500 billion


Yeah, it's suprising Tony Stark is only worth $100 billion.


Yea and Bruce Wayne is only worth 80 billion


Black Panther was going to be called Black Leopard at one point. I wonder if it would have been as popular if it kept that name.


Lol I don't know. I also never knew the Black Panther comic predates the Black Panther party


Yeah, I was wondering if it had anything to do with the Black Panther party.


Yea, apparently Denzel Washington funded Chadwick Boseman tuition for an oxford university theater program, that's nice


The was really cool of him. Over 20 years later Boseman thanked him in person.


Did you see the force awakens?  It came out in December of 2015.


Hello there, I did, I thought it was pretty good.  How about yourself?


I loved it! I am a huge star wars fan. JJ abrams did a fantastic job on the score.


Yeah I thought he did really well.  And, I know how tough it is to take on a Star Wars project, the fans are really intense.


It is the 35 and over crowd that supports star wars.


Yeah that is true, I guess only 32% of people between 25 and 34 saw the film.


That age bracket preferred black panther to star wars.


Yeah i read that as well, did you see the Black Panther film?


I did not. I'm not really into the marvel and dc comics films. I fell off that genre way before the 18th film of black panther.


Yeah I did not see it either, but I would if I had the chance.  I don't watch any of the Marvel movies except for the Xmen films I have seen some of those.


Black panther is worth 500 billion, way more than tony stark's 100 billion.


Yeah I was surprised they made a superhero more wealthy than Stark and Bruce Wayne.


George Lucas is so talented and began star wars in 1977. I wonder what his net worth is.


Yeah that was some creation, I wonder what he thought he was starting way back when.


James earl jones must have had no idea because his pay was only 7500 for voicing vadar.


Yeah, but when you read how long it took him to do it, I would say thats some pretty good dough per hour!


That's true! Those movies are so good and deserving of their 8.5 billion box office.


Yeah they are, do you have a favorite of all of the Star Wars films?


Empire strikes back from 1980 is my favorite to re-watch. How about you?


Yeah, I would have to agree, I think me and you are like most people as well when we pick that one.


Are you a Star Wars fan? There are so many movies out that I can't keep track of them all.


I do like them but haven't seen the new "Solo: A Star Wars Story."  Have you?  What do you think of Hans Solo if you have?


I haven't seen it either. I think that Disney will try to do a backstory movie on every character. "R2-D2 and C3PO: two robots in love"


I like Harrison Ford.  He made Solo so loved.  His character was such a skeptic.


Yeah, he balanced out the mumbo-jumbo of the Force. I wonder how he comes off in the new film.


Did you realize that Al Pacino was chosen to take the part of Solo but he turned it down because he didn't understand the script?


I bet he didn't. He really would have made a strange Solo. I know that Sean Connery was offered the part of Gandalf but said no. Casting is key to the success of a movie.


Very true.  Christopher Walken was also considered by Lucas to do Hans Solo.  That would have made a difference too.


A much darker, more brooding Solo with great dance moves.


George Lucas' wife had a large impact on the movies too.  She won an academy award for editing the first Star Wars film.


She got that Oscar that George never got! Oh well. He'll just have to be content to be a billionaire. I wonder what he does everyday besides count his money.


Poor James Earl Jones at that time only made $7500 for recording all of Darth Vadar's lines in the original Star Wars.  It took him 2.5 hours.  I guess though that isn't too shabby when you think about it.


Nobody really knew just how much money would be made. I bet the next movie paid handsomely.


20th Century Fox thought he would flop.  They sure were wrong!


That's how Lucas got the merchandising rights and the cash to set up Lucasfilm. He really gambled smart.


I wonder if he'd agree with the theory that there is only one electron in the universe?  How does that explain all the universe of planets, stars, and galaxies?


Only one electron in the universe? That sounds like a crazy theory! How come only one? Have you heard that the universe might be a hologram? Maybe we are just an entertainment system for some alien race.


Sometimes it seems like that.  Can you imagine that you can actually touch some stars because their temperature is cold enough.  How do they burns so bright?


Fusion is the source of a star's energy. I think that if we harness the power of fusion in our lifetimes, many energy probes will disappear. Flying electric cars for everyone!


I wonder if Lucas thinks about all these things when he films?  Interestingly, Star Wars was made dubbed in Navajo in 2013.  This was the first major film to be in that language.  Sounds like they have a lot more success to come.


Star Wars could very well be the first series to have a sequel made on Mars.


That sounds very interesting.  I wonder if Lucas has some connections there?  Lucas had originally wanted Hans Solo to be a large green alien so it's possible.


Hi Turker, have you seen the Star Wars movies, if yes, did you like it?


i didn't like it. but harrison ford is cool. detached and ironic is how id describe his performance


Yes I like harrison ford also, I saw return of the Jedi and he played his part well.


they say he was skeptical about doing the film


I wonder why, how did you like the actor Luke Skywalker in star wars, I remember you didn't care for Star wars, but just the actor.


Hamill looked like a goof. i hear he didn't want to do the sequel


Hahaha, strange, but I always like the show Star Trek since back in the days, did you ever watch the shows?


I watched star trek. its more intellectual. I don't like these "lord of the rings" / "game of thrones" fantasy things...but Harrison ford and star trek are the exceptions


Ok, did you know James Earl Jones spent only 2.5 hours recording all of darth vader lines for star wars and was paid $7,500 in 2013?


he's got the voice. christopher walken's voice would've added some edge


I didn't know that, don't you know that george lucas became a billionaire during the star wars movies.


wow. luckily he didn't make solo a green alien as originally planned. else he'd be in the poor house


Did you know that there are stars in the universe that cold enough to be touched by human hands?


really. does that make the theory that the universe is a giant superhologram more or less likely?


I am not sure but I would say more likely, there is a theory there is only one electron in the universe.


well, if space is pulling galleries out of sight, how will we ever know?


We may never know, I didn't know that AL Pacino turn down the role of han, he couldn't understand the script.


maybe he should watch the navajo version.


Al Pacino turned down the role, christopher Walken was considered the part of han solo in the star wars movie.


well, james earl jones  made out well. 20th century too. they thought it would flop at first


Yes that's true. When George Lucas was working on Star Wars, he initially wanted either a black actor or a large green alien to play Han Solo.


Yes I am, I also like Harrison Ford, I think he is a great actor, what about you?


I am as well! I cant believe how much money the series has made. Over 8.5 billion


I know that is really surprising, but there are 4 others that make even more moeny.


I heard Marcia Lucas had a lot to do with some of  the great ideas of the series.


Yeah she even won an academy award! Something George Lucas didnt


Yeah I heard she won the award for editing the film, you know Star Wars was the first movie to ever be dubbed to Navajo?


Thats really cool. I cant believe that Fox gave Lucas licensing and merchandising rights! All because they thought the film would bomb


I bet they are regretting this choice and someone definetely got fired lol, It sure cost them billions.


The franchise itself is worth $65 billion.


I like that Star Wars explored the universe, although many things of the movie are fiction it made me wonder as a kid, you know that there are stars that are cold enough that can be touched with bare hands


Thats crazy to think considering all the energy our own sun puts out


I know, I guess that energy runs out eventually, what do you think about theory of the universe being a giant hologram


I guess anything would be possible. Even the theory that there is only one electron in the universe


I agree I am willing to keep an open mind after all theres a lot that we dont know about the universe


Yeah and theres only an observable section that we can see. Who knows what else there is


Yeah so back into the Star Wars topic, did you know that back in the day Al Pacino turned down the role of Han Solo


Another possible regret. Unfortunate that he didnt understand the script. Christopher Walken was also considered


I see, so Ford is actually lucky, you know Han Solo was a tie fighter  before he evenbecame the pilot of the millenium falcon.


Yeah very lucky, he almost didn't get the part. Wasn't even allowed to audition at first.


Thats surprising! I think he was perfect for the part, well the new movie is also good and it grosses about 393 million worldwide.


I find fish to be very interesting. How about you?


I do too, it's interesting that the seahorse is the only fish with a neck


That is very interesting. Have you heard of the black swallower fish?


Yea, the black swallower sounds lke a scary fish, it can eat prety twice it's length


Yes and 10 times it's own weight. That's pretty terrifying. I wonder how it digests that?


I'd like to know too. Did you know a zebrafish shares 84 percent of genes associted with human disease? They must be used for research if true


I did not. I agree that we must really study them further. Another that I would like to see studied it the jellyfish because some of them are immortal. We need to find out how and why that's possible.


The immortal jellyfish sounds like something from a science fiction novel. I wonder how long the oldest one has lived?


That's a very good question. If they do not get disease or injured they will never die so I wonder if there is an ancient one out there somehow.


That be pretty funny if there was an immortal Jellyfish that has been stinging humans since ancient Egypt


That would be funny. Do you know how freshwater and saltwater differ in how they consume water?


Yea, apparently freshwater fish drink through there skin by osmosis and salt water fish just drink through their mouths, I'd would think it would be the other way around


You would think that. It's very interesting. Off topic but do you enjoy Disney films?


I loved the lion king, it was the first disney movie to be dubbed in Zulu


I'm glad that they did that so others could enjoy it. Did you know that the first animated Disney film directed by a woman was Frozen? It seems like that took far too long.


Yea it does, you'd figure with all the movies disney has made there would be a female directed on way before Frozen came out


I agree. Have you ever noticed identical scenes in any Disney movies especially those from the 70's?


Yea, I've seen videos on youtube that show the identical scenes that Disney recycled from the 70s


It's because during that decade they recycled a lot of their frames. I wonder if that was budgetary of time concerns?


Possibly. Did you know Wreck-it-ralph stared development all the way back in the 1980s?


I did not. I'm actually glad they took longer to make it though because they got to add so many other cool characters that would not have existed yet.


Hello, have you seen the new A Wrinkle in Time? Oprah is in it.


Actually, I haven't but I have read the original novel by Madeleine L'Engle way back when I was in elementary school.


That is a good book. This new movie is done very well, especially the young actress, Storm, who plays Meg.


Yeah, I've read she really felt a bond with the character.  And really related to her on several levels.


I was surprised to find that Meryl Streep's first role was in a sports movie.


Hey that's pretty neat!  Did you know she also speaks fluent Italian?


I did not, I know her daughter plays an FBI robot on a series.


Yeah, some Italian producer called her ugly (in Italian) when she was auditing for King Kong (1976) and she surprised him by responding in his language!  That had to be embarrassing, huh?


That would have been hilarious. She's been nominated for 18 academy awards, she's awesome.


Yeah, it's weird though, she's been nominated 18 times, but only won 3 times.  Most have been some stiff competition or something.


Politics, lol. It even inflates awards. I never knew her middle name was Louise, that's my grandmother's name.


Oh, that's awesome!  Speaking of awards, she's also received 31 Golden Globe nominations and won eight.  That's a lot of awards!


Frozen was the first Disney film to be directed by a woman. it's about time they become more inclusive.


Really?  Huh.. could have sworn Brave had been co-directed by a woman... or maybe it was just co-written by one, I can't remember... (I'm getting old.. lol)


I am too, lol. I cannot believe Disney actually recycled some of their animation frames, I wonder if the artists receive royalties on those movies?


Yeah, I saw a youtube video about that.. they recycled, for example a "dancing" scene in Snow White for their Robin Hood cartoon.  Did you know the toy industry gets involved in Disney animations before the film production even begins?


That is so insane. So is taking three decades to make Wreck-It-Ralph, and I still don't think it's a good movie.


AHHHH blasphemy!  I loved Wreck It Ralph!  Ahh, well, to each is own, I guess.  Did you know Lion King is the first film to be dubbed in Zulu?


I did. That is amazing. Thanks for chatting with me, have a wonderful day.


Hey, you too!  Hope the weather is good where you're at!


Same here! Are you into the fantasy drama at all?


Yea stuff like game of thrones you mean?


Lord of the rings is a classic I think that long format influenced many of the films we see today.