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Christian, how about Ronald Regan from all those '80's comics? There wasn't a bigger villain than him when he transformed into a reptilian creature and Captain America had to save him by making him sweat a lot around the Oval Room!

And he was always giving Superman orders, which he gladly obeyed! This guy had power over the Man Of Steel - think about, and tell me if he isn't the most powerful villain ever!

But my heart goes to Mr. Nobody, from Morrison's Doom Patrol: completely illogical nutcase who said and did the weirdest things...

Fuck Rocky, man!

I want to see Stallone taking on Osama in Rambo IV!

A fourth book?

Well, there's always this

When the mighty fall, they really fall!

Michael Mann - I've only enjoyed that one accidental stroke of genius in his career: The Insider. But I don't have patience for his action movies :wink:

I've been spending my days with my family on the beach :glare:

I'll never understand the appeal - going to a place to deliberately get sunburns... the horrible feeling of salt water drying on your skin... the need to get a shower quickly... the sense of wasted time, nothing to do on the beach besides being in the water or slowly burning under the sun... the dreadful sand flying all over the air, getting into your eyes, sticking to your wet body... the lack of an appropriate position to read a book...

Well, you know, the novel wasn't that great either - obviously everyone involved in Hannibal knew that because almost everything was rewritten for the movie, but even with all the changes, the movie still sucked big donkey balls!

But man, Glengarry Glen Ross! I watched this movie for the first time in a class this year, and I was blown away; Baldwin's scene is pure gold, then Pacino and Lemmon take over and it never stops being great!

Last movie I saw in theatres was Dark Water, last week. I was pleased throughout the movie; my immediate feelings is that it was good - but the more I think about it now, the more it sounds dull, banal and unimaginative, and the illusion of quality comes from 5 good performances. But the actors can only hide so far that it's fucking bad...

I don't get why the Da Vinci Code was so popular when it recycled information that preceeded it in Holy Blood, Holy Grail about 15 years earlier.

 

Everyone was reading that fucking book. Is it because the information was presented loosely wrapped in a semi-exciting narrative? Jesus.

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There's only one sane reason to read that book - to fucking badmouth it afterwards!

That's what I actually did in college this year - deliberately suffered through its 400 pages just so I could explain in a test why it was one of the worst books ever written, when I could have chosen a better book... had a pretty high mark in the test too. Then my teacher, who unsurprisingly loved the book, dropped my final mark... of course I can't prove a correlation between my classmates who filled the test with praise for this piece of drab and their high final marks, but I'm that sort of paranoid person

I go all 'huh' about peoples' obession with new cellphones: the people that have to get rid of their perfectly good old cellphone and get the new model when it comes out: the one with internet connection, the one with a camera, the one with GPS, the one you can see movies in - honestly, who wants to watch a fucking movie on cellphone? It's a bloody device to make phonecalls, end of story.

Well I cant remember many outstanding earth shattering performances by Ms Winslett, so I stand by my opinion.

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She's one of the finest actresses working today! Heavenly Creatures is one of the strongest screen debuts I've ever seen! And Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind, Finding Neverland and the adorable Sense & Sensibility show her giving great performances too. Plus she's clearly the only good thing in Titanic.

And I'm sure she's just as oustanding in Quills, Iris and Hamlet.

Christian, you can look it up in comicon.com:

Matt Wagner is returning to the Dark Knight Detective to tell a pair of tales taking place somewhere around year one and a half of the Batman's career. Under the banner Dark Moon Rising, two six issues limited series: Batman: The Monster Men and Batman: The Mad Monk tell how the freshman Batman went from fighting organized crime to fighting monsters, mad scientists, and other strange creatures, all outside the scope of what this hero expected to encounter.

My nearly idyllical life ended two weeks ago.

This asshole who owns a bar under our building decided to start a fight with my dad in the middle of the street, then smashed my dad's car's windshield with a rock. The police have been less than helpful because they know the fucker; in the meantime my dad has taken this to court, only he's having trouble getting eyewitnesses since no one gives a shit about what happened. There's also a slight problem with the insurance company, and the car came back from repair with a few new scratches on the doors, and my dad hates scratches! All in all he's going to have to pay lots of money on a laywer even though there are chances he won't win the case. My mom is getting a bit depressed from all this and I'm feeling like shit because I'm powerless to help in anything. And we still have to live with this guy on our street every day.

Life can be so tiresome sometimes

That is just gorgeous, lyra!

Anyone seen WOTW yet?

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It's great until the last 15 minutes; then Spielberg's vintage sentimentality takes over. I can accept the readers of the 19th century finding the whole anticlimatic germ thing amazing! But 100 years later this ending is a fucking mess!

Going to skip Fantastic Four and give Crash a look instead, probably tomorrow; I've been waiting so long for this.

I only saw Sin City yesterday, it fucking ruled!!!!

Gratuitous, over the top violence turned into art! Frank Miller is a genius!

Marv has grown on me; Mickey Rourke was absolutely fucking incredible!

And Bruce Willis managed to get me all emotional with his Hartigan performance. I could have cried in that scene where Nancy visits Hartigan at the hospital. And the ending, man it left me so downbeat...

Won't see a movie this good again in 2005.

Hell ya! Gary Oldman was the best thing in the movie! I was always waiting for his next appearence.

This list is a bit full of crap, isn't?

"That's right. I've killed women and children. I've killed everything that walks or crawls at one time or another. And I'm here to kill you, Little Bill, for what you done to Ned." -- Unforgiven

I can't believe this quote isn't on the fucking list!

"I'm just a snoop." -- Chinatown

"I don't mind a reasonable amount of trouble."

"People lose teeth talking like that. If you want to hang around, you'll be polite."

"When you're slapped, you'll take it and like it"-- The Maltese Falcon

"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die." -- Blade Runner

"Anyone could become obsessed with the past with a background like that!" -- Vertigo

"You're a smooth smoothie, you know."

"I need unguent."

"I'm not gonna sit here and debate." -- Fargo

And now the greatest quotes of all times, from Barton Fink:

"Writers come and go; we always need Indians!"

"Wallace Beery. Wrestling picture. What do you need, a roadmap?"

"Look upon me! I'll show you the life of the mind!"

"You know, ordinarily we say anything you might remember could be helpful. But I'll be frank with you, Fink. That is not helpful."

"Sex? He's a man! We wrestled!"

I could be quoting this movie all day

Nolan and Goyer are two names I don't associate with quality storytelling.

 

Oh, yeah, that silly Christopher Nolan...when I saw Insomnia and Memento all I could think was, "HACK!"

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Ah, so I'm not alone after all

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Well, excuse me for not buying the hype around Memento: he might have convinced the the rest of the world he's a serious director, but a serious director would continue to make serious, good movies, not the remake of a clearly superior movie afterwards and definitely not a banal comics movie next. Memento is basically his Donnie Darko: a way to break into Hollywood by showing he's got a bit of talent and that he can work on small budget, then get a nice job at the studios and wallow in mediocre filmmaking for the rest of his life... because it's time to break the bad news for you people: he's never going to make anything as good as Memento in his life again. And I personally doubt he wants to: like Fincher, $150m budgets is what he's after now. Once you're in, there's no point making an effort anymore. The competition isn't that good after all... Michael Bay can vouch for my words.

Goyer... do I really have to explain?

Grant's power is the ability to change Ostrander's plots with the touch of a key, BUT Morrison discovers too late that since he is now a part of someone else's story, that means that Ostrander is a more powerful god than Morrison.

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Here's why comics are great: only in this beloved medium can you project such a wish-fulfiling fantasy without getting in trouble with the law

Watched this weak little movie yesterday. I wasn't even anxious to see it, but a friend dragged me to the theater with the offer of a free ticket. It's hardly the masterpiece being hyped on the internet; you watch all those nutcases on IMDB.com drooling over it, you'd think it's the greatest movie since Citizen Kane. But as soon as the movie started and I saw Bale in a shithole fighting thugs for no reason, I felt this was gonna be complete trash!

"I'm your demon!"

"No, you're practice."

No, you're pathetic, shitty one-liners!

I suppose it had a couple of good points: Christian Bale was indeed good for a superficial character: his Bruce Wayne persona was very nice. Michael Caine and Morgan Freeman were spot-on too! I was worried about Lucius Fox being a sort of Q character for Batman, but it worked so well after all. I loved Gary Oldman more than anything else, of course; from his introduction when he's comforting young Bruce Wayne to his conversation with Batman at the end, he rocked! And obviously, I loved the reference to The Joker! The implication that Batman attracts costumed nutcases is something that should be more explored, especially in the comics.

Loved the flashbacks the most, young Bruce Wayne, Bruce wishing to kill Joe Chill, his conversation with Falcone... all that, I felt was very strong.

There's no point talking about Katie Holmes, I suppose. Liam Neeson was alright as Ghul, but every time he opened his mouth to speak another one of his pseudo, homily philosophies I wanted to throw up... "learn to master your fears!" "Now you must journey inwards and face your fears!" Liam, get on your spaceship and get back to Coruscant, man, for your crap philosophy only makes sense in the Jedi universe!

Ah, but I enjoyed a lot the scene where Ghul shows up at the mansion during the party and Bruce has to get rid of his guests in a hurry.

I don't see what's all the hype about the Scarecrow, a guy who isn't even a nut wearing a potato sack in his head... I just hope he's improved in the sequel, since apparently he's still alive. The fear gas hallucinations were hardly scary or disturbing, more annoying because of the sound in the background; I suppose it's scary to the characters inside the movie, but on this side of the screen I was bored! Still, I liked how Crane dealt with Falcone...

Now, the soundtrack was hardly as memorable as the original. I could hum the old one, this one I can't even remember, it's so banal and generic. The action scenes were so fast-paced you couldn't actually see what was going on, my guess is that they were so devoid of content this was done on purpose to hide that fact.

And the Batmobile is the ugliest thing I've ever seen! Again, the old one was elegant, it had style! This one is just a convulted, ugly piece of metal. Like my friend said, 'following the hyper-aggresive trend.'

Gotham City was also lacking in style; it's the same city you've seen in Blade Runner, The Matrix, Minority Report. In fact, I read somewhere Nolan showed his film crew a special screening of Blade Runner, and said that's how the movie should look. Personally, a mix of retro and futuristic architecture doesn't seem to me what Gotham is about: shinny and clean at the top, dirty at the bottom? Again, I felt Burton got it right with his Gothic, Byzanthine aesthetic vision.

By the way, pleasantly surprised to see Rutger Hauer starring in a movie that isn't complete crap for a chage. When he showed up on screen my heart must have stopped for a second.

Not much to say about the plot: it was efficient; it told the origin in a nice manner, we got to know where all the symbols and gadgets came from. I even bought the micro-waves emitter, or whatever it was, vaporizing the water and spreading the fear gas. Loved the implications that the League of Shadows has been working across the ages to destroy centers of corruption, like Rome. Nice touch, I thought. It also clearly showed what a corrupt city Gotham is, and that can never be a bad thing.

Didn't buy the Waynes being murdered outside the opera. Ok, so Gotham is going through a depression, but are you telling me there isn't a more posh, better-looking part of the city where the rich folks can mingle safely and is better protected by cops? It has a futuristic-looking railway system, but no upper-class zone like Broadway or Beverly Hills? Look at the façade of the opera house they came out from! It looked like a fucking warehouse! I don't believe a rich couple would be in a place like that. Not everything in Gotham can look like a dump, for Christ's sake!

Like I said, I wasn't anxious to see it: Nolan and Goyer are two names I don't associate with quality storytelling. But it wasn't the disaster I expected. Perhaps the sequel will be better.

Something's not right here...

But look at the bright side: Jay Leno and Conan O'Brian got material for great jokes from the trial...

... um, right :glare:

Aha!

Obviously your ID card is not my ID card I didn't imagine it was this oppressive!

I applaud you efforts, good sirs.

Ever considered sending a letter of complaint to the Ministry of love?

2001: A Space Odyssey; A Clockwork Orange; Lolita; The Shining; Barry Lyndon; Full Metal Jacket; Eyes Wide Shut.

To be honest, it's a pretty conversative collection: these are like the 'core,' better known Kubrick movies. It leaves out lesser known stuff like The Killing and Paths Of Glory.

But hey, I'm not complaining! Anything by Kubrick is great!

The best of Full Metal Jacket is obviously the first 45 minutes, but the second part has so many good points too: Animal Mother is priceless! Joker doing his John Wayne act, the soldiers being interviewed, Joker's peace symbol on his chest - "The duality of man. The Jungian thing, sir," this line is so cool!

But yeah, R. Lee Ermey was really the high point of the movie...

Never saw Barry Lyndon; can't wait, really :D

This is actually very interesting! Whereas we still see Star Wars as two distinct trilogies, the next generation will really be able to see it as this uber-story in six parts. What we look sceptically at, to them it makes more sense and is more coherent than we could imagine. To us it makes sense why Qui-gon isn't with Obi-Wan, but to them he should be there! I think this is so amazing!

These kids will have a completely new way of looking at the saga; how great is that!?

I've had an ID ever since I can remember, guys. Never take it with me anywhere, which I think sort of defeats the whole point. Honestly, what's the big deal?

Is the verdict know already?

Bought the Stanley Kubrick box set edition today: seven movies, plus a documentary. Just wish Dr. Strangelove were part of the set instead of, say, Eyes Wide Shut.

Anyway, nothing like remembering what a great dark comedy Full Metal Jacket is!

Not only do they all raise up against the oppressive, EVIL Nazi govt., but I heard they also elect George W. Bush as President, in the ultimate surprise ending!

Yes, that's right....they elect W. Bush as their new President!

Don't ask....

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Tell me you're not joking, Christian! That'd be marvellously great in a most twisted sort of way!