You Know Who

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  1. Just finished watching. Here are my gripes with it (some of them are admittedly nitpicks but they have to be mentioned): 1. Like I said before, the first half hour of the movie is spent beating us over the head with how much Peter's life sucks and Octavius isn't introduced until after that period. 2. Franco's still weak as Harry Osborn. Ironically, I think his strongest performance as Harry is in the next film, the weakest of the franchise. 3. Dragged out, humorless gags like the broom closet and elevator scenes. 4. Doc Ock's sentient arms, whose shrieks he can somehow understand. 5. Hokey acting from the New York City citizens ("Go, Spidey, go!"). 6. Bad CGI in some places, like whenever Spidey or Ock gets electrocuted or when Spidey throws those two citizens to safety from the train. 7. The Earth shaking whenever Doc Ock walks around on his tentacles. He's not the fucking T. rex from Jurassic Park. 8. Peter losing and regaining his powers throughout the movie is NEVER FUCKING EXPLAINED. I had a few more but decided to narrow it down to eight, given the film's villain. Despite these gripes, I still like the movie.
  2. If that's the best, then they should just stop making superhero films. I thought 2 was awful. The first one is the only good one in the series. WOW...never thought I'd see someone say that. I don't think it's awful, but I definitely prefer the first one to the other two. Too much time is spent in this one on beating the audience over the head with how much Peter's life sucks.
  3. Watching Spider-Man 2 for the first time in a while. Seeing if the parts I like hold up and if it really does rank among the best superhero films ever.
  4. Apparently this film will go the Superman: Brainiac Attacks route, not in terms of quality, but by nature of the fact that it will lift its animation style from a previous continuity but not actually be in that continuity (ex. Arisia predates Hal Jordan as a member of the Corps in "First Flight" but here is a rookie while Hal is a veteran).
  5. This has to be the singlehanded most insane thing posted on these forums. In a world where Suavestar exists, that's quite a feat. Congratulations on your incredibly misguided tastes. A-fuckin'-men
  6. The Last Airbender wins Worst Picture Award at Razzies: http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/02/27/us-razzies-idUSTRE71Q0HV20110227 James is vindicated.
  7. Just like it would be hard to top Jack Nicholson's Joker? These things can be done. Perhaps, but I'm not sure if General Zod can be interpreted and portrayed in as many ways as the Joker can. I guess it would hinge as much on his motivations as his characterization. I'd still see the film if Zod was the main antagonist, but I think the makers of the Batman and the upcoming Spider-Man reboot had the right idea when they decided to start off with a villain audiences haven't seen before.
  8. I'd prefer him as the latter rather than the former. Like Mike, I'm sorta of the mind that Superman should be the last remaining Kryptonian and that the presence of Zod or Supergirl negates his epithet "the last son of Krypton". Also, it would be hard to top Terence Stamp's version of the character.
  9. are you sure you and I watched the same film? Lol, yea I think so, I don't know why I really just enjoyed the score, it wasn't as great as Danny Elfman score to Batman or Spider-Man, but it fit well. I haven't read the book like you did, so you probably had your own feature in your head and like most it didn't capture the feeling you felt from the book(like how WB screwed over Queen of the Damned), but I thought it was a good film and was impressed. Actually it did capture the feelings I got from the book. Though I'm not a fan of the book or the movie (I might give it a second chance), I do think it was a very faithful adaptation of the source material, all things considered.
  10. I sort of disagree; it's more likely she would get combat experience as a street hooker Sorry, I've just never heard of learning any martial arts being learned by rebound your face off the hand of an angry pimp. Not martial arts, just street-fighting. I don't remember Sonny Chiba wearing 6 inch heels and a PVC mini-skirt.
  11. I sort of disagree; it's more likely she would get combat experience as a street hooker Sorry, I've just never heard of learning any martial arts being learned by rebound your face off the hand of an angry pimp. Not martial arts, just street-fighting.
  12. I sort of disagree; it's more likely she would get combat experience as a street hooker than as a debutante, since she'd probably have a few run-ins with muggers and pimps. She'd still probably need someone to train her and refine her skills so that she could hold on her own against Batman for more than thirty seconds. Her living such a life would also give her a motivation for stealing from the rich than if she was just well-off the begin with. That being said, I quite like Mike's idea, though I'm not sure they could get away with having a prostitute be a pivotal character in a film that a lot of kids are gonna see. Whatever interpretation they use would be better than the mousy secretary of Batman Returns.
  13. Which interpretation of Selina Kyle do y'all prefer: the jet-setter by day and thief by night, or the street hooker who steals from the rich?
  14. I haven't been following them all that closely, but I think Dick Grayson is better off and is being more of his own man as Nightwing than he is as the next Batman. I did give the idea of him as Batman a try by reading Battle for the Cowl, but that did nothing for me and my distaste for Grant Morrison's stuff prevents me from continuing to read them, even now that Bruce is back.
  15. Copy, paste; copy, paste As for someone else taking up the cape and cowl following the third film, the only person who I accept as Batman apart from Bruce is Terry McGinnis. This applies to the comics too. I could see Bruce being out of commission for a lot of The Dark Knight Rises due to confrontation with Bane or even temporarily quitting like Peter in Spider-Man 2, but to end the film with a new person as Batman would be utterly lame. Also, as the last film showed, people can easily be corrupted in their pursuit of justice, but Bruce Wayne/Batman can't, which is part of why he should continue to do what he does. As for Batman films after this one, I think Warner Brothers should give the character a rest and focus on other DC characters (if Green Lantern is successful enough to allow them to do so). A Robin/Nightwing trilogy would be nice.
  16. I agree. How compelling would a superhero stepping down and having someone else do his job be for the end of a franchise?
  17. Did Aqualad have webbed hands in the earlier episodes? This was the first time I noticed them