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HOLY SHIT! Damn. Only 28 too?

Ha, there was *literally* roadkill in Roadkill Review!!! Gotta love that! Also great to hear Nick Cave! Whilst my knowledge on his work is woeful, I became addicted to Grinderman side project last year, and the delightfully sordid "No Pussy Blues"! Great stuff as per usual

I like him because he makes movies that are successful outside of the HJollywood Studio machine and he does it with people who are very much part of that machine. So, it's all about fighting the power and has absolutely nothing to do with the quality of his movies. His movies are better than Michael Bay's. I think that deserves a poll.....

Funny you should mention that - I spent 3 years at my student radio station at university! In fact, some of the earliest CR segments (back before CR had a name!!) were recorded in the production studio there! Whilst I've looked into it, a career in radio is both INCREDIBLY hard to get into, and unless you rise to the top as an on-air presenter, the pay is rather horrible! Speaking of audio stuff - if my lappy decides to work when I wake up, I can complete a labour of love of mine that I've been working on this past week for WFP #20. Then I can get on with some damn writing! As fun as audio production is, it takes a while. Then again, James will hold the high-ground over me on that as video-making must be even harder. As for the reference, a Canadian with a podcast on horror could be ANYONE!!! ..........nah, it was a Des shout-out. The guy played 'Dracula's Wedding' by Outkast on Dread Media - that alone deserves regular praise! Many thanks for the feedback, chaps!

Wow, it's taken me a full month to realise that I actually run an environementalist lobby group! What does anyone think of me using Captain Planet as my mascot?!?!? .................James??? :devil:

Better yet, can we just not do this? Please? I promise I'll be nice to the next Superman movie! (If only by virtue of it not being related to this trainwreck of an idea).

My ballot's in!

Ok well which one is your top ten, the second set looks good, but your first set is critically considered(and by me) the worse, with Howard the Duck being the worse of them Er, yes....that *was* the joke!!! Believe me, if the first list were true, Mike probably wouldn't have hired me! Then again, I have my suspicions about purely being a diversity hire who says "pip-pip" & "cheerio" to mainatin internet prominence. :happy:

*cough* Then again, that's only the stuff I've reviewd so far - no way in HELL would Ghost Rider remain in my Top 10!!! At a guess, my list would look something like this. 10. The Punisher (take your pick) 9. Red Sonja 8. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen 7. The Return of Swamp Thing 6. Elektra 5. Superman IV: The Quest For Peace 4. Catwoman 3. Steel 2. Howard The Duck 1. Batman & Robin OR alternatively 10. 300 9. Stardust 8. Superman 7. V For Vendetta 6. The Crow 5. The Mask 4. Batman Begins 3. Sin City 2. Spider-Man 2 1. X2 I know The Crow's a great movie, made even more poignant by the tragic behind the scenes circumstancs, but the best ever? Alright then.

You've just made *The List*, Fetch....... (Hurrah btw)

Routh was one of the best things going for Superman Returns and I will hear nothing to the contrary. Seriously though, Singer & Routh not being in the next installment and the fucking JLA version being the sequel is SUCH UTTER, UTTER BULLSHIT. Alright, Singer fucked up with his reboot and I can live with him not being part of the seqel, not to mention my misgivings with Superboy. But if they change things AGAIN, the franchise just gets more confusing. Worse yet, it it makes the JLA version of everything THE DC UNIVERSE, SIDLINGING THE BALE/NOLAN BATMAN UNIVERSE AS BEING UTTERLY PERIPHERARY. Really, Warner Brothers are pissing all over what could have been an awesome expansion of the DC universe, ALL SO THEY CAN HAVE A KID-FRIENDLY JUSTICE LEAGUE. DID BATMAN & ROBIN TEACH YOU NOTHING?!?!?!?!?!?!??!? I'm a tad annoyed. :grumble:

Merry Yuletide, all!! - Boxset of the original Superman series - Pixies - Come on Pilgrim EP & Surfer Rosa - Talking Heads Best Of - Jeremy Clarkson book - Money towards my external hard-drive (stop gap between me changing computers) - Chocolate And a top Christmas dinner to boot!!

People need to realize that what ever America calls it, it's the right name. Funny, I could have sorn your language was Eng...Ing....how do you spell it?!? .....ah yes, that's right: E-N-G-L-I-S-H!!! If it came from the past, we thought of it first. Or nicked it from our empire. Either way, since the day a pig's bladder was first kicked around ye Merrie Olde England, we've been doing sport properly. Football = a ball kicked by feet. Ergo "soccer" is the one true football. You guys play bastardised rugby when you play "football" - with padding because you're less hard to boot! Merry Christmas, Yankland!!!

Earth-2.net > Hodgepodge > Sports > Football - of the soccer variety

I may be jumping the gun here but that demon at the beginning and end of the show had a slightly Canadian inflection..... Good stuff anywho!!

Here's the lie of the land: - I support Leicester City, who are the division below the top English football league. Mock them, and you shalt pay. - Arsenal (a London club) are in the lead, on course to take their 1st Premier League title since 2004. Behind them are the current champions, Manchester United. They won their first title since 2003 last season and have the squad to retain the title. - Also in the "Big Four" are Chelsea & Liverpool. Chelsea won the 2005 & 2006 titles, but the manager who saw them to such success fell out with the Russian billionaire owner and has since left the club. Whilst the team can get away with results due to their expensive side, Avram Grant remains under pressure to perform. Liverpool haven't won the league since the turn of the 1990s, but a great squad and winning the European Champions League in 2005 have kept them in the frame, despite their league form being a step behind their "Big Four" rivals. - Managers to respect: Martin O'Neill (Aston Villa), Sven Goran Eriksson (Man City) - Managers to partially admire, even though they're probbaly crooked: Harry Redknapp (Portsmouth), Sam Allardyce (Newcastle) - Managers to loathe with every inch of your being: Neil Warnock (Crystal Palace: Not in the Premiership, but still an absolute tosspot).

I was going to start the Batman/Bruce Wayne debate - damn you, Malpractice!!! On the one hand, I tend to like one alias per hero if that's how they're best known. Granted, it makes storyline sense for new characters to inherit the mantle to keep the stories interesting, but if someone asks me who Catwoman is, I say Selina Kyle rather than Holly Robinson (and ESPECIALLY not Patience Price - wiki it, if you don't know what I'm referring to). On the other hand, you could easily have a Batman Beyond scenario happen where Wayne mentors someone in his role. Because the guy must be in his early-to-mid forties by now and that's going to slowly limit his effectiveness over time.

....says the guy who puts the Union Jack on all my banners!!

Lordi rock!!! Alas, you people will never fully appreciate why them winning the Eurovision Song Contest was such a cultural revelation. And that makes me sad.

Dude, I think your avatar gives you away on this one!! As Yoda says, Turtles I is a good movie in regards to the fact it's a fun, family action flick - hey, it was the first film I ever saw in the cinemas and I was a HUGE Turtles fanboy back in the day!! Having said that, if you're not around my age (22) or older and thus weren't around for the late 80s/early 90s Turtles explosion, the film isn't going to have all that much to show for itself to new fans. And that's just Turtles I - lord knows where you reckon II and III should be placed!! Compared to the 7 films above it you think less highly of, I reckon you could make pretty decent arguments for it challenging it's immediate neighbours (Ghost Rider, Blade, TMNT, Spidey 3). BUT come X-Men, I'd have no problem making arguments myself for why TMNTurtles isn't in the toppermost quarter. It doesn't have the consistent quality of X2, the stunning action visuals of 300 or the themes to provoke debate that V For Vendetta did. I'm not saying you have to make a blue screen, slo-mo, epic Turtles film with a love angle to make it a 10 in my books, but I enjoyed the CGI treatment of the Turtles a bit more - if they'd tightened up the ending and remembered to include Donatello a bit more, TMNT could have made an 8.5 or something similar. But thanks for your comments!! I was worried that this article series, which is *basically* just me listing what I've ranked films, wouldn't get any feedback accordingly, but I'm certainly happy to argue the positioning of each film on my chart!! Oh, and as for Stardust, check out my article called Definition. That's what I'm using to determine which movies I include for review.

Whilst you're waiting! I love how Daily Motion is the forgotten backwards cousin of youTube and is awesome because of that!! I am also in love with that trailer. Passionately, strenuously, deeply in love. And the Joker going "like me!!" at the end of the first monologue makes me think that Nolan's Joker isn't going to be without his daffy qualities. And his "Evening, Commissioner!!" line... And and and and..... DAMN YOU JULY!!!!! HOW CAN YOU BE SEVEN MONTHS AWAY?!?!?!?!?!!?!??!?!

I can't vote, because I haven't seen enough of these films. I will say, though, that I bloody LOVE Robocop!!!

This must be the Earth-2.net equivalent to Seagull's unfortunate Post Your Pic escapades on the Oratory earlier in the year! :laugh:

Agreed with all of these. Dude, if you want to defend Spider-Man 3 (see Episode 99 of E-2.net - the show, although I've since revised my score), you need to drop in the big selling points: - Bruce Campbell's cameo: better than either of the previous two, and that is definitely the one thing that the 3rd film can trumpet, if only minorly as it's hardly integral to the story. - Peter vs Harry - both fights were cool, be it the balls out action of the first fight about 5/10 minutes into the film, or their tussle in the Osbourne penthouse. Which ties into.... - Douchebag Peter!! I'm sorry, Tobey Maguire in an all-black suit with a different hair-do and dancing like an idiot isn't Emo, it's HILARIOUS!! And after all the shit MJ puts him through, his "FU, bitch" dancing in front of her with Gwen was pretty damn cool. - The aforementioned graphics. True, as Des said, for a $250 million budget, you'd expect that, but if the Sandman's graphics had been anything like that of Reed Richard's stretching (or less impressive than the sand effects in the Brendan Fraser "Mummy" films) then the criticism would have been much worse. - Topher Grace as Eddie Brock. So his background has been reinterpreted slightly - Grace still makes his character laughably odious so that when he eventually becomes attached to the symbiote, you understand the attraction to becoming Venom. - Gwen Stacy. Gorgeous and a good get-out love interest if Dunst does leave the series (always a plus!) - Amnesiac Harry. Him just painting a picture halfway through the film had me rolling. Then he regained his memory and went emo. Now, there's a long list of flaws as well and if it weren't 3am with one day of my weekend left, I'd go over them for longer. The key thing I'd say is that the films flaws were two-fold. That the script was overly complicated and packed, which was a mistake on the producers and Raimi's side - Venom didn't need to be in action in the finale with the amount of money this franchise is raking in, but try telling producers that. The other is that you can't get invested in the three core characters if you make all three of them unlikeable to different degrees. If MJ was kept sympathetic (as Paker was dealing with the symbiote and Harry was part Goblin insane) then the drama that would really help drive the still somewhat convoluted script along at a more acceptable pace. I still think Spider-Man 3 is a better film than something like Ghost Rider or the Fantastic Four films, despite its problems, but people get extra down on the film because it's such a comedown from Spidey 2, which is regarded as one of the greatest CBMs ever. On topic: I caught a lot of flack whilst in Canada for enjoying a Comedy Network show called Beat the Geeks. Twas very cool, but try telling skiiers that!

So I'm browsing over the active threads on my favourite geek culture site, and I find my web colleague (and boss, I guess) ranting about a wannabe fashion designer being done in by the trappings of reality television production, which exist to keep the petulant ratings grabbers in until the end. Either my beer just got stronger or I need to start going to bed earlier....