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  1. On 12/15/2017 at 2:50 AM, JackFetch said:

    This is going to be an unpopular opinion, but I didn't like it.

    You are Desmond Reddick and I claim my £5.

    In all seriousness, I thought this was terrific. I need to see it again, but I think this is going to be another Star Wars/Empire situation for me, where the second movie is, by almost any objective measure, a better film, but I think I find The Force Awakens to be a more fun and enjoyable experience.

    Kelly Marie Tran is a goddamn delight.

  2. Putting it in tags for anyone who hasn't seen/heard about it:

    Smashing his umbrella on the ground to switch from street clothes to armor was a callback to Blake smashing his cane to transform into Thor. It was a small thing but a really cool little touch (along with an honest-to-God "By Odin's beard!" at one point).

  3. This was so much fucking fun. Yeah, it's way goofier than either of the other Thor movies, but the other Thor movies range from "eh, it's alright" to "I can't remember, did I even see that one?" so it's all good. It was great to see the Hulk as an actual character, and not just the smash engine that gets turned on in Act 3.

    And I marked out so fucking hard for the Don Blake moment.

    I, too, did not love that the Warriors Three got dispatched at all, let alone so quickly. I get that Zach Levi is going to be busy on the other side of the aisle for the foreseeable future, but that was unnecessary. Hell, except for Loki, Heimdall and Sif (by dint of not being in the movie at all), Thor's entire family and all of his Asgardian friends are dead.

  4. If she was signed to a three-picture deal, then Justice League would have fulfilled it.

    Also, even if she can't actually drop out, by doing this, WB needs to either A) publicly get rid of Ratner, or B) explain very, very carefully why they aren't getting rid of Ratner.

  5. 3 hours ago, The Master said:

    As for the themes, that's a very good question. While I might keep the TOS theme as the opening, it might be nice to switch. We'll see.

    True story: for reasons I will never fully understand, when I sit and think to myself, "Self, how does the Star Trek theme go?" it's the theme song to the animated series that I always, always, always have in my head.

     

  6. Batman and the Outsiders HC vol. 1: collects Batman and the Outsiders (1983) #1-13, plus The New Teen Titans #37 and material from The Brave and the Bold #200.

    After Lucius Fox manages to get himself kidnapped by a hostile foreign power and the JLA are forbidden to do anything about it lest they create an international incident, Batman has a temper tantrum, quits the League, and forms his own team and it'll have candy and presents and Firestorm's not invited. Who is invited instead are a couple of established characters that DC weren't really doing anything with (Black Lightning and Metamorpho), and some new characters that range from mildly interesting (Katana) to wasted potential (Halo) to the dictionary definition of utter uselessness (Geo-Force). Mike W. Barr, the Bat-writer in the early-to-mid 80s, has a tough time reconciling the brooding loner Batman he'd been working on with the guy training and leading a team of people with varying degrees of experience, but for the most part it comes out well enough. Jim Aparo is as Jim Aparo as he always is, even if he's not quite at the top of his game.

    Overall this is pretty typical Bronze Age, just pre-Crisis DC stuff. Stories are generally quick, no more than two parts. There's a crossover with the Titans where it's driven home how much more interesting Terra was than her brother Geo-Force. The Dick and Bruce relationship is pretty much destroyed at this point, and that's almost entirely on Dick's end; Batman is barely aware that Robin is so angry. (Hence why Dick is so angry.) The actual story isn't memorable, but the characterization is interesting. There's also a fucking phenomenal Christmas issue that's seriously one of the best Batman stories I've ever read.

    Also, Metamorpho is totally Ben Grimm with the serial numbers filed off.