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By the way, can anyone tell me why that same rooftop keeps showing up all the time. It shows up in the past, present, and future.
It must have something to do with Claude. He's still working for the man but training an army. Maybe.
No, I think it's because the studio was too cheap to build a second set
Geez...it's called: Benefit. Of. The. Doubt.
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As I mentioned on the podcast, Monster Squad gets its first DVD release around Halloween.
Here's the thread to discuss this movie. Who's seen it? Why do YOU think it's the best movie ever made?
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By the way, can anyone tell me why that same rooftop keeps showing up all the time. It shows up in the past, present, and future.
It must have something to do with Claude. He's still working for the man but training an army. Maybe.
I agree about Suresh. It's great to see a strong Indian character without having him made a victim or a scapegoat (or a terrorist). His treatment of Sylar added so much depth to him and the moment with the bullet sitting in the air was really the first time this season I actually despaired over what might happen to a character.
I didn't realize it was on last night and stumbled onto it a few minutes after nine. I'm glad I did. It was nice to listen to the French dialogue and understand it too (inconsequential as it may have been). Hiro does more for me as a character through his physical acting than any other character can with the most brilliantly written dialogue.
I take it I wasn't the only one who caught that Jessica killed Agents Alonso and Quesada?
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I'm totally psyched for these adaptations. Much more so for The Judas Contract and New Frontier but I'll get this nonetheless.
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“X-Men’s” Rogue, Anna Paquin, will play the lead in “True Blood,” HBO’s Louisiana vampire pilot from “Six Feet Under”/”American Beauty” creator Alan Ball.
Paquin will apparently play a telepathic waitress who becomes a local vampire’s love interest.
It’s based on the books by Charlaine Harris.
Anyone read the books? I think I remember hearing about them, but never picked any of them up.
This all seems a little Anne Rice to me.
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I"m up for anything with a Star Trek movie. It's not like any of the others have been very good. Except Wrath of Khan. That was bitchin'!
I'd like to see an expansion of the universe but if they were to do a movie based on any of the TV series I would only want to see DS9: the only one of the series worth watching all the way through.
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Seeing as there is no difference in the way he portrayed the characters I'll go with Ted because at least that movie had a decent sequel.
Keanu plays the same character in Point Break, B&T, Matrix and even Dracula. Of all the big star actors, he has to be the worst.
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That was great!
An entire episode without Hiro, Sylar and, for all intents and purposes, Claude and it was still awesome. These are my favourite characters. Matt is becoming a very cool character.
There was just something so comic book about Matt and Mr. Bennett's telepathic communication that it was so goddamn fantastic!
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Goddamn you different day and time mixed with the Oscars!!!
I hope they replay this tonight or I'll have to torrent it.
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Me=Jim Carey fan, I need to see this.
My thoughts exactly. One of the greatest actors of our time. Carrey has shown his chops dramatically before but a crazy conspiracy-laden insane crime thriller is what I really want to see him excel at.
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Say what you like about the Oscars but I ruefully watch them annually. They are long boring and often ridicuously stupid. But they have clout.
This year I was actually impressed by Ellen DeGeneres and the song Will Ferrel and Jack Black did was awesome.
The big story, for genre fans, was Pan's Labyrinth. I'm doing an audio rundown for the podcast but the nominations and awards this movie got will give del Toro a lot of room to breathe in Hollywood. It should have gotten the Best Foreign Language category instead of a German film no one will remember next year but the "Academy Award Winning" banner at the top of the DVD case will sell a whole wack more to people who would otherwise pass it up.
A lot of nominations for Children of Men and Prestige and the performance of The Departed made it a good year for GOOD genre film instead of the regular Peter Jackson shit.
Thoughts?
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You ban us and you aren't going to have much of a forum left.
Off the topic but damn you're old Dread
That's it!!! Your're banned :grumble: :grumble: :grumble: :grumble:
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Thanks, Des. The rest of you are so banned. :grumble:
Yeah guys! Nyah Nyah Nyah Nyah-nyah!!!
We don't get to make fun of his age until he turns thirty!
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To you too of course.
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Cheers Mike!
Thanks for everything you do for the site and podcast (not to mention the editing and banner making for Reel Dread that is always top-notch).
Happy birthday!!!!!!!
And everybody else: shut up! If Mike's old then I'm not any different.
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What did Joe have to do with Xorn?
I think he means the whole Magneto was dead, then, Xorn turned out to be Magneto, and finally it turned out that not only was Xorn an imposter Magneto, Magneto was still alive, and apparently Xorn wasn't even the real Xorn.
I apologize if this makes anyone's head explode
It just makes me mad to think about how Morrison's run was treated after he left. Chuck Austen was given the duty of tying up his run? What a slap in the face!
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I also forgot to mention that were any wallpaper to win beside Det Chimp I would be screaming "FIX!!!"
I get 3 or 4 compliments a day from students and colleagues alike.
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Yup! There was zero discomfort in the banter. You guys did well.
Bring on the 2007 Earth Deuces! That's what I'm calling them, anyway.
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Your contributor of the year award was well deserved. It's why I voted for you. Forget the site, the podcast and If I Ran Marvel do it by itself.
Thanks.
Kellen calling my work ethic Chris Benoit-like is worth it all. The Canadian Crippler was a hero growing up.I think that was James.
Shit! Sorry James. I thought he mentioned Kellen's name before that and I was listening at work. I was developing curriculum and fending off boring conversation from colleagues at the same time.
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Mike,
Your contributor of the year award was well deserved. It's why I voted for you. Forget the site, the podcast and If I Ran Marvel do it by itself.
Kellen calling my work ethic Chris Benoit-like is worth it all. The Canadian Crippler was a hero growing up.
Congrats everybody!
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The point is: people are lazy. Seeing a Spider-man movie won't get a kid into a comic store, it'll get a kid into a Spidey Tshirt.
Spend a couple million dollars on a deal with Cineplex Odeon/Famous Players/Other bigname theatre conglomerate and put floppies and trades under the glass countertop at the ticket counter. Then, if people buy the book, they may be more likely to go to Amazon.com or to Borders or, God forbid, their LCS to buy more books.
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In DC's defense, they really don't need to. They bring out Batman and Superman movies. They really don't need to promote character awareness now do they?
Their movie promotions are just standard action movie stuff, which is what they should be towards the non-geek.
I only partially agree. They don't need to promote character awareness and neither does Marvel in the case of Spider-Man but they DO need to sell more comics and for any company whose licensing division is getting big budget movies made it is the job of the comic company is to take advantage of that and say "you like that? want more? read these."
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just curious if it is happening to any of you other peeps.
for the past couple months reprinted issues of old-old Spider-Man tales have been coming with one of the local newspapers. it is stuff like the original electro story and the enforcers, the type of stuff that is in the first essentials volume. they split the story into two parts so the format is just a very thin comic. I assume much of the purpose is to help build hype for the movie.
anyone?
I'm sorry, I'm just a little surprised by the fact that Marvel is actually doing something intelligent to promote the comics when movies are coming out...
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I'll be honest, I had never heard of this movie until now, but your review makes me want to go see the first screening the day it opens. Once again you deliver another brilliantly written piece.
Wow...thanks CV.
I was just so damn happy to not have my expectations ruin a perfectly good movie again. It's nice to be pleasantly surprised once in a while.
Of course the problem with my review is that I hope it hasn't oversold the movie to those who haven't seen it.
Captain America #25 SPOILER
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I've skipped this thread to avoid plot point spoilers beyond the ending that my news spoiled for me tonight. Fuck the Associated Press!!!
This is bullshit. Until the news gives the medium an iota of respect as an art form they have no right spoiling major plot points hours after the book is released. I am amazing at avoiding spoilers online as I am unable to go to the LCS every week but when it's splashed across my TV screen at dinnertime its pretty unavoidable.
Do they mention the endings of movies? Do they mention who's going to die on Lost? Do they say what happens at the end of the latest piece of shit Harry potter book? No. Because these are respected forms of media. It happened when my email opened to the RSS headline when Spidey was unmasked and now this shit.
I'm fucking sick and tired of this. Where's the story on the advent of the graphic novel? How about spotlights on retailers or even local artists? Everyone knew Supes was going to die and Bats was going to have his back broken but it was RUMOURED that Cap would die.
This is pushing me closer and closer to dropping mainstream books altogether.