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What if you took that concept and ran it against the period of No Man's Land where Batman was in absentia? You get the villains, the rest of the Bat family (although it'd be Drake rather than Grayson as Robin, unless that was tweaked) and no Batman to overshadow things. Sounds better than DJ Grayson performing acrobatics in front of Commissioner Gordon and his cute daughter.

Happy Birthday!

Dubs........my revenge shall be exquisite. Er, otherwise good reviews all and a new podcast sounds great.

Happy Birthday, squared.

I need to clip Dubs going "TING!" Then, I need more laughable videogame dialogue: Captain Swish ftw. And wow, Dubs laughing.... I'd feedback here, but I thought I'd switch it up into e-mail form for once.

I've just subscribed to this these last couple of days, and I'm listening to an episode you've appeared upon! Props, sir!

Normally people just don't post if they have nothing to say. On topic: How prominent are the Bat family outside of their own headline books?

RE: Mike's position, have a look at the "Things People Like...." thread in the Banter section! Apologies if I've tarred you with the brush of overt negativity, but I find it hard to believe that both Burton films are somehow lesser than Schumacher's. As I've said, Forever is a guilty pleasure but it's still pretty bad with a number of plotholes - the "red book" bollocks for one thing. Still, if one thing could possibly sway me from this belief, it's a 4 hour recording session with Mike & James.

Well, if now is the time to be talking QOS, I like it as a directional step for the franchise. It manages to continue the series from Casino Royale without really being ANYTHING like the last film. And whilst it feels that it's only a two-film story-arc by the way it ended, there's definitely grounds to continue Bond vs Quantum in future films.

Batman Forever is the definition of a guilty pleasure. Batman & Robin is the definition of....something far worse. Batman Returns is something I don't really know how people react to - ok, you, Mike and the guy who runs Batman on Film all hate the film, but you are but three men! I haven't watched it since last year, but I don't remember coming away hating it.

Heh, I'm like that whenever I've been playing GTA: San Andreas!

My language has been informed in part by my dad's side of the family, who impart the poetry of Edward Lear and Lewis Carroll at the drop of a hat. So that, combined with my role as the token Brit on the forums, leads to me over-egging the way I usually speak. That said, I do like showing off the extent of my vocabulary whenever I can, which is why I sound different in Comic Reel-lief segs/articles, which are pre-written, in comparison to episodes of For Your Ears Only or when reviewing Batman movies with Mike & James. It also helped that I had a few pedantic teachers who would correct me on my vocal contributions to lessons. The same goes for Adham.

Seriously, who rates Freddy?

Worse than Braveheart, you mean?

Who? Who believes this? Who thinks that ANYBODY confuses fucking Smallville with genuine big screen Superman? Why would that show drain the enthusiasm for something that is basically entirely seperate? The same geniuses (genii?) who dreamt up the Bat-embargo. The WB are pretty damn clueless when it comes to handling DC properties, as is well established. Superman Returns was hurt at the box office because it was a bad film, which received bad word of mouth accordingly and yet WB decided to put it up against the massively successful Pirates of the Carribean franchise (as Sir Brosnahan wrote in a contemporary article on Earth-2). Still, whatever the reason for its cancellation, I won't weep over the passing of The Graysons. And suavestar, I rewatched Superman Returns a few weeks ago just to see if it's as bad as I remember it being. If you buy 17 pirated copies that suddenly fuck up after 45 minutes, then go ahead - you won't want to watch much beyond that anyway. If I were writing a letter to Bryan Singer, I'd thank him for "House" and compliment his directoral career, upto X2, before asking why he'd up and leave his successful CBM franchise to fail at making Superman.

:laugh: We haven't even reached Schumacher yet!

- Beetlejuice was underwhelming. - E4/BBC3 - Does MTV count? - Catherine Tate - Little Britain - Radio 1 - "gossip" - the word, the verb, the band. All of it is truly loathsome. - cake - E.T. And this would've been relevant until last week: Russell Brand

Why would you ask something like this, Kellen? As well you know, the entire Earth-2.net staff are glutton for punishment & unendurable agony - partially because they make for the best reviews! So yes, suffer. In the nicest possible way, naturally!

If that's John Barrowman, that's the best ironic chat-up line ever.

Your motivational skills are second to none, Dubs!

Heh. Honestly, the list goes as follows for me: Billie Piper - Day and Night I think my brother had this. More tolerable than her earlier singles. Girls Aloud - I Think We're Alone Now Not the worst GA cover ever - their joint mauling of "Walk This Way" with the Sugababes is INFINITELY worse. S Club 7 - Bring it All Back Heh, now this is a Skelley act!! Spice Girls - Wannabe Ah jeez. Sugababes - Push the Button Seriously, you could've chosen a much worse song of theirs, so many thanks. B*Witched - C'est la vie I hate you. So it could've been worse! And I really will do this, as soon as I find a way of acquiring these songs without paying for them...

It's alright, Dubs - millions of other people think these acts are good as well. Lord knows I'm not one of them, though. Really? I thought the Ting Tings would make some great entrance music for Skelley. :happy: If Skelley wore a shell-suit, chewed gum and replaced the exaggerated lingo with chavspeak, then yes. Actually, that's quite a funny image.... I'm tempted to bring Bradford back just to run that gimmick. Ya remember how general morale was back when you were in it? Long story short, it's not better. On topic: if Dubs suggests me 6 songs to listen to for 24 hours, I just might do it. I've been through a lot this year, but I reckon this one challenge will see me come out stronger as a human being with functioning ears.

Out of interest, do you mean to say that Bond films of late (say, from the 90s onwards) have sucked and you don't watch the Craig films as a result, or that you hated Casino Royale so much that you won't see the current film? Am not calling you right or wrong - just curious to see what you mean. I mean that the Craig film, Casino Royale was badly done from bringing a blonde Bond in to having Judi (y?) Dench still playing M. If they were going to go back to the beginning M should be a man...Brosnan was the best Bond IMHO. The casting of Judi Dench as M in a new Bond continuity is admittedly somewhat counter-productive to casual Bond fans, but in that the film series is notoriously wretched at sticking to much of a continuity, I can pretty much accept it. The points Adham & I made in this episode about Blofeld not recognising Bond is pretty much a perfect example of this. In any case, I certainly disagree that M has to be a man if the film is focusing on the beginnings of the character It'd make more sense if they were to do it like Doctor Who, but since they can't they burn a lot of Bond Fans by not explaining why they decided to go back to the beginning and just think that we are going to say, "oh another Bond film and he's blonde, and we don't know why we're back in the cold war, okay! Humper, dumper, do..." If you say beforehand "this going back to Bond's origins", then I think Bond fans and critics alike will get it - those that don't simply have to follow the plot within the film. Because Bond isn't sci-fi (unless you count Q branch, and Moonraker), you can't simply regenerate the lead actor - you have to re-invent them instead. The Craig iteration of Bond is not just another reinvention of the character but a reboot as well, almost exactly like Christian Bale as Batman. Now if you don't like Craig because he's not Brosnan, or because he's blonde, or because his take on Bond is VERY different to the previous films, then that's your opinion and I won't deride you for it. But the current Bond producers certainly deserve a lot more credit than they're being given because they've pretty much rescued the franchise from self-parody - which is EXACTLY what Die Another Day felt like.

It's alright, Dubs - millions of other people think these acts are good as well. Lord knows I'm not one of them, though. Really? I thought the Ting Tings would make some great entrance music for Skelley. :happy: If Skelley wore a shell-suit, chewed gum and replaced the exaggerated lingo with chavspeak, then yes. Actually, that's quite a funny image....