SuaveStar
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Happy birthday, Chris!
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I still need to watch the movie. Does it matter if I want to watch the TV show?
As Gareth said, not at all. The only thing you need to know going in, is that Billy Bob Thornton is one scary guy.
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Happy 29th birthday, Will:
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So a killer has to meet a certain amount of artistic merit before the FBI gets involved?
Local police- Help us please, the Jersey killer-rapist has raped and killed 50 people in the last two years, and we haven't the resources nor expertise to catch him!
Jack Crawford- I'm sorry, we've looked at his work and we won't be offering him a position in our caseload at this time. Perhaps if he enhances his portfolio, maybe starts painting impressionistic portraits from his victims lymph or turning their bones into swiss clocks that keep impeccable time.
Local police- But he's killing and raping so many people!
Jack Crawford- Yes, but until you can suggest a suitable wine pairing to go with his spree or provide a walking tour audio guide to his murders narrated by Morgan Freeman then there really is nothing left to discuss.
If it's ok to read that in the voice of Laurence Fishburne, then yes, that is exactly how it goes.
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Up to episode 6 of Hannibal. In all seriousness, it's excellent but Charlie Brookers invention of the phrase 'artisan killer' always hangs in the back of my mind. What happened to plain old fashioned murderers? Why does everyone need an arts grant and a masters dissertation titled "Why I Slaughter: Death in the age of Rationalism". You could turn pictures of all the murders in this show into a classy coffee table book.
Because people who kill once don't plot out the various intricacies of their murders. Serial killers have a pattern, their method they like to use. That's how I interpreted it.
Sure, notable serial killers have patterns and impulses they carry out, but typically that doesn't translate to turning every victim into an installation at the Tate Modern. Every serial killer in this show is a craftsman of the highest order. What happened to abducting an impressionable teen, killing them, humping the corpse and eating a little raw liver? I mean, even Buffalo Bill looks like a caveman compared to the renaissance psychopaths they dream up on this show.
it's not a problem with the show, it's just something that makes it more amusing than genuinely scary.
Local cops deal with those guys. I think the show is showing more elaborate ones, as they would require the expertise of the different areas of the FBI.
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Up to episode 6 of Hannibal. In all seriousness, it's excellent but Charlie Brookers invention of the phrase 'artisan killer' always hangs in the back of my mind. What happened to plain old fashioned murderers? Why does everyone need an arts grant and a masters dissertation titled "Why I Slaughter: Death in the age of Rationalism". You could turn pictures of all the murders in this show into a classy coffee table book.
Because people who kill once don't plot out the various intricacies of their murders. Serial killers have a pattern, their method they like to use. That's how I interpreted it.
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Seeing as everyone else is getting you a cake like substance, I've decided to knit you a scarf:
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How was Electro?
Pretty good, he gets a sort of generic supervillain origin, and his powers get quite cool near the end of the film, when he's at full power. Though, they seem to take something from Batman Forever, with him being obsessed with Spider-Man and saying he was kind of already a bit nuts, before he became Electro.
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One more thing: No after credit scene.
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Saw a preview screening. It's fun. It has flaws, and if you really wanted to, you could pick apart the film and how parts of it don't really make that much sense. It's better than the first film, and Spider-Man, feels like the comic version of Spider-Man. And for anyone who can't be bothered going to the cinema and seeing it:
Harry Osborne as the Green Goblin, causes the death of Gwen Stacey in the clocktower, in a scene similar to her death in the comics, although instead of Peter hitting her with a web in the ankle to stop her falling, he grabs her waist, and it's left open to interpretation if the sudden stop killed her, or if she hit the ground before Peter could catch her.
Aunt May clearly knows he's Spider-Man by giving him a pep talk at the end of the film, talking about how, even though Uncle Ben is gone, she will never let him go, and she should never let Gwen's death be his life, as he gave up being Spider-Man because of it.
Harry Osborne is starting the Sinister Six, to take down Spider-Man, who he knows is Peter Parker, after working it out during their final battle.
The Rhino shows up at the start of the film, as a regular criminal, then at the end as the actual Rhino, and looks pretty cool.
Finally, don't bother with 3-D, some of the web effects look cool in it, but it's not really worth it.
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Oh, now they are just asking for the crackpots to come knocking.
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Upon reflection, I have exactly two issues with this movie, none of which keep it from being amazing.
2.) For a movie called the Winter Soldier, there was really not as much Bucky as I was expecting. I liked his use, I liked the way he and Cap interacted, but just making him the focus of the title seemed wrong. It's be better served for the next film, where the actually hunt him down.
Hydra.
I may be wrong, but wasn't that how it was in the comics? Winter Soldier just showed up, when he was needed, and the real story of the winter soldier, was what Red Skull was doing behind the scenes.
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So, nobody is going to mention:
How awesome it was to see Arnim Zola again? Or the mention of Stephen Strange as one of the people Hydra/Shield is worried is a threat?
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See, if memory serves, the dialogue asked for an appearence from Stark, not "Iron Man", so that could perfectly fit in with the post-Iron Man 3 Marvel Universe.
Actually, it was very specifically "Iron Man." But that doesn't really mean anything in regards to IM3. Tony blew up his suits, but he himself says in his monologue at the end, "I am Iron Man." There's never any part in IM3 where Tony says, "that's it, I'm retired forever, no more suiting up ever ever ever."
Though if SHIELD were still dealing with the fallout of The Winter Soldier, that might explain why they didn't show up in IM3.
So, movie thoughts:
Good:
-YES. This is exactly what I wanted to see. Loved it.
-The action is insanely good, and there's a ton of it. Not as epic as The Avengers, but definitely more precise and brutal. My favorite action in a Marvel movie thus far.
-The Winter Soldier himself was rather brilliantly built up as a legitimate threat. During both of the big fights between him and Cap, I seriously doubted if Cap could win—which is insane, considering how amazingly badass Cap was made to be in this movie.
-Black Widow is a character I greatly disliked in Iron Man 2, and tolerated in The Avengers, but here I liked her a lot. Maybe it's the fact that Scarlett actually has more to do than just be a hot body and have one cool conversation with Loki. But this is the first time I've ever really enjoyed Scarlett as Black Widow, which is a good sign for the future.
-This is basically a SHIELD movie starring Captain America. Which works really well. I hope it gives Agents of SHIELD a how-to lesson as well.
-Speaking of Agents of SHIELD, it was neat to see some mild payoff from elements of that series in this movie. Agent Sitwell and the Triskelion being the two biggest. Also minor stuff like the fact that Fury's SUV apparently can fly, just like Lola.
-Falcon was pretty great. Really likable and really cool.
Less Good:
-Why didn't they bring in Black Widow's history with the Winter Soldier? It seemed like they were going in that direction multiple times.
-The plot, it seemed, kind of overtook the main emotional plot. The movie is called The Winter Soldier, yet Bucky is barely in the movie. But evidently that's the thrust of the next sequel. I almost feel that perhaps this movie shouldn't have been titled The Winter Soldier. Heck, if they'd managed to keep the Winter Soldier himself a secret, that would have been even better.
Random:
-The Triskelion is in Washington, DC, but it's gigantic. There's specifically a rule in DC about building height limits, for a plethora of reasons—everything from "preserving the open feel of the city" to ensuring that the Capitol building and Washington Monument are the tallest buildings in the city. So the Triskelion being that large is either blatantly wrong or a sign of SHIELD/Hydra being given too much importance. But I still thought it was weird.
-The bit where Cap steals a car and calls it "borrowing" is totally a reference to the 1990 Captain America movie where he does the exact same thing, in the most dickish way possible. I laughed and no one else in the theater understood why.
So yeah. Really liked the movie. It's up there in the top tier of Marvel movies for me, along with Cap 1, IM1, and Avengers.
I agree with everything you said, except for Cap 1 being one of the best Marvel films. It's alright, but it was just missing something.
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1: Finish the jigsaw I was working on. I started a 300 piece puzzle, and I am going to finish it at some point. Put it away, I will finish this. Somehow.
2: Save money. Ongoing, but now with some plans in place.
3: Try and not eat as much fast food. Working well, so far.
4: Sort of get an order to my life. It's an ongoing thing, but who knows, maybe this year, I can do it. Again, slow but steady progress.
5: Play and complete all my games. I have a lot of games thanks to PSPlus and PSN sales, but now I really feel like I need to complete the ones I've purchased. It's not a big list, but it's something I've been meaning to do. Spyro 1 and Crash Bandicoots on PS1 completed!
It's time for a quarterly check up.
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And yet it's still better than Man of Steel, IMO. Which is the sad thing.
Superman Returns is a horribly flawed superhero movie, but it is still a superhero movie in the end, unlike Man of Steel, which is a highly mediocre character drama that turns into a generic alien invasion movie. Sure, MOS doesn't have the bizarre stupid moments of SR, but it also has no real personality. It's just monotone seriousness all the time. SR has problems, but I can still watch that movie and recognize it as being Superman. Man of Steel is almost deliberately un-Superman, as if it's ashamed of what it is.
And in any case, the Superman Returns plane scene is easily one of the greatest movie superhero moments of all time. My personal favorite, in fact.
The bit where he stops the bullet, with his eye, is also cool.
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I just picked up the Age of Ultron hardcover.
I absolutely hated the ending.
I won't spoil it, but it was a complete copout that made the entire series a complete waste of time.
This series had so much promise, but that was wasted.
So, another Brian Michael Bendis event book?
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Congrats, Mr Wilson!
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And these multi-coloured balloons from the toilet aren't very good. All I can make with them is a worm, and maybe a giraffe.
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Man, who knew Wolverine's powers included extra mutant teats to milk dry.
I don't even want to know what happens to them when he meets someone he finds attractive.
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But I thought you guys broke up.
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Outside of me being crap at pushing "X" fast enough, Stick of Truth has got to be one of the best games I've played in a while.
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Reading all this stuff, makes me really look forward to renting the super special edition blu-ray, that'll probably be four hours long, and add so many extra layers to the film. Like the true meaning of the theatrically deleted scene where Wolverine sneezes, and Kitty Pryde says "Bless you".
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I think Bill Pullman should be the one to resurrect Shield, if there is a season 2.