Donomark
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I love how each of the Lady Doctors all look approriated towards the actors' ages. Not so much of a subtle thing, but the artist really got the concept down.
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On Michael Caine:
I actually started crying when he left Bruce. I half expected him to show up in some epic way during the last battle, but his appearance during the epilogue, and moving on with his life, was perfect for him. Though, I honestly half expected him to walk over to Bruce and choke him out when he showed up with Selina in Florence.
Hahahahaha
All of Alfred's scene in the movie got me emotional. Especially the one at the end
at the gravesite of Bruce. You felt soooooooooooooo bad for him, which made the final ending all the more uplifting.
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As I said on Facebook, I loved it. It did everything right, and, no joke--it allowed me to finally forget about that abortion of a Bane portrayal from Batman and Robin.
I love in the B&R commentary you guys did when you said "Bane will probably never be seen on film again."
THREE YEARS LATER...
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That "Not everything. Not Yet." line is roughly ten thousand times better coming from Conroy.
I'm inclined to agree. It's a great Batman line, but when CONROY says it...you get chills.
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Tom Baker be back baby...according to this.
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Will Smith's
Nod ya head" is an undoubtedly dated, commercially constructed and bad song that's beneath even him...
...and yet I still really like it. I liked it then as a high school freshman and I like it now. IDK what it is, but it speaks to me..!
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Following on from my post in the Batman Forever review thread, I've found a Batman & Robin out-take which actually addresses the Alfred/Barbara relationship. Too clunky for the film, but still solves a major plothole:
MMM, I've never seen that but that certainly would've made the film slightly less BSy in logic.
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You guys definitely were fair to the movie. How did Shana like podcasting?
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I did think Lizard was a bit King Koopa-ish, but I didn't care.
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Interesting..!
Sailor Moon's one of those shows that I was always kind of embarassed that I watched, but it definitely has it's status as an iconic anime. It's also got a resurgence in popularity due to Hot Topic for some reason.
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So I saw this last night/this morning and thought this was awesome. Anyone else?
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Puts a new spin on "We have all the TIME in the wor-" *gets shot*
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Has anyone read Batman: The Dark Knight #10 will the new writer Gregg Hurwitz? I'm debating on getting it because Scarecrow is one of my favorite Bat-villains. If anyone has... let me know if it was any good...
It's solid! Way better than the series has been thus far.
Batman Incorporated is the best Bat-Title out there right now. Morrison mixes in continuity from the 70s O'Neil era with the modern new52 stuff and the story he's telling with Talia Al Ghul is incredible. Matches Malone returns next issue. If nothing else, THIS is the Bat-Title to read, even more than the Scott Snyder stuff, which is great as well. but this is fantastic.
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Peter David on Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man. He came in during The Other, endured Civil War and the unmasking, and left during Back-In-Black, his full run being no more than a year. How do you have Peter David on a Spider-Man title for less than over a YEAR?
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AWESOME. Ra's Al Ghul himself..!
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Well I will totally agree that Frenz does have a tendency to mask his art as another styles, particularly with those Ditko and Kirby styles you mentioned. He was brought onto Bruce Timm's Fantastic Four miniseries specifically because of his Thor stuff looking like Kirby's, because they wanted it to match Kirby's F4 run as much as possible.
Also, Bob McCleod is/was one of the best inkers in comics ever. I think every work he touched be it his own pencils or him inking over someone else's, make the art jump out of the page. For instance, his inking during Jim Starlin and Jim Aparo's run on Batman made Aparo's stuff look great. You read "A Death in the Family" and the inks almost look Dr. Seuss-ish in how illustrious they are. Compare Aparo then in 1989 to in 1993 during Knightfall, and while it's not bad it's very different.
Again, as someone unfamiliar with the Joe franchise, I was heavily amused by all the codenames. I knew of Duke, Scarlett, Lady Jaye, Snake-Eyes and Cobra Commander. But hearing names like BeachHead, Short Fuse, Rock'nRoll, Sgt. Slaughter and others made me look up all the characters' names throughout the franchise. I think you guys mentioned Larry Hama's wacky naming for characters beofre off-handedly in BotI before, but this was eye-opening. Awesome stuff haha.
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You two stabbed me in the heart when you said that neither of you care for Ron Frenz nor Sal Buscema as artists. Nevertheless, as someone who's unfamiliar with G.I. Joe, t'was another solid listening experience from the Toland/Simms team.
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It seems like over the past few years there's been a real push to widen Batman's rogues gallery, with some mixed success. To my mind there's no way shape or form in which Jason should be a hero again, Red Hood is a villain and that's it. Morrison's stuff is a mixed bag, Pyg is awesome but Thomas Wayne was terrible. Most of the rest of that evil league of whatever was deliberately throwaway too, although I quite like Flamingo. Hush is great too, I don't think we've seen the best of what can be done with him.
I bring this up because Dollmaker, the dude who cut off Joker's face, feels very lazy. So recently after Pyg, introducing someone who also messes up faces and has slavish followers, only in a much less original fashion, feels like they lacked ideas.The difference between the two is that Pyg is a Batman villain, he feels like one, he's a psycho with his own MO and distinct calling card. Dollmaker's just another serial killer with less imagination. In my opinion the jury is still out on the Court of Owls, could be interesting, might not be. We'll see, although setting up the new Owl-man like they have has at least grabbed my attention (even if it's for daft reasons).
I think there's been way too much "The villains that BREAK THE BAT" attempts in recent years to the point where nothing can really out-do not only Knightfall, but The Cult in which Batman seriously did get mindfucked. And that was a 4 issue mini right before Jason Todd died. That being said, I really love Morrison's Black Glove/R.I.P. saga because it was so different. I also like Snyder's Night of Owls storyline, although that has more to do with the Batman issues than the crossover tie-ins.
But I feels ya. James Jr. is a great villain because he has more of a connection to Gordon than to Batman. (Although he did figure out that Dick Grayson was the Dark Knight.) I like Hush but feel as though his first story was his best. Paul Dini did great stuff with him however in Streets.
By and large I don't like the new thrown-into-the-ether villains, mainly because they mostly come from Tony Daniel. Enigma, daughter of Riddler, and Dollmaker were both atrocious, and although some are colorful like Mr. Toxic appears to be, it's like who cares anymore.
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Great episode fellers. Going through the Eccelston run for the first time, "Dalek" is by far the best and most interesting so far.
Thought Tom's massive rant on Rose was too long and tangental towards irrelevant things, but those are his thoughts.
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Feliz Cumpleanos!
The Dark Knight Rises
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AWESOME