Lastjustice

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    Maybe three major comic book movies in 8 weeks is over saturating the theater goer a bit. Let's see if Cap's reviews suffer. Or maybe GL will act as a intermezzo.
    Yeah you'd think they'd wanted to spread em out a bit more. This summer was so front loaded with comicbook/action films. I look at the list of movies, I have so many I wanted to see in June, and then Only Captain America for July. (Transformers's release was bumped up to June 29th from July 1st.) I'm sure someone out there going well if I can only see one, then they re skiping something.

    Heck I was going skip POTC:Stranger Tides for precisely this reason if it wasn't in the cheap theathers tonight. (Just got back from it, was decent. Better than 2/3 but not quite as good as the first. ) Something is gotta give in the budget.

    With DC Green Lantern being their sole property out this year you,d think they of all people wouldn't have wanted to overlap with 3 marvel films at once. Is coming out in August that big of a problem? heh. (I like when movies come out on my birthday.) I wouldn't be surprised if this hinder all films involved a bit.

    DC really needs support the Green Lantern and keep it going with a sequel. Im sure all extra stuff (such as toys and DVD release. ) will likely help offset the cost of the film. I dont doubt a sequel could have a much tighter focus sicne they got their foot in the door with the public so they don't need fill in as much backstory and give us main event we're all looking for.
  2. For a movie you hate you spent an awfully high amount of time analyzing it. I mean I despise District 9, and I wouldn't have wasted my time breaking down it..or watching it again. This Nerdrage done wrong. I should know as I am nerdrage incarnate.
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    Originally Posted by Durakken View Post
    so I'm just missing where you expain what is good about the other 90 minutes of the movie
    If it wasn't for you, it wasn't for you. Which is extermely likely if you didn't like any of it. You not liking something does not mean it's automaticly bad. It's an opinion.

    It's like me eating black twizzlers, I didn't like the first bite, Im not going like the other however many that follow. They are not for me. Doesn't make them bad, just not what I'm looking for.

    I don't think anyone here overrated this film saying it was the greatest movie ever.(Then I'd get why you felt the need to know it down.) They said they enjoyed it. Gave it a C+ at best. So why the excessive nerdrage? It's not like we're talking about Raphael here. I think it's safe to put your red ring away and let this one go heh.
  4. I enjoyed it myself. I never was jarred out of the film and there was some geniunely fun moments. As for the guardian being Parallax(or possessed by it.), I guessed that angle pretty early on when you see him in the cave. I'm going also guess Parallax still exists as fear incarnate and will be mentioned again if there's a trilogy.


    My Complain...Amanda Waller was much too thin. All roles that larger people could play seem get cast as the beautiful people anyways heh. (Such as the Blob in Xmen.) Not a deal breaker by any means but just was like I bet that's Waller when I saw her. I think it's cool she made an appearance as this could be start of DC showing some greater level of connections between series.
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    Well obviously it can't be as good as The Dark Knight" or something similar.
    Well it's more like it wasn't as bad as the Dark Knight. It was better, as I'd actually like to see it again and would recommend it to people. I am SOOOooooo sick of this overrated turd. STOP USING IT as the standard when its the substandard in story telling. It had any more plot convience in it there be a 7/11 on every corner.(It had more than the Harry Potter films.) The world jobs to the the guy who's Joker in name only and Batman is a guy just some angry dude who wrecks alot of stuff, growls and never actually does any detective work. It's a comic book film ashamed to be a comic book film. It's a decent film, but a terrible comic book film.

    When I saw Green lantern I was having remotely as many YEAH Right moments as when I saw the Dark knight. it was aalittle slow at times, but it got the spirit of the Green Lantern right...something the Dark knight failed miseribly at.
  6. I'll go to see it because I don't want to see it completely bomb and DC to revert to lets only make Batman and the occasional Superman flick mindset again. Someone else finnally made it out the gates. I probably go alone to see how it is before I recommend it to anyone else, but I'll see it.
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    Originally Posted by Forbin_Project View Post
    Thank you for taking the time to participate and share what you wanted to say with me. I have considered what you have said along with what others like Arcanaville has said and decided that it still doesn't change my opinion about how Erik acted. I still think that Erik is not like the average person and would have reacted differently. We will simply have to agree to disagree about how a make believe person should have reacted in a hypothetical situation.
    Well I agree Magneto is not your typical person, it's these events that made him that way. I mean Bruce Wayne did nothing while his parents were gunned down in front of him despite being Batman. If he was born a hardass then his parents death likely wouldn't have scarred him in the first place.

    Erik was a fairly normal kid prior to these events, and part of his never goes past this moment. Which why psychics are able to attack him and remind him of what happened as a kid which often can bring him to his knees. (this happened when he attacked Shaw in the movie on the boat when Emma disables him, and also in the animated series even.) Part of Magneto will always be a scared little boy angry at the world. He wants the humans to feel as helpless as he did. He wants them to know his pain.
  8. Lastjustice

    Chinese Iron Man

    So much for Stark's assessment to congress saying the Chinese couldn't copy his technology for likely another 10 years.
  9. Forbin project , you don't know people if you found how Magneto lashed out that unrealistic. Have you ever have had someone dominate you? *Grape victims are terrified of their attackers despite being able to fight back potentially. On lookers often have complete shock despite being able to potentially help. In a moment of pure terror nothing you do is logical alot of times. You go on pure instinct and hope for the best. He was more afraid of Shaw than angry at him. That's likely why he attacked everyone else besides Shaw since was an emotional reaction of fear. (which we see often characters are as powerful as they feel or believe they are, which is definitely the case with magneto as we see later when Professor X enlightens him of his true potential.)

    That's what Erik did. He didn't know what what he was doing. The most obvious showing of his is he couldn't move a dang coin across the table. He lacked control and flailed around the office. Shaw broke and dominated Erik. That was why he had to kill Shaw. He was psychologically owned and needed to get back at his former master to become whole again. To get back what he lost to Shaw with in himself.

    You see this transformation at the end of the film. He gets his revenge and he becomes master of his own destiny finnally. No longer merely a slave ot revenge. It's something I unfortunately get. I just managed to come to the same understanding without wasting my oppressor.

    And besides all that it just made more sense for the film to leave Shaw as a background character from a narrative stand point as said earlier by RemusShepherd.
  10. I just ignore whatever doesn't fit and go on with my life. I realize they've bastardized these films enough sicne X 3 that anything that makes them overall more enjoyable is forgiveable. Tossing out a few pieces of canon here and there is the least of my worries. It's not like comics themselves don't have plenty of WTH moments.
  11. Well only way Magneto could killed shaw when left to his own devices is if he uses his powers to dump him into the ocean and drown him. Which definitely seemed to be a concern as Shaw fled earlier when Erik smashed his boat. I supposed he could just filled his openings with metal and just cut off his air flow to achieve the same ends. Assuming shaw couldn't just discharge energy to remove it.
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    Originally Posted by RemusShepherd View Post
    It was a narrative decision. If they had Eric throw something at Shaw, we would have seen that Shaw (as an old nazi) was a mutant early in the film. The writers preferred to leave that as a surprise, so that we got to know the main cast first and the villain later as a young businessman, which is how he spent most of the movie. The narrative goal there was to not confuse the audience with too many characters too quickly.

    In addition there's a character point being made. Shaw dominated Eric for most of his childhood, which is one reason why Eric felt resentment toward him. If they had shown Eric attacking Shaw just after they met then their relationship would have seemed more even and would have had less emotional impact.

    The writers handled this absolutely correct. Shaw appeared to be a crazy background character until the story got on its feet. After we get to know him, the early scene makes perfect sense.
    That's exactly it. Thumbs up soldier!
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    Originally Posted by Cowman View Post
    Eh, it was tongue-in-cheek enough that I could chuckle at it.
    Because you fail to give into the Nerdrage! Let it flow Cowman! Strike down them with your anger and your path to the dork side will be complete.
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    The article touches on this. The makers are aware that humanity as it is can't be taken down. Their reasoning is that if you remove some key advantages we have, we won't be that unstoppable. I'm assuming the apes will be aiming for that.

    Number of apes vs numbers of humans advamtage is another thing I'm interested in seeing how it's balanced out.
    Even if Apes were killing humans 10 to 1, there's a massive difference in numbers. A typical major city has millions of humans...a typical city has may be 500-1000 primates...whatever it is it's an insignifigant figure. Even General Custer could win this war.

    It would take a heck of a plot device(or plot induced stupidity) to fix this numbers game. Guns are the grand equalizer, as bullets still kill monkeys despite them being physically superior to us. You don't need high end technology to beat him (despite I don't think an army of apes could do jack against the national guard in tanks and helicopters.), so this just makes me laugh.

    It might be a decent film but I'd probably need turn off the logic center of my brain completely to enjoy it as something about a bunch of apes beating us up makes me roll my eyes.

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    Scientifically plausible? No. Great fun with an interesting subtext? Absolutely.
    Probably applies to this one too heh.
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    Is it really that hard to understand how magnets work?
    If you're the insane clown posse...YES. (just look up Miracles or commentary about it and magnets on Youtube.)
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    My only question now is, is X3 phased out as never happening, or will they make it so the beginning of X3 is still possible.
    More than likely, as my retcon would be cable goes back in time and prevents it from ever happening since his parents died and introduce the sentinels. Thats just me though.

    Wolverine could easily be tweaked to being allowed to happen still. They've muddied up the water a bit as the first Xmen movie says Cyclops was X's first student. Only changes that need happen is Professor X couldn't walk and Emma Frost can't be Silver fox's sister.

    As far as cameos go, they had an appearance of Storm as a lil girl in the recruiting scene for Cerebro finding people.

    I thought was pretty good over all. I think tapping into the heart of the civil rights era really gave the movie a tighter focus. While I think the team needed more time as it seemed like they only had a week or so get together and train.

    Ultimately knowing the notes they were going hit you knew what had to come, just you weren't sure how they going get to them. It definitely redeems the series in continuing. Hopefully they give us a few more films between the X 1 time table.

    My only major complaints were where heck was Stan Lee and our end credits scene!
  17. I'm sure if Tony Stark with a box of scraps in a cave could whip up a kryptonian buster suit heh. Stark does his best work in caves.... Just ask the ladies hehe.
  18. Honestly while awesome...it showed entirely too much of the film. I suppose they needed to though to get those who didn't have a clue who the green lantern is a reason to go see it.
  19. Here is the new 3D edit trailer for Dark of the moon. (if you have a monitor that supports it anyways.) it has a few extra scenes from the regular trailer.
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    Originally Posted by Dark One View Post
    Or if you like the dubbed version...Fort Knox
  21. Lastjustice

    RIP Macho Man

    Ah Macho Man, one of my childhood favorites. Hulk Hogan and him both transcended the ring, and became house hold icons. He was the embodiment of the 80s wrestling era with his larger than life attitude. Definitely one of the greats. He will be missed.
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    Originally Posted by Ironik View Post
    Someone explain it to Lastjustice, pretty please.
    Hey some people didn't realize wasn't just a recasting like in the dark knight. (someone I knew didn't.) I just figured I'd mention that all joking aside heh.
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    Originally Posted by Patchwork_Knight View Post
    Wait, where the heck are the gosh dang robots. I don't care about your suit, the train wreck next to you or mr. grey's anatomy. I want giant slagging robots. Thank you.
    It's Bay's Anatomy heh. Yeah it's some filler scene to set up some paper thin plot between the characters before everything gets blown up. Even Godzilla films have brief human scenes.

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    Originally Posted by Ironik View Post
    Megan Fox looks taller as a blonde.
    Because it's a new character , named after a character from the original series who was also blonde, Carly Miller.(Megan Fox was called Miekayla Banes....which sounds an awful lot like Michael Bay.) She's probably wearing heels in that scene, since she stood taller than Shia, and was a formal setting. They're about same height in all other clips shown since running in heels would probably end badly heh.
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    Originally Posted by Golden Girl View Post
    While that's obviously a design flaw, I don't think the Imperial official who decided to store the plans on the PSN should totally escape blame either.
    (notices the designs for the PS4 look like the death star.) She could be on to something...
  25. Lastjustice

    Thundergod

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    Of course, that just means that Norse myth was made somewhat compatible with Christianity, not that it was integrated into Christian 'canon.' Durakken is just overstating his case and not backing off from his original statement. It's par for the course.
    It's because it's the word of Raphael hehe.