Near the start after he fires all the help, he had to find the one guy that makes his coffee the next day.
Best movie you've seen
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Near the start after he fires all the help, he had to find the one guy that makes his coffee the next day.
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Fatwah on Western Digital
The simple rule is this: Anything based on DC Comics characters that is not Batman is going to flat-out suck. Batman sucks about half the time. A big part of that is the fact that DC is owned by Warner Bros. and the comic book people are allowed very little say in movie treatments of the characters because of corporate structure.
Another part of that is just the astonishing lameness of DC Comics characters. "Rich white guy with no discernible personality gains the powers of a god and decides to use that power to foil bank robberies in a fictional stand-in for New York City that isn't New York city because then people would ask why said generic hero isn't running in to all the other heroes all the time." is a sort of generic DC Comics super-hero origin.
CougTek
Hairy Aussie
That's in The Green Hornet, not the Green Lantern.
I was scratching my head thinking the same thing...
Is that any surprise considering that most of those characters were developed ~50-75 years ago?
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Fatwah on Western Digital
Updating old characters does not often work well.
If a green hornet finds a green lantern will it just buzz around it forever and ever?
CougTek
Hairy Aussie
I'm bored to death this evening. I've finished all my repair jobs, haven't found a way to sell my current computers to build better ones, don't want to waste money going out, have played 20 Freecell games (won 19) and finished reading all my news site on the Net. Like I wrote, really bored to death.
Now...Harry Poter. I've never seen any of those. I've always assosciated those films with kid movies, but many co-workers (with children) told me they weren't that bad. There are 7 or 8 movies. At 2 hours each, we're talking about 14-16 hours of entertainment (or suffering). Did any of the fourty+ crowd here seen those and could you please tell me if they are kid movies or if a grown up might, just might, find them reasonably good enough to sustain watching the entire series? Don't lie to me. If it's anything Disney-like, there are chances I turn Hulk-like and throw my precious monitor thru a wall.
Too bad I don't have a TV because I'd prefer to watch the Chargers-Raiders game.
Now...Harry Poter. I've never seen any of those. I've always assosciated those films with kid movies, but many co-workers (with children) told me they weren't that bad. There are 7 or 8 movies. At 2 hours each, we're talking about 14-16 hours of entertainment (or suffering). Did any of the fourty+ crowd here seen those and could you please tell me if they are kid movies or if a grown up might, just might, find them reasonably good enough to sustain watching the entire series? Don't lie to me. If it's anything Disney-like, there are chances I turn Hulk-like and throw my precious monitor thru a wall.
Too bad I don't have a TV because I'd prefer to watch the Chargers-Raiders game.
CougTek
Hairy Aussie
You smoked too much green.
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Fatwah on Western Digital
It is done. DC has at times killed and brought back different characters as the Flash, for example. The problem is, the three characters are entirely interchangeable and there's an important contingent of writers there who refuse to accept anything but the versions of the characters from their own childhood.
Green Lantern is a bit different in that they've managed to have three completely distinct characters as that same hero and found a role for all three in a way that actually kind of makes sense, but that's the exception to all this.
On the other hand, you'd need a map, a GPS and 50 years of back story to figure out what the hell is going on with Hawkman, Power Girl, or anyone who has ever been Robin.
This really isn't a topic where I need to get started. I have a great deal of disdain for DC Comics. Ultimately, I think Batman is a decent character who could be best served by not having to exist in the same universe as all their other characters; and I wish that Captain Marvel ("Shazam") was under someone else's control. Other than that, DC Comics can rot in hell.
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Fatwah on Western Digital
Coug, if you ask me real nice I bet I can arrange for all sorts of international copyright violations on your behalf.
CougTek
Hairy Aussie
Oh I have no problem getting everything that comes to my mind, thanks. I simply don't know what to search because I can't think of something that might interest me that I haven't seen yet.
I watched some of the films on the HBO. However, I could not maintain enough interest to see any of them straight through. Basically the main characters were unsympathetic and there was not a sense that anything too serious would really happen. The stories were rather bland, clichéd, and pointless for my tastes. Maybe it makes more sense in the UK.
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Fatwah on Western Digital
I'd suggest HBO dramas. Boardwalk Empire and Game of Thones are both fantastic for completely different reasons.
CougTek
Hairy Aussie
Thanks for the feedback and the suggestions. I'll look into it.
Howell
Storage? I am Storage!
Soylent Green. At least as a story if you didn't like the film.
Howell
Storage? I am Storage!
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Fatwah on Western Digital
Also, just to kind-of sort-of relate the ranting about comic books back to movies of a sort, the people who make the Super Hero movie parody porns are really shockingly faithful to the source material, at least as far as things like casting for looks, costuming and back story.
I just got Iron Man XXX and this is what the porn version of the character looks like:
Which looks like somebody put an uncharacteristically large amount of work into it.
I just got Iron Man XXX and this is what the porn version of the character looks like:
Which looks like somebody put an uncharacteristically large amount of work into it.
Howell
Storage? I am Storage!
Ditto except I sat through movies I think 1 and 4 for social reasons.
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Fatwah on Western Digital
The Harry Potter series is supposed to grow with the reader. The stories get more interesting and serious with each new entry into the series. The first book really has more to do with introducing the setting and its rules than anything else. Harry has whatever his wizarding challenges are but also the usual everyday growing pains that any tween/teen/young adult has to face. The combination of those things is what makes the book series interesting to most of its fans.
The movies are uneven, taken as a whole. The cast is actually pretty strong, but they kept changing directors. The last movie is by far the best of the series. That's probably not a surprise, since it has the payoff from the seven films before.
mubs
Storage? I am Storage!
I've read all the books and seen all the movies; have the whole set of books and most of the DVDs, courtesy my kid.
It ain't bad; she's a good story teller. The movies aren't as good as the books, naturally, because they have to tell the whole story in about a 100 minutes, and the books are voluminous and detailed.. The last book was split into two movies because a lot happens.
The most amazing thing is how the author ties seemingly small, insignificant events say, in Book 1, to major consequences in, say, Book 6. She's able to keep track of a gazillion details and work each one out. Certainly her grey stuff is high horsepower.
It ain't bad; she's a good story teller. The movies aren't as good as the books, naturally, because they have to tell the whole story in about a 100 minutes, and the books are voluminous and detailed.. The last book was split into two movies because a lot happens.
The most amazing thing is how the author ties seemingly small, insignificant events say, in Book 1, to major consequences in, say, Book 6. She's able to keep track of a gazillion details and work each one out. Certainly her grey stuff is high horsepower.
sechs
Storage? I am Storage!
I think that they had the chance to reasonably do that with Crisis on Infinite Earths.
CougTek
Hairy Aussie
I tried to watch the latest Conan The Barbarian untill the end but wasn't able to. There's a limit to the amount of cinematographic suffering I can sustain. It was not even a "b" grade movie. Maybe a ""w" or a "x" grade. It was one of the worst movies I've seen in a while. Compared to it, even "Clash of the Titans" can be viewed as a chef d'oeuvre.
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Fatwah on Western Digital
Joey, do you like movies about gladiators?
CougTek
Hairy Aussie
Who's Joey?
Stereodude
Not really a
CougTek
Hairy Aussie
Wow, that's straight from the 70's. The old guy's face tells me something, but I don't remember where I saw him. It has been too long ago.
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Fatwah on Western Digital
The thing to say abut Sucker Punch is that it exists at the intersection of strippers and cosplay and that is awesome. I saw probably a dozen hot chicks walking around in Sucker Punch inspired outfits at Comic Con this year and I was thankful for every one of them.
Will Rickards
Storage Is My Life
I liked sucker punch if only for the visuals at least.
We watched "the mechanic" last night and were quite bored.
We watched "the mechanic" last night and were quite bored.
Stereodude
Not really a
We watched Limitless last night. It was decent, but certainly no masterpiece.