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Super Summer Slugfest Slamdown: Movies & More!

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  • CadeCade Eppur si muove.Registered User regular
    noir_blood wrote:
    I just can't believe that he would go back to the Transformers. I mean, I don't loath the movies as much as others here, but more like man....is he not bored of making this type of movies?

    Also, I really wonder why they decided to go with a limited selection of movie theaters for the Batman preview. I thought for sure that Dallas would get a least one theater, but nope. Still, like someone said, it'll be on youtube soon enough.

    After the success of the first movies by the time you take all the stuff he gets for doing the films he makes like a hundred million dollars believe it or not thank to receiving a cut of the pie etc.

    It's a pretty good incentive to keep making them.

  • DritzDritz CanadaRegistered User regular
    So I've been watching the Wolverine anime because I make poor decisions in life. It's something. At least you get to see Wolverine actually use his claws on non robot based things.

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  • AriviaArivia I Like A Challenge Earth-1Registered User regular
    noir_blood wrote:
    I just can't believe that he would go back to the Transformers. I mean, I don't loath the movies as much as others here, but more like man....is he not bored of making this type of movies?

    Also, I really wonder why they decided to go with a limited selection of movie theaters for the Batman preview. I thought for sure that Dallas would get a least one theater, but nope. Still, like someone said, it'll be on youtube soon enough.

    Does Dallas have an IMAX theater?

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  • Undead ScottsmanUndead Scottsman Registered User regular
    Apparently Maria Hill will NOT have superpowers in the Avengers flick, the quote was a badly mangled: http://comicbookmovie.com/fansites/GraphicCity/news/?a=50820

    Also, it appears fox is working on First Class 2, and new Daredevil and Fantastic Four movies, so hope of Marvel getting those rights back anytime soon is dwindling: http://comicbookmovie.com/fansites/JoshWildingNewsAndReviews/news/?a=50825

  • AriviaArivia I Like A Challenge Earth-1Registered User regular
    Fuck. It's a damn shame Marvel can't do something with those, considering how well the comics themselves are doing right now.

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  • TurambarTurambar Independent Registered User regular
    Open your wallet, Disney!

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  • HeatwaveHeatwave Come, now, and walk the path of explosions with me!Registered User regular
    edited December 2011
    Man that Lizard pic reminds me more of Scorpion. Definitely needs a lab coat.


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  • HadjiQuestHadjiQuest Registered User regular
    edited December 2011
    So there were press screenings for just the 6 minute preview of TDKR, without MI4 attached.

    And a Q&A with Nolan and Emma Thompson afterward.

    The word from the 4 or 5 reviews I've read is that Bane is fucking amazing, with Wired and Comics Alliance saying that he has every bit as much screen presence as Ledger's Joker, but that the actual plan he executes makes Joker look like a silly goose. Unfortunately, they say he has a voice that rival's the Bale Batman for indecipherability.

    Attendants had to sign a NDA on spoilers, so the reviews don't talk about any specifics, but just general ideas. However, piecing together the things they mentioned
    Are you seriously going to read this? It could be huge. Do you really want it spoiled?
    It sounds like Bane stages some sort of aerial coup, and rains dudes down onto a city, possibly Gotham itself. Apparently it is a brutal and incredibly strategic move that threatens order much more than the Joker ever did, begins in a plane, and ends with some type of aerial manuevering.

    Here are the links to the Wired and CA reviews. Caution, there be minor spoilers!

    http://www.comicsalliance.com/2011/12/09/dark-knight-rises-prologue-review/

    http://www.wired.com/underwire/2011/12/dark-knight-rises-prologue/

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  • CadeCade Eppur si muove.Registered User regular
    Here's another good account as well in detail:
    WB logo

    Ice. Cold. Crystalized imagery and a very familiar logo of a Bat.
    Jim Gordon at Harvey Dents funeral gives a eulogy, a few words about
    inspiring others…

    CUT—
    An unnamed mountainous region.
    A jeep rides along the landscape. Hooded men in the back of a jeep are
    driven to a small plane… the jeep is met by an armed CIA agent who
    takes into custody a political VIP, who is traveling with these hooded
    men… or is he? The CIA Douche learns that one of the hooded men is
    BANE?!

    The hooded men, along with the political VIP are loaded onto the plane.
    The plane takes to the air as the CIA douchebag interrogates those
    taken on board. One of the hooded men is dangled outside the plane and
    questioned/threatened and when the CIA agent doesn’t get what he
    wants, he fires his weapon (next to the hooded man’s ear, he is not
    killed) and then begins to question the other hooded man. That hooded
    man is unmasked and revealed to be… Bane!

    CIA DOUCHE: Was it your plan all along to be captured?
    Suddenly, a much larger plane overtakes the smaller plane occupied by
    CIA Douche, Bane and hostages. Operatives from the larger plane
    descend onto the smaller one–
    Bane in all his Ventilator glory is revealed….CIA DOUCHE: If I take
    this off, will you die?BANE: No. But I will be in a lot of pain.
    BAM!

    Operatives from the larger plane fire upon the interior of the plane
    interrupting the interrogation.
    The larger plane has ahold of the smaller one as it pulls it by wires
    throwing all the passengers downward in a disorienting fashion.
    After quickly overtaking the plane, Bane’s operatives bring in a man
    with inside a body bag. This man is dead or looks barely alive. Bane
    then takes the VIP political prisoner and inserts a tube and transfers
    blood from the body bag man. (It’s confusing as to why this is
    important.)

    AND THEN… in a scene that no words will be able to do justice, a
    hole is cut from the smaller plane and a wire takes Bane and the VIP
    politico through the rear of the plane as the smaller plane is ripped
    apart and is destroyed while members of Bane’s team sacrifice their
    lives going down with the small plane. (Again, it should be stressed,
    this description pales to what you will actually see, it’s a true
    spectacle.)

    The chant can be heard at the end… Deh-Shay! Bah-Sah-Ra!
    The scene is followed by a montage that includes many images we’ve
    seen, the most striking includes the Bat-copter chasing down fatigued
    Batmobiles down the streets of Gotham, and a final shocking image of
    Bane tossing away a shattered and torn Batman mask into rubble…
    The only complaint about the 7 minute prologue was echoed by all in
    attendace: Bane’s dialog is very difficult to understand. Imagine
    Darth Vader with a very thick accent. Hopefully this will be fixed in
    the final film.

    Overall this opening scene is confusing, epic, and will leave
    audiences speechless. All in a good way.

  • HadjiQuestHadjiQuest Registered User regular
    I preordered tickets.

    Super psyched. It's funny because I loved Batman Begins, but intentionally didn't care about TDK at all because I was sure it would either fumble or be a really form-fitting piece of genre entertainment. TDK totally blew me away, and now I can't help but freak over TDKR even though it's much more likely to be the bad apple of the trilogy.

  • TexiKenTexiKen Dammit! That fish really got me!Registered User regular
    So is Young Justice on another sabbatical?

  • CadeCade Eppur si muove.Registered User regular
    Pretty sure it is.

    It's more or less getting Airbendered despite getting very good ratings.

    The network really has no clue on shows.

  • HadjiQuestHadjiQuest Registered User regular
    TV takes a break in December, and the mid-season starts halfway into January.

    That's when Young Justice will be back.

    And although that massive original gap was uncalled for, it was due to animation production issues. They literally ran out of finished episodes, and it took months to finish up another batch.

    I am all for complaining about a show getting its schedule fucked with, but it seems to more more the fault of YJ's production team here than the actual network.

  • CadeCade Eppur si muove.Registered User regular
    Come on out..........we all must die some time.

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  • TexiKenTexiKen Dammit! That fish really got me!Registered User regular
    It's ok because they bought 10,000 of those masks.

  • HadjiQuestHadjiQuest Registered User regular
    Fuck.

    So excited.

    Particularly excited to see Bane done right for essentially the first time on screen (although Young Justice got pretty close).

  • CadeCade Eppur si muove.Registered User regular
    Yeah but can he turn his head in them?

  • cshadow42cshadow42 Registered User regular
    Cross your fingers for a Secret Six spin-off movie :p

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  • KING LITERATEKING LITERATE Registered User regular
  • TurambarTurambar Independent Registered User regular
    I read that as Bane Is About To Poop

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  • WiseManTobesWiseManTobes Registered User regular
    Turambar wrote:
    I read that as Bane Is About To Poop

    that + the preview image, fit way too well.

    "Ugh these clams are breaking me"

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  • KyouguKyougu Registered User regular
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUq5lossiRU

    New Amazing Spider-Man game trailer. Did absolutely nothing for me.

  • cshadow42cshadow42 Registered User regular
    New Amazing Spider-man poster. Did absolutely nothing for me.

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    The "Untold Story"? You're kidding, right?

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  • TurambarTurambar Independent Registered User regular
    And why is it so dark?
    That doesn't give me a Spider-Man feeling at all
    Are they going to kill off Gwen right away?
    Both Gwen and Ben in the same movie?
    Ugh

    Seems like they're trying to channel The Dark Knight

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  • AntimatterAntimatter Devo Was Right Gates of SteelRegistered User regular
    spider-man always had bad things and dark things happening to him

    this isn't a surprise

    but so long as he actually gets through it intact and shows off his sense of humor it'll be fine

  • TexiKenTexiKen Dammit! That fish really got me!Registered User regular
    It would have been nice to see the costume underneath the jacket, make that stand out against the darkness.

  • nightmarennynightmarenny Registered User regular
    Antimatter wrote:
    spider-man always had bad things and dark things happening to him

    this isn't a surprise

    but so long as he actually gets through it intact and shows off his sense of humor it'll be fine

    But whats "the untold story" though? Because I could swear I've seen Ben die before.

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  • AntimatterAntimatter Devo Was Right Gates of SteelRegistered User regular
    i heard the story is that they're showing what happens to his parents

    which is bullshit

    because they were spies investigating the second Red Skull and this isn't part of the marvel cinematic continuity

  • TurambarTurambar Independent Registered User regular
    Antimatter wrote:
    spider-man always had bad things and dark things happening to him

    this isn't a surprise

    but so long as he actually gets through it intact and shows off his sense of humor it'll be fine

    Sure, but this movie seems to be all dark

    If they were doing a story like Death of Gwen Stacy or something(like I mentioned), but this is an origin movie that sets the tone of the character

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  • BlankZoeBlankZoe Registered User regular
    Except footage shown at comic-con has Spidey cracking jokes and being a wiseass, which is something that the previous series barely even touched on

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  • CadeCade Eppur si muove.Registered User regular
    The untold story huh, let me guess, he makes a deal with the devil to save his aunt May who is half in the grave to begin with.

  • TurambarTurambar Independent Registered User regular
    Blankzilla wrote:
    Except footage shown at comic-con has Spidey cracking jokes and being a wiseass, which is something that the previous series barely even touched on

    I've heard, but I haven't actually seen that

    What I have seen is that poster, the teaser trailer and stills that make the movie seem dark and serious
    Maybe it's time to show the rest of us some of this wisecracking

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  • nightmarennynightmarenny Registered User regular
    Even if Spidy mostly wise-cracks in the movie they wont show it because some idiot's are convinced TDK was successful because it was dark and not because it was great and had fantastic word of mouth.

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  • TexiKenTexiKen Dammit! That fish really got me!Registered User regular
    edited December 2011
    Or the only Spider-Man stories they read were the McFarlane Spider-Man issues dealing with violent voodoo Lizard and a child molesting canadian cop who then killed them.

    Got to keep hope alive though.

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  • cshadow42cshadow42 Registered User regular
    So, in Amazing Spider-man, are we going to predict who dies?
    My bet is on:
    1. Uncle Ben, again. We'll probably see him die several times.
    2. Peter's parents
    3. Gwen Stacey
    4. Curt Conners, because the villain has to die in the end don't you know?

    Yeah...this sounds like a really upbeat movie...

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  • AntimatterAntimatter Devo Was Right Gates of SteelRegistered User regular
    for fuck's sake

    spider-man's had a story where his aunt may had radiation poison after peter gave her a blood transfusion while she was already very sick

    he had to deal with Doc Ock as the Master Planner, and he got pinned under tons of concrete and metal while water was rising beneath him

    and that was just from one ongoing story within the first forty issues of spider-man

    he has always had shitty, dark things happening

    that's his thing

    he also doesn't let it define him, he powers through it and cracks wise and beats bad guys

  • Centipede DamascusCentipede Damascus Registered User regular
    I don't think Gwen Stacy's going to die in this movie. I could be wrong, but Emma Stone hasn't even given a hint that she doesn't survive.

  • Robos A Go GoRobos A Go Go Registered User regular
    Don't forget George Stacy, though I wouldn't expect him to die until the second or third one.

  • BlankZoeBlankZoe Registered User regular
    Leary has said that he doesn't die, I believe

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