I'm The Best At What I Do And What I Do Is [The Wolverine]

Langly

Hugh Jackman is the best at having his shirt off. Fact. This movie is coming out soon and it looks pretty good! Also there is some other hero movie out now about an alien... what was it again?

Oh yeah, that was it.

TrippyJing

Do the Wolverine

The latest hit single with the latest hit dance.

UnbrokenEva

the thread title makes it sound like The Wolverine is the hot new dance craze that's sweeping the nation

Jackman's pose there supports this

UnbrokenEva

dammit, Trippy

Langly

Oh so anyone that watched man of steel, was I the only one who thought the American general's helper was a lady hobbit? She looked like half his size

Langly

@grey ghost talk to me about hobbit soldiers

CorporateRed

I want to see The Wolverine:The Movie Based on the Hit Dance!, but having seen all the X-men movies and Origins:Wolverine, I feel that this is wrong and I'm bad for thinking it.

Langly

TrippyJing wrote: »

Do the Wolverine

The latest hit single with the latest hit dance.

Snickety bub bub ah Snickety bub

Gustav

So I just saw Man of Steel. And I absolutely adored it up until

The Smallville fight scene. Which following that it was just an ok movie for the rest of it. I don't like the amount of collateral damage, and Superman not moving the fights from populated areas. But I'm willing to submit to the idea that as this is literally his first outing as Superman. Also it did look fantastic.

The neck snap though? For one I don't think it made any sense. These characters are punching each other into the stratosphere and creating shockwaves with every motion. Like everything the movie can do to show their indestructibility, even towards each other. And suddenly a neck snap works. Which eh. Also I mean, hey Superman could just avoid the conuundrum by flying upwards with Zod in the same hold.

Also it just doesn't even remotely fit Superman outside of the comics, or the one in this movie.

But you know? Everything that wasn't an action sequence was great. Absolutely great in my opinion. The cast was fantastic. And Henry Cavill played his part near perfectly. Spoilered parts aside.

One thing I really dug was how every human character was a good person. Or was shown to have the potential to be so. From Pete Ross to Perry sticking around to save Jenny. It really did a fantastic job of showing Superman as an inspiring figure.

But yeah, I went in expecting a way worse movie. That moment that's got everyone bothered (me included), is pretty awful and doesn't fit, but the movie around it is pretty good.

Binary Squid

Fearghaill wrote: »

the thread title makes it sound like The Wolverine is the hot new dance craze that's sweeping the nation

Jackman's pose there supports this

It does a good job of showing off his physique, and that is the true meaning of the Wolverine.

Langly wrote: »

Oh so anyone that watched man of steel, was I the only one who thought the American general's helper was a lady hobbit? She looked like half his size

Really? You're talking smack about short people in movies?

Langly

No? It was just weird because it seemed like a perspective illusion, because the guy didn't look very tall and the woman didn't look like she was super short, but she came up to his abs, it looked like.

Grey Ghost

Just because Langly is 8 feet tall

Langly

Grey Ghost wrote: »

Just because Langly is 8 feet tall

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5sd2Xz8yGw

Binary Squid

Langly wrote: »

No? It was just weird because it seemed like a perspective illusion, because the guy didn't look very tall and the woman didn't look like she was super short, but she came up to his abs, it looked like.

I'm just saying that it's a very UnSuperman-like thing to say. Sorry if it seemed like I snapped at you.

After all, you're not Zod's neck.

Olivaw

I've finished rereading all I've got of Gotham Central and it made me really angry again

Fuck everything that this wasn't the most popular comic book of all time forever and hasn't gotten a totally rad TV show

UnbreakableVow

Langly wrote: »

Hugh Jackman is the best at having his shirt off. Fact.

Come on, man. Come on.

Man of Steel quality aside, Henry Cavill now has that shit on lockdown for a few years

Sheri

Good god Hugh Jackman

Sheri

He's so veiny

And his far arm looks. . . weird. Tiny. Little bitty fist.

Centipede Damascus

I'm still amazed that there is now a Superman movie where someone uses the phrase "dick splash".

UnbreakableVow

Iron Man tells a kid to not be a pussy

Superhero films are moving more and more away from being kid-friendly

Sheri

Yeah but

Superman is so

Regal

Man I dunno, I expect "dick splash" out of Tony Stark

Etchwarts

Yeah, Tony being an awful, slightly vulgar guy is par for the course

I haven't seen Superman yet though, so can't comment on "dicksplash"

UnbreakableVow

Well I mean, Superman doesn't say it

It's a kid saying it, saying the kind of stupid things kids do

Etchwarts

UnbreakableVow wrote: »

Well I mean, Superman doesn't say it

It's a little kid saying it, saying the kind of stupid things little kids do

Oh yeah, I assumed it was a context like that

Makes sense, then.

Sheri

Still, I can see how that would be weird and unexpected.

Grey Ghost

@Langly I'm trying to think of something clever to say about hobbit soldiers but I can't

But rest assured I know from hobbit soldiers

Buttlord

somewhere, mark millar is writing a treatment for man of steel 2 where superman calls braniac a cocksucker

jkylefulton

Why would Millar waste his time doing that with Superman when he can get paid to do it with Superior.

Cilla Black

Yeah, Hugh Jackman with his shirt off just doesn't do it for me

Anyway in that picture he's at a weird angle to admire a dude's shirtlessness

Buttlord

jkylefulton wrote: »

Why would Millar waste his time doing that with Superman when he can get paid to do it with Superior.

superior was actually a p decent comic about superman even if the last five pages were shit

most of it is just about a boy who gets to live out his fantasy of being superman

Antimatter

In June 2008, Warner Bros. took pitches from comic book writers, screenwriters and directors on how to successfully restart the Superman film series. Comic book writers Grant Morrison, Mark Waid, Geoff Johns and Brad Meltzer were among those who pitched their ideas for a reboot. "I told them, it’s not that bad. Just treat Superman Returns as the Ang Lee Hulk," Morrison said. "The Incredible Hulk has proven the audience will forgive you and let you redo the franchise," said Waid. Morrison's idea was similar to his work on All-Star Superman, while Waid's was akin to Superman: Birthright. Mark Millar, teaming with director Matthew Vaughn, also planned an epic 8-hour Superman trilogy, each installment released a year apart, similar to The Lord of the Rings. Millar compared it to the Godfather trilogy, in which it would chronicle the entire life of Superman, from the early days of Krypton to the finale where Superman loses his powers as the Sun starts to supernova.

nightmarenny

Sheri wrote: »

Still, I can see how that would be weird and unexpected.

Kind of like how I find the swearing in Star Trek into Darkness a little off-putting because its in a Star Trek movie.

Also man of Steel thing that bothered me

I was already pretty bothered by just how involved in Clark becoming SUperman Jor-El is to the point that he gives him this whole speech on his master plan and even reveals this suit he says he made specifically for that purpose(which was in the old ship... fast tailoring?) but the thing that gets me is that SUperman is supposed to be proof that "maybe a man can rise to become more then what society intended for him.

If Superman is just (basically) following Jor-El's plan for him then he ain't exactly rising up to be more now is he?

nightmarenny

Antimatter wrote: »

In June 2008, Warner Bros. took pitches from comic book writers, screenwriters and directors on how to successfully restart the Superman film series. Comic book writers Grant Morrison, Mark Waid, Geoff Johns and Brad Meltzer were among those who pitched their ideas for a reboot. "I told them, it’s not that bad. Just treat Superman Returns as the Ang Lee Hulk," Morrison said. "The Incredible Hulk has proven the audience will forgive you and let you redo the franchise," said Waid. Morrison's idea was similar to his work on All-Star Superman, while Waid's was akin to Superman: Birthright. Mark Millar, teaming with director Matthew Vaughn, also planned an epic 8-hour Superman trilogy, each installment released a year apart, similar to The Lord of the Rings. Millar compared it to the Godfather trilogy, in which it would chronicle the entire life of Superman, from the early days of Krypton to the finale where Superman loses his powers as the Sun starts to supernova.

That, like many of his premises doesn't seem bad.

But you know he would wreck it.

Balefuego

UnbreakableVow wrote: »

Iron Man tells a kid to not be a pussy

Superhero films are moving more and more away from being kid-friendly

E.T. has a kid calling another kid "penis breath"

this shit ain't new

UnbreakableVow

Antimatter wrote: »

In June 2008, Warner Bros. took pitches from comic book writers, screenwriters and directors on how to successfully restart the Superman film series. Comic book writers Grant Morrison, Mark Waid, Geoff Johns and Brad Meltzer were among those who pitched their ideas for a reboot. "I told them, it’s not that bad. Just treat Superman Returns as the Ang Lee Hulk," Morrison said. "The Incredible Hulk has proven the audience will forgive you and let you redo the franchise," said Waid. Morrison's idea was similar to his work on All-Star Superman, while Waid's was akin to Superman: Birthright. Mark Millar, teaming with director Matthew Vaughn, also planned an epic 8-hour Superman trilogy, each installment released a year apart, similar to The Lord of the Rings. Millar compared it to the Godfather trilogy, in which it would chronicle the entire life of Superman, from the early days of Krypton to the finale where Superman loses his powers as the Sun starts to supernova.

This sounds awesome

Also this is my favorite part:

Morrison's idea was similar to his work on All-Star Superman, while Waid's was akin to Superman: Birthright.

You don't say.

TrippyJing

nightmarenny wrote: »

Sheri wrote: »

Still, I can see how that would be weird and unexpected.

Kind of like how I find the swearing in Star Trek into Darkness a little off-putting because its in a Star Trek movie.

Also man of Steel thing that bothered me

I was already pretty bothered by just how involved in Clark becoming SUperman Jor-El is to the point that he gives him this whole speech on his master plan and even reveals this suit he says he made specifically for that purpose(which was in the old ship... fast tailoring?) but the thing that gets me is that SUperman is supposed to be proof that "maybe a man can rise to become more then what society intended for him.

If Superman is just (basically) following Jor-El's plan for him then he ain't exactly rising up to be more now is he?

I think that the suit is a sort of basic dress uniform for the El family. I'm also guessing that the scout ship was owned by the Els, and its being here is how Jor-El found Earth in the first place.

UnbreakableVow

I still need to see E.T. at some point

Odin

nightmarenny wrote: »

Antimatter wrote: »

In June 2008, Warner Bros. took pitches from comic book writers, screenwriters and directors on how to successfully restart the Superman film series. Comic book writers Grant Morrison, Mark Waid, Geoff Johns and Brad Meltzer were among those who pitched their ideas for a reboot. "I told them, it’s not that bad. Just treat Superman Returns as the Ang Lee Hulk," Morrison said. "The Incredible Hulk has proven the audience will forgive you and let you redo the franchise," said Waid. Morrison's idea was similar to his work on All-Star Superman, while Waid's was akin to Superman: Birthright. Mark Millar, teaming with director Matthew Vaughn, also planned an epic 8-hour Superman trilogy, each installment released a year apart, similar to The Lord of the Rings. Millar compared it to the Godfather trilogy, in which it would chronicle the entire life of Superman, from the early days of Krypton to the finale where Superman loses his powers as the Sun starts to supernova.

That, like many of his premises doesn't seem bad.

But you know he would wreck it.

Lex Luthor rigs Superman's dick to collapse.

Balefuego

the details I heard about Millar's Superman pitch actually sounded super rad

and I love Matthew Vaughn

what could have been

Centipede Damascus

Antimatter wrote: »

In June 2008, Warner Bros. took pitches from comic book writers, screenwriters and directors on how to successfully restart the Superman film series. Comic book writers Grant Morrison, Mark Waid, Geoff Johns and Brad Meltzer were among those who pitched their ideas for a reboot. "I told them, it’s not that bad. Just treat Superman Returns as the Ang Lee Hulk," Morrison said. "The Incredible Hulk has proven the audience will forgive you and let you redo the franchise," said Waid. Morrison's idea was similar to his work on All-Star Superman, while Waid's was akin to Superman: Birthright. Mark Millar, teaming with director Matthew Vaughn, also planned an epic 8-hour Superman trilogy, each installment released a year apart, similar to The Lord of the Rings. Millar compared it to the Godfather trilogy, in which it would chronicle the entire life of Superman, from the early days of Krypton to the finale where Superman loses his powers as the Sun starts to supernova.

Weird how they apparently didn't pick up Waid's pitch, but then turned around and made a movie that cribbed so heavily from Birthright.

nightmarenny

TrippyJing wrote: »

nightmarenny wrote: »

Sheri wrote: »

Still, I can see how that would be weird and unexpected.

Kind of like how I find the swearing in Star Trek into Darkness a little off-putting because its in a Star Trek movie.

Also man of Steel thing that bothered me

I was already pretty bothered by just how involved in Clark becoming SUperman Jor-El is to the point that he gives him this whole speech on his master plan and even reveals this suit he says he made specifically for that purpose(which was in the old ship... fast tailoring?) but the thing that gets me is that SUperman is supposed to be proof that "maybe a man can rise to become more then what society intended for him.

If Superman is just (basically) following Jor-El's plan for him then he ain't exactly rising up to be more now is he?

I think that the suit is a sort of basic dress uniform for the El family. I'm also guessing that the scout ship was owned by the Els, and its being here is how Jor-El found Earth in the first place.

But you see what I'm saying right?

Its still this weird situation where Jor-EL is going "Society can't tell my son what to be, nor his adoptive parent, but I will plan out his entire life".