Choco and I have been having an argument for like two months about whether Pierce Brosnand as Bond or Daniel Craig is hotter.
It's obviously Craig. Brosnand looks like your uncle who is tired because he moved into a new tax bracket and he likes to drink too much wine and complain about welfare queens at Christmas while everyone uncomfortably ignores him.
I dunno, I'd do them both.
Preferably at the same time.
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Podlyyou unzipped me! it's all coming back! i don't like it!Registered Userregular
what i don't understand is the nerdy obsession with "ascending" comic books they love to movie adaptations
it's like, why do you want a movie adaptation, anyway?
the truth is for a lot of comic book nerds is that even though they might have a scowly contempt for mainstream culture, they still want the affirmation of seeing their favorite thing in a more popular medium.
Choco and I have been having an argument for like two months about whether Pierce Brosnand as Bond or Daniel Craig is hotter.
It's obviously Craig. Brosnand looks like your uncle who is tired because he moved into a new tax bracket and he likes to drink too much wine and complain about welfare queens at Christmas while everyone uncomfortably ignores him.
Brosnan is more debonair. Craig has more of a rough-and-tumble bruiser build. Brosnan is closer to what Ian Fleming personally envisioned Bond to look like. He did not originally like the Sean Connery casting, IIRC.
Choco and I have been having an argument for like two months about whether Pierce Brosnand as Bond or Daniel Craig is hotter.
It's obviously Craig. Brosnand looks like your uncle who is tired because he moved into a new tax bracket and he likes to drink too much wine and complain about welfare queens at Christmas while everyone uncomfortably ignores him.
Craig 100%
choco is not allowed to judge the attractiveness of men, ever
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Not into a serious movie. Keep it lighthearted and true to it's source and still animated.
Can't be done man, super heroes have to all be "SUPER SERIOUS!" I mean look at the propsed spiderman reboot and weep.
Ugh...don't remind me. Marvel's already got success with Iron Man. I'm really hoping Thor and Cap are good because that would hopefully translate into a really good Avengers movie. They should just try and stick to one group or story set for a bit and then move to another instead of trying to hit a bunch all at once.
the avengers are not an interesting property
they are just a bunch of superheroes without much of a theme or premise
to be honest, they are going to have to really work to keep captain america and thor from being boring fan-service bullshit
they will almost certainly suck unless the writers and directors can find some kind of interesting hook
The Avengers are pretty much the flagship title for Marvel. I agree that there is going to have to be some huge strides for Thor and Cap as far as movies but the same was said about Iron Man before it came out and look how that turned out. I think Marvel made a good move with going on it's own as far as production and got away from Sony. I think though that if they can get anywhere near the acclaim with Thor and Cap that they did with Iron Man that an Avengers movie would pretty much be a cash cow for them in the end.
what i don't understand is the nerdy obsession with "ascending" comic books they love to movie adaptations
it's like, why do you want a movie adaptation, anyway?
the truth is for a lot of comic book nerds is that even though they might have a scowly contempt for mainstream culture, they still want the affirmation of seeing their favorite thing in a more popular medium.
I don't think that's it at all.
Seeing a live-action version of a comic you know and love, if done well, is a really great experience.
See: Iron Man and the new Batman movies.
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I disagree. Your position only makes sense if the mainstream is inherently good and worth protecting. If someone exhibits a behavior that is abnormal, the abnormality itself does not carry a moral burden. Only if it can be shown that the behavior is harmful or an indicator of harm (ie OCD) does it mandate a moral reaction.
What's I'm trying to say is, take your ethnocentrism to France or Turkey. They love that shit over there.
i'd say the opposite. all other things equal, it's preferable to err on the side of a coherent society. it doesn't mean that i want to round up everyone who is left handed into a camp, but it does mean that i am not being immoral by disapproving of the dude wearing a plush animal suit to work.
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Choco and I have been having an argument for like two months about whether Pierce Brosnand as Bond or Daniel Craig is hotter.
It's obviously Craig. Brosnand looks like your uncle who is tired because he moved into a new tax bracket and he likes to drink too much wine and complain about welfare queens at Christmas while everyone uncomfortably ignores him.
I dunno, I'd do them both.
Preferably at the same time.
Apparently Daniel Craig has a monster dick.
So really Brosnand would look sad and tiny next to him.
CRAIG WINS IN ALL WAYS.
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ok so then why is that kate beaton comic so funny to me
because it's standard internet nerd humor and you are a standard internet nerd
fair enough
what i am really getting at is
the comic has nothing to do with his anything right?
Well, I mean, it's just absurd humor, and Kierkegaard sort of invented the intellectual concept of the absurd, so it's somewhat related, but basically yeah nothing to do with it.
ok so then why is that kate beaton comic so funny to me
because it's standard internet nerd humor and you are a standard internet nerd
fair enough
what i am really getting at is
the comic has nothing to do with his anything right?
Well, I mean, it's just absurd humor, and Kierkegaard sort of invented the intellectual concept of the absurd, so it's somewhat related, but basically yeah nothing to do with it.
I hear you pony, Nathan Fillion is the new Bruce Campbell.
pretty much yeah.
i remember laughing pretty hard during one of the first few issues of The Ultimates (re-make of the Avengers) and the Ultimates team themselves were doing fantasy casting of who would play them in a movie about them and they were using all well-known actors who don't really fit the characters at all besides vaguely fitting the appearance and someone suggested Lucy Liu for the Wasp
and the Wasp ripped on them for suggesting Lucy Liu because Wasp is asian and "Lucy Liu is the only asian actress you know about"
i giggled
it was like a giant take-that at "fantasy casting" on nerdy message boards and shit.
i thought the wasp was white
like white heiress or something
dd they retcon her into being asian like they did psylocke?
here are the three things you need to make a good superhero movie
-great action scenes
-genuinely funny writing
-impressive special effects
here's what you don't need
-angst
-serious storylines
-people crying
this is because *many popular* superheroes are inherently ridiculous, and one should embrace that
fixed.
haha no. They're all incredibly silly.
That's a pretty narrow minded viewpoint. There are a lot of comics that involve people with super human abilities or powers that manage to be much more than bright tights.
I disagree. Your position only makes sense if the mainstream is inherently good and worth protecting. If someone exhibits a behavior that is abnormal, the abnormality itself does not carry a moral burden. Only if it can be shown that the behavior is harmful or an indicator of harm (ie OCD) does it mandate a moral reaction.
What's I'm trying to say is, take your ethnocentrism to France or Turkey. They love that shit over there.
i'd say the opposite. all other things equal, it's preferable to err on the side of a coherent society. it doesn't mean that i want to round up everyone who is left handed into a camp, but it does mean that i am not being immoral by disapproving of the dude wearing a plush animal suit to work.
I'm intrigued by the idea of conformity as a desirable goal (in the social sense, conformity to rules that prevent harm is obviously desirable).
I hear you pony, Nathan Fillion is the new Bruce Campbell.
pretty much yeah.
i remember laughing pretty hard during one of the first few issues of The Ultimates (re-make of the Avengers) and the Ultimates team themselves were doing fantasy casting of who would play them in a movie about them and they were using all well-known actors who don't really fit the characters at all besides vaguely fitting the appearance and someone suggested Lucy Liu for the Wasp
and the Wasp ripped on them for suggesting Lucy Liu because Wasp is asian and "Lucy Liu is the only asian actress you know about"
i giggled
it was like a giant take-that at "fantasy casting" on nerdy message boards and shit.
i thought the wasp was white
like white heiress or something
dd they retcon her into being asian like they did psylocke?
If I recall correctly, the Ultimates is actually a different universe.
if there is one word that describes why i really dislike "comic books" in the sense that they refer to things like Batman, Avengers, and the like
it is "retcon"
Nothing makes me more annoyed than that.
How about, instead of inventing or just changing something about the previously established universe, you create new and interesting comics and characters?
How many people would throw heavy things at me if I said I like the Xmen movies
all of them
I'd throw large objects at you for liking the third. The other two I'd basically agree with you. I didn't have much of a problem with Singer not doing the third, more so the story was so fucking botched from the source as far as the phoenix and the whole
killing Scott and the Professor off at the beginning
that it just ruined it for me. The one shining light out of it though. Kelsey Grammar. In my mind, that man is and shall always be Hank McCoy.
Gonmun in reference to Phoenix, I would say that the source for Phoenix is so silly that what they "did to it" is just as ludicrous. Maybe even less so
Spider-Phoenix anyone?
You didn't even necessarily need to have Phoenix be from space. Maybe some sort of entity or hell another mutant that managed to manipulate Jean. Having it as
a personality disorder
just felt like such a cop out in my mind. But hey, they gotta try and make it work somehow. At least it wasn't "goo from a meteorite".
if there is one word that describes why i really dislike "comic books" in the sense that they refer to things like Batman, Avengers, and the like
it is "retcon"
Nothing makes me more annoyed than that.
How about, instead of inventing or just changing something about the previously established universe, you create new and interesting comics and characters?
what i don't understand is the nerdy obsession with "ascending" comic books they love to movie adaptations
it's like, why do you want a movie adaptation, anyway?
the truth is for a lot of comic book nerds is that even though they might have a scowly contempt for mainstream culture, they still want the affirmation of seeing their favorite thing in a more popular medium.
Because people are curious to see action implied in stills or text in motion. Because people "think" in motion. We are motile creatures.
When you have 12 panels consisting of still images or five paragraphs discussing a "scene," most people fill in the blanks imagining the scene come to life in motion. I feel this is why the Lord of the Rings movie adaptation was such a massive success. Despite the fact that it was fairly decent as a film, people went to see it to see if how they imagined the film was how someone else saw it.
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I hear you pony, Nathan Fillion is the new Bruce Campbell.
pretty much yeah.
i remember laughing pretty hard during one of the first few issues of The Ultimates (re-make of the Avengers) and the Ultimates team themselves were doing fantasy casting of who would play them in a movie about them and they were using all well-known actors who don't really fit the characters at all besides vaguely fitting the appearance and someone suggested Lucy Liu for the Wasp
and the Wasp ripped on them for suggesting Lucy Liu because Wasp is asian and "Lucy Liu is the only asian actress you know about"
i giggled
it was like a giant take-that at "fantasy casting" on nerdy message boards and shit.
i thought the wasp was white
like white heiress or something
dd they retcon her into being asian like they did psylocke?
Psylocke had a rather extensive thing through which she became Asian that, while it doesn't really make much sense, isn't really a retcon.
I hear you pony, Nathan Fillion is the new Bruce Campbell.
pretty much yeah.
i remember laughing pretty hard during one of the first few issues of The Ultimates (re-make of the Avengers) and the Ultimates team themselves were doing fantasy casting of who would play them in a movie about them and they were using all well-known actors who don't really fit the characters at all besides vaguely fitting the appearance and someone suggested Lucy Liu for the Wasp
and the Wasp ripped on them for suggesting Lucy Liu because Wasp is asian and "Lucy Liu is the only asian actress you know about"
i giggled
it was like a giant take-that at "fantasy casting" on nerdy message boards and shit.
i thought the wasp was white
like white heiress or something
dd they retcon her into being asian like they did psylocke?
Ultimates Wasp was asian
Ultimates was like Avengers rebooted in a different universe with real writers and no shit continuity
How many people would throw heavy things at me if I said I like the Xmen movies
all of them
I'd throw large objects at you for liking the third. The other two I'd basically agree with you. I didn't have much of a problem with Singer not doing the third, more so the story was so fucking botched from the source as far as the phoenix and the whole
killing Scott and the Professor off at the beginning
that it just ruined it for me. The one shining light out of it though. Kelsey Grammar. In my mind, that man is and shall always be Hank McCoy.
Gonmun in reference to Phoenix, I would say that the source for Phoenix is so silly that what they "did to it" is just as ludicrous. Maybe even less so
Spider-Phoenix anyone?
You didn't even necessarily need to have Phoenix be from space. Maybe some sort of entity or hell another mutant that managed to manipulate Jean. Having it as
a personality disorder
just felt like such a cop out in my mind. But hey, they gotta try and make it work somehow. At least it wasn't "goo from a meteorite".
I think I much prefer the take of "Absolute power corrupts absolutely" than OMG ITS NOT HER FAULT EVIL SPACE FORCE
I disagree. Your position only makes sense if the mainstream is inherently good and worth protecting. If someone exhibits a behavior that is abnormal, the abnormality itself does not carry a moral burden. Only if it can be shown that the behavior is harmful or an indicator of harm (ie OCD) does it mandate a moral reaction.
What's I'm trying to say is, take your ethnocentrism to France or Turkey. They love that shit over there.
i'd say the opposite. all other things equal, it's preferable to err on the side of a coherent society. it doesn't mean that i want to round up everyone who is left handed into a camp, but it does mean that i am not being immoral by disapproving of the dude wearing a plush animal suit to work.
I'm intrigued by the idea of conformity as a desirable goal (in the social sense, conformity to rules that prevent harm is obviously desirable).
I disagree. Your position only makes sense if the mainstream is inherently good and worth protecting. If someone exhibits a behavior that is abnormal, the abnormality itself does not carry a moral burden. Only if it can be shown that the behavior is harmful or an indicator of harm (ie OCD) does it mandate a moral reaction.
What's I'm trying to say is, take your ethnocentrism to France or Turkey. They love that shit over there.
i'd say the opposite. all other things equal, it's preferable to err on the side of a coherent society. it doesn't mean that i want to round up everyone who is left handed into a camp, but it does mean that i am not being immoral by disapproving of the dude wearing a plush animal suit to work.
But there is a practical concern with dude wearing a plush animal suit to work. If he's unable to work as well because he can't move as much or because clients will disapprove (ie you are at least to a degree selling an image) then there is a reason to prohibit the suit. But your argument seems to be that the suit itself, because other people don't wear them, somehow corrodes the foundation of society. Should we feel the same way about the foreign exchange student who wears a funny hat? Hey, foreigner! We don't take kindly to funny hats, not because we're reactionary bigots but because our democracy cannot stand such assaults.
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I dunno, I'd do them both.
Preferably at the same time.
because it's standard internet nerd humor and you are a standard internet nerd
what i don't understand is the nerdy obsession with "ascending" comic books they love to movie adaptations
it's like, why do you want a movie adaptation, anyway?
the truth is for a lot of comic book nerds is that even though they might have a scowly contempt for mainstream culture, they still want the affirmation of seeing their favorite thing in a more popular medium.
Brosnan is more debonair. Craig has more of a rough-and-tumble bruiser build. Brosnan is closer to what Ian Fleming personally envisioned Bond to look like. He did not originally like the Sean Connery casting, IIRC.
fair enough
Craig 100%
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The Avengers are pretty much the flagship title for Marvel. I agree that there is going to have to be some huge strides for Thor and Cap as far as movies but the same was said about Iron Man before it came out and look how that turned out. I think Marvel made a good move with going on it's own as far as production and got away from Sony. I think though that if they can get anywhere near the acclaim with Thor and Cap that they did with Iron Man that an Avengers movie would pretty much be a cash cow for them in the end.
haha no. They're all incredibly silly.
what i am really getting at is
the comic has nothing to do with his anything right?
I don't think that's it at all.
Seeing a live-action version of a comic you know and love, if done well, is a really great experience.
See: Iron Man and the new Batman movies.
Yoga before or after workout?
i'd say the opposite. all other things equal, it's preferable to err on the side of a coherent society. it doesn't mean that i want to round up everyone who is left handed into a camp, but it does mean that i am not being immoral by disapproving of the dude wearing a plush animal suit to work.
Apparently Daniel Craig has a monster dick.
So really Brosnand would look sad and tiny next to him.
CRAIG WINS IN ALL WAYS.
Well, I mean, it's just absurd humor, and Kierkegaard sort of invented the intellectual concept of the absurd, so it's somewhat related, but basically yeah nothing to do with it.
where did you hear that, cass
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Brosnan has no "D" on the end.
Ok then
one sec looking at it again and giggling
i thought the wasp was white
like white heiress or something
dd they retcon her into being asian like they did psylocke?
That's a pretty narrow minded viewpoint. There are a lot of comics that involve people with super human abilities or powers that manage to be much more than bright tights.
Hahaha oh what the fuck
I'm intrigued by the idea of conformity as a desirable goal (in the social sense, conformity to rules that prevent harm is obviously desirable).
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If I recall correctly, the Ultimates is actually a different universe.
So, it isn't really a retcon.
http://www.exposay.com/daniel-craigs-co-star-says-his-crotch-is-an-absolute-monster/v/5691/
look
i'm just saying
all i'm implying is
13 and a half inch dick
maybe
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it is "retcon"
Nothing makes me more annoyed than that.
How about, instead of inventing or just changing something about the previously established universe, you create new and interesting comics and characters?
You didn't even necessarily need to have Phoenix be from space. Maybe some sort of entity or hell another mutant that managed to manipulate Jean. Having it as
$$$$
Because people are curious to see action implied in stills or text in motion. Because people "think" in motion. We are motile creatures.
When you have 12 panels consisting of still images or five paragraphs discussing a "scene," most people fill in the blanks imagining the scene come to life in motion. I feel this is why the Lord of the Rings movie adaptation was such a massive success. Despite the fact that it was fairly decent as a film, people went to see it to see if how they imagined the film was how someone else saw it.
Psylocke had a rather extensive thing through which she became Asian that, while it doesn't really make much sense, isn't really a retcon.
Unless they retconned that
Ultimates Wasp was asian
Ultimates was like Avengers rebooted in a different universe with real writers and no shit continuity
I think I much prefer the take of "Absolute power corrupts absolutely" than OMG ITS NOT HER FAULT EVIL SPACE FORCE
There is this firm belief on the blog that any remake or reboot should replace the white male protaganist with a woman of a different ethnicity.
I do not agree with it at all and it drives me insane.
the first and second spiderman movies had relatively serious themes and were good
Will was retconned into an Asian
Both are actually dead right now, and both of their deaths were rubbish.
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But there is a practical concern with dude wearing a plush animal suit to work. If he's unable to work as well because he can't move as much or because clients will disapprove (ie you are at least to a degree selling an image) then there is a reason to prohibit the suit. But your argument seems to be that the suit itself, because other people don't wear them, somehow corrodes the foundation of society. Should we feel the same way about the foreign exchange student who wears a funny hat? Hey, foreigner! We don't take kindly to funny hats, not because we're reactionary bigots but because our democracy cannot stand such assaults.