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    TexiKenTexiKen Dammit! That fish really got me!Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    I liked how in Young Justice Madame Xanadu was a phony magician.

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    Robos A Go GoRobos A Go Go Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    I like Young Justice because of the cameos, but the plots and relationships are kind of boring me.

    The next episode is called Downtime, though, which suggests the cast will hang out and get to know each other.

    Also, maybe things will get more interesting once the overarching villains of the series officially raise the stakes.

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    WishpigWishpig Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    HadjiQuest wrote: »
    Hensler wrote: »
    The whole premise of Thor is fish out of water. What exactly were you expecting?

    That's a good point, but I'm still dreading it. It's almost always really obvious and not terribly funny.

    Lol, ya, there will be allot of fish out of the water moments in Thor and it will probably continue right into the Avengers. Plus, then you'll have Captain America as a fish out of water to.

    I'm looking forward to it, I found the tazer and the coffee mug scene pretty damn funny.

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    TaminTamin Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    Wishpig wrote: »
    HadjiQuest wrote: »
    Hensler wrote: »
    The whole premise of Thor is fish out of water. What exactly were you expecting?

    That's a good point, but I'm still dreading it. It's almost always really obvious and not terribly funny.

    Lol, ya, there will be allot of fish out of the water moments in Thor and it will probably continue right into the Avengers. Plus, then you'll have Captain America as a fish out of water to.

    I'm looking forward to it, I found the tazer and the coffee mug scene pretty damn funny.

    Man, thinking about the tazer scene makes me want to watch the trailer again

    "You dare threaten me, Thor, with so puny a weap..bzzt"

    Physical comedy worked out pretty well in Iron Man, so I'm glad to see it here, also.

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    BlankZoeBlankZoe Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    I love the tazer gag. It works on the physical level as well as the fact that the god of thunder is taken out with a little rinky dink tazer

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    GankGank Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    I like Young Justice because of the cameos, but the plots and relationships are kind of boring me.

    The next episode is called Downtime, though, which suggests the cast will hang out and get to know each other.

    Also, maybe things will get more interesting once the overarching villains of the series officially raise the stakes.

    Gotta agree. The main thing drawing me back each week is animation quality, which is supurb. The story hasn't really gripped me that much, although I am enjoying Robins obsessions with prefixes.

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    HadjiQuestHadjiQuest Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    Yeah, I wish the story was moving faster, but I honestly do appreciate that if they're not giving us a massive, overarching plot with crazy additions each week, they're at least doing something a little different for a superhero show and giving us some pretty great procedural-style cases each week, occasionally with some great villains and guests in the mix (Klarion and Fate were incredible, Bane was also awesome).

    Bummer that the show's apparently taking a break this week. I think CN's big sports award show is happening this friday.

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    TaminTamin Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    Blankzilla wrote: »
    I love the tazer gag. It works on the physical level as well as the fact that the god of thunder is taken out with a little rinky dink tazer

    Oh hahaha, I didn't even think about the choice of weapon. :^:

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    FencingsaxFencingsax It is difficult to get a man to understand, when his salary depends upon his not understanding GNU Terry PratchettRegistered User regular
    edited February 2011
    I thought that was the joke.

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    TexiKenTexiKen Dammit! That fish really got me!Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    I can understand Young Justice having an off week, but you lost me by saying Cartoon Network is having a sports award program in it's place on Friday.

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    HadjiQuestHadjiQuest Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    TexiKen wrote: »
    I can understand Young Justice having an off week, but you lost me by saying Cartoon Network is having a sports award program in it's place on Friday.

    You dare challenge the Hall of Game!?

    Seriously, the last few years cartoon network has essentially dropped the cartoon part of their title. I wish Williams Street hadn't taken off for adult swim, because I think we lost a lot of taste for edgy, mature toons in the wake.

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    WishpigWishpig Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    TexiKen wrote: »
    I can understand Young Justice having an off week, but you lost me by saying Cartoon Network is having a sports award program in it's place on Friday.

    ... Chewbacca is gonna be there.

    Is that REALLY happening. I don't even have a response...

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    HenslerHensler Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    dun...Dun...DUN (New captain America pictures, spoilered for a big plot element visible):
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    http://media.movies.ign.com/media/034/034020/imgs_1.html

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    WishpigWishpig Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    I could NOT be happier about the Red Skull! I think the Capt. America movie is going to do wonders for his love to utterly despise character.

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    ThaneThane Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    Hugo Weavings is the one actor where i've liked every role hes played

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    GankGank Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    From The Matrix's Agent Smith to "Tick" Belrose of Priscilla: Queen of the Desert, he's been a class act. Can't wait to see him act the fuck outta Herr Schmidt.

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    SolarSolar Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    I agree, Hugo Weaving rocks, especially at playing bad guys

    He is going to nail the shit out of this role

    No scenery will be safe from his mandibles

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    Undead ScottsmanUndead Scottsman Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    I can't wait to hear his german accent.

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    HenslerHensler Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    People who like Rick Remender and also like video games should buy Bulletstorm. He did a surprisingly good job on the script and characters for the game - I definitely get a Fear Agent vibe from parts of it.

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    WildcatWildcat Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    But Fox News told me not to!

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    HenslerHensler Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    Wildcat wrote: »
    But Fox News told me not to!

    I'm a pretty conservative Republican, and even I will admit that if Fox News tells you not do something, that's a good reason to do it.

    Or you could buy Dead Space for some Rick Remender video-game goodness.

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    RansRans Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76nxnUlkTOM

    Preview of Green Lantern: Emerald Knights, the animated GL movie coming out before the live action movie this summer. I thought it was supposed to be a prequel to the movie, but they are using the same animation style as the Green Lantern: First Flight movie. They seem to be treating it like a sequel, yet Sinestro went bad at the end of First Flight and here he still looks like he's a Corps member so I don't know what is going on.

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    ThrackThrack Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    Rans wrote: »

    Preview of Green Lantern: Emerald Knights, the animated GL movie coming out before the live action movie this summer. I thought it was supposed to be a prequel to the movie, but they are using the same animation style as the Green Lantern: First Flight movie. They seem to be treating it like a sequel, yet Sinestro went bad at the end of First Flight and here he still looks like he's a Corps member so I don't know what is going on.

    What gets me is that Sinestro is still a GL but one of the flashback stories seems to be about the Yellow Lantern Corps.

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    cshadow42cshadow42 Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    This is the closest we'll ever come to a Justice League movie.

    Its a SFW trailer, but for a NSFW movie.

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    Undead ScottsmanUndead Scottsman Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    Might want to label that NSFW.

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    RericReric Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    Thrack wrote: »
    Rans wrote: »

    Preview of Green Lantern: Emerald Knights, the animated GL movie coming out before the live action movie this summer. I thought it was supposed to be a prequel to the movie, but they are using the same animation style as the Green Lantern: First Flight movie. They seem to be treating it like a sequel, yet Sinestro went bad at the end of First Flight and here he still looks like he's a Corps member so I don't know what is going on.

    What gets me is that Sinestro is still a GL but one of the flashback stories seems to be about the Yellow Lantern Corps.

    I remember reading that the Emerald Knights movie was going to be similar to the Gotham Knight video where it is separate stories focusing on different lanterns at different times.

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    EWomEWom Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    Hahah Ron Jeremy as penguin.

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    MetroidZoidMetroidZoid Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    I'll admit it.

    I'll watch it.

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    WiseManTobesWiseManTobes Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    The top related news link to that JLA porn is Preacher is back in the works ( for like the umpteenth time, but I can still hope).

    I wish they'd stop teasing me with preacher movies heh.

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    RansRans Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    and here is a proper trailer for GREEN LANTERN: EMERALD KNIGHTS

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATEbs7S3HuE

    makes me optimistic that it will be pretty good

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    HadjiQuestHadjiQuest Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    I can't tell if they're actually doing a singular art style this time and not using an anime studio with different artists, but if they are, that consistency will bring it above all the other shorts DTVs, which have always been really so-so.

    I also hope the interlocked narrative is stronger than it was on Gotham Knights, which was good but tied for my least favorite of the DC DTVs with Superman: Doomsday.

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    MastaPMastaP Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    Really? Gotham Knight is by far my favorite dtDVD that DC's done. I was actually a little disappointed at the trailer when I saw it was all in the same style. But then you can't really expect them to contract six different animation studios every time.

    I like visual variation when you're going to do a straight up anthology style.

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    HadjiQuestHadjiQuest Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    I never really care about anthologies enough to rewatch them. Beyond that, the quality is almost always inconsistent, and without a strong central narrative there's no reason to go back to some of them at all.

    A central narrative would be aces.

    Everyone is guessing this is a sequel to First Flight, which would be neat if it were true. However, if it is true, I'm kind of sad that Garber and Meloni aren't back. Don't get me wrong, Nathan Fillion is not only the man, he is perfect for Hal Jordan in any format. I just like my continuity.

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    noir_bloodnoir_blood Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    The top related news link to that JLA porn is Preacher is back in the works ( for like the umpteenth time, but I can still hope).

    I wish they'd stop teasing me with preacher movies heh.

    I honestly wish they wouldn't even go there with Preacher. I mean, if freaking HBO took a look at the subject material and went "you know what? That shit's crazy, even for us", there is no way a film is going to be able to do it justice.

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    HenslerHensler Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    Preacher as it itself won't work as a movie. But a Saint of Killers movie? Yeah, I can dig it.

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    HadjiQuestHadjiQuest Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    So, I stayed up late last night to watch All Star Superman.

    It was missing a lot, both in content and tone. Also, Steve Blum played 4 characters, only shifted his voice at all for one (Atlas), and actually played two characters at once in the opening scene (although I think it was the twin set of clones).

    And while I'm talking about the voices, James Denton did a pretty poor job. He sounded so old and unenthusiastic the whole time. I wasn't convinced that Anthony LaPaglia would do a good job from the trailer, but he actually did knock it out of the park. I was worried his delivery would be too dark and serious for that material, but seeing it all at once, it was actually so dark and serious that it reached a level of parody, and actually worked fantastically. Unfortunately, he also sounds really similar to Ed Asner, so I do kind of wish a change had been made for Perry. Christina Hendricks did a wonderful job as well.

    As for the content, they really did tone the Silver Age wonder and the fun of it down a lot. They made all the scenes where Clark pops away to save people really epic and dramatic when they're presented so simply in the book.

    The missing chapters didn't hurt the film as much as I thought they would. At the same time, the Kryptonian astronauts were my least favorite single issue of the book, and they dragged the film down as well. Beyond that, the whole segment was so quick that it had little impact. I wish Superman could've bumped into Zibarro in space instead, or gone back in time to see Pa Kent.

    The Solaris battle was really strange because there's no foreshadowing or anything about Solaris in the entire movie at all, until he just pops out. It was jarring to me not having read the book in awhile, and I imagine it's even more jarring to someone who hasn't read it. Beyond that, the actual Solaris fight was a bit crazy to try and give the movie more action. The Mercy line bothered me because it's not something Superman would ever say or do at all, but I was a little bit better with it after they made so much effort to show that Solaris is just a computer/robot and nothing else (where his sentience clearly made him more in the comic).

    I guess I'd give it a B? Maybe? Probably my third favorite after Red Hood and Crisis.

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    GuekGuek Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    why is it that DC animated features are so far and away superior to Marvel's efforts? I watched both avengers movies the other day and they're god awful, both in story content and animation.

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    Undead ScottsmanUndead Scottsman Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    Speaking of Marvel animation, anyone know when the Avengers is supposed to start up again. I need to see more of the Hulk beating the shit out of things that think they're omnipotent.

    It never gets old.

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    GankGank Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    Hell, I'm mostly a Marvel reader and I feel the same way, I've enjoyed a lot more of DC's animated feature releases than Marvels. Dr Strange was in my opinion one of the better Marvel but a lot of them fall short in comparison to stuff like S&B: Public Enemies and even the short film like Spectre and SHAZAM.

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    HtownHtown Registered User regular
    edited February 2011
    DC has the benefit of being part of Warner Bros, with access to their animation studios.

    I'm hoping that Marvel's stuff gets better now that they are owned by Disney.

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