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Posted by Janaru 
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Super Heroes
1142 Fri 20 May 2011
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The Green Lantern looks freakin' awesome!!! Can't wait to see it. Looks like they're going to stay pretty close to the comic book....thank goodness!

The other two I'm looking forward to are Captain America, which also looks pretty close, and Cowboys and Aliens. Might be a decent Summer for movies after all.
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2225 Wed 25 May 2011
X-Men: First Class opens on Wednesday, lst June, a prequel to the other four X's, taking it back to 1963, starring Michael Fassbender & James McAvoy as Erik Lehnsherr/Magneto and Professor Charles Xavier respectively.

A friend of mine worked on this and I have a couple of funny stories to tell but they will have to wait as I have to do something before 10.30pm!
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0116 Thu 26 May 2011
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I saw that was coming up too, Mobson, but it doesn't look like they're going to be sticking to the original story.

Hopefully they will just take a "what if" sort of take on X-Men, instead of the out and out sacrilege they did with Spider-Man. I mean really? Webs coming out of the wrist? My boys and I almost walked straight out of the theater after that reveal. eye rolling smiley

But the CGI looks great for X-Men, so it should have some nice eye-candy anyway smiling smiley
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0130 Thu 26 May 2011
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What's the opinion of Thor? Did Branagh ruin it? I was sort of surprised when I heard he had directed the film (the easy out was he got into Norse mythology while filming Wallander). I do find him a decent director, but should he stick to Shakespeare?
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0134 Thu 26 May 2011
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I haven't seen Thor yet, but as I remember it, the comic book played with Norse mythology anyway. I think I'll have to wait for the DVD for this one. But I'm puttin' money down to see Green Lantern!
PAW
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0227 Thu 26 May 2011
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> Webs coming out of the wrist? My boys and I almost
> walked straight out of the theater after that
> reveal.

The webs out of the wrist, along with all the other changes, made more sense than him being able to develop the technology to do it.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 0229 May 26 2011 by PAW.
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0235 Thu 26 May 2011
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lifeonmarsfan Wrote:
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> What's the opinion of Thor?

I think to be balanced the next Hollywood blockbuster should have Jesus falling in love with a scientist Jane Foster and fighting super villains.
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0404 Thu 26 May 2011
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PAW Wrote:
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> lifeonmarsfan Wrote:
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> > What's the opinion of Thor?
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> I think to be balanced the next Hollywood
> blockbuster should have Jesus falling in love with
> a scientist Jane Foster and fighting super
> villains.

Why stop with Jesus? Lets do all the deities and or accolites, Allah/Mohammed, Buddah, Khrishna, the possibilities are endless.
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0040 Fri 27 May 2011
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The webs out of the wrist, along with all the other changes, made more sense than him being able to develop the technology to do it.

It's a comic book, PAW.


Why stop with Jesus? Lets do all the deities and or accolites, Allah/Mohammed, Buddah, Khrishna, the possibilities are endless.

Now that would be a h*ll of a version of the Justice League.

They've already done Bulletproof Monk, so next logical step?
PAW
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0141 Fri 27 May 2011
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When you're running a movie franchise you don't want to say in advance which films you'll be making in case an early one bombs - just look what's happening with Narnia.
PAW
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0144 Fri 27 May 2011
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Janaru Wrote:
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> The webs out of the wrist, along with all the
> other changes, made more sense than him being able
> to develop the technology to do it.
>
> It's a comic book, PAW.

But it has to maintain its internal logic - if Peter Parker was able to build devices to spin webs he would have been a different person - having it be part of the changes due to the radiation fits better.
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0201 Fri 27 May 2011
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Why would he have to be a different person? Intelligent people can't be smart-a*sed, don't have any self-doubt or teen-aged angst?

Having the webs come out of his wrist also changes a lot of the stories and jams Peter gets in when his web fluid runs out. It's a pretty integral part of the original character and shouldn't have been changed, imo.

And don't even get me started on what they did with Venom! tongue sticking out smiley



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 0321 May 27 2011 by Janaru.
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0204 Fri 27 May 2011
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I thought there was someone who turned superhero because of radiation. Now can Spidey walk into a nuclear power plant in melt down and survive it? I think Superman could. I have never seen X-Men so please forgive this question, but are these radiated people too? I am just not a movie goer and I haven't been to a comic book store since the early 1990s.
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0325 Fri 27 May 2011
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The X-Men were mutants. I don't remember if they ever explained why.

And the answer to your other question is no, he probably wouldn't survive. He's the Amazing Spider-Man....not the indestructible Spider-Man smiling smiley
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0328 Fri 27 May 2011
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Ok. But what about Superman. I am sorry, I don't mean to sound snide or anything. I just wasn't into comic books growing up unless they were Classic Comics or Archie. The only reason I hung out at comic book stores when I was a teenager was because of Star Trek the Next Generation as well as movies like Raiders of the Lost Ark and Back to the Future.
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0345 Fri 27 May 2011
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No, you don't sound snide at all.

Most of the comic book knowledge I got was from my older brother who looooved comic books, so naturally I read a lot of his when I was a kid. I also have boys who loved comic books, so that's were I got most of my edjumication. smiling smiley


I would say Superman would be able to withstand a nuclear melt-down. He gets his powers here on Earth from the Sun and he's like uber-powered. As far as I know, and I double checked this with my youngest, the only things that can get to Superman are Kryptonite (pieces of his home planet, Krypton) or magic (i.e. via Zatanna Zatara). I may be wrong and I'm sure if there are Superman fans out there, they can set me straight on that.
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0355 Fri 27 May 2011
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I knew about Kryptonite, I didn't know about the other thing. Thanks Jan.
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1008 Fri 27 May 2011
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Oh, you're very welcome! smiling smiley I did talk to my older brother tonight and he has a slight correction for me it's the yellow Sun of Earth that gives Superman his powers. If it were a red Sun, he'd be normal. Do not ask me why, because I forgot to ask him.
PAW
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1449 Fri 27 May 2011
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Krypton had a red sun.
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1237 Sun 29 May 2011
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Thank you! smiling smiley
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0641 Fri 03 June 2011
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Spidey would be killed by radiation, Superman would or wouldn't be depending on which version of him you choose (he started as someone who is "faster than a speeding locomotive" and "able to leap tall buildings in a single bound", far less than his later incarnations).

As for the X-Men, there's so many of them in the comics (30?) and they've had different histories that it's difficult to say. The first set were so called because they had eXtra powers and there was something about it being caused by radiation exposure; then it was that they had a X gene and were natural mutations. Some of the later characters had different origins, but generally it was the mutant gene that because the default reason.
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1408 Fri 03 June 2011
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I thought he was faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive.

They went off on all kinds of tangents, depending on which comic you read, but I don't remember any radioactive accidents with the X's. I could have sworn it was a natural mutation.
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0125 Tue 25 October 2011
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Missed Green Lantern at the movies, but I finally got to see the movie on DVD.

Loved it!!! For overall true to mythology, acting and CGI, it's the best total package superhero movie so far, imo. When they cast Ryan Reynolds as Hal Jordan, I really had my doubts, but he does an excellent job.

Mark Strong as Sinestro and Geoffrey Rush as the voice of Tomar-Re were excellent as well.

With Iron Man, Thor and Captain America it looks like they're gearing up for The Avengers, too. They still need a decent Hulk for that one though.
PAW
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1657 Tue 25 October 2011
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Janaru Wrote:
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> Missed Green Lantern at the movies, but I finally
> got to see the movie on DVD.
>
> Loved it!!! For overall true to mythology, acting
> and CGI, it's the best total package superhero
> movie so far, imo. When they cast Ryan Reynolds as
> Hal Jordan, I really had my doubts, but he does an
> excellent job.
>
> Mark Strong as Sinestro and Geoffrey Rush as the
> voice of Tomar-Re were excellent as well.
>
> With Iron Man, Thor and Captain America it looks
> like they're gearing up for The Avengers, too.
> They still need a decent Hulk for that one though.

But who is playing Steed and Mrs Peel?
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1136 Wed 26 October 2011
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Well, that's the $64,000 question, now, isn't it? winking smiley
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2359 Wed 26 October 2011
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Not Rafe Fiennes and Uma Thurman again, please.
PAW
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0012 Thu 27 October 2011
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The dynamic between them was wrong, but the storyline would have fitted into that period without problem.
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