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  1. It would be pretty trippy to see that flying above your city.
  2. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Demobot View Post
    Oh yeah. One of my favorite bits of the last book is Neville coming into his own as a heroic badass.
    Hell, one of my favorite movies of Deathly Hallows part 1 was Neville taunting the Deatheaters who boarded the train.

    I hope we get to see a bit of what Neville does at Hogwarts but the film's going to be packed as it is.
  3. Quote:
    Originally Posted by 2short2care View Post
    Ok I know who most of them were, but who is the guy with the thing in his chest? Also who is the guy that is standing next to Charles when the 5 of them are standing together in their yellow and black costumes, he is the one you see flying downward.
    Havok and Banshee respectively, I believe.
  4. On one hand I really really hope this film surprises us and gives us an awesome X-men movie with balanced action and characterization. On the other hand, I kind of hope it falls flat and finally encourages Fox to release its death-grip on this property so it reverts back to Marvel.
  5. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Lastjustice View Post
    Probably not.(that was the story line in the Unicron Trilogy so I suppose it's possible.) It was likely just where a bunch of forgetten bad guys crashed as Sam mentioned the Sentinel Prime expedition in his All Spark induced rant in ROTF. Shockwave has already been revealed to be the big bad of the film. I doubt we'll see any mention of Unicron. (which I prefer to stay that way.)
    Maybe Unicron will be the Devastator of this film in that there'll be some buildup to his role in the trailers and movie but he ends up as a lackey who gets one-shotted.

    Eh? Eh?
  6. So, is the moon really Unicron? o.O
  7. Quote:
    Originally Posted by BrandX View Post
    Wow. I felt Half-Blood Prince felt like the worst one, but maybe that's because I felt it deviated from the books the most, and didn't really get into the Half-Blood Prince at all. :/
    I liked HBP because it felt like pretty much the post character-driven one. Like they put everything into getting us as emotionally attached to the main characters before the **** hits the fan.
  8. CaptainFoamerang

    Thundergod

    Just some folk in Australia so far I think.

    Thanks for rubbing it in by the way!
  9. I'm glad it looks like they're getting more elaborate with the final battle between Harry and Voldemort. I hope they do the same with Snape's last encounter with Voldemort in the book.

    Also, Mama Weasley going after Bella! @.@
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    Spider-Man

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    Originally Posted by QuiJon View Post
    Seems to me rather then just trying to keep finding ways to "Fix" the problem with yet another story that people are gonna complain about, i say just erase the last couple years and say they never happened.

    Seriously just take the character back to what? I guess pre-civil war, and just tell all the writer to ignore completely anything after. and no more killing aunt may, revealing secret IDs, deals with the devil etc.
    Actually, I'd say one of the big mistakes of that time was not killing Aunt May, or rather not letting her die. They had a chance to have Aunt May dying as a result of Peter going public with his identity so the superheroes could look at that and decide to stop fighting each other at the very least but instead we get Cap surrendering so he can have some dumb ***** get in his face about Nascar and Facebook.
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    Spider-Man

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    Originally Posted by Talia_Rayvyn View Post
    Uhhhh you know that is the Ultimates Spider-Man (Earth 1610) that 'died' not the Mainstream Spider-Man (Earth 616), right?

    Also it's still not clear if Spider-Man is actually dead as you can see below from the most recent comic.

    "Peter got a phone call from Mary Jane and she told him that Norman had escaped prison and will most likely come after Peters' family. A bystander pointed up to where Norman fled the scene to and Peter went to investigate the apartment above. Finding nothing there he once again headed out in search of Norman and the rest of his team of fugitives, when he spotted Captain America standing over a beaten Nick Fury and decided to intervene. Peter spotted the Punisher aiming his sniper rifle at Captain America. Not willing to see Cap die, Peter charged in to push Cap away, but got shot in the process; Peter suffered a exit wound through his left flank kidney. "

    I think the argument can still be made that Marvel seriously ****** up Spider-Man. >.>
  12. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Smersh View Post
    He's renouncing his citizenship so that the third group, the rest of the world, will know that he is not a political tool either.
    The thing about that is he's not supposed to care.

    People can say whatever they like about him, but he's supposed to keep on doing his thing and showing people what he's about through his actions, not through stunts and statements. He has better things to be doing than convincing political extremists, because those are the folks that are going to be worrying and pundit-ing about the political ramifications about his every move. It doesn't matter what he says or does or what nation he is a citizen of; there's always going to be folks there to twist his word or actions, and he's supposed to be above worrying what they think and say.

    It isn't that he's politically naive. It's that he knows how much power he wields in more ways than one; people will blindly follow whatever he suggests, which is part of the reason why he avoids politics and controversy. There's no way he can avoid becoming a politically charged figure by making a move like this that's so heavily steeped in politics.
  13. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Jet_Boy View Post
    Heh... at least they used attempt to hide the flagging sales PR stunts in the past.

    Dear DC,

    Wanna impress me so much I'll start buying issues again?

    1) Reboot the best (eg, written before 1986 unless it's a really, really stand out books, like Jeff Loebs "Long Halloween"and ) of the Silver, Iron and Modern Age books under the "Earth 1" imprint. Then go reread as many Silver Age Books as you can and make the titles like that.

    Why? So they'll be fun to read again.
    They pretty much did that with OYL then it all went horribly wrong with Final Crisis.
  14. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Smersh View Post
    Alternatively, what he wants is the freedom to do the right thing according to his conscience. If he's being viewed as an instrument of American policy, he has to keep that in mind unless he wants to create international incidents.

    America's moral superiority in the world is tarnished, but Superman's is not. If Superman is viewed as an instrument of American policy, the thought might be (as he stood in solidarity with Iranian protestors) "The Americans are only looking out for their interests and seeking to expand their influence in the region!" If Superman is only representing Superman, the line of thinking is completely different. "Superman's standing on the other side... am I sure I'm morally in the right?"

    Frankly, though I love the phrase "truth, justice and the American way," there is nothing inextricably American about the American way. Anyone around the world who stands for democracy, for the rule of law, for the equality of all people.

    By renouncing his citizenship, Superman can divest himself of the realpolitik practiced by the US State Department and do things like denounce dictators and strongmen that are US allies. He can fly out from the Fortress of Solitude (which I believe does not lie within the borders of any nation, correct me if I'm wrong) and be a hero for all of mankind.

    I don't think it's stupid at all. I think it makes perfect sense for Superman.

    My question is how he'll resolve that with still being Clark Kent, who might not be renouncing his American citizenship...
    I think you missed the point I was going for, sir. Basically, Superman knows he isn't a political tool, as does anyone who knows him, so it serves no point to go into the UN building and pull a political publicity stunt like renouncing his citizenship. He's setting himself up to get caught up in politics with this move, which is all about words when Superman is about action.

    He doesn't need to be doing publicity stunts or making statements like this because he's out there proving he's for everyone and not just the US every damn day.
  15. Quote:
    Originally Posted by SlickRiptide View Post
    If you're a comic reader and you ignored the spoiler warning in the title, well, you chose to look.

    Superman Decides to Renounce His US Citizenship

    The panel from the comic is displayed at the blog posting above.

    Apparently he's more hard-core than Statesman, who just said "We don't work for you" but never outright said "I don't want to be an American."

    Of course, Kal-El was an illegal alien, technically... In fact, it isn't clear to me that he ever had American citizenship in the first place...

    I wonder if Clark is going to rush out and declare himself a global citizen now and get a green card?

    A valid question, though, is that if Supes is serious and follows through, then where will he base himself? Working out of Metropolis would seem to be a little problematic after renouncing his citizenship. Declaring himself a citizen of the world doesn't exactly give him carte blanche to disrespect borders and do whatever he pleases, though I suppose there isn't really anybody who could stop him from going pretty much wherever he pleases, anyway.
    Seems stupid. Or rather, seems to go against what Superman would do in that situation. I think it was in an issue of Hulk where they said Hulk was granted honorary citizenship to every nation in the world after he saved it one time, and if that's the case with Dr. Jekkyl and Mr. Smash then it's probably the same with Superman. So if he's really a citizen of the world (as he's been shown to be), then throwing a *****-fit on the UN floor about not approving of some politician's disapproval seems like a waste of his time and energy.
  16. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Ironik View Post
    You were five? I had just graduated from high school, let's see... 13 years earlier.

    Some days I can't believe 1990 was 21 years ago. Seems like just yesterday we considered that "way in the future."
    /em gets off Ironik's lawn
  17. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Mandu View Post
    Latest news is that after hearing complaints about some of the cgi in the extended footage Warner Brothers is spending another 9 million to clean things up further. The primary one mentioned is how bad the mask looked.
    Sounds good to me. Seems like they want to make sure that DC's first big movie outside of the Batman franchise lately goes as smoothly as possible. I just hope Blake Lively doesn't ruin the movie. >.>
  18. I wish they'd adapt the sequel to The Relic.
  19. I wish they'd do everything but the origin stuff in space, but I realize that's a longshot since no superhero movie these days can escape the love interest plot.
  20. Also, Thor: Ages of Thunder was pretty sweet. It had that ancient feel to it that you would think only Gaiman can bring these days and the art was great.



    Good stuff.
  21. I believe you were scooped on this last week.

    And as I've said before, I don't mind letting Reynolds bring some humor to the role, as Hal Jordan tends to have all the personality of a brick.
  22. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Kawkazn View Post
    Good point and the Joker knew at that point she was his love interest. Thanks.
    Basically the Joker of this movie is all about ruining lives to expose just how little difference there is between average people and himself. It really draws on The Killing Joke when Joker said that everyone was just one bad day away from becoming him.

    So when Joker comes to talk to Dent in the hospital after the fallout, he mentions Gordon specifically as one of the "schemers," because by giving Batman the wrong address, Gordon's task unwittingly becomes to save Rachel, so Gordon becomes Dent's target the way that Dent was Joker's. The Joker wanted to see if Dent could break Gordon the same way he broke Dent.

    It's all part of the plan.
  23. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Kawkazn View Post
    I was just about to make a post about batman asking a question but this seems like a good enough place.

    In the movie The Dark Knight when the Joker makes Batman choose between Rachael And Harvey when asked who he was gonna save Batman says Rachael but saved Harvey, did the Joker lie about who was where or did Batman save Harvey on purpose?

    edit - (Sorry for the thread jack)

    It was cool to see Bron... err Tom Hardy on set.
    He pretty much knew that Batman would go for Rachel and switched up the addresses, because Rachel dying was an essential ingredient to Dent's downfall.
  24. Yeah, I totally lost it when I saw Thor with an uzi.
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