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The Fall by Chuck Hogan and Guillermo del Toro
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Quote:March of the Wooden Soldiers and Homelands are particularly awesome.Originally Posted by Ironik
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Just wanted to point out that it seems InStockTrades.com has moved back to the top spot of my online recommendations for TPB retailers. Not too long ago Amazon had better discounts but it looks like IST has responded by lowering their prices again.
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Quote:The dream is collapsing.Originally Posted by Ironik
I go to the hospital for a little bit and come back to people touching themselves too fast to see and others dodging lasers, all on an Earth that's 4 times larger than it used to be.
Did I wake up in the Matrix?
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Quote:A "strike" isn't necessarily a punch, though, and when talking about Superman, just about anything could qualify as "striking." It wasn't looking good for Batman or anything, but we still don't see Supes actually full-on punch him. I think they made a point not to show that because it's one thing to see Superman grab Batman, and it's another thing to see Superman deck Batman.Originally Posted by MisterTorgo
J'onn says that Superman strikes Batman and then sends him flying. After that, we see him being strangled. Well, apparently strangled. Really, them Kubert boys' artwork has never been high on my list, in part, because it's so indecipherable much of the time.
The point being that J'onn wasn't under the illusion that Superman was having and he and the others clearly see that Superman did in fact "strike" Batman. If he did in fact do this thinking that Batman was Darkseid, Bruce's cowl should have been filled with nothing but Bat-goo.
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Quote:There's Superman grabbing him but it doesn't look like he punched him. And the illusion was within Superman's mind. A telepath was making him think he was fighting someone else.Originally Posted by MisterTorgo
Actually, Superman did punch Batman, as the Manhunter mentions while the JLA watch the security tapes. He also seems to strangle Bruce afterwards. They all saw it so it wasn't just part of an illusion.
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Quote:That's why I explained in the subsequent post that Superman probably didn't even punch him.Originally Posted by Nericus
By all rights, one punch from Superman should kill Batman if Superman isn't holding back. Batman should have been dogmeat after that.
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Quote:It was all explained in the comic where the JLA analyzed the recording of the attack. Superman had beamed into the Watchtower and Batman barely noticed something was up in time to activate Watchtower defense protocols, which included attack drones and such, and they were set at "omega levels" or whatever, which I believe are in place in case someone like Despero comes knocking, so within his fantasy, when Superman was trading blows with someone, it could very well have been one of those drones or Wonder Woman instead of Batman.Originally Posted by MisterTorgo
Yeah, but if Superman was beating up someone who he thought could take it, how could Batman possibly have survived even the first blow?
Dangit, am I over analyzing? Hmph. Guess that's why I can't read Bats and Supes' books, anymore. -
Quote:Actually I think it boils down to the fact that Superman doesn't truly want to beat Batman. Whether out of pity (for Bruce or himself) or respect, Clark doesn't want to beat him down.Originally Posted by Nericus
It boils down to this: with enough prep time and gadgets at his disposal, there are few foes that Batman cannot defeat. Had Superman been closer to his normal power levels, and been more ruthless in that fight, the Bruce would have been owned. But Bruce knows that Superman doesn't fight that way so that was yet another advantage to Bruce.
About the only time I've seen Superman beat the crap out of Batman in continuity is during the Sacrifice arc, in which Superman thinks he's fighting a member of his rogues gallery that rivals his abilities physically, so Superman was actually trying to kill him, and it was only Wonder Woman's intervention that saved Batman. Even still, Bruce was beat to hell and near death after that confrontation. -
Quote:Then it's not a big deal cuz Batman consistently takes down metas.Originally Posted by Cynical_Gamer
But it only works if there's an internal consistency.
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Quote:Did they touch on this at all in Trinity? Because they were saying how Superman, Wonder Woman, and Batman represented some kind of trinity of forces of the universe or something, and maybe they used that to justify the universe "favoring" him.Originally Posted by Nericus
He survives for one reason and one reason only.................HE's BATMAN! 'Nuff said!
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Quote:You'd be surprised how shoddily buildings are put together these days.Originally Posted by Dark One
The one that always gets me...
When non-supers get thrown at a concrete wall...and the concrete breaks. Ya...no. Now, I'm not an expert on civil engineering, but one would think concrete with rebar innit would be a bit more sturdy than the meatsack that comprises your average human being.
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Quote:I think a lot of folks abuse the term "emo." To me "emo" would be causing unnecessary drama, which is different than reacting to a situation accordingly.Originally Posted by BrandX
First off, I love that song. It was my favorite musical number from that episode. I bought season 6 of Buffy jsut for that episode.
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Also, in the comics, they don't really get serious about security until Rick shows up. The best they had was Dale on top of the RV keeping watch.
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I think it will be Einstein vs Batman
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This is why you don't take the brown acid.
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Obviously Batman is going to win it all.
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Quote:Well also in the books they kind of went back and forth as to how important the Deathly Hallows actually were. At first they were just this kind of myth, then Harry leads them toward actively looking for them, and then they kind of ditch that plan to refocus on the Horcruxes, then Harry starts believing in the Hallows again. I think in order to make this shift in focus a little smoother, they want to wait to introduce some of the details until the second movie.Originally Posted by QuiJon
I know that, but in the book, by the time they get to shell cottage harry already knows the history from Skitters book and knows that Dumbledore was friends as a boy with the dark wizard he later fights and takes the wand from. Its only really important i think because first it explains why dumbledore has the wand, but what we should see at the begining of the second movie is harry talking to olivander and the goblin. He chooses to talk to the goblin first even the while knowing that Voldemort is closing in on the wand because he had come to the realization that he himself wasnt to have the wand that it wasnt in the plan.
Im sure as in many parts of the movie they will find ways of explaining this off, i just liked the idea that harry was finally starting to think, and plan and scheme a bit rather then just always running off to the next fight as he does through most of the movies and books. The character was always very reactionary and this was one of the first times that he actually sat back and looked at the bigger picture.
I think we need to seriously keep in mind that there is a TON of stuff left to fill in the second movie. They still have to break into gringotts, sneak into hogworts, find the daidem, the fight in the room of requirement, snapes death and his entire memory sequence, then the battle really starts and we have to deal with harrys death, and the entire part with dumbledore and the final confrontations. So when you figure that they seem reluctant to go much beyond 2.5 hours with these movies, i think alot of the little bits of character development are seeming to get left by the way side. -
Quote:Well remember that they still have a lot of time to work that into the next movie and really bring Harry down to that confrontation with Voldemort in the woods. They cast Dumbledore's brother, so I would imagine they delve into that at least a little in the next movie.Originally Posted by QuiJon
I went back and browsed the book a bit just to see where things happened and stuff. One thing that i kinda thought seemed out of place, was that by this point in the story, having gotten to shell collage, the narative of dumbledore in the book is much more advance. Which i think from the pov of anyone having only followed the movies is going to hurt a bit. For instance in the movie they dont really explain who the dark wizard is that harry sees stealing the wand and then how it comes to be with dumbledore. So really at this point they left out pretty much ALL of the dumbledore as a boy, his father dying, his sister being sick, and dumbledores misspent beliefs about magic superiority which eventually leads to the fight with Aberforth and his sisters death. Which in HBP they do infact elude to in that the big D is following the lines from the book asking someone to "leave they alone" or something like that.
I really now only bring it up because frankly that is a big part of thebook to just be completely missing. It really does put harry on a path of doubting Dumbledore and his judgement but also explains how we know where the wand was and why it came to be with Dumbledore but also really does then kinda lend itself to the final scene where they talked about a wand's alligences being won or lost as to why the death stick isnt the weapon it should be for V. -
This must be posted in any thread related to Judge Dredd.
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Quote:I disagree. I think purposefully funny is always better than unintentionally funny, especially when the writers know what they're doing, which the Supernatural crew do.Originally Posted by ObiWan
I don't know about that. Sam was funnier in this episode than all of last season when he still had his soul.
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The only thing that sucks is that these kind of episodes would probably be even more entertaining if Sam had his soul.
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Quote:They probably would have been better going with the Eiling/General angle, although they probably didn't want to set themselves up to be preemptively embarrassed through comparisons with their take on the character/arc and that of JLU. Instead, they took the low road and went with senior citizen Slade.Originally Posted by Dark One
He is, however, a seasoned military veteran who now has plausible deniability for his death. Making him a good fit for the Suicide Squad and a test subject for a regenerative/age-reducing new drug. After all, if your drug can work on a person of that age, think what it can do for someone in their prime.
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Quote:He's old enough that he was in 'Nam, sure, but he's one of those characters that's old but shouldn't look as old as a normal person would at that age. Also, it makes it harder to root for the good guys when they're beating on an old dude.Originally Posted by Dark One
Except Deathstroke kinda is an old man.
Deathstroke DCU toy. There's stuff out there showing him unmasked from the comics, but this is the closest thing I could find (quickly) to be "official" depiction of him. -
Mera was pretty smokin'.
It kind of sucked to see them make Deathstroke an old man, though. Also, they kinda just glossed over his and Clark's escape from that place. And it looks like it's going to be really easy for them to get lost in all the arcs they've got going, what with Darkseid and the registration act and the Suicide Squad and the return of Luthor and Clark finally becoming Superman.