CaptainFoamerang

Oh sweet christ is that really the origin of Rulk?

Or maybe it'll have the lifeforce of one of the frost giants.

I think they basically just went backwards from what we're used to. As someone else noted, there weren't really any Thor-centric epic moments to hype us up. I think we're used to seeing a few of those in the first teaser just to get us excited about the film and then we're supposed to see more character- and plot-centric trailers later on with a few more epic moments sprinkled around.

Not really offering a personal take on the film at this time, since I saw it when I was half-asleep and didn't really pay too much attention to it, but I think some folks might have been more kind to the film had it not be based on the baby of Will Eisner aka the father of comic books. If Miller had done the same kind of film but without that particular established IP, then perhaps it might have been more well-received. Then again, maybe not.

Still a bit pretentious to assume that everyone who did enjoy the film had their quality meters broken or those who insist that it is a quality film are, for some reason or another, being deceptive, is it not?

See, the problem I have with your criticisms of the film is that many of them seemed to be based on the fact that there were a lot of things that went unexplained in the film, and you refer to these things as plot holes, when they aren't; they're just that: unexplained.

You say that in order for it to be good sci-fi it has to be thought-provoking, when I believe there's more to it than that, and there's more than one way for a film to be thought-provoking. I find that good sci-fi does more than make you think; it makes you feel, and all of the flash and gadgetry is just meant to accentuate points of the story to draw you in and make you feel something for the world being presented and the characters in it. Bombarding us with schematics and specifics as to how the imaginary science theoretically works in the imaginary settings doesn't inherently make the film better or what could be called good sci-fi. If you weren't pulled into the film and moved and involved like others were, that's fine, but it's a bit faulty to keep insisting that the movie was objectively bad because of this.

If it wasn't clear as to whether the movie focused on either serious or comedic undertones to someone, then their review should be suspect.

Well there's no guarantee that it would respond to the metal detector in the first place, not to mention if the command module had advanced cloaking technology to prevent it from being detected. But alas, if you're hooked on details such as this and allow it to spoil your experience with the film, then there's not much to say.

I think you have to consider the perspective people had on the aliens. It was years and years after they had arrived and they saw the aliens as both something to be exploited and a drain on their society. They had internalized the notion that they were second-class beings for a while by the time we got to our story. Humanity might have expected these wise and approachable Vulcan-like aliens to come out of the heavens and solve all their problems, but instead they got these squid-looking things that set **** on fire and hogged all their toys. The humans at that point generally looked at them with resentment, disappointment, and frustration.

Well, again, it really doesn't help that Mark Steven Johnson hasn't really proven himself as a capable action director, judging from his work on Daredevil and Ghost Rider.

And really a lot of good movie action work is rooted in the directing and editing. You could make anybody look like a badass if you shoot and cut it right.

Eh, he worked with what he had.

We've seen that Affleck can act, but the creative team behind Daredevil certainly didn't help.

I don't think it was as complicated as that. After all, it seemed to imply that all of the aliens could experience the basic emotions and thoughts associated with sentient beings, so they appear to understand the concepts of family and strife, but pretty much all of them experience it on a lower level than Chris, which would imply that he is different from other ones that they see. They also note in the interviews how pretty much all of the aliens lack advanced individual motivations, indicating that these workers were cut off from a higher authority.

They did lose their drive but it wasn't really their drive to begin with.

Frank Miller has basically decided that since comic book storytelling and perhaps the industry itself hasn't gone the way he wanted it to, it's his duty to completely undermine the medium by producing some of the most god-awful, ****** up comics as he can.

There's overuse and misuse.

Aw damn.

Someone redeem him with the right line, please.

It didn't necessarily have to be a fuel. If I recall correctly, the aliens just referred to it as "the liquid," which seemed to have a lot of peculiar properties. We don't know why it responded to Wikus like it did, but, given that their tech is gene-coded and they're obviously more advanced than we are, we can kinda just go along with it.

They could tell from looking at Wikus that he was going through some kind of change, and they no doubt did some tissue testing to confirm he was turning into one of the aliens. Plus, he could operate the weapons. They seemed more interested in the results of whatever happened to him than why it happened.

I think it dropped shortly after the mothership arrived, presumably because one of the smarter aliens, possibly Chris, hid it so he could work on getting back home in secret.

I believe in some of the viral marketing and even during one of the interviews in the film that there's castes to the alien society and pretty much all of the ones we see in the film are from a worker drone caste. Chris appears to be from a scientist-type caste.

As they touched on in the trailer, they're going for a magic-tech blend, so we're going to be seeing things look a bit different than they do in the comics yet still referencing some of the Kirby designs.

I think what will happen is when Odin strips him of his power, Thor will drop the hammer and it will literally smash through everything and we'll see it's trip all the way down into Midgard.

Shoehorning an evil Hulk into Smallville was no worse than shoehorning an evil Hulk into Superman comics. I quite liked the Zod-Ursa angle because it made his opposition to Clark more personal, and better villains always make it personal.

I thought Routh did just fine for what he was given, and at least he's shown to be willing to expand to villainous and comedic roles. While I think Welling has the right look, he's still kinda in the Tribbinani School of Acting where he pulls the standard soap opera "try to divide 232 by 13" look all the time.

I would settle for them having Clark depowered for most of an entire season if it meant they saved enough of the budget up to have a good smackdown during the finale.

I also think in some ways their take on Doomsday was better than the comics. It was much more interesting to have Doomsday be the son of Zod and Ursa sent to Earth with a different agenda than Kal-El.

Think it depends on the angle you're viewing it on your monitor, and I don't think it'll be too big of an issue with the full-size version. I was just trying to keep the style consistent by having the outer edge be slightly lighter than the base color.