Cowman

Which one, the 1940 one or the later 'Green Hornet Strikes Again'?

I prefer the former. The guy in 'Strikes Again' looked way to doughy and the mask looked like it was made of poster board.

The new Green Hornet movie!

Thrill as the Black Beauty cruises down the road at 15mph with the left blinker on!!!!

Well, considering that they're pretending to be villains, it actually kinda fits. The right-hand man is almost always more physically dangerous than the mastermind.


I find that, as far as my tastes go, he falls into the same category as Jim Carrey, Adam Sandler, and Will Ferrell. I usually find them annoying when they're in the movies they're best known for (i.e. Ace Ventura, Waterboy, Elf).

But I'll really like them in other movies (i.e. Truman Show, Wedding Singer, Stranger Than Fiction). I'm hoping that Green Hornet turns out to be one of the latter types for Rogan. Time will tell.

That's sorta a theme with Green Hornet. Even the old movie serials had those moments; with Kato inventing most of the gadgets.

It's something I kinda hoped they'd touch on in the new movie, but not just as a joke.

Just how effective IS circle straffing?

No. No we really can't.

Unless you've moved out of the way before the gunman actually pulls the trigger, yer gettin' shot. What you're hoping is that you can move faster than the shooter can adjust his aim.



Back on topic.

Maybe I'm just more easily amused than some. Comic book tropes have never bothered me too much. Multiple deaths/rebirths, unrealistic physics, weird storylines, "invincible" main characters.... none of these seem to have enraged me to the point it has others.

Sure, I might roll my eyes a bit at some of the more extreme examples. But then I'd just shrug and say "eh, that's comics for ya", and move on to the next issue.

Hey, I'll suspend my belief for something that looks cool.

Isn't that sorta what comics are about? Fantastical stories and action?

I find it interesting that you bring up Sleeping Beauty when I've actually never considered the princess as the protagonist of that story. Even the Prince took a relative back seat. The main conflict was between the three fairy godmothers and Malificent.

So really, not only were most of the main characters female, but three of them were older and did not fill the movie requirements for stereotypical beauty. It just seemed to be that the fairy/Malificent conflict was the movie they wanted to show, but they stuck in the Prince and Princess as facades so that it appealed to marketing.

Maybe that's just me though.

As for the "princess genre", I see no reason for it to die, and doubt it could even if they wanted it to. Do I get nauseous looking at the ultra pink "Disney Princess" products that line store shelves?

Sure. But I get much the same feeling looking at commercials and adds for games like Modern Warfare that are designed to appeal to the frat-boy demographic.

I'd much rather see the Princess genre evolve rather than disappear. Belle, Mulan, the Princess-and-the-Frog chick.... these are examples that a "princess" can still be a strong and interesting female character.

Too often advocates for "strong female leads" tend to associate anything stereotypically female with being weak. Maybe a female protagonist enjoys dressing in pink and giving tea parties. That doesn't automatically make her a bad character or a "bad role model".

So don't just axe the princess line. Put in the effort to keep improving it as they have been. Maybe it's not my preferred genre, but neither was Buffy. Doesn't mean I'd wish for it to disappear.

Yeah, what about the future comic mini they did.

Slayer 2099 or whatever.

I remember that being fairly well received.

So Bowser kidnapping the Princess all those times was an act of jealousy?

Guess he just wanted Mario to pay attention to him.

Actually, from my experience, that breed of RPer is fairly common if not the majority.

I'll send you my address.

I use Firefox on the main computer and Explorer on the laptop.

It happens both places for me.

Wolverine After Dark


The entire movie would take place with Wolverine in a velor smoking jacket, sitting in a high-backed chair and smoking a pipe while he passed on words of wisdom and anecdotes about love and life.

You mean "Wolverine and the Last Crusade"?


"We named the dog Logan."

We HAVE seen superpowered villains in previous comic book movies. Just not in very good ways.

Am I really supposed to accept Mr. Freeze and Poison Ivy from 'Batman and Robin' as a satisfactory portrayal of these two villains? It's obvious they thought the comic too silly since they clearly made 'Batman and Robin' as a comedy.

Really, the best two Batman movies from that era was Batman and Batman returns. Neither of which had super powered villains. Deformed, yes. But not powered. Actually, 'Batman and Robin' was the ONLY Batman movie with powered villains.

And let me be clear, I'm not saying that a comic movie NEEDS super powered villains. Heck, I probably wouldn't have said a thing about Nolan's movies if he hadn't actually come out and SAID he wasn't going to use any super powers. It's just the attitude that bothers me.

And that doesn't ruin the movies by any account. X-Men had the same problem. (How do we make these guys more believable? BLACK LEATHER!! It's the only solution.) And hey, who was the villain in the new Superman movie? Lex Luthor. With the amazing power of doucheyness. How long have people been asking for a big budget Superman brawl with another supervillain?

And have you noticed how isolated every movie was? Only the Iron Man and Incredible Hulk movies have really addressed a universe of heroes. Every other comic book movie has sorta operated as though the title hero was the only one operating in the world. And I'm not talking about crossovers, just a little snippet of dialog here and there. How cool would it have been to here a TV in the background of the Superman movie mention something about "the situation in Gotham has been resolved".

I can't really give concrete examples since it's more just a feeling I get sometimes from stuff like Nolan's interviews. Just this air of "okay, I'm making a movie about this comic book character, but I'm gonna do it RIGHT".

Maybe I'm just being paranoid. I'll concede the point once Metallo shows up in the new Superman flick.

In 3-D?

Possibly.