Ironik

Ow, that's gotta hurt. With all the competition coming soon, it's going to need either the longest legs since Avatar or need to go huge overseas. Otherwise this will be a huge belly flop.

The difference between Joe Random Guy getting superpowers and someone who is supposed to be a hero getting them is exactly this point: maturity. There's reveling in the awesomeness of the powers and then there's acting like a goofball frat guy.

The worst aspect of Superman Returns was that Superman used his powers for creepy, inappropriate and therefore non-heroic activities. Sure, many of us would be tempted to play peeping tom if we were given x-ray vision, but the point of Superman is that he's a decent guy who wouldn't do such a thing.

It kind of looks like they were going for Hal being all jazzed by these abilities (because who wouldn't be?), but they handled it incorrectly. I have to assume it's because this is a frankenscript. If rumors are to be believed (and in this case they probably can be), there were 11 to 13 writers who took a pass at the screenplay. It's conceivable that the producers and director decided to take elements they liked from any number of those previous efforts, nevermind the hash they made of the story.

Seen that before. It underscores the problem with Superman -- they come up with this great idea and then undercut it with comic book stupidity. Once they go invoking the "faster than lightspeed/time travel zoom" power, though, everything else becomes ridiculous. Just go back a week and put Luthor in jail for stealing missiles. Boom, story's over.

I agree. I just finished watching The Incredibles again and that thing just never gets old. It's the best superhero movie ever made, bar none. Only Iron Man is a contender. I like The Dark Knight, but I mostly just watch ledger's parts and skip the rest.

Christopher Reeve.

George Reeves.

Different last names.

To each their own.

No, that one's called The Hulk. The Norton one is called The Incredible Hulk.

I don't actually hate Lee's Hulk the way most people do. It's almost exactly what I expected from Ang Lee doing a superhero movie. I also really admire his choice to go with the split-screen effect, as that really increased the degree of difficulty to get all the pieces to mesh together well. He created a helluva lot more work for everyone by doing that. It's just that in the meantime other movies have come out that I prefer over it.

I'd probably put The Hulk and Unbreakable at 11 and 12 respectively.

I've always disliked them, too. I never did believe a man could fly. However, Reeve was good, and the solution Luthor came up with to vex him was brilliant. Everything else though... ugh.

For me, the problem with Hal Jordan is that he doesn't have a personality. I think maybe they were trying to go for a sort of "Top Gun" mentality by essentially lifting the character arc from Tom Cruise's role, but it falls flat because they didn't really know how to handle it.

Watch some of Reynolds' more serious work and you can see he has a great range and real acting ability. But he's most famous for his goof roles, so they seemed to have wanted him to channel that aspect of his persona.

No no, let him rant. "Plot convenience" and "7/11 on every corner" was inspired.

Aren't you just the cockeyed optimist? Judging by your avatar, that's literal.

Yes it can. Superman... in super slomo.

I've done the ITF -- get out your calculators -- once. That's right. Very pretty zone, challenging enemies who are wonderfully realized. Might even be a good story (who knows?), but my god was it laggy. One and done.

People who frequent the Screenshots section know that I'm all about alts. Just rolled up a few new ones this past week, in fact. After seeing how much I have to earn and what I have to DO for that earning in order to create the thingamajigs for that post-50 goodness, I've opted out. Maybe next summer there will be enough post-50 variety so one can go from trial to trial getting the bits and pieces needed to make whatever the hell it is we're supposed to make, but right now the lagginess and horrifically steep costs of the tidbits is ridiculous, making the repetitive grind physically painful.

I finished the last mission of this one after Bubba went off to birthday cake land. Nice custom enemies, except that Jack Wulfe was a stone cold dog. Of course, I didn't find the ally until *after* I'd defeated Jack. Twice. After he'd beaten me senseless three times.

It was quite fun, actually. It was a fundraiser for the local animal shelter. A bunch of artists (somewhere in the 40-50 range) donated something like 168 pieces of art on 6x6-inch canvas. What you did was buy numbered stickers and they would call numbers in batches of ten. When those were called, you had 2 minutes to put your sticker below the painting you wanted. There were a lot of calls of "Pick the one next to it!" and cries of "Nooo! I wanted that one!" but I think most people had a great time. Food donated by the local restaurant and wine donated by the winery helped quite a lot, of course.

It was luck of the draw, naturally, but I got my first choice of a pointillism strawberry and a woodpecker painting for my mom, and a certain cohabitant of mine picked up a fun 3D dog painting/bust/face dealio. It wasn't just paintings, though; there were glass creations, handmade miniature tile collections and knitted felt shapes mounted on the canvas, too. Something for everyone.




To get the effect of the piece, I attempted a stereo picture of it. Cross your eyes until the pictures line up and experience the magic.

This is explained in the comic, both explicitly and implicitly. Explicitly in that webbing is considered useless because of the cost/benefit ratio doesn't give a boost over whatever they currently use. Implicitly in that Peter is driven to serve others, both as Spider-man and as himself, so he goes back to his high school as a science teacher. It's just who he is.

I like how they handled it in Ultimate Spider-man: it was the formula his dad was working on when he died, the implication being that either Peter's father may have abandoned it once he saw it wouldn't have too many real-world applications or he was killed before finishing. Peter was obsessed over the formula and finally solved it. Before that he worked without webs. I prefer that, because it shows that he's smart and driven.