Nericus

Mileage varies for everyone, build your toons as you choose and I'll do the same, thanks.

Yep, been a long time since I watched that movie. I think that was also Robbie the Robot's first appearance too.

Not sure I agree about where Lucas' head is , but yeah if Kershner had directed any of the prequels that would have automatically improved them.

Yeah, he's one of the few that can make me laugh. Time to put Airplane and the Naked Gun movies next to the Three Stooges DVD's in my library now.

I regard Empire was the best of the six in terms of story and direction. Ep 4 is next since it was the first, then Ep 3 despite its flaws since it had the epic fight with Anakin and Obi as well as giving us the Wookie army that Lucas couldn't give back in the day with ROTJ. ROTJ comes next, then Ep 1 and 2 are tied at the bottom.

But yeah....I can imagine how'd they be if he had directed them all...

Yeah, oddly enough I was watching it the other day too. Sad day today.

This.

I was half expecting to get a special tip mish for beating Snaptooth that would lead to a new winter mish that offered 5 new badges. Glad there isn't such a thing, yet.

Bring on the incarnates!

Thanks! Glad to know that extra TP units aren't needed.....unless they can link bases to both red and blue zones.....

Cool. Can't see needing a beacon to the Abandoned Sewers except for the Trial.

By all rights, one punch from Superman should kill Batman if Superman isn't holding back. Batman should have been dogmeat after that.

Ok based on that, I can blame Stallone yes. But blame still falls to the director, producers, etc. who didn't stand up to Stallone and smack some sense into him.

Hm, I wonder if for grins, or perhaps groans, we will get a cameo of Rob Schneider or Stallone in this new one? Kind of hope we don't.

I've read them all and that movie was a pale ghost of what it could have been.

As to the helmet, call it a trademark of the character or a tradition or whatever, but he's supposed to be the faceless embodiment of justice per the creator. He's never been seen completely without it. There was a recent issue where he was sitting and fixing the damage to his radio but he was sitting in shadow so we only see his chin like always. There was another where he allowed someone to know what he looked like and took off his helmet for her, but the joke of the story was that she was blind and put her hands on his face and again all we saw was his nose and lower jaw due to her hands covering the rest of his face and head so again, his face wasn't revealed though she did mention some scars.

Kind of like how for years we never knew what Boba Fett looked like until the prequels revealed his father and that Boba is a clone of dear old daddy.

Batman's combat abilities and prowess have been perhaps a bit....overamped....since Frank Miller wrote Dark Knight Returns where at the end Batman does defeat Superman. Of course Bruce had a few things in his favor.

1. He told Clark where to meet him for the final showdown, Crime Alley. Bruce's turf that he has long since scoped out and has rigged for the fight.

2. Superman had just taken a nuclear blast and was extremely weakened, plus there was a nuclear winter in effect hence he's cut off from the sun and thus at a lower then normal power.

3. Bruce rigged a barrage of missiles set to go off when Superman used his x-ray vision and the missiles gave him a tough time due to his low power.

4. Bruce wore an exo suit of armor that was charged up by the entire power grid of the city. He channels some of that into Superman, hurting him even more due to his low power level and then uses the rest of the energy to charge the suit's strength boosters and proceeds to pound Superman.

5. Bruce had Green Arrow hiding in the shadows with an arrow of kryptonite, which poisoned Superman even more.

Though Bruce faked his death at the end of that fight, he still won against Superman.

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.

He survives for one reason and one reason only.................HE's BATMAN! 'Nuff said!

Yes. Something that one friend of my tends to forget as he constantly points out the physics violations of movies and action shows......

SHEPARD's TALE SPOILERS below





















It starts off with his being mortally wounded in the Serenity movie and then we get assorted flashbacks of the main bullet points of his life.

He was kid named Henry Evans that ran away from home due to a drunk/abusive dad and became a street criminal and was topping the wanted charts of the fledgling alliance.

After nearly getting arrested he decides to join the resistance and years later he is a Browncoat heading to a meeting after beating up some alliance troops with ease. He offers to become a covert op for the Browncoats and a cyber eye is used to replace his left eye so that everything he sees/hears is beamed to the resistance. He is told to get a new identity by any means and sees a kid fresh off a space ship and kills him. His ID says he is Derrial Book and he takes that name.

He is shown being drummed out of the alliance for planning an operation that was totally routed by the Browncoats, discharged without investigation, stripped of rank and instead of leaving by shuttle he is dumped into an escape pod. He staggers away wounded.

Years after that he is drunk and thrown out into the mud and gets kicked back into the mud by an alliance goon. Later as he stares at a bowl of soup he finds religion (read the comic for the explanation of that) and joins the church.

Years after that he decides it's time to leave and spread the word and that is when he meets Kaylee and boards Serenity.

So he goes from street punk to criminal, well trained martial artist assassin, to Browncoat, to infiltrating the alliance, to being discharged without investigation for the incident, to finding religion.

It's worth a read, the art work was ok at best.

The only thing is that since he was discharged without investigation and his files were "swept under the rug", how would that make the Alliance so quickly react after scanning his ID card in the episode when he was shot?