QuiJon

Its nice to see Bond going forward, only mostly cause they have been making the movies so long it would be a shame to see it die. However Craig is really not my idea of Bond. I know a ton of people like him and the new style of his bond movies, but it just doesnt feel as cool as the older movies IMO.

The new movies are much more IMO like Bond meets Bourne. Which on there own i also liked the bourne movies, but they werent bond or vice versa in my mind.

Your right i never read the book, my overall impressions of the subject matter is much more based on Orson Wells radio drama of the subject which dated it further up into the 20th century.

Though yes i didnt read the classic, i would also imagine that i am much more likely to be more reflective of the general population, which hasnt read the classic and will not understand why suddenly a movie that has that same name is not taking place in the same time frame as the experiences they have been subjected to in the past. And really to me the trailers tech and look appears much more in line with ww2 then ww1 in the look of tanks, military uniforms etc.

However within the same vien, assuming i accept that the story is taking place around the turn of the century, the weaponry and technology that humans are shown having in the trailer is still way out of date and way to advance for the time frame they are placing their story in, which is or was my bigger complaint after seening the trailer.

Like i said if it looks good ill prob give it a chance, but i really really tend to hate movies that over do humans technological limits in the timeframe they place the story into. It makes me think movies like Wild Wild West or even more recently to some extent Sherlock Holmes where it just seems like they want the stylized look of Ole England or the Cowboy flick but want to have the opportunity to put their CGI crews to work or make jumps in tech to answer questions the story boxes them into having no other solution for.

But fine ill take heat for not having read the old book if that is all anyone wants to center on. But lets just say i am willing to bet i am not in the minority of folks that associate WotW with Orson Wells radio drama more then the old book.

Is it wrong that the time frame of the movie even from the trailer already is bugging me.

First off, WotWs happened in the 50s if i am not mistaken maybe 40s??? But anyway the trailer mentions in the final years of the 19th century??? Which means 15 years later is like WW1 time frame and the weapons etc are much far beyond that. Also its always bugged me the design concept that puts a big bad alien war machine on 3 fragile legs. Just a pet peeve there i guess.

Animation and stuff looks cool, but it kinda sounds like perhaps its been in production for a while now conisdering the trailer says its coming out in 2010 and the poster 2011. But whatever i might give it a shot.

I love how everyone assumes that simply because a character was not in a movie that she was not even created yet to be in that she must die or meet some tragic fate before that time frame.

I mean it couldnt be that by the time episode 3 starts that she has graduated from Padawan to full Jedi Knight and just isnt hanging out at Anakin's side anymore and is in another part of the galaxy when order 66 goes down.

Anyhow, when the series returns they are saying there is going to be a "dark sister" trilogy of episodes, being the success of the series of which she is a part of, and the normal progression of episodic television to not dramaticly **** with established characters, personally I dont think any "fall" that she sucumbs to will be permanate. Im thinking much more like a situational fall from grace like Luke when facing the emporer in RotJ.

My mind/psi farms the wall along the roman fortress well enough. And i have a earth/fire that used to farm the AE pretty decently but he needed to have a map with a choak point to keep earthquake, and quicksand working well.

Oh both were perma doms if that matters for you, im sure it did for the extra mag and status effects.

I saw it at the midnight release, just getting a chance to post.

I really enjoyed it. I think it stood well on its own, yet also tied into the older movie enough to keep the name more then just seeming like it was tacked on.

My only gripe honestly is that i was wondering what all the board room stuff was about and then seemingly just dropped. Since it was dropped i dont consider it a spoiler, but when they introduced Dillinger's son as a member of the tech development team i was expecting that to go somewhere but it was just forgotten. Makes me wonder if there was a subplot or something that got kicked out for time or something like that.

However overall one of the most enjoyable movies i saw this year.

I definately like that they used the kinda newer costume design which i think looks good, but stuck to the classic hammer design rather then that huge thing that was in the marvel alliance games.

Looks good enough to look forward to which is about as excited as i get for thor at any point. Never was one of my favorites.

Im pretty sure that the legal aspect to the OPer question is that they can not sue the guy for the name change. You can not copyright a name. For instance if my name is Steve Rogers, Marvel can not come at me and claim i can not represent myself as that because its the name of captian america alter ego any more then i could copyright my own name to prevent its use by anyone else.

The lawsuit could only i think stand on the basis of a trademark infringement. For instance, if this dude changed his name because that was his nick name in high school then he is basicly clear.

However if he had a costume made like the one NC Soft used in the videos and started representing himself as that character, then he is infringing on the trademark of captian awsome from the videos and can be forced to stop. But the name itself is just not enough for legal action.

I find it funny. Not the story i think that is absolutely great and touching. But its funny that we as a "nerd" community argue amongst ourselves about just about everything. Be it from bay transformers v. G1, prequels v. original trilogy, seriously you name it there is an internet arguement raging somewhere about it.

And yet as a whole, I would say that the geek community has some of the most spectacular people in it. its one of the reason i continue to come to these boards daily. As much as we might argue and ***** and moan about our own fandom, we have likely all been exactly where Katie is at one point or another in our lives.

Im 40 years old. I grew up with star wars and as a kid being male especially didnt have to justify that to anyone, almost every kid i knew loved it. But it also means that by the time i was in highschool i was smack in the middle of the drought of Star Wars. After Jedi and before the EU books renewed intrest in the franchise. But i fell into other things, like star trek, computers, gaming etc. But no bones about it by those standard in that day, i was a geek. The cool kids were into sports, and cars, music etc. So i can feel katies pains for sure.

But what we see now when one of our own gets attacked like this is a main stream surge of support. Those geeks from years past that we all loved to make fun of watching the original star trek or doctor who, laid the foundations that brought iconic media and franchises to the main stream and in such has not only made it much more acceptable, but now with social media has provided such a support structure that when you read a story like this, it makes it all worthwhile.

Everytime i read an article about some kid being bullied to suicide or bashed on facebook i have thought to myself what our society is coming to and are all these new tools and fads a good or bad thing. But when you read this article about how the social geeks can band together by the thousands to support a 7 year old girl being teased, it gives me just a glimmer of hope that it is worth it. That one day we just might get so numb by way of exposure to others, that it wont matter if a girl wants a star wars water bottle or a little boy like dora the explorer anymore. We can collectively all just sit back and finally say "eh, different strokes."

I dont get it. So now we discovered the transformers back in 69 on the moon landings, and those from then just decided to chill out with popcorn on the moon and watch during all the action of the first two movies?

ya im not a big fan of reading subtitles during a film but by the looks of this i would if that is what i had to do to see it.

Both avira and avast on the webpage only talk about OS up to windows vista, does anyone know if they are ok for w7?