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Emeritus
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Last Active 01-01-70 12:00 am
Joined 01-01-70
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| Darker =/= Better
the new superman trailer looks cool but i can't help thinking darker, more realistic superman will be kind of a chore to watch. List is shit that was ruined by being dark. | | 1 | | Star Wars
episode 3, mainly the scene when he kills the younglings i mean what the fuck. | | 2 |  | James Bond
The Casino Royale reboot worked great to make bond cool again (and by cool i mean more than gadgets and effects), but writing idiotic storylines in circles around brooding superhero-spy bullshit makes for bad (quantum) at worst and meh (skyfall) at best. | | 3 | | Hulk
hulk smash > most dramatic hulk story | | 4 | | Hopefully we never have to write this about spiderman
while i didn't really dig the new one, i was ok with the tone. Sure, I preferred raimi's universe, but webb's flick had a good feel to it (and it looked fine) | | 5 | |
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| | 10 | | Not Batman
dark batman works
but like he's fucking called the dark knight of course it works. What's more: comical, goofy interpretations (from bat nipples all the way back to effeminate robin) serve as enduring jokes because of how much better batman is dark. But how successful nolan's trilogy was will inevitably ripple and probably ruin a lot of great shit about superhero movies. | |
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12.11.12 | to be clear, "ruined" may be unfairly used here, because Bond and Star Wars already had problems preceding their "darker" turns
also: i think darker Wolverine/X-Men works fine/has worked fine | Calc
12.11.12 | i wholeheartedly agree but people like "dark" edges to shit and gahdammit zach snyder is gonna give it to them!!!! | someguest
12.11.12 | Skyfall's great. | Calc
12.11.12 | and my friend and I were talking about #1 yesterday lol
maybe i have the timeline wrong but not that long before, Anakin was complaining about a fair trial for the emperor before he killed sammie J and he goes from that line of reasoning to killing kids in like barely any time lol | elephantREVOLUTION
12.11.12 | i disagree with 1. i mean it's anakin's transformation into darth vader it's supposed to be dark as fuck | InfamousGrouse
12.11.12 | i have seen security recordings of him....
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...killing younglings! | evilford
12.11.12 | once you go black | Hyperion1001
12.11.12 | dark movies make dumb people think theyre watching something smart
see: the dark knight trilogy | WeepingBanana
12.11.12 | i liked skyfall more than casino royale. haven't seen quantum though | AGuyIsWatchingYou
12.11.12 | http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DarkerAndEdgier
I agree. | Wafflez
12.11.12 | Honestly, it's a fucking superhero movie. It's not supposed to be ultra serious, and Quantum was painfully average. | OneMoreRoland
12.11.12 | that new spiderman was fucking terrible | CK
12.11.12 | 2 is so true. Episode 2 was even better than episode 3, regardless of the silly romance that was constantly being implemented. The scene where he kills the kids isn't bad, but Ewin McGregor's reactions were horrendous. | wacknizzle
12.12.12 | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmjTbBUqaLQ
jksekluaw.khIAEWU:H.kjz.lsk t | toxin.
12.12.12 | There's no way SW 2 is better than 3.
2 is just the worst movie ever. When I was 8 I fell asleep watching it. Same with #1, actually.
And you know how kids are with movies---they like the most generic shit.
@Hype, but the Batman films, from a thematic standpoint, were pretty smart. The overarching story
and stuff is pretty cool, full of symbolism and all that good stuff, compared to, let's say, Raimi's
Spiderman which was fun (esp. Ep2) but wasn't as heavy. The thing is they aren't as great movies as
they are written, in terms of dialogue, plot cohesive (meaning specific details vs overarching
plot), etc.
But if you look at classics like A Tale of Two Cities and Grapes of Wrath, they really aren't as
well-written as even, say, the HP books (well the first few, the last three became a clusterfuck of
different ideas). I mean, Dickens admitted to just writing fluff so he wrote more pages since he
submitted AToTC a chapter at a time to a magazine, so the more shit he wrote, the more money he
made. But that doesn't make it a classic novel for other reasons, which I acknowledge despite
generally hating the book (though Sydney Carton rules face) | toxin.
12.12.12 | "It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known."
Best line before death ever.
Sydney Carton 4 life | J0ckstrapsFTW
12.12.12 | Ya I thought skyfall was really good. I mean quantum wasn't anything special but its a bond movie for Christ sake not fucking twilight lol | Acanthus
12.12.12 | Superman films will never be my thing, I just don't enjoy the character. | J0ckstrapsFTW
12.12.12 | Agreed I'm more of a spider man guy myself | Acanthus
12.12.12 | Don't really have a favorite, but the guy should've been killed off by Luthor already imo.
Oh look, he's been stabbed in the side with the one thing that makes him mortal, let's have him recover and save the day!
Boring and trite. | J0ckstrapsFTW
12.12.12 | It's true he can fly and hold up massive weight but a little rock makes his knees quake. Dat nigga is a pussy | Acanthus
12.12.12 | Just too perfect of a character, he's hard to relate to. |
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