Nintyfan17 said:Maybe Toonami will help with Beware the Batman. Cartoon Network wants to kill it; I hope if it does well they will renew it.
It's already dead isn't it?
Foolz said:"The city of New York loves Spider-Man in return"
Not the Spider-Man from the comic books then (depending on the era?).
That kind of misunderstanding crap from the comics always bugged me. If a guy is stopping super villains that are clearly trying to kill everyone and he is swopping around saving dozens of random people all the time, he is clearly a damn hero. This day in age there is the internet, some stupid newspaper means nothing.
gamingeek said:It's already dead isn't it?
It could be sometimes when shows change Networks and eventhough Toonami/Adult Swim are on Cartoon Network if it is successful they might renew it.
Dvader said:Foolz said:"The city of New York loves Spider-Man in return"
Not the Spider-Man from the comic books then (depending on the era?).
That kind of misunderstanding crap from the comics always bugged me. If a guy is stopping super villains that are clearly trying to kill everyone and he is swopping around saving dozens of random people all the time, he is clearly a damn hero. This day in age there is the internet, some stupid newspaper means nothing.
Just to clarify something on this, generally the city of New York likes Spider-Man. J. Jonah Jameson writes a lot of smear pieces on him, but aside from that he's usually at least tolerated by the citizens. Depending on the story-line sometimes there's a "leave us alone webhead" currents in the city, but that really just seems to be the exception when they need it to assist the direction they're taking him. Definitely not like the X-men who are rarely even tolerated (except for that brief time they lived in San Francisco, but even that ended badly for them).
Gotham is on FOX!? Oh I thought it was some cheap CW show.
The first preview aired during 24, showed the Penguin, Riddler and Catwoman. I generally dont care for these stupid before they were the character shows cause its ridiculous to have all the villains around before he is batman but whatever. Could be cool.
robio said:Dvader said:Foolz said:"The city of New York loves Spider-Man in return"
Not the Spider-Man from the comic books then (depending on the era?).
That kind of misunderstanding crap from the comics always bugged me. If a guy is stopping super villains that are clearly trying to kill everyone and he is swopping around saving dozens of random people all the time, he is clearly a damn hero. This day in age there is the internet, some stupid newspaper means nothing.
Just to clarify something on this, generally the city of New York likes Spider-Man. J. Jonah Jameson writes a lot of smear pieces on him, but aside from that he's usually at least tolerated by the citizens. Depending on the story-line sometimes there's a "leave us alone webhead" currents in the city, but that really just seems to be the exception when they need it to assist the direction they're taking him. Definitely not like the X-men who are rarely even tolerated (except for that brief time they lived in San Francisco, but even that ended badly for them).
I've only read the first volume, so I was basing it on that. By the end of it everyone was convinced Spider-Man was a criminal.
I just saw the new Godzilla, good movie, it does certain aspects very well and others didn't work. I felt this was a film that didn't exactly know what it wanted to be. Clearly it was going for a very human drama fueled Godzilla movie. It tries to keep the story on the characters and show most of the action through the perspective of us normal humans. At the same time though it wanted to show Godzilla kick ass but it never goes all in on that aspect even though that is clearly the best part of the film. The characters to me don't work, no one is particularly memorable and the attempts at suspense or danger falls flat. Certain storylines felt like the went nowhere and simply were there so the humans had something to do. Certain sequenes were amazing, I think you have all seen the HALO jump from the trailers, that works as a visual and tense moment. There are moments of brilliance, it is never sustained though.
Spoilers from here on in
The movie could have had a great human anchor that the audience cares for but they kill him after 30 minutes, that is of course Bryan Cranston's character. He shows real emotion, he feels like an actual person. The rest of the cast feels like they came from a checklist of people you need in a Godzilla/distaster film. Our main character, hell I can't even tell you his name, has like one look and emotion the whole movie long. I never feared for his life, I never once believed anything would happen to his family. Not one army guy nor one scientist had any presence, no memorable scenes or lines. This movie uses some of the most cliche grabs at cheap thrills in a disaster film like random dog running from a wall of death! School bus of children on a bridge about to collapse! It didn't work for me.
What did work was everything with the monsters, wow! The Mutos designs are so cool, they made them as much as a realistic ancient giant animal as they can but still keeping that interesting design of classic Godzilla movies. Some may not like Godzilla being reduced to just a predator that eats other anicent animals, he wasn't created by radiation, he doesn't randomly come on land and way waste to cities, he is just an apex predator. I think that worked well in the context of the movie and it turned Godzilla into the unqeustionable hero of the film. The fights were simply badass, it's giant monsters fighting, and they didn't look like stupid guys in suits, it was as believable as could be!
As I mentioned there were certain shots that were simply jaw dropping. The first time Godzilla comes on screen is so perfectly shot, the entire audience cheered... then it cut away to humans. There are moments where the camera is on the ground or looking through windows of a building and you see the fight from the scale of just a normal human, breathtaking shots. The HALO jump looked incredible, it was like a decent into hell and the shot of Godzilla fighting through the mask of the main soldier was awesome. That kind of stuff the movie exceled at, it just needed more of that. It felt like anytime it was beginning to focus on the monsters it cuts away back to the humans.
I know it can be difficult to balance what the audience should be feeling. The truth of it is that no one is scared of Godzilla, he is cool, we want to see him fight monsters and be badass. So the movie tries to be both, dramatic and suspensful but how can you do that when the monsters are the most interesting characters on the screen.
Anyway good movie, it is not a travesty like the 98 one. I think Japan would be pleased with this Godzilla.
Godzilla movies should never focus on human characters. Bleh. I just want to see Godzilla destroy shit for two hours.
Does Godzilla become the hero and fight other bad monsters in the movie?
gamingeek said:Does Godzilla become the hero and fight other bad monsters in the movie?
BLAHAHAHAHAHAH BOGAGAGAGAGAGA KILLING SPACE FOR THE MAIN PAGE GGTAKES A SHART
Yes.
Nice spoilering on the main page.
That's not really a spoiler, however.
Nintyfan17 said:
Affleck looking good! That looks fantastic I was afraid they would do something extreme.
We should get an image of Wonder Woman's costume soon. They are starting production on the 19th.
That is based on what the costume designer of Batman/Superman said.
I like the suit and the batmobile I was also worried about how it would look.
Dvader said:BLAHAHAHAHAHAH BOGAGAGAGAGAGA KILLING SPACE FOR THE MAIN PAGE GGTAKES A SHART
Yes.
You joke about sharting, but I've had 3 close sharting calls in the past year. They are nothing to joke about. I can't even imagine what it would be like if it actually followed through.
Nintyfan17 said:We should get an image of Wonder Woman's costume soon. They are starting production on the 19th.
That is based on what the costume designer of Batman/Superman said.
I like the suit and the batmobile I was also worried about how it would look.
I'm more concerned about Afflecks Bat-voice. We need to hear it before he gets approved for the movie.
"The city of New York loves Spider-Man in return"
Not the Spider-Man from the comic books then (depending on the era?).