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Re: Movies for Home Viewing
« Reply #620 on: February 19, 2011, 12:31:03 PM »

I agree with Norondor. Quitely is good at creating a 'frozen-in-time' tableau, but every person appears to be stuffed with cottage cheese.

I like it.  Superman's chin, Cyclops's lips, Dick Grayson's cowl, Matt Smith...
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Re: Movies for Home Viewing
« Reply #621 on: February 19, 2011, 01:06:33 PM »

Also, Lex Luthor is comically dumb. Like "angry high school student" dumb.

That is entirely in keeping with his personality as depicted over the decades. Doctor Doom he ain't.
Something that is consistently stupid is still stupid.
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Re: Movies for Home Viewing
« Reply #622 on: February 19, 2011, 01:08:13 PM »

it's ok if you don't like lex luthor, but part of his personality is that he's completely self-absorbed total jerk-ass.
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Re: Movies for Home Viewing
« Reply #623 on: February 19, 2011, 02:07:14 PM »

The thing is if your arch-nemesis is a nigh-invulnerable godlike superfucker and your only real powers are being very rich and very smart, you'd better have some basic common sense or you're not going to seem very threatening.
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Re: Movies for Home Viewing
« Reply #624 on: February 19, 2011, 02:17:49 PM »

if you had basic common sense you would probably not bother trying to outfight god!
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Re: Movies for Home Viewing
« Reply #625 on: February 19, 2011, 02:19:34 PM »

But Batman!
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Re: Movies for Home Viewing
« Reply #626 on: February 19, 2011, 04:48:56 PM »

The thing is if your arch-nemesis is a nigh-invulnerable godlike superfucker and your only real powers are being very rich and very smart, you'd better have some basic common sense or you're not going to seem very threatening.

...this is goddamn Superman we are talking about.  If anyone in his principal cast starts showing the slightest hint of common sense, the entire premise comes crashing the fuck down.

...although on the other hand, All-Star IS the only Superman story I can think of where I've looked at Clark Kent and said "Yeah, I can see how people wouldn't know he's Superman."

All of which to say: Lex has been depicted a lot of different ways over the years; some prefer the wacky mad scientist version and some prefer the menacing businessman version.  They've both been done well and they've both been done poorly.  (JLU even managed to go from an awesome version of the latter to an awesome version of the former from one season to the next.)  I can understand if Wacky Lex isn't somebody's cup of tea, but if we start pulling at the Suspension of Disbelief thread then the whole thing's going to unravel pretty quickly.  Which is of course true of pretty much every superhero story ever, but I'd argue it's ESPECIALLY true of the one where a guy becomes unrecognizable by putting on glasses.

And that's without beginning to get into all the crazy Silver Age shit.

...anyway.  Tired glasses jokes aside, I think Lex is played best when he's played as a character who claims that Superman is holding humanity back from rising to its own potential, but who deep down really just wants everyone to worship HIM instead; who has convinced himself that he'd reach his full potential if only Superman would quit thwarting him, but who actually constantly thwarts himself.

Cornell's run on Action Comics is based entirely around that premise -- it is, after all, a book where we see Lex Luthor without Superman, and he hasn't gone out and cured cancer or done any of the other great things he's always sworn he'd do if it wasn't for that meddling alien.

A point hammered home in the following exchange, from the latest issue:

Lex: Joker, please -- somewhere under all this "madness," real or assumed --
Joker: You know what?  I think if I can just kill Batman, I'll save the world!
Lex: Interesting.  A delusion akin to my own certainty that --
oh.
Joker: HAHAHAHA!  Oh, the rich and powerful!  Takes them a while to get they're being laughed at!
(Lex punches Joker in the face.)
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Re: Movies for Home Viewing
« Reply #627 on: February 24, 2011, 09:45:58 PM »

So Megamind is pretty good, if sort of predictable.
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Re: Movies for Home Viewing
« Reply #628 on: February 26, 2011, 10:21:08 AM »

24 Hour Party People Trailer

24 Hour Party People is quite good
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Re: Movies for Home Viewing
« Reply #629 on: February 26, 2011, 01:24:02 PM »

I'm going to hope some people here haven't seen Dark City yet so I can even more strongly recommend the Director's Cut, which moves some things around so that the first time viewer doesn't know too much about what's going on, unlike the theatrical cut, which basically lays it all out in the opening exposition. Even if you have seen Dark City before, the director's cut gets a big thumbs up for fleshing out the Emma (Jennifer Connelly) character, and the Detective Bumstead (William Hurt) character, with the use of extended cuts and new scenes.

Highly recommend for everyone, fan or otherwise.
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Re: Movies for Home Viewing
« Reply #630 on: February 26, 2011, 02:13:59 PM »

Dark City, like Bladerunner before it, is best when viewed with the sound off through the title sequences.
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Re: Movies for Home Viewing
« Reply #631 on: February 26, 2011, 03:10:48 PM »

As I indicated, the director's cut fixes that problem. The opening narration is put back where it was originally filmed, during the canal sequence.
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Re: Movies for Home Viewing
« Reply #632 on: February 26, 2011, 03:36:30 PM »

Watched "The Last Lovecraft: Relic of Cthulhu". This is about as unsubtle as Lovecraftian fanfilm gets. I felt like the writing was pretty average, but the acting kind of surprised me with how not-terrible it was. That guy from Party Down and Freaks and Geeks makes an appearance.
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Re: Movies for Home Viewing
« Reply #633 on: February 26, 2011, 05:18:27 PM »

Cube is a thrilling puzzle comedy about people inside a giant cube. Watch it and be delighted.
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Re: Movies for Home Viewing
« Reply #634 on: February 27, 2011, 08:36:45 AM »

do not watch the sequels unless you want cancer
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Re: Movies for Home Viewing
« Reply #635 on: February 27, 2011, 08:48:47 AM »

There's more than one sequel?
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Re: Movies for Home Viewing
« Reply #636 on: February 27, 2011, 08:57:38 AM »

well a sequel and a prequel to be exact
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Re: Movies for Home Viewing
« Reply #637 on: February 27, 2011, 08:57:51 AM »

each more cancerous than the last
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Re: Movies for Home Viewing
« Reply #638 on: February 27, 2011, 08:58:03 AM »

actually the sequel is WAY worse than the prequel
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Re: Movies for Home Viewing
« Reply #639 on: March 03, 2011, 11:16:31 AM »

Tales Of Earthsea somehow gets a lot of flak for its direction and I don't get why.

Yes, it's kind of dull. Yes, it's probably a lousy adaptation. Yes, a lot of it is derivative of Miyazaki Sr.'s films. But the key is, unlike his father's habit of hemorrhaging great ideas, Miyazaki Jr.'s taken a few good idea and run with them. It doesn't hit the high highs of the best Miyazaki Sr films, but it's a lot more coherent and frankly watchable than most of what Miyazaki Sr. ever pieced together. Considering all the stuff about how he wasn't even on speaking terms with his father (who in this case would also be his boss) and that he didn't even want to make the movie to begin with, it's a pretty good piece of work.

There's something very Freudian about the lead character killing his own dad in one of the first scenes in the movie.


Also: nerds will love this movie. The last twenty minutes is a video game. There's a sidescrolling platforming bit and everything. I kid you not.
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