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    Fantastic Four from Fox Studios (8/7/15)

    in The Movie Forum

    Posted

    Here is my full spoiler review

    The movie opens in a classroom and the purpose of the scene is to show how smart Reed is as a child and that Ben was in his class. The classroom is dingy, the kids and the teacher make fun of Reed for his crazy ideas. 15 seconds in, and I knew I wasn't watching a FF movie. The FF always celebrates science and intelligence. If this was in a real FF movie, the room would be bright, the teacher would be an arrogant sub who calls on Reed, and all the other kids are smiling because they know Reed is going to put him in his place (not in a vengeful way, but in a here are the "real facts" way).

     

    The initial intro to Ben is fine, he doesn't say anything, but is intrigued by Reed. Unfortunately it cuts now to Ben's home life, and his abusive brother smacks him HARD across the head and says, "It's Clobbering Time!". The Thing's fun catchphrase has now been linked to child abuse.

     

    Having young actors is tough, and they seemed to do a fine job except when given lines a child would never say like Reed's first words to Ben, "Don't kill me!" Being super-smart I guess makes you jump to the worst-case scenario, or in this bleak Ultimate FF world, people get routinely murdered for petty theft. Then a little later, Reed teleports a toy car. Instead of a normal kid's reaction, "Wow, that's cool!!!!", we get a quiet, "Reed you are insane". No one is allowed to have any fun in this movie.

     

    The film jumps 7 years to a high school science fair. It must be a small school that goes from K-12th grade, because Reed's 5th grade teacher is there judging the contest (not to mention there are actual 5th graders that Reed is competing against). The experiment works, but for some inexplicable reason it shatters a basketball backboard. No one seems to be concerned that if the wave had been aimed lower, it would have killed a bunch of kids.

     

    Franklin Richards and Sue suddenly appear at the science show with no explanation why they are there, I guess they are scouting talent at this odd K-12 school in the poorer part of town. Or maybe they saw the list of upcoming school science projects that every school announces in advance. Anyway, they basically say, "wow, your experiment is exactly what we are working on, what a coincidence, we would like to give you a full scholarship." in about 30 seconds of screen time.

     

    Fast forward again to the Baxter Foundation, and Reeds talks to Sue in the library. They discuss the music Sue is listening to and she blurts out "Pattern Recognition", like a slightly functioning autistic savant. That's how the character is played throughout the entire movie. You couldn't be farther from Sue Storm if you tried.

     

    Dr. Doom is introduced as a moping emo recluse who only agrees to return to the project because Sue will be there. Dr. Doom is in love with Sue in this mess. In the real FF, Dr. Doom's motivations are 1) finding a way to save his damned mother; 2) making Latveria prosper (in his twisted way); 3) increasing his power so he can control the world; 4) proving that he smarter than Reed. In this movie, there is no mention of his mother, you never see Latveria, he wants to destroy the world and move on, and he dislikes Reed, not because of his intelligence, but because he is jealous of Sue. WTF.

     

    Victor whines about the government destroying the planet. Sue says, "Look at Dr. Doom here". That line was probably filmed before the studio changed Victor Van Damme back to Victor Von Doom.

     

    Johnny Storm is introduced in street race. He says two lines, "You promise me we'll still be cool after I dust your ." and "bye bye" then crashes his car. A quick cut to Johnny and his Dad coming out of the hospital and Johnny has a broken arm. Franklin yells at him and says he has the I.Q. to reach his full potential. So basically Reed, Sue, and Johnny are geniuses.

     

    Johnny must have a mutant healing factor because his broken arm is never mentioned again.

     

    They build the transporter and the government stooges come in. The test works and the officials tell the group that it will go to NASA now to coordinate going to another planet. Totally reasonable next step. Victor gets mad and gives the official his middle finger. Let me repeat that, the dignified royal Dr. Doom gives the bird. So painful.

     

    Reed, Victor and Johnny get drunk, they decided to go to the planet on their own (leaving out Sue?) Reed calls Ben and tells him to come on down to the lab so he can go to another planet also. Ben not being drunk, of course agrees.

     

    They make it to Planet Zero (Not the Negative Zone - it has no creatures, just rocks and green energy goo). They decide to climb down a mountain to investigate. Johnny being the daredevil, gets scared and stays behind.

     

    Doom touches the goo, which starts a chain reaction of exploding goo. Victor doesn't make it and falls back into the goo. Sue brings the other 3 back. Sue apparently gets zapped by goo somehow, but it isn't shown on screen, which is really odd.

     

    A cut and the 4 are locked up in government facility. They show the "horror" of their powers. Reed hears Ben calling out to him and makes his way to Ben's cell. Ben asks for Reeds help, but Reed takes off and leaves him there when the alarm sounds. The real Reed would then use his mind to get his friends out ASAP. I kept expecting that to be the case. Turns out he just runs and hides for a year and is depressed.

     

    Ben gets pissed and makes a deal with the government, to be a soldier for them in exchange for a cure.

     

    A year passes in a cut, and Ben has been busy killing people for the military. On the last mission alone, he killed 43 people. Yes, the Ever-Lovin' Blue-Eyed Thing, is a mass-murderer. The Thing, who goes to the park and juggles laughing kids - yes that Thing.

     

    Sue betrays Reed and locates him for the government. Her motive is that Reed needs to send people back to Planet Zero so the four can be cured. Of course, there is no explanation on what would be accomplished by going back there, except for giving the government access to make more super-soldiers.

     

    Reed fixes the machine and they send a second team to the planet who finds Victor and brings him back. Victor's skin has turned to metal, which worked so well in the Tim Story movies, they decided to do it again. Victor then "Scanners" kills the base soldiers and Franklin Richards.

     

    Doom just wants to get back to Planet Zero so he can create a world of 1. If so, why the hell did he come back to Earth when he was already there?!?!

     

    Cheesy quick battle ensues, Ben throws one punch, Doom is disintegrated.

     

    The government gives them a billion dollar facility and they name themselves the Fantastic Four.

     

    Zero Stars

    Oh... My... God...
    Oh my God x 2

    Reed really abandons them for a whole year and just feels sorry for himself? doh!

     

    Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice movie thread for your reading pleasure

    in The Movie Forum

    Posted

    what the heck is that supposed to be ?

     

    Besides buttugly? It's a Hot Wheels Twin-mill concept car in full-scale that is theoretically drivable (?) though, one wonders how a driver sees past the engines.

    http://blog.caranddriver.com/batman-v-superman-twin-mill-is-a-real-life-superhero-hot-wheels/

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    Supermanmobile.

    He's got X-Ray vision so the engines don't bother him.

    (thumbs u

    Where in the world was the Quality Control at CGC???

    in Comics General

    Posted

    These are the graders notes in their entirety. Not the same book.

     

    Spine Stress Lines

    Top Interior Cover Tanning

    Whole Book Lite Tanning

     

    Atta boy. Jaybuck=Team Player

     

     

    Good work

    :applause:

     

    How many point will the grader knock down for lite top interior tanning.

     

    Say I have a NM/MT book but it has top lite interior tanning. Will it come back as a 9.8 or 9.6?

     

    Depends on the amount of tanning, how deep it goes through the paper, what the rest of the book looks like, etc.

     

    Impossible to answer.

    8.5 is top grade for any book with interior tanning.

     

    Where in the world was the Quality Control at CGC???

    in Comics General

    Posted

    First off before you open the spoiler to reveal the grade look closely and think about the grade you would give it and post the grade you would give based off of the cover alone.

     

     

     

     

    Trust me even if you opened the book and rays of sunshine sparkled out you'll never think the inside would give it this much of a bump!...

     

     

    SHOCKING ISN'T IT???!!!!

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    I didn't open it yet.

    If I submitted this book 5.0 - 5.5 at best.

    :sumo:

    EBAY: BLOCKED USER LIST

    in Comics General

    Posted

    carvinsrs246 1306 good feedback - Member since: Mar-24-00 in United States

     

    Won a $40 item in closing hours of auction (only bidder).

    Invoice sent right away after auction ended, multiple invoices sent over 10 days.

    After reporting him as non-paying bidder I get this message:

     

    I most regretfully need to request a cancelation of my unpaid auctions. Health reasons are requiring me to take well over a 6 to 8 week hiatus from buying or selling anything on eBay. I understand the trouble this causes you but I truly hope we can do business in the near future.

     

    Again, very sorry for this inconvenience,

     

    Peter

     

    How does a guy get health issues in just a few hours after winning something? :screwy:

     

    I would have left a neg but I re-listed right away after getting my FVF back and the item disappeared from the MyeBay page and the link to leave feedback is gone.

    :(

     

    PROBATION DISCUSSIONS

    in Marketplace Probations

    Posted

    The above post is said without snark of any kind, and is a sincere response to the issues raised.

     

    I understand that everyone lives in their own reality. I understand that everyone thinks that they are correct in their beliefs or opinions. I understand that everything other than mathematical based fact is subjective.

     

    I don't pretend that I'm above it. I openly acknowledge that I express my viewpoints as fact and honestly believe that I am right 99% of the time. I'm not a hypocrite.

     

    Maybe I can't get over people who sit on their computer to mess on everything. Maybe I'm silly to believe that when Mike's house burned down, or Nik's son was born premature or Beau and Lebowski lost their lives and the boards rallied around them and their families that it's sincere.

     

    Maybe I'm sick of hearing from the same members who are always missing in those threads, or the grading contests or the holiday exchanges or anything that supports the "community" aspect of the boards. Maybe they should find something more productive to do with their time in their actual community. Help an old lady across a street, hang missing cat signs or start a fisting club.

     

    I'll head you off at the pass before you talk about giving behind the scenes, not needing to participate to be part of the community, etc, etc.

     

    This is not a battle I can win since it's based on opinions so I won't try and go back and forth. Maybe I just wanted my opinion to be heard as well. (shrug)

     

    Lastly, the pack posting isn't my opinion it's a fact. Simply spend 10 minutes reading back in the thread and the same 4 or 5 members stack up the quotes against whatever person disagrees. I could truly care less as I have spent a fair amount of time duking it out with them but to call another member a troll for one post is pathetic. You know exactly who I'm talking about.

     

    :golfclap:

     

    You always make me curious. hm

     

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    I'm curious as to why George peed on the floor.

    Someone beat him to a kewl book with a PM time stamp.

     

    Legal Size Scanner thread.

    in Comics General

    Posted

    -= Tech Support Needed=-

     

     

     

    I recently managed to obtain a Microtek Scanmaker i800 plus and am having driver issues, or at least I assume it's the driver when software can;t find the hardware.

     

     

    Win Vista

     

    I install the software and driver off the disk that came with it and all I get is the error message "can't find scanner".

     

    No luck with VueScan either "can't find scanner".

     

    Device manager told me that the device was working properly and when I tried upgrading the diver I got the message I already had the latest and greatest driver installed.

     

    I removed the driver and allowed windows to install it's default driver.

     

    Vuescan found my scanner and I was able to do one preview scan but when I hit scan the error message "can't find scanner" came back.

     

    I removed that driver and download the newest one from the Microtek's website, which appears to be the same as the one disk, and still "can't find scanner"...

     

    :censored:

     

    So is there any work around for Vista (32 bit) or is a upgrade to Win 7 the only answer?

     

    :sumo:

     

     

    --- Sometimes I get a pop up with "code 3 hardware error" along with the "can't find scanner" message as well (only when trying to run the original software, not Vuescan).

     

    :ohnoez:

     

    I also download a couple of driver checkers (DriverDoc and DriverTuner) and when I scan my PC they both say that the driver I have for the i800plus is up to date (as does the windows driver updater)....

     

    :ohnoez:

    PROBATION DISCUSSIONS

    in Marketplace Probations

    Posted

    ANSWERS FOR JAYBUCK:

     

    When was the PM informing him of his nomination?

    #5526388 - 32 minutes 52 seconds ago (ABOUT 10:00PM THIS EVENING)

     

    Also how much is the unpaid balance?

    $519 PLUS $100 LATE FEE THAT SSLIM66 ASKED TO ADD ON= $619

     

    SSLIM66 after his last probation nomination, emailed me that he was going to create/use another account to get around the system. Looks like he apparently did this when he did not pay for my book, stopped responding all together, and began a new user ID hcaworker, showing my DD1 book in the threads, which I recognized and has been validated by other Key board members.

     

    I'll let you be the judge, as the evidence is a plenty and feel confident you will do the right thing to further protect our community. Thanks and I am open for any additional information you may need.

     

    sincerely,

     

    strummer2 "still trying to keep TRUST alive out here!"

     

    The fact he did not pay for the book and tried selling it here under a shill account makes me open to an HOS poll. Since he is on leave now following a strike the question is do we wait for his return day to try getting him over here for an explanation? But overall this has a bad smell.

     

    Just want to be sure the facts are straight

     

    He was not try to sell that book, but was showing it under the new account to get grades in the PGM thread

     

    He did sell other books under the new account earlier this week.

     

    Thanks for the clarification!

    This does sound HOS worth to me if someone comes back under a shill who has a prior record of shenanigans and does even more shenanigans under the new shill.

     

    For gosh sake Lighthouse came back and he had the guts to do so under his original ID.