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What I thought was that they were going for homages to images from The Killing Joke. Which they very explicitly were.

It is indeed. Yep, she's playing Jean Grey.

The screenwriter dumbs it down so we nerds don't keep throwing a hissy.

Yes, Ledger's Joker was good, but he still missed by a mile. Then again, that's just my opinion. Depends on what Joker you read growing up. I thought he nailed it. He was good, but he had a lot of differences from the Joker from the "Killing Joke" that he modeled the character after. I haven't seen this guy act or talk, but he LOOKS more like that Joker from that comic. The thing is, it doesn't really matter WHAT he looks like. People were similarly worried when they saw the Ledger Joker with the facial scars. He just needs to be unique and compellingly insane and badass, that was what Ledger did. Leto is capable of it. Who knows if the screenplay sucks or not, just gotta wait and see.

It's fun watching everyone try to define what a twisted deranged psychopath should be like. I rather like the new look. We'll see how he acts it, and that's the most important part. Nobody knew how cool Ledger would be until we actually saw him do it.

I think that's what they are going for this time around. But why confuse audiences like that? Just go with the traditional powers. Reserve judgement until you hear the film's full explanation at least.

You lost with elektra being "decent", I can accept DD being "decent" but not Elektra, god that movie suuuuuccccked. GL was bad, but not nearly as terrible as Elektra. Elektra was no good. I can't re-watch it, but I didn't mind Green Lantern the first time. I like Mark Strong, so I generally enjoy watching his Sinestro scenes. Most everything else is tedious.

Or sneeze in his general direction.

Edited for broader accuracy. Ever watch the first season of Smallville? Very well-written with compelling character interaction, but the Superman elements were just awful. Every single episode was another iteration of "how can we expose Superman to kryptonite, make him human or less than human, and have him engage in a seemingly even but decidedly not-Superman fight THIS week?"

Yes. Extremely well-written story centered around a dumb premise. You never had to read a page to know that whatever the fight entailed would involve the inevitable use of kryptonite to make sure Superman wasn't Superman anymore.

It's virtually impossible for me to imagine anyone who is even passingly familiar with both characters to ever find the idea of that fight anything other than puzzling. It's about as epic as imagining a throwdown between a tiger and a hamster. This is the first superhero film I may not go see in the theater. The reviews will have to be stellar for me to consider it.

It's not my favorite or even in my top 5, but it might be near the bottom of my top 10, so I enjoyed it a lot as well. And you're right, it does have the absolute best soundtrack of ANY superhero film. I particularly liked how they visually depicted his radar sense. The biggest sin in the movie was that dumb symbol carved into Bullseye's forehead. But I enjoyed Farrell's depiction of the character. As an actor, he's only shown me one trick--he can play intense, pissed-off characters really well--and that's exactly what they needed for Bullseye. Loved that scene in the pub where he used a paper clip as a weapon, as well as the weird Irish rap music playing in the background of it. Casting someone as Caucasian as Jennifer Garner for Elektra was a mistake. She had the right physicality, but none of the Eastern European look. The playground scene was cheesy, but I kind of enjoyed it anyway. Favreau was great in it. The guy who played Wesley was good, although not as good as the one in the Netflix series. Affleck was fine. Matt Murdock has always been a brooding, morose character, and that's mostly how Affleck played him. It wasn't enjoyable, however--just as it rarely was in the comic--so lightening him up a bit without doing it too much as Charlie Cox was able to do was an improvement though. It's not completely awful, but it's not great either. I think it sets the mark of "average comic book movies" for me. Agreed. Plenty of critics and forum members acted as if it was among the smelliest turds Hollywood ever out. It wasn't anywhere near that, and I suspect that if that movie wasn't released during the year Affleck was all over the tabloids for dating J Lo and it wasn't the year he worked on and released "Gigli," the critical response wouldn't have been quite so bad. Some films get dumped on more as time goes on, some less...this one has been dumped on less over time. My memory tells me that the original Rotten Tomatoes score on it was in the high 30s the year it was released, but it has risen to the mid-40s today.

Dude, that was House of Pain! Oh. I was going by the lyrics when they say "I'm Irish, but I'm not a leprechaun." Does sound like them now that you mention it.

Definitely another good one. "Big Empty" is one of my favorite songs, ever, and it debuted in that film.

It's not my favorite or even in my top 5, but it might be near the bottom of my top 10, so I enjoyed it a lot as well. And you're right, it does have the absolute best soundtrack of ANY superhero film. I particularly liked how they visually depicted his radar sense. The biggest sin in the movie was that dumb symbol carved into Bullseye's forehead. But I enjoyed Farrell's depiction of the character. As an actor, he's only shown me one trick--he can play intense, pissed-off characters really well--and that's exactly what they needed for Bullseye. Loved that scene in the pub where he used a paper clip as a weapon, as well as the weird Irish rap music playing in the background of it. Casting someone as Caucasian as Jennifer Garner for Elektra was a mistake. She had the right physicality, but none of the Eastern European look. The playground scene was cheesy, but I kind of enjoyed it anyway. Favreau was great in it. The guy who played Wesley was good, although not as good as the one in the Netflix series. Affleck was fine. Matt Murdock has always been a brooding, morose character, and that's mostly how Affleck played him. It wasn't enjoyable, however--just as it rarely was in the comic--so lightening him up a bit without doing it too much as Charlie Cox was able to do was an improvement though.

Anyone noticed yet that Jimmy Linguini is a dead ringer for my big fat rear? Please tell me that if I go into the "share a picture of yourself thread" again for the first time in a while, a picture of your big fat rear isn't in there waiting for me.

I'm betting he lost his left leg in a knife fight.

Further to my point Yes, but here's a picture of him wearing a leather jacket with his arm around a beautiful woman. Hopefully that gives him all the street cred you're implying he needs.

Daredevil's costume design is serious business. And I mean that literally.

Which is like the classic comic costume. And has no padding. The padding is more realistic and in line with the frequent injuries they show him sustaining in the television series.

He has no muscle mass at all...looks like a poorly fitted suit I challenge anyone here to fill this suit better than Affleck is. It'd cost thousands in custom tailoring. I always wanted that suit for Halloween and am about Affleck's size and build, but man, finding something that well-fitted is tough.

Holy hell, that's like lifting 6 cars. Or a tractor-trailer. Have they shown him doing anything like that?

It's just not possible, though. He trounced the X-Men by himself, and some big guy with a karate chop is going to take him out? Total BS. His impossible size--he'd make any NFL lineman look small the way they draw him--coupled with the idea that he's supposed to be solid muscle and not fat suggests he's likely to be something like 5 times stronger than the average person, possibly more. Yea, Spidey is supposed to be something like 10 times stronger, but if Kingpin hits him, it should still hurt. None of which is all that believable though. I suppose within the context of comics making guys exaggeratedly huge like they do with Juggernaut or Kingpin is kind of fun, but it's ludicrous when put into live action. Marvel's online stats put Kingpin at 6' 7" and 450 pounds, and they gauge his strength at 3/10. They gauge Spidey at 4/10. http://marvel.com/universe/Kingpin http://marvel.com/universe/Spider-man

They'd have to do it before they introduced ANY supporting characters. No Alicia Masters or anybody else you want to keep constant until they did the time shift.

You'd be stuck there, though. Cap made it back to the present due to the freezing. It worked in X-Men: First Class because Magneto and Professor X started out old, so going back to their beginning and taking a few who-cares-if-they-don't-make-it-back-to-present-day mutants from the huge stable of mutants available worked out fine. If you start the FF in 1961, you're tying future movies to that time, too. Unless you reboot yet again.