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TV’s Frink said:

Dek Rollins said:

I’ve always attributed the clumsy, bumbling, cowardly, to him trying to hide any ideas that he’s Superman.

I think DE might be the only one who doesn’t get this. I thought it was commonly understood and I’ve never heard of anyone complaining about it.

Right. If he hadn’t acted like that, Lois would’ve caught on immediately. As soon as Supes would come to save her, she’d yell “Clark?!”

Cheap Walmart replica of the 97 SE release poster for ANH. If there’s one good thing to come from the SE’s, it’s the poster art.

Just watched it again today. All in all, I still think it’s very solid.

But, onto what I dislike.

The Rathtar scene is kinda jarring. The shots are too quick and jumpy, the whole scene feels awkward.

A friend pointed out to ne the other day that the Resistance only has X-Wings. No A-Wings or B-Wings or any other kinds of ships (other than the weird ship that brought Leia to Takodana). It is strange that their fleet consists totally of X-Wings, and I wish they had more ships.

Light Teal-and-Oranging is present in many scenes, as with most modern movies. Or maybe my eyes are just weird. The stars behind the crawl definitely looked blue though (in 3D and standard).

Snoke just doesn’t look good. Lightyears ahead of PT CGI characters, but he still looks very fake. Perhaps he’ll look better in the next film and this will be the new chimp-face Emperor, so to speak.
Death Star III is annoying. Hopefully this is the last time they’ll resort to the planet-destroying superweapon trope.

It’s strange that the destruction of the Hosnia(?) system is visable from Takodana.

So, mostly minor issues for me. I think it is definitely a good movie and I can’t wait to see how the story will continue to unfold.

loud air horn sounds and people screaming

Let’s just have Rick Berman play everyone! Copy and paste him all over the place and he can be every character.

Finally watching Spectre. So far, it’s decent. I was going to complain about the excessive teal and orange, but it’s mostly just orange. SO MUCH ORANGE!!

The first time I saw Man of Steel, I freakin loved it. The second time, a few months later when I caught in on TV, I was confused. “Is this really the same movie I loved a few months ago? It’s awful!” I’ve only seen it once since and I still don’t like it. It’s been a year or so though, maybe it deserves another shot.

DominicCobb said:

Is James McAvoy as Picard too obvious?

Double Professor Picarding! To me my Away Team!

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RayRogers said:

I come here to chat about STAR WARS

This is off-topic, shall I give you directions to a Star Wars catagory?

The Last Starfighter. Decent flick. Effects haven’t aged well, the story wasn’t really anything special, but the characters make it work (especially Centauri, who I thought was absolutely fantastic).

I rate it B- out of 7 Good Star Balls.

captainsolo said:

Maybe I’m a bit biased because my favorite adaptation are the Fleischer/Famous cartoons, which are IMHO definitive masterpieces. But for more well rounded, there’s the animated series which is probably the best Supes adaptation ever done. That’s usually what I go back to because again as usual Bruce Timm and co. know these characters inside and out. (Can it be a rule that Lois always jokingly call Clark Smallville? I absolutely love that.)

Ah the Fleischer cartoons! I’m gonna have to break out my old DVDs of those sometime soon. Those were probably the most re-watched things of my childhood.

If that were the case, I think most of my town would be empty.

I read somewhere that this guy wanted to make Abramsverse TNG. As much as I would hate that (a lot) and as much as I doubt that is the case (even more), trying to cast this mentally is fun.

beat me to it Wook

why do so many people care about a glorified game of catch?

First idea sounds fantastic

Childhood’s End by Arthur C. Clarke. I’m about 50 pages in. It’s alright.

While I disagree with you, I must commend you for writing well-thought out arguments about why you like MoS. I have never heard any argument for that film that actually made me think, as everyone I know that likes it just says “the effects are better” and “theres more action” and stuff like that. I still don’t like the movie but at least now I feel like I understand why anyone would.

I need to find my old “big book of first appearances” and reread Action Comics #1 now.

This truth really tears me apart, lisa.

Idk what you’re talking about when I said you should die, but that family could have gotten out of the situation another way like:
•Running away before Zod started the laser eye blast like everyone else did.
•Crawling under the beam
•Taking about 2 steps forward and going around the thing they’re crammed against.

OR since Superman has the strength to snap his neck, he also has to at least have the strength to:

•Lift Zod’s head a bit so that the beam is at a different angle and the family can just walk under it
•Push Zod’s head down a bit so that the family could jump over the beam

All of them. Get to it people!

For the record, I am honestly not Anti-Zod Killing. There were probably 5 or 6 different alternatives in that situation but the idea they were going for is a good one, if execution isn’t great.

But… did you just compare MoS to “older comics”? How old are we talking here? You seem to have a strange definition of old. Radio dramas I cannot compare because I have not listened to those but when I think of Golden, Silver, Bronze, or even modern comic Superman, I don’t think of anything close to what MoS gave.

No, I wouldn’t be mad at a cop for breaking my window, I’d be mad if the cop blew up the neighborhood to catch one guy.

Agree entirely.

The thing with MoS was that, if they hadn’t explicitly stated “this guy’s name is Superman,” there would be no way to know that it was Superman. He wasn’t the likeable boy scout hero I love, he was just some generic ‘superhero’ (if you can call him that) that also has a God complex. First he’s acting like he’s mankind’s only hope, then he’s blowing stuff up just because he can (the satellite at the end).