Paj!
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I've not seen any real pictures of him before or after. I'm optimistic for it though, I know only a few images have leaked, but I sense a nice, clean visual aesthetic to the whole thing so far. Hope the story's good. I heard it's based on some of JSM's Thor, but I haven't read that. Looking foward to Natalie Portman as Jane Foster though...her immaculate face can only add.
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(You have four copies of Catcher in the Rye and haven't read them? It's so short... :p)
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So to get the discussions rolling... Upcoming Upcoming Thor film seems to be the talk of the town Come in people-who-didn't-post-in-the-comics thread!
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Seems like a joke, but then getting rid of Comic Book Discussion is needless. It was only ever about 5-6 people in it anyway, talking about a whole load of stuff, so threads about a single X-Men issue seem silly as individual threads. (Whereas the same thing Happenstance asks about in the X-Men thread could easily just be a post in the Comic thread.) We'll see.
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Why is this a thread? I've heard nothing from them apart from Childhood/Memories or whatever their big hit is with him like moping around a train station in the 80's, and one modern one I loved when it came out (Sunrise I think).
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It's fucking briliant. The fact it doesn't have a typical build-up, the characters feel realistic, as opposed to being steretypes, and the main character isn't even highlighted as such for half the film. (There's a lot to talk about RE: the fact Ripley is a female "action hero" without ever being defined as a woman specifically) It's realistic in a lot of ways, and the idea of space not being a place of laser guns and damsels in distress on alien worlds etc, and rather just a terrifying, isolating place where "No one can hear you scream.". It's brill and anyone who says it's boring is just a victim of shortened attention spans modern action/suspense films have granted us all. IMO.
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It's better than good.
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Stun. ---- New Thor picture of Odin's throne-room, with Thor, Odin, Frigga, and Loki thrown in there around the place.
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I agree with Daft that it's the unnecessary words and phrases, as well as the lack of definition and determination in the writing that lets it down for me. Until it's condensed to essential words and punchy phrases, it'll remain a bit flaccid and clumsy.
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What he said (to a degree). I understood what the answer was, I'm not an idiot. I didn't understand why it was a joke. Unless the point was that you were meant to come across as stupid. Which seems to be the "point" of half of the material in Comedy Rainbow anyway. Same with the Movie Review, I know what it is was meant to be, but I don't "understand" what the point of it was. It's so unfunny/awkward as a comedy set-up, I don't get how it's a joke in the first place, as opposed to something I just don't find funny.
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First time I chuckled at Comedy Rainbow in ages/ever??!!! Though it was the Eevilmurray bit. Not sure if that really counts. Otherwise it was exceedingly meh. I didn't think it was the worst...but I don't understand how half of the things were even jokes. Because they weren't. The Superbad one wasn't a joke, or ever possibly funny. I genuinely didn't get that. Same with the Unanswered Questions ones. It was like "..um."
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That's so odd, just cause it often MAKES books for me :P. Though, not really, the story is usually by Grant Morrison, so... Who's your favourite artist (apart from Jim Lee)? (if you have one) I probably asked this before.
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You're rude. It's a stunner.
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He is a master of layouts, which cannot be denied. You can dislike his style otherwise though, fair enough. I want him to do more Marvel stuff, just to see what it'd be like, he did (not enough) New X-Men and IIRC some random Squadron Supreme stuff or something years ago, and this: Which adds. I think All-Star Superman is probably his best work to date, though. Possibly due to Jamie Grant (or whatever his name is)'s colours. He's also scottish, and is great.
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I can't breathe.
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Morrison/Quitely are the very best. At anything. Flex Mentallo - I died. New X-Men feels tarnished because of Igor disgusting Kordey. All the other non-Quitely artists were lovely in their own way/made sense, but Kordey ruins lives. I love the amount of Scottish truestunners there are in comics. Glasgow is so fertile. On that note, started Morrison's Seven Soldiers today. Already in love. Come on Ystina Gerabaldi, Shining Knight.
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And? --- But yeah. We live, we learn. Though I do have a soft spot for her, in a "Oh, I used to love." way. She's in my love box with Miley Cyrus and Delta Goodrem, only lower. P.s I'm so glad it's FINALLY a single. I warned everyone it was the best on the album but no, everyone wanted to listen to effing You Got The Love....
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If films don't make me think/react, I generally don't like them. S'why I have no interest in buying/watching comedies of my own accord...I know some are good, but I usually prefer TV comedy to film comedy. --- Invictus I liked it. Not as "BowDownGetONYOURknees" as some of Clint Eastwood's other films, and the ways he gets across the message of Rugby/the team/Mandela uniting the country is about as subtle as a brick through a window. However, my family is like semi-entrenched in/kinda from/lived in South Africa, so I had some vague interest in the story from the start. I also prefer watching Rugby a million times to Football, and a centerpoint of a film, it's so much more compelling for me, Power, aggression, exhaustion etc. I hated it when I had to play it as a child, but still. Both Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon were good...nothing to cry home about, but both fitted I felt. However loads of the accents were awful. My mum was like screaming at the fact Francois Prenoir or whatever his name was didn't speak like that. But very inspiring* and some gorgeous directing and cinematography. *even if the film seemed to imply that this story united South Africa happily ever after, when in fact, it really did very little of the sort.
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YOU'RE NOT A FAN!!!! :p SRSLY though. The comics are the characters. Get into theeeeeeem. The best X-Men you can get is Grant Morrison (<3)'s run, called New X-Men. That's available in 3 Ultimate Collections. Immediately following that is Joss Whedon's Astonishing X-Men, which is available in 4 trade paperbacks or one Omnibus. X-Men since the 80's has been seperated into different teams in different comic books mostly to keep focus on a lot of characters at once, without leaving any in the background. If you're a big Storm fan, you'd be dissapointed by the fact she isn't in either series I just mentioned, but the series she is in is shite, so it's all good. Also, I don't know how much you know about Jean Grey in the comics...but yeah. Just read Grant Morrison's run. Ask Dan/ReZ to hook you up to the place we shall not mention if you can't afford it. --- Talking of X-Men; I just finished Astonishing X-Men by Joss Whedon and John Cassaday. I'm genuinely astonished. So epic. The characters come off the page, they're so well characterised. There were so many "Of course." moments, as though Joss was showing you divine things you'd never believed in before, to be true. Kitty Pryde and Emma Frost were sensational. As was Cyclops. I was actually moved by the end of Unstoppable. "...Dissappointed, Ms. Frost..?" "Astonished Ms. Pryde." Makes me want to lie on the floor. And the very end, where it replays that speech.
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I hate the mask. Looks like a photoshop job. I'm sure it'll look better in motion. Yes, Amanda Waller.
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Been having loads of vivid dreams recently, none particularly epic, but all filled with jokes. An entire dream was my re-imagining of the origin of Charles Xavier and Magneto from X-Men. Involving loads of train journeys (Ooh symbolic) and set mainly at my uncle's/family's castle in the borders (in place of the X-mansion IIRC). In the end, "magneto" kinda merged with a friend of mine who has been on my mind/jealous of recently, which means something I'm sure, but can't be arsed figuring out. I loved last nights most though, meeting a girl from my course in Tesco, and for some reason she was really accurately portrayed, as she's all airy and ditzy in real life, and was here, rather than coming off like she had a set role, as most people do in dreams. Tesco were having a clearance, and we made idle chit-chat, having just met, when I noticed she'd put a PS2 and loads of Batman games I'd never heard of into her basket. I said nothing, but was so anxious/eager/upset that I'd never heard of these games and she was getting them. Superheroes make up a strange amount of my dreams. People are often just wearing the costumes during otherwise unrelated dreams. Hmm.
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Jay's advice about IMBD was good...everyone has tastes, but sometimes no one can deny the greatness of certain films. Adaptation and Waking Life (mentioned above) both make you think, though Waking Life is very out of the box, in terms of it doesn't really feel like a traditional film per se, more like a really interesting, confuddling, mind-expanding experience.
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I love(d) Psylocke (when I first read "proper" comics (X-Men being the first of these). I agree wholeheartedly about the costume though. I only recently actually made sense of the body swap business, and as far as I can tell, it's not like Ultimate Psylocke, in which it was literally Caucasian - Asian, both bodies (Betsy and Kwannon) were "merged" to become kinda half-caste, and to look alike. So that semi-excuses why she's never drawn as "fully" asian.
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I need to rewatch the 2003 Hulk. I liked how it tried ot be interesting and off the wall, but then it had the shit bits with killer dogs.
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Dan, what do you mean by Psylocke's "racist face"? --- I'm loving Mark Millar's Wolverine omnibus atm...it kinda deals with the concept of "Wolverine vs. the Marvel Universe" in a really good way. And I love Elsbeth Von Strucker. Stunning hair and outlook on life. And I enjoy the use of Northstar. That said, John Romita Jr.'s art in this isn't his best IMO...or at least not as polished as his stuff was in the 90's/2000's on Spidey. I LOVED the inclusion of Shoc, from said Spidey Romita comics , as one of the HydraHandDawnOfTheWhiteLight victims. Presumably something Jr. had a hand in, as IIRC, only he ever drew him. I noticed Greg Land covers and was sick.
