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2 hours ago, LazyPiranha said:

Yeah but... Venom doesn't actually eat people.  He talks about it a lot, but it's not like there are tons of examples where he dines on humans.

But there are tho.

Some / all of that might be Mac Gargan and not Eddie Brock though, who can keep track of this shit.

18 minutes ago, skillzdadirecta said:

I had issues with it, but I NEVER thought it was a "gigantic piece of shit"... that's just hyperbole. I always thought it was a flawed yet entertaining superhero flick that may have been a little darker than it needed to be. My issues with it always stemmed from how the Kents, particularly Pa Kent. Also the complete lack of concern for Clark's secret Identity which by the end of the film, made you think he no longer had one. Film is fine and Cavill is a great Superman.

Gigantic piece of shit is indeed hyperbolic but I would never go so far as to say that the movie is fine any way other than superficially. It’s superficially VERY fine, of course, but there’s little of value beneath the veneer.

2 hours ago, Greatoneshere said:

Even if someone doesn't know who she is, she's always been a woman and not transgender. Some posts in here seem to be confused on that.  

You mean a bunch of basic dudes on the internet have basic ideas about gender identity? NOWAI

That said this is a Terminator movie released after 1991 so the odds of it being good are slim.

1 hour ago, Greatoneshere said:

Obviously I agree and it's great to see someone's mind can genuinely change about something! That's always cool regardless. 

 

Everyone knows I find Man of Steel to be a really good movie (but not amaze-balls great) so I probably don't need to keep repeating myself after all these years but it's nice to see more on this board like the movie than I remember. 

I’ve revised my opinion from ”gigantic piece of shit” to “formerly flaming / now smoldering and not altogether unpleasant turd.” It’s amazing what BvS and Justice League did to lower the basement of terribleness for DC movies, sweet Jesus in a bento box.

2 minutes ago, Jose said:

Preferring Benihana over one of the greatest foods known to man isn't a serious take brah.

Relevant.

12 hours ago, Nokra said:

More evidence that older men who wear Hawaiian shirts anywhere but the beach are not to be trusted.

Just go to any Jimmy Buffet concert.

41 minutes ago, Wild said:

This is not a reboot and it has the original two leads. How exactly is this "going full Ghostbusters"?

There are women in the promo shot. There were women in Ghostbusters. That it literally all that it takes to trigger men.

38 minutes ago, SaysWho? said:

Like, I'm trying to keep up with his logic.

12 minutes ago, skillzdadirecta said:

People who have quibbles about the amount of destruction in Man of Steel have literally never read a comic book in their fucking lives... seriously.

Cities get destroyed ROUTINELY in superhero slugfests, especially in the Silver age. I never understood this critique.

If Krypto showed up and started derping in MoS I’d shit on that, too.

31 minutes ago, TwinIon said:

I also actually quite like Man of Steel. It's a beautiful and beautifully scored film. Cavil is great in the role, and overall it's a slightly different take on Superman, a character that I've never really found interesting. The only reason that people care about Supes killing Zod is because of an attachment to another iteration of this character. This version of the character didn't really know what he was doing or what he'd gotten into (which is why I also don't have a problem with the city's destruction). He was pushed to his limits and had no other choice.

Personally I don't care about Superman killing Zod because of an attachment to comic Superman, I care because the whole first half of the movie sets up a Superman that the back half completely fails to deliver. Which would be FINE if the movie leaned into subverting our expectations of Superman in a way that was deeper that incredibly superficial. I just can't get on board with humanity thinking of Superman as a savior after the events of MoS. The movie wants to have its cake (it's a new take on Superman!) and eat it, too (everyone knows Superman is a savior... he's Superman and we know him well!). Also let's not forget that Superman ends the possibility of Kryptonians existing because he decides that "Krypton had its chance" after learning about and knowing what Krypton was for like... a week? Then he passes judgment on the entire species? Bleh.

36 minutes ago, TwinIon said:

Pa Kent's death on the other hand, is terribly portrayed regardless of the history of the character. I don't actually have much of a problem with his general outlook and what he teaches Clark. I think it's an outlook that feels more an more justified by the day. We do have an intense fear of the other and a legit super powered alien would kick up some intense feelings. The death sequence itself though is just stupid. Pa Kent doesn't tell Clark not to help until the end, and it feels so long between when Clark should have gone to help (people in general or his dad), so when Pa finally puts his hand up to say don't come it just seems silly. If he was going to help, he had ample time to do so, which seems like exactly what he was saying he wanted to do about 10 seconds before deciding not to. Also, Pa died saving the dog; not an old lady or a child, a dog.

Pa dying to save the dog is astronomically idiotic. Everything about Pa in MoS other than Costner's delivery sucks. He brings legitimacy to the character that the writing does not earn.

3 minutes ago, GeneticBlueprint said:

I never understood the quibbles with the fight destroying the city. Kal-El is still discovering who he is and how powerful he is.

Superman doesn't dodge a fuel tanker and let it destroy a building behind him even if he's been Superman for 15 minutes. That is his fucking job. Superman doesn't smooch Lois Lane in the crater of the city he protects while there are burning buildings behind him, while characters we're meant to care about are crawling out of the rubble. Novice Superman makes mistakes? I get that, I'm fine with that. It's the KIND of mistakes he made. He should be making mistakes to put himself in harm's way, not literally doing the opposite.

He's should either be above the fray, willing to sacrifice pawns in the interest of checkmating the villain (given the stakes, that's perhaps not even a terrible idea), or he's willing to get in the way. The movie tries to make him both of these things while counting on the audience's familiarity with the character to fill in the gaps. Snyder tried to channel Mark Waid and Frank Miller for the same character, in the same movie. It's fucking sloppy.

A canniballistic anti hero in a setting where that isn’t part of the ante (something like iZombie, for example) has always been weird to me. Venom eats people. It’s fucking weird that more characters don’t seem really put out by that. 

On 7/23/2018 at 10:05 AM, brucoe said:

You know, the more I think about this story, the more upset I become. For years, I was a counterintelligence agent working for our country, and I eagerly awaited the beautiful Russian spy to seduce me. And she never did. Instead, all I got to deal with were old, Russian dudes and random, unattractive people. I seriously got cheated, and I want a redo.

YOU were the honeypot the whole time. 

Today we are all Georgians.

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21 minutes ago, Massdriver said:

Zoning regulations need to be modified or just need to go. It's really sad.

NIMBY 

libertarians - making perfect the enemy of good since 1796

4 minutes ago, Jose said:

Eh, those are overpriced too. It's either Vintage or store brand for me.

I stock up when they’re on sale and like to support Worcester industry.

Polar seltzer > all others

I think I can see the pocket early in the clip, but the reload for sure grew his beard

Just got to the Blood Stained Sanctuary in Cave Story +. Lord.

12 minutes ago, DarkStar189 said:

This story was annoying from the start. It never seemed like there was proof of anything and the first immediate step is to throw the guy to the side making him look guilty to the world. 

Or, you know, Dykstra decided not to pick a fight with someone married into a family worth tens of billions of dollars, most of which is tied up in media ventures.

It really is a very good one of these movies, with all of the praise and baggage that implies. 

As everyone knows, I don't care about this shit in the least, but uh... are we allowing open character spoilers in thread titles for Episode IX?