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#136 User is offline   MyPantsAreOnFire Icon

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Posted 07 September 2006 - 07:08 PM

It's ironic that he'd need to "get sack" to make a film about such a sack-less character.
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Posted 07 September 2006 - 07:54 PM

QUOTE (Jedi_Arco @ Sep 7 2006, 11:29 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
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Love that Civ2.

But, even in the comics, Supes holds back when fighting the baddies. Very rarely does he unleash all of his power on anyone. The only ones that I can think of being Darksied and Mongul. There's actually a great issue of, I think Action Comics, where Supes is fighting Mongul, and Mongul has him in a bear hug and is trying to crush him... Supes looks down at him... his eyes start to burn red... and he softly says, "Burn." And he just hits Mongul with all the heat vision he can muster! Great panel!

The honorable warrior, that's Superman. He never goes overboard unless he has to. And I assume everyone here knows that had SR been truly Superman, he would've felt the Kryptonite from miles away, not minutes after landing on said Kryptonite.

Here's hoping that Singer gets the sack and we get the relaunch I'm demanding. biggrin.gif

Later all.


I often find that Superman haters and sometimes just casual folk often bash Superman for having quote "too many powers". My problem, to the extent that I have one here, is not that Superman has many powers but more that it sometimes feels like he doesn't utilize them. I know that he's the archetypical honorable warrior in that sense, holding back because he knows most opponents wouldn't survive if he hit them as hard as he possibly could, but in all my reading of Superman comics and watching Superman in animation and live action film, I get this vibe sometimes that he wins not from any particularly creative use of his many powers but wins simply because he's the strongest son of a bitch alive. I love brute force as much as the next guy, but when you have like 10 different powers at your disposal, you should be more creative in your use of them, whether it's just using the super-breath to blow a big robot off the edge of a building or the aforementioned use of hit-him-in-the-face-with-heat-vision-to-get-out-of-a-bear-hug manuever.

Well that's my two cents on the subject.
I am the Fisher King.

I'd like a qui-gon jinn please with an obi-wan to go.
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Posted 08 September 2006 - 03:39 AM

Brute force = more personal
Superman = The strongest jerk in the world.
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Posted 19 September 2006 - 11:54 PM

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So.... has anyone else seen the super crappy covers for the SR DVDs? All the images out there, all the different posters from around the world, and they pick the crappiest things I've seen. So airbrushed, they might as well be cartoons. Ugh... They should've just used the symbol against the blue background, like the teaser poster. Especially for the Special Edition 2-disc set. Ugh. That was the only poster that did anything for me at all to begin with. The simpler, the better.

The standard edition includes nothing... except the movie.. so yeah, nothing. biggrin.gif

The 2-disc Special Edition includes a Behind the Scenes Documentary that runs 3+ hours, as well as poster art, artwork, and all the typical trimmings you would assume a SE would have.

So yeah. Hope you're all well. I'm bogged down in Theatre stuff right now so I apologize to my peeps (Aquaman) for not being around too much of late. Later gators.
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Posted 20 September 2006 - 10:30 AM

I hate Superman. I always cheer for his arch-nemesis’s (I realize that’s not a word). Batman would totally kick Superman’s baby blanket wearing ass.
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Posted 23 September 2006 - 04:04 PM

He has on numerous occasion. The most memorable time, Red Son where he ALSO ties up Wonder Woman, wub.gif
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Posted 23 September 2006 - 04:35 PM

Communist Superman flies circles around the "real" Superman in terms of coolness and not being a boring sack of meat. ALL HAIL COMARDE SUPERMAN!
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Posted 26 September 2006 - 10:47 AM

QUOTE (Jedi_Arco @ Sep 19 2006, 09:54 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
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So.... has anyone else seen the super crappy covers for the SR DVDs? All the images out there, all the different posters from around the world, and they pick the crappiest things I've seen. So airbrushed, they might as well be cartoons. Ugh... They should've just used the symbol against the blue background, like the teaser poster. Especially for the Special Edition 2-disc set. Ugh. That was the only poster that did anything for me at all to begin with. The simpler, the better.

The standard edition includes nothing... except the movie.. so yeah, nothing. biggrin.gif

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So yeah. Hope you're all well. I'm bogged down in Theatre stuff right now so I apologize to my peeps (Aquaman) for not being around too much of late. Later gators.

Hey JA. Haven't really been around much myself lately. Things are... slow.

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I hate Superman. I always cheer for his arch-nemesis’s (I realize that’s not a word). Batman would totally kick Superman’s baby blanket wearing ass.

Then why are you hanging around a Superman thread?

I am the Fisher King.

I'd like a qui-gon jinn please with an obi-wan to go.
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Posted 26 September 2006 - 04:00 PM

That is a great pic! I love Batman and while I agree that if anyone can beat Superman it's Bats, that's still an amazing pic.

Yeah Aquaman, between school, work and the fact that there's not much going on at the moment, it's kinda slow for me too.
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Posted 27 September 2006 - 03:28 AM

If Superman beats Batman or strangles him on that image, it's because he's a collossal dick.

When Batman beats Superman up, it's because Superman deserves it.
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Posted 27 September 2006 - 08:19 AM

I think I might be one of the few that is not impressed at all with Jim Lee's artwork. For all his attention to detail, his men all have the same faces and his women all have the same faces. Plus he has that same "I can draw cool poses but give you zero sense of motion or fluid storytelling"-problem that McFarlane et al had/have.
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Posted 27 September 2006 - 08:48 AM

Plus, those aren't even cool poses. ermm.gif

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Posted 01 October 2006 - 09:25 AM

QUOTE (Lord Aquaman @ Sep 26 2006, 11:47 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Then why are you hanging around a Superman thread?


I like to bitch.
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Posted 02 October 2006 - 03:16 PM

QUOTE (Sailor Abbey @ Oct 1 2006, 07:25 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
I like to bitch.

That makes 2 of us.
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I'd like a qui-gon jinn please with an obi-wan to go.
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Posted 23 November 2006 - 01:30 AM

I too was a superman Hater but the movie softened me.
I saw Superman/Clark as. . . well
i don't know, just cant come up with anything

deep and meaningful.
I still hate comic book Superman and even
Justice league Superman annoys the heck outta me.

But Smallville Clark Kent is ok.
Weird i know but it is what it is.
As for Bruce, Batman is the ultimate superhero

cuz he wasn't born with gifts like cold breath
but a detectives mind and a quick wit.
Both aces in my book.

Not to mention rugged good looks
and an awesome bod
or was that Christian Bale?

Duct tape is like the force....

There's a lightside, a darkside

and it holds everything together


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