Cervantes

Good catch. Especially looks dumb on Deathstroke (his mask design has always been great - leave it alone!) and on Lobo it looks like he is joining the Bat Family, maybe borrowed one of the Robin's domino masks.

Lobobin!

#FAIL

@Mercy_ Awesome, needed to hear that!

Bet the show will be Runaways -- although I'm down for whatever! It would just be cheaper than other possibilities, closer to the high school environment that he aces, and it's a series he loved, wrote to, and then wrote for.

However, even better option would be Young Avengers, with an HQ near a school in the far future where the kids hear of their deceased parents from some mentor figure (maybe Vision, as in the animated Y.A. flick) and the flashbacks are to the ACTUAL MOVIE AVENGERS, who doing filming Joss has make little asides that become videos to their kids to be seen on their death or whatever, memories of Vision of seeing them in action, etc.

Also, I want Vision for Avengers 2!! Especially since it means bring on Ultron...!

We may be playing into a certain assumption here, if we aren't careful...

It's wrong to hit a woman NOT because "she's physically weaker than a man", as this means Sigourney Weaver's husband could smack her around. As big and tough as we know she is, I think a person who saw a man even slap her to the ground would gasp and report him, or attack him - even knowing Sigourney could just get up and bruiserize the man.

There's this odd viewpoint that with the successes of feminism, women shouldn't be held in high regard or "up on a pedestal" because it implies they are unequal, or incapable - that's not the case at all: it is mainly because they are held (today it's obviously more accurate to say "were" - sorry to say) in higher esteem. and because men are supposed to be responsible for their safety. If a boat is sinking, we say "Women and children first!" because they are the most important - children our heirs and women the lifeblood of those to come and the soul of civilization. And if someone is attacking a hetero couple, the male had better exert himself to the fullest toward her safety, whether or not he's Danny Devito and she Milla Jovovich.

Actually, let it pass and let Milla kick a$$!

I know this special esteem for women and the duty of men to defend them, especially, will be derided as relics of the past. But come on, you believe it too, Comic Vine! If your husband reacts to ninjas kicking in the door by saying, "I'll take the kids and run, you hold these guys off!" even Milla would push that douche down the stairs to greet them. And we still have men register for the Selective Service, and in the past were drafted to fight in combat, while women weren't and aren't expected to - and I say this is still right. Women should not have to register, and if they volunteer there is nothing wrong with them being excluded from combat roles unless they want them (particularly because many of our enemies don't abide by the Geneva Conventions, so rape enters the picture). Because even from a cold, evolutionary perspective, the restoration of a society's numbers after a war depend on large numbers of women, but equal or fewer men, as countries experienced in the aftermath of WWII - would you have it otherwise?

Finally, women shouldn't have the imposition of being as aggressive as men, they are busy bringing life to our relationships and culture, and many are expected to bear the stress, pain, and danger of childbirth, which a man never endures. Why shouldn't he risk himself, when she will be risking herself - even in modern times, complications can take a mother's life, and postpartum depression and other traumas are something men can only read about. On top of all this, does a woman now have to duck punches? Domestic violence is a one-sided issue, and the title "man" is undeserved by any male who batters the woman he "loves." Especially Chris Brown.

I applaud women taking self-defense courses and they can be as deadly as a man, and have the same worth as combatants - studies have shown they have better reflexes in piloting, and are very good shots - but they do not have the duty to battle men or be in battles for our country, especially when society impresses upon them from an early age to be nice and not physically fight when there is a conflict; meanwhile, "boys will be boys" if males fight. It just isn't fair to expect women to do be ready to fight in combat, physically defend their spouse and children, oh yeah, and every other of myriad things they do to make life worth living for us men, while we are responsible for...

What?

Nowadays, we often aren't breadwinners, both halves of a hetero couple usually having to work, if we make them defend our country as often as we do, and if we don't have to defend our women EVEN FROM OURSELVES, then that's the day we slouch out of all respectability.

@VenomousDragon said:

this movie was disappointing, I expected that i would at least like it better than amazing spider-man.

it certainly wasnt better than the avengers like some said it would be and bane was cast horribly.

QFT.

@Jimmie: Great idea about Mr. Reese! The actor playing him was pretty good, too...

@Gambit1024: OMG, never thought of it that way- both DID have billionaire playboy's on potentially suicidal missions to save a city from a nuke they pilot away from the city! And for me, Avengers did it best.

@Vance Astro said:

MY EYES! MY EYES! Point made... but at what price?!

Apparently, he had his apartment rigged with liquid explosives, a mortar round, lots of other complex explosives. He had trance music set to play at high volume at a certain time -- when he was going to be at the theater! One woman did go up to his apartment but thankfully didn't knock or open the door. So when he began his siege on the theater, there was no distracting call the police were already responding to, they came at the first 911 calls and caught him after his weapon jammed and he had thrown it on the ground and walked to his car. They caught him by surprise, thank God, because his ballistic helmet, leg guard, vest could all stop the weapons the police are issued, but his .223 ammo would pierce their body armor.

He was a neurology major, very bright. He planned this very well, over a long period of time. And he lawyered up right after. I saw his fake out of it expressions in court -- yes, I'm judging. He knows playing mental is all that will ever let him see the outside of a prison after sentencing. Could just be a person hardened toward others - a sociopath is still not insane.

Death penalty for the dozen murders, 58 people injured (one of them a distant relative, through my aunt, with three gunshots to the arm and surgery to her brain to dislodge one) UNLESS serious evidence of insanity (not a desperate ploy) is shown in court, in which case he still must never leave. USA Today said he mailed a package to a psychiatrist on campus, withdrew from a prestigious graduate program, giving up a susbstantial stipend, forcing him to leave his home and move to a worse neighborhood near campus, and if so, I have to consider that he may have had a break with reality. Especially if he was seeing the psychiatrist.

@Vance Astro: I liked it more than TDKR, for sure. Did you like the Teenage Mutant Lizard Turtle, though? That was what kept the movie from being really epic.

As far as TDKR, I thought Bane's voice was okay, but by cutting out the Venom strengthening, he comes off as not very imposing. Anne was a good fighter and in top shape but she is so against type that I can't see her as Catwoman - but she didn't sink the movie. This Batman movie had the fewest new ideas and innovations. The first two movies had elements that took you into a special, heightened world view: Batman Begins with the Scarecrow and hallucinations affecting the imagery of the film through character POVs and the whole symbol theme and how he, Batman, and Ras defined and lived up to their symbols; Dark Knight was basically Batman: The War on Terror, with Batman as Special Ops, Gotham PD as the Army, gangsters as terrorists, and Joker as a Bin Laden of chaos. For much of the first half, Batman's code of ethics and plans to protect people are attacked by the Joker who succeeds in killing Rachel and destroying the hospital while Batman struggles on defense - and the last half is Batman attacking the Joker's schemes with the two boats and fighting his way up a building to battle the Joker one on one! And the Sonar cellphone idea was GENIUS - visually arresting, works with the theme, and explains how Batman could be a step ahead of people lying in wait for him.

SPOILERS FOLLOW ON TDKR --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

TDKR has NO special world, except the new Bat which hovers. Very cool, but every cool element of the film was in the trailers: airplane hijacking, the Bat, The Cat. Then they had the old Tumblers and... ending left me kind of meh, considering we knew he wasn't going to die. Hope they use "Robin" in the next Batman movie, but that's doubtful -- he would be perfect casting!

@Shawnbaby: Um, er, Psylocke knows that, pschologically speaking, her clothes distract the enemy! Uh...

Oh fine, you're right! lol

@Fantasgasmic said:

@Cervantes said:

@InnerVenom123: Batman just sat there while Miranda Tate (refuse to call her Talia) lectures him on wanting revenge for the father who abandoned her and her mom (?!?) while slowly piecing Bane's mask back together and then having Bane wrap him in ropes. NO. Just, no.

While I'm more than willing to call out this movie as being far from perfect, and having its share of plot-holes, I'll point out, she had stabbed him before her big monologue. He was sitting there with a knife in his (guessing) liver.

And while the first Batsuit was "this sucker will stop a knife," the second one was"separation of the plates makes you more vulnerable to knives and gunfire."

That's true, they made that trade-off and he was talking about something to stand up to dogs, etc. That I can buy - but how did she aim for the edge of the plates when they are now jet black (much cooler than the kind of grey they were before - I think this is the best Batsuit ever) AND HIDDEN BY HIS CAPE. I'll have to watch again, but you'd think the telltale "Why is she tugging on my cape? She doesn't tug on Superman's cape..." would clue him in. Plus, once Bane stole his Tumbler prototypes, he should've known Miranda Tate had leaked the info (granted, I didn't know at that point, but I'm not the World's Finest Detective). It just hurt to see Batman sit on his butt with his mouth open at the feet of the CRAZY CHICK FROM INCEPTION!

*huff huff* I need therapy :P

@ThePilot : Yes, that was Scarecrow.

@notquitevarsity : I see many of your points. I loved everything but the ending of Dark Knight, it was A+++, so this one was not quite as great. I know Avengers and DKR are apples and oranges (one's as realistic and grim as possible, the other is big fights and big laughs) but overall I liked the Avengers more, too. But that's probably because it was at the pinacle of comic book movies when it came out (only exceeded by Dark Knight) and I saw it 3 times. By the time DKR came out and with the d*mn midnight screening shooter I was watching it partly in defiance because people were talking about staying away and that chaffs my hide. Here in Oregon, we were the first to organize a big tourist flight to New York right after 911. Who knows what would have been our perceptions.

@Shawnbaby said:

@jwalser3 said:

I think girls get jealous about the situation. Not going to lie when my girlfriend wanted to see Captain America shirtless, lol.

Plus I always thought it was for better movement and flexibility.

Then why don't Men dress the same way? Look at the Pic of Star Sapphire and Green Lantern. The only skin he shows is on his face...she's practically naked.

QFT.