"So, where do you want it?"Originally Posted by Flamethrower
"Please, not the face, for my mother, not the face!"
"The face it is!"
"So, where do you want it?"
"Please, not the face, for my mother, not the face!"
"The face it is!"
Actually, Sly suited that role. They have the same attitude and the same face. I read the comics as a kid and it fit well.
Bow before the mighty Javoo!
I remember reading about the growth of Superman's character, and he's become much more powerful over the years. It used to be nothing short of a tank shell could hurt him, but now that would be nothing. Really, the only Superman series I've ever liked is the one in which he's killed by Doomsday. The resulting comics are fantastic, because there are four different people wearing the Superman emblem, and their stories all eventually intertwine; plus, it brings out the whole DC universe. Any comic with Green Lantern, Batman, Superman, etc. is going to rock.
He's stronger than he was originally intended to be (I've seen some old animated shorts from the 40's that prove he used to be pretty weak), but he's actually weaker than he was a few decades ago. I remember hearing about one story that had him and the Flash racing to see who was faster. In about two seconds they both made it around the world, and the race ended with them reaching the end of the Universe. Not only can Superman not do anything close to that now, but I believe the Flash is much faster than him. That's always been my biggest problem with some of DC's superhero's. Superman just seems way too powerful, everything I've read about the Flash makes me think he's probably way to fast, and I could go on. It just seems some of the hero's themselves are less interesting because they have very few limits, and almost no one who can match their power.
Beginnings
I actually quite liked liked Batman Begins at points. Unlike the movies in the series after Tim Burton and Michael Keaton went it actually seemed to have some vague pathos there. It was also just quite nicely made and scored. Nolan (can't for the life of me remember his first name) can make even the dreariest and most boring material look good, and instill some feeling in it in my opinion... as anyone who's seen the Insomnia remake might well agree. Given decent material he can really run (see Memento). While Batman is a bit of mixed affair I'm not sure a lot of this isn't down to working with a character who's become and industry... it's bloody hard to please everyone when making a movie of a comic. My only real gripe with the film was it's fight scenes. Ever since Ridley Scott's Gladiator there's been this huge habit of getting in way too close for my liking. The idea seems to be to combine sound and close visuals to give a heightened impression of actually feeling the blows... But too often I just can't see what the hell is going on. I get the impression it's rather cool, but that's not much good if I can't bloody see it.
The Spidey films I really do rate up there though. I'm not a great fan of the way the characters have been done, and really not at all of the actors portraying them (just what good is Kirsten Dunst?), but the film put some much needed colour and humour back in comic book adaptations in my opinion. Up until that point all I remember are the dreary over serious colours that Tim Burton gave us for the first Batman film (which were good at the time) and have since been copied down in ever following superhero film right down to the nippled bloody armour. Spiderman films actually have some colour and daylight.
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