Tenshinhan
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Well, this is a bit unexpected. I don't think he had been sick for very long. He was still doing interviews and making appearances and such.
Not really a huge fan of TAS or the DCAU, and I think that their take on Batman was overrated, but Kevin Conroy was great as Bruce Wayne/Batman. Even when the writing was shit, Conroy could still sell it. His performance is classic. Definitely iconic.
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29 minutes ago, Hiyo said:
Which is pretty normal for street level vigilantes loool
Except that the Batman is not a normal street level vigilante. It's a superhero comic. He wears a Bat costume, and he's a billionaire.
35 minutes ago, Hiyo said:I suppose the Batcave was also just a souped up headquarters...
Well... yes. It's just a cave that has been converted into an office and workspace.
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9 minutes ago, Hiyo said:
The Batmobile always was high tech relative to it's era, as was the Batplane.
Not really. It's a souped up car and airplane. Nothing astoundingly hi-tech. Especially compared to the 1990s comic book upgrades or the Nolan/Burton stuff.
13 minutes ago, Hiyo said:You don't see Daredevil with a plane or car.
Only because that's not his gimmick, it's Batman's. And because Matt Murdock ain't rich.
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There's nothing especially hi-tech about the pre-90s Batplane in my view. As well as the Batmobile and the rest. Not until the Wayne Enterprises concept began to expand in the 90s when so much was explained away with military contracts and advanced scientific research divisions and so forth.
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1 hour ago, YaddaYadda said:
What's the big deal about the hmms and awws with Reiko? It's not like Elizabeth killed her when she pushed her down the stairs. We've been told that St. Reiko died from Blackwood disease or whatever it's called.
I'm guessing that maybe the disease will turn out to be some kind of a cover story and the fall somehow killed her. Or if not then some other kind of cover up involving Jeff, maybe a pregnancy... who knows.
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14 hours ago, Hiyo said:
I think the only time we see a Batman that is this low-tech is when they are doing Year One era stories.
I would argue that most of the pre-1990s stories are relatively low-tech compared to what we see in the Nolan/Burton/Schumacher films. Maybe somewhat more high tech than in this particular film, but not hugely so in my view.
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16 hours ago, Hiyo said:
Depends which Batman you are reading.
That's somewhat true, but I think that the lower-tech aspects and eras of the comics outnumbers the higher-tech stuff.
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I too appreciate the more down-to-earth Batman stuff. It aligns closer with the comic books more than the super hi-tech stuff from the previous film series.
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2 hours ago, Dani said:
He’s right from his and your perspective. He’s not right from mine. I could give multiple examples that I feel prove him wrong. A few have already been mentioned.
It's not a matter of perspective, really. Just look at the differences between Cameron's films and a Marvel or DC film. One is rooted in comic books, where things have to continue on endlessly and can only grow and change to a limited extent. Cameron doesn't make movies like that.
3 hours ago, Dani said:Like when he decided to say Wonder Woman wasn’t empowering to women and praised Ripley and Sarah Connor. It takes a lot of arrogance to tell women who they should find empowering.
It's ok to prefer one kind of empowerment to another. I don't think that is necessarily the same thing as telling women what is empowering and what's not, or that it's necessarily arrogant. Especially if it comes from a place of knowledge and understanding. Much of it depends upon what his comments actually were and how he went about expressing his views.
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Cameron is right with his comments. However, he shouldn't expect anything different from these types of movies. It's just the genre. I get that he doesn't like that kind of storytelling, but there are many different ways to make movies.
7 hours ago, Anduin said:But when you insult something that a lot of people love, it makes you look like an asshole.
It's ok to be critical of something that a lot of people love.
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6 hours ago, Ambrosefolly said:
- He hang AJ on a meat hook and threatened to stage an accident unless he signed over his parental rights, because his shrew of an ex wife couldn't even have AJ have supervised visitation with Michael. Never corrected when Guza come back.
- He had assassins go to kill AJ on his honeymoon with Courtney (when she wasn't terrible at that time CAJey was superior to Journey from the few clips I saw)
- He groomed a brain damaged Jason and fully turned him against his family and turned him into a hitman
- He kidnapped Johnny Zachara from his home.
- He shot his own son in the chest and expected Dante to forgive him.
- He killed AJ.
None of this is particularly evil, in my view. Morally questionable, perhaps, but not evil. Sonny is a criminal, so he can be somewhat villainous.
But again, generally speaking, most of Sonny's murders are rival mobsters and criminals.
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4 hours ago, hypnotoad said:
When did Sonny stop being a horrible villain? He's a mob boss who has had quite a number of people murdered, beaten etc.
Those people he had murdered and beaten are usually rival mobsters, so I don't think that necessarily makes Sonny some kind of evil monster. He's a criminal, yes, but that doesn't automatically make him horrible in my view.
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39 minutes ago, Morrigan2575 said:
Namora but, no Namorita...guess she's in the next movie. Why is Namora blue? Isn't she mixed race like Namor?
They probably just went with Namora since Namorita is essentially the second version of the original and not necessary.
Namora may not be mixed-race in this version for whatever story purposes.
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5 hours ago, ffwbe said:
But what is the story?
That's the question, which is why the story will drag on until the writers figure it out.
5 hours ago, perkie1968 said:Kristina also seems to be sniffing around because I'm sure it will be a triangle with Joss winning, so Dex would also be her half brother's half brother.
I find this funny because Joss is like 20 while Kristina is like 30. That's an interesting triangle.
5 hours ago, sacrebleu said:But why would Dex keep working for Sonny after the guy was prepared to torture him???
To prove just how loyal he is to Sonny. "See Boss? I want this job so bad I'm literally willing to be hung up in a freezer and cut to pieces for it! Don't you trust me??!!"
5 hours ago, perkie1968 said:If she's not, than she really should reconsider her wardrobe choices since she's wearing the exact thing that Diane discribed the hooker to be wearing!
Which is why I don't think it's her. That's way too obvious. She's probably just supposed to be hiding.
There's way way more that they can do with the Esme character than make her a killer. It would be a serious waste of Avery Pohl's talents, not to mention all of the story threads that they have already set up with her.
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I don't really think that Esme is the killer, but I'm glad she's back.
1 hour ago, lala2 said:I guess they will just let Dex walk away from Sonny now w/no consequences or better yet they dumb Sonny down to the point of ridiculousness and have him keep Dex on?!??!?!?!!
I'd be shocked if Sonny doesn't keep Dex on. I can see this Michael vs Sonny story running into next year.
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I see they brought back the Temp Brando from a few months ago as the inmate "Book". It was bugging me where I recognized him from.
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On 9/30/2022 at 5:55 PM, Daisy said:
I don't think it's a man speaking for a woman thing...
Except it's exactly that. Curtis is a man and Trina is a woman.
On 9/30/2022 at 5:55 PM, Daisy said:...because quite frankly if a woman did it, I'd still say the same thing. "Good."
Responding the same way if the situation were reversed doesn't really nullify the sexism/misogyny of the original situation.
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I hope once the truth comes out that Taggert and Trina both tell Curtis and Portia to stay the hell away from them forever. Then Selina Wu sets up Curtis and he is arrested publicly for his crimes by Jordan. Selina takes over the club and puts Brad in as manager. Curtis gets to spend the next twenty years in prison reflecting upon his life choices.
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If Rory is the killer, wouldn't that make him some kind of psychopath? Somehow I can't see the actor playing openly psycho if the time comes.
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7 hours ago, Spartan Girl said:
Also why the hell are they giving all the Hulk comic villains to Captain America?
Although she may have began as an antagonist to the Hulk, Sabra isn't a villain, and she isn't really associated with the Hulk comics as much as she is with the X-Men and the larger Marvel Universe in general.
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About ten minutes on Google will make it clear as to why the Sabra character is so problematic.
I believe that Marvel Studios has already released a statement suggesting that they will be re-imagining the character and taking a different approach. I certainly hope they do.
QuoteShoot- they made a movie where a literal King decides that the policies of his government/forefathers are wrong, and served to help create the enemy he needs to defeat.
I'd like to think that this is where they are going...
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Maybe only every other person attacked by the killer will die. First Brando and then whoever is fourth and so on.
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2 hours ago, Spartan Girl said:
If historical fiction movies about famous white people can fudge the facts, so can movies about famous POC.
True, however when it's films about Blacks and other minorities then the consequences of historical inaccuracies are much worse than if it were White-centered films. So I can understand why so many are sensitive to the issue.
2 hours ago, Spartan Girl said:Social media is just the worst, and certain people that aren’t Black have been using the boycott controversy for their whataboutism when it comes to historical culpability.
Those kinds of people have always existed and will jump on any opportunity to distort reality in their pursuit of anti-Blackness.
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Maybe it was the writers who were pushed down some stairs. Actually, that would explain a lot...
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The Marvel Cinematic Universe: The Avengers, etc.
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There doesn't have to be any kind of necessity when taking liberties with established characters. If the writers and director want to take a new and different approach to a character, then that's all that's required. It all comes down to what best serves the story and filmmakers' vision.
I hadn't realized that Namor's characterization in the film was somehow unfaithful to the comic books. Or are you referring to the character's costume and design? Because in my view there's a lot more to being a faithful film adaptation than just a character's appearance.