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Post by sunofdarkchild on Nov 23, 2015 20:10:42 GMT -5
Michael Keaton's Batman is only good if you assume he's playing someone other than Batman. No character growth over 2 movies, and last I checked Batman wasn't supposed to enjoy casually murdering people. Batman '89 and Returns don't have Batman in them, they have a psychotic sociopath who happens to wear a bat costume.
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Post by Hoosier X on Nov 23, 2015 20:37:56 GMT -5
The best Batman movie - by far! - is the one from the 1960s with Adam West.
There. I said it.
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Post by dupersuper on Nov 24, 2015 1:28:51 GMT -5
I always found this character fascinating. His name was Bloodsport.
His power was that he could make weapons materialize from thin air. Don't you wish you could make things( not weapons) materialize also? I would love to find keys, misplaced cell phones etc. Actually, he had no powers. Luthor kidnapped him and surgically implanted teleportation tech that he used to "beam" weapons to him from a secret storage place. Thus he got a gun that shoots kryptonite bullets. There was a second Bloodsport that was a white supremacist. The 2 were incarcerated in the same prison, and in an effort to peacefully release tensions they were allowed to compete against each other in a boxing match, but things went pear shaped and they were both killed. A third Bloodsport appeared in Back in Action (Busieks One Year Later story in the Super-books), but we didn't see his origin before the Flashpoint reboot.
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Post by dupersuper on Nov 24, 2015 1:32:45 GMT -5
I always found this character fascinating. His name was Bloodsport.
His power was that he could make weapons materialize from thin air. Don't you wish you could make things( not weapons) materialize also? I would love to find keys, misplaced cell phones etc. Have that issue. Remember enjoying it and that character quite a bit at the time. Didn't it ultimately spotlight the plight of veterans? Yeah: Bloodsport was messed up because he dodged the Vietnam draft, and his brother went in his place, getting his arms and legs shot off.
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Post by Icctrombone on Nov 24, 2015 6:21:17 GMT -5
I always found this character fascinating. His name was Bloodsport.
His power was that he could make weapons materialize from thin air. Don't you wish you could make things( not weapons) materialize also? I would love to find keys, misplaced cell phones etc. Actually, he had no powers. Luthor kidnapped him and surgically implanted teleportation tech that he used to "beam" weapons to him from a secret storage place. Thus he got a gun that shoots kryptonite bullets. There was a second Bloodsport that was a white supremacist. The 2 were incarcerated in the same prison, and in an effort to peacefully release tensions they were allowed to compete against each other in a boxing match, but things went pear shaped and they were both killed. A third Bloodsport appeared in Back in Action (Busieks One Year Later story in the Super-books), but we didn't see his origin before the Flashpoint reboot. Wow, I never knew the rest of the story. I only ever read the Byrne story.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Nov 24, 2015 12:31:07 GMT -5
Aunt May seriously surprised me here. Not the act itself...I mean, when I'm her age I wanna be all horny too, but who the hell says "Fuddy Duddy." I can't seem to find it online, but Charles Bukowski wrote something to the effect of .... don't let anyone tell you otherwise, life begins at 50. And for all the hard times and rough life he had before his writing became a success, for him it was true. And I start to wonder the same myself. I think life may be too short because it doesn't begin until it's ready to end. No I am not near 50, but I can saw I have quite a different outlook on the rest of my life now, then I did when I was 20, even though it's going to be quite shorter now. I don't think of things the same way I did young. Anyway, not to derail the subject, but here's a few more Bukowski quotes on life, age, sex and women. (In spoilers for adult language.) “I was 50 years old and hadn't been to bed with a woman for four years. I had no women friends. I looked at them as I passed them on the streets or wherever I saw them, but I looked at them without yearning and with a sense of futility. I masturbated regularly, but the idea of having a relationship with a woman- even on non-sexual terms-was beyond my imagination.”
“When I was young I was depressed all the time. But suicide no longer seemed a possibility in my life. At my age there was very little left to kill. It was good to be old, no matter what they said. It was reasonable that a man had to be at least 50 years old before he could write with anything like clarity. The more rivers you crossed, the more you knew about rivers – that is, if you survived the white water and the hidden rocks. It could be a rough cob, sometimes.”
‘I decided to live to be 80. Think of being 80 and f_____g an 18 year old girl. If there was any way to cheat the game of death, that was it.’
‘I was old and I was ugly. Maybe that’s why it felt so good to stick it into young girls. I was King Kong and they were lithe and tender. Was I trying to screw my way past death?
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Post by Arthur Gordon Scratch on Nov 24, 2015 17:40:04 GMT -5
The Classic Cover Contest is disheartingly conservative
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Post by Deleted on Nov 24, 2015 18:01:52 GMT -5
The Classic Cover Contest is disheartingly conservative What were you expecting?
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Post by Arthur Gordon Scratch on Nov 24, 2015 18:09:36 GMT -5
The Classic Cover Contest is disheartingly conservative What were you expecting? Well, obviously something else. I vote acording to esthetical points, not historical ones. I'll voye for a cover I'd be happy to be able to enjoy as a piece of art on my walls rather than a piece of history, or at least something thought provoking. And more often than I'd expect, most votes goes to the most conservative choice. But It's alright, this is only the "There. I said it" thread
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Nov 24, 2015 18:25:14 GMT -5
Well, obviously something else. I vote acording to esthetical points, not historical ones. I'll voye for a cover I'd be happy to be able to enjoy as a piece of art on my walls rather than a piece of history, or at least something thought provoking. And more often than I'd expect, most votes goes to the most conservative choice. But It's alright, this is only the "There. I said it" thread What an iconoclast. This man must be watched
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Post by Deleted on Nov 24, 2015 18:31:17 GMT -5
Well, obviously something else. I vote acording to esthetical points, not historical ones. I'll voye for a cover I'd be happy to be able to enjoy as a piece of art on my walls rather than a piece of history, or at least something thought provoking. And more often than I'd expect, most votes goes to the most conservative choice. But It's alright, this is only the "There. I said it" thread awww, don't be sad. Besides, I rarely vote in those things (unless requested) because you all are dirty rotten geniuses which makes it entirely TOO HARD for me to pick a cover. I just love them all.
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Post by Arthur Gordon Scratch on Nov 24, 2015 18:37:29 GMT -5
Well, obviously something else. I vote acording to esthetical points, not historical ones. I'll voye for a cover I'd be happy to be able to enjoy as a piece of art on my walls rather than a piece of history, or at least something thought provoking. And more often than I'd expect, most votes goes to the most conservative choice. But It's alright, this is only the "There. I said it" thread What an iconoclast. This man must be watched Hmmm... Sarcasm, interesting...
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Post by Deleted on Nov 24, 2015 18:38:48 GMT -5
What an iconoclast. This man must be watched Hmmm... Sarcasm, interesting... That's Ish's thing. We wouldn't want him any other way.
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Post by Prince Hal on Nov 24, 2015 20:00:39 GMT -5
Well, obviously something else. I vote acording to esthetical points, not historical ones. I'll voye for a cover I'd be happy to be able to enjoy as a piece of art on my walls rather than a piece of history, or at least something thought provoking. And more often than I'd expect, most votes goes to the most conservative choice. But It's alright, this is only the "There. I said it" thread But your most recent nominee wasn't exactly groundbreaking, either, paying homage as it did to a famous FF cover. Then again, this week's category may have lent itself to a more traditional style?
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Post by Arthur Gordon Scratch on Nov 24, 2015 20:23:50 GMT -5
Well, obviously something else. I vote acording to esthetical points, not historical ones. I'll voye for a cover I'd be happy to be able to enjoy as a piece of art on my walls rather than a piece of history, or at least something thought provoking. And more often than I'd expect, most votes goes to the most conservative choice. But It's alright, this is only the "There. I said it" thread But your most recent nominee wasn't exactly groundbreaking, either, paying homage as it did to a famous FF cover. Then again, this week's category may have lent itself to a more traditional style? It was indeed what it was, at least it was an experiment as it referenced that old cover in a somewhat inovative way as it played with the content and its perception by a third tier character. But indeed, this week's theme wasn't extremly fertile ground, or so I thought, first week in a long time though...
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