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Post by impulse on May 25, 2022 11:15:45 GMT -5
Ghost Rider aside, who needs a shotgun of any kind while wearing the Infinity Gauntlet??
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Post by Deleted on May 25, 2022 11:17:57 GMT -5
Why the F does Ghost Rider need a shotgun?
He's been known to use his flames to conjure up other mystical weapons, like pistols, knives and shotguns that shoot 'Hellfire bullets'.
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Post by badwolf on May 25, 2022 11:18:19 GMT -5
The GL movie was alright. Too bad about Ryan Reynolds though. I mean, that he was in it.
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Post by Graphic Autist on May 25, 2022 12:24:57 GMT -5
The GL movie was alright. Too bad about Ryan Reynolds though. I mean, that he was in it. I thought it wasn't as bad as most say it is. But that doesn't mean I'm saying it was a good movie.
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Post by impulse on May 25, 2022 12:34:43 GMT -5
It was fine for a superhero movie of the period. Nowhere near as bad as it is commonly treated.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on May 25, 2022 12:50:33 GMT -5
It was fine for a superhero movie of the period. Nowhere near as bad as it is commonly treated.
Still haven't seen it even on Netflix, but I expect I wouldn't dislike it overmuch. So many of the recent genre movies excoriated by fans were, at worst, sort of meh... not the kind of gouge-my-own-eyes-out productions they're made out to be.
Actually, many of the highly praised superhero movies are also sort of meh.
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Post by impulse on May 25, 2022 12:54:05 GMT -5
It was fine for a superhero movie of the period. Nowhere near as bad as it is commonly treated. Still haven't seen it even on Netflix, but I expect I wouldn't dislike it overmuch. So many of the recent genre movies excoriated by fans were, at worst, sort of meh... not the kind of gouge-my-own-eyes-out productions they're made out to be. Actually, many of the highly praised superhero movies are also sort of meh.
It was pleasantly entertaining if nothing close to groundbreaking.
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Post by tonebone on May 25, 2022 13:34:09 GMT -5
The GL movie was alright. Too bad about Ryan Reynolds though. I mean, that he was in it. I thought it wasn't as bad as most say it is. But that doesn't mean I'm saying it was a good movie. It was just so full of missteps. Jordan was almost impossible to root for, and was totally unbelievable as a test pilot. So much of it took place in space, and it felt completely ungrounded in reality and unrelatable. GL's constructs were so unimaginative. The CGI suit just added to the mushy, quasi-realistic CGI of everything else, characters, backgrounds, everything. The yellow parallax creature was formless and anything but scary, and his origin point of being Hector Hammond was dumb. Sinestro was forgettable. And, the most frequent misstep in the DCU, the movie was set up as the beginning of a franchise, not as a movie.
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Post by tartanphantom on May 25, 2022 14:43:06 GMT -5
It was fine for a superhero movie of the period. Nowhere near as bad as it is commonly treated.
Still haven't seen it even on Netflix, but I expect I wouldn't dislike it overmuch. So many of the recent genre movies excoriated by fans were, at worst, sort of meh... not the kind of gouge-my-own-eyes-out productions they're made out to be.
Actually, many of the highly praised superhero movies are also sort of meh.
This is how I feel about 90% of comic book-based movies. If a comic book is made into a movie, I generally get about as excited as if a movie is adapted into a comic book... which is usually "meh". There are exceptions, of course, but they are few and far between.
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Post by codystarbuck on May 25, 2022 14:44:17 GMT -5
Why the F does Ghost Rider need a shotgun?
He's been known to use his flames to conjure up other mystical weapons, like pistols, knives and shotguns that shoot 'Hellfire bullets'.
Not in my day. He used Hellfire directly and rode around looking cool on a chopper.
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Post by Deleted on May 25, 2022 16:06:13 GMT -5
He's been known to use his flames to conjure up other mystical weapons, like pistols, knives and shotguns that shoot 'Hellfire bullets'. Not in my day. He used Hellfire directly and rode around looking cool on a chopper. well since the change happened in the early 90s, it's been about 30 years since your day. -M
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Post by commond on May 25, 2022 16:59:54 GMT -5
Never expected to see a Ghost Rider cover like this...
^ 2017 cover
...and here's back to basics in 2022
I think people are missing the point of the variant cover. It's a beefcake pin up.
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Post by codystarbuck on May 25, 2022 17:34:40 GMT -5
Not in my day. He used Hellfire directly and rode around looking cool on a chopper. well since the change happened in the early 90s, it's been about 30 years since your day. -M I refuse to acknowledge the passage of time.
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Post by codystarbuck on May 25, 2022 17:35:19 GMT -5
My joints and hair (or lack thereof) are a different matter.....
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Post by Deleted on May 28, 2022 21:59:21 GMT -5
I did a cover to cover first time read today of the collected edition of the 80's Squadron Supreme series by Mark Gruenwald. I would normally post a comment in the "what classic comics have you read lately" thread, but based on what I'm about to say it felt more appropriate to post here.
How the heck is this not celebrated as the one of the major masterpieces of the 80's? This gives Dark Knight Returns and Watchmen a run for their money IMO. I might like it more actually. I regret waiting all these years to finally read it.
The fact that it could pull off the intensity of a powerful superhero deconstruction storyline (and before EVERYONE was trying to emulate this) but still look and feel like a fairly "all ages" mainstream Bronze Age book I think is genius.
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