Nerds?

I totally agree.

Ditto. God was he annoying!

I think the big battle at the end with the 3 superheroes was the only good part of the movie. As was stated above, it was a set up for Justice League (which looks good, based on ComiCon trailer).

There were a couple times I stopped and rewound to see what I missed. (I mentioned I was playing CivRev at the same time). Only to discover, nope, didn't miss anything. Just horrible editing/storytelling. The Flash time warp sequence really confused me. I actually paused the damn movie to look that one up. WTF?! I'm also not a fan of time warp story lines. Especially in TV shows. Damn revisionist writing. And for the record, Dr. Who doesn't count as time warp story line. They just use the time machine as a mechanism to have a story plopped in the middle of anywhere. Genius!

(I should say, I'm not a comic books kid. I enjoy the super hero genre for film & tv, but never got into comic books. I know, blasphemy. Minus 100 house points).

Wow. Couple rants there. Sorry about that. Bored at work today. Lucky me!
 
Ditto. God was he annoying!

I think the big battle at the end with the 3 superheroes was the only good part of the movie. As was stated above, it was a set up for Justice League (which looks good, based on ComiCon trailer).

There were a couple times I stopped and rewound to see what I missed. (I mentioned I was playing CivRev at the same time). Only to discover, nope, didn't miss anything. Just horrible editing/storytelling. The Flash time warp sequence really confused me. I actually paused the damn movie to look that one up. WTF?! I'm also not a fan of time warp story lines. Especially in TV shows. Damn revisionist writing. And for the record, Dr. Who doesn't count as time warp story line. They just use the time machine as a mechanism to have a story plopped in the middle of anywhere. Genius!

(I should say, I'm not a comic books kid. I enjoy the super hero genre for film & tv, but never got into comic books. I know, blasphemy. Minus 100 house points).

Wow. Couple rants there. Sorry about that. Bored at work today. Lucky me!

Time warp stories are really convenient, but it's hard to pull it off well. For example I think the new Star Trek movie franchise did a really good job with the time warp story to create an alternate universe for it.

One thing that really annoys me about DC is their refusal to acknowledge the TV universe as significant. They already have a great Flash there, for example, and yet they shit all over the series and the fans by casting a new one for the Justice League. If they're going to ignore the TV universe, why let it exist in the first place? Having two separate universes will just confuse casual movie goers, and creates a barrier to entry for new fans into the DC Universe. Marvel has a much better overall strategy that integrates the entire TV and Movie universe, which makes it a lot easier to follow things.
 
Time warp stories are really convenient, but it's hard to pull it off well. For example I think the new Star Trek movie franchise did a really good job with the time warp story to create an alternate universe for it.

One thing that really annoys me about DC is their refusal to acknowledge the TV universe as significant. They already have a great Flash there, for example, and yet they shit all over the series and the fans by casting a new one for the Justice League. If they're going to ignore the TV universe, why let it exist in the first place? Having two separate universes will just confuse casual movie goers, and creates a barrier to entry for new fans into the DC Universe. Marvel has a much better overall strategy that integrates the entire TV and Movie universe, which makes it a lot easier to follow things.

OK Alex : what is crisis on infinite Earth's
 
did everyone get their Arceus today?
Nope, but I have been to GameSpot twice the past 2 days.

Nope, just played pokemon Go.
I just hit level 23! Made some friends tonight, all red team.

I have contemplated a tattoo in Gallifreyan several times. Just not sure what I want it to say...
Last month at a nerdy party I made a Gallifreyan necklace. The designs are really hard to fit on a little circle!
 
Nope, but I have been to GameSpot twice the past 2 days.


I just hit level 23! Made some friends tonight, all red team.


Last month at a nerdy party I made a Gallifreyan necklace. The designs are really hard to fit on a little circle!

Arceus is pretty cool.
Level 100 with Judgement as his/hers/its main move.
Multitype ability so it can be any type in the game depending on which plate it holds. ;)
 
Last month at a nerdy party I made a Gallifreyan necklace. The designs are really hard to fit on a little circle!

Hmmm, you could have made a larger, chunkier piece if the right supplies were available.
 
Nope, but I have been to GameSpot twice the past 2 days.


I just hit level 23! Made some friends tonight, all red team.


Last month at a nerdy party I made a Gallifreyan necklace. The designs are really hard to fit on a little circle!

Got any pics of the necklace?
 
What's your favorite sci-fi movie, tv show or series and why?

Mine always will be StarWars. The storyline is amazing, villians look incredible, the force is amazing and the fight to overthrow a Dictatorship.
 
I absolutely hated BvS. DC making Ben Affleck an executive producer is a good move, as he can hopefully make sure the story telling is decent. Snyder does make some decent action scenes, but all the bits inbetween are fucking rubbish.

Actually he has hinted at writing the next script himself. And being very close to the camera too. :/

That said it could be worse, Argo was brilliant. Snyder is overrated, many who can do good action scenes, all while driving a much better plot (Hellboy II had both). If I truly want to be amazed by action scenes, rather than by a guy who wants to crush anything and wipe his butt at everything just because he can, then I will go for Bayhem. Sucks as much as Snyder but at least he knows how to use the full screen estate of any theater.

Here's hoping they will leave Miller's Batman alone for the next few movies, next few arcs even. Milked to death, everybody knows by now that Batman *does* kill.
 
What's your favorite sci-fi movie, tv show or series and why?

Mine always will be StarWars. The storyline is amazing, villians look incredible, the force is amazing and the fight to overthrow a Dictatorship.

Hmmm...
Fantasy too?

Movie: Star Wars, episodes 4-7.
TV show: Twilight Zone
Books: LOTR, The Martian Chronicles, Harry Potter, authots Stephen King, Philip K. Dick, Gene Wolfe, Gaiman...

I'm more of a book nerd.

Star Wars, well. I was a kid. I remember the movie theaters only showed ONE movie, and we went to see it about 10 times. Changed my life.

Twilight Zone- how many episodes was William Shatner actually part of?
 
Hmmm...
Fantasy too?

Movie: Star Wars, episodes 4-7.
TV show: Twilight Zone
Books: LOTR, The Martian Chronicles, Harry Potter, authots Stephen King, Philip K. Dick, Gene Wolfe, Gaiman...

I'm more of a book nerd.

Star Wars, well. I was a kid. I remember the movie theaters only showed ONE movie, and we went to see it about 10 times. Changed my life.

Twilight Zone- how many episodes was William Shatner actually part of?


When it comes to LOTR books did you think the movies lived up to the books ?

I read the Flowers in the attic series, the Thomas Harris Hanibal Lector series and currently waiting for December to complete the StarWars Aftermath series.

I tried to read the Lestat series but I didn't get into interview with the Vampire enough to complete that series.
 
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What's your favorite sci-fi movie, tv show or series and why?

Mine always will be StarWars. The storyline is amazing, villians look incredible, the force is amazing and the fight to overthrow a Dictatorship.

I grew up on Star Wars, but then I found ST:TNG, I converted lol. DS9, and even early Voyager, were just as amazing. ENT not so much. Prequels are always hard to do, retconning things in.

Books: The Dark Tower Books from King, and anything Ray Bradbury. Also, The Vampire Chronicles from Anne Rice. And I went thru a William Gibson cyberpunk phase in college.

TV: Supernatural, until they killed off a character. X-File, until Mulder left. And Trek, always Trek.

And anything Marvel- I :heart: my comics and MCU
 
When it comes to LOTR books did you think the movies lived up to the books ?

I read the Flowers in the attic series, the Thomas Harris Hanibal Lector series and currently waiting for December to complete the StarWars Aftermath series.

I tried to read the Lestat series but I didn't get into interview with the Vampire enough to complete that series.

No. Don't even get me started. Far will be here for days.
One thing I did like? The Fellowship. Jackson's portrayal of Middle Earth fit my mind's eye.
Another? The score. The music is exquisite. So much low brass. It just fills me up.

The individual character performances? Who doesn't love Sean Bean?

BUT, I cannot forgive Jackson for Faramir. He raped him!
 
I grew up on Star Wars, but then I found ST:TNG, I converted lol. DS9, and even early Voyager, were just as amazing. ENT not so much. Prequels are always hard to do, retconning things in.

Books: The Dark Tower Books from King, and anything Ray Bradbury. Also, The Vampire Chronicles from Anne Rice. And I went thru a William Gibson cyberpunk phase in college.

TV: Supernatural, until they killed off a character. X-File, until Mulder left. And Trek, always Trek.

And anything Marvel- I :heart: my comics and MCU


Love Marvel more realistic than DC to me.
I didn't get into the Vampire Chronicles too much but enjoyed Interview with the Vampire
 
What's your favorite sci-fi movie, tv show or series and why?

Series: Star Trek: TNG. Picard was my idol when I was teenager. I just thought he was the biggest boss out there. Other shows I loved were Quantum Leap, and Angel.

Movie: Back To The Future - people forget it's a sci-fi movie for some reason. An all time classic.

Actually he has hinted at writing the next script himself. And being very close to the camera too. :/

That said it could be worse, Argo was brilliant. Snyder is overrated, many who can do good action scenes, all while driving a much better plot (Hellboy II had both). If I truly want to be amazed by action scenes, rather than by a guy who wants to crush anything and wipe his butt at everything just because he can, then I will go for Bayhem. Sucks as much as Snyder but at least he knows how to use the full screen estate of any theater.

Here's hoping they will leave Miller's Batman alone for the next few movies, next few arcs even. Milked to death, everybody knows by now that Batman *does* kill.


I would take anyone over Snyder! Affleck has proved himself to be a very capable director. Agree with you about Batman too, we've had enough of him for a while. I wouldn't take Bay though, he makes even better action scenes, but has the same negligence for plot that Snyder has. I don't know why people always assume comic book movies should be about action - stories made comic books great, not action. The best parts of Superman aren't him kicking ass because he's so ridiculously overpowered - they're about how the people around him humanise him, and how what he does affects both him and his friends.
 
No. Don't even get me started. Far will be here for days.
One thing I did like? The Fellowship. Jackson's portrayal of Middle Earth fit my mind's eye.
Another? The score. The music is exquisite. So much low brass. It just fills me up.

The individual character performances? Who doesn't love Sean Bean?

BUT, I cannot forgive Jackson for Faramir. He raped him!



Yes they turned Faramir into a weenie. Dam that Jackson.
 
I wouldn't take Bay though, he makes even better action scenes, but has the same negligence for plot that Snyder has.

I loathe Bay but I would rather go to the movies for Bay action scenes than for Snyder action scenes. Bay may actually manage to have me say 'WHOA' (first Transformers? Dinobots?).

Snyder will only crush what is actually supposed to be 'untouchable. Just because he can and if he can get away with it he will make it a detail even.

I don't know why people always assume comic book movies should be about action - stories made comic books great, not action. The best parts of Superman aren't him kicking ass because he's so ridiculously overpowered - they're about how the people around him humanise him, and how what he does affects both him and his friends.

I grew up with Batman (on TV), while my dad took a turn towards Spelling TV series, I got lost in Stephen King and then discovered DC Comics. I devour anything which is a 'true mindfuck'.

Marvel is my entertainment (Aaron's run on Wolverine and few select other arcs being the exception)... when I don't want to think. The DC rogue gallery and conflicted main minds are my food.

When at the end of a story arc you can make me want to punch the Joker in the face you've won.



Disclosure: I think Jason Aaron is God, as in "FFS when is the next episode coming already!?"
 
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