But knowing that some random guy possibly survives till the end is a pretty overanxious definition of spoilers. But granted, that attitude has indeed become rather prevalent on the internet lately. So I acknowledge that you might not even be the only one considering such a thing a serious spoiler.
Last week saw the release of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2, the conclusion of the Hunger Games series. So due to popular demand we're starting a topic challenge from 2015-11-25 00:00 UTC to 2015-12-06 23:00 UTC asking for any kind of question about the Hunger Games movies (conveniently ta...
World War II Movie, South Pacific, lone American GI on an island with a Japanese ship nearby. The American tries to pick off the Japanese sailors one at a time. I thought Robert Wagner was the actor, but IMDB doesn't show he was in a movie with this description. Perhaps released in the late 50...
1950's or early 1960's epic, classic motion picture about a battle for power among 2 Roman men of prestige. The cinematic climax has one or both falling a great way into a giant vat of liquid metal? or being preserved in a casing of metal? I was just a kid.
The final words that Katniss Everdeen says to her newborn before the end credits included what I'm interested in knowing goes something like: "... why they came. Why they're here, and why they won't ever leave..." I wasn't certain what she was referring to, but if I have the actual words she sai...
We know from watching the movies that Cinna created the Mockingjay outfit in black. In the MJ2 movie posters, Katniss is most often shown as wearing deep red. Is there a significance to this? Was there anything put out in the press or online which tells us why they designed the posters this way? ...
Its already a long time ago but somebody answered "Pink with blue clouds" to a question regarding a paintjob and that reminded me of a line in an old movie from he 50s or 60s.
I don't know if the exact line is "Pink with blue clouds" because I saw that film with German dubs where it said "rosa m...
I'm in search of a film a saw when I was a kid. From what I remember the film may be about a child who is paralyzed.
I have in mind a scene where the parents(or doctors), in their despair are saying to the child(more times) something like this:
"Tell your brain to tell your body to tell your ha...
I just started rewatching What Dreams May Come and noticed at the beginning where Chris and Annie are getting married, he is walking with her down the aisle in what is apparently a Catholic church. Whether it is actually Catholic or not is not necessarily important, rather that they are obviously...
Canadian short movie/film, about 10-15 mins. It is about a family in the Arctic that live in their Igloo and are quickly running out of food because there just isn't anything to hunt for some reason. The female daughter decides to go out looking for food, and decides to cross a marking and go bey...
I simply spent this cash should give it a CD forty minutes after the fact after runningSpinRite on level 2 I had the whole circle back didn't lose a solitary attractive piece well there were a couple of ahead of schedule areas reported as mostly recouped so presumably lost some 70-243 Practice e...
@AnkitSharma Well they aren't going to spell out the entire plot. First trailers are often just used to given an indication of what it will be about, who is in it and set the general tone.
I remember seeing a movie when I was a kid about high tech wrist watches that when wore, if the user would get himself killed, it would revive him.
Other details:
- the guy got the watches from a friend who died;
- after each use the watch became useless;
- there were about 6-7 watches in total;...
@AnkitSharma Well from what I can see, it is still very much a Captain America film - he still seems to be the main character, and I like that. But Bucky is a character whose ties to the other characters we know in the MCU is complex, and I'm looking forward to seeing how that plays out.
@AnkitSharma Well what they are fighting for is important to both sides. Tony is watching Steve (the man who Tony's father idolised) take the side of the man who killed his parents. That must hurt, a lot.
@AnkitSharma It really, really wasn't. It's a dumb line, it doesn't make sense within the context of what we know about Superman, it isn't the kind of thing Batman is likely to say and it is an awful way to start what should be a great friendship between two people.
@AnkitSharma I wouldn't have made them fight this early on. I'd have built them up as allies first - that's why their fight in The Dark Knight Returns actually works, because their preexisting relationship means that it matters.
@AnkitSharma But the whole reason that I'm psyched for Captain America: Civil War is that I am invested in these characters and their relationships with each other thanks to the fact that I have seen them as friends and team mates before. A natural consequence of that is that any fights between them will have impact that the ones between two strangers will not.
@AnkitSharma Maybe more from the repeated attitude of talking down movies that aren't released yet for reasons not grounded in any actual knowledge at all rather than assumed storylines and character portrayals based on negligible dialogue snippets.
The Owl (Leland Owlsley) is a fictional supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics, usually as an enemy of the superheroes Daredevil, Spider-Man and Black Cat. Created by writer Stan Lee and artist Joe Orlando, the character first appeared in Daredevil #3 (August 1964).
The character has appeared in numerous media adaptations, including the Netflix web television series Daredevil, in which he is played by Bob Gunton.
== Publication historyEdit ==
The character first appeared in Daredevil #3 (August 1964). He was a recurring foe of Daredevil during the 1960s and 1970s...
@AnkitSharma Well Fisk dropped him down an elevator shaft, so I doubt he's coming back. Then again, I have no idea how high up they were meant to be, so...
Anyway, there clearly hasn't been enough discussion about the Captain America: Civil War trailer yet. Did you guys spot Ant-Man?
In the Wikipedia article about Michael we have:
Unlike his two older brothers, Michael shuns the Corleone "family business"
In the first movie of The Godfather trilogy, the first talk of Michael Corleone is ambiguous in defining if he is against his family's business, because he talks about...
@AnkitSharma Wow, I learned it had been posted online before work this morning and jumped out of bed to watch it on my PC rather than mobile. I was so excited.
It's amazing how mad actual fanboys (in this instance, those of the DC variety) get mad when you dare question something they like.
It's not my fault that Man of Steel is an objectively bad film, but for pointing that out some people think that I've dedicated my life to a rival company. Why?
@AnkitSharma It's almost like we've had multiple films exploring the characters in the MCU and setting up logical reasons why they might fight - which isn't true in Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice.
@AnkitSharma As far this, I like Supergirl and The Dark Knight as well as Jessica Jones and The Avengers, so...
@AnkitSharma Also, tone isn't an indicator of quality. Stupid people might think it is, but just because someone likes one light-hearted thing doesn't mean that they have to like all light-hearted things.
Here is briefly what I rememeber:
A husband and a wife were living together. They had sex and all. For example, there was one time where he used his shirt to hold her hand while doing. However, I forgot why but they started quarreling. She got abused as well. One day, he called his gang (wearing...
@steelerfan I presume it's an American thing, I don't know anything about it. I'm more interested in seeing the director of Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) taking on a film a bit less... self-involved.
@steelerfan Well, I have a major family event this weekend and some major work event next wednesday (+preparation the days before). Otherwise I'd definitely say yes to that offer (provided the offer includes game and plane tickets, of course).
I was a young teenager in the 80's. I watched a movie where a guy could see people weren't people when he wore (special) glasses. At the end they got him and you got a view through his glasses (of what he saw) when they got knocked off.
Now I know I was a young and impressional child but the fi...
So here's what i remember:
The movie's about a guy,who took part in some government experiments,and now he's a killing machine
He arries at a family's house,and says he knew their son in the military
He helps the family's son and his sister
The sister calls the military and finds out that he's ...
Ahhhhh, nothing like being a contractor on the day before a national holiday, all your coworkers get to leave early, and you can too if you don't mind losing the hours from your paycheck.
here goes a very vague one, I hope someone can recognize this movie.
It was shown on HBO, or maybe Cinecanal latino on late 90's or early 2000's. I got it by the middle, so i didn't get the plot very well.
It was a sci-fi movie about a group of space travelers (all young, around 20-30 years old),...
@Axelrod Pretty much. Normally I'd leave when everyone else does because I make good money here, but with a two week trip to China for my brother-in-law's wedding, where I also proposed to my now wife, which lead to me taking a week off for the wedding plus the expense of the wedding, all in this year, kiiiiinda feeling I should stay and get as many hours as possible during the holidays.
@Axelrod Currently looking into a few opportunities elsewhere, but I would like to go direct here. Problem is most of what comes open is for management and/or business analyst, but I don't want those jobs. I want to write code, period. I'm an IT guy, not a, "Run these reports and handle this crap while occasionally writing code," guy.
I've come to rather like contract work, though. Should you get cut or want to leave it's easier to explain to future employers, but the biggest benefit is better work/life balance. Salary jobs usually viewed me as, "Ooooo, free overtime!" Contract gigs want me to stop as soon as I hit 40 hours on the week or else they have to pay me 1.5x my rate, so no overtime and no after hours/weekends unless they're factored into my 40.
Also lets me hop around and work on things I'd like to rather than things I have to, and it usually pays more. This gig netted me an $18k pay raise over my last gig, and one of the gigs (that would be 6 month contract to hire) would net me a further $13k/year for the short contract period.
$31k in pay raises over a span of 2 years. No way in hell you'd see that in a salaried gig.
You know, should this other gig work out, point is that it's possible.
If you go for direct hires, you can get that by hopping from one business to another.
IE, in the defense industry, Northrop will pay ~60K for entry level, Boeing ~70 for one year experience, GA ~80 for 1.5, and Northrop then goes up to ~90 for 2.
They're all on different clocks.
But of course that all pales compared to private if you can snag a good one.
Defense caps out around 150, private has no upper bound depending on company culture.
Yeah, the problem with hopping perm gigs is that some of the "old dog" hiring managers view that as a problem. They see it as you're not willing to commit, or that there may be a larger problem with you that you're trying to hide. Doing so with contract work, which is more volatile? Not as big a deal to them.
In IT it's a bit easier to get away with as I can write it off as I want to work on newer/different stuff, but that can also run the risk with older management of making it look like you'll cut and run if you get bored.
The truth is I simply don't trust a lot of companies nowadays, who demand loyalty while showing little to none in return. Standardized pay raises through "performance reviews", trying to do way more with way less in terms of man power and hours, yet if you don't show them loyalty, you're the one with the problem.
Being a contractor lets me better pick and choose where I want to go, what I work on, and if I have to cut and run it's far easier to explain. Throw in typically higher pay rates, and the fact I don't get paid time off isn't a huge deal to me as I don't usually take much time off during the year to start with.
I also no longer work on promises. "Come in and do this for us then we'll let you do this," or, "Yeah it's older tech, but we're planning to move to the newer, better stuff in 12 to 18 months," doesn't mean squat to me anymore. Made a move for more money and higher pay that promised to let me get into development work after 12 to 18 months of support work, and a year in they bought software that did 95% of what they wanted so my opportunities vanished in a single town hall meeting.
I literally just passed on a permanent gig because I'd have to support their existing code base, written in a very niche language I'd never heard of before, while also helping them build out their new platform, which would also include writing desktop apps, something I'm also not keen to doing. Apparently really disappointed the hiring manager on that one.
@Axelrod This could literally take all day, and I'm writing a Jessica Jones review right now, so I'll give you the TL;DR version.
1) Grit as a replacement for depth. The Nolan films made sure that the grit contained within them had valid thematic reasons to be there, whereas Man of Steel was posturing, acting as if it had depth while containing none.
@Axelrod Probably the same reasons all the other internet people complain about it, i.e. "evil Superman makes Metropolis broken", "evil Zack Synader no likes color", ... ;-)
2) Cognitive dissonance. What Man of Steel said and what it did were two very different things. Long speeches about hope and heroism were met with characters doing the exact opposite while the film attempted to pass their actions off as meeting the themes indicated by the speeches. Part of this is due to point 3, which is;
3) A deep misunderstanding of what Superman means. Snyder and co took a character whose entire point is his infallibility and inability to do wrong, and tried to make him flawed. They did this by turning Clark Kent into someone who isn't Clark Kent - he let his father die for no reason and wasn't concerned about collateral damage at any point in the film. They also gave him 'attitude', not understanding that...
Superman can't serve as a counter-point and inspiration to other superheroes if he is exactly like them. He cannot be held up as a good example without actually being a good example.
In addition to those 3 points, I also think that Snyder is a director more focused on visuals than he is telling a good story, and I think that shows in most of his work, but particularly here.
And at a surface level, the Metropolis fight scene last way too long, was visually boring and didn't gel with what people (myself included) expect from a Superman film.
He let his father die because his father told him to. Anything less would have endangered everything. And he started caring, which is kind of the point. He was always the man of steel, but he only became Superman at the end when defending the innocent became more important than his own desires.
Pff, very nice and entertaining film nevertheless. And sometimes people tend to overemphasize story in what is and has always been an audiovisual medium anyway.
@Axelrod But in-universe, he so easily could have saved his father, or gone to save the dog instead of him, thus avoiding putting his father in harms way in the first place. And we never see the version of Superman you describe here in Man of Steel - "when defending the innocent became more important than his own desires".
@NapoleonWilson Ok. If I was judging it as a visual effects reel, it would be pretty great. But I'm not, because as George Lucas has proved, visual effects do not a film make.
@DrRDizzle You don't have to chose other criteria, of course. That's your good right. But you do have a tendency to pose your however well-reasoned personal opinion as objective fact. which just doesn't work.
@DrRDizzle Alone, of course. Because out of that story you, uh, still have to make a, well, a film actually.
@NapoleonWilson It works for me. And I when asked about films in this way, I do try to distance my opinion (which is subjective) from a more objective analysis of the film. It's not always 100% possible, but I try.
@NapoleonWilson Which is why I've explained my thought process as clearly as possible, with 2/3 of the main criticisms being me showing why the film is dishonest about the way it presents itself - that's as close to a fact as you can get.
You're like all those IMDb people who COULD have a good rant, except they decide to throw in Worst Movie Ever and then no one listens to them. If you didn't use the phrase "objectively bad", the rest of your argumentation would be fine.
Also. The definition of objective - "not influenced by personal feelings or opinions in considering and representing facts". That's exactly what I am trying to do here - analysing things about the film an explaining why they don't work.
Which isn't the same as saying why I don't like it.
@DrRDizzle A movie about a perfect, infallible character who can't be wrong and never is would be the most boring movie ever. It would be like a movie about the Abrahamic god - no one wants to watch someone being perfect and never facing a significant challenge.
Case in point: Snyder was merely tapped to direct MOS, not write it. They specifically tapped him for the job as he would just direct the film and not try to get too creative with it beyond the scope of the script. WB just needed a film to be pushed out because of various litigation matters that were going on with the Superman franchise at the time (which have since been resolved).
TL;DR: Snyder was hired to get shit done, and not be smart about it.
@DrRDizzle My point is that putting any blame on Snyder is largely unjustified. More to that point, WB back was up against a wall and it was either put something out or lose rights to the franchise. Given that I feel they put out something far better than I expected it to be, given the circumstances.
@DrRDizzle They usually are, but not when losing one of the biggest superhero franchises in the world is on the line because the heirs of the creators simply want more money and are being giant dicks about things.
@WadCheber I don't understand why you are posting these, they are all from a alternate universe that exists to show what happens when Superman goes too far.
@MattD That's more to do with his power set and general invulnerability (and some writers inabilities to create stakes that aren't based around character death) than it is his personality.
I really wish Warner Animation would get back to doing animated shows. I'd say work with Adult Swim at this point and feed the crowd that made them big in the 90s and early 2000s, since Cartoon Network doesn't seem to want to get the job done anymore.
@WadCheber I find it easier to relate with someone just wanting to good in anyway he can than I do with someone struggling with the weight of thousands of deaths on his shoulders, but you do you.
To me, the biggest issue with MoS is the pacing. The story is too jagged and transitions from one moment to the next rather poorly, which detracts from the more human and character building moments.
Accepting that you are essentially a god is traumatic - how do you use that power without becoming a tyrant or a megalomaniac, either through inaction, error, or deliberate intent? This was the first movie to depict the truth of Superman's struggle with his omnipotence. It couldn't have been done without Watchmen coming before it.
The alternative to Superman as seen in MoS is Dr. Manhattan as seen in Watchmen.
@WadCheber Exactly, which is why a buddy of mine who hated Superman before seeing MoS found Dr. Manhattan to be so much better because he's so much more realistic. If you can do literally anything, essentially a god among men, why would you care about the struggles of beings lesser than you?
Superman: Red Son is a three-issue prestige format comic book mini-series published by DC Comics that was released under their Elseworlds imprint in 2003. Author Mark Millar created the comic with the premise "what if Superman had been raised in the Soviet Union?" It received critical acclaim and was nominated for the 2004 Eisner Award for best limited series.
The story mixes alternate versions of DC super-heroes with alternate-reality versions of real political figures such as Joseph Stalin and John F. Kennedy. The series spans approximately 1953-2001, save for a futuristic epilogue.
In Red Son...
@MattD It's good. THAT is a proper look at Superman as a character - with the same personality but slightly different circumstances, what does he look like?
Looks like 2016 will be a better year for superhero movies.
Deadpool, Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice, Captain America: Civil War, X-Men: Apocolypse, Suicide Squad. Also possibles for Gambit and Doctor Strange, which so far haven't shown anything if I'm not mistaken.
The only one in that list I'm iffy on is probably Suicide Squad, only because I'm hopeful that Age of Apocolypse will continue the X-Men movie recovery.
So, of them, I'd say you're least/not stoked for Batman vs. Superman, though I'd also be willing to admit that's the "obvious" choice given today's conversation.
@DrRDizzle I know, I double checked on Wikipedia before saying anything. Saying filming only just began is still valid since it's literally only been filming for 21 days.
@MattD The ones I am excited for are (in release date order) Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice, Captain America: Civil War, Doctor Strange and Suicide Squad. I couldn't give a shit about Deadpool, X-Men: Apocolypse or Gambit if I tried.
@MattD It was in general an OK film with one really good scene - and that scene only existed so that Fox could use Quicksilver before Marvel Studios could.
@MattD I done a review when it first came out here, but I'll admit right now that my writing wasn't as strong then as it is now, and I as also a lot easier on films back then out of inexperience.
For me, the fact that I was facing yet another sequel to a Matthew Vaughn film that was not also directed by Matthew Vaughn, and instead by the guy who I felt ruined any shot Superman had at being in film for quite some time, yet I came away pretty floored by what I saw, and felt there wasn't any such thing as a Vaughn Curse on franchises.
The one prior to that was Kick-Ass 2, which sucked in just about every way possible.
Vaughn is sort of becoming like this Wes Anderson of superhero and action films. His style is so simple, and yet no one else really seems to be able to properly capture or imitate it effectively.
Has there been any official word on why Ant-Man, who we know from promotional images and the Ant-Man stinger sequel hook to be involved in Captain America- Civil War, was excluded from the recently released trailer for Civil War? Everyone else, even minor characters like Clint/Hawkeye were in it,...