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I think you're all losing sight of what's really important when it comes to Superman: whether or not he would beat up Goku in a fight.
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Mechafunkzilla posted:I think you're all losing sight of what's really important when it comes to Superman: whether or not he would beat up Goku in a fight. He would because Dragonball is stupid and Superman is a real American hero
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May 14, 2013 18:41
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Cellophane S posted:He would because Dragonball is stupid and Superman is a real American hero He's an illegal alien.
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May 14, 2013 18:45
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Rhyno posted:He's an illegal alien. Naturalized Citizen thanks to being adopted.
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May 14, 2013 18:55
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Barudak posted:Naturalized Citizen thanks to being adopted. Where's the Birth Certificate?!
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May 14, 2013 18:59
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PaganGoatPants posted:Where's the Birth Certificate?! Lex Luthor's blog says there isn't one!
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May 14, 2013 19:04
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PaganGoatPants posted:Where's the Birth Certificate?! Wouldn't need one according to the Child Citizenship act of 2000; he would fall under an IR-4 visa (orphan, non-hague country). Alternately, assuming the Kents don't mention the baby is a space alien they'd be adopting a recordless orphan who would be presumed a natural born citizen. The point here is that Superman should superrun for office.
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May 14, 2013 19:07
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Barudak posted:The point here is that Superman should superrun for office.  Rhyno fucked around with this message at 19:21 on May 14, 2013 |
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May 14, 2013 19:19
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Rhyno posted:
Anything that was part of the Armageddon 2001 line needs to be ignored and didn't happen. Not comic book didn't happen but comic book double didn't happen.
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May 14, 2013 19:22
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Holy poo poo that scene of him flying over the field needs to be seen in IMAX
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May 14, 2013 23:35
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Dirk Digglet posted:Holy poo poo that scene of him flying over the field needs to be seen in IMAX I've never seen a non-doctumentary motion picture in IMAX before. There's a first time for everything.
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May 15, 2013 05:39
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Were any scenes filmed with IMAX cameras?
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May 15, 2013 05:44
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PaganGoatPants fucked around with this message at 14:39 on May 15, 2013 |
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May 15, 2013 05:52
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My favorite Superman story is probably a silver age story I think entitled " The girl who didn't believe in Superman". Basically it was the story of a blind girl who didn't believe in Superman and Superman trying to prove that he was Superman. Eventually he gives up takes her to a hospital reads all of the medical texts and then operates on her brain and cures her sight to prove that he is Superman. That's the Superman I want to see in films.
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May 15, 2013 06:02
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Hollis posted:My favorite Superman story is probably a silver age story I think entitled " The girl who didn't believe in Superman". Basically it was the story of a blind girl who didn't believe in Superman and Superman trying to prove that he was Superman. Eventually he gives up takes her to a hospital reads all of the medical texts and then operates on her brain and cures her sight to prove that he is Superman. Did he then super yell her deaf right before flying out the window to torment Jimmy Olsen?
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May 15, 2013 15:20
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Gyges posted:Did he then super yell her deaf right before flying out the window to torment Jimmy Olsen? It was not torment. It was to teach him a lesson, like always knock before you enter a room or do not yell.
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May 15, 2013 15:22
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Spoiler about Jimmy Olsen, click if you wish. http://i.imgur.com/NAoDXXp.jpg I mean JENNY OLSEN 
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May 15, 2013 16:51
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Pretty sure that's on sone superman comic book somewhere.
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May 15, 2013 16:54
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Yep, Jenny Olsen isn't without precedence.
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May 15, 2013 17:12
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Yeah, that's not the first time something along those lines has occured. 
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May 15, 2013 17:14
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The only thing I'm sad about is that they didn't make Jimmy a redhead. Come on, he's ALWAYS a red head regardless of what he turns into!
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May 15, 2013 17:37
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I'd even settle on a blonde since we've got Amy Adams fronting the redhead department.
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May 15, 2013 17:43
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PaganGoatPants posted:Spoiler about Jimmy Olsen, click if you wish. My favorite part is how "Oh, for gently caress's sake, get out of my way." the woman immediately behind Jenny is in this.
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May 15, 2013 18:11
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The trailers are all pitching Superman as a Messiah-like figure here to inspire humanity to greatness. But it turns out that using Superman as a role model discourages people because they don't think they can match up to him. I think the comic books have understood this for a long time, because it's been a while since this theme appeared. I remember in Infinite Crisis or something that the Batman said "the last time [Superman] inspired anyone was when [he] was dead."
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May 15, 2013 18:37
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Yes but that was also dark uber Batman era when every writer took Frank Miller's Dark Knight Returns and drove Batman into the ground, burns left and right and doing poo poo not even Superman could do. To the point that Frank Miller's All Star Batman drove the piss out of Batman in part as a comment of what Batman had become.
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May 15, 2013 18:43
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Kurzon posted:But it turns out that using Superman as a role model discourages people because they don't think they can match up to him. There's a whole lot of correlation and not a lot of causation going on in that study.
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May 15, 2013 19:04
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PaganGoatPants posted:Spoiler about Jimmy Olsen, click if you wish. To be honest, that's not the worst thing to happen to Jimmy.
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May 15, 2013 19:31
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Is that the first piece of media with Fishburne in it? I don't recall seeing him in any trailers or other promo photos.
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May 15, 2013 19:34
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Fishburne lookin' chuuunky.
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May 15, 2013 19:35
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Joe Don Baker posted:Is that the first piece of media with Fishburne in it? I don't recall seeing him in any trailers or other promo photos. No, I've seen him somewhere else too.
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May 15, 2013 19:35
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Mechafunkzilla posted:Fishburne lookin' chuuunky. He's been fat since the Matrix Reloaded.
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May 15, 2013 19:42
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Yeah, he's been in the trailers running from Metropolis getting wrecked. Personally, if it makes fans happy just pretend that Jimmy transitioned to Jenny. (He said, knowing full well how shockingly regressive fans can be.) I mean, if any character's going to have those tendencies it'll be Jimmy. There could even be a good story in it - having Jenny be blackmailed by, say, Luthor in the sequel where he's threatening to reveal who she used to be, and the tide only turns when Superman or Clark or Lois convinces Jenny that people will accept her even if they know she's trans. Also, I think it's kind of neat that between Faora, Martha Kent, Lara Lor-Van, Lois Lane and Jenny Olsen there are a lot of female characters in this movie. There should be. It's 2013.
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May 15, 2013 19:46
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Rhyno posted:He's been fat since the Matrix Reloaded. Yup.  
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May 15, 2013 19:48
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Women who can pull off short hair look so drat good.
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May 15, 2013 19:50
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S.J. posted:No, I've seen him somewhere else too. He was in the very first full-length trailer, in a quick shot running away from some destruction in the city. Mechafunkzilla posted:Women who can pull off short hair look so drat good. Amen to that. I also like that her chest shield almost looks like an "F", it's just missing a teeny bit of extra stylization to connect that last dot. McSpanky fucked around with this message at 01:03 on May 16, 2013 |
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May 16, 2013 00:58
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Is anyone a big enough fan of Jimmy Olsen to care about this? I mean, really?
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May 16, 2013 01:29
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Jimmy Olsen brought us Darkseid.  (No.)
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May 16, 2013 01:33
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So is it bad that I'm ridiculously stoked for this movie? I haven't been this excited for a film in years. I'm so jaded from earlier burns though. 
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May 16, 2013 02:23
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Hakkesshu posted:Is anyone a big enough fan of Jimmy Olsen to care about this? I mean, really? Anyone who's a big enough fan of Jimmy Olsen to care should be more than capable of rationalizing it vis-a-vis the Silver Age. A better question might be "are they actually going to do enough with the Olsen character, whatever his/her gender may be, to make this change relevant?"
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Thwomp posted:So is it bad that I'm ridiculously stoked for this movie? I haven't been this excited for a film in years. I've got a near permanent nerd boner for this movie. I'm right there with ya buddy.
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