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ViewtifulJC · Apr 30, 2012

Fuck physics, I got a pelvic thrust

krypt0nian · Apr 30, 2012

BenjaminBirdie said:
Green Lantern was the worst superhero movie I've ever seen, easy, but it did make me revisit a few DCU books on my iPad while I was watching so I guess it did have its intended effect, although a bit backwards.

At worst it was average. The hate for this movie is unfounded.

LiQuid! · Apr 30, 2012

Love dat early aughts CG. Going back and watching those movies is almost as bad as trying to replay PSX/N64 era 3D games. Shit just don't play anymore.

BlueScrote · Apr 30, 2012

Watched The Incredible Hulk today. It was about as good as I remembered it. Nothing special, but not bad either. There a couple of nice references to shield and the Super Soldier program ("It was put on ice for a reason"). Also references to Doc Samson, Rick Jones, and Nick Fury. I was gonna ask about must read Hulk stories, but that was answered earlier in this thread. There seems to be a couple volumes of "Incredible Hulk Visionaries" by Peter David that I may check out.

I think next I'm going to watch Thor next. Gonna leave Iron Man 2 for last since it's more avengers focused.

Nesotenso · Apr 30, 2012

LiQuid! said:
You would do well to check out Catwoman or Electra or anything pre-Y2K, not to mention any of the modern day superhero movies that nerds mistakenly think are good, like Thor or Captain America or The Dark Knight.

I thought Green Lantern was fine. Not god tier like Punisher War Zone but a pretty fun first effort.

Personally Thor , Cap and TDK are way better than GL. GL was bad but as you point out not Catwoman or Elektra level bad.

krypt0nian · Apr 30, 2012

BlueScrote said:
Watched The Incredible Hulk today. It was about as good as I remembered it. Nothing special, but not bad either. There a couple of nice references to shield and the Super Soldier program ("It was put on ice for a reason"). Also references to Doc Samson, Rick Jones, and Nick Fury. I was gonna ask about must read Hulk stories, but that was answered earlier in this thread. There seems to be a couple volumes of "Incredible Hulk Visionaries" by Peter David that I may check out.

I think next I'm going to watch Thor next. Gonna leave Iron Man 2 for last since it's more avengers focused.

I'd say Thor leads in to Avengers better.

Thor and GL are in the same tier.

MC Safety · Apr 30, 2012

krypt0nian said:
At worst it was average. The hate for this movie is unfounded.

No, it's pretty much founded.

Even for a comic book movie Green Lantern was bad.

krypt0nian · Apr 30, 2012

MC Safety said:
No, it's pretty much founded.

Even for a comic book movie Green Lantern was bad.

Nah I don't see it. The hate is pretty much GAF being GAF. There's just as much stupid shit going on in Thor and that's far best loved here.

GL like Thor improves on each viewing.

MC Safety · Apr 30, 2012

krypt0nian said:
Nah I don't see it. The hate is pretty much GAF being GAF. There's just as much stupid shit going on in Thor and that's far best loved here.

No. The dislike for the movie is near universal. It's not a good film for many reasons: poor characters, a cookie-cutter comic book plot trying to shoehorn in too many ideas, too many villains, too much exposition, etc.

Thor at least had a hero who was relatable. And its plot wasn't a jumbled mess.

Spike Spiegel · Apr 30, 2012

krypt0nian said:
Nah I don't see it. The hate is pretty much GAF being GAF. There's just as much stupid shit going on in Thor and that's far best loved here.

GL like Thor improves on each viewing.

I regretted seeing GL while still seeing it. The only way to improve upon that experience would be to have actually not seen it at all.

Blader · Apr 30, 2012

krypt0nian said:
Nah I don't see it. The hate is pretty much GAF being GAF. There's just as much stupid shit going on in Thor and that's far best loved here.

GL like Thor improves on each viewing.

I think the reviews and the box office numbers all point to far more people than GAF just hating it.

krypt0nian · Apr 30, 2012

Blader5489 said:
I think the reviews and the box office numbers all point to far more people than GAF just hating it.

Strange as most of the regular people in my life at least liked it. No one is going on about it being the worst superhero movie they've seen or regretting seeing it while at the theatre.

That's all GAF hyperbole. Exactly like the sheer hatred Iron Man 2 gets here, that's not reflected in the real world.

But that's GAF for you. People go in wanting to hate.

MC Safety said:
No. The dislike for the movie is near universal. It's not a good film for many reasons: poor characters, a cookie-cutter comic book plot trying to shoehorn in too many ideas, too many villains, too much exposition, etc.

Thor at least had a hero who was relatable. And its plot wasn't a jumbled mess.

Oh nevermind. Now you're just trolling. I thought you were being serious. And the Frost Giants alone put Thor in the same bracket at GL, easily. Both are B-C tier.

IrishNinja · Apr 30, 2012

as a Green Lantern fan, that movie was shit. stuff you went in worried about like the costume weren't even in the list of problems, it was a hot mess somewhere between spidey 3 and say, wolverine fucking origins. i'd put it uh, somewhere around Daredevil as far as not getting the character down, wasting a lot of time and probably killing interest in a viable franchise for a minute too.

i'm happy, confused and quietly envious if kryto and any of the rest of you managed to enjoy it.

Tizoc · Apr 30, 2012

The GL movie was bad IMO, Marvel's movies were much more enjoyable to me.

So in this thread I got some people into Atomic Robo, for the new one I'll get you shmucks to read The Goon.

BlueScrote · Apr 30, 2012

krypt0nian said:
I'd say Thor leads in to Avengers better.

Thor and GL are in the same tier.

Why do you say that? The only thing I can think of is (thor spoilers)

The scene that involves Shield surrounding Mjolnir and the post-credit stinger

FoneBone · Apr 30, 2012

krypt0nian said:
Strange as most of the regular people in my life at least liked it. No one is going on about it being the worst superhero movie they've seen or regretting seeing it while at the theatre.

That's all GAF hyperbole. Exactly like the sheer hatred Iron Man 2 gets here, that's not reflected in the real world.

But that's GAF for you. People go in wanting to hate.

Your shtick is beyond self-parody at this point.

As already said, if it was just GAF, you wouldn't see the same reaction reflected by the critics (see rottentomatoes) and at the box office (see: its abysmal second-weekend drop). Iron Man 2 fared far better in both of those categories.

LiveFromKyoto · Apr 30, 2012

After reading the first few bits of AvX...I'd like to take back every bad thing I said about Secret Invasion.

I mean, wow. Fear Itself was bad, but this is just...nothing. And either JR Jr or his inker is handing in napkin scribbles for half of it.

Also, the all fights issue? Are you freaking kidding me? Ultra lame spoilers for Iron Man vs Magneto below:

In the middle of the fight Magneto gets freaked out thinking about the Phoenix and stops fighting. The end. Also, he is magnetically psychic and has magnetic counting powers (this is the exact phrase they use).

Marvel set a really low bar here, but somehow they're still tripping over it.

Rafa=FedKilla · Apr 30, 2012

Dial H this week!!!!!!

krypt0nian · Apr 30, 2012

FoneBone said:
Your shtick is beyond self-parody at this point.

As already said, if it was just GAF, you wouldn't see the same reaction reflected by the critics (see rottentomatoes) and at the box office (see: its abysmal second-weekend drop). Iron Man 2 fared far better in both of those categories.

John Carter fared horribly as well, and is highly regarded outside of GAF. Funny that. And bringing up metacritic sites is beyond laughable.

And there is no shtick. You don't like it? Not a fuck was given. It's not stopping any time soon. If anything, I'll ratchet it up. If people bowed to public opinion idiocy like you suggest.....oh wait, looks like they already do.

FoneBone · Apr 30, 2012

krypt0nian said:
John Carter fared horribly as well, and is highly regarded outside of GAF. Funny that. And bringing up metacritic sites is beyond laughable.

And there is no shtick. You don't like it? Not a fuck was given. It's not stopping any time soon. If anything, I'll ratchet it up. If people bowed to public opinion idiocy like you suggest.....oh wait, looks like they already do.

You're clearly upset enough to "give a fuck". Who's "bowing" to public opinion? There's nothing wrong with disagreeing with what the public seems to think. Just don't make it out to be some "bitter GAF" nonsense (whining about the "hivemind" is rarely anything other than lousy posting) when that's not backed up by reality.

Rafa=FedKilla said:
Dial H this week!!!!!!

ALLLLL OVER MY FAAAAAAACE

Nesotenso · Apr 30, 2012

I don't think people on GAF disliking GL makes then contrarians. The movie was disliked by a lot of people. It was a failure both critically and commercially and failed to win over the most ardent of fans.

the chris · Apr 30, 2012

Nesotenso said:
I don't think people on GAF disliking GL makes then contrarians. The movie was disliked by a lot of people. It was a failure both critically and commercially and failed to win over the most ardent of fans.

My biggest problem what Green Lantern was the fact that it was boring, which is in worse in some ways than just being bad. A bad movie at least I can remember and having fun riffing on, but this was just boring and I wanted it to just finish.

notworksafe · Apr 30, 2012

I actually saw the GL movie on TV a week or so ago. Hadn't seen it before. I wasn't really impressed by it but I'm not sure I'm seeing it as the mega disaster everyone else saw it to be.

Of the big superhero flicks this past year my favorite was probably Captain America.

SpiderJerusalem · Apr 30, 2012

I loved Incredible Hulk. Come at me

NEO0MJ · Apr 30, 2012

krypt0nian said:
Oh nevermind. Now you're just trolling. I thought you were being serious. And the Frost Giants alone put Thor in the same bracket at GL, easily. Both are B-C tier.

Frost giants scene was awesome, if only for the scene at the end of the fight.

Thor: Father, lets kill them together

Odin: Silence

Made me laugh.

Tizoc said:
So in this thread I got some people into Atomic Robo, for the new one I'll get you shmucks to read The Goon.

This reminded me. I was gonna pick a few trades at amazon but vol 3 is over a $100! Anywhere else to buy it and the rest together? I need to keep shipping costs low.

Mifune · Apr 30, 2012

Rafa=FedKilla said:
Dial H this week!!!!!!

Fuuuck yes.

Got about 50 pages to go in Perdido Street Station. Pumped for some China comic action.

tm24 · Apr 30, 2012

NEO0MJ said:
This reminded me. I was gonna pick a few trades at amazon but vol 3 is over a $100! Anywhere else to buy it and the rest together? I need to keep shipping costs low.

The old trades are out of print. Your best bet is ebay and see if you can find someone selling a lot of vol 1-4, 5 should still be in print

krypt0nian · Apr 30, 2012

notworksafe said:
I actually saw the GL movie on TV a week or so ago. Hadn't seen it before. I wasn't really impressed by it but I'm not sure I'm seeing it as the mega disaster everyone else saw it to be.

Of the big superhero flicks this past year my favorite was probably Captain America.

Exactly my point. It's a fun movie, that while not perfect, is also not OMGtheWorst as GAF thinks. But then GAF rarely gets it right. Speed Racer being the one exception. Great film.

tm24 · Apr 30, 2012

GAGE PREPARES A "FINAL EXAM" FOR "AVENGERS ACADEMY"

http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=38413

Can't wait!

Rafa=FedKilla · Apr 30, 2012

Earth 2 is 4 dollars? Wut da heyl.

bernardobri · Apr 30, 2012

Rafa=FedKilla said:
Earth 2 is 4 dollars? Wut da heyl.

It's about 40 pages, IIRC.

notworksafe · Apr 30, 2012

krypt0nian said:
Exactly my point. It's a fun movie, that while not perfect, is also not OMGtheWorst as GAF thinks. But then GAF rarely gets it right. Speed Racer being the one exception. Great film.

Yeah the people comparing it to Catwoman are crazy. That was an abomination. Of course I also didn't think Daredevil was so bad either. The theater cut was pretty awful but I found the director's cut to be much better.

Finally gonna buy some DC books this week too! Dat Dial H and Earth 2!

Rafa=FedKilla · Apr 30, 2012

bernardobri said:
It's about 40 pages, IIRC.

As long as there aren't backups or sketch drawings at the end then I'll be good.

Manos: The Hans of Fate · Apr 30, 2012

Let's see what did I buy off of Comixology today.

GI Joe A Real American Hero 160 and 161 (I have a lot of catching up).
S.H.I.E.L.D 1-3
Batman #1 -I'll admit cursoriness is making me check out these relaunches.
Captain America 1-3 (99 cent sale)
~~Punisher 7 (though 2.99 for 22 pages can go fuck itself).~~ Screw it maybe some other time.
The Activity 1
~~Ghost Projekt 2~~Eh, I'll get it in a few days

I have to admit I've never really been into Superheroes in the traditional sense, but ah fuck it I'll give a few a try. I'd buy The Boys, but I'm not reading that on the train I love Garth Ennis, but lord knows what will pop up. lol

That said I have no clue what the hell is what because there seem to be 400 different variations, it's confusing (well on the Marvel side at least).

kmfdmpig · Apr 30, 2012

Manos: The Hans of Fate said:
Let's see what did I buy off of Comixology today.

GI Joe A Real American Hero 160 and 161 (I have a lot of catching up).
S.H.I.E.L.D 1-3
Batman #1 -I'll admit cursoriness is making me check out these relaunches.
Captain America 1-3 (99 cent sale)
Punisher 7 (though 2.99 for 22 pages can go fuck itself).
The Activity 1
Ghost Projekt 2

I have to admit I've never really been into Superheroes in the traditional sense, but ah fuck it I'll give a few a try.

That said I have no clue what the hell is what because there seem to be 400 different variations, it's confusing (well on the Marvel side at least).

Daredevil sounds like it might be right up your alley, and that's just on issue 11 now, which would make it relatively easy to catch up.

NEO0MJ · Apr 30, 2012

tm24 said:
The old trades are out of print. Your best bet is ebay and see if you can find someone selling a lot of vol 1-4, 5 should still be in print

Hate buying used, but I guess I have no choice with this. Thanks for the tip.

Also, your av is so confusing. I keep seeing Brainiac's symbol instead of Nova.

Manos: The Hans of Fate · Apr 30, 2012

kmfdmpig said:
Daredevil sounds like it might be right up your alley, and that's just on issue 11 now, which would make it relatively easy to catch up.

Now if I can only find it on Comixology. Like I said Marvel stuff can be so jumpy.

That said I wish Dark House was integrated with it. It's really annoying. REALLY ANNOYING

God forbid I wanted to start reading Hellboy and remember that I have the first volume of Lone Wolf and Cub! Grrrr

I get why companies want their own app too, but why do they have to wall themselves out from the marketplace everyone pretty much uses.

SpiderJerusalem · Apr 30, 2012

I'd love Dark Horse to get mixed in too.

kmfdmpig · Apr 30, 2012

Manos: The Hans of Fate said:
Now if I can only find it on Comixology. Like I said Marvel stuff can be so jumpy.

That said I wish Dark House was integrated with it. It's really annoying. REALLY ANNOYING

God forbid I wanted to start reading Hellboy and remember that I have the first volume of Lone Wolf and Cub! Grrrr

I get why companies want their own app too, but why do they have to wall themselves out from the marketplace everyone pretty much uses.

A lot of people buy using a computer and then read on the tablets as the website is much easier to browse than the app.

Manos: The Hans of Fate · Apr 30, 2012

kmfdmpig said:
A lot of people buy using a computer and then read on the tablets as the website is much easier to browse than the app.

I actually used the website today. Not too bad, but seemed a little sluggish on Chrome.

Manos: The Hans of Fate · Apr 30, 2012

Okay I was shitting on Marvel, but after reading the Chronology backlist they publish for free. It's not as bad.

Liked the new 52 Batman #1, though the way people are drawn...eh not in love. Writting is good so far. Like the overlap of the speech and opening fight.

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