The C3G Cave - Hangout

[Hahma]

Watched Man of Steel today with the kids:

I've never been a fan of Superman really. I get it that he has moral dilemmas that balance out his crazy power set. But that's never been my thing, as I've always gravitated to more of the street level heroes, or ones with less power levels.

But to the movie:

Spoiler Alert!

Just like the last Batman movie where unrealistically every stupid cop in Gotham runs underground, there's no way in he!! that all Clark's classmates are going to be hanging around outside of the closet while his teacher and then mother are trying to get him out. Are you kidding me?! That would not be allowed. But I guess they did it for even more effect to show of Clark's mutant realization moments of freakdom while growing up.

No way in heck Lois is scaling the glacier to follow some strange guy into a ice tunnel that wasn't there until he melted it. I get that she's "adventurous" and all, but that was pretty stupid. Not to mention the fact that she would traveling around like someone important, and getting all kinds of access throughout was kind of silly to me.

I agree that the Superman/Lois lovefest was annoying.

Zod and Jor-El's fight scene was lame to me. Goofy fake useless armor, not my thing.

Not big on Supes breaking Zod's neck. He could have found another way, though the writers kind of painted him in a corner as Zod was getting stronger and stronger and was vastly superior to Supes in fighting ability from training. So at that point, Supes couldn't likely overcome Zod. Though the way it was going, there wasn't much else he could do.

Not overly big on Supes being likened to Jesus in the church.


Okay, those were some gripes. But there was some good of course too.

Interesting styling and artsy in a sense early on. I liked that.

I see what people were saying about John Kent not being so inspiring and all, but I disagree in a sense. Unknowing of Jor-El's intentions to have Supes grow up of free will to make his own decisions, John Kent did the same. He told him that he would have to decide the person he wanted to be (good/evil). He didn't say that he should have let those kids die on the bus, he was like "maybe, I don't know" or something. Again, that was allowing Supes to define himself, despite the risk. By not letting Supes save him in the tornado, John also showed the value of sacrifice to protect the ones you love.

I did like the fight scenes and while it did go on for awhile, when dealing with dudes with powers like Supes and his fellow Kryptonians, it's going to take awhile to take them out unless someone's sporting some Kryptonite. Got to love flying trains. I like how the bad chick fought the best. She was the coolest of all of them, Supes included.

I liked it, didn't love it. I liked the artsy style of it. I liked the way Clark grew to define who he was going to be throughout the complications of being who he was. I liked the action elements. Thing I didn't like were mostly nitpicky things and not enough to keep me from enjoying it.

 

[Ninja Status]

 

[A3n]

Just back from Doctor Who, & it happened, I was right. (Remember an earlier post that I said I like a good time paradox, that was me now back then )

There were lots of references throughout the movie to the past fifty years. There was heaps of funny dialogue, & the whole movie was a fun joyous ride. I'm not giving anything away, but it sets up the following seasons in a fantastic brilliant way.

 

[cwidje]

Just back from Doctor Who, & it happened, I was right. (Remember an earlier post that I said I like a good time paradox, that was me now back then )

There were lots of references throughout the movie to the past fifty years. There was heaps of funny dialogue, & the whole movie was a fun joyous ride. I'm not giving anything away, but it sets up the following seasons in a fantastic brilliant way.

For those of us that have only just got through Season 6, how much spoilerage would there be?

 

[A3n]

Actually I would say next to none. There will be a handful of references that you won't pickup but they don't affect the story at all.

 

[davidlhsl]

This isn't a spoiler, but the Doctors did drink tea.

 

[Karat]

Finally watched this week's AoS. Interesting plot twist.

 

[darkraptor5413]

Just wishing everyone a happy Thanksgiving

 

[Tornado]

 

[Yodaking]

Who is serving the Turkey on the DC side? She is not very appropriately dressed for the occasion.

 

[Tornado]

Hard to tell but I think she has Flash's full attention.

 

[Arch-vile]

Who is serving the Turkey on the DC side? She is not very appropriately dressed for the occasion.

That is Power Girl. Not one of my favorite characters; overt sexualization is overdone in comics.

Happy thanksgiving all!

 

[cwidje]

Who is serving the Turkey on the DC side? She is not very appropriately dressed for the occasion.

That is Power Girl. Not one of my favorite characters; overt sexualization is overdone in comics.

Happy thanksgiving all!

*resists the urge to make turkey breast joke*

 

[Karat]

Happy Thanksgiving!

 

[darkraptor5413]

Who is serving the Turkey on the DC side? She is not very appropriately dressed for the occasion.

That is Power Girl. Not one of my favorite characters; overt sexualization is overdone in comics.

Happy thanksgiving all!

It's not overt sexualization there is a point to that costume. She doesn't have her own symbol like Superman so she is leaving it "open" till she thinks of one. Wow, that was hard to say with a straight face, but it's not BS DC comics actually tried to explain the massive cleavage

 

[A3n]

There's nothing to explain or to keep a breast of there.

 

[cwidje]

Who is serving the Turkey on the DC side? She is not very appropriately dressed for the occasion.

That is Power Girl. Not one of my favorite characters; overt sexualization is overdone in comics.

Happy thanksgiving all!

It's not overt sexualization there is a point to that costume. She doesn't have her own symbol like Superman so she is leaving it "open" till she thinks of one. Wow, that was hard to say with a straight face, but it's not BS DC comics actually tried to explain the massive cleavage

Actually, the artist thought that no one was noticing him, so he increased the size every issue.

 

[Yodaking]

I was guessing she was not a very good fighter so she cut that circle out of her costume. Thus distracting any men she was in a fight with and giving her a chance for a quick sucker punch.

 

[Hogg]

I just watched two Marvel movies that were supposed to be awful, but they both turned out to be better than I thought they would.

The first one was The Man-Thing, which went straight to video in 2005. I read that Man-Thing wasn't in it until the very end and that it had very little to do with the comics. I didn't think either were true after watching it. Man-Thing was shown in little bits through the movie and it built up into the big reveal at the climax. There were all sorts of references to the comics too. They didn't explicitly show his origin but they kept talking about Ted Sallis and even mentioned the Nexus of all Realities.

The second movie I watched was Daredevil, the Director's Cut. I had seen the theatrical version years ago and wasn't very impressed. I had heard that the DC was much better though and I agreed. The movie felt more cohesive and less rushed. The characters had more depth too. I look forward to seeing the DD series when it comes out and seeing Ben Affleck as Batman. I might even watch Elektra.

Edit: And I just realized that there is no C3G card for Man-Thing. You guys need to get on that, and see about a Howard the Duck card too.

 

[Tornado]

Or a combo card.

 

[SirGalahad]

: And I just realized that there is no C3G card for Man-Thing. You guys need to get on that.

pretty sure someone has this drafted

 

[Karat]

So am I as I initially had a write-up for Man-Thing, but was told later that a certain Hero had him drafted

 

[japes]

For those out there with young one and an "elf on a shelf" the fun part is finding interesting shenanigans to have the elf participate in...and since my son and I successfully introduced my brother to Heroscape while he was visiting for thanksgiving we had a map set up and ready to play...

Spoiler Alert!

Spoiler Alert!

...with four wounds already and only rolling 2 shields it looks like the Robot and Red Skull are going down...Game to Thorby the elf playing Captain America.

 

[Hogg]

Do you guys think you'll ever do a more powerful or event hero version of Hulk or Thor?

 

[Yodaking]

I'd like to do a World War Hulk version where he gets the armor and sword.