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 chromedog wrote:
I have no idea whom any of these characters are, and even less of a desire to find out.

The last crop of superhero movies to come out bored me - haven't seen a good one since Nolan's Batman Begins (TDKR and TDK were pretty bad).

But I'm neither a superherocomicbook fanboy who eats this stuff up, nor interested in becoming one.

I'd rather watch manborg - or the remake of robocop.


Did you just say The Dark Knight and Avengers were bad movies? God, I thought I was cynical. The only comics I've read are The Killing Joke, The Watchmen, V for Vendetta, and From Hell. I am far from being a fanboy and I still go watch 75% of the comic movies. At worst they are silly fun and at best they are strong films with excellent dialogue, storytelling and acting (TDK and Watchmen). I don't really think of Dredd as being a superhero, but the recent film was excellent.

Lighten up mate.

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 Mr Morden wrote:
 Cheesecat wrote:
 Ouze wrote:
 chromedog wrote:
I have no idea whom any of these characters are, and even less of a desire to find out.

The last crop of superhero movies to come out bored me - haven't seen a good one since Nolan's Batman Begins (TDKR and TDK were pretty bad).


I think that last bit there was where you went too far.


Yeah, they're some of highest rated superhero movies of all time by fans, general audiences and critics.


I thought the second one was so bad that I ddi not bother with the third one - massively over long, rubbish plot (what there was of it) heartless and style over substance...........but then we all see things differently................

back On Topic - Zoe Saldana always looks good and looking forward to her once again in a action role.



The length was fine the characters, setting and plot were engrossing enough that I didn't even notice the long length of the film, what was wrong with the plot you didn't find the the clash of the two ideologies interesting (chaos vs order)? There was substance in the film such as ethics

behind being able to monitor the activities of a whole city, a compare/contrast of the morality of citizens and criminals, the value of money and production, nihilism, order vs chaos, betrayal, sacrifice, etc. We're you watching a different movie?
   
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 Cheesecat wrote:
 Mr Morden wrote:
 Cheesecat wrote:
 Ouze wrote:
 chromedog wrote:
I have no idea whom any of these characters are, and even less of a desire to find out.

The last crop of superhero movies to come out bored me - haven't seen a good one since Nolan's Batman Begins (TDKR and TDK were pretty bad).


I think that last bit there was where you went too far.


Yeah, they're some of highest rated superhero movies of all time by fans, general audiences and critics.


I thought the second one was so bad that I ddi not bother with the third one - massively over long, rubbish plot (what there was of it) heartless and style over substance...........but then we all see things differently................

back On Topic - Zoe Saldana always looks good and looking forward to her once again in a action role.



The length was fine the characters, setting and plot were engrossing enough that I didn't even notice the long length of the film, what was wrong with the plot you didn't find the the clash of the two ideologies interesting (chaos vs order)? There was substance in the film such as ethics

behind being able to monitor the activities of a whole city, a compare/contrast of the morality of citizens and criminals, the value of money and production, nihilism, order vs chaos, betrayal, sacrifice, etc. We're you watching a different movie?


Hello - I'll put my reponse is spoilers so as not to bore people who are not interested

Spoiler:
The length for you might have been fine - for me the opposite: - it was laboured, lurching from set piece ot set peice with some of the worst plot armour I have ever seen in a film for the Joker. Then we had the completely uneeded bit with Two Face which meandered off on a pointless subplot which should have been a different film and wasted an extra half an hour.

Chaos versus order is a great story/concept/theme - from ancient history, throuhg Moorcock to the Vorlons and shadows of Babylon 5.The 2nd batman film wasn't about this - it was primary an excuse to have a few big scenes that dragged on and on......

The Joker is just not a force of Chaos - Jack Nicolsons version is and a much better version - he is actually insane and it shows in his actions and the sheer horrific death toll - he was happy to kill an entire muesuem for a people just to see the female lead. If that had been Mr Nolens Joker -he would have 16 flawless and layered plots to get him to the same place - and wasted an extra hour doing so. The Nolen version of the Joker is all about (unfeasable levels of ) planning and detail - in fact much more order orientated than Chaos......

Whilst Heath Ledger did great with the material he was given - the Joker was a horibly Mary Sue character who only worked becuase the plot said he had to be able to predict every possible outcome and have a contingency for it - he was never chaotic - or even especailly scary - he managed to kill a few gangsters and blow up a empty hospital - oh and batmans girlfirend - not that anyone cared as the director never bothered to try and make anyonehave a personaility or be human or create anyone I could actually care about. But thats Nolan for you - never seen a film of his I liked or an actual person in any one of them...............

Where as (for me) the Avengers or the recent Thor II film had humour, style, substance and above all Heart - the modern Batman films are darkly glittering style - I can find nothing else within them - IMO of course


So Zoe Saldana - hot in green ?


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That's an interesting point you raise but is the Joker really about "order" if all his plans (I can't remember if they're actually planned or spur of other moment ideas in the film) involve destroying everything people value such as wealth (burning of the large sums of money), health (destruction

of hospital), love (batman's girlfriend's death), justice (Harvey Dent becoming Two-Face), people's safety (loading a bomb on the ship full of citizens)? Also those come across as motives of an insane person like someone who has serious social issues.
   
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 Mr Morden wrote:

Spoiler:
The length for you might have been fine - for me the opposite: - it was laboured, lurching from set piece ot set peice with some of the worst plot armour I have ever seen in a film for the Joker. Then we had the completely uneeded bit with Two Face which meandered off on a pointless subplot which should have been a different film and wasted an extra half an hour.

Chaos versus order is a great story/concept/theme - from ancient history, throuhg Moorcock to the Vorlons and shadows of Babylon 5.The 2nd batman film wasn't about this - it was primary an excuse to have a few big scenes that dragged on and on......

The Joker is just not a force of Chaos - Jack Nicolsons version is and a much better version - he is actually insane and it shows in his actions and the sheer horrific death toll - he was happy to kill an entire muesuem for a people just to see the female lead. If that had been Mr Nolens Joker -he would have 16 flawless and layered plots to get him to the same place - and wasted an extra hour doing so. The Nolen version of the Joker is all about (unfeasable levels of ) planning and detail - in fact much more order orientated than Chaos......

Whilst Heath Ledger did great with the material he was given - the Joker was a horibly Mary Sue character who only worked becuase the plot said he had to be able to predict every possible outcome and have a contingency for it - he was never chaotic - or even especailly scary - he managed to kill a few gangsters and blow up a empty hospital - oh and batmans girlfirend - not that anyone cared as the director never bothered to try and make anyonehave a personaility or be human or create anyone I could actually care about. But thats Nolan for you - never seen a film of his I liked or an actual person in any one of them...............

Where as (for me) the Avengers or the recent Thor II film had humour, style, substance and above all Heart - the modern Batman films are darkly glittering style - I can find nothing else within them - IMO of course




I seriously can't exalt this enough, spot on as far as I'm concerned. Sad that the best film related Joker in recent memory was voice acted by Luke Skywalker.



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 Cheesecat wrote:
That's an interesting point you raise but is the Joker really about "order" if all his plans (I can't remember if they're actually planned or spur of other moment ideas in the film) involve destroying everything people value such as wealth (burning of the large sums of money), health (destruction

of hospital), love (batman's girlfriend's death), justice (Harvey Dent becoming Two-Face), people's safety (loading a bomb on the ship full of citizens)? Also those come across as motives of an insane person like someone who has serious social issues.


my ramberlings in Spoilers again

Spoiler:
"Law" is no more good than "Chaos" is evil - A totally committed servant of "Law" will do absolutely anything to achieve his goals - whatever they may be. The Jokers actions all appear to be incredably well planned with mutiple fail safes... It was never (for me) totally clear what the Jokers motivation was or driving force - but Chaos was dubious. He may have appeared (to us) to be insane but he may have considered his actions perfectly logical and sane - the response to a choatic world may be to destory it and make a new better one.

Aagain I would say the Joker in Batman was a insane force of pure Chaos where as the Nolan version was perhaps a dark force of "Law" - insane in a different way.

I just did not think the film worked for me in any way for reasons in previous post



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 Mr Morden wrote:
 Cheesecat wrote:
That's an interesting point you raise but is the Joker really about "order" if all his plans (I can't remember if they're actually planned or spur of other moment ideas in the film) involve destroying everything people value such as wealth (burning of the large sums of money), health (destruction

of hospital), love (batman's girlfriend's death), justice (Harvey Dent becoming Two-Face), people's safety (loading a bomb on the ship full of citizens)? Also those come across as motives of an insane person like someone who has serious social issues.


my ramberlings in Spoilers again

Spoiler:
"Law" is no more good than "Chaos" is evil - A totally committed servant of "Law" will do absolutely anything to achieve his goals - whatever they may be. The Jokers actions all appear to be incredably well planned with mutiple fail safes... It was never (for me) totally clear what the Jokers motivation was or driving force - but Chaos was dubious. He may have appeared (to us) to be insane but he may have considered his actions perfectly logical and sane - the response to a choatic world may be to destory it and make a new better one.

Aagain I would say the Joker in Batman was a insane force of pure Chaos wheras the Nolan version was perhaps a dark force of "Law" - insane in a different way. I just did not think the film worked for me in any way for reasons in previous post





But Nolan's Joker has nothing to do with law (imo) as he frequently disobeys it and his motives are nihilistic in nature not someone/something reinforcing new rules on people. Also I don't know much about insanity but weren't many famous serial killers capable of creating convoluted

plans? I don't think the Joker was responding to a chaotic world I think he was responding to a world that was full of order (police, laws, daily routine, etc) and wanted to destroy (or at least change it) that.
   
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Arguably Insanity is perhaps just a different view of the world / universe etc

Nolans Joker does not just make a or even a few plans - he makes a complex and infalliable web of plans that rely on specific interactions and even the "failure" of other plans.

Have you watched Dexter? if not its awesome.....

Many serial killers actively hate disorder and "Chaos" and seek to put the world or elements of it in into their own approved form of "order".

A society or rule based on nothing but Law/Order is an evil and insane sitatuion / society same as Total Choas.....

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 Mr Morden wrote:
Arguably Insanity is perhaps just a different view of the world / universe etc

Nolans Joker does not just make a or even a few plans - he makes a complex and infalliable web of plans that rely on specific interactions and even the "failure" of other plans.


But if his plan's purpose don't go any further than destroying things of value how can one claim his motives are about about "order"? I mean maybe the process to get there uses a lot of planning and organization but the end is result is supposed to be "chaos". As far as I can tell as the Joker

doesn't seem to have any desire to introduce new laws or things of value to society.
   
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 trexmeyer wrote:


Did you just say The Dark Knight and Avengers were bad movies? God, I thought I was cynical. The only comics I've read are The Killing Joke, The Watchmen, V for Vendetta, and From Hell. I am far from being a fanboy and I still go watch 75% of the comic movies. At worst they are silly fun and at best they are strong films with excellent dialogue, storytelling and acting (TDK and Watchmen). I don't really think of Dredd as being a superhero, but the recent film was excellent.

Lighten up mate.


I've got Killing joke and TDKR (comic). The only two batman comics I've ever read.

Yes, I called the avengers a bad movie. It was superhero x-beats up superhero y for the first bit and boring as batgak.
I've read a grand total of 2 marvel superhero comics in my life. Both in the early 80s. Didn't make me want to read more. Marvel also made me stop reading star wars (the comics WERE that bad).

TDK was over-rated. The joker was sooooo OTT that teethmarks were left in the scenery. The microwave weapon thing made no sense either (if you can boil water from that distance, then the people UNDER the monorail would be just as cooked.).

Dredd was a farcry from the comics, too. Way too "J-burg 20 minutes into the future" and not enough of "megalopolis now".

Didn't think that much of the watchmen, either. Even if a mate of mine DID cut that trailer together.

Lighten up?

I'll have you know I take the piss out of myself better than anyone else I know. If I was any lighter, I'd be an aerogel.

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 Cheesecat wrote:


But if his plan's purpose don't go any further than destroying things of value how can one claim his motives are about about "order"?


You keep harping on this "destroying things of value is chaotic" and it makes no sense. Destroying things of value is more about breaking a person or society, which makes it easier to impose your own brand of order over them.

DKR Joker is doing nothing but trying to prove a point to Batman: Deep down, people are terrible, panicky, murderous animals. He's not chaotic in anyway, he's meticulous, precise, and exacting in how he attains his goal. Everything he did was to steer things towards his final confrontation with the Bat so they could watch the situation on the ships and prove himself right to Batman. Hell, forcing Batman to go all Big Brother on the city to find him further reinforces what he's all about: Batman has to go to the most logical extreme of his method and violate people's rights to find him.

Exposing Dent as the same sort of beast was just the icing to his People are gak cake.

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 Platuan4th wrote:
 Cheesecat wrote:


But if his plan's purpose don't go any further than destroying things of value how can one claim his motives are about about "order"?


You keep harping on this "destroying things of value is chaotic" and it makes no sense. Destroying things of value is more about breaking a person or society, which makes it easier to impose your own brand of order over them.

DKR Joker is doing nothing but trying to prove a point to Batman: Deep down, people are terrible, panicky, murderous animals. He's not chaotic in anyway, he's meticulous, precise, and exacting in how he attains his goal. Everything he did was to steer things towards his final confrontation with the Bat so they could watch the situation on the ships and prove himself right to Batman. Hell, forcing Batman to go all Big Brother on the city to find him further reinforces what he's all about: Batman has to go to the most logical extreme of his method and violate people's rights to find him.

Exposing Dent as the same sort of beast was just the icing to his People are gak cake.


I guess, it's been a while since I've seen the movie so would the main theme be whether people are inherently horrible or not?
   
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 Cheesecat wrote:
 Platuan4th wrote:
 Cheesecat wrote:


But if his plan's purpose don't go any further than destroying things of value how can one claim his motives are about about "order"?


You keep harping on this "destroying things of value is chaotic" and it makes no sense. Destroying things of value is more about breaking a person or society, which makes it easier to impose your own brand of order over them.

DKR Joker is doing nothing but trying to prove a point to Batman: Deep down, people are terrible, panicky, murderous animals. He's not chaotic in anyway, he's meticulous, precise, and exacting in how he attains his goal. Everything he did was to steer things towards his final confrontation with the Bat so they could watch the situation on the ships and prove himself right to Batman. Hell, forcing Batman to go all Big Brother on the city to find him further reinforces what he's all about: Batman has to go to the most logical extreme of his method and violate people's rights to find him.

Exposing Dent as the same sort of beast was just the icing to his People are gak cake.


I guess, it's been a while since I've seen the movie so would the main theme be whether people are inherently horrible or not?


I think the theme was that people are inherently not.

The Joker was trying to prove that they were, but failed.

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OK, I stand corrected then. But one question though would it be safe to say that the Joker rejects authority from others (money, police, laws, batman, social norms, etc)?
   
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Seems we drifted well off topic.

And calling Avengers bad? I mean, there's hating on things that are popular, and then there's just being intentionally obtuse.

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 AduroT wrote:
As far as I am concerned it's very simple. If someone tells you they hate all super hero movies, then you don't bother listening to their opinion on the newest super hero movie.


But those opinions are always so entertaining.

   
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As far as I am concerned it's very simple. If someone tells you they hate all super hero movies, then you don't bother listening to their opinion on the newest super hero movie.


You're absolutely right.

I am taking your advice.

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 AduroT wrote:
As far as I am concerned it's very simple. If someone tells you they hate all super hero movies, then you don't bother listening to their opinion on the newest super hero movie.


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 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Seems we drifted well off topic.

And calling Avengers bad? I mean, there's hating on things that are popular, and then there's just being intentionally obtuse.


I rewatched the Avengers today (only the third time I've watched it) and it just awed me that Marvel managed to pull off such a brilliant film. The dialogue is OTT, but it works because the movie doesn't take itself excessively seriously at any point. All of the casting is spot on. The fact they managed to convert outlandish comic book super heroes in spandex into accessible characters for a mainstream audience without sacrificing or cheapening them is just amazing.

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 trexmeyer wrote:
 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Seems we drifted well off topic.

And calling Avengers bad? I mean, there's hating on things that are popular, and then there's just being intentionally obtuse.


I rewatched the Avengers today (only the third time I've watched it) and it just awed me that Marvel managed to pull off such a brilliant film. The dialogue is OTT, but it works because the movie doesn't take itself excessively seriously at any point. All of the casting is spot on. The fact they managed to convert outlandish comic book super heroes in spandex into accessible characters for a mainstream audience without sacrificing or cheapening them is just amazing.


The Avengers is a fantastic film on all levels - if the Guardians film is anything like it will be awesome.............

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On chromedogs opinion, i disagree and i don't need to elaborate.

A few weeks ago i watched the new Thor movie (yeah, Japan is always late with movie releases) the extra stuff after the movie implies something happening with the infinity gems, don't know that whole story-line. I interested if this will happen in this movie.

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All this hating on my opinion.

I'm NOT the core marketing demographic for the movies. Naturally, there's going to be some bias there.
The main one being this one:

I'm not a superhero comic reader. I try not to read them if I can avoid them. I don't generally even read comics anymore. I used to read Sandman and Hellblazer.

I've read 4 superhero comics in my life (ok, 2 are graphic novels). The Dark Knight Returns, The Killing Joke, a random spiderman and random Captain America. The first two I rather like.
These last 2 were in the early 80s and though I remember them still, they didn't exacltly inspire me to want to read more.
Spidey featured a rather tedious bad guy called "the thinker" (an incarcerated felon who controlled humanoid robots by the power of his mind who had it bad for spidey).
The other one featured a black hat called "angron" - an energy creature from earth's far future, where the sun was in its red-giant stage and organic life was a thing of history. Also featured a black superhero called "falcon".

I don't read many comics at all these days.
I used to read Judge dredd when I was younger, but haven't seen a prog in over a decade.

The movies aren't targeted at me. I get this.
I was curious about Avengers because all my gaming mates raved about it (admittedly, most are 15 years younger than me) and I was swayed by a hot redhead (it's a weakness) and RDJ - who is a cool actor and nice bloke. I understand HIS Tony Stark. That sarky bastich resonates with me.

Mind you, they also raved about Pacific Rim ...

I stopped watching cheesy kaiju movies when I was 9. Cheesy SF was more fun.

At least they are a step up on one friend who recommended the works of Tarantino to me. He's dead to me now (but he's dead to everyone else, too. Really, really dead.).

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Totally stoked! I was going to watch it because it had one of my favorite WWE stars. But the 'feeling' I get from the trailer has me totally wanting to see this.

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 Jehan-reznor wrote:
On chromedogs opinion, i disagree and i don't need to elaborate.

A few weeks ago i watched the new Thor movie (yeah, Japan is always late with movie releases) the extra stuff after the movie implies something happening with the infinity gems, don't know that whole story-line. I interested if this will happen in this movie.


The Guardians movie is supposed to have a tie in to the Infinity Gauntlet the Marvel movies have been working towards and is supposed to deal with finding one of the gems as well as having The Collector that you saw in the Thor credits in this movie as well.

 
   
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 AduroT wrote:
 Jehan-reznor wrote:
On chromedogs opinion, i disagree and i don't need to elaborate.

A few weeks ago i watched the new Thor movie (yeah, Japan is always late with movie releases) the extra stuff after the movie implies something happening with the infinity gems, don't know that whole story-line. I interested if this will happen in this movie.
The Guardians movie is supposed to have a tie in to the Infinity Gauntlet the Marvel movies have been working towards and is supposed to deal with finding one of the gems as well as having The Collector that you saw in the Thor credits in this movie as well.
Chances are, we'll get Thanos in Avengers 3. Guardians introduces several characters related to or working for him.
   
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 chromedog wrote:
I've read 4 superhero comics in my life (ok, 2 are graphic novels).


Then you've read more than me, and I love these movies (well, not Iron Man 3, that one was gak, and the first Captain America film was stupid and riddled with plot-holes). Suffice to say it, "I don't read comics" isn't really a good reason (or excuse) to decry these movies. Most people don't read the comics, yet these movies are successful anyway.


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 Jehan-reznor wrote:
On chromedogs opinion, i disagree and i don't need to elaborate.

A few weeks ago i watched the new Thor movie (yeah, Japan is always late with movie releases) the extra stuff after the movie implies something happening with the infinity gems, don't know that whole story-line. I interested if this will happen in this movie.
The Guardians movie is supposed to have a tie in to the Infinity Gauntlet the Marvel movies have been working towards and is supposed to deal with finding one of the gems as well as having The Collector that you saw in the Thor credits in this movie as well.
Chances are, we'll get Thanos in Avengers 3. Guardians introduces several characters related to or working for him.


I'm fairly sure they've confirmed Thanos and the climatic finale of the Infinity Gauntlet story line in Avengers 3.

 
   
 
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