Jingus Posted August 2, 2015 Share Posted August 2, 2015 oh for fucks sake, just imagine that picture of Tommy Lee Jones glaring at you here You apparently disagree with me about the overall quality of that show. What specific points in my statements do you hold opposing beliefs about, and what is the particular nature of said opposing beliefs? And man, that Island Of Silence on A:EMH was soooo goddamned creepy. I already love this show. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cliff Hanger Posted August 2, 2015 Author Share Posted August 2, 2015 EMH is so great. Definitive voice casting for Hank, Tony and Steve (and Carol, though it isn't like there are a lot of choices for her). Awesome slow burn atorytelling. Villains who seem scary and dangerous. It's no wonder it failed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nate Posted August 2, 2015 Share Posted August 2, 2015 I liked the slight tint of Jack Black to Tony ... I don't know why; guess when I think spoiled ass richy I think Jack Black? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jingus Posted August 2, 2015 Share Posted August 2, 2015 The few little alterations they're making to the traditional comic cannon are cute, too. Like, using a much more articulate and basically-average-intelligence Hulk than is typically portrayed in screen adaptations. Or, having Bucky/Cap's "demises" coming when Bucky tries to sacrifice himself in order to save Roger (even going so far as to blubber "the world needs Captain America more than it needs me!") rather than basically just having Bucky tripping and falling to his presumed death like usual. Blatantly having Wolverine right there as a Howling Commando (and even having Fury CALL him "Howlett") was a nice touch too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jingus Posted August 3, 2015 Share Posted August 3, 2015 And now, in the first Ant-man episode, we're introduced to Pym with him taking out a team of evil mercenaries. The mercenaries are blatantly drawn to look exactly like the commando team from Predator! Arnold Schwarzenegger, Carl Weathers, Jesse Venture, and... uh... that guy who played Billy the indian. I mean, they're dead-on resemblances, it's obviously supposed to be them (even though their voice actors aren't trying to sound like them). And do they end up Firing In All Directions at an Invisible Technologically-Superior Enemy who takes them down one by one? HELL YES THEY DO. This show fucking rules. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cliff Hanger Posted August 3, 2015 Author Share Posted August 3, 2015 All four shorts in that ep (the Hank and Jan trilogy and the Panther origin) are really good. Â Pym gets probably the strongest arc thru the series as a whole even though he's not in that much of season 2, although it gets derailed by the changeover from Kyle/Yost to Loeb and Man of Action (stuff that should have been slow-burning subplots over 6-7 eps all gets smashed into one episode that doesn't quite work). 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheVileOne Posted August 3, 2015 Share Posted August 3, 2015 Â Guardians of the Galaxy animated series teaser. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Natural Posted August 4, 2015 Share Posted August 4, 2015 Sorry you don't like The Spectacular Spider-Man so far, Jingus. I opened up two old word documents I created when I first watched the show years ago to see the episodes I liked the most:  Group Therapy. (S1, Ep11). Intervention (S1, Ep12). This might get my vote as the best episode of the whole series. Nature vs. Nurture (S1, Ep13) Gangland (S2, Ep10) Final Curtain (S2, Ep13)  Haven’t watched the show since. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Natural Posted August 4, 2015 Share Posted August 4, 2015 Over the weekend there was a marathon of Teen Titans Go! I’d never seen the show before. What a fun funny show. I chuckled aloud a number of times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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nate Posted August 5, 2015 Share Posted August 5, 2015 CIVIL WAR 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bustronaut Posted August 10, 2015 Share Posted August 10, 2015 I guess this goes here? I watched KISS/SCOOBY DOO: ROCK AND ROLL MYSTERY, and it was all going well and fine until they travesered to "Kissteria" KISS' home dimension, which just so happens to be a love letter to Jack Kirby.  This guy is "The Destroyer," and he is literally Galactus-as-M.O.D.O.K.  If you love Jack Kirby, or were disappointed by the new Fantastic Four movie, I'd heartily recommend it.  (excuse the crappy pics, they're shots of my TV, but I was too lazy to get close enough for them to be full screen, so they're zoomed on my iPad camera.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cliff Hanger Posted August 23, 2015 Author Share Posted August 23, 2015 I forgot that the first Sat AM season of Real Ghostbusters had original songs. Â They are of poor quality (not Sonic Underground bad, but "why did we spend money on this instead of spending that part of the budget to improve something else?" bad.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jingus Posted August 24, 2015 Share Posted August 24, 2015 Into the second season, Earth's Mightiest Heroes still rules. They did a hell of a job with the slow build of storylines, letting the villains gradually craft their grand schemes over long periods of time. Even better, I love how they make it very clear that there's a larger Marvel Universe out there, one which they simply don't have time to explore every corner of. Like, how the more experienced Avengers and the F4 treat Doom with such familiarity-bred contempt, a general attitude of "oh come ON, you unbelievable asshole, you KNOW that you're not gonna win this fight". Or how they'll do things like offhandedly mention "yeah, we're pretty popular with the public, but there are other superheroes like Spider-man or the X-Men who aren't" and I almost shit my pants cuz those guys hadn't appeared in the show at all. We even got, more outta nowhere than any Randy Orton finish, ABIGAIL BRAND OF S.W.O.R.D. kicking all the alien ass. It really puts over the feeling of a larger shared world wherein these incredibly colorful characters have had tons of epic adventures, in between all the ones we've seen on the show. And all the top characters from the comics are present and accounted for and NOT horribly mutilated in the adaptation process. Heck, this is nicely achieving everything that I was bitching about in the other thread that Agents of SHIELD seems unwilling or unable to do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spritenaut 32 Posted August 24, 2015 Share Posted August 24, 2015 EMH probably had a bigger budget. SHIELD looks like it was given the budget of "Sharknado: The Series" by mistake. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheVileOne Posted August 25, 2015 Share Posted August 25, 2015 Eh in animation you can do tons of stuff you can't in live-action, especially superhero shows. Â Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eivion Posted August 30, 2015 Share Posted August 30, 2015 Watched Justice league: Gods & Monsters. Thought it was good overall. I dug the background behind each of the Trinity and ways turned things on their head a bit. Â I also watched a feature for the upcoming Batman: Bad Blood. That one killed most of my interest for it as they changed way too much of Batwoman's background. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted August 30, 2015 Share Posted August 30, 2015 Watched Justice league: Gods & Monsters. Thought it was good overall. I dug the background behind each of the Trinity and ways turned things on their head a bit. Â I also watched a feature for the upcoming Batman: Bad Blood. That one killed most of my interest for it as they changed way too much of Batwoman's background. Is she still a lesbian? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eivion Posted August 30, 2015 Share Posted August 30, 2015 Â Watched Justice league: Gods & Monsters. Thought it was good overall. I dug the background behind each of the Trinity and ways turned things on their head a bit. Â I also watched a feature for the upcoming Batman: Bad Blood. That one killed most of my interest for it as they changed way too much of Batwoman's background. Is she still a lesbian? Â I don't even know as they avoided mentioning it. The military background is gone ,and it sounds like they killed the Kane/Wayne connection as well since they kept talking her up as an outsider to the family, inspired to take up the mantle due to Bruce saving her. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Unholy Dragon Posted August 30, 2015 Share Posted August 30, 2015 Gods and Monsters was the best DCAU flick in ages by virtue of being less violent than the last two JLA movies despite really being able to go further given the concept. Actually used dark and gritty in a positive way. The whole world was neat and well thought out. So noted, peep the prequel comics/shorts for max effect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eivion Posted August 30, 2015 Share Posted August 30, 2015 Wait, that was less violent than the last two JL films, damn. I still haven't watched War or Throne of Atlantis. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clayton Jones Posted August 30, 2015 Share Posted August 30, 2015 I stopped watching after the Flashpoint Paradox in large part because THAT was too senselessly violent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eivion Posted August 30, 2015 Share Posted August 30, 2015 To be fair with that one, the actual Flashpoint story was pretty damn violent. Of course it also wasn't very good from what I've heard and recall from what bits of it I read, making for an odd film choice. Â I don't recall Throne of Atlantis being too violent, hence my surprise hearing the film is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cliff Hanger Posted August 30, 2015 Author Share Posted August 30, 2015 It was chosen because it was BIG and IMPORTANT and people know the name, so it can't NOT sell! (It's also significantly better than its source material, which means it's kind of meh instead of causing rage explosions.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Unholy Dragon Posted August 31, 2015 Share Posted August 31, 2015 Throne of Atlantis has multiple beheadings, people being sliced to pieces, and just blood everywhere. Son of Batman is Ninja Scroll levels of gory but at least you can kind of excuse it with a ninja centric Batman story. But seriously the level of gore in that stretch from Flashpoint Paradox to Throne of Atlantis was out of control. Batman vs. Robin and Gods and Monsters seem to have scaled it back so that's good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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