Mr W Phallus

Batman Begins was really good. Dark Knight was better although it lost a lot of pace in the latter acts. The original Burton Batman is campy good. It's been too long since I've seen Spiderman 1 or 2 but I don't remember there being anything particularly bad about them. The Incredibles is amazing. I wasn't particularly impressed by Iron Man (I was watching on a distant plane TV and listening through crappy headphones though), I think mostly I was disappointed it didn't live up to the hype. Iron Man 2 was a bit too messy. Hellboy was quite fun. Blade is good fun, although I'm sure that's partly nostalgia (first 18 rated film I ever saw) but I can't really remember the sequels. I can't really think of any other superhero films I've seen, but the only one that I'd say is as bad as Watchmen is probably Spiderman 3 and the other Schumacher(?) Batman films, although I've seen them so many times on tv I'm inclined to say they're not that bad. I don't think I have high standards for films, I just have standards is all. When people say 'sure it wasn't a very good film but it's just a popcorn flick' etc. it baffles me. Why settle for a sub-par films just because Hollywood are too complacent to aim higher? Plus it really annoys me that the average person, who tends only to hear about the big-name 'blockbusters' are then blown away by any half-decent film that manages to sneak into the public conciousness amongst all the usual Hollywood crap. My friend, who doesn't watch a lot of films, called Inglourious Basterds 'the best film ever'. Now Basterds is a good film, I'd even go so far as to say the script is brilliant, Waltz's performance was superb and you can't go wrong with Brad Pitt. It is, however, far from being 'the best film ever', unless, of course, you are only used to seeing the usual shit Hollywood churns out. Urgh, sorry to rant, I'm just in that kinda mood.

It's not the changed ending that bothers me at all. Nor am I a fan boy of the comic - I do love it but I only read it the Christmas before the film came out because I'd seen the trailer and was really looking forward to the movie so it's not like I had some deep-ingrained reverence for the source material when I first saw the film. It's the fact that whoever it was who played Silk Spectre II is a terrible actor. It's the fact that Snyder's direction, which is average at best, is completely unsuited to the tone of the material. It's the fact that Adrian Veidt/Ozymandius was shockingly miscast and given one of the most clichéd and horrible super-hero costumes I've ever seen in a film. I'm sure there's plenty of other reasons why it's a bad film but I'd have to watch it again to cover them all and I really don't want to do that. Neither the performances of Rorschach and Dr. Manhattan or the (admittedly excellent) opening credits or the Dr. Manhattan origin scenes make up for the fact it is just not a good movie. Now can we stop talking about Watchmen now? It's making me nauseous. (Oh and no offence meant, to each his own etc. but Watchmen...really?)

You're all so wrong.

Oo don't get me started on Watchmen.

Gay for Pikachu

Do Pokemon count as weapons? Also I have to second Kenshi's call on the Poison Blade in AC2, it's so much fun to stab someone then find a good rooftop view and watch the chaos.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzzlf9OH7x8 Saw this short film earlier today, at 4 minutes it worth watching. Shame the quality on that version isn't too good.

me: The objective case of the first person pronoun I.

No love for George Clooney? Also these two: I saw them together in a production for Waiting For Godot. It was awesome.

I'm about 4 hours into Dead Space. I'm enjoying it but I can't decide whether it's good or bad that my only deaths so far have been due to environmental hazards.

Gotham's Brown Knight

You mean you don't want sticky white fluids squirted in your face? You're weird man.

I try to save a lot but I'm quite forgetful sometimes, especially in games where there is no auto-save and no kind of save-game prompt. I think it was the first Splinter Cell which I always used to forget to save on. I don't really save in multiple slots either unless I'm fairly sure I'm going to regret something I did. I've been screwed over because of this, like I saved too close to the final boss fight in KOTOR with no way back and could never defeat the boss. Come to think about it, I never did defeat KOTOR, even though I count it as one of my favourite games. Damn save systems.

I'm sure I've read a prose story (with accompanying art) that is about exactly that in one of the Batman graphic novels/collected editions I have but I can't for the life of me remember which... The Killing Joke maybe?

Doubting Heath Ledger's Joker? That's a brave, brave man right there. Personally I think the unpredictable nature of the Joker's personality is part of what makes him the Joker. Different interpretations of him just add to that.

Interesting, I should probably read Knightfall, that is cover is all I really know about Bane.

I'm not very familiar with the character, besides what I've seen in Arkham Asylum and that shitty movie, but why would there be a need for CGI? Couldn't they just get someone with real muscles (maybe even an actual wrestler)? Instead of this: They should aim for something like this: Muscular, but not unrealistically so. I'm not very familiar with him either, I mostly know him as the guy who broke Batman's back: The pic you found shows a much more achievable version though, so I'm still fairly confident Nolan won't mess up.

This is top of my want to see list right now, closely followed by True Grit. Luckily it's playing at my local arthouse cinema so as soon as I'm finished with coursework I'm gonna go see it. Plus I have 2 free tickets for the cinema.

He does strike me as a character that is always going to be difficult to adapt since he's so much a product of impossible comic book musculature. I just hope he isn't CGI.

Holy dawning realisation, Bane was in Batman and Robin?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOR9-FXdIm0 And just for its sheer lack of taste: http://www.metacafe.com/watch/3321691/hitler_aids_commercial_hq/

I don't think people necessarily want them to be better (although they are often hyped as being such which can lead to disappointment) just on a par with the originals. PotC and The Matrix sequels were both definitely worse than the original and people are annoyed by this. It's also important to remember that sequels nearly always have a bigger budget and generally more effort is spent on them so technically there should be an improvement, at the very least on a technical level. But above all, people hate it when a film that is generally considered to be good gets a sequel that is not. Take Star Wars. My favourite is Empire Strikes Back, but I still love its sequel Return of the Jedi, even though it's not quite as good IMO. I hate the prequels, though, because they are most definitely bad films and not only are they a wasted opportunity but they reflect badly on the originals. Also I doubt The Dark Knight Rises will be loathed - Nolan has proven himself to be a capable and above all popular film-maker - and there's no reason why it might not be as good as The Dark Knight, sure there'll be no Heath Ledger this time but The Dark knight suffered from some real pacing issues towards the end of the film, it was far from perfect.

I quite like the D/P starters. R/S were by far the worst, but I love those games anyway.

Not too sure about the new style of overworld; apart from the obvious graphical limitations it just seems needlessly messy. Still I'm looking forward to it, I just hope there's not too many pointless additions like the pokemon athletics from HG/SS.