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June 17, 2013 10:27 am Did anybody else notice the following lines? Lois: They say it all goes downhill after the first kiss. Clark: I think that's only true when you kiss a human. In other words, for Clark, it's all going to go downhill.

June 17, 2013 10:22 am After Lois plugged Jor-El into the mother ship, shouldn't he have been hanging around there the whole time? He seemed to be hanging around the 20,000 year old ship until Zod unplugged him.

June 16, 2013 10:53 am Paul, just some additional thoughts, ramblings: Zack Snyder's films baffle me to no end. And yet I feel like this is the direction that cinema is heading. There seems to be a direct lineage from the Matrix to this film, with some stops in Christopher Nolan's films along the way. These (The Matrix, Inception, Man of Steel) films seem to want to be art films for the masses, made by filmmakers who really admire the artistic integrity of films that make you think (films by say, the Coen Bros, Wong Kar-Wai, or Wes Anderson), but done so in a mass appealing way, forsaking art, by filmmakers that don't quite get it. These filmmakers also seem to be insanely in love with developing technology (which is also quite interesting). The dawn of the popular art film? There was a strange anomaly of Michael Bay meets Terrence Malick to this film. Snyder is clearly in love with visual filmmaking. I always feel after watching a Snyder film that a ten year old boy with a great eye for visuals has been given the reins of something he doesn't quite know how to handle yet. His films always fascinate. I can't quite say they're bad, but they border on self-parody, sometimes without references to anything but boyhood nostalgia. His exploration of gender roles are completely mind boggling. Ah well. I enjoyed your review. I didn't quite feel joylessness, but I can't disagree with that sentiment, based on the film we were given. I more or less gave into the Snyderism of the film. After the first half hour of thinking "Oh my god, this is terrible, is this someone's demo reel to direct the next Star Wars?" I remembered it was Snyder, and that this seems to be the new cinema that is emerging. Fascinating. Heavy technology based films that require you to bring in your knowledge of the pathos of characters and their relationships, because these films aren't quite smart enough to figure out how to toss that in amongst all the chaos. I like Zack Snyder, his films are certainly watchable. David Goyer (in my opinion) is a terrible screenwriter. I'm all over the place in this response. Thanks for bringing this out of me! Thanks for still expecting something more of cinema.

March 27, 2013 11:31 am International is much more substantial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=WEbzZP-_Ssc

January 18, 2013 7:58 pm Holy Hannah! Kudos and congratulations! Ron, your X-Men fanboyism easily rivals, nay outdoes, my own! I'll miss your upbeat attitude and joy at doing your thing. Paul, I remember when you did the opening as Tony Stark, and am looking forward to hearing you getting into the groove of things. Hilarity to ensue I'm sure. You ifanboys are an inspiration to us newer podcasters out there. Keep on keepin' on!

October 3, 2012 1:35 pm GI Joe #46 I read and reread until the cover fell off (still have it, and it's cover). It was right in the middle of some major ninja action, with Ripcord for some reason being dressed as Zartan and unconscious. Ripcord's girlfriend is some major figure in Cobra and manages to save his life from a vengeful Storm Shadow (who thinks he's going after Zartan). I can't believe I remember all that. It really got me into reading GI Joe, especially since I also had a copy of #23 floating around that had been given to me as a child. Now I could connect the dots slowly to see how #23 had led into #46. Groo #52 was another one, which led me to collecting every issue of Groo I could find. Think I read the cover off of that one too.

July 26, 2012 1:45 pm Ha! My girlfriend had the same reaction to that scene!

January 12, 2012 2:18 pm Nice. I love these random X panels. Begin self promotion: We pull out a lot of funny (and some cool) panels of early X-Comics as a supplement to our weekly podcast Danger Room! http://redcatproductions.com/dangerroom/ It's an x-men issue by issue commentary podcast starting from that #1 from 1963 (and presumably ending with #544.) It should be checked out, and shared with friends. End self promotion. http://www.facebook.com/DangerRoomPodcast

October 28, 2011 9:10 am I imagine if there's any new material we'll cover that, and if there are any key appearances in other comics (we already did fantastic four #28) we'll cover those too. And then jump forward to Giant Size X-men #1. But it's unlikely we'll redo anything. You can always go back and re-listen!

October 27, 2011 2:38 pm I'm looking forward to getting this even more now. Speaking of the X-Men omnibus and those classic sixties issues (and Tom Katers), I'm co-hosting an x-men issue by issue commentary podcast starting from that #1 from 1963 (and presumably ending with last week's #544. It should be checked out, and shared with friends, and yes, this comment is total self promotion: http://redcatproductions.com/dangerroom/ http://www.facebook.com/DangerRoomPodcast