kennyg

August 26, 2013 4:16 pm I dunno about all that. I think my biggest problems with Ghost Rider 1 & 2 were Nick Cage. And sometimes it's not the line but the person delivering it that makes it work or not work. While there was some pretty cheesy dialogue in B&R, I think other actors besides George Clooney and Arnold Schwarzengger might have made it not as painful (Schwarzengger SUCKED so bad). But, true, there are other cases where you get a great cast and the movie is still meh.

August 23, 2013 12:46 pm @Itho - I do agree, there has to have been some kind of time skip between the defeat of Zod & his plans and the following scenes in MoS. If not, this Superman would be callous and uncaring, and I did not see any evidence of that in the film. So, I'm also of the opinion that he's had some time to process killing Zod and everything else. I just don't want it swept under the rug like it never happened. I don't want them to dwell on it, because we don't need another mopey-ass Superman movie, but I don't want it ignored either. This can serve as a fundamental moment in Superman's character development, he can learn from his mistake if you will. Maybe Batman can be part of that, confronting him and challenging him to be a better hero. I just don't want them to cram in Batman because of a perception that a solo Superman sequel couldn't be successful given the criticisms of MoS. I wouldn't call MoS a flop or failure, it was the third highest grossing movie of the summer. Not sure how much PROFIT it made compared to cost though (I still can't believe Iron Man 3 made so much), but maybe it didn't make as much as the powers-that-be HOPED it would make: 1 Iron Man 3 BV $408,195,474 4,253 $174,144,585 4,253 5/3 - 2 Despicable Me 2 Uni. $347,639,040 4,003 $83,517,315 3,997 7/3 - 3 Man of Steel WB $289,816,740 4,207 $116,619,362 4,207 6/14 - Of course, if they've covered costs and are in the black already, they'll clean up on the home video market. I wonder if any attention will be given to Cap dealing with everything, although it will have been several years since he was in a movie when Cap 2 comes out. They hinted at that at the end of the first Cap movie, but I don't recall them mentioning it at all in Avengers (maybe there wasn't time). I would not mind some of the "fish out of water" stuff to continue but it shouldn't be the focus, he's already been through one big ass event film. Guess we'll also see how big a role Black Widow plays. I assume it will be more significant than it was in Iron Man 2, given her role in Avengers. I just have nightmares of Spider-Man 3 and hope they don't overdo these!

August 23, 2013 2:16 am As I said before - what the FUCKIN FUCK?!

August 22, 2013 9:53 pm No, it's WHAT THE FUCKIN' FUCK?!

August 22, 2013 6:21 pm The fanboy in me loves the idea of a Batman/Superman teamup movie. I am just concerned that the addition of a second leading hero character could take focus, which I feel is necessary, away from Superman. Kal has some baggage he needs to work through from the last film - or at least he SHOULD. I would hope this Superman has enough of a conscience that killing the only other Kryptonian in existence would weigh heavy on him and take some time to work through. I would like to see one more solo Superman movie before they add Batman. Could Batman help Superman's character arc? Sure, given the right writers. But Hollywood usually tries to cram too much into these super-hero movies at the expense of meaningful character development. "More" is not always "better."

August 22, 2013 12:45 pm I agree it would be a cop-out to ret-con Zod's death, but I don't know if they need to move past it too quickly. I'm concerned that adding Batman to the mix, despite how much I love Batman, would dilute Superman's character arc. MoS was just the first film relaunching the character, and there is an opportunity for him to change over a series of films. Maybe him killing Zod becomes the basis for his moral code not to kill. Maybe it pushes him to find an alternate solution to problems in the future. I want the character to evolve into the Superman ideal, and to do that he's going to have to pay some penance and feel some guilt over what he did. Otherwise, he's just a bruiser. It's like Han Solo. He started out a scoundrel and wound up a hero. He had a character arc (which Lucas diluted with Greedo shooting first!). Nolan threw obstacles at Bruce Wayne in the Dark Knight trilogy so he would evolve. They could do the same thing with Superman. But I'm having doubts that they will. I hope that what we ended up with at the end of MoS isn't the end of the character's growth.

August 20, 2013 5:21 pm This may be the most perfect casting ever done on ifanboy. I wouldn't change a thing. Well done!

August 20, 2013 4:03 pm YES! I left off Herculoids, Warner Bros, and Whacky Racers (the nna Barbera ‘Great Race’ show). I LOVED Banana Splits, but I think I was younger than 10 when it was on. Tom & Jerry are classic too.

August 20, 2013 4:01 pm I'm really about to drop several DC books. I mean it this time! My pulls: AVENGERS #18 BATMAN AND NIGHTWING #23 GREEN LANTERN: NEW GUARDIANS #23 SUPERMAN: UNCHAINED #3 THE SIXTH GUN #33 THE SUPERIOR SPIDER-MAN #16 TRINITY OF SIN: PANDORA #3 WONDER WOMAN #23 BQ: Scooby-Doo (the original toons, I am older), Super Friends, Pink Panther. Then there were a lot of live-action shows, some with people in suits: H R Puffinstuff, the Shazam/Isis show, the Kroft Super Show (had several different stories), Ark II, ah the memories. Then there were a lot of ones after school too, not sure if they were just reruns of cancelled Saturday morning shows or intended to run after school.

August 14, 2013 5:24 pm "Work is for SUCKERS!" posted Ken, from work.