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Incredible Hulk was better than Cap, albeit just barely. The key bit here is that I cared what happened to everyone one way or another, and felt things as the story progressed. It wasn't all flash and less substance than it could have been. That's what happened with Cap. That's what happens with almost all of Joe Johnston's films though.

That's the same way I felt about the movie. There was more substance to Incredible Hulk than there was Captain America. Also I really enjoyed that chase sequence at the beginning of the film. I had to look up Joe Johnston's filmography on IMDb just to see if I've seen any of his other movies. Then I realized I've seen The Wolfman, The Rocketeer, and Honey, I Shrunk the Kids.

Back to the movie Avengers, I'm looking forward to seeing Hawkeye in action in this movie. I also love that they casted Jeremy Renner for the part. I think his cameo in Thor was one of my favorite parts of that movie. I'm kind of disappointed there's no Wasp or Giant Man/Ant-Man in this film though. Maybe they'll bring them out in the sequel.

Oh and one more thing, if Captain America doesn't say, "Avengers Assemble!" at least once I'll nerd rage.

I had really low hopes of Thor. Trailers made it look too goofy, but I finally watched it last week and it was fantastic. I've not seen CapAm or Hulk yet. I don't like the idea of Ed Norton in the role so I dunno if I even want to bother with that..

I love Ed Norton and I thought he did a good job. I also thought it was great homage to the Bill Bixby television show. I also liked that even though it was reboot they didn't do the obvious and boring origin story. The other thing I liked about the film is that the Hulk had an actual antagonist that he could fight at the end of the film.

...unlike Thor and Captain America, which totally didn't have an antagonist to fight at the end. Like, Loki and Red Skull, that would have been good.

Thor and Captain America were far better than Hulk. Ed Norton was Ed Norton playing Ed Norton who happened to turn into a giant green rage monster. I liked the film, but it's definitely nowhere near as good as Thor and Captain America.

What I meant by that last part was unlike in Ang Lee's Hulk, the Hulk had an antagonist he could actually fight at the end of the film. I'm sorry I didn't clarify that. I know Cap had the Red Skull and Thor had Loki. I did watch the movies. The thing that brings down Thor for me is I didn't like the guy who played Thor. I felt he wasn't a very good actor. I think they just casted the guy because he looked the part.

The different classes are not specific to one species in multiplayer. You have to unlock the different species in the different classes though.

I had really low hopes of Thor. Trailers made it look too goofy, but I finally watched it last week and it was fantastic. I've not seen CapAm or Hulk yet. I don't like the idea of Ed Norton in the role so I dunno if I even want to bother with that..

I love Ed Norton and I thought he did a good job. I also thought it was great homage to the Bill Bixby television show. I also liked that even though it was reboot they didn't do the obvious and boring origin story. The other thing I liked about the film is that the Hulk had an actual antagonist that he could fight at the end of the film.

Captain America was excellent, what are you talking about? That's exactly how a Captain America movie set during World War 2 should have been.

I had issues with it too (I rank them Iron Man, Thor, Hulk, Captain America, Iron Man 2). My main issue was how underutilized I felt Red Skull really was, how silly the love story was played out, and how I had almost zero emotional connection with said love story. It should have been a big deal at the end, but it all feltreally stupid, silly, and unimportant. That said, the casting and acting was excellent, the script was far better than I would have ever hoped, and the effects were bright and shiny and ooooo and ahhhhh.

I agree completely that's exactly how I felt.

I also felt no emotion when Bucky was killed in the film.

I wouldn't rank Thor as high as you though. I thought Incredible Hulk was better than Thor. Thor trying to adjust to Earth was funny, I think I would have rather watched an entire movie of that to be honest.

This movie looks like it will be fun I'm hoping it's better than Captain America. That was such a huge disappointment. I think they're trying to go with the Ulitmates version of Cap's costume in this film.

I played the multiplayer in the demo and thought it was pretty fun. I don't know how much of it I'll play though in the real game. I'm a bit of an achievement whore though so I'll probably play it to collect the achievements. I heard that you can carry over success from multiplayer into the single player game as well. So there's that incentive as well.

Have to finish Mass Effect 2 before tuesday. Makes me mad that I lost my old save. Now instead of my actual playthrough of 1 I have to do the stupid interactive comic and I liked how my 2 play worked now I have to hope to replicate it.

That sucks, I replayed Mass Effect 1 last week and replayed ME 2 this week in anticipation of ME 3 being released next week. I had a save from the first game with a female Shepard I never finished. So I went back and finished it and then played through ME 2 with FemShep. I just need to do the Lair of the Shadow Broker and the Arrival missions.

AMC's website revealed a rather MASSIVE spoiler today for the rest of this season. It was in a special edition bluray ad where they explain special features. So yeah, you might want to avoid a lot of sites (I've seen it mentioned on 6 already) if you don't want to know.

Yeah but to be fair it's kind of an obvious spoiler though. If you follow the comics it's not that surprising.

I thought that was already mentioned in the thread.

Here you can see teasers for the next comic arc. You might consider them spoilerish in the end, but if you have read the comics before you know that these teasers or cover pictures are usualy fairly vague and don´t necessary resemble anything that actualy happens.

http://www.skybound.com/skybound/2012/2/13/the-walking-dead-something-to-fear-teasers.html

So...

CHAINSAW!!!

Dude with the axe = Daryl Dixon?

I was thinking more the guy with the crossbow = Daryl Dixon

Have we done this before?

Anyway, I was going through Netflix the other day and saw Pitch Black... I hate Vin Diesel, but my ex-girlfriend made me watch it many moons ago and I was shocked by how much I enjoyed it.

Wesley Snipes is awful, but Blade is awesome.

And Hugh Jackman is the worst, but X2 is one of the few truly great Marvel movies.

I agree with all of those, I also enjoyed Chronicles of Riddick, the sequel to Pitch Black.

The Prestige is another movie I love with Hugh Jackman in it.

Having not seen any of the films for ages, could someone please explain this bit?

No virgin birth. We simply don’t know or care who Anakin’s father is, and the subtle implication that it’s Palpatine is gone.

And I have a real soft spot for the Phantom Menace. It was the first Star Wars film I ever saw, and I was like eight at the time and it was all so new to me and I loved it. Quite possibly still would. It remains the only film out of the six I've seen more than once.

If I remember my crazy fan theories correctly, I think Palpatine says something like his Sith Master was so strong with the force that he could create life. That's about it. Apparently it was also in the first draft of the script, but if that's true or if that even means anything is completely up for debate. Google also tells me there's also something about Anakin not arriving on Tatooine until he was 8, so his past is something of a mystery.

Palpatine says to Anakin in Revenge of the Sith that he even has the ability to create life. I also heard it was in the first draft of the script that Palpatine was revealed to be Anakins father. So it might be implied that Palpatine is Annie's father.

I was 9 when Episode 1 came out

Christ.

Hey, I was 9 as well when Episode 1 came out. But then again, I saw the original trilogy, through and through, like three times before I saw Episode 1 so...

I watched the shit out of them VHS tapes.

Exactly the same. Even the age. >_>

I quite like my Blu Rays of Star Wars. I mean, I don't really care for the added stuff, but I'd heard Yoda was replaced with a CGI Yoda. So when it turned out that was a lie, the rest seemed a little more forgivable. Other than Hayden in Jedi. Fuck that.

What was meant by that is the puppet version of Yoda used in The Phantom Menace was replaced by a CGI version, which it was.

Yeah the puppet Yoda was originally used in The Phantom Menace but I guess he was cross eyed. So for the BluRay release they replaced him with a CGI Yoda. The 3D version of the film is the same as the BluRay release.

Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones are the most god-awful shit. There's no "they'd be better remembered if they came first" or "they would've been better remembered if they weren't called Star Wars" about it; they're just bad. We're talking about a movie in Phantom Menace where the bad-ass supervillain has less screen time than the fucking jiggly-faced frog king guy. His role is literally this:

1. Show up in a place where the heroes previously were in a scene that lasts about thirty seconds.

2. Show up for final battle.

3. Die quickly.

There's no explaining away the "comedy shenanigans won us the war" bit at the end, the ridiculous Imp Fake Amidala, or the utterly boring trade bullshit. Attack of the Clones may well be worse because it combines the shit that made no sense with the most dreadful love story in cinematic history, and no, it's not Hayden Christenwhatever's fault, it's George Lucas's fault. Even Revenge of the Sith is worthless beyond pure popcorn, but that's how I've always felt about the original trilogy anyway, so... I dunno, high marks or whatever.

George Lucas is a terrible writer, those prequel movies are evidence. Some of the cheesiest dialogue I've heard in a movie. The lightsaber duel at the end of the Revenge of the Sith is so over the top, drawn out and unnecessary. Also another problem I have with the prequels is that during space battles there's so much shit going on all over the screen it's impossible to focus on one thing.

The original film is a classic, and I love Empire Strikes Back. Return of the Jedi I have a few gripes with but it's still a good film. The prequel movies are hot garbage though. I grew up watching the original trilogy as a kid on VHS and went to see the 1997 special editions in the theater. So when Phantom Menace was released I was obviously excited. Then I actually saw the movie besides the Pod Race the rest is shit. I bought the Complete Saga on BluRay just so I could get those deleted scenes from the original trilogy.

Well then nevermind.

Perhaps the Academy just liked War Horse more.

Well the Academy can choose up to 10 nominees but they only chose 9 films this year. I don't see why they couldn't nominate it anyway regardless of the fact it wouldn't have won.

While it wasn't nominated for Best Picture, Rooney Mara was nominated for Best Actress. It won for Best Achievement in Film Editing and was nominated for 3 other technical awards.

Moneyball is on my list of films to watch as well. I was going to see Tree of Life but never did. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo was not nominated.

Comic spoilers and upcoming show speculation:

I'm betting that all dead people turn to zombies regardless of bites is what the guy at the CDC whispered to Rick.

And I'm officially backlashing against the Lori/Andrea backlash. We have to realize, we're dealing with a bunch of small town hillbillies in the middle of the apocalypse, of course some will think they should break off into "Men do man stuff, girls do girl stuff." And this is exactly how the women were early in the comics, it's not until Michonne shows up and Andrea becomes a badass that it starts to change.

Andrea's evolution is slower (like everything else on the show compared to the rapid-fire early days of the books) and she's quite bitchy, but I thought she took an awesome turn last night. She wasn't wrong, even if she was blunt about it.

Regarding the comic spoilers and upcoming show speculation:

You know you're right they haven't shown a living person that wasn't killed by a headshot or zombie attack in the show.

Yeah I think my hate for Andrea probably has to due with a combination of her slower evolution, bitchiness, and the actress that portrays her.

I guess I just don't like Lori and think she's manipulative.

I only saw one of the films nominated this year and that was The Artist, I've heard the Descendants was a good film though.

18 Miles Out

Like how they appear to be building towards the group finding out that the disease isn't necessarily spread via bite or scratch. Or at least, that's how I interpreted the whole exchange about the two guards/officers in town and Shane saying he couldn't see any bite or scratch marks.

Brawl was cool. Shane kicking that kickstand out to topple a bike on Rick was brutal. And then when he shattered that window and the Walkers came, there were some great moments - Randall going apeshit on that one Walker, and Rick being part of a Walker sandwich. Rick coming back for Shane and the looks on Shane's face - when he sees Rick leave and when he sees Rick come back - were great. My only problem with all the stuff in town was like.. twice Shane stuck his arm out to stab a walker, and neither time he got bit? Even when he got his knife stuck in that one walker? I get that the first time he'd smeared his blood so they were distracted by that, but by the second stabbing it seemed like that fell to the wayside.

Someone also brought up a good point on Talking Dead in an email too: If that's the same knife Shane used to kill the other guard walker, then he cut himself with it on the bus, does that mean he's infected now?

The characterizations of both Lori and Andrea are super annoying. Right now the only females I even half-way care about are Beth and Maggie.

Rick said he saw scratch marks on one guards hand and on the others cheek. Also I hate the way that both Lori and Andrea are portrayed in the show.

I'm just happy Bret McKenzie won. The Artist winning Best Picture didn't surprise me. 2011 was kind of a ho-hum year for movies. It's telling when that douche Jonah Hill is nominated for an Oscar.

MAJOR book spoilers regarding deaths:

At this point in the comics, the only original members of the group that are left are Rick, Carl, Andrea, Glenn and Sophia... at least I think Sophia's an original member of the group. And Maggie's the only one left from the farm.

So with that in mind, I don't think they're going to hold back on killing people, but the show moves so much slower than the books, it would be a bit much to kill them off as fast. They don't want to veer into 24 or Rescue Me territory where they're killing off characters just for the sake of killing off characters.

Yes Sophia is part of the original Atlanta survivors. The big shocker of course was when he killed Lori AND the baby. I wonder if they'll go that route in the show. We'll just have to wait and see.

Am I the only one that thinks they should kill off T-Dog?

They kinda made him interesting during the whole debacle with the fat zombie in the well, but he's barely been on-screen since. He's hardly the problem that he was in season 1 though. Carol can go though.

EDIT

If I bought this, how far off 'up to date' am I? Is there a Compendium Vol 2 out/due out?

You'd be about halfway to where they are now. I think Compendium 2 is due out sometime this year, probably right around the time the 100th issue comes out, which I think is in August.

I thought Robert Kirkman didn't give a definitive release date for it yet. I think the question was addressed in a recent issue in Letter Hacks.

My problem with T-Dog is that he's just kind of there. He blends into the background and often times I forget he even exists.

Am I the only one that thinks they should kill off T-Dog?

Also, the comics are fantastic. I was instantly hooked.

What really sucks is I just got the HD DVD player for my 360 and Blu Ray has won the war

I'll just have wait for the Blu Ray player to drop in price and buy one. :ohwell2:

While I was never a big fan of his I am looking forward to his portrayal of the Joker. It certainly sucks that he died and especially so young. A waste of talent and a life.