The unESCABLE DC Boards Lounge 9.0

[Kane52630]

Here's some late night tunes brought to you by Anubis's third nipple.

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[The Squirrel]

Congrats man.
If I didn't f***ed up my first two years of college I would be right there graduating.

If I didn't *&^% up the first four years after I graduated high school I could have graduated a long time ago, lol.

 

[chamber-music]

How old is Taylor Kitcsh supposed to be in the movie then lix

I have not seen John Carter yet but in the books his supposed to be aged about 30.

old enough to have had and burried an 8 or so yr old daughter, then grow out a *****ing grizzly adams and get all bad ass in arizona.

Well John Carter in the books is

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functionally immortal

Heres a quote from the Princess Of Mars

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"I am a very old man; how old I do not know. Possibly I am a hundred, possibly more; but I cannot tell because I have never aged as other men, nor do I remember any childhood. So far as I can recollect I have always been a man, a man of about thirty.

I appear today as I did forty years and more ago, and yet I feel that I cannot go on living forever; that some day I shall die the real death from which there is no resurrection. I do not know why I should fear death, I who have died twice and am still alive; but yet I have the same horror of it as you who have never died, and it is because of this terror of death, I believe, that I am so convinced of my mortality."

Little known fact, The Lone Ranger is the great Uncle of the Green Hornet.

I knew that from reading Planetary.

 

[Hound55]

I knew that, 'cos I heard Lachy Hulme say it years ago.

 

[Drz]

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What did i just watch? t:


Justice League: Doom - Review

Justice League: Doom is the latest of Bruce Timm’s Direct-to-Video DC movie, which is the last DC project Lauren Montgomery directed before moving onto Legend of Korra project & this is the last film Dwayne McDuffie wrote before his unfortunate death. What is also special about this project, it’s the 1st film where the storyboards & animation was handled by TMS Entertainment.

The story is a very loose adaptation of Justice League of America: Tower of Babel by Mark Waid, the only elements taken from the book is that Batman has contingency & how Justice League feels about this subject. Otherwise it’s a very “team of heroes vs. team of villains” story with big action brawl towards the end alongside trying to save the world, but not from the same type of scenario Ras’ al Ghul had in the comic book, alongside being absent from this film.

The Justice League consists of: Batman (Voiced by Kevin Conroy), Superman (Tim Daily), Wonder Woman (Susan Eisenberg), Green Lantern (Nathan Fillion), Martian Manhunter (Carl Lumbly), Flash (Michael Rosenbaum) and guest starring superhero of the movie is Cyborg (Bumper Robinson) who has an incredibly awesome visual design by Phil Bourassa, in fact I wish this is what he’d look like in the comics. Bumper also gives a very spot on performance as the character and the dialogue is really good.

In this movie, Vandal Savage (Phil Morris) is the main antagonist, having set his latest world conquering plan he needs the Justice League to be taken down, so he hires villains with personal vendetta against each member of the Justice League, creating his own Legion of Doom which consists of: Bane (Carlos Alazraqui), Cheetah (Claudia Black), Metallo (Paul Blackthorne), Star Sapphire (Olivia D’Abo), Mirror Master (Alexis Denisof) & making his animated debut; Ma’alefa’ak (Carl Lumbly). With Batman’s plans to neutralize the Justice League, Vandal alters them into much more brutal and deadly traps, alongside with the knowledge of Batman’s identity figures on his own how Bane can take down Batman with ease.

I really loved the animation on this film, it’s just enhanced version of the same animation we’ve seen on Young Justice & Crisis on Two Earths, but the sleek style added with the Japanese animation vibe TMS entertainment gives just makes it superb. The action scenes are smooth and the facial expressions are superb storytelling, giving us the visual looks demanded for very heartfelt moments as justice League members get taken down, their triumphant stand up and the pure menace Savage emposes.

Now, I feel forced to break into spoilers, because quite frankly I found the story to be disappointingly average and the story telling is just so forced on situations, I just feel for example the villains alongside Superman are played incredibly dumbed down to their comic versions just so the plot can move forward and reach conclusion, so again spoiler warnings, but here goes the rant:

Superman is a tool in this movie, like usual from Bruce Timm we have an incredibly dumbed down Superman so the movie can move forward. Not only does Superman get taken down by the most cliché way ever that is the green kryptonite bullet, he’s also clearly not giving his all in the fighting sequences, but is allowing Metallo to give punches in, until Superman realizes he has better things to do and just shuts him down like a boss. At the very end of the movie we have this catastrophic sequence happen because Superman fails to destroy a missile with his laser beam, because he was too busy flying and punching the other missiles while he could have just laser shot them all at once, sigh.

The Legion of Doom is compiled of idiots. They all have these full proof plans to defeat their enemies permanently, but instead of ensuring the job is finished and give the killing blow, they simply leave and assume the heroes will die. This doesn’t work at all in this story outside of how Flash is being stopped, but otherwise it’s just plain stupid and makes them all seem dumbed up when the Justice League attacks and they’re all shocked how they didn’t perish. It was just so incredibly dumb, not only that, but the movie informs us that Bane has been trying to kill off Batman for 10 years, but apparently has never figured out that Batman keeps taking him down with the same tactic, cut off the Venom supply, because like usual in animation, Bane is a wimp without his venom.

It’s just really bothering how the Legion of Doom get taken down, because all members we’re too stupid to ensure that their hated enemies would die off permanently, because what good is there try and conquer the world, when the Justice League would inevitably return? That’s really what makes this movie such disappointingly average from its latter half, while the movie has a really strong opening and seeing the villains plan come together is really cool.

With Commentary:

Geoff Johns & Mike Carlin, two persons who have absolutely nothing to do with this project outside of knowing about it’s production and reading the script give the commentary instead of anyone actually working on this project, because…? Honestly, this is just a effortless commentary for me, I get no insight of the making of this movie outside of a couple of mentions of how great McDuffie’s script is and how well his pacing was, but nothing from the actual people who worked on this with Johns & Carling giving comic background stories on some characters and praising the movie. Who on earth would enjoy this commentary? It offers no real insight outside of a quick synopsis of a character, which can be done with the internet by itself.

Sneak Peak: Superman vs. the Elite:

We get a good dose of voice clips of George Newbern as Superman and whoever is voicing Manchester Black. They explain the simple idealistic pitch the story holds and what does it mean, while showing character designs and even animation scenes and I have to say these characters look really bulky with rather huge eyes with stiff faces, I hope Dough Mahnke’s art comes off better in the final product then what I saw here myself.

Their Time Has Come: Cyborg and the DC Universe’s New Diversity:

This is simply a very short video where Marv Wolfman talks about the creation of the character & how happy & proud he is about DC using him more, with Geoff Johns talking about having Cyborg in the 2011 relaunched Justice League comic and how unique of a character he is. It’s pretty passable extra to be quite honest. I mean if this was about DC’s diversity, does that mean Cyborg is just enough for them?! It’s just a poor extra at the end of the day.

A Legion of One: The Dwayne McDuffie Story:

This collection of interviews regarding Dwayne McDuffie’s life has his wife Charlotte, co-workers like Bruce Timm, Andrea Romano and co-creators of Milestone company talk from his childhood to Marvel years to Milestone to Animation work and his career as a whole. I don’t wish to get into specifics, but you get a lot of good insight how incredible this man was, he attended college when he was 10 years old for example, but there are sad facts too such as his two brothers that died before him. It was a nice insight on the man himself, and I appreciated it.

Guarding the Balance: Batman and the JLA:

20 minute video about people explaining Batman’s reasoning for his plans to take down the Justice League if necessary by comparing with 9/11 and other events that changed human’s perception of power and how it should be used, what makes someone a terrorist and what a freedom fighter and so forth. I really think they shouldn’t have bothered with the real life examples, but just made it more about Batman and his relation to Justice League.

Rating: 70/100 - The movie feels like a dated Super Friends episode updated to today’s animation and the PG-13 rating instead or providing better storytelling and more believable villains of today’s standards is just there for the blood and brutality, but this is really a more kid’s family movie where they can cheer for the Justice League taking down the Legion of Doom in a classic superhero story arc. The extras outside of McDuffie’s tribute & the preview for the next movie range from abyssal to disappointing. Give this movie a rent at least, but this was a rather average movie, but with the best animation I’ve seen from the DC DTV movies.

 

[WompuM]

You do a out of 100 rating system? What's with the inflation? Just say 7 out of 10. We know what you're talking about.

 

[Anubis]

I usually do a system of 5.

Boos**t
Meh
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[Drz]

You do a out of 100 rating system? What's with the inflation? Just say 7 out of 10. We know what you're talking about.

But.... I like big numbers and i cannot lie.

 

[Anubis]

So why not go with the 1,000 system?

 

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Aardman's THE PIRATES! BAND OF MISFITS looks fun

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Hugh Grant, Salma Hayek, Jermey Piven, David Tennant, Martin Freenman, Brendan Gleeson, Brian Blessed, Russell Tovey, Lenny Henry, Ashley Jensen and Imelda Staunton make up the voice cast.

 

[Kane52630]

It could be just me but I'm kinda getting tried of DC's animation. I liked when they changed it up with Batman: Year One and Gotham Knights, they should do more like that.

 

[Mystirious]

Watching The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor with my girlfriend tonight

This film is so awful and I love it. In all its awful awful glory

Why did the dragon emperors horses get cursed? They weren't evil. They were just doin' horse stuff and some crazy stereotypical Chinese lady came along and turned them into pottery

She's a jerk

 

[Mystirious]

The moral of this film is not to trust strange magic women who are sleeping with your best friend with books of spells

It could be just me but I'm kinda getting tried of DC's animation. I liked when they changed it up with Batman: Year One and Gotham Knights, they should do more like that.

I thought that Justice League: Doom was a pretty neat superhero story

I'm looking forward to Superman vs The Elite when it comes out too

 

[Mystirious]

Why does a Chinese man living in China need an English woman to read Chinese for him

Also the O'Connel's are such dbags in this movie. They awaken an ancient evil mummy get tons of people killed in a chase with an evil mummy and then ruin a festival that people are trying to enjoy

And they steal some guys truck too

 

[Mystirious]

A yeti just kicked a guy in the junk

This film is a triumph of cinema

 

[Darthphere]

Guys! I just saw some dude get his face sliced off on Spartacus.

 

[Roose Bolton]

A dude got his face blown off in Breaking Bad. It felt like justice.

 

[SuperFerret]

Watching The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor with my girlfriend tonight

This film is so awful and I love it. In all its awful awful glory

Why did the dragon emperors horses get cursed? They weren't evil. They were just doin' horse stuff and some crazy stereotypical Chinese lady came along and turned them into pottery

She's a jerk

Horse stuff is the worst stuff you can do.


Unless you get a midget.

 

[Drz]

It could be just me but I'm kinda getting tried of DC's animation. I liked when they changed it up with Batman: Year One and Gotham Knights, they should do more like that.

I know what you mean, too much is the animation style either Bruce Timm or Young Justice inspired.

 

[lixdexia]

meh, i love phil barusa's style. what i'm getting tired of is the superman,batman, or justice league thing. FLASH MOVIE DAMNIT! or a swamp thing movie, or really anything that isn't one of those 3, something new.

i'd also like to see a tiny titans toon as part of this dc nation block.

 

[Mystirious]

Horse stuff is the worst stuff you can do.


Unless you get a midget.

Are you speaking from personal experience Ferret

Guys! I just saw some dude get his face sliced off on Spartacus.

Those wacky romans

 

[SuperFerret]

Are you speaking from personal experience Ferret

If I ever spoke from personal experience, I'd never have anything to say. I'm actually a 10 year old girl from Ohio with an overactive imagination.

 

[sandwraith]

So I hit the gym in for the first time in a little over a year. Being short and pudgy I stood out like a sore thumb in a gym full of 6-pecs sporting muscle types but after getting my groove back on the weights and seeing how much I could lift, they stopped giving me the stink eye and went about they're own workouts.

I kind of surprised myself on the weights. I can still bench press 30 Kg without really struggling but once I added about 4 Kg , I was already straining my back. Ah well, this is just one of my "I need to get back in shape" phases which will pass, usually when I get my hands on a new video game.

 

[lixdexia]

...how are you straining your back on a benchpress?

 

[WompuM]

It could be just me but I'm kinda getting tried of DC's animation. I liked when they changed it up with Batman: Year One and Gotham Knights, they should do more like that.

Or New Frontier. It seems the quality of film is directly proportional to the animation quality.

Great: New Frontier, Year One
Good: Public Enemies, The Earth-3 one, Wonder Woman
Bad: the supergirl one, Green Lantern