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Based off of the story alone, I never wanted to give Looper a chance. The concept sounded incredibly lame.

Had a fun discussion about the whole Ben Affleck as Batman thing with one of my wife's coworkers. We both came to the conclusion that Batman being in the next Superman movie is of more concern than the casting of an award winning everything as Batman. What do you guys think?

Obviously they're doing it to pave the road to an eventual JLA movie but they're a long way off if they're following anything like the Marvel model. They'll need to make films for Wonder Woman, The Flash, maybe give Green Lantern another go and possibly Aquaman.

I'm happy that Man of Steel is getting a sequel but I don't like the idea that they'll have Superman & Batman square off at some point. At Comic Con, Snyder or someone made a reference to The Dark Knight Returns as a hint of what they're going for and to me that sounds wrong for a followup to Man of Steel. The conflict in DKR is its own thing and its creator Frank Miller, for whatever reason, had a hostile opinion of Superman (judging by Dark Knight Strikes Again and All-Star Batman & Robin, he still does).

What it really comes down to is the script and what direction it'll take both in the relationship of those two and how Batman/Bruce Wayne is portrayed overall (that latter is what makes bitching about Affleck pointless, because we don't know anything at this point). I would've preferred a Superman-focused sequel but it may still be that. Again, we don't know anything.

You know, to be honest I'm completely uninvested in the news because I think Batman + Superman on screen just isn't going to work in my humble opinion. But Affleck is a very respectable actor with a good jawline so...yeah

Looper is one of my current favourite movies. I guess I didn't hear that much hype over it in the first place to get me going.

I enjoyed Looper. I'm a fan of Brick and The Brothers Bloom as well so I'm into whatever Rian Johnson makes.

Most of the hype I heard from Looper was from friends. Wasnt a bad movie just seemed like the 2nd half of it didnt quite do it justice.

I liked the second half. It was a nice change of scenery/pace and brought in some of the best characters

Guess Who's Coming To Dinner is on amazon prime. My wife didn't know who Spencer Tracy was. She barely knew Kat Hepburn and Sidney Poitier. I'm pretty sure that's grounds for divorce in some cultures.

Anyone else dig that movie? The whole movie is terrible if you take away the three previously mentioned badasses. I want to say Tracy has the best lines while Poitier has the best delivery and Kat out acts them both. /shrug

Rewatched the original Tim Burton Batman after years. Jack Nickelson is great as always, but parts of the movie definitely haven't aged well. I enjoy how all the batman villains have gotten such drastically different interpretations over the years. All of the major jokers (Ledger, Nickelson, Hammel) are all excellent for very different reasons.

World War Z is not good. It doesn't suck...no wait...it sucks. Yeah, it is pretty bad. Graphics and stunts are solid. I guess. 28 Days Later on a big budget and Brad Pitt is cool. Sort of. No, not really. Stuff happened and there were things. It was caught on tape and post put things where things weren't.

I felt the same exact way Spiddy. At first I was telling myself it didn't suck it was just disappointing, then I realized that movie did suck. I should have seen Pacific Rim instead.

Did I tell you guys I finally saw the new Star Trek? Well, it was good. Not amazing, but I was very entertained.

Used some of my birthday money to purchase Star Trek Into Darkness on blu-ray, something I wasn't going to do since some assholes at Paramount's home video division thought it would be a good idea to split up the special features and make them exclusive at selected retaliers. They're betting on poor bastards buying multiple copies. Just put everything in the same set, you greedy motherfuckers! You're going to sell copies regardless!

Anyway, Wal-mart was selling combo packs with the previous Star Trek film for $20 so I jumped on it. At least the film is still wonderful and entertaining, with great video and audio quality.

Rented some oldies from Netflix: Chinatown on Blu-ray, which I chose simply to listen to the audio commentary with Robert Towne (screenwriter) and David Fincher. It's a great track; and Chungking Express, which is somehow one of the few Wong Kar Wai films I haven't seen. Enjoyed it, although I may be sick of the song "California Dreamin'".

Have you seen The Grandmasters yet, avid? One thing I will say about it...it is getting the worst US trailer I have ever seen in my life, holy shit.

I'd love to but I'm not too happy to find out that the U.S. cut is shorter than the Chinese version by 22 minutes. Thanks, Weinstein Company. It's playing at my local theater right now but I doubt it'll last long past this weekend.

That being said, it's sounds great. Haven't seen the trailer.

I was actually supposed to go see a matinee of The Grandmaster today but I'm stuck waiting on the AC repair dude. Whole damn motor and circuit board on the furnace blew.

How intimate would you say your knowledge of Kung Fu is? As in, not just watching a lot of it, but the actual schools and stuff?

And 22 minutes? *facepalm*

If that's an open question, T-Wolf, I'll chime in.

My knowledge of actual kung-fu is adequate enough to have a historical reference when watching a movie. But I'd probably be faking my way through it since I'm more familiar with the philosophy and mythology of the culture. I'm better with shit like feudal Japan or the Huns/nomads.

I didn't know much going in and i got a bit lost, but lost in a way that made me want to read into it more before I watch it again.

You have any recommendations for books on Japanese history by chance?

This would be so much easier if I could just point you to my bookshelves and say "that one". Being friends on the internet sucks sometimes

I'll look for the name of the book tomorrow, but it covers the entire Edo period through to modernization stopping just short of world war 1. It's pretty fucking fantastic. I'll throw the name up in the "now reading" tomorrow sometime. It's 3am and I don't feel like looking at my dust covered disgrace of bookshelves.

Besides, it's 8hrs until puppies go to doctor (annual, no worries) and you don't want me to oversleep looking for that shit do ya?

Any chance I have to deprive you of sleep I will gladly take...also, thank you.

Wife made me watch This Is The End with her. These movies always make me chuckle but I'm not a big fan of people that aren't that good at improv doing improv. I can't say it's a bad movie since it's not geared towards me. I can only say that the wife thought it was funny and I was glad when it was over. I wish I could say I'm just too old to understand these types of movies, but people from my generation make them so, yeah.

I liked it, didn't think it was amazing and some of the jokes were a bit much but I enjoyed it. If it makes you feel better though, man, my favorite film comedy is still Dr. Strangelove

I wasn't insulted or anything by the crude humor (then I'd have to dislike Caddyshack and Orgazmo and that shit ain't happening), I just didn't think it was funny. I haven't smoked weed in over a decade so maybe that's the problem.

I saw that Amazon had some good warehouse deals on most of the Harry Potter movies except Deathly Hallow part 1 (waiting for that to hit a good deal, hopefully happens between now and when I watch it). Since I loved these movies but never saw either DH part (which ironically was my favorite of the books) I decided to watch one of these movies a week so I can see how they compare back to back. So I'll be posting something on each one here and probably rank them when I'm done.

Downloading Rope! since I haven't seen it. With October approaching anyone have any good horror recommendations that i may not have seen?

Watching Conan the Destroyer on Netflix. The audio is for Serenity. Pretty funny. Subtitles are still Conan. Wonder if it's just on mine or universal. I reset my ps3 and haven't checked it elsewhere, but it's still happening and still hilarious.

pspiddy wrote:Watching Conan the Destroyer on Netflix. The audio is for Serenity. Pretty funny. Subtitles are still Conan. Wonder if it's just on mine or universal. I reset my ps3 and haven't checked it elsewhere, but it's still happening and still hilarious.

This sounds hilarious.

I was reading on reddit that others were having the problem of Conan showing up instead of Serenity but nothing about the audio thing. I just checked it on my PC and everything is fine. I hope it's still glitched on my PS3. I've seen both way too many times so it was entertaining and good to fall asleep to.