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Barrister

Quote from: viper37 on June 19, 2013, 11:10:08 PM
Me too, it was a very fun movie.  Makes me want to see In Brugges.

You definitely want to see In Bruges.
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11B4V

Half watching here comes the Boom right now. Only highlight is Bas Rutten so far.
"there's a long tradition of insulting people we disagree with here, and I'll be damned if I listen to your entreaties otherwise."-OVB

"Obviously not a Berkut-commanded armored column.  They're not all brewing."- CdM

"We've reached one of our phase lines after the firefight and it smells bad—meaning it's a little bit suspicious... Could be an amb—".

Viking

Quote from: Neil on June 19, 2013, 07:43:36 PM
Quote from: Viking on June 19, 2013, 06:19:43 PM
Quote from: Neil on June 19, 2013, 10:42:11 AM
How can you even mention canon in regards to the Superman property?
Ask Bryan Singer on how Superman III and IV are canon.
Why would I care about what Bryan Singer thinks about anything?  He's retarded.

Besides, my whole point is that the Superman continuity is so mangled that it's wide open for creators to take or leave whatever they like.

Then don't make that case for superman stories which are designed to be at odds with superman as we know it. Making him a deadbeat dad or a communist party loyalist is making him act against what we already know about his fixed character. It's the equivalent of making Robin Hood a greed land owner or the little matchbook girl a pine and sulpher magnate.
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First Corollary - "You cannot have too many soldiers, only too few supplies."
Second Maxim - "Be willing to exchange a bad idea for a good one."
Second Corollary - "You can only be wrong or agree with me."

A terrorist which starts a slaughter quoting Locke, Burke and Mill has completely missed the point.
The fact remains that the only person or group to applaud the Norway massacre are random Islamists.

Neil

No, I'll make the case for anything and everything.  We know Superman can act immorally if he chooses, and we know that Superman is extremely loyal to whatever ideals he is imprinted with.  If his ship had crashed in Russia, he certainly would have been a loyal Communist.
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The Brain

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Ideologue

#10700
Quote from: Viking on June 20, 2013, 04:27:16 AM
Quote from: Neil on June 19, 2013, 07:43:36 PM
Quote from: Viking on June 19, 2013, 06:19:43 PM
Quote from: Neil on June 19, 2013, 10:42:11 AM
How can you even mention canon in regards to the Superman property?
Ask Bryan Singer on how Superman III and IV are canon.
Why would I care about what Bryan Singer thinks about anything?  He's retarded.

Besides, my whole point is that the Superman continuity is so mangled that it's wide open for creators to take or leave whatever they like.

Then don't make that case for superman stories which are designed to be at odds with superman as we know it. Making him a deadbeat dad or a communist party loyalist is making him act against what we already know about his fixed character. It's the equivalent of making Robin Hood a greed land owner or the little matchbook girl a pine and sulpher magnate.

Hitting on your ex and someone's current girlfriend = Communist party loyalist?

You realize nothing Superman did or did not do in Returns was actually immoral, right?  At worst he neglected his son; but he had no notice.
Kinemalogue
Current reviews: The 'Burbs (9/10); Gremlins 2: The New Batch (9/10); John Wick: Chapter 2 (9/10); A Cure For Wellness (4/10)

CountDeMoney

Quote from: Neil on June 20, 2013, 08:01:14 AM
No, I'll make the case for anything and everything.  We know Superman can act immorally if he chooses, and we know that Superman is extremely loyal to whatever ideals he is imprinted with.  If his ship had crashed in Russia, he certainly would have been a loyal Communist.

Now that would've been cool.  Truth, Justice and Collectivist Farming.

Ideologue

Quote from: CountDeMoney on June 20, 2013, 06:38:23 PM
Quote from: Neil on June 20, 2013, 08:01:14 AM
No, I'll make the case for anything and everything.  We know Superman can act immorally if he chooses, and we know that Superman is extremely loyal to whatever ideals he is imprinted with.  If his ship had crashed in Russia, he certainly would have been a loyal Communist.

Now that would've been cool.  Truth, Justice and Collectivist Farming.

Like Viking sed, exactly this happened in a neat little Elsewords miniseries, featuring three of the few examples of non-cynical, non-ugly comics by writer Mark Millar.
Kinemalogue
Current reviews: The 'Burbs (9/10); Gremlins 2: The New Batch (9/10); John Wick: Chapter 2 (9/10); A Cure For Wellness (4/10)

CountDeMoney

I may have to check that out.  Superman as a hero for the real people as opposed to using his powers to maintain and protect the false construct of the predatory capitalist society intrigues me.

garbon

Quote from: CountDeMoney on June 20, 2013, 06:46:19 PM
I may have to check that out.  Superman as a hero for the real people as opposed to using his powers to maintain and protect the false construct of the predatory capitalist society intrigues me.

Ugh move to Russia already. I hear you can see China from there and keep track of what they are up to.
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Ideologue

Unfortunately, the great socialist experiment was strangled in the cradle by the reactionary forces of Adolf Hitler and Ronald Reagan.
Kinemalogue
Current reviews: The 'Burbs (9/10); Gremlins 2: The New Batch (9/10); John Wick: Chapter 2 (9/10); A Cure For Wellness (4/10)

CountDeMoney

Yeah, they took all the romance out of it.

11B4V

Quote from: CountDeMoney on June 20, 2013, 06:46:19 PM
I may have to check that out.  Superman as a hero for the real people as opposed to using his powers to maintain and protect the false construct of the predatory capitalist society intrigues me.

No he wasnt, he was an elitist white snub. the real peoples hero is;



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkQQGsOegv0
"there's a long tradition of insulting people we disagree with here, and I'll be damned if I listen to your entreaties otherwise."-OVB

"Obviously not a Berkut-commanded armored column.  They're not all brewing."- CdM

"We've reached one of our phase lines after the firefight and it smells bad—meaning it's a little bit suspicious... Could be an amb—".

Grey Fox

Quote from: CountDeMoney on June 20, 2013, 06:46:19 PM
I may have to check that out.  Superman as a hero for the real people as opposed to using his powers to maintain and protect the false construct of the predatory capitalist society intrigues me.

This is the most beautiful thing ever written on languish.  :licklips: :licklips:
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garbon

Quote from: Grey Fox on June 21, 2013, 07:05:34 AM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on June 20, 2013, 06:46:19 PM
I may have to check that out.  Superman as a hero for the real people as opposed to using his powers to maintain and protect the false construct of the predatory capitalist society intrigues me.

This is the most beautiful thing ever written on languish.  :licklips: :licklips:

No wonder no one wants to join Languish.
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.