The Off Topic Topic

[Barrister]

Got my credit report. I figured it was decent, but it turns out I have all the points. Eight hundred. I guess having a mortgage that's underwater by a hundred grand doesn't hurt you unless you stop paying it.

Yup - it's the idiocy of the system.

[DGuller]

No model is perfect.  The question you need to ask yourself is:  would using the model give me better information than not using it?

[FunkMonk]

New trailer for the new Superman movie, Man of Steel: http://youtu.be/6jKWJZsjm5U
Read a joke that said it looks like Terrence Malick's Superman 

Saw it in front of Dark Knight Rises the other night. My initial thoughts were:

Directed by Zack Snyder:
Written by Christopher Nolan and David Goyer: 
Expectations:

[Ideologue]

New trailer for the new Superman movie, Man of Steel: http://youtu.be/6jKWJZsjm5U
Read a joke that said it looks like Terrence Malick's Superman 

Saw it in front of Dark Knight Rises the other night. My initial thoughts were:

Directed by Zack Snyder:
Written by Christopher Nolan and David Goyer: 
Expectations:

So a movie about Superman punching poor people in slow motion? :p

Zack Snyder inspires far more confidence in me, superhero/comics movies-wise, than Nolan.  Snyder is 2 for 2 (Watchmen being the best superhero film ever, and the most faithful adaptation of a comic ever), whereas I'm glad Nolan is done with Batman and can get back to making great films instead of good-but-problematic ones.

[MadBurgerMaker]

So a movie about Superman punching poor people in slow motion? :p

[Razgovory]

New trailer for the new Superman movie, Man of Steel: http://youtu.be/6jKWJZsjm5U
Read a joke that said it looks like Terrence Malick's Superman 

Saw it in front of Dark Knight Rises the other night. My initial thoughts were:

Directed by Zack Snyder:
Written by Christopher Nolan and David Goyer: 
Expectations:

This is pretty asinine.  I mean, Superman is about a guy who flies around wearing his underwear on  the outside of his tights.  Also he's an alien that looks just like a human being and can shoot lasers out of his eyes.  The angsty introspective approach is kinda silly here.  Not every superhero needs to be gritty and full of self doubt.  Superman is suppose to be fun.

[Eddie Teach]

I dunno, I mean you've probably got some serious issues if you go around wearing tights under your underwear...

[Syt]

So Superman's a Mormon now?

[Josquius]

Superman without angst and doubt and any drama is just some unbeatable guy smacking down mortals though.

[Syt]

Chuck Norris?

[Ed Anger]

#14 made me giggle hard. 

[frunk]

So a movie about Superman punching poor people in slow motion? :p

Zack Snyder inspires far more confidence in me, superhero/comics movies-wise, than Nolan.  Snyder is 2 for 2 (Watchmen being the best superhero film ever, and the most faithful adaptation of a comic ever), whereas I'm glad Nolan is done with Batman and can get back to making great films instead of good-but-problematic ones.

Spoilers for Watchmen/V:



The most impressive thing about Watchmen is that for a movie that is thoroughly faithful to the look and storyline of the original it completely misses the point by a wide margin.  One of the driving themes of the comic is how these are humans who are just playing at being superheroes (apart from Jon).  In the movie for the sake of looking cool they do superpowered things that normal humans can't, which undercuts the whole idea.  For that reason I consider it about as good as V for Vendetta, which also missed the fundamental point by a wide mark (V was a monster but unique and fighting for everyone's individuality, and would be horrified to see everyone taking on his guise at the end).

[Tamas]

Yeah that ending scene for V just totally killed the movie. It was like from Life of Brian

[garbon]

So a movie about Superman punching poor people in slow motion? :p

Zack Snyder inspires far more confidence in me, superhero/comics movies-wise, than Nolan.  Snyder is 2 for 2 (Watchmen being the best superhero film ever, and the most faithful adaptation of a comic ever), whereas I'm glad Nolan is done with Batman and can get back to making great films instead of good-but-problematic ones.

Spoilers for Watchmen/V:



The most impressive thing about Watchmen is that for a movie that is thoroughly faithful to the look and storyline of the original it completely misses the point by a wide margin.  One of the driving themes of the comic is how these are humans who are just playing at being superheroes (apart from Jon).  In the movie for the sake of looking cool they do superpowered things that normal humans can't, which undercuts the whole idea.  For that reason I consider it about as good as V for Vendetta, which also missed the fundamental point by a wide mark (V was a monster but unique and fighting for everyone's individuality, and would be horrified to see everyone taking on his guise at the end).

I don't think that was the point. Certainly that's part of deconstructing a superhero but I think a bigger component is whether or not super heroes are actually a good thing...and part of that stems from the fact that one of said heroes is superpowered.

[Razgovory]

Superman without angst and doubt and any drama is just some unbeatable guy smacking down mortals though.

Well, he also beats up robots and other aliens.