Justice League: New Frontier would've been a great DC Comics reboot

It really would've fit with Zack Snyder too: it has a Watchmen feel with government figures going after superheroes pondering "what power is too much power?" The nuclear race, feminisim, space, air. It was a time of suspicion that many could relate to.
The fire sequence with Martian Manhunter was very cinematic, making one really fear for his death with all the religious imagery, in a time of conservative conspiracy, in addition to the wonders of media, propaganda and television.
I really like the incarnation of Wonder Woman in this version. She's very patriotic for the Amazons and has a sense of honor. Women have been mistreaten in this world, and she makes a really good point against Superman's naive oversimplistic view of morals in the world.
Sure, it was a little dangerous, showing that the only way to stop two sides from going to war, is to fight another side, but I think that was the point. It showed the dark side of war, in a very kid friendly manner.
Also, the John F. Kennedy speech may be a red herring, as at least in our world, he was assassinated, many stuff happened before, after and during his adminstration.
I've never seen an ensemble origin story that was so topical and thematic. I had a large apathy toward the film, due to its lack of marketing and subtleness. It was great though and I take back every remotely bad word I had to say.

The 75th Annivesary of Batman: Lucky #7's Quarter Anniversary: The main character of Batman '89

I would consider this film the well done version of Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland. Alice, this time a blonde like in Disney is DC's comics is portrayed by Vicki Vale. She encounters this weird Mercury top hat filled world of gangsters, the Joker, Batman, Knox even in her own occupation!

There's something sinister in this world of corrupt policemen, and neo-noirish about the portrayal of Gotham. 
The Joker considers himself an artist, much like Hitler, and creates a war inspired by the wars of his past like that of World War I in a Stanley Kubrick-ish fashion.

Vicki Vale hangs out with Alfred like part of the family. Observing that Bruce Wayne's house is not him yet is, but not sure which one. Prior to this, Bruce lies about not knowing who Bruce Wayne. Or does he? Finds out that Bruce lied about being out of town, because of his parent's death anniversary. Wanted to tell her, but is interrupted by the Joker in Vale's house. Alfred lets her in later.

She's the protagonist of the film actually in a damsel in distress variation as we know nothing about Batman throughout the film, learning it through her perspective, an element most don't observe as Batman is the first main character of the film... Alice in Wonderland, the Bat Cave, being a perpendicular version of the Rabbit Hole. Heck, there's even a scene where she falls just like  New in Gotham. Joker after has as well. Goes to Wayne's castle.

Coincidentally enough, Vicki Vale in the next film is replaced by another blonde woman, a cat, like in Disney's film, Selina Kyle.

Best 2014 Comics

1. Wonder Woman, Vol. 4: War by Brian Azzarello of Joker, (2008) fame
2. East of West
3. Batman Beyond: Future's End
4. Spidey-Verse
5. Night of Owls
6. Saga
7. Fantastic Four: Doomed

The 75th Anniversary: Top 15 Batman Films: #10: Batman Forever: What made Two Face lackluster?

Tommy Lee Jones' Two Face is not a memorable character despite having such an acclaimed and A-list actor associated with the role. People enjoyed him in First Avenger. What went wrong?
Three words:
Tommy Lee Jones.

At least according to rumors started by Joel Schumacher, Jones wanted a role similar to that of Jack Nicholson's $12 million+ character, which I quite frankly had no real pull towards, despite Nicholson's natural ugliness, scariness and the obvious Kubrick homages.

Tommy Lee Jones plays a sadistic character, but the backstory not reminded at all compared to Dark Knight. This is odd compared to his antagonist character in the Fugitive that was pretty complex or the Client. Safes made of acid, explosions, coins live/die.  Face just burned. Killing Robin's parents. He was a bit two one sided. Not even Agent K of MIB...
I didn't understand why Batman blamed Two Face in the film, other than that's how it was because of the comics (albeit Batman was in the court room and did not stop the acid burning his face.)
A lot of the big Two face dilemma questions. Was he once a good guy? Is he with that half of his face burned? Why do that in a kid friendly show in the first place? Does he get the orignal mobsters? Not to mention people who are normally burned by acid don't normally turn straight into coin flipping deciding villains with mob boss tendencies.... There is a psychologist in this movie.... We get to know Two Face so much better in the Dark Knight that it seems very clear that this is not one of Joneses' best characters.
His intro is a bit McCarthyist though pre-Knight and Old Men,
"One brother born a hero, his brother a coward, baby a star,; fat politicians, holy men martyred, junkies grow legions, why? Luck." Action and blowing up half of liberty's face like the coin.
I don't know if it's because I was older or the portrayals, but I was not as afraid of this, even though Two Face's face was melted off. His appearance is a bit adult though with the sexually (kitty) predatorial furs, bringing out the more id of man.
Two Face henchmen with a red/black hood costume. Oddly enough. Two Face is a Sadistic Goon with a Gun and gets an interesting portrayal from all this actually becoming, Robin's Joker, as Tommy Lee Jones had intended, just like Two Face kills Tim Drake's father in the New Batman Adventures.. but actually done better oddly enough. Maybe they would have been friends a long time ago. Again reinforcing Batman's past and future to go in question. Two Face burned. Dick Grayson's parents killed. That box Two Face goes into before tricking Batman to jump down into it (despite them just running down a street before... Making no sense how there was such a distance between the two.) Not at all Two Face-like, and obviously Joker-ish, again giving him the Joker parallel in the screenplay.
Two Face left after killing the Graysons. Dropping them. Circus vs the Bat play.
Maybe would have had a better portrayal if on the same footing as Jim Carrey, whose character is even more one dimensional lacking an origin anyway- not like it does not work- crazy= evil in Batman's society anyway.
Happy Halloween, kids!
Like Two Face: Jekyll and Hyde? Bringing back the Joker in himself as a form of revenge for his scarring. The folder guarding his face makes sense although the suits horrible.

List of directors for ANOTHER Spider-Man reboot

Reboots, sequels, bores and chores!
Hollywood doesn't seem to understand what would make for a good critical success.
Luckily, here comes another idea for what would make a good Spider-Man reboot

Not alive:
20 Georges Melies: the originator of the sci fi film.
19 Fritz Lang: Metropolis, a psychological thriller such as M, which would really build suspense for when the Man-Spider, Venom or other split personality-like being appear.
18 Krystkof Kieslowski: Who better to adapt Spider-Man: Blue than the creator of Three Colors: Blue?
17 Andrei Tarkovsky: you want a hardcore really subtle film about science? Why not do one from the creator of Solaris?
16 Rainer Werner Fassbinder: Spider-Man on a Wire. A great tale of sci fi and the Matrix, pre-Star Wars. Critics would highly praise such an intellectual feat capable of the man behind the camera, Peter Parker.

The Billion Dollar Club:
15 George Lucas
14 James Cameron
13 Peter Jackson
I really think the first two would really fit the 80s fashion of it.

Cult Hits:
12 Guillermo Del Toro: monsters and Nazis, perfect for the elder Parkers.
11 Sam Raimi: Cuz everybody likes him for some odd reason.

10 Matthew Vaughn: Kick-Ass, which I thought was ok and X-Men: First Class
9 Christopher Nolan: If you want to make a Christopher Nolan Superman, hire Christopher Nolan?
8 Toku Spider-Man: You're telling me nobody would watch that?
7 John Semper Jr: He doesn't make ethnicities look terrible a la Tombstone and Rocket Racer. He balances the use of many villains. He made minor villains seem like a big deal.
6 Michel Gondry: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

5 The Wachowskis: A theme in the Matrix, is what media you trust and what gang or army or group you're in. Harry Obsorn and all his friends that Peter Parker grew up with can all of a sudden turn into his enemies thanks to his accidental involvement in an experiment, swallowing the wrong pill?
4 Ridley Scott: Blade Runner and Alien
3 Shane Carruth: The Clone Saga and a realistic take on the trouble of science.
2 John Carpenter: The Thing, having stupid shit happen like in that film, while having one of the most confusing and awarding stories in history.
1 David Cronenberg: The Fly, Teenagers and Body Horror. He's an auteur.

Peter Tomasi writes (Batman) Arkham Knight prequel comic

http://www.cinemablend.com/games/Batman-Arkham-Knight-Get-Prequel-Comic-68931.html
Peter Tomasi will write Arkham Knight prequel comic concerning Batman post-Joker, and during the introduction of the Arkham Knight after the prison's closure and Batman ondering retirement.

Arkham everything. Dr. Arkham. Arkham City. Arkhampool poolpocalypse. Everything's Arkham and Deadpool now.

Back on track...
Tomasi's ok. Not the greatest. He does some interesting stuff, but I being a guy who thinks everything should be 1989 Batman should be the greatest. He knows how to do action and moments and fun stuff. From what I read of his Blackest Knight comic, there won't be a ton of character development stuff, but Arkham Knight may have less characters, if it does concentrate on becoming a Batman-Arkham Knight drama. Maybe. And it really stinks that Gleason won't show up do to do some sort of Arkham hallucination effect like with the Batman & Robin: Born to Kill cover. The story I didn't really care for.
http://tokuwesternheroes.wordpress.com/2014/05/12/batman-and-robin-vol-2-1-8-batman-and-robin-vol-1-born-to-kill-gets-you-with-its-marketing/
Oh. Remember kids, the Bat car will show up!

Blackest Night: Green Lantern Corps by Tomasi and Gleason

The covers are a choosing between Alex Ross and ugly death.
It's a great piece. It's like Walking Dead, except you're given colorful, a bit beautiful yet dead pictures of things instead of ugly black and white.

Green Lantern Corps Issues and Features:
39 "Fade to Black"

• Guy and Kyle/Ion
• The Invasion
• Mongul
• An emission of Black Rings

Green Lantern 40 Heart of Darkness

• Arishia Raab. Family.
• Kyle and his Black Lantern love.
• Guy Gardner vs fly black lanterns
• Green armored black lantern

41 Hungry Heart
body surrounded

• Kyle Rayner's new female friend
• I felt like it should've been more like an ethical dilemma. Dealing with the body of your former female friend. Instead it was dishonorably treated as a thing. Demonized.
• Kilowog holding off the Black Lanterns
• The Black Lantern leader

42 Sacrifice of Will
Green Lantern Corps machine gun. Devour will. 100% pour. "I love you Soranik" Kyle dies.

43 Red Badge of Rage Part 1
Shoot the Black Rings off. Medic. Love saving Rayner.

44 Red Badge of Rage Part 2
Gravity used to defeat the Black Lanterns

45 Red Dawn
Kyle vs Guy
Bath for the Black Lantern bugs.

46 Black Dawn
Dove and the Lanterns combine to take on the Black Lanterns

47 Goodbye Darkness
All seems good.
The Dinosaur and the man fight even though they're partners.

The 75th Anniversary: Top 15 Batman Films: #13 Superman/Batman: Public Enemies

#13: Public Enemies:
I really liked this film.
It didn't really feel super dark, although it had dark elements to it, but it didn't feel campy either (prior to seeing Composite Superman-Batman giant robot.) It felt very Bruce Timm-ish: great quality. Well remembered.
Don't mind the nuclear superhumans that don't kill Earthlings!
You have famous comic book characters killed off, although not Batman.
The odds are really stacked against the good guys starting with Metallo fighting those two.
Lex Luthor goes from CEO to President under some economic struggle we don't really hear about. The economy thrives and he uses military powers, demonstrating the distrust America has during the Bush Administration.

Fables: 1001 Nights of Snowfall by Bill Willingham

Fables: 1001 Nights of Snowfall is my first exploration into the Fables series. It's a mixed bag.

The first story has a wizar wanting to kill Snow White like the many thousand virgins he knows in some sort of unknown unspecific stereotypical manner.

Art-wise, I enjoyed how it was presented as a novel, making some really want to rethink the management of the genre, and even ponder whether this book was a graphic novel or a conventional one. The art blends well between the Victorian beginnings to Middle Eastern exploration.

The Fencing Lessons

Naked women in a sexual relationship to combine kingdoms opposed to having them at war.

The Christmas Pies looks consists of art pieces you could hang on your wall, using the dot techniques. Eating. Hiding into the woods.

The Frog Prince. Only a prince sometimes.

The Runt. Big Bad Werewolf, who overcomes odds before becoming a monster thanks to bullying. Eventually has a powerful growl.

A Mother's Love, a cursed rabbit that I don't quite understand.

Disaspora including the Witches' Tale. The witch wanting to marry, but eventually needed to eat children for her youth and stuff. Tribespeople. The witch would scare children, not to mention boobs.

Fair Division ends the book with a crisis on infinite earths style finale with animals in the middle east to wrap everything up.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 8, "Retreat"

The book starts off with Willow and her girlfriend and demons.
I enjoy how the story changes when you turn the page.
Willow and her girlfriend are noticeably uglier than they are in the show, making it very anti-Hollywood.
Buffy reveals her reservations of losing Willow after killing the Evil one in the future.
Giles responds wittily by saying that he didn't have time for such an explanation.
And Whedon's writers capture Whedon's universe well by developing characters that want to survive and go on in their next stage in life: parenthood.

I would rather have Brad Pitt than Jared Leto play the Joker

The Dark Knight showed us certain things:
It should us that fans wanted a darker, more realistic Joker,
But not one that lacks in charisma.

Brad Pitt has worked ensemble movies. He's produced. He's directed. He's well known. He's a great name.
He's played Tyler Durden for Fight Club in his career defining role, a role that is still very popular to this day 15 years later.

He should play the Joker instead of Jared Leto.

Redoing the Top 15 Batman Films Again Before The 75th Anniversary is Over

1. The Dark Knight Returns
2. Batman: The Mask of the Phantasm
3. The Dark Knight
4. Justice League: The New Frontier
5. Batman ’89
6. Batman Begins
7. Batman: Under the Red Hood
8. Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker
9. Batman & Mr. Freeze: Sub Zero
10. Batman Forever
11. Batman: Gotham Knight
12. The Dark Knight Rises
13. Superman/Batman: Public Enemies
14. Batman & Robin
15. Batman ’66

Also:

The Dark Knight Rises
Batman Forever
Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths

Worst

1. Catwoman
2. Justice League: Doom
3. Mystery of the Batwoman
4. Batman vs Dracula
5. Superman/Batman: Apocalypse
6. Year One
7. Batman Returns

Main Street (novel) Analysis: Feminist views

I was really blown away by this decision as many others were.
So often I use the masculine or asexual point of view that I really lack the opportunity to observe feminine voice well, and boy does this book get it right:
The use of the female in Main Street is to give the viewers the perspective of gender equality or the fight for it, in order to show the changing of times in the world, the setting of Main Street.
Less is done in the factories, which'll predicted well by the author, will be done by machines, more time for university, education, liberal arts, feminism and work by females.
The book still does have a Victorian point of view for women, but it's still by all means accomplishes its goals as a great work of fiction.

What I like about Superman: Red Son

Recently after getting my Superman: Red Son t-shirt, I pondered my fandom towards him and possibly other Elseworlds, new directions for certain brands in different realities.
Superman: Red Son is very interesting. It doesn't feel super patriotic of the US considering that they mainly use Superman villains and keep them that way to fight Superman.
You have to realize Superman's super white washed background, fighting enemies nobody likes in Hitler, and probably a soviet here and there, much like in a campy 80s Hulk Hogan vs Nikolai Volkoff-Iron Sheik manner. It's ignorant, unphilosophical, racist fanaticism and nationalism that really looked down on the rest of Earth's humans, in times where Eastern Europeans were looked down upon. Not to say that Superman: Red Son was a good guy, or worked for an idealistic non-opportunistic uncorrupt government.
But he definitely had a human quality to him that made him relatable. In a time of New Yorkers, treating every southerner like W., Clark Kent's Midwestern roots were still shown in wherever he was in Red Son: he was honorable and had beliefs. He had this bit of Char Aznable to him and had to make a lot more difficult choices that he seemed to do with ease as Superman, because of how he grew up in the Eastern bloc.

Star Trek: The Next Generation, "Relics" (The Novel) is a poor adaptation

The book begins with the original Star Trek crew, which was omitted from the actual script for obvious reasons. There's a plot with ensign Darrin Kane, Captain Armstrong and a bunch of minor characters that I'm not too familiar with from my time following the novel. It doesn't get resolved in this novel either and seems to be done just to bad things out.
The novel does capture the characters' voices, and I like how each chapter is basically like a scene and transition from Next Gen, but so much was taken from the Next Generation episode that it's sort of hard not for that to happen.
The holodeck scene is interesting but minor and Geordi's scenes are cut and minor, despite his role in the original episode. Overall, quite disappointing.

The setting of Cormac McCarthy's the Road and its Western inspirations

I recently went on a trip throughout Arizona. And although, some of the setting may have been inspired from California as well, (adding a sense of loneliness and paranoia due to location of funds to keep the area safe,) I feel like my trip to Arizona really got me into the story.
In the Grand Canyon, there's a large campsite. Near the area, there are many small campsites. There's lots of sand desert, making plants easy to grow, but not much else. There is very little soap, requiring one to eat canned goods, only one-way roads where one can easily possibly get into car accidents with other cars if not 100%
Guns are entertainment in Nevada.
The setting of the Road, is temperate, maybe even Cold, making the setting even more depressing. (I at least picture a hoodie, thanks to the 2009 film.)
There's no police or civilization. In Arizona, you're reliant on the Highway Patrol for safety, and who knows when they show up? It's probably a low taxed town anyway, from a town is very paranoid of funding such type projects, being Republican.
Page is filled with churches NEXT to other CHURCHES.

The setting also has a bit other meaning than that. The main character follows it as if a sign by God, like Moses in the book of Exodus in the Bible/Quran/Torah. He follows it, because he has a faith in something that makes him believe that he will find something that won't require him to use the final two bullets in his gun, to commit suicide with his offspring, in this terrible world, where they're constantly roaming and starving, being uneducated, and hearing things that an otherwise educated world wouldn't do. He has a type of spiritual belief: faith, whether Christian or not. (God is never ever actually stated in the book, although this is an obvious reference to Moses wandering in the desert for 40 days and nights, and when questioned on why doing so, breaks rock to discover water, so that others would continue believing him.)

Books I finished 8/8/2014

The Warriors by Sol Yurick
Great style, great characters, great story. An underrated American classic.

The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
A very entertaining book with references to paganist interpretations of the bible.

The Road by Cormac McCarthy
A great blend of western with an interesting take on the post apocalyptic setting

New York by Edward Rutherford
A really immersive take on old ny with great characters and as the setting suggests setting.

Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry
The wiki article is great. Also the style it's written keeps you awake

Cali/Cati

Way to ask an author a question

Goodreads just gave me the chance to ask David Mitchell, a question after I gave a five star rating for Cloud Atlas.
So if you want to ask an author a question, just give them 5 stars on Goodreads. Easy.

The Iluminati themes of Animorphs

War contemporary life being unaware and growing up in post WWII us
The Animorphs consist of a diverse group of Americans, who learn of aliens in the US who plot to destroy it from within declaring a war on the planet. Not only are they aware of American culture, through pop culture reference such as playing their saga genesis but they become exposed to alien ones as well, from the Andalites to the Yeerks, the Taxxons and the Hork-Bajir.
The Yeerks are a symbol of the mentally ill, performed inception upon, experimental humans, humans suffering from post traumatic stress disorder, casualties of war and creators of war.
K.A. Applegate is notably an anti-establishment figure, creating aliens that couldn't be created on media at the time.
Humorously in one of the Megamorphs, Jake becomes a Nazi in an alternate continuity.

Best choices for x men directors

The Hughes brothers a tale of a minorities struggle going through the army

John singleton a tale of x men just trying to survive being in a poor neighborhood

Steve McQueen an inner brutal tale of societies oppression and dealing with identity and reality

Robert zemeckis a zany take about time travel cable can stutter you're my meh

Quentin Tarantino an entertaining tale of prisoners etc

Ridley Scott imagine a really deep x men days of future past where the x men are forced to live this reality due to apathy and so called popular opinion

Paul verehoeven a deep tale regarding he dangers of even liberal utopia

Stanley Kubrick dark tales regarding how x men were oppressed. Imagine the dangers of a professormx as a young Danny Torrence

The wachowskis an entertaining tale dealing with subliminal conspiracy theories, dystopia and entertaining action

Shane carruth one of the best intellectual time travel tales ever made

Sonic Universe: Knuckles Returns

I really like this graphic novel.
It's bright and colorful, appealing to children, but has enough action and adventure to appeal to sci fi/Indiana Jones adults.
It's a little weird as his side characters are clearly based on Tails and Amy, but it's also done that way for thematic trope purposes as well. They're his Tails and Amy. This is in addition to the actual Amy.
The comic like most of Sonic mixes merchandise with toys, such as Crystals and Warp Rings.

Mr toast comics

Not to be confused with powdered toast man, mr toast comics is quite a brand. Don't expect Alex Ross Salvador Dali or  as these are . Mr toast looks like face from nick jr and all the characters have a child like charm to them. Don't expect an incarnation of darkest night, the comic works as a long version of a comic in a newspaper. Yet it's creative to the point of being a great mix of old and new school as toast has to find his friends. Really reminds me of old school nickelodeon. It's only 99 cents.

Legends of the night vol 2 horrors of war

Horrors of war is much like Godzilla and the inverse of us war propaganda discussing the horrors of war (no pun intended) nuclear or not through anti-war messages. There's no real main character in the story furthering the dehumanization of man themes in war films. Sure the virus theme is cliche but is definitely noteworthy to get across the additional theme of the horror of science.
The art work is a wonder of digital art technology with shading, shadows and dark light outdoing walking dead easily and it's only 2.99

Eternalcon 2014: Fairy Tail Cosplay

Eternal Con 2014: (Batman Begins) Batman Cosplay

Jaycon V: X-Men Films: Cyclops

Jaycon V: Black Widow (Marvel Comics)

 

Jaycon V: Hetalia Axis Power (Zenkaikon chairman)

Jaycon v: kagome and kikyo yasha Cosplay

Jaycon v: Phoenix Cosplay

Jaycon v: Female captain America cosplay

Wolverine and the xmen strangest heroes of all time doesn't have much going for it

Main plus
I really like the arkham asylum drawings when they use them

Shark girl sorta reminds me of how funny and over the top wolverine was in the cartoon. Not just her but in direction and conception.
I dunno why it had time travel and dog Logan wasn't interesting.
18 dollars spent wisely elsewhere

Wolverine and the xmen strangest heroes of all time shark girl

Shark girl
X men have turn into a commercial kids friendly product
No lessons about discrimination prejudice etc..
They have a girl who looks like an unhot non sonic version of a shark
This is a terrible idea and somebody should be fired.
It's not classic x men lessons of prejudice where they are used to demonstrate how even kind animalsand all living life should be treated equally.
Don't believe me?
Who does shark girl yell I'll eat all your horses when beast is one of the senior members of the jean grey school of learning?
Mann... Much to good for children...

Jaycon V: One Piece

Jaycon V: Female Loki

Jaycon V: Attack on Hatsune Miku

Jaycon V: Attack on Titan Cosplay

Jaycon V: Code Geass

Jaycon V: Deadpool

Eternal Con 2014: Hunger Games Cosplay with Kiki's Delivery Service in the background

Eternal Con 2014: Harley Quinn

The corruption themes of Batman '89

What Batman Begins is often credit for, but Batman '89 is not is the theme of corruption.
In Batman Begins, there are Invasion of the Body Snatcher themes playing on communist and terrorist fears such as the infiltration of the police by the League of Shadows, Falcone's men running the city, and Wiliam Earle's manipulation of Wayne and takeover of Wayne Enterprises.
In batman 89, there are Anti Nazi themes hidden through the use of homages to Vertigo such as that of Vicki Vale's blonde hair, green dress and climactic finale after constant teases of acrophobia stunts by batman.
An obvious Nazi reference is Axis chemicals killing everyone in horrific ways. The fashion industry becomes a key element in this film as it becomes a motif of the Joker.
The joker and Carl Grissom fight over a blonde leading to the chaos in Gotham city led by the Joker.
Heck batman even has yellow in his symbol this time around.
Also present are the comparisons of the Joker to an artist like Hitler.
They fight in a war against crime. The Joker is a whiteface character.
The city is run by white male gangsters against an incompetent commissioner with Lt Eckhardt on his salary, an obvious example of corruption overlooked in the film and an African a,Erica's district attorney. Again a lot with what goals with this film are the details and visuals opposed to the exposition wry dialogue?
Finally, at the end of the film, we are given the theme of "who made who?" or the chicken vs the egg. Is it the criminal that made the superhero or the corrupt hero that made the villain and will it be a battle that is ever won?

Xmen children's end is a great follow up to house of m

It introduces a great new cast of characters. Those unfamiliar with x23.
I didn't enjoy how the two (Emma frost) conflicted.
There could be great reason why she killed her mother: it's not explained.
It lacked character development. Ok. Intro comic.
Emma looks beautiful albeit I don't get much out of the comics art.
The anti mutant storyline seems straight out of god loves, man kills, although not as good. I had high hopes for this series

#15: Superman/Batman: Public Enemies

I really like the concept of this. Superman and Batman, Yin and Yangs of each other, have a similar goal, figuring out Lex Luthor's plan as President of the United States, before being framed for a crime they didn't commit and realize that Luthor's tricked them the whole time.
I really would've liked this film to be a hard R. There's no continuity in these films, so really raise the stakes by having Batman or Superman deal with the moral dilemma of killing someone in self defense in order to achieve a greater good by stopping Luthor's plan at world domination and not to mention your own selfish survival.
Then again, we wouldn't have a Japanese Toyman Composite Superman giant robot in the film!
Visually and acting wise, there wasn't really a premise for superheroes to believe Luthor over the World's Finest.
Flaws aside, it was fun. Not a terrible film, but way far from a perfect score.
***/*****

More on boobage by Monica Gallagher

It's on comixology
I've had a bit elite schooling to misunderstand popularity contests totally. They were nonexistent in NYC so Gallaghers popularity stereotypes are a bit foreign for me.
Gallagher has a great conversational style that reminds me of Toufic el Rassi in America dealing with issues of a minority. However what Gallagher does lack are solutions to these issues just tackling them from multiple perspectives and time periods of a lifetime.
It's not a porno. It's more of an expression and embracement of self, Gallagher the artist feeling right in an insecure world no matter what size or occupation they're involved in.

Boobage by Monica Gallagher

There's boobs. No nudity.
What else dya wanna no?!

KristenStewartWantsIt recreation: Loki is an asshole

• Loki is an asshole

Loki is an asshole and he has no goals.
If you really want me to get into it, I could talk about Noam Chomsky, Alan Moore and the anarchist movement of current day, relating to how big figures of control ruin everything
But you don't need to know that.
Thor isn't fucking Christianpher Nolan's Batman where he's a figure of control
And Loki is not the Joker.
I don't hate Tom Hiddleston, but there is no reason to praise him for this role which he had no input in controlling and did nothing to make good.
Watch War Horse.
Watch the wonderful The Deep Blue Sea.
But don't fucking waste your time on the Marvel Universe with him as his characters are written TEAR-RI-BULL-LEE.

Back to a previous point that will NEVER EVER be brought up again, but will probably be brought up as a point my major fans as a favorite part of the film because it's a twist (but not one that makes sense, I AM GASPING FOR AIR!)
Loki is a frost giant, but Thor doesn't kill him.
Maybe, Thor doesn't kill Loki and learns to tolerate the Frost Giants.
It was probably in the script somewhere between the ten writers that worked on this film.
However, somewhere along the lines, Kenneth Branagh could've said, maybe we should tell the audience Thor had an arc, or a change of heart after realizing the brother he lived with, not knowing exactly when Thor became a Norse God?

Or you can make Thor be an anti-hero and not give a shit as if this was a New Hollywood film.
But it's NOT A NEW HOLLYWOOD FILM. IT'S A FUCKING BLOCKBUSTER! It's not the fucking Dark Knight! Have him save his fucking brother who he lived with his whole life, which includes since the beginning of time or however long it was!

So, no. Thor just fucking kills more Frost Giants and captures his brother.

Why does Thor even hate the Frost Giants considering he never fought one before in the first place?! Seriously, the war happens before Loki is given to his Asgardian parents.

What kind of peace treaty did you sign with a species that all they do is fight war?! What did this species that all they do is fight wars, not do if they couldn't fight wars?!
They did NOTHING! NOTHING for whatever millennia they were away from Earth! Why would they do that? Does that sound like the kind of species which would give up their son for a peace treaty?

Anarchists can be selfish.
Anarchists can screw stuff up.
But it looks like Loki is just fucking high, and that's his anarchist views.
Loki has an opportunity to kill Thor in the beginning by feeding him to the Frost Giants. He doesn't.
He later kills his own father, gaining no power from the Frost Giants NOR the Asgardian Gods while doing so. He then pretends to kill himself, where Thor being the dumb shit he is, forgets for whatever thousands of years he stayed on Asgard, forgot that there's either no gravity on Asgard or that Loki can fly or a power everyone fucking knows, especially Thor in Thor 2, when he observes that Loki trashes a room over his mother's death while using an illusion trick, to pretend that he died, for what purpose? To conquer Earth, for we have no reason to care what shit he wants to do that for, joining an army, he and the audience knows nothing about but joins them anyway?
So Loki does a crapload of shit, where he gains nothing, confuses the audience for the sake of confusing them, outthinking the script as if it were Tekken: Blood Vengeance without the Ho/Les Yays.

I'm out of breath. I'll continue this later.

With the Joker, he had a horribly intricate plan, where everything came together.
Loki didn't have a fucking plan. You don't need to give Disney-Marvel-JJ Abrams Star Wars $1 Billion to figure that shit out.

KristenStewartWantsIt recreation: I have no idea what Thor's powers are, and he fucking sucks

• I have no idea what Thor's powers are.

Thor can control his hammer. He can shoot lightning.
Did he get his powers from his dad or from Asgard or from where?
How strong is he? Is he stronger with or without the hammer? Is he stronger when he gets hit by lightning?
Are his flying powers limited? Great to know when he was on Asgard, flying powers or not there, when Loki fell from the bridge, flying powers or not!
They don't tell you, and more importantly in a film, they don't show you or put you into suspense as to how he gets his powers.

Was Thor ever popular when he was in the comics?
Outside of founding the Avengers?
(Speaking of which, in the films, he founds shit since Nick Fury does everything.)
This is important, because this Thor is a piece of shit, so not knowing anything about an unpopular character must have a huge payoff.

Furthermore:

• Thor's character sucks.

He doesn't have a character.
He hits things.
He uses his powers to start a war with the Frost Giants
He makes out with Princess Amidala.
He kills Frost Giants.
And he hits things.
That's all he does.
You want to talk about Star Wars since Queen Amidala is in the role, George Disney.
Fine, let's talk about the Red Letter Media analysis of Episode 1:

• Name the main character of Thor without describing their clothes or what they look like.
• Name the Joseph Campbell Hero's arc that the main characters go through

Other than saving the day, what does Thor learn?

KristenStewartWantsIt Thor Sucks recreation: Kenneth Branagh

Thor Sucks.

The End.

Ok, first of all, I have to say this. Whoever got him to take down that review is a huge fucking asshole. That review was hilarious and very informative on how you're supposed to write characters, not to mention a feature length $300 million movie that leads into one of the highest grossing films of all time. I am pissed.

• Kenneth Branagh

I'm trying to be fair here, because Kenneth Branagh is a rich million year old white guy from Engand who makes money off Shakespeare, ruining my middle school favorite comedy, Much Ado About Nothing, in addition to the crappiest book of Harry Potter.
Meanwhile, I'm a nerd geek who is not really making ends' meet in the most corrupt cities in the world known as New York City.
Ok, I'm not being fair, but Kenneth Branagh is an asshole so I don't give a shit. His fucking movie is garbage and he had every right to have been fired the franchise even though as much as I didn't like the second one, it was a huge improvement over what he was doing.

Happy 75th Anniversary: Marvel's Top 13 Films

13 Ghost Rider
12 DareDevil: The Director's Cut
11 Captain America: First Avenger and 
10 Ghost Rider: The Spirit of Vengeance
9 Captain America (1990)
8 The Wolverine
7 The Incredible Hulk
6 Blade
5 Hulk
4 X-Men: First Class
3 Spider-Man 2
2 X2
1 Iron Man

Happy 75th Anniversary: Batman Films

1. Batman Begins
2. Batman: The Mask of the Phantasm
3. The Dark Knight Returns
4. The Dark Knight
5. Batman: Gotham Knight
6. Batman: Under the Red Hood
7. Batman '89
8. Batman Forever
9. The Dark Knight Rises
10. Batman & Mr. Freeze: Sub Zero
11. Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker
12. Justice League: The New Frontier
13. Batman & Robin
14. Batman '66
15. Superman/Batman: Public Enemies
16. Batman Returns
17. Catwoman

Happy 75th Anniversary: The 10 Worst Marvel Movies Made So Far

1. Howard the Duck: He wasn't witty. He wasn't well made despite being made by George Lucas. It was made in the US, whereas Star Wars had many production problems being all over the place.
2. Thor: You heard my rant.
3. Men in Black 2: I totally didn't get the ending sequence. They write off L for no reason. There's barely any extras in this obligatory sequel, making it very unexciting, when there's "chases."
4. Fantastic Four: The Rise of the Silver Surfer: It was boring. What the fuck do I give a shit about Jessica Alba getting married for?! I don't give a shit if Galactus is a cloud. They just didn't know how to make a film in general.
5. Fantastic Four (2005): It's not Jack Kirby. It's not Star Wars. It's not Spider-Man. It's boring.
6. The Amazing Spider-Man 2: It didn't make any sense.
7. Avengers: Overrated. A film that took 0 effort to make and copied Transformers 3 of all possible plots. I feel better giving poor robbers struggling to make ends meet money than this.
8. Thor: The Dark World: A very good improvement, but still has Natalie Portman in it.
9. Men in Black 3: I really liked the Flight of the Conchords guy, but honestly the TV show had a better plot than this. Josh Brolin is as awesome as always though.
10. The Amazing Spider-Man: There's a lot good with this film, like the acting. There's a lot wrong with this film. Marc Webb isn't really a sci fi type of guy. He needs more time to make the thing work.

Like many superhero movies, X-Men: Days of Future Past demonstrates that bad stories don't matter for blockbuster box offices

X-Men: Days of Future Past panders but it doesn't pander too much. A lot is told from exposition even more so than a Christopher Nolan film as there really aren't visuals for certain scenes, just actors acting in a horribly rushed manner in fear of fans not having patience for a long film, as well as producers fearing of smaller box office revenue as a result of less replay times in theatres. It would've been cool if there were single shots instead of soap opera camera shooting to fix this problem, but I dunno. Singer's not a terrible director like many others around, but he rushed a bit with this film.
X-Men is simple. Done over 11 years. 1 plot hole. 1 simple plot. Not a lot to complain about. Acceptable.
There's a lot of stuff to turn people away from the one year budget X-Men: Days of Future Past, but there's also a lot to keep them in. 2012 superhero films that put me off with this were Amazing Spider-Man and The Dark Knight Rises, but oh well.

It's sort of sad that we've gotten to the point where scripts don't make sense by themselves, as sequels and aren't even crack fiction, yet audiences allow directors to get away with it.
Fans did it for Thor, its sequel and Avengers, so we let them get by with it in X-Men, and its sad.
We don't really care about the stories.
They team up.
They have a lot of cast, letting 15,000 get jobs on this project, having a staff work on CGI for many futuristic towns or even the stadium.
That in itself is a good story and I really hope it makes it on DVD/Blu Ray extras.

Superior Spider-Wifebeater- I mean Spider-Man 20 by Scott Camuncoli and Dell Fabela sucks

The art is sorta sexy, but how sexy can it be when Black Cat loses a tooth, Mary Jane almost is eaten for food or beastality by a dog for no reason and Lady Octopus looks like Colossus for some odd reason.
The Day Gwen Stacy Died was one of the most epic stories in comic book history. It was a blockbuster event. It was memorable. It was controversial for all the good reasons.
This comic gives the impression that teens beating up pretty looking girls is acceptable.
And it's lazy.
People complain about Mark Millar's Kick-Ass for being juvenile, but at least it makes sense.
Gosh, this is terrible.

Spider-Man: The Animated Series: The Hobgoblin as directed by an indie auteur

The way this arc played out was sort of like a Tarantino/Coen film. The theme of selfishness, greed and survival are key in this arc. You have Peter Parker accidentally saving the main bad guy in the series in a very subtle attempt at humor prior to Norman Osborn selfishly firing him without disarming him leading to his downfall. You have two masterminds arming the Hobgoblin as if he were the Middle East, till arming goes out of control and takes down both of them. You have Alistar Smythe who is a distrustful brainwashed slave to the Kingpin, betray the Hobgoblin. This is after the Hobgoblin opportunistically takes care of Harry Osborn, for himself, not the Kingpin.
This is the best version of the Hobgoblin, played by none other than the great Mark Hamill. I find him more interesting than the Joker or Venom, because of his scheming to outdo the bad guys against each other.
Peter is barely a character in this episode, but stakes are raised as his best friend is captured, and his aunt incapacitated. Not to mention his room is messed up! XD
Discussing the Coen/Tarantino-ish indie themes of the episode, let's discuss some independent philosophical themes.
Government doesn't seem to be a theme in this episode, although a more powerful one could strengthen or worsen the situation against the Kingpin, as we'll get into in later episodes. (For now, let's just refer to ESU as a major influence and father figure for someone like Peter Parker.)
And it's not even income inequality. It's having no income like Peter, too having penthouses like both Harry, Norman (Oscorp's tower) and the Kingpin have together. Not to mention that the Kingpin at one point had no money, and Jameson, Hardy and Kingpin would later threaten all of Norman's work later on, stuff he considered his life, over his son to some extent.

How I would've written the Amazing Spider-Man: Part 3

Third:
Copy the Dark Knight like crazy.
Amazing Spider-Man's crew is absolutely terrible at copying Christopher Nolan, so let me put this step by step.
1) Have a charismatic, anarchistic character play a threatening Heath Ledger Joker-like Green Goblin who threatens all of New York City.
2) Have him bomb a skyscraper and not offend anyone.
3) Have him torture people.
4) Make Gwen Stacy's death a plot twist, despite it being in the title. Batman was supposed to save Rachel. Have Spider-Man accidentally save a Scarecrow or something.
Have him torture Spider-Man or Gwen Stacy in front of each other, making Spider-Man stuck to his lowest depths. You're ripping off Spider-Man. If you're going to do it terribly, at least make it pretend Dark.

How I would've written the Amazing Spider-Man 2: Part 2

Second:
Have it in the friggin title.

• Market it as a major event:
• Death of Superman
• Knightfall
• Death of Captain America
• Spider-Man's wedding

All noteworthy events in the history of comics.

Make it something memorable.

What made the Dark Knight and Avengers memorable was more of marketing, not necessarily the director's craftsmanship.

How I would've wrote Amazing Spider-Man 2: Part 1

Not have it in the SECOND film.
We don't get to know much about Gwen in the first film.
She's a scientist. She's Peter's girlfriend. Ok.
Cross some boundaries before she dies.
Let them have an intimate moment.
Maybe they have sex.
Maybe they just hug real close after a really dramatic moment.
Something really serious like that to really make the film dramatic.
You need to develop stakes to really make a film memorable.
The greater the stakes, the greater the empathy, the great the emotionally driven loss.

Spider-Man: The Animated Series: The Mutant Agenda: Beast's character

When I first watched "The Mutant Agenda," I never really thought much of it, other than a Spider-Man/X-Men crossover episode that didn't have too many voice actors involved and not as much action as I wanted.
Recently, I noticed how the Hobgoblin was used in an episode right after he debuted.
Now, I will approach the episode using the main guest stars as foils to Spider-Man as his mutancy problem develops.

A key aspect of Beast's character is being a Frankenstein-ish monster that ends up being the catalyst of his mutancy rather than a witch hunter attempting to hide it. He's interesting, because he's a smart man, an intellectual quoting intellectuals. But as a smart man, he doesn't want the trouble of being a mutant, because of it becoming a "distraction" that can mean life or death.
As a result, he really feels for Spider-Man, not wanting him to go through what he went through.
Beast feared change because of the change in his DNA, when his brain and more importantly heart were still the same after.
He was afraid of becoming a barbaric monster, the exact opposite he was as a peaceful human, although to some extent he did transform into it, and maybe someone else as well.

Marvel: War of Kings #1

This is a key book to get if you like good artwork, want to get to know lesser known characters and races in the Marvel Universe.
The beginning has Maximus in disbelief that his father was actually a Skrull.

The Kree are defeated.

An interesting note about the dialogue is from Medusa, discussing murder like virginity, once you do it, you can't stop.

You can't go to all these places on a non-animation movie budget.

Asunder

X-Men: Animated Series Review, "Days of Future Past" notes

The previews for this episode really get you into it. It was a great technique, discussing Senator Kelly, prejudiced humans, techno-internment camps. Wolverine disappearing. It's very relevant now considering how governments and democracy can change and lead to destruction of the world at any time with major large facilities and barbaric people.

A thing I sorta disliked about the show was how easy it was to defeat Sentinels.
While, X-Men: Legends is neither considered a video game classic, nor its gameplay polished due to wall glitches, one has no doubt the amount storytelling and easter eggs in the game for fans of the comic and synergy marketing.
In game, it was noticeably difficult to defeat Sentinels, unless you used your strongest attacks, depleting your mutant power.
It did make the action awesome though! Explosions!

Bishop meanwhile has this awesome western guitar and harmonica music playing when he attacks Wolverine and co. It's very campy considering how dire the situation is.
He portrays this sellout mutant who attacks mutants who cause trouble.
You see the X-Men graves in what seems to be the most random spot, but it's used for animated series efficiency.

Wolverine seems more educated, aware that he'll be stopping a well thought mutant to saving somebody he doesn't like.

Some of the ADR is very odd, like the cast only had one take or something.
They even have a line going, "the 90s!"

Bishop sounds hilarious not knowing what to do.

It also isn't clear if Bishop's a hero, an anti-hero, or a villain. He's just doing what he wants to survive. I'm not exactly sure where they wanted to go with that direction, but at least they made you think about it a bit, whether intentional or not.

Its animation is definitely more polished than Spider-Man: The Animated Series.

There isn't much in Part II. Just some notes for a fairly predictable plot once you've watched it before.
Why doesn't Jean or Xavier just read Gambit's mind? Pro-mutant propaganda really hits home.

I'm really surprised Pyro get a bigger cult following considering all the cool animations they did with his fire this episode.

Apocalypse being mentioned as a key factor in the episode is worth mentioning as well.

Wolverine and Black Cat: Claws

Claws is about the parallels between hunting and snatching a lover.
The graphic novel begins with Spider-Man comedically and campily chasing after the Black Cat before introducing Wolverine.
Claws #2 has moments of violence in dirt and in blood in the Savage Land as they fight off Kraven the Hunter.
Claws #3 has a pretty awesome sexy body suit Black Cat a la Alex Ross and Wolverine in a tuxedo doing a tip during a slow dance. with an alien shark worm in the background.
It then goes back to the couple that screws over Black Cat and Wolverine showing parallels between the two groups and flirting. "Does the outfit make me look fat?"
"I hope they're being eaten," is being stated as the Harley-like red head is sitting in a big bunch of bones' mouth.

Sidenote: Duff Beer and Elle product placement is featured in a scene.

Cons of X-Men (The Movie)

For a 11 year film, there isn't much to be excited about. It wasn't exactly Christopher Nolan's Inception.
The Cyclops-Jean Grey shipping doesn't really lead to much other than for fan service and a human element to it. I suppose there may be a parallel with Rogue and her boyfriends too, but we'll see.
Sabretooth is more of a hitman than a fellow Project X member in this continuity, at least from what we know of. Gives him less depth. His design is updated though.
Rebecca Romjin was sort of the Emma Frost of this series, albeit I liked Emma Frost in X-Men: First Class. She was sort of a Deus Ex Machina that completely messes up the X-Men, despite the fact that Charles Xavier knows of her, which is made even worse now that they were apparently childhood friends. Shouldn't there be warnings that she's there or shouldn't Xavier be able to psychically notice that she's in the building?
It's a little weird that Senator Kelly is made sympathetic after his death after doing such a terrible thing to a people. But alas killing is wrong and Magneto is a madman.
But Magneto is sympathetic because of the causes of his sociopathy.
I really don't get why Famke Jansenn was cast as Jean Grey: she was the Bond Girl known for having sex with men till they died. She doesn't do that as the Phoenix. She's supposedly supposed to play a good girl. Why put her in this role?

Pros of X-Men (The Movie)

First time live action X-Men has great action and decent storytelling and themes.
The main character of this film is Anna Paquin's Rogue who has to deal with the fact that she is a mutant, not to mention harms anyone who she touches. She is more vulnerable than the typical Rogue not having Ms. Marvel's powers. Sure, it would've been interesting if she had a visual addition as to how her powers worked, but it works because of Academy Award winning actress Anna Paquin's performance. She doesn't have a campy, albeit iconic accent that Rogue is associated with thanks to the cartoon.
The Mutant Registration Act is a bit camped up in this continuity, but still has a dark feeling toward it. It allows for a mistreated minority to be treated poorly.
I really didn't like the iconic X-Men blue costumes, albeit for comics they needed them at the time, due to not making interesting black hues at the time due to lack of digital. Also, color was the symbol of counter culture, thanks to things such as the rainbow symbols of homosexuals, etc.. Or maybe America was just high at the time... Maybe Richard Donner could've made it work..
Ray Park also does a phenomenal job as Toad, thanks to being Darth Maul in Star Wars Episode I: the Phantom Menace. Really a shame what happened to his character there.
And of course, Hugh Jackman does a phenomenal job as Wolverine, really getting down the accent as well as doing a perfect job acting out the scene where he describes having the claws come out of his hand.

The Amazing Spider-Man 2: The Wiki

The wiki: It is terrible. Don't get me wrong. The editor/writer wrote it very well, so I doubt he lied about anything, but the plot of the film just sounds terribly rushed and ill thought out.
Norman Osborn dies at the beginning of the film: despite being a main draw at the end of the first film!
Harry Osborn is introduced as the childhood friend of Harry. The childhood friend that was never mentioned before!
"But it's in the comics!" Does this look like comics Spider-Man to you?
Spider-Man is given all these warnings not to involve Gwen with Spider-Man. He does; she dies. He learns nothing. He's still not a vigilante. He's still not good at being a superhero. We don't really get a sense as to why he keeps becoming a superhero.
Spider-Man gets Harry, his childhood friend we know nothing about killed.

The Amazing Spider-Man 2 preview: Max Dillon

Max Dillon: I don't get what the appeal of his character is, just like I didn't get Tobey McGuire's appeal in Spider-Man (2002). He's supposedly nerdy, because he has unstylistic hair, from the WB which probably took 20 hours in makeup to do that way for whatever reason completely wasting Academy Award winning actor and Quentin Tarantino collaborator Jamie Foxx's talent. He was probably supposed to be a foil for Peter, a failed one at that.
Peter and Max are different races. Why? Is there supposed to be drama because of that? Is it supposed to show equality from that? It doesn't.
Peter and Max have different hair cuts. Why? It's not Jamie Foxx's natural hair cut so there has to be a reason.
Jamie Foxx is turned into a ball of energy. Why? What is the point of having Jamie Foxx on your crew, if you don't intend on showing his face to demonstrate that he is in your film as a major draw? A point that made Richard Donner's Superman and Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy noteworthy.
Again, he seems to be a made up minority stereotype that isn't true. And he's been heavily featured in the film as a major draw for the film. For who?

Amazing Spider-Man: cultural "stereotypes," 2012 disappointments and relief

The crew make stereotypes out of city minorities just like Agents of SHIELD did in their first episode in the train terminal in a film that's supposedly about a teen that wants to stop city crime with a reason that was probably cut out of the film! Flash Thompson is a suburban bully, not a city one. Doing that stuff always leads to worst movie ever territory.
If you like the ideas, that's fine. That's what made Batman Returns one of my favorite superhero, if not films when I was younger too, before I noticed loose parts of its screenplay.

I don't remember the first film:
THE LIZARD?!
The one played by William H. Macy?!
WHO?!
Captain Stacy?!
Norman Osborn?
Crane Dad?
They were in the last film?!
I really don't remember a ton of that film, so it just shows you that I just wasn't a fan, or I was possibly subliminally trying to forget stuff from that film.

The Amazing Spider-Man, Avengers and the Dark Knight Rises were 3 of the most disappointing things to ever happen to the genre in a film year, (2012) since the Godfather Part III. Although unlike many, I understood the dark themes that were in the Dark Knight Rises, it just showed that directors were losing powers making these films, and that they were pet projects of project managers and producers, not auteurs.
The last two years I was getting into Rob Ager, Darren Foley, Kamen Rider and the works of Shotaro Ishinomori, I was reliving my anime stage now that services such as Hulu, Netflix and Crunchyroll distributed works a lot better than the fuzzy 56k, non-LCD, bootleg VCD/VHS copies I was getting from Chinatown to watch anime that dominated the mainstream, opposed to the more leet, more kliq, fandom that I've found searching on Facebook fan groups to find my true peers.
I finally have cable after living off the internet the past few years

I regret watching Amazing Spider-Man 1

I didn't like Amazing Spider-Man: I appreciated that the producers aimed high to appeal to Christopher Nolan audiences, but they don't get Christopher Nolan.
It wasn't a vigilante film as neither the crime in New York City was a result of corruption as demonstrated by Captain Stacy, and was instead a result of a camp teenager realization of evil corporations, opposed to a realistic perception of bad guys like with Lockheed Martin. We also instead get a "story" about not wanting to save Samaritans.
Unlike Batman Begins, the characters were underdeveloped or lost along the mix. Uncle Ben dies after treating Peter like a jerk, and rightfully so. Then Peter witnesses him die without us realizing the bond between them. We never get to witness him as a surrogate father figure. It could've been used as a way to swerve us from the sudden death, but instead was just a nightmare. I dunno. Maybe Uncle Ben got in an argument with the cast or something leading that to happen.
We don't get an origin on how he fights or sews despite it supposedly being a Batman Begins origin story.

Spider-Man: The Animated Series: The Alien Costume Part 1, "Sons and Socippathy"

The Alien Costume begins with a twist: despite being a yellow journalist that does not care about people trying to save the city, much like many of those in editorial power, he does in fact care for his son and has in fact raised him quite well to the point of being a well respected astronaut on Earth. This parallels to the fact that the Kingpin, who is featured in the episode has a son of his own he cares for. This adds to the fact that he felt bad when his wife was killed, making him empathetic. Jameson has overgeneralized superheroes in this series, and misinterpreted something drastic as it was a key element to his life. Photos can lie as can be seen from Eddie Brock's pictures of Spider-Man and the shuttle and from what smart fans may interpret as idiocy, of Spider-Man ruining his life. However, there is no doubt that there are people who incorrectly interpret things and blame to the incorrect people, much like that of DareDevil's opponents in a court room!
Contrast that to Peter Parker, who is revealed in this episode to have a side that is selfish, egotistical, tempted by what is remember not a parasite, but a symbiote. "With great power comes great responsibility." Maybe Peter Parker would act like Rhino some day being a thug with his super strength after he can't find a job with Jameson or with Doc Conners.
Those suffering from a similar mental illness can empathize with Peter Parker, unable to determine if his thoughts are actually his or not. Like Parker, it can happen suddenly, for seemingly no reason after just waking up.
An interpretation of Parker's dream is that he has all of a sudden encountered something that has made his life even worse, the nightmare known as mental illness, stress or other deterrents to a healthy lifestyle.
From a person reading a paper, to the man struggling to get by, to the man who has made others suffer to survive and succeed, maybe inside all of us is a sociopath? Isn't that something to think about?

Batman and Robin: Vol something: Born to Kill is a marketing ploy

The confusingly labeled numbered, Batman and Robin: Born to Kill is a reboot off the great Grant Morrison run on the title. I, like I’m guessing many probably aren’t as familiar with this team and who can blame me? This comic seems to be done for marketing purposes using both the Batman and Robin brand that Grant Morrison built up as well as great surreal comic art to appeal to trick fans into purchases.
I am unfamiliar with the original Grant Morrison run as well as whichever 52 DC is doing now, but this run is a bit bland and unmemorable after fans might’ve been spoiled by the great Grant Morrison. Despite being 8 issues long, not much is done in this arc, other than to cash cow the franchise.
Also, the issues don’t get into the backstory of Damien, which is very confusing if you haven’t been following the continuities up to this point. Not filling us in on the other Robins makes perfect sense since it’s not their story. However, the backstory that Damien’s a clone is really weak as Batman debatably shouldn’t feel an attachment to him as it was more of what the League did with science and hoopla rather than a mistake of passion and nature on his part. Not to mention helping have boundaries for a completely different universe would’ve been important.
Thematically having Morgan Ducard manipulate Damien Wayne seems quite interesting, (having his mask consist of the compound eyes of a spider,) but there’s not really any stakes here. Unlike with DC films, Batman: Under the Red Hood and the Dark Knight, you don’t really see Wayne visually tested reaching his limits regarding whether he has to kill or not, besides with Ducard’s taunts. Also, there isn’t much substance for Ducard’s character, albeit he is there as a devil’s advocate type figure. (Heck, at times in the comic, I thought he was just a hallucination of Damien’s possibly from League of Assassins genetic engineering.) The dialogue could’ve been a bit like that of Quentin Tarantino films, giving you clues as to this one-shot character who can possibly dies origin, making fans really feel a connection before pulling him away. Instead, all the clues about Ducard that make him interesting are only done through his character/costume design rather than character depth, the real meat of what fans enjoy. It’s not like they sold a Morgan Ducard action figure, not that I’m aware of at least.
Although it really does demonstrate a potential Joker or Scarecrow toxin issue later on in the series if they truly utilize  artist Patrick Gleason’s potential, it seems more like subliminal advertising rather than quality work. How it should’ve been in this comic based on that drawing is that Damien kills Bruce to take the mantle of the new Batman with him and Ducard gaining control of the city for the League of Assassins.
Contrast to that, at least they didn’t make the Joker, be the bad guy for the millionth time, albeit they kill off Ducard way too early for fans to get an attachment to him.
I don’t really get what Batman’s deal with Ace is. I don’t really get what Batman tried to achieve, albeit Damien didn’t pull a Michael Vick. Damien in the end essentially pulls a Wonder Woman, killing off Morgan Ducard. Also, I don’t feel like it’s a Frank Miller, Batman, so I don’t get why they would have Batman use the word kill in this comic other than to exploit teen fans who think that word is cool because of the MPAA. I also don’t get the appeal of a gun totting Robin, other than if you plan on in citing the mentally ill Columbine crowd. I dunno. It worked with Chloe Grace Moretz in both Hick and Kick-Ass, but I dunno. Just didn’t look cool to me here.

Before I get to the Thor Sucks review

Let me start with the positives:
Performances, Art Direction and Costuming: Thor really has the potential to being the next Lord of the Rings franchise. It's seriously that good visually.
I got really drunk: Seriously, play a drinking game whenever Natalie Portman says, "Yeah" or "what" repeatedly. You get drunk really fast.
I laughed, ONCE: There's one joke in the film that actually works because there's a set up: again Natalie Portman's driving. I forget if it was just because I noticed she is an unconvincing stunt driver or something set up by the movie, but when he hits the Chris Hemsworth that has no character development despite being the titutlar character of a blockbuster, I chuckled. More in my mind than out loud, but it was still a lol moment.
Kat Dennings: She's sorta like Emma Stone, in that she has fans no matter what she does, and what she does doesn't get screwed up by producers for whatever reason. She has no point other than that, but at least the producers had a goal and didn't screw that up.

Sam Raimi's Spider-Man: Casting and Humor

The acting is really good. The major standout being Wilem Defoe as the insane Green Goblin. I dunno exactly why there's a Harry Osborn goblin and a SPOILER ALERT Wilem Defoe Goblin in Amazing Spider-Man 2, but he totally deserves the second pay check. He's fit, yet very eviscerated, old, having this almost Heath Ledger-ish Glasgow smile on his face. But he also knows when to be the good guy too.

A major mistake I have is discrediting Tobey McGuire. Spider-Man at times is a loser. So is Tobey McGuire.
I'm a New York City kid. I like hanging out with cool people. Not really. I'm a nerd who went to Bronx Science when he was younger- BUT I still pretend to be cool! So my Spider-Man is Christopher Daniel Barnes and not
My favorite scene with Tobey McGuire is when he plays the hitchhiker in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. The only scene I enjoy and he probably did too!

The elements I don't enjoy about the film are the humor. Having Randy Savage as Bonesaw. Having Tobey McGuire sling webs all over the place in the most (I'm going to be racist here since I don't know how else to describe it,) white millennial stereotype. JK Simmons being obnoxious.
If Jesse Eisenberg had played the character however, it would've came across a bit better I think. Also, it was Raimi's decision for him to portray a Parker like this for whatever reason I don't understand or empathize with.

Cliff Robertson who plays the dad, won an Academy Award for 1968's Charly, a very mediocre film for a retardation performance that was vastly overrated, but still does a decent job here.