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marshmallow creep posted:Talking about Black Adam reminded me of that time Shazam changes Adam's magic word to try and keep him from transforming, but wouldn't you know it: I've seen that page before and what I've always wandered was: 1. Would Black Adam have transformed had he ordered a single chocolate egg cream. 2. Did he actually eat the chocolate egg cream after transforming. Because you know The Rock would have.
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Phylodox posted:Because kids aren't ready to handle the responsibilities of being an adult. At least Billy can go back to being a kid whenever he's not superheroing. He can, but that doesn't make him ready for superheroing either, really. Cuz if we're posting comic stuff we like (even if I'm not a DC fan), I love this whole section, since it's on topic and all.
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Apr 21, 2017 21:56
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marshmallow creep posted:Talking about Black Adam reminded me of that time Shazam changes Adam's magic word to try and keep him from transforming, but wouldn't you know it: I really hope we get Darkseid and Black Adam partaking in chocolate egg cremes on a couch.
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Apr 22, 2017 00:52
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Grendels Dad posted:I've seen that page before and what I've always wandered was: Been a while since I read 52, but Billy became the new Shazam (old guy) in charge of powers after the other one died fighting the Wraith of God. Black Adam after his wife Isis and her brother got killed by some mad scientist and their creatures, he declared war on the county that they worked for and killed everyone there. Some stuff happened and he got beat up and got his phase to turn into Black Adam changed to something he would never would likely said, which is that panel above.
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Apr 22, 2017 01:11
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parallelodad posted:The main thing I can remember is he works really hard on this idea for a choose your own adventure comic book, then a higher ranking guy shits all over his idea and embarrasses him in front of the board in petty revenge for a perceived slight from earlier. I remember that being a really good scene basically slapping him in the face with the realization that being an adult doesn't mean you don't get picked on. Watch that scene again
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Apr 22, 2017 04:04
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Phylodox posted:Because kids aren't ready to handle the responsibilities of being an adult. At least Billy can go back to being a kid whenever he's not superheroing. It's super irresponsible to do your chores when you should be defending the multiverse. Suck it up.
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Apr 22, 2017 04:55
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Detective No. 27 posted:There is no downside, really. But Billy Batson is usually a kid, so being in a grown man's body makes it hard to do kid stuff. Alan Moore has written at least twice what would happen if Billy Batson just stayed as Captain Marvel/Shazam all the time. Spoilers: horrible, horrible things. Blade_of_tyshalle posted:Pretty sure Black Adam is still a muscular, powerful grown man when non-shazammed, assuming he even bothers dismissing the power. He strikes me as the type who just stays powered at all times. Presumably, his non-shazam form still ages. In the animated movie of Shazam vs. Superman, Black Adam reverts to his non-shazam form and instantly turns into decrepit old man who dies and turns to dust.
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Apr 22, 2017 07:30
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Young Freud posted:Alan Moore has written at least twice what would happen if Billy Batson just stayed as Captain Marvel/Shazam all the time. Miracleman #15 and ?
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Apr 22, 2017 07:53
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Beachcomber posted:Miracleman #15 and ? Kid Miracleman in general, it's just Miracleman #15 just blows everything out of the water. The other is Twilight Of The Superheroes treatment. Billy Batson becomes a weird and twisted pervert because he's been living as Captain Marvel for so long that it interrupted and warped his sexual maturity.
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Apr 22, 2017 08:01
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Young Freud posted:
Hmm and you say Alan Moore wrote this?
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Apr 22, 2017 08:06
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ACES CURE PLANES posted:
That's amazing.
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Apr 22, 2017 13:55
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Grendels Dad posted:2. Did he actually eat the chocolate egg cream after transforming. Because you know The Rock would have. Isn't Rock on the record that he hates candy?
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Apr 22, 2017 21:28
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Grendels Dad posted:2. Did he actually eat the chocolate egg cream after transforming. Because you know The Rock would have. Prokhor Zakharov posted:Isn't Rock on the record that he hates candy? A chocolate egg cream is milk chocolate with soda water.
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Apr 22, 2017 22:12
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Shazam should be The big budget PG superhero movie about a young boy turning into The Rock to fight an evil egyptian rock. It's a terrible sign that they feel like they need to tell Black Adam's story before Shazam's
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Apr 22, 2017 22:18
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I think they worked with the Rock and showed him various DC characters and let him pick which one he wanted to be.
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Apr 22, 2017 22:26
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AH_D8COMbhc I just saw this... It is very very Russian.
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AH_D8COMbhc Is... Is that good? I think it looks great.
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parallelodad posted:I think they worked with the Rock and showed him various DC characters and let him pick which one he wanted to be. He had a coin with Marvel/Namor on one side and DC/Black Adam on the other
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Apr 23, 2017 00:48
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He phoned Marvel and told them his offer is under a rock in the front yard and he will be fighting the DC guy for it.
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Apr 23, 2017 00:51
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Grendels Dad posted:Is... Is that good? I think it looks great. It's bad! It's half fun bad and half boring bad but maybe worth a watch? There is a tease throughout the movie that the four hero characters need to "combine their powers" in order to be super powerful, and while I was anticipating them to do that d B Z combination dance (it doesn't happen), the final act comprises them basically holding each other and creating a hadoken big enough to destroy whole skyscrapers.
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Apr 23, 2017 01:11
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The Saddest Rhino posted:It's bad! It's half fun bad and half boring bad but maybe worth a watch? Truth to the spoilers. Also, it has a bear with a telepathically controlled Gatling gun.
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Apr 23, 2017 04:39
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Very specific question: Is there a name for that style of future tech always featured in Russian/Eastern European sci fi? With all the goggles and poo poo? I'm thinking of stuff like the soldiers in Guardians, or the S.T.A.L.K.E.R series?
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AH_D8COMbhc This looks loving awesome. When and how can I watch it?
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Snowman_McK posted:Very specific question: Is there a name for that style of future tech always featured in Russian/Eastern European sci fi? With all the goggles and poo poo? I'm thinking of stuff like the soldiers in Guardians, or the S.T.A.L.K.E.R series? Probably not. I would call it Sov-Tech or Sov-Punk (although I'm getting tired of -punk applications), but there's a lot of crossover when it comes to concept artists who born and/or work in Russia and Eastern Europe and get work in Western projects. The famous being Viktor Antonov, a Bulgarian artist, who is largely responsible for the look of Half-Life 2 and Dishonored games. Another one is Vitaly Bulgarov, who worked a lot of the Robocop remake and Transformers: Dark Of The Moon and recently the design of the spider tank in Paramount/Dreamworks' Ghost In The Shell adaptation. Also, ugh, that dubbing is atrocious.
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FELD1 posted:This looks loving awesome. When and how can I watch it? Parts of it (much of it) is painfully awful and boring. Still, there are some serious  moments. I have a friend who runs an art house theater and had a sample screener. That's how I saw it.
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What I recall off watching Guardians: the reason you don't see the villain clearly in most promotional posters and trailers is because he looks like an incredible dope but with a weird muscular body. He's great. Every one of the four heroes get a few minutes to monologue their personal backstory to the military-industrial complex lady, whose role is apparently to 1. Listen to them moan and whine 2. Wear very attractive military gear and 3. Ride a motorbike and be really cool The Guardians fail in every single mission they are sent to The villain's plan is to break a satellite tower, attach it to skyscrapers with a poo poo load of wires hanging in mid air, and create a satellite tower so powerful it can control all the satellites in the world One of the Guardians has the ability to cut all the wires attaching the said hanging satellite tower. He cuts a couple of wires and calls it a day, which does nothing to affect the tower's integrity Another Guardian grabs a battery and gets electrocuted at no detriment to the villain's plans The werebear 's super power is turning into a bear with a gatling gun on his back and it's loving awesome but only used in one scene. The bear also gets sucker punched!
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:Parts of it (much of it) is painfully awful and boring. Still, there are some serious This sounds like Nochnoi Dozor all over again. Admittedly, I haven't watched all of that so maybe I missed the part where it gets fun, but somehow the Russians need to work on the parts of their movies where werebears don't shoot at things. The spoilers sound amazing though, still gonna see it when I can.
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Guardians is pretty bad but never quite pushes into "So bad it's good" territory. It's also massively derivative which wouldn't have been a problem if it was fun but ehhhhh. The prosthetics on the main villain give him a huge round head which make him look like a giant angry baby which explains why they're so cagey about showing him in the trailer. 
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The CGI Spider tanks are cool as hell. Khan's superspeed effects are cool as hell. Arsis's CGI bear form is sketchy as hell especially on the cables, you'll know it when you see it. The plot makes no loving sense. The villain does look like an angry baby with some of the worst latex work ever. The editing is confusing to put it charitably. The acting is uh, now about those sweet rear end spider tanks!
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Also, it falls into that action movie trap where the heroes are slaughtering the baddies, then suddenly lose.
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Descendants 2 will premiere July 21 on five networks at the same time - Disney Channel, ABC, Disney XD, Freeform and Lifetime (all networks owned by Disney, cuz duh!)quote:In Descendants 2, the Villain Kids (AKA “VKs”) — Mal, Evie, Carlos and Jay — continue to try to find their place in idyllic Auradon. When the pressure to be royal becomes too much for Mal, she returns to her rotten roots on the Isle of the Lost where her archenemy Uma, the daughter of Ursula, has taken her spot as self-proclaimed queen of the run-down town. Uma, still resentful over not being selected by Ben to go to Auradon Prep with the other Villain Kids, stirs her pirate gang including Captain Hook’s son Harry and Gaston’s son Gil, to break the barrier between the Isle of the Lost and Auradon, and unleash all the villains imprisoned on the Isle, once and for all. If you haven't seen the first one, it is ridiculous and cheesy in a way that most movies can never be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GCBI4oNCis
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I thought at first you were talking about the Alexander Payne film The Descendants and was very confused as to why there was a sequel.
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Tars Tarkas posted:Descendants 2 will premiere July 21 on five networks at the same time - Disney Channel, ABC, Disney XD, Freeform and Lifetime (all networks owned by Disney, cuz duh!) Oh good I can't wait to watch this a million times Curse my wife for giving me two daughters!!!
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Jeff Goldblum is going to be in Jurassic World 2.
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Life uh finds a way.
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Regardless of all else, Jurassic World 2 will build a terrific house.
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Neo Rasa posted:Life uh finds a way. 
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Jurassic World 2 is apparently going to be directed by J. A. Bayona, who made The Orphanage, The Impossible, and A Monster Calls, none of which I have seen. The Impossible is supposed to be about a bad vacation, I think, so could be appropriate.
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Sir Kodiak posted:Jurassic World 2 is apparently going to be directed by J. A. Bayona, who made The Orphanage, The Impossible, and A Monster Calls, none of which I have seen. The Impossible is supposed to be about a bad vacation, I think, so could be appropriate. Can't wait to see a rich white family survive JW2 while hundreds of thousands of nameless browns bite the dust.
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Gorman Thomas posted:Can't wait to see a rich white family survive JW2 while hundreds of thousands of nameless browns bite the dust. So, Jurassic World if it had the guts to actually kill a park guest and with more diverse extras. Sounds like an improvement.
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