I liked Constantine on its own.
The Umbrella Academy is awesome, IMO. The story is solid, and the characters are well written.
Walking I get. But power walking? Why not just run for a shorter time?
Angel ,'Time Bomb'
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Cashmere - Apr 08, 2009 2:18:08 pm PDT #771 of 30000
Now tagless for your comfort.
Polter-Cow - Apr 08, 2009 2:29:19 pm PDT #772 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Thanks, Jilli and Cash. Maybe I'll give it a look one day.
Typo Boy - Apr 08, 2009 2:39:22 pm PDT #773 of 30000
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
But Gabriel didn't switch sides to help Lucifer in the movie. He was still a loyal servant of God, he was just also batshit crazy and going about his loyal service in a way that would have resulted in horror and suffering on a worldwide scale.
But he was deciding he knew better than God how to serve God. He was in effect switching sides, by helping Lucifer. He mean't for it best is an argument that could be made for Lucifer. AGain, not denying it was a good movie. And I agree Gabriel was good characters. Just not a good adaptation of the comic, if you see the distinction. Had very little to do with the comic. And IMO as unfaithful to the spirt as to the letter of the comic.
Frankenbuddha - Apr 08, 2009 2:42:42 pm PDT #774 of 30000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Instead of Christopher Walken's jealous, disdainful archangel that wanted to keep Mankind out of Heaven
Though that was a masterful interpretation, even if he did get upstaged by Viggo.
§ ita § - Apr 08, 2009 4:26:27 pm PDT #775 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I'm not a Seth Rogen fan to start with, but this description of a sex scene from Observe and Report makes my head spin:
SETH ROGEN: When we're having sex and she's unconscious like you can literally feel the audience thinking, like, how the fuck are they going to make this okay? Like, what can possibly be said or done that I'm not going to walk out of the movie theater in the next thirty seconds? . . . And then she says, like, the one thing that makes it all okay:
BRANDI: "Why are you stopping, motherfucker?"
From Gawker. I don't even want to watch the R-rated trailer. Just, ick.
Cashmere - Apr 08, 2009 4:51:01 pm PDT #776 of 30000
Now tagless for your comfort.
Maybe I'll give it a look one day.
If you want a loaner, I can send the Apocalypse Suite TPB.
Polter-Cow - Apr 08, 2009 5:35:02 pm PDT #777 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Aw, thanks, Cash! But the library has it, so I just put it on hold. All the copies are checked out right now!
Ailleann - Apr 08, 2009 6:11:15 pm PDT #778 of 30000
vanguard of the socialist Hollywood liberal homosexualist agenda
It won an Eisner! It doesn't completely suck!
Polter-Cow - Apr 08, 2009 6:15:13 pm PDT #779 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
It did? Very cool! I am excited to read it now. I already know I'll love the covers, at least.
What about the second volume? How's that?
Ailleann - Apr 08, 2009 6:21:18 pm PDT #780 of 30000
vanguard of the socialist Hollywood liberal homosexualist agenda
Still in progress, but so far so good.