Showing posts with label rant. Show all posts
Showing posts with label rant. Show all posts

Thursday, January 24, 2013

Why I Disliked the Dark Knight Rises Film

Explicit Language And Spoilers
So today I was discussing the final installment of Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy with my friends and their arguments as to why it is the greatest superhero film ever got me revved up to post this rant. Here we go...

Bane In general 
Christopher Nolan claimed that he wanted The Dark Knight Trilogy to be 'realistic' and not all flashy with giant action packed scenes which i commend. But I'm sorry, tell me the realism in a man who we can guesstimate is about 50 years old (Due to the flashback with Talia as a child and how young she looked then and how old he looked) breaking THE BATMAN'S back. This is not your average Joe. We are talking about The Dark Knight and some random fuck who just has this "strength" can pick him up and break his back? Because Nolan wanted a 'realistic' approach to the series, he lacked the privilege of including Bane's MAIN WEAPON which is his venom which makes him strong in the first place. So that doesn't make any sense whatsoever. Second, Bane's mask.... my friends claimed that there was some gas that just keeps him alive. I'm sorry. What? What fucking gas? There was no mention of that in the whole film.Way to be real Nolan. And finally, Bane's weak excuse of a death. Now I've heard the reasoning of his death being what it was because "right when you find out he is just a pawn in Talia's plan, he just becomes a normal person and it doesn't matter." But no Nolan. You cannot do that. This is the villain we have been following the whole film and you just kill him like that? I don't know. Maybe it's just my opinion but I thought it was pathetic. Now this rant is not a rip on Tom Hardy who I believe did an excellent job portraying Bane with voice, personality, and all but let's face it. He did not have the right stature to play Bane. Nolan should have picked someone like Ryback from the WWE who actually has the proper build.

The Ending
I've already heard your excuse for this. It was on auto pilot. If so, riddle me this. What is with the split second scene of Batman in some machinery which you ASSUME is the bat vehicle? My friends defended that he was somewhere else and that was just some machine of his. Bullshit! You witness him take off after kissing Catwoman! Where else would be be? At the fucking batcave? No. And my friend claims that The Bat vehicle is based off of a military vehicle? Um. No. I don't think Batman has the power of traveling 6 miles in 50 seconds. That's wayyyyy too far fetched. Nolan should have just killed him off. If I hear "It wasn't the ending we wanted. It was the ending we needed" one more time, I'm gonna lose it.

Miscellaneous

  • I love the man. But even Joseph Gordon-Levitt doesn't have the power to just immediately detect Batman when he enters the room. That was also a far fetched move.
  • Bane and his men can just stash away 5 or so motorbikes in the Wall street building and make a cool escape?
  • During the motorbike scene where Bruce Wayne first appears as Batman. When the cops chase Batman, that was one of the most ridiculous car chases I've ever seen. There had to have been at least 100 cop cars all chasing one bike. So they just totally forgot their original assignment of chasing Bane and his men? This whole movie was far fetched.
  • My friend was speaking out of both ends of his mouth claiming that TDKR was better than Marvel's The Avengers as a superhero movie. How? A superhero movie should have outrageous fight scenes with over the top powers and action. If my friend wants to claim that TDKR is realistic, he cannot also claim that it's better than The Avengers when it comes to action and superhero mannerisms. I've been reading comic books all my life and the fact that these friends of mine claimed to know more about the batman franchise than me (even though they've never picked up a comic in their life) is a slap in the face considering how seriously I take my comic book lore. 
You may have your opinions and I have nothing wrong with that. These are my opinions and my facts to back them up. 



Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Digital Comics. WTF

So I know this whole digital comics thing isn't new or anything and has been around for a while. But it's slowly rising up and really getting on my nerves. Comic BOOKS, keyword BOOKS, were made essentially as magazines released every month so you could read and collect and enjoy. Now, I don't know who's idea it was to start creating digital editions of comics but it's not gonna fly with me. No sir. When you turn a comic into something from hard copy to something you can only view through a digital screen, it takes ALL of the fun out of it! I mean my AvX issues have all come with codes you enter on Marvel.com or something and you can get a digital copy of the issue. Well guess what Marvel?? I don't want a digital copy! I want the hard copy I can take ANYWHERE and enjoy it anyway I want! What if something happens to your precious fake comic collection of digital files and it crashes or something? Or your internet shuts down and you can't punch in your stupid little code? Then you're fraked. Digital comics are the worst thing that could happen to the comic book industry because us true collectors want hard copies. Not files that ANYBODY could get. That's part of the fun in collecting comics. Hunting for that missing issue in your collection and when you offer digital comics, you take that fun out cuz you can just look it up on marvel.com or dccomics.com and bam! There it is. So yes fake collectors, enjoy your digital files but don't you dare call yourself a true comic collector you poser. Leave our hard copies alone. Rant over

Monday, May 7, 2012

Why Superman Does Not Deserve the Credit He Gets

Superman. The world's most popular (For some reason) super hero. Why? You tell me. But this post isn't about why he's the greatest super hero. It's focusing on the complete opposite which is why Superman, the loser alien from Krypton is one of the worst super heroes ever created.
For starters, something as simple as his color scheme. Really? Primary colors? What are you, five? For such a popular super hero like yourself Superman, shouldn't you have a more elaborate color combination. Even Green Lantern's is better... and his is only one base color! Go back to elementary school Clark.
Second, he's invincible (Unless he's encountering the distant material Kryptonite). No super hero should be allowed to have the power that Superman holds. Why? It stands for a boring series and boring villains (Unless it's Doomsday). I was reading my Superman comic compilation the other day and one of the issues was Clark Kent at a TV interview and he was trying to get out of the lie of him being Superman. Really? That's not a frakin comic story! That's just a lame filler. And I'm not saying that fillers in comic book series are pointless. They're not. Because half the time, they're brought up later in a series and they add for good character development. But when you're focusing an issue on getting out of a lie in an interview, you know the character sucks. Superman needs more vulnerabilities!!!
Next reason on my list: Superman's stupid hair curl... What the hell is that? Are you a greaser from The Outsiders or something?
I will admit that Superman is the icon for super heroes and he has given comic books fame but I just gotta ask... WHY??? Shouldn't Spider-Man or Batman who are more like the common man be the face of super heroes??? I mean yes Bruce Wayne is rich as frak and Spider-Man can climb walls and shoot webs but when you take those away, they're just you're average guy! In fact Bruce IS you're average guy! I feel the human population would be more attracted to someone they can relate to more than some far away alien baby. And it's not like Superman has been around for years before icons like Batman. The Dark Knight was only created a year later.
He's cocky - Superman is invincible. And he knows he's invincible. So what does he do when harm comes to his precious world? He faces it head on. Tell me what's entertaining about that. Would you rather watch The Avengers take on Hank Pym's catastrophic creation Ultron who they admit is smarter than them all put together or would you rather watch Superman take on Lex Luther for the billionth time and kick the bald man's ass? It's a no-brainer to me. If you want a plot and you want to watch your heroes triumph when hope is bleak, don't go to Superman.

Please Note: This post is MY personal opinion and for you Superman lovers out there, please do not get mad. As you can see, I feel strongly about this subject but I do not mean for this to be a burn on you Man of Steel fans out there. Take this post with a grain of salt!