A bat! That's it! It's an omen.. I'll shall become a bat!
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A bat! That's it! It's an omen.. I'll shall become a bat!
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There came a time when the Old Gods died! The Brave died with the Cunning! The Noble perished locked in battle with unleashed Evil! It was the last day for them! An ancient era was passing in fiery holocaust!
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A bat! That's it! It's an omen.. I'll shall become a bat!
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Quantum of Solace is awesome!
No, I thought it was a slur against Black men--as in "they are all pimps" and dress like that and talk like that and just exist to be made fun. That's about the only significant person of colour in the entire movie (the only one with lines that I can remember) and he's presented as an object of fun. I felt conflicted the first time I saw that scene--because it was nice to see more than just the usual white people in a movie, but it was a bad stereotype.
While I’d rate it 3rd out of the Craig films, it’s not a distant third for me, and still well ahead of Spectre, if for no other reason than that Mr. White and Quantum are a hell of a lot creepier and impressive with how subtle and sinister they are compared to the trying-too-hard take on Bloefeld and Spectre in that film.
The “We have people everywhere...” (unknown mole starts killing people in that very room) scene is a hell of a lot more intimidating than having the obviously evil intelligence minister turn out to be, well, exactly as evil as he seemed, and the Quantum meeting during the Tosca performance is the right kind of redux of a Spectre meeting, rather than just making everything bigger like the Spectre movie does.
Plus, I love how laughably banal but genuinely clever Quantum’s scheme is.
They really should have just kept Quantum and used it to create Spectre and Bloefeld, rather than trying to unveil them in a more classic form in that movie. Bloefeld the adopted brother trying to run a blatantly obvious evil empire out of jealousy kind of sucks. What would have worked better would have been to have Bloefeld be the mastermind behind Vesper’s deception in Casino Royals, but strictly in a professional sense, have his Spectre be the “ghost” of Quantum, and have his grudge be as simple as being angry at Bond unraveling his previous organization.
Like action, adventure, rogues, and outlaws? Like anti-heroes, femme fatales, mysteries and thrillers?
I wrote a book with them. Outlaw’s Shadow: A Sherwood Noir. Robin Hood’s evil counterpart, Guy of Gisbourne, is the main character. Feel free to give it a look: https://read.amazon.com/kp/embed?asi...E2PKBNJFH76GQP
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C'mon, 'JIM' was Superman. As in "Excuse me White man, that is one striking attire you have on that even as I- a Pimp lol have never seen outside of a comic book. Might you been in need of mental health services?" Then he takes off in the air and you get your 'whoo'.
In the 70's if you needed to get a random white dude's attention for say, a light for a cigarette or the time, you might have used 'Jim'. As opposed to 'Jack' where it might have been for a more, uh curt greeting as it was. I feel that's going a little hard at the idea that was a cruel jab on some level I'd say. In that world no one knows what a Superman even is, the reaction, even if you disagree with the messenger, is pretty genuine. There's a mention of Rex Reed at some point in this one or one of them. Metropolis was representing New York in the 70's and suffice to say, there was a certain element that was much more pervasive than what Manhattan has looked like for the last 30 some odd years. That's to say there was about a 100% fewer sex shop elements in the middle of it. I wanna say that was, shit without looking it up, they guy that played in Uptown Saturday Night that was head of the other gang opposite of John Amos. He's been in a lot of stuff at the time. He was the Jamaican in Predator 2 I think. Damn I can't remember his name off the top of my head. Watch it not even be him... anyway.
You do have a point in that's likely the only brotha with a speaking part in the film. I feel there's one walking in the background of the Daily Planet newsroom in a Margot Kidder shot.
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Beefing up the old home security, huh?You bet yer ass.
The notion of A Trinity is somewhat defensible at DC, but ludicrous at Marvel.
This feels like it's getting to be an unpopular opinion, but I enjoy the Oscars. I like the pomp and circumstance, I enjoy seeing the celebration of Hollywood and everything that comes with that. Even if they rarely honor my favorite movie of the year, I still enjoy it in the same way that I enjoy the World Series when the Mets don't play or the Super Bowl when the Bills don't play.
DC's Trinity are the three superheroes who have been in continuous publication from the GA, so it's completely defensible there. Marvel, using the same reasoning, actually have a greater number than three when it comes to superheroes in continuous publication since the beginnings of that company.
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