Favorite Superhero Movie of Summer 2012? (don't vote till you've seen em all please)

[devilof76]

Talk about "standard evasions."

You know damn well that I know that Batman is a comicbook character.

How about you dig a little deeper than "Batman from comic, movie about Batman, movie comicbook movie"?

 

[intothevoid]

OK, categorize them according to the amount of color and humor and see how they stack up.

They're not comedies, that is for sure, so that's not really a valid categorization IMO

The only two buckets we're talking about really is whether to put them both in the 'comic book movie' bucket, or whether TDKR fits in some other bucket.

 

[devilof76]

If anything, it feels more like a novel turned into a film.

 

[Darth Cruel]

This thread has been so entertaining to read that I completely forgot to go watch Spider-Man or Batman.


Now I'll never be able to vote on the subject.

 

[tomandshell]

If anything, it feels more like a novel turned into a film.

A novel where two guys in costumes, masks and funny voices get into a fight in an underground lair.

 

[devilof76]

You're getting hung up on the perceptual level. The Batman movies weren't about Batman, Bane, Catwoman, Joker, Two-Face, Scarecrow or Ra's Al Ghul.

 

[intothevoid]

You're getting hung up on the perceptual level. The Batman movies weren't about Batman, Bane, Catwoman, Joker, Two-Face, Scarecrow or Ra's Al Ghul.

Yeah, they're films about ideas at their core. That is the difference between the Nolan films and the other 'comic book films'.

 

[devilof76]

I heard that Nolan said that the themes of the films were fear, chaos, and pain, respectively.

I don't have a source, unfortunately. I don't follow interviews.

 

[thenammagazine]

You know damn well that I know that Batman is a comicbook character.

How about you dig a little deeper than "Batman from comic, movie about Batman, movie comicbook movie"?

Really? Because I think excusing Nolan's films as not being "comic book" movies is equally insulting. If you'd followed Batman in the past several decades, you'd know the storylines aren't the "happy-go-lucky" prejudice you're trying to apply to Avengers (which ironically applies more to Superman than any Marvel books). Whether you like it or not, Nolan's films ARE comic book movies. They're about comic book characters and reflect many of the story elements and plot points from the comics. I suspect you already know this but are continually playing ostrich to avoid having to admit any error.

 

[wofford29]

The Avengrears might be worse than the Nolancompoops.

 

[devilof76]

Nam.

I didn't deride Avengers.

 

[thenammagazine]

Nam.

I didn't deride Avengers.

After that "selfless vs. selfish" BS in the other thread, I'm not falling for it anymore. I don't come here for intellectual stimulation - thought that was obvious enough.

 

[devilof76]

I'm so misunderstood.

 

[thenammagazine]

I'm so misunderstood.

I still love ya!

 

[The Josh]

The Avengrears might be worse than the Nolancompoops.

I'm sure some are. As a whole I'm more likely to compare Nolanites as a whole to the twitards than anything. Not all mind you but the group as a whole.



Side note: Twilight actually came to comic-con while the avengers and Nolan's batman films did not. Thats messed up.

 

[thenammagazine]

I'm sure some are. As a whole I'm more likely to compare Nolanites as a whole to the twitards than anything. Not all mind you but the group as a whole.

I wouldn't even go that far.

 

[The Josh]

To be fair I didn't say all of them were.

 

[intothevoid]

That is so off the mark im speechless

 

[thenammagazine]

That is so off the mark im speechless

i.e. "You got me, you bastard!"

 

[intothevoid]

If anything us Nolanites are closer to the Tolkien crowd, that means you josh

The twitards are a phenomenon onto themselves