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

[The Josh]

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

The twitards are a phenomenon onto themselves

You have my attention now. How are they closer to Tolkien fans?

 

[CelticPredator]

Aren't you guys crazy, and worship Heath Ledger?

 

[intothevoid]

For one:
Twitards are basically mostly teenage girls.

Nolanites vary in age and gender, and can actually backup their fandom with substance, thought out arguments and logical debate. While i'm not very familiar with the goings ons in the Tolkien threads/forums/websites, from the few LOTR geeks I know, these trait seems to be similar.

Also while I could care less about others opinions of stuff that I love, Nolanites and Tolkien folk (as far as the LOTR films are concerned) have critically acclaimed films to backup their stance. I don't think any of the Twilight films will make any list of 100 greatest films of all time.

 

[a-dev]

The twitards are a phenomenon onto themselves

I just can't believe K-Stew cheated on R-Patz!

 

[CelticPredator]

For one:
Twitards are basically mostly teenage girls.

Nolanites vary in age and gender, and can actually backup their fandom with substance, thought out arguments and logical debate. While i'm not very familiar with the goings ons in the Tolkien threads/forums/websites, from the few LOTR geeks I know, these trait seems to be similar.

Also while I could care less about others opinions of stuff that I love, Nolanites and Tolkien folk (as far as the LOTR films are concerned) have critically acclaimed films to backup their stance. I don't think any of the Twilight films will make any list of 100 greatest films of all time.

Eh...there are exceptions...but for the most part, anything bad said by TDK Trilogy (That's not in the vain of a stupid nitpick) is usually followed by


"SHUT THE ____ UP YOU STOOPID IDIOT! U SO STUPID! DIE NOW PLEASE. DIE AND STOP BEING STOOPID"


But this was on SHH. So.

 

[The Josh]

For one:
Twitards are basically mostly teenage girls.

Nolanites vary in age and gender, and can actually backup their fandom with substance, thought out arguments and logical debate. While i'm not very familiar with the goings ons in the Tolkien threads/forums/websites, from the few LOTR geeks I know, these trait seems to be similar.

Also while I could care less about others opinions of stuff that I love, Nolanites and Tolkien folk (as far as the LOTR films are concerned) have critically acclaimed films to backup their stance. I don't think any of the Twilight films will make any list of 100 greatest films of all time.

Fair enough

 

[thenammagazine]

For one:
Nolancompoops are at heart mostly teenage girls.

 

[intothevoid]

I just can't believe K-Stew cheated on R-Patz!

Eh...there are exceptions...but for the most part, anything bad said by TDK Trilogy (That's not in the vain of a stupid nitpick) is usually followed by


"SHUT THE ____ UP YOU STOOPID IDIOT! U SO STUPID! DIE NOW PLEASE. DIE AND STOP BEING STOOPID"


But this was on SHH. So.

Since when is SHH representative of absolutely anything?

Fair enough

....

Namcat said something?

 

[thenammagazine]

Namcat said something?

Take.... THAT!

 

[ExMem-LarjaThwei]

I'd say the "Nolanites" are far more arrogant and dramatically defensive than LotR fans...

 

[thenammagazine]

I'd say the "Nolanites" are far more arrogant and dramatically defensive than LotR fans...

Which would make them more in tune with Twilight fans.

 

[K07]

Batman is a comic book character, so Nolan's Batman films are comic book movies. Watchmen, 300, A History of Violence, From Hell and Road to Perdition are other comic book movies. A comic book movie can be long, dark, serious and adult oriented, depending upon the source material. Not all comic material is intended for kids, and therefore not all movies adapted from comic books are going to be appropriate for children. That doesn't mean they aren't comic book adaptations.

Well said

You're not going to crack the shell of their walled-up mentality on that. They have to segregate Nolan's films to justify them to themselves. It's pretty sad.

I'd consider myself a Nolanite and I think they're comic book movies. I understand what people are getting at in the tone/structure is so different from previous comic book films so these can't be clumped into that category. But films shouldn't be clumped into just one category. They can fit into multiple genres. And Nolan's films do that since we're all having this argument. Kinda like what void mentioned about the buckets above I guess.

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

Which is a better series? The '60s Batman series or B:TAS? Just because the former has more color and humor than the latter, it doesn't make it a better show. It's only an opinion that B:TAS is the better show despite taking itself much more seriously and having darker themes, but I think it's one MOST fans of the character would hold. Perhaps Nolan fans just want deeper films than the Marvel movies offer?

 

[Viking Spawn]

This thread is very interesting. I'll just sit back and grab some popcorn.

 

[thenammagazine]

I'd consider myself a Nolanite and I think they're comic book movies. I understand what people are getting at in the tone/structure is so different from previous comic book films so these can't be clumped into that category. But films shouldn't be clumped into just one category. They can fit into multiple genres. And Nolan's films do that since we're all having this argument. Kinda like what void mentioned about the buckets above I guess.

The irony is that most of these trolls were touting TDK as "the best comic book movie EVARRRRRRRRRRR!" when it was released and became the phenom that it was. Now that they find it spanked by Avengers like the redheaded stepchild it is, it's suddenly, "Nolan's movies aren't comic book movies."

 

[CelticPredator]

^ I think they're comic movies...but not superhero movies.

Batman aint super!

 

[devilof76]

I thought I started the 'not a comic book movie' thing.

 

[RIDDICK]

I'd say the "Nolanites" are far more arrogant and dramatically defensive than LotR fans...

Tho there's at least three totally different group of LotR fans hatin' each other

 

[EVILFACE]

There are LOTR fans?

 

[RIDDICK]

there are for sure...

 

[Alex Logan]

It's a landmark comic book movie in and of itself. And you're wrong. Not only will it be remembered as the movie that proved Warner Brothers wrong, but it'll also be remembered and revered as the comic book movie Everest. Nobody thought it would work. It did. It's already set the gold standard and WB's running to catch up.

Avengers is far from being a landmark. When did Warner Bros. say it wouldn't work? I doubt it's going to remembered the way you think. People are quite fickle, they live in the "now". When the next "best" things comes along, Avengers will be forgotten the same way TDK has been with the masses.

The irony is that most of these trolls were touting TDK as "the best comic book movie EVARRRRRRRRRRR!" when it was released and became the phenom that it was. Now that they find it spanked by Avengers like the redheaded stepchild it is, it's suddenly, "Nolan's movies aren't comic book movies."

Spanked because it made more money? Or spanked because you think it's better? In either case you must be smoking something.