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I thought Bad Boys 1 & 2 were both great.  Will and Martin work well together and have some great dialog.  Everything is ridiculous and unrealistic but it works well.  Sometimes do you not just want to watch something that makes you laugh and doesn't have a thought provoking plot or big message to deliver?  In my opinion, they don't make enough movies like this nowadays.

Bad Boys, Bad Boys, What Ya Gonna Do, What Ya Gonna Do When They Come For You
Bad Boys, Bad Boys, What Ya Gonna Do, What Ya Gonna Do When They Come For You

The problem with Button Man is it looks like a movie but reads like a comic. The twist would be a big problem if the thing was just translated straight to screen as-is.

One thing I would like to see, though, is the escalation of the comic somehow, either by starting in the UK and broadening to the US, or having it as a close-knit thing in some US state, before realising the bigger game is everywhere.

Nah, I don't think it would be a problem.  I also want Lewis Collins (of the Professionals) to play Harry. 

An ABC Warriors movie directed by Chris Cunningham (or me) could be pretty amazing.


Dark, gritty, techno in a 'lived-in' future setting....

I can picture it now!

ABC is one that would seem to provide the basis for a great movie but unfortunately CGI robot based movies, such as Transformers, suggest that it would just end up a confusing mess.  I liked the Hammerstein in the Stallone Dredd.  OK, the thing hardly moved from the spot but it was a physical prop so it looked real.  The bit where it had Hershey by the neck, you really believed it could just snap it.  CGI just doesn't have that same 'realness' to it so I would put the ABC film on hold until the technology can deliver.

Those Marvel hardbacks are great but I never signed up because I knew with two a month it would soon become too much.  I was pleased to see them pop up in places like Forbidden Planet so I could still get the odd one.

One thing that was a bit irratating was the order - I don't mind them not releasing in strict numerical order but some of the continuity was off.  I read Thor Reborn quite early on but this is a post civil war story and the actual civil war book did not come out until much later.

I'd love to see Swimming in Blood, too, but I've a feeling that Dredd's bombing at the US box office would pale in comparison to a 'roided, gay Noël Coward stomping on vampires while complaining about the beastly brutality of it all.

Yup, it would be something wouldn't it?

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Yeah, I think there is potential for a great Strontium Dog movie.  I agree though that it would be better with the 'western' elements played down.  The other one that springs to mind is Rogue Trooper but as Steve has already mentioned, there has already been several films with similar themes - soldier being the most obvious. 

For me though, the top answer to this is the same as it was 20 years ago.  Button Man, plain and simple - that is the movie I want to see most of all.  Special mention also goes to Devlin Waugh - Swimming in Blood, which I feel would make a good movie.

TDKR, whilst enjoyable, was a bit of a mess so I was just glad when I made it to the end! 

More than this though, I don't really care if Batman kills the odd person.  Thats not to say I want to see him running around like a homicidal maniac but there have been plenty of times in the comics when he has killed.  To be honest, I was not particularly fussed by what happenned to Zod in the recent Man of Steel movie either.  I always thought it worse that Supes allowed Metropolis to suffer so much damage.

But then, I admit - I am a casual Batman/Superman fan so I don't feel outraged when they break the 'rules'.

Ahhh yes, I'd forgotten about Talia and her driver.  She was [spoiler]in the truck with the big bomb in it though wasn't she so somewhat justified?[/spoiler]

I've got to be honest though - I always saw Batman as someone who hates to take human life but will do it when necessary.  I think he used to be more like this in the past but recently he has done this less and less.

Season 1 of Heroes was pretty good - certainly made me look forward to seeing the aftermath in season 2 (only for it to go horribly wrong).  More recently - the first season of Hannibal ended on a wonderful cliffhanger.

The flip side of all this is the unresolved cliffhanger.  I hate it when a series ends on a cliffhanger only to find that it has been canned. 

It's been a while since I saw them but I don't recall batman killing anyone intentionally in the Nolan films?  Doesn't he choose not to save Ra's al Ghul in the first one and Harvey Dent was a bit of a fumble in the second.  No outright neck-breaking as I recall.

I don't think Bane was supposed to get better.

It was [spoiler]Catwoman[/spoiler] that did for him.

Yup, beat me to it Mr C!

I presume this will be a different Batman to the one seen in the Nolan trilogy. Because if [spoiler]teaching not to kill[/spoiler] is the first rule Bat's will teach Sup's, then he'll be a freaking hypocrit.

It's been a while since I saw them but I don't recall batman killing anyone intentionally in the Nolan films?  Doesn't he choose not to save Ra's al Ghul in the first one and Harvey Dent was a bit of a fumble in the second.  No outright neck-breaking as I recall.

You miss my point. Dredd has so much more that makes it a distinctive strip, particulalry the silly future sports and blacker than black humour. That is missing from this story.

This has definitely been absent of late in the Prog.  I have only returned to the fold fairly recently but there has been something missing from Dredd.  When I read the Prog first time round I used to love the odd gangs/cults/sports/tv shows and other oddities that used to get thrown in. 

I get that the city is 'on its arse' nowadays but it would be nice to have some of this back.  They seem to have kept this in the Meg - pleasure bots clearing the streets, rogue energy suppliers, unusual ways of supplying the demand for meat and the new gambling craze where they all jump off the rooftop after the boing cannister.  This is why I feel that the Meg Dredds have been more enjoyable of late.

Hmmmm, saw some adverts on TV for that Doctor Who collection.  Not something I am looking to get into but would be interested to see what they look like 'in the flesh'.  It does seem strange that these are all kicking off now, isn't this normally a January thing?

These part-work collections can be both good and bad.  I was impressed with the first Star Trek ship and although I do not want them all - at £10 a pop they are actually a good deal.  Fair enough they are not everyone's thing, but next time you are in your local Comic Shop have a look in the toy section at the Star Trek stuff there and you will see that these are not a bad deal.  Then again, there are also things like the DC chess collection that have not appealed - personally I think the quality of those figures has not been good enough.

It would be cool to have some 2000AD/Dredd part-work.  How about a detailed Lawmaster model that is built up in parts? 

If the villains are some intergalactic menace -why would Superman need Batman and if it's Earth based crooks why would Batman need Superman?

I'd imagine a superhuman would still be a major advantage against earth based crooks. Especially if Batman gets cornered somewhere and is outnumbered.

As for an intergalactic menace, superman's brawn might not be enough to defeat them.  While Supers is far from stupid, Bats has always been the one with the intellect and problem solving skills.

A good team up if they can get beyond their differences. Which is no doubt what the film will largely be about.

Yup, I've not been following the Batman comics much of late but certainly in the movies they have underplayed the 'world's greatest detective' aspect of Batman's character.  I guess it looks better in a movie to just have him hack everyones phone and then get back to racing around in the batmobile. 

This team up should be a winning combination of brains & brawn - batman is more intelligent/cunning and superman is far stronger/faster.

Well, if it was a plastic pipe then that shouldn't be a problem.  My last house was on a new estate so I know what you mean about the 10ft of builders waste covered in 1 inch of top soil that they call a garden!

You were lucky with that electric heater - for a second there I thought you meant it was wired to the cooker switch - they are 30amp minimum and would give quite a shock.  I tend to let the professionals do any electric/plumbing work in my house.