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being bagged?

Well, looks like Jeff Bridges is back as Kevin Flynn and Clu but is Bruce Boxleitner as Tron (and Alan Bradley)?

I saw this and for the most part liked it. [spoiler]The Batman's cape/glider thing was used really, really well in this film and had a realistic feel to it. The film had a very grim feel to it which was excellent and the casting and performances where also brilliant. And not too much obvious CGI.[/spoiler]

However, whilst Heath Ledgers take on the Joker was creepy and I liked how he gave the Joker a [spoiler]'nerdy' feel the portrayal just didn't have enough JOKER in it. The whole set up with "I am going to make this pencil disappear" was brilliant but not followed through. The Joker was just too sane for my blood.[/spoiler] But then my idea of the Joker is strongly influenced by "The Killing Joke"

And the whole [spoiler]"is it my scares?" thing was not done well. All in all good effort but not a credible Joker. The whole performance needed a lot more laughing to be any good.

The real star was Harvey Dent which was done in exactly the right way and I am sad that he didn't survive.[/spoiler]

over all a 6/10 or Two Stars out of Five

 

Mrs [insert Male Board member name here]: "What the hell are those"

Mr [insert Male Board member name here]: "Set Lawgiver to Rapid Fire!"

Mrs [insert Male Board member name here]: "Overly quick single fire then sleepy time, more like"

Sorry, sorry couldnt resist  :twisted:  

I'm enjoying 2000ad at the moment. It's living up to my expectations of what 2000ad ought to be. I thought it went through a very bad patch a while ago (culminating in the crumb of comfort that was the return of Indigo Prime); and I consider the lineup of The Vort, Defoe and Nikolai Dante to be a winner.

I can't say I welcomed the shift in focus in Nikolai Dante from Minutemen to White Army, but the parody superheroes were good while they lasted.

Defoe is consistently entertaining daft fun, but I wish Pat Mills would stop trying to dazzle us with quirkitude and just get on with telling a proper story.

The Vort was nice enough as a stand-alone story. I was never sure why I should care who lived, who died, what happened, or if the entire planet got vaporised or imploded; so it's of little consequence to my enjoyment of it that it turned out to be a reintroduction of an old character who wasn't particularly in dire straits last time we saw him, if my imperfect memory serves me adequately. I agree with commentators who have said the sobre tone of The Vort is inconsistent with what we're used to from this character and his world.

One minor science-related niggle I have with The Vort concerns the electromagnetic radiation the characters kept talking about. What was it exactly? X-rays? Gamma rays? It was never properly explained. All we know about it is it disrupts electronic equipment, it makes people black out if they get too excited, but they don't need special shielding against any other pathological effects it may have unless they're using some sort of salve like factor 25 sunblock, and, finally, it doesn't damage photographic film.

Well? Has anyone studied enough physics they could hazard a suggestion as to exactly what brand of electromagnetic radiation we're talking about here?

Well DeFoe is daft at any rate. But then again you may have hit upon why I dislike it so much "dazzle us with quirkitude" "just get on with telling a proper story." maybe that is hitting the nail on the head.

The the electromagnetic radiation is probably [spoiler]those weird parasite jobbies sticking in thier heads as seen in the photos rather then actual electromagnetic radiation but as no tech works the "experts" probably took a wild guess and got it wrong. Still weird parasite jobbies sticking in thier heads was a far more interesting direction then Lobster Bloody Random[/spoiler]

What? No Synnamon? Somebody's been cooking the books!

Anyway, Cass and Halo go through to the final.

- Trout

And maybe after Anderson and Jones have been slipping and sliding over each other in a fan boys dream idea of a fight (see above paddling pool/baby oil idea) Synnamon can suddenly appear with a bucket of honey, a hair brush and that certain glint in her eye of a love that dear not mention that Oranges may not be the only fruit available.

Kleenex anyone?

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would you be happier if Crispy ended up being Rogue Trooper? Or Torquemeda? quote]

TBH I would have preferred it to not an issue who he was or that he was some other that an established Tooth Character maybe it could have been that he was the person who discovered the Vort and originally was trying to stop the war. Something in keeping with the Vort itself. This is the 3rd big revel of an established Tooth Character in 2 years [spoiler](Sinister from Sinister & Dexter and Indigo Prime being the others) and only one of those revels what any good. (Dead Eyes).[/spoiler]

But it has been like watching Lost and then finding out it was all Pam Ewing's dream. Or perhaps on reflection it has been a lost opportunity.

[spoiler]Imagine it not been Lobster Random but instead it had been Blackhawk?[/spoiler] Now that IS a good idea and would have given the Vort a lot more credibility in my eyes.

Better that then a man who [spoiler]had a robot with the personality of Kenneth Williams as a life partner and whose last major enemy was a man with a T-Rex grafted to his head[/spoiler] (Oh FFS! You can't tell me that was not the worse idea ever. Even Big Dave had better stuff in it then that). But as I have said if it all takes a direction more in keeping with the Vort then I will rethink my opinion.

And if you're discussing any plot in detail even if it's to do with M.A.C.H. 1 from early Tooth you should always have the attitude that some one may not have read it. As most of the boared are old and set in thier ways and dont like spoilers of any type.  

Ouch. Tell it like it is, Tweak.

Don't get me wrong. I am not opposed to the kind of twist that the Vort ended with. I very much enjoyed the whole of Dead Eyes and was not only knocked for six with the revel was that [spoiler]it's not only a reality breakdown but also and Indigo Prime recruitment drive[/spoiler]but also got me excited that there may be more [spoiler]Indigo Prime[/spoiler]in the works.

For the most part I do have to say that the Vort was excellent. The first 7 episodes where brilliantly excited. Both art and writing. It's just like Tiplodocus said the writing style was more sinister with some dark humour then the [spoiler]'slapstick' humour of Lobster Random which I have to say is more miss than hit when applied to Sci-Fi/Fantasy stuff. Time Flies, Big Dave, The Balls Bros. and Lobster Random all have failed to impress me where as strips like Bradley, Hap Hazzard, The Sooner or Later strips and Hooligans Haircut where all spot on. Possibly because Big Dave and such where a poor imitation of things like Milk & Cheese and try and be funny by straining to be seen as being 'risky' (Oh come ON! Camp robot? Pah-leeeze!) . Still if Lobster Random is going to be more like the Vort and take on a more serous gritty style with out the attempts at humour a 12 year old could do better then I will happily re-evaluate my position.[/spoiler] Hopes however, are not high as from the last frame of the Vort should have been this

Cass Anderson

Halo Jones

No reasons this time, I think the choices are pretty self-evident.

see my submission above  :twisted:  :twisted:

Anderson

Jones

... in a large paddling pool full of baby oil.

 

I cannot express how utterly disappointed I was by the "twist" at the end of the Vort. It was like finding out that The Dead Man was in fact Dash Decent. The whole series is utterly ruined. The only thing I am please about is that [spoiler]Carl Critchlow.[/spoiler] had got some paid work. Even if it is on a series I utterly despise. Almost and much as I hate Big Dave.
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as for the rest of the prog, the only thing that is going to get me buying it at the moment is Dante and Dredd.

Sinister & Dexter is slow and boring and has been so for a long time. and try as I might I am never able to get more then two or three frames in to each episode before I pass out from lack of Trill Power.

DeFoe is continuing to be utter drivel. How Mills can continue to write this awful thing after such an excellent return to form with Savage is beyond me. I tried to give this second series a chance, I really did but this with part eight I have had enough and will not be giving this any more attention.

This prog was so disappointing I almost feel like asking for £1.14 back as 3/5 of it was not worth paying for. Which after a pretty good 6 months is sad. Oh well.

Due to the whole domain name fiasco...

Oh yeah. about that. WTF??

//http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7519689.stm

 

[GALEN DEMARCO VS PURITY BROWN]

GALEN DEMARCO VS PURITY BROWN
DeMarco wins

JENA MAKAROV VS HALO JONES
Jones wins

VENUS BLUEGENES VS CASSANDRA ANDERSON
Anderson wins

SYNNAMON VS HILDA MARGARET MCGRUDER
Synammon wins  

 

TMO

Judge Joseph Dredd

Judge Rico

Dmitri Romanov

Nikolai Dante

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