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Dave may be a lovely bloke, but if someone made a film of something I'd had a hand in creating, I dare say I may not be an entirely reliable source of objective criticism - Alan Moore's vitriol is just as good an example of this as Dave Gibbons' enthusiasm.
Personally (and this is not to say that many won't enjoy the end result), I think the main problem with the film is that at no point has anything seen thus far led me to believe that irony is part of the package - exactly the opposite if the rubber costumes, slow-mo fights and action figure spin-offs are anything to go by , irony arguably being a necessary componant of any iconoclastic or deconstructionist work.
I still remember laughing at the 'Rob Liefeld's Watchmen 2' comic cover mock-up, because, like everyone else laughing at it, I believed that no-one could possibly possess such a lack of self-awareness.
Lesson learned, I suppose.

Ronnie Drew: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=tHDX9qb2-BQ

'The odious kevin Smith' certainly made me think I was going to read a fair and balanced opinion, but I sure learned my lesson!
I don't have any problem with Kevin Smith.  I've watched most of his films (never seen Jersey Girl for some reason) and enjoyed even the supposedly shite ones like Jay and Silent Bob Strike back and Mallrats, but I feel that, like a lot of online criticism, some of the negative opinion is driven by the feeling that the critic can do better themselves.  "Let's see you do better" isn't really much of a rebuttal, I know, but it's the feeling I get more often than not.

If nothing else, Smith deserves kudos for taking time in one of his self-indulgent 'Evening With' Q and A DVDs to point out what a hateful, spiteful and talentless trio of journalistic nonentities the 3AM Girls are for sticking the boot into the 8 year-old star of Jersey Girl for no reason, then going further to point out that he heard 'from sources close to the girls' that they were all practicing prostitutes whose mothers would perform fellatio for one Euro: "not a pound, mark you - a Euro."
If it's from sources close to the girls, then it must be true.

D'OH!  Forgot to enter this month!

1 - Bolt-01, and I hope to see the full strip in Zarjaz very soon - if not, why not?
2 - Mini-Bolt
3 - Buttonman 2

Onorabul mensh 2:  Baaticus.

The first series of Heroes was so good, I hear Zack Snyder is ripping off the plot for his new movie.

From elsewhere, it looks like this is a retread of the future-visiting episodes, with the future-cast on a quest to undo traumatic events - or 'pushing the reset button' as has been more briefly observed by others.
Personally, I'm flummoxed why last season was so poor - Lost packed incident into its more lean WGA-afflicted season and was all the better for it, while Heroes was just plain flabby and stretched.  Maybe they've run out of things to 'homage'?

Still very entertaining, but I notice Watership Down - which you enjoyed - gets 16, while Wanted: Dead Or Alive - which you were less than keen on - gets 12.  Virtually a hair's bredth between them!

Depressingly, I have immediate access to 6 of the films on the list.

I thought it was one of the better of the recent crop of one-offs, and my post history can attest that I'm quite a picky bugger.
Not sure what Jim's objections are to the dialogue, but if you want to get him onside for your next story, make sure the artist draws the main character as much like Hulk Hogan as possible.  If the character could at some point hit someone with a steel chair, that'd be pure gravy.

I'll see your IMDB 250 Best Movies Of All Time and Stuff Beginning With W and raise you my own quest beginning tonight:  The IMDB bottom 100 Movies.  Little point in reviewing them, what with them being hacked to pieces by many hundreds of people already, but it'll keep me off the streets - I've at least one Yu-gi-oh movie to look forward to, so it won't be all bad!

Did you like it?

Congratulations to both of you!

On girl and boy children and how they mix, may I be the first to point out that in around six years the family interplay will become a lot more eventful.

There's a new Batman cartoon in the offering, seemingly made to order for Dark Knight's more vocal critics: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=kSHgprqA4qc
I reckon it looks all kinds of awsome, not least because it stars the post-brain-splattering Blue Beetle, who I'm probably alone in liking.  Bit odd that it's so quick off the back of The Batman (which only finished a few months ago), as that came out so soon after the 1990s Batman was still knocking around in Justice league Unlimited that it got a royal slagging for being comparatively poor - although it was a great bit of superhero cartoonism on its own terms.
The retro stylings of Brave and the Bold are a welcome change of pace, Batman fights a gorilla, kevin Conroy is back on voice duties, and by God I hope they keep that music!

Looking forward to this.

And War Games: Dead Code - I don't see why I should have to be the only one to sit through that.

To help you out, off the top of my head there's:
Westworld
Waterworld
When The Wind Blows
Walking Tall (the Rock's in this!)
Without a Clue
Wicker Man (original)
Wicker Man (remake)
The Whole Nine Yards
The Whole Ten Yards (yes, a sequel!)
Who's Your Daddy
Who's That Girl
Welcome To Mooseport
Way Of The Dragon
A Walk To Remember
What A Girl Wants
White Men Can't Jump
War Of The Worlds (George Pal)
War Of The Worlds (Spielberg)
Walk The Line
The Wedding Crashers
Wag The Dog
The Wedding Singer
We Were Soldiers
the Watcher In The Woods
Whale Rider
Wuthering Heights
The Woodsman
White Noise
Wild Things
Wild Wild West
Willow
The Wind That Shakes The Barley
What Dreams May Come
Wishmaster
Wishmaster 2
Wishmaster 3
Wolf Creek
What Women Want
What lies Beneath

And at a push, Punisher: War Zone, with him off Rome, now stretching his range from a violent unrepentant psychopath that kills without remorse or a change in his facial expression, to playing the Punisher.

The remake is for that guy.

You did kill him and tie the corpse to the sign over the entrance to your local multiplex, didn't you?

Cheers!

Jim

No, because that's short-sighted thinking.  When my descendants are sitting on top of the social order thanks to their superior knowledge of how to do stuff like turn on a computer and spell the word 'text' using the letter 'e', they'll need his descendants to wash the solar-powered cars and build kitchen extensions.
He knows his place, this lad - he watches E4.