On Oct 15, 2014, bishthemagish wrote:
Well Dc may not be making good movies. But I think The TV work that they have done with Young Justice, Batman, Superman, The Justice League, Batman Beyond and Justice League Unlimited have been very good. Much better than the old Batman Superman hour. The Batman Aquaman Hour and Super friends that was the kind of junk that was on TV on Saturday Mourning.

I did not like most of the Superman movies but I did like Superman Two. I did not like any of the Batman Movies except the one Starring Adam West. I also loved the Adam West Batman TV show. It hit the TV when I was in Third grade.

The only Superman that got it right was the old Adventures of Superman Starring George Reeves. The thing about it was that Superman was not on the screen for very long. The stories were mostly about Clark and his friend reporters. Superman would often show up at the end just in the nick of time. Clark Kent had to be written and acted so it was interesting and entertaining to the audience. When Superman showed up that he was in costume and there was automatic interest, action and entertainment.

Ty Power did this in the Mark Of Zorro. And this was done not long ago in the three Iron Man Movies where Tony Stark was very interesting and fun and entertaining to watch.

DC's thing is that they seem to push the big three all the time (Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman) ahead of all the other super hero's in the Justice League. Where Marvel has let many super hero's become popular like Spider man and the X Men.

Marvels movies seem to have a lot of people that were fans of Marvel on staff. On one of my DVDs in the extras one of the people that was doing the First Captain America movie. He said something like that they had a staff of people that worked for Marvel and they have their choice of ideas from the Marvel stories that are in the comic books for inspiration.

However the movie people that do the DC movies seem to want to re-write all the hero's and do some epic thing. And reinvent. That Batman VS Bane was in my opinion was one of the worst super hero movies I have ever seen. They totally missed who Batman was. Having Batman/Bruce lose all his Billions. Needing help from Catwoman to find Bane. And that junk with that guy they called Robin. And having Bruce end up turning his home into a children's home. And staying dead missed the boat big time. Batman is "driven" to clean up crime and used to be written that way. More than any other hero in DC. So for him to lose all his money - fake his death at the end and then pass the Bat cave onto that Robin - was in my opinion one of the many many bad writing and directing choices that were in all the Batman movies.

I saw the Batman VS Bane twice. It dragged on and on. And I have no interest in getting any of the DVDs.

I saw the Avengers 12 times and I have a copy of the DVD.

On Oct 7, 2014, Orville_Smith wrote:
There was a one-hour tv-documentary about Batman that made the point the Bat is NOT even a superhero since he does not have any superpowers at all. So to call him a superhero might be a misnomer. All he is, is just a detective who wears a fancy costume. If not for his costume, he would not even be in the comic books.

On the other hand, Superman is a superhero because he has superpowers. But like the other hero, The Spectre, he is too powerful, so that omnipotence might leave many fans cold and make the character boring.

When all is said and done, Batman has No superpowers, and Superman is too powerful, therefore many fans prefer the FLASH because he's "middle of the road."

On Oct 18, 2014, bishthemagish wrote:
The Green Hornet was a radio show like the Shadow and the Lone Ranger. He was also featured in pulp magazines was invented by George W. Trendle. Who also invented the Lone Ranger. I am a big Green Hornet fan and have been a fan for many years.

I have 2 posters of the Green Hornet one Signed by Van Williams.

Britt Reid the grand nephew of Dan Reid who rode with the Lone Ranger. Interesting enough the TV Lone Ranger series had Dan Reid in a few of the shows that were produced long before the Green Hornet TV show.

Yes the Batman series was campy - but entertaining. I think the Batman Movies were not campy - however for me they had little entertainment value - and the writing and direction choices were bad choices that any serious Batman fan would most likely dislike as they did not seem to know who the Dark Knight was. And why he was driven to clean up crime.

The movies also did not feature Batman started in Detective Comics #27. And is often called Detective by some of his foe's. In the comic book and on the Warnerbrothers series that I mentioned above. Besides needing catwoman to find bane - Batman plans and is prepared for his foe's. These are just a few things I feel that they missed the boat in in the movies of batman.

Cheers!

On Oct 15, 2014, landmark wrote:
2020?! I don't think I can extend my adolescence much longer!

On Oct 19, 2014, Steve_Mollett wrote:
What pulp titles featured Green Hornet stories?

On Oct 23, 2014, Donald Dunphy wrote:
This was released yesterday, and already has more than 19M views on Youtube. I don't know if it's been posted on another thread yet, but I didn't see it on this one, where we are discussing Marvel.

Teaser trailer for Marvel's "Avengers: Age of Ultron":



- Donald

On Oct 25, 2014, Cliffg37 wrote:
I loved the old Doc Savage stories, but I thought the 70's Ron Ely movie royally sucked. It failed to capture the flavor of what Doc and his allies really were.

On Oct 25, 2014, Cliffg37 wrote:
I loved the old Doc Savage stories, but I thought the 70's Ron Ely movie royally sucked. It failed to capture the flavor of what Doc and his allies really were.