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by EricJ
September 3rd, 2014, 7:06 pm
Forum: Outside the Lines
Topic: Best superhero actor?
Replies: 24
Views: 16487

Re: Best superhero actor?

I should clarify that I'm okay with the Howard Hughes swap, now .. it's just that, at the time the movie was released, it struck my younger, less-tolerant self as 'wrong' .. especially considering that so many other details from the comic -- the GeeBee, Bulldog Cafe, Lothar, etc -- were incredibly ...
by EricJ
September 3rd, 2014, 6:58 pm
Forum: Off the Shelf
Topic: comic strips discussion
Replies: 15
Views: 34407

Re: comic strips discussion

droosan wrote:Just a note that the first Heavenly Nostrils book collection -- Phoebe and Her Unicorn -- was published this week by Andrews McMeel .. and is available in bookstores, Amazon, etc..!
So, it's like Calvin & Hobbes for Brony-girls, then? :P

(Seriously, looks cute, but....)
by EricJ
September 2nd, 2014, 1:14 pm
Forum: Outside the Lines
Topic: Best superhero actor?
Replies: 24
Views: 16487

Re: Best superhero actor?

There *is* action in the movie, but it's drowned by the songs: for instance, the big montage in the middle of the movie is almost crushed by Madonna's slow and sultry Sooner Or Later playing over the top of it. This moment needed a big Danny Elfman score riffing over it, In the trailers and ads, we...
by EricJ
September 2nd, 2014, 12:40 am
Forum: Outside the Lines
Topic: EW best/worst songs list
Replies: 5
Views: 4681

Re: EW best/worst songs list

Yeah, didn't mean to trash it or anything...I'm actually a huge Titanic fan (and I love the soundtrack) just never cared much for that song. But I just don't understand them bashing COTW...Pocahontas had a great, great soundtrack and score even if the film had its flaws. COTW is the most beautiful ...
by EricJ
September 1st, 2014, 6:30 pm
Forum: Outside the Lines
Topic: Best superhero actor?
Replies: 24
Views: 16487

Re: Best superhero actor?

As I think I've stated before elsewhere on this forum, I was actually not fond of The Rocketeer upon its 1991 release. The movie made several changes to the comic-book's narrative which my 'twenty-something' self found unforgivable; not least, swapping-out Doc Savage for Howard Hughes as the invent...
by EricJ
August 28th, 2014, 8:33 pm
Forum: Outside the Lines
Topic: YouTube Goodness
Replies: 1030
Views: 512567

Re: YouTube Goodness

droosan wrote:An adorable ghost girl encounters a pair of shoes haunted by Gene Kelly and Danny Kaye. :)
That soooo cute! :mrgreen: (But it was Gene Kelly and Donald O'Connor...Kaye worked for Paramount.)
by EricJ
August 22nd, 2014, 9:19 pm
Forum: Outside the Lines
Topic: New Scooby Doo movie defines being size 8 as a "curse"
Replies: 15
Views: 12444

Re: New Scooby Doo movie defines being size 8 as a "curse"

Of course, she looks waaaaaay bigger than a "size 8" in those pictures. If the movie actually describes her as a "size 8" when she is heavy, they are way off. THAT I'll hold them accountable for. We don't need weight portrayed as a "curse" on a children's cartoon show even if it does supposedly "mo...
by EricJ
August 21st, 2014, 5:29 pm
Forum: Outside the Lines
Topic: New Scooby Doo movie defines being size 8 as a "curse"
Replies: 15
Views: 12444

Re: New Scooby Doo movie defines being size 8 as a "curse"

I'm sure there are many little girls who look up to Daphne. They're too young to understand "satire" or "exaggeration." If she was in her trademark purple, maybe. But here, they're dressing native in Frankenstein-Bavarian, and she's in a Frau Blucher dress, no less. I'd call that exaggeration, and ...
by EricJ
August 21st, 2014, 3:34 pm
Forum: At the Movies
Topic: DC Universe
Replies: 1686
Views: 812355

Re: Man of Steel (2013)

Never before seen footage, photos, and trivia from the abandoned project Superman Lives: http://moviepilot.com/posts/2014/08/20/watch-new-footage-from-the-weirdest-superman-movie-ever-2208019?lt_source=external,manual,manual,manual#bHAGLX Some of the trivia has already been told, some not. There wa...
by EricJ
August 21st, 2014, 3:23 pm
Forum: Outside the Lines
Topic: New Scooby Doo movie defines being size 8 as a "curse"
Replies: 15
Views: 12444

Re: New Scooby Doo movie defines being size 8 as a "curse"

http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/5694539?ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000046 Ugh! What kind of message is this sending to kids?? Probably the one that Warner said they were: They were ALL "cursed", this was but one example. Taken out, dried, and held up on a stick in public completely out of context in front ...
by EricJ
August 20th, 2014, 12:46 am
Forum: Outside the Lines
Topic: YouTube Goodness
Replies: 1030
Views: 512567

Re: YouTube Goodness

From the front page: Michael Bay's Up So funny, very well done. Almost as much fun as Incredibles recut! :) :) Michael Bay, and all they could joke about was explosions and action adrenaline?? My first thought was, "Okay, what wacky ethnic comedy-relief stereotype will Russell turn out to be? :roll...
by EricJ
August 19th, 2014, 6:25 am
Forum: At the Movies
Topic: Official Star Wars Thread
Replies: 1273
Views: 648302

Re: Official Star Wars Thread

Come on now ... nobody could miss the new Admiral Ackbar song and dance number in the middle of the Hoth battle sequence ... all together now: "I'm singing in the snow, Just singing in the snow. What a glorious feeling, I'm happy again. ...". ;) (Would be worth ruining the corny third-rate joke to ...
by EricJ
August 19th, 2014, 12:37 am
Forum: At the Movies
Topic: Official Star Wars Thread
Replies: 1273
Views: 648302

Re: Official Star Wars Thread

Not really. It's only a few extreme-hard-core "original Original Trilogy only" fans who are that bothered about it. Everyone else already has one, if not multiple, versions of the movies anyway And of those, most only want the original Ep. IV, could take or leave the original Ep. VI, and don't even...
by EricJ
August 15th, 2014, 7:51 pm
Forum: At the Movies
Topic: Betty Boop: The Movie
Replies: 20
Views: 10340

Re: Betty Boop: The Movie

Because, after all, if there's one thing that's all the rage with kids these days, it's Betty Boop. I'm a little baffled by this one, really. Like Mighty Mouse, she's one of those characters that everyone sees , in iconic marketing, but nobody really knows about, and gets producers and licensors to...
by EricJ
August 14th, 2014, 3:55 pm
Forum: At the Movies
Topic: Betty Boop: The Movie
Replies: 20
Views: 10340

Re: Betty Boop: The Movie

And slightly better than that pop-resurrection movie we got in the 80's, that seemed to have barely heard of the character either.