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That's not a problem, but part of the discussion that appears to have been edited was about the comic book, which is over 20 years old; do we have to put a spoiler tag on *everything* no matter how old it is? Or is it simply because the movie is only six months old (I notice several older film discussions - including the end to the original Poseidon Adventure haven't been edited)? Again if that's how things operate here, that's fine and I'll try to [ spoiler ] all recent film discussion, but almost every board I've ever been to has a statute of limitations on such things which has usually only been a few months after a movies release (but I can understand tightening this up since these forums only have one movie discussion thread and spoilers are harder to avoid).

Poking around a bit, it looks like Jackson is producing the film, but not directing it. Which I hadn't heard.

No they did originally say he was making the Hobbit with them. And then Jackson said it was the first he'd heard of it. Which then I think turned to a "clarification" from MGM. MGM owns the distribution rights to the Hobbit while New Line owns the rights to make the film, which means no film will be made before MGM and New Line agree to it, which will have to happen before Jackson hopes to get involved, if he wants to do it. Blue - the Dambusters story was proven false, AFAIK; Jackson's not remaking it. The Lovely Bones he's doing on spec (he wants to have a script done before presenting it to a studio to be made) which word is he'll do with Temeraire as well. Halo afaik he's only producing.

Peter Jackson seems to have optioned Naomi Novik's Temeraire novel(s) (aka His Majesty's Dragon) Yahoo's news report Haven't read the novel myself but it sounds interesting. This would theoretically be Jackson's movie after The Lovely Bones. Which puts more wonder to MGM's announcement Jackson was making The Hobbit with them...

I really like both "12 Monkeys" and "City of Lost Children"...at the moment I'm blanking on really good dystopian films... :"> (12 Monkeys is more post-apocalyptic to me anyhow, but I'm not sure genre matters too much).

Perhaps its not as downbeat as, say, the original end to Brazil; I was merely pointing out the irony of calling something a "comic book" ending when the comic ended differently.

An amusing assertation since they changed the ending of the movie version of V for Vendetta rather drastically from the ending of the comic book... :("

Its still going; its called the "Vs" system from Upper Deck. They have both Marvel and DC lines (and I believe they're adding Hellboy early next year).

Sorry, both Doc Savage and Superman have "Fortress of Solitude"s built out of Ice in the artic...first thing I thought of... :">

A real "Fortress of Solitude"?

Watched The Call of Cthulhu a independent adaption of the H.P. Lovecraft story; one of its main conceits is to try and present it as a movie of the time (so its a silent film made in a "German Expressionist" mode). It looks good and has a couple of effective bits, but there are some things that happen in it - possibly due to budget - that hamper its ability to build the kind of malicious dread that exists in most Lovecraft stories. Still its an interesting attempt to do a different kind of Lovecraft adaption and I admire the creative forces behind the film for that.

The Watchtower in the Justice League cartoon was a satalite (not unlike the one the JLA used in the 1970s in the comic book). The Watchtower in the 90s comic (begining I believe with Grant Morrion's JLA) was a moonbase. It however was recently destroyed and I'm under the impression it won't be back...

I dunno, I never got used to it. And ultimately the VMU(?) mini-games weren't all that interesting either, making it seem to be a waste of space. But maybe I just didn't get the right games; I got the Dreamcast out of my love of Sega games, but it never was as good a console for me as the Saturn was.

Yeah Barcelona was fun...I played that several times through. But once you get past Barcelona - to me at least - it was like the game wasn't finished (or balanced either, but then I might just suck at action games like this too). Loved Barcelona, but to me the game needed some more time in development (I seem to remember that it was dumped without it being finished because Interplay needed the game out and wasn't going to give in on the release date anymore, so that kinda makes sense).

I quite liked the dialogue in Jade Empire; while it is a fairly straightforward game, I did think they did a good job of differentiating the characters and giving them different dialogues and stories to tell. Oddly enough, Henpecked Ho was probably my least liked character (even though he has some amusing stories) of those who join your party.

^Yeah the wire coming out the bottom of the DC controler bugged me too. I didn't hate the thing, but sometimes it was awkward to use.

Saw Hollywoodland. By splitting the story between George Reeves and the fictional detective they don't really do justice to either story. They also really gloss over the real Reeves, IMO, and don't do a good job of portraying all of the potential angles (they skip over one of the most popular theories, that it was an accidental shooting caused by a drunken Reeves playing with his gun) plus they hammer the (untrue) angle that he was typecast, out of work and despondant. Overall a dissapointment.

I never got a chance to play Powerstone 2, but I loved Powerstone.

While I love my Dreamcast and it has some pretty sweet games on it, I actually liked the Saturn as a system better. But the Dreamcast was pretty cool. Pity it failed big-time.

I got FO:BoS for cheap some time ago; I wanted to see whether it lived up to the (negative) hype or not. And I do like "Gauntlet" style games having liked the last Guantlet series (prior to Seven Sorrows) and Hunter: The Reckoning and so forth. But to be completely honest FO:BoS didn't work for me; it felt like it was slapped together - either the production didn't have the time they needed or the project was hopelessly compromised from the begining but I found it very difficult to play through; I stuck it out just to say I'd done it and promptly sold the game back to the store.

^There was no 60s Wolvie...

I can't say I'm surprised; while I liked parts of 3e I'd slowly stopped getting the products as I got to a point where I'd grown to feel that they were really obviously milking the product and I also began to feel that 4e was definately a great likelyhood of coming to fruition. I'm spending my RPG $$ elsewhere these days, either tracking down 2e stuff I want, or looking to other RPG systems entirely.

Howdy and stuff. I'm trying to post here more often myself.

Hey gfted1, so this is where you got to eh? Good to see you too. Lets see I saw the direct to DVD movie Seven Mummies a couple of weeks back. It sucks, but its the best kung-fu Jesuit priest mummies film you'll probably ever see.

IIRC, they originally planed on Gambit being revealed as the third brother...but yeah I think the idea of a third brother conceptually has been kicking around since the early 90s.