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#48287 Star Wars Episode 7 Story Speculation

Posted by Bonzailorentzon on 13 May 2013 - 03:36 PM in Sci Fi

Thing is, Disney owns more or less everything nowadays - question is if we shouldn't be more concerned about whether or not JJ. Abrams will do a good job on it! 




#40604 Iron Man 3 Trailer released!

Posted by Bonzailorentzon on 03 February 2013 - 10:46 AM in Sci Fi

By the way, is there anyone who knows why the Mandarin calls himself "The Mandarin"? Is it something having to do with his chinese heritage?



#40567 IRON MAN EXTREMIS

Posted by Bonzailorentzon on 03 February 2013 - 08:29 AM in Comics, Books, and Graphic Novels

love extremis Mr.Mcduck, and for those who don't know, they're using elements from this for the new movie, so if you can't wait, i suggest reading it as well



They are?! Damn, I was for hoping them to! There is a lot to be inspired by in this book, both regarding Starks personality and plotwise.



#40536 IRON MAN EXTREMIS

Posted by Bonzailorentzon on 03 February 2013 - 06:32 AM in Comics, Books, and Graphic Novels

Just finished reading the six issue long "Iron man - Extremis". Fantastic comic book. Anyone else that has read it and have any comments about it? If you haven't yet, I recommend it.



Basically, the story centers around a darker Tony Stark, the alcoholic that can't look himself in the mirror without wearing a mask. It also incorporates an "updated version" of the origin story. The bad guy is a person called "Mallen", whose associates have stolen a new drug called "Extremis", from a science lab in Texas. "Extremis" is a prototype enhancement drug created to improve humans, basically changing the blueprint of the brain, recreate the body and kind of make everything 2.0.

Tried not getting any spoilers in there, go read it! I myself read it in classic comic version, but I understand there is a motion comic version of it on youtube!



#39551 Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

Posted by Bonzailorentzon on 28 January 2013 - 12:56 PM in Misc. Movies and T.V.

Meh.  I like historical fiction to be historical.

But alternate histories can be cool too.



I'm on your side on that - most of the time, a story can't get better or deeper than the Real True story.

However, as a history teacher I love that this movie has been made! Didn't like it myself (got through about half of it), butI'm pretty sure that my students won't volunteerily watch, say, "Lincoln". But they Will watch "Abraham Lincolb - Vampire Hunter", and then hopefully one of them will come to me and say "was he really a vampire hunter?", and BAM - I have a perfectly good angle of approaching The American revolution, the civil war, etc. etc. :)



#39410 Heroes you actually strive to be

Posted by Bonzailorentzon on 27 January 2013 - 08:27 AM in Comics, Books, and Graphic Novels

Odysseus. I loved the man as a kid. Strong and powerful, yet he used his mind to trick his enemies. Charismatic and cunning, he was definitely a character I emulated.

I read Sherlock Holmes as a kid and decided I wanted to be like that. I started paying attention to people’s faces, their mannerisms, the way they talked. It was my first anthropological study. I have became pretty good at it, not on Holmes’ level or anything, but I can usually guess what a person is thinking, I can guess what my friends will do in a certain situation. It’s became a game of sorts, when a friend wants to gossip about someone, I’ll make a prediction. About 7 out of 10 times I’m correct. (See the Kant quote in my sig)



The thing about Holmes, as with so many other heroes in different ways, is his incapability of having a "normal" life. Apart from say Spidey, who has to protect those he loves, Sherlock doesn't want a life different from the one he has, or be something else than what he is. But there is a very dark side to Sherlock, that I found when reading him almost endlessly for about a year. When you read him you begin to act like him, develop amateur versions of his capabilities which is Awesome because it can actually be done! But I found that it's easy to also begin feeling a bit like him, question social capabilities and need for "superficial relationships and conversations". What I'm getting at is that Holmes is one of the heroes whose powers are actually possible in our world to achieve. And that "reality" of him, is probably his best quality, at the same time as it makes it questionable to want to be like him - in case one would actually start becoming like him.



#38799 Star Trek or Star Wars?

Posted by Bonzailorentzon on 23 January 2013 - 12:49 PM in Sci Fi

It's kinda like comparing candy and soda - they're both full of amazing sugar but still serve very different purposes!

Star Wars is the epic tale, set in a mystical world in an ancient time, containing one of the best stories of good and evil, and some of the best characters ever made! While Star Trek is a story about us! Our planet, humankind in the future - exploring the same universe that we today wonder about looking up at the stars. While, of course, also bringing to life some of the most amazing characters of all time.

The two explore very different existential questions, in very different ways. So eager as I am of arguing about it, I kind of don't think they should be compared in general - in that case I would much rather argue about who is the best leader between Kirk and Picard...

... or why not Picard and Mace Windu?



#38788 Iron Man 3 Trailer released!

Posted by Bonzailorentzon on 23 January 2013 - 12:37 PM in Sci Fi

Do we know if the third movie is based on a comic book? Or if they will throw in bits and parts like in Amazing Spidey