Hey man want to get together so I can kick your ass at Soul Calibur again? Wee haa! That was fun!
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Ja'Deth Issar Ka'bael had this to say about dark elf butts:
(breaking this nasty cycle...)Hey man want to get together so I can kick your ass at Soul Calibur again? Wee haa! That was fun!
Yeah, but of course.
Did you know that they planned to include Batman in one of the Sould Edge/Calibur etc games? Of course this was top secret and in the end he didn't make it. Probably because of the bad Batman movies. The first one rocked of course.
Back in 1989, Tim Burton directed Batman, a live-action film starring Michael Keaton as Bruce Wayne and Jack Nicholson as the Joker. According to media coverage, the movie was heavily indebted to Frank Miller's ultraviolent The Dark Knight Returns graphic novel. In actuality, aside from Danny Elfman's appropriately Wagnerian soundtrack and a few in-jokes tossed in by Burton, the film had almost nothing to do with Frank Miller - or Bob Kane or Jim Aparo or Bill Finger or Dick Sprang, for that matter. The vision of Gotham City in the movie owed a lot to Terry Gilliam's under-rated Brazil and Batman's ethics seemed to owe an awful lot to various real-live vigillantes. I remembered seeing the film and being disappointed that Batman's muscles weren't real - Burton's conception of the Bat costume seemed influenced by Robocop. I was further disappointed to see Burton's Dark Knight had a rather offhand attitude about killing. The Batman that exists in comics would never intentionally kill anyone, and would never be as remorseless as Keaton was in the role. And yet, amazingly, Burton's film achieves an artistic vision despite some extremely poor scripting and a nonchalant attitude towards the integrity of the comic book characters. Indeed, Burton's film was arguably the most visually stunning since Star Wars, and presented an enveloping world which audiences have enjoyed again and again. The strongest elements in the film - the visuals, Keaton's psychotic performance, the violence - are also the elements that have the least in common with the comic book.
Batman Beyond follows a similar trend. The soundtrack for the TV show is an impressive techno mix, quite unlike anything else on television, and is perfectly suited to an animated cartoon for the 21st Century. The visuals of the show are far superior to those of Batman/Superman Adventures, and the animation is fluid and amazingly modern. Indeed, these are some of Timm's most original character designs to date. The new villains are frequently frightening, and many episodes are well-written. If Batman Beyond were a brand-new series, I have no doubt that it would rank as an unqualified artistic and commercial success. Unfortunately, Timm and Dini set the series within the same continuity of the earlier series . . . and that's where the trouble starts. Bruce Wayne is no longer the Batman, and the fates of many of his old allies and enemies remains enigmatic. The new Batman is Terry McGinnis, a teenager in the Peter Parker vein; he possesses great power and must juggle his incredible responsibilities with a variety of typical Marvel Comics soap opera angst which include his younger brother and understandably bewildered girlfriend. This is really a totally new series, and unlike Batman:The Animated Series, is aimed squarely at the pre-teen/teen market that scarfs up anime by the boxload. And yet, it still has the old Batman title. Batman Beyond, like the Tim Burton film, is at its strongest when it stands as a self-contained artistic vision and at its weakest when it reminds us that we are watching "Batman."
I don't blame Timm and Dini for wanted to put their own unique stamp on the series. Prior to the animated Batman cartoons, both men worked on Tiny Toons, which was (to be brutally honest) little more than a Muppet Babies-style interpretation of old Warners characters best left in retirement with almost no opportunity for anything remotely creative. Given a freer reign on the Batman series must have been a godsend, and Timm and Dini responded with some bold innovations within the parameters of the classic characters. However, their incredible and praiseworthy contributions to the earlier Batman series were largely unappreciated by their TV audience. Few viewers who weren't immersed in the history of Batman comics could appreciate the wonderful job Timm and Dini did with, for example, the Catwoman. In the comics, Catwoman ranged from comic relief, to a romantic interest, to a formidable villainess,to the often cheesecake portrayal in the Jim Balent comic title. The animated Catwoman is amazingly consisent, given the erratic nature of her portrayals in the comic books. Similar praise can be offered for their work with Poison Ivy, one of the sillier villainesses of the late 1960s, the Mad Hatter, and the Riddler. The blending and simplification of the Frank Miller and Dick Sprang-drawn versions of Batman was a stroke of genius, and the Timm-Dini melange of all these disparate elements was so well done that many people are probably unaware that Timm and Dini deserve credit for the synthesis - despite Dini's rather vocal reminders in several printed interviews.
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Oh, wait, my bad, I thought it said "irritate" the poster above you. [ 03-29-2003: Message edited by: Someone Else ]
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*makes a little movie of a bird eating a muffin*
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No, Really. Bite me.
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2. How was you seen out when you was a baby?
3. How do you think you came's to be seen out when you were wery old?
guns. ^_^omgz i sux at this game. [ 03-29-2003: Message edited by: Veruca Salt ]
Thinking about your posts
(and billing you for it) since 2001
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*turns away from the mirror and sighs*
Alright. I think that's enough for today.
GOD DAMN IT. I am leaving that up just to spite you people for beating me. [ 03-29-2003: Message edited by: Veruca Salt ]
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Omg, I think I'm gunna hurl at the mental image I just created...
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Edit: DAMN YOU LENALRON!! YOU RUIN THE JOEK!!
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Lenlalron Flameblaster had this to say about (_|_):
Everyone on this thread is so retarded. Only I know the truth! You stupid idiots. What were you thinking?
That doesn't even make SENSE! I'm the retarded one.
Edit: DAMMIT SNOOTA!!
I give up on this game.. people post too fast... [ 03-29-2003: Message edited by: Abbikat ]
(Can't think of anything)
I couldn't think of anything either.
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