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  1. John Doran

    RIP, Bill Paxton

    he'll always be private hudson to me...
  2. John Doran

    Superman Returns (2006)

    one of the main points that made TMoS such a compelling movie for me. my original post in the review thread for the film: http://www.hometheaterforum.com/topic/324403-man-of-steel-quick-review/page-6#entry3970270
  3. John Doran

    Superman Returns (2006)

    hey, guys... i'm still here, it's just that i rarely feel motivated to post...i guess i long for the heady days of matrix and LOTR debates :D i hope you (and everyone else i know around here) are keeping well.
  4. John Doran

    Superman Returns (2006)

    i find the original superman movie to be completely and utterly unwatchable: there is not one single thing about that movie that i don't absolutely loathe. i thought superman returns was pretty meh. but i love man of steel. ahh, ain't personal taste grand? :)
  5. John Doran

    Man of Steel - quick review

    he left the ship with the genesis chamber because he's the general, and he takes care of the Most Important Thing while his foot-soldiers do the foot-soldiering. it makes perfect sense to me: remove the genesis chamber from the main ship in order to provide a smaller and secondary target - i.e...
  6. John Doran

    Man of Steel - quick review

    you know what would have been even better than that? if j'onn j'onzz showed up with an army of green martians and martian technology as soon as the kryptonians entered the solar system. then the martians would have fought and defeated the kryptonians without loss of human life, and then...
  7. John Doran

    Man of Steel - quick review

    But we did see the human cost - my breath was taken away by the number of casualties that were incurred during the Smallville fight (and later during the initiation of the gravity-well in Metropolis). And of course Kal saw the potential damage his combat with the Kryptonians would cause, but...
  8. John Doran

    Man of Steel - quick review

    So, wait - am I to assume that you're yawning at the tiredness of the trope of "having a no killing policy develop from the horror of killing someone"? But the fact that, historically, Superman "always finds a way" isn't tired? And which of his choices were dumb? I guess you have an array of...
  9. John Doran

    Man of Steel - quick review

    sure, but that's the whole point of the narrative: to force superman into a very specific moral conundrum: to kill one person, or to allow the deaths of thousands upon thousands more. i mean, you might as well say the writing in sophie's choice was terrible because it forced sophie into a...
  10. John Doran

    Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)

    if they can accurately transpose rocket's character from the comics, and his relationship with groot, then all will be well. more than well: it will be amazing.
  11. John Doran

    Man of Steel (2013)

    i suspect that the fact that kal-el will have spent his whole life bathed in the radiation of a yellow sun will play a part: his cells - which are ostensibly solar-batteries - will be...ahem...supercharged, as opposed to those of the newly-terrestrial kryptonians. or not. it's definitely a good...
  12. John Doran

    I Have Some Super-Geeky Alien/Aliens Questions....

    See, I always understood "it's what we call a "shake 'n bake colony" to refer not to the colony itself, but rather to what the colony does to the atmosphere of the planet that it's sent to colonize: their processors do in decades what would take aeons to accomplish via natural processes...in...
  13. John Doran

    I Have Some Super-Geeky Alien/Aliens Questions....

    the marines in Aliens referred to their mission as a "bug hunt".
  14. John Doran

    Resident Evil: Afterlife (trailer)

    well, it's got wesker and las plagas, so i'll give it a shot...
  15. John Doran

    *** Official STAR TREK (2009) Discussion Thread

    i don't think you're wrong - i just don't understand your point of view and am having a conversation trying to point out what it is i find difficult to understand about your perspective. something about the way nero's character was (under)developed left you cold and detracted from your...
  16. John Doran

    *** Official STAR TREK (2009) Discussion Thread

    i think i didn't explain myself very well... my point is precisely that hitler, stalin, fiennes' character in Schindler's list, pol pot, and whichever other genocidal maniac you care to name are monochromatic: there is absolutely nothing complicated about them or their motivations, at least not...
  17. John Doran

    *** Official STAR TREK (2009) Discussion Thread

    fair enough, i guess...i didn't care about him at all, either, but i'm not sure why caring about him matters - as far as i can tell, we're not supposed to care about him or relate to him, but only fear his obvious power and even more obvious psychosis. i don't care about hitler in WW2 movies...
  18. John Doran

    *** Official 2012 Discussion Thread

    neutrinos actually pass through the earth - they are almost totally non-reactive, (nearly) massless particles that could travel through a light-year's worth of lead without interacting with it. the absurd part in the movie was when it was suggested that the solar neutrinos suddenly "changed" and...
  19. John Doran

    Disney buying Marvel

    well, here's one thing
  20. John Doran

    Superman Returns Sequel discussion thread

    those would be the best movies ever made. ever. :)
  21. John Doran

    *** Official KNOWING Discussion Thread

    well, i certainly agree that the kids' telepathic sensitivity is very primitive, but i understood that the aliens were selecting for the presence of the telepathic gene-sequence in their DNA in an attempt to maximize the chance that the telepathy will develop and improve in their descendants...
  22. John Doran

    *** Official KNOWING Discussion Thread

    Just watched this and loved it, from beginning to end. i was worried at one point that it was going to end up being another tedious parable about CO2 emissions and our failing stewardship of the earth, so i was enormously relieved when it wasn't. and i was quite frankly amazed that proyas...
  23. John Doran

    Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)

    saw it last night, and i agree with the sentiment that it's pretty much the same movie as the first one, but on all kinds of steroids, at least in terms of general spectacle on parade. the single greatest moment(s) of disappointment for me in the whole sordid affair, though, was that...
  24. John Doran

    Outlander

    i just started seeing the trailer for this on TV this past weekend, and found myself hoping the film would be as good as the trailer seemed to suggest. glad to hear that seems to be the case - can't wait to check this one out.
  25. John Doran

    The Road coming in 2008...

    yeah, i read it, and i realize that it suggests that the footage is simply a marketing ploy; problem for me is that because i also find the choices made by people running movie studios dumbfounding, there is an ineliminable kernel of cynicism at the center of my heart that expects jackassery to...
  26. John Doran

    *** Official STAR TREK (2009) Discussion Thread

    the alcubierre warp drive is an old idea, and whatever manner in which it might be based on "scientific principle" is exactly the same way that a galaxy-destroying supernova is based on "scientific principle". look, "expanding space behind a moving object" is science that is about as...
  27. John Doran

    The Road coming in 2008...

    i can't express how much i hope that they exclude all of the newsreel end-of-the-world bullshit from the final cut; if they give any more information about armageddon than is provided in the book, it will be terrible. as for the rest of the trailer, 99% of the scenes are in the book; they're...
  28. John Doran

    *** Official STAR TREK (2009) Discussion Thread

    what does any of this actually mean? how does one distinguish a careless and thoughtless performance from a careful performance by an actor who has thought deeply about her character's motivations and history and internal struggles and movement through the story's narrative arc, but whose...
  29. John Doran

    *** Official STAR TREK (2009) Discussion Thread

    can you point to a scientific principle that allows for "warp speed"? or traversable singularities? why would you shackle the writers with so-called "current" science when it comes to the idea of a supernova-caused galactic event, but not when it comes to things like warp-drive and...
  30. John Doran

    The Road coming in 2008...

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