Recent content by John Doran

he'll always be private hudson to me...

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

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.

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? :)

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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

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

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...