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Superman has ALWAYS been Jesus, so I'm not surprised you read that from the movie.

Heisenberg is in this? Now I'm seeing it.

I'm uncertain.

If you don't get why I quoted this... you probably don't get the pun.

Anybody else watch this?  I'm not a huge Superman fan, so I've got to say my complaints are a bit different from that of other people.  Still, my overall score, 6/10, does not seem to be all that untrendy.

I wouldn't go that far.  I'm just saying if we square off like a match in the ring, I think too much and lose, but if I'm not given that opportunity to think (and also not give a concussion before we start fighting) my instincts are quite a bit better.  If someone charged me out of a crowd, for instance, but I had time to hit them when I saw them.

The thing is, every time I've been in a fight, I've surprised myself.  If it feels staged, I tend to get my ass kicked, but if I'm surprised (either by my own rage or in a sparring match that's very unscripted) I tend to be stronger, faster and more coordinated than I expect to be.  So I'm not going to pick a name, other than to state that unless they make their name by untouchable martial arts (Ray Park, Jet Li, Jackie Chan)... I wouldn't write myself off.  It would be extraordinarily arrogant for me to say "I can kick (virtually anybody worth naming)'s ass", but if there were stakes, I'd bet on even odds against most.

Now that I think about it, a friend of mine did a video on this subject.  I was wondering why I had such a sense of deja vu.

Though I never experienced them at a young enough age, the Borg (Star Trek) and the Cybermen (Doctor Who) are something that I imagine would have been terrifying had I seen them as a child.  You get all of the scares of a zombie film, except that the zombies are smarter and better equipped than you, in a Sci-Fi environment that more often than not borrows elements from Alien, if only for aesthetic reasons.  Add it all up and you get a scarier zombie story than Romero.

Speaking of horror in a Sci-Fi setting, Sylar from Heroes gave a great intimidating slasher vibe.  You get about the same sense of anticipation whenever he's in the room that you would in a Nightmare on Elm Street film when you realize you're in a dream sequence.

I'm sure I've mentioned this before, but as a child, I watched Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory the way a kid that age would watch a slasher film.  That movie gave me some seriously fucked up nightmares.

Well, Lady in the Water was his way of saying "Everybody betray me, I'm fed up with this world.  You're tearing me apart, critics!"

Verdict: M. Night Shyamalan remains the modern day Claudio Fragasso in terms of being a master of comedy.

He started with Bruce Willis arguing with a woman who clearly couldn't hear a word he was saying, went on to an invasion of Earth by hydro-allergenic aliens beaten by comically placed glasses of water, then we had the comedic masterpieces that were The Village and The Happening.  Shyamalan then tried to sell a Scream fanboy as a film critic, before giving us the glorious scene of Uncle Iro calling on a random young boy for the sole purpose of humiliating Zuko.

Now, we get Will Smith trying to be an actor with absolutely no charisma playing a beloved general and his son playing a fool who claims to have been through military training yet obviously knows about as much of the military as I Love Lucy, fighting for their lives against a monster that could not survive in the real world, on a planet where you can cross 50 miles and encounter herds of buffalo, tropical forests that freeze over every night yet remain perfectly intact, and Mount Doom, which Jaden Smith must claim in order to get 4G coverage.

If you've found his previous efforts hilarious, you'll find this one the same.  4/10.

There has to be a point where Maury is like "Bitch, we don't have a frequent guest program, and neither do you."

Should I watch this tomorrow, or the Purge?  Or is there actually a good movie out?

Let me correct that: the first slasher movie I watched, and the first horror movie I watched on DVD.  The first horror movie I ever watched was the 1999 version of The Haunting, in theatres at age 10.

True story, FvJ was the first horror movie I ever watched start to finish.  It was while I was researching that movie that I found FE.

From what I understand, Stanley Kubrick would have found a way.

Pretty much every death scene in that movie is that way.  I know of people who swear by it as the comedy of our generation.