Comments on: Around The Web – September 25th 2007

By: Kryptonite

Kryptonite — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 18:13:50 +0000

I wasn’t yelling. I had to put my stuff in CAPS to make it easier to read vs. John’s comments. It was a legibility issue, nothing more.

By: Cinéfan

Cinéfan — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 17:03:23 +0000

“Newman from Seinfeld”

That is really ironic!!?!

JUST last night I was watching Seinfeld and it was the episode where Newman and Kramer are headed to Michigan to get a better return on their recycling deposit.

Anyway, there’s that scene after Kramer kicks him out of the mail-truck, to catch up with the mechanic who took Jerry’s car…and as Newman was stumbling up the hill, headed to the farmer’s (…and daughter’s) house; I was thinking: “Gee…he looks just like he did in Jurassic Park…fumbling to get off-of the island with the embryos!?”

And then, I continued to think about what other roles he could possible play-well, without that goofy, annoying, guy-you-want-to-punch-in-the-face attitude…

Guess, I’ll have to check out Punisher…(like I wasn’t going to already, anyway…).

By: Darren j Seeley

Darren j Seeley — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 14:25:34 +0000

I’m betting Hiro’s dad has a power which allows him to ‘revive’ after being dead within 24 hours (remember: in comics, nobody “stays dead” for long.) …and it is the season opener, so maybe not all the answers we seek will be right at the first ep of the new season. That said, it is *lame* to *not* conclude a cliffhanger in some fashion when *that’s what everyone is tuning in for*. By the way…@the CAPMAN aka KRYPTONITE: using your “passionate” arguement, is it safe to say it is not uncommon for comics to have cliffhangers that are resolved in the following issue? Also, you mentioned Iron Fist. At one point, Dan Rand was presumed “dead”. Nick Fury, who you didn’t mention, was clearly knocked off in comics several times, and is infamous for cheating death at nearly every turn. Superman came back from the dead. Jury’s still out on Cap’n America….

Speaking of comics:
1) Wayne Knight as Microchip and Dominic West as Jigsaw:
actually, I was crossing my fingers for Michael Keaton for Jigsaw; West is an interesting choice however. As far as Knight is concerned, he has shed the pounds over the years, he doesn’t look like he did in Seinfeld or Jurassic Park. The Mircochip character is a dumb character by the way. I think THAT’S what Gio meant, folks.

But if he meant comic relief, even the previous film had a little of that.
Besides, I’m more interested in seeing actor Doug Hutchison as Looney Bin Jim. Hutchison, of course, is best known for playing Tooms in the X-Files and Percy in Green Mile.

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Batman/Dark Knight:
it is currently being said that the accidental death occured off-set.

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Face Off :Special Ed. DVD.
You mean I have to buy this again? Let’s see what the extras are. I’m also curious as what that second disc is all about. How they did the boat chase?

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Eli Roth on Heroes Origins.
Kind of like the hype with Quentin Tarintino directing an ER episode. They do a good job. So what? Besides, it should be noted Roth is restricted by television. But I also…wonder…is one of the ‘new batch’ going to be something like, say, Swamp Thing /Man-Thing/Heap?
Dark Horse’s Concrete?

We shall see.

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Alone In The Dark 2.
Hey, *someone* out there, Gio…is doing this for the money. Remember that! Yes, even whores have to live too…

By: melbye

melbye — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 11:51:39 +0000

About Newman, remember he was in Basic Instinct a completley diffrent role than on Seinfeld.

And again, the Heroes-opener was the best second season opener since the words “I’m gonna need a hacksaw” was uttered

By: PHIL from LI NY

PHIL from LI NY — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 10:26:31 +0000

John, I think your jumping the gun a litte. Sure it wasn’t a big bang season opener, but it was far from horrible. If you think its bad, thats fine… but if 1 bad episode ruins the entire series for you… thats taking it a little to far. I think your over reacting.

By: John in Seattle

John in Seattle — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 05:13:45 +0000

The big thing I’m surprised at is that everyone just assumes Kaito N. is dead. True, he face-planted… but so did Claire. We know he has a power yet we don’t know what it is… It’s just odd everyone is so quick to write off the character.

And John, really gotta disagree with you. The writers have enough of my faith… I think you just got pulled into a few sucker punches that will be revealed in a few episodes.

Goal wasn’t to wrap up S1… it was to set up S2.. something they did admirably IMHO.

By: AjaxLou

AjaxLou — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 05:09:31 +0000

Season 1 started off slowly as well. Kryptonite please stop yelling.

By: Sound Designer Dan

Sound Designer Dan — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 01:17:00 +0000

I agree with John here, the season premiere was ass horrible. Molly annoyed the hell outta me and Sulu’s power was never shown….stupid…stupid…stupid. Hopefully, the show will get better or probably because the finale last season was so bad that it bled into this season.

P.S. the dude with the Irish accent at the end CANNOT do an Irish accent properly…..and the ADR was frickin’ horrible.

By: chris

chris — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 00:50:33 +0000

FUCK YEA FACE/OFF!!! finally a special edition, now all i need is the special edition of complete KILL BILL dvd and 2 disk Iron Giant and i;ll be happy

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 00:32:56 +0000

Wow…I can’t believe you didn’t like the season premiere of Heroes.

Newman would make an excellent addition to the Punisher movie, especially if he plays MicroChip. :D