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Sept 26, 2009 14:30:56 GMT -8
Post by K-Box on Sept 26, 2009 14:30:56 GMT -8
When I watched Demolition Man (again and again and again -- I love that one almost as much as I love RoboCop), it seemed to me as if the California government had effectively seceded from the US. So your scenario is plausible. It both amuses me and saddens me that Demolition Man is the closest we're likely to get to a big-budget movie adaptation of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. I suspect, though, that your interest is more in the inevitable catfight between our two heroes' partners -- Sandra Bullock vs. Nancy Allen. QUICK! Which one can OUT-BLAND the other?
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Sept 26, 2009 15:28:41 GMT -8
Post by michaelpaciocco on Sept 26, 2009 15:28:41 GMT -8
Demolition Man vs. Robocop - you know, there's nothing explicit in either movie that says that the fauxtopia of SanAngeles can't exist on the same Earth as Delta City and Old Detroit. Hell, it's entirely possible that San Angeles is some kind of bizarre OCP social experiment. When I watched Demolition Man (again and again and again -- I love that one almost as much as I love RoboCop), it seemed to me as if the California government had effectively seceded from the US. So your scenario is plausible. I suspect, though, that your interest is more in the inevitable catfight between our two heroes' partners -- Sandra Bullock vs. Nancy Allen. Not really - it's more my utter distaste with Stallone in general (and Demolition Man as a proto-Jack Bauer) contrasted with the ultimate good-cop-got-screwed that is Alex Murphy
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Sept 27, 2009 0:46:31 GMT -8
Post by jensaltmann on Sept 27, 2009 0:46:31 GMT -8
In the late 19th century, a fledgling criminal organisation that called itself SPECTRE decided to expand their operations to the UK. They had not taken into account that this move would attract the attention of someone in London who has a major interest in criminal affairs -- someone who was believed dead, who was believed to have died at the Reichenbach falls.
A year later, SPECTRE was firmly under the control of that man -- Professor Moriarty.
When Flash Gordon (Sam Jones) and his friends return from Mongo, they find out that their passage through the space/time vortex that surrounds that world returns them 500 years after they left. In that time, Mongo's attack on Earth had left the planet a wasteland. But it had struggled back. On Earth, they are put into the care of the one man who could possibly understand them: Captain William "Buck" Rogers (Gil Gerard), who had been frozen in space when Mongo had attacked the Earth. Now the two men have to prevent a horrible alliance: Draco wants to marry his daughter Ardala to the clone of Ming the Merciless. Ardala, needless to say, is not enthusiastic about this, so she comes to Buck Rogers for help.
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Sept 27, 2009 14:41:45 GMT -8
Post by michaelpaciocco on Sept 27, 2009 14:41:45 GMT -8
In the late 19th century, a fledgling criminal organisation that called itself SPECTRE decided to expand their operations to the UK. They had not taken into account that this move would attract the attention of someone in London who has a major interest in criminal affairs -- someone who was believed dead, who was believed to have died at the Reichenbach falls. A year later, SPECTRE was firmly under the control of that man -- Professor Moriarty. You know, this would actually tie in fairly well with the movie version of "League of Extraordinary Gentlemen".
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Sept 29, 2009 11:03:33 GMT -8
Post by jarddavis on Sept 29, 2009 11:03:33 GMT -8
Adam West Batman vs. Heath Ledger Joker:
Batman: Halt Citizen!
Joker pulls out his gun and shoots Batman in the head.
Joker: Ummmm.... pardon me, but it seems this city has a small rodent problem. Now... <smacking lips> can anyone tell me where I might find... the Batman?
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Sept 29, 2009 11:04:33 GMT -8
Post by jarddavis on Sept 29, 2009 11:04:33 GMT -8
Bambi vs. Cloverfield.
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Sept 29, 2009 17:55:26 GMT -8
Post by K-Box on Sept 29, 2009 17:55:26 GMT -8
Adam West Batman vs. Heath Ledger Joker: Batman: Halt Citizen! Joker pulls out his gun and shoots Batman in the head. Joker: Ummmm.... pardon me, but it seems this city has a small rodent problem. Now... <smacking lips> can anyone tell me where I might find... the Batman? The problem with this portrayal is that, in his own way, Heath Ledger's Joker is as addicted to needlessly complex death-traps as Austin Powers' Dr. Evil, so by proposing that he'd opt for the solution proposed by Dr. Evil's son ("DAD, I have a GUN! We can just SHOOT them!"), you're kind of missing the whole point of the character. Hell, by the end of the movie, the Joker flat-out ADMITS that he doesn't want to kill Batman.
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Oct 1, 2009 8:22:05 GMT -8
Post by jarddavis on Oct 1, 2009 8:22:05 GMT -8
The problem is, it's Apples and Oranges, not that I don't get the character.
AW Batman wouldn't have the first clue as to how to deal with HL Joker. He lives in a B&W universe where insanity is biff bam powed into jail.
HL Joker wouldn't even remotely consider him a worthy adversary. He'd simply shoot him and wait for the real Batman to show up. He might beat Robin to death with a crowbar first just to toruture AW Bats, but in the end biff bam pow doesn't measure up to hahahahahahaahahahakablam.
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Oct 1, 2009 9:39:20 GMT -8
Post by Anders on Oct 1, 2009 9:39:20 GMT -8
The problem is, it's Apples and Oranges, not that I don't get the character. AW Batman wouldn't have the first clue as to how to deal with HL Joker. He lives in a B&W universe where insanity is biff bam powed into jail. HL Joker wouldn't even remotely consider him a worthy adversary. He'd simply shoot him and wait for the real Batman to show up. He might beat Robin to death with a crowbar first just to toruture AW Bats, but in the end biff bam pow doesn't measure up to hahahahahahaahahahakablam. Again, it's a question of who's world you're in. In AW Batman's world, trying to shoot someone never works.
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Oct 1, 2009 10:03:02 GMT -8
Post by jarddavis on Oct 1, 2009 10:03:02 GMT -8
It's not a question of what works by physical laws, and what doesn't. The truth is AW Batman has never faced anything even remotely like the HL Joker. You'd have to get AW Batman and Robin out of their fetal positions in order to get them to go after the guy after he butchered the infant ward at the hospital.
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Oct 1, 2009 10:35:30 GMT -8
Post by Anders on Oct 1, 2009 10:35:30 GMT -8
It's not a question of what works by physical laws, and what doesn't. The truth is AW Batman has never faced anything even remotely like the HL Joker. You'd have to get AW Batman and Robin out of their fetal positions in order to get them to go after the guy after he butchered the infant ward at the hospital. And it's equally true that the HLJ has never faced anyone even remotely like the AWB. Yes, if you transplant AWB inot HLJ's world then he's going to get fucked up. But if you transplant HLJ into AWB's world he's not going to be able to fuck anyone up because it's just not possible there. It's like flying a kite on the moon - you can run all you want, without air the kite won't take off.
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Oct 1, 2009 11:04:55 GMT -8
Post by jensaltmann on Oct 1, 2009 11:04:55 GMT -8
And it's equally true that the HLJ has never faced anyone even remotely like the AWB. I can easily imagine the HLJ admiring the AWB: "Wow, this guy's even more fucked up than I am."
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Oct 1, 2009 14:14:53 GMT -8
Post by jarddavis on Oct 1, 2009 14:14:53 GMT -8
And then shooting him in the head.
(Probably finding it funny that he was the one who got rid of this seriously deranged individual in the process.)
If he couldn't shoot him, he'd beat him to death with the butt of his gun.
It's a different mindset, a different mentality.
The HL Joker is utterly brilliant. It was one of the things I liked about the character so much. Brilliant on a level the AW Batman couldn't even begin to touch. AW would think he's bif bam powed HL into jail, and go and get into the batmobile and have it explode after the brakes failed, precisely at the moment he turned on to Sprang street and was next to the bus full of Orphans on their way to the surprise party at the amusement park, which was financed by the heretofor mysterious Mr. Kerr.
I'm not going to go by the in this universe, these laws don't work thing. Sorry. Too hoky.
But it's safe to say that should the AW Batman survive an encounter with HL, he'd be in a bat-straight jacket in the bat-rubber room going "Why isn't he jolly!?! WHY ISN'T HE JOLLY?!?"
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Oct 1, 2009 14:37:03 GMT -8
Post by jarddavis on Oct 1, 2009 14:37:03 GMT -8
Ghostbusters vs. Legion from Exorcist III.
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Oct 1, 2009 19:33:07 GMT -8
Post by Anders on Oct 1, 2009 19:33:07 GMT -8
I'm not going to go by the in this universe, these laws don't work thing. Sorry. Too hoky. Like that's a reasonable argument in this thread.
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