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I think having a little ego can be healthy. It's called confidence. However confidence without humility is what having too big of an ego really means. Maybe that doesn't answer your question, but it's the best I've got.
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I've always liked Bill from "Kill Bill Vol. 2." Partly because he's a comic book fan, and partly because he's unlike any antagonist you've seen. After all the build up from the first film you'd expect a ruthless monster, but when you finally meet him you find a man who is very human actually. It's just so great!
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I have two best friends. My first best friend is Zach, who I've known since childhood and had the /fun/misfortune of being located around the corner of the block I lived on. We always had anime, video games, and dogs in common. Through the years we've been through lots of things together. Parents getting sick, girl problems, our first jobs which were well below what we hoped they would be. We still talk on the phone once a week to catch up on what's going on.
My second best friend is Serena, who I met at an internship one year, whose company and conversations I've enjoyed very much since I bothered her at the bus stop that first time we met. Since then we've done many things together. I'm happy to know that I brought her to a movie that was one of her main inspirations. We also have dined at Club 33 with my family. We both love animation, good art, and pets (though I prefer dogs and she prefers cats).
Although I must say I don't exactly grade my friends as if some were more important than the others. That's just not fair. However I have a special place in my heart for these two, which I guess makes them my best friends. -
I've thought long and hard on this question, and I've decided that if I had to bring back a pre-One Piece ear show it would be Sailor Moon. There are a few reasons for this (outside of the fact it's a personal favorite of mine),. First of all, it features strong female characters. We don't see many shows staring strong women for girls.
You'd think we would since Sailor Moon should have kicked that door wide open, but that's television for you. Second is that there are rumors of the show being sold to a complete company, and a re-dub may be in the cards. Since the series was heavily re-written and edited, this may be a good time to correct some wrongs that were done in the past.
Finally there's this key thing: We never got the final season or theatrical specials released in America. That means there's still something new to show, and having something new goes a long way for these things. So there's my answer. -
That I'm not always as strong and confident as I look.
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Compassion.
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Absolutely! It seems the superhero shows are some of the only good animation Warner Bros. is doing these days.
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Batman. I mean, seriously, why is that even a question?
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Not really. That they weren't ready for the edgy show just means more editing. You don't like editing? Buy the uncut DVD's. I think Viz makes more money from them anyway.
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Hmm...I think that's cheating, but I see why you'd say that. I'm going to go with the Riddler. I know he's not much of a fighter, or a weapon builder...or even much of a planner in the grand scheme of things. But I like him because he's an intellect. He toys with Batman for the simple fact that he can. If he can stump The Dark Knight then he's got it made.
Yeah, it doesn't happen much, but out of all the villains to stump Batman he comes the closest to doing it. There have been times when Batman has outright failed to save someone because the puzzle left by the Riddler was so complex and difficult (but made sense...once you knew the answer).
I could I should also point out I have a soft spot in my heart for Mr. Freeze, who has never seemed that evil to me considering what drove him to his lifestyle. Most maddening is that neither of these villains have gotten good movies made with them, so hopefully that will change in the future. -
I was actually impressed with the films selected this year for the National Film Preservation (extra credit goes to picking “Make Way For Tomorrow”). I still feel the NFP needs to expand their reach to foreign films as there are many classic films made in Japan, Mexico, France, and other countries that deserve to be preserved just as much as some of the American films, but since the list is limited to American films at the time being, so too will I list films that I feel should be preserved (in alphabetical order).
1. The Color Purple
Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Steven Spielberg brought a book thought to be unfilmable and managed to...you know, film it. Years later it still has great acting, a touching story, and one of those great endings that doesn’t feel forced or manipulative.
2. Crumb
Terry Zwigoff’s “Crumb” is still a fascinating film. What is it exactly? A film about art? Underground comics? This man? This man’s family? The frailty of humans? Whatever it’s about, it’s one of the best documentaries of all time and still has much to say years after it’s release.
3. Driving Miss Daisy
Though Spike Lee doesn’t like it, I’ve always felt that “Driving Miss Daisy” was a wonderful little tale about two people who a radically different and have been put together by unusual circumstances, only to discover they are the best friends each other have.
4. Forrest Gump
Robert Zemeckis’s classic about a retarded man who see’s the world uniquely is still one of cinema’s true gems. Clever to a fault and dripping with American culture, this one’s always brought a smile to my face.
5. Kiss of the Spider Woman
I don’t think Hector Babenco set out to make history with “Kiss of the Spider Woman,” but he did when this little independent film became the first indie to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture (and gave William Hurt his Oscar for Best Actor). Thankfully it’s still a mesmerizing film with a story that manages to surprise to this day for new viewers.
6. The Matrix
Although the sequel’s are of questionable quality, the original “The Matrix” is still a breathtaking science fiction thriller that still manages to excite. The special effects have aged gracefully and the film is still a tour-de-force of how great action movies can be if done properly.
7. Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas
The first (and to my knowledge last) animated film to get a Best Visual Effect nomination at the Academy Awards, “The Nightmare Before Christmas” tends to be overshadowed by the goth following it has. Get beyond that though and you have a film that is unique, has great music, and is still visually interesting to view to this day.
8. Ordinary People
Robert Redford’s Oscar-winning directorial debut has lost little of it’s emotional power since it’s release. This is one of the few movies that takes depression seriously and looks deeply at the roots of the problem. It’s also one of the few films to portray a psychiatrist as a good guy rather than someone who causes problems.
9. Platoon
Oliver Stone’s anti-war film is still probably the most sane of the films that have been made since. Though people remember it as political, it really was not. It simply presents a situation and tells you take make up your own mind about it. Many people did, and it was not kind, but the film opened the doors for film makers to start having a truly different point of view about war and how it was portrayed in film.
Those are what I can think of at the moment, but there are truthfully tons of films that need to be preserved, and limiting them to 25 a year seems like a cop-out to me. -
I actually don't recall doing any articles on Walt Disney recently. And if I did not correctly spell his name, well...I'm only human.
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Hearing from a real good friend!
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After playing "Sonic The Hedgehog 4" I think there's still life left in the franchise. I think going back to the basics was a good first step. Now they just need to expand on the basics properly once more and the series would be returned to it's former glory.
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If the source material is good they should always attempt. That said most games just don't make naturally good movies because the focus is more on gameplay then story. This is why many games are fun to play but lousy to watch movies off of. Ironically the first Final Fantasy movie should have broke this curse because it was based off a series of games that WAS known for their storylines, and they created an original story instead! One that had nothing to do with the games and wasn't very good in it's own right.
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It's not that people aren't willing to pay the book value price. They do. But comic stores are a business just like everything else. Like a used video game store they want to buy comics cheap and sell them at a huge markup (at least 300%). So they try to act like the comics aren't valuable so that you will (hopefully) believe them and they get a valuable comic for a huge discount.
If you don't fall for this...eh, what do they care, there are a LOT of people who don't know better, and they'll likely get that issue somewhere down the road! Ironically this can also be used as a way to find out if your comics are worth something. It's a fun game I play that is actually easier then getting the value guides. Basically if you ever come across a stack of comics whose value is unknown to you bring them to one of these dealers.
If he offers you money for issues - ANY of the issues - politely tell him you'll have to think about his offer and will come back later! Take the comics that he offered you money for because these are obviously worth something. You can tell by the mere fact that he offered you anything at all for them. So while these people may be trying to rip you off there's an easy way to use this dishonesty to your (financial) advantage. -
I saw that movie a LOOONNNNGGG time ago when I was a kid! I remember being really bored by it.
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Kevin T. Rodriguez’s Bio
Kevin T. Rodriguez is an accomplished online writer. He is the webmaster for The Movie Wizard.com, The Comic Book Guy.com, and is working on his second novel.
