DC can call him Captain Marvel but cant use that as the name of the Comic book.
In the animated series he is (Justice league unlimited) he is called Captain Marvel.
Yeah, I got rather mad when I saw a set of coffee cups and t-shirts that said “I’m her Joker” and “I’m His HarleyQuinn” because that is a horrible relationship.
I felt the final shootout was a catharsis for Munny. Throughout the movie he kept talking about how he wasn’t his old self anymore, as if trying to convince himself. It wasn’t until his friend who truly was changed was killed that Munny became what he claimed to be. No he was going after bad guys who deserved being killed. After that, he truly became the changed man he wanted to be
Justice League Unlimited ran from 2004 to 2006. The Captain’s name officially changed to “Shazam” in 2012 in a backup story in the Justice League comic and has pretty much stayed that way ever since.
I dont understand- what is a real “fake geek girls” comment?
When Fight Club came out, it got a pretty negative review in the San Francisco Chronicle. Some time later, they published a letter from a reader who strongly disagreed with the review, and who had found the film’s themes and message to be so compelling that… he joined the army, and was shipping out to boot camp in a couple days.
Imagine missing the point of Fight Club so badly that instead of wanting to be Tyler Durden, you want to be Bitch-Tits Bob.
I’ve been trying to figure if they’d be better or worse than bears that are on fire on roller skates.
His name is Robert Paulson.
Something this thread reminded me of was the song “Richard Cory” by Simon and Garfunkel. The narrator of the song is obsessed with the title character, fantasizing about how fulfilling his life of wealth and luxury must be. Even after Richard commits suicide, the narrator is still pining that “wish[ed] that [he] could be Richard Cory.”
I never once thought Darth Vader was lying to Luke about joining forces to rule the galaxy as father and son.
Lots of people don’t get that you’re not supposed to like any of the characters in The Great Gatsby. Maybe a tinge of pity for Daisy and Tom’s daughter.
Most people seem to think that the “Midas touch” is a good thing.
I’m more concerned that he joined the Army because he thought it would be like Fight Club. I’m just hoping he washed out of Basic.
I’m sure he landed on his feet with a job in law enforcement somewhere.
It’s taken from a poem by Edward Arlington Robinson, whose point (and Simon’s) is that you can’t tell a person’s demons merely by looking. Or, more simply, money doesn’t but happiness.
Whenever Richard Cory went down town,
We people on the pavement looked at him:
He was a gentleman from sole to crown,
Clean favored, and imperially slim.
And he was always quietly arrayed,
And he was always human when he talked;
But still he fluttered pulses when he said,
“Good-morning,” and he glittered when he walked.
And he was rich—yes, richer than a king—
And admirably schooled in every grace:
In fine, we thought that he was everything
To make us wish that we were in his place.
So on we worked, and waited for the light,
And went without the meat, and cursed the bread;
And Richard Cory, one calm summer night,
Went home and put a bullet through his head.
Interesting thing about Fight Club is how many ways there are to interpret it. I took a course on story structure where we looked at this one in depth. While it was presented to us as a thriller, other students made compelling arguments for why it was a different kind of story - with one even suggesting it’s a metaphor for the Buddhist journey from suffering to Enlightenment.
Then we have the author himself, who remarked in the afterward, (paraphrasing), “I’ve heard so many explanations for what this book is about, but not once did anyone suggest it’s a love story.”
I can’t remember how important Marla Singer is in the film, but in the book the case can definitely be made for love. Marla is the impetus for change and the reason for the narrator’s self- sacrifice.
But Fight Club, the book, wasn’t written with an intentional message. Chuck P. explains he was experimenting with story form and wanted to see if he could construct scenes tied together not by temporal cues, context, etc. but patterns. The rules of Fight Club were a pattern. They didn’t have particular significance to the author, at least not consciously.
I figured the point was that the narrator (sung by Simon but I’m not saying Simon himself literally believed this) was saying even being a dead rich guy was better than being trapped in his mire of underclass poverty.
Agreed. I haven’t read the book. The movie Return To Oz also maintains the conceit.
The Captain Marvel/Shazam was wrong but is right again thing is kind of like how people used to call the USSR “Russia”. It was wrong until it was right.
Well, except (and yes I realize this really pedantic, but this is the Dope…) Russia was right until it was wrong until it was right again. Shazam was never right in the first place and was wrong and always had been until it was right.
That was my reaction to Dark_Sponge’s post as well—“What?!? People seriously think Vader was lying?”
Ruling the galaxy as father and son would have been incredibly cool, and I’ve always wished Lucas had gone in that direction.