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    Will New Writers Shield Us From A Terrible Hancock Sequel?

    20 Great American Superheroes To Share Your Holiday With
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    Image of CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard) CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard)
    08/25/09

    In reply to Will New Writers Shield Us From A Terrible Hancock Sequel?
    Hancock was ok. I avoided the hype and the cinema release. I just watchedit on DVD instead. Me and the missus thought it was ok. Just ok. It felt like 2 completly different films near the end, both good, both bad!! I hope the second is better. Thats if they need to make another. Didnt they wrap up the first one. Remind me...this thing was very throw away!!
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    Image of Smeagol92055 Smeagol92055
    08/25/09

    In reply to Will New Writers Shield Us From A Terrible Hancock Sequel?
    I liked Hancock a lot more than I thought I would, even though it felt choppy, as if two separate films had been smushed together.

    Now that we have the origin story out of the way, I'm looking forward to seeing the character expand more in the sequel.
    Spiderman 2 was (to me) a great example of what could be done once the obligatory origin movie was done. Let's hope the writers have fun with it.
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    08/25/09

    In reply to Will New Writers Shield Us From A Terrible Hancock Sequel?
    I never saw Hancock. Should I?
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    Image of EBone EBone
    08/25/09

    In reply to Will New Writers Shield Us From A Terrible Hancock Sequel?
    If The Shield writers make Hancock 2 half as good as the poorest episode of The Shield, it will be great.
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    Image of LittleDragon LittleDragon
    08/25/09

    In reply to Will New Writers Shield Us From A Terrible Hancock Sequel?
    I loved Hancock and hope all the characters are back for this one :) :P
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    Image of Quilt Quilt
    08/25/09

    In reply to Will New Writers Shield Us From A Terrible Hancock Sequel?
    Goal: Make the entire 2 hours of Hancock 2 as fun as the first 20 minutes of Hancock.
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    Image of RandomFrequentFlierDent RandomFrequentFlierDent
    08/25/09

    In reply to Will New Writers Shield Us From A Terrible Hancock Sequel?
    No.

    The reason being: there is no need for a sequel.
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    08/25/09

    @RandomFrequentFlierDent:

    My thoughts exactly.
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    Image of Superfast Superfast
    08/25/09

    In reply to Will New Writers Shield Us From A Terrible Hancock Sequel?
    Are we talking Dexter season 1, or Dexter season 3? 'cause this could go either way.
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    Image of NerD: Blattella NerD: Blattella
    08/25/09

    @Superfast: HEY! I liked Season 2 a lot as well. Some of us miss Lila. Sweet Hot terribly fucking insane Lila.
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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    08/25/09

    @NerD!!! - R.O.A.C.H.: Yeah, but season 3 was a bit of a turd. Well, at least the last third of season 3.

    Season 4 looks fucking amazing so far though.
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    08/25/09

    @Pope John Peeps II: crap. I am watching it on netflix. I have crap to look forward to.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    08/25/09

    In reply to Will New Writers Shield Us From A Terrible Hancock Sequel?
    I actually enjoyed Hancock, but I was never sure if there was enough potential or intrigue to really push a sequel.
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    Image of Invisible-Echidna Invisible-Echidna
    08/25/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: Yeah, not all of Hancock was bad. It just didn't all seem to mix too well.
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    Image of se7a7n7 se7a7n7
    08/25/09

    @Invisible-Echidna: To me, it was MUCH better than we were lead to believe.
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    07/04/09

    In reply to 20 Great American Superheroes To Share Your Holiday With
    I am shocked, shocked, at the absence of Mister Freedom!

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    Image of MonkeyT MonkeyT
    07/04/09

    In reply to 20 Great American Superheroes To Share Your Holiday With
    Since you mentioned American Maid, don't forget Captain Liberty from the live action Tick. If only for how she killed The Immortal.
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    07/04/09

    @MonkeyT: Pretty sure he managed to get the two mixed together in his head; he says "Dressed like Lady Liberty", but American Maid's costume is more of a domestically inclined Captain America type deal.
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    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    07/04/09

    @cynopt: I think you're right.


    I <3 Capt. Liberty and the whole live-action Tick.


    (adds to Amazon Wish List)

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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    07/04/09

    In reply to 20 Great American Superheroes To Share Your Holiday With
    There's something really compelling about the Comedian when you think about him as a character in a book. Trying to piece together his motivations means that there's always a little hole missing, and it's that little lacuna of insanity or cruelty or just darkness that always escapes. It's what makes him laugh too, I suppose. It's a really nicely put together figure that sort of embodies all the cold-war mentalities and post-vietnam traumas of America.
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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    07/04/09

    @Pope John Peeps II: I guess the thing it reminds me most of perhaps is Kurtz in Marlow's Heart of Darkness. A sort of brilliant, intensely ideological figure who gets caught up in the fragility of those ideals, and obsessed with their dark opposite, and so becomes a horrible savage in the process.
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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    07/04/09

    @Pope John Peeps II: haha. Conrad's Heart of Darkness, rather. Marlow was the central character.
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