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Post by blackvault on Dec 21, 2013 22:37:53 GMT -6
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Post by mh on Dec 21, 2013 23:07:04 GMT -6
google chrome won't let me see it! anywhere else we can have a look? it says the site is hazardous as a malware threat. never had that happen before yikes .. and now i see microsoft security essentials is putting ' This site may harm your computer' on every movies.cosmicbooknews.com link. be afraid, be very afraid!!
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Post by Babu Baboon on Dec 22, 2013 0:08:54 GMT -6
rainiac reminds me of the Martians from "Mars Attacks".
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Post by mxy on Jan 5, 2014 13:49:49 GMT -6
As one of the five people who loved Superman Returns, I would have liked to see this. I hope Singer was planning to use Brainiac's pet monkey, Koko.
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Post by Babu Baboon on Jan 5, 2014 13:56:29 GMT -6
I liked Superman Returns, too, even if it did seem like too much of a love letter to the Donner movie. It would have been nice if Lex Luthor had tried something other than another real estate scheme, though. Particularly since the land mass he created would have been the ugliest land ever anyway.
If he had gone with Brainiac first, it might have been better.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 6, 2014 6:08:16 GMT -6
Put me down as someone who liked Superman Returns. Plus, a friend of mine was a henchman.
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Post by Babu Baboon on Jan 6, 2014 14:24:05 GMT -6
Good for him. Henching is a hard line of work to get into.
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Post by mxy on Jan 7, 2014 19:18:29 GMT -6
Really? That's cool. Was he the one who played the piano?
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Post by blackvault on Jan 7, 2014 20:08:50 GMT -6
i forgot this was the second attempt to bring brainiac to the big screen seeing that the early draft of the superman 3 script had him in it.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 8, 2014 4:31:17 GMT -6
Really? That's cool. Was he the one who played the piano? This is him Mxy:  He survived til near the end, when I think the mountain of ice falls on him. To be honest, it's been so long since I watched it, I kinda forget what happens. |
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Post by Babu Baboon on Jan 8, 2014 18:25:46 GMT -6
Cool that he got to do that. What else has he been in?
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Post by williscorto on Jan 8, 2014 19:00:51 GMT -6
rainiac reminds me of the Martians from "Mars Attacks". Bingo. Looks very lame. Then again, a guy who wears a pink unitard otherwise has never really been cool. I think the only rendition of Brainiac I've liked was the Morrison/Quietly Earth-2 version. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 9, 2014 14:28:20 GMT -6
Cool that he got to do that. What else has he been in? A couple of Australian movies, Babu, but mostly just stage and TV. |
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Post by Doc Quantum on Jan 9, 2014 16:07:04 GMT -6
rainiac reminds me of the Martians from "Mars Attacks". Bingo. Looks very lame. Then again, a guy who wears a pink unitard otherwise has never really been cool. I think the only rendition of Brainiac I've liked was the Morrison/Quietly Earth-2 version.
When Brainiac was first introduced, I don't think he was intended to be anything but a one-shot villain -- an alien version of Luthor, complete with the super-scientific brain and the bald head. Hence you have a poorly thought out pink and white legless costume that looks very silly -- though I did like the green bald guy look with the weird jewels atop his head. But because he was the dude who was connected to the Bottle City of Kandor, he rose in prominence as Kandor became less and less a mere trophy in Superman's Fortress of Solitude, and more of a place for him to visit fellow Kryptonians and a few distant relatives. And, of course, after Brainiac 5 made his first appearance in a Supergirl during the time before the Legion of Super-Heroes were really a thing, that guaranteed that Brainiac had to be elevated to the same level as Lex Luthor.
(Strangely, the interior artist drew a completely different outfit on Brainiac, one with a loose-fitting shirt and long pants, with a jacket, which is completely different from Brainiac's look on the cover, which was drawn by Curt Swan and looks identical to all other depictions of Brainiac. Note that on the cover he has those weird jewels/nozzles on his head, but in the interior art he's just bald. Also, the story features Clark Kent and Lois Lane, along with a bunch of other civilians, making history as the first people in space back in 1958, but whatever. That's just par for the course in a comic-book world.)
But it took a long while for that to happen. In a lot of Brainiac's follow-up appearances, he's not really treated as a formidable villain like Luthor usually is, but more like a plot device. His next appearance was a mere flashback, showing how Brainiac stole Kandor during Superman's visit to Krypton (when he fell in love with Lyla Lerrol and became Jor-El's assistant, a few years before Jor-El and Lara got pregnant with Kal-El). Brainiac then appeared in SUPERMAN'S GIRL FRIEND LOIS LANE #17 (May, 1960), but only a behind-the-scenes threat rather than a villain of the month. His subsequent appearances aren't notable, either. The Superman editor/writers just didn't know what to do with him, though they kept him around due to his connection with Kandor. They didn't really think through what the character was all about, either. Was he just a bad guy with force-field and shrinking ray gimmicks? Was he all about stealing cities? Was he all about getting revenge on Superman for thwarting his plans? Was he all about being evil for evil's sake? That pet monkey of his (Koko? Moko? Smoko?) didn't help things, either. And neither did random stories like the one where Boz and Grumm, two member's of Brainiac's "gang" are seen (JIMMY OLSEN #68) -- though why Brainiac, always shown to act alone (except for that damned monkey), needed a "gang" was never explained.
Arguably, Brainiac didn't really hit the big time until Mort Weisinger had the brilliant idea of tying the villain "Brainiac" with a then-new computer by that name, by making Brainiac a living computer (they never called him a robot or an android, which have very different connotations, especially back then -- just a living computer) after the 1950s-era Brainiac Computer Kit, a knockoff of the Geniac toy computer. It's too bad they didn't opt to give him a new wardrobe at the same time, because even drawn by Curt Swan, that Brainiac outfit just looks plain silly.
(Interestingly, there was an earlier Brainiac who appeared in SUPERMAN'S PAL JIMMY OLSEN #28 (March 1958), who was an "electronic brain" living in the year 5921 A.D. There was no relation between this electronic brain and the well-known Brainiac who appeared four months later, though.)
I've got to say that the Superman comics never did very well at cultivating good super-villains, especially in the Silver Age. They pretty much kept to Lex Luthor throughout the 1960s and occasionally had other villains show up as well. But most of the stories were about Superman trying to keep his secret identity from being exposed, or Jimmy Olsen getting a new super-power, or Lois Lane trying to trick Superman into marrying her somehow. A lot of stupid character-based stories but not a lot of really good villain stories in that era. |
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Post by williscorto on Jan 10, 2014 3:02:03 GMT -6
I oddly enough just looked at the first appearance of Brainiac in an unrelated thread (becauise I couldn't find any online info on the first Silver age appearance of The Construct).
You think there were no good Silver Age Superman villains, eh?
Brainiac
General Zod
Parasite
Toyman
Mr Mxypltk
The Atomic Skull
Neutron
Terra-Man
Metallo
Black Rock
Master Jailer
Intergang
Quex-Ul
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