Morning Discussion
Morning folks. So why do lawyers blame silly things like Grand Theft Auto in court? Because it's their job. Also, if you were waiting for Rush's Moving Pictures album on Rock Band, you may have to wait a bit. And Will Wright? Loves the Sporn.
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replyBeen waiting to post this link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3zpMTKvvgk
yasm (yet another superhero movie)-
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I really wish someone would make a good superhero movie. I don't mean like batman where it's a guy being all morose and who doesn't even have super powers, and I don't mean like the hulk where it's one single guy with powers vs. the govt and when he's not super powered he's all morose, and not like that trailer and not like The Specials and not like Mystery Men and not like Superman Returns where there aren't any super powered people for him to fight and he's all morose when he's creepily spying on Lois and not like Hancock where he's all morose where the main bad guy is a one handed dude with a guy.
Why can't someone make a superhero movie that's about bad ass super heroes tearing up shit and actually fighting other super powered people? They can still be human characters with personalities, but why are all the superhero movies lately about people with a shit ton of angst or ridiculous spoofs?
The Xmen movies were about the best superhero movies ever made, and parts of the first two spiderman movies were okay, but even those were riddled with angsty characters.-
IAWTP also lol at your descriptions
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Hancock was pretty original at least....
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That's exactly what I hate about comics in general. AWESOME GUY beats up AWESOME GUY until MORE AWESOME GUY comes along then gets into a fight with EVEN MORE TOTALLY AWESOME GUY then AWESOME CROSSOVER GUY joins the fight doing something BADASS and then THE UNIVERSE RESETS.
Superhero comics mostly suck. The whole escalating conflict thing gets really really old really really fast. It did in DBZ too.
Watchmen, The Authority (well, the first few), and Planetary are about the only good (modern) superhero comics I can think of.-
Rising Stars is another for that list. Awesome series.
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w00t thanks for the tip
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Brand New Day is fucking awful. It's the most horrible ret-con job ever attempted in comics.
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I agree with you on Thor being awesome, thats my current favorite Marvel title along with Iron Fist, but Brand New Day??? Your taste is suspect after a comment like that.
SUSPECT like your sexual orientation, gay guy
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For the same reason Poirot is fastidious, solves the case and complains about people confusing him for a Frenchman in all his books, for the same reason Rambo shoots shit up and broods about being a vet and watching his buddies die in every fucking movie.
Spiderman did evolve, he got into a relationship, he went and did other things, the weirdness of that became the status quo, but in the end the staff realized that Spiderman fighting the Skrulls with the Avengers on an alien planet or whatever retarded shit is not nearly as interesting as Spidey not having money, catching muggers and being in trouble with the Daily Bugle. Those are home traits that a) are not restrictive in what kind of enemies you can come up for the character yet allow interesting drama to be created from story to story b) separate and make distinct the character from other superheroes c) are what drew people to the character in the first place.
There's nothing wrong with that. It's what mainstream entertainment is. What the fuck are you reading comics for except for that kind of direct, simple satisfaction?-
The point is that it's a piss-poor execution of wanting to "mix things up" for a character. It's the epitome of piss-poor.
ASM's sales figures have steadily dropped every month since Brand New Day started.
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That's just it. I haven't read superhero comics in over a decade, except for Civil War, which was okay. The problem is, a decade later, I pick up an Xmen tie in to Civil War? Nothing has changed. Like... nothing. Maybe the team has a few different members on it, but what's the point of reading a story if I can miss over 100 issues and not miss anything?
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I'm not saying they can't be regular people when they're not being superheroes. But most superhero movies suck cause the super powered person is the only person in the world with powers. I'd like to see a team of super heroes (and not bullshit superheroes like Hawkeye and Mockingbird) against a genuine threat and not "omg he's got super powers, shoot it with a helicopter!"
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We need a Lobo movie
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what you've described sounds a bit like transformers the movie. nobody wants that : /
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The Civil War storyline is actually a bit like this. Heavily dependent on the character's personalities and stuff, but since the story literally applies to all of Marveldom, there's lots of big melees going on.
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Looks pretty funny, reminds me a little of The Tick with its setup.
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That's the first thing I thought of when I saw that. Also We're all superheroes here ya twat.
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That looks awesome and kudos again to the UK for using normal looking people in starring roles instead of a group of models/pretty boys.
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i dont think there has every been one. I had the same reaction when i noticed it was an ITV show. No commedians/actors/writers aim to get their work on ITV, its usually bbc/channel4/sky and if they turn it down itv takes it. which isnt a good sign.
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I'm with you on this one. Jesus fucking Christ look at this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:ITV_comedy
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looks like they forgot to make it funny or interesting. Plus, Mystery Men.
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hey it's got the guy from Man Stroke Woman, it could be funny
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