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Quote:I've seen one good review, four reviews that were bad and two reviews that could be described, at best, as "tepid." (Which means Rotten Tomatoes bias-o-meter will give them fresh ratings instead of rotten ones.)Originally Posted by Pouncer
It's gotten good reviews
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Quote:Since you focused immediately on breast size, I think we can all guess what's on your pull list.Originally Posted by Durakken
I have no idea what my pull list will be come this DCnU thing... but it will likely be smaller.
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Quote:Different Borderlands.Originally Posted by LadyJudgement
In the movie Jumanji, there's a big game hunter out to kill the main character, looks just like the cartoon you posted... no offense meant... and Borderlands was a lot of fun to play, some great characters in there too...
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Quote:I agree. And if "not issue #1" is going to be a locked gate to new readers, what makes them think that #9 is going to be any less of a disincentive than #900? In two or three years they're going to have the same problem anyway.Originally Posted by Nightphall
Reason for the reboot from DC: To gain new readers by offering comics, characters, and stories unburdened by a massive amount of continuity and backlog
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Maybe it's just me to which this statement makes no sense.....I was born in 1984, and DC Comics existed when my late grandparents were children. I had no problem jumping into DC or Marvel, despite decades of backlog and continuity.
If people weren't buying comics before this, even if they know who Batman and Superman are, what is going to make them start now? -
Quote:This looks like one of those Kirkman books like Invincible or Wolf Man that are over-the-top and wink-wink action. That said, the outfit is a lot better than the 1985 one she was wearing last year.Originally Posted by Samothrake
Wonder Woman
Capitalizing on that Watchmen movie money from those 12 guys who liked it.Quote:Captain Atom
Firestorm came out when I was in in 8th grade or a high school freshman, and I thought he was the coolest thing ever back then. I had no idea there was another one. Or that they were life partners.Quote:Firestorm
AresHawkverine.Quote:Hawkman
Why is there a movie X-Man on the Justice League?Quote:Justice League International
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Quote:Maybe Caesar uses his really big brain to create a virus that makes people dumber. That would work. The US and USSR (and presumably other countries) developed chemical weapons which work on specific populations due to unique mutations in various parts of the world. There was a milk-based one that the Chinese were susceptible to, but the details escape me.Originally Posted by BrandX
This is actually what gets me. Seeing as how you see posters all the time go "it's not realistic"
So far, I don't see any way gorillas could realistically take over the world, when it's billions versus an endargered species.
In an article in Sports Illustrated (of all places), a geneticist mentioned how there is more genetic variety within a single group of Africans than in the rest of the world. He joked that on the DNA level, everyone else looks alike. (Turning the racist jab on its head.) So if you can find a weakness that a particular population shares that you don't, you can effectively wipe them out due their inherent similarity.
This is all academic. I doubt the movie will go into anything like this. I don't care -- monkeys with machine guns is plenty for me!
Edit: found the quote in my archives.
“Genetic variability – differences in DNA among people – is greater among Africans within a single population than among people from different continents outside Africa. … In fact, the further a group of native people is from Africa, the less genetically diverse it tends to be. In some sections of DNA, [geneticist Kenneth] Kidd says, there is more variation within a single African Pygmy population than in the entire rest of the world combined. “In that sense,” Kidd says, “I like to say that all Europeans look alike.”
– David Epstein, “Sports Genes,” Sports Illustrated, May 17, 2010 -
Quote:Sorry about that.Originally Posted by ZephyrWind
I can't read one of your posts without learning something.
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If she's Natural/Magic and blue... well, that suggests a member of the faery to me. Years and years ago there used to be this shared universe of stories called Borderlands or Bordertown where elves and humans mixed. You had punk rock elves and biker elves and all kinds of cool, weird mash-ups like those. Just do a riff on that: a warrior elf who's adopted some of the ways of humans. Her "human" guise can just be a glamour she puts on people, and everyone under the spell see her as a regular person. Tall, but human.
Ah, here it is: The Borderland Series. -
Quote:I kind of wanted Spider-man to interact with Iron Man et al, but that's just because he's one of the key characters created at the time of all these others. The X-Men I can take or leave. Mostly leave at this point.Originally Posted by Cowman
Hey, I'm not unreasonable. I can take changes in the continuity between the comics and movies. Heck, I hate the Ultimate-verse more than anything, and all the Marvel movies have borrowed heavily from the Ultimate continuity. But the characters and world still felt like the original comic ones, so it didn't bother me.
The X-Men movies never quite felt the same. It wasn't as noticeable in the first two since you could kinda see it as an extreme condensing of X-history. By X3 it was just a mess and trying to tie the new movie into that continuity killed my interest from the get-go.
Also, it was a prequel. And I'm rarely interested in prequels. That's just a personal thing.
And again, I'm not hating on First Class. From the sound of it the film turned out pretty good and I'm glad people enjoyed it. I just kinda wanted the X-movie-verse to be back under Marvel's control. One, cause their movies feel more faithful to the feel of the comics, and two, cause I wanna see the X-Men show up in Marvel's burdgeoning movie universe. Same with Spiderman.
As for the Ultimate comics' influence on the Marvel-made movies, recently we determined in the Thor thread that there are only three real changes they've ported over from UU: Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury, Hawkeye as a member of SHIELD and Banner working on the Super Soldier formula. Those are fairly minor changes. Besides, the UU was awesome until it started going horribly wrong when Millar and Loeb starting mucking about with it. The first 90-odd issues of Ultimate Spider-Man is probably the longest run of amazing stories I've ever seen. There are a couple duds in there, but overall it's really great stuff. -
Quote:Kind of seemed like he couldn't yet. Lots of power, no control.Originally Posted by Thug_Two
If Shaw had his powers at that point, he didn't have much to fear from the knives and the cleavers.
Although Eric didn't know that, so it did seem odd that he didn't even try to fling something (the file cabinet?) at Shaw. -
Quote:Shaw stated repeatedly how a coin was easier to move than a whole gate. So he knew what Erik could do. Erik seemed to be mostly crushing things: the bell, the helmets, the cabinet... Shaw was laughing with delight when it was all going on. I initially thought that was because he was crazy -- which he turned out to be -- but it turned out to be primarily because he was in no danger from whatever Erik could do.Originally Posted by Caemgen
Can't buy that Shaw had much a clue as to what Eric could really do given the fact that for some reason he put Eric through that while just a thin pane of glass away from a room stocked full of knives and cleavers...
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Quote:Maybe you should look up "dire straits" sometime. Knopfler's smarter than you think.Originally Posted by Texas Justice
Fixed that for ya.
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Quote:I'm not sure one could categorize NWA as a forgotten corner of the 80s. Maybe to kids too young to remember the brouhaha stirred up by them because at a certain age politics and similar controversies go over your head. I'd also put Van Halen and Michael Jackson in the last list, since they are definitely products of the 70s. That said, they did have their biggest hits in the 80s, which is why they're associated with that decade. Plus the videos cements things in people's minds.Originally Posted by SilverAgeFan
As you point out, like any decade, it was highly varied. The heavily marketed stuff for the most part stank. But a lot of good stuff did come out of the 80's that folks don't necessarily associate with that decade:
A few examples of bands that came out of the 80's but people forget came from the 80's:
Fishbone
NWA
Front 242
Ministry
Jane's Addiction
Stone Roses
Operation Ivy
Fugazi
As well as some acts that very much represent the decade, but still have something to offer:
Madonna
Cyndi Lauper
Metallica
Michael Jackson
Van Halen
Public Enemy
Smiths
New Order
Big Audio Dynamite
Duran Duran
LL Cool J
Bow Wow Wow
Sugarcubes
Minor Threat
and those that worked before, through and after the decade:
Siouxsie & the Banshees
the Cure
the Clash
the Cramps
Motorhead
So yeah, despite being the decade that gave us yacht rock, Huey Lewis and late career Dolly Parton duets, there was some decent stuff on the airwaves if you knew where to point your analogue radio dial.
Edit to add: and the Dead Kennedys fit somewhere into that mix. But they formed in '78 and broke up mid 80's--so not sure which list. And none of this touches the truly oddball stuff that was underground then and has remained underground since. From the De La Soul to the Dwarves, the decade did have a lot to offer.
The moment of the late 70s to early 80s was definitely an experimental one, with various forms of street music (punk from the UK, rap from the US) alternately fighting and uniting, art rock changing into "alternative" (Talking Heads, etc.), disco changing (almost imperceptibly) into Club music and roots rockers coming back to the charts (Mellencamp, Springsteen). For me, '77 to '79 were some of the greatest years ever for music. The sheer variety and awesomeness of the stuff released was tremendous. -
Quote:Musically, the 80s were all over the place. It seemed like every couple years there was a new fad taking hold.Originally Posted by Scythus
What music were you listening to? That doesn't describe '80s music at all.
Here's a couple of my favorites for a better idea of what I'm talking about.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-P09gm_I5RI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOdfzmzwtVA
The synth pop stuff like what you posted was pretty much done by the mid 80s. The hot trend was then hair metal bands and then rap and club music. By the late 80s it was pretty much a free-for-all, with no one style dominating the public's attention. One might argue in favor of the pre-packaged boy bands, because they got their start then, but it didn't seem to be a true musical fad until the early 90s. -
Quote:I thought the 80s style was now called the Dark Age (for the grittiness as well as the darker colors), although at the time we all called it the Iron Age. Diamond Age might refer to whenever Diamond Distributors got their monopolistic stranglehold on comic distribution, effectively stifling a lot of indie comics gaining wide release and notice, and as such be somewhat derogatory.Originally Posted by SilverAgeFan
Silver age is mostly 60's 70's. Reasonable arguments could say it starts sometime in the 50's. But either way, the silver age occurred when superheroes re-emerged as a focal genre for comics after crime, war, horror, western and romance comics had grown to dominate the medium in post war America. There was also a very distinct limited color palette throughout the silver age and offset plates were printed at a lower LPI resolution to limit spoilage. These factors could be credited as much as the era's fashion and mainstream culture for the distinct bold style of silver age hero and villain costumes.
This changed in the 80's as color separation technologies advanced, making photo separation increasingly affordable for the medium which was eventually replaced by photo-digital and 100% digital separation during the 90's. At the time, the 1980's was considered to harbor the second golden age of comics when these more detailed graphic styles, broader color palettes (heavy with subtle earth tones) became coupled with grittier revisionings of classic silver and golden age characters. The second golden age is more commonly referred to now as the diamond age and if I'm not mistaken also includes most of the 1990's.
The history is obviously more complex than this when one includes the rolling influence of underground comics that always seems to lag the mainstream comics by at least a decade. i.e. themes in underground comics in the 1960's not making their way into mainstream books till the 1970's. But that's a horse of a different color.
Short of it: silver age is definitely 1960's & 1970's. -
Quote:You looked all those references up, didn't you?Originally Posted by Zwillinger
What...I just really like the 80's.
Now excuse me, I need to go and peg-roll my acid wash jeans while wearing my Hypercolor shirt and listening to my brand new Sony Walkman Cassette player.
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Quote:I lived through both. I'll say one thing: I'd rather listen to Disco every day of the week and twice on Saturday night than hear one more stinkin' Club music song ever again. Club music is just like Disco, except they took out the instruments, musicians and talent.Originally Posted by Grae Knight
pfft, 80s are nothing. Try living through the crappy 70s! One word, Disco.
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Lots of great stuff here. I've long admired Mobilise, which I think is one of the best examples of 21st-century style of superhero design. I find myself completely incapable of capturing the modern design zeitgeist, so I has the envy.
Ricochet Racer is drop-dead gorgeous and the opposite end of the spectrum, evoking the pulp and Golden Age of superheroes perfectly.
And to round it out, Mr. Velocity exquisitely captures the burgeoning Silver Age design of characters like Whizzer and Speed Demon.
I'll have to get some screenies of my speedsters, although none are as good as these three. -
All anybody wants is a normal life and a cool car. Most people settle for the car.
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Quote:It's a metaphor. Do we not understand metaphor any more?Originally Posted by Mr. DJ
the more I read about it, the more stupid this movie seems and that the original actually makes more sense.
unless the drug they exposed Caesar to is a virus, they'll have to keep making more to expose newborn apes/chimps/etc to.
Also, there's no way the original movie could make more sense. I mean, c'mon, where the hell did Taylor think he was, anyway? A bunch of apes with Christian names running around speaking English? I don't care what you told your fellow travelers, that's not Alpha Centauri, Bright Eyes.
The entire arc of the original PotA series is really, really good "science fiction as metaphor," because the story of the first ape to say "No!" echoes any number of creation stories from religion and politics throughout our history, and mimics the simplicity and inevitability (and hence the rightness) of such tales. It's also fun from a purely science fictional aspect, because although the leader of the ape revolt has become mythologized by the time of the events in PotA, what really happens is that the apes telling that story travel back through time to sire the "advanced ape" who leads the revolt... who isn't actually the one given credit for it. But the myth needs a martyr, and one was offered up as an excuse to kick the revolution off right.
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Quote:Indie comic book writer/artist Allison Bechdel's "Movie Test", now called "The Bechdel Test". From her 1985 comic book, whose title would get censored here.Originally Posted by Smersh
Have not seen the film. I do have something for you, Durakken, though. It's a test for how well a film portrays female characters. I forget what the test is called, but it has a name out there somewhere.
Anyhow: The Test for Female Characterization
1. Is there more than one major female character in the film?
2. If so, do those female characters ever talk to each other?
3. If so, do those female characters talk to each other about subjects other than men?
Gotta hit all three points to pass the test. Not many blockbuster movies do.
I think the first one also specified that they had to have names.
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Quote:I keep wondering if his death was a joke. I mean, back then, in sci-fi flicks the black guy was always the first to die.Originally Posted by Durakken
As far as Darwin... I thought he had interesting power concept that they could have played with and since he i guess died in the comics they could have done more with him without making fans as mad. I hadn't heard of him before now either...just seems like a character you wouldn't kill off.
Robert Townshend has a bit about it:
"Private Johnson! Go down that long, dark tunnel with the slime coming out of it and check it out!"
"Yassuh! I be right back! Ahhhhhh-!"
Maybe he'll come back in the sequel, though. Since his power is to adapt, perhaps he adapted into an energy being. -
Quote:Unintentionally hilarious. "Those don't exist because I haven't heard of them."Originally Posted by EvilRyu
Those arent real movies/shows. I never heard of any of that stuff.
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