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Originally Posted by Dark_Respite
I can see it now.
Mah'na: Mah'na. Do'doo: doo doo doo. Michelle aka Samuraiko/Dark_Respite |
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My thinking is, it's been hard enough to get people in the seats for comic titles that have big budgets and recognizable names attached, even when they're known properties. A CoH movie has things in it's favor, but also a lot of things against it when it comes to getting a movie made.|
Originally Posted by Sardan
First let me emphasize I love this game. That said, I can't see the point in making a City of Heroes movie. It seems to me that the two main reasons you'd make a film is either that it has a compelling story or it has a built-in fanbase that you want to cash in on. The fanbase of CoH is decent in terms of being a profitable MMO but might as well be nonexistent in Hollywood terms. Interview 100 random folks and the odds will be extremely high that none of them have heard of CoH. Contrast that to WoW that has millions of fans. I could see Uwe Boll hired on to do a WoW movie.
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Frankly, in the next 1-4 years, we're due for a glut of comic movies, and one about a property that only a couple hundred thousand gamers know in any detail will almost definitely NOT get the Money People to pay to make it, much less get people in the seats.
I can think of at least a half dozen movies coming in the next few years that will trump anything they could come up with for CoH, and that's just off the top of my head.
Now, a CoH TV series that consciously avoids anything and everything that Heroes has done to alienate its fans over the last few years...
"Null is as much an argument "for removing the cottage rule" as the moon being round is for buying tennis shoes." -Memphis Bill
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Originally Posted by KianaZero
Don't forget the two old guys who complain about everything!
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The Mentor Project
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Originally Posted by Bookkeeper_Jay
And it should be directed by Uwe Boll.
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A CoH TV show would totally not work. Heroes worked (we're speaking of when it was good here) because of the drama and whatnot. CoH doesn't have any of that; it has people in tight pants punching things. Lett's be honest, the closest CoH has ever come to drama was Manticore's and Sister Psyche's wedding. It simply wouldn't be enthralling as a TV show.
On the other hand, a CoH cartoon would be fantastic.
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Originally Posted by Kitsune Knight
Drawn by who? That's right, MEN! Yet another example of the manocracy pushing their slimy mantasies on everyone else!
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HEY!
They're not slimey until the end of the last scene.
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Originally Posted by Razoras
Naaah. Y'see, dye Day's hair black and you've got a good Swan. Swan, except as portrayed by an Image/Top Cow artist, is skinny (sorta, as skinny gets in this game) like Day is. The marketing material and in-game material that depicts Psyche, though? That's some crazy proportions to live up to. The kind of stuff only plastic can meet!
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Swan is also 6 feet tall...
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Uwe Boll actually went to the Blizzard offices and OFFERED to make a Warcraft movie. They kicked him out...|
Originally Posted by Sardan
I could see Uwe Boll hired on to do a WoW movie.
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True story.
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Originally Posted by DarkGob
   Get her on a Stairmaster right away!! |
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Originally Posted by Kitsune Knight
Drawn by who? That's right, MEN! Yet another example of the manocracy pushing their slimy mantasies on everyone else!
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I don't know how many?
Not enough!
Funny how I know dozens of Female artists that have little inteerest in changing that style of art.
Doom/Batman in 2012
The Resistance has boobs too, and better hair!
The Resistance has boobs too, and better hair!
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this may be the only thing that could get me to say WoW, Uwe Boll and awesome in the same sentence.
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Originally Posted by Slashman
Uwe Boll actually went to the Blizzard offices and OFFERED to make a Warcraft movie. They kicked him out...
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That's because they're forced to by the manstablishment! Damn manpigs!
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Originally Posted by Daimyo_Shi
Funny how I know dozens of Female artists that have little inteerest in changing that style of art.
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Originally Posted by ShadowNate
;_; ?!?! What the heck is wrong with you, my god, I have never been so confused in my life!
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Originally Posted by Noxilicious
Are people calling Swan fat now, or is there a joke I'm missing?
Her legs look more like muscle than fat, anyway. Some people cannot afford super-strength without muscles ruining their looks. Edit: Whoops forgot there's a second page when I typed this |
So Swan is too fat, Sister Psyche's hair is too red and Dominatrix isn't harsh enough.
The Rikti Commander can be played by John Travolta. 
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Originally Posted by UnSub
This is the internet, where women you'd crawl over broken glass for in real life are dismissed with a "she's only a 9.5 out of 10, so not up to my usual standards".
So Swan is too fat, Sister Psyche's hair is too red and Dominatrix isn't harsh enough. |
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I wouldn't be surprised if the guy that got the rights to the movie had no intentions of making a movie at all.
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Originally Posted by Chase_Arcanum
IIRC, the guy buying the rights was of the attitude "throw special effects, superheroes, and aliens on the screen, and who'd care about STORY?" Honestly, though... I agree. I can't see the merit in a live-action movie centering on the Rikti war, as the original press releases indicated.
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http://www.fimfiction.net/story/36641/My-Little-Exalt
I'm reasonably sure they just got an "Option" to the movie right? That doesn't mean they will make it, it just means they can if they want to, and no one else can...
All-Star Cast:
Statesman= Definitely Gerald Butler.
Manticore= Nicolas Cage, for the angst.
Sister Psyche= Alyssa Mylano. Hot. She could have a thing with Ghost Widow...
Back Alley Brawler= Michael Clark Duncan. No one else could play this better.
Synapse= Will Smith. Why not?
Lord Recluse= Hugh Jackman. Because he looks like he could be buds with G. Butler. Remember, the characters were buds before they found the Well of The Furies...
Ghost Widow= Liv Tyler, mostly because she is hot...
Mako= Chris Kattan, because he needs the work.
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Originally Posted by AZPete
Mako= Chris Kattan, because he needs the work.
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Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
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Originally Posted by storm_witch
the rikti commander can be played by john travolta.
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No one goes there anymore, it's too crowded...
"The potato goes in the FRONT."
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ok we gone past the point were I think you are kidding! there has been big movement in comics to Change female characterization over the years and it is light years than it was in the early years of comics. yes the women are generally very sexy but they have personalities and kick butt and don't need a man to save them. You rather that every woman in comics was lois lane again?
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Originally Posted by Kitsune Knight
That's because they're forced to by the manstablishment! Damn manpigs!
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Doom/Batman in 2012
The Resistance has boobs too, and better hair!
The Resistance has boobs too, and better hair!
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No one should ever take me serious when I'm making Futurama references. Now if I was making Code Geass references... yes, you should take me very serious. But I'm not. And you shouldn't.| ok we gone past the point were I think you are kidding! |
Screw it, lets get drunk!
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Originally Posted by ShadowNate
;_; ?!?! What the heck is wrong with you, my god, I have never been so confused in my life!
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I am work I don't do Hyperlinks because their internet policy especially to YouTube, which is super against the rules but not Locked out [figure that out]|
Originally Posted by Kitsune Knight
No one should ever take me serious when I'm making Futurama references. Now if I was making Code Geass references... yes, you should take me very serious. But I'm not. And you shouldn't.
Screw it, lets get drunk! |
So what are we drinking?
Doom/Batman in 2012
The Resistance has boobs too, and better hair!
The Resistance has boobs too, and better hair!
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Don't know what your position is or what type of company you work for, but I'd say a 'no youtube' policy without flat out blocking youtube is a good thing, as there are going to cases where watching a video on youtube would actually be benficial (again, it varies by the job). Your IT department should have no issue tracking your activies online (both at the gateway level as well as by local monitoring), so they can still know if you're goofing off on youtube.|
Originally Posted by Daimyo_Shi
I am work I don't do Hyperlinks because their internet policy especially to YouTube, which is super against the rules but not Locked out [figure that out]
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I'd say an IT department that treats the employees as adults is a good thing. Far too often I see IT departments that think the employees are there to serve them, while in fact the IT department's role is to make the employee's job easier (no, 5 megs of space for email is just a stupid idea! hard drive space is DIRT CHEAP).
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Originally Posted by ShadowNate
;_; ?!?! What the heck is wrong with you, my god, I have never been so confused in my life!
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They nerfed Statesman's height?!
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Originally Posted by Kitsune Knight
Dear god, I hope not!
Unless the writers are personally pissed about ED... then I think that'd be quite amusing (if you can't tell, my opinion of Tom Cruise is even lower than that of the "back in my day-ers" opinion of Jack/States  ) |
Who do I have to *&^% around here to get more Targeted AoE recipes added?
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In terms of story, the CoH canon is certainly pretty rich as a game world setting but nothing special in terms of creating a screenplay. I just fail to see why anyone would consider a CoH movie a potentially profitable venture.
IIRC, the guy buying the rights was of the attitude "throw special effects, superheroes, and aliens on the screen, and who'd care about STORY?" Honestly, though... I agree. I can't see the merit in a live-action movie centering on the Rikti war, as the original press releases indicated.