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Just watched the Wolverine trailer, I undertsand what people mean about dodgy special effects, but I don't really care because I love the huge amount of pathos. If they live up to the Inception "BWOoONG" (seriously, has there been a more heavy handed Summer action blockbuster ever than Inception? The closest I can think of would be Ang Lee's Hulk, and that had a mutant poodle) then I'm happy. Seriously, what I want from a Wolverine movie is a film about an immortal man who regrets the fact that all he's done in life is kill people. But it should be at least a little silly, because his name is Wolverine and aside from his claws, his other trademark is goofy loving hair.
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Hey! Say what you will about the quality of effects, script, acting, directing, etc. But I will not hear a single word spoken against that amazing hair.
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Mar 28, 2013 11:50
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Unfortunate for Catwoman, but these colors are gorgeous. e: Sorry to drag this up from pages ago.
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Mar 28, 2013 17:41
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volumecontrol posted:I've never quite understood what the original armors' pants and arms were made of. I mean, they're clearly flexible, and they show his muscles...is it supposed to be space-age mithrill or something? Short answer: yes. What it really is is flexible and compact metal mesh that normally is soft and compact but when powered by the suit it is pulled up magnetically to connect between the red parts of the suit in which it's housed and then hardened. Kinda like in Batman Begins when we see the electricity used to turn Batman's cape into wings.
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Mar 28, 2013 18:51
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SpaceMost posted:Unfortunate for Catwoman, but these colors are gorgeous. Couldn't agree more. drat I wish more art inside the books was colored like that. Instead we're constantly plagued by the remnants of slipshod digital airbrushing that looks like it came straight out of the 90s. Sometimes I just get sad when I try to see the inks behind the colors - I'd much rather read a black and white book than a poorly colored one.
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Mar 28, 2013 19:17
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Or even a book that's inked well. A lot of digital inking in comics just straight up looks like poo poo to the point where you think it's a shame that the original and probably serviceable illustration is actually terrible.
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Mar 28, 2013 19:24
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Now please explain your grievances to every other comic book fan on the planet. I will never understand why, in an environment where you can use any color you can dream of, the coloring is so terrible. I mean, I do understand (cheaper to do it quickly and no one cares), but not on an artistic level.
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Mar 28, 2013 21:48
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SpaceMost posted:Unfortunate for Catwoman, but these colors are gorgeous. Her goggles look like a tiny bra. 
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Mar 29, 2013 01:21
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Or even a book that's inked well. A lot of digital inking in comics just straight up looks like poo poo to the point where you think it's a shame that the original and probably serviceable illustration is actually terrible. Coincidentally, I just discovered this. So much terrible, airbrushed, overly-gradiented recoloring 
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Mar 29, 2013 01:46
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feedmyleg posted:Coincidentally, I just discovered this. So much terrible, airbrushed, overly-gradiented recoloring I'm already aware that I'm reading a comic book, so show me interesting art, not some blurry confusing attempt at realism. unlimited shrimp fucked around with this message at 03:15 on Mar 29, 2013 |
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Mar 29, 2013 03:08
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My favorite coloring in comics right now is probably Hawkeye. That book is just fantastic all around.
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Mar 29, 2013 03:16
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feedmyleg posted:Coincidentally, I just discovered this. So much terrible, airbrushed, overly-gradiented recoloring This is making me irrationally angry, and I haven't read a comic book for years.
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Mar 29, 2013 08:50
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feedmyleg posted:Coincidentally, I just discovered this. So much terrible, airbrushed, overly-gradiented recoloring The recoloring doesn't really work for the classic stuff, but I do think it looks good with the early 90's Liefield covers they have listed there. The second X-Men 1 recolor would be fantastic if the colorist hadn't gone crazy with Magneto.
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On Del Toro's "Dark Universe" (source): Appearing at WonderCon over the weekend to promote "Pacific Rim," filmmaker Guillermo del Toro says that he has already penned the outline for "Dark Universe". The project combines various second-tier DC Comics characters in what is essentially an "Avengers"-type ensemble, albeit with a darker supernatural tone. Del Toro adds that a writer has already been hired and will work with him to turn that outline into a script. Said writer will be announced shortly. He also revealed a few other story points: The 'team' will be lead by a John Constantine (from the "Hellblazer" comics) who tries to recruit the other heroes. Constantine will be blond in this version. The team itself will consist of Constantine, Swamp Thing, Etrigan the Demon, Deadman, The Spectre and Zatanna. The story will reportedly deal with Jason Blood's history with Merlin and King Arthur's knights, but bring the threat to present day. In a nice twist, the origin elements of the characters will be revealed over time instead of right upfront. This means Swamp Thing is already living a peaceful life, and Deadman is still searching for his killer.
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That sounds kinda like a Seven Soldiers movie.
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I still say that's even less likely to actually get made than a Justice League movie.
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Hakkesshu posted:I still say that's even less likely to actually get made than a Justice League movie. With the recent showing of Ant-Man, which looks rad as hell, and the scuttlebutt about Guardians of the Galaxy, I kind of think the more obscure characters are better off because there's no baggage whatsoever. Who in the hell would care that Shining Knight is now a teenage boy or that Mr. Miracle is an Andre 3000-esque pop star?
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Apr 2, 2013 00:19
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Yeah, honestly after the fact that we're weirdly getting a high profile Guardians of the Galaxy movie, everything seems pretty much fair game. I'm pulling hardest for Booster Gold. Maybe Moon Knight too, although we'll probably get Luke Cage and Iron Fist before we get that.
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NarkyBark posted:On Del Toro's "Dark Universe" (source): That's not too surprising, since it's basically a variation on Justice League Dark. It's a little weird, since team-up comics work around you already knowing most of the characters and then you buy the comics for the other ones (part of me thinks the reason they made an Avengers movie was to push dvd sales of whichever movies didn't do as well). And none of these particular characters are well known, so you'd need constant flashbacks and origin stories. Maybe they want to do a reverse Avengers, establish all that characters at once, then make spin offs. I wouldn't actually mind Keanu Reeves reprising the role of John Constantine, even though the comic version is so different, Reeves had the nihilism that I think is key to the character, and he's famous enough that once you attach his name to a movie it has a much better chance of actually being made.
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LtKenFrankenstein posted:Maybe Moon Knight too, although we'll probably get Luke Cage and Iron Fist before we get that. I think mostly street level heroes like those would work way better as a tv series. The Daredevil movie worked best when it was about Matt Murdock's personal life and the worst aspects were the attempts to create enough of a spectacle out of the standard martial arts fighting by adding awful CGI/wire-fu to justify it being a summer action movie. Sly Deaths Head fucked around with this message at 03:36 on Apr 2, 2013 |
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Crossposting from BSS Edit: Some more concept arts, and Thor: The Dark World set photos. One of them is of The Falcoln:  Waterhaul posted:Anyway these are apparently concept images for Guardians and Cap 2. The MSJ fucked around with this message at 23:51 on Apr 2, 2013 |
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Sly Deaths Head posted:I think mostly street level heroes like those would work way better as a tv series. The Daredevil movie worked best when it was about Matt Murdock's personal life and the worst aspects were the attempts to create enough of a spectacle out of the standard martial arts fighting by adding awful CGI/wire-fu to justify it being a summer action movie. The Daredevil movie worked best when it was still a hypothetical, i.e. "Wouldn't it be cool if they made a Daredevil movie?"
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TheJoker138 posted:My favorite coloring in comics right now is probably Hawkeye. That book is just fantastic all around. Even though there is only one issue out, I'd love to see it optioned as a film. The premise is just amazing: a private investigator living in a world in which there was a massive information link which led to most of humanity abandoning the internet, and the population now treasures privacy to the point where nearly all adults have secret identities. It's also only going to be ten issues which might make it much more easily adaptable than most of Vaughan's work which tends to live off the charming characters even if the high concepts are very fun. There are tons of directs who I'd love to see tackling the material or even just making a loose adaptation based on the elevator pitch.
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Ah yes. Let's make a Ally McBeal-esque show called Murdock. Grim Matt Murdock is a grim lawyer who takes his cases personally and his partner is Jen Walters, the She Hulk. Dramedy ensues.
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Gatts posted:Ah yes. Let's make a Ally McBeal-esque show called Murdock. Grim Matt Murdock is a grim lawyer who takes his cases personally and his partner is Jen Walters, the She Hulk. Dramedy ensues. I'd certainly watch it! Just think of all the possible guest star. Jennifer Walters can be pretty drat funny, as well.
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LtKenFrankenstein posted:The Daredevil movie worked best when it was still a hypothetical, i.e. "Wouldn't it be cool if they made a Daredevil movie?" In my head, there's an awesome Daredevil trilogy. The first movie is based on Born Again (which is what was teased before Fox lost the rights) Then something based on Daredevil's identity being made public, have the dramatic conversation with Stiltman and the plain clothes fight with about 100 Yakuza, and then the third movie is Brubaker's Devil in CellBlock D, do whatever you need to get the rights to Punisher for it, because he's pretty key. Those are three plots that stand on their own but still build as a singular work.
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LtKenFrankenstein posted:The Daredevil movie worked best when it was still a hypothetical, i.e. "Wouldn't it be cool if they made a Daredevil movie?" They just need to give it to Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller, and let them go Sin City with it. Bullseye and Kingpin are already black and white, and then the red in Daredevil and Elektra's costumes will really pop.
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Apr 3, 2013 06:53
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I feel like this one bit of concept art has more action in it than the entirety of the previous movie.
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Apr 3, 2013 09:28
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Who's that guy punching the shield?
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Apr 3, 2013 10:18
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Zzulu posted:Who's that guy punching the shield? The Winter Soldier.
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Apr 3, 2013 10:22
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It looks like he's fighting the Bionic Commando
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TetsuoTW posted:I feel like this one bit of concept art has more action in it than the entirety of the previous movie. I just watched that movie for the first time because the abysmal Thor killed my interest and dear lord does that movie drag. For a two hour run-time there is an excruciating amount of non-action, non-plot tedium to get to the poorly choreographed and framed fight scenes.
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I got to some really boring scene partway through Captain America (this does not differentiate it from any other scene in the movie) and just skipped to the end.
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Die Laughing posted:They just need to give it to Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller, and let them go Sin City with it. Bullseye and Kingpin are already black and white, and then the red in Daredevil and Elektra's costumes will really pop. My preferred hypothetical Daredevil adaptation is more grounded, basically like Homicide: Life on the Streets except the main dude puts on a costume and kung-fu fights people occasionally. Joe Carnahan's spec reel looked pretty cool too.
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LtKenFrankenstein posted:My preferred hypothetical Daredevil adaptation is more grounded, basically like Homicide: Life on the Streets except the main dude puts on a costume and kung-fu fights people occasionally. I like this but DL's idea of b&w and only red being in color is pretty awesome.
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Dacap posted:This is apprently concept art for what might be the new Cap costume. Looks like the Steve Rogers Super Soldier outfit with the cowl/helmet added. I think it looks horrible. Disappointed they are going for what I assume is "tactical realism." I'd rather go with leather jacket, shirt and jeans. Maybe in red white and blue theme.
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Gatts posted:I think it looks horrible. Disappointed they are going for what I assume is "tactical realism." I'd rather go with leather jacket, shirt and jeans. Maybe in red white and blue theme. I'm really hoping the costume looks better with better lighting. That's a good action pose, but not a good pose to examine the costume.
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jivjov posted:I'm really hoping the costume looks better with better lighting. That's a good action pose, but not a good pose to examine the costume. Yeah, hope you are right. The other thought I had afterwards was that the original in Captain America combined the superhero version with "tactical realism" in a nice way. The costume was still brightly colored and whatnot. It'd be neat if the costume's muted colors and modern "tactical realism" was a sort of comment of America's perception of itself in WW2 era versus today's less noble take on itself.
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Why does Steve Rogers even need a costume? He's not Peter Parker or Bruce Wayne, everybody knows who Captain America is. I'm not suggesting Marvel would make a movie where he doesn't wear one, I'm just curious if there's an in-universe reason for him getting a tailor-made outfit to wear when he's punching people.
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Sir Kodiak posted:Why does Steve Rogers even need a costume? He's not Peter Parker or Bruce Wayne, everybody knows who Captain America is. I'm not suggesting Marvel would make a movie where he doesn't wear one, I'm just curious if there's an in-universe reason for him getting a tailor-made outfit to wear when he's punching people. Captain America is not an identity, its a symbol.
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