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In box office news: Captain America: Civil War's second weekend brought it up to $940 million making it the 6th highest super-hero movie of all time globally and bringing the MCU's total BO to $10 billion. Guy A. Person posted:I honestly might be more excited for Incredibles 2 than almost any other in productions super hero movie Only 3 years 1 month 6 days to go! Snowglobe of Doom fucked around with this message at 19:27 on May 15, 2016 |
# ? May 15, 2016 19:22 |
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# ? Jun 1, 2024 05:12 |
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My favorite Fantastic Four were in Planetary too bad adapting that series into anything on screen would probably be impossible
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# ? May 15, 2016 19:41 |
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TheFallenEvincar posted:My favorite Fantastic Four were in Planetary Yeah sadly as fantastic as Planetary is there's no way it can ever be adopted into film. Fantastic book though, I love the little nods to established characters. The Batman crossover was great, the team meets all the various incarnations of him
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# ? May 15, 2016 19:46 |
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FF should be 50's scifi meets Cronenberg. So the Fly basically. Hell, the Fly is basically Reed Richards turning into a fly instead of a stretchy man.
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# ? May 15, 2016 19:58 |
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Even as someone for whom Cronenberg is one of my favorite directors, I really struggle to see why that is the take some people are convinced is right for FF
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# ? May 15, 2016 20:03 |
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I want the tone of a FF movie to basically be the tone of the cartoon Batman: The Brave and the Bold. Big, brash, fun, goofy, weird, and charming. Good sense of humor about itself, but still tells a good story. I always loved Peyton Reed's idea of a 1960s-set Fantastic Four movie with a similar style to his Down with Love. Now that he's done Ant-Man he's shown he has the chops.
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# ? May 15, 2016 20:13 |
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:Even as someone for whom Cronenberg is one of my favorite directors, I really struggle to see why that is the take some people are convinced is right for FF Because Reed Richards is a diiiick.
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# ? May 15, 2016 20:14 |
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I admit, I want Mark Waid's Reed Richards more than I want Stan Lee's and the member of the Illuminati.
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# ? May 15, 2016 20:17 |
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Fox owns x-men and Fantastic 4. Why don't they just adapt that story where Reed beats Magneto with a wooden gun. I'd go see that in the theaters.
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# ? May 15, 2016 21:27 |
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:I am looking forward to seeing the trailers for Justice League, skipping the movie, and watching everyone's befuddled reactions until they all forget it exists two weeks later. But Justice League is a Zack Snyder movie. Much like Man of Steel and BvS, everyone will probably still be talking about them for years after their release. Or was that
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# ? May 15, 2016 21:34 |
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teagone posted:But Justice League is a Zack Snyder movie. Much like Man of Steel and BvS, everyone will probably still be talking about them for years after their release. Or was that here they will. in the real world, I'm not actually sure i know a single person that even saw Batman v Superman.
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# ? May 15, 2016 21:38 |
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:here they will. in the real world, I'm not actually sure i know a single person that even saw Batman v Superman. I only know like two people IRL who saw either movie. Many more of them saw Frozen.
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# ? May 15, 2016 21:42 |
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This movie is so forgotten, it's so forgotten that I'm talking about it without even seeing it, and only people who talk about movies will talk about it.
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# ? May 15, 2016 21:42 |
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BravestOfTheLamps posted:This movie is so forgotten, it's so forgotten that I'm talking about it without even seeing it, and only people who talk about movies will talk about it. *nods sagely*
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# ? May 15, 2016 21:43 |
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*scoff* I don't know anyone who saw this $870 million dollar movie, what a bomb. e: boxofficemojo is in the pocket of Big DC
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# ? May 15, 2016 22:00 |
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McSpanky posted:*scoff* I don't know anyone who saw this $850 million dollar movie, what a bomb. this but unironically
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# ? May 15, 2016 22:01 |
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it's not like I'm surrounded by people in the real world who are talking about the Marvel movies anymore frequently though that'd be annoying it's just like "You see Civil War?" "Yeah, my SO dragged my rear end to it" or "Did you see Batman v Superman? What a headache" "Yeah haha I was high as gently caress." and that's like the height of it because we're not going to start jabbering about Black Panther for like ten minutes or something
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# ? May 15, 2016 22:11 |
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Like if we're going to spend more than a couple minutes talking about a movie we recently saw it might be Green Room or The Witch or something, not friggin Deadpool
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# ? May 15, 2016 22:15 |
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TheFallenEvincar posted:Like if we're going to spend more than a couple minutes talking about a movie we recently saw it might be Green Room or The Witch or something, not friggin Deadpool Pretty much.
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# ? May 15, 2016 22:20 |
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Interestingly enough, Deadpool is my third favorite movie of the year, behind Green Room and The VVitch
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# ? May 15, 2016 22:31 |
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So what is the other movie you saw this year?
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# ? May 15, 2016 22:33 |
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Guy A. Person posted:So what is the other movie you saw this year? Hail Caesar! actually. Don't tell my movie nerd friends that I thought Deadpool was better.
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# ? May 15, 2016 22:37 |
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:Hail Caesar! actually. Don't tell my movie nerd friends that I thought Deadpool was better. We got you now motherfucker.
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# ? May 15, 2016 22:42 |
Hail, Caesar! was pretty great but I won't lie about being a little disappointed it wasn't the Burn After Reading style caper clusterfuck it was being sold as
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# ? May 15, 2016 22:49 |
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mr. stefan posted:Hail, Caesar! was pretty great but I won't lie about being a little disappointed it wasn't the Burn After Reading style caper clusterfuck it was being sold as It's very good but it's hard to argue it's anything but B-tier Coens.
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# ? May 15, 2016 22:53 |
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TheFallenEvincar posted:Like if we're going to spend more than a couple minutes talking about a movie we recently saw it might be Green Room or The Witch or something, not friggin Deadpool It depends a lot on your age and the type of people you know. I know plenty of people with kids, so a lot more people will have seen The Jungle Book than any of the movies you mentioned. These people, coincidentally, have already or are going to see Deadpool because they rely on word of mouth, particularly once things hit video where they see most of their movies. It felt like every adult I knew was talking about Deadpool when it came out, I haven't heard a peep about BvS or Civil War.
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# ? May 15, 2016 22:56 |
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:Hail Caesar! actually. Don't tell my movie nerd friends that I thought Deadpool was better. Bravo team we have the target surrounded, breach the perimeter now Go go go go go go go
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# ? May 15, 2016 22:59 |
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:It's very good but it's hard to argue it's anything but B-tier Coens. Which is still god-tier to most everything else. Actually, Burn After Reading is their most disappointing for me (as writer/directors).
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# ? May 16, 2016 00:36 |
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In my dreams, the Coen Brothers make a Foucault's Pendulum movie.
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# ? May 16, 2016 01:03 |
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TetsuoTW posted:Really? It was a bad movie, the 4 stylization in the title is dumb, and I felt like attempting cleverness.
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# ? May 16, 2016 01:06 |
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:Interestingly enough, Deadpool is my third favorite movie of the year, behind Green Room and The VVitch Deadpool was alright but it's only my third favorite superhero movie of the year.
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# ? May 16, 2016 01:50 |
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Sir Kodiak posted:
Okay I actually went out and tracked down a copy of this after listening to that podcast about it the other day and it's definitely a LOT better than I remembered. Jigsaw and Loony Bin Jim are awesome villains, the pace is (mostly) great, there's some really good action sequences (including the finale where Frank works his way up an abandoned hotel which is full of just about every gang in the city), there's some great cinematography and colour work and editing in parts, they really don't hold back on the violence or the gore, there's a bunch of really dark humour spread throughout it and it sure as hell doesn't take itself too seriously. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yp9OkXHXas4 The bad: the front half drags a bit, the plot point where the Feds make a deal with Jigsaw didn't quite ring true to the film's interior logic, the score wasn't great and the side plot with the dead Fed agent's family either needed to be punched up or pulled back. My main problem (and I guess a major factor in the general audience's reaction to the film) was the I just didn't buy Ray Stevenson as The Punisher. He just looked and emoted way too much like a slightly annoyed middleaged Dad rather than a guy who'd been obsessively hunting down and murdering gangsters for five years.
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# ? May 16, 2016 01:55 |
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Johnathan Hickman writes a really amazing Reed Richards. If anything just hire Hickman to do the screenplay and it'd probably be good. They need to not have them be young but old and with kids because Franklin and Valerie are pretty amazing.
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# ? May 16, 2016 02:02 |
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The correct tone for Fantastic Four is fun Interstellar. Early Fantastic Four's most popular story is about God trying to eat Earth, our heroes stealing the embodiment of destruction, using mutually-assured destruction to tell God to gently caress off, and then returning the embodiment of destruction to God in order to save the world. Like if it's it not that level of crazy or more then you're doing it wrong.
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# ? May 16, 2016 02:05 |
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Timeless Appeal posted:The correct tone for Fantastic Four is fun Interstellar. I feel like the first Fantastic 4 trailer deliberately evoked the first Interstellar trailer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WzHXI5HizQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-BVs-KCSiA
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# ? May 16, 2016 02:30 |
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Fun Fact: I regularly visit the subway station where Frank's hidden base is located near in War Zone. It's the Lionel Groulx metro station in Montreal. Also, they filmed some scenes in the awesome abandoned building on my old college campus, Britain Hall. Used to sneak in there all the time, it's like a horror movie set.
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# ? May 16, 2016 03:40 |
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Phylodox posted:Fun Fact: I regularly visit the subway station where Frank's hidden base is located near in War Zone. It's the Lionel Groulx metro station in Montreal. Also, they filmed some scenes in the awesome abandoned building on my old college campus, Britain Hall. Used to sneak in there all the time, it's like a horror movie set. Hahaha, I used to work in that area. I need to watch that movie now.
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# ? May 16, 2016 03:43 |
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Okay I actually went out and tracked down a copy of this after listening to that podcast about it the other day and it's definitely a LOT better than I remembered. I definitely owe the movie a rewatch because, yeah, the podcast is great and I haven't watched the movie since then. I mainly remember the stuff you praised, that the action kicks rear end, and the lead villains are a lot of fun.
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# ? May 16, 2016 03:54 |
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Chairman Capone posted:I feel like the first Fantastic 4 trailer deliberately evoked the first Interstellar trailer. I think a good modern Fantastic Four movie should really move a lot of the recent stuff that Hickman did in his recent runs to the foreground. Like the recent reboot sort of had, Hickman's run has the same call to action to start dreaming again that Interstellar and Tomorrowland have. Start with Reed as this brilliant scientist in his mid-thirties who runs the Future Foundation in the Baxter Building. Have the stuff of the recent comics run be about him trying to fix everything through science. Have the bad guy be Kang the Conquerer and have a big cosmic adventure through time and space. Have Kang essentially mirror Reed at his most extreme and use it to teach Reed that his pursuits are nothing without his family to anchor him. Maybe even have the climax of the film being Kang offering Reed some ultimate knowledge or allowing Reed to work with him, but Reed turning it down. Hell even have Kang be an alternate universe Reede whose Sue, Johnny, and Ben died during the experiment. Either way, they should make it about Kang and it should have both space travel, time travel, and parallel universes. Like at minimum.
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# ? May 16, 2016 04:11 |
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I really, really hope Fant4stic gets the Richard Donner Cut treatment some day.
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# ? May 16, 2016 05:29 |