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Last time I watched Prometheus I noticed they used the Giger design for the Harkonnen castle as the engineer structure. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZlj3KMSjZw
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I shall always think of the Baron the way he looked in the (first?) Dune game. 
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Mierenneuker posted:Clearly they are going to pick God-Emperor of Dune for its mass appeal. This is really what they should do. Recognize the good parts of the Lynch film and the SyFy miniseries (namely James MacAvoy as Leto II) and incorporate them into a God-Emperor of Dune film and just run with that. There's little need to explain anything like backstory except through Duncan Idaho's eyes.
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Schwarzwald posted:A Ghola's Purpose A distrans is released of the ghola being pushed into the water of life against its will as the CHOAM representative does nothing.
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Now that some time has passed, are we still calling Suicide Squad a failure for angering comic book nerds and critics or still calling it a sleeper that connected with demos they weren't even aiming at?
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precision posted:Now that some time has passed, are we still calling Suicide Squad a failure for angering comic book nerds and critics or still calling it a sleeper that connected with demos they weren't even aiming at? Now that some time has passed, nobody cares
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Feb 2, 2017 19:34
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Mierenneuker posted:Clearly they are going to pick God-Emperor of Dune for its mass appeal. I hope they include the dick joke.
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Feb 2, 2017 19:37
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precision posted:Now that some time has passed, are we still calling Suicide Squad a failure for angering comic book nerds and critics or still calling it a sleeper that connected with demos they weren't even aiming at? From my outsider's perspective it seems like DC authors and fans need to get over the whole Joker schtick. Particularly The Killing Joke, which came out 28 years ago. It's time to move on.
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IDK, I think it would be possible to do cool things with the Joker, it's just that no one's doing them. I have a whole movie in my head for an alternate Batman continuity, told from the point of view of a Joker who's just a normal guy trying to convince Batman to stop being an armed vigilante. He's a single father whose son gets sent to the hospital as collateral damage from the Batman/Killer Croc fight at the end of the previous movie, so he decides that Batman needs to be taught a lesson about the importance of the law. He adopts the Joker persona essentially as a parody of Batman's persona, to convince him through a reductio ad absurdum argument that it's a bad idea to set a precedent that people run around in funny costumes at night beating people up. Batman doesn't get it, and the Joker gets consumed by his satirical performance, gradually transforming from a deeply concerned citizen to, well, the Joker as people generally know him. This is, incidentally, the middle of a Batman trilogy I have in mind. The first installment is an alternate Batman origin wherein the Penguin actually came up with the concept of Batman, but was too unhealthy to do it himself, so he established a convoluted conspiracy to plant the idea in Bruce Wayne's mind by killing his parents among other things. And the third installment involves an alternate version of Bane who's just a really psychotic and pathetic alt-righter billionaire who fetishizes Batman's "get jacked up and beat up criminals" schtick, and wants to blow up the moon to cause an apocalypse so that strong vigilantes can become the lords of a new feudalist civilization. TIA for reading my fanfiction
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And yet it was still so much better than BvS. But I'm not a comic book fan, or at least, I was in the 80s and so I do still have set in my mind an idea of comic books and how they should work, but it's a really old idea. Maybe I liked Suicide Squad because it's basically an issue of New Mutants.
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I want a movie where Batman uncovers more and more of a horrible plot that threatens to first kill or harm dozens of random people, to hundreds, then finally thousands in increasingly warped and psychotic ways as the movie goes on, but Batman can't seem to find exactly how or what this "Joker" is planning. Finally, at the climax and increasingly desperate, Batman comes face to face with the Joker in front of the world as the media copters shine a light down. Batman steps forward to attack the Joker, triggering a pressure plate in the street. A gigantic whoopie cushion lets out the world's greatest fart. No one was ever in any danger except the "gangsters" he paid to be in on it (sorry about your arm Bob Batman's pretty hosed up) the Joker just wanted to punk Batman really hard and then did. The End e: The post-credits scene shows Clark Kent in the helicopter laughing and a flashback of Superman helping out the Joker with other parts of it because Christ, Batman's an rear end in a top hat. RBA Starblade fucked around with this message at 21:16 on Feb 2, 2017 |
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precision posted:Now that some time has passed, are we still calling Suicide Squad a failure for angering comic book nerds and critics or still calling it a sleeper that connected with demos they weren't even aiming at? pretty sure the demo they were aiming for was 'normal human beings who don't give a gently caress about comics' and they connected pretty well on that front
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Feb 2, 2017 21:16
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Though having a comic book movie flop is actually really hard right now.
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Feb 2, 2017 21:19
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Casimir Radon posted:I believe the issue was that critics hated it and that made comic book nerds angry. They acted like comic book movies don't get treated fairly by critics despite the fact that most of Marvel's efforts have gotten pretty good ratings and raked in a lot of cash. Their edgy wet fart movie deserved the lovely rating it got. There was a small but very vocal group of DC fan boys who complained about Suicide Squad's poor reviews, up to and including starring a petition to get Rotten Tomatoes shut down, but most fans of actual comic book movies that I saw complaining about it were doing so because of the movie being a mess with a disappointing villain/threat.
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I thought it connected amazingly to the Hot Topic crowd, holding just as much cultural relevence as Funko Pop figures and Five Nights at Freddies.
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I hate that Heathens song.
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Does The Hot Topic Crowd even exist still? Did it ever?
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21 Muns posted:TIA for reading my fanfiction
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Feb 2, 2017 21:42
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A True Jar Jar Fan posted:Does The Hot Topic Crowd even exist still? Did it ever?
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A True Jar Jar Fan posted:Does The Hot Topic Crowd even exist still? Did it ever? Hot Topic now goes with the nerd crowd so if you want anything nerdy, that is your place to get it. I was surprised to find a full line of Stranger Things merch already.
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CelticPredator posted:Hot Topic now goes with the nerd crowd so if you want anything nerdy, that is your place to get it. I was surprised to find a full line of Stranger Things merch already. I just imagine they have Barb cosplay. Why the internet latched onto her so strongly I don't really understand.
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:Now that some time has passed, nobody cares No one's going to be talking about Suicide Squad in about a year, year and a half. Maybe more if DC manages to put out a movie that isn't instantly savaged by every critic on earth.
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Feb 2, 2017 21:55
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Len posted:I just imagine they have Barb cosplay. The internet can relate not getting laid.
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A True Jar Jar Fan posted:Does The Hot Topic Crowd even exist still? Did it ever? There's been weirdly dressed teenager cliques handing out at the mall and smoking since the 1950s. I wouldn't be shocked if Hot Topic turns out to be one of those stores that never dies out no matter how terrible they seem, like RadioShack.
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Brother Entropy posted:pretty sure the demo they were aiming for was 'normal human beings who don't give a gently caress about comics' and they connected pretty well on that front People like my 64 year old father whose only comic books growing up were Donald Duck and the original Turok. He loved Suicide Squad.
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CharlestheHammer posted:Though having a comic book movie flop is actually really hard right now. I was going to say Green Lantern wasn't that long ago, but holy poo poo, it's been six years. Anyway, while Apocalypse certainly didn't flop, it under-performed by a not-insignificant amount.
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Rough Lobster posted:There's been weirdly dressed teenager cliques handing out at the mall and smoking since the 1950s Now they vape and it's somehow even worse than the 90s when, briefly, hackeysack was a thing that existed.
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Timby posted:I was going to say Green Lantern wasn't that long ago, but holy poo poo, it's been six years. The X-men movies are weird as you would think they would be focused by Sony but all the movies look cheap and like no one gives a gently caress.
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Timby posted:I was going to say Green Lantern wasn't that long ago, but holy poo poo, it's been six years. The most recent Fantastic Four was summer 2015.
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Rough Lobster posted:There's been weirdly dressed teenager cliques handing out at the mall and smoking since the 1950s. I wouldn't be shocked if Hot Topic turns out to be one of those stores that never dies out no matter how terrible they seem, like RadioShack. I've got some bad news for you buddy ...
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FCKGW posted:I've got some bad news for you buddy ...
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RBA Starblade posted:I want a movie where Batman uncovers more and more of a horrible plot that threatens to first kill or harm dozens of random people, to hundreds, then finally thousands in increasingly warped and psychotic ways as the movie goes on, but Batman can't seem to find exactly how or what this "Joker" is planning. Finally, at the climax and increasingly desperate, Batman comes face to face with the Joker in front of the world as the media copters shine a light down. Batman steps forward to attack the Joker, triggering a pressure plate in the street. A gigantic whoopie cushion lets out the world's greatest fart. No one was ever in any danger except the "gangsters" he paid to be in on it (sorry about your arm Bob Batman's pretty hosed up) the Joker just wanted to punk Batman really hard and then did. The End NGL this would be pretty cool
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precision posted:Now they vape and it's somehow even worse than the 90s when, briefly, hackeysack was a thing that existed. Eh, vaping doesn't smell nearly as bad as actual cigarettes. Detective No. 27 fucked around with this message at 23:40 on Feb 2, 2017 |
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Timby posted:I was going to say Green Lantern wasn't that long ago, but holy poo poo, it's been six years. None of the Fantastic Four movies did all that well so I'd say the modern movie going public just doesn't want them.
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So basically, teenagers are scary and the Bad Clown Movie gives them too much power.
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Feb 2, 2017 23:51
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Casimir Radon posted:There's a weirdness saturation that can gently caress you as in The Spirit. Being relatively obscure certainly didn't help either. Comic book readers don't want them either. FF books were Marvel's lowest selling titles and they wrote a whole event that ended with Reed and Sue going off to another dimension while Ben and Johnny joined separate teams.
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The MSJ posted:FF books were Marvel's lowest selling titles and they wrote a whole event that ended with Reed and Sue going off to another dimension while Ben and Johnny joined separate teams. This was because Marvel is incredibly petty and killed the book because Fox can't make a good movie from it and yet refuses to cough up the rights. CharlestheHammer posted:The X-men movies are weird as you would think they would be focused by Sony I've been staring at this sentence for like five minutes and I have no idea how to parse it.
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I don't know why I put Sony.
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Green Lantern was an interesting failure because (if I have the dates right in my head), the property as a comic was doing gangbusters and they were central to multiple ongoing big storylines. But your average person literally wouldn't know what Green Lantern is if a real one came down from up high and slapped a ring on them. When it comes to DC, their public attention is probably just Superman and Batman. Green Lantern has no Q score, or whatever it's called. (as an aside, I've always thought the designs and stuff were quite good. Terrible story, horrible bad guy, but great visual designs.)
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