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The Spirit film lead to my favorite game poster ever, so I can't really be too mad at it.
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Wheat Loaf posted:I've never seen the movie version of The Spirit - how bad is it? I still contend that at some point in their friendship Will Eisner did something to massively piss off Frank Miller. Miller then made the Spirit (the biggest piece of cinematic poo poo in history) as revenge.
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Apr 3, 2017 23:56
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Well it was Miller's first attempt at being the primary director and his writing was already quite bad at the time, so the combination of the two things probably didn't help.
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Apr 4, 2017 00:05
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I have never read a thing from the Spirit, and I loved the movie. Sam Jackson chewing scenery in full Nazi garb will always be amazing. The only character who takes things seriously is the Spirit, and when is not his POV, he's a doofus.
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Apr 4, 2017 02:13
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Chewing scenery isn't meant to be a compliment.
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Apr 4, 2017 02:24
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Aphrodite posted:Chewing scenery isn't meant to be a compliment. Tell that to John Barrowman.
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Aphrodite posted:Chewing scenery isn't meant to be a compliment. but it inevitably is as far as I'm concerned
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Apr 4, 2017 02:58
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Good actors arriving on the set, realising the movie's a bit crap and deciding the roll with it is usually good fun. I went to see Eragon in the cinema when it came out for some reason and thought Robert Carlyle and John Malkovich were by far the most entertaining parts of the movie. Or Al Pacino in Dick Tracy ("They said I kidnapped ya! I didn't kidnap ya! But, I'm kidnapping ya now! Does life imitate art? So many questions, so few answers."). Samuel L. Jackson is really good at it. Did anyone ever see Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children? Tim Burton movie from a couple of years ago; it's a fairly rote YA adaptation except for any scene where Jackson appears as the main villain and completely changes the tone of the movie (granted, you may think to its detriment, but it's a fairly dull movie otherwise).
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Apr 4, 2017 10:03
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Wheat Loaf posted:I've never seen the movie version of The Spirit - how bad is it? As someone who had very little to any love or knowledge of the source material it was grand. It's visually stunning in the same way 300 and Sin City were. The plot is gonzo. Seeing Samuel Jackson change costumes for no reason is cool. And the dialogue is just the right level of ludicrous. "I'm going to kill you all kinds of dead."
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Wheat Loaf posted:I've never seen the movie version of The Spirit - how bad is it? Barely coherent.
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Apr 4, 2017 19:18
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Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg are making an Invincible movie http://birthmoviesdeath.com/2017/04/04/seth-rogen-and-evan-goldberg-are-making-an-invincible-movie
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Dacap posted:Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg are making an Invincible movie Ah, the first NC-17 rated superhero movie.
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Wheat Loaf posted:
Didn't it come out a few months ago? Am I in a time warp? With Eva Green right?
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Apr 4, 2017 20:01
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If I was doing it I would make like the entire movie kind of a normal coming of age superhero thing and then pull the rug out at the very end with the reveal about Mark's dad.
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muscles like this! posted:If I was doing it I would make like the entire movie kind of a normal coming of age superhero thing and then pull the rug out at the very end with the reveal about Mark's dad. Nah do that at the end of the first act. the pace of that sounds boring as hell.
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ImpAtom posted:Ah, the first NC-17 rated superhero movie. Grotesque violence in a comic or if it's animated is fine and fun, even. If it's live action though it's just... well, grotesque.
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Apr 4, 2017 20:25
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Lobok posted:Grotesque violence in a comic or if it's animated is fine and fun, even. If it's live action though it's just... well, grotesque. Eh don't worry, if it's anything like Preacher the characters will have different origins/personalities.
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Chickenwalker posted:Didn't it come out a few months ago? Am I in a time warp? With Eva Green right? Holy poo poo, I assumed it was Helena Bonham-Carter.
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bunnyofdoom posted:Holy poo poo, I assumed it was Helena Bonham-Carter. Her and Burton divorced and Green is his new muse
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Dacap posted:Her and Burton divorced and Green is his new muse Dude has a type.
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Winona Rider dodged a loving bullet, huh?
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Chickenwalker posted:Didn't it come out a few months ago? Am I in a time warp? With Eva Green right? Huh. Just went and looked on Wikipedia and apparently it came out last September. I thought it was older than that. (Only saw it recently on DVD after my sister recommended it to me.) Yeah, Eva Green posing with a crossbow is front and centre on the movie poster and DVD cover but the actual main character is played by Asa Butterfield. Wheat Loaf fucked around with this message at 21:45 on Apr 4, 2017 |
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Maybe an Invincible movie could be good if they didn't have the ridiculous gore and maybe hold back on the constant need to poo poo on mark's life. There's some good characters and concepts in invincible that could work well for the big screen.
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Monaghan posted:Maybe an Invincible movie could be good if they didn't have the ridiculous gore and maybe hold back on the constant need to poo poo on mark's life. An invincible movie that didn't try to be comic accurate could be solid because the early baseline of the comic is a remarkably compelling idea and even the first big twist doesn't sour that too much. I just don't have a ton of faith that they wouldn't focus on the "wow that Superman knockoff totally crushed that guy's head" stuff instead.
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Wheat Loaf posted:I've never seen the movie version of The Spirit - how bad is it? pretty bad, but very entertaining.
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As someone who read the whole run a couple of months ago, I think y'all are overstating the amount of violence in the comic. There are absolutely some of the goriest superhero fights in the history of comics in the book BUT they aren't so common as to be ubiquitous. You don't even really see any crazy violence before Mark gets the poo poo beat out of him by his dad. And almost all of the crazy bloodsoaked fights involve the Vitrumites so it would depend a lot on how much of that stuff they put in there. I think XO's suggestion to put the dad reveal at the end of the movie is a great idea. Also I like the gore and violence in Invincible, I think it's cool and done in a very artistic way 
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I saw Power Rangers and thought it was pretty good. I liked the characterization and development, and Rita chewing up the scenery was great.
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Wheat Loaf posted:Isn't Invincible ending soon? I think it's about to start or just started it's final (12-ish issue) arc, but it could easily take 2 years.
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zoux posted:As someone who read the whole run a couple of months ago, I think y'all are overstating the amount of violence in the comic. There are absolutely some of the goriest superhero fights in the history of comics in the book BUT they aren't so common as to be ubiquitous. You don't even really see any crazy violence before Mark gets the poo poo beat out of him by his dad. And almost all of the crazy bloodsoaked fights involve the Vitrumites so it would depend a lot on how much of that stuff they put in there. I think XO's suggestion to put the dad reveal at the end of the movie is a great idea. "Before Mark fights his dad" is like 1/10th of the comic and after that it is absurd, excessive and insane violence on an incredibly regular basis.
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Can you spoil me on that Invincible twist? I bought the first volume from a sale and knowing it might actually motivate me to read it.
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Invincible is absolutely incredibly super violent. I heard it even ramped up after I fell out of reading it. But for the first 60 issues or so it's super violent most of the time. But never in a dark and gritty super extreme way. It's still a rather standard tone superhero story except when the heroes and villains fight the blood flows. The contrast of the bright art style and standard superhero story with the hyper violence is absolutely intentional.
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X-O posted:Invincible is absolutely incredibly super violent. I heard it even ramped up after I fell out of reading it. But for the first 60 issues or so it's super violent most of the time. But never in a dark and gritty super extreme way. It's still a rather standard tone superhero story except when the heroes and villains fight the blood flows. The contrast of the bright art style and standard superhero story with the hyper violence is absolutely intentional. That's the twist? I google image searched Invincible gore and got a sea of red. I was wondering more along the lines of the story, like if the protag's father is really Darth Vader or something.
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More like his dad is Vegeta.
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parallelodad posted:More like his dad is Vegeta. Ok, this convinces me to start reading
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The dad is Superman if Superman was secretly Vegeta and also he comes from a race ruled over by super Freddie Mercury.
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X-O posted:Invincible is absolutely incredibly super violent. I heard it even ramped up after I fell out of reading it. But for the first 60 issues or so it's super violent most of the time. But never in a dark and gritty super extreme way. It's still a rather standard tone superhero story except when the heroes and villains fight the blood flows. The contrast of the bright art style and standard superhero story with the hyper violence is absolutely intentional. Yeah, it's that brightness that is interesting about it. Usually gory comics are dark and murky, not on the Superman TAS color palette. I guess my point isn't that it's not violent but more that they type of gory violence isn't so essential to the characters and story of Invincible that you'd have to include it in a movie adaptation. Gory violence in all colors and tones is common in film so if you wanted to be true to the purpose of it on the page, you'd have to find a way to make it novel on the screen. parallelodad posted:More like his dad is Vegeta. lol
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Schneider Heim posted:Ok, this convinces me to start reading The twist is exactly that, yes. His dad comes from a race of super warriors who were sent to take over the Earth but he falls in love with a human woman and has a half-human kid and it gets him all conflicted. His son has no idea and just thought he was Superman.
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I have no clue how you guys square a pregnant woman having her leg graphically torn off of her body, to name one example from hundreds with "this comic isn't that extreme or gory" unless you truly have no concept of how jaded you are. Imagine the gore of the Walking Dead comic plus super strength and through the stylistic lens of Superman the Animated Series
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SlimGoodbody posted:I have no clue how you guys square a pregnant woman having her leg graphically torn off of her body, to name one example from hundreds with "this comic isn't that extreme or gory" unless you truly have no concept of how jaded you are. Imagine the gore of the Walking Dead comic plus super strength and through the stylistic lens of Superman the Animated Series Probably because no one said it wasn't extreme or violent. I think the confusion is that I meant "amount" as "incidences" rather than "intensity of"
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