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My only exposure to Invincible is that one crossover with Marvel where he's guessing everyone's names based on their appearance and though Luke Cage was called "Black-Man"?
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twistedmentat posted:My only exposure to Invincible is that one crossover with Marvel where he's guessing everyone's names based on their appearance and though Luke Cage was called "Black-Man"? He was right on with using Fabio-Man for Sentry though. And he thought Jessica Drew was Bat-Woman.
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Seth Rogan made the Green Hornet which should tell you all you need to know about an Invincible film.
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Apr 6, 2017 00:18
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Rhyno posted:Seth Rogan made the Green Hornet which should tell you all you need to know about an Invincible film. He also made Preacher which everyone seems to like.
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Apr 6, 2017 00:20
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X-O posted:He was right on with using Fabio-Man for Sentry though. And he thought Jessica Drew was Bat-Woman. I had to look it up and he calls Wolverine Claw-Man. I got really bored with preacher because it seemed like there was too much people with southern accents being lovely to each other between the Cassidy parts. I had the same problem with Better Call Saul. I knew it was good on an intellectual level, but it never clicked with me.
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Apr 6, 2017 00:24
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X-O posted:He also made Preacher which everyone seems to like. Wasn't the popular opinion that the show doesn't really get good until the third or fourth episode? You know, when Rogan wasn't directing anymore? The man's not good at putting together something that looks good.
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Rhyno posted:Wasn't the popular opinion that the show doesn't really get good until the third or fourth episode? You know, when Rogan wasn't directing anymore? The man's not good at putting together something that looks good. I have no clue as I never watched it because I never liked the book. I'm just going by the reception I've heard which was that it was good. twistedmentat posted:I had to look it up and he calls Wolverine Claw-Man. Doesn't he also call Iron Man something like Robo-Man which itself is funny since one of his supporting characters is simply named Robot.
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Apr 6, 2017 00:27
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Preacher ramps up fast and gets amazing.
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X-O posted:I have no clue as I never watched it because I never liked the book. I'm just going by the reception I've heard which was that it was good. Going by the popular goon opinion, the pilot sucks and then the show takes off. And I mean, the pilot is ugly as poo poo. Just like GH. Rogan and Goldberg suck. They're good producers and idea men I guess.
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Apr 6, 2017 00:30
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Rogen didn't direct Green Hornet.
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Apr 6, 2017 00:32
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X-O posted:I have no clue as I never watched it because I never liked the book. I'm just going by the reception I've heard which was that it was good. I thought it was awful. I never expect a show to be exactly like it's source comic, it needs some variation to modernize it. But Preacher actively shat on the comic, actively making the characters completely opposite their comic counterpart. Only redeeming quality was Cassidy, and only because Gilgun was great. Even if I hadn't read the books, I can't see enjoying it other than a few key moments. But then, I also generally don't find Seth Rogen funny.
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X-O posted:I have no clue as I never watched it because I never liked the book. I'm just going by the reception I've heard which was that it was good. Yep http://i.imgur.com/VI0Ui.jpg And yea, Preacher the comic was this crazy road trip that had angels and a an apocalyptic secret society with an inbred Christ Child, the show was rednecks rednecking it up. As I said, Cassidy was a good interpretation of the character, but that was about it. Tulip never did enough for me to judge her character vs the comics. I am going to give Legion a chance, I liked the first episode but I was turned off by having a bunch of characters that felt like knockoffs of well known x-men.
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Rhyno posted:Going by the popular goon opinion, the pilot sucks and then the show takes off. And I mean, the pilot is ugly as poo poo. Just like GH. Rogan and Goldberg suck. They're good producers and idea men I guess. Dude, Michel Gondry directed that movie. I've never seen it but I have a real problem believing that the directing was the problem.
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twistedmentat posted:Yep
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Apr 6, 2017 01:24
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noted bad director michael gondry aka seth rogen
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achillesforever6 posted:Luckily Season 2 is about the road trip That's good. I have no idea why they decided to do the Meat guy as the first story arc.
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twistedmentat posted:That's good. I have no idea why they decided to do the Meat guy as the first story arc.
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Apr 6, 2017 03:16
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The best dig on the violence in Invincible is in the (I believe) Benito Cereno penned cross over with the Tick. Upon learning that the bad guys were non-sentient and full of red jelly they go to town on a fully two page spread of jelly soaked violence that is indistinguishable from a spread in Invincible.
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Throwdown posted:Preacher ramps up fast and gets amazing. And hits a wall invalidating the whole season. It was kinda a mess in hindsight, a good looking mess though.
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Movie I recently learned about - Brenda Starr from the late 1980s starring Brooke Shields and Timothy Dalton (who had to leave James Bond to be in this movie). How bad is it? By all accounts it is terrible, and ordinarily the words "starring Brooke Shields" would have me giving it a wide berth, but on the Wikipedia page for the film, there's a quote from Shields which says the movie got the jump on the post-Batman superhero movie boom, which intrigues me.
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There's a rumor going around based on an Italian publication that Stallone is playing Stakar Ogord in Guardians of the Galaxy 2. In the comics he's better known by the name Starhawk. If true and Michael Rosenbaum's character is as tied to Stallone's as Gunn said then he might be another of the original Guardians.
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X-O posted:There's a rumor going around based on an Italian publication that Stallone is playing Stakar Ogord in Guardians of the Galaxy 2. In the comics he's better known by the name Starhawk. If true and Michael Rosenbaum's character is as tied to Stallone's as Gunn said then he might be another of the original Guardians. You should probably do Starhawk as a Handbook entry then!
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Apr 8, 2017 03:19
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Maybe
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Apr 8, 2017 03:21
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Rhyno posted:Maybe Maybe he's playing Buried Alien.
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Lobok posted:You should probably do Starhawk as a Handbook entry then! Starhawk is the son of Ayesha, the villain of this film, in the comics. Not sure they'd go there though. Rhyno posted:Maybe He could also be Wendell Vaughn, Starhawk's dad. Again, don't think that's where they're going though. I'd guess Vance or maybe Martinex if so.
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Vance is a mutant so I wonder if they have the rights to him.
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X-O posted:There's a rumor going around based on an Italian publication that Stallone is playing Stakar Ogord in Guardians of the Galaxy 2. In the comics he's better known by the name Starhawk. If true and Michael Rosenbaum's character is as tied to Stallone's as Gunn said then he might be another of the original Guardians. I will trust the word of One Who Knows.
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Finally got round to watching The Phantom. Broadly positive towards it. I think it's a lot better than The Shadow, which I watched a while ago, which is odd because I've always liked the Shadow better than the Phantom as far as the old pulp proto-superheroes go. I think The Phantom is generally better-written, better-acted and better-looking. I enjoy the cast in this movie a lot. Billy Zane is good fun as the Phantom, Treat Williams is great fun as the villain, Catherine Zeta-Jones was fun as the daring sky pirate aviatrix (I sort of wish the movie had been about her). One of the screenwriters for this movie was Jeffrey Boam, who wrote (among other things) Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade and I think it shows. The Phantom was nowhere near as good as that movie but I think it does a better job at evoking its period setting and leaning into its old film serial influences than the Shadow did (one of the first things on screen is a title card that reads "For those who came in late..." before it recaps the Phantom's origin), without being a full-on cartoon like Dick Tracy was. What didn't I like about it? Well, it's a throwback to the pulps and that means it inevitably ends up being a wee bit questionable about how it treats race. Phantom is still the white guy who goes to Darkest AfricaTM to learn mystical arts and become the protector of the jungle or whatever. I'm sure they didn't mean any harm by it (I've enough familiarity with the pulps to know when writers did) but it is what it is, no getting around that.  Aside from that, there's little stuff like supporting characters vanishing as soon as they're not needed any more (e.g. Kristy Swanson's character's dad, the Colonel Blimp guy in charge of the jungle patrol) which was a little distracting. There's the Singh Brotherhood, who felt like they should've been a bigger deal. It felt like they were there because they're classic Phantom villains and they end up feeling wasted; Xander Drax should've been the chief antagonist. Likewise, it felt sort of weird that Quill was the guy who took out the last Phantom, because he seemed like too much of a henchman to have done that; it'd be like if The Force Awakens had casually revealed that Luke Skywalker had been killed by General Hux in between movies. The Phantom's costume looks sort of goofy but that's just part and parcel of the character.  As far as contemporaneous movies go, I'd rank it below The Rocketeer or The Mask of Zorro but I like it fine on its own. It's better than, say, Wild, Wild West.
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Lobok posted:You should probably do Starhawk as a Handbook entry then! Done.
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Thor: Ragnarok first trailer dropped https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7MGUNV8MxU
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Oh, holy poo poo, that headpiece on Hela!!! Fuckin' outstanding!
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That looks fantastic. Hunt for the Wilderpeople was one of my favourites from last year so I've got high hopes for this.
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Is that Skurge at 1:04? Cate Blanchett looks amazing.
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Both the line and the delivery of it when xxx Hulk xxx is revealed is amazing.
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We got Kirby dots, boys
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Samuringa posted:Thor: Ragnarok first trailer dropped That looks loving fantastic.
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zoux posted:Is that Skurge at 1:04? Yeah, that's Karl Urban as Skurge. Such a gorgeous looking movie so far. Maximum Kirby. It may out-Kirby Guardians of the Galaxy.
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Apparently using classic rock unlocks the awesome power of trailers.
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Phylodox posted:Yeah, that's Karl Urban as Skurge. Woah holy poo poo what did I do to deserve this? Because that looks loving awesome.
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