Comic Book Movie Megathread: Bubble? What bubble?

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porfiria: Dec 10, 2008; by Modern Video Games

BravestOfTheLamps posted:

People are now simply more considerate of things like sexual harassment, but otherwise there has been no moral development in society. That's how you get Marvel movies, which are rather offensive but not in a way that really rankles most people.

Don't forget gay marriage.

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# ? May 27, 2024 20:15

DLC Inc: Jun 1, 2011

New Mutants premise looks cool even if the trailer bends the knee to the embarrassing dogshit trend of "slowed-down spookier version of some old loving song"

Anya-Taylor Joy really cornering the market on horror with The Witch, Split, and this.

# ? Oct 13, 2017 17:39

STAC Goat: Mar 12, 2008; Watching you sleep.

Butt first, let's
check the feeds.

While I'm not a huge fan of the X-Men movies the idea of doing New Mutants as a horror film is kind of inspired and kind of makes complete and total sense. I mean, its a team with a werewolf and a witch.

# ? Oct 13, 2017 19:02

well why not: Feb 10, 2009

I can't believe the direction they're going in with the costumes:

# ? Oct 13, 2017 19:18

feedmyleg: Dec 25, 2004

As silly as most of those look, at this point I'd welcome them (or, rather, a professional version of them) just to wash the grimdark off the franchise.

# ? Oct 13, 2017 19:25

Super Fan: Jul 16, 2011; by FactsAreUseless

feedmyleg posted:

As silly as most of those look, at this point I'd welcome them (or, rather, a professional version of them) just to wash the grimdark off the franchise.

I want those people too. An overweight X-Men team in gaudy costumes

# ? Oct 13, 2017 19:28

feedmyleg: Dec 25, 2004

Yeah, you know what? Strike what I said, I agree. Those exact people, those exact costumes, $150 million budget.

# ? Oct 13, 2017 19:30

got any sevens: Feb 9, 2013; by Cyrano4747

Is yellow the official xmen color? Its in half the costumes

# ? Oct 13, 2017 19:34

Detective No. 27: Jun 7, 2006

got any sevens posted:

Is yellow the official xmen color? Its in half the costumes

Yellow and blue. But they just kinda dropped the whole team costume idea after a while.

# ? Oct 13, 2017 19:37

Guy A. Person: May 23, 2003

got any sevens posted:

Is yellow the official xmen color? Its in half the costumes

Yeah it was originally a yellow and blue uniform similar to three of the girls in the top middle, then over the years they got more unique costumes (and new people joined the team with their own costumes) but a lot maintained a yellow or blue motif.

(disclaimer: I don't know a ton about the X-Men this is mostly known from seeing images of the old costumes and knowing the newer ones fluctuate)

# ? Oct 13, 2017 19:37

STAC Goat: Mar 12, 2008; Watching you sleep.

Butt first, let's
check the feeds.

Yeah, yellow and blue are basically the school colors. That girl at the top center is basically wearing the default training costume all the kids get when they start super hero training and the ones around her are wearing slight variations of them. When they "graduate" they get more unique costumes because they're really not supposed to be super heroing as students (but of course they do).

And X-Men love loud primary colors.

# ? Oct 13, 2017 19:39

Lobok: Jul 13, 2006; Say Watt?

Good thing to remember is that a lot of characters didn't start out as members of the X-Men or begin their publishing history as mutants or first appear in X-Men comics so the origins of their costumes don't have Heroic X-Man as the basis or influence.

# ? Oct 13, 2017 19:53

Jenny Angel: Oct 24, 2010; Out of Control
Hard to Regulate
Anything Goes!; Lipstick Apathy

feedmyleg posted:

As silly as most of those look, at this point I'd welcome them (or, rather, a professional version of them) just to wash the grimdark off the franchise.

Man this isn't even grimdark. If it were going for a horror tone and using that as an excuse to dress everyone up in ridiculous goth outfits and Liefield-assed 90's excess, that'd be genuinely refreshing. This is just... sedate, for some reason

# ? Oct 13, 2017 20:21

STAC Goat: Mar 12, 2008; Watching you sleep.

Butt first, let's
check the feeds.

It comes off as a horror movie and not a comic/hero movie.

Its hard not to think Legion didn't inspire it a bit but I don't know the timeline on production.

# ? Oct 13, 2017 20:57

UmOk: Aug 3, 2003

well why not posted:

I can't believe the direction they're going in with the costumes:

So what's the deal with Wolverine? Did he forget the rest of his costume?

# ? Oct 13, 2017 21:38

Dark_Tzitzimine: Oct 9, 2012; by R. Guyovich

quote:

After the success of Charlie's Angels, he was hired to direct Superman: Flyby for Warner Bros., based on a script by Abrams. Abrams was writing the script and the studio wanted it for a 2006 release. The catch? He'd have to shoot the film in Australia.

"I tried to tell [then-Warner Bros.' execs] Alan Horn and Barry Meyer at the time, 'Hey guys, I'm really afraid to fly,'" McG says. "And they were like, 'Come on! You're McG. You'll be fine.'"

The day came to take the Warners' jet to Australia, and he couldn't bring himself to go.

"It was very humiliating, and I got thrown off the movie that day," says McG, who got professional help after the incident. "It just sort of resulted in my going to see two ladies who specialize in this sort of thing at UCLA and I slowly put one foot in front of the other and I've now been around the world many, many times and fly all over the place and try to never go two weeks without getting on a plane."

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/babysitter-how-mcg-moves-losing-superman-flyby-1048439

I had no idea that McG was attached to a Superman Film back on '06

# ? Oct 13, 2017 21:38

feedmyleg: Dec 25, 2004

STAC Goat posted:

It comes off as a horror movie and not a comic/hero movie.

Its hard not to think Legion didn't inspire it a bit but I don't know the timeline on production.

But Legion is gorgeous and has fantastic costumes.

# ? Oct 13, 2017 21:42

Kurtofan: Feb 16, 2011; hon hon hon

My father cant fly too

# ? Oct 13, 2017 21:42

John Wick of Dogs: Mar 4, 2017; A real hellraiser

Dark_Tzitzimine posted:

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/babysitter-how-mcg-moves-losing-superman-flyby-1048439

I had no idea that McG was attached to a Superman Film back on '06

He didn't believe a man could fly

# ? Oct 13, 2017 21:43

Davros1: Jul 19, 2007; You've got to admit, you are kind of implausible

Al Borland Corp. posted:

He didn't believe a man could fly

Should've drugged him like on the A-Team.

Not that I'm advocating anything being directed by McG

# ? Oct 13, 2017 21:46

SolidSnakesBandana: Jul 1, 2007; Infinite ammo

Who the gently caress is McG? I've never heard you guys mention him before but I watched The Babysitter on Netflix last night and it claimed to be directed by someone called McG. That movie is insanely good by the way. I advise going in as blind as possible

# ? Oct 13, 2017 22:08

MacheteZombie: Feb 4, 2007

SolidSnakesBandana posted:

Who the gently caress is McG? I've never heard you guys mention him before but I watched The Babysitter on Netflix last night and it claimed to be directed by someone called McG. That movie is insanely good by the way. I advise going in as blind as possible

Directed terminator salvation

# ? Oct 13, 2017 22:10

Neo Rasa: Mar 8, 2007; Everyone should play DUKE games.

I can't bring myself to watch it yet because McG but it does look fun.

# ? Oct 13, 2017 22:13

VAGENDA OF MANOCIDE: Aug 1, 2004; whoa, what just happened here?; College Slice

Nothing (e: especially) wrong with McG I think

I saw the trailer to that Babysitter movie without audio on and it looked bonkers as hell

VAGENDA OF MANOCIDE fucked around with this message at 22:19 on Oct 13, 2017

# ? Oct 13, 2017 22:17

John Wick of Dogs: Mar 4, 2017; A real hellraiser

He created Chuck, I don't know how much he actively ran the show. While Chuck kind of careened off a cliff after a while I can't be mad at the guy who introduced Yvonne Strahovski to the world

# ? Oct 13, 2017 22:18

SolidSnakesBandana: Jul 1, 2007; Infinite ammo

Al Borland Corp. posted:

He created Chuck, I don't know how much he actively ran the show. While Chuck kind of careened off a cliff after a while I can't be mad at the guy who introduced Yvonne Strahovski to the world

Here's what I remember about Chuck. When it first aired, youtube or whatever video service I was watching (Hulu maybe?) would constantly air a commercial for Chuck where it would be yelling "CHUCK. CHUCK. CHUCK." So as a result I now hate Chuck.

VAGENDA OF MANOCIDE posted:

Nothing (e: especially) wrong with McG I think

I saw the trailer to that Babysitter movie without audio on and it looked bonkers as hell

If you've seen Little Evil on Netflix, The Babysitter is way way better than that. Little Evil kinda sucked.

# ? Oct 13, 2017 22:24

bring back old gbs: Feb 28, 2007; by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

SolidSnakesBandana posted:

Who the gently caress is McG? I've never heard you guys mention him before but I watched The Babysitter on Netflix last night and it claimed to be directed by someone called McG. That movie is insanely good by the way. I advise going in as blind as possible

You don't remember the Christian Bale meltdown tape? How he kept whining to the director "MICKGEE!!! HE STEPPED IN MY EYELINE!! MICKGEE!!! DO SOMETHING THROW HIM OUT OR IM GONE!"

# ? Oct 13, 2017 22:26

John Wick of Dogs: Mar 4, 2017; A real hellraiser

Sad news about the Blade movies

https://twitter.com/TheOnion/status/918509322002300931?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

# ? Oct 13, 2017 22:28

K. Waste: Feb 27, 2014; MORAL:
To the vector belong the spoils.

STAC Goat posted:

It comes off as a horror movie and not a comic/hero movie.

I mean, it's what they're going for, and the only interesting thing about it, and even on that level it comes off like a poor man's A Cure for Wellness.

Like, there's literally allusions to A Nightmare on Elm Street and Hellraiser, but it still more or less looks like your average young adult fantasy film.

edit: Like, what gets me about feedmyleg's "grimdark" comment is that we already have a "grimdark" version of an X-Men spinoff, it's called Scanners, and it rules.

K. Waste fucked around with this message at 22:45 on Oct 13, 2017

# ? Oct 13, 2017 22:43

Megaman's Jockstrap: Jul 16, 2000; What a horrible thread to have a post.

If you ever get a chance, read JJ Abram's Superman: Flyby script. McG was supposed to direct it. It really has a very Snyder feel to parts of it, and spends a lot of time yammering about "earth shattering explosions" and has Rough Superman Childhood. There's some proto-Man of Steel in it. Plus a bit of Superman Returns, a more classic Lex, that kind of thing. It's interesting.

https://www.supermanhomepage.com/movies/Superman-JJAbrams2.pdf

# ? Oct 13, 2017 22:46

teagone: Jun 10, 2003; That was pretty intense, huh?

Dark_Tzitzimine posted:

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/babysitter-how-mcg-moves-losing-superman-flyby-1048439

I had no idea that McG was attached to a Superman Film back on '06

Jude Law was approached to play Superman in that particular iteration. Imagine that. When McG dropped out of the project, Brett Ratner was slated to helm the film. Lmao.

# ? Oct 13, 2017 22:53

The Fuzzy Hulk: Nov 22, 2007; ASK ME ABOUT CROSSING THE STREAMS

K. Waste posted:

we already have a "grimdark" version of an X-Men spinoff, it's called Scanners, and it rules.

Misfits.

# ? Oct 13, 2017 23:01

CPFortest: Jun 2, 2009; Did you not pour me out like milk, and curdle me like cheese?

Al Borland Corp. posted:

He created Chuck, I don't know how much he actively ran the show. While Chuck kind of careened off a cliff after a while I can't be mad at the guy who introduced Yvonne Strahovski to the world

Nah, The OC showrunner Josh Schwartz created Chuck, McG just directed the pilot i think.

# ? Oct 13, 2017 23:04