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Oh God they're actually going through with the Venom movie? I would have bet that would have been consigned to the ash heap with Gambit.
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Rough Lobster posted:Oh God they're actually going through with the Venom movie? I would have bet that would have been consigned to the ash heap with Gambit. They aren't going through with Gambit?!
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Oct 24, 2017 19:56
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SolidSnakesBandana posted:They aren't going through with Gambit?! They've been trying to do it for like ten years and lose a director every three months.
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Oct 24, 2017 20:33
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Venom's kind of a boring character isn't he? What's the hook?
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Oct 24, 2017 22:17
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porfiria posted:Venom's kind of a boring character isn't he? What's the hook? People like buying shirts with his symbol on them
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Oct 24, 2017 22:22
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They only way it would really work is if the go with the anti-hero angle.
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Oct 24, 2017 22:27
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Jose Oquendo posted:They only way it would really work is if the go with the anti-hero angle. Horror movie
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Oct 24, 2017 22:35
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I'm not familiar with the particulars of the Disney/Sony Spider-man deal. Is Venom more a Sony movie or a Disney/Marvel movie?
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Oct 24, 2017 22:36
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Jose Oquendo posted:I'm not familiar with the particulars of the Disney/Sony Spider-man deal. Is Venom more a Sony movie or a Disney/Marvel movie? I believe this is a Sony solo thing
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Oct 24, 2017 22:38
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The current Venom thing is he takes some pill regularly to make him not evil. I only read one page in a free preview but lmao thats bad
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Oct 24, 2017 22:39
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got any sevens posted:The current Venom thing is he takes some pill regularly to make him not evil. I only read one page in a free preview but lmao thats bad So what's that supposed to be an allegory for?
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Oct 24, 2017 22:45
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Schwarzwald posted:So what's that supposed to be an allegory for? We need to keep taking pills instead facing the reality of the world around us so we don't go insane and murder people
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Oct 24, 2017 22:49
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Jose Oquendo posted:I'm not familiar with the particulars of the Disney/Sony Spider-man deal. Is Venom more a Sony movie or a Disney/Marvel movie? I think the idea is that they're Sony "spinoffs" to Spider-Man: Homecoming but not actually part of the MCU. So Sony seems to be doing its own "Spider-Verse" that they say sits next to the MCU presumably with the hopes to get Holland and/or the MCU into it in the future, but if not just piggyback off of them. There's also that Silver Sable/Black Cat film.
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James Mangold confirms that a script to an X-23 movie is being worked on.
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Oct 24, 2017 23:29
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STAC Goat posted:There's also that Silver Sable/Black Cat film.  if they think anyone actually wants to see that
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Oct 24, 2017 23:46
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Away all Goats posted:
Female-lead action movies can be pretty successful.
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Oct 24, 2017 23:54
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I'm not going to pretend I'm hyped for a Black Cat/Silver Sable movie but I'm probably theoretically as interested in it as I am for a hypothetical Aquaman or Ant-Man movie. A woman driven story of super powered mercenaries isn't a terrible idea if there's an actual story or something.
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That's fair, I probably would have thought of the same thing about GotG if I didn't know anything about them.
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Oct 24, 2017 23:58
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MacheteZombie posted:I believe this is a Sony solo thing Solo is a Disney thing.
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Lobok posted:Solo is a Disney thing. But it's a Cyborg movie? 
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STAC Goat posted:I'm not going to pretend I'm hyped for a Black Cat/Silver Sable movie but I'm probably theoretically as interested in it as I am for a hypothetical Aquaman or Ant-Man movie. A woman driven story of super powered mercenaries isn't a terrible idea if there's an actual story or something. There's a few cool directions they could take it in. Black Cat (I don't know where the comics are at now) was everything from a simple burglar up to a major crime boss.
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The MSJ posted:But it's a Cyborg movie? Holy poo poo! that's the movie that's been in my brain since I was a kid,i could never remember the fuckin' name! That movie suuuuuuuuuuuuucks,but it has a hilarious bit where the bad guys are trying to blow him up and he suddenly starts doing backflips while explosions go off behind him for no reason whatsoever with gratuitous slo-mo.
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Neo Rasa posted:There's a few cool directions they could take it in. Black Cat (I don't know where the comics are at now) was everything from a simple burglar up to a major crime boss. I'm guessing a bit of a spin on the Suicide Squad idea where Sable has her mercenary group and Black Cat is one of the "reforming" villains who are part of it. There's a simple enough formula there of Sable being the by the books military type with a dark past and Black Cat being the difficult villain with a heart of gold who has to learn to be a team player/hero. Its probably a matter of what kind of story and talent develop.
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Away all Goats posted:
[thinking about this critically now] Two women in catsuits? I'm in!
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Jenny Angel posted:[thinking about this critically now] Two women in catsuits? I'm in! Post credits sequence, whoever's playing Black Cat returns home after successfully completing their mission/earning Silver Sable's respect/all the good guys definitively win/everyone's happy but notices the door to her place is already opened. A haggard Halle Berry and an eye-patch wearing Michelle Pfeiffer step out from the shadows, "We're here to talk to you about the catsuit initiative."
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Oct 25, 2017 01:32
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MacheteZombie posted:We need to keep taking pills instead facing the reality of the world around us so we don't go insane and murder people Guilty.
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Neo Rasa posted:"the catsuit initiative." This is my new synthpop band
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Brazilianpeanutwar posted:Holy poo poo! that's the movie that's been in my brain since I was a kid,i could never remember the fuckin' name! The book it's based on (Weapon by Robert Mason) is pretty drat awesome though. Mason also wrote one of the best 'I was there' Vietnam books ever.
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porfiria posted:Venom's kind of a boring character isn't he? What's the hook? He's got the basic Jekyll/Hyde deal going on plus a touch of Carpenter's The Thing-esque body horror, but most of the time he really enjoys the experience because he was a violent jerk to start with.  The character's original story was that he was a self centered prick who blamed his lovely life on Spider-Man because [reasons] who got turned into a supervillain when he bonded with a shapeshifting alien who also hated Spider-Man because [reasons] so they dedicated themselves to try and kill Spider-Man or otherwise ruin his life if that wasn't possible. Dunno how they'll spin that if they remove all mention of Spider-Man from the standalone movie.
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MacheteZombie posted:I believe this is a Sony solo thing I really wish they had thought this through and not made Venom a Sony solo thing. It could have worked really well if they gave Peter the black costume/symbiote in Avengers 3. Then have Peter lose it in the third Spiderman 2 and Venom can be a villain with a decent take on his origin.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Dunno how they'll spin that if they remove all mention of Spider-Man from the standalone movie.
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Formula's simple, Make a Venom movie where he's likable and cool, and then a second movie, Spiderman vs. Venom.
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Thor Ragnarok - not plot spoilers but something that I was upset that was left out of the visual design : Scene after scene of beautiful dense Kirby inspired sets, costumes, characters, color schemes and yet I did not spot a single drat Kirby Krackle effect. What do people think we were buying tickets for ?
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I'd like to announce that I'll be directing Gambit! It's due for release two years from today. [gets handed slip of paper] I'm no longer directing Gambit! Creative differences.
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Spacebump posted:Venom quote:decent lol
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porfiria posted:Venom's kind of a boring character isn't he? What's the hook? Ideally speaking, the hook of Venom is the bipartisan nature of the character. The symbiote doesn't have a completely free will, and largely acts based on the emotions and desire of the host. The host, on the other hand, has very little say over what the symbiote does end up doing. The best Venom stories do a lot of cool stuff with the relationship between the host and the symbiote, whereas the worst just treat him as an angry goop gorilla.
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So I saw Thor Ragnarock last night, and thought it was great. Very funny in places, and even though there are some pretty sombre moments it definitely doesn't take itself too seriously. I have some friends that are huge fans of the Thor comics that didn't love the new movie, but they didn't hate it at the same time.
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Just got home from Thor. Really really enjoyed it but didn't love it as much as I thought I would. To give a non-spoiler, broad brushstrokes review of the movie, the first act isn't very good. It's flashy but things move WAY too fast. Pivotal moments just rushed through in order to be referenced later I guess. The final act is a little too much of what looked like Marvel Studios going "make sure you get all this poo poo in there". Not very interesting. The middle act though, this is where it gets fan-loving-tastic. It probably makes up the bulk of the movie and it's everything you'd want to see based on the trailers and more. If the whole movie was on that level it'd be incredible. In particular Thor, Hulk/Banner, Loki and Grandmaster were all great in their own right but their interactions are really what makes it. Really hilarious. Tessa Thompson as Valkyrie was ok but I really don't see why all the reviews were saying she was the greatest thing about the movie. Same thing with Cate Blanchett as Hela. She was alright. The character has an interesting role within the mythos but as far as her presence in the movie? I dunno. Didn't really interest me. She throws a lot of knives. The action was great. That fight between Thor and Hulk is absolutely bananas. I also really liked the fact that it kind of broke away from that thing that Marvel likes to do where they have a hero, a villain, they fight and then everything just returns to normal at the end. This is more Winter Soldier-esque where it feels like lasting change has occurred.
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JordanKai posted:Ideally speaking, the hook of Venom is the bipartisan nature of the character. The symbiote doesn't have a completely free will, and largely acts based on the emotions and desire of the host. The host, on the other hand, has very little say over what the symbiote does end up doing. The best Venom stories do a lot of cool stuff with the relationship between the host and the symbiote, whereas the worst just treat him as an angry goop gorilla. Venom is basically american Guyver anyway.
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