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Halloween Jack posted:Wow, I never heard of him before. Can I blame him for Rome getting canceled? I thought Rome got canceled because it was expensive as gently caress. Tars Tarkas posted:That or they had multiple contingencies in place They'll CG the actor's faces on, a la Carrie Fisher, until we basically reach The Congress.
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If Agents of Shield can be called "legit good", what's Legion? "A god drat masterpiece"?  Disney grabbing more and more IPs is just bad for the business. I liked how Fox had carved up their own lil comic book niche tonally and stylistically and I trust Marvel not to gently caress that up and make it bland cookie cutter competent as much as I trust the next Avengers movie is a noir heist caper or Winter Soldier was All the President's Men or whatever the gently caress
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GrandpaPants posted:I thought Rome got canceled because it was expensive as gently caress. That massive set they made of the forum and urban centers burned down like a few months after the show was cancelled too, was that someone collecting an insurance check or something?
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FreudianSlippers posted:Names are almost never in the same order as the people below. A lot of actors have clauses in their contracts about top billing on posters and the exact order of names is often the result of a lot of negotiations by a bunch of lawyers. The Towering Inferno. If you read it from the top down, Paul Newman has top billing, but if you read left to right, Steve McQueen is toped billed. (And to be even more pedantic, I think their contracts specified that they each had to have the exact same number of lines to speak as well)
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Timby posted:This will never stop making me laugh:
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Fox made a good call, they had a nice run with X-Men but they’ve wrapped up their two most popular actors with Logan. Also, Singer was a pretty consistent moneymaker for them. And he’s gone, and radioactive.
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I do hope that Disney is seeing what Fox was doing with Logan/Deadpool/probably New Mutants, and just let a corner of the MCU factory not be the same homogenized superhero BS that the Avengers are. And this is coming from a guy that mostly doesn't mind what Disney's MCU films are, but diversity is something that's needed in the genre. And as of late Fox was pulling off in spades. Basically, I hope New Mutants is phenomenal and they don't gently caress with that roadmap.
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SomeJazzyRat posted:I do hope that Disney is seeing what Fox was doing with Logan/Deadpool/probably New Mutants, and just let a corner of the MCU factory not be the same homogenized superhero BS that the Avengers are. And this is coming from a guy that mostly doesn't mind what Disney's MCU films are, but diversity is something that's needed in the genre. And as of late Fox was pulling off in spades. I have a feeling that will happen, like there'll be a small corner of Miramax that are the R rated Marvel movies.
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Punkin Spunkin posted:If Agents of Shield can be called "legit good", what's Legion? "A god drat masterpiece"? Yes? That's basically the majority opinion. I really don't get the constant dismissing of Marvel TV series.
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They aren't that good. I don't get why people consume that poo poo, myself. I accept that tastes differ and i dont think about it much else save for moments like this, but Marvel branded TV is consistently mediocre in a way that only just begs you to ignore it if you can imagine enjoying literally anything else your mind could possibly imagine consuming or doing instead. Marvel movies would do the same thing if not for the charisma of the actors and special effects those movies can afford to shove in your face, something the TV side can't do.
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I mean, that's pretty much 95% of TV. NCIS, The Big Bang Theory, reliable unchallenging mediocrity to entertain people of a particular demographic. The Marvel TV is to tide over people who can't get enough of their fix from the movies.
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basic hitler posted:They aren't that good. I don't get why people consume that poo poo, myself. I accept that tastes differ and i dont think about it much else save for moments like this, but Marvel branded TV is consistently mediocre in a way that only just begs you to ignore it if you can imagine enjoying literally anything else your mind could possibly imagine consuming or doing instead. Actually, I think the show written by the guy behind Fargo is, in fact, good
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Decius posted:Yes? That's basically the majority opinion. I really don't get the constant dismissing of Marvel TV series. I think we have a different threshold of what's worth our time. Because I think of Legion as "good", the Marvel Netflix series as "mediocre to bad" and, even though I hear it's greatly improved over time, season 1 of Agents of Shield was "unwatchable". I'm not going to bother watching something I consider mediocre or lesser when there are too many really good things out there that I haven't watched yet. But yeah, other than grouping in Legion with the rest, basic hitler is spot on.
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Why do people watch anime, come to think of it?
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Gotta say, "Every con has its pros" is a fantastic tagline!
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Anime is good
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Tiger posted:Gotta say, "Every con has its pros" is a fantastic tagline! This but unironically
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feedmyleg posted:I think we have a different threshold of what's worth our time. Because I think of Legion as "good", the Marvel Netflix series as "mediocre to bad" and, even though I hear it's greatly improved over time, season 1 of Agents of Shield was "unwatchable" For all the flaws that the first half of season 1 of Agents of Shield had it never hit the nadir that was the Scott Buck run Marvel shows - Iron Fist and The Inhumans. Are you trying to pretend that they don't exist or do you just have a raging hard-on for him?
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The Saddest Rhino posted:Anime is good Anime is blood
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I really wanted to like Agents of SHIELD, because I caught half of the 2nd season finale with a friend and it looked very good, though I didn't know what was going on. I tried to get into it and, like, it was just not interesting enough for my mind to take hold.
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ookiimarukochan posted:For all the flaws that the first half of season 1 of Agents of Shield had it never hit the nadir that was the Scott Buck run Marvel shows - Iron Fist and The Inhumans. Are you trying to pretend that they don't exist or do you just have a raging hard-on for him? I didn’t even bother with Inhumans, I have never had interest in that side of Marvel and the trailer for the series made it look like a fan production.
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FlamingLiberal posted:I didn’t even bother with Inhumans. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGTfbMioezc&t=26s jk, I know what you mean.
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FlamingLiberal posted:Iron Fist is not great, but I would watch that many times over before I would go back to early AoS. It's going to be interesting, seeing as the only reason Marvel started to push Inhumans was because they didn't have the live action rights to the X-Men universe.
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ookiimarukochan posted:For all the flaws that the first half of season 1 of Agents of Shield had it never hit the nadir that was the Scott Buck run Marvel shows - Iron Fist and The Inhumans. Are you trying to pretend that they don't exist or do you just have a raging hard-on for him? I can't imagine what someone's standards would have to be in order to give those shows a shot after Luke Cage.
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Davros1 posted:It's going to be interesting, seeing as the only reason Marvel started to push Inhumans was because they didn't have the live action rights to the X-Men universe. Even the comics have started to sideline the Xmen since marvel cannot get that sweet tie in audience. I smell a(nother) Xmen vs Inhumans storyline.
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Decius posted:Yes? That's basically the majority opinion. I really don't get the constant dismissing of Marvel TV series. Happy! looks fun to okay. Maybe the Lazarus and Deadly Class shows will be good. It's just that if you're trying to sell me on Marvel television and the height of that that you have to present is "season one of Daredevil" then...I'm good. Different strokes for different folks.
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GrandpaPants posted:I thought Rome got canceled because it was expensive as gently caress. IIRC what happened was that Rome was a coproduction and the co part dropped out, so it became prohibitively expensive for HBO to do it themselves.
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Neo Rasa posted:I have a feeling that will happen, like there'll be a small corner of Miramax that are the R rated Marvel movies. Why would Al Jazeera care about Marvel? Disney sold Miramax years ago
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They could resurrect Touchstone.
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I've been listening to http://372pages.com/ and Ready Player One is soooooo bad. Even putting aside the extremely terrible prose, it's the plot that gets to me. There's some potential in a story about a treasure hunt in a virtual world in a dystopian future, but somehow Cline manages to bury all of it and make the shittest possible choice at every opportunity. How did this become a movie!?
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MonsieurChoc posted:How did this become a movie!? Same way as Fifty Shades of Grey.
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To be fair, I haven't heard many nice things about the book versions of Jaws, the Godfather or whatever book Die Hard was based on.
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MonsieurChoc posted:I've been listening to http://372pages.com/ and Ready Player One is soooooo bad. Even putting aside the extremely terrible prose, it's the plot that gets to me. There's some potential in a story about a treasure hunt in a virtual world in a dystopian future, but somehow Cline manages to bury all of it and make the shittest possible choice at every opportunity. We live in a world where thousands of people pay $20/month to have a box of random pop culture tchothkes sent to their home so that they can label and self-identify themselves as nerds. It’s not surprising.
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Is there a comprehensive list somewhere of all the individual assets, characters, movies, TV shows, etc. that Disney now owns as a result of buying Fox?
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shadowvine118 posted:Is there a comprehensive list of all the individual assets, characters, movies, TV shows, etc. that Disney now owns as a result of Buying Fox? Well, the Tommy Westphall universe I think is the tally so far (all other universes included free of charge)
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shadowvine118 posted:Is there a comprehensive list somewhere of all the individual assets, characters, movies, TV shows, etc. that Disney now owns as a result of buying Fox? 
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 The above, except for the DC comics. Or the Marvel ones? idk, either one
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Skwirl posted:To be fair, I haven't heard many nice things about the book versions of Jaws, the Godfather or whatever book Die Hard was based on. I keep reminding myself of this. And Starship Troopers. I wonder how Cline would react if Spielberg turned his (presumably) 100% earnest book into a biting satire.
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Powaqoatse posted:
Somebody post the more recent ones ah heck, this fool is a legend https://storify.com/HunkyJimpjorps/the-saga-of-gamemaster-anthony-s-birthdays-33-39
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Phylodox posted:I keep reminding myself of this. And Starship Troopers. I wonder how Cline would react if Spielberg turned his (presumably) 100% earnest book into a biting satire. No pun intended, of course.
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