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Calaveron posted:Please tell me the guy who played Harry Osborne in this never acted again He's one of the stars in Valerian.
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Calaveron posted:Ok is it just me or is the CG in ASM2 like super goddamn bad and sticks out like a sore thumb Except maybe Paul Giamatti having a really fun fifteen minutes in front of a green screen, I did like him.
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haitfais posted:Dane Dehaan is playing the title role in Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets. Phew, I'm glad that's a movie I'm never gonna watch but best of luck in his role as the thousand planets
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Calaveron posted:Please tell me the guy who played Harry Osborne in this never acted again Don't avoid Cure For Wellness. It's a worse, slower Shutter Island right till the last act, which is amazing. And nobody else saw it. You'll be in a special club.
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Jun 9, 2017 01:47
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Hahahaha what the gently caress is this electro dubstep bullshit
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So shouldn't Gwen's skull just split open at the end there? I mean that went from the original source material whiplash neck snap to whiplash head still cracks against the floor at terminal velocity
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Calaveron posted:Hahahaha what the gently caress is this electro dubstep bullshit
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CapnAndy posted:There is nothing good in ASM2 for it to stick out from, as you have now learned. Paul Giamatti is always good, even in bad things. Especially in bad things, maybe.
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Jun 9, 2017 02:16
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Dexie posted:Random question. The Grant Morrison stuff is good. Also Kurt Busiek. A lot of the older comics despite having the banana hammock costume are cool.
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Jun 9, 2017 02:22
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I'm starting to feel bad I skipped the entire Amazing reboot.
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Ghostlight posted:I'm starting to feel bad I skipped the entire Amazing reboot. I legit enjoyed the first but MAN was the second a teachable lesson in how spinoffs need to be organic, not forced out three deep two films in.
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Lightning Lord posted:The Grant Morrison stuff is good. Also Kurt Busiek. Do you seriously not know what a banana hammock is in reference to?
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Please stop saying banana hammock https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOROvO2fxTc
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Skwirl posted:Do you seriously not know what a banana hammock is in reference to? I do, and it looks like a banana hammock but on an alien vampire woman. She's Borat with a collar, dude.
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Lightning Lord posted:The Grant Morrison stuff is good. Also Kurt Busiek.  I didn't know Morrison wrote stuff for her either. I'm just learning all sorts of things today, I guess. redbackground posted:I promise to write you an effort-post later tonight! I'm looking forward to it!
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Dexie posted:
Turns out "You can do whatever the gently caress you want with this semi-iconic character" is a pretty appealing thing for a lot of comic writers.
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Dexie posted:
I feel like Amanda Conner did the art for Morrison or Millar on Vampirella too.
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Dexie posted:Random question. Vampirella has had 3 major publishers over the years: Warren, Harris, and Dynamite. The Warren era was when she was more of a "horror" character, it was all black and white, and she was always dealing with vampires (duh), cults, monsters and other occult poo poo like that. Archie Goodwin was integral in making her as popular as she still is today, and Jose Gonzalas was *the* Vampirella artist of the 70s. His work was detailed, gothic, and gorgeous. There is a Best of the Warren era trade out there if you want to just get a good look at what was going on back then. I've been prepping a 3-volume Vampirella hardcover set of the Harris comics years (1991-2009) so this is the era I know the most about. Here's a reading map of the entire publication era for reference of the issues mentioned below. The Harris people definitely pushed a Vampirella-as-superhero mentality, and they also kicked up the violence, 90s Bad Girl art stylings, and often placed her in more sci-fi scenarios. Things came back around to more..."grounded" storylines later on, before Dynamite eventually took the character over. - Sad to say, I've never read the earliest b/w Harris issues written by Busiek (Morning in America). They are very hard to find these days, and can still go for more money than I care to spend. I don't know if they're available digitally, but they are well-regarded if you can get a hold of them. - "The Dracula War" was the initial launch of Harris going monthly, but it petered out at issue 5. It's Busiek again teamed with Jim Balent on art as she fights um, Dracula and poo poo. It's pretty good, actually! - Harris tried again with a monthly Vampi comic with Vengeance of Vampirella. It is peak 90s comics, and until Amanda Conner comes on at the very end with #25, the art is nothing to write home about and is often quite ugly (bad 90s coloring + bad 90s art = ehhhh). Lots of fighting blood monsters, fantastic beasts, dudes with guns, that kind of stuff. I would skip it, but the covers are mostly pretty great. She does gain an actual arch-nemesis who ends up playing a huge role in: - Death and Destruction & Vampirella Lives. These are pretty drat solid. Basically it's the death and rebirth of Vampi, and I enjoyed it quite a bit. Warren Ellis writes it, and Amanda Conner is on art. Conner is easily one of my favorite Vampirella artists. If you've seen any of her Power Girl/Harley Quinn artwork, her art on Vampirella fits right in that mold. Blood Lust was a prestige two-part series that fills in some blanks during that period illustrated by Joe Jusko and it is quite stunning. - Vampirella: The New Monthly kicks off with Morrison/Millar/Conner in charge, and are pretty fun and continue where D&D/VL left off, including bringing back her arch from earlier. They're quite action-y. Whether you would want to keep reading V:TNM after they all leave is up to you, but this is when the space stuff begins and an alternate, non-canon version of Lady Death eventually becomes the Big Bad of the series. What a time! There is a lot of Nazi time travel that may or may not be up your alley. - Mark Millar and Mike Mayhew relaunched Vampirella's monthly after all that crazyness and it's a very pretty comic when Mayhew is on art duties, which he is until I think #13. Amanda Conner pops back in to do the covers, but the series kind of dies off slowly. The stories are back down to "street level" for the most part. - Palmiotti and Conner write and draw a fantastic little short story in the Halloween: Trick & Treat one-shot. One of my favorites by far. - Revelations was pretty solid, and completely self-contained, same with The Second Coming. - Vampirella is doing some cool stuff with Dynamite now, but her longer runs under that publisher that started around 2010 or so, to me, are just super bluh. The interior art is often terrible, and the stories did nothing for me. - The only Vampirella that Alan Moore wrote that I know of was a story in a 3-part Vampi/Dracula anthology one-shot called The Centennial. Worth checking out, as Ellis wrote one of the other stories, and Moore was teamed up with Gary Frank. - There is a Dynamite "Li'l Vampi" one-shot that is adorable. - I am a terrible monster, but I really liked Aliens/Vampirella, sue me. Hopefully this has been of a modicum of use! redbackground fucked around with this message at 16:01 on Jun 9, 2017 |
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Don't feel bad I honestly have enjoyed every single weird out of left field (character) vs. Aliens/Predator crossover I have read.
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Lightning Lord posted:The Grant Morrison stuff is good. Also Kurt Busiek. Oooh, Kurt Busiek.
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END ME SCOOB posted:I legit enjoyed the first but MAN was the second a teachable lesson in how spinoffs need to be organic, not forced out three deep two films in. The Mummy's a teachable lesson one film in.
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Gavok posted:The Mummy's a teachable lesson one film in. Not good, huh? How badly will it have to do for them to abort their big "Dark Universe" plan before it can even get off the ground? I imagine they've got quite a lot invested in it already.
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Wheat Loaf posted:I imagine they've got quite a lot invested in it already. You've already answered your question. Look forward to Tom Cruise Meets Wolfman!
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By a lot of sounds of things everyone but Universal is going "stop now, please" in response to a) the reviews and b) the five sequel/spinoffs they've already announced
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Weren't both Dracula Untold and I, Frankenstein attempts to create a Universal Monsters cinematic universe? They've tried this three times now, I think at this point they've decided to just do it no matter what
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To be fair, "no we're doing a universe and we don't care if the universe sucks and the movies are terrible because we're doing this, gently caress you, bet you'll go see it opening weekend anyway" got us a good movie from DC. On their fourth try, but still!
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It's too bad, because I like all those Universal Monsters characters and would love to see them all having adventures together.
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Wheat Loaf posted:It's too bad, because I like all those Universal Monsters characters and would love to see them all having adventures together. Play Castlevania.
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Wheat Loaf posted:It's too bad, because I like all those Universal Monsters characters and would love to see them all having adventures together. Have you ever heard of this good thing called Penny Dreadful?
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ImpAtom posted:Play Castlevania. Played one game years ago that I think was on PSP. I don't own any consoles nowadays, though. Is it on Steam? Samuringa posted:Have you ever heard of this good thing called Penny Dreadful? I liked Penny Dreadful a lot but kinda sorta resent it because apparently we were on the verge of getting an Anno Dracula adaptation for the tv which ended up not being progressed any further when Penny Dreadful was announced.
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I think it could be super fun if they were making new movies in the style of the originals. If not black and white, at least something like Sleepy Hollow. Edit: Of course they'd need to just be happy aiming for middling art films rather than blockbusters, but I'd be into that:) Edit 2: Now I need to go rewatch Copolla's Dracula. Teenage Fansub fucked around with this message at 21:23 on Jun 9, 2017 |
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They need to aim for the 1999 version. There's nothing wrong with pulp heroes and bright colors, goddammit. Especially when you're asking us to accept monsters so classic they're cliches.
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Teenage Fansub posted:I think it could be super fun if they were making new movies in the style of the originals. If not black and white, at least something like Sleepy Hollow. Anthony Hopkins was the best Van Helsing.
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Yeah, something more along the lines of Indiana Jones or the Brendan Fraser Mummy movies would be fun, or the Guy Ritchie Sherlock Holmes movies. (Guy Ritchie should remake The Assassination Bureau though I'm not sure who the 2017 version of Oliver Reed would be - would no doubt end u with, say, Tom Hiddleston as Dragomiloff, which might be quite good.)
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The idea of monsters and monster hunters is so effortlessly cool and yet there are almost no good movies about it, somehow
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purple death ray posted:The idea of monsters and monster hunters is so effortlessly cool and yet there are almost no good movies about it, somehow I refuse to not be optimistic about the Monster Hunter movie.
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redbackground posted:Vampirella Okay, wow. So she does have good stuff, then. I'm going to check some of this out. Thanks!
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purple death ray posted:The idea of monsters and monster hunters is so effortlessly cool and yet there are almost no good movies about it, somehow I enjoyed Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters.
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Wheat Loaf posted:Yeah, something more along the lines of Indiana Jones or the Brendan Fraser Mummy movies would be fun, or the Guy Ritchie Sherlock Holmes movies. I would have loved a late 90s/early 00's Brenden Fraiser led franchise of him fighting each Universal Monster after The first Mummy.
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Mr Hootington posted:I would have loved a late 90s/early 00's Brenden Fraiser led franchise of him fighting each Universal Monster after The first Mummy. That would have been great. Who's the modern version of Abbott and Costello? Key and Peele?
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