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Velorath
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Trailer. Teaser from Scream Awards. Making a new topic here for those who don't venture into the comic sub-forum (and who apparently can't be bothered with anything comic book related until it's turned into a box office dominating movie). Since people reading this topic aren't as likely to have read the graphic novel, spoiler related discussions shall continue to go in the other topic.
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« Last Edit: October 27, 2008, 09:28:48 PM by Velorath »
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FatuousTwat
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I've read the comic, but I didn't enjoy it as much as so many people apparently did, so I'm not really looking forward to the movie. I'm not into superhero comics 99% of the time though.
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Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?
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MrHat
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Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
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I've read the comic, but I didn't enjoy it as much as so many people apparently did, so I'm not really looking forward to the movie. I'm not into superhero comics 99% of the time though.
But you can't deny the draw of slow motion hotties and slow motion fire and slow motion music oh my! |
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HaemishM
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I've read the comic, but I didn't enjoy it as much as so many people apparently did A great deal of enthusiasm for it comes from comic fans for whom the story was absolutely revolutionary on its release. In the 20-odd years since then, a lot of comics have done the same type of treatment (both good and bad) and as a result, it's impact might be lost on a newcomer today who isn't into comics. It's still a solid story - geek fans of it like me are so into it because we were THERE, MAN! |
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Samwise
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The worst part of the movie is going to be hearing people complain that it ripped off The Incredibles.
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Broughden
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Trailer. Teaser from Scream Awards. Making a new topic here for those who don't venture into the comic sub-forum (and who apparently can't be bothered with anything comic book related until it's turned into a box office dominating movie). Since people reading this topic aren't as likely to have read the graphic novel, spoiler related discussions shall continue to go in the other topic. They made a comic book about this movie? Also your 2nd link no workie. |
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Velorath
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Also your 2nd link no workie.
Replaced it with a working link (for now). |
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FatuousTwat
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 Made this a few months ago, and promptly forgot. |
Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?
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DraconianOne
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Trippy
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I bet someone at Fox had a parent like mine who instilled the same sense of fairness and justice in them.
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WindupAtheist
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(and who apparently can't be bothered with anything comic book related until it's turned into a box office dominating movie). Why would we want to be? I can put Iron Man in my DVD player, enjoy the story of Tony Stark building a ludicrously implausible suit of armor to whoop ass with, look forward to the next one coming out in theaters a year or whatever from now, and not have to know about, care about, or humor the existence of stories where Stark was kidnapped by space mutants from another dimension and turned into a teenager so he could travel back in time and save George Washington from the Incredible Hulk, or what the fuck ever. I can put in Batman Begins and not concern myself over how this interacts with the dyslexic transsexual Batman from Altername Earth #58 who was established in some sprawling nonsensical brand-wide crossover scheme to make everyone read every series in order to have any idea what the fuck is going on. Comic books are an ass format, and everytime I hear about them it seems like all the good characters were beaten to death years ago by the need to produce a new story every month for decades on end. |
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HaemishM
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Comic books are an ass format, and everytime I hear about them it seems like all the good characters were beaten to death years ago by the need to produce a new story every month for decades on end. I unfortunately agree with this statement. The monthly format is KILLING comics, IMO, both creatively and financially. The only printed versions these days should be the collected graphic novels, while the monthlies should be sold on a subscription base online. |
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stray
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Killing them financially? I figured it'd be cheap to produce them.
Just for storywriting's sake though, I'd rather see a sort of graphic novel centric industry, and less extensive runs and rehashes of old characters (and instead, entirely new stories, not necessarily superhero focused).
Then again, there's a megaton of shit I haven't read that qualifies as it is. So I shouldn't complain.
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HaemishM
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Killing them financially? I figured it'd be cheap to produce them. Produce, then ship. Just like most print productions these days, the cost of those two things combined just kill the profits. Hell, I'm not sure either DC or Marvel really does more than break even on most monthlies. It's all about producing a graphic novel for the bookstores and selling the movie rights to Hollywood with some merchandising on the side. Their core business hasn't really been doing that well since the back-issue/speculator's crash of the mid-to-late '90's. Electronic distribution cuts the printing and shipping costs, and replaces them with the much cheaper bandwidth costs (which they could probably farm out to someone like Fileplanet cheaper than they could do it themselves). |
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Velorath
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(and who apparently can't be bothered with anything comic book related until it's turned into a box office dominating movie). Why would we want to be? I can put Iron Man in my DVD player, enjoy the story of Tony Stark building a ludicrously implausible suit of armor to whoop ass with, look forward to the next one coming out in theaters a year or whatever from now, and not have to know about, care about, or humor the existence of stories where Stark was kidnapped by space mutants from another dimension and turned into a teenager so he could travel back in time and save George Washington from the Incredible Hulk, or what the fuck ever. I can put in Batman Begins and not concern myself over how this interacts with the dyslexic transsexual Batman from Altername Earth #58 who was established in some sprawling nonsensical brand-wide crossover scheme to make everyone read every series in order to have any idea what the fuck is going on. Comic books are an ass format, and everytime I hear about them it seems like all the good characters were beaten to death years ago by the need to produce a new story every month for decades on end. There's just as many shitty movies out there as there are shitty comics, and churning out product until the characters are beaten to death isn't exclusive to comics either (how soon you seem to forget the last Batman movie franchise, The Crow movies after the first one, Spider-man 3, not to mention hundreds of non-comic related franchises). Other than that, sorry you only hear about shitty comics? |
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Trippy
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Samwise
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Important bit quoted so nobody else has to actually click the link. The studios say it will be released as scheduled on March 6.  |
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MrHat
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Out of the frying pan, into the fire.
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Important bit quoted so nobody else has to actually click the link. The studios say it will be released as scheduled on March 6. Reason 55 why I love the Internet: There's always someone willing to read something so you don't have to :-D Thanks! That's so fucking close. |
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IainC
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Viral advertising has started New Frontiersman has viral video clips, widgets and other stuff with presumably more to come. |
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Read (SPOILAGE WARNING) review of early UK screening…Yes, it’s long but yes it’s extremely faithful to the graphic novel, to the point that the sex and violence is almost HARSHER than I remember it being in the comic. Cleavers are embedded in heads, legs snapped in two, arms sawn off with circular saws. No punches are pulled.
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HaemishM
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Goddamnit, reading even one paragraph by Harry Knowles really just makes me want to stab him with 30 sporks.
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DraconianOne
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Goddamnit, reading even one paragraph by Harry Knowles really just makes me want to stab him with 30 sporks.
Only 30? So you actually quite like him then. |
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HaemishM
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I figure 30 will be enough to cover his ginormous head. The trident is for the rest of him.
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Arnold
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I figure 30 will be enough to cover his ginormous head. The trident is for the rest of him.
It's only been a few months since bariatric surgery; you might need more than one trident. Oh and... um... yeah, "ginormous". That was one of my pet peeves in the thread on this board. When people use that word, I get the urge to stab them in the eye with a pencil. |
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HaemishM
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We're in ur dictionary, fucking up ur language.  |
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Raguel
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Evil Elvis
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Ditto. I hope this movie is good, but those clips aren't helping any. |
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schild
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OH MAN I CAN'T WAIT TO CLICK THAT LINK AND WATCH CLIPS OUT OF CONTEXT TO MAKE MY MOVIE EXPERIENCE CRAPPIER
WHAT A SWELL IDEA
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Velorath
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Not to mention the shitty video quality of those clips.
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IainC
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Wil Wheaton's spoiler free Watchmen review is hereTL;DR version. It's the best comic to film adaptation ever. |
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Triforcer
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Wil Wheaton's spoiler free Watchmen review is hereTL;DR version. It's the best comic to film adaptation ever. That would be convincing if not for the minor matter that everything Wil Wheaton does or says is wrong. |
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IainC
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That would be convincing if not for the minor matter that everything Wil Wheaton does or says is wrong.
Wait, I know this one, it's one of those lateral thinking or logical puzzles isn't it? 'If Triforcer asserts that everything Wil Wheaton says is wrong then is Watchmen actually awesome or not?' |
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NowhereMan
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The correct answer is C) God can lift the stone but he puts his backout and Pluto ceases to be a planet.
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Raguel
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The Brits love them some Watchmen, apparently. Rotten Tomatoes have it at 80%
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DraconianOne
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That would be convincing if not for the minor matter that everything the Brits do or say is wrong.
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