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Post by BackinBlack on Dec 29, 2014 0:34:31 GMT -5
I haven't been reading comics much or at all really as of late, but this isn't the first time I hear about AXIS. What's its premise? Well it starts off with the Red Skull who has become the Red Onslaught after fully accessing Xavier's powers from the piece of brain he stole from his body. The Avengers, X-Men, and even a team of villain recruited by Magneto fight him, but they're only able to stop him when Scarlet Witch and Dr. Doom cast an inversion spell to make Xavier's personality dominant over Skull's. However, the inversion spell affects everyone involved in the battle, and the heroes start acting like villains and villains start acting like heroes. It's a lot of action, but has really great character moments, even from Carnage and Sabertooth if you can believe that. Also, while Spidey doesn't do much story wise, Rick Remender writes him so well that I hope he gets put on a Spidey book in the future.
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Post by Webber3000 on Dec 29, 2014 11:17:11 GMT -5
Sounds pretty damn awesome! I love it when writers get to do creative stuff with characters. Honestly, the reason I stopped reading comics is because the only ones I was picking up were the Amazing Spider-Man, and I felt that for each good issue, there were about 5 or 6 that were really meh.
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Post by BackinBlack on Dec 29, 2014 13:36:39 GMT -5
Yeah, I kind of felt that way about Amazing Spider-Man before Superior started. It's been pretty good since it came back though, especially the Spider-Verse event.
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Post by Webber3000 on Dec 29, 2014 20:28:18 GMT -5
Ah, I missed those, I stopped after issue 631 or so.
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Post by BackinBlack on Dec 29, 2014 22:50:59 GMT -5
Really? Wow. You got like over a 100 issues to catch up on.
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Post by Webber3000 on Dec 30, 2014 12:15:20 GMT -5
Yeah, it's been a freaking looooong time.
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Post by Webber3000 on Jan 1, 2015 0:48:14 GMT -5
HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE! What are you most looking forward to in 2015?
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Post by Spidey 1923 on Jan 2, 2015 1:07:24 GMT -5
Age of Ultron, Ant-Man and Arkham Knight!
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Post by mr. excellent on Jan 3, 2015 20:42:04 GMT -5
Same. I'd also like to receive a letter from the district I'm currently employed by, asking me to accept their offer of tenure. We'll see. Aside from that, I'm also looking forward to the following movies in no particular order: Kingsmen: The Secret Service Jurassic World Terminator G. (since I can't remember their weird spelling for Genesis) Star Wars 7 Fantastic Four (I'll bite) Pixar's The Good Dinosaur and Inside Out Mad Max (as time goes on, tell me this hasn't started to look a little more appealing) Jupiter Ascending (we'll see) Mockingjay Part 2 I hear Ridley Scott is coming out with a space movie in November. Matt Damon, Sebastian Stan, Idris Alba and a whole bunch of other good actors are a part of it, so we'll see if Scott can finally manage to reclaim some of that old glory. Exodus certainly hasn't done him any favors. In terms of movie news, I really hope that this will be the year that Marvel and Sony announce a much more collaborative agreement that allows crossovers, or... that Sony sells the character back. Now that all the fuss has died down a little bit, I don't think Sony will be selling the character back though. Oh, and I'd like to get down to 155 again. I'm 5'7'', 27 years of age, and the opposite of big boned, so I think I can pull it off.
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Post by BackinBlack on Jan 3, 2015 22:04:19 GMT -5
excellent, can't you at least wait until FF's out on video? Don't enable Fox by paying to see that horror in the theaters.
On another topic, I decided to watch Amazing Spider-Man tonight. I know it's only 2 years old, but considering everything that's come to light behind the scenes, it brought out a nostalgia feel. It was a simpler time. It was just one movie. We got a new and better film Spidey and it was a brave new world to explore. Before Sony became obsessed with creating a universe. And while I love the comic accurate suit of the sequel, I'll always admire the different and realistic suit of the first film.
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Post by mr. excellent on Jan 4, 2015 5:59:04 GMT -5
I've been meaning to go back and watch TASM. The possibilities are still there, now that Sony has had to eat a few slices of humble pie. Sad to see Chris Cooper not on that casting call list for TASM 3 though (assuming with a huge grain of salt that the casting call is legit). Norman's scenes with Richard Parker and Harry were excellent.
As far as Fantastic Four goes, I can wait long enough to see what the critical and fan consensus is. It's just that that cast and director, as well as writer Simon Kinberg have me so darn interested. I know Kinberg isn't always on point, but his latest writing credit was with DOFP. I know that press for this has been less than desirable. Especially because we have disappointing reports coming from the main cast themselves. That being said, I can't help but wonder if this will be another XMFC. This won't be a TMNT thing situation though, where I go to see it even though I saw the reviews were terrible.
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Post by Webber3000 on Jan 4, 2015 11:14:44 GMT -5
excellent, can't you at least wait until FF's out on video? Don't enable Fox by paying to see that horror in the theaters. On another topic, I decided to watch Amazing Spider-Man tonight. I know it's only 2 years old, but considering everything that's come to light behind the scenes, it brought out a nostalgia feel. It was a simpler time. It was just one movie. We got a new and better film Spidey and it was a brave new world to explore. Before Sony became obsessed with creating a universe. And while I love the comic accurate suit of the sequel, I'll always admire the different and realistic suit of the first film. I definitely miss the days when the scope of the superhero film genre was much narrower. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy ever-expanding movie universes like that of Marvel studios, but somehow it's become the standard in such a way that we can't get small and fun superhero films centred on a single hero's personal struggles anymore.
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Post by Webber3000 on Jan 5, 2015 15:37:52 GMT -5
Also, congrats on your 2,500th post, Excellent.
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Post by BackinBlack on Jan 5, 2015 22:42:23 GMT -5
2016's comic movie slate just got more crowded. Let's look at the table.
MARVEL: * Captain America: Civil War * Dr. Strange
DC: * Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice * Suicide Squad
X-MEN: * Deadpool * X-Men: Apocalypse * Gambit
And of course we have Sony coming out with Sinister Si-...pfft BWAHAHAHA! Sorry, I just couldn't type that out seriously.
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Post by mr. excellent on Jan 6, 2015 2:55:23 GMT -5
Thank you for the post count acknowledgement. Speaking of comic book movies, there's this really long, detailed, and interesting fan theory that was written up on CBM.com. These fan editorials come a dime a dozen, so I usually skim or flat out skip over them, but this one happened to make the main page for a little while. I'll include a link for it at the end of this post. I bring it up because I've been reading through Earth X, and starting to better understand what Marvel has done with their MCU thus far, and where they might go with it. One of my biggest complaints with Iron Man 3 is the way they handled the Extremis science. Specifically, how vague Marvel was in explaining it when Warren Ellis did a pretty good job of fleshing out his sci-fi in a way that could have translated well onto screen. In the film, Killian explains that there is an empty slot in the human brain, and he's found a way to use it to upgrade people. Earth X describes an alternate reality (bearing many similarities to the 616 Marvel Universe) where nearly everyone on earth has super powers. This is by design of our creators, the Celestials. With that backdrop, this telling explains that some people tapped into their inherent potential by intentional experimentation or by accident, while others saw their potential realized by a global event. So, I think Marvel may have pulled a fast one on us. Perhaps the real reason why Marvel Studios chose to explain Extremis the way they did in Iron Man 3 was to plant the seeds for Inhumans. Those guys and gals apparently have a similar explanation with regard to how they are what they are. Now that Agents of SHIELD is doing the same, we'll be getting our third dose of Inhumans prepping in Age of Ultron. By the time Inhumans comes out, we may well be thoroughly versed in how it all fits together. Further, it could be a good way to show how Tony is able to continuously upgrade his armor and his biology beyond normal human levels. As RDJ did put it, his brain is his superpower, but that's a stretch on my end and a little bit of semantics gone wild. Here's the link to the fan theory, which I have to say is the best I have ever come across, even if I don't agree with all of it. It's too long to get through in one sitting for casual reading, but that's part of the beauty of it: www.comicbookmovie.com/fansites/NovasSpace/news/?a=112842
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