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Post by Webber3000 on May 7, 2016 16:08:49 GMT -5
Man, I spent countless hours and restless nights on these things. My two favourites remain my 5th and 10th animations.
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Post by mr. excellent on May 8, 2016 3:17:28 GMT -5
That's pretty good man. So, last night on my way home from Fresno, my wife and I stopped at Barnes & Noble. Though I found many comics that caught my interest (Superior Venom, the Superior Spider-man tpb following that, and like 3 major collections of the Age of Apocalypse) I stuck to my guns and purchased the Spider-verse collection. It's pretty hefty, but I'm very excited to read it. My wife and I were debating going on this long road trip from California to New Orleans, but once we calculated gas prices, we realized how unrealistic it would be to travel that far on such a short amount of time saving. So, now we're planning a few shorter, but hopefully still awesome trips up and down California, since we live in the central valley. By doing that, we hope to be able to get the best out of both worlds: traveling and indulgence of our nerdier sides. When all is said and done, I plan on having a lot more Hawkeye, Miles Morales Spidey, X-Men, and Goon Comics come August.
On a separate note, I really liked Civil War. No spoilers here, just some non-spoilery thoughts. Though it's not my favorite Marvel or superhero movie, it definitely has hands down the most satisfying superhero moments in it. I don't think it's "the Godfather" of all superhero movies, yet I think if this were to be the final superhero film from Marvel it would be a fitting end. That said, no way in hell Marvel is done. This movie sells more Marvel movies to come better than any Marvel before it. Chadwick Boseman's T'Challa is the coolest new character to be introduced into the MCU since the Guardian's of the Galaxy (definitely the most badass), and he has one of the hottest new talent's doing his movie. Spider-man just rocked the party in this movie and though the writing team/director don't inspire a lot of confidence in me yet, I know Marvel is going to bring it with Tom Holland and RDJ when Homecoming rolls around. There has to be a reason why they chose this Jon Watts guy and hired these particular writers. Ant Man is cooler and funnier in this than he was in his own movie, which was charming in its own right. Even Wanda and Vision are better in this, Vision, who by many accounts was very well received in AOU.
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Post by mr. excellent on May 15, 2016 15:47:58 GMT -5
She has been catching a lot of people's attention. I just started reading Spiderverse. It's quite good at just 1 issue in. Looking forward to getting further into it. Also, Gotham's penultimate episode as of this posting is hilarious. I actually enjoy watching the show more than AOS now, which as we've discussed, is a completely different (for the better) show than its inaugural season.
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Post by brotherandbassist on May 16, 2016 14:48:58 GMT -5
I used to watch Agents of Shield all the time. I need to go back and check it out again. I think I've seen most of the first season. On a sort of off topic note(as if this game even has a topic to begin with), I went and counted my comics and I only have 163 of them. For some reason I was thinking I had way more than that. It sounds like a lot, but I was guessing I had about a thousand. I'd say literally over 75% of them were Spider-Man. Mostly Ultimate Spider-Man haha
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Post by mr. excellent on May 16, 2016 18:02:34 GMT -5
Yeah, Ultimate Spider-man isn't quite up to 200 yet. It's a fat collection though, for sure. If I had to hazard a guess, I'd say I have around 400. Started collecting about 10 years ago, but were it not for my wife's generosity I wouldn't have nearly as much.
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Post by brotherandbassist on May 18, 2016 23:14:34 GMT -5
I wanna start collecting Daredevil, Iron Fist, and Black Panther comics. I have gotten really interested in those three lately. On a side note, I actually have 165 comics. I found two more XD
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Post by mr. excellent on May 19, 2016 19:31:47 GMT -5
A few years back (maybe 3-4) I bought a tpb of one of Frank Miller's more popular stories, as well as Daredevil Yellow. Both were very good, definitely inspired and memorable stories. With regard to Iron Fist, I know nothing of the character's classic source material, but Matt Fraction did a hell of a job reinventing/fleshing out the character during his 2006-2009 run. Of Black Panther, I've only read the tpb of his involvement in Civil War, but apparently that new BP comic is outselling everything else this year, which hopefully is telling of the quality of the story.
On a totally separate note, Seth Rogen's Neighbor's 2 is coming out and going head to head with Civil War in CW's 3rd weekend. Gotta say, I think N2 will take it, but I don't think it'll hold. Comedy sequels usually have a hard time catching lightning in a bottle the second time around. The first one was good, and it's a big comedy with broad appeal that should open big. There's also that Seth Rogen factor whose last 2 movies did big damage to major tentpole superhero movies at the box office (This is the End vs. Man of Steel in 2013 and the first Neighbors vs. Amazing Spider-man 2 the following year). Even still, I don't think it'll be a 22 Jump Street situation. Thus, Civil War's legs should hold until Apocalypse comes out.
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Post by mr. excellent on May 23, 2016 18:16:44 GMT -5
Vanilla Ice & Vintage Ninja Turtles crash TMNT 2 premiere: screenrant.com/vanilla-ice-ninja-turtles-out-shadows/This is pretty cool, I have to say. Vanilla Ice is not someone without his fair share of controversy, but come on... Speaking of cool premiere's, let's talk about Civil War's. While listening to Kevin Smith's podcast "Fatman on Batman", I discovered how Marvel unveiled their latest movie. The film premiered at the Dolby Theater, home to the Oscar's ceremonies every year. When the audience was seated they had Bruce Buffer (the guy from HBO boxing) introduce both sides of the cast (team Cap vs. team Iron Man) and then send it off with "Let's get ready to rumble!!" Pretty epic, right?
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Post by mr. excellent on May 24, 2016 19:47:10 GMT -5
Welp, double post time. This is totally random, but while browsing Youtube for some background noise, I decided to take a break and watch the first 10 minutes of TASM 2 (after the plane crash scene I mean). Gotta say, I really dig it. For me, it's up there with Spider-man's best moments on screen. Webb was smart to depict a Spider-man that's thrilled to be swinging through the NY skyline. I love how beside himself Peter is, saying "hello" to pedestrians as he swings out of view, talking to the city. He even speaks another language to some pedestrians he saves from a bus, implying that he's actually having conversations and getting to know the people he's interacting with. We see more of this later in the movie when he saves a kid from bullies. The web swinging is tops, the CGI on Spider-man himself is excellent (better than in Civil War I'd say), and I really appreciate the emotional through line they tried to carry over from TASM. While the set up for this personal conflict was a tad botched, I think it's what Spider-man is all about. This was the classic clash between Peter Parker juggling his dual identity. Was it a little heavy handed? Maybe, but there was a lot of forethought put into the theme of time (starting with a shot of a clock), Gwen Stacy talking about time, then her dying in a clock tower. Had they scrapped all the extra shit, it could've been beautiful. I've already repeated myself ad nauseum about how much I like the Peter-Gwen-May-and non-Goblin Harry Osborn scenes. I'll even go so far as to say the opening 10 minutes would be my favorite Spider-man scene in film were it not for Webb's indulgence in hamming up the bad guys: Paul Giamatti's characterization ruins it for me, as does his villain music during the opening chase, as does Jaime Foxx's self conscious Max Dillon with his arm full of blue prints. Seriously, would a company like Oscorp just let someone walk around with 15 large blue prints to their state of the art/one of a kind electrical equipment like that? Even if those were his designs, they'd have that shit on lock down.
Regardless, this takes me back to what I felt was lacking in Civil War. The first Captain America established an emotional connection for me to this character Steve Rogers and his relationship with Peggy Carter. The Winter Soldier did a good job developing the Cap and Bucky dynamic while still leaving a lot left to be mined. While Civil War does a great job at delivering payoffs to 8 years worth of story telling across multiple films, I didn't have a solid emotional connection to anyone. I understood their motives, but I didn't ever get that emotional gut punch. As bad as TASM 2 was, that movie gave me the gut punch more than any other superhero movie to come out, save for 2008's The Dark Knight.
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Post by BackinBlack on May 27, 2016 22:38:27 GMT -5
So in Spider-Man/Deadpool #5 this week, Mephisto appeared to taunt Peter about One More Day, though Peter had no idea who he was or what he was talking about. Could this be leading up to something?
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Post by Webber3000 on May 27, 2016 22:45:55 GMT -5
Welp, double post time. This is totally random, but while browsing Youtube for some background noise, I decided to take a break and watch the first 10 minutes of TASM 2 (after the plane crash scene I mean). Gotta say, I really dig it. For me, it's up there with Spider-man's best moments on screen. Webb was smart to depict a Spider-man that's thrilled to be swinging through the NY skyline. I love how beside himself Peter is, saying "hello" to pedestrians as he swings out of view, talking to the city. He even speaks another language to some pedestrians he saves from a bus, implying that he's actually having conversations and getting to know the people he's interacting with. We see more of this later in the movie when he saves a kid from bullies. The web swinging is tops, the CGI on Spider-man himself is excellent (better than in Civil War I'd say), and I really appreciate the emotional through line they tried to carry over from TASM. While the set up for this personal conflict was a tad botched, I think it's what Spider-man is all about. This was the classic clash between Peter Parker juggling his dual identity. Was it a little heavy handed? Maybe, but there was a lot of forethought put into the theme of time (starting with a shot of a clock), Gwen Stacy talking about time, then her dying in a clock tower. Had they scrapped all the extra shit, it could've been beautiful. I've already repeated myself ad nauseum about how much I like the Peter-Gwen-May-and non-Goblin Harry Osborn scenes. I'll even go so far as to say the opening 10 minutes would be my favorite Spider-man scene in film were it not for Webb's indulgence in hamming up the bad guys: Paul Giamatti's characterization ruins it for me, as does his villain music during the opening chase, as does Jaime Foxx's self conscious Max Dillon with his arm full of blue prints. Seriously, would a company like Oscorp just let someone walk around with 15 large blue prints to their state of the art/one of a kind electrical equipment like that? Even if those were his designs, they'd have that shit on lock down. Regardless, this takes me back to what I felt was lacking in Civil War. The first Captain America established an emotional connection for me to this character Steve Rogers and his relationship with Peggy Carter. The Winter Soldier did a good job developing the Cap and Bucky dynamic while still leaving a lot left to be mined. While Civil War does a great job at delivering payoffs to 8 years worth of story telling across multiple films, I didn't have a solid emotional connection to anyone. I understood their motives, but I didn't ever get that emotional gut punch. As bad as TASM 2 was, that movie gave me the gut punch more than any other superhero movie to come out, save for 2008's The Dark Knight. I completely agree. It's such a shame TASM2 had shitty villains. Don't get me wrong, Electro was visually stunning, but the film would've been a thousand times better without him. It could have been one of the greats like First Class, TDK, and Spider-Man 2.
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Post by BackinBlack on May 29, 2016 22:25:33 GMT -5
Anyone else read or at least hear what DC did in the Rebirth special? I got goosebumps and I'm actually looking forward to what they have coming up as a whole compared to when the New 52 started. I might actually get the omnibus they'll put out. As for THOSE characters apparently appearing, it's crazy, but let's see where it goes.
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Post by mr. excellent on May 30, 2016 2:17:25 GMT -5
I'd heard about the whole Dr.Manhattan thing, but beyond that I don't know anything.
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Post by Webber3000 on May 31, 2016 23:33:30 GMT -5
How are you guys feeling about the controversial Ghostbusters reboot?
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Post by mr. excellent on Jun 1, 2016 9:59:51 GMT -5
I never fell in love with the original. It's one of those that I need to watch again because I only saw it once. The first trailer was okay, didn't really get me excited. Subsequent trailers have piqued my interest though. Also, Paul Feig and Melissa McCarthy are 3 for 3 right now (Bridesmaids, The Heat, and Spy) so I have faith in the team up. Throw in the other 3 comedians, and I think it'll be good. Will it please the Ghostbusters die hards who wanted the original cast to come back one more time? Maybe not, maybe some of them. I don't know.
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