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Post by brotherandbassist on Apr 13, 2017 15:49:25 GMT -5
I feel like costumes barely matter anymore anyway.
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Post by mr. excellent on Apr 13, 2017 19:43:26 GMT -5
How so?
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Post by BackinBlack on Apr 15, 2017 18:19:11 GMT -5
Figure I'd ask since the season premiere's tonight: anyone else here watch Doctor Who?
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Post by brotherandbassist on Apr 15, 2017 23:30:26 GMT -5
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Post by mr. excellent on Apr 16, 2017 17:18:43 GMT -5
No, didn't see it. I don't really watch the show, but I have seen a bit of the Matt Smith Stuff and the David Tennant Christmas Special. What's the matter lopli? You run into a band of pretentious Dr.Who fans?
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Post by brotherandbassist on Apr 16, 2017 20:04:47 GMT -5
no, i just felt like being difficult.
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Post by BackinBlack on Apr 22, 2017 21:02:04 GMT -5
I made a thread for each film in the movie section, but for an overall discussion here, Fox has announced 3 X-Men movies for 2018: New Mutants, Deadpool 2, and X-Men: Dark Phoenix. Pretty bold. And here I thought 2018 would be kinder on my wallet than this year.
So besides that, the other comic book movies that year include 3 from Marvel (Black Panther, Infinity War, Ant-Man and the Wasp), Aquaman from DC, and Sony's own two Spider-Man films: the animated Miles Morales (which will probably be good) and Venom (which will most likely suck).
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Post by mr. excellent on Apr 23, 2017 12:53:23 GMT -5
I could get excited for Venom if they brought Drew Goddard back on board to write and be a producer (you know, one with actual creative power), and had Fede Alvarez to direct or something. Fede's Evil Dead reboot garnered a 61% rating on RottenTomatoes, but his latest film 'Don't Breath" was fantastic.
As far as X-Men goes, I'm not super excited about any of them yet, but I remain optimistic. I don't know what it is about X-Men, but it usually takes the first trailer to get me hooked. These other films, all I have to hear is a casting announcement and I'm in pieces, and yet the X-Men movies end up being better at least half the time. Logan really raised the bar for me, so I really hope they bring it.
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Post by mr. excellent on Apr 23, 2017 21:28:06 GMT -5
So, double post time here. Hopefully no one was about to win. Just found out my grandpa's German Shephard passed away. He was an outside dog, of course, so he wasn't going to last 15, 20 years like some of their inside pets do. Still tho, the dog was at least 11 years old, and he was the last of a long line of guard dogs my grandpa hand picked from the animal shelter. Rocky was a good boy. He was ferocious when he needed to be, but was always friendly to who you told him to be friendly to. He represents a time when my grandpa, who passed Dec.26 2016, was still with us. As I went over to visit my grandma today, I saw the property and the overgrown foliage and a part of me hurt inside. Someone needs to get after that property, and it's most likely going to be me. It was my job to tend to their property throughout the entirety of my teenage years and the first half of my 20's. I guess it's only fitting. I'm glad I'm a teacher with summers off, I know what I'll be doing come summer time. Sorry for the downer of a post, I suppose it just made me feel melancholy.
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Post by mr. excellent on Apr 25, 2017 19:33:28 GMT -5
Triple Post!
I like the original version, but this is a great parody. Not really funny, but entertaining for sure. Well, for me anyway.
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Post by brotherandbassist on Apr 29, 2017 0:23:35 GMT -5
You just low key tryin to win bruh. I'm over here slavin over final exams and you tryin to get the 7,200 post. I see how it is
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Post by mr. excellent on Apr 30, 2017 22:28:18 GMT -5
Naw man, I'm just getting heavy and dropping some truths about my personals. Adding S's to words that shouldn't have them, etc. XD
So, I was thinking today about how much I liked that Bruce Banner, man on the run approach from Louis Leterrier's Hulk, which is of course in reference to Bill Bixby's Incredible Hulk tv show from the 70's-80's. Whatever it was that people didn't respond well to in Leterrier's film, I don't think it was that aspect of the picture. This got me to thinking about what might get Chris Evans excited about returning to his own solo films. I think that that approach could be an exciting one. It'd be really interesting to see him going around, living the spy life, solving problems in secret. Not so much like Winter Soldier, but think more like Mission Impossible.
Another route I'd be interested in seeing is giving Cap a voice to speak out against his name being used for various political causes to which he didn't support. Back around 2007, JMS wrote a series of Thor books where Thor actually consulted with the ghost of Captain America (I should mention that I didn't get around to reading the story until around 2009 or 2010). At this time, Captain America was still deceased, having been assassinated at the end of the Civil War event. What I liked about Thor's encounter with ghost Cap is that for the first time, it showed me how poignant a Captain America centered story could be. At that point, I'd never read a Cap comic, and had only been exposed to him in cartoons. Captain America has always been a man out of time, and they have fun with it in the MCU, but I don't think they've really taken that theme to its furthest conclusions. In the story, Thor flies up into space and causes some electrical disruptions so that Cap can have a few moments peace from all the broadcasts 'aka' noise.
So, yeah. What if the next movie takes a serious approach to how Captain America deals with being the living conscience of America and also how he deals with his iconography being used to justify causes he doesn't agree with? Not just a serious approach, but I mean, what if Marvel hired a director with the vision to look at that theme with microscopic precision. The conditions for this film to happen would have to be that the film comes out after Infinity War, and that Cap survives it. Anyway though, I'm thinking about a movie that follows Cap's day to day life of being on news talk shows, being an ambassador of sorts, the ever reluctant political celebrity forced by duty. It would have that theme in common with the first Avenger, except it wouldn't be a montage, it would be the entire film. I think Marvel's next wave of movies will really surprise people with how crazy they (Marvel Studios) are willing to get. Meh, I don't see Marvel ever doing this.
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Post by brotherandbassist on Apr 30, 2017 22:37:16 GMT -5
Droppin some truths? You some kinda rapper?
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Post by mr. excellent on Apr 30, 2017 23:02:51 GMT -5
No sir. I ended up editing that last comment after you commented. Check it out, I'd like to hear your thoughts.
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Post by brotherandbassist on May 1, 2017 10:14:35 GMT -5
I think it's a cool idea. Very out of the box, but I like it. I can definitely see it working, that is, if they ever do another solo cap movie. I think Marvel is pretty set on doing trilogies for each major character, but then again, there's been rumors for years about an Iron Man 4. Since we are getting new heroes introduced and they are going to slowly replace the old ones, why not eventually let the new kids fully dominate the screen (Black Panther, Spider-Man, Ms. Marvel, Doc Strange, Wasp, etc.) and have the lives of the former Avengers continue on in a tv series?
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