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[Stuart Galbraith]

[Skywalkre]

And here's Captain Marvel...

 

[Tim the Tank Nut]

I've enjoyed all the Marvel super hero movies that I have seen so far but I will admit to a fatigue with the overall story arc, it's a tale that is taking too long to tell.

[Nobu]

The F14s of the Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force must play a role in the sequel. There is no film otherwise.

[Skywalkre]

I've enjoyed all the Marvel super hero movies that I have seen so far but I will admit to a fatigue with the overall story arc, it's a tale that is taking too long to tell.

I've enjoyed them as well, found nothing really wrong with this trailer (no signs of destruction pr0n like in the DC debacles)... yet I really have no interest in the film after watching it. Maybe it's Marvel fatigue... maybe it's something else. /shrugs

[DB]

I simply don't know the character as I knew the other ones. Might be because this one (first female version) appeared in 1982, by which time I had moved on to 2000AD rather than Marvel titles.

[DB]

I simply don't know the character as I knew the other ones. Might be because this one (first female version) appeared in 1982, by which time I had moved on to 2000AD rather than Marvel titles.

 

 

.... OK, it's more complicated than that of course.

 

Carol Danvers, never heard of her.

[toysoldier]

 

Whoa... when you think of it, the casting is frigging perfect. Nobody but John C. Reilly could have played Oliver Hardy, and Coogan is also spot on.

[Stuart Galbraith]

 

 

Whoa... when you think of it, the casting is frigging perfect. Nobody but John C. Reilly could have played Oliver Hardy, and Coogan is also spot on.

 

 

Yeah, the I said the same to a friend, and he agreed, its perfect casting. Hopefully the rest of the film will measure up.

 

Always rather liked Laurel and Hardy. Im not quite sure why, its like Harold Lloyd, you either get it or you dont.

[Ssnake]

I loved, loved, loved them as a kid. Then I reviewed their work as an adult, and it still holds up to a large degree.

They definitely were absolute masters of their art.

[Stuart Galbraith]

I think so. Every time I hear 'Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia' I just chuckle.

[NickM]

I think so. Every time I hear 'Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia' I just chuckle.

 

Why Stuart, are you making a titty joke?

[Stuart Galbraith]

No, then I would be tittying instead of chuckling wouldnt I?

Edited September 20, 2018 by Stuart Galbraith

[Stefan Fredriksson]

So you liked "Primer"?

Then I suggest you watch "Frequently asked questions about time travel."

3 friends in a bar experience time travel, a lot more easy and light-hearted than Primer.

 

So what is it with DC? Watched Justice League the other day, and even with icons such as Batman and Superman, it gets boring. I think the problem lies within creating a script where Superman somehow would need anyone else to help him. Steppenwolf sucked, which also did not help. They got one thing right - the Pet Sematary joke before waking Superman.

Man of Steel was good, as was the Batman films.

Want good DC? Watch the Lego-films. Lego Batman was nothing short of awesome. Lego Flash, also good, miles ahead of JL.

 

Guardians of the Galaxy, vol.2.

Better than the first one. Excellent entertainment from start to finish. And this with characters I did not even know existed before the films.

[Stuart Galbraith]

I have to confess, ive got bored with the superhero films. I think thats why I engaged so much with Watchmen, it was superhero's that werent so super anymore. 'who watches the watchmen?' etc etc.

[Mobius]

I have to confess, ive got bored with the superhero films. I think thats why I engaged so much with Watchmen, it was superhero's that werent so super anymore. 'who watches the watchmen?' etc etc.

Same here. I can't get invested in knowing more superheroes with more strange powers. I'm Marveled out.

[Stuart Galbraith]

Its why I like Judge Dredd so much. He is just flesh and blood and a badge. Oh, and a big gun.

[Panzermann]

 

I simply don't know the character as I knew the other ones. Might be because this one (first female version) appeared in 1982, by which time I had moved on to 2000AD rather than Marvel titles.

 

 

.... OK, it's more complicated than that of course.

 

Carol Danvers, never heard of her.

 

 

confusingly there are several Captain Marvels. But that seems to happen often to the B superheroes to be recast with someone else. Luckily we nowadays have marvel wikis to sort this.

 

but, yes, does not interest me as a movie. trailer is uninspiring. And maybe MCU fatigue with me too. The only two I liked of the more recent movies were ant-man and Deadpool.

 

 

 

And there is also one Captain Marvel at DC comics. a little boy that can change into a Superman power level super hero. Funny idea imho, but the few comics I have read were rather boring.

[Panzermann]

I have to confess, ive got bored with the superhero films. I think thats why I engaged so much with Watchmen, it was superhero's that werent so super anymore. 'who watches the watchmen?' etc etc.

 

Watchmen was intentionally written as a deconstruction of superheroes.

 

 

 

 

Its why I like Judge Dredd so much. He is just flesh and blood and a badge. Oh, and a big gun.

 

 

I AM THE LAW

 

 

But there is more to the Dredd stories over the years. Even more timey wimey wibbly wobbly than the Doctor. with parallel universe Zombie Dredd, a different raised from the dead Dredd, time traveller form the future Dredd...

[Stuart Galbraith]

 

I have to confess, ive got bored with the superhero films. I think thats why I engaged so much with Watchmen, it was superhero's that werent so super anymore. 'who watches the watchmen?' etc etc.

 

Watchmen was intentionally written as a deconstruction of superheroes.

 

 

Yep, and the first time I hated it. The second time I got it, and it repays seeing again I think.

 

 

 

 

Its why I like Judge Dredd so much. He is just flesh and blood and a badge. Oh, and a big gun.

 

 

I AM THE LAW

 

 

But there is more to the Dredd stories over the years. Even more timey wimey wibbly wobbly than the Doctor. with parallel universe Zombie Dredd, a different raised from the dead Dredd, time traveller form the future Dredd...

 

 

I find the earlier stories stronger. The later ones are interesting, beautifully illustrated, but a bit empty. The early stories you got the feeling they were really trying to parody reality. For example, there was an excellent story where a serial killer is hunting down people who go on a begging show, where they trot out a sob story, and get loaded down with millions of credits. There was also another one where they have a gameshow where the loser ends up killed. Basically they were taking the piss out of reality television, at least 2 decades before it became a phenomenon. But then Nigel Kneale did something similar around the same time in the last Professor Quatermass story. It was the logical next step.

 

A friend tells me there is a crossover story, where there is a dimension rip and Judge Dredd hunts down Batman as a clear vigilante, but ends up teaming up with him instead. Which would probably be a better film than Batman V Superman i would have thought.

Edited September 21, 2018 by Stuart Galbraith

[Panzermann]

Basically they were taking the piss out of reality television, at least 2 decades before it became a phenomenon.

 

 

 

Oddly there were many stories exaggerating and extrapolating TV trends of back then. There was a german TV movie "Das Millionenspiel" (the million game, meaning Deutsche Mark). Basically a manhunt and when you survive you get the money. A lot of short stories and small indie and university films exaggerating these trends. The King novel Running Man (or the Schwarzenegger movie)...

 

 

And today they are very real. Okay no manhunt tv shows.

But an island full of nudists as a coupling show? Scripted reality that looks like life from lower classes living rooms including the tiled table and theor family dramas? People locked into containers and even called "Big Brother"? C-list starlets eating kangaroo anus in the australian jungle?

 

 

 

Quite scary that it turned out to be quite correct projections. And sad.

[Stuart Galbraith]

 

Basically they were taking the piss out of reality television, at least 2 decades before it became a phenomenon.

 

 

 

Oddly there were many stories exaggerating and extrapolating TV trends of back then. There was a german TV movie "Das Millionenspiel" (the million game, meaning Deutsche Mark). Basically a manhunt and when you survive you get the money. A lot of short stories and small indie and university films exaggerating these trends. The King novel Running Man (or the Schwarzenegger movie)...

 

 

And today they are very real. Okay no manhunt tv shows.

But an island full of nudists as a coupling show? Scripted reality that looks like life from lower classes living rooms including the tiled table and theor family dramas? People locked into containers and even called "Big Brother"? C-list starlets eating kangaroo anus in the australian jungle?

 

 

 

Quite scary that it turned out to be quite correct projections. And sad.

 

 

Im a big fan of Nigel Kneale, and back in the 1960's he wrote a TV drama called 'Year of the Sex Olympic's'. Basically it starts with a sex olympics (there is no actual nudity, this is the BBC in the 1960's after all) and a girl, apparently swinging form a high object, falls and breaks her neck. Tv audiences are delighted by this turn of events, so the TV execs decide they need something a bit more real and perhaps 'knarly'.

 

They pick an island with a small house on it, with no modern fittings. So right there you have the preamble for a lot of TV survival shows (Bear Grills, Ray Mears, what have you). They have to organize their surroundings to survive in this hostile environment, whilst watched over avidly by a tv audience through hidden camera's. only they dont tell them they loosed a homicidal maniac from the local asylum on the island to spice things up. Fairly predictable I guess, but this was the 1960's when such ideas were original.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Year_of_the_Sex_Olympics

 

I dont know what I find more astonishing, that some writers have been so perceptive to see where we are going, or that we are so uncaring that we dont really take the warnings on what mass market culture is doing to our sensiblities. I suppose we havent moved on so far from the Colosseum when you stop to think.

 

Maybe thats why I like Dredd. He is like a solid point in a world that would quite happily slide to hell without him.

Edited September 21, 2018 by Stuart Galbraith

[TonyE]

 

I have to confess, ive got bored with the superhero films. I think thats why I engaged so much with Watchmen, it was superhero's that werent so super anymore. 'who watches the watchmen?' etc etc.

Same here. I can't get invested in knowing more superheroes with more strange powers. I'm Marveled out.

 

 

The superhero genre must have been done to death soon......

[Yama]

I find the earlier stories stronger. The later ones are interesting, beautifully illustrated, but a bit empty. The early stories you got the feeling they were really trying to parody reality. For example, there was an excellent story where a serial killer is hunting down people who go on a begging show, where they trot out a sob story, and get loaded down with millions of credits. There was also another one where they have a gameshow where the loser ends up killed. Basically they were taking the piss out of reality television, at least 2 decades before it became a phenomenon. But then Nigel Kneale did something similar around the same time in the last Professor Quatermass story. It was the logical next step.

 

A friend tells me there is a crossover story, where there is a dimension rip and Judge Dredd hunts down Batman as a clear vigilante, but ends up teaming up with him instead. Which would probably be a better film than Batman V Superman i would have thought.

Yes there is, it's a fun little story:

 

Early Dredd stories were more fun for sure when the series didn't take itself too seriously, However I really liked the Prophecy/Little Judge/Apocalypse war storyline. It was epic. Then they tried to recapture the magic and poured disaster upon another on Mega-City 1

There was a story where Dredd and Anderson travelled to the future and discovered that Mega-City 1 was in ruins and there was literally like dozen citizens left. That was nice AU story, but in the main storyline they have since almost got to that point...

 

Sort of same thing happened with Tank Girl. Early stories were complete anarchist nonsense where stuff happened out of whack, it was fun as hell. Then they began making plotlines and it became boring.

[Mikel2]

Just watched "The Witch" (2016). Great acting, photography and direction. Very impressive little movie.