Thursday, August 07, 2014
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Since my new job I've been unable to get it together enough to do much drawing. I doodled this movie review on post-it after I saw Days of Future Past weeks ago and finally kind of sorta made something of it. The movie, slow and dour and a waste of a blue naked lady. I have to re-see The Usual Suspects to find out which is the outlier, Superman Returns or X-Men.
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17 comments:
Days of Future Past was bad? Oh no. Haven't seen it yet, but it looked good on the trailers and it got good reviews. However so did X-Men: First Class, and I thought that was a TERRIBLE movie.
Guardians of the Galaxy was great.
I've become a wait until netflix streaming on Marvel superhero movies.
Kinda looking forward to Winter Soldier Capt America rolling around.
Might even jump the gun and do an streaming Amazon rental on that.
So she's blue? You could have told me purple and I'd believe you. Color blindness you know.
Is the Fantastic Four in the same situation as X Men? Not truly in the Marvel film franchise realm. The X Men stuff is obviously more random and less slick that the Marvel films work. And the Fantastic Four seems to be forgotten. Which is insane. Fantastic Four is the foundation Marvel property.
Never mind. It's part of the Fox, use it or lose it, situation. That means a Fantastic 4 movie in a hurry up mode shortly. Probably be crap again. And who plays Human Torch. Capt America dual role again
Fantastic Four. ALL NEW CAST. All young. Got an African American to play the Torch this time. Not established Marvel film franchise realm. Fox needs to give up the license. They are just not cutting it compared to MARVEL. Spiderman is going back to MARVEL. Days of Future Past wasn't too bad.....better than GODZILLA, I mean FATZILLA.
Ben, love yr movie review illustration. Great to see a post from you...and I'm so glad to hear that the reason for yr absence is a new job. Must be that ol' T.A.G. magic that brought the job along...you started posting regularly here and violá! Full-time employment snatches you away.
Jimmy failed to mention that I was his date on a Saturday afternoon creature double-feature of Xmen & Godziller (we invited Tom Moon but he "fell ill" at the thought of sitting between me n' Jim for the better part of FIVE HOURS).
I thought seeing two in a row woulda felt very throw-back, like we were kids in the 50's or something...instead it was a soul-crushing experience. But I'm just not a big superhero film fan...would love to see an FF/Inhumans (or Silver Surfer) movie done as a CG animated feature (think Bruce Timm's Batman modeled and animated somewhere between Tin-Tin and The Incredibles).
@Elz with the "is she blue? purple?" comment: cracked me up...and then I had to wipe away a little tear...but remember, Heinrich Kley, Bernie Wrightson and Alex Raymond--they din't need no stinkin' color!!
Make the Thing black. What are they thinking making Johnny Storm black. Do I have to become an executive or what.
Serious question. Is the Purple Heart medal purple and gold or blue and god? Looking at it with a RGB picker I see the red slider advance past the green, but is that enough to send it into purple range for people with the ability to distinguish?
Whlie they are at it, make the Human Torch's flames green . I won't care.
The picture you reference is purple and gold. When I google "purple heart" most of the pictures show up as the same shade of purple as you've shown, but a few lean more towards the bluish-purple, maybe due to lighting variance.
Ben, what is your new job?
I was hoping for more of an argument about Days of Future Past. Fantastic Four wrapped up production last week and will be released next June. They need a year of post production (?!). Guardians of the Galaxy mentioned the Kree,the Celestials, and the Titans (calling Thanos the mad Titan). If Marvel has the Kree, do they have the Inhumans and/or the Eternals? I've got things to say about G of G later. Daredevil, Luke Cage, Iron Fist, and some girl I have not heard of will be Netflix/Marvel TV shows. Beata, I work for L3|DP Associates, slapping together images, labels and captions in Photoshop and/or Flash for the military. It is the Fort Courage of the military industrial complex.
Sorry, Ben.
I always come away from these superhero flicks feeling like all the "creatives" involved in making the thing (actors/writers/directors) are patting themselves on the back because they've "made" the audience "feel something" about a "superhero" (aka a character that had heretofore existed only as 2D drawings in what most people still view as "kiddie books"). This emotion their exertions aims to conjure (usually "empathy," or some testosterone-and-saccharine saturated derivative thereof) is usually so heavy-handed and almost always so sticky with self-pity ("I'm a mutant/misunderstood vigilante/paid killer/angsty teen with superpowers!!"), it's most always a turn-off to me.
Not that I don't like to steep myself in the occasional vat of self-pity (sticky or no), but to watch $200 million bucks get spent on not much more than giving me and the rest of humanity a zap of injustice-fueled adrenaline seems like a big joke.
Also, I realize I don't need my youthful (or otherwise) enthusiasms ratified by mass-scale commercial success. I like comics. I don't care if they make a lot of money when they make movies out of 'em.
I think the cover of the Xmen issue that movie was "inspired by"--the one with the Sentinel blasting Wolverine--was a whole lot better as art and entertainment than that whole dang movie...but that's just me.
I liked First Class, at least I liked it a lot better than that 3rd X-men movie. I haven't seen the new X-men movie yet, so I don't have an opinion.
I don't think Spidey is reverting to Marvel any time soon... Sony has a Sinister Six movie planned and there's rumors that they are going to make a female lead movie (Spider-Woman? Black Cat?)... and of course another Spiderman movie somewhere down the road.
I'm done with super heroes for the most part. Haven't seen most of the x men. No Iron Man 3. Not watching Tales of Shield or Green Arrow. The past Batman (maybe two past?) The last Superman (Maybe last two?) HEROES used up a lot of my welcome mat for super hero fantasy.
Definitely no interest in Batman meets Superman movie. That new Star Trek sucked too. As much as Guardians of the Galaxy didn't suck.
Wait a minute. I do want to see Ant Man. I lied.
Oh yeah, didn't see the recent Thors either. And of course no Winter Soldier (yet)
I haven't seen a lot of the super-hero movies you mention either Ellis. I do have to say that the new Flash TV series looks kind of cool. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yj0l7iGKh8g
I enjoyed the depiction of super-speed via special FX, and I'm glad they are using Barry Allen rather than Wally West. Not crazy about "Parent(s)-Killed-While-A-Child" scenario yet again. I watched a few episodes of "Arrow" and altogether it wasn't bad.
Finally have to say that unlike a lot of old-time purist fans, I enjoy the new Star Trek, more than I liked any of the follow-up T.V. series after the Original Series. Patrick Stewart was great but everyone else was forgettable.
If you liked Guardians of the Galaxy then you'd probably like the Thor movies... they both have a light touch and are pretty fun. Ironman 3 was awful and Cap 2 was interesting but had too many gunplay action scenes (I think gun battles are boring)... you could cut a half an hour from that movie and have it be a more clear, streamlined film. Agents of Shield was just hitting it's stride at the end of the season... I have hopes that they will continue that momentum.
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