[quote]Jprocrastinator wrote:
TheSicilian wrote:
I know they’re not comic bookds, but I LOVE to see movies based on the DragonLance series of books. They could do a bunch of movies ala LOTR or Narnia.
I second that. I would also love to see Drizz’t Do’Urden brought to the big screen. With the same people who did the effects for the fight scenes in V for Vendetta being responsible for the fight scenes with Drizz’t.[/quote]
I don’t know about this one. I just have trouble seeing people flocking to the theater to see Drizz’t as he is supposed to look. I just don’t know if it will sell. I also think that so much of his ‘origin story’ is fairly internalized. But again, the right script is EVERYTHING is all of these what if scenarios.
Ok I need you guys to clear up something about american comics. First let me explain how I get to read the stories over here; I usually just read them in graphic novel form, where all the seperate issues are compiled into one or more volumes. But it the way it usually seems to work is that stories are spread over different comic titles, for example theres a comic series called Amazing Spiderman and there is also one called Astonishing Spiderman and stories seem to run all over each title. Like at the end of one issue of Amazing Spiderman it says ‘continued in Astonishing Spiderman issue number…’
Its probably a marketing thing but dosent it get confusing??? Its just that the main british mag is 2000AD and it comes out every week and each story gets continued in the same mag. Every things bigger in America I guess!!
That site is awesome. Everyone here should check it out. As much as I used to love Ghostrider, there is no way it’ll be any good. Nick Cage is garaunteed to fuck it up.
[quote]comedypedro wrote:
…But it the way it usually seems to work is that stories are spread over different comic titles, for example theres a comic series called Amazing Spiderman and there is also one called Astonishing Spiderman and stories seem to run all over each title. Like at the end of one issue of Amazing Spiderman it says ‘continued in Astonishing Spiderman issue number…’
Its probably a marketing thing but dosent it get confusing???
There are specialist stores about the place where you can buy[/quote]
Yes CP, it’s definitely a marketing thing. It is confusing, but I would hope that they would at least keep the a storyline together in the same TPB. Or don’t they do that? Do you actually have to skip from TPB to TPB to follow a story? That would suck ass.
DC and Marvel seem to do their “sweeps” at least once a year, where there’s title crossovers. However, this is usually only in the big storyline for the year.
I sometimes wait until the series is complete and try to pick-up the whole set for cheap on eBay. Used copies of the TPBs are even cheaper sometimes. The trick will be to find someone who won’t rape you on the overseas shipping.
Speaking of graphic novels, a decent Nina Turtles (as in Eastman and Laird graphic novels) movie would be awesome - keeping it dark though. Not the crappy kiddie rubbish that came out a few years ago.
On Blade, i hear there may be some other marvel characters coming into the series. But without a substantial budget I cant see them doing anything spectacular…maybe daredevil but no ironman or spiderman.
Been thinking more about the whole comic book movie thing. My main gripe with these films is that there is nowhere near enough action in them. Think about it; in any typical marvel book youre pretty much guaranteed a completely over the top fight / action sequence and the average story line will have many, many totally far fetched, over the top moments. Yet in a typical film you only get a few decent sequences.
Take Superman Returns for example; theres the cool bit with the plane (which was VERY well done IMO) yet aside from a few other average action pieces the rest of the movie is dialouge and romantic crap. Same with other movies, you get say 10 minutes of pure fun comic book violence/ action/whatever and 2 hours of pissing about exploring characters etc. So instead of a 1:12 ratio of cool to shite it should be more like 2:1.
I realise that effects cost money and that they have to make the films appeal to a wide an audience as possible but hell, lets keep it real (comic book real that is!!)
I can’t believe I didn’t think of this before: Maximum Carnage.
Venom and Carnage would have to be established in an earlier movie, of course and it would probably get an “R” rating from the ammount of gore alone, but man, what a ride that would be.
[quote]simon-hecubus wrote:
comedypedro wrote:
…But it the way it usually seems to work is that stories are spread over different comic titles, for example theres a comic series called Amazing Spiderman and there is also one called Astonishing Spiderman and stories seem to run all over each title. Like at the end of one issue of Amazing Spiderman it says ‘continued in Astonishing Spiderman issue number…’
Its probably a marketing thing but dosent it get confusing???
There are specialist stores about the place where you can buy
Yes CP, it’s definitely a marketing thing. It is confusing, but I would hope that they would at least keep the a storyline together in the same TPB. Or don’t they do that? Do you actually have to skip from TPB to TPB to follow a story? That would suck ass.
DC and Marvel seem to do their “sweeps” at least once a year, where there’s title crossovers. However, this is usually only in the big storyline for the year.
I sometimes wait until the series is complete and try to pick-up the whole set for cheap on eBay. Used copies of the TPBs are even cheaper sometimes. The trick will be to find someone who won’t rape you on the overseas shipping.
Good Luck,
Scott [/quote]
Most people in the comic book industry aside from the machine that runs it (artists, writers, big-wig producers and execs, etc.) loathe crossovers. I am one of those people. The fan base is on the rise again (probably because of the recent surge in decent comic book movies), but comic books took a real hard hit there for awhile, and I blame a lot of it on crossovers.
A big one here and there (as in, every few years) isn’t bad, but ever since the 90’s (what some actually call the “Crossovers Era”) the big companies have been taking that shit way too far. It’s so annoying having to buy five different titles just to keep up with the canonical stories of your favorite characters…
[quote]CC wrote:
Most people in the comic book industry aside from the machine that runs it (artists, writers, big-wig producers and execs, etc.) loathe crossovers. I am one of those people…
A big one here and there (as in, every few years) isn’t bad, but ever since the 90’s (what some actually call the “Crossovers Era”) the big companies have been taking that shit way too far. It’s so annoying having to buy five different titles just to keep up with the canonical stories of your favorite characters…
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I hear you brother. I try to read the first one of those “Big” series unobtrusively at the comic store — unless it grabs me by the throat, forget it. If I do buy it, I avoid the peripheral stories unless it involves one of my fav characters/comics.
Avengers Disassembled and House of M. Cool stuff.
But what was that retarded Usual Suspects ripoff Marvel did about a year or so ago? What a POS.
[quote]holifila wrote:
Jprocrastinator wrote:
TheSicilian wrote:
I know they’re not comic bookds, but I LOVE to see movies based on the DragonLance series of books. They could do a bunch of movies ala LOTR or Narnia.
I second that. I would also love to see Drizz’t Do’Urden brought to the big screen. With the same people who did the effects for the fight scenes in V for Vendetta being responsible for the fight scenes with Drizz’t.
I don’t know about this one. I just have trouble seeing people flocking to the theater to see Drizz’t as he is supposed to look. I just don’t know if it will sell. I also think that so much of his ‘origin story’ is fairly internalized. But again, the right script is EVERYTHING is all of these what if scenarios.[/quote]
Yeah I’m not sure how well the drow would look on screen. I think it would mostly appeal to the fanboys. However, if they started from the beginning in the underdark the scenery could be amazing. If it was done well and they focused on the grittier aspects I think they could pull a larger demographic.
Still waiting for a good “The phantom” movie to be made. He is probobly the most popular comic in the entire scandinavia (except donald, but he don’t count). Although knowing how badly known he is in the U.S, we’ll probobly have to make it ourselves
[quote]Imbrondir wrote:
Still waiting for a good “The phantom” movie to be made. He is probobly the most popular comic in the entire scandinavia (except donald, but he don’t count). Although knowing how badly known he is in the U.S, we’ll probobly have to make it ourselves :([/quote]
