Lusiphur: Frank Miller is a hack. His writing sucks, the art in his graphic novels is not all hat great by graphic novel standards, and why anyone besides 13yo boys ever bother to read his books is beyond me.

And yet he's famous, while you're not.

It's all about "guilty pleasure". Lemme put it this way: If a great work of classic literature can be equated to a perfectly prepared filet mignon, then Miller's graphic novels are burgers. And you know what? Burgers are cheap, but people eat them up daily. They're crappy and bad for you but people eat 'em anyway. And anyone can make a burger. You can teach a 16-year-old dropout to do it in two weeks.

But people LIKE Miller's stuff. He uses the same ingredients as any other pulp fiction writer (sex, machismo, violence, hyperbole), but he mixes and balances those flavors into a final product that people are willing to buy.

It's one thing to make a trashy comic. Anyone can do that. It's another to make one that sells, and love him or hate him, Frank Miller's successful at what he does.

dragonchild: Lusiphur: Frank Miller is a hack. His writing sucks, the art in his graphic novels is not all hat great by graphic novel standards, and why anyone besides 13yo boys ever bother to read his books is beyond me.

And yet he's famous, while you're not.

It's all about "guilty pleasure". Lemme put it this way: If a great work of classic literature can be equated to a perfectly prepared filet mignon, then Miller's graphic novels are burgers. And you know what? Burgers are cheap, but people eat them up daily. They're crappy and bad for you but people eat 'em anyway. And anyone can make a burger. You can teach a 16-year-old dropout to do it in two weeks.

But people LIKE Miller's stuff. He uses the same ingredients as any other pulp fiction writer (sex, machismo, violence, hyperbole), but he mixes and balances those flavors into a final product that people are willing to buy.

It's one thing to make a trashy comic. Anyone can do that. It's another to make one that sells, and love him or hate him, Frank Miller's successful at what he does.

But can he write a female character that ISN'T a whore?

Where is it...Where is it.......

Green Lantern (2010)
Ryan Gosling has been hotly tipped to wear the green ring of power in the movie of the DC comics verdant hero. The script is said to be good at the moment, and producer Donald De Line confirmed his enthusiasm for it. The fact that Green Lantern is more a suit than a person (worn by a series of fictional characters) takes the pressure out of casting a franchise in a Doctor Who/James Bond -style.

YES.

FerroMancer: Meh - you know what we REALLY need to see?



THIS will get the comic book industry FLOWING. .....it'll probably be flowing BLOOD, but it'll be flowing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_the_Homicidal_Maniac

I approve of this ONLY if A) It's animated and B) Jhonen is AT the helm. The thought of a live action JTHM with no Jhonen involved gives me explosive diarrhea.

/Somebody put shiat in my pants!

Call Simon Pegg.

jpawlikowski: You know, I've gotta admit, Jedekai has a point. Dennis Leary would be freaking awesome as Carnage.

Now if only I could trust Raimi and his crew not to screw it up...

Well, let's say they do screw it up, they may as well go balls out and just cast Yahoo Serious as Carnage.
/at least it'd be an approriate name...

This whole trend of making comics into movies has become pretty dull and unoriginal. We know exactly how they'll end, too. Since they're generally based on a story you know, you know what to expect. Since you're a fan of the comic, you get your hopes up because it's another way to show your appreciation for said series. Then some idiot writer or director or actor f**ks up royally, and everyone gets all angry and said movie tanks after a great opening weekend. It's kind of like the reality TV of the silver screen.

Running a-puck: dragonchild: Lusiphur: Frank Miller is a hack. His writing sucks, the art in his graphic novels is not all hat great by graphic novel standards, and why anyone besides 13yo boys ever bother to read his books is beyond me.

And yet he's famous, while you're not.

It's all about "guilty pleasure". Lemme put it this way: If a great work of classic literature can be equated to a perfectly prepared filet mignon, then Miller's graphic novels are burgers. And you know what? Burgers are cheap, but people eat them up daily. They're crappy and bad for you but people eat 'em anyway. And anyone can make a burger. You can teach a 16-year-old dropout to do it in two weeks.

But people LIKE Miller's stuff. He uses the same ingredients as any other pulp fiction writer (sex, machismo, violence, hyperbole), but he mixes and balances those flavors into a final product that people are willing to buy.

It's one thing to make a trashy comic. Anyone can do that. It's another to make one that sells, and love him or hate him, Frank Miller's successful at what he does.

But can he write a female character that ISN'T a whore?

Dark Knight Returns. Female Robin. Not a whore.

I thought Keanu Reeves was cast as Spike Spiegal. I think I remember weeping a little.

Bondidude: Dark Knight Returns. Female Robin. Not a whore.

I have a hard time saying she's a she. Yes I know she is, but the character lacks any real gender, IMO. She's just an it. She could easily be a 13 year old boy there and nothing would have had to change. It wouldn't have made a lick of difference.

Brainsick: That's why I posted it in response to someone suggesting a "remake"
(Though I can't remember a Tick movie; TV yes, movie no)
Anyway...

/Howard The Duck was such a subversive comic and the movie was so much suck, it deserves a remake

Gotcha.

I liked the original comic, too. The movie is a stain upon my consciousness no amount of chemical can erase.

where the fark is Marmaduke?

Doogled: Don't even speak of such a thing. The things I will do to people if they touch Cowboy Bebop....

I asked because there was a rumor that Fox was in the process of developing a live action one. Theoretically, it could be done, but they will probably replace Yoko Kanno and the Seatbelts with Nickelback and Shinichiro Watanabe with a Michael Bay / Brett Ratner hybrid.

I just got a chill thinking about that.
Seriously.

You take that back.

did they ever do a "100 bullets" movie?

Baumer: did they ever do a "100 bullets" movie?

Sadly, no.

step 1. ctrl+f
step 2. enter "Schumacher"
**PHRASE NOT FOUND**
step 3. smile
step 4. enter "Ratner"
**HARBINGER 2010**
step 5. WHARRGARBLLLL!

Did I miss something? No Sandman?

Iron Fist? It would have to not include Van Damnit as Steel Serpent just as a starter..I have a feeling that's where this thing is going...

Wooooo!!!!! to Elfquest and The Goon!!

Jedekai: DEADPOOL.

Came in here for the DEADPOOL, leave satisfied.

Lamune_Baba: Doogled: Don't even speak of such a thing. The things I will do to people if they touch Cowboy Bebop....

I asked because there was a rumor that Fox was in the process of developing a live action one. Theoretically, it could be done, but they will probably replace Yoko Kanno and the Seatbelts with Nickelback and Shinichiro Watanabe with a Michael Bay / Brett Ratner hybrid.

I just got a chill thinking about that.
Seriously.

You take that back.

Search Cowboy Bebop on IMDB and you'll get "Cowboy Bebop (2011)" which can only be seen by IMDB Pro users. While I don't think it should be done, it's probably going to happen.

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Ghost in the Shell SUCKS! Period. Any Format.
Stand alone, or Complex. Neither EVER MADE ANY GOD DAMN SENSE!

/The hate, here it come-ith

I love that Ghost in the Shell is on the list, but it's going to have to have a big budget to pull it off. All the robotics might cost a fortune. I don't think it will live up to the expectations, though I still hope. I usually wouldn't support anime into live action films (the Death Note series was the only one that was any good so far) because it gets ruined, but I think that GITS may become a good science fiction movie.
Also, the news that Hack/Slash is going live action is awesome and about time.

Doogled: Lamune_Baba: Doogled: Don't even speak of such a thing. The things I will do to people if they touch Cowboy Bebop....

I asked because there was a rumor that Fox was in the process of developing a live action one. Theoretically, it could be done, but they will probably replace Yoko Kanno and the Seatbelts with Nickelback and Shinichiro Watanabe with a Michael Bay / Brett Ratner hybrid.

I just got a chill thinking about that.
Seriously.

You take that back.

Search Cowboy Bebop on IMDB and you'll get "Cowboy Bebop (2011)" which can only be seen by IMDB Pro users. While I don't think it should be done, it's probably going to happen.

Im sorry I just threw up in my mouth a lot. I can see it now, Keanu Reeves as Spike, Bruce Willis as Jet, Squareface Jolie as Faye and me crying in the corner.

And instead of Spike dying on the stairs after killing Vicious in a beautiful piece of cinematogrophy, they skip off into the sunset where they live happily ever after. Then they would make a sequel and Im not stable enough to handle one, much less two

/sorry for ranting
//ranting to soothe the voices telling me to burn things

WTF is with Rose McGowan starring in half of these movies? She's a pretty girl, but she is not an action heroine.

CowboyNinjaD: Call Simon Pegg.

This. Talk about ultra violence.

Oh, and I really want a Black Panther movie.

FuturePastNow: WTF is with Rose McGowan starring in half of these movies? She's a pretty girl, but she is not an action heroine.

unique face+ big tits= nerdgasm

emocomputerjock: Elfquest? Where the fark is my Snarfquest?

/would also accept Wormy or Yamara

How about Druuna?

Hey... the list fails for not mentioning...

ANT-MAN!

Funny they say 75 comic book are "being made into films", but when you read the write-ups, you find that dozens are currently stalled, abandoned, or withering in development hell.

Should be more like 25 rather than 75.

wolvernova: The Dark Knight didn't kick ass just because he's the goddamned batman. It's because the writing, directing, and acting were freaking amazing. So much talent + So much ambition = So much awesome. If Hollywood thinks that kind of return is simply a comic book thing, I can't wait to see the inevitable FAIL.

I dont understand why people loved the dark knight so much, it was ok but it was no where near the film people are making it out to be, after saw it the second time(online stream) I was like "eh" and it was watching it then that I realized how annoying bales voice is in the film.

Also this is what I want to see made: Link(new window) I know that they would fark it up but I would love for a cable network to get a hold of this, it would be too bloody for regular TV I think.

AlrightGuy: Funny they say 75 comic book are "being made into films", but when you read the write-ups, you find that dozens are currently stalled, abandoned, or withering in development hell.

Should be more like 25 rather than 75.

Basically, take anything with a 2010+ release date and throw it out. After the next few comic bandwagon-jumping movies turn out to be piles of crap, the current fad will end and the industry will start mining old novels or old tv shows for subjects.

Akira, NO! The animation was great, but still a disservice to the comics. A live action would be a knife in the face to the real akira fans.

Snow Crash, maybe, but only if it was done well. (weren't we talking about comics?)

Remember "The Crow". The graphic novel was as amazing a story of love as any love story ever told (If you haven't read it, please don't comment, The Crow is the only love story I've ever liked, and personally I'm not even sure if romantic love exists) The movie was absolute trash. trash. trash. It was so bad that people were crying when they left the theater when I saw it at a pre-screening. They could do this to your comic also.

I'm wary of The Watchmen. Rorschach has way too much emotion and humanity in his voice. He needs to be speaking in the monotone, almost lazy, stunned voice of someone who has utterly given up on humanity, the voice of a person who has just discovered that there are no limits to the depravity of evil, the voice of someone who has just discovered that a kidnapper chopped up the little girl he kidnapped and fed her to his dogs. But, I digress.

cranberryzero: yay finally an elfquest movie!

I met Richard Pini in July and he was bursting at the seams. He had just found out that morning that the movie had been picked up and was like a little kid. He's an incredibly cool guy with a WICKED sense of humor.

Richard Pini w/Moonshade & Cutter, Blood of Ten Chiefs!



/No, I'm not in the picture. The one with both of us didn't come out, dammit!

Airtransrecon: Ghost in the Shell SUCKS! Period. Any Format.
Stand alone, or Complex. Neither EVER MADE ANY GOD DAMN SENSE!

/The hate, here it come-ith

It's convoluted for sure, but I still love it.

/had to watch Solid State Society 3 times before I finally figured out what the fark they were talking about
//Togusa FTW
///BTW, the guy writing the screenplay for the live action version only has a single credit to his name: Street Kings. This movie is going to BLOW.

Hey, has anyone mentioned Deadpool yet?

The Green Hornet? Britt Reid is the lamest super hero ever. He has no super powers, leaves the fighting to Kato and has a lame-ass real life job. "Crusading newspaper editor!" Yeah that will go over well in the internet age. The only thing cool about the Hornet is his car!

Delawheredad: The Green Hornet? Britt Reid is the lamest super hero ever. He has no super powers, leaves the fighting to Kato and has a lame-ass real life job. "Crusading newspaper editor!" Yeah that will go over well in the internet age. The only thing cool about the Hornet is his car!

Which is why they are getting Stephen Chow to star as Kato and direct the damn thing.

cranberryzero: yay finally an elfquest movie!

Just farking shoot me now. God, I hate that comic.

steamingpile: wolvernova: The Dark Knight didn't kick ass just because he's the goddamned batman. It's because the writing, directing, and acting were freaking amazing. So much talent + So much ambition = So much awesome. If Hollywood thinks that kind of return is simply a comic book thing, I can't wait to see the inevitable FAIL.

I dont understand why people loved the dark knight so much, it was ok but it was no where near the film people are making it out to be, after saw it the second time(online stream) I was like "eh" and it was watching it then that I realized how annoying bales voice is in the film.

Also this is what I want to see made: Link(new window) I know that they would fark it up but I would love for a cable network to get a hold of this, it would be too bloody for regular TV I think.

I read the Gantz series regularly. I love it when they translate the guys liner notes; apparently he's the guy who first drew nipples as dark motion blur. So he's got that goin' for him.

Battle Angel .... I don't have high hopes for it. I love the series and Yoko is awesome but the movie is supposedly taking the first 3 books and mashing them all up together. Which is just epic fail. They should just do what the anime did and concentrate on book 1. Leave out the Ido/Typhaeren love interest though. Mostly because it messes with the whole "Typhaerens have microchips for brains" thing.

Ed Grubermann: cranberryzero: yay finally an elfquest movie!

Just farking shoot me now. God, I hate that comic.

You and me both. Besides, didn't they already make this? Isn't it called World of Warcraft?

Remind me to tell you the story about how the guy who Exec Produced the SPIRIT film was close to putting out a T.H.U.N.D.E.R Agents flick and then couldn't.

I'm really liking all the Incredible Hulk / Iron Man / SHIELD / Cpt. America / etc teaser-tie-ins in the movies so far in the lead-up to the avengers movies, mainly for the great casting so far (Downey, Jackson, Norton, etc).

Now if only the Batman / Superman / Justice League combo movies can finally get off the ground like they have been saying for years.


/ Yes, i am a consumer-whore for these kind of movies.

Flying Undead Sheep: TheGrayCat: UberDave: Akira?! NOOOOOO!!!!!!
Well, if they do it, they better have the line, "KAAAAAAANEEEEEEEEEEEDAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!"

They won't - they've already changed the names of the two lead characters. Tetsuo is now Travis and, I believe, Kaneda is now John. Pathetic.


dj_bigbird: LEAVE GHOST IN THE SHELL ALONE!

THIS!

You know, I really like the Ghost in the Shell SAC series...this potential movie would have big shoes to fill.

It's going to suck, and you know it. Its setting be moved to the U.S., dumbed down a LOT so dumbasses in Texas will understand it, Gwyneth Paltrow or some other lameass actress will play the Major, Ben Affleck will play Batou, etc.

Y the last man:
woot! I just read the comic series yesterday. If it's pulled off right, it'll be awesome!

mid6000tek: Peekoo: "Last Blood (2010)
This graphic novel about a post-apocalyptic world where vampires must protect a core of humanity from zombies in order to have a reliable food supply, is available online."

I kinda wanna see that. Never heard of the comic though.

It's a webcomic. Not bad either.

Ooo, yay! Thank you!

Doogled: Lamune_Baba: Doogled: Don't even speak of such a thing. The things I will do to people if they touch Cowboy Bebop....

I asked because there was a rumor that Fox was in the process of developing a live action one. Theoretically, it could be done, but they will probably replace Yoko Kanno and the Seatbelts with Nickelback and Shinichiro Watanabe with a Michael Bay / Brett Ratner hybrid.

I just got a chill thinking about that.
Seriously.

You take that back.

Search Cowboy Bebop on IMDB and you'll get "Cowboy Bebop (2011)" which can only be seen by IMDB Pro users. While I don't think it should be done, it's probably going to happen.


Oh dear. Erwin Stoff. I see where the Keanu Reeves thing comes from now, and I'm somewhat scared. Though there is some hope... not all of his films have Keanu.

The guy acts with all the emotional depth of a slightly warmed turnip. Get anyone else! Hell, Johnny Depp or Orlando Bloom even, if they have to have a "name."

I can see it now...



"Woah..." ^*dies*

Well, since this IS turning into a threadjack for the most awesome hero/mercenary/legitimately-reformed-villain (NO, NOT VENOM!) to grace the pages of comics:

The single best panel in Deadpool history

FROM THE ENCYCLOPEDIA DEADPOOLICA:

TheGrayCat: UberDave: Akira?! NOOOOOO!!!!!!
Well, if they do it, they better have the line, "KAAAAAAANEEEEEEEEEEEDAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!"

They won't - they've already changed the names of the two lead characters. Tetsuo is now Travis and, I believe, Kaneda is now John. Pathetic.!

Holy fark. That's actually, honest to god RACIST. jpanaese names are everywhere on earth now. Jesus.