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maRox
2007-05-07 12:08:40 AM  
Okay. I have a mac, love my mac. Also have windows at the ready, loaded and cocked. Spiderman is more of my hero than Superman. I don't really follow the whole Mac VS Windows, as both are available to me.
 
jay_vee
2007-05-07 12:21:46 AM  
maRox 2007-05-07 12:08:40 AM
Okay. I have a mac, love my mac. Also have windows at the ready, loaded and cocked. Spiderman is more of my hero than Superman. I don't really follow the whole Mac VS Windows, as both are available to me.

It still strikes me as odd. Apple do have very good products, they just about advertise themselves. Yet for some reason they feel the need to blatantly lie about the competition in their adverts.
 
Heroic Poser
2007-05-07 12:43:44 AM  
I'd still rather have Superman save the world from Nukes before I picked Spider-Man.
/Where's my HITMAN movie, DC?
 
Brand0JS
2007-05-07 1:23:45 AM  
the concept was good, but it wasn't very good. Sure Marvel has done well with X-men and Spiderman, but did anyone actually enjoy the Hulk, Fantastic Four, Elektra, Daredevil, Hellboy, Ghostrider, etc? Marvel's success rate is no better than DC's. It seems they were just stretching to make the parody fit

/comic nerd
 
soze [OhFark]
2007-05-07 2:23:32 AM  
Because the endless stream of fan service schlock flicks have really done great things for Marvel.

/Green Arrow fangirl
 
aendeuryu
2007-05-07 4:39:30 AM  
I don't know... Both Marvel and DC could stand to learn a thing or two from Frank Miller. If Spider Man or Batman Begins represent the best of what the Marvel and DC adaptations have to offer, it has just as much (if not more) to do with Sam Raimi and Christopher Nolan than their comic-book roots. Sin City and 300 represent a much better meshing of the film and comic book formats.
 
some_beer_drinker
2007-05-07 4:40:04 AM  
that was really funny. i hated marvel comics growing up, as i was always a superman, batman fan. mostly the bat. but marvel is making great flicks. just saw the new spidey the other day. pretty sweet.

DC needs to get off its ass. green lantern needs about 10 movies alone. as does the green arrow.
 
JBKMDX
2007-05-07 4:58:38 AM  
aendeuryu 2007-05-07 04:39:30 AM
I don't know... Both Marvel and DC could stand to learn a thing or two from Frank Miller. If Spider Man or Batman Begins represent the best of what the Marvel and DC adaptations have to offer, it has just as much (if not more) to do with Sam Raimi and Christopher Nolan than their comic-book roots. Sin City and 300 represent a much better meshing of the film and comic book formats.

Ugh...300 was a piece of shiat. The action was terrible. Way too much of that lame-ass slow/stop-motion crap in the fights. The fights were ok, but nowhere near as good as they should've been. The plot was just stupid. Nothing really special there. They should've looked up Braveheart to see how large-scale battles are done well....and the acting and story and music too. Hell, I'd be happier if they had just outright stolen everything about Braveheart and just changed the setting.

Frank Miller has a 50% rating so far. Not exactly great.

And the new spiderman movie....laaaaame. Batman Begins was great.

X-Men 3 was basically a fan-service movie. It had so many things wrong with it. You just can't kill off certain characters, as much as they are complete douchebags and everyone in the audience cheered when he died including me, you need him to be the douchebag in the movie. Although knowing Marvel, they'll probably have some kind of lame way of bringing him back anyways.
 
IggyE
2007-05-07 5:01:38 AM  
ok, first, agreed, green lantern needs a movie. but i'm willing to wait until the technology catches up withe bad-assness of green lantern

second, i saw this days ago, considered posting it, am kicking myself now, didnt have a better headline

third, yes it wasnt very funny, but the voices of both characters made me laugh in itself

/hasnt seen spiderman 3 yet, but really wants to
//i hear alot of people cry, there is some dancing, and then venom eats aunt may... not sure what to believe.
 
arollo
2007-05-07 5:17:08 AM  
Growing up, I always liked X-Men and Spider Man a lot more than the Batman and Superman comics. Superman seems too powerful, like his battles were never really challenges. And Batman just seemed like a guy who can't cope with loss very well (yes, I did think that as a little kid. I did read comics, after all....), while the X-Men seemed to be more human, in a weird way, and I would always love Spiderman for the constant biatch fests with Venom. (I refuse to see Spider Man 3 because Topher Grace plays Eddie Brock. Lame.)

However, as I got older, the comics I loved got a lot darker, and seemed so oppressive and without hope, like no matter how much good the heroes did, everything was still so dark. And it really made comic books less and less of an escape. Every few years I try to jump back in, but they're still just as dark and scary. Even the new Civil War books just don't do it for me.

That being said.....I hate ALL comic book movies. I don't think that the people involved in the movies have ever read one, and that they were never the nerdy kid who got the crap kicked out of him in grade school because of his (or her, but honestly, is it ever "her"?) comic books.
 
aendeuryu
2007-05-07 6:38:34 AM  
Frank Miller has a 50% rating so far. Not exactly great.

I'll grant you Sin City is the superior of the two. Both both movies had their faults as films, but one thing both of those movies did that none of the other comic book movies do is that they were aesthetic works of art. You really feel like you're watching a comic book come to life. Even the stop-motion work during 300's battle scenes feels like the equivalent of watching the fighting frame-by-frame as you would while reading a comic book. And some of the shots are just incredible. Narratively, it lacks the merit of other stuff out there, but every now and then narrative merit isn't the most important part of a movie -- even Godfather had some instances of crummy dialogue in it.

The fact that two different directors managed to accomplish this same feat shows how much artistry is in the source material.
 
ThePuceGuardian
2007-05-07 6:54:57 AM  
I liked the follow-up better.

"Hi, I'm a Marvel."
"... and I'm Batman."
 
facisto
2007-05-07 8:33:38 AM  
Brand0JS
the concept was good, but it wasn't very good. Sure Marvel has done well with X-men and Spiderman, but did anyone actually enjoy the Hulk, Fantastic Four, Elektra, Daredevil, Hellboy, Ghostrider, etc? Marvel's success rate is no better than DC's. It seems they were just stretching to make the parody fit

/comic nerd

Hellboy isn't a Marvel property. Hellboy is a Dark Horse property.
 
mouser_inc
2007-05-07 9:14:20 AM  
Brand0JS
I must be one of the few that liked Daredevil. I thought it was a much better movie then X-man 2 and the characters were really good.
I'll Give you Hulk, and Elektra though both those really sucked big time.

And Yes Hellboy was a very good movie but as Facitso said it's not a Marvel Property
 
AlgertMan
2007-05-07 11:43:29 AM  
Ah Fanboys

The biggest problem with the comicbook industry
 
Isuldirs
2007-05-07 1:46:37 PM  
AlgertMan: The biggest problem with the comicbook industry

We are the comic book industry dumbass.
 
Robosaurus
2007-05-07 2:01:42 PM  
I laughed. there are 3 other movies like this and the last line in #4 is priceless.
 
MasonL87
2007-05-07 2:03:04 PM  
OK I just watched all 4 of these, as well as the 2 with Batman, hilarious.

/Superman Returns should have had more 4 minutes of action
 
dumpstergirl
2007-05-07 2:05:04 PM  
Still waiting.

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I_Approve_Of_This_Message
2007-05-07 2:23:09 PM  
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/obligatory
 
T.rex
2007-05-07 6:31:35 PM  
I was a big hater on those Mac commercials for a while because it was trying to sell the 'trendiness' of Mac over Windows, and i don't like people telling me what is cool.

but, those ads really are true. I'm the biggest windows user ever, but i'll tell you that Macs are just way cooler. I wanna get that Mac Mini, just for the hell of it.
 
DuneMurderous
2007-05-07 7:59:12 PM  
dumpstergirl just made my day.
 
Fook
2007-05-07 11:03:30 PM  
"DuneMurderous
dumpstergirl just made my day."

Only 'superhero' comicbook ive ever read, and yeah its what I came here to say. Other one is Transmet, which I dont think should ever be attempted.
 
Droog8912
2007-05-07 11:06:23 PM  
aendeuryu
the concept was good, but it wasn't very good. Sure Marvel has done well with X-men and Spiderman, but did anyone actually enjoy the Hulk, Fantastic Four, Elektra, Daredevil, Hellboy, Ghostrider, etc? Marvel's success rate is no better than DC's. It seems they were just stretching to make the parody fit

Elektra did suck horribly (the ten minutes I bothered to watch, anyway), and I didn't particularly enjoy Hulk or Daredevil, but nothing trumps the complete and utter shiat that is Catwoman and Batman & Robin. Nothing.
 
Outlaw
2007-05-08 1:45:45 AM  
Brand0JS: ...but did anyone actually enjoy...Hellboy?

Yes, actually.

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bean_bag
2007-05-08 8:25:08 PM  
Hellboy and the Hulk are easily the two best comic book movies (Unbreakable as well - if it counts).

But as someone pointed out, it is more a reflection on the director and how well they understand and use the source material.
 
Tallgordon
2007-05-08 9:52:00 PM  
See, I think a Green Lantern movie would be a lot cooler if they went in a low-tech direction. What they should do is film it with modern lighting, film, costume, but not have any special effects developed after 1985. Instead of really expensive glossy green phantasms, they should just have 50 or so Japanese men covered completely in green spandex run around and hit stuff. Or spray paint random objects like lamps and baseballs and dogs green and just throw them at bad guys. And have the whole thing be written and directed by the guy who made "Heat Vision and Jack."

Trust me, fan boys. You think in your heads that a Green Lantern movie with a huge CG budget would rock, but it won't. It'll just be a bunch of lame computer graphics with no dramatic tension whatsoever, like a really fancy screensaver on a 50 foot screen. My way is the only way this movie will be at all interesting.
 
odintal
2007-05-08 10:55:55 PM  
The source is always better than the adaptation.

Or the adaptation is always just as bad as the source. People blow up how emotinally moving a comic book is.Were you reading the same Spider-Man i was? It was entertainment sure. Life altering, tear jerking, brilliant works of character development? not so much.

a film director has about 2 hours to capture what a comic book sometimes spans years to tell. back in the day comic book battles were like an episode of dragon ball z. throw punches for a couple of frames then talk about how superior you are to your opponent for the rest of the issue/episode.

after watching spider-man 3 i went back and read the black suit saga from start to finish. i wasn't nearly as impressed as i was when i was 12.

Fans get uppity and pissy when a 3rd rate hero like ghost rider gets a 3rd rate movie. why? are you expecting anything better than the goofy stories from that series?

Daredevil is crap you say? I like DD personally and I'd have to say the film was as expected. I retelling of the shiatty elektra love story. Theres a lot more DD work out there that is A LOT better.

The only comic book movies I can honestly say took me by surprise at how awful and cheesetastic they were, were the Shumacher Batmans movies. Adam West watched those and did a face palm. Hell Richard Simmons thought that shiat was gaytastic.
 
deathbunny32
2007-05-09 12:33:36 AM  
soze 2007-05-07 02:23:32 AM
Because the endless stream of fan service schlock flicks have really done great things for Marvel.

/Green Arrow fangirl
_____________________________________________________________

You heard about the prison break style Green Arrow movie they are planning on making right?
 
Chiad
2007-05-09 8:11:04 PM  
Nother vote for Deadpool :)

/makes my nether parts tingly
 
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