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Subj: Re: I honestly find it hard to believe... Posted: Tue Apr 28, 2015 at 06:37:30 pm EDT (Viewed 1 times) | Reply Subj: I honestly find it hard to believe... Posted: Tue Apr 28, 2015 at 02:10:08 pm EDT (Viewed 1 times) | ||||||
Quote: ...that I'll soon be living in a world where a significant number of the population will know who both The Vision and Rocket Raccoon are. I can honestly only recall once or twice in my lifetime running into someone outside of a comic book store or similar context who knew the Vision. I totally get to use the hipster "I was into him way before it went mainstream" line. It's not like you can't produce the artwork to prove it. Quote: I am, however, heartbroken that all of the various Vision things I collected over the years were lost in a move, and will likely be overly expensive to replace now. Ah well.That's very upsetting. I had my collection of Charlton comics stolen around 1981 and I still miss Wally Wood and Joe Staten. Quote: Really looking forward to seeing this film... I expected that the critics would be harsher on it, and really I expect that to be a growing trend. Comic films will really have to offer something different or really surprise critics to get widespread, glowing praise going forward. I see a number of critics have bashed it for being too long, cramming in too much. From my perspective, it was too short, skipping over some bits I felt needed to breathe more. I wasn't surprised to hear that an hour got cut from the running time. I have hopes that the "Director's Cut" on DVD will correct my very minor criticsm. Quote: You can feel the rebellion gaining traction as they contemplate the 20-30 announced Superhero films supposedly coming in the next 5-6 years. Anything middling will likely face tough criticism. If I were DC, I'd be worried... critics haven't been glowing to Zack Snyder up until now, and Batman v. Superman promises a whole other universe of interconnected superhero films. It's going to be tough to sell critics that they want that.I reckon the first sacrifical lamb will be Fantastic Four, or rather Fant4stic, but it my deserve it. Why can't movies get Doom right? I also note that poor old Sony, ever trend-chasing, has just licensed the Valiant heroes for their new massive interconnected superhero universe of movies to replace the crashed-and-burned Sinister Six spiderverse. As for Batman v. Superman, yeah, that's going to be amazing or a train wreck, nothing in-between. Right now the tea leaves suggest train wreck. One thing that amused me about the Avengers 2 movie was the repeated emphasis on rescuing civilians caught in the battle zones. It was as if someone had watched the Man of Steel movie and read the online reaction to the mass slaughter and Superman doing nothing. To be fair, though, any team led by a properly characterised Captain America isn't going to damn the casualties and take the expedient route of acceptable losses; in fact there's a very very cool Cap-speech on the topic at a key moment. | |||||||
