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  • BlankZoeBlankZoe Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Which is silly because comic book movies(or well superhero movies to be exact), by the nature of the source material, are going to be much more : D than :[ 9 times out of 10.

    Hell even Batman Begins had Batman beating up ninjas and being a playboy every once in a while

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  • ZonugalZonugal (He/Him) The Holiday Armadillo I'm Santa's representative for all the southern states. And Mexico!Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    I think another golden point regarding Marvel is the fact that their films are at least building an internal consistency.

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  • HamurabiHamurabi MiamiRegistered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Hamurabi wrote: »
    Blankzilla wrote: »
    Hamurabi wrote: »
    I dunno. This seems like a fairly futile discussion (unless we wanna use RottenTomatoes scores, or something). I stick by what I said in another somewhat related thread in D&D: I prefer DC's pseudo-strategy of having people who can do the franchise justice come along and knock it out of the ballpark every couple of years, as compared to Marvel Studios's strategy of just churning out 2-3 vapid flicks every summer and cashing in on the commercial tie-ins. DC's also put out some really terrible films of its franchises (the old, campy Batmans; Catwoman; etc.), but I feel like the quality of the films I mentioned above, collectively, outweighs what Marvel has put on the silver screen thus far.

    ymmv, of course.
    "knock it out of the ballpark"?

    You are basing DC's strategy entirely on Nolan's Bat-Films

    the only other superhero flick they have had was Superman Returns which wasn't bad but was hardly a hit

    everything else was Vertigo which is essentially a separate brand and has no franchises to speak of film-wise.

    plus you think the 60s batman was terrible so you are fucking broken

    I was referring to the more recent Val Kilmer / George Clooney Batman films.

    Again, though, this is pretty futile discussion. I threw my opinion out there (and never called it anything but my opinion), people shat on it, and I don't really see where this can go from there.

    well, we could have a measured and reasonable discussion about the various merits of the films in question, you could perhaps suggest that while while marvel has made more reasonable films dc has made strictly better ones, or that you don't think the marvel films are as good as everyone else does, or point out that the dark knight counts for at least three marvel movies

    or you could just get all butthurt because people disagreed with you on the internet

    I am implicitly saying that I didn't enjoy these purportedly quality films Marvel has put out over the last decade. Of the list put up on the last page, I personally enjoyed maybe four of them:
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    Marvel's movies:
    Spider-Man
    Spider-Man 2
    X-Men
    X-Men 2
    KalTorak wrote: »
    referring to the Schumacher Batman films as "knocked out of the park" is pathetically blatant trolling

    Where did I say this?

    EDIT: Oops, Iron Man 1&2 should not be on that list!

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  • BlankZoeBlankZoe Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Dritz wrote: »
    Blank you should watch the title sequence of Wolverine and that's about it. It was a pretty cool sequence though. What came before and after it are better left unspoken.
    I just watched it on Youtube

    that was pretty neat!

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  • Centipede DamascusCentipede Damascus Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Zonugal wrote: »
    I think another golden point regarding Marvel is the fact that their films are at least building an internal consistency.

    The Avengers is going to cause me to go into a never-ending joy-seizure, I know it

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  • zimfanzimfan Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Zonugal wrote: »
    I think another golden point regarding Marvel is the fact that their films are at least building an internal consistency.

    That was one of my favorite parts of Iron Man, the introduction of SHIELD

    "That's quite a mouthful."

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  • Centipede DamascusCentipede Damascus Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    oh man I remember when I first realized what Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division spelled

    I was bouncing in my seat

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  • Crimson KingCrimson King Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    The whole building-a-consistent-mythology-across-multiple-films thing is such an ambitious and interesting project, and I fucking love that they've had the balls to take it on.

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  • ZonugalZonugal (He/Him) The Holiday Armadillo I'm Santa's representative for all the southern states. And Mexico!Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Zonugal wrote: »
    I think another golden point regarding Marvel is the fact that their films are at least building an internal consistency.

    The Avengers is going to cause me to go into a never-ending joy-seizure, I know it

    It'll be like the comic-version of the Rat Pack.

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  • KusuguttaiKusuguttai __BANNED USERS regular
    edited May 2011
    Hamurabi wrote: »
    I guess I had forgotten a lot about Green Lantern.

    So lemme get this straight: his ring is fueled by willpower.

    And he fights bad guys whose energy source is fear.

    Right. This will garner comic books ("graphic novels") a lot of legitimacy as an art form, that's for sure.

    comic books have been a legitimate art form for at least thirty years now

    one more silly superhero movie isn't going to change that

    welp better take maus' pulitzer back, green lantern movie got made


    also this guy probably has the worst opinions i've ever seen

    like 'watchmen being a really good comic book adaptation'

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  • BlankZoeBlankZoe Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Kusuguttai wrote: »
    Hamurabi wrote: »
    I guess I had forgotten a lot about Green Lantern.

    So lemme get this straight: his ring is fueled by willpower.

    And he fights bad guys whose energy source is fear.

    Right. This will garner comic books ("graphic novels") a lot of legitimacy as an art form, that's for sure.

    comic books have been a legitimate art form for at least thirty years now

    one more silly superhero movie isn't going to change that

    welp better take maus' pulitzer back, green lantern movie got made


    also this guy probably has the worst opinions i've ever seen

    like 'watchmen being a really good comic book adaptation'
    '60s batman is awful'

    'iron man is boring'

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  • KusuguttaiKusuguttai __BANNED USERS regular
    edited May 2011
    i love how he thinks comic books and graphic novels are the same thing too
    like that isnt even an opinion, that just makes him an idiot

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  • Centipede DamascusCentipede Damascus Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    but seriously

    they should make a Batman movie with Michael Emerson as the Clock King

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  • KusuguttaiKusuguttai __BANNED USERS regular
    edited May 2011
    they shouldnt do anything any of us comes up with ever
    if our ideas were good we'd be millionaires

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  • zimfanzimfan Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Kusuguttai wrote: »
    they shouldnt do anything any of us comes up with ever
    if our ideas were good we'd be millionaires

    Not true! People with good ideas fail all the time!

    For Example:

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  • Centipede DamascusCentipede Damascus Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    I have the best ideas and someday I'm gonna be a millionaire

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  • MaceraMacera UGH GODDAMMIT STOP ENJOYING THINGSRegistered User regular
    edited May 2011
    but seriously

    they should make a Batman movie with Michael Emerson as the Clock King

    they could have Michael Emerson as Killer Croc for all I care

    I just need my Emerson fix

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  • Grey GhostGrey Ghost Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    oh man I remember when I first realized what Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division spelled

    I was bouncing in my seat

    Everyone in my theater just did this big "ooooohhhhhhhhh"

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  • Crimson KingCrimson King Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Michael Emerson as Harley Quinn

    Anne Hathaway as Killer Moth

    Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Aquaman

    let's do this

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  • Grey GhostGrey Ghost Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Kusuguttai wrote: »
    they shouldnt do anything any of us comes up with ever
    if our ideas were good we'd be millionaires

    If we're so smart, why aren't we rich?

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  • Grey GhostGrey Ghost Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    I still wish JGL had been cast as Young Alfred in the flashback to his days in Burma

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  • TrippyJingTrippyJing Moses supposes his toeses are roses. But Moses supposes erroneously.Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Ugh, that Bulletball clip depresses me like crazy.

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  • ZonugalZonugal (He/Him) The Holiday Armadillo I'm Santa's representative for all the southern states. And Mexico!Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    but seriously

    they should make a Batman movie with Michael Emerson

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  • KusuguttaiKusuguttai __BANNED USERS regular
    edited May 2011
    they should make a gay porn with michael emerson so you all can both literally and figuratively jerk off to him

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  • PoorochondriacPoorochondriac Ah, man Ah, jeezRegistered User regular
    edited May 2011
    More like Michael Phlegmerson

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  • MaceraMacera UGH GODDAMMIT STOP ENJOYING THINGSRegistered User regular
    edited May 2011
    zimfan wrote: »
    Kusuguttai wrote: »
    they shouldnt do anything any of us comes up with ever
    if our ideas were good we'd be millionaires

    Not true! People with good ideas fail all the time!

    For Example:
    Tags:
    bulletball bullet ball extreme american inventor depressing

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  • HamurabiHamurabi MiamiRegistered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Kusuguttai wrote: »
    i love how he thinks comic books and graphic novels are the same thing too
    like that isnt even an opinion, that just makes him an idiot

    Are they not?

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  • KusuguttaiKusuguttai __BANNED USERS regular
    edited May 2011
    nope
    comic books are single issues of a series
    graphic novels are exactly that; novels depicted in the comics medium.

    watchmen, maus, sandman, things with finite narratives

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  • Centipede DamascusCentipede Damascus Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphic_novels
    The term graphic novel is not strictly defined and is sometimes used, controversially, to imply subjective distinctions in artistic quality between graphic novels and other kinds of comics. It suggests a complete story that has a beginning, middle and end, as opposed to an ongoing series. It can also imply a story that is outside the genres commonly associated with comic books, or that deals with more mature themes. It is sometimes applied to works that fit this description even though they are serialized in traditional comic book format. The term is sometimes used to disassociate works from the juvenile or humorous connotations of the terms comics and comic book, implying that the work is more serious, mature, or literary than traditional comics.

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  • HamurabiHamurabi MiamiRegistered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Bad on me, then.

    I still don't think that makes me an "idiot," but I may be slightly biased in that judgement.

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  • BlankZoeBlankZoe Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Nope. A comic book is a usually monthly serialized story released in issues. It can be ongoing or a miniseries.

    A graphic novel is a piece of sequential art told in a completed volume. There can be multiple novels in a series but they are released in the graphic novel format not in single issues.

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  • Centipede DamascusCentipede Damascus Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Writer Neil Gaiman, responding to a claim that he does not write comic books but graphic novels, said the commenter "meant it as a compliment, I suppose. But all of a sudden I felt like someone who'd been informed that she wasn't actually a hooker; that in fact she was a lady of the evening."

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  • KusuguttaiKusuguttai __BANNED USERS regular
    edited May 2011
    Hamurabi wrote: »
    Bad on me, then.

    I still don't think that makes me an "idiot," but I may be slightly biased in that judgement.

    in the context of the rest of your oeuvre it certainly does

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  • MaceraMacera UGH GODDAMMIT STOP ENJOYING THINGSRegistered User regular
    edited May 2011
    I have

    Bulletball

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  • Crimson KingCrimson King Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    in all fairness, the distinction between comics and graphic novels is often the same as the distinction between porn and erotica

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  • BlankZoeBlankZoe Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Volume 7 of Ultimate Spider-Man isn't a graphic novel.

    Joker by Brian Azzerello and Lee Bermejo is.

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  • HamurabiHamurabi MiamiRegistered User regular
    edited May 2011
    That's sort of what I always perceived it as -- comic book fans' attempts to try and give a more formal title to the medium. As a comic book fan, I didn't feel any particular compunction to dress up a medium I enjoy, because I don't feel ashamed of reading "comic books."

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  • KusuguttaiKusuguttai __BANNED USERS regular
    edited May 2011
    also the fact that the post in question was you denigrating the legitimate comics medium by using the condescending quotes around "graphic novels"

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  • KusuguttaiKusuguttai __BANNED USERS regular
    edited May 2011
    in all fairness, the distinction between comics and graphic novels is often the same as the distinction between porn and erotica

    this isn't true at all

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  • Macro9Macro9 Registered User regular
    edited May 2011
    Kusuguttai wrote: »
    nope
    comic books are single issues of a series
    graphic novels are exactly that; novels depicted in the comics medium.

    watchmen, maus, sandman, things with finite narratives

    That's not really a good definition of graphic novel considering Sandman was a series of single issues and Watchmen was a 12 issue miniseries.

    I get what you're saying, but I think your description is flawed.

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