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Penny Arcade - Comic - Fish Are Friends
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Penny Arcade - Comic - Fish Are Friends
Videogaming-related online strip by Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins. Includes news and commentary.
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It helps that Momoa himself is just insanely charismatic, and his portrayal of Aquaman seems at least partially based on the Brave and the Bold goofier version of the character.
Yo, this is a pretty goosey take on movie audiences. There's a ton of people on this forum you just insulted by implying we have no capacity to think critically about something as soon as superheroes get involved. If comic book movies aren't your thing, that's fine. But enough of them (particularly DC stuff) have flopped and been panned by both critics and audiences alike that it's evident we do actually exercise judgment. The fact that superhero movies are so popular lately has more to do with fact that lately, they've figured out how to make them good movies.
Does Queens boulevard and Medellin also exist in real life yet?
He could flood an entire battlefield in mere seconds (Water makes up 90% of the planet's surface, mind you), and summon all sorts of scary-ass sea monsters like sharks and giant cephalopods to do his bidding.
There's also the whole, less interesting but very relevant, super strength, super durability and extensive combat training thing. Also Aquaman was good movie and I highly recommend seeing it.
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https://bentongrey.wordpress.com/aquaman-primer/
And even though I agree with what Quid said about them, both the movies he/she mentioned made massive bank. Going down the list of Man of Steel, Batman v Superman, Suicide Squad, and Justice League, not a single one of them dipped below $650 million worldwide. And BvS solidly outperformed Wonder Woman. The gap between BvS and WW is almost the same as between WW and Suicide Squad.
I know a lot of people hate critics reviews, including Jerry and Mike quite frequently. For me, I find that my tastes typically line up (Tron Legacy being my most memorable exception). But when I see the above, I do wonder about a certain core audience that actually will see and enjoy almost any superhero movie. I have to say "almost", though, because Fantastic Four at least gives me hope.
And then I look at the Transformers movies, which I think are pretty good examples of "superhero" movies, even if they stray a little from the usual costuming. Those are movies that seem to earn more money the worse they are critically received. To read their worldwide grosses at boxofficemojo is to call into question the entire field of cinematic criticism.
And as to "why do you care what people like, how does it hurt you?" - I generally 100% agree with that. Don't get mad that people don't like the same things as you. But I do feel a bit of a twinge when it comes to movies, as there is undeniably a groupthink when it comes to Hollywood movies, and if a certain trend is following a formula it can be very difficult for other movies to argue against it. They end up getting change to fit the money-making mold better. I suppose I'm not morosely hopeless, though, given Deadpool's success.
Also the special effects were good, the combat was pretty fun, and Amber Heard is gorgeous and I hope she gets more opportunities to play Mera in the future.
Yeah, that's a totally fair point. I'm more addressing Tofystedeth's statement that superhero movies are popular because they've figured out how to make good ones. And that because critics have panned the bad ones, we (always fuzzy who "we" is, but still) exercise judgment. It seems more because they've figured out a formula for making profitable ones, in the same way those action movies were near-universally "profitable" even without being (critically speaking) "good."
Quips and one-liners? See, when you describe it that way I would expect the DC fan base to hate it, yet I haven't seen many complaints. Granted, I haven't really been seeking out Aquaman commentary either. I haven't seen it yet, but I imagine I'll get to it in the next couple weekends.
-Tycho Brahe
I think I am probably happier not knowing
Oh, I can tell you why that is.
Venom is fucking ridiculous. Audiences love a good B-style ridiculous movie, cause it's funny. Critics, however, rarely do.
Yeah, but Catwoman was ridiculous. As was Batman and Robin. The list could go on and on. There are plenty of "good" B-style ridiculous movies that don't go on to gross $900 million. So I think that's a little too simplistic an explanation. I have no fucking idea what the right one is, though.
To an extent, it's easier with these kinds of heroes. Iron Man and Thor were hardly known outside of comics, Captain America was well known but poorly understood, Ant Man wasn't well known to begin with and they went with the even less well known Scott Lang over Hank Pym. The Guardians of the Galaxy weren't even big enough to be in the 616 universe. On the DC side, Wonder Woman hadn't gotten serious exposure in decades (with several major retcons along the way), and Aquaman's gotten more screen time on Family Guy cut away gags than in theaters.
When audiences don't actually know what to expect, there's a lot less ways to fuck up.
I think Venom is kind of like Deadpool in that he has a larger than expected fan base who wanted to see him get a proper movie treatment. Sure, we kind of got Venom in Spider-Man 3, but it wasn't a very good Venom and he didn't get a whole lot of screen time. This time around he looked better, he wasn't just the villain in a Spider-Man movie, and he wasn't played by Topher Grace. I think that was enough to get the fans to the theater.
-Tycho Brahe
Did what I could. Sorry 'bout that. Mainly @-ed it because I can never remember how to spell more than about the first three letters of your name. :biggrin:
I did specify "a good B-Style movie" for a reason. Venom is silly but it's well done silly, with a lot of moments to appeal to the audience and a genuinely amusing main character. Catwoman was... not.
I feel we're just going to have to agree to disagree on this one. I was going to list a bunch of other movies, but it's probably a bit much for a comic thread.
Until you said this I never realized it wasn't "Toysofdeth". The eye does funny things!
I'm almost afraid to ask what you mean by "monsterfucker"?
Don't mind me, I'm just in this thread to watch someone's last shreds of innocence be ripped away by the internet.
Would it help if I said the term is absolutely not obfuscatory?
Man, I've been online since '95, I know there's whack shit out there. I just figured they couldn't meant it in the most-literal sense as I sincerely doubt the motion picture will offer any fanservice for goop-bodysuit-alien fetishists.
But apparently I guessed wrong.
In the end, who was the real monster?
Turns out it man.