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Comic Book Movie Thread: also their games

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  • KyouguKyougu Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    Holy Crap! A Runaways movie?

    http://www.aintitcool.com/node/36843

    Could be so good.

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  • devoirdevoir Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    Hey guys, good news.

    Captain America to be set in WW2, a period film if you will, probably ending in a cliffhanger that is resolved a few weeks later in Avengers? Yes, please.

    Plus, confirmation of no Matt McC.

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  • SageinaRageSageinaRage Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    Keith wrote: »
    I just want to say, speaking as an actor and a director, that everyone here who's making casting decisions based on 'physicality and looks' can bite me. That will get you a good poster, but a horrible shitty movie. Iron Man wasn't an awesome movie because Robert Downey Jr. looked the part, even though he kinda did - it was good because he's an excellent actor with good direction. The same is true for every movie, super hero or not.

    what movies have you been in

    So far just student stuff - I don't live in hollywood.

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  • BlackjackBlackjack Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    Kyougu wrote: »
    Holy Crap! A Runaways movie?

    http://www.aintitcool.com/node/36843

    Could be so good.
    But will it?

    Survey says "God, no."

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  • BogartBogart Streetwise Hercules Registered User, Moderator mod
    edited May 2008
    Blackjack wrote: »
    Kyougu wrote: »
    Holy Crap! A Runaways movie?

    http://www.aintitcool.com/node/36843

    Could be so good.
    But will it?

    Survey says "God, no."

    BKV's apparently writing the script, and since that's all that anyone knows about it you'd have to say that so far survey says "they're doing it right so far so maybe". If you wanted to base your judgement of the final movie from an internet story about it being greenlighted, that is.

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  • BlackjackBlackjack Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    Bogart wrote: »
    Blackjack wrote: »
    Kyougu wrote: »
    Holy Crap! A Runaways movie?

    http://www.aintitcool.com/node/36843

    Could be so good.
    But will it?

    Survey says "God, no."

    BKV's apparently writing the script, and since that's all that anyone knows about it you'd have to say that so far survey says "they're doing it right so far so maybe". If you wanted to base your judgement of the final movie from an internet story about it being greenlighted, that is.
    The idea of a comic book movie with a cast primarily made up of teenage/young-twenties actors, not to mention the "ADORABLE" little girl fails to fill me with hope.

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  • smokmnkysmokmnky Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    yeah I don't hold any hope for it. Guess we'll have to wait until a script is done and cast is announced

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  • SalmonOfDoubtSalmonOfDoubt Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    Torso Boy wrote: »
    Arguably relevant: apparently some of Iron Man's writers have been hired to write a Highlander remake.

    Which sounds cool, except that I've been working on one of my own for like six months, praying hollywood wouldn't catch on for a few more years. I thought I had some good ideas :(.

    Highlander would be so much more awesome if instead of duelling with swords they duelled with high-tech powered armour.

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    PiptheFair wrote: »
    killing children would be hilarious
    Olivaw wrote: »
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    PLEASE ENJOY YOUR STAY

    AND THIS PENIS
    Man, I don't want to read about this lady's broken vagina.
    NotACrook wrote: »
    I am sitting here trying to come up with a tiered system for rating child molesters.
    cock vore is fuckin hilarious
  • CrimsondudeCrimsondude Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    Oh, wow.

    Cap set in WW2, and a Runaways movie written by Brian K. Vaughn.

    Interesting day so far.

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  • ServoServo Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited May 2008
    no reading for you today, huh crims?

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  • CrimsondudeCrimsondude Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    Hm. Missed that. Curious.

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  • smokmnkysmokmnky Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    Oh, wow.

    Cap set in WW2, and a Runaways movie written by Brian K. Vaughn.

    Interesting day so far.

    Hi Crimson, welcome to like 3 posts above yours :lol:

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  • BlackjackBlackjack Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    smokmnky wrote: »
    Oh, wow.

    Cap set in WW2, and a Runaways movie written by Brian K. Vaughn.

    Interesting day so far.

    Hi Crimson, welcome to like 3 posts above yours :lol:
    Hi, smokmnky, welcome to two posts above yours. :P

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  • smokmnkysmokmnky Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    Blackjack wrote: »
    smokmnky wrote: »
    Oh, wow.

    Cap set in WW2, and a Runaways movie written by Brian K. Vaughn.

    Interesting day so far.

    Hi Crimson, welcome to like 3 posts above yours :lol:
    Hi, smokmnky, welcome to two posts above yours. :P

    Yeah I waited to long to post that but at the time it was the last post I saw. I still stand by my statement

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  • CrimsondudeCrimsondude Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    God, we're all a bunch of douches.

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  • BlackjackBlackjack Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    Of course. We're comic book fans. We have no social skill.

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  • The Muffin ManThe Muffin Man Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    Bloods End wrote: »
    You know, of all the directions that they could have taken the Avengers movie, this isn't the one I'd would have thought they would go with

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    "Tony, what the hell!?"
    "Hey Steve, turns out Peter and I have the same idea of what a protege should do for his mentor!"

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  • Garlic BreadGarlic Bread i'm a bitch i'm a bitch i'm a bitch i'm a Registered User, Disagreeable regular
    edited May 2008
    Keith wrote: »
    I just want to say, speaking as an actor and a director, that everyone here who's making casting decisions based on 'physicality and looks' can bite me. That will get you a good poster, but a horrible shitty movie. Iron Man wasn't an awesome movie because Robert Downey Jr. looked the part, even though he kinda did - it was good because he's an excellent actor with good direction. The same is true for every movie, super hero or not.

    what movies have you been in

    So far just student stuff - I don't live in hollywood.

    I've been in student stuff, too!!! 8-)


    I'm not an actor

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  • Centipede DamascusCentipede Damascus Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    dang, I just came in here to see if anyone had reported the Runaways movie news yet

    so... that's pretty cool news, huh?

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  • BlackjackBlackjack Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    I think the best thing about this Runaways movie is: Runaways video game.

    Perhaps in the style of X-Men Legends/Ultimate Alliance. Could be awesome.

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  • CrimsondudeCrimsondude Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    dang, I just came in here to see if anyone had reported the Runaways movie news yet

    so... that's pretty cool news, huh?

    What's this about a Runaways movie?

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  • Centipede DamascusCentipede Damascus Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    Dude, they're making a Runaways movie

    Brian K. Vaughn is even writing it!

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  • Garlic BreadGarlic Bread i'm a bitch i'm a bitch i'm a bitch i'm a Registered User, Disagreeable regular
    edited May 2008
    joke's dead, let it go

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  • The Lovely BastardThe Lovely Bastard Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    keith you are not the authority on jokes

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  • Centipede DamascusCentipede Damascus Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    who is the authority on jokes around here

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  • Garlic BreadGarlic Bread i'm a bitch i'm a bitch i'm a bitch i'm a Registered User, Disagreeable regular
    edited May 2008
    keith you are not the authority on jokes

    spaghetti spaghetti spaghetti

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  • The Lovely BastardThe Lovely Bastard Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    The authority on jokes is algertman

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  • Centipede DamascusCentipede Damascus Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    I'm going to file an appeal

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  • devoirdevoir Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    I'm curious as to whether they're going to play Cap off as simply heroic or superhuman in his film, considering the WW2 setting. Will it be simply a war movie, or will it be a superhero battle set against the background of WW2?

    Red Skull as the villain?

    devoir on
  • see317see317 Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    devoir wrote: »
    I'm curious as to whether they're going to play Cap off as simply heroic or superhuman in his film, considering the WW2 setting. Will it be simply a war movie, or will it be a superhero battle set against the background of WW2?

    Red Skull as the villain?
    I'd imagine he'd be portrayed as super-human, or at least batman level peak physical fitness. If I recall correctly, prior to the serum, he was something of a failure as a soldier. Not exactly summer blockbuster material there when set against the backdrop of world war II.

    I wonder if there will be any reference to Wolverine though. I seem to recall they spent some time fighting together during WW2. It would be nice to see, even if just a passing reference.

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  • The Lovely BastardThe Lovely Bastard Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    centi you have to file your appeal through me

    I am the undersecretary of jokes

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  • Centipede DamascusCentipede Damascus Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    I think there is a really good chance they will have the Red Skull. I would also expect cameos by Baron Zemo, Fritz von Meyer, etc.

    At least I hope so. Red Skull is one of my favorite villains.

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  • CrimsondudeCrimsondude Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    see317 wrote: »
    I'd imagine he'd be portrayed as super-human, or at least batman level peak physical fitness. If I recall correctly, prior to the serum, he was something of a failure as a soldier.
    Steve Rogers was almost literally a 98 pound weakling who had been declared physically unfit for duty by his draft board. He didn't even make it to the Army. That's the whole point behind him volunteering to take the super-soldier serum.

    And if it's going to be Ultimate Cap, then it makes him like 300 pounds of muscle (or so Pietro bitches), and/or Bru's Cap who can run like a mile in approximately a minute or two.

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  • DouglasDangerDouglasDanger PennsylvaniaRegistered User regular
    edited May 2008
    I have been hoping for Cap WWII movie since the D-Day anniversary when all of the WWII movies were coming out like crazy.

    You know, I prefer moderately superhuman Cap.

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  • smokmnkysmokmnky Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    As long as the shield is cool and he punches Hitler in the face, I'm down

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  • mxmarksmxmarks Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    smokmnky wrote: »
    As long as the shield is cool and he punches Hitler in the face, I'm down

    As much as I really, really want him to punch Hitler in the face - my guess is they will steer far away from anything heavy. I can see them mentioning Hitler, and Nazi's and whatnot - but this is a super-hero movie, and my guess is they're going to say:

    "Hey Captain America. Our good boys are off fighting Hitler and the Nazi regeme, but we need you to do something far more important. Hitler is taking orders from someone worse than himself, or the Nazis. THE RED SKULL."

    And then you'll never hear Hitler, or Nazi for the rest of the movie. It's gotta be PG-13, and it can't possibly insult anyone who is sensitive to the idea that Captain America was punching Hitler while thier relatives were in real life concentration camps. When WW2 was going on, a superhero punching Hitler was awesome and inspired morale. But now in the aftermath, it walks a thin line between STILL being awesome, and playing light heartedly with one of the worst events in the history of the world.

    So like I said, I personally wouldn't have a problem with it - but with Marvel movies doing so well in the mainstream, I can't see Marvel taking any sort of risk to draw critics on such a major topic.

    And I think a GREAT movie can still be made if you just seperate Cap off from the rest of the army, with only his 'elite troops' - Bucky, maybe even the whole Invaders, and then a group of throw away regular soldiers who were chosen to escort him. Move them to somewhere ELSE in Europe during WW2, where the Skull is based with his own army, and you're all set.

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  • smokmnkysmokmnky Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    You, they should do like Brubaker did in that Winter Kills one shot with Bucky remembering Christmas.

    "Hey, remember when I punched Hitler in the face?"

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  • CrimsondudeCrimsondude Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    Nick Fury and the Howling Commandos often went with Cap and Bucky.

    Anyway, punching Hitler also happened before the U.S. was involved in WW2. It's just a cover to a first issue to sell comics. God...

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  • smokmnkysmokmnky Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    Nick Fury and the Howling Commandos often went with Cap and Bucky.

    Anyway, punching Hitler also happened before the U.S. was involved in WW2. It's just a cover to a first issue to sell comics. God...

    He still should do it

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  • KyouguKyougu Registered User regular
    edited May 2008
    New Wanted Trailer

    It's in Russian, but it's also pretty damn bloody. The movie looks pretty cool actually.

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