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trinityvixen

Things and such for posting

Jan 19, 2011 17:57

I'm collecting a lot of links for posts.

1) Proof positive that outlawing a thing doesn't make it go away. (ETA: TRIGGER WARNING) For fuck's sake, abortion isn't illegal now, and this is what's happening because it's become so goddamned shameful and fucking difficult to obtain for anyone who isn't rich. You tell me what's more offensive to your God ( Read more... )

spider-man, movies, liberal rants

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ivy03 January 19 2011, 23:31:13 UTC

I was wondering why there was a news item about stuff not being on Poe's grave today.

trinityvixen January 20 2011, 02:40:46 UTC

Wonder no more! (Quoth the raven.)

ivy03 January 19 2011, 23:34:01 UTC

No, really, they're filming it now to show in two months. You stay classy, SyFy.
Given how awful the last film I watched for GDL was (and how awful he looked in it), I think I'll give this one a miss.

Also, we don't even put out books that fast. If you added something to my May list right now I'd probably kill you.

trinityvixen January 20 2011, 02:41:28 UTC

It's based on a video game, no less. I look forward to them butchering it.

oblvndrgn January 20 2011, 15:23:46 UTC

I know some people at Volition, the studio behind Red Faction. They and THQ, the parent, have been very excited about trying to go increasingly trans-media, the comics and movies and the whatnots to support universes created for games instead of licensing existing properties. Developers and marketing both excited. Unfortunately, I'm pretty sure that somewhere after inception of the idea, someone took a red marker to the budget and said "We're going to release the next game in March. Make sure this airs by then. Or else."

chuckro January 20 2011, 15:49:39 UTC

So, the explanation for why games based on movies tend to suck works in reverse, as well?

moonlightalice January 20 2011, 01:45:08 UTC

Um, oh my god. That first article is so unbelievably awful I can't believe you didn't put some kind of warning. I feel sick.

trinityvixen January 20 2011, 02:41:44 UTC

Fuck me, I meant to put a trigger warning on that. I'm so sorry, dude.

wellgull January 20 2011, 02:07:41 UTC

I thought rebooting franchises every six years was S.O.P.

Anyway, I think the reason we didn't have Spider-Man movies before Sam Raimi isn't because of whatever his personal virtues might be, but because the CGI wasn't up to it. You could do Batman with mid-80s special effects, but if the live-action musical is showing us anything, it's that you can't really pull off a Spider-Man movie that didn't look moronic before you could do the whole thing in a Mac. (And honestly, some of the wall-climbing stuff in Spider-Man (I) that we saw the other night was pretty cheesy as is).

trinityvixen January 20 2011, 02:46:13 UTC

Development issues pretty much plagued Spider-Man for much of its twenty-year odyssey of not getting made. Yeah, part of that was the CGI. I mean, look at how badly they're getting on with the effects in the stage play. Delays like that in Hollywood would only sink a movie (rather than play out as intriguing tabloid fodder as it has for the musical).

But it also needed one person to put a coherent touch on it--just as Burton did with Batman. Raimi was that someone; he brought the right soft touch to the film, the humor and the failing-to-take-it-as-SRS-SUPERHERO-BZNES that made it work. So I give him full credit for that. It doesn't mean that he's the only one who can spin a story (hur hur) about Spider-Man that's worth telling.

six_demon_bag January 20 2011, 02:37:12 UTC

Now you’re stunting him, trapping him as the same gawky teenager when all we really want is to know what happens next. Now, for Peter Parker, there is no next

That makes me sad.

Oh SyFy, how I love you so.

Huh, I'm definitely intrigued by this Poe film. I'd never heard of it. Nor had I heard about this secret fan and the broken tradition. That's rather sad.

Thanks for yet another informative entry!

trinityvixen January 20 2011, 02:48:24 UTC

I call BS on that quote you pulled out, too. I mean, part of what is most interesting about a lot of the Marvel heroes is how off-guard their powers catch them. Mutants and Spider-Man both come into their powers at puberty, making the story at least as much coming-of-age in narrative as everyman-becomes-Superman. I like Peter Parker the adult, but there's nothing wrong with the teenage superhero. In fact, we tell plenty of adult superhero stories. Change it up a little, why not?

SyFy: We'll keep on making movies as long as you watch them. ADMIT THAT YOU ARE WATCHING THEM. (I confess! I am!)