Hanamichi Sakuragi
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Box Office Mojo is just preparing itself for Interstellar.
When Interstellar begins, the Box Office Mojo rises.
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I would rather have lego movie: marvel vs DC.
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I mean some comic fans in general who excuse any poor decision made by Marvel and DC.
These kind of fanboys seem to be much rarer, and there's the matter of what is and isn't a poor decision varying from person to person.
I'm not really happy with the state of either ATM
Well, there's no accounting for taste. You can't really help it if you just don't like something.
As for me, other than some editorial problems at DC, both companies are doing well enough. Lots of good books from both publishers.
DC's got Action Comics, Batman, Aquaman, Batman/Superman, Astro City, Batman '66, Superman, Coffin Hill, Deadboy Detectives, Fables, Fairest, Swamp Thing, Justice League United, Justice League (Forever Evil really gave the series a shot in the arm), Grayson, Red Lanterns, Wonder Woman (though it'll drop in quality pretty soon), Sinestro, Multiversity, Superman Unchained (ending with the next issue), Sandman Overture (the best comic coming out right now from any publisher), Gotham Academy, and if the previews are anything to go by, Batgirl (coming out next week), then we've also got the upcoming Secret Six by Gail Simone.
Marvel's got Uncanny Avengers, Thor, The Death of Wolverine (the build-up sucked, but the actual mini has been good), New Avengers, Mighty Avengers, Bucky Barnes: The Winter Soldier, Captain America (new volume is launching, but it's got the same writer), Daredevil, Captain Marvel, Ms. Marvel, The Superior Foes of Spider-Man (ending next month), Hawkeye, All New Invaders, Black Widow, Elektra, Loki: Agent of Asgard, She-Hulk, Storm, then we've got a S.H.I.E.L.D series coming from Mark Waid, Tom Taylor's Iron Man, and the Angela series involving Kieron Gillen.
There are things I wish they would do differently (like getting a better editor for the Superman books, better treatment of the New Gods, getting Bendis away from the X-books, etc), but I can't fault either for a lack of good comics.
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Got to love the people who will accept anything thrown up on a page.
I hope that wasn't directed at me, as I've criticized various comic decisions made by both Marvel and DC, like Byrne's Superman reboot, and John's Darkseid, pretty much everything Starlin related, World War Hulk, etc.
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The first issue was pretty good, but it was a set-up issue. We only see new Thor in the last two pages.
Anyway, got to love the pathetic "I just might stop reading comics altogether" crowd.
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Amazing film.
This was the first Mallick film I ever saw, and it was unlike anything I had seen before. I'm not good with words, so I'll let Scorsese and Ebert speak for me.
MARTIN: No. My choice for Number 2 is Terrence Malick's adaptation of James Jones' novel, "The Thin Red Line." There are many great actors in this movie, including Sean Penn, Nick Nolte, John Savage, Jim Caviezel and others, but there's no star. The film has a deliberately loose structure, and the story is told through multiple voiceovers and points of view. "The Thin Red Line" is actually the story of every soldier who took part in the endless battle to secure Guadalcanal.
MARTIN: "The Thin Red Line" works very differently from most films. As you watch it you wonder: What is narrative in movies? Is it everything, and if so, is there only one way to handle it? I realize now that each of the four top movies on my list moves at a very slow tempo. If Malick had just done a straightforward narrative, could he ever have achieved the kind of poetry he does here, or made a film where you really come to see the world as a primeval place? I don't think so.
ROGER: You know, I was thinking that, too, about your top four films, because in your films characters are very much in the foreground. Your films are about people --
MARTIN: Yes.
ROGER: -- and about their souls, their guilt, their anguish. And here these people are at arms length. I loved the film too, because once again though its kind of like a dream. The narrator comes down from above and thinks about this material, rather than really being up to his neck in it.
MARTIN: Well, it takes you to a place in time. It takes you to a place You begin to think about you know, what are we as human beings, what are these soldiers doing on this primeval island?
ROGER: Do you think that audiences are open-minded when they see a film that doesn't play just like a standard TV movie?
MARTIN: No, I'm worried that they're not at this point. That's what worries me.
ROGER: Yeah. I worry about that, too.
MARTIN: I'm very worried. That's why I think "The Thin Red Line" is so important. You could come in the middle of it, you can watch it. It's almost like an endless picture. It has no beginning and no end. People say, "Well, sometimes I can't tell whose voiceover it is." It doesn't matter. It's everybody's voiceover.
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I love how at this point, Fox News is just a caricaturist parody of themselves.
They complained about Wonder Woman having pants, using a design from a specific storyline from three years ago.
I could forgive them for saying there's never been a male "Wonder Woman", since that's more obscure, but the pants thing, come on.
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Well, the people upset about the new Thor can rest easy knowing that FOX News is on their side.
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Because it is a cartoon character? How is a cartoon character attractive?
Don't act like you don't spend every night spanking it to Snoopy.
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A deleted scene featuring Harley Quinn.
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They could manage with the Lobdell version.
But no way with the Claremont version.
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Overly sexualized? Its a comic.
Characters can be overly sexualized in any medium. Comics aren't an exception, and shouldn't be free from that criticism.
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The comic book version of Big Hero Six, and all the original characters that make up the team suck.
I'm pretty sure the movie versions are going to be a huge improvement.
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Book Four begins on October 3rd of this year.
Yeah, no joke.
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Yes, his previews for DC/Marvel comic events are usually right. Usually. However, in this case, it is reporting much after the occurrence of the events discussed in the article, and involves players like Disney, Disney Animation and Disney Publishing. And when it comes to anything outside of the publishing arms of DC and Marvel, his sources suck.
While not as consistent as stuff that's strictly related to the comic book side of things, I wouldn't say his sources suck regarding other things.
If I'm remembering correctly, he broke some character details for Episode VII, Disney/Panini conflict, Karl Urban as Judge Dredd, etc.
I wouldn't rule this out as untrue, especially since he was contacted by people from the Marvel Comics side of things.
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While that's not true, this is not purely comics but also relates to Disney and Disney Animation. Look at that other report on Josh Trank revealing FF tidbits on Twitter. Turns out that may not be Trank's Twitter account at all!
That was just reporting what other outlets had reported.
When it comes to Rich Johnston getting stuff directly from his sources, he's been right most of the time. Breaking stories like the Death of Wolverine a year before it was solicited, Romita Jr's move to DC and taking art duties on Superman, Marvel publishing a Miracleman annual with a story by Grant Morrison, DC's Blood Moon event, Superman "killing" Dr. Light, everything do with Before Watchmen, Andy Diggle leaving Action Comics, The New 52, One More Day, the Superman/Wonder Woman romance, David Finch on Wonder Woman, several of the Marvel Now! creative teams, Bendis on Guardians of the Galaxy, Geoff Johns leaving Aquaman, Loeb on Nova, etc.
Off the top of my head, I can think of maybe three or four things that he's been wrong about.
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It's Bleeding Cool. They tend to be 50/50 about these things. Actually 60/40, in favor of nonsense.
From my experience, more like 9/10.
They've rare;y been wrong, especially when it comes to the comic side of things.
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A few days ago, Bleeding Cool reported on an agreement between Marvel and Disney for Disney Publishing to have all publishing rights regarding the movie/comic Big Hero 6 produced by Disney and loosely based on the Marvel comic.
It didn’t answer why exactly Disney weren’t publishing the Big Hero 6 manga in the US, letting Yen Press have the rights.
Well, after publication, I was contacted by a number of people at both Marvel and Disney wanting to have their say.
There was some contradiction, but there were some very common threads. That specifically before this agreement between Disney Animation, Disney Publishing and Marvel, there was considerable conflict.
Initially, Marvel wanted the movie aimed at an older audience and Disney refused. Marvel then refused to publish comics to support the movie. So Disney told Marvel they would publish comics themselves (not the manga, but original comics by US creators). It was then that Marvel went, and I quote, “apeshit”.
Cooler heads prevailed and an agreement was drawn up. That Marvel wouldn’t get involved with Big Hero 6 at all, the marketing the publishing and the like, but Disney Publishing were not allowed to publish Big Hero 6 comics in the US. Hence the Yen Press deal for the Disney Japanese Big Hero 6 manga.
An uneasy accord was arranged, and everyone was then singing from the same songsheet. Until Marvel EIC Axel Alonso‘s comments on CBR, “We wanted the Disney folks to be able to create their own unique style and story, unencumbered by those older stories” and then certain folk at Disney Animation kicked off again… as Marvel clearly didn’t want that.
And those eBay and Amazon prices? They keep on going up…
http://www.bleedingcool.com/2014/09/04/that-disneymarvel-bust-up-over-big-hero-6/
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What song is that at 00:05 to 00:07? Wasn't it included in the second trailer too?
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The Box Office Mojo issues thread. Brad Brevet is the new editor, the Simanton reign is over.
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