Awesome in the traditional British sense
-Mark Millar says that the Fantastic Four reboot will be "awesome in the traditional British sense and not the California sense awesome, you know?" I say, old chap, is that a gargantuan purple fellow intent upon devouring one's planet, pip pip, what?
-Christopher Nolan's next movie will likely be Interstellar, a science-fiction movie based on the wormholes-for-time-travel theories of Kip Thorne, that Steven Spielberg was once attached to. Back in 2009, some fan made a cheap, fake teaser that misspelled Spielberg's name and doesn't give much indication what the story might be. That and more after the jump:
Yep, here's that fan-trailer, for whatever it's worth...
-In news of fan films that are definitely worth something, however, Dan Trachtenberg's Portal fan film helped score him the gig of directing New Line's Y: The Last Man adaptation. Y? Because he's awesome. Check it out if you haven't seen it:
-Some movie awards nominations were announced this morning, or something. I have an idea in mind to deal with them later...
(Trachtenberg link via Geeks of Doom)
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Am I really the only person that liked the two new movies? They were goofy fun, just like Fantastic Four always seemed to be.
@xenothaulus I think the movies were terribly mis-cast. Jessica Alba got the job because she was who was hot at the time rather than who was suitable, and the guy who played Doom was horrible! And while there was some good in the movie it was largely, to me, terrible.
@tstockel @xenothaulus I was only peripherally aware of the FF, not being a comic reader. I knew what they were, basically, like the pop culture version of them, and that was it. So the casting didn't bother me. I though Alba was great (and it was the first time I had ever seen her in anything, so afterwards seeing her with brown hair was... weird.) I thought the guy playing Doom was fine, but then I had no real preconception of what or who Dr. Doom should be, other than "the bad guy with a metal mask in the Fantastic Four."
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@xenothaulus I like them, they could have been worse.........I also knew that they could have been better
So, the new Fantastic Four will be in the mold of Downton Abbey rather than the kind of huge superhero bombast we Americans typically associate with these kinds of films? Well, it's certainly a daring new strategy. How will the Duchess react when the gauche Mr Grimm is invited to high tea?!
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That 'Y The Last Man' article on deadline is horribly written. This line really jumped out at me:
"The 60-issue series was repackaged in book firm and the series won five Eisner Awards."
Typo aside, the writer seems to be suggestion that a comic book series being collected into "book form" is somehow a unique and amazing thing that made a big difference to it getting awards. Seriously, what the fuck kind of media writer on the internet finds the idea of a comic being collected into easier to read volumes special enough to be worth commenting on?
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Ah yes British stereotyping, usually I don't care but this rubbed me up the wrong way for some reason. First of all using an upper class English turn of phrase that doesn't and hasn't existed for decades just doesn't make sense as a stereotype anymore and even better the upper classes barely exist anymore just the upper middle classes playing at
the gentry. Also what is British anymore, Americans think they live in a melting pot but Britain is just the same, I'm half Irish myself and I live in East London where the population is mainly Indian, Pakistani and Eastern European so being British is constantly changing concept which is a great thing but nothing near the irritating stereotypical ideas people have about us.
Sorry had to rant there.
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Try being from Illinois. "Oh, Chicago! Rata-a-tat-tat!" (With hands holding imaginary tommygun.)
Stereotypes seldom have any relation to current fact.
Gangbangers today prefer Mac-10s, for the concealability. ;-)
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@da_bearon @My_Opinion I never get those stereotypes living in Chicagoland. Much more about corn fields than gangsters.
Actual words spoken to me BY A FARMER: "You're from Illinois and you don't know anything about farming?????"
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@rabidronnie @da_bearon @My_Opinion Luckily for me, I'm never paying attention, so I don't even know where I live or what my nationality is? So I never have to worry about stereotypes because they might be right.
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@My_Opinion The question isn't "what is British any more." My answer then would be "the 50% of my family who live over there."
The question is what is "awesome in the traditional British sense." Traditional. I know precisely what he actually means in context, but it came out slightly wrong and that phrase taken on its own inspires the thought demonstrated in the picture.
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@10glfan59 I've got to also add this one in, as well.
http://www.neillcameron.com/A_to_Z/D.html
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nice to see the power of fans wound up with a director getting his chance at finaly helping y the last man finish its journey to the big screen. though will believe it when the thing gets filmed. as for interstellar it also means steven spielberg will be without a movie gig since his current film got stopped. the ff. should be interesting what millar is letitng fox due since the film is only being made to keep the rights from Disney
@demoncat_4 Whcih means it's going to be shit. It's like man of steel - which is being made JUST to retain rights...It's going to suck. hard.
@fuzzygrenth @demoncat_4 warners own superman they do not have to worry about losing the rights ever. fox knows they do not make a film with those characters rights return to disney so they are going to do what ever they can which proably means another fantastic four rush job and rise of the silver surfer with cloud galactus type thing.
@fuzzygrenth @demoncat_4 Uhh, WB (being the parent company of DC Comics for freaking decades) owns the rights to Superman outright. Man of Steel isn't being made just to retain the rights. DC's movie rights situation is a lot simpler than Marvel's, to whit, WB owns all of it.
@lost_limey @demoncat_4 Someone ought to inform the courst, as well as the siegel and shuster estates of that fact then
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And like every Oscar year, I've seen pretty much seen only one-third of the Best Picture nominees before they were announced.
I'm kind of surprised Cristoph Waltz got the Best Supporting Actor nom instead of the predicted DiCaprio, but both were equally awesome, so huzzahs around anyway. Now to just hope he wins it...
Speaking of Django Unchained, I'm kind of pissed none of the original songs for it got a nomination as well, along with Owl City's earworm "When Can I See You Again?" from Wreck-It Ralph. On the other hand, this is made up for by the endless trolling that can occur from being able to use the words "Academy Award nominee Seth MacFarlane".
Additional trolling to come via pointing out that Ted is tied for as many Oscars as The Avengers. Only one each, but still. Also, I should point out that yes, I legitimately liked Ted. One moment in it alone makes it worthy of entry into the pantheon of nerd films.
Skyfall was friggin' robbed of a Best Picture nom, ditto for Judi Dench not getting a Best Supporting Actress nom. Right, it's only one of the most acclaimed Bond films of all time, but clearly Les F***ing Misérables deserves it more, if only to fill the void in the lives of forty-something housewives now that Twilight has ended.
Anyhow, go Argo, go Django,& go Pi. Also possibly go Beasts of the Southern Wild & go Zero Dark Thirty...I still need to see those yet.
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@SlyDante777 "the endless trolling that can occur from being able to use the words "Academy Award nominee Seth MacFarlane"."
"Academy Award winner Eminem"
"Academy Award winning screenwriter Sylvester Stallone"
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@lynchb85 @SlyDante777 We almost had Matthew McConaghy nominated for Best Original Song...
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@lynchb85 @SlyDante777 say what you will about Sylvester Stallone, but he deserved his Academy Award nomination for best original screenplay for writing Rocky
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@lynchb85 @SlyDante777 Actually, I'd say a better bit of trolling would be to point out that this man is an Academy Award winner, but I say he f***ing earned an Oscar tenfold.
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@lynchb85 @SlyDante777 I see your point, but keep in mind Eminem won his Oscar before Encore began to ruin his career, & Stallone actually didn't win an Oscar (just nominated), & this was still A. Before he was known more for doing countless prominent action films during the '80s, & B. this was before the Internet was invented.
Basically, I still dare you to go say "Academy Award nominee Seth MacFarlane" on the average Internet forum & come back un-flamed.
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I just...
Look...
Hm. How to phrase this...
Maybe the Fantastic Four are just too damned goofy to come off in live action films?
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@Mike_Pants I thought Michael Chikliss and Chris Evans did a pretty good job of pulling it off.
Reed was horribly written and miscast, but the actor tried.
Sue and Doom were also horribly written and miscast, and collected their paychecks.
And then there was Galactus...
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@fishercl64 @Mike_Pants Pretty good summary. But great casting and effort don't mean much when the scripts are awful. The first one started off okay (if slow), but became a giant let-down. The second one...the less said about that, the better.
Avengers shows that you can have things that might come off goofy -- the Hulk and Thor fighting aliens and Loki in NYC? -- but it's *how* you do it that matters. It's not like it has to be perfect, either -- so long as enough of it really works, the audience is willing to go along with the ride.
Caring
about the characters is also essential. In Avengers, they're all
interesting and their interpersonal dynamics are fun. In FF, especially
the second one, they're whiny and annoying and spending time with them
is unpleasant (also: see Green Lantern). The movie almost feels like
character assassination, thanks in part to the inexplicable choice to
humiliate a character with a lame dance sequence (also: see Spider-Man
3). You reach the point where you want Galactus to eat them all.
Also, Galactus gets a lot of grief for not being Galactus, but that's the least of the problems there. It doesn't matter what he looks like if he's boring and stuck in a movie that's a dumb as a box of rocks.
C'mon now........Wolverine, Rogue, Two-Face, The Avengers, and The Simpsons are all up for Oscars
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Oh my. A piss take of Britain using the stereotype. I'm so glad I checked in here a few weeks after Bricken left.
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@arivalscientist @fuzzygrenth *chuckle* classic. Thank you sir, you cheered me right up.
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@PIGCITY @fuzzygrenth Seriously. He may as well have just pulled the plug on the site after he left, cause the jackasses they have replacing him suck baaaaaaaaalls.
I occasionally go by just to look at his stuff, but it's not the same.
Lightning in a bottle.
@10glfan59 Because responses hit my inbox, and visiting once since bricken left does not constitute "staying". Not that I've even checked out io9 since he started there...That place will suck your soul out.
