Aristophanes wrote:
zkydz wrote:
Aristophanes wrote:
zkydz wrote:
I get that. I'm still willing to give it a shot though.
I mean, who thought Paul Rudd would be convincing as a superhero?
Yeah, I mean, I'll watch it. Comic movies are about the only movies I'm into anymore-- I feel myself deteriorating into a child sometimes, lol. But I have an excuse: I was forbade from comics when I was child, so this is an opportunity to take back some of my childhood. Lol, I can rationalize and justify with the best of them!
I'm with you on that. But the thing I hate about the current trend is to go too 'cosmic' so fast and just so danged gloomy now.
I mean, why did they have to trot out Doomsday (and a doughy looking one at that) so soon? The best ones are just fun.
Avengers really captured that old spirit of the Silver Age Marvel with the witty banter, 'family' feel and dynamic scenes.
I think one of the reasons I am so psyched about this is that they are keeping that 'Ditko' feel in the effects and costuming/makeup. He was so 'forgotten' in developing the Marvel Universe. It's about time he was respected.
Lol, see like this. I don't get it. All my comic book knowledge came from collected anthologies and graphic novels that I read a mere five years ago. I didn't grow up with it, I wasn't allowed to, so I don't have fond childhood memories about certain characters or art styles. I merely know the story lines and the archetypes of the characters, you would probably find my interest in comics to be too "academic" lol, but it's just the way my mind processes things.
As for Dr. Strange, my problem with Cumberpatch is that he's not "large" enough for the role. If you look through Strange's collection (Steve Ditko, and other takes) Strange is almost always in the top corners in the frame, and he's almost always looking down. His visual depiction is much the same way a filmmaker would depict a vampire-- always hovering above, omnipresent to everything, and slightly "off". It's not a physical presence the artist is getting at, but Strange's magic presence, and I just don't see Cumberpatch as that type of "looming presence". I mean he's a good actor, perhaps he'll pull it off, but I'm not getting my hopes up-- best to go into the theater with a negative opinion and out with a positive opinion than the other way around.
1.) No opinion on comics is invalid unless it is just dismissive in any way. You may have discovered them late and you may think it's academic, but it really isn't. Which leads to this:
2.) You bring up a very important point about the visual depiction. And, it is a spot on analysis. And that is coming from a lifelong fan and devotee. It is well thought out and points out the subtlety in depiction. This I love.
But, I would like to point out that that is more of the director's and cinematographer's work for most of what you speak of. Camera angles, lighting, basic framing of the scene. Kinda like Affleck got flack for Daredevil. But all the criticisms were from the director's, producers and writer's choices.
And, all the uproar and petitions about him being cast as Batman was hilarious. Now, everybody is in pretty much agreement that he's the best thing in the new "Batman/Superman' film.
But, very good analysis of the 'imagery' of the character.
And, crap...really? Not Michelle Yeoh? Or, even better yet, Pei-Pei Cheng
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0155607/?ref_=tt_cl_t5I discovered her in this movie: Come Drink with Me
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059079/?ref_=nm_ov_bio_lk3She was in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon too. She's hilarious in this movie"
The Flirting Scholar
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108289/?re ... lmg_act_22Sooooo, why a white woman as an Asian monk?
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