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OMG, could it be? by dino_hardbody	Nov 8th, 2006 11:16:49 PM
could i be first? gotta say, who really cares. I just saw Borat. fuck. What a wild and crazy guy.
Hulk by Orange Crush	Nov 8th, 2006 11:33:37 PM
How could they not like the Hulk? It's Hulk at his best: 95% smackdown + 5% smacktalk! Our own little league LOVES this book right now. But I'm agreed on one topic: the ultimate payoff will be when Hulk shows up and starts turning the Illuminati into super pretzels.
Zak Snyder on "The Watchmen" : by DOGSOUP	Nov 9th, 2006 12:35:36 AM
“What they tried to do is turn it into a movie. And that's not really how we approached it. ... [Co-writer Alex [Tse] and I were [like], 'What ... [about the] graphic novel do we love? Let's do that!' And I think that when we delivered that version of the script to [Warner Bros], and it was long of course, ... it's not [a metaphor for the] war on terror, it's not like trying to be, like, bulls--t updated. You know, which gets confusing. And then Adrian [Veidt]'s story gets all, like, lost with that. So ... that was the thing that cracked it: Just going back to the source. Saying, 'OK, why does this work here?' It seemed really obvious. It was weird. ... It's pretty exciting. They're pretty excited." ~~~~My take. It won't work. This comic was never meant to be a movie. It just won't work. I wish them the best but it's like sawing off your leg expecting to hold an arm. It's impossible. I am happy they aren't going to update it or anything and keep it set in alternate-universe 1985. That's a good move. Keeping things in the comic is a good move. But ultimatly futile. Why am I posting this here? Because there is no Watchmen TB. Zak Snyder is blabbing all over and there's no TB for it. Oh well.
Anyone else think that JLA cover... by Doc Savant	Nov 9th, 2006 02:11:44 AM
looks like it was generated by the "Magic Eye" people? Seriously - I almost did the semi-cross-eyed thingy to see if the NCC-1701 or some happy horsepoop popped out at me. Alright, I DID do the semi-cross-eyed thingy. All that happens is you see soooo many Tornadoes, you swear you're actually living in a trailer park.
Damn you Michael Bay by MCMLXXVI	Nov 9th, 2006 02:34:02 AM
Damn you Michael Bay
.... by blackthought	Nov 9th, 2006 02:54:22 AM
ah sweet.
I've really enjoyed planet hulk but... by Reelheed	Nov 9th, 2006 03:39:59 AM
...you are right in saying that the series feels like nothing but foreshadowing for Hulks return to earth. Although I've come to like all the supporting characters in this arc, villains et al, I just can't bring myself to care enough as I just know that NOTHING FUNDAMENTAL IS GOING TO HAPPEN. Unless Hulk is somehow changed (powered down, eviled up, f'd over, shadow-skill-ninja trained) during this series it'll always be remembered as a cool stop gap.
shadow-skill-ninja trained Hulk!!! by DOGSOUP	Nov 9th, 2006 05:45:02 AM
OH SHIT!
Hulk and Other Things by Black Satin 2	Nov 9th, 2006 05:56:44 AM
I was really impressed with Hulk 100, the first Hulk book I've read in some while. I hope the Hulk comes back and give it to Richards and Stark good. Plus I liked Midnighter for it seemed the only book in the Wildstorm pack that was enjoyable. I don't get this 'Worldstorm' crap and I'm getting tired of buying books for books sake.
Re: Watchmen by beastie	Nov 9th, 2006 06:45:41 AM
I've finally come to terms with this Watchmen movie, no matter who makes it. I am going to see it and I'm going to see it with an open mind. Film and comics are different mediums with different methods of getting across the same points, therefore some things will have to be changed. If they change too much and the film ends up sucking, no big deal. I can still read my book once a year like usual. However, if the film ends up being great, which it stands the potential to do, then great. I can still read my book once a year and watch the movie several times. I'm really rooting for Zach Snyder on this. I went back and watched Dawn of the Dead when I found out he was directing and saw some things that I didn't notice before. The man definately has talent and hopefully he finds a way to funnel it into, what I believe, is the greatest story of the 20th century. THAT BEING SAID, if I had to pick someone to direct Watchmen, it would have been Curtis Hanson.
They're filming 30 Days of Night in New Zealand? by rev_skarekroe	Nov 9th, 2006 07:39:23 AM
That was easier than Alaska? Or if Alaska's too expensive, why not Canada, which has the added benefit of at least looking like Alaska. New Zealand looks like New Zealand.
I thought NZ had any type of terrain you can think of? by Shigeru	Nov 9th, 2006 07:54:10 AM
pretty much?
To my surprise, I found The Great and Secret Show... by loodabagel	Nov 9th, 2006 09:38:04 AM
In a bookstore around here. I'm hoping to buy it sometime, but I just can't muster the scratch.
If I have an idea for the column ... by chrth	Nov 9th, 2006 10:00:05 AM
who should I contact?
loodabagel don't bother... by foree forehead	Nov 9th, 2006 10:09:43 AM
..read 'cloud atlas' instead. and could someone please say "my stack" to make me feel better about my miserable cubebound existence
Chrth - Contact by Squashua	Nov 9th, 2006 10:25:23 AM
Any of the @$$holes would do; the e-mails are available via rolling over the names; pick the one you like best! Collect 'em all.
New Zealand has it all… by The Heathen	Nov 9th, 2006 11:04:23 AM
that's what Peter Jackson told me. Plus, I think Weta is inlvolved with the effects, but I'm not sure.
Grant Chastain ladies and gents!!! by The Heathen	Nov 9th, 2006 11:39:37 AM
You had me worried at first. Ha, ha! Can't wait for the copies of CM.
Humph by The Heathen	Nov 9th, 2006 12:23:12 PM
Great review for The Fountain. I couldn't agree more.
Loveless by cromulent	Nov 9th, 2006 12:53:57 PM
Yeah I dropped that title just for those exact reasons in the review. No idea what the fuck was going on mainly cuz everyone looked the same!! So confusing.
3-D Glasses in Superman Confidential... by Shigeru	Nov 9th, 2006 01:01:17 PM
I thought they were awesome!! I wear them around all the time now, and bump into things.
Midnighter by Shigeru	Nov 9th, 2006 01:07:43 PM
Somehow he just doesn't seem right unless written by Ellis or Millar. I mean... it just seems like everybody else is trying too hard. Ah well... /goes back to cuddling the first 3 Authority trades...
No Watchmen movie for me by El Vale	Nov 9th, 2006 02:16:29 PM
I just don't want it.
Word. by The Heathen	Nov 9th, 2006 02:32:10 PM
I'd watch one, but I don't really need one, nor want one.
That last page on Midnighter... by nofate	Nov 9th, 2006 02:41:59 PM
made me put the book back on the shelf. Really? You're going to have him hunt/kill Hitler? WTF? I was really looking forward to this ish but so far all the Wildstorm revamp issues are shit. Did you hear Wildcats #2 has already been pushed back?
Beastie I hear ya by DOGSOUP	Nov 9th, 2006 03:53:25 PM
and you're right, comics and movies are two different mediumns. While V for Vendetta the comic is definitive, the movie did it justice and the themese were intact. I just think that everything that makes The Watchmen the book that you read annually because it's so brilliant won't translate well enough to work. From the quote I'm glad they are going back to the book but unless they have the layers and layers the comic has, it will just feel dumbed down. I would rather watch a four hour movie done right than an hour and a half movie cut to size. I'll judge whether or not I see it by the first images and trailers. They have a shot at getting it, but still...this isnt a franchise here. It's a finite story and they only have one shot.
DOGSOUP by beastie	Nov 9th, 2006 04:14:06 PM
Thank you. Finally, someone who can seperate V for Vendetta the book from V for Vendetta the movie. The film was fantasic, despite the fact that it wasn't exactly the same as the book. When it comes to Watchmen, I don't believe the movie will be an hour and a half long. I think, given the material as well as the ever increasing length of big-budget films, these days, it will most likely be two and a half to three hours long. Granted, I would love a four hour movie with an intermission. I think that the layers, with the exeception of the comic story-within-a-story, can and most likely will transfer well. I would like Curtis Hanson because of his knack for noir/detective storie (L.A. Confidential) and his respect for literature (Wonder Boys), but Zack Snyder gets some of the most exciting camera angles I've seen since Spielburg came around. If you look at the beginning of Dawn of the Dead, during the drive; the bird's-eye-view of the destruction really has a great, epic comic book look. I have, faith, if not a little bit cautious faith.
Re: Beyond #5 by johncage	Nov 9th, 2006 04:38:25 PM
The Firebird/Dr. Pym romance is a call back to their time together in the West Coast Avengers, where Firebird talked Pym out of killing himself, and there were hints of a romance between the two. It probably should have been a tad clearer in the book that this was drawn from those experiences, but it's not a new development for the characters -- Just one that got lost when Byrne re-paired Pym and Wasp once he took over that book.
El, You Would Have Liked My WATCHMEN Movie. by Buzz Maverik	Nov 9th, 2006 06:38:48 PM
I attached myself to direct a few years back. I would have hired you to write it, even though I didn't intend to use a script. Of course, I would have fired you, then rehired you for on set rewrites,which I wouldn't shoot. I would have shot it in a variety of stocks and styles. Split screens. Flash backs. Weird plays with time. Would have replaced the pirate comic with an animated superhero comic to juxtapose "fictional" heroes with the real ones. And that motherfucking camera would have been moving all the time. Tack on a soundtrack that would give anybody over thir--...fuck that, anybody over twenty five a headache, except for Sleazy, of course. If we shot now, I'd go for Mel Gibson as the Comedian. Kevin Costner as Ozymandius. Miguel Ferrer as Rorshach.
I Keep Forgetting, Former Batman... by Buzz Maverik	Nov 9th, 2006 06:41:17 PM
...Val Kilmer as Dr. Manhattan.
Oh, Yeah... by Buzz Maverik	Nov 9th, 2006 06:42:11 PM
I'd also have James Spader as the Nite Owl, reteamed with Molly Ringwald as the Silk Spectre.
I like Buzz's casting choices… by The Heathen	Nov 9th, 2006 07:29:12 PM
beastie, right on about the opening of the Dawn remake. Snyder has a good eye and at least respects the source material it seems. I had forgotten his involvement with Watchmen. Still, it's been said that no matter how bad the movie could be, we will always have the book that is classic.
I had a great Watchmen movie proposal a while back... by loodabagel	Nov 9th, 2006 07:47:33 PM
Goddamnit! I just went looking for it and some asswipe deleted the talkback. It had George Lopez and Toby Keith. It had George Lopez and Toby Keit.
The only casting choice for Nite Owl: by Shigeru	Nov 10th, 2006 09:14:50 AM
John Cusack. Paunch him up a bit, and he's perfect.
how come i wasn't casted? by blackthought	Nov 10th, 2006 11:41:06 AM
there's got to be a role for me in the watchmen movie buzz...maybe someone who dies?
Speaking of comic-book movies. by nofate	Nov 10th, 2006 12:59:31 PM
Anyone check the new Spider-Man 3 trailer? I cannot fucking wait for this flick. It looks like they still can't figure out how to translate the Green Goblin's costume but oh well. Can't wait for the Iron Man teaser either. My version of it? Black Sabbath's Iron Man in the background (duh). For every drum beat, fades in and out of black to close ups of the characters and then to the armor. Everything goes silent and black, then a metallic voice says something like "engage" or "lock and load" or something shit like that. Music full blast to shots of IM flying around NY landmarks, out running (out flying?) military jets, dodging missiles. Pretty standard and cliched but don't tell me you don't get chills just thinking about it. And they damn well better get the rights to Sabbath's Iron Man. If fucking Nissan can get it for their crappy truck commercials, they can get it for this flick.
Rorshach by Squashua	Nov 10th, 2006 01:26:07 PM
I think Carrot Top could rock this role.
Alan Moore to guest-star on The Simpsons? by El Vale	Nov 10th, 2006 06:21:55 PM
That's pretty cool. Too bad The Simpsons sucks now but what are you gonna do?
snow by blackthought	Nov 10th, 2006 09:43:06 PM
that's all
snow sucks by Shigeru	Nov 13th, 2006 09:21:18 AM
nt?
Sabbath's Iron Man in an Iron Man trailer... by Shigeru	Nov 13th, 2006 09:22:58 AM
would be laughable... and not in a good way... sorry but way too "ironic" for me.
re: Sabbath's Iron Man in an Iron Man trailer by The Heathen	Nov 13th, 2006 01:07:09 PM
Yeesh, that's so bad it just gave me shingles thinking about it.
WTF by Shigeru	Nov 14th, 2006 10:22:08 AM
ATTN: AICN WEBMASTERS: Fix your fucking website your fucking hacks! There are non-comic articles in the comic section and this TB isn't even on there!!!!! MAKES ME WANNA PUNCH A NUN!!
I wondered why nobody was posting. by The Heathen	Nov 14th, 2006 11:12:47 AM
WTF indeed. WTF indeed.
and thus… by The Heathen	Nov 15th, 2006 04:44:55 PM
the tb died a sad and lonely death AND I punched a Nun. It's good to know that the hard work of the @$$es and dare I say, the Cogs was treated so nicely by literally disappearing from the AICN site. Bravo webmasters. Bravo.
Wait, what happened? by El Vale	Nov 16th, 2006 01:29:55 PM
What did the webmasters do?
.... by blackthought	Nov 19th, 2006 09:25:00 PM
where's spidey?
and this talkback disapearing.. by nofate	Nov 20th, 2006 02:35:38 PM
made me post my non-topic twice. Time that could have been spent berating Sleazy's lack of critic integrity.
Sheesh... by loodabagel	Nov 21st, 2006 10:14:22 AM
I got an abortion because of the dissapearing talkback.
Oh my by Squashua	Dec 1st, 2006 04:32:01 PM
that's powerful.
Christ on a crutch... by loodabagel	Dec 5th, 2006 09:33:24 AM
I don't say it, but my friend does.
http://www.comicspace.com/aicn_c omics/ by Squashua	Dec 8th, 2006 01:07:47 PM
http://www.comicspace.com/aicn _comics/
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