I am vastly confused as to what makes a great comic book movie. It makes no sense to me at all. One of the rules though for recently successful superhero movies seems to be weak willed women with the exception of Iron Man. Every other successful superhero movie that has sold well and everyone LOVES has had weak idiotic women. Almost all of them have had horrible treatment of women and they've sucked. It should be noted at this point that I cannot make it through Incredible Hulk since it was insanely boring and didn't go anywhere for hours.
The next thing seems to be the balance between the original and the movie. It would appear that there would need to be a connection of some sort, but the balance? It's impossible to figure out. Catwoman and Elektra are great examples of completely ignoring the original (well not completely, but not really that much like their comic counterparts). On the opposite end, Spider-Man acts NOTHING like his comic counterpart and seems to only superficial similarities. Same thing with the X-Men. So why is Catwoman and Elektra NOT OK, but X-Men and Spider-Man ARE ok? What is the correct balance? Then we look at movies like Fantastic Four or Daredevil which are very similar to the original source material (Hell, DareDevil has just about everything exactly the same as Man Without Fear except being overzealous) and yet those are CRAPPY movies?
Can someone explain that to me? I just don't get it. How can ANYONE watch those X-Men movies that have absolutely nothing to do with the X-Men in any way except their names and that is OK, but Elektra which has the SAME PROBLEM, is a failure? What is the balance? Is it because Elektra is about a strong woman? Where X-Men has weak and stupid women (Even Mystique, a major villain in her own right and a sexy woman is turned into a porcupine following Magneto's orders)? I just don't understand it. Now I'm not saying Elektra was a great movie. It was a HORRIBLE Elektra movie because it had nothing to do with Elektra except the name.. (It was however a decent Ninja flick) But then the X-Men movie is guilty of the SAME THING and it's one of the best Superhero movies of all time? What the hell?
Sunday, July 3, 2011
Saturday, July 2, 2011
New guardians: Who is DC kidding?
So I'm sure some of you have seen the New Guardians cover with the "blacked out" New Guardians. Who the hell do they think they are kidding? Seriously? 
OK let's go left to right shall we?
Bleez the red Lantern - Wow DC loves her. They're obsessed with her! She's appeared regularly in Emerald Warriors, now she's going to be a member of the "New Guardians"? Why couldn't it have been Dex-Starr.
Arkillo the Yellow Lantern - Another DC pet lately. He's a wanted villain in DCU Online, so any surprise he appears here? In fact, you fight him multiple times in DCU Online if you want.
Kyle Raynor as the Green Lantern - Obvious, they announced that and they had to put Kyle SOMEWHERE since he's not in the other 2 GL series. Rather odd though that they're breaking up Jon/Hal and Guy/Kyle to give Hal his solo, Jon and Hal their own on-going, and Kyle with the most "diverse" bunch.. Meaning Kyle could potentially be overshadowed here, but I doubt it.. Bedard seems to love Kyle and so everyone ELSE will suffer.
Munk in the back Indigo Tribe - So, Indigo-1 can't be a member, so we had to pick the only OTHER Indigo Tribe member instead. This will allow them to avoid exploring the Indigo Tribe at all, as they have been for quite a while. He'll be a nice background character.
Glomulus is representing Agent Orange - NO CLUE how this is possible considering Larfleeze IS the Orange Lantern (Hence the name Agent Orange). I just don't see how that is going to go. I think they were just worried about Larfleeze dominating this title, which it's obvious he would. He's Larfleeze.. HE WANTS EVERYTHING including your attention :)
Fatality is the Star Sapphire - I'm guessing here because it could be anyone, but I think they like Fatality which is why they turned her into a Star Sapphire. It's also because she's already established, so Bedard doesn't have to waste any time trying to actually write the character so she can become a background character. Also, I don't think they'll use Carol since they want her free to have a thing with Hal on the side.
Finally SAINT WALKER as Blue Lantern - That is so obvious, really.. so very, very obvious. I wouldn't mind Saint Walker with the other leaders, but this strikes me as pure and utter laziness. You have 3 other Blue Lanterns and one of them is another GIRL. They could have had more the two girls on the team *gasps*. I would have liked to see the other Blue Lanterns at this point, but considering the line-up is mostly well-known already established characters (b/c once again, actually developing characters is probably hard for Tony Bedard).
It's mildly disappointing. If you're going to cop out, at least use all the head-liners or go with some different characters. Why are we going with mostly well-known already established second stringers? I feel Bleez was only used because they needed another chick. This title had so much potential.. but I'm so not sure about it anymore.. I'm just not. I'm prob dropping this one quick especially since it'll take them the next 10 years just to reveal a slight bit about the Indigo Lanterns (while we get an entire title about Red Lanterns spitting lava blood).
OK let's go left to right shall we?
Bleez the red Lantern - Wow DC loves her. They're obsessed with her! She's appeared regularly in Emerald Warriors, now she's going to be a member of the "New Guardians"? Why couldn't it have been Dex-Starr.
Arkillo the Yellow Lantern - Another DC pet lately. He's a wanted villain in DCU Online, so any surprise he appears here? In fact, you fight him multiple times in DCU Online if you want.
Kyle Raynor as the Green Lantern - Obvious, they announced that and they had to put Kyle SOMEWHERE since he's not in the other 2 GL series. Rather odd though that they're breaking up Jon/Hal and Guy/Kyle to give Hal his solo, Jon and Hal their own on-going, and Kyle with the most "diverse" bunch.. Meaning Kyle could potentially be overshadowed here, but I doubt it.. Bedard seems to love Kyle and so everyone ELSE will suffer.
Munk in the back Indigo Tribe - So, Indigo-1 can't be a member, so we had to pick the only OTHER Indigo Tribe member instead. This will allow them to avoid exploring the Indigo Tribe at all, as they have been for quite a while. He'll be a nice background character.
Glomulus is representing Agent Orange - NO CLUE how this is possible considering Larfleeze IS the Orange Lantern (Hence the name Agent Orange). I just don't see how that is going to go. I think they were just worried about Larfleeze dominating this title, which it's obvious he would. He's Larfleeze.. HE WANTS EVERYTHING including your attention :)
Fatality is the Star Sapphire - I'm guessing here because it could be anyone, but I think they like Fatality which is why they turned her into a Star Sapphire. It's also because she's already established, so Bedard doesn't have to waste any time trying to actually write the character so she can become a background character. Also, I don't think they'll use Carol since they want her free to have a thing with Hal on the side.
Finally SAINT WALKER as Blue Lantern - That is so obvious, really.. so very, very obvious. I wouldn't mind Saint Walker with the other leaders, but this strikes me as pure and utter laziness. You have 3 other Blue Lanterns and one of them is another GIRL. They could have had more the two girls on the team *gasps*. I would have liked to see the other Blue Lanterns at this point, but considering the line-up is mostly well-known already established characters (b/c once again, actually developing characters is probably hard for Tony Bedard).
It's mildly disappointing. If you're going to cop out, at least use all the head-liners or go with some different characters. Why are we going with mostly well-known already established second stringers? I feel Bleez was only used because they needed another chick. This title had so much potential.. but I'm so not sure about it anymore.. I'm just not. I'm prob dropping this one quick especially since it'll take them the next 10 years just to reveal a slight bit about the Indigo Lanterns (while we get an entire title about Red Lanterns spitting lava blood).
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