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Post by Icctrombone on Feb 18, 2024 11:47:07 GMT -5
I never bothered to see Avatar. I just didn’t have any interest.
I do find it interesting that both my sons saw it, but can’t remember any of the characters and barely anything about it. Which is allegedly a pretty widespread phenomenon with that film. You're too busy chasing kids off your lawn...
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Post by Batflunkie on Feb 18, 2024 12:59:03 GMT -5
James Cameron didn’t even impress me with Aliens. And ya’ll know how much of a fan of the franchise I am. But Stan Winston did. Personally I feel like the original Terminator is better than T2: Judgement Day, but then again, I haven't seen the latter in eons (even though I own it on DVD). It's an interesting twist on the slasher genre, though I think it would have been better if they didn't have Kyle and the T-800 materialize out of thin air and just kind of kept up the mystery of whether or not Judgement Day was just in Kyle's head and if the Terminator was really a robot
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Post by Rags on Feb 18, 2024 16:23:45 GMT -5
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Post by kirby101 on Feb 18, 2024 16:54:28 GMT -5
The Semi-Nude Prey did not test well with audiences.
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Post by tonebone on Feb 20, 2024 16:27:37 GMT -5
Cameron made it a simple story on purpose, because he wanted the audience to concentrate on the visual spectacle. "on purpose"... riiiiight.
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Post by berkley on Feb 20, 2024 17:53:01 GMT -5
The Semi-Nude Prey did not test well with audiences.
Maybe they should have gone with The Inappropriate Speedo-wearing Prey : instead of spears the hunters would be carrying a shirt and a pair of trousers to put on him.
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Post by tarkintino on Feb 20, 2024 18:38:44 GMT -5
Cameron made it a simple story on purpose, because he wanted the audience to concentrate on the visual spectacle. "on purpose"... riiiiight. Seriously. Cameron writing/directing simple stories was and will ever be his calling card.
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Post by Cei-U! on Feb 21, 2024 9:44:44 GMT -5
I just now realized that I've been lying to myself for years. Steve Ditko is *not* my favorite Spider-Man artist. Ross Andru is. What's been fooling me all this time is that the Ditko run is better plotted/scripted than Andru's work with Conway and Wein, plus the villains Ditko introduced are light years more impressive than the likes of The Grizzly, The Mindworm, Cyclone, Mirage, etc. But in terms of both draftsmanship and storytelling, I like Andru better.
There, I finally said it.
Cei-U! I summon the epiphany!
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Post by kirby101 on Feb 21, 2024 10:03:49 GMT -5
All personal taste, but I never warmed up to Andru. Following Ditko, Romita and Kane, he never did it for me. And yes the inferior stories didn't help. But I always found those poses he did for Spider-man awkward. None of these poses work for me.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Feb 21, 2024 10:36:40 GMT -5
I just now realized that I've been lying to myself for years. Steve Ditko is *not* my favorite Spider-Man artist. Ross Andru is. What's been fooling me all this time is that the Ditko run is better plotted/scripted than Andru's work with Conway and Wein, plus the villains Ditko introduced are light years more impressive than the likes of The Grizzly, The Mindworm, Cyclone, Mirage, etc. But in terms of both draftsmanship and storytelling, I like Andru better.
There, I finally said it.
Cei-U! I summon the epiphany!
Far be it from me to argue. Probably my second favorite Spidey artist after Romita. It probably helps that Andru was working on Amazing and they were reprinting Romita stories in Marvel Tales when I read those books regularly.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Feb 21, 2024 11:15:43 GMT -5
It took a few tries, but I'm really digging Hellboy, B.P.R.D. and related titles. I'd tried a few times before, but always bogged down. But I finished up the first B.P.R.D. min and Third Wish and am happy to keep going. On to Weird Tales.
Hellboy...it's what's for readin'. There. I said it.
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Post by driver1980 on Feb 21, 2024 12:40:04 GMT -5
I just now realized that I've been lying to myself for years. Steve Ditko is *not* my favorite Spider-Man artist. Ross Andru is. What's been fooling me all this time is that the Ditko run is better plotted/scripted than Andru's work with Conway and Wein, plus the villains Ditko introduced are light years more impressive than the likes of The Grizzly, The Mindworm, Cyclone, Mirage, etc. But in terms of both draftsmanship and storytelling, I like Andru better.
There, I finally said it.
Cei-U! I summon the epiphany!
Far be it from me to argue. Probably my second favorite Spidey artist after Romita. It probably helps that Andru was working on Amazing and they were reprinting Romita stories in Marvel Tales when I read those books regularly. With you and Cei-U! on that. If DC and Marvel had done a Batman/Spidey crossover in the 80s (which I believe would have been the optimum time to do such a team-up), Andru would have been my number 1 choice for the project.
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Post by impulse on Feb 21, 2024 12:52:32 GMT -5
I finally got around to reading TMNT The Last Ronin. It's been getting a lot of buzz lately and I know movie and video game adaptations are in the works. I was a fan of the first show and original movies as a kid, and I knew the original comics were edgier, so figured I would get around to it. I knew the general gist from online buzz, and a gritty "The End" what if style endgame story seemed interesting.
It was decent. I was expecting a more grounded and realistic (relatively speaking) story than some of the zanier elements showing up, but that's mostly on me for not reading the comics. There is one thing I do think is disappointing, though.
The plot was fine, and the art style worked well enough, but the storytelling was hard to follow for me. It was hard to see what was happening and clearly follow action. I know the arguments between story vs art, and within art is it storytelling vs detail vs. clarity etc whatever go on endlessly, and there is no one single right or wrong answer.
But the storytelling. It wasn't very good. There, said it.
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Post by tarkintino on Feb 21, 2024 13:43:19 GMT -5
All personal taste, but I never warmed up to Andru. Following Ditko, Romita and Kane, he never did it for me. And yes the inferior stories didn't help. But I always found those poses he did for Spider-man awkward. None of these poses work for me. Andru was only tolerable when Romita saved his work by inking it--that, and there were some strong stories in the early part of Andru's run (building on the great arcs his predecessors created). While Andru did not sink to the contorted, 100-car pile-up-type of bodies as delivered by Frank Robbins during his 70s Marvel stint, it was still a style of awkward compositions, with characters often drawn as if they were permanently hunched over, with feet that appeared to be a bit long. That, and he presented one of the most hard-faced, beat-up versions of Peter Parker, while making Mary Jane--of all Marvel female characters--less than the attention-grabber she was designed to be.
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Post by kirby101 on Feb 21, 2024 14:38:52 GMT -5
As far as favorite Spider-Man artists beyond Ditko and Romita, I don't think Sal Buscema gets enough love, especially his later run on Spectacular.
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