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Post by Roquefort Raider on Dec 17, 2016 19:23:47 GMT -5
To make sure I wasn't misremembering things, I watched several of my selections in the last few days.
Well, it was a good idea... One of my choices fell off the list and one runner-up shot up to #2!!!
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Post by coke & comics on Dec 18, 2016 16:13:41 GMT -5
At the halfway point, I'll post my belated teaser stats:
80s: 2
90s: 2
00s: 4
10s: 4
(All from my lifetime, with a leaning toward the newer)
DC: 3
Marvel: 6
Other: 3
(A clear Marvel bias)
Films: 6
Series: 6
Live-action: 7
Animated: 5
(I think I struck good balance along these lines)
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Dec 19, 2016 20:44:39 GMT -5
Tough one for me this year.
I've actually been watching a lot of TV this year becasuse that is a good thing to do with my girlfriend, but I haven't really trained myself to think critically about TV and movies in the same way I do with comics and music. And I have a pretty comprehensive knowledge of comics, my visual media consumption has been... sporadic. I don't really dig the Dini/Timm cartoons, despite trying over and over. I haven't seen all the films in any major superhero franchise/series.* I've never seen Persepolis, despite having read the comics three or four times.** Conversely, I've seen Ghost World four times despite not being sure if I like it.
* I've seen all the Marvel Cinematic Universe Movies except for Doctor Strange. But I haven't watched Agents of Shield or any of the Netflix TV shows past Daredevil Season 1 Episode 1.
** I got it out of the library now, though!
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Post by brutalis on Dec 20, 2016 7:57:19 GMT -5
OBOY! Just found out (actually told) that all non-patient caring staff will be taking Friday 12/23/16 off. So i have a nice 4 day weekend to get out of town and visit friends up in Lake Havasu. Means that i shall miss out providing the final 2 days choices. I will add them in to the appropriate days once i return Tuesday just so you all know my favorite.
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Post by Cei-U! on Dec 20, 2016 9:31:01 GMT -5
OBOY! Just found out (actually told) that all non-patient caring staff will be taking Friday 12/23/16 off. So i have a nice 4 day weekend to get out of town and visit friends up in Lake Havasu. Means that i shall miss out providing the final 2 days choices. I will add them in to the appropriate days once i return Tuesday just so you all know my favorite. I don't tally the votes until after the 1st, brutalis, so there's plenty of time to get those last two entries in. Have fun! |
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Post by Confessor on Dec 21, 2016 11:49:12 GMT -5
I'm really surprised by all the love that the Fleischer Superman cartoons are getting this year. I have all of those cartoons as extras in the Christopher Reeve Superman box set, but I've probably only watched one or two of them. I found them pretty boring, to be honest, and I don't remember thinking that the animation was anything to write home about either. Ah well, different strokes for different folks, I guess. Maybe I should revisit them, given how highly the assembled CCF cognoscenti rate them.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Dec 21, 2016 11:52:34 GMT -5
I'm really surprised by all the love that the Fleischer Superman cartoons are getting this year. I have all of those cartoons as extras in the Christopher Reeve Superman box set, but I've probably only watched one or two of them. I found them pretty boring, to be honest, and I don't remember thinking that the animation was anything to write home about either. Ah well, different strokes for different folks, I guess. Maybe I should revisit them, given how highly the assembled CCF cognoscenti rate them. One thing to keep in mind, vis-a-vis the animation, is that those cartoons have been in the public domain for a long long time. So there are a ton of really bad transfers out there. I have no idea what the ones on the Superman box set look like, but there is a huge difference in the way they look from a clean copy to a really shitty transfer. That said...the quality of the actual animation in those cartoons was probably second only to what Disney was putting out at the time. Which is high praise indeed. |
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Post by brutalis on Dec 21, 2016 16:30:24 GMT -5
I'm really surprised by all the love that the Fleischer Superman cartoons are getting this year. I have all of those cartoons as extras in the Christopher Reeve Superman box set, but I've probably only watched one or two of them. I found them pretty boring, to be honest, and I don't remember thinking that the animation was anything to write home about either. Ah well, different strokes for different folks, I guess. Maybe I should revisit them, given how highly the assembled CCF cognoscenti rate them. That is the thing about animation, you have to remind yourself that you are looking at a window in time and appreciate what you are seeing and the efforts and results of that animation. Imagination and ability ll change with animation over time. There are always jumps and steps back from the beginning of animation through today's CGI driven animation. The Fleischer stuff is very much a reflection of the 1940's and you have to note that the Fleischer's didn't want to do the Superman shorts so i wonder how much effort and imagination they actually placed into doing them? As for myself, i rarely watch them but they are a part of animation and comic book history which i can appreciate and view occasionally when the mood strikes. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 23, 2016 2:25:19 GMT -5
So I resisted the temptation to ask our Grand Dictator about this, but am I the only one who thought about trying to sneak Star Wars in here because the first issue of the Marvel series went on sale in April of 1977 while the movie debuted in May so technically the comic came first (even though the comic was an adaptation of the movie not the other way around) because of the vagaries of the way comics were distributed in the 70s?
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Post by Cei-U! on Dec 23, 2016 10:02:27 GMT -5
So I resisted the temptation to ask our Grand Dictator about this, but am I the only one who thought about trying to sneak Star Wars in here because the first issue of the Marvel series went on sale in April of 1977 while the movie debuted in May so technically the comic came first (even though the comic was an adaptation of the movie not the other way around) because of the vagaries of the way comics were distributed in the 70s? -M I fully expected someone to try it. And no, I wouldn't have allowed it. Cei-U! Suggests you hold that thought for next year! |
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Post by coke & comics on Dec 23, 2016 12:56:05 GMT -5
So I resisted the temptation to ask our Grand Dictator about this, but am I the only one who thought about trying to sneak Star Wars in here because the first issue of the Marvel series went on sale in April of 1977 while the movie debuted in May so technically the comic came first (even though the comic was an adaptation of the movie not the other way around) because of the vagaries of the way comics were distributed in the 70s? -M You are not. |
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Post by Confessor on Dec 23, 2016 21:50:18 GMT -5
So I resisted the temptation to ask our Grand Dictator about this, but am I the only one who thought about trying to sneak Star Wars in here because the first issue of the Marvel series went on sale in April of 1977 while the movie debuted in May so technically the comic came first (even though the comic was an adaptation of the movie not the other way around) because of the vagaries of the way comics were distributed in the 70s? -M I fully expected someone to try it. And no, I wouldn't have allowed it. Cei-U! Suggests you hold that thought for next year! Hmmm...I didn't think of that because, although the comic appeared before the film, the novelization appeared a good while before that. So, if you're gonna go down that path, Star Wars still wouldn't qualify because it was a novel first. Not a comic.  Of course, it was a movie first really, it's just that the movie wasn't the first thing to see the light of day. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 24, 2016 16:35:56 GMT -5
Can someone who has permissions to start threads in this section start a runner's up thread, where folks can post what got consideration but missed their lists in the coming days?
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Post by shaxper on Dec 24, 2016 16:49:19 GMT -5
Can someone who has permissions to start threads in this section start a runner's up thread, where folks can post what got consideration but missed their lists in the coming days? -M It's Kurt's show. That's up to him. |
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Post by Prince Hal on Dec 24, 2016 21:01:22 GMT -5
Day 1 This and many another like it:
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