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Post by TG Barighm on Apr 13, 2017 15:17:43 GMT -5
Netflix carries X-Men: the animated series from the mid-90's. Woohoo! Now I don't have to think about buying the DVD's anymore.
In other news, Josh Brolin has been cast to play Cable in the next Deadpool movie.
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Post by acathala on Apr 13, 2017 16:46:01 GMT -5
Not the worst casting news. Ryan Reynolds is allegedly attached to a Highlander reboot.
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Post by TG Barighm on Apr 13, 2017 17:05:33 GMT -5
Are you fucking kidding me? Good lord! I get the series was campy in many ways, but that doesn't mean a new movie needs to suffer the same development woes. They could, you know, make an effort? Wouldn't that be novel.
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Post by acathala on Apr 13, 2017 19:03:17 GMT -5
Highlander keeps hurting me. The last one, made for TV movie, by sci-fy, called Highlander The Source, is literally the worst thing I have EVER seen in ANY media. It even manages to ruin Queen with a cover version that sounds like open mic on karaoke night.
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Post by TG Barighm on Apr 13, 2017 19:10:15 GMT -5
Yeah, these guys need to forget just because the original movies were low budget doesn't mean the new ones need to be equally poor. There is a lot of potential in the series. It would work well as a TV series.
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Post by acathala on Apr 13, 2017 20:22:44 GMT -5
There was a TV series. Two in fact. The first followed Connor's cousin Duncan. It was surprisingly decent. The second was a spin-off and featured Duncan's immortal former love interest Amanda. Didn't see that one.
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Post by TG Barighm on Apr 15, 2017 19:17:36 GMT -5
Saw Logan. It was good. Nothing like the Old Man Logan comics, but Jackman FINALLY played Wolverine to his proper intensity level. The tone and results of the movie were all wrong, but it was clearly made as a standalone drama and in that sense it works. Shame they had to wait until Jackman's last movie before getting it right.
Oh, well. The franchise is in serious need of a proper reboot with a more cohesive story. It really should be a TV series. Even the animated series did it better.
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Post by acathala on Apr 15, 2017 20:04:30 GMT -5
I'm waiting on the new Guardians of the Galaxy movie. Not sure if I will see the Wonder Woman movie.
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Post by TG Barighm on Apr 16, 2017 18:07:02 GMT -5
Not sure if I mentioned it, but Legion turned out to be a neat little romp. Far too artsy, and you could see the director was trying hard to avoid the whole mutant thing in favour of pushing his "style", but it's still interesting.
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Post by TG Barighm on Apr 19, 2017 14:08:32 GMT -5
They announced the directors for the Captain Marvel movie. It will supposedly release in 2019, and of course they pushed the feminism angle.
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Post by TG Barighm on Apr 26, 2017 17:19:57 GMT -5
Ever play any of the X-Men Legends games?
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Post by acathala on Apr 26, 2017 18:50:12 GMT -5
I probably did but they didn't make much of an impression on me. Did play some of the Spider-man games. Variable in quality.
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Post by TG Barighm on Apr 26, 2017 22:09:33 GMT -5
Meh. Never liked those one-off movie tie-in superhero games, although I hear that one Spider Man game on PS2 was very good.
X-Men Legends was a full scale RPG with its own unique story though. There weren't any superhero RPGs, or at least any I was aware of, until that line of games leading into Ultimate Alliance. Now there's the MMOs, but I don't play those.
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Post by TG Barighm on Jul 11, 2017 16:30:45 GMT -5
Glad I didn't buy the X-Men dvds. It may sound funny to say it's too "comic bookish" but...well, it is. I suppose that's good for fans, but there is a reason why "comic book plot" is a commonly used criticism. Ultimately, the show feels just barely a step above your average saturday morning cartoon.
Still watching it through though because it's a good way to catch up on the stories. It's a nice little "quick summary" of decades of X-MEN history, and as far as comic books though, X-MEN is really the only franchise I actually know something about (and Gargoyles, but "meh" to that).
Also started playing Marvel Heroes because it supposedly plays like Ultimate Alliance. It DOES. Sort of. Very watered down version of it where loot is far more important than smooth and fluid combat, but it's not too bad. Some heroes play a lot better than others.
Any thoughts on Squirrel Girl? I don't know anything about her other than she is like Deadpool as far as comedy goes and she's my favourite character in Marvel Heroes, heh.
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Post by acathala on Jul 11, 2017 18:44:20 GMT -5
I played Marvel Ultimate alliance 2. Was not terribly impressed with the gameplay. The Deadpool game was fun to play and funny to watch. Not terribly familiar with Squirrel Girl.
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Post by TG Barighm on Jul 11, 2017 19:13:21 GMT -5
UA2 was not well liked. Shame because that ended the franchise. The previous games were great especially X-Men Legends.
Deadpool was tricksy. It can feel tedious if you don't realize you have to level up his weapons to deal damage.
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Post by TG Barighm on Jul 11, 2017 23:49:45 GMT -5
I just realized a good comparison to describe how Squirrel Girl plays.
Remember the phantom Bloodhunter? Jumping all over the place, dodging everything, and causing all sorts of bleed damage over wide areas? Well, Squirrel Girl is the same except instead of bleeding damage it's an army of squirrels, heh.
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Post by TG Barighm on Jul 26, 2017 15:24:06 GMT -5
Well, no shortage of Ingrid candidates in the cartoon series. Nothing but green-eyed redheads in that show.
Some of the X-Men motion comics are kind of interesting though. Saw Astonishing which is the one where Emma Frost joins the team for a bit. Not bad. Total shame they didn't go the direction I thought they would with the First Class movies where Emma Frost was a bigger villain.
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Post by acathala on Jul 26, 2017 18:20:27 GMT -5
If I am being honest, the X-men for me were always of variable quality. Even with the good writers. I kind of preferred other marvel comics to them, and DC to marvel comics.
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Post by TG Barighm on Aug 19, 2017 23:51:43 GMT -5
The Defenders is the newest entry in the Netflix Marvel franchise.
It sucks. That is all.
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Post by acathala on Aug 20, 2017 21:24:50 GMT -5
Why does it suck?
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Post by TG Barighm on Aug 21, 2017 12:12:23 GMT -5
Everything that was present in the previous shows, which were terrific, was lacking here. Writing was stupid (super immortal ninja can't beat Daredevil in a fist fight while supported by dozens of gunmen on multiple occasions. When she's up against all four superheroes with no support whatsoever, she's unstoppable and kicks all their asses with ease). Dialogue was stilted. Acting flat. Choreography stiff and clumsy. Cinematrogrophy boneheaded (SO many dark scenes). Felt like it was rushed.
It was just flat out bad, plain and simple.
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Post by TG Barighm on Oct 7, 2017 14:01:48 GMT -5
The Gifted is one of three new X-MEN based TV series that was just released, although it's the one that focuses on the family of supervillains that interests me the most.
So far, so good. The show is helmed by Bryan Singer and they don't shy away from the X-Men property. They state outright that the X-Men have disappeared and the Brotherhood has gone underground. They're not pretending the X-Men don't exist like some other X-Men shows I've seen (Legion just infers it). The show itself follows a family fleeing a mutant centric investigation organization called Sentinel (like the robotic Sentinels). Can't say anything bad has happened so far other than they gender swapped Polaris and Magneto.
The Inhumans is another show in the same universe, but I haven't seen it yet. Reviews are awful for it though.
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Post by acathala on Oct 7, 2017 15:17:39 GMT -5
I have seen the ad for The Gifted. It felt like they were ripping off Heroes. As for the Inhumans, I thought they were making it a film not a TV show.
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Post by TG Barighm on Oct 7, 2017 15:50:10 GMT -5
It's a TV series. I have a few episodes recorded now.
Never saw Heroes. I think it's on Netflix though. My dad actually liked it, which is unusual for him (he likes Lucifer and that's it), so maybe it's pretty good.
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Post by TG Barighm on Mar 31, 2018 13:03:27 GMT -5
Apparently the Deadpool TV show is falling apart. They've lost Donald Glover as the showrunner or something.
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Post by acathala on Mar 31, 2018 13:17:15 GMT -5
I heard it had been dropped.
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Post by TG Barighm on Mar 31, 2018 13:31:47 GMT -5
Doubt they'd drop it entirely, it's just too promising a property, BUT it depends on whether the issue is contractual/creative differences or Disney throwing their weight around. It strikes me as awfully odd for Disney to acquire Fox and all of its R rated properties only to cut everything R rated.
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Post by TG Barighm on Apr 24, 2018 23:10:54 GMT -5
So my impressions of all the Marvel shows I've watched in the last little while:
The Gifted: Started slow with the family, and the mutant team they join isn't all that charismatic, but the show ends on a bang when the Stepford Cuckoos show up. The triplets bring the X-Men lore home hard, referencing them constantly, and play both sides of the conflict very much like the original characters did. The family thing loses ground to the X-Men lore proper and the kids turn out to be progeny of a major X-Men villain. The show may have started like a kinda-sort of X-Men property, but it definitely ended as one.
The Runaways: Ended up being boring as shit. Yes, the kids have superpowers. Yes, Dr. Doom is the villain (well, the actor who played him, heh), and, yes, one of the kids has a pet raptor. Despite all of this, the show never really goes beyond being a simple high school teen drama.
The Inhumans: Starts off with a bang, using all these settings and unknown superheroes with their unique culture. Then they go to earth where they proceed to spend the next dozen or so episodes wandering around the forests of Hawaii. Ends on another bang. Not the greatest show ever but it somehow came off as feeling different. Too bad they screwed the pooch with all that lame filler.
SHIELD in space! The first half of this season was actually very good. The agents get sent to the future where the earth is destroyed, by SHIELD apparently, and they have to face off with a Kree overlord. Second half of the season...more of the usual blah. Such a shame. They really had a glimmer of hope there.
The Punisher: Awesome in Daredevil. In his own show? Boring. Spent way too much time exploring PTSD instead of the origins of the character.
Legion: Another X-Men property, except they barely acknowledge its origin. Entertaining because it's unique. Very trippy. Has a Twin Peaks vibe to it.
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Post by TG Barighm on May 1, 2018 18:48:08 GMT -5
Went to see Avengers, but it was sold out. Saw Black Panther instead.
It was all right. Way overhyped.
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