Yeah, the eyes are what sold me on it.
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Cosplayers: Is it possible that he's wearing white contacts and the costume ends around his eyes and his skin is painted black to match, a la Batman? I've been trying to figure out how they could make the eyes work without CGI, and that's the only idea I've got, because yeah, the eyes are a huge part of this working.
Look closer at the eyes... one's bigger, there's hope.
http://www.denofgeek.com/movies/sta...on-star-trek-3-star-trek-into-darkness-issues
Article about Simon Pegg's new Star Trek script.
He also mentions that there's going to be a return to a more frontier style story and that it's going to be more optimistic (and hopefully less full of 9/11 truther horseshit, get fucked Orci).
Simon Pegg, if you ever are in need of a blowjob from a taller than the average cold blood heinz 57 mutt true red redshirt, just beckon, even slightly, I'll be there.
Article about Simon Pegg's new Star Trek script.
He also mentions that there's going to be a return to a more frontier style story and that it's going to be more optimistic (and hopefully less full of 9/11 truther horseshit, get fucked Orci).
Simon Pegg, if you ever are in need of a blowjob from a taller than the average cold blood heinz 57 mutt true red redshirt, just beckon, even slightly, I'll be there.
The Freddie Mercury biopic is back on track, now with Sacha Baron Cohen starring, writing, directing, and producing.
http://www.comingsoon.net/movies/news/424055-sacha-baron-cohen-back-to-being-freddie-mercury
http://www.comingsoon.net/movies/news/424055-sacha-baron-cohen-back-to-being-freddie-mercury
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It will likely take CGI, or at least CGI assisted.. Sclera lenses are low-vision. They might use the lenses for tight shots and dialogue, but anything where he's going to have to navigate a set or use hand eye-coordination would get pretty tricky.
Sacha Baron Cohen...playing Freddie Mercury...how can something sound both completely weird and completely feasible at the same time?
Okay, may have posted that news a bit soon. Apparently, the manager of Queen's comments about Sacha Baron Cohen were his idea of a joke. Well, my interest is gone as quickly as it flared up.
http://www.comingsoon.net/movies/news/424055-sacha-baron-cohen-back-to-being-freddie-mercury
http://www.comingsoon.net/movies/news/424055-sacha-baron-cohen-back-to-being-freddie-mercury
YES.
YES.
YES.
Fuck yes.
It's kind of nice that they're giving us what we want. Maybe WB should give it a try.
So in short, Godzilla will choke Mothra to death, jack off on the corpse, and then Mecha-Godzilla will be some kind of Christ symbol until it dies and then nothing will make any fucking sense.
That'll be ... interesting.
They really wish Godzilla could be as good as 90s Gamera, but even when the Gamera director Shasuke Kaneko did a Godzilla movie, it still wasn't as good. It may never happen. Those Gamera movies are excellent, and it's sad considering how high Godzilla began, and how low Gamera began.
Digital Spy has ranked all 7 Superman movies (counting Supergirl) from worst to best. http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/movies/...s-from-worst-to-best.html?rss#~p96str4aEZ85bz Just one writer's opinion and everyone's opinion is equally valid and all that.
Actually no. No. Forget that. His opinion isn't valid. 4 better than Returns? MoS better than the original movie? Fuck that.
Here's the real order. Ranked from worst to best, same as the article.
7. Superman 4 - Someone, I think it was @ThatNickGuy said that all the Superman movies have something good in them. Could someone please tell me what that "something good" is in this film?
6. Supergirl - Honestly, I don't mind this film. It needed someone to do some (okay quite a bit of) rewriting of the script to make it less of a mess but it's probably still the best movie for introducing little girls to the comic book movie genre. So it gets a pass.
5. Man of Steel - I've said I liked the way this movie wrote Lois Lane. I'll go further - this is the best written Lois Lane in all the Superman movies. Unfortunately once Superman starts fighting Zod and the other Kryptonians he stops being, y'know, Superman, and becomes a generic flying brick anti-hero.
4. Superman Returns - Tries too hard to be a sequel to the first 2 movies, and doesn't know what to do with itself when it's not calling back to them. Still a fun movie though.
3. Superman 3 - Okay, this is a worse movie than Returns. It had that fight in the scrapyard though, so it goes here.
2. Superman 2 - Kneel before Zod. That is all.
1. Superman - I prefer Marvel to DC. I think that, despite some mis-steps, Marvel Studios have pretty much perfected the comic book movie formula. Marvel Studios have made better movies than this - the first Iron Man, Avengers, Cap 2, GotG. But when I think of comic book movies the first thing that comes to mind is that I still believe a man can fly...
Actually no. No. Forget that. His opinion isn't valid. 4 better than Returns? MoS better than the original movie? Fuck that.
Here's the real order. Ranked from worst to best, same as the article.
7. Superman 4 - Someone, I think it was @ThatNickGuy said that all the Superman movies have something good in them. Could someone please tell me what that "something good" is in this film?
6. Supergirl - Honestly, I don't mind this film. It needed someone to do some (okay quite a bit of) rewriting of the script to make it less of a mess but it's probably still the best movie for introducing little girls to the comic book movie genre. So it gets a pass.
5. Man of Steel - I've said I liked the way this movie wrote Lois Lane. I'll go further - this is the best written Lois Lane in all the Superman movies. Unfortunately once Superman starts fighting Zod and the other Kryptonians he stops being, y'know, Superman, and becomes a generic flying brick anti-hero.
4. Superman Returns - Tries too hard to be a sequel to the first 2 movies, and doesn't know what to do with itself when it's not calling back to them. Still a fun movie though.
3. Superman 3 - Okay, this is a worse movie than Returns. It had that fight in the scrapyard though, so it goes here.
2. Superman 2 - Kneel before Zod. That is all.
1. Superman - I prefer Marvel to DC. I think that, despite some mis-steps, Marvel Studios have pretty much perfected the comic book movie formula. Marvel Studios have made better movies than this - the first Iron Man, Avengers, Cap 2, GotG. But when I think of comic book movies the first thing that comes to mind is that I still believe a man can fly...
All in all, nobody has gotten the personality difference of Supes/Kent down like a science save for Reeve. If you want to play Supes/Kent, you should be studying the fuck out of Superman.
Yeah as much as I loved "Superman the Animated Series", Tim Daly did a better Superman than Clark Kent. There was barely a transformation there.
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In the old Max Fleischer cartoons, too, there was barely a difference in personality between the two. I'm usually the first to defend the clark kent disguise on the grounds of expectation. But when Kent acts just like Superman, where's the disguise? Fleischer's Kent was too cool.
The comics sometimes have the other characters calling him a "milquetoast" and flinching/running away if a dog barked/chased after him, but in the next scene you'd always see that it was just cover for a costume change, that he had secretly burned through the leash with his heat vision or something as the excuse to get away.
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That was indeed me that'd said that, @mroosc1979, about each movie having SOME redeeming quality. Superman IV? Heh, as I said before, it's at least nice to see Reeve in the role one more time. He always nails the characters. I agree with most of your list, as well. Though I would put Superman Returns at #3 and switch Man of Steel with Superman 3. The only redeeming quality of 3 was the fight with himself. Everything was a hot mess that pulls it down to the level of the other ones.
Honestly, as much as I loved Reeve's portrayal in the movies, I was never crazy about his Clark Kent. He was almost too bumbling, you know? I actually liked Tim Daly's Superman/Clark Kent. His Kent was more soft-spoken and was a total farmboy, but still carried some confidence, especially when he went full investigative journalist.
Well, while we're on the subject, might as well link my recent blog post about the Superman movies:
https://nickpiers.wordpress.com/2015/03/03/superman-and-the-superman-films/
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Honestly, as much as I loved Reeve's portrayal in the movies, I was never crazy about his Clark Kent. He was almost too bumbling, you know? I actually liked Tim Daly's Superman/Clark Kent. His Kent was more soft-spoken and was a total farmboy, but still carried some confidence, especially when he went full investigative journalist.
Well, while we're on the subject, might as well link my recent blog post about the Superman movies:
https://nickpiers.wordpress.com/2015/03/03/superman-and-the-superman-films/
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I loved Grant Morrison's take in All Star Superman. It wasn't that Clark was clumsy, it's just that he was this giant farmboy stuck in small offices or crowded city streets, so he was always awkward because of that. Additionally - my favourite part - is that even when he's Clark, he's always saving people, like pretending to trip in order to push someone to safety.
So, Deadpool will likely indeed have CG eyes, there's MoCap equipment on the mask.
Warner Bros. options and begins hiring/script submissions for Five Nights at Freddies.
Other note in that article, the director of True Detective is writing/directing a new adaptation of Stephen King's It.
Other note in that article, the director of True Detective is writing/directing a new adaptation of Stephen King's It.
I am interested in both of these things and I expect one of them to turn out terrible.
There is basically no story in Five Nights to mess up... so this movie is going to sink or swim entirely on the basis of what they have the main character do between nights. If they can make that part compelling, the horror scene nights will be just fine.
No story? There's a huge amount of lore between the three games and all the hidden bits placed around the different rooms. One of the biggest drawing points after the first game released was piecing the backstory and reason for the living animatronics together, a point which only grew after the second and third games were released. There's a ridiculous amount of story in these games, it's just not handed to you on a platter in the first 5-20 minutes like most games, you have to work for it.
True, but how much of that is really SPECIFIC? It's actually more like the frame of a story... an urban legend, really. It doesn't have a whole lot of details filled in... which is great, because it means that the film makers have enough leeway to make the movie how they want to do it. So instead of having a really hard, set in stone version of the events (like a book would), it's breezy enough that they can make the story work for the film instead of making the film work for the story (or, god forbid, completely cut the story out).
So yeah... it has an interesting and complete story, but it's been presented in such a way that it can be handled well.