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Post by jkcarrier on Jul 19, 2009 7:10:58 GMT -8
A Will Eisner biopic is more likely, methinks. I don't know that Eisner's life story would be all that interesting (to a mass audience, anyway). Eisner, with smarts and a bit of luck, was pretty much in total control of his career every step of the way. Where's the drama? What's the hook? "Remember that Spirit movie that everyone hated? Here's the guy who wrote the book it was based on." Maybe if they add an epilogue where Eisner rises out of the grave and beats Frank Miller to death with a t-square... Kirby, on the other hand, created a bunch of characters that lots of people have heard of (and were made into successful movies), and is the classic underdog -- constant battles with publishers, never got the credit or money he deserved, etc. etc. Lots of drama there, and a great "villain" in the form of Stan Lee. Tailor-made for Hollywood, I would think.
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Post by jkcarrier on Jul 18, 2009 5:59:06 GMT -8
The DC hero portrayed by Audrey Hepburn was...Rima the Jungle Girl. Rima starred in her own short-lived DC series, as well as being featured on the Super Friends cartoon. But the character originated in the 1904 novel "Green Mansions" by William Henry Hudson. And in 1959, the novel was made into a movie, starring Audrey Hepburn.
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Post by jkcarrier on Jul 16, 2009 15:20:45 GMT -8
Anders: Nope, not Wonder Woman. 1. Mr. Hyde, in League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. 5. That old viking, who's name I forget, who helped Thor fight Fafnir in Simonson's run?
Paul: You're on the right track, but the character I have in mind was the star of her own DC title.
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Post by jkcarrier on Jul 16, 2009 7:12:57 GMT -8
I'll throw in one: Which DC hero was once portrayed by Audrey Hepburn?
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Post by jkcarrier on Jul 14, 2009 9:21:04 GMT -8
I remember being assigned the book in high school, and it just devastated me. I've never seen the movie...don't think I could take it, frankly.
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Post by jkcarrier on Jul 3, 2009 13:06:15 GMT -8
What this says, of course, is that critics, like Roger Ebert, who slammed it big time, really have no clue as to what audiences like in movies any more. Catering to the audience's expectations is Michael Bay's job, not Roger Ebert's. The PG-13 rating probably threw him off.
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Post by jkcarrier on Jun 30, 2009 19:38:34 GMT -8
And just to further the show's nerd cred, this week they had David (Stargate) Hewlett as an FBI agent. Weird.
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Post by jkcarrier on Jun 29, 2009 8:33:35 GMT -8
Now try to imagine a series of movies or a TV series with Capt. William Decker, Young Scott, Saavik and David Marcus...you know, it might not be toooo bad (ok, acting wise, yeah, probably, but conceptually? Maybe-maybe-not.) I suspect that was the original plan -- slowly introduce new characters who could eventually take center stage. But it quickly became clear that a) none of the new characters were really catching on, and b) the old crew were perfectly willing to keep showing up for the big paycheck (and audiences still wanted to see them), so those ideas fell to the wayside. That would be almost as cool as his appearance in NextWave. ;D Which is both baffling and a little depressing for me. All through the '80s and '90s, I watched all my favorite stories and characters mocked, repudiated, and retconned beyond recognition. "Where are all the creators who grew up on the same stuff I did?" I wondered. Now they're finally here, and yet I find most of their stuff completely unreadable.
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Post by jkcarrier on Jun 22, 2009 20:54:19 GMT -8
A heads-up for Kirk: President Roslin turned up in a fairly substantial role in the most recent episode of "The Closer" on TNT. She played a ball-busting Internal Affairs officer who locks horns with Deputy Chief Johnson (Kyra Sedgewick).
The episode will re-run next Monday, or you can watch it on the tnt.tv website (although it looks like this particular episode, "Red Tape", isn't up yet).
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Post by jkcarrier on Jun 17, 2009 16:25:28 GMT -8
Applying Randian philosophy to comic books is not the way to have people take your arguments seriously, however. Ditko's pretty much made a career out of it.
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Post by jkcarrier on Jun 17, 2009 16:16:45 GMT -8
I suspect it's going to be less a matter of the resurrection-creep that infected Krypton, and more a flat-out return of the whole damn thing. I hope you're right. Doing it any other way makes the Doctor look like an idiot: "Boo hoo, I'm the last of my species! Mind you, I didn't actually check around for any other survivors, but I'm pretty sure I'm the last one..."
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Post by jkcarrier on Jun 16, 2009 14:15:59 GMT -8
Here's another one - Rassilon already MADE HIM IMMORTAL. Even if the rest of Gallifrey got blown up to shit, Borusa is one of two Time Lords who has an automatic "out" for that shit IIRC, there were already several other "headstones" in Rassilon's tomb when Borusa got zapped. So there's a few more Time Lords they can pull out if they wish. I suspect we're well on our way to Gallifrey being the equivalent of pre-Crisis Krypton... i.e., we'll be hard-pressed to name anyone who actually died there.
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Post by jkcarrier on May 12, 2009 20:11:37 GMT -8
Thanks, folks!
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Post by jkcarrier on Mar 21, 2009 6:50:48 GMT -8
I suppose it was an appropriate ending, since like the rest of the series it was equal parts Epic Win and Epic Fail. Yay for nail-biting action and heartbreaking human drama, boo for religious mumbo-jumbo and "it's magic, we don't have to explain it".
So, ultimately, what was the message of the series? 1. Technology is evil, so everyone should just be farmers. 2. God will go to great lengths to jack people around.
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Post by jkcarrier on Mar 14, 2009 9:56:19 GMT -8
But it would've been worthwhile if they had gotten David Bowie to guest-star as Angar the Screamer. ;D
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