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    t’s sunny and almost warm! It’s a bit like summer except there aren’t any super heroey movies doing the rounds. But there will be! Of course I won’t be seeing any of them but in the interests of general tomfoolery I sat Margot Lane down in front of the trailers and asked her if we would be likely to watch any of them.
    It was kind of like a humane but unregulated experiment to see how much appeal these things would have to a non-comics reader. Although she has read 300, V FOR VENDETTA, KILLING JOKE, LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN Vol.1 and half of WATCHMEN so she is aware of comics although unaware of how lucky she is to share her life with someone with such awesome taste (me). But would the flickery lure of the motion picture pull her further into the wacky world o’comics or increase her tendency to shun them and make me hide them in the garage like bodies.

    GREEN LANTERN
    A trailer for DC’s sole blockbuster attempt featuring Ryan Reynolds as a man with a magic wishing ring, the personality of a frat boy and lots of CGI. Also apparently featuring the worst performance by a female actor I have ever seen in a trailer. Obligatory Good Actor(s) Slumming It: Mark Strong, Tim Robbins.
    LT: Will we be seeing this? ML: No.LT: Why? ML: Ryan Reynolds is in it. I can’t stand that man.
    (Explanatory note: Ever since ML was foully disappointed by the third BLADE movie she has blamed the woefulness of the experience experience entirely on the presence of Ryan Reynolds. He is not welcome in our house.)

    THOR
    A trailer for a film about Marvel’s Jack Kirby Norse mythology derived character for which Jack Kirby’s estate will probably receive no money. But then neither will the people of Norway. Basically shows you how the entire film will go. Does feature The Destroyer moving about and, uh, destroying stuff which made my pupils dilate (that’s good). Obligatory Good Actor Slumming It: Anthony Hopkins.
    LT: Will we be seeing this? ML: No LT: Why? ML: Those people in the BNP wear Thor T-shirts? LT: Really? ML: Yes. I’ve seen them on TV. LC: I did not know that. Wait? Jack Kirby’s Thor? ML: I don’t know! Just Thor. LC: Jack Kirby nearly lost his fingers and toes to frostbite fighting National Socialism. He took lives and woke up screaming throughout his life due to his experiences. His work for the next few decades can pretty much be summed up as one man’s attempt to prevent the rise of such life denying evil via the only means he had at his disposal! ML:They still wear Thor T-shirts and I have no interest in this. LC: It’s not Jack Kirby’s Thor! ML: Stop being weird and let me go do something useful.

    CAPTAIN AMERICA
    A trailer for a film about Marvel’s Jack Kirby and Joe Simon’s WW2 birthed star spangled time tossed Avenger for which Jack Kirby’s estate will probably receive no money. I won’t lie; it looked pretty okay. Obligatory Good Actor(s) Slumming It: Tommy Lee Jones, Samuel L Jackson.
    LC: Will we be seeing this? ML: No. LC: Why? ML: I hate all that “O, isn’t America just great!” imperialistic nonsense. Hate it! Hate! It! LC: It’s Jack Kirby, he… ML: DON’T! LC: It isn’t imperialism. Cap stands for The Dream! The Dream that transcends national boundaries and race! The Dream that all men can be equal and live under the same great sky as they build a world based on tolerance, decency and peace! ML: He’s called “Captain America”! LC: Looks like he’ll be killing Nazis! Ml: Then you can watch him kill Nazis on your own.

    X-MEN: FIRST CLASS
    A trailer for a Marvel film about the young X-Men. Looked okay. Can’t remember who the good actor slumming it was.
    ML: Don’t ask! I hate it when they “young” things up! Ooooh it’s the X-Men but they’re all young and s*xy! Why isn’t it just the X-Men! I liked those X-Men films! Why do they have to do this? LC: It’s because Hugh Jackman isn’t in it isn’t it? ML: I like Hugh Jackman. LC: You didn’t like that one where he was flying trough space with a bald head and a dead tree. ML: I liked Hugh Jackman in it.
    Yes, those are pretty much the words what we said,although I have made myself look cleverer and more articulate. Other than that though…pretty much what happened.

    Are you looking forward to any of them? Will they make you buy more comics? Will they make more people buy comics?
    • CommentAuthorLee
    • CommentTimeMar 8th 2011 edited
     
    I'll be seeing the Marvel ones but almost literally couldn't buy any more Marvel comics, so no good news for Jared and co.

    I'll only see GL if it gets good reviews, and won't buy any extra comics off the back of it so still no good news for Jared and co.

    I shall be accompanied to all of these by my lovely lady, irrespective of her feelings about them, which almost certainly has no impact on Jared and co.
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    I don't know, Lee. A man with that many shoes is clearly not buying enough comics.

    I was thinking more generally really. If these flicks put millions of bums on seats will any of those millions of backsides propel themselves into a comic shop and buy a comic? Marvel are trumping out enough THOR and CAPTAIN AMERICA comics that this is clearly the hope, but is it a groundless one?

    Also: any comic and any shop really. Although obviously if everyone from Lake Geneva to The Freeland Station descend on OKComics with hot coin to spend that would be super too! Those high waisters don't buy themselves, y'know.
    • CommentAuthorLee
    • CommentTimeMar 9th 2011
     
    I suspect that the number of non-comic buyers who watch a comic-based film and then go buy comics is minimal, though, in the interests of full disclosure, I don't run a comic shop so can't really say. I'd guess a few extra trades get sold, and fools like me indulge the proliferation of rubbishy mini series that come out, but the market for comics doesn't seem to have been boosted by the squillions of dollars that Iron Men, X-Men, Spider-Men and Batmen have earned.

    And in much the same way that Frank Castle has focused his life on punishing the guilty and being mean, I've focused on buying comics and Converse to the exclusion of much else. I'm like a machine, stalking the confines of OK Comics with naught but my debit card and my Superman Chuck Taylors to carry me to Marvel nirvana. And some clothes too, obviously. And usually a bag of some sort.
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    I don't see it. The success of the X-Men, Spider-Man and Batman recent films haven't dragged hordes of new readers into stores - it doesn't help that most of the comics you would pick up at random with these characters in them are rubbish.

    I think the "indie" comics made into films are more likely to attract new readers in a kind of "they were comics!? I though comics were just men in tights hitting other men in tights? now I know different I might try some of these so called 'graphic novels'" way.
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    Now it can be told: Lee’s uncanny similarity to The Punisher is in fact the reason he has such difficulty finding anyone willing to go for a picnic in the park with him! I don’t know who Chuck Taylor is or why Lee is wearing him but I think this kind of openness regarding his lifestyle choices should be applauded.

    Ho! See I totally forget about films like AMERICAN SPLENDOR, OLD BOY, A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE, BATTLE ROYALE and GHOST WORLD etc. etc. being related to comics because they are so darn jolly good I just think of them as films in and of themselves. Which should be taken as a compliment regarding their quality rather than a diss on their comic book origins. But, yes, Mike is, as is so often the case, correct; they are derived from the four colour funnybook also and probably more likely to lure fresh meat into the grinder. (I also usually forget ROAD TO PERDITION which is also based on a comical but I forget this one as it is so stuffy and dull that it practically demands forgetting.)

    Oh yeah, the trend seems to be that if there is an identifiable self contained book people can be pointed at then the film will indeed boost sales. Before the movie of WATCHMEN came out sales of the TPB were humongously steady for months. And I mean in the silly high numbers at that. Of course the movie came out and everyone still to read it realised they didn’t really want any more WATCHMEN thanks as the movie stank enough to dissuade them from the TPB. So, it probably helps if your movie is good. Except I understand sales of the KICK-ASS TPB are quite strong so I should probably amend that to ‘it probably helps if your movie is popular’. Did the SCOTT PILGRIM film boosts sales? It’s a question I don’t know the answer to so I asked it.

    It is of course possible that movies like IRON MAN do boost sales but the impact is dissipated due to the (nonsensically) huge number of titles. It’s hard to tell really but it’s possible. I wouldn’t say it was probable. Maybe people have just had their IRON MAN quota filled by the end of the movie? I don’t know.
    • CommentAuthorsmiggy3000
    • CommentTimeMar 17th 2011
     
    WATCHMEN was a brilliant movie... that is all...
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    ..in...your...mind.
    • CommentAuthorLee
    • CommentTimeMar 17th 2011
     
    Scott Pilgrim boosted sales. A little anyway, as I bought them all so I could read them before seeing the film.
    • CommentAuthorsmiggy3000
    • CommentTimeMar 18th 2011
     
    in my opionion... what did you find wrong with it LC?

    Im still confused over how 6 volumes was condensed into one hour twenty...
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    I’ll get back to you on that after I’ve actually watched the WATCHMEN, Smiggy3000. In the meantime I use the patent pending Virtual Immersive Zack Snyder’s Watchmen App. This consists of a tin bucket with the inside pasted with random images from WATCHMEN, airbrushed nuddy pics from NUTS and key moments in history torn from TIME magazine. You place the bucket on your head and spin it really, really fast then really re-a-a-a-a-a-l-l-y slowly while aiming a torch inside the bucket and turning it off and on at very fast, but random intervals. For best results obviously you also need to be wearing headphones playing really bad music really loudly. You do this until you start crying.
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    Gotta say Thor appears to shaping up nicely compared to the initial pics released which looked errrrr.........crap. So quite looking forward to that, plus an interesting choice in director has me further intrigued.
    Green Lantern is probably going flop faster than the blobs buttocks being released from his Calvin Klein undies. Quite like Reynolds though but being a lifelong Deadpool fan I feel he sold me & other fans out as I now highly doubt a DP movie will ever materialize even though he's certainly not the only actor capable of playing him, Reynolds did appear to be a driving force behind it, so I'm biased.
    Captain America - Hugo Weaving = always good, looks great as the Red Skull everything else errrrr.........crap. I agree with Margot Lane that American Patriotic nonsense will put me off & piss me off.
    I don't really know what to make of XMEN First Class as the First Class is not really the First Class I remember being trained by Prof X but good writer,director & cast has me interested.

    Will it make me buy more comics? No but new fans of the films will come & buy whilst discovering as usual the (comic) books are better than the films.

    Actually just watched the Captain America trailer here: http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=30501 & it looks quite good, will probably go see it now.
    • CommentAuthorCaptain Si
    • CommentTimeMar 30th 2011
     
    Some brain thoughts from me as I orbit the Earth in my intergalatic dreadnought (not really a mad half decorated jumble of a place filled with cats and toys and comics) . Scott Pilgrim didn't do so well at the pictures. Quite possibly due to a perception that it might be a Harry Potter type thing, in much the same way that Percy Jackson was ineffectively marketed as a Potter Clone when it really wasn't. It will probably find a home on DVD and become a cult thing. It did well to distill the six books into an hour twenty and is a bloody good film. Like a lot of films based on indie comics, it may encourage folk to track down the book, but I doubt whether that would involve footfall to comic shops especially when big chain bookstores wake up to the fact they have a graphic novel section and start promoting said book (like all those Watchmen window displays

    I'd agree that the film has to be good to get folk interested in at least checking out the comics, but some films do so well at distilling the character (Iron Man in particular) that I don't whether, as a viewer, I'd actually be that arsed to pick up the comics. I suppose it depends on the hook and the concept, as much as it does what's on the screen.

    Also: I am lookin forward to Thor. I saw a trailer for this when i went to see Paul (if you've not seen Paul. Here is my review: pffffft) and I do actually want to go see it. Would I then pick up the MArvel comics? No. Why? Thor is fu*king Norse! Not all Shakespeare and using preposterous dialogue. He always comes across as such a blow hard when he turns up that I cannot take Marvel's ridiculous spin on Norse mythology seriously. Plus: really crap costume.

    As for the other superhero fare, I'm not really that excited for it really. Captain America looks like it has potential, and it'll be interesting to see how they realise him on screen, but I don't know I'd go see it at the flicks.

    I am looking forward to Suckerpunch and the new Thundercats cartoon, however :) Neither of which are comic-y at all.
    • CommentAuthorhes2010
    • CommentTimeJun 3rd 2011
     
    i found x-men first class a little disapionting the first set peice with magnto and a boat just fell flat for me
    • CommentAuthorLee
    • CommentTimeJun 3rd 2011
     
    I found X-Men: First Class to be almost entirely enjoyable, especially the Magneto: Nazi Hunter segments. It had its faults but was overall a good watch. For me anyway - takes all sorts.
    • CommentAuthorhes2010
    • CommentTimeJun 5th 2011
     
    it was a good watch but it dosent live up to hype if your trying to kill a man on a boat sink the boat don't cut it half horrizontally thats all and it just seemed to be edited into easily understood esments. Plus there was aman in front of me with a massive head.
    • CommentAuthorhes2010
    • CommentTimeJun 5th 2011
     
    and beasts glasses were wrong
    • CommentAuthorgreg75
    • CommentTimeJun 6th 2011
     
    Maybe it's just me and too picky but Xavier's reason for disability was poor to say the least the red teleporter was he made up?Just wish they'd stick to the comics.Very well cast though i thought.The Blob in the next one please.
    • CommentAuthorgreg75
    • CommentTimeJun 6th 2011
     
    hes2010 it wasn't Hector Hammond or the Leader in front of you at the cinema was it???
    • CommentAuthorLee
    • CommentTimeJun 6th 2011
     
    Azazel wasn't just made up. He's Nightcrawler's dad.
    • CommentAuthorhes2010
    • CommentTimeJun 6th 2011 edited
     
    maybe its a new bread of mutant they just have massive heads
    • CommentAuthorgreg75
    • CommentTimeJun 11th 2011
     
    so that means lee that he got together with raven to produce nightcrawler or have i made a mystique..mistake

    Well thats upset me then I would put money on it that Nightcrawler's dad was that bloke from Hart to Hart
    • CommentAuthorsmiggy3000
    • CommentTimeJun 16th 2011
     
    how did they manage to pilot that submarine so easily, there was only four of them...
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    Green Lantern just got 10/10 in the Daily Star. That's good enough for me! Such a highbrow publication can't be wrong.
    • CommentAuthorgreg75
    • CommentTimeJun 19th 2011
     
    I've decided at long last that there really is no point at all in reading the comics of Green Lantern as timelines are not bothered with whilst i found the film excellent.Mark Strong cast excellently as Sinestro,and Geoffrey Rush as Tomar Re,the storyline left me more than infuriated.Amanda Waller for instance..Hector Hammond..there is nothing in common with the comics at all which surprises me with Geoff Johns on board but i care too much!!I should have taken the films as stand alone ever since they killed off Professor X in X3,SIGH
    • CommentAuthorLee
    • CommentTimeJul 2nd 2011
     
    Not sure if it counts as a comics movie, or even as a movie, but Transformers: Dark of the Moon is incredibly, incredibly bad. Avoid. Why? Well, because it is plotless, tiresome, overlong, unfunny, vacuous tosh.
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    I would like to say the same thing about Green Lantern, but not go as afar as to say avoid the movies. They were never going to be instant classics, and going on a wednesday doesnt hurt your pocket that much.

    Otherall Transformers starts with a what seems like a cool conspiracy idea, but which gradually descends into what seems like one of Ratbats plans from the comic before being replaced with another idea ripped from the Cartoon series (which handled it much better), and once again Sams plot just seems to drag the entire film down to a standstill whilst the Transformers side is rished through. I'd complain about the plot holes but dont want to give away spoliers, whilst once again the new robot characters were better than the last film but not given enouth screen time (epecially Shockwave, pegged to be the main villian but appearing 3 times) though Sentinel Prime gets greater focus.

    Greeen Lantern though had the unfortunate problem of being the first in a new franchise, having the introduce Hal Jordan and his supporting cast, as well as the thousands of Green Lanterns and their mythos. Really Parallax was too an ambitious villian for the first feature and seemed like an attempt to explain the Lanterns weakness to the colour yellow without mentioning it at all.
    • CommentAuthorLee
    • CommentTimeJul 3rd 2011
     
    I'm not sure "spoiler" can apply to something as rank as Transformers: DOTM. The only way you can spoil it is to see it...
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    I really need to rant about the gaping plot holes in Dark of the Moon;

    1) If all those Decepticon ships were hiding on the Moon why did they even need a Space Bridge, they could easily have travelled to earth whenever they wanted to

    2) Why use Optimus to revive Sentinel Prime, they had already managed to bring back a dead Megatron in the last film and Sentinel was only in stasus

    3) How hasnt Megatron been overfrone or defeated before, he clearly as no problem being bossed around

    4) Why do the NSA and NEST deny Sams involvment but let him keep Bumblebee as his car

    5) How do you do creative accountancy at NASA?

    and I cant think of anymore at the moment
    • CommentAuthorgreg75
    • CommentTimeJul 4th 2011
     
    I can smiggy I can!!!
    1.Why wasn't Shockwave purple and transform into a gun?I remember in the 80's you couldn't buy him as a toy you had to buy a cheap english effort from Tandy.
    2.Why didn't Soundwave transform into a tape recorder?I don't care if there aren't any around anymore stick to the comics or don't bother.
    3.There were 9 autobots with CGI why not have more.Wreck-Gar played by Jim Carrey for instance.
    4.I'm sorry but I feel that even though I enjoyed bits of it TRANSFORMERS:THE MOVIE from 1986 is still more informative.
    5.(for transformers fans only)bring back Metroplex for the next one.
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    Wonder if the next film will reboot it again now that Bay said this was his last film in the franchise. Really why didnt Shockwave transform into a purple tank like he did in the first movie game on the PSP?
    And the 1986 film is just the best Transformers film, so much enjoyment that I went to see it at the cinema a few years ago, and had three copies of it on DVD at one point (now only two)
    Metroplex vs Tripticon FTW
    • CommentAuthorLee
    • CommentTimeJul 4th 2011
     
    Picking holes in a plot as flimsy as TF: DOTM is like shooting fish in a barrel. As this is a Michael Bay 'film', they'd be super slo-mo, sexy fish in a sunset-backed, exploding barrel, but the comparison is still valid.
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    But does it have a pretty girl in it?
    • CommentAuthorLee
    • CommentTimeJul 6th 2011
     
    Sure, she's ok. Weird mouth.
    • CommentAuthorCaptain Si
    • CommentTimeJul 13th 2011
     
    Hello folks! I'm not dead!

    Smiggy! Your Transformers conundrums answered:

    1. The Space Bridge was required to transport Cybertron to a suitable power source, in this instance Earth. Were one being generous and factoring in the sun harvester doohickey from ROTF, then potentially this could have been what the 'cons were planning to do to revitalise their dead world. The Decepticons used the bridge to get to Earth as it was stated in the first film that the Transformers are now scattered across the galaxy - so it was probably quicker than arriving under their own steam.

    2. Sentinel required a jolt of Energon to restart his systems - hence Optimus using the Matrix to revive him (in movie world , this is a source of Energon, not the essence of Primus). Megatron was revived in ROTF using the parts of living Decepticons (urgh!) , i.e. they butchered one of their own to bring him back online.

    3. How hasn't Megatron been defeated before? Well, largely because he spent a great amount of time frozen in a lump of ice under the hoover damn. Also, the Decepticons are far more adept and infiltrating and destabilizing their enemies through subterfuge, blackmail and outright violence. They also adapted their forms to suit this purpose, from things as small as insect like creatures and er, ball bearings, to great big city destroying hulking masses. Megatron was pretty hardcore until he got the Allspark plugged into him. Also, DOTM establishes that Megatron is hardly at the peak of his operating capacity, spending most of his time wandering about with half his head missing and a body that looks like its about to drop to pieces at any moment (following on from the damage sustained at the end of ROTF).

    4. The NSA and NEST do not deny Sam's involvement, and he himself was happy to go off to University and forget about giant space robots for a bit. It's only when trying to find employment and failing (thanks to being on the FBI's watch list) that he gets frustrated and when the Transformers come back into his life, he tries to offer assistance to NSA / NEST and is denied - not unreasonable, as despite what he knows, he is still a civilian and lacks the political / military background that would no doubt be required for the role. Plus, he represents an element of risk that they would have to expend extra resources on, particularly in the field. They also appear to have used the British courts to obtain a superinjunction against him too.

    5. How do you do 'creative accountancy' .. ? Well you could ask Bernie Madoff for one, or the guys who ran Enron, or the crooks at Equitable Life or BCCI or... in short, easily, with the right know-how.

    Hope that all helps!
    • CommentAuthorLee
    • CommentTimeJul 13th 2011
     
    Good answers, Si. Here's another Q for you: can I get some sort of compensation from Michael Bay for inflicting TF: DOTM on me? Or maybe from the BBFC, as it was not correctly marked hazardously awful?
    • CommentAuthorsmiggy3000
    • CommentTimeJul 14th 2011
     
    In respsonce to your answers;

    1. The decepticons were seen on the moon, surley they had plenty of time to get to earth from there without using the Space Bridge

    2. Megatron was brought back by killing another decpticon, so why noy do it again if they were already on the moon with Sentinel Prime
    • CommentAuthorhes2010
    • CommentTimeJul 16th 2011
     
    any one thinking about going to harry potter 7 or whatever it is to see dark knight trailer ????????????
    • CommentAuthorCaptain Si
    • CommentTimeJul 20th 2011
     
    Smiggy!!!

    In response to stuffs!!!

    1. The Decepticons might have been seen on the moon, but they sure didn't hang about there!

    2. I guess the Autobots didn't fancy killing one of their own to revive Sentinel - plus, again, he was in stasis, not blown up with bits missing and dumped at the bottom of the sea - just needed Energon to revive him - like using them elctrical paddle thingies to jump start a human heart :)

    To Greg75

    1. Shockwave was indeed available as a toy in the 1980s, ( i have one - its a bit weird looking) just not in the UK / Europe. This is because Shockwave, along with toys such as Omega Supreme, Jetfire and the Deluxe Insecticons had their moulds sourced from toy companies not immediately associated with Hasbro's partner Takara (from whom the majority of the 1984 / 1985 toys originated with from their Diaclone and Microman toylines). Therefore the licensing arrangements on the moulds from other toy companies varied from territory to territory. E.g. Omega Supreme did turn up in the UK, but as part of Grandstand's Convertors line so Hasbro UK couldn't distribute Transfomers Omega Supreme as they didn't have the rights to the mould for the UK. Other factors included being careful not to swamp smaller markets (such as ours) with too much product.

    2. Soundwave is no longer a Micro Casette recorder because for one the Bay Movies did away with the idea of 'mass-shifting' - that of a 30ft robot becoming a tiny device or weapon as it would probably look crap on the big screen. Also : This isn't the same universe as the cartoons, comics and toys of the 1980s.

    3. There are 9 Autobots. Yes there are. And these are pretty much all that remains of the Autobot army. The Decepticons have won the war in the movieverse.

    4. The Animated Film has its own share of goofs, poor storytelling and other assorted problems. It is a three star film in much the same way these new films are. Its no better and no worse.

    5.Metroplex would be cool.

    Hes2010 ... do people really go to the cinema and pay £7 to watch a film they don't particularly care for just to watch a trailer? do people really do that? are they mad?
    • CommentAuthorsmiggy3000
    • CommentTimeJul 21st 2011
     
    Not the autobots bringing back Sentinel, the Decepticons...
    • CommentAuthorCaptain Si
    • CommentTimeJul 21st 2011
     
    D'oh! Perhaps because the other Decepticons were unaware of the deal Sentinel struck with Megs, which is presumably why the Deceps shot Sentinel's ship down and robbed it of its cargo, taking out the crew and buggering off! And also - stasis isn't death, like what Megatron was suffering from :)
    • CommentAuthorLee
    • CommentTimeJul 31st 2011
     
    Cap: yay! More later...
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      CommentAuthorOK Comics
    • CommentTimeAug 1st 2011
     
    I saw Captain America: First Avenger. I liked it.
    • CommentAuthorLee
    • CommentTimeAug 1st 2011
     
    As did I. It was not perfect - some of the fights were a bit blah and the pacing was occasionally laboured - but the overall delivery and tone was enjoyable. Chris Evans and the rest of the cast were good and I thought it was a good move to tie it into Thor right from the start as that is still a tougher sell than Iron Man. I'm unsure about the bookends to the main story - I think they maybe robbed Cap's tale of a happier ending.

    The [SPOILER WARNING] Avengers trailer after the credits was very exciting, obviously!
    • CommentAuthorLee
    • CommentTimeAug 1st 2011
     
    So, comic stuff movies have done for 2011.

    Green Lantern - a review compared it to Batman & Robin, so I didn't watch it, but it was probably better than...
    Transformers: Dark Of The Moon - which was dreadful.
    Captain America: The First Avenger - solid and enjoyable; not as good as Iron Man, better than Iron Man 2. My girlfriend preferred it to...
    Thor - which was also solid and enjoyable and not as good as Iron Man, but better than Iron Man 2. And funny.
    X-Men: First Class - I think this was my favourite of the five, if only because Magneto hunting Nazis was awesome.
    • CommentAuthorgreg75
    • CommentTimeAug 1st 2011
     
    Went to see Cap yesterday whilst the main story was good it was spoilt by the beginning and ending.There was no need for Cap to be awake till the Avengers surely?That means they're not going to show how Cap was found then?Also not happy with the way Bucky died.I think it's clear to me now that this is the Ultimates Universe now.But what has happened to the Hulk movie?Not out til next year?That's leaving it awfully close to the Avengers isn't it?And the good news is that the Justice League Of America is finally going into production.
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    Bucky's demise seemed odd considering the way the film actually ended...
    • CommentAuthorhes2010
    • CommentTimeAug 7th 2011
     
    watchmen last night glad i have never paid to see this pap as bad as the comic
    • CommentAuthorgreg75
    • CommentTimeAug 7th 2011
     
    No Hulk movie.BAH.
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      CommentAuthorOK Comics
    • CommentTimeAug 15th 2011
     
    If you haven't already, you should see Super. It's a bit more real worldy and brutal than Kick Ass. Juno going all super sexy made me feel a bit uncomfortable though...
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctcURFb7XE4
    SHUT UP CRIME!!!!
    Kevin Bacon is the best thing in it. Again.
    • CommentAuthorCaptain Si
    • CommentTimeAug 16th 2011
     
    i have just purchased Super ! (do i get an OK no-prize?) i was going to watch it but got distracted by Batman (the '89 movie by that tim burton fella) being on itv2.

    also : Machete is freakin' awesome. i recommend to all. it is very silly.
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      CommentAuthorRob
    • CommentTimeAug 18th 2011
     
    Super was really good. It's the film I thought Defendor would be:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXl64kQAvv8
    That trailer makes it look awesome but the full movie was a waste of time.
    • CommentAuthorCaptain Si
    • CommentTimeAug 24th 2011
     
    Super is excellent. More lo fi than Kick Ass, and a bit more truthful. I'm not sure what 'Boltie' says about folk who work in comic book shops though....

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