Monday, December 15, 2014

List of directors for ANOTHER Spider-Man reboot

Reboots, sequels, bores and chores!
Hollywood doesn't seem to understand what would make for a good critical success.
Luckily, here comes another idea for what would make a good Spider-Man reboot

Not alive:
20 Georges Melies: the originator of the sci fi film.
19 Fritz Lang: Metropolis, a psychological thriller such as M, which would really build suspense for when the Man-Spider, Venom or other split personality-like being appear.
18 Krystkof Kieslowski: Who better to adapt Spider-Man: Blue than the creator of Three Colors: Blue?
17 Andrei Tarkovsky: you want a hardcore really subtle film about science? Why not do one from the creator of Solaris?
16 Rainer Werner Fassbinder: Spider-Man on a Wire. A great tale of sci fi and the Matrix, pre-Star Wars. Critics would highly praise such an intellectual feat capable of the man behind the camera, Peter Parker.

The Billion Dollar Club:
15 George Lucas
14 James Cameron
13 Peter Jackson
I really think the first two would really fit the 80s fashion of it.

Cult Hits:
12 Guillermo Del Toro: monsters and Nazis, perfect for the elder Parkers.
11 Sam Raimi: Cuz everybody likes him for some odd reason.

10 Matthew Vaughn: Kick-Ass, which I thought was ok and X-Men: First Class
9 Christopher Nolan: If you want to make a Christopher Nolan Superman, hire Christopher Nolan?
8 Toku Spider-Man: You're telling me nobody would watch that?
7 John Semper Jr: He doesn't make ethnicities look terrible a la Tombstone and Rocket Racer. He balances the use of many villains. He made minor villains seem like a big deal.
6 Michel Gondry: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

5 The Wachowskis: A theme in the Matrix, is what media you trust and what gang or army or group you're in. Harry Obsorn and all his friends that Peter Parker grew up with can all of a sudden turn into his enemies thanks to his accidental involvement in an experiment, swallowing the wrong pill?
4 Ridley Scott: Blade Runner and Alien
3 Shane Carruth: The Clone Saga and a realistic take on the trouble of science.
2 John Carpenter: The Thing, having stupid shit happen like in that film, while having one of the most confusing and awarding stories in history.
1 David Cronenberg: The Fly, Teenagers and Body Horror. He's an auteur.

Sunday, December 14, 2014

Peter Tomasi writes (Batman) Arkham Knight prequel comic

http://www.cinemablend.com/games/Batman-Arkham-Knight-Get-Prequel-Comic-68931.html
Peter Tomasi will write Arkham Knight prequel comic concerning Batman post-Joker, and during the introduction of the Arkham Knight after the prison's closure and Batman ondering retirement.

Arkham everything. Dr. Arkham. Arkham City. Arkhampool poolpocalypse. Everything's Arkham and Deadpool now.

Back on track...
Tomasi's ok. Not the greatest. He does some interesting stuff, but I being a guy who thinks everything should be 1989 Batman should be the greatest. He knows how to do action and moments and fun stuff. From what I read of his Blackest Knight comic, there won't be a ton of character development stuff, but Arkham Knight may have less characters, if it does concentrate on becoming a Batman-Arkham Knight drama. Maybe. And it really stinks that Gleason won't show up do to do some sort of Arkham hallucination effect like with the Batman & Robin: Born to Kill cover. The story I didn't really care for.
http://tokuwesternheroes.wordpress.com/2014/05/12/batman-and-robin-vol-2-1-8-batman-and-robin-vol-1-born-to-kill-gets-you-with-its-marketing/
Oh. Remember kids, the Bat car will show up!

Blackest Night: Green Lantern Corps by Tomasi and Gleason

The covers are a choosing between Alex Ross and ugly death.
It's a great piece. It's like Walking Dead, except you're given colorful, a bit beautiful yet dead pictures of things instead of ugly black and white.

Green Lantern Corps Issues and Features:
39 "Fade to Black"
  • Guy and Kyle/Ion
  • The Invasion
  • Mongul
  • An emission of Black Rings

Green Lantern 40 Heart of Darkness
  • Arishia Raab. Family.
  • Kyle and his Black Lantern love.
  • Guy Gardner vs fly black lanterns
  • Green armored black lantern

41 Hungry Heart
body surrounded
  • Kyle Rayner's new female friend
  • I felt like it should've been more like an ethical dilemma. Dealing with the body of your former female friend. Instead it was dishonorably treated as a thing. Demonized.
  • Kilowog holding off the Black Lanterns
  • The Black Lantern leader

42 Sacrifice of Will
Green Lantern Corps machine gun. Devour will. 100% pour. "I love you Soranik" Kyle dies.

43 Red Badge of Rage Part 1
Shoot the Black Rings off. Medic. Love saving Rayner.

44 Red Badge of Rage Part 2
Gravity used to defeat the Black Lanterns

45 Red Dawn
Kyle vs Guy
Bath for the Black Lantern bugs.

46 Black Dawn
Dove and the Lanterns combine to take on the Black Lanterns

47 Goodbye Darkness
All seems good.
The Dinosaur and the man fight even though they're partners.

Wednesday, December 10, 2014

The 75th Anniversary: Top 15 Batman Films: #13 Superman/Batman: Public Enemies

#13: Public Enemies:
I really liked this film.
It didn't really feel super dark, although it had dark elements to it, but it didn't feel campy either (prior to seeing Composite Superman-Batman giant robot.) It felt very Bruce Timm-ish: great quality. Well remembered.
Don't mind the nuclear superhumans that don't kill Earthlings!
You have famous comic book characters killed off, although not Batman.
The odds are really stacked against the good guys starting with Metallo fighting those two.
Lex Luthor goes from CEO to President under some economic struggle we don't really hear about. The economy thrives and he uses military powers, demonstrating the distrust America has during the Bush Administration.

Thursday, December 4, 2014

Fables: 1001 Nights of Snowfall by Bill Willingham

Fables: 1001 Nights of Snowfall is my first exploration into the Fables series. It's a mixed bag.
The first story has a wizar wanting to kill Snow White like the many thousand virgins he knows in some sort of unknown unspecific stereotypical manner.
Art-wise, I enjoyed how it was presented as a novel, making some really want to rethink the management of the genre, and even ponder whether this book was a graphic novel or a conventional one. The art blends well between the Victorian beginnings to Middle Eastern exploration.

The Fencing Lessons
Naked women in a sexual relationship to combine kingdoms opposed to having them at war.

The Christmas Pies looks consists of art pieces you could hang on your wall, using the dot techniques. Eating. Hiding into the woods.

The Frog Prince. Only a prince sometimes.

The Runt. Big Bad Werewolf, who overcomes odds before becoming a monster thanks to bullying. Eventually has a powerful growl.

A Mother's Love, a cursed rabbit that I don't quite understand.

Disaspora including the Witches' Tale. The witch wanting to marry, but eventually needed to eat children for her youth and stuff. Tribespeople. The witch would scare children, not to mention boobs.

Fair Division ends the book with a crisis on infinite earths style finale with animals in the middle east to wrap everything up.

Tuesday, November 25, 2014

Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 8, "Retreat"

The book starts off with Willow and her girlfriend and demons.
I enjoy how the story changes when you turn the page.
Willow and her girlfriend are noticeably uglier than they are in the show, making it very anti-Hollywood.
Buffy reveals her reservations of losing Willow after killing the Evil one in the future.
Giles responds wittily by saying that he didn't have time for such an explanation.
And Whedon's writers capture Whedon's universe well by developing characters that want to survive and go on in their next stage in life: parenthood.

Friday, November 7, 2014

I would rather have Brad Pitt than Jared Leto play the Joker

The Dark Knight showed us certain things:
It should us that fans wanted a darker, more realistic Joker,
But not one that lacks in charisma.

Brad Pitt has worked ensemble movies. He's produced. He's directed. He's well known. He's a great name.
He's played Tyler Durden for Fight Club in his career defining role, a role that is still very popular to this day 15 years later.

He should play the Joker instead of Jared Leto.