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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
Heh I just caught the Thor and Iron Man Shout Outs in the trailer.
Sony's still doing the Feig version, the Russo version is them trying to do a Cinematic Universe.
Which they've put Dan fucking Aykroyd in charge of for some reason.
Maybe you'd be less disappointed if you stopped expecting things to be Carmen Sandiego movies.![]()
These one's at least make sense because the heroes they are referencing actually exist so its not the universe randomly lining up to make reference to something that wont happen for another 15 years.
edited 10th Mar '15 11:28:26 AM by Canid117
"War without fire is like sausages without mustard." - Jean Juvénal des Ursins...maybe because he created Ghostbusters? Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis are the fathers of the franchise, and the latter is deceased.
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.Saw the Daredevil trailer. Ugh, what heavy-handed shout-outs to War Machine and Beta Ray Bill!
I've got fanfics for Frozen, Spectacular Spider-Man, Crash Bandicoot, and Spyro the Dragon.Aykroyd is a goddamn loon, though. He has proven time and time again that he has no idea what made his own projects enjoyable and clearly has some massive hang-ups about superscience and the occult that he can't exorcise from his work without someone to keep him on a leash.
Yes, Sony has partnered him with Ivan Reitman, but I'll remind you that Ghostbusters II also happened on his watch.
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I believe Blues Brothers 2000 was his work, yes? Granted, I haven't seen the original, but I did see the Nostalgia Critic's review of 2000, so...yeah, that was pretty out there.
What kind of hang-ups are we talking about here?
edited 10th Mar '15 11:42:49 AM by KarkatTheDalek
Oh God! Natural light!I really want to see a better Dr. Lizard in the Spider-Man re-reboot. I'd prefer him to wear his lab coat and shorts, unlike last time in then reboot. Also, make him less realistic to match the style he had in the comics/cartoons.
And of course, he would be played by either Daniel Rattcliffe or Eric Bana. Just because. Specially with the latter.
I'm not sure what's "of course" about either of those choices (especially Radcliffe) but it'd probably be smart to avoid reusing a villain that only appeared just recently. Especially when one of the main criticisms of the reboot was that it rehashed the Raimi trilogy in ways.
Agents of SHIELD had some nice Kree and Inhuman related stuff tonight. The Inhumans were created thousands of years ago by radical forces in the Kree military during a costly war with an unnamed species (the Skrulls? Xandar?) They began experimenting on the native populations of various planets to create living weapons but it was thought that they all failed, and the experiment was discontinued. Humans were apparently the only race to survive undergoing such a procedure.
edited 10th Mar '15 7:03:12 PM by comicwriter
He's also a relentless self-promoter who hasn't done anything worth talking about in years and has actively been publicly dragging Bill Murray and Rick Moranis into his self-aggrandizing plans for a Ghostbusters reboot that neither had any interest in. And he continued this behavior well into the announcements for Feig's version. Sony, it seems, has now decided to either reward that behavior or simply give him a cushy useless job to get him to shut up. God I hope it's the latter.
edited 10th Mar '15 7:18:48 PM by Wackd
Maybe you'd be less disappointed if you stopped expecting things to be Carmen Sandiego movies.
Pretty sure that was a completely intentional shout-out.
I'd like to see Carnage as the Big Bad of Spiderman's eventual solo movie, mainly because he's my favorite of his rogue's gallery. At the very least Venom - though I guess then we'd have to spend half the movie rehashing Spiderman 3.
On second thought, do something out of left field like Chameleon.
"A king has no friends. Only subjects and enemies."I doubt it has anything to do with the writer thinking of Joe as "rapey". There's a similar Take That! against Bendis so I doubt it was anything personal, just a Mythology Gag.
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Of course, while those are very disturbing (although I can't help but think they have guts to attempt to tackle the such a subject - especially the Power Pack one - although I couldn't tell you whether the end results were satisfactory), there's also the rather harrowing rumor (mentioned in the first link, but it bears repeating here) that in an earlier draft, Skip would have been Uncle Ben.
edited 10th Mar '15 9:49:31 PM by KarkatTheDalek
Oh God! Natural light!

Because of course planning another film in that series before we've actually got the one which seems to be definitely happening now out is an amazing idea. The fact that many places seem to be referring to it as "male Ghostbusters" also worries me but I'm not sure whether that originated with the people actually making it or not.