Archive for October, 2012

Official Synopsis of Thor: The Dark World

Posted in News and Editorials, tagged , , , on October 13, 2012| Leave a Comment »

Thanks to ComingSoon.net, we have the first official synopsis of Thor: The Dark World.

Marvel’s “Thor: The Dark World” continues the big-screen adventures of Thor, the Mighty Avenger, as he battles to save Earth and all the Nine Realms from a shadowy enemy that predates the universe itself.  In the aftermath of Marvel’s “Thor” and “Marvel’s The Avengers,” Thor fights to restore order across the cosmos…but an ancient race led by the vengeful Malekith returns to plunge the universe back into darkness. Faced with an enemy that even Odin and Asgard cannot withstand, Thor must embark on his most perilous and personal journey yet, one that will reunite him with Jane Foster and force him to sacrifice everything to save us all.

It’s kinda generic you know? He fights this bad guy who is apparently badder than Loki, he’s going to be reunited with his love interest, and ‘have to sacrifice everything to save us all’… like we haven’t seen that before in a thousand and one movies. We knew Malekith and Jane were going to be in the movie so nothing new there either. In fact, it’s pretty much what we already knew only ‘official’.

Though… we can be thankful for the lack of spoilers. 😉

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Review: Uncanny X-Men #19

Posted in Reviews, tagged , , , on October 11, 2012| Leave a Comment »

Review: Uncanny X-Men #19

Aka, yes, Scott Summers has officially gone insane.

Not a single doubt about it…

The only question is when did he actually start loosing it? Was it when he gained the powers of the Phoenix, was it after House of M, was it when he started to cheat on his wife (either of them), when he lost Jean Grey (either time), or perhaps does it go all the way back to the death of his family?

I really don’t know…

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Review: Wolverine and the X-Men #18

Posted in Reviews, tagged , , on October 11, 2012| Leave a Comment »

Review: Wolverine and the X-Men #18

Wolverine and the X-Men #18

Wolverine and the X-Men #18
aka good example of a cover that totally mis-represents the story

After last week’s WatX #17 had me in stitches, I was really looking forward to the next one because WatX has been a refreshingly fun comic which, and quote me on this, ‘brought the joy back to comics’.

However, I read #18 and the exact opposite holds true. Framed inside the story of AvX’s final fight (which was both fitting and redundant at the same time), we get a glimpse at… well… not too sure. Husk, who was already not exactly entirely stable, loses it and quits. Idie, who is totally not stable, gets manipulated (which is kinda cool from a psychological perspective). And Broo… what the hell?!

This issue is such a stark contrast, even with some funny elements like the idea of having an “end of the world” dance. It’s so heavy with its themes and dark in its plot points that I feel forlorn (and not in a good way) after reading it.

But again, taken in bits and pieces it’s got some good points… but together it’s just a mess that makes me sad.

Let’s hope once things ‘get back to normal’ at the school there will be a bit more of that joy I have come to love from this series.

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Review: Uncanny Avengers #1

Posted in Reviews, tagged , , , , on October 11, 2012| Leave a Comment »

Uncanny Avengers #1

Uncanny Avengers #1

Review: Uncanny Avengers #1

Normally I don’t read Avengers titles (I’ve got enough on my plate trying to keep up with the X-Men) but Uncanny Avengers has Rogue and that’s all I needed to hear.

Overall, a great start to the series. We got a download on where everyone is while still leaving enough open to make things interesting. All the interactions were good. Rogue and Wanda was good, I would expect Rogue to be a little more understanding though, but it was the day of the funeral and emotions do run a bit higher.

Love Wanda’s new outfit, but mostly because I have PM’s which date to before we got any of the concept art for Uncanny Avengers which have me putting Wanda into a red leather jacket when she appears later in season one. I came up with the idea quite some time ago but I can only date it to that PM, what can I say, the idea just fits her, you know?

Not sure what’s going on with Red Skull, that ending was a bit out of left field and I’m kinda miffed at what happened to Avalanche… but like I said, nice solid opening. Can’t wait to see what happens next.

And yes, I did buy the Babies variant… might get the Deadpool one if I can manage it.

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More Pictures from The Wolverine

Posted in News and Editorials, tagged , , on October 11, 2012| Leave a Comment »

I’ve been busy for the past week or so and here is what I missed in The Wolverine land… thanks to ComicBookMovie.com of course…

First Look: Silver Samurai from The Wolverine

First Look: Silver Samurai from The Wolverine

Not a lot of detail to go by seeing as both blurry and only partial view from the back… but looks on the mark, got no complaints. Click here to see more images taken with this one.

Svetlana Khodchenkova as Viper in The Wolverine

EDIT: I had pictures up of Viper but apparently the site didn’t have rights to them and they got removed, oh well, we’ll have some more later.

Also, there’s video here of filming but I haven’t seen it yet so don’t know how awesome/lame it might be!

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I like a man who can own up…

Posted in News and Editorials, tagged , , , on October 10, 2012| Leave a Comment »

Thanks again to CinemaBlend for cutting an interview with Mark Miller down to size for us. Miller is Fox’s answer to Whedon in the Comic Book Movie genre. He’s there to whip the X-Men and Fantastic Four franchises back into shape.

I’m all for this.

The problem is, is Miller the one to get this done? Not having read any of his work, I just don’t know. I watched the Kick Ass movie and it was decent, I liked the spin and a few great scenes, but overall it didn’t move me to want to read the comics. As for the Ultimates, don’t read those either, mostly cause I don’t care for some of the story lines I’ve seen are in them (though I don’t know how much of those are directly Miller’s creations).

The saving grace here is this:

There have been some poor decisions in the past, but you also have to remember that there have been some excellent ones too. Bryan Singer’s X-Men for example, I think revolutionized superhero movies. It pre-dated Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man, and I think you forget how close that was chronologically to Batman and Robin! To open with a Holocaust scene in a superhero movie was just unheard of. Fox get a lot of flak for the films which didn’t work out, and quite rightly, but you forget that they’ve done some really great stuff too. I’m thinking specifically of X-Men, X-Men 2 and X-Men: First Class.

He’s right, we give X3 and XOW so much flak cause they are just horrible films (not going to even go there with FF) but really, X-Men was a game changer in the Comic Book Movie genre. I remember watching the movie in the theatres and being totally blown away by it. Granted, it had its flaws, but overall, it was a great film which did its best and provided so much promise (some of which was delivered on… some, not so much).

I’d even go as far to say that we might not have gotten a Batman Begins without an X-Men.

As for Miller, I’m glad that he can recognize this and fully admit it. This bodes well! Now… if we can get him in with the producer lady who wants to merge the universes and then get Marvel interested in cornering the Super Hero tv market with an X-Men tv series… yes, I have a one-track mind.

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Review: Arrow (1S01)

Posted in Reviews, tagged , , , , , , on October 10, 2012| Leave a Comment »

Review: Arrow (1S01)

CW's Arrow

CW’s Arrow

I’ll admit that I know a little more than diddley squat about Green Arrow. As seen with my fan fic being Marvel based, I’m not much into DC (except to say that Batman: TAS is the second best cartoon of all time). But seeing that I enjoyed at least the first few seasons of Smallville, there are some actors in here that I enjoy, and a tv series based on a comic book is right up my alley, I thought I’d give it a go.

I was told that Green Arrow was basically Batman… with arrows… and not as afraid to hurt and/or kill people… and that’s pretty much what we got here. This really is Batman Begins for the small screen, with arrows, right down to the “thought you were dead” billionaire disappearance only to come back wicked strong fighter and Lone Ranger-esque “I’m really just a playboy, honest”.

Anyway, I’m going to skip over that part because I just don’t have the background to know where they went away from the comics and where they held true. I take this as a good thing as it’s a perspective I’m attempting to write for in my Series.

So all that leaves is… everything else.

The Bad:
The voice over work. Not sure if it’s the actor or the direction or the dialogue itself but it just doesn’t have any punch to it at all. Might as well be reading the phone book and while yes, there are some people I’d happily listen to read the phone book, but this guy ain’t one of them.
Queen looks like a poor man’s Chris O’Donnell.

The Good:
The episode is accessible. As I said, I don’t know much about Green Arrow but I’m not lost, scratching my head, or annoyed that I might be missing the joke.

The Ugly:
It’s so much like Batman Begins and is so overly gritty that I’m ‘so over this’ like last decade. I was hoping for a slightly more light-hearted approach ala Smallville, not this uber-realistic stuff that is the trend. Granted, I could be asking for something that simply isn’t in the comics so what can I say?

The show does come on before Supernatural which I have an on-again off-again love/hate relationship with so I’ll stick out a few more episodes, see what I think once it finds all it’s legs… but until then, giving this series a middle of the road mark, it can go either way.

Oh, and the piece de la resistance? Seeing an advertisement for a local archery shop during the commercial… I’ve never ever seen an ad for this place ever… 😉

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Prospects

Posted in News and Editorials, tagged , , , , , on October 8, 2012| Leave a Comment »

CinemBlend carried and article discussion from a Crave Online interview and the nuts and bolts of it is that the lady who has produced all the X-Men movies is up for crossing the streams.

As I mentioned in my previous post about why I chose to have this series “air” on Fox, I mentioned that the ideal situation would be for Fox and Marvel to make a deal to produce the tv-series since Fox holds the cinematic licensing rights to the characters but Marvel has a better grasp on bringing those characters to life. Apparently the producer is up for such a cross-over/team-up on a larger scale ala the films.

Many commenters have cried gold-digger as Avengers has done so well and everyone wants a piece of that pie. The way I look at it, if it gets us an awesome X-Men/Avengers team-up movie (or closer to an X-Men live action tv series) then they can gold dig all they want.

The real problem is with the fact that Avengers is tonaly different from X-Men, especially in how X-Men attempted to make a more realistic spin on the comics while Avengers, while more realistic than the comics, is a lot more apt to ‘just go with it’. Also, unless they work it with the reboot supposedly happening with Days of Future Past, most of the main characters everyone knows are dead or been horribly mis-characterized (not to mention the actors are older and moved on).

Still, this could work, in the hands of the right writers, director, etc, a crossover movie more epic than Avengers is possible. All of the origin’s are out of the way for the Avengers team, depending on what we see in more X-Men films, those origins should be out of the way too. All you really need is a reason for them to either team up and/or fight each other and just let them go to town!

Personally, I’d have the movie start with the Avengers stumbling into an X-Men vs Brotherhood scenario and Rogue just kicking the butts of the Avengers (which is totally canon)… but then I am biased.

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