Guest Golyadkin Posted December 5, 2007 Share Posted December 5, 2007 Doug digs it. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Stewart Posted December 5, 2007 Share Posted December 5, 2007 Doug digs it. LOL! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
aricandover Posted December 14, 2007 Share Posted December 14, 2007 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQ9fgrA94rU bootleg of the Dark Knight trailer. a legit version will be online this monday. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
EL the Famous Posted December 14, 2007 Author Share Posted December 14, 2007 DAMMIT! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Stewart Posted December 14, 2007 Share Posted December 14, 2007 I'm glad I clicked on that link to load the video right when Geoff posted it, even though I knew I wouldn't get to watch it til now. Pretty sweet looking. I'm not as impressed with Heath in action as I was when I first saw images of him, but oh well. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Good Old Neon Posted December 14, 2007 Share Posted December 14, 2007 To date, most if not all superhero comic book adaptations have left me feeling pretty cold at best. The issue for me, I think, is the use of real actors in place of traditional hand-drawn or cg animation. A live actor in a superhero suit pretty much kills it for me. I grew up on the X-Men, I loved the X-Men, and as cool as Magneto or Wolverine may be on the page, they both look sort of ridiculous when played by real actors. If any movie genre is crying out for traditional animation it is the comic book adaptation. So why, oh why must we get The Thing in the form of a poorly constructed Halloween costume? Lou Ferrigno as The Hulk for instance, in the comics, The Hulk is strong and powerful beyond all measure, yet, as strong as he is, Lou Ferrigno strained a bit too much and a bit too often when tossing some po Quote Link to post Share on other sites
EL the Famous Posted December 14, 2007 Author Share Posted December 14, 2007 it should be no shocker that i respectfully disagree. while i will agree that a large part of the recent boon of live action super hero movies has left me a little cold as well, some have been a blast to see come to life on screen. the x-men and fantastic 4 movies are poor examples to hold as the standard. the fight sequences between spiderman 2 were phenomenal...the doc oc stuff really blew me away, especially as a huge fan of the comic book. the entire hellboy movie was great. the new take on the batman stuff is good (hell, i even enjoyed the first three) and the upcoming iron man/hulk flicks look/sound promising. throw in that both marvel and DC have been releasing full-length animated features of some of their comic works for some time now...they just never hit the big screen. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Good Old Neon Posted December 14, 2007 Share Posted December 14, 2007 it should be no shocker that i respectfully disagree. while i will agree that a large part of the recent boon of live action super hero movies has left me a little cold as well, some have been a blast to see come to life on screen. the x-men and fantastic 4 movies are poor examples to hold as the standard. the fight sequences between spiderman 2 were phenomenal...the doc oc stuff really blew me away, especially as a huge fan of the comic book. the entire hellboy movie was great. the new take on the batman stuff is good (hell, i even enjoyed the first three) and the upcoming iron man/hulk flicks look/sound promising. throw in that both marvel and DC have been releasing full-length animated features of some of their comic works for some time now...they just never hit the big screen. I expect nothing less. I haven Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ZenLunatic Posted December 14, 2007 Share Posted December 14, 2007 To date, most if not all superhero comic book adaptations have left me feeling pretty cold at best. The issue for me, I think, is the use of real actors in place of traditional hand-drawn or cg animation. A live actor in a superhero suit pretty much kills it for me. I grew up on the X-Men, I loved the X-Men, and as cool as Magneto or Wolverine may be on the page, they both look sort of ridiculous when played by real actors. If any movie genre is crying out for traditional animation it is the comic book adaptation. So why, oh why must we get The Thing in the form of a poorly constructed Halloween costume? Lou Ferrigno as The Hulk for instance, in the comics, The Hulk is strong and powerful beyond all measure, yet, as strong as he is, Lou Ferrigno strained a bit too much and a bit too often when tossing some po Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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scribex6 Posted December 14, 2007 Share Posted December 14, 2007 I'm a little late to the discussion but I wanted to chime in with my favorite comic book movies. I loved X-men 2 and Spiderman 2 just because beyond special effects and villains and all those other things they captured the essence of what those characters are about. The train sequence in Spiderman 2 reminded me of that early issue in the Ditko run where Spiderman has to lift that large piece of machinery. Also cool was how the train passengers stuck up for Spidey, showcasing that sense of his closeness to New York that's an important part of the comic. With X-men 2 I was sold after that great Nightcrawler sequence in the opening. It vividly brought to life just how it looked and you imagined it sounded in the comics. Plus, Wolverine going berserk against the soldiers was another cool touch.And if you want to talk about faithfulness to the source material, you can't do better than Frank Miller's Sin City. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Big Perm Posted December 16, 2007 Share Posted December 16, 2007 Apparently, the first 6 minutes of the dark knight is playing before I am legend in select Imax locations. If you wanna see it bootlegged, here it is while it lasts http://www.aintitcool.com/node/35081 Apprently, maybe sometime today, this site will launch the official new trailer, or who knows what. http://www.atasteforthetheatrical.com/ Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Big Perm Posted December 17, 2007 Share Posted December 17, 2007 now it's up kids http://www.atasteforthetheatrical.com/ Quote Link to post Share on other sites
EL the Famous Posted December 17, 2007 Author Share Posted December 17, 2007 Oh man, that extendo trailer in Perm's first link is awesome. Trailer is good too. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
yermom Posted December 17, 2007 Share Posted December 17, 2007 That Imax footage is sweet! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Welsh Rich Posted December 17, 2007 Share Posted December 17, 2007 Oh man... the trailer fot the Dark Knight is excellent... can't wait for that! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
sureshot Posted December 17, 2007 Share Posted December 17, 2007 Chicago is looking particularly bad ass as Gotham. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Mr. Kinsley Posted December 17, 2007 Share Posted December 17, 2007 Whoever is playing The Joker seems to be doing a Jack Nicholson-as-Joker impersonation. Other than that it looks fanfreakintastic! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
scribex6 Posted December 17, 2007 Share Posted December 17, 2007 Heath Ledger is playing the Joker. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
sureshot Posted December 17, 2007 Share Posted December 17, 2007 Whoever is playing The Joker seems to be doing a Jack Nicholson-as-Joker impersonation. Other than that it looks fanfreakintastic! That would be Heath Ledger Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Mr. Kinsley Posted December 17, 2007 Share Posted December 17, 2007 Heath Ledger is playing the Joker. That would be Heath Ledger Alrighty. Heath Ledger is doing a Jack-as-Joker impersonation. I'm sure that after the first few minutes I'll get over it, but if he says, "This town needs an enema!" I'm walking out. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Analogman Posted December 17, 2007 Share Posted December 17, 2007 I don't see the connection. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
yermom Posted December 17, 2007 Share Posted December 17, 2007 Whoever is playing The Joker seems to be doing a Jack Nicholson-as-Joker impersonation. Other than that it looks fanfreakintastic!Apparently, he went through a lot of trouble to not come off that way. Isolated himself for a month developing the character and all. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
aricandover Posted December 17, 2007 Share Posted December 17, 2007 Alrighty. Heath Ledger is doing a Jack-as-Joker impersonation. nah, not at all. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
trevor Posted December 17, 2007 Share Posted December 17, 2007 yeah, i'm not getting any nicholson vibes from the trailer. and ledger's joker is 10,000 times creepier than nicholson's. holy crap. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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