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  1. Watchmen *SPOILERS*

    in Comic Book Adaptations

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    The script is a three hour movie right now without the side story about the pirates. It will have an R rating. It will not be updated to take place now.

    Brilliant! The pirate thing would not translate well to screen IMO.

    I still have faith in this. If it is cut to two hours I may watch it reluctantly but if it's kept above the two and a half hour level I'll stick to being anxious for this one.

  2. Episode 05

    in World's Finest Podcast

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    Best epi yet, methinks.

    The gripes with the Clock King stuff was dead on. I saw that one recently and I'd have to agree with darn near everything.

    Mike, if you loved LA Law, you may be interested in an upcoming review of Masters of Horror season 2...

  3. Travis Charest on Captain America?!

    in Marvel

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    Turns out Travis will be doing the covers for this comic. Well, half of them. There will be a 50 / 50 cover split for each issue, with Travis and Breitweiser sharing the duties.

    Well that officially drains the steam out of that!

    I want some Charest interiors!

  4. Wizard World Philly 2007

    in General Discussion

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    OH MY GOD! There is so much cool news coming out of Philly this weekend. Top of the list:

    - After "One More Day" there will be one Spider-Man title, that being Amazing Spider-Man... and it will ship three times a month! No word on the creative team(s) behind the thrice-monthly title.

    Good news! Let's hope their competition takes notice and streamlines some of the Bat and Super titles...

    - As of issue #13 The Flash is done. Over. Kaput! Afterwards there will be a special called All Flash, and then Flash will continue with Flash #231... which is right where the last series left off. Mark Waid will be writing that, with Daniel Acuna on art. (With that creative team, you can bet I'll be buying that book.) Who the Flash will be they did not reveal.

    I may even check it out too. Speculation time: All Flash? Bart disappears into the Speed Force and returns as an amalgam of him, Wally and Barry. That could be cool. Waid's not my cup of tea but I'l check out the special at least.

    - DC is launching several Countdown spinoffs, Countdown to Mystery being the only one I recall by name right now. One of them, however, will star Donna Troy, Jason Todd and Kyle Rayner as they

    traverse the multiverse. Their first stop... the WildStorm Universe. This is a six-issue mini, but I suspect it will lead into an ongoing akin to Sliders.

    (<------ 52 SPOILER)

    A little derivative of Exiles but interesting nonetheless. Takes care of the "detritus" issue in Countdoqwn without doing away with three characters with so much potential. How much do you want to bet Grifter and Red Hood square off?

    - Jenny got hit on by a fanboy, but he was put off because she wasn't a hardcore fangirl. (Or... at least she thinks so. She isn't all that good at picking up when people are hitting on her. I say "people" because I know she's been hit on by women, but didn't realize it at the time.)

    Interesting standards the fella had: "Ahem...<pushes glasses up nose>Sorry but if you can't tell me when the first appearance of Gorilla Grodd was then I don't want anything to do with you."

  8. Countdown

    in DC

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    Yeah, me neither. I just thought there should be a thread about it. I mean, some people can talk about stuff like that for hours and hours. Nope! Not me.

  9. Episode 05

    in World's Finest Podcast

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    During the episode I promised to post a link to the interview with Alan Grant and Norm Breyfogle, and here it is.

    Alan Grant is one of the kindest and classiest men in the biz. I had an extended conversation with him when I lived in Scotland that certainly put me on the right path as far as a future career as a comics writer.

  10. Countdown

    in DC

    Posted

    For those reading DC's Countdown, I thought I would open an official thread.

    We'll keep discussions of episodes of the show dedicated to the series in the proper thread but any ideas, predictions, thoughts, whatever on the series can be discussed here.

  15. Episode 100

    in Earth-2.net: The Show

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    What I love? You guys aren't even done talking about the first movie yet and there's still over five hours left!!!

    Elias Koteas was indeed Casey Jones. He was awesome in Fallen, Prophecy, Crash (the good one, not the Oscar-winning one) and especially the Candian film Exotica. It's one of those "if you don't find this film sexy there's something wrong with you but if you do find it sexy there's also somehting wrong with you" movies.

  21. Episode 100

    in Earth-2.net: The Show

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    Sorry to hear about your grandmother, Des.

    Thanks Mike.

    -Everybody on here has been absolutely spectacular, not just today but in general. Sure there has been some hangups every now and then (just try to listen to episode 1 now, I dare you) but overall this has been worth everything. Special thanks to Mike for sending me a disc of the first seven episodes back in December of 2005 that allowed me to get into the show, enjoy it and be a part of it. Listening to and creating segment for this show are two of my favorite things in my life right now.

    I'll second that. I listen to A LOT of podcasts, and have even met some cool people through them, but none can hold a candle to the community I feel I belong to here on Earth 2. Here's to another several hundred.

    BTW Mike, when do we hear what's up for episode 200? On 101? ;)

    -Des, I'll be straight with you, up till now I hadn't read or listened to any of your segments, the stuff covered in Real Dread and Dread Media just isn't my thing (kinda like anime isn't some peoples thing, right D.W.?) that said I did muchly enjoy Shred Media and the last two on your list made me interested in checking them out, my only gripe is...no love for Feivel? That movie was spectacular.

    I'll be straight as well. My enjoyment and knowledge of anime extends no further than Akira, Blood: the Last Vampire, and the eighties Tomb of Dracula movie. I don't have much interest in the genre but I appreciate the comment. I hope you'll at least listen to the special episodes (on upcoming themed epis and in an upcoming interview with a personality whose talent extends beyond mere horror cinema).

    I have to get off the internet, there's writing to do and I've got to listen to this damned episode!

  22. Episode 100

    in Earth-2.net: The Show

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    - Shredd Media: Des, you didn't mention the Pink Panther?!?!?!? Just kidding, fun seg.

    Thank you sir! I haven't been able to dl it yet. I'm a few hours away from home as my grandmother passed away yesterday. I'm heading home tomorrow to work on a Reel Dread, a Dread Media and prep a new program for recording Skype for an interview.

    That comic with Brits as fish sounds bizarre but conceptually, it sounds great.

    If you want to read a graphic novel, any graphic novel, whether you like the medium or not, MAUS will move you if you have a soul.

    Oh, and Vanilla Ice on a podcast automatically = 10/10. :happy:

    Too Cold! Word to your mother, slothian. Word to your mother...

  24. Reel Dread - The Pornography of Torture

    in Mainpage Feedback

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    I'd hardly criticise a full column by posting "You're wrong, fuck you!" :happy: Especially as we don't seem to be coming from completely opposite angles on this.

    Then you, sir, are better than half of the people on the internet.

    I think things just go in cycles. You get one original horror film and then a stream of like-minded films follow on. It seems right now that films either have to be gore-tastic or playing for laughs (you're right, Rob Zombie doesn't know what the hell he's doing, apart from finding more ways for him & his wife to get paid). I guess the challenge is to find the next original way of terrifying audiences.

    Agreed. There are films like the Canadian "Dark Hours" and the Belgian "Calvaire: The Ordeal" that are more along the lines of psychological horror and multi-leveled in theme. They're usually not made in America though. The ones that are just aren't given the time of day by distribution companies.

    She is still alive, you know.... :devil:

    That is the real horror! Seriously? Christ! I thought her symbiotic relationship with Reagan would have killed her soon after he died.

    I see the point you're making, I just don't know how you could take current events and inject them subtly without a critic standing and yelling "LOOK, IT'S POLITICAL!!!!" and then trash it because they're of a different ideology.

    When have they ever made a film for critics?

    I don't know if a bad review makes a bad film (although I imagine few horror films get a good rep these days) but flicking down Metacritic for the recent 28 Weeks Later, I did see Iraq mentioned a lot. Ok, a group of marines being captured and beheaded one by one as they try to escape sounds more horrific than the recent Black Christmas, but would it get distributed?

    That's all a matter of taste really. Again, I enjoyed Hostel but many did not. I enjoyed the first Saw but many did not. I thought Pan's Labyrinth was a bit lacklustre, directionless and devoid of originality when most put it on the best of the year list. But one thing I do know: if Bill O'Reilly hates a film then I'm almost guaranteed to find it entertaining.

    Iraq should be mentioned a lot. Iraq is something which should be examined in all genre films. For good or bad. Whether it has to be masked as Vietnam or as a zombie apocalypse, it should be at the forefront of everybody's minds. A director I know is in pre-production on a film that has American soldiers doing bad things in Vietnam. I doubt it will be made in this climate (because he refuses to change his vision). That is aggravating to me. It's censorship. That was the point of the column, that without these films the world would be an awful place.

    I'm not arguing that there should be a film showing the beheading of American soldiers one-by-one just like I don't argue for the cinematic depiction of the torture, rape and murder found in Ulli Lommel's films, I merely used it as an example of why things are being amped up at this time.

    I hope I'm not avoiding things. If so ask me directly because I'm at work and shouldn't even be doing this but it's too interesting to resist.