Iambaytor Posted September 28, 2012 Share Posted September 28, 2012 Vampires are oversaturated, Wesley Snipes hasn't been culturally relevant in a long time, Blade: Trinity and Blade the Series salted the earth where the Blade franchise once stood, and it's just not feasible. Now if Marvel gets enough of its occult heroes going I could see them maybe (see: never) doing a Legion of Monsters/Midnight Sons movie that would of course flop horrendously and be buried deep within the Earth's crust for all time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thelogan Posted September 28, 2012 Share Posted September 28, 2012 I never thought about it before, but Darkhold Redeemers would fit in pretty well on SyFy as a low budget, poorly written weekly television series. Morbius could get the Twilight treatment. He could be all dreamy and hunky in his human form, and then he totally VAMPS OUT. The rest of the Midnight Sons have already been in movies. Give us a Danny Ketch Ghost Rider reboot and we're good to go. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iambaytor Posted September 28, 2012 Share Posted September 28, 2012 I'm pretty sure Ghost Rider will be back in Marvel hands soon, Neveldine and Taylor assured that Sony will no longer see it as a viable property. Sony probably owns Morbius though, I assume he still counts as a Spider-man villain. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The NZA Posted September 28, 2012 Share Posted September 28, 2012 wait, really? when i was half-trolling you about the Morbius movie IP being talked about, i assumed it was in marvel's hands. i mean, there's a lotta spidey villains to burn through before we'd get to that point. also, i wonder if you're right about Blade & earth-salting. maybe give it a little longer, and part 1 will look more like a late 90s reboot/throwback. Also snipes will be relevant again when he's out and does Demolitioner Man 2 or To Wong Foo deux, whichever comes first Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iambaytor Posted September 28, 2012 Share Posted September 28, 2012 If Marvel has the rights I don't see them using them, Morbius works as a Spider-Man villain or as the token vampire on The Legion of Monsters (because Dracula is evil and Lillith is evil-ler) and even then he's still dwarfed by every other member and I'm including N'Kantu the Mummy and Manphibian. While I liked Blade Trinity, even I got to admit that the excision of Ryan Reynolds would make for one boring stupid slog of a movie and the TV show just proved that there wasn't a market for the character anymore. Even I would be kind of hesitant to watch a Blade movie now. I don't think there's any real hope of a comeback in Snipes' future especially since Michael Jai White actually remembered to pay his taxes and is younger, a better actor, and a trained martial artist. And come on now: a Too Wong Foo sequel would obviously be called Two Wong Foo. That's just obvious. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The NZA Posted September 28, 2012 Share Posted September 28, 2012 yeah, wow i really did just walk right past that one id assumed you thought the Blade show was shit like most others id heard though, no? might be recalling this wrong. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iambaytor Posted September 28, 2012 Share Posted September 28, 2012 It wasn't good, no. But it wasn't bad either, it was just dull and uninteresting (like everything else on Spike TV) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Hakujin Posted October 7, 2012 Author Share Posted October 7, 2012 Saw Dredd in 3D tonight and it was fantastic! As a 3D cinema experience, I'd give it a definite A. Karl Urban is just fucking fantastic and so is Olivia Thirlby as his rookie side-kick. After seeing the trailer, I was full anticipating her being annoying, but her character was great and she acted the hell out of it. Hopefully this will kill on video/DVD and we'll get a sequel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crimsonfire Posted October 7, 2012 Share Posted October 7, 2012 Seconded. A lot better than I was expecting it to be. There was no 2D showing but the 3D looked good so it was worth the spazzy feeling eyes I always get in 3D movies. As for the Resident Evil movies I just lap that shit up. I enjoy shit movies when they make no claim to be anything else. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C_U_SPACECOWBOY Posted October 8, 2012 Share Posted October 8, 2012 Saw Dredd in 3D tonight and it was fantastic! As a 3D cinema experience, I'd give it a definite A. Karl Urban is just fucking fantastic and so is Olivia Thirlby as his rookie side-kick. After seeing the trailer, I was full anticipating her being annoying, but her character was great and she acted the hell out of it. Hopefully this will kill on video/DVD and we'll get a sequel. Thanks for spinning this off into it's own thread Haku, now I can gush some more about it!! Here's one of the elements I loved about this movie: Not that it was the first to utilize it, but post-Matrix we've been inundated with cool slo-mo action scenes in movies. Don't get me wrong, I love me some slo-mo, but few films actually bother to establish a rationale for awesome slow-motion moments as the Matrix did. Dredd has some fantastic slo-mo moments, which would be cool in their own right, but the film establishes a rationale for why they exist and then proceeds to never cheat that rule. The film has many, many cool slow-motion shots, but for each one there is always an observer under the time-dialating effects of the aptly named drug: "Slo-mo". The only other movie I can think of which went so far as to draft a "in canon" rationale for having cool SFX shots is Inception. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iambaytor Posted October 8, 2012 Share Posted October 8, 2012 I don't want to be "that guy" but Max Payne did literally the exact same thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C_U_SPACECOWBOY Posted October 8, 2012 Share Posted October 8, 2012 Max Payne the movie or the game? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iambaytor Posted October 8, 2012 Share Posted October 8, 2012 The movie, it was the explanation for shoehorning in Bullet Time at the end of the movie when he took Valkyr so he wouldn't freeze to death after being thrown in the water. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C_U_SPACECOWBOY Posted October 8, 2012 Share Posted October 8, 2012 Never saw it the whole thing, but there's slo-mo all over that bitch, not every time Marky Mark pops a pill. In Dredd it was tightly executed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Hakujin Posted October 9, 2012 Author Share Posted October 9, 2012 Thanks for spinning this off into it's own thread Haku, now I can gush some more about it!! Here's one of the elements I loved about this movie: Not that it was the first to utilize it, but post-Matrix we've been inundated with cool slo-mo action scenes in movies. Don't get me wrong, I love me some slo-mo, but few films actually bother to establish a rationale for awesome slow-motion moments as the Matrix did. Dredd has some fantastic slo-mo moments, which would be cool in their own right, but the film establishes a rationale for why they exist and then proceeds to never cheat that rule. The film has many, many cool slow-motion shots, but for each one there is always an observer under the time-dialating effects of the aptly named drug: "Slo-mo". The only other movie I can think of which went so far as to draft a "in canon" rationale for having cool SFX shots is Inception. Okay, I enjoyed the hell out of this movie, but I think you're maybe giving it some hyperbolic praise here. One man's "aptly named" slo-mo is another man's "horribly named" unobtanium. Just sayin'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C_U_SPACECOWBOY Posted October 9, 2012 Share Posted October 9, 2012 (edited) It's a drug called slo-mo that makes things seem like they're in slo-mo. That's pretty much about as aptly named as you can get. Hey, I never said it was clever. Unobtainium might have well have been called "comeupwithabetternamelaterium". Edited October 9, 2012 by C_U_SPACECOWBOY Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iambaytor Posted October 9, 2012 Share Posted October 9, 2012 Mcguffinite might've been more appropriate a mineral name. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Newtype Posted January 5, 2013 Share Posted January 5, 2013 Looking forward to picking up the movie next week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iambaytor Posted January 5, 2013 Share Posted January 5, 2013 Judge Dredd's S&M gear looks really creepy on a kid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crimsonfire Posted January 6, 2013 Share Posted January 6, 2013 I preferred the costumes in the previous Dredd. The new ones looked like some shit out of Modern Warfare. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the division of joy Posted January 6, 2013 Share Posted January 6, 2013 Got around to watching this. Reminded me of the raid in parts, which is no bad thing. I very much liked it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Hakujin Posted January 6, 2013 Author Share Posted January 6, 2013 Judge Dredd's S&M gear looks really creepy on a kid. Seconded. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Newtype Posted January 6, 2013 Share Posted January 6, 2013 I preferred the costumes in the previous Dredd. The new ones looked like some shit out of Modern Warfare. That costume would've been out of place in the new movie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MetalHeart Posted January 10, 2013 Share Posted January 10, 2013 I really dug the new one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iambaytor Posted January 10, 2013 Share Posted January 10, 2013 Watched the new one last night. It was pretty good. The slo-mo got old fast but fortunately after using it six times in a row they backed off until the ending and the fact that it looked like a Canadian tv show bugged me for about 30 minutes until my brain adjusted. It wasn't much for story and the premise got pretty stretched out even for its limited run-time. Also it seemed like Urban was playing Robocop instead of Judge Dredd most of the time. But I was entertained and I'll definitely watch it again. So 3 and a half out of 5. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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