Silent Bob

On a related note, Michael Eisner is officially stepping down from his post at the end of September this year. In an idiotic move by the Disney board, he's being replaced by Robert Iger (who many consider to be just as bad as Eisner). There is a chance that the new management could work out new deals with both Pixar and Miramax, as neither company has finalized its plans.

Is it an actual dead link, Jax? Sometimes it can take a very long time to come up...

Official Episode III Trailer I...I don't care if it has EpI and EpII writing...just look at it!

Woohoo! I love Wallace and Gromit.

I think it may be possible to convince the Guild to allow two directors (the Farrellys, Wachowskis, etc may not even be in the Guild, as far as I know, though). But from what I've gathered, they stood firm in this situation because Miller did not in fact help direct Sin City. It's just that Rodriguez followed the comics so carefully that he figured credit should be given where credit was due. On the bright side, his resignation got him fired from directing the film adaption of The Princess of Mars (now called John Carter of Mars...I guess because the studio didn't think teenage boys would go see a "princess" movie) and the job went to Sky Captain's Kerry Conran. Nice to see Conran getting a shot at another big movie.

Rodriguez resigned from the Director's Guild to make Sin City the way he wanted, so I think it ought to be free from Hollywood tampering.

I like Christopher Eccleston. I just called him an ass'ole earlier because I'll always know him as the bad guy in Gone in 60 Seconds who says "Am I an ass'ole? Do I look like an ass'ole?"

Christopher Eccleston is the new Dr Who? And I always thought he was an ass'ole...

He won't mind. Quesada likes Identity Crisis. He says it's the best thing to come outta DC in a long time.

That'd be a great casting pick!

As it should, because it's the same director and the same technique as Waking Life.

Uh, looks like the release date is set for September 16th, at the moment. You've got a little bit of a wait.

Pros: It's directed by Richard Linklater. That kinda negates any cons as far as I'm concerned, even Keanu.

Yeah, I think so. I just know they never even published the entire run of Out From Boneville. Was a shame too, because I was getting into it. I'm glad I remembered and found it again when I got older.

Gun-kata, yep. Gun-kata was fun. Finally someone did something new with gunfights.

Yeah I wasn't gonna mention Empire of the Sun because he was so young in that'n. And is The Machinist out yet? He was good in Equilibrium but I don't think it was his best performance simply because he had to play an emotionless stiff for half the movie. But weren't we discussing Batman?

Oh, and Brigit? Don't bother with Reign of Fire. Really... He was good, but the movie wasn't. Try Equilibrium, American Psycho, Velvet Goldmine...anything else.

Hey I don't mind the new batmobile. I think it'd make a lot more sense for Batman to use some sorta military assault vehicle than the stupid little rocket-powered convertible he usually gets. Look at the three designs for the Burton and Schumacher Batmans. Did it really make any sense for Batman to have a car like that? No. This batmobile makes sense.

Yeah I got mine at B&N. Borders and Books-A-Million usually have it, too. You might've read it in a magazine somewhere. When I was younger, Disney actually published (in the color!) the first couple stories in the comics section of their Disney Adventures magazine. That's where I first read it.

Batman Begins? It's actually the fifth Batman movie (not counting Adam West, of course). You really expect crappy CG and McDonalds product placements? Have you really not seen anything about it? The cast? Batman/Bruce Wayne - Christian Bale Alfred - Michael Caine Henri Ducard - Liam Neeson Lucius Fox - Morgan Freeman Lt. Gordon - Gary Oldman Ra's Al Ghul - Ken Watanabe Rachel Dodson (cute) - Katie Holmes The Scarecrow - Cillian Murphy Carmine Falcone - Tom Wilkinson Richard Earle - Rutger Hauer And the director? Memento's Christopher Nolan! What? You want some pics? How about some trailers? How could you possibly have such low expectations for this one.

I'm even more hyped about a PC game now that I looked up Telltale Games. They haven't done much yet, but the company is made up of designers who left LucasArts because it turned all-Star Wars. They're the people who designed and produced Grim Fandango, the Sam & Max series, etc! Those guys are perfect for a Bone game.

Heh. Phone Ba-one. That's great. But yeah, Jax is right, I love...uh...Bone. Got the huge single-volume edition and I read through it from time to time. Hell, my Livejournal even has a Bone theme. I think a videogame of it is a great idea. There's a bit too much story for a single animated movie (not to mention the fact that nobody's doing 2d animation before, and if a studio made it cg that'd just ruin it) but a videogame will be able to fit everything. I'll be first in line for it. Also can't wait for them to start releasing the colored editions!

Y'know, I didn't see the Codes of Conduct post for the John Byrne board the first time. Wow...just wow.

...the what?

I agree that comic books and movies are two different animals (though an argument can be made that cinema was what spawned what we now think of as comic books, and the two have a lot more similarities than differences). If changes need to be made for a book to translate well up on screen, no problem. But there comes a point when you change a character so much that it might as well just be a different character. Not a comic book example, but let's take the movie I, Robot. It wasn't a bad movie. In fact, for a summer blockbuster, it was actually a pretty good movie. But it neither lived up to, nor had any real similarities to it title material. If I, Robot had been called something else, I bet critics and audiences who had read the book would have looked at it a lot more favorably. That said, change is good. Change is often necessary. But don't change things so much that it just becomes something completely different. I'm not saying this is what happened with Constantine (though I still consider a Sting-inspired Brit to Keanu Reeves to be a big change), by the way, but it has happened with other things