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Except doom was rubbish and lost money. And everyone knew what Doom was.
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I suppose. So we are agreed, no Warhammer.
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Y'know, I have two mates in the armed forces who would probably kill you if that statement were ever to be brought to their attention!
But I won't tell 'em if you don't!
Anyway, back on topic - there are some other obscure characters rumoured to be getting the movie treatment. Cloak and Dagger, for example, whose claim to 'fame' is pretty much that they hung around with Spidey for a bit. I read someplace that a possible Nightstalkers film is being considered too, as a spin-off to the Blade series.
There's also a Magneto movie in the works, focusing on his youth and his imprisonment at Auschwitz. Not that Magneto is obscure, mind you - not hardly - but it needs mentioning all the same!
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Hope they were not British, we throw them on a regular basis in the cell for misconduct here on some weekends.. Armed Combat never been a problem then they get picked up by the MP's tis fun.
Magneto Film, nice. As for the Blade Spin offs..nah.
Edited by Blaster on 18 May 2008 at 12:16pm
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Watchmen's getting a movie, sadly.
I'm very worried about it.
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Warhammer is more of a setting than a story idea. I mean, it'd be impossible to get enough into a film to please everyone. A big epic battle story would likely be devoid of much in the way of character development or depth unless you managed to string it out for a whole series (Gaunt's Ghosts) while a more personal adventure thriller story (say Eisenhorn) would have people complaining about the lack of battles. It works as a game and as novels, but as a movie... It'd need one hell of a scriptwriter, and a massive budget to pull off satisfactorily. That and it is a lot more obscure than many video games and comic book characters. I mean even people who don't read comic books are aware of characters like Batman and Spiderman through saturday morning cartoons etc, which is they they can sell to the non comic book buying crowd who make up the vast majority of the audience.
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it would be rubbish- in order to do it justice, you would need a massive
budget- which it does not have a wide enough fan base to support.
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Watchmen's getting a movie, sadly.
I'm very worried about it.
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Hopefully it won't end up like hellblazer.
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There was nowt wrong with Constantine, besides the fact they stopped him being english and made Shia LeBouf into an angel (or was that a deleted scene?)
comic book movies that buggered it up...
League of extraordinary gentlemen (for being crap)
from hell (for trying to simplify the story and fudging it up)
judge dredd (i urm tha leaugh!)
ang lee's Hulk (for trying too hard to be comic book styled and just ending up looking like a cartoon, although there is a mutant poodle - this is good)
I do like the few comic book movies that don't bother harping on about the fact that they were originally comics to start with, like they're begging to fans, Bulletproof Monk, A History of Violence etc.
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A History of Violence was a comic? that's a good movie, slow but good.
the Batman/Returns/Begins movies are good. shame about Batman and Robin (Clooney as batman? i would be better), i do like Batman Forever for some reason maybe because it is so daft and has Drew Barrymore in it.
i liked the Doom movie, i just seem to have this thing for BIG budget crap
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Casperuk wrote:
i just seem to have this thing for BIG budget crap
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Explains your love of the PS3 then...
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A history of violence was a bloody brilliant comic with a much better (and much nastier) ending. Go and find it. Now.
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Matrix wrote:
Watchmen's getting a movie, sadly.
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You and me both. There are some things a comic can do that a film cannot. Sadly, The Watchmen was a showcase of those things, and thus, I don't think it will translate into film well at all.
For example all of the detail in the backgrounds around the characters. In a comic, you have the time to look at them, in a film, they'll be gone before you can say Doctor Manhattan. I know Snyder wants to do all of these things well, but for the casual viewer, all of these easter eggs will be lost unless they can do something to to them to make them standout.
I'm all for updating characters when its essential. But Nite Owl looks like a bastardised Batman who has had to run through a sandstorm looking for the recently misplaced shoe of a dear aged friend.
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With tv series budgets being as large as they are nowadays, i'm confused as to why no one has translated the episodic nature of comics into a decent tv series. And no, blade doesn't count, because that was pisspoor.
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Yeah a BBC/HBO budget could do wonders for a comic series. There was that Superman series on when I was younger, but thats gone now. 
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Heroes (and to a lesser extend Smallville, which follows a more traditional tv route) has shown that a comics style series could work, i suppose It's really just a case of getting the licensing sorted.
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fudgecrumpet wrote:
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Black panther is being made in to a TV series.
Smallville? While this was once a great show- its now the worst show on TV
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BSG still going strong this season, Supernatural season final was really good, as was the season for me. Stargate Atlantis is did ok for me as well. Dexter was/is cool.
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Sirlagerlot wrote:
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Agreed. It's gone on too long.
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And yet it will continue to go on for as long as we continue to watch it. Or until Welling gets too old to convincingly play a teenager any more...
Though you could argue that he's already too old to play a teenage Superman! He's several years older than Brandon Routh, who played the adult Superman! Not that Hollywood is in the slightest bit concerned about actors being the same age as their characters...
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