Watch the spider-verse stuff. It’s among the best superhero media I can think of, and if you like animation it’s worth it for what they’ve done there. I assume everyone will probably not like those as much as I do, but I kept being proven wrong.
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It’s really funny how Sony just cannot stop making mediocre movies about spider man villains without spider man in them. I think something is deeply wrong with them as a company
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John Romita Sr. died a week ago and I just heard about it. RIP
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I was getting Chinese food today and a dad and his two young children were talking about Kraven and were really excited. The dad was saying he liked the actor and the kids started explaining who Kraven was.
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I mean I think we all know the why here. Though I do get like Drem said there are some kids excited about this, but as a lifelong Spider-Man fan I barley care, I can’t imagine why almost anyone else would?
I don’t get the excitement for movies based on a thing though. Like I have the better thing already, screw the movies.
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This has always been my thing about comic and video game movies. I don’t understand why everyone sees movies as this ultimate art form that brings legitimacy to the lower forms of media.
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Watch the Kraven trailer and you’ll understand
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you will feel shame for your words and deeds
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tom hardy doing venom is perfect though so i’m not too mad about it
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I sat out in the record smog last night and watched The Flash at the drive in last night under duress (it was for a friend’s birthday and he wanted to see it as a goof). The central conceit was maybe better than any of these other modern super hero movies (I’ve only seen like Thor 2 and the one with the butt joke for reference) but all the trappings were totally awful (although respect for doing a whole short sequence aimed solely at people who have seen that old Kevin Smith lecture and for hopefully bumming out all the squares that haven’t figured out that Batman and Robin was the best movie). At no point did I forget Ezra Miller’s crimes as promised by that one grip or whatever behind the scenes person that was.
Afterward I caught part of Fast X and it seemed aggressively wack too. None of the car stunts appeared to be real—even some basic driving stuff looked like it was done in CG so they could virtual cam around it. You used to be able to see actual car crashes every day on the A-Team. Why bother with this?
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the wild thing about Fast franchise movies is that they often do practical effects shots and stunts, and then cover it in so much cg gloss that it all looks fake anyway
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yeah, with some exceptions they have a much worse sense for how to let their practical effects stand on their own than mission impossible etc
I still think fate of the furious was underrated though, 7/9/10 are all worse this way
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I can’t believe I’m 7 movies behind
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i jsut learned of the marvel legacy renumbering initiative. now, i understand the reasoning, all those people on twitter and the like who say “comics are too hard! it should be like manga where there’s just one series for each character!”, but this just feels like it’s more deranged and confusing
for example, the 90s guardians of the galaxy and the post-2000 guardians of the galaxy are different teams with different members who exist in different universes
and the deadpool renumbering doesn’t include the taskmaster miniseries, which is an important part of the same story that includes the last arc of the series that started in 1997 and agent x, which is included.
the thor renumbering starts at journey into mystery #1, but thor stories don’t start until #83. that’s 82 issues of cold war monster stories and other unrelated stuff!
it shows how much marvel isn’t a part of my life anymore that this all happened, apparently, in 2017
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i just saw these two venom movies for the first time last week and it’s such a wild performance inside the most Hotel/Plane movie i’ve seen in a while. it’s like a Tim Robinson character wearing the sweatiest SF tourist clothes
also i just recently watched every spider-man movie, in a row, over the course of several days, for some reason
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ya the numbers are all jumbled and some are missing.
It’s… a big ol’ pile of BS Stan would be proud of.
Oh wow, I had assumed this was just to count around those modern books that go 1-12 over and over each year so they can still trot out big anniversary issues. I didn’t realize they were retroactively combining limited series and ongoing series.
That 97 Deadpool run had some really fucked up numbering. In addition to the 0 issue gimmick every book did that month, didn’t they also do a Deadpool #1000 with a couple issues running up to it plus like two spin-offs(Team Up and Team Deadpool if I recall correctly—I only followed Team Up for the 70s characters). None of that stuff is counted.
there was a minus one issue gimmick month (which was actually really cool, every marvel title that month had a little story set before the character debuted), and none of those seem to be counted here. i guess marvel forgot about them or somethting.
deadpool team up was in the 00s, but the 97 run did have abcs of deadpool and baby’s first deadpool
Ohh right! I totally have those.
