Mr Sneeze

I love movies but going out to the theatre is low on the list, so it's going to be no for a while yet.

4 minutes ago, crassus said:

11 minutes ago, newshane said:

I thoroughly enjoyed reading God Emperor, I just don't see how it would translate into a film. 

 

Yeah I agree completely, I'm surprised the plan is not for 3 movies, one for each of the original trilogy, like Lord of the Rings, three books, three movies...done....and if done well, I think everyone would be grateful enough....but if I understand correctly there is only going to be 2 movies?

In a perfect world, someone would take the time to properly interpret God Emperor for the screen because I completely agree when you say it closes the cycle.

As for the two movies; as far as I know they are for the first book.

Here's to a class act!

An astounding artist to whom the medium is indebted and to a life well lived!

Good for Zack!

I wish him and the fans all the best on this. 

On 5/15/2020 at 1:26 PM, Cocomonkey said:

I liked the three of them on Discovery and am looking forward to this to that extent, but I'm a little worried that CBS may be over-saturating the market on ST shows now (Picard, Discovery, Lower Decks, and now Strange New Worlds)...and also, I'm past tired of prequel shows. They can't break the boundaries too much, because their big-picture future has already been established...I was so glad when Discovery changed its setting for Season 3. Even given how little of Pike's tenure has been set as canon, there's only so far they can go with new technologies and new aliens and new conflicts. They can introduce some new aliens, or the first contact with later-established aliens, but still, things can't go too far from what the situation was like at the start of TOS, especially if this is set less than a decade before then. I want to know where things went after Voyager got home, what new technologies may exist at the dawn of the 25th century...settings where they can do anything to expand the universe, basically.

Oh well.

Yeah, me too!

Just watched the whole series and there is a run in there - season 3-6 - where there are so many cool stand alone sci-fi stories. Great writing in that show!

On 5/15/2020 at 1:26 PM, Cocomonkey said:

I liked the three of them on Discovery and am looking forward to this to that extent, but I'm a little worried that CBS may be over-saturating the market on ST shows now (Picard, Discovery, Lower Decks, and now Strange New Worlds)...and also, I'm past tired of prequel shows. They can't break the boundaries too much, because their big-picture future has already been established...I was so glad when Discovery changed its setting for Season 3. Even given how little of Pike's tenure has been set as canon, there's only so far they can go with new technologies and new aliens and new conflicts. They can introduce some new aliens, or the first contact with later-established aliens, but still, things can't go too far from what the situation was like at the start of TOS, especially if this is set less than a decade before then. I want to know where things went after Voyager got home, what new technologies may exist at the dawn of the 25th century...settings where they can do anything to expand the universe, basically.

Oh well.

Lots of great points.

I really enjoyed Discovery so far and Picard as well. The present day TV format lends itself to the season long plot and we are getting some great TV because of it. On the other hand - having just re-watched a lot of older Star Trek series and episodes - one of Star Treks strengths has always been the stand alone episode. Episodes that for me are why I love this franchise and are great science fiction. As a fan of EC comics (Weird Science and Fantasy) and the Twilight Zone, Star Trek has always been a worthy successor. I hope they can throw in a few now and then.

A great Star Trek Season is like an anthology of short science fiction stories.

20 hours ago, Bosco685 said:

I am now whole again, though had to spend even more to replace what I originally owned.

Now for a SYFY Dune viewing party! 

On 4/17/2020 at 10:28 AM, Bosco685 said:

Review of the SYFY Channel Dune productions.

Dune (2000)

 

 

3 minutes ago, Bosco685 said:

I have the Dune 3-disc Special Edition of the TV mini series. I need to go back and watch that.

I had the Children of Dune set on DVD as well. But unfortunately in lending it out it never made it back to my collection. 

Definitely worth finding again imho.

1 hour ago, newshane said:

Messiah might be okay. 

Children would be awesome. 

God Emperor would be strange. Almost all dialogue. We'd be forced to hear Leto drone on for hours about philosophy while torturing the Duncan clones. Hard pass. 

And Brian's books? Good?  no...just....no

I thought the TV mini series did a great job with Messiah and Children of Dune.

God Emperor is such a great book but hard to imagine adapting into a movie. 

As for Brian Herberts books, I think it’s just his name on a Kevin J Anderson manuscript. The books are consistent with his writing - short chapters followed by a recap in the following short chapter - and when compared to Frank Herbert’s novels fall pretty far down the literary spectrum. That being said I really enjoyed the two Brian/Anderson prequel trilogies, they are much simpler books but still highly entertaining. I think there were some Frank Herbert penned fragments that found their way into the ‘House’ series - that would explain the slightly longer chapters in those books.

Just caught up and watched the entire season of Picard. My first impression is wow!

I don't know if it's the current climate or not but I found it very touching and emotional with some truly beautiful and heart wrenching moments.

Please make more!

Oh, and just because I'm thinking about it and even though it has nothing to do with this post; best STNG episode ever... The Inner Light.

There is no small amount of irony in one deifying superheroes in print and movies and the failure to connect to the reality of the day, the real heroes and the small things we can all do to help.

This is real life, not a Star Wars movie.

16 minutes ago, kidcolt said:

Orr is far and a way the best D ever. Highest single season plus minus ever over +100, only Dman to ever win the scoring title. He simple was incredible and revolutionized how Dmen now play the game. It’s too bad that the league let people run him and hurt him so they could beat him. Destroyed his knees 🤦‍♂️ If surgeons were better back in those days he would have played longer. The only way to slow him down was hurt him. He basically won the best Dman award every year he played. It should be called the Orr trophy  instead of the Norris trophy.

Great post! 

One of the best things about hockey is its history. Orr is without a doubt one the greatest to play the game. 

Always late to the party, but anyways.

Great movie! Can't really praise this enough. This is the kind of movie that makes me feel that the form has so much potential.

I only collected hockey cards from 1980 and earlier and I did really well when selling them back in 2004-2006. When ever I check in, the price of that stuff seems pretty stable, though there is some sketchy graded stuff out there. If they were giving that stuff away, I would be happy to take it.

8 hours ago, F For Fake said:

No idea if these rumors are true (and don't trust EVS at all) but it's obvious that even if AT&T shutters DC publishing, they will license the characters out SOMEWHERE. As long as there are print comics being made in the world, there will be a Batman book on the stands. The money may not be worth it to AT&T, but it's definitely worth it to someone. Marvel? Eh, maybe. I'd like to see what IDW or Dark Horse could do with it.

Dark Horse did well with Star Wars and Conan, I'm sure they would do justice to Bats.

3 hours ago, Chuck Gower said:

Do I think he had a hand in the creation of these characters? Sure. With Kirby, early on, he had some real input, and of course always the final say, but as he got busier, Jack was mostly on his creative own. And you can see the amazing change and growth in Jack's work as the number of books Stan was juggling each month increased, putting more writing in Jack's hands. Both the FF and Thor hit their peak of greatness right around the time Stan had the least amount of time to devote to them. That still means Stan's a co-creator, just not in the way I BELIEVE some people think he was.

Thanks for bringing that up.

There is that outburst of creativity from say FF 35-66 and Thor 115-140ish where Marvel hits it's peak in my opinion. After that, Kirby starts to hold back his ideas - some trickle out here and there - and the strips, while still serviceable are basically in rerun mode. Stan is a big part of those runs but it's interesting to note the difference or rather the decline after Kirby's input is muted. Kirby and Lee as a marvel creative force are never the same after and it's left to others to ignite and innovate marvels growth.

Kirby of course explodes with the Fourth World - for me the pinnacle of the silver age - and it's interesting to think had the' Dec 66 interview gone differently or Goodman had cut a deal with Kirby that all that stuff would have ended up in Thor most likely, years earlier. I'm glad things worked out the way they did as I think the Fourth World was the high point of Kirby's long and esteemed career.

Does anyone know if all the photstat's still exist such that we could see the pencils and margin notes of those classic runs in their entirety?

Lots of great material out there for anyone interested. I would highly recommend Blake Bell's Ditko biography 'Strange and Stranger: The World of Steve Ditko'.

I think Ditko started to paint himself into a philosophical corner so I think he went as far as he could go working with Stan or anyone for that matter, no proof there, just my opinion of course (given that possibility, it was a good time to pass off the strip). Personally for me, I would give a larger credit to Steve than I would to Stan, just as I would give a greater credit to John Romita for the titles continued and increasing success after Steves departure. But I'm more appreciative of the graphic nature of the medium so I don't mean it as an insult to Stan.

23 hours ago, kav said:

Great novels have no pictures, and they are top notch.

Well novels are novels and comics are sequential art and so would argue the medium is at it's best with a solid artist. Ditko's line work is very expressive and again would argue one could get the main gist of his Spider-man and Dr Strange pages without any dialogue at all. Same goes for Kirby who really takes off when finally freed from the weight of excessive dialogue in the earlier Marvels - I can think of a few pages in those early FF's where you can barley fit another word in. Hell, look at the caliber of artists contributing to the marvel method in the sixties and I begin to think the brush is quite a bit mightier than the pen. Again, no disrespect to Mr Lee intended, merely a big fan of the artists to whom the medium owes so much.