Mr Sneeze

Hard to imagine any big budgets going ahead for comicbook movies.

OMG! This is so beautiful!

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Finally got a chance to get out and see this and Holy ****! This is an incredible movie! Incredible! I don't want to say too much to spoil anything but if you like film then this is a must see no matter if your versed in Godzilla lore or not. 10/10 The score is amazing, f-ing fantastic. Love the reprisal of the original theme! I had said in an earlier post that I hoped it could be as good as Shin Godzilla by Hideaki Anno (Evangellion creator and another 10/10 for me) and it is every bit as good. I don't mean to invite comparisons as they are both their own thing. Good for Toho studios. I hope strong word of mouth keeps this in theaters longer. A lot of people at the showing I went to this evening.

Chip, have you been reading any of the new books after Hickmans run. I think it’s Slott writing? If so, any thoughts about it?

It's so fun! Indeed! However, I was referring to your dead horse.

Well, you two are now starting to see what I've been talking about. Disney cares NOTHING about the art form. It's just catering for dollars For the record, If I agreed with you, I am to be taken immediately for shock treatment and to the nearest available Volleyball camp.

Well, you’re definitely beating something.

Just for fun… sorry about the orientation, I’ll try to fix it later

I would take issue here in that Victor has to live with what he has created in that his over reaching pride or hubris created something that will haunt him for what time is left of his life. Shelley added the Promethean sub-title did she not - and there is undeniable horror in that fate - and I would add Icarus as well. We see a modern take in the recent Oppenheimer movie. There is no denying the science in either we can see both chained to that stone and the horror it entails. I didn't realize this was about men vs women or giving a woman credit for the first SF novel. Shelley wins, hands down. Frankenstein is easily SF but you yourself know this only limits the potential of the text. The great thing about this book are the endless ways you can interpret it. Putting constraints on Frankenstein to win a beauty/urinating contest is a disservice to the brilliant book that it is.

Great post! Maybe they will reinterpret how his stretching works to make it more believable. It is a tough one.

Of course they wouldn’t. I just don‘t want theatres to go away. Sounds like your getting a combo $3 cheaper than me.

I really wish the big studios would support art house fare but when have big studios ever done anything more than imitation. Then we have Netflix who will only run a film for a one week limited release to qualify for awards. Seems their business model is to not support theatres. I would have happily seen a few of their original movies in a theatre had I been given a chance. At least they’re giving out a few bucks, maybe someone can convince Netflix to buy AMC.

I don’t blame anyone at all. But if I’m an artist and funds aren’t there anymore then maybe I have to rethink how to continue to be creative and be happy in a changing landscape. People have to deal with that all the time. Fosters problems with the industry aren’t going away as CBMs fade. It is not a genre problem.

In 20+ years of CBMs, we rarely see it - stretching - and when we do, it sucks. But then look at the Incredibles.

Yeah, I imagine it never ages well to come across as snobby. They should have written that lesson down in green, so they could go ahead and shut up about it. Any movie in any genre has the potential for greatness. The movie making landscape has changed a lot and continues to change. Money had dried up for many movies that would have been green lit in the past which had frustrated a lot of directors who then turn on CBMs as an easy scapegoat.

He‘s facing

If ever there was an argument to animate the FF it has to be the reality of Reeds stretching. Plus, it could be way cooler than anything live action could ever do.

You know, I lost a lot of respect for the Academy Awards when they let this gem slip past the special effects appreciation department.

My wife will have a good laugh at the thought that I was ever relevant!

I’ve always liked the ambiguity of the image.

Sue must be more than just a serving of cheesecake, but her strength must not be typical or gratuitous, and I think we'll lose Disney at gratuitous. GOD BLESS ... -jimbo(a friend of jesus) Yeah, when I wrote that I was thinking how sad it is that a producer completely misses how powerful Sue is by thinking they need to change the Surfer into a woman to represent a strong female. It shows a lack of understanding of the source material and it breaks my heart. They don’t care about these characters, they are just using them to fill a suit, like Johnny Bravo in the Brady Bunch. The heart of the FF is family, 4 equals; Reeds guilt towards Ben, Sue, Johnny and the curse of what happened to them. They all carry baggage and Victor is also wrapped up in it. They could easily write compelling new stories that don’t fall in the same old superhero tropes. But they will likely make a movie that will vindicate everyone who ever said the FF are irrelevant. I hope I’m wrong, my consolation is all the great stories on my shelf.

How important is genre classification? Is Frankenstein science fiction? Yes. Is Frankenstein horror? Yes. Where would I traditionally have found it in a bookstore? Probably in the Literature or Classics section. So in any practical sense, I don’t care how someone classifies it as long as I can find it. Hard to think of any story lying completely in a single genre. 1984, Brave New World, We, Fahrenheit 451 all can be seen as sci-fi but you won’t find them in that section.