Oh lord -- my mother asked if the Avengers were the X-Men. I was like, @@! They have two different names RIGHT THERE! Motherrrrr.
The girl's not playing with a full deck, Giles. She has almost no deck. She has a three.
Buffy ,'Same Time, Same Place'
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Jesse - Feb 29, 2012 4:05:50 pm PST #18488 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Polter-Cow - Feb 29, 2012 4:08:17 pm PST #18489 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
The Magnificent Seven?
I'm not sure of the criteria here.
The criteria are (1) Multiple movies (2) not directly connected to each other (ie, not a single movie series/franchise) (3) that exist in a shared universe. The View Askewniverse is the closest thing I can think of, although I think it's a different beast if they're all the same writer/director.
DavidS - Feb 29, 2012 4:29:58 pm PST #18490 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I think by your criteria this is the first time it's been done in movies. Because obviously it's been done a lot in books and comics, but you really needed a huge budget for FX and have a ripe environment for superhero movies.
However, the Philip Jose Farmer books ita and I were discussing attempt to do a kind of reverse-engineered shared universe - The Wold Newton Family.
And in TV there's a shared universe largely through St. Elsewhere which links everything from CSI to Homicide to Cheers to ER to Friends.
ETA: The TV one is better known as the Tommy Westphall Universe.
Polter-Cow - Feb 29, 2012 4:32:44 pm PST #18491 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Yep, that's the other one I was thinking of.
you really needed a huge budget for FX and have a ripe environment for superhero movies.
Well, it doesn't HAVE to be superhero movies. That was not in the criteria!
Connie Neil - Feb 29, 2012 4:34:38 pm PST #18492 of 30000
brillig
Murder by Death? Though that was primarily based on books and was a farce/satire/send-up/whatever. (granted, I think most of the detectives had appeared in movies)
P.M. Marc - Feb 29, 2012 5:10:28 pm PST #18493 of 30000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
HOW CAN ANYONE WRITE A WHOLE ARTICLE ON KATE AND NOT MENTION THE LION IN FUCKING WINTER???
HOW???
No, seriously, HOW???
le nubian - Feb 29, 2012 5:19:52 pm PST #18494 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
how do you really feel?
JZ - Feb 29, 2012 5:45:08 pm PST #18495 of 30000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
FUCK THE LION IN FUCKING WINTER, WHAT ABOUT THE GODDAMN AFRICAN QUEEN?
Matt the Bruins fan - Feb 29, 2012 5:45:37 pm PST #18496 of 30000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
The author mentions that JZ, though not in detail.
§ ita § - Feb 29, 2012 6:49:49 pm PST #18497 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
If there is a trailer on Apple, there's a real movie, right?
I'm too scared to actually play it, in case it does something to my brain.
I also don't have the right cultural background to fully appreciate the universe.