I think people really exaggerate the problems with it. Tim Story got the basic characters and relationships of the FF right, it's just secondary things like the revamp of Dr. Doom that don't ring true.
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Matt the Bruins fan - Aug 11, 2015 3:14:53 pm PDT #201 of 4001
"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
Tom Scola - Aug 11, 2015 3:27:54 pm PDT #202 of 4001
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Is FF minus Chris Evans better than Dark Angel minus Jensen Ackles?
Kalshane - Aug 11, 2015 4:52:13 pm PDT #203 of 4001
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why?
Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.
Also, there is such an opportunity for a Vladimir Putin parody (Putin is the closest analog to Doom in both real life AND fiction). I don't understand how the filmmakers could pass on it.
That's a very apt observation. Though Putin would be a lot cooler if he was a sorcerer in power armor.
Doom shows up in the Avengers Assemble cartoon. I guess that's just a different set of rights.
Yes. I don't know what the specific details are, but I know the TV and movie rights are different. (AoS is in a weird situation. I think if they had decided to make the TV-verse separate from the movie-verse, they could have used characters they don't have movie rights to, but because they are in the same universe, they can't.)
Doom also showed up on Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes (which was an awesome show) and was absolutely perfectly-handled, IMO. The whole episode is pretty great.
Connie Neil - Aug 11, 2015 5:07:35 pm PDT #204 of 4001
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I do love the cartoons. I've got the first season of EMH on disk, but I can't find the second season in anything but Blu Ray, and I want to play them on my computer.
edit: I do watch them on Netflix, but Netflix is not eternal.
P.M. Marc - Aug 11, 2015 6:05:06 pm PDT #205 of 4001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Is FF minus Chris Evans better than Dark Angel minus Jensen Ackles?
Hmm. If by this you are asking "are the parts of the movie without Evans better than the parts of Dark Angel without Jensen Ackles?" then the answer is no: S1 of Dark Angel, which had a grand total of one episode with Ackles, is still kind of entertaining, esp. with the world building, and Logan hasn't gone into full-on passive-aggressive die in a fire douche mode yet. Honestly, S1 is probably stronger than S2 in many respects, but S2 Logan just makes me not want to watch S1.
The parts of FF without Evans in them are where they stuck the filler. Except for when Ben meets Alicia.
That said, I'm actually fannish about Dark Angel, so it obviously speaks to me on a level that FF doesn't.
Though DAMN IT, FANDOM! Where's all the snarky, physically improbably, relevant to my interests Ben/Johnny? Seriously, fandom? SERIOUSLY? Sigh. At least the handful there are are mostly good ones. Except that mpreg one. That was appalling.
I think people really exaggerate the problems with it. Tim Story got the basic characters and relationships of the FF right
Yeah, I agree. I mean, maybe if I were more invested in DOOM, I'd care about what they did there, but... umm. I kinda don't, beyond thinking Alan Cumming would make a good Doom.
Matt the Bruins fan - Aug 12, 2015 7:59:22 am PDT #206 of 4001
"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
I'd cast the guy who played Vlad Tepes on Da Vinci's Demons. He's already proven he can do a passable Eastern European accent and has the crazy genius dictator thing down cold.
Zenkitty - Aug 12, 2015 8:09:00 am PDT #207 of 4001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
They should cast Benedict Cumberbatch as Doom, obviously.
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P.M. Marc - Aug 12, 2015 8:15:56 am PDT #208 of 4001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
It actually wouldn't be bad, TBH.
Kid really needs to get back to doing comedy, though. Of course, at this point, I doubt that's going to happen, but I like to think that somewhere in the multiverse, that's the path success put him on.
P.M. Marc - Aug 12, 2015 8:22:44 am PDT #209 of 4001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Man, I am NOT looking forward to the fandom when Doctor Strange comes out.
Between the fact that non-Sherlock fandom determined that it hit Peak Cumberbatch a while ago, fandom's weirdness around Doctor Strange in general (I really have been waiting for them to realize that Oded Fehr, their fantasy cast choice, is Israeli with parents from Germany and the the Netherlands, because otherwise progressive fannish circles tend to be fucking awful when an actor is Israeli, holy crap), the general o.0 face some of the casting decisions have caused me, AND the fact that I actually dislike Strange as a character, AND the fucking clusterfuck that is Sherlock fandom...
Yeah. Maybe I'll take next summer off.
Calli - Aug 12, 2015 8:30:49 am PDT #210 of 4001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Oded Fehr, their fantasy cast choice, is Israeli with parents from Germany and the the Netherlands, because otherwise progressive fannish circles tend to be fucking awful when an actor is Israeli, holy crap
He'd still be awesome as Strange. But, yeah, that would get tiresome.
I'm looking forward to Doctor Strange because I'd like to see more about how magic fits in the MCU. So far we mostly have Asgardian tech-indistinguishable-from-magic and whatever the hell Loki does. The whole Doctor Strange concept suggests that magic is a thing, but what kind? Spiritual? Religious? Physics we just haven't figure out? A mutation (which suggests physics that we just haven't figured out)? Of course, the MCU can't use mutations in the Marvel sense, so something inhuman, maybe?
I've gotten over being tired of Cumberbatch, since I haven't seen him in anything but Sherlock since he played Khan a couple of years ago. (I'm not counting Smaug.)