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[beafous]

Did anyone read Nick Fury? I just saw that there is a movie announced for 2008. My thing is that I never read the original S.H.I.E.L.D. series from the 60's (I wasn't born) but I became interested when I saw a parody of it done in a Simpsons comic. It made out that it was all kinda weird 60's psychadelic in style (by Streranko) and I love all that kinda stuff so I was trying to look out to buy some of the old versions. BUT i know that Hollywood will just modernize the story in another generic factory superhero remake, which I am so sick of! They did the same with Fantastic Four. I wanted them to do a jokey, camp 1960's version like the original (kinda like Incredibles did), but I suppose that would be unmarketable.

 

[GL]

Just sharing this blog with you guys: Geek Speak.

I've been reading it for a while and I think you guys might like it. All they talk about is comic books, movies and other related things.

 

[Homoaffectional]

Nick Fury -- Take II

Did anyone read Nick Fury? I just saw that there is a movie announced for 2008.

Let's hope it's a bit better than the one they already did w/Hasselhoff as Fury and Lisa Rinna playing Valentina...

 

[Marvels]

Beafous: The only Nick Fury that I read, and in my opinion, the only one that matters, was Nick Fury MAX. It's pretty old, and it's written by legendary gore guru Garth Ennis. Check it out.

MunSimpson: Yeah man. The way she got KO'd in the manga was just too fucking much. I went like 'oh shit' and just stared at the splash page. I preferred how she got killed in the movie version, because there she was a hellcat...in the manga they took the more sympathetic route. Hmm, then I again, I also preffered the movie's lighthouse scene since it's choreography was just unbelievable.

 

[Marvels]

I'm fairly certain that you can get a DVD off of E-bay. I really didn't have much of a problem snagging a copy since, well, piracy isn't legally frowned upon in my country. In the movie, you'll really want to kill Yuko yourself, especially when you see how the girls react to when the fat one got poisoned.

The manga and novel versions didn't have a fight between Mitsuko and Kiriyama; it was more like a huge pity party where we just want 'Mr.-I-just-got-shot-in-the-face-but-I-still-won't-die' to finish her off for the sake of our sanity. In the movie on the other hand, we get, in a span of five minutes: shooting, stabbing, screaming and some slight electrocution in a ware-house battle that will make you holla.

On a side note, I myself haven't read the novel version. How exactly did she die there? I heard her face blew up like a cherry bomb.

 

[luminum]

No, she was pimped out by her mother in the movie. Or at elast, he tried and she pushed him down the stairs and killed him.

See, everyone is so dazzled byt he art is Endsong, but it's really not that good. The coloring is all way too air brushed and the poses really aren;t that good. They're all stiff and if you notice, he has one pose he really likes for his women (chest out, chin up, hip to the side in some swanky style) and a lot of his body drawings aren;t so great. In fact, most of the time, his women look like strippers and hookers.

The thing that really gets me, though is that the faces are so dead and unexpressive when they need to be really emotive. I don't get the sense of energy or action such as when the cuckoos scream 'watch out' or god forbid that panel where emma yells 'there!' in the danger room. It looks like she's reaching out to grab a baton in a moment of charismatic glee.

He's just good at making people look pretty (and all his blondes look the same) and lifelike (which isn't surprising since he uses live models) but not active or convincing.

 

[Marvels]

At least he draws a gorgeous Scott Summers. I really like Greg Land, and yeah, all of his blondes look alike, but I appreciate the odd sense of realism he gets. Besides, his Doctor Doom is freaking awesome.

 

[Marvels]

That's pretty much how the movie version started, except in the film, she goes ballistic and takes out the scythe.

Which reminds me: what's your favorite kill?

 

[Marvels]

Hmm, Utsumi, the leader of the lighthouse girls. She was the last of them to die after the gunfight, and before she passed on, she angrily shouts at her friends' dead bodies, something like: "We could have all made it... stupid, we're so stupid!" I went, 'holy shit'; then 'I hope you die Yuko!!!'.

In the movie, Takako pretty much brutalizes Shiida, which is the exact opposite of what happened in the Manga. She lunges at him with a knife, drags him down, then stabs his balls The Japanese are crazy.

 

[luminum]

Personally, I kind of thought the death of the two girls at the gazeebo on the hill was delicious. It was just so predator-prey and the megaphone touch was so sadistic.

 

[Marvels]

Yumiko and Yukiko, the hilltop girls. The one in the manga where they were asking for Shuuya almost made me cry Kiriyama is a ratfink.

Hiroki was the most different, since in the movies he didn't know jack about martial arts, or the act of self-preservation for that matter.

Also, it's fun (geeky) to note that in every medium, that stupid-ass kevlar gets to save Kiriyama's life. In the film it saves him from Mistuko, while in the manga, from Hiroki. God I wanted him to die so bad.

Next BR QuestioN!!! Weapon of chouce?

 

[luminum]

Who was Hiroki again?

Weapon of choice: Pot lid.

 

[Marvels]

Hiroki Sugimura, he's the kid who has the GPS for a weapon - - just so he could spend two whole hours looking for the love of his life, who ended up shooting him. Tragic.

Mine is...eh, give me a snub-nose and I'll do fine. Make it shiny.

 

[spunkrocker]

Finally some interest in comics on a forum that isnt full of ubergeeks

Off topic, I bought the Decimation M Set from Marvel and cant put down Generation M. Good graphic novel and the whole story was intriguing. As soon as a part ended I linked it to various aspects of differences. ie Blob now thin, yet in Uncanny he isnt

 

[Marvels]

Spunk: I'm a geek, but since I'm unbelievably gorgeous, people let it slide The M series were nice, but weren't particularly great. Civil War is where it's all currently at.

Mun: You have a point there. Those two are like animals, I mean, what sixteen year old has that kind of tracking skill? It's like they have an internal GPS for victims of whatever.

 

[Marvels]

Is your friend for real? God, I hate the idea, not because I'm some underground freak or whatever, but odds are, the US version is gonna' just fill the screen with beautiful 25 year olds from the WB. Hell, I can just imagine the cast of the O.C. killing each other...hmm, which admittedly isn't all that bad.

But BR is supposed to be social commentary, and a Japanese-centric one at that. What's the US message gonna be, 'it's hard to be a kid'?

What the hell, I hope they don't butcher it. AT least not like they will 'The Descent' from what I hear. God that is such an awesome movie.

At any rate, since I'm bored, I'm gonna start up with a US cast for the thing. The instructor needs to be Paul Heyman. Or quite possibly Elton John!

 

[luminum]

I just think they won't be able to pull of the context and the culture commentary either. The movie is surreal in that Japanese kids 'don't do that' and yet they very much do. This would totally just be seen as 'kids today are violent' if it was American-made.

It's going to suck and it's going to be bikini babes with guns, basically.

I don't identify with 'geek'. I think I'm a 'dork'. Plus, I know how to make myself look good and I've got the tude to pull it all off. Geeks wilt, I trample through.

BTW, I'm almost done reading all of The Sandman and it is sooooo good. I think I might actually buy all of the trades.

 

[luminum]

Excatly. That's the way i am too. I don't know why, but maybe my brain just decided to adapt and make as many connections as possible and it came out as sarcastic rapid-fire witicisms...

But I digress.

If we're going into manga, I have to say that I'm a romantic sucker for Naono Bohra's stuff. She's fantastic Maki Murakami, unfortunately, has gone nuts. At least she pushes the envelope...in weird ways.

 

[Marvels]

Haha, BR is the only manga I read, I am in no way an Otaku.

And actually, I never talk about comics outside forums like these, or with my elder bro. I don't have any friends who read comics, partially because I don't associate myself with the 'Spider-man fought Frank Castle in this issue and specific panel' crowd.

 

[Marvels]

Paris Hilton as Mitsuko Souma? Haha, oh God. I can see it now, she slices someone's neck in half, then says "that's hot".

The Olsen Twins could be the girls at the hilltop, at which point I will pay double to see them get mowed down by a Kiriyama.

Cody banks could be Yoshi, and he should die like he did in the manga version

Other than that, what HAS lionsgate done recently? I'm too lazy to look it up.

P.S. Back in primary school, I had the entire Dragon Ball Z collection, from 1-45. I also had a friend tape Sailor Moon from Japan back when VHS was still serious THank God I outlived those days...