The only thing in this week's video that did not depress the heck out of me was seeing the 'Guardians of the Galaxy' trailer again.
Everything else made me sad.
Everything else made me sad.
Did DC release a movie starring a non-white actor as its star? Oh right. Steel.Malisteen said:That's a fine criticism and all, but it will really only carry any weight when Marvel Studios puts out a movie that doesn't primarily revolve around a white dude. There's supposedly a black widow movie in the works, so I'm hopeful there, but I'm a little confused why all the superhero film studios think only a white lead can carry their movie, given how significant the success of the Blade films was to helping the whole superhero film wave really get moving.
Marvel did Spider-Man? Looks like that was produced by MGM Television. The Bill Bixby Incredible Hulk series was done by Kenneth Johnson and James D. Parriott. I don't see Marvel's name in either of these... want to explain how them giving rights to make a series is the same as them making a series themselves? Because those are really really different things if you haven't figured that out.JimB said:I am aware of at least three TV programs Marvel has done: Marvel's Agents of SHIELD, the Incredible Hulk, and Spider-Man. That is, of course, referring only to live-action series and is ignoring all the animated series they've done, which are too numerous for me to even bother counting.Quiotu said:By Marvel's track record are you referring to all one shows they've done so far?
Anyone who cares could probably Google it and come up with about fifty titles.
So what you're saying is that it's ok we don't get badass female-led superhero films because we get an anthropomorphic animated talking animal. Something the likes of which have never been seen in cinema before.SnakeoilSage said:This has been going around the internet lately.
The idea that ancient humans didn't have any understanding of what we call science is asinine. Especially the Romans. Really, only very early humans attributed events like that to gods. Any reasonably advanced society had at least an idea about natural/supernatural. The Romans were advanced enough to know that a volcano eruption was a natural event, even if they didn't fully understand why.Izanagi009 said:God, as a person who studied Latin and has been to Rome, this movie just feels horrible.
If you want to make a movie of people in Pompeii (and nearby Herculaneum since that also got wiped out),their lives and how they reacted to a volcano(no science so they probably thought Vulcan was angry), focus on the little people: the artisans, the prostitutes (kind of a poor term since the politics surrounding them gave the women a lot of control)and the families who probably used the volcano's geothermal heat for the thermae. Focus on a small personal story about ordinary people living their lives normally before the volcano and looking back on their lives. Why did you have to make a story about a girl falling for a poor boy with competition from a rich suitor; it's been done to death and can be done at any location with any type of situation. Its just a waste of a concept and location.
I bet you found Day After Tomorrow and 2012 unwatchable because of the science as well? Come on, dude, it's a movie. Not a documentary. And if you're surprised that Hollywood gets EVERYTHING in history wrong, then I feel sorry for you because they get literally EVERYTHING in history wrong. lolJenSeven said:Yeah....
Pompeii was already destroyed about by an earthquake 17 years before the eruption of Vesuvius. So they were probably still rebuilding parts of it. Nice work on your history movie makers.
The people in Pompeii were killed by a pyroclastic flow that issued forth from the volcano when it erupted, which hit the city well before any rocks and lava. This is a wave of superheated air. It travels at about 450 miles per hour, reaches around the 1000 degrees C and can travel over water. Seems also that there is a kind of tsunami involved here too. This is wrong. A pyroclastic flow would have caused a tsunami, but in THE OTHER DIRECTION, due to it, after a certain distance travelling over the Med burrowing under water and causing the tsunami. Nice work on your history and physics movie makers.
Also Italy used to be a few miles wider in the old days. This is due to erosion. There is a palace from the time of Nero on the bottom of the Mediterranean due to this. So Pompeii would be larger and further away from the sea. So again, nice work on your history and geography movie makers.
Since I haven't seen the movie I cannot comment on their portrayal of Roman culture, but I can make a safe bet that they got that horribly wrong as well.
However there is one thing. Most marriages were arranged. This happened when most women were still little girls. Romans married girls when they were 12 or 13. So the female in the movie here should have been MUCH younger. Marriages were arranged when the girls were usually around 8 to 10.
Hah yeah.Iceklimber said:Spoiler Alert for Guardians of the Galaksie:
No main Character dies and all major Plot Events are postponed to the sequels as this movie just sets up the franchise.
He was probably thinking more about Marvel's pre-Disney buyout efforts in the realm of TV movies [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_ej_qTg2L0] and shows.Iceklimber said:By Marvel's track record are you referring to all ONE shows they've done so far? The one that's still Tuesdays' second highest-rated show next to NCIS? If that first sentence was meant as snark, then it's about as full of shit as you could get without it seeping into the sentences around it.
"Marvel properties," then, if that suits you better.Quiotu said:I don't see Marvel's name in either of these... want to explain how them giving rights to make a series is the same as them making a series themselves? Because those are really, really different things, if you haven't figured that out.
It's part of the trailer. There's a joke involving a Walkman.Arcane Azmadi said:Is 'Hooked On A Feeling' part of the original trailer, or did Bob add it in himself because of how pumped he is about this?
apologies about the inaccuracy. Thank you for the information. I still think that the movie had no reason to be in PompeiiJacco said:The idea that ancient humans didn't have any understanding of what we call science is asinine. Especially the Romans. Really, only very early humans attributed events like that to gods. Any reasonably advanced society had at least an idea about natural/supernatural. The Romans were advanced enough to know that a volcano eruption was a natural event, even if they didn't fully understand why.Izanagi009 said:God, as a person who studied Latin and has been to Rome, this movie just feels horrible.
If you want to make a movie of people in Pompeii (and nearby Herculaneum since that also got wiped out),their lives and how they reacted to a volcano(no science so they probably thought Vulcan was angry), focus on the little people: the artisans, the prostitutes (kind of a poor term since the politics surrounding them gave the women a lot of control)and the families who probably used the volcano's geothermal heat for the thermae. Focus on a small personal story about ordinary people living their lives normally before the volcano and looking back on their lives. Why did you have to make a story about a girl falling for a poor boy with competition from a rich suitor; it's been done to death and can be done at any location with any type of situation. Its just a waste of a concept and location.
People seem to have this idea that humans were 100% superstitious until about 1500. That's just not the case. They had the same cognitive and intellectual abilities as we do.
OK, good. Scared me for a minute.lacktheknack said:Stargate reboot?
With Katy Perry?
imdb has nothing. The picture looks ridiculous. MovieBob, please tell me you're joking. Please.
EDIT: Oh thank God in Heaven, it's a joke. The pic is actually from Katy Perry's "Dark Horse" video.