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#85831
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Comic book movies - who says yes and who says no?
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Originally posted by: Darth Chaltab
Halle Berry doesn't really look old enough to play storm... In the old cartoon, storm looked to be in her early forties...


I agree with Darth Chaltab. An older actress, or at least an older LOOKING actress should have played Storm. The funny thing is that Halle's 38 but still looks like she's in her 20s (good aging or plastic surgery?)

And I agree that Halle's getting too big for her britches. Wonder if the spectacular failure of "Catwoman" has knocked her ego down at all...

Aren't they talking about doing a spin-off for Wolverine and a prequel dealing with the origins of Magneto?

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#85091
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Did anyone else find Ian McDiarmid to be ineffectual as the Emperor?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/85091/action/topic#85091
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Originally posted by: Yoda Is Your Father
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The young man version of Anakin, as played by Hayden Christensen, strikes me as being more of a whiny, sexually perverse cretin than an actual "badass", but hey, that's just me. Turning into Darth Vader actually seemed to be an improvement for him.


Yeah, true. But as a fighter he's badass. Vader was kinda crap with a lightsaber. Young Anakin woulda whipped Luke's ass.


So why did he just stand there and let Christopher Lee cut his arm off?

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#85004
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Comic book movies - who says yes and who says no?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/85004/action/topic#85004
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Originally posted by: GundarkHunter
Here's my take on the whole comic book movie thing: we've just come off a killer year for comic book movies. Some were extremely good (Spider-Man 2, Hellboy), some were fair to middling (Punisher, Blade: Trinity) and then there was Catwoman. The fact of the matter is that comic book movies aren't going away anytime soon.
My attitude on casting is that the best actor should be cast for the job, unknown or name. Ron Perlman OWNED the role of Hellboy, and Wesley Snipes is Blade, brooding seriousness and all. Ben Affleck as Daredevil or Halle Berry as Catwoman? PLEASE! Of course, they weren't exactly helped by lame scripts and bad creative decisions by their respective studios, but Catwoman is supposed to be this unhinged beast of a woman clad head to toe in leather or vinyl; Halle Berry can do unhinged (see Gothika), but she was really let down by the revisions to Catwoman's backstory. Daredevil was a wretched piece of shite that never should have seen the light of day, Affleck or no Affleck. He was wrong for the part, but he was only one problem in a long laundry list of problems for the abomination that is Daredevil.
It boils down to this: if Hollywood wants to do good comic book movies, they should use talent who know what they're doing and take their time, not rush the stuff to market with talent they think will make them money. Anyone can make the safe decision; it's making the right one that breeds success.


Thank you, Gundark Hunter! Nice to know I'm not alone on the Daredevil film.

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#84311
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Comic book movies - who says yes and who says no?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/84311/action/topic#84311
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I always thought Halle Berry was too young looking to be Storm (I always thought Storm should be older and more weather beaten looking) and a little too much of a lightweight. Her Storm performance, however, is gold compared to the craptacular Catwoman.

And speaking of casting, I hear that Kate Bosworth has signed on to play Lois Lane opposite the soap opera punk Brandon Routh with Kevin Spacey as Lex Luthor.
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#84302
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LOTR
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/84302/action/topic#84302
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I always thought the EE of "Fellowship of the Ring" had the most to offer; the biggest thing we really got out of the EE of "Two Towers" were Faramir's flashbacks, and I personally think those flashbacks should have been in the theatrical versions, as they would have helped to show why Faramir's in a bad mood when he encounters Frodo & co (Eowyn's stew scene should have been burned and barred from ever being released anywhere). The EE of "Return of the King" seemed better than TTT but still didn't measure up to FOTR in terms of bonus scenery. I must say though it was nice to finally see Saruman's death (I will never forgive Peter Jackson for not including it in the theatrical edition), and I enjoyed the extra scenes of Faramir's problems with his dad and more Eowyn footage in general (I dig Miranda Otto). I even enjoyed the Legolas/Gimli drinking game, even though it wasn't necessary to the film in any way, shape or form, though it did succeed in doing something all the scenes of Gimli falling off his horse or in some way making an foolish ass of himself failed to do - it made me laugh.

JRR Tolkien once said that of all the characters in his LOTR books, the one who came out being the most like himself was Faramir. I have a feeling that Mr. Tolkien would not have liked the way Faramir was depicted in the theatrical cuts.
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#84300
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Fan art from the forcenet.com
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/84300/action/topic#84300
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Click on the following links, some of this stuff is pretty good.

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#84291
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Comic book movies - who says yes and who says no?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/84291/action/topic#84291
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But Michael Keaton was NOT an uknown when he played Batman in the first two Batman films, nor was Val Kilmer when he played Batman in the 3rd. I thought Kilmer did fairly well considering it was his first and only time as Batman, despite having to say some really bad lines against gaudy neon sets (I cringe whenever I hear "It's the car, right? Chicks love the car."), and I'm usually told to burn in hell for that. The casting of George Clooney was just unforgiveable. Other reasons the Batman films burned out can probably be traced to the instability of Batmen (going from Keaton to Kilmer to Clooney over the course of 4 films is most jarring to the audience), trying to make it too campy to attract the die hard Batman fans and simply cramming in too many villains, and to be honest I think Batman tended to take a backseat to his villains, something the title character should never do. Killing the villains off probably proved to be tiring as well (whereas the X-Men filmmakers were wise enough to keep Magneto alive at the end).

I guess one of the things I hate most about the unknown thing is that "unknown" usually boils down to "teen idol", in the case of Bryan Singer's Superman project, that would be 25 year old Brandon J. Routh of the TV soap opera world, a casting decision that does not instill me with confidence. I would much rather have had 36-year old Jim Caviezel as Superman, who was rejected by Singer for being "too famous" thanks to Mel Gibson's "Passion of the Christ"; I think an older man like Caviezel (who does not have the kind of unalterable persona that Tom Cruise has) could have brought my depth to the character than a soap opera guy. I also think Singer's getting pretty cocky if he thinks he can make lightning strike twice; I know the late Christopher Reeve was in his mid 20s when he played Superman in 1978, but Reeve had the benefit of being a Juliard trained stage actor. Most of today's brood can't even get into Juliard.

Tobey Maguire was not a complete unknown when he signed on to play Spider-Man.

2003's "Daredevil" would have sucked regardless of who was playing the lead character.
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#84150
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Special Edition guilty pleasures
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/84150/action/topic#84150
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I know in my heart that the CGI Jabba seen in the special edition of ANH is bad, but I've always been a fan of Han Solo, and I greatly enjoy watching Han in this scene, even though the CGI Jabba he's working with isn't fit to lick the dirt off his boots.

The altered music during the Ewok celebration at the end of ROTJ may actually be better than the original music, in light of the fact that the SE ROTJ music is more serious and more... spiritually uplifting, you might say. I cannot tolerate that Hayden Christensen ghost though.
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#84147
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Comic book movies - who says yes and who says no?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/84147/action/topic#84147
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Before the 1978 Superman film, the idea of taking a comic book and doing it as a large scale movie seemed impossible and ludicrous. But after the success of Superman, it didn't seem quite so daunting. After the Superman films burned out, Tim Burton brought Batman to the big screen in 1989's megahit Batman. Then the Batman films burned out (Joel Schumacher, neon sets, campish humor, nipples on the bat suit, George Clooney), and a few years later Bryan Singer gave us X-Men, followed by Sam Raimi's Spider-Man, and the honorable mention of Guilermo Del Toro's film version of Mike Mignola's quirky Hellboy (starring the mighty Ron Perlman in the lead). But we've had some clunkers which would include Mark Steven Johnson's poorly made 2003 Daredevil, Ang Lee's The Hulk (although the Hulk was not completely uninteresting), and the craptacular 2004 film Catwoman (I know Halle Berry was going through a tough time, but what was she THINKING?!). Later this year we're going to be reintroduced to Batman, in the guise of Christian Bale, in Batman Begins, directed by Christopher Nolan, and I'm pretty sure we're going to get a new Fantastic Four movie, starring Welsh actor Ion Gruffud as Mr. Fantastic/Reed Richards, Jessica Alba(!) as the Invisible Woman/Sue Storm-Richards, Michael Chikilis as the Thing/Ben Grimm and some guy who's name I can't remember for the Human Torch. Did I miss any? Oh yeah, I think Keanu Reeves as a Hellblazer movie coming out this year. And next year, Bryan Singer is going to present us with Superman Returns, starring little known, 25 year old soap actor Brandon J. Routh as the title character (it had better be good, seeing as how he abandoned X3 to do it). There's also rumor of an Iron Man film and a new Captain America (with Brad Pitt having been in talks to play the lead).

So before you all here and now, I'd like to ask you what you think of these comic book movies and rate their relative pros and cons and any fears you may have with upcoming comic book adaptations (personally I'm getting a really bad vibe from this new Fantastic Four flick). Any comic books you would like to see done as films are also welcomed (personally I'd like to see movies done on Marvel's Mighty Thor, DC's Aquaman, Dr. Fate, Green Lantern and Martian Manhunter) And while we're on this subject, is there anyone here who is really annoyed with this whole concept of casting unknowns in the lead parts (I'm sorry but this whole unknown actor stigma is really starting to bug me).

I enjoyed the X-Men films and Spider-Man films, but I don't know if they're as great as all the critics like to say they are. Hulk and Daredevil deserved much better than what they got.
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#84145
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Jedi Knight casting call
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/84145/action/topic#84145
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[Dolph Lundgren has to definitely be a joke/Q]

I keep forgetting that Dolph Lundgren is universally hated and sneered at. Surprisingly enough, many of the Star Wars fan fictions I've read that take place before Anakin before he became Vader make him out to look like Dolph Lundgren - very tall, very muscular, very blonde and very blue eyed.

I didn't mean to list Peta Wilson twice. My bad.

Would anyone accept Kristanna Loken as a female Jedi?
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#83863
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What if someone else had played Obi-Wan instead of Alec Guinness?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/83863/action/topic#83863
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With all the stories that go around about how Alec Guinness hated Star Wars, it kind of makes one wonder why he bothered to get involved with it at all (I guess he thought it would be an interesting little experiment as opposed to something that would become a phenomenon). But without him, would Star Wars still be Star Wars? What if someone else had played Obi-Wan? How different do you think the film would have turned out?