sideshowRaheem

June 1, 2011 12:13 am @j206

Well if everyone invoiled in comics had your attitued then you'd certinaly be right but fortunately for the industry most people don't think that way. Comics are a nich martket but it's 2011 we live in an era were niche areforms can thrive. Comics will never be as popular as movie or tv but that does not mean they are dying it's not just one extreme or the other. Not everyone who doesn't read comics looks down on people that do and the success of comic movie IS and indication that this artform can continue to sustain itself that's why the industry needs DC and Marvel to make bold moves like the one announced today.  

May 31, 2011 11:27 pm @j206 

Your talking as if everyone who ever gonna be into comics is already reading them and that's just no the case.  And if it is the case then the industry is already dead so who cares what DC's doing. 

May 31, 2011 10:34 pm @j206

The point you make about non-comic readers not jumping on is only correct if DC does a poor job at marketing to non-comic readers. Meaning sure the bump in sales will only be current readers if current readers are the only ones who know about what's going on. The number 1 question you hear one every single comics releated podcast is "I used to read comics and I wanna come back but were do I start?" Now DC has created an answer to that question their problem now is how do we inform the person asking it. The reboot is step one but if step two isn't getting the word out in a very big way then there's no point in doing this at all. I think there are plently of non-comic fans and laptist comic fans who would try jumping in if they knew about this that would give DC a long term growth in number assuming the books were well written. 

 

May 8, 2011 1:23 pm @ericmci

You can't compair a leading character like Spider-man or Luke Cage to a supporting character like Captin Cross. There's nothing about the personality of Captin Cross is directly connected to his race so it really doesn't matter weather he's black, white or asian. Charls S Dutton fits every other aspect of the character description. 

Plus none of us know what the casting process for this show is like. For all we know it came down to a white actor who wasn't as good in his audition vs Charls S Dutton who nail the audition but was black. And after Idris Elba completely killed it with his performace as Heimdall in Thor why are we still even having conversations like this? As long as the cast the best actor avaible then no one should have a problem.   

March 26, 2011 3:41 pm This movie is so polarizing but I fall on the side of liking it. Rrom a storytelling perpective it's not good at all. The major problem is just the clutter of it all, Inception was able to pull it off a story like this becuase Nolan basicly filled the first 2 acts with exposition and explainations so the viewer could understand the end. But "Sucker Punch" almost does the exact opposite Zack Snyder seems to make no attempt to explain what's going on to the audience so it all just comes off as a confusing mess. 

But were the movie won me over was with the great action set pieces and action and sexuality taken to the extreme. At one point in the movie a giant Samurai, who only seemed to made of pure light, pulled out a bazooka AND a gatling gun and started shooting at Emily Browning who was wearing the skimpiest school girl outfit I've ever seen outside of porn. Thats pretty much what this movie is one excuse for an action scene followed by another. And these action scenes are filled with things like exploitons, steam powered nazi soilders and phallic shaped blimps. That type of thing isn't for everyone so I do understand the critical thrashing but I thought the pure "over-the-top-ness" of it all was enjoyable. 

And for the record no one should even begin to think Zack Snyder's Superman is gonna look anything like this. Sucker Punch is the type of movie that gets made when a director is allowed to go hog wilde and do what ever he wants. Superman on the unther hand is a property that WB is gonna put 200 million dollars into so there's gonna be a few people making sure Zack stays on track....not to mention the biggest problem with this movie was the poor script not the execution that Zack Snyder won't be writing Superman. 

April 30, 2010 12:20 pm

@mikeandzod21

Kevin Smith did write this years ago its taken from a script he wrote for a Green  Hornet movie which never got made. 

August 31, 2009 10:20 am

@forestjwp 

 Your right about the Miramax thing Disney is just trying to make money they're not the content Nazis some people tend to think they are. They purchased Miramax in 1993 and put out movies like Pulp Fiction, Trainspotting and Chasing Amy. They just want Marvel to turn a big profit they could careless less what ends up on the page.