It is a good time to be a Marvel fan. The movies are doing better and better while getting better and better. The Netflix shows can't be beat and it seems that the ABC shows will go on forever even if the ratings are low. Agents of Shield has already been picked up for a season 4 while reports are suggesting that Agent Carter is being brought back for a season 3.
Now Agents of Shield may not have started out as the best show on TV, it wasn't as bad as people said but it wasn't on par with the movies, it has started to grow into something that everyone can be proud of. Getting better and better with every episode. If you aren't watching Agents of Shield than you are really missing out. It's shorter sister show Agent Carter, while not as on the edge of your seat exciting as Agents of Shield is far more fun. It's a show about Peggy Carter and the organization that came before Shield. She teams up with Jarvis and saves the day, first in New York then LA. We can only hope that this source is correct and that we really are getting a third season of this amazing show. The more shows in the MCU the better as far as I'm concerned. And who knows maybe in season 3 we get more of Howard Stark. He is the highlight of the show when he comes on.
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Sony wants to make a Venom movie. A Venom movie that doesn't take place in the MCU, didn't they just reboot Spider-Man to make him fit into the MCU? What the hell are they thinking over there? Ok look, Venom is one of my favorite characters. There is not another character in the Spider-Man lexicon that I care about more so maybe I am a bit overly protective of him but can you blame me after Spider-Man 3?
Sony forced the character into that movie against the wishes of Sam Raimi and look how that turned out. He was nothing more than a evil Spider-man when the character is so much more than that. It was as bad as the X-Men movies. Almost as if someone just flipped through a comic book saw a picture and said lets do that with no care given to the heart of the character. Sony can't do that again! If they want a Venom movie, and we should have one, then what you do is simple. You set him up in the Spider-Man movie and spin him out like that. It wouldn't be hard and it would have a connection to the MCU which would give it a huge boost in the eyes of the fans. Plus Marvel won't let you mess with their universe so they will make sure it comes out good. And isn't that what we all want? For it to be a good movie that the fans love and Sony makes money off of it. Everyone wins, why is this so hard? If Sony is dead set on making a movie outside the MCU using Venom than there is still a way to make this work. Don't use Eddie Brock. Now you might be saying what the hell man? How can you make a Venom movie without using Eddie Brock? Use Flash Thompson instead. Instead of going with the bulky Venom, which they should have used in Spider-Man 3, make Agent Venom. Make it a spy series instead of a superhero film. People might not get it right off the bat but if you make it good it could work. It's the only way that people will go along with a Venom movie outside of the MCU. I guess the key is to stay as far away from Spider-Man 3 as you can. So the man, the myth, the legend Joss Whedon is returning to the world of comic books! No not Buffy or Angel, although I do hope he does a few arcs in season 11 if we get a season 11. Please let us get a season 11. But back to the point, Joss is coming back to comics. To Marvel no less for a special 75th anniversary issue of Captain America Sam Wilson.
It's hard to believe that Cap is 75 years old this year, and Rogers is set to return to the uniform sometime this year, giving us two different Captain Americas because Falcon won't give up the shield. I'm guessing there will be some kind of fight between the two. It would be interesting if that tied into the Civil War 2 series that is coming out. Cap vs Cap, the best fight since Cap vs US Agent. Joss Whedon is teaming back up with John Cassaday, the man who drew Astonishing X-Men when Joss was writing it. They worked well as a team back then so it is nice to get the gang back together so to speak. I can't wait for this to come. It sounds as if it is only for part of the issue and a one time thing but maybe if it goes good Joss will come back to do more books. March 25 will see the Bat go toe to toe with the man of steel for the first time in live action. This could be the biggest moment in comic book or film history! Or not. Who knows, but we all know that it is going to be beyond exciting for comic book fans. I know I'm going to be in the front of that line.
Now when this movie was first announced a lot of fans, myself included felt that DC comics was trying to hard to be the Avengers. Only dark. As time went on and we started to see the trailers we started to have faith that maybe they were just going their own way. That it will be as good, well almost as good, after all Joss Whedon is writing or directing this one. All that changed when DC went on the offensive and insulted not just Marvel but fans. They said that Marvel movies were dumbed down and that they were scared that the audience wouldn't understand their film. Uh what? How complicated are your movies that we wouldn't understand them? If the point of that was to say hey we are better I think they forgot that most of their fans over lap with Marvel fans. They just spit in the face of a lot of people who are the same people they need to get into theaters. This isn't the first attack on Marvel. The actor playing Aquaman said f#*k Marvel and Joker and Harley Quinn are wearing shirts that say the same. Instead of promoting what is arguably the most anticipated movie of all time all they are doing is bad mouthing the people who made this possible for them. Let's not forget that it was a DC film, a batman film that killed comic book movies before a Marvel Film, Blade, brought them back and Iron Man that changed the game forever. Batman V Superman is going to be a blockbuster, it is going to sell a lot of tickets but how will it be remembered? It has to now top every Marvel movie in order to be a success. Not only Batman V Superman but suicide squad and all the DC movies that come out after have to beat the Marvel films as well. That is the bar they set themselves. March 25th we will see what DC brings to the table and two months later we will see how Marvel handles the same film, only with characters that we have grown with. So I just read an article talking about how comic books need to become more like the movies in order to survive. Now I understand that thought. I even agree that it might help sell some books but is that really the only way to stay alive?
Now I'm not old but I'm not a high schooler either. I'm 26, so yeah whatever, let's not talk about my age. It isn't important! What is important is that when I was a kid, comic books were a hidden world. It was something special. Something that was ours and no one else knew about it. I mean ok, we had the X-Men and Batman cartoons. Not to mention a lot of lesser known ones and those were cool, they were but the books were better. Now everyone knows how I feel about books. Even as a film maker I am a big believer that there is no movie or tv show that match the level of greatness of the corresponding book. It's just how it is. Me and my friends use to trade comic books and talk about parts of the characters life that no one else knew about. We would spend hours on hours arguing about weird little details that no one knew about. Why? Because we cared. We did. These people were in our house month in and month out and they meant something to us. Movies are great and can be powerful, they can. But they don't live with us. They don't come back over and over again and if they do it is spread out over years. TV is better in that it lets us live with characters week in and week out. But then they go away for a while before coming back, at least till they end for good. What the writer of the article doesn't seem to understand is that comic books, at least the great ones have been around far longer than us. There is a sense of history to it. A sense of being apart of something bigger than us. When you read a comic book you love, take flash, you can go back and find old stories. There is always something to read. Something to discover. It is a world so much larger than our own. Larger than our own. That is what comic books do better than anyone else. They create a whole world. Stan Lee use to talk about it a lot in the silver age but it goes back to the golden age. Namor and the Human Torch fought each other. Oh and if you think I'm talking about Johnny Storm than you aren't comic book fan. Your a movie or TV fan. Let's put a pin in this and finish the point of this paragraph. Comics come together and cross over in a way that even the Marvel movies and Arrowverse can't do as well. I mean they come close, they really do but not as well as Marvel did it in their prime. Back in the day Marvel, I can't talk about DC as much because I don't really read DC comics, I just don't. Anyways, back in the day Marvel cared about the universe. If the Thing was starting his own book, he was leaving the Fantastic Four. If Wolverine was busy in his title he was missing from the X-Men book. Now Wolverine, well he is dead but still manages to be everywhere. Deadpool and the 30 different Spider-Men are running all around. If you read 2 different X-Men titles in a week you see the same characters appear. What order do they take place? Are they even connected? This is what is causing the downfall of comics. Not disinterest. Well it is disinterest, just not from the audience, it is disinterest from the writers and editors. They don't feel connected in the way they once did and it is truly a loss for the art as a whole. Now as for the point of their arguments, movie and tv have more fans and by directing the comic books towards the stories happening over there they can pull in more and more people to read them. Uh no. Movie and TV fans aren't going to go read the comic books. And if they do they won't read the same story they just watched. They are fans of the movies and shows. Not the characters. It's a sad truth but one that we should be honest about if you want to seriously talk about throwing away stories that have been growing and expanding since 1937, when the first issue of Detective Comics came out. 1938 if you want to start with the first super hero, Superman in Action Comics. These fans that you want to change the whole industry for are fair weather fans at best. They will watch the movies and shows and love them while they are on but the second that they go off air, even for a week they forget all about them. The talks that I use to have with my friends about these characters are not the ones being had now. They just don't care. All you will do with this course of action is drive away the fans who have been living in this world for so long. Look at what Marvel is doing, not in comics but everywhere else. They are looking at the movies and changing everything to fit them. If you are a fan of the X-Men or Fantastic Four than Marvel doesn't care about you anymore. No toys, no characters in games like Future Fight. In the comics the FF are gone and the X-Men are shit on more than ever. To the point where they aren't even relevant anymore. The Inhumans are replacing them more and more every day. If you really want to bring comics books back from the brink than look at Ms. Marvel. She is a new character and doing extremely well right now. Instead of making 15 different people calling themselves Spider-Man or having two Captain America's or two Punishers let's create new characters. Have new stories to tell. We don't need a civil war 2 just because a movie is coming out. Have something new happen, or stop with the major events for a while. Back in the day events were a must collect thing. Now they chase me away from buying comic books because they happen every five minutes and every title ties in. News flash, just because they say they tie in doesn't mean they do. They trick you into buying books that you don't care about. How is that good for business? Originality is what made comic books great, it is the reason why the films and shows based on classic characters and stories are doing so great. Let's not forget where it all started from and let it be. Let comics live on their own without having to bow down to the big two, TV and Movies not Marvel and DC. Make reading comic books an experience again. New stories built off of the old ones, not the same two stories over and over. Let the books continue, I use to love getting issues in the hundreds and going back to hunt down the ones I miss. Now I have 15 different Iron Man #1. What the hell is the point of that? Stop with the comic book season and go back to the one long long story that got us into this world to begin with. Let the universe connect. Not just everyone doing whatever the hell they want. Comic Books have always been looked down on, let's not kid ourselves that just because the shows and movies are doing great that the books can match that. Don't. Stick with what has been working since the 60's. Avoid the pitfalls of the 90's and we will be fine. Long Live Comics! Gotham, the batman show that has many people are split on. Is it a good coming to age story or is it a show that has no sense of identity and is trying too hard to do too much? Maybe it is a bit of both. Is there anything wrong with that? I guess it is up to us as individuals to decide how we feel about it.
One thing is for sure, the show is a far cry from what was pitched to the audience way back when. The show was to be about Jim Gordon coming to Gotham and dealing with the city as it falls apart. We were only supposed to see Bruce on the first episode when his parents are killed. However it really quickly shifted to being an even split between Jim and Bruce. It has made for some good moments, the ending of season one when Bruce finds out his dad's hidden office was perfect! But the show does throw every villein it can find into the fray. Which is a bit weird seeing as Batman is still a kid. Now they have him hunting down his parents killers and getting closer and closer to being Batman. I love the show and am up for the ride, I just hope they pay attention to where Smallville went wrong. They made him superman in all but name and cape far too soon and the last thing this show needs is a pint sized Batman running around. So Nickelodeon is jumping into the remake train. With what you ask? Legends of the Hidden Temple. What is that? Oh come now! That was easily one of the coolest game shows back in the day. I use to watch it with my mom all the time when I was a young kid. It's a game show where kids would more or less Be Indiana Jones. It was really cool back in the day. But being that as it may, what are you going to do for a movie? I mean a group of kids being Indiana Jones? Kids fighting a temple? So many thoughts but only time will tell what this movie becomes. I think it has a chance to be something really fun and exciting.
So as is the trend in Hollywood now a days they are taking a beloved movie and turning it into a TV show. Now this is nothing new, anyone remember Honey I shrunk the kids? Or Weird Science? Or the greatest show of all time? Or even modern shows like Limitless. So should we be surprised when they announced a show based off of Cruel Intentions. Now they want to go the Limitless route and make it a sequel to the movie. The original movie, not the unrelated sequels. Now was the movie good? It was amazing, not the least of which was Sarah Michelle Geller. She was amazing in the film. Sexy, smart and you were hard pressed to take your eyes off of her. Now the show wants to take place all this time after the film, well if you want to tie it together you have to bring in someone from the movie, who better than Sarah Michelle Geller. She has just announced that she has signed onto do the show. Now if you remember the show she was the step sister to Sebastian and from what I can gather the show will follow his son. Now I don't about everyone else but I've made it clear how I feel about remakes. We have too many of them. No original ideas seem to come out anymore. Everything is either a remake, a spinoff or a sequel. Wasn't there a time when we had original ideas? A time when we could create new stories from ideas that weren't created long ago? Now yes I know that there are only three stories ever created; man vs self, man vs man, and man vs nature. But upon those themes you can create almost anything. There is no real limit to what we can create, so why don't we create new things? Why do we keep going back to the well, bleeding it dry? Maybe that is all we have left, I can only hope that I am wrong. Now I know that seems like I'm not into the idea of this show, but hey I am. I love Sarah Michelle Geller and I loved Cruel Intentions. If this movie does the movie justice and creates an interesting new story in that world than I will gladly jump on that ride. After all some times unlikely sequels can turn out amazing. I mean just check out the limitless TV show. |
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