Allow me to now eat my hat by posting a Marvel franchise trailer that looks awesome - by Scots Taffer
Muzman on 24/5/2014 at 01:06
Hmm. There's a few like that. I don't know about 'b', but Farscape and Lexx were like that and had living ships. Off the top of my head.
I was looking to see if the Liberator in Blake's 7 was alive. I seemed to remember it was but apparently it wasn't. I guess having a computer powerful enough to talk and think was pretty much the same thing when I was quite small.
ZylonBane on 24/5/2014 at 06:13
Quote Posted by gunsmoke
What was the name of that scifi tv show with the gang on misfits in the living ship? Did it start with a "b"?
Battlestar Galactica
Sulphur on 24/5/2014 at 15:00
Quote Posted by gunsmoke
What was the name of that scifi tv show with the gang on misfits in the living ship? Did it start with a "b"?
Farscape. Also the best TV space romp of all time, which is still selling it short, because its arcs and execution are more comparable to Babylon 5.
nicked on 24/5/2014 at 15:50
I dunno about anyone else, but I get a sense of a certain hubris to this, like Marvel have been so successful they now believe they can do no wrong. Whereas everything about Guardians of the Galaxy on paper to me says huge box office disaster, devoted cult following.
EvaUnit02 on 24/5/2014 at 15:51
It's an awesome show, if you're 14. Late 90's Buck Rodgers starring Muppets and Australian soap actors from Neighbours/Home & Away vs. an albino Sadist in a gimp mask. So damn good.
Even with its rubbish Damon Lindelof-esque hand-waved plot resolutions in the 4th season, Battlestar Galactica 2003 still stands as some of the best Sci-fi TV programming within the last couple decades.
EvaUnit02 on 24/5/2014 at 15:59
Quote Posted by nicked
I dunno about anyone else, but I get a sense of a certain hubris to this, like Marvel have been so successful they now believe they can do no wrong. Whereas everything about Guardians of the Galaxy on paper to me says huge box office disaster, devoted cult following.
You just know that they're only doing these "B-list" heroes because their most popular properties, Spider-man and X-men, are stuck with other studios.
The movie licenses for Punisher and Daredevil (also Blade) have defaulted back to Marvel Studios. I'd love to see them do more "ordinary" hero films after what they did with Captain America 2: Winter Soldier. That film came out of nowhere and surprised many with its high quality, it was literally a post-Bourne spy thriller with costumed heroes.
SubJeff on 25/5/2014 at 00:47
Came out of nowhere? What are you talking about? Really?
Sulphur on 25/5/2014 at 14:01
Quote Posted by EvaUnit02
It's an awesome show, if you're 14. Late 90's Buck Rodgers starring Muppets and Australian soap actors from Neighbours/Home & Away vs. an albino Sadist in a gimp mask. So damn good.
Splendid assessment, apart from the whole bit where you spout moronically reductionist opinions that aren't facts, and they ignore everything that counts like, you know, writing and narrative and acting - a sizable chunk of it from animatronic puppets no less - and that it stars Chloe from Uncharted 2/3... oh, wait.
That's what the problem really is, isn't it. You can't stand Claudia Black. Does she not look enough like an ewe for you? Damn.
Muzman on 26/5/2014 at 16:49
Yeah, while the marketing might not be amazing so far, James Gunn is actually a pretty sharp dude who gets genre and comedy pretty well. He's the reason to be optimistic.
