Allow me to now eat my hat by posting a Marvel franchise trailer that looks awesome - by Scots Taffer
SubJeff on 4/6/2014 at 13:46
So I've seen the trailer a couple more times now (on account of going to the cinema all the time) and I was thinking about this thread. It makes no more sense for an alien to look human than it does for an alien to look like a racoon. And getting the context of the thing made me think "yeah, I'll give it a go". Its not the same as seeing all the other stuff on film that I read as a kid, but it looks zany enough to hold my interest.
ZylonBane on 4/6/2014 at 14:41
Rocket Raccoon actually is a (genetically modified) raccoon, not a coincidentally-raccoon-looking alien.
faetal on 4/6/2014 at 15:20
As with anything, its success or failure will depend on the execution as much as the concepts.
SubJeff on 4/6/2014 at 15:22
Quote Posted by ZylonBane
Rocket Raccoon actually is a (genetically modified) raccoon, not a coincidentally-raccoon-looking alien.
Even better.
Or the same.
Renzatic on 4/6/2014 at 16:47
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I'd say your friend has a point though, renz: look at all the other superhero movies and they're basically all "dudes who look like people".
Sure, they might be actually aliens, or gigantic green monster people, but ultimately they have body language and facial expressions and stuff that are really easy to relate to, and that gives you an anchor to base your acceptance of the rest of the craziness around. "He may be flying around in a giant armour suit that flies by...repelling stuff, using power drawn from a tiny reactor made of bullshit and palladium, but he's basically a rich douchebag who likes boobs and money. I can relate to that."
Plus all the other stuff (spaceships, lasers, giant robots, mutant powers) are all fairly common tropes.
If he said he couldn't relate to it, or thought it looked cheesy to him, I probably could've gone with that. I mean the movie does look kinda cheesy. That's one of the reasons why I'm interested in it. It's gonna be corny good fun, but I can understand that corny good fun isn't to everyones taste.
The problem is, he played the haughty logical levelheaded scientist card. Something he's been wont to do since we were kids, and it drives me up the wall. If he were consistent with it, I could understand. But he applies it arbitrarily. He'll like one stupid thing, but instantly dismiss something equally stupid without even seeing it just because of the subject matter. Like Superman is awesome, but a talking raccoon isn't scientifically sound, and therefore not worth his time. BOTH ARE DUMB! ENJOY THE GODDAMN MOVIE!
...or how he hates The Big Lebowski after seeing only 5 minutes of it because "people don't act that way in real life", yet he's one of the founding members of the big bi-annual Back to the Future get-together. I'm pretty sure time travel is far less likely to happen than running into someone like The Jesus.
GAWWW!
N'Al on 4/6/2014 at 17:17
Fuck Keith Giffen. Slap your friend in the face for not liking The Big Lebowski.
SubJeff on 4/6/2014 at 18:37
When I'm God Emperor of Nu Earth anyone who doesn't like The Big Lebowski without a plausible reason will be purged.
ZylonBane on 4/6/2014 at 19:14
Quote Posted by Renzatic
...or how he hates The Big Lebowski after seeing only 5 minutes of it because "people don't act that way in real life"
Sounds like he's one of those rare, unfortunate nerds with no grasp of surreal humor. Let me guess-- he doesn't like Monty Python either, nor any of the many Python-spawned films? Zucker Brothers? Raimi?
Fafhrd on 5/6/2014 at 19:55
The Jaime Reyes Blue Beetle was created by John Rogers, not Keith Giffen. Giffen's role as co-writer was largely consultation since Rogers had never written a comic book before.
