Marvel superheroes

[wps]

i think its so fucking silly that spiderman can actually shoot webs from his wrists without high tech web shooters in the movies

[ZekeySpaceyLizard]

i think its so fucking silly that spiderman can actually shoot webs from his wrists without high tech web shooters in the movies

from a scientific standpoint, it makes no sense
but neither does a man made of orange rocks, a woman made of insects, or a purple giant man in a costume who eats planets

personally i prefer the biological webshooters
peter was smart....but having built his own webshooters is something a genius would have to build. and they never really have shown parker to be a genius. smart? yes. genius? eh

also i dont think of 1408 as a horror film. it didnt scare me. it was a great thrilling paranormal action film though
i put it in the same tier as men in black, ghostbusters, and hellboy

[wps]

ok you somewhat have a point



but i dont understand redskull either, if the nazis would have a superhero, wouldn't it be some super strong blonde guy with blue eyes and shit?

[MRat]

red skull was a super strong blond guy with blue eyes, then they fucked him up.

[wps]

wasnt he a brown-haired faggot?

[trent bortknob]

stephen king movies arent scary

his books are scary but its just too hard for anyone to recreate the kind of scare that the books have

the mist is the only one i like and it wasnt even that scary

[MRat]

did you watch that horrible 1991 Captain America movie where he's some gay Italian kid?



No he wasn't. Red Skull was some SS genius guy.

[MRat]

I don't really find his books scary either. I find them immersive, and he is one of the very few horror writers who created full, convincing characters with real depth. Usually horror characters are created simply for the purpose of furthering the plot, they're not real people.


I love Misery, Dolores Claiborne, Stand By Me, The Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile, and The Mist very much from a film maker's point of view. The Shining should probably be on there, but as an adaption is blew. Still brilliant as a stand-alone picture, but it doesn't even try to actually BE The Shining.

But the insanity in some of the other adaptions are things I love too. IT with Tim Curry, that terrible very long The Stand TV movie, thinner even. I like most of them.


The problem with adapting Stephen King is the same problem with adaption H.P. Lovecraft. The horror is so rooted in how slowly realizations are made, and rely on insanity being a very real influence, yet film makers think "FURR I MAKEA SAW!"

[wps]

oh
well whatever i never read any captain america shit tbh






they should make this kind of shit into a movie

[trent bortknob]

there is an older and better adaption of the shining according to my broski

the shining as an adaption wasnt very accurate (the axe when he's hitting the door and says here's johnny or whatever, the blood from the elevator)

i like those other movies (well not really misery) but they werent meant to be scary i dont think thats why i didnt mention them OK

[texas]

the only time ive been scared by a book was in the shining when danny was trapped in the bathroom with the ghost woman


and that was more of a strong feeling of suspense than fear

[Hammi]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LaXMFAKnBA

In case youre wondering, its turkish.

[redmongoose]

the spider man that used the web shooting device was ben reiley a clone of the orignal spiderman peter parker whom actually had the ability to just shoot the shit from his writsts.

Also Captain America is my favorite superhero hands down and if anybody has shit to say they can fly south because they are probably just assuming he was a tool for propaganda.

Drawn by the god of contrast Jack Kirby, this was the first issue of the series and the first appearance of the character and it was published before America even entered world war 2 or really knew anything about what was going on in germany and was actually quite controversial for the time.  Joe Simon his creator however was your typical badass that read the newspaper and made his own assessment that Hitler was just some stupid cunt that needed a punch in the face.  He wasnt some fucking commissioned superhero paid for by the government to get people to buy war bonds he was a damn cartoon character like any other.  All that you see from this era (including the horribly racist bugs bunny and daffy duck talkies) were just reflections of how the creators felt.  In fact most of the public didn't give half a shit about the war until pearl harbor.

Throughout the series the character of Steve Rogers is often questioning the ethics of his assigned duties and near the end of his superhero career actually starts to become disgusted with the lies his government has been subjecting civilians to.  He is your Joe everyman, the true rebel, given a gift of extraordinary power and ultimately using it to spite the very flag he stands for.

SO FUCK THE HATERS

[MRat]

Yeah I still don't like Captain America, but I still am aware of everything you just said.



Also, Ben Reilly is sometimes considered out of canon!

[FG_SPace]

do you think Captain America is dead dead or dead like all the X-men have been nine times? sorry if that was spoilers for anyone...
also i remember in the original spider-man video game you needed to refill your web cartridges and in the 90's cartoon he had something on his wrist. might not be the same in the comic but i remember cartridges, which seem sillier than just coming out of his wrists since hes a mutant and all

[sQueef]

they are making an ant-man movie

[trent bortknob]

the what

[MRat]

The Patchwork Tentacle coming sometime.



YEAHD SDFUISDJKFSDJKFDS UIN MADE A COMIC CALLED THE PATCHWORK TENTACLE SUCK MAFDIC

[sQueef]

I  saw it on E! television there was a huge list of superhero movies that are actually greenlighted and in production and ant-man was one of the more biazrre ones I heard. which doesn't mean it will make it all the way but still yeah

Also after actually reading some of this thread i'll try to give a quick summation of thoughts:
.horror movies SHOULDN'T scare you, i mean holy shit what kind of pussy would be scared from a movie aside from children. Don't take that to mean that I hate horror flicks or that I think they are bad or anything, I just think that they are more about... suspense and a list of other adjectives that I don't care to drudge up.
.spider-man and his web shooting yeah well theres a shit ton of debate back and forth on that even from those really old geeks that devote their lives to comic books but Stan Lee says spidey shoots them out of his fucking wrists, Peter Parker that is, so I go with the biological "he shoots them out of his wrists" answer, even though redmongoose cleared this up already I thought I'd add my 2 cents.

ok

oh also personally speaking I don't hate superhero movies as much as pretty much everyone here does, I mean I don't like seeing the same shit being produced all the time but hasn't hollywood basically always been this way? except maybe when films very first started being produced, and even then only because ANYTHING would be new on a new invention? I mean honestly.

then again i don't actually pay to go to any new movies in the theatres really... Unless it's something that peaks my interest which is usually an animated film I go see at the Kent or something.

[MRat]

Fuck you all I'ma beat ya'll up fucking jack you up right an good