It's nothing mindblowing. It's a standard comic book style, so it's fine. It gets the point across. The strength of Young Justice is pretty much all plot and character.
Still stings it got cancelled. I would've bought the toys if they were sold here!
Here's hoping that upcoming Justice League Action is good.
I pretty much hate that most of the straight-to-DVD movies are all one style now. I liked the variance of the old model. Some of the styles were bad, but they were interesting at least. Now almost everything is a sea of blandness.
If one thing annoys me about image books is how many of those books clearly only have enough of a story for one volume and then they scramble to create stuff following the first arc. Its why so many people drop off after the first volume. How many of you have vol 1's on your shelf that you read and never continued? Sure part of it is the $10 price but there is also a lack of story going forward. There are so few books that can stay solid for 10-20-30 issues. Its part of what has been so impressive to me about Saga, Deadly Class, Chew ect.
It could be worse, you could be sick AND depressed.
I'm excited for the next few weeks, but if McGregor loses, Star Wars sucks and my GAF Secret Santa gift never arrives to my TT, I'm taking up drinking for Christmas.
If one thing annoys me about image books is how many of those books clearly only have enough of a story for one volume and then they scramble to create stuff following the first arc. Its why so many people drop off after the first volume. How many of you have vol 1's on your shelf that you read and never continued? Sure part of it is the $10 price but there is also a lack of story going forward. There are so few books that can stay solid for 10-20-30 issues. Its part of what has been so impressive to me about Saga, Deadly Class, Chew ect.
Interested in hearing specific comic gaf criticisms of the Apocalypse trailer? Looks good to me but I am not savvy on superhero movies nor the X-Men in general.
The way the singer movies have portrayed the x men is just something I'm not interested in, at their core. They push whoever singer wants to focus on the most (Wolverine for a bunch of movies, now Lawrence's dull portrayal of mystique) that everyone else becomes so uninteresting and expendable that every time the movie moves away from the favs it becomes a bore.
Growing up the X-Men were one of the most colorful, bombastic, and off the wall comic properties and yet the movies are still mired in this early 2000s SWAT aesthetic with stories that don't really do the franchise justice.
I think Singer puts a lot of care and craft into the x-men movies, but the vision just doesn't interest me anymore.
that's cool, on the other hand while it is only the small set of characters that he chooses to focus on I think it's the best characterization the genre has had aside from bruce in tdk trilogy and maguire in the first two spidermans.
mcavoy killed it in the last one. i love the melodrama in the singer xmen movies, would not trade it for anything. imo the marvel movies (and who knows, maybe the dc ones too, we'll see) sacrifice the brunt of the character drama to fit in a more safer 'crowd-pleasing' film. i like my soap opera dramatics mixed in with the action. and i think the leads are talented enough in the xmen movies to support that. always get some good scenery chewing from mcavoy/fassbender.
you never get a scene like the two xaviers in any of these other movies, people find it boring but man I want more of that.
Interested in hearing specific comic gaf criticisms of the Apocalypse trailer? Looks good to me but I am not savvy on superhero movies nor the X-Men in general.
I'm sure I'll be entertained by it a bit more than DoFP, since I won't left as bitter (Kitty got zero love, and Ellen Paige's casting for her is damn near perfect) by that. Considering I don't care much for Apocalypse.
However, based purely on the trailer, I don't like the aesthetics (no costumes unless you become a Horseman) and I'm not a fan of what they're apparently doing with the characters. Spoilers for anyone who may be on lockdown:
Cyclops is garbage and Mystique is the leader? Jean is Jean, but a child, but not O5 Jean, so the most bland of Jeans. Storm and Magneto are Horseman?
Ugh.
Granted, it's a trailer, and the X-movies are fine in their own right. X2 is a great Wolverine and the X-Men movie and FC is a good crack at how an X-movie should be done (bright and cheesy and badass and emotional all at once) despite the origin changes. It also doesn't help that I dislike Singer as a director. DoFP was love/hate for me, X2 was good, but X1 hasn't aged well and Superman Returns was soooooo boring.
Ultimately, we'll see. Basing everything on just a trailer and going so far into assumption land is not a good posture, but as of right now, I'm not feeling it. Then again, the X movies have never really had good trailers. I'm just tired of the same characters getting the spotlight, and they aren't even done in the most interesting way, save for Mags and Xavier, but even those characters are presented in a fairly shallow manner by comparison to the source material.
that's cool, on the other hand while it is only the small set of characters that he chooses to focus on I think it's the best characterization the genre has had aside from bruce in tdk trilogy and maguire in the first two spidermans.
mcavoy killed it in the last one. i love the melodrama in the singer xmen movies, would not trade it for anything. imo the marvel movies (and who knows, maybe the dc ones too, we'll see) sacrifice the brunt of the character drama to fit in a more safer 'crowd-pleasing' film. i like my soap opera dramatics mixed in with the action. and i think the leads are talented enough in the xmen movies to support that. always get some good scenery chewing from mcavoy/fassbender.
you never get a scene like the two xaviers in any of these other movies, people find it boring but man I want more of that.
that's cool, on the other hand while it is only the small set of characters that he chooses to focus on I think it's the best characterization the genre has had aside from bruce in tdk trilogy and maguire in the first two spidermans.
mcavoy killed it in the last one. i love the melodrama in the singer xmen movies, would not trade it for anything. imo the marvel movies (and who knows, maybe the dc ones too, we'll see) sacrifice the brunt of the character drama to fit in a more safer 'crowd-pleasing' film. i like my soap opera dramatics mixed in with the action. and i think the leads are talented enough in the xmen movies to support that. always get some good scenery chewing from mcavoy/fassbender.
you never get a scene like the two xaviers in any of these other movies, people find it boring but man I want more of that.
I think Singer does drama well, but as an X-Men fan (I think) I'm not particularly a fan of his adaptions. I think the most apt description I can put to how I feel is that "it's like all he does is read a Wikipedia article and go from there." So I don't like many of the characters as a result, despite most of the actors having been cast really well. The interactions are fine, for the most part, but I don't like him visually, as a director adapting the source material, nor most of his action sequences. Quicksilver, the White House, and the X-Mansion were all great, and I have a soft spot for Mystique taking out everyone at the entrance to Stryker's base, but everything else is boring.
I dunno. I feel like my opinion comes off as uneducated, but the baseline is that I'm not a fan of Singer all that much. I would have loved to see more of Vaughn's work, though. I felt like he was going to good places.
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