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But Marvel has a good formula for their movies. Generally capture the spirit of Flash Gordon.
Posted on 10/28/2014 7:05:01 PM PDT by Perdogg
Wow. Really? I'm 65 and those are ancient stoggy stuff to me. Adult movies to me are directed by the Coen Brothers (Fargo) or Quinton Tarantino, or films like Coppola's first two Godfathers.
I heard on the radio a few weeks back that Marvel and DC are on board to crank out something bizarre like 40 of these superhero films in the next few years.
It’s superheroes, romantic comedies that demean men, profaggotry, or “coming of age (and getting an abortion)”, global warming, or anti-America films otherwise...
There are a LOT of episodes of Gunsmoke on DVD to watch instead, I guess.
It seems to be a fact that Marvel and DC are the R&D Department for Hollywood.
Somebody was complaining about both movies back then, I’m sure. In 1930 people complained that movies were ruined by sound. IN 1919, somebody was complaining that films were sinful and that people should not go to them.
Who said I was referring to smut either?
It’s sad that the cultural sewage is such that ‘adult fare’ immediately makes one think ‘porn’.
True.
Sounds like young Mr. Bandersnatch is a busy boy these days. He’s even keeping tight-lipped about a possible appearance in the new Ocri-helmed Nu-Trek III next year.
Congratulations, Benedict Cumberbatch, on your engagement to Meredith Grumblestance, niece of Oswald Cobblepot, daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Crumptydump.
Nobody ever talks about LicketySplitty
Note: Doc Strange was not a super hero in the “super”
sense of the word, he did introduce parallel universes
early on though.
One of my favorites from the old days.
I thought Cumberbatch did a great job in the second Star Trek movie. He was pretty arrogant there.
‘Captain Marvel’ serial was great...he knew how to deal with the bad guys...machine-gunning them in the back as they ran for their lives; throwing them off buildings from twenty stories up...good times.
And for another, even more lethal, serial hero, there’s “The Spider’s Web” (1938). That guy didn’t mess around, either. Astonishing body count in that one.
I used to read ‘The Spider’ pulps...extremely violent. I’m surprised there was anyone left alive in NYC at the end of each issue.
The studios are getting worried, because all of their eggs are increasingly in the comic book superhero basket and hugely expensive films, and they know that at some point the public is going to tire of them. Then they’re gonna be screwed because all their money is tied up in the next five $300 million movies in the pipeline.
I’ve read about a dozen “Spider” pulp reprints. Indeed, sometimes rather shockingly violent. Never had an original issue of one, although I still have a box of old miscellaneous pulp mags, covering most genres.
I stumble across ‘Shadow’ and ‘Doc Savage’ pulps now and then, but a copy of a ‘Spider’ pulp is a real find...scarce and expensive. I see that someone has posted a decent copy of ‘The Spider’s Web’ on YouTube...have to check it out when I get a bit of time.
But Marvel has a good formula for their movies. Generally capture the spirit of Flash Gordon.
That first “Spider” serial is quite good. Much better than Columbia’s later superhero serials devoted to The Shadow, Batman, Brick Bradford and such. Indeed, it was Columbia’s best serial, by a pretty wide margin. The sequel serial “The Spider Returns” wasn’t so hot, however.
I don’t have much in the way of ‘hero’ pulps, outside of things like Dan Fowler in “G-Men Detective” or Ki-Gor in “Jungle Stories.” Always too rare and pricey. Although I do have a few of the shudder pulps like “Terror Tales,” put out by the same publisher as “The Spider.”
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