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Quote:Yeah, I think Cap's WW2 uniform and that Black Widow and Hawkeye are SHIELD agents are the other main things from the Ultimates. Maybe Hawkeye's uniform.Originally Posted by Vox Populi
The movies don't seem "Ultimate" to me at all, thank god. Iron Man and Captain America especially stuck close to the original stories. Thor probably would have too if his "skinny blonde guy becomes big blonde guy" origin wasn't similar to Cap's.
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Quote:Oh, yeah... I read the sample for Wearing the Cape and put it on my Shopping List at Amazon. Solid start.Originally Posted by Night-Hawk07
Maybe I've missed it, but has anyone read the Wearing the Cape series? I think there's only two of them right now, but it looks interesting. Also, not sure if it's the same, but I've seen books in the Kindle store where they appear to have collected various stories of The Shadow. Not sure if y'all count him as a superhero though, just thought I'd mention it since he was one of the inspirations for Batman.
I also think The Shadow is definitely in the superhero genre, no question. -
Seems like that look could go in any direction, really. You should give something else a try, like a Dominator perhaps. The Dominator inherent is Domination, which is sort of like the Brute Fury, except it's a Click power. (So make sure you drag it onto your power bar.) Once you can click Domination, you really start putting the hurt on people, and it's kind of a fun mechanic. The inherent that Corruptors get, Scourge, is also similar, but it's automatic like Scrapper criticals.
Dominators are Control with decent range and melee damage, while Corruptors are halfway between Blasters and Defenders. -
I think they are slowly re-releasing the original series. It's probably Martin's distractions and the adding of new material that's been slowing things down.
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Quote:You're right, I typoed 60% instead of 40% (23rd-26th). It was 60% by the end of the third weekend. Lifts in the shoes and a longer stride, but still not much in the way of legs.Originally Posted by Arcanaville
That doesn't sound right. According to boxofficemojo, Indy4 made $100M opening weekend ($125M to Sunday because it opened on thursday) and ended with $317M domestically. That means it earned about 3.2x opening weekend. That's actually pretty good, its opening weekend was only 31% of its total domestic take. Even if you focus on the first four full weeks of release from May 22 to June 18, Indy4 took in about $281M. That means opening weekend took in about 36% of the total four week take domestically.
They certainly wanted more, but the movie did not "burn out." It certainly did not earn 60% of its revenue on opening weekend. It earned about 60% of its first weeks revenue on opening weekend. By the end of week two, it had more than doubled opening weekend's grosses ($225M).
Even if you count the entire period from May 22 (thursday) to May 26 (monday) "opening weekend" due to the holiday, Indy4 went on to more than double the total take from that stretch of five days. It was fairly financially successful domestically and very financially successful overall including worldwide grosses. -
Quote:Originally Posted by Chad Gulzow-Man
Are these puns just stream of consciousness for you? What are you going to do when they start to dry up? And how will you tide yourself over then?
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I really have to pee now.
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Quote:Sure... unless you moved to California in 1984.Originally Posted by Freitag
I actually used a rotary phone up until I moved to California :-). That makes me awesome, right?
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...why is this not possible?
They are meant to be together, like Romeo and Juliet, Samson and Delilah, Statesman and Statesman's face shield thingy. -
Quote:Ahh-HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!Originally Posted by Dink
As promised pics of Huge and Female ports ^_^ sorry for taking so long been busy working on my next project
So, so awesome.
(Although seriously, I need that chest piece for my Ghostman character.) -
...and I just discovered that young Simon Tam in Firefly was played by Zac Efron in his first professional role.
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Ultimate Hulk was a lot darker and far more disturbed than either 616 or Bixby Hulk. I mean, he ate people, including Abomination. I definitely get more Bixby than Ultimate in this version.
I think they took a couple of trivial aspects of the Ultimate Thor -- there's no alter-ego and he's a Science-based character rather than a Magic one -- and sort of folded those into the Straczynski version of Thor. Stylistically, Thor looks and speaks just like the Straczynski-Copiel version, and his character arc is that of the classic 616 origin. Of course, the Ultimate Loki kind of throws the "science" part of it into question, since there's plenty of evidence these guys are actually supernatural in nature. All in all, though, I don't get much of an Ultimate vibe from Thor. -
Quote:Yeah, take a shot of them crawling up your arm. Let's creep people out.Originally Posted by ClawsandEffect
What? You mean my claims on the size of my particular tarantula?
I don't have any good pics of my spider (she's very shy and runs from light sources), but when I get home I can find a pic or two of the species she is and post those.
Or did you mean having pinktoes crawling on me? -
Quote:It pretty much did burn out. It earned 60% of its money opening weekend. Attendance went from more than 34,000 per theatre its first weekend to 13,000 its second one. In week two it was beaten by Sex and the City. That's bad word of mouth in action.Originally Posted by BrandX
But it did continue making money after it's debut. It also has generably favorable reviews.
It made 100million it's opening weekend and then another 200+million in the US. If it didn't have legs, wouldn't it have bombed after the weekend debut?
$317 million domestic sounds like a lot of money, but it's not for an Indiana Jones movie. There are few characters or franchises as beloved as that one, and the hype for it was huge. Maybe you've forgotten the raucous cheers that broke out when that first trailer was released. Anticipation was huge. And then once people saw it, word of mouth caused it to fizzle. If they had delivered another Raiders or Last Crusade instead of another Temple of Doom, Crystal Skull would've earned more money than Dark Knight. Adjusted for inflation, Raiders earned $700 million domestic, Temple made $430 million and Last Crusade made $400 million. Anticipation for Indy 4 was huge, but it sold less than half the number of tickets Last Crusade did.
The story was the same for DVD: it made $117 million, but all of that was front-loaded. It quickly fell off. Contrast it with Iron Man, which earned $200 million less globally that same year but slightly more domestically, selling $173 million on DVD its first month, and continues to sell at four times the rate of Indy 4. Those are legs. -
Quote:Hell, they can lift any number of the scenes from Bendis' work and use those for entire episodes. But it's a great opportunity to flesh out the marvel universe by bringing up AIM, Jessica Walters, S.T.R.I.K.E. (the UK equivalent), Alpha Flight, etc.Originally Posted by Lothic
I'm guessing this show is going to end up being like "a day in the life of a random but lovable group of young S.H.I.E.L.D agents" who normally work behind the scenes but never directly get to see the "actual" heroes like Thor, Iron Man, etc. I'm sure they will themselves be pseudo-superhuman and may even have some low level super-powers and/or Jedi-like mind tricks.
If you've seen the short movies on the discs, you can get a sense of how cool a SHIELD show can be. Especially the Marvel One-Shot "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Thor's Hammer." It even has a cool little touch that Coulson gasses up at a Roxxon station. I think "Item 47" is probably the one that made ABC give the go-ahead for the pilot. -
Quote:In the first Cap movie, supposedly the SHIELD agent who's there when he wakes up is Peggy's niece. They seem to have dropped that idea, though, as the actress (Amanda Righetti from The Mentalist) isn't in any other Marvel movies.Originally Posted by Nericus
Possibly.
Or they can integrate it into Cap 2. I did like how he saw Peggy was still alive and thought about calling her.
Can't say as I blame him for not calling her, she might think it was a prank or else keel over from shock. Also what could Steve possibly say? "Sorry I was frozen for 70 years?"
If he makes contact with Peggy in Cap 2 it should be him going to the UK to see her in person. She should also be in her 90's so he should move fast to see her. -
Quote:Very true.Originally Posted by ClawsandEffect
I saw Loki's gizmo as more causing the person affected by it to become fanatically loyal to him rather than actually mind-controlling them.
As such, if Loki said "Get me in there by any means necessary", Hawkeye would take the guy's eye if it were the only way to gain access.
Also, remember that this version of Hawkeye (and all the Avengers for that matter) is based on the Ultimate Universe version of him. He was an assassin in that version, and taking someone's eyeball isn't much of a stretch for someone accustomed to killing people without necessarily even knowing why.
Although one quibble: this isn't the Ultimate Thor or Loki. Or Hulk, for that matter. I actually think this Hulk is a mash-up of the Bixby TV series version with the classic comic book one. -
Quote:::: runs and hides behind Traegus :::Originally Posted by Tog
The Cthulu Spider (Argiope) on a human hand, for scale. And pants wetting.
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Quote:You know the routine, C&E: pics or it didn't happen.Originally Posted by ClawsandEffect
That's nothing.
You should see my tarantula collection.
We have one that will be 12" in leg span when she's full grown. She's 7" now.
You will never find a spider pic that will bother me, as I frequently have pinktoe tarantulas crawling on me with no qualms.
Centipedes, however, are another story entirely. -
Quote:The Craig Bond movies are simply terrible, yet they always start with a crackerjack opening sequence. It's like they have that one idea and then... nothing.Originally Posted by docbuzzard
I though Quantum was one of the worst Bond flicks overall (ok, not as bad as Never Say Never Again, or some of the late Moore films). The plot was simply moronic. Yes, Craig was still a good Bond, and the action was fine, but the premise was simply too dumb to bear.
We'll see how this next one does. I suspect it will be better since it won't be filmed during a writer's strike.
Casino Royale is so dull that they actually have to KILL Bond in the middle of it to try and raise any sort of interest. But he's Bond, so you know he's going to be fine, thus robbing the scene of any tension whatsoever. It's a perfect example of wasting the audience's time. And the real problem there is that they managed to get my hopes up, because I was flashing back to the original Casino Royale. That one was played for laughs (I mean, it has Woody Allen as Jimmy Bond double-Oh-three-and-a-half) but the core idea is tremendously cool: "James Bond" isn't a real person, it's a title, like "Master Sergeant" or "Prince of Wales."
Imagine if they had done all this hype about Craig as James Bond and then actually killed him, only to have another James Bond take his place. It would truly have been the most audacious Bond movie ever made, rather than the single most boring one. -
Keen.
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Quote:Agreed. Troy is a brilliant movie. If you want to teach people how to structure a movie or adapt an existing story, you can just pop Troy in and say, "Copy this."Originally Posted by Tanglefoe
I don't understand Troy on this list at all. This movie was incredible in my opinion.
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Quote:Nope.Originally Posted by BrandX
For a movie that made almost 800million, I really do think it was just a let down to a vocal internet fan base while the rest of the movie going fanbase enjoyed it.
One really good gauge of popularity is whether a movie has "legs", meaning: does it keep earning money after its debut? For Indy 4, the answer to that is a resounding "Not." -
Quote:I suppose you can keep ignoring the part where I then talk about why I don't think it works for any MMO and probably wouldn't work for CoH in order to prolong the argument, but I really don't feel like repeating myself yet again for those of you reading this while inhaling the exhaust fumes in the back seat of the short bus.Originally Posted by Kitsune Knight
You said:
How can it be about how TOR did it, when you knew it would be bad when they said 'completely voice acted'? And that it's not fine for one where you pay a monthly sub?
Voice Overs can't be done for CoH, because they'd have to retroactively add it to ~10 years worth of content, and people have already been using various 'voices' in their heads for various people (it's one of the reasons people always rage whenever a book is turned into a movie), so regardless of how good the voice actors were, people wouldn't be happy due to different expectations.
Again, I'm talking about in general for MMOs, while you keep trying to say 'Well, it didn't work for TOR!'. From the sound of it, TOR had lots of problems that was related entirely to their implementation. Again, I don't give a crap how TOR did it, because it's just an implementation. Any complaints that are specific to TOR aren't specific to voice overs, which, again, is what you said was bad for games where you pay a monthly sub. -
Quote:Yeah, the lapses in lore and the abandonment of the basic structure of the game (lower levels take place BEFORE upper levels, always) are aggravating and make me care less and less about the tale, but the atrocious spelling and grammar makes me grind my teeth. Soon I'll only be eating applesauce.Originally Posted by End Sinister
I'm going to have to back up Zero on this one. I've tried multiple time to resist the siren song of City Of Heroes, but the proverbial spike in the chest has had its first strike toward this once C.O.H. addict's heart. Why, one might ask? A big part of my lack of desire to play has been the seemingly hashed together and piecemeal nature of not just the zones, but the story arcs and the writing itself.
Maybe at the ripe old age of twenty eight I'm finally growing up and out of video games. I tried buying an X Box, lost interest in that, and I still came back to City Of Heroes. That says something about this wonderful game and a testament of what the dev.'s have gotten right all these years. I have said C.O.H. will be my last video game numerous times in numerous threads; and at this point it's true. The problem is that Paragon is simply making that transition out of playing video games much easier because they simply aren't putting in as much care as they used to. Well, they certainly reflected that attitude back onto me and I definitely care less about this game. Most of the new content is almost unplayable because of all the erroneously spelled words and horrible takes on accents (now) too. The stories themselves are becoming more and more trite as time goes on.
Night Ward's Fireball arc and the bulk of the other Night Ward content left a bitter taste in my mouth. The terrible plots I could see in a video game, but the grammar itself and the spelling errors made me unable to finish out Night Ward. I already hated the duplicate zone of First Ward and I found the whole zone and content update wholly unprofessional and lacking the polish that Paragon Studios was once dedicated to up until this past issue's point. The stories were disjointed and many were completely pointless endeavors.
The dev.'s are smart people and know how to deliver; Nature Affinity, I'm looking at you! I just don't understand the inconsistency in delivered content. Paragon needs to reprioritize certain things and bump quality assurance up a peg or two because I for one can't tolerate traipsing through poorly constructed sentence after poorly constructed sentence. For instance, I cannot believe that the whole "Shark Week" fan fiction made it past Q.A. and onto the main page. That was terrible writing and an unprofessional breach between customer and content provider. It totally dismantled any facade of professionalism that this game has for me. It was like reading some teenager's fan fiction on a web log or something. Not to mention that it is the very same writing that is seeping into the game lore itself. Furthermore, the dev.'s have made it clear they don't give a damn about inconsistencies: the time frame of zones and level progression is all a jumbled mess at this point because of certain story arcs ending before they begin (Praetoria and the Praetorians seeking sanctuary on earth).
I'm getting the feeling that Paragon Studios is getting ready to bid adieu to City Of Heroes because of its blatant attitude of "screw it" that we've been seeing lately. If this isn't the case, get your stuff together guys, the writing is making the game nearly unplayable at this point.
P.S. Nalrok_AthZim, I'm one of Zero's former S.G. mates in a pretty longstanding S.G. that is now more or less defunct. I am one of those people that rarely plays at this point because of the writing.
I actually started taking screenshots of errors, but that project became overwhelming so quickly that I gave it up. I just have to accept the fact that whoever these new writers are, they actually think "alright" is a damn word and I have to ignore that for my sanity. But it's nearly impossible to find any recent addition to the game which doesn't have a spelling or grammar error. Grammar you can let slide for stylistic reasons (if one assumes the writer *knows* the rules in the first place, which I don't believe they do), but every word processor for the past 25 years has had a spellcheck in it. Now browsers do. It's unacceptable to see things like "seperated" and the constant use of things like "diffuse the bomb." Well, I wish I had that power. Sounds cool.