Sorry, I thought the comic series was shameless fanboyism, and the movie looks like more of the same.
Basically, a big nerd who reads comics finds out he has the ability to kill anybody and live like a movie star.
Hm, totally realistic and not crafted to appeal to comics readers at all.
At least Spiderman has a sense of responsibility / moral duty, the Wanted guy is just a jerk.
We seem to have a compulsion to bury time capsules..... I have placed some large samples of dynamite, gunpowder, and nitroglycerin. My time capsule is set to go off in the year 3000. It will show them what we are really like.
-- Alfred Hitchcock
Sorry, I thought the comic series was shameless fanboyism, and the movie looks like more of the same.
Basically, a big nerd who reads comics finds out he has the ability to kill anybody and live like a movie star.
Hm, totally realistic and not crafted to appeal to comics readers at all.
At least Spiderman has a sense of responsibility / moral duty, the Wanted guy is just a jerk.
This is from the same director who did Night Watch and Day Watch so if you've seen those then you know what kind of "style" to expect. Though, I'm a bit miffed that he dropped "Dusk Watch" (the 3rd in the trilogy) to do this movie instead and now it appears he has no desire to go back and finish his trilogy (apprently he's waiting to see if he will be tapped to do a Wanted sequel).
As for this movie.. eh, no real desire to see it in the theatres, but I'll probably check it out on DVD (guess I should say Blu-ray nowadays).
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I didn't read too many of the comics, but weren't they drawing the main character to look like Eminem all the time? Kinda weird (or not) that he ended up having nothing to do with this film.
It does look interesting, though, in a whiz-bang kind of way.
I plan on seeing this movie as just what I expect out of the previews ... a movie to enjoy.
I think I was blessed not reading comics when I was young and getting really into a lot of these stories (Hulk, Iron Man, etc ...) as it seems that people are more miffed about the movie not following a certain plot or criteria then just going out with a friend or significant other to enjoy a couple hours. *Shrug*
This is from the same director who did Night Watch and Day Watch so if you've seen those then you know what kind of "style" to expect. Though, I'm a bit miffed that he dropped "Dusk Watch" (the 3rd in the trilogy) to do this movie instead and now it appears he has no desire to go back and finish his trilogy
Argh, this makes me sad too. Those were not necessarily high-falutin quality movies but they were great fun and faithful to the source concept if not every letter of the book. Actually if you check the fansites they say the movies are a different canon from the books, which is fine too - it felt like the movies were a whole different set of stories, and almost as good as the books - anyway, my point is these are great and delaying the last movie is bad news.
What's that, you say this thread is about the Wanted movie? Oh right, well I think the movie will be great if they just throw the comic entirely out the window. So we'll see how well they do with that.
We seem to have a compulsion to bury time capsules..... I have placed some large samples of dynamite, gunpowder, and nitroglycerin. My time capsule is set to go off in the year 3000. It will show them what we are really like.
-- Alfred Hitchcock
Being the gravy train which The Watch series turned out to be, their author wrote a whole bunch of follow-on titles like Dusk Watch, Final Watch, and Kid Watch. I've read none of them, but the opinion is out that they're as bad as you'd expect from a hastily made cash-in.
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Monday, June 23rd, 2008 - 12:17am
It looks like a fun movie where you have to leave reality and all things related to it at the door.
It is added to my list of more than a dozen movies I want to see this summer (I think there are 8 in theaters right now and I haven't seen any of them, so we'll see if this makes the cut).
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I plan on seeing this movie as just what I expect out of the previews ... a movie to enjoy.
I think I was blessed not reading comics when I was young and getting really into a lot of these stories (Hulk, Iron Man, etc ...) as it seems that people are more miffed about the movie not following a certain plot or criteria then just going out with a friend or significant other to enjoy a couple hours. *Shrug*
Unless you were born in the last 4 years, I don't think you'd have read WANTED "as a kid"
I didn't even know that it was based on a graphic novels series. Though that does make more sense now that I know on why the movie is styled in the way it is. I think the movie looks like a lot of fun and I'm probably going to have no issue sitting down with my popcorn and soda to watch this action flick. Besides it has Jolie in it showing of her actual tattoos. What more could a guy want? I've watched every single movie with Jolie in it since Foxfire. Why would I stop now?
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This is from the same director who did Night Watch and Day Watch so if you've seen those then you know what kind of "style" to expect. Though, I'm a bit miffed that he dropped "Dusk Watch" (the 3rd in the trilogy) to do this movie instead and now it appears he has no desire to go back and finish his trilogy (apprently he's waiting to see if he will be tapped to do a Wanted sequel).
Agree here. I guess the lure of Hollywood dollars were too tempting. Shame because what he was able to capture on a miniscual budget was phenominal and the Watch series is facinating.
As for Wanted. While it differs greatly from the comic i am interested in seeing a good ole action romp, and having Jolie to look at doesn't hurt either.
baggachipz: Who cares about Japan, let them have their silly pointless dog games and countless re-hashes of anime-based dragon princess super lucky crapitty crap.
Being the gravy train which The Watch series turned out to be, their author wrote a whole bunch of follow-on titles like Dusk Watch, Final Watch, and Kid Watch. I've read none of them, but the opinion is out that they're as bad as you'd expect from a hastily made cash-in.
This is some kind of really elevated sarcasm? The Watch series is brilliant. Far deeper and more interesting than the movies, but the movies were pretty good too.
We seem to have a compulsion to bury time capsules..... I have placed some large samples of dynamite, gunpowder, and nitroglycerin. My time capsule is set to go off in the year 3000. It will show them what we are really like.
-- Alfred Hitchcock
Being the gravy train which The Watch series turned out to be, their author wrote a whole bunch of follow-on titles like Dusk Watch, Final Watch, and Kid Watch. I've read none of them, but the opinion is out that they're as bad as you'd expect from a hastily made cash-in.
This is some kind of really elevated sarcasm? The Watch series is brilliant. Far deeper and more interesting than the movies, but the movies were pretty good too.
I know I am in the minority among my peers when I say that I really didn't like the book (I've only read Night Watch). I just couldn't get over what I felt was a wanna-be Strugatskye shtick that never stood up to the source. The movies actually redeemed the books in a big way, IMHO -- they delivered the sense of a laconic, nervous pace that was not evident in the book. Then again, in the movies a lot was left out and a lot was rehashed.
Thankfully the movie seems to have very little to do with the comics, because they were about the most repugnant "oh look at me I'm so edgy" bullsh*t I've ever read. They made me want to puke blood in Mark Millar's exposed mouth until he drowns in my bile. No, f*ck *you* in the ass, you horrible little homophobic toerag.
"The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all."
Thankfully the movie seems to have very little to do with the comics, because they were about the most repugnant "oh look at me I'm so edgy" bullsh*t I've ever read. They made me want to puke blood in Mark Millar's exposed mouth until he drowns in my bile. No, f*ck *you* in the ass, you horrible little homophobic toerag.
?? you're not the only one to talk like this about this series, but i dont get it. I liked it. Liked the art and the story. The story got a little heavy handed at times, but it's a comic so not a surprise.
I'm still a little peeved at Mark Millar for how he treated the Marvel characters in Ultimates, to be frank.
This is far off topic so I won't get into it.
We seem to have a compulsion to bury time capsules..... I have placed some large samples of dynamite, gunpowder, and nitroglycerin. My time capsule is set to go off in the year 3000. It will show them what we are really like.
-- Alfred Hitchcock
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Tuesday, June 24th, 2008 - 10:42am
Not to pull this further off topic, but the Watch book series was fantastic. And anyone who doesn't agree with me is wrong. Wrong and a terrible person to boot. And they cheat on their taxes. You read me. They're cheaters.
Back on topic, I think this warrents a matinee.
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Unlike the rest of you, I am completely neutral about the original comic, the sequels, the original movie, the low-budget sequels, and this upcoming Hollywood blockbuster. Do you hear me? Completely neutral.
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Thankfully the movie seems to have very little to do with the comics, because they were about the most repugnant "oh look at me I'm so edgy" bullsh*t I've ever read. They made me want to puke blood in Mark Millar's exposed mouth until he drowns in my bile. No, f*ck *you* in the ass, you horrible little homophobic toerag.
?? you're not the only one to talk like this about this series, but i dont get it. I liked it. Liked the art and the story. The story got a little heavy handed at times, but it's a comic so not a surprise.
I think it's it's a badly written power fantasy aimed at racist, sociopathic teens. Poor little white suburban kid Wesley learn to throw aside the sissy ways he learned from his single mom and stand up against his bullying african-american boss, the latino gangs, and his slutty asian girlfriend through wanton rape and murder. Every high school bully, girl who spurned him, or dork that mildly offended him gets killed. This transformation takes a whopping two seconds, giving it all the conviction of boiled asparagus. Throughout you get such cunning satire as renaming Bizzaro f*ckwit. Twoface becomes Johnny Two-Dicks, and Clayface sh*thead. And the book is suffused with an insufferable sense of smugness, like Millar actually thinks he's being clever instead of sophomoric.
You can't summarize it better than the last page though; a big splash of Wesley, face contorted and apparently in the midst of raping someone, with the caption "This is my face as I'm f*cking you in the ass".
Yes Mark, that's exactly what reading your book was like. Well done.
Drowning in my bile really isn't enough.
"The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all."
I'll admit the trailers have put me back into the "I'd hit it" camp when it comes to Mrs (?) Jolie, at least for now (I suspect she'll do something utterly psycho again and I'll drop back out, but for now, damn....)
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I enjoyed the comic series.
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Sorry, I thought the comic series was shameless fanboyism, and the movie looks like more of the same.
Basically, a big nerd who reads comics finds out he has the ability to kill anybody and live like a movie star.
Hm, totally realistic and not crafted to appeal to comics readers at all.
At least Spiderman has a sense of responsibility / moral duty, the Wanted guy is just a jerk.
We seem to have a compulsion to bury time capsules..... I have placed some large samples of dynamite, gunpowder, and nitroglycerin. My time capsule is set to go off in the year 3000. It will show them what we are really like.
-- Alfred Hitchcock
I get a very strong Matrix vibe from it.
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Sounds like No More Heroes for the Wii!
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This is from the same director who did Night Watch and Day Watch so if you've seen those then you know what kind of "style" to expect. Though, I'm a bit miffed that he dropped "Dusk Watch" (the 3rd in the trilogy) to do this movie instead and now it appears he has no desire to go back and finish his trilogy (apprently he's waiting to see if he will be tapped to do a Wanted sequel).
As for this movie.. eh, no real desire to see it in the theatres, but I'll probably check it out on DVD (guess I should say Blu-ray nowadays).
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I didn't read too many of the comics, but weren't they drawing the main character to look like Eminem all the time? Kinda weird (or not) that he ended up having nothing to do with this film.
It does look interesting, though, in a whiz-bang kind of way.
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I plan on seeing this movie as just what I expect out of the previews ... a movie to enjoy.
I think I was blessed not reading comics when I was young and getting really into a lot of these stories (Hulk, Iron Man, etc ...) as it seems that people are more miffed about the movie not following a certain plot or criteria then just going out with a friend or significant other to enjoy a couple hours. *Shrug*
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Argh, this makes me sad too. Those were not necessarily high-falutin quality movies but they were great fun and faithful to the source concept if not every letter of the book. Actually if you check the fansites they say the movies are a different canon from the books, which is fine too - it felt like the movies were a whole different set of stories, and almost as good as the books - anyway, my point is these are great and delaying the last movie is bad news.
What's that, you say this thread is about the Wanted movie? Oh right, well I think the movie will be great if they just throw the comic entirely out the window. So we'll see how well they do with that.
We seem to have a compulsion to bury time capsules..... I have placed some large samples of dynamite, gunpowder, and nitroglycerin. My time capsule is set to go off in the year 3000. It will show them what we are really like.
-- Alfred Hitchcock
Being the gravy train which The Watch series turned out to be, their author wrote a whole bunch of follow-on titles like Dusk Watch, Final Watch, and Kid Watch. I've read none of them, but the opinion is out that they're as bad as you'd expect from a hastily made cash-in.
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It looks like a fun movie where you have to leave reality and all things related to it at the door.
It is added to my list of more than a dozen movies I want to see this summer (I think there are 8 in theaters right now and I haven't seen any of them, so we'll see if this makes the cut).
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I didn't even know that it was based on a graphic novels series. Though that does make more sense now that I know on why the movie is styled in the way it is. I think the movie looks like a lot of fun and I'm probably going to have no issue sitting down with my popcorn and soda to watch this action flick. Besides it has Jolie in it showing of her actual tattoos. What more could a guy want? I've watched every single movie with Jolie in it since Foxfire. Why would I stop now?
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Agree here. I guess the lure of Hollywood dollars were too tempting. Shame because what he was able to capture on a miniscual budget was phenominal and the Watch series is facinating.
As for Wanted. While it differs greatly from the comic i am interested in seeing a good ole action romp, and having Jolie to look at doesn't hurt either.
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Totally.
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Damn.
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This is some kind of really elevated sarcasm? The Watch series is brilliant. Far deeper and more interesting than the movies, but the movies were pretty good too.
We seem to have a compulsion to bury time capsules..... I have placed some large samples of dynamite, gunpowder, and nitroglycerin. My time capsule is set to go off in the year 3000. It will show them what we are really like.
-- Alfred Hitchcock
I know I am in the minority among my peers when I say that I really didn't like the book (I've only read Night Watch). I just couldn't get over what I felt was a wanna-be Strugatskye shtick that never stood up to the source. The movies actually redeemed the books in a big way, IMHO -- they delivered the sense of a laconic, nervous pace that was not evident in the book. Then again, in the movies a lot was left out and a lot was rehashed.
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Thankfully the movie seems to have very little to do with the comics, because they were about the most repugnant "oh look at me I'm so edgy" bullsh*t I've ever read. They made me want to puke blood in Mark Millar's exposed mouth until he drowns in my bile. No, f*ck *you* in the ass, you horrible little homophobic toerag.
"The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all."
?? you're not the only one to talk like this about this series, but i dont get it. I liked it. Liked the art and the story. The story got a little heavy handed at times, but it's a comic so not a surprise.
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I'm still a little peeved at Mark Millar for how he treated the Marvel characters in Ultimates, to be frank.
This is far off topic so I won't get into it.
We seem to have a compulsion to bury time capsules..... I have placed some large samples of dynamite, gunpowder, and nitroglycerin. My time capsule is set to go off in the year 3000. It will show them what we are really like.
-- Alfred Hitchcock
Not to pull this further off topic, but the Watch book series was fantastic. And anyone who doesn't agree with me is wrong. Wrong and a terrible person to boot. And they cheat on their taxes. You read me. They're cheaters.
Back on topic, I think this warrents a matinee.
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To the matinee mobile!
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This looks like it may be the perfect movie for 3-5 drunken NY area people to watch.
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I think it's it's a badly written power fantasy aimed at racist, sociopathic teens. Poor little white suburban kid Wesley learn to throw aside the sissy ways he learned from his single mom and stand up against his bullying african-american boss, the latino gangs, and his slutty asian girlfriend through wanton rape and murder. Every high school bully, girl who spurned him, or dork that mildly offended him gets killed. This transformation takes a whopping two seconds, giving it all the conviction of boiled asparagus. Throughout you get such cunning satire as renaming Bizzaro f*ckwit. Twoface becomes Johnny Two-Dicks, and Clayface sh*thead. And the book is suffused with an insufferable sense of smugness, like Millar actually thinks he's being clever instead of sophomoric.
You can't summarize it better than the last page though; a big splash of Wesley, face contorted and apparently in the midst of raping someone, with the caption "This is my face as I'm f*cking you in the ass".
Yes Mark, that's exactly what reading your book was like. Well done.
Drowning in my bile really isn't enough.
"The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all."
I'll admit the trailers have put me back into the "I'd hit it" camp when it comes to Mrs (?) Jolie, at least for now (I suspect she'll do something utterly psycho again and I'll drop back out, but for now, damn....)
"Also, I have four legs and am covered in wool. Baa!" *Legion* reveals his inner furry.