Because it's a joke. Steal his thunder. Thunder. God of Thunder.
I'm guessing you don't write much comedy.
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Because it's a joke. Steal his thunder. Thunder. God of Thunder.
I'm guessing you don't write much comedy.
IMO, in the comics, the Sentry's backstory is absolutely awful and reeks of the marketing/promotional scheme it was designed to be. The character could easily have been introduced as having operated in the shadows for years.
You guess wrong. https://christopherlbennett.wordpre...tion/hub-space-tales-from-the-greater-galaxy/
In fact, when I wrote "Captain Marvel's thunder," I was tempted to attempt some convoluted pun about the Fawcett/DC Captain Marvel and how he was almost called Captain Thunder, but I decided that would be too labored. I guess that distracted me from thinking of the Thor connection.
The backstory reads like it should have been a one-off graphic novel unattached to the shared Marvel Universe, like an Astro City mini-series or something.
That is, the more I think about it ... isn't the backstory basically a rip-off of Alan Moore's Marvelman?
Before i get into the other stuff...just on this... what level of "Superman" are we talking about? Like MCU Icarius of the Eternals level of Superman, or DCFU's version which has him be the repository of all Krpyptonians' DNA as well as his death triggering Darkseid's impending Apocalypse (pun intended)
Sentry was way after my time, so i don't know how powerful he's supposed to be.... but also that ca be easily changed to suit the direction of the MCU
So is it just me, or does it seem like most other people got the joke?
Wow. You wrote one book, which no one here (so far) seems to have heard of. Only one reviewer has stated that they felt it was funny. But based on the interaction here, what you find funny might not be funny to the rest of us. .
Humor is a difficult concept. It is not logical.
Well, if we're going to make the thread about Christopher's work, rather than the MCU; there's always a healthy injection of humor in Christopher's work, which I've always enjoyed. "Over a Torrent Sea" is peak Star Trek lit. His creation for the Star Trek novel verse, Enterprise -E crew member T'Ryssa Chen, was always a favorite of mine.
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He just missed a joke. A ridiculously obvious joke. Not the end of the world.
Hey, look everyone! Over here! Marvel news! (Thank God...)
Ebon Moss-Bachrach confirms that the Thing will be CGI. He mentions the suit worn by Michael Chiklis, noting that it was very uncomfortable for Chiklis, and says, "We're past that". Going on, he compared the suit to "cosplay" and "kind of amateur that kind of stuff now with the technology we have".
https://variety.com/2024/film/news/...thing-motion-capture-not-suit-1235921378/amp/
Ebon Moss-Bachrach confirms that the Thing will be CGI. He mentions the suit worn by Michael Chiklis, noting that it was very uncomfortable for Chiklis, and says, "We're past that". Going on, he compared the suit to "cosplay" and "kind of amateur that kind of stuff now with the technology we have".
https://variety.com/2024/film/news/...thing-motion-capture-not-suit-1235921378/amp/
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Not the end of the world, but it seems to be a recurring pattern (including the tone of the reaction of what is obvious to MOST to be a joke.He just missed a joke. A ridiculously obvious joke. Not the end of the world.
Definitely makes sense. As everyone else will be CGI (when it comes to powers at least).
Do we think that the animators will have enough time to do a good job??
No, I get it. Believe me.
I rankle at some of what he said, but I do agree that Grimm specifically will be served much better by going CG.
I think that Marvel has a lot riding on this movie. Hopefully, they will spare neither time nor expense on getting it right. Also, apparently Victoria Alonso was the one largely to blame for overworking the animators, and she has been kicked to the curb.
Oh yeah. I don't think he meant it as such, but that could be considered very disrespectful towards the people who worked on the 2005 movie and sequel (ETA: and cosplayers!). However, I don't believe for a moment that they couldn't pull off a realistic practical Thing suit that doesn't look like "cosplay" with enough time and money. That said, I agree that the character will be better served as CGI in the MCU. If you're going to have the Thing and the Hulk standing next to each other in the same scene, they need to either both be CGI or they need to both be live action or it will just look off.
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Sentry's power level seemed to change from comic to comic so that wouldn't be a problem. He also had a mental block IIRC, due to his split personality, that prevented him from using his powers to their full extent--but I could be misremembering that entirely.
There will probably be a lot of scenes of Ben in a trench coat and wide brimmed hat.
Okay, that's very condescending to cosplayers, whose work is often as good as or better than professional movie/TV costumes. It's also a mistake to say "We're past that" as though prosthetics are an intrinsically inferior technology. On the contrary, animatronics and prosthetics tech have continued to improve, are still used frequently today, and are often more convincing than pure CGI.
While I understand the consideration of the actor's comfort, I feel the Thing works better as a physical costume. After all, he's a character largely defined by his weight and solidity, and that's one of the things CGI has the hardest time capturing convincingly. Chiklis's prosthetics looked fantastic, to coin a term. Heck, even the Thing costume in the unreleased Roger Corman movie looked great, because they blew most of their tiny budget on it (and Reed and Johnny's FX looked terribly cheap in comparison).
Fair point, I know, but I really liked the prosthetic Thing costumes we've had.
As far as height goes, I was impressed with the way the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen movie handled Mr. Hyde -- he was an actor in a prosthetic costume, but they used forced perspective and digital compositing to make him appear bigger, a nice blend of practical and digital effects.
As for movement, that's the part that worries me the most. A guy in a heavy latex costume is going to have to overcome inertia and have a real sense of weight to the motion, while a guy in a mocap leotard may move too quickly and lightly to be convincing. I just hope they take the Thing's mass and the thickness of his limbs into account. (Like how Ang Lee wore a muscle suit in the Hulk's proportions when he did the Hulk's mocap performance in the 2003 movie.)
I think there have been suggestions that they still exist. In The Marvels, when Kamala Khan first swapped places with Monica Rambeau and saw Nick Fury, she asked if it was her "Avengers test." And I think Scott Lang in Quantumania was referred to as an active Avenger, though I'm not sure.