tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post5223653501519884205..comments2024-03-28T11:58:42.109-07:00Comments on Raconteur Report: Comic Book MoviesAesophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07834464741531503378noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-86688691591400710572017-12-02T11:09:24.265-08:002017-12-02T11:09:24.265-08:00The last movie I went to was an original showing o...The last movie I went to was an original showing of The Boys in Company C (1978 IIRC). I was, stupidly, expecting something other than what it was. <br /><br />You could not produce anything that would ever again get me to sit in a dark room with a group of people I have never met, paying to watch mind-numbing propaganda. <br /><br /><br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-60424396411238996082017-12-02T08:58:35.061-08:002017-12-02T08:58:35.061-08:00Re-reading Walking Drum now...would be awesome if ...Re-reading Walking Drum now...would be awesome if it weren't screwed up like Tom Clancy's stuff. And, yes, the whole Sackett series could keep a production house busy and profitable for decades.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-20649840962152948402017-12-02T08:13:28.919-08:002017-12-02T08:13:28.919-08:00Marvel's already ahead of you there, Aesop. Sp...Marvel's already ahead of you there, Aesop. Spiderman is a half-black half-latino teenager, Iron Man is a black girl, Thor is a woman, Captain Marvel is a muslim lesbian, etc.. Purely coincidentally, their sales have been dropping year to year by 10-20%. Disney likes SJW crusades, but they like money more, so the Marvel movies are using 'old' characters and stories.<br /><br />Don't expect DC to do better. They just hired one of Marvel's 'top' writers, Brian Bendis, away from Marvel. Bendis will destroy Superman and Wonder Woman just like he did Spiderman. tweellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08164718561825615886noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-27781913810356974252017-12-02T05:20:28.052-08:002017-12-02T05:20:28.052-08:00@MM,
You're referring to The Walking Drum, a ...@MM,<br /><br />You're referring to <i>The Walking Drum</i>, a magnum opus of L'Amour's.<br />It should be a three pic epic.<br /><br />http://raconteurreport.blogspot.com/2017/04/the-walking-drum.html<br /><br />If Beau and Angelique will sell me the rights on spec, I'll give them script approval, and direct it for scale, and I'll make a paltry several hundred million over production costs for the trilogy it would be.Aesophttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07834464741531503378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-29695809370830670412017-12-02T05:12:58.401-08:002017-12-02T05:12:58.401-08:00"Some time" is a deliberately ambiguous ..."Some time" is a deliberately ambiguous phrase.<br />Compare, e.g., both versions of <i>The Alamo</i>.<br />Note the dates.<br />Watch <i>Jeremiah Johnson</i>, and then (if you can stomach its awfulness) <i>The Revenant</i>.<br />Note the production dates.<br /><br />See if, even with that limited data set, you can spot the trend.<br /><br />Movies pre- about 1980 (i.e. pre-videotape) made most of their money here.<br />Those since make most of their money overseas, <i>not</i> here.<br />The guy who hires the piper gets to call the tune.<br /><br />Never forget the "business" part of "show business".<br />(Which doesn't explain everything, but it helps to do so.)<br /><br />Now try and imagine Hollywood making anything ever done by Frank Capra today.<br />For that matter, imagine them making <i>Sergeant York</i>, <i>The Bells Of St. Mary's</i>, or <i>The Bishop's Wife</i>, <i>Ben Hur</i>, or <i>The Ten Commandments</i>.<br /><br />Then try to imagine one such being cast with anyone like Robert DeNiro, Meryl Streep, George Clooney, Denzel Washington, Brad Pitt, etc.<br /><br />And stars <i>have</i> to get to their stature first to be able to tell a producer, director, or studio, where to head in.<br /><br />Yet when the perennially horrible and foul-mouthed Whopee Goldberg made <i>Sister Act</i>, it was the peak box office of her career - decades ago.<br /><br />When Mel Gibson, of necessity, bankrolled <i>Passion of the Christ</i> out of his own pocket, it was one of the highest-grossing movies of all time. After every studio turned it down, repeatedly.<br />The studios were more worried about offending Greater Musland and Asia than trying to make truckloads of money.<br />And look at the virtually career-ending trainwreck <i>Noah</i> with Russell Crowe, where they tweaked the story to cleverly remove virtually all reference to God and immorality, and make it about green politics(?!).<br /><br />Hollywood's problem is forgetting where its bread is buttered, in pursuit of the bread they make in foreign markets.<br />Which makes any reference to God (other than Allah or Buddha, of course), let alone truth, justice, or the American Way (scrubbed from Superman's backstory for some time, notably) total anathema.<br /><br />Give them a couple of years, and they'll be working on making Black Widow, Spiderman, Flash, or Wonder Woman gay. The meetings have already happened, I can assure you, and it's only a miracle they haven't been able to shove it down everyone's throats (you should pardon the unintended pun) already. Even J.K. Rowling was careful not to burp out her own hitherto-private mental image of Dumbledore as gay until the last <i>Harry Potter</i> was in the can, and all her books had been written. In ten more years, she'll have a Muslim-esque wizarding professor grooming little boys, openly, and it'll be a hero, not a villain, which will give the term "box office gross' a whole new interpretation.Aesophttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07834464741531503378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-1410325301925288962017-12-02T05:06:56.803-08:002017-12-02T05:06:56.803-08:00I liked the Batman trilogy but I've been a Bat...I liked the Batman trilogy but I've been a Batman fan all my life. When he took the A-bomb out of range and saved Gotham, that was pretty much the end of my interest in any comic book movie.<br /><br />I would love to see some Louie L'amour westerns come to the big screen. Look at the bang up job that was done on Conagher, still a fav western of mine. Of course it's hard to go wrong watching Sam Elliott. Wasn't it you that recommended the L'amour ripper about the guy swashbuckling his way through Arab lands looking for his father-man that was a good one.<br /><br />I'm afraid my main source of entertainment is my mind set loose in my studio. Or my dogs.MMinWAhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03791810228821770464noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-61200486012564780172017-12-02T01:50:13.041-08:002017-12-02T01:50:13.041-08:00With all due respect, no it doesn't, the rot w...With all due respect, no it doesn't, the rot with Hollywood has been going on for some time. And I don't think it has anything to do with un-American audiences. HW movies are like common core these days, promoting catch'em while you can and while their young, impressionable minds need impregnating. Meanwhile exhibit the lowest common denominator. <br /><br />Sitting in the theater, gobbling popcorn, sipping oversized pop and at the same time trying to look over the shoulder of the guy in front of you, just to watch a 2nd or 3rd rate movie. That's my kind of fun, not.<br /><br />MachtNichtsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-74408463560729692032017-12-01T22:12:51.479-08:002017-12-01T22:12:51.479-08:00It's worse than that: movie are made for the r...It's worse than that: movie are made for the rest of the world.<br />What Americans like or want is barely even a factor anymore.<br /><br />Which explains the whole of the rot.Aesophttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07834464741531503378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-73977202688561346462017-12-01T22:01:21.222-08:002017-12-01T22:01:21.222-08:00I realize that movies, like advertising is made fo...I realize that movies, like advertising is made for the people who buy tickets or trinkets but maybe they could try for the adult market? You know. Movies with a plot that doesn't involve super powers or porn.<br />Just a thought.lorenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00011213166003657827noreply@blogger.com