Tag: x-men
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Pilot Season – The Gifted
The Gifted is a new X-Men-adjacent show on Fox, which I will explain momentarily, and it’s pretty awesome. It’s almost too bad for Marvel that The Inhumans release around the same time, because it’s not even a contest as to which is better. “Adjacent” The first question with most comic book adaptations nowadays is what…
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Why Wolverine: Weapon X Makes More Sense Than Old Man Logan
For a long time, the rumors were persistent that Hugh Jackman’s final turn as Wolverine would be inspired by the Old Man Logan comics by Mark Millar and Steve McNiven. Â It never made a ton of sense to me, unless the only bit of inspiration taken from it was the name (similar to Age of…
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What’s New on Marvel Unlimited – May 11, 2016
Every week, Marvel adds new comics to their Marvel Unlimited service.  Sometimes it’s new stuff – most series they publish get issues added about 6 months after they are released in shops – and others it’s older comics.  But there’s always something interesting and I will point them out weekly. First thing to check out…
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Movie Review – X-Men: Days of Future Past
The X-Men movie franchise has had it’s ups and downs. Â The first two movies were very good despite the myriad changes and tweaks to the characters, while X-Men 3 and X-Men Origins: Wolverine were on the rough side. Â First Class was good, but went a long way towards making the continuity issues worse (How much…
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Classic Comics – X-Men: Days of Future Past
I’ve been on a comics kick of late, as well as a nostalgia high from Comics Alliance’s X-Men animated series recaps, so checking out some classic X-Men storylines seemed like a no-brainer. Â Especially when I saw Comixology having a sale on several collections. Â I bought the X-Men: Days of Future Past book as prepwork for…
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Movie Review – The Wolverine
Adaptation movies are such balancing acts, especially with comic book movies. Alienate the fans, and the negative backlash on the geek sites will wash you away. But the superfans alone do not bring in the box office numbers (just look at Joss and Serenity) so you can’t hew too close to the source if it…
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Rules and Guidelines for Watching Comic Book Movies
Some people just don’t ‘get’ comic book movies. Critics, or more critical moviegoers at least, analyze the movies as if they are watching Citizen Kane, fretting over characterization and plumbing for deep meaning. On the other hand, you have the comic book fanboys, who examine every teaser frame by frame, looking for inconsistencies in every…
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Movie Review – X-Men: First Class
Went to see this movie Saturday night (had a busy weekend and needed the time), and I enjoyed it quite a bit. Great, not REALLY SUPER great, but one of the better comic book movies. Lightyears beyond what Brett Ratner could do, that’s for sure. Now, to reiterate something – I am not a comic…
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Spring and Summer 2011 Movies
The meat of the 2011 movie season is coming up, including the Summer blockbusters, and I thought I’d run them down and see which ones I’m planning to check out. Note that as a Dad, the list leans towards animated movies as well as comic book movies and summer blockbusters. I don’t like horror and…
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Lanterns, Hornets and Captains of America
Some Twitter discussion sparked by back to back viewing of the Green Lantern and Green Hornet trailers has got me thinking about these movies. Okay, and other comic book movies forthcoming too. The question is: why are fans the way we are? Think about what happens when the first stills and teasers and trailers appear. …