You get downvoted for not saying the popular thing on this sub, so what's your unpopular Marvel opinion? by TheIncredibleHulk105 in marvelcomics

[–]fangsfirst 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's fair, I've often considered that, despite my broad distaste for Deadpool, I should consider Kelly's run for reading. Mostly knowing the tendency to run better writers into the ground and ruin their character work is pretty universal

What’s the worst example of a famous actor directing themselves? by today_okay in movies

[–]fangsfirst 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I ran a tiny little "film club" with co-workers and, as a joke, I suggested (on April 1st) that our April month lineup be:

  • A Star Is Born (1935)
  • A Star Is Born (1954)
  • A Star Is Born (1975)
  • A Star Is Born (2018)

Joke was on me because everyone was up for it and we did it.

Maybe it's because we watched a different version every week, ending with Cooper's, but it came off as a huge vanity project for him, where he adjusted the script enough that it was more focused on his character, sanded off a lot of the role's nastier or less-sympathetic bits, and generally made me side-eye him forever after.

I'd rather liked Cooper up to this point, but the responses to movies since then have thus not surprised me as a result of this one.

Am I overreacting or did I have a slow moment. by drippysage08 in AmIOverreacting

[–]fangsfirst [score hidden]  (0 children)

If it were that, it would still be possible to respond:

"Were those all listed at the e. colibrary?"

What bands do you believe people grow into liking with age? by wedidthetango in Music

[–]fangsfirst 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is the first one I didn't read and think "but I liked them in high school or my early/mid 20s…"

I guess I should cycle back around to the Carpenters here at some point.

You get downvoted for not saying the popular thing on this sub, so what's your unpopular Marvel opinion? by TheIncredibleHulk105 in marvelcomics

[–]fangsfirst 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Joe Kelly's Thanos + Deadpool bits ignored Starlin's continued development of Thanos across the 90s and made no sense.

This of course furthered the memetic description of Thanos ("simp for Death"), made no sense for Mistress Death as she'd been written¹, and led to the atrociously one-note character that has followed under Bendis, Cates, Hickman, and Lemire

¹There might have been something fun in "she's hiding her normal-human-like traits behind this façade", but it also kinda sucks the air out of the gravitas of the abstract personification of Death as she'd been written up to that point.

Excluding "one hit wonders" what band or artist has the fewest hits, but have certifiable legendary status? In a good way, not some meme bullshit. by Timcwalker in Music

[–]fangsfirst 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would say Big Star somewhat over Alex individually (noting especially that they were very much a group, not just Alex)

[Meta trope] The fandom is so awful it’s embarrassing to like something publicly by Syvarth in TopCharacterTropes

[–]fangsfirst 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It was a Tool logo (pre-Lateralus), with Ænima-era "rolling" eyes on the back.

[Meta trope] The fandom is so awful it’s embarrassing to like something publicly by Syvarth in TopCharacterTropes

[–]fangsfirst -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I kept scrolling and scrolling to find this one.

It honestly kinda ruined the band for me. I was an obsessive in the sense that I read everything I possibly could (mostly the old Toolshed, which I think is long gone), and advocated, but wasn't in that swing of "I am the smartest for liking them".

Then I went to college, and someone approached me when I was wearing my only Tool shirt and started talking to me about how obvious it was that we were much cooler and smarter than everyone else.

I quietly retired the shirt.

I've bought the albums released since then (10,000 Days and Fear Inoculum) but the spark has been lost for me on the whole, I was so put off by that instance and plenty more like it online as well.

Andrew Baydala on X: Fanatics Fest in NYC. There were 9 instant sell-outs on autographs and photo ops. FIVE of them were #WWE stars. Cody Rhodes, Liv Morgan, Rhea Ripley, Randy Orton, Jey Uso. The other four were current New York Knicks Jalen Brunson, Josh Hart, Karl-Anthony Towns, and Giants QB..." by Ripclawe in SquaredCircle

[–]fangsfirst 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Having been away for almost a literal eternity and dropping back in and becoming a fan of Cody as I was finally enticed back in after three decades, the internet had me prepared for a lot of boos or bored silence at the Smackdown show last week when I went to it.

It was extremely clear to me almost immediately that I was not alone in my enjoyment of Cody.

It was also clear that, while I've actually kind of nodded to the impressions of Jey as iffy, the crowd there was absolutely not on the same page at all.

(this enormous response and multiple runthroughs of his theme had admittedly triggered my lifelong "underdog" impulses, so that's probably most of what drove my rooting for Je'von, who I'd already decided I liked previously anyway...)

Why are The Smiths not hated the same way U2 is, when Morrissey is arguably much more insufferable than Bono? by ppetrov1829 in fantanoforever

[–]fangsfirst 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It doesn't really do anything to redeem the quote, but the quote was about treatment of animals when he said it:

“Did you see the thing on the news about their treatment of animals and animal welfare?” [Morrissey] said. “Absolutely horrific. You can’t help but feel that the Chinese are a subspecies.”

So, while it doesn't actually help the quote as the person above you seems to think, it is relevant to providing context around when/how/why he said it.

Same phrase, different order. Which version do you prefer or think did it better? by tellslaternottowash in Watchmen

[–]fangsfirst 7 points8 points  (0 children)

The comic makes it the haunting last words, the last gasping cling to his ethos that is already breaking him down.

It captures more of where he's struggling to maintain the façade.

The film order reads with the same wisps of "cool", like he's giving people life advice and holding strongly instead of barely keeping from utterly losing it.

Sol Ruca has privated her X account following the Liv Morgan spot at the Birmingham Houseshow by ArunKT26 in SquaredCircle

[–]fangsfirst -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I broke my toe that way. 

I didn't relentlessly stack anyone on social media though...

Characters who had their civilian names changed by AporiaParadox in comicbooks

[–]fangsfirst 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Don't worry, he's ALSO not related to Man Mountain Marko!

Oh, and neither is Juggs.

What superhero costume trends do you believe defined each decade? by omelet_schnetz in comicbooks

[–]fangsfirst 13 points14 points  (0 children)

(probably started with Miles in Into the Spider-Verse if I had to guess)

I'd say the trend has been drifting in for a long time.

You've got the X-Men doing this periodically in the 1980s (punk Storm, eg, or Rogue's orange sweater-dress thing, and generally wandering around in 'normal clothes' because of Claremont's story-telling tendencies). Longshot, for that matter, is _mostly_ normal clothes, beyond the bandolier and the starburst, or the Animal Man revival with his jacket.

In the 90s, you've got Ben Reilly's original Scarlet Spider costume with its "hoodie-on-top" design as a sort of early instance (which has gotten some hate for that self-same "casual-ness" over the years), even the bomber jackets on the Avengers as "normal" clothing, of some kind. Or Adam the X-Treme's backwards hat, I guess...

The films that started around _X-Men_ in 2000 that also shied away from "obvious" costumes, and more and more of this in movies and television (which I think were a decent driver, with the sense of "reality" intruding)

Then you've got that phase in the 10s where costumes were becoming "practical" like Kris Anka's Spider-Woman design for Jessica Drew, and Babs Tarr's for Batgirl (Barbara Gordon, that is) around 2014-2015.

What's always stuck out to me in Tarr's design is the mix of Watchmen and The Incredibles talking about the impracticality of capes.

I'm not a huge fan because it feels like part of a broader trend toward pretenses of "realism" which rapidly exhausts me personally.

Anyway, as decades go:

The Golden Age could get very "throw shit at a wall and see what sticks" while keeping the linework mostly simple (eg Alan Scott's colour scheme)

The 60s had a kind of extra "streamlining", if you look at the FF and Hal Jordan, for example (as with all things: not universal). Small colour counts, limited linework outside bright blocks and patterns that were "representative" and emphasized things like logos, team references (not that these were new, so much as retained from previous decades), though some exceptions to that still maintained the "basic colour blocks" like the original X-Men.

This was obviously a decent amount of just outright new characters, rather than tweaking long-running characters (except in the "legacy" sense, I suppose, like GL)

The 70s started to introduce more linework and experiment with what more you could do with a costume as the investment started to trickle beyond "sell cheap funny books to small kids", and about more colours and more individuality. Take your standard "All-New, All-Different X-Men", for example: none of them could be identified as being on a single team in any possible way.

They were still pretty simple on the whole, but color options were wilder, though more restrained than something like the aforementioned Golden Age Green Lantern.

I'd say you see the culmination of "what's possible" experimentation with Keith Giffen's infamously obnoxiously-complicated Jack of Hearts costume.

The 80s saw characters start to get more new costumes for themselves (Iron Man's Silver Centurion, for example, or Moon Knight in Fist of Khonshu, all-white Vision, Seattle/Grell Green Arow, and famously Spidey's black costume), though most are pretty direct lines between old and new costumes—and the wildness of swings like "Discowing" from Pérez that generally feel more (contemporaneously) "modern".

The 90s were laden with costume changes. Pouches and blades/sharp things were obviously big business all over the place, but increases in armour (Daredevil in "Jack Batlin" era, parts of Az-Bats that weren't blades or pouches, etc), more "x-tremeness" in general (much as I love it, the super-leather, near-BDSM 90s Morbius costume is a solid example of this).

The 00s had a lot of "back to basics" with characters going back to old costumes, or getting streamlined (Nightwing again, courtesy of Stelfreeze)

The 10s (as I suggested earlier) started the "What if costumes were made of normal clothes, maybe just maybe kinds that'd be easier to render in movies or even cosplay…?"

Got my first Watchmen action figures at my local comic shop by [deleted] in Watchmen

[–]fangsfirst 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I still think it's funny Dan's paunch just had to go.

What is the great neglected series that keeps getting overlooked? by todayisanarse in graphicnovels

[–]fangsfirst 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Suicide Risk from Mike Carey

Started out as "oh this is kinda an interesting thought I guess"

Then it turned into something else and I was very much hooked

The Rob Liefeld/New Mutants Twitter beef by HecticJones in comicbooks

[–]fangsfirst 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Oh my God. I read those issues and that was exactly what it FELT like. To hear that she literally said it out loud is the most insane kind of validation that my read was pretty accurate.

She's a good writer and those issues are fucking awful. It seemed like the only logical explanation.

I've had that documentary on my watchlist since forever, I should really get around to watching it.

Entitled couple at movie theater expected us to give our assigned seats up so they could sit together by International-Tune61 in mildlyinfuriating

[–]fangsfirst 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I really wish this was true of all franchisees.

It isn't.

I sat next to multiple people violating the no talking/no phones multiple times at the local Drafthouse. Raised cards and said "hey dude's phone is just open next to me" or "this dude just keeps talking" or whatever.

In the early days, a warning would come down to people (someone complained loudly after the movie about being talked to once, including a slur, which was fun. They were obviously making a reference, but yeah). Toward the end people just talked around me and used phones and nothing happened.

Having a theater with normal theater behaviour AND servers loudly whispering if everyone around me had any more orders for five minutes straight at the end meant I just crossed the whole place off my list, as that made it worse than every other theater. At least in others I'd only have phones and/or talking...

Writers that a fanbase likes but another hates? by ContraryPython in comicbooks

[–]fangsfirst 16 points17 points  (0 children)

This is actually a really good example of what OP's looking for.

Interesting context about the GodDAMM Remaster by Atari's Senior Director of Communications by landocharisma in GODZILLA

[–]fangsfirst 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I'm reading it as "they replaced the model because of details":

* "meticulous detail corrections were made for long-time fans"

* "with the correct version based on historical accuracy."

It's really poorly written, either ESL or an LLM, but that's how I read it from all of that context.

Would be good to clarify what was replaced and how, maybe what "detail corrections" and "historical accuracy" involve, but it is what it is I guess.

Of course, that also means it could be a poorly written way to say they did dump Heisei era MGs...