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bbanzai
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Well, what are you going to do about all the muscles that the human body doesn't actually have? It won't be Youngblood without those...
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Movie Mike
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Or they should totally do some CGI work giving everyone two left feet, and maybe a couple extra ab muscles.
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El Santo
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I take it, then, that the Youngblood comic book was drawn by that pouches-and-deltoids guy people always make fun of? Leefield or something?
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Son of Spam
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And Brett Ratner has to make sure that the women are always en pointe when they're just standing around.
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untitled user
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Here's how amped I am for a Youngblood movie: If I see issues of it at a flea market and it or Valiant titles are all I can find comic-wise, I know I'm at a bad flea market. (It's amazing what I can usually find at good ones.)
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Prankster
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Dark and violent is not the same as nihilistic. Seriously, go back and read Dr. Manhattan and Laurie's exchange at the end of chapter nine. It's an incredibly big-hearted work when you get down to it. I think Dr. Manhattan's viewpoint is the one that defines it in the end--detached and cynical but ultimately filled with affection for life. Even Rorschach ends up showing he's a human being after all.
That's how I would define Moore's work generally. He's got the slightly self-loathing artistic thing going on where he can't just let himself look away from the darker side of humanity, and he sees a lot of the more upbeat comics work out there as crass or false and can't resist tearing it down. But at the end of the day he does it because he cares.
A nihilist would be someone like Frank Miller, who doesn't really put anything of himself into his work except snark and cruelty and fetishes.
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Mr. Paradox
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My problem with Alan Moore isn't nihilism - I've actually defended Dr. Manhattan's big speech from someone who completely missed the point.
My problem with him is the same as my problem with Harlan Ellison: he thinks he's a lot more profound and deep than he really is. (That and he loves being grotesque for no real reason other than to be grotesque.)
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Hman
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Wasn't there a time when first edition issues of Image and Valiant comics were worth A LOT? (If that time has now passed, I must admit that I am REALLY out of the loop as far as comics are concerned)
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Marlowe
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So, your criticism is that you've decided something about his personality, and then you've decided to dislike that thing that you've decided about his personality?
Well, that just clears everything up, then. Excellent.
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The Mud Puppy
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Okay, I haven't even seen the original and I know that this is a bad idea...
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ProfessorMortis
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I have lost my ability to get outraged over remakes, but yeah, that sounds like it will not make for a good film.
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TelstarMan
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To be fair, this is also how I read the BMMB.
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bbanzai
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Movie Mike
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Superman News*apply grain of salt here*
Apparently Bryan Singer has refused to undertake a re-boot of the Superman that Warner Brothers is interested in, and so the Brothers Warner have approached the Wachowski Brothers about doing a re-boot trilogy of the franchise. Singer is looking to move on to the Logan's Run remake.
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