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« Reply #15 on: August 12, 2009, 03:03:01 PM » |
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Dont get me wrong, its not chock full of dick nailing and rape. Its sort of like the Godfather of zombie stories. A lot of plot and character stuff peppered with short bursts of horrific violence. if you havent read it i highly recommend it. My brother isnt at all into comics, but when he was in the hospital for a week I lent him the first 6 volumes and he blazed through them in one day.
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« Reply #16 on: August 12, 2009, 03:37:00 PM » |
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I'll keep an eye out for it. Is it the sort of thing that would be available at chain bookstores? There's literally no comic shops within an hour and a half of me or so.
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« Reply #18 on: August 12, 2009, 04:06:01 PM » |
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I'll keep an eye out for it. Is it the sort of thing that would be available at chain bookstores? There's literally no comic shops within an hour and a half of me or so.
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« Reply #19 on: August 12, 2009, 08:16:22 PM » |
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I'm going to try and be positive here; rather than say "I can't imagine how that level of violence (et al) would work on basic cable," I'm going to say "Hopefully, this show will do for violence on basic cable what South Park did for swearing on basic cable." Maybe AMC could even start up a channel where they show classic American films, uncut if not commercial free.
And rather than make the obvious joke, "I wonder how Frank Darabont will change things around to make the show more explicitly about hope being important," I'll say... ah, what the hell, I'd rather just make the cheap easy joke. But I do like Darabont, and him being behind this show is a good thing.
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« Reply #20 on: August 12, 2009, 09:58:21 PM » |
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Believe me sean, Walking Dead could use some hope, it's one bleak-ass comic.
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« Reply #21 on: August 12, 2009, 11:27:08 PM » |
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That's why it's an odd pairing. Darabont's artistic mission seems to be "Remind people how important hope is! Cram it in there with all the subtlety of a Spike Lee film about race relations! Come on, hope it up! More hope!" A little bit of hope would help 'Walking Dead' (and be vital to its success as a series), but too much and it's not really what makes 'The Walking Dead' work.
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« Reply #22 on: August 12, 2009, 11:53:52 PM » |
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Was that the message THE MIST conveyed?
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« Reply #23 on: August 13, 2009, 05:02:40 AM » |
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It's interesting seeing the discussion about the violence in the Walking Dead, since it seems to be present in most of Kirkman's comics. It generally fits when he's writing bleak stories about a world over-run by zombies, but when the gore and blood gets ramped up in his teenage superhero stuff in Invincible, it's weird.
However, I would be very happy to see either of them adapted. Is MTV still adapting Invincible as a cartoon?
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« Reply #24 on: August 13, 2009, 11:12:03 AM » |
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ugh, not really, they animated panels fo it with actors reading the dialogue, check it out at www.invincible-theseries.com, it looks pretty awful. I don't mind the violence of Invincible, I think it just makes sense. It's almost commentary, about the ridiculousness of human character being punched by The Hulk and then come out with a few broken ribs. In reality, those guys would explode like a water-balloon. I'll give you one thing, I think Kirkman thoroughly enjoys torturing his characters, or at least finds them the most interesting when they're having an awful time. Even in Invincible, he made a point of making him a "full contact" superhero and give him every Superman power except the long range stuff like heat-vision or x-rays to avoid having to tear a monster apart to stop it. |
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« Reply #25 on: August 13, 2009, 11:15:35 AM » |
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I like the INVINCIBLE series, and R i c hard Monahan worked on it for months, so come on.
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« Reply #26 on: August 13, 2009, 01:26:43 PM » |
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Nooooooo!
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« Reply #27 on: August 13, 2009, 01:33:09 PM » |
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« Reply #28 on: August 13, 2009, 01:37:34 PM » |
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I really dug it, Farty.
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« Reply #29 on: August 13, 2009, 04:25:16 PM » |
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Was that the message THE MIST conveyed?
MIST SPOILERS I think that when the end of the movie is your hero giving up the hope of being rescued and safe again, the hope that he has sustained for the entire movie, so he kills everybody he has kept alive, and then stumbles out of the car to find out that if he had just held out hope for one minute longer, everything would've been okay... it's not much of a stretch to say the movie's about hope being important, how you should never give up hope, etc. Nothing against 'The Mist', which I quite enjoyed, but I remember there being a conversation on this board when it came out about how the ending seemed really Darabont-y because of that. |
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