“Seriously, Dick, who cares if it’s a pit or an oubliette?” “Let’s just say I have issues with rats.”
Batman: Gotham Adventures #24
DC Comics (May, 2000)
“Missed Connections”
WRITER: Scott Peterson
PENCILER: Tim Levins
INKER: Terry Beatty
COLORIST: Lee Loughridge
LETTERER: Tim Harkins
ASSISTANT EDITOR: Frank Berrios
EDITOR: Darren Vincenzo
We’re nearing the end of pre-reviewed movies for Finally Watched. While I’m far from being caught up with my list (which I don’t have an actual written list of for the record) these were the ones I ran through during the whole musical cable companies fiasco.
I’m not a super-huge martial arts movie fan. Sure I’ll watch one if I come across it and I’ve seen quite a few. It’s just not a genre I typically go looking for. 2000s Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is probably the only exception not featuring Jackie Chan. The movie has become a meme for two reasons: the name and the “wire-fu”, where the actor is strapped into a harness and is made to fly during fight scenes, although “fly” is more like “float like you’re on the moon and occasionally glide” than anything Superman does. I guess that’s flying in China. The movie is from China and the version I saw, recorded during a Starz or HBO preview weekend–I forget which at this point–and it was the subtitled version. Chinese is a strange verbal language to my ears, but that’s the version they showed so it’s the version I went with. I don’t even know if it has an official dub out there.
The movie looked beautiful in the trailers and I think it was mainstream US audience’s introduction to wire-fu, if not the first use of it. From there many Chinese martial arts movies with a similar spiritual lean have used the technique and it’s been parodied to a small extent. The question is how good the movie’s story is, because all I’ve ever heard about the movie is the visuals. Kind of like Cirque Du Solei–you hear about the visuals but not the story.
RELEASE DATE: 2000
RELEASED BY: I’m just going to say Sony Pictures Classics in the US because between production and distribution it’s a VERY long list.
RUNTIME: 2 hours
STARRING: Chow Yun-fat, Michelle Yeoh, Zhang Ziyi, Chang Chen, and Cheng Pei-pei
SCREENWRITERS: Hui-Ling Wang, James Schamus, and Kuo Jung Tsai; based on the book by Du Lu Wang
DIRECTOR: Ang Lee
GROSS INCOME: $213,525,736 out of an estimated budget of $17,000,000
“Now I’d like to demonstrate how Robotechnology enhanced this cruise ship. Icebergs beware!”
Robotech: Return To Macross #34
Academy Comics (July, 1996)
“Storm Surge”
WRITER: Robert W. Gibson
ARTIST: Dusty Griffin
(image source: TFU.Info) I need to better set up my media library.
I haven’t seen the third Toy Story movie (heck, I still have to watch the second) but I hear it ended on a good enough note. And yet they’re making a fourth, which may well be ending entirely if the social media postings from two of its stars are any indication.
I decided to make a v-log to update YouTube on what’s going on with video reviews and captioning old reviews. So here that is.
And no, I’m not saying what the new video review is. Hopefully you’ll see it on time when it’s done.
Worst Mysterio cosplay ever?
Transformers Animated: The Arrival #3
IDW Publishing (October, 2008)
WRITER; Marty Isenberg
COLORIST: Liam Shalloo
SELECTED COVER ART: Marcelo Matere
LETTERER: Chris Mowry
EDITOR: Denton J. Tipton
“Stiletto”
PENCILER: Dario Brizuela
INKER: Landro Corral
“Bots Of Science”
ARTIST: Boo
I know, Star Wars isn’t Lion King, but I don’t have any images from The Lion King. However, it does tie into the discussion in today’s article link. Ever since Disney bought Marvel they canceled their comics with other publishers. This includes the Boom Studios “Duckverse” titles (Darkwing Duck and Uncle Scrooge-related titles) and pulling Star Wars away from Dark Horse, who have a very successful run. One wonders what will happen with the Aliens and Predators franchises (Dark Horse created the idea of putting them together and unlike the movies the comics were well received) since they bought Fox, especially after taking the Conan The Barbarian Franchise away from them, and they don’t even own that.
And yet their kid-targeted titles for Marvel heroes are being made by IDW, and now their own Disney properties are being made into comics not by Marvel but by Dark Horse, the latest being a Lion King story. I honestly don’t know what Disney is doing these days. I thought they wanted to move everything in-house?
The Clutter Reports (my other site) Atop The Fourth Wall Crisis On Earth Prime Lean Into Artcast Bully Says “Comics Oughta Be Fun” Siskoid’s Blog of Geekery
Cartoon Hero’s Lair SF Debris Four Million Years Later
