The premise of this movie is offensive on general principles. It sounds like awful fan fiction. Who would this appeal to?
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I wonder if Doomsday reads differently in a post-Fury Road world than it did when it came out, and there was no real expectation that a new Mad Max movie would ever be made, much less nominated for Best Picture.
He’s probably too old now, but Warburton would have made such an amazing Captain Marvel.
Permissions issue. Fox owned the rights to American Maid since she was created for the cartoon, not the original comics, and for some inane reason refused to license her. Hence Captain Liberty. (Same goes for Die Fledermaus, but then that gave us Batmanuel, which is the best name ever, so it was worth it.)
There’s always rights issues; 2001 Tick couldn’t use American Maid or Die Fledermaus, since Fox had the rights to those characters from the cartoon, so they instead gave us Captain Liberty and—quite possibly the best superhero parody name of all time—Batmanuel.
I’ve been saying for almost 20 years that the live Tick show was ahead of its time, and I always used to follow that up with, “It’s a shame nobody will ever give it another chance.” Thrilled to death to be proven wrong!
What is it with Nazis & failing at art?
A priest, a rabbi and a libertarian walk into a bar. The bartender refuses to serve the libertarian but serves the priest and the rabbi. When the libertarian complains, the bartender says, “Free enterprise, asshole!”
Patton Oswalt’s longstanding theory is that a lot of these assholes are failed hacky comedians, so it’s great to see him a little justified.
Are you kidding me? Both Daredevil seasons and Jessica Jones are FANTASTIC. David Tennant (Kilgrave) and D’Onofrio (Fisk) are two of the class A villians in comic history. Luke Cage is a good show, but I have to admit that I didn’t enjoy the Iron Fist as much. Haven’t had a chance to watch the Defenders yet.
It’s about time Funny or Die starts living up to its name
The cartoon version of The Tick is a tough act to follow, but Fox’s live-action adaptation grew on me when I watched a few episodes on Netflix. Seinfeld influences or not, it felt like the writers understood Edlund’s sense of humor and were able to capture most of it (the ridiculous, often hapless heroes and the…
I still laugh thinking about the name Batmanuel.
Luke Cage is, overall, good. The music is great and the villains are compelling until the last few episodes. It does get heavy-handed and over-wrought sometimes, but so do I after a few drinks.
Seeing all the nonsense that went on between crime fighting is what made the live action Tick so endearing. I was also fully aware of budget constraints and was impressed they even attempted a live action series, let alone shot a whole season’s worth.
It real shame this iteration not find its legs, since, as you point out, casting was pitch-perfect, and Saturday morning cartoon proved that Edlund have seemingly infinite supply of entertainingly insane ideas.
The show may have been rough, clearly unable to do anything big set piece wise, and missing quite a few classic Tick elements (though I will still say that Batmanuel was an improvement), but I loved the series nonetheless. Warburton was perfect in the lead role and it was consistently funny.
Bigwig getting caught on fence in Watership Down is probably the most brain scarring cinematic scene ever.