The billion dollar move and the overseas market
February 25th, 2018 at 11:59:26 AM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25011 |
I was a huge comic book reader until the early 60's when I discovered Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew. Superman and Superboy and girl were my faves. Batman was too dark. I read a lot of Archie comics, Nancy, and Dennis the Menace. I could only take so much of the superhero crap, I thought it was silly and repetitive. I enjoyed the cleverness of the funny comics and Mad Magazine. The superheros were seldom clever and took themselves very seriously. Ick.. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
February 25th, 2018 at 10:51:37 PM permalink | |
Pacomartin Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 1068 Posts: 12569 |
It is remarkable how much money is being spent on these movies. The egos and budget rival anything in classic Hollywood. “Justice League” reportedly cost $300 million just to produce, with an additional $150 million spent on marketing. Wonder Woman probably cost half as much. Domestic: $412,563,408+ Foreign: $409,283,604= Worldwide: $821,847,012 Wonder Woman Domestic: $228,805,093+ Foreign: $428,800,000= Worldwide: $657,605,093 Justice League Even if Justice League had made as much money as Wonder Woman, it probably still wouldn't have broken even. Supposedly Gal Gadot had a net worth in the range of $8 million before she made this movie. |
February 26th, 2018 at 7:39:50 AM permalink | |
Nareed Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 346 Posts: 12545 |
there was a news stand in the corner of the block I grew up in. We'd walk the short distance there often and buy comic books, which I made a habit to read during meals (I still read during meals, BTW). I would buy things like Archie, Nancy, Blondie, Disney, a Spanish parody of secret agents called "Mortadelo y Filemón," and sometimes things like the Flintstones. I never got any superhero comics or other forms of "action" comics. To this day, i don't think I've ever read one. My exposure to superheroes came from crappy live and cartoon shows from the 60s and 70s. I liked the Batman show with Adam West, which at the time I thought was serious drama (it wasn't). I also liked two awful, terrible cartoons: "The Fantastic Four" and "The Galaxy Trio." As noted, they were very bad, but both featured a woman in the team. Donald Trump is a one-term LOSER |
February 26th, 2018 at 8:39:25 AM permalink | |
Pacomartin Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 1068 Posts: 12569 |
What set the Marvel comics apart was the angst that permeated their lives. Noticeably absent from the DC comic heroes or the TV Hanna Barbera shows. |
February 26th, 2018 at 9:27:16 AM permalink | |
Nareed Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 346 Posts: 12545 |
As I said, I've never read superhero comic books. I kind of liked the Batman movie in 1989. Though looking back on it, it doesn't seem as good now. Soon after, though, there were the Bruce Timm Batman cartoons. I love those. In particular the movie "Mask of the Phantasm," which does hold up very well today. The same production team also did a Superman animated series (with Dana Delaney as Lois Lane), and later on two Justice League series, as well as occasional movies. All those are better than the various superhero movies. This is because amid quantity you'll invariably find some really good episodes, as well as off-formula eps, while movies are few and either sink or swim (or paddle and keep afloat, I guess). When marvel started releasing X-Men, Iron Man and such, I simply had no idea who these people are. I knew Spiderman (70s cartoons), but the movies were just terrible, IMO. I also knew The hulk from the 70s-80s Bill Bixby sereis, but never liked the character at all. Donald Trump is a one-term LOSER |
February 26th, 2018 at 9:42:25 AM permalink | |
terapined Member since: Aug 6, 2014 Threads: 73 Posts: 11799 | Growing up I read some comics such as Archie and that whole gang Read some superman and batman read some war comics but I always returned to my favorite Mad magazine. Would buy it every month. They were always fun to reread because they were that funny Sometimes we live no particular way but our own - Grateful Dead "Eyes of the World" |
February 26th, 2018 at 8:15:03 PM permalink | |
zippyboy Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 2 Posts: 665 | I read the Mad magazines more than any other comic. Used to annoy me that my Dad called them "Mad comic books" when I considered them magazines. I realize now that they taught my little mind political topics of the day, like the Vietnam War, race relations, sexism, presidential elections (particularly Nixon, a big topic of the day), etc. Every issue had spoofs of current movies that often I was too young to see. I used to buy the older issues at Half Price Books, which started in Austin where I grew up, when those stores were jut dusty used-book warehouses. Used to ride my bike with a wad of $1s to get Mads, and spooky comics like Tales of the Unexpected, Tales from the Crypt, and others like Sad Sack, Richie Rich, Archie, and others. My sister gave me Fantastic Four #4 (I seem to remember) for Christmas in the early 70s. Don't have it anymore. I had so many of the thin monthly Mad magazines, and the pocket paperback books. What a time to be alive. |
February 26th, 2018 at 9:22:03 PM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25011 | I read Mad in the 60's whenever I could get it. I have a couple of Mad paperbacks from that era with the mag material inside. I was disappointed at how dated and silly and unfunny it was. Juvenile humor, not clever at all. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
February 27th, 2018 at 7:13:08 AM permalink | |
Pacomartin Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 1068 Posts: 12569 | Introduction of Black Panther in Captain America: Civil War. |
February 27th, 2018 at 10:52:16 AM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25011 |
Good thing there are subtitles, couldn't understand a word the guy in the silly costume was saying. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |