Disney owns Marvel

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  • i always thought hirst is rather tacky in general to be honest.

    which may very well be the point, but it's not a point that i can say that i'm a fan of.
  • Speaking seriously?


    Stop trying to constantly make new movies of series that already have good ones. Sam Raimi's first Spiderman film was fine, and the second wasn't really that bad, and they actually kept everyone fairly in character without that whole "catching 'bad guys' justifies injurious collateral damage" narrative that modern superhero flicks like so much (which Spiderman was never about anyway, dumbasses).

    Also adapt some more obscure, interesting things that have actual movie potential despite low name recognition, although DC has way more of those that I can think of.
    well, Spiderman got a remake because it's not being handled by Marvel Studios and they have to keep making a movie every so often or the rights revert
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    It's handled by Sony...and Sony is really, really hard up for franchises. They actually did try to buy Marvel outright at one point, but that didn't materialize.
  • For once, or maybe twice, I was in my prime.
    Anonus said:
    Iron who? Is that the Russian guy from X-Man and the Wolverines?
  • edited 2014-04-08 01:14:15
    Anonus said:

    y'all focus only on the comic side of things


    you're ignoring movies, cartoons, etc.
    How about this?

    Remember what I said about that intensely political series?

    So, like every good story, it's got a set of protagonists and a set of antagonists.  Try to make sure they're roughly balanced between each other, so it's actually interesting.

    A new series of comic books will tell the story from the side of the protagonists.

    A new TV series will, instead, tell the story from the side of the antagonists.  They're the protagonists in this context, and the protagonists of the comic books are the antagonists here.

    Or at least, they think so.  This applies to both sides.
  • Anonus said:

    y'all focus only on the comic side of things


    you're ignoring movies, cartoons, etc.
    How about this?

    Remember what I said about that intensely political series?

    So, like every good story, it's got a set of protagonists and a set of antagonists.  Try to make sure they're roughly balanced between each other, so it's actually interesting.

    A new series of comic books will tell the story from the side of the protagonists.

    A new TV series will, instead, tell the story from the side of the antagonists.  They're the protagonists in this context, and the protagonists of the comic books are the antagonists here.

    Or at least, they think so.  This applies to both sides.
    i have to say i like my ideas more
  • edited 2014-04-08 01:22:01

    i have to say i like my ideas more

    which one

    the lumps of wax or the morton feldman quartet movie?


    edit: i can't read spelling tonight
  • the killing off heroes permenently every month one
  • oh

    well that can always be done

    because alternate continuities are free

  • Disney soon to own you, yes you, the viewer reading this passage on an internet forum.

    I heard it's quite comfy underneath the iron buttocks of Disney, perhaps someday you'll tell me what it's like.
  • no

    i will kill them permanently

    no reboots, no resurrection, no alternate continuities

    gone

    forever
  • disney will never own me

    i answer only to god himself
  • you can't kill fanfiction

    mwahahahaha
  • you can't kill fanfiction

    mwahahahaha

    somebody hasn't heard of lawsuits
  • “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”

    i always thought hirst is rather tacky in general to be honest.


    which may very well be the point, but it's not a point that i can say that i'm a fan of.
    He makes giant visual puns. Of course it's tacky.

    Which is to say that I think that some of his work is funny, but I do not really understand the reason why he is so very, very wealthy, other than that modern art patrons either do not get it or take way too much stock in visual humour as a form of expression.
  • no


    i will kill them permanently

    no reboots, no resurrection, no alternate continuities

    gone

    forever
    Sorry, since they are not actually people and more like concepts they can't be killed, they'll come back.
  • Man is a most complex simple creature: see what he weaves, and how base his reasons for doing so.
    Fucker covered a skull in diamonds.
  • shiki can kill concepts
  • Fucker covered a skull in diamonds.

    wasn't that actually plagiarism too
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    well, Naney, what'll you do if your Marvel goes public and somebody tries to do a hostile takeover?
  • -calica said:

    you can't kill fanfiction

    mwahahahaha

    somebody hasn't heard of lawsuits


    someone hasn't heard of the internet

  • write the permadeath into the contracts
  • they may come back, but it won't be in my comics, merchandise or films let me tell you

    and since i'll own the IP nobody else will be able to use them legally

    so they shall live only in the minds of the good folks on fanfiction.net
  • -calica said:

    you can't kill fanfiction

    mwahahahaha

    somebody hasn't heard of lawsuits


    someone hasn't heard of the internet

    the next sopa will pass easily and it will pass easily because it includes a banning of fanfiction
  • Fucker covered a skull in diamonds.

    he did it more than once

    second time it was the skull of a baby
  • there's a million ways to phrase something
    ideas are copyrightproof
  • Anonus said:

    well, Naney, what'll you do if your Marvel goes public and somebody tries to do a hostile takeover?

    i will release every IP i own into the public domain, rendering the company worthless
  • “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”

    Fucker covered a skull in diamonds.

    You mean For the Love of God, right? It's actually made of platinum, but with real teeth.

    Incidentally, this is why I find Hirst hilarious and terrible at the same time.
  • “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”

    Fucker covered a skull in diamonds.

    he did it more than once

    second time it was the skull of a baby
    Really? Oh my.
  • edited 2014-04-08 01:37:45

    For Heaven's Sake, an infant's skull cast in platinum and studded with pink and white diamonds, will go on display later this month (*this was back in 2011*) as part of an exhibition of new paintings and sculptures by the artist.

    The baby's skull on which the work was modelled is believed to be that of a newborn less than two weeks old which is part of a 19th-century pathology collection that Hirst has acquired.
  • Fucker covered a skull in diamonds.

    You mean For the Love of God, right? It's actually made of platinum, but with real teeth.

    Incidentally, this is why I find Hirst hilarious and terrible at the same time.
    so he grabbed the teeth off a skull, put them on a platinum one, and covered it in diamonds

    that's even more ridiculous
  • -calica said:

    Fucker covered a skull in diamonds.

    You mean For the Love of God, right? It's actually made of platinum, but with real teeth.

    Incidentally, this is why I find Hirst hilarious and terrible at the same time.
    so he grabbed the teeth off a skull, put them on a platinum one, and covered it in diamonds

    that's even more ridiculous
    it was, in his own words, "quite bling"
  • “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”

    For Heaven's Sake, an infant's skull cast in platinum and studded with pink and white diamonds, will go on display later this month (*this was back in 2011*) as part of an exhibition of new paintings and sculptures by the artist.

    The baby's skull on which the work was modelled is believed to be that of a newborn less than two weeks old which is part of a 19th-century pathology collection that Hirst has acquired.
    That is completely like him: Morbid, excessive and incredibly silly all at once, with just that little undercurrent of actual profundity that makes it all extra uncomfortable.

    I think that's the trouble with Hirst. He is just clever enough to almost justify himself, but doesn't give enough of a fuck to go the extra mile and get over the shock value element of his own work. Like, the shark piece was actually really interesting and kind of fucked up, but he's really barely trying at this point... or trying too hard, as it were.
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    -calica said:

    -calica said:

    you can't kill fanfiction

    mwahahahaha

    somebody hasn't heard of lawsuits


    someone hasn't heard of the internet

    the next sopa will pass easily and it will pass easily because it includes a banning of fanfiction
    but I like to write fanfic :(

    Anonus said:

    well, Naney, what'll you do if your Marvel goes public and somebody tries to do a hostile takeover?

    i will release every IP i own into the public domain, rendering the company worthless
    so your reign of terror will still end
  • yes, but it will end on my terms.
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    it will end nonetheless
  • “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”
    Releasing these characters into the public domain might not be that awful an idea. Could lead to some interesting writing.
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch

    I think that's the trouble with Hirst. He is just clever enough to almost justify himself, but doesn't give enough of a fuck to go the extra mile and get over the shock value element of his own work. Like, the shark piece was actually really interesting and kind of fucked up, but he's really barely trying at this point... or trying too hard, as it were.


    i don't pretend to understand Hirst, but i agree with this assessment, i think... the shark piece struck me as legitimately clever, but mostly he kinda bores me.

    Like, i can appreciate that he's probably very intelligent, but i'm puzzled by the extent of his success.
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch

    Releasing these characters into the public domain might not be that awful an idea. Could lead to some interesting writing.


    i would be totally in favour of this tbh
  • edited 2014-04-08 02:58:26

    Anonus said:

    well, Naney, what'll you do if your Marvel goes public and somebody tries to do a hostile takeover?

    i will release every IP i own into the public domain, rendering the company worthless
    At which point our common goal will have been achieved!  Public domain for the win!
    Tachyon said:

    Releasing these characters into the public domain might not be that awful an idea. Could lead to some interesting writing.


    i would be totally in favour of this tbh

  • Anonus said:

    y'all focus only on the comic side of things


    you're ignoring movies, cartoons, etc.
    Marvel is a comic company, Anonus. :|
  • edited 2014-04-08 04:03:48
    I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    A comic company whose more prominent businesses include filmmaking, animation, and licensing. I know we're not exactly John Q. Public, but last I checked, John Q. Public didn't read comic books.
  • edited 2014-04-08 04:19:28
    Doesn't matter anyway; they're all media created to turn children into devil-worshipping violent facist communist muslim jew mormon catholic atheist humanists anyway.
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    Anonus said:

    A comic company whose more prominent businesses include filmmaking, animation, and licensing. I know we're not exactly John Q. Public, but last I checked, John Q. Public didn't read comic books.

    John Q. Public is perfectly aware that Marvel makes comic books and has been making them for an extremely long time, however.  Their brand identity is heavily tied to comic books.

    While the comics themselves are mostly a nerd thing, anyone who watches a superhero movie does so well aware that they are watching a movie based on a comic book.
  • I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    Well, right. It's kind of bizarre if you think about it...
  • imagei will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch
    How so?
  • edited 2014-04-08 05:31:48
    I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
    The public likes comic book adaptations but hardly likes comic books themselves.
  • Frankly as far as publishing entertaining comics goes in recent years, I think the best company doing it nowadays is IDW (responsible for a number of middling-to-excellent Transformers series and a very nice Dungeons & Dragons series, among other things).
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