Shmee.Me

February 20, 2015February 20, 2015

Geek Canon Isn’t Sacred!

For some reason geeks love to trash movies and TV shows that aren’t working for breaking canon. Like somehow because a character’s origin is different, or they look or act slightly different than the paper version of themselves, that is why the property isn’t connecting with audiences. It is a load of crap. If something isn’t good, it isn’t because they didn’t consult the sacred texts. If it is bad, it is bad due to normal problems like bad writing or poor acting/direction. It is not just comic books. Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Anime guys and gals love to rant about it too.

Marvel is doing great, and they aren’t following the canon at all. The characters’ backgrounds and all sorts of things are totally different than they are in the comic books, and that is fine. You will notice that the fans are saying DC should be more like Marvel, and follow the comic books more with their movies, but I am scratching my head and trying to figure out which comic books Marvel is following. Sure they are using the books for inspiration, but the movies are completely different. I am sure that when the Civil War movie comes out it will look nothing like its comic book counter part.

What matters first and foremost is that product is good. If it changes things, who cares, as long as talented people created something fun with respect for what they are working with. Sure it is nice if the people making the films and media don’t treat the canon like a dirty rag, but they surely don’t always have to worry about breaking it. Lets not worry so much about the past, and maybe we should be hopeful about a very geeky future!

February 13, 2015

How Many Comic Book Movies Can We Watch?

Starting this year, there will not be a year with fewer than three comic book movies in the next five years. Some of those years have as many as seven comic book movies. Now that is great news to me, but will the public at large start to get sick of them? I mean there are more than thirty movies based on comic heroes in some form of production. Probably a lot more than that. That number is based on what has been announced. I know I will watch them all, but I am a nerd and for me this is my movie renaissance, but for everyone else when do they say “enough!”? I am guessing around 2017.

My reasoning is that once DC’s slate of films really starts there will just be too many of them on the market. There will be a hero flick every other month. If I was in marketing that is a statistic that would worry me. Four seems about right. That is one Marvel movie, one X-Men/F4 movie (still Marvel I know, but Fox’s Marvel), one DC Movie, and then something from someone else, like Dark Horse. That way everyone gets a big movie, and all their stories keep moving forward.

I only bring this up because I want to see superhero movies keep being made, and I really don’t want them to over saturate the market. We have been fine up till now, but that is because DC and Fox didn’t have their acts together, and they could only get a movie out every couple of years. With both of them now running full steam ahead, we are going to see every hero, major or minor, hit the big screen, and I just don’t think it is going to work out the may movie studios hope.

February 10, 2015February 10, 2015

Spider-Man Heads Back To Marvel!

Well after all the leaked email messages, and all the disinformation the Spider-Man movies are headed back to the Marvel Universe! Marvel has been trying to get its most popular property back for some time, so for them this is cause for celebration. According to the deal Sony will still make all the stand-alone films, but they will now be produced by Marvel’s super producer Kevin Feige, and they will at least be acknowledged by the other Marvel movies. All the team-ups however, will be made by Marvel. It is very likely that the new Spider-Man will make his debut in Captain America: Civil War.

Spidey’s new stand-alone film comes out July 28th 2017, and to make sure that he is not being crowded by his Marvel buddies, Marvel is shuffling its releases. The list now looks like this:

Black Panther moves up from November 3rd 2017 to July 6th 2017.
Thor will move from July 28th to fill Black Panther’s spot on November 3rd.
Inhumans gets kicked all the way back to “Summer 2019”
Lastly Captain America now fills the November 2018 slot.

I am not sure why moving Black Panther up helps, and why they just didn’t move Thor up a couple of weekends, but I am sure they are better at this than I am. This is a day Marvel comic book fans have been waiting for, and I am sure they are all celebrating in some way today.

February 9, 2015

Constantine Is Done, Or Is It?

Well NBC announced their renewals and Constantine wasn’t on the list, and I am guessing that is it for the show, but new rumors say that might not be the case. According to Comicbook.com NBC execs were very happy with how the show did on SyFy during a marathon, and they may move the show over there. Not only that, to get the old school comic book fans on board they are thinking of changing the name of the show to the title of the comics: Hellblazer. This move off of a major network and on to cable would allow the show to get a darker, and feature more of what Constantine is known for.

Obviously this is just a rumor, and I fully expect Constantine to be canceled, but the DVR and On Demand numbers were so good for this show that it would make some sense to keep it alive. I kind of wish that it would move to The CW, so Constantine could hang out with the rest of his DC friends. TV Justice League for the win! I am sure we will hear of Constantine’s final fate shortly, and regardless of how this all turns out. It has been fun having him on TV if only for a little while.

January 27, 2015

The New Fantastic Four Trailer Is Out!

Oh man I was worried that I would have to review Pompeii today, but the Fantastic Four came to the rescue! Not having to write about Pompeii, if even for one more day, makes this group my Heroes! Also that being said, it doesn’t look as bad as I was expecting. I mean there has been complete radio silence about this film, and it comes out in August. I really hope this comes together since this is Fox’s other big chunk of the Marvel Universe. Fantastic Four plus the X-Men could be really great. I got my fingers crossed! But with the history of the Fantastic Four movies, I am hoping for the best, but preparing for the worst.