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I finally got around to watching The Amazing Spiderman. It was ridiculously bad. I'd rather watch [Redacted] home videos.
I'm not so sure it wouldn't work. Batman Begins spent a good long while before the audience got ears and a cape...it can work with the right director.
My standard for worst super hero movie is Batman and Robin. Neon in Gotham? A muscle bound Mister Freeze? Mindless Bane? General cheesy set design with Poison Ivy's obviously fake flowers. You had Arnold but used as Mr. Freeze instead of Bane? It's like they set out to destroy that franchise.
how would that work? like it's advertised as a legal drama with a Daredevil kicker?
The key term in my post was "blind guy". Batman Begins had a ton of sweet fight sequences and characterization of hot shot billionaire coming back to town.
I did misspeak in my post above. I was thinking about the traditional model and traditional studios. At this point, Marvel prints money. They could GAF if audiences hesitate about a blind guy for 90 minutes as long as the story is good. And at this point, they could afford to take a risk.
Not sure if this was in response to my post or Deadbolt's, but I'll answer anyway. I was thinking about a crime family drama similar to The Sopranos or Breaking Bad featuring Kingpin and the Fisk family. It would take place in the larger Marvel Cinematic Universe in which superheroes operate in NYC, but from the criminal perspective.
It would reference superheroes and their alter egos and lives (i.e. Daily Bugle photos by Peter Parker or a thug saying "Spider-Man broke up the shipment"), but we wouldn't only see them occassionally and as outsiders. Matt Murdock could appear every now and then as a thorn in Kingpin's side. Daredevil would interfere from time to time. But Kingpin wouldn't know they were the same person nor suspect it and from their viewer's perspective, they may as well be different people.
that'd be pretty interesting; it would be cool to have movies set in a superhero universe w/out them being about big superheroes directly.
If the studios could pull off a movie about crime boss that has random, brief interjections from superheroes but isn't ABOUT superheroes, hats off to them. I'd watch it and wish it well, but I don't know how you'd market a movie like that or avoid cheesiness.
Not saying it's not a good idea, just ridiculously hard to execute artistically and make money. I'm pretty sure Disney doesn't have a premium cable network a la CBS and Showtime, but that's an avenue that might make it work.
"Kingpin" is a great title.
ETA: I see the SHIELD show as more straight-up sci-fi in the vein of things ABC already has a fair amount of experience with.
Not saying it's not a good idea, just ridiculously hard to execute artistically and make money. I'm pretty sure Disney doesn't have a premium cable network a la CBS and Showtime, but that's an avenue that might make it work.
Disney owns A&E
Of course it's just a platform for shitty reality shows that print money right now, but Disney could turn A&E into a competitor with AMC if they wanted to.Cool, well if you're paying your cable company extra money for A&E as a premium channel, you're getting screwed. As for ABC, that's like the exact opposite of a cable premium channel.
Of course it's just a platform for shitty reality shows that print money right now, but Disney could turn A&E into a competitor with AMC if they wanted to.
AMC is a channel showing shows that only premium channels were showing 10 years ago.
It's tougher to distinguish between HBO TV and shows on some of the cable outlets.