Andorion writes "How many comics will make it to the big screen, how many will be as good as Spiderman or X-Men, and how many will be as bad as Daredevil? Who knows, but the new trailer for The Hulk was just released, and it looks pretty sweet!"
I don't know...
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Shads
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· Score: 3, Interesting
... I was kinda disappointed, why the hulk, there are much better movies they could have made. The hulk is a pretty poor choice although it does invoke some nogstolgia.
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Shadus
Another misuse of CGI
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stratjakt
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· Score: 5, Interesting
Some of those hulk shots look plain phony. CGI models look great and all, but the motion is always too fluid, too phony.
A big muscleman with green greasepaint would move much more convincingly, Lou Ferigno (sp?) made a more convincing Hulk than an animated model. Roll Big Poppa Pump around in some grass clippings and have him hulk around.
Sometimes the most simple and conventional SFX are the most convincing on screen. CGI is great for aliens and monsters and stuff like that, but there are too many subtleties with human movement that we're all subconciously accustomed to.
Plus, the "making of" documentaries are now just filming a couple nerds sitting in front of a 22 inch monitor looking at wire models.
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I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
...was quite good IMHO. OK, so it was a smaller-scale story than X-Men or Spider-Man, and the main character didn't have the firepower of a battalion of Marines. So what? It definitely got me interested in DD as I had no prior experience with that corner of the Marvel-verse. It even raised my opinion of Ben Affleck out of the cellar.
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Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
Re:Daredevil
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gravelpup
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· Score: 3, Interesting
It's because you have no experience with DD that you thought it was good. Read some of the comic books and see for yourself.
That's probably true. But it raises an interesting question:
What makes a "good" comic book movie?
a) the one that can manage the most suspension of disbelief (i.e. makes the story the "realest")?
b) the one that sticks closest to canon?
c) the one that throws continuity out the window, but goes for the best "interpretation" of the "spirit" of the comic?
d) The one that makes the most money because the most people like it?
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Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
Re:More from the TV show?
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SealBeater
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· Score: 5, Interesting
In the comics he's Bruce, in the TV show he's David. Not sure why.
Stan Lee liked names with both initials the same, Richard Reed, Bruce Banner, Peter Parker, etc. It helped him remember what the names were. The producers of the TV show changed it to David, because at the time, they felt "Bruce" would stir up homosexual connotations. In other words, they thought "Bruce" was gay and "David" was more manly. Side note, considering that "David" is the name of the naked statue that Michaelangelo sculpted, I'm not quite sure what they were thinking.
SealBeater
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Its survival of the fittest...and we got the fucking guns!!!
Re Iron Man
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Anonymous Coward
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· Score: 4, Interesting
You will. And Silver Surfer, FF, etc. Check out Superhero Hype.com sometime. Now is the Golden Age of Comics Film and (to paraphrase Ovid): Let others praise ancient times, I am glad to be born in these.
Re:Physics?!?
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John+Carmack
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· Score: 5, Interesting
To leap 50' in the air, you must be going 56.6 ft/s when leaving the ground, disregarding air resistance. Apogee will be in 1.77 seconds.
Assuming a linear acceleration, and a four foot period of acceleration from crouching to leaving the ground with legs extended, the average speed must be 28.3 ft/s over the four feet, for 0.14 seconds of acceleration, or 404 ft/s^2. 12.6 G's of acceleration isn't at all unreasonable for arm / leg contraction at light loads. You can make a >50G acceleration with a pitching motion of your arm.
12.6 G's of acceleration for an 800 pound hulk is only 10080 pounds, divided by two 24" long by 8" wide feet give a mere 26.25 psi force on the pavement.
If I botched these calculations, everyone is surely going to take the opportunity to say how the Armadillo vehicles will crash and burn...:-)
Slashdot Mirror
... I was kinda disappointed, why the hulk, there are much better movies they could have made. The hulk is a pretty poor choice although it does invoke some nogstolgia.
Shadus
Some of those hulk shots look plain phony. CGI models look great and all, but the motion is always too fluid, too phony.
A big muscleman with green greasepaint would move much more convincingly, Lou Ferigno (sp?) made a more convincing Hulk than an animated model. Roll Big Poppa Pump around in some grass clippings and have him hulk around.
Sometimes the most simple and conventional SFX are the most convincing on screen. CGI is great for aliens and monsters and stuff like that, but there are too many subtleties with human movement that we're all subconciously accustomed to.
Plus, the "making of" documentaries are now just filming a couple nerds sitting in front of a 22 inch monitor looking at wire models.
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
...was quite good IMHO. OK, so it was a smaller-scale story than X-Men or Spider-Man, and the main character didn't have the firepower of a battalion of Marines. So what? It definitely got me interested in DD as I had no prior experience with that corner of the Marvel-verse. It even raised my opinion of Ben Affleck out of the cellar.
Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
In the comics he's Bruce, in the TV show he's David. Not sure
why.
Stan Lee liked names with both initials the same, Richard Reed, Bruce Banner,
Peter Parker, etc. It helped him remember what the names were. The producers
of the TV show changed it to David, because at the time, they felt "Bruce"
would stir up homosexual connotations. In other words, they thought "Bruce"
was gay and "David" was more manly. Side note, considering that "David" is the
name of the naked statue that Michaelangelo sculpted, I'm not quite sure what
they were thinking.
SealBeater
-- Its survival of the fittest...and we got the fucking guns!!!
You will. And Silver Surfer, FF, etc. Check out Superhero Hype.com sometime. Now is the Golden Age of Comics Film and (to paraphrase Ovid): Let others praise ancient times, I am glad to be born in these.
To leap 50' in the air, you must be going 56.6 ft/s when leaving the ground, disregarding air resistance. Apogee will be in 1.77 seconds.
:-)
Assuming a linear acceleration, and a four foot period of acceleration from crouching to leaving the ground with legs extended, the average speed must be 28.3 ft/s over the four feet, for 0.14 seconds of acceleration, or 404 ft/s^2. 12.6 G's of acceleration isn't at all unreasonable for arm / leg contraction at light loads. You can make a >50G acceleration with a pitching motion of your arm.
12.6 G's of acceleration for an 800 pound hulk is only 10080 pounds, divided by two 24" long by 8" wide feet give a mere 26.25 psi force on the pavement.
If I botched these calculations, everyone is surely going to take the opportunity to say how the Armadillo vehicles will crash and burn...
John Carmack