{DORMANT}Revolutionary_Jack
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The DORMANT account of Jack Elving, curated by @harryhenry6. He's left for Bluesky (https://t.co/5QzEQ7HFq8). Follow him there.
Joined December 2018
This is my last Twitter post as Jack Elving. I've backed up and archived my entire account. However @harryhenry6 convinced me not to delete this account. Instead, I've made him custodian and keeper. Either way, I'm off twitter, I've gone to Bluesky and other spaces.
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Commit to the Masks, you cowards. Be Pattinson and learn to act with the mask, that's how the Ancient Greeks invented acting to start with.
Chad keeping mask on for entire movie vs Virgin taking mask off in the third act every time
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An example of Zeb Wells' exceedingly bad writing in ASM#31. Using a mask reveal to make a witty meta-commentary joke about "The Kid Who Collects Spider-Man" a story that is entirely straight and heartfelt. Wells' "School of Whedon" writing embodied here.
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It was two stories spread over six years.
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@jfdjvndkkckc Celebrating the death of fictional children in response to bad writing is a time honored tradition. As Oscar Wilde said about Charles Dickens' "The Old Curiosity Shop"."One must have a heart of stone not to laugh at the death of little Nell.".
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@TheFreelyAshley The only real way to have a Batman body is to use lots of steroids and be addicted to painkillers and prescription drugs. So I'm glad that Pattinson decided to go: "suspend your disbelief, my guy".
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Harry Osborn in the comics is *NOT* Peter's cool friend. He's the rich failson who is forever aggrieved that his peasant pal gets the chicks, the smarts, Daddy's attention. You don't get that idea by casting actors who Harry Osborn himself would cast.
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@CSMFHT It could also be "totally", right. As in absolutely yes. Which would lead to valley girl Romans.
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@TheFreelyAshley You ever think that might have been an artistic choice?. That the Batman life would be draining and fatiguing and make the person living it behave in an unhealthy fashion?.
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So Slott confirms that Nick Spencer DID want to undo OMD.
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@SiddhantAdlakha Why can’t bad guys be bad guys. Scar was this sassy murderous uncle, now they give him uWu tragic backstory just to make him marketable and have him sell toys.
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@metaplexmovies I love that line she says either before or after, "You think by letting them do this to you the world will forgive you for what you've done, they won't".
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The man who saved the FF, Doom, X-Men, finally rescued Spider-Man.
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@ThisIsATestTai You tell a lot about people by what they find funny. in this case making a metacommentary joke about a universally beloved story that's one of the crowning humanist moments in Spider-Man shows Wells' ideas and attitudes as an artist. And it's not a winning picture.
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@JeremyMonjo Cumberbatch would have been totally wrong for Oppenheimer. He'd do a good performance but he would come off as too heroic. Casting Murphy was a stroke of genius because he laid bare the ambiguity of Oppenheimer's life, all his shades of gray and his mixed legacy.
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@The_GM_is_God He also played Richard Feynman in OPPENHEIMER, the scientist who inspired Reed Richards.
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@FlissReturneth Glazer as it is isn't a "career director". He takes years between projects and only dedicates himself to full-time project by project, so I don't think this will in the short-term affect him. Long-term, I think this will fade because while emotions are hot now I think it'll cool.
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@sheepnstein I like when MJ tells him in the phone, "You need to decide if the guy you knew is still inside there, or if he ever existed after all.".
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@sighsin616 In Spider-Man's own comics, writers (bad writers especially) feel compelled to get preachy about some grand theory of Peter Parker as this Eternal Everyman Loser that they forget that he is still a superhero and has the aura of one. Other writers write Spider-Man the superhero.
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@munkimoder Tolkien *STARTED* during World War II, finished in 1950, and published the book (divided into three parts by publishers) starting in 1954. It was basically as long a wait from The Hobbit (1937) to Fellowship of the Ring (1954) as the current wait for TWOW.
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@kendallhosseini In the UK, actors who come from non theatrical backgrounds are rare and should not be put down for their lack of classical training.
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@insufficentfund @undtheinfluence Lucas donates a lot of money to Film Foundation and other projects for film restoration.
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@TheAlexSylvian Scorsese specifically wanted NYC to look beautiful and gorgeous, as well as gritty. He wanted to convey that Travis was attracted to the place no matter what he says elsewise.
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@Little_Cr0w A great film and a totally un-selfish performance because Urban knew the demands of the script and the character he was playing and decided to forgo usual signposts.
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@vorticistgirl No offense, but The Godfather and Scorsese's movies were never simple movies. They were accessible of course compared to stuff like Godard but they are every bit as intelligent. The truth is that sometimes audiences like something complex and smart.
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@D4hz4hn Calling Sam Raimi a "Spider-Man fanboy" isn't really right. Raimi was a casual reader of Spider-Man in the 70s not someone who knew stuff cover-to-cover and his Spider-Man movies depart from the source a lot.
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@ItsJustN1ck It's not a weird choice if you want your character to come off as awkward and creepy around women, which is the intent of the scene. The director clearly wanted Batman to be a bit ambiguous and disturbing there.
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@CrimsonGP18 The expressive mask is in my opinion worse than maskless. Just a simple static mask. That's it. Ditko's Spider-Man was a static mask without expressions. Raimi's and Garfield's similar. That's it. The mask shouldn't emote. This ain't a Daft Punk headset.
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@nick_lowe_ @LegacyOfM Annie and her mother show up as separate characters in RYV. Mayday is a separate character and not a full composite for your claim of sole credit to hold water. At this point, Jameson would have long published a correction or retraction of some kind.
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The great thing about Saviuk's image here is that it inverts this famous Ditko image of Spidey keeping Peter/Betty apart. Here the Spidey ghost brings the married couple together.
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@ComicGirlAshley Why must bad comics circulate more than better ones, i.e. Zdarsky's Spectacular Spider-Man #310 which won an Eisner, and which is also written and drawn by him:
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@Gluttony_Bishop It’s not a retcon but a rewrite. Got nothing to do with the scene as it was laid down.
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@AGeekForFun I mean Doom and Superman have met in comics before and they don't need this manufactured backstory. From Superman and Spider-Man (1981).
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@parkerlucks Miguel is in the wrong but he's understandably wrong in motivation, even if his bitterness and guilt has made him unable to understand how to treat people around him.
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@JFrankensteiner Nicholson said in The shining documentary that the average movie star meets more people ina year than the ordinary person in their whole lives. So I imagine it’s a common experience for a famous person to lose track of things.
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@nick_lowe_ @zebwells @JrRomita @inkerscott1 @Menyz @JoeCaramagna Mr. Lowe, as editor of this book, I must ask how do you account for numerous basic editing errors such as this page where the characters switch colors across the same two page spread?
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@painfulgamer1 You dared to include the evil remastered with the pristine original screenshot.
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@starwolf_oakley @hiddenhush Actually, Murdock was established as an Irish Catholic before Miller's run. It was just a background thing at the time and not looked at too much. Miller himself didn't emphasize it significantly until Born Again (and he wrote 30+issues before).
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@PoorOldRoloTony he main dramatic journey at the end is Paul's decision to subject himself to destiny despite knowing the visions. In the end he fights someone who in a vision he saw as being a friend in a possible life. But he follows through on the other part that kills him.
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@Thatoneguy64 I don't know what people's ideas about acting but that was a great performance even if it wasn't your idea of how Walken should play him.
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@1danzy @NicholasPas5 Even without the controversy, they pushed Kang too hard. With Thanos, they prepped up The Avengers and dropped him in the post-credits (and then as a CGI dude back to audience). Then the teased bit by bit and didn't tell us about him till IW. Whereas Kang got pushed too fast. 1/.
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@NirvanaM1nd In his defense, Dan Slott himself said that Semper deserves to be credited for the Spider-Verse.
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@BrndnStrssng It’s only with that shot of the parachute we learn why he’s called the Octoboss.
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@heremotherturin The porn version of this film, with its inversions and so on, would be on paper a fine experimental film, yeah.
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So apparently, Dan Slott had used a nom-de-plume called "Willie Lumpkin" to edit his own page, got caught, and got banned from editing his own wikipedia page:.
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@coldcrashpics I think spurning wealth and privilege to honor the love you felt for someone below your class is rather the opposite of that connotation.
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@NoBadNoel She’s the characte with the most appearances in continuity aside from Peter. Genuflect, show some respect.
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@comixjeff The problem is if Spider-Man's life is dangerous why work with the X-Men, especially since her kidnapping has nothing to do with Spider-Man this time and entirely because of her connection to X-Men.
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@jayis_wat05 You know Doom's first appearance outside Fantastic Four was in Amazing Spider-Man #5. Peter launched Victor as a Marvel-wide villain.
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@TheTumboy British actors being paid less than American actors was the big factor. WB realized that with LOTR and HP.
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@ComicGirlAshley The story people don't imagine is Spider-Man saves Gwen, and then shortly after they break up anyway because they were incompatible. Conway did say that had he not got the kill order for Gwen he'd have broken them up.
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@nick_lowe_ @Bholi88 Erasing the work of Tom DeFalco and Ron Frenz is a choice. Defalco being a far more significant and greater editor in Spider-Man and Marvel (in terms of sales and acclaim) than any who've come after. Especially since it was Defalco/Frenz that wrote the version of May as a baby.
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@hankofjuly This is disrespectful as all get out. Roman Coppola is a major VFX artist, he collaborated on the VFX for Bram Stoker's Dracula and also Wes Anderson's The Life Aquatic of Steve Zissou and is a vital screenwriting partner to Wes. He's a talented artist in his own right.
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@straczynski The way you treated sex dramatically in a superhero comic, not as something to joke or leer about, was quite rare I think.
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@henry_belman Harry Osborn wasn't even best man at Peter's wedding to Mary Jane. That was Flash Thompson. Harry Osborn and Peter were friends but it was "classically" a very toxic relationship filled with envy and inadequacy on Harry's part.
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From ASM#142 by Ross Andru. When people talk of Spider-Man being relatable, it's got nothing to do with melodrama and stuff, but simple stuff like this. I've been in scenes like this moving apartments, with the unspoken intimacy and 'being there' of it all.
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@SubatomicViewer It is the job of the editor to ensure that these kinds of things are in continuity. Writers aren't paid to give a sh-t about continuity in the best of times. but the editor could listen to them and smooth stuff to make sure it complies. But Lowe snoozes and loses.
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@ArkhamNumb 1) It's not genius. It's symbolic lighting 101. 2) They foreshadowed it before with Norman constantly wearing dark green suits, just like how Steve Ditko did it in his final issue. Something done in the comics. Not to the game's credit.
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@VoidOfRoses The IRS will just be defunded and gutted. that will be popular to some extent, at least until the banks loyal to Trump directly siphon the cash from your account and hand it Trump directly without any notification for where the money is going and why.
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@jessehawken It bothers me that people call Kevin Feige a “great producer” when he just uses infinite money from a theme park company to test screen his way to a movie. That’s not producing.
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@munkimoder Also Tolkien's real interest was The Silmarillion. That's the book he really wanted to write. and he never finished it, despite starting on it before The Hobbit.
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@ThisIsATestTai @maryjanesparker @brandonjc_art 1) Nobody in Spider-Man Comics Protested the Vietnam War during Stan Lee's run with John Romita Sr. because Lee was largely in favor of the war. 2) Gwen was constantly anti-protest (as was Peter) in that run.
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@PiercedTheToast You don't start a run with a baroque breakup when the previous run kept them inseparable and get to say a story "accentuates" their relationship. Sorry, the privilege to use 10$ words has been revoked.
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Marvel: People complaining about OMD are a small shrinking irrelevant minority, not representative of the readership and new fans who bury them in sand. Also Marvel *going on begging knees to same irrelevant fans*: please move on and stop holding us to higher standards.
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Remember when Venom’s height was down to the fact that Eddie Brock was a bodybuilder built like a tank and modeles in part on Arnie? Now its just big for no reason.
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@Bouje99 @HeerJeet @GorinMoti If he has to explain his jokes, which he does every time, he's legit not funny.
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If Andew Garfield was playing Spider-Man, this would be his dynamic with Kingpin.
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@bornposting Deadline is a trade paper so by default its headlines are gonna give a pro-boss slant.
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"The Norman Osborn I first met. The one who treated me like a Son." Hey asshole that's not the Norman you met. The Norman you met for the first time was a psycho businessman who tried to kill you while strapping you to a chair. Why even have editors at this point? 1/
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@adambomber_ @justinboldaji @jediscum83 I think Lucas saying that was basically his way of telling them to know their place. that he considers them at "Darth Icky" level.
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@IndyFilmAntoine @Variety I mean if they're not working, they're striking. They're not directly on the picket line but they aren't crossing it either.
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@nick_lowe_ Mr. Lowe, aren't you a bit behind the times. Are you neglecting that your company was so compromised by the leaks that they spoiled the story 2 weeks before street date and gave us high-res 4k images of the spoiler?.
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@CTropes Hank slapping Janet (contrary to what defenders and even Shooter claim) was intended to show him as a domestic abuser. The actual plot of the comic makes it clear that Hank's actions are abusive. Whereas that wasn't the story of intent of the F4 and Clone Saga Spider-Man. 1/.
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@TheFrenzyMan "One must have a heart of stone not to laugh at the death of Little Nell". -- Oscar Wilde. If you didn't cheer at the non-existence of those non-existent kids then you ain't got a pulse.
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@TheFirstOkiro It's a shame that people think David Prowse has any greater ownership to Darth Vader than the many others behind that character. Like Bob Anderson the guy who did the lightsaber fights while wearing the suit (and who rocks it better).
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@harryhenry6 Most acting is in fact body language historically. Like in theater, actors know that the majority of audiences (beyond the first few rows) aren't going to have a clear look at their faces so they have to emote via gestures and body language. 1/.
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@ChapTaylor2 Especially since Paramount is an empire in recovery. they got cricket rights in India from Disney, which was basically the main pillar of Disney's streaming empire globally.
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@LilySimpson1312 @AlanHall17 Ursula K. Le Guin did say the books were quite mean spirited. Nobody listened to her then.
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She made it to theatrical before Franklin Richards and Damian Wayne.
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@ProwlingEngine @magnetoshotjfk Actual Hot Take: The Phoenix and Dark Phoenix Saga are actually about women and female experience and Hollywood blockbusters were (and are) so intrinsically male centered that they misrepresent the core themes and betray its aesthetics.
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According to this video, at 13:11, They talk about Spencer's run and they mention meeting Spencer at Keystone Convention where he confirms that his original idea was different, and overturned by editorial:.
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