[Salt-Man Z]

Never read the comics, and had no real expectations for this movie, but I am absolutely hooked on a in love with this trailer.

[QuickTidal]

amphibian, on 20 February 2014 - 04:09 PM, said:

The Harry Potter reading audience didn't exactly set the book world afire with their later purchases, even after the movies came out. The vast majority of people are always going to dip their toes in and then wander away.

Eh, what?

The vast majority of info about the Harry Potter generation is that they, JK, and the movies are responsible for the entire YA genre being so flush since the early noughties till now. Afire would be an understatement, they revived the entire sub-genre and got kids reading, and also got adults to not be ashamed of reading YA openly.

I agree with your first statement, but the Harry Potter example doesn't really work.

[amphibian]

QuickTidal, on 20 February 2014 - 04:18 PM, said:

Eh, what?

The vast majority of info about the Harry Potter generation is that they, JK, and the movies are responsible for the entire YA genre being so flush since the early noughties till now. Afire would be an understatement, they revived the entire sub-genre and got kids reading, and also got adults to not be ashamed of reading YA openly.

I agree with your first statement, but the Harry Potter example doesn't really work.

I'll ask Werthead and see what he says about it.

I thought that the Hunger Games audience were mostly the people younger than the HP crowd, as the HP books really went into overdrive around 2000 - ten years before Hunger Games took off. Perhaps the Twlight crowd was related, as Meyer published in 2005/2006.

[QuickTidal]

amphibian, on 20 February 2014 - 06:43 PM, said:

QuickTidal, on 20 February 2014 - 04:18 PM, said:

Eh, what?

The vast majority of info about the Harry Potter generation is that they, JK, and the movies are responsible for the entire YA genre being so flush since the early noughties till now. Afire would be an understatement, they revived the entire sub-genre and got kids reading, and also got adults to not be ashamed of reading YA openly.

I agree with your first statement, but the Harry Potter example doesn't really work.

I'll ask Werthead and see what he says about it.

I thought that the Hunger Games audience were mostly the people younger than the HP crowd, as the HP books really went into overdrive around 2000 - ten years before Hunger Games took off. Perhaps the Twlight crowd was related, as Meyer published in 2005/2006.

It's all related. HP spawned a few big series (Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson chief among them) as similar type stories, and then TWILIGHT came along and swiftly picked up the kids who had grown up with HP, now in their mid-teens and overlapped the end of HP (TWILIGHT is 2005, and HP didn't end till 2007) and brung them into teen vampire angst, which then gave way in 2008 to THE HUNGER GAMES. Now those are the MAJOR series mind...but between HP, TWILIGHT and HUNGER are absolute HUGE scadding sub-genre's and series that the Tumblr-set go nuts for, and the market is hugely saturated now. So whereas in the early 90's, finding fanbases/audience dollars that large dominating a Youth literary genre, was small...in comparison and lrgely because of HP, the one we have today is mammoth.

And don't ask Wert. He's only going to disagree with me, and then try to prove his dubious disagreement without proof, and fancy words.

[Studlock]

DnA's run in cosmic marvel is one of the best runs of superhero comics! Seriously, everything I want in a superhero comic: big ideas, big personalities, and big heart. Not to mention it was one of most diverse cast out at the time...and pretty much every character has a super weird origin which something I enjoy.

That trailer kind of nails the tone of DnA's run on Guardians of the Galaxy (and hopefully is...I don't mind Bendis's run but it is far weaker in term of pretty much everything save for the art...but plot, voice, style, design it comes in a far second.). Action! Humour! We'll have to see if it delivers on the heart though.

[Werthead]

amphibian, on 20 February 2014 - 06:43 PM, said:

I thought that the Hunger Games audience were mostly the people younger than the HP crowd, as the HP books really went into overdrive around 2000 - ten years before Hunger Games took off. Perhaps the Twlight crowd was related, as Meyer published in 2005/2006.

It's arguable. YA was pretty big before HARRY POTTER, just not as insanely huge as it is now. HARRY POTTER is certainly responsible for raising the profile of the YA field and making it more palatable to adults (though that's always been the case to some extent; Le Guin, Diana Wynne Jones, Gaiman, Pratchett and of course Tolkien and Lewis had major cross-over appeal with their supposed children-only books), which can be seen in how many big YA series there have been since, and how big they've been. The dating thing isn't necessarily decisive: lots of kids growing up reading will be picking up the HARRY POTTER books (or NARNIA or THE HOBBIT) as they get old enough to read them, hence why they're still selling so well when the final book came out almost seven years ago.

TWILIGHT appeals to a rather different demographic - religious-minded romantics who urgently desire a reinforcing of traditional family values and submissive gender roles for women, basically - than HARRY POTTER or THE HUNGER GAMES and can be judged more as its own phenomenon. It's interesting how many TWILIGHT fans utterly loathe other YA series and other vampire series for not being the exact same thing, whilst there seems to be a lot more cross-over between other YA series.

This post has been edited by Werthead: 23 February 2014 - 10:37 AM

[QuickTidal]

Latest trailer NAILS it. I am all in for this flick now.

[polishgenius]

With this and Jupiter Ascending, from the looks of the trailers it could be a really good year for big, silly space opera.

Star Wars may be lucky that it's not due till 2015...

[Coco with marshmallows]

having avoided much news of this and only watching trailers,

i just had a total "Holy S*** that's Glenn Close!" moment.

[Salt-Man Z]

I don't think I've been so madly in love with a movie that's yet to be released since the first Transformers film (which I loved, so shut up.)

[QuickTidal]

So, based off of already 20 critic reviews...GotG is clocking a SOLID 100% Fresh rating so far.

http://www.rottentom..._of_the_galaxy/

That is RARE, and shows how much fun this movie apparently is.

The percentage may drop a point or two (there are always stodgy asshole reviewers who might rate it rotten), but the fact that it's 100% right now bodes very well. This movie is going to slay the box office.

[Jakovasaurus]

[Kruppe's snacky cakes]

QuickTidal, on 25 July 2014 - 03:05 PM, said:

So, based off of already 20 critic reviews...GotG is clocking a SOLID 100% Fresh rating so far.

http://www.rottentom..._of_the_galaxy/

That is RARE, and shows how much fun this movie apparently is.

The percentage may drop a point or two (there are always stodgy asshole reviewers who might rate it rotten), but the fact that it's 100% right now bodes very well. This movie is going to slay the box office.

Well, in that case...

Guardians of the Galaxy H$65 Call

[D'rek]

Looks like every theatre within an hour's drive of me is *only* going to be showing this in 3D (or Imax 3D)... not a single 2D listing in sight. This makes me sad. Is it just my region or is it like this everywhere?

[QuickTidal]

D, on 30 July 2014 - 03:34 PM, said:

Looks like every theatre within an hour's drive of me is *only* going to be showing this in 3D (or Imax 3D)... not a single 2D listing in sight. This makes me sad. Is it just my region or is it like this everywhere?

I can't find any 2D screenings near me. Even the VIP theatre that rarely does 3D is doing 3D.

[Abyss]

QuickTidal, on 30 July 2014 - 04:02 PM, said:

D, on 30 July 2014 - 03:34 PM, said:

Looks like every theatre within an hour's drive of me is *only* going to be showing this in 3D (or Imax 3D)... not a single 2D listing in sight. This makes me sad. Is it just my region or is it like this everywhere?

I can't find any 2D screenings near me. Even the VIP theatre that rarely does 3D is doing 3D.

A few lesser theaters here don't have 3D, but we shun them.

Otherwise, i expect it will be on every 3D screen in range for the first week, then gradually shift to 2D as other flics come out.

[champ]

3D IMAX tickets booked for tonight!!! Cannot wait!!!

[QuickTidal]

champ, on 31 July 2014 - 12:53 PM, said:

3D IMAX tickets booked for tonight!!! Cannot wait!!!

I got mine for tomorrow. SO Excited!

[Silencer]

QuickTidal, on 31 July 2014 - 12:59 PM, said:

champ, on 31 July 2014 - 12:53 PM, said:

3D IMAX tickets booked for tonight!!! Cannot wait!!!

I got mine for tomorrow. SO Excited!

Unbelievably jealous. I *need* to go see this. But all my moviegoing friends are occupied. CURSES.

[QuickTidal]

Silencer, on 31 July 2014 - 02:11 PM, said:

QuickTidal, on 31 July 2014 - 12:59 PM, said:

champ, on 31 July 2014 - 12:53 PM, said:

3D IMAX tickets booked for tonight!!! Cannot wait!!!

I got mine for tomorrow. SO Excited!

Unbelievably jealous. I *need* to go see this. But all my moviegoing friends are occupied. CURSES.

Go on your own. I go to the movies on my own frequently.