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urbwar said:
I'm saying I disagree that Netflix owns the shows. To help prove that, I did a little deeper digging, as I remembered the head of Disney being interviewed about the shows. From this interview with Bob Iger from Disney, who said:


It's clear from his statement that Disney owns the shows, and that Netflix had exclusive streaming rights for a period of time. While Disney/Marvel can use the characters elsewhere 2 years after the shows are cancelled, Netflix still has the rights to stream them (iirc) until the end of 2021. I hope that helps straighten out who actually owns the shows.
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I didn't disagree about Netflix owning the show. Iger has also said in another interview that they would be on Netflix as long as Netflix wanted them. So I was referring to the streaming rights, and wondered where you'd seen that when none of the articles referred to them- just the character rights. We left the owning bit behind a bit ago, I thought. That article says nothing to refute that, and I wonder where you even got the 2021 quote from.
 
chuckdee said:
I didn't disagree about Netflix owning the show. Iger has also said in another interview that they would be on Netflix as long as Netflix wanted them. So I was referring to the streaming rights, and wondered where you'd seen that when none of the articles referred to them- just the character rights. We left the owning bit behind a bit ago, I thought. That article says nothing to refute that, and I wonder where you even got the 2021 quote from.
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I got the quote from the interview I linked to. It's linked there in my post before the quote, so not sure why you wonder where I got it from. It's right there in the interview. The quote even makes it clear that Netflix only has streaming rights for a limited time, not indefinite.
 
urbwar said:
I got the quote from the interview I linked to. It's linked there in my post before the quote, so not sure why you wonder where I got it from. It's right there in the interview. The quote even makes it clear that Netflix only has streaming rights for a limited time, not indefinite.
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www.comicbookmovie.com

Bob Iger On Marvel Netflix Deal, Says One More Show In Development At ABC

Disney top executive Bob Iger weighs in on the Marvel/Netflix deal for Daredevil, Luke Cage, Iron Fist, Jessica Jones and The Defenders original series. Says another Marvel show is in development for ABC.
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This doesn't have any such verbiage in the interview, and I did read it. It only talks about exclusivity and doesn't include any dates other than 2016. That is why I wonder where you got it from. Unless it's another link you meant to reference?

I looked back through the posts, and found this one that had some reference to 2021:

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WandaVision: Marvel’s Andy Park Shares Scarlet Witch Concept Art in Honor of Disney+ Series

We are less than two months away from WandaVision premiering on Disney+! The highly-anticipated [...]
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But that was only for use of the characters, which I don't think was ever disputed.
 
chuckdee said:
www.comicbookmovie.com

Bob Iger On Marvel Netflix Deal, Says One More Show In Development At ABC

Disney top executive Bob Iger weighs in on the Marvel/Netflix deal for Daredevil, Luke Cage, Iron Fist, Jessica Jones and The Defenders original series. Says another Marvel show is in development for ABC.
www.comicbookmovie.com www.comicbookmovie.com

This doesn't have any such verbiage in the interview, and I did read it. It only talks about exclusivity and doesn't include any dates other than 2016. That is why I wonder where you got it from. Unless it's another link you meant to reference?
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It's right there in this part of the interview. This is the first paragraph in the interview I linked to. It's right there.
 
That says nothing about 2021. Just the exclusivity. Like I said, I conceded the ownership part. Just not the part about the streaming rights, which this says nothing about. And this definitely says nothing about a date, just a "period of time".
 
Watched Nightfall on TCM's Noir Alley, a lesser known Tourneur noir based on a Dave Goodis novel (always a good sign) staring Ann Bancroft and a shockingly young Aldo Ray. Knowing Ray for his burned out, often drunken performances in Z-grade 70s exploitation watching him here was a revelation, he was quite good, tough but vulnerable and expressive, surprisingly modern and minimalist.

 
soltakss said:
Cor, all those posts about Netflix, Marvel and Disney and not one recommendation of what to watch.
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Daredevil and Punisher are fantastic, the best cinematic adaptions of their respective characters.
Jessica Jones and the Defenders are both really good. Luke Cage and Iron Fist are uneven, but generally good, if lagging in the middles . The second season of Luke Cage was substantially better than the first.
 
I would recommend Queen's Gambit on Netflix. Show about a fictional Chess player who struggles with a tranq addiction. I don't play chess but it made it quite interesting, and tense at times. The characters came across well. And if you're into the 60s mod look, the set piece design and costume did fantastically.
 
Smith said:
I would recommend Queen's Gambit on Netflix. Show about a fictional Chess player who struggles with a tranq addiction. I don't play chess but it made it quite interesting, and tense at times. The characters came across well. And if you're into the 60s mod look, the set piece design and costume did fantastically.
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I finished this Friday and confirm the show is excellent.

The "girls can do it too!" motif is there, but it's not in your face like other TV shows or films, if that's a concern.
 
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I dislike The Boys. I'm sick and tired of the same 'deconstruction' of heroism that was never needed taking place since 1985 when Watchmen came out and every God damned Hollywood and Comic studio has been scrambling to remake it.

I'm glad y'all like the show, I'm just tired of the tropes.
 
Chris Brady said:
I dislike The Boys. I'm sick and tired of the same 'deconstruction' of heroism that was never needed taking place since 1985 when Watchmen came out and every God damned Hollywood and Comic studio has been scrambling to remake it.

I'm glad y'all like the show, I'm just tired of the tropes.
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I'm with you. I hate all capeshit, even if they're trying to be unironic. But, most of all, I hate the fans.
 
Chris Brady said:
I dislike The Boys. I'm sick and tired of the same 'deconstruction' of heroism that was never needed taking place since 1985 when Watchmen came out and every God damned Hollywood and Comic studio has been scrambling to remake it.

I'm glad y'all like the show, I'm just tired of the tropes.
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Nemesis said:
I'm with you. I hate all capeshit, even if they're trying to be unironic. But, most of all, I hate the fans.
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Lads you do know The Butcher himself literally posts on this forum. Lucky he thinks supes are cunts too innit?

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Nemesis said:
I'm with you. I hate all capeshit, even if they're trying to be unironic. But, most of all, I hate the fans.
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Oh, I LOVE Superheroes... And... You know, I'm feeling a bit hypocritical, because I LOVE the Iron Age of Comics. But the constant denigration of the heroic archetype is wearing on me.

I'm not a fan of the 'Silver Age', I like complex or at least conflicted characters, but the reveling in the destruction of anything 'good' that's what's bothering me.

Again, though. If you like the show, you do you, Boo. I ain't got the right to tell people otherwise.
 
Chris Brady said:
I dislike The Boys. I'm sick and tired of the same 'deconstruction' of heroism that was never needed taking place since 1985 when Watchmen came out and every God damned Hollywood and Comic studio has been scrambling to remake it.

I'm glad y'all like the show, I'm just tired of the tropes.
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I wouldn't call The Boys a deconstruction, it's just a very dark comedy written by a fellow that hates superheroes
 
TristramEvans said:
I wouldn't call The Boys a deconstruction, it's just a very dark comedy written by a fellow that hates superheroes
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True, I guess I'm calling it that because other fans of the show (And I don't mean here, none of you have said that, as I recall) claim it is.

And again, if anyone anywhere likes this? Ignore my rant, it's unnecessary and irrelevant to your enjoyment of it.
 
As for superheroes, I don't mind the alternate takes like Burnbright and the like, but I really prefer that if it's a character that I know, that the adaption is faithful to that character, including all of the inherent goofiness. I want more Shazam and less...

whatever this is
 
You know, I was hopeful with that Batman trailer. Now, I love my Kung Fu Batman, most of the Arkham games (I didn't like Knight, because it just had too many systems layered on to memorize properly) are on my list of top 10 games.

But the ONE thing we've never really fully seen in a Batman movie is his brain. He's the Dark Knight Detective, he's supposed to be a a modern day Sherlock Holmes. And this video gave me hope. But then hearing all the alleged back stage stuff, I dunno. I'll give it a shot. But... I ain't holding much hope.
 
I'm watching an Indian Sentai movie, named Satria Heroes: Revenge of The Darkness.

It makes me want to watch the original show, as apparently, this is a movie to it.
 
Watched the infamous The Night Porter, recently reissued by Criterion and shown on TCM as part of their month-long feature on women filmmakers, Cavani's S&M amour fou story about a Nazi and a Shoah survivor(!).

Better seen as a psychosexual fantasy along the lines of Genet's equally fetishistic Funeral Rites than a realistic portrayal of fascism and the Shoah, the famous song sequence by Rampling makes that clear, what sustains the film still despite its chilly morbidity are the great central perfornances by Dirk Bogarde and the always fascinating Charlotte Rampling.

 
Comcast/Xfinity are doing Free TV week, so I have access to HBO Max for a week. Started diving into Lovecraft Country (3 episodes in so far), and I see they got some of the HBO Asia stuff on there.
 
Watched Enola Holmes on Netflix, a couple of Magnum P.I. Episodes, Master of the Nine Dragon Fist: Wong Ching-Ho (another of HBO Asia's films based on the 10 Tigers), and started The Dead Don't Die (which I'm not really getting into). Also watched episode 4 of Lovecraft Country.
 
Watched Utopia, which was said to be a sequel to Dystopia, so watched the pilot of Dystopia, which turned out to be an unrelated Spanish programme.

Utopia was pretty good, it should have been the sort of thing that I loved, but wasn't really. It had a few good ideas and a few good moments, but could have been much better.

Not sure what to watch yet, but will find something on Netflix, Amazon Prime or Now TV. Although I'd love to watch the Mandalorian, I can't justify another streaming service that I would hardly watch. I watch a lot of Netflix and some Amazon Prime/Now TV.
 
Voros said:
Watched the infamous The Night Porter, recently reissued by Criterion and shown on TCM as part of their month-long feature on women filmmakers, Cavani's S&M amour fou story about a Nazi and a Shoah survivor(!).
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I remember that as being disturbing in many ways.
 
soltakss said:
Watched Utopia, which was said to be a sequel to Dystopia, so watched the pilot of Dystopia, which turned out to be an unrelated Spanish programme.

Utopia was pretty good, it should have been the sort of thing that I loved, but wasn't really. It had a few good ideas and a few good moments, but could have been much better.

Not sure what to watch yet, but will find something on Netflix, Amazon Prime or Now TV. Although I'd love to watch the Mandalorian, I can't justify another streaming service that I would hardly watch. I watch a lot of Netflix and some Amazon Prime/Now TV.
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If you mean the recent US remake of Utopia, the original is a UK series. In the original series the first half is excellent the second good but weaker.
 
Voros said:
If you mean the recent US remake of Utopia, the original is a UK series. In the original series the first half is excellent the second good but weaker.
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I haven't heard of the original series.
 
So I am re-watching Into the Spider-Verse. Which I watched last night (As Canadian Netflix only got it on the 26th of this month) and... I'm not sure about it.

It's VERY pretty, although the scenes that have 3D bits in it are very distracting, and I am the audience they want, I suffer from Adult ADHD, so the frenetic pacing, the wild cuts and comic styling is fine to me. The Hip Hop like soundtrack is 'kickin'' as the kids used to say. I actually like the animation style too.

But I do have some issues.

I don't like what they did to the Parker character, it seems very off to me that he would stop being Spider-Man for any reason. Morales is as bland as he was in the comics. They cribbed a lot of Parker's origin to his, to make him interesting even. I did like that his parents are together, that's a nice touch. Too many hero stories have single parent homes, or are orphans (Japan Shonen Anime has this problem...), so yeah, positive. In fact, most of the movie's B-Plot was Miles having issues with his dad and resolving them. Again, a plus in my book.

There's also another minor point that's a bit contrived or at least doesn't get resolved which stands out to me:
The Spider that sought out and bit Miles. What was up with that? Several times it had two targets to bite, but it went after Miles. Why? And why did Alchemax create it? Never gets touched on.

Other than that, 7.5 out of 10, if you can handle the animation style.
 
I really loved spider-verse when I first saw it in theatres.

But after having seen it a few more times on video, I find it's not a film that really stands up to repeated viewings. Still better than the MCU spidey films, but there's not much depth to it
 
Finished The Dead Don't Die (which got better, but the trailers made it seem more of a comedy than I felt it was), finished Lovecraft Country (was good, but the ending of Season 1 felt a little off to me), watched 2 more episodes of Magnum PI, caught one of the more recent Supernatural episodes on Netflix, and checked out the movie Body Cam (which was good, but more a supernatural thriller than a straight out horror movie). oh yeah, and saw Underwater. Was hoping to catch more on Free tv week via Comcast, but sadly wasn't able to. Still, I did get to check out 4 movies and all of Lovecraft Country, so that wasn't too bad.
 
Finally watched Season 4 of The Expanse. I found S3 underwhelming but after a weak first episode S4 ended up being on of the best seasons so far. Great last episode in particular and also love the actor playing Drummer. Ready for S5 in a few weeks.
 
What's the Expanse about? looking for a new series to take up the time in between Mandalorian episodes
 
TristramEvans said:
What's the Expanse about? looking for a new series to take up the time in between Mandalorian episodes
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First season is a neo-noir detective mystery set in a fairly gritty and some would say 'hard sf' (no FTL travel) near-future solar system setting.

The following seasons get more into the system politics and the impact of a first contact.

The characters and actors grow on you and help make it through the weaker but not bad S3.
 
Voros said:
First season is a neo-noir detective mystery set in a fairly gritty and some would say 'hard sf' (no FTL travel) near-future solar system setting.

The following seasons get more into the system politics and the impact of a first contact.

The characters and actors grow on you and help make it through the weaker but not bad S3.
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It sounds familiar - is it based on a book series?
 
If you're thinking about watching The Expanse, please reconsider and read the books instead. The story is further along. Plus, Amazon is canceling the show, so the story might have an abrupt ending that won't be as satisfying.
 
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