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<blockquote data-quote="barsoomcore" data-source="post: 2130478" data-attributes="member: 812"><p>takyris: you seem to be saying that movies have more dialog than comic books.</p><p></p><p>That's flat-out wrong. Sorry, man, but it is. I mean, read comic books much? Look at the action/word ratio an average comic book: Spidey dodges a punch, Doc Ock says, "I've got you now, you miserable arachnid!", Spidey sees debris tumbling towards onlookers and thinks, "Those innocent bystanders! I've got to save them, but how do I keep this maniac off me?", and says, "You four-armed baboon!"</p><p></p><p>That doesn't sound like an out-of-line comic book panel to me. Obviously it changes from panel to panel and artist/writer to artist/writer, but trying to reproduce that in a movie would be impossible. You could never fit that much dialog (external or internal) into the space of time covered by the punch, not without being all tricky, at any rate.</p><p></p><p>I would say the Spiderman movies had LESS dialog than your average comic book, not more.</p><p></p><p>So I just can't accept your argument about all this. If you don't like Miller's dialogue, that's fine, but I just do not accept the assertion that movies have more dialogue than comic books and thus comic book dialogue doesn't translate to film.</p><p></p><p>It seems like you're making very very large assumptions about both the nature of the comic books and the nature of the film, and using those assumptions to rather extremely interpret the trailers, and using that interpretation to dismiss it. You seem to have gone a long way from the available evidence in order to reach your judgement.</p><p></p><p>Again, if you just didn't like the trailer, that's fine. I don't share your opinion on throwing star posture (or Uma's grip, which was certainly one that I would approve of in a junior student. It's how I was taught how to hold a katana. Her hasso-no-kamae was wrong (when she and Elle are squaring off), but everyone's is. Nice ko-gasumi, though (when she's watching her surrounding enemies in the reflections in her blade)), and I just don't believe you can judge dialogue based on out-of-context clips (for the most part; I mean, how do you judge a line like "I know."? (thinking of Han Solo, there -- GREAT line, but only in context)), but that's me.</p><p></p><p>I for one am hoping Rodriguez finally lives up to his promise and delivers the film I've been waiting for him to deliver. I think he's immensely talented but dreadfully sloppy, and I just really want him to give me a film that feels like he took the time to do it right.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="barsoomcore, post: 2130478, member: 812"] takyris: you seem to be saying that movies have more dialog than comic books. That's flat-out wrong. Sorry, man, but it is. I mean, read comic books much? Look at the action/word ratio an average comic book: Spidey dodges a punch, Doc Ock says, "I've got you now, you miserable arachnid!", Spidey sees debris tumbling towards onlookers and thinks, "Those innocent bystanders! I've got to save them, but how do I keep this maniac off me?", and says, "You four-armed baboon!" That doesn't sound like an out-of-line comic book panel to me. Obviously it changes from panel to panel and artist/writer to artist/writer, but trying to reproduce that in a movie would be impossible. You could never fit that much dialog (external or internal) into the space of time covered by the punch, not without being all tricky, at any rate. I would say the Spiderman movies had LESS dialog than your average comic book, not more. So I just can't accept your argument about all this. If you don't like Miller's dialogue, that's fine, but I just do not accept the assertion that movies have more dialogue than comic books and thus comic book dialogue doesn't translate to film. It seems like you're making very very large assumptions about both the nature of the comic books and the nature of the film, and using those assumptions to rather extremely interpret the trailers, and using that interpretation to dismiss it. You seem to have gone a long way from the available evidence in order to reach your judgement. Again, if you just didn't like the trailer, that's fine. I don't share your opinion on throwing star posture (or Uma's grip, which was certainly one that I would approve of in a junior student. It's how I was taught how to hold a katana. Her hasso-no-kamae was wrong (when she and Elle are squaring off), but everyone's is. Nice ko-gasumi, though (when she's watching her surrounding enemies in the reflections in her blade)), and I just don't believe you can judge dialogue based on out-of-context clips (for the most part; I mean, how do you judge a line like "I know."? (thinking of Han Solo, there -- GREAT line, but only in context)), but that's me. I for one am hoping Rodriguez finally lives up to his promise and delivers the film I've been waiting for him to deliver. I think he's immensely talented but dreadfully sloppy, and I just really want him to give me a film that feels like he took the time to do it right. [/QUOTE]
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