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seriousficTwilight officially craziest fandom. Yeah, Cassandra Claire, you're kooky and all, but did you ever start a riot with your plagarism? I don't think so.
Don't worry, Supernatural fans, I hear some fen are going to blow up the Super Bowl with a zeppelin unless Dean and Castiel tongue-kiss.
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Anyone wanna beta a Spider-Man story? It's 55k of words, but little to none of that is Peter making deals with the devil.
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You know what would be cool for the Captain America movie? Instead of the thirty minutes of useless origin story that can drag down every superhero movie, just start with him already the Legend of WW2. After all, if you're going to end the movie with him getting frozen, then having him be a rookie for most of the movie is going to make the reaction when they unfrost him be "oh, it's that guy who was a superhero in WW2 and went on one mission. Which killed him. Only he's not dead. I guess he can be an Avenger."
Viggo Mortensen. Just saying. I know, by comic canon, he should be younger, but we need someone who you could actually believe him ordering around Hulk, Thor, Iron Man, and whoever else they get.
Have a little fake newsreel footage recapping his origin, then bam, we're off to the races! Normandy, towards the end of the war. Cap parachutes down, waiting until the last minute to deploy his chute as he sky-dives past enemy flak. He lands behind Allied lines in the middle of a pitched battle. The GIs are getting pounded. The men are demoralized, but just the sight of Cap gets them on their feet. Cap says they're going on the offensive. The squad whiner says they don't stand a chance against the Nazi tanks.
Cap pulls his shield out of his backpack. "Leave the tanks to me."
Commence asskickery.
And this way you can establish Zemo or Red Skull as a persistent enemy who's deviled Cap throughout the war (maybe Red Skull as Zemo's right-hand man, an ubermensch to match Cap's super-soldier, and in a later movie we can bring in Zemo's grandson or a suspended-animation Red Skull who's graduated to Big Bad status). Which is better, Red Skull and Cap meeting once, Skull kidnapping Cap's girl, then a big showdown? Or a scene where Cap details his relentless pursuit of Red Skull, all the atrocities he was too late to prevent, while we see the fire in his eyes and know the entire world isn't big enough for the two of them?
Don't worry, Supernatural fans, I hear some fen are going to blow up the Super Bowl with a zeppelin unless Dean and Castiel tongue-kiss.
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Anyone wanna beta a Spider-Man story? It's 55k of words, but little to none of that is Peter making deals with the devil.
***
You know what would be cool for the Captain America movie? Instead of the thirty minutes of useless origin story that can drag down every superhero movie, just start with him already the Legend of WW2. After all, if you're going to end the movie with him getting frozen, then having him be a rookie for most of the movie is going to make the reaction when they unfrost him be "oh, it's that guy who was a superhero in WW2 and went on one mission. Which killed him. Only he's not dead. I guess he can be an Avenger."
Viggo Mortensen. Just saying. I know, by comic canon, he should be younger, but we need someone who you could actually believe him ordering around Hulk, Thor, Iron Man, and whoever else they get.
Have a little fake newsreel footage recapping his origin, then bam, we're off to the races! Normandy, towards the end of the war. Cap parachutes down, waiting until the last minute to deploy his chute as he sky-dives past enemy flak. He lands behind Allied lines in the middle of a pitched battle. The GIs are getting pounded. The men are demoralized, but just the sight of Cap gets them on their feet. Cap says they're going on the offensive. The squad whiner says they don't stand a chance against the Nazi tanks.
Cap pulls his shield out of his backpack. "Leave the tanks to me."
Commence asskickery.
And this way you can establish Zemo or Red Skull as a persistent enemy who's deviled Cap throughout the war (maybe Red Skull as Zemo's right-hand man, an ubermensch to match Cap's super-soldier, and in a later movie we can bring in Zemo's grandson or a suspended-animation Red Skull who's graduated to Big Bad status). Which is better, Red Skull and Cap meeting once, Skull kidnapping Cap's girl, then a big showdown? Or a scene where Cap details his relentless pursuit of Red Skull, all the atrocities he was too late to prevent, while we see the fire in his eyes and know the entire world isn't big enough for the two of them?
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Date: 2008-11-11 06:55 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-11-11 07:15 pm (UTC)Yeah. Dream on. EVERY superhero movie introducing a character (i.e., not a sequel) must start with a laboriously told origin story. It's a rule. Apparently. (The X-Men movies escaped this rule through a technicality--nobody has an "origin" per se except Wolverine. They're all just born that way. Not much to tell.)
I agree with you completely about how it ought to be done. But I don't think it'll happen.
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Date: 2008-11-11 07:34 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-11-11 08:33 pm (UTC)Also, Twilight fans are crazy. They are the craziest. That is just scary. Almost scarier than what I hear is in the book. Yikes.
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Date: 2008-11-11 09:35 pm (UTC)I like the idea of skipping the long origin story & just jumping into the action. They can explain certain things to us along the way, I'd be good with that. I'd rather see Cap being, well...Captain America.
Also like the guy you pictured there, I could see him as Cap.
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Date: 2008-11-12 12:59 pm (UTC)Fail.
Cap pulls his shield out of his backpack. "Leave the tanks to me."
Commence asskickery.
Dude, you gotta become a scriptwriter/storyboard writer. Now, please. Save us from stupid idiot-proof superhero flicks because I just cannot stand this anymore.