Well I don't know much about man-thing, but I love marvel comics and wish them the best.
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I dunno if it'll do so well on dvd after it's already aired on tv. Sounds like a cool character, can't wait to watch it.
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Apparently the movie is really bad, and the MAN-THING doesn't show up until the last 10 minutes (!).
It was screened at a sci-fi (or horror?) convention and Marvel was very displeased with the film.
So if it's that low budget and bad, maybe striaght to TV or cable is the way to go.
It's to bad because I thought this concept would have been cool if properly done. :(
Can I get some information about the convention in which this movie was screened?
shareStan Lee needs to remember that he wasn't sent to Hollywood to play bit parts in films! GET BACK TO YOUR DESK, STAN and take a look at the shambling mockery of a movie that made it through your quality control. Man-Thing could have been very interesting from a psychological perspective, now everyone will think it's some Boogeyman ripoff.
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Man, Steve Gerber can't seem to get a break with the characters he created for Marvel being turned into movies, his last one was Howard the Duck (the first Marvel movie actually). It is a Good thing Blade came along and led the way for X-men and Spidey.
I was surprised to see a Man-thin movie being made anyway. Most of what he seems to do is just stand there, I can't even remember what he did in stories if anything.
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hey filfanatic, you mom wants you to clean up your room. She has company coming over. You truly are a negative son of a bi$%^.
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They shot Man-Thing here in Sydney, yet somehow they apparently managed to burn through $30 million. Good luck making that back through TV and DVD.
"Ignorance composes the strongest conviction"
Ok, FilmFanatic let me say first off that you are a friggen moron!
Man-Thing premiers on Scifi April 30th, we shall see just how good or bad the film is then. If Man-Thing only appears for the last 10 mins and he looks like crap, which he most likely will since he is going to be CGI than they had good reason not to let it into a theater.
However I am a straight up swamp fan as you can see by my name which is swampthing, so I will watch and evaluate this film when scifi shows it.
Filmfanatic the only Marvel film that totally sucked ass was "The Hulk" that was truly a travesty and a disgrace and a slap in the face to the early Hulk Series starring the late Great Bill Bixby and the still ever living Lou Ferrigno.
Spiderman 1 and 2 have CGI that does its job right, if no one told you Doc Ock's tentacles were CGI you wouldn't even know that they weren't real.
FilmFanatic I don't know what you consider to be a great film, maybe that porn you have been watching in your mothers basement is considered by you to be 5 star entertainment, if it is I don't care, I dare not try to figure out what is going on in your twisted little mind.
In the meantime the rest of us know good qaulity films when we see them.
nuff said.
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Wow, filmfan... you are one sad, sad, little man. Maybe you should take all that anger out on something else, other than all us comic geeks. Maybe go out and play football or something. Tackle some dude and then tell him what's up with Hulk or Spider-Man 2 or something. Try it. You know what, screw football, just run up and hit some random guy on the street. Trust me, you'll feel better.
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Yeah, I can relate to you about Man-Thing now going to Sci-Fi instead of coming out to theaters (of course what really sucks is that it's on the Sci-Fi Channel, home of such classics as Frankenfish or Boa Vs. Python:P). Plus I read the Man-Thing comic (which was written by the screenwriter of the movie, and took place before the movie) and it seemed pretty good. But now that Marvel is a power player in Hollywood, they feel that they can take some gambles. Blade is a good example, a black vampire hunter might seem like a risky venture, but New Line took him and made a good movie trilogy based on him. Marvel took another gamble on Man-Thing, but since they aren't confident on Manny's box office power, they decided not to spend any money shipping to a hundred thousand movie theaters and sold him to whoever owns Sci-Fi and hope to make some money off the broadcasts of the movie and DVD rental and sales. But that's Hollywood for ya. Consider yourself lucky to even see it instead of Marvel shelving it, and your stuck with a substandard bootleg you bought off some 30 year old virgin living in his mama's basement, like what some guys got with the previous Fantastic 4 flick.
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I think you guys forgot to list the X-men and X-2. Both of which DEFINITELY did not suck!!
shareI am a man that knows what he is talking about unlike FilmFanatic who only knows how to evaluate porno movies which he thinks are the greatest films ever made.
"If you didn't know Doc Ocks tentacles were CGI'd for certain scenes you wouldn't know they weren't real and moron you can't tell which scenes the tentacles are CGI, if you can, you need to get a life."
With all that aside, I hope this Man-Thing film is a somewhat decent attempt even though it is going directly to TV.
The worst comic book film ever made was "The Punisher (1989) that version of the film stars Dolph Lundgren in the title role, while the film is entertaining, it strays away from the comic, I am still amused by The Punisher with a russian accent, the dude was supposed to be Italian!
I heard the new Version of "The Punisher" that came out last year was good.
Hope no one minds if I say something actually on topic here. But I really hate it that an R rated film is premeiring on cable tv. It's first run should NOT be censored. Now if Sci-fi is doing some special uncensored thing for it that I haven't heard about then that's cool.
"The Darkness is the force on crack."
I agree man! I agree wholeheartedly. Aways good to find a fellow Darkness fan.
"The Darkness is the force on crack."
I saw "Man-Thing" earlier today, here at my local Nu-Metro cinema here in Johannesburg, South Africa, & yes it was projected from 35mm film stock, & not from digital. The move was cool, & much better than "The Hulk". It has got that typical Brett Leonard touch, just like "Virtuosity".
shareDepends on how you define "movie." The three you list prior to "Howard" were TV movies, so if one counts theatrical films, then "Howard" would be the first, unless one tries to drag in the old Republic "Captain America" serial. Since Marvel Comics, as such, didn't yet exist at the time, that's a bit of a stretch.
sharethis film is bound to be bad. you can just feel it
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