Sentences with phrase «things as comic»

I was just reading what I could find online (surprisingly, the first time I'd heard there was such a thing as comic torrents, it was someone telling me so in person).

Not exact matches

According to Davis, Loot Crate launched with a «geeky, $ 20 dollar, Comic Con type thing,» but quickly grew to providing crates for fans of Marvel, WWE, Harry Potter, Halo... as well as broader - based themes like anime, gaming, and even pet owners.

the other curious thing is when theists go after the atheists over our knowledge of scripture, most atheists were once theists so we would have some idea of scripture like you all however with the onslaught of attacks from religious folks in the real world when they discover we're not «one of them» has the same effect as the villian in the comics unwittingly creating the superhero.

The major task of the comic hero, therefore, as Nathan Scott insists, «is to remind us of how deeply rooted we are in all the tangible things of this world....

As a comic, it is the best thing, the best 12 months really probably that I could have asked for.

I myself am a HUGE gamer, although I take a liking into many «nerdy» things, such as movies, comics, anime, cosplay, etc..

I'm into a few nerdy things that wouldn't really get someone a date, such as; anime, jpop, comics and video games.

27 year old male looking for someone whos into similar hobbies / stuff I'm into examples: metal music and the darker side of things, also good books as I love poetry and write my own... perhaps even comics haha, love those too.

The young actors have chemistry together and you have to appreciate how the filmmakers had the good sense of also casting such comic geniuses as Eugene Levy as Jim's dad and Jennifer Coolidge as Stifler's mom, and now the conclusion of the epic trilogy takes the Chris - Guest - company thing one step further by giving the part of Michele's dad to Fred Willard!

I will say one thing about TDK and Aquaman: The comic book character is unbearably pitiful and TDK managed to translate that perfectly into a just - as - pitiful game.

Certainly the cast gives amusing and / or affecting performances — I haven't mentioned Paddy Considine, as the mullet - haired New Age healer who moves in next door and pitches woo at Oliver's mum — but Ayoade doesn't have any idea how to make all these comic episodes adhere into a story that seems even the slightest bit original, and the whole thing peters out into conventional bittersweet quirk.

More often than not, the undeniably talented comic actor's hits (Billy Madison, Big Daddy, The Longest Yard, Click ad nauseum) personify him not only as an arrested adolescent but a perpetually (and psychotically) angry one; the box office success of movies as unpleasant as those reveals things about their fans that I'm not sure I want to know.

Working mostly in comedies, Ruffalo appeared in The Last Big Thing (1996) and alongside comic character actor stalwarts Steve Zahn and Paul Giamatti in Safe Men (1998); he also starred as an artist with love problems in the romantic comedy Life / Drawing (1999).

But as Comic - Con kicks off, Sony is ramping things up, putting out a short teaser showing the man himself talking to some off - screen scientist as he's strapped into machinery.

Each of the comics we've done has just been meant to be the best comic we could come up with, because I don't think in terms of making one thing as a bounce board for something else.

«Things could get a little messy — end of the world, that kind of thing,» is a telling piece of dialogue from the new Comic - Con trailer for The Man From U.N.C.L.E., which effectively sells its spy adventure tropes by treating them more as ornamentation than as substance.

As in the comics, the most intriguing things about Wakanda are its contradictions.

Plus, as Cars showed, Mater is perfectly fine for comic relief, but he is grating when given such a large role, with Pixar proving that sometimes there's such a concept as too much of a good thing.

he meets up with some exvillagers who help things out by functioning as comic relief and bystanders for Jaa to rescue, he takes on an increasingly large segment of the Thai underworld, and performs some spectacular stunts.

A surprise late - film cameo from a member of the usual gang (hint: not Ben Stiller, but the other one) livens things up a little, but it also raises a troubling question: Vaughn, Wilson, and their pals have emerged in the past few years as the most reliable big - budget comic collective since the first batch of Saturday Night Live vets started making movies in the late»70s and early»80s.

The Week in Star Wars returns after a short hiatus with some big updates from Han Solo and The Last Jedi, as well as some comic book and Episode IX news too... Let's kick things off with Han Solo, and a new report from Jedi News has revealed that Spencer Wilding has landed himself a -LSB-...]

As many of the comic book's fans know, the thing that makes the «Merc with a Mouth» so special is his penchant for profanity, sexual proclivities and extreme violence — a.k.a. things a very sanitized, family - friendly studio like Marvel hasn't wanted... [Read more...]

Yes, he teaches his students about the meaning behind the old «This is not a pipe» drawing of a pipe, explaining that a thing is not always as it seems, so he probably would deny that the hero of his comics is representative of himself.

Pitting the God of Thunder against his comic book antagonist isn't the only thing fans are waiting to see in the movie, though, as as it was revealed at San Diego Comic Con this year that elements of the «Planet Hulk» storyline will feature heavily in «Thor: Raganarok.&rcomic book antagonist isn't the only thing fans are waiting to see in the movie, though, as as it was revealed at San Diego Comic Con this year that elements of the «Planet Hulk» storyline will feature heavily in «Thor: Raganarok.&rComic Con this year that elements of the «Planet Hulk» storyline will feature heavily in «Thor: Raganarok.»

As someone who loves films and television, I know so many people who are obsessed with popular culture things such as comics, superheroes, and yes, even My Little PonAs someone who loves films and television, I know so many people who are obsessed with popular culture things such as comics, superheroes, and yes, even My Little Ponas comics, superheroes, and yes, even My Little Pony.

While the casting of Crispin Glover as a disassociated loner who discovers he has the power to talk to rats is sort of inspired, «X Files» expat writer Glen Morgan's Willard suffers (and yes, I feel silly for saying this) from a lack of character development, a forced psychoanalytic structure, and a sort of inbred Comic Book Guy fondness for self - reference (i.e., the majority of the bit characters have animal names — a sort of thing used best in Landis's An American Werewolf in London and Dante's The Howling: Mrs. Leach, Mr. Garter, Janice Mantis, George Boxer, and so on) that grates.

There's a bit of precedent in the comics with the Iron Spider suit, so we used that as the inspiration for all the bells and whistles that Tony would put into this thing.»

No, literally, the first day of shooting I was like scared out of my pants, «cause I'm like, you know, I'd been reading Marvel comics, like, you know, like there's a thing with Marvel like where they do, like, you know, for like there's a one stage, you know, for my kid that was one years old, and then all of a sudden like it gets more sophisticated as time goes on.

If the characters are all hand - me - downs from The Honeymooners and I Love Lucy, the jokey decor and background detail seem like third - generation Xeroxes from Li'l Abner (both movie versions as well as the comic strip) and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (the movie) decked out with southern California's architecture and exterior night lighting.

But here, right before he unleashes some 3 - D thing about a shark boy, Rodriguez slides in a movie for which he resigned from the Directors» Guild of America just so he could credit comic book legend Frank Miller as his co-director.

It will be based on DC's Flashpoint comic book crossover series from 2011 - written by current DC Films co-chief Geoff Johns - which follows Flash as he travels back in time and prevents the Reverse - Flash from murdering his mother, thus sending the entire DC Universe into an alternate timeline, known as Flashpoint, in which the Amazons and Atlanteans are at war, Kal - El never became Superman, and Thomas Wayne was Batman, amongst other things.

Following our brief interview with the actress, production designer Robb Wilson King, who served in the same capacity on the second film alongside Roth and received his first credit as such on Wes Craven's 1982 comic - book adaptation «Swamp Thing», took us on an extended tour of the historic complex.

Based on a script by Chris Galletta that finished high on the 2009 Black List, we're expecting an offbeat combination of «Moonrise Kingdom,» «Son Of Rambow» and» Where The Wild Things Are» (we may yet be way off...), and while the film has a trio of newcomers in the lead roles, there's some ace comic talent in the supporting cast, including «Community» actress Alison Brie, and «Parks & Rec» duo Nick Offerman and Megan Mullally as some of the boys» parents.

However, in fresh comics, the Ultimates has come to imply one thing else: the group consisting of Captain Marvel, Black Panther, Spectrum, Miss America Chavez, and Blue Marvel was once reconceived as a meeting of Earth's maximum tough heroes devoted to tackling the universe's greatest issues.

«I love the Infinity Stones as much as any comic book fan, it's just Wakanda already has its thing, which is Vibranium.

It's one thing to have fully - formed black characters (at least as much as a film based on a comic - book allows).

Stanley Tong, perhaps because of the constant shifts to the rather mundane world of today, isn't able to keep the magic of the story going for long, especially as some of the more cheesy comic elements, another symptom of Jackie's involvement, bring things back down to the pure entertainment level again.

After enduring Ryan Reynolds» goofy insults as the villainous Ajax / Francis in Deadpool, Ed Skrein is moving on to another bad guy role in a comic book adaptation — well, technically it's a manga adaptation, but it's the same sort of thing.

«He's in New York, but he's a surgeon and he's got his own thing going on, and when he has to try to fix his hands he goes on another journey... All these movies are connected, so they inhabit — as the comics did — the same universe.

Sure, there is an homage to the comic book by having characters named after the main creators of the comic, such as writer Steve Gerber and artist Mike Ploog (misspelled as Ploug in the credits), but after seeing what Lions Gate Films has done with their creation, you'd thing Steve and Mike would have insisted that their names be changed «to protect the innocent».

Others that we've seen and would heartily recommend include the twisted Americana fairytale Lamb, Jason Schwartzman «s other hysterical comedy 7 Chinese Brothers, Joshua Oppenheimer «s Indonesian genocide doc follow - up The Look of Silence, Kodi Smit - McPhee / Michael Fassbender neo-western Slow West, Leslye Headland «s surprisingly sweet shock - comedy Sleeping with Other People, NZ splatterhorror Deathgasm, 80s action figure throwback Turbo Kid, family road trip film Manson Family Vacation and Jemaine Clement as a semi-depressive comic book artist in People, Places, Things.

It's hard to tell if this is the same scene, but Florence Kasumba's Ayo and Lupita Nyong» o's Nakia being in a tight spot at the hands of Wakandan tribesmen means one of two things: either these two members of the Dora Milaje have gone rogue (Ayo is one of the Midnight Angels in the comics), or not everyone in Wakanda is as loyal to T'Challa as he might've thought.

I love the Infinity Stones as much as any comic book fan, it's just Wakanda already has its thing, which is vibranium.

From a purely narrative standpoint, it has to be admired for its sheer audacity and sense of assuredness in recreating the kind of intricate, multi-modal, long - form storytelling that comic books have been utilizing for decades; a wrong step at any point could have brought the whole thing down, as we witnessed last summer with Universal's «Dark Universe» non-starter The Mummy (2017) and, to a lesser extent, rival DC's fitfully successful, but mostly disappointing attempt to do the same thing with its stable of comic book characters.

But depending on who's writing and drawing her, the comics» depiction of this amorphous power has been inconsistent: Her luck comes off as more or less just making things happen — bullets hit, or lightning strikes, or she's saved by the slightest of nudges.

An unconventional romantic comedy, James C. Strouse's People, Places, Things stars Jemaine Clement (Flight of the Conchords, What We Do in the Shadows) as a struggling comic book writer slash college professor whose long - term girlfriend has left him.

«Part of thing [sic] that we're going to explore», says Reed, «as shown in the comics, is how [they] are such a great duo and partnership.

Trank tries to slip references to the comics in the movie too — like Johnny's «Flame on,» said offhandedly during a military training operation; or The Thing's catchphrase, «It's clobbering time,» which in the movie is something Ben's older brother said to him as a child when he beat him, and for some reason, Ben decides to bring back in the climax?

He talked to Moviehole.net in Los Angeles about wrangling such experienced comic talents as Ferrell and «The House» costar Amy Poehler, what actors bring to the table and how fear of numbers really is a thing.

Not quite a comedy but as darkly comic a crime drama as you'll find, this offbeat modern noir («based on actual events,» according to the credits, but then Fargo claimed the same thing) is a weirdly compelling portrait of a town that has its own sense of justice and pitiless equilibrium and director Henrik Ruben Genz maintains the unsettling mood perfectly.