The Superhero Cinematic Civil War of Tomorrow Thread - Part 62

[Drizzle]

You know I never thought about the lack of Roger Rabbit merch before. And the fact that he didn’t become a full fledged Disney character or anything, considering how huge the movie was.

Crazy.

I figured maybe he was a little too annoying for people. It's not like he's cute.

 

[Shinobi Shaw]

I figured maybe he was a little too annoying for people. It's not like he's cute.

Listen, he bagged Jessica Rabbit.



Put respeck on Roger’s name.

 

[Ninjablade]

So, for my fellow intellectuals on here:

In light of Del Toro’s Frankenstein coming out on Netflix last Friday, how would you rank the big-3 gothic horror novels of Frankenstein, Dracula, and Strange Case Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde?

Frankenstein > Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde > Dracula.

Frankenstein remains one, if not my all time favorite book. Brilliant start to finish.

 

[flickchick85]

So, for my fellow intellectuals on here:

In light of Del Toro’s Frankenstein coming out on Netflix last Friday, how would you rank the big-3 gothic horror novels of Frankenstein, Dracula, and Strange Case Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde?

I haven’t read Jekyll and Hyde, but Frankenstein might be my favorite novel of all-time.

 

[Babillygunn]

I’m a huge Jekyll and Hyde guy. But Frankenstein is not far behind. I like Shelly’s writing, but Stevenson is just much more vivid. I prefer his style. But both are well crafted, amazingly layered stories.
Dracula is a fun story and the literary style is very novel (almost to the point of gimmicky) but the story itself lacks the depth of the other two in my opinion. It tells a decent story but it isn’t an examination of deeper meanings on the human condition like Frankenstein or Jekyll clearly are.

But these are my opinions and who am I to criticize any of these amazing writers.

 

[AndrewGilkison]

Fun fact: The female love interest for Eddie in Roger Rabbit is also the voice of Maggie Sawyer in STAS.

 

[Babillygunn]

Today I learned you like gothic horror. Interesting, good sir

I hide it well, but I’m actually a renaissance man. I read a lot of classics in various genres, I am a compulsive DIYer who always has projects going on in my house, I am a shade tree mechanic who can take a car engine apart and put it back together, and I lettered in four varsity sports in high school and I’ve run 14 half marathons, one full marathon and am a Tough Mudder Legionnaire.

Not that I’m bragging or anything. (I can’t brag, because my wife’s accomplishments totally eclipse mine and completely humble me.)

 

[DarthSkywalker]

Don't forget the secret 5th member.

Spoiler

What makes him a secret?

 

[Lily Adler]

What makes him a secret?

Plausible deniability?

 

[DarthSkywalker]

Plausible deniability?

To the same people who told POCs Sweeney's jean ad wasn't racist.

 

[Lily Adler]

Frankenstein > Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde > Dracula.

Frankenstein remains one, if not my all time favorite book. Brilliant start to finish.

I haven’t read Jekyll and Hyde, but Frankenstein might be my favorite novel of all-time.

These are my only frames of reference for this character:

 

[Lily Adler]

To the same people who told POCs Sweeney's jean ad wasn't racist.

He was Andy from Parks and Rec.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

He was Andy from Parks and Rec.

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And?

 

[Lily Adler]

And?

AAAAAAAAANNNNNNDY!

 

[DarthSkywalker]

AAAAAAAAANNNNNNDY!

And?

 

[Sithborg]

What makes him a secret?

All the other actors providing cover for him?

 

[DarthSkywalker]

All the other actors providing cover for him?

Plenty have done it for Sweeney.

 

[Babillygunn]

Speaking of gross stars, why does Mark Wahlberg get a pass when he literally beat a Vietnamese American senseless while calling him racial epithets?

 

[Link]

Speaking of gross stars, why does Mark Wahlberg get a pass when he literally beat a Vietnamese American senseless while calling him racial epithets?

That's a good question. He also threw rocks and yelled slurs at black schoolchildren around the same time. Both incidents happened in the 80s, but what makes me question him further is that he appealed for an official pardon for the crimes in 2014 because "he has worked hard to better himself." As far as I can tell, he hasn't done any anti-racism work specifically or helped the groups he's hurt directly.

 

[Spider-Fan]

I never read Frankenstein, Dracula, or Dr Jekyl and Mr Hyde. But I am intimately familiar with their various adaptations and differences from source to adaptations. In general, I like the story concept behind Frankenstein the most. I actually think we got 2 really good adaptations of Frankenstein, via GDT, and Dracula, albeit in the form of Nosferatu but that itself was an adaptation of Dracula with various changes for legal purposes when it was originally made.

I may actually read them at some point though as kids grow older and I start picking some classic literature I want them to read.

 

[Shinobi Shaw]

Speaking of gross stars, why does Mark Wahlberg get a pass when he literally beat a Vietnamese American senseless while calling him racial epithets?

Two words:



Simple as that.

 

[Drizzle]

Listen, he bagged Jessica Rabbit.

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Put respeck on Roger’s name.

 

[squeekness]

Speaking of gross stars, why does Mark Wahlberg get a pass when he literally beat a Vietnamese American senseless while calling him racial epithets?

I must have missed that one......

 

[squeekness]

I never read Frankenstein, Dracula, or Dr Jekyl and Mr Hyde. But I am intimately familiar with their various adaptations and differences from source to adaptations. In general, I like the story concept behind Frankenstein the most. I actually think we got 2 really good adaptations of Frankenstein, via GDT, and Dracula, albeit in the form of Nosferatu but that itself was an adaptation of Dracula with various changes for legal purposes when it was originally made.

I may actually read them at some point though as kids grow older and I start picking some classic literature I want them to read.

I will always have some fondness for Gary Oldman's Dracula.

 

[Kane52630]