We rarely agree, but you’re right here. I think giving it a close arc made it a better story. It also freed Gaiman up to write American Gods and several wonderful children’s books. I swear that when my kid was little we read The wolves in the walls half a million times.
Yeah, it did get good reviews and looked amazing. But right not fitting in shows I missed isn’t going to work. Too much good stuff right now.
Comics, TV shows (and anything else i guess) definitely benefit from having a definite arc and end. There’s a good number of brilliant British TV shows that only have a couple of seasons. Likewise with other properties, it sucks when a show or story is really good because you want more but there’s something to be said for ending things when people still have a love for it.
I did that about 20 years ago. Basically kept the choicest issues and then anything I could replace with a graphic novel TPB version I dumped them.
Given that Gaiman seems to be doing good with American Gods (though I haven’t seen it yet), maybe he will get enough clout to produce a TV Sandman. You’re right it would make a better series.
I haven’t seen Logan, but please don’t let the movie producers walk away with the idea that we need “darker” movies. More adult or mature themes, maybe, but too often “darker” to them is just adding black frosting to a cake made with the wrong ingredients. DC has gone waaay too dark with its movie verse. I mean we had the 80s full of grim dark and it got old fast (though it gave us great parodies like TMNT)
Comics run the gamut of lighthearted fun and action, to gratuitous violence and sex, to mature drama, to surreal, to deep and meaningful. Just like movies. Comicbook based movies shouldn’t be one thing or another. They can really be anything with the right story. Even characters that are normally more “kiddie” can have a mature story line, and vice versa. They need to stop thinking comic movies have to be a certain formula to work. Some times some formulas do work better for certain characters, but IMHO the sky is the limit. While I enjoy the Marvel movies, they are a bit too similar in tone. It would be nice to mix things up (guess I need to see Logan, right?) And yes, one can make a mature themed movie based on comics, and if its good, people will see it.
A common thread among my friends is that Logan wasn’t really a comic book movie. It was treated more like a standard film, where it just happened there were some mutants in it.
They’ve tried to get Sandman going, i think the closest they ever got was Joseph Gordon-Levitt wanting to get it made. However things fell apart at some point last year when he pulled out of the film and later the writer did as well. It’s dead in the water as far as i know.
The series was actually much more on target than that horrid excuse for a movie, but of course they cancelled it after only one season:
My lady friends would invite as a group and they would pick lol
although when i would pick i would just go with one friend and we would agree to watching it, so at that point idk ._.
A friend said it was good, but i assume they didn’t see the show to compare it too, and i know for sure they didn’t read the comic
That seems to apply far beyond just the movies. Also nice quote, I may borrow it.
I didn’t even know that there was a John Constantine series. Although I probably would have been aware of it if they called it Hellblazer, since that’s a pretty singular name that isn’t likely to be confused for anything else.
Actually, it’s heavily color graded orange and teal. There are a couple of short scenes which aren’t, but 95%+ of this film has the same-old same-old colors.
To be fair, the first third of the movie is indeed quite teal, given that it’s filmed in Italy and the water is vibrantly, well, teal.
But once she’s at the front, it’s much more muted. I’m no color grading expert but the WW1 setting doesn’t look ‘orange and teal’ to me.
Dude… its so good, so so so good.
The casting is perfect!
And Bryan Fuller is the perfect director for this.
OMG so good!
(and I’m not just saying that cuz its filmed in Toronto)
Also Logan was really really good. This comic sums it up.
Also Logan Jr in the film was hispanic. I can’t tell you how much that tickled me, i thought it was great.
Nailed it.
You’d be surprised how many movies that’s true of nowadays (/proud) 
The Handmaid’s Tale isn’t even hiding it! Nathan Phillips Square, City Hall, the CN Tower! LOL
Hannibal was a better one, they hid it really well but occasion Rotman Library would peak through the sneaky camera angles!
That image is precisely what I am talking about. “Orange and Teal” is the name for it, the expression of it is golden tones like shots in the ‘golden hour’ in the same shot with blues similar to those from moonlit nights. You image is so color graded that the grass is gone. The entire background is almost entirely blue. There aren’t lots of places so monochromatic in the daylight on earth.
Check out the images at 1:19 in this video:
It doesn’t always hit you over the head with dark colors.
