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Here?s A Look At The Evolution Of Batman, Superman And Spider-Man?s Symbols Through The Years
 
James Horner Says 'Amazing Spider-Man 2' Was "Terrible," Producers Didn't Want Marc Webb's Input

Composer James Horner recently did an interview with fan site James Horner Film Music and didn't hold back about his experience of jumping into the Marc Webb-directed first film, and why he decided not to return for a second round. It's not pretty.

"He was very inexperienced and he and I had a very good relationship and the producers had their own opinion,” Horner explained about why he came aboard, and what happened behind the scenes. “And they didn't want his input. And then Sony had their own, they just wanted action.”
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Wonder Woman Takes a Big Step Back -- Now a husband-and-wife team is in charge of Wonder Woman’s image and her story line, and the first comic they produced is both leering and condescending.

Her first full scene is a shower sequence where she’s in a towel. She has ridiculous mood swings. Without any evidence or provocation, she attacks Swamp Thing—and then gets beaten in the only fight she has in the issue. Thankfully, Aquaman is there to save the situation and give her a pep talk, while she clutches a teddy bear. Her biggest worry isn’t Cheetah or the Silver Swan, but how to achieve the proper work-life balance.
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Goddamn, I'm glad I dropped this book after the Azzarello/Chiang run.
 
Review: Matthew Vaughn's 'Kingsman: The Secret Service,' Starring Colin Firth, Taron Egerton & Samuel L. Jackson

Vaughn has managed to mature as a filmmaker while wrestling with what is, essentially, a simplistic and utterly juvenile male wish-fulfillment fantasy (and this is the aspect that still nags, even after all the hands-in-the-air fun of "Kingsman: The Secret Service"). Vaughn is able to juggle a number of plot threads and push the action forward, in dynamic, sometimes psychedelic ways (including, but not limited to, an action set piece shot like a single take and set to Lynard Skynard's "Freebird"). He's able to handle world-class actors (Michael Caine plays the head of the organization, while Mark Strong puts in a sturdy supporting role as another spy), getting them to loosen up and play, in ways that feel engaging and new (Jackson's lisping villain is a canny inversion of his more menacing performances – he's a genocidal madman who gets weak-kneed at the sight of blood) while turning Egerton, all roughhewn charm and brittle good looks, into a movie star of oversized charisma and magnetism. Most will talk about how great it is to see the star of "The King's Speech" kick ass, but Egerton is the real revelation here. Like Colin Firth's character, Vaughn and his collaborators have taken a crude and disposable property and turned it into something more – a thoughtful, exciting, whip-smart spy adventure that doesn't let its smart-ass post-modernism overwhelm its playfulness or its heart. [A-]
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