#snipes studios

[simplysnipes]

Columbus | O.H.

[lepusrufus]

In which they're all artists working for the same animation studio (and these two still bicker like angry kittens)

[wwprice1]

Who else is absolutely loving the BTS picks from Deadpool and Wolverine?!

[marveluniversehero]

Deadpool & Wolverine - The Resistance

[asawelf]

//Suggestive

Birthday boy

[d-tronaustin]

Stoked to be asked to do this poster for Floating World Comics presentation of BLADE at the Hollywood Theater in Portland, Or! I absolutely love BLADE! I got a great story about how I found out about it in 1998 lol

BLADE in 35MM Wed, Jan 24 at 7:30PM Hollywood Theatre 4122 NE Sandy Blvd

[illyanarasputinfan]

Deadpool & Wolverine (2024) Marvel Studios

[imdonnalynn]

THIS is what made me scream in the theater! When he came onto screen, I literally screamed I was so excited to see BLADE since Trinity in 2004!

Everyone was "Chris Evans this, Johnny Storm that" I say mediocre cameo compared to THE character responsible for making Marvel, X-Men and the MCU a household name.

All the other cameos were great, at least the actors they got to come back. I was rather surprised at some of the actors that weren't brought back. Lady Deathstrike, Toad, Juggernaut, and a few others I can't remember off hand. Just wonder why they couldn't be squeezed in?

I am down for Wesley Snipes in any capacity in the MCU or in some form between now and Secret Wars.

[constantcontent16]

Yall should check this free to play game out.

[clueless-fan-critic]

Deadpool and Wolverine: Fox's Marvelous Weapons for the MCU

Okay. This movie was made as a cash grab for Deadpool and Wolverine fans. And it's exactly what we all hoped for!!!

These two characters are the most iconic superheroes that FOX has ever greenlit and now they can finally work together as a team... sort off... if you ignore continuity... or not... But it's still pretty great huh?

Moving on...

Let's not beat around the bush and say this isn't technically our Deadpool and Wolverine because of the Multiverse complexity. Like the last time we saw Deadpool, he was time-traveling willy-nilly, not caring about continuity. And Wolverine, well, uhh... he died as an old man. So clearly, the movie is gonna explain this or straight up ignore it.

Honestly, I'm just happy that Deadpool and Wolverine are back in this new adventure from FOX to the MCU with a lot of violence for everyone to enjoy.

Deadpool, Deadpool, What'chu Gonna Do?

We start in the typical Deadpool-style of movie openings: fourth wall breaking, references, and inappropriately awesome lines and fights. The most morbid and hilarious part of the scene was Deadpool digging up Logan's very clearly dead skeleton and using it as a weapon against the TVA agents. But it's those "let's rewind" parts of a movie where the character explains how they got to the point we saw.

The plot is Deadpool feeling he has no purpose and gives up his life as a superhero (but not before reversing time, saving everyone, and leaving things in Deadpool 2 up in the air like where Cable is). He then gets captured by the TVA as his universe will die off because of Logan's death as Logan was an Anchor Being that kept it alive. Deadpool attempts to find another Wolverine to become an Anchor Being, ending up with "the Worst Wolverine." We then go through this journey of self-actualization as Deadpool and Wolverine fight to make themselves matter no matter what the TVA says.

I honestly loved the movie! It felt exactly like the previous Deadpool films without being repetitive and actually elevated and explored Deadpool's character even further. Even if you never seen Loki, it's not needed to quickly understand what's happening: Deadpool is part of MCU or "Sacred Timeline."

The Cameos... Oh, the Cameos!!!

Cameos in this movie not only feel natural to both the story and its in-universe logic, but also satisfies strong nostalgia feels and references galore. Deadpool's trip to find a new anchor shows up various Wolverines from different comic storylines. Even showing us height-accurate Wolverine, Wolverine vs Hulk, and one played by Henry Cavil minus CGI lips.

There are even cameos from past Fox/Marvel properties. Thus, Jennifer Garner's Elektra and Wesley Snipes' Blade return. Because the setting is the Void, a multiversal Mad Max-style world, it makes sense they would be here. Even Chris Evans reprises his role as Johnny Storm/Human Torch. Only to get defeated, humiliated, and killed within a couple of minutes. The cameo characters also drive the plot where it needs to be, especially X-23 who has a convo with Wolverine about being always the wrong person, but always showing up when it counts.

People will argue that this serves as forced fan service, but Deadpool was always a fan servicey character since his first legit movie. But actually seeing Mutants in the MCU has really got my ideas pumping for what might come in the future.

Mutant Saga Begins

It's quite possible that Deadpool and Wolverine will return in some way, shape, or form to explore the MCU's take of Mutants and the X-Men. Sure, Cassandra Nova won't be coming back, but there are plenty of villains to pit against the X-Men.

The Krakoa Era may definitely be the answer to revamping the X-Men in the MCU, acting more as heroes to mutants and villains to the heroes we've known.

Here's to hoping Disney and Marvel get the idea that we want movies which care about the audience instead of pumping them until they're full.

What I Hope...

Honestly, as a fan of superheroes and an off-and-on MCU fan, I had a lot of doubts about the sheer complexity and magnitude the MCU must deal with. But watching Deadpool and Wolverine actually made me go back to that point where superhero movies felt fresh and exciting. I really hope they do movies like this in the future.

[heavenboy09]

25 Years Ago Today

On August 21st, 1998

From New Line Cinema 🎥

&

At The Time Of Their Beginning To Rise Of Popularity

Marvel Studios Formerly Known As At The Time, Marvel Enterprises Inc Presents

The 1st Marvel Superhero / Anti-Hero Film In History

That Pathed The Way To All Marvel Studios Films & Tv Shows Today

In 1967, a pregnant woman is attacked by

A Creature Of The Night 🌙, Known To All Of A Being Of Dark Terror & Human Infidelity & Sin

A Creature Created By A Unholy Ritual Of Blood By Blood 🩸

A VAMPIRE 🧛‍♂️, causing her to go into premature labor.

Doctors are able to save her baby, but the woman dies.

THIRTY YEARS LATER

THE CHILD HAS BECOME

HALF VAMPIRE 🧛🏿‍♂️ HALF MORTAL MAN 🧍🏿‍♂️

IN MOST CULTURES OF THE WORLD 🌎

IT IS KNOWN AS A DHAMPIR

A RARE UNION BETWEEN A VAMPIRE 🧛‍♂️ & A HUMAN

WHO IS A HUMAN-VAMPIRE  HYBRID  THAT POSSESSES THE SUPERNATURAL ABILITIES OF THE VAMPIRES 🧛‍♂️

WITHOUT ANY OF THEIR WEAKNESSES, EXCEPT FOR THE REQUIREMENT TO CONSUME HUMAN BLOOD 🩸

NOW HE HAS DEDICATED HIS IMMORTAL LIFE TO SEEK DARK JUSTICE AGAINST THE UNDEAD

HE BECOMES THE PROTECTOR OF THE MORTAL RACE.

WHILE SLAYING EVIL 😈 VAMPIRES 🧛‍♂️🧛‍♀️ ...

AS HE IS RAISED BY A FELLOW HUNTER OF VAMPIRES 🧛‍♂️

A OLD VAMPIRE 🧛‍♂️ 🧛‍♀️ HUNTER WHO GOES BY THE NAME OF

ABRAHAM WHISTLER 🧑‍🦳

ARMED WITH HIGH TECH WEAPONRY & GADGETS TO COMBAT THE FORCES OF THE UNDEAD BASTARDS OF DARKNESS

AND GIVE THEM EM HELL ON EARTH 🌎

THIS LONE HUNTER OF THE NIGHT 🌙, MUST STOP 1 PARTICULAR VAMPIRE 🧛‍♂️

KNOWN AS DEACON FROST

FROM SUMMONING A VAMPIRE 🧛‍♂️ GOD OF ETERNAL DARKNESS TO PLUNGE THE EARTH IN HUMAN BLOOD 🩸 FOR CENTURIES TO COME

OR THE WORLD 🌎 AS WE KNOW IT, WILL CEASE TO EXIST

NEW LINE CINEMA 🎥 PRESENTS

A MARVEL ENTERPRISES INC PRODUCTION

A STEPHEN NORRINGTON FILM 🎥

THE POWER OF AN IMMORTAL

THE SOUL OF A HUMAN

THE HEART ❤ OF A HERO

HE IS KNOWN AS THE DAYWALKER TO HIS ENEMIES

THE VAMPIRE 🧛🏿‍♂️ WHO CAN WALK DURING THE DAY ☀️

BUT TO THE REST OF THE WORLD 🌎.

THEY CALL HIM

THE VAMPIRE HUNTER 🧛‍♂️ 🧛‍♀️

WESLEY SNIPES

IS

 BLADE 🧛🏿‍♂️🗡😎

HAPPY 25TH ANNIVERSARY TO NEW LINE CINEMA'S & MARVEL STUDIOS

BLADE 🧛🏿‍♂️🗡😎 #Blade #WesleySnipes #BladeTheVampireHunter #BladeTheDaywalker #MarvelComics #MarvelStudios

[simplysnipes]

My New Favorite Shoes. #HadToGetTwo

[ohnoitstbskyen]

I deleted the ask, but someone wrote one basically saying "why do you post reaction videos to Helluva Boss? Don't you know the show exploits its workers and they're overworked and get burned out?"

And, I mean, I love your energy, person who asked, definitely hold on to those values and speak up about this. But also, I am afraid I might have some bad news for you about literally the whole entire animation industry.

As near as I can make out from the sparse journalistic reporting that's been done on SpindleHorse -- and as a sidebar, please for the love of god read actual reporting about these things and not just callout posts and fandom discourse -- as near as I can make out, SpindleHorse as a studio is neither all that much better nor all that much worse than basically anywhere else in the industry on their level. It seems like it is (or was? Hazbin Hotel seems to be run differently) a studio mostly run by contracting people on a project-by-project basis, which leads to a crapton of turnover, and a huge need for organizing and onboarding, which according to the reporting I have read, the producers and freelancers have struggled to balance and manage properly, which has negatively impacted a number of the workers.

Top that with the usual catty, clique-based backbiting, sniping and poorly managed conflict resolution that's just kinda endemic in creative environments mostly staffed by twentysomethings and stressed out freelancers, and you have the recipe for a workplace where a lot of people are going to have a great time and feel creatively fulfilled, and a lot of people are going to come away feeling justifiably burnt the fuck out and exploited.

All of this is... not especially unusual for the animation industry, or indeed for any creative industry. Which is not to say that it is good, or that it should be allowed to be normal, or that it shouldn't be reported on and criticized (and please for the love of god support unionization efforts because that's the only thing that will actually address these kinds of systemic problems). It's just to say that if those kinds of issues are the line in the sand you draw where you refuse to engage with a studio's output...

Then, for starters, say goodbye to basically all of anime, because the Japanese animation industry is actively in a state of crisis trying to recruit new talent because its working conditions and pay are so astonishingly abysmal. And the horror stories that escape from that industry make the issues at SpindleHorse look like summer camp at times.

But you also have to say goodbye to a lot of American and European animation. Please do not imagine that Disney and its subcontractors, or that Nickelodeon or Warner Bros, are benevolent employers. They exploit their staff brutally and are currently trying to crush the labor value of animation with threats of generative AI being used to replace jobs. But those corporations also have extremely well-funded PR departments and the ability to silence employees with NDAs and threats of blackballing, so you don't get to hear as many of the horror stories as you might from a smaller independent studio that's less able to silence criticism by holding people's careers hostage.

All of this is to say that 1) it's valid and important to have criticism of both large and small-scale animation studios, and to keep the well-being and happiness of the workers higher in your priorities than the output of Products™.

And 2) if you're going to have a principle for what kinds of problems make a studio's output morally untouchable for you, and what kinds of problems you think should make a studio's output untouchable to other people, you do need to apply that principle consistently to the entire industry, and not just to the independent animation studio that happens to be surrounded by the internet's most inflammatory fandom discourse.

If you don't apply that principle consistently, maybe don't send reproachful messages to strangers scolding them for not living up to your standards, and even if you do apply that principle consistently, maybe still don't do that, because it's mostly quite annoying, and doesn't really do anything to support animation workers struggling for better working conditions.

The Animation Guild in the US is currently in the middle of a bargaining process with their industry, and they have a social media press kit as well as relevant talking points on their website which you can use to post in solidarity with the workers. If it comes to a full industry strike, consider donating to their strike funds to help them maintain pressure. Outside of the US, try and find out what (if any) local unions exist for animation workers, and maybe sign up to their mailing lists. They will let you know what kind of support they need from you.

[lordofdestructionm]

Wick Sable

The odd duck in the guilded cage

Despite this being a feral Mordecai and Viktor account I do occasionally like to dig into the others.

Wick is a character Lackadaisy fans love but don't talk about very much. He just the rich friendly geologist with a love of illicit beverages and a crush on Mitzi. Indeed he is all those things. But I want to dig a little into what may be hidden depth (geography joke haha)

Professional dissatisfaction

When we first meet Wick he is behind his desk looking very tired and beaten down. Forcing himself to keep working late into the night with excessive coffee. Attending to a large pile of paper work for tomorrow.

His expression shifts slightly when he sees the Lackadaisy pins fall out of the envelope and realises the letter is an invitation to him (and his fellow aristocrats) to the speakeasy.

This hatred of paper work and the administrative side of his business is a recurring issue for Wick. Making the reason for his reliance on the capable and attentive Lacy very obvious. Exhaustian and too much alchohol are no doubt partly to blame, but it seems to be something that puts him in a very depressed state of mind.

But when actually on the job, overseeing the hands on work of blasting a new quarry, his mood is much more positive. Indeed he has a very real and sincere love for geology and the nitty gritty work of his business. When he first went to the Lackadaisy he was spellbound by the lime caverns themselves as much by Mitzi's charm.

Its his special interest and he will go on long unprompted monologues on the topic if given the chance. Meaning it is specifically the being trapped in his office dealing with the red tape that makes him so unhappy not the industry itself.

Its almost sad that he is the one in charge of the company rather than in a role that puts him closer to the action which seems to bring him real joy. Like someone who loves cooking being in charge of a restuarant or someone that loves drawing running an animation studio.

They love the product/industry but that doesn't mean they enjoy their specific place in it.

Unimpressed Peers

Despite Wicks enthusiasm it proves not be infectious with his fellow elite, who complain about being dragged out of town to watch something, that while very important to Wick, they clearly could not care less about (even not that quietly mocking him and his love for rocks and construction)

When the evening doesn't go to plan due to the uninvited pig farmers Wick has an interesting exchange with Edmund Church, seemingly the most prominent of the St Louis upper crust in the group. Warning him about getting any more involved with an unsavoury crowd, especially Mitzi, outside of simply enjoying the occasional drink.

Wick doesn't take kindly to the snarky criticism and borderline threat to his reputation and responds with a much more direct statement on his peers sour nature

Tracy has mentioned that Church has a role yet to play in the story and it seems safe to assume from this it may well involve Wick in a less than friendly way if he continues to associate with his "lessers" as Church and the others see things.

Despite needing to remain on civil terms to keep them invested in his business, Wick clearly has little love for them, a feeling that is mutual as they have little respect for him and see him as an oddball, only tolerating him because his talent in his field can help make them a tidy profit.

But while he doesn't appreciate Church's sniping Wick IS concerned about his reputation, but not entirely for his own sake or that of his elitist associates, but for the many people who rely on him for employment, who could be hurt by extension of he gets pulled too deep into the less than repectable world of bootlegging

Romantic life

Outside of the crush he has had on Mitzi since first meeting her at the Speakeasy, we have very little information about Wicks love life before this. Being a handsome and wealthy gentleman from a good family, you would think he would he fighting women off with a stick, maybe even be a bit of a playboy.

Instead you get the impression Wick is pretty far away from being a ladies man. Mentioning to Mitzi that he doesn't even really know how to talk to women unless its about rocks, bugs or limestone.

He is clearly attracted to her and is tempted by her to risk his reputation and by extension his business to get closer to her, but so far his fear of the very real consequences are deterring him from taking that gamble.

Though there is that personal aspect to it, it seems that in a more abstract sense Mitzi's appeal to Wick is not just in her beauty and seductive personality, but in the excitement and thrill of her Speakeasy and bootlegging operations.

In that sense Mitzi represents that touch of danger and excitement that during prohibition many otherwise law abiding citizens enjoyed indulging in illegal drinking establishments. Being* just* naughty enough to give them a fun thrill while being detached from the more brutal blood soaked aspects.

Wick is a good natured person (the worst thing he has done is shoot a duck in his youth which he was forced to do) living a very "respectable" life, but that makes the superficial glamour of the world of underground drinking establishments and secret booze stashes even more appealing. Thats why despite his concerns and responsibilities he keeps going back ,not just to Mitzi, but to the Lackadaisy specifically. It has pretty geography, a pretty owner, and an open door to a more exciting avenue of life

Its for that same reason he doesn't seem to be overly uncomfortable with lovable bi disaster Zib flirting with him at the bar. He may have no intention of reciprocating, but it couldn't be a more different experience to the world he is used to

Even if he doesn't yet want to take the full plunge it all excites him enough to keep him circling the edges.

Because despite having so much going for him there are things about his life that not only bore him but make him unhappy. Whether its piles of paperwork, dealing with much stuffier "conventional" fellow aristocrats and not wanting to be like them, or just a general lack of true passion in his life, he is clearly a man looking for something more satisfying

Whether or not he remains a "tourist" or decides to take that gamble, throw his reservations to the wind, and take a more active role in the gang, is yet to be seen...

Assuming Rocky doesn't set fire to him first of course XD

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

It's really wholesome to me that Ryan Reynolds is so all in on this because apparently he and Wesley Snipes did not get on AT ALL when they worked on Blade: Trinity together but its nice that despite that he's still got a lot of respect for his work on these films and how big a deal his portrayal of the character was

Blade was basically the first time since the original Superman movies back in the 70's that a mainstream studio really took superhero content seriously

[savagewildnerness]

Amused, imagining them directing the legs for the group photo!