https://www.isegoria.net/2022/07/the-effects-houses-bend-over-backward-to-keep-marvel-happy/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Sun, 19 Apr 2026 12:16:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 https://www.isegoria.net/2022/07/the-effects-houses-bend-over-backward-to-keep-marvel-happy/comment-page-1/#comment-3558836 Gandydancer Thu, 11 Aug 2022 10:41:14 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=49121#comment-3558836 Sounds like the beef is with the visual effects vendors who are staffing their projects at a level which would give them a profit despite their under-bids if only they could bring them in without paying excessive overtime or otherwise throwing additional resources at the effort. And you can scarcely blame Marvel for taking advantage of a tendency to under-bid or fall blacklisting a firm that falls on its face. Pushing back a rollout is bound to be disruptive and expensive.

]]> https://www.isegoria.net/2022/07/the-effects-houses-bend-over-backward-to-keep-marvel-happy/comment-page-1/#comment-3556984 Bob Sykes Fri, 29 Jul 2022 12:54:21 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=49121#comment-3556984 A large majority of modern films are based on comic book characters and story lines. But back in the 30′s, 40′s, and 50′s the sources were novels and the older myths. We even had major writers like Raymond Chandler, Samuel Hammett, Harlan Ellison, Harold Pinter, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and John Steinbeck as screenwriters. That was the Golden Age of film, not coincidently the Studio Era, in which the studios controlled the actors and writers.

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