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Tank Girl with Margot Robbie.

Started by Glebe, September 12, 2019, 01:28:46 AM

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Glebe


bgmnts

QuoteMargo Robbie is like Portman and Theron.

They preach about giving opportunities to female directors but when they are involved as producers, they select males directors most of the time. 😄

Mister Six

If it's not animated, what's the fucking point?

I really liked Lori Petty in that, as I like Lori Petty in most things, but she wasn't brash enough to be Tank Girl and they fucked up by giving her a proper name and a tragic backstory and a load of shit nobody goes to a Tank Girl film to see.

Robbie would be perfect, but again - what's the point if it's not animated?

H-O-W-L

Quote from: Mister Six on September 12, 2019, 05:02:08 AM
If it's not animated, what's the fucking point?

I really liked Lori Petty in that, as I like Lori Petty in most things, but she wasn't brash enough to be Tank Girl and they fucked up by giving her a proper name and a tragic backstory and a load of shit nobody goes to a Tank Girl film to see.

Robbie would be perfect, but again - what's the point if it's not animated?

I agree. The scant animated clips in the original movie were fucking brill. You just cannot do Tank Girl live action, it relies too much on the nuttiness of rendered art as a medium.

That and Hewlett's art style is, as always, shit-hot and has always leant itself to the series' anarchic tone in spades.

greenman

To be fair you could argue the boundaries between live action and animation are a bit more blurred now and something akin to a lower budget Guardians of the Galaxy could be possible.

H-O-W-L

Quote from: greenman on September 12, 2019, 06:27:15 AM
To be fair you could argue the boundaries between live action and animation are a bit more blurred now and something akin to a lower budget Guardians of the Galaxy could be possible.

That would be complete shit.

PlanktonSideburns


Shit Good Nose

I'm guessing the director is the same Miles Mouthful that starred in Valley of the Sasquatch, which is a fucking abysmal film.


Hymenoptera

Surprised myself with how annoyed I was at this news. I don't want a Sexy Mild Halloween Costume Live Action Tank Girl. Margot Robbie's alright, but if we have to have TG dredged up again for the comic-book-adaptation-bandwagon, I want a semi-faithful one at least. I want a brash, violent, drunk, weird bruiser. Preferably an animated one.

Happy to be proved wrong but, meh. It'll be crap and wildly popular fancy dress and there'll be a Funko Pop of it and I'll have to get my tattoo lasered off.

Shit Good Nose

Quote from: Hymenoptera on September 27, 2019, 10:45:44 AM
Surprised myself with how annoyed I was at this news. I don't want a Sexy Mild Halloween Costume Live Action Tank Girl. Margot Robbie's alright, but if we have to have TG dredged up again for the comic-book-adaptation-bandwagon, I want a semi-faithful one at least. I want a brash, violent, drunk, weird bruiser. Preferably an animated one.

Happy to be proved wrong but, meh. It'll be crap and wildly popular fancy dress and there'll be a Funko Pop of it and I'll have to get my tattoo lasered off.

Leaving aside the Tank Girl reboot angle for a moment and concentrating specifically on Robbie - methinks you need to give I, Tonya a watch...

H-O-W-L

Quote from: Hymenoptera on September 27, 2019, 10:45:44 AM
Surprised myself with how annoyed I was at this news. I don't want a Sexy Mild Halloween Costume Live Action Tank Girl. Margot Robbie's alright, but if we have to have TG dredged up again for the comic-book-adaptation-bandwagon, I want a semi-faithful one at least. I want a brash, violent, drunk, weird bruiser. Preferably an animated one.

Happy to be proved wrong but, meh. It'll be crap and wildly popular fancy dress and there'll be a Funko Pop of it and I'll have to get my tattoo lasered off.

Aye, knowing that something that's genuinely quite anarchic and woman-first will inevitably be degraded into Nu-Harley-Quinn style poe-faced bollocks is just depressing.

imitationleather

My friend said in a very sarcastic manner, "I cannot wait for my PornHub front page to get clogged up with videos featuring women dressed up in army stuff."

Alberon

1/ Animated or GTFO

2/ Isn't this a quarter of a century too late anyway?

Neomod

This thread has reminded me of this I found the other week in the loft. It's Jamie's poster for Worthing Art college's Pirate Party.



I vaguely recall him snogging Jane Oliver there which upset my mate Tim who was rather sweet on her.

Thunderbird was the student's cheapo drink of choice and 633 was the mini gang which included Phil Bond, Al Martin and others.

I've got the original Atom Tan's knocking about somewhere.

gilbertharding

I know I could look it up, but was the Jaime Winstone thing Tank Girl or Get the Freebies? Or neither.

When is the live action version of Tina Tailpipe and Super CC coming out? They could rotoscope it.

samadriel

Quote from: gilbertharding on October 01, 2019, 10:24:41 AM
I know I could look it up, but was the Jaime Winstone thing Tank Girl or Get the Freebies? Or neither.

Get the Freebies.  I wish they'd collect it (the comic, not the fucking awful Winstone thing), I remember greatly enjoying it in The Face, but I can't find any of it anywhere now.

H-O-W-L

Get the Freebies, also known on tellybox as Phoo Action. Which was... I don't know how to put it. It was swallowable when I first watched it and was a fucking philistine, but when I found out it was a Hewlett adaptation (and read some of Get the Freebies) I turned toward virulently hating it. Though it's sort-of-nostalgic for me because it reminds me of a time when all I did was sit in a camping chair watching BBC3 in an empty house for months.

It is, however, utter gash and you really should not waste your time watching it.

Mister Six

The worst bit was that it came out in BBC 3's pilot season, where they would show a bunch of pilots for proposed shows, and the one that got the best feedback would win... Only for the Beeb to just fuck off everything else and commission a series of Phoo Action before the other pilots even aired, presumably because of the star power of Hewlett and Carl Weathers.

Thankfully someone somewhere did the right thing and cancelled Phoo Action in favour of the Being Human pilot, and sanity was restored.

H-O-W-L

Nah, actually, Phoo Action tested really fucking well with BBC3's audience. They DID decide to just commission it anyway, you are right, along with Being Human, but ultimately it got cancelled because of some behind the scenes shit. Maybe it turned out too expensive, or maybe one of the producers buggered a heron or something.  I remember watching the whole Pilot Season that year (2008). Despite being 14 (or perhaps because I was 14) it was only Being Human that appealed to me.

The other shows that season were: The Things I Haven't Told You (forgettable though I remember it being watchable), Mrs. In-Betweeny (a comedy-drama about a MtF trans lady, which I haven't dared look up again but I am pretty sure it doesn't hold up.), Dis/Connected (See TTIHTY), and West 10 LDN (Watchable but inferior to Adulthood and Kidulthood.)

BBC3 was actually shit-hot for this for about two or three years, their pilot seasons were always great because the Beeb wasn't afraid to spunk a load of money up the wall on stuff that was creative. Even though it was shit, Phoo Action deserves credit for the fuckload of practical effects, masks, and puppets it used in a way that you really wouldn't see. Creative, if shit.

I was following the MySpace groups around it and Being Human and Phoo Action were basically the biggest sellers, whereas everything else was just sort of shrugged off. Probably because Skins started airing the year before and basically stitched up the teen drama/comedy market, whereas more outlandish shit like BH and PA were fresh ideas. I still think Being Human is BBC3's magnum opus even if it has rocky parts.

H-O-W-L

Sadly, BBC3 is now nothing more than an online clickbait and reactionary-reporting shit-heap. It has a lot of political meringue content, some of which is actually valid, but most of which is substanceless. And they keep giving that fucking histrionic reaction font Stacey Dooley work, which, considering her reporting skills involve looking at awful things and going "That is horrid! You are horrid. Don't you feel bad about being horrid? You're so horrid!" for about an hour while staring out of train windows, is basically reason enough to completely nuke the channel.

gilbertharding

Fine. So, when *is* the film of Tina Tailpipe coming out?

Gulftastic

Can they please have Caitlin Stasey as Jet Girl?

lazyhour

I seem to recall reading Jamie Hewlett saying that he probably wouldn't want to hang out with Tank Girl in real life, and that she probably has quite bad BO. Margot Robbie had better have BO in this film or I'm walking out.

ajsmith2

Quote from: samadriel on October 01, 2019, 10:35:27 AM
Get the Freebies.  I wish they'd collect it (the comic, not the fucking awful Winstone thing), I remember greatly enjoying it in The Face, but I can't find any of it anywhere now.

Episodes 1, 3, 4 and 5 are here if it helps:

https://issuu.com/search?q=get%20the%20freebies

ajsmith2

I would also like to add that I was 16 when Get the Freebies came out (and the relevant copies of The Face were passed reverently around my 5th year art class) and 27 when Phoo Action was shown (and that it was filmed in Glasgow and my friend Paul Puppet of the cabaret band Scunner appeared as a background extra in it) and people saying they were 14 when the latter premiered makes me feel so very old.

gilbertharding

You think you've got worries - I was 28 when Get the Freebies came out. A quite youthful 28. Buying The Face.

samadriel

Quote from: ajsmith2 on October 08, 2019, 10:12:29 AM
Episodes 1, 3, 4 and 5 are here if it helps:

https://issuu.com/search?q=get%20the%20freebies

'eyyy, thanks!  I was about 16 or 17 myself when GTF came out.  Impressionable years.

H-O-W-L

Quote from: ajsmith2 on October 08, 2019, 10:15:05 AMpeople saying they were 14 when the latter premiered makes me feel so very old.

Bizarrely enough I can sympathize with you. When I realize how young I was during moments like that I am sort of awash with confusion mostly because I've always chummed with people a good few years older than me so my frames of reference are a good five, six years ahead of my age. I'm not even that old but I feel so very, very old already.