Stan Lee To Receive VES Lifetime Nod

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• Great!!! Give him his awards. Give him as many awards that his ego can withstand. As many that will finally prevent him from ruining all of these great Marvel character based films.
  I’ve spoken with so many people who tell me that every time Stan Lee makes his tired cameo scene that it ruins the experience for them. Takes them outside of the movie.
  Mr Lee. Congratulations on your award. Your legacy is enshrined for all time. Now, please get out of the way so we can truly appreciate the worlds and characters you wanted us to enjoy in the first place.

  Excelsior!!!!

  Comment by Hollander — Tuesday October 18, 2011 @ 1:26pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Bravo. Well deserved (and about time). His comic creations changed my life.

  Comment by Anonymous — Tuesday October 18, 2011 @ 1:27pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Two words you won’t hear Stan say when he receives his award:

  “Jack” “Kirby”

  Comment by The Shoulders of Giants — Tuesday October 18, 2011 @ 2:00pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • AMEN!

    Comment by Herb Finn — Tuesday October 18, 2011 @ 7:51pm PDT  Reply to this post

• George Lucas, Robert Zemeckis, Steven Spielberg, James Cameron and Ray Harryhausen….and, Stan Lee.

  Which name does NOT belong in this group. Ask the PGA who is similarly honoring Les Moonves.

  I guess both the PGA and VES have failed this IQ test.

  Maybe, next year, VES will give Lifetime Honors to Tolkien or others who have written books which have become films which also have lots of visual effects.

  Has VES truly run out of all the great people who actually do or have enhanced visual effects more directly…guess so.

  After all, VES holds the truly great visual effects artists like Linn Dunn, Peter Ellenshaw, Albert Whitlock and others in such high esteem that after SIX years of doing nothing…VES just blew off in 30 days over $30,000 in charitable funds left to honor these people. Of course, VES missed the point…waited forever…and, just blew them off and the generous contribution made to consistently recognize and honor these people who built the modern visual effects industry.

  And, I should know, it was my family which foolishly left over $57,000 to VES to honor these great filmmakers. And, oddly, the only funds remaining are the Founder’s Award which has been presented five times over five years and still has over three quarters of the funds remaining.

  VES has truly lost all sight of anything of value. It has by far the highest annual G&A overhead (600K) of any similar filmmaking organization, and what do its members get for the money…VES 2.0 and the VES Bill of Rights.

  The members of VES, those who built the visual effects industry and the filmmaking community at large deserve better.

  Tom Atkin
  Founder
  Visual Effects Society

  Comment by Tom — Tuesday October 18, 2011 @ 2:01pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • Peter Jackson is more deserving, or perhaps Richard Taylor and then of course there is Joe Letteri. Agree on Stan Lee, last I checked comic books were not considered VFX.

    Comment by David — Tuesday October 18, 2011 @ 8:51pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Hollander – I have Excedrin if you need some.

  Comment by Boss Jock Spydee — Tuesday October 18, 2011 @ 2:18pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Why are people so bitter?The man co-created X-Men, Iron Man, The Hulk, Spider-Man, Fantastic Four, Thor, Avengers, Daredevil and Doctor Strange.

  His characters appear in successful comics, TV shows, movies, video games and merchandise.Think of how influential he’s been in the entertainment industry.

  Can you think of 1 single person who has contributed more individual characters and franchises to the industry?I can’t.Spider-Man, alone, is one of the most beloved fictional characters of the 20th/21st century.Look at the current Marvel movies.Those are all Stan Lee’s creations.

  Even if you don’t like him, give the man his due.

  Comment by cindercity — Tuesday October 18, 2011 @ 3:17pm PDT  Reply to this post

• @Cindercity

  “Give the man his due?”

  And when has Stan Lee EVER given JACK KIRBY his due????!

  Comment by Hollander — Tuesday October 18, 2011 @ 4:25pm PDT  Reply to this post

• If this is a VISUAL effects award, shouldn’t Jack Kirby or his heirs be the ones to be awarded this?!! Jack created the visual look and style of Marvel Comics and their primary characters, not Stan. I’ve yet to see one sketch – even a doodle – that Stan can point to and say he created the look of any particular character or book. That’s the one thing Stan can’t legitimately take from Kirby no matter how hard he tries.

  Comment by filmlover 24/7 — Tuesday October 18, 2011 @ 5:19pm PDT  Reply to this post

• I love Stan Lee but he created comicbook characters, not visual effects. May as well give Tolkein or C. S. Lewis a VES award next.

  S

  Comment by Superchopper — Tuesday October 18, 2011 @ 6:36pm PDT  Reply to this post

• I agree with SOG above.
  Too bad Jack Kirby isn’t around to be able to say something about this.
  Unfortunately Stan has become the modern day equivalent of a snake oil salesman.
  Governator or Striperella, anyone?

  Comment by rocketeuropa — Tuesday October 18, 2011 @ 8:01pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Stan Lee is and was a visionary who deserves this award, and any others Hollywood decides to bestow; who else has created as many characters as he has that have been made into major feature films?

  As for Jack Kirby, I’ve heard Stan Lee speak a few times and he always mentions how important the artists input was to the ultimate creations of the characters he originally envisioned. He’s often said he couldn’t do it without them. So how much more does he have to do to satisfy the critics?

  Comment by Flynnfan12 — Tuesday October 18, 2011 @ 9:52pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Stan Lee deserves this–he is the Walt Disney of comics, his stuff has influenced generations (*and at least two men already honored by this group, James Cameron and George Lucas, whose Darth Vader seems more than a little inspired by Lee’s Dr. Doom).

  His work with a number of artists–not just Kirby, Ditko, Buscema or others–had interesting, emotionally complex characters.

  Tom Atkin, Lee has led to more zillion dollar FX franchises than Tolkien (Although you are right, he should also be honored)–Lee is the pop culture storyteller whose work has inspired many generations in the last 50 years. I agree with the first guy–”Excelsior” to The Man!

  Comment by mr Jingles — Tuesday October 18, 2011 @ 9:53pm PDT  Reply to this post