(If anyone knows any cool comics/cartoons to make me love Superman, comment or Email me)
Will this Superman movie work? Will any of them ever work? I’ve been inundated since birth to think that Superman was the end-all, be-all fucking super hero and comic book mythology
Really? I mean I know he’s mentioned in most episodes of Seinfeld, but does that really mean he’s awesome? I KNOW he is the Citizen Kane of super heroes and was the one that started it all, but I just don’t get Superman and why he so fucking revered. And let me point out, I’m pleading ignorance on this one. I’m not saying I’m right or wrong, I’m just saying I don’t get it. I never read Superman comics. Clark Kent just wasn’t interesting…
I never liked the original Superman movies, the TV shows, the new movie…anything. I don’t get it. So how am I supposed to take all this? Henry Cavill, of Tudors fame, is the perfect choice for the caped crusader…in my mind. Maybe you think that Clark Kent’s nervousness and obliviousness makes him enduring, but I don’t think so. I think a darker, more realistic character needs to be put forth. Cavill is exactly what they need. He is shockingly good looking, but not in “Ryan Reynolds as Deadpool” way. He has a deep, brooding jaw line like the Superman of the modern, animated age.
Many will argue with me when I say a darker adaptation is needed, saying that darker is not always better in regards to super heroes adaptions. Moreover, some big fans of comics have even said that Fantastic Four’s tongue-in-cheek style is actually the most faithful adaptation of old comic books. I’m just thinking on a blog here, but if you’re an alien from another planet and you’re entire species was wiped out only to leave you alone with a race of people who are weary of you…wouldn’t you be a pretty dark person? Cavill carries himself like I imagine Superman/Clark Kent would.
What I mean is: Superman’s story is a sad one and needs to be handled as such.
What’s more is how are Nolan’s sensibilities for organic effects going to orient themselves against Synder’s proclivity to overuse CGI? An awkward way of saying: Nolan likes real-looking effects and Snyder prefers CGI effects.
Is there a difference? Yes! Take the hallway scenes in Inception vs the Mars scenes in Watchman. I’m not saying one is better than the other. I would never presume to say that. I’m just saying Synder is the best at what he does and Nolan is the best at what he does. Will a middle-ground be cobbled or will Nolan 100% respect Synder’s vision? One which will undoubtedly be CGI heavy.
Additionally, why is our American hero a fucking brit? People around the blogosphere have given reasons why so many Aussie and Brit actors are tapped for these type of roles (Jake(Avatar) – Sam Worthington, Bale – Batman, Joker – Heath, Andrew Garfield – Spider Man, John Conner – Bale again, Eric Bana – Hulk). I can only imagine the following three things, one of them I believe:
A: Americans are pussies
B: Aussie and Brits bring a different style of performance and commitment, that American performers do not. Or
C: They cast these people because they’re seemingly “fresh faces” to many, however, still have the legitimacy of fringe star power. Therefore, acceptable to cast in a big budget film.
That is the one I believe. People will bitch and moan about who is Lois Lane, who is this, who is that. Who cares about that shit? What matters really is who the villain is. And honestly, if it is Lex Luthor. I might now show up for this one.
If anyone knows any cool comics or something to get me more educated on the subject E-mail or let me know…help me out…don’t troll me.
-Collin
By Collin, on January 29th, 2011
What’s all the fuss about this book Ender’s Game? And…is it going to be a movie?
A lot of people who know a lot about movies don’t bother reading books. Admittedly, I’m worse than I used to be in that regard. Mostly because when you get older, your mind has just too much to do. Pausing and reading a few chapters can be tough.
However, there are classics that you just have to read. I’m not talking Fitzgerald, Tolstoy, McCarthy; fuck that noise.
I’m talking sci-fi/fantasy classics. I’m talking Piers Anthony, Terry Goodkind, Robert Jordon, Frank Herbert, maybe Issac Asimov. I dunno’; never really liked him.
But regardless, you get my point. This is the stuff I was obsessed with growing up. Obsessed! I liked comic books a lot, but gravitated more toward these type of books because they just tended to be meatier.
But alas, no one I know really knows what I’m talking about. People don’t realize how influential all these writers were on the sci-fi we watch today. One of my favorite books of all,Ender’s Game, has been in an adaptation process probably since I read it so many years ago.
Ender’s Game follows a young boy, Ender Wiggin, who has been genetically designed to be a super genius and is entered into military school for kiddies. The planet has been under attack from Buggers (aliens) for years and a new class of young children are humanity’s best hope. That’s it, in a nut shell.
I’ll cut to the chase here. Gavin Hood is the talented director of acclaimed Tsotsi and the dismal Wolverine film. Hood has been attached kinda to direct, kinda’ to write, and kinda’ help the movie get off the ground.
Orson Scott Card, the novel’s writer, is infamous for his uncompromising approach to its adaptation. He is rich, successful, and has all the accolades in the world. He doesn’t want his seminal work tarnished. I’m with him on that. Firstshowing wrote a cool little article wondering whether or not a recent Robert Orci tweet means their in on Ender’s Game. I don’t think it means shit. But to each his own.
Orci is half of the writing Archon that produced some of the more mediocre science fiction films of the past decade. (I really liked Star Trek, before you fucking crucify me.) For some reason these two have become cheerleaders for everything sci-fi having only written one good film. Doesn’t make any sense to me.
What is good is I’m really not afraid of anyone bad being attached to the script. Card would rather give up his Book of Mormon than give up Ender’s Game to a poor adaption.
The things that has probably kept this film from the big screen is the Battle School sequences and the infinitely complex relationships between Ender, his brother Peter, and his sister Valentine. Also important is the dynamic between the brilliant, but reserved, Bean and the outward leadership of Ender. One of the greatest characters in science fiction is Bean. A character that still makes me smile to this day. That little fucker is a survivor.
Anyway, look forward to this movie. In the mean time, read Ender’s Game and Ender’s Shadow back-to-back. You’ll have so much fun. Trust me.
-Collin
By Collin, on January 27th, 2011
Peter Jackson has to get a little sliced up before starting The Hobbit.
I was pretty bummed to hear that PJ went down for the count because of a perforated ulcer. Stuff.co.nz reported “that Jackson was admitted to Wellington Hospital last night with acute stomach pains.”
Was is funny about this is that supposedly Tolkien dropped dead from complications from a similar type of ulcer. Weeeird.
PJ will be fine, but the The Hobbit film is AGAIN being delayed, this time so he has time to recover. Wikipedia.org’s page on ulcer’s say this:
“It is a very serious condition where an untreated ulcer can burn through the wall of the stomach (or other areas of the gastrointestinal tract), allowing digestive juices and food to leech into the abdominal cavity. Treatment generally requires immediate surgery. The ulcer is known initially as a peptic ulcer before the ulcer burns through the full thickness of the stomach or duodenal wall. A diagnosis is made by taking an X-ray of the stomach area (seeking air under the diaphragm). This is in fact one of the very few occasions in modern time where surgery is undertaken to treat an ulcer.”
Very serious? PJ’s publicist didn’t make it out to be a big deal. I know Wikipedia’s realiability is comparable to a game of telephone with four year olds, but still, I hope the skinny little bastard is okay. All that time being fat and NOW he gets sick…weird.
-Collin
By Collin, on January 27th, 2011
Heavy Rain being adapted into movie. Is it possible? Will it work? And will it help prove that video games can be art?
I have not played Heavy Rain all the way through. It is a game, ironically, that I did not finish. Maybe I”ll rent it this weekend and burn through it in few hours. I’ve heard that the play-through time is only six to eight hours.
However, despite not playing it, I know the story well and know how important the game was to the industry. I’ve played “Indigo Prophecies” and that other David Cage game before that. Maybe someone who knows will comment at the bottom and remind me.
Regardless, I know this shit well and think Heavy Rain might be the game to finally do it: Bring widespread acceptance of video games as art.
Video games are, indeed, art. I’m not going to argue why in this post, but will someday put together a balls-out article which, hopefully, will close the case for good.
Roger Ebert, probably the most influential voice on films in my life, does not think video games possess the capacity to be art. But Heavy Rain, as a film, might be able to show that it indeed does. Yes, you can talk all day about the aesthetic and visceral experience of, say, Shadow of the Colossus. You can also chat about the moral ambiguity that Bioshock provides. The problem with these works is they don’t translate well to non-gamers.
Heavy Rain‘s main innovation is that it takes a fundamentally traditional story that every knows (a whodunit mystery) and applies all the big questions we’ve wondered about the characters back on the player, letting them decide.
This has been done before. But never to the degree of Heavy Rain. Making it so almost every decision impacts the outcome of the game. My brother even refuses to replay the game, feeling it is too hard to watch characters he liked die off in the “new reality” of that scenario.
David Milch is considered by many to one of the greatest TV writers of the past two decades and has signed up to for an adaptation of the innovative game. Variety reported: “David Milch is heading into “Heavy Rain,” signing to adapt the noir-style videogame with Bob Shaye and Michael Lynne producing through their Unique Features banner”
So we have the legendary Milch writing the script. Bob Shaye and Michael Lynne are the producers, both of which, if my memory serves me, were heavily responsible for snatching up Lord of the Rings from Miramax and expanding it into three films, not two. So basically it is one of the most important filmmaking decisions in cinema history. So a holy-trinity is forming around this adaption. No Wes Anderson or Uwe Boll here. (darn)
Anyway, I’m excited. I don’t get excited often…I’m fucking pumped. I’m excited about The Wolverine and now this. That is about it. Hopefully this film will help squash the perception that games are just sensory-overload, but also can provide deep, emotional insight into human beings.
All I know is I might have to burrow my brothers PS3 move, rent HR, and play through it couple times in celebration.
-Collin
By Collin, on January 26th, 2011
A new Evil Dead film in the works or just more bullshit?
The cesspool that is the blogsphere is awash with rumors that there will be another Evil Dead film. The first three films literally changed my life, as ludicrous as that sounds. So obviously this news means a lot to me. A new film has been in the making for almost a decade. I’ve heard this. You’ve heard this. So what are the actual facts? A dug up this quote from Slashfilm:
(A reboot) is possible; we’re looking at a script this month… What’s interesting about ‘Evil Dead’ is very few people saw it in the format we made it for, which is for the theater. … I think Sam wants to embrace the ultimate experience in grueling terror and see it remade for a proper theatrical experience.
That’s it? That is evidence of a new film? I don’t think so. Sam Raimi is one of my many heroes having made Evil Dead at only nineteen years old. (Can you believe that? Nineteen!!)
Who would have thought he’d make a hundred-fifty thousand dollar masterpiece? Anyway, this little snippet isn’t evidence of anything to me. It is just more babbling about the possibility of a new film even though it is pretty widely known that Raimi and Cambell wouldn’t be involved in their original positions.
So how is that an Evil Dead film? The reality is, it isn’t.
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