Uhhh... huh...
May. 19th, 2009 09:49 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lithera*laughs* Okay. The trailer for Sherlock Holmes can be seen here: http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi4237361689/ And about a million other places too but that's the first one I found. And.... Well... This certainly isn't the Sherlock Holmes I'm used to seeing but at the same time, I sort of want it to be more like this. And no, that has nothing to do with my seemingly undying love for Robert Downey Jr..
I disagree with this: http://www.thewrap.com/blog-entry/superman-dead-and-we-killed-him3160?page=1 I don't want my Superman to be dark or edgy. I want Clark Kent out there. I want a guy like Clark to have superpowers, especially that level of superpowers. I think it is a very hard thing to make that person resonate with everyone. You have to remind everyone that they could be that guy too, that while the powers might make him super, he wouldn't be Superman without the heart, without Ma and Pa Kent.
My Name is Earl has been cancelled by NBC.
ABC's 2009-2010 line up looks like this: Cougar Town," "The Deep End," "Eastwick," "Flash Forward," "The Forgotten," "Hank," "Happy Town," "The Middle," "Modern Family," "Shark Tank", "V," "Better Off Ted," "Castle," "Scrubs," "True Beauty," "America's Funniest Home Videos," "The Bachelor," "Brothers & Sisters," "Dancing with the Stars," "Desperate Housewives," "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition," "Grey's Anatomy," "Lost," "Private Practice," "Supernanny," "Ugly Betty," "Wife Swap" and "20/20."
Fox's lineup is here: http://www.comingsoon.net/news/tvnews.php?id=55653 I'm not going to try to copy and paste this one.
Marvel Studios announced that Tom Hiddleston has been cast as Loki. I don't know much about him. He's done a lot of things in the UK, it seems.
The Onion reports that President Obama has vetoed the Mutant Registration Act, which is freaking awesome on a number of levels.
Let me just say there are some Black Lanterns coming that make you spin. The DC solicits for August came out yesterday. Ummmm. Ow. If you have a Batman who is who I'm pretty sure he is, who would be a Black Lantern there? And Superman? ... Yeah.
There is a Martin Luther King Jr. biopic coming. (I kind of hate the word biopic but it works well...) This goes on the list of things that are being developed including Mad Max 4, Men Who Stare at Goats, an untitled Steve Brill comedy, Colin Firth and Kevin Spacey starting in an adaptation of George Orwell's Catalonia, and another Clooney project in an adaptation of A Very Private Gentleman.
It also looks like "Warlords" is getting a release here in the US. It did a lot of business in China. Jet Li and Andy Lau are in this one.
I'm a big fan of this WW variant cover - http://dcublog.dccomics.com/2009/05/18/a-case-of-the-mondays-check-out-francis-manapuls-wonder-woman-32-variant/ I just wish the axe were a little bigger. It looks a little odd.
It looks like on Lost, that there will be an explanation of the connection between the the Dharma Initiative and the University of Michigan.... er... Ann Arbor. Because so much else is in Ann Arbor.
I disagree with this: http://www.thewrap.com/blog-entry/superman-dead-and-we-killed-him3160?page=1 I don't want my Superman to be dark or edgy. I want Clark Kent out there. I want a guy like Clark to have superpowers, especially that level of superpowers. I think it is a very hard thing to make that person resonate with everyone. You have to remind everyone that they could be that guy too, that while the powers might make him super, he wouldn't be Superman without the heart, without Ma and Pa Kent.
My Name is Earl has been cancelled by NBC.
ABC's 2009-2010 line up looks like this: Cougar Town," "The Deep End," "Eastwick," "Flash Forward," "The Forgotten," "Hank," "Happy Town," "The Middle," "Modern Family," "Shark Tank", "V," "Better Off Ted," "Castle," "Scrubs," "True Beauty," "America's Funniest Home Videos," "The Bachelor," "Brothers & Sisters," "Dancing with the Stars," "Desperate Housewives," "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition," "Grey's Anatomy," "Lost," "Private Practice," "Supernanny," "Ugly Betty," "Wife Swap" and "20/20."
Fox's lineup is here: http://www.comingsoon.net/news/tvnews.php?id=55653 I'm not going to try to copy and paste this one.
Marvel Studios announced that Tom Hiddleston has been cast as Loki. I don't know much about him. He's done a lot of things in the UK, it seems.
The Onion reports that President Obama has vetoed the Mutant Registration Act, which is freaking awesome on a number of levels.
Let me just say there are some Black Lanterns coming that make you spin. The DC solicits for August came out yesterday. Ummmm. Ow. If you have a Batman who is who I'm pretty sure he is, who would be a Black Lantern there? And Superman? ... Yeah.
There is a Martin Luther King Jr. biopic coming. (I kind of hate the word biopic but it works well...) This goes on the list of things that are being developed including Mad Max 4, Men Who Stare at Goats, an untitled Steve Brill comedy, Colin Firth and Kevin Spacey starting in an adaptation of George Orwell's Catalonia, and another Clooney project in an adaptation of A Very Private Gentleman.
It also looks like "Warlords" is getting a release here in the US. It did a lot of business in China. Jet Li and Andy Lau are in this one.
I'm a big fan of this WW variant cover - http://dcublog.dccomics.com/2009/05/18/a-case-of-the-mondays-check-out-francis-manapuls-wonder-woman-32-variant/ I just wish the axe were a little bigger. It looks a little odd.
It looks like on Lost, that there will be an explanation of the connection between the the Dharma Initiative and the University of Michigan.... er... Ann Arbor. Because so much else is in Ann Arbor.
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Date: 2009-05-19 05:36 pm (UTC)*sSSSSSsssssiiighhhh*
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Date: 2009-05-19 05:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-05-19 05:42 pm (UTC)And i think the Superman Article makes some very interesting points without disagreeing with your position.
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Date: 2009-05-19 05:43 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-05-19 05:45 pm (UTC)True. There are some good points in there as well. Some of what stuck most with me, though, were the parts I disagreed with. *grins* Maybe I'm just feeling ornery.
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Date: 2009-05-19 05:50 pm (UTC)Have you read the "novelizations" of the first two Superman movies? I put that in quotes because they didn't get the rights to actually write up the plots of the movies so instead two of the best Superman stories (at least to getting to the core of the character) were written instead. He's incredibly overpowered, has a very strict moral code ("There's a good in the universe and a bad in the universe and the difference is not hard to tell."), is over the top some with that, but it works so so well.
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Date: 2009-05-19 05:51 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-05-19 05:57 pm (UTC)In case you didn't know the titles, Superman's is Superman:Last Son of Krypton and Superman II's book is Miracle Monday. Both are worth your time if you want to see the 1970's era Superman (Clark on WGBS, ultrapowered Superman) taken to its peak. Miracle Monday is the better of the two IMO and eventually led to the creation of Superwoman who appeared in like two comics before the Crisis.
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Date: 2009-05-19 06:19 pm (UTC)I like free.
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Date: 2009-05-19 06:21 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2009-05-19 07:35 pm (UTC)The trailer did amuse me though. Looks like fun candy.
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Date: 2009-05-19 07:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-05-19 07:42 pm (UTC)I think the problem is a lot of people just don't get Superman. Grant Morrison gets him. Alan Moore gets him. Superman animated and Justice League Unlimited got it.
That blogger didn't get it and Bryan Singer almost got it, but not really.
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Date: 2009-05-21 03:22 am (UTC)I'm tired of the lowest common denominator being the go-to for TV
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Date: 2009-05-21 03:23 am (UTC)