Entertainment Update

[lithera]

Well, the Superman movie is still pretty dead but Ain't it Cool had some new stuff on it. And speaking of Superman, there is an article about him in TIME. I don't think I like it, really. I think even if we have changed, Superman should still be the same sort of guy. It is the job of the person writing him to make it so we can relate with him. He shouldn't suddenly have a 'dark side'. He isn't Batman and he shouldn't be. That would be stupid.

There are a /lot/ of negative reviews coming in about Troy from the college screenings going on around the country. It makes me nervous but I'm still going to go see it. Anyone else want to come on Friday?

Here is the logo for Pixar's last collaboration with Disney - Cars.

The Pink Panther remake has started. It might just save Steve Martin's career. It really makes me want to go watch Roxanne and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.

For you FF junkies out there, there are rumors flying about that Cliff Curtis may be up for a role. No idea who.

According to Variety, Ving Rhames will topline and executive produce Night Train, the Sonny Liston biopic with James Woods, Alfre Woodard and Kristanna Loken also expected to star.

John C. McGinley is providing the voice of The Atom in the upcoming Justice League Unlimited. (He's on Scrubs.) The Atom will appear in at least two episodes of the show, one written by Warren Ellis and the other by J.M. DeMatteis.

And... that's it for now. Back to polishing up training for tomorrow.

Comments

[leiden.livejournal.com]

Last I read of cap he was forced to kill a bunch of people on live TV and then he revealed his identity because he was sick of being the posterboy for a lie. I thought that was about the best I've ever seen Cap. So they went and switched the team, huh?

Stupid, stupid Marvel. They're slowly starting to get a couple of their titles right but they seemed determined to screw them up as fast as they can. See the Marvel Knights: Spider Man. I haven't read Spidey since they went clone-happy and then decided that Peter and Mary-Jane were "rash" in their decision to get married. Marvel Knights seems to have fixed this, I'm anxiously awaiting further titles.

[lithera.livejournal.com]

I'm really liking Amazing Spider-Man. I'm staying away from the Marvel Knights titles at the moment. I just dislike the seventy two titles per character thing... It makes me unhappy.

[leiden.livejournal.com]

I admit to having not read Amazing in a very very long time. Eventually it just started making me angry. Too many clones. So I gave up and then started hearing about M.J. dying (but that was just her clone), Pete and M.J. seperating...etc. It was too much of a slaugher of what I had known to consider going back.

I picked up Marvel Knights because those titles tend to be a little more adult and a little less prone to quick art/writing team changes. I tend to agree that one character should only have one title but Spidey broke that rule a long long time ago. As it stands, I'm able to start in with a new title from issue 1 and hope that it holds onto its quality.

[lithera.livejournal.com]

Right now the guy who wrote Babylon 5 (JMS) is writing it and has been for quite some time. It's been a little too mystic recently for my tastes but I do like how he really understands his characters. Peter and MJ had problems but they're dealing with them. I've really, really liked it.

[bastardchimp.livejournal.com]

Well, no...recently Cap (under the team or Robert Morales writing and Chris Bacchallo on art) had to deal with the problem of Arab prisoners who escaped from Guantanimo to seek refuge in Cuba...They took along with them an Arab doctor who was detained simply because he 'fit the profile'. The story involves Castro and Nick Fury...Good stuff. Controversal, perhaps.

So what Marvel did...Well, they put a guy on that's gonna have cap fighting Hydra "just like the old days".

yeah.

[leiden.livejournal.com]

Goddammit.

[apestyle.livejournal.com]

According to Marvel's honcho, Joe Quesada, Cappy being political doesn't sell. People read comics for escapism, not to have a political agenda served to them. Sales dropped a lot.

[leiden.livejournal.com]

Joe Quesada can eat me. I like intelligent and political comics.

[ocicat.livejournal.com]

Did you buy it? I didn't... and mostly because ya, poltical thriller style stories bore me. But then I won't read about Cap vs. Hydra either, because the character bores me either way.

[bastardchimp.livejournal.com]

Go NOW (or, you know, when you can) to the comic store and pick up the Morales/Bachalo run on Captain America.

That's my recommendation.