Oooh, shiny!

[kyburg]

The first X-3 trailer is up - and it's good!

I'm not a comic book geek - you'd have to go to Jim for that. The rampant silliness and sheer WTF never fails to lose me. Fantastic Four? No blame on the guys who made the movie - that franchise is just too silly for anything other than the paper it was printed on. Too. Damn. Silly.

(This is from someone who snuck off to watch Speed Racer when she was 13 because it was too embarassing to do in front of other people. Too. Damn. Silly. Doesn't mean I didn't love it.)

However. The X-Men movies have been nothing but Good. Seriously. You do have to drop a few brain hinges to get your headspace in there, but it doesn't take as much work as say, Weiss Kreuz or Sneakers, and you're well rewarded for leaving your rational mind waiting in the car until the movie's over.

Heh. Kelsey Grammer as the Beast. And Patrick Stewart. Just cos'. Mmm.

Comments

[reannon.livejournal.com]

Hey, I loved SNEAKERS! :)

I squeed myself silly over the trailer. Mmm, yummy angst! Poor Cyclops! I want to make aaaall his hurts better.

[kyburg.livejournal.com]

Hey, I knew you were cool.

Okay, toots. Redford or Jackman?

[digitaldraco.livejournal.com]

Comic books are silly... this from the woman who has the largest anime collection of anyone I know. ;)

[kyburg.livejournal.com]

Keep in mind, there are two silly people in possession of that collection. *grins*

Comic books also take themselves So Deadly Seriously - in the midst of huge WTF on a regular basis. Scientific psychobabble. Name it. Angsty-pants.

Silly, I tell you. Veddy silly.

[my-sims-reality.livejournal.com]

You mentioning Speed Racer brings back memories. ;)

[kyburg.livejournal.com]

I have the box set. I R DORK.

(I actually sat down and tried to watch it. All alone, with the lights out. Shit you not. I was so embarassed. It sucked SO LOUD.)

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

Comic books, silly? Reading the wrong ones, I say. The Amazing Spider-Man with JMS writing. The Kevin Smith stint on Green Arrow. Bendis writing DareDevil. Elektra. Sandman, for pity's sake.

Comics grew up with us. In the '70's it was still pretty much BIFF! *POW*... but they started putting Real Stories in'em some time ago...

But I'm with you on the Patrick Stewart thing. I mean, homey don't schwing that way, but if I did.... *guh*... and besides, he's Shakespearean, he's *supposed* to be that good. :)

[kyburg.livejournal.com]

I have a copy of the Watchmen, which I threw across the room at 3:00 AM when I finished reading it. Jim has tons of Marvel stuff that he just loves (Alex Ross' work - I just look at the pictures and drool) - but the backstories just lose me.

William Shatner is also Shakespearean trained - and I don't think I could stand them both in the same room. The discordance would be huge.

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

Slick Willie Shatner may be Shakespearean-trained... but he's no Patrick Stewart. Or Brent Spiner. Or Laurence Fishburne, for that matter.

OTOH, Boston Legal is just the kind of over-the-top bombast he needs...

sotto voce Denny Crane

[tacohime.livejournal.com]

Oh... oh my, Hugh Jackman... oh dear... I... I had forgotten what a handsome gentleman he is.

Oh, tee hee...

[kyburg.livejournal.com]

And from all reports, just as sweet as he looks. We could do so much worse. If you can, see something he did a whole long time ago - Kate & Leopold. He's adorable.

[drave117.livejournal.com]

I really really really want X3 to be good, but I fear that it won't be. The Fox studio shirts are making stumble after stumble, and I just don't know if it can survive. First, they don't even try to negotiate a contract with Bryan Singer until like a year after the second one comes out, despite his proven track record. Then, when WB hands Singer the keys to Superman Returns, instead of waiting for him to finish, Fox decides to rush production so that it can come out at the same time. The movie doesn't even have a finished script or a director attached until just a few weeks before shooting starts. When they do finally snag a director, they get Brett Ratner, a director best known for brainless, blockbuster fluff. (Yes, I liked the Rush Hour movies, but they are definitely fluff.) They lose Alan Cumming, although he has already signed on, because the newly rushed shooting schedule now conflicts with his other commitments. Not only that, but they work extra hard to get Halle Berry back, caving in to her demands for greater screen time and more significance to the plot, even going so far as to give her a romantic interest that has the comic geeks screaming for Ratner's head. (Singer had planned to replace her due to the on-set problems caused by her spoiled bitch attitude and to the widespread dislike by comic geeks of her portrayal of Storm.) I won't even go into all the disquieting things I have heard about the plot, but the entire thing appears to be shaping up to be one giant middle finger in the direction of Bryan Singer specifically, and comic geeks in general. Y'know, the people who made Fox a metric pantload of money with the first two movies? But I'm not bitter. *sigh* I'll still see it, because I see every comic book movie that comes out, but I refuse to get my hopes up, no matter how cool the imagery in the trailer is.

[kyburg.livejournal.com]

In all honesty, that sounds like Hollywood at its most typical. Really -