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.

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[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