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[chenanceou]

Ioan Gruffudd, AKA Horatio Hornblower *sigh*, AKA latest Lancelot - is due to play Mr. Fantastic.

The Fantastic Four is another one of the many comics to life adaptations being done these days.

I'm too high on Ioan being all stretchy to have an opinion about the whole thing. When I'm capable of rational thought I'm sure I'll go on and on about the fact they are adapting every possible comic and that, hopefully, the backlash will be in a distant future after I get Death of the Endless, Alan Moore's Top Ten and Identity Crisis - not forgetting my Hellboy trilogy.

What can I say? I'm greedy that way.

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[sp23.livejournal.com]

Back in the dark ages when I was young, The Fantastic Four and Spiderman were my two favorite comics. I haven't read either in over thirty years and don't know how much they've changed. I did notice when I was looking in my backwater area for a copy of Joss' Astonishing X-Men that it looked as if they changed TFF from adults to teenagers. Color me disgusted if they did.

[chenanceou.livejournal.com]

I was looking in my backwater area for a copy of Joss' Astonishing X-Men

Living in Brazil and having to pay 5 times the price on any comic I'm lucky enough to find in English (I have a problem with translations) has taught me to appreciate places like Midtown Comics and Forbidden Planet in NYC. Amazon has a good selection (and with free delivery - they must be losing a bundle of money) that I'm unable to profit from since shipping costs more than the order itself (sometimes twice as much). *sigh*

....that it looked as if they changed TFF from adults to teenagers.

Not that I know of, even though some artists will draw them with a younger, rounder look (not my thing - I like edgier). They went AU for a while a few years back, but even then I don't think they ever went full on teen. I could be wrong (see above for backwater status) since I don't read as many as I'd like.

By the way - if you like shades of gray in your characters, consider taking a look at Identity Crisis. It's really good.

[redeem147.livejournal.com]

That's Fantastic Four ultimate, which I think my darling Stuart Immonen is working on. Just can't get my head around the teen four (though FF is one of my regular titles)

[perletwo.livejournal.com]

I've seen some pix on the Net. Michael Chiklis' Ben Grimm looks pretty good too, at least in the melty-lava stage. And his scratchy-gravel voice is perfect.

Not so sure about the Storm siblings though. And Julian McMahon as Dr. Doom? Dreamy. I shall be there, Jessica Alba or no Jessica Alba. Which is more than I can say for that Catwoman flick, even if it is at the 99 cent theater already!

[chenanceou.livejournal.com]

Michael Chiklis' Ben Grimm looks pretty good
I'm actually glad they went with make-up and prosthetics instead of computer generated stuff. It looks realistic enough and I think the casting was right on.

Jessica Alba or no Jessica Alba
Oy vey... That casting I'm worried about. I don't see her as right for the part - but hey, could be wrong and will be happy to be. I want this movie to be good.

Which is more than I can say for that Catwoman flick, even if it is at the 99 cent theater already!
See, that's what happens when they take a strong female character and turn the story into a flesh fest. Halle Berry is, without a doubt, a gorgeous woman. She's also capable of acting. Sharon Stone is both sexy, talented and has made menacing bitchiness into an art. Benjamin Bratt is a good actor with a sculpted body.

Why end up with a crap exploitation movie is beyond me. Even the computer stuff sucked!

[perletwo.livejournal.com]

See, that's what happens when they take a strong female character and turn the story into a flesh fest. Halle Berry is, without a doubt, a gorgeous woman. She's also capable of acting.

I was thinking about this the other day, and I had a small epiphany: For all Halle Berry's complaining about there not being enough strong-woman roles out there, she's not very good at playing them.

That's not to say she can't act. It is to say she seems to do best, be most believeable, in softer maternal/vulnerable woman roles. That's what she was in Monsters Ball, a damaged woman forging a connection with a damaged man, and everyone seems to agree that's her finest hour. Soft and warm was where she took Storm rather than regal and commanding, which is what Storm really calls for. In Gothika she was most believable either feigning sympathetic attention in her sessions with Penelope Cruz or doing the woman-in-jeopardy thing; when the script called for her to be all icy-intellectual, as it often did, it didn't play.

Imagine if Sharon Stone and Halle Berry had switched roles in Catwoman. Wouldn't it have been a more interesting movie? I think possibly. Stone may not have the abs, but she could pull off the catty-bitchy easily. (Hell, the woman came out of the beauty pageant circuit, she cut her teeth on catty-bitchy!)

[redeem147.livejournal.com]

Have I mentioned you're cute when you're comic booky?

[chenanceou.livejournal.com]

Aww! I'm all addicted. I know.

But it's so much FUN!