Random cinematic bits

[seriousfic]

You know, I've seen some controversy over the Sherlock Holmes trailer, with some people calling it Wild Wild West In London, but I think what people forget is that the concept of WWW was great, it's just that the execution misfired on all cylinders (well, they had Salma Hayek in scanty outfits, so it's hard to mess up that). The TV series had the same premise of a steampunk Western and it was awesome. And one of the great things about Sherlock Holmes is that the more faithful adaptations have already been done and will continue to be done.

With something like Spider-Man, they're probably not going to sink 150 million dollars into a movie and then do it again if it fails. That's why comics fans are so sensitive to change. If they don't get it right the first time, there won't be a second time. Like, does anyone think there's going to be a Watchmen reboot with a squid and a less moustache-twisting Ozymandias anytime soon?

But if Sherlock Holmes is stupid and bombs, then there's still going to be twenty Sherlock Holmes movies you can watch.

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So the rumor is that villain in the new Spider-Man movie (which is one of those films that I know I shouldn't be interested in, like Avatar, but fuck it) is going to be Morbius. Which, I never really got Morbius. Whoa, he's a vampire! Yeah, so? Spider-Man fights a vampire. Great. That was fun. Why am I hungry, did I skip breakfast?

At least in the cartoons, he had those cool palm sucker things.

But then again, Sam Raimi... Evil Dead Sam Raimi... doing vampire(s)? And, having seen what he does with a villain he's not interested in, I'm totally prepared to give a villain I find boring a chance (although I kinda hope that memo about how not every villain has to be misguided and sympathetic gets to Raimi, along with the one about how Spider-Man tells jokes. Deadpool should not tell more jokes in five minutes of Wolverine than Spider-Man tells in three movies).

Just so long as he has those cool palm sucker things. Those were awesome.

Comments

[cissie-king.livejournal.com]

Morbius is not even a vampire; he is a guy who gained vampire-like powers because he was bitten by an electrocuted bat. Honest! Morbius gained powers while researching the cure of some disease that was ravaging his country. He believed he could find the cure combining electricity and bats.

But the thing is, he is not a real vampire! He is a counterfeit vampire, made even shittier by the existence of real vampires in the Marvel Universe.

[mymatedave.livejournal.com]

Regarding the spiderman jokes thing, I cannot agree with you more on almost any other issue under the sun! I mean, that right there is a huge part of the whole spiderman/peter parker duality thing, in the costume he's a wisecracking smartarse who bounces of walls but in real life he's a quiet nice guy who's quite shy.

And don't even get me started on what they did to Deadpool in the latter part of Wolverine.

[(Anonymous)]

I never got the hate the animated Morbius gets for the palm suckers. he's not a real vampire anyways, he shouldn't suck blood like a real one either. That's just too coincidental, considering real vampires exist in the marvel universe. Also, they remind me of the vampires from Jojo's Bizarre adventure. ZA WARUDO!

Weird, horrifying random thought popped into my head right now. How would he masturbate with palm-suckers, anyway? Hell, going to the jerkit circus with palm-suckers seems like it'd make the experience horrible, you'd like, accidentally ripoff dick skin. Could he suck your blood, I mean plasma, though handjobs? That'd make for an interesting porno. Shit, any vampire porno where they suck blood though regular old oral would be interesting.

[(Anonymous)]

Hating on cartoon Morbius for just 'drinking' plasma is pretty weaksauce.

Plasma is an integral part of blood (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_plasma - "It makes up about 55% of total blood volume."), and with those fancy hand sucker dealies of his he could have totally filtered out the cellular parts.