Random cinematic bits
May. 26th, 2009 01:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
seriousficYou 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.
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.
***
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.
