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seriousficI will admit, I actually like the look of Electro they came up with.
Or, if you want the usual "I'll wait to see it in motion/CGIed" caveat, I at least respect it. Maybe it'll look totally awful on screen, but I appreciate that instead of some dumb Green Lantern thing where they go "OH, LET'S CGI JAMIE FOXX, WE'LL CGI HIM SO HE'S MADE OUT OF LIGHTNING AND HIS EAR IS MADE OUT OF LIGHTNING AND IT FLICKERS IN AND OUT AND YOU CAN SEE THE BILLBOARD THROUGH HIS EAR!", they painted the dude blue, put lights in his hoodie, and it looks good. It at least looks a lot more like an electric guy than the Lizard looked like a giant lizard. Remember that? They fucked up "it's a big lizard in a ripped lab coat."
Guy, I don't like Tron: Legacy, but I respect that they made costumes that lit up instead of whatever the fuck Green Lantern was on about. God, that movie came out in like 2008, and I'm still hung up on how bad THE TITLE CHARACTER'S SUPERHERO COSTUME LOOKED. It was that bad. He had webbed feet or something. Who in the American public wanted to see Ryan Reynolds with webbed feet. Did they think "hey, it's 2008, they kicked Conan O'Brien off The Tonight Show, anything goes!" Because this country has rules, damnit! Jay Leno still ends up losing his show, just to Jimmy Fallon, and the United States does not tolerate webbed feet on Ryan Reynolds!
I will admit to some surprise that they can take a guy who wears a yellow starfish on his face and come up with something as halfway decent as that, but on the "really hot redhead" front, they get Shailene Woodsley. That's like Jackie Chan somersaulting through a burning building and landing on a speeding motorcycle, then choking on a jelly bean at the craft services table.
And if you were wondering just how petty I can be about this dumb reboot/re-origin-story/ASM thing (I'll give you a hint: I consider myself vindicated now that Starkid Potter is on Team Tobey Maguire), I'll tell you that I'm not petty enough to nitpick the villain being a black guy in a hoodie. Somethings you gotta let go. Not Spider-Man having fucking stripes on his arms like he's a burlesque dancer, no, that's inexcusable, but we can take it easy on the racist molehills.
Or, if you want the usual "I'll wait to see it in motion/CGIed" caveat, I at least respect it. Maybe it'll look totally awful on screen, but I appreciate that instead of some dumb Green Lantern thing where they go "OH, LET'S CGI JAMIE FOXX, WE'LL CGI HIM SO HE'S MADE OUT OF LIGHTNING AND HIS EAR IS MADE OUT OF LIGHTNING AND IT FLICKERS IN AND OUT AND YOU CAN SEE THE BILLBOARD THROUGH HIS EAR!", they painted the dude blue, put lights in his hoodie, and it looks good. It at least looks a lot more like an electric guy than the Lizard looked like a giant lizard. Remember that? They fucked up "it's a big lizard in a ripped lab coat."
Guy, I don't like Tron: Legacy, but I respect that they made costumes that lit up instead of whatever the fuck Green Lantern was on about. God, that movie came out in like 2008, and I'm still hung up on how bad THE TITLE CHARACTER'S SUPERHERO COSTUME LOOKED. It was that bad. He had webbed feet or something. Who in the American public wanted to see Ryan Reynolds with webbed feet. Did they think "hey, it's 2008, they kicked Conan O'Brien off The Tonight Show, anything goes!" Because this country has rules, damnit! Jay Leno still ends up losing his show, just to Jimmy Fallon, and the United States does not tolerate webbed feet on Ryan Reynolds!
I will admit to some surprise that they can take a guy who wears a yellow starfish on his face and come up with something as halfway decent as that, but on the "really hot redhead" front, they get Shailene Woodsley. That's like Jackie Chan somersaulting through a burning building and landing on a speeding motorcycle, then choking on a jelly bean at the craft services table.
And if you were wondering just how petty I can be about this dumb reboot/re-origin-story/ASM thing (I'll give you a hint: I consider myself vindicated now that Starkid Potter is on Team Tobey Maguire), I'll tell you that I'm not petty enough to nitpick the villain being a black guy in a hoodie. Somethings you gotta let go. Not Spider-Man having fucking stripes on his arms like he's a burlesque dancer, no, that's inexcusable, but we can take it easy on the racist molehills.
