Movies, movies, movies, movies, movies, movies

[trinityvixen]

-Iron Man is the first movie of 2008 to make it to $300M domestically. So, no matter how huge the take for the first weekend of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull...well, SUCK IT STUPID MOVIE. (Sorry, this is directed at my dad, who liked the latter and said the former was "stupid." And who...doesn't read my LJ. MY RAGE! IT IS MISDIRECTED!)

-Is it a poster for the live action G.I. Joe movie or the movie version of Mass Effect? Duke or Commander Shepard? I swear that the scar on "Duke's" face is one you can select in the damn game. (The facial hair definitely is.) I don't love the old character design, or anything, but sheesh. Who is this guy?

-Pixar is awesome, and Wall-E is going to be awesome, and shut it anyone who says otherwise. I wish I had any talent in the areas in which Pixar excels. Then I could work there.

-Spider-Man 4 release date!?!! Right on top of the proposed Avengers movie and the second of two movie installments of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Most notable is the fact that although absolutely no one has been hired to do anything for the movie, Sony has decided the release date. I smell success, don't you?

Comments

[viridian.livejournal.com]

There's a Spider-Man 4??? WTFFFF, I thought 3 had pretty much exhausted the possibilities.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

They've pretty much exhausted any of the good villains.

please don't encourage me

[arcane-the-sage.livejournal.com]

No, there are plenty of good villains left in the series. It's just I REALLY don't want to think about how they could screw them up. First thought though: The Lizard with a british accent and reading Shakespeare (yes in reptile form).

Re: please don't encourage me

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Of the pop-culturally famous, only the Lizard is really left. The constrictions of film don't allow for the villains like Carnage or the Hobgoblin because they are too similar to Venom and the Green Goblin, respectively, to make an impact. While their stories are interesting in print because they have legacy, on screen they would just be also-ran copycats.

And who else would have that same kind of splash as Doc Ock, Green Goblins 1 or 2, or Venom? Rhino? The electro-dude? Mysterio? The Vulture guy? Hydro? Man, the gimmick of the [blank] Man was buried under the morass of the Sandman.

Re: please don't encourage me

[arcane-the-sage.livejournal.com]

Actually I'd be more worried that they might tap Kraven the Hunter (I have no faith in them getting him right), Scorpion, Morbius (please for all that is holy let the name Morbius never even cross their minds), or Kingpin (because we all know they might want a Daredevil crossover). Their is no shortage of interesting villains they could tap for spiderman 4. The thing is, do we really want them to?

Re: please don't encourage me

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Kingpin...maybe. The problem there is that the Spider-Man films have not set up any sort of organized crime. They haven't even acknowledged sophisticated crime. The Spider-Man movies consist of busting burglars who wear black knit caps and tote crowbars and steal sacks of money with dollar signs on them. It would be a hard sell to inject into this world any sort of organization. Unless, of course, they had the Kingpin show up and go "You've got to be kidding me: THIS is how you've been doing crime in New York fucking City?!?" Acknowledge the ridiculousness and it makes it better. Still not great, though.

Morbius...just...no. Not unless we want to do like a Blade crossover. And since Wesley Snipes is going to jail, that's not happening, is it?

Kraven is a possibility, but only if they brought in the Man-Spider storyline. Which...hey! That's actually a decent idea. If it could be realized at all realistically. (It also would have been better if everyone didn't already know Pete was Spidey in his immediate life.)

Re: please don't encourage me

[arcane-the-sage.livejournal.com]

Morbius was a spiderman villain long before they pawned him off on Blade so he's still in play potentially. Plus the introduction of vampires (even genetically created vampires) could be considered a draw in some dumb exec's mind.

Kingpin, not too hard to work into the plot. You just need one bit where spidy breaks up a major hist that kingpin organized. Throw in a grudge and you got you kingpin plot.

Kraven sadly is the easiest to pull in since he is pretty much a big game hunter. Hell Jonah would pay for him to come over to hunt spidy. But likewise Kraven is also the easiest to screw up since they would try to get his change of heart to occur on screen in a relatively short timespan.