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Comic nerd friends, we need to talk. Specifically, we need to talk about Ryan Reynolds. I am still hopeful about Green Lantern, or whatever fifteen-word-title they end up giving the movie, but I think he's been miscast. Some four-five years ago, back when David Goyer was still writing a Flash movie, and he and Ryan Reynolds were BFFs from Blade: Trinity, there was talk about Reynolds being the Scarlet Speedster. If you've seen any movie Reynolds has been in (with the possible exception of the one where he's, like, buried alive), you know that that is just about perfect. He's got the comic timing down, and, hey, he'd look good in tight clothes, amirite?

Flash forward (oh, oops, pun) to 2009, and he's gonna be Hal Jordan. Eh, not as good, and there's this all-CGI suit that is really not necessary, I think, when your leading man looks like this:

We don't need CGI to put some spandex on that, do we?

Anyway, I bring all this up because I have just heard a rumor that Bradley Cooper is likely to be the Flash in the ongoing attempt of Warner Bros. and DC to catch up with Marvel on the movie front. It's not as good a match. If anything, he and Ryan Reynolds need to swap places, and then the Lantern star should be Kyle Rayner, not Hal Jordan. (Fuck, it should John Stewart, as played by someone sexy like Idris Elba.) Cooper's humor is just more mean-spirited in delivery than Reynolds' ever has or will be, and I like my Flash cuddly and funny.

Then again, Bradley Cooper as the Flash means we get this in spandex, and I suddenly have no complaints:


He's leaner than Reynolds, too, as a Flash should be, if he can help it. Here's hoping those rumors pan out!

(To the ladies and gay men: You're welcome!)

Date: 2010-10-13 03:09 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ivy03.livejournal.com
I <3 Bradley Cooper, ever since Alias. He has a freckle in his eye!

Date: 2010-10-13 03:11 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] trinityvixen.livejournal.com
I have to say that despite his playing assholes in just about every movie I've ever seen him in, he is funny. Here's hoping he gets the part. 'Cause then I'd have to see the movie, right?

Date: 2010-10-13 03:17 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lnbw.livejournal.com
The Ryan Reynolds pic isn't showing up for me, which I have to say is immensely disappointing.

Well, we can't have THAT

Date: 2010-10-13 03:22 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] trinityvixen.livejournal.com
Try some of these?
http://bestof.provocateuse.com/images/photos/ryan_reynolds_99.jpg
http://img.listal.com/image/873018/600full-ryan-reynolds.jpg
http://www.shafatloss.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/ryan-reynolds-workout.jpg

Re: Well, we can't have THAT

Date: 2010-10-13 03:25 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lnbw.livejournal.com
Yeah, I don't feel at all guilty about planning to see the Green Lantern movie despite not knowing who Green Lantern is.

Date: 2010-10-13 04:34 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ecmyers.livejournal.com
Have you seen him in Kitchen Confidential? He's hilarious. I also liked him in the short-lived Jack & Bobby.

What is an eye freckle?

Date: 2010-10-13 04:35 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ecmyers.livejournal.com
What movie is that picture of Cooper from? I don't think I've ever seen him in a serious dramatic role.

Date: 2010-10-13 04:36 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ivy03.livejournal.com
It is a freckle. In his eye. Look at him in the next close-up--it's in the white of his eye, forget which side.

I haven't seen Kitchen Confidential. I saw the pilot of Jack & Bobby because I got it on DVD as a freebie for some reason, but I don't think he was in that ep. I just find it amusing, given later rolls, that on Alias he was the slightly frumpy best friend with unrequited love.

Date: 2010-10-13 04:39 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ecmyers.livejournal.com
A lot of people hated Will in the first season, but then he became really popular. I always liked his character though.

Date: 2010-10-13 05:42 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] trinityvixen.livejournal.com
I forgot he was the Mom's boyfriend/graduate student in Jack and Bobby.

Date: 2010-10-13 05:44 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ecmyers.livejournal.com
Hey, looks like they have the whole series online! http://www.thewb.com/shows/jack-and-bobby

Re: Well, we can't have THAT

Date: 2010-10-13 05:45 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] trinityvixen.livejournal.com
See, it's easy to not know who Green Lantern is because there are so many of them!

Date: 2010-10-13 05:46 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] trinityvixen.livejournal.com
And you still haven't--that still is from The A-Team.

Date: 2010-10-13 05:48 pm (UTC)
ext_27667: (ats: fred this fuckin guy)
From: [identity profile] viridian.livejournal.com
What I actually got out of this post, since I know nothing about comics unless they're the Angel spinoffs:

"Ryan Reynolds is extremely attractive, and he's playing some superhero in some movie, but I wish he were playing this other superhero in this other movie, but this other guy is playing that superhero instead and he is also rather attractive."

Date: 2010-10-13 05:53 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] trinityvixen.livejournal.com
What do you mean that's "What I actually got out of this post"? That is what the post was about. Like, word for word.

Date: 2010-10-13 05:56 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] trinityvixen.livejournal.com
Also, I don't really know/like Fred, but that icon is hi-larious.

Date: 2010-10-13 05:57 pm (UTC)
ext_27667: (ats: fredlyria extremes)
From: [identity profile] viridian.livejournal.com
Fred makes the best faces. I should make all of my icons be either her or Illyria - they would cover the full range of my own emotions and corresponding expressions well.

Date: 2010-10-13 05:58 pm (UTC)
ext_27667: (dw: i'd hit it)
From: [identity profile] viridian.livejournal.com
I just mean I couldn't parse shit about the actual characters you were referring to. But I am good at summarizing even when I have NO IDEA WHAT IS GOING ON!

Date: 2010-10-13 06:00 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] trinityvixen.livejournal.com
What's going on is them boys and they fabulous bodies. That's all anyone needs to know.

Date: 2010-10-13 11:09 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] neo-leviathan.livejournal.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hTiRnqnvDs
Green Lantern the way it should have been =(

Date: 2010-10-14 12:26 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fairest.livejournal.com
Oh my god, *that* guy? Hm...

Date: 2010-10-14 12:30 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fairest.livejournal.com
The whole chain above is kind of awesome. I laughed out loud at the Tom Welling face. WHAT. :D

Date: 2010-10-14 02:07 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] trinityvixen.livejournal.com
Nathan Fillion should play a superhero. He's already got the fanbase for it!

Date: 2010-10-14 02:07 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] trinityvixen.livejournal.com
DISCO TARDIS

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