Whoa. That is all.
Truth, Justice, and the American Way!
This is totally sick, and utterly hilarious: How Superman II should have ended. This will appeal to those who never liked how Superman is able to erase Lois Lane’s memory by somehow “magically” kissing her.
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YARRRR!!!
Geekin’
Just a few pop-cultural items knockin’ round my head….
:: I love this poster, for the upcoming film Red Tails, which tells the story of the Tuskegee Airmen and is backed by executive producer George Lucas:
Of course, I look at that poster and I see that Lucas is only the executive producer. He’s not the actual producer, nor did he write the screenplay or the story on which the film is based, nor did he direct the movie. But anyone want to lay odds on whose name gets mentioned exclusively if the film flops?
:: I think that the existence of this is frakking hysterical:
Why? Well, if you know anything about Norman’s somewhat infamous series of sci-fi novels set on the world of Gor, you can imagine just what his sexual recommendations are like (i.e., great if you’re a man and you’re into dominance, not so much if you’re, well, not).
:: I really am starting to get an appreciation for cosplay.
She’s makin’ it up as she goes along, folks!
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Notes on the PopStuff
Some thoughts on a bit of pop culture stuff of late:
:: Here is actor Henry Cavill as Superman in the new movie about Superman, titled…Man of Steel.
In all honesty, I’m just not very thrilled with this. He looks OK, himself, although I wonder why the “Superman Curl” is missing from the middle of his forehead. The costume, however, bugs me. Proportionally it looks fine, but I hate that texture. I wonder why Hollywood decided that superhero costumes need to not look like cloth anymore; this looks like it was sewn from the material they use to make basketballs. I’m also not thrilled with the washed-out colors. I hope the film doesn’t look like this.
:: A sequel to Cosmos is on the way, apparently. I’m kind of glad to hear this, but any such project will be missing one key element: the poetical prose of Carl Sagan. The new show will be “hosted” by PBS science show mainstay Neil deGrasse Tyson. I hope this is done well, and doesn’t pander at all.
Of course, there has already been a sequel to Cosmos, at least in print: Sagan’s own book Pale Blue Dot. (I excerpted this book once, here.)
:: Oh my God, they’ve killed Sean Bean!
You bastards!
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No evil shall escape my sight!
With the exception of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part 2, there’s no movie I’m looking forward to this summer more than Green Lantern. I know that after the original trailer was released popular opinion that the movie is going to suck started to calcify, but I actually liked that first trailer…and this footage, abridged from footage that was displayed at WonderCon this weekend, only excites me even more:
Forget Thor and Captain America — it’s Green Lantern for me!
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Two of Three
Last week saw the birthdays of William Shatner (born March 22, 1931) and Leonard Nimoy (born March 26, 1931). Best to both! It’s too bad DeForest Kelley is no longer with us; way too many folks think of Star Trek‘s “Original Series” characters as Kirk and Spock instead of the real dynamic of Kirk, Spock, and McCoy. (Kelley was born January 20, by the way; if he were still around, he would be 91.)
The best recent tribute to Leonard Nimoy, of course, comes from the Christmas episode of Season Two of The Big Bang Theory. In the episode, Penny tells Sheldon that she has got him a Christmas present, which gives Sheldon pause, as he had no intention of exchanging gifts with Penny, and now he feels he must, out of social obligation. But he devises a strategy: he will buy a whole bunch of gift baskets from Bath&Body Works, and when he sees what Penny’s gift is, he will give her the basket that he judges the best match for what she has given him. Hilarity ensues.
(What does that have to do with Leonard Nimoy? Watch the clip!)
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Notes from the Underside of Pop Culture
Well, not the “underside” per se, I just liked the sound of that. But anyway, a few random thoughts on stuff:
:: The official costume for the new David E. Kelley Wonder Woman show got its big reveal right before I went on my brief mini-vacation! Oh noes! So, what do I think of this?
I’m not a fan. I don’t hate it, but I’m not a fan of it, either. It just looks like what it is: a costume made out of latex, so I assume that the show’s sound editors will have a busy time of it just erasing out all of that nice latex-y squeaking. Frankly, this costume looks to me like what your stripper would show up in — the one you hired to show up to your comic book-loving buddy’s stag party.
And David E. Kelley is writing it. Ugh.
:: I am really liking the way Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides is looking.
I’m a huge fan of these movies, of course; in addition to the first one, I loved the sequels as well. I can’t wait for this.
:: I’m also very excited about Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (part 2). While in Pittsburgh, we discovered that the ABC Family channel was doing a Harry Potter weekend, showing all of the first five or six films, so there was always some Harry Potter on when we were there. No, we didn’t watch any of them all the way through, but we did catch this “sneak preview” of the forthcoming final film (which includes some standard-type musings from castmembers and the director):
I am generally of the view that the Harry Potter films are actually quite underrated. The bar they’ve managed to clear is really very impressive: a series of eight films, and (thus far) there’s not a dud in the bunch. Especially considering that there have been four different directors, and yet even with the resulting different directorial “touches”, much has been consistent throughout. I tip my hat to the producers for keeping their eyes on the ball for so long.
Along that line, I’m really going to miss the Potterverse when it’s all wrapped up. It’s just too rich of a universe to be done with! We need more stories set there…just as soon as JK Rowling figures out how to do that without having it be Hogwarts: The Next Generation, or Hogwarts: The New Class, or Hogwarts: The College Years, or AfterHogwarts.
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I’ll be in my bunk
Nathan Fillion says that he would play Captain Malcolm Reynolds again. Not that I think he’ll get the chance, unless they somehow do a few one-off teevee movies set in the Firefly/Serenity universe, but still, there’s got to be a market for more Firefly stories than the short comics we get every eighteen months or so.
Oh well….
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Bucky gives a pep-talk
There really needs to be a movie with a Space Winnebago.