That made me LOL a lot. Thanks, emp.

There IS way of telling. IMDb says the actress pictured there is the original Silk Spectre. Can't remember her name without looking. And given that she has no aging make-up at this stage, we can be fairly sure she is at the start of her crimefighting career.

Damn! I was enjoying my selfrighteousness for a moment there...

Oh right, that Silk Spectre:



Sally Jupiter, star of Silk Swingers of Suburbia.

Well what I want to know is why they;ve turned super athlete and gymnast Ozymandius:



Into a skinny necked child:

Good to know. Although I'm personally always wary of IMDb.



Sally Jupiter, innit.

Having said that she doesn't look particularly 1940's, and she doesn't look a bit shit, which is how I always read the original spectre.

Well, women being superheroes is really unbelievable anyway. They'd just be thinking about make-up and kittens when they should be saving the child from the burning building.

I hope all the pictures are from the characters' past and these have been released to appeal to people unfamiliar with the book. I do doubt whether the film will carry the same weight as the book and do for super hero films what it did for comic books.

Keep enjoying, Lewis - the actress pictured is Malin Akerman who plays Laurie, not Carla Gugino who plays Sally. Ad, the pic on IMDB is credited "Character: Silk Spectre, Silk Spectre II"

Hah! Yes! I was starting to feel really bad, especially after I'd gone and read some of Zack Snyder's very sensible comments about the production.

Fuck you Snyder! Fuck you right in your evidently giving it your best shot and really thinking about what your doing ass!

Review of Che!

''Runaways'' being adapted for the screen

Nice to see that Marvel are starting to look at some of their less well-known properties. As much as I like the big-budget, big name stuff I do wish that there were more small-scale, more interesting comic-book films being put out.

Has anyone seen this new russian trailer for wanted?
http://filmz.ru/pub/1/14256_1.htm
That looks like a lot of fun!

In amongst all the big releases this summer, the film I'm probably most looking forward to, aside from The Dark Knight and Hellboy II: The Golden Army, is Gone, Baby, Gone, Ben Affleck's feature directorial debut based on the novel by Dennis Lehane.

I've been reading the book recently and it's easily one of the best modern crime novels I've ever read and, even though I realise that Casey Affleck and Michelle Monaghan are too young to play the characters, I'm still really looking forward to seeing how they bring the story to the screen.

It's also got two alumni of The Wire, Amy Ryan and Michael K. Williams in it, which is a big plus in my books (three if you count Lehane as the author of the original book but I don't know how involved he would have been involved in the production)

Yeah, I've been meaning to rent that for months.

My mum and dad saw it when they were in the States back in November. They said it was easily one of the best films they saw last year.

I don't speak Spanish, but the trailer for 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button' looks absolutely awesome.

Looky!

A Fincher adaptation of an F Scott Fitzgerald story is pretty much my dream come true. After watching the trailer I may be more excited about this than any other film this year, 'Zodiac' was phenomenal.

It's one of the best trailers I've ever seen, even though it's a crappy grainy copy and not in English.

New poster for Hellboy II.



God I hope it's good.

Looking good. Even though I'm not a huge Fitzgerald fan, though I am an admirer, that does look quite marvelous. Is the music in the trailer used in Beauty And The Beast?

It's The Aquarium from Carnival of the Animals. I think they use a version of it in the prologue of 'Beauty and the Beast'.

It's such a beautiful trailer, it's hard not to get overexcited, which is a shame because it's not out till December. Lots of special effects to do I imagine.

The short story is rather dark and completely allegorical in tone, I hope that remains. It's certainly not a love story.

I like the fact that they haven't used any voiceover, apart from the very beginning and the end. I hope that when an English-language version appears they can use the same aesthetic. They also give the film a real fairy tale feel. Not having read the story, I don't know how true that sense is or should be, but it certainly has that feel to me and I find that very appealing.

Perhaps more fable than fairytale, but it remains to be seen how they'll interpret and pad it out to a couple of hours.

With Fincher at the helm, I'm sure brilliantly.

The short story is in the public domain, so I'm sure it's all over the internet if you wanted to read it.

It's one of the best I've seen this year.

New Watchmen pic - or rather, Minutemen.

Damn, that looks like a picture taken at a convention.

But isn't that how it should look? Most of the Minutemen were doing little more than playing at being super-heroes.

The amatuerish nature of their costumes is well in line with that.

That's my take on it as well.

I thought it looked rather fitting in its amateurish-ness. Though that is at odds with the slick design of the modern day outfits.

I like the pic but the Hooded Justice doesn't look big enough.

Yeah, I guess they've been quite accurate with the costumes, but they could have made them a little more real-world looking, in the same way they've updated the second generations' outfits. I'm starting to worry about the whole enterprise.

I like the retro look but it reminds me of Uncle Jack in AR. The Bullet is missing there.

Shoot Me!

Would you guys recommend that I read the graphic novel before I see the film?

I would.

I recommend you read the trade paperback. There isn't a graphic novel.



I'm such a pedant

I would be too, but I get sick of the blank looks when I say 'trade paperback' to people.

Oops. I even knew that it originally came out as individual issues, but I completely forgot.

On the set of 'The Road'

Those pics have certainly got me excited; looks just like I imagined the world of the novel.

HIGH FIVE!

Cooool. Glad they say the kid's excellent, as it'd really detract from it if he wasn't.

Before Indy last night we were treated to a mass of trailers, some of which were films I somehow hadn't heard anything about. Probably should have been keeping an eye on this thread a bit more. Eagle Eye, Hancock and The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emporer caught my eye. Hancock looks like it could be hilarious. Will Smith on top form is brilliantly funny and the premise seemed like it had a lot of scope for being a funny movie, and it certainly delivered in the trailer. Also, I love the Mummy fils (I even like Scorpion King a bit, in a kind of modern day Conan way), so a new outing for that gang is a bonus, although there was a lot of CG army footage during the trailer. Sure, they get their CG particles and undeadies done well, but lets not go overboard huh?

That gives me faith again.



Runaways is in part a joke on the earlier comic book phenomenon, especially found in DC of writers feeling like they hadn't done a good job unless they'd put an alien and a wizard in a story. I worry slightly that the joke might not transfer to the screen.

Randy Couture on Mandrake

Uninspiring doesn't even cover it.

Burn After Reading Trailer - man oh man oh man, this looks good. You can tell that it's firmly in the Big Lebowski spirit with all kinds of weaving plots and characters. Could this be my favourite Coen brothers film of the year?

Heh, that looks fun.

Am likinnnnng... the loook... of thaaaaat.

Funny funny shit. And a good all-celeb cast - Brad looks especially amusing. I would like to see this film now please.

This should be fun.

Looks very promising. Though I liked No Country For Old Men an awful lot, I much prefer the Coens when they lean towards the more outrightly comedic.

Not sure if it'll be as good as Raising Arizona, but I don't think many films are.

Anything after the acclaim they got for No Country and winning the Oscar finally is going to be perceived as a come-down in some respects. Still, it looks like it could actually be a riot.


So my buddy Tim and his friends have entered that Watchmen contest where you make adverts for products by Adrian Veidt's corporation and the winners may get placed in the background in the film. Their entry's a bit rough around the edges, but it really captures the spirit of what its's sending up IMO. Check it out and if you like it, please vote for 'em? Spanks.

I give you the lost Ozymandias action figure spot from 1985:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jeslfkbmcE

I'm the smartest man in the wuuurrrrld...