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Four Rogues In Buckram
I haven’t been a great fan of the recent Fantastic Four movies. I thought Johnny was fine, and the Surfer was dead-on perfect; but Reed, Sue, and Victor were badly miscast; Reed and Sue had zero chemistry; Reed’s stretchiness never looked right; Victor had the wrong origin and lacked the original’s proto-Vaderesque gravitas and tragic grandeur; and Ben wore a clunky, overly small suit instead of being sensibly CGI.
The good news, then, is that the FF film franchise is being rebooted from scratch, with the generally excellent Iron Man reportedly serving as the model. (Conical hat tip to AICN.)
Given that there’s supposed to be a Sub-Mariner movie in the works, I wonder whether they’re planning a tie-in (since it was in the pages of Fantastic Four that the Atlantean prince had his first Silver Age appearance).
And Watchmen Fans Would Be Happy to Settle For a Plate of Fried Calamari
By 2011, opines The Economist, a movie adaptation of Atlas Shrugged “may feel superfluous to Rand’s most loyal fans; events unfolding around them will have been dramatisation enough.”
Yeah, that’s right; Rand’s most loyal fans would be happy to take an economic meltdown in lieu of an Atlas film. Uh-huh.
Watchfriends
Forget that new Watchmen movie that’s coming out in theatres. This Saturday morning cartoon version is far more awesome:
Thumbs Down From the Führer
Turns out Hitler doesn’t like the new Watchmen movie. (WARNING: SPOILERS for anyone who’s been living under a rock for the past few months.)
Randians Will Be Randians
Steve Skeates once wrote a comic featuring The Question (a character created by Randian Steve Ditko), in which the hero, asked by the villain “Don’t you remember me?” replies “Now listen, my friend, you weren’t important enough for me to remember!” Ditko had no problem with the last part of the line (after all it sounds a bit like Roark’s one line to Toohey), but he sent Skeates a six-page rant – “a rather daunting and even rather scary letter,” as Skeates recalls – explaining why his hero would never call a criminal “friend” even in jest. Details here.