Tomorrow I’m off (meaning I turn west instead of east off of Donahue) to the Austrian Scholars Conference, where I’ll be giving a talk on American Revolution and the Spectre of Anarchy: The Hamilton-Seabury and Price-Lind Debates.
Archive | 2009
Empire of the Sun and Watchmen – Separated At Birth?
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).
Mugshot
Neverfox at Instead of a Blog (not to be confused with Wirkman Virkkala’s blog of the same name – which once upon a time was also the name of my own blog) has made this Obama poster of me, along with some others.
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: