Neal wants to see Black Snake Moan because he loves Christina Ricci, Teen Wolf is surprisingly subversive, The Spirit is filmed in Millervision, Peyton Reed and Craig Alpert make Yes Man a great movie, Neal thinks “Just Like Me” by Jamie Foxx and T.I. is just okay, War Machine #1 by Greg Pak and Leonardo Manco stars a different Rhodey than Nick is used to, and Neal wants to know if superheroes movies pull more from old comics or new comics.
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National Treasure 2 is ironic, the script selection of Jet Li and Jean-Claude Van Damme, SportsCenter gets meta, the great Eddie Murphy debate, Arnold Schwarzenegger vs. the Hulk, Danny DeVito makes almost everything better, the creators of South Park are just Libertarian Hollywood punks, motivational skeet, Walt Whitman is not like Emerson and Thoreau, and Hank Pym is going all Wasp on us as Kirsten and Pete join up with Nick and Neal for our final podcast of 2008.
For the third week in a row, I don’t have much time to write posts (although you’d never guess looking at the comment feed). The streets is tough – and covered with snow thanks to that motherfucker Jack Frost.
Anyway, the snow (and the exceedingly s l o w drive home today) got me thinking about Greg Rucka’s upcoming (Well, Sept 11 2009 isn’t exactly close, but whatever) arctic thriller Whiteout. The art was cool – if a little hard to see considering the format – and the story kept along at a decent clip. As I recall, the book was an engrossing read. Fast forward a couple years and BAM! it’s movie time. I hold to what I said a year ago in Podcast 007 and I am excited to see good a story reach the silver screen.
But Kate Beckinsdale in the lead? I’m not entirely sure about that casting choice – couldn’t they get Lena Headey? Lena has been utterly destroying tough girl roles lately in 300 and The Sarah Connor Chronicles. Interestingly, both are British, but Headey kicks much more ass.
All I have seen are a few production stills, and I haven’t been following the news – but I am kind of excited to see this. Superhero comics and movies are great, but when graphic fiction makes it to the screen because of their superior storytelling and concept alone, I think that is just the fucking coolest. Nick said it a few weeks back, comic books are the new spec scripts. So, maybe you should go out and pick up the trade paperback. I’m sure there are a million of them on the racks at B&N, right next to all the Watchmen and Sin City books. And if you like Whiteout, you may like Queen & Country (it’s a lot more involved though).
Tom Scioli, Pat Lewis, Ed Piskor, Jason Lex, Jim Rugg, and Chris Moeller talk about their published comics and upcoming projects. Phantom of the Attic customers weigh in what’s hot in comic books while they reveal shocking personal moments. Technical difficulties (a.k.a. I forgot to hit record) meant we missed some choice moments (sorry Mel, I wanted people to know about dirty balloon animals for adults too!).
The blogosphere is buzzing about Zack Snyder’s “faithful” adaptation of the Watchmen mini series into a film. When I say mini series, I mean it. Watchmen is, in fact, a collection of single issues as opposed to an original novel-length work. But “The Most Celebrated Comic Book Mini Series of All Time” isn’t as impressive, so I understand why it’s universally referred to as a graphic novel. Watching this movie is supposed to be like the comic moving before your eyes (though they already did that with Warner Premiere’s Motion Comics and it looks like poop).
Truthfully, it all leaves me feeling cold. If the movie is just a direct adaptation of the comic, then who gives a shit? I already read Watchmen. It was great. I don’t need to read it again, let alone sit as a captive audience member for some ungodly length of time in a movie theater. By the way, three fucking hours??! Snyder, are you out of your gourd? I sat thru 2.5 hours of The Dark Poop and I almost screamed in pain after 1.5 hours. If Watchmen is going to be 180 minutes, then split it in half ala Kill Bill so I can go home for a couple months in the middle.
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