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Sunday, July 22, 2012 at 9:50AM My New Plaid Pants filled me with ??? and !!! and lolz with this post on terrible sequel movie What's Happened To Rosemary's Baby.
Vanity Fair Angelina Jolie is... SLINKY
Amiresque on seeing your home town on film (Take This Waltz)
My Boyfriend is an Engineer awesome new tumblr devoted to Prometheus' wacky troublemaker.
BatWorld
The Onion "Christian Bale glad to be done with the most humiliating experience of professional life"
i09 Batman fashions and accessoris you can wear to the office? I do love the Bane coat and the Bat clip
Hollywood.com the purrfect Catwoman? I knew we'd get a few articles praising Anne Hathaway above all else.
Off Cinema For the Hell Of It
Towleroad New Kids on the Block, now, in the shower with mustaches. Wait, what?
xkcd United Shapes of America
Gawker is Project Runway still relevant in its 10th year?
Seo Kim "I think I like wasabi peas"
Today's Must Read
Some Came Running Glenn Kenny on the internet we made and fanboy culture. Can it ever mature? Love this part...
...this thing called "fan culture" or "nerd cuture" or whatever it is you want to call it is largely predicated on emotional immaturity combined with a variety of willed cultural illiteracy. Fan culture doesn't say "comic books can be high art," it says, "comic books are the only art." And, further, "the film of the comic book must provide an analogous heightened experience of the comic book, and YOU, the person on the outside of our purview who is now being gifted with this artifact of AWESOMENESS, must fall into line and PRAISE this artifact and confer upon it the legitimacy it has always deserved but which YOU have been too blinkered by your own pretentious prejudices to recognize." That's what fan culture wants. That's what it demands. "Nerd culture" is Peter Pan as a brain-eating zombie.
Today's Video of Choice
Quentin Tarantino's women via Neko Case...
If only all guy's guy's directors were this good with female characters!
Reader Comments (7)
I almost prefer "nerd" or "fan" culture to pervasive negativity that internet commentary has become. Sure, death threats and childish insults are negative, but a part of me enjoys that those insults are in defense of something they truly love. True, it doesn't foster real discussion, but much more entertaining than another discussion of how "overrated" the newest movie is, or how "untalented and one dimensional" the latest hot actor seems. I also think we need to keep in mind that many of these crazy immature fanboy comments are likely from teens and actual children. If you ever think an internet commentator sounds like a 15 year old with no friends, they just might be.
I feel like most people who try the Bane coat will end up looking more like Del Boy from Only Fools and Horses than Bane.
No Bridget Fonda moments from Jackie Brown?
Dude, thoughts on Batman? I know that certain blockbusters aren't your favorite thing but I do still like to hear what you have to say about them.....
caroline -- i'll get there. i'm just unsinpred at moment
Talk about the viability of incorporating Robin or Batgirl in future instalments (and making them work), at least a little. Nolan was insistent that he wasn't even going to try using them, so it's a good angle to discuss views on the shortcomings of this as a Batman series. (And believe me, though I think I enjoy Nolan much more than you (in a cold Jean Pierre-Melvillian way), there are some issues with this as a Batman series and, especially, as a trilogy that's trying to convince older people that there is a mature edge to Batman, even though it misses what that edge actually is, confusing boilerplate grittiness for maturity.) Like I said earlier, what makes Batman, at the end of the day, MORE than an immature power fantasy is the ever looming shadow of parenthood as a primary characteristic of the mythology, pretty much since the beginning. (Batman first appeared in May 1939. Robin (Dick Grayson) first appeared in April 1940, not even a full year later.) There's huge amounts of dramatic meat there, but the issue is that not only would the series likely have to include multiple Robins and Batgirls (because of two highly dramatic and brutal storylines) (good luck getting Warners to sign off on that), but the characters would also have to be cast age accurate to sell that at all. And like I mentioned earlier, that's more Max Records, Kodi Smit-McPhee (and even then, it's not either of those first two for too much longer) or Natalie Portman circa Leon than it is Joseph Gordon-Levitt.
Gotta love Bale's honesty. He did sound ridiculous the first time. We only got used to it later on. But probably many people have felt they would've looked and sounded the same way, particularly since there are on the set shoots for every movie, every day which don't look heroic (case in point: Garfield, open legged in Spìderman suit with no post-prodcution in front of bad guy).
I wonder if Superman in the teaser trailer starts to fly at the end, just to escape from his own superhero angst. Or from Crowe's and Costner's late careers.