Have you heard the news? Bad things come in twos.

[thehefner]

It's rather amazing how little interest I have in the upcoming film WANTED. In fact, as of the most recent commercials--which feature Angelina Jolie firing a bullet that slows down enough for the camera to zoom in to see that it's inscribed with "Goodbye"--my levels of aversion to WANTED are inching toward SEX AND THE CITY levels.*

It doesn't help that, as a comic adaptation, it throws out everything that made the comic compelling and worth reading (supervillains have killed off all the heroes and now rule the world) in favor of a MATRIX-lite movie about assassins. And I speak as one who didn't really like the comic to begin with!

So no, fuck WANTED, I have absolutely zero interest in supporting anything even related nor aligned with this overblown bit of popcornery. No interest what...

... so...

...

Brand... new... DANNY ELFMAN song...?!?!?! Not just soundtrack, but Danny on vocals?!

... I... but it...

*faints*



*I've said it once and I'll say it again. I absolutely loved SEX AND THE CITY until I realized (right around season three) that it wasn't meant to be a brilliant, scathing satire of the shallow, self-absorbed jerks and their hollow, hollow lives.

Honestly! I told Mom that, and she went, "It's NOT meant to be satire?! Damn it, now I can't watch it anymore!"

Comments

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

Of course, I knew you'd feel that way, and so you are forgiven. Absolved, even! For I have that power. Go with God, my child; may the Schwartz be with you.

My god, a girl who doesn't like SEX AND THE CITY?! Have they cast you out for being an unclean heathen unworthy of their cosmos?

One of the things that baffles me: I understand the film has enough crude humor to feel pretty much like a Farrelly brothers comedy (including someone shitting their pants?), but this point--if true--will likely be lost on the target audience.

[fragmentedsky.livejournal.com]

[laughs] Oh, well that's a relief. I can now be at peace with myself again. Goodie. :p Speaking of comics to movies, though, I'm about halfway through Watchmen (I know, finally.) I do see why it keeps getting compared to Citizen Kane, but ironically (like CK) I find that while brilliant, lording it over everything else does a disservice to the rest of the genre. It's clearly one of the greats and I am loving it, and its characters and exploration of those characters is wonderful. But like Kane, I don't think it's an insurmountable bar for some of the other brilliant writers in the area.

[/sacralidge]

Some of them have, yeah. :p With Lost you often want to smack the characters and all, but they're human and well-developed, not fucking Entitlement Barbie's Adventures in the Big Apple. I like clothes and those four still make me walk out of the room if someone turns it on. Then again, from what little I've seen half their clothes suck anyway. There's a difference between creative fashion and You Just Shouldn't Be Wearing That, Stretchface.

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

Damn Firefox ate my lengthy response. Ugh. I'll just tell you in person when we finally get together for BATMAN BEGINS movie night.

[fragmentedsky.livejournal.com]

Yes, we need to actually figure out when that is. >.> We are closing in on July.

[fragmentedsky.livejournal.com]

...and oh my god, I have so much more appreciation for that icon now.