January 19, 2009
The video’s from 2005, but I hadn’t seen it before. Interesting stuff to see and hear, or to revisit.
UPDATE: My poor, pathetic WordPress site can’t manage the embed for some reason, so here’s the link to where I found it on the Wooster Collective site.
October 1, 2008
Ross Douthat has been, all year long, expressing frustration that really good directors and actors are spending their time with the genre. And I understand his point. But my inner geek still gets excited with news like this (from Peter Suderman, at the Confabulum):
Kenneth Branagh, Shakespeare’s cinematic translator (or mangler, depending on your standpoint), is making a Thor movie.
Sorry, Ross. That’s awesome.
July 23, 2008
Commenting on my post about the upcoming Watchmen film, reader “Infinite” points me toward this shot-by-panel comparison to ease my fears.
This also a good chance to mention that I forgot the adaptation of an obvious Alan Moore graphic novel in my earlier post: V for Vendetta, which I thought did not suck. Moore himself, however, had a different opinion.
July 20, 2008
April 8, 2008
I have to say, studios are really figuring out what they’re doing with these film adaptations of comic books. I remember when I was in high school, and my friends and I sat around making fun of the god-awfulness that was the Dolph Lundgren Punisher movie. And I thought it would be a colder day than this in a lot warmer places before they made an Incredible Hulk that I’d have any interest in seeing, but I like Ed Norton a lot, and this actually looks like some fun. Add this to my desperate need to see Heath Ledger as the Joker in The Dark Knight, and it’s looking like I’m going to get out to the theaters a bit more this summer. I bet I even make it to the Star Wars cartoon. Indiana Jones is looking iffy, though.
Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis belongs in a different category, of course, but I’m hoping that hits my little midwestern college town soon.
