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....very cool.
Better than the first? Well, different than the first. More lush, more effects, more money dropped on it, clearly. Characters were just as good though. Maybe a little jumbled with the plotline, but it's hard to complain.
One thing though.....Selma Blair.....um...cute butt and all, but the girl can't act. Sorry. I've had pizzas delivered better than some of her lines. Meh.
And I really wish I wasn't prepped for this film by an endless barrage of trailers for abysmally bad action movies. By the time the studio logo came on I was ready to drink the Kool-Aid. Ech.
The rumor has been around for a few months but it's the first I heard.....talented fantasy director Guillermo del Toro is seriously considering doing a Doctor Strange film after his adaptation(s) of The Hobbit.
Well well well......this is just the treat of treats, I say.
I've always been a fan of Doctor Strange, and his occult spin on the whole Marvel superhero genre. While all the other snazzy-spandexed boys and girls were biffing and kapowing their ways across, over and under Manhattan and L.A., the good Doctor was battling extraplanar nasties and basically keeping the whole universe safe for all the rest of us Dorito-eaters here on Earth. If I remember correctly, Doc had something to do with Silver Surfer showing up here too. Whatever. He's cool, and I'm glad someone of caliber will be working on the project.
"I talked with Neil Gaiman [about writing it]," del Toro told EmpireOnline. "I said, that's an interesting character because you can definitely make him more in the pulpy occult detective/magician mold and formula than was done in the Weird Tales, for example."
The filmmaker continued, "The idea of a character that really dabbles in the occult in a way that's not X-Filey, where the supernatural is taken for granted. That's interesting."
Hell yeah.
Honestly, I'm surprised there haven't been more Doctor Strange films attempted. He's an old-school Marvel guy, after all, and they've found plenty of excuses to plop boring old Hulk on screen for us.....not to mention some mind-blowingly awful adaptations of other characters.
Maybe it's best that del Toro is the first to grab hold of this one, come to think of it.
He's got a penchant for giving fantasy a deadly serious tone. And so does Neil Gaiman. I think this is going to be one to watch for. I'm hoping to see Hellboy II soon, and I really enjoyed The Orphanage and just watched Pan's Labyrinth on Blu-Ray the other night.....which, by the way, looked gorgeous in the hi-def version.
Now if we could only get Gui interested in doing a new Conan film..... ***giddy geek laughter***
....is not very new at all. But since I haven't had that fancy H-B-O thing until just recently, I never got a chance to watch it.
Now I'm hooked.
And Leon:
Seriously, I don't watch TV sitcoms anymore unless they're funny. (They're usually not.) Humor seems to be a dying art on TV these days, replaced by imbecilic reality shows, has-been actor dog-and-pony acts, teen skank dramas (and softcore-porn primetime adult dramas) and uber-bland family ditzcoms . Funny has been boiled right out of the network mix sometime within the past decade. Who was watching the stove?
Anyway, this shit is funny.
Yeah. I'm getting with it. Slowly, but getting there.
On-demanded this one last night:
Oh yes. There's definitely one prick involved.
I love running jokes. Charlie Brown's football, Dagwood's sandwiches, Calvin's G.R.O.S.S. (Get Rid Of Slimy girlS) club....and Norm's "I guess it must be free" joke.
Keepin' it alive.
I finally have a new illustration on iStock....it's been like forever, what with all the photography and all, but it feels good to have an Illustrator image accepted.
It's how I started, after all. :P
If you're gonna buy 'em, may as well BUY 'EM LOW!
Urp.
And get a clue, while you're at it.
Shit.
"All of my friends do it," says Sonalie Patel, 17, who lives in Elk Grove Village, Ill., and admits that she too occasionally sends texts despite a ban on cell phone use for drivers under 19 and adults with learners permits. "It's like an epidemic."
Sonalie is 17, four years younger than you and has been driving for, oh, as long as your average jar of mayonnaise is edible, and she gets it more than you do. She agrees it's an "epidemic", and even though she does it too, she's not creating fucking blog sites on FaceSpace flaunting her as-of-yet-not-having-crashed-and-killed-anyone status. Like you did.
Because, clearly, she has more of a clue than you do.
Did I mention she's seventeen?
.............
Have I texted while driving? Admittedly, yes. Do I make it a regularity? Absolutely not. I know it's distracting. I am aware that, when I am composing some deep and globally-important prose via tiny numeric keypad, my attention is not 100% on the road ahead of me. It's not even 90%, or 75%. For those brief moments, my attention is perhaps 50% on the road ahead. 50. Five-oh. Maybe. And, as most texts are begging an answer in return, it's usually inevitable that the behavior will soon repeat.
It's dangerous. I know. Which is why I don't like to do it.
Even though I, like you, Taylor, haven't crashed yet.
I suppose I too should have a devil-may-care attitude about anything that hasn't directly befallen me personally. Why, I haven't killed anyone YET drinking-and-driving, so how bad could it really be? I haven't gotten cancer YET, so tan me up and let's have a smoke, shall we? I haven't been mugged YET, so let's take a leisurely stroll down some dark alleys at 3am and whistle "I'm In The Money". Why not? Nothing's happened YET.
Tayl.....honey.......baby..........I do hope nothing happens to you and your cute little charm bracelet. I hope you eventually grow up, get a good job, maybe get married, have some kids, grow old and die in your sleep an old, happy, content woman. But, heaven forbid, you DO find yourself in an accident, caused by your not having seen someone's last-minute turn into your lane or, worse, a kid on a bike come between a couple of cars into the road while playing water-balloon-tag-on-bikes with his friends, or any number of infinite other scenarios that can take place while one is behind the wheel, is THAT when you're going to admit that distracting yourself ISN'T okay? Will you walk up to that family of four you just viciously rear-ended while typing an imperative "k c u l8r" and expect that they'll accept a "this hasn't ever happened to me before" as a good excuse that they'll be spending the night in the ER being treated for neck injuries and flash burns from the air bags? At best? Even if they accept it, by some twist of forgiveness, do you think the police will? Or your insurance company? Being a 21-year-old woman, I assume single, I will bet that your insurance bills aren't the prettiest things to come in the mail.
And that's without having crashed yet.
If I were you, I'd really really try to keep it that way too.
One good way to do it?
Stay off the goddamned texts while driving. There's plenty of other morons out there to worry about without becoming one of them.
I was behind Miss Anti Everything on my way home today.
What's your favorite soundtrack?
Will always be (until it's not):
I love picking it out in trailers for other movies now. Often imitated, never duplicated. ;)
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