Alarming News: I like Morgan Freeberg. A lot.
American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads.
The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
Good things about the Superman reboot: I like the people who are involved in it, they all have good names with me. Even Costner. That, alone, should ensure a good product in the summer of ’13.
Bad things? I just don’t see the necessity of a reboot. The Singer product was in itself a halfway-reboot. It had some problems but it didn’t have Batman & Robin problems. It was also going somewhere…and pardon me, I had some measure of curiosity about where these things were going. A Kryptonite planet? Son-of-Superman?
Amy Adams is the answer to the problem that Kate Bosworth is an unfit Lois Lane? How? Because she’s older, is that it? And I’m having this beef about pretty much all of the cast-ing. The cast is fine. The roles into which these actors have been placed, raise some questions…pretty much every single role does that. Diane Lane? She’s just slightly older than me, and still a sexpot. Why do we have to have a sex-kitten Martha Kent? It’s possible to be a class act when you have a 64″ waist, you know. How come that’s out of the question in movies nowadays?
I’m afraid at this point, Superman is turning into something of a classic Opera, or Shakespeare play. I mean that in the sense of…I say “Here’s a new Superman movie” and it’s like saying “Here’s a new production of King Lear.” You know each and every single plot point, and in addition, you already have a pretty well crystallized and dead-on idea of what what will be left out. The variety will be in the new faces and the timing and the music, nothing else.
Superman MUST be launched into space as a baby. You MUST show those oh-so-wholesome Kents rescuing the baby and then raising him. He’s GOT to suddenly discover on the farm one day that he can fly. Metropolis…gotta get that reporter job…gotta meet Lois Lane…Fortress of Solitude…Luthor…real estate is the one thing they’re not making anymore…
There’s just too much standard stuff that cannot be moved out of the way. The bitching is supposed to have something to do with Superman not fighting anyone. Well, there isn’t time. So…he won’t…and, at the end of it, there will be disappointment and bunch of loudmouths clamoring for a reboot.
If I wrote it, I’d make it like Lord of the Rings — a trilogy, with each installment released twelve months after the previous. And Clark doesn’t even leave Smallville until Part II. At this point, based on what I’ve seen, that’s the only thing that will dig him out of the rut.
But that sums up the situation as it exists now. It’s not a prediction. The future’s always pliable. His isn’t…that’s the focus of my complaint…but that could change. Let’s see what they do.
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