actually I do occassionally “compete” with friends, making mixtapes on a common theme, usually literary. The last one I did was the Bible and, as I say in my blurb, it is possibly so good that it would make non-believers convert. I also have a very good Wuthering Heights mix for the ladies out there.

my credentials can be found here:
http://www.thepaganagenda.com/2006/09/30/mp3-playlists-index/

That all being said, would anyone trust John Favreau to attempt such a thing? It’s simply neither his style nor his forte, and him attempting it would only inevitably result in the visual equivalent of Happy Gilmore’s Finger Paintings.

I mean Christ, it’s like expecting the kid with one right arm to go left during pick up hoops. And there rot is chastizing the poor bastard about it.

“The trailers make this look like a special effects only movie which I’m sure will delight everyone in their teens.”

??? Does that mean I’m a teen because I think this looks like fun – even if the trailer does scare Kurt’s little girl.

INDY!!!!! I must admit I’ve been sitting back on the excitement for this one but sitting in a packed theater on Friday watching “Raiders: The Adaptation” amped the excitement for this one through the roof!

As for Narnia…not sure what to make of this. The first one was bland but this one looks a slightly bit darker. Not that that alone makes it a better film but it looks like it could be fun.

And I’m all up for The Strangers.

While I’m aware of the very basics in the Tony Stark / Ironman mythology, I’ve never read the comic to attest to the veracity of adaptation details. But slavishly faithful adaptation killed the Harry Potter franchise out of the gate and shackled the franchise as the books got significantly bigger, but the films were held to 2h15m run-times.

Concerns of cinema need not apply to fanboy purists, its about having their toys properly pixelated.

Strangers, Postal and Red Belt on top of that… Yes. Could finally be a decent month.

As for Sex and the City… like, gag me with a spoon.
And I couldn’t care less about more Narnia.

Were they met? Have to wait for our review or the Cinecast tomorrow.

Almost all of the good RDJ was in the marketing materials, which is sad, because the rest of the picture is workmanlike to a fault. I went in expecting paint by numbers only to find out that the whole thing only had about 3 numbers to paint.

AC fuckin DC? Puhleeze. I think I’d rather watch the high camp of Maximum Overdrive.

I hope you liked the film Andrew, because this should be a fun cinecast if so.

Welcome to Summer ’08.

Can’t wait for REDBELT to cleanse the palette.

(posted here, because the Incredible Hulk and The Happening Threads (although rife with Ironman postmortem and how it fits the state of the blockbuster nation is discussed there, I couldn’t decided where, and here is a good as place as any.)

Oh, and a further question to anyone reading this. Who more benefited from the casting of RDJ, the the Ironman film? (which would have been hilariously similar to the stink of MI:3 if they did cast The Cruise) or RDJ who might get some higher profile projects. I’d rather take him in more Kiss Kiss Bang Bang and A Scanner Darklys.

Have not seen the movie yet but I’m a long time fan of the title and it looks promising as far as story line accuracy goes… There’s the expected changes (e.g. Iron Man was originally “born” during the Vietnam conflict) but they can be excused for much given the age of the series and the need to sell it to the current audience. Casting RDJ as Stark, on the surface, may seem strange, but at least he’s got the look. (I never thought any of the casted Bruce Waynes really got it right.) Hopefully he can pull of the character, although, despite my having read Iron Man pretty religiously for quite some time (on hold for now… gotta grow up eventually and sometimes mortgage trumps comics), I never really got a good feel for the man in the armour. He’s got a difficult ‘feel’ to pin down which may work in RDJ’s favour or not. We’ll see, I suppose. The only other one I care about is Rhodes (since I also bought War Machine regularly – about him as continuing past his stint as Iron Man) but I think Howard is a good fit despite his look not being quite right.