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05/23/09
Minor correction: Leslie What's short story collection, Crazy Love, published by Wordcraft of Oregon in a small first edition, was named one of the ten best sf books of 2008 by Booklist. Sorry, I goofed.
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On another WisCon tack: Cheese & Macaroni Pizza, is it as totally awesome as I suspect?
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It's worth mentioning that he's a really nice, down-to-Earth guy. We once had an interesting email correspondence regarding Abraham Lincoln and the morality of the Civil War.
04/02/09
[www.igp-scifi.com]
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They're making a new Batman movie. Things are looking great, Christian Bale signed on again, and we all are rapt with anticipation for a hell of a superhero movie. Suddenly, a rumor pops up that Bane is going to be in the movie, only instead of being a juiced up maniac in a luchador mask, he ends up being a half-man, half-gorilla hybrid who uses magical runes to make himself grow, and in the end, instead of fighting Batman as a big villain, he gets run over by a car.
Fucking. criminal.
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Edit all you want, it's crap.
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Also Charlie, I think all the suggestions you made (save for the love story and Deadpool remote control angles) are pretty much the opposite of what I think this movie needs or needed.
The movie from square one shouldn't have been a run of the mill action film with more funny bits and a reduced running time. If anything this movie needs another 15 or 20 minutes of scene's dedicated to character development for Creed, Fox, the 'team', and Stryker in addition to what's already here cause there is no emotional or dramatic gravitas (oh god I actually used that word, thanks Keifer) to any of the conflicts in the movie; every action scene felt gratuitous and pointless to the characters' arcs.
However, regardless of the 15 minutes of past and future reshoots and edits omitted from this cut which could make the movie into a more coherent 'action' film, the movie has some serious fundamental flaws in the way they approached the characters that will piss off any 'hardcore' Wolverine/ X-Men fans.
04/02/09
04/02/09
I agree with the 10 ways the movie could be improved, as most of those are basic story elements. Relationships (Creed/Logan, Logan/Silver Fox/ "Secret team"/everyone else) need to be improved. Hopefully with the reshoots they added these elements. I'm not complaining as a fan of comics and why they were a disservice, but as a movie fan wanting a good movie.
I groaned with the interface and the typing. Ugh, takes it completely out of the moment. Make him say it if you want to keep that point.
The CGI is clearly not done, and I didn't mind; I wanted to see the story. Ditch most of the minor characters that don't move the plot along (OMG, we got "White Queen" in there for three seconds, fanboys will love us). More Wade please; there's a reason you don't see Ryan in ads, he's in the movie for one sequence.
While I wasn't going to see it in theaters (It was about as well as I thought it was going to do), I am going to rent it again, hopefully as an extended director's unrated cut. WB doesn't have to worry about losing business from me from this fiasco (though I see it as karma for Watchmen).
Final thoughts: Better than X3, but could be better than the first X-Men if they fix things up a bit. I won't bad mouth it, but I'm not counting down the days either.
04/02/09
Unfortunately I found myself unable to care about any other character because of their short screen time, lack of dimension, or both. Scenes with these characters were fine when they truly were cameos and the intention was to build up Wolverine, Sabretooth, or Stryker. When it was those characters on their own, I didn't care.
Zero shooting up the guards in Africa? Whatever. Deadpool cutting up all their bullets (wtf?), didn't care. Zero and Logan trading verbal jabs at the logging camp? Interesting.
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1. Use a number other than 10
2. Make sure at least half of the listed 'ways' are really just the same thing with slightly different phrasings
V. Contradict yourself early and often
10. Do less research and include more pictures.
1001. Change the way you say things to the complete opposite of what you said before more than 50% of the time.
1010. Switch number bases frequently.
04/02/09
1) More *True to Character* Deadpool.
Ryan Reynolds should be ashamed for letting this travesty surface. Hell, his Blade 3 character was more Deadpool like...
04/03/09
But yeah. That was utter crap. Maybe these 'more deadpool' reshoots weren't in this version... so we'll at least get more than 4 minutes of light chuckles at his antics before an hour and a half of Wolvie Angst.
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Contemplative Wolverine is contemplative.
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