I don't care how people trash the Wayans-- Marlon Wayans and family are hilarious, and made good from workin' hard. Some people don't like the hyper-characterization and gag comedy (especially attaching that to black culture; Steppin Fetchit, Mantan?), but Marlon has comedic chops, and has a bigger career ahead of him.
@gods-n-clods: I know these guys from waaaaay back in In Living Color in the early 90s on Fox. Even Jim Carrey did the mugging schtick. Are you sure others are attaching that to black culture, or are YOU attaching it to black culture?
By far the most talented was Damon, and he's out of the game now. Marlon gets a point for Don't Be A Menace To South Central While Drinking Your Juice In The Hood, but loses two for Little Man and White Chicks.
@Paul_Is_Drunk: Not me attaching; there was/is resentment at black media figures "mugging" as it relates to old-timey minority portrayals (think "Bamboozled"). I can recall recently both Bill Cosby and Dave Chappelle expressing the idea that any black person acting with exaggeration is demeaning. A double standard with comedic actors for sure, but there are those who think your comedy should be more pure than acting a fool (Cosby's take) or certain things you just shouldn't do (Chappelle's near-phobia about cross dressing black men). And then there's Richard Pryor, to open the can of worms. It's a convergence of comedy and political action, thus mentioning it.
"Little Man" wasn't that bad though. ;)
@NerD!!! - R.O.A.C.H.: Me too! I'm moderately smart, and enough of a movie buff to know I should want to see this. And yet, I haven't been this excited since Speed Racer. Maybe we're just preparing to eat the awesome.
@OW-Holmes: Enemy of R.O.A.C.H.: I'm not defending it but there are worse part iii's past and unfortunately future. That seems to be the model : makes the same thing again and again until it doesn't make a dime..
Haven't Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely recently published fairly detailed storyboards for the ultimate Superman movie? That was a comic book? Seriously?
How about a Coen Brothers' Superman where a quiet, misunderstood P. I. enlists the help of the real Superman to futilely try to dissuade George Reeves from committing suicide?
Or a Farrely Brothers' Superman, where a world-weary and universally rejected Clark Kent is forced to live in a trailer park and eat dog food while he slowly becomes infatuated with the property manager's daughter?
@Meredith Woerner: Maybe in the pouty baby competition, but in the handsome man department he can't hold a candle to Christopher Reeve. Well, unless that candle is in memoriam of Reeve.
Please stop making Superman movies. There are far more interesting franchises to work with right now. I'm tired of revamping a series, having it bomb and trying to start it again (Hulk, much?). While I think that Superman Returns wasn't as bad as people say it was, this franchise needs a break. It doesn't really connect with today's audience like it once did. Superman never went through a legitimate maturation that's needed with older superhero icons. I'm speaking, of course, about the film and television adaptions. I think that there was a lot of promise in a show like Smallville, but that show got so far off track, it's not even funny. They need to make Superman more relateable and sympathetic character. Right now he's still a douche with too many powers and no real issues.
And before people jump on this, let me say that a mature Superman doesn't have to be dark. But it does need to be a character that the audience can understand and sympathize with.
@Evlsushi: It needs a break? It got a helluva break between Superman 4(1987) and Superman Returns(2006). And the entire purpose of Returns was to make Supes a "more relateable and sympathetic character", hense the mopey scenes where he spies on Louis w/ his x-ray vision and when he gets incapacitated and goes into a coma instead of just bouncing back from chucking Kryptonite Island.
Well he still wasn't a sympathetic character based on people's feelings about the film. They still hated it, generally speaking. And it needs a break because it doesn't really work with today's audiences and until they can work that kink out, it should be shelved.
@Alexander Fulks: By the way, I have an awesome money making opportunity for you, if you'd just be willing to wire $875 to a partner of mine in Lagos Nigeria... you know, to cover insurance and whatnot... I can guarantee you'll make millions though.... promise
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By far the most talented was Damon, and he's out of the game now. Marlon gets a point for Don't Be A Menace To South Central While Drinking Your Juice In The Hood, but loses two for Little Man and White Chicks.
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"Little Man" wasn't that bad though. ;)
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"After turning in a solid dramatic performance in Requiem For A Dream, what the hell happened?"
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Leave SR2 to Singer.
Yes, I still have faith in him.
I want Michael Bay to do the Logan's Run remake anyway.
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Or a Farrely Brothers' Superman, where a world-weary and universally rejected Clark Kent is forced to live in a trailer park and eat dog food while he slowly becomes infatuated with the property manager's daughter?
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"Hey, Welling, nice jeans. You not get the memo? Where's the S 'n Cape?"
"idonhaveone"
"What? I'm sorry I couldn't hear you."
"I don't have one!"
"Don't you play Superman?!"
"No Flight no Tights. They really stuck to it."
"Get the fuck out of here!! Didn't they give Green Arrow a costume? Hey, you guys get a load of this! Prettyboy doesn't have a costume! HAAAHAHAA"
" ITS NOT MY FAULT!!!"
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And before people jump on this, let me say that a mature Superman doesn't have to be dark. But it does need to be a character that the audience can understand and sympathize with.
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Well he still wasn't a sympathetic character based on people's feelings about the film. They still hated it, generally speaking. And it needs a break because it doesn't really work with today's audiences and until they can work that kink out, it should be shelved.
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What Chops is trying to say is that all the sex change stuff is bullshit.