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11/19/09
Yup, Bruce is Black Cat.
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And yeah, they did show her being ninja-in-training at times, but they had a lot of fun playing with the general disconnect between her appearance (and, often, personality) and her capabilities.
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Rawr.
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But not for this character.
As far as the comment below about the casting always being awful, I'd disagree. The casting has been pretty OK (with the exception of Harry Osborn), the writing has been abyssmal. (EDIT: In fact, I liked Maguire at first, but as the series went on, he really seemed like the biggest mistake of all - and I think this IS because of the writing more than him.)
To be perfectly honest, I think that while Johansson does not really strike me as a good Black Widow at all, I really think she actually would have been quite excellent as the Black Cat.
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/nerdcrush
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...or I just pulled a random name out of this old hat. Oh look! Emma Stone, Zooey Deschanel, and Dakota Fanning were in here too! Old hat, you're so full of lies.
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Bullwinkle: "Hey Rocky, watch me pull a Black Cat Rumor out of my hat!"
Rocky: "Again?"
Bullwinkle: "RIP Nothing up my sleeve."
Kirk: "KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!
Bullwinkle: "Must have the wrong hat."
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In a daring creative move Black Cat will be played by Jackie Earle Haley.
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I've been told that the producers of Spiderman 4 approached Clay Aiken to provide a new "twist" on the whole Spiderman series.
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* Yes, angels, movies used to come on cassettes full of tape - magnetic tape that encoded the image in electromagnetism. No, I'm not making this up. #ghostbusters
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The moment where the dunderhead Ichabod looks directly into the Headless Horseman's empty collar and is blasted with a round of wicked laughter hits funny and scary right on the dividing line. #ghostbusters
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FOUND IT! Of course, the video is patched together, but the audio is the tune that haunted my childhood (and first got me interested in guitar).
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And I promise that at your next dinner, you'll be sneering "Have a potato" like Ernest Thesiger. Just watch the movie, you'll see. #ghostbusters
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Where upon refueling an idling helicopter, our hero searches for his gun to dispatch an approaching zombie. Said zombie steps up on a curb, lifting the top of his head within range of the rotating blades, cutting off the top of his head and saving our hero, who slowly looks upwards at the rotating blades.
-scene- #ghostbusters