Farther Afield: Holy Derivative, Batman, er, Batwing!

Sunday, September 11, 2011

Holy Derivative, Batman, er, Batwing!

Ben Oliver [artist]: You're SURE this is what you want me to draw?

DC Comics Excutive: Hey, if Marvel can get Samuel L. Jackson to star in their movies, why can't we?

Ben Oliver: Um...

(Batwing #1, September 2011)

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Films - good

A Day at the Races
Alphaville
Another Year
Barney's Version
Battleship Potemkin
Beowulf (Gaiman/Avery)
Black Swan
Carmen Jones
Clerks II
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
Coraline
Dames (Busby Berkeley)
Die Hard (20 years old already?!)
Due Date
Everybody's Fine
Extract (not exactly funny but likeable)
Ferris Bueller's Day off (qualified)
Four Lions
Grant Morrsion: Talking With Gods (*** documentary)
Helvetica
I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang
In the Loop
Incendies (*****)
Inception
Inglorious Basterds
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
Man on Wire
Megamind (Incredibles-good)
Morning Glory (for what it was)
North by Northwest
Phantom of the Paradise
Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune
Police, Adjective
Predators (for what it was)
Public Enemies (qualified - see entry)
Sherlock Holmes (for what it was)
Sherlock Jr (thanks to TIFF for showing it with live musical accompaniment)
Star Trek (yeah, surprised the Hell out me, too!)
Taken
Tamara Drewe
Tampopo
The 39 Steps
The Counterfeiters
The Fabulous Mr Fox
The Fighter
The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
The Girl Who Played With Fire
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
The Godfather
The Godfather Part II
The Good, The Bad, The Weird
The Illusionist (French animated film)
The Italian Job (remake)
The King's Speech
The Men Who Stare at Goats
The Secret In Their Eyes
The Social Network (*****)
The Spy Who Came In From the Cold
The Third Man
The Wrestler
True Grit (****)
Up In the Air
Waltz With Bashir

films - not good

Bonjour Tristesse
Crank 2: Hight Voltage (knew it would be bad, but hoped it would be bad fun like the first one. It was just bad.)
I Am Love
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (please, no more!)
Moonraker (Moore's too old by this one, and there's how many more with him to go? Three?)
Nightwatch (and, presumably, Daywatch)
Of Time and the City
Quantum of Solace
Salt
Starship Troopers
The A-Team
The Losers
The Other Guys
The Quiet Man
The Secret Agent (An Albert)
The World [China] (terrible)
The Wrong Man (An Albert)
Transformers 2 (beyond awful)
Un chien andalou (seeing this twice in a lifetime is twice too often)
Unknown [unknown how this got made]
V for Vendetta (the original story needed to be altered why?!)
Wanted
Watchmen (a very superficial adaptation)

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Sunday, September 11, 2011

Holy Derivative, Batman, er, Batwing!

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