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By: Moot Point » Blog Archive » Makes me want to hit someone with Liberace

Moot Point » Blog Archive » Makes me want to hit someone with Liberace — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 20:09:04 +0000

[...] But then, the cute British woman (who’s only had a handful of lines in previous episodes) on the writing staff goes to pitch a sketch to Matt, and it’s this cheesy bitter woman thing and Matt’s all: “Did you recently have a bad break up?” And she starts totally sobbing, because you know how those hysterical wimmens get. And I’m just thinking “This is as bad as < a href=”http://mootpoint.wrenkin.net/?p=335″>Why the world doesn’t need Superman.” Actually, I’m yelling it. At Alex. Who’s making his “The hell?” face. You can’t spend all episode being so fucking politically correct about homophobia* and then throw in this kind of bullshit. It would be fine if Rachel did it on Friends, because a) it would be in character and b) Friends never positioned itself as the intellectual liberal saviour of television. [...]

By: Lemon

Lemon — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 01:13:42 +0000

It’s not just this movie. Remember, I had to turn a woman and her seven year old away from Summer of Sam.

By: Tim Uruski

Tim Uruski — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 12:47:28 +0000

Someone brought a baby to the 11:00 PM showing that I went to… what is it about this movie that drives people to stupidity?

By: Lemon

Lemon — Sun, 02 Jul 2006 02:53:34 +0000

The character of Mary Jane wasn’t so bad if you look at the writing and construction (she comes off as just an ordinary person, which goes well with the Spiderman’s struggle with normality) but I think the greater flaw with MJ was Kirstin Dunst’s uncanny ability to take a character and turn them into a cardboard cut-out. A stronger actress would have fleshed MJ out as just another human trying to find a place in an unfair world that seems bent on crushing us all.

But, yeah, Lois… the woman Superman loves… can’t spell catastrophic… I admit, it’s not the easiest of words, but that line made me hurt. I was expecting her piece “why the world doesn’t need Superman” to be something along the lines of what Jor’el was saying, that it’d be a kind of rallying cry to humanity, that the spirit Superman represents is a power within us, you know, the kind of maturing realization that makes a person strong and competent. But you’d still need a different actress, one you’d believe is an archetype for the idealist voice of the people, an imagery the Daily Planet has always emulated (the romantic era of journalism, real or not) in contrast to J. Jonah Jamison’s Daily Bugle in Spiderman.

Man I love lit crit.

By: brenda

brenda — Sat, 01 Jul 2006 18:55:17 +0000

I totally forgot Singer worked on House. Which makes the whole thing even more frustrating. I don't expect a superhero movie to revitalize the genre, but if you have a character that's supposed to be a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, you could write one line or have one scene where she didn't seem like a total idiot. It was kind of hard to see why Superman was so impressed with her, you know?

Mary Jane was lame in the Spider-man movies, but they really weren't all about Mary Jane. I think Lois actually had more screen time than Superman did.

Also, 2mp for a camera phone? If you're lucky. That was kind of ridiculous. At least Jimmy got his "world on his shoulders" shot at the end.

By: Lemon

Lemon — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 23:20:29 +0000

Three things that could have made Superman better: Being allowed to tazer the teenagers behind me who wouldn't shut up, watching a properly threaded film strip that would avoid mishaps such as jumping a sprocket and delaying the movie for 10 minutes while they fixed the problem, and watching a film strip that had been properly assembled and spliced so that the image refrains from taking giant leaps to the side at every reel-break and wouldn't have huge white bars at the top of the frame where there's a gap in the splice.

2 and #3 were not those "oh, you're just saying that because you know what to look for" flaws, they were "how can you not see that?" flaws. Especially since #2 actually shut the movie down.

Beyond that my biggest gripe was the 8x10 Black and White prints of Superman holding the lady "taken with a camera phone." I'm sorry, I realize the impact, if they'd even had the person pull out an instomatic I'd be more inclined to believe it could produce wonderful 8x10s. But a 2mp camera phone? Black and white? 8x10 prints you could frame? Please, hurt me harder.

I win at being a nerd.

I do get the whole feminist kvetch, but I really don't have anything to add to it. I would have greatly appreciated if Lois had handled the return with more dignity and maturity, especially since Singer's own House has a similar relationship (House and Stacy) that is powerful to watch.

By: Rach

Rach — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 14:46:30 +0000

The "updated" comic book movies do no favours to women; see: Kirsten Dunst, Spiderman, a whiny and weak Mary Jane with no sign of sass in sight.

I'm waiting for Whedon's Wonder Woman. (Nice alliteration, no?)