I just came back from going out to dinner with my wife, Jen at Ruby's Oyster Bar and Bistro in Rye, NY and guess who else was there? Oscar-Winning director Ang Lee! Being that it was my anniversary, I refrained from asking him to explain the last 30 minutes of the Hulk.
I also didn't do a Jake Gyllenhall on him either.
Did I really need to see this? What else can I expect from Cap #26? A lab technician urinating on Cap's corpse? Maybe a playful scene where a stray dog comes in and runs off with Cap's femur?
Show us as many scenes of Cap on the slab you want, we still aren't buying it. Steve Rogers is coming back, eventually. I know it. You know it. Everyone knows it. Especially when you consider that a Cosmic Cube, a macguffin that grants the wish of anyone who wields it, has played a major part in the series so far. It probably just a matter of who gets their hands on it first, the Winter Soldier, Falcon or Sharon Carter. A reborn Steve Rogers is only a wish away.
"Secret Soldier Serum reversed its effects" my ass.
I saw this on CBR:
"The Hollywood Reporter also talked to
producer Jon Peters
about the sequel. "Right now, Bryan Singer is working on the story," Peters said, "and hopefully, that will be a script by the end of the year. And hopefully, we'll be in preproduction by, say, January or February of next year. "Superman Returns" was an amazing effort. You're talking about a story that's been made before; you're talking about the fact that we had to re-explore his youth, his origin. And now, the second movie allows us to go do things that people haven't seen before.""
Hmm, Maybe my recollection of the movie was different, but the only "Re-exploring of his youth" I remember from Superman Returns was that totally unnecessary, tacked on, does nothing to move the plot along sequence where a young Clark leaps across the wheat fields. A scene which could have been completely removed and the audience would miss nothing. I have no recollection of there being a recap of his origin.
This is just Peters trying to improve business for the sequel, thinking that non-existent origin recaps turned people away. Essentially, he's saying "trust me guys, this one's going to be better, now that we've got the origin out of the way", which is the now expected line of BS all superhero sequel producers give. Of course, in this case, it doesn't really work. Mainly because there was really no "origin" stuff in the movie. As a matter of fact, Superman Returns was the ipso facto sequel to the Donner Superman movies. So the whole "come see the movie, you won't have to see an origin" argument should have applied to Returns.
And the reason he is saying these things is because Superman Returns was considered a disappointment. It made a healthy $200 million in the US and a total of $391 million worldwide. This should be an unabashed hit, but when compared to the $270 million budget, run up mostly because of Peters' incompetence with getting the movie off the ground, it is considered a disappointment.
So, instead of being honest with himself and saying "Hey, my stupidity made flick seem like a disappointment", Peters is saying "The reason why the movie didn't gross $500 million in the US was because of that half hour scene at the beginning of the movie. I'll tell them that those type of scenes aren't in this one. That should improve business."
I don't know why this upsets me so much, but it does.
If it's Tuesday, it must be a new Guiding Lines column. This week, I cover 52 #52, Alien Pig Farm 3000 #1, Incredible Hulk #106, Midnighter #7, Korgi, Volume 1, Dark Xena #1, and Supernatural: Origins #1.
On Thursday, I listed what I thought the top 5 movies would be. This is what I selected.
This is what the movies actually were:
Wow. Maybe I should go see that Disturbia. Everyone seems to really like it. It's probably very popular with people who weren't alive when Rear Window was released.
And I should have realized the crappy reviews would keep Condemned out of the top 5 (it was #9). I will try to do better next time.
