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| Tuesday, August 30, 2005 03:12 PM |
| Gnus of Fate |
 by Fëanor |
- This movie Super Ex has sounded pretty fun to me since I first read about it. The concept is, regular guy Luke Wilson breaks up with superhero girlfriend Uma Thurman, who consequently unleashes her superpowers on him in revenge. Sounds like a funny idea, and anything with superheroes in it interests me. But now Eddie Izzard has been cast in the movie as a super villain named Professor Bedlam, and this one has gone from "might be fun to see" to "must see."
- Salon led me to this page, where The Arizona Daily Star announces they've made some changes to their Opinion section. Why is this important? Because one of their changes was dumping Ann Coulter's column, and any day something bad happens to Ann Coulter is a good day for the human race:
Finally, we've decided that syndicated columnist Ann Coulter has worn out her welcome. Many readers find her shrill, bombastic and mean-spirited. And those are the words used by readers who identified themselves as conservatives. - Cinematical informs us that screenwriter Paul Haggis (Million Dollar Baby) has been hired to write the next Bond film: a straight adaptation of the first Bond novel, Casino Royale. The last few Bond films have been pretty mediocre, and the original film version of Casino Royale (which was a psychedelic parody starring David Niven and Woody Allen) was a complete disaster, but with this level of talent on board for the new Bond, I'm getting kind of excited.
- I love the Scream movies, but this news of an upcoming Scream 4 makes me unhappy. The first three were clearly built as a trilogy, with the third one acting as a definitive end to the story. A fourth movie seems completely unnecessary. I might be willing to accept it if it were being put together by Wes Craven, but it sounds like he's not involved in the project at all. That's bad news. Without his influence, this is likely to turn out as another soulless, dull teen slasher film on the level of I Know What You Did Last Summer or Urban Legend, instead of the kind of clever postmodern parody that the first three Scream films aspired to be.
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