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So here’s how you get over a really bad day: For dinner have a package of Oatmeal Rasin cookies, a six-pack of Killians and watch the Scooby-Doo movie.
So yeah, better.
Things aren’t as bad as I thought, which is good, and I need to remember that in most cases they never are. I see Everest in my backyard sometimes.
I still haven’t done much writing, but I think I put that on still being a bit crazy. This is what vacations are for. Refresh, rejuvenate, another word beginning with “Re.”
What I am excited for is “Spider-Man 2,” because I’m a giant nerd. One of the things that gets me excited for it is that I can’t get the flow of the movie from the trailers. I know the general story beats from little blurbs I’ve read about it and seen in the trailers (he’s going to try the “quitting Spider-Man because it’s the only way I can be happy” thing, fights Doctor Octopus), but other than that I’ve got nothing. Most of the time, I see a movie trailer enough times I can go “Okay, so I’m betting it begins with that big action sequence there, then they have a little plot stuff, that thing happens, they go here, they do this, then there’s that big scene, and that scene that looks like it takes place in a church is at the end because they show them coming out all triumphantly at the end.” Frankly, it’s irritating. It’s probably a sign that the movies I watch tend to be pretty simplistic, but hey, we like what we like.
But Spider-Man, oh man, does that look sweet. Honestly, and I’m sure I’m jinxing it, but this looks like it ha the potential to be the best superhero movie ever. The thing about superhero movies is that that they tend to do better in the sequels because movie people put so much emphasis on trying to get people to suspend disbelief in the first one where they are trying to set up people’s origins and what not, and that tends to take a lot of legwork. There’s so much weight in “we have to make sure that this is 100% believable and reasonable for even the most cynical of movie goers” that the little touches that make things fun get lost. By the second one though, things are a bit more relaxed and you can tell an actual story, not an origin story *and* a story. Superman 2, X-men 2, Batman Returns (yes, I’m saying Batman Returns has more positives than the first one. It’s been a while since I’ve seen it, but I’ll offer you this: it has Walken in it. I stand by my statement).
I’m hoping he’s funnier in this one. Spidey didn’t get a chance to crack a lot of jokes in the first one. And! it looks like he’s got his little scooter/motorcycle thing in this one (a nod to Peter’s ride back in the 60s during the Stan Lee run. “No Aunt May, I didn’t break my arm fighting the Scorpion on the Brooklyn Bridge, I, uh, fell of my motorcycle. Yeah, motorcycle, that’s it). Lots of action in this one, too, which is good. It’s still a toss up for me: Spider powers or metal Doctor Octopus tentacles? Which would be cooler? Doc Ock tentacles would be way cool, but webslinging? That’s hard to beat.
Nerd, nerd, nerd, nerd, nerd.
I can’t help it because it’s who I am, and I’ve always loved Spidey. Favorite super-hero, hands down. I dig Batman, don’t get me wrong, but that guy has issues. Spider-Man is the everyman, he’s every nerdy kid who read comics and then *wham* all of the sudden he can do these amazing, spectacular, web of (wait, not that one) things. Even still he still had those problems that everyone had. He never got the girl, he had to work his ass off the make rent and take care of Aunt May, he had school. It’s no wonder that every fifty issues or so he was hanging up the webs, but he always came back, because it was his responsibility (because, of course, with great power comes great…). It’s the ultimate life-lesson.
Ramble, ramble, ramble. It’s early and I’m still drinking my coffee. I have to get used to this. I will. I promise. All of it.
Amazing, Spectacular, Web of, Peter Parker, adjectiveless, I remain…
we are also nerdishly excited for spidey-2.
what about an x-men 3??? is there such a thing in the works that you know of?
Laura,
X-3 is definitely in the works. I don’t know when exactly we’ll see it. Perhaps as soon as next summer, but that may be pushing it. Most of the superhero franchises seem to be on a 2 year cycle. Both ulk and Daredevil have sequels in the works, although I’m less than thrilled about that. A lot of people feel the superhero bubble may be bursting, but we’ll also have to see what the new Batman and Superman movies do.