Welcome back,
Blurg buddies! How are things on the
other side of the LAZY Rhino tracks? I
expect things are going well for all of you!
(And you want to meet my expectations, at least… right? Right!)
I too am doing well. But enough
about me… Let’s get down to
business. I haven’t done an overtly
nerdy blog/blurg for you all lately. And
I know that is what you want me to talk about!
All of you! NO exceptions!
So, I’m a comic
book fan. I can’t say that I am
hardcore, and I will admit that I don’t know a lot of what goes on in the comic
book universes of Marvel and DC respectively.
If I had to list my favorite characters, the list would be short and
would consist of Marvel characters only.
DC is great and all, but lately they focus on Batman and Superman way
too much. And I think that it is just
kind of annoying.
Speaking of
Marvel, they have a ton of new movies coming out! Pretty excited about all of them. (Like, very seriously excited.) That being said, there is apparently uproar
from comic purists about the new Fantastic Four cast. Johnny Storm is going to be… (Heaven forbid) black. There was a lot of internet chatter about
Spider-Man being played by Donald Glover for the 2012 Amazing Spider-Man. And I originally didn’t want that to
happen. (I know, I am the worst.) But, I realized that I didn’t want Donald
Glover to be Peter Parker because I wanted to be Peter Parker. I wanted to play Spidey. Of course, I’m not famous so they sent the
casting call to that other Andrew.
(Garfield or whatever.)
I think the issue,
like many of the things in the world today, is that people once again are
creating a nonissue out of it. If
Michael B. Jordan was cast, then he fulfilled the acting, personality, and
appearance requirements set by the people making the movie. The “purists” out there probably don’t
understand that the movies are never going to be exactly the same as the comic
books. They are not the same media, and
therefore are subject to the creativity of the person who is placed in charge
of the content by the respective movie studios who now own the filming
rights. If you want the comic book story… buy the comic books. If you want the big screen adaptation, see
the movie. (Adaptation is the key word
here.)
Now, I will say
this. I have an issue with the cast of
the Fantastic Four. Where is Michael Chiklis?! He is the first BEST casting choice made by
the fledgling Marvel Studios. (Followed
by JK Simmons as J. Jonah Jameson, who is followed by RDJ’s Tony Stark, who is
followed by Tom Hiddleston’s Loki.) I
say that he is the first best choice because it just feels like a role that Chiklis
was unknowingly created to play. (The
same goes for JK, RDJ, and Hiddleston.)
He was the perfect Thing. The
only really good “thing” about the first 2 FF movies. (Because let’s face it, I hated those
movies.)
I’m not a huge
Fantastic Four fan to begin with and I have a preferred character list from the
Marvel universe. That being said, I’m
pretty excited to see what they do with new Fantastic Four. The cast still feels a little too young. But, I’m sure I’ll get over that if the movie
is still done well. And I think we will
all get over the fact that comic books and movies are not always identical. And that it is a good thing.
LAZY
Rhino “CQC”
Andrew
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@ANDCauthen. Because we do have fun
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yet, I’m sure it will get there. I’ll be
trying to put more and more content out on the interwebs. I thank you as you stand by me while I come
into my form, and figure out what I’m doing here. And it can only get better.)
