impy | I wish I had a lot of answers

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^-- *falls off her chair and breaks something but laughs anyway*
... because, you know, funny. :p

Know what else was funny? When I was dragged to Target yesterday, they had the maroon 5 CD for 15 bucks or something and I stood there marveling at how the price has skyrocketed. The same CD, more than a year ago, would have been freakishly cheap but now ... now not so much. Huh. Wonky.

Tonight's book of the, uh, night is Sweetblood - Pete Hautman. Young Adult, diabetic vampires? Who knew? But one can never resist such a premise. Not if that one is actually moi.

... o_O Why did no one tell me that the she-bane of my existence [not really, but hey] Beyonce was being, ever so briefly at least, for the role of Lois Lane? I mean, really. WTF? And contrary to some idiotic comments out there, it's not because of her skin color. It's because it's gimmicky casting at best. The woman's acting is... enh, and while Lois isn't exactly the most thrilling female character in the room, she should get the chance to be. Oi.

See, that's why I don't really like comics being turned into movies. I have to suffer through awful choices for roles just to lure people into the theatres so the comic industry can get a shot in the arm.
Thing is, no matter how pretty comic-based movies are, they tend to suck if you ignore all the fandom eyecandy. Lookit:

X-Men? Kinda sucked. It was bogged down by a bunch of ... enh, as well as the mini brain aneurysm due to the changes they pulled. Rogue, a child ... no streak... No sexy Gambit {woe}, a horrid Storm {bite me, Halle Berry. Your acting in that movie sucked arse.}, and an inability to make me feel anything toward Jean and Scott other than a momentary blip on the eyecandy screen for the latter.
Spiderman: I adored bits and pieces [James Franco is yummy for one], and yet I kept wishing Peter would let MJ die. Jesus. And she was on the screen every ten seconds, so I couldn't even escape the horror that was she. Ugh.
Daredevil The good? Bullseye. Evanescence being thrown out to the world. Various special effects. The fact that Elektra was less annoying than Spidey's MJ. The bad? Pretty much the rest of the freakin' movie.
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: I love this movie, I have to say that, but I honestly couldn't tell you the plot. I'm sure there was supposed to be one, but I kept getting bogged down by all the funny stuff. The car? The ship? The 'point and don't shoot too early, boy' comments? Come on... I haven't laughed that hard since Rat Race. But I can admit the movie blew if you wanted a plot.
Go further back and think of what happened to the Batman franchise. Yeah. Or waaaaaaaaaaayyy back and think of the Fantastic 4 [the world revolves around Holly: MBS {Belthazor} was Ben.] monstrosity. No, don't. And if you haven't seen it, you shouldn't unless you want to marvel at the horror.
And those are only the movies I've seen. The Hulk was so bad that all plans of any following movies were scrapped almost immediately. If they've been resurrected, I'm unaware of it and I'd like to stay that way.

Note that X2 is not on the list of sucky movies. It was fantabulous. Blade also rose above suckage [pun not intended] but I've been sick everytime I've seen the movie, so that might explain it.

Point is, they tend to look good these days, but they're so busy parading semi-stars past the camera, they tend to overindulge in crap.

I'm now extremely tired. I'm not sure, but I think I just heard my comic book fandom card being revoked for daring to say that Spiderman should have been better. :p