The Good, the Bad (but no ugly)
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snurri for lending me his trades of Darwyn Cooke's DC: The New Frontier, Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 which I read yesterday. It's a really good story that bridges the Golden Age of DC with the Silver Age while blending in McCarthyism and the idealism of the early 60's. it has great prehistoric monsters and alien-type life forms worthy of a Gardner Fox story as the art evokes the pencils of Gil Kane, Mike Sekowsky and Curt Swan while at the same time creating it's own original retro-look. Interestingly enough, it really captured the essence of the comic geek talk snurri and I had regarding the differences between Marvel and DC superheros. While the Marvel heros are flawed characters who struggle with having super powers thrust upon them, the DC heros tend to be heroic because that is what's expected of them. The book really epitomized that quality, in a good way.
Later,haddayr and I watched the original version of The Thomas Crown Affair. My god, was that an utter piece of crap which was kind of surprising given the cast (Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway as the leads who were perfectly dreadful and directed by Norman Jewison who was even worse). The only good thing about it was the fact that I got an amazing shoulder and neck rub while we watched. Afterwards, knowing the movie was remade of few years ago (which I have not seen), I had to wonder -- who in their right mind would watch that horrible dreck and then say, "Wow, what garbage! Let's remake it!"?
snurri for lending me his trades of Darwyn Cooke's DC: The New Frontier, Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 which I read yesterday. It's a really good story that bridges the Golden Age of DC with the Silver Age while blending in McCarthyism and the idealism of the early 60's. it has great prehistoric monsters and alien-type life forms worthy of a Gardner Fox story as the art evokes the pencils of Gil Kane, Mike Sekowsky and Curt Swan while at the same time creating it's own original retro-look. Interestingly enough, it really captured the essence of the comic geek talk snurri and I had regarding the differences between Marvel and DC superheros. While the Marvel heros are flawed characters who struggle with having super powers thrust upon them, the DC heros tend to be heroic because that is what's expected of them. The book really epitomized that quality, in a good way.Later,
haddayr and I watched the original version of The Thomas Crown Affair. My god, was that an utter piece of crap which was kind of surprising given the cast (Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway as the leads who were perfectly dreadful and directed by Norman Jewison who was even worse). The only good thing about it was the fact that I got an amazing shoulder and neck rub while we watched. Afterwards, knowing the movie was remade of few years ago (which I have not seen), I had to wonder -- who in their right mind would watch that horrible dreck and then say, "Wow, what garbage! Let's remake it!"?
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Date: 2008-05-18 07:45 pm (UTC)That glider scene -- man! What the hell was that song supposed to be (if you call it that)? And the fake laughs? Yeesh. How about the chess match? (I would have loved it if when McQueen says, "Let's play another game" instead of grabbing Faye Dunaway he pulls out another board game and exclaims, "Parcheesi!") You're right, there are so many things wrong with that movie it really is hard to pick just one thing.