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Buffista Movies 4: Straight to Video

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§ ita § - Apr 22, 2005 4:29:22 am PDT #2107 of 10002

Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Oddly, this doesn't make me want to see the movie more:

Hugh Jackman is in his native Australia secretly shooting scenes for pal Bryan Singer's upcoming Superman movie. Website IESB.Net reports Jackman will play Clark Kent's adoptive father Jonathan Kent in flashback scenes in the much anticipated Superman Returns. Newcomer Brandon Routh will play Superman/Clark Kent in the new film, while movie veteran Eva Marie Saint will play his adoptive mother Martha Kent. The film also features Kevin Spacey, Kate Bosworth, Parker Posey, James Marsden, Frank Langella and Kal Penn, as well as archive footage of the late Marlon Brando, who played Superman's father Jor-El in the first Superman film in 1978.

DXMachina - Apr 22, 2005 4:51:08 am PDT #2108 of 10002

You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

Wait, Hugh Jackman will be the on-screen husband of Eva Marie Saint? Let's hear it for May-December marriages.

Matt the Bruins fan - Apr 22, 2005 5:40:27 am PDT #2109 of 10002

"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

I think Eva Marie Saint will be playing current Ma Kent rather than the flashback version. But that casting is just wrong—Pa Kent isn't supposed to be hotter and more buff than Clark!

Kate P. - Apr 22, 2005 5:49:54 am PDT #2110 of 10002

That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love

The film also features Kevin Spacey, Kate Bosworth, Parker Posey, James Marsden, Frank Langella and Kal Penn,

Huh. It's going to be a little odd seeing Wolverine and Cyclops in a Superman movie.

Lyra Jane - Apr 22, 2005 5:53:26 am PDT #2111 of 10002

Up with the sun

They hired Parker Posey, and she's *not* playing Lois Lane? That's just wrong.

Frankenbuddha - Apr 22, 2005 5:57:46 am PDT #2112 of 10002

"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

They hired Parker Posey, and she's *not* playing Lois Lane? That's just wrong.

Hmm - maybe her parents are dead?

sumi - Apr 22, 2005 6:23:38 am PDT #2113 of 10002

Art Crawl!!!

Hee.

And here is an interview with the director of XMen3.

sumi - Apr 22, 2005 6:25:54 am PDT #2114 of 10002

Art Crawl!!!

I wonder if Jackman will be poor Dead!Jonathan in flashbacks and Eve Marie Saint will be live, widowed Martha in current time?

evil jimi - Apr 22, 2005 7:15:03 am PDT #2115 of 10002

Lurching from one disaster to the next.

H2G2 review: [link]

The news isn't good. For example...

Really bad. You just won't believe how vastly, staggeringly, jaw-droppingly bad it is. I mean, you might think that The Phantom Menace was a hopelessly misguided attempt to reinvent a much-loved franchise by people who, though well-intentioned, completely failed to understand what made the original popular - but that's just peanuts to the Hitchhiker's movie. Listen.

Tom Scola - Apr 22, 2005 7:20:45 am PDT #2116 of 10002

Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

I posted that link a couple of weeks ago, jimi.

Tom Scola "Buffista Movies 4: Straight to Video" Apr 9, 2005 7:00:21 pm PDT

I don't know if Jessica's around, but she's seen the movie, and she *loved* it, and thinks that the reviewer is on crack.

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