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Yeah, I love Hot Fuzz too. Simon Pegg tends to make things I don't like a bit more bearable by just being there. Like Paul, for instance--I didn't really enjoy that--I wouldn't watch it again, but he was certainly good in it. He's a general net plus for me.
But...I enjoyed the Star Trek reboot...easily as much as any of the Trek movies since the second one, so I can see how we're not using the same criteria here.
I liked Natasha in The Avengers, and I liked Johannsen's interpretation of the character, and I thought the action sequences were fine, but I do have a problem believing that it's Johannsen doing any of it. Because at rest, she doesn't look dangerous: something about her posture, her stance. Skinny, sure, but ... nah.
Claudia Black is probably no more athletic than Johannsen, but at rest, I believed Aeryn Sun could kick your ass.
I love Hot Fuzz like burning, and have liked Simon Pegg in everything I've seen him in. Still doesn't make me all that interested in Ant-Man, but I'm willing to believe it could be OK. I'm much more excited about The World's End.
I'm much more excited about The World's End.
They must have had so much fun working up their list of Pub names.
I don't understand not loving Hot Fuzz - I love it THAT MUCH.
I am told there are purists out there who are cranky at Ant Man being left out of the first Avengers movie, but nobody has ever been able to tell me anything about Ant Man that makes me think I should agree with them.
The best thing about Ant Man was when Belushi got to mock him in the SNL skit.
Claudia Black is probably no more athletic than Johannsen, but at rest, I believed Aeryn Sun could kick your ass.
Except in "Back and Back and Back to the Future," in which it appeared that both Aeryn and her opponent could be bested by any of the Peanuts characters.
Yes, but I did say at rest. Just standing about, Aeryn looked like she could kill you with her pinkie.
I think there's an argument to be made that appearing soft and weak is part of this Black Widow's arsenal - people see her as a helpless female which lets her get close enough to kill them with a chair. If she looked like a potential threat, the act wouldn't work.
Where that argument falls down is that I've never seen anything from ScarJo that leads me to believe "soft and helpless looking" isn't kind of her default setting. So while I think it worked for the character, I don't think she was doing it on purpose.
It's not even that she looks soft and helpless to me: she looks awkward. Maybe it's the costuming, I dunno, but she looks out of sync with her own body.