Sorry for the vanishing act, tied up with a client’s special event and investing a lot of time in my Earth II self over at PraiseNet.Org. I am planning to rebuild this blog (specifically) with something fancier hopefully sometime this month. I’d like to rebuild the whole site but who has the time…
No, haven’t seen Ultron thing yet, waiting to clear out the early fanboys; I despise going to the movies. Somebody always kicking my seat, some kid crying, up the stairs, down the stairs to the potty, somebody eating some hot meal with God-awful stench, people talking (my favorite), and candy in cellophane wrappers (why oh why?!); people constantly digging in, crackling the crinkly plastic instead of (d’huh) removing it and shoving it into their pocket or wherever.
I hate going to the movies. The sound in my home theater is usually 100% better, nobody’s kicking me. But you can’t beat that 40-foot screen (or IMAX). So, I tend to wait out the early crowds and then try and sneak in on a 10 AM Tuesday show. That’s where you’ll find me at the movies, when it’s just me and the folks from the senior center puzzled as to what they are looking at.
Anyway, more soon. Thanks DVD for the DUAL plug, and congrats on the new car.
–Priest
So slightly off-topic, but since you’re here… any thoughts on the (very probable) rumor than Martin Campbell has been cast as Everett K Ross? He’s not Matthew Perry, but, well, few are, right?
Brainfart. Meant Martin Freeman.
I actually had no idea who Martin Freeman was until this Ross speculation began. And, no, I read about it when–or, actually, after–you did. I’m more amused by Marvel’s setting up the Panther film in Ultron with the Ulysses Klaue cameo.
Well, I always thought Everett should be portrayed by a younger Michael J. Fox, but anyway that Martin Campbell thing must be a typo, right? The only Martin Campbell I can think of is the director and… well… let’s just say, if that’d be the case, I’d rather see the actual, current M.J.Fox in the role XD.
Martin Campbell plays Watson to Cumberbatch’s Holmes, plays Bilbo Baggins to Cumberbatch’s Smaug, and played the most recent Arthur Dent in a Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy movie that surprisingly had no Cumberbatch.
That’s Martin Freeman.
Ah, right. But I was going on the actual news item, not the actor’s name. 🙂 Martin Freeman has been tapped as Ross.
He’s definitely cast for something; I hadn’t heard the Ross rumor (and wouldn’t necessarily trust a source that got his name wrong). Might make sense in the context of Civil War since that’s apparently the movie that’s introducing Black Panther.
I could see him in the role. Fargo showed that he can pull off an American accent (convincingly enough to my ears, anyway; I’m from Arizona so I might not pick up on the subtleties of a Minnesota accent that someone from the area would). His characters tend to be doormats, though; I think he’d need to put more (misplaced) swagger into a performance as Ross. I think he could pull it off, though.
I liked Avengers 2 all right; not as much as I liked the first one or Captain America 2. Though I think Whedon did a much better job juggling an even larger cast (and Hawkeye did not get sidelined for 75% of the movie).
I think your remark about sarcastic Ultron (from the trailer) is dead-on; I really didn’t care much for how they played him (or, for that matter, the overcomplicated Transformers design they used for him — I liked the drone design and wish they’d used that for the “main” Ultron). Spader did a solid job with the material he was given (though he’s pretty much just playing his character from The Blacklist), and I guess that with the new created-by-Tony origin I can understand Ultron being snarky, but it put me off a bit.
I don’t go to the movies that often anymore either, though I don’t find the experience as off-putting as it was, say, ten years ago. (People seem to have figured out how to set their phones to vibrate.)
I’m going to take the off-topic game and run amok with it and say that John Legend and Joseph Gordon-Levitt should play Xer0 in a movie directed by Chad Stahelski and David Leitch -the John Wick guys-.
Or better yet, a Netflix series
I highly recommend tumblr as a blog platform. Easy themes. Deeeeep customization if you want it. Very social. Fun, although occasionally visceral community.
Jason– thanks, but i’ll be sticking with WP so the blog is resident on my website. 🙂