The AFI offers its top 100 American love stories. What, Episode 2 didn’t make the cut?
Category: Cinema
It is a gift…let us use it.
Details emerge on the extended version of Fellowship, due out on DVD November 12. Of course I’m extremely psyched about the extra thirty minutes, but couldn’t they have put the original version on one of the discs too? Ah, well.
Vancouver Pryde.
Bryan Singer casts 17-year-old Vancouver resident Katie Stuart as Kitty Pryde in X-Men 2. Pretty good call to go with an unknown but, given that so much of Kitty’s backstory was used for Rogue in the first film, how will they differentiate her from Anna Paquin?
L’il bow wow.
Reports indicate that the Hulk’s origin in Ang Lee’s upcoming film has been seriously toyed with. I dunno…this sounds a bit too Spiderman to me.
About A Man.
Caught About a Boy last night (thus missing Game 1, which is just as well), and while it was quite good for its genre (and Hugh Grant was surprisingly palatable), I do have some problems with its underlying premises. Mild spoilers to follow for those who haven’t seen it or read the book. Anyway, why was Grant’s character a “nobody” because he didn’t work for a living? Since when is one’s identity primarily formed by holding down a job you hate? A man should be more than the sum of his consumer choices, to be sure, but it seems to me he’s more of an individual for having decently informed opinions about books, music, and television than he would be for joining the rat race. (I guess that puts me in the High Fidelity camp.) Of course this wasn’t the only component of his ultimately invalidated “island” philosophy, but it still bugged me. I don’t remember the protagonist of Hornby‘s book being nearly so shattered by his presumed nothingness. I dunno…perhaps it’s where I’m at right now, but I think there’s much more to be said for striking out on one’s own. The kid was good, though. And Rachel Weisz is always easy on the eyes.
Swing and a Miss.
As if Daredevil’s Affleck-esque chin weren’t bad enough, it appears the makers of Daredevil have now turned the character of Elektra (Alias‘s Jennifer Garner) into a pissed-off Edie Brickell. Why all the leather? Where’s the red scarf headdress? She looks like she scampered off the set of Coyote Ugly.
Justice is blind.
Harry gets his hands on the teaser poster for Daredevil.
It’s not the years, honey, it’s the mileage.
After a decade of rumors and half-starts, Harrison Ford will finally don the fedora again for Indy 4, with Spielberg directing and Frank Darabont writing (from a story by, um, George Lucas). The movie’s currently due July 2005, a month after Episode III.
Bamf!
Contrary to earlier reports about Ethan Embry, it looks like Cabaret alum Alan Cumming will play Nightcrawler in the X-Men sequel. Not what I imagined at all, but if he gets in shape he could be quite good.