MOVIES: RSVP? or more RIP?

Yup, that should be for the next good movie coming up... if that ever happens. Three people have been complaining about the latest outrage: Wolverine. Well, yeah... Stan lee had joined George Lucas into betraying the true storylines for money. How strange. It is sad that the newest breed, or as I call them "younglings", become so excited above movies and characters that have been butchered. Wolverine's story was changed, not to the best of his interest... And once again the creative liberties with other characters have achieved atrocities. I love Gambit. I always will love Gambit. But not the Gambit of the movie. And is the same with Wolvie, I will always love Wolvie! The one that is in my comic-book vault... So many Weapon-X comics, so many spotlights... Classic X-men, graphic novels... Every story different yet all of them threaded so a bigger plot would prevail. All got screwed when Cable and so many others appeared.

It is the death of the icing of the cake, as now they just give generic SaraLee cakes... And younglings seem to love those generic cakes... If only they knew that the best cakes were done by old ladies in their homes!

Take Twilight... I still don't understand the big deal about it. The old 90210 had more drama and deep storylines than the stupid storyline that it presents... The movie lacks EVERYTHING, and yet all these younglings throw themselves at the cast and look forward to more Twilight... Nothing like Interview with the Vampire. Even Queen of the Damned (the movie) is better than Twilight (and for me to say that... because QotD really, really sucked... the bad way).

Originality at the movies seems extinct... This is now remake land... Or "bring back the 80s" not understanding that you may mimic anything but it will never be the same. What about creating a different era? Big problem when there is such a big lack of true talent. The only good young actors of note right now is Johny Depp... Now, there's someone who do original work. Besides him... I really can't think of anyone else. The good old ones are getting too old and dying. It is scary, when you think about it...

I look forward to Transformers just to see what else they can do with it. They already screwed the original characters... GIJOE is eye candy in red white and blue, an ode to fighting terrorism... and I only want to see it because of the Baroness. Terminator... I am curious to see what else can they milk from that storyline and how can they succeed without Cali's governor. Remake-land will butcher poor Jason on the next Friday the 13th... And will grant Star Trek's captain Kirk a second chance (maybe this time the actor will actually... act...). It's going to be quite a year... Of more blah... I don't expect anything amazing or original from any of these films. Now is the moment of eye-candy and effects with no stories... That is the food of the new generation.

In the middle of so much blah it is good to find something like Legend of the Seeker. One may think it is like Herc or Xena, but no... The stories are well written and they are not just about the main characters. And they have lots of creativity on them. I'm definitively moved towards reading the books that the series are based upon. Yup, a TV series gives many kicks and blasts to all hype movies currently showing on the theater... talk about saving bucks!

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