Archive for June 11th, 2004
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Having some fun with The Stepford Wives today, but what if the shoe was on the other foot? Vote for Theater Hopper at buzzComix to uncover our more recent incentive sketch – The Stepford HUSBANDS!
So, as you know, Frank Oz’s (ne: Missy Piggy’s) remake of The Stepford Wives hits theaters today. There’s a lot of bad buzz surrounding this picture. Reports of on-set ego flare ups from Nicole Kidman, Better Midler and even Oz himself! Poor audience testing and late-in-the-game reshoots all spell trouble.
Kind of a shame considering the first rate cast they’ve assembled for this pic. Glenn Close and Christopher Walken in the same movie? That’s impressive.
I think Matthew Broderick is miscast, however. Every time I see him in the advertisements, he just looks like he shouldn’t be there. He’s too sweet-natured to play the sinister husband who replaces his wife with a robot.
The original choice was John Cusack, who would have been much better. He pulls off conflicted like no one in the business. And he has a dark streak in him, so I could see that working. Cusack and his sister Joan Cusack (originally cast in the Bette Midler role) had to abandon production to tend to their dying father.
This version of the film is supposed to be dark comedy, which I guess explains why Jon Lovitz is in it as well? Making The Stepford Wives a comedy is a mistake. To me, it will always be a horror piece and a damning piece of social commentary about women’s liberation. I suppose that wasn’t “timely” enough for the producers this go around.
Morbid curiosity might draw me to the theater for this one, but I have a sinking suspicion I would be better off watching my copy of the 1975 version.
No matter. Super-Size Me, the anti-McDonald’s documentary is coming to town today. I think Cami and I are going to catch that after work. A little brain food, as it were!
One bit of site info I wanted to share: We recently did some reorganization in the THorum, so now topics should be easier to find in the categories. It was overdue. Things have been growing in there at such a rate, in needed to be done. Check it out!
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Groovi from O’Deer Comics sent me a link to a page on his web site containing a ton of up-close photos of the new Batmobile from the forthcoming Batman Begins starring Christian Bale.
There have been photos floating around the internet for a couple of months now, but here you get to look at it from every angle. Apparently it was part of some convention? I don’t know the whole story, but the pictures are sweet.
Visit O’Deer Comics. The link to the Batmobile pics are at the top of the blogs.
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Years from now, when the internet becomes at least 40% web comics and 60% porn, some artist will do an interview and be asked “What made you get into web comics?”
Undoubtedly they will point to R.K Milholland’s recent success with Something Positive. In a bid to make his comic and his web site even better, he posed a hypothetical challenge to his readers for them to pay his $22,000 annual salary so he could quit his day job and focus on comics for a year.
Imagine his surprise when they met that goal.
Congrats to R.K. He’s a really cool guy and a bigger reward couldn’t have gone to a more imaginative guy.
Now get to work, Milholland! And no coffee breaks! 😉
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