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'Deadpool' spinoff in works at Fox

Sorted.

Beat me to it:

Ryan Reynolds to Star in His Own X-Men Movie - X-Men, Movie News, Ryan Reynolds : People.com

Apparently the abomination that's meant to be Deadpool is a fake-out, there's talk of a Deadpool movie, more inline with the comic version (the proper version)

Lets add Jedi too.

Check out these numpties:

Jedi Church - Jedi Religion and Jedi Faith

I've forgotten more about The Force than they know...

It isn't commercially available. I did find a bootleg of it last year though, it features Zwan covering Pat Benatar. Plus, I was intrigued by the movie.

The cover of Number of the Beast is a corker too...

Coppers were in the Chinese just down from the Castlegate too.

Mimi Rogers - Married to Tom Cruise

Really? When? Though she was a good bit older than he. Crackin' boobies though...

Last night I watched "Spun" which is basically a couple of days in the lives of a bunch of junkies who are wired on crystal meth for days on end. Another film where nothing much really happens, it was very weird, but the cast was impressive and the acting was top notch (Brittany Murphy and Mena Suvari in particular were really good, Mickey Rourke basically played Mickey Rourke).

Really strange film, but still failry decent. Not unmissable, but good.

Thumps up

It's an awesome film IMO, great soundtrack too (the director, Jonas Ackerland, is a music video director by trade). Rourke's monologue regarding, ahem, 'the pussy', is classic...

I'm away to watch Ferris Bueller's Day Off for the hundredth time after reading this wee interesting theory...

My favorite thought-piece about Ferris Bueller is the Fight Club theory, in which Ferris Bueller, the person, is just a figment of Camerons imagination, like Tyler Durden, and Sloane is the girl Cameron secretly loves.

Intriguing...I may have to re-watch. It's a classic...

I love the character Wolverine, I've spent countless hundreds of pounds on Wolvie stuff, comics, toys, original art - you name it. I think he's tha fuckin' bomb, so I was pretty excited about the movie. At best it would be as good as X-Men 2, at worst as good as X-Men 3.

I couldn't have been more disappointed if they'd put him in a fucking dress and called him Wolver-pussy, which they might as well have done.

My nerd-type gripes are numerous, and detailed in the spoilers below. Overall it's a very weak plot, too little action, too many characters pointlessly shoe-horned in, and Wolverie comes across like a little fanny. They harp on about him being "an animal", but there's little evidence of this at all. They've tried to squeeze in 4 different comic interpretations of the origin story and it's just a hotch-potch mess.

Details...

Since when have Wolvie and Sabretooth been brothers?! Never, that's when. There were rumours in the books that Sabretooth was his dad, but that was a memory implant. The film totally glazes over the fairly complex relationship between the two by just making them brothers and dismissing tonnes of really good back story.

Gambit - what accent was he meant to have exactly? Why is he in the film for all of two seconds? Why does he help a complete stranger? Since when was he ever anything to do with the Weapon X programme? Better to just keep him a master-theif like he's meant to be.

Agent Zero/Maverick - Why make him a non-descript henchman?

Emma Frost - why is she even in the film? Pointless, there for about 10 seconds, shows off her powers (the diamond skin powers anyway, no mention of her being one of the most powerful telepaths on the planet). What about the age discrepancy between her and Cyclops? Since when did she have a sister? When did she become a yank?

Cyclops - see Emma Frost

John Wraith - had my reservations about Will I AM, but he was actually alright, just really under-used. Why kill him off in such a shit way too. In the comic he dies riding the back of a cruise missile?!

Deadpool - the biggest travesty of the film. Ryan Renolds plays Wade Wilson (pre-Weapon X-skull-duggery) brilliantly, yet they turn him into some crappy multi-powered goon at the end, worst still - WITH HIS MOUTH SEWN SHUT!? Isn't Deadpool "The Merc with the Mouth?" Where's the multi-personalities? The amusing craziness? Everything that makes Deadpool one of Marvel's flagship characters? Weird that Marvel would allow the film version to be so different from the comic.

You're right Kirk, no one cares...

though I've still never seen ET...

Don't bother, it's shit.

Shields Up are playing at Drummonds in the middle of May I believe. Bink facebooked me about but I can't look at Facebook at work - I'll doublecheck when I get home and report my findings...

I thinks it's pretty hit or miss, but I do like all the cool stuff they have, 'specially the boys crossed lightsabres above his bed

I just went to see 'Let the right one in' and I'd agree with its general greatness.

Saw it at the weekend - fucking ace.

The last scene, in the swimming pool, is a joy to behold.

Also watched Sophia Coppola's Marie Antoinette, or at least half of it before I fell asleep. Like most of her movies, from what I saw it was beautifully shot, but nothing frakkin' happens!

I've only got the first two issues of Kick-Ass which I picked up ages ago in Forbidden Planet in Edinburgh. Really need to pick that up again as they were brilliant.

Got the new issue at the weekend - plot-twist-tastic!

Still brilliantly written, I still think the art lets it down though, but I've never like John Romita Jr...

Picked up a new X-Men one-shot that's worth a pop - X-Men: Sword of the Braddocks. Focusses on Psylocke and ties in nicely with Revanche/Kwannon/Psylocke's return to Uncanny X-Men. Awesome art-work and a story by manga-genius Adam Warren.

Hmmmm...sexy ninjas....

X-MEN: SWORD OF THE BRADDOCKS #1 - Marvel Comics Catalog: The Official Site - Iron Man, Hulk, Spider-Man, X-Men, Wolverine and all Marvel Comics and Graphic Novels | Marvel Comics Catalog | Marvel.com

New Boys and Messiah War stuff out this week too, much excitement.

Immaterial! - they'd all have got it!

The drummer, far left, used to be a man I believe.

Sussanah Hoffs, always Hoffs.

I watched Ginger Snaps Back -weird cause it's in a olden days setup and I thought it would be a sequil, but just seems them in a different era?! not worth watching

I really like the Ginger Snaps movies. Visited where they were shot in Canada too...

Me (though I'm not really indie.)

Adam Marnoch. He tha bomb.

The Departed

Boogie Nights

Upcoming film version of the Lovely Bones looks promising as well.

OK, fair enough The Departed, Boogie Nights is OK (mainly for two reasons currently starring in Scrubs). He's still a shit actor though.

T'was an awesome night, followed by a three-day hangover.

Tyla was an art counter-feiter for the Jewish Mafia apparently. The interview should be good Fudge...

Recently...

The Happening -shite. M Night Shylaman has gone really downhill in the last few yaers. And I FUCKING HATE Marky-Mark. I can only think of one film he's even vaguely good in - 'I Heart Huckabees'

Eden Log - French Sci-Fi film about a guy who wakes up with no memory in a bizarre bio-mechanical power station thingie. Entertaining enough but a bit weird - nice visuals.

The Dark Knight - finally got round to buying the DVD, still holds up as awesome.

Civil War - completely fizzled out, thereby souring the only storyline that has ever made me like Captain America as a character.

I dunno, as with any massive cross-over it was diluted in the hands of other writers, but Millar's 'core' series was awesome, and did make Cap cool again. I'll admit to two totally spine-quivering moments:

"My name is Peter Parker and I've been Spider-Man since I was 16"

and

When Namor shows up and saves their asses. Awesome.

I have a fair heap of Punisher graphic novels that I want shot of if anyone is interested, get in touch and we can haggle - same goes for loads of comics I found in my attic when I moved house - something like the first 25 issues of Punisher War Zone, various sets of Terminator, Aliens and Predator comic sets, all complete sets.

Can you PM me specifics, (issue nos ect) please?

Recently, I've also been reading All-Star Superman and it is indeed extremely good. Grant Morrison seems to be one of the few people who have figured out how to write Superman well, but then he is one of the best writers out there. His magnum opus, The Invisibles, is IMO one of the finest works of fiction ever created....in any medium. Although it did take me a few readings before I began to fully appreciate its depth.

Got Scarlet Traces to read next, which is Edginton & D'israeli's sequel to War Of The Worlds. Based on their previous work, like Kingdom Of The Wicked and Stickleback, it should be a corker!

Invisibles is pretty good - spot on about Morrison and Superman too. I got quite excited by the propect of Brian Azzarello and Jim Lee taking on the character in Supman for Tommorow, but it was SHITE! Spotted Scarlet Traces in the Library and was going to give it a go, D'israeli's ace, gotta sketch of the Joker he did for me at a signing somewhere...