rigid codes of hierarchical binarism ([info]andypop) wrote,
@ 2005-05-28 01:19:00
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I am watching the TV movie of Nick Fury, Agent of SHIELD, made a few years back with David Hasselhof in the lead role. It's terrible, of course, but in a good way. The SHIELD comic was a mid-60s, James Bond thing - only with a hard-bitten, cigar-chewing American instead of a suave Englishman. Hasselhof is surprisingly apt casting, and there are lots of nods to the comic in the dialogue and design. Shame they didn't go for the full-on psychedelic look of Jim Steranko's run on the comic, though. It's all a bit gung-ho-military. The villains are the son & daughter of Nazi bad guy Baron von Strucker from the comic, and their fake German accents and 80s hair are a joy.

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[info]_mega_normal
2005-05-28 12:26 am UTC (link)
just out of random interest: what's your opinion on the sin city film that's coming out if you have one?

i'm thinking special effects alone don't make a good film.

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[info]andypop
2005-05-28 01:02 am UTC (link)
I'm thinking Sin City was a miserable comic, and since the film is apparently a meticulously faithful adaptation, it'll be equally miserable. Saw a clip on TV tonight and it looked like a car ad.

Frank Miller's an idiot. He thinks he's doing a stylish homage to old-style pulp fiction. But it's brainless, bludgeoning garbage, much more so than the original pulps. Why bother?

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[info]birdsflying
2005-05-28 01:41 am UTC (link)
I was quietly curing my insomnia* with that film and thinking it probably had something to do with Shield/Nick Fury.

And I was going to do a post that said 'what is this film' but you've answered that question for me. Cheers.

*sadly, due to a alarm outside my window, I am wide awake again. Nooo, may have to go watch the craptacular looking film on C5.

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[info]andypop
2005-05-28 04:23 pm UTC (link)
Glad to be of service!

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