My geekgasm, let me show you it
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burntcopperWent to see Iron Man with megs, jen and graham.
All you could hear from our row were little squeaks of joy and omigodomigod and clapping noises and the occasional sound of me being flicked in the head by meg due to hyperventilating and excessive grabby hands.
It is... it is perfect. Even if it wasn't a superhero film, it would've been perfect. The script was brilliant. The casting was sheer joy, and all the acting was great. The action didn't let up. The action was balanced with character moments. The effects fit seamlessly. The editing was bloody brilliant - no scene ever lagged or was too long. There were no plotholes at all. The science made sense! The little geek shout-outs were just icing on the cake. And then we had Paul Bettany as Jarvis. :thud:
Trailers? We fully support Edward Norton as Bruce Banner. And actually *want to see* the Hulk film. Which we didn't when it was Eric Bana.
Also, in Pizza Express, we started casting other things. Mostly Internet Jesus comics, so Graham had noooo idea what we were talking about.
And we had to veto Megs from casting James Puresex as everything. Except Midnighter.
Pete Wisdom : really sodding difficult, this one, because the character and the body type is so fucking specific - to quote Meg, 'convincing as a spy, shouldn't outwardly look like he can fuck you up without trying.' (thus automatically eliminating Daniel Craig and Puresex) Currently a toss-up between Aiden Gillen and James McAvoy and Jack Davenport. David Tennant? Christopher Ecclestone?
Captain Britain - I kept nominating the Bettany for special journalistic purposes, blond hair, believable intelligence, and posh accent, but there are plenty of others acceptable.
Wonder Woman - Claudia Black. Accept no substitutions. Not even Lucy Lawless.
Captain America - We're very accepting of Matt Damon as Cap. There's plenty of good actors who could do the all-american soldier boy. The thing we kept running up against? *Pre*-soldier serum. He has to look like he's suffering from malnutrition. Weak lungs (overtones of TB considering 20s-30s New York poverty), bad bones, etc. Either you get someone who can do both, or you get someone who looks similar enough to the other actor - and that's difficult. The only one who was coming to mind for pre-and-post was Christian Bale, and he's Batman. And doesn't look all-american. Edward Norton also vetoed for this purpose due to being far too Edward Norton and thus not All-american when bulked up.
Apollo - also fucking difficult, because Apollo has to be pretty. and a very specific *type* of pretty and manly, since he has to embody the sun god thing. aka 'Curse you, Heath Ledger, why did you have to die?'
Midnighter - we will accept James Puresex for this. Even if you only see his chin.
Jenny Sparks - Really Difficult. People kept being discounted for being too curvy, tall or inability to do accent. Then Graham nominated Daniella Denby-Ashe and we all went 'hmmmmm, with the right training to get her body to whippet and wiry...'
Jack Hawksmoor - also bloody difficult, especially since he's always drawn just that slightest bit mixed-race (canon stopped when Internet Jesus stopped). I finally picked Tahmoh Penikett, the others going 'er, take your word for it, since never watched BSG'.
Elijah Snow - if David Morrissey can do an american accent, that's fine.
Ambrose Chase - plenty of people, but we lean towards Chiwetel Ejiofor due to favouritism.
...weirdest spam title : Update Your Penis.
We now have images of penis v 1.0, requiring a software upgrade. And 'What the hell are they doing to those poor robots in Japan?! They don't want to have sex with you perverted humans!'
All you could hear from our row were little squeaks of joy and omigodomigod and clapping noises and the occasional sound of me being flicked in the head by meg due to hyperventilating and excessive grabby hands.
It is... it is perfect. Even if it wasn't a superhero film, it would've been perfect. The script was brilliant. The casting was sheer joy, and all the acting was great. The action didn't let up. The action was balanced with character moments. The effects fit seamlessly. The editing was bloody brilliant - no scene ever lagged or was too long. There were no plotholes at all. The science made sense! The little geek shout-outs were just icing on the cake. And then we had Paul Bettany as Jarvis. :thud:
Trailers? We fully support Edward Norton as Bruce Banner. And actually *want to see* the Hulk film. Which we didn't when it was Eric Bana.
Also, in Pizza Express, we started casting other things. Mostly Internet Jesus comics, so Graham had noooo idea what we were talking about.
And we had to veto Megs from casting James Puresex as everything. Except Midnighter.
Pete Wisdom : really sodding difficult, this one, because the character and the body type is so fucking specific - to quote Meg, 'convincing as a spy, shouldn't outwardly look like he can fuck you up without trying.' (thus automatically eliminating Daniel Craig and Puresex) Currently a toss-up between Aiden Gillen and James McAvoy and Jack Davenport. David Tennant? Christopher Ecclestone?
Captain Britain - I kept nominating the Bettany for special journalistic purposes, blond hair, believable intelligence, and posh accent, but there are plenty of others acceptable.
Wonder Woman - Claudia Black. Accept no substitutions. Not even Lucy Lawless.
Captain America - We're very accepting of Matt Damon as Cap. There's plenty of good actors who could do the all-american soldier boy. The thing we kept running up against? *Pre*-soldier serum. He has to look like he's suffering from malnutrition. Weak lungs (overtones of TB considering 20s-30s New York poverty), bad bones, etc. Either you get someone who can do both, or you get someone who looks similar enough to the other actor - and that's difficult. The only one who was coming to mind for pre-and-post was Christian Bale, and he's Batman. And doesn't look all-american. Edward Norton also vetoed for this purpose due to being far too Edward Norton and thus not All-american when bulked up.
Apollo - also fucking difficult, because Apollo has to be pretty. and a very specific *type* of pretty and manly, since he has to embody the sun god thing. aka 'Curse you, Heath Ledger, why did you have to die?'
Midnighter - we will accept James Puresex for this. Even if you only see his chin.
Jenny Sparks - Really Difficult. People kept being discounted for being too curvy, tall or inability to do accent. Then Graham nominated Daniella Denby-Ashe and we all went 'hmmmmm, with the right training to get her body to whippet and wiry...'
Jack Hawksmoor - also bloody difficult, especially since he's always drawn just that slightest bit mixed-race (canon stopped when Internet Jesus stopped). I finally picked Tahmoh Penikett, the others going 'er, take your word for it, since never watched BSG'.
Elijah Snow - if David Morrissey can do an american accent, that's fine.
Ambrose Chase - plenty of people, but we lean towards Chiwetel Ejiofor due to favouritism.
...weirdest spam title : Update Your Penis.
We now have images of penis v 1.0, requiring a software upgrade. And 'What the hell are they doing to those poor robots in Japan?! They don't want to have sex with you perverted humans!'
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Date: 2008-05-22 01:43 pm (UTC)Ooooh. That I didn't know. Now I'm actually interested (because let's face it, I haven't touched the other film with Eric Bana with a bargepole or any other implement or body parts ... quite frankly due to it looking shit on all the trailers and clips I've seen)
Also yay and more yay to the Iron Man being fantastic, I loved it. Although the bit where it looked like RDJ was sporting a fake drawn on moustache bugged me for a while (when he was stopped by the reporter near his car close to the beginning)
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Date: 2008-05-22 03:30 pm (UTC)XC