Marvel Films

Marvel Comics has announced they’ll soon be setting up their own film studio to produce feature adaptations of their line of characters.

Marvel has long had a taken a serious in ensuring that their characters get a mainly faithful transition to film, even if the results have been hit and miss. They’ve also created a universe that you could imagine these characters crossing over and interacting with each other, Toby Maguire’s Spider-Man wouldn’t look out of place next to Eric Bana’s Hulk, for example. The first film the studio will produce will be Captain America. While it could be obnoxiously patriotic, I think such a film could work if they keep most of the setting to World War II (in the comics, Cap was a “super-soldier” who fought the Nazis, was frozen for a number of decades and awoke in the present day).

I’ve mentioned before that I had been mostly impressed with how Marvel has handled its properties and its rival DC can’t quite keep a grip on their own stable of characters (*ahem*). While this summer’s Batman Begins and next summer’s Queer Eye for the Super Guy may change that, it’s interesting to note that in the actual comic world, Marvel’s a mess while the stories DC is producing have nice, linear cohesion to them, even if some people are justifiably critical of the sudden, more adult, and more troubling, shift in tone DC has started taking over the past year. Identity Crisis alone would probably have its own entry in Women in Refrigerators. Those concerns aside, DC has a clear direction for its characters that is leading up to something. Marvel just seems kind of aimless.

Trailer Park Boys: The Movie

I’m not too sure about this but plans are under way to bring the Trailer Park Boys to the big screen. Presumably, the film will have some kind of an overall plot and will likely use big budget-style special effects.

Now, if they do right, it could be fine but I worry that it would detract from what makes the show work best. It’s often at its funniest when the characters aren’t really doing anything and when they bring in these sit-com style plots, the comedy suffers a bit.

I think Strange Brew suffered from this when you took Bob and Doug McKenzie, who spent two minute bits on SCTV talking about nothing, and put them in a goofy little movie about a brewmeister plotting to put a mind-control drug in the most popular beer in the Greater Toronto Area. Mind you, it’s interesting to note that Half Baked would later blatantly steal a visual gag of an intoxicated dog flying through the air, cape and all.

It’s not that wish to write off a feature film before it’s even written but I worry that a movie is going to well once too often and will kill the character’s popularity. But you never know, this could be the show to break that curse.

And yes, Strange Brew was my favourite movie when I was 11.

And the next season of ‘Kink’ will take place in Red Deer, Alberta

NDP leader Jack Layton has accused Conservative leader Stephen Harper of “getting into bed with separatists” in an effort to force a federal election as soon as possible.

Of course, Layton doesn’t realise that the Tories are the most sexually adventurous of all Canadian political parties and that sex with separatists, as is widely conjectured, is really, really hot. Certainly hotter than that awkward federal budget handjob he and Martin recently engaged in. Those two couldn’t even look at each other in the eye afterward.

Now that’s worth building a minority government coalition for

Zaphod Beeblebrox for President campaign video.

I think I know what I’m doing this weekend.

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Amber won a million bucks on ‘Survivor’ and she still wants us to buy her shit for the wedding?

Now we can all share in the love of Romber by getting them stuff off of their wedding registry at Target for a wedding which apparently has already happened.

While most items have already been purchased, it’s not too late to get them that Champagne marble spreader set they want.

Of course, there’s always their registry at Bed, Bath, and Beyond, where we can finally confirm how much of a WASP Amber is.