It's June 1st. Here's a blog.

It seems like the only thing I can post about on here lately is the movies coming out that I want to see and/or I am looking forward too. I don't do a lot of exciting stuff, maybe that's why. I'll have to schedule a trip to the local titty bar & come back home and write up a review of the talent. While not exciting it would prove interesting at least.

My favorite comic book heroes growing up were #1 Spider Man #2 Wolverine and #3 The Punisher. The Spider-Man movies were good. Spider Man III let me down a bit, there were so many different directions they could have gone with the movie but didn't. The first two X-Men movies (featuring Wolverine) were really good. X-Men III let me down however. Ian McKellan really made those movies as the bad guy Magneto. Without him the 3rd X-Men wouldn't have even been watchable. The 2004 Punisher movie (starring Thomas Jane) wasn't awful, but I wouldn't classify it as good either. All I can say about it is that it was better than the 1989 movie of the same name. If the powers that be could have combined the dark brooding of the 89 version with the production values of the 04 version we'd have had a good movie.

That being said, eleven months from today will see the release of X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Seeing as this movie will probably be one of the "tent pole" released of 2009 and a potential blockbuster, it is almost assuredly going to receive a PG-13 rating. I'd prefer an R rating as Wolverine's world before he got hooked up with the X-Men was a violent and dark. I'm a sucker for those types of movies. Maybe I'm just an unrefined Neanderthal too. Jury is still out on that one.

Hugh Jackman is reprising his role as Logan aka Wolverine which is a good thing in my opinion. He did a fine job in portraying the character in the X-Men movies, and quite honestly I can't think of anyone else I'd rather cast in the lead role.

There is a worry however. In today's cinema and in particular the "big" movies that the studios release, they tend to come out with special effect laden horse shit. For reference see the 2003 dud, Hulk. So much potential thrown away. Weird camera angles, bad eyebrows, and craptacular acting by Eric Bana doomed this one. All the green screen and CGI in the world could not make this movie good. This is my worry for Wolverine. Hopefully Hollywood has learned it's lesson and doesn't jazz it up too much.

We can hope

-Twiz