Comments | eregyrn: And here I thought the upcoming Musketeer movie...

eregyrn

And here I thought the upcoming Musketeer movie...

Oct 08, 2011 14:23

... was going to be the most cracktastic 'period' piece coming out in the near future.

Apparently, the John Cusack vehicle Poe movie wants to give it a run for its money:

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To be fair -- what this movie actually wants to be is RDJ's Holmes movies.

... are you thinking what I'm thinking?

Obvious crossover potential is obvious!

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okojosan October 8 2011, 18:50:38 UTC

Hahaha awesome! Aw man, I thought this might be coming out this month but it's not coming out until next year.

rednikki October 8 2011, 18:55:01 UTC

This seems like a less campy version of the failed ABC pilot Poe. The similarities are striking.

raqs October 8 2011, 20:42:05 UTC

Snort!

i saw the cracktastic musketeer thing at the movies - meant to phone you just to be appalled with you. :-)

eregyrn October 9 2011, 00:59:28 UTC

Recall that back in April, I posted the Musketeer trailer here in my LJ, just to boggle at it, and made this icon especially for the occasion.

Regardless, I will have to go see it, of coures.

telepresence October 9 2011, 02:21:19 UTC

I forgot to mention to you, I finally saw Green Lantern. Man, that was not good. Every once in a while it would start to be cool and it's as if someone just off camera went "Shit, it's about to be cool, quick, switch to movie B! Or movie C! Or movie J!"

eregyrn October 9 2011, 02:24:28 UTC

Seriously, does that movie have the WORST SCENE TRANSITIONS of any movie recently that was supposed to actually be somewhat good, or what? God.

Now you know about that specific cut I was talking about near the end where there's some scene with Hal and then it cuts to a long sweeping shot of Oa and you realize someone is zooming around (it could be any Lantern) and then the tracking continues and it transpires it's Hal. And you're like... no, the ending of the last scene did NOT in any way suggest that the next scene would show us him arriving on Oa, and what's more, it's NOT that kind of cool "let's fake the audience out slightly" thing you can actually get away with, you just LEFT SOMETHING OUT.

And the whole movie was like that.

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telepresence October 9 2011, 02:47:06 UTC

What also bugs me is..okay, look, I get that sometimes a bigger hammer will not solve a problem, and throwing good money/troops etc after bad is a bad idea. But...okay, you go after Parallax with like 7 Lanterns. Really high quality Lanterns, and y ou lose. That sucks. But, dude...DUDE. In those OA group shots, you clearly have SEVERAL THOUSAND Green Lanterns (canonically, 3600 actually. Now, let's say at any given moment a few Lanterns are too, injured, sick, dead to participate. Let's further say that some GL sectors are so unstable that they can't leave, even to fight Parallax. SO that leaves you what? 1000, 1500, 2000, 2500 Green Lanterns? Maybe fear and uncertainty, which is how Parallax beats and eats Lanterns, might be reduced if every Lantern went into battle knowing there were like, 2500 buddies who had his or her back. That's gotta be more of a confidence booster than going in with like, 6 buddies, right ( ... )