toldailytopic: Summer movies. Which summer blockbuster movies are you most excited to

[Son of Jack]

I'm also looking forward to Tree of Life

Just watched the trailer and I think I'll be going to see this.

 

[One Eyed Jack]

Movies have been so bad during the last decade or so, I don't really look forward to any of them anymore. If I hear something's good, I might check it out. I am hoping the next Transformers movie is pretty good.

 

[elohiym]

Movies have been so bad during the last decade or so, I don't really look forward to any of them anymore.

Same here, to the extent I will no longer take my family to the theater. It just feels like a waste of money.

I use pay-per-view and DVDs these days.

 

[One Eyed Jack]

Same here, to the extent I will no longer take my family to the theater. It just feels like a waste of money.

I use pay-per-view and DVDs these days.

I don't really like going to the movies anyway. It's hard to sit through a two-hour movie without having to go to the restroom or wanting a cigarette. At home, this isn't a problem, plus snacks are much cheaper.

 

[Samstarrett]

Heimdall('the whitest of the gods') was played by a black man in Thor. That's enough to make me skip that one. The idea of black/Asian/otherwise non-white Aesir drives me nuts. The Norse gods should be Norse. They are the gods of a particular part of the white race. Deal with it, Hollywood.

 

[Sherman]

Cars 2. I usually don't get too excited about movies unless they are light fun ones.

 

[Nathon Detroit]

You watch Fringe then of course.

I've watched the entire series. :up:

Not yet but I plan to start watching it real soon. :up:

And Abram's Star Trek was the best movie in the franchise to date, in my opinion.

For me that was a huge dud. But then again I'm not really a Star Trek fan.

 

[One Eyed Jack]

Heimdall('the whitest of the gods') was played by a black man in Thor. That's enough to make me skip that one. The idea of black/Asian/otherwise non-white Aesir drives me nuts. The Norse gods should be Norse. They are the gods of a particular part of the white race. Deal with it, Hollywood.

I can accept a black Nick Fury (mainly since it's Samuel L. Jackson), but I'd probably have a problem with this, myself. The closest thing to a black Norse god I've ever heard of is Hel, and that's because she's half-dead.

 

[Buzzword]

Heimdall('the whitest of the gods') was played by a black man in Thor. That's enough to make me skip that one. The idea of black/Asian/otherwise non-white Aesir drives me nuts. The Norse gods should be Norse. They are the gods of a particular part of the white race. Deal with it, Hollywood.

You do realize the movie is based on a COMIC BOOK, not actual Norse mythology, right?

If Stan Lee can take artistic license, then Kenneth Branaugh can as well, especially given the AWESOME job Idris Elba did with the character.

 

[One Eyed Jack]

To be fair, Heimdall does have gold teeth...

Seriously though, I have problems with movies that stray too far from the source. Sometimes it's not so bad, and sometimes it simply makes it to where I can't enjoy the story.

 

[Samstarrett]

You do realize the movie is based on a COMIC BOOK, not actual Norse mythology, right?

Yeah, and pretty loosely even on that IIRC. Black Aesir still rub me the wrong way.

If Stan Lee can take artistic license, then Kenneth Branaugh can as well, especially given the AWESOME job Idris Elba did with the character.

Artistic license is one thing, but in this case you're taking the whitest of a group of already exclusively white gods and making him black. I don't like it. Can't we whites enjoy our mythology in peace without multicultural interference?

 

[One Eyed Jack]

White, black, yellow -- I don't care. I just don't like revisionism.

 

[Samstarrett]

White, black, yellow -- I don't care. I just don't like revisionism.

Well, yeah. I mean, I'm white, so naturally I feel a stronger connection to white mythologies and legends, but it would be equally ridiculous for some important black person like Nelson Mandela or Rosa Parks(I'd have named mythological figures, but I don't really know anything about African mythology) to be played by a white person. Of course, there's really not that much danger of that in the modern cultural milieu.

 

[Zeus]

The Hang Over : Part Two

 

[Persephone66]

I kinda want to see Captain America. Nothing else really looks like its going to be any good.

And I have my doubts about Captain America.