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Please, let this not be true.  I'm not sure which of the three is worse, but I guess this means we're not going to see the ripped 'n' bulging version of Marvel's fetish-fuel She-Hulk (no surprise there, how many physically powerful comic-book women have made it to the screen unscathed?). 

Will they even dare keep her tall?  (Canon says 7', I mean, she is full of Hulk-juice*)  Sassy?  That's without all that gimboid simpering some mad Frenchman made Halle Berry do in Raspberrywoman.  Intelligent?  We are talking about a top-flight legal brain after all.  Or are we going to see her simmered and simpered down to focus-group friendly eye-candy?

Hm.  This post makes me look like a fanboy. 




* Blood, you nasty reader: it's her origin: she gets in a crash and has to take a transfusion of Banner's blood, and gets all gamma'd up 'n stuff. 

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Ooh, IMDB says that X-Men: Origins is going to have Beak! 

I like Beak.  Beak (for you non-saddo types) is a mutant with... a beak.  That's it.  He's just a gangly guy with a beak.  He can't talk to birds.  Can't fly.  He's just got a honking great beak. 

He's a great subversion of that whole superhero power-tradeoff thing.  Because while X-Men has long been a metaphor for various alienated groups - racism, homophobia, teen angst - the truth is that you don't get nifty abilities just because you're in a picked-on group.  It's not like "I realized I was gay... but at the same time, my ability to co-ordinate fabrics was elevated to fabulous levels!" 

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No British rider has won three stages in the Tour de France before.  Mark "Cannonball" Cavendish really is a Very Fast Man Indeed.

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You don't want to do it like that, you want to do it like this!A revelation has come unto me.  I've worked out why I can't stand Tobey Maguire's Spider-Man.

It's not that he's a whiney emo boi-bitch.  Spidey's a whiney teen.  That's fine.  It's not that he speaks in expository voice-over, because Spidey does that too.  It's not even that Sam Raimi gets flabbier and less entertaining the more money he has to work with, or that Spidey's beloved wise-cracking has been drowned under those big watery baby blues.

It's simply this:  Tobey Maguire looks like a young Harry Enfield.

'Nuff said.

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