Man, Fantastic Four is a pile of junk. It's agreeable in its way, amiable, but lacking anything that approaches cleverness or elegance or audacity. It looks like a moderately budgeted television episode and feels like that. Nothing much ever happens and when it does it's over before it ever really begins. I predict people will like it, despite its generally rotten reviews. It's light and fun, but fun of a sort that isn't truly fun.
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Dinner tomorrow night with Miss Victoria Chang and husband Todd. I'm looking forward to that very much, though squalls of Dennis-rain may be dumping all about us by then. To which I say, bah. And double bah.
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What is the internet trying to tell me? IM's keep popping up, inviting me to join, absolutely free of charge, an online dating service.
The internet loves me, wants me to be happy, is baking brownies right now in the kitchen and whatever song it's singing, well, I think it sings to me.
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- Paul Guest is the author of four volumes of poetry and a memoir. His debut, The Resurrection of the Body and the Ruin of the World, was awarded the 2002 New Issues Poetry Prize. His second collection, Notes for My Body Double, was awarded the 2006 Prairie Schooner Book Prize. His third collection, My Index of Slightly Horrifying Knowledge, was published by Ecco Press/HarperCollins in 2008. His fourth collection, Because Everything Is Terrible, was published by Diode Editions. His poems have appeared in Harper's, The Paris Review, Poetry, Tin House, The Kenyon Review, and elsewhere. His memoir, One More Theory About Happiness, was published by Ecco in May 2010 and selected for the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Program. The recipient of a 2011 Guggenheim Fellowship and a 2007 Whiting Writers' Award, Guest lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.
6 comments:
FF is a terrible flick. And I usually cut films based on comics a lot of slack, but this film is almost as bad the Hulk film. The acting is so-so, and the special effects are cheesy. And what's up with The Thing latex suit? It looks like a ten dollar affair. Sad. Did they have a budget? But I didn't have much hope for the film. Afterall, the FF are pretty lame comic book characters. The only cool thing about the FF comic is the Silver Surfer.
Please say hi to Victoria for me! Better yet, let me say it:
Hi Victoria!
It is pretty bad, because it was a rush job, started last fall, made with a Z-grade cast, and a director with no discernible eye. Bleh.
I will say hi to Victoria.....
I'm ashamed to say I saw it. A friend made me do it. "The internet loves me, wants me to be happy." I love that. That is a line I could steal, but won't.
Take it! It's yours!
Aha! You've saved me ten dollars by advising me to stay away from a comic book movie...Thanks!
Also, say hi to the lovely and gracious Victoria - hope you don't have too much rain!
It is indeed a pretty rotten film. I mean, I know they're the original powers and all that, but now those powers seem so lame.
And Jessica Alba can't act. . .
Hi Victoria.
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