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August 5, 2013 5:01 PM Subscribe
I didn't want to love this, but just couldn't help myself.
posted by computech_apolloniajames at 5:15 PM on August 5, 2013 [4 favorites]
posted by computech_apolloniajames at 5:15 PM on August 5, 2013 [4 favorites]
Oh really? Well I just happen to have Jack Kirby right here!
posted by ShutterBun at 5:16 PM on August 5, 2013 [14 favorites]
posted by ShutterBun at 5:16 PM on August 5, 2013 [14 favorites]
Good writing, too. Those jokes are actually pretty darn spot-on for late 70s era Woody Allen.
posted by Atom Eyes at 5:21 PM on August 5, 2013 [5 favorites]
posted by Atom Eyes at 5:21 PM on August 5, 2013 [5 favorites]
I really, really, really, wanted to hate this.
But it was dead on 70s era Allen sooooo..
I do not hate it.
posted by The Whelk at 5:25 PM on August 5, 2013 [4 favorites]
But it was dead on 70s era Allen sooooo..
I do not hate it.
posted by The Whelk at 5:25 PM on August 5, 2013 [4 favorites]
Reminds me of Werner Herzog's Home Movies, which is also a fun ride.
posted by Windigo at 5:26 PM on August 5, 2013 [9 favorites]
posted by Windigo at 5:26 PM on August 5, 2013 [9 favorites]
Metafilter: I really, really, really, wanted to hate this.
I should probably have added Wes Anderson's God of War to the FPP, since that seemed like the inspiration. But yeah, count me in the 'wanted to hate it, ended up loving it' camp. Probably because it was specifically based on Annie Hall/Manhatten rather than just a general pastiche. And Cyclops is perfect as the LA douchebag.
'Course on a basic level the X-Men ARE textually outsiders created by Jewish New Yorkers, so its not as far off as it might seem.
posted by Charlemagne In Sweatpants at 5:33 PM on August 5, 2013 [2 favorites]
I should probably have added Wes Anderson's God of War to the FPP, since that seemed like the inspiration. But yeah, count me in the 'wanted to hate it, ended up loving it' camp. Probably because it was specifically based on Annie Hall/Manhatten rather than just a general pastiche. And Cyclops is perfect as the LA douchebag.
'Course on a basic level the X-Men ARE textually outsiders created by Jewish New Yorkers, so its not as far off as it might seem.
posted by Charlemagne In Sweatpants at 5:33 PM on August 5, 2013 [2 favorites]
I was talking to Bryan Singer the other day, and I asked him "Did you see the new Wolverine movie yet, or what?" and he said "No. Jew?"
Ya get it? "Jew?" Not "did you see it?" but "Jew? Jew see it? Jew?" See the difference?
posted by ShutterBun at 5:34 PM on August 5, 2013 [1 favorite]
Ya get it? "Jew?" Not "did you see it?" but "Jew? Jew see it? Jew?" See the difference?
posted by ShutterBun at 5:34 PM on August 5, 2013 [1 favorite]
And Cyclops is perfect as the LA douchebag.
Are we driving through plutonium, Max?
posted by ShutterBun at 5:36 PM on August 5, 2013 [2 favorites]
Are we driving through plutonium, Max?
posted by ShutterBun at 5:36 PM on August 5, 2013 [2 favorites]
Ivan Ackerman, always the wrong answer. Always.
posted by phaedon at 5:46 PM on August 5, 2013 [1 favorite]
posted by phaedon at 5:46 PM on August 5, 2013 [1 favorite]
I would ding this for not having a scene set inside a blow-up indoor tennis court tent, but I don't think those exist anymore so I'll give it a pass.
posted by invitapriore at 5:49 PM on August 5, 2013 [1 favorite]
posted by invitapriore at 5:49 PM on August 5, 2013 [1 favorite]
She does look like Diane Keaton - quite a lot
The video's creators in the YouTube comments:
"That's actually Rogue. She touched Diane Keaton and absorbed her powers."
posted by Strange Interlude at 6:19 PM on August 5, 2013 [10 favorites]
The video's creators in the YouTube comments:
"That's actually Rogue. She touched Diane Keaton and absorbed her powers."
posted by Strange Interlude at 6:19 PM on August 5, 2013 [10 favorites]
This is weirdly adorable. Bonus: I can ship Logan/Rogue without feeling vaguely disgusted with myself! (After 13 real-time years, Rogue will be legal age in Days of Future Past, right? Right?)
Also, wow, I don't think I realized til this moment how much Woody Allenesque New Yorker ambiance was imbued into Spider-Man all these years. Peter Parker is Woody Allen Protagonist with spider-powers. How did I not see this?
posted by nicebookrack at 6:49 PM on August 5, 2013 [3 favorites]
Also, wow, I don't think I realized til this moment how much Woody Allenesque New Yorker ambiance was imbued into Spider-Man all these years. Peter Parker is Woody Allen Protagonist with spider-powers. How did I not see this?
posted by nicebookrack at 6:49 PM on August 5, 2013 [3 favorites]
"I am going to go berserker, and you're going to regret it! .... Sniiiiiiiiiiiiiikt!"
I, too, surprised myself by how much I enjoyed this. Snikt snikt!
posted by barnacles at 7:18 PM on August 5, 2013 [1 favorite]
I, too, surprised myself by how much I enjoyed this. Snikt snikt!
posted by barnacles at 7:18 PM on August 5, 2013 [1 favorite]
This is weirdly adorable. Bonus: I can ship Logan/Rogue without feeling vaguely disgusted with myself! (After 13 real-time years, Rogue will be legal age in Days of Future Past, right? Right?)
It would have been a bit too pointed if they'd made his love interest Jubilee.
posted by Charlemagne In Sweatpants at 7:56 PM on August 5, 2013 [3 favorites]
I should probably have added Wes Anderson's God of War yt to the FPP, since that seemed like the inspiration.
Also Wes Anderson Spider-Man.
posted by Celsius1414 at 8:58 PM on August 5, 2013 [1 favorite]
Also Wes Anderson Spider-Man.
posted by Celsius1414 at 8:58 PM on August 5, 2013 [1 favorite]
Wolverine is with Rouge? When did he and Northstar breakup?
posted by humanfont at 9:31 PM on August 5, 2013
posted by humanfont at 9:31 PM on August 5, 2013
Wait, we've gotten this far in the topic and nobody's made a joke about how just like Woody Allen, Wolverine seems to always be around women under half his age?
posted by FJT at 9:54 PM on August 5, 2013 [4 favorites]
posted by FJT at 9:54 PM on August 5, 2013 [4 favorites]
Seems so.
posted by kenko at 9:57 PM on August 5, 2013 [2 favorites]
posted by kenko at 9:57 PM on August 5, 2013 [2 favorites]
Wolverine seems to always be around women under half his age?
Maybe it's because he's 150 years old, which makes about 97.5% of the female U.S. population less than half his age.
posted by Strange Interlude at 6:22 AM on August 6, 2013 [2 favorites]
Maybe it's because he's 150 years old, which makes about 97.5% of the female U.S. population less than half his age.
posted by Strange Interlude at 6:22 AM on August 6, 2013 [2 favorites]
Count me in for expecting to hate it but totally loving it.
posted by COBRA! at 7:04 AM on August 6, 2013
posted by COBRA! at 7:04 AM on August 6, 2013
Strange Interlude: Wolverine seems to always be around women under half his age?If I ever catch that creep around my grandma's nursing home again, I swear, I'm gonna go HULK SMASH on his octogenarianphiliac titanium frame.
Maybe it's because he's 150 years old, which makes about 97.5% of the female U.S. population less than half his age.
posted by IAmBroom at 9:05 AM on August 6, 2013 [1 favorite]
It would have been a bit too pointed if they'd made his love interest Jubilee.
Or Hisako from Astonishing X-Men, or the anime-pixie ninja girl from the current movie trailer, or any of the other random Asian girls I may be forgetting that he's played mentor/surrogate dad to. Naturally, Jean Gray would be playing the part of Mia Farrow.
posted by Strange Interlude at 11:00 AM on August 6, 2013 [2 favorites]
Or Hisako from Astonishing X-Men, or the anime-pixie ninja girl from the current movie trailer, or any of the other random Asian girls I may be forgetting that he's played mentor/surrogate dad to. Naturally, Jean Gray would be playing the part of Mia Farrow.
posted by Strange Interlude at 11:00 AM on August 6, 2013 [2 favorites]
If I ever catch that creep around my grandma's nursing home again, I swear, I'm gonna go HULK SMASH on his octogenarianphiliac titanium frame.
Dude, it's not creepy. Half your age plus seven, right?
posted by Strange Interlude at 11:01 AM on August 6, 2013 [1 favorite]
Dude, it's not creepy. Half your age plus seven, right?
posted by Strange Interlude at 11:01 AM on August 6, 2013 [1 favorite]
Wolverine: Has anybody read that Sentinels are gonna march in New Jersey? Ya know? I read it in the newspaper. We should go down there, get some guys together, ya know, get some bricks and capes, and really explain things to 'em.
Professor X: There was this devastating satirical piece on that on the op-ed page of the Times, just devastating.
Wolverine: Whoa, whoa. A satirical piece in the Times is one thing, but eye beams and adamantium claws really gets right to the point of it.
Professor X: Oh, but really biting satire is always better than physical force.
Wolverine: No, no, physical force is always better with Sentinels.
posted by Smedleyman at 1:01 PM on August 6, 2013 [3 favorites]
Professor X: There was this devastating satirical piece on that on the op-ed page of the Times, just devastating.
Wolverine: Whoa, whoa. A satirical piece in the Times is one thing, but eye beams and adamantium claws really gets right to the point of it.
Professor X: Oh, but really biting satire is always better than physical force.
Wolverine: No, no, physical force is always better with Sentinels.
posted by Smedleyman at 1:01 PM on August 6, 2013 [3 favorites]
This guy shouldn't quit his day job. That is, if he even has one.
posted by ReeMonster at 6:41 PM on August 6, 2013
posted by ReeMonster at 6:41 PM on August 6, 2013
"I had a mutation once, but Professor Xavier said it was the wrong kind."
"Did you? The wrong kind? Hmm, I've never had the wrong kind of mutation. My worst one was right on the money."
posted by ShutterBun at 7:37 PM on August 6, 2013
"Did you? The wrong kind? Hmm, I've never had the wrong kind of mutation. My worst one was right on the money."
posted by ShutterBun at 7:37 PM on August 6, 2013
It just occurred to me that Woody-Allen-as-Wolverine already sort of exists in the Marvel world as Vivisector in the old Milligan/Allred X-Statix. Except Vivisector's also gay.
posted by COBRA! at 8:06 PM on August 6, 2013 [1 favorite]
posted by COBRA! at 8:06 PM on August 6, 2013 [1 favorite]
Ang Lee's The Ice Storm sorta has Tobey McGuire as a Woody Allen type using Marvel superheroes as a metaphor for being disaffected, and then he played Spider-Man.
I guess i'm saying that "Woody Allen's Spider-Man" would work not as a joke but as a pretty traditional take on the character.
posted by Charlemagne In Sweatpants at 8:10 PM on August 6, 2013
I guess i'm saying that "Woody Allen's Spider-Man" would work not as a joke but as a pretty traditional take on the character.
posted by Charlemagne In Sweatpants at 8:10 PM on August 6, 2013
Also, Tobey McGuire was an Allen surrogate (of sorts) in Deconstructing Harry, and then he played Spider-Man.
posted by ShutterBun at 12:48 AM on August 7, 2013 [2 favorites]
posted by ShutterBun at 12:48 AM on August 7, 2013 [2 favorites]
Tobey Maguire also played a weird freshman genius who is seduced by rakish Robert "Tony Stark" Downey Jr. in Wonder Boys, based on the novel by Jewish author Michael Chabon, who wrote the comic-geek-love-letter The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay and also co-wrote Spider-Man 2.
It's rampant comic book movie meta-incest and I love it. (I also loved Maguire as Spider-Man.)
posted by nicebookrack at 2:04 PM on August 7, 2013 [1 favorite]
It's rampant comic book movie meta-incest and I love it. (I also loved Maguire as Spider-Man.)
posted by nicebookrack at 2:04 PM on August 7, 2013 [1 favorite]
Tobey Maguire also played Nick Carraway in the recent film adaptation of The Great Gatsby, and The Great Gatsby would be a really lame superhero name.
posted by Atom Eyes at 12:19 PM on August 8, 2013
posted by Atom Eyes at 12:19 PM on August 8, 2013
The Great Gonzo would be an excellent superhero name and an even more excellent protagonist in a film about Prohibition-era debauchery, co-starring Tobrey Maguire with Muppets.
posted by nicebookrack at 7:18 PM on August 8, 2013
posted by nicebookrack at 7:18 PM on August 8, 2013
That guy's terrible delivery and facial expressions made me appreciate Woody Allen more. Also yes, she nailed Keaton.
posted by DU at 4:39 AM on August 13, 2013
posted by DU at 4:39 AM on August 13, 2013
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