{"id":3560,"date":"2009-09-02T18:30:45","date_gmt":"2009-09-02T22:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3560"},"modified":"2009-09-02T16:15:23","modified_gmt":"2009-09-02T20:15:23","slug":"wednesday-various-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3560","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday various"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\"><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/articles\/patton-oswalt,32085\/?utm_medium=RSS&#038;utm_campaign=feeds\">Patton Oswalt<\/a> on the joy of failure:<br \/>\n<blockquote><p>I never want to get to a point where I feel like I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m done. Or like I got it. You always want to have that, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Oh shit, this wall just collapsed, and there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a whole room behind it to explore.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">I posted a quote from the interview <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3550\">just the other day<\/a>, but I think the whole thing&#8217;s worth checking out, even if you&#8217;re not immediately familiar with Oswalt&#8217;s comedy or acting. I also like what he says about the internet:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We haven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t seen it yet, but there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s going to be a generation that comes up where the new trend will be complete anonymity. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll be cool to have never posted anything online, never commented, never opened a webpage or a MySpace, never Twittered. I think everyone in the future is going to be allowed to be obscure for 15 minutes. You\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll have 15 minutes where no one is watching you, and then you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll be shoved back onto your reality show. I think Andy Warhol got it wrong.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">I&#8217;ve read mixed reviews of Oswalt&#8217;s new movie, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1228953\/\">Big Fan<\/a>, but I&#8217;ve heard a couple of really intelligent interviews with him and director Robert D. Siegel, so I&#8217;m eager to check it out.<\/li>\n<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\"><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/scifiwire.com\/2009\/09\/fox-rebooting-fantastic-f.php\">Fox rebooting <i>Fantastic Four<\/i><\/a>. This seems to be the new thinking in Hollywood: if your last attempt was a financial or critical failure &#8212; and the 2007 <i>Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer<\/i> movie was arguably <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boxofficemojo.com\/movies\/?id=fantasticfour2.htm\">a little<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metacritic.com\/film\/titles\/fantasticfourriseofthesilversurfer?q=silver%20surfer\">of both<\/a> &#8212; don&#8217;t even wait, just re-boot the whole thing. Studios used to wait a respectable few years, time enough to slink away and let the shame and stink of failure dissipate, but that&#8217;s happening less and less. Eight years separate the abject failure of Joel Schumacher&#8217;s <i>Batman &#038; Robin<\/i> and Christopher Nolan&#8217;s reboot of the franchise with <i>Batman Begins<\/i>, for instance, while only five years separate Ang Lee&#8217;s <i>Hulk<\/i> and Edward Norton&#8217;s (not so incredible) version. The gap is narrowing &#8212; and with the recently proposed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3539\"><i>Battlestar Galatica<\/i> <i>re<\/i>-reboot<\/a> and this <i>Fantastic Four<\/i> news, the gap seems to be disappearing altogether. <a href=\"http:\/\/gerrycanavan.blogspot.com\/\">As Gerry Canavan<\/a> jokes, &#8220;In the future franchises will be rebooted before the first film even comes out.&#8221;\n<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\"><\/p>\n<p>Still, I guess <i>one<\/i> way of looking at this is that Hollywood is now committed to remaking movie franchises over and over again, no matter how many times it takes, until, finally, they don&#8217;t suck.<\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\"><\/p>\n<p>Although, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/articles\/marveldisney-marriage-fallout-fox-preps-more-crapp,32394\/?utm_medium=RSS&#038;utm_campaign=feeds&#038;utm_source=channel_film\">as the AV Club points out<\/a>, this may just be fallout from the recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601109&#038;sid=a3mVWau.h28g\">Disney acquisition of Marvel<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Before Marvel settled down with Disney, it had tumultuous affairs with several other studios. With Sony, for instance, it had a baby called the Spider-Man series. And Marvel&#8217;s time with Fox produced several offspring, including film series based around the X-Men, Daredevil, and the Fantastic Four. By the terms of that arrangement, Fox has the rights to make movies around those characters (plus Fantastic Four hanger-on the Silver Surfer) in perpetuity so long as it doesn&#8217;t <i>stop<\/i> making them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">This too-soon reboot, then, might not go anywhere or even <i>be expected<\/i> to go anywhere. It may just be a ploy to hold on to some rights that would otherwise revert to the Mouse.<\/li>\n<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\"><\/p>\n<li>Speaking of the Disney\/Marvel merger, while I think it&#8217;s too soon to know for sure what (if anything) this will mean for the future of Marvel, I tend to agree with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsfromme.com\/archives\/2009_08_31.html#017643\">Mark Evanier&#8217;s take<\/a>:<br \/>\n<blockquote><p>This isn&#8217;t about publishing. Disney didn&#8217;t say, &#8220;Gee, it would be great to own a comic book company!&#8221; They could have started fifty comic book companies for four billion clams. This is about characters and properties which can be exploited in many forms. The publishing of comic books may or may not always be one of them&#8230;..[T]he future of Spider-Man has very little to do with the Spider-Man comic book. That hasn&#8217;t mattered for a long time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">And while <a href=\"http:\/\/search.twitter.com\/search?q=marveldisneymashup+unrealfred\">I tried my own hand<\/a> at some Marvel\/Disney mashups two days ago, I think I prefer <a href=\"http:\/\/superpunch.blogspot.com\/2009\/08\/more-disneymarvel-mashups_31.html\">these more artistic ones<\/a>. [<a href=\"http:\/\/gerrycanavan.blogspot.com\/\" title=\"Gerry Canavan\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\"><\/p>\n<li>I worry that some future journalism students will see <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/lanow\/2009\/09\/at-weeks-end-the-antioch-street-where-jaycee-lee-dugard-lived-after-she-was-allegedly-kidnapped-as-a-child-18-years-ago-b.html\">this story<\/a> and wonder, &#8220;what&#8217;s the big deal with paying your sources?&#8221; [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.waxy.org\/links\/\" title=\"Waxy.org Links\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\"><\/p>\n<li>And finally, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.v1gallery.com\/artist\/show\/3\">some terrific photographs<\/a> of the same spots in New York City, composited into a single shot based on similarity. It&#8217;s a neat trick. [<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/GreatDismal\" title=\"William Gibson\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patton Oswalt on the joy of failure: I never want to get to a point where I feel like I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m done. Or like I got it. You always want to have that, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Oh shit, this wall just collapsed, and there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a whole room behind it to explore.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d I posted a quote from the interview just &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3560\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[19,20,22,25,14,54,30,9,11,32,10,12],"class_list":["post-3560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-art","tag-comics","tag-cute","tag-memes","tag-movies","tag-new-york","tag-photos","tag-pop-culture","tag-publishing","tag-twitter","tag-various","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3560"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}