But, yes, they do look cool.

Well, I'm always "alone." This I know. But that is the price I have to pay for not having friends. Not having friends, on the other hand, is the price I have to pay for being a miserable, boring fuck.

Comic book heroine wigs never look good, though.

Perverted minds want to know!

You know what he has done? Aside from beating the Terminator franchise like a dead horse? Found the tomb of Jesus, about 30 years too late for Jack Palance to claim "Believe it or not".

What a fucking tool.

I'm sorry but BW IS badass Russian and not some American playing dress up!

WTF, ScarJo still looks too soft to play the BW and whats up with the curls?!

I hate to nitpick but put a "fat girl" in black and you guys will fap to her as well!

WORST CASTING SINCE KRISTEN DUNST AS MJ!

Leave it to Americans wasting money on shit talents like ScarJo and Portman!

Here what you would had gotten with an unknown; A hot Russian babe, no HANGUP ABOUT NUDITY, and less money spent!

Now thats made of win!

And ZombieHeathLedger is right! BW is supposed to be a world class athlete and badass spy! WTF, ScarJo looks like a girl cosplaying!

They should had cast a woman instead of a girl.

Right now she in cutoff shorts and little t-shirt! HOLY MOTHERFUCKING SHIT!!!!

The shorts are small and hugging her ass and the shirt is tight and her tits are bouncing all over the place!

The director must be a pervert after my own heart because he getting some damn good ass-shots! Fuck do I love the 70's!

We all know how flaky the MPAA can be. Even the idea of her bra being off, without actually seeing anything, could cause some of its members to slap it with an R rating. Didn't American Pie have to change the phrase "man chowder" to "pale ale" in order to avoid an NC-17 rating?

IronMan will do fine without ScarJo so why not put some real effort in the BW role.

Scarlett is hot, and I'll wait to see a trailer with her in action before making judgment blah-blah-blah....

And its called personal taste which every man has the right to express!

Where the fuck do you want to go with this.

Also who gives a fuck if I don't make movies? Do you make movies? That argument seems to be a popular one recently. If thats your opinon on people's ability to bitch and moan, then why the fuck are you here? Does Harry make movies? This place was created for fans to bitch and moan. Not for George Lucas and Robert Redford to discuss the finer points of making movies.

Right?

The rest of of the movie screams mediocre and forgettable.

HIGH FIVE!

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And I see this problem with all of Jon's work. Was there even a bad guy in Elf or Zauthra? It is probably because he is a really nice guy, maybe he can't create a bad guy on his own?

You don't like Sam Rockwell? You don't like amazingly nuanced acting.

There a funny scene where he wanted everybody to leave so he could administer an exam. I can't say I blame him! lol

Hey, what about the Bridges bridge between King Kong and Iron Man? That's a plate o' shrimp right there.

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And he does a mean Chris Walken.

But the way they did Zaphod's second head was just stupid.

2 things I am glad about: First, JF is back in the directors chair... for whatever reason he understood the material and was able to put together a well made comic book adaptation. So it's a plus he wants to continue with the series. Second, I can't speak for the quality of the script for I2, but in terms of overall production, they may not need as much R&D time. In the first film, there seemed to be a lot of effort and time expended on how to make a plastic suit of "armour" look like metal. What they did was OUTSTANDING... not for a second did it look goofy. Now that they have figured a lot of that stuff out, perhaps the total amount of preproduction needed is less?

However, I also agree that while Tropic Thunder was a lot of fun, I wonder if Theroux has the gumption for it... or even if he does, will the studio fuck with what he creates because he doesn't have a long track record wearing the writer's hat?

Hmmmmm.... I hope my fears are all for not.

Once you scroll down to the Kong section you'll see the tight shirt she wore on the ship, the sideboob shot where Jeff Bridges finds her again on the Island, and a nip shot after a pervy Kong has just pulled down her top.

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Did I mention that I lurve that pic?

Sorry about the IT guys. Death to all IT Monkey Fuckheads!

Bookmark it for when you get home, I guess?

HULKBUSTER ARMOR FTW!!!

The director should had won an Oscar! He knew what he had and took in all the angles! Fuck me, Jessica looks incredible coming and going! Damn!

To think this old movie would make me this happy! My girl don't know what she in for when she gets off from work!

Did that make any sense at all?

I fantasize about women all the time, hell I'm doing it now with Jessica Lange but I know getting some ass from my girl is alot is better.

The gay excuse is overused and so is the "you geeks wouldn't kick so-so out bed" excuse! Who in their right mind would kick a starlet outta bed?

Hell I suspect many wouldn't kick Sarah Palin, Hiliary Clinton, Sarah Jessica Parker, or Julie Roberts outta bed either!

Pussy is pussy and movie star pussy is a once-in-a-lifetime thing! You'd be a fool to pass it up!

Imagine telling your friends or kid that you fucked a movie star! They probably wouldn't believe you but who gives a shit when you know it happen! Just be smart about it and tape it, so you can re-live that shit over and over!

You know, in the early Avengers comics, Tony actually put something on Cap's shield that enabled it to return to him. Eventually, Marvel decided that Cap was badass enough to have the shield return on it's own. But I wonder if they'll return to that gimmick for the movies. I mean, Doesn't that just make more sense?

Typo: 'have the shield return on ITS own.' My bad.

And that makes me "gay"? Fuck off for having a different opinion.

When I'm standing in line for a movie and I hear someone with a differing opinion, I go up and punch them right in the face.

As a result of this, I haven't seen the inside of a movie theater in twelve years.

So, why is it I dread a sequel? Why am I not looking forward to this at all?

I don't get offended when people say they don't like Natalie Portman or Keira Knightley (I do- a lot), so I expect the same when I say I'm not that attracted to ScarJo.

And it's not even a boob shot!

Until Atlantis came around, that is.

GOD DAMN YOU TO HELL REYNOLDS!!

I Guess Lockesbrokenleg doesn't go absurdly nuts and call everyone who disagrees with him a fag.

Favreau directing? Genndy Tartakovsky helping to choreograph "much, much bigger" action sequences? Mickey Rourke channeling his "don't fuck with me" vibe? The advent of War Machine flying around and kicking all kinds of ass? I have no idea what the story will be, but everything I've read speaks well of this movie.

Now where did I put those crazy pills...

One of these days, I'll prob have my great freakout too. Maybe when I see how much Yates screws up the last Harry Potter flick.

But I can also type with regretably vile elocution when the subject is Batman.

Same for you, Stabby, but don't go revealing all your best secrets.

Ordinarily, I (and most others here) ignore any of the DGDB imitators, but your shit is starting to grate. I'm sure you'll take that as good news, too, you fucking troll but there you go. I explained away your fucking beef in one sentence. Go back and read it again. Commit it to memory, if you can you dickless shitty ass fucktard.

But I was talking about some other ad though.

Anyway, when do we get a shot of Sam Rockwell looking all spiffy and smarmy? THAT'S what I'm waiting for now.

All right, you did write that you don't like Scarlett Johansen, which is fine. I happen to think she's good with good directors, "Match Break," "The Prestige," "Lost in Translation," and "Girl With a Pearl Earring" all being examples of this. Favreau I consider a very good director who pushes better-than-expected performances out of his actors. Therefore I think Scarlet will probably excel in this film.

Why else do you think this film will be a "stinker"? Reasons, please. Not throw-away one liners.

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Oh, and Superman pulled a life-size skeleton dressed as a bat out of the left pocket of his panties for some reason.

Superheroes are stupid.

Ok. Makes sense. Thanks for explaining.

They did that shit when they replaced Katie Holms with a man in The Dark Knight and look how shitty that turned out.

Superheroes are fiction and therefore cannot be either smart or stupid. Comic Books as a medium run the gamut from intelligently written (Captain Britain and MI:13) to sublimely dumb (Hulk-God Damn You To Hell, Jeph Loeb. Sorry about your kid and all but Fuck OFF).

I don't think this is the first time I've tried to explain this to you. You can't say art is dumb because of one art show, dig?

Sorry. I left my pamphlet with The Rules over at Joenathan's place when I was trying to get him to concede to the Nah-nah-nah-nahnah footnote trumping the code of "locked up."

But you're welcome to nit-pick continuity if you want.

Because, if we can't agree on that, language no longer has meaning, and we should all join Bruce Wayne sketching mammoths.

And easy-off, velcro panties.

Odo19-Jeph Loeb needs to take a year off and mourn for his kid. He is running my favorite Marvel hero, the Hulk, directly into the goddamn ground and it's severely pissing me the fuck off. Yeah, he's done some great stuff in the past, but he also got the story credit for Arnie's Commando, so....

Speaking of Baywatch, I want Hoff's Fury back! Now THAT was the fun kind of stupid!

I'd actually go even farther than that. I'd say it's dysfunctional group-think caused by jaded self-interest. In other words, those of you calling Johansen ugly are falling into the trap of not being able to think for yourselves.

I'm letting you know it comes across as very juvenile.

And Maggie Gyllenhaal "ugly," Subtitles_Off? Are you serious? Ever see her in "Secretary" or "SherryBaby?" Whoa! By any male standard, NOT ugly. Cute eyes, nice body, smooth voice. I think most people would think she's damn hot.

But you're welcome to your opinion.

ScarJo, she might not be able to act, but she's pretty as a goddamn pink peach in Georgia during the ripe season.

What type of woman might you actually go for? I'm thinking a short, glasses-wearing brunette with a lisp who works at some local establishment. Does that description crank up your libido? Because I understand if someone doesn't think Scarlet is super hot. People have different tastes. But to call a statuesque white blonde with big boobs "ugly"?

Just say she's not your taste. It sounds better.

Superman was shown holding a bat-skeleton in the dead-Supergirl pose from "Crisis on Infinite Earths." Where the skeleton came from is anyone's guess.

It has something to do with multiple Earths and some other stupid comic-book hoo-ha.

Riiiiiiiiiiiight.

You think Scarlet's hot, though, so I give you props for that.

Obviously.

Like, Designing Women was stupid, so all of TV must be stupid as well. Or TF2 was stupid, so all movies must be stupid. Like that.

Any of this starting to sink in yet?

I'm just gonna have to nod my head and move along.

You got rules, or can anyone use that one?

[Waves at Teddy, whom he loves with all his rotten, malformed heart.]

The term "sex symbol" is sort of old-school now, anyway, isn't it? But the idea of it still drives the industry, it's true.

The way I look at it is, a) there are great actresses who are generally considered bombshell hot, b) there are great actresses who aren't bombshell hot but make up for it with talent and presence, c) there are not-terribly-hot actresses who play parts for not-terribly-hot actresses, but who are often equally compelling, and d) there are bad (or boring) actresses, both hot and not-terribly-hot.

I think Johansen falls between a and b. I think Gyllenhaal does too.

BRU-NO!

And fuck yeah, I'm bringin' the vocab.

Move on to staring at that gorgeous pic of the lovely and talented Scary Jo.

(She lets me call her that.)

It's not a bad thing to see Scarlet as hot. That's all I'm saying. Just ask ricarleite, if he's back yet.

I still say you doth protest too much about Scarlet.

Remember him in "Sin City"? He channels bad apples better than most. I hope he brought that level of intensity to the table.

I seem to have a problem getting my point across today.

Should I use you're name next time?

Plus Cock Lesnar is a total asshole.

Don't bother trying to talk sense in here, my man.

But that picture IS pretty hot, no?

Oh, I dropped my shirt.

Piledriver: Tyler Mane

Bulldozer: Randy Couture

Thunderball: Terry Crews.

Hmmm, the team needs some charisma. Who'd be a better beefed-up bitch to play Piledriver? I believe he has a Southern accent, no?

Wrecker: Rourke

Pile Driver: Thomas Hayden Church

Bulldozer: Randy Couture

Thunderball: Michael Jai White.

I like that Rhino idea-we need villains to cross over as much as the heroes, maybe more.

Danny Trejo is not a great actor, or really even a good one, but he works so well in some movies because he looks and acts like a Hispanic thug or convict. Why? Because he used to be a hispanic thug and convict. Same reason why guys like Dolph Lundgren worked good in Rocky IV and why Arnold was cast as Conan = they had builds and size that no actors in Hollywood possessed.

I always prefer a good actor or a good physique or appearance, but sometimes the physical nature of the character is essential. Imagine them casting the Incredible Hulk TV show back in the day before CGI and they decided that Lou Ferrigno wasn't a good enough actor to play the Hulk. I mean, who cares, he is the only one who has the physique to play him.

Lookit -- Here's the IMDB link. Note the character's name that Rourke is playing: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt12 28705/fullcredits#cast

And now, check out Wikipedia's Dynamo entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C rimson_dynamo

Coincidence? Hardly possible.

'Lordy, I'm wounded!' I can hear it now.

For the life of me I fail to understand why they did not just cast one of the many smokin hot Russian Model/Actresses running around today. Scarlett is nothing more than Stunt casting.

To use a weird sports analogy, Johansson is the Shaquille O'Neill of actresses. Everyon just says that Shaq gets by on his height and size, but that obviously can't be true because their are other people who are just as big as him who never make it. He has skills as a b-ball player (especially when posting up, defense and rebounding) but his skills are limited and he does get a huge boost from his size, height strength and deceptive speed. In fact sometimes he demonstrates how much he is lacking in some basic b-ball skills (like when he shoots free throws or tries to dribble or shoot outside). Scarlett Johansson is like that - she is a good star and plays certain parts really well but she is far from a well rounded actress. When you take her out of her comfort area she shows just how limited she can be.

Tony already created a suit of armor, why not a humanoid robot equipped with a lot of his same weapons?

THC is owns a ranch, can do a southern accent, can play funny, dumb guys (Sideways and Wings) and still has the build he developed for Spider-Man 3.

As Ted said, I can imagine him saying "Oh Lordy! I'm bleedin!" like a shocked whiny hick.

Conti-No love for the Pym? Mighty Avengers is freakin great, if you're not reading it. Pym: "Dr.Richards. It's on, bitch."

Bwah-hah-hahahahahahaha!

HOWEVER, I still would have Pym be involved in his creation. I would say that he helped design the artificial intelligence program so it was based more on a living creature and that it is his brain pattern that Ultron is based on. Hence, that is why Ultron truly has an Oedipus complex with his "father": He wants to kill Pym and take his "mother" Janet van Dyne.

I can only see RDJ as Stark when he figures this out: "That is just fucked up."

Although I still think Carla Gugino would have made the better hot-ass villian.

Thunderball:"Yeah, but they still handed us our fucking asses."

And damn what I wouldn't give to be there to see them get down n' dirty!

And as TedKordLives said, Milla Jovovich would had easily been the best BW! I wonder if she was even considered for the part? I sure in hell would've cast her!

H'wood Hellraiser-I'll bet you money she was on the list. I also bet her association with the (mostly) horrid Resident Evil franchise bumped her right off the list. Don't get me wrong, I love the first one, but the second was so god awful that the third could have been Citizen Kane II and it would have been reviled.

Hammer time

I am not saying she looks bad or is an old hag - far from it - but this is the world of film and Hollywood. The audience (strangely both men and women) have shown again and again that unless the actress is an A-name level person they want to see the hot, new thing instead of a respectable female actress. They want the Ingenue. Milla's doesn't have enough name recognition and isn't a high enough caliber star to offset the fact that in the audiences eyes she is "old".

Fair? No. But it is how the world and show business works.

I'm not advocating anyone go back and re-watch that crap to verify.

Can't you just trust me this once?

Seriously, the dude should have won about twelve oscars by now. I can't think of another actor who is consistently as awesome as him. See Moon yet? Go. He actually deserves two oscars for that one.

Fuck, we've been seeing 60 year old men with 30-40 year old actresses for years, but there is a reason that is "acceptable." It is how human nature works, like it or not.

I agree, smarmy (but not camp) slimy, back stabbing, foppish, effeminate and hipper than thou.

And it isn't so much the actress age as much as the fact that she hasn't been in the public's eye that long. Michelle Yeoh was a Bond Girl at 35, but she was still new to the Western audiences. Sharon Stone was 33 when she made Basic Instinct. - far from a young ingenue but she still hadn't appeared in many big movies (supporting role in Total Recall was her big break).

Milla, however, has appeared in the Resident Evil movies, the 5th Element, The Messenger and starred in a number of lower budget ($10-30 million) movies. She is "damaged" goods in the eyes of execs and producers, and probably to audiences as well.

Like I said, I don't agree with this thinking but it is a fact how Hollywood works.

How often can you use breast size as an argument for someone fitting a character?

although... her piecing together the plea "please help" in the back seat of Dallas' cab in The 5th Element is still my favorite part of that film. random, i know.

Personally I think she would rock in the part of Black Widow, and I can't see her turning it down if she was offered it (I am sure she would have down that - a sure fire hit - over a thriller even if it has Norton and Deniro). I think her "getting older" works perfectly for the character - she is called The Black Widow not the The Black Newlywed or the Black Virgin. She needs time for her husband to die and for herself to get trained and become a spy/ass-kicker.

But the Black Widow in the comic also wasn't just big tits, she was muscular and athletic looking, things Scarlett is not. I can't imagine Scarlett knowing Judo or Karate or doing a back flip or swinging on a wire - all things that the Black Widow did.

But I will say this - physicality is not an important feature about Stark. He doesn't have to be ripped or look like a pro athlete - he is a rich guy who wears a suit of armor. You need someone that can portray him as a genius and as a playboy. Charisma, not physicality, is the most important feature about Tony Stark.

Black Widow, Daredevil, Batman, Punisher, those roles require someone who is in shape. Now, I am not saying that Scarlett Johansson couldn't play Black Widow if she had time to train and get in shape, but looking at these photos she doesn't have the physique of the Black Widow from the comic books (at least the one who wore that costume - she could probably pull of the way she looked when she first appeared in the black dress and veil).

Hot or Not..the Lop is right...this is nothing but the Stunt Casting of the hottest available "IT" girl.

If these guys could have found a way to get Megan Fox on board I'm sure they would have...in fact...she would look more the part...after $10M worth of CGI tattoo removal of course.

Sadly..you just Fucking Know Captain America will have stunt casting galore...be set in the modern age..and have a score by Linkin Park.

I think casting the judge in Blood Meridian would be easier.

Captain America IS human perfection. He is 6'2", 240lbs and 2-fucking percent body fat. That means he is about 55lbs heavier than Bale in Batman and still has 1/4th or 1/5th the fucking body fat that he does.

Plus his muscle isn't just for show. He is a master of boxing, wrestling and martial arts. If Cap was in the Olympics he would win gold in all the Track events, plus male every male gymnastics events, the marathon and boxing, wrestling, tae kwon do, judo and probably even some of the swimming events.

Of course, maybe they could do it with special effects. I work in post production but I am far from an expert on what Visual FX guys can do nowadays. Maybe a combination of an athletic actor who is forced to work out for a year, plus CG and a muscle suit for a costume. Who knows?

But when you add the fact that Captain America is the noblest hero in the Marvel Universe and its number one leader, I just get nervous with the casting...

I mean according to you even Arnold at his height could not portray the physical specimen that is Cap.

Relax man, if a scrawny Chris Reeves could be bulked up to play boy blue, someone can be found and chiseled with 'roids to meet your discerning eye!

I bet ScarJo can't even do a convincing legkick or barrel-roll.

Other people can suspend disbelief, but for me it is hard to because I know what size these guys should be. Hell, I have trouble with Bale in TDK because I keep thinking he should add at least another 10-15lbs on his frame if he wants to be able to knock people out.

I admit, it might not bother other people but for me I've got to believe he is Captain America from the comics, and that means he doesn't have super-powers but is instead the peak of human perfection. Sure they are going to get an actor and bulk him up a little, but in my head I will know that isn't the correct size for Captain America. And yes, I understand I will probably just have to accept the fact they won't find a "perfect" cap and live with just some actor who saw a trainer for a year.

And Arnold would have been horrible for Cap. Arnold's a body builder, not an athlete. His muscles are for show not for explosiveness and power. Cap is built more like Ray Lewis than anyone else,

Nothing like racists geeks to fire up a TB!

Plus, lets not kid ourselves, would the US have a black man represent the US of A as Captain America in 1940? I seriously doubt it. Despite the fact we weren't the Nazis, we still were a country with a lot of strong racial beliefs, and I can't think of any person in even FDR's government saying "Ok, we will rally America around a black guy dressed in a patriotic costume and say that he represents what is best about America." Like that would go over well, especially in the south.

The Cap movie should play exactly like the flashbacks in the recent Bru/Epting run (with a touch of Kirby/Simon, and later Steranko). And I'd really like to see a little bit of The Invaders (but I'm dreaming).

Kevin Smith probably is not a douche, but he is thin-skinned and way past his expiration date.

ScarJo was in LOST IN TRANSLATION. I liked that movie. In spite of her performance.

Captain America's movie is going to be set in WWII. Thor's movie is going to lack an alter ego. And Iron Man II is already gonna be an ensemble piece. THE AVENGERS movie looks less and less likely. There's no way you can convincingly pull together that many disparate elements AND make room for Samuel L. Jackson's ego.

Captain America has to have chiselled, unethnic features. He's white toast. Bradley Cooper should apply elsewhere.

I don't get "The Wrestler" love. I just don't. Mickey Rourke is a beat up creep, playing a beat up creep. Of course he was convincing.

Gerard Butler is one dance number away from hosting The Oscars.

Whew!

Hell, I imagine they'll skip having Steve having an origin and corresponding dialect of the Lower East Side.

They need to just be faithful to the comics.

Chiselled chin for the ladies, and wing-thingies on his ears for the gay men.

- Cap witnessing racism on the home front and standing up against it (I want a Humphrey Bogart-Hattie McDaniel kind of thing).

- One of Cap's instructors should be Joe Lewis.

- A scene were Cap has to see a speech coach to get rid of his lower East Side accent. because the US Government can't see someone who sounds like James Cagney representing the "wholesomeness" of American values.

Forgot, it's a period piece.

I wanna see SAVING PRIVATE RYAN a second time, because then, I can skip Captain America.

because right now, ScarJo looks like she always has- I admit, she looks "smaller" now, but that looks like its a result of being anorexic. She's always had a doughy quality, or the potential to be doughy. But she's never been rock hard like someone who's in shape. Had they released a black and white shot of her in a jogging bra, with 6-pack abs and toned shoulders, I'd be allllll over it.

But they didn;t. So Im not impressed.

Smoking hot only in Michael Bay's THE ISLAND.

But, that's okay, too. I tell the bitches it's Superman's insignia.

And am I the only one who thinks he should make the rest of his career out of remaking Charles Bronson movies? He could make a ton of money with reduxs of Death Wish and Telefon and all the other latter-era Bronson movies.

The guy must have asked the plastic surgeon to make him look like Charles "Il Monstro" Bronson when he went under the knife. The resemblance is freaky.

In a movie with RDJ and that psycho Rourke..did we REALLY need another easily recognizable name over someone who actually fit the role? Are they So unsure of the quality of the script they needed to pack the marquee with A listers? Makes me worry.

One Talkbacker already called it, that old cunt Cheney prays every day for a new terrorist attack, just so he can step out of his hyperbolic chamber like Dr. Doom and say, "Bwahahaha!"

Perhaps I'm wrong but female badassery is very difficult to pull off without looking totally fake (basically all the women except Lucy Liu in 'Kill Bill or 'Charlie's Angels', that giant mutant bulbous forehead girl..err I mean Jennifer Garner in 'Daredevil') or totally man-like (Hamilton a little bit in T2, Angelina Jolie in anything 'tough', etc).

SJ looks far too soft...like she should be rolling around on silk sheets with no clothes on and a blonde Marilyn Monroe type hair style...I don't get Russian badass from her at all.

I felt the same about Charlize Theron in 'Aeon Flux'...way too pretty and soft to be a true badass. (yes I saw monster...she wasn't a badass in that either, just a psychopath)

Who are the hotties that pulled off true female badassery without acting like a man or hamming it up so bad that it was obviously fake?

You already know most of em: Weaver as Ripley (of course), Beckingsale as Selene (even if you hate the flicks you gotta admit she kick serious ass without acting like a man or looking like she really can't kick someone's ass), Lucy Liu (and most of the movies have sucked ass but she's always consistent with looking like she's actually capable of kicking ass and doesn't have any masculine aspects whatsoever), etc.

I think it's a difficult magic to work that requires talent not only in front of the lens but behind it in the form of directing and writing.

I'll be glad to be wrong on that with SJ and IM2 tho....but my guess is she'll go the 'Kill Bill' route and walk the fine line between 'passably' real and cartoon bullshit. I'll be happy to be wrong tho....

Since I'm not gay, of course, I could be absolutely wrong.

Ockham's razor.

Lets face it ScarJo acting is on the same level as most tv stars, actually most tv stars are better actors!

So, too, the giant cosmos eating cloud.

IRON MAN had suspension of disbelief going for it. AVENGERS will not. AVENGERS will look like what it is: a good idea on paper, for boys who like to fantasize about musclemen and cosmic hoo-ha - a very, very silly idea for a movie.

There is going to come a time, though, when it is once again acceptable - even encouraged - for jocks to shove Avengers fans' heads in the toilet.

Superheroes are stupid.

ANUS' view doesn't need to "take hold." It is the mainstream view, already taken by the vast majority of people today.

That, I guarantee.

Squawks bad words.

Flies overhead

Drops white turds.

He will do, that to you

And hit you with his cock a too,P>Look out!

Here comes Cockatoo Man.

Here comes Cockatoo Ma-aan!

I hate having power like that!

I know it can be considered blaphemy to impugn QT here at AICN but I still roll my eyes at every second Uma "Manfoot" Thurman is on screen in Kill Bill. Same for Viveca Fox. Both seemingly incapable of channeling feminine badassery on screen.

I think of Scarlett Johanssen and I the last thing I think of is ass kicking. She just seems to be a 'girlie girl' which of course is perfectly fine! But a badass female hero or villain it does NOT make.

Of course, I'd be delighted to be wrong on this...Famke Janssen circa "Deep Rising' would be perfect casting I think altho her Russian accent in that Bond movie was kinda silly.

Surprised you guys aren't pushing for Megan "Dinner Plate Face" Fox...she's the 'gilf du jour' yes?

I'm not saying Scarlett has the undescended testicles to pull this off. I'm just saying looks alone don't seal that deal.

If the director is as good as he thinks he is, and she's a decent listener, and bad-assery is what the script expects of her, then, you never know.

Yeah, that's a lot of "ifs."

Wake 'em up and jeez, what a racket.

Just wanted to clear up any potential confusion.

Actually, I AM in both of those minorities. Carry On.

Or not. Either way, I'm gone for the weekend, so don't bother responding.

Only I know you will anyway. I just ask that you torment AsimovLives relentlessly this weekend, so I can come back to find him a shattered shell of a TB'er. Beetle Ho!

It's a comic book movie folks, she'll do fine.

"They made Tony Stark so gay!"

Gheesh, you're never gonna amount to much around here with that kind of irrational thinking!

[Saunters off, discouraged.]

And I think you're right...she lends herself to 'feminine badassery' easier i think that Scarlett does. I just can't help but see the doe eyes and softness of an SJ compared to the more aquiline and capacity for both soft and hard in women like Kate Beckingsale, Sigourney Weaver, Carrie Ann Moss, etc.

And to the initial response about a 'non badass female' actor portraying a true badass female is possible with a good director, story, actor, etc...

I guess my take is where that talent neutrally sits...is it on the more girlie girl side? Or the more badass side? Femine badass or quasi-masculine badass? And to call ALL female badass-ness lesbian-ish or that the implication is 'butch' is exactly the opposite of what I'm talking about. A woman can pretend to be a badass by acting like a man but there is simply nothing less attractive in a woman than when she channels a man. I don't give a fuck how hot she is, if she acts like a man..I think man...and that's not remotely compelling. Unless that's the angle you're going for...which by putting SJ in tight clothes I think that the angle they're going for is not the bull-dyke & lesbian appeal. Ripley might have dirty tshirts but she's still very much a woman even when she's napalming a nest of alien nasties. She channels a bit masculine in Alien3 but then she tempers the role here and there too...but in the first and second Alien films, she's all female badass without being manlike at all and it's wonderful. Badass females who are badass without being remotely masculine are very attractive to me (ie a strong female is not anti-man or pseudo-man but simply feminine badass which to most people apparently, doesn't exist).

It's a hard niche to catch but it's there for those with talent to utilize...