Monday, 31 January 2011

Who should play a superhero?

I used to love watching the old Wonder Woman series with Lynda Carter when I was a kid. I'm pretty sure that watching Wonder Woman along with She-ra, Thundercats, X-men and Visionaries has contributed to my dream of being a kickass superhero vigilante and also  the strong belief I've had growing up that a girl can do everything a boy can.
 And although I'm only a superhero vigilante in my novels and I only kick ass in Street fighter :-p, I think that having these strong female role models from a young age (despite the swimming costume outfits) has made me a strong woman.
 What's the point of this random delve into my personality? My utter horror at the idea of the new wonder woman being played by someone like Megan Fox or Katy Perry (wtf?). I think the perfect person to play Wonder Woman would be Sarah Lancaster (Ellie from Chuck).

She's tall and amazon-ish, beautiful without looking skanky, looks intelligent and comes across as an overall good person. She did annoy me a bit in Everwood but I think she's great in Chuck. Brunette suits her so much better than blonde.

What do you think? Anyone else agree that Wonder Woman should be classy not trashy?










James Franco & Topher Grace
I know Spiderman came out ages ago but this has been preying on my mind for 3 years. I think Topher Grace should have played Spiderman instead of blander than bland Tobey Maguire. It says something when an actor who has done movies since childhood is dwarfed by a TV actor in his own big superhero movie.
I was truly surprised by Topher's screen presence in Spiderman 3, he did such an awesome job! He's such a smart-alecy kinda geeky guy, he would have been a perfect Spiderman and those three movies could have been soooooo much better. Ah well. There were only two good things in Spiderman 3 and they both got killed off by the end. Actually Sandman was alright too.
Not that I don't think Tobey Maguire is a good actor, I've liked a lot of his movies. He just really didn't suit as Spiderman.

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