Koreans are not going to be happy about this:

For those that don’t know, there’s going to be a G.I. Joe movie, set to be released in August 2009. If you grew up in the 80’s and watched these cartoons, you knew too well the famous phrase PSA: Knowing is half the battle

New pictures from the movie were leaked about a month ago, but I just got a chance to look at them today. Many fans say the casting is good, but the costumes look cheezy. You be the judge. (In true cartoon fashion, why couldn’t they make Duke blonde?)

General Hawk

Duke

Baroness

Breaker

Destro

Ripcord

Storm Shadow

Scarlett

(Personally, I think she looks too young for this role.)

Heavyduty

Covergirl

As a side note, Korean actor, Lee Byung-hun plays Storm Shadow, whose face will be covered most of the time. Ray Park plays Snake Eyes, who I initially though was a Korean-American actor. In fact, he’s from Glasgow and played the characters Darth Maul in The Phantom Menace, and Toad in X-Men.

Storm Shadow also has a leisure suit. Look at those shoes! He’s rockin’ the 2001 Korean men’s shoe fashion.

I’m pretty excited that Taylor Kitsch is set to play Gambit for all three Wolverine movies.  Taylor plays my and Allison’s favorite character on Friday Night Lights: Riggins.  Josh Halloway of Lost was in talks to play Gambit, but he declined, saying it was too similar to Sawyer, his character on Lost.  Plus, I’m pretty sure he’s busy filming Lost.  Finally, Gambit is in an X-Men movie.

The best part of the article are all the comments at the bottom.  Comic book fans have some pretty strong feelings about who plays the characters they’ve grown up with.  The following made me laugh.  So, what are your thoughts?  Who’s your favorite X-Men character?

Posted by: jake on February 19, 2008 at 08:04:45

I’m sick of all the complaining where Gambit is going to fit in to this story. First, you all complain that Gambit isn’t in any of the movies. And now, he is in this movie, and you’re still complaining! You should be thankful he’s even in this film. You ever think the writer and director did this for you guys? It’s either this or no Gambit. So stop complaining and be thankful for this. 

Posted by: raybia on February 19, 2008 at 09:14:51

Oh my god, taylor kitsch is Gambit?! TAYLOR KITSCH IS GAMBIT!!
Who in the hell is Taylor Kitsch? 

I’ve been watching a lot of movies during these past two weeks that Ras has been gone.  In order, this is what I’ve seen.  It’s the first time I’ve seen any of these movies, except for Pride and Prejudice (2005), which is one of my favorite movies.

1. Atonement *
2. Juno *
3. National Treasure: Book of Secrets
4. The Nines
5. Pride and Prejudice (2005)
6. Pride and Prejudice (1995)
7. Beowulf (2007)
8. Footloose
9. Fame  The DVD file was corrupt, I only watched part of the movie
10. Bee Movie
11. Blade Runner
12. Rocky Horror Picture Show  The DVD file was corrupt, I only watched part of the movie
13. There Will Be Blood *

* = Oscar nominations

I’m also trying to watch all five Oscar nominations for “Best Picture of the Year.”  I’ll finish off the list by watching Michael Clayton and No Country for Old Men by the end of this week.  What’s the best movie you’ve seen lately?

On Friday, Peter asked me what I had planned for the weekend.  “You guys are usually doing something or another, right?”  Yeah, that’s usually the case.  This past weekend, though, was 48 hours of pure, unadulterated lounging.  It involved sleeping in, strong coffee, internet surfing, movie watching, bacon pizza, wine sipping, nibbling on persimmons and chestnuts, and absolutely no housework at all.

Today at work, we were all talking about the new E-2 visa regulations.  In addition, it looks like we’ve hired a new teacher - a friend of Bart’s.  He’s from Kentucky and has a banjo!  During my children’s class today, I took the kids out to collect leaves.  It was nice to go for a walk in the fall weather and play with the kids as we threw dried leaves on each other and had a contest to find the biggest leaf.  We’ll be making these leaf wreaths this week.  It’s very easy and instructions can be found here.

The movies I watched this weekend:

• American Gangster - Good!  Can you believe Frank Lucas was clearing $1 million a day from selling heroin in the late 60s?  Very interesting story.
•  Hot Rod - Terrible.  I fell asleep for most of the movie.  When I did manage to wake up, I fell back asleep because it was so dumb.
• Shoot ‘Em Up - Good.  It was action packed and held my interest, but most of the scenes were just down right ridiculous.  Logic and laws of gravity were completely ignored.  Still, I think that was part of its appeal.