Typhoid Daddy
I just saw My Babies Daddy recently. The suprising thing is that Miramax put this shit out. Oh, and my mother was the one who bought the DVD. Bad title to be sure. Sounds like something that might come on cable’s black power channel, BET. Or whatever. The title makes the movie sound worser than it actually was. I was expecting a silver screened minstrel show. What I got was minstrel-lite with weak ass social commentary. And if many of the outtakes had made the cut, well, let’s just say that Homeboys From Outer Space might have lost its spot as the comedy black folks hate worse. Just think what heart attacks Jesse and Bill Cosby would have had then.
Elektra’s New Costume: Hot, But Not Too Hot
Spiderman just came out. I saw. It was good. Now I move on. I think the next big comic book movie might be Elektra. It’s getting major buzz right now. And everybody’s talking about the new Elektra costume look, which mostly mirrors the comic book version. I’m half-hearted about it. I’ve got to see some trailers, some more pictures, web site screen shots. I need something more to get me rolling. The movie’s definitely getting better pre-press than Punisher, which I kind of felt would tank. But it’s no where near the pub that the first Spiderman, or even the Incredible Hulk, got, which I might add was a better movie than most people might expect.
It looks like the movie will try to stay true to the comic book version, the female anti-hero, hot chick in red, back from the dead, trained to kill and destroy. The main villain will be Typhoid Mary, played by Natassia Malthe, whoever the hell she might be. Never heard of her. I could’ve done a Google and found out the crap she’s been in, but it would only be a waste of time. Although, she does look pretty good, even though she doesn’t seem to resemble Typhoid Mary one bit. She would probably have to be on a bad Courtney Love heroin binge to do the part justice. Maybe take hair styling tips from Kelis.
The plot: Elektra is sent by the Hand to kill the foreign dude slut doctor on ER and his daughter. Goran Veal chops, or some shit like that. Garner can’t go through with it and helps them to escape. The Hand then gets Malthe-model-chick to go and track them all down. And the big hoop-de-doo goes in effect. Sounds pretty standard. In fact, I think I might have seen this movie before. I just can’t put my finger on the name of that movie. I wanna say Terminator, but that ain’t it. Plus, he never starts off trying, wait maybe the third. I don’t know. I’m thinking of something else, another movie. Forget it.
Elektra still looks like it could turn out to be pretty good, especially if the two top chicks are dressed right. We already know that Elektra’s costume won’t be as revealing as it is in the comic book, but the skin tight leather pants have got to go. I’ll live with some biker shorts type shit. Julian! And if you got a hot ass model-turned-actress in your movie, you gotta get her half-naked. Trust me, design means everything in some shit like this. It could make or break the movie.
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