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Rudd was the best part of Clueless.

Also, the direct link to this article isn't working (I had to click on the read review link next to the print link below the photo).

Whoever cast Nic Cage in a Phillip K Dick adaptation should be shot. Seriously. That makes my soul cry.

Actually the fact that Nic Cage is still getting cast in anything makes my soul cry so this isn't really all that exceptional.

Dammit, if it wasn't for all that Ruddness, I could have ignored that trailer. Now my interest is peaked.

All I ask is that one day someone could do a PKD movie without feeling like they have to change the story so goddamn much. I get that there is going to be some editing and such, but this insistence of taking his already excellent and often cinematic stories and stripping away anything cool about them in order to turn it into a crappy action flick is going to make me hurt someone.

The first few times I saw glimpses of Next it I thought it was ghostrider - it just looks like they made it from outtakes of other movies.

Hey, I know it's the telly and not film, but how about acknowledging the kick-ass Robin Hood series on BBC America at the moment? There hasn't been a villain as appealing as Guy of Gisbourne on my screen for a long long time (I miss you Al Swearingen) even if the appeal is physical this time.

Word, PaddyDog.

I am actually going through a mini-Robin Hood fetish at the moment--I just discovered Howard Pyle and his late-Victorian version of the Adventures. I can't recommend it enough--it's full of merry men, saucy fellows, young varlets, and an AWESOME chapter on the meeting of Robin, John and Will Stutley, with Will Scarlet, that starts out reading like pure old-school homophobic bombast but winds up taking the piss out of the first three merry yobs when the "flower-sniffing, crimson dandy" effing OWNS them with his unexpected strength.

Howard, I had no idea!

Um, shouldn't it be Larry the Fucking Cable Guy? I really think that should be the only way his name can be spoken or written.

Dustin,

Not to take anything away from your powers of deduction, but Rainn Wilson should rent Can't Buy Me Love and its remake Love Don't Cost A Thing before he claims Girlfriend Experience as his "own idea."

I giggled for about 4 straight minutes at the reminder of the "beer me" joke. And wasn't there like a similar character to the Green Arrow in Darkwing Duck? Or am I thinking of something else?

The Green Arrow costume is closest to the Disney version of Robin Hood...I'm still looking forward to it. And, I can't wait to see Cage as Fu Manchu!

I don't know who started the Matt Damon/Green Arrow rumor, but I bet I know HOW it got started.

Green Arrow was one of those goofy characters who got re-invented in the mid/late eighties when the success of Watchmen and Dark Knight Returns transformed mainstream comics into a space where mature, sophisticated stories could be told. Among the characters who suddenly became respectable in this way were Daredevil and Green Arrow.

Now, a little while back, Kevin Smith brought Marvel's Daredevil out of a decade-long slump in sales by penning a series of issues that took the character back to this grittier era in his history, and it was pretty good as these things go. You may recall that Kevin Smith had a bit part in the movie Daredevil (which, sadly, did not benefit from his work on the comic). You may or may not be aware that Smith was somewhat responsible for his buddy Affleck GETTING the title role in that film.

Now, it happens that Smith once offered a challenge to DC Comics - that if they would let him write Green Arrow, he'd make it a top selling comic again. They did and he did, respectively. So, much like Daredevil, Smith is responsible for making the character a going concern again in comics, and thus possibly for making the character potentially marketable in a movie.

And Smith is ALSO friends with Damon.

I agree that Damon's taste in directors means he almost CERTAINLY won't be in this impending disaster. Likewise, given that Smith's association with the Daredevil movie was limited to a cameo role (even if you don't like his work, a little writing assist from him couldn't have HURT the damn thing), I don't think he's gonna be heavily involved in Green Arrow. But if he is... it's possible. Damon has showed up in a number of Smith's films, as a way of giving props back to the guy who helped get Good Will Hunting made.

So that's my theory on HOW that rumor got started, anyway. True or not... I don't know.

Just in case anyone thinks the Green Arrow thing is a good idea, even factoring in Kevin Smith's turn at the wheel in the comic, here's a bit from Wikipedia on the "re-booted" Green Arrow:

the soul of Oliver Queen is contacted by Hal Jordan during the The Final Night event, who wants to bring Queen back to life before he sacrifices his life to save Earth because he regrets not having been there to save him. Queen refuses, preferring the peace of Heaven, but finally allows Jordan to resurrect his body by using Oliver's DNA taken from Superman's costume following Oliver's incineration into minute particles. However, Hal constructed a version of the Green Arrow from before the Mike Grell run, such that he was less flawed and more heroic. Oliver returns to crime fighting, but is evidently traumatized by the experience of resurrection. He lives as a vagabond in the back alleys of Star City, creating a costume and weapons from garbage and castoff material.

Ri-iiiight. This is why comic books are so goddamn ridiculous these days, and why we should be a bit more selective in which ones get made into movies.

Hey, let's not dis the Disney fox version of Robin Hood. He was much better than Kevin Costner.

I second TK's sentiment. It's just ridiculous! On top of the fact that Matt Damon IS way too choosy to be seen in a movie that horrid.

DNA from...superman's...cape. Wow, whole new levels of suck! Quite frankly I'm impressed.

Agreed, PaddyDog. I make a point to watch Robin Hood ... and that says something. Jonas Armstrong...yes, more please.
I love that Guy of Gisborne is in leather. Hilarious. Is it Munch or Much? The accents confuse me. He's the perfect sidekick. Love him.
So the Goyer dude directed The Invisible...and yet I'be been looking forward to seeing that since January or whenever I first heard about it. Please tell me it's going to be good and I've not wasted so many months anticipating.

"pimple-scarred fanboys with achy wrists"

AHAHAHA... water came out my nose.

I'm with TK. There's a reason I don't read superhero comics anymore. Alas.

Green Arrow is also a screaming left-wing liberal who gets into fights with Superman over being too authoritarian.

Also I think he has at least one biracial kid and a HIV-positive... sidekick? Lover?

Not exactly my forte but I'm sure wiki has all the answers.

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I hate myself for aloowing my geek flag fly like this, but
Green Arrow is also a screaming left-wing liberal who gets into fights with Superman over being too authoritarian.

He fights with Batman
It is a the sidekick (kind-of-adoptedish daughter) who has HIV

Thanks for the support Ranylt and Rebekah (actually, Ranylt, I would have put money on you backing me up based on your posts here in Pajiba to date).
Rebekah: it's "Much" but I don't know the significance behind the name.
Jonas Armstrong is pretty hot, but my bad-boy love that I experienced in real life when I was in my 20s (which got me into a lot of trouble) is back with a vengeance because I have major hots for Guy of Gisborne. Oh dear!

Hmmm...I haven't seen the new RH BBC series but I fully expect to adore it (based on trailers, articles, content!, producers, etc.)

Can't say I have much of a bad-boy complex myself (if you don't count my already-noted knee-weakness over BSG's Gaius Baltar which is probably more due to the long auburn hair/tight little body/brilliant scientist elements), but based on PD's posts, I'm now looking forward to meeting this Guy of Gisborne of whom she speaks...

Let that geek flag fly.

He fights with Batman

On the episode of Justice League Unlimited I caught, he was arguing with Superman over the right of the Justice League's giant floating spaceship thingie to have an enormous space laser on it, and whether superheroes ought to have special rights above normal citzens.

If it's different in the comics, I think that means he fights with everyone.

(I am shamefully, woefully lax in my DC knowledge, more of a Marvel reader until this 'Civil War' crap pulled out my heart and showed it to me.)

That Jessica person has better exposure on the web than doing parts on any Lohan films. If box office results remain consistent NOBODY is gonna watch that shit.

Who keeps hiring Nicolas Cage? Seriously. There are people who don't hate him and his crap acting?

I'm was loving that trailer right up until the second "There She Goes" started playing. That has to be among the top five most over used in film trailers pop songs.

The Condemned... is anyone else reminded of Battle Royale?

Except, you know, without the reluctant junior school kids. Or quality.

If it's different in the comics, I think that means he fights with everyone.

I was talking about the books - he and Bats do consistently fight over their philosophical differences. But that is the kind of fight he has so maybe it is everyone.

Really flying that flag if I'm willing to argue about this stuff with strangers. Damm

We're men, we're men in tights, TIGHT tights!

Sorry, any time someone says Robin Hood, that song starts playing in my head

I love Pajiba. I know I've probably said that a couple of times, and I'm also pretty drunk right now, but I just read this whole thing and I laughed several times, fairly hard. I LOVE Pajiba. You know, I never actually tried to find out, but who came up with the idea of a movie/whatever review site for people who are assholes? I LOVE IT.

I will always love it. Pajiba, please don't ever stop being my lover.

Hahaha, thank you, kdm! I LOVE Robin Hood: Men in Tights!!!

Funny bit of info about The Green Arrow,

I was reading People magazine recently (ONLY because I like doing the simplistic crossword at the end, it makes me feel intelligent). ANYWAYS, there was a short Q&A interview with Adam Brody in which he mentioned that he recently pitched The Green Arrow with some director (perhaps jon kasdan) too a studio exec. According to Brody, the exec was none too impressed.

Ok, in all honesty I really do like Adam Brody...but him as The Green Arrow? That just doesn't fly.

Unpopular Pajiba opinion: can't see the appeal of Rudd. There. I've said it.

I loved Clueless. Rudd wasn't actually the most appealing part of the film, more like the entire cast was and the dialogue was really funny. Best goddam teen film in a long time. And that whole Mighty Mouse news made me react in the exact same way, they're all just running out of ideas so they have to resort to Mighty Mouse, I barely enjoyed that cartoon as a kid anyway...

Maybe I missed it, but nobody seemed to be ragging on the Rudd film for being waaayyy too close on the heels of "Prime," a supposed comedy in which -- sigh -- Uma Thurman macks on a younger man. Laughs did not ensue.

That said, the Rudd version looks much more enjoyable. And I loves me some Jon Lovitz. And some Michelle Pfeifer. But they would never have been together under any circumstances.