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So rozk and I had a nice lunch, a sit by the river in the sunshine and saw Kung Fu Panda which was great fun as well as warm and funny - if marred by Hollywood using yet another English accented villain for the Chinese Snow Leopard. and Wanted

Where to start with Wanted other than how could a film so good be so bad. The stunts, especially the car ones and the shootings were awesome. Angelina and James McAvoy had great chemistry. Morgan Freeman got to play a role with a lot less 'Magical Negro' than most of his roles. It kept some of the good bits from the comics - though it did gut most of them. Shit got fucked up big time.

But they played the Luke, I am your father card for real, not as a punchline. It drowned in Daddy Angst after doing the doggy paddle in it. It had a plot lifted out of a bad episode of Alias, complete with a Father Figure called Sloan who deceives and destroys his quasi-children, family ties reveals with no testing of the truth by our protagonist and worse - a magic loom providing names fate wanted dead for a thousand year old secret society of weaver assassins. Yes, instead of the honest amorality of the comic's supervillains took over the world and most people don't know and we follow the least bad - yet utterly bad complete with show as opposed to tell - supervillains as they war among themselves plot we get magic looms. Magic looms that tell all the assassins to kill themselves at the end with sod all in the way of replacements, or so they're told from a Sloan they know has made up targets for his own gain before. And Fox believes him and kills them all with one bullet that does a circle through multiple heads before killing herself. This from a Fox with a Daddy was tortured to death in front of me and I was branded rather than the more honest comic version of it was supervillianhood or basketball and she couldn't play basketball. All of this in a moralistic throwback of all of them except Daddy Issues boy and replacement Daddy have to die for their (wholly inadequate bodycount) crimes rather than Fox and Wesley get to be head supervillians of the Americas and live happily ever after fucking shit up, while Wesley does what his one Daddy wanted and kill him himself before he got taken out by anyone else since he was losing his edge. I could understand why they took out the race and rape stuff and even Fuckwit. That made sense. But they also took out Shithead and the Doll Maker:( No bleaching and rats rather than killer dolls:( And no even eviler supervillians taken out. And cuckolding Worst BFF Ever got clomped with a keyboard rather than chopped up and put in a dumpster:( And Fox and Weley didn't even get to have sex:( For goodness sake, it was an R rated film. Morgan Freeman got to say Fuck. They shoot people, they could at least have had sex. AKA they would have produced a far better film by sticking closer to the comic rather than going sub-Alias. I mean, even Rambaldi made the Loom would have made more sense than the Loom of Fate aka God made me kill those people so it isn't really the characters fault, please don't hurt us Mid-West cop-out.

In other observations, Angelina has absolutely enormous feet but was born to play the Black Widow in an Avengers movie.

And in a Daleks vs the Marvel Universe crossover, the children of Skaro have one observation, DALEKS DO NOT WEAR SPANDEX