- dying to get hold of the script to JAWS 3/PEOPLE 0. Curse these script stores and their payment needs!
- Yay! Alice in Chains are reforming! Nay! I won't get to see them.
- don't people realize the difference between making good fake n00dz and bad fake n00dz? What's more realistic, showing Avril Lavigne pulling her top up or having her done in the butt by three guys?
- watch the original Star Trek show 'Balance of Terror' - it's bigotry, WWII submarine battles and warmongering Spock all in one!
- um... stay in school!
Tuesday, March 28, 2006
Monday, March 20, 2006
Miles Davis
Don't get me wrong, I like Miles Davis. He's not the first person I go to in jazz (that would be Coleman Hawkins, love the guy) but he's always been a stand-up dude. However, it seems like every wannabe non-mainstreamer in the world talks about how much they love Kind of Blue, but NEVER EVER mention any other artist or record.
It just really bugs me the fuck out. Fine, use him as a jumping point, but don't use him as some kind of attempt to impress people.
It just really bugs me the fuck out. Fine, use him as a jumping point, but don't use him as some kind of attempt to impress people.
Sunday, March 19, 2006
Catching Up
I'm really tired and I have a lot of work to do, so I'm going to do a summary of what I've done over the past week or so, what rocked, and what sucked. So, here it is:
- SHARKS 3D at the IMAX. There's no John Putch, but it was damn good. Except for the warbling at the end, but hell, I didn't know so many shark species were that endangered.
- STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES is pretty fucking expensive, but it's so much fun watching these episodes again.
- KISS KISS, BANG BANG is the best movie I've seen since OLDBOY.
- Tim Sale and Jeph Loeb have the amazing ability to make me cry while reading comics. They did it with SPIDER-MAN: BLUE, and they've just done it again on my second reading of SUPERMAN FOR ALL SEASONS.
- 'One' still has the best solo ever (take that, Rhoads!)
- "Rokken" is my favourite word at the moment (thanks Gray).
- BATTLESTAR GALACTICA is still the best show on TV by miles (more on this later).
- We bought oven gloves.
- SHARKS 3D at the IMAX. There's no John Putch, but it was damn good. Except for the warbling at the end, but hell, I didn't know so many shark species were that endangered.
- STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES is pretty fucking expensive, but it's so much fun watching these episodes again.
- KISS KISS, BANG BANG is the best movie I've seen since OLDBOY.
- Tim Sale and Jeph Loeb have the amazing ability to make me cry while reading comics. They did it with SPIDER-MAN: BLUE, and they've just done it again on my second reading of SUPERMAN FOR ALL SEASONS.
- 'One' still has the best solo ever (take that, Rhoads!)
- "Rokken" is my favourite word at the moment (thanks Gray).
- BATTLESTAR GALACTICA is still the best show on TV by miles (more on this later).
- We bought oven gloves.
Thursday, March 16, 2006
Justice For Puppets
I'm not really the metal head I used to be, but when I was majorly into it, METALLICA was always the number one, as I'm sure it was with most. Hell, I remember the first record I ever bought was one of theirs. My sister gave me cash to go away because I had gone after school to bother her at her job, so I nabbed into Woolworths to spend the moolah. I was about eleven years old, and by then, I'd been given tapes of Iron Maiden and Black Sabbath and the like, so I wasn't really uneducated per say. But I was glancing around, and my hand instinctively went to the shelf to grab this.
Well, okay, it wasn't that, because I didn't get a CD player until later so I had to make do with the cassette (remember those, folks?). Of course, later I'd buy it not only on CD but also vinyl, but that's besides the point. I took that record home, and in a week, it was my best friend. Christ, I even got together with friends and performed a shitty mimed version of "One," which I still maintain has the greatest solo in known existence.
So that record changed me. But why I'm writing this here and now, is because of something that's happened in recent years. Something it pains me to relay.
Metallica now suck. Worse than that, they're assholes. I don't really have to tell you that after the whole Napster debacle, but it bears repeating, especially as in our youth, these guys were fucking gods. I don't know what happened though. Perhaps it was Bob Rock.
I liked The Black Album, but it was terribly overproduced, and both Load and Reload had very little to recommend them, aside from "Until It Sleeps" and "The Unforgiven II" perhaps. And St. Anger was fucking awful, almost as bad as the track they did with Marianne Faithful. I think one of the biggest things was Jason Newsted leaving. That was the final straw that broke Metallica's back, really - from then on, they were corporate rock through and through.
I'm kind of hopeful, even after what they've become, that their next record might be good. Mainly cause Rick Rubin is at the production deck, and christ, who wouldn't wish to have him as producer? I just hope it is fucking good.
Please?
Well, okay, it wasn't that, because I didn't get a CD player until later so I had to make do with the cassette (remember those, folks?). Of course, later I'd buy it not only on CD but also vinyl, but that's besides the point. I took that record home, and in a week, it was my best friend. Christ, I even got together with friends and performed a shitty mimed version of "One," which I still maintain has the greatest solo in known existence.
So that record changed me. But why I'm writing this here and now, is because of something that's happened in recent years. Something it pains me to relay.
Metallica now suck. Worse than that, they're assholes. I don't really have to tell you that after the whole Napster debacle, but it bears repeating, especially as in our youth, these guys were fucking gods. I don't know what happened though. Perhaps it was Bob Rock.
I liked The Black Album, but it was terribly overproduced, and both Load and Reload had very little to recommend them, aside from "Until It Sleeps" and "The Unforgiven II" perhaps. And St. Anger was fucking awful, almost as bad as the track they did with Marianne Faithful. I think one of the biggest things was Jason Newsted leaving. That was the final straw that broke Metallica's back, really - from then on, they were corporate rock through and through.
I'm kind of hopeful, even after what they've become, that their next record might be good. Mainly cause Rick Rubin is at the production deck, and christ, who wouldn't wish to have him as producer? I just hope it is fucking good.
Please?
Wednesday, March 15, 2006
The Scarface Conundrum
I like that title. It sounds like it could be an episode title for THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E.
"Tonight's episode: THE SCARFACE CONUNDRUM - Act 1: A Deadly Embellishment"
But seriously, what I'm talking about is this sudden jump on the SCARFACE bandwagon. Like, SCARFACE is a decent flick. It's not DePalma's best, but not his worse. It's a decent flick made better by a great Pacino performance. I have no real issue about the movie, but instead its sudden resurface in popular culture. You know what I mean.
As much as I love the idiot, I have no desire to buy posters of Homer Simpson in the style of the SCARFACE poster. Because it's dumb. And annoying. What's the deal with this? Are we going to see posters of Mickey Mouse, complete with eye makeup and Droog mask bludgeoning Minnie to death with a six foot ceramic penis?
Actually, that might be kind of cool.
"Tonight's episode: THE SCARFACE CONUNDRUM - Act 1: A Deadly Embellishment"
But seriously, what I'm talking about is this sudden jump on the SCARFACE bandwagon. Like, SCARFACE is a decent flick. It's not DePalma's best, but not his worse. It's a decent flick made better by a great Pacino performance. I have no real issue about the movie, but instead its sudden resurface in popular culture. You know what I mean.
As much as I love the idiot, I have no desire to buy posters of Homer Simpson in the style of the SCARFACE poster. Because it's dumb. And annoying. What's the deal with this? Are we going to see posters of Mickey Mouse, complete with eye makeup and Droog mask bludgeoning Minnie to death with a six foot ceramic penis?
Actually, that might be kind of cool.
Tuesday, March 14, 2006
Baseball
Sorry, don't get it. Someone explain to me in less than five hundred words why this sport is anywhere towards good.
Introductions
Here's the deal: I'm really bored. I have very little to do right now as I have major insomnia and writer's block. So, I'm going to make a few mentions of the folks I link to on the right, cause y'know, I don't think I ever have.
Lisa - The girl I'm marrying. She hasn't updated in like five months, but we've been busy doing domesticated stuff, so she's excused. She's awesome, too. Which is why I'm marrying her. Duh.
Katanga - If I was to be pressed to say if I had an internet best friend, it would be this guy. He's one of the few guys here I've actually met in real life, and he's a standup guy. Go Smirk on his Effrontery, as it's always a good read and keeps a nice balance between the geek and the serious.
Chest - He's Mexican, but don't hold that against him. He's a solid guy, and if an army of babies were attacking me, I knew he'd be at my back with a pitchfork.
Shane - Shane is a big racist. He likes to post bits from his funny school where he learns from some guy I've never heard of, but he's still a racist. However, unlike in the They Might Be Giants song, he's still My Racist Friend.
Helix - Brad is very bald, and very gay, and hates everything but comics. He sits in his stronghold of hatred all day, reading Essential trades and spitting at the internet. He occasionally comes out to play, but we usually insult him so he goes back in like that big insect in BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA that 'will come out no more.'
Z-Man - Chris is very smart, and very cool. He's very much into his music, and his retrofuturisticabilia, and he digs the old Batman show. Usually when he posts on CHUD, he and Dave-B make me feel dumb.
Gray - Gray is an actual cool guy from Atlanta. He's completely unpretentious, he has good music taste and enjoys the art of blogging. Dude's also a big Michael Mann fan, IIRC.
Hellboy - This cat is the scourge of the internet geek scene, as he's not only cooler, but also more informed than about 99% of them. I'm sure if you took a sample of his blood and mixed it with a hammer, it'd like, turn into Thor. Maybe.
Billz - Gonna pay my Billz, gonna pay my automo Billz. I think the song went like that. If so, that's pretty nifty. Bill is a poet, and a good one. At least I think he is, I hate poetry.
Carl - I think Carl is black, but I'm not sure. I know he's a geek though. I can't hold that against him, because I used to play D&D weekly, and tried to make it with an Elf Queen. She just wasn't having it though.
What a fucking priss.
Lisa - The girl I'm marrying. She hasn't updated in like five months, but we've been busy doing domesticated stuff, so she's excused. She's awesome, too. Which is why I'm marrying her. Duh.
Katanga - If I was to be pressed to say if I had an internet best friend, it would be this guy. He's one of the few guys here I've actually met in real life, and he's a standup guy. Go Smirk on his Effrontery, as it's always a good read and keeps a nice balance between the geek and the serious.
Chest - He's Mexican, but don't hold that against him. He's a solid guy, and if an army of babies were attacking me, I knew he'd be at my back with a pitchfork.
Shane - Shane is a big racist. He likes to post bits from his funny school where he learns from some guy I've never heard of, but he's still a racist. However, unlike in the They Might Be Giants song, he's still My Racist Friend.
Helix - Brad is very bald, and very gay, and hates everything but comics. He sits in his stronghold of hatred all day, reading Essential trades and spitting at the internet. He occasionally comes out to play, but we usually insult him so he goes back in like that big insect in BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA that 'will come out no more.'
Z-Man - Chris is very smart, and very cool. He's very much into his music, and his retrofuturisticabilia, and he digs the old Batman show. Usually when he posts on CHUD, he and Dave-B make me feel dumb.
Gray - Gray is an actual cool guy from Atlanta. He's completely unpretentious, he has good music taste and enjoys the art of blogging. Dude's also a big Michael Mann fan, IIRC.
Hellboy - This cat is the scourge of the internet geek scene, as he's not only cooler, but also more informed than about 99% of them. I'm sure if you took a sample of his blood and mixed it with a hammer, it'd like, turn into Thor. Maybe.
Billz - Gonna pay my Billz, gonna pay my automo Billz. I think the song went like that. If so, that's pretty nifty. Bill is a poet, and a good one. At least I think he is, I hate poetry.
Carl - I think Carl is black, but I'm not sure. I know he's a geek though. I can't hold that against him, because I used to play D&D weekly, and tried to make it with an Elf Queen. She just wasn't having it though.
What a fucking priss.
Monday, March 13, 2006
10, 000 Days? It Feels That Long...
...since we've had a new album by TOOL, at one time in my life my favourite band. They still have a lot of cred with me, so I'm happy that in May their new record comes out, named 10, 000 Days. The title of this entry is related to the fact that they seem to take aons to bring out their CDs. It was okay for a while (1996's Ænima came three years after 93's Undertow, which itself was a short year after their 92 debut EP, Opiate.) but it was a loooong five years until 2001's Lateralus, a record at first I wasn't hot on, but I now see as their crowning glory.
So yeah, I'm excited. They're also playing Download festival this year, although I can't see myself going. Don't get me wrong, I've been and enjoyed it before (the head of my profile pic is me at Download 2004) but I don't have the money to really shell out for a festival to see one band, especially one I've seen twice before. The other acts playing range from lame (Korn, Metallica) to ultra-lame (Cradle of Filth), and I really despise the venue, so I really can't be fucked. If only they could actually come to Bristol for once.
So yeah, I'm excited. They're also playing Download festival this year, although I can't see myself going. Don't get me wrong, I've been and enjoyed it before (the head of my profile pic is me at Download 2004) but I don't have the money to really shell out for a festival to see one band, especially one I've seen twice before. The other acts playing range from lame (Korn, Metallica) to ultra-lame (Cradle of Filth), and I really despise the venue, so I really can't be fucked. If only they could actually come to Bristol for once.
Infrequent Viewing, Part 2
Hooray! The weekend is excellent in many ways, and one of those is because it's usually my chance to sit down and watch a shitload of flicks. We didn't watch a shitload, but we watched a few, some good, some bad, but mostly entertaining. Mostly.
X2
Y'know, I've always really liked this movie. I never understand why people are so down on Bryan Singer, especially with how good this flick is. But this time, it was better than ever before, and I have to be perfectly honest, and I realize this might get me kicked out of the geek caboose: I think it's better than SPIDER-MAN 2. Mainly because it's way more emotionally satisfying. Don't get me wrong, the action in SM2 is the best in any comic film ever, and the stuff with Doc Ock is amazing. But the whole MJ story just leaves me cold, especially when it's capped off with that stunningly awful bridal-march-by-the-fountain, which I expected to see in something like AMERICAN PIE VII, not a Raimi picture.
I guess the whole Jean Grey thing just really tips it over the edge for me. I'll get misty-eyed at the bank scene of SM2, because it's the purest form of literal comic-to-movie translation there's ever been. But most of the tears come when Ms. Grey goes under. I think I'm also more involved due to the acting. Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, The Cox, Alan Cumming, they're all spectacular. The only real bad parts is James Marsden's acting and Wolverine crying. But otherwise, I love it to bits.
KING ARTHUR
This movie SUCKS. Don't ever watch it. Seriously.
SUPERMAN II
This movie is great, if only for the following line:
'Lex Luthor, Ruler of Australia: Activate the machine!'
Also watched: the last three discs of Season Four of FUTURAMA, which is still the most amazing thing ever, the last episode of STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION, with the funky Enterprise with three engines, lots of BATMAN: THE ANIMATED SERIES including most of Paul Dini's episodes, and the truly awful MTV SPIDER-MAN cartoon. Horrible stuff.
X2
Y'know, I've always really liked this movie. I never understand why people are so down on Bryan Singer, especially with how good this flick is. But this time, it was better than ever before, and I have to be perfectly honest, and I realize this might get me kicked out of the geek caboose: I think it's better than SPIDER-MAN 2. Mainly because it's way more emotionally satisfying. Don't get me wrong, the action in SM2 is the best in any comic film ever, and the stuff with Doc Ock is amazing. But the whole MJ story just leaves me cold, especially when it's capped off with that stunningly awful bridal-march-by-the-fountain, which I expected to see in something like AMERICAN PIE VII, not a Raimi picture.
I guess the whole Jean Grey thing just really tips it over the edge for me. I'll get misty-eyed at the bank scene of SM2, because it's the purest form of literal comic-to-movie translation there's ever been. But most of the tears come when Ms. Grey goes under. I think I'm also more involved due to the acting. Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, The Cox, Alan Cumming, they're all spectacular. The only real bad parts is James Marsden's acting and Wolverine crying. But otherwise, I love it to bits.
KING ARTHUR
This movie SUCKS. Don't ever watch it. Seriously.
SUPERMAN II
This movie is great, if only for the following line:
'Lex Luthor, Ruler of Australia: Activate the machine!'
Also watched: the last three discs of Season Four of FUTURAMA, which is still the most amazing thing ever, the last episode of STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION, with the funky Enterprise with three engines, lots of BATMAN: THE ANIMATED SERIES including most of Paul Dini's episodes, and the truly awful MTV SPIDER-MAN cartoon. Horrible stuff.
Thursday, March 09, 2006
Infrequent Viewing, Part 1
Seeing how my movie blog is dead, mostly cause I just don't have the fucking time and effort needed to pump into it, I thought I'd give a little rundown of stuff I've seen lately. I haven't seen much new stuff, but the things I've seen, amazingly, haven't sucked. Well, as far as I can remember.
DOMINO
It seemed almost everyone had said DOMINO was shit. But I have two words: fuck them. I FUCKING LOVED this flick. It was so goddamn funny, just on the right edge of humour, and with one of the sexiest performances I've seen in a long time. The three leads were great, Walken was amazing, and damns, it just kicked my ass completely. Wasn't expecting it at all.
WALLACE AND GROMIT in THE CURSE OF THE WERE-RABBIT
I don't get folks who don't like W&G. How can you not like this shit? Okay, I'm biased because I live in the city where it all comes from, but wow. This movie was incredible. I was never 100% confident in it to be honest, because even though I love the shorts, I didn't like CHICKEN RUN, mainly because it was too long, and thus stretched to a point where it just wasn't funny. Also, i thought Gibson was stunt casting. But W&G kicks its ass. The voice work is amazing, the animation absolutely brilliant, and the writing was great. I seriously thing Aardman are second behind Pixar in the animation stakes after this. Great stuff.
DOMINO
It seemed almost everyone had said DOMINO was shit. But I have two words: fuck them. I FUCKING LOVED this flick. It was so goddamn funny, just on the right edge of humour, and with one of the sexiest performances I've seen in a long time. The three leads were great, Walken was amazing, and damns, it just kicked my ass completely. Wasn't expecting it at all.
WALLACE AND GROMIT in THE CURSE OF THE WERE-RABBIT
I don't get folks who don't like W&G. How can you not like this shit? Okay, I'm biased because I live in the city where it all comes from, but wow. This movie was incredible. I was never 100% confident in it to be honest, because even though I love the shorts, I didn't like CHICKEN RUN, mainly because it was too long, and thus stretched to a point where it just wasn't funny. Also, i thought Gibson was stunt casting. But W&G kicks its ass. The voice work is amazing, the animation absolutely brilliant, and the writing was great. I seriously thing Aardman are second behind Pixar in the animation stakes after this. Great stuff.
Friday, March 03, 2006
Another iTunes 11
Right. Now my fucking iTunes is actually doing things properly again, it's time for another eleven, methinks.
1. Alanis Morisette - Perfect
2. The Doors - Five To One
3. DangerDoom - Perfect Hair
4. Tenacious D - Kyle Quit The Band
5. Razorlight - Fall, Fall, Fall
6. The Rolling Stones - Sympathy For The Devil
7. Devo - Gut Feeling
8. Metallica - Through The Never
9. RATM - Fistful of Steel
10. The Cure - The Walk (Acoustic Version)
11. They Might Be Giants - Particle Man
1. Alanis Morisette - Perfect
2. The Doors - Five To One
3. DangerDoom - Perfect Hair
4. Tenacious D - Kyle Quit The Band
5. Razorlight - Fall, Fall, Fall
6. The Rolling Stones - Sympathy For The Devil
7. Devo - Gut Feeling
8. Metallica - Through The Never
9. RATM - Fistful of Steel
10. The Cure - The Walk (Acoustic Version)
11. They Might Be Giants - Particle Man
Thursday, March 02, 2006
Rediscovering Superman, Part 1
While always being a fan of the man in red undies, I realized a while ago I've never really read a great deal of the Superman comics. I've picked up the odd issue, and used to read the DC UK comic they used to run over here, but I've never really gone into depth with it. I guess my real love for the character comes from the movies and the Fleischer cartoons, and in a limited capacity, the WB cartoon.
So I've decided to rectify this. Luckily, my local comics store (the great Forbidden Planet) just re-opened in a huge megastore mode, with trades coming out of the wazoo. So they have a lot of choice, and to be honest, as someone who's been out of the comic reading realm for a long time, it's hard to know where to start.
I picked up two trades: SUPERMAN CHRONICLES VOL.1, which is basically the twelve or so Superman comics that were first released, in chronological order. You get ACTION COMICS #1 - 13, some odd World's Fair comic, and SUPERMAN #1. It's fine stuff, and a great look at what the golden age, and what comics were like when superheroes weren't really a big thing.
It's a bit odd, and there's a few things I discovered, like Superman working for the Daily Star as opposed to the Planet. The art is greatness, I love the real old-school simplicity of it. But of course, it turns out this isn't the real-real Superman, but instead the Superman from Earth-Two, although we didn't know that until 1986.
So I also bought the trade that introduced the Superman that stars in the comics now, the 1986 mini-series SUPERMAN: THE MAN OF STEEL that rebooted the character. It's funny, I actually recognized this from the UK book I mentioned above that I used to enjoy in my youth (back when an issue of Marvel's STAR WARS comic was 35p). It's pretty good, and has some fun stuff in it, including Batman and Superman teaming up, to fight a totally lame villain named Magpie. There's some real nice stuff from the last issue, with Clark heading back to Smallville and seeing Lana, who knew his secret from when he was there originally.
Where to go from here? I think it's high time I check out the whole DC reboot trade, CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS, as well as the brand new Showcase (essentially like Marvel's Essentials books) editions of the silver-age Kal-El, which are awesome. I guess I better see if Forbidden Planet have a wedding list feature with their catalogues...
So I've decided to rectify this. Luckily, my local comics store (the great Forbidden Planet) just re-opened in a huge megastore mode, with trades coming out of the wazoo. So they have a lot of choice, and to be honest, as someone who's been out of the comic reading realm for a long time, it's hard to know where to start.
I picked up two trades: SUPERMAN CHRONICLES VOL.1, which is basically the twelve or so Superman comics that were first released, in chronological order. You get ACTION COMICS #1 - 13, some odd World's Fair comic, and SUPERMAN #1. It's fine stuff, and a great look at what the golden age, and what comics were like when superheroes weren't really a big thing.
It's a bit odd, and there's a few things I discovered, like Superman working for the Daily Star as opposed to the Planet. The art is greatness, I love the real old-school simplicity of it. But of course, it turns out this isn't the real-real Superman, but instead the Superman from Earth-Two, although we didn't know that until 1986.
So I also bought the trade that introduced the Superman that stars in the comics now, the 1986 mini-series SUPERMAN: THE MAN OF STEEL that rebooted the character. It's funny, I actually recognized this from the UK book I mentioned above that I used to enjoy in my youth (back when an issue of Marvel's STAR WARS comic was 35p). It's pretty good, and has some fun stuff in it, including Batman and Superman teaming up, to fight a totally lame villain named Magpie. There's some real nice stuff from the last issue, with Clark heading back to Smallville and seeing Lana, who knew his secret from when he was there originally.
Where to go from here? I think it's high time I check out the whole DC reboot trade, CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS, as well as the brand new Showcase (essentially like Marvel's Essentials books) editions of the silver-age Kal-El, which are awesome. I guess I better see if Forbidden Planet have a wedding list feature with their catalogues...
I Am Curious (Black)
I find it hilarious the furore that has resulted from this image, even going so far as to cause Sony to state on the website that it "is not a black and white image." No sir, this isn't a shot from the last movie with the colour turned down. This is a whole new image. This is the debut of Emo-Spidey.
In all seriousness, any comic reader worth his or her salt knows this is the infamous "black costume," introduced during Spidey's intergalactic adventures in the SECRET WARS. The first incarnation of the outfit was a living being, a "symbiote" which allowed Peter all kinds of powers like unlimited webbing and even more super-strength, in exchange for it bonding to him and his soul. Naturally, Peter didn't much like this, so with the help of the Fantastic Four and a sonic blaster, he got rid of it, but liked the style so much that he made a normal black costume to wear for a while. That is, until Venom (the result of the rejected symbiote melding with a guy named Brock who hated Spidey) showed up.
Most older Spidey fans hate Venom, and they have pretty good reason to. He's pretty much the poster boy - along with Carnage - for Spidey's decline in the 90s, although I find him still easier to swallow than the spider-totem crapola. He, and people like Spawn, were one of the big reasons comics nearly died a death, and in the meantime alienated what was up until then comic books' biggest audience: kids. I guess it's no coincidence that Todd McFarlane had a hand in both of them (Spawn and Venom).
I'll be honest, I liked the original David Michelinie Venom story in AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #301, as he was kind of creepy and didn't have the big gimmick nature he has now. I also enjoyed how he was done in ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN, although found the whole cancer storyline a bit forced. It's interesting to see how they deal with it all in the film. The guy they cast to be Venom seems to be a lot like Tobey Maguire, so it seems they're going for the straight double route.
My only worry is the hodgepodge of characters already in the mix. Considering we apparently have Sandman, Venom, Harry as the Green Goblin, plus Gwen Stacy, it's getting kind of nuts. To visualize how this movie is going carry the introduction of three new characters, plus the Harry storyline and inevitably, yet more of the absolutely fucking dire Mary Jane relationship stuff, is pretty impossible. I hope Raimi hasn't bitten off more than he can chew with this.
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