July 30, 2009

YO JOE!

When I saw the first shots of the new movie costumes---errrr---hmmm. Where's the over the top fun?!? The Baroness costume is almost a match. But the rest? Where's the individual style like the action figures/cartoon? Meh...the costumes look a little dull. It's the old Hollywood rule "If it's based on a toy or comic--make it black" Just like X-men. Or if they insist on having color follow rule 2 "mute it" like in Daredevil or Superman returns or Batman or the Matrix or Watchmen or...well, you get the idea. I guess if they were to make a new version of "the Wizard of Oz" it would be muted or everybody would be dressed in black. And they'd have to change the name of the "yellow brick road" to the "brown spicy mustard brick road". Emerald city would be changed to Olive baby puke green city, etc. I'm not sure why we have high def TVs to watch movies in glorious black and muted colors. But that's just me. Maybe the old costumes would be too much. Maybe they should have just not had any costumes. Mmmmmmmmm yo joe.