Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: shawn Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: TV news for June 23-29, 2024 Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2024 23:25:12 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 68 Message-ID: <0sj18jhf9r1n9ui4363tppb9qp83nm5773@4ax.com> References: <1620270784.741395686.839152.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com> <0u818jhs9hhbo4erpkolche83qa67q5cqo@4ax.com> <258457971.741401364.021329.anim8rfsk-cox.net@news.easynews.com> <4cb18jlgvbdg4jhv2g7lboi55a2k0c7rb2@4ax.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2024 05:25:14 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="b527a1d2265f084b4160cf9b3db8ccaa"; logging-data="371858"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19lotkqkURqpXvjgr/2OV8+ndyuBIgxYJ8=" User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 Cancel-Lock: sha1:PkOcDrlekQ4SnUzr2OvNk8VzXwM= Bytes: 4299 On Sat, 29 Jun 2024 19:15:21 -0700, "Ian J. Ball" wrote: >On 6/29/24 6:05 PM, shawn wrote: > >> On Sat, 29 Jun 2024 17:55:07 -0700, anim8rfsk >> wrote: >> >>> shawn wrote: >>>> On Sat, 29 Jun 2024 16:26:04 -0700, anim8rfsk >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Ian J. Ball wrote: >>>>>> On 6/29/24 2:46 PM, Robin Miller wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> Jeremy Renner Says He Doesn’t Have “Energy” To Play “Challenging” Roles >>>>>>> After Snow Plow Accident: “I Can’t Just Go Play Make-Believe Right Now” >>>>>>> (June 25) >>>>>>> >>>>>>> https://deadline.com/2024/06/jeremy-renner-energy-challenging-roles-snow-plow-accident-1235983221/ >>>>>> >>>>>> Yeah - dude will never be the same, no doubt. >>>> >>>> Sad, but bad accidents do happen. The good thing is he's already had a >>>> good career as an action hero so now he can take on more sedate roles. >>>> >>> >>> It’s not like Marvel is making action hero movies anymore anyway. Certainly >>> not with white men. >> >> True, they do seem to have a focus on women now for their action hero >> movies. I wonder how that is working out for them. >> >> It's actually not a bad idea if they had good stories/writing and had >> some compelling actors. So far they've managed to fail on all >> accounts. I thought they had a great concept with MS MARVEL if they >> had stuck with the new hero trying to come grips with her powers and >> how it changes her life. Then the writers feared they wouldn't get a >> second season to tell their story so they rushed the character >> development (she went from barely being able to use her powers to >> doing all sorts of stunts in just the course of a day or two) and >> pushed the story to Pakistan so they could bring up the >> Indian/Pakistan history. Oh, and they introduced the coolest character >> in the leader of the Red Band only to kill him off shortly after we >> met him. >> >> All of which would have been fine if it had played out over a second >> season but it was a massive shift in tone and the style of the story >> telling (lot's of anime/cartoon scenes in the first three episodes >> that kept it light hearted. That disappeared after those episodes.) > >The only new "female action hero" from MCU that I trust/am psyched about >is Hailee Steinfeld, and that's just because we know she's good (past >performances and all that). > >Oh, and I guess Florence Pugh, though she's not exactly a "hero". I like Florence Pugh in her role in the MCU but I don't see her being put into the main cast of the MCU at this point. Though she may get her own movies which is good for her. >Ms. Marvel might be OK. Maybe. > >But I don't like any of the rest, not even Kathryn Newton who is great >in other stuff but seems massively miscast and out of her depth here. >(Really makes you wonder why the replaced Emma Fuhrmann because it >wasn't even a "trade up" in this case...) >