Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Ian J. Ball" Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: TV news for June 23-29, 2024 Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2024 20:56:51 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 73 Message-ID: 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> <0sj18jhf9r1n9ui4363tppb9qp83nm5773@4ax.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2024 05:56:52 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="4e850329319a79586bff229cd084c860"; logging-data="381916"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18CRStAMaWU7dJ9EboMljQ1" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:Q9g+0PMeRZZx4EBVEO+H0Xb5OZI= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: <0sj18jhf9r1n9ui4363tppb9qp83nm5773@4ax.com> Bytes: 4628 On 6/29/24 8:25 PM, shawn wrote: > 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. She's already set to be in "Thunderbolts*", along with Hannah John-Kamen from "Ant-Man 2". So those kinds of characters are getting a movie. >> 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...)