10 Examples of actors who should have never donned the cape...Part Three!!

Yes, I know I  am a wee bit behind on posting, but with the Holidays, and jury duty (justice was served by the way); and coming soon an awesum,funny,and innovative new online comic from 3RING STUDIOS and LiLBatti I  have been a bit busy.....that  being said, lets continue with the Fanboy ranting...Okay, the final four in the lineup of indeed the absomurfly WORST choices in Fanboy filmdom. It is truly a disgrace and a dishonor to Fanboys and Fangirls from across the galaxy.  Be it because they  were popular actors/actresses, or some sick directors twisted view of comic book reality (Tim Burton, damn you  Tim Burton, damn you  to Hades), these choices for actors have put a poopstain on some iconic Fanboy characters...

Number Four: "Every body, CHILL!"

Arnold Schwarzenegger as Mister Freeze from Batman and Robin

Does Joel Shoemmacher freebase cocaine?  Seriously to think that AH-NOLD was a good choice for Mr Freeze.  Then again this is the man who  is responsible for nipples on the Bat-Suit.  Could someone please explain to  me what  purpose nipples serve on a Bat-Suit??? So  what, are they  hollow and he keeps change in there? But back  to the matter at  hand.... Arnold makes over 15 cheese-ball references to "cold" in this  movie..

 

if you  saw the animated feature Sub-Zero ...

the character  of Mr Freeze is NOT a  Muscle -bound, cigar smoking STOOGE like Arnold makes him out  to  be. Yes this film was extremely  campy, with  Bat-Nipples, Bat-Crotch and Bat-Butt shots, Bat-Credit cards and the like. But this was just  wayyy  too  much. I  would have rather  seen Otto Preminger (the Mr Freeze  from the 1960's 

 Batman), at  least you  can understand what the HELL  he is sasying!!

Let's see who would I  have chosen to  play the part  of Mr Freeze?.... Oh, I  dunno, maybe Sir Patrick Stewart!?!?!?!?  yeah, ok, Arnold was popular  back then but  damn how about  a little character  examination first  before  you  go casting!?!?

And if Locutus of BORG wasn't  available, how about Peter Postlethwaite, who was also  a badass actor in his own respect! (The Lost  World Jurassic Park and Romeo and Juliet)

now you  look at these 3 pix and  YOU tell ME who  would have made a better Mr Freeze!

"Time to put you ....on ICE!"
 

Number 3 - 3.5
"What happens to a Toad when it is struck by lightning?... I  dunno, how many  toads are actually struck by lightning per year?"

Yes, i  am talking about....ugh, Halle Berry  as Storm from the first  three X-Men Films, X-Men, X2 and X-Men 3 United,
as well as ...(throwing up a little in my mouth) Catwoman...

The MARVEL COMICS character  of STORM (Ororo Munroe)
The character  of STORM is of a woman who is confident without being cocky, an almost REGAL presence even with just the way she walks,(she IS a Princess after  all) with a potential ferocity that rivals Wolverine's; and on the other hand a motherly compassion (especially with Kitty Pryde, the bond between Kitty and Logan aka Wolverine wasn't until later, in fact she even states that she was actually  more afraid of Wolverine than of Nightcrawler.... you  see the masses would know this if the films hadn't  steered so far way from  cannon!...the X-Men films are a topic for another time...) The only  ferocity that  Halle Berry  has  was probably when she hit that  person with  her car! When the first  X-Men came out, Halle Berry  was the "IT Black Actress" so to speak. Because the is cute and won an OSCAR for BEST ACTRESS for her role in Monster's Ball. (I  saw the movie.....umm I  don't get  it) I  am NOT dismissing the fact that  she is the first  Black female to win the Academy Award for Best Actress (even tho it probably should have gone to  Whoopii Goldberg a long time ago) But I  am sorry, aside from the fact  of her truly iconically stupid line....

she does NOT fit this role.....ta  all, not even remotely  close. You wanna talk  box office draw power? How many  people do you  honestly  think went to  see X-MEN because of Halle Berry??? The movie was should have been Fanboy Gold and could have been! Yes, the arguement is that there is TOO MUCH X-MEN HISTORY to  deal with, but there are element that  could have been added to  stay  close to  cannon, which would equate to  more box office draw and Fanboys and Fangirls going to  see it MULTIPLE TIMES. So  I  don't wanna hear any  claptrap about  box office draw. Don't sacrifice the integrity  of the movie for flashy, overrated actors/actresses!!!...DAMN! ya know who  would have been a MUCH  better  STORM?....

Angela Basset!!! (who i  understand was originally  offered the role and Halle Berry was the alternate choice.) She has that  "regal" presence, motherly tone, and if you  pissed her off, i don't think I  would wanna frack with her!

Or How aboot..

Sanaa Lathan! (BLADE)She has the presence, beauty, athletic and acting ability  to  pull off that  role!

or maybe.... 

N'Bushe Wright! (also in the movie BLADE) Another Black actress who  could have pulled off that  role!!

And so, what happens to  a Fanboy character who is cast in the movie version because of their "box office potential" instead of their actual fit in the role....the same thing as everything else....they  suck! 

CATWOMAN..... (sigh)

Umm do I  really have to say  anything else?

This was just  a STUPID FILM

Having a Catwoman movie without BATMAN is like...having a ROBIN the Boy Wonder movie..... without BATMAN!

I am hoping that  Anne Hatheway can pull this off (even though it wont be too hard to beat considering the previous Catwoman. 

I  am a little skeptical 

I  will admit I  am still  slightly  skeptical aboot Anne Hatheway as Catwoman.  The character of Catwoman is rather edgy and more complex than most  people realize.  I  just hope Nolan doesn't pull a Tim Burton and have her fall from a a building, land on an awning, have some cats lick her on the face and woo hoo, she's Catwoman. I will be stunned and amazed if they even come CLOSE to  cannon with  Catwoman. I  found out recently that  Anne Hatheway wasn't the only  actress considered... 

Jessica Biel 

was also considered....I  gotta say, I  think I might have gone for Jessica.

 

TRIBBLES..?

Ok, now there was a LOT  of speculation around the next  Star Trek movie villan. 

There have been ruomrs about KHAN and all that. But honestly, unless you are going to  dig up Ricardo  Montalban and re-animate him, I  dont think that  is going to  fly. Dont frack with ICONIC characters like that because inevitably you  are  going to  screw it up.But (as first  seen by this Fanboy on (comicbookmovie.com) 

The Klingons play a prominent role in Star Trek 2. The angle, according to our sources, plays up them up as a Nomadic sect of warrior aliens causing trouble for the Federation — think an intergalactic Taliban with their home-planet overrun by Tribbles. Yes, those Tribbles, here in the newly rebooted continuity viewed as "furry carnivorous creatures.

Tribbles?......I  dunno  about that... I  have been saying it out  loud  over and over again for the past 20 minutes, "tribbles?" For those of  you  Fanboys and Fangirls who might  not have seen the "Trouble With Tribbles" episode of the Original Star Trek series:

On stardate 4523.3, Captain James T. Kirk and his crew are called to Deep Space Station K7 by a priority-one distress call. The station is near Sherman's Planet, a world in a sector of space disputed between the Federation and the Klingon Empire. Under the terms of the Organian Peace Treaty, Sherman's Planet would be awarded to whichever side demonstrates that it can manage it more efficiently.

Kirk is furious when he later realizes the distress call was unwarranted, and the undersecretary in charge of agriculture in the sector, Nilz Baris, simply wants someone to guard the shipments of quadrotriticale, a four-lobed wheat-rye hybrid grain, bound for Sherman's Planet. To Baris's annoyance, Kirk assigns two token guards to the task shortly before learning that Starfleet Command endorses Baris's concerns.

A Klingon ship soon arrives at the space station and requests that its crew be granted shore leave, as entitled under the treaty. Kirk tells the Klingon captain Koloth that he may only bring members of his crew down 12 at a time, and that he will provide one security guard for each Klingon who beams down.

Meanwhile, an independent trader, Cyrano Jones, brings some little furry animals called tribbles onto the station to sell; he gives one to Uhura as a marketing ploy. She brings it on board the Enterprise, where it and its offspring are treated as adorable pets. The animals purr a relaxing trill that the crew (even the stoic Mr. Spock) find soothing. Klingons, however, find tribbles very annoying, and the feeling is mutual: tribbles emit an ear-piercing shriek of aggression, and jump, whenever they are near Klingons. (It has subsequently been explained that tribbles have a keen sense of smell and find food by scent, that they find the smell of Klingons offensive, and that Klingons, who are likewise spoken of as having a keen sense of smell, find the "stench" of tribbles repulsive.)

The "trouble" with the tribbles is that they reproduce far too quickly and are capable of eating a planet barren if their breeding is not controlled; in the words of Dr. McCoy,

"they are born pregnant" and threaten to consume all the onboard supplies. The problem is aggravated when it is discovered that the creatures are entering essential ship systems, interfering with their functions and consuming any edible contents present. Kirk realizes that if the tribbles are getting into the Enterprise's stores, then they are a direct threat to the grain stores aboard the station. However, upon examining the holds, Kirk learns that it is already too late; the tribbles have indeed eaten the grain—a fact he learns the hard way, by being buried to more than half his own height in tribbles when he opens a hold with an overhead hatch. It appears the mission has ended in a fiasco. On top of that, Koloth wants a formal apology from Kirk, since some of the Enterprise crew members have started, though not without provocation, a western-style brawl with the Klingon crew in the station's bar.

Spock and McCoy, however, soon discover that around half the tribbles in the hold are dead and many of the rest are dying, alerting the Federation that the grain has been poisoned. Furthermore, the tribbles also give away the identity of a surgically altered Klingon agent responsible. The saboteur is the only "human" the tribbles do not like: Arne Darvin, Baris's own assistant. He had infected the grain with a virus that becomes an inert material in an organism's bloodstream; the more that is eaten, the more inert matter builds up, till the organism cannot take in enough nourishment to survive and essentially starves to death. Upon a medical scan by Dr. McCoy, it is revealed that Darvin is indeed a Klingon in disguise. Thus the tribbles redeem themselves and enable the Federation to score a diplomatic victory against the Klingons. As for Cyrano Jones, who introduced the species to the station, he is ordered to remove the tribbles from the station (a clean-up task that Spock estimates will take 17.9 years) or be imprisoned for 20 years for transporting a dangerous life form off its native planet.

Just before the Klingon departure, all tribbles that were on the Enterprise are somehow beamed onto the Klingon ship by Scotty as a retaliation for the troubles the Klingons have caused, where, in his words, "they'll be no tribble at all."

 Now I  trust  JJ Abrams in that  he would not sell us Fanboys out....

If they  DO  go  ahead with this idea, I  say that  they  use Jack Black

to  play  Cyrano  Jones ( or save him for Harry Mudd...either one  would be perfect for him....not Seth Rogen.  After seeing Green Hornet.... I  am kinda Seth Rogen'ed out...

Tribbles?

But as HOLLYWOOD has shown us too many  times before... we may be saying this...

 

I am sorry, but you  can't get  much  better than this...

INCONCIEVABLE! Fanboy Favorite Birthdays we almost missed!

The continuation of the Top Ten will have to  wait just a bit so we can wish a VERY HAPPY BIRTHDAY  to some Fanboy favorites!

And yes, I  know I  am late with  this one, but  I  have to  ake coffee for Pharaoh. What can I  say Howard Schultz needs to  pay the electric on his  summer home.

Everyone's favorite Ferengi

Armin Shimerman (born November 5, 1949)

Shimerman is best known for his role as the Ferengi bar owner Quark in the long running television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, though his involvement with the Star Trek franchise began with appearances as other Ferengi characters in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episodes "The Last Outpost" and "Peak Performance". As the character Quark, Shimerman became one of Star Trek's most widely-known characters, and he appeared several times on the cover of TV Guide, either with other actors or alone as part of a collector's series. He says that his favorite episode of Deep Space Nine was "Little Green Men" as it was the only episode where he is shown captaining a ship.

 Shimerman and Max Grodénchik  played the characters of two Ferengi brothers, Quark and Rom, on DeepSpace 9

Along with Marina Sirtis, John de Lancie, Michael Ansara and Richard Poe, he is one of only a few actors to play the same character on three different Star Trek series. He played Quark in Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: Voyager.

In addition to Star Trek, Shimerman has had roles as Pascal on Beauty and the Beast and as Principal Snyder in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. He also has starred in Stargate SG-1 as one of the Nox, an evil wizard in Charmed, appeared as Stan the caddy in an episode of Seinfeld, and as Dr. Patemkin on Leverage.

Shimerman has appeared as judge Brian Hooper in the third season of Boston Legal, joining fellow Star Trek actors William Shatner, Rene Auberjonois, and Ethan Phillips; Shatner played Captain Kirk on Star Trek, Auberjonois played Odo on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and Phillips played Neelix on Star Trek: Voyager. His character even shared a scene with Auberjonois, with the strife between the two characters reminiscent of the conflict between Shimerman's Quark and Auberjonois's Odo.

"The creature is driven by  rage, and pursued  by  an investigative reporter...." But he really  seems like a nice guy...

 Louis Jude "Lou" Ferrigno (born November 9, 1951)

 In 1977, Ferrigno was cast in the title role opposite Bill Bixby as the Hulk in The Incredible Hulk. Although Ferrigno and Bixby did not share lines on camera (except for one episode, "King of the Beach"), the two were friends, with Ferrigno describing Bixby as a "mentor" and "father figure" who took Ferrigno under his wing. Ferrigno also singles out the instances in which Bixby directed Ferrigno in some episodes as particularly memorable. 

Ferrigno continued playing the Hulk role until 1981—although the last two episodes were not broadcast until May 1982. Later, he and Bixby co-starred in three The Incredible Hulk TV movies.

Ferrigno had trained Michael Jackson on and off since the early 1990s, and in 2009, he had been helping Jackson get into shape for a planned series of concerts in London

He made cameo appearances as a security guard in both the 2003 film Hulk and the 2008 film The Incredible Hulk, in which he also voiced the Hulk.

Ferrigno stated in an interview that he would be involved in the 2012 The Avengers movie.

As an infant, Lou suffered an ear infection and lost some of his hearing. Ferrigno started weight training at age 13, citing body builder and Hercules 

star Steve Reeves as one of his role models.Ferrigno sees his loss of hearing as influential towards bodybuilding and his life: "...if I hadn't lost some of my hearing, I wouldn't be where I am now. It forced me to maximize my own potential. I had to be better than the average person to succeed."

He was also a fan of the Hercules films that starred Reeves—and would later play Hercules as well.

Ferrigno's other personal heroes as a child were Spider-Man and the Hulk.

"What do you  mean there's no cake?!?"

Robert Duncan McNeil  (born November 9, 1964)

First seen in the Star Trek Universe in "The First Duty", an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, in which he played Nick Locarno, a Starfleet Academy cadet and squad leader who pressures fellow cadet Wesley Crusher into covering up their wrongdoings. 

He would later become a Star Trek regular in 1995 on Star Trek: Voyager, on which he played Tom Paris, a Starfleet officer with a backstory similar to Locarno's.

 Wallace Michael Shawn (born November 12, 1943)

 Shawn quite often appears on television, where he has appeared in many genres and series. He has had recurring roles as the Grand Nagus Zek on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine,

 Casting director Janet Hirshenson was so fond of his delivery of the word 'inconceivable' that she cast him as the evil Vizzini in The Princess Bride (1987).

Shawn is also a voice actor for animated films and animated TV series, including the role of the timid Rex in Toy Story, Toy Story 2, Toy Story 3, Hawaiian Vacation and Monsters, Inc. (cameo appearance in the outtakes as Rex the Green Dinosaur),

 

Mr. Incredible's diminutive boss Gilbert Huph in The Incredibles, Stewie Griffin's half-brother Bertram in Family Guy.

and Munk in Happily N'Ever After.

Shawn also cameoed as the voice of Principal Fetchit in Chicken Little.

In The Fox and the Hound, he provided the voice of Boomer, but he was soon replaced by the late Paul Winchell.  Shawn also replaced Jon Lovitz as the voice of the elderly Calico in Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore, the 2010 sequel to the 2001 film Cats & Dogs. Coincidentally, Lovitz and Shawn both appeared in the 2007 film I Could Never Be Your Woman.

 Max Grodénchik (born November 12, 1952) 

Grodénchik is better known for his portrayal of the fictional character Rom on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. 

He had previously auditioned for the role of Rom's brother Quark, but the role was given to Armin Shimerman. The two both guest-appeared on opposite teams in the short lived British Sci-Fi Quiz show Space Cadets, in 1997.

He played Sovak and Par Lenor in Star Trek: The Next Generation episodes "Captain's Holiday" and "The Perfect Mate". He is famous for being an expert on the Rules of Acquisition and can quote them by memory.

In Spring 2007, Grodénchik attended the annual Vulcan Spockdays ceremony.

 Whoopi Goldberg (born Caryn Elaine Johnson,November 13, 1955) 

 

Goldberg had a recurring role on Star Trek: The Next Generation as Guinan, which she would reprise in two Star Trek movies. On May 29, 1992, 

10 Examples of Actors in Fanboy films who should have NEVER donned the cape!!...Part Two!

shall we continue the Fanboy ranting..... 

Number Six:/Five:

Dolph Lungren...(now this is going to  have to  be a double whammy  as he equally  sucked in 

Masters of the Universe....

and the first  Punisher movie...

I  dunno, maybe the role of Ivan Drago (ROCKY IV)ruined ( and started) his career, but the main prblem is that  Dolph seems to  only  have one aspect  of his acting personality . In every  film he is in he seems to  always have that..."I  must  break you..." look on his face.

 

 

There was not even a hint of a clue that Prince Adam/He-Man was gay! (which if you  watch the cartoon you can see that  he CLEARLY was!)

 

  

 The same dry, dull, monotone acting that was also in  Universal Soldier, 

but I  suppose that w as ok, I mean he IS supposed to  be a Zombie soldier after all..

 

Quite frankly, the action figure as more acting ability than Dolph does............

 

Now the first Punisher movie....

Born in New York to parents of Italian ancestry, Francis Castiglione is a former U.S. Marine Captain. Before Frank joined the Marines, he was studying to become a Catholic priest but changed his mind because he was unable to forgive those who did evil. Also prior to his enlistment, he married his wife Maria who was already pregnant with their first child. During his time in the United States Marine Corps (USMC), Castle graduated from Basic Training, then went on to Infantry School. Immediately following that, he went through the USMC's Reconnaissance, Force Reconnaissance, and Sniper Schools. Attaining dockets, Castle was permitted to go through U.S. Army Airborne School, and U.S. Navy Underwater Demolition Team training, becoming qualified as a Navy Seal (Sea, Air and Land). He served in the Vietnam War in a special forces unit as a point man. For heroism in the line of duty, he was decorated with numerous medals, including the Purple Heart.

Shortly after a tour in Vietnam, Castle, his wife, Maria and their children were in New York's Central Park for an afternoon picnic when they witnessed a Mafia gangland execution; an informant had been hanged from a tree. Seeking to eliminate all witnesses, the Costa crime family murdered them on the spot. However, Castle survived. Even though Frank was able to identify all of the shooters the police were unable to help Castle in his quest for justice; they were tied in too deeply to the powerful Costa family. He decided that the only punishment criminals might receive is that of physical destruction. Shortly thereafter, he emblazoned his body armor with a symbol of a death's head, and exacted his revenge. Since then he has waged a one-man war upon crime, taking the name Punisher.....

(More on Marvel.com: http://marvel.com/universe/Punisher_(Frank_Castle)#ixzz1cxjV9qTp)

and Dolph Lungren was  the best choice?..........riiiiiiiiiight...

Aside from the fact that this movie was just  plain awful...The cheese factor in it was a bit much....leaving knives with skulls on them as  your calling card? And again Dolph cant  pull off this kind of character...

Now HOLLYWOOD attempted to  try  to  redeem themselves with a Punisher reeboot starring Tom Jane...but the altered some of the origin (which I  have never understood why this happens so  often in  Comicbook Films) and i  am sorry, he is a little too pretty....

    HOLLYWOOD got it right finally with Ray Stevenson and PUNISHER WAR ZONE!

The first  like 20 minutes of this film the Punisher doesn't  even speak!  He just  kicks ass!!