I’m going to make my OWN superhero movie next year, and for days I was trying to remember the name of this little movie that was filmed in my neighborhood in Los Angeles; The Specials . When it finally came out I went to see it and thought it was ok-nothing super duper. But here we are almost 2008 and the superhero movies are just rolling out of system now. And the intro credits of this film are identical to what they’re using in Heroes now, so I’m positive this movie is going to get re-discovered and have a second life in the next few years because it focuses on the day to day life of these characters. And one of the movies Hollywood is doing next year is Will Smith playing a homeless/drunk superhero .

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The movie was written by by James Gunn who had done some work for Kaufman’s Troma films (he also went to Columbia University like me). In an odd showbiz twist he is/was married to Jenna Fischer who’s now pretty well known as Pam on The Office . According to IMDB, she auditioned for The Specials, and took her first acting classes with Gunn’s brother Sean who plays the oddest character in The Specials. James acts in the movie too, but IMDB is not too clear on the exact state of his marriage to Fischer.

But speaking of come backs and SciFi, the SciFi Channel’s new Version of Flash Gordon is crap. See that show will NOT go down in history and get rediscovered by somebody with a blog in the future. It’s just another Handsome White Guy with way too many women, impossibly, hanging around him while he does nothing shows. They did it with the Invisible Man show, and they did it with Andromeda. I hate these scenarios as much as I hate Hollywood "heist" movies. They keep making those God damned heist movies, as if grand larceny is something near and dear to people’s hearts. Something that ANYBODY gives a shit about. And that brings us back to this new Flash Gordon; nothing at all going on. And I’ve tried my best to give a chance, over a period of maybe 5 or 6 episodes. Just look up the resume of the writers and you’ll see why. But it’s a no-go, and the SciFi Channel had the nerve to cancel Farscape!

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