Oh dear lord, I saw the commercial for this last night. Somewhat paraphrased voice-over “Some say that when you die, you come back as a cat to right the wrongs that were done to you.”
Did it escape EVERYONE’s attention that this was stolen directly from The Crow? Which itself wasn’t particularly good?
Based on the commercial, a lot of reviews are going to be making snide references to litter boxes and the contents thereof.
Well, actually, maybe that’s not a bad thing. I’d prolly rather watch Halle Berry run around half-naked kicking people to death than Brandon Lee.
But, yeah, I think you’re right on target about the litterboxes…
Eeeeeeaaaaaaars! The cowl has donkey ears! The cowl has donkey ears!
AAAH-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA!
**Mr. Blue Sky **: Just wanted to let you know I used your title in a conversation with my boss today (who just happens to be a bigger movie nut than I am), and he loved it.
Sorry to steal your line, but I need a raise. All the help I can get, ya know? 
She was miscast as Catwoman. Wonder what Sherilyn Fenn would have looked like.
While I agree with the majority that this movie is most likely going to be a big pile of crap, I’m not sure that I agree with the reasons given.
True, everyone gets their own opinion. Yes, that was a bad line, but using a bad line of script from a good movie as your cite for Halle being a bad actress isn’t very convincing. By that same logic, is Ian McKellen a bad actor for his lines in the same movie? How about Patrick Stewart? Is Liam Neeson a bad actor because he was in The Phantom Menance which has a crappy script?
As someone else said, it might have had to do with them showing all of the other women around her. It might also be that most males believe that it is wrong to have lusting thoughts for a woman in a near catatonic stupor. Well… that is unless your name is Buck. In that case you sell visitation rights. 
She can look really, really good. Nothing in that trailer did anything for me though. Looks like quite the bomb.
Kinda funny you used the word catatonic. (I’m easily ammused). In my opinion, that will probably describe me while I watch this movie…when it comes out on HBO.
Also, kudos on the Buck reference.
Wait wait wait… are you saying Mexican wrestlers aren’t pretty?!
¡Dios mio!
To me, the trailer suggests a remake of Model by Day, one of Fox-TV’s first movies, starring a pre-Xenia, pre-Jean-Gray Famke Jannsen.
I remember Model By Day! I was so excited to watch it when I was a kid: a brand-new superhero movie, starring a hot chick, no less! Of course it was terrible. And who knew that Famke would go on to be a Bond girl AND a real superhero in a good superhero movie! The costume also reminds me of the Black Scorpion, a low-budget TV series starring Joan Severance and produced by schlockmeister Roger Corman.
Oh, I’m a big fan of the masked Mexican wrestling tradition (lucha libre), and those masks are usually a lot cooler-looking than Halle’s. I don’t know how they managed to take an reasonably attractive woman, dress her up in leather fetish gear, and make her look so unsexy and unappealing.
I just saw the trailer.
Oddly enough, it seems that at some point in the film, Halle’s wearing a costume that looks to be not much more than civilian motorcycle attire, gloves, and a pair of goggles. That, with Halle’s light-tinted hair, makes her look quite a bit like Carrie from “The Dark Knight Returns.”
It it manages to not only look about a million times better than the new Catwoman costume proper, but it’s about a thousand times sexier to boot.
It’s just… not Catwoman. Catwoman is sultry, sexy, slinky, suave, but not slutty!
Well she can’t be any worse than Michelle Phifer as Catwoman. An obviously mentally ill woman in a patchwork suit of trashbags sewn by the local Texas Chainsaw Seamstress Guild.
Yeah, that’s attractive. :rolleyes:
But then again, this is Halle “I am Storm, hear me whisper in a pathetic Michael Jackson voice” Barry, so I think lowered expectations are in order.
I’m looking forward to the snark.
Just to clarify, you mean the “new Catwoman costume proper” from the movie (ripped up leather and mask with ears), or the one from the comic? I actually love her current comic book costume.
Doh…You’re right, I meant the “catwoman costume proper” from the movie. I, too, actually like the current comic book costume.
Oh! I’ve got it…“Gimp mask.” THAT’S how to describe Halle’s costume’s headpiece.
Maybe this movie will officially end her career once and for all and she can become a bloated has been.
The thing that gets me, even above the mask, is why ANYONE thinks that fighting crime (or being a cat burgler, I don’t know where the movie’s going here) in open toed high heeled shoes is a good idea.
It’s pussy whipping time!
That awful mask looks like something my daughter bought at Halloween when she was 7. “Genuine Cat Lady[sub]TM[/sub] Mask”. “I want this one daddy! It’s got little kitty cat ears!”
The commercial for this movie makes me borderline homicidal.
“They say when someone dies, a cat can bring their soul back from the dead.”
WHAT??? Who says that? Nobody says that. I am thoroughly confident that nobody has ever said that. Ever, ever, ever. Not only is it stupid, it sounds like a complete ripoff of The Crow. Also, the cat in the shot right after this abomination of a line of dialogue is an obvious muppet.
When I run the world, you’ll pay half-price (half of current prices, that is, meaning $4 or so) when you go to see a movie just to laugh at how bad it is. Because this looks like a movie that richly deserves it, but for close to $10 bucks, it’s not likely to happen.
It actually pisses me off that this is going to be so bad. It’s going to start a downward spiral of studios expecting less from comic book movies…so they put less into them…then they expect less out of them…etc.
Why is it that only movies work like this? Why can’t a take a dump in a plastic cup and put Starbucks out of business?
