When are we ever going to see a Supergirl flick?

[Gaith]

However, I still don't understand Gaith's premise that casting a 16-to-18-year-old actress is in any way incompatible with casting a sexy or well-developed actress.

It ain't - Emma Watson, for instance, is welcome to let me take her out for a drink anytime - but all other things being equal, I'd rather drool over a 22-24y.o. than 16-18y.o.

Are you talking about Rhona Mitra?

No, I was talking about an English (not American playing English, hem) university friend, early 20s. Good grief: are you suggesting that Rhona Mitra doesn't have model looks?

Supergirl shouldn't have boobs YET. What part of "girl" escapes the collective "yous" vision on this subject?

This point has been brought up and addressed earlier in the thread. Which part of that discussion did you not grok?

Besides, I'm not sure if you're aware of this, but women are routinely called "girl" well into their 30s, sometimes even later. When we say "girlfriend", we don't necessarily mean "teenage female partner". Same thing.

Hells bells, could you imagine how pointless hitgirl in Kick ass would have been if she was 18 with boobs the size of breadboxes?

I don't give a fig about that movie.

 

[Christopher]

A comparison to Hit Girl seems incongruous, since Supergirl has always been portrayed as a teen or young adult, not a preteen (except in the Tiny Titans comic where all the heroes are portrayed as grade schoolers).

 

[Greg Cox]

A comparison to Hit Girl seems incongruous, since Supergirl has always been portrayed as a teen or young adult, not a preteen (except in the Tiny Titans comic where all the heroes are portrayed as grade schoolers).

Exactly. From the beginning, Supergirl has always been written as teenager, concerned with boys and dating, etc.

In its defense, the SUPERGIRL movie was actually closer in tone to the original Silver Age SUPERGIRL comics than most "serious" comic book fans might care to to admit.

Watching the movie for the first time, I got the distinct impression that the screenwriter had indeed read a stack of vintage 1960s DC Comics . . . .

Too bad the movie came out in the eighties!

 

[Guy Gardener]

Nothing wrong with the 80s.

15 in the 60s is like 7 in the modern day.

The 14 year olds I went to school with were riddled with s.t.d's and barely able to get up past noon on the the week days because of the deathgrip their hangovers fettered on them.

 

[A beaker full of death]

Exactly. From the beginning, Supergirl has always been written as teenager, concerned with boys and dating, etc.

No, she hasn't. The Supergirl of my youth was older and more mature. From 1972 to her death in 1986, hot pants Supergirl was a normal, healthy woman in her 20s, well past the characterization you describe.

 

[Greg Cox]

Exactly. From the beginning, Supergirl has always been written as teenager, concerned with boys and dating, etc.

No, she hasn't. The Supergirl of my youth was older and more mature. From 1972 to her death in 1986, hot pants Supergirl was a normal, healthy woman in her 20s, well past the characterization you describe.

Well, what I meant was that she wasn't a little kid like Hit Girl . . . .

But way back when I started reading her, in the sixties, she was just Linda Lee, a teenage girl living in an orphanage, and going to sock hops and things.

"Hot Pants" Supergirl came later.

 

[A beaker full of death]

Supergirl shouldn't have boobs YET. What part of "girl" escapes the collective "yous" vision on this subject?

hmmm.... do you wish to alert Betty White, or shall I?

Oh nuts, and Sue Storm Richards is even married! Must be from Mississippi...

 

[A beaker full of death]

Well, what I meant was that she wasn't a little kid like Hit Girl . . . .

ah. I see I shouldn't just jump into the middle of a conversation.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Who read Peter David's take on Kara Zor-El time ripped from the 60s deposited into the final issues of his comic back in 2002ish? As far as her rack was concerned, i only have two words to explain what eventually made it to the printed page: Ed Benes.

http://maidofmight.net/gallery/albums/covers/supergirl_vol4/Supergirl_Many_Happy_Returns.jpg

 

[Nerys Myk]

Who read Peter David's take on Kara Zor-El time ripped from the 60s deposited into the final issues of his comic back in 2002ish? As far as her rack was concerned, i only have two words to explain what eventually made it to the printed page: Ed Benes.

http://maidofmight.net/gallery/albums/covers/supergirl_vol4/Supergirl_Many_Happy_Returns.jpg

I'd prefer to forget Peter David wrote Supergirl in any way, shape or form.

 

[Shazam!]

Emma Watson, for instance.

Emma Watson for Mary Marvel.

 

[Guy Gardener]

I don't think Emma would look good with a Mohawk.

OH!

You mean classic Mary Marvel before things got silly and she married Darkseid... At least I assume that it's implied that all the furies are his wives like all Nuns are married to God.

Wasn't she just awesome in "I can't believe it's Not the Justice League"?

Red suit or white suit?

 

[FormerLurker]

Considering that Mary Batson is Billy's twin sister, and she doesn't manifest as an adult version as Mary Marvel, just a superpowered version of her normal appearance, Anna Sophia Robb would be a more accurate casting decision, as Billy and Mary are 13. Which of course is what's so horribly, wretchedly wrong with the whole Dark Mary Marvel idea, let alone storyline, in the first place.

 

[Guy Gardener]

It's just wrong to cast a blonde as Mary.

Even with a good dye job you can tell.

Lois in that Superman movie?

I think the point of Mary and Freddie, is that their avatars grow in relation to their own respective ages, and it's really just a question of how far away in years form their origin that any story they are in is set as to how close to being an adult they may just be since for the most part it's usually at least ten years these days since Shazam started with the Child labour.

 

[AJBryant]

Emma Watson, for instance.

Emma Watson for Mary Marvel.

I'd just like to say that as a 49-year-old man, I feel kinda creepy for... well, you know. She's so YOUNG. But cute. Sexy cute. And hawt. And.... and....

Okay, I'm back.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Emma Watson, for instance.

Emma Watson for Mary Marvel.

I'd just like to say that as a 49-year-old man, I feel kinda creepy for... well, you know. She's so YOUNG. But cute. Sexy cute. And hawt. And.... and....

Okay, I'm back.

You need to access your inner Hugh Hefner.

 

[Guy Gardener]

How is she at suppressing her English accent?

I'm going to go google for Mary fromthe 70s live action tv show.

 

[Gaith]

^^ If she does an American accent, I'm out; deal's off.

Well... unless, maybe, she wears this... but I still say keep the acccent. To supress a babe's British accent is a crime.

 

[Christopher]

How is she at suppressing her English accent?

I'm going to go google for Mary fromthe 70s live action tv show.

There was no Mary Marvel in the live-action Shazam! series. Billy Batson and Captain Marvel were the only comics characters to appear there. The character and the rest of the Marvel Family did appear in animated form in Filmation's later The Kid Super Power Hour with Shazam!, and more recently in the Batman: The Brave and the Bold episode "The Power of Shazam!"

 

[Joel_Kirk]

Emma Watson, for instance.

Emma Watson for Mary Marvel.

I'd just like to say that as a 49-year-old man, I feel kinda creepy for... well, you know. She's so YOUNG. But cute. Sexy cute. And hawt. And.... and....

Okay, I'm back.

Nothing wrong with that, dude...

Emma Watson for Mary Marvel.

I'd just like to say that as a 49-year-old man, I feel kinda creepy for... well, you know. She's so YOUNG. But cute. Sexy cute. And hawt. And.... and....

Okay, I'm back.

You need to access your inner Hugh Hefner.

^^ If she does an American accent, I'm out; deal's off.

Well... unless, maybe, she wears this... but I still say keep the acccent. To supress a babe's British accent is a crime.

I'm for Emma Watson...

Another name I would throw out there is the girl who played Kitty Pride in the X-Men films: Ellen Page...