From Voyageurs National Park on FB: Called “Catamaran” by locals, Bert Upton is among the strangest of historical characters on area waters. He lived in a hut built over a dug-out at Squirrel Narrows. Found frozen to death in the 1930s by Kettle Falls pioneer Oliver Knox; Upton was perched lifeless in the snow just a half-mile from his home. Shunning civilization, Upton defined the word hermit. First spotted rowing his crude log raft on Namakan, no one knows how he got there. Upton’s accent implied an English heritage but any personal inquiries brought a stony silence. Some suspected him a man fleeing the law; others saw a bizarre outcast; everyone knew he was peculiar. Just five feet tall and wildly unkempt, Catamaran wore hacked-off pants and walked barefoot with a stick. Winter demanded shoes but no socks, a cast-off Mackinaw, and a trailing cap made from the leg of old underwear. He was oddly religious, and suspicious of being poisoned. Surviving on snared rabbits and fish, he ofte...
Based on what we've seen of the two movies, it looks like 2014 is the year Rocket Raccoon and Groot became less absurd than the ninja turtles.
ReplyDeleteLooks entertaining. Superhero Comedy. If this is successful it backs up your claim that a Star Wars buddy comedy would be huge.
ReplyDeleteI like that Marvel has figured out that comic book movies can appeal to a broad audience without being dark and brooding. Someone should tell DC.
ReplyDeleteI like how Marvel's taking their C-listers (and let's agree, they are C-listers) not too seriously. If they want to get into the Infinity Gauntlet story like they've hinted, they need to go cosmic. And when you have a homicidal raccoon, his walking tree-bro, the adopted daughter of Death's BFF and a dude who calls himself…. Star Lord… you need to go with comedy.
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