Happy birthday Joss Whedon!

[miriam_e]

I'm a day late here in Australia. (Oops! Didn't look at my calendar til this morning.) But it is still technically the 23rd of June in USA where Joss lives.

So, thank you Joss, for some of the best motion pictures (TV and movies) and comicbooks made. So much new ground broken.

I love your motion pictures, especially their dialogue. Almost everybody knows of

• Buffy the Vampire Slayer
  
• Angel
  
• Firefly
  
• Serenity
  
• Dr Horrible
  
• Dollhouse
  
• and now Avengers (which I haven't seen yet)

but, in my opinion, where you really shine, far, far above others, is in comicbooks:

• Buffy (of course)
  
• Angel
  
• Tales of the Vampire
  
• Buffy Season Eight (and now Nine)
  
• Fray
  
• Serenity
  
• Astonishing X-Men (a superb story running over 25 issues)
  
• Sugar Shock (utterly lunatic hilarity!)
  
• Runaways (a truly brilliant season that made me ache for more)
  

More power to you Joss. Long may you reign!

Comments

[greylock]

You forgot Toy Story and Alien Resurrection!

[miriam_e]

I did forget Toy Story, though, if I remember correctly, he was hired as script doctor on that rather than writer. However his rewrites seem so extensive -- the Joss with shines through so much of that movie -- I think he should have been credited as co-writer. Later: Wow! I just looked on IMDB and it seems he is listed there as a co-writer. Cool!

I'd thought Joss merely was hired to script-doctor Alien Resurrection. I was wrong (I just now looked it up on IMDB). Joss himself reckons that the film did everything wrong, though I love it... except for the end which sucked big-time. I believe I have Joss' script here. I must read it.

Joss has been script doctor on many films (Titan AE, Atlantis: The Lost Empire, Twister, Waterworld,...). One of the more notable was Speed, which I think he played a big part in making watchable. He was script doctor for the first X-Men, but they cut out all but a few of his lines. Those they left in are usually the best ones, of course.

[greylock]

just looked on IMDB and it seems he is listed there as a co-writer. Cool!

Of course, credits being what they are that could mean anything.

One of the more notable was Speed, which I think he played a big part in making watchable.

So, that's why I enjoyed Speed that time I watched it!