Thursday...

*attempts Tarzan yell*

*voice cracks*
*coughing fit ensues*
*fails miserably*

BUT... my inner Saturday-afternoon-black-and-white-movie-watching, Edgar-Rice-Burroughs-book-devouring kid is over the moon at this:

Seriously. I have been waiting MY ENTIRE LIFE for a really good Tarzan movie (just as I'm still waiting on a good Robin Hood movie that matches my headcanon, and a good King Arthur movie with the same constraints). I had a set of all the Tarzan books, first editions no less that, alas, my mother gave to Goodwill when I went to college and they downsized. I read all the books, multiple times, and loved them to bits. So, watching this trailer, I am absolutely all in at this point. It looks beautifully filmed, has Samuel L Jackson, has some subtle snarky Lord Greystoke humor (watch for the tea-drinking scene), and just all around epicness that I hope/pray/beg/plead bodes well for the actual movie.

AND WE HEAR THE TARZAN YELL. THE YELL, Y'ALL.

*wiggles and squirms like a happy puppy hearing the treat box open*

The movie doesn't follow the books, from what I've read. It's not really an origin story so much as a 'revert to his origins' story, which sounds very intriguing. It'll be fun to watch a cultured Englishman tap into the beast within.

But I'm holding a wee bit back on this, because I remember getting very exciting at the first trailer for John Carter, another Burroughs' book adaptation, and it ended up being quite lame and meh.

So pleeeeeeeeeeease oh please be good, LoT!!