Those X-MEN Sure Do Get Around..
Wow, this might be one of the most OCD things I’ve ever seen on the internet.
Some brave soul(s?) decided to catalog, by way of map, the entire romantic history of the X-Men.
I do have to wonder, with all this romance going around, do you think any mutant based STDs came up?
Click the link below to view it in giant size form. It’s kind of humbling.
Original Post: X-Men Relationship Map.
Posted: June 30th, 2009
at 11:09am by Marty Day
Categories: across the net, comics
Comments: 1 comment
What Is PAUL? They’re Starting To Let Us Know!
Finally, after months of rumors and speculation, the next Simon Pegg/Nick Frost team up, the Greg Mottola (Superbad, Adventureland) directed Paul is in production here in the US.
The plot thus far seems to be built around 2 British Geeks (played by Frost & Pegg, of course) who travel across the US and end up befriending a Space Alien, the titular Paul.
I’ve talked about it before here, but now the official site is up, and it seems that Pegg & Frost are following the lead of their colleague Edgar Wright’s Scott Pilgrim coverage, by launching a site full of video blogs and exclusive pictures.
I’ve embedded the introductory video above, but be sure to click through to view photos that Simon took at rehearsals; a hysterical video as Pegg, Frost and co-star Kristen Wiig attempt to learn how to drive an RV; and a word from their co-star Joe Lo Truglio (The State) as he explains how Paul is going green.
I’m sure more interesting images and video will be coming soon, so I’ll keep an eye on the site and update you if/when something really stupendous hits the web.
Original Post: What is Paul?.
Oh, Fuck You MTV – TEEN WOLF THE SERIES
Read that headline.
A few times.
MTV has greenlit a television adaptation of TEEN FUCKING WOLF.
TEEN WOLF. The 20 year old movie, Teen Wolf.
The Michael J. Fox/Jason Bateman (depending on which one) starring film series, that was a joke then, and has only grown as a joke as the years have gone on.
MT-fucking-V has decided that is a great television program to move forward with.
And check out this sweet quote!
MTV is also pondering a reinvention of ’80s film “Teen Wolf” in series format, with a greater emphasis on romance, horror and werewolf mythology.
OF COURSE, BECAUSE WHAT THE SILLY TEENAGE WEREWOLF SERIES NEEDS IS TO TAKE HORROR AND MYTHOLOGY SERIOUSLY.
I hate Hollywood, for as much as I love it.
Original Post: MTV greenlights eight projects – Entertainment News, TV News, Media – Variety.
Shocking Deleted Scenes From Jurassic Park!
Oh man! I had no idea the Dinosaurs were originally supposed to talk in Jurassic Park!
AMAZING!
Curse you, Steven Spielberg, for stealing this landmark achievement in reptiles in cinema from a starved movie going public.
Original Post: YouTube – Hey.
Posted: June 25th, 2009
at 1:53pm by Marty Day
Categories: across the net, cynicism, movies
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Brütal Legend Box Art Is EFFIN’ METAL!
Fresh off the PR docket from Electronic Arts comes the cover art for this fall’s awesome Brutal Legend!
Rightly inspired by the metal album art that the game itself follows from, being a Heavy Metal fantasy-action RPG, this game art wouldn’t be too out of line being air-brushed on a van.
Makes me wish I had a sweet van.
Brutal Legend hits XBox 360 and PlayStation 3 on “Rocktober” 13th.
Original Post: Kotaku – Brütal Legend Box Art Hits All The Right Notes – Ea.
TRANSFORMERS: REVENGE OF THE FALLEN (2009): The Review
So this was a weird one. I had passes for an early screening of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen last night, but due to work commitments, I would be unable to get to theater in time.
Never the less, I wanted to make sure you fine readers got a review. In turn, I looked to my friends to not just give away the pass, but write you a review.
Enter Sean Creef. Nerd. Geek. All around good man.
Sean decided to step up and not just see the flick, but write a review!
Here goes, gang:
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
A story of lies, sex, and violence.
First of all, I enjoyed the 2007 Transformers movie. It was corny at times, and there are a few parts I dislike a lot. But overall, I liked the movie.
Revenge of the Fallen was much better.
For starters, there are robots in this movie. And not even just a few token shots of them transforming and then moving around in the corner of a shot, never to be seen again. If I had to guess, I would say there is at least 4 or 5 times as much robot action in this film. And it is generally front and center on the screen, clearly visible. This alone is such an improvement over the original. Second, there are much less annoying human characters. They cut out 3 or 4 annoying people, and while they did add one, he was at least with Sam co pretty much the entire time, so we didn’t dick around seeing what aussie hacker and fat guy were doing. No Jon Voight, either.
The Military badasses are back. But they spend all their time palling around with Transformers in some sort of interplanetary alliance of asskicking. They have a decent amount of chatter with the Autobots, so instead of ‘annoying people doing stuff’ it is ’somewhat less annoying people being buds with robots’.
Now the bad stuff. The movie has a lot of stupid comedic elements that somewhat break the immersion or, in my opinion, come off as just crude. Robotic leg humping, robotic testicles. At least nobody gets urinated on by a robot.
Back to the action. The robot on robot violence is fierce, fast, and brutal. I am pretty sure the level of bot on bot violence would not be allowed in a Hollywood film if the characters were human – limbs are severed and bodies torn apart with significant frequency. The initial chase and fight scene in Shanghai is confusing due to the reliance on new characters that we are never introduced too properly. Some car-form Decepticon is shown and killed without a name given.
And that takes me back to another thing I dislike – the Twins. Mudflap and his twin, whose name I honestly did not catch, and nor could I tell you which tiny annoying robot was Mudflap. Were they funny? Yeah, at times. But they were also somewhat retarded, and would have been better off in some other movie. In this one they seemed out of place and hokey. Also I personally thought they looked like Gremlins and acted like inner city teenagers on crack.
The movie culminates in a lengthy, epic ass battle in Egypt. Or maybe Jordan. I was a tad confused. IT was along the border so it is hard to say. But the battle was possibly the most epic modern battle I have ever seen. Tanks, infantry, almost 2 dozen transformers, air strikes, it had everything. Even something that will make sci-fi and military tech geeks spooge their pants.
In summation, Transformers 2 was a total upgrade of the original. It cut out most of the annoying crap from the previous film. It added an asston more robot on robot action. The stupid jokes were still there, and, while many were funny, they felt out of place or worse. Wheelie, the cowardly RC Car is the worst offender by far, though the Twins are more frequent.
Personally, I’m seeing the midnight show tonight (which could be a bad decision, if Roger Ebert is correct), but we’ll see how it pans out.
Two More Images From ALICE IN WONDERLAND
I guess the faucet of Alice In Wonderland info got turned to the “on” side of things this week.
Anyway, we last saw images of The Mad Hatter, The Red Queen and The White Queen from Tim Burton’s 3D reimagining of the classic Carrol tell. Now, we have images of the titular Alice, as played by Mia Wasikowska (ab0ve), and Matt Lucas as Tweedledee & Tweedledum (below).
Results? Still fucking freaky.
Original Post: First Look: Matt Lucas in Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland | /Film.
THE LAST AIRBENDER Teaser Trailer!
Fresh off the internets, it’s the teaser trailer for M. Night Shymalan’s movie adaptation of the Nicktoon Avatar, The Last Airbender.
Thus far, as already mentioned, I have zero personal connection to the Avatar property, so I can’t really say anything as to how it looks, adaptation wise…
But I’ll say this…
…that shit was filmed in PENNSYLVANIA? What the hell! Looked like Lord of the Rings filled New Zealand!
The Last Airbender whooshes into theaters in Summer 2010.
Get An Awkwardly Sexual Flash Drive: ROCKY III Flash Drives
They…like…have to be going for the obvious innuendo here, right?
These very odd, mid situp, USB penised Rocky III drives are available in Japan for about 30 bucks each.
So so weird.
Original Post: Rocky III USB drives sadly missing Burgess Meredith version.
Poster-O-Rama: Sherlock Holmes, Inglorious Basterds, Halloween 2 and GI Joe!
As you’re probably aware at this point, I’m a big fan of movie posters.
There’s something about distilling the entire intent of a film into a single image (or series of images) that I find really interesting.
Anywho, I’ve had quite a few poster er…posts piled up over the past few days, so I figured what the hell, let’s get them all out in one post.
First up, we have these really nice character posters of Jude Law as Watson and Robert Downey Jr. as the titular character from Sherlock Holmes.
Up next…the absolutely stunning, retro styled European poster for Quentin Tarantino’s forthcoming Nazi killin’ flick Inglorious Basterds.
Now, as a counterpoint, we go from a seriously stylish, downright amazing poster (seriously, if the movie holds up, I may need to get a copy of it)…to the super bland and boring one-sheet for Rob Zombie’s remake sequel (a phrase I never want to say again) Halloween II.
And last, and…yeah, probably least…here’s the latest batch of character posters from GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra. Fire and particle effects for all!
Bleh. Seriously, when works of art like the Inglorious Basterds poster are getting tossed out, why aren’t more posters trying to be as stylish? It’s a shame.
