Ahoy sea men and women, welcome to this week’s DVD FIX, your source for what’s new in DVD/Blu-Ray land.
To say this week’s releases are weak is an understatement. Here’s the major titles hitting retail and rental shelves this week – and hey, if you buy any of these items through the Amazon.com links in this here post, you’re helping Giant Killer Squid save up for that shiny new bike we’ve been wanting. So thanks.
NEW RELEASES FOR JUNE 30th
Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun Li Smallville’s Lana Lang (Kristin Kreuk) stars in this unfathomable movie based on the super successful arcade/console video game. Kreuk plays the deadly Chun Li, who must resist the evil forces of Father’s telling their kids to “play that game on mute”. I can’t believe someone made another Street Fighter movie.
12 Rounds (Rated + Unrated) WWE superstar John Cena comes to home video in his second “major” starring role. I’m sure this film is just “great”.
Eastbound & Down: The Complete First Season
I myself haven’t seen any of this little show, but it stars Danny McBride who just so happens to steal every movie he’s in. Featuring creative talent from Will Ferrel, Jody Hill and Adam McKay, how can you go wrong? Bonus: If you haven’t yet seen The Foot Fist Way also starring Danny McBride, you are missing out.
That’s really all I even want to mention this week. Next week ain’t much better we’ll see new releases featuring Nic Cage, some wannabe superheroes, and a frightening fetus?
Finally, good news for fans of the X-Men animated series from the 90’s Fox Kids programming – the final two volumes of the show, 3 & 4 respectively, are set for release on September15th. Just like the first two volumes (which are really, really good) each volume features two discs of 15 episodes. I recently watched volumes 1 & 2, and this show is one of the very few that holds up since my childhood, and dare I say, the best comic-book cartoon in terms of faithfulness of tone to the source material.
Welcome to another Box Office Beat, your weekly insight into the previous week’s new release performances.
Last Wednesday debuted what could be the last of the summer blockbusters for the year, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. Regardless of the majority of critical response, including mine, being incredibly negative, Michael Bay’s follow up to his original box office beast made a ridiculous amount of money. The film opened a full day early with midnight screenings alone pulling in over $15 million, but that’s mere peanuts for what will most likely be the highest grossing film of the year,and quite possibly one of the highest grossing films of all time.
No other major releases entered the market this week except for My Sister’s Keeper. I don’t even know what the hell a My Sister’s Keeper is. Regardless, it performed terribly.
Here’s the top 5 and their respective intake:
1. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen – $108,966,307*
2. The Proposal – $18,578,541
3. The Hangover – $17,022,166
4. Up – $13,061,737
5. My Sister’s Keeper – $12,442,212
* note that because Transformers opened early, it’s grossing is well over $200,000,000 as of Monday, June 29.
I’d like to take this opportunity to give a large round of applause to Michael Bay. Congratulations, Sir, you’ve pulled the ultimate prank. You have managed to make the longest, most-expensive, highest-grossing spoof movie ever. I admit, I chortled pretty hard after the 58th explosion in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. I caught the subversive Kaufman-esque humor when nothing progressive happened for literally 45 minutes halfway through the film.
Brilliant.
I knew I was experiencing a “happening” when that old Transformer had a beard and needed a walking stick made out of a Blackbird plane’s landing gear.
Oh, and the twins, Mudflap and Skids? Genius. What an amazing social commentary on the foolishness of racial stereotypes in modern media. Just, cutting edge and important.
Oh you’re so very clever Michael Bay, you self-aware clown, you.
Wait… you mean… what I just saw was… was real? You actually made that movie to be taken seriously? Really?
Michael Bay, you are a fucking idiot.
Enough with playing coy here, kids, this review is going to get real fast, real serious.
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is a big steaming pile of shit. In every single possible way. If you can’t see that then I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but you are a simpleton. The film is a complete and utter black hole devoid of sense, reason, purpose and point. It is horribly written, horribly paced, it is misogynistic, racist, unintelligent and entirely unfunny.
And you are all lapping it up like disgusting remora-fish on the gills of the elusive great white shit shark. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen has been out for four days now and has already grossed $201,000,000. I like to think my hand is close to the pulse of society here, and I know I’m in the majority when I say that TF:ROTF is a hot mess of garbage. So why is this turd still making money? Have we finally passed the point of no return of mindless self-indulgence? Was Mike Judge’s Idiocracy a forewarning, and soon the #1 television program will be Ouch, My Balls?
I like to think that we as a society and culture are not comprised of money-making, money-spending, barely functioning dullards, but alas, dear moviegoer, you leave me no choice.
Anyways, back to the movie…
There isn’t so much a plot as there is a loose idea of a story that moves two feet forward from exploding set-piece to exploding set-piece. It’s two years after the events of the first film and Sam Witwicky (Shia Labeouf) is heading off to college while the autobots have been working alongside a special military division to uncover and eliminate decepticons. But while the military thinks that the decepticons are messing with earth only because of the autobot presence, in fact they are hunting the remains of the allspark so they can revive megatron so they can find Sam so they can get the coordinates to the matrix of leadership so that the original decepticon, The Fallen can conquer the planet. And….scene.
It took me two sentences, yet it took Michael bay 150 minutes to clumsily unweave that blanket of stupid. The twists and turns had me riveted. But the intricacies of the story wasn’t the real problem here – it was the absolutely horrendous pacing and run-time. The film is easily 30 minutes too long. We start with a solid 15 minutes of action, then its like watching paint dry for 30 straight minutes, then another 15 minutes of action. There’s one section of the film – in which we meet the ridiculous Jetfire,a senior citizen transformer – that was tortuously boring. We are subjected to long-winded flashbacks that are neither necessary nor entertaining. The whole film goes on like this; even the action scenes are boring.
The thing about the first film (which I actually enjoyed, by the way) is that this was all new and kept in a fairly intimate scope. If anything, TF:ROTF proves that a global-scale movie about transforming robots just doesn’t make a good movie. There’s no substance. These characters have nothing to cling on to. There’s just nothing at all interesting about anyone or anything in this movie.
The first film had it’s fair share of comedy. I didn’t laugh at it, nor do I consider it clever humor at all, but I understand the need to have it there. It can’t all be explosions and robots, we need a dog peeing somewhere in there, you know, to balance it out. But Revenge of the Fallen takes the worst parts of Transformers and multiplies them like mogwais in water. There are attempts at humor every other minute of the film, but not one joke is funny, unless you’re 7 or under. Audiences winced when Bumblebee “wizzed” on a human in the first film, but that’s nothing compared to the sequel – we get robots humping, robots crying, robots dancing, robots ninja kicking, robots bleeding, robots fist bumping, robots with gold teeth and robots with giant, clanging testicles.
If that sounds like a lot of robots, well it is. There’s dozens of robots in this one, easily more than twice the amount of the first. There’s all sorts of sport coupes, motorcycles, insects, dumptrucks, cement mixers, just a child’s toybox full of matchstick transformers, most of which don’t speak or have a name and we don’t know who any of them are. All of these robots, all of these characters that have established themselves with fans and barely any of them exist. There’s Optimus Prime, who executes more decepticons than saves autobots, Bumblebee who still can’t talk, Megatron is pussified, Starscream is noticably re-cast, The Fallen is a pointless and uninteresting Emperor Palpatine archetype and Ratchet and Ironhide are in the film with no more than two lines of dialogues each. Way to keep us engaged with the characters, gang. But that’s not even the biggest problem with the characters. The biggest problem are the new twins, Mudflap and Skids who are so painfully, insultingly racist. If you haven’t heard already, these two autobots are the main comic-relief robots who get far too much screentime. All of their screentime is too much. These two characters speak only in stereotpyical afro-centric slang, which is offensive enough, have pronounced facial features like teeth and ears, and are self-professed as illiterate. One of them has a gold tooth and they spout off catch-phrases like “bust a cap in yo ass” and “dats because you a pussy”.
How is that funny? It’s disgusting and unnecessary and we should not be showing our kids this stuff. It is completely unhealthy and unreasonable to be perpetuating these stereotypes as acceptable humor to our children. With a clear conscience, I cannot and will not endorse this film anymore than I already have beyond my ticket-purchase and this review. If you found the twins funny and are not a clue-less child, then you should not be contributing to this society, and for God’s sake don’t reproduce. Shame on us, and shame on those involved with these characters.
I don’t have the patience anymore to continue flogging this heap of bile. I’ve only scratched the surface of what’s wrong with this movie. Quite simply, Michael Bay has not made a movie here; he’s made the worst porn film ever imaginable. He’s made a porn movie for underachievers that consists of the pizza boy cooing an unwanting female for two hours culminating in one premature, oozing, uninspired money-shot.
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is the strip-club of action films – you pay way more than it’s worth to get in, its way too loud, it feels like it goes on forever, and at the end of the day you’ve seen it all before and it laughs in your face because there’s no relief from the itch you had going in.
There’s no reason to see this film.
* if you even dare tell me that Megan Fox is a reason to see the film, then you can help yourself to some buckshot mouthwash. That’s not a reason, you stupid moron. You are a chauvinist pig asshole and you need to grow up.
I’m sure you’ve heard of ‘The Box’ in one form or another, be it from it’s original inception as a Richard Matheson short-story, Button, Button, in 1970 or it’s popular television adaption by the same name in The Twilight Zone. Or perhaps you’ve heard it through hear-say or by the campfire. What really makes button, button so eerie, is its familiarity. Not in that we’ve read or seen it before, but that we’ve dreamt it before, fantasized it.
The plot is simple – a man and wife, under hard financial times, are confronted by a mysterious man who gives them a small box. In that box is one button. The man tells them if they simply push that button, two things will happen. The first, that someone, somewhere, whom they do not know, will die. The second, that they will receive a substantial amount of money.
Seems like a great little read or fodder for a nice forty-two minute tv show (which it is).
Well, ripe for the big-screen picking, Richard Kelly wrote and directed his own take on the story with The Box. Ominous, isn’t it. The flick stars Cameron Diaz as the wife, James Marsden as the husband and Frank Langella – Skeletor himself – as the man with the box.
Now, if you don’t know Richard Kelly, he’s the cat that wrote and directed Donnie Darko. Hold your childish screams… he also created Southland Tales, which is loudly touted as one of the worst films ever made; I’ve seen it, it certainly has a spot on the atrocious list. I won’t bother going into how incredibly overrated Donnie Darko is, as that’s for another post altogether, but Richard Kelly hasn’t hit “the mark” with a film once in his career.
The trailer for The Box looks to be par for the course for Mr. Kelly – contrived suspense, phoned-in performances and Kelly’s usual over-thought-but-ill-executed writing. I’m a huge fan of The Twilight Zone, and the Button, Button episode, so I will no doubt see The Box, but I can feel Richard Kelly patting my head already cooing, there, there’s a good boy… see how smart I am?…
Also, pay close attention *wink, wink* for the Saw theme song. There’s another red flag.
Kind of a bland weekend for a mid-june at the theaters. I haven’t seen the new entries, so I will reserve judgement, but rom-com, The Proposal takes the lead this weekend. The only other noteworthy entry is Jack Black and Michael Cera’s Year One, which has been seriously taken to school by critics.
Here’s the top 5 for last weekend:
1. The Proposal - $34,114,000
2. The Hangover - $26,855,000
3. Up - $21,336,000
4. Year One - $20,200,000
5. The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 - $11,300,000
Check out the full financial report over at Box Office Mojo.
Check back next Sunday to see just how much Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen will fare in it’s first weekend.
I know it may seem that I’m being overly hard on Halloween 2, or H2 or whatever the hell it’s called, since my incredibly scathing review of Rob Zombie’s first film re-imagining the horror icon. But I’m really not. That film was terrible in every sense of the word, and the original trailer for the sequel proved that even crap can take a dump.
Well, take a look at the new trailer for Rob Zombie’s Halloween 2. This further pushes the fact that Rob Zombie has no sense of subtlety nor does he understand the idea, tone or fucking purpose of Michael Meyers. Watch as Michael Meyers rolls a car down a hill! Tremble as Rob Zombie fast-cuts with screaming demon faces!
Also, there’s a new poster below – who comes up with these taglines? And why is Michael Meyers in Honey, I Shrunk the Kids? Look at that grass…
Ugh.
Rob Zombie’s Halloween 2 starts playing on August 28, 2009.
UPDATE:
Seems I had my facts wrong… this flick is apparently a sequel to the original story, not a remake or re-imagining. Tim Burton’s film will take place 10 years later in Alice’s life as she returns to Wonderland not remembering her previous adventure. I think this is a great approach, as it lets Burton really flex his twisted muscles and create something truly unique while paying homage to the original without mucking it up.
Also, movies.ie snagged a great little character picture of Matt Lucas as Tweedle-Dee and Tweedle-Dum (see below).
I’ve been a huge fan of Alice in Wonderland since I saw the Disney feature way back as a wee squidlet. Since then I’ve revisited the film, and it’s literary beginnings many times. Its just a wonderful, imagination-stimulating and affecting little story. And it’s just perfect for Tim Burton to adapt into his own whimsical-yet-twisted feature film.
Here’s our first exciting images from Tim Burton’s version, a mixture of 3D animation and live-action film. The cast includes Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter, Anne Hathaway as the White Queen, Helena Bonham Carter as the Queen of Hearts, Alan Rickman as the Caterpillar, Christopher Lee as the Jabberwock, Stephen Fry as the Cheshire Cat and Cripsin Glover as the Knave of Hearts. Now that’s a recipe for awesome.
So what will the film look like, exactly? Well, USAToday has given us our first few glimpses at some of the characters and how Wonderland itself may unfold before our eyes. Check out the eye-popping images below.
Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland opens March 5, 2010.
There’s no script, no signed actors and no director, but Mission: Impossible 4 is a go.
Returning to the fold are Tom Cruise & J.J. Abrams – don’t get your hopes up though, those two are only in producing roles, as of right now, though I can’t see a M:I flick without Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt so we can surely bet on that.
In a perfect world we’d have Abrams returning to direct – I absolutely love M:I:III. It really is completely underrated and really stands out quite a bit from the first two, which I thought were just okay action/thrillers. The third one is a riot, I recently re-watched it on Blu-Ray and swear it’s one of the best action flicks of the last 5 years. Go watch it again, nay-sayer.
The fourth installment of the popular franchise, based off the popular TV series, is tentatively set for a 2011 release.
That’s really all we know for now, and I doubt there will be any more developments for a while – but when there is, we’ll give it to you.
One of the few major Superman villains left untapped on the small-screen will finally make their way to Smallville next season… the kryptonite-powered metal man Metallo!
According to TVGuide.com, 90210 and Sarah Connor Chronicles alum (and former Megan Fox bang-ee) Brian Austin Green will terrorize denizens of Metropolis and/or Smallville and be a big pain in the ass to Clark.
This is a great move for the show, which will begin its ninth season this fall, in bringing another highly demanded character to fruition in this unique take on Superman and his lore. Metallo will now join the ranks of other DC villains to get the TV treatment, such as Braniac, Zod, Doomsday, Bizarro and Toyman.
For those of you not familiar with the Metallo character, here’s the deal, via wikipedia:
John Corben was a small-time con man who was fatally injured in a car crash, but to his luck Professor Emmet Vale happened to pass by. Professor Vale was a pioneer in robotics, and erroneously believed that Superman was the first in a wave of superpowered Kryptonian invaders. Vale transplanted Corben’s brain into a robotic body, which was powered by a two-pound chunk of kryptonite, and instructed him to kill Superman.
I’m really interested to see how Metallo will play out on the show; I recently plowed through the first seven seasons of Smallville on DVD, and although the show can be quite contrived at times, and some of the romance arcs are irritating, it really is a great superhero show. Probably the best to have ever aired. Smallville is a must-watch for any comic fan, and if you can get past the first two seasons, the show morphs from a monster-of-the-week type deal to really engaging and often times epic story-telling – the finale for season 3 remains one of the greatest season-enders I’ve ever seen.
More to come in the fall once Smallville’s ninth season hits the tube in the fall.
Joe Quesada, Marvel’s Editor-In-Chief, updated his own personal editorial column, Cup O’ Joe, with some of his thoughts and updates on both Iron Man 2 and the Thor big-screen feature.
Thor was the major meat of the editor’s thoughts; apparently Kenneth Branagh is just blowing everyone involved away with his commitment and excitement for the property, something which really calms me for the moment. Quesada tells of a near 3 hour meeting in which Branagh basically threw down a one-man show of the entire flick, and touches briefly on the as-of-yet-uncast Odin character :
…not only did Branagh sit there and give you the story beat for beat, he and [Marvel Studios head] Kevin Feige formed a great team. It was performance art. Kevin would give us the establishment of the shot and the situation: “Here we are. We’re in (take your pick of location). And here’s Odin and he’s coming up to (pick a character).” And then Kenneth would come in and give you the color commentary. “Odin has an air of majesty to him” and he’d act out the Odin part or the Thor part. So we sat there and literally got a three-hour one-man show from Kenneth Branagh. It was fantastic. People pay a lot of money for that kind of performance by one of the world’s greatest living actors.
Still nothing new in regards to casting, however.
…we talked about possible Odins and other characters. What Kenneth has in mind is pretty cool. We’ll see. People have to be talked to, and we’ll see who we end up with.
He then goes son to talk about how Thor will work within the realm of Marvel flicks that has been established with Iron Man and The Incredible Hulk; one major fear I have is losing audiences – having them take a larger leap of faith outside of the hyper-realism we’ve seen so far is a tough science to master. How will Thor, a property based on mythological and fantastical un-realism mesh with Iron Man? Not only that, but Thor isn’t really an accessible, mainstream character Spider-Man or Hulk, or even Iron Man.
We knew Iron Man wasn’t as recognizable to most people not into comics. He’s not Spider-Man. He’s certainly becoming that, but we worked very hard here at Marvel and started doing things like the Iron Man digital animation shorts, I worked on those with Blur Studios and Craig Kyle over at Marvel West. Those did really, really well for us online. They were basically designed to introduce Iron Man to kids by showing him in the Marvel Universe interacting with our characters, and I think we have the same work ahead of us with Thor. We’ll be getting out there. We’ve got plans already to get Thor’s name out within a younger group of kids. I think the upcoming “Super Hero Squad” and “Avengers Animated” shows are going to do wonders to get that across, and then we’re working on a couple of ancillary things here and there to boost the desire for kids in particular to know more about Thor and the general public as well. Let me add that the portrayal of Thor in Super Hero Squad is my absolute favorite.
This tells me that we’re going to be pretty inundated with Thor stuff once production picks up and we’re closer to release date; while this bodes well for younger audience, I’m still skeptical on how much appeal it will have to the bread-and-butter-audience; those who really aren’t familiar with the property but put their butts in the theaters.
Quesada then briefly touches on working with Jon Favreau for the Iron Man films and recounts one of their earlier meetings, during production on the first film. Not incredibly newsworthy, but Quesada is sold on Favreau’s commitment not only to the first film, but in the property, and it’s future films, in general:
…he wanted to know who he is and why Tony Stark does what he does. That was really key to Favreau: why put on the suit and try to do good things? It was a much tougher question once he defeats the Iron Monger, gets his tech and his company back…why continue doing this? What does Tony Stark stand for?
In essence, the thing I never revealed about that conversation in the past is that Jon was looking for these answers because he was already thinking ahead, he was thinking about “Iron Man 2″.
God I love Favreau doing Iron Man. He needs to helm the Avengers flick.
Welcome to Box Office Beat - you can check it out every Sunday night for the financial fallout from the weekend’s releases.
This weekend was an interesting one, with The Hangover staying in first place for a second week in a row. Disney/Pixar’s Up remains in second place, same as last week. The only entries of note are The Taking of Pelham 123 entering the box office charts in 3rd place and Eddie Murphy’s new steaming pile of kiddy turd, Imagine That, amazingly taking last weeks Terminator slot in sixth.
The highly anticipated and greatly touted sci-fi flick Moon also opened in limited release. Showing on only 8 screens it entered the chart in twentieth place.
Here’s the top 5 as it looks right now:
1. The Hangover – $33,415,000
2. Up – $30,515,000
3. The Taking of Pelham 123 – $25,000,000
4. Night at the Museum II – $9,600,000
5. Land of the Lost – $9, 153,000
That’s it for last week; this week sees Year One (Jack Black, Michael Cera) and The proposal (Sandra Bullock, Ryan Reynolds) in release.
I’m not even going to begin to delve into the nature of a new Conan the Barbarian flick, is it a remake, reboot, sequel, etc., but we do know that this property has been bouncing around in development hell for quite some time now.
Last we heard, Brett Ratner had been developing the film for a while before backing out – thank God. But yesterday CHUD.com broke the news that popular horror remake director Marcus Nispel (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Friday the 13th) has signed on to take charge of the film (which Variety is calling a re-make). How fitting is that? Dude looks like a barbarian.
While I’m not a huge fan of the Conan films and mythos, I do think there is potential there to continue the property sans Schwarzenegger. I also think that Nispel is a solid choice to make the flick; though I wasn’t exceptionally blown away by his versions of Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Friday the 13th – nor have I seen Pathfinder yet – I do think he’s a relatively sound director and this could be the universe where he shines. I’ve heard his commercial work is pretty impressive as well.
Millenium and Lionsgate had wanted production to start this summer, but with the Nispel signing on just now, that looks mighty unlikely. No other details about this new Conan are known, who will play the barbarian, etc. but we’ll report them as they pop up.
Alright kids, it’s been a couple months and I’ve amassed a whole bunch of consumerables for the second edition of STIW. Here’s the best of the best, in quick and dirty rawdog style:
Nerf N-Strike Vulcan EBF-25 Blaster
Jesus H. Christ, look at that thing. Nerf really hasn’t been cool since the crotch-bat really… until I came across this beast (almost quite literally), the N-Strike Vulcan EBF-25 Blaster. The EBF stands for Everyone’s Balls Fucked. I dunno. This is the T-101 of air powered sponge artillery. Some of its features: ammo box, folding tripod, 25-dart belt and 25 SONIC MICRO DARTS. What the hell is a sonic micro dart? I have no clue, but I need to find out. Retails for around $40.
And, according to the image below, you can fire it into another dude’s ass!
It is scientific fact that footwear could not be any more bad-ass than this. Unless you strapped hatchet-laden corpses to your feet, but that’s illegal and morally deplorable. So instead, Vans – the creators of the equally awesome Iron Maiden shoes (which I own) – stepped up and gave us the next best thing: shoes inspired by artwork from Mastodon’s Blood Mountain record. Though it would’ve been a wet dream to have shoes from Leviathan or even Crack The Skye, I can’t complain, these are fucking epic. Both version come in hi-top or low-top and I have no clue how much they retail for. I paid $30 for the Iron Maiden ones.
I’ve been on the market for one of these sexy little pocket cams for a while now, and it seems that pretty much across the board the Creative Vado HD delivers boners to even the most fickle of tech-wieners. This palm-sized camera boasts an impressive 2 hours of recording/playback at 720p, a hefty 8GB of internal memory, a decent 2″ screen and a slide-out USB for pulling out, stuffing in, and unloading all the stuff you’ve just accumulated. That’s what she said.
It doesn’t hurt that the footage this baby captures is really damn amazing from such a compact machine. Better yet is that it retails for less than $230. Check out the official site.
Watchmen Blu-Ray ‘Owlship’ Collector’s Edition
It’s exciting enough just having Watchmen on DVD and Blu-Ray so soon (July 21), but this gave me a big nerdy one… the Amazon.com exclusive Owlship collector’s set. This bad boy can only be purchased online. Just look at that. What a beaut. The set includes the special edition 2-disc blu-ray of the film, lame-ass digital copy which no one will use, and a ridiculously awesome miniature Owlship replica that holds the discs and has lights and sounds. The only thing that would make this better is if it had the technology to blow me while I watch the film. But then again, that could be distracting.
This is one of those things that I really want, but will never, ever own. It’s fairly simple in technology, a juke-box for the future, if you will, that stores all of your DVD discs and then you use the remote in your 500 pound, Cheeto-dust smothered hand, to select the movie you want and it cues it up for you. Because five feet really is that far. Regardless of its complete lack of practicality, it is pretty damn cool. And Sony’s gearing up to launch this mega changer that will hold 400 Blu-Ray discs. Are there even 400 Blu-Ray’s available? Oof. I’m so balls deep in Blu-Ray right now. I want this. It will no doubt retail for $1,000,000 and the only people who will have it are Larry Flynt looking oil tycoons obsessed with Indecent Proposal and Dirty Dancing in 1080p.
Check out Engadget’s piece on the 400 disc calorie saver here.
Well that wraps up another volume of SH*T THAT I WANT. If you have any ideas for items for future volumes, or just foudn some really bad-ass stuff that you want, let us know.
Iron Man/Iron Man 2 director Jon Favreau gave us a little treat today… our first real glimpse of Mickey Rourke as the villanous Whiplash in Iron Man 2. Favreau gave us the USA Today scoop via his Twitter feed.
I’m totally digging this. Though I bet this will be just an early version of the character’s “suit” – think his version of the Mark I – this really has some badass potential. I’m terrified of the man in the suit, not just the suit (which I’m sure will shit on your day itself ). I’m now more intrigued, which I didn’t think possible.
More Iron Man 2 news as we get it. Remember, the film rockets into theaters (lame, I know) May 7, 2010.
I’d like to take this opportunity to give a large round of applause to Michael Bay. Congratulations, Sir, you’ve pulled the ultimate prank. You have managed to make the longest, most-expensive, highest-grossing spoof movie ever. I admit, I chortled pretty hard after the 58th explosion in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. I caught the subversive Kaufman-esque humor when nothing progressive happened for literally 45 minutes halfway through the film.
I’m sure you’ve heard of ‘The Box’ in one form or another, be it from it’s original inception as a Richard Matheson short-story, Button, Button, in 1970 or it’s popular television adaption by the same name in The Twilight Zone. Or perhaps you’ve heard it through hear-say or by the campfire. What really makes button, button so eerie, is its familiarity. Not in that we’ve read or seen it before, but that we’ve dreamt it before, fantasized it.
Kind of a bland weekend for a mid-june at the theaters. I haven’t seen the new entries, so I will reserve judgement, but rom-com, The Proposal takes the lead this weekend. The only other noteworthy entry is Jack Black and Michael Cera’s Year One, which has been seriously taken to school by critics.
There’s no script, no signed actors and no director, but Mission: Impossible 4 is a go.
One of the few major Superman villains left untapped on the small-screen will finally make their way to Smallville next season… the kryptonite-powered metal man Metallo!
I’m not even going to begin to delve into the nature of a new Conan the Barbarian flick, is it a remake, reboot, sequel, etc., but we do know that this property has been bouncing around in development hell for quite some time now.
