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International "Captain America" poster is the best Marvel poster EVER...

...even though they're still afraid of his fucking mask. Holy. Shit.



One thing, though - I thought the "international" release was using "First Avenger" as the main title - did they finally abandon that? (Knowing Marvel Studios, it'd be more about not paying for seperate prints than anything ideological, but still...)

Things To Come

It's unsurprising but still sad that many people still haven't given Mike Judge's ambitious "Idiocracy" - best described as a dramatically less-optimistic cousin to "Futurama" - a shot. Whether you've already seen it or not, this opening sequence remains one of the funniest yet most terrifyingly-plausible visions of an unconventional-apocalypse ever put to film. It's not at all hard to imagine looking at this film a decade from now and thinking "It's too late. This guy tried to warn us. We didn't listen. Now it's too late..."

American Bob: "Get Along?"

Another new episode of the new show.

War Horse teaser

Here's the first teaser for Steven Spielberg's "War Horse," an adaptation of the 1982 Michael Morpurgo children's book that more-recently inspired a stage play. The story: A horse "drafted" into the Cavalry during World War I suffers mightily as he tries to survive the war and ultimately get back to it's owner, a young English boy - who is also searching for him. Wow. Might as well have titled it, "Please make a movie out of me, Steven Spielberg."



As I see it, there's only two ways this can concievably go: Either it's "Amistad" again (i.e. well-meaning, well-made but ultimately uninvolving stuff) OR we're about to add another title to the "movies it's okay for men to cry at" list.

Big Picture: "Americana"

Pixar's "Brave" Trailer

Trailer for Pixar's "Brave," featuring the studio's first female solo-protagonist. I think she's also a "princess" of some sort, which will probably make her the first Pixar character to join the ranks of the Disney Princess brand.

Warner Bros. Blowing "Green" Smoke

Stop asking me if I've read this Hollywood Reporter story about Warner Bros. still being hot to make a "Green Lantern" sequel. Just stop.

Does this even rate the need for an explanation? No one "badmouths" their own movie while it's still in theaters with money (theoretically) still to be made; and in today's Hollywood where EVERY genre film is presumed to be the start of a franchise NOT immediately talking sequels is as bad as mouthing can get. They (and the cast/crew) will be saying "Oh, yeah. Sequel. Definitely." for at least another year or two, but the writing is almost-certainly on the wall: The film is a major money-loser and industry-wide joke. Reboot in five or six years with an entirely new cast/crew? Maybe. Sequel? Almost-certainly no.

If you REALLY want to gauge how big a dent "Green Lantern" has put into WB's enthusiasm, watch and see what (if any) kind of movement gets made on his buddies. Warners is still angling for the DC Universe to replace "Harry Potter" as their yearly cash-cow franchise, and "Lantern" was supposed to kick-off a wave of (possibly-connected) DC superhero movies - potentially including an already-mentioned "new" Batman unrelated to the soon-to-conclude "Dark Knight" version and the (for now) one-off "Superman." There's supposedly a completed "Flash" script - they wanted Shawn Levy to direct for awhile - and even freaking "Hawkman" (HAWKMAN!??) is "in development."

Of course, only three months ago Warner's movie group president Jeff Robinov was talking about a "Justice League" movie hitting by 2013 - a logical response to "The Avengers" in 2012. At the time, the "plan" was to spin-out new versions of certain characters (Wonder Woman specifically, as the now-aborted TV show was still happening at that point) introduced therein in their own movies. It's not a bad plan - fans and followers had been suggesting as much since before "Avengers" was even a possibility - but it's concievable that "Lantern" could end up killing any enthusiasm for second-tier characters.

Here's a clip from "Wonder Woman"

NBC passed on David E. Kelley's "Wonder Woman" show. Now you can watch a clip and see why...



I dunno about you, but seeing the pitch-perfect recreation of nighttime/orange-interior/blue-exterior/generic-location TV action shooting like this on "Eagleheart" has pretty-much ruined my ability to take it seriously. Pallicki certainly looks stunning, but the outfit still looks like a Halloween costume and she's not really selling the "I'm a badass" thing (dig the lazy floppy arm-swing business after she opens the door, like she's halfheartedly opening up a mall security door for her morning shift.)

RiffTrax Live Returns!

RiffTrax is coming back to theaters in August, and bringing along a significantly more 'high profile' movie than usual: The 1962 Harryhausen-wannabe kiddie fantasy "Jack The Giant Killer."



And for a better look at what they're up against, here's "Jack's" original trailer:

New York Legislature Does The Right Thing (UPDATED!)

UPDATED with less-generic image (Empire State Building, all rainbowed-up for the occassion) courtesy ThinkProgress.

My two favoritest things: A victory for justice, modernity and sanity; and Boston coming in ahead of New York in things ;)

In all seriousness, congratulations to the Empire State for electing to enter the 21st Century. FUN FACT: This one state legalizing Same-Sex Marriage actually doubles the number of Americans in total who live in a marriage-equality state - an object lesson in why those red/blue map breakdowns are essentially worthless.

P.S. Does anyone have footage of JUST Sen. Ruben Diaz's apparently instant-douchebag-classic "this will destroy the world!!!" speech from the Senate vote they'd like to post for the lulz?

Rated B For Brainy


It will surprise no one that I am exactly the sort of asshole film snob goes to "difficult" movies that he's already seen to watch The Normals get frustrated and walk-out. But even I'M surprised at the level of audience-blowback that's meeting "Tree of Life." You'd think the title ALONE would set off the "artsy-fartsy" alarm in among even the dimmest bulbs of Michael Bay's America.

Anyway, if you want to be in on what us asshole film snobs will be using to make ourselves feel superior THIS weekend; check out this sign found posted at the Stamford, CT Avon Theatre (posted right, click to embiggen) warning patrons that refunds will not be issued in the event of blown minds - keep in mind, this is a movie with NO real violence, sex or even much language; they are issuing a WARNING for a non-linear narrative.



I think my favorite part is the sheer level of "we're fucking sick of idiots* bitching about this movie" condescension dripping from the language here. "Auteur?" Nobody who walks out of this particular movie knows or cares what that word is. You can just feel the reservoir of "are you people kidding me!!??" helpless rage boiling within whoever had to type this up. I hope they had to have a meeting about it, especially because you know there were one or two members of the management repeatedly going "see? See? I told you we shouldn't have booked this - I didn't get it at all!"

Ah, well. If Rome is gonna burn anyway, you may as well fiddle...

*No, I am not calling YOU an idiot, hypothetical-reader-who-takes-this-personally-for-some-reason. I completely understand people not "getting into" this particular movie, I just remember being in the position of whoever had to make this sign and frankly have never understood the rationality of people who try to get their money back because they didn't like a movie they've already (partway) watched.

Escape to the Movies: "Cars 2"

EDIT: I am aware that there is a spelling-error, it's being worked on.
EDIT: I am also aware of the bitter irony in mispelling a common Latin phrase in a video posted directly below one making fun of people for walking-out of "Tree of Life."


INTERMISSION is a "fanboy-free" breakdown of "Green Lantern" - no comic stuff, no geek nitpicks, strictly it's failures on basic filmmaking.

"Killer Elite" trailer

Hat-tip: Hollywood-Elsewhere

Good sign: That business with the chair. That's cool.

Seals the deal: How can you NOT respect an action trailer with the balls to use "Rock You Like a Hurricane" in a non-parody context? Exactly - you can't.



Not bad either: Cutting-to-black on a guy getting punched in the nuts.

Final (?) Captain America Poster (UPDATED with awesome new trailer!)

Apparently the final theatrical poster for "Captain America," via Yahoo. (hat-tip to BAD)

I'm going to go out on a limb and assume that the GREAT BIG FLAG backdrop will be replaced by something else for the international "First Avenger" release version - or is Marvel just kind of rolling the dice on that at this point?

I don't love that he's not wearing the helmet - the marketing for this seems to be actively afraid of the mask, much in the same way "Thor's" was wary of showing Asgard - but other than that it's pretty damn incredible.

The early word on this is very good so far, though it probably helps enormously that it's coming on the heels of "Green Lantern's" spectacular crash-and-burn, as opposed to having to "follow" a better-recieved superhero flick like "Thor" or "First Class." Then again, it opens up after both "Potter" and "Transformers," so are people going to be burned out on Summer by then?

UPDATED: NEW TRAILER after the jump!

UPDATE: Here's the new trailer, which one assumes will be running in front of "Transformers."

Hating the generic metal-riff music. Loving everything else - especially that they pointedly spelled-out that HYDRA are Nazis, hopefully killing the "they took out the Nazis!!!!" bullshit thats been running rampant on the web.

"No Right Answer"

Chris Pranger and Kyle Martinak, whom some of you may know as the "Armchair Thinkers," have a show now called "No Right Answer." You should maybe watch it, yes?

DISCLOSURE: Yes, I have worked with Kyle and Chris in the past, and the show airs on a website I am also affiliated with. I have not been asked by any of these parties to do a "plug," I just liked the show.

Whitey Bulger CAUGHT!

This is probably only a curiousity item for most of you, but here in Boston this is probably the biggest local news story in very long time. James "Whitey" Bulger has been CAPTURED after 17 years on the run.

Bulger was South Boston's very own master-mobster in the 70s and 80s, leader of the feared "Winter Hill Gang" that more-or-less OWNED organized crime in the city for decades. He'd been a career criminal for almost his entire adult life - while interred at Alcatraz in the late-50s, he was one of the human test-subjects in the CIA's infamous MKULTRA Project. And in case he didn't already sound like something out of a bad movie, he had a "good guy" brother who was a State Senate President and President of the University of Massachusetts during the same period he running his syndicate.

At the height of his power, he was essentially untouchable; operating practically right out in the open yet invincible to police and making short work of rival gangs - he's even reputed to have double-crossed the IRA without incurring direct retribution. As it turned out *gasp!* his power had a less-than-mythic source: He was protected by his status as a high-level FBI informant. (Yes, this is where Frank Costello in "The Departed" mostly came from.) In 1994, his FBI handler allegedly tipped him off that arrest was imminent - driving a bitter wedge between Boston cops and the FBI that lingers to this day - and he'd been on the run ever since.

I'll promise you this: There are A LOT of aging gangsters in Boston being woken up to some bad news by their underlings and/or shady live-in grandkids right now - this is a guy who knows where ALL the bodies are buried, and probably won't be hesitant to resume his guts-spilling now. He was at one point, for example, believed to have had a hand in (or at least knowledge of) the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum heist - the largest single property theft (by value) in recorded history.

Regarding the "Tip Jar"

Alright, so... as you can probably tell, there is now a PayPal "Tip Jar" button on the sidebar of both blogs. I just wanted to clarify a few things about that after the jump.

Here's the thing of it, folks: While I DO get paid to produce some of the content that is linked/embedded to this site, a good deal of it I do not - i.e. Game OverThinker, American Bob, "pieces" posted directly to the two blogs themselves, etc. So I figured that, on the off chance that folks who enjoy those things ever wished to "express" said enjoyment in the form of a tip here or there, it couldn't hurt to make the option available.

I want to be very clear on this point, though - the "tip jar" is EXACTLY what it says it is, and nothing else. It's not going to effect or be effected-by the content of the site - i.e. you will NOT see things in the vein of "if the tip jar gets X-amount full, this or that will happen on this or that show." Because that would be INCREDIBLY tacky and lame. It's a virtual jar by the virtual till, period; and will have no influence on content - PERIOD.

Conversely, please know and take seriously any comments/emails/whatever along the lines of "if I put X-amount in the jar, will you start/stop doing this/that?" will be ignored. In fact, I'd prefer not to talk about it AT ALL - even in the well-meaning "hey man, I liked that so I tipped etc etc" in the comments/feedback or otherwise because - again - that seems tacky and uncomfortable to me.

The "tip jar," much like the ads, is STRICTLY a way for me to break a little bit more even on this whole "free entertainment and content" thing. If you like the blogs, content, etc and want to "show support" by tossing some change in the jar or clicking the ads; awesome, bless you, thank you very much. If not, that's cool too and thanks for reading/watching all the same.

Idris Elba signs for "Pacific Rim"

"Pacific Rim," a treatment/spec-script from Travis Beacham, has the good fortune of being Guillermo del Toro's next movie... and the bad fortune of being the movie del Toro "fell back" on when "At The Mountains of Madness" fell apart a few months ago - meaning that everyone was too upset about "Mountains" to give it the proper "Holy shit del Toro doing a giant monster movie!!!" hyping it deserved. Now that it's begun to add a cast, maybe that can turn around.

"Rim" has been more-or-less pitched as "Gundam vs. Godzilla" - or, more appropriately, "Stuff From Japanese Pop-Culture Americans Like: The Movie." It's premise involves an interdimensional portal opening up in the Pacific Ocean that starts spitting out angry giant-scale monsters. The good guys are humans who pilot "building-sized" robots to fight them. That'll work.

Elba and "Sons of Anarchy's" Charlie Hunnam are signed to play the two human leads. There's been some speculation that the script may have been reworked so as to not focus too much of the monster-destruction business on Japan (which it initially did) in the wake of the recent disasters there.

A Dangerous Method

Trailer for David Cronenberg's upcoming feature, adapted from the play "The Talking Cure." Viggo Mortensen is Sigmund Freud, Michael Fassbender is Carl Jung, Vincent Cassell is Otto Gross and Keira Knightley is a patient hankerin' for a spankerin'...



"Twilight - But For Psych Majors And Not Sucky" is supposed to debut at the Venice Film Festival in September, no U.S. release date has been set.

Conan vs Green Lantern

Hat tip: Hollywood Elsewhere

Conan the Comedian offers the most concise appraisal of "Green Lantern" yet:



In case you're wondering, yes - Ryan Reynolds really does have that exact "actor-not-recieving-any-direction-while-standing-on-a-greenscreen-set" bewildered stare in EVERY damn FX shot in this movie.

Big Picture: "Junk Drawer Revisited"

American Bob: "Flipped"

I done another thingee:

Post-Movie Podcast - Green Lantern etc.

Steve Head and John Black invited me back to the PMP this past weekend; mostly to help deliver a eulogy upon the untimely passing of "Green Lantern." Give it a listen. (direct-player after the jump.)

The Muppets: Full Trailer

Let "The Last Circus" Trailer Wash "Green Lantern" Out Of Your Mind

Hat-tip to Hollywood-Elsewhere

Magnet has picked up U.S. distribution for mad (and criminally overlooked in the States) Spanish shock-cinema auteur Alex de la Iglesia's "Balada Triste," re-named for English-language markets as "The Last Circus." It's the story of two Spanish circus clowns - a "sad" one and a "funny" one - driven to violent conflict and mutual insanity as they vie for the affections of an acrobat during the brutal Franco dictatorship. And it looks INCREDIBLE:



Alex de la Iglesia is a "Troma-but-with-talent" guy in the vein of early Peter Jackson, Guillermo del Toro, Sam Raimi, Robert Rodriguez, Tarantino, etc - but his stuff hasn't yet managed to gain traction with U.S. audiences.

His "best" known release in the West was probably the fantastic "800 Bullets;" about a troubled rich kid who goes looking for his grandfather - a stuntman from the Spanish-filmed Eastwood "Spaghetti" Westerns whose fellow former cowboy bit-players turned aging drunken nutcases have reworked the decaying sets into a makeshift tourist attraction. Here's a trailer:



It strikes a weird balance between Spielbergian childlike-imagination worship (he has to help the cowboy actors become "real" outlaw heroes to defend their "home" from evil developers led by his coldhearted-businesswoman mom) and vauge-misogyny (it edges toward implying that the kid's behavior issues are the result of an overly career-focused mother and an absent father figure, and posits a gang of violent gun-toting drunkards and a stunning prostitute who's a little TOO friendly to a pre-teen boy as suitable substitutes) but the end result is pretty damn cool.

Escape to the Movies: "Green Lantern"

A complete and utter disaster - immediately a contender for the worst film of the summer and a new frontrunner for the worst superhero movie ever made. I'm STILL a little bit shell-shocked by it.


"Intermission" is about "X-Men," which looks even better now.

New TGO on The Other Blog

FYI, the "Blackwater Game" is the topic on a NEW "Game OverThinker" episode now LIVE on ScrewAttack and The Other Blog. CHECK IT OUT.

Anti-Gay Chick-fil-A

Hat-tip: "M"/facebook

I dunno how it's recieved elsewhere in the country, but around here the notion that the "Chick-fil-A" restaurant chain is operated by a family Fundamentalists is widely-recognized (mostly from the whole "closed on Sundays thing) but generally treated as kind of a "quirk" of it's existance - "huh-huh, could Jesus beat up The Colonel," that sort of thing.

Turns out, it's not all quite so cute...


So, in what probably shouldn't come as any kind of shock, turns out "Chick-fil-A's" charitable arm is all tied up with some of the more radical anti-gay-marriage groups.

Super. One more for the "Bob doesn't eat here anymore" list. If Wendys and Manchu Wok turn out to be douchebags, too, I'm gonna start losing a shitload of weight. Too bad, it's actually pretty good chicken. Not "overlook that my money is going to assholes" good, but pretty good.

Incidentally, this goes in-tandem with an effort by College students to get "Chick-fil-A" instalations out of their campus food-areas, information and petitions about which can be found HERE.

Salve

You may have heard that "Green Lantern" is a disaster. You have heard correctly - and will hear more soon enough.

This makes it a little better:

presenting... "AMERICAN BOB"

Call this an experiment. Like it? Please tweet, retweet, facebook-like etc :)

Below, the first episode of my attempt at a political-comedy/commentary show; "American Bob." This is an INDEPENDENT project, produced entirely by me and is NOT affiliated with any other business, organization or entity that hosts/produces any of my other shows. First episode is about Anthony Weiner, some of the material will be familiar to frequent followers of this blog, my twitter, etc.




It's a little rough around the edges at this point, but topical is topical. I'm intentionally trying to hold back on the geek-specific references in this case, to differentiate it from the rest of the output and broaden the potential audience. Yes, I am aware of the inherent "me-too-ism" in starting a political-bitchfest series during an Election Year.

Not going to be everyone's cup of tea, I understand, but any feedback and/or views are appreciated. There will be ZERO crossover, in terms of topics and (hopefully) jokes between this, OverThinker (new episode tomorrow night!) and the Escapist series, so fans of those who don't care for politics should feel under NO obligation to watch it.

Are These The Avengers? (UPDATED!)

QUICK THING: I know the site was down much of the day (no, I'm not going to elaborate) but The Escapist is back up now, and if you didn't get a chance to watch "The Big Picture" today it'd be super if you did now - and even MORE super if you'd Tweet, Facebook-Like, etc; as that's REALLY helpful on the "Bob does this for a living" front and all. Just sayin'.

Anyway...

ComingSoon has a snap from the Licensing International Expo in Vegas, purporting to show a "promo poster" for "The Avengers." Probably "legit" though not something to "hold" the final product to. Still,  it'd be the first "official" Group Shot.



Most-noticably, Cap seems to have undergone a major "modernization" on his outfit: Traditional cowl with "pronounced" wings rather than the helmet/decal look of the WWII-set movie, sleeker material in general and the torso-stripes are now just "there" instead of being part of his gear-harness. I like it.

Iron Man is either wearing the older-style armor or a new suit with the "classic" circular chest-plate.

No "costume" in the traditional sense for Hawkeye, he's basically wearing his "Ultimates" gear. Bit of a mistake in my estimation - the lack of visual-"flair," however practical, only reinforces how small/limited he looks next to The God, The Walking Tank, Shrek and The Perfect Human. (Black Widow's "flair," obviously, came bundled with the actress...)

Big Picture: "Going Green - Part II" (UPDATED)

Let's try this again, now...

"Raiders" turns 30

"Raiders of the Lost Ark" and I are the same age. It's in better shape than me.

Escape to the Movies: "Super 8"

Post-Movie Podcast "First Class"

Steve Head and John Black graciously had me back on the PMP last week for "First Class," and lots of "issues" cropping up on my end let posting it here slip my mind at first. Apologies, here it is.


http://www.post-movie.net/?p=3412

Straight Outta Krypton, Yo!

For anyone not keeping tabs, as part of a publcity stunt brand-optimization for their new day-and-date pricing for downloadable comics, DC is "Ultimatizing" most of their books for however long it takes to get to the big crossover that undoes it for real, yo. Previous previews have shown off the "new" versions of the "grownup" heroes, and now the teenaged guys have their debut - because the only thing funnier than seeing what 40-50 year-old comic book publishers (and Warner Bros. executives) think 'the kids' will consider 'fresh and relatable' is what they think 'the kids' will consider 'cool.'

Pictured at the the right: "The Teen Titans," which DC assures us is the actual book, and not the tongue-in-cheek "What Would ____ Look Like As A Shitty Mid-90s Image Title" sketch from someone's DeviantArt page you may have assumed. Check out Superboy's badass tat' (how does that work?) and too-intense-to-care cloth-scrap logo. Word. Not pictured - yet making the whole bit "complete" - is that the Rob Liefield (really!) is on one of the other titles.

TANOOKI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Been a long time, old friend...



Yes, of course, I'm very excited about the WiiU - basically a jacked-up 360 controlled with an iPad that runs first-party Nintendo software too - but c'mon, how can this NOT be the highlight of E3 for me?

Big Picture: "Going Green - Part I"

Weiner Admits What Everyone Already Knew

Well, DUH.
In lieu of banging out a whole schpiel on this here (busy day), here's what I had to say on the matter in a talkback over at Hollywood Elsewhere, which I think sums my position up handily:

"Exchanging naughty emails with random chicks is not stupid. The stupid thing he did was LIE about it for week. Coverup is ALWAYS worse than the "crime" with these things."


"But even THEN, everyone sensible knows WHY he did it (i.e. lying) he did it because he didn't want to piss off his wife. So, really, the stupidest thing he did was get married in the first place - if he wasn't married, this wouldn't be a "scandal," this would be "makes him more fun" points. Seriously - Weiner is young, he's got money, he's relatively decent-looking for a politician and thanks to his "liberal firebrand" street-cred legions of fine-ass politically-inclined coeds are lined up to jump his bones... WTF is he doing in any kind of monogamous relationship, let alone MARRIED? Is he a masochist?"

"American's have this stupid obsession with their public figures either being "happily married" or monogamous... and it makes NO fucking sense. Newsflash: The people with the superhuman-drive to succeed in a cutthroat game like politics are NOT people who are "cut out" to play Ward & June offstage. You hear people say "Oh, we need them to be married so we know they're honest." BULLSHIT! Married people are the most dishonest people on the planet. They HAVE to be to survive day to day. "Oh, a single man will be too easily distracted to do a good job." BULLSHIT! Married guys are the most distracted men you'll ever meet. You know who's NOT distracted? Rich/famous/powerful guys who know they never have to worry where their next lay is coming from - those guys have the clearest heads in the room, bar none."

"Breaking Dawn" trailer



Well, I can give them this much: "montage of people getting wedding invitations, cut like a hugely-important epic thriller" is as good a visual representation of WHY this shit is so popular with it's audience as you're going to get...


...I'm weirdly thrilled that it looks as though they've filmmed the everything-shattering sex scene (only alluded to after the fact in the books) wherein a vampire supposedly made of marble-hard undead tissue with no blood or working organs somehow impregnates his human wife with a rapidly-aging telepathic Daywalker fetus. It'll be an utter tragedy if they try and "fix" Stephenie Meyer's godawful "Chris-Claremont-after-a-blow-to-the-head" approach to genre fiction and thus deny us a potential trainwreck-to-end-all-trainwrecks in the making.

Escape to the Movies: "X-Men: First Class"



"Intermission" has more about "Hangover 2."

Konami's Pre-E3 Teaser

One of those only-in-gaming (or comics) teasers that is either IMMEDIATELY identifiable or utterly meaningless from person-to-person - no middle ground can exist:




I will say this much: If this is teasing what it appears to be teasing - I had BETTER NOT hear the words "first-person," "cover-based," "online multiplayer-focused" or "sandbox" anywhere NEAR it.

Gabe & Tycho Get a Movie

Via THR,

If you were wondering what the next answer to Scott Pilgrim and/or Serenity style pickups - re: small-scale niche movie projects that generate PREPOSTEROUS levels of web hype right out of the gate almost-assuredly setting up unreasonable expectations from the gobsmacked studio - you now have your answer: Paramount is setting up an animated theatrical featured based on "The New Kid," a premise (kid is newly-enrolled as the only earthling in an alien elementry school) originally launched as one of the "New Ideas" spinoffs on Penny Arcade.

So, yeah. Whether they realize it or not - and regardless of the series' main characters not actually being part of it - Paramount has essentially greenlit what The Web will now unavoidably regard as "The Penny Arcade Movie;" instantly rendering every scrap of info about the production of what would otherwise sound like any other high-concept kiddie flick some of the most sought-after nuggets in the geekdom.

If they're smart, someone at Paramount is ALREADY putting together something for Comic-Con, where ANY mention of this will pack a hall, easily.

Dragon Tattoo US trailer hits (officially)

Via Slashfilm, the pretty excellent trailer for the film that will unite Foriegn Film snobs and your mom's book club in a shared gnashing of teeth against director David Fincher:




Despite what you may infer from the trailer, this is NOT actually a movie wherein James Bond teams up with one of the Suicide Girls to solve DaVinci's code.

"George Lucas Strikes Back"

Yet another jokey, reference-packed fan-film comedy sketch mainly about 30-something film geeks "dealing with" The Prequels and the looming figure of George Lucas? Yawn.

Doing it as a high-concept "Oldboy" spoof? Genius.

DC Reboots (Again? Maybe?)

So, if you didn't hear, DC Comics - in-tandem with the current big Flash event "Flashpoint" - will soon be resetting EVERY major character's book back to "#1" with new continuities that will (supposedly) render them slightly younger, possibly with different races/genders in some cases as well, and with "streamlined" backstories that place their origins in contemporary contexts and do away with the decades of baggage. People are flipping out, I'm not, here's why...


Firstly, this is all kind of old at this point. Yeah, when the "Silver Age Fanboy Regime" (Morrison, Johns, etc) at DC first started in on a "take two" of The Crisis (re: Infinite Crisis/52) it was a lot of fun... but at this point, they've now pulled this "whoa! massive continuity shift!!!" thing SO many times in events and even individual books (see: JMS's Wonder Woman) it's lost all impact for me on a conceptual level.

Secondly, I'm not buying it (in either sense - I can't afford it right now) - the guys running DC right now are in looooooove with ultra-dense Silver Age-style storytelling, it would be NUTS for them to suddenly junk all the work they've done making the DCU more hardcore-fanboy-friendly for this. I've seen a few people theorizing (BAD's Devin Faraci, for one) that this is actually a "stunt" that'll wind up like a DCU version of Onslaught/Heroes Reborn (or "House of M") - i.e. the "rebooted" universe will only be around for a little while, then someone will "realize something is wrong" (possibly Flash, since "Flashpoint" involves ANOTHER alternate-DCU where he never existed apparently) and will escape-back-to/bring-back the "original" universe, leaving the rebooted universe to become a DC version of Marvel's "Ultimate Comics" line. This theory is bouyed by the fact that the whole thing is tied-in to a much more significant event: Releasing all of the "rebooted" lines day-and-date for tablet-viewing downloads - the REAL big gamble of attracting new readers.

Either way, it's the DCU: Don't like the coninuity? Wait a year...
 
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