Is THIS the new "Godzilla?"

Legendary Pictures is prepping another stab at an American-produced "Godzilla" feature, and apparently they've been showing THIS image around Comic-Con. It has an AR (Altered-Reality) stamp on it that makes a roaring sound and particle-effect fire when held up to a webcam that's been teased on AR sites, so apparently it's legitimate product. Question is, is THIS what the new Godzilla actually looks like?

Because if so, color me 99% "sold." I just want to see his feet - I'm hoping they've opted to accept that Godzilla just "has" humanoid proportions and not try and give him more "authentic" tri-jointed legs or feet like most re-design attempts have.

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"Avengers" at Comic-Con

So... Marvel Films got the entire "hero cast" of The Avengers up onstage at Comic-Con. Everyone was expecting it, but it's still pretty incredible that this is actually happening.

Also incredible yet wholly expected: Mark Ruffalo is the new Hulk, Jeremy Renner is Hawkeye, and Joss Whedon is directing.

There were also teaser trailers and rough scenes shown for "Thor" and "Captain America," and from Slashfilm I find some details from a "Cap" scene they showed revealing A.) one of the ways Cap will tie in with certain other Avengers characters (what sort of mythology was it Nazis were obsessed with, again? Heh.) and B.) which HUGE piece of the Marvel arcana is playing a previously-unmentioned part... and my mind is now BLOWN!

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Escape to the Movies: "Salt"

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Intermission: "Why Movies Suck Now - Part II: The Reality"

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About the comments...

Okay, so, along with the new formats (still playing with it, content will remain the same) I've decided to go and switch OFF the ability for people to leave Anonymous comments. Didn't want to, still don't feel great about it, but it's the best solution I've got right now. The fact is I don't employ a webmaster to police this stuff, and I have to assume that requiring people to at least IDENTIFY themselves might cut down on some of the trolling.

And to be clear, I mean trolling of OTHER commenters. Say whatever the hell you want about me, fine. Bring it. But I won't tolerate people anonymously-attacking fellow commenters. Period.

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SGC 2010 "Video Game Celebrity"

Thanks to ScrewAttack G1 "NovaSpec" for posting a video that I didn't think anyone had taped the whole run of, which more-or-less marked The Game OverThinker's impromptu "public debut."

Here's how this happened: The bad weather kept Brentalfloss from arriving on time for his scheduled live concert (though he did end up doing the whole show later when he actually arrived - that guy is a MACHINE!) so the SA crew had to fill a timeslot. The solution: Get the site regulars onstage to play "Celebrity" (read: Charades-with-proper-nouns) for game characters with the audience (itself split into "USA" and "International" teams.) Being available and willing, they asked me to come up too (playing for "Team International.") Please appreciate what a generous "leap" this was on the part of Stuttering Craig etc - most of them had only just MET me, so there's a certain amount of risk involved in inviting a mostly-unknown quantity to a live mic when YOUR responsible for what they might do. In any case, the whole thing was a ton of fun; and I did pretty good... right up until I blew a would-be comeback win by being unable to figure out how to pantomime Ulala from "Space Channel 5." Ah, well.



These are some funny people, and I reccomend you give everyone a watch, but for fans looking for "my" turns they're at 9:40, 19:40 and 38:40 plus a random silly-dance at 26:09. Enjoy!

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more Thor

(trying some new format stuff, nobody freak out)

SLASHFILM has yet another gloriously preposterous "Thor" image up. This time it's a wide shot of the Hall of Asgard, where it appears Thor is recieving a dressing-down from Odin. Frigga (Rene Russo!!??), Loki, Fandral and Hogun are also in attendance. It's hard to make out costume detail, but fans should take note that you can see Odin and Loki both wearing what look like remarkably faithful versions of their comic helmets (that's Loki down on the far left behind Frigga with the big crazy horns.

I must say I'm still really digging the "alien-ness" of the design here - the main inspiration is still clearly reproducing Jack Kirby designs in live-action (I really want to know if Brannagh has just been a fan this whole time, or if he and his designers looked at old Thor comics and immediately decided "this is what we're doing.") and Kirby was famously fascinated by the Ancient Astronaut/"Chariots of The Gods" theory of mythology, i.e. "Gods" as primitive man's interpretation of contact with extraterrestrials. Maybe that's the "answer" of how this ties in to the rest of the Avengers etc. "universe," that THIS Thor etc. are/were alien or extra-dimensional superbeings and the ones we know from Norse myth are actually these guys as-described by early humans who didn't fully "comprehend" them? I've heard worse ideas, and like the man said "any technology, sufficiently advanced, would be indistinguishable from magic."

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Game OverThinker in SGC2010 TOP TEN!

Hey gang!


ScrewAttack.com has their Top 10 Moments recap of SGC 2010 up at GameTrailers, and my impromptu (and unscripted) "debate" with The Game UnderThinker came in #3! Plus there's a whole bunch of stuff in there to give you an idea of what you missed if you weren't there - including Spoony, The Angry Nerd, Brentalfloss and the INSANE mayhem wreaked by "Keith Apicary" upon the hotel and convention area. Check it out below:


Can't embed for some reason, so click here!

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