Monday, September 13, 2010

Faster than the speed of a month

Okay, let's see whats going on this week. The movie season is starting to get all serious and the Xbox 360 is dropping plenty of bro pro games. But still a new Fallout.

Looks like Green Lantern 2 or The Flash movies are going to be moving up in schedule. I'm betting Green Lantern 2 gets made regardless. Of course, what do I know.

Another Resident Evil movie is going to get finally get made after the newest hit #1 in the box office. I stopped caring after the first took were terrible. And I cannot figure out why people are going to see that and didn't even step near Scott Pilgrim. Must be Milla.

So IFC dropped a heavy bill to pick up Super. A movie with Raine Wilson as a superhero. Looks like Kick Ass, but.....naw it's exactly like Kick Ass, but still looks funny.

Some information on Star Trek 2 is coming out of Deadline. Probably just vague hints at a possible plot, but whatev.

Personally I never read the Dark Tower series, but this whole deal they have going on is slightly insane and really think it will fall apart fairly early.

This haunted Majoras Mask story has given me the heebie jeebies. I think I misspelled that.

Humans recreating Pac-Man. How swell. Thanks internet.

Here's the new Fallout card game called Caravan. Okay, it's more a description, but it's something.

Mario turns 25 today. Happy Birthday you fictional character.

Thursday, September 9, 2010

Atari Lynx

Nothing much about the Atari Lynx, but if you had one kudos on spending a lot of money on a shitty system. Well played.

Unfortunately Glen Shadix from Beetlejuice and other films has passed on today. Never did reach his peak stardom, but will always be remembered in the hearts of people that have seen a film with him in it.

My new favorite show Psych is making a Twin Peaks episode for their Fall run. Not to mention there sure a lot of cameos going to be made. I'm psyched, no pun intended.

Finally a new Spy Kids movie, or a reboot. Still not sure what this is or why it is coming out. Seems like a reboot that they could just call something else at this point.

Topless Robot has the shorts about the Old Miss campaign to get Admiral Ackbar to be their school mascot. Not really about sports, nor Star Wars, still amusing.

They are finally getting around to making a sequel to the Atari 2600 game Haunted House. Can't believe it took them sooo long. Big plus, the eyes are returning.

I like these co-splay pictures of Team Rocket because I can't figure out how he/she can get their hair to stand like that. Is it a wig, a lot of hair applications, maybe an internal rod. I don't know!

This is what college is truly for, transforming a building into a recreation of Donkey Kong. If college is for something else, then their doing it all wrong.

Some new pics of Captain America and Hydra have come up online. It seems to be coming along splendidly, or terribly depending on what type of person you are.

If your a fan of The Dark Tower series, your in luck. There is some crazy set up going for the live action movie/tv trilogy/series. It's so crazy it just might work.

Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Brighter Days

I do intend on continuing this and it is not forgotten. Unfortunate turns and the fact of moving have forced and somewhat unintended hiatus of writings. Add onto that the absence of actual internet service and then actually falling the things I write about on there. In other words, I didn't have internet and couldn't read about what was happening, nor could I write anything for a while. Now that it is up and running I intend to post more. I swear. But first....

Last night I went to see The Other Guys with Will Ferrel and Marky Mark Wahlburg. Their a pair of bumbling cops, you know cop comedy. Either way, I showed up a few minutes late because usually the previews I want to see I have already seen and anything else is probably already out since this movie came out a few weeks ago and I'm old hat. "Are the trailers still playing?", I asked the somewhat confused cashier and was told that yes they were still playing. Upon reaching the dedicated theater I find that NONE of the trailers have started. Apparently the film had broke or something was wrong because it took them about 20 minutes to finally get the film to play. I wasn't expecting much, but the guy near me was pissed. I could see the red on his face and I tried not to laugh. Sooo, funny. I considered going to see Machete, but I'll save that for another day.

The film itself wasn't pee your pants funny, but there was quite alot to laugh at. Will Ferrell didn't portray his man child image and it was more dumb than silly. However, alot of his films have something worth quoting or something in them were I would just bust out laughing for a while, but this film just didn't seem to have that moment. Sure, I laughed at alot of it, but not loudly enough. Maybe it was the previous mishap, which really didn't bother me. I was seeing a month old movie. While I wasn't sure if the action scenes were supposed to be slow paced or if it was just unfortunately made that way, either way the action was pretty dull. Not quite the thrill of most of the large budget CGI fests, but I've seen better with less. Maybe that was the point, I don't know.

A little past the 3/4 point of the film, the little pre-movie slide presentation begins superimposing itself over the film. Now, sure that was annoying, especially since most of the slides would cover the entire film with their solid dark blue backgrounds, I just kind of laughed and had to tell the employees their stupid slide show is blocking the film. While I know I should have been angry, it honestly wasn't a film that I HAD to see everything. There really wasn't much going on in the frames and probably could have played as a radio play for most of it and it would have had the same effect. They did manage to shut it off eventually and I was just laughing at how mad that guy must have been then. Not sure how many refunds they had to give, but I got $5 worth.