#Movies
The Trailer for Piranha 3DD Looks About As Ridiculous As It Should Be
When Alexandre Aja breathed new life into the Piranha series in 2010, he went about it in the best way possible: he fashioned a pure slopfest wherein every action and statement is done completely tongue-in-cheek—that is until that tongue, cheek, or both were ripped out mercilessly and hilariously. The movie may not have worked very well as a horror movie (honestly, who would want that?), but it sure as hell worked for comedy. And although Aja isn’t the driving force behind it, Piranha 3DD seems to follow in line with its perverted predecessor.
No Comments
‘The Avengers’ TRAILER #2: FULL OF POSTURING. AND SUPERNESS.
Oh shit, the second official trailer for The Avengers has dropped! And it’s…something? I’m on campus and I can’t check it out right now. I’ll add my thoughts in the comments section later.
WATCH IT, swine. Let me know what you think.
Video: Guy Pearce Gives A TED Talk As His ‘Prometheus’ Character, Viral ++
This piece of viral rocket has been tearing up the geek bandwidth all damn day. While I was in class. Watch Guy Pearce give a TED Talk as his character from Prometheus. But more than that!, the explicit connection between Prometheus and Alien hinges on said dude bro.
Hit the jump for the video. The info. The shiznit.
‘The Avengers’ Gets A New Poster, They Love POSING.
Unbeknownst to DC, a good amount of material for The Avengers is being generated by none other than Jim Lee. Only this secret fact hidden in the darkness of subterfuge can explain the insane amount of posing going on in this poster, the trailer, and the promo pics.
Hit the jump. Strike a pose.
Monday Morning Commute: The Mediocre One
Hello there, fellow drone-bees! The workweek is upon us yet again, and we once again find ourselves hiding our true desires behind dead-skin masks. For forty hours a week, even the strongest and most original amongst us assume the personae of the tired and damned. In these times, we are nothing if not the hollow shells we’ve worked so hard to fill during off-hours.
Gatsby is jolted in the middle of the night, awakened by the American nightmare that sees him whimpering ,”Gatz…Minnesota…Dan Cody…”
Draper drinks and screws and sells himself into a life of luxury, and yet cannot shed the skin of Whitman’s despondency.
Kent writes the headlines that Superman inspires, but Kal-El will never get over the fact that he is the last survivor of a doomed lineage.
In spite of our most transcendental aspirations, there will always be forces working to keep us tethered to the material realities. And the most formidable of these forces is the bastard-thief known as the workweek. So there’s any hope of saving ourselves, we’ve only got one option.
We must remove our entertainment-swords from their scabbards and use them to slit the throat of the bastard-thief.
–-
Welcome to the MONDAY MORNING COMMUTE! I’m going to show you the various bits of entertainment I’ll be using to preserve my spirit during the workweek. Your task, should you feel up to it, is to hit up the comments section and show off the ways you’ll be keeping your heart alive.
Let’s do this!
Video: ‘Movie: The Movie’ Is Star-Studded Semi-Humorous Hollywood Back Patting
You’ve heard about the video already, no doubt. Jimmy Kimmel drummed up pretty much every actor in Hollywood for a 9-minute trailer for Movie: The Movie. A deconstruction of every shitty Hollywood trope by the cadre of actors who perpetuates them. It’s pretty funny, but I can’t help but feel like everyone involved is just so totally happy with themselves for making it. I’m projecting. I know.
Hit the jump to check it out.
TRAILER: ‘John Dies At The End’ Is Trippin’ Balls
Last week our own Patrick (Rockadoodle) Cooper texted me that he had finished the novel John Dies At The End. He told me it was deec but that he was still excited for the movie. Being an egregious uncultured asshole, I hadn’t heard of the novel or the movie adaptation. I went about correcting this, and I have since watched the trailer way too many times. Surreal and hypnotic, it seems to be tying directly into the part of my brain that loves the game Alan Wake or the novel House of Leaves.
FIRST LOOK: Benedict Cumberbatch As ‘Star Trek 2’ Villain. PLUS! IMAX.
Reposting after the great Malware Occurrence of February 2k+12 is a few pictures of Benedict Cumberbatch as the villain in Star Trek 2, plus confirmation that some scenes will be in IMAX glory.
Hit the jump to check it out.
Face of a Franchise: The Boy Wonder!
[face of a franchise presents two individuals that’ve fulfilled the same role. your task — choose the better of the two and defend your choice in the rancor pit that is the comments section]
For nearly seventy-two years, Robin has assisted Batman in reclaiming the streets of Gotham from the clutches of the criminal element. Along the way, Robin has served as the perfect complement, adding a sugar cube of idealism to the coffee cup of justice-via-vengeance that is Batman. Robin is firmly embedded into the fabric of comics, embodying for most what it means to be a supporting character.
There’s no denyin’ that Robin is the most celebrated superhero sidekick of all time.
However, what is up for debate is who to credit with the best performance as Robin. Let’s take a look at the two combatants!
From 1966 to 1968, the Caped Crusader protected the airwaves with his iconic ABC series. While most comics fans can probably pick Adam West out of a crowd, they may be hard pressed to identify Burt Ward, the man responsible for the televisional depiction of Robin. In reality, Ward is largely responsible for solidifying our modern conception of Robin as a figure of wonderful idiosyncrasy. Without Burt Ward, we might not think of Robin as dude who wears green underwear in public, proudly refers to himself as the Boy Wonder, and constantly yells out, “Holy [insert campy reference here], Batman!”
The other praise-worthy portrayal of Dick Grayson was crafted by Chris O’Donnell. Director Joel Schumacher was so enamored of O’Donnell that he cast him in both of his neon-powered, head-scratching Batman flicks. With two films’ worth of canvas, O’Donnell paints Robin as less of a whimsical teen acrobat and more of a callused twenty-something carny. Additionally, Chris O’Donnell was so courageous in his performance that he donned the first Robin suit to feature nipples. Yowzah!
But who is Robin – Burt Ward or Chris O’Donnell?
‘Skyfall’ To Be Bond’s Debut On The IMAX. Enormo Craig Abs!
Oh golly I can only imagine the resplendent glimmer of masculine glory that will Daniel Craig’s taut body splayed across an IMAX screen. It’s coming! Be prepared. Take a towel, hide your children.
