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‘The Avengers’ Promotional Poster Is As Bad As Expected. [Updated]
[Updated Updated: See the suck in even higher high-res. Thanks Daniel Heard!.]
I love promotional posters. Especially ones for shitty things like the International Licensing Expo. That’s where this beast was spotted in the wild. What should we take from this poster? Nothing. Nothing save some laughs.
Hit the jump to check it out.
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Darren Aronofsky Trying To Land Christian Bale For ‘Noah.’ Yes Please!
Darren Aronofsky’s epic biblical disaster flick Noah looks like it really may be happening. You can’t destroy the planet in biblical proportions without a budget, and this pig is looking to cost a cool $130 million. With half of the funding secured, Aronofsky is scrambling to get another studio to put up the cheddar. How can he do that more easily? By getting an actor like Christian Bale to hop aboard.
Face of a Franchise: Holy Handmaidens!
[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]
The Star Wars prequels were unmitigated disasters. Any attempt to debate this truism will be met with a polite request to leave OL. A refusal to do so will result in an introduction to the Midichlorian Masher – a butt-paddle we bought at the local state college’s annual auction of confiscated contraband.
Don’t tempt us.
Abrams’ Speilbergsploitation Falls Short
Super 8, the latest effort from J.J. Abrams’ mystery box, is a blend of alien invasion, coming of age, and learning to let go films wrapped up in a glossy, nostalgic shell. The problem is, it never comes close to pulling off any of these narrative instruments completely. It never settles on what it wants to be and muddles through a lot of the narrative to shift to the next set piece. The alien invasion aspect is never given any high stakes that feel real. The coming of age bits are ham fisted. And the letting go element comes up empty with no real emotional depth to it. But, just like Star Trek, Super 8 looks damn good.
Damon Lindelof Writing A Sci-Fi Movie For Disney. Ending Sucks! LOL.
Snark aside, I really like Damon Lindelof. Despite the fact that the ending to LOST sucks, and he acted like a douche on Twitter when George R.R. Martin pointed this out to him. This makes the fact that he’s writing a sci-fi movie for Disney very, very exciting.
Budget Concerns Shortening Downey Jr.’s Time In ‘The Avengers’? Oh Marvel.
For a company that has seemed deadset on compromising the quality of individual movies in favor of building up to a corporate-climax next summer with The Avengers, I’m often confused as to why they’d be cheap. Rumors about budgetary concerns have plagued the production, cropping up in stories about where they’d be shooting, or getting Norton to come back to play Banner. Now they allegedly could influence how much Tony Stark appears in the flick.
Monday Morning Commute: Swamp Rats
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If you’re not careful, you may wind up a regular, boring person. You’ll sip only from bottles of regular, boring mind-juice. Your blood will never boil, whether in contempt or jubilation, at the sight of any unscheduled programming. You will never swing your Existential Monster Truck over the double-lines, crushing regular, boring soul-vessels in the process. In fact, you’ll just become mired in the homogeneous muck of mediocrity.
Forever.
Because that’s what THEY want.
Welcome to the Monday Morning Commute! This weekly post is my excuse to ramble and then show you how I’ll be keeping my (in)sanity via entertainment. After I puff, I’m going to pass – hit up the comments section and share what you’ll be doing in the upcoming days.
Let’s rawk.
Spielberg Says ‘Jaws’ Is Coming To Blu-ray With NO Digital Changes. Dude Rules.
Steven Spielberg is indubitably the man. If you want to form a hierarchy of The Man, I don’t care where you place him. As long as he’s on it. Most recent proof: Spielberg is prepping to release Jaws on Blu-Ray, and has come out and said he’s not going to make any changes. Also? He regrets fucking with E.T.
Good man.
Review: X-Men: First Class. Cold War, Hot Swag.
X-Men: First Class dropped yesterday, and the Brothers Omega went to see it. We’re lifelong fans of mutants and zany dudes in wheelchairs, so we were pretty excited. What’d we think of the movie? What’d you think of the movie? Hit the jump to join in the fun.
Check Out The Trailer For The ‘A Tribe Called Quest’ Documentary, ‘Beats, Rhymes & Life.’
Back in high school when I was a mopey, overweight dork, I used to have my spirits perked by the mellifluous flow of the Tribe. They broke up, I moved on, such and such is life. Slap on a few seconds of a verse though, and I’m right back in the same golden aged glow. There’s a trailer out for the documentary about the Tribe, ‘Beats, Rhymes & Life’, and man does it get me nostalgic. I can’t wait.
Hit the jump for the trailer.
