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Trailer For New Street Fighter Documentary Gets Me Tinglin’.
I know there’s a shitload of documentaries about video games and particularly about Street Fighter. I know there’s a shitload of amazing Street Fighter players out there, too many for me to recall. Is Mike Ross one of them? I don’t know the scene well enough to judge. I know the usual names like Justin Wong and others but I’m not sure where Ross stands.
Whatever the case, this trailer for the upcoming documentary FOCUS by Steve Hwang was fucking fantastic. The movie follows Ross for one summer as he tries and rock out in the professional Street Fighter scene. The trailer hits all the beats you need to make your tits hard. We’ve got man as underdog, man flounders, man perhaps triumphs. It’s what makes King of Kong so fucking good; the protagonist is talented, but you’re not sure if he’s good enough to claim the prize. Dramatic tension ensues! The trailer did good to highlight this deft narrative choice.
I can’t wait, this trailer got me stoked to catch this shit.
Hit the jump to check it out.
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James McAvoy Calls ‘X-Men: First Class’ A Love Story Between Two Men.
A lot of people are diggin’ the trailer for X-Men: First Class, myself included. Despite the fact that they’re quite literally still shooting and editing bullshit for the rushed movie, the tonal shift to the wayback days has me intrigued. Oh, and January Jones may not be able to act, and she’s clearly going to bastardizing Emma Frost, but her heaving cleavage always gets me going. Today across the webs there’s a quote going around where James McAvoy explains how the flick is a love story between two dudes.
Awesome.
‘Source Code’ Trailer #2; It’s Like Assassin’s Creed But Hotter.
The second trailer for Duncan Jones’ upcoming flick Source Code dropped today. He’s only directed one movie, but I’m already a frothing Jones fanboy. If you use your powers of intellect, you’ll figure out that means I’m pretty excited for anything regarding this movie. The premise is gimmicky sci-fi, and that’s cool by me. Jake Gyllenhaal plays a character who is inserted into the last eight minutes of a man’s life on a train that was victim of a bombing. He has to try over and over again to figure out who the culprit is, while he falls in love with an obviously doomed passenger.
Cue meditations on fate, destiny, the ability to change the future, et cetera.
It also reminds me a lot of Assassin’s Creed and the animus, but that’s another story.
Hit the jump for the trailer.
Duncan Jones’ ‘Moon’ Gets A Hip-Hop Concept Album Based On It.
Duncan Jones’ Moon is one of my favorite movies of the last five years. Jones dared to riff on Blade Runner and 2001 with gorgeous visuals and a haunting soundtrack by Clint Mansell. Max Tannone, the dude behind Jaydiohead and more took Mansell’s score and decided to rock out a hip-hop album to the riffs. The vocals are provided by Richard Rich.
New ‘Captain America’ Photos; Take That Thor!
Not to be outdone by the cadre of new Thor pictures, Captain America got himself some new photos as well tonight. Dude straight up told Marvel Entertainment, “Listen, it’s obvious as a blue eyed, blond haired dude I am clearly not the America dream, but the Nazi posterchild. I will make this shit public if you don’t give me some pub” and thus they did. I really don’t know what I’m taking about.
Hit the jump for the pictures.
‘Sucker Punch’ Trailer #2 Has Arrived. Swords and Sex.
The second trailer for Zack Snyder’s adolescent boner dream has dropped today, and it’s more of the same. Thankfully for me, more of the same is over-the top-action, midriffs, and over stylized bullshit. For all of these, I am a sucker.
I dug the trailer while trying to not realize how inherently sexist it is to presume that a girl’s dream world would find her running around with her stomach showing, a short skirt on, and her hair done up in blow job handles. No, Zack Snyder, if I had to guess that’s definitely not how a woman would envision empowering herself. It’s how permanently adolescent fucking pigs like you and myself would.
Hit the jump for the trailer.
New Thor Official Images And Hilariously Dumb Character Photos!
Marvel has released a couple of new official images from the Thor movie, and goodness me am I gooey over this flick. I can’t tell who I find sexier, Natalie Portman or Chris Hemsworth. My girlfriend and I release simultaneous sighs of appreciation whenever we catch a Thor trailer, and she said during the Super Bowl debut that she would be okay if I left her for him.
I’m in the clear!
Also in here are a bunch of hilariously awful character photos. Completely out of context bullshit shots with awful photoshop in the background. These photos are destined to adorn shitty posters in Hot Topic and school folders.
Hit the jump for the full load.
Mr. Brainwash Spits About Banksy And Exit Through The Gift Shop.
In a daring move, I’m pretty sure that Exit Through The Gift Shop was my favorite movies of all the bullshit I caught last year. See that qualifier? Good. I enjoyed its dissection of what happens when the underground is embraced, and then commodified by mainstream culture. Street art went from a subversive means of getting across ideas, or just drawing shit, and became a popculture staple. What the fuck is the response to your own success? At the epicenter of this conversation was the documentary’s star, Thierry Guetta or Mr. Brainwash. He was the point made literal; the bastard who bastardized Banksy’s motives and shoved it down the gullible masses’ throat.
But the question’s always been, is Brainwash even fucking real?
Dude to talked this week The Envelope, and Slashfilm has wrestled out some interesting nuggets.
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D.J. Caruso Confirms In A Tweet That He’s Directing ‘Preacher’
It was rumored, now it’s confirmed. D.J. Caruso is going to direct Preacher. The magical blathering mind behind Disturbia and Eagle Eye is now going to handle one of my top ten favorite comic book series of all time. Well fuck. First Baz Luhrmann does the inexplicable in announcing that he’s taking Gatsby to the world of Goofy Glasses and Gimmicky Bullshit. Now this.
Caruso announced it in a tweet today.
Tom Hardy Talks About Playing Bane In ‘The Dark Knight Rises’
When it was announced that Tom Hardy was going to be in The Dark Knight Rises, I was fucking pumped. Dude has crazy acting chops, and he’s studly like woah. When it was announced that he was playing Bane, I was like, okay cool. There’s no consternation emanating from me regarding any choice that Nolan has for his final Batman. No sir. He’s earned the pass. Others wondered how he’d incorporate a muscle-bound 1990’s reject character into his mythos. They worried. They fretted.
I didn’t, I knew it would be his own unique spin on it. Tom Hardy confirmed such a sentiment today during an interview.
