This Trailer Kicks Ass
Hollywood adaptations of comic book series drive me nuts. Don’t get me wrong, I love the fact that, now more than ever, comics are a hot item. A bankable item in most cases. However, there is always this meddling element that always sees “fix” what wasn’t broken in the first place. I’m not a hardcore fanboy who needs everything from the comic to be translated onto the screen. I know there have to be compromises, changes that will hopefully make the transition from page to screen possible. One thing that can’t be changed is the essence of what made the comic great. You can’t screw with that, it’s an unspoken rule. Hollywood can’t help do that, no matter how many times they get a hand slap from the movie goer. So every time I hear a new comic book movie project announced, no matter the talent of the stars or director I get that feeling in the pit of my stomach. It’s like, oh no what are they doing now? I got that feeling when I heard that Mark Millar and John Romita Jr’s creator owned Kick Ass was being made into a movie. I could feel the meddling begin.
Geek Force FiveCast 211: Meat Loaf
In which ECC geeks out about the music of Meat Loaf.
Quentin Tarantino’s Top 20 Movies Since 1992
I’d like to have seen Quentin Tarantino get a little more in-depth with his list of the top 20 movies since 1992, but the list is fairly interesting in and of itself. If I was a Netflix subscriber, I’d definitely be throwing a few of these into my queue. As it is, the list already has me itching to dig out my copies of Boogie Nights, Lost in Translation, and The Matrix. And it even has me wishing I had access to a copy of Speed.
Thanks to Kottke.org for linking this up.
Worth Your Consideration #024
- Lionsgate has acquired the distribution rights to Kick-Ass, the film adaptation of Mark Millar’s kick-ass comic book which “tells the story of average teenager Dave Lizewski (Aaron Johnson), a comic-book fanboy who decides to take his obsession as inspiration to become a real-life superhero.”
- Also from Ain’t It Cool News, there’s news that the next film in the Wolverine franchise will be penned by Christopher (The Usual Suspects) McQuarrie. AICN hated X-Men Origins: Wolverine (which I still have not seen), and feels that the hiring of McQuarrie means very good things for the film version of everyone’s favorite overexposed and overhyped mutant.
- And, proving that I get way too much of my news from a site I often disagree with, here’s yet another bit from AICN: Weird!! If There’s Another SUPERMAN Movie, A Lot Of Stuff Probably Won’t Be In It...For Better or Worse...
- And, oh yeah, will you look at this. Ain’t It Cool did this next story, too. Egads, I didn’t realize until I sat down to write this that all of the stories I was going to cover were from that site. Man, I guess you should just go subscribe to their feed or something (assuming you can find the link to it, which right now I can’t). Ahem… anyway. The news is that Columbia Pictures has found a writer for Spider-Man 5 and Spider-Man 6. His name is James Vanderbilt, and he wrote the first draft of the script for Spider-Man 4, which is currently in pre-production or pre-pre-production or whatever it is they call that stage when a hundred writers rewrite a script to make studio execs happy.
Bikini-Clad STAR WARS: Even She Gets Boarded Sometimes
Los Angeles swimsuit designers 1690 Swimwear have come up with a rather, um, interesting viral video campaign for their products. It involves, as I hope you can see above, a group of women in bikinis reading lines from the Star Wars films.
Among the tags Geekologie used in their write-up was the phrase “this is degrading.” What do you think? Is it degrading, or is it all in good fun?
And, more importantly, who is their target audience here? Star Wars geeks who live in their parents basements with Real Dolls [Link NSFW] in need of “high quality, fashion conscious swimsuits that capture the youthful vitality and playful lifestyle of the women of Los Angeles”?
Kid Dancing at the Apple Store
You miss a lot when you step away from the Internet for the weekend. Case in point: Kid Dancing in the Apple Store. This is like five days old at this point, but I just saw it for the first time five minutes ago. And, actually, it’s a very good thing I saw it when I did, because I was freaking the heck out (for reasons unknown, as usual).
Anyone know if this is a viral marketing ploy by Apple, as Urlesque believes it might be. And does anyone know if the kid ever got the number of that lady who gives him the look at 3:09?
Geek Force FiveCast 210: Working Vacation
In which ECC babbles a bit about what’s going on during his vacation.
Gone Fishing Again: GF5 Off Until Tuesday
PHOTO: Gone Fishing on Flickr by anujraj CC BY-NC-SA
We’re taking another weekend off to chill with family and do decidedly non-geeky things. We’ll be back on Tuesday. Until then, check out the archives to keep yourself sated.
Be well!
Give That Boy His MJ. Then, Back Away.
Word to the wise: Don’t mess with Jadon when he’s grooving out to Michael Jackson.
Seriously, is this not simultaneously one of the most awesome things you’ve ever seen and one of the funniest? Lately, the things I’m geeking out about are all things that make me laugh, despite how insanely stressed out I am on a daily basis. This video of two year old Jadon rocking out to Michael Jackson’s “Beat It” (and, later, “Billie Jean") is one of those things that gets me out of a bad mood in about two seconds. I mean, look at that kid’s face. He is into this tune, man. And that’s both awesome—I’d die for any kid to ever be that into anything I created—and hilarious.
We’ve all heard about kids saying the darnedest things. What about kids doing the darnedest things? Hook us up with some of your own favorite clips in the comments.
CollegeHumor’s N00b Boyfriend Video
This morning, when I read Mashable’s warning that CollegeHumor’s N00b Boyfriend video featured “more l33t speak than most of us can handle,” I was a little apprehensive. But then I watched the video, and I laughed my pants off. You really don’t need to be a level 80 rogue to get the jokes—though I suppose being a WOW player wouldn’t hurt—and I think it’s well worth a couple of minutes of your time.
Let me know what you think. Funny, right?
