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*sigh* Again w/ all the spoiler tags muppet baby nza? The series has been over for, what, two years now? Anyway, I agree w/ your analogy that S2=

It's not "someone," it's BaytorH8R5000. So it's par for the course. I haven't read any of the re-boot stuff, but ultimately (har-har-har!!!) I thought Ultimatum was a pretty cool way to kinda re-boot Ultimateverse. I agree, I only stick around for the Ellis arcs in UFF, but Loved Millar's Ultimates. Ultimate Iron Man was also very good. ALthough the follow up was a bit meh in my opinion. I haven't really read any Ultimate Spidey or X-men though.

Axel just posted this in shoutbox and I thought I'd post it here for posterity: Six of the Creepiest Comic Book Characters of All Tine

You're at a really interesting point in the series now...

Unfortunately, it looks as if I'll have to agree w' that assessment. Sadly my expectations for this film have dropped to -3 w/ that trailer. WTF does Hollywood not get that action films and westerns are not two genres that should really be blended?

This is why Spock is in my avatar and not Kirk.

I know what Nick wants for Christmas!

FYI: The complete series of The Shield is going on sale as an amazon.com Gold Box offer this Wednesday (5-5-10). They're having a week long sale on TV DVD titles. As it stands now before the sale, the entire 7 season run is only $110. That's less than $16 bucks per season, my guess is it'll be around $70-$90 during the sale, but who knows until Wednesday. This kinda pisses me off as I bought seasons 1-4 for $20 ea. over the years. :/

She has two sessy yet all too brief sex scenes w/ her but zero frontal nudity. It's PG-13. However, to my knowledge these are her first sex scenes where she's not a 7ft tall blue alien. So, ya know, that's good times.

Really? I laughed my arse off at that one. Aldous Snow's character is coming back in a sequel of sorts this summer in "Get Him To The Greek." Guess you can skip that one though...

*fared* yep, it's definitely got an A-Team vibe about it. it was a fun action flick--pretty much exactly what i expected. nothing really "must see" about it on the big screen unless you're as big a Saldana fan as I am. haven't read the series yet either, but it's been collecting dust on my HD for a while now. seeing how poorly it did at the box office i may have to read 'em if i want to find out how the story ends as the film kinda leaves it wide open for a sequel.

The Losers B Adapted from the short-lived Vertigo comic series, The Losers delivers a solid B-action-movie experience. It’s got humor, ‘splosions, and an over-the-top bad guy played by Jason Patric. A few things holding this film back are the over-stylized editing (it feels a bit gimmicky after a while w/ more style than substance), the fight scenes are fast and frequent but aren’t that memorable, the plot seems like it was lifted from an A-Team episode, and there’s no big named star to pick up the slack for the less than original characters that fill the film. Jeffery Dean Morgan is the leader of The Losers, and while he did an excellent job as The Comedian in The Watchmen, I couldn’t help but wonder how much more an actor like George Clooney or even Russel Crowe would bring to the part. However, the cast has some major talent with Zoe Saldana (kicking ass and in her underwear no less) and the future Captain America, Chris Evans. I doubted Evans ability to pull off the part of Marvel Comics’ most patriotic superhero, but his performance in The Losers has convinced me otherwise. Overall, The Losers was a fun film and hopefully they’ll come back for another go-round.

Clash of the Titans [3D] C+ I’m one of the geeks that actually refers to the original Clash of the Titans as a “classic.” I saw it at a young age and ever since then it has been coated in the rose-tinted hue of nostalgia. So when I heard it was getting the re-make treatment (and in 3D no less) I became very excited. The end result though is less than thrilling. The 3D process was added on to the film in post production and in comparison to the godfather of modern 3D cinema (Avatar) Titans’ 3D is amateurish cheese at best. I don’t know if the sub-par CGI was director Louis Leterrier’s way of paying homage to the “cheezey” stop-motion effects of Ray Harryhausen in the original or what, but the CGI overall fell very flat. Especially the sequence with Medusa. However, Liam Neesen and Ralph Fiennes are full of gravitas as battling brothers Zeus and Hades. And the scene with the Craken was one of the film’s few exceptions where the CGI and overall cinematography truly delivered. My final word on this 3D re-make is that moviegoers should save themselves the money and skip the 3D and go for some 2D Craken action in this uneven yet enjoyable re-make of a “classic.” How To Train Your Dragon [3D] A Unlike Clash of the Titans, this film was made with 3D in mind and it delivers! I’ve seen it in both 2D & 3D and I have to say the 3D experience was superior overall. The story is that of a misfit Viking trying to fit in. His village is plagued by dragon attacks and all he wants to be is the number one dragon slayer—until he befriends an injured dragon named Toothless. This film has heart, humor, and spectacular CGI action—a perfect package for a family film. Definitely catch this one in 3D!

Re-watched Hi-Fidelity with the gf. Such a good movie.

Gabriel never made it on my radar, Axel. But I'll definitely check it out. Looks pretty interesting...

^^Not sure. Ab Aeterno is re-running tonight I think. It's probably to make sure May (sweeps month) has new episodes every week... Just cuz FakeLocke said that doesn't make it true. And I agree Desmond is still a wildcard

JZA: I share your Worthington hate, but it's just fun to watch you splash around in your dislike of him. Lulz have been broughten. Gracias.

New trailer for The Last Airbender. Yeah, it's pretty fuckin' awesome.

Youngish Butcher...

I knew that'd shake your foundations, Jay, but it came straight from the man himself. And he seemed REALLY pumped about the possibility. But it's all just wishful thinking (on Worthington & Robertson's parts) at this stage--so take some solace in that.

I talked w/ The Boys artist & co-creator Darick Robertson at Nola Comicon on Sunday, and he had some kinda lame news: Darick will be taking a hiatus from the art duties on the book very soon! He said the turn around on the book was originally 6-8 weeks and now he's down to half that time. He literally did issue #42 in less than 4 weeks and turned the pages in last week. He said he was sad to see someone else draw the book, but glad he wouldn't have to keep the slave hours and get a break for "a while." He didn't specify how long he'd be away or when he'd leave, but it sounded like it was coming up soon. Possibly w the end of the current storyline... And he talked about The Boys film in development: * Script is finished and written by the same duo that wrote the Clash of the Titans remake. * The script encompasses the first 15 issues of the comic and is "very faithful" tot he comic. * Same production company that did WANTED is set to produce said script. * Said production company is looking for a director now. * I made a comment he should see a little slice of the pie when the film gets made. He corrected me and said it'd be a "big slice" and he got a really good lawyer to handle his deal--same guy that did Mignola's deal for the Hellboy films. Darick noted he won't see any money until production starts though. * He said he of course had no real input at all on casting, but he'd gotten e-mails from Rob Cordy wanting to play The Frenchman and Sam Worthington seemed keen on playing Butcher. * I said that Wee Hughie was already cast and he made a face like "don't jinx it" and said, "Fingers crossed on that one." So Pegg is a possibility but not a lock.

I talked w/ The Boys artist & co-creator Darick Robertson at Nola Comicon on Sunday, and he had a few things to say about The Boys film in development: * Script is finished and written by the same duo that wrote the Clash of the Titans remake. * The script encompasses the first 15 issues of the comic and is "very faithful" to the comic. * Same production company that did WANTED is set to produce said script. * Said production company is looking for a director now. * I made a comment he should see a little slice of the pie when the film gets made. He corrected me and said it'd be a "big slice" and he got a really good lawyer to handle his deal--same guy that did Mignola's deal for the Hellboy films. Darick noted he won't see any money until production starts though. * He said he of course had no real input at all on casting, but he'd gotten e-mails from Rob Cordy wanting to play The Frenchman and Sam Worthington seemed keen on playing Butcher. * I said that Wee Hughie was already cast and he made a face like "don't jinx it" and said, "Fingers crossed on that one." So Pegg is a possibility but not a lock. Two other film related tidbits we discussed: * He also said not even a hint of a rumbling of Warner Bros. opting Vertigo's TRANSMETROPOLITAN for a film. * PREACHER is still in development hell. It's back to being looked at as a film and last he heard Sam Mendes was still interested in directing it.

Hmm...how'd you get that theory? Is it because Jack I am NOT digging the two week hiatus though. Blah.

You know, you may be on to something there. With the almost random absence of articles, verb tense errors, and incorrect word choice it kind of appears like writing I'd see from my higher level ESL students when I taught jr. high in Japan. Based on the tone of the piece and grammar errors, my guess would be this "Jessica" is possibly a Hispanic teen that grew up in a dual language household. . .