Silent Bob

Haven't read it yet. I've been anxiously waiting for the trade so I can actually read it all together. It's so hard to wait...

It's not rumored. They bought the company last week for a pretty hefty deal. Pixar studios is now part of Disney studios. Steve Jobs now has the highest shares of any shareholder, and John Lasseter has been given the position of developing and greenlighting all future Disney animated features. The cg animation house that was developed to make sequels to the Pixar movies has been shut down completely. While, I honestly don't think Pixar needs Disney (though Disney's visibility and marketing prowess have certainly helped - what other company can guarantee you possible theme park rides?) if this deal means acquiring the talent necessary to put Disney animation back on top, I'm all for it.

I despise the Star Wars dvd art. I literally can't stand to look at them. I don't know how they could choose those boring photo collages when each movie had such a great, painted poster to go with it. Whoever ran that department of Fox's marketing should be kicked in the nuts.

I really hope that's fan-made cover art because...yuck. Something as epic and iconic as Kill Bill shouldn't get the crappy actor-photo-collage cover art treatment (neither should the Star Wars movies, that I'll gnaw on that bone somewhere else). It should get something striking and graphic and iconic - something like that first image you posted, or like the packaging of the Sin City special edition. But that's just me.

It's been around for a while, it's just been in preproduction stages for years. Soderbergh started working on writing it after he did Traffic with Benicio, then Terrence Malick got ahold of the project and had it for years, putting a lot of work into the script. He dropped it abruptly to do The New World and Soderbergh picked it back up, rewrote the script completely (reportedly broadening the scope, including adding a sequence that covers when Che spoke at the UN in '64 - probably what that pic is from) and now they're finally shooting it.

Hopefully tomorrow. Sig, when did Water Mania close? Y'leave town for a couple of years and they close everything...

RA and I will probably be going. I'm trying to get myself picked to be one of the students that represents the school at their annual booth. The good news is it gets me free and early admission all weekend, the bad news is it means I have to commit some of my connin' time to just sitting around. We'll see what happens.

I'd like to say that but, sadly, he did it first

This will be the first and only time you ever hear me say this but, god I hope they try and get Kevin Costner for that role.

Leave it to Kevin Smith to make me feel dirty just for watching a movie trailer...

Identity, Supremacy and Ultimatum are the only three Bourne books that Ludlam wrote. Legacy was written by another author - Eric Van Lustbader - after Ludlam's death. As far as I know, the Bourne movie team are only interested in making the Ludlam trilogy, but they may do Legacy is Ultimatum does especially well.

» Click to show Spoiler - click again to hide... « I thought the funeral might be for Jean at first too, that would have explained Wolvy's reactiong and maybe even Cyke's absence. But Professor X would have been there and it would seem weird for Beast to be sitting in the front row with the rest of the XMen at the beginning of the movie. Like 2T, I also don't understand all the Marsden haters. Yes, ok, if he was filmed as Jesse Custer I'd probably hate him with every bone in my body, but he does a great job as Cyclops. I almost feel bad for him. He seems like he's a decent actor (I guess we'll find out in Superman) but all he has to act with in dramatic scenes is his chin, and all he's allowed to do in fight scenes is lift his arm. Can't be much fun in a superhero movie. I miss Nightcrawler too By the way: Separated at birth?

I agree with Jax about Flight 93, it feels like shameless exploitation and I do think it's still too soon to be making dramatizations about 9/11. Stories that discuss the event and its emotional effect like 25th Hour or The Guys I have no problem with, but movies that portray the actual events in the way Pearl Harbor portrayed World War II, I don't think we need that yet. But apparently producers disagree and this is, in fact, the first of two movies coming out this year (Oliver Stone's tentatively titled September with Nic Cage is set for an August release). That said, if movies are going to be made about this - and obviously they are - I kinda like the approach that Greengrass looks to be taking with it. The cast doesn't have a single recognizeable actor in it, the camer-work (from the single shot of it in the trailer, and Greengrass's record) looks to be naturalistic and matter-of-fact, and if one can get past the cynicism it automatically ellicites the trailer is surprisingly chilling. If films must and will be made about this event, I'm glad they're using this realistic approach instead of a high-glossy big budget production.

Oooo that's great. It's kinda unfortunate that a trailer for a Kevin Smith film contains basically no dialogue, but it's still a cool teaser nonetheless. Smith certainly renigged on that promise of delivering a film without cameos, didn't he? Fuck it, Rosario Dawson dances, I am there. Is it just me or is Mewes finally looking too old for the Jay role?

:( I'm so disappointed Michael Lark cancelled. I want more Daredevil sigs. I guess I could get Palmiotti's... I did a drawing of Kev and Mewes years ago. It's a shitty drawing but I had them sign it anyway and Kev put "I drew this" on there.

She has a much bigger role in the series than she did in the movie. So did the preacher character. Basically everything that happens in the movie is made much more significant after you've spent half a season with the characters. Definitely give it a watch if you liked the flick.

Nick, you'll love the ending. The way it manages to be completely different, but wrap itself up into the other games is fantastic. As for Subsistence, I've known about that for a while but the special features you've listed sound like the ones that will be included in the Japanese special edition set. Whether the American edition really gets all of that or not (I don't recall Substance getting a second disc) I don't know yet. http://www.gamespot.com/ps2/adventure/mgs3...tml?sid=6141686

I still maintain that Serenity/Firefly could get some new life based on dvd sales alone (Serenity is the top-selling dvd on Amazon right now. Firefly, which has almost always been in the top ten since its release, is number five). My Best Buy - in my experience - opens at 10:30am on the weekdays. On Tuesday, the day the dvd came out, I went there to do some Christmas shopping. I got there at 10:45 and only just managed to grab the last Serenity dvd on the store floor. Whether it be a theatrical sequel, a TV movie or a whole new series, I don't think seeing more of the Serenity crew is just a pipe dream. By the way, bishop, watch the gag reel » Click to show Spoiler - click again to hide... « "Fine! You wanna fly? Fuckin' fly!"

Yeah, Snake starts the game with long blond hair and looks like Raiden. I honestly never played the game through that way so I don't know if the look lasts the whole game or just through the intro level. I don't know man. I mean the Fury fight did look great, but visually I think the last time you go against the Boss is the best looking one. That one's gorgeous.

Two words, man - "the End". The fight against him is a sniper duel that makes the one against Sniper Wolf look like Duck Hunt.

I haven't heard a single thing about it since then either. IC, I say if you want 'em, just buy the current versions. They're probably decently priced now and any special cut boxed set doesn't look like it's coming anytime soon.

I dunno. As much as I loved Serenity, I think it kinda works best when it's lower-budget. I'd much rather see more Firefly on tv than another movie.

Me neither, but hey, I woulda said the same thing about a Clerks sequel a couple years ago.