The first Watchmen teaser trailer is out — now we'll just have to contain our geeking out until March 2009. What's your verdict?
The first Watchmen teaser trailer is out — now we'll just have to contain our geeking out until March 2009. What's your verdict?
At least I got to be in one of his last movies
Care to elaborate on that? Did your spying on the set land you a part?
Jesus. Sad - CNN coverage.
fuck yeah, cotton-eye joe!
Haha, my thoughts exactly.
It would make for a perfect practical joke: "Hey John, John - could you grab that lawnmower and do the grass?".
John reaches for the lawnmower.
...
Lawnmower flies away.
Yeah, strange. But it made my day.
By the way, it's real. We're lunatics.
@Kami
You mean that's not right? Did I get something wrong?
@pero ;)
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Meanwhile, reports have been coming in of a picture that's making its rounds on the blogosphere. In it, celebrity Stephen Hawking is seen getting out of his car after a long night of partying — exposing a part of his nutsack. It's rumored that the photographer intends to sell the picture in high quality on eBay for over USD$4000. The paparazzi have been gathering around Hawking's house in Beverly Hills since his shirt accidentally tore during a lecture, revealing his right nipple.
Paris Hilton was recently awarded a Nobel Prize for her ideas on how to raise public interest in long-term thinking. It is estimated that she has garnered over 1.5 billion people to support her globally, and that this vast number of people willing to cut down on emissions, invest in scientific- and technological research will increase global well-being exponentially.
Steve "Late Night" Jobs is pregnant, according to in-house sources at the Venetian hotel in Las Vegas where Jobs has reportedly been staying for the past week. The renown party animal has had his share of run-ins with the Police during his stay, one which ended up with two injured officers and Jobs shirtless on top of a squad car. The news of pregnancy do not bode well if anything can be read from his spouse's refusal to comment — Snoop Doggy Dogg, co-founder and CEO of Apple Inc.
I would have preferred that ending.
My first impression was that the movie's a cross between "The Quiet Earth", "Serenity" (the parts with the Reavers, anyway), and "The Stand".
No reminiscing of 28 Days Later?
I thought Will Smith did a good job acting. I believed him, and I loved the scene where he begs the mannequin to answer back. Overall, I did enjoy watching it for entertainment's sake.
But, I thought the script was terribly weak and wouldn't call it anything more than entertainment. This is in comparison to Smith's last few flicks (and 28 days, which I consider the best in this league). Peroty came across an interview with one of the makers where they call it more of a character-oriented movie than an action flick. Yes, I can see what they're getting at, but I still think they wasted an awful lot of film on useless semi-action scenes. It felt like an attempt to mix typical, money-making Hollywood recipes with something more serious. Ending up with an intriguing cookie — but still one you give up for your other batch.
Yeah, Scrivs, that was fun. I've never got the hang of chatting via text with someone whose speaking audibly, though. Hard to say anything but four letter answers.
Haha, the rocket twist was hilarious. Poor guy.
The legalities of this are probably a headache!
Here's another one, not crazy but damn innovative :)
This is one of the craziest candid camera stunts ever. Especially the second half!
Oh, maybe we have very different tastes. Frankly it has me even more intrigued to see it, but I'll have to wait; I think it premieres after Christmas on this side of the world.
Glad you give it the thumbs down, lowers any expectations I may have had. Was it Independence Day bad? Also, did you see the Dark Knight short?
Not excited. The Hollywood-story saturation levels were so high I felt my wallet move on its own. I liked the bug-eyed kid, though.
if you watch I Am Legend in a IMAX theater, then you will be shown a 6-7 minutes IMAX short film of The Dark Knight.
Lucky, privileged bastards.
I guess we can never trust these stars' retirement announcements
Either that or he has a very skewed sense of what qualifies as a romantic comedy. Thanks for the info, I haven't seen or heard of Warlords so I can't really comment on that.
Where did I hear Jet Li was going to drop action and start focusing on romantic comedies?
Especially after reading an interview describing it more as a psychological/character movie than an action flick...
Didn't get that feeling from the trailer, but I'm glad to hear that.
@Scrivs
Yeah, does for me now too. Gave me the "User has removed this video.." message earlier. My bad.
Yeah, looking forward to it. I think Smith could pull it off. He's definitely come a long way as an actor since being the Prince of Bel Air, or a Man in Black for that matter. Quality films he's been taking part in lately and I'm starting to trust his judgement/performance.
While we're on the subject of viruses and zombies, the other day I saw the first 15 minutes of a recently debuted b-movie-of-death called "I am Omega". It was probably rushed out the minute they got weather of Legend being made and it follows the same or similar storyline. But it's so bad it's absolutely indescribable. If you watch a bit of that one right before watching "I Am Legend" — I'm pretty sure it'll guarantee having you think Legend multiple-Oscar worthy.
Btw. the trailer you posted has been removed Scrivs.
It's HÞÞ - points for a good shot though :)
By having Nathan (Adrian Pasdar) [Spoiler Censored] before he could expose [Spoiler Censored] to the world, the late [Spoiler censored] and her shady cohorts simultaneously opened Pandora's box and capped off the final episode of Heroes in 2007, and perhaps the 2007-08 television season.
As creator Tim Kring promised E! Online's Kristin Dos Santos on Nov. 20 after marching down Hollywood Boulevard with his fellow Writers Guild of America members, Monday's episode was "very much like a finale"—as it kinda had to be.
Although a winter hiatus was in the cards regardless, the upcoming break from Heroes is of an undetermined length thanks to the writers' strike currently plaguing the TV and film industries.
This is from an E! News article.
Only 11 episodes? WTF? and it all happened in the last 4 too.
Was this (e11) the final episode of the season?
And for a more general question: Does anyone know a good TV guide site out there you can use to track airdates/etc for miscellaneous shows?
EDIT: Confirmed that this is the season finale; is it because of the strike of the Writer's Guild of America? Apparently the last episode of Desperate Housewives may become the season finale due to that.
Great ending.
Damnit, Just yesterday I finished writing a song that was exactly like that one. Called "Treat your mother nice".
Weird coincidence.
Hehe, I saw that a while back. Damn good. "It rubs the lotion on its skin" has been an ongoing joke with me and the significant other since Cartman so memorable played "Lambs" in his basement. Still makes me chuckle 2+ years later.
I have a new--or actually, rather old--nomination: 2001: A Space Odyssey. I just watched it. It's amazing that something that aims to be epic and important can be so dull and (to my sensibilities, I wasn't alive in 1968) derivative.
I wrote 3 versions of this comment before deciding on simply saying:
It's so fun how we're all different.
It's the letter W. Originally derived from rivalry/distinction between East- and West coasts of the US (there's probably someone here that's more savvy on this than I am).
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I kind of like where you guys are taking this ;)
Ah, yeah that makes sense. Still interested in the middle-aged hypothesis. I find the idea amusing. I'd have assumed young men — as in 9 to ~20 years old.
Yeah, I'm saying irony in quotes because it's no longer ironic. You know, like hand signs are supposedly an African American guy thing and like, ... whoa, I mean, these chicks are ... wait for it ... Caucasian!!
Heehee, yeah. I think it's gone so far for many that they don't remember why they even started.
One love, homeboy, one love
» Sci-fi "vs" Fantasy ... Last Reply: 8 months ago by hthth.
There are so many different intersections of the two, even without approaching the matter from a 'everything is fantasy' viewpoint. Certain elements of fantasy will include scientific ideas, and vice versa. I suppose the best definition I've heard is from my brother Kris: "Science fiction is what could be, fantasy is what could never be."
Similar to Alex's note on weaving possibilities. Perhaps a good perspective is to think of science fiction as a story that builds on scientific reasoning and current knowledge; while fantasy does so to a drastically lesser degree.