We'll have a full review (or maybe reviews) up later. But I just wanted to post a little...post...saying that Todd and I (and our respective wives and Todd's new baby) saw MIB3 last night. We both highly recommend it. I don't know about Todd, but I think it's actually my favorite of the three. It has the same quirky sense of humor as the other two, but also adds in some heart. And the 3D was done very well.
So if you haven't seen it, GO!
- Nic
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Sunday, June 3, 2012
Saturday, June 2, 2012
Do I Take The Blue Pill, The Red Pill, Or The One That Says Pfizer?
!!! Aliens Evolved From Humans And Are Using Hit Men !!!
!!! What The !!!
Well, love'em or hate'em, the Wachowski Brothers (I guess I should lose the "brothers" part, seeing as how one of them is now a woman. Larry and Andy or Kerry and Candy, who knows!!) are very good at eliciting a passionate response from movie audiences worldwide. Personally, I like The Matrix Trilogy, but I felt like I only got two movies instead of three. That story seems unfinished to me. Sue me, I want more Matrix. I thought that Speed Racer was a faithful adaptation of the original cartoon (anime if you want to get technical) and certainly their most audience friendly movie yet. It had heart and great action set pieces along with a good story and great actors. If I had to compare it to anything it would be Star Wars: A New Hope. It just had that same overcoming a great empire with a small band of misfits vibe and you get the same feeling at the end win the rebels win ( Oh those pesky rebels). Again, I really liked it and it would be a perfect movie to see with your kids because it is very family friendly.
For the past four some odd years, the Wachowskis have either been hiding away somewhere contemplating life (or just what exactly did the end of Matrix: Revolutions mean?), or secretly devising a way to not only turn one of themselves into a woman, but somehow produce movies at the same time. All are lofty goals to be sure, but apparently that was not all they were up to. They have been working on a movie called "Cloud Atlas" (that is a post all to itself at a latter date) that will be released this year. Word came today of another project that the broth... sorry, the Wachowskis, have been working on for awhile. It's title currently is "Jupiter Assending". It has long been known that they would film the movie based on a script they wrote, but no other information was forthcoming. That is until know.
Vulture has a report that says Channing Tatum and Mila Kunis will star and they also give us a plot outline that you really have to read to get the full effect.
"Imagine a universe in which human beings are just the Cro-Magnons, or even the Australopithecines, of what beings can ultimately go on to become in the galaxy, these higher forms of life are watching us from other, albeit this time non-meta worlds, but actual, other worlds, as in planets and moons.”
"A recent Russian immigrant — played by actual Ukrainian immigrant Mila Kunis — who is busily scrubbing toilets for a living. Unbeknownst to her, she actually possesses the same perfect genetic makeup as the Queen of the Universe and is therefore a threat to her otherwise immortal rule."
"These evolved beings fall into various different groups, all of which share some human DNA but who have become evolved after being bred with animal DNA to heighten their best characteristics — e.g., soldiers getting their fearlessness, strength, and a pack mentality from wolves; workers getting their industriousness and reputation for diligence from bees."
"Pretty soon, a bounty hunter of the evolved-being type is dispatched to dispose of the Cleaning Lady with the Great Pair of Nucloetides, but, as you’d expect with a MATRIX re-dux, they fall in love... And for having fallen for his target, the bounty hunter — who we hear will be played by Channing Tatum — well, let’s just say that things get messy after that, because his employers take a-less-than-enlightened-being reaction to his decision to protect rather than kill her."
OK then!!!
It seems as if all that time contemplating life and the universe in the desert with Mr. Mojo Rising aka The Lizard King (in spirit form, of course) has done a number on this brother and sister duo's brains. It may be a great movie, I don't know yet, but if it takes me doing peyote and singing "Love Me Two Times" to understand the synopsis, will I have to get a doctorate in weird to get through the movie? I'm just asking so I can register for my classes now. Oh, and it's suppose to be a trilogy (Yipee)!!
Todd (thank you Morpheus, but I think I'll take Advil instead) B.
[Ain't It Cool News]
!!! What The !!!
Well, love'em or hate'em, the Wachowski Brothers (I guess I should lose the "brothers" part, seeing as how one of them is now a woman. Larry and Andy or Kerry and Candy, who knows!!) are very good at eliciting a passionate response from movie audiences worldwide. Personally, I like The Matrix Trilogy, but I felt like I only got two movies instead of three. That story seems unfinished to me. Sue me, I want more Matrix. I thought that Speed Racer was a faithful adaptation of the original cartoon (anime if you want to get technical) and certainly their most audience friendly movie yet. It had heart and great action set pieces along with a good story and great actors. If I had to compare it to anything it would be Star Wars: A New Hope. It just had that same overcoming a great empire with a small band of misfits vibe and you get the same feeling at the end win the rebels win ( Oh those pesky rebels). Again, I really liked it and it would be a perfect movie to see with your kids because it is very family friendly.
For the past four some odd years, the Wachowskis have either been hiding away somewhere contemplating life (or just what exactly did the end of Matrix: Revolutions mean?), or secretly devising a way to not only turn one of themselves into a woman, but somehow produce movies at the same time. All are lofty goals to be sure, but apparently that was not all they were up to. They have been working on a movie called "Cloud Atlas" (that is a post all to itself at a latter date) that will be released this year. Word came today of another project that the broth... sorry, the Wachowskis, have been working on for awhile. It's title currently is "Jupiter Assending". It has long been known that they would film the movie based on a script they wrote, but no other information was forthcoming. That is until know.
Vulture has a report that says Channing Tatum and Mila Kunis will star and they also give us a plot outline that you really have to read to get the full effect.
"Imagine a universe in which human beings are just the Cro-Magnons, or even the Australopithecines, of what beings can ultimately go on to become in the galaxy, these higher forms of life are watching us from other, albeit this time non-meta worlds, but actual, other worlds, as in planets and moons.”
"A recent Russian immigrant — played by actual Ukrainian immigrant Mila Kunis — who is busily scrubbing toilets for a living. Unbeknownst to her, she actually possesses the same perfect genetic makeup as the Queen of the Universe and is therefore a threat to her otherwise immortal rule."
"These evolved beings fall into various different groups, all of which share some human DNA but who have become evolved after being bred with animal DNA to heighten their best characteristics — e.g., soldiers getting their fearlessness, strength, and a pack mentality from wolves; workers getting their industriousness and reputation for diligence from bees."
"Pretty soon, a bounty hunter of the evolved-being type is dispatched to dispose of the Cleaning Lady with the Great Pair of Nucloetides, but, as you’d expect with a MATRIX re-dux, they fall in love... And for having fallen for his target, the bounty hunter — who we hear will be played by Channing Tatum — well, let’s just say that things get messy after that, because his employers take a-less-than-enlightened-being reaction to his decision to protect rather than kill her."
OK then!!!
It seems as if all that time contemplating life and the universe in the desert with Mr. Mojo Rising aka The Lizard King (in spirit form, of course) has done a number on this brother and sister duo's brains. It may be a great movie, I don't know yet, but if it takes me doing peyote and singing "Love Me Two Times" to understand the synopsis, will I have to get a doctorate in weird to get through the movie? I'm just asking so I can register for my classes now. Oh, and it's suppose to be a trilogy (Yipee)!!
Todd (thank you Morpheus, but I think I'll take Advil instead) B.
[Ain't It Cool News]
Time to Start Reticulating Those Splines
Next February EA and Maxis will be releasing the first new SimCity game in over a decade.
I've been a fan of the franchise since, oh, before some of you were born. So this is great news for me. Metroplex (the name I give to all of my SimCity cities) will rise again! Maybe I'll even have another Lake Kremzeek. My wife is also a fan of the games. (I remember us playing a lot of SimCity4 back when we were first dating.) So tomorrow morning when I tell her about this she'll probably be pretty excited.
Head on over to IGN to check out more info.
The Llamas must flow.
- Nic
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I've been a fan of the franchise since, oh, before some of you were born. So this is great news for me. Metroplex (the name I give to all of my SimCity cities) will rise again! Maybe I'll even have another Lake Kremzeek. My wife is also a fan of the games. (I remember us playing a lot of SimCity4 back when we were first dating.) So tomorrow morning when I tell her about this she'll probably be pretty excited.
Head on over to IGN to check out more info.
The Llamas must flow.
- Nic
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Mr. Worf fighting the forces of evil in our living rooms?
We all know Michael Dorn has no reservations about playing everyone's favorite Klingon/non-merry-man, given that he has been in all 7 seasons of TNG, all 4 TNG films, several seasons of DS9, and...mild spoiler alert...Star Trek On-line (his likeness is used, at any rate).
Well, Blastr is reporting that Mr. Dorn is working on a script for a direct-to-disc Star Trek film featuring Mr. Worf, "in the front lines basically chasing terrorists." He's going to meet with Rick Berman, then his manager, then some people at SyFy, and then CBS.
He's so excited about the script that he couldn't help but curse (in English, not Klingon, you pahtks).
Although the buzzwords 'darker and edgier' are used, I'm still very interested in what comes of this. I'm missing the 25th century something fierce.
Feel free to talk about this on our Forums!
- Nic
[Blastr]
Thanks to Mr. X for bringing this one to us as well!
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Well, Blastr is reporting that Mr. Dorn is working on a script for a direct-to-disc Star Trek film featuring Mr. Worf, "in the front lines basically chasing terrorists." He's going to meet with Rick Berman, then his manager, then some people at SyFy, and then CBS.
He's so excited about the script that he couldn't help but curse (in English, not Klingon, you pahtks).
Although the buzzwords 'darker and edgier' are used, I'm still very interested in what comes of this. I'm missing the 25th century something fierce.
Feel free to talk about this on our Forums!
- Nic
[Blastr]
Thanks to Mr. X for bringing this one to us as well!
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1313 = Mature Star Wars
IGN has a brief story up about the new Star Wars game Star Wars: 1313.
Apparently it will be 3rd person action adventure set on Coruscant. The player takes the role of a bounty hunter working on the capital planet. The game promises to have "exotic weapons" and some sort of "criminal conspiracy." The one screenshot (or piece of promotional art, not sure) includes a Lambda-class shuttle. So a post-prequels time-frame looks likely. Perhaps a post-prequels pre-OT setting. Who knows, there may even be some connection with the long-in-development live action show.
More details to follow next week.
- Nic
[IGN]
Thanks to Mr. X for the heads up on this one.
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Apparently it will be 3rd person action adventure set on Coruscant. The player takes the role of a bounty hunter working on the capital planet. The game promises to have "exotic weapons" and some sort of "criminal conspiracy." The one screenshot (or piece of promotional art, not sure) includes a Lambda-class shuttle. So a post-prequels time-frame looks likely. Perhaps a post-prequels pre-OT setting. Who knows, there may even be some connection with the long-in-development live action show.
More details to follow next week.
- Nic
[IGN]
Thanks to Mr. X for the heads up on this one.
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Friday, June 1, 2012
!!! You Got Your Marvel In My Box Set, You Got Your Box Set In My Marvel !!!
Please Marvel, Take My Money!!
My home theater is "Where It's At" (I'm still waiting on my two turntables and a microphone to be delievered). I love to be able to sit down in my home and get almost the same experience that I have at my local cinema sans the price of a bucket of popcorn and a drink (usually around $800.00 dollars last time I checked). I have more movies on home video than Kim Cardasian (see what I did there trek fans) has had boyfriends, which is a lot. If I like a movie I get it, no renting for me. And If I really like a movie or TV show I'll even buy it multiple times. That sounds silly I know, but there are some series that warrent those kind of crazy decisions. So my movie collection, certainly not complete by any stretch of the imagination (it never will be), is large and extensive (you can also read expensive too).
This brings me to today's news that Marvel and Disney, having already announced The Avengers for release on Blu-Ray and DVD this fall, gave us a teaser on Amazon's website of a huge box set containing not only The Avengers but also the other Marvel Universe movies that proceeded it. It will come in a special package which appears, from the teaser image, to be the briefcase that Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) carries the Tesseract (why don't we call it what it is, "The Cosmic Cube") around in. This set will include:
• Marvel’s The Avengers (Blu-ray 3D and Blu-ray)
• Captain America: The First Avenger (Blu-ray 3D and Blu-ray)
• Thor (Blu-ray 3D and Blu-ray)
• Iron Man 2 (Blu-ray)
• The Incredible Hulk (Blu-ray)
• Iron Man (Blu-ray)
• Bonus Disc – “The Phase One Archives” (Blu-ray)
• Collectible packaging with exclusive memorabilia from the Marvel Cinematic Universe
For me this will most likely mean that I get most of those movies again just to get the cool box and awesome swag. If you don't own any of the movies this is the perfect chance to rectify that problem. Get on the band wagon already, where have you people been (just kidding). So for now "Make Mine Marvel". Nuff Said.
Todd "Don't Call Me Stan" B.
[Comingsoon.net via Amazon]
My home theater is "Where It's At" (I'm still waiting on my two turntables and a microphone to be delievered). I love to be able to sit down in my home and get almost the same experience that I have at my local cinema sans the price of a bucket of popcorn and a drink (usually around $800.00 dollars last time I checked). I have more movies on home video than Kim Cardasian (see what I did there trek fans) has had boyfriends, which is a lot. If I like a movie I get it, no renting for me. And If I really like a movie or TV show I'll even buy it multiple times. That sounds silly I know, but there are some series that warrent those kind of crazy decisions. So my movie collection, certainly not complete by any stretch of the imagination (it never will be), is large and extensive (you can also read expensive too).
This brings me to today's news that Marvel and Disney, having already announced The Avengers for release on Blu-Ray and DVD this fall, gave us a teaser on Amazon's website of a huge box set containing not only The Avengers but also the other Marvel Universe movies that proceeded it. It will come in a special package which appears, from the teaser image, to be the briefcase that Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) carries the Tesseract (why don't we call it what it is, "The Cosmic Cube") around in. This set will include:
• Marvel’s The Avengers (Blu-ray 3D and Blu-ray)
• Captain America: The First Avenger (Blu-ray 3D and Blu-ray)
• Thor (Blu-ray 3D and Blu-ray)
• Iron Man 2 (Blu-ray)
• The Incredible Hulk (Blu-ray)
• Iron Man (Blu-ray)
• Bonus Disc – “The Phase One Archives” (Blu-ray)
• Collectible packaging with exclusive memorabilia from the Marvel Cinematic Universe
For me this will most likely mean that I get most of those movies again just to get the cool box and awesome swag. If you don't own any of the movies this is the perfect chance to rectify that problem. Get on the band wagon already, where have you people been (just kidding). So for now "Make Mine Marvel". Nuff Said.
Todd "Don't Call Me Stan" B.
[Comingsoon.net via Amazon]
Who wants to see Picard, Riker, Data, Geordi, Troi, Worf, Beverly, Wesley, and even Tasha on the big screen again?
Just the other day on the podcast I was talking about how on May 19, 2005 I thought, "This will be the last time I'll get to go to a theater and ask for tickets to Star Wars" (barring repeat viewings of Ep3 of course), and then lo and behold three years later, in August 2008 I got to do it again with The Clone Wars. And then again this year with Episode 1 in 3D.
Well, now it's Star Trek's turn. Now you might be thinking, "Well...duh Nic. They're filming J.J. Abrams' second Trek film now. You and a few others are talking about it on the ID Forums." True. But this is something different. Something very different.
StarTrek.com is reporting today about a special one-night-only event in movie theaters across the country on Monday, July 23rd. Two episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation will be shown in theaters ("“Where No One Has Gone Before” and “Datalore,”), along with a sneak peek at some of the special features on the TNG Season One Blu-ray (which will be releasing the following day). Also, there will be an extended preview of the Season One Blu-Ray, and an extended preview of Season Two, which they are announcing will be released later this year.
Here's the link:
http://www.startrek.com/article/tng-25th-anniversary-event-in-theaters-july-23
It's probably not too far out of line for me to go ahead and say it here and now: Josh, Todd, and I will be there!
Peace and Long Life,
- Nic
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Well, now it's Star Trek's turn. Now you might be thinking, "Well...duh Nic. They're filming J.J. Abrams' second Trek film now. You and a few others are talking about it on the ID Forums." True. But this is something different. Something very different.
StarTrek.com is reporting today about a special one-night-only event in movie theaters across the country on Monday, July 23rd. Two episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation will be shown in theaters ("“Where No One Has Gone Before” and “Datalore,”), along with a sneak peek at some of the special features on the TNG Season One Blu-ray (which will be releasing the following day). Also, there will be an extended preview of the Season One Blu-Ray, and an extended preview of Season Two, which they are announcing will be released later this year.
Here's the link:
http://www.startrek.com/article/tng-25th-anniversary-event-in-theaters-july-23
It's probably not too far out of line for me to go ahead and say it here and now: Josh, Todd, and I will be there!
Peace and Long Life,
- Nic
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